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passed. I am prepared to make final
proof for all parties wishing to get a
patent for their homesteads.
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COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22,
Dullness.
A mother having become alarmed
about the failing state of herdaughter's
health, and not being able to get much
satisfaction from a consultation with
the village doctor, took her to a Lon
don physician for further advico. He
asked a few questions as to the girl's
daily habits and mode of life, carefully
stethoscoped her heart and lungs, and
then gave an involuntary sigh. The
mother grew pale and waited anxious
ly for the verdict. "Madam," he
said, "so far as I can discover, your
daughter is suffering from a most seri
ous complaint, which, for want of a
better name, I shall call 'dullness.'
Perhaps it is in vour power to cure it.
I have no medicine which is a specific
for this disease." It is not every doc
tor who dares to be thus straightfor
ward; otherwise, the same opinion
would be given in hundreds of cases
now labeleu with some jaw-breaking
technical term for the sake of politeness
to the suuerer and her relations.
An indefinable, rustless longing is the
natural state of a health, vigorous
minded girl, when she has nothing to
occupy her thoughts and her fingers,
just as the vague dapping of a birds'
wings, as it sits beside the nest, shows
that it it is ready for flight. When
the most natural thing marriage does
not take a girl from her old home to a
new one; if she has no regular employ
ment, no outlet for her energies, no in
teresting companions, no amusements;
it is scarcely a matter for surprise if she
becomess listless or petulant, out of
health or out of spirits. There is a very
important time in a common-place girl's
life, during which she rarely receives the
amount of consideration and encourage
ment that she would probably require.
It is when the school-room is exchanged
for the drawing-room, and the irre
sponsible child is supposed to enter upon
the duties and cares of life. In the
numberless homes where "coming out"
does not mean being presented at court
and a round of London gayety, the sud
den cessation of obligatory tasks, when
not replaced by some definite employ
ment, creates a blank difficult to fill in
a satisfactory manner, unless the girl
has some special talent she is bent on
cultivating with ardor. Strong, vigor
ous characters can accept the situation,
and out of very poor material build up
a self-satisfying existence. No doubt a
determined' cheerfulness, a resolute in
dependence and constant activity may
create, out of the most unpromising sur
roundings, a life at once busy and
useful.
But these characters are the excep
tion, not the rule. Besides, if they can
not find work at home, they generally
seek it elsewhere. The 'dullness of
which we speak is most bitterly felt in
those middle-class families where the
income is sufficient to provide servants
to do the household work, but not suffi
cient to afford the means of foreign
travel, or the pleasant social intercourse
to which a large country-house lends it
self so well. A girl feels refreshed by
being obliged to exert herself in some
manual labor, whether it be to bake
bread, wash up the cups and saucers,
or weed the garden. Priscilla Lam
meter says, with her keen good sense:
"There's" nothing like a dairy, if folks
want a bit o' worrit to make the days
pass. There's always something fresh
with the dairy; for even in the depths
o' winter there's some pleasure in con
quering the butter and making it come,
whether it will or no. You'll never be
low when you've jot a dairy." But
there are countless liomes in which we
may fairly say there is nothing half so
interesting as a dairy to occupy the
time and attention of the young women.
The mother prefers to retain the house
keeping in her own hands. The daily
needs of life are supplied with faultless
regularity.
There is sufficient food, warmth and
raiment. The gardener does not like to
be interfered with. The wants of the
parish can be attended to by the family
of the clergyman. There is no incen
tive or outdoor exercise, for country
roads are dreary when there is not any
object to be attained by walking on
them. So rare are the visitors that the
ringing of the hall door-bell brings
everybody's heart into the mouth. The
sight of a stranger's face passing the
gate is enough excitement for a whole
week. The days drop one after the oth
er like leaden bullets, afld the years are
only marked by a fresh almanac.
Christmas is as heavy as its attendant
plum-'judding. Summer only enables
the dullness to be transferred "from the
fireside to the open air. There is a slow
but sure destruction of strong desires
and fruitless yearnings, a pathetic self
suppression, a hopeless stagnation,
which even the spirit of youth ceases to
tight against. Like the London physi
cian wo have no rostrum to offerfor
this deadly disease of dullness, which
reckons its victims by the thousand.
We must trust to the more enlightened
parents of the future to stamp it out at
any cost. All we can offer at present is a
sympathetic sigh. London Lancet.
Biggs' Stone Dog.
"Did I ever tell you about my stone
dog?" asked Biggs.
They all declared that he never did.
"Well," said Biggs, "I had more fun
out of that dog than any man ever sot
out of a dozen live dogs. When I
bought my place, you know, I looked
about for something to decorate the
grounds with, and I happened to hit
upon a fellow who had a big stone dog
that he was willing to self cheap. 1
didn't suppose then that I was going to
fet so much fun out ot the thing; if I
ad anticipated one-tenth part of the
sport that was in store for me, I would
have given three times as much as I
did rather than not get the critter.
"I had the dog planted near the
farther end of the front walk, so that
he could be seen from the street gate,
and where he looked for all the world
just like a dog of flesh and blood taking
a quiet nap. I didn't think much about
him at first, except to flatter myself
that his presence gave a sort of tone to
my establishment, suggesting to the
passer-by that a man who could afford
a stone dog must have a pocketful of
rocks, you know.
"But one evening I was sitting at the
front window enjoying my pipe, when I
saw a peddler stop at my gate. He
opened it half-way, gave a little start,
shut it again very carefully, tiptoed for
a rod or two, and then ran off as though
the Old Harry was after him. I couldn't
understand this for a minute or two;
finally I thought of that stone dog.
'Then it oame to me what a treasure I
i possessed.
"And that was only the beginning of
the fun. I suppose during that week I
Baw no less than a dozen fellows go
through the same pantomime. Before
this my establishment had appeared to
be a favorite house of call to all the beg
gars, peddlers and old clo' dealers and
organ-grinders in the oountry. Now
they all stopped at the sate. Not one
of them ventured inside. It would have
done your soul good to see the fright
ened critters stop short as if they had
seen their great-grandmother's ghost,
and "then go off on the double-quick.
" I guess it got noised among the
transient fraternity that Biggs kept a
dog with a ravenous appetite for ped
dlers and beggars. At all events, there
wasn't one came near the house after
that dog had been there two or three
weeks. The last one I saw was an old
lady. From her persistency, I reckon
she was taking up subscriptions for a
church fair or something of that sort.
She opened the gate, and then waited
apparently to see if that do meant
business. As the dog didn't spring at
her, she opened her umbrella with a
rush, thinking to frighten him away.
But that dog didn't scare worth a cent.
Then she tried the coaxing dodge.
'Doggv,' she called in persuasive tones,
poor doggy, nice doggv. Carlo, Rover,
Lion!' But that stone dog wasn't to be
wheedled into friendship. He lay there
as uoggeu as ever, lhe old lady ex
hausted every means she could think of
to coax or to frighten the cur; but there
he lay with his head on his outstretched
aws, looking fast asleep or all ready
or a spring, just as one happened to
fancy. The old lady had to give it up
finally, but she held the fort longer thau
any of the rest of them.
"Why, that do has paid for himself
over and over again. I don't know how
much he saved me when he scared the
old lady away, and nobody can reckon
how many coats and trousers he kept
out of the hands of the vase men. Mrs.
Bigga, you know, is just gone on vases,
and if one comes in her way she will
have it, even if she has to sacrifice my
entire wardrobe. But the biggest sav
ing was in fruit. The boys used to
come around to sample my pears and
appie, uiu as suou us mey goi a sigiu
of that stone dog, they scattered like a
cheap shot-gun. Ohf what fun I have
had, watching the young rascals!
And you should have seen tho way
the cats would get their backs up at
that dog! How they would spit, and
how they would scamper up the nearest
tree, and sit there watching mv stony
friend, and when they thought they had
a good chance, run down again and
make off like all possessed!
" It was fun, too, to see the dogs man
euver. They would come along, and
when they saw my stone dog, thev
would jump over the fence and try all
sorts of dog ways to make friends with
him: but to all their blandishments he
paid not the slightest attention. Some
would show light, and come at him
snorting and growling; but he stood his
ground so well that they didn't dare to
come too near, and when they turned
their backs, they kept their heads over
theirshouldera, as though they expected
he would be on them every minute.
Some of the dogs, who had come to be
sociable and friendly, finding that their
advances were met with stou' indiffer
ence, walked off with an air of offended
pride, as much as to say: 'Oh, very
well, you needn't notice us if you don't
want to; guess we are as good as vou.
any day m the week!' Others, timid
little fellows, would steal up on their
bellies until they got within a couple of
rods of my dog, and then, their courage
forsaking them, they would turn tail
and scurry down the walk, kicking up
clouds of dust and making the air musi
cal with their ki-yies.
"Yes," said Biggs, after stopping a
few moments to laugh over the scenes
that came to his mind, " if you want to
have fun, real jolly fun, day in and day
out, buy a stone dog. There's nothing
like it.' Boston Transcript.
Stories About the Czar Nicholas.
In 1848, when insurrections were
raging all over Europe, a riot broke out
iu St. Petersburg, owing to the unpopu
larity of a police officer. Nicholas
jumped into a one-horse sleigh, was
driven to the scene of the disturbance,
and, marching alone into the mob, or
dered that three ringleaders should sur
render. His terrible presence at once
cowed tho rioters. Three men stepped
out, went by his orders to the police
office and were there flogged. The Czar
never showed mercy to mutineers, and
no doubt the men kuew quite well what
punishment awaited them when they
gave themselves up. A few years be
fore this, in 1844, when Nicholas paid a
visit to England, his grini looks made
our Court uncomfortable. Lady Lyttle
ton, after saying in one of her letters
how grand and handsome he was, adds:
" The only fault in Ids face is that he
has pale eyelashes, so that his enormous
and very brilliant eyes have no shade;
besides which they have that awful
look imparted by occasional glimpses
of white above the eyeball which
gives him an expression of savage
wildness. His face has an awkward
character of deep gravity, almost sad
ness.and a strange want of smiles." The
Czar's military habits also caused aston
ishment at Windsor. After wearing
civilian clothes for a couple of days he
begged the Queen to permit that lie
should resume his uniform, for he found
the other clothes unendurable. He slept
on a feather sack stuffed with straw.
The first thing his valets did on being
shown his bed-room at Windsor Castle
was to go to the stables for clean truss
es, a proceeding which, as Baron Stock
nfar remarked, "was pronounced by our
Englishmen to be affectation; but af
fectation or not, the Emperor adhered
to the practice through life." The
Czar's soldierly tastes explain tho qual
ity of his rule. As obedience is reck
oned a virtue in a soldier, Nicholas was
resolved that it shoidd be regarded as
such by his subjects; and he also had
in him a strong notion of the palria
poteslas, calling himself father of his
people, and maintaining that his "chil
dren" ought not to feel degraded by
any order he gave or any punishment
which he inflicted.
One night at a court ball a young
Prince Kortasow made a foolish remark
which the Czar overheard. "You'll
walk up and down the ball-room all
night when the guests have gone and
cry out in a loud voice, 'I am a pup
py,' " said his Majesty, and the fright
ened young gentleman did as he was
bidden. Horace Vcrnet, the French
painter, who was at St. Petersburg
when this happened, said that the affair
sicKened him" so that he declined an
invitation which had been given him to
live in one of the imperial palaces for
a year while he did somo work for the
Emperor. The Frenchman and the
Russian autocrat were not likely to
agree upon human dignity a sentiment
which the Czar never took into his cal
culations. Nicholas disliked books and hated to
bear arguments in favor of his system.
He said it was a natural system that
needed no argument in its favor. When
told of GuizoT's maxim: "The best gov
ernment is an intelligent despotism,"
he remarked shrewdly enough that
there was no real despotism, that is
mastery, without intelligence. London
Times.
1883.
A (Stage-Coach Dialogue.
The seat of honor and pleasure in a
journey overland is by the driver, and
there is always a scramble for it, and
the one who succeeds in securing it is
regarded as a lucky fellow. I grot left
in my contest for a seat on the top and
found myself recently inside of the
stage, with a clergyman and a man
whom I took for a miner, during a trip
to Silver City, N. M. The preacher
and I sat on the back seat and the
native sat facing us. He was dressed
in the regulation costume of the
country: Dark pants stuck iu his boots
and held up by a six-shooter buckled
around the waist, blue flannel shirt,
flaming red necktie, and a great som
brero. A knife was stuck in his boot
and he carried a Winchester rifle on
the seat beside him. Taking him all in
all, he was about as ugly looking a
specimen of humanity as I have met
As the stage rolled "along, the rainei
looked out of tho window as if in deep
thought. The preacher and I entered
into conversation, during which he
asked my business. X told him, when
he asked:
"Do the great papers buy literary
articles?"
"Yes, sir, when they are good."
"Do they pay for them liberally?"
"They do, when they accept tlie arti
cles." "Well, I have got somo very inter
esting subjects I could write about," he
continued, as the stage jolted over the
rough road, making it a little hard
to
distinguish what he was saying,
live years I was a missionary at
and saw manv strange and even
"For
Siam
start-
ling things."
"What were those scenes you refer
to?" I asked.
"Well, the punishment of criminals
was exceeding!- strange and is worthy
of description. When a person is con
vicfed of crime there he is taken oul
upon the public square for execution.
His neck is bared well down upon the
shoulders, and the executioner dips hij
finger in mud and with it makes a
mark upon the neck of the doomed
man."
"What kind of mud?" shouted the
miner in a voico like a thunder-clap,
while he glared at the parson savagely.
I noticed that, although he kept peer
ing out of the window, he had followed
our conversation for some time.
"A sort of yellowish mud," replied
the preacher, evidently disturbed bv the
miner's look and manner. But he" con
tinued:
"The executioner theu takes hij
heavy sword aud with one quick and
decisive blow severs the victim's head
from his body."
"It's an infernal lie," yelled the min
er, in tones that might llave been heard
four miles. "The boys do occasionally
hang a horse-thief there, and the town
has a pretty bad name, but they nevei
cut people's heads oft'. There ain't only
one sword in the whole place, and that
belongs to a militia Captain ind
wouldn't cut the head oil of a turnip."
"But I was a missionary there for
live years," meekly interposed the min
ister. "And I was a barber there for
years, and I never shaved
neither."
seven
vou.
"My friend, that can not be; for tho
people never shave there."
"That's another of your infernal lies;
they're as clean a shaven set of people
ns tliar is in the West. You're a nice
man to be giving the town a bad name
after you have left it. If it weren't
kind of agin the fashion to hit a parson
I'd knock your head off of you fur vour
lies," cried the miner, getting madder
ererv minute.
"My dear friend." said the minister,
imploringly, and evidently much dis
turbed for his safety, "there certainly
must be some mistake. You do not
mean to say that you were a barber in
the Kingdom of Siam, where people
never shave?"
"Oh! I thought you were talking
about Cheyenne." sa'id the miner, as he
fell back ihto his chair disgusted.
1 was the only man who seemed to
enjoy this amusing incident, and even I
found it good policy to show as little
disposition to laugh as possible. The
.stage rolled on for miles after it oc
curred, and not a word was spoken by
any one. The miner looked more in
tently than ever out of the window, and
yet there was not an expression on his
stolid face to indicate what his thoughts
.were. The preacher looked as intently
out from the opposite side of the stao-e,
and I spent my time watching the mTn
er, looking at thestrange region through
which we were passing. Cor. Piiladel'
phia Press.
Teaching Swimming.
"Our process of teaching is a very
simple and easy one. When the pupil
presents herself and has donned her
bathing suit, which consists of a sack,
skirt and broad trousers, she is taken to
the preparatory room and is taught the
proper motions of her arms and legs on
a carpet. These mastered, she is taken
to the bathing pool, where a strap, so
padded as not to hurt her, is passed
around her body, and she is placed in
the water with her face down and kept
afloat by a rope passed through a pulley.
Here she goes through the motions of
swimming, which like her music lesson
at home, are indicated by the voice of
the female teacher, who counts one, two,
three in a monotone that gives the time
to the motions of the limbs. The next
stage is swimming with a float or life
preserver around the body. In this the
action of the limbs are perfectly free,
and the pupil, accompanied b the
leacner, oiten succeeus in maKing a
round of the bath in the second or third
lesson. All her motions are closely
watched.and her attention Is sharply call
ed to any false stroke or laggard move
ment. The motions once perfectly
learned.the pupil soon gathers confidence
in her ability to swim, and it is only in a
few cases that we are not able to dispense
with the float at the fifth lesson and
send the young lady out to swim with
out anvfolhcr aids than those given her
by nature. Girls are taught the same
stroke as boys, but I think there is an
essential difference between them in tho
matter of using the propelling power of
the tower limbs, lhe boy u more vig
orous and more propulsive in his legs
than in his arms, While with the girls the
reverse is the case. Many of our lady
swimmers dispense with th"e skirt, which
somewhat retards their motions, and
wear simply the sack and the trousers.
I think that is the most reasonable
swimming costume, for the skirt is apt
to hold the water anil lessen the speed
of the swimmer by giving her a heavier
load to carry. From an interview with
a Professor in Indianapolis Journal.
Newburyport, Mass., is the only
town in the world of that name, and
gets spelled in all sorts of ways in con
sequence. The English give it "New
bury Port," and goods from France
come to 'New Bnryport. ' 'Boston Post.
WHOLE NO. 693.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL!
Silver City, N. M., pays its public
school-teachers $250 a month.
Bridgeport,Conn.,has nine quartette
church choirs, one double quartette and
three chorus choirs.
Among the graduates at Madison
(N. Y.) University recently, was a na
tive of Burmah, " named A. Kijahugo
Myattway. He took tho class prize In
oratory.
It is not an unusual thing for a col
lege graduate to believe he knows moro
iu a minute than the old folks at homo
do all da. A dozen or twenty years
nence he will awake to his delusion.
Al 11 Graphic.
Of 1,015 girls examined for admis
sion to the Normal College, in New
York, this year, 9b"4. or ninoty-five per
cent., were successful. The percentage
of successes among the boys who ap
plied for admission to the City College
was eighty-two. N. Y. Sun.
An Englishman in Paris has given
the sum of 13,000 to tho sumptuous
American Church now buildinr in the
Avenue do l'Alma. It is a national
scandal, remarks the London World,
that the English Church is not worthily
represented in the French capital.
A little fellow of five, going along the
street with a dinner-pail, is stopped by
a kind-hearted old gentleman.wlio says:
"Where are vou going, my little man?"
"To school.'' "And what do you do at
school? Do you learn to read?"" "No."
"To write?" "No." "To oount?"
"No." "What do you do?" "I wait
for school to let out' N. Y. Tribune.
Church-going in the United States
Is not diminishing, it is increasing in
what ratio to the increase of population
can only, at present, be a matter of es
timate, lhe public religious services
of the church have never been so nu
merously attended as now, nor by so
large a proportion of intelligent, re
sponsible people. And the most strik
ing phenomenon of the ago the rise of
the children s church makes it cer
tain that religious instruction and wor
ship are more universal among us than
ever before. Rev. Dr. Pullman, of New
York.
The venerable Prof. Alpheus S.
Packard, of Bowdoin College, who was
a classmate and roommate of Mr.George
Bancroft while a student at Phillips
Exeter Academy, told at Exeter on
Thursday the story of his meeting Ban
croft and Palfrey and Sparks at his
boarding-house old Captain Halbur
ton's when he first went there, aud re
marked on the singular fact that these
three historiaus of America should have
studied at the same school, boarded at
the same house, and paid their board
out of the same charitable fund. He
added.what was almost as curious, that
he had not seen Mr. Bancroft since the
latter left college, sixty-six years ago.
N. Y. Examiner.
History of a Famous Diamond.
The " Orlov " diamond adorning the
imperial scepter of Russia has a roman
tic history. It lirst formed in its rough
state the eye of an idol, and was stolen
by a Frenchman, who sold it to a He
brew merchant in Persia for 10,000.
The Shah, having learned of the rob
bery and that the thief was trying to sell
the gem, determined to arrest the man
and seize the diamond, probably for the
purpose of keeping it himself, possibly
of restoring it to its owner. The Jewish
merchant, becoming alarmed, trans
ferred the diamond to an Armenian for
$60,000, who knew that if he could get
it to St. Petersburg the rich and famous
lamarine woum uuv it oi mm at a
handsome advance. The trouble was to
hide it about his person so that it could
not be discovered. Being too large for
him to swallow, he made a deep incision
inthecalfofhisleg.insertedthestoneand
sewed up the wound with silver thread.
When the cut had healed sufficiently
to allow the removal of the wire, he be
gan his travels toward Russia. In the
meantime, and unknown to him, the
stone had been traced to the Jewish
merchant and from him to an Armeni
an. So when ho boldly proclaimed
himself an Armenian to the Shah's fron
tier officials, he was at once arrested
nnd imprisoned. Strong emetics were
administered, but no diamond came
to light. He was stripped naked,
plunged into a hot bath, and then ex
amined from head to foot, with no bet
ter success. c.ven a little torture was
tried, but the man was firm, and in the
end he was bundled unceremoniously
over the frontier, whence lie reached
the capital of Russia. He wanted 200,
000 for his diamond, but the Empress
had only 100,000. So he took it to
Amsterdam to have it cut. Here Count
Orlov saw it and determined to buy it
for his mistress, this same Empress. He
gave $350,000 for it, an annuity of 2,000
rubles a year and a patent of nobility.
The Armenian became through various
investments a millionaire. Detroit Free
Press.
How Colds Are Taken.
A person in good health, with fair
play, easily resists cold. But when the
health flags a little, and liberties are
taken with the stomach, or the nervous
system, a chill is easily taken, and, ac
cording to the weak spot of the individ
ual, assumes the form of a cold, or
pneumonia, or, it may be, jaundico. Of
all causes of "cold," probably fatigue
is one of the most efficient. A jaded
man coming home at night from a long
day's work, a growing youth losing two
hours' sleep over evening parties two
or three times a week, a vounsr lady
heavily "doing tho season," young;
children over-fed and with short allow
ance of sleep, are common instances of
the victims of "cold." Luxury is fa
vorable to chill-taking; very hot rooms,
soft chairs, feather beds, create a sen
sitiveness that leads to catarrhs. It is
not, after all. the "cold" that is
so much to be feared as the
antecedent conditions that give the
attack a chance of doing harm. Some
of the worst "colds" happen to tho.e
who do not leave their house or oven
their bed, and those who are mot in
vulnerable are often those who ar- most
exposed to changes of temprratmv. ami
who by good sleep, cold bat'iing and
regular habits pre.erve the tone of their
nervous .system and circulation. Prob
ably main ehilN are contracted at ni-rht
or at the fag end of the day. when tired
people get the cuili!)rium"of tin- r cir
culation di-tur!cd by either v !-.! atn!
sitting-rooms or uuderlien'ed b-d-rooms
and beds. This N sp-r'nll. the c-i
with elderly w -pli. In Mh-li :.. the
mi.ci!ici is not aiway.otioni' it .::i:irwu
ly, or in a single night. It otteti ia!e
place insidiously, extending over davs
or even weeks. It thus appears that
"taking cold" is not by any mm-:, a
simple result of a lower tempi raturv,
but depends largely on personal en-idi-tion-J
and habits, aileetiiige-p-'cial! the
nervous ami musnilar enei; of ti.e
body. The Lancet
at this office.
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monthly.
FACTS AND FIGUREM.
-The stoves used in the United
States cost one dollar a head each year;
in 1840 they did not cost over six cents
head..
The enormous sum of 202,000,000
Is invested in the submarine cables of
the world, supposed to aggregate 64,000
miles in length. Al I'. vn.
There are over 80,000,000 seeds In a
bushel of red-top seed, over 26,000,000
in a half-bushel of timothy, and about
3.000,000 in ten pounds of clover seed.
Prairie Parmer.
The largest mule in the world wa
sold at Kansas t'itv recently. It wa
181 hands high, weighed 1,975 pounds.
aicaMired 15 feet from nose to tail, and
was six years old. Kansas City Trmts.
A party of Pennsylvanians has pur
shased the Ottawa &Gatineau Coloni
sation llailway, running seventy-five
miles through a mining country, which
received a liberal bonus from the Gov
ernment in money and lands. Philadel
phia Press.
The amount of beer brewed in the
United States during the year ended in
May. 1883. was 17.-I48.424 barrels ol
:hirty-seven gallons each. Counting
:he population at 50,155.782, that gives
nearly ten gallons for each person.
Chicago Journal.
Each head of clover contains about
lixty distinct flower tubes, each of which
.'ontains a portion of sugar not exceed
ing the five-hundredth part of a grain.
The prolKscis of the bee must there
fore be inserted into 500 clover tubes
aefore one grain of sugar can be ob
.ained. There are 7.000 grains in a
pound, and. as honey contains three
wirths of its weight 6f dry sugar, each
sound of honey represents 2.500.000
lover tubes sucked by bees. Chicago
Tribune.
The San Francisco Bulletin says:
"How manv wheat ships do we want
for the year 1883-4? We shall probably
vant and use all that will come. The
largest number of flour nnd grain ves-
icis ever cleared from California in a
'ereal year was in 1881-2, when we
Jispatched 559, or an average of 47 for
iach mouth. We shall have over 1,000.
XK) tons of wheat for export during the
jnsuing year.. That means employment
for 500 ship averaging 1,400 tons
register.
There are 102,624 buildings in New
York City, of which 78,368 are occupied
wholly or in part as dwelling-houes.
Over "200,000 families are sheltered in
those houses, or sixteen persons for
avery building in the city which is oc
cupied in any way as a dwelling. But
only 82,098 families own the houses
they occupy, leaviug 167,000 families in
rented dwellings. These belong to that
part of the population which goes to
make up the army of movers. It is
2tinmtcd that at least 50,000 of thos
families move every year. N. Y.
Times.
WIT AND WISDOM,
The secret of success is to know
how to deny yourself and other people.
N. O. I'iciuune.
When a man is half-seas over you
may harbor a suspicion that his judg
ment is afloat Hotton Star.
Charity begins at home." is well
defiued by a little Sunday-school child
as meaning "giving to others what we
don't, want for ourselves."
Some one advices women to culti
vate a pleasant voice. The disposition
underneath must be pleasant to make
tho voice so. N. Y. Examiner.
A Chicago man owns a mule which
he has christened "Confusion." And
every time he licks the animal, it only
makes "Confusion" worse, confound it!
Chicago Herald.
"Ma, is Long Branch an awful
dirty place?" "Why, no. my child;
what made you think so?" "Why. here
is an advertisement that savs it is
washed by the tide twice a dav."" Res
ton Post.
It's Lowell who asks: " What is so
rare as a day in June?" is it not? Well,
now, if he had only stopped to think a
minute, he might have known that the
29th of February was the answer to tho
riddle. Harvard Lampoon.
An Irish soldier, on hearing that
his widowed mother had been married
since he quitted Ireland, exclaimed:
"Murther! I hope she won't have a
sou older than me; if she does I shall
lose tho estate!" N. Y. News.
When to look for a rise in gas
When balloons begin to go up. Men
who always give down weight Pile
drivers. Why is the boarding of a ship
at sea by pirates like a tower clock?
It's a high-handed affair. Boston Trav
eller. An asphaltum sidewalk is a thing of
joy in winter, but it has its disadvant
ages in the summer time. One of our
most prominent burglars was running
down Pine street last Thursday with a
five hundred-dollar watch and" a lot of
silver-place which he had coralled, when
he stopped near the California market
and was inextricably mired up to his
ankles in the municipal pitch of which
our elegantly organized community is
proud. San Francisco News-Letter.
Countryman: "By Gosh, them sus
penders air" too short". They pull my
ants up so tight that I can't work my
egs. Haven't you got longer sus
penders?" Mose Schauraburg: "Mine
fren. you vash mishdaken. Dose sus
benders vash de longest kind imborted
goots. You keeps close susbenders, uud
shoost you puys for dree tollar und a
hallaf a bair of" bants vat comes down
more on dcr ground, und dot vill fit
dose imborted braces." Texas Sijtings.
Doing Hint a Faror.
The occupant of an office on Lamed
street desired to drop 5,000 circulars to
as many residents of Detroit regarding
a new household patent, and he had just
completed the weary work of directing
the envelopes, the other dav. when in
came a telegram calling him out of the
city for a day or two. "He ran into a
law office and left his key, and ex
plained that he was sorry he didn't have
time to mail his circulars before going.
When he had departed the lawyer said
to his office boy:
"My son, what is life worth without
the good opinion of our fellow-meu?"
Nothing, sir."
" Of course not. This afternoon you
go over and stamp all his circulars aud
get them iuto the post-otlicr. It will be
a favor and a surprise to him."
At three o'clock in the afternoon the
boy said he had ucd up all the stamps,
and he was directed to mail the circu
lars and wait for Iris reward. It came
in a manner to astonish him. When
the circular man returned he rushed in
to the law office white with rage, drove
the boy into a corner, and shrieked out
at the top of his voice:
"You infernal idiot! You licked three
cents on each circular!" Detroit Fnc
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