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0 1 .- 5- ? ' i : V r - ' U i 11 s o "Go West, Youiiff Man." The other day, while I was seated in trie Kennard House, Cleveland, w aiting for supper and train time, the omnibus backed up to the door, the porter ran out and a boy about thirteen years old de scended from the vehicle with an air of considerable importance. He handed bis old satchel to the porter and walked down to the office without looking to the right or left. His shoes were old and worn, his garments were coarse and i 11 titting, his hair was long and uneven, and as he halted before the stove for a moment to warm his hands he pulled out a half-consumed cigar from his pocket and lighted it. The porter came along at a slow pace, a look of disgust on his face, and as he reached the stove he dropped the way worn satchel at the boy's feet. "Here! you look out !'' exclaimed the lad. "That there satchel contains wealth, and you'd better be a leetle harmonious in handling it. Is Kennard at home?" The porter gasped for breath and pointed to the clerk behind the desk. The boy walked up to the register, picked up a pen and laboriously wrote: "Jim rite, from New York." "Wiping on the reu on Ins elbow be remarked to the clerk : "Supper for one is how much?" "Seventy-live cents," replied the clerk, alter looking mm over. "Whew 1 but that's hard pan, that is Atter a lellow Ins been putting up at the Fifth Avenue for a year these "West ern prices knock him down. Only sev eniy-uve cents, en f can vou cnange a dollar bill?" The clerk handed him back two shill jugs, and the boy relighted his stub, walked back to where the porter had taken a seat, and in a tone of reproach observed : "There's that 'ere satchel right where you dropped it. You leave it there and let it get stolen if you want this house sued for $50,000 damages!" The porter hesitated a little and finally took the satchel to the cloak room and procured a check. "That's more like bizz-te-business," re marked Jim, as he pocketed the check. "You probably thought I was some one horse member of the Legislature from some scrub town counties, but that's where you got left. Twenty minutes to supper, eh? Well, you find me one of the daily papers." Jim sat down near the stove, and the porter, laboring under a seeming mag netic influence, hunted up a paper and handed it to him. I happened to sit next to the boy at supper. He gave his napkin a critical examination, scanned the tablespread, and when the waiter came along to him James remarked: "Oysters fried in crumbs, milk toast, green tea, a biled egg, hot biscuit, and you want to jump as if codfish was forty cents a pound and the market rising!" The waiter didn't jump, lie moved oft at a slow pace. "I'll fix him !" whispered the boy in a confidential way. "lie probably owns a brown stone front on some high-toned street. I'll buy the next house to him; teai it down, put up a boiler shop, and I'll hammer Texas out of his peace and harmony !" Jim seemed to nave an aitcction tor fried oysters. As he lifted up the tenth one and dropped it behind his teeth, he turned to me and said: "Fair to medium, but yet I sigh for the bivalves of the St. Nicholas. It's cu- rus, isn't it, how a feller will get used to one race of oysters?" ?f ..I i 1 . y line tne waiter was aosent alter a second cup of tea, the boy had a stru gle with himself as to whether he had better leave a shinplastcr beside his plate. 1 heard him saying to Inmselt: "Of course it would look kind o' stvl- ish and unique to put down two shillings tor that tawning sycophant to pick up, but I am not on the unique just now. I'm looking for land, and land costs money." I met him again on the train. He was asking me if I knew of a lively town in the West, where a go-ahead boy about his size could commence at the foot of me muuer ana grow up, when the con ductor came along and called for tickets. "Half-fare, of course," replied Jim, as he felt in his pockets. "Full ticket," said the conductor, reaching right and left. "Is this a bigger road than the "Sew York Central?" demanded the boy. "They didn't charge but half fare on that road, and it had three more tracks on than this. .Don't count me out that way, Mr. Conductor." "Ticket! ticket!" called the official. 'Taason and come and see me later,for the cash is in my boot," replied Jim, get ting ready to pull oil one. In about twenty miuutes the conduc tor returned, and the boy tendered him half fare in small change and said: "Don't be tough on a feller. There wau't room for both B iss Tweed and me in New York, and so I'm looking for a estern town to grow up with." "You are old enaugh for full fare," ob served the conductor. A.-T'l 1 . . 1 1 iiiaiswiiere my iooks deceive me. they do. The fact is I don't age worth a cent. I have looked to be about this old ever since I can remember." Half fare was taken, and after the con ductor had departed Jim returned to the subject nearest his heart by remarking "I'd like to find a town of about COO denizens, for instance. I could jine the church, walk around with h umility in my eyes, and in no time at all I'd be an alderman or sometlnn . 1 m bound to work up, I tell you, and if any fellow can beat me at securing the ailections of a discriminating public I won't say a word." I left him in Toledo. He was look mg at a patent spuug bed bottom, with a view to purchase a State right, and was musing: "The question vividly arises. Can a fel low with a patent right work his way to the hearts of the "masses?" Pittsburg X eiegrapn. Seveu vl weeks asroa package containing $10,000 was put up in the cash room of the Treasury Department to be forwarded to the Illiuoh National Bank at Chica go in exchange for a similar amount re ceived for redemption. The records of the department show that the amount was delivered to the Adams Express Com pany in the usual manner. Upon deliv ering the package at Chicago it was found to be secured by the seals of-the Treasury Department, and the bank offi cer receipted for its delivery. Upon breaking the seals it was discovered that the package contained nothing but soft paper. Tiie Protestants are gaining ground in the Holy Land. They have now 520 congregations, and 7,000 children at tend their schools. A Householder's Night's Trials. The chill breath of winter is in the air, and as the night wind whistles around the house, and wrestles with the blinds, the husband and father, happy that his wife and little one3 are sheltered and comfortable, draws the drapery of his couch about him and is about going off to pleasant dreams, when the partner of his joys ana snarer ot his sorrows says: "ð, you must go down aud fix furnace, or the gas will strangle baby.' Then the wretched man butt ns the the his breakfast jacket over hi nightshirt, pokes his left foot into the right slipper and his right into the left, and, "drunken with sleep," feels his way down stairs, falls over the cook's hod ofcoal and kindlings at the kitchen door, aud bursts into the cellar like a torrent. He jerks open the furnace door, inhales a few quarts of coal gas, spits it up mixed with some hard words, bangs the door and knocks over the long poker and cast-iron shovel with a clang like a rolling-mill in full operation. He seizes the wrench, and, hooking on the grate, shakes it sav agely; and the grate, which has hereto fore yielded sulleuly to his strength, re volves as if it were set in oil, by depos iting the whole tire in the ash-box, with the exception of two or three big clinkers that wedged it up edgewise. First he tries to pull it back with the wrench, but the thing won't move. Then he gets down on his hands an 1 knees and jabs at the clinkers with a poker like a man stir ring up a cage of animals in a menagerie, but the hot coals heat him up to another attempt on the wrench, and springing to his feet he braces himself for a mighty pull when the grate slips into place like a spring-lock, the wrench slides off and bangs his bare shins as he staggers back and knocks his head against the plaster partition. Just then the policeman rings the front door bell and asks "if there is a fire in there?" and having the door slammed in his face with "No! I wish, there was!" tells his relief at the next corner that "old Simpkins, at 42, is drunk, aud rais ing' an awful row." That unhappy citizen has hurried back to the cellar, and throwing a basketful of wood and kindlings into the furnace he lights them, and starts for the coal bin. Returning with a hodful of coal, he es says to pitch it dexterously into the fur nace. Just then a puff of wood smoke strikes him in the eves, the edixe of the hod strikes just below the furuace door, and the contents are dashed on the floor, with the exception of finer particles which sift into his slippers. With the calmuess of despair he fills the furnace by shovelfuls, and with sneezes, heralding a coming cold, waits until tlie fire is an accomoliihed fact. As he reaches the chamber floor a dismal wail freezes his already chilled blood, aud he is wel comed back by his loving wife with: "I wish you could ever do anything about the house, SeSli, without making such a dreadful noise. Here is the baby broad awake, and I don't believe we shall get ainther wink of sleep to-night." Then the wretched man pulls the few hairs a vii tums life has left him, the coin foits of his home fade from his mind, aud he wishes he was a homeless wanderer in the cold streets, with tha prospect of a warm lodging at the station-house. Boston Commercial Bulletin. Runaway Coal Train. The wildest and most improbable of Jules Verne's "Scientific Romances" con tain nothing more thrilling than an acci dent that has just occurred at Dunmore, one of the suburbs of this city, and the great shipping center of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. The coal trains are hoist ed up a series of steep planes over the un dulating mountaias that intervene be tween Scrantou and Hawiey, by a finely regulated and admirably equipped system of machinery, and where gentle slopes and long "levels" occur are sped onward by gravitation, under control of an expe rienced corps of brakemen. A runaway train down one of those sharply sloping places is a rare occur rence, every precaution possible being taken to avert such an accident. Yet oc casionally there is a ruuaway, aud its headlong flight is something terrific. The train of which I speak consisted of four cars ladtn with coal. They were drawn up the plane by a stout w ire rope, and were preceded by a small truck known as the "balance car." Just as they had reached within a few feet of the head house, the fastening gave way, a mo ment's pause, and the coal train com menced its wild career down the moun tain side, striking terror into the hearts of the workmen at the engine-hou3e as they saw it spred away. Down, down it dashed, with a rush like a whirlwind, gaining in momentum as it went until it ueared the front of the plane. A workman named Durkin, who was engaged pushing a car along a branch track at the foot, immediately in the way of the runaway, saw it approach him and was paralyzed with awe. It was yet sev eral yards distant, and he made a desper ate effort to escape. But with a velocity almost as great as that of a cannon ball it struck him and the car by which he was standing, sweeping both a distance of two hundred yards, until Durkin and the car collided with a large coal train lyino on the level. The scene that ensued baf fles description. The crash was followed by a thick cloud of coal, pieces of wood and iron, and in the midst of the destruc tive tumult, poor Durkin was torn to pieces. The men who saw him when he was struck looked for him after the force of the shock had been spent, and were horrified to find him cut up into frag ments, the largest of which weighed uo more than a pound. The strength of the shock may be imagined when Instate that heavy car wheels were flung as high as the car shops, fully a height of twenty feet in the air. The accident, which is the first fatal mishap that ever occurred on No. C plane, is described by those who witnessed it as being wildly grand when the rushing train descended like a thun derbolt down the sleep track. The plane is constructed on a grade of one to every three feet. Durkin was over sixty years of age, and had been in tha employ of the Pennsylvania Coal C .m,.. .... twenty years. Scranton, pondence. Cor res- A Cumous Feux. In Ciina there grows a tern which bears a curious like ness to a lamb. This likeness causes English-speaking people who have seen it, to call it the Tartirian or Scythian lamb fern. It is covered with a deuse, sott, vegetable wool, of a yellow color. Us main stem, covered with the wool, lies flat, a short distance above the "round, and other hanging stems look like little legs supporting it. It 13 Said of A err fafl-ai Kf V.. iooks sweetest when his pose. mouth is in re- If I Were a Boy Again. Let me tell vou, my young friend, some of the things I would do if I were a bov again ; some of the too often neg lected acts I would strive to accomplish if it were in my power to begin all over anew. I would learn the art of usiug tools of various sorts. I think I would insist on leaming some trade, even if I knew there would be no occasion to follow it when I grew up. What a pleasure it is in after life to be able to make something, as the saving i; to construct a Heat box to hold one's pen and paper; or a pretty cabinet for a sister's library; or to frame a favor ite engraving for a Christmas present to a dear, kind mother. What a loss not to know how to mend a chair that refuses to stand up strong, only because it needs a few tacks aud a bit of leather here and there. Some of us cannot even drive a nail straight, and should we attempt to saw off an obtrusive piece of wood, ten to one we should lose a finger in the operation. I thing I should ask permission if I had happened to be born in a city- to have the opportunity of passing all my vacations in the country, that I might learn the names of trees, aud flowers, and birds. We are, as a people, sadly iguorant of all accurate rural knowledge, We guess at many couutry things, but we are certain of very few. It is inex cusable in a grown-up person, like my amiable neighbor Simkins, who lives from May to November on a farm of sixty acres, in a beautiful wooded coun try, not to know a maple from a beech, or a bobolink from a cat-bird. He once handed me a bunch of pansies, and called them violets, and on another occasion he mistook sweet peas for geraniums. What right has a humau being, while the air is full of bird music, to be wholly igno rant of the performer's name? When we go to the opera, we are fully posted up with regard to all the principal singers, and why should we know nothing of the owners of voices that far transcend the vocal powers of Jenny Liud and Christine Nilsson. A boy ought also to be at home in a barn, and learn how to har ness a horse, tinker up a wagon, feed the animals, and do a hundred useful things, the experience of which may be of special service to him in after life as au explorer or a traveller, when unlooked-for emergencies befall him. If I were a boy again, I would learn how to row a boat and handle a sail, and, above all, how to beccme proof against sea-sickness. I would conquer that malady before I grew to be fifteen years old. It can be done, and ought to bs done, in youth, for all of us are more or less inclined to visit foreign countries, either in the way of business or mental improvement, to say nothing of pleasure. r ight the sea-sick malady long enough and it can be conquered at a very early age. Of course every young person novv-a-days, male or female, learns to swim, and so no advice on that score need be proffered; but if I were a boy again, I would learn to float half a day, if necessary, in as rough a bit of water as I could hod on our beautiful coast. A boy of fifteen who cannot keep his head and legs all right in a sea ought to try until he can. No lad in these days ought to drown if he can help it! I would keep "better hours," if I were a boy again; that ii, I would go to bed earlier than most boys do. Nothing gives us more mental and bodily vigor than sound rest when properly applied Sleep is our great replenisher, and if we neglect to take it naturally in childhood, it is all the worse lor us when we grow up. If we go to bed early, we ripen; if we sit up late we decay, aud sooner or later we contract a disease called in somnia, allowing it to be permanently nxed upon us; and then we begin to de cay, even in vouth. Late hours are shadows from the grave. If I were a boy again, I would have a blank book in which to record, before going to bed, every day's events just as they happened to me personally. If I began by writing only two lines a day in my diary, I would start my little book, and faithfully put down what hap pened to interest me. On its pages I would note down the habits of birds and animals as I saw them, and if the horse fell ill, down should go his malady in my book, and what cured him should go there too. If the cat or dog showed any peculiar traits, they should all be chroni cled in my diary, and nothing worth re cording should escape me. There are hundreds of things I would correct in my life if I were a boy again. and among them is this special one: I would be more careful of my teeth. Seeing since I have grown up how much suffering is induced by the bad habit of constantly eating candies aud other sweet nuisances, I would shut my mouth to all allurements of that sort. Very hot and very cold substances I would studiously avoid. Toothache in our country is one of the national crimes. Half the peo ple we meet have swelled faces. The dentist thrives here as he does on no other laud on the planet, and it is be cause we begin to spoil our teeth at the age of five or six years. A child, eight years old, asked me not long ago .if I could recommend him to a dentist "who didn't hurt!" I pitied him, but I was unacquainted with such an artist. They all hurt, and they cannot help it, poor, hard working gentleman, charging, as they do, like Chester. I would have no dealings with tobacco, in any form, if I were a boy again. My friend Pipes tells me he is such a martyr to cigar boxes that his life is a burden. The habit of smoking has became such a tyrant over him that he carries a tobacco bowsprit at his damp,disco!ored lips every hour of the day, and he begs me to warn all the boys of my acquaintances and say to tliem emphatically, "Don't learn to smoke!" He tells me, sadly, that his head is sometimes in such a dizzy whirl, and his brain is foul from long habits of smoking he cannot break off, that he is compelled to forego much that is pleasant in existence, and live a tobacco tortured life from year to year. Poor Pipes! he is a sad warning to young fellows who are just learning to u-e the dirty, unman nerly weed. Youth's Companion. It seems unfortunate that the Centen nial couldn't have extended over the first of January. This leaves a man no resort when he sees the bill-collector coming, except the old one of stepping down cel lar, and leaving word that he has been called away to attend the funeral of a rich uncle out west. Thi9 does pretty well, as we all know, but it is only generous to the collector that he should have a little novelty now and then. They all want office down in North Carolina. For the position of State Librarian, with a salary of $000, the newly elected Governor had no less than 51 applications. COURTESY OF BANCROFT A Wonderful Place. At n JVM California street. San Francisco, ha3 been established Wood's Museum, which contains the linest. collection of relies to he found iu this country, west of I'hiiiuie.pnia, and one wliii-h will :iimlv rcrav a visit. The proprietor has spent a great deal of time and money in eolle' ting the curiosities to be found there, whic h number idols of stone and wood, carved in the most grotesque manner, aud 6onie of which have been pronounced by experts to be thousand of years old; animals of nearly every species, petrincations, mum mies, reptiles, ana everymiur iuieretuus aim instructive to both the old and young. One live reptile in the collection is the most won derful ever placed on exhibition, being a double-headed 6uake, which runs either way. and strikes alike with both ends, iiie great skeleton of the inastodon,180,000years old, is on exhibition therew ith 100,000 other curiosities. Professor L. King, one of the best magicians, humorists and ventrilouuists of the a.;e, gives daily exhibitions. Everything is included in the one admittance fee of y5 cents, and the Museum is just the place for children aud families to visit, as they can be at the same time amused and instructed without becom- inir demoralized. The tricks of the magician are especially interestinir, us they are nearly all new and their performance seems to be an utter impossibility. A matinee is given at 2 r. m. cue u uay, wnen tne various curiosities are explained to visitors. The Museum is opeu daily, excepting Sunday, from J A. m. to 10 P.M., and in supplying a want Jonjf lelt, al fovds a place which cau be safely visited by ladies and children who are without escorts. There is an entire change of programme of frofessor King s entertainment each day, the management being determined that each visit made shall discover something new. S. f. Chronicle. An Item of Interest. In our travels through the business por tion of San Francisco, seeking information which would be of interest to our readers and the public generally, we met a repre sentative of the New American Sewing Ma chine, and being interested in every enter prise which possesses merit, we stepped into their salesroom, 124 Fifth street, S. F., to in vestigate so as to satisfy ourselves. The first point of superiority claimed, and which carried conviction to our mind that it was eminently a first-class invention, was the self-tu heaping shuttle, the only one in the world which requires no threading, and also the only shuttle that requires no read justing of tension when the bobbin is re placed m it, greatly facilitating its use, par ticularly with those whose eyesight is im paired. We recommend our readers and all those contemplating purchasing a sewing machine, to the New American, which car ried oil the highest prize at the Centennial Exhibition, 1ST0. Fine Horses. Xo addition that has heretofore been made to the tine blooded stock of California has created the same universal interest as the last importation of pure blooded I'erclierou horses, direct from France, by Mr. Sackrider. The Kecord Stables, on Market street, oppo site Seventh street, San Francisco, where these magnificent . animals are kept, are thronged daily by visitors from all parts of the Slate. We have heard but one opinion expressed iu regard to them, and that is that they are the finest work and road horses iu the world; aud we do not think it is saying too much to say that they are the very beat stock lor all practical purposes that has ever been introduced upon this coast. Of course, Mr. Sackrider is importing this stock for his own benefit, yet we think he should be re garded as a public benefactor, and it is to be hoped stock raisers will not be slow to avail themselves of the advantages that he places within their reach. The Rogers Piano. This new candidate for public favor is un doubtedly destined to command a very large share of the piano trade. It is constructed upon an entire new principle, by which the old wooden pin block is dispensed with, and a movable iron slide worked by a set 6crew substituted in its place. This important improvement renders tne instrument less liable to get out of repair, as it is utterly impossible for the pins to become loosened as in the old instrument. The whole strain being sustained by a solid ironwork that cannot be changed by extremes of weather, or by use or uge. e see uo reason why such an instrument should not last a Utctiuie. Messrs. lilackmar ilc Davis, corner of Market and Powell streets, San Francisco, are agents lor the liogers, to whom all com muuicalions may be addressed. Peerless Yeast Powder. Tkv it. For sale in quarter, one, two, five. ten anu twenty pound packages by all gro cers. 13. F. Hakto.v it Co., manufacturers, zll unu Sacramento street, San t rancisco. 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