»IT TRICKSTERS.
i
A MAN AND A MOB.
Seward*» Prephacy Raalisad.
Th. Way Lyon Playfair Handled the
Lanoaahir» Striker».
When, shortly before his ileath lu
1872. William 11. Seward was aaked
what he believed to be the greatest
achievement of his pul lie career, he an
swered, "The annexation of Alaska."
He added. however, "But the American
people will not grasp the value of that
acquisition for a third of a century
yet” Ttii» shows that Seward, the em
pire builder, was also a prophet. Sew
ard has been dead ft>r thirty live years,
and It 1» only In recent time» that bls
countrymen have appreciated the Im
portanee of Alaska as a possession.
Strong opposition was offered In the
house of representatives In 1807 to
making the appropriation of $7.200.000.
the price which Seward paid to Russia
for the province. Said one of annexa
tion's opponents In that chamber, "All
that Alaska will ever be able to pro
duce are i>olar bear« and Iceberg».”
For several years a nickname for the
region was "Seward's Folly.” But time
ha» fully vindicated Seward. Leslie's
Weekly.
During the great labor riot» In Lan
Queer Conjuring Feats of the cashire about the middle of the last
century the ready resources of Lyon
Seventeenth Century.
1'layfalr saved one of the only two
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mills which remained open at the time.
SOME QUAINT OLD RECIPES. The government was anxious that
these two should continue iu action,
and supplied the workmen engaged
Lfttt» Expar iments In Which Boiling
with muskets. Rut a great force of
Hoad« Off Living Animal» Waa an Strikers advanced upon cue of the
Incident—How They Killed a Horae two, and It was obvious that the day
and Cured Him Again.
was lost. The mob meant to wreck
Conjurers In ancient times were not the place, l'layfalr. who was a frlcud
of the owner, appeared in haste among
eery respectable members of society.
them, keeping the projirietor out of
When successful they enjoyed the rep sight. He put the case fratikly to the
utation of having sold their souls to the strikers. The gates of the mill were
effil one. and wheu of inferior ability closed, but the numbers of the strikers
they gained notoriety by being either made them irresistible; hence it waa
Browned
|burned
The mediaeval of no use their all going in and wreck
magicians as well as the Egyptian ing the place, l^t a few of them enter
magi and the Chaldean sages were ouly the premier«, remove the plugs from
a strange mixture of chemist, conjurer the boilers, aud thus, without damage
Th» Oldest T»xt Book.
and charlatan, and as these gentlemen to the works, secure their stoppage.
Within the last few years a revolu
Even
a
disorderly
mob.
bravely
met
by
were In the habit of using their sup
tion has been accomplished at Oxford
posed occult powers to their own ad a man of courage and tact, w ill listen. which ought really to affect the mind
So
did
this
one.
Playfair's
proposition
vantage they were naturally unpopu
of the nation more than the difference
lar. The feats of Jugglery performed sounded fair, but might not treachery between Lord Curzon and Lord Rose
lie
behind
it?
by these craftsmen were intended for
He immediately put their doubts at bery. A text book has been discarded
the mystification and not the amuse
rest
by offering himself as hostage. which was already venerable for Its
ment of the public, and for centuries
He
would
accompany the deputation antiquity at the beginning of the
conjuring had to It only a black side.
while
the
others
kept guard over the Christian era. Needless to say. we aro
The amateur conjurer of today is not
works.
The
men
agreed, and Playfair referring to Euclid's "Element»,” for
always a popular individual, save with
strolled
off
with
the
men chosen. To- what other text book ever had such a
children and the unsophisticated yokels
gether
they
went
to
the boilers and run as that? It has been accepted
ffb the general public he is merely a
withdrew
the
plugs.
This
stopped the ever since Its publication, which was
bore of greater or less magnitude,
works,
but
did
no
other
damage.
While In the reign of the first Ptolemy <B. C.
Whose performance is so obvious as to
823-85). No writer has ever become so
deceive no one. It is hard to realize thus engaged Playfair was able to lis Identified with a ■deuce as Euclid
ten
to
the
story
of
the
leaders,
aud
that this ¡>erson is no mere mushroom
with geometry,
The nearest ap-
growth of modern society, but in point found many of their demands most proache» art' to be found lu the rela-
■of fact bls role is one of a respectable reasonable and such that afterward It tlon of Aristotle to logic und of Adam
antiquity, for be is to be found tread was possible readily to concede them. Smith to political economy.—London
The little party returned from their
ing close upon the heels of the magi
Spectator.
Innocent
wrecking and found the mob
cians and in the day» when witchcraft
was still rampant This is significant honorably preserving order. The sci
A Stairway of Concrete
of bls reputation even In those early entist gave them a couple of sover
One of tho moat novel, useful and
times, for had any one taken his tricks eigns with which the buy food, and pleasing use. to which cement has
seriously be would doubtless have been they returned him three times three been put In Interior construction la the
run to earth and done to death as a In cheers. There remained only one banging concrete stairway. In Its
other mill to close, that at Clitberoe,
•^D^^he middle of the seventeenth and upon this the strikers now construction no structural Iron what
ever Is used, only small channel ban
century, in the earliest years of tbs marched. Again they were thwarted, one-quarter inch by three-quarter Inch
itetofatlbn. a number of tricks were but this time not by pacific means, spaced about four inches and covered
published In one of those facetious but by the might of the military.—St with expanded metal lathing. The
hooks which seem to bare occupied James' Gazette.
false work can tie removed In two
weeks. The stairway supports not
the press to a great extent at this time,
only Its own weight, but. In addition.
but which owing to their popularity I
SUPERSTITIOUS.
7,500 pounds of warble, and n load of
have for the most part [«erisbed The
2,000 pounds has lieeu carried up the
chief recommendation of the greater
General Grant believed in dreams.
number of these tricks is that no ap
Nelson, the English naval hero, al stairs without Injury or deflection.
paratus beyond the utensils of every ways carried a horseshoe with him into Only the t>est quality cement should
be used In Interior work.—Philadel
day life is necessary; also it is sug battle.
•
gested to the performer that be can
Von Moltke, the hardy old German phia Ledger.
make some small profit ont of his en general, would never begin a battle os
tertainment by prevailing on bls audi a Friday.
Tho Dog.
|
ence to bet with him on the result of
Why
any
sane
person
should
wish
to
1
Prince Bismarck of Germany would
the trick.
never sit down to a dinner with thir nurse any animal at mealtime It Is >
’ "To set a horse's or an asse's head teen at the table.
difficult to see. atxl when that animal
upon a man's bead aud shoulders"
ia a dog the matter fairly passes com
President Davis of the Confederacy
aeems Impossible out of the land of
prehension. With all his good quali
of
children
believed
that
the
presence
Faery, but we are Informed that by
ties the friend of man has a most dis
boiling the bead cut off a living brought him luck.
gusting habit of cadging for food
James G. Blaine would never turn whenever he sees It, and as a table
animal “the flesh boy I’d may runne
into oyle,” and then by mingling the I back to re-enter his home even Jf he companion he is decidedly objectiona
hair beaten into powder with this had forgotten something.
ble —Country Gentleman.
The father of Nicholas IL of Russia
oil and anointing the beads of the
•tanders-by “they shall seem to have guided his actions by the advice of an
horses’ or asses' beads”— a costly ex American spirit medium.
Admiral Farragut says he used to
periment and fearsome if successful.
But. besides this, one can "make peo be guided by a still, small voice which
ple seem headlesse," and this withont told him what to do in battles.
bloodshed and by the following simple
The ameer of Afghanistan, the sul
recipe: "Break arsenick very fine and tans of Morocco and Zanzibar and the
boyle it with sulphur in a cover'd pot khedlve of Egypt all maintain official
and kindle It with a new candle, and astrologers.
the standers-by will seem to be head-
lease.” Doubtless a strong imaglna-
A Timely Pr»»»nt.
tlon is necessary for success.
A certain colored gentleman recently
Some of the tricks are such as would sainted a large colored lady ol the
nowadays cause the performer to be Amazonian tyj>e in the following lan
disliked, to put it mildly. For instance, guage:
"have a nut filled with ink aDd give
“Yuh's lookin' mighty fascinatin’
this unto another and bid him crack It this evenin', Bal.”
and see what be can find in that,”
Ba) hauled off and knocked him
(Which being done« "will cause much down. Then, looking him out of an
laughter.”
inclination to get up, she said, "Now,
I "To keep a Tapster from frothing his yuh jest lay tbar till I goes an* finds
pots' must have been an amusement out what dat word fascinatin' ’
to the wagB of the period, and for this means!”
"provide in readinesse the skin of a red
Next day the aforesaid colored gen-
Hering, and when the Tapster is ab tieman presented the said Sal wlth
sent do but rub a little on the Inside a copy of Webster's Dictionary, say-
of bls pots, and be will not be able to Ing, “I might want ter salute yuh
froth them, do what be can. In a ag'in, so jes please look up the mean
good while after.”
in’ of some of these heah compllraen-
“To counterfeit a diamond with a tation terms.”
White saphir” is a most useful accom
Sal promptly refused to accept the
plishment, but the fraud is likely in present upon the ground that one
these days to be discovered and 1» would have to know the word In or-
more a chemical experiment than a der to look It up.—New York Times.
trick.
Several tricks are recommended
Gown» From the Undertaker’».
r.hich have animals as tlieir subject
“You’ll be astonished when I tell
and are for the most part brutal to you," said a man who knows, "but It’s
our modern ideas. Perhaps the least a fact that dressmakers sometimes
■objectionable is "to seem to kill a send to a fashionable undertaker for
Horse aud cure him ugain,” which a gown when they have a hurry order.
may be thus accomplished:
There was a time when undertakers
• "Take the seed of henbane and give carried only shrouds in stock, but In
It the Horse In his Provender, and It this age of luxury the big concerns
will cast him into such a deep sleep have a line of v<iat are known In the
that he will seem dead. If you wfD trade as ‘ladies’ fine burial dresses.*
recover him again, rub bls Nostrils Such materials as benrletta, pongee,
with Vinegar, and he will seem to be faille and chiffon taffeta are used for
revived.” The "seem to be revived” these dresses, and they are made In the
sounds rather ominous, and it Is to be prevailing style.
The dressmakers
poted that the correct quantity of hen know this, and if they can’t find what
bane is not mentioned, so that It might they want in one of the regular shops,
be beet to make this experiment on they don't hesitate to call on the un
some one else's horse.
dertaker.”—New York Sun.
“To make a shoal of Goslings draw
a Timber logge” sounds interesting,
A. H. Viewed It.
but unfortunately the directions arc
Stranger fin «mall town)—I naw by
Several thousand acres
.vague. "To make a shoal of Goslings the papera that a boy lives here wb<>
or a Gaggle of Geese to seem to draw was born with no legs and no anna.
a Timber logge Is done by the verie I am a dime museum manager, and I
means that Is us'd when a Cat draws should like to find him.
a fool through a Pond, but bandied
Citizen—No use hunting him up. Ills
somewhat further off from the Be parents won’t exhibit him.
holders.’’•-London Standard.
"They won’t? Weil, it beats all what
blessings fall to folks as can’t appre
What the Hydra Was.
ciate ’em."—Kansas City ln<y-pendent.
There have been many strange
things in English history. One of the
Never Touched Him.
«lost curious w; a recently mentioned
Nod<1 Would you mind Returning tho
by a little schoolgirl.
book you borrowed of me last year?
“The hydra,’’ said this much inform Todd Some one borrowed It of IM
ed young person, "was married to Hen and hasn’t returned It yet. Did you
ry VIII. When he cut her head off, ever see ¡.aything like the way soma
another one sprang right up.”—Youth s people act about a thing like tbs’’
Companion
They have no sense of honor I If«
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