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' letsKd itosa Sag of trace. * Hs < Sd sot pay the sl hteeft st3cStM > &to seaal wssjeat about arsag wea I fcaocked ep his gun and &w KOa OT 3k ric&B * &hea < L 'Let haa t > t y oa hes owk akg aeralhe zcsBarkxd. | " -Geeecal SferiiiB asd I sat on the | | reianii. kice u > ti e hfick hoiife II xfcersLee ad Gcaat etr in the ex xrd. I haul passed the koum. . fa TwtirMirr 1ft edbt&d each other t Scrte it lie e acse f the coaversa- @ $ sSfeffirfex : sayiag : * I feefeTe I • faare h < d cW pl ttre of aacH8 g T9S. fetfeereplfcd that % e ki hai MMse Sttle ac- esxstaxse a tie vMev © f Virginia. He t sss * fc ? r id &f the eoaver- at2 < WEt ] * MBegw shha l received sa the TsXer. feeridfia had cap- Ssredaeariral © f Earfy ' s artillery sdsoaB aK ceitadfceeaseattohim ro Bkawosd. Some wag had TrrkteswkicisSfcoa o ? oi those I ? ? * • 'B&apec fe y eoEsigsed to f m&joF-GrBesal i baridaa throngh. . MScslExrlyS&erida * had heard : thas. a d he was Try msch iiiiT r : feet whether he erer ' mw scsis woffd * t oxsgsx I do not l kmom. 'Khe&he- # throcghi with ias oey I s eeted that I i o had 4w g3gK Yh c&I eosld coaslgn to ) & -wkk the aaor j raee be- „ < afcjK tit 'r had costs'&oaa hiai that • iiMaw witkt m # sC Jrta3 I and rem inetl Trith mo nbontanhour andahalC .My recollection is that we stayed xit that place until tvo re ceived information that General Len and General Grant had agreed. " Philadelphia Call. "m • Mm Vcuuks. Tlieaiab-treasurj' contains at pres- mt aaore tha $100,000,000 and this mub , large as it may appear , is only part of the national cash account. CaMag at ose of the offices , areport- • r saw a man oflering some of the © Id postal cfirrency for redemption. This carrescy was issued during the war , and , it was supposed it was all redeemed. The clerk , however , 'in formed him. that small amounts were coastaatly brought in , but he added that " $15,000,000 are still out. " Most of this , no doubt , got worn out or destroyed , and thus our govern ment is a large gainer. The ex change of cents for larger currency is conducted at the same desk , and while standing there he saw a man | bring a long bag which contained ten small bags. He said that each of the latter contained § 5 in cents. The man took his § 50 in currency , and in a few minutes another man came up and said : "I want $25 in | cents. " He handed over his curren cy , and as he departed he said that they were wanted by a bank. This exchange is constantlv going on , averaging § 5,000 a day. The bank , for instance , never receive any cents , or , indeed any other small coin from depositors. They are , however , constantly paying it out , as required by checks , and , conse quently , they send for it to the sub- treasury , which is supplied by rail roads and saloons. The Broadway railroad and the Third avenue road each , averages a surplus of cents and other small coin of $200 a day , and thsy exchange it in the above men tioned manner. N. Y. Mail and Ex press. i > mm Three Brare Women. There were eight persons in the "mountain wagoar They'were atthe steepest pitch in the descent from 3foont Washington , and both springs had already been broken on the trip and were bandaged with wooden splints , when the horses tumbled. The woman on the seat with the driver turned an eye of ter ror to those behind her. In a mo ment one of the two men In the party had jumped from the wagon , and or dered the ladies to dismount as quietly as possible. The other man of the party , stricken with terror , ran into the woods. The driver , sat speechless , holding his reins in hand. One woman hastened to block the wheels with a stone. The woman on the front seat unhitched the two span , of leaders from their fallen com panions and led them to a position ont of danger and petted them until they were quiet. Another woman , and a Boston lady who is well known , stepped up to the kicking and groan ing horses and disengaged the traces , at the same time dodging the heels of the disabled animals , and then the driver , who had held the fort till his assistants had made the lifting ol the team from Its pressure on the dis abled horses possible , dismounted aad speedily put his team in order again. White Mountain Letter. a o au Cistern Filters. A cheap filter and one easily con structed may be made by walling of ? one-third of the cistern with a wall the thickness of a brick. The brick should be soft and porous , so that the water will soak through into the larger compartment , from which the water will be drawn for use. Bocm enough should be left at the top for apersontogot down into the filter tc clean it out occasionally. Bainwati r . as it falls from the clouds contains tl e least foreign matter of all others ex cept distilled water , and ranks first in wholesale qualities , along with spring water and water from deep wells. Or a small and shallower cistern may be made near the main one for a receiver , and the two connected by a piece ofclraln tile with a bit of fine wire strainer fitted over the receivii g end of the tile. A still cheaper oi.e can be made out of a tight cask , with a false perforated bottom , leaving a few inches of space below it. On this false bottom lay a little clean straw or a new gunny sack , and cover with clean gravel and sand for straining material , and connect the bottom with , the cistern by a pipe. m Attacked bja Xoaster Owl. Dan M. Banks , of Elizabethtown , DL , had a singular experience with a large owL He was awakened by his chickens squalling , and going to tl e house to investigate matters , he \ \ s attacked by an owl , which ran • * s large , sharp talons almost thror h his arm. He defended himself w h his other arm and had an ugly h e torn in his right hand by the bi < s beak. His cries for hetp attra tid the attention of his wife , who ran 1o his assistance and succeeded in Ck- patching his owlship , whose ckws were still fastened in her husbai d's arm. A physician was sent for , wl o dressed his wounds and pronounced them as being of rather a serious rn- turethe owl wasofthehornedspecics , andan unusually large one measuring five feet from tip to tip of its wings. A Def ? Attempts JHurder. A valuable bird dog and the pet o the family owned by a W-dlingford man , was recently compelled to divie e his attentions with a little span el added to the household. But the bird dog _ did not take kindly to t e innovation. A few days ago both | dogs were missing for a time , aad upon search being made it was found that the old dog had dug a deep hole in the ground and had put the un welcome intruder into it , and when discovered was covering up the hole asfistas possible. When theHtt' feUowas rescued his would-Le mur derer showed quite as much discom- fltfere aad shame as a human sinner % kt. Wallingford ( Conn.WitneK. mmmmmBma immammmmmimmmmm . . j sre f * Hi tmaaal imaSM i w THE IIKATED TEnH. I Fnt upon nn ice ranchino One Bultry day of Anpfust , < - - Fcnriiit ? that I would dcFBirato , * Like hcntlicn god or sawdust. ' I took my pen to writo a akotch Of what I Htiw about , And lit my pipo with point of it , While undornoath a spout. I saw a star juBt tip our air , > And leave with fiery tail ; Upon n p rco of ton tcd bread There camo and sat a quail. A dog picked up a marrow bone , But dropped it with a howl , My fl&cera boiled liko partnipa , Aa I lanced his blistered jowL A cat let off its midnight best , And climbed a charred post , f Which saved a littlo red-hot mouse It's little red-hot ghost. fho milkmaid lost her plumpness , > Ah sho melted on her stool , And said Bhe could not milk again Until the cows got cool. I laid my scorched paper down , For gono tho power of writing , When lingers dry burst into flame- , ' And mattors grew exciting. TOBE HODGE. • mm The Lieutenant's Story. It is a somewhat rare thing to some across a good story teller in this world one who knows how to embellish his yarn just enough and not yet to delay the point too long. If there aver was a good hand at this sort o. thing Lieutenant Walsh , of the Sig nal Service Corps , is that one. This morning he was in a fine mood and told the following thrilling story of adventures in the far Southwest : "Several years ago I was inspect ing stations in the west. I had just arrived at a little station out in the direction it doesn't matter where ; We had come across the Alkali des- srfc and my throat and eyes were fill ed with the dust. I had to send my clothes out to be beaten just like a carpet. They , were perfectly white. i ' 'After I took a bath and got dressed I felt better , and decided to walk down to the signal station. This was in the morning. The man I found in charge was a big , raw- boned fellow , over six foot high , with as villainous a countenance as ever you laid your eyes on. Somehow or other I took a dislike to him from the first look I gave him. Well , I went into the office and looked over things. It is usually the custom to examine all the property in the store room also. I went into it , the man keeping with me all the time. It was a small room about the size of a large closet. There were a lot of boxes in it. I looked into some of them. In shoving them around I saw one under them all. I looked at it , but this fellow said , we'll call him Thompson , 'That is my personal property. ' There was one thing about it that I noticed at the time and that for some reason stuck in my head and probably was working there all the time , although I did not know it. "This box , which was piled away under all the others and all covered with cobwebs and dirt , had a screw driven into it , and the screw had broken off a sliver of wood which looked quite fresh. I noticed at the time , but thought nothing of it. "I went to the hotel for my dinner. At the table a man sat next to me who attracted my attention right away. He was dressed like a cattle man and had all the rough ways of this class , but somehow or other he impressed me as < a man who was not wearing his own clothes , so to speak. It was only a slight impression , but it grew on me as I observed him. He seemed anxious to talk and opened a conversation with me. " Tenderfoot'he inquired. "I didn't like his looks at all and the impudence of his manner made me answer him very shortly with a plain " 'No. ' " 'Gunning ? ' " 'No. 1 " 'Thought I saw. a gun on your shoulder this * morning ? ' " 'Not much. ' " 'Fishing rod. then ? ' % " * Nor fishing rod , either/ " ' ' ' 'Purspectin' ? " Inspecting. ' " 'What might a tenderfoot like you be a doing out here inspecting' ? ' " 'What is that your business , sir ? And who told you that I was a ten derfoot ? ' said I. T was out here on these plains before you were born , as it is plainenough to see from the way you wear your disguise. ' "At this last word he colored up and soon after left the table. A gentleman on the other side of me S11fl * ' "Who is that fellow ? ' " 'I haven't the ghost of an idea/ said I. " 'I think he's a stranger in town/ he said , after a moment. 'There have been a good many burglaries here lately and we have watched strangers pretty closely. ' " 'Nothing more was said , and after dinner I went down to the Signal Office. I noticed that Thompson did not have on a uniform. So I asked him : " 'Wheres your uniform ? ' " 'Haven't anysaid he. ir 'This made me regard him with .sf&l more suspicion. He hadto take an afternoon observation and tele graph it into Washington. After he took it he said : " 'I'll go down to the telegraph office with iihis. * " 'How long will you be gone ? ' " 'About an hour. ' " ' ' ' wait here until 'Wellsaid I. 'I'll you return , as I have some writing to do. ' "He went out , and somehow or other I began to wonder what was in that box that looked as though it were newly screwed up and yet was hidden away under all the others. The idea of looking iuto it grew up on me until I decided to unscrew the id. I went into the closet and pulled ft out. I Boon had all the screws out ( -J - j.mti.Jll.n ll'm WHIl . l-W ' ' " * " - _ m mmmmmmmmmmmmumwmumm and lifted the lid off. You could hnvo knocked mo down with a feath er. It was filled to the brim with silverware spoons , knives , forks , etc. The rascal had been disguising tho burglar under the signal service officer. "I began to put the lid on again and had just finished putting in tho last screw when I heard a step be hind me. I turned quick as a flash. Thompson had returned and the car pet had deadened the sound of his footsteps. He was standing just be hind me with a revolver pointed at my head. I never thought what I was doing so far as I know , but by a sort of reflex action of the muscles I knocked the revolver up with the screw driver I had in my hand. It went off against the ceiling and we closed for a life and death struggle. "Thompson was taller than I and more powerful. I was and always have been short-winded. It is all right with me for a minute or so , but then I am played out. Back and forth we wrestled , and he was begin- ing to get the best of me when I thought of the old track at wrestling taught me at Trinity College Dublin. I felt for his collar bone with my chin. I found it and down he went. "All this time , they told me after ward , I had been yelling murder and police loud enough to wake the whole town. Just as Thompson fell , in dashed my fresh friends at the dinner table. An accomplice " of Thompson's ? Oh , no a Chicago detective , who had the singnal officer in his bracelets quick as a flash. Thompson got five years it the peni tentiary , and I got a dinner from the prominent citizens of the town. " Cincinnati Times-Star. "To Take the Cake. " American Notes and Queries. This expression applied to one who does a thing pre-eminently well , or , sarcastically , and more usually to one who fails conspicuously un doubtedly had its origin in the negro cake-walks common in the Southern States , and not unknown in the northern. The walk usually winds up a ball , Couples , drawn by lot , walk around a cake especially pre pared for the occasion , and the um pires award the prize to the couple who , in their opinion , walk most gracefully and are attired with the greatest taste. Hence they are said "to take the cake , " an expression which has attained its wide currency through the burlesques in the negro minstrel shows. Yet the cake-walk has negro - re spectable ancestry in the mediaeval past. Gorard's "Herball" (1635 ( in forms us that "in the springtime are made with the leaves hereof newly sprung up , and with eggs , or tansies , which be pleasant in taste and good for the stomache" and a contempo rary , speaking of the Puritans , says "all games where there is any hazard of loss are strictly forbidden not so much as a game of football for a fancy. " According to Brand , in the Easter season , foot courses were run in the meadows , the victors carrying off each a cake , given to be run for by some better person in the neigh borhood. In Ireland , at Easter and Whitesuntide , the lower classes used to meet and dance for a cake raised on top of a pike decorated with flow ers , the prize going to the couple who held out the longest ; and in some parts of England a custom prevailed of riding for the bride-cake. "This riding took place when the bride was brought to her new habitation. A pole , three or four feet high , was erected in front of the house and the cake put on top of it. On the instant that the bride set out from her old home a company of young men started on horse back , and he who was fortunate enough to reach the pole first and knock the cake down with his stick , received it from the hands of a damsel. This was called 'taking the cake. ' The fortunate winner then advanced to meet the bride and her attendants. " m i He Stuck to his own Name. Chicago Herald. "The whole house roared and roared again. There was no let-up on this merriment , and amidst cat- ; calls and shrill whistling the curtain had to go down. " It was at the theatrical agency on Clark street , ' and the speaker was a young come- dian in search of an early engage ment for the fall. "And what was the cause of it all ? " queried a by stander who had just dropped in. "It was just like this , " he said. "We were making a tour of 'one-night stands' in Michigan. One of our most successful plays was an adap tation of 'Deborah. ' There is a child's part in it. The little girl who usually played it happened to be sick when we got to Battle Creek , so we had to get the only available sub stitute , a small boy , to assume the part. The little fellow was 'fresh' enough and not likely to be em- j barrassed by the crowd and lights. ' Of course he was put in girl's clothes , and with his piping voice and small i featured face he made as good a lit- ' tie stage girl as one could want. He had only a few words to say , and they were repeated to him over and over again , until he knew them thorj j oughly. The performance went off all right until Deborah stood in front of Joseph's house and was met - at the threshold by Joseph's little firl. 'His child ? Ah , I must kiss the . ear little girll' exclaimed Deborah. 'Oh , it's you , poor woman ? Father is looking for youreplies the child. Deborah ( imprinting a burning kiss on the child's lips ) : 'And what is thy name , my sweet child ? ' Here the little pseudo girl , forgetting his lesson , or bewildered by the unusual situation , blurts out : 'Tommy 0' - Houlihan , please ma'am. ' His fath er keeping a particular saloon in town , and being known to everybody in the audience , a burst of laughter broke loose such as I've seldom heard in a theater. And that's why the curtain finally had to go down. " . _ _ * ai irriiii7I , ' i' > i ' i , .jjmii i n i M i 1i'a w iMyi { " , , ' wmlmmgmmmmW m mmmMmmmi Dart. BoAvden. Written for tho Constitution. "If my time sights ain't out of kil ter , " remarked old Jack West , thoughtfully , "I dug a grave in the ice this day was thirty-two years ago. " Then ho emptied tho ashes from his clay pipe in a little heap on tho deck. The breezo scattered the ashes bit by bit as the old man watched. "Yes. Thafs the way it is. Only the ashes lef to show for what has been. Thetf-ifa'thne the ashes goes. 'ori cf But a nice luiober I is , " he said , changing his expression suddenly. " 'A cryin/ was , cause the ashes was gone , an' here I is with a pouch full o' tobacco. I'll have some mo' in a shake or two , an'then somebody else can do the cryin' . " Looking the least bit ashamed of himself the old tar began industri ously shaving off thin strips of to bacco , filled his pipe and lighted it. As the smoke began curling upward in thick , heavy clouds , Jack settled himself comfortably against a con venient mess chest and waited in dig nified silence for an invitation to be gin the story. "Let's have the yarn , Jack. " "It's a true story , lads. " i "Whose grave was it , Jack ? " ' He took two or three long puffs in . quick succession , blewthelastmouth- ful of smoke lazily between his teeth , and watched it with his eyes half closed. ( "Whose grave was it , " he repeated filowly. ItwasDartBowden'sgrave. Jes thirty-two years ago this day in November , an' a truer shipmate than Dart Bowden I never sailed with. That grave was dug about seventy north latitude an' no livin' man saw that grave dug but ole' Jack West. , "It happened this way : "The whaler St. Mary left Bedford town in ' 43. Dart was young an' . venturesome in them days an' he I took the ice fever when that ship come. Nothin' would do but Dart must go. "Now Dart an' me was brothers- like , an' our daddies was brothers- like before us. Many a cruise them old chap took together , an' many's , the day me an' Dart has watched the f ship come in a lookin' for 'em home. { I loved Dart Bowden , I did , an' | more'n that did I love Mary Bowden , the handsomest little gal in all Bed ford. Them was days when they wa3 . lots o' handsome folks there too. "So , when Dart made up his mind to go , I 'lowed I'd go' too. "Ten men we had a gallant ship and a gallant crew. God bless me , how well I remember that day. It was a Monday , an' a smilin' , happy sort o' day it was. "The town folks come down , the flags a flyin' an' a ban' a playin' . I kissed Alary Bowden good bye , nn' then we was off. I was up aloft with the captain's glasses , an' I watched the wharf tell the fog come up , "Lads , if ever the curse of God rested on a ship , it was on that one. "That night on mid-watch I saw a phantom ship. I saw a twelve-sail ship , all big and clumsy , like in olden times. I saw her torn sails iiap an' beat , an' her ice-covered poles bend like a hurricane had her. I saw a leai an' hungry crew a beckonin' to me. They put their long hands up trumpet-like , an' sent a hail that never reached us. On she ploughed , an' the mist-like foam relied up about her rotten prow. AViider an' wilder her ghost crew motioned. They kneeled an tore their hair , an' wrung ther hands. They climbed like mon keys , climbed to the very trucks of those icicle masts , an' out to thetips o' the bendin' yards. An' off in the mist the phantom ship sailed , that ghost crew still a beckonin' . "That meant death , but never a word I said. "Ill luck came from the very start. Five days out we buried Mike Stroker. Then the squall took our foremast an' the life boat. We patched her up at St. James an' headed north again. Then another brave lad give up. "It was on' an on through the frozen channels , amoirg the iceburgs , an' everywhere our ill luck followed us. us."Worn out one night , I was half aslpop when the crash came a slow grindin' crash , an' the good ship quivered like a straw in the wind. I was out o. ' my hammock in a twinklin' , an'jes' as I touched the deck there was another long lurch , another shock , an' the ship stood still in the water. "It was a question of minutes. We got off through , eight men and ten days provisions , alone in the ice current. Ten days , an' they might search for. ten thousand years an' not find us. "I thought of the phantom ship. "Four long hours an' we reached a island , Rescue island we called it , an' there we stopped. , Nothin' but snow an' ice , an' north sea water. "First on half , then quarter , until that fearful time come when there was no rations. "Nothin' was said , but we all knew it was a comin. ' Twenty-four hours we sat in that tent. The raft had been burned , an' the chill was a creepin' over us. "Another twenty-four hours. Two an' two we had been out huntin ; but we come back empty handed always an' had jes give it up. That , .day though it was all day , but I meas ure by the twenty-four hours I went out alone. I knew it was comin' an' L dreaded it. "I never shall forjrit that walk. Nothin' but snow an' ice , an' a think- in' of the lads in the tent. And lads let me tell you right here. Hunger is a fsarful thing. When I thought of it first it seemed horrible an' inhu man , butlwas close to death an' that feelin' was wearin' off. "When I got back it was all settled , an' nothin' to be done but draw the lots. "Eight pieces of paper with a name on each. On one of them a cross mark was made by the captain tST . . l I .i.r i i f i vmMammMmmwmmmmmmmmwmmmmmmm mmMtmitii&x amimmmmmtm I blindfolded , an' tho cross mark meant death. "Then Dart Bowden began draw ing tho slips. "It was awful. "Tho first slip was'Eugene Wright. ' There was no mark on tho front of tho slip , an'as Dart turned it over to see if tho cross mark was on the back , I fairly quit breathin. ' I looked at Gene. He was fixed like ho was cut in marblo. "Dart shook his head , dropped the ticket , and reached for another. "Gene Wright lay back an' threw his'sleve ' across his eyes saved. "The nex' ticket was the same way , an' the nex' was mine. "I saw Dart's face turn pale as a corpse lust a flash-like look , an' I felt the blood surge in great tides through my body. "He shook his head an' smiled , turned over the paper , an' shook his head again. "Before I could get my wits togeth er again the nex'name had been call ed , an' he too was saved. "Then Dart called his own name. "He looked aroun' with a smile on his face and then said quiet like : ' "Well it's . ' , boys , me. "I was up before I knew it with my arms aroun' his neck , an' a cryin' like a baby. "They had to tear me loose , an' boun' and gagged mo. "Dart sat down an' wrote a letter. He was as cool as I ever saw him. He folded the letter an' kneeled down beside me. "Jack/ said , 'this is for mother an' Mary. When you aro married an' happy , old shipmate , remember me. It is best that I should die , Jack. Goodbye , lad. ' He stooped and kissed me twice , an' then he walked out steady an' erect. "The minutes seemed like hours. I would struggle like a maniac to free myself , an' then I would listen. Then I would struggle again. "It came at last , three shots al most together , an' my very heart stopped beatin' as I listened. - "All was still for a minutt or two , an' then I heard , faintlike an' far away , another shot. "They must have heard'it outside * for presently one of our men fired again. "I listened again , an' presently it come again , but nearer an' clearer. Then another one come , an' another. "We were saved ! "They unbound me , an , I lef them talkin' an' cryin' in the tent. They had brought bread with them , an' I was starvinbut I couldn't eat. "I followed the tracks in the snow till I found Dart's body. "His face was turned upward , an' the old smile still lingerin' over it. The blood was oozin' from the wounds over the heart an' had clotted in the snow. "I knelt beside him. "Still clasped in his right hand were two of the slips. I recognized them at once. "The first one read : jDAHT BOWDEN' .J "There was no cross mark on the front. I turned it over. "There was no cross mark there. "I rubbed my eyes and looked again , but there was no cross mark. "Then I looked at the other one. It read : : Jack XWest. j "The death mark was there. Dart Bowden had died for me an' Mary. "So all alone I cut his grave in the Ice just thirty-two years ago. " . ! ji III itlill III Jersey Hawks and Owls. Newark Journal. The United States ornithologist has prepared for submission to con gress an interesting report on the food material found in the stomachs of hawks and owls. Many of these birds were caught and the post mortem performed on them in the state of New Jersey by Dr. A. K. Fisher , assistant ornithologist. Much difficulty was experienced by the assistant , as in some instances a hawk's craw was found to contain the remains of a meadow mouse , a sparrow , a snake , a frog , a grass hopper , an earthworm and a snail. Theeraw of a marsh hawk from Ber gen county , captured near the home of the Honorable William Walter Phelps , contained the remains of the two meadow mice and a sparrow. A sharp skinned hawk shot near Maplewood , New Jersey , had just feasted on a swift oriole , while a red- shouldered hawk , taken in Gloucester county , contained a fair-sized catfish. The craw of a short-eared owl from Hackensack contained a robin and two mice , and a barred owl from Englewood has feasted on a frog and a red-backed mouse. A screech owl from Rive Vale , New Jersey , had within it a sparrow , a crawfish and a large spider , and a great horned owl j from Burlington county was found to have dined upon a pigeon , a beetle • and a small snake. Many of the ' hawks and owls examined had preyed upon poultry and game birds. A Pale-Faced Mrs. Lo. ' From tho Newark Journal. Justice Snyder , of Gloucester City , . exhibited a new § 5 greenback , the fee j he had received for marrying Wahkij j kaw ( Capt. Stubbs ) , the Kaw chief t performer at the Wild West show , to i Miss Annie Harris , a white woman. ( The ceremony took place at the close j of the afternoon performance , and i was witnessed by more than 5,000 j persons. The Indians at the close ] went through their form of marriage , and presented the pair with moc casins , robes , blankets , and trinkets. The bride was attired in a full In dian costume , a present from Pawnee | Bill. The chief and his brid * , headed , by the cowboy band and all the In- , dians in camp * made a parade : through the streets of Gloucester City. 2 Tramp "I know it ma'am ; I'm al- . ways out of work , but it'3 all my < cussed luck. " Woman "How is that , < poor man ? " Tramp "It's this way , 1 ma'am. In the winter I feel like mowi i ing lawns , and in the sammer I just < actually crave to shovel snow , and 1 nature continually balks me. Have < vou such a thing as a piece of pie in ] the house ? " < t rSrW S Kmm m " ' ' ' j " 1 J , American Jixcltislvciicss. ; M | From the Literary World. / 1i There is a young Englishman fn -lj that amusing novelotte , "The R < h 1 It mancoofuQuiet Watering Place , " | j whoso viows of American society aro J 1 interesting. Said he : "A few months | . J ago I was at a reception given by 11 tho American embassy in London. < J. ; . Now , as arule , an embaesadorial re- * | j ception in London is a meeting of I , friends of the nationality represented § : by the embassy just as ono knows ty J j that in Paris , Berlin , Borne , and so \ on , ono is certain to meet at the re- • - • , ceptions of one's minister exclusive- I j ly people of ono's own 'set' that is { $ to say who know tho samo people and move in tho samo society as one does one's self. But at your minis ter's reception t was different. I was seated with a reigning American j beauty in tho recess of a window , j and we listened to the sounds of rev- i elry by night , whilst we compared notes upon tho ceaseless panorama which passed us continually. I ob served that whenever I pointed out anyone whom I had reason to sup pose came from New York her own city and ask , * Do you know tho So- and-So's ? ' she would turn her shape- t ly head , look at me for a moment in mild astonishment , and say , ' 0hno , Y they are not at all in our set. ' 'Will \ you excuse me , said I , at last , 'if I * ' say that it appears to me \ that none of you know anybody I else or one another , in America ? ' - > ' and she said , 'I don't think that that j : is the case ; but you see my father was a Van Mattan and my mother was a Van Huyderhauser ; so natur- f ' ally we know only people of that set. j1 For instancesaid she , pointing J out a handsome woman who wasat that moment entering the room , [ 'like Mrs. Van Rensselaer Koster- \ mann , who is over there. Will you j excuse me ? And with that she rose [ and tripped across the room to t greet with effusion this representa- ! tive of the haut Knickerbocker re- -J gime , who , alone , among the 128. 0 v , | fpeopieiirthe Saloon of legation , was v worthy to be recognized by the in- j herited concentration of tho Van • ( Huyderhausen and Van Mattan J pedigrees. i "I tried a similar experience with one or two other ladies who were there , and I found that , m tho rare instance in which I got for an answer , \ • The Van So-and-So's ? Of - - course ; I dear Mrs. Van So-and-So is ono of , . my dearest friends. ' The truth was , to be arrived at by reversing the with Mrs. Van So-and-So process - - , i who would raise her lorgnon , and * „ after inspecting her 'dearest friend' ' for a moment , would say , 'Oh ! that little Mrs. Thingummy ? Yes , I be lieve that she was brought up to me by somebody at the Van Choso's one day and had herself presented. ' ! Finally , I came to the conclusion { that in America noono knows any- ' body else ; and , at the same time , that if , in Europe , one abuses one of your countrymen as an Americans , all the other Americans in tho com- ] pany will stand up for him vehement ly , whilst if you remotely suggest to , any of them that he is one of their 'setat once there descends upon your devoted head a gentle breeze i of mild expostulation. " . a > - oca j A 3roHiinieiil to AIai. j" Atlanta Constitution. iCm General Spinola's bill , providing * * fl for the erection of a monument in 'B ' Brooklyn to perpetuate the memory fl of certain revolutionary soldiers , has 'fl ' excited the violent opposition of Con- . fl gressman Kilgore , of Texas. Mr. 'fl Kilgore even goes so far as to threat- . 3 en the introduction of a bill to erect fl a monument to Adam in his Texas ,1 district. 'fl Congressman Kilgore is not so far ' .fl wrong , after all. The truth is , Adam B has been shamefully neglected. We < fl have raised monuments in honor of ,1 a host of smaller men , but the father ' 9 of the human race has been ignored. 'fl Yet , in his day , Adam was a big ' 9 man. He was an original man , es- 'fl pecially in his ideas about clothes B and such matters. He was the "rj9 monarch of a Uhe surveyed , although (9 ( his surveying was conducted in a ifl very primitive fashion , because the fl state of his finances made it possible * fl for him to supply himself with the [ fl proper instruments for the business. \ fl ' Still it should be recollected that B Adam was one of the old pioneers. . . fl Whenever he saw anything that he fl wanted , he simply reached out and fl helped himself to it , a method of buai- j 9 ness which has been utilized by many J ; fl of our most successful men down to Ifl the present time. 'ifl - - . ' fl Points About Hydrophobia. fl 3t. Louis Post. ' fl The custom of killing dogs that { fl have bitten people is a great error. /9 Hie idea that the death of the dog , ffl If he be rabid , protects against the ' 9 levelopment of hydrophobia is one ' * a Df the most absurd superstitions ; 9 that remain in this enlightened nine- { • ' " * fl ieenth century. If a man has had - 9 : he poison diffused through his veins ' 1M t is immaterial whether the dog fl " rom which it was derived is dead or fl llive. The only good that can re- fl • ult from his death is the protection 9 Dftheunbitten : On the other hand , * 9 fhe is killed , and was not rabid , ' 9 ; here remains the ineffaceable belief 19 n the mind of the bitten man that ifl le was. bfl - - ci i i HJ An Italian Prodigy , 9 Another musical prodigy has ap- l 9 } eared. This oneisagirllOyearsold , 9 vho plays the violin and interprets .i f 9 vorksofthe greatest musicians in a ifl vay that arouses the wildest enthusifl ism in Italy , if we to believe those fl vho are about to bring her before the ' fl mblic. Giulietta Dionesi , the girl in " " //fl / mestion , comes of a musical family jfl ) f Leghorn. Her father , who is a ifl riolinist , was her first teacher , but ! 9 ilthough he is an accomplished musi- I' fl : ian she has already far outstripped I' fl lim. As the season is over in Lon- I fl Ion this infant phenomenon wiB | fl jrobably be taken to America. Lon- 9 lon Letter. I 9 hflI . 11fl < fl 4m\ \