MISCELLANEOUS.
A very C urious biro
POT-HOUSE POLITICS.
—In Europe it Is customary Ao leave «.Mt. or th.
la
CreMnr< Hw Character or iteTTMagw
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Expounding Its Merita.
visiting cards on the graves of poets.
Found In th* Eastern geaa.
As a general thing the bar-room
Ibis seems strange, when it is known
The maleo is about th. size of a small | politician is not attractive personally.
that the occupants of the graves 'are
turkey, and not urilike one in appear . He rarely pays mucM attention to his
always at home.—Nl O. Picaytuu..
ance, and belongs to the family of meo- . clothing or his general make-up, bo-
—It may be doubted whether the
apode,. or “big-feet,” which are also > cause his time is completely absorbed
. practice of ohewing gum has an injuri
called “mound-builders."
with matters of great political import
ous effect on the eyes of the gum
These latter are gallinaceous birds i He. is kept so busy saving the country
ehewer, but it hurts the eyes of other
(as ore our common fowls or pheas that he has no time or energy to waste
I, people.— Somercille Journal.
ant«), which are found IB Australia and
IT- —Lincoln County, Georgia, requires Papua, or New Guinea, and which lay I in removing grease spots on his rai-
I on the average only a day and a half of their eggs, and then scratch up and • ment or in manipulating a clothes
; brush. The blush on his cheek is not
, court. At the last session the only
carry immense quantities of sticks,
prisoner who has Ijpen in jail In the leaves and earth over them, so that the caused 'by his glowing with heavon-
i born enthusiasm for the just cause of
county for several years was let go on
[. his own recognizance, the prosecutor heat of fermentation under a hot sun, the people, nor by the” ruddy hue of
hatches them, 'ihese birds have all robust health, but may safely be at-
| failing to appear.
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immense feet, welj adapted for such a , tributed to an inferior brand of whisky.
i
—Statistics lately published in Ep-
purpose, two or three time« as large in The average pot-house mogul of small
1 gland show that the world has 700
proportion as those of our turkeys.
caliber is the victim of many strauge
; Croesuses worth $5,000,000 or over, of
Instead of using leaves and sticks and hallucinations. One of his pet delu
:
whom 200 reside in England, 100 In the sand, the maleo of Celebes uses the
sions is that he is indispensable. He
United States, 100 in Germany, 76 In
gravel of the sea-beach alono to hatch harbors an undefined sort of suspicion
France, 60 in Russia, 60 in India an-’ its eggs, and these eggs are extremely
that the Continuance of the planetary
125 in other countries.
large in proportion to the size of the system, somehow or other, rests on
—There is anew high-wire act. Two bird.
him. As for the political party to
;
men starting from different ends of a
They do not make regular mounds, which he claims to belong, or rather
slack wire meet and pass each other, like thqir cousins, the megapodee of which hedmagines belongs to him, he
“Pui-faury Bullets.”
going by on a waltz Btep. A woman Australia, b.ut the whole beach shows is perfectly sure that but for his sagfe
An excited Irishman lately rushed into a Bos
ton
drug
store, having a “broken-up” appear
actually dances on the wire, and a man a series of elevations and depressions, counsel It would fall to pieces and re
ance generally. “Be Jubbera”! he yelled, Kl’m
trots across it with a oompanion up like a rough, confused sea. Contrary solve itself into chaos. It is almost all wrong entolrely. I want some shtuff to
straighten me out. Soma o’ them ‘Purgatory
right on his shoulders.
to what we should imagine, the very impossible for the small-bore dema Bullets’ will fix me, I’m thlnkiu’. What d’ye
—A lady saw. a driver, angry with large eggs are not found at the very gogue to believe that his party could tax for thim?” ?‘What do you mean?” asked
the clerk. “Purgatory Bullets,’ sor, somethin'
bis horses for some fancied offense, bqttom of the depressions, nor on the survive a single campaign in case he loike
that, they call thim," replied the man.
about to lash them severely. She in summit of the mound of gravel, but in should pay the debt of nature—the “Shure, I’m in purgatory already, with head
ache and liver complaint, and bad shtomach,
terrupted him by inquiring the way to shallow trenches, and on the slopes of only debt, by the way, which h. ever and the divll knows what all.” The.clerk
passed out a vial of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purg
a certain Btreet to a certain man's the irregular hummocks.
does pay.
ative Pellets, and Pat went off contented. These
house, both of which she knew very
Instead of being a modern Atlas with little Pellets cure all derangements of liver,
'lhe natives of the island understand
and bowels. Sugar-coated, little larger
well. But the driver, too gallant not perfectly how to find' them, by probing the whole world on his shoulders, he stomach
than mustard seeds, and pleasant to take. Drug
t/ answer the lady's questions, had op in the gravel with a flexible, delicate himself is a burden grievous to be gists.
portunity for his temper to cool, and stick. If the egg has been lately laid, borne. He wanders around, never al
restored the whip to its socket without and just covered, the gravel is very lit- lowing himself to stray far away froih
striking a blow.
tlo packed, and easy to penetrate with the saloonsl'iike an evil spirit seeking
r—Time, twentieth century. Flace, at the stick. Then the gravel is scraped rest and finding none, and allowing no
the polls. First Female Voter—“How away—the stick used again—and so body else to find any, either. He will
halt gentlemen on the public highways,
do you do, Mrs. X? Who are you going the egg is reached at last
It is often three or four feet below and unless they seek safety in flight,
to vote for for governor?” Second Fe
male Voter—“O, I have not decided the surface of the mound. The heat of he will inflict on such victims, in a
yet The Republicans have put up Mr. the beach, however, on which the trop whisky-laden whisper, whole libraries
A. They say he’s very popular, and ical sun is ever shining, hatches the of stale political lore and decayed cam
sure to be elected. But Mr. B, his op eggs at this depth; for, after they are paign rubbish...
In regardato the actual service® he
ponent he doesn't seem to have any once deposited and covered up, ths
friends at all, poor fellow; guess I'll parent birds take no more notice ot renders his pariy there will always be
i an honest difference of opinion. There
vote for him." First Female Voter— them.
The male birds, as well as the hens, is good reason to believe that this pos
“So will I.”.— Yankee Blade.
for pap does more to cause the
1
—“What will it cost mi, Uncle Ras- dig up the gravel to form the mounds, tulant
element of his party to go.
1
tus, to Have my coop whitewashed?” and throw up the material in perfect respectable
to the opposition than all the other
•
$ “I kam’t tell yet, sah, till I makes an showers; and they do this in an odd over
put together. The shrewder
<
estimate ob de size and dimonshuns.” way, and not scratching alternately, causes
and office-seekers perceive
I
That night the owner was disturbed by with both feet, like common fowla The politicians
a loud noise in the hen-coop. “Hi, maleo poises himself on one leg, and J that the unsavory but enthusiastic dem
is la reality adangerous Jonah,
1
there!" he shouted from an upper gives rapid digs with the other, the agogue
window, "what are you doing there?” large foot, slightly webbed at the base who should be promptly inserted into
"It’s Uno. Rastus," was the reply, of the toes, being as large and effective the raging main if the ship is to be
saved, and they often do throw him
“and he's flggerin’ on de size an’ di- as a man's hand.
Although the explorers from the overboard; but he always bobs serenely
menshunS ob de coop."— Harper's Ba-
Marchesa found the curious birds in up and swims to shore, or is picked up
tar.
■ —“This is the darndest place I ever great numbers upon the seashore, they by the rival craft.
Occasionally the small-bore politician
was in," exclaimed the bucolic gentle could only get them by creeping up
man at the theatre. . “I’ve been look quite close, and then running in and gets into power and stiqks with the
ing around for the last haif-hour and shouting; when, instead of running off, pertinacity of a postage stamp GT~S7
can't And the door." “Don’t you Bee they took to their wings and perched pocket-book on a damp day. The tax
discover that they are being
.
the sign on that door?" asked the gen upon the forest trees which formed a payers
tlemanly usher. “Exit, that’s Latin, bplt along the beach. Here they seemed robbed by a set of famished cormorants.
and means the place where you go out” to think themselves perfectly safe, and Then it is that the man whose property
“Then why in time don’t it say so? I one can be shot at a time, without put- is being sold for taxes lifts his voice
and -a r ebell io u s liuof and rails at th~e~"
guages. ’Cause a feller can’t read found to be delicious eating, and their small-bore demagogue. An independ
Latin, ha’q got to burn to death in case skins, being unique, most valuable for ent tidal wave sweeps over the neigh
borhood, and the small-bore demagogue
stuffing, for museums and collections.
of fire, eh
Boston Transcript.
The maleo's egg is huge, in propor and his friends are left high and dry
—“Men,” Baid the captain of the
tion to the size of the body, and some when the waters recede.
steamer to the frightened passengers
days elapses between the laying; and
This style of politician prevails, in a
huddled about him. “it is true we are
the question is, why should the egg be more or less malignant type, from
not gaining on the leak, but wo are I
so disproportionate to the size of the Maine to the Rio Grande, and infests
only fifteen miles from land, and if
bird?
every political party.— Texas Siftings.
necessary we can throw overboard
The theory of Doctor Guillemard, the
2,000 tons of freight to lighten ship.
VILLAGES OF RUSSIA.
naturalist who describes them, is that
There is ho occasion for alarm. We
the eggs of these birds would bo ex
have several hundred casks of rum in
The Deplorable Condition of Sixty Mil
posed to much risk if in an open nest,
lions of Ignorant Peasants.
tl»e hold that we can —-■'>* “No occa
wfflSJhuried as they are they are com
The idea of 60,000,000 of people be
sion for alarm!” exclaimed a tall Ken-
paratively safe.
He says ' that the ing constantly upon the verge of starva
tpqkian, turning pale with apprehen
weightoof such a mass of gravel must tion is a startling one, yet there does
sion. “Captain, do you intend to throw
be taken into consideration, when it not seem to be any reason to doubt the
that rum overboard?”— Chicago Trib
will be seen that no chick of ordinary truth of the author's'statement The
une.
size could force its way through it to peasants are frightfully ignorant, and
—Tho average age of locomotives is the surface. Hence the necessity of a
their mirs make them, to a certain ex
about twelve years, yet many, through large egg and a powerful chick; or, in
tent, selfish. These mirs are village
proper habits of living, taking their other words, the curious habit has been
governments, each one independent of
meals regular and avoiding all intoxi adopted for the preservation of the spe
the other, and eaqh peasant, while
cating beverages attain quite a re cies.— Golden Days.
bound for life to his mir, has no ties
spectable did age. The oldest run
connecting him with any other village.
ning engine in Germany has been on
Nor have the mirs any connecting links.
GROWING SMALLER.
the road since 1846, and is conse
To all intents and purposes the mirs in
quently forty-three years old; quite a Dlfferent Way» In Which Men Grow Funy Russia are ¡¿dependent States, with
Methuselah, in fact With regard to
nothing in common but the Government
and Insiffnlltaant.
its habits it has always confined itself
A young lad overheard a conversa tax gatherer. It is this fact that has
strictly to water, though It has been
tion which took place between his been the safety of the Russian autoc
addicted to smoking'all its life. It is
father and Mr. H., a neighbor; with racy, for were a concerted movement
sad to see a locomotive grown prema
reference to a well-known Inhabitant of to come the General GovernmerfTof the
turely old by getting on trainsand run-'
the place. The lad did not pay suffi country would go down before it as
Ding all night but they are often met
cient attention to understand much that would a pile of sand before a breaking
with—in collisions.— Texas Siftings.
was said.
This remark, however, dam. In fact, the authority of the
—Flagstaff, Me., is an interesting struck him. “He is,” said Mr. H., re Czar to-day rests upon two things—the
town for two reasons. It always has a ferring to the person respecting whom ignorance of the peasantry and their
Miles Standish among its citizens, and they were conversing, “he is growing lack of organization.
the Standish /arm covers the ground smaller every day.”
It is a question, however, of great
where Benedict Arnold encamped on
The lad thought he would see If the Interest how long this state of things
his Quebec expedition, aqd where he remark were true. The next time he will last. If, as Stepniak says, the
erected a flagstaff, from which the met the person, he «yed him narrowly, majority of these peasants are in want
place received its name. G. W. Stand but could see no diminution of his all the time, if they absolutely have
ish, one of the leading men of the portly dimensiona He wont to his not enough to eat for the larger part of
town, is the only remaining son of father for an explanation of the mean the year, a time will come when they
Miles Standish, who was the eighth ing of Mr. H.'s remark,- and learned will move. They may be ignorant, but
PI3 0 S CURL rofí CONSLf1 PII ON
direct descent from Miles Standish, the that there are other ways of growing no man is so ignorant that he can not
captain of Plymouth. G. W. Stand small besides the lessening of the bodily tell the difference between hunger and
repletion. When the misery becomes
ish’s only brother. Miles, died seven form.
years ago. but he left a son Miles, now
Men grow smaller when they grow widespread enough, when the tooth of
nation presses down hard enough,
twenty-two years old, •nd G. W. has a penurians. Examples of this kind of
son Miles, who is four years old.
growth are quite common. "There something will happen. The history
- Young lady (at dinner, sadly, to goes a man,” said a princely merchant of the world has shown often that
under certain conditions in society a
partner)—“1 was forcibly reminded of New York to a friend from the coun
spark is only needed to set fire to the
yesterday. Mr. Larkins, gf the opening try as he passed a man in the street- -
train. It might begin in Russia with
words of the poem, T never loved a ‘•There goes a man who was very lib
knocking down a tax gatherer. And-
dear gazelle.’ ” Mr. Larkins (with eral before he became rich, er before
when it does bogin the result will be
interest)—“Yes!” Yodsg Lady—"Yes; there was a prospect of his becoming
fearful. The atrocities of the French
I was presented with a lovely little rich.”
.
revolution would cease to be talked of,
When the man in question was doing
lamb which I tenderly nursed and
for those in Russia will cast them into
a
small
business
he
was
very
liberal
cared for through the summer, and of
the shade. As the Russian Czars and
in
proportion
to
his
means.
.
Some
which I grew very fond. Yesterday
nobility have sown so shall they reap.
the poor little creature broke Its leg thought he gave away more than was Of course there will be great wrongs
-•nd it became necessary to kill it I've proper and right When he was worth done; of course the persons wbo have
felt so distressed over the matter.” an hundred thousand dollars he gave brought it about will escape, for in the
Mr. Larkin—"It is Indeed, Miss Brown, away less than when he began business vengeance of races the Innocent suffer
k truly sad.” Young Lady—“Ah. yes. on a espial of two or three thmisind for the guilty. The sins of the fathers
Mr. Larkins, and the piece de resist- When he wns worth half a million, it will be visited upon the children. And
•ace of to-day's dinner is all that is was with great difficulty that he could who shall say. when those sine are con
left of njy poor little lamb. It nearly be induced to give away any thing at sidered. that this will be unjust.— Cur
k breaks my heart Won't you have «11. His wealth had grown Urge; his rent Literature.
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• small piece of the prisp fat Mr. Lar soul had grown smalL—N. K
-In order to appreciate succees^we
kin? It is simply delicious.”— Epoch.
must know failuie. and our great«*
sueeeswr consist not in never falling
nut in persistently conquering such faU-
“Twe are prone tojorget wtetdo
know; whereas we should cowidsw that
whatever good thing we
so far good to ns as it b remembered to
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