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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1903)
TOPICS OF TUB TIMES. fn.tlaria tntv nl-hnl lie excused if they think that most of the good whit men nre dead men. There arc many men who nre thank fill their wives ilo not make tiles like their mother used to make. When the high wall of defeat con fronts a mnn It Is well If lie can amuse himself with the thistles at the base. The genius that devised the wireless telegraph will find a way to keep the messages from bolng "pled" while In the air. A woman Jalibcd her hatpin Into the wrong man, with fatal results. She probably acknowledged that the Joke Is on her. We call the Turk terrible" from hearsay- the Bulgarians have hard ex perience to back them lu calling him more than terrible. A dend Philadelphia defaulter had ordered an edition of Dickens to cost Sl.'iO.OOO. This is the time to say, -The Dickens he did." Also "Great Scott!" There are indications that the pa roled convict is coming to the front In n way that reflects seriously on the Judgment of those who administer the law. Sir Thomas Upton says England Is In deeny while America Is going to the front. Sir Thomas probably thinks of opening a few more branches on Uils side. Andrew Carnegie predicts that Great Britain and the United States will be one nation gome day. Mr. Carnegie has unlimited faith In the power of steel bands to bind things together. A Chtneso negro has been discov ered who does not care for either wat ennelon or rice. As he claims to be n native of England, It would be in teresting to know how be stands on roast beef. Now we are told that Colombia was simply giving Secretary Hay a slight Jolt in refusing to ratify the canal treaty. Even little fellows show re sentment at times if they feel they are being bullied. Old Gomez wants the Cuban gov ernment to pay him and the rest of the Cuban army about $00,000,000 for ser vices rendered In freeing the Island from Spain's harsh rule. What did the Cuban army have to do with freeing Cuba, anyhow? The Turk ought to be driven from the face of the earth, for there Is no spot on It that Is bad enough to de serve to be governed by him. Still, the Turkish government for the Turks is not so bad. It is when the monster In the fez sets himself up to govern somebody else that he becomes abso lutely unspeakable. When horses and steel-tired wagons are taken off the pavement, whether It be of asphalt or something more dur able, It Is going to laBt much longer and is not going away so readily to dust and mud under the usual grind ing. It Is conceivable that many good results will come o.f a change from horses and mules to automobiles, and the change is going to - come about In duo time. The auto has come to stay and It only remains to regnlate It wisely. Efforts to get quick news from the yacht races off Sandy Hook by means of wireless telegraphy were frustrat ed by the Jangling of rival systems. The mischief was intentional, more over, each operator filling the air with Incessant Hertzian waves that, when Interpreted, were mere nonsense. Amid a hilarious Jargon of hopelessly con- dieting signals It was clearly shown that under existing conditions any sys tern of wireless communication can prevent, within its radius of effective action, the transmission of messages by a rival plant This Is a fatal weak ness in wireless telegraphy which Its sanguine promoters have heretofore sedulously endeavored to conceal. not detain him for any length of time from his duties as bread winner. City Judge KeMman of South Ilend, Ind., faced the dilemma the other day and' solved It by releasing the wife boater,, much ognlntt his will. "Hut It I had the power," he iwld to the prisoner, "I would Instruct an otllcer to tie you to a post and scVcrcly lash you with a cat-o'-nlnc-tnlls." There Is a growing feeling that the police Justice see clearly and Judge truly when they ex press themselves In this way. Noth ing will cure a brute of his love to In flict pain so thoroughly as being given n dose of his own treatment. As for the degrading effect of a whipping post upon a community It surely cannot be worse than the presence of an unpun ished wife beater, or than the Inflic tion of a punishment which only adds to the sufferings of the real victim, without assuring a reform of the cul prit. Vnmlerfnt to him who has the eyes It Hi,, mall bac. In Its shabby but capacious depths It bides strange neighbors. There Is news of birth and of diwth. There arc good fortune and los of fortune. There I a schoolboy's letter tilled wijli his latest siang aim bis wildest pranks, cheek by Jowl with the polished pages of the learned pro-i-ttlnr rnrth to his friend the discovery of a Greek manuscript. Tho luiiifiil ilunnlne letter Is tied in the package with the announcements of an engagement of marriage, and the undertaker's bill for n funeral, the lov er's tender phrase and a recipe for wedding cake nre peaceful neighbors. There are women's friendships and girls' confidences, and the rusty leather tells the secret of neither. The bag may hang In the mall car or a nymg train, with Its force of shirt- sleeved clerks working for dear life. that the assorting of letters may Weep pace with the rapid succession of cities nmi tmviu. Or It mav rest on the bot tom of a rattling wagon, behind a good horse with n shabby Harness, ai u rnil free delivery agent his reins hanging about his neck,, makes his round of bouse and camp the last link in the chain which binds mo remote Vow Kntrlmi.l hllltoo or the ItocKy Mountain mining camp to the strenu ous life of New York and London. Whnmvw the mall bag goes it symbol izes and embodies that human fellow ship by force of which mnn may count himself better than the brute. He has devised and perfected a great system by which from the four corners or tne earth may stretch out their hands to ich other In eetlng. The written page and the printed one, by this sys tem, may each seelc out the Tery pr un for whom It was destined, wheth er near or far. The worn mail pouch speaks with loud voice in praise 01 that civilization by which from conti nent to continent with the certainty of hearing and response, men may call to each other, "How fares it witn you?" AUTO COAT NEARLY covins YOU AIL UP OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS Long Lines and Our Habits. 4LL of us when In our right minds want to live I as long as possible, and if nt 40 we say, "I I don't care to live after 1 nm SO." at the latter n)iV - imu wi, mi; ..-v. ...... ... - - -- the centenarian la unite content to keep on though he knows his doing so does not excite popular approval. But what conduces to long evity Is the questlou that pussies the average mail, lo at tempt to reason from speclflc Instances Involves him In a aiaze of glaring contradictions and leaves him hopelessly bewildered. Hero are Casslus M. Clay and I.eo XIII dying within n few days of each other and each In bis IMth year. Could there bo a stronger contrast than that between the manner of life of the rugged Kentucky fire-eater and the frail and abstemious scholar of tho Vatican? A man died In Indiana the other day nt the age of SO who was noted for his enormous consumption of tobacco, and Jacob It. Smith, of Massachusetts, came forth to ascribe his good health at he ago of 01 to the fact that ho never used tobacco In his life. Hut out of It nil we may glean these undeniable fartsi The human machine Is like other machines; some are built to wear out early nnd some to Inst n long time, nnd though the working time of the one may bo Increased by caro and abstinence, worry, excesses and privations shorten tho time for which the other can be kept rtinulng, even though not period should be extended over more than the number of years generally allotted to the life of mnn. The man who died from the excessive use of tobacco nt SO wns ns surely cut ott before bis time ns one who died nt 20 from the snme cause; nnd the frail life of Gloncclilno PeccI wns ns surely prolonged by his abstemious hnblts until ho died as I.eo XIU nt the age of 01. New York Press. Gambling nnd Corruption. F the evil effects of gambling on character nnd on a whole society there can be no doubt. There Is a difference between an Investor nnd VI a gambler even on me siock exenange, uui it i Is Impossible to define It. There nre men who really want to Invest money In good shares of legitimate Industries, and there are the multi tudes who make the rash bet without knowing anything about the business, or even caring whether there Is a busi ness at all. The supposed opportunities of making money without doing work lead thousands Into the "game." Its effect Is to Inflame the thoughtless with notions that serious and patient methods of winning a livelihood are too slow and onerous, and this Is the most dangerous result. When once n people become possessed with the Idea that work, thrift and skill employed In some useful pursuit are not the real and only methods of making a livelihood, cor ruption has taken posesslon of them, and many cvldencea of this corruption are to be found now In defalcations, fraud, theft, and moral and financial ruin, due to speculative gam bling with other people's money. Philadelphia ledger. 50 Open Air and Consumption. NE of the most valuable results of modern med ical Investigation seems to be the re-discovery of the well-nigh forgotten fact that the best remedy for, as well as the best defence against, consumption is a life In tho open air. The value of this discovery Is greatly accentuated, too, by the further fact that consumption la tho most fatal of all diseases when measured by the annual death rate. Experience has alsd demonstrated that as It Is a diseases to which humanity is liable In all countries and climates, this remedy Is as widely cfllcnclous. Some vnluktiie testlmony'bri Ibis' snbjecr 'was recently furnished in an address by Lord Rosebery on the occasion af the dedication of three new pavilions of the Victoria Hos- This In It does not seem impossible for mod ern civilized powers to come to some agreement by which the further scr vlcos of the Sultan of Turkey might' bo dispensed with. He has been the eyesore and the bone in the gorge of humanity for generations and a time has surely come when duty to God and mankind demands his dethronement and the cessation of his succession. If it be objected that the maintenance of the Porte Is the core of a truce that supports the peace of Europe, that ob jection can be disposed of by another Hi.Tlln congress. Such a congress of the powers could demand the abdica tion of Abdul Hamid, decree that the Turkish dynasty is at an end and sub stitute for the government an adminis trative commission so adjusted as to maintain the equities between the pow ers, guarantee peace and prosperity to tho Turks themselves and so remove from the circle of Christian civiliza tion a monster of intolerable charac ter. The riot act is due to be read be fore the Ylldlz palace and a transport shoud be easily provided to take the old rascal to some twentieth century 'St. Helena. When a pollc magistrate passes sen tence upou a man guilty of beating his wife bo Is often bard put to It to And a penalty that will not bear moro se verely upon the Injured wlfo than upon the brutal husband. If he sends the wife beator to Jail, in nine cases out of ten tho burden will be upon tho wife, who Is deprived for a time of the sup port her husband might otherwise give hor. ' And if he Imposes a fine the ef fect U similar. It Is not surprising therefor that magistrates in their de spair often express tho wish that tho wvmlil nermit them to send tho bnito tp the flogging post, where the pain of tho lash wouia teacn mm bouju thing of the suffering be inflicts ujfcn his wife, while the punishment would pltnl for Consumption nt Edinburgh. nstltutlon, which la comparatively new and situated In a locality with a rigorous winter climate, ho nsserted had nlrendy many curen to Its credit, with n remarkably small number of deaths In proportion to the whole number of patients, thus proving the value of the treatment, which Is that of spend ing both days and nights out of doors nil the year round. He further alluded to the fact that whllo the system had only been Introduced In Great ltrltaln within ten years, there nro nlrendy upwards of twenty open-air sanitariums there. Tho success of this hospital In Edinburgh, where hereto fore consumption has been responsible for one dentil In soven, Is in lino with modern experience elsewhere. Penn sylvania lias such an Institution on a limited scale at White Haven, which has been successful enough to encourage the opening of another nt Mont Alto, In the South Mountain Purest Reserve. The mountain nrea of the State can fur ulsh admirable loraltles for an unlimited number of these health resorts, easily accessible to nil patients within lis borders, nnd to many thousands from surrounding sections. Philadelphia Ilullctln. til of Deforestation. HE Injury done by deforestation to n country bns been cited often ciioinih. and It bus alreadr tl been experienced In many parts of our own I In... I 1 ...... ..... .......11. I m I, .... t.iii.i. .in u ru.iivr Ml i. .'mill in it nmi nlng to he obvious to our paper makers and mill men that It la going to bo worth whllo to preserve our forest, nnd to mnko it anew when It has been destroyed? Yet does nny ono know of n case on this broad continent where niiythlug has been done townrd such nn Increase or restoration? Tho chopping has been unscientific, because large areas have been stripped of vegetation and the water and soli have vanished. If ripe timber only were cut, the young trees would have tho bet ter chance to grow; but when three-Inch spruces are cut for paper It means that there will presently be no spruces. The remedy Is to Impose restraints, but It Is also to plant trees. The pulp companies own Immense tracts which they havo busily uncovered, but In no single Instance, so far ns known, have they set out saplings, or planted cones, to obtain a new supply. If they had done so, they would not now be paying freight and duties on foreign timber. Legal ly, these companies have acted within their rights In cut ting the woods, drying the rivers, abolishing farms nnd making llfo harder In affected districts; but In so doing they have broken the moral law, the law of duty to one's fellows. From the selfish point of view, leaving public Interest out of the question. Is It not presently going, (o be patent to them that they cannot forever reap where they do not sow, and that If the reaping la to go on, there must be sowing also? It Is Important that wo have novels, and newspapers, and wrappers; but It Is also Important tliat we have springs and fuel and farms and scenery. Ilrooklyn Engle. NEPTUNE'S GREETING TO THE WINNER. Crowing Extravagance of Women. N all sections of society ono hoars married men, and Indeed others, grumbling consider ably at the extravagance of their womcnklnd In dress. In Individual cases they may havo the right to grumble: but on principle, and In general, I do not seo that they havo any gen uine grounds for complaint, because If women are now extravagant In dress It must be remembered that for generations men have been extravagant In other and worse forms of self-indulgence. And, after all. man can take comfort to his joul In tho knowlcilgcuthat.lt. U ahltfly with a view- to pleasIngrnflhaTwoman Indulges In follies of this sort, added to which he should count It ns a gain that this particular form of extravagance adds to thy general cheerfulness and gayety of life. London World. FIFTY YEARS IN PARLIAMENT. Pake of Davnnahlre, Liberal Leader nf III llouae uf lrfiril. Tho Duke of Devonshire has lately figured lu gossip from scrois the ca In which it has been stilted that he would retire from Parliament This suggestion Is scouted by th wtll-ln-fornied, who know that the fact of his leadership In the House of Lords will keep him from retiring. Hew men In politics have bsd such a curious csreer as the Duke. Like Caesar. he has twice refused the crown of a statesman's ambition. The pr- FAWN'S 8KIN Here Is an automobile suit that pert ty nearly shuts you nil up In Its folds, so that your own mother would hardly recognize you. It is for touring, and Is made In some dark shade. The wood brown coat pictured extends almost to the hem of the frock. The sleeves have a simple turn-back cuff, and the gar ment fastens In single-breasted style with large pearl buttons. The cap. In tha nni(v cult to match the garment has a cape arrangement-In the back, entirely covering the hair, while gog gles protect the eyes rrom oust, In the Bamo Ho at. Ppollnff that It was his dutr to re- minifMta with nnp nf his clerirr for attending a rox nunt, me tnsnop nau on InfnrvldW with hllO. 'Wotl vmir tordshln." th offender replied, "I really do norsee that there Is any more barm in Hunting man g In, tn n IwiU " "t nresume." answered h Is lorushln. "that you refer to my name having hen flown among those who were present at Mrs. De Vaux's ball, but I assure you I was never once in tne same room as the dancers through out the whole evening." "flint m lord. Is exactly mr do- itinn. During the bunt I was never in the same field as the hounds." The bishop collapsed, and silence reigned. Italian Immigration, nnt nf the curious features In mod ern emigration statistics relates espe loiiv tn the Italian neonle. In the de cade ending in 1880 120,000 left the peninsula for foreign parts. In 1W1 aoo.ooo Italians left their ances tral homes. The Increase In Italian emigration bas been steadily growing for twenty years, the 500,000 mark be ing passed In 1001. Of the 000,000'and upward who left their native shores last year 252,000 came to the United States. Increase In Are- of United States. Since 1700 the area of the United States has Increased from 827.8M to 3,622,033 square miles, the number of counties has Increased from SOT to 2.80T, and the total population has in creased from 8,020,214 to 76,303,887, or ntnetcenfold. There are some queer men In the world: An Atchison man doesn't llks to have womn and girls kits btm. Grafted on Man's Knee Drought About a Peculiar Oroirth. Perhaps the most curious case of surgery that was ever performed in the region of the Adlrondacks is that which was executed upon William Mc Coy, a woodsman. McCoy has Just returned from tne Lake mountain lumber camp after an absonce of two years. He brings with him the strange story and Its proof. A year ago last May he was work ing with John Duffcy getting out some long poles to repair a chute which Is used to slide logs down the mountain side. Duffey went to cut n limb by an upward swing when the ax slipped from his bands and went flying through the nlr. It struck McCoy, and Its keen edge shaved off the greater part of bis right cheek. He bled pro fusely while they hastened to the camp half a mile away. There was no doc tor within thirty-flve miles, nnd worst of all the streams were raging tor rents and could not possibly be forded. Communication with the outside world was cut off and there was not likely to be any means of getting to a vil lage for some days to come. But as luc-k would have It, there happened to bo a nurse In camp from Utlca named William Henry, who was out roughing It for his health. Henry took McCoy In hand. After having partially stop ped the flow of blood he went out to the stable, took a little fawn that some of tho boys had captured a couple of days before, shaved the hair for about nnc square Jncbes off the animal's side, and then be carried It, to tho camp, lie tooK a rountain pen ana marked out on the shaved surface tho shape of the wound on McCoy's face. While some of the woodsmen held the creature, Henry cut the skin around where he had marked, peeled it oft and ! applied It immediately to the face of McCoy. Having fitted It in place Ann ly, ho rubbed over It a thick coat of balsam gum and over that he phyced tight bandages. The cheek stopped bleeding at once. A week afterward Henry took off the bandage. The graft was found to be a perfect success. Tho wound was healing rapidly and It appeared that the scar would how but slightly. In four weeks McCoy wns healed so well that he was able to go to work. Soon after, however, he noticed when ho drew his hand across his cheek that hair was growing on tbo grafted skin. Ho was rather pleased at that, for he tbought ho might wear a board and thus entirely hide the scar, uui in a few days more tho hair had grown so thickly that Its color and nature were plainly visible. It was the hair of Uio fawn crowing, and moreover, it wns spotted like that of a fawn. Ho did not dare to shave for fear of breaking or)cn the skin, and allowed It to re main until the fall of the year. Then tho spots disappeared and ttio "blue" coat of a full-grown dter toois iu piace, When spring came around ho saw that the balr of his check was falling out and fine red balr was growing. At last the blue or winter coat was entire ly gone, and the red summer coat took Its place. In fact, he and the other woodsmen, to their merriment, saw that the grafted skin varied and chang ed precisely as does the coat of a deer. Northwood (N. Y.) correspondence New York Times. MEXICAN LOVERS AMERICANIZED. HIS CENT CAME BACK. Mexico, the country of mystery, ro mance nnd hot tamalcs, bull lights, cock fights and sombreros, dashing cn- balleros and dark-eyed scnorltns, with Its restrictions and grave-faced duen nas, Is the scene of a revolution, moro warmly waged than the usual Latin country opera bouffo war. The American Invasion Is responsi ble for the conflict. American men nnd women, have gono to Mexico annually. The freedom of the girls contrasted with tho restricted life of the raven haired Castlllan girls, who, from Infan cy, were reared In an atmosphere In which the only men were members of tbelr own families. Mayhap the Mexican beauty saw hor sweetheart through the lattice work screen, or leaned from a balcony while he, lacking the daring of Romeo, was forced to stand on the pavement and whisper sweet nothings. When ad mitted to her home be could not seo her alone. In Chihuahua the young men and women have tired of this ancient method of courtship, nnd have formed a "bachelor club." The young women will go to the club without chapcronoa and will bo escorted to their homes by the men. To prevent mistakes, each member has promised not to marry for one year. Tho organization has crcat ed oxcltement, and the conservative Mexicans are indignant Tho members of the club were happy at last ac counts. Asphyxiated by Oas. Within a year four porsons who have gone to sleep near the cinder dump of the Homestead steel plant have been asphyxiated by the gas It emits. 8mU Coin TrreU Around and Fin ally Keturns to Owner. Take an ordinary copper cent piece, stamp It with a private mark, put It Into circulation, and what nre tho chances that you will ever see It again? There Is one man who says that he tried the trick and succeeded nt It. He Is a business man, who refuses to al low his name to be used In print about the story, but be tells the talc to many of his friends, and he vouches for Its truth. In 1891, he says, ho found n cent piece dated 1S03 In the restaurant of tho Lafayette Hotel. He pocketed It for luck, and as a memento of a Jolly little dinner scratched bis Initials on It Just over the feathered bead, while on the cheek ho ndded those of the hotel. Until 1H9H he treasured the coin, then drew It out of his pocket with a handful of other change, and before he realized It tho cent piece had gone the mysterious way of all money. A year ngo he chanced, being of curious turn of mind, to fall Into con versation one evening with a profes sional beggar at Ilroad and Chestnut streets. He upbraldid the man ror getting so much money for nothing. "Oh." said the beggar, "I don't get so much. That's all I've got In tho last hour," nnd he held up a cent piece. At that moment the electric light fell upon the coin, and the business man. to his amazement, caught sight of the letters "H. L." on the check of the face. He took the coin and exam ined It more closely. Sure enough, thcro were his own initials Just above the feathers, where he had placed them a half dozen years before, At once his prejudice against beg ging vanished. "I'll give you n dollar for that coin," ho cried, t The beggar grew wary at his eager ness nnd demanded $5. Needless to say he got it, nnd also, of course, the cent piece has never since left the business man's watch chain. Phila delphia Press, m xr. or iievo.isiiiiik. mlershlp was within his grasp In 18M0. when queen Victoria called him to form a ministry on Ird llencons field's defeat. As Iord Hiirtlngtoti ho vas elected leader of the Liberal par tv mnl li-.l for live years whllo (Had- stono uonilnally rested lu his tent. Lord Ilartlngton wns iwru in k'.-'-ueas, nnd did not covet honors; am bitions are without his sphere. And c with rare self-denial he called from the tent and handed to him the wreath and the party power he had built up. Six years later, when tho home rule split came, he became by consent tho lender of tho Liberal Unionists who leceded. I-ord Hnllshury offered to lerve under him If ho would take the premiership. Again bo refund. Whether he was considered last year when Mr. Ilalfour was chosen to sue teed -Lord Salisbury Is not known, probably be was not, for three years bofore bo spoke of retiring from po litical life, and It was not generally believed that his Inclinations lay In the direction of party headship. An Idea prevails that "tho noble Duke," as tbo lords call him, Is Indo lent and Indifferent. Ho may be In- llffereut ns to bis own advancement, for bo has alwnys been assured of ti,mi nnniirrntlv ho craves for great wealth, high social position. seven mansions, nn uonorcu nnme in the peerage, lit Is careless of his per sonal appearance, careless of the form and manner of his speech, but ht inst trr Is always good nnd the Judgment sound. H Is whst people call a safe man. As to actual work til the field of poli tics, he has dons sa much as most men. while at the snmo time guiding important business Interests st Har row. Ksstboiinie and elsswhere. Hn Is now 70 years of sge. nnd hsi been In Parliament since he was 21. BTORY OF DOQ TRAVELER. -H HaU4 o Sarin and llaa Mlnca lUcano Wldelr Knawn. Jack Is the nam of a dog that la known to everybody In Itushvllle. Ind.. and which makes that place headquar ter wblls he travels to all Hit towns within thirty mile of It. says the In dianapolis News. He comes from an aristocratic family of spaniel and col llrs and spent bis earlier years on a fsrui. H made occasional trip t town with the farmer In hi youth and ono day after the farmer's sou gave htm a whipping for disturbing egg In a hen's nest Jack came to Itushvllle to live. Ho wandered nlwut town for some days nnd then took up hi quarter st a barn where an omnibus Is sheltered and where be found friendly hand ready to aid him nnd when In Itush vllle he seldom falls to go with the bus to the railroad stsyton. He wn nt the stntlon one day when a tramp klt-lml him and Jack ran to the step of a pnsnengrr coach nnd the train rarrlitl him away. Ho was gono for two weeks, when he cniuo bark on n train, took his old place on the Ihim nnd went hack to the barn to live. Jack made n trip by trnln to Cam bridge City a few days ago nnd when he returned on n freight train tln-ro was no bus at the station. He Jumped on n drny and refused to get off until he bnd been hauled to town. The dog goes lo Newcastle nliout once a week nnd he has his human friend there, who feed htm "nn tho fut of the laud," most of Hie food coming from hotels and restaurants. In Newcastle be iniikr hi hradqunr tern at the postofllce, riding to and from the stntlon In a malt wagon, guarding the ikiiicIic a ho rlile. He sleeps before tho safe In the New castle postotllce nnd regards ttio of fice men as his friend. Kraaonablo for loo Plant. "All kinds of vegetable are very backward this senmiu," groaned the plnnnclo of pessimism, "Well," said tho optimistic object, "at nny rnte, tho Ice plant Is flourish lug." llaltlmore American. Occasionally you seo a stout middle aged woman who tries to look stylish by wearing a dress made with a yoke and buttoned up the back. Was Heady to Fight. A well-known Portugese engineer, M. Mcsnler, happened to bo passing In his boat nenf the American squad ron, which Is nt present anchored In tho Tngus, when ho was nearly struck by an overrlpo applo which somo ono had hurled from the cruiser Brooklyn. An Indignant remonstrance only drew from the sailors who were looking out a genial string of Yankee pleasantries. Tho Irate engineer then pulled up to tho cruiser and, denouncing the Amer icans as cowards, Insisted that they should send his card to tho command er, whom be formally challenged to a duel. This attitude quite won tho hearts of the Americans, who, after freely apologizing for the oxubcranco of spir its which had led to his being offended, saw htm off, now quite mollified, with a round of cheers. London Leader. BRAIN POWER. John. Hull No wonder ttio bloomln' Americans get ahead) look at th poorer planL MlneiULeolls Journal.