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The Sioux County Journal,
V0LU31E VIII.
HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 1895.
NUMBER 11.
TAKES A NEW CHARGE
TALMAQC MOVES FROM BROOK.
LYN TO WASHINGTON,
Installed aa Co-Paator of ths First
Presbyterian Charch, Where Presi
dent Cleveland Worship Oi Tea
Seasons for Accepting the Call.
Berasoa ef Last Baada.
The lntallation of tba Rev. T. DaWitt
Talmag aa a co-paator with tb Her. Dr.
Byron Sunderland, of tha First Preaby
teriao Church of Washington, city, took
place recently. The exercises were held
in tha evening. The moderator, the Iter.
Mr. Allen, presided and put the consti
tutional questious. The First Church is
the "President'! Church," the worship
ing place of the I'resident being thus
familiarly known. Dr. Newman's church,
during the Grant regime, became very
famous as the General's place of prayer.
The First Church is in an out-of-the-wny
place, a few blocks from the Capitol.
Years ago the fashionable set mured
way off toward the White House and
left the plain little brick church .to the
care of surrounding boarding-houses and
encroaching shops. Its life was languish
ing when Grover Cleveland, In 1MM4, dis
covered In the Her. Byron Sunderland an
old friend and took a pew In his church.
. TJH. TAt.MAOK.
. Tha calling of Dr. Talmage In September
last was the result of an Inspiration of
Dr. Sunderland, who, for a generation,
baa been pastor.
Dr. Talmage preached bla second ser
mon In his new pulpit last Sunday. If
possible the audience waa even larger
than the previous Sunday. Tha subject
was "The Disabled," tha text selected
being 1. Samuel, xix., 24, "As his part
la that goeth down to the battle, so shall
his part be that tarrieth by the stuff."
If you have never seen an army change
quarters, yon have no Idea of the amount
of baggage twenty loada, fifty loads, 100
loads of baggage. David and his army
ware about to start on a double quick
march for the recovery of their captured
families from the Amalekitea. Ho they
left by the brook Beeor their blanket,
their knapsacks, their baggage and their
carriages. Who shall be detailed to watch
this stuff? There are sick soldiers, and
wounded soldiers, and aged soldiers who
are not able to go on swift military ex
peditions, but who are able to do some
work, and so they are detailed to watch'
tba baggage. There la many a soldier
who is not strong enough to msrch thirty
miles In a day and then plunge into a ten
hours' fight who is able with drawn sword
lifted agalnat his shoulder to pace up
and down as a sentinel to keep off an
enemy who might put the torch to the
baggage. There are 200 of those crippled
.and aged and wounded soldier detailed to
watch the baggage. Some of them, I
suppose, hsd bandages across the brow,
and some of them had their arms In a
aling, and some of them walked on crutch
es. They were not cowards shirking
duty. They had fought in many a fierce
battle for their country and their God.
They are now part of tha time In hoapltal
and part of the time on garrison duty.
They almost cry because they cannot go
with the other troops to tha front. Whlla
these sentinels watch the baggage the
Lord watches the aentinela.
How Battlea Have Been Lest
There Is quite a different scene being
enacted In tha distance. Tha Amalekitea,
having ravaged and ransacked and rob
bed whole countries, are celebrating their
success In a roaring carousal. Home of
them are dancing on the lawn with won
derful gyration of heel and toe, and some
of them are examining the spoils of vic
tory tha finger rings and earrings, tha
necklaces, the wristlets, the headbands,
diamond starred, and the coffers with cor
onets and rarnellana and pearls and
sapphires and emeralds and all the wealth
of plate and Jewels and decanters, and
the sliver, and the gold banked up on the
earth In princely profusion, and the em
broideries, and the robes, and the tur
bans, and the cloaks of an imperial ward
robe. Tba banquet has gone on until
the banqueter are maudlin and weak and
stupid and indecent and loathsomely
drunk. What a time It is now for David
and his men to swoop on theml So the
Kngllsb lost the battle of Bannockburn,
because the night before they were in
wassail and bibulous celebration while
the Scotch were in prayer. Ho the Syrians
were overthrown In tbelr carousal by tha
Israelites. So Cbedorlaomer and bis
army were overthrown In their carousal
by. Abraham and his men. Ho in our civil
war more than once the battle wa lost
' because one of the generala was drunk.
Now I the time for David and bla men
. to awoop upon these carousing A main
kite. Home of the Amaleklte are hack
ed to piece on the spot, some of them are
Just able to go staggering and hiccough
ing off the field, some of tbem crawl on
camels and ipeed off In tha dlatanco.
David and hi men gather together tha
wardrobe, the Jewel, and pnt tbem upon
tba back of camel and Into wagon, and
. they gather together tba sheep and cat
tic that bad been stolen and atart back
toward tba garrison. Yonder they comet
' Yonder tbey come! Tba limping man of
tba garriaon coma oat and greet them
with wild bass. Tba Bible say David
saluted then that la, ba aakad them bow
they all were, "How la yoor broken
a mi 7" "How g year fractured Jawf
"Haa the stiffened limb been nnlim
brrwir "Have you had another chill'"
"Are you getting better?" II saluted
them.
Garrison Dnty.
But now cam a very difficult thing, tha
distribution of the apoil of victory.
Drive up those laden camel now. Who
shall have the epulis? Well, some selfish
soul luggasta that these treasure ought
all to belong to those whu had been out
in active service. "We did all the fight
lug while theae men itaid at home in the
garrison, and we ought to have all the
treasure." But David looked into the
worn facea of these veteran who bad
ataid in the garrison and he looked round
and saw how cleanly everything had
been kept, and he saw that the baggage
wa all safe, and he knew that these
wounded aud crippled men would gladly
enough have been at the front if they had
been able, aud the little general looks up
from under hi helmet and say: "No, no,
let u have fair play," and he rushes tip
to one of theae men and be says, "Hold
your baud together," and the hand are
held together, an he fill them with silver.
And he ruvhea up to another man who
wa litting away back and had no idea
of getting any of the poil and throw a
Babylonish garment over him and fill
hi hand with gold. And he rushea up to
another man who had lost ail hi prop
erty In serving (lod and his country years
before, and he drive up ome of the cat
tle and some of the sheep that they had
brought back from the Amalekltes and he
give two or three of the cattle and three
or four of the sheep to thi poor man, so
he shall always be fed and clothed, lie
see a man ao emaciated and worn out
and sick he need stimulant and he give
him a little of the wine that he brought
from the Amalekitea. Yonder I a man
who ha no appetite for the rough ra
tion of the army, and he givea him a rare
morsel from the Amalekitish banquet,
and the 200 crippled and maimed and
aged soldiers who tarried on garrison
duty get Just a much of the poil of bat
tle any of the 200 men that went to
the front "A hi part i that goeth
down to the battle, o ahall hi part be
that tarrieth by the tuff."
The Impression Is abroad that the Chris
tian rewards are for those who do conspic
uous service In distinguished places
great patriot, great preacher, great
philanthropiat. But my text eta forth
the Idea that there I Juit as much reward
for a man that stays at home aud mind
his own business and who, crippled and
unable to go forth and lead in great move
ments and in the high places of th earth,
doe hi whole duty Jut where he I.
Oarrison doty la a Important and aa re
munerative a service at the front. "A
hi part I that goeth down to the battle,
ao ahall hi part be that tarrieth' by the
atuff."
Reward are not to be given according
to the amount of noise you make In the
world, nor even according to tha amount
of good you do, but according to whether
you work to your full capacity, accordiug
to whether or not you do your full duty
In the sphere where Ood he placed you.
Kach aa to HI Fart.
Suppose you give to two uf yoor chil
dren errand and they are to go off to
make purchnae, and to one you give $1
and to the other you give $20. Do you re
ward the boy that you gave $20 to for
purchaaing more with that amount of
money than the other boy purchaed with
$1? Of course not. If (lod give wealth
or social position or eloquence or twenty
times the faculty to a man that he give
to the ordinary man, 1 be going to give to
the favored man a reward because he ha
more power and more Influence? Oil, no.
In other word, if you and I were to do
our whole duty and you have tweuty
time more talent than I have, you will
get no more divine reward than 1 will. I
(lod going to reward you because he gave
you more? That would not be fair; thnt
would not be right. These 2O0 men of the
text who fainted by the brook Besor did
their whole duty; they watched the bag
gage, they took care of the stuff, and they
got a much of the apoil of victory a the
men who went to the front "A hi part
I that goeth down to the battle, so ahall
hi part be that tarrieth by the (tuff."
There I high encouragement in thl for
I
rmT PRKAHYTXRIAX ClirKCtT.
all who have great rewponsihility and little
credit for what they do. You know the
name of the great commercial boi!c of
theae citie. Do you know the name of
the confidential clerk the men who have
the key to the afe, the men who know
the combination lock? A ditinguihed
merchant goe forth at the dimmer water
ing place and he flahea pant and you ay,
"Who I that?" "Oh," replies some one,
"don't you know? That I the great Im
porter, that is the great banker, that I the
great manufacturer."
The confidential clerk ba hi week off.
Nobody notices whether he come or goe.
Nobody knows him, and after awhile hi
week 1 done, and be ita down again at
hi dek. But (lod will reward his fidel
ity Juit as much a be recognize the
work of the merchant philanthropist
whoas Investments thl unknown clerk so
carefully guarded. Hudson River Rail
road, Pennsylvania Railroad, Kris Rail
road, New York and New Haven Railroad
bodnees men know th namea of the
presidents of theae roads and of ths prom
inent directors, but tbey do not know the
nsmee of the engineers, the names of the
switchmen, the names of tbe Bagmen,
the namee of tb brakemen. These men
hart awful reepoaaibllltiee, and sona
ta roagh the reckleeanees or aa en
gineer or the unfaithfulneaa of a witch
ma u, it haa brought to mind the faithful
ness of nearly all the rest of them. Home
men du nut have recognition of their ser
vice. They have amall wage and much
complaint I very often ride upon loco
motives and I very often ask tbe ques
tion, a we (hoot around some curve or
under some ledge of rock, "How much
wage do you get?" And I am alway
urprined to find bow little for uch vast
responsibility. Do you suppose Ood is
not going to recognize that fidelity?
Tboma Scott, the president of the Peun
ylvania Railroad, going up at death to
receive from God his destiuy, wa no bet
ter known in that hour than wa known
last night tbe brakeman who, on the
Erie Railroad, wa jammed to death amid
the car coupling. "A hi part i that
goeth down to the battle, o ahall bia
part be that tarrieth by tbe ituff."
Unpretending- Service,
A Christian women wa een going
along the edge of wood every eventide,
and the neighbor in the country did not
understand how a mother with so many
care and aniietie should waste so much
time a to be idly auutering uut evening
by evening. It w found out afterward
that (he went there to pray for her house
hold, and while there one evening die
wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in all
age for cheering Christian heart:
I love to ateal awhile away
From every cumbering care
And upend the hour of letting day
In humble, grateful prayer.
Shall there be no reward for such unpre
tending yet everlaiting service?
Clear back in the country there is a
boy who wants to go to college and get
an eduration. They call him a book
worm. Wherever they find him in the
barn or in the house he Is reading a
book. "What a pity It Is," they say,
"that Ed cannot get an education." Hi
father, work aa hard a he will, can no
more than support the family by the prod
uct of the farm. One night Ed haa re
tired to hia room and there la a family
conference about him. The sisters sayi
"Father, I wish you would send Ed to
college. If you will, we will work harder
than we ever did, and we will make our
old dresses do." The mother says: "Yen,
I will get along without any hired hejp,
although I am not a (trong a I ued to
be. I think I can get along without any
hired help." Tbe father (ay(, "Well, I
think by huaking corn night I can get
along without any aaaiatance." Sugar
I banished from the table, butter I ban
ished from the plate. That family I put
down on rigid yea, auffering economy
that the boy may go to college, Time
passe on. Commencement day ha
come. Think not that I mention an Im
aginary cave. Clod know it happened.
Commencement day ha come, aud th
professor walk In on the itaga in their
long gowns. The interest of the occasion
i paasiug on, and after awhile It come
to a climax of interest a the valedic
torian is to be introduced. Ed has studied
so hard and worked ao well that he hna
had the honor conferred upon him. There
are round of applause, sometime
breaking into vociferation. It 1 a great
day for Ed. But away back in the galler
le are hi iter In their plain hat and
their faded ahawl, and the old fash
ioned father and mother dear me, she
haa not had a new hat for ix year, he
ha not had a new hat for six year and
they get up and look over on the platform
and they laugh and they cry, and they ait
down, and they look pale and then they
are very much flinhed. Kd get the gar
land. and the old-fashioned group in the
gallery have their full share of the tri
umph. They have made that scene poi
blc. and In the day when (Sod ahall more
fully reward elf-acrifiee made for oth
ers, he will give grand and glorioua rec
ognition. "Aa hia part I that goeth
down to the battle, so ahall hi part be
that tarrieth by the stuff."
Veterans In Work.
There is high encouragement In thi
ubject, also, for thoae who once wrought
mightily for Chriat and the church, but
through alcknees or collapse of fortune
or advanced year cannot now go to the
front. The 200 men of the text , were
veterana. Let that man bare hi arm
and how how the muscles were torn. Let
him pull aside th turban and ee the
mark of a battle ax. Pull alde the coat
and see where the pear thrust him.
Would It have been fair for thoe men,
crippled, weak and old, by the brook
Beeor, to have no hare In the spoils of
triumph?
Fret not, ye aged ones. Just tarry by
tbe atuff and wait for your share of the
spoils. Yonder they sre coming. I hear
th bleating of the fat lamb and I ee the
Jewel glint In the un. It make me
laugh to think how you will be nrprUed
when they throw a chain of gold over
yoor neck and tell you to go in and dine
with the king. I aee yon backing out he-
sa , tan mil fft 1111 worthy. The shining
one come up on the one aide, and the
shining ones come up on the other sine,
and thev push you on and they push you
. . . i.i i 1- i.i ..i.i;...
up aim tney nay, iicrv m nu . j
of Jesus Christ," and the Hlilning one'
will nihil out toward you and nay. "Yes,
thnt man aved my soul," or they will,
rush out ll ml MitV. "Oh, yea, she W with
me In the last l kiiens." And then the
cry will go round the circle, "Come In,
come In, come up. come up. We nw you
away down there, old anil Nick and de
crepit and discouraged because you could
not go to the front, but 'As hi part ia that
goeth down to the battle, o shall hi part
be that tarrieth by the stuff.' "
Cheer up, men and women of unappre
ciated ervice. You will get your re
ward, If not here, hereafter. Oh, that
will be a mighty day when the Son of
David ahall distribute the garland, the
crown, the scepters, tho chariot, the
throne. And then It hall ha found out
that all who on earth aerved Ood In In
complcuou spheres receive Just a much
reward a thoae who filled the earth with
uproar of achievement Then they ahall
understsnd ths height ths depth, the
length, th breadth, the pillared and
domed magnificence of my text, "As bis
part Is that goeth down to the battle, ao
aball his part be that tarrieth by the
stuff."
A dude in Philadelphia was turned
ont of tb club to which he belonged
bvcao be paid hi tailor' bill tw
day after b got tb cloths.
Scotch ' Bull."
General Wade constructed military
roads In the Highlands or Scotland. An
obelisk was constructed to commemor
ate his achievement on which was In
scribed the following "bull," Intended
to distinguish between natural and
made roads:
Had you seen theae road before they
were made,
You would lift up your hands and bleu
General Wade.
An Object Lesson.
The easiest way to convert a man to
tbe "good roads" proposition is to per
suade him to mount the festive bicycle,
master Its curves and wheel the Instru
ment out where the roads are travesties
upon the name, and where bumps are
the most conspicuous thing In evidence.
A few repetitions of an experience like
this will make the experimenter an en
thusiastic petitioner for the best that
can be bad in the line of roads. Heaven
will take on an additional charm for
this man when he Is reminded of the
perfect pavements that are a feature of
tbe final abode of the righteous. Los
Angeles Times.
And In a Good Road State.
A sample of the way road money Is
wasted has been shown on Monmouth
street during the past week. There
were some holes In the roadbed and
they were filled up with clay and
gravel. Then men were set at work
shoveling the sand and dirt out of the
gutters, and the sod and grass that had
grown there, and this was thrown on
top of tbe clay and gravel.
If a sand road Is wanted there's no
use of going to the expense of putting
clay and gravel on It, for the founda
tion of the road Is sand, before any top
dressing U put ont It; but It's a double
waste of money to cover up the sand
with clay and gravel, and then cover up
tbe clay and gravel with more sand.
Red Bank Register.
Oood Roads In Connecticut.
The good-roads movement In Connec
ticut which was parted by the last
session of the Legislature, has proved
to be a popular one, eighty of the towns
having applied to the highway com
mission for th( State aid provided by
the statute. This means a good many
miles of roads built according to the
specifications of the State commission
and under Its practical supervision.
Each section of road ordered has to be
visited by one or more members of the
commission, who are all practical meu
and one of them an engineer, before
the State money can be given. The
popularity of the movement had not
been anticipated, the legislators appar
ently not realizing the desire of the
people of the State, especially of the
farming sections, to establish better
transportation for their products.
Complimentary to the Prince.
The celebration of the anniversaries
of the battles of the French aud Ger
man war of 1870 has brought out many
anecdotes of that terrible struggle,
some of wblcb are picturesque and sig
nificant. One of these relates this In
cident that occurred after the Battle
of Welssenburg, on Aug. 4, In which the
German army, under the Prussian
Crown Prince Frederick, won a great
victory over the Freuch under General
Douay:
The crown prince, tiding over the
field, was attracted by the figure of a
gigantic Bavarian soldier. The man
wan lindens; lii h fuce wan blackened
with tlie powder of the battle. He was
sitting on a log. anil was tranquilly eat
ing u big piece of black bread, though
he was surrounded on every side by
dead men, dead horse., and all the ter
rible debris of a great battle. All tills
did not seem to impress the big soldier
at all, nor did the approach of the
Prusslau prince, his commander, though
he knew the prince well.
Four years before, Prussia and Ba
varia had been arrayed against each
other In another great war, and In It
the Bavarians, and their allies, the Aus
trian, had been vanquished. The sol
dier was a veteran of that war.
The prince recognized the uniform of
the soldier as that of a regiment which
this day bad done him valiant service,
anil bud also suffered terrible loss. He
paused, and with tears in his eyes, said:
"Ah, my brave Ixty, you have earned
a little rest! You Bavarians have
fought to-day like heroes. With such
soldiers I should always lie sure of
victory!"
"Oh, Ja!" answered the man, with
the broad accent of a mountaineer, "we
fought somewhat, your royal highness,
but you see we bad genera la to-day.
If you had been our general In 1866,
prince, we should have whipped those
miserable scoundrels of Prussians
within an Inch of tbelr rascally lives!"
The soldier munched away at bis
bread with a ferocity that suggested
that he imagined be waa devouring a
Prussian alive. Tbe crown prince
laughed heartily; he thought, no doubt,
that the man had that day earned his
right to express his opinion of Prus
sians. But bis young aide-de-camp bit
bla lips with patriotic Indignation.
Contesting; Harmony.
On the occasion of the second mar
riage of Madame Mallbran, the world
famous singer, says Monsieur Legouve,
in his "Recollections," he asked Thal
berg, who was one of the guests, to
play.
"Play before you, madame!" ex
claimed be, "I could not think of It
Besides, I am too anxious to bear you."
"But you'll not hear me, Monsieur
Thalberg. I am not supposed to be
here at all; it Is merely a woman dead
tired with the fatigues of the day. I
haven't a note left; I should be simply
execrable."
"So much the better; It will give me
courage."
"You Insist upon It? Very well; you
shall have your wish."
She waa as good, or as bad, as her
word. Her voice sounded harsh; there
was not a spark of genius In It Even
ber mother remarked upon it, and chld
ed her for It.
"Now," said she, "It is your turn,
Monsieur Thalberg." ' The presence of
such a listener put him on his mettle,
and he drew from his Instrument all
the wealth of tone It could afford. As
be went on, Mallbran's face gradual!
changed, her tired eyes grew bright,
her nostrils began to quiver.
"Admirable!" cried abe, when the last
note had died away. "Now It Is my
turn." She sang again, and this time
with no sign of fatigue or llstlessness.
It was no longer the same woman, It
was no longer the same voice, and
Thalberg could only murmur, "O mad
ame, madame!"
She had barely finished, when he said
with animation, "Now it Is my turn!"
Mallbran's genius bad Inspired bis mas
terly but severe style. Currents of elec
trie fluid seemed to run from his fin
gers over the keyboard.
At the last bar, Mallbran burst into
violent sobs, she shivered from head to
foot and had to' be supported from the
room. In a few moments she reappear
ed, and with uplifted bead and flashing
eyes, hurried to the piano.
"Now rt Is my turn!" she exclaimed.
She resumed that strange duel and
sang four pieces, increasing In grand
eur as she went on, unconscious of ev
erything, in her growing excitement,
until she noticed Thalberg's face bath
ed In tears as her own bad been.
Odd Delusions.
In a recent lecture In London, by Dr.
W. R. (lowers of the Royal Society,
some curious facts were stated con
cerning tbe optical delusions suffered
by victims of epilepsy at the commence
ment of their attacks.
One man for years was always warn
ed of a coming fit by a Bensatlon of
thumping or beating In the chest, which
gradually extended to the head. Then
two pulsating lights appeared, which
seemed to draw nearer. In an Instant
these were gone, and In their place
was the figure of an aged woman
wearing a red cloak, and always the
same In appearance and dress, who of
fered the patient something that had
the odor of Tonqtiln beans. Then the
paiient Invariably lost consciousness.
Another case cited was that of a wom
an whose attacks were Invariably pre
ceded by a vision of London lying In
ruins, the channel of the Thames being
emptied of water in order to receive the
rubbish of the destroyed city, and the
patient believing herself to be the only
survivor of all Its Inhabitants.
Still another patient always seemed
to himself, just before an attack, to
have been set down In the midst of a
broad field of grass.
The cause of these singular decep
tions lies in the brain, but Its mode
of working Is not yet thoroughly under
stood. Sawdust.
The common objection to using saw
dust for bedding, that It Is not a good
thing to have It mixed with the manure
pile, does not apply to Its use for bed
ding for pigs. The pig Is the most
cleanly of all animals In not soiling his
bedding with his own excrement. Sows
with pigs will bunch up their straw
bedding and then He on it so as to de
stroy them. ' This they cannot do when
sawdust bedding Is used. The pigs are
always cleanly, and the sawdust helps
to keep them free from vermin, which
often attacks them where straw bed
ding is Used.
Of Course They Are.
"Dearctd girl of all," was the way the
letter began.
Right there, so ti apeak, he queered
hlmwHIf.
"Of all," said she softly to herself;
"then there are others." Indiannpolls
Journal. .
What la Needed.
Burnley What you church pOpl
need Is more tolerance In your religion.
Good ley I fancy we don't lifted It
any more than you need religion In you:
tolerance.
The scese of Frank Barrett' new
story, "A Set of Rogues," la laid In th
England of the Elizabethan drametlata,
and the tale deals with tbe fortune of
band of strolling players..
Mrs. Mary Hal lock Foote, the author
of "The Led Horse Claim" and other
stories of far Western life, la now avt
Grass Valley, where ber husband, A.
D. Feote, is Inspecting the North Star
Mine.
Julian Ralph's story of Chin wfQ be
founded on conditions Just the revere)
of those In the current issue. It will
be entitled "Plumblossom Beebe's Ad
venture," and relates the unhappy for
tunes of the native wife of an English
merchant
The beautiful editions of Gilbert
White's "Selborne," have already
awakened Interest In London. Tbe Il
lustrations are from sketches and pho
tographs taken by Clifton Johnson at
Selborne, where he spent some time.
The Introduction has been written by
John Burroughs.
Among the special attraction of tbe
Thistle Edition of Stevenson's work
will be "The Story of a Lie," published
originally in the Quarterly Magaxtne
and not republished since, and "Th
Pentland Rising," which 1 Included
only In the costly and limited Edin
burgh Edition. In the volume con
taining "Familiar Studies of Men and
Books," there are three magazine pa
pers that are not Included In any other
collection of Stevenson's essays.
"Tbe Confessions of a Literary
Hack," which appeared In tbe Forum
for July, was discussed and quoted in
almost every literary periodical In thl
country, and received a column of com
ment by Andrew Lang in the Illustrat
ed London News. Tbe article waa pub
lished anonymously, and the Identity
of the author was for some time almost
as fruitful a topic of discussion as the
sketch itself. A Boston literary jour
nal now states "authoritatively," that
tbe paper was written by John Gilmer
Speed. Tbe figures given by Mr. Speed
were actual receipts transcribed direct
ly from bis record-books.
Hooseflle.
The common housefly, when It alights,
after soaring about a room for some
little time, may be seen going through
a series of operations which remind one
of a cat licking herself after a meal;
or of a bird pluming Its feathers.
First, the hind feet are rubbed to
gether, then each bind leg is passed
over a wing, then the forelegs undergo
a like treatment; and, lastly, If the ob
server looks sharp, he will see the In
sect carry his proboscis over hi legs
and about his body as far aa he can
reach.
Tbe minute trunk Is perfectly retrac
tile, and It terminates In two lobes,
which can he seen spread out when the
Insect begins a meal on a lump of su
gar. This carefully going over the body
with the trunk Mr. Emerson, an En
glish chemist, asserts Is to remove the
animalcules which the quick motion of
the flies have gathered on their bodies
In their gyrations through the air.
In dirty and bad smelling quarters
tie found tbe myriads of files which ex
isted there literally covered with ana
malculea, while other flies, captured In
bedroom or well-ventilated, clean
apartment, were miserably lean and
entirely free from tbelr prey. , ,
College Girls Like to Eat.
A feast of reason and flow of soul d.i
not satisfy the modern college maid,
a th housekeeping record of the Bal
timore Woman's OoUeg .show. For
thl year contracts have been made for
23,000 pound of beef, 12,000 pound of
mutton, 9,000 pound of poultry, 4,000
pounds of pork, and 8,000 pounds of
veal. Four thousand five hundred doz
en of eggs will also be used. Large
quantities of fish and oysters, which
are purchased week by week and not
contracted for yearly, 14,000 pound of
sugar, 125 barrels of flour, and 3,000
pounds of crackers, 1,200 pound of cof
fee, 100 pounds of tea, 120 pounds of
chocolate, and ON) gallons of Ice cream
have been ordered. Some of th other
Hems Include 7,800 pounds of butter.
5,600 gallons of milk, 3,000 pound of
lard, 475 bushels of potatoes, 160 cans
of canned vegetables, and 160,000
pound of Ice. Fruit, groceries and
ther vegetables are purchased a the)'
may be needed. These amount are re
quired to feed 800 girl.
Castles la the Air.
The phrase "Castles en Bapagne," or,
s some say, "castles In the air," date
from the time the Moor 'were driven
out of Spain. Th tradition I thnt
when the Moors were driven from their
lomea, and the country they had helped
make ao beautiful and famous, thy
:arried with tbem only th key of their
raatlea, to which, of course they nvr
sould and did return. The kya they
would show with great prldav 4 WJI
thy mtfltt, and amy, 'Tb urn Cm
key to oar castle In Spain.''
If in bar Both In t do. a 1 1
rereif to do It
