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.T-"E zssresa. t -sixm wm BED CLOUD CHIEF A. C. KOSMEft, Proprietor. RED CLOUD. .TOSKASKA MY NEPHEW. A daring little despot, he : lust mark his mien majestic! "With autocratic sway, tho' sweet. He rules the realm domestic He sits -erene. a little Jan?, Hi tyranny 'tis kindly; Hi- little list nis wptre is. And we obey it blindly. He say-, no -word, but looks so saje. The wisest are hi debtors; And O the eye he h for Art: And uca a taste for letters! So broad and catholic hi mind. il- make no narrow strictures; Hut Tackles kindly to all sort Or Bible, books and pictures. A -ense of humor, too, he has: "Tis tine to s-e th! tun shins from out those bip blue eyes. O he's A blessed bit of sunshine Most captious critic tho you be. You can't susjjest correction; You must admit he is A J And absolute perfection. A precious little pirason Was ever uch another! Not on th: earth, if you behere His father and his mother. And O he beams risht royally On me when I caress him. And says, as plain as looks can say. He loves his auntie, bless htm Rotton Glii, BARBARA. The Mischief She Unwittingly Did, and How It "Was Remedied. I know .you would much rather I should take Barbara's i-tr Dot for my heroine, for Dot was tall and queenly and. of course, haughty as she wastalL and tilled up quite a larse -pace in society, in very opposition to her name, whereas Barbara was an elf of nine years' standing oa this grim old foot stool of ours, and was not ona-quarter as biff as her name, with the face of a fairy and bright brown eyes, that looked out from un der her yellow bang, ridiculously like Dot's IKjny peered from under his mane, and with orbs almost as big and fully as limpid. But then she is tny heroine and you must needs cake the best of her. Dot was engaged. I am happy to say, to a perfect Apollo but I'm sorry to admit that jihe treated said Apollo as if heVere noth ing more than a poor, weak, erring mortal, .and took it upon stately, privileged self to lecture the younp man upon certain faults .she took, as a matter of course, must be in "his possession, being, as he was. the only son or a very indulpent pair of old folk. But she was shaken to the very foundation of her royal being when one day she discov ered that the last sentence of her excellent harangue had fallen upon thin air, and she had a confused sense of a pair of indignant, sorrowful eyes leaving their lipht to hacnt her. as she sat amazed and hurt, after the , ball door slammed like a wooden oath. Esjvwas pone then "O. Scott: oh, Scott!" winch was no slanp at all. but the irate AikjIIo's christened name. Dnt rose from her chair of state and carried her heart, hlwdmpand torn, up the front stairs, to anoint it with tears and cover it with the -xnacnificent new ball dress from Madame Highprice's admirable bandage! -Whath the matter. Dot !" Miss Barbara's eyes had caupht the pleam of somethine shining, liquid and bead-like, upon the very tip of Dot's feather fan. "Youth cryine!'' I believe you would cry, too. Chickie; "wouldn't yon. if the Prince came and prom ised you nice things and then rushed off without saying any thins about them! "Wouldn't you!'' "Ithn't Thcott going to take you to the ball'" -It certainly looks that way. He went off so angry with sie!M Another tear splashed hotly down upon Barbara' little upturned face. The child gravely wiped it off. utter isp this solemn injunction: 'Dont you cry or worry one bit more about thith. I will thee about thith matter mythelf."' uncon sciously imitating papa's most impressive manner of speech. Thy had always talked to her as if she -could understand their mature reasoning this sister and this papa that she had come to have a ludicrious little air of sage and -wise consideration of all things brought within her ken. "Sine o'clock and no Scott he was not coming then: must she miss the glorious assembly ball because of hit anger? Not .she. Half -past nine: had Barbara been awake she would have noticed the quivering -eyelids that tried so hard to keep the tear drops prisoners. Quarter of ten she gave tip all hopes of Scott and in ten minutes more papa was drowned in a sea of over Uowinp satin, whose cream-white billows were filling the coupe to its utmost capacity. Ten o'clock. A loud peal from the door bell aroused Barbara from her sound slum ber. Another peaL Out of bed, into her little Mother Hubbard wrapper and down the stairs crept Barbara, on tiptoe, too, thouph there was no need of that, as every nlesed trusted servant was gone out and the child was alone in the big house. The wee hand mastered the huge door-key and out in the moonlight the brown eyes discov ered Dot's lover. 0. ith your "Yes. Chickie, of course it is. Is is Dot ready J" Now, I've always been amazed at the little and big fibs children can tell on the slight est provocation. I have even gone so far a to entertain some odd ideas on the subject of the utter lack of conscience in the world of childhood, and honestly believe that re rarity is an actual matter of education, pure and simple with a dismal conviction that even cultivation does not always suffice. I have been astonished with what fertility the trains of infancy are possessed, inventing -with ease uncalled for and unprecedented untruths: and, as Miss Barbara was beyond the averape, I am bound, in all truth, to say that she pravelv sent the following little fib up into Scott's litening ears: 'Yeth. Doth 'ith all ready and gone with papa but you are to bring me insthead. I aai almotht drethed: jutht go into the libra."-', pleath, Thcott, and I will not keep you waitinp more than theven minuths.' Poor Scott a wrathy whirlwind was gathering about his ears as, all unconscious ly, he obeyed the little maid. His quarrel if so onesided an affair could be called that with his beloved had driven all thoughts of the ball from his head; and now to come and And her off and away with her parental relative, and to realize that she had had Terr good cause to think the most horrible things in the world of his seeming careless ness, made him blind to the simple outland ish scheme of the little sis'er, and to be glad that he has been the object of even a thought. Barbara rushed off wild with excitement; and. reach! her own room again, she, like human Katy-did, jumped upon toe low, wld& artsser. tore each little curt paper from its resting place upon her pretty round head, and began to comb the crooked yellow knots into heaps of wonderful golden fuzz ! Nert Dot's diamond star was pinned coquetishly to one side of her cranium, a dancing-school dress was donned a frock all glimmer and pale pink shadows, and leaving It unfastened, she drew on her fur lined school cloak, poked a sash of purest Brussels into one of its capacious pockets, and ran down breathless to Scott. Into the coach and off to the assembly rooms. "Won't Dot thtare!" thought the little wretch. '-One needn't be tho old after all to go to a ball. I make a thenthation. I don't wonder!"' She was right. Scott left her at the door of the ladies' room in care of a nice old black "Aunty." who hooked her snugly into her lovely frock and tied the filmy tracery about her waist with a real French touch, though her fingers were black as ink. "How in de world ob worts did yo' ebber happen ter come to dis hyar growd-up ball, honey, chile?' looking at her admiringly, as she tried her steps before the long mirror. "O, Dot ith here my thithter, you under thand: and I jutht thought I'd come, too." A burst of exquisite melody a Valse of Chopin's broupht Scott to the door to claim the little hand for a round. "Ith too bad. Thcott. but you are too tall!"' looking at him from her lowly stand wint. "No. mv dear Miss Barbara, the fault lies at your feet: you are too little.' looking far down at her and thinking how lucky he was to have this little bunch of exquisite loveli ness for his sister by only going through the several stages of ecstatic bliss with Dot, thereby killinp two birds with one stone, dead as door-nails. "I'm not going to even try to walth with you it would theem really too ridiculuth and I'm not going to be laughed at; letb wait for the Lantherth I know that betht ofalL" Dot and her submerged parent were now safely on the floor. Dot's eyes roved over the heads of diminutive maidens and squatty matrons in vain hopes of their finding the recreant Scott. "Would he dare to come without met Would he dare? Well, he is capable of even so flagrant a " "May I have the pleasure. Miss Dot? The Lancers, I believe," and papa's business partner, lowering a crooked elbow in her direction, leads her away by the tip of a gloved finger that rests daintily upon his broadcloth-coated arm. In a moment more they were standing face to face with Scott and Barbara! For a moment her Intense surprise held her a silent captive; then, casting one swift glance about her, she saw that about forty pairs of eyes were curiously intent upon Scott and his companion; saw that people were not censuring but admiring and won dering over the fairy's ad vest; and, with never a iift of "Ber "blazing eyes in their direction, she cut them both dead. Barbara felt that her sister was tragically inclined, despite her lack of worldly experience, and so fear kept her dumb; for Dot could be "awful" when she chose, this young sister knew to her sorrow. In and out and out and in; and in the grand chain Dot's glove was squeezed by a poor innocent younp fellow, who thought a slight pinching of the leather-covered finger tips would win one uplifting of the long lashes Scott ward; but the lashes, though they trembled, were not raised. A crash of musicaTaiscord. the "Lancers" was breaking up. when papa, walking about with step-mamma-elect, saw a prince and a fairy and recognized them as beings of his own household O.'the enchantment of that night to Bar bara! And how the fairy folk came troop ing out from the gorgeous bindings of her books and danced about her as she lay in dreamland, after the lights were out, the ball room deserted, and Dot had solemnly refused to kiss her good-night. Next day a note from Scott to Dot fell into Barbara's hands. She coolly opened it aad read a follows: "Dot. I am in disgrace; why is it? "Why did you not speak to me last night? Did I anger you. Dot, by refusing to listen longer to a lecture I did not need? How soon will you learn to trust me i But if you are really convinced that I am the guilty wretch you lectured so soundlyTTwould advise you to think no more of Scott." "Thath awful!" said Barbara; "ith thimply awful and if Dot geth a plimpth of thith I'll be mothed killed ! I have to be blamed for erery thing, it theemeth, and Thcott ought to know better than to write a note like thith I'll teach him a letthon !" and the red coals of the grate had a merry time for a second with a bit of crested note paper. All that week Scott waited and waite.l, and all that week Dot honed and hoped : and the old saying that "hope deferred maketh the heart sick" proved itself a truth, for it came to pass that Dot's body caught the fever raging in her heart and there she lay, a downright invalid, for four weary weeks. The fickle little birds from Southland came back after their long vacation to set up house-keeping again, and every hedge row was alive with melody: the berries were bepinning to snow themselves upon the bushes and briers. Clouds hung miles high in the heavens, whenever there were any clouds, and the sun went down to gather fresh heat from bis underground furnace for to-morrow's discomfort. The sea grew bluer as the days grew so much longer and brighter, and guests had been pouring into the Oceanside Hotel for weeks, when papa piloted his daughters to rooms engaged for them. Dot was white, and wan. and sick in hervery soul; while Barbara, if she had had her due share of remorse, had thrived well upon it and was as plump as a little part ridge. To the world Dot seemed a cold, self-possessed, haughty young individual, while in secret she really moped and pined in a cease less round of regret; and Barbara seemed just what she was a diminutive ten-year-old, with a precocious brain and no con science to speak of. She was dreadfully "thorry" Dot looked and felt so miserably wom and thin, but had no faintest thought that she henelf was to blame for any part in her sister's low-spirited condition. When ever she thought of Scott at all she deter mined to bring him back to Dot again and so make Dot happy once more. They had been there one whole week and never a truant rose had crept back to the pale cheeks. Dot and Barbara wandered to gether up and down the long sunny beach; Dot aimlessly and listlessly doing any thing to please the little unconscious dis turber of her peace: Barbara delighted and full of wonder at every thing she saw. Dot was thinking, thinking, thinking one day, as they sat down to rest after a long tramp in the shadow of a gigantic bowlder when she was suddenly assailed by, "Look, Dot, there comth a boat ! "Wonder whoth in it? I thaw two men. anyhow, and they're coming thrait thith way, thee?" "Coming this way? I shall go on, Bar bara; you may follow when you have watched the boat come in," and she left the child standing beside the great rock, her big brown eyes fast fixed upon the inconuajr shallop. Nearer and nearer, and the little painted shell, riding like some fairy ship over the sow placid waters, cave swiftly landward. When the keel grated tn the sand. Barbara, with eyes like stars, ran excitedly down to the shore's edge, aad in a most undignified fashion, caught the coat-tails of one of the now landed gentlemen with trie cry of "O, Thcott Thcott!" "Barbara! Barbara! God bless you! Where did you spring from !" "From that rock!" which information somewhat startled him as he looked at the huge bowlder, at least twenty feet high. "O, not from the thummit. Thcott!" with a burst of laughter. "Dotth jutht gone up to the hotel oh, Thcott. let me whithper thomethingto you!" and Scott's ears were made happy by just five little words thai rushed up into his brain like some strange, intoxicating melody: "Dotth dying for you, Thcott :' "How do you know, Chickie?' hugging her close in his gladness. "Can't I thtt But you muthn't let her know you're here not all at wunth Dotth very weak!" "Is she, indeed! I'm very sorry? Til ask my wife to come with me when you have told her she'll like Dot;" and he looked down into two big brown wells, whose liquid treasures were overflowing and run ning to waste all over the little linen frock; and oh ! such a look, far down under their brimming surfaces a look of outraged con fidence and indignant sorrow a look that made Scott gather her up into his strong arms and loss the tears away, with a meek petition for forgiveness that he was only fibbing and sunshine chased shadows from our little heroine's eyes. Then the child began plotting to get them together for Barbara felt, young as she was, that Dot would never voluntarily see Scott again. That afternoon, when all "the world" at the hotel was taking its siesta Dot and Barbara lay talking: the latter rattling ahead and keeping wonderfully away from the subject at heart, the former replying at intervals and not hearing the twaddle at ail Suddenly Babara sprang up from Dot's side, seized her pen and paper, and scratch, scratch, scratch filled the room for fully ten minutes. "O, Dot, get up, pleathe; I can't copy thith at all won't you jath write the name of thith thong for me V Poor Dot wrote neatly and prettily in her fine Italian hand, these words in the center of a cream-tinted sheet of note paper: "Come to me, darling, or I die!" "What a sentimental song!" said Dot, the obedient. "Yeth it ith!" and Barbara grabbed the paper and lay down by Dot until she was sure ber sister was lost in slumber; then the small opossum was up and off like a flash to Scott. And he! He took the written words as a condemned man might take a message straight from Heaven be kissed Barbara and the letter by turns, and the tears of joy he could not restrain fell upon the note paper and the yellow bangs indiscrimi nately. "Dotth taking her the-ethUr.' ath papa calith it. Now you wait till juth before tbupper, and I'll thee that Dot ith all ready to rethieve you and you promith never to go off again or thlam the door." That evening the sunset was glorious like jewels from the Orient heaped in a golden platter the little cloudlets blushed and named, yellow and crimson and ruby red. Dot. dressed like the wraith of some fash ionable Undine, came out upon the balcony to enjoy it all that is. to enjoy it as well as she could without her lost Hildebrandt. She looked until her eyes could no longer bear the splendor, then turned her glance back ward. Suddenly she descried a figure that seemed strangely, sweetly familiar, despite the blur the sun had made before her eyes. The fig ure came nearer, the mists cleared from be fore her longing eyes, and Dot could not tell for one intoxicating instant whether or not she was in heaven when she saw Scott, radiant-faced, smiling up into her very eye! He stood at last beneath her balcony. Groups of people were standing by, and for this reason alone he did not follow the irre sistable impulse that made him wish to shout aloud his great love for her.and his excessive joy at seeing her again. When she could no longer gaze like a veritable Juliet, silently down into his very eyes, and read the unut terable tenderness that filled their glorious depths, when her Romeo vanished from her sight and disappeared within the door be aeath her balcony, she dragged herself heavily back into her room and fell into a white heap upon the floor. But when consciousness came glimmering back she lay limp and passive in Scott's strong arms, heard Barbara's triumphant cry: Oh, Dot! oh, Thcott, arn't you happy now?" and saw papa standing over him with his handkerchief suspiciously near his eyes. although he kept blowing bis nose with great zeaL -And my note never reached you, my poor broken lily?" "No, Scott, never." And for the first time in her life Barbara had an inkling of the mischief she had un wittingly done: but she was very qufot about it, and only "confetthed" after rany months. And. the rose rushed back pell-mell, the sea grew greener and lovelier, the sand was shining gold and the clouds were roly-poly cupids chasing each other across the wide fields of azure, and Scott was her own for evermore. Eta lint, in Itetroit Frtt Pre. A Chronometer With a History. Across the corridor from the room? offices of Secretary Whitney is the compass-testing room of the Xavy Depart ment. I strolled in there and saw two very interesting curios. One was a quaint, high-backed chair which had been used for years by Gideon Welles, who was the Secretary of the Navy in Lincoln's war Cabinet. "Sit in it.'1 said Lieutenant Denfeld. "and I will show you the star attraction of the room." He unlocked a glass case and carefully uncovered an ordinary-looking ship's chronometer. But its history was not all ordinary. It had lain for four years in an Arctic cairn without receiving: the faintest damage. It had been cached in the Arctic wilds in 1872 by members of the ill-fated Polaris ex pedition, and in 1876 it was found there by Her Majesty's ship Discovery. It was taken to London in due course and later returned to the Government of the United States. The report accompany ing it states that the London testers discovered that the chronometer los but one-tenth of a second per day which was the loss statement in the rate paper of the American manufact urers. The officers of the British ship state that while they were there the mercury of the thermometer was frozen for forty-seven days, although on ose day the mercury marked 104 degrees below freezing. This is considered to be the severest test ever borne hj m time-marking instrument. Wtu&iHf Urn Letter. ABOUT THE BABY. How to Fed Infants During the Ilot !at of summer. Feed the baby pure milk and water with the addition of sugar. If possible the milk should be obtained from a new milch cow and unmixed with other milk. It is better to have it fresh twice a day but where this is impossi ble the morning's milk will answer, if placed at once on ice. Many mothers find that cows, milk does not agree with the baby, but this is in most cases because the milk is not sufficiently reduced with water. Proba bly the doctor and the nurse will say. 'one-half milk and one-half water," or "two parts water and one of milk,' but for most children this is too strong. Three parts water, and one of milk, is amply sufficient for the average child; and if very delicate, four parts water and one of milk will be sufficient for the first three months. - - "My baby 'throws up her milk so often and then then wants more," says one mother, "bui suppose it is a sign of a healthy baby to 'throw up.' " In one sense it is; in another it is quite absurd. Of course, if you have over loaded your stomach with indigestible food, you will be relieved much sooner if you can 'throw up than if the food remains in your system. But you do not regard your spell of vomiting as a sign of special health. You wish you had not eaten the indigestible food. So with baby. It is well if she can get rid of the indigestible food, but much bet ter not to have taken it. In nine cases out of ten the food was too strong for her; add more pure water and she will be able to retain and digest it. As I have said, three parts water and one part milk, for the first three months; ftfkn that to six months, two parts water, one of milk. Gradually increase the proportion of milk until at the age of one year the entire strength of the milk may be given. If inclined to constipation sweeten the milk with brown sugar, otherwise with granulated. Perfect cleanliness of the nursing bottle is of great importance. What ever may be said in favor of the long tube bottles I believe the nipples which are drawn on over the bottles, are best. These you can remove, turn inside out, and be absolutely sure, are clean. Lime water is excellent for cleaning both bottles and rubbers. Prepare the quantity of milk to be used during the day, and set it on the ice. You then know just how much baby drinks and are much more likely to have the proportions correct than if prepared in a hurry when baby is cry ing for it. The best way to heat the milk is by pouring it into one of the bottles, (two should always be kept on hand) and placing it in a quart measure of hot water. Of course the water should not je warm enough to crack the bottle. The bottle in this way retains the heat and keeps the milk at an equal tem perature while baby is taking it. Too often the warm milk is poured into an ice cold bottle and long before baby has finished her meal might as well not have been warmed. "Since the warm weather came on my baby seems hun gry all the time." says a young mother. My dear, baby is thirsty, not Amh gry." While you are taking a drink every half-hour, poor baby, panting in flannels, is not allowed a drop of water. She must not drink- unless she eats. The rest of us may have no appetite, but we are allowed to drink, not so with baby. She must wait her regula tion two or three hours, and then eat at the same time if she would drink. Poor little thing cutting teeth and 'druling" so she "wets her bibs in.no time:' "She will not take water: Tve tried her!' Yes, with a teaspoonful and ice cold water. When her little mouth has always been used to warm food from a bottle, no wonder she chokes and spits. Sweeten a little water slightly and put it in her bottle, with the chill off, (off of the water not the bottle) and give her a few swallows at a time. But baby will soon learn to drink from a spoou, if the water given is not too cold. Do, dear mothers, remember that when we are not well the strong food to which we are accustomed is not suitable for us: we must have some thing weaker. So with the baby; when she is not as well as usual, reduce the strength of her food. Ladies' Some Journal. m A Few Fashion Notes. There has been an endeavor in En gland to introduce pale-colored wed ding gowns for brides. Foliage is extremely fashionable this season for hats, bonnets and dress trimmings. Tinsel trimmings are both effective and popular. Smocking is especially adapted to children's soft silk dresses. French pinafores cut square at the neck, without any belt at the waist, made in fine muslin, with lace inser tion, are being adopted for little girls. The growing fancy for amber orna ments is simple and inexpensive. Flounces are a feature of the latest importations of French dresses. Gay summer gowns are made, of scarlet India silk, with black figures in long, slender leaves, and trimmed with a profusion of black lace. Bed silks, with white figures or stripes, trimmed with white lace, and having a soft rest of white silk muslin, are used for some very effective sum mer gewns. JT. T. World. Women are undoubtedly angels. bat seme of them seem to forget it wher they whack their thumbs with a tack .Detroit Free fro MISCELLANEOUS. There are 2.000 Chinamen in Chi cago, of whom only two are women. ' About 100 of them are merchants, who ' have made fortunes of 100.000 tof 200,- jooo. I It is related that Cuvier, the cele brated naturalist, had a parrot in his vestibule who, upon seeing a stranger. would cry out. "What do you want with my master?' And when a reply was given he would respond: "Don't talk too much." j In the trial of a case at West Ches- J ter. Pa., the other day, one of the , jurors used the soles of his shoes on which to jot down certain figures and memoranda. On one shoe was the debit account and on the other the credit. In the jury-room these figures ' settled the question involved in the case, having first been verified from the stenographer's notes. The fellow had seen every thing, had got a chip off every thing, and had ' some memento of every thing. He dropped into a little knot of artists, who were discussing Bohemian life in many places. As the traveler came in one of them was saying: "Ah, that is the place where they made the welkin ! ring." "What place are you talking about?" asked the traveler. "We were J talking of Bohemia." "O, yes; Bo- I hernia. I know. I've been there. I've 1 got one of them." "One of what?" I "One of them welkin rings an' it's a beauty," San Francisco Chronicle. A turtle has been discovered in New Haven that has two distinct heads and perfectly formed necks. At will the reptile can elongate one neck and retain the other between its shells. If a fly is placed in the mouth of one head the other immediately tries to seize the fly. At times it walks about with ease, but generally struggles, making little progress. This is probably owing to the fact that one head is possessed with an idea to so forward, while the other has a desire to travel in the oppo site direction. The Orlando (Fla.) Beporter tells of a vegetable garden on a floating island in Lake Apopka. in which there are tomato vines with sixteen feet of spread, one of which yielded three pecks of splendid tomatoes at one pick ing. Cucumbers a foot and a half long and onions as big as saucers are among the productions of this wonderful island, which is about three acres in extent. It is managed as a raft, and it is said that when the Apopka steamer is late and likely to give the island the go-by, the owner poles his garden up to it. The Metropolitan Police districts of London comprise 687 square miles, within which there are about 4,900,000 people. It contains more Roman Cath olics than Rome itself, more Scotchmen than Edinburgh, more Welshmen than Cardiff. It has a birth every four minutes, a death every six minutes and an average of eight accidents a day. It builds 28 miles of new streets and 9.000 new houses every year. It has over 200.000 habitual criminals and its beer shops and gin houses, if placed contin uously side by side, would extend over 75 miles. Business Man "What's the mat ter? You look blue." Partner "I expected to have some money left over this year to invest in real estate, but it's the same old story. I'll close the year without a cent.' "What does that extravagant little wife of yours want this time?" "I don't know whether it's a new palace, a barrel of diamonds or a castle in Europe, but it's something mighty expensive. She hasn't said yet." "Eh? Then how do you know she wants any thing?' "When I went home last night she was darning my stockings." Omaha World. A certain minister was invited to dine with a member of his flock who, though well enough off in the goods of this world, lived sparingly in his greed for the dollars and cents. When dinner was served the host said: "I can't give you nothin' but bacon and greens, parson; it's all I can afford these hard times. Will you ask a blessin'?" The minister responded: "Lord, make us truly thankful for what we are about to receive. We expected nothing but greens and behold! here is bacon also. Make us truly thankful!" Smithville (Qa.) Xetcs. JACKSON'S SOBRIQUET. Hew Old Hickory Got the Xante Which Made Him IemUr. The sobriquet, "Old Hickory, Is said to have been conferred upon General Jackson by the soldiers under his command in 1813. It was, Mr. Par ton tells us. not an inspiration, but a growth. "First of all. the remark was made by some soldier who was struck by his commander's'pedestrian powers, that the General was tough." Next it was observed that he was tough as hickory. Then he was called 'hickory. Lastly the affectionate adjective 'old' was prefixed, and the General thence forth rejoiced in the complete nick name, usually the first won honor of a great commander." The General, how ever, is said to have told the following story of the origin of the epithet to one of his messmates: During the Creek war, when he was suffering from a bad cold, his officers improvised a tent for him covered with flakes of hickory bark, under which he slept comfortably. Next morning a drunken hanger-on of the camp came across the tent, and not knowing who was in it. gave it a kick that tumbled the structure over. As the angry old hero struggled out of the ruins, the toper cried out: "Hello! Old Hickory! Come out of your bark sad join us in a drink." The General could not himself help joining in the laughter at the incident. As he rose and shook the bark from him he looked so tough and stern that the spectators rave him a hearty Hurrah for Old Hickory!" and the name clung to him ver after. aVefei amd Queries, SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A new perfume is named 'Opopo nax." and is highly esteemed in Paris It has a modified odor of carrots, and is chiefly made from that vegetable. What may be of great value in ship-building and watchmaking is the discovery that steel, mixed with twenty-four percent, of manganese becomes non-magnetic. The fabric known as Chinese grass cloth is made from the fiber of nettles. I The cloth is peculiarly glossy and J transparent, and as belting for ma- I chinery has double the strength of j leather. I Electric rifles are the latest. In stead of the ordinary percussion firing device, a dry chloride of silver battery and a primary coil will, so it was lately J stated before the American Institute. I fire the rifle 35,000 times without re charging. Experiments are being made on Prussian railroads with axle-boxes fit ted with bearings of vegetable parch ment in place of brass. The claim is i made that these compressed paper " bearings make a tough material that is I superior to metal. I According to the Electrical Review. medicine may be introduced into the human system bv electricity. The electrodes of a battery are saturated with the medicine and applied locallv to the skin. Experiments show that i there is an actual absorption of the j medicine into the system. Russian observations have shown j that teeth decay in a quite regular order, the lower third molar being the I first attacked, then the upper, then the lower fourth molar, and so on, the lower, incisors and canine teeth being the last affected. Upper teeth, as a rule, are more durable than lower, right than left, those of dark persons than those of blondes, those of short persons than those of the tall. Investigations made by Sohneke have led to the conclusion that the elec tricity which is discharged during a thunder storm is produced by the fric tion of water and ice that is, the ice is electrified by friction with water; just before a thunder storm, water clouds (cumuli) and ice clouds (cirri, cirrosrati) appear simultaneously in the sky, and the friction of these parti cles of ice and water is. according to this theory, a sufficient cause of the electricity which is generated. Artificial sponge-rearing is being practiced in Styria. From a report to the Austrian Board of Trade it appears that the "sponge-farmer," by taking small pieces of living sponge and "planting" them in favorable spots, has obtained large specimens in the course of three years. It is stated that 4,000 sponges cost no more for cultiva tion and interest on capital than 225 francs (forty-five dollars.) and the Austro-Hungarian Government has authorized the protection of this new industry on the coast of Dalmatia. It has been estimated that the walls of a building in which fifty thousand bricks are used require nearly five thousand gallons of water in the con struction; this being stored in the pores and space of the bricks and mortar until dispelled in the form of vapor. It can not be too well known that until this large quantity of water is so dis- . polled, the house is not habitable. The town of Basle, in Switzerland, has recently adopted a wise regulation which forbids the occupation of newly built houses until four months after their completion. A Most Emphatic Refusal. A fast young man decided to make to a young lady a formal offer of his hand and heart all he was worth hoping for a cordial reception. He cautiously prefaced his declarations with a few questions, for he had no in tention of "throwing himself away." Did she love him well enough to live in a cottage with him? Was she a good cook? Did she think it a wife's duty to make home happy? Would she consult his tastes and wishes concern ing her associates and pursuits in life? Was she economical? Could she make her own clothes, etc? The young lady said that before she answered his ques tions she would assure him of some negative virtues she possessed. She never drank, smoked or chewed; never owed a bill to her laundress or tailor; never stayed out all night playing bil liards; never lounged on the street corners and ogled giddy girls; never "stood in" with the boys for cigars and wine suppers. "Now." said she. rising indignantly, "I am assured, by those who know, that you do all these things, and it is rather absurd for you to ex pect all the virtues in me, while you do not possess any yourself. I can never be your wife;" and she bowed him out and left him on the cold door step, a madder if not a wiser man. Health Journal. m " How Paper Bottles Are Made. One of the most interesting of the many uses to which paper has been put is the manufacture of piper bottles. We have long ago had paper boxes, barrels and car wheels, and more re cently paper pails, wash-basins and other vessels; but now comes a further evolution of paper in the shape of paper bottles, which are already quite extensively used for containing such substances as ink, bluing, shoe-dressing, glue, etc, and they would seem to he equally well adapted for containing a large variety of articles. They are made by rolling glued sheets of paper into long cylinders, which are then cut into suitable lengths, tops and bottoms are fitted in. the inside coated with a water-proof compousd, aad all this done by machinery abnost as quickly aa oae caa oounL Pall Mall Gaulle. '