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THE JOURNAL. "WEDNESDAY, AUG. J, 1882. Ir.erei &: i clurcttttr. :a P:r.::e, C::z:ia. ilji.. ; setts: ESTHETIC DECORATION. Wbn Iaaked of Angelina bo tbmn whom there's dob diviner ' Canjoa decorate old china - in the trot esthetic tyle?" Straightway did she make me answer, You can bet jour boots I can. sir; Bet ths limit of your pile 1 " Tee, sir. when Jo decorate it I set oat, a dinner plate it Would be difficult to mate it, For that's just within my line; Ajid I tell jou if vou'd seen it (Which the came I really mean itl. You'd declare it quite divine V Tell me by what incantation Tou iierform this decoration Which ao interest the nation Tell me, Angelina, prav? Leave me nut to wild conjectures, Kor to Wildes still wilder lectures, but explain the simple way I" " Well, then," answered Angelina, When I decorate old china. First I tuice the plate and line 'er With roait beef that's choice and rars Thn, in keeping with old Plato, BatkaytataljMid.Potato.ao Which I Bravy-ly prepare ! Then, to make the soft "heart flutter. Unto each I add some butter Joat how much it were to utter Utterly to give auray; But, classic Greece waa small, B M the grease that I use also Which is all I need to say I Last, to make it more ssthetio. Bat to say more dietetic,. Eometimcfl do I add poetic Turnips or tomatoes canned; That's my way." said Angelina, for to drcarfete old china, In thio wild, ntbttic land !" Vandyke Drown in X. T. Clipper. THE DIFFERENCE OF A DOT. December and May, in the persons i Jotfiah Blend and Alias Barbara Paul, wore united sorao half-dozen years ago In the holy boudi of matrimony. Peo ple who knew them both were much amazed at the alliance; for the refined mi lady-lifte Miss I'aul had she wait ad might have had something" younger and handsomer than the ven rsble. ancient aud many-wrinkled Jo- Being a successful Glasgow nier haot, the aged Josiah was rich; and aturally their acquaintances concluded that his money was his chief attraction. Perhaps it was. It is not for us to im pute motives, either good or bad; but Mere were aot lacking prophets enough ven in the small circle of their person al friends, who ventured to foretell a fcort, sharp and decisive marriage cam-pu-rn, in whieh tho Oung wife would punish tbcold man, aud finally oome at of the contlict, under the shelter I a 'judicial separation," with spoils sufficient to maintain her in a compe tency lor the remainder of her natural lUo. They proved false prophets. Wheth er money was at the bottom of it or aot. the pair Jived as happily and lov Baglj as any two lovers could hope to d. This was so till a certain year, whan two diilerint circumstances con- wtrou to oriug matters to sucu a crisis : rod to brine- matters to such a crisis ! leWi the. iudicial senarat'ons seemed in- l . .. - . . . . I writable Josiah was on the whole an inof fensive old fellow; but when his usually BBgish temper was once quickened fcito action, he was prone to let It carry aim to such an extreme length that no oaw could defend him. Barbara was pa aUut to a fault, and tended him with a laving and faithful devotion admirable im one so youug. -The two unhappy muses which threatened for the time to aud their married life, were terv Ussimihir in themselves, though in the -' I tsd they got somewhat mixed up. Tey were Barbara's cousin Charlie Robinson, aud a telegram. Barbara, ' said the antique Josiah ste morning at the breakfast table, "1 with that cousin of yours -Dear tttiarlie.' as vou cal1 him would not uoio here and mot olize so much of your time." "1 do not think he takes up much of avj time," responded his wife, in a Mildly surprised tone. "But I do not m very well how I could prevent him swing, unless I shut the door in his 4kee." You might do worse !" growled Jo ah "a reat deal worse. I hate him, trill his preteusiou9, his, stuck-up airs, ats general humbug. Why, 1 heard hta call you his 'dear Bubs' last uighl fasten he wanted you to slug with him." "You arc not jealous ?" laughed Bar fcara, reproachfully ; "surely not. That 4 the name he called me by when we mwca children. But I'll tell him you sHrliko it, aud no doubt he'll desist. You would bo better to tell him aot ta ooitie at alt. as his company is not wanted. I overheard him 2:13 last night to tat4cnaity-headed churn of his, that I was inlaid' fossil yXprse still. I he Batd That old fdjgv Blend has a pile t was about to speak, when his wife ut h; but hols a. miserable old skiu- tercd a piercing scream. and sauk faint- f casl sttat, and , won't part with iL" That B8 giatitudu for you. after liutshing a mrpTa of bottles of my old Burgundy and nuroking half-a-doeu "of ray -finest cigars. He ia an impudent scamp.n "There surely must be some uiis Wke.' urged Jus wife, "Charlie would over say that." "He d.d, thouvh," retorted Josiah, angrily; "I'm quite certain. Belter ten kim'uever to ebtnediere again?! "I wouULralher not, if it please you," eaaunably replied his wife; "it would ho very unnatural Joiine to do so." "You consider -it-more' natural that I nould"T3rabused iuHy"'owii house!" ariod JosialCuow at'awkUe-heaL"'Ani ". i to'uBdersiand yoa sosHively refuse to "Well, I do notCrefueet.' replied Bar- ' Wra, with considerable Unit, goiuiver aad kisaing'kioi .affectionately 011 the Bkeuk "I do ,L-Bot absekitely refuse; teft I most respectfully decline!" .. Joiriah wasj 'forced ttf--smile at his ife'i equivocation, and-res"lved to do no thimihimsailL He"did it neatlv.loo. ho wroio ut vnanie, saying, mat in iu (nre it .would be esteemed a. 'favor if at . r-.ir 1. - ...--. 1 any time he intended, calling; 'be would -eend intimation of lr.s "Intention 'be trohand, to prevent disappointment." Charlie took, the hint, and did not call ncain. 1 A?few months after this. Josiah aanght-a slight cold', and got other ie ml of sorts, so that the doctor ordered Mnvto go down the Clyde. for change of ar. It so'fellout that'Barbara'smother tBvfc'seriously ill at the same time; aud a Barbara was an only daughter, she iMd to remain at hermothen's bedside, lin4,p1rnitt-her'husbana to goway afetSnT?eltheU,!dfniii?"1couldno,onKer uppress a Ht of Z.?fen -5eJ, -7 - 5 8?1 beltHr shu controllable laughter. "Hear" n wuum ULUUtc uwieu lu uur rooillUan Josiah'1 wentrto acertain"' town on the east which we shall call L , aud en gaged rooms with his old .friend Mrs. Iterkle. During the tirst week he did wt Improve, Chough Mrs. Meikie was ry attentive. Several letters passed Cween man and wife, so that Bar a was advised as to his condition, and not a little anxious about him : 'but hnr mother was still daugerously ill. text week her mother rallied, but Jo Blah got worse. At last he had a severe bilious attack, and was confined to bed, so that the presence of his. wife wan imperatively necessary. He in structed Mrs. Meikie to telegraph for her; and this was the telegram which was delivered to his wife : Mrs. Meikle, L. To Mrs. Blend, Weodburn House, Glaaow Tour husband k dead. Come down at once. Crest consternation was the result. On the previous da' Mrs. Blend had teceived a piteous note from Josiah, saying he was very ill." and' stating at he had been "vomiting frequent. ly," and that his head was "splitting;" bo that she never questioned the ac curacy of .the telegram. Neither did her anlfcar. nor her Cousin Charlie, who was Bent .for in the emergency. She was i fearfully shocked at the unexpected in telligence, and rendered well-nigh help less; while the two men sagely shook their heads, and attempted to console her with some reflections on the liabil ity of olcf age to f.adden death, which were well meant, but unfortunately in effective. Charlie undertook as of course he was expected to do all the arrangements in connection with the funeraL He wentto the cemetery that afternoon, and ordered the grave to be opened in three days; be put the usual notices in the papers; issued the custosa ary black-bordered announcements; went tb'the undertaker's", "and ordered a handsome- coffin to be taken down to L , by the first train ia the morn ing; and indeed, did everything' Beces sary with his usual business-like prompt itude and dispatch. Then he went to the Telegraph Office, and forwarded this message: CHaBXK .Robinson, Woodburn House, Glasgow, To Mks. Meikle, L : Tl- jjram received. Mrs. Bleud very much grieved. Will be down 'by first train to morrow. Do beu you can till thea. Mrs. Meikie read the message to Jo Biah, who smiled' sweetly at his wife's loving concern and wifely anxiety, it was very good of her to be "much Srieved," and to ask Mrs. Meikie' to o all she could for him. Mrs. Meikie noticed this pleased expression, and joc ularly observed that he seemed to be getting better even with the thought of her coming down and had no doubt that a sight of her would do him more good than all the medicine he had taken. In the morning he felt so well that he got up; but his najipvanticipations of his wife's arrival didnqt last Jong. Lifting the telegram, which Mrs. Meikie had left lying on the table, he read it, and was horrified to discovor what Mrs. Miekle had failed to read on the previ ous evening that the message was not from his wife, but from the hated Charlie Robinson. The demon of jeal ousy took possession of his old soul, and dread suspicion set him on the rack of mental torture. fCharlie Robinson at Woodburn!" exclaimed be to himself. "Has he ac tually been there all the time I have been 'away P:c I'believe5 her mother's ill ness has been merely a blind; and yet the telegram says she is grieved, "very much grieved." Ay, ay, that must be because she has to come away from his delightful society. They will have had a (ice time of it, calling one an- stttov I)oi. f?liti tliA Ati.l IIhmv .ttKa Ub& JkTUCM XUJtft M4U O'VMl IIU Well, this is the last straw, and no mis take. I'll make both of them suller.or my name's not Josiah." These and similar thoughts occupied the convalescent merchant fully till the arrival f the- train. That same morning Mrs. Blend and Charlie took their places in the train. Mrs. Blend had spent sleepless night, siid hn1 lian rirrrtinir nvar ml nvor &ain that she had not been permitted to see her husband in his last illness. She was dressed in deep mourning; her heart was very sad, and hec miud was lilled with "thoughts too deep for words." Uer cousin, the merry and talkative vuuio, uu a, ire Charlie, had tied i uanu upon ins arm, ami I 1 l 1 o&nu upon his arm, ami he too, was sympathetically silent. 'Hie two under taker's men and the colliu were also in the train. Charliethought, and right ly, too, th'at'however well adapted the West Coaar might be for supplying the necessaries of life, a coffin Of a suitable size and material was not a thing that could be obtained there on the shortest notice. That was his reason for taking one down with him, in order to bring the body up to town. The four persons formed a melan choly procession to the house of Mrs. Meikie. Barbara leaned heavily on Charlie's arm, while genuine tears of sorrow chased one another down her blanched cheeks; and the two men followed discreetly at a' dis tance, with the coffin . on their shoul ders. Mrs. Meikie opened the door, and grasped both of them by the hand warmly, observing that it "was a tine day;" but neither of them could recip rocate her greeting, aud therefore sadly and silently shook hands. Without an other word, Mrs. Meikie showed them up-stairs. and they summuned all the courage at their command to enter the gloomy chamber of death. Charlie quietly and gently pushed the door open and ushered in his cousin. She entered, and lifted her eyes to the bed; but it was vacant. Then she looked wildly about the room, and there was her worthy husband in the Ilesh and in life.stauding at the window in his dressing-gown, grimly looking down "on the cotlin which the two men had upon thbir shoulders at the gate below. With a fiercely augryglare ,he turned upon' his wife. Her' widow's weeds and the cotlin showed that there was Qonie monstrously strange thing afoot. He iur to the noor. The two men, huedleas of the fallen Barbara, stared at each' other for a mo ment; JoMJih, with mingled contempt and jealousy; Charlie, with open-mouthed wouder and astonishment.. Josiah' s busy bruin rapidly found a possible ex planation. "They inteiid," thought lie, "in my weak and nervous condition, to kill me by the sho -k of viuwiug my own colliu. and the preparations the have made for my funeral." But he felt strong and able to outwit them. "What is the meaning of all this?" exclaimed the iraU.Josiah to the thun derstruck Charlie.: "Who is the coffin for? Eh?" "It's all a mistake" began Char lie, in a conciliatory tone. "All a mistake." is it?" roared the infuriated old man. on whom contend ing passions and tumultuous thoughts were beginning to telL "All a mis take, is it?" reptated he, attempting to get within striking distance ot Charlie. "1 should rather think it wns a mistake 'that! am alive and and kicking.' .. ., ... - . , T:f Charlie dodged around the table, to escape the blow which the tierce Josiah 'aimed at him with his foot. "It is a mistake,' cried Charlie oncej more, across the .table. "The message " "Confound you and the message?" yelled the aged one, continuing the chase. "Nothing would please you better than to see me in my grave (Jet out of the room, vou confounded whelp!" Charlie got cool, as Josiah's fury in creased. He was struck with the ridic ulousness of running and dodging each other round the table;' and then, when he thought of the colli u at the door, he un- me a moment." gasped Challie with tears of laughter coursing down his cheeks "one moment, Mr. Blend, and I'll explain. It's really very ludicrous! That -coffin down below makes me-" "You would bury me alive wonld yon, I yon laugh in my face, you vile scamp!" roared Josiah, picking up a carpet foot stool and hurling it at Charlie's head, while the latter docked, as the swirling footstool with projectile force swept the dressing-table clear of its orna ments. "Out of my sight!" screamed Josiah, now fairly demented. The young man still hesitated, hop iagto exlaia;-bat Josiah seized the poker.aad would have used it as a pro jectile,' hail 'not Charlie, still convulsed, i fled precipitately down stairs and out at the front door. When he got there, he requested the two men to carry the colliu back to the station; and after ward adjourned with them to tho only j hotel m the 'place? td'exWin and lanerh immoderately at this niost aniusing mis understanding. Meanwhile, .losjah helped Mrs. Meik ie to put bis unconscious wife to bed.. Thereafter, he hurriedly pn-iyl his apparel, 'threw on his overooat, aud rushed off down-stairs. , "Where are y going?" inquired Mrs. Meikie, who hod seut for a doc tor. . (Joing? I'm going to ray lawyer m Glasgow to get a divorce. Til net stand tricks Uke these," cried Josiah. as he angrily flung himself out and vio lently slammed the door behind him. 1 At'the station he got a Herald, whsw he read: "On the 21st instant, sudden ly, at l . in the sixtieth year of his age, Mr. Josiah tilend, much regret ted." "Much regretted! m'nm," muttered the md man sneeringly. "A month or. two would have seen the two cousins married. O. I see it all. I see it all!" When he arrived in town, as he was crossing the streets on his way home, he met his old friend Mr.. Maxton. "Dear mej is' that you. Josiah? " You are advertised as dead in to-day's pa pers." "Get out of my way, you old fool !" replied the reckless one, his temper in no degree improved by his journey up to town. So saying, ho tore along the street, leaving Mr. Maxton gazing after him in speechless amazement. When he arrived at his house the servant who opened the door nearly iumued out of her skin with fright ; Jbut Josmh pushed past her, and marched into the parlor, where a lew mate ana female frieuds were assembled, pre sumably for the purpose of condoling with the widow upon her expected ro turn to Glasgow. They received Jo siah at rirst iu silent astonishment ; but immediately afterward with a hearty cheer, whiuh was the first thing to make him think' an error had been made, aud that there was no inten tion to kill him with fear. The shak ing of 'hands and the subsequent ex planations tended to oool down his wrath ; and a tho fever of excitement left him. .he began to feel his weakness and physic prostration returning, and ultimately was compelled to accept the situation with the best grace possible under the circumstances. When the telegram was shown to him he went to the postmaster to de mand an explanation, an apology, nnd composition-for loss and damage. "Look here ! ' said he. "I was bad with a bilious attack, and got my land lady to send this telegram : 'Your bus band is bad comedown at once1.' One of your ojierators made it dead, and thereby caused a mosti frightful misun- derstanumg. 1 inins you wui auuim , said Josiah. with studied severity .of tone, "there is a very great differencp between being bad 'and being dead ?' "Yes ; there is a' great diferencB certainly," replied the Postmaster. pleasantly ; "and I'm glad the mis take is not the other way ; for if you had been dead instead of bad. I would not have been favored with this visit." Josiah had not looked at the 'error in that light ; but not wanting to ac knowledge the Postmaster's nrbanitv too readily, he replied: "That's nil very well ; but it does not explain one of the most stupid blunders I ever heard of. The clerk should be horsewhipped!" "I am exceedingly sorry the mistake has been made ; but if you will bear with net moment I'll explain.'. The difference between 'bad' and 'dead' is altogether'in what is technically called spacing. According to the dot ' and dash system of telegraphy,1 continued the Postmaster, who took pencils and paper to illustrate it, "the word 'bad' 11 thus written and spaced : b ... a d the word '.dead :' d .. e. n. d being exactly the same number of beats or dots and dashes; and when tele graphed thus : ... , . bad, and " " QOftUt yon will observe there is, after all, bnly the difference of a dot, I am glad, however, that the dot has turned out to be in your favor." "I am very much obliged to you." said Josiah. "for your lucid exptana tion. I pray you, however, to call fb clerk's attention to the matter. Ha known it might have been an uno soious error, instead of a grossly , car, less one, I would not have troubled you. Good afternoon !" With this "explanation, Josiah wa Eacitied and pleased. He restored Mrs lend, on her 'return from' the West Coast, to her former- position as queet of his heart ; but: though he regrets his hasty violence, he has not yet quite conquered his aversion to Charlie Rob inson. Cmiiiber. Journal. Sheriffs aad EnTUrs. The sheriffs have just got- through' holding a convention in Austin, and bavo dispersed to their respective bail iwicks. There are several points of re semblanee between the she'rids and ed itors, one of which is, when Jhey do their full duty they are apt to become very unpop'ular. When the sheriff puts .a bad man in jail, and the editor puts him in his paper, it is hard, to say at which of the two the aggrieved party has' the, biggest spite. Sheriffs do a great deal of work without any compensation exoept abuse, and so do editors. It is the duty of the sheriff to make himself disagreeable to all class es of citizens, even to those' of high social standing. The journalist takes them off iu his paper in his own .hap py stvle, but the sheriff takes them off to iiuntsville. where the penitentiary is. While sheriffs help a great many people to get iu. they also help them to get out their purses, and pay up their taxes. There is a very strong feeling of friendship between the editor and the sheriff. The sheriff is' more apt than any other man to have nn attachment for the press, but also tor ttis type and other material. If the editor is worth anything, and can be levied on, the sheriff is apto have an attachment for him. too.. But what is the use of a sheriff having an attachment for an ed itor, when it is a well known fact that It is very" hard to sell an editor? Yes, there is undoubtedly a bond between the sheriff and the ordinary editor, but unfortunately it is a replevin bond, for double the amount of the property lev ied on. A sheriff makes a most son cessful editor. We once had nn illus tration of this fact. We were connect ed with a journal in a neighboring city. It was a very good paper, but for some reason or other, it never made any money, although it made a great deal of fuss, and bad considerable local in fluence, which may be inferred from the fact that it owed almost everybody in the town. It reminded one very much of the condition of affairs in Tur-" key. There was a change of adminis tration every few months on .account of financial complications. Whenever three men met in the town at least four or five of them had' claims against the paper. Finally, the sheriff, having an attachment for it. took charge, of it, and. although he bad no editorial .ex perience whatever, ia half an hoar he realized more money from it, by sale at auction, than, the proprietors, had in ten years, so it will be conceded that when it comes to.rcalixing money out of n newspaper, the- sheriff is really one of us. Ttxa Silings. Liverpool has a .ship stationed in her n'arborw nose mission 'it Is to re form the young vagabonds" that grow up in that city,- Manchester aad 'other Northern, wis. During'thu past year two men wuo wreTefonned and edn eHtedWoonrd thlsrel were'ap point ed to command barge merchant ships, and se on were Bands chief officers. FACTS AND FIGURES. There are in Louisiana, out of a population of 919,91$, illiterates to the number of 818.380. Of these 259.419 are colored persons. A". 0. Picayuuex There was more oleomargerine than butter exported from the United Sties in 18-51, the ii'irurcs. standing at 26,000'. 000 to 21", 000, 000 of pounds' respectively. Two Californians" in partnership -have on their various ranches 95,000 bead of cattle and 110,000 head of sheep. To take care of these flocks 500 m$n are now employed. ' ' " Returns from India state that thet number of pVSons,kul.e,,? .there by wjm be-ists and' snakes has increased from" 19.278 in 1876 to 21,900 in 1880. jln Bengal alone, during the latter year.-359 persons were killed Dy tigers. The highest price ever paid forj a piece of land in New York, is supposed to have been the 9168,000 which J. B. Glover has just paid for a lot 30 by 16, with building thereon, at the southwest corner of Wall and Broad streets. Up to 1876, when the figures were brought into shape, it was found that the Erie Canal had paid the whole cost of construction, working expenses and repairs, beside puttng $63,338,348 into the trousers pocket of the State of New York. K Y.HcraUl. The returns of the census taken in Italy at the close of 1S81 show the pop ulation of the Kingdom to be 28,452,000, an increase during the decade of 1,650, 846. The number of 'Italians living in other countries is estimated at 800,000. The only city in the Kingdom whose population has decreased during the last ten years is Florence. A recent German work gives the following return of the population of the world, counting by millions: Europe, 315,O00.T)O0; Asia. 834,000.000; Africa, '205,000.000; America, 95,000.000; Aus tralia and Polynesia. 5.000.000, Polar regions, under 1,000.000. Tptal. 1.445, 000.000 being an iuciense of over 16, 000,000 upon the last census. The tirst conveyance of real estate in New York by John Jacob ;Astor is dated August 14. 1789, beiugjtwo lots n the Bowery Lane, for' -J.,0. The next was for a lot in Little Dock street .(now Water'street), for 850. Aaron Burr, from th'e time he moved to this city, in 1783, until his ruin, twenty'-four years later, purchased twenty-four lots of real estate, -and made eighty sales. N. Y. Graphic Profuse spitting is injurious in sev eral 'ways. The saliva is poured into the month" to do a specilic work, and then passes into the stomach to be ab sorbed:. ' If the saliva is constantly eiected from the mouth, the system is drained of vrhatlfwas not intended to lose. And'thfe'mouih'in'lhatcase. be comes, an .organ .of excretion,, thus r&-. licving the kidneys in part of their oilice. A. Y. Tribune. The costliness of the almost useless office of Lieutenant-Governor continues, to attract attention. In Ontario the Governor receives 810,000 out of the federal purse; it costs the province an additional $12,000 to $15,000 a year for his assistants aud keeping Government House in order: the original cost of Government House was $100,000, and since that large sums have been laid out upon it And then there is the block of land where Governm -nt House is erect ed, worth anywhere from $200,000 to $400,000. "Toronto World. WIT aso "wisdom. When 'a 'clergyman p'nti'the subject for a sermon in his hat, does it become a text tile fabric? The idle man travels so. slowly that even poverty easily overtakes hinvat the first turn of the road. We impatiently whip a horse foi shying at a shadow, and yet we are constantantly doing the same thing our selves. The' following " notis" is posted np in an East Texas saw-mill: " Doant Munky with the buz saw when in mo shun." Philadelphia Bulletin. "Is this angel's food?" asked a young lady at a party of a gentleman who brought her some delicate cake. " It is now," waTthe gallant response. A young lady fri a r Boston office is so particular about her personal appear ance that she always takes a peep in the mirror before answering a call at the telephone. Somerville Journal, t " I can't get up early," said apoor victim to 'his doctor. "Oh, ivesi yor. can," was the reply. "H you will only follow my advice. What is your? hour of rising?" "Nine o'clock. Well, ;et np half an hour later every day, and in the course of a month you will find yourself up at four in the morning." Determined beforehand, we gravely pro tend To seek the advice and the thougHts of a friend, u.. Should ho differ from us under any pre tense, r We blush for his want ef both Judgment Hnrt ttunsc. But should he fall fn with and natter our plan. Why, really., wo think him ascnsiblo man. "Sister told me to come in and talk to you 'till she found her hair," said a aix-j'earold girl to her big sister's beau. " Do you like to have me talk to you? Sister says yon sing like a screech-owl. What is a ;creecn-owl? Won't you sing for me? Sister says you don't know beans: I know beans a whole bag full. Sister says why, you amt. got be: mg, are your xm my, won 1. uisier mad thought xwrou rost. There is said to be only one auto graph of Velasquez, the, great Spanish painter, in private hands. Ex. This intelligence will be apt to cause a gen eral wave of gloom and depression to pass over, this country. Thousands of Americansvhave been buoyed up with the happy 'and cheering belief that hun dreds of 'old Velasquez" s autographs were in private hands. This promises to be a year of disappointments. Bur lington Emobtye ;. -x West Antrim, known here as. a little-hatchet' man,' who could but wouldn't tell a lie, says ho wa? present in Sacra mento Valley in 1860 when a hunter killed 176 geese with two shots. He also killed a horse for which he would not' have taken $1,000. The man re joiced over his success in killing geese, but felt so badly over the loss of his horse that one side of his face waa laughing while the other was crying. Winnemucca Silver State. ' k iHfii" A Notable Suicide. Tuesday afternoon, William Allen, n farmer living at Niagara Falls, Ont, en tered the bridge from the Canada side, and shortly afterward a team followed. The driver of the team, who knew Al len, says he tirst saw him some distance m advance, near the center of the bridge. The driter turned to'tjdJrth-inVpa.s-sengers, and;when, he looked again the pedestrian was not to be seen. When the nffon reached the center of the bridflpthe driver saw an overcoat on the noor. At the American side the driver asked the gate-keeper if Allen had passed out. lie had not been seen there, at the railwav gate above or by either of the Canadian gatemen. The coat was identified as belonging to the missing man. and the only conclusion was that he had leaped from the bridge. The gateman on the Canada side says that Allen appeared to be intoxicated, and he is known to have been drinking heavily of late. He was nearly twenty four years of age, and had held good situationsjswhich be hadUstJ-Jhrough Winlcrolhlng'ha'd'becn seen of the body at dark. If it'Is not visible in or near the whirlpool in two or three days h will probably never be recovered. This is the second 'Suicide from the bridge, the first having been that of a man named Pierce, who took the fatal leap ia 1876. His body was ne-r n- Jfqfuf Mtjrtu. Eemlnlscenc.N of a California Mining I'anin. I. suppose !h:it :i.i v kin's liar, on the Touiutuue I!sv,v must uoi be over g"own witn bru-h ami chapparral. When I first "struck it." in 1858 it was . on its last lc :s. .M.II it bo-ivd a store and a . dozen Iwu-es. Gulden hopes were still audi u'cd in the bed of the river. Expensive river claims, wore then being worked iroiu Red Mountain down to r'rench Bar. But a premature rain and consequent freshet swept the riverthut season iroin end to end with the besom of destruction, and sent fa? the winter the miners back to their two dollars per dav bank diggings. And from that time henceforward the Bar SteaduVdeclined. The store was kept ' open' for two seasons after the loss of M proprietor. He was a new man. A hen ne came to the Bar the "boys" held a consultation on a big drift log. They concluded they could go through him in one season, providiug he gave credit. But he was a -discriminating man as. .regarded giving credit So it required two seasons to get through hinu Then he moved away forever, and with tears in his eyes at his losses. The Har liugered ou for several years. Steadily it lessened iu houses aud poj nlation. The store was torn down and the lumber carted away. In 1864 I made a pilgrimage thither and fouud remaining one house and one man. That man was Smith, Alex. Smith, n 4'Jer, a Baltimorcau and a soldier dur ing the Mexican war. Smith's house was high up on the hillside and Bis backyard brought up against the caiiiu graveyard. A score of Smith's old companions there lay buried. And here this man lived alone with the dead and tne memories or the last eighteen years. I said to him: "Smith, how do you stand it here? Do you not get locu so'me?" Well, yes; once in a while I do," re plied Smith, "but when I feel that wa,v I go up.the hill aud bring down a log for firewood." Smith' was a philosopher, and knew that the best remedy for melancholy is physical exert. on. Smith was oue of the first settlers at Hawkins' liar; Smith could remember when it -contained a voting population of nearly eight hundred souls ; Smith kuew everv point ou the river which had yielded richly ; Smith could show you Gawley's Point, where Gawley pitched his tent in '49 and buried under it his pickle jars full of gold dust. The tradition of Hawkins was that Gawley used to keep a barrel of whisky on free tap in his tent. And that in' the fall of 1850 .Gawley, warned by the expe rience of the previous niiuv season, determined to lay in a winter's stock of rprovisious. But Gawley's ideas as to the proper quantities of food were vague. He hail never before been a purveyor or provider on a larger scale than that of buying a week's "grub"' at the Bar store. He went to the trader and told him what he wanted. "Make out our order." said the mer chant. Gawlev jpive it to him verb- ally. "I guess," said he. "I'll have a sack of Hour, ten pounds of bacon, ten pounds of sugar.ilive of colTee, three of tea, a peck of beans, a bag of salt, aud and a barrel of whisky !" In 1870 I made another pilgrimaie to Hawkins :ir. Minth was gone. Nobody lived there. The fence of the camp grave yard was broken down. The wooden head-boards were lyuig proue to the earth. Some were split in two, and most of the inscriptions wore being rapidly erased through the uctiou of the sun and rain. But one house was standing. It was the cabin wherein had lived one Morgan DavU. the former custodian ot the Htwkius' Bar library. For as early as 1S54 or '55 the Haw kin' Bar boys" had clubbed their funds, sent down to San Francisco and there purchased a very respectable li brary. It was a good solid library, too, based on a full set of American Ency clopedias and Humboldt and L ell, aud from such and the like dispensers of heavy aud nutritious mental food, rising in to the lighter desserts of poetry and novels. As" late as 1858 the "boys" were in the habit of resplenishiug their library with the latest published scien tific works, novels aud magazines. But in "70, on my last visit, the li brary was gone. .Morgan was dead. His cabin door had fallen lioin its hinges ; a young oak tree had sprung up and blocked the entrance. The flooring had been torn up. The win dow sashes hail been taken out. A dinner-pot aud broken stove were all that remained of Morgan's cooking utensils. Some of the rooting had dis appeared. It was a ghostly place. The trails leading to .and from the Bar were fading out. Here, they were over grown with brush. There, the river in some higher rise had swept away the lower bank aud left naught but a con fusion of rough rock over which was no semblance of a track. It w:is at Haw kins that I had tirst "buckled to the mines." My first "buckling," how ever, was in the capacity of a meat peddler. I became the agent of a tiriK of butchers, up ou the mountain for dis tributing their tough steaks to the Hawkins Bur miners. Through the instrumentality of a horse, over whose back was slung a couple of huge pan niers, I continued the agency for a week. Then one" morning tho horse kicked up his heels aud' ran away. As he, ran, at every kick a raw aud bloody steak would lly out of the boxes, flash in the brilliant morning sunshine, iwid theu fall iu the tine red dust of the mountain trail. I followed hard after, gathering up these steaks as they fell, 'and when the burden became loo heavy I piled them up by the roadside iu little 'heaps of dusty, very dusty meat. At last, dusty, perspiring and distressed beyond measure, I managed to catch that villainous horse, lor he, after having ejected nearly the whole load of meat, concluded to stop and be caught. 1 loaded the panniers again witB the dusty carniverous deposits, ted the horse down the steep trail to the river, then muddy and of a rich cofl'eecolor from the up country min ing sediment. Herein I washed my steaks, rinsed them as well as I could of dust, and, as was then the custom, huug up piece a'f tcrniece in the gauze, curtained meat-safes at the miners' cabins. I think Hawkins got its share of grit that day in its beef. Shortly afterward 1 went out of the beefsteak distributing bureau. Prentice Milford, in San Francisco Chronicle. - In Pompeii, recently, a very beau tiful fountain was found among the ruins. It is said to surpass in beauty any of the fountains hitherto dug q there. Venus is represented as rising on a shell, with Cupid in her arms. Other spirits of love are seen here anil there in the waves, while in the back ground appears a nereid, or water nymph.-near a dolphin, with her arm thrown around the neck of a (Jupiu. In the foreground, on the shore, are two draped women looking at the raer rv group in the water. The Providence (K. I.) Star, in an noun;iug that Henry T. Beckwith is the donor of the new park to that city, says: "Mr. Beckwith w;is for teu suc cessive years the Secretary of the Kbode Islaud Historical Society aud Chairman of tho Audit Committee. No man living has done more for the honor and usefulness of that institu tion. Mr. Beckwith has chosen to be the benefactor of his city durhu his lifetime, and "by so doing has added another to the many services he has rendered to its institutions of learning and religion." i A south Florida lake is said to con tain enough alligators to build a fence around it four feet high. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. A dead branch on a tree makes al most as gre t a strain on the main plant for moist uro as a liviug one. A dead branch, any weak one. should therefore be at once cut away. Many experienced housekeepers. in order to prevent the formation'of a crust in the tea-kettle, keep an oyster shell in it. The shell attracts all the stony particles to itself. j Do not water your plants a little at a time too frequently. A thorough wetting les-? frequently is better. Con- I tinual wetness kills the plants. A little nw oaum jmii. uu me eariu wiu rem edy the. trouble sometimes when it has already been brought about. The London Live-Stock Journal gives two methods of starting a balkv horse : 1. Tire your steed out by re maining perfectly quiet until he starts of his own accord. 2. When a horse refuses to draw at all. put him in a cait in a shed and keep him there until he walks oifk In one instance the ob stinate one was thirty-six hours in the shafts before he gave in. A tablespoouful of black pepper will prevent gray or bud" linens from spotting, if stirred into the first water in whioli they arc washed. It will al3o prevent the colors running in w:ishing black or colored cambrics or muslins, and the water is not injured by it, but just as soft as before the popper was put in. Western JourniU. "Oue cow's milk" may be worse than the mixed article, as proven by a case iu-which a baby fed on the milk of one cow, sickened aud died of tubercu lar disease, the cow itself dying two months later of tuberculosis. Had the milk of that cow been mixed with milk obtained from a do.en others, the child would not have received daily such large doses of the diseased milk, and might have lived. Probably condensed milk is as safe a food as can be used when there is any doubt as to the qual ity of the ordinary milk served to a family. Health and Culture. Rice pudding: Take eight nice apples (sour ones are the best), peel, core and cut them in half; place them in a shallow stew-pan, with four ounces of lump sugar, a few cloves, a little cinnamon, a small piece of lemon peel, aud a half-pint of water. Put the stew pan on the bark of the stove, so that they ma' boil gently. When they have become quite soft, remove them, and let the syrup boil away, reducing it-to a couple of tablcspoonfuls, then strain it over the apples. Having well-washed a half-pound ot rice, put it with a quart of water, into a stew-pan; let it remain on the tire until it boils, then dram ou the water and add to the rice one pint of milk, four ounces of white sugar, and the thin rind of a lemon. Put this back 011 the stove, and when the rice is thor oughly cooked, remove the lemon rind and work into it the yolks of three egs. Put it all iu a baking dish, in which it must be served. Place the apples on the top. aud cover the whole "thoroughly with the whites of eggs, beaten to a stin froth, with one or two tablcspoonfuls of white sugar. Sprinkle sugar over it, and bake for half au hour in a cool oven. Warm Burns. Farmers wh se experience in the care aud feeding of stock extends over a period of forty years or more, cannot fail to see that "the old theory of open barns was a misconception, founded iu ignorance and nourished by hereditary example. It was thought years atro that barn single boarded ou the walls, with cracks half to one inch between the boards, was indispensable to ttie well-preserving of their hay mows and the health of their domestic animals. Many of the bams were not under pinned at all. 'Ihe only bearings or supports below the sills were at the four corners . aud at the foot of each post. All the remaining space, except on the north side of the barn, was quite frequently left open for sheep, hogs, or small cattle to huddle under, if the barn happened to be high enough from the ground to admit of this. The doors and windows were oftentimes only an apology, as would be fully demon strated on ;oing into one of those barns after a" snow-storm and blow, for you could hardly tell where the hoary meteor of the storm fell thickest, in doors 01 out. But a new and better theory in re gard to barns among the progressive farmers of to-day is being adopted, formed on scientific and practical knowledge. They no longer believe that open barns will keep hay any bet ter, or cattle and other domestic ani mals in so comforting and promising a coudition as tight aud warm ones of to day's model. It is truly surprising to observe the difference in the cost of keeping, through these cold winters in New England States, of cattle and other domestic animals in warm and comfortable quarters, in comparison with those managed or housed in the old-fashioned wa' open barns and watering places 'perhaps fifty rods dis tant. Then, again, there has been, or is begiuuiug to be, a new and better theory in regard to turning stock out iu the morning on a winter da) and letting them remaiu out all day in the yard, blow high or blow low, sunshine or snow, as was generally the custom years ago. The thinking and pro gressive farmer of to-day believes it is cheaper lor him, aud better and more humane for the stock to be in doors, if not at work, both by day as well as by uight, than out in the yard curled up like a frozen mackerel. There is not only a saving in the cost of keep ing stock well housed, with good pure water in the yard or barn : but the stock looks better, both as regards the bright luster of the hair, aud the great er amount of adipose tissue ou the ribs. All these qualifications seem commend able, and worth striving for, to tho earnest and pro-perous farmer. And as he goes to the barn in the morning, and one animal after another rises to greet him, with a good stretch, in dicative of daily growth and thrift!- ness, he cannot but rejoice in his heart that his barn was constructed both with reference to convenience to him self and comfort to his'auimals. For a merciful man will -be merciful to. his beasts. Maine Fanner. Normal Clothing. In the practical working out of his views on health which seem to gain in favor with German physiologists Prof. Jaeger, of Stuttgart, commends the so-called normal clothing, which, as he explains it, consists exclusively of wool, and especially "fulfills the pur pose of keeping warm the middle line on the front of the body. The general object is to prevent the accumulation of fat and water iu the system, the Pro fessor's leading principle being that th greater the specilic gravity cf the hu man body, the more it is able to resist epidemic diseases. To the well-known properties of wool, as regards moisture ami heat, Prof. Jaeger makes a curious addition. He claims to prove that in our organization there are certain gaseous volatile substances, odorous which are continually being liberated in the acts of breathing and perspiring, ami have important relations to mental states. Two distinct groups appear namely those of pleasure and dislike ; the former substances are exhaled during a joyful and pleasant state of mind, and produce thir state with heightened vitality if inhaled. Of the latter the reverse is true. Now. Prof. Jaeger contends that sheep's wool at tracts the "substances of pleasure," while clothing made of plant fiber fa vors the accumulation of the offensive substances of dislikfl. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUE Vl Q9a IT (Tltl-!- SPAVIN'- -PLINIS. Ml St. JtOXFS UUB-" AM ALLS1.MIL i:il!.K. ISHKS AND 1:. MOVE.-'1 UK l'l'Nll, W1THOLT BLISS fr-i 1NG. eg?ftSvs KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE I It has uireil iitou-tamls of case.- and i- ilvatiiu-d to cure million-' and million-, more KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! I the only . o-itlxe tt t. .town, and to show wli.it tliN remedy will do we srive here ai .. ai. pi, . f ease cured bv it, a xtateiiu-ni which VMS GIVSN UNDER OATH. . Wit m if.l.' Concern, -in the i-ir i.s, , I tre-ted with Kendal! Sp..in ('tire.' a bone spivin of eeral i.iUj growth, nearly half :i large a :i it. egg. and completely -topped thu ...m iies.s and removed the eni irgeineut. 1 h.ive worked the horse ever-inoe. very h-id, and he never ha- been lame, nor could 1 ever -ee :ui ditfereiiee in the iize of the hock joint.- since I treated him with "Kendall.- Spat in Cure." K. A. W.NKS. Eno-l.urgh -'dN. Vt.. Feb. -il. 7S. Sworn and Mih-rrilied to before me thi- Kith d:i of Feb.. .. 1. tS7!. .Iuhn (J. .Ikn'nk, lii-ticr of l'eaeo KENDALL'S SPAYIN CURE; ON HUMAN FLESH it has been ascertained bif repeated tn ds to be, the eery best liniment ever usedor ami deep sealed pain of torn: saudimi or oj' short duration Aho for C'U'h'N. IllWWYS. FiiUSl' JSTES or any bruise, cut or lameness Some ore afraid to use it on hit -nan flesh simply because it is a horse medicine, bat you should remember (hat irhnl is good J or 11 EAST is quod for MAX. and ire knoir f'rom Experience th at "KENDALL'S i)'A VIX Vl'llFT can be used 'on a c tild I year old with perfect safety Its Effects ore irriderful on human flesh ami it does not blister or make a sore. Tru it and be conduced. KENDALL'S SPATIN CURE; Read below of Its wonderful ellects as a liniiix-nt for the bu kin fhiui y. 1 1 KM ATI IK. .MI.-.-OUKI. All.-ls I'll, lv-:. 1. !. Kknuai.i. & Co.. Uksts: 1 am -o oterj d in tiew vl the re-ult ol' an ap plication of tour Kendair-Spat 111 Cnr Ihit I 'feel that I ought for Hiimaiiitir- sake publish St to the world. About thiitt-tit e t ear- ago wlub- riding a tung ugly hor.-e, I wa- injured in one ol mv te-t"ieb , and from that tim to three week ago a -low but constant ciil.ugeineiit Uas been tin rr-ult. giving mr a great amount of trouble, almost entirely preteiiting me Iroiu hor-rh.u-k ridiiii. wh'rii wa- my Usual way of t rat cling. I saw a notice of tour Keml 1 l- p-itin '11 re. in-trr once thought of it foranything except for lior-."-, but alter receiving lie medicine and reading over what it wa- good for, feeling terriblt e.verci-ed ibout mt iltilicult t . for I hail coi'.-ulted many phy.-iciaiis and Hour gave me anv speeiWc but ttlo-n it could lie endured no longer to remote it t it li the kniti . I appSii d tour Kendall Sp i ni Cure, as au experiment, and it was si p-iiiiful iu ii application that I concluded not to repeat it and thought no more ab ut it until near a week, .nul to and be'-old one-hair the sizu wa.s gone, with joy I could -circelt h iieve it I immediately ap plied it over again, and have made iu all about ' docii ipplictions running over a .-pace of two weeks and the terrible eal-irgement i- almost goe. iu v lew ..f w hich I cannot rsxpies- my feeling- of delight. It ha- been a tiod -end to me. mat he send to other- with like tr nibl.--. .Unix Uiuk. Pa-tor of Hematite Congregational Church. 1. S. Vou are at libertv to put tins in any shape ton m-iy please. 1 am not ashamed to have my name under. over or by the side of it. KENDALL'S SPAYIN CITRE! Kendall's Spavin Cure, is urr in its (.Herts, mild 111 it- action a- it lii not bli-ter, yet it is peiietratiug -Hid pot erlu! lorncli any de p - ! p n .! re move any bony growth or any oilier nlarg nn nt :l it-i it lor -cv.-i.ii dis, ,ii, -is spavins, splints, callous. pi.. in-, -tvellin . aot lano-io--- ..nd !!. cun-.i-s ,.f the joints or limbs, or rheuma.i-iii in mail aiol ior ant purpose lor win. is i-... ni I- used for man or beast. It is now known to be the best liniment for man . n i.-.-.l .ictjng inild,yet curtain in its etfects. It is used 111 lull strength w ith purlect safi ty it all season's of the year. Send address for Illustrated Circular, which tve think gives positive prool. of it virtuus. Xo reiuody lias met with such unii till: d -u.-e s pi our knowledge, tor beastas well as man. Price ?t pt r bottle, or sik bottles tor $". ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can jjet it for you. or it will be seut to anv address on receipt ol pi let. ht the ptoprietoi.s, 4S Dr." li. .1. 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