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estate, lam told that the senator did
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the case, but made his argument at
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neys for other heirs.
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to the cane, so that his big ejirnings were
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gress receives for a year of heavy brain
fag for his country and the old flag uot
counting perquisites.
The decision of the United States
court was handed down something over
a year ago in the Fiske will case against
the Cornell university. In this case the
university lost $1,750,000, and the law
firm of II ill & Bacon is said to have re
ceived $400,000 as their honorarium
from the successful heirs. The Mr. Hill
in this firm is none other than Senator
David Bennett Hill.
The fee which John E. Parsons, the
New York lawyer, received for organiz
ing the Sugar trust is believed to be the
largest ever paid to one New York at
torney. The amount was f 100,000, the
same sum received by Messrs. Hill &
Bacon in the Fiske case. And yet, not
withstanding this large fee, it did not
take the courts long, once they got at it,
to destroy the apparently invincible
legal structure which the able and high
priced lawyer had reared. John A.
Cockerill in New York Recorder.
A California Sculptor' Work.
Douglas Tildcn, the deaf and dnmb
California sculptor, has completed in
clay at his Paris studio a group of heroic
size which ho proposes to cast in bronze
and send to the World's fair. Oue of
this sculptor's works is now to be seen
in Golden Gate park, at San Francisco.
The subject of the last is a struggle be
tween two Indians and a she bear (griz
zly), whose cubs the Indians are trying
to make off with. A Parisian critic
says of the group: "It is broad in treat
ment and daring in execution without
exaggeration. The figure modeling of
the two Indians is of high power, strong
and harmonious at the same time. He
has succeeded in showing not the muti
lation of the two Indians by a ferocious
brute, but a tine realization of a struggle
for mastery and hfe which thrills with
interest," This sculptor has been work
ing in Paris four years, and was the
first American to receive "honorable
mention" at a Paris salon. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Ad Unlucky Locomotive.
Engineer Knowblow, of the Erie, has
finally agreed to preside at the throttle
of engine No. 670 of that road. This is
the machine that passed through the
two terrible wrecks on that road at Ra
venna on July 3 and at Kent on Sept
30. When it came out of the Meadville
shops recently none of the boys wanted
to sit at the right hand side of the cab
in the unlucky engine, and it was only
after considerable persuasion that Engi
neer Knowblow was persuaded to take
charge of the hoodooed locomotive.
Railroaders are like sailors they have
their superstitions, and an eugineman
no more likes to run an unlucky ma
chine than does an old tar to sail on
certain unfortunate vessels. Pittsburg
Post
From London to Chicago for M125.
Tours suitable to all pockets are being
arranged by the London Polytechnic
Young Men's Christian institute. A
yachting trip to Norway, lasting three
weeks, and including a visit to tho land
of the midnight sun, is to cost only 12
10s.; the inland of Madeira can be visited
for 12, while 7 5s. will cover the ex
pense of sixteen days in the Bernese
Highlands. There is also to bo a trip to
the Chicago World's fair, costing only
twenty-five guineas from Liverpool.
London Tit-Bits.
A Maine Woodpile.
The most wonderful woodpile on rec
ord u owned by a man in Oxford county.
Me. Inihopileof eight cords, all cut
from one piece of forest, are no fewer
than twenty different kinds of wood.
viz., white birch, yellow birch, white
maple, rock maple, white ash, brown
ash, black cherry, wild cherry, apple
tree, elder, beech, moosewood, willow,
fir, dogwood, spruce, sugar plum, elm,
poplar and hemlock.
The Joker I at Large.
J. C Young, of Albany, has two wood'
en logs. A fool friend, who could think
of no other way to be funny, tried to
throw a knife into one of his legs. Tie
succeeded, but it struck above the knee
where the log was flesh and blood. Mr.
Young is now nursing an ugly and pain
ful wound. The fool friend isn't in iaiL
but he ought to be. Portland Orego-
nian.
Maine Soldiers Oolug to the Capital.
Heath post, G. A. R., of Gardiner,
Me., will go in style to the national en
campment in Washington in September,
The members have chartered the steam
boat Kennebec, a seagoing side wheeler
of 1.C53 toivs, to tike them and their
friends to the number of 400 on a ten
days' trip, allowing four days at Wash
ington. Mlneratl Polaou Kills Cattle.
In Fayette county, Ida., a peculiar
mineral poison exudes from the ground
and contaminates the grass, upou which
a herd of cattle fed. This caused greal
losses to stockmen, who at hrst thought
the poison had been administered by
vicious people.
M'ltora of UntavisnH Meaty W un
derfill Things In Stau I'ranclaeo.
King M'IVr of Butarit&ri spent two
lumrM ul Uto 01ytiitic dub, und was
probably nnr .'oniuowd and surprised
titau by unythiui; eite lit has seen in
Sjal Francisiti. Tho iiieinlers who were
pn-sent pras'tlcing in tho gymnasium
C.ive an impromptu exhibition, winch
interested his South Sea majesty vt ry
much, tind l e g:tv evidence of this in
grunts and by gestures of surprise, aad
almost of f-ar, at homo of the fea'ct t'
the alhle'.i s. The tumbling was a mu -priso
to him, and bo could not under
stand, wbilo lVofessors Tronchet and
Cbapins were fencing, how it was that
they did not drop dead whon struck by
the foil. A burlnquo lioxing rout est
euding in a well "faked" knockout wo
arranged for the king and his imiiy.
Profes!or IV Witt Van Court and Philip
Boulo were tho boxers, and they gave
an exhibition which inturestod his island
umjottty more than Umj genuine fiht Lu
saw at tho California club. At the end
Bonk) was apparently knocked out, and
he was carried out of tho room limp and
motionless. Of course he iinntediutuly
returned, aitd as he appeared the king
allowed a sigh of relief to escape him,
and remarked through the interpreter
that he was glad the little fellow had
not been killed, as ho wa so plucky.
After the exhibition King M'Bora and
his partf were shown through the Olym
pic club baildiag. la the billiard room
be had his first meeting with a piece of
ke. His dusky majesty was given a
glass of ice water in response) to a re
quest for a drink. He saw the piece of
ice floating in the water and could not
understand what it was. He put his
royal right hand into the glass ami
seized the cube of ice, but immediately
dropped it ami jumped back severely
frightened. After an explanation he
picked up the ice again and watched
it slowly molt in his hand. He seemed
to partially understand the philosophy
of the thing and gave an order for an ice
making machine, which ho will take te
Butaritari with him to cool his roy..l
throat ou hot summer days.
In the ladies' parlor the glass chande
lier was lighted by electricity, and the
king immediately wanted to know where
tho oil tank was. Ho had had some t
perience with gas before. The first night
at his hotel, after having seen the
turned on and lighted, he nearly termi
nated his royal career by playing the
Farmer Way back act. He turned on the
gas and lay down waiting for the gas U
light itself.
One of the members of the Olymf.ii
club who was going through the rooms
with the party wanted the king to talk
throtagh the telephone. His majekty
had already had an experience and w:u
so shocked that he did not care foi
another. It was at Sntro Heights on
his virit Saturday. W. Lanier hach,
who spent some time en the Gilbert
islands, went to the stables on the place
while the king was in Mr. Sntro's house.
When the telephone connection was
made King M'Bora was asked to put live
receiver to his ear. As be did so he
heard words in bis native language, and
he dropped the instrument as if struck
by lightning. A long explanatta oould
not fully satisfy his mystified majesty.
The king and his party remained at tho
rooms of the club until nearly midnight
San Francisco Chronicle.
Tha Secret of Happlaeae.
Mot long ago Professor Blackie had oc
canton to be in the Fair City Perth. He
was waiting for a certain train, and was
marching up aud down the platform
whistling gayly, and for all the world
like a schoolboy eo route home for hid
holidays. A gentleman near by, at once
recognizing the picturesque figure and
wkhing to enter into conversation with
him, went up to him and asked him:
"Professor, may I ask the secret of
your happiness?"
Tho gonial professor smiled and an
swered:
"Well, here is the secret of my happi
ness: 1 have no vain regrets for the p;ift,
I look forward with hope to the future
and I always strive to do my duty.
mere,- no enaeu emphatically, "you
have ft." And he straightway set t
and walked up and down again, wliiktling
as before. London Tit-Bite.
An Antedllavlan Joke.
A hardware drummer is responsible
lor the story that a clerk in one of out
hardware houses was informed that the
last tutor's goose was sold and to order
a dozen more. After puzzling over the
matter for some time he wrote on
piece of paper as follows:
18 tailor geese.
13 tailor's geese.
12 tailor gooses.
12 tailor goose.
12 tail
Then be got rattled, scratched his
head, looked in the dictionary and final
hy formulated the following:
"Gents please send at once one tailor'
goose and eleven others." Burlington
iiawkeye.
Monkey KlgtU Be Med TJaeful.
Monkeys could be used in certain cwt
of fire, where expert climbing might be
required; they oould be need as nkesson
gers to some extent, and to do many light
chores fur man. They could be taught
te destroy many vicious insects, such as
tobacco worms, cutworms, cabbage
worms and many others. They could
be taught to do many things on a farm,
and I think Ions domestication would
develop many fields of usefulness for
them. Mew York Independent.
A Stroke of
The height of economy was that re
cently practiced by a woman who will
move to the suburbs, and who effected
the sale of her address die which site has
used for her stationary to the incoming
Tenant of the house she will leave. New
York Times.
Bather LltermL
"That's an angel of a honser snkl she.
"Not quite," he replied. "It only has
one wing." Harper's Bazar.
HaChkiaJ Malta. 1
Mawo Pelo's "Travels" gins a crtri- j
en aoconnt of two islands, "distant 1
from Ktwneacoran about R00 miles t.-
ward th santh, and about thirty miles
from each other, the one being inhalv t
Med by a company of mm without a sin-
glo woman nmomr thorn, tho other by '
women without tho compr.ny of men. ,
They are called, respectively, the Island !
of Males and She Inland of Females."
i i l ... i , . i . e . :
neoi;nilinors ami omera iiiieiwucu m mi-
euriosities of hiftory and navigation
liaveiuado fmtny attempts to ascertain
the exact location of Uiomi fantastically
named little slacks iu tho great invar.:'
but even after so much research and
study the European as well c... the Amer
ican geographical societies have been ;
forced to admit that their whereabout s ,
is doubtful iu tho extreme. I
Some lielievo them U bo identical j
with the Footnote islands, near Socota,
but these last named are now too small 1
fur human habitation, besides being too I
ear tho shunts of the Red sea to cor- j
rmpond with those mentioned by Marco '
Polo. The most prolmblo conclusion
that has yet been arrived at is that So
rodah, a small island on tho west coast I
of India, is the celebrated "Island of Fo 1
males," it being the rosort of dancing !
girls and women who retire to the plucu
for a summer's outing after a hard win
ter's work on tho continent
As far as Marco Polo's "Island of
Males" is concerned it is irretrievably
lost, the combiued efforts of the goog-!
phers, tho historians and the travelers
aet being equal to the task of bringing
H from the mysterious mists which havs
hidden it for centuries. St Louis Re
public. Hoard f Trade la Wester Cities.
The novelty in western life is the in
evitable combination of leading citizens
pledged to promote the best interests of
their town. Such a body is variously
called a board of trade, a chamber of
commerce or a commercial club. It is
the burning glass which focuses the
public spirit of the community. Its
most competent officer is usually the
highly salaried secretary, no does foi
bis town what a railroad passenger
agent or a commercial travoler does for
his employers, that is to say, bo secures
business, lie invites manufacturers to
set np workshops in his city, offering a
gift of land or of land and money or of
exemption from taxation for a term of
years. Tho merchants, and perhaps the
city officials also, support his promises.
In a South Dakota city I have known m
Cno brick warehouse to lie built and
given, with the land under it, to a
wholesale grocery firm for doing busi
ness there. In a far northwestern city
there was talk of sending a man east on
salary to stay away until he could bring
back capital to found a smeltery.
These boards of trade often organize
local companies to give a city what it
needs. They urge the people to sub
scribe for stock in associations that are
to build electric railways, opera house,
hotels, convention halls, water supply
and illuminating companies, often divid
ing an acknowledged financial loss for
the sake of a public gain. Thus these i
boards provide tho machinery by which
the most ambitious, forward and enter
prising communities in the worm ex
end and .tilize their energy.-Julian
Ralnh in Haroer'a.
ttaipn in uarpert
Balamender from Artesian Welts.
bid., recently discovered in a trench
leading from an artesian well a good
sized and very lively mnd puppy or wa
ter dog. This well is eight miles noi th
of Huron, S. D., and is 1,250 feet deep,
Everybody was confident that tho rep
tile came from the well, as thore is no
other water for miles and miles, fcs
head was shaped like that of our coir,
mon catfish, its color was similar to that
of the catfish, and it had busby external
gills, besides four legs.
Many conjectures as to what tho anl
mal could be were made; some persons
thought it principally lish, others lizard,
and the most general conclusion was
that tho thing was a mongrel between the
two. A genius (lVoteus) belonging to
the same family as tlie alxive (which we
take to be Necturus), and found in caves
in southwestern Austria, is blind and
colorless. Mr. Zimmerman states specifi
cally that the puppy found by him had a
good pair of eyes and was dark in color.
Lake Byron, twelve miles north of where
this batrachiun was found, is said to fur
nish good fishing. Forest aud Stream.
Where Artlats lllunder.
"I never saw an artist yet who could
correctly paint a horseshoe," remarked
a friend of mine, pausing bef ore a Broad
way picture store. "They invariably
paint it with an equal number of nails
on each side sometimes three, some
times four, and even five nails. As a
matter of fact, there are four on one
side and three on the other, the extra
nail being on the inside of the foot,
whero tho greatest strain comes."
. Which reminds me of the lines of a
distinguished American poet in which
he sweetly depicts the drowsy cattle os
a summer's day lazily lapping the cool
ing waters of the crystal stream. The
same peculiarity is also poetically at
tributed to the horse and other animals,
the model of the poet having probably
been the house cat New York Herald.
Livery of Parlor Maids.
English parlor maids wear a distinct
livery, not often, though occasional ly,
seen in New York houses. This consists
usually of a plain, long, black or dark
woolen skirt, a loose, open jacket of tho
same material, aud either a white vest
with gilt or ornamented buttons or a
vest made of livery stripes. With this
are worn cap and apron. New York
Times.
A Pnzrlrd Yankee.
A story is told of Lord Groweuor,
who, whilo traveling in this country,
was asked by a Yankee how he got his
living. My lord replied that be did not
work, as his father supported him.
"What a dear old gentleman," said the
Yankee; "how will you ever manage to
Uve when he dies?"- tn Francisco Argonaut
The XHawe FWMa of ChtU.
Tlw caliche, or raw nitrate of soda, k
Dot equally distributed over the pampas
of C'luli. Tho iimst almndant debits
ro situated on the slopes of tho hills,
which probably formed the shores of tho
old laijoons. An exert can tell from
the extenwil appearance of tho ground
where the richest dep. is its nro likely to
m found. The caliche itself U imt f ,'imd
on the surface of lite plain, hut is cov-
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rtvi up liy two layers. 1 lie tlppi Tliii ' ,
Known leenmcaiiy as cnuca, is oi a ma
Mo nature, and consists of sand aud g p
nim, while the lower tin) cost ra is a
rooky conglomerate, of clay, gravel and
fragment of feldspar. The calicho varies
in thickness from a few inches to ten or j
twelve feet, ami rests ou a soft stratum
of Mirth called cova. j
Tho mode in which the calicho is ex-'
ravatod is as follows: A hole is bored
through the chuca, costra and caliche
layers till tne cova or soft eartli l.)
reached Ixtlow. It is thon enlarged un
til it is witlo enough to admit of a small
boy being let down, who scrapes away
tire eartli below tho caliche so as to
form a little hollow cup. Into this a
chargo of gunpowder is introduced and
KutiHoquoutly exploded. The caliche is
tlrrni separated by means of picks from
the overlying contra and carried to the
reinery. Both in appearance and com
position it varies very much. In color
it may be snow white, sulphur, lemon,
orange, violet, Dine ana sometime
brewn, ike raw sugar. Blackwood's
Magazine.
The Aye of Freeh Kg-fa.
As to just bow old the eggs may be
when they get into the hands of tho con
sumer is this town is a matter for con
jecture, aad a task that would cause
pleasant thrills in one inclined to mat he
matics. Any one who has evor spent
anytime in the country and made a
proper use of his eyes knows it is the
habit of farmers to keep their eggs un
til they have a cortain quantity before
disposing of them.
The farm or may collect tho eggs for
an entire week and thon disposoof thnm,
or they may keep them for two weeks
before tho huckster gets them. That de
ponds entirely Uhiii the nnmlxir of eggs
which that particular farmer's bona will
lay in a given period.
The hucksters go aliout the country
once or twice a week the doalers say.
They gather the eggs here and thoro,
and when they have gathered a cortain
quantity turn them over to the shippers.
The shippers, in turn, hold the eggs
until tliey, too, obtain a certain quantity
and thea consign them to the dealers in
this city. When the eggs get here final
ly the dealers say they have received a
shipmeut of fresh eggs, and mean it too.
The dealers maintain that an egg two
weeks old in ordinary weather is just as
good as an egg that is not more than
twenty-four hours aW. In tact, they
make bold to say they would eat an egg
two weeks old just as soon as one two
hours old, and relish it just aa much.
New York Evening Sun.
The Year ISSt.
The year 1881 was a chronological
oddity of the oddest kind, batddos being a
mathematical ounostty seldom equaled.
tS2J J t dJSwS ?J
' tt ,4ni9' EiKhteM divided by 3
gives I as a quotient; 81 divided by 9
gives 9; if divided by 9 the quotient con
tains a P; if multiplied by 0 the product
! S0!' ,,W,d,8 ,! ""l1 ar!
9. if the 18 be placed under the 81 am
added the sum is 09; if the figures bo
added thus 1 , 8, 8, 1 it will give 18 as t he
result Reading from the middle from
right to left or from left to right it is 18,
and 18 is two-ninths of 81. By adding,
dividing and multiplying, 10 9s are pro-
dtu;ed, bemg one 9 for Hchyear to the
beginning of the last decade of the Nine
teenth century.
No wonder tlie fortune tellers, the as
trologers and the mathematicians weave
so many strange fancies around that
curious combination of figures. It may
have been what induced Mother Shipton
to end her prophotic jingle with, "And
at last the world to an end shall come
in eighteen hundred and oighty-oue."
St Louis Republic.
A Very Old English Cloth.
Fustian is a species of cotton cloth
much used by the Normans, particularly
by the clergy, and appropriated to some
orders for tlioir cashubles. Tlie Cister
cians were forbidden to wear them made
I of any material but linen or fustian. A
stronger description was first manufac
tured in England, at Norwich, temp.
Edward VI.
It was much used for doublets and
jackets in the Fifteenth century, at
which time it appears to have been im
ported from Italy. "Fustians of Naples"
are named in a petition to parliament
from the manufacturers of Norwich, 1
Philip and Mary, 1554. The name was
corrupted in England into "f ustianapes"
and "fustian and apes," L e., "fustian
a Naples." Notes and Queries.
Seared Barglars by Ills Voice.
The ventriloquist, Fred Maccabe, has
put his special gift to good use. Retir
ing late one night ho tossed about for
some time unable to fall asleep, and
thon, hearing footsteps down stairs, he
felt convinced that thieves had got into
the house. Crawling down stealthily
close to where they were at work he.
by means of ventriloquism, began a con
versation and hullaballoo in many voices:
"Here they are! Bring the lights! There
they go! Shoot, shoot them quick !" The
whole gang of burglars thereupon bolted
in panic, leaving all their intended plun
der behind. Loudon Tit-Bits.
A Sufficient BeeaMneacadatlon.
Little Dick Arent yon goin to call
on that new neighbor across the street?
Mamma (hesitatingly) I don't know
anything about her yet
Little Dick Oh, she's all right. She's
the mother of that new boy I play with.
Good News.
Book Versus Light and Air.
Better live in a house without win
dows than ia a house without books.
Ram's Horn.
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