rnmmnmmam A ClilnoHO Negro. Xsropbrtor of tho News, who chanced tolK54it tlio Union Depot yesterday when tho train from Cheyenne arrived, 'had opportunity for observing H fmoel mou of humanity, very rare, which wat -nothing lw.s than n Chinese negro black and woolly-haired, but dressed in the. gurli of tho Chinese lower classes, wearing tho shirt-like coat, happy Irowtwrn and Imx-hIioos of the inhnhit nnts of the Celestial kingdom. The man, for huoIi in hox the person was, at once jittructod considerable attention frotnl.lio.so Htandlng uhoutthu depot. IIuViih with ti party of half a dozen now arrivals from the Orient, and will jab bering away with the others in what seemed to be pure Chinese chatter. Hu was found to be entirely, unable to talk Kngllnh, but uid in Spanish that he un derstood something of that language. ' Tlie niajority of the bystandeivs eortsid red this portion of his talk as merely a continuation of lite Chinese talk, but one man in tho crowd heard tho remark and understood it! Ah bin knowledge of tho SpaniHh was but little better than that of tho Africo-Moiigoliitii, but little could bo made of tho narrative. Knongh was. however, understood to know thai tho man was about forty yearn of ago, and that ho had been born in Spain. When tun- yours of age ho wont to huh as the servant of an ollleor on a privateer. In those days tho Chi nese, waters were not pleasant quarters for outside craft, and pirates even took great risk in invading the Chinese seas. This particular vessel vonturod iu, how ever, and boldly entered the Strait of Formosa. Tho result was that sho got into unknown waters, and, a storm com ing up, she was wrecked. Tho people living along tho shores promptly took possession of all valuables, and of tho sailors thomsolves. who were not liber ated for Bomo eighteen months. Tho ollleor of the vessel continued to make a servant of his colored boy after his cap tivity. Tho Chlncso observed that ho was a slave and a very intelligent one, and consequently when the sailors wore liberated tuny refused to permit tho col ored boy to go. Hence, ho continued In China, tho slavo of one of tho loading men of tho town whore ho landoil. There ho remained for some twouty seveu years, serving his master, as he could not get away. Ho gradually be came habituated to Chinese life, learned tho Chinese language, and, per force, . adopted Chinese customs and costumes, .and was not anxious to niako a change. A year ago he camo to San 1'ranoisco with his muster. lie had been in America but three months when ho inado the discovery that there wero no slaves here, and he determined no lon ger to servo another. For tho past nine mouths he has been a free man, but. has continued to live with the Chine.se, because ho understands and is used to their mode of life. Ho camo to Colorado with a party of them and goes with them to work in thb mines near Como. Tho fellow appears to be a man of natural intelligence. Ho is as black as coal and thoroughly African in ap pearance. His Spanish name is Mon toya and his Chinese cognomen Oug Funjr Yu. Denver News. Variableness of California Winter. i Last wln,tor the fiouthorn half of tho 'State had a good drenching early in tho season. In fact, for many weeks mora rain was reported south of tho Hay of Monterey than north of It. This year the order Ls reversed. Thoro has not. been rain enough in that part of tho State to admit of plowing, excopt, por haps, on some of tho lightest soils. If the old rulo of ostimutiiiir that about. kalf of the rainfall occurs before the 1st -( January is good for this year, thou StMthcru California farmers will exped ience a dry wlntor with tho chances, of course,' that tho rains In tho latter part of tho winter season may bo so abundant that thoro will bo no failure of crops. Last winter Avas an excep tional one for Southern California. Tho amount of rainfall along tho coast coun- ties north of Montoroy I3ay this winter us, approximately, from oight to ten inches, enough, of course, m all this part of tho State,, with what is to como, Am insure average crops. It is romarka- blo that tho rains of tho present winter ihavo como along with vory little wind. ' The.usual indications of a hard storm Vhovo been lackinir. Freouentlv thoro would bo starlight till midnight; in tho. morning a gentle rain-storm would pre vail, 'these ruins have been sutlictent for all farming operations in tho coast . counties mentioned and in all tho north ern half of the State. California winters uro so variable that it is never safe to predict nnvthimr with certainly. Tho . character of tho winter thus far Indi cates a mild season, with oulv a moder ate rainfall in tho northern half of the State, and something less than will be wanted iu tho southern half of tho State. Tho warm rains have brought thu new grass along, so that the hills are green at hristmas, and in many of tho warm iralloys thero is now enough now grass v to sustain cattlo in fair condition. Now and then a frosty night intervenes, but . tho vernal season this year is well ud n'ancod at Christmas. Saw Francisco bulletin. t I Child Acrobats. One of thu most striking traits of our .ago is its .humanity. In every direction attention is boing paid, and relief given, to tho hardships of tho poor and the un fortunate Tho sovoro treatment which tuscd to bo visited upon the insane has i been relaxed. The prisons have boon robbed of tholr moro harsh and odious features. Societies, not only for thu prevention of cruelty to animals and to . children, but established to carry allo viution and comfort to every form of physical suffering and helplessness, have sprung up, and uro constantly incrc.fer ihg. f A ret'enl law in England deals with the employment oft very young children in public performances. Not long ago attention was called to this form ol cruelty, In this country, by legal pro ceedings in New York in reference to ehild-actress. it is a subject well wor,thv of tho study of philanthropists and law- makers. , For a very long tlmo children, event little infants, have formed a part of eir-; cus and other public exhibitions. These) puny creatures have been trained to very daring and dangerous feats. They have bedn taught-to walk and dance on tho tight-rope, at di..y heights, over the heads ofuiidionu.es; to bo suspended in mid-air; (o ride reckless horses; and in many other ways to endanger life and limb, 'They have often acquired great skill in those perilous tasks; but, iu vory many, and perhaps in most cases, they have been compelled to undertake thorn by avaricious or necdyipnrunts, or heartless masters. Some of the most touching passages in Dickens' tales describe tho dangers and miseries of these little acrobats and rope-dancers; and unfold many a pit eous story of human greed and cruelty. In his "Man Who Laughs," Victoi Hugo has powerfully depleted a gentle ami tender-hearted ebihl, who was (lis figured, so that ho wore a perpetual grin, for tho amusement of tho audiences before whom he appeared. Tho occurrence of several terrible ac cidents to children who wero thus forced to put their limbs and lives in peril for tho recreation of tho people, caused tho English statesmen to pass tho law which has been alluded to. By this law no child under fourteen years of ago is permitted to take pail in a circus or theatrical performance. It adds that no child shall perform any such task as, in tho opinion of a court of justice, is likely to endanger life and limb. Tho penalty for compelling a child to break this law is a heavy lino. If a child is injured, then tho parent or the master is sub jected to punishment for an assault. In many, porhaps most, of our own States, similar laws forbid the danger ous employment of children in such pub lie performances. Hut it is to hu noted, that thoso laws only have u care for the physieal safety of the infants who appear in public. They do not. deal with tho morai injury it is to theso young creat ures to bo thrust upon the public stage. Scarcely any fate, indeed, more melan choly can be imagined than that of the child who, almost as soon as it begins to walk, is thus put forward as a perform er. In a vast niajority of cases it must necessarily result in the total ruin of the child' moral nature. Tho intluenees which surround him are for the most part bad and demoralizing. We can scarcely imagiuo ti child growing up un dor theso intluenees into a good and useful man or woman. YauWs Com panion. Undo Pete us u Financier. Undo Pete has been conlined to the house for a couplo of weeks with a sovoro attack of rheumatism, but yes terday's sunshine revived him suflieient ly to allow him to get out doors for a wulki Ho got as far as Third street, and men tooling tired stopped m a grocery to rest. Presently his oyo lighted upon a newly-opened package of fragrant black plug, and as the odor reached and aroused him ho called to tho pro prietor and said: "How much does you want for dut box o' tobacco?" "Guess you don't waufc tho -whole box, do you?" replied the man behind tlio counter. " It's worth forty cents u plug." " J)at's bout throo plugs for a dol lah." "No; not finite. About two and a half." "Well, I doesn't care. You kin weigh mo out about a dollah's worf." Tho tobacco was handed out, and pocketing it, with theoxeeption of an enormous chow, tho old man rose, and, stretching himself, turned'to go. " Hold on hero, old coal tar," thun dered the groeoryman, "you haven't settled up for that littlu luxury." "Wlui wha what you mean, whlto man?" stammered Uncle Peto. "Who'tf agoin' to settle fur it?." " You are, you bet." Ifi tin tin vim flmi't. liniiiiv You's ain' dis chile fur money iu wrong timo of do moon. You jes' .w ..w .V ..v... .W. , .W..W1. -' uo go oaoic inter unt ar uumouilo o' your s, and 'stabllsh yourself on do head ob a sugar barrel, but don't you try to make no runs on dis bank. Do cashier nm out." "You won't pay, won't you P" and tho grooerynum made a rush for him. "Now, look hoah, white man," ar gued Undo Pete, " You knows jus' as well as I do dat I ain't got no business to pay you. Didn't 1 como into you' store? Au' didu'tlax you how much was tobacco by do box? An' didn't I say you kin weigh mo out a dollah's worf? An' didn't you do it? An' did either you'r me say any tiling about money P Now I tako it dat any man dat am ohuoklohoau enough to leave u nlggah alone wif a plug of tobacco, an' nuillti said 'bout terms of compromise, should suiVah do consequences. Good ovenln'. Darlington llawkeyc. . ' A New York stone-cutter received the following opitaph from a Gorman, to bo cut upon the tombstone of his wife. Mine vifo Susan is dead. If sho had lived till next Friday, she'd been dead shust two yeoks. ' As a treo fall so must it stand.1 " Thou has all seasons for thy own, O, poverty. N. Y, Naus A Friendly tiuino. " Say, mister!" said a tall, sunburnod nnin with it wide brimmed hat, as ho edged his way into the manoglngodltor's room yesterday afternoon. " Say, mis ter, do you know anything aliout keards?" " Why, yes," responded tho editor, "T know how to phty everlasting1 and 1 maid' and thmirs of that kind: 'old why?" "That's just what I want to ask you about. Now, in playing 'old maid,' suppose tho man who holds tho ago antes, and passes on tho 'draw, whoso bet Is It?" "That Isn't the way I play it," said the editor. "In my gamo the player who has a queen after tho other cards are played is the 'old maid.' " " Perhaps it is 'everlasting' that I'm thinking of;" mused tlio stranger. "Suppose iu 'everlasting' you should catch an old maid on tlio draw and when tho rest of the keards was played you found you hadn't tilled. What then?" " I don't see how that question could arise in that game," said the editor. " Maybe you are talking of tho ,gamo called 'poker.' " "Poker!" what's that?" asked the stranger, looking up in innocent sur- prisr That's where they have ages and fulis and that sort of thing." "Do you know how to play it, stranger?" asked tho tall man, drawing out a pack of cards. ' Will you show mehaw?" Tho editor ran over the cards and dealt two hands rapidly. "Now," he explained, "two pahs beat ono pair, three of a kind beat two pairs, a Hush beats threes, and fours of a "kind beat a Hush. What have you got?" Tho stranger laid down a mixed hand as tho editor explained that it was worthless, as his own hand held a pair. "Leninio deal 'em once," said tho stranger, running them oil clumsily. "Five each?" "Yes," replied the editor, seeing that he had gotten hold of a sharper and making up his mind to teach him a les son. ' Five each." "Now, what do wo do?" asked tho sharper. " if we are betting, I'd ante a dollar and you'd cover it with two. Then if I wanted to como in I'd plank another dollar, and then " " Hold on! hold oil! don't go so fast. You put up two dollars at different times and I put two all at once. That it?" "Yes, and then wo draw." "Let's try it once, for fun, if you don't mind' said the sharper, with un natural eagerness. "All right," smiled tlio editor, and he threw two dollars on the table, which were promptly covered. " Now, you say wo draw. How many do I take?" " You may take what you Hko, I don't want any," replied tho editor. " I Stand pat?" "Then I'll take one keard. Do wo bet now?" " Yes." The stranger bet cautiously, and tho editor raised him, and was seen until there was fifteen dollars wagered, though thero was no money up beyond tho ante. ' I reckon I won't bet any moro," said the stranger, timidly "who heats?" and ho laid down four aces. " I beat you," said tho managing editor, ami ho laid down a straight Hush. "You owe mo fifteen dollars." Tho stranger looked at the cards some time, and then dashed his fist ou tho table. "Ye played fair, did ye?" "l di(l,"rei plied tho editor. Slowly tho stranger pulled out a greasy wallet and hud down a twenty dollar Dill. Tho editor cravo him tho chance, and, tho man wont out, still running over tho cards and wondering how it hap pened. "I thought he was a shai'p and he was only a Hat' said tho editor, explaining the circumstance to tho cashier, as he handed in tho twenty dollars for change. " Liko to oblige you, old boy," smiled the cashier, "but that twenty in a a. in dollars is a countuiieiti" Parties having business with tho man aging editor for a week or two will please come armed. Drooklyn Eagle. Alleged Sure Curo for Small-pox. 'A Tipton (Kan.) physician sends tho following to tlio Leavenworth Times: Some apprehension Ls felt felt hero on account, of small-pox. For tho benefit of tho Times' renders I will give a rem edy used with success by my father, as a physician, for twenty-live years. If given in timo it will prevent as well as uuro tho disoaso. There will be no pock-marks loft on persons that use this remedy. People living in an infected district would act wise to kcop the rem edy prepared and use it before they contract tlio disease. Tho name of tho plant used is swamp-Hag, tho root boing tlio medicinal part used. Tho only os sential dllVorenco iu appearance from tho other kinds of Hag is that tho leaves are about one-third wider and tho root or bulb is round instead of long, being about tho size of a medium hickory nut. Ho has also cured with this remedy a groat many cases of scrofula in advapeod stages of tho disease Preparation Cut tlio bulb or root in vory thin slices; plauo in moderately warm oven until hard and dry; pulverize line, anil use ono of tho powders to a Iilnt of warm water; dosoi Tablespoon id evory three hours until roliovod, one pint usually being sulUclent to otleol a curo. USKFUL AND SUOGKSTIVE. Decf drippings arc better than lard for frying potatoes, mush, etc. Oriental laco is the now darned lace that has long stitches liko South Kori tiinglon work. Tit for tat will not answer for a kicking cow. " Be gentle with thd err ing." For turkey breeding, select tho very best and largest, and feed well, pnrtieiir larly in March and April. -'-" Remember," savs Mr. Me Adam, who invented the roiwf-bed that goes by Ids name, "remember that if you keep stones out and water ofl', you huvo a road." Markings or spots of Indelible ink can goneruliv bo removed by washing the place first with n solution of salt and afterward with ammonia water. A lady writes that she never turns her window plants, ami, as ii conse quence, gets a great many more blos soms than when she kept turning them, trying to keep them in pretty form. The hardy catalpa Is a rapid grower, and the timber Is very durable', thoro boing, says Dr. Warder, many instances of fence-posts of this wood lasting seventy-five years. In twenty years, in a good soil, it will niako three railroad ties per treo. In selling an ox weighing 2.000. pounds, only as much nitrogen is sent from tlio farm as would bo lost by soil ing about ouo and a half tons of English hay. Of phosphoric acid, such an ani mal would represent au amount found in five tons of hay, while one-eighth of a ton of hay would supply all the potash tho ox has in his body. Prof. Kiley says that bees naturally do not injure grapes, but only when driven to it by a" scarcity of their na tural food, durinir drouth, or when dowel's are dried up and withered. . I hoy will then attack sweet fruits, and sometimes rupture perfect skins. When they have a supply of other food they will leave grapes untouched a long timo directly in front of the hives. Baked fish is apt to be dry, andean bo improved by basting it with a little good fat or olive-oil, or by laying a slice of salt pork over it, or strips of fat in slushes cut in its upper surface. Blue fish, bass, shad, carp, red snappers, and other fish from three to six pounds in weight, are good for baking; brown gravy or sauce should bo served with baked fish, and a highly seasoned bread stuiling increases thoir'palatability. When a horse is brought into the stable, says the Live Stock Journal, let him stand a short time, particularly if sweating, then give him three or four quarts of water, not over cold; then some uncut hay; after this a feed of grain or meal; and half an hour or so after that is oaten, all the water he. pleases to drink. Somc horses will eat cut hay with impunity, others cannot, or at least not till after they havo first eaten some uncut. Tlio Massachusetts Ploughmun reasons that if tho potato was the true seed there would bo but little doubt that planting tho best specimens would re sult in the improvement. of tho quality of the product. But as they are not the true seed, are not a new life secured through the principlo of reproduction, but simply a continuation of the old lifo secured by a continuation of vegetable growth, there is but little mora certain ty of getting largo potatoes, by plant ing large ones for seed, than thero would be of getting large apples by set ting large clous. A good manj' farmers aifd country residents pay one of their heaviest taxes to tho weather. They pay this tax by leaving wagons, plows, narrows, rakes, trowels, spades, and other implements exposed to dews and rains and sun, by which thoy become weak and useless twice as quick as they would with good usage and protection. That is, fifty por cent, of their actual value is lost. It cannot bo otherwise, unless care is exer cised, for dew is very destructive to all wood, and sun-cracks admit rain and moisture to tho interior libers to work injury there. If you do not believe Uiis, try keeping your tools and implements under cover and protected from the weather, and seo if they do not last enough longer to pay for tho trouble. A feW boards or a straw cover is hotter than nothing. lint-Cut ehlne Extraordinary. Picking up rats with the naked hands was tho attraction last night at tlio "Champion's Rest," tho programme be ing that Frank Carroll, who has had considerable experience in tho business, and Mark Smith, ti well-known sporting man of West Philadelphia, wero to pick up 100 rats uaeh, the one acconiplisliing it in the shorter timo to become tho pos sessor of stakes amounting to fifty dol lars and tho entire gate money. Car roll was tho lirst to enter tho pit, and, getting tho ruts into a heap, plunged Fiis baro arms into them ready for tho call of time. In the first left he placed nearly two-score into the barrel, which was placed in tho center of tho pit, and as quick as n flash Carroll made anothor dive and was as successful as in the first attempt. Tho trouble now commenced, as tho rats became sepa rated. Regardless of position, Carroll grabbed thorn, and, after the expiration of thirty-four seconds, tho last ono had been picked from tho nit. Smith made a good attempt to defeat his opponent, but tho rats broko after tho lirst lift, and thirty-nine and three-quarter seconds wero required before the last rat was Eluccd In the barrel. Previous attempts ad been made to pick up tho sumo numbor of rats, but tho complement has always fallen short. This is mild to have been tho only legitimate match of the kind ever hold in America. Phila 'klphia Cor. Chicago Tribune. Time Testers and Burden Bearers. From tlmo Immemorial tho horso hiWftacn man's bust friend. Utit a few yean back w can all remember tho comparatively little attention puld to this most lndlsjienvablo of animals. Wo say comparatively little attention, for tho horso waaaswcll Rroomci,and certainly as well fed, as now; and at th wc great ffntherlngs agricultural shown you would too tho pride of the county and Stale frtables nml farms assembled. But there was a conspicuous Yant of noblo draught horses, and oa for Bpccdcrs well, 2:40 was tho great ultimate limit that owners in thoc days desired to fctrlvo for. Hut now a 2:40 animal is esteemed a fair roadster, and flno nnlmali only desorvotho namowhen they ran fihadu the first quartcrorihe third minute. There have been lm mensestrldCM forward in the tight development of horecfltsh In thccivltlzcd countries of the world, na uhown by tho time-records of tho racers and 'fill Ivifttfl jpTrfr-TJgVfTOfl 'teSsYS Max m uvjtfcbJl draught rapacity of tho humbler, but really moro useAil, work-horse. 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