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WEDNESDAY, JULY IS, 18S3.
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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
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