'V-S'
N
tNIGMATA.
Iwantfrt the sweep of the wild wnt weather.
The wind's lon IbhIi sml tlie ruin's rroo mil
TliPtiwHtif tUtttreusnii tlicy wwaywl tiiKullmr,
The lueaaureltwa iimy iliul wanvitr ilium uU;
Wlitmn rmir apuuka -more than a laaicuoga
Wordless and wonderful, ry on rrjv
The sob of wi turili that In vexed ami broken,
Tim answering sou of bmktm Hky.
What (Kiiili) they toll us? We see ttwni wer
The true ami Ute sky aud the stretch of thtt
luiul;
But they ittve a a word of their secret never:
They tell no story we timlerstuiid,
Yet Imply Uiu BbiutiUke litrnti out yonder
Km i wit much In nlai-iil and Hi lent wan
fiv ruin miittit tell what tli gray clouds poa-
dw,
The winds repeat what the vloleta say.
Why weep the rain? Do yon know It sorrow?
Da you know why tit wind iHKU4l-Mtuul?
Bave ynn Htood In the rift 'twlxt a day aud
morrow,
Beeu tholr bunds meat and their ayes grow
Klady
b too tree's pride stung at Ita top1 abasementf
la Urn while roue mora of a auini thtui the
rwly
What thinks the star aa it sees thro ash the
easement ,
A young girl lying, beautiful, dead?
-Harry I'alo la tipc&ker.
SUGGESTION.
"What do yon think of it, owner?" asked
the prisoner1 counsel.
The physician, a celebrated specialist and
authority on tuenul diseases, snook bur
head gravely In a noncommittal tort of
way.
' "Yon followed up tbe clew I gave you?"
persisted the lawyer.
"Year
"And yon think"-
J shall examine him again today, re
plied the doctor "I have seen several ex
pert in the new science, and they all agree
that poor Julian ia hi Impressionable sub
ject, a ready made victim to any one who
m Ik tt have wished thin deed done liy
proxy; hut the motive? Probably Home
lover's quarrel, some revenue; they any the
girl was pretty mid coquetttiih. There
la aometbititf baffling about the affair,"
added the doctor with a alight relaxation
of bis professional caution. "While 1 have
never bud too much confidence In thin idea
of 'sntfKestiou,' 1 am uot prepared to any
there in nothing in it."
"Let me go with yoa today, doctor, 1
will allp in without speaking, listen to the
story he relates, and one of ua may chanoe
on Home word or Idea to give ua the indica
tion we seek."
Ho it waa agreed.
"How do you feet today F" Mked tbe doc
tor kindly, a they entered tbe prisoner'!
cell.
The man waa lying on hi bard bed, star
tug in frout of htm, with hollow, vacant
yea.
"My thought,' be replied, "flutterattout
aimleaHty; Mad, oh, and, hh long anow uov
red plaiua under the light cf the moon. 1
have woru myaelf out with walking to and
fro. My limb ache m if I had been beaten.
I feei very cold, but tbe palm a of my bauds
are burning with fevtjr, and 1 have a dull
pain at tbe bane of my brain
Tbe phymeiau nodded gravely and eafd a
few aoothing worda, tbeu reqiteated the pa
tlent to relate all he could remember about
tbe crime. ,
"But, doctor," objected Julian,"! nave
already told you twenty time or mora. It
will he tnouotonoua to go over all that
again, though, to be aure, there is nothing
better to do here. W ell tbeu, place your
elf there, oppoaite to me, ao that you will
hide that white wall; it looks to me like a
canvas on which la painted that unfading
image; tbe coffer with tite head upon itl
W heu you go away my terror will return.
If they would only aoil that wall a little;
It seems to uie the slightest stain would
obviate thin fancy. 1 tried to soil it, and
the juller xcotded me aa if 1 had beeu a
schoolboy.'
"Go on with your story," said the doctor
anietly.
"I was walking along aimlessly, when
from a long, dark, narrow street 1 emerged
oo the tborougbfare, LlgbU were shilling
here and there under the trees like great
floweni of flume. The yelling- of showmen,
the music and bells of tbe merry -go-round a,
tbe trumpets aud drums, burdy gurdys
aud squeaking plaything of the children
made n most horrible diu, for the auuual
festival was in full tide.
"Cornered by a group of curious people,
I was crowded aud crushed, raised off my
feet and carried along before a booth.
Above the door I rend tbe word, 'Metem-
psyebohis.1
"A fat man was selling ticket; be was
pitted by smallpox aud had one eye smaller
than the other.
"limide it was very, almost quite, dark.
"Before us a square of light opened In
the canvas which was stretched at the
farther end of tbe booth. Witbiu this
frame appeared a table with a guutse sureeu
separating it from the spectators.
"Tbe fat man parsed around a pasteboard
bend such as milliners use for bonnets.
Wheu it had goue from haud to hand aud
was acknowledged to bo truly what It ap
peared to be, he placed It on the- table and
fastened the gaujte screen. The light
brightened; by transitions impossible to
catch, without anything seeming to move,
as the man announced a transformation
the piuntobourd bead turned into a vane full
of flowers, thou Into a cage full of birds,
after that into a death's head which be
came tbe mask of celebrated statues repre
senting successively Venus, Juuo, Cleo
patra, Anne of Austria, Marie Antoinette,
and so on aud on. until tbe show man said,
'Instead of pasteboard aud stucco you shall
Dow sue living flesh,1
"Slowly the face dislocated, the features
became hazy, con fused, to form auiu lit
tle by little aud appear distinct, auimated.
humanlxed.
" 'An Ingenious trick,' 1 Brought; 'I don't
even care to know if it is accomplished by
the aid of mirrors.'
"The head of a young girl, sweet and
fair, had formed behind the gauge, hue
opened ber great black eyes, which, with
outdeliuite expression, followed me with
tbe strange fixity of a portrait, while across
. ber face flitted the rather silly smile of the
autique statues.
"This steady stare soemed to turn me to
tone. JMy .liuiU grew rigid. I felt Very
strangely, than;,'!) ft wus neither fatigue
nor puiu, uiifl there whs soim-Liiing oddly
familiar it I mm the head. Where f could
have seen it before urntm1 dill'ereiit eiretun
slaiici'H and in ditt'erent iu.ua' I can no
more rememlier now than 1 c. hi Alien.
"When the crowd ui' sped tors left I
remained. The hliowniaii .etned sur
prised, but sold nit another ti. .-.et, -
"1 remained thrmtjli anotiit-r represen
tation. When the vomit girl appeared in
the lust net 1 cxjierifiictd the name singu
lar seiiKiuiou of torju-r, and could not move
hand or foot until she vauiblied from the
square.
"The showman walked toward tbe door
and t followed Mm.
Why,' I asked, 'did yoa write metcnv
psych oxIh ou your sign Instead of met
hi or pilosis r
" 'Iheii'I must have been mistaken! he
said. 'Bah! never miud; very few will
know the difference.'
Profiting by a push of the crowd I slipped
behind him and hid iiKninst tbe canvas.
He went out, sayiirgt
'Don't Ite impatient, Mille; I am going
oat to get something for supper.'
1 raised the canvas. On a larger cofler,
covered with some Algerian stuff and
ornamented with copper uails, 1 saw the
pasteboard bead. A young girl, tall and
thin, dreHwd In a gray wrapper, was coml
ttifi tbe long bair that fell over ber face.
She threw back ber bair as she beard my
itup and recoiled so that tbe floor of the
booth rattled. It seemed to me as If she
was trying to break through the Soards to
escape from me. She looked pa)e,huper
naturally pale. It might have tieen an
effect of light, for tbe gas was directly
above ber bead. !
J kiuumI alternately at ber bloodless
face and at tbe white face of the manikin;
they seemed to grow confused In my mind.
"The gi M s eyes shone, haggard and di
lated like those of a somnambulist. Her
pallid lips moved:
" 'You have come to kill mer
"Kilt you? Nousensel What weapon
could 1 usef 1 rememlier laughing as 1
said these words, aud that is all."
'Collect your miud. Force your memory
to oliey you," said the doctor anxiously.
That is all I can remember. In next
thitttt i recall is that a man's hands closed
around my J-hroat aud the man was shriek
ing with sorrow. His grasp must have
beeu furious, yet I felt nothing.
Over his shoulder 1 peered about to
the coffer without trying at all to free
myself. The cuffer was still in the corner,
aud tbe head was stilt on top of it There
was blood ou tbe floor. 1 he bead looked
like a pale youug girL Beside it lay a
sbiutiiK sword of curious shape, like an
African weapon.
The sword was in tbe bootb'explslned
the phyaiclau; "yoa took it to cut off the
girl's head. Then you suitstltuted ber
bead for that of tbe mauikru. All that
was accomplished with a strength aud
rapidity only explicable by vertigo tem
porary tiwaulty aberration, call it what
yon pletiKe,"
"Decidedly, you insist upon Has 11 rally
as tbe examiiiiiiK matfixtrate'aaid Julian.
"let! can never admit myself guilty of
an act 1 am unconscious of having done."
"You were out of your miud " said tbe
doctor. "What bappenud next?"
I remember gendarmes with drawn
swords. A walk past the booths of the :
showmen. And 1 think they booted and
jeered, All the clamor mingled aud con-
fouuded and Iwcame one great sound of
rushing waves, then that noise resolved it
self into a harmonious concert with domi
nating chords of deep, sweet sound. After
that 1 found myself here, and you know
tbe rest. You, doctor, felt my pulse, my
forehead, aud questioned me searchingly.
but without succeeding in establishing my
irresponsibility. 1 have never been sub
ject to epilepsy, nor to somnambulism
and my brain Is uot diseased. My own
opinion f 1 have given it and been laughed
at. Yet if 1 really did this hideous thing I
am accused of, the very thought of which
freezes tbe blood in my veiu,(tben I have
been the instrument of auother's crime, a
victim of suggestion. 1 am excessively
nervous and susceptible to hypnotic influ
ence, and have submitted to experiments
uutil 1 have become a 'good subjeet.' 1
have uo bope of this theory being accepted.
1 offer it merely as my owu conviction.."
'"Have you arrived at any conclusion?"
.asked the lawyer three days after, as be
eutered the doctor's office with a curious
expression on bis keen face, and a certain
pallor and subdued excitement that at once
attracted the physician's attention.
"Why, no; j am just where I was," re
plied the latter. "1 can make nothing of
It And you? You have found some solu
tion?" "The solution the motive all," said
the prisoner's couuset, unfolding a pack
age of manuscript "Tbe girl bad been
lima ne, melancholy, suicidal mania, aud
all that, but had beeo cured, as it was sup
posed, aud was uot considered daugerous.
The idea tlxed, however, still enthralled ber
brain, aud, like all demented women, the
more fantastic the mine en tfcene of tbe
crime the better it would please ber warped
imagination. 8he conceived the idea of
employing hypnotism, attended lectures
aud seances, and became au expert pupil.
Atone of these psendo scientific gather
iupt, which were frequented by some medi
cal students of the Latin quarter, she met
Julian and incredible as it seems hyp
notized him and suggested ber own mur
der. This MS., found a few It aura ago
among her t'fJFects, contains a calm state
ment of the facts, and completely exoner
ates the prisoner." Translated for "Ro
mance" from lie Petit Journal by Edyth
Kirk wood.
Savage Arithmetic.
Savages are uot very well off for numer
als, and their knowledge of arithmetic is
exceedingly limited. Very few savage na
tions have distinctive words for any higher
number than foursome do not go higher
than two all higher numbers being in-
"eluded in the term "many "or "innumera
ble." Somo uatious can count beyond four,
1 but they have no word to denote "five" and
therefore they use the same word for "five"
as they use for "band." For "six," then,
they would say "one hand and one;" for
"ten" tboy would say "two bands." Those
who count uvyotid "ten" make tise of the
, "toes," and for "eleven" say "two liandB
and one toe," and "twenty" should be "two
bands and two feet," or "one man,"Clii-
HagoAUU. ;
A MODEliN PilECiSIAN.
AN AUTHOR WHOSE DELIGHT IS TO
FIND DEFECTS IN NOVELS.
A Cotd niooded Critlo of Laug-uajje Who
ItaUiletHly Destroys Poetlo Kxproiaion
Wbeiiever tie Dlaeovcrs m Sentence Im
properly CmuitrBcttid.
A chiel of tbo grammarian order has been
tailing notes of our blunders in the use of
our native speech, and he has given us the
result in a little volume. There is an air
of anonymity about the whole perform-
nco which bents tbe nature of tbe task. I
Tbe author is known but as "Anglophil,"
a name for which It will be in vain to
search in the directory. He publishes at
tbe Literary Revision and Translation of
fice in the ttiraiuL It is a measure of pre
caution. Mankind naturally pursues la
bors of this kind with an amount of execra
tion which is proportioned t their benefit
To learn on irresistible evidence that we
scarcely ever open our mouths without ut
tering an absurdity of construction is to be
made wise and wretched at tbe same time.
Reform seems hopeless, tbe wretcheduess
abides, and we look around for a victim,
unconscious that perhaps Anglophil is the
very person we invite to aid us In our
search.
Such kill joys of social converse may be
admired, but they can never be loved, and
our benefactor is to be excused for every
device by which he seeks to escape tbe odi
um attaching to bis otnee. His terrible
mission is to read all tbe literature of tbe
day not for its beauties, but for its faults.
Tbe periodical press is not bis happiest
buntiug ground. He bags most game in
tbe 8-volume novel. Meetings and part
ings, tbe glory of sunrise in padding,
tbe tender confidences of affection, the
tragic tumult of the courses of true love,
are, as such, nothing to him. He runs
through tbe descriptions of them with the
fierce baste of au ogre looking for some
thing to devour, and as soon as he finds a
verb out of agreement with its nominative
case he makes a meal. Dread yet sanitary
dutyl It makes men and women afraid to
read a novel and still more afraid to write
one, yet it should leave as with enough
charity to pity the fellow creature on whom
it has been laid.
"Womanly sympathy and advice is never
wanted." It is a soothing reflection, and
who cares to be interrupted in the enjoy
ment of it by the remark that tbe "Is"
should be "are?" We are Dot sure that
modern grammarians would agree with the
author, for there is precedent for the use
of tbe singular with nouns of kindred sig
nification. But let that pass. Then again,
"Her gayety, her good humor, was were
so infectious" haves us in.no mood to quar
rel we are too sad. Tbe clammy touch of
criticism bos marred the beauty of an en
tire character. Similarly, "One gives up
all for a woman's sake aud then they tor
ment one's life out" sbe torments, etc..
seems to rob tbe sacrifice of all its imagi
native charm. "He saw it still the bend
of ber neck, the stoop of ber shoulders, tbe
flash of ber eyes" he saw them still, etc,.
Alas and alas! for a man who, in such a
picture, can see but a pronoun in the wrong
number.
Let ns hurry through the other examples
we have uo neart for comment. "Never
were the weaker sex held in greater honor'
was, "Mary had never before seen any
one so haudsome, well bred and well
made as her uew friend. She resented the
Utter perfection" (last. Heroes are turned
todustaudauhesin the same remorseless
way. "His eyes are blue, bis nose aquiline1
what cau be the matter with that? Sim
ply that plural eyes and. a singular nose
must not take the same verb. Pat "is'
after the central feature, and we may ones
more yield to the charm of the description
if we cau. "Of the two lovers, James took
the highest place," The "higher" any
thing for peace.
"You will feel pleasantly when Bh Is in
her coffin" pk asaut, but the effect of
tragic irony has youe alt to nothing while
we nave been getting the sentence right
Tbe same thing may be said of an equally
fine effect of scorn: "How haughtily he
complained of the wine being corked" that
tbe wine was corked J, if you please. '"Mary
was occupied with her work, aud the paint
er and his model with each other" I were en
grossed with each other. And just as the
author seemed settling down to business
we do not like Anglophil: "The policeman
is great fneuds with the cook" (The police
man and the cook are great friends. Age
fares no better at his hands than youth;
"I refuse even to allow bis visits to the
house, much Jess give biui my daughter"
lumen more.
This spirit of destructive criticism in-,
vades every part of life. It is not enough
to forbid us to read; we must not speak.
At every turn we are tripped up iu the sim
plest colloquitiliiims that bave become
household words. Let no man henceforth
say "it don't signify," aud think there is
an end of the matter. It does signify very
much, if you use the verb In the plural
"It does not signify," is tbe absolutely cor
rect, mealy mouthed form. .Who would
not echo the complaint given in one of the
examples, "Looking into things don't help
me." It is a cry of desjMtir, yet the author
can not let it pass, "Does not help me" is
the right way.
Uuder treatment of this sort of course
every phase becomes a stumbling blob.
We are at a Hancho's feast of speech, and as
each tempting morsel of use and wont
comes before the hungry talker the phy
sician waves it away with his wand.
"Would any one in their senses have so
acted?" stop. "Would any one iu his?"
"with one or two exceptions" top again;
"with one exception, or with two" ("ex
ceptions" understood or expressed if you
wish to make the phrase a little more ac
curately uncouth). "Put some more coals
on tbe fire." At this point the angry
householder will probably put tbe book
there as well. But let bim be calm and
listen to reason. London News.
A New Reason ' .
Mr. De Club My dear, a great Germu
physician says women require more sleep
tliau men.
Mrs. DeC.-I)oeshe?
Mr De C Vea. mydear urn er you'4
better not wait np for me tonight New
York Weekly
STORY OF GENERAL SHERMAN.
Singular Interview at Jackson, 311m., Dur
ing the War.
"Yes, Joseph E. Johnston had crossod
Pearl river on his retreat to the east, and it
was known that Sherman would evacuate
J ark son and pursue him us soon as possible,
Willi great difficulty I had secured from
T he Federal authorities tlie assurance that
my cotton factory would not be burned,
but on the night when the evacuation was
in progress I learned from reliable sources
that a change had been made in tbe orders,
and that the torch was likely to be applied
to the property at any moment.
resolved to seek animmeuiate interview
with General Sherman himself, entertain
ing, however, but slender hopes, especially
at such an untimely hour for it was past
midnight of reaching the presence of the
to eueral chief. 1 bad little trouble iu ascer
taining that his headquarters were in the
residence in west Jackson, and before
many minutes had passed I was at tbe front
gat) of the place, where, to my great sur
prise, 1 found no guards to check my prog
ress. The house was quiet and un lighted,
so far as I could discern. Somewhat puz
zled, I paused for a minute or two and said
to myself, "Surely this is not the headquar
ters of a great United States army."
But seeing no one to inquire of I opened
the gate, went up to the house and onto the
porch. For some minutes I stood there
listening. But I bead no sound within, nor
was there any guard to challenge my in
trusion. Through a shaded transom I
caught the reflection of a light I tried the
hall door, found it ajar, pushed it open and
stepped Inside. The place was silent-
there was nothing to indicate occupancy by
the military.
"I bave come to the wrong house,".! said.
But observing that a dim light was reflect
ed through the half open door of a room
opening into the hall I advanced and en
tered the apartmeut It had but a single
occupant He was sleeping upon a lounge,
and my steps aroused bim. He turned over
and looked at me.
What do you want?" he demanded.
I want to see General W. T. Sherman."
I'm General Sherman. What do yoa
want"
I explained as briefly as possible. He
said shortly in substance that his orders
were to spare tbe factory, and they would
be obeyed. He said that he wanted to go
to sleep. He stretched himself and shut
his eyes, and I walked out and returned up
town. A few hours later the factory was in
ashes."
And you say that General Sherman had
no bodyguards?"
I say that I entered his bedroom and loft
it without being challenged in fact, with
out meeting a soul except Abe general him
self." This remarkable incident was told In
Green's bank, and the narrator was Joshua
Green, its founder and presidentHenry
Clay Pairman in Sunny South.
Whlttler'a Spirituality.
Spiritualism, as it is called in oar day.
was a subject which earnestly and steadily
held Whittier's attention. Thereare many
passages in his letters on this question
which state his own mental position very
clearly, "1 have bad as good a chanoe to see
a ghost," he once said, "as anybody ever
had, but not tbe slightest sign ever came to
me, , I do not doubt what others tell me,
but I sometimes w onder over my own in
capacity. I .should like to see some dear
ghost walk in and sit down by me when I
am here alone. The doings of the old witch
days have never been explained, and as we
are so soou to be transferred to another
state, how natural it appears that some of
us should bave glimpses of it here."
As the end of his life drew near, it was
easy to see that the village home where his
mother aud sister lived aud died was the
place he chiefly loved, but he was more in
accessible to his friends In Amesbury, and
tbe interruptions of a fast growing factory
town were sometimes less agreeable to him
than the country life at Oak Knoll. Onoe
only he expresses this preference for the
dear old village borne iu one of his letters:
"I have been at Amesbury for a fortnight
Somehow I seem nearer to my mother and
sister; the very wells of the room seem to
have become sensitive to the photographs
of unseen presences." Annie Fields in
Harper's.
A Good Way to Clean GUuMt.
"It's the greatest idea in the world," said
William H. Pascoe as he stood at the desk
in the Southern hotel yesterday rubbing
his glasses with a toO bill. ."Now, I can't
see 10 feet without my glasses, and glasses
have a tendency to become blurred, you
know, rvow, I nave worn spectacles con
stantly for over as years, and I have in a
small way made a study of them. A linen
handkerchief does not clean them well,
and Bilk is always sure to leave a thread
sticking to the frames. Paper is of no ac
count, as it leaves specks on the gl
Cotton is sure to leave a lot of lint behind
it Chamois is too thick, and kid don't do
stall. I've tried them all, and I know.
'J he thing to use, my boy, is a banknote,
It cleans the glasses beautifully and leaves
nothing behind it.
"Of course it isn't necessary to use a
fifty every time, but I happened to have
this oue loose iu my pocket, and I'm ex
pecting a friend along in a minute and I
want to make an impression. Yes, they
say that bills carry disease with them, but
I ain't afraid much, I've never caught
anything from them. You can use a one
as well as a fifty, but use a fifty, if you
can; there's more money in it." St. Louis
b lobe- Democrat
Sweet Potato Flour.
A St. Louis woman has perfected a
parent to cover the process of making
"eweet potato flour." The processes are
those peeling the potato and kiln drying
the peel so that it will keep for any
length of time as a food for live stock
of drying and grinding the potato into
three distinct grades of flour, and also
of slicing and drying it in the form of
"Saratoga chips. "New York Telegram,
Ho Reference to Allusions,
She You are always sneering at worn
en who talk too much. Are yoa hitting
at me ,
HeNot at all There are lots of
women besides yoa who talk too mach.
Gayly Decked hmulgrsnta. '
A picturesque party of Italian tmmi-
grants landed at the bargo office the
other day. There were about a dozen
men and six or eight women. The men
wore clothing of it rough, buff colored
material, with scarfs and caps of bright
er hues. The women displayed a variety
of gay colors rod, yellow, blue and pink
predominating. Bach woman was bare
headed, but each wore ribbons in her
hair and a bright colored shawl or apron.
The strangers attracted a great deal of
attention as they straggled np Broadway
from the Battery with their bundles.
They evidently found as much novelty
in their surroundings as the, New York
ers found in their quaint appearance,
The women apparently had the keenest
observation aud pointed out to their
more stolid male companions various ob
jects as the party moved along.
At Rector street they saw a flower
stand, and half a dozen of the women
gathered about it and gave vent to volu
ble expressions of delight. They dragged
some of the men before the stand and
gesticulated violently. The men tried
to pull away from them, but could not
After awhile some pieces of money came
out of the men's pockets, and with
much eagerness and chattering the wom
en selected one flower apiece. The ven
dor took his pay out of the handful of
American silver tendered bim, and the
party moved on, both men and women
as joyous as a lot of school children.
New York Times.
A Friend of the Farmer.
The hop growers of Otsego county
have discovered what naturalists have
long been trying to make fanners under
standthat skunks, instead of being
their enemies, as they formerly supposed -are
among theirmoBt useful frienda. Afl
one hop grower expressed it, "Nowadays
we protect skunks as carefully as we do
ong birds."
Hop yards, it appears, are infested by
a certain kind of grub which gnaws off
the tender vines at the root, and this
grub is the favorite food of the skunk.
As a general thing the skunks sally
forth at nightfall, but now and then they
are to be seen at work in broad daylight
The proceeding is an interesting one to
watch.
The skunk begins his quest on the edge
of the yard, where he cocks bis head over
a hill of hops and listens. If a grub is
at work upon one of tbe four trailing
vines, his quick ear ib sure to bear it At
once he begins to paw up the earth, and
presently he is seen to uncover the grub
and swallow it with unmistakable relish.
Then he listens again, and if he hears
nothing proceeds to the next hill. And
so he goes on till he has bad his till
Now that the skunks are no longer
molested, they have become compara
tively fearless. Sometimes, we are told,
they keep up their operations even while
the cultivator is driven between the
rows, Cor. New York Tribune, .
The Work of a London Writer, ,
T. P." stands alone among popular
journalists in that practically all his
work is done for one paper, The Weekly
Sun, of which he is the founder and ed
itor. He knows as well as any one the .
value of his own pen, and he takes care
to write the most important parts of the
paper himself and to append his famous V
initials to all his work. A casual glance
through a number of the paper will serve
to show the amount and variety of his
weekly labors.
First there is a review of the "hook
of the week,' which invariably extends
over five closely packed columns. This
article, always conspicuously brilliant,
would be a good two days work for
any writer. Then there are the editorial
notes from dne to two columns; an inter
view with some celebrity, one column; '
theatrical critiques, two or three coK
uinns, and lastly a few paragraphs on
the correspondence page. All these are
signed "T. P." Yet Mr. O'Connor con-
trives to keep in tlie forefront of the
political battle and also to write au oo
casioual book. London Tit-Bits,'
Two Charges.
There was a suit tried in the United
States circuit court at Raleigh some
years ago in which a Baltimore commis
sion house was plaintiff and General
Bryan Grimes, who led the last charge
at Appomattox, was defendant Judge
Bond, who presided, was strongly anti
southern daring the war and a citizen
of Baltimore, The lute Governor Fowls,
who was a very eloquent luwyer, repre
sentee; General Grimes, And in his ap
peal to the jury laid full stresB on tho
character and record of his client and
dwelt eloquently on the "last charge at
Appomattox." Coming out of the court,
he said to the opposing counsel (now
Judge Fuller of the United States land
claims court), "Fuller, that last charge
at Appomattox has got me the jury."
"Yes," said Fuller very quietly; "and
that last charge of Judge Bond has got
me the verdict" And so it proved. -
Green Bag
Various Sijrrcea of Silk. t
Silk worms are not the sole source of
the production of silk; it is also obtained
from several vegetable substances, but
of an inferior and less durable descrip-
tion. Excellent colored silk is obtained
from the prepared and finer fibers of the
bamboo, which is much in demand for
clothing in tropical countries from its
lightness aud porosity. Another form of
silk is obtained from the podH of the silk -cotton
tree, of which there are several
Varieties in existence, the material ob
tained from them being known as vege
table silk. Brooklyn iSagle,
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