INTERESTING PEOP l L'"'^""^T e NINGB^ANAS,
LOVE diesnot .
outfaraUay«**’0*
TZkle« »re I1O longer blue,
«0*1 oloud*and «Jorma*
tbat hATe their way,
jur, (Uy after day; .
. oomiort u> UM *ol you
^¿.i»«Mite«iabeaa»dol
tin the quiet sky;
fade and the moonbeams pale;
ty bloom but to dfeK
tMiciah» Of pleaaure fall;
.'eel on our bo.ere descend;
rrnint bare an end;
„ our borne, wherever our lol,
IO know that love dies not.
-kjoaephine Pollard.
hurry AND DISPATCH.
th. Priirelp»* c«“1“ °r I’oer aad
„«Relent Work—Exampl«».
the many causes of poor and in
work is the habit of hurry, which
.ion of some busy people,
or imagining they have more to do
en time thun can be done properly,
tatod and nervous;
this pressure, they proceed with
k In hand without the requisite
n and care, perhaps omitting
it—sometimes important parts—
uclng ut last an imperfect and In-
rformance, which can neither be
nt nor satisfactory.
is hardly any employment, from
ptest manual work to the most
and difficult mental labor, that
suffer from this cause. The
g house In process of building is to
ed at a certain time. With proper
lit aud system it would have
ne, but the time approaches and
k is still Incomplete. The future
ta are impatient, tho contractor is
, the werkmen are driven, the work
led through, and annoyance, dis-
t, and sometimes danger ensue,
pairs are soon found necessary.
ness man undertakes more than
manage, the days are not long
for his needs, he is agitated by tho
t pressure, driven by conflicting
his business suffers for the want
ear and cool head, his health suffers
continual aud nnrelaxed exertion,
tly suffers from his deterioration,
eral disaster ensues.
physician, with many other calls to
hurries through the visit, neglect-
important symptom, and bls
tdies; the lawyer hurries through
and loses ills case; the preacher
through the preparation of his
, and fails to make an impression;
st hurries on his picture to comple-
and his best conception is not (hero;
cher hurries through a prescribed
of instruction, and the class is left
te of the more important elements
wledge. It is not too much to say
a large proportion of the unhappi-
the ignorancePtbe loss of property,
en the loss of life that is endured in
id is to be traced to the hurry and
which characterize so much of the
performed.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Nolte« to Promote Sleep.
sleep preserver such as suggested in
your recent Issues would be a full
blessing to thousands of mothers,
oulil save the lives of many infants
nvalids, especially in cities, where we
the mercy of forty different kinds
ant sounds.
special instrument is necessary. Any
ous continuous sound is a lullaby,
eetest and soundest sleep is pro-
>y sound.” We now have frog
and ostrich ranges; who'll be first
ugurate a new American industry,
lishing a bumble bee ranch, and
bees trained to buzz a man to
! Days when the bee Is not needed at
the owner can take him to the of-
and whenever a chronic bore drops
bee can be let loose to out bnzz him.
t there is nd better sleep guard than
nery. A person having a spring
trie or water motor to run her sew-
hine need only remove the needle,
11» machine near the patient, and
rm. The infant or invalid would
become accustomed to it, and per
se the castoria man says, “cry for
Thus will the sewing machine sew
t np “the raveled sleeve of care”—
stroke more than its manufacturers
hitherto claimed for it.—S. N. Stew-
Scientiflc American.
Dine Blood Lunatic«.
is singularly unfortunate that the
marriage laws in Europe prevent
infusion of some healthy plebeian
into tne veins of the reigning dynas-
Continnal intermarriage among
ves during a period of several hun-
years has naturally engendered in-
r, epilepsy and that agreeable
y known as the “king's evil.”
gradually Increasing number of ln-
prinees and princesses is beginning
larm even the most conservative of.
rchists. In addition to the Duchess
lencon just reported, the names of the
nt kin ; of Bavaria, the duchess of
berland. the ex-sultan of Turkey,
Alexander of Prussia, the Arch-
e Otto of Austria, the Grand Duke
las Constantinowitx of Russia, the
press Charlotte of Mexico, are suf-
t to illustrate the evils of blood
h is too “blue.”—New York World.
Monte Carlo Deserted.
onte Carlo may lie said to be deserted
least by the English speaking race,
rooms present during the day a very
7 appearance, and three or four of
tables are put out of play, there being
apportera. In the evening, after din-
some of the old gayety is still evident;
even this is in marked contrast to the
th of January. Curiously enough,
is the time really heavy players de-
t to frequent the casino, Inasmuch
ey can carry on their game with more
and freedom. Seldom has thé max
m stake—12,000 francs—been so often
P on the rouge or noir as during the
p fortnight; A Spaniard lost a few
pts ago 200,000 francs at one sitting.
I recovered 150,000 francs next day.—
pion World.
society we should try to carry entertain*
t with us and to seem entertained with
company. A friendly behavior often
is and pleases more than wit or bril
Custom« and Moral« of tho Anolont la-
habitants of the Canaris«.
I now th« Fruit Is Naread end Haatod la
Hot Callan.
A KAFFIR HEROINK.
DAKOTA'S POP-WEED.
A RaaaavkaMe riakt Whlah Bamatlraaa Knalir. at • South Sfrtoaa tori Wka
Crest«« a Il.oldad Saaaatloa
lonfht
Iaowar.
The following is in outline the story
The last six years have developed
The Cauarieu Museum possesses
Everywhere one may hear the cry:
some polished axes, of a form and “
* Bananas, all ripe!’’ Few people know wonderful things in Dakota, both in the of a real Kaffir heroine: A father who
workmanship perfectly similar to those * where they come from, who imports productions of the soil and of the set had been unfortunate pnd bad lost all
of other parts of the globe, besides the i them, how they are ripened and put tlers. if we may believe the newspapers, his wealth was importuned to give up
usual instruments, knives, pincers, etc. , upon the market The yellow variety, and until we have occasion to doubt a bi» two daughters for wives to. the mas
But at the aide Ct these characters of , the kind most extensively imported, is Dakota editor our confidence will re ter who had befriended him in his
an inferior civilization some institu- 1 brought principally from Jamaica, al main unshaken. Eastern DakoU Is old necessities He had no power, even K.
tions, customs and manners appear i though Port Limon and Aspinwall each now and no new thing can como out of he had the will, to raost the demand:
which denote a state much more ad- ( export thousands .of bunches yearly. it to startle the world, and since the so in due time the daughters were sent
vanned. The Gouanches possessed do- The
•
red variety is wholly imported delicious Buffalo berry acknowledged to their intended lord’s kraal. They
mestic animals, as lhe goat, tho iiog , from Baraoao.
to a Pierro lady, a year ago. that It was would not go iqto tho hut, until at last
and the dog; but not, as was thought,
One firm now employs three steam discovered, men of science have crossed they were forcibly carried in. It was
the oamel. They tanned the skins , ships which ply between New York a^d the “Big Muddy” into the wilds be night, and one of the girls worn out
with art, to the point that the skins of , Jamaica, anil are used solely for the im yond, and their discoveries are numer with fatigue and weeping, had fallen
the goat and h >g with whioh they en- , portation of fruit, chiefly bananas. ous and even more wonderful than asleep. But if she slept her sister was
velopod their mummies are perfectly • These steamers were built expressly before. A Dakota editor and his wile awake, and determined to be free. Her
preserved for centuries. They were , for this business, and are constructed while ont snakiug recently discovered eyes turned toward the distant land of
also very skillful at sowing theseekins, . with countless ventilators and numer several new species of snakes, the most Natal, for among those of her tribe
although thoir needles were only bones , ous moveable decks.
The fruit is interesting of which was lhe “fish who had taken refuge there was a cer
of fishes and the points of leaves of the . packed in a rather peculiar way. The snake." Two years ago the pop-weed tain young man with whom she had
been acquainted from ohildhood, and
palm-tree. They made with w/>ven bunches
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are stood on end, and two first made its appearance along tlie
who had obtained possession of her
rushes real tissues, resembling coarse layers
*
are thus spread over the bottom borders of civilization from the interior
cloth. Altheugh they might not know , of the vessel's hold, when a moveable of the Sioux Reservation; and cattlemen heart before that evil day which con»
of the wheel their skill was great in , deck is fitted over them. Then two along tlie Missouri bottoms have had polled him to run for his life. When
the potter’s ark Their vases are fre more layers of the fruit are laid down, interesting times ever since. It is quite she thought the fit moment had come
Uzinto released herself from her bonds,
quently of large dimensions, of elegant and
‘
so on until the cargo is complete. late ia the fall when the pop-weed ball
forms, and of a red color, with designs A vessel carries from 8,000 to 18,000 begins to roll like tumble-weeds over and taking up her mat crept out of the
in bright red or in black. The handles < bunches per trip.
the prairies. The pop-weed is a rank hut.
‘ i
She determined to avoid the kraals
of some, says Dr. Chll. recall I hose-of
The middlemen in the banana busi Sowing weed known only to this and travel as much as possible in the
the pottery of the ancientE gyptians. , ness purchase their stock at the wharves
stion; it has a stalk like the cabbage
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a titJ vTrHiTtTTCncs oorninon nre djt ruD" ■: as soon as ttid vassi't bejrina tn- unload.
plant, wilh a large round top- the- bush. A terrible fight caused by a
leoparil WaiTtre only Incident she met *■
bing a hard piece of wood against a They
*
buy from 100 to 1,500 bunches at size of a Hubbard squash and about the with, and at the end of the fourth day
soft piece. They cultivated wheat, and a time and cart them immediately to samo color. There are thousands of
a I-ova a 1 bai lor. They consumed a the cellars, where they are ripened. acres of the pop-weed in the reserva she forded the river Tugela, very
great quantity of figs and dates, wMch The banana reaches tills oountry in an tion, and they are very numerous and tired and very hungry. Uzinto now
went to a kraal to obtain food, and to
arc only a little cavneoits and peculiar extremely green condition.
Upon grow to a prodigious size in tlie vicinity
to* the Canaries. The vine to them was reaching these cellars the bunches are of “alkali beds.” When the “terrific discover where her people lived.’ The
unknown.
Although warriors, and hung on hooks suspend'd in rows northwost winds” blow late in the fall owner saw that she was a fugitivo, and
often engaged in civil war, their arms along the ceiling. In the center of the the pop-balls become detached from the thought it a fine opportunity to gain a
w,ere of the most rudimentary kind. cellar is a gas or oil stove, which is stalks and roll for miles over the prai wife without expense. She declined
The stone-axes were exceptional. generally so regulated as to preserve ries; until they reach uneven country to become an inmate of his house, and
They did not even know the use of the a temperature of 60 or 70 degrees Fah- or other obstructions, where they ac abode with one of his wives for the
night The jealous wife communicated
sling. They hurled stones by force of Mnnheit.
(
Here the fruit ripens gradu cumulate and pile up like high banks to her the information she wanted, and
the arm. and this method of attack was ally until it is ready for the retailers.
of snow. Behind these banks of weeds
told her that the man wished to de
sometimes terrible. Their defensive
Some times, however, when the de the wild buffalo found shelter in mid
arm was the stick- whioh was re- mand is large for the ripened food, the winter from the fierce blizzards. If the ceive her. When Uzinto departed in
doubtablo in tlioir hands. Their cellar is heated to 75 degrees, and pop-weed ball comes forcibly in contact the morning the master of the kraal
breasts wero protected with cuirasses some times even to 80 degrees, but at with any hard objeot while rolling it met her and again endeavored to per
of wood. It wn with these elementary this temperature the banana Is apt to explodes with a tremendous report, a suade her to return. He was rich; she
means that they for a long lime resist "qook," as it is called, and lose its fla cloud of fine powder passes off through should have plenty of milk' and plenty
ed.their Spanish conquerors and ac vor. In general the temperature of lhe air, and thousands of sharp, fine of beef; she had only to become his
complished exploits which are cele the cellar is varied as the condition of needles are thrown out in every direc wife to be happy and honored. She
brated in the accounts of their chron the fruit demands. If the fruit is tion. These needles are the seeds of listened in silence and went on her
way to her own people, where she waa
iclers.
chilled, a high temperature is impera the pop-weed, and are what produce received by the chief as one of his
The Gouanches had neither ahariots tive.
the mischief with stock, for they are
wards. Then began her search for her
nor carts, carrying every thing on
Some little time ago icp-boxes were very penetrating. A "critter” will lover. Hit brother's kraal adjoined
their backs. They possessed neither introduced to the ripening rooms. In run from a rolling pop-weed like a jack
boats nor rafts, but were very skillful the top of the box is a large apartment, rabbit from a coyote. Tho Indiana her new home, and one, morning, meet
swimmers A s the seven islands were into which the ice is put, while under now located at Brule Agency tell ing her lover’s favorite nephew, affect
too distant for them to communicate neath longdripping-pansof galvanised strange and interesting stories about ing not to know him, she said that his
in (his way. thoir populations re iron are placed. The heat from tho the weed. It is said that the young face was not altogether strange to her,
mained isolated, and although they gas-stove converts tho ice into wa.ter, braves of the tribe, for discipline and and wondered where she had seen him.
had essentially the samo degree of which slowly runs down into the pans to prepare themselves to enduje great The boy did not think she had seen him
civilization, yet in detail their man below. There it quickly evaporates torture, would select chiefs and array anywhere, and when she suggested the
ners wore different. In the islands of and reaches the top of the nqom, where themselves in battle line, and fight Folosi river he told her be bad never
Fuerte Ventura the remains of im the bananas are hung. This addition with these pop-balls like schoolboys been there. The truth was the shrewd
urchin knew her and wanted to mako
portant structures are found, which, -was at first regarded as a great im in a snowball contest.
“The battle
were called palacio by the conquerors. provement, tor it ripened the fruit of the pop-weed” was held once a her more explicit and say whose nephew
They embalmed they* cadavers with evoniv and brought out a golden year, and was witnessed by the- whole he waa She found that her lover was
great care, but tho process has been color on tho skin; but it was found tribe with great pomp and parade. Thia many miles away. The boy took a
lost for preserving the flesh. The when ripened in this manner the fruit day was to the young braves what tho message from, her, and her lover’s for
preserved body was surrounded with was extremely dolicate, and that it Fourth of July Is to the American ply was favorable, though no present
aromatic branches, and a number of spoiled almost immediately when ex youth. There were the smoke and noiso accompanies!! it; and when . Uzinto
thought thereon her heart was sad.
tanned skins of the hog and goat. posed to an open atmosphere.
of battle to perfection, and the fine,
Meantime two suitors paid her unre
The mummy was then placed in a
The banana must be nursed as care- sharp needles caused intense pain. The mitting attention, but she turned a
cavern, where it is preserved until fully as a child. Any sudden change greatest exhibitions of bravery were re
our days, or tn the open, jinder some of temi>erature or exposure to inclem- warded by promotion in the tribe, and deaf ear Jo. their pray era. After
little tumulus. With the B gyptians ent weather is very sure to produce a presentations of handsome bead-work awhile her lowir came back; but the of
>>f the time of the Pharaohs, and ths bad effect The fruit may be ripened were made by the young braves' beet fended maiden would not deign to
Peruvians of the Inoss. the G -uanches in twenty-four hours from the time of girls. But this famous weed, that onoe speak to him; and when he becamo
were the only people who practiced its arrival, but it is aiuch better if a , sheltered the wild buffalo of the plains sick she attended to him, but in silence.
After his recovery she took a little girl
mummification. They believed in a 1 longer time is taken.
from the winter storms and was usod
and set off for his kraal under cover of
Supreme Being, who chastised vica*
in
the
sham
battles
of
the
young
Sioux
In the transpor.ation of this fruit
the night, .that she might have an in
and recompensed virtue, particularly
very great care is used. The bunches , braves, has since become very obnox- terview without creating suspicion.
valor.
are first carefully enfolded in paper * Jous to the Missouri river cattlemen, The entrance was closed, but she
Contrary, however, to that which bags aad then packed in patent heated and they are agitating tho question of
the chroniclers as >ert—to justify, with cars. Theso cars contain ail stoves, the best method of obtaining protection threw a stone upon the hut. Then, af
out doubt, the cruelties of the Span and are fitted with patent Ventilators, from it. In the “Village of Pop-Weed” ter a scene with her lover she fixed her
iards—I hey had no idols. Thoir re which preserve an even temperature , (so-called by the Indians, because the value at ten cows, told him when he
ligion was very advanced. They had. about the fruit. The demand for ba weeds cover the ground for miles at this had worked long enough to obtain that
notably in lhe Grand Canarie, con- nanas is largest from about April 10 to i point and grow very large) are the ( number she would come to his kraal
vonte of men who lived on public char July 1. They are the most expensive i arrow-grounds. Just-* before starting and be betrothed. Some time after-
ity, and convents of women rigorously during the last two weeks of April.— . on the annual hunt they went In large | ward she hpeared unexpectedly at her
cloistered for whom the sight only of N. Y. Evening World. ________
numbers to the pop-weed village for . lover's kraal and demanded to be be-
. trothed. But the people were afraid to
a man was a Bin. The morals of the
arrows. The needles from the largest
' kill the goat without the chief's sano-
—Governor Ramsay says that the
Gouanches were severe. The man who
pop-weeds are very long, and when
misconducted himself was punished. venerable Simon Cameron once ex baked in hot ashes become very, hard . tion, and a messenger being sent to
In tho case of a woman, she was un- plained to him how it was that so many and strong and make good arrows. their chief and she was obliged to go
pityingly condemned. to death. An hotel-keepers, bear military titles. When they found a large pop-ball they , back. Again, however, she appeared
other pitiable feature of their customs When the revolutionary war closed the would shoot into it with arrows and I at her lover's hut, and this time, in
was that the men and women were business of tho country was In a cause it to explode and throw out its spite of the chief's rights, the goat was
not permitted to take the same road, chaotic condition, all industrial affairs needles, which they gathered and pre . killed and she became the wife of her
but had thoir separate paths. They having suff -red a complete prostration pared for use. The Indians went ar old lover.— Antiquary.
knew not how to write, bitt had, never during the seven years’ struggle. The rowing late in the fall, and before the
Torh to Pieces by a Dog.
theless, public schools where the tra American officers caVlie out of the war pop-weed ball oemaienced to roll over
Two burglars less cautious than the
ditions and national songs were taught. without any occupations and as poor the prairies all the Indian villages were
Their language was lost after the con as a lot of church mice. About the only deserted. This was the order of the fraternity generally is, attempted to
quest They now speak only the business they could go into that didn’t tribe every fall to get their horses and enter a wine merchant's store in Paris.
require capital was tavern-keeping. other stock out of the way of the dan Having broken, off the shutters, they
Spanish.—San Francieco Chronicle.
So it came to pass in a short time that gerous pop-weed to prevent them from broke a pane of glass and one of them
the bend of every hostelry in the coun running away. The pop-weed is as yet attempted to creep in through the
— a new Dcnaing material called
window. When half in his arm was
try was a Colonel, a Major or a Cap unknown to botanists.— Cor. Chicago
C'
stone-brick, harder than the hardest tain. And from that dav to this,it has
snddenly seized by a large dog, which
Tribune.
clay-brick, is made from simple mortar,
pulled the man into the store and be
been regarded as the proper thing to
but a scientifically made and perfect invest a hotel-keeper with a military
—A gentleman who has taken a gan tearing' him up. The terrible cries
mortar; in fact, a hydraulic cement, title. It comes to him in the line of house at the seaside for the summer of the victim brought an employe and
and the grinding togethor of lime and honorable tradition.
advertised for a housekeeper, and en the proprietor of the store to the scene,
sand in a dry state—including also
tertaining enough were some of* the who, after some trouble, succeeded in
some alumina, which is usually present
—One of the sights at Buffalo is the answers he received. In one case a getting the thief free from the dog's
in sand—and the subsequent heating by
Cyclone, a huge pneumatic grain woman wrote that she must have two jaws. He was in a pitiable condition,
steam, give the mixture (he properties
transfer barge. It looks like a gigan rooms, artistically furnished, and a the flesh being torn from the body so
of the burned hydranlio cements at
tic hopper on a raft It is said that comfortable stall in the stable for her as to lay bare the bones bvery where,
present in use.— Public Opinion.
saddlehorse. The gentleman says he and there is but little hope of saving
—During August there were 2,000 by moans of an air exhaust it can is much impressed by her forbearance
his life. His accomplice ran away as
elevate
200
bushels
a
minute,
which
is
freight cars required to carry California
in not insisting that he should also soon as he saw his companion at the
shipments to the East The amount very much more than the ordinary provide her with a ^room in livery.
mercy of the dog.— London Echo.
carried, in pounds, was 40,000,000, and elevator can do.
—“Now, Mary *Ann," said the
—A writer upon racial character!»
of that enormous quantity over one-
—Tennessee has an area of 6,100 tics says the Irish type is distinguished teacher, addressing the foremost of the
half, 20,500,000 pounds, consisted of
green, dried and canned fruit. The square miles of coal, which covers by light eyes, combined with dark clnss in mythology, “who was it sup
railroads carried 10,000,000 pounds of twenty-two counties. During the pas- hair, a long, low and narrow skull, ported the world on his shoulders?”
sugar and 5,000,000 pounds of tea. The six years the output of coal in the prominent cheek bones and the flat, “It was Atlas, mq'am." “And who
last article was imported, of course, State has grown from 494.000 tons to level eyebrow. The average stature supported Atlas?” “The book doesn’t
and transhipped, as was also part of 1,700,000 tons, an increase of 40 0 per of Irishmen is about five feet seven say, but I guess his wife supported
inches.
him.”— Chicago Sunday National.
the remainder of the.40,000,000 pounds.
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