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I 'resident.
Smok3 Satisfaction.
What joy to smoke I vet not alone
The curling wreath from meerschaum
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So full of tlie old nicotine
That soothes my contemplative soul !
A richer blef.vsin.ir, "colored" friend, i
I owe in irratitiule to you
The thought that I cum do one tiling
My who, tiou bless her, cannot do.
Mv wit she values not a whit,
I'm of an easy-going stripe,
Her idol is a busy man
; i et I in content, i nave my pipe.
Business she minds both her's and
mine I
Authority I wear the yoke ! O
Yet in one feat I am ahead
She cannot smoke, she cannot smoke!
I yield her fullest sway at home,
JMiuinissive, follow iier about;
t nights she keeps me in, and then
Does all she can to "put me out."
I let her rant of wedding rites
And married wrongs and other stulF!
Her premises I don't dispute,
But on each theme bestow a "puiF."
Her's be the burning eloquence,
mv nre always ends in smoke;
I, calm, survey her wrathful cheek,
J, smiling, h'ear her staple joke:
"Krastus, you will go to" well,
A place not named by gentle folk
"You'll take to everlasting lire,
You've lived in everlasting smoke!"
I smile, I puff, I pud', I smile,
While she her volley intei jects,
And though I utter not one word,
I feel I vindicate my sex.
I pride myself she sees the proud
Superiority of man,
So philosophical, serene,
"iiut what '.good gracious, Mary Ann !
"You smoking! spitting! Llowing
rings'.
There, d ash the meerschaum! I am
through!
My peace has tied you neen't mind
The pieces I am quits! are you?'
Tho Settlers' Tragedy.
r the authoi: ox "ciixx's r.Ar.Y."
"Yes, that's a queer looking place,
now, ain't it? It's tlie best piece of
laud you've seen anywhere in this
day's drive, and that's a good deal to
say; and likewise it was the prettiest
farm along the road. Yliy, sir, I
mind the time when that porch was
all a glory with roses, like a 'ouse in
a hoperu bovffe for all the world. An'
right hin the front there, where you
see all them docks an' mullein a
growin,' that was chuck full o' beds
of Lunnun-pride. an' chinay asters,
an' sweet migonette, you could smell
the place a mile oil' of a warm sum
mer's night. Ah! she was a fine girl
she was, that lived up there; au a
terrible story that 'ouse tells. It
ain't just pleasant to be on the lot
next to it."
Mr. Wellbeloved, for I had stum
bled in my Canadaramble on a per
son of that name, , thus spoke of a
log house and lot which had attract
ed my curiosity. On one of the best
stretches of arable land, lying well
up the gentle swell of the valley,
with a good exposure, backed by
tine woodland, was a sing-nlav sight
in that raw, yet thriving settlement
a '"concession" which seemed to
have been swept by some sjirit of
ruin and decay. The log house
stood, but its roof was rotting; its
slight porch had been shattered or
displaced by snow; its windows re
mained uubroken, but one could see
from the dragging paper blinds
Which once had made them gay with
color that there was no housewife
within to mend or change things;
and all over the eight or ten acres of
land which had been cleared about
the house there grew as high as the
mi removed stumps a wealth of weeds,
such as is only the crop of absolute
desertion and death. y this place,
on one side, my friend Wellbeloved,
at whose house I had drawn up for a
midday meal, tilled a thriving farm.
Moreover, there was Mrs. Wellbelov
ed, weary looking, perhaps for
number nine, in the cradle was "the
most bothersome child, that it was
God bless it, she had ever knew;"
and two or three fine strapping boys
that came home to the noontide
meal from some hoeing work at the
back of the concession with an appe
tite for the pork and corn that made
me envious.
Wellbeloved was a Londoner, and
had been in Canada exactly six years.
Ho was "just turned forty" having
married at twenty, and now possess
ed a graduating scale of voracious
infantry, which must in the metrop
olis have severely worn his energies
and Mr. Wellbeloved's patience, but
which out here was his most promis
ing source of wealth. The elder boy
nearly nineteen,3 had added a huu
dred acres to the original govern
ment concession, and as the boys
grew up more would follow. Al
ready Mr. Wellbeloved's house and
barns began to take on an air, if not
of wealth, or even comfort, of suffi
ciency. Such scenes have been wit
nessed in earlier settlements, and
in the antecedent district of Lake
Saimcoe, along whose cultivated
shores I had traversed to Muskoka;
and such scenes will be repeated
over and over again as the tide of
population laps on and into forest
wilds of Ontario.
"Well," I said, "what's the story
of that place? It seems odd that it
should be deserted like this. Why
don t you take it up?"
"Me sir! No thankee. I'd not own
a rod o that soil for its pavin in
gold . no. There's blood on
that land; let some stranger come
and wipe it hont."
He wiped the beads from his fore
head (the day was hot) and began-
"The man that took hup that con
cession was a gentleman leastwise
sir, you know, a gentleman by birth.
'Is father was a Lunnun lawyer;
you've ?eard of 'im, old Bytheway'
that used to 'ave tho big cases at the
hold Bailey. The hold man he made
money, an' spent it, an' this 'ere boy,
'e made none, an' spent what 'is fa
ther made. 'E were sent to Heton,
then to Hoxford, an' afterwards 'e
went where 'e weren't sent least
ways not by directionto the devil.
The young 'ooman that lived an'
uieuDin that ouso were acquainted
wiin me. jucy JLsnrridge, that were
uer real name, thoucrh she were exil
ed Lucidda Bnrrinda, the helegant
dansews' she were in the corpus de
uauey at me varieties theayter in
the bthand, I dessay you know hit?
-t-uat wen sir. j.
were scene shifter in that theayter
for seven years, an' five years before
that at Drury Lane, ol could tell
you some queer stories! If you
want to know somethiu' of life, you
get up in the wings, G night after
night an' watch the stage, you'll see
somethin' of the bad han' the good
o' 'uman natur'. Why sir, I've seen
cruelty an' wickedness, an' jealousy,
an' revenge, an' kindness, an' for
giveness, an' charity played far more
real behind the canvas scenes I were
shiftin' than it were on the stage or
before it. One night, I see a young
girl, which her name was Sairey
I'odge, from a dirty little street in
borough; she was but a pretty one
to look at, an' danced like a sylph,
an' she 'ad a partickler rival, a 'alf
Hitalian girl, as bad a little shrew
for temper as hever you saw. Well
one night in the Christmas panto
mime 'twere last Christmas, ten
year this girl, La Bosa, she broke
down and the people hissed her.
Well I was hup in the wings an' I
see it, an' she ran behind one of the
scenes where Ha i rev was waitin' to
jumi out like a fairy, as she was, 'an
I say to my mate, 'lookout for squalls
there, Lorry them two'll fight,' for
I've seen girls fight behind tho scenes
before now. Well sir, the Hitalian
almost bounced into the other's
aims. Sairey drew back a minute
an' looked straight at 'er. The other
was glowin' with passion and spite,
an' my fear was that fiairey's face
was a'goin' to be spoiled, when I see
Sairey 'old hout both 'ci 'ands, and I
'eard 'er distinc. like, cry hout,
'Oh! Miss llosa, I am so sorry!' an',
will you believe it, sir? the poor
Hitalian lain 'er 'cad on tlie bother's
shoulder, an' cried like a child! In a
minute the stage master called out,
sharp. '3Iiss I'odge,' an' she dried
her tears an went .hout and danced
so beautifully, the pit nearly .vent
mad with 'er. Oh, yes, sir, there's
'uman natur behind as well before
the scenes, an' the great scene-shifter
above he watches it.
"Well, sir, Miss Lucy, afterwards
Missis Bytheway, were a cleer
dancer, an' likewise somstimos took
a small part, for she were as pretty a
girl as I ever seen hon the stage, an'
I've seen hall the swells, you know.
They're wery partikler hat the varie
ties, you know; hit's only the royal
family .-an' two or three weryspeshul
parties as gets the hentroe there. I
dunno 'ov that young Bytheway got
in; but p'raps, 'is father 'ad done the
governor a good turn sometime.
'Osomever 'e were lion the stage
pretty hoi'ten, an' took a wiolent
fancy to Miss Lucy. An, sir, my
'art used to bleed sometimes for
those poor girls to see 'ow bold and
brazen some on 'em were, an' 'ow
gentle ethers was, and 'ow many of
'em came to grief. Xo matter. Lucy
she took to the young Bytheway, an'
'e tried hon a hold game with 'er,
but she were too good or too know
ing to be deceived. I believe she
really liked the man. 'L 'ad a ter
rible temper. No one 'ad ever con
trolled it. 'EM grown up just like
that stalk of mulleiu you see here, as
straight and long as he liked, an'
breakiu' out at every stage.
"Now you want to know 'ow they
came hont to this place? I can't tell
j-ou. All I know is, that hafter
spooniu' about the girl for a precious
long time, and she playin' olfan' hon
with 'im, one day she didn't como to
rehearsal' an' then hit was rumored
among the young ladies she 'ad run
away with Mr. Bytheway. The old
gent an' the young 'un 'ad a row, han'
the young 'un said that 'rather than
kill . the old fool he'd leave him.'
Well, a year after, I came across a
hemigrat ion hagent. 'E told me
about Canada an' tho free grants,
and lookin' round on all these hungry
children, I said; 'We'll try it it's
worth tho venture. I'd saved a
little money, an' when I got to Toron
to I applied for land at the govern
ment office, an' they gave me this
concession free. We got 'ore about
the 1st of June, ban' lived in the
woods for some weeks. I tell you
the musketoes were awful. But
you'll fancy 'ow I started when the
first thing 1 see on the next lot,
where that 'ouse 'ad lately been built,
was young Bytheway in a torn shirt
an' trousers, hoein' round nmong the
stumps just as if he'd been at it all
'is life. Then hout comes Miss
Lucy then Mrs. Bytheway, for
they'd got married before they left
Eugland lookin' pale-like, has I've
seen Mrs. Wellbeloved look oftner
than I cared for. We was very good
friends, an' the young gentleman,
who was 'smart,' as they say 'ere, 'e
lint me hup to a great many things,
an' showed me 'ow to build my 'ouse,
an' all the nabors was kind an' 'elpfui
enough, has all the people are hout
'ere to strangers. Well, young By
theway was kind enough to Lucy,
an', for all I saw, she was fond
enough of 'im, but once or twice I
noticed he went off to Orilla an'
stayed away some days, it might be
three or four, an' when he came back
acrain he wasn't 'imself for a long
time. I knew what it was; it was the
noia enemy urinK au iui uuju
hit made 'im another man.
"By and by the autumn came; an'
we got in onr root crops an' wheit,
an' Bytheway laid in a decent lot.
Then came the frost, an' the falling
of leaves, an' then the snow. Such
snow ! I've seen snow ten or fifteen
feet deep down in that gully, an' all
as crisp an' shiny as the finest sugar,
an' the air as pure an' the sky as
bright as I ever see painted in a
Hitalian scene at the theayter.
Healthy? I should think so. There
ain't no doctor nearer than Grave
hurst, an' I never 'eared of 'im comin'
up here except to Joseph Jopson's
grandmother; they say she's nigh
upon eighty, an' took rhumatiz so
bad they thought she wer dyiu', and
sent for 'im to 'elp 'er on. Well, it
was the second year, and then in the
snowtime came Christmas, an the
tavernkeeper down at Braeebridge,
he gave out a turkey'Shootin', - and
Mr. Bytheway on the day before
Christmas left 'is wife in our charge
she was very near er confinement
and went to try 'is luck. She come
over 'ere a Christmas heve, an' though
she never sed nothing', she weren't
in no spirits, we all noticed. My
wife of course see the most of 'er
and tried ,er best to coax 'er to be
more lively -like. She would go 'ome
that night, and next mornin my
wife went hup to 'er for a hour or
so. She left ,er dressed an' comfort
able, waitin' for Bytheway's return.
She expectea 'im to reach 'ome about
three or four in the afternoon. I
went in after mid-day an' then she
were a layin' the cloth for a Christ
mas dinner. The room was always
very clean, an' she'd stuck some
green about an' ornamented the table
an, made it all look very nice, far
better than we poor people can do out
here for Bytheway kept some of 'is
hold 'abits, an' the loved to make the
'ouse as swtdl-liko as possible. I
thought she looked very pretty
though she was so pale, an' she 'ad
one of 'er old theayter flowers in 'er
brown 'air it were a pleasure to me
to see 'er.
" 'Why, Mrs. Bytheway,' I says,
"Merry Christmas.'
"Merry Christmas, Wellbeloved',
says she. An' then turniu' roun'
sharp, she says, 'How soon do you
think Beynold can get home ? He
was to leave Braeebridge early this
morning and walk out. I have a
plum pudding for him. He knows
nothing about it. I wish he was
home.'
"She went an' looked out of the
door, but the wind blew sharp from
the north, an' she came in with a
shiver. I stayed with 'er more than
an hour. 'a in' nothing' pertickler to
do, an' left 'er at very near I) o'clock.
I had to come right down from the
door, you see, to that gate, an' then
along the road for half a mile to my
own path. I'd got very close to the
tnrnin' into my own land when I see
Bay the way strugglin' up the road
through, the snow, x waited' for
'im.
" 'Alio, Mr Bytheway, I says,
so 'ere von are at last. Any luck a
"shootin'"?' o
'I see in a moment 'e were hout
o sorts. is lace were swollen an
rod, an he scowled at me verv angry
like.
" 'Not a d d thing,' says 'e.
"Then 'e came on straight at me an'
scein' 'e were not sife to speak to, I
got hout of the way an' went 'ome.
" 'Boor Lucy !' says I to my wife.
'She ain't in for a merry Christmas,
I'm afraid.'
"I watched, 'im staggering along
and eussin' and swearin as 'e went
till 'e leached the doo; Then I see
'er run out as well she could, poor
thing, for it was very near, an' T see
'im brush 'er out of :is way with 'is
arm. 'E didn't knock 'er down.
" 'Poor Lucy !' says I. 'She ain't
in for a merry Christmas, I'm afraid.'
"Just then we 'eard the report of a
gun an' both rushed to the door.
There was nothin' to be seen at first,
but presently Bytheway ran out with
'is 'and over 'is face. 'E threw im
self into the snow an' lay there a
long time; then 'e got up an' ran
down to the road, an so off beyond
Stony Jaussen, the Swede's, there.
"Well," says I to my wife, "you
an' I 'ad best go an' see what' is be
come of Lucy. This don't seem all
right.
"The door was open when we got
there, an' the first tiling we saw Mas
Lucy Bytheway .holdin1 in her bosom,
an' groanin' an' a great spot of blood
over the white cloth she 'ad laid on;
an' there, thrown down on the table
rashin' an' breakiu' the crockery an'
the glass, was Mr. Bytheway's gun
with its muzzle within two feet of
her breast. I knew then she'd been
shot. We laid 'er on the bed. She
swooned away. Then we gave 'er
brandy, an' then came a time I
needn't describe to you. My poor
wife she stayed there an' 'elped that
poor young creature to fight with
death for tho life she 'ad so long
'oped for. It was no use. She said:
"Well, I'm goin' too, Mrs. Well
beloved; remember this: lie didn't
shoot me . He was vexed
and angry that he missed every shot
at Braeebridge. I asked him what
made him so angry. He had pushed
me coming in and took away my
breath, yon know, and I sat down
on the chair on tho other side of
the table. When I asked him that
question he looked at me and you
know it was very foolish and unkind
of me to fask such a question. He
looked all on fire, and then, with a
terrible oath, he dashed the gun
down on the table and you know
he never meant it, but it went off
and oh ! Mrs. Wellbeloved, good
bye, good-bye, dear sav I forgive
him!"
"That's the story of that house, sir.
Yon see why it ain't a cheerful place
for me to look at. What
became of Bytheway ? lie was
found when the spring came, ten
miles off in the woods, where he had
frozen to death, an' hif you go up
there to our Orange 'all you '11 see
one tomb beside it the only tomb
about 'ere au' there the three lies.
Dinner's ready, sir."
The California Legislature Las de
cided to have no Chaplain.
Tne Pigeons of St. 3Iiirks.
A letter from Yenice to the Phila
delphia Bulletin says: The Tiazza of
St. Mark is where a stranger finds
Yenice, not "at home," but vhez elle."
Tne Piazza is a . vast salon. Pine
buildings with arcades surround the
vast square. There seems to be no
ingress or egress. Around the sides
of tho Piazza are rows of tables and
chairs; in the centre a band plays
several evenings of the week. The
place is brilliantly lighted, and high
and low, rich and poor, go there to
lounge, to walk, to sit and eat ices
and drink coffee or sherbets. In the
daytime flocks of the historical pig
eons como wheeling and sweeping
down into the Piazza tc be fed, and
you soon catch the pretty habit of
scattering corn and grain to these
beautiful birds. The famous pigeons
of St. Mark's have a line old history.
The public care of them dates back,
so runs the legend, to the taking of
Tyre, in 1121. The people of Tyre
used carrier-pigeons as bearers of
dispatches. The Yenetians, who
were besieging Tyre, noticed tho
birds going and coming. One day
they caught a pigeon. It came from
Damascus, and had a letter under its
wing, which was from the Sultan,
who urged the besieged to keep up
heart and continue their vigorous
defense, as a powerful aid was close
at hand. The wily Yenitians re
moved the letter and replaced it by
another, whicn told a different story,
that tho Sultan could not send them
any help, as he was also in a sore
strait; he, likewise, had been at
tacked by an enemy, and needed all
his forces for his own protection.
This false letter they tied to the
pigeon, released it, and it flew
stright into tho city. When the
Tyreans read it they were so dis
couraged that the3 capitulated. From
that time, it is said, dates the pigeon
partiality of the Yenetians, and ever
since these birds have been protected
and supported by the public. They
give the hall-like Piazza a cozy home
look, and it is wonderful how much
they add to the architectural decora
tion of the church and ducal palace.
I have stood manj- a half hour watch
ing them, as thej- flew in among the
carved foliage and heads of the cor
nices; espocialH' at the hour cf sun
set. Their soft-hued plumage assimi
lates most harmoniously with the
old stone carvings; their green and
purple neck feathers flash out in a
stray sunbeam reflected down, and
look as if they were rich old mosaics.
Children are especially pretty when
they are feeding the St. Mark's pig
eons. One of the most charming
sights I have seen in Yenice was a
little girl (the daughters of one of
our officers on board the Congress,
by the way), about i years old, seat
ed on the ground, surrounded by
pigoons. She had corn and grain
scattered all over her; the pigeons
were huddled one over another in
her lap. on her shoulders, piled uji
on her head; and out of this flutter
ing mass of soft plumage peeped her
sweet, solemn baly-face. I expected
every moment to see her lifted up
and borne off on the beautiful pigeon
wings into Heaven.
A i$ry That Heats all Smokers.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette writes as follows of the queer
case of a j-outhful smoker:
I .submit herewith a case well
j known' in Bradford Junction, Ohio,
which, while exhibiting probabh' the
earliest aire at which a taste for to
bacco smoking has been acquired,
may suggest something as to tlie
relationship existing between appe
tites natural and acquired, and at the
same time prove of interest to those
disposed to observo the hygienic
effects of tobacco on the human sys
tem. A babj- boy was weaned with
considerable difficult3r at the age of
two j-ears. All the usual substitutes
provided; to bamboozle urchins in
such cases were indignantly rejected
by the subject; and what with hun
ger and constant fretting he suffered
nervouslj- and his health failed to
such a degree as to occasion serious
alarm. He suffered too from an ex
cess of saliva on his little stomach, a
disease which mammas probably un
derstand more fully than does your
bachelor correspondent. For the
purpose of temporarily pacifying
him, his father, an inveterate smoker,
occasionally yielded to the child's
entreaties, by withdrawing the cigar
from his own mouth and allowing
the boy to puff at it for a short while
at a time, in his own way. It was
observed from the beginning that
the new-found substitute for the ma
ternal fount invariably gave entire
satisfaction; the stomachic complaint
disappeared; the child acquired an
appetite for food, and began to thrive.
But the appetite for smoking increas
ed even more rapidlj-. From a few
little imatative puffs at the beginning
the child grew into smoking a whole
oigar a nay, and increased the num
ber until in a year or so he consumed
from ten to twelve cigars dai-. It
was noticed then that he suffered in
health, suffered nervously and lost
flesh, and that mentally he had little
of the healthy curiosity oit fresh in
terest in the little things around him
characteristic of children of his age.
The quantity was gradually reduced
to four or live cigars a day, and he
continues now at that number, with
every appearance of good health and
bodily growth.
Scene during astronomy recitation
at Cornell University. Professor
Mr. , "suppose the government
was going to employ you to measure
the length of a tree" at tho surface of
the earth. How would yon proceed ?"
Mr. , (scratching his head) "I
guess I would be obliged to study
up a little on the subject. "-Ilochestcr
Chronicle.
Three Ueautil'ul Literary AVo-i
men. j
Marv Cowden0 Clarke thus writes '
of throe beautiful " blue-stockings":
Maiy Wolestonecraft Goodwin Shel- j
I3-, with her well-shaped, golden-
haired Lead almost always a little 1
bent and drooping; Ler marble-white
shoulders and arms statnesqr.ely vis
ible in tho perfectly plain black vel-!
vet dress, which the customs of the
tiaie allowed to be cut low. and I
which, her own taste adopted (for
neither she nor her sister-in-sorrow
ever wore the conventional widow s
weeds and widow's cap) ; her thought
ful earnest eyes; her short upper lip
and intellectually curved mouth, with
a certain close, compressed, and de
cisive expression while she listened,
and a relaxation into fuller redness
and mobilitj- when speaking; her ex
quisitely formed, white, dimpled,
small hands, with rosy palm, and
plumpy commencing "lingers that
tapered into tips as slender and deli
cate as those in a Vandyke portrait
all remains palpably present to mem
ory. Another peculiarity in M;s.
Shelly's hand was its singular flexi
bility, which permitted her bending
her fingers so as almost to approach
the portion of her arm above the
wrist. She once did this smilingly
and repeatedly, to amuse the girl
who was noting its whiteness, and
who now, as an old woman, re
cords its remarkable beauty. To mj
thinking, two other women onljr,
among those I have seen who were
distinguished for personal beaut- as
well as for literary eminence, ever
equaled in these respects Mary Shel
ly: one of these was the Hon. Mrs
Norton, the other the Countess of
Blessington; but these two latter
named stars I never beheld in a fa
miliar sphere, I merely beheld them
in their box at the opera, or at the
theatre. Mrs. Norton was the realiz
ation of what one would imagine a
Muse or Poesy would like, dark
haired, dark-eyed, classic-browed,
and delicate featured in the extreme,
with a .bearing of mingled feminine
grace and regal graciousuess; Lady
Blessington, fair, florid-compIexLon-ed,
with sparkling eyes and white
high forehead, above which her
bright brown hair was smoothly
braided beneath a light and simple
blonde cap, in which ' were a few
touches of sk3'-blue satin ribbon that
singularl- well became her, setting
off her buxom face and itsvivid
coloring.
Small I Economies.
A writer in CasxelFs Family Mtja
z'uie sa-s: If an- who read these
lines are conscious that their pockets
are made of such materials that
whatever money is put into them
will burn a hole until it gets out, I
would advise them, whenever they
take tlie air. to leaye their money at
home, or better still, to keep an ex
act account of eveiy half-penny thev
spend. It is astonishing how foolish
small extravagances appear, when
the- have to be put down in black
and white, after the temptation to
indulge in them is over. And they
must be put down in detail, and not
conveniently classed together under
a. J
the general heading of "sundries."
The item "sundries" is never ad
mitted into well-kept household ac
counts. No one who has not tried if
would believe what a check it is upon
personal expenditure to keep a thor
ough account of money spent, and
not only a check, but a help; for
prices may be compared, and thus
lessons learned from experience.
Generally speaking, whenever
large savings have been made, they
have been effected in little sums.
Yeiy lew persons of ordinary hones-t-
deliberately. set to work to make
large purchases which they cannot
afford, and 3-et numbers spend jnst
as much in tho long run in little
things that they scarcely think
worthy of notice. It is very difficult
to realize fully the value of small
sums. If the halfpennies and pen
nies that lie loose in the pockets
were properly appreciated, there
would not be so much pecuniary
embarrassment in the world as there
is. "Many amickle makes amnckle;"
this is true of nothing more than
of halfpennies and pennies.
These little saving, as a rule, must
be made in personal expenditure
more than in anything else. What
is spent over the household is gener
ally needed, but the small personal
1 ixuries which cost so little are not.
And when auy saving is mado; in
this way, the monej' should be put
aside as saved, instead of being
mixed with the spending fund, and
additions made to it as frequently as
possible; that will make you' under
stand as soon as anything what small
economies amount to.
Ca lifoux 1 a Yi n e i'A Kus. Amad o r
county has 1,GS0.300 grape vines; El
Dorado. 1,420,255; Los Angeles,
4,250,000; Xapa, 3,108.500; Sacra
mento, 2,132,075; San Joaquin, 1,
000,000; Santa Clara. 1,213,085: Sono
ma, 3,(;03.3S5, Tuolumne, 1,400,000.
The smallest number reported is
from Del Norte, which is only 50.
Many other connties have from 200,
000 to 800,000, making the grand
aggregate for the State 20,100,420.
A irintvr cane has been invented
in Paris for gentlemen only. It is a
long hollow tube, and, before the
swell owner goes out on his prome
nade, it is filled with a chemical
preparation which generates heat and
keeps tho hands warm for hours.
Prose. Laura (who is still a tritle
romantic); "Don't you think there
is something very solemn about the
fall of tlie dead leaves, Reginald?"
Reginald, her husband (who has
outgrown his romance) ; " Yer3'."
(Pause). Talking of dead leaves,
what the deuce and all have I done
with rny tobacco ?"
s.
From Roussob-Cs "India and Its Princes."
Another sort of fombat, much
more terrible . than "those already
mentioned, and which is conlv to be
seen nowadays at Baroda, is the
Nnehi-ka-kousti, that is to say, fight1
with claws. Here the combatants,
almost naked, but adorned, with
crowns and garlands, tearct-ach other
trith claws of horn. These claws
were formerly of steel, and caused
certain death to one or other of tho
cainbatants; but they have been
abolished as too .harbarons for mod-
a - mi "y
eru iimea. a nose now m use, are,
as I have said, of horn, and are fixed
on the clo-ed fist with thiongs. I
was only once present at a combat of
this kind, for my heart was so moved,
by the horrible spectacle that I re
fused to go again. The wrestlers,
intoxicated with bang liquid opium
mixed with an infusion of hemp
sing as they rush upon one another;
their faces and heads are soon cover
ed with blood. and their frenzy knows
no bounds. The king, with wilft eyes
and the veins of his ntck swollen,
surveys the scene with such passion
ate excitement that he cannot remain
quiet, but imitates by gestures the
movements of tlie wrestlers. The
arena is covered with blood; the de
feated combatant is carried off some
times in a dying condition; and the
conqnerer. tlie skinof his forehead
hanging down in strips, prostrates
himself before the king, who places
around his neck-a necklace of fine
pear's, and eoyyi-s him with garments
of great vatne. One "episode, more
over dispns'ed r:ie to such an extent
that, without a-.iv heed; of the effect
my sudden departure might have
uponjhn Guicowar, I at once with
drew. One of the wrestlers, Avhom
the bang had 011I3- half intoxicated,
after receiving the first few blows,
made a show of wishing to escape;
his antagonist threw him, and they
rolled together on the ground before
us. The victor, seeing the unhappy
wretch demand miarter, turning to
the kingio know whether he should
let the other rise? but inflamedawith
the spectacleVthe monarch cijied out.
" Jftrof viaro!" (strike! strike!), and
th&scalp of tho unfortunate fellow
was torn without mercy. When he
was taken away he had lost all con
sciousness. The same day, trie king
distributed amongst the victorious
wrestlers neclaces and money to tho
amount of more than four thousand
pounds. "
Aiucked his Cotjxtey. Sam . Lee,
the Chinaman who is in jail at Eure
ka, sav-s the Eureka, Nevada, Sentinel,
awaiting the action of the grand jury
upon a charge of house-breaking, is
hugely disgusted with his country
men, who seem to have deserted him
in the dark hours of his misfortunes.
He repeatedly sent for his Celestial
friends, but none of thesi responded
to his call, and a few days ago, while
brooding overCfhe ingratitude of his
Celestial brethren, in a moment of
desperation hol;eized a butcher-knife
and severed his cue close to the scaJj,
and, as he handed the dismembered
braid to Sheriff Gilmore, exclaimed:
"Dam Chinaman! Me all same now
Meliean man !"
An eccentric young man-who re
sides at a palatial boarding-house on
Ontario street, Cleveland, has in
vented a very ingenious method of
amusing himself by keeping a hair
album. Every hair he finds in his
victuals is placed in tho album, anil
the date of its discovery, and the incidents-
attending the discovery,
with the name of the dish it was c
found in, are entered opposite the
hair, together with a supposition as
to whom it belonged, and whether it
was false or real, and other interest
ing particulars. He filled forty-five
pages of tho album in two "brief
weeks, thus improving the spare mo
ments that so many devote to idle
ness. The TJtica Observer mentions as a
fact which has escaped the notice of
all his biographers, that Edgar Allan
Poe was the grandson of . Benedict
Arnold. His mother, who was
known before her marriage as Eliza
beth Arnold, an English actress, was
the natural daughter of the traitor.
This statement rests on the concur
rent testimony of a number of old
actors who knew Elizabeth Arnold
well. Poe himself alluded to tho
matter occasionally in the company
of those who knew this chapter in
his family history.
She came into church last Sunday
night with a regular pin back on, and
edged her way into a crowded fecat.
In sitting down, the rear couplings
came loose, and thoangry pins took
revenge? When the congregation
arose to sing, a gentleman sitting
near reached her his book, but she
declined rising and taking it by say
ing.'Xo, thank you; I don't feel
able to stand while they are singing
that long hymn."
A pretty and sensible young lady
remarked in the presence of seven
bare-faced young men, the other
night, "that it just doubles the value
of a kiss to have to burrow it from
under a mustache." The next morn
ing one of our druggists sold seven
bottles of a preparation to encourage
mustaches, in less than half an hour
after opening his store.
One of the Mark Twain's funny
stories is that of a Scripture pano
rama, tho proprietor of which engag
ed a pianist to play appropriate
music. The musician, when tho
picture of he " I'rodigal Son " was
passing, struck up "When Johnny
Comes Marching Home !" which
excited the indignation of the moral
lecturer. Q
j A smart thing a mustard plaster.
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