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A FORWARD MOVEMENT [Arkansaw Traveler.] Are there black b re’a ire»?4 a-growing in the far-off woods I w »Her, With a wealth <»f balmx < ssenee in their branchi's Uthe and st ongl In the spnng-tiuiedo ti.e < bildren reach with eager hands to plunder, While the quiet woodland arches ring with laugh and shout an I song? I can see an old gray sch »ol-house with u ledge and woo I besi.e it, And the rumplod, mossy pasture «'.and runs close up t"» its door; While away back in the greenness, with a tuft of fern to hide it, And a flash like purest crystal, a spring bu'»- bles and runs o’er. There’s a battere 1 tin cup hanging ou a drooping bough close by it. Where the sunl ght co nes iu flickers, and the sha ows gather dim Oh, the nidi of childish footsteps when at re cess time they spy it! Oh, the flash of cooling water! Oh, the warm Ups at its brim! Then the pulling at. the birches, the delightful swish and rustle, And the era kli ig of th® tender twigs, the noisy bursts of glee. When the quick rap on the window cull.-*—oh, whut a merry tussle In the fllling-out of pockets so that no sharp eye may see! The dark room grows strongly cheerful as the little smugglers gath**r, And a spicy, wtx^'sy fragrance penetrates its dingy nooks. Ah, how sly tho rodents nibble, while they make u vain endeavor To appear aborted in gleaming from the wisdom of their books! When the daily tasks are ended, and with dinner-baskets swaying, All the little folks bound homeward and tho house Is left in gb o.n, Then acn ss thu teacher’s weary face a pleas ant smile is s’.raying As she brushes nut the litter with her clumsy hemlock broom. LIFE IN A M:NING CAMP. A Ktriinre Existence. I'nnatnral. Com« fort It* mm , anil Landins to 5lo Good. (“H. H.” in The Atlantic,] The expression of a fresh mining camp, at the height of its “boom,” is something which must be seen to be comprehended. The camp is in the heart of a fir for est, perhaps, or on the sionv sides of a gulch. Nobody draws breath till he has got a cabin, or a bough hut, or a tent over his head. As if by magic, there grows up a sort of street, a dozen or two board shanties, with that cheap est and silliest of all shams, with bat tlement front, flaunting its ugly squares all along the line. (Haring signs, painted on strips of cotton sheeting, bleached and unbleached, are nailed over the doors. In next to no time there will be a "mint," an “exchange,” a “bank," a “ Vienna bakery," a “Chinese laundry,’ a “hotel,” and a ‘‘livery stable. ’ Between each night and morning will blossom out cropsof‘‘real estate offices,’’ and places where “mining properties are bought and sold,’ “claims located, proved, bought and sold,” “sur veys o milling claims made.” etc.; crops also, alas, of whisky saloons, with wicked names and lurid red curtains, danger and deu'h signals. The stumps are not taken out of the pretense of a road, neither are the bowl ders; nobody minds driving over them, or over anything, in fact, so he gets quick to his “claim,” or to the tract in which he is feverishly “prospecting.” If a brook trickles through the camp, ■o much the better; it can do double duty as drain and well. Luckiest they who drink highest up, but they who drink lowest down do not mind. The women, i/ women there are, are fierce and restless, like the men. they make shifty semblances of homes ont of their one-roomed cabins. It is not worth while to have things comfortable, or keep them in order, for there is no knowing whether t:ie eamp will turn out to be a good one or not; and to morrow they may pack up their chat tels and move on. At the faintest rumor of a bigger “find” in another camp, tho men to whom they belong will be off, and they must follow. They stand in their doorways, idling, won dering, waiting, gossiping and quarrel ing. The only placid creatures are the babies, whose simple needs of sun, dirt, and being let alone, are simply sup plied. T hey are happy, ami they only, in all the camp. It is a strange life, unnatural, t n- wholesome, leading to no good, com fortless to a degree which many of those who lead it would not endure a day, exc< pt for the hope of great gain, which tires their very veins. The worst of it is that the life is as fascinating as it is unwholesome. “ Once a minor al ways a miner," is a proverb which is little lees than an exact truth. The life is simply a gamester's life, with the wide world for a hazard table, and the instances are rare in which a person who has once come under its spell ever breaks away. It isno uncommon thing in Colorado to meet an old gray-haired man who has been prospecting and mining all his life, ami has not yet made a dollar, but is buoyantly sure that he will “ strike it "soon. Might Have staveil the Money. [Arkausaw Traveler. ] My dear,” said a husband, laying aside the local paper and addressing his wife, “I see that Mr. Harnerthoru is dead.” “That’s unfortunate, indeed," the sympathetic woman replied. "Died so soon after buying n now buggy. But we never know wlmt's in store for us. If he had known that his end was so near ho would not have bought the buggy, perhaps, and would have laved several hundred dollars.” Not At All Murprined. [Exchange.] An olil lndv in Portland. Me., who was acquainted with Ralph Waldo Em erson, and knew him well in Inter life, saya that lie was so indolent that she was not at all surprised when lie gave up preaching and went to live in Con cord, simply to think. Mhoildy <*en u olesen re nt Music. [Exchange. ] “Oh, yes.” says Mrs. Parvenu, talking about music at Mrs. Snddenriehes’ re ception, “I just dote on them sympathy concerts and my husband insists on our prescribing for the whole series. Ain't them Beethoven rospodies real ele gant ?” ________________ There are 11,000 one-legged men in the United States. In F.ducallon It liii-h Is Io Bring Into »so Facultlen Hitherto ITitl-alneit. PAPER LUMBER PRODUCTION. GOTHAUD TCXNET. - I.OCOMO- CLIMB1NG A MOUNTAIN CoHK- 8CREW FASHION. A Novel MubMtitute for Natural Lum ber..-Its Many l>c»lrat»le Quail- [Chica ;o Tribune. ’ lieu. Mr. Edison P. Seaver, the present i Croffut’a Letter in Chicago Tribun«. The St. Gotliard tunnel is the larg [New York Cor. Chicago Tribune.] superintendent of the pu’-l <• schools of A tall, elderly man, with a round, Boston, in his annua! report in March est tunnel in the world—nine and one« last, discussed the s bjeet or industrial | quarter miles long—or one an I one- pleasant face, took from the marble education intelligently and exhaust half miles longer than the famous Mt. mantel shelf of a room overlo iking ively, and concluded by recommending Cenis, between France and Italy. It l’rditing House s juare yesterday aft -r- the establishment of a manual-training ! ‘ost about $12,0(10,000 a little more lioon a section of what appeared to be school in connection with the city pub | thui Tweed’s court-house and a little walnut board. "That is paper lum less than the Brooklyn bridge and, ber-," he said. "You ‘nay not lie aware lic school system. He said: "The best provision, therefore, would 1 unlike these, there was no steal in it. that a process has been invented for be to establish at some central point in It was begun iu June, 1872, and Italy utilizing paper pulp in the m mu- the city one manual training school, to furnished half the money and Germany faoture of a substitute for natural equip this school thoroughly for its *nd Switzerland the remainder. lumber. A mill has been erected in a But this great tunnel, excavated a western town for the purpose of manu work, and to admit to it, under suitable restrictions, boys from all parts of the mile and a half below tlie mountain« facturing artificial lumber from paper city. A single school, large enough to tops of the St. Gothard group, is not stock, and a number of capitalists have accommodate 200 to 300 pupils, would the most marvelous portion of the taken hold of the matter. We are be the most economical provision that I work to a non-expert, for it is straight, thoroughly convinced of the perfect could be made. By changing the and its c instruct on would seem to be practicability of paper lumber in the classes in accordance with a properlv- a simple question of labor. There are luaiiu'aeture of all articles at present arranged time-table, the shops an I tools tifty-six tunnels on this road/ with an from wood. It is only a question of a would be in use a'.l the time, and the aggregate length of twentv-fivo miles, very short time when paper lumber will instructions, both in shop-work and in and the most surprising sight is the come into genera) use. I feel confident ordinary school-work, would be con way in which mountains ure b.ildlv en that it w ill prove much cheaper than stantly occupied. In this school the countered instead of being avoided. wood, e pially as durable, and fully as boys should continue their ordinary You have seen the trick horses cara good an article for fine work." Attention was directed to several school-work about two hours a day. at cole round and round in a circus? The tend to drawing one hour, and work in locomotive acts in some such way. It articles of cabinet ware made of the the shops two hours more. If the scuffle« up a steep road for awhile, material. Two of these were ordinary course were made three years long, the then thoughtfully approaches a moun parlor tables, one of which was finished intellectual work would cover the upper tain that is too hard to climb, and in in the natural grain of the lumber, re part of the grammar school course (or stead of skipping along the edge r.nd sembling somewhat the peculiar mot the most essential studies in it), to eluding it, plunges boldly into it, tled appearance soon in some choice gether with some parts of the high makes a complete circuit in a spiral hardwoods. The surface of the table school course. The manual training tunnel, and comes out 200 feet above was varnished and highly polished, pre could be brought up to the point of where it went in. This adroit trick it senting a smoothness equal to fine plate enabling pupils on leaving school to resorted to seven times,and in one very glass. The other table was finished in enter many manual employments with big mountain the locomotive actually exact imitation of rosewood. A panel advantage to themselves and, therefore, accomplishes two circuits of a mile door was also shown, the finish re-<m to the community. Not that the school each, rising in corkscrew’ fashion and bling mahogany. A couple of jewe.ry would or could teach any single trade, •merging triumphant up where th« or ladies' work boxes, made after an elegant pattern and highly finished, as would be done in an apprentico eagles brood. There may be grander scenery in the were also produced, showing the adapt school, but its pupils would be so well grounded in the general principles of world than that along this splendid ability of paper lumber in the construc many trades that the specialtie < of each railway, but there’s no grander scenery tion of ornamental articles “The paper board,” continued tho trade would be very quickly learned. than this on any railway. It is a con The experience of the St. Louis school, stant succession of delights to the eye gentleman alluded to, “is susceptible of from the time of leaving Lake Lugano. taking the finest polish as well ai any as well as that of other similar institu tions, leaves little doubt on this point.” Nobody can pass over the line without tint, shade, or color. The lumber is It is not eight months since this being filled anew with reverence for made principally of the pulp of wheat, recommendation was made, but it has the power and skill of man. The rve, oat straw, and other vegetable been adopted by the school authorities thirty-two bridges, the dozen viaducts, fibres, combined with chemical ingredi of Boston. A portion of the Latin the snow-covered mountains, white as ents and cements. It is formed of lay school building, a special schooldevoted silver, the cataracts which the heavy ers about one-quarter of an inch in to the preparation of 'pupils for the rains have felled with activity leaping thickness, and these layers are pressed learned professions, has been assigned from innumerable cliffs to the valley a together by powerful machinery, and to the uses of manual training; and thousand feet below, the cattle pastur thus rendered as hard as the hardest hereafter any boy in Boston 14 years of ing afar down, looking like ants upon wood, besides much more dense. The age or over who desires it may receive a table-cloth, the stone-roofed huts, the boards are also rendered waterproof iu instruction in the use of hand-tools, such winding foamy stream in the bottom, varying degrees, according to the pur ins. ruction to be paid for out of the pub the strange aspect changing every mo pose for which they are to be used. Tho ment—bright flowers, blooming trees, material is as durable as time, and can lic school fund. In the manual training school to be lovely cascades flashing by—there is no lie sold at a good price for almost half opened in the basement of the Boston fairer panorama accessible to civilized the price of ordinary pine lumber. It will take any finish, and in this Latiu school building the Yankee boy man. will be taught to use his eyes and A COMMON SENSE DRESS FOR respect alone is equal to the finest hard woods. Moreover, it can be mar- hands, He will draw from things, MEN. bleized in imitation of any kind of mar and at the bench, with the up- Boston Congrega’ionalist. propriate tools, will reproduce in We have seen in the public press ble, both in respect to a high degree of wood and iron khe things he has references to some late endeavor at polish and an exact imitation of grain. drawn. These exercises will bring into ‘common sense dres s” for women. It will not warp and can be rendered use faculties hitherto untrained in thu Why, in the name of all that is reason perfectly waterproof, if desired, thus schools. The boy in the manual train able and sensible, can we not have com making it suitable for the construction ing school will find it necessary to re mon sense dress for men? We have of burial caskets. It makes just as solid flect, to reason, to decide: and all these lately heard that some long-headed a surface as any wood, and may be exercises of the mind will be a delight clothier predicts a speedy return to made of the hardness of stone. As a to him. Thus power is generated— ‘small clothes;” and, what with tho substitute for wood in the construction power that develops true manhood. help of the bicycle and yachting uni of buildings it possesses qualities of Boston as a city is about to enter form. and the prevalent tendency among perfect adaptation. It will make the upon an experiment undertaken here boys toward long stockings and knee- finest material in the world for roofing, by the Commercial club in the estab breeches. w’hv may not a reform in this not excepting slate or iron. It can be lishment of a manual training sell >ol, respect be soon achieved ? It will, of sawed, split, or planed, and boards the building for which is in process of course, be at once objected that legs, in made of it are perfectly smooth and flat erection, and will soon be complete. general, are not good enough to bear so from end to end on both sides, without That these experiments will be success truth-telling a style of covering. But any knots, cracks or blemishes of any ful there can lie scarcely a doubt. That to this there are two replies: First, kind commonly met with in wood.” “Do you think that the supply of at St. Louis is already a success, and that probably, with the attention be the schools in this city and Bostou will stowed upon physical culture, there are paper stock is sufficient to permit the of course be modeled on the plan of as many good legs now as ever there general use of paper lumber as a sub for wood?” that of Dr. Woodward. were; and second, that once the stitute ‘‘Why not? The production of straw novelty worn off, no more thought alone is sufficient. It takes 100 years F.ITects or the Opium Habit. would be given to the subject than now to grow 20,000 feet of natural timber ' Boston ( (lobe.] The opium eater is, with respect to is bestowed upon whether ears are on an acre of ground. This is accord disposition, a creature of the most large or small, or hands genteel or ing to official statistics. On the other variable mood, his manner being gawky. hand an acre of ground will produce We doubt if it be possible to array every year straw enough to make 2,000 moulded by the action of the drug. In the morning he is petulant and ill-tem the masculine figure at once more com feet of artificial lumber, and hence in a pered, sometimes to brutality, while the fortably and becomingly than was done bund red years it will produce 200,000 afternoon of the same day will find him 100 years ago—in long stockings, feet, ten times the quantity of natural graciously considerate. Those who breeches, somewhat prolonged vest, or lumber. have had experience with them know doublet, and a broad-skirted, handy, “ iVliat do we propose to do? It is that tho most truthful people become big-pocketed jerkin, or coat; crowned our purpose besides entering into the the most daring liars after long indulg with a roomy chapeau or soft hat. The manufacture of paper lumber on an ex ence in the use of opium. The realities test of sculpture and painting is a good tended scale, to lease machinery to of life are so blended with the distorted ore to aid in determining what is per other parties desiring to embark in tho opium imaginings that the victim can manently comely. And, while it would industry.” not distinguish between facts and fancy. be hard to overstate the stiff and re A Xexrn'n Conclusive Losie. So much is this the case that those who pulsive ungain liness of a man modeled [Chicago Tribune. ] hear them talk, ignorant of their habit, into a statue in the full dress-suit and A gentleman residing in the city of are positively shocked at tho glaring hat of our day, one does not soon tiro falsity of their statements. They jeal of looking at pictures like those of Binghampton has in his employ an aged ously guard their infirmity, and it would Franklin and Dr. Johnson, or even of negro whose early life was spent south lie next to useless to question them con the profuse, yet still comely, exaggera of Mason ami Dixon’s line, and as chat cerning their habit. Hugging his chains, tions of costume of Charles the Second tel or property. The gentleman is a keen observer of human nature, and, the rack would hardly draw from tho and his court. enjoying a good thing, has drawn the victim a true statement with respect to ///■: >.(//.>• -/. i . va ’. old negro out on many important ques the quantity of opium used bv him if he Walla Walla Watchman. tions of theology, law. nnd logic, in a suspected an intention to interfere with Jim Sniverly had been absent from conversation some time ago he said to his allowance. Always with them, too, Wall i Walla for several years. He re is the dread that by some unhappy turned not long since, and ono of the him: “S----- , I have In ard that all colored combination of circumstances, lack ot first men he met was Bill Tinkerson. money, involuntary confinement, close They had just taken a social drink, people would steal. Is it so?” “No, ‘tain’t so; ’tis a lie.” surveillance, any or all of these ob when Bill remarked: “Do you remem “Well,” said the gentleman, “when stacles, they may find themselves so ber Sally Jane Benderley?” “That you were a slavo, didn’t you sometimes situated as not to be able to procure the big, gawky, red-headed girl with take a chicken or a turkey from your drug, experience having taught them great freckles as big as a dime all over her master, and eat it.” the horrors of abstinence. aose?” “Yes—that’s the gal.” “Of “Yes,” said S----- •, “sometimes took a Victor Hugo s Prophecy. course I remember her. Nobody could chicken, or a duck, or a turkey, but, [St, Janies' Budget] ever forget her. It is impossible to du Lord bless you! dat wa’n’t stealin'.” As a writer in The National Review plicate? a face like that. She had a "Why not?” reminds us Victor Hugo said three mouth like a catfish. What of her?” “Well, I tell you: Dat chicken he was years la-fore the battle of Sedan: “In “Oh. nothing, except that she is my property, I was property, and if prop the twentieth century there will be a wife, that’s all. “Is that so?” exclaimed erty took property to support property, new nation, which will be Ixith great Bill, a little confused; “then let me dat wa'n't stealin' —d’ye see?" and free. It will lie illustrious, rich, congratulate you while we drink to the Could any logic be more subtle and thoughtful, pacific, and an ardent lover health of Sally Jane. She may not be conclusive ? of humanity. It will have the sweet handsome, but she’ll make you a good Curious Fungus 4-rowth. gravity of mature years. It will lie wife. Here’s to her.” more than a nation : it will be civiliza [Exchange.] \ /> / // ’ ’ 1 7 N 1\ 7-7M \> K. tion itself. Nay, it will lie more than Sir Joseph Banks, the celebrated nat New York Sun. civilization, it will lie one family. It uralist, once had,a cask of wine which The military system in France exacts , on will have only one language, one code, tasting was found too sweet. It was service of prince ami peasant. Under one coinage. This nation will have therefore locked up in the cellar to the empire one could send a substitute. I Paris for its capital, and will no longer ripen. There it remained for three lie called France. It will bo called Eu Not so to day. Every young man (with years, probably during the time he was a few exceptions of slight importance), rope.” with Capt. Cook in his voyage around on reaching 20, must go into the army. the world. At the end of that period Fewer Groan« anil More Moan. If he has a college degree or can pass a he directed butler to ascertain the [Arkansaw Traveler.] certain examination the period of state of the his wine; but the cellar door De mourners’ lieneli would do mo service is limited to one year; other could not be opened on account of good fur de nigger ef dar was fewer wise, he is a soldier for five years. some powerful obstacle within. The groans an' mo' saft soap an’ rain ' water door was cut down, when the cellar was SCIENCE s.t } “AO.” dar. I'se seed many a nigger too i dirty Science is pronouncing against cover found to be completely filled with a ter go ter a dance, but I nebber seed ing the walls of houses with paper. The fungus so dense and firm as to require one too dirty to 'fess ’jigion. paper itself gives off deleterious parti an ax for its removal. It was then dis The Worst " hipping. cles. and the paste, by the dampness, covered that the fungus had consumed [A rkanaaw Traveler.] uudergoes organic decomposition. Or every drop of wine and raised tho De wust whuppin' dat a man elier namental tiles, impermeable cement empty cask to the ceiling. gits is done by a coward. Fen up a and thin galvanized iron are suggested snappin’ cur an’ he keu whup all de as substitutes. All porous walls ab There are 250,000 Swedes in Min- dogs on de plantation. nesota. sorbing vapor are objectionable. AMERICAN MUSIC IN GERMANY. Detroit Free Pn*s. T *i Two veara ago Mr. J. S. Potter, the American consul in btuttgart. pre- aente.l Curl, the lender of the f unoua Carl's bund, of that eity, with a selec tion of American liiuaie, including the national airs of "Hail Columbia and “The Star Spangled Bunner, and sev eral of the negro melodies and pieces which became familiar during the re bellion. These Carl arranged for Ina bund to play, and had them published for military and concert noisie. I hey have since become very popular and are to be found in most of the musio stores throughout Germany. At the grand military maneuvers be fore the euqieror the troops marched past to the music of these American airs, placed bv Carl's band : “Marching Through Georgia,” "Tramp, lramp, Tramp, the Bovs are Marching, "Dixie,” “Rally'Round the Flag, Boys,” “Bonnie Blue Flag,” .“Whoa that Knoekirg?” “Swanee River.' “When Johnnie Comes Marching Home,” and other familiar melodies. They were played as they never w ere played before, except by this famous band. Every one who heard them was delighted; it was something new, inspiring and en livening. Officers and men were almost wild us with a new inspiration. Even the emperor and his suite cotlid with difficulty keep quiet in their saddles. Finally the emperor scut an officer to inquire of Carl what music he was placing. Returning from his errand, the’officer dolled his brass helmet hat, and, bowing low, said: “He says it is American music, your majesty. "Re turn and tell him to repeat it, said the emperor. HINDOO ETHICS. Prof. Oswald in Cincinnati Enquirer. Among the orthodox natives of Brahmiiiic Hindoostan, where the kill ing of any animal (vermin not excepted) is a mortal sin, even tigers have things pretty much their own way. < Inly the statistics of half a century make it cred ible that iu Bengal alone venomous snakes kill an annual average of 390 persons, mid tigers nearly six hundred. In the cities the example of unscrupu lous foreigners has encouraged the Hin doos to make occasional exceptions from the rule of non-resistance. The Brahmins have begun to connive at crocodile-hunts, and sometimes hire an unbelieving sharpshooter to risk his soul in discouraging the predatory pro pensities of the sacred baboons; but in tho forest districts the old prejudice still reigiis supreme. Instead of re joicing at the death of a tiger, the elders of the next village at once appoint a day of penance and order the orthodox to join in the procession of a Sayah- noora or expiration rite, a sort of ex purgatory ceremony intended to exor cise the spirit of the man-eater, who would otherwise haunt the neighbor hood in tlie form of a ghoul or storm brewing wizard. If a tiger enters a Hindoo village, the swiftfooted bipeds take to their heels, while the rest fall on their knees and give tlie visitor a chance to make his selection at leisure. TRICKS OF PROFESSIONAL BEGGARS London paper. Begging is, in reality, a regularly organized profession, the principal va riety of which are termed “lurks” (from the Welch Here, a tit of loitering); the fire lurk (pretended losses by fire); the shipwrecked sailors'lurk; the foreign ers’ lurk; the accident lurk; the sick lurk (pretended illness; some tie up their arms in a very clever way, others feign fits, others remain in bed simu lating illness while they send out their companions to beg for them); the deaf and dumb lurk: the servants’ lurk (pre tended loss of piace as a domestic serv ant I ; the colliers’ lurk (pretended loss of employment through an explosion); the weavers’, calenderers’, and cotton spinners’ lurks. To these may be ad ded the “sha’Jow cove,” or “shivering Jemmy," who goes about half-naked, and the “high-flier,” who simulates the broken-down gentleman, officer, or tradesman. It would require a separate report to deal comprehensively with all the de ceptions and disguises of these rascals, as there is hardly a source of human suffering or a passing calamity of any magnitude which they do not endeavor to turn to their advantage. AMERICAN HAND WRITING. Chas. Dudley Warner in Harpers’ Magazine. Statistics are needed of tlie American handwriting before any generalization is attempted about it. Those who are in the way of seeing specimens of it from nil parts of the country, from clergymen, clerks, farmers, lawyers, doctors, agents, merchants, etc. —nlwavs excepting the people who write like the writing-master—declare that they have no general characteristic, except that the handwriting is sprawling, flourishy, un formed, that it lacks neatness, compact ness, solidity. Is this only a fancy, or is the writing a sign of superficiality and carelessness and exaggeration? There is variety enough. We certainly have not the uniformity that in German or French writing enables us to tell its nationality at a glance. Are we mis taken in saying that the English hand, generally speaking, is a hand of more culture, finish, neatness? We signed the declaration very well on the whole, but we have hardly, as a people, lived np to it. A LAKE UNDER LOOKGUT MOUNTA TN. A few days since W. N. Gates and W. S. Lathrop, of the Western & At lantic railroad, conceived the idea ol exploring a cave in Lookout mountain, the entrance of which is near the river’s edge nt the foot of tho point. Crawling through a small, muddy aperture, they found themselves in a large chamber, the walls lieing fully thirty feet high. Proceeding some ‘distance they were surprised to find themselves in full view of a beautiful lake. Ihev describe it as lieing half a mile in leng’th and a quarter of a mile wide. The water is as clear as a crystal. They state they heard a roaring noise in the distance, which they are confident is caused bv a waterfall. “ one happy woman [S. M P. Piatt iuManlmtu-, Th« world ■»wuleenouuhtoh^1 < IU> happy woman, H|w« “ «'M The little maid look«! Ub^toU- "A l.ri.ie, inJn.tÄetel Fo-night 111 some weird hut m Are void; her hollow hmn . 1 bey have not even a r< eu, A light i. dying at her hZl Mj" And »he is happy-being GAMING MEN OF GENlUa Ntatcsiuen, Orator« nuli iu,.. Who Were Addicted to l.anXia"* [Cincinnati Enquirer] Said Charles James Fox, one of (l greatest of English statesmen »nJ tors: “The greatest pleasu^fe o play and ™h, the next to ph, ' lose. He was one of the heavi-t» biers of the age of l’itt and Burke ci bon and Ilume. Cato ths ,-e’X whom Addison immortalizes b »„, ij Coquillart, a poet of Fr.n’eSi ■ . . . isearte »». lovers of play, but tliev overcame th* predilee ions Beau Nash, the foj“ of the prosperity of the citv of Bathed master of ceremonies at the ass, mi , rooms, where gambling prevailed oii won from an earl Ins estate, equir«« everything. The generous gamblerk turned it nil, on condition that unonU demand 925,000 be paid him. Some time after the earl's death the Be« being impoverished, made demand, uj the heirs paid the amount without murmur. Lord Chesterfield livel at a club gambling and saying smart things fot the boys, yet in his advice to his son be says “that a member of a gaming club who would not be a cheat wouldSMn be a beggar.” An inconsutencv w unlike the quaint old Fuller, who sad that “a father who whips his son for swearing ami swears himself as he do« it did more harm by the example than good by the correction.” George rielwvn, who was as fond of gaming u he was of going to executions, and u witty as he was either, told the ladiea who bantered him for attending Lord Lovot’s execution to see his head ent of that he made amends by going to tie undertaker's to see it put on again." Fox went from tlie gaming table to his seat in parliament, and hisspeech« live to-day as classic English and models of debate. His gambling debts were $7(X),(KM). Ono night he lost $40,000 at the table, and his couree was so reckless that lie was even dunned by the sedan chairmen. He once played with Fitzpatrick from 10 at night to 0 in the morning, a waiter standing by to tell them “whosedeal" Sir Phillip Francis, who is the sup posed author of the “Letters of Junius," that every schoolboy has heard of, and l’itt and Wilberforce were at one time in their lives gamblers, who thought nothing of losing $500 to $1,000 at faro at a single sitting. Rev. C. C. Colton, the author of “Lacon," gambled and kept his winnings. l,e< ■ ■ L I' i ' ■ ’’ w ' 1 I low Banana* (.row, [Exchange. ] As everybody knows who has catena banana the luscious pulp is seedless. The plants are propagated from other plants, so that the stock is not likely to run out. The plant requires for vigor ous growth a deep rich soil, abundantly watered. With these conditions present there is said to be no risk for a crop in hot regions, where alone the fruit is produced. Nine months after a cutting has been planted a purple bud appears in the centre of the unfolding leaves that shoot out from the head of the parent stem. The stem on which the bud appears grows rapidly above the main stalk. As the bud increases in weight the stem bends downward by a graceful curve, on the extremity ol which this bud continues to grow till, the purple blossoms falling oft’, little shoots appear as the embryo lruit. Each fruit has a yellow blossom at its outward ex tremity. At the end of three or foui months the fruit has grown to maturity, and is picked long before it is ‘‘dead ripe” to preserve it in marketable con dition. From the roots of the parent stalk other roots appear, which are trimmed out or left to grow, as the cultivator may deem best. A single stalk, therefore, bears only one bunco or crop as its life work. An AilvantageonH Altitude, [Cor. Inter Ocean.] “Git down wid ye. or I'll giye .Te “eI club,” said the policeman. The time was that of the Evacuation Day sion, and the place was the most crown«! * corner in Broadway. There was m much tip-toeing to get a view of th' pageant, even by persons tall enough to see over the heads of shorter ones when standing fiatfooted, that the multitudes developed giants here and there. Bu the head of a boy, rising a full w above everybody else's. and remaining at that advantageous altitude, allowed that he had something additional to his legs. The officer reached over a dozen shoulders and prodded the urchin. »» lie repeated the command. “Skip down offen that," he remarked. The New York boy knows better than to defiantly oppose a policeman s.vishe»- This one walked obediently away. i>u lie did not skip down from anything. His artificial height remained the same lie was on stilts. Italian Opera anil l’neiimonla. [Chicago Herald. ] A New York physician says th Italian opera is increasing the die rate. He has attended a score of cases of pneumonia brought on by pMH*0T. in dress-coats. Men take off the heavy business suits in the evening an go to the opera with their breasts co ered only by a few folds of linen. “ J rush out heedlessly between the so “J stand in the draught of the ,*0<’r’L run out to the nearest cafe. I next day they are in bed. Hie coat prescription is one to be ta e GOOD AS NEW. A minister once asked a condemned I with the greatest care in this elmia criminal in a Faris jail. "What kind of I New Orleans Picayune: The gene a conscience have you!” "It’s as good ons give according to their rn<>* as new.' replied the prisoner, "for I others give according to their me have never used it.” ness I Th Ito dri kdl, nt in [milk. Ifow’s Idivi.l ■they I fula c ■ rake I... I f.-HI.- la day ■ -’.. i ■ like ■ -p o l ■ the I I ol . J ■ Ia I or- I ■ ' B :ii B and B to " ■ ! “11 ■ ‘ B '"7* I B :. Tl Aust