. " f -IT AND HUMOR.-
VjWimtli calls for fr ussess-
& big dividend. N J".
- . 'rouble wlih most 61 our gifts to
iAr It tlitft we chock thorn op as
to- the Lord. Milwaukee tienti-
.Sres yean to nmko one saint,
. - " a tiers ean be turned mit nt the
Vfadosen a ndnute. 7e(M ?tl-
k . ft'e ell very well to talk of writing
posterity,1' sijfhed the poofe, but
" terlty isu't ettitiug any mngastnes."
-x . Vc&. -
... kIIer complexion used to be a great
i, if Qoranoe to her "Ah, well, that
-3 matteTinni made tip now." N
. t Herald.
Patient The doctors have given
me up." Friend 'Then von have one
hope loft" "What is thatr -Give
p the doctors." iSt Joseph News.
T Fapa.n said Johnny. 'Slldn'tOeorge
V'ashiujftoti ever tell a HeP1 Never.
. my son." 'Then how did ho got Ms
cinch on polities?" Harper Basar.
, , Bfore we were married, said the.
oi. displays of affoction were posi
. ' -. . ; y o-eriione." "And now P' 'i'hev
very rare." Indianapolis Journal.
nropean olvlliKtUEoii Is filling thf
.rk Continent with rum for the na
co. It may lead to painting the
tonliuent rod. AYte Orleans jftcayune
1 If you are told that you resemble a
great ujan eay uothintr. It may be
L stmt the-resemblunce will cease the mo
mnt you open your mouth. Atchison
Globe.
' As Howard Hall was starting at?
eloctrio motor in Bridgeport, Conn., a
fw davs ago, "a bright blaxe shot out
v from the dvunmo and bnrnod his mus-
tache off.""
Professor of historv Vhat do you
" know a(Kut Louis XlWa time?' Jack
A t It t el tens 'Nothing, sir; I never
knew he was a sprinter." Harvard
Lampoon.
I This world Is not so wicked. A man's
i food deeds are more apt to be re mom
bored than his bad ones except, of
course bv Ids Intimate friends. Min
neapolis Journal.
'Can't you employ me, sirP" asked
, the' tramp. "I have nothing for vou to
do, returned the hoRohtddr. 'I'linOs
just the thing I van do, sir, said the
y tramp. Harper's Bazar,
'X read this moruiug that somebody
xm. had invrtitetl a way of making poker
chips out of metal"." "What kind of
metal P" I don't know; ante money
( 1 presume." Washington ist.
. v "Have you read mv last novel, mv
'Jaar friend?v Certainly." "Well,
nd bow did yon like it?" "I laid
i s the book down with the greatest satts-
faction. Dry Goods Chronicle.
' Photography in natural colors is now
J said to be on the eve of success. Pos
J - sibiy the time will come when a man
. may be able to see himself a he looks
when painting the town red. Phila-
delphia Times.
s "What is Smith doing now?" "He
, la traveling with a circus." "Prcttv
- hard work, isn't itP" "No; ho has
nothing to do except to stick his head
in the lion's mouth twice a dav."
Texas Silings.
She "Does Mr. Chnmley beloug to
ine ooo ion at i rineeionr
t. (i'riucetoman) "1 never rjfj Qf
, inat ciud up here. liMTkoow the
in cuit j is ciown ovret societies.
tiarvttra jjam.
Tezev "Just on your ao-
t count, madam. I've been hiding my
light under a butml for years!" Mri
B re Key "O, dear! Kxtravagant as
r cup?" N.'r. HvrnttC
'We are holU in the same boat, arent
(U- weP" said one of the two brothers who
were condoling over a parental visita
tion. Yes." was the reply; "we
i were; and it was a whale-boat, too,
i- wasn't UP" li'askinfton Post.
"Go awav. You are drunk." said
the citizen to the beggar. "I ain't
nothiu of the kind," was the wrathful
reply. "D' yon suppose I'd be out a
' workin on sich a cold day as this if I
was good an' drnnk!" Indianapolis
Journal.
"Jimmy," said a visitor at the Jay-
smitna . "itow is your papa going to
r build a bouseP There are no bricks
coming to the city now." "Oh," re
. pi ied J ini m ie, "in am ma says papa
brings home a brick in his hat every
night." Mnnseifs Weely.
Dryson "Well, Dock. I hear yon
opened a drug store at Dcs Moines,
la. Doctor -Yes; and I am mak
ing it pay, too. My receipts one day
amounted to $100, and that didn't in
clude the 75 cents' worth of drugs 1
sold." Niagara Sjrray.
. ScSne, Central Africa (arrival of the
. express train at the chief town) Train
dispatcher to the engineer "What
does tins mean? 1 (ton t see any con
ductor." Engineer "No, the tirst
- class passengers have eaten him up
since we started." Fiiegende Blatter.
Somebody has computed that if thirty-two
million people should clasp
hands they could reach around the
earth. W hen a young man is in love
i h ifw nnr nffi to nuvn mnro innn
cnn rwrKnti olwsn his h.mtl to Ih? nhle to
reach round all the earth contains for
him. Buffalo Express.
"Hello no there!" shouted his wife,
"what in the world are yon making
such a rumpus about?"' Husband (on
roof) I am holding an inquest."
Wife "An inquest! Who is dead?"
Husband "Noliody, I am in quest of
the collar button that slipped down the
back of my neck." lirooldyn Eagle.
Ethet trad been sitting on the sofa in
silence for half an hourintently watch
ing the lady who had come to visit her
mothar for a day or two. At last the
burden of her thoughts was laid down
with a sigh, as she looked up in the
visitors face and asked: "Didn't you
bring any other dress?" SomerviUe
Journal.
A dear old gentleman who is deep
ly interested in Sunday schools, and
who never loses an opportunity to pray
iui mum ibul'uu tfiiimuiitrn iiitr iiji-
1 owing singular request in his pelHion
0Smi prayer meeting: "Dear Lord, bless
Wife "You don't tell me that Prof.
A. has been struck dumb?'' Husband
"Yes, last night. And he was mas
ter of seven languages." Wife "Is
it possible? And was he struck dumb
i in all oran9" T.-rn Rift.in.n.
. Ryson Col. Bourbou. I presume.
Bah, you are observing Leut, satiP"
.Colonel Bourbon "Yes. sail, I've
made a sacrifice I take my whisky
" straight, sah. now. and frive ud the
sugar, san. ' uincmnau uazctie.
There's one thing about you, d'An
ber, that I can't understand," said
Scumble. What is that, old fellowP"
"That with yonr unequaled taste in art
you should have such a large collec
tion of yonr own pictures." Fuck.
mm So you want a railroad position,"
153 mused tbe Superintendent. "Do you
think you could give an intelligent ac
1 count of an accident?" "Yes. sir, I'm
sure I could." ' Then I think we have
no place for yon." Kimira Gazette.
"Why, hello, old boy, I haven't seen
X you since you were married. What
'".v tre yoa doing now? Traveling for
: .! - bouse, 1 suppose?" "No, not
' iv'Vi i Since the baby camel have
; 1 "" "Vor walker." Philadelphia
the" Inmbs of this Told, nud mako them
meet for the kingdom of heaven."
Harper's Maganine.
An Arab water-seller who was lu
Turkey during the last war with Rus
sia was wandering about the rear of
the battle-fields with two freshly tilled
jugs of water, calling out. "Clear,
cool water, 2 plasters a cupful," u hun
a round shot bonuding nloug smaahrd
one jug to atoms, nnd the Arab wan
dered on without pausingt but changed
his cry to "Clear, cool water, 4 pi us Ut is
the cupful."
WELL-KNOWN SAYINGS.
Vhm Origin ir ftnm I'hmufHi That nav
It will be found on examlnatlou that
most sayings may be traced back to a
literary origin, says the N. Y. Stun
What more common, popular maxim is
there than that "Procrastination is the
thief of time?" Yet It Is the first line
of that most deadly dull of books.
Young's "Night Thoughts." Crowds
of people have been befooled in im
agining that "The Lord tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb" is a biblical
saving, yet it is only as old as Sterne'a
"etitimeutal Journey." K very body
knows about the mnu who read "Ham
let" nt an advanced age. and said he
would have liked It if it had not been
so full of "chestnuts." The fact la that
a great part of i has become prover
bial, and so common property. We no
longer have to read the pi ay" to Imbibe
a lot of its philosophy, for it is Hon ting
in the air about us.
On the other hand, some sayings un
doubtedly have a popular origiu. A
splendid example of the evolution of
one occurs iu the old testament, iu the
history of Saul. When the future first
king of Israel appeared among the
Itrophets the people were astonished,
le had been of a rather frivolous dis
position. Some man in the crowd ex
claimed: "Is Saul also among the
prophets?" The expression caught on,
and it has tmeu a familiar saying ever
since.
We have among ourselves a very good
example of the same sort in the expres
sion: "A good enough Morgan till
after election."
A difllcnlty here meets us. How is
it that among eastern illiterate nations
f trover ha of the most perfect form and
iterary finish are found? The same
state of affairs occurs in Spain.
The explanation lies In the fact that
In both cases the people are able to get
at literature vicariously. In Persia
and the east generally the professional
story-teller comes to a village, la the
evening tbe inhabitants sit round the
tent, a lid he tolls them tales, many of
them thousands of years old and full of
the condensed wisdom of ages. In
Spain the muleteer who wanders about
the country tills exactly the same posi
tion, and to the literature popularized
by him must be largely attributed the
riehness of Spanish in proverbs.
Tony Welier was the proverb-spinner
of the Pickwick crowd. He got
bis faculty in the very same wav that
the Spanish muleteer and the Persiau
story-teller got theirs. He met a great
man' people in his trips on the coach,
and his sayings got sharpness and
el-arncs of muline with every fresh
repetition. No doubt many of tlpatfl
were retailed by countless appreciative
hearers.
In the .same way. 4 ua Jnrrey iu the
BOJH"iim lrelaud is bv nature a nianu-
yvfactuivr of proverbs. He is a part of
reaction are equal and opposite, ail
th:it he has met become a part of him.
When a proverb has gained a sure
place in oue language, and strikes
some observer of a different race and
civilization, there is a difficulty about
transporting it bodily- If it be eastern
it will have a reference that will not,
for instance, appeal to westerns. What
then happens is that it is localized. It
is treated in the very way that names
are altered in a good stofy to give it
local color. In this way an eastern
proverb about a camel becomes a west
ern oue about a horse, and so on.
NO NEED OF ARREST,
Ganblir Httrdy rrfrrt Ittt and th
Mamhal (Save Him tils Cholo.
"Do you see that tall man standing
there!" asked the colonel of an Ana
conda Utaiulard reporter. "Notice
how be brushes his hair forward oa the
sides, as some Englishmen do. One of
these locks hides a scar which bears
eloquent testimony to a narrow escape
from death.
"Thirty years ago he was a deputy
marshal "iu Nevada. He started out
one day to arrest a gambler who had
killed a man over a game of cards.
The gambler knew that the marshal
was seeking him, but with cooleffront
ry walked about the streets all day.
John that is the deputy marshal
heard that the man he wanted was in a
well-known bar-room. He set out for
the place and carelessly walked boldly
into the room. He bad not crossed the
threshold when he found himself
looking into the barrel of a six-shooter.
'"Come, Hardy he said coolly, "this
won't do. I come to get you and I
want you.
"See here John, said the gambler,
I don't want to kiil you, but I won't
b " in arrest me. Go away and
.1,.. ....die.'
"'No. I want you," said the marshal
quietly. Put down the six-shooter and
come with me.'
"'I'll see J on shot first, said Hardy.
"'I can't help hat. said the other.
I must have you. Now. you have the
drop on me but yon must come with
me or kill me in cold blood.1
" I don't want to kill you, said
Hardv
"Then put down your gun.'
"John, I won't be arrested. Don't
touch me. I don't want to shoot a
man without cause. .
"Tve got to do it. Hardy.
"See here.1 said the gambler, turn
ing white, "if you move a foot I'll kill
you. But I hate to be a coward. That
was fair and square last night. We
both pulled together.
"The marshal shook his head.
"'I'll do one thing. John,' Hardy
went on. "I ll back up to the waif.
You'll back up to the other. Til draw
my revolver to my hip and you can
draw 3-ours. Then it's the best man.'
"The marshal moved backward to
the wall and Hardy did the same
Then the marshal drew his revolver
and held it at bis side, muzzle down.
All this time Hardy had kept bis
weapon leveled at the marshal. Slow
ly his arm sank uutil his weapon
touched the seam of his trousers. Both
men were perfectly calm and immova
ble the marshal determined looking,
the gambler still pale.
"Now, John. said Hardy. Instant
ly both weapons went up. "it was all
over so quickly that both m-i went on
tbe floor together. But !i:r.ly had
fired too soon. His ball v nt nt an
upward angle and grazed Lin- murs .ai
temple. But the marshal had ;--t -4
bullet straight into Hardy's beaii :.id
there was no need to arrest the gam
bler." The Fashion In Wines.
"Society Is running to burgundy
now." he said, speaking of the fashion
iu wines. "It is a leading feature at
every entertainment. Quite a heavy
wine, I know, but even the ladies
seem to favor it. At all the great din
ners champagne is now served very
much earlier than before. It is brought
onwith the nsh, and right down to the
gamft. A. i. world.
THE SOUTHERN NEGRO.
Tti Intn Knjormunk AAWril Him hf
a Pnrtlf'gttlnn In Vnncritl.
Corn shuoklngn are pleasant te a
negro; protracted meetings are still
more so, especially If there are a plenty
of watermelons and chickens In easy
ncces; but after nil the quintessence
of enjoyment to Sambo is a funeral,
savs Mary W. Enrly In the Sprlugtleld
(Mass. ) 'Rt'pHbtican. They will go
any distance and brave any dilllculty
to attend a funeral, whether they have
known the deceased person or uot.
They will
"Swtm the Rah river wher ford tttsre Is none'
rather than be balked in going to a
funeral. They may (nud In fact gen
erally do) ueglect the ill person, but
just let him die. and they will Hock to
the house and to the funeral lu a way
that suggests the gat holing together
of eagles over a carcass. It is a re
markable fact that though negroes
seem so amiable and friendly they gen
erally show great tudlffereuce and
neglect to members of their own race
who full ill, and the latter would prob
ably come to serious want In most
eases but for the ministrations of white
persons.
A conspicuous Instance of this kind
occurred recently in the city of Lynch
burg, Vn. A guntlemau living there
had a body-servant taken ill. and his
master, who was much attached to
him, did everything for him that kind
nenn could 8iigeat or money accom
plish, while his own race " let him
"severely nlotie," At length he died,
and then they commenced to flock to
have the pleasure of looking nt the
corpse and assisting tu the funeral.
Hut the master met them nt the door
and waved them back. Go away,"
said he. "You wouldn't come near
him while he was ill, and now you
shan't have anything to do with his
funeral." Hcing wealthy, liberal nud
kind-hearted this gentleman bad a
handsome funeral for his faithful body
servant, but the pall-bearers and M?r
sous occupying the hacks were all
white, and the negroes were extremely
discontented at missing the treat.
In slavery times a very amusing epi
sode occur ret I once nt the funeraFof a
negro woman. Just after the colli o
was lowered into the grave her hus
band burst into a wall of lamentation
that quite startled and touched the by
standers. Hut it soon appeared that
he was not bewailing his "Beastcd
(deceased) mate, but a bunch of keys
he had let slip into thecoflln and which
had been nailed up. "How I gvviue
open my chist, and my cupboard, and
mv heu house no
he woefully
asked.
Negroes have many superstitions on
the subject of death. If a whippoor
will comes into the porch or near the
house they take It as a sign that there
will sooti be a death in the family, and
they have the same siierstitiouiu re
gard to a forest bird coming into the
home, as is sometimes the case in a
violent storm or during a long spell of
inclement weather. If the grave is
dug too short they consider that a cer
taiu iga that there will soon, t, nu
mber death in the twih" Nothing
could induce a Jt.ifro to sweeo tindor-
I aeajitoTTjeti ou which a corpse lies.
j--At a recent uegro funeral a wreath
of pink hyacinths was laid on the cof
fin and when they were going to lower
the colli n the chief pall-bearer seemed
quite perplexed as to the best disposi
tion to make of this floral decoration.
Kiunlly. however, he cut the gonlian
knot by putting it on his own head,
and during the remainder of the
funeral service his shiny black face
anil woolly locks were surmounted by
this delicate and fragrant pink wreath.
A funeral gives negroes an oppor
tunity to enjoy we vera I thing- to which
they are partial. They can wear
black, and, mor over, black cram, if
they are sutliciuully near kiu to the
deceased. They dearly love to wear
mourning, strange as it may apcar.
when nature "has already condemned
them to a perpetual suit of sabie. Then
they love i lake a hack ride to the
rave, it ate living in towu. A
friend of mine gave me a diverting
account of seeing a dozen little negroes
dismount from the hearse on its sto
ping at the houe where the corpse
lay. These children had Availed them
selves of the opportunity to take a
drive, and their spirits were not at all
affected by the funereal character of
the vehicle they had been driving in.
Negroes seem to think that a death
in the family confers a sort of pompos
ity on the survivors, as an illustration
of which I may meution the incident
of a little negro boy whose mother had
been dead only a few days aud who
was sitting apart from his usual play
fellows aud declining to play with
them; whereou one of them tauntingly
said: "Yon needn't be so proud, if
your mother i da id."
SOME LARGE MEN.
In Tnr:n Wr Fnnnil m Human Ska II
Pour Ft In Clrramrerrnc.
The Emperor Maximin was 8 feet in
height so also was a giant exhibited at
Rouen in 1735. Dr. Goropius of the
French Academy of Science once made,
a professional examination of a girl of
but 13 years of ajre who was ten feet
4 inches high. The body of Orestes,
according to the Greek historians,
measured 11 feet when being pre
pared for burial. Gnlbara. the giant
exhibited in Rome during the reign of
Claudius Caesar, was over 10 feet
high. Seconda and Pusio. the giant
keepers of the gardens of Sallust were
exactly of the same height, each
measuring 9 feet and 6 inches. Fur
man the Scotch giant of the time of
Eugene II. measured but two lines
less than 11 feet 6 inches.
Chevalier Scovey, in his account of
the voyage to the peaks of Teueriffe
says that in opening one of the sepul
chral caverns they found a human
skull whieh measured four foot in cir
cumference and which was provided
with eighty (80) teeth. He always ac
companied the army ou foot, there be
ing no horse tall and strong enough to
carry him.
Peter us, in his published writings,
tells of a giant whom he examined at
Lucerne, whose body measured 19 feet
4 inches aud 3 lines. In Roueu. in
1509 while workmen were enraired in
digging in ditches near the Dominican
monastery, they found a stone totnb
containing a skeleton whose skull
held a bushel of wheat, the shiu bone
reaching to the waist of the tallest man
on the ground. Over the tomb there
was a stone slab containing the follow
ing words in raised copper letters: "In
this tomb lies the noble and puissant
lord the Chevalier Ricon de Vallemot
and his bones.
Why They Are Noseless.
A missionary, writing of the degrad
ed condition of the people of the Gil
bert Islands, in the South Pacific, says:
"The further yon go north in the Gil
bert Islands the less you see of the
horrid scars which on Tapitouca dis
figure, or. as they think, distinguish
all the male sex. But at the same
time, as you go north, there seems a
greater intent to kill than at the south,
where the intention seems to be rather
to lacerate and make the most horrid
wounds, those which will produce the
greatest amount of misery. One sin
gular propensity of an excited Gilbert
Islander is to bite off noses. This ac
counts for the great number of nose
less persons one meets. A few years
ago one of them, in bis wrath, climbed
up and bit off the nose from the figure
-head of the -"Morning Star!" It has
since been replaced with one of lead.
CQ0P rpflM IN ENGLAND. '
Numvrnui Wyi In Whleh ltrltlah Cm
tuma IMAVr frnm Amrloa Ones
To adequately indicate the diver
ge noes butweeu the ways of Kngllsh so
ciety nud our own would require a
volume, says the N. V. Ledger, but
some striking examples may be given
lu a few paragraphs. To begin with
the mimes applied to servants. In
England there is no such thl"- tin a
"dining-room girl." 8 he is caned a
"parlor-maid." What we term nn
"up-stalra girl!" Is a hnuse-mnld."
Tit ere are no "chambermaids" or
"waiters" in nn English private house.
They are found only In hotels and
restaurant. To speak of a coachmau
as a "driver" would be very "bad form."
Coachmen, butlers, housekeepers,- and
ladies' maids are called by their sur
names only, never by their Christian
names.
Americana who ape English usages
almost nluavs blunder in the use of
eresls. lu England only men put
crests on their paper, silver, clothing,
carriages, etc. Fur a lady, especially
a young lady to put a crest on any
thing would be considered bad form.
To speak to a mnu of his wife as "your
wife" would not be tolerated; you
must say "Mrs. So-and-So." The use
of "sir" in conversation between equals
would be thought very bad form. The
railway terms lu Kntrlttml differ mark
edly from ours. The "track" is a
"lino": a "depot" is a "station": a
--(lUKUL-umcw is a "oooiting-oiiice
a conductor" is the "guard" tb
'engineer" Is the "driver ; the "car'
Is a carriage"; "baggage1 is "lug
'ticket-ollicv" is a "booklnir-ofllce"t
the
'car"
IE-
gage." ami a baggage -ear" Is a
"van." Iu English theaters, what we
call "orchestra seats" are "stalls," and
the "parquet" is termed the "pit."
Englinh newspapers you do not "sub
scribe for," but "take in." An 'ed
itorial" is always a "lender."
It is uot good form for a young lady
to go to school. She must be educated
at home. We may also note that the
ahhrevatlou used for "bachelor of arts"
nud "masters of art" are "B. A." nud
"M. A.," whereas in this country they
are "A. II." and "A. M." What we
call "public schools" are termed 'na
tional schools" in England. An Eo
Hsh 'public school" corresponds to
such American institutions as the Phil
lips academies at Exeter nud Andover.
At Oxford and Cambridge the term
"graduate" is not used as a verb to
express the taking of a university de
gree. Glancing at games, we may re
mark that in England billiards Is al
ways played nn a pocket table. Xou
do not, however.say that you "pocket"
a ball; yu "hole" It. A 'xarmtn" is
a "cannon;" a scratch' Is a "fluke;"
a "rtiu" is a "break," and a hot" is
a "stroke." Croquet, which once was
popular, no longer regarded as good
fori u.
In England shooting is never called
"guuuhig" or "hunting." ,Tlie ! rater
term is applied exctusivciv to fox hunt
ing. A i orse good at inmmut; is cail-
J d agO'T'l "fencer." Ail jumps except
-h.lTi..l. Mfi.1 u-.,ir" Sttnuiltul xni null.
ed "fences. On the other hand, what
we call "fences' are termed "timber."
AH "race" iu England are ruuutn
races. There are no trottlug races.
All English races are run, not upou a
din track, but upon ratfs; hence the
expression, the "turf.1
A word about theetiquet of calls and
cants. In England i would be the
worst possible form for a gentleman to
call on an unmarried lady and ask the
servant if sue is at home. He must al
ways ask for the mother only. A gen
tleman is never asked to "call again
soon," but he is told: "I hope we
shall see a good deal of you."
iu England cards are left only when
the person called ou is out. They
are never sent in I m-fore the caller
if the Krou called ou is at
home, tor hu-batid and wife to have
Itoih names on oue card, a "Mr. and
Mr. Jones." is very bad form. So it
!- tor unmarried ladies to have sep
arate, visiting card of their owu.
Their uames houUI be engraved uu
der the name of their mother or of
some ol her married female relation.
In England one's address should al
ways iKt on one's card, in smaller let
ter, in the right lower corner.
We might enumerate a thousand
other peciiliariiieit. but we have cited
enough to show that an American citi
xon could uot easily acquire what in
Englaud is called "good form" without
an cxemliture of time that could bo
put to better purpose.
BATTLE HORRORS.
The Burning to Dlh of Wounded Men
t ChfttieellorTllle.
Among the horrors of the battle of
Chancellorsville was the catching tire
of an abatis and the burning of wounded
soldiers, both union and confederate.
A wounded man months afterward told
Mr. Goss. who writes the story in his
"Recollections of a Private," that he
watched the flames and counted the
miuutes when they would strike him.
but was unexpectedly saved by a little
pool of water which arrested the tire
just in season. Another man. a hospital
comrade, said to Mr. Goss:
"I was among the wounded just out
side the nbati.4 when it got afire. This
leg you see was as limp as a dish-rag,
but I couldu't see the poor fellows burn
iu that way. So, using my musket for
a crutch, I began to pull away the burn
inr brushwood and got some of them
out.
"I tell you it was hot! Them pi ties
was full of pitch and resin aud made a
lire as hot as a furnace! I was work
ing away, pulling out Johnnies and
Yanks.wheu one of the wounded John
nies, pale as a ghost, toddled up and
began to help. Ho allowed he wa'n't
go in1 to have a Yankee beat him at
uuytliing.
The underbrush crackled and
roared, and the poor follows hotvtwdnnd
shrieked when the tire got at them; and
by and by another confederate I guess
he was a straggler came up aud Itegan
to help, too, and we fought the lire all
together.
"We were tryiug to rescue a young
fellow in gray the tire was all around
him. The last I saw of that fellow was
his face. It was a handsome face. His
ees were big aud blue, and his hair
like raw silk surrounded by a wreath
of flame, and then I heard him scream:
0 mother! O God!" It left me tremb
ling all over like a leaf.
"After it was over, my hands were
blistered and burned so I couldn't
open or shut them, but me and them
rebs tried to shake hands. Them two
fellers weren't so bad; one of the in
helped me down to' the crossing the
next night, and got a darky to set me
across the river.
"What? Well, yes! That leg'a
a-guer, but Tin not sorry."
Idttle Bessie's Sorrows.
Little Bessie had been offended in
some way. She went off into a corner
of the room and turned her back on
the company. "I'm mad," she ex
claimed sulkily. "I wish I didn't have
any papa or mamma."
"That's wrong:, dear," said her
mother. "Wo are the best friends you
have."
"Well," said Bessie, still sulking,
I don't mind bavin1 papa. He isn't
here much. But I'm gettin awful
tired of the rest of you." Chicago
Tribune. -
Betting on the rainfall has been car
Vied to such an extent in India that
the Bombay government has passed an
. wit tor mnu in
OVERPOPULATION IS C0MIN0.
tartttaff rlmt1tl"M Proiluil at
Navting of tli llrltUh Asatioft
At a recent meeting of the Hrltlsh
Association K. G. Hnverisltdn produced
nn elaborate set nf statistics to show
that the world will, in the ordinary
course nf things, be fully Inhabited in
about 18'i yours, uhlch estimate con
siderably extmida the period at whleh
tome learned men believe humanity
will be crowded out.
Having ureviously swept away the
arctle aud 'antarctic regions as not be
ing essential for his argument, he
parceled out the remainder of the earth
into: Cultivable laud. 28,400.000
square miles; steppe, scrub, poor grass,
etc., ltt.V01.000 square miles; barren
deserts. 4. 1 HO, 000 square mites; a total
of 46. 8.50, 000 square miles. The popu
lation living upon thl he reckons at a
little over 1.407.000.000. divided thus:
Europe. flfiU 200.000; Asia. 8o0.000.000;
Africa. 127,000.000 (a much lower
itfltimntn than most people compute);
Auir:ia, 4.730.000; North America.
B0, 260.000; South America. 80,500.000.
Mr. llnveustcln showed how. suppos
ing the standard of life among the
various peoples to remain ihn same,
supposing the populiitlc - at
the rate of 8 per cent in in cry decade,
and supposing there are no extraor
dinary Improvements iu agriculture,
the population of the world In the year
2072 will be 6,9U4.OO0.(H0. In speak
ing of the populations that these areas
would bear (mentioning 207 Individu
als to the square mile as a fair aver
age), he suggested that the productive
ness of the earth might be better util
ized when people understood economy.
In expressing a general opinion that
tropical countries are not tit for
Kuroneans he granted exceptions to
the rule as, for example. In certain now
well-known highlands of Africa. One
of the theories propounded Is that
there Is a gradual migiailon of people
southward, so that in t mi a race of
European origin may miat who will be
acclimatized in the tropics. Ou the
whole, Mr. UaveiiKtein does uot de
spair that the world will lie overpop
ulated. because as new developments
occur new adaptations will be found to
meet them.
Her. John Mackenzie expressed the
opinion that the Zambesi will all in
course of time tie suitable for European
residents. J. W. Wells, who has
traveled 3.000 miles tu Argenttua and
Ilrnsil. thought that there is every
prospect of a speedy construction of a
vast system of rail and fluvial com
munication all over the country. The
sum total ut the discussion so far was
an assurance that there are plenty
of places in the world tit for popula
tion, that there is a demand for popu
lation all over the world, and that we
need not particularly worry ourselves
as to whether the glolie will be over
populated iu generations to come.
Tota Adopted Family.
Tot came to me one morning with
puzzled and inquiring look in her large,
beautiful browu eyes. "What would
you do with hlmf" she seemed to say.
"He worries me more than all the
others put together."
'J ot was a small, cream colored
Eskimo door, and it was one of her
j adopted children, a turtle, that was
just then causiug her motherly heart so
much anxiety. After thus questioning
me with her 'expressive eyes, a bright
Idea seemed to strike her. She ran to
her closet and separated the trouble
some turtle from the other members of
her rather singular family, pushing
him with her nose into a corner of the
room. Then she brought some pieces
of muslin, and covered him over so
that not a bit of him could bo seen.
"There, now, 1 think he will sleep and
give me time to attend to my other
children,1 was her apparent comment.
Tot was in the habit of adopting all
the .motherless strays she came across.
At the time of which 1 write, we bad
two little ducks that had been left
orphans. Tot heard them complaining
one day. It seemed to make her very
minora hie. At last she could bear ft
no louger; so downstairs she went, and,
to my utter astonishment, returned
with one of the ducklings, safe and
sound, iu her mouth, depositing it iu
the box with her three puppies. In the
cournu of the day she succeeded in
bringing the other little fellow upstairs
and placing him with his brother. The
ducks seemed quite happy with their
adopted mother, and. when older, fol
lowed her everywhere, running after
her, and screaming if she got too far
ahead of them. A singular thing it
was that Tot aud her own children
never injured lhee feathered found
lings. But I am sorry to say that Tot
never loved the turtle, always covering
up the ungainly little creature when
ever it ventured to put out its head or
be sociable with the rest of the family.
St. Nicholas.
TESTIMONY OF THE EXPERT.
How Mittty GlMKMfit ut Herr It Takes to
Expositors of the exact sciences are
not always sure of their opinious and
experts are sometimes uncertain. Such
a case is recorded in a neighboring
city. Haviu; elected a reform council.
iu a spasm of righteousness the people
naturally expected to have the moral
at mosphere cleared. To silence the
clamor ttie council passed an ordinance
making it extremely unlawful to sell
intoxicating liquor Sunday. The
traffic of course continued, but quietly.
Eventually a saloonkeeper was ar
rested aud charged with violating the
law in selling beer. His lawyer de
cided to try the time-stained, weary
defense that beer was a uon-intoxicant.
The sale was admitted and the attor
ney called for his expert testimony.
The first witness was Adolf Soli lege I, a
German-American of repute and sub
stance good. After a Ion": life of trade
he had retired, and by diligent daily
application to malt liquids attained
vat proportions. So large, indeed,
that when he died a colli u had to be
built to order, and a window and part
of the gable end of the house removed
to get out the subject of the, obsequies.
However, that's another story, as Mr.
Kipliug would say. Mr. Schlegel
puffed his way to the witness staud
aud when he caught his second wind
was duly sworn. In reply to the cus
tomary questions to prove him an ex
pert he testified.
"1 iiaf pin prewer dwendy years und
I keep saloon zwelf. I haf indimade
knowledge of der goustiduents of
lager."
"Is lager beer an intoxicating
liquor?" asked the attorney, with an
air which plainly said that be was con
fident of the answer.
"Dot's diffurend mit differend sub
jecks." responded the truthful and ex
act witness. "If a man triuk sechsig
oder sevendy glasses a day he don'd
feel id; a bur if he make a schwein oud
of himself I dink he ged full, bud I'm
nod go n tit 1 e n t. cider." Chicago Trib
une. Exodus from Iceland.
There is every' likelihood that next
year will see the whole of the popula
tion of Iceland on the way to Canada
or the United States. " From the
official statistics it appears that fully
20.000 natives, or about one-fourth of
the entire population of the island
have already emigrated to this conti
nent. Property has greatly depre
ciated and taxes increased till there is
great complaining and a desire to re
'U"ve to more prosperous lands.
WON AT THE DICE.
flow a Nwly Arrlvail Italian Olrt Wm
lklapoaad Of in Ontltitn.
Between One Hundred and One Hun
dred and Eighth street , on the east
side, Is an Italian colony, says the N.
IT, Continent. It U populated princi
pally by Italian peddler and ash-barrel
Investigators, who live huddled to
gether like sheep. Wedlock Is at a
discount among them, very fow, lu
fact, conforming to the formality of a
marriage ceremony.
If a particularly well-favored young
womau mi grules to the colony from
their native country the young Italians
fall in love with her as a body. If aha
wants to be taken she has uot one but
many beau a. eusrer and willing to
escort her. This collective feeling
does not lust long, aud before many
weeks are past there are two or three
ultra-attentive men for the olive-colored
damsel, and among them exists a
great feeling of rivalry. It ia only
fiossible for her to marry if marriage
t cau be called oue of them, and she
is usually nfrald to favor either of the
trio In particular on account of their
hot tempers.
Tbe matter Is then left to chance.
Dirty-looking dice are brought out or
a quarter is flipped, and the winner
carries off the bride.
This scene was carried out on
Wednesday night In a house on One
Hundred and Second street, between
First anil Second avenues. The object
of the toss-up was a pretty little six
tee n-y earmold Italian maiden who bad
Just arrived from the sunny shores of
the Mediterranean. From Castle Gar
deu she had been taken by friends to
house ou One Hundred and Fourth
street, where she was welt cared for.
Her dark brown eyes and olive skin
oon made a furor of excitement
among the young moo of the colony,
and the girl was feted to a remarkable
degree. She enjoyed the efforts made
for her entertainment, and It was not
long before Nealia Diego found two or
three of the young fellows to be more
than usually' Interested iu her. The
three youths told her of their Inten
tions, and she was present to be the
wife of the lucky loser.
The back room they used was dimly
lighted by a candle, and the three, two
of whom own fruit stands, while the
third is a Ixiotblack. tossed away.
There was auspense in that crowd un
til it was settled that the bootblack
was the wlunerof the girl, who clapped
her bauds and threw herself in his
arms. The other two congratulated
him, and the party went to their
homes.
The bootblack's name Is (iilpo Men
neo, and the two fruiterers are Angelo
Cantelo and (usid Itounepl. In the
Italian section these names are known
as belonging to very respectable young
med.
AN INGENIOUS CIPHER.
aw tha lnds f n
Tltrntlv
Into JnlL
Borne years ago the friends of a
Parisian thief adopted a decidedly
unique method of earn-in g on clan
destine correspondence with him while
he was awaiting trial. One day the
Jailer was visited by the prisoner's be
trothed, who asked him to give her
lover nn envelope. This upon being
opened was found to contain simply a
small lock of her hair, around which
was folded a leaf of a book. The jailer
diit not consider it worth his while to
deliver this souvenir to the culprit, and
therefore threw it aside.
A day nrtwo later a similar in closure
was hauded in nt the prison gate and
shared the fate of its predecessor. In
the course of a week another was left
by the same person. This aroused the
suspicion of the Governor of the prison
to whom hai been detailed tbe cir
cumstances Hj determined to inves
tigate the meaning, and accordingly
Urst examined the printed leaf. This
he found wa torn from a novel and
contained twenty-six lines on each
side. Ho then turned his attention to
the hair, and discovered that there
were twenty-six pieces of unequal
length. This puzzled htm for a while,
and then suddenly jumping to the con
clusion that there must be some con
nection le t ween the number of the
printed lines and the number of hairs,
he laid each of the latter along the lino
of the pa jre they respectively reached,
beginning with the shortest hair, at
the top of the leaf.
After changing them about several
times he discovered that each hair
pointed to a different letter, and the
combination thus produced formed a
slang sentence, by menus of which the
Itrisouer was given to understand that
lis friends had ascertained the dav on
which he was to be taken to court and
were determined to make a bold at
tempt to rescue him as soon as be
made his appearance.
Takiug the cue the Governor adopt
ed every precaution to frustrate the
well-laid plans of the outsiders; the at
tempt was made nnd. us a natural con
sequence, the conspirators soon found
themselves in the same comUtion as
the one for whom them had planned
the rescue.
A Vegetable Fly.
J. M. R.." a St. Louis liepuOlie
render, residing nt Waco. Texas, in
closes the following curious account
of the Won India "vegetable fly:"
One of the most curious natural
productions of the West Indies is the
famed vegetable fly. au insect about
the size and color of a drone bee. but
without wing;. In the month of May
it burios itself in the earth aud begins
to vegetate. By the be;m n ing of
June a sprout has issued from the
creature's back and made Us appear
ance above the surface of the ground.
By the end of July the tiuy tree(knowu
on the island ns'tho fly tree) has at
tained its full size, being then about
three inches high, but a perfect tree in
every particular, much resembling a
delicate coral branch. Pods appear
on its branches as soon as it arrives at
Hs full growth; these ripen and drop
off in August. Iustead of containing
seeds, as one would naturally suppose,
the pods have from three to six small
bard worms upon their interior. The
pod soon shrivel up in the hot sun and
bursts open on about the third day aft
er becoming detached from the parent
stem. The little worms roll out and
bury themselves iu the sand, and, after
undergoing the change incident to nil
caterpillars, become flies, which, when
tbe proper time comes, bury them
selves iu the ground to furnish nourish
ment for another miniature fly tree."
v Yankee Ingenuity.
A Maine man recently devised an
apparatus with which a lazy man
might set the kitchen lire agoing with
out leaving-his bed, and now an in
ventor in Madison has produced an
arrangement by which the lamp lights
itself on dark winter mornings when
tbe alarm clock jingles. The mechan
ism of the alarm lifts a catch that holds
a piece of sand-paper under the point
of a match. The sand-paper flies
back, quickly igniting the match,
which is inserted in a socket in the end
of a plunger. As the match burns the
plunger slowly descends into the
chimney of the lamp to the burner,
where it remains stationary for a few
seconds, giving ample time for lighting
the wick, and then returns it to its
place free and clear of the lamp. "No
getting up in tbe dark and fumbling
for a matchr says the inventor; but.
alas, you have to get up just the same,
and there's the rub. Lewiston (Afe.)
ewroeU. .
LIFE ON A TORPEDO-BOAT
TUm Worst Craft, bo OfflMr That
M Kr SNtlad In.
Life on a torpedo-boat In smooth
water may be endurable, but naval
it (11 cer s must look forward to taking
such vessels from one Atlantic port to
another with anything but anticipa
tions nf comfort. A Ilritlsh nfllcer in
the latest number of the Hnqlish Illus
trated Magazine describes the horrors
he suffered In a voyage across the At
lantic lu one of theiie vessels which
wns Intended for the defense of the
Hnlirn harbor. She was 12ft feet long
aud 13 feet broad at the widest part,
and carried three officers nnd thirteen
men, so that nt the beat there was listlo
room to spare. Hut the rovaire was
very stormy, although made in the
month of June, and but for the assist
ance of a big troopship which accom
panied the two torpedo-boats the latter
must have gone to the bottom.
The oflicer expressed the opinion
that is Impossible to keep a torpedo
boat dry. aud nt any rate In his case
the spare clothing fn his locker was
soaked through ns badly nn that which
he wore. The little vesol rolled so
terribly that the picked sailors on
board were very seasick eating bad
to be accomplished without the aid of
knives and forks, and the cooking that
could be done was to boll a little water.
To eat ham required the efforts of two
men. one to hold the ham and the
other to cut It, while the usual way of
dealing with sardines was similar, oue
per sou holding the box while the other
lished out the sardines by their tails
and transferred them to his mouth.
Canned soup wan the great standby.
Whenever the weather cleared a lit
tle the torpedo-boat ran alongside of
the troopship aud received a fresh sup
ply of coal in sacks. 'I' he bunkers held
so little that some of the sacks had to
be piled up on deck, where, although
they were lashed, it was difficult to
keep them from going overboard.
During the worst gale the troopship
poured about forty-live gallons of oil
overboard, nnd the torpedo-boat found
a comparatively Bmooth track In Iter
wake To the oil nud to the fact that
the steering gear did not give way the
officer attributes the survival of the
little vessel. The officers were held
In their berths bv boards rigged up for
the purpose, and the men usually slept
In the coal bunkers, ns It was too wet
forward for them. During the gales
everything was smashed that could be
smashed, even to the swinging table In
the cabin.
Wheu the squadron finally reached
Newfoundland it had long beeu over
due, and the crews had been praved
for in the churche. The toriwdo-boats
were much the worse for the exwdi-
tion.tue stanchions uelug ueut. o to ken.
or gone altogether aud everything that
could be washed overboard gone, while
tbe men were worn out for luck of
sleep. 'Of all the craft that ever I
sailed lu," says the narrator, "the
torpedo-boat is the worst the very
worst without exception.
HOW FAIR WOMEN WALK.
Only m mrj Small fr On Know How
to Io Tbla OrocwfaJljr.
It's a very easy thing to do, walk
ing, learned so long ago in every
woman's vouth that she scarcely re
members fiow or when she was taught
to put one foot before the other, bow
she learned to move with shambling
or dignified motions; nnd so strong
upon Tier is the force of habit long con
tinued that rarely, rarely In later years
of girl or young ladyhood, cau she be
brought to a consciousness of the de
fects in her carriage, and persuaded to
alter them for more graceful move
ment, as she passes to and fro upon
the face of the earth.
Just one out of twenty-five women
seen passing down a crowded street
know how to bold her body and how
to lift up and set down her feet nat
urally, says a writer in tbe Illustrated
American. That is the result of long
observation on the part of tbe writer,
who, moreover, remarks that that one
redeeming woman is but a passable
walker.
No, only that woman who goes in
for athletic exercises, or has hearkened
to long lectures from tite dress reform
ers, ever takes thought, as to her daily
bearing In public aud at home. It is
sufficient that she is not hunch-backed
or conspicuously ungraceful. and
though she doesn't know it, all those
long, flowing skirt draperies, from
waist to foot, hide for her a multitude
of what might almost be deformities
ugly nn pleasing movements, that in a
man go under the uncompromising
terms of knock-kneed, bow-legged?
splay-footed, and so on, but on her are
hidden, and only obtrude by the un
easy steps, switching skirts and lift of
shoulders, by the weak droop of shoul
ders, undignified bend of the head and
poise of arms all of which go to make
up the irregular outlines of an ugly
figure.
In those early days, when a toddling
baby, much of this uubeautifulness of
carriage was learned, uor was it cor
rected; ami ns very few women con
sider more than facial beauty neces
sary for happiness, they never pause a
moment before the mirror and regard
attentively the cou tours of the body,
and, walking back and forth, halt to
judge whether the motion is regular
and full of ease.
He Didn't Want Any Smd.
You can either beat a farmer as
slick as grease or you can't beat him
at all," said the patent hay fork man as
we were talking about his adventures
in the rural regions. "That is, he is
either gullible or oversuspicious. Some
will refuse a good thiug and some will
snap at aswindlo. I think I cau illus
trate my declarations right here, or at
least one of them. The man in tbe seat
over there is a farmer."
"I should any so."
"And he's oue of the sort who sus
pects every stranger. Watch me try
him."
He took a cake of toilet soap from his
satchel and going over to the farmer
saluted him iu a pleasant manner, and
added:
"I have a new make of soap here
which I am introducing to the pnblic
It is worth fifteen cents a cake, but I
make the price only five."
Don't want it.' was the gruff reply.
"With every cake goes a $3 green
back, a gold bracelet, the deed of a
town lot iu Kansas, a pocket knife, a
pair of eye-glasses, and a solid gold
ring."
"Don't want ero, sir!"
"As I want your opinion of the soap
I will give it to you."
"I woo't lake it!"
"But, sir, in order to introduce it
into your neighborhood I will give you
100 cakes free, and ut the- same time
leave five watches and live deeds to
town lots."
"Look-a-here!" shouted the farmer
as he jumped up and spat on his hauds.
"You go away from me or I'll mash
you! I'm on to your tricks, old man,
and if you think you have picked up a
hayseed, you are barking up the wrong
tree."
And the hay-fork man had to move
lively to escape the blow levelled at hi
nose.
Stamping; lfaue on Iron.
Experiment has proved that if a
delicate piece of lace be placed between
an iron plate and a disk of gunpowder
and the latter be detonated the lace
will bo annihilated but its impression
will be clearly stamued ou the iron.
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INCUBATOR CO-
Petal am a. Cal.
IKSIKUMtNIS
fetor? IU 72S AKITT ST. 3m ' -f,
SHOES I
Child button, heels and tips, slont to 8, SO to
OS cents; Misses goat, lace, everyday heels, 11
to 70 cents; Mlsse ejoat, lace, everyday
heels, 1 to 2. 85 cents; Child coat, lace, every
day heels, 6 to 10, 60 and 66 cents; Ijtdles goat,
lace, everyday durable special. SI; Ladles goat,
button, neat style, SI. 30; L&dlos kid, button, all
sixes to 7. SI. 50; Ladles slippers, fair quality,
neat. 7S cents: Ladies low cut shoes, latest
fanblon. SI BO; If Lsses cloth and kid, lace, 11 to
t3J-. 50 cents; liens low cut shoe, summer
wear. Si; Mens low cut shoes, better quality,
S1.2S. Job lots of shoes of first quality bought
here and there at reduced prices, will be offered
to our patrons at the smallest margin of profit,
ir you want to see a full list of these ask tor
March Home Circle. It Is worth your while
to look It over. Cost you nothing bat the trouble
of sending yonr name and address to 8iala
Casb Hi ore. 416 and 418 Front St.. 8. F,
R. HALL'S
Pulmonary Balsam.
A SniMrior BemMly tor AU
Throat and Lang Troubles,
Asthma, Coaghs, Colds,
Croup, Whoopuif Cofa,
Influenza, Bronchitis.
Loss of Voice, noarsenett '
And Incipient Consamptiom,
Baadllr rtoM to ,ts HcaUaa Hi..
PRICE 50 CENTS.
J. R. GATES & CO., Prop'ra.
Ten men were killed and several in
jured by an explosion in a coal mine
at Apedale, Staffordshire, April 3.
Germany is alarmed by a belief that
Russia and France have formed an
offensive and defensive alliance.
Booth of the Salvation Army is very
ill. .
Emanuel Jarrez, a railroad work
man, went to sleep on a railroad
bridge near Sumner and was killed
by a train.
W. A. Clark of Kansas was run over
and killed by a train at Puyallup
March 29.