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FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The Russian Etnpiro is composed
of fifty governments and provinces.
London covers 703 square miles,
lias 9,000 miles of streets, anil a popu
lation of 5.000.000.
The Empress of Germany has con
ferred the Cross of the Order of Louiso
on tiiree lady presidents of Augusta,
the Catholic and Jewish asylums at
Berlin.
Tho Queen of the Rdgians recent
ly took pot-luck with the officers of a
regiment of infantry. Her dinner was
a plate of cabbage-soup and a pickled
pig's foot.
liy way of the British Embassy at
St. Petersburg comes probab' y the first
authentic statement of the Russian debt,
which shows a total of 17 1. 47 1.0)0.
with the interest for tho current year
over 25. 000. 000.
At Forli, Italy, a very ancient tomb
has been found under a street, contain
ing the remains of a skoleton warrior,
leaf-shaped lance heads of iron, fibulas
and a great number of small vases and
urns of pottery.
In the Acropolis at Athens was a
golden lamp large enough so that
when filled it would burn night and
day for a year. Above it was a bronze
palm live to c.irry oil' ite fumes and act
as a reflector.
There has just been completed in
London another tunnel under the
Thames a mile long, starting from a
point just north of Loudon bridge. It
took only about four months to build,
cost 25.000. and is expected to be one
of the best-paying enterprises of tho
day. Christian at Work:
The French are smoking less every
year, apparently. Last year's tax on
smoking tobacco, including cigars was
fi.000.000 francs los than 1S3.". Of
snuff, however, the consumption is as
large as ever, 80,000.000 francs being
the annual expenditure for the nose
tickling compound. lloston Tran
script. A supposed equestrienne statue, of
Jeanne d'Arc in the Cluny Museum,
whose hoi'M- once formed a reliquary,
is declared by a writer in the Conrricr
tic V Art to be not the Maid of Orleans
ut all, but a Sunt Maurice, the recep
tacle in the horse having been used to
contain the relics of that favorite of the
Middle Aires.
The railway through the so-called
"Hell Vallev." in the Black l'orest,
from Freiburg to Neustadt, will be
completed next month, opening up to
tourists a fro-di view of tho beauties of
Ibis romantic district. Another item
for tourists is tiio opening to the public
of the palaces of llohensohwangan,
Lindorhof and Horronchiemsee, built
by tho late King of Bavaria with such
magnificence and at almost incredible
cost Philadelphia Press.
In Russia, on the northern rail
ways, the locomotives, hitherto burn
ing wood or coal, are being adapted
r peat burning, the saving being esti
mated at some fifty per cent. In many
places the peat is cut by hand ma
chines, but these, although cheap and
easy to work, have the drawback that
I lie peat can not be worked below eight
feet, whereas the peat-cutting machines
worked by steam-power penetrate
twenty feet, and reach the lower, denser
layer of peat, which, owing to their
nperior quality, command a higher
price in the market. X. Y. Sun.
Sir Peter Lumsdcn lately read a
paper before the R yal G Miirraphieal
Society, in which lie describes a lake
in Asia ab ut six miles long, the b.'il
of which is one solid mass of hard salt,
perfectly level, and covered by only an
inch or two of water. To rid.; over it
was like riding over ice or cement.
The bottom was covered with a slight
sediment; but, when that was scraped
away, the pure white salt shone out
below. How deep this deposit may be
it is impossible to say, for no one lias
yet got to the bottom of it. Uoslon
lludact.
VOUDOO CHAMMS.
Sprrlrit r Wlti-hcriift Wlllrli Um Muny
lll lil'VlTH In I.oiilsliuni.
The fear of what are .styled "voudoo
;harnis," is much more widely spread
in Louisiana than anyone who had con
ferred only with educated residents
might suppose; and the most familiar
superstition of this class is the belief in
pillow magic, which N the su iposed
art of causing wasting sicknesses, or
even death, by putting certain objeels
into the pillow of the bed in which the
hated person sleep-. Feather pillows
are supposed to lie particularly well
adapted to this kind of witchcraft. It
is believed that by secret spells a
"voudoo" can cause some monstrous
kind of bird or nondescript animal to
shape itself into being out of the pillow
feathers. It grows very slowly, and by
night only; but when completely
formed the person who has been using
the pillow dies. Another practico of
pillow witchcraft consists in tearing a
living bird asunder usually a peacock
and putting portion of the wings
into the pillow. A third
form of the black art is con
llnod to pulling certain charms or
fetiche consisting of Ikjih-s, hair,
feathers, rng, string- or mnw fun
tuMie ombiualioii of these and other
triliiug object into any sort of a pil
low ucd by tho party whom it is de
sired to injure.
Placing charms before the mitrnUco
of u 1kiic or room, or throwiilg thum
over a wall into a yard. i believed to
Iw a deadly practice. When a charm
is laid before a room door or hall door,
oil is often pourod on the floor or pave
ment in front of the threshold. It is
supposed that whoevor crosses an oil
lino falls into the power of tho voudoos.
To break the oil charm, sand or salt
uoitld be strewn upon it. Recently a
Spaniard, shortly after having dis-
nargeu a uisnonest coloreu servant,
found before his .bedroom door one
evening a pool of oil witli a chario
lying in the middle of it and a candle
burning near it. The charm contained
some bones, feathers, hairs and rags
all wrapped together with a string
and a dime. No superstitious person
would have dared to use that dune
Some sav that nuttimr .'rains of corn
into a child's pillow "prevents it from l'.Vt,s h,m' !l 'iIl'x structure. Lxtcr
growing any more;" others declare ! "l,,.v ,,,,! urtavv is seen to be divided
that a bit of cloth in a grown n-rson's "P rHvat miuiber of hexagonal
Putting an open pair of scissors under
the pillow before going to bed is sup
posed to insure a pleasant sloop in
spite of fetiches; but the surest way to
provide against being "hoodooed," a
the American residents call it, is to
open one's pillow from time to time.
If any charms are found they must be
first sprinkled witli salt, then burned.
To point either end of a broom at a
person is deemed bad luck, and many
an ignorant man would instantly
knock down or violently abuse the
party who should point a broom at him.
Moreover, the broom is supposed to
have mysterious power as a means of
'.rotting rid of people. "If you are
pestered by visitors whom you wouU
wisli never to see again, sprinkle salt
on the floor after they go. and sweep it
out by the same door through which
they have gone, and they will never
come back."
Tho negroes believe that in order to
make an evil charm operate it is
necessary to sacrifice something. Wine
anil cake are left occasionally in dark
rooms, or caudles are scattered over
tho sidewalks by those who want to
make their fetich hurt somebody. If
food or sweetmea's are thus thrown
away, they must be abandoned with
out a parting glance; the witch or
w'zard must not look back while en
gaged in the sacrifice.
Prof. William lL-ury. of New Or
leans, received from a negro servant
for whom ho hail done some trifling
favor a gift ot a "frizzly hen" one of
those funny little fowls whose feathers
all seem to curl. "Mars' r II mry, you
keep dat friz.ly hen, an' ef eiiny nig
gers frow eiiny conjure in your yard
dat frizzly hen will eat do conjure."
Some say. however, that one is not
safe unless he keeps two frizzly hens.
A negro charm to retain the all'.-e-tions
of a lover consists in tying up the
legs of the bird to tho iiead, and
plunging the creature alive into a ves
sel of iriu or other spirits. Tearing tin
live bird asunder is another cruel
charm, by which some nojrrocs believe
;hat a sweetheart may become mag
ically f"ttered to the man who per
forms the quartering.
Scattering dirt before a door, or
making certain figures on the wall of a
house with chalk, or crumbling dry
leaves with the lingers and scattering
'ho fragments hofuiv a residence are
forms of maleficent conjuring which
-ometimes cause serious annoyance.
thicuyo News.
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WEST POINT CADETS.
Tho Somewluit DHiisrm-sibln Lot of tllu
"I'lfbrs" or Kirtt-Ywiir 31iii.
Tho summer camp is one round of
labor for the plobe, as the first-year
man is called at West Point. If lie
were transported to another planet,
there could hardly be a greater change
in his life than that which he experi
ences when he leaves the comforts of
his homo and plunges into the r uilmo
of military drill and discipline of West
Point. He rises at live in tho morning
for reveille, and in half an hour ni'irche.
to breakfast, the interval beii.g cin
ploj'ed in doing the policing of bis own
tent, and of the font of the cadet to
whom he may stand in the relation of
"special-duty man." When he walks,
lie marches with dopr -ssod toos and
mtsprend palms. Ho litis two
hours of drill every morning, and an
ither hour with parade in tho nfter
loou. After tattoo, which is at half
pnst eight, lie may retire; but no downy
couch awaits him. H spreads his
blanket' on the tout H ior, and spreads
himself on that, with a quilt drawn
over him for protection against the
night cold. The only change from this
programme is on S indays. or on days
when ho inarches on guard. On Sun
lay there is the Sunday morning in
spection, and two hours at chapel,
making it an' thing but a day of rest;
and when, as a sentinel, he marches
on guard in the morning, he walks post
two hours at a stretch in sunshine and
in rain, with four-hour intervals, dur
ing the whole twenty-four hours that
elapse before tho guard is relieved.
This much, in general, falls to the
lot of every plobe, in the way of duty.
Aside from this, comes in the question
of his treatment by older cadet-. Abil
ity to sing, play, danoi or render one's
self entertaining in some such way is
highly appreciated by cadets; and a
readiness to exercise what few accom
plishments he may posses usually
saves the plebe much harassing.
Of course all do not ooapo so easily.
Many have gun- U) olean, and water
to carry, and bedding to idle for tho
tippcr-duMs men, and are unpleasantly
"roughed" in other ways; but tho ill
usage which a new citdct ordinarily re
ceives is nlntot always exaggerated in
the account which reach the public
through tha pre, Ueerye I. Putmm,
in tit. A'ieho'ai.
New S tuth Walci has new UrifT
which materially affect import of
lumber from the United State. While
laid for "revenue only," according to
tho htatenienta of friends, it is strong
ly protective. America exported to
the Australian oolonios in le80 about j
9 11. 000,000; uir imports amount to
ttbout $1,000,000. j
EYES OF THE BEE.
Structure Wlimo Complexity In DlfllcuU of
(Jomiirt-lit'tMlon.
Any one who will take the trouble to
examine with a lens the head of a bee
will see on either side the large, round
ed compound eye, and on tho forehead
or vertex three bright little simple eyes.
The latter are, as their name implies,
comparative! v simple in structure, each
! w," il !i'"'5-r,u I5,,t tlu i'""."'"""
and forms a little lens. Of the-e the
queen bee has on each side nearly 5,000,
the worker some 6,000 and the drone
upward of 12,000. Beneath each facet
is a crystalline cone, a so-called nerve
rod, and other structures, too complex
to be here dc-crihed, which pass inward
toward the brain. It will lie seen, then,
that the so-called compound eye with
its thousands of facets, its thousands of
crystalline cones, its thousands of
"nerve roils" and other elements, is a
structure of no little complexity. The
question now arises: Is it one structure
or many? Is it an eye or an aggregate
of eyes? To this question the older
naturalists answered confidently an
aggregate. And a simple experiment
seems to warrant this conclusion. Pu
get, quoted in Goldsmith's "Animated
Nature," adapted the facets of the ee
of a ll pardon me, lair reader, of a
aphnnipterous insect of the genus Pu
lex so as to see objects through it
under the microscope. "A soldier who
was thus seen appeared like an army
of pigmies, for while it multiplied
it also diminished the object; the
arch of a bridge exhibited a spectacle
more uuigniliccut than human skill
could perform, and the flame of a cau
dle seemed the illumination of thou
sands of lamps." Although Cheshire,
in his book on the bee, adopts this
view and supports it by reference to
a similar experiment, it numbers to
day but few supporters. One is tempt
ed to marvel at the ability of the drone
to co-oidiunto 21,000 separate images
into a single distinct object. Picture
the confusion of images of one who
had sipped too freely of the sweet but
delusive dregs of the punch bowl!
Under similar circumstances human
folic are reported to see double. Think
of the appalling condition of an inebri
ate drone! Those who beliexe the
facetted eye to be one organ with many
parts, contend that each facet and its
underlying structures give, not a com
plete image of the external object as a
whole, but the image of a single point
of that object. Thus there is formed,
by the juxtaposition of contiguous
pirints, a stippled image or an image
in mosaic. Hence this view is
known as .Midler's mosaic hypothesis.
Lowne has experimented with fine
glass threads arranged like the cones
and nerve rods of t.'ie bee's eye, and
finds that (even when they are not
surrounded by pigment, as are the
elements in an insect's eye) all oblique
rays are got rid of by numerous reflec
tions ami the interference due to tho
diflereiit lengths of the rays. Some
modification of tho mosaic hypothesis
is now generally adopted, and Dr.
Hickson has recently worked out with
great care tho structure of the optic
tract which lies between the crystalline
cones and the brain. Murray'' s Maya
zinc. THE
A Thrilling
COLONEL'S WIFE.
mill Ahsoluti'ly Trim .Story by
!; 1 1 IVrkhiH.
Colonel Albert C. Pelton, whose beau
j tiful twent-tliou.-aiid-acre ranch is out
, toward the Rio Grande, near Laredo,
has been the Peter the Hermit of the
1 Tcxans for years. He has believed that
! he held a divine commission to kill
Apache Indians, Colonel Pelton came
to Texas in LSI I, a common soldier,
i By taleilt and courage he rose lo the
jrank of Colonel, and finally, in 18 17.
commanded Fort Macrae. That year
' he fell in love with a beautiful Spanish
i girl at Albuquerque, N. M. Her parents
i were wealthy , and would not consent to
their daughter's going away from all
I her friends to live in a garrison. The
admiration of the young couple was
mutual, and parental objections only
, intensified the allection of the lovers.
! The Spanish girl's nature is .such thai,
j once in love, she never changes. Final-
ly. after two years' entreaty and devo
tion. Colonel Pelton won the consent
'of the parents of the beautiful Spanish
girl, and they were married and re
j moved to Fort Macrae.
, Then commenced a honeymoon such
i as only lovers, shut up in a beautiful
flower-environed fort, can have. The
lovely character of .the beautiful bride
won the hearts of all the soldier-of the
fort, and she remained a queen among
those rough frontiersmen.
1 One day. when the love of the soldier
and his lovely wife was at its height
the two, accompanied by the young
wife's mother and twenty soldiers, nale
out to the hot springs, six miles from
the fori, to lake a bath. While in the
hath, which is near the Rio Grande, an
Indian's arrow puscd over their heads. .
'Then a shower of arrows fell around
them and a baud of wild Apache In
dians rushed down uhiii them, w hoop
ing and yelling like a band of demon.
Several "of the Mthliers fell dead,
pierced with poiftoiicd arrow. This
frightened the rent, who fled. Another
-bower of arrows, mid tho beautiful
bride and her mother fell in the water,
pierced by the cruel weapons of the
Apache. With hi wife dung before
his eyes, Colonel Pelton leaped up the
bank, grnpcd his rille and killed the
louder of the savage fleiidn. But tho
Apaches were too much for the
Colonel. Pierced with two poisoned
arrow., ho swam into tho river and hid
under an over-hanging rook. After
the savagos luid left, tliu Colonel swam
tho i lvct and nuulo his way bauk to
Fort Macrae. Here his wounds were
dressed, and ho finally recovered, but
only to live a blasted life without
love, with a vision of Ids beautiful
wife, pierced with poisoned arrows,
dying perpetually before his eyes.
After thedeath of his wife a chango
came to Colonel Pelton. He seemed to
think that he had a sacred mission
from Heaven to avenge Ids young
wife's death. He secured the most
unerring rifles, surrounded himself
with brave companions, and conse
crated himself to the work of revenge.
He was always anxious to lead any and
all expeditions against tho Apaches.
Whenever any of tho other Indians
were at war with the Apaches, Colonel
Pelton would soon be at the head of the
former. One day he would be at the
head of his soldiers and the next day
he would be at the head of a band of
Mexicans. Nothing gave him pleas
ure but the sight of dead Apaches. He
defied the Indian arrows and courted
death. Once, witli a band of the wild
est desperadoes, he penetrated one
hundred miles into the Apache coun
try. The Apaches never dreamed that
any thing but an entire regiment would
have daied to follow them to their
camp in the mountains. So when
Colonel Pelton swooped down into their
lodges with ten trusty followers, tiring
their Henry rifles at the rate of twenty
times a minute, the Apaches fled in
consternation, leaving their women
and children behind. It was then
that there darted out of a lodge a
white woman.
"Spare th women!" sho cried, and
fainted to the ground.
When the Colonel jumped from his
saddle to lift up the woman he found
she was blind.
"How came you here, woman, with
these cursed Apaches?" he asked.
"I was wounded and captured," she
said, "leu years ago. Take, oh take
me back again!"
"Have you any relatives in Texas?"
asked the Colonel.
"No, my father lives in Albuquerque.
My husband. Colonel Pelton, and my
mother were killed by the Indians."
"Great God, Bella! Is it you niv
wife?"
"Oh. Albert, I knew you would
conic!" exclaimed the poor wife, blindly
reaching her hands to clasp her hus
band. '
"Bella Bella," and the old soldier
clasped his lost bride to his bosom.
Of course there was joy in the old
ranchc when Colonel Pelton got back
his wife. The Apaches had carried the
wounded woman away with them. The
poison caucd inflammation, which
finally destroyed the eye-sight.
After my lecture in San Antonio I
rode over to see the Colonel in his
Texas ranchc. As 1 entered the door
he was reading a newspaper to his
biiud wife. One hand lay lovingly on
his brave strong arm and in the other
she held a bouquet of fragrant Cape
jessamines which lie had gathered for
her. It was a picture of absolute hap
piness. L'ti Perkins, in A'. J". Sun.
THE TERM "KICKER,"
An Kiitcrtutiillli; Story of tlm Origin oftlm
Now I'optilur I'liriiHf'.
The term "kicker" belongs to the
political phraseology of the times, and
is applied to the discontented, dissatis
fied, pugnacious, selfish, obstinate voter
wdio does not accept or approve the ac
tion of Ids party. This term, like
"boodler," "flat footed," "level-head,"
"con. men" and kindred expressions
originated within the past ten years, in
a sort of spontaneous way, like oilier
special terms past and present. One
story of the origin of tho phrase "the
kicker" is that in Steuben County, N.
Y., one Bill Stearns was a noted light
er, whose chief mode of attack and de
fense was in kicking instead of striking
out from the shoulder. Stearns was a
local politician as well, and was gener
ally sent to tho county conventions as a
delegate. On one occasion ho repre
sented his town at a gathering which
adopted a resolution indorsed by every
vote save his own. The chairman, in
announcing the result, declared that
the measure was adapted "unanimous
ly," when-upon Stearns sprang to his
feet and said: "Mr. Chairman, I want
the secretary to record my vote ill the
negative. I'm down on tho resolu
tions, and "ft the' were left to me to
be disposed of, I'd kick 'em into the
street." The chairman replied that
judging from Stearns' reputation as a
"kicker" h" could dispose of the reso
lutions in the manner mentioned,
were they turned over to him for that
piirpo-e, but that the unanimity of the
meeting as lo tho justice of the meas
ure u'as so apparent that Stearns might
"kick himself instead," if lie didn't
like them. Bill was thereupon chris
tened "the kicker" by his follow-dole-gates,
and the name clung to hini until
it was applied in a more public way to
the ob-tiuate, pugnacious class of
voters that modern politics has pro
duced. tit. Lout (ilobc-lkiiiocrat.
Conformably to the delicacy of her
frame, there U a beauty hi the com
position of a woman, a grme in her
motions, a charm and a fascination
peculiarly her own. TliU nature seems
to have been given her as a wirt of
coiupeiisatiiiu for Iter hick of .strength
ami ciieiy. so that in her "weakness,
as Auucrcou itiugs, she can conquer
both tire and iron by the mere gni-elousne-s
of her presence. Let her
never forget this; and in all that aim
doe be aiduou to temper and lo
harmonize and to sweeten that society
which she can not always guide. Lot
her know also that by a gentle influ
ence indirectly applied at a convenient
moment, she may secure greater lo
tories in important ocial mat tors than
by planting herself as uu armed cham
pion in tho war.
RESTORING BREATH.
A Discovery That Will Hooftlrpnt DmIo
tli stlrntinn World.
A miraculous surgical experiment
has been performed at Buffalo by Dr.
George E. Fell, professor of physiology
at tho University of Niagara. Dr. Fell
is an enthusiastic vivisectionist, and
has made a number of experiments
whereby he claims he baa discovered a
means of saving human life after tho
patient has taken poison. Several
weeks ago a man named Patrick Burns,
who had been on a debauch, took a
largo dose of morphia, and was given
up as dead. After Burns had been
unconscious for live hours, Dr. Fell was
called in. It had occurred to him that
if he had an artificial respiratory appar
atus lie would be able to bring back the
patient to life. He had often applied
artificial respiration to dogs and eats
at college during his lectures, to show
the action of their hearts and lungs.
Burns was a poor patient, and the
physician had very little hope of being
successful. There was no pulse, and
only a slight flutter arounJ the region
of the heart, which showed that it had
not ceased to beat. There were a num
ber of physicians present, and the
experiment was considered a chinierica
one as far as success was concerned
An incision was made in the throat, and
a respiratory tube was placed in the
trachea. Tins bio" I which ooed from
the wound was a dark coll'co color.
The lungs of the pvieut were useless,
and when air was blown into them they
were so still' that they could not con
tract. Artificial means were used, press
ure on the chest to expid the air and
cause the expirations. This was kept
up for fifteen minutes beforo any
change was noticed. The blood soon
became more arterial in color as it
came from the wound, and the face
assumed a life-liko expression. The
muscles of the eyes twitched when
pressed by tho finger. After a time the
eyes opened, and the legs and arms
began to move. Water was placed to
the patient's lips and he drank greedily.
For two hours the artificial breathing
was kept up. 'J he tube was removed,
and the wound was eeed with antisep
tic dressing. Tin- .atient, an hour
after Vcathiug ami- i -stored, had an
attack of delirium
of drinking. Ittoi
him, and tho woo
bleed afresh. Th'
when the poison pa-
nens, the result
.no men to hold
commenced to
us stopped, and
I i'i mil t ue system,
after three nay
creased, and it
ti.- respiration ni
wtix evident that the
patient would roomer. In two weeks
he was able to go out Mid attend to Ids
business. Dr. Fell used a very crude
apparatus which he employs in vivi
section. He is now perfecting an in
stlSiment which can be used by an
operator in such cases as tho one de
scribed. The discovery is a valuable
one, and will be "f great uso to the
scientific world. lKntorcst's Monthly.
TRAVELING ABROAD,
The Wiicon-lit or I
man Cm 1
iropn iiml tho Pull-
inorlca.
t French substitute
The wagon-lit is .i
for Pullman sleepin.
vantages and its m
"Orient express'
it". It lias its ad
ivantages. Tho
tho grandest
vitesso known in France, at least so far
as our experience goes, of thirty-eight
miles an hour, coining through from
Cons'anf inople to Paris in two days
and two nights picked us up at Oos, to
which station wo came over a branch
road from Badcii-Badou in fifteen
minutes. This express train was made
up entirely of mail and baggage-car,
three wagon-lits carrying twenty-four
passengers each, and adinitig car. On
one side of the wagon-lit there is a nar
row alley, with doors opening into com
partments, some of which are devoted
to four passengers and others to two.
In the day-time these are seen to contain
in the first case two narrow, athwart
ship sofas in the latter one. At night
the cushion, serving by day for a back
rest, is triced up and converted into
a bed. The whole all'air has the
appearance of an oyster-saloon's pri
vate compartments. Seclusion and
comfort are attained at a great sacri
fice of space. Two perrons occupy the
wfiole wnltli ot ttie carriage ami one
third more of its length than four per
sons occupy i:i a Pullman ear. At the
same time the beds are much more nar
row. 1 should think that corpulent
people would partly hang over the
sides, and that a strip of them would
pass an uncomfortable night. On the
other hand, there Is better air, because
of the windows in each compartment,
than in the Pullman, and there is
greater privacy. It is astonishing how
tlie coiiveutlouallti.'S are dispensed
with in American sleeping-cars; how
gentlemen who elsewhere would not
take oil' their coats in I ho presence ol
ladies, anil how ladies who regard
every article of their outward make-up
as an essential pari of themselves in
parlor or in the street, do not hesitate
to reduce their apparel to a minimum
when they are about to turn in.
Traveling in Gci'.nany ami France,
excepting in third class cars, which,
sooth to say, are about equal lo manv
we call lii'st-chits at home, as much
more expensive than with us. In Ihb
"Orient cxiirot." wo paid about $10'
each for a distance of about 1M0 mile
from Baden-Baden Lo Paris. Tim high
oliarget. ere mainly due to the exlru
room that passciigcrn occupy. A to
the dining-room car, the meals are bad
and cxpcii-ivc, and the service liltlu
and uboiniii.'tide. 1 was rupreseiiiing
these fuels to a (iallici.cd American
lady thin (rvcuiug. Slio admitted thorn
to be true, but said: "J can put up
witli all the cu-t and inconvenience,
and oven the bad cm-iiie, in proforcnuo
to a 'first-class Aniei ican car' where a
stranger can crowd himself upon my
.seat, and where there are tobacco pud
dles on the- floors, or to tho uncom
fortable plyots of a parlor-car and a
fetid atmosphere aiidjporsoijal exposure
of a blcejHjr.' "i'urTcW, 'N. 1 W.
A PRETTY PUZZLE. -f
How HrlRlit I.lttle Mlilgrt Showed tier
I.ovo for Mitininn.
Mrs. Blanchard was entertaining;
some friends in the parlor one evening;
when she heard a small voice she knew
so well saying: "Plcaso excuse, me,
mamma." Then sho saw a little figure
standing in the doorway in a long
white gown, witli tangled curls and
bright eyes, too bright for ten o'clock
at night, thought Mrs. Blanchard.
Midget ran across the room to tho
refuge that had never failed mother's
arms. "Mamma, dear," pleaded tho
little night owl, "I just learned to-day
how to tell you I lovo you in such
beautiful new wav. Please, may I
show you? I'm so 'fraid I'll forget by
morning." Midget held up hor
dimpled fingers. "Now, every body
do just as I do," sho said, gleefully.
"Hold your thumbs together so, now
the next lingers the same way, but tho
next to that you must double in tight."
Sho held her chubby fingers in this
position, the palms together, the thumbs
lightly touching, also the forefingers,
but the second lingers folded in so that
her rosy nails and tho dimples that
stood for knuckles touched, then tho
third ami fourth fingers mot at tho tip
as the thumbs and forefingers did.
"Now," cried Midget, in great delight,
"how far can you go from the nurse?"
and she parted the thumbs as far an
they would go. "Now, how far from
the cook?" and the forefingers wvuE
apart.
Then in suppressed glee she carefulljr
explained: "You must skip the foldui
fingers and go to the next. Now how far
can you go from your dear, swwt
mamma?" she cried in great triumph.
And odd it was that thoso queer litflo
fingers would not separate and tho moro
you tried tho closer they were, ut
Midget's tiny fingers, but papa's strong
ones and .Judge Mills' wrinkled ones.
As long as tho second fingers aro hold
in bondage tho third ones will not sepa
rate. Try it. Christian Weekly.
The Poah Fellah.
Charlie Knickerbocker "What's Uio
matter, Gus? You theme all bwokoup.
Gus Suobborly Yeth, Chollio, I'm
pwefect wreck. Cawt cold lasth night.
Gwoat heavonth! have you been ex
pothin yerself?
1 wont to the opera, Chollio, and tho
scoundrelly usher gave mo a pwogaiu
that had just been pwinted, and it walk
lho moist anil damp that I got chilled
thu and thu. Texan Siftinc3.
Ohio's wool crop, according to
recent report, was 25,000,000 pounds
for tho yoar 1886.
Washington is becoming the Mecca
of bridal pilgrimages. Ono of tho
hotels of that city claims to liavo had
under its protecting wings yesterday no
loss than twenty-livo newly mnrried
couples. No place this side of heaven
could in ono day havo sheltered bo
much happlnois aa that, ,
Tii some parts of Germany and
Austria natural pumice stone has been
superseded by an artificial stone, to
which a suitable shape can bo given
and diU'eront degrees of fineness of
grain obtained, which allows tho stone
to bo used in all tho industries wlicro
natural puniico stone was formerly em
ployed. Tho ingredients aro white
sand, feldspar and fire clay, mixed in
suilablo proportions to obtain tho do
desired composition, and thu paste is
poured into plastor molds, being fine
ly placed in liro-clay receptacles and
baked in ovens.
The San Francisco Examiner say
that the steamship City of Sydney,
which recently arrived in that port,
brought $00,000 worth of Chineso girlsj
to replenish the slave quarters of that
city. Though such importation is
against the Chinese Restriction act,
against, the Contract Labor act, and
against tiio still older law prohibiting
the immigration of women brought for
iininornf purposes, their owners will
find no serious difliculty in landing
these costly chattels A few dollar
for witnesses, something moro for a
lawyer, and $17. AO apiece for court few
will settle the matter.
SIMMONS
For all Diseases of the
Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Sploon.
Thiinirly v'i;ptbln pre-
Juration, now u celebrated as a
'amlly Medicine, originated in
the South in 1H2H. It a&
Kntly on the IlowxU and
Klilni'VH and eorrct the
action of the Uver, and j, there
fore, the liet iirupuratory
iiK'illcliii', whatever the sick
ness may iirove to be. In alt
common disease it will, un
iikhIsIimI by any other medi
cine, cll'cc l u Hpocily cure.
An Klllrurltiuit ltinely. " I can recom
mend aa an clfitaci'His ivmedy lor alt diseasoiof ilia
l.ivcr. Headache and UywpU, Simmons Liver
Regulator "Uuwis O Wunuuh, AssUunt I'ost.
uiuicr, 1'hiladelphia
No loss of time, no Intur.
million or tnip:io of
ImibIiickh, while taking tho
KegiiUtiT
Children complaining of
Colli), lluailtu'litt, or Sick
Htoiuuuli. a te.iipoon.ful or
more will give relief.
If taken occasionally by pa
tients ciitkited to MALARIA,
will expel the poison and prutcit
llicm Irani atUtk.
A I'llVSICI.V.VS OI'IXIOV.
1 hve been practicing medicine for twenty years,
and have never been able to put up a vegetable
comKund that would, like Simmons Liver Regu
lator, promptly ami cfl'eiaivcly move the liver ut
ufiion, and at lha same time aid (intcad of weak
ening) the digestive and assimilative powers of lho
lyiitm. L. M. Minion, M. X)., Washington, Ark.
HKE THAT YOU UUTTIIK OfcNCMK.
rMBTAKI'.U HV
J. H. Zeiin & Co., Philadalphh, F.
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