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ou reasonable terms. Also business and
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RassU's Weak Pelat
Oars is the greatest country in the
world," a Russian gentleman said to
me, "but her size is her greatest weak
ness. Tell me at what point of her im
mense frontier line she could not be
Basily invaded by an enemy? On our
borders we are to-day as defenceless as
we were seventy-five years ago. It
looks as if we still would tempt our foes
to come on to Moscow."
The German-Russian frontier is vir
tually in the hands of the Poles, who,
as yet. cherish a vain hope of restoring
an independent Kingdom of Poland.
There are 7.000.000 of Poles, and all of
the Roman Catholic faith. There are
a number of fortresses in Poland, but
they are considered as quite insignifi
cant in the face of the formidable Ger
man fortresses on the other side of the
frontier. There are several Russian
regiments stationed at and near War
saw, but their officers are mainly Poles
or Russians Polonied. It is an undis
puted fact that the Polish society, with
all its anti-Russian sympathies, holds
its own in spite of all pressure from the
autocratic Government. Though con
quered, the Poles to-day look down
upon Russians as they were wont to do
in the golden period of their history.
In his capacity of Government-General,
the well-known military leader. General
Gourko, is the Chief of all Polish Prov
jncei. He is as good as a General as he
Is poor as an administrator. He might
la a twinkling annihilate all tho Polish
rebels, shoulif they face him in an open
field; but he is quite powerless to cope
with tho aristocratic conspirators in
their salons. In case of a war between
Russia and Germany and such anaf
lair it very possible, notwithstanding
!the interchange of courtesies between
tho two courts the Russians would
speedily have to vacate Poland.
The Austrian-Russian frontier is in
the hands of Jews in general and of
Ithe Jewish smuggler in particular.
To them patriotism is something for
eign. The highest bidder is all they
care for. The Czar's Government
knows no moans to control its Jewish
subjects. The Roumanian - Russian
frontier, as well as the northern shore
of the Black Sea, is uuder Jewish con
trol. The Jews not only control all
exports and imports but even deal in
white slaves. The Xovoe Vremia has
recently stated that in some harems at
Constantinople there were found sev
eral Russian Christian girls, who, as
they say, were sold there by Jews.
As to' Odessa, queen of the Black sea;
Sevastopol, which, up to this date, is
described in Ru-3ian text-books of
geography as being " an impregnable
lortress;" and the' Crimea in general,
these are at the mercy of any foreign
man-of-war. The costly tubs of Ad
miral Popoff are looked" upon even by
Russians as being only poor scare
crows. Tho majority of the Crimeans
are Tartars of Mohammedan faith, and.
in case ot need, tney are not to ue
trusted. For the glory of the crescent
they will gladly do "mischief to the
worshippers of the cro-s.
In the Caucasus, too, the Moham
medan population outnumber the
.Christian. That mountaiuous ridge
between the two inlaud seas has cost
the Russians hundreds of thousands of
men and millions and millions of
rubles, yet they are not safe there.
Lately a fanatic Mullah appeared near
Baku and began to preach " Death to
the Christians." Some oil wells were
set on fire, and there were rumors that
the Traiis-Caucasiau Rail vay was un
dermined. A panic was spread there
among tho Christian population, and
the Moscow I'cdomusli and the other
Russian newspapers now demand that
tho Caucasus be pronounced in a state
of siege, and that absolute power be
granted for a time to the Governor
General, Prince Dondokofl-Koraakofl'.
The newly-acquired traus-Caspian re
gion, with the Turcoman robbers; the
Turkestan, with the Bocharians and
Khivatis. and the Kirghiz, hordes will
yet require for years to come a good
r.'gular army in order to keep them in
peace and subjection.
In Siberia, on the Chinese border, and
on the Pacific shore Russians who, hav
ing made a thorough acquaintance with
the Celestial Empire, allirm that Europe
may yet see another invasion of the
Asiatics like the one that took place ia
the Middle Ages. Imagine, they argue,
the Celestials provided with modern im
proved arms, and well drilled, pouring
down on Europe through the Ural
gatrs! What power on earth could stop
them? In view of such a horrible calam
ity, the Czar's Government is going to
send to Siberia one more Governor
General, thus making three. Western
Siberia and Eastern feiberia have each a
Governor-General, and now the Pacific
shore and the Amour region up to Lake
Baikal will have a third one. Lieuleu-ant-Geueral
Baron Korf is appointed to
reform Pacific Siberia and to keep tiie
Celestials and the other foes of His
Majesty in proper dread. The peninsu
la of Kamtchatka, the population of
which has fallen from fifty to six thou
sand, is to bu repeopled. The trade
with the .Japanese. Chinese and Coreans
is to be developed. The naval posts on
the" Pacific are to lie rebuilt, improved
and increased. The Amour region is
to be made a lovely place by settling
there emigrants from the thickly-popu-latod
Russian provinces. And, above
all, the new Governor-General is ex
pected to turn the murderers, robbers,
thieves and other criminals now trans
ported in the lloating prisons to the
Island of Saghalien into gentlemen. So
the Russian newspapers say. Gentle
men or not, the Czar, indeed, wants to
get rid of all grave criminals. He shuts
up the international prisons and sends
the prisoners off to Saghalien.
Curiously enough, the Empire of the
Czar is, indeed, encircled by non-Russian
Nationalities. The Finns, Swedes,
Germans, Poles, Jews, Greeks, Tartars,
Tcherkassians, Georgians, Armenians,
Turcomans, Turans', Kirghizes, Samo
yeds, Buriats and other Siberian tribes,
with Laplanders in the end, complete
the ring of the Great Bear's huge coun
try. And where isnhe Russian.' In the
hole. SL Petersburg Cor. X. Y. Sun.
Industry and Veracity.
There are some virtues which seem
to have a peculiar affinity for one
another, each strengthening and devel
oping the other by its own power of
growth. Such are industry and verac
ity. Of course we can not say that the
busiest people are invariably the most
truthful, but only that the tendency of
industry as such is in that direction.' It
is true that industrial occupations
sometimes offer temptations to untruth
fulness, and might thereby seem calcu
lated to retard rather than to stimulate
the virtue of veracity. The induce
ments to prevarication in regard to the
quality and quantity of goods and
labor, and stiil more to the .s,u predion
of :acts wh ch would afleei t e:r value,
are numerous and strong, ami -o:ue uu
do.ibtedly yield to them.
We have," however, tboiouMy .earned
the bason that mutual confidence is the
corner-stone of all social industries, and
that truthfulness in word and deed is
the only basis of mutual confidence.
Truthfulness, therefore, naturally ac
quires a much higher rank in the mind
of an industrious communitv than it
can in any other. With us, In pnblio
estimation at least, it occupies the post
of honor, and though doubtless many
people infringe it in secret, none can be
found bold enough to defend it It is
held as a test of noble character that a
man is candid, sincere and trustworthy,
that his word is reliable and his prom
ises secure. On the other hand, false
hood, evasion and deceit are esteemed
disgraceful, and those who deal in them
are chiefly concerned lest they should
be found out.
Mr. Lecky, in his History of European
Morals, asserts that different ages and
nations have different rudimentary
virtues, or virtues upon which they lay
the emphasis. Sometimes it has been
loyalty to a leader, sometimes patriot
ism, sometimes the reverential spirit,
sometimes independence, sometimes
humility. Whqever in any particular
community is decidedly lacking in such
a rudimentary virtue is below the aver
age of moral excellence, because he has
neglected what is generally esteemed
the very first element of righteousness.
Our own term "common honesty" im-
Jilies that this is at least one of our ru
litnentary virtues, without which no
one can hopo to rise in the scale of
moral progress.
If we compare our state of things in
this respect" with that which exists
among indolent nations of southern
climes, or other thriftless communities
that love ease better than labor, we
shall find a marked difference. Instead
of feeling vain in our fancied superi
ority to sucl people, perhaps if we
compared our practical devotion to
what appeals to us as the foundation of
all virtue, with their devotion to some
thing else that occupies that place to
them, we might feel cause rather for
self-abasement. We niav rightly feel
glad that we have learned the value of
veracity, that our industries have
proved it to be one of the foundations
of all social welfare, of all true busi
ness relations, of all progress in moral
ity and civilization. And yet how far
are some from embodjing this accepted
belief in their daily practice! How
man- are the evasion?, concealments,
and insincerities of which men aro
guilty, how many silences where truth
demands speech, how many promises
unredeemed, or kept to tho letter, but
broken in the spirit! It is for what we
admit, for what we believe, for what
we know, that we are responsible; and
if wc hold truthfulness in such high re
pute that we plume ourselves over
others on account of it, then we are
doubly blamable if we disown it in tho
conduct of our daily life. Increasing
civilization and increasing knowledge
open up to us more and more the na
ture and respective value of the quali
ties that constitute true manhood. But
that manhood can only bo realized by
constantly infusing the knowledge we
gain into our dail life, by vitalizing it
in our hearts and conduct, by following
closely the ideal we fuini, and by gi
iug the whole allegiauce of our nature
to those principles which we honor in
our thoughts and with our lips.
Philadelphia Ledyer.
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Horscshofs fur Luck.
The principal gateway at Allahabad
is thickly studded with horseshoes of
every size and make. There are hun
dreds of them nailed all over the great
gates, doubtless the offerings of many a
wayfarer who has long since finished
his earthly pilgrimage. We could uot
fiud out what was the exact idea con
nected with this cii.-tom probably
much the .-ame notion of luck as we af
tach to finding a horseshoe, especially
one with th-a old nails still in tne'r place.
We afterward noticed that the sacred
gates of Somnalh, preserved in the Fort
at Agra, are. similarly adorned, it re
minded us of that curious old manorial
rite still kept up at Oakham, in Rut
landshire, wheie every peer of the
realm is bound the lirsl'time he enters
the town to present a horseshoe to be
nailed on the old portal, wh'ch is well
nigh covered with these lordly tributes.
It is said that in case any con'tumacious
peer should refuse to pay this tax the
authorities have a right to stop his car
riage and levy their black-mail by un
shoeing one of the horses. To avert so
serious an annoyance the tribute shoe
is generally ready, some being of
enormous size and inscribed with the
name of the donor. Whether these
Eastern horseshoes were taxes or offer
ings I can not tell, but it certainly is
very curious to observe how widespread
is the superstitious reverence attached
to this particular form. It has been sug
gested, and appirently with some rea
son, that iu ancient pagan times it may
have been a recognized symbol in
serpent-worship, and hence may have
ariseu its common use as a charm
against all manner of evil. The resem
blance is obvious, more especially to
that species of harmless snake which is
rounded at both ends, so that head and
tail are apparently just alike. The
creature moves backward or forward at
pleasure; hence the old belief that it
actually had two heads and was inde
structible, as even when cut into two
part it was supposed that the divided
heads would seek one another and re
unite. It stands to reason that in a
snake-worshiping community such a
creature would be held in high rever
ence. Even in Scotland, various an
cient snake-like bracelets rnd orna
ments have been found which seem tv.
favor this theory, and at a very early
period both snakes and horse-shoes seem
to have been Tmgraveu as symbols on
sacred stones. We hear of thc'latter hav
ing been sculptured, not only ou tho
threshold of old London houses, but
even on that of ancient churches in va
rious parts of Britain. And in the pres
ent day we all know the idea of luck
connected with finding one, and how
constantly they arc nailed up on houses,
stables and ships as a charm against
witchcraft. In Scotland, all parts of
England and Wales, and especially in
Cornwall, (where not only on vans and
omnibuses, but sometimes even on the
grim gates of the old jails.) we may
find this curious trace of ancient super
stition. Whatever may ha7e been its
origin, it certainly is remarkable that it
should survive both in Britain and Hin
dustan. Gentleman's Magazine
Roman Catholic Bishop Hendricken,
of Provideuee, has issued an order that
may reach beyond the confines of his
diocese. He absolutely- forbid church
. fair or excursions picnics, festivals.
auu vu;ti, nut jur osiensiDie religious
purpose. Procidence. Journal.
Miss Rachel Ewing, the oldest
teacher in the Pittsburgh (Pa.-) public
I schools, has resigued her position, at
I the age of seventy-six. She began when
but a girl, and kept at her work until
! eo.upelh'if to desist by the infirmities of
age. Pittsburgh Post.
Alertness In Jeanullsou
When the New York Herald sent
Stanley to find Livingstone, it began a
new movement in journalism. Instead
of simply recording events, the great
journals 'strove to make events, in order
to describe them. The London Tele
graph aent an archaeologist, George
Smith, to Mesopotamia to find the
buried records of the Assyrian Empire.
Narcs' expedition to the Arctic re
gions was accompanied by the Pandora,
a little vessel fitted out by two London
journals. They put on board a special
correspondent, with orders to retain for
them all the information he might col
lect. He. thinking that for once, there
was no rival near, kept a journal which
he intended to publish in the two news-
?apers he represented, as soon as the
andora returned to port. But an un
scrupulous rival journal had put on
board a literary sailor. He jotted
down the details of the voyage and, as
he had opportunity, transmitted them
to his newspaper. When the "special'
landed in England, he discovered that
his journal was ancient history.
The race for first news has been the
occasion for extraordinary "jockeying."
At an Oxford and Cambridge boat race,
one London journal hired a small
steamer to follow the compctiug crews.
As it went along, it laid a "cable" un
der water. Through this the special
correspondent transmitted, minute by
minute, the details of the race, to the
paper, and thereby enabled it to publish
successive editions fifteen minutes in
advance of its rivals.
During the Ashantee War, the great
London dailies were obliged to use- the
cable which ran from the island of Ma
deira to Lisbon, Paris and London.
Each paper had its representative at
Funchal, on the island, to whom the
special correspondent with the army
sent by courier his letters.
The strife between the correspondents
was who should first get possession of
his letters and thus be" the first to file
them with the telegraph operator for
the transmission of their contents to
London. Unfortunately, they had all
failed to allow for oueobstructiou. the
quarantine, whose regulations required
tiiat no letter arriving from Africa
should be delivered until it had been
fumigated.
The operation required a day or two;
but the correspondents consoled them
selves with the reflection that as it was
the common lot, no one could get alead
of his brethren. The representative of
the Daily News had, however, a "happy
thought." He went to the fumigator
and said:
"I do uot mean to ask you to neglect
your duty, and to let me have my let
ters before you have fumigated them.
If you will open tho letters addressed
to 'me, and hold, with a pair of tongs,
the sheets open so that I, looking
through the barred window of the funii-gating-room,
can glance at them, I will
pay you handsomely.'
The fumigator did as requested; the
representative jotted down the interest
ing items, and the Daily News was the
first of the London journals to publish
a letter from Ashantee. Youth'' s Com
panion. The LongFelt Want
Robert J. Burdette, having related
his experience with a young and strug
gling daily, I move that other brethreu
present relate their own little history. I
think it is sometimes a relief to unbur
den the soul by a confession.
I toyed with a daily once which was
incorporated to fill a long-felt want. I
did not know it was loaded. There was
a rival daily that had been running two
years and we entered the arena, hopiug
to win an easy victor- over this paper
and become a great power in the West.
We made it our business to boom every
thing that was boomable and to sneer at
the lack of enterprise of our adversary.
We got specials by mail, press reports
by slow freight and showed a style of
fearless enterprises that was the envy
and the admiration of nianv large met
ropolitan journals. We tfiought that
our adversary wouldn't last more than
a month after election, but Thahksgiv
ing came and found the Evening
Squawker still on deck. The editor
would come and borrow print paper of
us and then use it to call us the slime
bedecked and putrid exponent of a still
more baneful political faction. We
would borrow a font of brevier of him
and characterize his paper as the wail
ing foundling, dving in the poisonous
vapors of the deadly swamp of political
filth, wherein it had chosen its bed, ed
ited by the bitter foe of the laundress
and Lindley Murray, a man who had
evaded justice for forty years, and, not
content with the outrage of all moral
sense, had declared war on the spelling
book.
Thus we kept up a spirited contest
for a long time. Sometimes we couldn't
get our paper out of the freight office,
and sometimes he couldn't, but we
would loan each other the last quire we
had and keep friendly, while through
the columns of our respective papers we
spoke of each other in language which
might have been construed as reproach
ful to some people.
It was an exciting time. One day
the Squawker would offend a subscriber,
and he would come over to us. and the
next day we would unwittingly tread
on the toes of one of our great army of
subscribers, and he would go over to
the enemy.
The editor of the other paper and my
self saw that it was going to be a war of
extermination. We ground our teeth
and our shears and sailed in. At the
end of the first year he had discharged
his servant girl and my paper owed me
eight hundred dollars salary. At the
end of the second year he had blown in
his fine brick residence and I had taken
my salary as Police Justice and thrown
it into the rapacious maw of my little
hungry long-felt want.
One day the little, muddy, measly,
long suffe'riug features of the Evening
Squawker failed to appeal. We kept
asking the office boy why the Squawker
didn't come. He didn't know. Finally
he went to the publication office. The
door was locked. A map of Dakota
was hung over one window and a print
er's towel over the other. The olliee
boy raised the map and stole in. The
uncertain light here and there broke in
straggling rays through the threadbare
places in the towel. On the desk lay a
letter from the advertiser of a Colic
Eraser in which he offered to take a
column in the Squawker a year, follow
ing pure reading matter and with two
thousand lines of reading notices to be
strung along through editorials from
day to day, in bold faced type, and in
consideration therefor to furnish for two
years to the editor or his order fifty
bottles of the Colic Eraser at publishers'
pricu, delivered on board the cars.
Everything about the office showed
that the work had been going bravely
on when the summons came. In fact
the summons lay there on the desk
among other papers, along with a writ
of attachment for $253.85. This shows
what a hold a paper gets on its sub
scribers and also what a hold the sub
scriber gets on the paper. The Sheriff
had been a subscriber to the Squawker
ever since it started, but we didn't
know his attachment for the paper was
so great.
We won the day, but at what a sacri
fice. The smoke of -eonflict cleared
away and showed that the victory was
not "worthy of the carnage. We had
survived, but we were not proud. The
Squawker had fought us bravely, and
now its still, cold form lay in state in
the basement of the chief creditor and
the usual notice of attachment was
tacked on the door.
The editor and myself met on the fol
lowing day, and he was the more cheer
ful o the two. He said he felt sorry
for me. "I can use what I get hereafter
on my family," said he; "but you can't
You will feel guilty if you buy a barrel
of flour for your own use, knowing that
it may imperil the next issue of your
paper." I have passed all that." And
lie was right. The quicker a man de
cides to cease publishing a daily paper
where it is not needed, just simply
through a high moral sense of dutv, tho
sooner he will become light-hearted and
joyous. I don't know very much, but
if there's anything I do know, and know
it hard, and' know it with one hand tied
behind me, it is that. Bill Nye. in De
troit Free Press.
The Enterprising Burglar.
"As to cracking safes.' remarked
John Farrel, the veteran safe-builder,
"there is absolutely no safe that a scien
tific burglar can not get into if you
only give him time enough. The security
of valuables thus becomes a question of
how much people are willing to pay to
keep safe-robbers out. A cheap safe,
though called burglar-proof, is general
ly no protection at all. Of late safe
builders have had to guard every point,
and safe-building is just like fortifica
tion building, you gradually add and
adapt your defenses in the light of the
nature of assaults that have been pre
viously made. Now. ol all the safes
I know there is only one make that
guards against the late successful entry
of a safe by exploding a dynamite cart
ridge against the lock. Unlike powder,
dynamite operates against the surface
like the blow of a tremendous sledge
hammer, and vith the rebound the
spindle of the lock, which was broken
by the concussion, was forced out, leav
ing a hole for the burglars to operate in.
Now, in the safe I speak of the spindle
is so arranged that it cannot be forced
in or pushed out, nor will it avail if the
temper is taken out of it by the blow
pipe, because in the center is a bolt
which is filled with Franklinite, a new
ami hard metal which has the peculiari
ty of retaining its hardness, even when
heated, and thus it resists the drill
One of the most successful devices the
burglars are now using is a small air
pump for setting powder into a safe
door through the almost impericpliblo
lissiires ami then exploding it. 1 hey
putty up all the outline of the safe door
with the exception of an opening, to
which they apply the air-pump. By ex
hausting all the air inside so great is the
pressure of air on the outside that when
the apply powder in a paper funnel to a
crevice it runs in freely, so that they can
insert a large quantity in a little while.
The way we meet this now is In having
India rubber lining to the laps ot the
door, so that when shut it will be air
tight already, and an attempt to insert
powder would choke the air-pump.
Our whole idea is to put so many ob
stacles in the way of the burglars that
they can not get into a safe in the time
it is usually left exposed. But the burg
lars are alert, and are no longer what
they were. Burglarizing safes has be
come a regular business and the meu
engaged in it are organized and employ
spiesand assistants to aid them to map
out their plans. They are generally
rich, and are not wanting in intelligence
and ingenuity. Fire-proof safes are, of
course, entirely different in construc
tion to burglar-proof safes, and a safe
that will resist the hotte-st flames offers
but little more difficulties to the modern
burglar than a kitchen cupboard or ice
box. ' ' Ph iladelph ia Times.
(.'tear Making.
The process of cigar making is not
very difficult to follow. The tobacco
leaves are sorted out into bundles of a
hundred. The sorter first takes out the
stem from the leaf, ami divides the
sheep from the goats, the dark leaves
from the light oues. The stems and
stalks are put away and u-ed afterward
for making into siiufl. Of course, a re
gard for econoni is rigidly enjoined
upou the workers and a premium paid
to encourage it. Each bundle is tied up
and given to the cigarmaker, who U re
quired to produce so many cigar- from
the raw material. A cigar consists of
three parts, the wrapper, the bunch and
the filler. Different classes of leaves go
to make up a certain class of cigar a ,
for instance, Sumatra. Manilla and Ha
vana. Thi assortment is necessary to
givej flavor and to allow the cigar to
burn evenly. "Let me tell you," said
my guide, "that the brown paper and
cabbage leaf theory is exploded. It
would not pay us to use them. Yes.
even the 'penny smoke' is made of
genuine tobacco.' Each worker sits at
ner bench with her materials before her.
On her right is the "filler"- that is, tho
interior or flesh of the cigar. Deft fin
gers seize the right quantity and roll the
short leaves together on a board, wrap
ping round it a rough, ragged cover
ing. This is done very rapidly. By
her side are the two portions of a wood
en mould, cut into twenty-five cigar
shaped divisions. Into each of these di
visions the cigar in the rough is placed.
One half the mould closes upon the
other, like the lower jaw on the upper.
When four moulds have been thus filled,
they arc taken to a press, air iron rod is
passed through each end, and the whole
secured by wedges. Thus compressed
they stand for a day or so. The wedges
arc taken out, and there is the cigar em
bryo, waiting for the outer coverings
and the final touches. Very carefully
the wrapper is wound round the body
being kept together by an application of
gelatine. The edges are theu trimmed
by a machine. There only remain the
drying process, which takes place in a
chamber heated to a temperature of
ninety-six degrees Fahrenheit, the sort
ing, the tying into bundles and the pack
ing into boxes. That is the whole life
of a British cigar. As is the qualitv, so
is the price. For some the best leaves
are used; for others, the Japan leaf
the cheapest of tobaccos. Pall Mall
Gazette.
Farmer Tunnison, of Lyons Farms.
N. J., owns a cow and do which are
great friends. The dog is the cow's
companion day and night, sleeping in
the stable. A few days ago Mr. Tunni
son attempted to whip the dog. where
upon the cow attacked him furiously
from the barnyard. Xtwark Register.
Mfrfl Wh Want to KOI SmkImiIj.
" Considering the number of diseaaM
of homicidal and suicidal impulse that
come under the notice of experts ia
nervous diseases," a distinguished
specialist remarked, "it is a wonder to
me that so few tragedies from that
source really happen. Last week a
business man in this city, who owns a
handsome country residence on the
Hudson, and would be regarded by his
acquaintances as the last person in the
world to be possessed by such a whim,
came to me iu great worry of mind and
told me he had something to communi
cate that must beheld strictly inviolate.
The story was typical. I have heard it
with trifling variat ons a thousand times
iu five years. He had not been feeling
v.ry well rather nervous aud ill at
ease for some days. That morning,
as he left the hou-etotake the train tor
New York, he h ippened to pass his gar
dener who was at work ou the grounds,
and stopped to talk to him a minute.
The mau was stoopiug over a clump of
ornamental shrubbery, thinning out the
dead stalks with a pruning knife. A
spade was leaning against the trunk of
a tree at his feet. I had never had any
quairelor misunderstanding with the
man.' said this patient, telling his story.
But the impulse was upon me in an in
stant to seize that spade and brain tho
poor fellow ou the spot. I trembled all
over like a leaf, with a kind of nervous
terror that 1 can scarcely describe to
you. Doctor. Finally, not daring to
trust myself longer, I turned and walked
away as fast as my legs could conven
iently earn' me. I Leliove. sir. that I
should have killed the man if 1 had lin
gered five minutes longer. Now, what
is to be done?',"
The doctor advised his patient to
avoid temptation for a few days, turn
his mind resolutely to something else,
and gave him a sedative prescription
bromides, of course -with instructions
to call again in a day or two. The
man wa sensible enough to act on the
advice, and ou the fourth day iie
dropped iu and told tho doctor that tho
trouble had passed off and he felt li e
himself once more. And so a tragedy
was averted, probably.
The physician went on to say that he
had no less than nine cases of homi
cidal or suicidal impulse then under
treatment. Of these, seven were sui
cidal aud tho other two homicidal. Ono
of the latter had been on his hands for
three weeks. The patient, a man of
some note in literature, had been sleep
less for several weeks before the im
pulse manifested itself. He was a
married man, and loved his wife de
vote lly. One night, after dozing a
few minutes with terriblo dreams, he
awoke with a strange presentiment of
impending disaster. His wife was
sleeping quietly. The moonlight strug
gling through the window pane fell up
on her face and white, shapely throat
As sudden as the leap of a tiger, the
impulse seized him to cut the woman's
throat, aud he was actually out of bed
and hunting for his razor in the bureau
drawer before any realizing sense of
the enormity of the deed that he was
about to perpetrate interposed to pre
vent the tragedy. He returned to bed
and lay in a tremble till daylight. His
wife never knew how near she had been
to death. He had no wish to kill
anybody else as yet.
"One of my suicidal patients," con
tinued the doctor, "was first seid with,
the impulse on a Brooklyn ferry-boat
He had been across the river on busi
ness, and was on his way back. Ho
went on board one of the boats at the
Fulton ferry aud stood gazing listlss .iy
at the rampart of business house- ei
tending far to the right on Furtnan
street The boat started suddenly as
he stood ruminating. He insists that
the impulse had its origin in irr.tatiou
of the retina caused by the movement
of the sunshine-flooded surfaces of
brick across the optic field, and very
likely he is right. 'For an instant ' ho
sas, 'I was wild: and when I came to
myself my hand was on the railing and
a couple of stalwart passengers had col
lared me. I had never thought of such
a thiug as committing suicide except as
a coward's resource.' Now," added tho
elector, "this man was no more mad
than I am; it was a typical case of sui
cidal impulse, caused, pet-hap-, by long
nervous tension.
In point of fact, both suicidal and
homicidal impul-es appear to be far less
frequent with women than men. In all
his experience, the doctor has treated
only five cases of the impulse in women,
while of the sterner sex his patients
have been numbered by scores. He u
cliues tc the belief that the habit con
tracted by meu of business of always
being in a hurry, engaged, occupied, is
one of the principal instrumentalities,
next to malaria poisoning, iu producing
this type of nervous disturbance. " And
I imagine." he concluded, "that our
former Commissioner of Lunacy. Dr.
Ordroniiaux. was not far out of the way
when he declared that one man in every
hundred who walks the streets is poten
tial! a murderer or a suicide; a start
lingdeclaration, but one that my own
practice during the last ten years has
abundantly verified."
Sometimes the impulse is accompanied
by voices in the ears, urging the patient
to kill; sometimes a red light lurid,
dismal, weird suffuses the eyes, and
with one of the doctor's patients the
attack is announced invariably by a
premonitory shiver or shudder of mo
mentary duration onh. which precedes
it by a second or two. It is a curious
fact", also, that a serious organic trou'ilu
with the brain and spinal tract seldom
gives rise to these strange paroxysms.
X. Y. Sun.
Shocking the Coachman.
In front of the Chestnut Street Opera
house lasWnight was a handsome private
equipage. The horses, which were
clipped bays, were so restless that the
coachman had to staud at their heads
to soothe them.
"Why don't you tame them horses?"
asked a reserve oflicer.
"Tame 'em!" retorted the coach
man. "They're just as tame as kittens
now. They're just pla ful. that's alL
They'll mind me like "soldiers. Now
look how they'll mind me."
The coachman stepped into the street
iu front of the horses aud held up his
hand, with a finger raised. The horses
E ricked up their ears and looked at
ini.
Dick! John! Attention!" he said, and
the horses trembled with pleasure.
"Forward, mar "
Before he could finish the command tho
bays had leaped forward and the tongue
of the carriage striking him in the pit
of the stomach sent him staggering
down on the street.
"Whoa!'' cried the coachman and the
Eoliceman simultaneously, and the
orses stopped to rise on their hind
legs.
It was apparent from tho way tha
coachman held himself when he got up
that he had received a painful ana
mortifying shock. Phiimdelphia Timet
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A fiddle with Tom Paine's nam on
it has beeu found stowed away in the
attic of an old inn at Bordentown, N.
J., where Paine did much of his writ
ing. The Shah of Persia smokes a pipe
on state occasions which is valued at
100,000. It is encrusted with a con
glomerate of diamonds, rubies, pearls
and emeralds.
The mixture used in a New York
manufacturv of Neufchatel cheese is
one and a half pounds of lard mixed
with one hundred pounds of skim milk.
X. Y. Sun.
Iu Newark, N. J., old tomato cans
sell for fifteen cents a hundred. They
are put into a furnace and rolled out
ami eventually used by trunk-makers.
Xetcurk Itcqister.
John Matlock, of Brandon, W. Va.,
ha- run away with Emily Shaffer and
ten childreu! He would have taken
Mr. Shaffer also, but he didu't happen
to be at home at the time of the exodus.
lioston Post.
There are about three hundred men
engaged in killing alligators in South
Florida. The hide and teeth of the
gator is what's wanted. The year's
ousiness will bring to that section
about $ 15,000.
Marriage superstitious hold a great
sway in Philadelphia, and the number
of people who fear to violate them is
large. Juue always sees a great in
crease in the number of weddings, be
cause May is not considered so lucky.
Philadelphia Record.
- While sawing a log recently in a
Mississippi mill, the workmen were
astonished to see the log suddenly take
fire and the machinery stop. Examin
ing the saw, they discovered that every
tooth was gone, and ou splitting the
log a cannon ball was found buried iu
the heart X. 0. Times.
The solid gold suutl-box presented
to Thaddeus Stevens.which was recently
sold in Washington, contains this in
scription: "To the Hon. Thaddeus Ste
vens, from Colorado Territory. When
old Thad takes snuff Colorado will
sueee. This box is made of Pike's
Peak gold." Washington Post.
Detective Smith, of Harlem, is a
sort of a mousetrap. As several intoxi
cated men had been robbed in his pre
cinct ho feigned drunkenness and "set"
himself on a stoop, and was soon re
warded by feeling a nibble at his watcu
chain. It is needless to say that the trap
succeeded and the nit was caught A.
'. Herald.
In France lately a young conscript
failed to answer to his name when tho
Council of Revision was sitting. A per
son present said that the young man had
hanged himself, preferring death to com
ing before the Council. It was true.
The young man's father was in the re
vision hall and thought that his sou was
therewith the other conscripts.
-A number of humau bodies in a
good state of preservation, dressed in
ornamental costumes, aud evidently be
lon"iug to a prehistoric race, have been
found in a mound in Desha County,
Arkansas. The apartment in which they
lay was paved with -tone, supported by
-tone pillars and overlapped wilh huge
wooden beams in perfect condition.
A 1'elfa-t (Me. ) firm has received an
order for doors, frames, etc., to go to
Turkey. The door are to be shipped
all supplied with locks, hinges aud
handles, and done up in packages of not
more than two hundred pounds in
weigftt, in order that upon arrival in
Turkey they can he taken into the in
terior of the country upon the backs ot
camels.
Some people doubt the assertion
that the Chinese eat rats. But they eat
them just the same. A Chinese servant
in the Western Addition was caught iu
the act of stewing a plump rat iu one ot
the family kitchen utensils. He denied
at fir-t tii'at it v.as a "hit" and said it
was a "labbit," but the boss satisfied
himself that the thing was a rat and dis
charged it - the Cliinamau and the
Kiucepan at one fell swoop. San Fran
cisco 1'ost.
Young lady Have you ever heard
Mr. R. the lecturer? Young maulet
"Aw, y'as. dozens of times, y know,
dozens' of times. I think, aw, he is the
most uninteresting lectuwah I evah
heard. Young lady And you have
heard him ilozeiis of times? Youu
nianlet Y'as. Young hidy Why do
vou go to hear him so often if you find
him uninteresting? Young nianlet
Aw-aw; that's an ideah. Bah Jove'
Doosid stupid in me! I nevah thought
of that, don't cher know. Fhi'addpliia
Call.
The number of colored Catholic
nuns in this country is slowly but grad
ually increasing. They are known as
the Oblate Sisters of Providence. This
organization was instituted for the
amelioratiou of the oondition of the
colored race in this country, as well as
for their spiritual and temporal welfare.
This community was founded in Balti
more by the Rev. Father Joubert, a
Sulpiciau, on the fifth day of Junc.lS2'J,
with the consent of Archbishop Wheat
field, of Baltimore, and was approved
bv Pope Gregorv XVI. on the second of
October, 18:51. -Ar. Y. Times.
It is related of the late ex-Sheriff
Shanncn, of Blair County, that at the
time ho executed McConaughy, tho
murderer, he sprung the trap the first
time while the condemned man was pro
testing his innocence. The rope broke,
and Me'Vmaugh sprang to hTs feet and
declared he was "now a free man."
"O no, Robert." said the Sheriff", "we'll
try it again, and this time we'll double
the rope.'" The wretch is said to have
then for the first time realized the hor
ror of his situation, and to have made a
full aud explicit confession of his diabol
ical crimes." Johnstown (Pa.) Tribune.
Before the Wall-Street Panic
Bank Cashier Well, what do you
want?"
"Tramp ''Only a little matter o'
business, sir."
Cashier "Business, ch! What is it?"
Tramp "I want to borry a pen and
ink and one o' vottr bank checks."
Cashier "What for?"
Tramp "I will make out a check on
vou for fifty dollars and you certify to
it, aajl I'll take it around the corner to a
policy shop and if I win two hundred
dollars I will give you one hundred dol
lars for your trouble."
Cashier "You will have to go to
New York, then. We don't do business
that way " Philadelphia Call.
The name of the inventor of the
thermometer is unknown, and the ear
liest mention of it as a scientific appli
ance, then fiftv vears old, was in a work
by Dr. R. Flucld", published in 1638. As
to the instrument as it now exists. Rob
ert Hooke suggested the use of the freez
ing point, Halley the boiling point and
the substitution of -mercury for spirit,
and Newton blood heat Chicago Jour
