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    THE JOURNAL.!
WEDNESDAY, SETT. 19, 1883.
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Treatment f Anbulg. ,
Has on a right to do aahe will with
his own? In this question are involved
principals which are of the deepest
interest to all mankind. The time has
been when ownership, not only im
animals but in man also, was.consid
ered in accordance with the laws of
nature, and human beings were liable
to be treated as badly as the most
inhuman brute could " possibly have
treated another brute. Indeed brute
force seemed to be the ruling law
of . action, the stronger claiming full
power over the weaker. We Know
little of the present, less of the past,
and nothing absolutely of the future.
Whether man was once perfect, and
then blundered and fell, or has
from the beginning of his existence
been growing stronger and better, is a
question for a difference of opinion
and dispute. It is the commonly ac
cepted opinion, however, we believe,
at the present time, that men are
traveling in an onward and upward
course; tbat the world is a little better
world to live in to-day than it was yes
terday, a 3'ear, or a century ago, and
that this better condition is owing to a
more intelligent understanding of
man's relations to nature, and a desire
to live more in accordance with the
natural laws, a desire to govern and be
governed by love rather than by brute
power. Probably there was never a
time when so large a proportion of the
inhabitants of the earth wero living in
comparative peace as at the present
tome. As war begets war-liko feelings,
so peace inclines to increase the desire
for peace and for kindly" feelings
between all. Kindliness is kindliness
the world over. A man who is kindly
by nature will almost invariably bo
kind to his animals.
Exactly how well domestic or other
animals should be treated is a question
that is by no means easy to answer. In
some countries some animals are re
garded ns sacred, and in some all
animal life is looked upon with a degree
di reverence, or as being something
which man has no absolute control
over. The whole question of our re
lations to the animal kingdom is one
more or less of sentiment, and in that
light we havo no desire to discuss it at
this time. Looking at the matter
wholly from a pecuniary standpoint,
we have ample inducements for treat
ing the domestic animals under our
care in a reasonably humane manner.
A wild, nervous animal, whether horse,
or cow, sheep, pig or fowl, ono that
as in constant fear of injury at the
hands of its keeper, can never be so
profitable an animal as one that wel
comes with demonstrations of gladness
the hand that feeds and protects.
To get the most out of a horse, the
animal must be well fed that it will be
in good health and good spirits. A
plump, well-fed horse or ox is not only
more willing to pull a load, but its
extra weight, above that of a lean one,
gives it an additional advantage over
and above what comes merely from mus
cular strength. A heavy locomotive,
other things being equal, will always
start a heavier train than a light one.
It is the light, leanhorse that is easily
knocked to pieces between the shafts of
the tip cart. The principal cost of a
team is not in its lirst cost, but in the
daily and yearly expense for keeping,
and very largely on the character of
the keep depends the ability of the ani
mal to perform its work each day.
If a horse or ox bo starved only for a
single day, its measure of usefulness is
diminished, and if the starvation be
continued but for a very few days,
the animal is rendered absolutely worth
less. An old, low-priced animal, if well
fed aud otherwise well cared for, may,
for the time being, be equally valuable
with the young, high priced animal,
that is, it may be able to earn as much
in a single day or week. There is no
economy in letting any working animal
get thin in flesh, so long as its work is
worth having, for it must be remem
bered that it is the food we give and
not the mere frame and life principle,
that gives us the energy and power we
are seeking. If a farmer has an old
horse that he considers not worth keep
ing through the coming winter, on ac
count of its age, but is worth retaining
through the summer season, we believe
it will be better economy, provided its
work is needed at all," to keep it in
plump condition than to let it get lean
from want of sufficient food. Indeed
there is no boubt about it, for the well
fed horse will do double the work that
the starved one can do, to say nothing
of the mortification from using a weak,
worn-out beast.
Many people seem to be very thought
less as well as unreasonable in their de
mands upon their animals. They seem
to forget that working horses can get
tired as well as working men. When
the' urge a horse to a little higher
speed, or are putting on a little heavier
load than they ought to draw, they for
get that one party is doing: all the work
while the other sits and rides. Perhaps
there is no greater or more common
form of cruelty to horses than that of
leaving them standing exposed in the
cold and wind, while the thoughtless
driver is telling long stories by a warm
fire. Animals are also sadly" misused
by being made to work in ill-fitting
harness, collars that arc too large, saiC
dies that gall, and with whippletrees so
short that the traces are constantly chaf
ing the sides.
Occasionally animals are injured,
sometimes utterly ruined, by over kind
ness or what passes for that. Few
horses can stand idle in a narrow stall
for months together, with no exercise,
but with full feed, without losing the
uso of their feet or legs, and no animal
can for a long time have all it can eat
of rich food without danger of losing
both its appetite aud its health. We
have had a painful and expensive illus
ion of this in our own herd during the
past year. Animals are more like3 hu
man beings than the most of us have
been taught to believe. Those who
have given the matter the most study
are often puzzled as to where to draw
the line of distinction. Animals suffer
from heat, cold, cuts, bruises, conta
gious and other diseases, from fear,
from loss of companions, and are often
homesick when changed to new quar
ters. They respond quickly to kind
ness, and show affection, confidence,
trust, honor, and anger, and sometimes
shame, as well as cunning and ingenui
ty in carrying out their own or others'
plans. They leanr our language, and
so far as they go with it, understand it
as well as do we who use it, and they
have ways of asking for things that are
equally unmistakable to us.
As compared with former periods,
our domestic animals are now treated
in a very humane manner. A great
change in public sentiment in this direction,-
has been brought'about through
the efforts of men and women who
have organized in societies for that pur
pose. The first time we visited the city
of Boston we saw a cart horse down in
the street, struggling under a -load and
entirely unable to rise, but being most
brutally pounded by its driver. Such
a sight now would be as rare as it was
then for even a policeman to interfere
with the rights of a driver to do as he
pleased with his own. Seventeen years
ago there was no effective law in Ameri- j
ca to prevent cruelty to animals!
The suffering caused to animals by
man's inhumanity, however ranch it
be deplored, is after all of little
inemoe oomparedto the 'rebouBi-
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ing influence such cruelty has upon
man himself. Blood and barbarity
breed blood and barbarism everywhere
and always. A man who is cruel to his
animals will, as a rule, be cruel to his
children, and children reared in an at
mosphere of inhumanity will naturally
grow up more or less inhuman, and be
come dangerous members of society.
Not the least then of the good work that
has been done in Massachusettes in this
direction within a short time has been
the pledging of twenty thousand chil
dren to be kind to animals. We would
not like to see a public sentiment grow
ing up in America that would rate am
animal, even a poisonous reptile, as of
more consequence than a human being,
as is the case in some countries, but
there is room for the cultivation of a
great deal more of real kindness, both
m our treatment of animals and of each
other. Cruelty tears down and destroys;
it is unprofitable. Kindness builds up;
it benefits both parties, the kind as well
as the kindlv treated. Kindness pays,
'even in dollars and cents it pays.
New England Farmer.
A Merited Rebuke.
"Am Purveyor Hopewell in de hall
diseavenin'?'- asked Brother Gardner,
of the Limekiln Club, as the meeting
was called to order.
"Yes, sah," replied a voice from the
back row of seats.
"Den please step dis way."
Brother Hopewell shuffled forward
with a mixed look of hope and doubt
n his face. He couldn't make out
whether he was to be rewarded for pull
ing a stranger out of the river the other
day, or court-martialed for having a
wheel-barrow in his possession which
three different men claimed to have
been stolen from them.
"Brudder Hopewell." continued the
President, as a great silence fell upon
the meeting, "de odder day I met
you down street an' I shouldn't have
knowed who you was if Pickles Smith
hadn't identified you. You had on a
suit of togs dat mus' have cost forty
dollars." "Yes, sah."
"You had ha'r ile on yer ha'r, you
smelt of perfumery, an' you car'd a
cane."
"Yes, sah."
"When you walked you acted like a
man who owned half de town, an' when
you stopped you struck a pose to show
off yer hgger. Brudder Hopewell, how
much monev does you aim a week?"
" 'Bout nine dollars, sah."
"An' how much am you behind on
board?"
"I I I s'pects Ize 'bout eben, sah."
"Brudder Hopewell, you am in debt
fur board, fur cloze, fur butes, fur ci
gars, an' you has borrowed money
which you can't pay. I has had my
eye on you fur de pas' three months, an'
I knows all about it. Now, den, who
am you?"
"Purveyor Hopewell, sah."
" 'Zactly 'zactly. You am a single
man, twenty-five years old, a second
class barber, not worf twenty dollars,
an' out of de 52,000,000 people in dis
kentry not ober one hundred has eber
heard of you. Now, den, you dress up;
'ou swell around; you fling on scol
ops; you try to deceive people into tak
in you fur a pusson of riches. What
am your objick?"
"i I doan' know, sah," stammered
the victim.
"Brudder Hopewell, let me tell you
sunthin'. When you flatter yerself dat
de people of this kentry doan' know do
difference between de bray 'of de mule
an' de roar of de lion you am dref
fully mistaken. You have bin follern'
de lead of sartin white people. I knows
heaps of 'em who goes hungry an'
dodge creditors fur fe sake of blindin'
people's eyes. A woman whose hus
ban aims twenty dollars per week has
no biziness wid silks and diamonds, a
fifteen dollar hat or a seven dollar pair
of shoes, but she am de pusson who'll
have'em fur fear dat somebody will
think he isn't rich. Half de kentry am
in debt fur cloze which only de odder
half kin afford. De woman who w'ars
de best cloze on de street has do moas'
holes in her parlor ca'pet at home. De
man who swells de biggest owes de
moas' to his tailor an boot maker.
You am a poo' man. You'll nebber
have a hundred dollars in bank as long
as you live. You'll nebber aim mo'
dan 'nuft to run a small cabin in a
small way, an' yet you am swellin'
aroun' as if a $20,000 mortgage wouldn't
bodder you half an hour. What's
your objick?"
"I I doan' know, sah."
"Boy7! take off dat s waller-tailed coat!
Jump outer dem tight pants! Drap dat
silk necktie! Den vou go to work an' fin'
a cheap boardin' house an begin to pay
your debts. Let your cloze match your
salary. Let your board match your
cloze. Be what you am a common
sort o' pussen whose assets will kivcr
his liabilities by hard pullin'. You
can't deceive anybody, an de less vou
try to de bettor people will like you.1''
Brother Hopewell retired to his cor
ner all broken up, and his first move
was to offer to trade a handkerchief
with a red border to Shindig Watkins
for a white-handled knife with all the
blades broken. Detroit Free Press.
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A. German ea Americans
The Americans, the Yankees, as they
call them, have become a fruitful sub
ject of study for foreign physiologists.
One of the latest writers on the inhab
itants of the United States, the German
scientist. Dr. George Seelhorst, says:
"The North American nation is of
English origin, but mixed with French
blood in the North, with Spanish blood
in the South, and with that of nearly all
other European nations in every part of
the vast country. In spite of, and per
haps on account of, this admixture, the
race differs from all others and is as
serting itself as a decided and separate
type. Its power of assimilation is so
great that after a few generations,
sometimes after a single one, the orig
inal character of the immigrant is lost
and merged in the American type. I
have frequently seen children of Ger
man immigrants between the ages of
fifteen and: twenty, who had become
perfect Americans in features, the pro
jecting under-jaw, the slenderness of
bod, and more than all in their man
ner of thought. Even the most
tenacious of all types, the Israelitic,
soon disappears, because the American
Jew feels himself first of all 'a citizen
of the United States.' Yea, one might
say, the American had adopted many
traits from the Jews, i. e.: from the In
dians, who have so much of the Jew in
their physiognomy that among all the
hypotheses concerning the origin of the
Indians not one is more obstinately ad
hered to or defended with more acute
ness and science than that which as
sumes the lost ten tribes of Israel to
have been the original ancestors of the
Indians. The first European discover
ers noticed the Jewish type of the In
dians, and Montesini called the atten
tion of the learned Jew, Manasse Ben
Israel, to the fact, who, in conseqence,
wrote his celebrated work "La Espe
ranza de Israel." in which he endeavors
to prove that the Israelites were the
original discoverers of America. This
question has since ben frequently dis
cussed and supported by numerous
analogies. Not only has a striking re
semblance 'between the Indian and the
Jewish type been believed in, but it has
also .been asserted "that many Indian
words are related to or derived from the
Hebrew, and more particularly that
there existed in the manners, the re
lipious views and onstom f t
duns many points which rendered a
connect-on- between these anel the Jem
ugftiy proMM." Mitt
I
Steered late a Banke.
A New York correspondent says: Dan
Farley is an actor who does not make
the mistake of hiding his attractiveness
of person. He enhances it with good
clothes and gentlemanly manners. He
is playing the character of an honest
man-about-town under his own manage
ment, and with great artistic and pecu
niary success, lie is the roper-in for a
bunko game. The private detective of
the Fifth Avenue hotel showed him to
me, and said that if I was incredulous
as to his employment I could satisfy my
self entertainingly and without much
trouble.
"Don't flatter yourself," said he,
"that your city cut will prevent him
from operating upon you if you throw
3'ourself in his way. His easiest victims
are those who ought to know better,
and who think they do. Try him and,
I say, you'd better report to me as soon
as he gets through with you just what
you've done."
I did put myself in the way of Dan
Farley, making him believe that I was a
stranger from Chicago. The proceed
ings were not essentially different from
what is usual iu confidence swindling.
He told me that he had drawn a prize
in a lotterv, and was going to get it.
Did I care to take a walk and see him
ask for the money? We sauntered up
Broadway and through Twenty-sixth
street to jfo. 122. This is a block which
is in that state of social chaos which
lies between the expulsion of indecency
and the acquisition of presentable re
spectability. That is to say, the evil
resorts with which it was until lately
lilled have been closed, through the ac
tion of a majority of the property
ownprs, and as Vet neither regular
business nor well-to-do residents navo
been introduced. The tenants, there
fore, are at present poor people, and to
a considerable extent negroes. It was
in such an improbable neighborhood
that we found the office of Dan's lot
tery. It was a room that had been
rather clumsily made to look something
like a place of business.
"The police are so down on lotteries
just now," he apologetically explained,
on seeing me scrutinize the make
shift furniture, "that I suppose these
folks have to move too often to fit up
their places handsomely."
A much-whiskered man, with colored
glasses on to disguise his countenance,
sat behind a desk. He did very well in
deed at a pretense of irritation when
Dan laid down the ticket calling for $20,
but counted out the money without dis
pute. As for Dan, he was elated. To
tell the truth, he remarked, he hadn't
more than half expected to be paid at
all. Then a sweat-board was introduced,
in the usual manner, and Dan lost a
few dollars on it He asked me to play
for him, with his money, and at first I
won, but afterward lost. At length, I
was told that I was on my own account
indebted to the board to the extent of
S300.
"I haven't the money with me," I
said.
"Then give me a check," was the fel
low's suggestion. "I suppose you have
a bank account. Or, won't that be con
venient?" It occurred to me that to sign a check
would cost me nothing, since I could go
immediately to the bank and stop pay
ment So 1 readily agreed to meet my
loss in that wav, A blank check was
produced and t filled it out. The gam
bler scrutinized it, remarked parenthet
ically that my payment could be en
forced whether I had an account at that
particular bank or not, and then dried
the ink with a newspaper, in lieu of a
regular blotter. Dan had been quiet
for a while. Now he suddenly broke
out:
"This is a friend of mine," he ex
claimed, savasrelr. "and I won't see
him swindled. He shan't let you have
his check for a cent." I wonderod what
this meant, and was absolutely dum
founded when Dan grabbed the cheek,
tore it into bits, and threw them on the
floor.
"Come," and he seized me by the arm,
"let's get out of this den."
There was an excited protest by the
other chap, but we went out unhindered,
and I parted with Dan on the corner,
receiving his congratulations on having
escaped unscathed. On turning to the
-hotel I gave to the detective the promised
account of what had happened, ex
plaining that I had intended to stop pay
ment on the check, but that no such
precaution was now necessary.
"Don't you lose a minute in going to
the bank," he said, "or they'll get there
with the check before you. It was de
stroyed? Not a bit of "it. A newspaper
lay on the desk didn't it? and he put
the check between the folds, face down
ward, as if to blot it. Then the stool
Eigion snatched out, not the check itself,
ut a blank one that had been previous
ly placed there. Thi9 dummy was what
Dan tore up, and the real check was left
safe and sound. That's the way they
prevent their victims from stopping
payments."
m
The Smells of Cologne.
Simple vile smells are all well enough.
One can stand a good deal of such.
But when it comes to inflicting the un
suspecting traveler with compounded
smells, carrying in themselves a dozen
distinct and separable odors, each one
viler than the other eleven, one cannot
if he has a spark of natural, manly in
dependence about him, help but men
tally resent the indignity, and he feels a
little charitable toward the people who
have changed the name of the town so
often, hoping, no doubt, to get rid of
the smells along with the old name. My
own private opinion is that they did not
succeed in this last endeavor if they
ever had any such an idea. If they did
better the conditon of things every
time they made an alteration in the
appellation, one cannot help but pity
from the bottom of his soul the original
inhabitants who lived here when the town
had its undiminished stock of smells.
In all other German towns I have been
in there were, of course, various and
sundry smells to be encountered and
subdued. But, as a rule, these smells
were not very aggressive. They fell
upon the traveler singly and gave him
some little chance Tor his life, and, if
they met with a prompt and vigorous
resistance, they would retire from the
field discomfited. But the Cologne
smells are different They lurk in all
the gutters, bide in all the sewer-traps,
conceal themselves in all the dark
corners and secrete themselves in every
nook and cranny. And hure they lie in
wait for the foot-passenger, ready at a
moment's warning to spring out of their
lurking places and fall upon him tooth
and nail. And though the stranger may
he valiant as a lion and ready for all
emergencies, he must, if he is not case
hardened, retire from the unequal con
test and beat a hasty retreat before the
fierce attack of his banded-together as
sailants. It seems, also, as if these
lurkers in the narrow alleys have'a cer
tain amount of what might be called an
odorous intelligence. For a native
never seems to be bothered at all as he
walks the streets. His handkerchief, if
he have one, remains quietly in his
pocket and his fingers are busied in
other ways than holding his nose.
From which oircumstances It is fair to
argue that he has cosae off viotorious in
so many furious battles with the smells
that the latter know there is no use in
attacking him. No other explanation
will suffice, because it does not seem
possible, that any mortal man could
walk unconcernedly through these
.streets if he were attacked and it is
bat fair to presume that theCologners
are hut mortal, exactly the same as the
net of ns. But let a stranger fall in
behind one e the exempt natives said
eHew him inteeeefe byways. Ike
smells are not to be Imposed upon by
any such a transparent arrangemont.
The native parses scot free, tut the
stranger has to light.
Black declares that these smells are
visible and that they have distinct and
distinguishing colors. He has drawn
up a sort of a table in the matter and
classified them all according to aggres
siveness and color. His deductions are
about as follows: "The red smells are
the most ferocious, vindictive, merci
less and aggressive. They are really
the leaders in all the attacks on unsus
pecting tourists. They lie in wait al
ways at the ends of the streets, ready to
spy out the approaching stranger and
inaugurate the attack upon him. Their
favorite lurking places are in the open
sewer-traps, where there are any sewer
tr&m. or else behind some nroiectinir
house corner. Here they hide, having.
only one eye exposed to scan the side?
walks and'streets for victims. They are
quite sly and strategic. They wait until
the stranger has passed them. Then
they give the alarm and attack the ene
my in the rear, and woe betide the un
fortunate who falls into the merciless
grasp of a bright red Cologne smell.
ft he be not strong and valiant, he need
have no hopes of surviving the encoun
ter. For the bright red smells have ab
lutely no compassion. When once thev
get possession they never leave until
they have accomplished their desires.
The green smells are malignant. The
sea-green more so than the light-green
ones. They love to steal up behind one
and garrote him. so to speak. But they
are also cowardly; and, if repulsed or
stoutly resisted, they soon retire. The
yellojv smells are gay deceivers. Thev
come toward tho object of their attack
as if bent on some friendly errand.
They are generally corpulent and smil
ing. They always come with out
stretched hand, as' if to shake hands.
They always have a healthy look about
them which completely deceives the
stranger, so that he almost always goes
half way to meet them and actually
welcomes them. But ho is soon unde
ceived, and that in no very pleasant
way; for your yellow smell is powerful;
he is insinuating; he is heavy and
stifling, and he hangs about one in such
an affectionate manner that one hardly
likes to offend him by drivi f him
away. One always feels as if L might
insult a worthy but unfortunato smell if
he resorted to extreme measures.
Hence it comes about that the yellow
smell is tho most dangerous of all."
Such are the more prominent of Black's
deductions. He has gone, however,
more into minutiae and has carefully
tabulated all the different shades of col
ored smells, together with their charac
teristics. He thinks of issuing the
tables in pamphlet form, designed for
the use of travelers. It would, no
doubt, be a valuable addition to the
guide-books now in existence. Colognt
Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Puts and Calls.
"I believe you have gambled in Wall
street Mr. Breezy," said Mrs. Breezy,
helping her lord and master to a cup ol
coffee.
"I have speculated a little in stocks,
dear, if that s what you mean," said Mr.
Breezy, unfolding his napkin.
"Same thing, said Mrs. Breezy;
"you can call it speculation; I know it'i
Fimbling. How do they do it, anyway?
read about puts and calls and "strad
dles, and buy a three's, but I never can
make any head or trail out of it. 1 sup-
Kose it's all some horrid slang you men
ave invented."
"Well, no, dear,' said Mr. Breezy,
helping his better two-thirds to a chop,
"it isn't exactly slang. You see, for in
stance, I buy a hundred short "
"You do what?" cried Mrs. Breezy.
"I buy a hundred short," repeated
Mr. Breezy.
"Well, what in the name of common
sense do you moan by that?'' asked Mrs.
Breezy. "Why don't you talk United
States I nieaii English? You buy a
hundred short, and what has short got
to do with it?"
"If you" will give me time I will ex
plain, my dear," said Mr. Breezy. "You
see if a man is long on stock he is "
"Long on stock?" said Mrs. Breezy.
"Now, what are you getting to? First
you are short and then you are long.
What does a man want to get on a stock
for, anyway?"
"My dear, if you will allow me"
"To be sure. Go ahead. Tell me
something about Wall street, but don't
talk nonsense." said Mrs. Breezy.
"Well, my dear, we will suppose that
I have a put on Wabash, and "
"There vou go again," said Mrs.
Breezy. "Will you or will you not talk
in a language I can understand? What
is Wabash, anyway? I suppose it is an
other slang term?"
"No, that's a stock," said Mr. Breezy;
"you see, dear, if I have a call on Wa
bash or Northwestern "
"If you call on the Northwest?" cried
Mrs. Breezy; are you really going mad,
Mr. Breezy? Well, I might expect as
much from the life you have led re
cently. What with clubs and politics
you are going headlong to some terrible
fate."
"My dear, it will be impossible for
me to explain anything unless you will
S've me five minutes to do it in said
r. Breezy, with unusual warmth.
"Now, at the beginning of this week
Omaha preferred started at 106 and
105"
"Omaha preferred!" asked Mr.
Breezy. "What is preferred? Who
preferred it? What has Omaha got to
do with New York and Wall street any
way, and what do you mean by 106?"
"I shall have to give it up," said Mr.
Breezy, in a despairing voice.
"No, Mr. Breezy, I havo started out
to know something about Wall street,
and I won't allow you to get out of it in
that way," said Mrs. Breezy, setting
herself more firmly in her chair. "Now,
Mr. Breezy, you will please drop slang
and come to something I- can under
stand. For instance, what is a bull
boar?" "Ha, ha, ha-oh!" laughed Mr.
Breezy.
"What do you mean by laughing at
me, Mr. Breezy? I'm sure I "
"Ho. ho, ha-oh!" and Mr. Breezy
fairly doubled up with laughter.
"Mr. Breezy, you haven't the man
ners of a savage," cried Mrs. Breezy,
pushing back her chair, "and I don't
believe you know any more about Wall
street than a two weeks' old baby," and
Mrs. Breezy made haste to the kitchen
to take revenge upon the cook. Brook'
lyn Eagle.
A daring outrage was committed
in Calcutta not long ago by a Mahom
medan cook, who had been discharged
by his mistress. Determining upon re
venge, he entered the house of this lady
secretly, and deliberately went to work
to cut up all her dresses. Then he
1 stole into her bedroom, where she lay
asleep, and began cutting her hair.
Suddenly the lady awoke and started
up, almost running one of her eyes
against a point of the Mohammedan's
scissors. This ingenious miscreant has
been sent to prison, where he will labor
at something more arduous than hair
cutting for a year.
m
Amurse in an insane asylum says:
"We outlive quickly all fear of ejur pa
tients.' For we know by a ecnliantr
In the eye of each one when a danger
ous ouiDrK. M fc iisnu; ana amy wv
reach so callous a stage' that aane peo
ple outside seem fer the nonce lunatics,
while the maniacs seem sane. " -Gsieege
Journal. t
m m
Mariano Largo, the oldest of ike
Carmel Indians, died at Monteher, CL,
rsoeatlv from the effects of a,, drumkeft
debauch.' He was in the aeikborhmi
of one hundred years oML
FOKEIGS GOSSIP.
About nine hundred lives were saved
last year by the British National Life
boat 'institution.
Mount Etna is now to have a rail
road which will go a considerable way
up it, and connect many villages lying
around its base.
The Czar has conferred decorations
on all the members of the Papal Mis
sion who went to Moscow to represent.
the Holy See at the Coronation.
The London & Northwestern Bail
way Company of England is now run
ning. express trains from Liverpool to
London. more than two hundred 'miles
in four and a half hours.
The civil servant under the crown
longest in harness in England la Earl
Granville. He . has held office even,
longer than Mr. Gladstone, his present
chief, whose record is so long and
varied;
The latest fancy of the London
mashers is to have a cab painted a
delicate primrose color, and drawn by a
chestnut horse. The Junior Army and
Navy Club appears to be the headquar
ters of thess. brilliant equipages.
Lord Beaconsfield's fancy for prim
rose is said to be due to the circum
stance that old Mrs. Williams, of Tor
quay, who left him $200,000, always
had bunches put iu his room, and he
made a point of coming dowu to dinner
with one of them in his button-hole.
The Bank of France employs one
hundred and sixty female clerks, who
receive sixty cents a day to begin with,
and aftei a year or two an anuual
salary of $360. They sit in rooms apart
from the men, are superintended by
officials of their own sex, and their
work is of the best quality.
The magnificent Cologne Cathedral
is at last actually completed, six hun
dred and thirty-live years after its foun
dation, and nothing remains but to take'
down tho last shed and put the terrace
in order. Over $2,600,000 has been
spent iu this work since 1864, and about
$120,000 more than the money on hand
is needod to tear down the incum
brances, and this will bo raised by
another and final lottery.
The "Sixpenny Fish Dinners" at
South Kensiugton, which were a happy
thought of the Baroness Burdetr-Coutts,
have succeeded beyond expectation,
and another and larger room has been
added. 'The Baroness and her husband
have both been several times to tho
dining-room to watch the way the ex
periment works, and on the day of the
greatest pressure Mr. Burdotte-Coutts
himself might have been seen, aided by
two policemen, serving out plates to
the hungry public.
Germany will do honor to the mem
ory of the reformer, Martin Luther, on
the occasion of the forthcoming four
hundredth anniversary of his death.
The Emperor has always been a devoted
adherent and member of the Evangel
ical Church, and takes a warm interest
in the approaching demonstration. He
has just issued a decree that the occa
sion be solemnly observed by the holding
of a church festival on Nov. 10 and 11
next in all evangelical churches and
schools.
A Brave GirL
In the year 1781, while Clinton and
Washington were watching each other's
movements near New York, General
Schuyler, 'having resigned his com
mand, on account of some unjust
charges against him, was staying at his
house, which then stood alone outside
the stockade or wall of Albany. The
British commander, therefore, seeing
his opportunity, sent out John Waiter
Meyer, with a party of Tories and In
dians, to capture General Schuyler.
When they arrived at the outskirts of
the city, they learned from a Dutch
laborer that the General's house was
guarded by six soldiers. The Dutch
man, the minute the band was out of
Bight, took to his legs, and warned the
General of their approach.
Soon after, a servant announced that
there was a strange man at the back
door who wished to see the Genoral.
Schuyler, understanding the trap,
gathered his family in one of the upper
rooms, and giving orders that the doors
and windows be barred, fired a pistol
from one of the top-story windows to
alarm the neighborhood.
The guards, who had been lounging
in the shade of a tree, started to their
feet at the sound of the pistol ; but alas,
too late ! for they found themselves sur
rounded by a crowd of dusky figures,
who bound them hand and foot before
they had time to resist.
And now you can imagine the little
group collected in that dark room up
stairs ; the sturdy General, standing
resolutely by the door, with his gun in
his hand, and his black slaves gathered
around him, each with some weapon;
and at the other end of the room, the
women huddled together, some weeping,
some praying. Suddenly a crash is
heard which chills the very blood, and
brings vividly to each one's mind the
tales of Indian massacres so common
at that day. The band had broken in
at one of the windows.
At that moment, Mrs. Schuyler,
springing to her feet, rushed toward the
door; for she remembered that the
baby, only a few months old, having
been forgotten in the hurry of flight,
was asleep in its cradle on the first
floor. But the General, catching her in
his arms, told her that her life was of
more value than the child's, and that,
if any one must go, he would. While,
however, this generous struggle was go
ing on, their third daughter, gliding
past them, was soon at the side of tho
cradle.
All was as black as night in the hall,
except for a small patch of light just at
the foot of the stairs. This came from
the dining-Toom, where the Indians
could be seen pillaging the shelves,
pulling down the china, and quarreling
with ono another over their ill-gotten
booty.
How to get past this spot was the
question, but tho girl did not hesitate.
She reached the cradle unobserved, and
was just darting back with her precious
burden when, by ill luck; one of the
savages happened to see her. Whiz!
went his sharp tomahawk within a few
inches of the baby's head, and, cleaving
an edge of the brave girl's dress, stuck
deep into the stair-rail.
Just then one of the Tories, seeing
her flit by, and supposing her to be a
servant, called after her: "Wench,
Wench, where is your master?" She,
stopping for a moment, called back;
" Gone to alarm the town!" and, hurry
ing on, was soon safe again with her
father upstairs.
And now, very nearly all the plunder
having been secured, the band was
about to proceed to the real object of
the expedition, when the General, rais
ing one of the upper windows, called
out in lusty tones, as if commanding a
large body of men: "Come on, my
brave fellows! Surround the house!
Secure the villiaas who are plunder
ing!" The cowards knew that voice,
and they each and every one of them
took to the woods as fast as their legs
would carry them, leaving the General
in possession of the field.
The old Schuyler House looks mow as
it looked then, except that the back
wing for the slaves has been torn down,
and some few alterations have been
made around the place; bat when you
are shown the house, yon can still see
the dent in the stair-rail made by thai
Indian's hatchet more than a hundred
yean ago. George Enos Throop, in St.
Mdlas.
It is estimated' that the HlUois
Central Railroad handles a mflBom
trunks in six months, unhamdlingaos
lees than a quarter of them, ft is a
peat trunk lias. Ckmgo Jew
OF GENERAL ETTEBEST.
The fashion news from Paris is that
in some of the new evening toilets for
women the left shoulder is wholly
bared.
The most expensive and beautiful
collection of old china in the country is
owned by Mrs. George W. Wales, of
Boston. Boston Herald.
The Society of Friends has repealed
the prohibition of the marriage of first
.cousins, which has been in force in that
body for nearly two hundred years.
The New York Times' Saratoga
correspondent says the leading hotel
men are opposed to horse-racing at
Saratoga, declaring that it does them
more harm than good.
Rome, Ga., is howling over its new
directory, and the compiler of it has fled
to the mountains. Prominent church
members and business men appear as
bar-keepers in the directory. Atlanta
Constitution.
The anti-toy-pistol law seems to
have been well enforced in Maine. Not
an accident is attributed to the weapon
in the State this year, as far as known.
Last year six deaths were caused by it.
Boston Post.
The other day a tumor was removed
from the hand of "a little boy residing in
Canandaigua. In this tumor was found
a piece ol wooden toothpick, one and
one-half inches long. Neither parents
nor child had any knowledge as to how
or when it came there. Ltica (N. Y.I
Herald.
The wild Western cowboy may
suffer, forgive and forget, but there is
one thing ne will not condone--a horse
thief and his works. An Indian horse
thiof was lassoed and dragged to death
at Lewiston, Idaho, by white cowboys
for attempting to sell them stolen
horses. Chicago Tribune.
A medical journal says that sneez
ing can be stopped by plugging the
nostrils with cotton-batting. Is a man
expected to take a roll of cotton-batting
to church with him? An easier way
than that is to press the finger upon the
upper lip. That will stop sneezing im
mediately. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Stomachs as well as minds give way
because of the too intense commercial
life of the race. Dr. Maudsley attributes
the ills to hasty living, hurry aud rush,
and declares that it is wrong to charge
a breaking stomach to the use of coffee,
and the sick uan drink a certain amount
with benefit. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Thomas Burrage. believed to be the
oldest barber in tho Uuited States, has
been engaged iu the business on Fairfax
street, Alexandria, Va., for sixty-nine
years, succeeding William Wood, whose
shop was established in 1762. Wood
was the successor of one Martini, who
was the valet of General Braddock, and
was left behind after the defeat of the
Fort Duquesne expedition.
The presence of the hoodlum in
New York is explained by the fact that
there are from fifteen to twenty thous
and young boys there homeless and de
pendent on themselves for a living,
which some of them get honesty. In
Hartford, on the other hand, the
Courant says the lough, disorderly class
of boys fast drifting into crime are large
ly recruited from respectable people.
Dr. Baker Edwards, the Govern
ment Analyst, has analyzed the so
called soda-water sold by many apoth
ecaries in Montreal, and reports that
nearly all of them contain traces of lead,
iron, or copper, and that one sample
was so largely impregnated with copper
and lead as to be a dangerous beverage.
He further says that none of the sam
ples contained soda, only aerated water.
Chicago Times.
The French are ready for any
enterprise, it matters not of what plausi
bility. It is said of them that they have
subscribed $150,000 to pay the expenses
of an expedition to dredge the Red Sea
for impedimenta belonging to Pharaoh's
army. While they are at it. why not
scale down Ararat and uncover Noah's
ark? They might find some bread in
the locker," and if they did it would be a
deal easier masticated thau is the or
dinary steel-plated French bread. In
dianapolis Journal.
The monument to Dr. J. G. Holland,
in the Springfield Cemetery, has been
completed by placing in position the
fine bronze bas-relief of the journalist.
The monument itself is of a beautiful
blue stone of even grain, dense texture,
and fine dove color or slate. It takes
inscription perfectly and reveals every
line clearly. It is about six feet by
seven at the base, above which is a
plinth with tablets; above the plinth,
after two or three small steps, rises a
short rectangular shaft, with Ionic
pilasters upon its four corners, support
ing a scroll. The shaft bears upon its
face the relief, which is the striking
feature of -the whole. This represents
Doctor Holland's face in profile, and is
an admirable likeness of him in a re
flective mood. Springfield (Mass.) Be
publican. Some Facts About Lemons.
A reporter called on one of the largest
dealers in fruit in the United States to
get some information about the lemon
trade. "Nearly all the lemons handled
in this market, . said the dealor. "are
imported. Sicily contributes more tha,n
all other countries put together. Cala
bria, Messina, and Palermo send out
large consignments. There are four
crops each year. The lemons are cut
from the trees when green and placed
in magazines where they are subjected
to a sweating or purging process. At
the end of four or five days the fruit is
either stored away in shallow trays or
packed for shipment. Lemons gathered
in November and December have the
best keeping qualities. I have kept
lemons of this cut from November till
June without destroying their market
value. When the fruit arrives here it is
sold at auction, this being the only way
in which lemons and oranges are sold to
the trade. One year ago a steamer ar
rived with a cargo of thirty-six thousand
boxes. The entire lot was disposed ol
the same day. Unless the broker ot
dealer wishes to sell his purchase at
once, the fruit is put away and ripened
by steam heat. Our business has entire
ly changed since the introduction of
steamers. The voyage by the old sail
ing fruiters were long and uncertain.
A cargo of decayed lemons was the fre
quent result of a voyage of several
months. Now, with rapid transporta
tion at his command, the shipper can
allow his lemons to remain on the trees
many weeks longer than he could then,
and is quite certain that on arriving at
this market the fruit will be in good
condition. The best, and consequently
the highest, ease lemons come from
Sorrento, ureat care is bestowed upon
their cultivation. The fruit is long and
smooth and has a beautiful golden color.
Those lemons are considered a luxury in
Paris, where they are used not only by
confectioners aad bakers, but also by
decorators. Generally speaking a medium-sized,
thin-skinned lemon is the
best. The large, coarse-grained variety
are the poorest and cheapest. The
United States consumes more lemons in
a year than all the other countries com
bined. Russia comes next. The custom
tho Russians have of drinking their tea
with a slice of lemon in it accounts for
the large consumption there. The
growth of the lemon trade in this coun
try during the last thirty years has been
enormous. In 1850, lli.OOOboxts were
imported. Last year this number had
inereased to 1,342,000 boxes. The sum
mer is our best season. There is one
more fact about the lemon and general
Irak trade that is worthy of notice. The
Kople in the far West will not buy any
t the choicest fruits. It makes
difference what the prices are, they will
taj it." if. J. IWWs.
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