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SONG TO THE SEA. LODGING FOR TEN cents . W. rthe wave-song of Beauty be sung to the The Mttflinx Viamrm -nt« Where Chi- sea, raxu N'-'ramp« Find Sightly curve to her bosom its rhythm shall I at a IM in? Head. |je, flings her white arms with a passion- [Chicago Ncww.1 uB* ate plea, On (’lark street, less than two blocks <lwlfh short* that no feeling • ‘outh of the Grand Pacific hotel, are a W1' can free. dozen stifling basements before which l,^Lfeep °ver lLS sea-born the swell of thy gleam after dark transpurent signs an sway, «krthe song» that we sing are the perfume nouncing that lodgerswill be aecommo- l dated there for It) cents a head. Below ■ of iJay- . , ... the resonant breezes, 'ike music astray, each sign a series of crazy steps leads M n wafting our spirits fort1 ver away. down into a shabby door with a broken latch. Fussing through this door one QJttove us a passion-flower opens the sky, ■miearth in its languor half dost« its eye; enters directly into the mysteries of tfe cheap lodging house. KrhfHii’S are but cloud-drifts that silently 1'ii st of all there is an immense stove J.,11.»¿J is a vision, ami life is a lie. whose ruudy sides send out volumes of heat which give the gloomy basement a tropical atmosphere. The apartment is A.Vew Iniluntiy (hut I n Fating Into J long and narrow, and the ceiling is low I ■ thr Mpruce and Tamarack €iuui and draped with dusty cobwebs. In the I early evening a dense group of strange- ■fr*4* [New York Sun.] looking beings clusters around the rag ■ •‘Did you know that nearly three-quarters ing fire. They are hopelessly dilapi [■the chewing gum that tires the jaws of dated as to clothing. They are supplied •^Lrising generation in the United States is with indescribable head-coverings and Kir made from petroleum?'' said a manufac- impossible foot-gear. 1 hey smoke poi- ■hng confectioner to a Sun reporter the ! sonous tobacco in pestilential pipes, Kber day. i they converse little, being either sober ■ The reporter did not know it. and stupid or drunk and dismal. But ■ “Oh, yes," said the confectioner. “I’etro- i they glory in the heat. Though their ■.mi first knocked the spots off the whale & business of Now England, and now it is smoking garments are almost ready to ■pping into its spruce and tamarack gum in- ! burst into a blaze from its intensity, ■tetry at a fearful rate. Here’s a lump of | they crowd still closer to the source of Kroleum we have just received.” The con- I their enjoyment. In the corner by a little desk stands ■ctioner slapped his hand on a large oblong ■ock that resembled a piece of marble. “A i the proprietor with his book of accoanta, ■wdays ago," said he, “that came out of ! in which he is writing with the stump ■eground in Pennsylvania, a dirty, green- | of a lead pencil. He has none of the arsare K-brown fluid, with a smell that could ! gaudy garments and gleaming jewelry Kock an ox down. The oil refiners took it ‘ of the aristocratic hotel clerk, but he Kdput it through a lot of chemical pro- looks clean and comfortable enough, al Dis. Kies that 1 don’t know anything about, and ! i The long rows of figures on every page r- from Ker taking out a large percentage of kero to the Ke. agoo.l share of naphtha, considerable indicate that the house is doing a rush ing business. By the proprietor’s side a cart-load or so of tar, and a nuni- urn or^ Knzine, Krof other things with names longer than | are displayed a wooden pail filled with I water, a tin basin, a rubber comb, and t kind Kalphab?t, left us this mass of nice clean a broken blacking-brush. These com Kx. There isn't any taste to it, and no pose the lavatory and toilet outfits of of Kre smell than there is to a china plate. ■‘•We will take this lump, cut it up, and the establishment. On the other side •r run- Kt it in boilers. This piece will weigh 200 of the proprietor are several tiers of Kinds. We add thirty pounds of cheap pigeon-holes constructed out of rough i and ■gar to it, and flavor it with vanilla, winter- boards and containing various articles KeD. peppermint, or any other essential of wearing apparel which have been left Then we turn it out on a marble table there by the lodgers for safe-keeping. New K Kd cut it into all sorts ol’ shapes with dies. A kerosene lamp burns by the proprie Ker it is wrapped in oil tissue paper and limn, ■eked in boxes it is ready for the market, tor’s book. At the back of the room with- ■oilcan imagine that somebody is chewing another lamp of the same description is suspended from the ceiling. Their light with this country when I tell you that a ■I edi - Knin ■np like this one will make 10,000 penny reveals two long aisles with several Kes. and we use one up every week. There rows of bunks, formed of heavy planks ober- ■ dozens of manufacturers using almost as nailed together, rising on either side. The bedding of each bunk consists of ■ch of the wax as we do. I “I believe this petroleum chewing gum, if an old quilt made double by a fold dov n Inestly made, is perfectly harmless, and the middle. On one of these sumptuous ■at is more than can be said of some of the couches a weary tramp may purchaso for ■ms made from the juices of trees, es- for a dime the privilege of reposing over night. nsti- Itcialiy the imported article.” Slowly the circle around the stove I The («uillotlne To-Day in France. I'J. I). Haynie in San Francisco Chronicle. ]J contributes its dimes to the watchful By this time it was broad daylight. Houy proprietor and stumbles off to bed. 1AN ■ Ippeared quite unconcerned and walked Each man, when he lias undressed, ties ioutly toward the guillotine. The priest his discarded clothing in a ball and lade another attempt, but in vain. The as- swings it from the ceiling above his kstants quickly seized him by the arms and couch by a piece of twine. This is a |brew him on a long pine board. He offered wise precaution against the danger of iota particle of resistance. They fastened its being invaded by small stragglers im tightly to this board with straps—one of the night. If he has any article of cross his breast, a second across his thighs, value, such as money or a w hole coat, to third at his ankles. They then put the he leaves it in the care of his landlord. lank in place, pushing it so far forward that He would not tru^t it in reach of his ie fellow’s neck reached the lower semi- fellow lodgers for less than its full ircular notch of the guillotine. The exe- nioner stepjied down from the platform, value, rightly classing most of them in ad going around to the front, seized Houy the ranks of the pickers and stealers. Having disposed of his garments, the [the hair and pulled with all his might. I »rd the fellow cry out with pain. I saw lodger consigns himself to the protec iebler touch a spring, and then like a flash tion of the folded quilt. Around him le sharp knife fell. It cut the neck in two. i lie dozens of his kind. The narrow be head rolled into a basket half filled with basement being below the surface of the ivdust, and the eyes were wide open. The ground, and having only one entrance, ody was then unstrapped and thrown in the is almost air tight. The huge stove Basket. The execution took precisely two forth its heat at all hours. The u minutes and a half. When the knife fell the belches smoke of many tobacco pipes has defiled rrowd rushed in and it was with great difli- tbe imprisoned air, and the breathing of plty they were driven back again. > the hundred lodgers adds its horrors to L Tbe executioner’s assistants fell to work to riean the instrument. The basket with its the tainted atmosphere. The heat and ■»•dust and the bloody remains was placed foul air of the room would make it an rk -hr p the wagon behind the old white horse intolerable sleeping place to any one ca- ■nd driven to the cemetery. After a pre not accustomed to such surroundings. ful tended interment the body was transferrod But the lodgers sleep, and sleep soundly. £ koan undertaker’s wagon and taken to the If a fire should start in the basement ch hospital. The head was taken to the dis- from any cause, as from a breaking Ite cy kting table, where, by means of electric- lamp or a hazing match, the inmates ■e- F. all the muscles of the face were excited would have small chance of escaping. n- n- pc after the other. At fii*st it was convulsed They would most likely be smothered m kith a frightful grimace. The eyes opened or roasted to death in their uneasy beds. P- Ü- wd shut, and the eyebrows contracted. The A few of the basements are better id ace at first assumed the expression of grief kept than those which have been de te nd then of rage, so that the jaws dropped scribed. The bunks of at least one of ■> pgether and the teeth were gnashed in fury, I- them are clean and supplied with pil i he muscles of the body were next operated b ■on. The arms rose and fell, the legs were lows. In several the price of beds 1 pemately drawn up and thrown out vio- ranges from a dime to 25 cents, the ■tly, the breast moved up and down as if dearer ones being of a fair quality. teath was still in the body. We could Many of the lodgers in the more re lainly hear the air whistling through the spectable basements are honest labor leeding neck. When the corpse was cold ers, but in nearly all of them the tramp ad stiff these experiments were disc*ntin- element is largely represented. I ’ETROLEUM chewing gum . I. fd; it was then taken back to the ce metery ad buried. Xotliinz to i*e Ashamed or. [San Francisco Chronicle. ] A Fern liar System of Marriage. “At the first production of my new play the other night,” remarked Mrs. Biggs, the alleged dramatist, “I saw several of the critics go out between the acts. Now, don't you think they ought to be ashamed of themselves?” “Am not sure about that.” responded nu editor. “Not sure?” “No. Going out between the acts is often necessary.” “Howcan it be?” “Well, I was a critic once, and at the presentation of new plavs I often had to leave between the acts.” “What for?” “To breathe the fresh air of heaven, look up f t the silent stars, reflect on the immensity of the revolving universe—and pray for patience.” [Pall Mall Gazette. ] Life in the Siberian mines is not such an together unmitigated curse as jiopular im- fination pictures it. From some of the ■eatest evils which men elsewhere have to iffer, the convicts in eastern Siberia are ippily delivered. There is indeed marriage id giving in marriage, but there is no court lip, nor need any man complain that he is mated to a savage” or a shrew. When a risoner wishes to get married, all he has to > is to send in an application to the over- nr, who straightway allots hrim a wife, tree days’ probation is then allowed, and if ay incompatibility of temper seems likely > arise the man receives twenty-five lashes ad another wife, and so on until he is COll- toted. The Harvard Jay <»oui<l*M Tomb. [Philadelphia Time«. ] Jay Gould's tomb is almost finished. It is f ample size, being constructed to hold hmty bodies. It is elaborate in its work tonship and finish and perfect in all its ap- Dintments. The illustrious millionaire bio- rapher of himself is now prepared for any- Wng that fat« may bring. If he wants to lay al home he has houses, lands and money ■lore. If he wants to sail the «**as he has a icht ready to leave at a moment s notice. JM1 now if he ww: to die nt any time o»* ny crazy person should blow him up with ynamite or powder no is ready with a tomb torranted to hold the restless mifiion- — W1WM MW meet ---------------- -- and to outwit tbe shrewdest and mwt in- tostrious ghouls which New York can possibly Dnish. 1/fM Offensive. [Exchange. J A temperance man orating at a «oldlera’ ^quet out west had occarion tn repeat the Wplet: •'Their bones are mouldering in the their spirits are in heaven, we trust." it instead of '‘spirits" he used the word ’tmulanta,’" as being lew offensive t* some **1 church members whom be raw present. [Boston Budget] Take the whole caravan of Harvard exquisites and trot them out on the race track, our word for it, the best judge on the stand will not be able to detect the slightest difference in their gait. They will each raise the foot just so high from the gicin 1. cr.rry it forward to just snch a <1 stance, and place it again on f... ground at flic same angle, and this, the-, will tell you, is the fasliionable way of wulking. and that no gentleman walks otherwise. • | I Hhrep for Australia. [Chicago News.] The Australians ar? largely purchas ing the best breeds of American sheep. The latest arrival to this end is Mr. James Winter, who has a ranch of 35,000 acres, with 45.000 sheep, 6,000 bead of cattle, and 500 horses Last spring he shipper! a large number of sheep from San Francisco, which hare done so well that he propose« to repeat the trans- action JIary A nil or «on anil the Poet Lou;- fellow. [N?w York New«.] Among other distinguished men of letters who gave her their suitrages w as the poet Longfellow. He greatly a I mired her acting, and he would try at times to give her good advice and direct her tastes in a proper channel- But infusing culture into Mary Ander son was an Herculean task, indeed. On the stage she was easily a queen; off, she was nothing but a wild coot of a girl, who rolled her handkerchief over her finger, and who shifted restlessly from one chair to another till she had circumnavigated the whole room. She was frank, though—honest—no snob— perfectly at her ease with any one. I remember being much struck with this latter characteristic. It was after her first Boston engagement. Long fellow was spending the evening with her in her box at the opera. “Il 1’rovatore” was being sung. Don’t you like ‘Trovatore.’’ ” she asked, ruthlessly, of the man who had heard the music of half a century, and represented the culture of cycles. “ Well, yes: but then,” said the poet, you should see ‘Don Giovanni’ and the ‘Nozze of Figaro.’” “Oh. I like ‘ 1’rovatore.’” The poet looked somewhat amused, I thought, but nothing more, and then relapsed into silence. Next she turned to him and said : “ Won’t you give me a copy of your joems with your name in it?” I fairly shuddered at the indelicacy of the request, but the poet smiled pleasantly, and said, seemingly pleased : “Of course I will!” And the next day. I afterward learned, he sent her a complete edition of his works, with his autograph on the fly-leaf. Verily, it is a mistake to be fastidious. “Ask and it shall be given, seek and ye shall find.” As I was leaving the box Longfellow asked me to share his cab with him, of fering to drop me at my rooms. 1 ac cepted of course. As we rattled along over the cobbles we very naturally dis cussed the Anderson. I hazarded the remark that she was the nearest ap proach to the tragedy queen that we had on the stage. “She is a paradox," said Longfellow; “she is at once classical and crude. She has everything to learn in her profes sion, and she has a spark of the divine afflatus—a look of fatalism in her eyes, a plastic spirit in her gestures.” The Rye-Straw Car-Wheel. [The Continent.] Paper wheels may be larger than the ordinary iron wheels or they may be the same size. Their surface is never corrugated nor irregular like that of the iron wheel. The paper of a paper car-wheel is nothing more nor less than ordinary brown straw board. That made wholly of rye straw is preferable. The boards are cut into disks, and holes in the centre are punched large enough to fit the iron axle shoulder that con stitutes the hub of the wheel. Thus shaped, the straw boards are placed one upon another with ordinary flour paste between the layers, till a pile of them about five inches high is attained. Then they are put under a hydraulic press and squeezed together as tightly as it is practicable to compress matter of the consistency of straw board, The pressure is so great as to produce a high degree of heat in the compressed board. After being thoroughly dried, the paper wheel is turned on a lathe to fit the heavy steel tire and shell into which it is inserted to form the core of the wheel. It is held firmly in its place by an iron plate the size of the inner sur face of the wheel and by bolts. In short, the paper of a paper car-wheel is simply a core or filling in a shell of steel, the outer rim or tire that runs on the track being nearly two inches thick. The virtue of the paper consists in the fact that it gives elasticity to the wheel. The durability of a paper wheel, on account of this elasticity, is computed to be many thousands of miles greater than that of the common cast-iron wheel now in general use. Thomas Tracey's Talisman. [Chicago News.] He was a little old man and very dirty. When he stood before Justice Foote yesterday it looked as though he would fall heir to a well-developed fine. But he held a talisman in his left hand. It was a plug hat—one of those which seem to say on every 17th day of March “positively my last appearance.” But they always show' up next year just the same. The prisoner held it so the court did not see it. “You were very drunk, Thomas Tracey,” sternly remarked the justice. “Y’ez, snr: but, yer honor----- ” and he slowly lifted that ancient na tional insignia into view. A change came over the face of the magistrate, the hard lines about the mouth relaxed, and he looked like a man who felt the gnaw ing of the pangs of remorse or a piece of cold mince pie. “Dismissed,” he said, and a large, cold bead of perspiration shot down his nose and fell on the docket with a dull thud, forever blotting out the entry against the i.ame of Thom: Tracey. The Motion Was Not Met <>nde<L [Doughsville (Ga.) Star.] Somo years ago. when the Hon. Hugh Buchanan nx; judge of the Coweta cir cuit, there lived in the conntv a gentle man who had once been a justice of the peace and judge of the inferior court, whom we shall call Judge S. This gen tleman had just been admitted to the bar. He was in his first case before Judge Buchanan. Col. A. was his op ponent. Co!. A. moved to disnr * the case of Judge 8. for some defect in tho pleadings. Judge Buchanan asked Judge 8. what he had to say in reply to the motion of Col. A. “Why, if it pleases your honor,” said Judge 8. “yon can't entertain the motion of Col. A. It has no second.” Judge 8. lo. t his case. THE RESULTS. Whenever contending princes fight, For private p que nr public right. Armies are rawed, the fleet* are niRna'd, They combat both by sea and iao L When, after many battles peri Both. tir*d of blows, make peace at lari. What is it after afl th« propl« ge*f Why taxes, widows, wooden logs and debt. OSTRICHES IN FLORIDA. %n Attempt tn llaiwe the Ginnt Bird« for Their Feat her« in t hi» Country. [New York Sun.] Some Faeta About Peanuts. [Cor. Philadelphia Fret».] The preparation of per nuts for the market is an interesting operation. They are first put in an immense cyl inder, from which they enter the brushes, where each nut receives fifteen or sixteen feet of brushing before it be comes free. After this cleansing pro cess the nuts drop on an endless belt, which revolves very slowly. On each side of the belt ’s a row’ of girls—black, white, tan colored and crushed straw berry, some of them—whose duty it is to separate the poor nuts from the good ones. Those of the nuts that “pass” go on to the next room, where more girls await their arrival and putthem in bags which, when filled, are sewed up and branded as “oocks,” with the figure of a rooster prominent on each sack. These are the “No. 1” peanuts. The poorer nuts, which were separated by the girls at the endless belt, are all picked over again; the best are singled out and branded, after being put in the sack, as “ships.” The “ships” are not so large nor so fine in appearance as the “cocks,” but are just as good for eating. The third grade of nuts is known as ’‘eagles” and the cullings that are left from the “eagles” are bagged and sent to a building where the little meat that is in them is extracted by a patent shelter. This “meat"—for by this name it is known to the dealers—is put up, clean and nice, in 200-pound bags and shipped for the use of confectioners and manufacturers of peanut candy. There is also an oil made from some of the nuts, and in this specialty, I am told, a large trade is done by wholesale druggists. Of the peanuts there is nothing wasted, for even the shells are made useful, being put in immense sacks and sold to livery men for horse bedding,and a very comfortable, health ful bed they make. A few days ago Mr. Charlton Jones of Sylvan lake, Florida, left this city with three pairs of fine ostriches, which he recently received from Nubia. Mr. Jones intends to raise ostriches for their feathers. Although the climate of Florida is not quite like that of Nubia, yet he thinks it is very probable that the giant birds will thrive and multiply in their new dwell ing place. In different places in North and South Africa there are manv os trich farms, where the birds are raised specially for their feathers. The feath ers are usually cut off only once a year, " but ostriches which re ?eive special care yield annu- ally two __ and even three crops of feathers. W hen it is considered that ostriches live from forty to fifty years, and that yearling birds yield remarka ble feathers, it is clear that un ostrich farm ought to be profitable The arti ficial breeding of ostriches is perhaps the best paying branch of agriculture. About three years ago chicks just out of the egg were sold at $20 to $25 apiece; at I month of age they brought $30 to $35; at G months, $65 to $100; at a year, $100 to $150, and at 2 years about $250. A pair of ostriches of full age that is. 3 y.-ars old then commanded $300 to $450. But now, as the number of ostrich farms has been greatly increased, a pair of good os triches can be bought at $200. The ostriches yielding the best feath ers are found in North Africa, but their number is rather insignificant. Since 1862 the ostrich farms have greatly multiplied in Cape Colony, Natal and the Transvaal, countries lying at the same distance from the equator as Florida. During the last twenty years the number of domestic ostriches in those countries has increased up to A Chinese Funeral Procesuion. 100.000, and their yield of feathers [Hong Kong Cor. London Telegraph.] amounts to about $4.500,000 worth. There is this unfortunate fact con Egypt raises only about $1,000,000 nected with the death of a Chinaman worth of feathers, and Algeria, Tunis in Hong Kong—he can never be buried and Tripoli altogether hardly $100,000 there with the eclat which is obtaina worth. True, the ostrich feathers ble in the interior. I saw one funeral raised in the latter countries are supe procession up on the Tientang river, rior to tlio-e raised in South Africa, but which was nearly a mile long. First the difference is not very great, and came a posse of priests in white robes the feathers of Cape Colony are often and shaven heads, and then a peculiarly sold for those of Egypt. holy man, who, 1 suppose, was a sort The hatching of ostrich chicks takes of bishop. Next was a lot of servants forty-two days. The eggs are about six bearing paper money, clothes, and inches long and five inches wide, and articles of furniture, to be burnt are equal in bulk to twentv-fonr hen’s at the grave, and after them some eggs. The ostrich chick in a few days I men with gongs of tremendous power. reaches the size of an ordinary hen. It Then followed a company of soldiers, is covered with light brow’n down, and some more gongs; after which through which, on the back and wings, ! were banner-men in considerable num project black needles like those of the bers, and again gongs. Now came a hedge hog. The chick of 1 month is I huge white dragon borne aloft in the of the size of a turkey, and its down air, and another party of priests imme- has begun to change into minute feath 1 diately after. The coffin followed, ers. The body of an ostrich half a being borne by twenty men on long year old is about the size of that of an bamboo poles. It was covered with average man. Its feathers reach a white, and on its top was the cap of the good size, but they are not cast off be deceased mandarin. His chair was fore it becomes a yearling. ! next, and after that many other sedan Y’oung ostriches are usually kept chairs, full of relatives and friends, separate from the grow n up ones. They some empty ones coming afterward. feed upon grass, corn, and leaves. And lastly, there ran along a lot of They arc kept in small flocks of from women all habited in white. twelve to fifteen birds, in a place sur This was really a fine procession. The rounded by a ditch or a defunct Chinaman at Hong Kong can fence of creeping plants, How- not expect to be ushered into the next ever insecure the f fence ___ __ j __ , may be, world in such state as this. But he can the ostriches never attempt to pass it. have a nice coffin, and is to be blamed It often happens that domestic ostriches very little if he gets it in good time, so attack men, and particularly strangers, as to be assured of its quality. In one although in the wild state they usually respect the European of Hong Kong shun man. When attacking a man an has a certain advantage over the native, ostrich strives to strike him with its for he possesses what is generally al feet. Such blows are very dangerous. lowed to be the prettiest cemetery in There have been cases in which the the world. Situated in what is called spine of a horse has been broken by “the happy valley,” it is for situation them. If a man has no arms to defend and ornamentation one of the most himself, and no way to escape, the best beautiful spots that art and nature com thing for him to do is to throw bined have produced. himself on the ground, for then the Mr. Kullivim on FistienfTs. ostrich cannot strike him a hard [Chicago Herald.] blow. When enraged, however, the “Ibelieve,”said Mr. Sullivan, of Bos ostrich does not leave its victim, but w’atches him until he rises, and then ton, “every chap should know how to pat furiously renews the attack. Under the up his props” (meaning, no doubt, his circumstances a man has only one maulers, or, in plain English, his fists). “It is a great deal straighter and bet means of escape, namely, creeping to somo place of safety, such as a tree, a ter than drawing a gun” (meaning, it is presumed, the using of a pistol). In river or ditch. The fights among male ostriches are 1 short, Professor Sullivan plantshimself very savage and bloody. The males on the platform of the manly art of bravely defend their nests, and they sit self-defense with his fists. The opinion on the eggs from 5 p. m. to 8 a. m., of the distinguished professor is worthy when the females take the post and re of consideration, and there is little main on the nest until 5 p. m. While doubt that, on the whole, bloody noses, on the nest the ostrich lays its neck on the result of fistic encounters, are less the ground, so that an inexperienced objectionable than bullet-perforated person might mistake it for a heap of corpses. But there are great physical inequali earth. On leaving the nest even do mestic ostriches make several jumps ties between men. Even the profession I and curious motions calculated to mis of which Dr. Sullivan is one of the lead their enemies. In case of danger most conspicuous, indeed, the most ostriches try to hide themselves in conspicuous exponent, divide mankind bushes or behind stones. Wildcats, into classes of weights, by which divis hyenas, jackals, wolves and tigers are ion we get heavy weights ami feather the enemies of ostriches in their native weights, or men of larger bone and land. The tricks to which these beasts stature, and others of slight develop resort in order to break the ostrich ment. Every man nrglit know how to eggs are well known. Ostrich farmers put up his “props,” but the light usually bait the beasts with poisoned weight would employ them in vain against the heavy weight. What then meat to save their flocks. Florida abounds in alligators, which is to be done to equalize the combat if are near cousins of the crocodiles of the it is to I m ) conducted on the Sullivan Nile. Whv, then, may not ostriches plan only? The professor should givo this branch of the subject anxious thrive in Florida? thought and stand prepared properly Tobacco Production and Consump to advise an anxious world. tion. [Boston Advertiser.] Our own tobftccd exports are at least ten times larger than are those of Turkey; but probably few people know that in the production, consumption and export oi <r tobacco America exceeds every other country, and that, as a producer of quantities, it is fol- lowed immediately by lluasia, Hun- gary, Germany, France i ot bv Cuba, which has but 4,500 t-La•'»co farms, and exports leas than does Turkey. Toney C.netroroiuy. [Milwaukee Sentinel.] “Oh, yes,” said Mr4. Parvenu, to __ a friend on th» nver-inb resting subject of grz.tronoi.iy, “we always serve our I roibsi quail on real po ind cake real big slices, too; toast is so common you know —everybody r.erves quail on toast.” Conkling'* Early Manhood. [New York Tribune.] “Koscoe Conkling,” remarked tho Hon. Hamilton Spencer, a prominent lawyer of Bloomington, III., the other day, “read law in my office in Utica, N. Y. The firm was composed ot my father, the late Joshua Spencer, Francis Kernan,» ¿-United States senator from New York, and mys<!f. Conkling en tered our office in IMG, and was quite a young boy, but large and tall for his age. He was rather a good-natured, red-faced, wholesome-looking sort of a fellow, possessing a very fine spe -imen of physical manhood, while there was everything else about ¿he young student to indicate good health and content ment with the world. Although quick to learn and possessing tin finest tai enta, young Conkling was net regarded as being what is called a very close stndent, but still his mind was capable of grasping eagerly the principles of ths law, and his eloqneneo at the bar won for him many important suits.” Inter Ocean: Advertising marie a fortune of a clear $4,000,000 hr J. ’ C. Ayer, and his wife inherited t This PQ teaches that the wires of htmir «-•» should persuade them to ;»di 4 '<• Jack Falstaff: "Ix>rd, Ix/rd, how thia world is given to lywg." largely. JEFF DAVIS IN IRONS- An Indignity OiTereil the Mouthern l.eader M hlle In kortrenn Monroe. [lien: Perley Poore in Boston Budget.] “Was Jeff Davis ever manacled?" asks "a constant reader” of the “Rem iniscences.” He was, at Fortress Mon roe, on the ground that he had refused to eat some of the food prepared for him, and had shied a tin plate at tile head of the soldier who served him. This was “revolt,” strictly speaking, but there was nothing to fear from the angry acts of an old man who was im prisoned in the inner apartment of a casemate, with a guard in the outer ap- partment and sentries posted on the out side, at the port bole, and at the door. But ordeys had undoubtedly been sent by Secretary Stanton to put the fallen chief of the Confederacy in irons if he gave any provocation, and he gave it. Capt. Titlow, who was especially charged with the custody of Mr. Davis —and who is authority for this state ment —was accordingly ordered by the commandant of the fort to place his prisoner in irons. Summoning a blacksmith, who was in the habit of riveting irons on soldiers sentenced by courts-martial to wear them, the cap tain went to the casemate, accompanied by-the blacksmith carrying the fetters and his tools. They found Mr. Davis seated oa his cot, there being no other furniture besides but a stool, and a few articles of tinware. When lie glauced at the blacksmith and comprehended the situation, he exclaimed: “My God! this indignity to be put on me! Not wliilo 1 have life!" At first he pleaded for an opportunity to inquire of Secretary Stanton. Then his excite ment rose to fury as he walked the cell, venting itself in almost incoherent ravings. The captain at length calmly reminded him that, as a soldier, he must be aware that, however disagree able the duty assigned, it must be per formed, and that, as iu duty bound, he should perform it. “None but a dog would obey such orders,” replied Mr. Davis, emphasizing his determination never to be manacled alive by grasping the stool and aiming a very vicious blow. The sentries rushed forward to disarm him, but were ordered back into their places. Capt. Titlow explained that such demonstra tions of self defense were foolish and useless, and that it would bo much better for Mr. Davis to submit to the inevitable necessity. But while re ceiving this advice, he took the oppor tunity of grasping the musket of oue of the sentries, and in the furious en deavor to wrest it from him quite a •cuflle ensued. That ended, the captain took the precaution of clapping liis hand on his sword-liilt, as he perceived Mr. Davis’ eye was on it, and at once ordered the corporal of the guard to send into the casemate four of his strongest mon without side arms, as he feared they might get into the wrong possession and cause damage. They were ordered to tako the prisoner as gently as possible, and using no unnecessary force, to lay him upon thecot and there hold him down. It proved about as much as four men could do, the writh- ings and upheavings of the infuriated man developing the strength of a maniac, until it culminated in sheer exhaustion. When the unhappy task was done, Mr. Davis, after lying still awhile, raised himself and sat on tho aide of the bed. As his feet touched the floor and the chain clanked, he was utterly over come ; tfle tears burst out iu a flood. When he became calm he apologized iu a manly wav to the captain fertile need less trouble lie had caused him, and they afterward maintained mutual rela- tioiiaof personal esteem and friendliness. The indignity had, however, such au effect upon Mr. Davis that th« physician called in insisted on the removal of tho irons. Permission to do this was re luctantly obtained from Washington, and the same man who had put on tho fetters took them off. This act did much to restore the deposed leader of tho rebellion to the foremost place, which ho had forfeited, in tho hearts of those who had rebelled. Fultli In (»rape mill t'anlster. [M. Quail in Detroit Free Preus.] “Bring up the guns!” Let the order be heard by a regiment of infantry crowding to the rear in a panic, and it will halt the men in their tracks and make fighters of them again. There is something in tho companion ship of a field battery that makes a foot soldier braver than when his regiment tights alone. The guns may bo wasting ammunition as they roar and crash, but it seems to tho regiments on flank or in roar that every discharge is driving great gaps through tho enemy’s line. Ho long as the battery remains tho supports will remain. Even when the order is given to double-shot the guns, anil tho in fantry can see that half the horses have been shot down, he still carries tho feeling that grape and canister will win the victory. The loss of horses, wagons and small arms is lightly mentioned in official reports anil the losers feel no degradation; but let a brigade lose a single gun from one of its batterii s and every soldier feels the shame. It is next to losing tho flag presented to tho regi ment as it marched from home. Winner of the Thlrteea. (Chicago Herald.] None of the thirteen men who sat down to dinner m New York city on Nov. 13, 1HH2, to defy supers .ition, died in the year following, and they du cd together again Wednesday night at ’lie Knickerbocker cottage. In front of each plate burned a tilm k candle, on the left hand was a gravestone lioar- iug the wine list, and upon the rigli. hand a coffin with the dinner list on it. The World Moves, [Exf-hangn.] How the world ha* progressed within a century' George Washington, the first president of the United Htat«'«, never saw a steamlioat. John Adams, the second president of the UniVsl States, never saw a railrood Andrew Jackson the seventh president, knew nothing about the telegraph. Abraham Lincoln the sixteenth president, never dreamed of such a thuig as the telephone