THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9, 1884.
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IN A LONG ISLAND RAILWAY
STATION.
Unto the ticket-seller's place
A stranger man did go.
And said, while mopping off his face:
"A ticket to Haughpaugh."
Behind him stood a cockney vain.
Who queried; "Could you aw
Inform a fellah if this train
Ib going to 'Aughpaugh?"
Impatient at his elbow scowled
A man of manner rough.
Who passed his money up and growled;
"One ticket to Haughpaugh.'
"It is," a bilious man doth whine,
"A swindle and a gouge
To chargo a man $1.09
For riding to Haughpaugh."
"Thank Heaven." cried a man, 'Tve got
My wife and children off
To spend the summer in a 6pot
Ten miles beyond Haughpaugh r
The traveling fool, oft snubbed in vaint
"Puts In his question now:
"Please tell me when the 10:10 train
la going to Haughpaugh?"
Last came a tardy man in view.
And through the crowd did dodge.
Loud yelling, as the whistle blew:
"A ticket to Haughpaugh !"
Barpar'M Bazar.
CHINESE JUSTICE.
Bow Culprit are Dealt WltM by the
"Mixed Court'' at Shanghai-Scene
at the Flosclas of Offenders.
In that part of the native town of
Shanghai which lies beyond the city
walls, and is under foreign jurisdiction,
there is a curious-shaped range of build
ings called the "mixed court." -Here
cases affecting disputes between Euro
peans and Chinamen are tried, a Man
darin named Chen presiding, while " a
representative of the Consulate to which
the European whose case is being de
cided .belongs sits as assessor. The
"mixed court" proper consists of a
single room, not unlike an English
Magistrate's court in London; but it is
only one of a series of chambers all
duly arranged for the promotion of vir
tue and the discouragement of vice.
Some of these take the form of large
wooden cages, in which prisoners are
confined others, again, are reception
rooms for Mr. Chen. But the most im
portant place of .all is the native hall of
justice where Chen sits in the potential
ity of his glory to try Chinese prisoners.
This hall is covered in by a sort of tiled
canopy, the gable ends of which are
turned up in approved Chinese style.
On three sides it is shut in by walls; the
fourth, or front side, opens into a large
yard facing tlie doors of the prison
cages. The scat of justice is vermilion
a sort of throne, with a table in front.
On this table rests simply an inkstand
and a bronze imiUttion of a human
hand, whereon repose the pens with
which Mr. Chen signs his sentences.
Behind the chair are ranged a large
number of vermilion-painted boards or
stands, these boards beiug covered with
hieroglyphics detailing the virtues of
the Mandarin. That representative of
law occasionally gives more than ordi
dinary satisfaction to people who come
before him. They go away pleased,
and at once extol his goodness on a
vermilion board which they send him.
This board Mr. Chen at once puts in
the rack behind his chair; it is a testi
monial to his worth, it can be seen by
all who come before him, and it can be
carried out in his procession whenever
he goes through the town in state. Said
an American friend who accompanied
me as he saw these: "These boards
must be very consoling to disappointed
suitors; they show that if justice is not
around just now it has been at some
time or other, anyhow."
Our introduction to Mr. Chen found
us in the presence of a little old man
who could speak nothing but Chinese.
Chen was polite, but firm on one point.
He could not execute justice, he said, by
daylight. Try prisoners he could, even
in the early morn; somebodv said he had
once disposed of three hundred culprits
in a single morning. But the carrying
out of his sentences was a very different
thing, and. if we would see the arm of
Justice really at work, we must come a
ittle later. So we returned when even
ing had set in and the candles were
lighted. Then Mr. Chen felt he cculd
begin. He almost apologized for the
paucity of criminals, when at last he
prepared to take his scat. Buthe hinted
that those he was about to deal with
might make up for many more, for they
were parlous rogues and deservnig of
many stripes which he proposed to give
them Then making a signal, he led
the waj into his reception hall to the
judgment scat preceded by a gentleman
with a tremendous gong, two gigantic
fellows with high red cone caps, two
men each armed with split bamboos,
and two men each bearing cangues
large square pieces of board with a neck
hole in the center. Bang went the gong.
"Ay!" cried out the hctors. "Ay!"
shouted the people who were gathered
in he hall; and thus went Mr. Chen to
execute justice. I now saw that on a
form near the prison doors sat a ragged
and miserable crew, apparently waiting
for something more or less doleful.
They alone of" all persons in the yard
shouted not. They had some shouting
to do later on, and perhaps were reserv
ing their powers. One, in fact, very
shortly received good reason to shout
"Chang Huen!" said the Magistrate.
"Chang Huen!" echoed the lictors; and
forthwith the wretched owner of the
name was seized by the pigtail and hur
ried up to the vermilion table. Down
he went on his knees, but all to no pur
pose. "One hundred blows," ejaculated
Mr. Chen, looking at his judicial
notes, and forthwith the culprit
was seized by the two men
with the conical caps, pulled a
little way along the stones in front of
the table to a point where the Mandarin
could get a good view of him, and then
flung ou his face, his arms being twisted
over his head by one lietor, while he
was divested of a portion of his clothing.
Chan Huen evidently understood what
was to follow, and he howled piteously.
But howling did not save him, for so
soon as the two lictors had got him into
propar position and had knelt on him,
one of the men with bamboos came up,
and, squatting down on the ground,
began to strike him on the inner part of
the naked thighs, counting the blows as
they fell. At first sight, despite Chang
Huen's noise, I thought the punishment
was very light, but 1 saw soon afterward
that the" skin was already black, and the
first twenty-five strokes had left a band
of color quite six inches broad. Execu
tioner No. 2 now came up and laid on
another twenty-live, then his comrade
had another turn, and lastly he finished
his fifty. It will perhaps be thought
that the injury thus inflicted would be
Bevere. But the skin was not broken,
and I should say that the bruises would
heal in a week" or ten days at most
Garroters in England, flogged as they
are on the bony back and shoulder
blades, are apparently hurt much more,
though I was told that the beating
without breaking the skin was much
more painful than it looked. Chang
Huen, however, had very few to pity
him; he was evidently either a very bad
or a very impecunious man, for no
Sooner was the beating over than he was
roughly seized once more by the pigtail
and hauled along over the yard to the
prison with great rapidity, he screech
ing; loudly all the while.
Far more fortunate was a culprit who
followed him, and who as he was
thrown down 03- the lictors, put out
two fingers in such away that the execu
tioners could see them plainly. "What
does that mean?" I asked of theMagis
InU'i UUrpreter. "Ha wn he gfo
tire dollars, if not spoilee too much
with bamboo," was the mysterious re
ply. "But surely," said I, "he can
notbribeinsoopen a wav, under the
very nose of the Mandarin?" "Yes,"
saia the interpreter, "everybody know.
More better man givee two dollars."
He was certainly speaking the truth;
this gentleman, culprit ko. 2, got off
lightlv. His bruises were small, his
pigtail was not pulled, he made plenty
of noise, had gone at any rale through
the semblance of a severe punishment,
and had lost two dollars which to him
was no doubt a painful event. Possi
bly the Mandarin looked upon the mon
etary transaction in the light of a fine
by which his underlings benefited. So
the punishments went on. "When men
had to receive fifty stripes only one ex
ecutioner wielded the bamboo; when
one hundred had to be inflicted tbay
were laid on iu the way I have already
described. Those who put out their fin
gers got off lightly, those who did not
experienced the majesty of the law in
a very thorough fashion. Then, the
beatings being over, several men were
brought up and cangupd, the square
hoards being opened, their heads thrust
through, the boards nailed up, pieces of
paper detailing the sentence pastel on
t.hn fnn find tlift wcirnrs of this vcrv
inelegant species of necktie bundled
into the prison. As each sentence was
fosiipfl- nil t.hi; unilfirstranuers of the
court and the spectators called out
"Ap!" in commendation, no uoum, oi
thi Mandarin's sa-acitv. the crowd.
.mm(.?Sw .t in onrl trnmnn Innkintr
on with evident satisfaclion at oth
the bambooing and canguing. lib. a
hriftf hp-nrimr of a ouarrel uetween a
man and a woman, in which the ns.n
was adjudged the aggressor and si
lenced to be locked up, Mr. Chen now
vacated the seat of justice, -and tlo
crowd dispersed; the executioners went
to look after the dollars that had been
promised them, and which, bj' the
way, I heard, are always paid prompt
ly and we departed, much edified by
the spectacle of the way in which jus
tice in China disports herself. wr.
London Tcleqraph.
The Engineer.
The railway engineer leads proYioly
the most hazardous, and in that sense
romantic, life of American civilization.
He is always a brave man none "other
could be an engineer. He must be a
sober, punctual, cool-headed man none
other could hold his post. The engineer
and his adventures is the ' constant
source of an endless variety of thrlfiing
or amusing stories. It is even said that
among the delegates to this Buffalo Con
vention is the cautious engineer who
side-tracked the express train one clear
evening, and waited for half an hour for
the wud-cat whose headlight he saw
unexpectedly-bearing down on him to
Sass. He learned in good time; and
is crew never let him forget that the
planet Venus, on the horizon at the ap
parent end of his track, wasn't u wild
cat Oh, yes, the boys tell many a story on
the brave engineer. Only the other day
a newspaper correspondent, who evi
dently had been punished for his fresh
ness by a joking engineer, wrote rt fol
lows: "If the waiter is slow with his crder
the engineer improves his time b.f put
ting an extra cock-roach in the uoffce
of the party next to him, or make Sonva
remark to himself, but loud eirough
for every one to hear it: 'Wonder if
there is another dead mouse in the
prunes to-night;' and when the waiter
brings his order and fires it at him as
though it was shot from a catapult, he
calmly gathers them in shape and asks
the waiter if he can't pass some pigs
feet without 'corns' on, or makes ncjne
remark about the butter being strong
enough to take eighteen loads up the
hill, and says the beefsteak would make
good packing for his engine, and finally
asks for halt a dozen of the biscuits to
use for track torpedoes. Having an
even valve motion to his jaws, he
manages to fill his tank, and
then asks the conductor he is in
with for a quarter, as he left his pocket
book at home on the piano. While
waiting at stations he is always willing
to tell the grangers, who invariably
nnncrrpomtn tn lnnk at an nntrino. all
they ask about it. He tells them that
the big lever is to shake the grates, the
throttle is to open the dampers, that the
steam-gauge is the patent clock, that
the cylinders are only for ornament,
and that the conductor starts the train
by pulling the rope. Yes, he has been
in hundreds of accidents, had his en
gine blow up and kill everybody within
six miles, and that the boiler was liable
to burst at any moment, and when he
has got them worked up. he suddenly
gives a shrill shriek on the whistle while
the fireman turns some business which
lets out steam with a rush, and yells,
'She's going to bust!' and as the fright
ened listeners fall over each other in
their efforts to get out of the danger, he
and the fireman fall back on their seats
and lose fifteen minutes on their run
ning time in laughing.
"There is nothing more conducive to
sociability when traveling, when you
are tired of riding and stand up to
stretch and yawn, than to have the en
gineer put on the air-brakes full force
and fire us over three seats into the
arms of a young lady we had not
courage enough to llirt with before. It
rather brakes the ice as it were to an
introduction and better acquaintance;
such negligence is excusable, but there
should be a law to punish the engineer
that brings the train up to a standstill
just as the old lady from the country
opens her lunch basket and the sudden
stop fires a whole custard pie down our
shirt front when we expected to get off
at the next station, where our girl is
waiting to receive us. The engineer is
often made a hero of in prose and
poetry, Beaded 'Died at His Post' All
honor to the faithful that have, but it is
more logical to suppose that when he
has reversed his engine and put it in
the back motion and done all he could
to avert-thc collision, he jumps; it don't
help him any to be made hash of, even
if he does get a piece of poetry for it
Were the truth known, in nine cases out
of ten the engineer that dies at his post
after reversing his engine is panuyzed
with fright and cannot jump." Buffalo
Express.
Couldn't Be Expected to.
Two ladies entered a Fort street-car
one day recently and took seats beside a
lady well known to one of them. She
gave her friend an introduction, and
directly this one remarked:
"I think I saw j-ou at the Street
Church one Sunday, several weeks ago."
"Yes."
"You seemed to be as much disgusted
with the sermon as I was, for I saw that
yon were terribly uneasy."
"Yes," again."
"Did you ever hear a worse preacher
in all your life?"
"Well, perhaps."
"I never did, and I haven't been there
6ince."
The conversation then rattled off on
some other subject, and by and by the
two ladies got off.
. "I wonder why she didn't agree with
me about that preacher?" queried the
one who had blasted him."
"Why, how could j-ou expect her to?
She's that very minister's wife!" De
troit Free Press.
Many a man begins life .by think
ing he can convert iron into gold, and
ends by finding out to his sorrow that
all his gold has become iron. N. T.
Herald.
Twenty-seven acres devoted torn
crop of cabbages near Rochester, V. Y.
jfcUed the famar $5,400.
A Doctor Ameng the MoBgels.
When a foreign missionary, speaking
Mongolian and carrying a medicine
chest appears on any part of the plain,
the news spreads far and wide. The
story, too, gathers as it rolls, and in a
few days he is credited with the most
extraordinary powers of healing, the
exaggerated stories about his abilities
being equaled by the exaggerated
stories of the virtues of the medicines
and appliances. It is in vain that the
missionary insists that he has come not
merely to heal, but to teach Christian
ity. Christianity they can do without;
tney don't feel the need of it They are
eager to get rid of their pains and
acEes. They apply to the missionary
in his capacity of doctor, they talk of
him as a doctor, and the real truth of
the matter is that they want him only in
o far as he is a doctor. In the case of
some places where Mongols are numer
ous, such as at populous temples, Gov
ernment gatherings and religious festi
vals, the number of patients that pre
sent themselves in one day is so -great
that while attending them very little
religious instruction can be imparted.
Some of them have come a long way
and can ill spare time, and are in a
hurry to get home again; some of them
have run out in the interval between
eervices, and must be back in time;
some of them have waited long and pa
tiently, or impatiently, as the case may
be, while earlier comers were being
treated, and are eager to be attended to
when their turn comes, and in these
cases the missionary is in danger of
being swamped in the doctor.
But the reception accorded to the
missionary is not the same in all places.
In most cases when a locality is visited
for the first time there is a great crowd
of people eager to be patients; but as a
great proportion of them have diseases
which are incurable, they soon learn
tfiat the report that the foreigner can
irure everything is not true, and, finding
he can. do little or nothing for them,
they gradually drop off. The second
lime the place is visited matters mend a
little, and by the third visit the people's
Ideas have become pretty correct,- and
for the most part only such cases as can
be helped are pressed upon his atten
tion. For a man who carries medicines and
can cure a few diseases, and who lays
himself out patiently and attentively to
benefit, his patients, for one especially
who cleans and attends to neglected,
loathsome sores on dirty unwashed per
sons, showing the same' attention to the
boor as to the rich for such an one the
Mongol admiration is unbounded. It is
long before they can convince them
selves that money or recompense is not
wanted, and if they could only believe
that these things were done, as they
profess to be, for nothing else but for
Christ's sake, those who sawthem woald
be doubtless inclined to think highly of
a religion which produced such fruits.
But, in the opinion of the Mongols', it is
too good to be true; they cannot believe
It. That men should be sent out from
distant lands, fitted out with traveling
appliances and furnished with medi
cines; and go about ready and willing
to cure and heal, and want no money
for it, no reward of any kind a Mon
gol's faith staggers at that. Explain to
him the religious sanction and motive
for it all; the theory of such a thing he
could understand, but in practice it
staggers him. If he read it in his sacred
books as a thing related of old Buddhist
saints, who lived in distant countries
and in old times; he would accept it;
but to see it with his own eyes, in this
his own time ariS in his own country
that is too much for his faith; so he sets
himself to invent a reason. If he is near
China, or if himself or friends have had
much intercourse with China, he per
haps has heard the stories of foreigners
digging out people's eyes to make pho
tographic chemicals, or perhaps he has
heard of the operation of couching for
cataract, perhaps he has seen it per
formed; and though he himself may
know and believe that it is all right, the
friends and neighbors who did not see
the operation, but only heard his report,
find in it plenty to confirm their suspi
cions. Very great care is needed if a
Mongol missionary wishes to avoid giv
ing rise to rumors among the Mongols
which will prove prejudicial to his in
fluence and work. "Among the Mon
gols." Affrighted Beasts.
No one as yet has ever seen such a
sight as a zoological collection burnt
not, at anj- rate, since the Koman ampi
theater, with its reserves of ferocious
beasts, was destroyed by fire; and the
behavior of the various animals under
such an experience of hideous novelty
must, therefore, be certainly conjectural.
When Wombwell's once caught fire, the
monkeys, getting loose, proceeded to
plunder the ginger-bread stall within the
tent, and, regardless of the flames
which, by the way, roasted only a cock
atoo stuffed their cheek-pouches so full
of the seductive confection that they were
seen going about on three arms and
holding the contents of their mouths in
with the fourth. When Barnum's or
what is still called by that dollar-alluring
name was in flames at Chicago,
Jumbo the illustrious carried his own
bulky person safely beyond the reach of
the conflagration, and thence surveyed
its progress with the utmost serenity.
But there is a vast gulf between the
volatile ape and the deliberate behemoth,
and from the diversity of character which
distinguishes the intermediate species of
animals, it is possible that the study of
them under circumstances of such ex
ceptional dismay would result in some
curious observations. It is difficult to
believe that the phlegmatic, philosophi
cal bear would comport himself in the
same manner as the frivolous baboon, or
that no difference would be apparent
between the demeanors of the supercili
ous, lazy camel and the lively, excitable
kangaroo. That serpents would display
any of their proverbial indifference to
the excessive heat is as unlikely as that
the salamander would sustain the repu
tation of its traditions. The smaller
creatures would doubtless abandon
themselves to cremation without further
opposition, but it is hardly credible
that the more powerful or sagacious
would not make some effort at self-preservation.
Even in the Zoological gar
dens, hopeless of conflict with their
bars as they must have become long
ago, the lions will sometimes excite
themselves and their neighbors into
paroxysms of activity at some sight or
sound that stirs the old forest blood in
their veins, and makes them forget for
the instant the bonds that are on them.
Under such a sudden and startling
revelation as their cages surrounded by
flames,' it is easy to understand that the
characters of the different animals
would be vividly displayed. Every
type of beast would immediately betray
itself, and in the combined tumult of
voices comparable only to the mid
night sound of "the Libyan wilderness,
with all its lions up" would be heard
every gradation of passion, from the
furious protest of the strong to the pa
thetic entreaty of the weak. Nor, as
having something of the grotesque in
it, would the result be uninteresting if
the proprietor, to save his animals, or
to spare their torture, were to do what
Mr. Wombwell's predecessor said he
would do if a fire broke out, and set the
caged things loose to run for their lives.
Now and again it has happened that
I Che residents of peaceful neighborhoods
have been perplexed, or even alarmed,
by the apparition of a beast of prey,
African or Asiatic, quietly prowling
along a public thoroughfare, like a
tcunst from foreign parts, or concealed
in a private garden, like some burglar
disturbed in his avocation. What, how-
it mch an lumauu vwtaaom
compared with the possluilities of a
whole menagerie turned out upon such
a populous city as'Manchester rhinoce
roses in the churches, bears in the town
hall, and alligators in the railway
waiting-rooms? So that, whether we
consider the escape of the Baldwin me
nagerie from fire, or the alternative of
their escape from their cages, the result
still remains one for congratulation;
and ?ven at the price of losing the
transparency of the gallant admiral,
Manchester" may be considered very
fortunate in tlie preservation of its
popular gardens and the security of it?
birds and beasts. London Telegraph.
Filial Devotion of a Bird.
We have a saying that charity begins
at home, and it 'has been added that a
great deal of the charity that begins at
home stays there, Of this narrow sort
of benevolence, too, we find examples
among the animals. There is the bar
bet for instance. It is a solitary bird,
and sits most of the time in morose
silence on a twig, waiting for its food
(in tlie shape of an insect) to fly by.
Sometimes it is said to rouse itself and
make a descent upon the nest of some
smaller bird and eat all the little ones.
Certainly, one would not look for any
sort of benevolence from such a bird;
and yet it offers a very striking and
beautiful example of the begin-at-home-and-stay-there
kind.
The celebrated naturalist, Levaillant,
who has told so many -nteresting things
about the birds of 'Africa and South
America, says that he discovered a bar
bet's nest in which there were five birds.
Four of them were youu- and vigor
ous, but the fifth was so old and weak
that when it was put into a cage with
its comrades it could not move, but lay
dying m the corner where it had been
placed.
When food was put into the cage the
poor old bird could only look at it long
ingly.' without having the strength to
drag itself within reach of it Then it was
that the younger birds manifested a
singular spirit of kindness. Quickly,
and even with an air of tenderness, as it
seems, they carried food to the decrepit
old bird, and fed it as if it had been
only a fledgling. Struck by this spec
tacle, the naturalist examined the nest
from which the birds had been taken,
and found it was full of husks and the
remains of insects, showing plainly that
the old bird must have been maintained
a long time by its vigorous companions,
which probably were its own offspring.
Further study of other bints of thesams
species convinced the naturalist that it
was the custom for the old and infirm
birds to be cared for by the young and
strong.
There are several different species of
barbets found in Africa and South
America, and though not graceful in
shape, many of them are exceedingly
beautiful in plumage. They get their
name of barbet from the French word
barbe, meaning beard, because they
have tufts of stiff hair at the base of the
bill. Naturalists place them in a genus
called Bucco, and some persons call
them puff-birds, because they have an
odd way of puffing out the feathers all
over the body, which then looks more
like a bale of feathers than a bird.
Will Woodman, in St. Nicholas.
. An Eccentric Editor.
The late Charles Hazewell, of the
Boston Traveller, was one of the most
curious ornaments the journalism of
this country ever had. His memory
was prodigious. In matters of American
history many fine critics placed him
above Bancroft as an authority. In his
library at Revere, some eight miles
from Boston, he had a choice collection
of rare books to the number of five
thousand, and knew them as a mother
knows her child. He could repeat the
"Scarlet Letter" word for word, from
lid to lid. But his greatest feat of
memory was to repeat the sovereigns of
England from the old Danish days to
Victoria, giving the number of children
each had, the dates of their birth and
death, and the entire collateral connec
tions. What is the sense of blowing
Macauley up to the skies because he
was able to call off the Popes of Rome
and the Archbishops of Canterbury in
their historical order when our native
institutions have produced this greater
miracle in Hazewell? With all his
irritability of temper, the old gentleman
was as tender-hearted as a woman. (He
knew his strength, and in the line of his
duties had one inflexible ride. If the
editor didn't want his matter he could
topple it over into the waste-basket,
but if he dared to change a word he did
so at the peril of his life. His great
work was to write a review of the week,
which always appeared on Saturday and
gave the Traveller a reputation for
rains which it has now lost probably
forever. The way Hazewell would jug
gle his facts and dates and historic
precedents was. wonderful to behold.
His bump of reverence was alarmingly
small. He was, perhaps, the most
gifted and orginal artist in profanity
ever bred under this great republican
form of government, and could compete
in this accomplishment with the Red
headed Ranger of the Rio Grande, other
wise known as Tom Ochiltree. In his
last hours he turned to his son and said:
"Edward, bury me not deep in some
crowded church-yard, but near the
ground's surface" in Christ's green
pastures, where my remains can fertilize
and fructify when my brain is gone."
.V. Y. World.
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A Cat That Prefers EleTators.
The Tribune elevator car had started
on its upward trip last evening, and the
elevator boy was gazing upward into its
furthest corner, evidently lost in reverie.
Presently there came a distinct call in
the shape of a plaintive "Maouw." The
elevator boy checked his car forthwith
on a level with the floor whence the
sound came. There was no one to be
seen, and the smallest boy would have
been visible.
"Going up?" asked the elevator boy.
"Maouw, maouw!" was repeated.
The elevator boy slid open the door
and a gray cat walked demurely in,
sprang upon the seat and began licking
her paws until two floors had been
passed, when she uttered another cry
and sprang down before the doorway.
The car stopped,' the door was opened,
and Tabby passed out
"Is she a regular passenger?" was
asked.
"Is she?" said the elevator boy. "Of
course she is. She lives in the building,
she does. She never walks up or down
stairs 'cept on Sunday, when the ele
vator ain't a running in front If it's
evening she uses the back elevator."
"Where is she going now?"
"She's jest dropping in to see a friend
of hers. He's a lawyer, and he often
stays late to write, and she goes in and
sits on the table and watches him, and
he gives her a bit of something to eat
In Fbout an hour, before my time's up,
she'll come back to go to the top floor.
Mebbe she'll stop a little in the editorial
rooms; then she goes up to the restau
rant. She always gets there about
twelve o'clock, when the printers get
their lunch. They all know her."
"Sometimes," ne added, "she site
down in the car and keeps me company
for a while. She ain't any bother. She
knows how to behave herself a great
deal batter than some of them lawyers
and sharp chaps who are always asking
a feller whether he's going to get mar
ried, and how's his girl. She goes all
around down-town by herself, she does.
The other morning one of the fellows
saw her down in Fulton Market She
knew him and came up and rubbed
against his legs 'top floor here, etr, if
you wantto get out "-N. F. Tri&m.
FAlOI AND HOUSEHOLD.
Ex-Governor Furncss, of Nebraska,
recommends the Russian mulberry for
hedges.
A piece of matting neatly tacked
down by an outside door will protect
the carpet, and will require less care
than a piece of oil cloth.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman reports a new enemy to
the potato in- the shape of a weevil
which preys upon the stalk, entering it
near the ground, consuming the pith
and causing the stalk to dry up and die.
The editor advises burning the affected
vines and rootsr as soon as the insect's
work is noticed.
Do nojt keep cattle too long on tlie
aftermath; it may be well to feed it a
little to prevent the falling of too heavy
a growth, which may smother out clover
and some of the liner grasses it is
equally dangereus to allow the animals
to gnaw it so closely as to leave the
roots bare and exposed to the frosts of
winter. Prairie Farmer.
Soft gingerbread, if eaten while
fresh and warm, may well take the
place of more expensive cake. One
egg, one cup of molasses, one third of a
cup of melted butter, one half cup
of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda,
one teaspoonful of ginger, two and one
half cups flour and a little salt; dissolve
the soda in a very little hot water.
Bake iu buttered tin. Chicago Journal.
Mutton pie makes a welcome dish
for the children's dinner; cold roast or
boiled mutton should be used for this
purpose. Trim off nearly all the fat.
cut the lean meat in small pieces and
put them in a pudding-dish; if you have
any gravy or stock pour that over them;
put in a little butter, and season with
pepper and salt and a little parsley
chopped fine; cover the top with a thick
paste made just as you niako baking
powder ,.buscuit;- brown nicely in the
oven. N. Y. Post.
Apples should be very carefully
picked and handled, whether infcnduH
for home use or for market When
packed in barrels, they should be
allowed to stand open for a few days to
"sweat" and dry oil'. After heading up
the barrels should be set in a cool place
until read' to be sold or stored in the
cellar. It is an excellent plan to line
the barrels, before packing, with brown
paper, or newspapers; this will often
save them from freezing when on the
way to market
Mechanical Science.
It mar be that to the end of time man
kind must earn their bread by the sweat
of their brow. All the same, it seems as
if mechanical inventions will eventually
make existence easier all round, and
save the human machine from the most
distressing and life-shortening results
of wear and tear. Our first parents
made themselves aprons of fig leaves,
clearly demonstrating by Holy Writ
that primitive sewing was the initial in
dustry, and that every other form of oc
cupation is less ancient than that of tail
oring or dress making. As "Adam
delved and Eve span," so countless gen
erations of ladies and gentlemen of the
highest antediluvian antiquity got their
bread and made their clothes. Hence
manual labor became honorable, as,
judging by the signs of the times, it
may again become, and that at no dis
tant date. The interesting correspond
ence which we publish from day to day,
bewailing the curse of a hapless gentil
ity, points to a change in public opinion
with regard to the honorability of hard
work. People are beginning to recog
nize that the genteel callings are over
crowded, and that it is better to teach
their bojs a trade by which they may
earn a respectable livelihood, than suffer
them to starve as clergymen, lawyers,
and scribes, unattached. Alexander
Pope very neatly formulated the trouble
of the age in our great-great-grandfathers'
days: "Honor and shame from
no condition rise; act well your part,
there all the honor lies." Probably the
greatest disability of mechanical em
ployments rests on the conventional ob
jection to dirty hands. Genteel folk,
more or less remotely connected
with county families, will not
readily consent to their sons stepping
down to the artisan platform. But is it
not possible to raise that platform to a
higher level? The dignity of a calling
does not make itself; it is made by those
who practice it. Amateur turners aud
carpenters, engineers, farmers, and
gardeners abound, and a gentleman is
not less gentle because he amuses his
leisure with the lathe, the tool-chest,
the succession of crops, or the occupa
tion of removing flies from a rosebush.
Sir Walter Scott wished all his readers
"clean hands, clear head, and patriotic
heart, like Pitt." Science will make
his desire apply practically and to every
calling. Very soon the wheels of labor,
and the work of the world will go by
machinery. Men will have fewer and
fewer mean tasks to perform, and pre
sumably no one will be too proud to
mind a machine. After all, it is not so
long ago since clerkly skill was beneath
the dignity of a born aristocrat, when
carls and knights signed their names to
deeds of settlement with the hut-end
of a dagger, or a conventional, symbolic
cross. Grand folk who lived uncomfort
able in huge drafty castles, dressed
magnificently, aud were as proud ol
their gentility as proud could be, looked
on school learning with open contempt
Folks of this generation have gone to
the other extreme. School learning
and scholarly refinement can not be
overestimated, so long as they do not
help to pauperize the educated classes;
but it is a mistake to assume that a well
stocked memory and gentle manners
are incompatible with mechanical
employments. Such inventions as that
of the improved sewing machine in a
measure go to prove the contrary. The
management and conduct of machinery,
while it neither hardens nor necessarily
begrimes the hands of the operator,
leaves the intellect free play for reflec
tion and affords leisure for self-improvement
It will be strange, indeed, should
the spread of mechanical science,
which has too long suffered under the
imputation of degrading sentient skill
below the mindless craft of machinery
not in the end help to ennoble anr
dignify manual labor. London Tele
graph. Bedding for Animals.
The farmer who takes pains to "make
up the bed" for his cow or horse gains
ten times more than the cost of the
labor of so doing. If all material is
passed through the cutter previous to
being used for bedding it uot only adds
to the comfort of the animal, but assists
in the matter of cleanliness by reason
of its greater power of absorption. For
this reason sawdust is becoming a lavor
ite, as its fineness not only admits of 'its
being handled easilv, well spread in the
stall, and removed, but, after having
absorbed the liquid flows of the stall,
still readily mixes with the matter in the
manure heap. The merit of sawdust is
due to its fineness and to its absorptive
quality. If any bedding is plentiful,
fine, and absorptive, it prevents loss ol
manure by intimately mixing with it,
and as the droppings are more readily
incorporated with a greater mass of ab
sorbent material the risk of evaporation
and escape of gases is lessened. Now,
if the labor of cutting is to be taken into
the account, it is more than balanced by
facility in spreading the fine manure
when it is hauled to the field. The cut
ting can be done in winter or during
wet days, and it is a luxury to spread
nice, finely-divided manure. Good, fine,
clean bedding adds to the thrift and
health of the animals, is cooler In sum
mer and warmer in winter, and those
who use it (revest such 'ou.Prairi
Farmer
PERSONAL AM) LITERARY.
The King of Cambodia, formerly
Province of Siam, has conferred the
o-der of General on John A Haider
man, United States Minister to Siam.
F. V. Greene is the youngest Cap
tain of Engineers in the United States
my. Ha s known in literature by
his clever writings on military subjects.
Josh Billings was born in Lanes
boro, N. H., and he has directed hia
children to bury him there and mark
his grave with a rough stone from a
quarry hard by.
Cornelius Vanderbilt ha? a taste
for book collecting, and paid one. thou
sand dollars for a copy of "Elliot's In
dian Bible," which the old Commodore
would consider a ridiculous waste of
money, N. Y. Graphic.
Miss Ida Ward, the English actress,
has come over to stay. During a form
er visit she conceived so stro.ig a liking
for America, the people and their ways
of living, that she has coma to go back
no more. Chiiagn Journal.
Henry Labouc:ere, the editor of
London Trulh, never writes at night,
not being a believer in the midnight oil
as applied to the journalistic machine.
His working hours ate from ten in the
morning till three n tlie afternoon, aft
er which comes recreation.
Among the Citizens of this republic
there is at least one undoubted child of
royally in the person of Rev. William
J. "Harnett, pastor of ,the Shiloh (col
ored) Baptist Church, Williamsport.
Pa. Us. is the sou of a once powerful
A.rican King, Dumba by name. N. Y.
Herald.
Josiah Hinman, founder of Monta
na, the first town built in Colorado, died
recently at his home in Vergens, Vt
He was the leader of the first party that
left Lawrence, Kan., for Pike's Peak in
May, 18"8. In February, 1859, the new
town of Montana was incorporated by
the State of Kansas. Not even a log
sahin now marks the town's location.
Among the interesting political
relics in the estate of Montgomery
Blair are six large trunks containing
letters, manuscripts and various public
papers left by Frank P. Blair, Mont
gomery's father, for the purpose of pre
paring his life. The father did not take
time to write his life, and left the papers
to his son, who in turn leaves them in
their orig'nal shape, never having had
the time or inclination to prepare the
book. Among these papers an; many
manuscripts given to the elder Mr.
Blair bv Andrew Jackson. Chicago
flera'd. "
The Pall-Mall Gazette, .a. its criti
cism on Ouida's new novel "Wanda,"
draws attention to the extraordinary
size of the heroine's library. The critic
say3: "It contained half "a million vol
umes; or, as is stated on another page,
a million. Taking the former number,
and estimating that the room had
twenty shelves, and that each volume
had on an average an inch of shelf, we
find that the wall space in ths 'great
cedar-lined room' must have been a
little over 2,000 feet; or that the apart
ment measured say 800 feet long by
200 wide a large room for a Tyrolese
castle."
HUMOROUS.
Upon seeing a fire-engine at work,
an exquisite remarked: "Who would
evah have dwearaed that such a vewy
diminutive-looking appawatus would
hold so much wattahr' Chicago Trib
une. The last case of indolence related
is that of a man named John Hole, who
was so lazy that, in writing his name,
he simply "used the letter "3M and then
punched a hole through tho paper.
N. Y. News.
A newspaper is much excited over
what it calls the "Diseased wife's sister
Bill." But what the wife's diseaso
was. and why her sister's name was
Bill, is not at all plain in the article
discussing the subject Detroit. Fret
Press.
One man was asked by another,
with whom he was on the best of
terms, where he had taken up his
abode. "Oh," he replied, "I'm living
by the canal at present I should be
delighted if you would drop in some
evening."
"It was pitched without," said a
clergyman, having Noah's ark for his
theme, and an old base-ball player who
had been calmly slumbering awoke with
a start and yelled "foul' The first
bass from the choir came down and put
him out. N. K. Independent.
"Send anything to this office inpay
ment for subscriptions, potatoes, cord
wood, string-beans, rags, old iron, any
thing, only send it' wails an impe
cunious country editor, and then adds:
"Not necessarily for publication, but as
a guarantee of good faith." Rochester
Post-Express.
"And how old did ypu say she
was?" asked Mrs. Jenkins of the muse
um attendant, pointing her sun-shade at
the Egyptian mummy in a case.
"Four thousand years, ma'am," an
swered the man." "Do tell; wonder
fully well preserved at that age, ain't
she? Are her teeth false?"
The scarcity of gentlemen at a
neighboring summer resort was so ap
parent that a Boston lady telegraphed to
her husband: "beorge, bring down a lot
of beans for the hop this evening."
Thanks to the telegraph manipulator,
George arrived with "pot of beans,"
Boston Courier.
His Vacation.
He wanders the street in an old striped coat.
With ink marks all over his arms.
And never a 6hirt collar graces his throat.
And no waistcoat bis brave bosom warms.
A scraKry beard jrrows all over his face.
And he looks very much like a tramp:
His hair is uncut, and in heat's grim embrace
He appears most decidedly damp.
Why does this younp man, so careful in dress.
Now look very much like a bummer?
Ah ! bitter the truth that I must here confess
His girl's gone away for the summer.
Washington KetmUican.
Everybody in Texas knows Colonel
Bill Fritz Hugh, the man who talked
old General Holmes out of the ring dur
ing the war. Bill was at the Great
Windsor, in Dallas, and sent a waiter off
with his order. In course of time the
fellow came back. Bill looked at him
in astonishment a moment and then
asked: "Arc you the same man I gave
iny order to?" To which the waiter
replied: "Yes. sir, I am that same."
"Well, mv sroodness!" retorted Bill,
you have aged so that I would not have
known you from Aaron's scape-goat!"
Ttzas Silings.
Number Three.
On Brady street a boy about thirteen
years old stood outside the fence and
received a hatfnll of cherries from a
boy of nine or ten on the inside. There
was -something: so sweetly friendly and
charitable in the action that a pedes
trian crossed over and said to the small
boy irfter the big one had moved on:
"Sonny, did you sell him the cher
ries?"' "No, sir."
"Gave them of your own free will,
ehP"
"Yes, sir."
"Well, he looks like a poor boy who
can't buy fruit, and it was a noble
action of "yours."
"That's what I think, too, sir. He's
been licking me all summer, and "
"And you heaped coals of fire on his
head-"
"No, sir. 1 fixed to heap a quart of
half-ripe cherries into his stomach, and
if he doesn't howl and twist and yell
and tie up in hard knots before night
then he's too mean for the colio t
tackle! He's the third one PTe peJi
ff that way this week." DetraH Frm
tru.
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