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
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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.]
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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.
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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
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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.
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[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
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criminal in a Faris jail. "What kind of I
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