TJ1JT i)AlLV IIERALI, I'LATTSMUUTn, wumtftbAA, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 4. 1888.
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COMMUNISM.
VThen mj IjUxxI flow culm an m. purling rlvrr,
Wliru niy In-art U uh1--, and uy lniln luu
ny. .
It Is tln-ri Hint I mi must art for wr,
That I mil fiirKft '-n an l put you nwuy
Out of my lif", n a iln-uni li lui.i l(-l
Out f the niiml wIhmi tlif iln-miuT awaki-a
Tluit I kiiow it will liv, vi hi-u lint kjh'U Iium van-
lv:f-r for Ixitti t,t our Kukett.
Wln-n Hip ('irt of thu Miml N rule! by lU-u-son,
I know it U l-IU r for us to iurt.
Eut Lovh I a Kjiy wlio U !'t iim treason
In li-au.) Willi Hint wuriu ii-l ivIm-I, tin- licuit.
Tl-y IiI'.kt to in t'mt I ho kin iii crm-1
Tlint lii-s ri-l-'ii is wirkcil IjU law, u pin;
And ovi-ry word Unit tli-y ur u furl
To tli llnnitf tiuit Kinolh'i-?i within.
And on nights lil:- thin, wlion my 1,1. whI rutin riot
With tin- fvi-rof youth anl lis nind ltlrcH,
Wlu-u my hniln in vain bills my In-art te ijiiU-I',
When my bn-atiU wtiim the ct-nti-r if lava
llr-n
Oh! th'U Is t tiiin wlii-n inost I iiL-m you,
AikI I Htvciir dy tho Mar.i uiul my miiiI. und nay
Tlint I will hnvf you, and hoM you, und kisH you.
If the uliolc world bLinds in the way.
And. like Communists, an mad as disloyal.
Sly lltvp emotions roam out of tln-ir lair.
' They hate KiiiK K'nwoii Imcniitie lie id royal
They would fire lii ciixtleand liuru him there.
O love, my love! does my passion thrill you?
. AcroHH tli milw d you h nr my la-art?
O lov-! I could t.L;p you, and crush you, and kill
you
It is well that we arc niart!
UPON Till BALCOXV.
Professor Taul Mi-rolo 'it intently guz
ing at the houso neross tho way, ami for oiu-e
in Lin Jifo lounged iu a .i-rfi-tly natural
hitiou, with a relaxed and human look on his
face. It wouM have leou plain to tlio dullest
that for once in his life, at any rate, tho pro
fessor hart forgotten all alxmt himself, his
Stomach, his dypesiii ami nyilarial temlen
cies, his theories on Imcteria, I ml, more than
all, the imjiortant fact thiA precisely at
C:V it was his custom to partake of a pint of
new milk ncaMi.il and jtwo slices of stale
Graham bread toastmL The proftsor was
tall, lantern jiwel, biabsMed ami sedate. Ho
lived by theory; in fact, lif itself was a the
ory to him; ho had a theory by which ho fed
bis stomach, a theory by which ho pruned
his mind and made it sprout only on tho north
or scientific sidi, a theory by which he raised
Lis children, and innumerable theories re
garding diseases on w hich ho wrote books,
taught in a college, lectured in lt.or.ton and
killed people "in an ex-rimeiit.il way. He
only ato certain foods, and then only at
certain times, and In tho capacity of a
guest would have been, I fear, thoroughly
imiOf-sil,!e. A jx-rson ho su ill's ut a s;ihid
and a-ks Mispii-iouly "is that oil in it.''' who
holds your hospitably offered cup of tea oil
at arm's length while ho rudely qii'Tier;
"gn-cn or black?" who can't or won't rid?
backward, nor tit in a room without mi ac
curately measured nniount of ventilation, is,
I contend, a thoroughly iin;o-sible iers.ii
and not to bo thought of as a chum, u guest
or in any of tho more intimate relations of
lifo.
rrofessor JIktoIjo Jive-1 in a city far re
moved from this gay, seductive southern
town, and his duty was lar irom ticre, iut
what with his theories, his dysj epsia and his
6kim milk system of starving his stomach,
Le had pretty nearly experimented himself
otr into the land from which no experimenter
has as yet returned, and had been ordered off
south for a complete chango of .scene, food,
nir and mode of lifo,
J Said his doctor to him: "For LenvcnV
sake, man, quit fooling with yourself; shake
yourself together and live as God Almighty
intended you should. You me a monster
nowa deformitj". E:it p!eut3 drink
plenty, laugh, go to tho opera, to tho theatre,
dance, end, if Airs. Jlicrobo here w ill let you.
fall in love." "If that is your theory, of
course, doctor." said that sandy lady. Mrs.
Microbe really was a lady w ho seemed to grit
ia the teeth. The professor had married her
in pursuance of a theory, and the result of
that marriage had been two or three surlj-,
unruly, ill mannered cubs, who bid fair to
grow to man's estate heartily hating theories
and theorists.
And so, to cut a long story short, the pro
fessor came south, leaving behind him every
thing and everybody which comprised life
from his point of view. The savants wel
comed him, and made much of him, there
fore he liked tho south. A man would think
it fair summer at the south pole if only there
was some one there to keep his vanity warm.
Eut the hotel did not suit him, as ho was
rnstntlv uncertain about the new-
- ness of his milk and the age of his
Graham bread, and so, by a stroke from
Fortune a merry dame who marked him for
a victim, and intended to have some fan
rith liim h found Iodines in a charming
old Spanish house in the very heart of tl
French quarter, it was a room quite 100
lovely for desecration by a dusty old profes
sor, however distinguished, who lived on
rwt meal mush and was full of
uv -
lacteria. It was a front room in an entre
sol over a furniture shop, with arched
Spanish windows blinking out on a baleony
of wrought iron of most exquisite beauty.
In a corner of the balcony stood one of thosj
i Tenter lars with ueelinc 6ides of
yellow, brown awl salmon and which might
have held two or tnreooi ine - loriy iuieo,
but instead was full of earth, for a splendid
rose vine that clambered all over the railing
and sent iu tender, sweet perfume stealing
shylv into the room so desecrated by micro
.wtc nnH w-tt!es of liver rills and bundles of
medicated red flannel, and the Lord knows
what in the way ot instruments ior uie de
tection and locat i-n of Imetoria.
There was a faded Ax minster carpet on the
floor, a carved bed in which had biept a king
of France and a prince cf Spain, an armoii
large enough for a tomb for some Italian le
nevolent association, a dressing stand inlaid
with mother of pearl, cabinets, arm clinirs,
tete-a-tetescoven-d in frayed biocatelles that
had cost a fortune a yard, a pitr glass'tbat
one could not break with a sle l je hammer,
faded tapestries at the arched d.ors. .ld
-i- s in the niches w here unco so::;e
demoiselle had prayed t br r sarin. d Virgin,
-r,.i in tho midst of nil this the professor, or,
tosjicak correctly, his Lclongings, for at the
moment the Jearueu menuer m a. uotii
scientific societies, the eminent Fellow and
Fh. D., was hanging ove r the balcony wau.il-
4 n r- tka ltnlltirt flf-rvfriS tho WIV.
?r w tjnif-i-s burned on the marble table and
" the stenin had ceased rising from the pint of
new milk la iu fragile bowl, but sua r.e sac
-os.ho.r tha house oi-riosite. lie saw
.I.mw nnd manv 1-ersons movin.T
about, chairs scattered any how in a fashion
that would have scandalized Mrs. Mi
crobe, or the professor either, in his own
house; books, music, flowers, magazines, an
open piano, a guitar, a dog all ruilled up in
old gold ribbon, a cat jingling a silver bell at
her blue neck, a tray w ith glasses on it and a
Lottie that was neither lime water nor njxl
linaris, nor yet ginger beer, and moving
" about here and there a glorious woman wilu
night black hair piled on tho top of. her beau
tiful bead, with bare neck and arms, daintily
ulipperod foot and a langta that seemed to stir
the few remaining bristles on the professor's
Lead 83 he listened, so swoct on I soduetiv
it was. fcho wore a black and white gown,
and once she reached out her long fair arm
of U-r red rone, crammed in a blue IxjwI. Hho
gnlliere 1 up a handful of tho flowers itinl
fnstctiiMl tin-in on her breast, turninz her
bond as she did, ho that the unregarded !
looker on had a most delicious proiilo of
throat, chin and oval clui-k. As the roses
fluttered on their new, swivt shrine, tho pro-
fes,s'r rortched out his hand, Jetting fall, tm-
knoviiiigly, n new work on bacteria, that ho
ouj;ht to luivo Ik-cii reading, but was not.
I lis fingers tou'-hitl tho rich blossom of a
rsi uikiii tho balcony railing; the iotnls ft-It
soft und c1 to his nervous, acute touch; the
in-1-luine -aiiie up to his nostrils like the
sweet l.i enth of a child or a woman, and thcu
his hand closed over tho flower, tearing it
from the stem and bruising it beyond repair.
Down iu the street all was gay and cheer
ful. Women sbxnl in their shop doors chat-tt-ring;
open carriagenrolu.il by; somebody
in the piano shop was playing the quartet
from "Itigoletto," and between tho jalousn
of u near house tho professor could s-e a
party of men nml women playing cards at a
round tablo. A man w ho ln-lioves iu Imcleria
will go t any h-jigth, and there is no doubt
the professor, eyeing them pitifully, thought
their frivolity tho sign of unmistakable
bai-tcria which ho hopi-1 to locate nnd disco-,
er some day. lint to-night tho professor
was less disos.Hl than usuul to lie critical or
sev-re, und lie leaned over the railing hxiking
at life from a new wiiit of view with such
an uiimistukably healthy un 1 human cu
riosity an would have delighted his doctor.
A crowd of ojiera singers came out of the
restaurant at tho corner, and an tho lut
tieed doors swung like cuduhims, ho
had winks of views of a sanded floor, round
tables, waiters in white linen jackets, little
hili-M-ks of golden bread piled on the counter,
little green forests of chicory, tumblers of
red w ine. The ojK-ra singers were talking
away and singing airily scraps of Rossini
und (ronnod and Verdi us if there was noth
ing iu tho world so common as grand opera.
The women were fat and reminded him of
the ruo de la I'uix and the loulevard lcs
Italiens, und the men bud beautiful throuti
risingaliove their low cut collars. Ami then
he looked over tho way again. She was at
tho piano singing, with her beautiful head
on o:io side like a bird's.
"Monsieur Microbec, Monsieur I Your new
milk will be h'old if you do not soon drink it
up,' called laughing Nanette from tho bal
cony ubove tho entresol and pelted hini with
a rose.
lYofessor Microlje smiled. Not tho way ho
smiled when he evolved a new theory cr
when ho reud his scientific papers, or even us
he smiled in the stillly starched bosom of his
own family, but a genuine Anile that said,
"I don't care, Nanette,' and he .caught tho
roye and fastened it in his buttonhole.
Tho lieautiful woman was going to tho
ojiera. A carriage wus nt tho door, nnd she
stood Itefore the mirror pulling out the rich
j mil's of her night black hair und fastening a
a red rose ln-hind her car. Her lovely
arms were uplifted, and a song and a laugh
came front her red mouth. Somo ouo
wrapped a cloak about her, gave her her fan,
glas.-cs, gloves and flowers, and then she was)
gone.
Is it necessary to explaiu that Professor
Mii-rolxj followed her to the oicra, nearly
paralyzing Nanette when she met him in tho
corridor dressed in faultless evening attiro
aiid looking so distinguished and every inch
a proesor?
He looked about the grand old building,
crowded with women and hero and there the
b!a-U oasis of a man, and he recognized with
aai.'.ernent and relief tho familiar faces and
bal l heads n:l peculiar bumps of quite a
n.-.-uiiK-r of 1-anievl professors and distiu
gu;. '.ied lil. 1X These sat listening to tho
iiiu -io of "Vv'iiiiaui Tell,' grunting content
edly over tho sweetest passages and at the
dif.'i'.-ult bars, saying broadly and loudly,
"Di .ivo! bravo!"' as if grand opera and not
bacteria, music and not metaphysics, was
tho very l-est thing in life.
Under tho mummy cloths in which tho
professor had persistently wrapped his soul,
he was a good deal like other men, Thc-ro
wasn't anything ho wouldn't do, nothing ho
wouldn't enjoy-, if only ho was kept in public
countenance by those of his own kind, nnd
the sight of those familiar bumps fcr
no man in the world who knew of such
things could fail to recognize tho bumps of
our learned men, once he had seen 'em did
more to revolutionize the professor than gal
lons of jx-psino or whatever might bo tho
stuff dyspeptics cro made of. Ho at once
and forever filing his theory about midnight
suppers to the deuce, as his doctor had or
dered, when he heard her say to some favored
mortals: "Come home to supper with us
after the optra."
And that night after the opera he followed
her home, and went again to his balcony to
gaze into that free, jolly, joyous dining
room, where no blinds were pulled down and
where people sat about eating chicken salad
with oil in it and boned turkey and cold
breasts of phearemts with dry champagne.
He went into his room finally, and, heating
up a little tin of water over the gas, took his
nightcap a cup of boiling yvater. What
would Mrs. Jlierobo ?ay to yon scene cf rev.
elry and cold tiu-kcy, to the piano trolling
out in tho midnight air, to the gay voices, to
hir.i listening and watching- outside? His
thoughts went back to the pure if stiCly
st::."ehcd bosom of his family iu their far oil
hc-::;v; he remembered the sedate order cf
everything, the rules governing his always
tidy home, the regular hours, the days for
doing this and the days for doing that, lha
absolute correctness of everything nnd every
body. Life went on in a groove, and was nar
row, but pure and sweet and clean. He had tho
best of it, he knew; over there was much tinsel
and flippancy, and too much laughing and
singing. He liked that, too, or he thought ho
woald if he miht try it once. It was a little
hard thnt oalnseal mush should bo to taste
less and chicken salad so full of flavor. What
would Mrs. Microbe say to a midnight sup
per in her leather hung dining roomf Cy no
flight of fancy could he think of her
sweeping her hand around in a genial, gen
eral yvay, and saying to all yvho might bo
present: ' "Come home to supper, ail of you.
Wo w ill find something to eat, I know."'
Fif.TSor Mierohi wrapped his dressing
p-v.vii .-.roiiinl him n::d crept out upon thebal-i-,:uv.
I low jolly they were across tho way,
singing "William Teil."" After ell, did his
theories r.nd his oatmeal ma-h diet arid hi?
laws of abstinence do him any more good
than "William Tell"' and boned turkey
"Live as God Almighty intended you should.
Eat aud drink and enjoy this beautiful
world. It Is a good world, bo good and happy
ia it. God hates a sordid heart."
The professor reached out to Nanette's
lovelv rose vine, he plucked off every royal
sweet blossom and, like a boy throwing snow
1 4111s, he flung them across the way upon the
balcony. And the nest day, ia writing ua
items for the iarr, I made the following:
"Professor Etenezcr Microbe, the distin
guished scientist, yvho lias been spending
tome time in the city, returned homo this
morning, finding that tho climate of the
south did not agree with him." Catharino
' Cole in New Orleans Picayune.
! . A lirUc's Popularity.
! reigning Belle (to female friend;) Isn't
il'u-s Debutante distressingly plain!
tamo Keigning I.'lle (to male friends)
I ,-n't M iss Dc bvtantij lovtly
P.esult Ilcigning Delle popular all round.
Tho Epoch.
I .- "
THE PERFUMER'S ART.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF A GREAT
FRENCH INDUSTRY.
The Flower V rowers and Perfume Distill
er of Nouthern Franco How I'lorul
Ileuuly la Sacrificed I'omatlo and Per
fumed Oil DWtlllutloii.
Tho flower growers ami perfume distillers
of southern Franco have no fear of any com-IM-tition.
They think that because they in
herited this industry from their ancestors
nnd because no other country has ever taken
it up successfully no other country or jieople
ever con or will. But there is nothing mys
terious about the business, Mid nothing iin
jxissiblo to any man or community who yvill
choose a suitable soil, location and exposure
in, well, say California, and go about the
business intelligently and with energy.
Only tho simple, most natural varieties of
flowers are used. The roses that are grown by
tons for this purpose are the plain, pink June
rose that every country schoolboy in America
has picked from tho bushes in the garden or
door yard and presented blushingly to his
schoohna'am. Tho single white jonquil, tho
wild violet, the single tulieroso are the only
ones known to the perfumers. For orange
blossoms a small, bitter, nonrodible variety
is used, which makes up for its poor fruit by
producing a wealth of blooms that ore large,
white and heavy with perfume. There is
nothing in tho growing of flowers that any
peasant farmer of ordinary intelligence can
not readily master. It is in the manufacture
of the perfumes from the gathered blossoms
that tho greatest skill and experience are re
quired. It requires capital, too, but the profits
of the business are liberal, and those who
have been long enough engaged in it have no
want of money.
POMADE3 AND OILS.
Tho perfumes of commerce aro in one of
four generic forms, viz., pomades and per
fumed oils, which aro made by the prowss of
absorption, cr essences and essential oils,
which aro made by distillation. Every large
establishment is provided with apparatus for
all these processes. Tho first two classes
Miinades and oils are used simply as vehicles
to absorb the perfume and retain it for trans
portation. Pomades aro mudo f rom roses, jon
quils, tulioroses,"' jasmines and some other
alien species of flowers. Before the season
begins each manufacturer provides himself
with a largo number of wooden frames set
with plate glass. Theso frames are about
two feet square and their wooden sides are
perhaps five inches wide, so that when piled
up edge to edge they form a series of closo
chambers five inches deep and two feet
square. Over tho plato glass, on both sides,
is spread a thin coating of refined grease a
mixt ure of purified lard and tallow which,
when tho boxes are piled one above another,
forms tho floor and ceiling of each separate
chamber thus created. All is now ready for
tho flowers.
As theso arrive each morning they are
assorted and tho petals carefully picked from
the stamens and pistik, yvhich are thrown
nway as worthless. Over the bottom of each
frame or chamber above described is spread
a layer of petals and tho frames piled ono
upon another, so that in each chamber tho
layer of white grease, which absorbs the per
f u mo until the jetals become limp and with
ered. They ore then removed and replaced
yvith fresh ones, and this is repeated each
morning until the jxmiado attains tho re
quired degrco of perfumed strength. It is
then carefully removed, packed in earthen
jars, sealed, labeled and niado ready for ex
port. OTEEIt METHODS.
Olive oils are used in n similar way, except
that instead of being poured on the bottom
of tho frame they aro used to saturate pieces
of coarse cotton cloth, which are then spread
upon yviro netting in tight frames three or
four feet square. Thus prepared these frames
are filled with petals as in tho preceding pro
cess, the refined and odorless olive oil absorbs
the aroma of tho flowers and becomes, like
the pomade, a vehicle for the retention and
transportation of tho perfume, This latter
process is especially applied to roses nnd
acacias. To extract the odor from pomades
or perfumed oils, they have simply to be
saturated with alcohol, which, with its
stronger affinity, absorbs tho perfume, leav
ing the grease or oil to be used for ordinary
purposes.
Tho process of distillation, which yields
essences and essential oils, is altogether differ
ent. In this the flowers are thrown into large
copper retorts with water, in which they are
boiled, the perfume going over in vapor into
condensing coils, as the ordinary distillation
of high wines from grain. But tho heat often
changes tho character of a perfumo and it
is only the more robust and vigorous odors
that will fctand the test of fire without deteri
oration. The "flower waters" of the per
fumers' shops are made by placing alcohol in
tho condensing tank, yvhich cpndenses and
absorbs tho odorous vapor until it becomes
fragrant and 6weet, Most of the popular
handkerchief extracts are made by skillf ully
combiuing tho odors of several different
flowers, which form a harmony of perfumes,
and often by becoming the pet f ragranco of
society for a season make the fortune of the
lucky inventor. Thus "Jockey Club" and
"Patchouly" in their day had an extraordi
nary voguo and filled the pockets of their
inventors. Philadelphia Times.
A Srerchant's Methodical Life. '
A Boston merchant, who lived and died on
Summer street, was a curious instance of one
who was an invalid from childhood, always
extremely hypochondriacal, who never im
agined himself ill when ho was not, nor ex
aggerated his actual illness, nor feared,
unduly, sickness or pain, or death itself.
Bat it was the business of his life to take cTiro
of his health, and he devoted himself to this
work with a wonderful assiduity. He rodo
just so far each day, when the yveather was
fair, and at such an hour. Ho had a great
variety of clothing, which ho regulated with
precision by the thermometer, sometimes
changiug his dress many times in a day, and
selected for his overclothes when he rode
out the very garments which the mercury
indicated. Ha had a weathercock put upon
his stable within fair view from the bedroom
and sitting room; and that and his thermom
eter, and all possible or impossible signs of
the weather, ' he was yvatching constantly,
and found in these occupations a very agree
able way of emplo3'ig all his day and all his
days. How far his lwg life is to be attrib
uted to this excessive care it is impossible to
tell, but he outlived every brother and sister,
every brother's wife, every sister's husband,
and his own wife, and died in 1SS? at the ag
of SI. Boston Advertiser,
jnnu.i Kings of Trees.
From studies upon the relation which the
amiual rings bear to the age of trees, it has
been concluded that they are only an ap
proximately and not certainly correct index
of ago. Any agency operating to produce
alternate periods of rest and activity in the
growth of the tree serves to determine their
formation. In cold climates the number of
rings moro nearly serves to indicate the age
of the tree than in warm climates. Globe
Democrat.
A SAD SEA SONQ.
A mil lor man suiled over the sea.
When the billows were soft and low.
Anil the wiudH n la!lu. of ocean gleo
KariK sweetly In t-utle flow.
A sailor wife set out oa the shorn
Aud (lreniued of a ship on the deep,
Ilut her suilor man she saw no more, J
For he slept Iu a sound, sound sleep. t ' -
The uailor sailed uway and away.
Where the surfreii were tierce and wild.
And was lost at tiie breuk of a stormy duy
To his w ife until his little child.
The winds were sod ami the waves were mild,
And the sea sang a story of life,
A lulluby to the Kinlor child,
A wail to' the sailor wife!
David Graham Adee.
Furin Ufa in Northern Italy.
An Italian woman gives a sul account of
the state of farming in tho northern iortions
of her country. Almost all tho farmers aro
tenants. They furnish tho team and imple
ments, while the landlords make repairs und
pay the taxes. The crops are equully divide!.
As a rule both classes liave a hard time, in
regard to the food and drink' of the laborers
she writes: The, light, pure wine, which be
fore tho vine disease cost next to nothing,
and acted as a corrective to all the defects of
diet, has been suct.-eoded by wine which is
more lieady and less wholesome, und of which
the price places it out of the reach of tho
peasant as a daily bevcrago. Oil a feast day
he may drink a glass or two at the osteria;
but, ' being unaccustomed to it, it does hint
more harm thun good, and violent quarrels
aro tho consequence. The Italian navvy is
still a prodigious yvorker; nearly all tho
greutest engineering feats of ii!0'!"rn f::. :-:
are tho yvork of L'. i..i.;a. LaL i..ci, a n. i
bo rememliered that he eats and drinks lietter
than tho peasant. The rural ihmjv cun
not afford coffee, which is heavily taxed;
their drink is yvater, aud not ulways puro
yvater, and their staple food is maize flour,
either prepared as ileutu or mudo into u
very indigestible kind of breud. The former
is tho usual and less objectionable way of
eating it.
"Maizo matures so late that in yvet seasons
it does not harden naturally; most of tho
rich proprietors have introduced stoves for
drying tho grain; but the easants are care
less and leave it out in tho rain till it bo
comes moldy. Polenta forms the unfailir.g
morning ineul; for dinner there is sometimes
a ininestra or soup made of rice or of tho
coarser Italian pastes, with cabbage or tur
nips and a little lard. Oil fast days linseed
oil is a substitute for tho lard. Suusages, gen
erally of a homo mndo kind, ami raw vege
tables with or yvithuut oil and vinegar, ure
added when they can bo got, and eggs, cheese
and dried fish aro luxuries. On dairy farms
the peasants get a little milk or buttermilk,
and inezzajuoJi who keep a cow reserve u
small portion of tho milk for tho chil
dren. Thoso who keep chickens eat ono
now and then, but butcher's meat is hardly
ever bought, except for a marriage or
for a sick pci-son. If a horse has to bo shot
tho peasants are very glad to cat the liesu,
and some are said to also eat that of aniiaais
yvho die of disease. Hedgehogs, frogs a;;d
snails, are esteemed as great delicacies."
Chicago Times.
Outer Dwelling Houses.
ETho Gilbert Islander docs not generally
caro to have any sides to his dwelling, lie
set3 in four corner posts, about four feet
high, made from tho trunks of screw palms,
cut off and inverted so as to stand alone on
tho stumps of tho branches. leashed from
one to tho other of theso are long, slender
trunks of cocoanut palms, ami from these
again spring pairs of rafters, yvhich, in their
turn, support tho neatly thatched roof. The
gable ends are then closed, and tho house ij
complete. Not a nail or a pin of any ki.id i:
used. All the beams, rafters and the thaleh
are secured by ingenious lashings, made gen
erally from tho palm leaf fiber, though some
times braided from tho owner's own hair.
The floor space is smoothed off, and then
covered with a thick bed of small, smooth
pebbles or coral. Oil this are spread plenty
of soft, thick mats, made, of coui-se, from
palm leaves, and then, with a supply of
young cocounuts at hand, yvith a string of
shells filled with a good supply of "toudy"
banging outside the house, and the huge
fragment of shark, baked in a wide oven in
the sand, tho islander is content to eat and
sleep until hungry again.
In the middle of every village is a "council
house." This is a largo hut, ono thut we
measured being IliO feet long, GO feet wide
and CO feet high at the ridgepole, built on
the same plan na the dwellings, but intended
a3 a place of meeting, especially for the "old
men," who rule each cimnuiiity. These
"potent, grave aud reverend seignors" meet
daily, and hear and decide all complaints,
and issue all ordinances for the government
of the ieople. If their dee-isions and ordi
nances happen to meet with the approved cf
a majority of those interested they aro
adopted. If they don't, another lot are pro
mulgated the next day, and so on until tho
matter is settled or 'dropped. San Francisco
Examiner.
An SOO-Veur Old Family.
A family of mummies recently unearthed
in Mexico have just been brought to 'Jan
Francisco and placed in the state mining
bureau. They were found in a stratum of
li:no several feet below the surface f the
earth, not far from the Arizona border. Tho
group, consisting of a man, woman and two
children, were close together- The tyvo adult
figures have on. a scanty clothing of coarso
netting composed of grass and bark of trees,
while one of the children appears to have
been clad in fur.
They all have the knees drawn up to tho
phins, while the hands clasp tho heads, as if
-they had died in great agony. The general
appearance, in thi3 respee-t, is much like that
of the casts of the Pcmpeiian victims. The
woman has long black hair, and in the lobes
of her ears aro small tubes for ornament.
The man has but little hair. Hi3 feature
are distorted another evidence of pain but
are seen very distinctly, anfl his open mouth
6hows his tongue, Near the bodies were also
found curiously formed beads, and tho per
fect form of a cat, which seenM to have
shared their burial place. From the appear
ance of the bodies and their surroundings it
is thought they must have been dead at least
800 yearn. New York Sun.
Annual Cost ol Sliaving-,
An eastern statician has estimated that
3,000,000 men in this country get shaved at a
barber shop three times a week. He says that
this means an expenditure of thirty cents a
week, or $13.00 a year for each man, or for
the 3,000,000 $15,000,000 annually. To this
he should add a considerable sum to account
for the numerous fifteen cent shaves the
ruling price in the west. Chicago Herald.
AVood Displaced by Iron.
In tho manufacture of casks, carriages,
carts, packing cases, furniture, sheds, tele
graph poles, and many other things, manu
facturers of-Franee and England are dis
placing wood by steel and iron, and with
tatisfactory results. Light doors and hol
low window frames are in use, and, of course
last far longer than wooden ones would,
PUMic Opinion. . ' J
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The iinu W. A. IJoeck ifc Co.,
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Gault's Jewelry Store,
A 1'Ubh l!xk op
Jewelry, "Watches,
Clocks, Silverware,
mx. Lannichael, an experienced ntcli-innker, 1ms taken charge oi u
Kepair Department. All repairs
WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTIO 3ST
And Satisfaction CJtian ntted.
Hy fair and honest dealing we hope to merit a i-liare ot the public pa
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HI. UVE. G ATJLT,
DOVEY BLOCK.
The Plattsm
Xs oa joying a
EDITIONS.
The Year 1888
"Will he one during which the subjects of
national interest and importance wifl he
strongly agitated and the election of a
President will take place. Ihe people of
Cass County who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
of this year and would keep apace with
the times should
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Now while we have the subject before the
people we will venture to speak ot our
dl 1SS
Which is first-class in all respects and
from which onr joL printers are turning
out much satisfactory work.
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