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Kmife HmCes, That in importance for the m&trfng of good cutlery is, of course, the steelfor the blade. Nest comes the "material that forms the handle, which it is Che principal purpose of this dispatch to consider. The substances thus used are various and the whole world 1s laid un der contribution; to supply them. They consist of ivory, pearl and tortoise shell. stag, buck, buffalo and all other kinds of horn, bone, foreign woods and various patent substances known by the names xylonite, parksite,' ebonite, etc. The cutting of these various materials Into sizes and shapes suitable for use by the cutler is a very large business by itself, and with the purchase of the material re quires a large outlay of capital. For instance, one denier in Sheffield tells me that his firm had on their premises at one time ivory to the value of $400,000. No such stocks are kept, at the present time. The business of furnishing the material for handles is known by the general term of scale-cutttng, the word scales being U3ed to denote the pieces, of whatever material, that go from the handle in all kinds of pocket-knives and in the cheaper grades of table cutlery. The business embraces also the catting of solid handles from ivory, pearl, shell and other material for the best kinds of table cutlery. Some cutlers purchase the material and cut their own scales, but it is usual to purchase of those who make this a separate business. Of all materials-ivory holds the first rank. The sources of supply of this increasingly valuable material are Egypt, the East, Vest aud South coasts of Africa, and the Jitish East Indies. The following table will show -the quantities imported into Great Britain during the year 1880, and from what countries: Cwts. Holland i France 112 Effrpt 2.003 Portuguese possessions. West Africa.... 361 West coast or Africa, not designated.... 2,310 Butcoast of Africa, native states 1,099 British possessions, West Africa 163 British possessions. South Africa 1,114 British East Indies ...: . 2.9TC VUIS w la VaQCXl . , OiW Uer countries - . 1,C7 11.435 Malta is the port of shipment to En gland of ivory that finds its way to Tri poli and other points on the north coast of Africa. To Holland ivory is brought from her possessions on the coast of Africa. France receives but little, except irhat has been purchased in England, portions of which are sometimes re turned. The Bombay, Siam and Zanzi bar ivory is bought for the making of piano keys, carvings and other expen sive articles of luxury. All ivory from the east coast of Africa, except the cape, comes through Zanzibar, and pays .a roy alty to the Sultan. It is known to the trade by a mark, a rude figure of an ele phant; that is put upon it after the pay ment of the royalty. It is said that this mark is sometimes erased from tusks that are to be sent to the United States from the sales in England. Is it to pre sent identification when this ivory ar rives in our country, and thus to evade the duty chargeable upou "goods "the S reduce of countries of the Cape of Gqcfti ope, when imported from" places west of the Cape of Good Hope ?' ' Mammoth tusks from Siberia occasionally come to this market, but as they have been lyiug exposed for centuries, probably for many thousands of years, often buried in ice, the "nature has gone out of them, and they are not suitable for the cutler1 use. The teeth of the walrus and the hippo potamus are used in considerable quan tity. Being- of -suitable size they are used whole for making expensive carved handles. Ivory of the best quality, comes from the west coast of Africa, under the names Cameroon, Angola and Gaboon. This is brought down from the interior. It retains a larger proportion of the "fat, or gelatine, from the fact, proba bly, that it is more recently from the animal. In this state it is called 'green' ' ivory. It is more translucent, and not as white as the Egyptian and other kinds called "white" ivory, that have been lying a longer time and in a more sandy region, exposed to the heat of the sun, until the animal matter has disappeared. The excellence of the "green" ivory consists in its greater toughness, and in its growing whiter by age instead of yel low, as is the case with the whiter varie ties. Yet buyers of cutlery, through ig norance of these qualities, usually prefer the whiter kinds, which on that account are more in demand for the Sheffield trade, and are said to have nearly doubled iu price since 1870. "When the ivory comes into the hands of the cutler, much skill is required to make the most of the precious material. Every scrap is turned to account. Af ter cutting out the scales of all sizes for the pocket-knives, and the solid handles for table cutlery, the small pieces may be sold to the button makers, or are made into "pearls." Pearls are small pieces of ivory, pearl, or horn inserted into the handles of tea and coffee' pots as non-conductors of heat, so called be cause originally made of pearL The tine sawdust is sold for fertilizing pur poses, for the making of galatiue, and a tine white sizing for the manufacturers of lace curtains aud other fabrics. The .efuse still remakiinggoesto the makers 1 of ivory-black. The proportion of this residuum, dust and refuse, is about ten to fifteen pounds to the hundredweight, and it. sells for eighty to one hundred dollars per ton. Efforts have been made to devise some method of solidifying ivory dust, and vet without success. Skill . required in the cutting of ivory, as of j wuuu, io ormg out ine beauty oi the grain. The saw of the cutter occasion ally reveals a nlleball that has been J lodged in the tusk and has been com pletely covered by subsequent growth. AAoct one-third of the length of the tusk, where it enters the head of the elephant, is hollow. This hollow, when the tusk is in place upon the live animal, is filled with a soft pulp or core, which supplies the growth of the tusk. A ball lodged in the core will in time be come imbedded in solid ivorv. This "Edllnw portion is cut off and sold sepa rately, except the thinnest portion, as bangle ivory, and is in great demand for bangles erjorbamental rings for the ankles and rrrnsf Indian and African women. That portion of the tusk to ward the point is usually more solid and :finer grain. This is cut off and sold by itself at high prices under the name of billiard-ball points. Small teeth from 4e to fifteen pounds' weight are called in thelrade scrlvelloes. The points of tfese small tusks are used in their natural state for making handles to ex pensive carvinjr sets and other artmloq fUVfJ' ' Jl'he.large proportion of very small tusks brought to market indicates Tkt Mirny Hill (9. T. Aristocracy. Murray Hill, as yon ' iov, named after one of the lucky one wno held on to his cabbage patch till t i spreading, growing town reached anc absorbed it, is not really a hill, only a .tile swell in the land. But it is the highest point on the island of Manhattan that is yet sub dued to streets and brown-stone fronts. And yet, low as it is, it is a height that hundreds of thousands of brave heart have been broken to reach and hold. How few, indeed, hold their place here for any length of time, eveij after years of toiling, stealing and struggling to reach it. When I first pitched tent in this town i one of the finest houses that crowned Mur ray Hill and fronted Fifth Avenue was held by the man who "struck oil." A good, kindly man he w,as,..oo; and his family of pjrtty children, born ami brought tip since the flow of oil on wmen ne noatea into power and prominence, I found .to be cul tured, refined and altogether love ly. But you seek for jtbeir family in rain on Murray Hill how. Some braver or more reckless soldier in this mighty commercial battle that w.igeshere cease lessly has stormed their pretty castle, carried it sword in hand, and tha great, S'oomy and sullen old brown stone front at knew my happy young .friends knows them no more. The man and all his family Have- gone down in the fight. In the roll call of fashion on Murray Hill he answers.not to his name. Killed? Wounded? Prisoner? No one knows. No one stops to inquire.' He is missing at jnuster-roll when fashion gathers her votaries for the gay season. That is all That is the end. ' . And so it goes all the time. . I know another man who invented a patent hinge. He bought a house on Murray Hill and gave gorgeous shows for full two months. One day a suit was decided annulling the patent. The next week his face was to be met with no more on Murray Hill. Another man, who in vented a patent screw, is established thefe, and seems to be more fortunate than his neighbor with the patent iron hinge. He says he has screwed himself on to stay. Of course the great railroad lights have set up their establishments here 1 force and numbers. As a rule their fam ilies are loud, vulgar and give big and brazen shows. Tney fire their cards of invitation profusely at every available man or woman whose name is conspicu ous, without the least regard 'for "the fitness of tilings, or the laws of etiquette, or" -rules of introduction. What they want is a Vjam," a crush, a crowd, rows and rows of carriages, with a sprinkling of noblemen among their list of names for the newspapers. Of course it makes but little difference whether the noble man be Italian, South American or En- flish. Really, ray railroad lady doesn't now the difference. Indeed, she has not time to inquire about details. Here is the rapid transit idea: express time is her husband's motto. "And after all why isn't a boughtcn title as good asanv title? Wasn't they all boughteu onst?r' But of all the new people intrenched on Murray Hili, perhaps the patent pill people are most perfectly secure. Pills are always at par. No frosts of winter 'can efftct the crop of pills. No foreign complications can disturb them for a moment. If a President or Prime Min ister is sick, no matter. Indeed, the morcsick people in the land the -more pills are in demand. I think .the pill people on Murray Hill, like the man with the patent screw, have come to stay. There are but five stately and aristocratic "houses" there now. Some of these lordly "houses" intermarry and co-mingle their ancient coat-of-arms. Others, like the mighty houses of the warlike Montagues and Capulets, hold deadly feuds, which are to be fought out to the bitter end in the patent law courts. Some of the grandest carriages that roll on Fifth Avenue have been made by their proprietors rolling pills. The pill business is a big business. It does not seem so in detail; but in the aggre gate it is immense. "Yes, hit's putty good poetry, if I does say it meself of what's me "own, for we "keeps our own poet," said the immortal Mrs. Day, of Day & Martin's blacking, as she dropped a' courtesy be fore her guests when she had finished reading some lines celebrating the shin ing virtues of Day & Martin. And I wonder why some of these fabulously ncn piu people uo not employ some 01 us poor rhymers to celebrate them in song. I send these lines as an example of what might he done: TO THE PRIKCCSS OF PILLS. My beauty, surrounded by half the pay beaux Of Gotham, good sir. Is the princess of pills. She la weighed down by diamonds as dews weight a rose. She is smothered in satins, In laces, and frills; She walks through the world with a heaven ward nose. And yet It's all pills, sir, nothing but plus. Silks and sat i us and laces and frULa, FineFronch masters and milliners' bills. Pills, sir! moving and marvelous pUU. She is wooed by a dozen brave Counts wh propose To swallow her pills, her diamonds, her nose. nuu uu m u Kuip wiuKiui sugar, ror, on 1 tittle AtteitiMf Bef-iiret bytkeHerse. Hit if right to call the horse a saga cious animal, then it is right, if we take no other than a purely selfish view of the case, to give him such kindly and necessary attentions as he will be thank ful for. The merest cur is thankful for attentions, hence why should not the horse be equally thoughtful and ready to serve the hand that gives him his oats in place of the one that erives him the lash. If a horse, naturally vicious, at tacks the groom, it is because he is first attacked, or 'otherwise thrown into a frenzied state from injury or fright It is entirely natural that a horse should know the djflerence.'and, if allowed, would choose the comfortable instead of the uncomfortable stable. The shelter given to horses in the winter is too often so out of repair that currents of cold str 5 ass under the floortir rfround the horse, 'his is a source' of no little discomfort to the animal While not at work, and may cause illness to the heated animal just is from his work. To throw a blanket over a horsels-back in such a case affords but slight protection, as the hah and skin of the lower portion of the body are thinner than on the upper; and it may be added to this, that chilling of the limbs, these being in no wise protected by a blanket; is an active source o( congestion to. the vital organs of a horse that has been hard pushed at his work. Especially is it tree that a horse so driven that the lungs are wrought up to ay excited state, is liable, if placed in cold stable, to contract pneumonia o bronchitis. That condition of tempera, ture which is known to aggravate lung disease when present, is also well calcu lated to cause a slight irritability in the delicate tissues of the lungs to grow into a formidable inflammatory attack. Hence, one of the little details which foes to make up prudent 'care of tht orsejust in from exciting or fatiguing work, is to place him where- he caa breathe the warmest air in the stable, ii there is any one place warmer than an other. Especially should he have hit head turned away from a cold current, the body and limbs being rubbed dry in the meantime, and the latter bandaged with flannel if the fatigue is great and there seems to be any constitutional dis. turbance. Independent-of the hazard from liability to lung trouble or rheuma tism, these attentions are required on the score of comfort merely. Inddition to these attentions, the horse should be walked about until the circulation and surface are in good state. "The horse is required to show-life and willingness to travel when out of the stalk hence there are certain attention! required iq the" feeding that hi3bodymaf be supple and his spirits lively. The horse fed freely on corn will not be in fit con dition for active driving! In populai language, corn is-said to be heating, and it has a tendency to produce indigestion. As the .horse with confined bowels is necessarily spiritless, the stable should be at all times provided with bran and oil caket that by judicious use of these the bowels may be kept in just? the right state not loose, for this is debilitating. If the horse is expected to go fast for. a short distance, to pull a heavy load, qi make a day's drive with comfort and safety to himself, no large amount oi hay should be given. The same rule oi keeping down the size of the abdomen always practiced with the speed-horse should be the rule for service of any kind, whether the animal be kept for light driving, or equally if he weigh a ton and works upon a four-ton truck. The giving of salt to the horse is one of those little attentions that takes but little time, and if only because he like: the? taste of salt, he should have it as a luxury. Confined as he is upon two 01 three kinds of food during the entire year, he should certainly be indulged in nis taste for salt, even though merelj for the pleasure enioved in the eating. but salt has its uses, and these are real, not imaginary. It stimulates the flow from the follicles, excites action in tin muscular coat of the stomach and bow els, and in this way tones up digestion. Horses that suffer from indigestion an 3uite likely to have worms, and salt is estructive to these. The young worm just forming in the bowels is readily de stroyed by salt, hence its regular moder ate use not only removes these from the bowels, but is antagonistic to theii further formation. 'The position occupied by the food be fore the horse, may be made one of dis comfort, through the use of the mangers and feed-boxes placed higher than the natural fofmatidn of the animal render comfortable. The natural position in feeding is with the head down. With the head elevated, mastication, as well as the act of swallowing, is made diffi cult. Some object to nigh feed-rack) because of the liability of dust and hay seed falling into the horses eyes. Whes the rack is so high as to cause this re suit, then, of course, this is an added objection. National Live Stock Journal. Faithful Licj. MISCELLANEOUS. She was a California Indian, probably of the Tularcs, and migrated to Oregon with her family thirty years ago, says "H. H.," in the Atlantic. She was then a young girl, and said to be the hand somest squaw ever seen in Oregon. In those days white men in wildernesses thought it small shame, if any, to take Indian women to live with them as ' wives, and Lucy was much sought and wooed. But she seems to have resisted all such approaches for a long time. Finally a man named Pomeroy ap peared, aud, as Lucy said afterward, as soon as she looked at him she knew he was her " tum-tuin man," and she must go with him. He had a small sloop, and Lucy became its mate. The two -alone ran it for several years up and down the river. He established a little trading post, and Lucy always took charge of that when he went to buy goods. When fold was discovered at Kinggold bar, .ucy went there, worked with a rocker like a man and washed out hundreds of dollars' worth of gold, all of which she gave to Pomeroy. With it he built a fine schooner and enlarged his business, the faithful Lucy working always at his aide, and bidding. At last, after eight or ten years, he grew weary of her and of the country and made up his mind to go to California. But he had not the heart to tejl Lucy he meant to leave her. The pilot who told me this story was at that time Captain of a schooner on the river. Pomeroy came to him one day and asked him to move Lucy and her effects down' to Columbus. He said he told her she must go and live with her relatives while he went to California and looked about, and then he would send for her. The poor creature, who had no idea of treachery, came on board cheerfully and willingly, and he set her off at Colum bus. This was in the early spring. Week after week, month after month, when ever his schooner stopped there, Lucy was on the shore asking if he had heard from Pdnieroy. For a long time, he said, he couldn't bear to tell her. At last he did; but she would not believe him. .Winter came 011. She had got a few boards together and built herself a sort of hut, near a hoil-ie where lived an ec- oentric old bachelor, who finally took oompassiou on her, and to save her from freezing, let her come into his shanty to Bleep. He was a mysterious old man, a reeluse with a morbid aversion to women. and at the outset it was a great struggle for him to let even an Indian woman cross his threshold. . But, little by little,, Lucy won her way; "first she washed the dishes, then she would timidly help at the cooking. Faithful, patient, unpre Burning, at last she grew to be really the old man's housekeeper as well as servant. He lost his health and became blind. Lucy took care of him till he died, and followed him to the grave, his only mourner, the only human being in the country with whom he had any tie. He lett tier nis little house and a few hun dred dollars all he had; and there she is still alone, making out to live by doing whatever work she can find in the neigh borhood. ' Everybody respects "her; sho is knowu as "Lucy" up and down the river. "I did my beat to hire her to come and keep house for my wifo last year," said the pilot. 'Td rather have her tor nurse or cook than any wnite woman in Oregon. But she wouldn't come. I don't know as she's done look ing for Pomeroy to come back yet, and she's going to stay just where he left her She never misses a time waving: to me Recently they had an "Eisteddfod' in Chickering Hall, New York, at which one man read an "Englynion" aud an other recited an "A will" and another the "Cwydd y Farm Fawr," and then the whole crowd stood up and sang "Hen wlad fv nhadhan." And then the roof of the h'all fell in. N. Y. Graphic' A Boston correspondent o'f the Provi- denco Press says: ."Mrs. Amory,-of Bos ton, w.hen dining in London with dis tinguished company, gathered in honor of her relative, Lord Lyndhurst, -was-asked if Mrs. Stowe, whose 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was the sensation of the day, was black, like the characters she de scribed!" The altitude of nearly all the arable valleys in Montana averages from live hundred to' onethousand feet less than the. most-fertile ones of Colorado and, Utah. And the highest mountain ranges in Montana six thousand feet have no greater elevation" than the plains have at Cheyenne, in Wyoming Territory. Chicago Times. ' Upton, President of the collapsed Rochester (N. T.) City Bank, does not know a "good thing wlieu he has it. He put a fortune in oil, and had an oppor tunity to unload at a good profit, but, in the vernacular of the worldly, "lie wanted the earth." There came an oleaginous decline and Upton slid down oniL Cficag r IIerali. . - A "pulling matcji" to see whether two mules could pull a bag of sand weighing 500 pounds attached to one end of a oOO-Toot roue, the' waer beiuu- fifty dollars u-side. came off at Prescolt, Arizona Territory, last veek. The mules walked away with the baggage as easily as if it had been loaded iu alight wagon. Considerable mouey is said to have changed hands. Unlike the duelists who have recent ly been attracting the attention of the whole country were two' chivalrous youngsters of Pcnsucola, Fla. One was thirteen years of age. the othe a fow 'years older, and both loved the same girl. They met, shot at each other and were carried from the field of honor, the one with.a bullet hole through his knee, the other with a similar hole through his cheek. One day recently Judge Greer, of Oglethorpe, Ga., heard a loud call from the street. "What do yeu wish?" askd the Judge of a young man who sat iu a DUSgX a pretty girl being by his side. "Please marry us.M said the youth. "Shall I?" inquired the official, looking at the girl. "Yes." she said, and the lovers. were married a3 thev sat in the buggy. After the couple "had riddeii away the girl's father drove hurriedlv up, to swear at empty air N. 0. Picayune. A Thrillitig Ineident or the Milwaukee Horror. when she knows what boat I'm on, and there isn't much don't know." going on the river she ) London Swindlers. One of the many dodges of the Eng lish sharper is tried on retired military or naval officers. The swindler sends a letter recalling some reminiscence of mutal ser vice in an army corps or on board a man-of-war a number of years ago. He men tions his vivid recollection of these hap py days, and hints that he has not been overfortunate in worldly aflairs. He has been security for a friend, who has failed to meet the bill, which he himself has had to pay. The last installment is near ly due, and he is still eight or ten pounds short, while the consequences will be se rious if the money is not forthcoming. Can he presume so far upon the memory of old times as to ask a small loan to tide him over the difficulty? This type of swindler possesses more than an averasre education, and his information regarding the antecedents of his dupe is curiously accurate. It is probably eathere d front. pay? 31 how many elephants die id early youth. To show to what size many of these might have, attained, .the wnll-knnwn They adore this fair girl, and her diamonds, so. 1 et only to think or ltl Every bright stono Must havo cost her a million of plus alone. Pills, pills. She laugh at life's Ills I A coachman's cockade, a poodle that kills! Pills, sir! active, industrious pills. Horses and houses, in blocks and in rows, She lives in a palace, she lifts her nose At every man less than a'miillan&ire. If he be not prince with a pompousIr. And how do you sav that she makes it 1 PH19. sir! active, industrious nills Plus that are-doing both night and day. x-iua uiui woric mat my iaay snail play. Pills, sir!" active. Industrious pills! Joaquin Miller, in Chicago Times. A California Surprise. A purchaser of land in California al ways stands a chance of finding it turn out to be gold bearing, or to possess stores of quicksilver, copper, or other hidden wealth. One of these surprises has befallen Dr. E. T. Burnette, of Oak land, who bought a hill near Los Gates, about sixty miles below San Francisco, for use as a pasture ground. It was necessary to dig, in order to deepen a well, and a large number of blocks that looked like ordinary stones were taken out and thrown on one side in heaps. Some of these stones, being afterward used to build a lire upon for cooking pur- Soses, were found to be highly combusti le, burning rapidly with a bluish flame. further examination . showed that they were simply solid blocks of sulphur, and that the whole hill is substantially ah immense mass of this mineral. With sulphur selliner at twenty dollars a ton- Mr. Burnette's purchase has turned out to oe a greater mas of treasure than many goldmines. Chicago Herald. DugenwB Faneral Appliances. - r --" - . - - ak cuticrs. uosepn KogeTs & Son, of &ncmeiu, exhibit at their show-rooms an African elephant's tusk nine feet long, twenty-one inches in girth, weigh ing 16Q pounds. This is amon the largest tusks on xecord. Its present Ttlue is $650. An animal lare and strong enough to carry such a pair. of incisors would .attract more attention than Jumbo United States Consul Webster's Report. The number of mysterious deaths .long the occupants of the Soldiers' Hose at Dayton, Ohio, has led to. an in vestigation and the investigation te the discovery that many of the old soldiers N murdered on their way from Dayton to the Home, for the money paid them as pensions. It is said that at least one case can be proven and that prosecution will be begun. Dayton roughs aresus paoied. ChUay 'Herald. ' Colonel Joseph M. Bennett, the owner of the Chestnut Street Opera House, in Philadelphia, has presented to Mrs. Simpson, wife of the Methodist Bishop, a gift deed of a farm of twenty five acres, adjacent to the Methodist Orphanage, itself a gift from Colonel Bennett to charity. This land is assesses at $2,000 an acre "and will soon be worth twice that sum. It will be sufficient for all time to come to serve the purpose and needs of the Methodist Episcopal Orphanage. The donor had disposeqaf the land in bis will to the Orphanage, but recently, he resolved .to see h is was donated in his lifetime' The French dialect spoken by the Creoles of Louisiana sprang np almost entirely by ear.. Illiterate, whites and Africans, according to the Journal of Philology, catching the voluble utter- -"V U1 uu" euucaiea people arouna mem umve altered, m tneir own wav. The possible agency of the undertake! ill disseminating infectious diseases is not sufficiently regarded by health authori ties. 'In many places public funerals arc prohibited in cases of infectious' disease, yet they are the rule rather than the ex ception the country over. When the funeral services are held io private houses, it is a common thing for the undertaker to provide chairs or camp stools for the multitude. These are car ried from house te house, and are liable o become carriers of infection- Some careful undertakers may take the trouble to disinfect such appliances in all cases of possible infection; but we doubt iti being done very generally. The ice-boxes, in which the dead are aid until the time of. burial comes, are still jnore liable to carry the germs ol aisease. me ice-Doxes are costly, are seldom renewed, and are scarcely more frequently disinfected. That they are a source of public peril is gradually be coming recognized by physicians and Boards of Health; and not a few have taken an interest in the devising ol means for their displacement. The most promising substitute is the injection of preserving fluids into the circulatory system. Quite a number of prominent undertakers in this city and Brooklyn are reported as having adopted the new plan. Demonstrations of the process of injecting .preservative luids have been made in the dead house of Bellevue Hos pital No mutilation of trie body is .re quired further than the opening o'f am artery for the injection of the 'fluid. There are several fluids which answer for the purpose, and the cost of embalm ing is said to be little if any greater .than mc cu&rge tor tne use 01 an ice oox. A careless embalmer may still be a carrier of infection, Cut it would seem to be easier to enforce precautionary meas ures in the case of a man than with the bulky and variously exposed ice-box, which may hold in succession the victims of every -sort of disease. Science American. , m In his annual message Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, -referriag to the long hours which street car employee are compeiiea to spena at tneir work, says: "Those employes are "naturaUy deprived of all domestic associations and opportunities for physical, moral r mental improvement. " It is not in the interest of the State to permit such de mands to be made upon any class of its .citizens. It is a compulsory labor and agajnst the .sentiment of. the law and the instincts of humanity, and should be emedied." tjt . . . . .. some 01a tar or uiscnargea soiuier, many Aftor Viola nt v-tvti Vtarl hun .. - -J - . . ...W. WU ..WW, I .... , OTW MVWU ...... WU me sense of the words, producing a lias I stolen from a colored man in Dublin, Middleburg, Pa., has the champion abenminded man. After milking his cow he gave the cow the pail cf milk!, iUowS.-BtiiXrjiML JL I y! Frenck. that resembles French as enrionslj as tte extreme negro dialect resembles English. Creole children sof wealthy j""'u piacou m cnacge 01 m nurses, ana thus learn the pfitpis thaw annntr. 1w V-w ? Ga., the thief could not be detected be cause every colored man in the tcn stoutly protested his own innocence, and as stontlv accused some other riaalrv of. the deed, fit the general hubbub the of'whom are extremely garrulous regi iug iueir ravorite omcers. An ingenious fraud has lately been practiced in London. A tall well-dressed man, apparently a city merchant on his way home from business, is seen talking on the street to a man in workman's dress, who carries a basket and some tools.' The "merchant" accosts some well-dressed passenger, and tells him the "mechan ic's", tale of want of employment and family distress. He adds that he has sat isfied himself of the truth of the story, and is about to give a trifle; will the gentleman join in giving a small sum to iciicvc ueaerviug necessity: j. ne appar ent repectability of the voucher often succeeds where a common begging peti tion would fail, and the person accosted generally gives something. A gentleman wnonau given a small sum saw both swindlers issue from a public-house some time after. Of course on Beeing him they decamped. A clever dodge has lately come to light, which shows how thoroughly the swindler understood those on whom he was to operate, and forms a curious com mentary on the relations between ser vants and tradesmen. A man having the appearance of a gentleman's servant called on several tradesmen in a fashion able part of London, asking them to come to a certain house for orders for different classes of goods, at the same' time throwing out a suggestion that a small gratuity for himself would be ac ceptable, ana might not be lost by the tradesman in a distribution of further or ders. In a number of instances small sums were given; but when the shop-men attended at the place named they found their services were not required, and that the small fees had flowed into the pocket of some clever rascal. Chamber's Journal. m m He Woulden't Even Suppose. The boy had come home to Christmas, and the old man felt that it was a good time to gratify his curiosity about specu lation. J'Thomas," he began, "I've heard a ooddeal about speculation in wheat bw do they work it in Chicago." "Well, father, suppose you had a thou sand dollars." 'I won't do it! I never had that much money at one time in my life, and never expect to." "Well, suppose you feel pretty sure that wheat will go up ten cents per bushel before harvest.' "I won't s'pose no sieh thing! I don't s'pose it'll go up over four cents." "Then you may tro on the thoArr that Europe has all the wheat she wants, and prices will drop seven or eight cents 1b the next six months." "'Ishant do no such thing! I don't believe wheat will go down two cents." "Well, suppose you buy 1,000 bushels tor June aeuvery." "Thomas, you're a feol! What on airth do I want of a thousand bushels of wheat?" "Then you can sell 1,000 for July dt livery." "lean, eh! I've got aboutforty bushel n the granary, and I can tell 1,000, can I? I did hope you'd learn something down there, but I see that yon run all to red neckties and stand-up collars. Toa Perhaps the man who had the most exciting experience in the Xewhall House fire is Mr. T. J. Anderson, of this city, who resides at the Palmer. He. is em ployed as a salesman by Messrs. George H. Taylor & Co., the wholesafe paper dealers, on Monroe Street. He arrived home lost evening and a Tribune re porter saw him at. the Palmer. "Isjit on the window-sill of my room," saiif ne, "and 1 saw the Haines take 1113- bed, my clothes, the floor sink in the mass of flame before I escaped by sliding down the rain-spout which ran along my win dow. I had a room on the corner of Michigan Street and Broadway, on the fourth floor. I had played pool with Mr. L. A. Brown, of Philadelphia, until nearly one o'clock in the morning, when I went to bed. And, poor fellow, I saw him afterwards go down to his death in the mass of flame without being able to help him. It was awful! I walked up stairs to my room, as the elevator stopped running at 12:30. On mv waj- up 1 met tne only waiciiman tlie house employed, and I asked him how I could escape in case of fire. He said easy enough. There were two ways one by the back stairway and the other by going through a labyrinth of hall to the'fronL Brown's room was opposite to mine. I went to bed after that and I was awakened by the horrible shrieks of burning women and the groans of burning men. It was hell itself, so terrible seemed the sounds. The flames were cackling all around, and I opened the door. A great mass of smoke" and flame rushed iu and I be came stifled. I was unable to again shut it and the smoke almost killed me. I had nothing on but a gauze under shirt. 'I felt' my strength leaving me FARM AND FIRESIDE. Lemon juice is preferred to vinegar by many caters ana lovers of raw oys ters. -T-Beports come from many places of the death of farm animals caused by eating flax straw. The lint forms a com pact mass in the stomach. Cattle often eat large quantities of the straw in order to get the seed that- remains in. it, and find it difficult to digest it, The cl uster of eggs that may be found on apple tree limbs should be picked off during open weather in the winter, and thus prevent the hatching of the tent caterpillar. The e??s annear to he. varn ished; but such is not reallythe case, since a slight coat of varnish, oroil, would de stroy their vitality by excluding the air. Chicago Times, Cream cookies are made of one cap of butter, one enp of sugar, three table spoonfuls of sweet cream, half a tea spoonful of cream of tartar and half a teaspoouful of soda; flavor with cinnamon or nutmeg, or if you wish to have them very delicate, flavor with extract of lem on or with rose-water. If. Y. Post. For a rice pie boil one-half of a cup 'of rice until tender, and then add milk enough to make a thin batter, the yelk of four eggi, and four tablespoonfuls of sugar; bake until browned nicely with one crust, and spread over the top a frosting made of the whites of four eggs, six tablespoonfuls of sugar, and enough lemon to flavor, and place in the oven for about live minutes. Chicago Neios. Here i3 an economical recipe for "Sally Lunn:" One tablespoonful of sugar, one egg, two tablespoonfuls of butter, oue cup of milk, two teaspoonfiils of baking powder, flour enough to make a uauer as sun as ior pancaice. j his is nice for breakfast or for tea, and may be baked in one tin, or in gem-pans. Chi cago Journal. If the arnica with which bruised limbs are bathed is heated, its good e'ffects are perceptible much earlier than it it is applied while cold. If arnica is to be taken as a remedy, as so many phy sicians recommend in cases of severo sprainsrit should be prepared with water in this proportion a teaspoouful of ar nica in a goblet two-thirds full of water, and of this a teaspoonful is to be taken once an hour or once in two hours, as the severityof the case determines. President Chadbourne, of the Mas sachusetts Agricultural College, savs: "It is plain that farmin?will not take'ite true jjface. nor farmers have that influ ence in the government of our land which they ought to have, until they take their place with other professions, not only as men of power and practical ability, bat as men of learning and cul ture. Those who claim that the farmer's life forbids .this result have never yet fully appreciated the farm as a place for study and thought, as well as a place for labor. Tha quantity of salt and saltpetre required to prevent cream from becom ing bitter is one teaspoonful of salt and half as much saltpeter to the gallon. The best way is to procure the powdered saltpeter and keep it in a bottle. Dis solve the salt and saltpeter in water and stir it in the cream when thought neces sary, that is, when it is two days old; then, a fresh cream is added, the whole is stirred gently This would not in jure the buttermilk for use. It is well to do this when cream has to be kept in a warm room. iv". Y. 1 imes. fi-f-gjiiM"jMBMBJJMBBMMBMiiBt-.ir EASTWARD. Daily Express Trains for Omaha, fnl cugo, Ran-HM City. St. EouN, aud all points Emit. Through rara tIh. Imrl:. r I,..nu... f apolis. Elegant t'ullmnu I'uIimx- Ce.r and Uay coaches on all through train, and tiiiiuig car cast or Missouri Utter. Tlironsli TicloU r.t th I.owmt Hate DajKiige will u cbecke.1 1 dcMtiuution. Any information as to ratoa, routus or tluui tilde ... - ..,. ... .j luiui.mu mu npiuicuuuii 10 uuy agum, or to I"-S.KUSTIS.Ceiicri4l Ticket Agvut. Omaha. Nob. WE8TWARI. Daily Exprosa Traina for Denver, con necting In Union Depot for oU point in Colorado, Utah. California, and the outlro Went. Tho advent oi thi lino fives tho trav eler a ftur Koutn to the West, with sconery and advantages unequalled elsewhere. aro on salo nt all tho important stntion,j. an.! -DTOTIOE Chicago Weekly News. AND TI1E- I was chokiusr. I sank to the lloor. I thought I was gone. But my senses had not altogether left me. 1 gathered myself up as best I could and made to wards the window. By a desperate eflbrt I succeeded in getting there. I sank again to the IJoor. But I rallied and attempted to raise the window. It was so well balanced that it 'yielded at once to my puny effort and went up. I leaned out and the fresh air reviveu me. I was strengthened and consciousness returned. . I looked down below and saw the Jiremen aud police holding the canvas. They shouted for me to jump on the telegraph wires but I refused. I saw the ladders up against the building. 'I sat down on" the window-sill and I saw everything go down, my clothes, valise, everything, unable to save a thing. I begged, rimplored for those below to save me. They sawme.-bnt gave me no help. I saw my friend come from his room and attempt to come to me through the mass of "tlame, but I saw him go down in the vortex of Hame to his death. O, such a sight! It was too horrible to imagine. I sawthetinpout. It was in part covered with ice. Three women and one man had tried to de scend it, and they Tandod in the Valley of Death. They lost their hold and fell to the street below. It was the only means of escape left. I seized it with the frantic effort of despair. " Everything inside of my room was gone. I caught it in a vice-like grasp and I commenced to slide. Sometimes I slid six to twelve feet and at others a few inches. But I kept going down, using the ice made by the hose as a foothold and a catcli for my hands, which you sec are terribly blistered. I went "clean down to the cellar, fiffeen feet below the street, but I was alive and clad in only my gauze undershirt. On mv way down I saw two little girls standing in the window of the third story, and they asked me to save them, but I vas power less to give them aid, and I had to see those innocents not over six years old swallowed up by the heartless flames. I saw Kelsev, Tom Thumb's, colored servant, go down with the walls. He was'clinging to a window-sill in the fifth story. I walked out to-the front and went up-stairs into the office, where J. found a woman who was tearing her hair. I could not see her face and did not know who she was. I spoke to her, but she took no notice of -rue. I seized her by the ankles and dragged her down bodily, thus saving her life. 1 went across to the express office, where I saw Antisdel, who was leaning over Mrs. Johnson. He said: 'I am crazy. You A. Plea for the Pig. The result of judicious breeding and good care is a product of wholesome fiork. fit for the most fastidious taste, t has been the rule to ignore the right ful position of the humble pig, and to generally relegate him to a condition where he becomes simply the farm scavenger. When other stock has been allowed to all that is nutritious in a field or has exhausted the best contents of a corn crib, the swine are turned in to eat up the remains, and to mingle witu tmsremse, tne turt, ana in many cases germs of desease, left it by its more fortunate fellow candidates for tha market. If the farmer has anything about his premises, which no other class of stock will touch, because of its repulsive character, the swine are call ed upon and expected to regale them selves with the unsavory mess. Whole droves of swine are fed in this way for two-thirds of every year, and just be fore killing time in" order to present good round bodies, and to get all the lard possible, they are stuffed with de cent feed and called corn-fed hogs. The germs of disease, however, have been planted previous to this time, and the unfortunate "scavenger" goes to the block or packing houses in some in stances, in a deceased condition caused by unwholesome feed, nasty pens and othe.r objectionable features which are the result of a system of almost crim inal neglect. To insure wholesome pork, cleanliness and good wholesome food are necessary, nnd the apparent carelessness on the part of some men in preparing swine for the market.is to say, the least, highly censurable. Pigs, from the time they are weaned, should be aflortled clean quarters, succulent green food as well as something more substantial, and that is better than the refuse of an obnoxious swill pail. The breeder and feeder who conducts his business upon this princi ple is the man who secures the best prices, and make for himself a deserved reputation as a, sensible and skillful swine-raiser. Prairie Farmer. C0UUB7S, 112;, JOURHAL FOR $2.50 a Year Postage Included. The OHIOAQO WEEKLY NEWS Is recognized as a paper unsurpassed in all the requirements of Americar. Journalism. It stands conspicuous among the metropolitan journals of the country as a complete News-paper. In the matter of telegraphic service, having the advantage of connection with the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, it has at its com mand all the dispatches of the Western Associated Press, besides a very extensive service of Special Telegrams trom all important points. As a News-paper it has no supe rior. It ia'INDEPENDENTin Politics, presenting all political news, free from partisan bias or coloring, and absolutely without fear or favor as to parties. It is, in the fullest sense, a FAMILY PAPER. Each issue contains several COM PLETED STORIES, a SERIAL STORY of absorbing interest, and a rich variety of condensed notes on Fashions, Art, Indus tries, Literature, Science, etc., etc. Its Market Quotations are complete, and to be relied upon. It is unsurpassed as an enterprising, pure, and trustworthy GENERAL FAMILY NEWSPAPER. Our special Clubbing Terms bring it within the reach of all. Specimen copies may be seen at this office Send subscriptions to tnis office. 1870. 1883. THK Anthracite Coal. canjn ont,ani MWW utand air ts .'WkU Stmt Num. ntsAf whlU I taka rub this woman, I want to go and save my children.1 I was-in a position to be rubbed myself, being naked and chilly. I said to a fireman standing by: 'I have lost everything.' He said: 'You' re alive.' Pointing to a man who was clinging from a fifth-story window, he said: Bow would you "like to change places with him?' Somebody gave me a coat, and I walked in my barefeet four blocks pto the Plankin ton House. I was beside myself. On the way I met a woman who threw a shawl over me, and said: Here, poor boy, take that' I got cloth ing, such as it was, from strangers at the Flankinton. I came here to-day, and Mr. Taylor fatted me out at his own ex pense. I never want to go through such an experience again." Chicago Trib- UJW, There are but four anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, and tlieir aggre gate area is but 483 square miles. Reli able engineers estimate that the amount of coal the four fields will yield, If the present wasteful method of mining be continned, cannot be more than .3,000, 000,000 tons. But the year 1882 has taken 29,500,000 tons of anthracite coal from Pennsylvania mines, and it is ex pected that the amount taken will be greater, rather than less, in future years, so that the supply will be exhausted in a century, if not sooner. Besides Penn sylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia are the only States which produce anthracite coal, and their supply is insignificant. The service performed by anthracite coal in the development of the resources of the United States has been so great that -the prospect of the exhaustion of the supply, even a century hence, must be regarded with much concern. The dec laration that long before the century ends anthracite coal will be a luxury which only the rich can enjoy, will cause a popular demand that the wasteful method of mining known as the 'pillar and breast" be abandoned, and that the more economical method employed in English mines be substituted for it. It is true that thesupplvof bituminous . . coai seems inexhaustible, although the annual product of our bituminous mines does not much exceed 42,000,000 tons, which is about one-fourth of the coal pro duct in England. Ohio, which ranks below Pennsylvania and Illinois in the .production of bituminous coal, can pro duce more than England, whose capacity is already severely taxed. But the iron and steel industries of the United States could- never have reached their present proportions dui ior antnracite coai, and the exhaustion of the anthracite fields will inevitably affect the prosperity of the country, unless inventive genius de vises a new fuel to feed our blast furnaces and move our engines a contingency so remote that the gravest considerations remain to urge economy in anthracite coal. N. Y. Mail and Express. Covington. Ky., boasts of a cituea who has not suffered a moment's pain of any kind in forty-seven years, nor ha he had enough jxusfortune to bring oat sigh. tjsolunibus onriuil In conducted as a FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Devoted to the best inutunl inter. est of its readers and it publish ers. Published at Columbu?, Platte county, the :entre of the agricul tural portion if Nebraska, it i.i read by hundreds of people east who an looking towards Nebraska as their future home. 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