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a I !U I! '! r I ! I - fe ll r; THE JOTOKAX. WEDNESDAY, JULY IS, 18S3. trierci at tie P::t::c, CSssfc:, HsS., u uccsi clu: sitter. TEE TRANSIT OF VENUS. "Dtatfy the transit morning' broke; . Ibt sun seemed doubting' what to do, A one vrbo questions bow to dress. And takes his doublets from the press, Aad halts between the old and new, -Please Heaven he wear his suit of blue. Or don, at least, his ramrod cloak. With rents that show the azure through! Iro the patient crowd to join That round the tube ray eyes discern. The last new comer of the file. And wait and wait, a weary while, And gape, and stretch, and shrug, and smile (For each his place must fairly earn, Hindmost and foremost in his turn). Till hitching onward, pace by pace. I gain at last the envied place. And pay the white exiguous coin; The sun and I are face to face; He glares at me. I stare at him: And lc! my straining eye has found A little spot that, black and round. Lies near the crimsoned flre-orb's rim. 0 blessed, beauteous evening star Well named for her whom earth adores The Lady of the dove-drawn car 1 know thee in thy white simar; But veiled in black, a rayless spot. Blank as a careless scribbler's blot. Stripped of thy robe of silvery flame The stolen robe that Night restores When Day has shut his golden doors I see thee, yet I know thee not; And canst thou call thyself the same? A black, round spot and that is all; And such a speck our earth would bo If he who looks upon the stars Through the red atmosphere or Mars Could Bee our little creeping ball Across the disc of crimson crawl As I our sister planet sec. And art thou. then, a world like ours. Flung from the orb that whirled our own. A molten pebble from its zone? How must thy burning sands absorb The Are-waves of the blazing orb. Thy chain so phort, thy path so near -Thy flame-defying creatures hear The maelstroms of the photosphere: And la thy bo?om decked witii flowers That steal their bloom from scalding showers? And hast thou cities, domes and towers. And life, and love that makes it dear. And death that fills thy tribes with fear? Lost in my dream, my spirit soars Through paths the wandering angels know; My all-pervading thought explores The azure ocean's lucent shores; I leave my mortal self below. As up the 6tar-llt stairs I climb, And still the widening view reveals In endless rounds the circling wheels That build the horologe of time, New spheres, new suns, new- svstcms gleam; The voice no earth-born echo hears Steals softly on my ravished ears; I hear them "singing as they shine" A mortal's voice dissolves my dream; My patient neighbor, -next In line. Hints gently there are those who wait. O guardian of the starry gate. What coin shall pay this debt or mine? Too slight the claim, too small the fee That bids thee turn the potent key The Tuscan's hand has placed in thine. Forgive my own the small aifront. The Insult of the proffered dime; Take it. O friend. eincc this thy wont. But still shall faithful memory be A bankrupt debtor unto thee. And pay thee with a grateful rhyme. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Atlantic Monthly. TALBOT'S KIDS. Old Small- wis a "no good." No slang ever suited his case until Zinc Barnes applied "no good," which he had picked tip during a visit to the Bay. "That's just what Sinally is, boys, I'm telling vou; no good.1 and nothing eke goes; but that goes, even if he hears it." "But what started ver on old Sinally, Zinc?" Mr. Reddy asked, cheerfully enough. When Reddyput this leading question to Zinc the men around the bar drew closer together, and the players at the faro table half turned towards Zinc, chipping in four-bit pieces listlessly on the lay-out, the dealer making his turns slowly and picking up his winnings or paying his losses with an added profes sional" indifference, that allowed him equal chances with his patrons to listen to Zinc's replv. "Well, rirjust tell you, Roddy," be gan Zinc, meditatively kneading some plug smoking tobacco in the palm of his "left hand with the right, "when I was down to the Bay who'd yer think 1 geen?" Mr. Reddy and the crowd looked their inability to "guess who, of all the people in San Francisco, it had been Mr. Barnes' peculiar happiness to see,. and waited in perfect silence while he emptied the tobacco from his hand into his pipe. Carefully lighting the latter. Zinc sent forth a big ring of smoke, took a speculative squint through R, and then said, with the satisfaction of a man who knows he has a sensation on hand, 'Tarson Talbot!" It was some time before any one spoke. Finally Reddy got his amazement-spread mouth sufficiently closed to exclaim: Th-e-e deuce!" "Heerd he'd gone back to the States." "Where's he prospectin' now?" "Old Parson Talbot; well, yer did strike it rich. Zinc." "How's his folks? Don't yer remem ber them kids of his'n. and that smart little woman?" While this Slower of remarks was pattering down on Zinc, two young men who had been talking quietly in one corner of the "room, went over and joined the party at the bar. One was dressed in the rough miner's garb worn by most of the crowd; the other a little better, but not out of keep iagwith his surroundings. The latter, addressing Barnes, said: "You don't mind inv listening, I hope; I know Par son Talbot." "Any man's welcome to hear what Zinc Barnes says about Parson Talbot, stranger, for I am t got nothing but good to say of him.-' "I'm glad to hear it," the young man said, smiling pleasantly. "But before you go on, take something with me." -He nodded to the entire crowd in a manner perfectly understood, for every 0Be faced the bar, and Mr. Reddy pro duced a line of glasses which exhausted his stock, the faro-dealer and case-keeper being obliged to use one glass between them. This important and imposing cere mony finished, Mr. Barnes continued: "Yes, Parson Talbot; and he looked a sight older than he did when he left Hangtown in the winter of '5G, busted. But ye asked me, Reddy, what started oj on old Smally. and that's what I'll tell you. I ran right agin the parson one morning at the Bay, but wouldn't know him, only he braced up to me and Bays, holdn' out his hand in that easy way of his: 'Ain't I speaking to Zinc Barnes?' 'Ye are. stranger,' I said, and then he smiled in that wav vc re member, whoever knew him, and I yelled out,Tarsou Talbot, bv .' I i43itc?Iwas going to say gosfi,' but-the E arson, didn't nm no chances, eein' as ow he knew my way, and chipped in .before I finished. Well, he asked me out to his house, sayin' I would meet the old lady, and have dinner with him that evening. I found out the parson was preachin'-ns a stiddy lay out. "Well, I-went out to his house, and it 'peara the' don't pay much for preach i even from a regular parson, in some of these districts at the Bay. He seemed to be located pretty near the edge of the camphor wc werc'an hour getting tliere in a'hoss car, and his little house didn't show nosigns that he had struck it over rich. But the old lady didn't seem to mind it, for she was as chipper as ever, and how she did enjoj- talking about the old times! Well, after dinner the parson had to go to the meetin'-house. "When the parson was gone, the old ady told the whole of the story about thajrdoal old. Smallj-gave the parson in Hangtcnvn in '55. I never heard the whale story before and never knew how bad old Smally had played the parson. I tell you, gentlemen, old Smally is no rood. It seems that the parson had sared nearly $20,000 out of all the rich strikes he had. made, and wasgoin" back to tfaeJ5ttg with it and settle down, for .fc was awfully dead set on.bringin' up 'fjioseiwo boys of his back East, and ddicsting them where he went to school JrfeH.!: Well, it was juet Jhsn tkat Smally, who was not old then, ran across the parson, and roped him into a quartz claim. I reckon the claim was good enough, and worth what they paid for it, which took all the parson had and some of Smally's coin too. They struck it pretty rich one day, and had a big offer to sell right away. That just suited the parson, for he was aching to fet aboard the steamer for the States, nially worked the sale, and to do it got some kind of a paper from the parson, who knew no more about business than a Piute about whisky poker. Smally fot the money and sloped. They rought him back, you remember, Reddy, but when they come to law him about it, it turned out the parson had signed a paper agen which he had no show in court. They had to let him go, and any man who "was in Hangtown then knows he saved his neekgettin' out of sight quicker'n he had before. Well, the parson was kinder broken-hearted. He didn't squeal; that wan't his kind; but he slipped quietly away, all the life gone out of his voice, and hardly the courage to dig up stakes and niovc, 'cept for that little wife of hi -gin Mr. Howard?" Barnes suddenly asked, for the young miner suddenly left the group surrounding Zinc. Howard was already at the door before answering, shortly, "Yes: good night." When the door had closed behind htm, Reddy, addressing Barnes, said: "Guess he didn't like your picture of old Smally." "Who is he?" Barnes asked, looking at the door which had just closed on Howard. "He came here about a month ago, just after you left for the Bay, an' struck up a great friendship for old Smally. He's cabining with the old man now, and has charge of the tunnel the old man is runnin' to tap the ledge of his claim. He's no good." "Well I ain't sorry he knows what kind of a pard he has," Barnes said. "Old Smally's no good, and it goes if ho hears it, which I guess he will, and the prospect of some pistol practice with old Smally which this reflection suggested caused Mr. Barnes to refill his pipe with much care. "Friend of yours?" he suddenly asked of Mr. White," the young man who had treated the crowd. "No; I only met him a few days ago. I've been asking him about old Smally's claim, which I was thinking of bonding or buying," the young man answered; a remark which instantly caused him to be regarded with intense interest by every man in the room, nearly ever' one of whom had a claim he was willing either to bond or sell. In a few minutes White left the sa loon, after treating once more, and wishing even' one a pleasant "good night.'7 When he walked out into the dark street he stopped a moment, as if assur ing himself that none of his late com panions were watching his movements. Then he walked quickly on for a short distance, overtaking Howard, to whom he said, with a quiet laugh: "If any in centive was needed. I think Mr. Zinc Barnes' story supplied it, Frank." "Rather," was Frank's short, dry re joinder. They walked on for a whHe in silence, and then White .said: "Do vou really think I ought to offer the old rascal one hundred dollars, Frank? It happened to be just about all I have left It's been rather expen sive work, posing as a capitalist here for a week with Reddy's vile whisky two bits a glass, and every one drinking every time. The whole hundred.Frank? "I tell you yes, Henry," Frank re plied, with some impatience. "You do not know what an influence the sight of gold has on the miserly old reprobate. Those precious live twenty-dollar gold pieces will turn his head nearly. Follow the programme I've laid out and the game will win," All right, my dear boy; but if it don't we walk back to San Francisco, or borrow from the ruddy Reddy. Here we are." As ho spoke they reached a cabin. Entering, they were met by old Smally, whose small, closely set eyes and un commonly long, smooth upper lip gave him a most unlovely appearance. He greeted White with a cringing attempt at cheerfulness ami received from that young man such a grip of the hand as caused his eyes to water and his long lip twitch with pain. "I have concluded to close with the terms you proposed through Howard, and have brought the necessary papers," White said, briskly, after releasing the old man's cramped lingers. "Oh, the morning will do, Mr. White; the morning will do quite as well," old Smally said, his cunning suggesting some show of reluctance. "Excuse me, but the morning will not do. You must sign the papers to-night or the trade is off, and I will accept an other favorable offer I have from Mr. Barnes." "Well, if you insist upon it, I've no objection to signing to-night. But you know that some little coin, just as as a guarantee of good faith, you know, generally passes at such a transaction as this."" White threw five twenties on the table with the remark: "That's all the gold I happen to have in my pockets." Old Smally's eyes gleamed as he clutched the gold, and droned over and over, "such a transaction as this, such a transaction as this. White and Howard glanced at each other significantly. When White spoke again, old Smally started like a discov ered thief, and hastily buried the gold in a pocket. "Well, here are the papers," White said. He laid on the table a carefully drawn form of memorandum of sale, by the terms of which old Smally bound him self to deed a certain mining claim, duly described, to White, for the sum of $20,000. Then, after tnkinor a. rppint fnr liio , 0 j.. wa. ..... five twenties, and pocketing both pa pers, nite letr the cabin. These for malities complied with the strictly ob served, though unwritten law, of that class of mining-camp transactions. An hour later the young men met at the mouth of a tunnel. "Is the dear man asleep, Frank?" asked White. "Yes. the sweet creature is in oonflp repose, his lovely head resting on your uvu twenties, aircauy sewn up in nis pillow." The two men then threw off their coats, and by the light of two lanterns, reversed the usual order of mining, for five or six hours carrying ore into the tunnel instead of out of it The ore they carried in they took from nu merous small piles scattered about, but where it had carefully been hidden in the thick growth of sagebrush near the mouth of the tunnel. "This ought to make a good veneer ing," Howard remarked, as they car ried in the ore. "I worked hard enough packing it up here from old Smith's select dump. At last, each holding a lantern, they stood near the face of the tnnn1 ami carefully surveyed their work. The tace, and for several feet the sides and crown of the tunnel were thickly studded with pieces of rich free gold quartz, firmly set into even crevice and crack, and loose broken piles of the same glit tering ore lay on the floor of the tunnel near the face, as though blown down by the last blast. "It will do." Howard said, finally. "Now go home and prepare to be sur prised soon after daylight," He had not long to wait Already the stars were vanquished by the rose clad couriers of his light, sent forward by the .conquering sun to where "The first baby peaks were peeptaa From under their bedototkea ofaaow." Along the line of the wwtar htrjlf a. vivid green was darting up from be tween the great,, grand domes of the Sierra; darting up to meet the richer hues of the eastern sky, and add its brightness to the gaudy carnival of color which ushered in that mountain day. The sun came and warmed into life the little camp at Smally's Spur. Threads of smoke wound out from cabin stove pipes; frowsy miners broke the thin ice on the stores of water in pails and buck ets, and performed al fresco toilets in front of cabin doors, or sliced the uni versal bacon wherewith the matutinal meal was to be flavored. The Smally cabin, of all that dotted the hollow at the foot of the spur, alone showed no signs of life. Old Smally still slept, his gold-lined pillow giving color to his dreams. Suddenly he awoke with a startled cry; hugged the pillow in his shaking arms, and glared in con fused unreasoning terror at Howard, who stood before him, dishevelled, panting, and apparently laboring under the most intense excitement. "What is it man! Can't you speak? Does White refuse to pay? " Refuse to give me the $20,000! I'll have it from him, I tell you!" shrieked the old man, jumping from his bed and feebly stamp ing the floor. "Why don't you speak? I tell you he must p"ay! Til tear it from bis'heart, but I'll have it!" and the wretched old miser fell back upon the bed in impo tent rage, rocking the gold-lined pillow and moaning. Howard let him recover somewhat before he said in a low tone, speaking slowly: "Wish rather that he will re fuse to pa v." "What!" ' cried the old man. jumping up again. "Have we struck it?" "Go up and see for yourself what the last blast the men fired last evening after we left has thrown down. "They struck it rich and told him, and he came here and cheated me into signing the papers. It's a fraud! I won't be bound by it! It's fraud, I toll you!" Cursing and crying, eld Smally hur ried on some clothes and went with Howard to the tunnel. When the light of the lantern fell on the glittering masses of ore he almost sobbed out: "No, no, no! he can't have it! See! the face is almost solid gold!" In his rage and terror and despair, his insane lust cheated his eyes and the tiny specks of free gold danced before his uncertain sight a thousand-fold magnified. "It's all a cheat! a fraud! The miners told him and he has swindlad me. This is all mine! It's worth a million, a mil lion! He can't have it!" Howard did not interrupt his ravings, but silently returned with him to the cabin. There old Smally finally be came rational enough to "beg Howard to go and -see what could be done with White. He returned in about an hour from his mission and simply said: "White may have been told about this, but he does not appreciate the strike as you do. He agrees to return the mem oradum for a bonus of $20,000." "Twenty thousand dollars!" cried the old man. "That is all I have just all I have. It is in the bank in San Francisco. I'll not give it; I'll fight this out." "Do you think Zinc Barnes and the rest of the men would stand by you?" Howard asked. "It seems that" Barnes saw an old acquaintance of yours. Par son Talbot, down at the Bay, and has been talking about him. There was something about twenty thousand dol lars in that story, too, and if this goes the same way you might not fare so well. Besides you say the mine is worth a million." At the mention of Parson Talbot's name old Smally, after a quick, fright ened look at Howard, buried his face in his hands and thus rocked himself and moaned and trembled miserably. "A million twenty thousand. He must not have it I must buy him off. A million, a million, million!" He be came perfectly quiet after a long while, and then, at last, without a word, mut tering no more, he cut open the pillow, and from that a draft for $20,000. Not even trembling he indorsed it, and gave it to Howard, saying: "When White gives you back that memorandum give him this; it's payable in gold at Wells-Fargo's bank in San Francisco. Go. I'm too weak now to walk to him. Twenty thousand a million!" An hour after the stage rolled down the steep grade from the Spur Zinc Barnes took old Smally a letter and the memorandum. The letter read: Wc leavo by the stage to bear your kind re gards and 930,000 draft to the parson, our father. FRANK HOWARD TALBOT. HENRY WHITE TALBOT. "It strikes me, Frank," Henry re marked as the old stage jolted along the Carson road, "it strikes me father won't have to use this to 'eddicate the kids.' " "No; in the light of recent events, wo do not appear to be in great need of an education. I guess we'll let father use it to take mother back to the States." Detroit Free Press. Strange Ceiaciaeaces. In the small town of Zeitz, in Prus sian Saxony, lived two women, Frau Schmidt and Frau Feustel, occupying adjoining rooms in the same house. In February, 1881; each was made on the same day the mother of triplets, all boys. This was a decidedly curious co incidence in births. Rev. Mr. Busch, of Winona, Minn., whose fire five chil dren were all born on Sunday, has been the subject of some newspaper para graphs, bnt his case is less noteworthy than that of a resident of Middletown, Conn., three of whose children have the same birthday, November 16. A less remarkable coincidence is noted in the case of Mrs. William Minning, of Monnt Auburn, O., who celebrated on one day the anniversary of her birth, of her wedding and of the birth of a grand child. Why should accident have or dained that the same company of min strels should have visited Washington on the day that President Garfield was inaugurated, on the day that his re mains were borne in state to the Cap- itol, and on the day that the oration was pronounced upon him by Mr. Blaine. An odd coincidence was reported not long ago in these columns. In 1862 a fire destroyed the city of Kingston, Ja maica. On the day of the fire Aaron de Cordova was born. Aaron de Cordova's grandfather was the first man on the island who erected a building. After the fire, three months ago, in the same place, the present Aaron de Cordova was the first man who erected a build ing. It was a curious fate which or dained that the son of the Austrian Baron Carl von Hofer, and Andreas Hofer's great-grandson, should perish by a bullet discharged during a rifle match, being the fifth member of this distinguished family slain by such t wound. Three- years ago one Louis Hiltz, of Independence, Mo., killed Joseph Melody, but was acquitted on the ground of insanity. Two years later, on the same day and at the same hour, he received a fatal sunstroke on the same spot where he committed the crime. Coincidences relative to deaths are numerous if not always very note worthy. On the 19th of April, 1882, Edward Goss was burled at Troy, in this State, from the same house at which in 1870 the same clergyman had buried his brother James. Both brothers died on the same day of the month at thsv same hour. N. Y. World. Rev. Mr. Talmage is high in favor with the insurance offices, by reason of a sermon lately preached, in which he said: "If you could pay the premium a policy, it is a mean thine for- vou to go to heaven while they (your family) gouftatMpooraouM.''-v. j, A. Week's Trance. A case of suspended animation, which in many respects is one of the most re markable known to science, has oc curred in this city within the pant ten days. A young lady. Miss Annie , wh'ose full name, at" the request of her parents, is withheld, went into a trance on the 15th iust, and did not regain consciousness until last Sunday at seven o'clock p. m. a week afterward. At that time she awoke, and, recognizing the ringing of the bells of a neighboring church, remarked that it was Sunday, and since then she has been gradually improving. The.particulars of the case are highly interesting. Miss Annie is an attractive young lady, about twenty years old, re siding on Lower Madison street, and, with the exception of a severe attack of St Vitus' dance about two or three years since, has always been ordinarily healthy. About two weeks ago, how ever, she began to complain of neural gic troubles, accompanied by cerebral and spinal irritation. She was quite unwell until the following Sunday, when, about seven p. m., she subsided into a trance from which she has not yet re covered. . There was, however, nothing alarming about her condition, and to all appearauces she was simply in a deep slumber. Her breathing, temperature, and pulsation maintained their normal condition, and at times, without appear ing at all conscious, sdie was induced to take nourishment. Her family were, of course, very much alarmed at' her pre ternatural situation, and summoned Dr. R. H. Porter, who endeavored to arouse her, but without success. Ordinary stimulants failing, he resorted to the use of an electric battery, but met with no better success. For several days longer she remained in this somnambulistic state, and awoke to consciousness for the first time Sunday. Even then, however, she did not recog nize anyone, and, without regaining the -use of her faculties, she relapsed again into her seeming slumber, her eyes be ing closed and her breathing regular and peaceful. The following day she rallied a little, and became acutely sen sitive to noises and touch, and recog nized the family, but was unable to say more than "yes" or "no." In company with Dr. Porter, a Cou-rier-Journalist paid a visit to his interest sng patient yesterday evening. Through out the day she had manifested con sciousness, to a limited extent, shrink ing from noise or contact, and evincing a morbid dread even of the pillows on her bed. At the time of the visit she was lying in an apparently pleasant slumber, her head turned to one side, her eyes closed, and a half smile just parting tier lips. When the physician spoke she roused up a little, and, by slow degrees, for the first time regained the full pos session of her faculties. Upon his in quiry as to whether she felt any pain, she "nodded her head, and after a little coaxing said that it was in her forehead. After saying this, she relapsed into in sensibility, but was easily aroused again, and answered a few questions with some effort, but intelligibly. The mental pro cesses evidently cost her considerable effort but she unquestionably was fully conscious. The presence of a stranger excited her curiosity, and she was mani festly puzzled over his identity. Her condition was extremely favorable, and she will most likely be fully recovered by the end of the week. In the opinion of Dr. Porter, who has made nervous diseases a specialty, the case is a most remarkable and interest ing one. The majority of trances re sult from some injury, generally of the head, but this can not be traced to any such cause. In the course of a short conversation on this class of diseases, he remarked that he had met with two other queer cases, though none so" in teresting. One was a boy who formerly resided on Ninth street near Broadway, who was subject to occasional trances, lasting for three days and nights at a time. During these he was entirely un conscious, and when he recovered had not the slightest recollection of what had - occurred. He recovered perma nently; and for two years has not had an attack of his old malady. The other case was more remarkaale. being one of complete double consciousness in a young lady. When in one of her trances she was able at times to go about her usual household duties, and even con verse intelligibly, but was unable to remember anything that had occurred when in hernormal condition. More singular still, when in another trance she recalled what had happened in pre vious ones, ' though still ignorant of what transpired at other times. Under a treatment of tonics and stimulants she was also restored to perfect health. Louisville Courier-Journal. They Played Poker. There is rather a good story current, m a sub-rosa way, in certain well in formed business and society (male) circles, respecting the brilliant achieve ments in New York of a party of London aristocrats, whose names were recently chronicled in so called society journals. Two airy, ostentatious and "somewhat aspirateless cockneys and their wives arrived by the Cnnard steamer a few weeks since and put up at a fashionable hotel on Madison square. The ladies were of the order described as stylish. They were tall and statuesque, beaming and gracious. They had neither of them been long married. On the second day after their arrival they went out riding on horseback in the park. The ladies were graceful equestrians. Although they were high-bred they were conde scending. Well-known "New Yorkers, all of the male persuasion, however, were introduced to the distinguished patty. Wine flowed in their parlors. The fair Britons had no objection to cigar smoke; nay, they rather liked it. Sometimes the ladies were discovered amusing themselves with a game of short whist or casino. Their New York visitors spoke of euchre and poker, the favorite games of the American eagle. The fair English women were not ac quainted with either game, but were willing to learn both. They were not inapt scholars. Their husbands were admitted to Gotham's educational ad vantages. Pretty soon the ladies de clared that euchre was the nicest game at cards that ever was invented; while as for draw poker, it was a heavenly pastime. The husbands did not affect to see the American games in this light, as they seldom took a hand when their wives and their guests sat down to a quiet game, on which a little money was always staked, just to make it in interesting. ' Unless current reports gceatly lie, several of the guests found it a good deal more interesting than they care to acknowledge. The four cockneys were sharpers of the darkest and oiliest kind. Several club men were very severely shorn, and a promi nent ex-official is also reported among the victims. But for the good offices and intercession of the' latter, who dreaded exposure, the four sharpers would have been handed over to the authorities and perhaps compelled to disgorge their ample spoils. The party biof their New York friends "ta ta last week, and will return to the society which they adorn in Cockneydom with a warm appreciation of Uncle Sam's currency and perhaps a poor opinion of Gotham sagacity. Philadelphia Item. Chinas labor is about to be intro daced into Brazil. Twenty' thousand indentured laborers are to be landed at Rio, at a cost of little over $2 a head. Thay will be jpaid seventeen pence a day, out of which they will have to pro vide their own food. The ultimate im portation wXo Brazil of from 400,000 to g$0.0QQ Hiiaaw is anticipated. Artificial Flowers. What a wonderful trade this is be coming! In New York alone there are 150 mauufacturies. in Philadelphia a large number, while as far west as Chicago they are making an experiment in the same direction. One of the lead ing flower stores relic? entirely upon French goods, which are or" cour.-e more carefully prepared and of higher artistic merit than domestic manufactures as yet. But there are rapid .strides beiug made, and one of the largest houses ou Broadway boasts of not having a single foreign hand. Now that Dame Fashion has decreed in the most autocratic man Tier that an abundance "of artificial flowers shall be used,- not only for bon nets and corsage bouquets, but as trim mings for dresses, both dinner fcnd even ing toilets, the question arises Jiow and where to get the prettiest, cheapest and most appropriate flowers. Modjeska was the first to set the fashion in favor of flower garniture. The white flower.' are all made during the long dark days of winter, as white is more easily worked on than any other color. It must cheer the hearts" of those steady workers to feel that in spite of rain arid snow and cold there are brighter days coming, a week maylnj of rest, when they can go away and seek the very flowers their nimble fingers fashion. But the water lily is not the only white flower: tliere are lilacs, and violets, and carnations, and apple-blossoms, and "fancy"' flow ers meaning a flower that may or may not be in nature, but n pretty and mar ketable. The flowers are chiefly made from two mala rials bishop'3 lawn and a heavy quality of mull muslin. The latter is used in the soft, loose-leaved roses and drooping flowers; the former for violets, pansies, daisies and flowers that have more "body," if such a word be admissible in flowers. This white muslin is laid in one or two thicknesses on a piece of lead, then an iron instru ment, finished at one end with the shape of a flower, is pounded down by a heavy hammer, and one or two flowers are cut. They are then given a bath that is, dipped in pink or yellow or blue, as the case may be and while wet the deeper or lighter tints are added with a brush. Then they are put aside to dry. This, work is done by the men. The women afterward takethevi in hand and they are crimped, other leaves turned by pincers, or if buttercups or bells they are placet! on a small pillow and rounded into cup-shape by a small in strument with a leaden ball at one end. They are made in much the same man ner; those with the brilliant dust over them are dipped in melted wax and the dust powdered on while the wax is still warm. The leaves and flowers are wired and put together by other hands, and for grouping they go into a new department. With the large amount of hand-work on artificial flowers it is won derful how they are sold so cheap, espe cially as the labor commands a fair price. The forewomen get S25 and 30 a week, and the others .f8 and $10 and $12. It is a pretty tableau, the long tables piled high with flowers, each girl with a mound of color before her, some of them giving life and completeness to the blossoms by the addition of green leaves. Whether it is that the manufac ture of artificial flowers has been left exclusively to women, and they have not as a rule inventive minds, or that so much hand-work is required as to make machinery a secondary consideration, is a question. But the fact remains that of all machinery most inadequate to the work required is the machinery used in making artificial flowers. It" is crude and cumbrous, and in many years there has been only one improvement, and that in a French machine, which has force enough to cut a dozen flowers in stead of one. With our Yankee aptness and ingenuity in machinery here is a large and undeveloped field. X. Y. Slar. Bee-Keeping for Farmers. Upon looking over one of our bee publications not long ago, I noted these words: "There are very few farmers who do not keep hogs, sheep, cattle, horses and poultry. All these seem necessary to use up "the products of the farm and to make the occupation safe and certain. The addition of the apiary Is just as important as the keeping of the varieties of stock mentioned, and the farm is hardly complete without it." If the above is the truth and I believe it is the question arisesjjwhy is itjthat not one farmer in twenty keeps even one colony of bees to secure the honey allowed to go to waste from not having the bees to gather it. Is it not just as bad to let this honey, secreted by the abundant flora of the farm, go to waste, as it would be to allow a field of pasture to thus waste for want of stock to con sume it? I believe it is so to be, yet how eagerly we see the farmer gather ing every ear of grain, securing stock enough to consume the grass from his pasture, and husbanding all the pro ducts accruing from the farm, except the honey which is allowed to go to waste as far as he is concerned. Each farmer might keep bees enough at least to supply his own table with this luscious sweet, but there are very few who do it. The reason of all this neglect in my opinion, is that fanners as a class are not willing to bestow upon the bees the time they require; hence a failure is almost certain. These failures being known in the neighbor hood, others are deterred from making a trial. How patiently we see the average farmer care for his stock, feeding his cows three times a day for seven months out of the year, and milking the same twice a day for nearly ten months, get ting little more for his butter and milk than he could have got for the produce the cow consumed if it had been dis posed of in the shape of hay and grain sold or pasture rented. But let this same person buy a swarm of bees which :s capable of giving as good as, if not greater returns than a cow, if given the same care and attention, and ten chances to one he will put it in some out-of-the-wav place, not go near it once a month, let it go into winter quarters with little or no prospect of its xurviving, and then declare bee-keeping does not pay. Others who have a little more thought regarding them will partially attend to their wants till the hurry of harvest comes ou, and then, just when the bees need the most care, neglect them entirely, allowing swarms to go to the woods and the bees to lie idle for want of surplus receptacles in which to store the honey which is being secreted plentifully at the time. But no matter how much the hurry or how great the pressure of business, the hogs are fed, and the cows are milked, while the poor bees are left to care for them selves. I wish we might see a new era dawning among our farmers regarding this branch of rural industry, seeing it placed where it should be upon an equal footing with any other branch of farm ing. Cor. IluralNew Yorker. According to English trade papers, the importation of American manufac tures into Australia, though small as -et is rapidly increasing. The Austra ians prefer certain kinds of American goods to English goods, because they are of better quality, more neatly fin ished, and made without any superfluous material, are packed better" for shipping and are made with especial reference to the market for which they are intended. m Senator Vance, of North Carolina, says that a close study of the best news papers has taught him the art of ex pressing himself briefly and tersely, without repetition or circumlocution. Even Senators aro not above learning something from newspapers GMmgo Time, PITH AND POINT. Tho Boston Post Is mad bocausa Eastern folks are so easily swindled. It's too lata now to go at it and mold 'em all over. Ihtroit Free Press. A man who can't excite envy and jealousy needn't expect to excite ad miration and respect. The man who has no enemies can not boast that he has any friends. One ounce of powder will lift twenty-five pounds weight five feet high. Get your exact weight, figure by progression and then sit down on a keg of powder to smoke. If yoa meet a lion just right he will drop hi? tail and flee, but there are so many chances that he will drop you in stead that the meeting had better be postponed 83 long as possible. Busy Editor (to troublesome appli cant, who persists in calling) : "To-day is Thursday and I'm very busy. Sup pose you call next Thursday, and then I'll tell you when to call again." Prof. Felix Adler said recently that a man has as much riht to cane the President of the United States as to whip an unruly youngster. Wonder Felix his children when they deserve it? Austria has got hold of a torpedo which will defend a pas3 one-fourth of a mile lonir. After she gets it planted it will na just iike her enemies to eo by some other road. Norriiloum Herald. A Michigan mn who rctu-ed to lie come a candidate for constable, suffered a fatal stroke of apoplexy within eighteen hours. It seems that politics lias become necessary to good health. Our Continent. Some one wants the tax taken off whisky and put on cranks, in order to increase the revenue. But that would be a bad move. If tacks were put on cranks editors couldn't "sit down on 'em." Burlinqton Hawkete. A lady at Columbus, O., sent for a piano tuner to come and see what gave the instrument such a sad tone. He re moved four marbles, two spools, six buttons, two coppers and a dozen hair pins from the instrument, and the sad ness went away. Why is it that a young man and a young woman will sit for hours and hours together in a parlor without say ing a word; and then, when it is time for him to leave, stand an hour talking earnestly on the front stoop in the still pneumoniae air? Puck. A bachelor and a spinster who had been schoolmates in youth .and were about the same age met in after years, and, the lady chancing to remark" that "men live a great deal faster than vomen," the bacheior returned: "Yes, Maria. The last time we met we were each twenty-four years old. Now I'm iver forty, and I hear you haven't reached thirty yet." They never met again. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. From ten to twelve thousand tons of salt have been gathered along the .shores of Great Salt Lake this season. There is a large surplus of common salt left over from last year, and this caused a gathering of a less amount than usual. The blood of crabs and other crus taceans has been proved by M. Fredericq to have the same saline constitution and the same strong and bitter taste as the waters they inhabit. Dut the blood of sea fishes is yery different. It ha3 not the same constitution as the water, and thus shows a marked superiority over that of crabs. M. Gley, a French physiologist, has attempted to answer by experiments made upon himself the question : What are the effects of intellectual work upon the cerebral circulation ? When he ap plied himself to a subject which he had a difficulty in understanding thoroughly und had therefore to concentrate alibis energies upon it, the rhymth of the heart was far more accelerated than when he took up some matter with whicn he was well acquainted. To copper or brass objects with sil ver without difficulty or lo3s of time, the following process is given: Mix two parts of chloride of silver with twenty parts of powdered cream of tartar and fifteen parts of powdered common salt. Moisten a suitable quantity of the mixt ure with water, and rub it with a piece of blotting paper upon the metallic ob ject, which must be thoroughly clean. The latter is afterward rubbed with a piece of cotton upon which precipitated chalk is dusted, then washed with water, and polished with a dry cloth. Prairie Fanner. A cheap black paint or varnish for iron work is prepared as follows : Clear, solid wood tar, ten ponnds ; lamp black or mineral black, one aud one-half pounds ; oil of turpentine, five and one half quarts. The tar is first heated in a large iron pot to boiling, or nearly so, and the heat is continued for about four hoars. The pot is then removed from the fire out of doors, and while still warm (not hot) the turpentine, mixed with the black,' " stirred in. If the var nish is too thick to dry quickly, add more turpentine. Benzine can b"e used instead of turpentine, but the results are not as good. phaltum is preferable to cheap tar. Chicago Times. At the Mnnlch Electrical Exhibition one of the cJjfosities was a telephone transmitting music performed at Ober Ammergau, over a distance of sixty three miles. At the palace a huge tele phonic arrangement brought over music from the English Cafe, so that the whole immense audience could hear the pieces quite distinctly. But perhaps tho most significant exhibit was a single wire which conveyed electrical energy a distance of thirty-seven miles from the coal mines rf Miesbach, where it was generated. Tis augurs a future for the economical ur.e of labor which may have far-reaching reiults. A Shark Caught by a Clam. Among the discoveries recently made in the great Dead Sea of the West, ac cording to an Exchange, were some gi gantic oyster shells more than six feet long, each pair of which once contained an animal that the average boy could not lift. To-day the only really large shell-fish is of the clam family. It is named Tridaena gigas, a contemporary tells us, and is found in the Pacific Ocean, the length of its life being sixty or seventy years, it grows imbedded in the coral and is fastened to the rocks by a cord called the byssus, which is so tough that it can be cut only with an ax. The sheila themselves arc six feet long, each Valve weighing more than 250 pounds, while the animal part often weighs thirty or forty pounds. When alive the tridaena lies with its great valves ajar, c:qrturing any food that may pass wiftin its scalloped edges. A shark was ence caught in this way. Swimming ataitg in search of food, he unwarily pasf.ell.in the door of the great clam's housti, his tail rudely striking the animal. Like a flash the tremend ous jaws snapped together, squeezing the man-eater as if he were in a vise and rendering him utterly powerless. As the tide went down the shark's head appeared above water, dashing about and churning up the sea. The nubbub attracted the attention of some thieves, who soon captured both shark and clam. A Memphis magistrate lately fined a young man twenty dollars who got drunk at a fancy ball while personating George WasHington. The Justice said that if he had not thus disgraced him self while personating that august char acter the fine would only have been five dollars. Speaking from personal knowledge, fBvidently, tie Boaton Herald ways that EMr.e " la-no1 radoctfen in (bVwjjpu o UK EASTWARD. Bally Express Trit.c 1t Omaha, Vol rjK, Kanvit City, .St. Loui-,. aiul allpoiufe? Kit'. Through cars via 1'i-nriii to linllun hmH. Kli-piiiC I'ulliuaii I'a!ai- t'ttr and Itny coacht-i on r.'.l through trains. acJ IHiiUi;; ( nr c-ruit r I Missouri mver. Tiironch Tickrt r.t ius Lnwr st llatea iiKnaniio -will 1 vliPcLot t !. tine tion Any information as to rates, routes or tune tablea will lo chei-rf ully f uniiahrd xixtu application t any aent. or to J'. S. Kt'.STlS, General Ticket Agent, Omahft, Neb. 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