PITH AND POINT.
THET that govern most make the lees
noise.
Dn > you ever hoar a bed tick , or ceo i
needlepoint ?
TRUTH is simple , requiring neithe
study nor art.
HAVE not the cloak to make when i
begins to rain.
" BLESS their dear little soles , " sayi
the ladies' shoemaker.
A WASHINGTON correspondent saysi
is eight years since a Senator was seei
in his Beat intoxicated.
No CONVENTS , either for men or women
are to bo found in Norway or Sweden
They are absolutely forbidden by th <
laws.
, the teacher says all peopli
are made of dust. " "Yes , my dear , s <
they are. " "Well , then , I s'poso ne
groes are made of coal dust. "
" WHAT is your wife's particular little
game ? " asked a friend of a henpeckec
husband. " When she gets thoroughly
mad , " ho answered , " it's draw poker. '
DOCTORS say that in large cities the
night air is healthiest The appearance
of the fashionable young man of the pe
riod does not go to bolster up this the
ory.
ory.THE
THE man who thinks it foolish to re
ward his wife's devotion with kind wordt
and caresses is the same one who won
ders why it is that women sometimes gc
wrong.
y AN exchange says it's a very bad thing
to get rich too rapidly. We novel
thought of that before. Here's another
danger to worry about and strive to
guard against.
THERE are now more than 1,300 wom
\ en in the departments at Washington ,
the majority employed in the bureau ol
engraving and printing , and in the Gov
ernment printing office.
THE "Poets' Corner" of the Mitchell
Public Library at Glasgow contains at
present the works of 1,222 Scottish
poets and verse writers , of whom 1,022
are named , and the rest anonymous.
"LET Mo Dream Those Dreams
Again " is the title of a new song by
Will Hayes. All right , Willie. Ju/t
state what kind of pie you tackled be
fore dreaming them the last time , and
we will fix it for you.
A PHOTOGRAPHER acted as master of
ceremonies at a friend's funeral , and , as
he lifted the coffin-lid for the mourners
to look at the remains , whispered to the
corpse , "Now , look natural. " Force of
habit. Brooklyn Union-Argus.
" 'TwrxT the Gloaming and the
Dark " is the title of the latest novel
issued in New York. A Chicago young
man is thinking of getting out one en
titled " 'Twixt the Old Man and the
Bark. " Ho called when her father was
at home and the dog untied.
A COUNTRYMAN from New Hampshire ,
who had never heard of a bicycle , came
to Boston , and , whqn he beheld a youth
whirling along upon one of those airy
vehicles , he broke out into soliloquy
thus : ' ' Golly ; ain't that queer. WhoM
ever 'spect to see a man ridin1 a hoop
skirt. " American Queen.
A LONDON scientific journal says the
cucumber is known to have been culti
vated for more than 3,000 years ; that ii
was extensively grown in ancient Egypt.
Perhaps it was the cucumber , and not
the asp , that Cleopatra took to her
bosom , with fatal results. We always
did doubt that snake story.
THE 8-year-old daughter of a family
who has the decorative craze the worst
way was discovered with the big album ,
daubing the faces of the photographs of
her parents , brothers and sisters with
water colors. When the little innocent
was scolded , she replied that she was
"only decorating family mugs. "
IN the United States fish culture dates
back barely a quarter of a century , while
in Europe the industry has been system
atic for more than 1500 years , and iu
Asia for thousands of years ; and yet the
United States , at the International Fisb
Exhibition at Berlin , Germany , excelled
all other countries in their exfiibit of ap
pliances and methods pertaining to fish
culture.
IT is said that there is as much differ
ence between a cultivated oyster and one
taken from its natural bed as there is
between our best Bartlett and the com
mon pear. The cultivation of the mollusks -
lusks also greatly increases the supply ,
as the oyster raiser watches his beds and
koepa them free from the depredations
of the starfish , the drill and the peri
winkle all enemies of the oyster.
A NEW "HAMPSHIRE farmer agreed to
sell his farm for § 2,000 , but when the
day came he told the expectant pur
chaser that his wife was in hysterics
about the trade , and he "guessed he'd
linvo to back out. " The purchaser com
plained , and finally asked how much
more would induce him to sell. "Well , "
replied the thrifty , son of the Granite
State , " give me $230 more , and we'll lei
her cry. " _ _
"Adrertised. "
Putting her head into the postpffice
window , she shouted at the astonished
custodian of the mails , " Advertised ! "
" Marm , " said he , after partially recov
ering his self-possession , " what did you
wish ? " " Advertised P she repeated ,
louder than before. By force of cus
tom he managed to ask : " What name ,
marm ? " Again came that same reply ,
"Advertised ! " but this time supple
mented with the demand , "An' how
long widyezkapeabodyshtanding here
while yez be a garruping loike a moon
calf in ash table ? "Wud yeziver give
me me letther , I soy ? " "But what is
jour name , my dear woman ? " " Och ,
don't yez 'dear woman' me , yez ould
sinner I Don't yez mane to aboide by
yez own dirictions entoirely , yez ould
bald-headed devil ? Didn't yez put
intil the papers 'Persons calling for
letthers will plaze say "Advertised ? " '
And haven't Oi made mesilf hoarse wid
saying 'advertised ! advertised ! adver
tised ! ' Give me me letther , Oi soy !
That iver Bridget McSbaugnessy should
ha' been trifled wid by the loikes of
yezl" The letter was forthcoming ere
she had done , and the Postmaster sank
back into the chair with a sigh of relief ,
while Bridget left the office with a
very red face and a perfect cataract ef
28 * escaping from her mouth. Boston
Transcript. _
Oaxsica , Mex. , has ordered twenty
more electrie lights.
Fancy Soaps.
Fancy soaps , which are made in greal
variety for the toilet , are usually scented
with nemo aromatic oil. For this branch
of the trade the ordinary commercial
eoaps are used , after undergoing a pro
cess of refinement , or a soap is specially
made for the purpose from almond oil ,
or the like. Much taste is shown by the
best makers in the selection and combi
nation of the perfumes , which , along
with the coloring matters , such as ver-
milliou , yellow ochre , aniline , etc. , are
usually boiled up with the soap. To fa
cilitate this operation , as a well-dried
soap does not readily melt , it is usually
cut up in fine shavings , and after boil
ing is well worked under rollers until it
presents a uniform appearance. If the
soap is intended to be highly scented , or
very expensive perfumes are to be em
ployed , the cold process is adopted , as
much of the strength of the scent is lost
by boiling. In this case the soap is
shredded as before , and the perfume
and coloring matter well amalgamated
with it by being worked in a mortar with
a pestle. It is then divided into lumps ,
and roughly molded with the hand into
something near to the shape it is finally
to assume. After "being left on the rack
to dry for about a week it is pressed into
a mold , -which imparts to the cake the
form and device which may be required ,
and when taken out the edges are
trimmed , and the surface polished with
the hand. Transparent soaps are pre
pared by taking an ordinary hard soap
and dissolving it in hot alcohol , after
having stored it for the purpose of driv
ing off all the water. Soap being com
pletely soluble in this medium , any ex
traneous matters which it may contain
can be readily separated by filtration ,
care being taken to keep the solution
hot during the process. The alcohol is
then evaporated out of the filtrate , and
on cooling it hardens into a transparent
soap. These soaps are colored , accord
ing to fancy , with vegetable colors dis
solved in alcohol.
In the Coils of a Serpent.
One of the most intrepid wild-beast
tamers in Europe , Karolyi , a Magyar
of colossal stature and extraordinary
physical strength , feli a victim to his
perilous profession. He was perform
ing before a crowded audience in
Madrid on a certain day one of his mcit
sensational feats , which consisted in
allowing a huge boa constrictor , over
twenty feet in length , to infold his
body in its tremendous coils , when sud
denly a piercing cry escaped him which
was greeted by the public with a round
of applause , under the supposition that
its utterance constituted part of the
performance. It proved , however , to
be the outcome of a strong man's death-
agony. The gigantic snake had tight
ened its coils , and crushed poor Karol-
yi's life out of him with one terrific
squeeze. As his head fell back and his
eyes became fixed in a glassy stare , the
plaudits died away , and were succeeded
by the stillness of utter consternation.
The snake and its lifeless victim
swayed for a second or two of inex
pressible horror , and then toppled on
the boards of the stage. But the boa
did not in the least relax his grip upon
tha corpse , which remained for more
than an hour imprisoned in its hideous
thralldom , nobody daring to approach
the lithe monster , of whose powers
such appalling proof had been given.
At length it occurred to one of Karol-
yi's attendants to place a bow ! of milk
in a cage within sight of the mighty
serpent , which slowly unwound itself
from the dead body and glided into its
den , irresistibly tempted thereto by its
favorite dainty. A post-mortem exam
ination of the unfortunate athlete's re
mains discovered no fewer than eighty-
seven fractures of his bones , effected
by the constriction of the serpent's
coils. His death must have been al
most instantaneous , as the spine was
dislocated in several places. London
Telegraph.
i fc
The Cat and the Bees.
Charles Kaiser , who has the only hive
of bees in town , says that when he first
got his colony , his old cat's curiosity
was much excited in regard to the
doings of the little insects , the like of
which she had never before seen. At
first she watched their comings and
goings at a distance. She then flat
tened herself upon the ground and crept
ilong toward the hive , with tail hori
zontal and quivering. It was clearly
svident that she thought the bees some
new kind of game. Finally she took up
i position at the entrance of the hive ,
md when a bee came in or started out
made a dab at it with her paws.
This went on for a time without at
tracting the attention of the inhabitants
af the hive. Presently , however , old
Tabby struck and crushed a bee on the
3dge of the opening to the bjbre. The
onell of the crushed bee alarmed and
jnraged the whole colony. Bees by
; he score poured forth and darted into
; hefurof the astonished cat. Tabby
rolled herself in the grass , spitting ,
spluttering , biting , clawing and equali
ng as a cat never squalled before. She
ippeared a mere ball of furs and bees
is she rolled and tumbled about. She
ras at length hauled away from the
live with a garden rake , at the cost of
leveral stings to her rescuer.
Even after she had been taken to a
iistantpart of the grounds the bees
ituck to Tabby's fur , and about once
n two minutes she would utter an nn-
jarthly "yowl" and bounce a full yard
nto the air. On coming down she
vould try to scratch her ear , when a
iting on the back would cause ier to
urn a succession of somersaults and
jive vent to a running fire of squalls.
Like the parrot that was left alone with
he monkey , old Tabby had a dreadful
ime.
ime.Two
Two or three day s after the adventure
Cabby was caught by ihe owner , who
odk her by the neck and threw her
lownnearthebcehive. No sooner did she
trikc the ground than she gave a dread-
ul squall , and at a single bound reach-
id the top of the fence full six feet in
leight. There she clung for a moment ,
nth a tail as big as a rolling-pin , when ,
nth another bound and-squall , she was
> ut of sight , and did not- again put in
n appearance for over a week. Fir-
rinia City ( Nev. ) Enterprise ,
The production of raisins in Califor-
5a now reaches 100,000'boxes annu-
Toaof Mai , Don't Be Helped *
Dr. Prime has very little sympathy t
waste upon young men who get thei
education by forced loans from relative *
Ho says to an earnest young fellow wh
wants an education , but cannot afford t
pay for it :
"The way of the world now is for yoi
to look about and see who will help yoi
to got it. That is not the right way
Look about and see what you can do t
help yourself. Grind your own ax
Support yourself by honorable industry
and earn your bread while you improv
the odds and ends of time in study
When you get something ahead , use it to
support yourself while you learn. Tei
thousand men ore now serving thei
generation with usefulness and hone
who never asked anybody to grind au a :
for them. "
This is very sensible advice. Th <
young men of this country , as a rule
are helped altogether too much. If the ]
have the right stuff in them they cat
get the educatidu they need without
begging or borrowing.
The Younger and the Elder Booth
From an early age Edwin Booth wai
associated with his father in all the wanderings
dorings and strange and often sad ad
ventures of that wayward man of gen
ius , and no doubt the many sorrowful ex
periences of his youth deepened th <
gloom of his inherited temperament.
Those who know him well are awar
that ho 1ms great tenderness of hear
and abundant playful humor ; that hL
mind is one of extraordinary liveliness ,
and that he sympathizes keenly and cor
dially with the joys and sorrows of oth
ers , yet that the whole man seems satu
rated with sadness , isolated from com
panionship , lonely and alone. It is thii
temperament , combined with a sombei
and melancholy aspect of countenance ,
that has helped to make him so admira
ble in the character of Hamlet. Of hi
fitness for that part his father was the
first to speak , when on a night manj
years ago , in Sacramento , they hac
dressed for St. Pierre and Jaffier , ir
"Venice Preserved. " Edwin , as Jaf
fier , had put on a close-fitting robe oi
black velvet. " You look like Hamlet , '
the father said ; "why don't youplaj
it ? " The tune was destined to come
when Edwin Booth would be accepted
all over America as the greatest Hamlei
of the century. In the season of 1864-
65 , at the Winter Garden Theater , New
York , he acted that part for a hundred
nights in succession , accomplishing thus
a feat unprecedented in theatrical an
nals. Since that tune Henry Irving , in
London , has acted Hamlet 200 consecu
tive times in one season ; but this latter
achievement , in the present day and in
the capital city of the world , seems lesa
remarkable than Edwin Booth's exploit
was , performed in turbulent New York
in the closing months of our terrible
civil war.
The elder Booth was a short , spare ,
muscular man , ' with a splendid chest , a
symmetrical Greek head , a pale counten
ance , a voice of wonderful compass and
thrilling power , dark hair , and blue eyes.
Ed yin's resemblance to him is chiefly
obvious in the shape of the head and
face , the arch and twist of the heavy
eyebrows , the radiant and constantly
shifting fight of expression which ani
mates the countenance , the natural grace
of carriage , and the celerity of move
ment. Edwin's eyes are dark brown ,
and seem to turn black in moments of
excitement , and they are capable of con
veying , with electrical effect , the most
diverse meaning the solemnity of lofty
thought , the tenderness of affection , the
piteouaness of forlorn sorrow , the awful
sense of spiritual surroundings , the
woful weariness of despair , the mocking
glee of wicked sarcasm , the vindictive
menace of sinister purpose , and the
lightning glare of baleiul wrath. In range
of facial expressiveness his countenance
is thus fully equal to what his father's
was , and to all that tradition tells us of
Garrick. The present writer saw the
elder Booth but once , and that in a com
paratively inferior part Pescara , in
Shiel's ferocious tragedy of " The Apes
tate. " He was a terrible presence. He
was the incarnation of smooth , specious ,
malignant , hellish rapacity. His exul-
bant malice seemed to buoy him above
blie ground. He floated rather than
walked. His glance was deadly. His
slear , high , cutting , measured tone was
the exasperating note of hideous cruelty.
Be was acting a fiend then , and making
the monster not only possible but actual.
He certainly gave a greater impression
> f overwhelming power than is given by
Edwin Booth , and seemed a more for
midable and tremendous man. But his
face was not moire brilliant than that of
lis renowned son ; and in fact it was , if
tnything , somewhat less splendid in
power of the eye. William" Winter , in
Harper's Magazine.
Taking Care of Caesar.
"Late one evening Col. Don Moni-
ion , of St. Louis , and a party of boon
jompanions wera returning home from
lown-town , where they had been enjoy-
ng whist and wine. Pausing in front
if his elegant residence , Col. Doninsisted
ipon the party's coming in and taking a
> arting glass. ' No , no , Don ; we'll go
lome. It's very late , and we won't keep
rou up. ' These and similar expostula-
ions were made , but Col. Don kept on
nsisling. At last one of the gentlemen
uggested that mebbe Mis. Morrison
aight object. The Colonel seemed
[ eeply offended at this. He drew him-
elf up proudly and said , scornfully :
Now you shall come in , for I intend to
how you that I am Csesar in this house ! '
Scarcely had he uttered this proud
declaration than a second-story window
aised , and a feminine voice , cold and
utting , rang out on the pale air : ' You
re right , gentlemen ; go homo to your
rives. I'll take care of Csesar 1' Of
ourse , the party went home , and CoL
) on pensively retired. "
JONES , who goes to the " lodge" quite
ften , says Mrs J. could give the Nihil-
jts several points on blowing up.
OLD railroad conductors say the num-
er of people traveling on Friday is less
ban that of any other day in the week ,
nd they ascribe the cause to the super-
tition entertained by a great many per-
ons against beginning on undertaking
r setting out on a journey on Friday.
CHUTNEY SWEEP is the name of a trot-
ing horse. It is said that at his hut
ace he fairly flue.
The debt of Bostonlias increased $1-
35,677 during the year.
"Proposing" Im Texas.
They manage these things different ! ;
in Texas. This is ho w a fond couple com
to an understanding , according to on
who pretends to know. Hesitsononesid
of the room in a big white rocking chair
she on the other aide , in a little whit
oak reeking chair. A long-eared dee
hound is by his side , a basket of sewinj
by hers. Both the young people roc ]
incessantly. He sighs heavily and look
out of the west window at a myrtle tree
she sighs lightly and gazes out of th
east window at the turnip patch. A
hut he remarks :
"This is mighty good weather for cot
ton picking. "
" 'Tis that , " the lady responds , "if w
only had any to pick. "
The rocking continues.
"What's your dog's name ? " asks she
"CoonyP Another sigh-broken still
ness.
"What's he good for ? "
"What's he good for ? " says he ab
stractedly.
"Your dog , Coony. "
"For ketching 'possums. "
Silence for half au hour.
"He looks like a deer hound. "
"Who ? "
"Coony. "
"He is , but he's sort o' bellowaed , ar
gettin' old an' slow , an'he ain't no'conn
on a cold trail. "
In the quiet ten minutes that ensue !
she takes two stitches in her quilt , i
gorgeous affair made after the patten
called "Bose of Sharon. "
"Your ma raiding many chickens ? "
" . "
"Forty-odd.
Then more rocking , and somehov
the big rocking chair and the littli
rocking chair are jammed side by side
and rocking is impossible.
"Makin' quilts ? " he observes.
"Yes , " she replies , brightening up , fo :
she is great on quilts. "I've just fin
ished a gorgeous 'Eagle of Brazil , ' i
'Setting Sun , ' and a 'Nation's Pride. '
Have you ever saw the 'Yellow Boso oi
the Prairie ? ' "
"No. "
More silence. Then he says
"Do you love cabbage1'
"I do that. "
Presently his nand is accidentally
placed on hers , of which she does uo1
seem to be at all aware. Then ho sud
denly says :
"I'se a great mind to bite you. "
"What have you a great mind to bite
me for ? "
"Kase you won't have me. "
"Kase you ain't axed me. "
"Well * now , I ax yon. "
"Then now I has you. "
Coony dreams he hears a sound ol
kissing- and next day the young man
goes after a marriage license. Cham-
bers'Joumal.
Dower and No Dower.
After the Franco-Prussian war , a law
was passed in France' forbidding any
officer in the army to marry a woman
unless she had a dot , or dower , which
was to be settled upon her and her chil
dren , and which would yield an income
of at least § 250 per annum. The hnr
also rules that she must be comme il
faut , that is , of respectable birth and
virtuous conduct. This law was sug
gested by the large number of officers'
wives , widowed in the war , and left
without either money or education to
provide for their children.
Americans condemn , justly , the mer
cenary marriages common in France ,
and a universal rule that a girl is unmarriageable -
marriageable without a dot. The poor
est peasant's daughter knows that she
must haveher little sum laid by , before
she can wed , and her plenishing of bed
ding , linen , etc. , with which to begin
her humble housekeeping.
Marriage , says the American , should
be wholly a matter of feeling. He holds
a man unworthy of a good woman's love
who is not willing to take her for herself
alone , without a penny of dower.
This is very generous and magnan
imous for the husband , but is it the best
way for the girl , or the girl's father to
look at the matter ? The French father ,
knowing that his daughter's dower must
be furnished , as well as money for his
son's start in life , is forced to practice
and teach his children thrift.
There is no nation as habitually econ
omical as the French. The French
girl's dot is largely the result of her own
saving , and the habits and prudence
thus taught her are a solid capital , bet
ter than money , with which to begin
married life.
Very much the same custom was ob
served by our forefathers. Seventy
years ago , no girl was considered ready
for marriage who had not an "outfit"
chests of table and bed linen , and under
clothing , sewed and often spun and
woven by her own hand.
How is it with us now ? Our girls , as
rul , grow up like flowers. No hint is
given to them that money , or anything
more gross than love , is necessary for
married life. Their doting parents ac
custom them to luxurious or idle habits ,
to elegant dress , to dainty fare ; furnish
them with an expensive trousseau , and ,
as they live to the full extent of their
incomes , have not a penny of dower to
give them , to insure them or their chil
dren against misfortune.
There is certainly much to be said on
the French side of this question.
Youth's Companion.
To Fix SEAWEEDS IN BOOKS. If not
too fine the weeds must be soaked in
salt and water , then dried in a towel ,
laid on a table or suitable board and
pasted over on one side with a camei's-
hair brush or pencil dipped in a solu
tion of gum dragon ; the gummed side
must be applied to the paper ; when this
is satisfactorily achieved , for which pa
tience is exceedingly requisite , stretch
a piece of clear muslin ever the specimen - ;
men , and then put eight or ten pieces
of blotting paper , cut to size , upon it , :
afterward placing a heavyweight on the
top. Leave it for twenty-four hours , '
then remove the top , gently take the
blotting-paper and muslin and replace
them by fresh pieces , taking great care
not to disturb the specimens in the
least degree. In three or four days , if
the weather be dry , the specimens will
be dry also. They will retain their
color for years , if prepared as above ,
directly after they come from their
briny home.
On the Mariposa road , near Tuo-
umne , , Cal. , there are two snow drifts
sach a mile long and 150 high.
The Amerkaa'8 England.
It is upon the pages of Washington
Irving that wo must look for the most
fascinating picture of the traditional
and ideal England. His imaginative
fondness for old English customs and
life led him to describe them with
charming grace , and to decorate them
with quaint allusions and quotations ,
so that ho throws & delicate- glamour
over England , which makes it to the
half-English American heart the most
romantic of lands. The very warmth
of jealousy with which we often speak
of England is due to the family feel
ing. With the advent of universal suf
frage , and the Irish immigration , it has
been part of the politics of a great
American party to appeal to a hostile
sentiment which has a mixed origin.
Indeed , politicians of all schools find it
convenient and easy to stir the British
lion. That kind of appeal is the stock
"gag" of the political scene , but 'tis as
innocent as "Thisne , dear. "
Irving , indeed , was reproached with
unpatriotic fondness for the old homo.
This was natural enough , for he lived
long in England , and his favorite
themes were often characteristically
English. But a little reflection shows
that they are thoroughly American
sketches both in their spirit and their
point of view. England is not roman
tic to Englishmen in Irving's way. In
deed , it can be so only to the descend
ants of Englishmen in other lands , who
with perfect satisfaction with their lot ,
and pride in their own career , turn with
sweet pensivene'ss of reminiscence to
their father's country reminiscence
which is tenderly imaginative , and
which invests its subject with faery hues.
An American who finds Ins own coun
try inspiring and ennobling in its op
portunity and its prospect often con
fesses that it lacks a soft poetic per
spective , and sighs for ivied castles and
ancestral trees in whoso shade Sidney's
sister walked. But , were he born
among them , they would have lost the
spell that he now feels , and his life
would have lost the richness of that re
gret. As you look up the Val Anzasca :
How faintly flushed , how phantom fair
Was Monte Rosa hanging there t
A thousand shadowy penciled valley *
And snowy della in a golden air.
But it is only so from the Val Anzas
ca. It is not so when you try the terri
ble ascent.
Indeed , itis one of the advantages of
America that with the modified En
glish blood in our veins we have En
gland to go to. The consciousness of
being in London is second only to that
of being in Borne or Jerusalem. Is it
second ? Is the soul of the American
more stirred by St. Peter's , by the yel
low Arne , by the Coliseum , by the
tomb in Arqua , than by London , by the
daisy in the field , the hawthorn hedge ,
the lark in the sky , Westminster
Bunnymede ? And the fond regard ,
the surprise , eager delight , the pathos
of pleasure , do not weaken , they do but
strengthen , that loitering scion of kin
beyond the sea. The stronger and
deeper his romontic reverence for En-
land , the better American is he , because
less narrow and prejudiced. Generosi
ty of soul is greatness of soul. With
gratitude and sympathy and joy the
sincere American wandersthrough Eng
land ; and yet , childof his country and
time , he still murmurs , wistfully :
I like a monk , I like a cowl ,
I love a prophet of the soul ;
And on my heart monastic aisle *
Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles ;
Vet not for all his faith c 11 see
Would I that cowled churchman be.
Untamed Shrews.
"Look here , " said a man to his busi
ness partner , one day , "we have stood
' our fault-finding , when there is no cause
or it , about long enough. If you can
not live with your wife without quarrel
ing , why , then , quarrel with her and be
done with it ; but do not bring your
quarrel at hem < 3 to the store with you ,
and vent the spleen you gather there on
the unoffending clerks here 1"
This man's remonstrance was well-
founded. The partner had been a pros
perous young business man until he
married a fair-faced , well-educated girl ,
who turned out , in practical , wedded
life , on untamed shrew. Then his fort
unes began to fall ; the patience of his
partner at length became exhausted ; the
firm was dissolved , and the young man
went into bankruptcy , and found the
reproaches from his shrew-wife's tongue ,
for lus mismanagement and misfortunes ,
much sharper than those from any of
his numerous creditors.
A curious scene occurred in the course
of a trial in court in this city. A man
had sued his wife for a divorce on the
ground of cruelty on her part not a
very common allegation in behalf of the
husband , in proceedings lor divorce.
Unexpectedly there appeared upon the
stage , at this juncture , another man
who informed the complaining husband
that the woman had previously been
married to him and had never been di
vorced , so that a prosecution for bigamy
would lie. The two men conversed to
gether , aside , for a few moments , when
the second husband , turning to the
court , said : "I have no doubt of the
truth of this man's story ; for he has re
lated to me particulars of the woman's
persecutions such as I do not believe any
other woman was ever guilty of. "
It was a remark which , while it illus
trated his keen appreciation of the evil
spirit of this one woman , who had oc
cupied to him the relation of wife , at the
same time testified his unshaken confi
dence in women in general , notwith-
itanding his own bitter individual ex
perience.
And this general confidence was right
and well founded. The conclusion of
the most profound student of human
nature , on the subject of women , that
they are better and worse than we are ,
is entirely sound. But , fortunately , the
srooked-tempered , though considerable in
aumber , in comparison with the amiable
md good are but few. It is true , as
we said at the beginning , the career of
many a husband has been blighted by
his having unwittingly married an un
tamed shrew ; but in reference to a far
greater number of men it may be truth
fully said : "His life has been expanded
md sweetened by the companionship
md devotion of an angel-wife. " New
York Ledger.
Twelve million dollars will be paid
mt in Philadelphia next month as
semi-annual dividends and interest ,
$1,934,180 of the amount being interest
) n the citv debt.
STOCK DIPECTOKY
DENNIS M'KILUP.
Ranch on lied Willow , Thornburp. Ilayea
County , Neb. Cattle branded "J. M. " on
loft. Hide. YOUIIK cattle branded name a *
above , also * 'J. ' ' on left Jaw. Under-nlope
Tight ear. Horses branded "JS" on left
shoulder.
WILSON.
Stock brand circle on left shoulder ; aluo
dewlap and a crop and under half crop on
left cur , and a crop and under bit in the
right. Ranch on the Republican. Post-
office. Mnx. Dundv cnuntv. Nebraska.
HENRY T. CHURCH.
an over crop on right ear and under crop on
left. HorHes branded ' " 8" on right shoulder.
SPRING CREEK CATTLE CO.
Indianoln. Neb. Range : Republican Val
ley , east of Dry Creek , and near head of
Spring Creek , in Chase county ,
J. 1) . WKUIOKX ,
Vice President and Superintendent.
THE TURNIP BRAND.
Ranch 2 miles north of McCook. Stock
branded on left hip , and a few double cross
es on left hide. C. D. ERCANBKACK.
STOKES & TROTH.
P. O. Address , Carrico. Hayes county ,
Nebraska. Range. Red Willow , above Car
rico. Stock branded as above. Also run the
lazv ci brand.
GEORGE J. FREDERICK.
Ranch4 miles southwest of JlcCook , on the
Driftwood. Stock branded "AJ" on the
left hip. P. 0. address , McCook , Neb.
JOHN HATFiELD & SON.
McCook. Neb. , Ranch 4 miles southeast ,
> n Republican river. Stock branded with
i bar and lazy a on left hip
JB. . MESERVE.
Ranch , Spring Canyon on the Frenchman
liver , in Chase county , Neb. Stock branded
is above ; also " 717" on left side ; "V on
ieht hip and "L. " on right shoulder ;
* L."on left shoulder and "X. " on left
aw. Half under-crop left ear , and square-
irop right ear.
JOSEPH ALLEN.
Ranch on Red Willow Craek. half mile
.bo ve O born po tonlce. Cattls branded on.
ight side ana hip above. 3.4
FOR SALE Improved Deeded Farm ,
.nd Hay Land. Timber and water. Two
arm houses , with other improvements.
Convenient to No. 1 school privileges. Sit-
lated "n Republican river , near mouth of
led Willow creek. Call on J. F. Black ,
> a premises , or address him at Indlanola ,
Nebraska.
