Nebraska Newspapers

    A TWILIGHT SONG.
The thrush bail p1pxl bin lu.nt clear not
To herald twilight's hour.
And fragrant breezes gently float
Around your nilent bower.
Now drops the duMlty robe of Night,
And, clitMpinir it above.
One Jeweled star shines cluar and britfi.
It la the Star of Love!
Vet cold and chorions bms It ray,
Hweolhuartl wbilo you are far away.
The fountain, like a fairy lute.
In tinklniif cadence falla;
And throiiKli tbo wood, with fitful hoot.
111m mate the owlot calls.
The orescent moon behind the hill
Creeps up. with silvery light;
Yet round your bower I linger still.
While eveulnif grows to night.
And count each weary hour a day,
Sweotheartl while you are far away.
James Walter Brown in Chambers' Journal.
Artloles Lifted by Klectrlcity.
It is a well known 8i:ientific fact that a
ruler iuade of hard rubier or gutta percha
may be so charged with electricity by
friction with a woolen cloth that it will
cause to be attract! to it small pieces of
paper. This fact has been made use of
in a machine devised to pick up separate
ly single sheets .of thii aud light materi
al, like paper, light fabrics, etc., in such
a manner that each sheet may be re
moved and examined. This machiie
consists of a roller formed of a substance
capable of being charged with electricity
and a roller covered with fur, which is
rotated at high speed.
During the operation the electrified
roller approaches the pile of paper by the
action of an eccentric, and attracts the
upper sheet, the next sheet below being
repelled by the well known law of elec
tricity. The first sheet now falls upon .a
oontrivance which is inserted in the
meantime between the pile and the de
tached sheet, and can be easily removed
or fed into a ruling machine, if desired
New York Telegram.
Dwarf Live to a Great -Vk".
Contrary to their huge rivals in in
terest, dwarfs frequently attain great
age. Richebonrg, who died in Paris in
1858, was ninety years old. lie was
only twenty-three inches high, some
thing less than the stature of our own
most celebrated dwarf, General Tom
Thumb. The first English dwarf of
whom there is authentic record was only
1J feet high till thirteen years of age,
though he afterward attained the height
of 8 feet 9 inches. This was Jeffery
Hudson, who was presented to Queen
Henrietta by the Duchess of Bucking
ham. Hudson on that occasion surprised the
company by stepping out of a pie. He
ia said to have fought two dnels one
with a turkey cock and one with a Mr.
, Crofts, whom he shot and killed. Hud
son died in his sixty-third year in the
'ate House prison, having been accused
jj' a conspirator in the popish plot.
ew York Times.
What the- Barber Pole Represents.
The barbers of long ago were barber
surgeons, but the rapid advance of sur
gical science has caused them to fall
from their high estate. T'ie gilt knob
at the end of the barber pole of today
represents a brass basin, which but a
few decades since was actually suspended
from the pole. The basin had a notch
cut in it to fit the throat, and was used
in lathering the customer, preparatory
to shaving him. The pole represents
the staff held by the patient who came
to the barber surgeon to be bled. The
two spiral stripes painted around it sig
nify the two band? ges, one for twisting
around the arm previous to the act of
phlebotomy, or blood letting, the other
for binding when the operation was
completed. St. Louis Republic,
A Feminine Carpenter.
A plucky and independent girl is Miss
Elizabeth More, of Edgeworth, Pa.
With her own hands 6he recently built a
neat little cottage, laying the founda
tions, plastering the walls of the differ
ent rooms and performing all the car
penter work to a builder's taste. To do
this 6he found it necessary to don male
attire, and a young girl friend helped
her over the hardest part of the work.
Miss More is said to be as pretty as she
is energetic She was once a protege of
Jane Gray Swisshelm, and the lessons
that Btern champion of woman's rights
taught her apparently have not been for
gotten. Buffalo Commercial.
How One Proverb Originated.
When the ginseng trade was at its
height it was considered more profitable
to gather ginseng than to cultivate the
farm, and agriculture was almost en
tirely neglected. The result was that
the plant almost entirely disappeared.
It came to be a proverb among the peo
ple, when speaking of some matter that
had failed, "C'este torn be comme le gin
seng" (It has gone down like ginseng).
J. Jones Bell in Popular Science Monthly.
A suggestion offered by a German
physician as a precaution against poison
ing from preserved meats is that the
data of original preservation be stamped
. upon each and every can or package con
'taining meat foods. It is held that pre
served meats, hermetically sealed, may
remain wholesome for a year or so, but
that there is danger in the use of such
foods after this period.
During the reign of Henry Vlil pins
were in great demand, and an act was
passed cautioning manufacturers to
"avoid the slight and false making of
pins; ,only euoh are to be sold as are
double headed and have the heads fast
soldered to the shank of the pin, well
smethed, the shank well shaven, the
point well and round filed, canted and
sharped."
A wax palm grows in Brazil. The
young leaves are coated with wax, which
is detached by shaking them, and melted,
to be finally run into cakes. It is hard
than beeswax and is utilized for candles.
The upper part of the young stem of this
tree yields a kind of 6ago.
From eastern Asia comes a plant the
flowers of which contain a quantity of
juice that rapidly turns black or deep
purple. It is used by Chinese ladies for
dyeing their hair and eyebrows, and in
Java for blacking shoes.
Wanted Ilia Letters.
Very strange ia the adventure through
which a postman named Boudon has
just passed at Nimes. He hud taken a
reginterod letter to one Faure, a shoe
maker, and wart about to leave the house
when the man closed the door, pulled a
revolver out of his pocket, and rushing
on Boudon threw him down and bound
him securely. He then informed the
terrified postman of his intention to re
tain him as a hostage until he had re
ceived divers letters written to him by
the president of the republic and the
minister of justice in reply to his appli
cation for the restoration of 80,000 francs
lost in a lawsuit.
Faure sent a note to the head of the
postal department explaining how mat
ters stood, and while awaiting an an
swer barricaded his apartments. When
the police arrived he called out that he
had provisions for a week, two revolvers
and plenty of ammunition, and that if
they attempted to force the door he
would kill his prisoner. The situation
was extremely awkward. The affair
had Wcoine known in the neighborhood,
and the adjacent streets were soon
thronged with at least 5,000 of the towns
people. A lat attempt to parley with the in
furiated shoemaker having proved abor
tive, tho police and gendarmes broke
into the place, fired a few shots to
frighten Faure, and succeeded in se
curely taking him into custody ere he
had time to carry out his threat. They
had great difficulty in conducting him
to prison, as the crowd wanted to lynch
him. Faure is described as a monoma
niac, and it aj'pears that when M. Car
not visited Nimes 6ome time ago he
made some curious preparations in or
der to attract his attention, which, how
ever, were but lost labor, as the presi
dent passed lown another street. Paris
Cor. London Telegraph.
A Fleet of Whalebacks for the Atlantic.
Alexander McDougall, the inventor of
the whaleback boats and builder of the
whaleback steamer, Charles W. Wet
more, which reached Liverpool Tuesday
with a cargo f wheat from Duluth, was
at the Sherman house yesterday. "In
ninety days." he said, "our mills for the
construction of steel plates, angle irons
and bolts will be completed at Duluth,
and we shall immediately lay the keels
for ten more whaleback boats for service
on the Atlantic.
"We shall build a whaleback steamer
450 feet long, with cabin accommoda
tions for 2,000 passengers, for service
during the World's fair. After the fair
is over it will be cut in two and taken to
the Atlantic. It is possible that we will
build more than one of these boats.
They will have great 6peed and will be
elegantly fitted out."
The Wetmore, Captain McDougall
added, will load with a partial cargo of
machinery for the new shipyard on
Puget sound, near Seattle, and will then
return to New York, where it will take
on material for the first two boats to bo
built on the Pacific coast. The Ameri
con Steel Barge company, which is build
ing the whalebacks, is largely composed
of officials of the Northern Pacific rail
road. Chicago Tribune.
A Telegraph Wire for Gossip.
William Tripp runs a farm near Round
Lake and raises produce, which he sells
to the people living on the camp ground.
His wife sells excellent milk, and the
couple, who are past middle age, make a
comfortable living. The young folks of
the camp ground are fond of visiting the
farm, where they drink milk and chat
with Mrs. Tripp, who, through the me
dium of her private telegraph line,
knows all tho country gossip for miles
around.
Last year the farmer, finding his even
ings heavy on his hands, bought a tele
graph instrument and ran a wire to the
railroad station two miles away. From
there he extended the line to a neighbor
ing settlement and later connected with
two farmhouses several miles below.
The farmer and his wife have both be
come excellent operators, and now spend
their spare time exchanging country gos
sip with their friends over the wire. The
telegraph operator in the railroad station
keeps them supplied with the principal
news items he hears from other points
on the road, and there are few better in
formed residents of the county ' than
Farmer Tripp and his wife. Cor. New
York Sun.
A Word About the Negri ice Costume.
If the outing young man be wise he
will not wear a waistcoat when he as
sumes either a sash or waistbelt. The
waistcoat is decidedly a dressified ap
purtenance of attire, while the sash and
waistbelt belong to the vocabulary of
neglige. He should be reminded of the
fate of the personage that tried to ride
two horses at once.
And yet this solecism is being continu
ally committed by misguided youths.
The effect of the sash when worn with
the frock coat is an uncongenial one.
The youth that paraded Fulton 6treet,
Brooklyn, a few nights ago attired in a
two-color sash, a cutaway coat, white
dress shirt, puff scarf and black high
hat was apparently upon excellent terms
with himself, but in reality about as far
"out of it" as the man that fell from the
balloon. Clothier and Furnisher.
Counterfeit Half Dollar.
A dangerous counterfeit fifty cent
piece has been sprung upon the guileless
public. The piece is a beauty, and shows
great care and skill in its make up. It
is one of the series of 1SS7 and has the
clear ring of the genuine article. The
main point of difference, however, lies
in the thickness, which is a trifle more
than in the genuine article. The figure
on one side is rather obscure, but is, at
the same time, nearly perfect, although
there is a slight depression in the shield.
Norwich Bulletin.
Evidently Poverty Stricken.
Mrs. Hayfork 1 think we'd better
make that young city feller pay his
board in advance.
Mr. Hayfork Ain't he got no money?
Mrs. H. He can't have much. He's
been join around all day in a coat made
out of an old flag. Good News.
The Fashionable Dinner Table.
The fa-hionable dinner table is square.
It should be largv enough to accom
modate comfort:it.!v the numlw of
people to !' seated. No more guests
should be invif-d than will serve
to make tvrelvo peovde in all, on ac
count of the number of pieces of
china in each course of dinner service.
Heavy white damask is used for the
tablecloth, and this should be hern
stitched .-11 around. The fashionable
patterns in damask are small figure.-,,
and these mostly in the form of fine
ferns, fine flowers, single rosebuds, pinks,
chrysanthemums, carnations and long
grasses. In the center of the table is
placed the piece of dainty linen beauti
fully embroidered in colored silks, rep
resenting national flowers in all their
brilliancy.
Upon this centerpiece is placed the
r bouquet or flowers, or the largo candela
bra. The smaller embroidered pieces,
which are used under separate dishes
and condiment jars, should be exact im
itations of the centerpiece, and if that in
sqnare, all the small pieces should be
square; if round, the same rule holds,
and if the edges are serrated the edges
of all must be cut in the same shape.
Fashion JournaL
Submarine Telephones.
The difficulty of submarine telepnony
over great distances is the fact of con
siderable electrostatic capacity in the
cable, the result of this being retarda
tion and deformation of the electrical
impulses transmitted. If a line could be
ma-le of very, very low resistance, so
that the electric current would have the
freest possible discharge, the evil effect
of this capacity would be in part done
away with. The relation between these
two things has been determined in a
somewhat empirical way. Calling the
total resistance of a telephone wire R
and its total capacity in microferads K.
successful speaking, with our preset. t
instrument, is really an impossibility
when the product KR of the resistance
of the line in ohms by its capacity in
microferads is greater than about 10,000.
In the very best Atlantic cable KR
equals somewhere near 8,000,000, so that
unless there Rhonld be some totally new
developments in telephony we can see at
once that successful telephoning across
the Atlantic is very improbable on ac
count of the enormous cost of a conduct
or of low resistance and capacity, if for
no other reason. Electrical Engineer.
A New Use for the Ring.
Whatever the measures adopted, the
principle of isolation is the essence of all
genuine disinfection. Its efficiency for
this purpose was well shown at Epsom
common. One of the children in a gypsy
encampment having been taken ill with
scarlet fever, was, along with its mother,
very successfully separated from the rest
of the community by the simple expedi
ent of a ring fence made of rope drawn
around the infected tent and regularly
watched.
The result was that the slow progress
of convalescence was passed through and
disinfection completed without further
extension of the disease. The surveyor,
Mr. Harding, is to be congratulated on
the success of his novel and effectual
maneuver. The satisfactory result thus
easily attained is of obvious importance,
and the simple method employed de
serves to be remembered in case of emer
gencies of a similar kind. London Lan
cet. When to See an Oculist.
Should any of the following symptoms
be experienced, an oculist of repute
should be consulted: Spots or sparks of
light floating before the eyes; quivering
of the lids or sensation of sand in the
eye; perceptible fatigue or the require
ment of strong light in reading; the
holding of objects at arm's length or
close to the eye; squinting one eye or
seeing objects double; dizziness or dart
ing pains in the eyeballs or over the
temple; perceiving a colored circle
around the lamp; sensitiveness of the
eyeballs or contraction of the visual
field; blurring of the vision or being un
able to see objects distinctly at a dis
tance; watering or redness of the eyes
or lids; running together of the letters
when reading, ot seeing the vertical bet
ter than the horizontal lines. Exchange.
The First Born.
Young Father I am amazed, shocked,
my dear, to hear you say you intend to
give the baby some paregoric. Don't
you know paregoric is opium, and opium
stunts the growth, enfeebles the consti
tution, weakens the brain, destroys the
nerves, and produces rickets, marasmus,
consumption, insanity and death?"
Young Mother HorrorsI I nevei
heard a word about that. I won't give
the little ducky darling a drop, no, in
deedy. But something must be done to
stop his yelling. You can carry him
awhile.
Father (after an hour's steady stamp
ing with the squalling infant) Wherein
thunder is that paregoric? New York
Weekly.
The Duty of Every Teacher.
A teacher of science ought also to bfl
an investigator, were it only for the in
spiration that his example might give to
the pupils in his charge. To impart
knowledge is a good thing, but to reveal
the sources of knowledge is better; and
in that revelation is found the educa
tional value of research regarded as a
part of the teacher's essential duty.
F. W. Clarke in Popular Science
Monthly.
Paint Instead of Clothing.
The arnotta plant has seeds coated
with a red, waxy pulp, which is dried
and made into cakes. It is much em
ployed by the South American Caribs
for painting their bodies, paint being
almost their only article of clothing.
As a commercial article it is mainly uti
lized as a coloring for cheese, butter and
inferior chocolates. Washington Star.
Way Off.
Dnllpate) (who prides himself on his
abstracted air) Did you ever notice what
a faraway look I have sometimes?
Mist Spiritellie Yes. Is that because
von ,
i a little off? Good News.
WILD BEASTS HIS FRIENDS.
The Onerr Storie Told About a Pioueer
Wanliinton Itanrtier.
Among the visitors to Seattle the past
week was Peter Gallagher, a rancher liv
ing three miles from Kenton. Mr. Galla
gher is one of the pioneers of the sound
country, and has lived on the same place
for twenty years or more, taking up a
quarter section as a homestead from the
government. By years of hard toil lie
has cleared up and improved a splendid
place, which, though secluded from the
outside world, is a model ranch, of which
the owner is justly proud.
Mr. Gallagher is not given to hunting
and does not molest wild game of any
kind, and to this may be ascribed tie
tameness of a nurntier of animals which
make the woods in that vicinity a home.
One of these, a bku.-K bear, has for a year
visited his stockyard almost daily and
eaten with the cattle, lying down amou,'
the calves and displaying neither fear nor
ferocity.
Mr. Gallagher gfes among the stock
and frequently passes within two cr
three feet of his bearship, not only in the
yard but in the woods. He pays no at
tention to the bear and the latter never
offers to molest him on the contrary,
eats with evident satisfaction pieces of
bacon and other scraps from the table
that are thrown out to him. The bear
is a handsome 300 pound fellow and ap
pears to enjoy the company of the cattle.
Other pets are a pair of fawns that
run around with the young stock on the
place, eating with the calves and lying
down among them as contented as
though with their own kind. They evi
dently come from the vicinity of Cedar
lake, where considerable hunting is done
and from which section game is being
driven. Mr. Gallagher says he had
rather part with the best cow on his place
than one of the fawns.
This is the second time fawns have
taken up their abode at this place, the
first pair corning there about five years
ago and remaining with his stock for
two years, even going into the stables
and being locked up over night. He
gave them to a neighbor, who in turn
presented them to friends at Snohomish
and up the Skagit.
This sounds fishy, but not only is it
vouched for, but it is further said that
wild ducks and geese alight in his yard
and show no fear in his presence,
though the appearance of a stranger is
the signal for flight. Mr. Gallagher
never hunts and will not allow hunting
on his place nor interference in any way
with his pets, either quadrupeds or
winged. Seattle (Wash.) Press-Times.
Women Professors.
What is there so incongruous in a
woman professor in universities, where
men are educated with women? This is
the question Mrs. M. Louise Thomas and
others- are asking, who are trying to
raise funds to endow a woman's chair in
a northern university. Why is it that a
woman teacher is deemed so necessary
through all the grades, from the primary
to those of the graduating class of the
high school, and yet she should be
deemed so pernicious and disastrous in
colleges? Whether these are good rea
sons or not, the experiment is to be
given a fair trial, for very recently the
bill providing for a woman professor
ship at the State University of Michigan
has become a law.
Not far behind comes the news also
that the University of Denver, which
numbers about 800 students, has con
ferred on a woman the honor of naming
an important professorship after her
that of literature to be known here
after as the Mary Lowe Dickinson chair
of belle3 letter, which chair has just re
ceived as an endowment from ex-Governor
John Evans the sum of $50,000.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Dow the Hiilmen Turn TaiL
It is possible that before our soldiers
get to close quarters with the enemy
they will see the latter "turn tail." Let
them not be deceived. Turning tail is a
different thing with the hiilmen to what
it is with us. The inhabitants of one
group of villages, the Rengman, are no
ticeable for wearing a caudal appendage.
This, of course, is not natural. It ia
fashioned of wood, eighteen inches long,
curved upward, tapering to a point.
This is fitted to the back, being sus
pended from the shoulders and secured
in position by a sash, which is tied tight
ly around the waist. This singular ap
pendage is worn in battle, and is intend
ed to signify defiance. The wearers turn
their backs toward the adversary, and,
by balancing the body alternately on
either leg, wag the tail defiantly in his
very face. National Review.
Where Genius Tires.
At one of the table d'hote dinners of
the Fellowcraft club one man said: "I
know that your device might be the
verse of Eviradnus, 'Without ever being
absent or saying I am tired.' You write
five or 6ix columns every day. Tell me
this, Is literary work tiresome or is it
not?" YThe other replied: "Not to the
mind. It is nothing to unroll the ara
besques of fantasy, but the bending over
one's paper and the guiding of one's pen
give pains in the back." It reminded a
third person of an interview with Sarah
Bernhardt, when he asked, "In playing
so many emotions, in affecting so much
suffering, don't you feel terrible pains in
your heart?" "Oh, no," she 6aid sadly;
"it's in the legs." New York Times.
He Paid the Bills.
She You are always talking about
the fashions. Now, honestly, do you
think that you would know the latest
fashion in hats if you were to enter a
milliner's?
He Certainly.
She How? -
He (ruefully) By looking at the prices.
Exchange.
The cultivation of the india rubber
tree on the island of Trinidad is receiv
ing much attention. A few trees of dif
ferent varieties were imported some years
ago and were placed in the botanical
gardens. The results have shown that
the soil and climate are remarkably fav
orable to their cultivation.
TREATED AS CONVICTS.
INNOCENT JEWS ARE SENT Ci!T
OF RUSSIA I"! CHA.NS
A Newrifi4i-r (.'orrenpondent lM-n;ri - -the
Itiimlliutlrii; and Cruel 4'Jr-uut
stances Attending the Flight of Jewiob
Ft I lr Cloxely Guarded.
1 telegraphed tho fact of my having
seen Jews expelled from Moscow in
chains, hut as the censorship has lci.iiie
so strict I could not enter into details. I
received information that a convoy of
prisoners was about to bo dispatched at
a certain time from the prison (pereace
luya), and 1 accordingly proceeded to
the spot at the time indicated. I ar
rived at the small western door of the
prison as the invalids of the convoy were
being brought out and placed on three
epringless carts. There were about eight
or ten in each cart (not Jews), old men,
old women and others, of various ages,
plainly in extreme debility.
They seemed utterly helpless and care
less and presented a very sad sight. A
few women were present, evidently in
terested in the fate of the prisoners.
They carried bags and tins, which 1 saw
at once were meant to be given to some
loved one in the convoy. I noticed two
of these women particularly, the one a
very ladylike person of middle age, with
regular features, foiling that she was
not a Russian. Her companion was a
mere girl of perhaps sixteen or seven
teen, with an undoubtedly Jewish coun
tenance. My information was that there would
be either two or four Jews in the convoy,
for very few now remain in tho prison,
the rest having been removed, and it
was by their features, bearinffSw.d dress
1 should recognize them. While I was
thus observing things around me the
procession of prisoners began to defile
from tho small door mentioned. They
came two by two, chained together by
handcuffs, and closely guarded by prison
wardens. The prisoners were of both
sexes and varied in age, appearance and
dress. Some wore prison garments, some
wore their own clothes and some the con
vict's dress with the yellow diamond on
the back.
TWO INNOCENT JT.WS.
As the convoy passed the group of
women alongside whom I stood, 1 noticed
a commotion among them. The Russians
ejaculated prayers after their wont; the
elderly lady and girl became excited. J
scrutinized the prisoners closely, being
well stared at by them and scowled at
by the guard, but could detect no Jew.
Features upon which vice and crime and
misfortune and misery were stamped in
indelible stains tl.ere were in plenty, but
among these I noticed no Jewish face.
Just as the rear was coming up, and in
the fifth row from the last, I noticed two
handsome open countenances.
These were what I was in search of.
There could not be a moment's hesita
tion. Here wero two Jews. The one
was a 6talwart, elderly man, with a beard
and ruddy face, on whom prison life had
been able to do little hurt. The other
was likewise tall, with Bhort black beard
and more pronounced Jewish features.
The two Jews were chained together.
Probably they are to be sent to the 6amo
neighborhood.
As I expected, the lady and girl were
looking for these two prisoners, like my
self, and attempted to pass the bags
with the little new kettles and panni
kins to their relatives or friends. The
nearest warder, seeing the attempt,
shouted "Neelza," or "That is not al
lowed," and raised his drawn sword as
if to strike the girl, who was in front of
her companion. Falling back with a
sigh, the girl seemed not to despair, but
to hope for another chance, with that in
domitable perseverance so characteristic
of the race.
STRICT GUARDS.
Afterward at the railway station I
saw the same pair engaged on the same
merciful errand, but whether they suc
ceeded or not I do not know. I could
not help them, but only might have
compromised them with the authorities
by inquiries. After traveling by railway
to one of the western provinces within
the pale the Jewish prisoners will be
marched on, presumably, as they are at
the moment 1 write, in chains, to the
destination assigned them.
The names of these two Jews I could
get if it were necessary, and I know that
they are not charged with any offense,
but are merely being sent away by the
czar's ukase, and not having money
enough to pay their railway expenses,
or, more probably, having given over to
their dear ones the money they possessed,
they are ignominiously herded with
criminals, and chained like them.
I once thought of taking a camera to
photograph them, but I do not think the
evidence so obtained would be stronger
than that now given. It is not easy to
photograph particular individuals in a
crowd in motion, nor can it be done
without exciting notice. As I was three
times warned by the sentry that it was
not allowed "to look," as he put u, prob
ably I should have been expelled like a
Jew if I had been caught photographing
what the Russians consider is a private
affair of their own. Having seen what
I have recorded, no honorable person can
iispute the evidence. I have only seen
two, that is true, but had 1 been ad
mitted into the secret of what was going
on earlier I should have 6een many.
Moscow Cor. London News.
Took Moody for a Hackman. I
It is related of Moody, the evangelist
that he was sitting in his family carria e
at the Northfield station recently a
train came in. A stranger, mist Aking
him for a hackman. ordered hir with
some show of authority, to dri re 0 e
hotel, and, without a word 'a diasent,
the great preacher did as he vas bidden.'
He refused to take any pa- for nig geyy.
ices, however, and this 'excited the curi
osity of the man, who -appears to have
been a minister. He " was dumfounded
to learn that the hskman, to whom he
had also made fre comments on Mr.
Moody's work in, he course of the drive,
waa none othersthan the evangelist him
self. Spring&eld (Mass.) Republican.
A SPRAY OF HONEYSUCKLE.
I broke, one tiny, u Mender mrrn
ThH k hi-l w u h I in ! & illicit horns
Hit 1 f I id. half lili"inn: mid u n ui
Suru nnolii) I'm U III li .1 1 1 1 u 1 1 1 iiinrim.
When all I lie urn wit li ilew in Bt ruin:.
On every fniry lii.:lu huntf.
1 l rop iuil il , i-areli-., in n plai-w
Where no liijlil Mioue. him I . . . Ilit forgot
It.H (leliiato. ilewy, flowery t'liiee.
Yet from tho "lark, iitv'eeted ol
Stole, uiircetil init. thioui:h the tlnwii
bwti't breath thul ejaihlelied I ho v. .i'.lo
room.
1
Whereat I thoiu'nt, O In-art of mll.ol
A lrsoii for 1 !-, plain In read:
Thou iH'cdiv.t not that licht should bhlne.
Ornny man thy beauty hecil:
Kttoucli "if haply this ho so
Thut thou hiiMl HWuctnewi to hestow!
Mary liradley in llarper'a liazur
How the ;r--k Comhrd Tlielr Hair.
In Greece, during the heroic ages,
men wore their hair and beards Ion;,,
which so disgusted the cleanly and cle;.u
faced Egyptians that, if wo are tocrcmt
Herodotus, no one of either sex of the
latter nationality would on any aecotn t
kiss the, lips of a Greek, make use of lm
knife, his pit and cauldron, or taste t!. j
meat of an animal which had bei i
slaughtered, by his hand. It must not
bo inferred from this that the Greeks, in
the early days of their being, were alto
gether barbarians; but they were r
tainly not so civilized not so w '. i..--quainted
with the arts of peace and war
as tho Egyptians until long after th y
had made their mark in history.
The love of the beautiful was there, id
doubt: but it had not yet manifested it
self and raised t he social character of tht
people. It required tho softening and
humanizing influence and intercour. o
with more liberal races, such as tl.i
Egyptians and Phoenicians, to one or the.
other of whom they were indebted for
much that they possessed. It would
seem that, in tho matter of personal
adornment, they derived tho beginnin;
from the Egyptians', and that they im
proved upon these beginnings as their
own sense of tho fitness of things devel
oped into a passion for the beautiful.
Their arrangement of the hair they and
their women carried eventually to the
highest point of artistic excellence.
Gentleman's Magazine.
Cured by a Doctor's Hill.
A westerner at one of tho prominent
up town hotels was feeling restfes.s u 1 1 d
ill one hot evening and rang for a doe
tor. The latter was in the same hous .
He called at his patient's room and diag
nosed the case as simple insomnia, and
gave a couple of powders and retired.
The doctor called the next morning in
see how the patient (whom he correctly
judged to be a man of means) was get
ting on. During the day he saw him in
cidentally three or four times. The bill
was twenty-five dollars. Five dollars a
visit from a doctor living on the same
floor with him in the same house wa i
something that nearly caused the west
erner to faint. But the bill had one ef
fect it made him a well man, he says.
He wouldn't risk getting another such.
New York Herald.
Mow Indians Use Ants.
The grip of an ant's jaw is retained
even after the body has been bitten off
and nothing but the head remains. This
knowledge is possessed by a certain tribe
of Indians in Brazil, who put the ants to
a very peculiar use. When an Indian
gets a gash cut in his hand, instead of
having his hand sewed together, as phy
sicians do in this country, he procures
five or six large black ants, and, holding
their heads near the gash, they bring
their jaws together in biting the flesh,
and thus pull the two sides of the gash
together. Then the Indian pinches off
the bodies of the ants and leaves the
heads clinging to the flesh, which is held
together until the gash is perfectly
healed. Boston Courier.
The Economy of the Egyptians.
A curious illustration of the domestic
economy of the Egyptians has been met
with in the unwinding of the bandages
of the mummies. Although whole webs
of fine cloth have been most frequently
used, in other cases the bandages are
fragmentary, and have seams, darns
and patches. Old napkins are used, old
skirts, pieces of something that may
have been a shirt; and once a piece of
cloth was found with an armhole in it,
with seam and gusset and band finely
stitched by fingers themselves long since
crumbled and their dust blown to the
four winds. Harper's Bazar.
A Railroad on the Tops of Trees.
California enjoys the distinction of
having the only railroad that runs on
the tops of trees. This peculiar fjiece of
engineering is in Sonoma county, be
tween Clipper Mills and Stuart Point,
where the railroad crosses a deep ravine.
in the center of which are two huge re
wood trees, side by side. These gia
have been sawed off seventy-five
.nts
above the bed of the creek, and th
feet
e tim-
stumps. This natural tree brir' .
Bidered to be equal in safety t '3 p?11"
built on the most scientific - J . Dnase
Chicago Tribune. irmciples.-
A Mushroom Over a
Investigation shows A n
varieties of Europe , , J.
United States. Th, , -!f a
a circumference f
weight o thirty and
may 115 the garden and slice off
whp.t: she w Ants from day to da ..j.
flUhapou JournaL
AVjotb 6,000 feet the population of
America, which is confined of course to
the Cordilleran region, is almost entirely
engaged in the pursuit of mining, and
the grexter part of it is located in Colo
rado, New Mexico, Nevada and Cali
fornia. '
If you get tired doing nothing it is a'
good thing to sit under the barn and :
pass the time in waiting for the weather'
cock to crow. A great many days may
be employed in this manner. . i
i
Some land in Paris has been sold at the
rate of $2,000,000 per acre; some in Lon-'
don for what would net $3,000,000 per
acre, and some in New York for a sum i
qual to $8,000,000 per acre. j