KNIGHTED.
When Doctors Disa-
gree^
[Sarah I). Hobart ]
Because she takes me as h^r very own,
Claiming my fealty while life shall last,
soul renounces all th’ unworthy past;
"VV ith ruthless hand its idols I dethrone.
I walk life’s devious path no more alone;
Her eyes’ sweet magic binds my fancy fast.
All aims ignoble from mv heart I cast,
For youth's mad follies striving to atone.
Because she loves me, flrm I hike my stand,
Unflinchingly to battle for the right;
All womanhood is sacred for her sake,
For each oppressed a lance I freely break.
I walk encased in armor pure and bright,
Crowned with honor by uer spotless hand.
j New York Medical Record.
He stood by the bedside counting the
I pulse, counting the respirations. The
patient was in advanced life, and was
suffering from broncho-pneumonia.
! “One hundred and six!” was the excla
mation; “respiration thirty-six, an in
crease over last evening of ten pulsa-
' tions and six respirations. Some slight
lividitv of the extremities of the fingers.
SOMETHING BETTER THAN FAME Heart's action a little irregular.” Dr.
I Blank shook his head dubiously. “Mrs.
Bro. Gardner Npeaks of Several Men Brown is not so well to-day.”
A cloud
Who are Happier Thau the Ancient | passed aver his countenance as he spoke
Sage*.
i these words; it was noticed by Jane,
[Lime-Kiln C-ub.J
' Thomas, and Susan. A gloomy silence
“De odder night,” began the presi j followed. The Cammann binaural tube
dent as the club came to order, "de ole I w as applied to different parts of the
man Birch cum ober to my cabin an’ thorax.
Subcrepitant ronchi every
cried bekase he had not becum a great where; small bubbling at the bases.
an’ famous man. Dat sot me to finkin’.” “There is extensive consolidation,” he
“Cicero was a greut man, but I can said; “this dull region is stuffed with
not find it on record dat he el>er took the products of inflammation. It is a
any mo’ comfort dan Samuel Shin does. hard tug for breath with the old lady.”
Samuel has ’nuff to eat an’ drink an’
The supreme cortical cells of Dr.
w’ar, an’ of an ebenin’ he kin sot down Blank's cerebrum were evolving this
in a snug co’ner an’ eat snow apples an’ thought: “This patient will die; I shall
read de paper. He am harmless to de j lose prestige in consequence; I shall
community as he am. Make a great | lose the patroDage of this family.”
man of him an’ he might invent a new
What shall he do about treatment?
sort o’ relignn, or originate a new
The digitalis does not seem to be
theory in pollytics, or do sunthin’ or working well; there is nausea. The
other to upsot de minds of half de squills, senega, and ipecac do not pro
people.
mote expectoration. There is pain in
“Demosthenes was a great man, but the head, and he fears that it is caused
I can’t find dat a coal dealer’s collector by the quinine and whisky. In doubt
could put his hand on him when wanted, and uncertainty he tells them to put
as he kin on Giveadam Jones. You these medicines on one side, and writes
can’t find dat his wife was a good cook, a prescription for some carbonate of
or dat he had a bath-room in h’s house, ammonia. He directs full doses of this
or a cupalo on his ba’n, or dat he rel medicament, and then, after starting
ished his dinneranv better dan Brudder for home, in his hesitation comes back
Jones does, while he had de same chil and advises the family to give only half
blains an’ headaches an’ nightmares. the dose prescribed. With a heavy
As Giveadam now' libs an’ circulates heart, which his countenance too plainly
children kin play with him, wood-piles shows, he bids the Browns good-morn
in his nayborhood am safe, an’ mo’ dan ing.
one poo’ fam’ly am indebted to him fur
What are Thomas and the Brown
a shillin’ in money or a basket of ’taters. girls thinking about at this time? "This
Make him a great philosopher an’ who man is fairly discouraged.
He has
kin tell how many rows an’ riots an’ done all lie can. He has no confidence
broken heads could be laid to his door. in his medicines. He has made a com
“Plato was a gn at man. but 1 can’t plete change, and now is doubtful about
find dat he was fed on pertickle r fine the result of the change. He evidently
beef or mutton, or dat his tailor gin him thinks mother is going to die. Mother,
an extra fit, or dat he got a discount too, is discouraged. It is time to try
when he bought ten pounds of sugar all somebody else.”
to once. When Waydown Bebee gits
Dr. Blank had hardly arrived home
sot down in front of his cook-stove, a that morning when a messenger brought
checker-board on his lap an’ a panful of a note from the Bro ms, stating that
pop-corn at his right hand, wid five they had made a change: that Dr.
pickaninnies rollin’ ober each udder on Blank might consider this note a note
de floo’, he am takin’ a heap mo’ com of dismissal; thas Dr. Bluff would now
fort dan Plato eber dreamed of. He has take charge of the ca.a1.
no soarin’ambishun. He neither wants
Dr. Bluff was not iu any sense a sci
to save de world nor spite it. He makes entific man, nor had he any skill in the
no predickshuns fur people to worry selection of his remedies. He stole a
ober, an’ his theories nebber jar de good many useful hints from members
dishes oil’ de shelf. Make him a great of the faculty and young graduates,
man un’ his comfort an’ happiness fly with whom he now and then hold con
away, an’ he sots himself up to teach sultations (and with whom he always
an’ command an’ becum eberybody’s agreed >. but his diagnosis was hap
antagonist.
hazard and his treatment was hap
“De man who sighs to trade fa’r hazard. He drove fast horses, and
wages, a warm house an’ a peaceful I would bluster like an English country
h’arthstun fur de glory of Bonapart am squire. All this gave him great popu
a dolt.
larity. Individuals had been heard to
“De man who sacrifices his clean, say that they would rather have Bluff's
humble cabin—his easy ole coat, his presem e iu a sick-room, if he did noth
co’ncob pipe an* liis pitcher o’ aider fur ing more than talk slang, and tell them
de gab of an orator or de delushuns of that they would be able to dance a
a philosopher trades his ’tater fur polka in a few days, than have the most
wind-fall apples. Let us purceed to scientific college professor who would
bizness.”
give them nauseous medicines, and tell
them that their sickness was of a very
Wi nun** and the Crofters.
grave nature.
[London Truth.]
Dr. Bluff' was ushered into the room
That insatiable’Nimrod, Mr. Winans,
has slaughtered 196 stags in the vast of the sick Mrs. Brown. The diagnosis
combined forests which he rents from and the fearful prognostications of poor
Lord Lovat, Theo. Chisholm, Sir A. Dr. Blank were turned to ridicule.
Matheson, and other proprietors, being There was nothing the matter with Mrs.
an average of seven for each day’s shoot B., only “a little stuffing” in the chest.
ing. Mr. Winans’ preserve extends to He "would clear out those pipes in less
nearly 250.000 acres, and his rent is than no time.” Whisky and milk and
about £17,000 a year. If one estimates his white emulsion of ammoniacum was
fairly for extra expenses, it would ap all that was necessary. In less than
pear that each beast, which he slays half an hour the vocabulary of banter
costs him at least £130. Last season he and current slang was exhausted. The
sick woman was a “daisy,” a “blooming
killed 186 stags.
A Mr. Colin Chisholm was examined rose of Sharon,” and a “gay old gal.”
before the Crofters' commission Friday She had not “got through her sparking”
last. Being asked "whether ho thought yet, and “if the present Mrs. Bluff
another man would be found, when should ever be taken off he would im
Mr. Winans was dead, to indulge to prove his opportunity,” etc. As for
the same extent in what Mr. Winans dying—“fiddlesticks! she cannot die
‘calls sport,’ ” he replied that he did with that pulse.” He would “have her
not think that Great Britain would out of that bed scrubbing tho kitchen
allow such masses of land to remain in floor before a week.”
It is needless to sav that the Browns
the possession of a man that does no
good with it; and added: “1 am not were all delighted w ith the assurance
sure there are not men without con and the jocoseness of their new family
science in the world as well as Mr. physician, whose encouraging words
Winans.” Being then pressed as to rallied them to renewed efforts to pro
whether ho objected to deer stalking, long their parent’s existence by often- I
be replied, not if it was conducted in a repeated potions of whisky and milk.
It is worthy of note, too, that the
sportsmanlike way, but that he did not
like Mr. Winans’ “way of butchering patient herself for a while felt the in
gaano at all.” “What is his mode?” vigorating stimulus of a new hope.
said one of the commissioners. “Gath Although the final result was as Blank
ering the deer together and driving predicted, yet there always was a feel
them to the muzzle of his gun.” ing on the part of the Browns that if
“Does he stalk the deer?” “Him stalk! Bluff had been called a little earlier the
You might as well send an elephant result would have been different.
deerstalking.“
TAILORING TO-DAY.
Now York Sun Interview.
Tlie New Associate Fill ter.
[ Inter Ocean. ]
A certain Young Man camo from the
West to a Great city, and having much
Confidence in himself knocked at the
Door of an editor, asking Boisterously
for Work “In what Lino has nature
1 cst Qualified you to sweat at your
Brow?” quoth the Editor. "I am,” Ke-
«ponded the Party addressed, “Multi-
dinous in the matter of Revamping the
Ideas of Others.” "Come, be Received
unto me. Then,” exclaimed Joyously the
editor, “for I have Sought with most
sad Disasters for lo these many Days
that I might find a Humorist. Even
such Shalt thou bo with Me.” And the
Yonng man Humored.
j
;
,
'
i
t
Vivid In Verbal l-.xi-relsc.
[Detroit Free Fives. J
“Mr. Smith do you know the char- ,
actor of Mr. Jones?”
“Wall, I rather guess I do. jodgo.”
“Well, what do you say about it?"
“Wall, ho ain't so bad a man after
all.”
“Well, Mr. Smith, what wo want to
know is: Is Mr. Jones of a quarrel
some and dangerous disposition?”
"Wall, jedge, I should say that Tom
Jones is very v ivid in verbal exorcise
but when it comes to personal adjust
mout, he hain't eager for the contest.
Pay your taxes or get into the army |
is the law in Madagascar.
“Tailoring is now an easier business
than it was when I I < gan here twenty
years ago,” said a Broadway tailor de
cisively. "I have just begun to realize
what Americans want. Tho tasto of
the age has changed. There was a time
when a patron—by which I mean a cus
tomer wanted good clothes. He didn't
kick much if the fit was not very good,
but wanted tip-top cloth. Tlx snit
that wore the longest pleased him best.
But after a while I noticed that a chai'go
was setting in. That change is now tiie
fixed fashion. Men no longer exhibit
particular care alont tho quality and
textrro of the goods. What they want
is a stylish lit. Not a good fit, mind
yon. but a stylish one.
If we cut a
patron’s clothes after the prevailing
mode be is satisfied. A thin or crooked f
legged man with n long waist onght to
have roomy trousers and a coat with
rather u short skirt.
If
wo
clothed him after that style ho
would look well, but ho wouldn't take
the clothes. So we make skin-tight
trousers tlx»t make his legs look weak,
and a long-tailed eoat that makes him
look ridicnlons, and he is happy Ho
will surely come barb to ns for his next
suit if we make him v hat he thinks is a
stylish suit.”
George Eliot: “i
weth, and an
other reapeth,” is s n
that applies
to evil as well as go.
STREET-CAR CONDUCTORS.
LEARNING THE STREETS—KEEPING TRACK
OF THE TRIP ON FOGGY NIGHTS—BLVN-
DERS AND MISTAKES.
Boston Globe.
A new conductor is placed on a
brother conductor’» car before he is al
lowed to run a car of his own. If he
displays a knowledge of his work after
a couple days he is given a car and left
to marvel at the ingenuity of the punch
or the honest looking face of the elock
shaped fare-teller, it was a week be
fore I learned the streets and the order
in which they came, but at the end of
that week I could name every street from
one end of the line to the other, back
ward or forward, as fast as I could make
mv tongue flv. It was a week of worry
while I was learuing, though, for often j
I hadn’t the remotest notion when I was
coming to a street at which a lady had
told me to stop the car. I would keep
a straight face when she came to the
door, with red cheeks and flashing eyes,
and demanded the reason why I hail
not stopped at her street, and I answered
that I had forgotten, for that would
lead all the passengers and any spotter
on the car to suppose that I was a reg
ular old-time conductor. See?
“But even after the Greets are famil
iar I find it difficult to keep track of
myself at night, especially if it is foggy,
or if it rains, or even if it is very dark.
When a car is crowded on a very wet
night and I am inside collecting fares,
the only way to keep track of my posi
tion is to duck down and peep out of
the windows, watching for certain land
marks. Sometimes it is a white house,
or a residence standing alone in its
yard, or a queer old tree, or a vine
clambering on a house front, or a series
of vacant building lots, or a big gilt
sign, or a curve in the railroad track.
After experience the new conductor cau
tell you where he is at any time with
out looking at anything outside of the
car, by simply glancing at his watch.
I've been fold bv some conductors that
they could shut their eyes, ride a mile,
and tell you to a car’s length to what
point they had come.
"The conductor must learn to observe
the city ordinance requiring ears to bo
stopped on tho further crossing, be
cause by doing so the cross street is left
clear for travel. Another thing to
be learned is the method of using the
indicators which have been introduced
on many of the ears of the Metropolitan
road. Tho indicator must be rung
when a fare is taken up. ‘Not to do it j
is wrong.’ There is one at each end of
the car, and the one at the forward end
is the one to be rung. I mention this
fact because a green conductor I had
with me a few weeks ago spent a week
with me, and you could not imagine that
a human being could be so stupid. He
tried to run one trip alone, and he suc
ceeded in ringing the wrong indicator
repeatedly, in ringing the indicator
when he intended to ring the bell to
stop tlio car, in stopping the car at the
wrong crossing, and, in fact, blundering
at every step.”
“What is the most difficult thing to I
learn ?”
“To run the car on time—neither too
fast nor too slow.”
FOSSIL REMAINS OF PREHISTORIC
MAN.
Boston Globe.
A flutter has been caused in scientific
circles by the announcement, in Tho
Union Medicale of June 2, of the discov
ery, on piercing a new gallery in a coal
mine at Bully-Grenay (Pas-de-Calais),
of a series of very remarkable caverns.
In the first wi re the intact fossil bodies
of a man, two women and three children.
Beside them were petrified pieces of
wooden utensils and remains of mam
mals and fish, as well as stone weapons.
A second subterranean cavern revealed
eleven bodies of gigantic size, the fos
sils of several animals, and a great
number of various objects, including
precious stones. Into a third and
larger chamber the miners could not
enter, on account of the carbonic acid it
contained. If all this turns out to be
as true as it appears to be, the existence
of prehistoric man is a stern fact, even
to the most sceptical.
DON'T WASTE THE PENS.
New York Sun.
A German technological journal
points out the fact that a vast amount
of valuable steel is lost every year in
the shape of pens that become unfit for
writing and are thrown away. Pens
are made of the very finest steel, ami it
can be remelted ami used again for
many purposes. They can be turned
into watch springs and knife blades,
and can be dissolved and made avail
able in the manufacture of ink. Tho
suggestion is made that the children of
the poor should be tanght to collect
castaway pens, and thereby save valu
able material and earn money.
JERR r GREENING'S SA YINGS.
Chas. A. Wells in The Continent.
“Th' smaller an' meaner a man is, tli’
bigger he alters talks.”
"I b’lieve in honorin’ th' dead just th’
same's you'd honor 'em if they was
alive.”
"When a feller says it's ‘as broad as
'tis long,' be means that it's all square,
I reckon.”
“When I’m in danger from accidents
o’ any kind. 1 alters prefers absence o' '
body t' presence o’ mind.”
“ ‘Th’ more you stir up yer custom- !
ers.' sez a dry-goods man t’ me, sez ho, i
‘th’ longer it takes 'em to settle.’ ”
EFFECTS OF ELECTRICITY.
Chicago Herald.
Health, so far as mere sun-tanning is
concerned, is only skin deep. For that I
matter, a person engaged for any length j
of time in a close room, in near proxim- i
ity to a «tong electric light, will soon
become as darkly tanr.nl ai by expos
ure to the rays of the sun. It is said
linen may be bleached by electricity.
J MISTA KEN IDEA
The idea thnt lightning is not so de
structive as it used to be in the United
States. N'eanse the network of railroads
and telegraph wires lessens the number
of accidents, is met by tho record of
the snmmer. Fatal thunderbolts havo
never been more common.
Taylor: An nnjnst accusation is like
a barbed arrow, which must be drawn •
backward with horrible anguish, or
else will be your destruction.
GHOSTS EXPLAINED.
COUNT RUMEOUDS HAT.
METHODS
WunderFiil Phenomena In the Air-—
Heading By the fiery fyea of ii
MonkeyKtranste l.lghto About
Animals, Etc.
[Cincinnati Enquirer.]
BY
WHICH BKNJAV1N THOMI
“CORN-PONES” IN ITALY.
Tuo
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SON, THE TITLED AMERICAN PHll.OSO-
Corn-H read In the Amerieaa
PHEB, INAl'Ul'UATED BEEOHHS.
or the Word.
Contemporary Review.
Thompson aimed at making soldiers
citizens and citizens soldiers. 1 lie sit
uation of the soldier was to be rendered
pleasant, 1ns pay was to be increased,
his eh.thing rendered comfortable and
even elegant, while all liberty consist
ent with strict subordination was to be
permitted him. Within, the barracks
were to be neat and clean, and without,
attractive.
Reading, writing and
arithmetic were to be taught, not only
to the soldiers and their children, but
to the children of the neighboring peas
antry. He drained the noisome marshes
of Mannheim, and converted them into
a garden for the use of the garrison.
For the special purpose of introduc
ing the culture of the potato he extend
ed the plan of military gardens to other
garrisons. They were tilled, and their
produce was owned by non-commis
sioned officers and privates. The plan
proved completely successful. Indo
lent soldiers became industrious, while
through the prompting of those on fur
lough, little gardens sprang up every
where over the country. Bavaria was
then infested with beggars, vaga
bonds, and thieves, native and foreign.
These mendicant tramps were in the
main stout, healthy, and able-bodied
fellows, who found a life of thievish in
dolence pleasanter than a life of honest
work. “These detestable vermin had
recourse to the most diabolical arts and
the most horrid crimes in the prosecu
tion of their infamous trade.'’ They
robbed, they stole, maimed and exposed
little children so as to extract money
from the tender-hearted. All this must
be put an end, too. Four regiments of
cavalry were so cantoned that every
village had its patrol. This disposition
of the cavalry was antecedent to seiz
ing, as a beginning, all the) beggars in
the capital.
Tht? problem before him might well
have daunted a courageous man, but he
faced it without misgiving. He brought
his schemes to clear definition in his
mind before he attempted to realize
them. Precepts, he knew, were vain,
so his aim was to establish habits. Re
versing the maxim that people must be
virtuous to be happy, he resolved on
making happiness a stepping-stone to
virtue. He had learned the importance
of cleanliness through observing tho
habits of birds. Lawgivers and found
ers of religion never failed, he said, to
recognize the influence of cleanliness
on man’s moral nature. “Virtue never
dwelt long with filth and nastiness, nor
do I believe there ever was a person
scrupulously attentive to cleanliness
who was a consultative villain.” He
had to deal with wretches covered with
filth and vermin to cleanse them, to
teach them, and to give them*the pleas
ure and stimulus of earning honest
money.
He did not waste his means on fine
buildings, but taking a deserted manu
factory he repaired it, enlarged it, add
ing it to kitchen, bake house, and work
shops for mechanics. Halls were pro
vided for the spinners of flax, cotton
and wool. Other halls were set up for
weavers, clothiers, dyers, saddlers,
wool-sorters, carders, combers, knitters
and seamstresses.
In the prosecution of his despotic
scheme all men seemed to fall under
his lead. To relieve it of the odium
which might accrue if it were effected
wholly by the military, he associated
with himself and his field officers the
magistrates of Munich. They gave him
willing sympathy and aid. On New-
Year’s morning, 1790, he »ml the chief
magistrate walked out together. With
extended hand a beggar immediately
accosted them. Thompson, setting the
example to his companions, laid his
hand gently on the shoulders of the
vagabond and committed him to the
charge of a sergeant, with orders to
take him to the town hall. At the end
of that day not a single beggar re
mained at large.
“Well, gentlemen,” said a long
haired, washed-out individual at the
public landing to a group of idlers,
“I’ll be dogged if I didn’t fite right
through this yer war, got starved, shot,
hunted like a coon for five years, but I
never got so scart as I did last evenin’.
It happened over yander,” pointing
over the river. "I've been hirin’ ole
man Watson sence the war, and last
night he up and lit out. Yea, and the
ole woman came up to the house and
says: 'Marta, Uncle Alick’s dead, sho',
an’ dere's a guardin’angel hangin’ right
over him,’ and nothin' would do but I
must go down. Well, I went, and I’m
dogged, gentlemen, when I took a look
through that there winder I felt a
feelin’ I w asn’t used to. There was the
ole man black on the white sheets,
and over him hung a kind of cloud of
fire, w avin’ this wav and that, just like
as if some spirit was a-hoverin’ round.
I had an engagement about that time
sharp, and lit out; but I sent a doct >r,
and he said it was nothin’ out o’ com
mon; phosphorescence, he called it,
but 1’11 be dogged if it didn't hit me in
a weak spot.”
"Are such lights common?” asked un
Enquirer man, who had been a listener
to the above, of a prominent practi
tioner.
“Yes,” was the reply, “and all the
ghosts, phantoms, spirits and so on
come from these very natural causes,
though it is almost impossible to ex
plain them to superstitious people.
Floating lights about dead bodies are
very common, but only in rare instances
has its appearance been notice 1 in con
nection with the living higher ani
mals.
“It would be extremely difficult,”
continued the physician, “to explain tho
many curious lights that flash across
the line of vision. In total darkness
the most gorgeous scenes can be seen
by closing the eves and pressing them
with the fingers. Fire-balls, streams
of light, specks and stars of the most
brilliant blue, come and go, fade
and
reappear,
changing
from
blue to yellow and green. These curi
ous lights are also common symptoms
of troubles affecting the kidneys, and in
typhus fever they often appear to be
on the bed clothes or furniture, and the
patient will at times endeavor to push
them away. When the optic nerve is
cut a great flash of light appears; an
electric current produces the same ef
fect an experiment easily tried by
placing a piece of silver and a piece of
zine upon the inside of each cheek, and
connecting them by a silver wire out
side of the mouth. The sight seen is
similar to that witnessed by the recip
ient of a black eye at the very moment
of conjunction. The stars are not seen
until a few seconds after tho blow.
“These curious lights, called by
Phipson subjeetivo phosphorescent* ,
were the subject of much study by the
scientists Ritter, Purkinje and Hjort.
lleniger, the -naturalist,” continued the
doctor, “who traveled in Paraguay
some years ago, had a most singular ex
perience. On one occasion he was be
nighted in a forest, and a few feet above
him he observed two vivid yellow spots
that illumined a grotesque and hideous
face among the leaves. He fired and
brought down a monkey, and, as it was
only wounded, he later made some
interesting experiments with it, proving
conclusively that the light was purely
phosphorescent. In a dark room the
eyes of this creature blazed with such
intense brilliancy that they illumined
objects within six inches of them, and
print could be read—a most remarkable
spectacle. Bartholin, a distinguished
man of his time, has recorded an
equally interesting case of an Italian
lady, whom he calls mulier splendens,
who suddenly discovered that by rub
bing her body with a linen cloth in the
dark it gave out a brilliant phosphor
escent light, so that she appeared in a
darkened room like a veritable fire STILL WEARING OUT HUMAN
body, frightening her servant so that
LIVES.
sho tied from her, speechless with fear Chicago Herald.
and amazement, thinking her mistress
The revolution in the manufacture of
was being consumed.
has not only simplified the mak
“Curious phosphorescent lights are »hilts
often seen about patients previous to ing. but very materially cheapened la
dissolution. Dr. Marsh states that bor. Toillustrate: Instead of giving
about an hour and half before his sis the seamstress an entire shirt to make,
ter's death they were struck by lumin she is required to be an expert in some
ous nppearances proceeding from her one particular. The bosoms, collars
head in a diagonal direction. She was and wristlets are first made. The body
at tho time in a half recumbent position of the shirt is cut out, and while one
and perfectly tranquil. The light was girl does nothing from morning until
pale as the moon, but quite evident to night but stitch in the bosv as, her
the observers who were watching over neighbor stitches on the collars of doz
her. One thought at first that it was ens and dozens of shirts, which fall into
lightning, but they shortly afterward the hands of another worker to be
fancied they noticed a sort of tremulous “cuffed.” Another girl puts on facings,
glimmer playing around tho head of tho but would be less rapid in her work did
bed. They then remembered reading shc^ undertake to hem the tails, nor
of a similar nature having been ob could the hemmer hope to' make her
served previous to diss flution, and had present wages were she to experiment
lights brought into the room, fearing in making and putting on the tags so
prettily decorated afterward by somo
the patient might observe it.”
fair lady’s fingers. For all this work
the girls are paid at the rate of $1 for
■till Nye and the Cerebro-Hplnnl.
four dozen, or 25 cents for putting their
“Bill” Nye writes from Hudson, Wis., i respective work on a dozen shirts' Tlie
that he considers it his duty to keep I amount of work done per dav varies
pretty quiet for a year at least, unless
to tho health or disposition
he wants cérébro-spinal meningitis to according
the worker, but very few average $7
get tho better of him. “I’ve good offers,” of
week tho year round.* Skilled hands
lie says, ‘ from St. l’anl to Portland and a earn
from
to >?1(); many are forced
from San Francisco to New York, in to subsist
on $4. but the minimum is
cluding Chicago and Detroit; but this
$1.
inter and summer the girls
year I'll write a few sketches per week often
at mighty good figures and get tho bal are on hand at 7:30 o'clock, have thirty
for dinnpr, and then work un
ance of tny North American spine into minutes
til 6 in tho evening.
shape. Then I'll see what I can do for
a steady thing, whether 1'11 lecture or go
W.71V DOCTORS DISAGREE^ y
to horse trailing.”
French Journal.
I w o physicians were discussing in
l-'.zz-I’reservlng by n Novel Method. the presence of their patient the nature
of the malady that kept him confined to
[Chicago Tribune ]
A Nevada woman has a novel way of bus bed.
“Mv conviction is that it is typhoid
preserving eggs. During the snmmer
she breaks the eggs, pours tlie contents fever,” said one.
•‘Never!” replied the other.
into bottles, which are tightly corked
“W ell, yon will see at the post mortem
and sealed, when they are placed in the
cellar, neck down.
She claims the examination !”
contents of the bottles come out as
AN OREGON NATî’RAL~RR[OGf!,
fresh as when pnt in.
Chicago Herald.
On the Tyne mountain, Donglrp
The False Prophet's Work.
oonnty, southern Oregon, is a nrJar.%1
[Detroit Free Press.)
bridge, with a sandstone foundation,
The False Prophet may not have hit and covered with forest trees. A large
the weather just right, but great ercek runs under it fhe span m from
spoons! how he did lam it to Hicks eighty to one hundred and twentr feet
Pasha.
above the wa.tr.
**
[Naples Cor. American Reguter 1
Indian-corn is the grand staple oflk
peoples food in northern Ifali, ,
macaroni is more widely knni.“”
southern Italy; hence the Alta ItJi
are nicknamed mange-polenta
l
eaters), and the southern id*
mange ■ macaroni
< macaroni ■ eaS
But it is an ordinary mistake of
’
ican and English traveler, to ' i,?"’
that all Neapolitans, and the -rrat^
of the people of the former k .wdn»
the Two Sicilies (more than one-thirirf
the population of all Italy,, t.at
but macaroni morning, noon and niX’
I may say that out of tho half „4",
inhabitants of Naples, not more than
hundred thousand taste macaroni Jail ‘
with the exception of Sunday wh?’
two-thirds eat the favorite food It"
too costly for the low classes to indul?
in it daily. A great deal of Indian-nuS
is used up in bread for the comm™
people; while in tho country .)Prh “
two-thirds of the peasants eat com
bread in tho American sense of that
word.
1
l ast December I was with a party of
friends going over the plains of ¡L.
turn to visit the famous temples when
at noon we happened to pass near the
railway then constructing, but now
open. If was noontime, and the peas
ant women were hauling carts as lam
as those propelled by donkeys in th,
city.
These carts were tilled with
golden yellow-aml-brown “corn-pong.•
fresh and hot from the ovens. In Vain
we endeavored to buv the delicion,
looking loaves, for the picturesque-
looking women said that they were for
the railroad hands. Hon. Sir. Book-
■waller of Ohio was one of our party
anil he seemed more disappointed than
any one else, for he remembered, when
a hard toiling boy in the valley of the
I Wubiish, ill Indiana, how good corn
bread tasted about noontime in the far
away Hoosier state.
But Indian-corn here is not merely
used for bread •id polenta by the com
mon people, it is eaten green in vast
quantities. You will .see men here in
Naples pulling around a large caldron
on low trucks such as boys in America
use for their little carts and wagons;and
the sight of urchins and grown-up people
munching the toothsome food is seen at
every turn. The supply is continuous
for nearly five months, as' there are three
crops of green corn in the year. About
mid June the first is in the market; then,
s cond, in August and September; and
the third, tow ards the end of November.
1 holndian-corn crop has sometimes been
so plentiful that there havo been ship
ments of it to England.
Tin- Modern Averaae S onsressiiiaw
[Joaquin Miller's AV ashington Dtter.]
If w e could only got a law passed to
keep congressmen ont of Washington it
would be a better place. The annual
inundation of unwashed, arrogant, hay
seed congressmen is the greatest afflic
tion that ever overtakes this city, and
we have the malaria here some, have
even had the small-pox. Of course, if
this howling congressman did not de
scend upon Washington with such»
pomp and air, I would not feel it my
duty to say this of those who otherwise
might be my friends. But there is no
disguising the fact that the modern
average congressman is a nuisance. It
is a fact, a shameful fact, and all his
own fault, too, that he is studiously
“cut” by the best society here in Wash
ington. And society is a thing a con
gressman desires. His face of brass is
not accustomed to have many doors
against it. He is u little lord at home,
where his audacity is mistaken for ca
pacity, liis brass for brains, and he does
not like to be snubbed and kept iu his
place in AVasliington.
Of course, this was not always so,
and it should not be so now. It would
not bo so if the people would send up
gentlemen to the federal capitol. But
alas, the very qualities which have
gained this modern average congress
man his seat are tlie qualities which
make him intolerable here among re
fined, artistic and traveled people. He
is a liar to start with, or he would never
have beaten the quiet and unobtrusive
gentleman whom the best people at
home first thought of, and made them
nominate himself instead, in convention.
He is a trickster, a trimmer, a turncoat,
a beggar of the rich and a bully of the
poor, and yet he comes here to M ask*
ington with his lips a nest of lies, his
mouth a reservoir of tobacco juice, and
wonders why honest and good people
do not want him in their parlors. Let
a law l>e passed to exclude him from
the capitol.
An Exceptional Case-
[Exchange.]
At West Point, once, Gen. Sherman,
accompanied by tlio commandant of
cadets, was making an inspection tour
of the barracks. He wasn't looking for
contraband goods, but while iu one of
the rooms he got talking about hie
cadet days. “ When I was a cadet, he
said to tlie commandant, “we hid thing«
in tlie chimneys during the summer
months. I wonder if tlie boys <lo so
still.” , It was then in June.) So say*
ing, he stcjiped to the fireplace and
reached up the chimney, ltattling
down at his touch camo a board, for
lowed by a frying-pan, a bottle lemptri.
and a suit of citizen’s clothes. A»
faces of the cadets who occupied t™
room were a study. But tho general
only laughed, and t iming to the com
mandant said : “This is only an excep"
tional case, colonel. No need of re*
port Jig these young men.”
A Milkman*« Mine.
[Exchange.]
•I’»,” said Rollo, looking np from
•‘Rctighing It,” “wliat is gold-liearing
quartz?” “Well, my son,” said Ro.11®*
father, wlio was glancing in a tron“'
manner at the milkman's bill for 1 ’e*o-
ber, "when a man sells dilated water
for 9 cents a quart, I think he has
struck better gold-bearing quartz than
•ver Mr. Mark Twain dreamed of.
Sunset scene in Georgia from
‘
Macon Telegraph : “The rosy her
the day. as he racks down the w»» '
turnpike, has been greatly admired
the ladies lately.”