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H | writ. life * sal-atiim f the Indian probAi
H | Imm. fa e # fcrm at least , * euiii rapidhs
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H j mliwiiwiit fcwuM' ttttOfrpMrvtioiml action
H h iifiring to llntf ndO [ ponttioti to > uch
B ywiimufcig k vry rmtt among the
H bi ttKn . In 6ueC tJ e prospect of alOI
B IwMiny lh hwU m sereniity and open-
B " " * * In iiaa u 4rr to white .settlers
B mhmh. tM Unitoil St * * * * * L * repugnant to
B . twm tkimk ml the Citfrok.ee Imlians ,
B I vrfc * rf iiiiw In W aN > woiI to work , out
B At * jurifciltrm. of tlw Itdiitn problem
B a Our x faafciott of tfceir own. and witht'1
B 9Nt f mociowat intervention of white
B ui&ttmj. TW r iiiAMi < ng four tribes
B aanifily QMotnvv , C'hiekxsaws , Creeks ,
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B & * > , oB l twto ( the live eivilketl tribes
B - saw EtfpmMsJMiAttd xs biting e < ] iully ho > -
B t&H it * nf 34 * Rt { t having for an object
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B owl pnnnL an nnfeniken and determin-
B * 4 wayniaioH.
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B j nwaty , and seHtng the residue to the
B 25 * Mi nt hug been diseu. ed among
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It a # c Checokethi in the hi-tory of the
mL tribe advfextaiwl allotment in aeconl-
_ * * * * * with treaty a * a means of prevent-
? " i g MQttfoBiztUion by the United States
nwttOTMUitMt ( Mntrary to treutv. Col.
fefeat nt dir an wflbrt to eilueate the Cherw
tktttts te Um * Hl m tiiHt sueh policy would
S b * t fiir t W tribe , but the masse * reJis
huml to be g ded by his counsel ? and
guinjoafd him to private life. This was
a * a tm tMry a o. Since that period
tlh * wi * v tM advoeated hsive made
° i < mmiwjm sjuI there are many Chero- !
kiMts * f aBf uaCy who believe to-day that
iMamamot wiK .save the nation and tribe
fiMtttt common ruiiu But popular sengr
l > 84 anI pcttjndt e are strongly
AgMMMtt chos advan ud view < . and the
! ct < n4k > of allotment are fairly swallowed
p ha the wv of public opinion. Not
oafar ajw the Mlonced , but it is safe to
hjt &at no the agitation increases there rjj
vriH. H t be a voiee raisel nor a fiuger th
ifited in fkvor © f any measure , no matlai
* r hw fitv ruhle it may be , proposed * tu
vt eiMagYo s f r the opening to white ea
iKtriumont of any land in the Indian tei
The Chorokees claim every acre of te
land embraced in their territory , exceptm
tBgsuoa as has been sold to the United
States for the use of other Indian tribes. W
Thoy assort that there is no vacant land ca
• it their country belougiug to the govdo
arHmunt , and that the Cherokee title is an
flawless. In a special
message transVe
mkted by Chief Busuyhead to the Cherafi
okee legislature last November in relan
iion to the status of lands west of 06 : tfl
degrees , the chief says :
"The lands lying west of 96 were 0u
ne-ver ceded to the United States , and 0f
I the title , possession * and jurisdiction
F * vor remain with the Cherokee nation tin
intact , except such 2 > ortious as are sold not
and ocaupied. . . . In 1869 otlicers lib
ot the United States government had
m
contemplated setting apart a large portht
tion of our lauds west of the Arkansas Te
river for the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. frc
In 1S72 an act was passed authorizing j'c
the president to fix the price of the tat
land , but it contained no provisions for
po
the acceptance of its terms by the fac
Cherokee nation , and consequently in the
no sense bound the nation to such an St.
, appraisement. The appraisement was
I made in that manner. Afterward the
, v United States abandoned its intention
i * y- of settling the Cheyennes , Arapahoes. of
f Kiowa ? , and Comanehes on all or any for
f part of the Cherokee lands west of the very
'I Arkansas river , and thus the cause for ably
the lands being appraised came to au pr
snd. The lands had first been apbe
praised by certain commissioners and little
\ * afterward by executive officers , lirst at ! oc
h li cants per acre and then at 47 cents inj
| per acre. . . . The United States that
> government , in vlolal' of the terms ins
' -of the treaty , had settled certain small dir
U" trills on tnwts of picked land. By act '
jpl of ooas-ress , April 10,1S76. the Pawnees Vt
were placed on a described tract and the
act provided that 70 cents per acre of
Pawnee money might be used to pay
for it.
• • This act was also without authority
Qj treaty and conveyed nothing. An
other net appropriated § 50.000 to pay
for a small tract for the Poncas , of
which sum18,389 40 was put to the
credit of the Cherokee nation , a pro-
teat being fded against it by the Chero-
kee representatives. This conveyed no
title. Harassed and unjustly treated
by these arbitrary proceedings , the
Cherokee national council at last in-
structcd her two delegates to obtain , if
possible j , even the appraised price. Had
congress appropriated the money at
that time , and the Cherokee council
given authority to execute deeds theref1
for. the United States might have re-
ceived the benefit of its unjust and arbia
trary acts ; but this it has in every case
persistently refused to do , holding that
it was in no sense bound to purchase or
authorize to purchase savo occupied
tracts. In 1881 § 300.000 was approprist
ate L . . . Our delegation again en-
deavored to securo a settlement. In
response Secretary Kirkwood wrote a
letter , Feb. 28 , 1882 , taking the ground
that the settlement of the Cheyennes ,
Arapahoes , Kiowas , and Comanehes
had never been effected , and that the
United States could only pay for occulu
pied lands. Ho admitted that the title
is in the Cherokee nation , and suggestv
ed that steps be taken for acquiring the
lejnil < title from the Cherokces to the
occupied tracts.
"These deeds were the first formal
or binding action of the Cherokee na-
tton on these lands west of 96 degrees
since ' the treaty of 1S66. The } * covered
all ' the occupied tracts , which were the
only tracts the United States was au-
thorized to buy or that the Cherokee
nation was under any obligation to sell.
- . . After the completion of these
transactions the Cherokee nation had
IU unsettled account with the United
States in reference to any portion of
these ' lauds. There was not then and
there is not now an acre of these lands
that the United States is lawfully en-
titled to purchase. . . . Some parties
made the mistake that the lauds had
been ceded , which was not true. Some
of the officials made the mistake of sup-
posing that because the United States
could settle friendly Indians on certain
parts thereof the United States could do
what it pleased with them. If the Cherac
okee \ nation had held its land by oc-
cupancy title , and had their reserve
been a detached portion of the public
domain , it would have been subject to
executive orders and congressional disa
position. : It was and is the property of
the Cherokee nation , and can only be
disposed of by it. "
It will thus be seen that the Cherokces
claim all the land in their territory , in-
eluding the Cherokee strip , Oklahoma
in fact , every part or parcel of land
within : Cherokee country. It will furcr
ther be observed that Chief Bushyhead
tisserts that no tracts of lands were conn
veyed to the United States other than *
that occupied by divers tribes of InP
dians.
Meanwhile everyone is watching the
legislature as if to glean from its pro-
ceedings some hint of the policy to be
observed in staying the tide of immiiu
gration which is ready to pour into the
Cherokee country the moment conw
gressional legislation will admit it.
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The Newspaper Plant
It seems that in certain far-away tei' -
ritories called New Mexico and Arizona , t
there are great tracts of desolate desert
lands , where the verv hills seem destiT
* . T
tute of life and beauty , and where the !
earth is shriveled frorii centuries of
terrible heat. And > n these desert-
tracts grow a curious , misshapen , jrro- "
tesque and twisted plant that seems y.i
more , like a goblin tree than a real one.
Of all the trees in the world , you
would imagin this to be the most out- \
cast and worthless so meager a living so ,
does it obtain from the waste of sand th
and gravel in which it grows. And ,
this goblin tree is now being sought
after and utilized in one of the world's
greatest industries an industry that S
affects the daily needs of civilization.
Those ' wise folk , the botanists , call "Ill
our goblin tree by its odd Indian name ity !
the "Yucca"
palm.
This plant , of the desert for a long
time was considered valueless. But or
long ago it was discovered that the
fiber of the Yucca could be made into ! all
excellent paper. And now one of uj
great English dailies , the London
Telegraph , is printed upon paper made re
from this goblin tree. Indeed , the °
T'elcgraph has purchased a large plan- '
tation in Arizona , merely for tlie • pur- °
pose of cultivating this tree , and maim- . u
facturing paper from it. So , you see , in
< Yucca is now a newspaper plant.
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She Knew Her Strong Point.wI
A little four-year-old girl , a resident * 01
Minnesota ' s capital city , is not noted " *
her beauty , though possessed of a any
sweet disposition and a remarkcr
bright mind. She was recently his
presented to a minister who chanced to ters
visiting at her home. He took her 1UI
face between his two hands an ' P °
looked down at her in a most scrutiubai
manner. She evidently anticipate' ' so
her face would not bear the close vice
inspection , as , turning her eyes in the her
direction of his face , she lisped out : ini
"a aiuth petty , Mither Brown , buA a0
mighty 'mart. " St. Paul Globz.tr <
LOVE-LORN MR. JONES.
Ilcmarkrtblo Antics at Detroit of the
Quixotic Senator from Florida
Previous Exploits.
A Detroit correspondent of The Philaa
dclphia Press writes : Senator Jones , it is
generally , ' believed by the people of this
city , is insane. No one speaks to him ;
he is completely ostracised by society of
all ' kinds , avoided and deprived of all
human sympaty. Even the Catholic
church \ and its priests have deserfed
him , although he is a member of that
sect. His state repudiates him. The
United States senate has eliminated his
name from all committees , and has
practically closed its doors against him.
lie is a man without a country , without
f1 home , without a friend , and his case
js the most despicable in some respects
and the saddest m others in all history.
Senator Jones' rooms are on the par-
Jor floor of the Russell house , the best
suite in the hotel. Hero he enters ,
throws ' open the blinds and windows ,
stations himself in front of a largo mir-
ror , which he imagines to be the senate
chamber , and makes long , vigorous ,
and lust } ' speeches , while people gather
on the walk below to witness the
strange spectacle. His self-vanity is
boundless ; he struts up and down be-
fore the glass in a pompous manner ,
making sweeping gestures and oratori-
cal flourishes. He dresses like a dandy ,
walks a half-dozen times per day up and
down Jefferson avenue in front of the
Palms mansion , maintaining the form
of silent persecution with unvarying
regularity.
He does not know Miss Palms by
sight. He has passed her twenty times
P1 the street without recognizing her.
Often on such occasions he has glanced
at her squarely without showing the
least visible symptoms of recognition.
This * conclusively demonstrates the fact
which has been presented to him by the
friends of the lady , without sparing
whatever profanity there exists in the
language | , that he has only a besotted
ideal ' in his mind which MissPalms no
more resembles than the man in the
moon. This is the painting of CharP
lotte Corday m the Corcoran art gallery.cr
Miss Palms is a charming young lady ,
probably superior in personal charac-
teristics to such an ideal , but possessing
but little of the facial beauty depicted
in the painting.
In order to show why the senator
does not know Miss Palms by sight it
1S necessary to relate correctly some
facts which have heretofore been put
before the public in a garbled , hearsay
form. Senatjr Jones and the Palms
family are Catholics. In the winter of
1883 , Miss Palms was visiting at the
house < of Mrs. Sands , in Washington ,
who formerly lived in Detroit. Mrs.
Sands is a Catholic , and at her residencep
it was customary for leading society
people ' of that sect to congregate. At
one of these gatherings Senator Jones
casually met Miss Palms. He was
merely presented to the young lattyand
no ( conversation ensued. During the
following summer Senator Jones stopto
ped ( at the Devon house in Newport ,
At the same hotel ex-Mayor W. G.
Thompson , of Detroit , was also a guest ,
The gentlemen were introduced , and in
the ] course of some desultory conversaai
ton : Mr. Thompson , who naturally
presumed that a United Stages senator
was deserving of the courtesy , invited p
the Everglade representative to cdl n
upon him if he should chance to pass
through ' Detroit. Mrs. Thompson , nee
Miss Compau , is a double cousin of
Miss Palms by a double marriage in the
Palms and Canipau families.
In the fall of the same year Senator
.Tones passed through Detroit and was
invited to a dinner parly at the Thompev
sons , where he again was presented to si'
Miss Palms , but no particular convcrV
sation was carried on between them.
.
The next da } * he called on the } 'oung
lady , proposed marriage , and was in
dignantly * : rejected. All of this occured
° long ago that the facial features of *
the lady have completely escaped . from
the senator's mental imagery , if he ever
had any.
Up to last June the senator made
several visits to this city. He was in-
vited by the Sister Superior to deliver
address for the benefit of the Char
* Orphan asylum , and on his way
home after the Chicago convention
made the address. He stopped hero
several occasions , continuing a se- me
vcre persecution of the voting lady at By
times. He wrote to her daily after
rejection the most endearing letters ,
which were placed in an envelope and Pc
remailed to him. When in Washin"- -
ton he sent to her reams of his speeches
and all newspaper articles about hm ;
good , bad , and indifferent , rdl of which a&
were returned to him by express. When up
Detroit he sent flowers to her daily , 10
which were returned to him by the
messenger. < Last June he arrived here you
and registered at the Russell house ,
where he has been the hotel's best ens- t
tomer ever since so good a customer in
that naturally the proprietors oppose
move to have him taken away.
Prom the moment of his last arrival
! presents of flowers , deluge of lettin
, and walks in front of the Palms wi
mansion were kept up with wonderful the
perseverance. Finally the friends of not
lady devised a scheme to suppress pu
some of the persecution. At their adm ;
( Miss Palms drew her pen through
name on the letters and packages , a
inserted his own and sent them to the .
hotel. After several doses of such ov
treatment and cowed the
, by merciless zar.
ridicule at the Russell house , he erased
sending missives and flowers , ami ever
since { has contented himself with walks
past her door.
The reason 'why Senator Jones sud
denly , ceased his calls at the lady's door
js worthy of note. After his rejection
jM was denied admission to the Palms
residence. For several days he would
call at the door , however , and the folst
lowing conversation would ensue :
Senator Is Miss in ?
Servant Yes , sir. Who is it that
would like to see Jier ?
Senator Senator Jones.
Servant Senator Jones , eh ? Well ,
Miss is in , but not to Senator Jones ,
Good , day , Senator Jones !
Then the door would slam in his face.
jt is needless to say that Senator Jones
soon wearied of such receptions. *
One of the strongest efforts made here
to dislodge the senator from the city
has been by the Catholic priests of De-
troit and other parts of the country.
He wrote to Bishop Borgess , of this dioei
cese , begging the prelate to assist him
in his love a 11 air. The bishop wrote to
him an indignant reply , reprimanding
him j for daring to address such a com-
munication on such a subject. The
senator then denounced the whole
Catholic , church as in a vast conspiracy
to prevent his marrying an heiress
whose fortune it was trying to secure.
Since then he and the priests have sepa-
rated , and ho is violent against the
church.
His eldest son spent two months here ,
trying by every artifice to lure him
away. His friends have come here all
the way from Florida ; prominent demo-
crats from all over Michigan and United
States . ( senators have expended in vain
their j ] energies at dislodging him.
When the Irish meeting was held hero
not long ago to raise funds for Mr. Parq
nell , Senator Jones was invited to ad-
dress ' the assemblage. When called
upon to speak , he arose and began a
stump democratic speech having no
reference to the Parnell matter and
greatly disgusting the Irish republicans
present. | Finally the presiding officer
called him to order and compelled him
to sit down.
"Why She "Wore Her Dress Low.
What radically different notions of
good < conduct are held'by girls living in
separated classes of the same city. To
go < to a theatre with a lover and no
chaperon , even in bright light , would
scandalize a Fifth avenue belle ; but she
would quite innocently expose herself
in a bodice so scant that an Eighth
avenue maiden ' s self-respect would die
of chill if so bared. But 1 am not going
4into discussion of a social topic already
worn out. I simply desire to tell of a
.fair and fashionable creature who sat
nexb to her male cousin at a dinner par
tv . Her corsage was stylishly low.
The relative had last seen her at the
opera \ , in a bevy of decollete corapanWi
ions , with herself covered to the neck. *
and on that occasion she had declared
to him that she did not regard their
garb : as modest.
"Why , how ' s this. Maria ? " he ex11
claimed at the dinner. • I thought you
didn 't approve of this sort of costume ,
and had resolved never to wear it. " >
"So I did , " was the reply. "This is
the lirst time in my life that I ever ap- '
pearcd in a low waist. I don't like it
now. but I had to put it on in selfdePl
ft'nso. A storv got around that the
reason for my invariably high-necked l'
dresses was that I had a brown patch
as big as a plate on my shoulder. Of
course I had to refute such a cal- ;
many. "
"And you have certainly made the
evidence very broad and comprehen-
sive , " remarked the cruel cousin. it
Xeit' York Letter. se
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A Rhetorician. ! |
Professor ( to his wife ) "Mv dear , 1 ,
wish you would speak more carefully.
You say that Henry Jones came to this .
.Q
town from St. Louis.
an
Wife"Yes. . "
or
"Prof. "Well , now , wouldn't it be
m
better to say that he came from St. >
for
Louis to this town ? " . -
ei
Wife "I don 't see any difference in ot
the two expressions. " Q1
Prof. "But there is a difference. 0
QQ
rhetorical difference. You don 't hear ,
a
make such awkward expressions. , jj
- tiie way , I have a letter from your pj
father in my pocket. " out
Wife "But my father is not in your
pocket. You mean that you have , in : •
your pocket , a letter from my father. " aa
Prof. "There you go with your little , j.a
quibbles. You take a delight in har- .jii
assing me. You are always catching l
a thread and representing it as ?
ae
rope. " aa
AVife. Representing it to be a rope , | .j
mean. "
. as
Prof. "For goodness sake , hush.
Never saw such a quarrelsome woman
my lifeArkansaw Traveler. on
tion
An Application of Scripture. pri
Winnie ' s mother had been combing is
little girl's long and handsome , but
wind-lnngled.romp-snarled hair. When inl
operation was finished and it was per
unaccompanied with several severe eit
pulls Winnie asked , "Did you get out ncl
many hairs , mamma ? " dir
"Yes , dear , " was the answer , "quite luc
good many. " , '
"Then He'll have to number them all nlf
over again , won't He ? " Harpers Baem
. aM
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CHINESE NEWSPAPERS.
Sot JoiirnnlH or tlio Celestial Kiuylrc ,
but of California.
The majority of the Chineso mer-
chants and business men in this city , as
well as their clerks and book keepers ,
can read and write the English lauo
guage , and quite a number of them aro
subscribers to the daily papers.
That those , however , who are not so
gifted ' may have an opportunity of
knowing ' what is transpiring in the busy
world , there arc at the present timo
four newspapers printed in Chinese
characters regularly published in
Francisco. They are all issued weekly
and have an average circulation of 2,500
copies. The majority of these papers
are sent into the interior of this state ,
to Washington territory , British ColumSl
bia ' , and the Sandwich islands. Only
about one-fifth of the whole number is
taken in this city. The subscription
price of each is § 2.50 per annum , delivP
ered by carriers in the city , and § 5 a
year if sent through the mails to the
country or abroad.
The oldest paper of the quartet is The
Recorder , published by Mun Kee & Co.
It has been in existence eighteen years.
and has a subscription list of 530. of
which eighty arc delivered in the city
and the remainder mailed to the inteq
.
rior. Mun Kee , its first editor and pro-
prietor , mace a fortune out of The liec
corder. . Selling out three years ago ,
he returned to China to spend his de
. clining . years. The Orientul is pub-
lished . by Wah Kee & Co. It has been
in . existence five years , and has a circusc
lation \ of about 400. * The Weekly Oeeilc
dental . is now in its fourth year , and
Horn , Hong & Co. , its proprietors ,
claim that it is the "live" paper and
T
lias the largest circulation. It has 2Q0
city ; subscribers and 800 in the country ,
Cum , Shoo , its translator and reporter ,
is well educated in English and Chif
nese , aud nothing of interest occurs in
the j , Chinese quarter that he does not
report for the paper which he reprc-
sents.
The staff of a Chinese newspaper
consists usually of four persons viz. :
ar editor , a sub-editor , a translator ,
and a printer or pressman. The cd-
itor ( and sub-editor are generally the
proprietors , and each usually edits onepl
half the paper. The translator is a
most important person. His duties arc
to pick up news around the Chinese
quarters , and read carefully the Anierihi
; an daily papers. From these he culls
the market reports , accounts of out-
rages on Chinese , the passage of any
laws or ordinances particularly affecttc
ing the Chinese , and any other item
which he thinks will interest his connft
trymen. These he translates into ChiH
nese character.and hands them to the
sditor ] for insertion.
The editors copy the characters so
supplied them with the ordinary Chi
nese pen and specially 'prepared ink on
what is called transfer paper. The
meet of transfer paper is the same size
is the paper to be printed. When the
aclitor has his sheet of transfer paper
filled with characters his labor is done ,
ind he hands the paper over to the '
printer. .
This functionary has a lithographic
stone > already prepared , and to it he
transfers the characters on the paper.
After "setting" the ink on the stone
with ! nitric acid and gum he is ready for
printing. After passing a wet sponge
5Ver the stone he rolls over it an ink
roller , the ink from which only adheres
Co the written characters. lie then lays
the sheet of paper to be printed on the
lone < , placing on top of it a metal *
lover. An iron bar is now placed
tcross this cover and tightened down by "
lever worked by the foot of the oper-
itor. ( The frame on which the stone is
set is then , by means of a strap and pulul
ley : worked by the printer , made to
slide under the bar its whole length.UJ
The pressure of the bar on the cover fr
jauses the impression of the inked char'n
icters to be transferred from the stone
the paper. The process is repeated cv
antil the required number of copies is i'1
orinled. ; Then the stone is cleaned off ta
ind smoothed down , and the characters st
the other side of the paper are trans- 1J
ferred to it , and the printing of the br
other ] side of the printed sheets comcl
Qiences. One side only of a paper can it
printed at a time. A smart printer ov
3an print one side of four hundred is
sheets ( in an ordinary working day.th
Five working days are required to get ot
an edition of one thousand. wi
The American and Chinese Commcrth
ial News , the latest aspirant for jour
nalistic honors among the Chinese , was f °
started by Suey Kee & Co. a little over s'
three years ago. Its proprietors inm'
tended to revolutionize the Chinese
newspaper business in this city , and eniU
gaged ' a large staff of reporters , etc. *
Their purse , however , was not as large su
their ideas , and a year ago they c"
gracefully retired bankrupt. The an
present proprietors now have the paper m
a paying basis , and have a circula-
of 700. The title of the paper is ba
printed in old Roman text , and above it to
r
a : representation of a flaming dragon.
The papers are printed with black
on single sheets of thin white pa
, except at Chinese new year , when wa
either red j > aper is used or the char
acters are printed in red ink on the or- rj
dinary paper , red being considered the * ij
lucky color among the Chinese.
The charge for advertisements is regnu
Hinted by the number of characters
employed. The price would average bit
about 5 cents a word in English , or § 2 per3
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for ono inch squaro for ono insertion , g j
with a reduction for "ads" running foi % < '
over six months. The advertisement * ' < * j
generally consist of notices of sailing
days 1 of steamers , notices Issuod by the '
Chineso Six companies , and prlcos ol . '
sowing machines , lamps , firearms , and
other commodities which find a rcadj
sale among tlio Chinese. Thcso aro in
serted by whito merchants. San Frail-
I cisco Chronicle.
The Caricature Plant.
One of the most remarkable plants la
the whole vegetable kingdom is that
known to botanists as tho Justicia Pictat
which has also been woll named "The
Caricature Plant. "
At first sight it appoars to bo n heavy ,
large-leafecl plant , with purple blos
soms , chiofly romarkablo for the light-
yellow centers of its dark-grcon leaves.
When ' I first saw this odd plant and was
thinking what a sickly , blighted ap- !
pearanco tho queer , yellow stains gavo
it , I was suddenly impressed with this
fact that the plant was "making faces"
at me. And my first impression was
correct. < This curious shrub had indeed
occupied itself in growing up in ridicu
lous caricatures of tho "human faco
divine , " until it now stood , covered
from tho topmost leaf down , with the
queerest faces imaginable. Nature
had ! taken to caricaturing. Tho Uesh-
oolored < profiles stood out in strong re
lief 1 * against the dark-green of the leaves.
A discovery of one of these vegetablo
marks led to an examination of a sec
ond and a third leaf , until all were
scanned as closely and curiously as the
leaves of the comic papers that form
tho caricature plants of the literary king
dom. !
dom.What
What a valuable plant this would bo
for one of our professional caricatu
rists to have growing in his conserva-
tory ! When an order was sent to him
for a "speaking likeness" of some un
happy politician , he could simply visit
his Justicia Picla with pen aud paper in
hand ! , and look over the leaves for a
suitable squint , grin , or distorted nose
tc sketch from. He could , moreover ,
affirm with truth that the portrait was
"taken from nature. " Cuthbert Col-
lingwood , the celebrated mrturalist.says
of the Justicia Picla : "One of these
plants in the garden of * Gustave Dore
would be worth a fortune to him , sup
plying ' him with a never-failing fund of
grotesque physiognomies , from which
he might illustrate every serio-comic ro
mance ever written. " I have never
heard ' of thy cultivation of the Carica
ture Plant in this country ; but botanists
tell us that it is a hardy shrub. I think
we should be glad to see the funny
faces on its leaves. After all the lovely
flowers we are called upon to admire. I
am sure that a plant evidently intended . _ , *
tc make us laugh would receive a warm
welcome. Alice May in St. Nicholas.
Vegetable Clothing.
About two hundred years agothe
governor ' of the island of Jamaica , Sir
Thomas Lynch , sent to King Charles II.
o\ \ England a vegetable necktie , and a
very < good necktio it was , although it
had grown on a tree and had not been B
altered since it was taken from th" tree fl
A gentleman who witnessed two na- fl
fives manufacturing this lade , thus defl
scribes it. A tree about twenty feet fl
high > and six inches in diameter , with a H
bark ! looking much like that of a birchfl
tree , was cut down. Three strips of fl
bark ! , each about six inches wide and B
eight feet long , were taken from the fl
trunk and thrown into u stream of fl
water. Then each man took a strio ' fl
while it was still in the water , and with fl
the point of his knife separated a thin fl
layer of the inner bark from one end of fl
the strip. This layer was then taken in fl
the fingers and gently pulled , where- B
upon it came away in an even sheet the fl
entire width and length of the strip of fl
bark. Twelve sheets were thus taken H
from each strip of bark , and thrown fl
into the water. fl
The men were not through yet , howfl
ever , for when each strip of ban * , had H
yielded its twelve sheets , each sheet was fl
taken from the water and gradually fl
stretched sidewise. The spectator could fl
hardly believe his eyes. The sheet fl
broadened and broadened until from a fl
close piece of material six inches wide , fl
became a filmy cloud of delicate lace , m
over three feet in width. The astonfl
ished ! gentleman was forced to confess M
that no human made loom ever turned M
out lace which could surpass in snowy H
whiteness and gossamer-like delicacy H
that product of nature. H
The natural lace is not so regular in |
formation as the material called illti- M
sion , so much worn by ladies in sum- |
mer ' ; but it is as soft and white , and M
will bear washing , which is not true of • • M
illusion. In Jamaica and Central M
America 1 , among the poorer people it M
supplies the place of manufactured M
cloth , which they cannot afford to buy ; |
and the wealthier classes do not by any M
means scorn it for ornamental use. fl
The tree is commonly called the lace- M
bark tree. Its botanical name is Laget- M
linlearia. C. J. Russell , in St. M
Nicholas. M
BJ |
It "Wasn't a Rabbit. S
Doctor Well , do vou think the do" H
: ? mad when he bit you ? H
Solomon Wall , sah , I guess he war M
rudder put out by the way he 'ducted M
liissef. ; M
Doctor No I ' M
, don't mean angry ; I
mean rabid. M
Solomon Oh no , sah , it wa'nt arab- M
Fs shuah 'twas a dog , sah Har- M
Bazar. M
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