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And now cne college graduates
Have spoken all their pieces
And carried oil their sheep skins rolled.
Robbed firstly of their fleeces.
They’ve eomo into "the cruel world"
Aud, sadly be it stated,
The greatness of the graduates
Has not the world inflated.
How Is It that so many things
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Nor that which gives, deserted!
—Celumbus Dispatch.
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Didn t you just tell that plumber your water
pipes had frozen and you wanted him to go
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Second Omaha Man-Yes. As I was say
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"Oh! Of course not But my pipes al
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and by notifying tho plumbers in July they
generally manage to get there iu time.”—
Omaha World.
Tlio Fitness of Things.
A sailor
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And a spinster for tea,
A lawyer for talk and a soldier for fighting;
A baby for noise
And a circus for boys,
And a typewriter man to do autograph writing.
A banker for chink
And a printer for ink,
A leopard for spots and a wafer for sticking;
And a crack baseball (linger,
An opera singer,
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Cupid's Geography.
When we are far apart, my loro,
The world is very wide;
But it assumes a different shape
When wo are side by side.
Children of Kansas City.
Professor Stanley Hall published re
cently the result of examinations made
of very little folks in Boston schools.
Professor Greenwood made similar in
vestigations among the lowest grade of
pupils in the Kansas City schools, and a
table of comparisons is printed. The per
cent, of children ignorant of common
things is astonishingly less in Kansas
City schools than in the Boston; even the
colored children of the western city made
a much better showing.
Another subject of investigation is the
alleged physical deterioration in this
country. Examinations were made of
hundreds of school children from the
age of 10 to 15, and comparisons taken
with the tables in Mulhall's Dictionary of
Statistics, London, 1884. It turns out
that the Kansas City children are taller,
taking sex into account, than the average
English child at the age of either 10
or 15, weigh a fraction less at 10, but
upward of four pounds more at 15, while
the average Belgian boy and girl com
pare favorably with American children
two years younger. The tabulated statis
tics show two facts, that the average
Kansas City child stands fully aa tall as
tlie tallest,'and that in weight he tips the
beam against an older child on the other
side of the Atlantic.—Charles Dudley
Warner in Harper’s Magazine
Opium for the Yellow Fever.
Our Chinese reporter asked Dr. Yong
Tyse Hing, of Pell street, about his ex
perience with yellow fever in China. “In
Kwong Tung, Foo Kien, and Kwong Si,”
he said, “there were a few cases of yellow
fever several years ago. Tlie fever was
called by the natives ‘won biun. It
never became epidemic, owinj to the
people’s habit of smoking opium.”
“Does tho smoking of opium prevent
or cure yellow fever?”
“Certainly it does. Wherever opium
is smoked it destroys yellow fever.
“But ii not the opium smoking habit
as dangerous as the fever?
“No; it takes at least a year of con
stant smoking to acquire toe habit, as all
old opium smokers will testify. There
might be yellow fever all over the United
States, but the Chinese opium smokers
would not be affected.”
__
Dr. Li Shi Leon, of Mott street, said;
“Why, certainly opium smoking cures
yellow fever. I had two consins in Mem
phis during that terrible yellow _fever
scourge in 1875, who sunply_smoked their
pipes the moment they
fever and got weU in less than twenty
hour«. No, there is no danger of getting
the opium habit if the patient does not
smokellonger than six months; but, then,
it is a Lard thing to learn how touse^hs
pipe.
Won Chin Foo tn New York Sun.
There are fewer sadder sight, in this
world than that of mates whom the
oassage of year. hM mi.-m.ted. —J. G
A Dire Threat.
“Vat,” said the collector for a little Ger
man band to a citizen who sat in his front
window, “you no git nodding# for dot
moosicf
“Not a cent I" replied tho citizen, with
hopeless emphasis.
“Den vo bliv some more, dafs all I” threat
ened tho collector, so tho citizen hastily gave
up a quarter.—The Epoch.
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The City Man’s Attempt at Farming.
A farmer I’ll be, cried he,
As he trudged behind the plow.
I’ll show these fanners how—
The plow struck a stump,
Oh! what a horrible thump
And back to the eity went he.
-Detroit l'ree Press.
The Wrong Medicine.
Young Doctor (to patient)—That prescrip
tion 1 left last night, sir, was a mistake. It
was intended for another patient. Did you
have it filled!
Patient—Yes, doctor.
Doctor—Well, how are you feeling this
morning!
Patient—Very much better.—New York
Sun.
Early Economizing.
His face had a look as if famine bad traced
Upon it the lines of privation,
And one would suppose he devoutly embraced
The rigors of Lent's regulation.
But no—the fact Is he's already in haste
having up for the summer raoatlon.
—Boston Budget.
The Big Four.
Miss Waldo (of Boston)—Ye«, now that w.
have secured Mr. Clarkson, Boston can justly
point with pride to her “Big Four.”
Mr. Wabash (from tho westl-What are
the names of tho gentlomen who comprise
the “Big Four,” Miss Waldo!
Miss Waldo—Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Kelly,
Lowell and Holme«.—Drake's Magazine.
They Are In Season.
No this year's apples yet ore found
In the New England states.
But every night fresh pairs abound
Un cottage garden gales.
—Boston Courier.
Exasperating Stupidity.
Sloopkin (as an illustration of tha rapid
growth of western towns)—Why, Blockly,
only seven years ago a band of Ute Indians
held a war dance right here on this lawn!
Think of that, sirl
Blockly(not to bo astonished)—nby, Id
thought they’d broken the vases and tram
pled all the shrubbeiy down.—Harpers’ Be
xar.
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Following the Doctor's Advice.
•Take rest; the trouble Is you're tired!”
The one addreseed «a* wise;
Be straightway with a merchant hired
Who did not advertise.
-Boston Budget
Not Very Gratifying Bcsulta.
Old Lady (to grocer's boy)—Kin you recom
mend this soap, boy!
Boy (hesitatingly)—Well, I wouldn't like
to go fer to recommend it too high, ma'am;
tte boea usee it biaselt—The Epoch.
A Painful Duty.
The days are growing shorter now,
But docen t It seem droll
To go. with a perspiring brow.
To buy your winter coal!
—SomervQle Journal
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
NO. 32
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— “Sidney Luska,” the novelist. Is
Mr. Henry Harlan.
—Mrs. Jessie Wilson Manning, a
lecturer and writer, entered tho Iowa
Wesleyan University at the age of fif
teen.
—Colonel A. L. Rives, the father of
the young Virginia authoress, isacivll
engineer now employed on the Pan
ama Ship cr.nal.
—Editor Charles A. Dana receives a
royalty of twelve and one-ha'.f per
cent on each volume sold of the Amer
ican Cyclopedia, and thus far he has
realized over $100,000 from this source.
—Ono of tho most valuable books in
tho remarkably valuable collection of
Columbia College, New York, is a copy
of the first folio of Shakespeare, print
ed in 1623, of which there are few
duplicates. Its price is estimated at
$2,500 to $3,500.
—It has finally eome out that the
passages from a play called “Irus,”
attributed to Shakespeare by tho li
brarian of Stratford-upon-Avon, were
really from n comedy lr Shakespearo's
contemporary, Chapman, entitled "The
Blind Beggar of Alexandria.”
—Henry James is usually system
atic in his work, going to his private
apartments at once after breakfast,
and toiling until the noon hour. He
is h I ow and painstaking in composing,
rewriting and retouching one day
what he has written tho day before,
never satisfied with his labor until he
has applied tho tost of the real artist
10 all he has written.
—Bayard Tuckerman in 1881 was
the only author in New York, accord
ing to the eity directory of that year—
that is, he is the only person who had
himselt put down as an author, al
though at that time Brander Mat
thews, Richard H. Stoddard. E. C.
Stedman, Bronson Howard, Oliver B.
Bunce, Edgar Fawcett, Frauk R. Stock-
ton aud other well-known authors lived
in New York.
- -Of the pioneer editors of Illinois,
the thiee oldest are Thomas Grogg, of
Hamilton, uow in his eightieth year,
whose first journalistic venture was
the establishment of the Carthaginian
in Hancock County, in 1836; Thomas
Cake Sharp, who started at Warsaw
in 1810, and uow in his seventieth
year, edits the Carthage Gazette, and
James Monroe Davison, who first
established the Fulton Gazette at Can
ton in 1843, and now conducts the
Carthage Republican.
—Colonel John A. Joyce, who wrote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s poem, “ Laugh
and the World Laughs with You,” re
cently said: “I have traveled in every
country of the globe. I have had deal
ings with the white, the black and the
red. I speak several languages. I
have seen prosperity and enjoyed it. I
have seen udversity; I know what it is
now. I have boon in the insane asylum
and in the penitentiary. I have never
yet been in a corner that I didn't got
CANNIBAL COOKERY.
out of it. I have never been broke
Horrible Feasts Prepared by the Natives
cry long, for just when the day seemed
of Sumatra and New Zealand.
the darkest, tho dollar turned up HOme-
A friend of the writer, who for more how. I wonder why I was born."
than forty years has been in the em
ployment of the German Government,
HUMOROUS.
bears personal witness to the preva
—“I think my profession,” said a
lence of this custom in Sumatra up to
violinist, “is by far preferable to any
recent times. Ho was once making
other, it is the easiest of all."
“IIow
scientific investigations in the Interiot
so? ’ “Because I work when I play.
of that island, and was being enter
and I play when I work ”
tained in the most hospitable manner
—At drill a soldier spits in the
by the native Rajah, or chief, of the
place he was then in. A feast had ranks—Sergeant of Maneuvers (in
been made to which he was bidden, dignantly)— “The follow that spat,
and to which ho went, taking his own four days in tho guard-houso. There
shall be no spitting in the ranks. We
native servant with him.
are not in u parlor hero!”— Fliegendc
The bnnquet had proceeded for some Blatter.
time without interruption, when at
—Professor of c,lass in Journalism—
last, as crown of the feast, a beautiful
brown roast joint was brought from "What is the difference between an
the back of the house to tho open airy editorial and an editorial paragraph?”
placo where the repast was being held. Student—“An editorial is of tho same
This was cut up without remark and nature as an editorial paragraph,
but is larger und doesn't have as much
handed round, and the Dutch gentle
man was on the point of eating his to say.”— Harper's Bazar.
Y’oung lady—“Have yon a position
portion, having raised part of it to his
lips, when his servant rushed forward vacant in your store for a—” Old
and stopped him, saying: “Master, merchant (with hardening features) —
master, do not cat; it is a boy." The “For a—” Young lady (modestly) —
chief, on being questioned, admitted, “For a saleswoman, sir?” Old mer
with no small pride ut the extent of chant (warmly)—“I have, miss. You
his hospitality, that hearing that the shall have one of the best in the store."
white man would feast with him, he — Chicago Tribune,
—Miss Augusta Mayne (to Pat
bad ordered a young boy to be killed
and cooked in his honor, us the great Chogue, who has just tendered her his
est delicacy obtainable, and that the seat—“ You have my sincere thanks,
joint before them was the best part, sir!” Pat Chogue-Not at all, mum;
not at all. It’s a duty we owo to the
the thigh.
Early travelers in New Zealand al sect Some folks only does it phen a
ways express astonishment when they lass be pretty; but I says, says I: ‘the
discover the cannibul propensities of sect. Put,' says I; ‘not the indivi-
the inhabitants, that so gentle and dool!”’— Puck.
—He (in a store)—“ I’m looking for
pleasant-mannered a people could be
come on occasions such ferocious sav something in the shape of a diary—
ages. Earle, who wrote a very read something in which I can record my
able, Intelligent and but little known daily thoughts and ideas upon current
account of the Maoris very early in events.” She (new clerk, and eage,
the present century, speaks of the to please)—“ Oh, yes; you won’t want
gentle manners and kindly ways of a any thing very large, then. Here's
New Zealand chief, whom afterward something, three days to a page;
he discovered to lie an inveterate can thirty-three cents, please,—thanks.”—
nibal. He relates that he visited the Yamt're lll'iile.
—Ambitious young musician (ef
place where was cooking the body of a
young slave girl that his friend had fusively) —" I had the thoughts and
killed for the purpose. The head was inspirations of the old musters in me
severed from the body; the four quar when I composed that, professor!”
ters, with the principal bones removed, Professor (sarcastically) — “So you
were compressed and packed into a had, Mr. Kribber. Your ‘com|>OHition'
small oven in the ground and covered contains a little of Mozart, Beethoven,
with earth. It was a case of unjusti Haydn, Handel, Bach and a score of
fiable cannibalism. No revenge was other famous composers. By tho way,
gratified by the deed, and no excuse what part of it is yours?”— Judge.
—Tourist—"My physician has ad
could be made that the body was eaten
to perfect their triumph. Earle says vised me to locate where I may get the
that he learned that tho flesh takes southwind; doesitever blow here?"
many hours to cook, that it is very Native—“Well, 1 may say as you're
tough if not thoroughly cooked, but lucky to have come to this place; the
that it pulls to pieces like a piece of south wind always blows here.”
blotting paper if not very well done. Tourist—" Always? But it seems to be
He continues that the victim was a blowing from the north now.” Native
handsome, pleasant-looking girl of —“ Oh. it may be coming from that
sixteen, and one he used frequently to direction now, but It's the south wind;
see about the Pah. — Gentleman's Mag- It's coming back you know.”— Bing,
ampton {Ji. F.J B^ubUcan.
amne.
— Yale was organized in 1701. It has
123 instructors. 1,180 students, and
165.000 volumes in its library.
—The Yale sophomores have de-
elarod against hazing. They are en
titled to commendation.
Although
the practice of hazing has disappeared
from most American colleges, its mod
ern prototype, “rushing," still lingers.
—Tho Romanists have less than
7,000 church edifices in the United
States; tho Baptists nearly 41,000; the
Congregationalists, 4,000; Presbyter
ians, 13,000; the Protestant Episco
pal«. 4.500; and the Methodists, 47,-
000.
— It is reported that the English
church establishment receives yearly
in tithes about 3’20,000,000. Of this,
$15,000,000 goes for salaries of clergy
men, and the remainder goes to hos
pitals. schools, church buildings and
the like.
—Canon Wilberforce is reported as
saying of Dublin's two cathedrals,
which have been restored by the lib
erality of a brewer and a distiller,
thut they are “memorials of drink.”
St. Patrick’s of Guinness's stout and
Christ’s Church of whisky.
—The McCall Mission is doing a fine
work in France—tho Gospel in its
simplicity, divested of all tho intricate
uud trilling ceremonies of the Romish
ritual. This is a new thing to French
men, most of whom have no respect
for Romanism, without knowing that
there is another Christianity.— Chris
tian Advocate.
—“If only more scholars would come
to our Sunday-school, how much more
good we could do!” is frequently on
the lips and in the hearts of Sunday-
school workers. “If only we took bet
ter care of the scholars who come,
how much more faithful servants we
should be!” is a sentiment that is
neither heard nor acted upon so often
as it ought to be. — S. 8. Times.
—\\ arden Hatch, of Michigan State
prison, said at a recent meeting of the
National Prison Association: "Noth-
ing can really be done for the 1m-
provement of prisoners unless tlie
Christian religion is taken into the
prisons. If Christ is good for any
thing in the world, He is good in a
prison. He does more in the Michi
gan prison than all the discipline.”
—An International Bureau of Mis
sions has been organized, having for
its object the collecting, sifting, con
densing and wide distribution of fresh
missionary intelligence; tho establish
ment of a common medjuin for a free
interchange of views and comparison
of methods in missionary work; the
preparation and distribution of tracts,
leaflets, diagrams, maps, charts, etc. ;
the promotion of fraternal relations,
and. wherever practicable, unity of
effort among all mission workers, II
will be under Methodist auspices.
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SAVING THEIR
YOUNG.
Mother 5 ... .k«s Bo It When At-
tacked by Kuemles.
I have, on at least four occasions,
stood by and witnessed a family of
young snakes disappear down the
throat of the mother. She did not?
swallow them; she just lay straight
with open mouth and allowed the
youngsters to go down her gullet with
wonderful rapidity.
(In such occasions the mothor snako
svinces tho fearlessness and tenacity
of most wild things when trying to
save their young. She will remain I
quiet at the risk of her life until the
Inst little wriggler has been taken in,
and then do her best to escape. And
it always 6oems to be the case that at
such times she happens to be mighty
handy to a good hiding place, such as
a ledge of rocks, a hole among roots,
or, ¡1 a watersnake, where she can flop
into the water in an instant Pre
mising that I was taught from my
earliest recollection to regard serpents
as not only harmless and useful, but
beautiful as well (all save the rattler),
I will briefly narrate the incidents
ubove alluded to:
In the first ease I was called by a
sensible mother, who udmired rather
than feared serpeuts, “to come and
see the little snakos hide.” 1 hurried
to the spot, and this is what I saw: A
large garter-snake stretched to its
full length and a lot of tiny snakes
rapidly disappearing down her throat
My mother meantime had untied her
apron, and, as the last little snake
disappeared, she quickly grabbed the
old snake and enveloped it in the
apron. It was taken to the house and
placed in an old lumber chest, where
it was found the next day with twenty
odd little ones around it, and again
they took refuge in the mother’s stom
ach. As our curiosity was satisfied,
the old snake was turned out in tho
garden to catch bugs. Take note that
the garter-snake is oviparous.
Although snakes were very numer
ous in the region where my boyhood
was spent, mid though most of my
leisure time was passed ia outing by
flood and field, it was long before I
saw a second incident of the kind, and
this time the actors were watersnakes,
supposed to be viviparous. [I say
suppose, for I um by no means certain
of it.] The mother snake was about
tho largest I ever saw, and I camo
upon her suddenly as I was fishing
down a trout stream, very cautiously,
of course. It was evidently a surprise,
but slie straightened herself, gave a
short, low hiss, and lay still with open
mouth. In much less time than it
takes to tell it, a lot of little snake-
!ings were rushing into her mouth and
disappearing with marvelous quick
ness. At that time I was accustomed
to handling serpents, evon rattlers,
without fear, mid with some vague idea
that she would bo a prize, I made a
dash to capture her alive. It was
rather a failure. Instead of attempt
ing to dart overboard, us I expected,
she faced mo savagoly, and, as I
grabbed her with one hand around tho
hotly, she whisked her tail about my
arm, turned, and gave me a vicious
bite on the back of tho hand. Al
though I knew the bite was perfectly
harmless, it somehow looked so wicked
und dangerous that I lost my grip and
nllowod her to escape. It may be
worthy of mention that tlie slight
wound did not swoll or become in
flamed and healed quickly.— Forest
and Stream.
LIFE
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KIMBERLEY.
Whnt a Traveler
lu the Great South
African Diamond Town.
“The first thing I heard when I ar
rived at Kimberley was an English
voice: ’The Transvaal Hotel, sir?
Five shillings!' Tho voice Iwlongod to
a muscular-looking cab driver, whom
I engaged. He snapped his whip and
we Hew over tho pavements. Of
course he ran into several other cabs
and wagons, but he did not care for
that: he was bent upon getting me to
my hotel in ten minutes, and ho did it.
••In the afternoon I climbod up on
the roof of the hotel to obtain a bird’s-
eye view of the town, and saw that it
was built upon u quadrangular plan,
tile streets being parallel to the sides
of the square. The houses are con-
structed of baked brick; they are
plastered inside and tho roofs are
noarly all of iron. Many of the
natives, however, live in tents.
“A curious thing I noticed was that
every body appeared to be in a hurry.
The people are always running hither
and thither. I asked the way to the
mine; it was pointed out to me, and I
suppose that It would have been in
order for mo to have run there alBo,
but 1 walked to it leisurely.
“An iron wire fence surrounds the
mine. Stepping inside of that I came
to a pit some 3<X) or 400 feet deep, a fun
nel, so to speak. At the lowest level the
Kaffirs work, several white men acting
an overseers. ()n tho edge of the pit
stood somo hoisting machines, which
aro used for hnuling up the excavated
earth. A dull sound is continually
beard, but now and then a distinct
noise of the pickaxes below is audible.
“High prices are charged at Kim
berley for the ordinary necessities of
life, but tho pay of the workmen is
also very high. The laborer gets rid
of his money fast enough. In the
evening a number of the streets are
illuminated by electric light, while
from the private houses colored
lanterns arc hung out. The workmen
go singing through the town and many
of them are to lie found at the public
houses; but by midnight all is still.”—
BEHIND
THE
EYE.
Nothing Is Seen Until It Ia Separated From
Its Surroundings.
A man looks at the landscape, but
the tree standing in the middle of the
landscape he does not see until, for the
instunt at least, he singles it out as
the object of vision. Two men walk
the same road: as far as the bystander
can perceive, they have before them
the same sights; but let them be ques
tioned at the end of the journey, and
it will appour that ono man saw one
set of objects, und his companion an
other; and the more diverse the intel
lectual training and habits of the two
travelers, the greater will be the dis
crepancy between the two report«!.
And what is truo of any two men is
equally true of any one man at two
different times. To-day he is in a
dreamy, reflective mood—he has been
reading Wordsworth, perhaps—and
when lie takes his afternoon saunter
he looks at the bushy hillside, or at
the wayside cottage, or down into the
loitering brook, and he sees in them
all such pictures as they never showed
him before. Or he is in a matter-of-
fact mood, a kind of stock-market
frame of mind; and he looks at every
thing through ecouomical spectacles—
as if ho liad
been set to
appraise the acres of meadow or wood
land through which he passes. At
another time he may have been read
ing somo book or magazine article
written by Mr. John Burroughs; and
although he knows nothing of birds,
and can scarcely tell a crow from a
robin (perhaps for this very reason),
ho is certain to have tantalizing
glimpses of some very strange and
wonderful feathered specimens. They
must be rarities, at least, if not abso
lute novelties; and likely enough, on
getting home, lie sits down and writes
to Mr. Burroughs a letter full of grati
tude and inquiry—the gratitude very
pleasant to receive, we may’ presume,
and the inquiries quite Impossible to
answer.
Some men (not many it is to be
hoped) are specialists, and nothing
else. They tire absorbed in farming,
or in shoemaking, in chemistry, or
in Latin grammar, and have no
thought for any thing beyond or
beside. Others of us, while there
may be two or three subjects
toward which wo foel some special
<lra w ing. have nevertheless a general in
terest in whatever concerns humanity.
We are different men on different days.
There is a certain part of the year,
say from April to July, when I am an
ornithologist; for the time being,
whenever I go out of doors, I have an
eye for birds, aid, comparatively
speaking, for nothing else.
Then
comes a season during which my
walks all tako on a botanical com
plexion. I have had my turn at but
terflies, also; for one or two summers
I may bo said to have seen little else
but those winged blossoms of the air.
I know, too, what it means to visit the
seashore, and scarcely to notice the
breaking waves because of the shells
scattered along the beach. In short,
if I see ono thing, I am of necessity
blind, or half-blind, to all beside.
There arc several men In mo, and not
more tiian one or two of them arc ever
at the window al once.— Atlantic.
Punishing Gods in China.
"*
A funny storv illustrative of Celes
tial simplicity (or superstition?) comes
from Foochow in China. There is a
joss-house or temple in that city, to
which persons of a revengeful disposi
tion are wont to resort when desirous
of obtaining satisfaction for an injury,
the deities there being credited with
the power to cause instant death to
those against whom their aid is in
voked. After tho death of the late
Tartar General—the cause of which
appears to have boon rather mysteri
ous—the supposition that he had
fallen a victim to these particular
josses was started by some of tho gen
try, and the Viceroy thereupon gave
instructions for un inquiry to be held
into the matter. The Taolal was com-
missioned to see the order carried out,
and he went to tho temple und arresU
ed fifteen of the josses. These idols
are of wood about five feet in height.
Before being tuken into the presence
of the Taotai their eyes were put out
in order that they might not see who
was their judge, so that they might
not be able to identify him in the
realms above or below—wherever they
go ! After an investigation a report
of the case was sent to the Viceroy,
who at once gavo orders that the
josses should be decapitated and then
cast into a pond ! Yet withal China
claims to be a civilized country.— Lon
don Figaro.
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—When the grape rot has previously
existed in the vineyards it will be
necessary to begin in the fall with the
use of lime and copperas solution in
order to destroy the spores. It will
require two seasons to become rid of it
in the vineyards, and the solution
should be used both in the fall and
spring by sprinkling it freely around
the vines, os well as spraying it over
them. The solution is a pound of
copperas to four buckets of very thin
whitewash.
—One of the most irritating of tho
recent idiocies of tourists is the fashion
of leaving cards at the tombs of dis
tinguished people. The bust of Ix>ng-
fellow in Westminster Abby is con
stantly surrounded by these Inappro
priate bits of pasteboard, and the
grave of “H. H." ia said to be literally
Jewelers' Weekly.
covered with the visiting cards left by
—Our strength. tom per, intelligence tourists who climbed the lonely mount
and wnslbility depend greatly upon ain near Colorado Swings to visit tha
the quantity and quality of our food. last resting place of the poet and •
novelist.