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A GOOD SCHOOL TRADE.
AROUND BLANCO BAY.
THEY COME IN CLOUDS.
IN THE LIMEKILN CLUB.
IT DON’T PAY TO GROWL.
The Kind of Business Done by Candy
and Cigarette Shops in New York.
A List of the Useful Plants Which Grow
in That Kegion.
A House Fainter Elucidates tlie Theory
of Summer Fly Sturms.
Certain Tilings Which a Good Man Should
Always Try to Bear In Mind.
Advice to One of the Men* Who Are Not
Satisfied with This World.
Between many plants w’e found in the vi
cinity of Blanco bay 1 will mention a few
which, on account of usefulness, are ulready,
and will be still more, of very great im
portance. Between these plants the first
place belongs to the Wild date or datilillo tree
(Yucca Scottii), a tall tree, occasionally forty
and fifty feet high.
Datilillo looks sometimes like a palmetto,
but has narrow long and very sharp leaves.
The stem is very fibrous, and excellent from
which to prepare paper, cordage, matting,
etc. The London Telegraph is printed on the
paper manufactured out of the fiber of lower
California wild date. It grows in abundance
south of San Quentin and Rosario valleys.
Caudlewood tree (fuguiera gigantea), by
the Mexicans called cirio, is a very remark
able plant. It presents a very singular ap
pearance in a desert, sometimes growing
straight like fin arrow, sometimes inclined in
all possible positions, or bent in most fantas
tic forms. Tbe leaves are very small, the
bark white and it is covered with long twigs.
Tbe sa in contains pith, which iseaten by cat
tle. In the hollow trunks of this remarkable
plant swarms of wild bees find their abode.
Here I must remark that the bees were un
known before on the peninsula. They came
from upper California, and now they are
everywhere, honey being used by tho Mexi
cans instead of sugar for tea or coffee. The
can< lie wood tree is also very fibrous and can
be used in tbe same manner as dat lillo.
The third remarkable plant is maguey or
agave shawii. It belongs to the family of
the century plants, and it grows everywhere
from San Diego to San Lucas. It forms a
beautiful object in the desert, with its dark
green leaves and splendid yellow flowers. It
has also fibrous qualities; besides, out of this
plant is prepared the celebrated Mexican
lie verage—mescal.
Though tho country in the vicinity of
Blanco bay is very rich in flora, yet there is
a perfect absence of animal life, and a per
fect silence reigns there supreme. The only
living creature that seems to thrive there is
the trap door spider, occasionally though
wrongfully called tarantula. This trap door
spider, cteniza California, is only half as
large as the tarantula, but belongs to the same
family of mygalidso. It inhabits tbe under
ground holes or tubes, provided with very
ingeniously constructed trap doors. The
nests I found near Blanco bay were about a
half dozen in number, and dug on level
ground, but as I could see all of these tubes
were abandoned.—Cor. San Francisco Chron
icle.
“You have never heard of a fly storm, did
you?” an old house painter ua^ed of a re
porter.
The reporter hadn't.
“Well, I reckon it will be a new thing for
most people to hear of, but one comes nearly
every year at this season. I've studied fly
storms for forty years. It’s‘mighty bard to
tell when one is coming. On general princi
ples you can say that it will lol low closo on
the first w’ann wave. When the weather
comes to stay, then we have a fiy storm.
Sometimes it is u little previous, but not
often. When the first fly storm is at bund a
gardener can safely set out his most delicate
plants and seeds. There will 1» no chilly
weather after that.
“When a fly storm is at band you feel tbe
air moving as if a funnel with a bellows at
tachment was point«! at you. The atmos
phere grows suddenly thick. Heaven help a
newly painted house when that happens,
especially if the house is white. The storm
tattoos it completely with wriggling black
specks. They are young flit». Most of them
are no larger than pinheads. They can’t get
away from a coat of fresh paint. If 1 had a
dollar for every fly that sticks to the side of
a freshly painted house exposed to one of
these storms and right in its line I would
almost be ready to match mv pile against
Jay Gould’s. In about two seconds they will
mark a house so thut one would think ibcould
never be cleaned. ”
“Does a fly storm worry housekeepers?”
“Well, I should say so. Many a little
woman sits down and has a go<xl cry after a
fly storm. It seems at first as if there was
nothing loft to do blit paint the house again.
But, like many things that worry people, it
seems a great sight worse than it is. The
flies don’t dry in with the paint. After a few
days most of them drop off. The rest go with
the first good breeze or rain, leaving the
house perfectly clean.”
“How do you account for fly storms?”
“Well, flies probably come just as bees do.
They find warm places to winter, and in the
spring turn their broods looso to the wind,
which carries them in clouds to northern
alighting places. They say that a queen bee
lays 3,000 eggs a day. It looksus though some
thing like this must hapjx^n with this kind of
fly. If that is so a few families starting to
gether on a southerly breeze a month after
the breeding season begins would make quite
a cloud. A fly storm ulways comes from the
south. I have seen houses after a storm with
their sides exposed to the south black and
with not a s|»eck on any other side. Anybody
who is curious to know what u fly storm is
Like can see for himself almost any day just
now when there is a warm breeze if lx*
watches a newly painted, light colored sur
face for a little while about sunset. That is
the time of day the storm usually comes when
the sun doesn't scorch tfle uir.”—New York
Sun.
“Dar* am sartin things which a good man
should alius b’arin mind,” said Brother Gard
ner, us he motioned to the janitor to raise
three more windows on the alley ride. There
was a sound of mighty shuffling as Elder
Toots, Deacon Tidsbury and Esquire Jackson
drew their hoofs under their respective stools,
and then the president continued:
•Abusin’ a man fur bein’ rich doan* lower
de price of ’taters to de poo’ mail.
“De man who am down on his luck, as de
sayin’ is, am ginerally pretty high up on de
saloons.
“No man ex»^ects to buy a $100 boss for |20,
but lots of folks want to live at the rate of
$50 a week on an income of $10.
“De man who kin find time to argy religun
dolin’ workin’ houra is de kind of Christian
to look out fur when he wants to borry
money.
“Dar’ am no doubt that Providence some
times helps people out of a box, but I reckon
it am a great deal safer to aim yer bread an’
meat in de rag’lar way.
“Dar’ am occashuns when all of us boast of
our honesty, or feel like it Sich occashuns
am when we forgit dat we hev nebber bin
tempted wid’anylbin* beyand a liogus lookin’
half dollar.
“If you kin keep all de Ten Commandments,
glory fur you; but bekase you diskiver you
can’t keep but six or seben doan’ go an’ frow
’em all oberboard.
“When you find a man who won’t listen to
argyment you Ixis hit so close to a lunatic or
a. fule dat you had better be gettin’ home
to supper.
“We am a selfish lot. We find fault wid
de law which gives a verdict agin us in de
one case an’ hev no praise fur de score which
purtect us in others.
“I kin sot a torpedo in front of my hen
house to purtect myself from a thief, but a
liar may walk ober mo wid impunity in my
sleep.
“I nebber met but one man who tried to lib
up to de Golden Rule. He got to de poor
house jist as I left it. I had bin tryin’ to pay
up outlawed debts.”—Detroit Free Press.
You are just as much in error, my friend,
as are the kings, princes, dukes, earls, aristo
crats, capitalists and monopolists you’re talk
ing against continually. You’ve worked
yo irself up into a fever and chronic condi
tion of hatred against one class of people.
The mere mention of tlleir names or anything
concerning them is to you what the red flag
is to the bull—it irritates and inflames you.
The sight of a man able to keep a carriage
and riding m that carriage puts you in a
temper. That is bad for your health. It
poisons your blood, injures your stomach,
weakens your digestion. Your food does not
now agree with you because of the state of
mind you keep yourself in most of the time.
You’ve been so many years occupied in
scolding and seeing grievances that you’ve
trained your mind all on one side, so as to see
nothing but grievances. You’ve been fight
ing “giant wrongs” so long that you can’t get
along comfortably without some sort of fight
or quarrel on your hands.
You don’t know what a state you’re in,
though. You’re on a mental drunk. Your
paradise is only a string of bellicose gather
ings and indignation meetings. You can’t
feel comfortable unless you're worked up to
an indignation pitch, and pitching into some
body yourself or listening to hear somebody
pitching into somebody else. You feed on
this sort of thought It is your mental cock
tail. You long for it continually. When
you’re without it you’re restless and dis
satisfied. A peaceful ifirth wouldn’t suit you.
You’d 1» miserable to see the lion lying down
with the lamb and everybody’s difference«
made up, and tho capitalist and workman
and employer and employed agreeing per
fectly and getting on comfortably together.
It is not that you really want a quarrel, but
because your mind has fed so much on this
kind of thought for so many years that it
calls for it, must have it, and craves it ex
actly as the opium eater craves opium. You’ve
lived too long on what is unhealthy mental
agitation. Smith, the monopolist, may be
the biggest rascal in the world, and turn a
half dozen families out to freeze every winter;
but if you keep your mind in a chronic fret
and ma«l about Smith you’re hurting yourself
in body and mind. It is that condition of
mind you’ve kept yourself in so long that
makes you lean and gaunt. Your fape looks
sour. You’re feeding your mind on an un
healthy food all the time. You can’t get on
comfortably without the excitement this food
gives you, yet the food is killing your body
as much as too much opium or whisky will
kill the body. A perpetual scold is never in
really good health.—Prentice Mulford in San
Francisco Chronicle.
Imagine yourself then firmly seated.
There is much in modern life that tends to
If the. horse is blinded you reach forward shorten existence and to diminish the proba ^pANDY, cigars, stationery and notion store:
V doing good school trade. — East---- st.’1
and remove the blind. Now the struggle bility that a man or woman will reach 90 to
begins. For a moment he stands in hie say nothing of loo. We lead more exciting ^pANDY STORE, opposite big public school;
V iirst class trade la confectionery, cigarettes
I tracks, but you cun feel his muscles grow and more wearing lives. It is in vain that a and
stationery. Apply at — West---- st?'
ing tense as he gathers himself together. persou has a splendid constitution to tagin
A young man with a few hundred dollars
•Crouching like a wildcat about to spring, with, wears flannel, or tbe equivalent of flan
he leaps high into tho air and twists ami nel, next to bis skin, dwells in a warm, di v to invest answered several of these advertise
shakes himself In a mad effort to throw house and eats and drinks everything that is ments. In each case he found a small dingy
off the unaccustomed burden. He comes good and wholesome, if at tho same time he shop with great heaps of painted candy, pack
blown with his head »»etwecn his fore legs habitually overtaxes his strength, looks upon ages of cheap cigarettes and plentiful supplies
and his tail behind his hind legs, striking Ins muscles as mere machinery to be driven of blood and thunder literature ou tbe
the ground still legged; and ns soon us he at high pressure, and ruthlessly calls upon his shelves. A few’ dusty school books completed
has given you the full benefit of tho shock nerves to squander their reserve power when the stock. In each case, too, the little shop
crouches for another leap. This Is ‘•buck every other source of energy is exhausted.
was near a public school. Some nestled close
ing,” or as the more initiated commonly
Mett or women who intend to be centena up to the big buildings. O hers were across
term it, “pitching." No two horses pitcli rians in these days must combine something the street or on cornel's diagonally situated.
alike, and no horse pitches twice alike. of tlie old mode of life witli something of the All were less than a stone’s throw distant.
Sometimes lie will strike on his fore feet new mode of living. They must, while avail
“Our trade comes almost exclusively from
and nose, throwing his breach so high as ing themselves of all the scientific discoveries the school children.” said the proprietor of
to turn a somersault forward. Sometimes and sanitary appliances of the age, imitate one grimy little shop. “They are lively cus
he will make a lateral jump, and at others their grandsires in tlie steady and tranquil tomers before and after school and at recess.
F'change end,” or turn halt round in the habits that, prevailed before the invention of I This is tbe dull season, because vacation has
lair. Now u “bronco buster" generally locomotives and tlie telegraph. They must just begun. Trade will pick up again in Sep
kioes his work in the presence of a hand have tbeir eight hours of sleep regularly* tember. Then it is sure and steady until
ful of spectators; and if he is one of the they must have intervals of repose and spring. Last year 1 made a net profit of no
[few men who are absolutely certain that vacancy in the day time; they must spend a less than $1,200.”
aiothing can unseat him, he lets the goodly portion of their waking hours in the
“The demand for school books must be
horse buck himself weary, while he de- open air. Nor will that suffice; there will pretty heavy.”
□ights the claque by rolling and lighting have to be regularity in the hours of their
“Oh, no; we sell very few school books.”
si cigarette or stooping to pick up a hand I! meals, and discipline in the ordering of the
“W bat do you sell that makes your trade
ful of dirt and throw it in the horse's face. dishes
of wnich the meals are composed. We id profitable?”
[Another favorite proof of his dexterity is cannot believe that anybody will ever live to
“Candy and cigarettes, principally. You’d
to rowel the horse from ear to tail.
100 who eats a heavy dinner every night of be surprised at the quantity of candy those
A sharp pull at the horse’s head just at his
youngsters
devour. Tbe little boys and girls
life at 8 o'clock. Champagne in abund
¡the right moment, and the steel thrown ance, and Bordeanx or Burgundy ad libitum, rush in here with their pennies and buy a
into his flank will break the rhythm of should be forsworn by persons who deliber stick of painted candy whenever they get the
¡his pitching, ami a sharp blow on the ately set before them tho attaining of their chance. All the larger boys buy a cigarette
[hind quarters with your whip compels 100th birthday. Neither, with such an end or two every day. It’s only a penny business,
¡him to lunge forward. He will then run in view, would tbe active life of a politician, of course, with penny profits. But when you
a hundred yards or so and stop suddenly a lawyer, or a doctor be a sane enterprise.
take care of the pennies the dollars’ll take
with his fore legs planted firmly before
In order to reach that distant goal there care of themselves, you know. Why, I made
him. This of course necessitates your must
a training, if not severe, at least $700 clear profit last year on candies alone.
¡throwing your laxly well back, and he regular be and
unflinching. Most of all, there For, to tell the truth, the sweet stuff is tbe
seizes this opportunity to rear and throw
must
prevail
in
tlie existence of such a person very cheapest sort. But the children like it
himself violenty on his back. Now is the
a
tranquil
serenity,
an unruffled calm. just as well. I wouldn’t sell out at all if it
¡time when a man shows whether he is a
were not that I am going to leave town be
¡rider or a foolhardy braggart. Obviously Neither generous passions nor enthusiastic fore fall, when trade will be resumed at its
¡you cannot retain your seat. A horse in ideals must be allowed admittance. The liveliest.”
executing this maneuver will often thrust pulse must never be driven up beyond a cer
Similar statements were made by all the
the horn of the saddle fast in the ground tain point, either by work, by anxiety, by other candy store advertisers, and strong in
and bo left kicking turtlewise. You fear or by hope. At the same time mere ducements to purchase were held out to the
iniist see how lie is going to strike and stagnation will, in all probability, never en young man. Being of a nice moral sense,
throw yourself to tlie one side or the able a person to live to 100. There is such a however, he decided not to invest in a busi
ether, so that you have always one foot thing ns rusting out as well as wearing out. ness whicl\seemed to him like corrupting tbe
in position to cross him with as he strug If a candle does not burn brightly enough it rising generation by supplying them with
gles to rise. It is perfectly legitimate for does not consume I be wax with rapidity, and cheap and perhaps ¡»isunous painted candy
out for want of adequate combustion.
a horse to throw himself backward in goes
is so, no doubt, with the human body and and cigarettes. This idea impressed him
Itliis way three or four times, but when It
so strongly that he asked a school prin
the human spirit..—London Standard.
you have conclusively demonstrated to
cipal about it.
*
¡him that he accomplishes aothing by it,
“You are right,” said he. “This candy
.Scientific Farming iu Georgia.
if he persists in it it must bo treatelas.
Bob Tipper is a colored farmer of this com shop business is one of the most pernicious
willful misconduct. If yon cannot, by munity;
and his mode of procedure illus features of school life. We call the shops
Spurring him in the flank as he rises and trates a very
majority of colored farm ‘candy hells.’ The red, green, blue and yel
thus bringing liis hind parts into action ers who rent large
land
and farm “on their own low coloring matter annually used to its
prevent his overrearing, you must
hook.
”
Robert
is
the
owner of an emaciated, manufacture would paint the town in alter
Btrlko him a sharp blow between the ears
colored, bobtailed bull which serves as nate stripes from the Battery to Harlem
¡With the butt of your whip as lie rises, dun
bridge. Five cents’ worth of the stuff would
Bad let him understand tliat he is over plow boi*se, Sunday go to meeting buggy nag lay a professional athlete on his back for a
! and hauler of a Saturday’s “lond of wood,
Stepping the bounds of fair fighting.
week, but a forty pound schoolboy can con
After an hour or two ho is completely sah.” The feed of this bovine consists of wire sume five cento’ worth every day for six
exhausted and ahould be turned loose grass, crapped during the stilly hours of the months and be a sixty-pound schoolboy at the
until the next day. His second lesson night, while his master sleeps the sleep of the end of that period. Tbe ways of the in
will try your seat and your patience even just; an<l hence it is Old Dun doesn’t present fantile stomach are inscrutable, and even the
well fed, sleek appearance incident to
more severely, for you will then have that
candy shop canuot affect it. Still, these
pitted him for the first time and he has high living.
‘candy hells’ are literally training schools for
Passing
Farmer
Tipper
’
s
recently
this
re
learned better how to handle hitnsei'
future generations of dyspeptics and men
pnder your weight. But on the third day, porter found that gentleman pulling a l>ell with handmade sets of teeth. But wo are
If ho is not a very recalcitrant subject, he line over Old Dun anil going at a snail’s pace, powerless to prevent it.”—New York Sun.
will begin to learn something, and is then throwing two furrows to some pale, sickly
Considered a “broke” horse.—Cor. New looking corn that struggled for existence
Swedish Women at Home.
amid the weeds and grass always present in
York Sun.
the average colored planter’s crop. Hailing
Swedish women are, in their own country,
us and asking the loan of a “chaw terbacker, models of neatness. The private house at
sah,” the following dialogue ensued:
which Mr. Lancaster and myself had pro
Senator Evarts and Mark Twain.
“Bob, why don’t you hoe out that cornF cured board was presided over by a widow
Í
lady named Ritzen, and the scrupulous
. Senator Evarts has undobutedly pre asked the reporter.
“I ’lows ter, Boss, when I lays by”—al I cleanliness of tbe apartments we occupied
sided over more banquets than any other
taan in New York. His old fashioned though the corn was in full silk and tassel at was indeed marvelous. There were no car
I pels on the floor, but the latter were always
rolling collar and his finely plaited shirt waist high.
“How did you begin that crop, Bob?” asked kept beautifully clean, being daily and I
bosom are familiar sights to all of the
might add almost hourly scrubbed by our
waiters at Delmonico’s, the Hoffman or the reporter.
“In de fust place, sah, I run one furrer to hostess and her natty little maid servant,
the Brunswick. The urbane senator en
joys a good dinner and good company, and de middle and drapt de co’n en kivered it Frida.
There are many pretty faces to be met
with rare forbearance he never inflicts a wid my foot. One munt later I flung two
long speech upon his fellow diners. Even furrers to it, and den side out my lotton crap with hi Sweden, although the beauty of a
bis abnormal tendency to long and in of twelve akers. Fust er June I fling two great many young girls is spoiled by defec
tricate sentences is ‘curbed upon social more furrers to de co'n an’ two more to my tive teeth, due, I was informed, to their pas
Iccasions. Mr. Evarts’ special weakness cotton and chops it out. Dis is de next sion for sweetmeats. I was mere than sur
is a presiding officer is the interjecting of plowin' I gives de co'n. Nex’ time I’ll bust prised to find among a people so noted for
kcetious comments on the efforts of the out dese baulks, and den I’ll hoe it, sah, ef its their religious convictions grimes, that in our
country would inevitably send the offender
•flier speakers. He delights to diffuse wuth it.”
pirth and good fellowship, and his face-
“Do you prepare your land before planting, to tho penitentiary, were there almost wholly
disregarded, and, in fact, looked upon as being
gousness never lias the sting of acerbity. Bob?” asked tho reporter.
Occasionally in attempting to score a point
“O, no, sah. rl'won’t do ter go to sturvin’ nothing uncommon. The clergymen in
>n a fellow speaker he suffers the fate of the sarrl (soil) too much in dis sandy lau’. Sweden appear to exercise wonderful control
me boomerang thrower. An instance in You mus’ plant in de warter furrer ter ketch over their charges. In fact, no Italian priest
joint occurred at the New England Society de rain dat falls, and den, as you kin, fling de could be more rigid in his surveillauce of tbe
[inner last winter. Mark Twain had just sarrl to de co’n as she grows. ’Twon’t do to morals of his people, and yet among the
jnished an extraordinarily piquant ad- sturv do sarrl too much, ’case if you do you peasantry I was assured that not one in ten
jrexs when Mr. Evarts arose, shoved both lose all de suption (substance) in do lan’,”said of the men ever dream of marrying a woman
Bob, looking as wise as Solomon himself.— until they have both lived together for a pe
h bto hands down into his trousers pockets
riod varying from one month to a year; still
|s is his habit, and laughingly remarked: Bainbridge (Ga.) Democrat.
the ministers of the gospel strive hard to in
[Doesn't It strike this company as a little
A Famous Tightrope Performer.
struct these people in tbe evil of their ways,
|nusual that a professional humorist
After many years of retirement Blondin, and annually meetings are held for the pur
ffloubl be funny?”
I Mark Twain waited until the langhtet tbe most famous tightrope performer in the pose of examining the peasants in reading
»cited by this sally had subsided and then world, has returned to the active pursuit of and the catechism of their religion.—Boston
Irawled out: “Doesn’t it strike this com his profession. Although an old man, he is Commercial Bulletin.
pany as a little unusual that a lawyer said to be as fearless and graceful as of old,
Should have his hand in his own pocket?” and is now giving regular exhibitions in
A Bull Fight In Madrid.
England. A theatrical man who knew liim
—New York Times.
By this timo I thought I knew enough
intimately when he was in America and who about bull fights, and I left tho king and
was interested in bis management when be queen ami their court to behold tbe other
performed his wonderful feat of crossing Ni
New agara, said: Blondin was absolutely without three combats without me, and went away
to walk on tho prado and reflect. My sym
nervousness or fear when on the rope. While pathies were all with the bulls. They were
they were fixing the guys which steadied the tho only creatures who had no least show of
cables across the Falls, one of them came fair play. They alone were doomed with ab
loose and bung dangling from the middle of solute certainty from the start. —
Even tbs
cable over the rushing torrent beneath. horses might escape; and at worst their tor- I
Blondin coolly walked along till he came to ture was but for a moment. The men were i
the loose guy rope, when be slid down hand only in just enough danger to make the
over hand and reached tbe end of it. Letting thing exciting, and thare were 09 chances out
his legs drop, they just touched the surface of of 1(M that they would escape scat bless; but
the current, of which the force was so great the bull, let him bear himself never so i
that the contact sent him swinging like a bravely, was to be made an end of.—Louis* '
huge pendulum. Three or four times be re Chandler Moulton in Tbe Cosmopolitan.
peated this, apparently enjoying the fun, and
then coolly clambered up. I asked him once
Death Kate Among Children.
whether the rush of tbe rapids below him did
The following facts are suggestive: Full
not make him dizzy.
“It might.” be answered, “if I saw it; but I one-third of tbe patients of the general prac
titioner are children. Of all children born
don't. I never look down, for should I do so about
one in five dies within the first year,
I should be lost.”
“But how do you Udi where to place your and one in three by the end of tbe fifth year.
Tn New York about one-half die in five years.
fentV” I asked.
It is with little children as wjth extreme old
“Oh, I let my feet take care of themselves.* age,
they are very liable to be sick, and their
His feet were peculiarly formed, and in his
sickness
to prove fatal. Of tbofie who die
toes was ranch prehensible power.—New York
within
the fl t year 40 per cent, die of diges
Tribune»
—
tive troubles, and about 19 per cent, die of
respiratory affections. During this second
Carlons Fact In Photography-
Dr. John Vansant, of the United States year this order is reveraed, about 39 per cent,
Marine hospital at St. Louis, claims to ta^he dying of respiratory and only 9 per cent, of
The Men Who Snrcnmb.
first to have taken photographs by tbe light diseases of tbe bowels.—Philadelphia Tim««.
I It Is the genial, lovable men, the men of of fireflies. He placed twelve fireflies in a
Ine senribiuties and winning traits of < har- three ounce bottle, covering its mouth with
A New Way of Steal ng.
■ctor. who usually succumb to tlie stern fine white tabinet. Tlie average duration of
Some ingenious chevalier d industrie in
Jpsta which speculation imposes on its vota- the flash of each insect was lialf a second, and
P<‘S. The men of coarser fib?r, of st<*el the luminous urea on the abdomen was alout London has hit upon a new way of “raising
krvra. are. as a rule, the only men who one-eighth of an inch square. The time of the wind.” He studies the azl vert ¡semen t col
umns of the daily journals, ascertains when
withstand the moral shock which follows a exposure was fifty flashes.
a musical professor will be engaged at a con
kirn of the fatal ticker which so monoto
cert, and calls at his bouse during his at>sence
nously ticks out the grim intelligence that
How Fishes Influence One Another.
victim must step down from his fv«at of
In a lecture on "Marine and Fresh Hater in the character of a m--monger sent for a I
rcalth, sell his houses, horses and carriage*, Fishes" Mr. W. A. Carter sai l that fi-h have violin or some other musical instrument. He
[ivp up his club, opera and a hundred tbe power of influencing one another by made a good haul at Mr. Charles Gardner's
kher social comforts and enjoyments, which sounds and action. He had oliserved a shoal the other day. On asking for one violin ho
have become in a sense necessity’s, and take of carp followmg t..e lead of a »ingle one was presented with two.—Cleveland Leader.
li-> place among the innumei'ab’e host of the which conducted them to a quantity of food
hopelessly poor. Many a man has left a at a considerable distance a«ay H- had
I. an Irishman a Brltiaher?
broker's office, his slow footsteps timed as also noticed that certain fresh water fish,
No; be» an Irishman. We apeak of the
muffled drum beats. And it will be ro uicb as trout, were subservient to a ruler,
bs long ns men have a passion for spccula- which might be eeen swimming at the bead kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Ire
land is a separate kiegiiom, and the name of
m long as human nerve® are of fleshy
nt bis tribe. The same was possibly the case
|l«er and not of steel.—Cor. Kansas City with soms marine forms, like the herring and Irish is ai plied to im people quite as properly
aa that of Engiiab to the people of England.
rimes
Smartening the Coronation Chair.
We shall not know how much harm has
been<lone to Westminster abbey in prepar
ing it for tho royal thanksgiving service
until the scaffolds have been removed. More
care, it is believed, has been taken than on
previous occasions, but one wanton piece of
mischief has certainly been committed. We
shall scarcely be believed when we say that
the coronation ehair, perhaps to most English
men the most precious of all the precious relics
in the abbey, was handed over to some bar
barian to bo smartened up, and he ha«Maubed
it tho orthodox Wandour street brown and
varnished itl Yet this is true. The chair
made 600 years ago to contaiu the
stone which even then bad a long story
behind it, lias suffered much from hard
usuage and from the hands of the mis
chievous. But not even in the perilous time
when George IV was crowned was it attempt
ed to take away the chair’s age and mako a
new thing of it Now, when we pride ourselves
on knowing more about old art work than
our fathers did, this has been done, and the
throne of six and twenty monarchs has been
vulgarized into tho semblance of the hall
chair of a Cockney Gothic villa.—The Atbe-
nseuni.
American Giriti Not Good Cloak Model«.
She is the only state that has no provision
in her constitution for calling a constitutional
convention.
She is the only state that requires more
than a majority of votes to ratify amend
ments to the constitution.
She is the only state whose constitution
draws a distinction between native and
naturalized citizens.
She is the only state whose legislatures vote
by secret ballot.
She is the only state that requires the gov
ernor to share the pardoning power with the
senate.
She is the only state that requires voters to
register one year in order to vote the next.
She is the only state that requires a majority
vote to elect all officers.
She is the only state that requires a prop
erty qualification of voters.—Boston Globe.
A young man in a New York cloak hous*
said recently I don’t see what’s the matter
with all the little girls in America, 1 have
worked in a similar place in Europe, and we
had no difficulty there in finding plenty of
girls of correct development to serve as
models in trying on cloaks. Thera must be
something in the way of living here. Of a
score of girls, all were out of sbujie. Only
one stood up straight, and her arms were like
pi [ xj steins. The ideal form for a model for
misses’ cloaks is this: Tho 12-year-old should
have a thirty inch bust and a twenty-four
inch waist. Of course, all models should lx»
straight, have good shoulders and arms,
should not be too plunip and not yet too
slender. The bust of the 14-vear-old model must
measure thirty-one inches, the waist twenty-
four; the 16-year-old thirty-two inches, and
the waist twenty-four. Th ' bust, in the jier-
fect form, keeps developing gradually, while
the waist remains about the same size. The
model for a lady’s cloak with a thirty-six
inch bust should measure not over twenty-
four and one-half inches round the waist.
There is a good lady’s model there by the mir
rors now.” The young man |K>intod to a tall
gtrl of perhaps 24, with a Langtry shape, w ho
was trying on cl-^k after cloak with a care
less grace for the lienofit of a buyer. “She is
an old and practiced model,” continued the
young man. “She slqis in and out of those
cloaks with what they call chic in France.
It is something more than grace. The
younger models earn from $5 to $6 a week.
They aro worth it. Five hours of the day,
perhaps, they are doing nothing at all, but it
is half the cloak to be on a good form. It is
very hard to get models. Small American
girls seem to be afflicted with tax) little chest
and too much stomach ”—Tho Argonaut.
What Sporting Men Care For.
Georges Sand and Baron IlotlrHclilld.
Rhode Inland’s Peculiarities.
Fully one-fourth of the people who visit the
races nowadays do so merely to avail them
selves of the betting privileges afforded on
the course, and not because they care a conti
nental for the sport of racing as a recreation.
Hundreds of men never go fifty feet from the
betting paddock during the afternoon. They
care only for the result and are utterly indif
ferent to the niceties of the struggle. If they
win they are eager to get their money as soon
as possible in order that they may play it
again in the next race. They are the men
who are the most eager for the latest stable
tips and information. Though they consider
themselves sporting men par excellence, they
Lave little claim to the title, but are gam
blers, pure and simple. —New York Sun.
Fats as Tonics.
Fats, especially those which are of easy
digestion, like cod liver oil and sweet
cream, are also essential to the well being
of the nervous system. The peculiar
substance—neurine—found in all nervous
structures contains fat as an essential con
stituent It is remarkable that most
“nervous” individuals have a strong aver
sion to fats as articles of diet. This is ex
tremely unfortunate, for the omission of
fats and oils from the diet tends to not
only continue the nervousness, but to in
crease the irritability and weakness. Cod
liver oil is a most valuable medicine in
such cases, because it is already partly
digested by admixture with the bile se
creted by the liver of the fish, and thus
rendered still more easy of absorption.
Tbe labor of digestion is thus partly taken
away from the tasks to l>e performed by
tbe invalid. Of course, the fishy odor is
objectionable nt first, but this is generally
easily overcome by continuing its use for
a abort time. Tin?re are a few prepara
tions on the market In w hich oil of some
kind has l>ecn partially digested by admix
ture with pancreatine. Emulsions thus
made are palatable, but much more ex
pensive than the trude oil.—lube Dem
ocrat
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Each of th*» higher grade of officers of the
United Stat*« navy ha« a flag, from the secre
tary of the navy to commodore inclusive. Th«
secretary's flag is a blue Arid with a white
star in each of tbe four corners and a white
anchor in the center. An admiral, vice ad
miral aixl rear admiral each has a flag with a
blue fleld. and for admiral four white stars,
vioe-wimiral three white stars, and rear ad
miral two white «tar«, tbe latter lieing ou a
red. White or blue fleld. A commodore's pen
nant is one white «tai on a red, white or blue
field. X
At a charitable sale held in 1858 nt the
Hotel Lambert, in Paris, by the Piineess
Czartariska in favor of the distressed Poles,
an incident took plain) lietween Georges Saini
ajid Baroil Rothschild. Mme. Dudevant
(Georges Band) had a stall on the occasion
and displayed a number of articles for sale.
Baron Rothschild happened to pass arftl tho
fair saleswoman addressed him with the
usual request to buy something. “What am
I to buy?” said tbe baron; “you have nothing
at all suitable for me. But stay—an idea
strikes me. Give me your autograph. Sell
me that.” Mme. Dudevant took a sheet of
paper aud wrote upon it as follows: “R -
ceived from Baron Rothschild tho sum of
1,000 francs for the benefit of tho distressed
Poles. Georges Sand.” Baron Rothschild
read it, t anked her, and, handing her a note
for tbe amount name«I, went away highly
gratified.
Plumpness and Beauty.
Emotional excitement and worry aro fatal
to chances of being plump and pretty. If an
annoying thought haunts you, forcibly fix
your attention on something else. Above
all, never allow such thoughts lo tonne nt
you after retiring, and thus to pass disagreea
bly into your dreams. Eight hours of dream
less sleep, in a well ventilated room, form tbe
most potent cosmetic known to man or
woman—the straigblest road to plumpness
and beauty.—Henry T. Finck in The Epoch.
A B<> kseller’fl Trick.
In New York they tell tales of a l/ookseller
who buys books ac auction hero in the spring,
takes them with him to Paris in a trunk in
the summer, shi|« them back to his store in
the fall in cases that are opened in tho pres
ence of flabbergasted book men. He shows
a Paris invoice for them. Sometimes it is
the library of a marquis, sometimes the col
lection of a cousin to a de»-endaut of a gover
ncss of a queen’s children. The trick is said
to pay well; doubtless it does, judging by
libretto« that fetch from $15 to &0 for hav
ing been in tbe Tuileries library (“ as witnsss
the binding with its large, gilded initial N.”),
but these things are manufactured by whole
sale in tbe Boulevard Saint-Michel.—New
York Tinies.
An Art Criticism.
Henry fohouchere thus criticise« Holman
Hunt’s picture, “Tbe Awakened Conscience”;
•In plain language, I should say of this pict
ure that it is tbe art of tbe nursery, tbe color
of tbe jam pot. end tbe sentiment ui ites IW*
vaUuu A tva /«”
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At a Dutch Breakfast Table.
Breakfast, to begin with, was ready at 8
o’clock for the master of the house, and often
still waiting at 10 o’clock for the younger
(male) scions. This is easy, for a mahogany
bucket lined with metal and containing peat
«mbers in which a brass kettle is kept sing
ing, is always placed beside every Dutch
breakfast table; and appears at chance 5
o’clock teas, too, and after dinner in the
drawing room. The kettle bucket in Holland
is the most characteristic object I can think
of. At this breakfast one only eats bread and
butter, adding sometimes to the latter thin
ilices of gingerbread, which is very good, or
a wafer of rye bread. Concerning the latter
there are very few things I don’t like in Hol
land; but, without a shadow of doubt, I de
test rye bread. Eggs are Boiled, if some one
cures for them, ;n the kettle. The old fash
ioned way was by means of a small sort of
landing net in which they were first popped;
the newer one is to have wire or sil /er drain
ing spoons to lift them out.
But the young men of the family going off
to business in Haarlem do not even trouble
the tea and bread and butter, much less the
eggs. About a small cupful of milk and a
wafer of rye bread, often nothing but a hasty
glance at the morning papers, and they aro off
smiling with bon jou^s to tho ladies left be
hind. And bou jour is echoed back to the
husband bound to the law court, with viol
plaisir (much pleasure) added to the irre
pressible soon to become u Benedict, who is
off to tho Hague to see races or the Downs to
try sporting dogs in a chasse, and w ho will
lend notes at night to an English acquaintance
5n le sport in Holland to be publisbod in The
Field. Many men whose business is in Am
iterdam, but who have houses in Haarlem for
economy and quiet, will go to their offices and
work till 1 or 2 p. m. without food.—Holland
Cor. New York Graphic.
Shylocks and Water Color Painters.
“If you want to see real poverty,” said a
portrait painter of Union square, “just hunt
ip some of the artists in town who are fill
ing Older« for the new crazo in water colors
from the dealers. Oil puintings are now
»a booed, you know, among tbe swells. That
is, you can’t have them in your parlor or
irawing room, but it’s right to hang them in
four ball or library if you choose. Water
jolors are decreed to be tbe sympathetic
twins of the lavender, light blue and pale
/into that are reigning in decorations. There's
been a fair demand for these all summer.
The other day I climbed to the miserable at-
iic studio of an old artist, whose water color
ivork had attracted my attention os being far
ibove tho average. It was really fine. He
was engaged on the finishing touches of a
¡harming little landscape.
“‘What do the dealers pay you for this fl
laid I.
“ ‘Three dollars, possibly five, and I may
manage, with hard work, to finish two of
them in a week.’
“ ‘And what do the dealers charge their
:ustomersf
“ ‘All the way from $40 to $60, and they get
It, too, without any trouble. That's the way
we’re in tbe hands of these Shy locks. But
we’re too poor to combine against them, for
we need the paltry pittance all the time for
room rent and a bite to eat. I can tell you
there are droves of talented artists in this
town who don’t experience tbe sensation of
one square meal a week.’ ”—New York Even
ing Hun.
Offer to a Yale Profensor.
Hot Weather Philosophy.
New Yorkers ought to be more thankful
than they usually are for the climate in which
they live. Even tbt somewhat torrid beat of
the present kind of summer weather is not
without its advantages, and when tho en
forced city residents let everything go, as it
were, likoa yacht in a squall, and pant and
perspire, hat in hand, and with “vest apart to
catch Heaven’s blessed breeze,” after the
manner of Hood’s “Eugene Aram,” philosophy
will still make life worth living. For do but
consider what happens to the unfortunates
who live in what is called an equable climate,
where one can busk in the sameness of the
temperature every day for nine months in
the year, and only a light umbrella is needed
the other throe months. Is it not notorious
that tho residents m such countries never
amount to anything; that they gradually
lose all their energies, just as the bet» cease
making honey under like circumstances;
that not being compelled to. “rustle,” they be
come indolent, unambitious, lotos eaters, in a
word. Their descendant« in the third gener
ation are fully developed loafers, and thence
forward the fate of the race is sealed.
Tho truth is that jjoor humanity is so in
herently lazy as to need the spur ¡>ei-petually,
and there is no stimulus so strong and sure
as that of climate. Here we have our sum
mer as well as our winter tonics. When tbe
blizzard is not blowing and tho snow snowing
and the ice congealing and everybody being
nipped and stung into activity, the suu is
heating up tho air and extracting the moist
ure from the ocean and the soil, and Mturat-
ing the lower strata of the atmosphere there
with, and so producing a modified Turkish
bath, into which the community is plunged
with enlivening effects.—New York Tribune.
Luminous Military Maps.
Some interesting experiments have just
been made at Aidershot, with a view to test
ing luminous paint as a medium for reading
documents and studying maps at night. A
few nights ago several noncommissioned offi
cers of tho Scots Greys, under Maj. W. E.
James, started at midnight on a hazardous
expedition, the object being to hold tbe canal
and prevent the scouts of an opposing forco,
represented by another party under Lieut. C.
8. Harris, from discovering the strength of
the Aldershot division. The detachments had
severally to make for and-hold three positions
—Deep Cut bridge, Curzon bridge, and Fir-
bright and Cowshot bridges—finding their
way thither by means of maps traced on
transparent paper mounted on sheets of calico
or linen cloth, which had been previously pre
part'd with luminol» paint. Although the
night was very dark, these maps enabled the
detachments to occupy their positions without
mishap and just in time to prevent Lieut.
Harris’ scouts from crowing the canal. As
the parties proceeded by prescribed routes,
this result could hardly have been achieved
without the assistance of the luminous maps;
so tbe experiment is regarded as entirely suo>
cessful.—Boston Transcript.
A few days previous to the Thanksgiving
Aa Incident In Cnld Harbor.
game a young maxi who wore glasses, and
I want to invoke your muse again—not to
bore the apj>earance of being a Yale student,
entered a local ready made clothing store do anything, for thoughts such as yours and
and asked for a suit of a fair material and ( tho thrill and ring of such poetry cannot be
price. He was (piickly fitted. Then cam« evokcl. But I give you a fai t and a sug
gestion At tho tattle of Cold Harbor, June
the fun.
“Shall 1 semi the bill to your fatherF in 2H, 1862, Gen. Jackson ordered me to take the
quired die salesman. “Let inc see, you live First Maryland in, and without any definite
in Buffalo, don’t you? I’ll fix it—say |40 or orders where to go.
I asked him which Way I should move
$50. I caa give you the balance in three or
four days anyway; or, if you are hard up, I’ll when I had broken their line. He said,
“That way," sw inging his right arm at full
advance it now.”
The figures named were double what the length from him. The direction 1 afterward
suit cost, and the customer, who is one of found was behind McClernand's left
Anyhow, I pushed forward toward tne
Yale’s younge«t professors, asked the clothier
j ace where there was the hottest of the fir
wiiat he m<«nt.
Tbe clothier explained; “Oh,” he Mid, “I ing and pressoi right into the smoke. I
do a great deal of that sort of thing now for found a Federal six gun battery about
tbe boys, aud I am willing to accommodate 1,000 yards in front and a Federal line of
battle in front of the battery in a roadway
you If you want it.”
Th« professor thankerl him, smiled and Mid cut into the ground, which afforded them
he thought he’d pay. The merchant was, at Jierfect protection. Tho tiro every instant
last a/‘counts, unaware that his customer was ( ' was heavy, more trying. On my right the
a professor, and not a student. The professor I troops camo tearing tack in the smoke and
thought the story too good to keep and told | gloaming (it was just ebout sundown); on
it to some of his friends. Its cruel publica my left the line lay on the ground and began
tion may end a clever scheme to deplete th« firing. My own line began to tremble, the
, men to stumble and ca-ch their toe« in the
parental pocketbook.—New Haven News.
I r round, * nd in a moment they would hav*
| broken—shot and shell screaming over them,
Alcoholism In Persia.
Dr. Jablonowski, who has contributed and musket balls kuocking a man out evary
some sanitary notea on Persia to a Polish minute. I sprang out in front of the lino,
medical journal, states that the use of alco gave tho order, “Halt! Attention! On the
holic liquors (brandy ami wine) has of late center dress,” and then put them through
heroine greatly extended among the up|«r the manual of arms. It was such a relief
claaam, aD-oholism in various forms being that they cheered, and at the order rushed
now a very frequent a/ta tion, as th<ee per forsrard at a “right shoulder shift arma,”
sons who have taken to drink scarcely pass a and went over the Federal line anil lottery
sing!« day without becoming intoxicated.— • without firing a shot.—Gan. Bradley T. John,
son's tatter to CoL J oumu R. lUtudaU.
New York Fuel*