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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1884.
Zsttrsi iX tie Pcrtofici, C:lsnta, Kit.,
e!xn sitter.
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-H7T 0MMIS8.
The dear little Mitaes ire meet with ia lite.
What hopes and what fears they awakeal
For when a man chooses a Hiss for a wife
He may be Miss-led or Miss-taken,
wfaea I courted Miss Kid. and secured the kJta,
i uougni, in tae warmut or my passion.
That I'd made a great hit lntbusgalnU
gainlafa
miss;
But 'twas only a Jliss-calculatioa.
v. Torso many Misses surrounded Miss Eld,
With me and my love interfering,
v-A Jealous Miss-trust put It Into her head
- That sho ought not to give mo a bearing;;
Then a certain Miss-chance that I met with
ono day
Almost sent my hopes to destruction.
For she felt a suspicion of what I would say,
., All owing to one Miss-construction.
Deceived by ono Miss-information I wrote.
The cause of her anger demanding;
Mies-direction prevented her getting' the note,
V And introduced MiES-understandlng;
j When to make her my wife I exultlngly swore,
Miss-belief made her doubt my intention.
And I nearly got wed to Miss-fortune before
I could wean her from Mlss-apprcbensioa.
But when she no longer would yield to Miss
doubt, Nor be led br Miss-representation.
She had with Miss-like a most serious fall-cat,
And to wed felt no more hesitation.
j. And when to the church to be married we west,
, Miss-take mado the parson to linger.
And I got so annoyed by an awkward Miss-fit,
That! put tho wring on the wrong naffer.
Having been so Miss-used, I kept a strict
watch.
For I still felt a fear of Miss-leading;
And I found, when too late, an unlucky Mies
match Interfered with tho joys of our wedding.
Miss-rule in our dwelling put everything
wrong,
Miss management there took her station,
Till my cash, like the time taken reading this
song.
Was all wasted by Miss-application.
F. O. Ottanon, in Manhattan.
A UK-COMMOK-SESSE HATCH.
The weather had been very cold eren
for January. For days nobody had
stirred out unless compelled by neces
sity, and, I've no doubt, our dear
mother had longed many times for a
change which would allow her noisy
children to exercise their
muscles out of doors.
lungs and
At last the chango came. Daring the
forenoon the thermometer indicated a
rising temperature, and about midday
"the old woman up in the sky began
emptying her feather beds. ' '
'Thick and fast the downy snowflakes
fell, wrapping every tree and shrub in a
garment of pure white and making even
"the stake and rider1' fences, the log
barns and corn-cribs, things of beauty
which are too truly "joys not to last for
ever." Hastily we children were clad in coats,
cloaks, scarfs, mittens, and all that par
aphernalia of outer garments which lov
ing mothers provide and insist on being
worn; despite the protests of the wearers.
At last we were free and out upon the
hill near by, where there was grand
sport, sliding, snowballing and making
gqow men.
.-. The afternoon slipped quickly by, the
snow ceased falling, and the evening
was settling down clear and cold, when
Upon tho opposite hilltop there came in
sjgh't a farmer's' box sleigh, drawn by a
span of bay horses. Hastily we drove
our.slcds to the foot of our hill and
reached it just in time for a "hitch."
The driver of this establishment was
nowise visible.
"The han,d which guided the team
seemed not a hand but a huge wad of
buckskin and yam, and it proceeded
from a sort of tower of bed quilts,
blankets, buffalo robes, comforters, sur
mounted by a head piece enveloped in a
ereen and red "Bay State" shawl.
There was & little crack undoubtedly
left, for the eyes, but no eyes could be
eenbyns.tr
Edging around very little, but proba
bly as much as circumstances would al
low, tho roll of dry goods and furs in
Sulred if "Yon house was 'Squire
Hack's?"
We replied affirmatively, and settled
down to the enjoyment of a ride to our
own door, during which we exchanged
whispered speculations as to whom the
stranger might be.
When the sled stopped a committee of
us reported the arrival at the house
while the remainder watched the tying
and blanketing of the horses and then
formed a voluntary escort.
In answer to a muffled rap father
opened the door.
'Squire Black, I suppose?"
"Yes sir; come in. Getting quite cold
outside," said, my father, eyeing his
guest curiously.
"Well, yes; we've had a fearful spell
'weather, and I've been on the road
for the last two days of it. I see you
don't know me. Squire, and I swan, my
.yes were so full of frost I hardly knew
you; but I reckon you'll see who I am
when T get this toggery off."
From the moment our visitor had
stepped inside he had been engaged in
nnwrapping one garment after another,
a process all the world like peeling an
onion.
At last there stood revealed a young
man of four or five and twenty years, a
six footer, with broad shoulders, face
bronzed by exposure to the weather, but
agoodh-face to look upon, with its
rather square jaw, ruddy cheeks, full
smiling lips, brown hair curling over a
broad forehead, and blue eyes, which
answered my father's questioning look
by a merry twinkle.
In a moment father extended both
hands and grasped- the stranger's most
cordially.
"You are one of Aunt Anna's boys.'
A hearty laugh preceded the reply,
"I wasn't afeerd but you'd git it right,
Squire, give you time enough. Fm the
little Joe Tolon you taught long divis
ion to."
We knew Aunt Anna was a former
landlady of father's when he was a ped
agogue; that she lived forty or fifty miles
from us a great distance in those days
and our interest began to && after
mother came in from the kitchen, and
conversation was continued about old
-neighbors of whose existence we had
been ignorant. We betook ourselves
to the kitchen, when mother soon fol
lowed. Presently, while Joe was caring for
his team, father came in, and all un-
mindful of the adage about "little
pitchers" said, with the air of one who
must be circumspect lest his risibilities
would betray him, "Ma, what do you
suppose Joehas come for?"
Tm sureldon't know," replied moth
er, composedly stirring .another hand
ful of meal into the boUing mush which
was to be the piece de resistance of our
evening meal.
"Ho nas come for a wife."
"A wife! I did not know -he was ac
quainted around here
'He isn't. He wants me to recom
mend him to some girl who is strong,
able, and willing to work, knows how
to run a house and hesitating a little as
he saw the contemptuous curve of mv
mother's nose and mouth andTve"-epoken-about-Jane."
"Squire Black!" exclaimed mother,
emphasizing her words still further by a
dash of the pudding' stick, which sent
the mush flying over the stove.
Jane was a farmer's daughter who
worked for us s'ummers and went home
winters to help do up the spinning,
weaving and the like. -
A mutually satisfactory agreement,
as Jane's services were more needed at
home in the winter than in the summer,
and mother thereby saved the board and
wages of a girl.during the winter whea
the wort was not so heavy . Moreover,
mother '.ofteiu-'ssid that Jane put the
work, ahead so when she was there that
she could sot keep her busy the) year
gvusd. .-
- Ah, Jefllf WlMbl J-'
to return to oar kitchen. Father had
changed his position, getting, a little out
of the way of another charge from the
mush-pot, when the beating was going
on vigorously.
After a pause he began again:
"Well, ma, Jane is not bound to mar
ry Joe unless she wants to. Bat per
haps she'll never get another chance as
good. You know yourself that any one
of Aunt Anna's boys is bound to make a
good man and a smart one.
"None too smart if he thinks to get a
wife this way," snapped out mother.
"Let him try; ma, if he wants' to; let
him try. It won't hurt him to have the
conceit taken oat of him."
No reply, but the mush was stirred as
never mushbefore. Another pause.
"You know, ma, Jane has been keep
ing company with that trifling Dan
Jttarcy.''
"Why doesn't he many "a girl who
knows him if he wants to get married?"
sourly inquired mother; but the pud
ding stick relaxed its vigor slightly and
father ventured a little nearer the
speaker.
"He says the girls up there are all
sqnaws, and down by his mother's they
have too high notions."
"Well, it's a heathenish, Frenchified
way of courting a wife," replied mother,
"and if he were to come about me that
way, if I were Jane, Fd empty a bucket
of water over him."
"May-be she will, may-be she will,"
chuckled father, who probably would
have enjoyed that termination of the
affair as well as any.
"Bat, ma, you know Jane is terribly
homely, and
What further he would have said was
cut short by the entrance of Joe bearing
a jar and a package.
"Mother sent these to you with her
compliments, Mrs. Black."
Mother, who knew the flavor of Aunt
Anna's cheese and honey of old, was
somewhat mollified by these presents,
but she remained rather sulky all even
ing; even when Jpe filled her wood-box.
piling the sticks as evenly as lath in a
bundle, filled the water-nails, cut the
kindling, and did the milking, bringing
the pail in as clean, she condescended to
tell him, as she would herself or but
she checked herself and did not say "or
Jane."
She would be no party to that iniquity.
He nearly won her when he repeated
his text promptly and correctly a ad
knelt reverently at prayers, and she told
father "he was a likely young man,
but" her lips, shut close, and she
shook her head when she thought of his
mission.
But before morning the sky cleared,
and things were hurried around for an
early start to Jane's.
During the ride it was arranged that
father was to introduce Joe's errand to
the elders, and if they were willing Joe
might thereafter procee'd as he liked.
So upon our reaching the farm father
and Mr. Holton left Joe and the boys to
Eat oat the team, and they came to the
ouse and held a conference with Mrs.
Holton while Jane was busy building
the fire in the best room.
The "best room" of an old-fashioned
farm-house was drearv enough. This
one had a bright yarn carpet, several
split-bottomedand" wooden chairs with
patchwork cushions, a low-backed rock
ing-chair, a wooden "settee," a table
with tho Bible, Baxter's "Call to the
Unconverted," an almanac, and a file of
the Christian Era. A few silhouettes and
prints from magazines were on the
walls; but, after ail, its only ornaments
were the scrupulous cleanliness and its
big fire-place.
Jane bustled in and out on household
and hospitable cares intent, being given
by general consent some opportunity for
acquaintance and a chance to see and be
seen before bein told our errand.
You already know what she saw.
What did Joe see?
Jane was, as father had said, un
deniably homely.
She was tall and angular. Her feet
and hands were large. Her hair was a
trifle too red for auburn and not yellow
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is the
proper description.
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Her light complexion was freckled,
but her cheeks would have shamed the
roses. Her eyes were gray; her nose had
grown very long, and then, as if wish
ing to make amends for that mishap,
had shaped itself into a decided pug.
Her mouth was large and always smil
ing, and smiling showed what was Jane's
only beauty a set of as regular and
nice white teeth as ever came from a
dentist's hands.
Her dress was of bine flannel, every
thread spun and woven by herself.
The hour or two until dinner was
spent in viewing and discussing the
stock, in telling the scanty news, and in
talking over "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
which was then appearing as a seriel,
in all of which Joe took his part sensibly
and modestly.
At noon we were summoned to an ex
cellent and bountiful farm dinner. It
was quite evident that by this time Jane
had been informed of our errand, for
from perfect unconsciousness she be
came suddenly preoccupied, nervous and
blushing. Joe enjoyed his dinner and
did ample justice to it.
After we were all done suddenly there
came a break and an awkward pause in
the conversation. Joe cleared his throat,
but without other sign of embarrass
ment began:
"Miss Holton, I see somebody has al
ready told you what Fve come for, and
it's fight I should tell you something
about myself. The Squire here will
tell you about my folks.
"I am twenty-five years old, have
never been sick in my life, I don't drink
whisky, or swear, or chew tobacco. I
am a member of the Baptist Church
when I'm where there is one.
"Fve been raised to work and can
hold up my end with any man. I have
a hundredand sixty acres of land about
half cleared. There's the papers to
show for it, and Squire Black will tell
you they're all right
"Fve a good log house, log stable,
and so on. I own the horses I drove
down here and a yoke of oxeu besides.
I don't owe any man a cent I shall
have cows and chickens when I've a
wifetotake'eareof 'em. Now, if you think
you can make up your mind to marry
me Fd like to ask you a few questions."
Jane said nothing, and Joe, evidently
taking silence for consent, 'proceeded:
"Did you cook this dinner?"
Still Jane was silent, bnt her mother
answered "yes" for her.
Joe smiled. "Well the Squire told
me you were a good cook or I wouldn't
have come out here."
"Can you make good bread?"
A faint but rather indignant "yes"
was heard from Jane as if he had asked
if she could wash her face or comb her
hair.
"Can you milk and tend to milk,
butter and cheese?"
"Yes," a little louder.
"Can you run a house and do all
kinds of housework?"
The cat seemed to have gotten Jane's
tongue again, and my mother pitying
her embarrassment, replied with an ex
hausted catalogue of Jane's virtues as a
housewife. Then suddenly checking her
self as one who had said too much or said
it in a wrong cause, became silent, but
the questioning went on.
"Can you sew?"
"Yes'
Can you knit?"
"Yes'
"Can you spin?"
"Canyon weave? .' i V
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xes.
Areyou8troBgaBdhealthyfw "
"As-you'vegot to saying yes,Td like
to go right oa andvk you tohave sie;
MCAHfrctaft4 fjad,
you can talk with your folks ana the
Squire and his wife, and gise me the
answer to that question when I come in.
"I want to say first that if you agree
to marry me Til try to do the "fair thing
by you, and expect you to do the same
by me."
"You can always have what you can
make from the. butter and eggs and half
the wool for your own spending. Ft will
be very lonesome, for there won't do
another white woman nearer than five .
miles for awhile yet, and thework will
be hard, but maybe not harder than you !
are used to. If you go we'll have to go i
rlatr at-A fL.mnrrAtir t'tia rnorlc cat
veryrough,and itwUl taketwomayj
be threedays to travel the sixty odd '
miles'" - ' iie-iappea ms looiupicts. snug wiin uio
It took Joe a long time to feed his j tip o his W crutch cane "I don't
team, and during .Ins absence a great ! van' to orde.r a new Rar ?l5 Jn-
deal of talking was done. When ho se for evening wear if knickfiroockers
returned Mr. Holton stood by the toble!?88"1?8,10 b3 V'e S'
looking very'sober, and there were tears , r " JPake out with my old ones
in the eves of all the women when he ' J",1.1 the fellows catch on, if the fashion
said: "Joe. Jana has concluded she'll
chance it with vou. She's been a jrood
girl always, and we hope vou'll use her
well."
"I will, Mr. Holton, so help mo God,"
solemnly answered Joe, and he walked
over to where Jane stood, and put his
arm around her and kissed her.
Then there was a general handshak
ing, and arrangoments were made for
the weddingnext afternoon; afterwhicb
Joe and his wife were to come back as
far as our house and the following morn
ing start for home.
The wedding was an old-fashioned
country one, and not long after the
ceremony Joe's sleigh was packed with
a cargo of feather beds, quilts, blankets
and housekeeping goods of various
kinds, and' a nice cow (the pick of the
herd) tied behind, for Mr. Holton would
not let his daughter go empty-handed.
Every second year after that for many
years Jane came home for a visit The
intervening year sne coum noc come De-
cause "the baby was too little to brinjr,"
j and the numerous littlo Tolons grew up
j in regular succession, their heads mount-
ing one above the other like the rounds
of a ladder.
Father regularly asked Jane when she
mado these visits if she had come for her
divorce.
Jane always replied: "Not this time.
I don't see but Joe and I get along as
well as those who take more time for
their courting."
And Joe, who was always holding the
baby while Jane "undid" the bigger
ones at the time this question was asked,
would say approvingly: "That's so,
Jane."
"Dear me," said Jane, as, leaningon
Dr. Joe Tolon's arm, she threw back
her widow's veil (she has worn that
nearly ten years now) and wiped her
glasses before "The Heart in the Wil
derness" in the art gallery last fall
"dear me, Joe, that looks just like the
piece of woods opposite the door of tho
old house when your father brought me
home. Fve .seen the deer browsing
there many a time. 1 didn't think then
it would ever be a city, but your father
said it would, and m.w the cars run over
that very spot. It's been a long, long
time, Joe, but the lat ten years have
been longer than all Ow rest" Chicago
Tribune.
A Tongthoo Weddinjr.
Early one morning we went to see a
Tongthoo marriage, naving obtained an
invitation from tho bride. When we
reached her house, we were met by a
man dealing out lemonade or
liiucnadc who would . not let
us pass till we drank some. Im
mediately we were met by another man,
who offered us e.n.ch a bunch of plantains,
a handful of betel leaves, nuts, etc., and
a large pinch of a kind of vegetablo
mixture seeming to have been only
willed over the lire. Wiien we had
taken these things to carry, we were al
lowed to pass up the ladder into the
house. In the front room or veracda,
the men were sitting on mats, feasting
on the good tilings (as they call them)
set before them, just such things as had
been given to . Afterwards we passed
into tuC'ladies' room, which was really
the kitchen, where w:ls a fire-place with
a little lire and much smoke. The floor
was well covered with dirt, and the
women were sitting on it all around the
room. I found space for sitting between
the napee jar and a woman smoking;
but as I had put on a clean dress for the
occasion, I did not like to sit on the
dirty floor, so, after standing awhile. I
put my umbrella down and sat on that,
after which a mat was brought me to bit
on. As tho smoke was preferable to the
smell of napee, I turned a friendly face
to the woman smoking. A tray was
placed in the midst of the company,
into which they dropped their piece,
which, I suppose, was to go toward pay
ing for the feast.
After waiting some time an hour, I
think two men came into the room,
distributing various articles tobacco,
betel, plantains and another kind of
vegetable cut up line and then fol
lowed a man with 1 he lid of a betel-box
and a bottle, pouring out and dealing
the contents of the bottle in the box
lid to the compauy. When it came to
me, it looked so much like water, and
had so little smell, that I touched my
lips to it and found it strong spirits, so
our party declined to drink, though
urged very strongly. Pretty soon we
heard great shouting and laughing out
side; and, looking over the wall, we
saw that the bridegroom had arrived,
but was not alloweifto come up the lad
der till his friend had paid money to
those who held a silk handkerchief
across the top of the ladder. After
much talking and much fun, the hand
kerchief was withdrawn and the bride
groom came up the ladder, where he
lound his way again stopped before
the door of the ladies' room, until he
had paid two rupees. Having been
linally admitted, he was instructed to
sit on the floor with his groomsman
by the tray of pice, on vhich were
two little betel-box-lids, filled with
spirits and a ball of cotton
yarn. After a while, the bride came
out of the bedroom, opening into
the room, and with her bridesmaid
sat down opposite the two men. Then
an old man, who also sat by the tray,
took the ball of yarn, dipped the end in
the cup of spirits, and wound around
the bridegroom's wrists, muttering over
something as he did so. After four or
five windings to each wrist he again
dipped the- end into the spirits, touched
the man's hand with it, and proceeded
to wind the bride's wrists in the same
manner. Then he treated the grooms
man and bridesmaid just the same, after
which they were all made to hold their
hands before them, touching the tray,
the men holding theirs cup-shaped, and
the girls holding theirs open with one
laid in the other, while the old man mut
tered away for three or five minutes.
He then took the two cups, put one into
the hands of the bridegroom the other
into the bride's hands, and they were
made to sip, and then exchange cups
and sip again, exchanging and sipping
until they seemed tired ana put the cups
down of their own accord, when they
were taken up and presented to the
groomsman and bridesmaid to sip and
exchange as the married couple had
done. TThen the old man gathered up
all the money on the tray into a betel
box, and presented it to the husband
with a little speech, and he presented it
to his wife, and she took it into her
room, whiclf ended the ceremony. The
young husband and his friends got up
and returned home, and we followed
their example, bringing our plantains
with us. Cor. Albany Argus.
.
The Portland Ohgonian speaks of
a recent "shower" that lasted forty
sght hours.
Kaee-Breeekes.
"Whet. re knee-breeches coming
Into stylo?" asked a youth with a pair
of pipe-stem legs which stuck down
from a marvelously short-tailed over
coat like two shawl-pins inserted in a
champagne-bottle cork. He addressed
his tailor his long-suffering tailor
who for eighteen months had been try
ing to collect from him an ever-increasing
bill, and who was now debiting in
mind whether or not he should give
him credit for a new dre3s suit The
question as to the knee-breech.es was
somewhat of a conundrum, but it called
up a tram ol thought which, for the"
time bein put the credit debate out of,
J"0- "K.u ee:L d,ded he V
?ufe,lu. cuanKu uum B muuuia,
don't you know ! "
Whereupon the tailor went into a dis
cussion of the question of pro and con.
The Philadelphia Merchant Tailors' As
sociation, he said, would hold their an-
j nual meeting and banquet in this city
in February, and it had been proposed
that all who attend should wear knee
breeches, black silk hose, low shoes and
buokles. The idea has not met with
general favor among the tailors. While
some of them the fashionable, swell
upper ten, silk and satin lined tailors
were in favor of it and would willingly
have gone to -the expense of fitting
themselves with doeskin, the old fogy
fellows who still have a hankering for
jballoon pants and for spring bottoms'
put their feet down in rebellion, and
said they would not agree to any such
nonsense. Philadelphia men, they
:said, had not the oalves to make knee
breeches a success, and for that reason
.they would not be a parry to inaugu
ratingthe fashion. Philadelphia, the'
home of the Quakers, had never led the
world in the way of style and costume,!
and it was too late to begin now. Letj
"London take the initiative, they said;,
pet New York follow, and perhaps in
the course of a few years the city of
Penn would be compelled to join in
but they could not think of being first.
So the argument ran.
"You see," said the tailor to his
,dude customer, "the wearing of this
style of costume at the annual sapper!
Will not be general. . I dare say some
Jof the members will try it, but the mi-;
j jority will not. Last year a Chicago.
tailor who was on here tried the thing,'
and I must say he looked very well. It
was a vast improvement over the regu-J
lation long trousers, and I don't won
der that an effort is being made to in
troduce it I understand that the thing!
lis getting to be popular in Chicago, but!
the trouble is fashion doesn't travel
like the earth, from west to east, but
from east to west. Therefore, knee
breeches, it would seem, must become
ixtpular iu California, the Sandwich
islands, Japan and throughout Asia
and Europe before they come into
vogue here. In that case we will prob
ably be making them twenty-live years
hence. Perhaps; I can't say that this
matter, however, is such a novelty that
its spread will be novel, and that Chi
cago is going to set tho style for the
east That is to say, that Philadelphia
will adopt it before .New York, and New
York men will carry the fashions
abroad. Such a thing is possible, I ait
not probable. Yon fellows" and here
ho glanced admiringly at the animated
'fashion-plate before him "are not apt
to adont anj'thing that is not all the go
abroad. If the "Prince of Wales, for
instance, were to wear knee-breeches
and a claw-hammer coat at one cf the
iQueen's drawing-rooms, every New
York dude would have the news within
ithe next twenty-four hours, and wc
.should be overrun with orders, but I
don't believe that because a Chicago
tailor talces a not on that tho style
should be chauged the Anglo-maniacs
of New York and Philadelphia and it
is from the Anglo-maniacs of these
cities that the fashions of the United
States take shape and form will catch
on to it."
"Then it would be safe for me to or
der long trousers?" queried tho. youth
with the slender extremities.
"I think so!"
While soni changes in male attire
may be discussed at the annual meeting
'of the tailors, no attempt will be made,
jit is now generally understood, to do
away with the plain, everyday, common-sense
pantaloons.
"What's the use, any way?" said one
.of the officers of the association this
morning. "Philadelphians don't take
kindly to the knee-breeches idea, and
there s no use denying it. Why? Be
cause we haven't the legs. Look at
the leaders of fashion here. There are
very few well-built men among them.
They are all spindle-shanked fellows,
whose calves are not wurth the men
tioning. How would their legs look in,
stockings? As a matter of fact, legs'
'are not what they used to be far from!
it. We haven't anything like the legsj
our grandfathers had. Wc don't walk;
enough; and unless a man has good
less knickerbockers are at a discount.
Look well ou the stage? O, yes, but
very few stage legs are natural legs.
They are made up, artistically made
up, too, and if knee-breeches are,
adopted there would be so much pad
ding of legs by the men about town
that the industry of making false calves
would have an unexampled boom."
Whether or not knee-breeches are to
become fashionable it is hard to dis
cover. Opinions on the subject are at
variance, but one thing is certain, more
knickerbockers were worn at the sea
side and mountain resorts this summer
than ever before, and only in a small
minority of cases was tljcre any reason
to believe that pads were used. De
spite general sentiment to the contrary,
a slender, but well-rounded leg incased
in a neat silk stocking for evening wear,
or a heav3 ribbed woolen hose for
rough and ready use, looks twice as
well and is much more graceful in ap
pearance than the fat and knobby ex
tremities that resemble so many Indian
clubs. Philadelphia Bulletin.
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De Lesseps Really a Scotchmaa.
seotenmen win ne more tnau ever
convinced that no good thing can come
out of any place south of the Tweed by
the results of the genealogical research
es which M. de Lesseps has just made
known. Like so many other French
men he is really, it seems, aScotch
man. In Scotland there were many
Lasseps and Lessels, Lesseps and Las
sels, while in France there were none of
his name except himself and his own
family. One of his direct ancestors
was with James H. at St. Germain, and
t was at that time that his family set
tled jn France. The discovery of his
Scotch origin seems to have made a.
treat impression on M. de Lesseps, for
e referred to the matter at consider
able length twice over during his visit
to Newcastle; and, indeed, some of the
details are highly interesting from the
Soint of view of hereditary genius. M.
e Lesseps is proud of being a diplo
matist nd the conduct of one of his
ancestors who was ordered to arrest
Henry IV. of France, but who, instead
of arresting the King, forewarned him
of his danger, may perhaps be taken to
show that diplomacy runs in the fam
ily. So, again, although M. de Lesseps
modestly disclaims being himself iu any
sort an engineer, it is interesting to
know that one of his ancestors followed
a technical profession, and that, ac
cording to vestry records still are
served, thrCathedridatikunburg wt
duuc oy an arcniiecx ssbkm
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A Washington Romance.
Twonty years ago in this city a lady
was msrricd to an army oll'seer, and a
year afterward a plump girl-baby
blessed tho union. Major W. and lii's
wife fcubsequcntly quarreled and parted.
Mrs. W. taking the child with her to
San Francisco, where after a few year.s
she secured a divorce and afterward
married a Mr. B. in the "Golden City."
Her second husband died in the course
of time, and about a year or two since
witi, , Hn,.nri,f,. vhr. i,..h .m.u-n in
beautiful womanhood and secured a po
sition in one of the departments.
.Major W. left Washington shortly
after his separation from his wife. He
was mustered out of the service, settled
down in a western city and married
again.
The whirligig of time brought him to
the National Capital, where he became
a Government clerk. This was some
time before the arrival of his first wife.
Time had dealt gentlv with both of
them, the ear-marks of tho destroyer
telling more plainly on the Major by a
slight stoop iu the shoulders and a
plentiful spriukling of gray hairs.
One day not long since tne Major
passed his first wife on Pennsylvania
Avenue in company with aprettyyoung
lady. He had not'heard from "her for
fifteen years and knew nothing of her
whereabouts during that time. She
knew him, but did notcare to recognize
him, for she had not known of his life
since they parted. The Major looked
long and wistfully at the former part
ner of his bosoni.'who, though slightly
aged, bore pleasing traces of her former
Ubanty, and the thought struck him as
he looked at her beautiful companion:
"This is my daughter!"
After a seareh'of some wcoks he dis
covered that his former wife and
daughter resided on Capitol Hill. He
addressed them a letter; the wife did
not respond, but allowed the daughter
to do so. The latter met her father by
appointment away from her mother's
home. The meeting is said to have been
an affecting one. Siwc that time the
Major has showered upon hi-. long-lost
girl not only his parental love, but rare
and interesting gifts, and the twain can
be seen together on Pennsylvania Ave
nue on any fair da, mixing with the
!romenaders. The daughter still lives
vith her mother, who doesuotspoakto,
and has made no sign to, one whom
she once loved and who did not treat
her kindly, she alleges, in "Auld Lang
Syne."
The reality of the above story sur
passes the romances we see from week
to week upon the dramatic stage, and
only reminds us of the old, old truism
that "Truth is stranger than fiction."
Washington Letter.
The German Railway!.
The total length of the German rail
ways is 30,002 kilometere?or 18,750 En.
glish miles, of which 23,354 kilometers
tire main lines. In the aggregate the
capital value of the German railwavs is
about 300,000,000 sterlings. The large
proportion of 22,178 kilometors out of
the total are State lines, and of this
again 15,395 kilometers are owned by
Prussia, which, as was lately intimated,
now proposes to buy up the chief pri
vate lines rcmainingin that Kingdom
at a cost of about 23,000,000 sterling.
Before nianv years are over it is prob
able that the German States will own
the whole of the railways, and which
is not probable in France, for example
will get a large prolit out of their
working. German politics arc wonder
fully methodical and business-like.
Laxity in the conduct of railways by
State officials, especially Prussian,
would no more be tolerated than laxity
on the field of battle. The money spent
on railways by the German Govern
ment is one of the few instances of
really profitable reproductive State ex
penditure. Chiefly wanted for strate
gical purposes in time of war, the lines
are nevertheless worked on commercial
principles in time of peace. Accounts
are published for the five months ended
with May last, from which it appears
that the combined railways of Germany
has! gross traffic receipts of 373,500,000
marks, or nearly 19,000,000 sterling,
being at the rate of 45,000,000 per an
num; and the increase last year for tho
Jive months is 713,000, or 3 percent.
If this rate of progress continues the
earlier the Governments of Germany
buy up the whole system the better in
vestment the railways will be, for tlio
lines are no source of loss, as it is under
State control. Pall Hall Gazette.
Unexplored and Unknown.
The English are beginning in a vague
way to realize the magnitude of India,
and to comprehend that it contains
some fifty millions more people thau all
Europe west of the Vistula. Few, how
ever, are quite aware of tho number of
its cities, or believe that it includes
sixty-two with more than 50,000 people,
and twenty-two with more than 100,000;
namely; Bombay, Calcutta, Madras,
Hydrabad, Lucknow, Benares, Delhi,
Patna, Agra, Bangalore, Umritsur,
Cawnpore, Lahore, Allahabad, Jeypore,
Rangoon, Poona, Ahmedabad, Bareilly,
Surat, Howra, and Baroda. We give
them in order of population, but, prop
erly speaking, in the English waj of
counting, Howra, the Southwork of
Calcutta, should be included in the
capital, which with it contains above
866,000 souls, and is the greatest, as it
is by far the wealthiest city in tho em
pire. Below the limit of 50,000 the
towns become more numerous, and
there are hundreds with populations
above 20,000. The majority of the
latter are quite unknown to Europeans,
an active magistrate or two excepted;
and so far as we are aware, there is no
book in England which gives the
slightest account of their organization,
or of the life and people in them. Yet
many of them have histories of two
thousand years, and in all flourish
families which think themselves noble,
and have long pedigrees and stirring
tales to narrate. We hear every now
and then much of Indian princes who
in India are hardly mentioned, and of
"educated natives," a scarcely percep
tible class, but of the true "British
India" as little is .known at home as of
the eastern provinces of Peru. London
Spectator.
m
Some Instances of Discipline.
' In many of the departments at Wash
ington much grumbling is heard among
the clerks of the rigid enforcement of
the rules governing employes. An as
sistant chief of a prominent division of
the treasury, who had been in the de
partment twenty-five years, went into
the corridor the other day to point out
the direction of the cash-room to his
wife and a lady friend, and upon re
turning to his work found on it a card
directing him to report to the Secretary
for disobeying rules in leaving his desk
on matters not connected with public
business. Not long ago a clerk in an
other department was a few minutes
behind in reporting for duty. He was
fined seven cents for being tardy, and
the fine taken out of his wages at the
end of the month. To do this it was
necessary for his immediate superior to
formally communicate to the disbursing
officer of the department, who carefully
computed the value of the time lost, and
then the Auditor and First Comptroller
had to approve the account, and by the
time the red tape performance was
ended the Government had lost prob
ably the value of one day's time of a
clerk in formally passing the fine of
seven cents npon the tardy employe
and collecting the same. Detroit Post
and Tribune.
m
Some 30,000 children are lifing on
1 boats in Kngtaad.
FACTS ASP FIOTM.
There are over 200.000 horses ri
100.COO vehicles of all kinds licensed 1b
hovr York City.
Cleveland's 136 mills, with $21,
502, S00 capital and 17,114 hands turned
out 32,4ll,tiO0 worth of manufactured
iron last year. Cleveland Leader.
The State debt of Ohio is $4,490,
000. The aggregate debts of counties.
StBXa'-a $i3,588.0Qd.-Cincinnati Times.
Hie average of the pulsa
pulse in infancy
is 12J per minute; in manhood, 80; at
sixty years, 60. The pulse ol females
is more frequent than of males. Sctcn
iijic American.
Slaves in the Soudan are taken
down to tho coast, put on board a ves
sel and shipped by night to Arabia,
whence they are distributed to all parta
of the Turkish Empire.
Tlfs year's tales of petroleum at
I New York, Oil City and Bradford
J amounted to 4,24U,820,UO:j barrels
! mo-e than a hundred times tho entire
supplv of oil in tho world. X. Y. Her'
nld.
A belt mado in Lowell, Mass., and
sent to a Westorn rlouring-mill Is 160
feet long, 55 inches wide and five-eighths
of an inch thick. It contains 200 hides,
weighs one ton, and valued at $2,000.--Chicago
Times.
The Governor General and the
members of the Cabinet of the Domin
ion of Canada are paid salaries amouut-
t ing to 8155,000 yearly, which is 849,000
! more than is paid to the President of the
Umte.1 states and his Cabinet
The statistics of tho New York
Coroner's Office for 1883 are as follows:
Sudden deaths from natural caucs, 1,
2JC; deaths where tliero was no medical
attendance, principally ch ldren under
one year of age. 1.231 accidental deaths
by violence, 414; deaths from falls, 405;
suicides (males 136, females 24) total
1C0; deaths lj' drowning. 225; run over
by vehicles and killed, 87; homicides,
49; ante-mortem examinations made,
18; total number of cases attended to
3.S30. N. Y. Tribune.
In the vocation of fishing, during
the year 1883, seventeen Gloucester
(Mass.) vessels were lost and 200 lives
were sacriliced Of these men lost at
sea, foity left widows, and sixty-eight
children were bereft of their natural
protectors. In the stress and strain of
a seafaring life seventy-one men were
capsized or were driven from their crafts,
and were carried ashore or rescued by
passing vessels after incredible hard
ships. The total tonnage lost was 1,120,
valued at S91,80', on which there was
an insuranco of 876,972. In 1882 the
total losses were 115 lives, and twelve
vessels valued at $79,700. Boston
Herald.
WIT AND WISDOM.
It was a son of Erin who asked the
meeting to excuse him from serving on
a committee because he expected to be
unexpectedly called away. Chicago
Tribune.
Good manners is the art of making
i those people easy with whom we con
verse, vt hoover makes the fewest per
sons uneasy is tho best bred in the
company. Swift.
Doctor "There, get that prescrip
tion filled and take a tablespoonful
three times a day before meals.'
Pauper Patient "But, doctor, I don't
et but one meal in two days." Texas
Sijtings.
A generous young lady, having
loaned Suiffins fifty dollars, ho declares
that he has at last arrived at an owe-a-sis
in his life. There are people who
would fctph puns all the way from the
desert. N. 1". Mail.
"Why don't you get up as early as
you used to a few days ago?" angrily
nsked a wife of her lazy husband.
"Bec.iuse, my dear, it's sleep year," he
grinned, as he turned over for another
snooze. Chicago Times.
The author of tho "Ingoldsby Le
gends" used to tell a story of the com
plete discomfiture of a wit of no inferior
order by a message, politely delivered
at a supper party b' a little girl: "H
you please, Mr. Jones," said the child,
"mamma sends her compliments, and
would be much obliged if you would be
gin to be funny."
"John," said Mrs. Parvenu,
"what's all this ia tho papers about a
Baker's pcrshaw and tho Soudan?"
"Oh," said her husband, "it's some
further trouble in tho East I don't
know much about it" "Trouble in the
East," said Sirs. Parvenu, "well, you
might expect it. I always said them IS ew
England folks was no earthly use except
for pumpkin pies and darning stock
ings!" N. Y. Mail.
The Fun ol It
A hilt: a sled painted red.
The name in yellow;
A boy in cap and mits and wrap
A happy fellow.
Tho track like ice that's very nlcaj
A Ecrnpc ami rumoie:
A little swerve, a tricky curve
And such a tuinblel
A whirl.
, nstop:
the sled on top
Snow all i
i is hiding;
A merry laugh yet is thia not
.J.UU AULA XJk. OllUUit
Wide Awake.
Good humor is de safes' quality in
a man. As long as de dog wags his tail
dar ain' no danger in him. Fss
'spicious o' de man whut bows low. De
mole goes down mighty low, but ah,
Lawd, iyhut mischief he does. Dar's no
hope in dis worl1 an' no hope In de
naixt fur de man whut doan lub his
chile. In dis respeck he's wus den de
wolf. Too close 'tention ter bus'ness
ain't good fur de system. De rooster
what crows all night crows de weakes'
in de mornin'. Arkansaw Traveller.
Daniel Webster and His Retainer.
When Webster was at the zenith ol
his career, a gentleman waited upon
him one day to engage him for the de
fense in an important case at law, the
amount at stake in the suit being
880,000. The gentleman asked Webster
what the retaining fee would be.
' A thousand dollars.' '
" A thousand dollars!" exclaimed the
gentleman.
"Yes. But think for a moment what
I engage to dc, sir. I do not only hold
myself at your service in the matter,
perhaps for a month or more, bat I
debar myself from accepting any ofier,
no matter how large, from the plaintiff."
The applicant was satisfied with this
explanation, wrote out a chcok for the
amount and gave it to the great ex
pounder, who, after he had put it into
his pocket, said:
I will now give you a bit of advice
gratis. It you can compromise tms
bus ness upon fair terms with the plain-
tifl. you bad better do so."
The client expressed his thanks, and
took his leave. In a few days after the
gentleman called upon Webster again
and told him that a compromise had
Leen effected, and the matter satisfac
torily settled. Webster duly congratu
lated his visitor on the result and wonld
have turned to other business, but the
visitor seemed to have somethingfurther
on his mind.
"Of course," he ventured, after a
Sause, "Ishall not require your services,
Lr. Webster."
' Certainly not sir-"
"And and how about the 1,000 I
paid you?" faintly asked the gentle
man, who was not quite reconciled to
paying such a sum for services which
were never to be rendered.
"Oh, ah!" responded Daniel, with ft
bland smile. " Yon don't seem to nn
derstand. It is very simple. That was
a retaining fee called in law a re
tainar ' Bv virtue of the contract; I
also became a retainer. What should I
ntaln, li not my fie?"
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