1 t. w II! I U ' I if ' V) i Li ! 4 fe IV vt THE JOURNAL. "WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31, 1881. Zitcrsi it tic ?c:t:2ee, CclsnTss. Sit., ti men eli sitter. WHEN TO REST. JKhpn the sun sinks low iu tbo western Bky bBn1ajrthotools or tho needier by; Labor is lor the light. Go jsjj1i tatThands, and sav, with a smile: TfiareCwon my rest for aTJttle while: Good night, my work irood night? Many a trouble a man must bear; But the day is time for thought and care The day for watch or fight. When.tho key is turned in the storo then say: To-niorrow will be another day; "Worry, good night! good night! . Anger may meet us the whole day long, Forthe good must still resist the wroag, The true fight for their right; But'oh. when tho shadows of evening fall, Tho spirit of gentle peaco recall. And Bay to the wrong: "Good night! For an hour or two let all thought cease,! Be glad in the household joy and peace, Rejoice in Its love and light; Then sleep, but first with a kind heart ay: "For the holp you have given me all the day. Tired hands and feet, good night!" "Good night my soul, for I can not know. While my body sleeps, where thou wilt go, All space and reason ecorning; Dutthee may all good angels keep, And fill with holy dreams my sleep, Until we snv 'good morning!' Little E. Bcrr, in N. T. Ledger. A REMAEKABLE CAT. the Part it Played In a Lover's Reconciliation. Perhaps the reader has heard of tho town of Soskowigli, Ind., commonly pronounced "Sosky11 by its inhabit ants. It is nothing but a country town, and like most country towns has its local "character" its odd genius. The odd genius in this one happened to be Malachi Dill, usually called "Uncle Malachi." A good old man was Uncle Malachi, and eke a Quaker. He was born in the village, and had lived there all his life except a period of about six months, during which he had paid a visit to some relatives of his who lived in New England an adven ture of which Uncle Malachi was never tijpd of talking. His face, seamed and wrinkled by many a year of toil, beamed with benevolence and good will. Good old man, I seem to see him yet, walking down somo shady lane in "Sosky," smiling and bowing to his acquaintances, clad in snuff-colored garments of ancient cut, with his white beaver hat, his large buckled shoes and his red bandana flung to the breeze from its retreat in his coat-tail pocket Uncle Malachi had not an enemy. Good old soul, he had never Bpokcn an unkind word to man or beast The very birds loved him and fluttered to meet him, sure of getting their fill of crumbs and cherries. It was a pretty sight to sec him taking his stroll of a sunny afternoon, little chil dren chirping round him, little birds chirping above him. Uncle Malachi had threa loves his cat, Mike, his garden, and his daughter Dorothy. This cat was the wonder of the vil lage. "Mike" was a name used only by intimate friends aud near relatives. His full court title, and that used by the vulgar herd, was "Dark Michael Schleni" a name given him far back in his early youth by some unknown benefactor, and which was peculiarly appropriate, inasmuch as it had been borne b- a certain Russian Chief of Police remarkable for great sagacity and penetration. Mike was not attractive at first sight It was whispered that in his youth he had been noted for his manly, or rather tom-catly grace and beaut'. But the meridian of his charms, so to speak, had. passed. His tail was gone. Likewise one eye. His left ear, too, had a for lorn appearance probably mournful at the absence of its mate, which had been lost in the same unlucky fray in which the tail had vanished. "Portions of his hide had also becy denuded of the covering with which nature had provided it But Mike's lofty soul soared above these petty vexations. His friends soon forgot his rather du bious plrysical appearance in admira tion of his rare intellectual qualities. There was in his every action such an indefinable air of mystery, of precon ceived and elaborate design, and a mien, withal, of such lofty and serene dignity, that not only was the beholder's wonder and surprise aroused, but his respect was commanded as well. No one, probably, was more thoroughly impressed with the abilities of this re markable animal than Uncle Malachi. Sometimes, after indulging in several cups of triple-strength tea, which was Uncle Malaria's sole weakness if tea of such strength can be called weakness he had been known to say, with much empressement, "Michael, "thou art a wonderful cat;" which remark was plainly un derstood by Mike, for, though at the time mewing in a deprecating manner, bs though disclaiming all pretensions to greatness, it was nevertheless ob served that for some hours thereafter his natural hauteur would be largely increased. He was not on the best terms with Miss Dorothy. There was a certain youthful giddiness and flip pancy about her which did not meet his approval. True, he always treated her with courtly politeness in considera tion of her father's feelings, but never theless there was a considerable cold ness between them. If he had not, however, been utterly impervious to the attractions of female beauty, this coldness could never have existed. There surely never was a more charming bit of femininity than Miss Dorothy. Her wealth of nut brown hair, her little snub nose, her gleaming teeth, her shell-tinted ears, her sparkling, dancing eyes, her dainty waist all made up a picture of butter flv beauty as delightful as it was lova ble. But little Miss Dorothy was no shallow-minded doll. She had a heart of sterling purity and nobility, and in herited from her father the grave and gentle sweetness of disposition which characterizes the Quakers. Miss Dorothy had that indispensable possession of every truly sensible young lady a lover. Edward Wadham had not been in the village for a long time. His home was there, but he had been away at college, and now returned for the first time in five years. He was surprised to find thathis former playmate and partner in the mud-pie business had grown to be a very charming and self-posssssed little woman. He was a great curly haired, black-eyed rollicking giant and the first thing he did was to fall in love with dainty Dorothy Dill, and she re turned the compliment warmly. In a very short time, therefore, they were talking of love in a cottage, and devis ing financial plans of surprising acute ness for the economical administration and occupation of said cottage. Miss Dorothy was now walking in her father's garden awaiting the ap proach of Mr. Wadham. The garden was a good spot for a lover's trysting place. It was inclosed on three sides cy a. high stone wall and on the fourth by the house. Shade trees were dotted around, and sweet smelling flowers filled the space between tho trees. So "completely was the sky obscured by the foliage that the place seemed to be augoral cavern rather than a garden, fhjs little garden was Uncle Malachi's ecaliar care and pride. Here he was W$6t$nied to spend a considerable jjfirt of his time, sometimes spading and hodng, watering plant here, pull ing up a weed there encouraging tome timid bud, or sitting under oni of the treef attended by his guide, philosopher, and friend, the re doubtable Mike, alternately caressing that noble animal and taking mighty draughts of Young Hyson. Pretty soon Moss .Dorothy heard a familiar step on the walk outside, arid immediately began to manifest deep interest in a rose she held in her hand pulling the petals aside, looking care fully between them one by one, turning the flowers upside down and gazing anxiously at the lower side, and alto gether giving the beholder the idea that she had lost a large sum of money and strongly suspected that it had found lodgment in the depth of the rose. In consequence of this -absorbing occupation she was greatly sur prised when two hands covered her eyes and two lips kissed hers with a sounding smack. "O! O! Who" is it?" exclaimed this poor bewildered maiden. "It's only me," said Ned, removing his hands from her eyes, under the fond impression that he was giving her a great surprise. "0,.then, I don't mind," said she, with such a radiant blush that Tie found it necessary to repeat a certain part of his former proceedings which part I won't say. Then his arm and her head assumed tho conventional attitude, -and they walked around the garden, chatting volubly. "You don't know how lonely I've been since you went away yesterday,1' said she. "Too bad, too bad," said he sooth ingly. "Yes, andl've got tho loveliest idea' said she, with sudden animation. I went to the store to-day, and they" have got the prettiest wall paper. It's made to represent platters and prates and knives and forks. Now wouldn't it bo perfectly splendid to put that in the dining room; so appropriate you know." "Yes, and I've got one, too," and he, struck with a brilliant idea, "Let's get a lot of pictures of fruit and game, and everything of that kind, and hang them around on the walls. What do you think of that?" "Splendid," she said. "But O ! O ! Let's have the floor covered with Tur kish rugs ornamented with figs, and chickens, and venison, and cherries, and everything. That would be awful nice. The rugs would only cost about twenty dollars a piece, and ten of them would easily cover the dining room." "Well, but my dear," said Ned, du biously, "Wo can't stand the expense. Just think of it two hundred dollars for one room." "O, well, never mind the expense on the dining-room," said she. "Don't you know, somo great person, Oscar Wilde, or somebody, says well, some thing or another, I don't exactly re member what anyway, it meant that you ought to make the dining-room pleasant, even if you don't fix the rest of the house so well." "Oscar Wilde may be all right, but we can't put two hundred dollars into the dining room, that's certain. A carpet will do just as well,and wouldn't cost an eighth of the money." "Well, but I don't want a carpet I want rugs. I think I might have my own way once in a while." "I'm willing you should havo your own way to a reasonable extent, but this is too much. We'll have a carpet, that's flat" "And I say we'll have rugs," said tho demure maiden, with sudden anger. "And I say a carpet," said he equal ly angry." "Rugs !" "Carpets !" "Very well, sir, you can have what ever you desire," said she, with sudden and blood-curdling calmness. "I don't want to marry a man with such an awful temper. Here is your ring." "Thank you, madam, and here is yours. Good-day." He turned on his heel and left her, while she, after gazing at his receding form with grcat indignation, ran hastily up to her own room. Mike had observed this scene from his lofty eyrie in one of tho trees with feelings of increasing amazement and alarm. This loud bickering and alter cation shocked his ideas of dignity and decorum. Why these vociferous re marks? Why this sudden parting? As a friend of the family he deemed it best to follow and investigate the doings of his young mistress. So he stepped un obtrusively into her room, and, taking up his station on the hearth-rug, watched the development of events. Miss Dorothy marched straight up to her room and sat down. Here she resigned herself to angrj- recollections of the late interview. It was all over now between her and Ned, and she told herself she was glad of it And vet how handsome and proud he looked, with his face pale as death and his swelling nostrils and shining eyes, and how clear and ringing his voice sounded. After all, what was it they had quarreled about? A mere noth ing whether they should have a car Eet or rugs on the floor. And he had een right too. Two hundred dollars was too much for one room. She ought to have deferred to his opinions, anyway. Was it not his right to com mand? How obstinate and unreasona ble she had ieen. Poor fellow, he must be feeling awful bad. May be he would kill himself, or become a mis anthrope, or something awful. Merely as a matter of charity it might be best for her to yield in this instance yes, merely as a matter of charity. Not that she cared anything about a recon ciliation herself O no. So she wrote him a note: Ned: Somebody is awful anjrry now, I euess. Come buck, darling-. It shall be car pet, or martini;, or anything you want. Donr. She read this over two or three times, and was beginning to feel quite pleased with herself in the character of self sacrificing philanthropist, when she suddenly happened to ask herself how he would receive her note. Probablv, after reading it he would say, with'a complacent smirk: "Poor fool, how she adores me. Come back, darling.' Ha, ha!" And then he would saunter into the garden with negligent ease, and after receiving her penitent confession, for give her and graciously allow her to renew the engagement Horrible! And Miss Dorothy threw the letter into the grate and left the room. Mike saw the episode of the letter, and concluded he would look at it more closely, so he pawed it out of the grate and began to examine it Something in the way the paper was twisted struck his latent sense of humor, and with a sudden accession of youthful spirits he began to worry and chase it around the room. Finally, becoming tired of this sport, he jumped up on the window-sill to rest from his arduous labors. The paper, however, stunk tn lii ninwe nd went up with him. This annoyed him, andhe began to claw at it finally being successful in jerking it off, whence it flew down into tho street Ned Wad ham happened to be passing at this mo ment and the note fell directly in front of him. His heart gave a grcat bound as he stooped to pick it up. He scanned its contents in a moment and then looked up at the window. Seeing noth ing there but a rather disreputable looking tom-cat he concluded that Dorothy had thrown the note at him mnd hidden herself. Wild with joy he rushed into the gar den, and seeing ! thy" tb&Rgf&ll down on his knees before her and cried out: "Dody, Dody, darling, forgive me. I was wrong, all wrong. It shall be rugs nothing but rugs. We'll paper the walls with rugs if you'll only say the word." She, imagining that he had-taken the first step, raised him up, threw herself into his arms, and I draw the veil on what followedand will only remark that they never found out the mistake, compromised on wax floors, and had no more quarrels. Chicago Tribune. ' m m BIG GUNS. How They Are Made at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Not an anvil stroke nor even the monotonous blowing of a forgo bel lows greets the ear as one walks through the vast iron-works into which the navy yard has been turned by the action of Congress on the recommenda tion of the Secretary of the Navy. And yet there are close upon one thousand men handling the metal which has given its name to the present ago. Iron and steel are to be seen in every stage of manufacture, from the forge and foundry to the finishing shops". The principal feature of interest a) present is the construction of the steel cannons for the new cruisers. Nearly three hundred men are employed in the Ordnance Department, the main work of which is these guns. These are of four sizes, five, six; eight and ten-inch bore and twelve feet six inches, fifteen, twenty and twenty-six' feet long. The process through which they pass is astonishingly complicated to tho uninitiated. Tho forged shafts are prepared away from here and brought here in a more or less rough1 state. The two larger sizes are im- Eorted from Europe, and come rough-, ored and turned, this being necessary? to enable the tempering to be done at' the place where they are forged. The1 others are turned out in tho rough by. the Midvale Steel Works, Pennsylvania, and are rough-bored and turned he,re, being returned to the works again to- have the "oil temper" given them,' without which they would burst at the1 first discharge. When returned here they are bored out to within one-eighth of an inch of their final internal diameter. The "jacket," a cylindrical pieco of iron, made about, eight-one hundredths of an inch smaller than the main barrel, and after having been heated to a degree just below that required to change the color of the metal, in the language ofi the forgo to a "black heat," is then, shrunk on. The shrinkage on cooling is sufficient to perceptibly decrease the! caliber of the shaft or cone by com pressing the heavy forged steel. All the processes of turning and boring have to be very slowly performed when; steel is being worked, and thirty inches; a day is the average rate at which a six-inch gun is bored out The first cut is five 'inches and a quarter, subsequent rimming-out increasing it to near the required diameter. The rifling is done with a shaft constructed in the yard as are nearly all the machines used. Outside the jacket, which extends from the breech about one-third the length of the gun, are placed a number of steel rings passing beyond it, and to. about one-half of the total length.' These are also shrunk on. All of the surfaces which are thus brought into contact under such a tremendous press-, ure are carefully ground to as near as possible an absolutely true cylindrical shape, and are, therefore, in actual! contact for their whole extent. During" all of the handling after the first bor ing a core is placed in the gun, with' the double object of preserving the shape intact and forming a lathe cen ter. The process of boring and turn ing the outer surface can be carried on simultaneously by an improved double lathe, in use and manufactured in tho; yard. The exact cost of each gun ie kept, every man's time being charged to the work he is actually engaged upon and the cost of the material and handling being also accurately com puted. Philadelphia News. m CANADA'S FUR TRADE GONE. How the Indians Killed the Herds on the Prairie. The Indians used only to kill such buffaloes as they could use, and did what they could to protect the herds; but ever since the prairies of the North west have been crossed by railways two causes havo led to the extermina tion of the buffalo: The occupation of their grazing grounds for agriculture or pasture and their indiscriminate slaughter for their hides and bones alone. There is now believed to be not a single herd of wild buffaloes upon the prairies of Dakota or Minnesota, where they once wandered in thousauds. Last year there were but 10,000 robes handled in St Paul, where in 1881 100,000 robes were'turned over, and this yeaf the en tire trade has amounted to four robes. It is believed that the only remnants of these mighty herds, and of the thou sands that once thronged the Canadian Northwest, are a few thousand animals, scattered about the vicinity of the Woody' Mountains, in the Northwest. In Montreal, where the trade was of far greater importance and of a more ancient date than in St. Paul, the same thing has come to pass, but under somewhat different circumstances. Up to five or six years ago the trade sales" of the Hudson Bay Company were held here, and from thirty thousand to eighty thousand robes were disposed of, but since that period the population of the Northwest has so increased that it requires all the robes. The robes which have been used in old Canada for some years past have been, comparatively speaking, obtained from the more southerly prairies of the United States, where the buffalo is still to be found in somewhat limited and constantly decreasing numbers. In fact, of late years Canada has entirely ceased to be a fur exporting and has become a great fur-importing country. This is artially due to the fact that of ate Asiatic furs and sealskins have been the favorites of fash ion, for we have an immense ter ritory to the north of us which will al ways produce certain furs, and but little else. The buffalo and the buffalo robe have, however, practically speak ing, as far as new supplies of the latter are concerned, become a thing of tha past and their place has been taken by the Texas steer and sole-leather. Mon treal used to appear in ourgeographiei as "the chief seat of the fur trade." It is but a few years since we had many large wholesale houses. These have gradually disappeared, and the former retail dealers take the lead in the busi ness, of which the volume is smaller and the stock more precious. The time was when a beaver skin was tha unit of exchange, and might count for one dollar; now a good beaver SKin will bring ten dollars. Montreal WUness. The wild animals of the West which have vivified the small bov's visions of the Rockies are slowly disappearing. In California bears arc not so abundant and are less hunted than formerly, perhaps because only the veteran bear hunter finds it safe business. The cin namon bear is found only occasionally, and the grizzly is slowly disappearing. The California lion, or puma, docs net appear to-decrease In number, because he is rarely hunted for game, hut it is' probable; that his .days are also nunr becedf-Chimg Eermld. WHY CHIMNEYS SMOKE. A, Familiar. Domestic Evil and How It Slay be Cared. Many persons object to open fire places for burning wood or soft coal on account of their liability to fill with smoke the rooms they are intended to warm. A writer in a paper devoted to the construction of houses, in discussing I the question "Why do Our Chimneys Smoke?" says: "As a matter of fact they never do it is the wood that smokes! We make this statement not by way of facetious ness, but to bring the discussion to a striatly scientific basis. Since the new birth of the open wood fire, the old ques tion of how to coax the smoke to go straight up the chimney-flue, at all times and under all circumstances, has come again to the front; and the old controversy as to the relative magnitude of two stupendous but familiar domes tic evils is liable to be revived. It is not our purpose to give here and now all the infallible rules by which one of these and doubtless the minor can bo cured, or, better still, prevented, but simply to refer to one of the common reasons why smoke from a fire on the hearth falls out into the room oc casionally, if not constantly, in stead of going up to the skies," where it belongs. Having stated that chimneys never smoked, it may be weH to observe that they never "draw" either. Whatever goes up the chimney from Thomas Hood's chimney-sweep to the steam from the kettle nose is poked up from behind. Of course, this amounts to the same thing practically as being drawn up, but it is well to re member that the same pushing force will just as readily lift air, shavings, ashes, steam, or anything else that comes in its way as smoke. The point therefore, is to so arrange the throat of the chimney that the smoke shall be caught first, and, like proud Koran's troop, be swallowed up before it has a chance to spill ofer into the room and before something else can be crowded into its place. Left to its own devices, it would fall out of the fire-place and run over the floor like water. As the air in the -room happens to be usually cooler and, therefore, heavier than that in the fire-place, it forces the latter up ward and the smoke with it. Now, the tendency of the smoke, as soon as it is lifted against the back wall of the fire-place, is to fall forward, and this tendency is favored by the curving back against which it ascends. There is no objection to this curve, which seems to keep the smoke within bounds, and it doubtless radiates more heat than if it stood erect, but the one point which should be insisted upon is that the faco of this curve along which the smoko rises should strike, if it were continued (which it is not, being cut off by the broad throat of the flue), several inches above the lintel at the top of the fire place opening. The smoke is then fairly caught in the ascending current of warm air ajid carried up and away. A smoking fire-place may often be cured without any change of flue or chimney by simply bringing down the top either with a row of bricks or tiles, or by a piece of metal fitted in between the jams. And this cure is effected not because tho fire-place was originally too large or too shallow to "draw," but be cause the proper provision had not been made for entrapping the smoke and turning it into the rising stream of warm air. Chicago Times. WAYS THAT ARE DARK. How Mr. William Lorenzo Smith Defraud, ed a Detroit Capitalist. The other morning a young man pretty well dressed and quite extensively adorned with jewelry entered the office of a Detroit capitalist and introduced himself as William Lorenzo Smith, formerly of New York, but just at pres ent a resident of Michigan on account of the disbandment of a theatrical troupe in which he was a leading star. "Yes I see exactly so," replied tho capitalist, in icy tones. "I was recommended to come to you for a loan of fifty dollars," continued the young man. "Indeed! Very kind of some one! I am not in the habit of loaning fifty dol lars to every stranger who applies." "But I will certainly return it as soon as I reach New York." "Very likclv, but I must refuse to lend it.' "Do you take me for a dead-beat?" asked the young man. "O, no; but if I were in jour place I'd raise some cash on that big gold watch-chain and diamond-pin before trying to borrow of a stranger. You ought to have no trouble in raising ono hundred dollars that wa." "I suppose not, though they are keep sakes and I hate to part with them. Nevertheless, it doesn't seem right to wear them while I am dead broke. If I had fif " Here he paused and detached the chain from his watch and removed the pin and laid them down. "lam not in the pawnbroker busi ness," said the capitalist, "but you can send for these articles any time without paying interest. Here's the fifty dol lars you want." The young man had been gone an hour when a friend came in, observed the articles, and after a brief inspection remarked: . "You must be about the tenth man he truck.' "How what?" "Young man busted troupe wants to get to New York. Thats a washed chain, and this diamond is only glass!" A call at a jeweler's proved that such was the case. Detroit Free Press. Natural Wonders. Did you oversee a well forty feet deep, lined throughout with stone, in which there is hardly a scam, made without hands? I have and could not credit the evidence of my senses. There are, so it Is said, several of these natural wells in Florida. I question though whether they are not the handiwork of some ancient race. Florida is an old country. It has been the dwelling place and the lighting place of generations of both red and white men. It will not do to doubt the scientists, but if you could see these natural wells, so called, your first thought would be, what splendid work manship! The water in these wells is always brackish not so with that in those that areug in the sand. I never tasted better water in my life than that in the well just outside my kitchen door, eool and soft and clear. Florida is not without its springs of healing, also, and for many diseases to which mankind is heir there are waters all the way from San Matcot to Sanford of various compo sitions. Sulphur and iron, sulphur and soda, salt and iron, sulphur and carbo nate, all adapted to the various disease of humantty. Our pretty lakes are also worthy of attention. There is one not two miles from Palmer called Kanahapa. The lake is small, but the shore on either side is studded with live oaks, it maybe centuries old. These again are envi roned b3 grand old vines, whose main stems are as thick as a man's body and whose interlacing branches mingle with the rich gray moss that hangs in fes toons from 'every point of the oaks, whose long arms stretch a hundred feet toward the lake. It K in fact a verita ble fairy bower and well repays the visitor who sees it by the clear white rays of the moon. Cor. Sun Francisco Chronicle. Berlin. Gcrnianv, has oulv fifty churches. Only I'O.OOO of the million of inhabitants are church-goers. HINDUS AND CHINESE. The Former Lore tho Ideal, and the Lat ter tho Practical, Never did opposing qualities and de fects establish a wider gulf bclweeu two races. During the four or live thousand years which make up her history, China offers us the unique spectacle, as it seems to me, of a society fouuded upon a purely human-basis without prophet, without Messiah, without rovealer, with out mythology; of a society calculated for temporal well-being and the good organization of this world, and for noth ing else. India, on thg other hand, shows us a not less surprising spectacle of a race exclusively speculative, living by the ideal, building its religion and Its literature in the clouds, without any In termingling elements drawn from his tory or reality. The characteristic feat ure of the Chinese mind 13 a negation of the supernatural; what it can not un - derstand does not exist for it India, on the contrary, absorbed in the contem plation of the infinite, has exhausted her activity in the creation of an exuberant mythology and innumerable systems of metaphysics. Nor has the study of na ture, of man, or of history ever seemed to her worthy to check her thought for an instant. China is indisputably, of all countries, that which possesses the best ordered and the most abundant archives. Since the twelfth century before the Christian era she has stored up, dynasty by dynasty, and almost year by year, the official documents of her history, the decrees of her sovereigns, the rules of her administration. India, so prodig iously fruitful in everything else, has not a line of history. She has reached modern times without believing that the real is ever worth writing down. This present life is for the Chinese the only aim of human activity. For tho Indian it is but au episode in a series of exist ences. On one side you have a bour geois and reasonable race, narrow as common sense is narrow; on the other, a race devoted to the infinite dreamy, absorbed, and lost in its own imagina tions. Nor are the physical character istics of both less strikingly contrasted. The bright oblique eye, the flat nose, the short ueek, the cunning look of the Chinese, indicate the man of common sense, well trained in the affairs of this world; the noble outline of tho Indian, his slim figure, his broad, calm brow, hfc deep, tranquil eye, show us a race made for meditation," and destined, even by its very errors, to provide us with a measure of the speculative power of humanity. Mact'illaii's Magazine. The Scottish Language. In adjectives of quah'V Scotch is ex tremely rich. Many of them are remark ably expressive. To give their meaning in English it is requisite to use in many cases several words. Gruesome, eerie, weirdlike, for example, have in English no exact equivalents; their meaning can be expressed only by a periphrase. The mora frequent terminations for deriv ative articles are ie, fu, some, less, ish; as couthie. kindly, carefu', careful, waesome, woeful, thochtless, fairish, pretty good. Others are if and le, as wauliif, wakeful, kittle, difficult, smittle, infectious. After the comparative de gree, nor, as and be are used instead of than. Be with an adjective in the posi tive degree gives an emphatic compar ative. Young be you means decidedly younger. Beside " verra, very, several other words are used to express the su perlative absolute, such as real, richt, unco, byous. Real, richt or unco gude is particularly good. Unco is often used in the sense of the old word imcouth, unknown. Ross in his "Helenore" has an unco din she hears of fouk and play. Byous, though said to belong to Aber deenshire, is used over a much wider area, and signifies exceedingly out of the common run. The middle east coast dialect has for its strongest form of comparison the peculiar phrase by the eyes, which is probably a corruption of the by the byous. A thing is said to be by the byous when it possesses the quality referred to in a preposterous de gree, or in a degree beyond all manner of conception. Fel and gey are also used iu comparisons, and signify moderately, fairishly, but sometimes very, or exceedingly. In Perthshire, Fife, Forfarshire, etc., That's fel guid, means exceedingly good. Sair, very, is used with a touch o? compassion. The plurals of this and that are thare and thay. Where the Englishman uses these the Scotch use those. Instead ol you Scotch has thou. It and us are aspirated chiefly when emphatic. Mines is used for mine, and the old North En glish relative at is retained The verb presents several peculiarities. Where the English used ed or d as the termi nation for the past tense, or for the past participle, Scotch uses very frequently it or t. Thus slipped is slippit, talked, talkit, licked, lickit, wondered, wunn'rt. Told, again, is telt On the other hand, slept is often sleeped, went, gaed, and saw, seed; bent is bendt, and gone is often went Let and put, again, make in the past lat and pat, and in the past participle latten and patten. For the men came, you were, Scotch has the men cum'd and you was or wes. Beside the gerund or verbal now in ing it has also the old present participle in and. Instead of the auxiliary do it has div and dow; for shall, sal, for have, hae and for must, maun. Negative sentences are generally formed by using the sufflx na, or the word no. Dinna gang, A canna, Div ye no ken? Didna ye see't? Ye maunna do it, mean Do not go, I can not, Do you not know? Did you not see it? You must not do it lor shall I? wull a? is used, and for will not, wnnna. Wha's aucht that? is a curious phrase meaniug whose is that? Aucht is from the Anglo Saxon agan, ahan, to own, or to make to own, and is used by Chaucer. Scottish Beview. Too Much Study. The Christian-at-Work thinks the cur rent boy and girl study too hard, and it calls for less intellectual food and more digestion. It says: "With our school children bending over school benches the first week of September, not to stand up straight again till July blows her hot furnace blasts; with the teacher, almost ap palled, addressing herself to the year's work that lies before her; with the se vere demands that our modern educa tional processes make upon one side of the boy's nature, leaving his other side severely alone, we arc bringing up a race of abnormally developea children, sharpened at one" corner and rounded off at all the others the beginning of the school year may well carry the measure of "terror that it does for so many. We need to give less time to mental cram and cerebral culture, and more to rounding or developing the boy or girl; and so education would be come less the awful task that the young student finds it to be, and life would lose nothing of importance and high purpose in adding to the sum of its xest" m A Baltimore contemporary complains that clergymen are not well paid in trie State of Maryland. The editor men tions one case where "a bright young preacher" got ten dollars a month from a well-to-do congregation. The diocese of Florida is the oaly one in the American Protestant Episco pal Church in which there is not a single church or chapel where pews are rented er sold. The offertory is its revenue." V. Y Examine OF GENERAL INTEREST. A telephone wire to Europe is pre dicted for tho near future. There are only seventy-four reflect ing telescopes in the world. A thief who visited the houso of Mr. Replogles, of Indiana, "took a jath, shaved, discarded his old suit and put on Mr. Reploglc's best" Prof. Ty ndall condemns the Lofton wood pavement as extremely injurious to the eyes aud lungs. They are to be replaced by the macadam pavements Hand-made envelopes cost origin ally live cents each. The envelope making machine now turns them out so that a thousand are sold for thirty cents. Pretty little baskets for sending flowers by post are the latest English nuveltv. The' are fastened with a padlock of which the. sender and' re cipient each have keys. Four hundred and forty of the English Peers are landlords" deriving the whole or tho greater part of their revenues from land. Fifteen million acres of land, with an aggregate rent of nearly $75,000,000. represent their property and income. Forty years ago there was not a telegraph office in existence, and the telephone as a medium of communica tion was undreamed of. To-day there ure 51,810 telegraph offices in va n us portions of the world, aud they aro constantly increasing. N. . Sun. A negro laborer, under contract to work for a Haywood County (Tenn.) fanner; deserted him and took service with a neighbor. A negro magistrate, who was applied to, issued a writ of replevin, attached the bolting laborer, and returned him to his iirat employer. St. Louis Post. Two brothers had consumption. They were advised to live in a horse stable. One Of them sold out his busi ness and went to keeping a livery stable. The other did not change his mode of life. Tho one who got into tho livery business lived; tho other died. So says the Louisville Courier-Journal. Tho new precious gem discovered a couple of years ago "in a mine near Bridgewater N. C, and known as the "Hiddenite," is said to be almost equal to the diamond. It is of a clear, beau tiful grass-green tint, sparkles like a diamond, and is very hard. The gem has aroused much more interest in Eng land than iu this country. The London Saturday Beview once saw a citizen of Philadelphia, and from that fact generalizes thus: "The Philadelphiau is never in a huvry. He meanders up Chestnut street as if he had the paluiozoic ages before him. He has a yearning for horse cars rather than elevated railways, in which New York delights, and he is nothing if not meditative. There is an abundance of blue blood in his veins, and Re walks with a consciousness of innate royalty. In the summer he loves to linger.' The most candid young man in town is Nicodemus Murphy. Ho called at the office of a wealthy citizen aud said: "I want to marry your daughter. I can't live without her." "Are von acquainted with mv daughter?" "Not in the least" "How, then, do you know that you can't live without her?" "Well, I heard you were going to give her lots of money when she married, and my personal expenses are so heavy I can't live without her or some other woman who ha got money to support a husband." Chicago Tribune. The lengths of some of the longest hi Jges in the world aro as follows: Montreal, 8,791 feet: Brooklyn, 5,989 feet: Dnieper. 4,2ia feet; the new Havre de Grace bridge is G.000 feet long; the. new bridge at Homestead, near Pitts burgh, is 5,800 feet long. This is a de cade of extensive railroad bridge build ing, and more of this kind of work is in progress at present than at any time for several years. With all the dullness in the iron trade, the bridge works and the mills making bridge iron are busy, and a grcat many railroad companies are preparing to erect iron structures int he place of wooden ones. She was a remarkably sensible young lady who made the request of her friends that after her decease she should not be buried by the side of a brook, where babbling lovers would wake her from her dreams; nor in any grand cemetery, where sight-seers, conning over epitaphs, might distract her, but be laid away to take her hist sleep under the counter of some mer chant who did not advertise in the newspapers. There, she said, was to be found peace surpassing all under standing a depth of quiet slumber, on which neither the sound of tho bouyant foot of youth nor the weary shuffle of old age would ever intrude. Albany (Ga.) News. Situated one and a half miles north of Poundridge is a pretty little sheet of water called Trinity Lake. It is the source of supply for Stamford, Conn., fourteen miles away. There is a sin- Eilar phenomenon connected with this ke which is not generally known, ex cept to a few residents of this local ity. It is what is called a floating island, a good-size body of land, which has for several years appeared at regu lar intervals near the center of the lake, and, after remaining upon the surface of the water for several davs. sinking again to the bottom, aboVit forty-five feet No one has yet taken the troub'e to investigate the phenom enon, and the country people have be come so accustomed to it that they think little about it Hartford Cour ant. Why Not. He sat with his back to a carpenter shop in tho alley, bootblack's kit be side him. knees drawn up, and as the snow squalls came booming along he had to suspend his reading for the mo ment and shiver. He was a lad of thirteen, and he was reading a novel entitled "Bertha's Se cret" Some of tho words he had to stop and spell out and others he skipped eutirely, but he was deeply in terested, aud even begrudged the time it took to raise his hand to his red noso and wipe away the tear there oft sus pended. A fourth-story window in the block on tho other side was cautiously raised, and a head showed itself over the sill. It dodged back to reappear in a mo ment, followed by au arm and a basin of water. All of a sudden the boy awoke to a realizing sense that every drop of that water had fiit him some where. He sprang up, rushed this way and that for a moment, and then un derstanding that he had been made the victim of a joker he raised his clenched haud to the open window and ex claimed: "Beware of my revenge! You have a daughter. I will win her love. The marriage eve shall be set. and you snail have issued invitations, engaged the preacher and ordered a big spread. The bride will bo ready and the guests will wait but ah! they shall wait in vain! I'll skip the gutter! I won't show up! I'll give you the cold shake, and don't you gulp to gurgle that 1 won't!" Detroit Free Press. There is one tiling about American locomotives that has defied innovation, and that is' th cow-catcher. Som times cow-catching engines, handi capped with heavy trains.on up-grades, don t catch the cows at all, especially if the animals arc frisky and under prettvgood headway. National Gu Builder. PIRSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. , Mrs. Van Cott the revivalist, has been engaged in her special work for. nineteen years. She is now in heriifty fourth year. Dr. Verdi tells a Washington Star reporter that the proposed Garibaldi monument for that city will be com pleted in two years. Dr. Hicks, who was known throughout the country as the "spiritu al adviser" of Guiteau, has resigned his pastorate in Washington to return to-Florida. Dan Rice, the veteran circus clown, was recently presented with a one thousand dollar ring by a prominent rabbi of Baltimore as an evidence of appreciation by the Jewish people of his numerous donations. Mr. Ruskin accuses the weather of having, deteriorated shamefully since he was a young man, st that he now has to use a tent instead of sketching in the open air, as he did then genius being no preventive of rheumatism. Florence Nightingale is now resid ing in London, seldom going into any society, but often making journeys into Scotland and the continent whqn her health allows her, for the purpose of examining hospital and reformatory work. Thomas A. Edison, who is slightly deaf, told a New York reporter recently that he would noc be cured of his deaf ness for $10,000. because it prevents his hearing many ti.ings which" he does not wish to hear, .irii as cars, carts, li censed venders in the morning, bores. telephone calls, political speeches and cats. He also savs his deal ticss disable him from Blar. as a juror. N. Y. James E. Murdoch, the veteran ac tor and reader, tells this reminiscence of himself: "In the fifties," he says, "I was on the Western frontier, and some of the settlers asked me to tell them about the comet. 'The comet,' said I, 'why I know nothing particular about it' 'You don't know nothin' about It!' responded one of the settlers; 'then why on airth do folks call you a star?' " 'Chicago Journal. Fifty years ago there was a boy in Africa whp was taken prisoner in one of the fierce wars between the tribes, and was carried away from his home to be sold as a slave. After being sold and resold, now for sugar and again for rum, he was frially carried away in a slave ship. A British eniisi cap tured the slaver. The boy is now Bishop Crowthcr, England's black Bishop of Africa. Chicago Ilcraid. "Mr. and Mrs. Frelinghtiysen," says a Long Branch correspondent, speaking of the Secretary of State and his wife, "are of the kind known as old fashioned people. He. quiet saga cious, kindly, with a shrewd eye. and not a tittle" of the importance of the head-waiter. She. a dear old lady in black, with full putts of soft gray hair on either side of a motherly face, a beaming smile, a pair of gold-rimmed eye-glasses and a gentle voice.' An importer and exportei of furs gives this information: "The house cat is one of the most valuable of fur bearing animals, and when they dis appear from the back fence they often liud their wav to the furrier. It !.- :-t :ic tual fact that in 132 over I.2W0.000 house cats were used by the fur trade. Black, white, Maltese and tortoiseshell skins are most iu demand, and are made into linings. As for skunks. 350, 000. were used in this country last sea son, valued from lift- ceuts to one dol lar aud twenty cents. They come from Ohio and New York principally, and. as in pursuit Of the tiger and lion, the bravest men are required. X. Y.Herald. "A LITTLE NONSENSE." There is one respect in which fash ionable vouns: ladies and old herring fishermen are exactly alike they both spend a part of their time bragging about lasfc year's catch. Burlington Free Prtss. "I fell through the hatchwav and hurt myself," sobbed little Henr. "The hatchway!" said his mother; "there's no hatchway on the premises." "O, yes, indeed; 1 fell through the manger where Aunt Sue set the speckled hen." It is related of the late Charles Lamb, the humorist, that in a fit of absent-mindedness he knocked at his own door one day and asked for "Mr. Lamb." Not being recognized, and on being told that Mr. Lamb was out, he said, "Well. I'll call again." Water bury American. "Even a more extraordinary inci dent," continued the student of na ture, "occurred when I was a boy in Peru. My brother and I were snow balling each other one fine morning. I lost my temper, picked up a solid chunk of ice and threw it with all my might at Jim, who was standing but a dozen feet await Jnst as the ice left my hand the mercury took such an up ward jump that poor Jim was severely scalded by the hot water that was showered on him. The ice had melted in transit." N. Y. Journal. "Well, Uncle Rube, how have you been since you came to live down here on the river?" "Po'Iy, master, po'ly." "You are not used to living in such an out-of-the-way place. Uncle Rube. You are sufieri.ig from isolation." "Dat's it, sali, di't's it 1'se got 'em. I'se suffered wid 'em mighty bad, marster. I had disrecommembered de name ob de miser'. I knowed it wa'nt malaria, or rheumatez, or someling o' dat kind. You struck it de fust clatter, sah. Got a qua'ter 'bout you, sah, to buy some isolation medicine?" Texas Sitings. "My dear, we will have cream for breakfast after this," said Mrs. Little wit," as she poured out the coffee for the head of the house. "No, we won't," growled out the partner of her joys and sorrows. "I pay ten cents a quart for chalk and water now, and I won't have any such extravagance." "But my love," expostulated Mrs. L., "they are going to make it by machinery and it won't cost so much. I saw in the paper that they are going to establish a crematory in Waco," and the little lady leaned back in her chair and blinked triumphantly at her lord. Texas Lantern. "George, dear," cried Eveline, "do you suppose heaven is as nioe a place as people say it is?" "Well, roally, Eve line, as 1 have never been there, 1 cannot say, but from what I hear the society is very select." Everything is brigh't and golden there, isn't it, George?" "Yes, darling; the streets are paved with selid gold blocks; golden bricks make the houses, and only specie pay ments are allowed." "Well, then, George," archly said the maiden, as she nestled closely to her lover, "if everything is so golden, why don't the guilty get in?" 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