Nebraska Newspapers

    WHITTLING YANKEES.
aV Stadlo Where Many Statues or Native
Americans Are Kade.
In Canal street, between the Bowery
tnd Broadway, there is a low, dingy
building with a wide door, which in
warm weather is always swung open,
fhe interior, as seen through this
opening, suggests a masquerade ball.
Figures in all conceivable styles of
gaudy costume are crowded together;
some ranged demurely along the wall,
others standing nose to nose and smirk
ing in each other's faces as though
talking in a low tone and maliciously
criticising their neighbors, while occa
sionally there is seen standing with
dignity apart an imposing swell, with
his drapery wrapped majestically about
his shoulders. Peeping around him at
a simpering dude, with hat on the baok
of the head and hand up at the little
downy yellow moustache, may be seen
a wickedly roguish young lady, with
utterly unpermissiblc bangs, alarming
exposure of ankle, and attired in rai
ment whereof the astounding variety
of brilliant colors would, by compari
son, hare made Joseph's gorgeous at
tire quite a somber garment. The va
riety of costume among these people is
only equalled by the variety of emo
tions which sceui to be inspiring them.
Some are in a towering rage, with
arms uplifted threateningly, while oth
ers are mischievous, or sedate, or chip
per, but the majority seem to be either
cheerfully or sadty" idiotic. They fill
nearly all the standing space in the lit
tle room, and even swarm out upon the
sidewalk, where people gather to stare
at them curiously from time to time.
Though nearly all these queer speci
mens differ in complexion and costume,
they all had a common origin in the
butt ends of ships' masts, and their
common mission in life is to stand in
front of shops and perpetually offer
bogus cigars to passing multitudes. A
jolty young gentleman was in an inner
room of this tobacco image menagerie,
and whistled softly as he with gentle
Couches put a perfect blaze of crimson
Blushes upon the cheeks of a young
lady who was brazenly flirting and
smoking a cigarette as she did it.
"TJie image business in New York,"
be said, "is not quite what it was a few
years ago, because we have lost old
i)ddy Brooks. Ah, old Daddy was
the boss carver, and he taught "about
'all the carvers we have here. That's
why we call him Daddy. He used to
be down -in West Broadway somewhere.
If ow he is in Chicago, and he took a
lot of the boys out with him that is,
he took three or four. There never
was over :t dozen carvers here in New
York at one time. There are not over
six here now. They are all Yankees.
The foreigners don't catch on, some
how, but tho Yankees take to chopping
out wooden images just as they do to
whittling a pine shingle.
"We go down to tho ship yards and
buy the butt ends of masts. Some are
six or seven feet long, and some not
over two or three, and we make big
figures or little figures accordingly.
Out of a seven foot stick 3011 can get'a
good forty dollar figure. Wc take the
stick out in that back room first, where
wo have a dirt floor. Here we hew
them into something like a general
outline. Then we hoist them upstairs,
where we chip them down until wc get
to the fine touches and sand paper;
then they come down to me and 1 fix
them out with a stunning coat of colors
on their wooden clothes, put them on
rollers and trundle them out among
the rest of the gang out there, where
the' wait until they make a mash and
are carried away. I also take battered
and weather-stained figures and put on
an car here or a nose there, or paint a
blind eye into life again, rig them out
in a brand new suit of clothes, and
there they are. I get anywhere from
ten dollars to forty dollars for the
images rarely over forty dollars.
There are only two or three other
shops, and we send images all over the
country.
"Oh, of course styles change, but
the genuine old roving redskin with a
bad eye and an ugty looking toma
hawk in hi hand is the stand-by that
is, in the majority of the Eastern and
Middle States. When you get way out
West there is quite a run of just such
flash Bowery girls as I am painting up
here now. Dudes had auite a go for a
while. 1 have got fully twenty-five
dudes planted around in Brooklyn and
New York even now, though dudes are
on the wane; and Pucks, that were so
popular a few years ago, are now so
much dead wood on your hands. The
Scotchman has gone for good, I guess,
though I hear he is still all thego over in
England. But the plain old war whoop
savage of the plains is the only chap
you can bank on as steadily trust
worthy. Indian maidens do very well,
"but not so well as the fine old gore
drinking warriors, with feathers and
meat axes.
"We prefer to sell direct to retail
dealers, though the big wholesale men
try to bity of us quite often. But, you
ece, they want to give away the imn'ges
as premiums to heavy customers, and
so they want to get them for next to
nothing.
"It takes about three days for a
carver to make a fine big imsge, and
ho makes four dollars to live dollars a
day at it, according to the quality of
his work. N. Y Sun.
HE WAS DEPRESSED.
A Hebrew Clothier Tell How a Designing.
Father Took Advantage of Him.
One of the Hebrew clothing dealers
In the city was looking rather de
pressed the other day, and a friend,
noticing it. ru-ted what the matter
was. "I vhas all proke up," he said,
in explanation, "und I choost vhas
gonsidering vedder id vhas Lessor tc
make an assignment und bay life cends
on der tollar or to mark up dem bante
on der gounter a queevartcr a bair.
Der odder daj- a man gomes into my
ethore und says to me: 'You make
dem clothes for leetle boys, ain'd it?'
Of course I do, mein front,' says I.
Anything you vand, mein frent?'
Und den he says: How much von
shargc for a suit, eh?' Und I savs
How old is der poy?' 'Only twelluJ
J ears old,' says he. Und I told him it
e vould pring der poy aront, 1
vould make him an clcgand suit foi
eight tollars und a halluf. Vill you
pud dot on baper.' says he, 'so dcrc
von't be any nmtak'e?' 'Certainly,
mein frent. if you vHi say I. Uud
he dakes dot baper in his hant and
eays, pefore he goes: 'I'll pring dei
poy arount to be measured ven he goes
to dinner. Dot's der only dime he can
leafe der museum.' 'Der museum?"
says I. 'Vbt is it he does in dot
museum?" -He is der fad now' savs
he, 'und I am his fader.' Py chiniinv,
I fcld mc dot I vould faind ven I heard
dot. Und, ven he gomes around at
twclluf, mein Gott, you should have
seen him. Fad? Veil. I should shmolc'
He reigned choost four hoondert und
eighty-life bounds, his fader said, und
der fad shtuck owid all ofer him. Ven
I saw him, I held me my hands up and
vept to think I vhas sold so pad. He
took as much as dwo men und I losd
fife tollers und a queevartcr on dei
chob. Und I bed you I didn't vaste
any cloth, eider. If shkin-tighd bants
und a coat und vesd vot fids" him like
der baper on der vail vill make him
one, dot fad poy is going to be a dude,
und don'd vou forged it. Excuse me a
moment, blease, while I dake m dei
how-ease. Der Sixth vard pummers
has iomisg along!" 8am, tkc Scar
SEAMEN Ad INVENTORS.
KseeijWy Compelling to Display
Aeir'Oemos 1b This Direction.
"There may not be many seamen
among the names of inventors at the
Patent Office," said a vessel captain the
Other day to a reporter, "but there are
few Yankees that have half the invent
ive genius that many sailors show.
If a ressel loses a rudder, or gets
into any of the scrapes that so often
happen, the Captain doesn't have a
Chance to run t,0 some ship-carpenter
to have tbp matter remedied. He has
to pitch in and fix it himself. This
necessity is surely the mother of in
vention, and you will seldom sec a
sailor at a loss for an idea in a critical
moment.
I remember a year or two ago a
lumber-laden schooner capsized up
here on the west shore. A wrecking
tug was sent out to brinj her into port,
but when the tug arrived on the scene
the vessel was found to be in a perfectly
unmanageable condition. She had
gone over on her side with all sail set,
and there she was lying with masts and
canvas under water. It was almost
impossible to handle her in that con
dition, and the Captain of the wrecking-tug
decided to right her just where
she was.
"A passing schooner in tow of a
small harbor tug was hailed and towed
up alongside the wreck. Blocks were
made fast to the top of her fore and
main masts, and lines run through
them and made fast to the tops of the
same masts of the capsized schooner.
The other ends of the lines were taken
by the large tur and the small one
fastened to the deck of the capsized
vessol. The tugs steamed in opposite
directions, and in five minutes the
schooner was right side up, and, with
the exception of the loss of part of her
deck-load, as good as ever.
"Last fall the schooner Mary L. Hig-
S'e was sent to Lake Superior for a
ad of stone, and on her return trip
was frozen in at Sault Ste. Marie. In
the spring her owner sent Captain
Hatch with a crew to bring her home.
'The Captain fitted her out and
started for Chicago, but he had got but
a short distance from the 'Soo when
the vessel sprang a leak and could only
be kept free from water by keeping the
pumps working steadily. The men
coulfln't work night and day, and ho
had no extra hands. What was he
going to dpP Run into the nearest
port and telegraph for a wreckiug-tu
at an expense of a couple of hundrci
dollars a day? This would knock tho
profits all off the trip, and Captain
Hatch wasn't sailing for fn, so he set
his brains to work and rigged up a
windmill in the fore-rigging attached it
to tho pump, and sailed for home with
a two-inch stream of water coming up
from below night and day, and his
men doing: no more work tlnin usual. .
"I could talk all night about inven
tions made by sailors. One old Cap
tain has invented a mammoth planeta
rium, showing the movements of all
the planets around the sun; he has
been working years on it, and will
bring it out next spring. Then there's
Captain Baker, who has a schp&c that
will revolutionize steam navigation.
And a host of others I can't think of
just now. Chicago News.
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AN ORIENTAL MONSTER.
Description of tho First Two-Horned
KhinoreroK Ever Drought to America.
A quadruped curiosity has arrived in
this country from Sumatra. It is one
of the two-horned species of rhinoceros,
a female, with a young calf, and, from
the extremely vivacious demeanor of
the interesting couple, the "double
barrelled" strangers appear to have
taken kindly to our climate. Vivacity,
indeed, is characteristic of these bulky
animals, anil, both when hunting
sportsmen and being hunted by them,
they have displayed such address in
their tactics and such agility in
getting over the ground as surprised
their adversaries. To look at they
would seem but poor hands at running,
but once set off. their pace is said to be
perfectly astonishing. Their massive
bodies covered with weighty skin, their
ponderous heads, and short legs all
denote a creature that is tardy in
movement and naturally sluggish; but
such is far from being the case, for as
sooa as the rhinoceros is fairly con
vinced that it has a good and sufficient
reason for beiner active, it bestirs itself
to such purpose as to make it hard for a
swift horse cither to escape its pursuit
or to overtake it when in flight. Of the
two contingencies the latter, so far as
the sportsman is concerned, is im
measurably the safer, for the gigantic
beast has not only the speed and the
courage of a wild boar, but has such
irresistible strength that the elephant
itself can not stand the shock of its
onset. Its temper, moreover, is as
short as its legs, and very little iofjeed
suffices in rhinocerontic philosophy to
constitute "sufficient provocation.' To
wake one out of its sleep is quite
enough, even though no malice pre
pense can be proved against the tres
'passor; to meet one face to face when
it is browsing its way along the river
side is more than sufficient. In cither
case the spleenful brute charges th.Q
stranger without hesitation and with
positively terrific impetuosity. There
is no reservation about its conduct, no
opportunity given to the incautious
visitor for making any mistake as to
the animal's intentions. If he wishes
to apologize to the provoked monster,
he had better do so in writing later on;
in the meanwhile, it is best to get out
of its way. There is no leisure given
for explanation of the intrusion. The
beast comes down head first, with a
snort that says, "Out you go," as
plainly as ever snort said anything.
This snort, by the way, sounds like the
sudden letting off of a fully-charged
steampipc, a kind of furious "whuff,"
which is singularly expressive, and
means, as we nave said, prompt ejec
tion from the premises. London News.
Fashionable Buttons.
There are a number of odd fancies
in buttons this season. Some of the
styles are extremely artistic. For ex.
ample, there are large buttons having
wonderfully correct representations oi
animals and flowers. A metal button
of the saucer shape, about five inches
in circumference, has a beautiful repre
sentation in color of a stork. Another
unique design on a large metal button
of convex shape has, in color, a design
of a pug dog's head. An owl's head,
richly represented with the glass eyes,
very natural looking, is another odd
I design which is on a large style of but
tons intended to ornament a street
jacket. A bronze button of good size
has a centre formed representing a
forget-me-not, richly colored. The
outer edge is finished in tinted metal,
showinga lace design. N. Y. Telegram.
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The International Criminal Con
gress, which has been in session in
Borne, has brought to light many in
teresting statistics. It appears that
Italy has an annual average of eight
murders to every 100,000 inhabitants,
against nine in Spain and Hungary,
two in Austria, one in France and Bel
gium, and only 0.5 in Great Britain. In
crimes against public morality the rate
of average for Italy is four, while that
of Germany is thirteen the highest
figure on the list.
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"No," said the landlady, fixing
her eyes with a stony gaze upon the
new boarder at the foot of tlio table;
"no, it is not what I eatjbutwljM
somebody else eats thatdiitrcsietme."
Botton Transcript,
BEARCOOT3.
A Noted Traveler' Experience Wit til
Great Asiatic Eagle.
"Bearcoot" is tho name of s very
large black eagle found in the rocky
defiles of the Amoor River. So bold and
powerful are these birds that they have
been known to attack and kill even
wolves. The following incident, re
corded by Mr. Thomas W. Atkinson in
his "Travels and Adventures Among
the Mountain Kirghis," will illustrate
the power and courage of the bearcoot,
besides showing that he would prove a
formidable opponent to any unarmed
man, if hunger prompted him to dis
pute possession of his game:
Three of these dark monarchs of tho
sky were seen soaring high above the
crags to the south, which were too ab
rupt to ride over. We therefore pick
eted our horses to feed, and began to
ascend the mountain slope. In about an
hour and a half we reached the summit,
and descended into a small wooded val
ley, when we observed the bearcoots
wheeling round the upper end, in tho
direction we hastened. Having gone a
quick pace for about three miles, we
I reached a rocky glen that led us into a
J valley of the Bean, known as a favorite
resort of maral a kind of deer.
Wc had scarcely entered this spot
when a singular spectacle was presented
to our view. A large maral had been
hunted down by three wolves, who had
just seized him, and the ravenous brutes
were tearing the animal to pieces whilo
yet breathing. We instantly prepared
to intliet punishment on two of tho
beat.x, ami crept quietly along under
cover to get within range. We suc
ceeded, and were levelling our rifles,
when Sergae called my attention to two
large bearcoota poising aloft, and pre
paring for a swoop. He whispered:
"Don't fire; we shall sec sorao grand
sporL"
Presently one of tho eagles shot down
like an arrow, and was almost instantly
followed by tho other. When within
about forty yards of the group, tho
wolves caught sight of them, and in
stantly stood on the defensive, showing
their long yellow fangs and uttering a
savage howl. In a few seconds tho first
bearcoot struck his prey; one talon was
fixed on his back, the other on the up
per part of the neck, completely secur
ing the hoad. while he tore out the wolf's
liver with his beak. Trie other hearcn.it
had seized another wolf, and shortly
both wore as lifeless as the animal thoy
had hunted.
The third brute snarled when his com
rades set up their wailing howls, and
started for the cover; he was soon with
in range, when a puff of smoke ro-e
from Sergae's rifle, and the wolf rolled
over dead. The report startled the
bearcoots, but we remained concealed,
and they commenced their repast on the
stag. Their attack had been made with
so much gallantry that neither the old
hunter nor myself could raiso a rifle
against them, or disturb their banquet.
When satisfied, they started up to some
lofty crags, and Sergae took off tiro
skins of the poachers, which he intended
keeping a trophies bravely won by the
eagles.
WHISKY DID IT.
The Ka;c or a Well-Meaning Justice Whose
Tomperanco Lecture Was Spoiled.
Just as Justice Coldbath gave the fat
man in a short coat thirty days for keep
ing a calf, three pigs and a swarm ol
chickens in his front yard, a citizen in
good clothes came into court. That is.
his clothes were good, what was left ol
them. They were torn in a dozen va
rieties of rent, and dabbled with mud
and blood. His broken head was band
aged, his hat was crushed, his face dis
figured. Oh, but old Justice Coldbath
was mad.
"Well, sir," he snarled, before the
citizen could speak, "it's easy enough
lo see what's the matter with you!"
The citizen drew a sigh that sounded
liko a November breeze and shook bis
head despondently.
"Same, old story?" said the Justice:
"same old thing? You look like a re
spectable man now, don't you? You
are respectable when you're fixed up, 1
dare say. Merchant, "aren't yon? Yes,
I knew it. Church member, more'n
likely Yes, I thought so. Stand well
hi .society, and never slipped up before?
Yes, sir, I know you. I can pick out
your case every time it comos before
mo. Whisky, eh? Liquor's the trouble.
Thai's what plavs the mischief with vout
respectable drinker, sir. Brings him to
the gutter just as sure as it does the
tramp. Now, sir, I'm going to reform
you. I'm going to deal justly and
harshly and mercifully with you foi
your own sake. I'll sock it to you sc
that you'll never come here again. It'i
whisky, you say?"
"Ys, "sir," said the citizen feebly,
"whisky is the trouble, sir. But foi
whiiky I wouldn't be here. But foi
whisky I wouldn't appear in this dis
graceful, forlorn, painful position. But
for whisky, 1 would be a sound, happy
man, in good olean clothes and no head
ache. But for whisky "
"That'H do," said tho justice, "I
know the whole story, and am glad you
realize your situation so keenly. Maybe
your contrition will take twenty days
and $ 10 off your sentence and mayboit
won't. Now, then, how much whisky
did vou drink and where did you get
it.""
"MeP" the citizen said, in a faint
tone of infinite surprise. "I never
touched a drop of intoxicating liquor of
am- kind in nil my life. I am pastor
of Asbury M. E. Church, and a drunken
xdiccman assaulted me on the street
lalf an hour ago and nearly clubbed
me to pieces. I have just come to file
information and get a warrant for his ar
rest." And old Justice Coldba. .. who is
never so happy as when delivering a
temperance lecture from the bench to a
battered inebriate, was so mad at hav
ing his lecture spoiled that he tried the
minister on three charges of conspiracy,
malicious mischief and contributory
negligence, with intent to deceive and
commit fraud, before ho would let him
go, and then he tried to saddle the costs
upon him. Burdctte in Brooklyn Eagte.
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CRYING FOR MORE.
The Old Farmer Who Wouldn't Admit
Thnt Ho Had Keen Conquered.
All honor to the people who will not be
beaten! Although a confession of failure
comes very gracefully from the lips the
refusal to own that one has been con
quered, bespeaks an indomitable spirit.
A jood story is told of an old farmer
in Jow Hampshire, who would always
come out ahead of his antagonist, in one
way if not another, no matter what tho
character of the competition might be.
One day, he and his help were engaged
in getting in hay, when, the old man
having found much fault from the mow
with the slowness with which his assist
ants were pitching the hay up to fiim,
the boys concluded they would "satisfy
him.""
They began rapidly forking it up, and
continued until the mow was so dusty
as to be fairly suffocating, and the old
man was almost buried in the mass.
After a little Ihey heard not a word
of complaint, and in'a few miuutcs down
to the floor, covered with hay and al
most choked, came Uncle Silas. As he
dropped, the boys cried out:
"What are you down here for?"
To which the irrepressible Uncle Si
las made answer:
"Consarn yer lazy piclers! I'm down
here for more hay!" Youth's Com'
patiion.
GRIZZLIES.
General Bf dwell Telia How; He Chaseo a
Drove of Them in California lu 1843.
At the dinner given recently by Will
8. Green to the pioneers of Colusa
County, General Bidwell told this re
markable bear story: "I did not visit
this part of the valley, in the present
boundaries of Colusa County, until the
month of March, 184S, and it was by
coming across at French Crossing, on
Butte Creek. I remember the scene that
greeted me as, when we were within
about three miles of Butte Creek, we
saw a big grizzly jump up and make
tor tne crces. lhe bear in
early
spring used to frequent the little
patches of clover that grew in abund
ance in spots here and there gener
ally in little depressions. Mr. Grizzly
that wc first saw was not long alone.
Pretty soon another and then another
jumped up, and when we came to
Butte Creek we had a drove of sixteen
big grizzlies. I was riding a very
high-lived sorrel horse. I singled out
the largest grizzly, and was determined
to kill him, Dut every time I attempted
to raise my gun my horse would com
mence bucking and jumping furiously,
so that I could not get a shot at him.
Finally I chased him until I thought he
was almost out of breath got to going
very slow. He did not run very" fast,
because he was very large. He
was the largest and oldest, I think, of
all of them, and I determined to have
a shot at him. I went up to almost
twenty feet of him and got off my
horse, and the horse tried to pull away
from me, and the bear stoppe-' anil
raised on his hind feet, and stood about
six or eight feet high; and then I have
a recollection that my hair stood up,
too. I finally got my horse subdued,
but the bear had gone on toward Butte
Creek, so I was greatly disappointed,
as I did not get the bear. We
got into Colusa County and pretty
soon a grizzly sprang up, and I put
after him; and pretty soon he turned
and put after me, and for about a quar
ter of a mile, every jump he made he
just struck my horse's tail; and Peter
Lassen, all he did was to tell me torn 11
He might have come up and diverted
the boar's attention, but no, he let the
bear alone. But I had the advantage
of the bear, as I was on a good horse,
and pretty soon we came to a place
where there was a slough, and then I
made him go into the water; then I
knew what to do. When he got up on
tho other sido I was ready. He crawled
up slowly, all dripping "wet; then he
raised up on his hind feet to look at
me. My gun went off, and, lo! I saw
a stream of blood about as large as my
arm, apparently, spurt into the air,
and then he gave two or three bound
and fell dead. That is the way we
used to attend togrizzlies in those days.
I did not sec any grizzlies yesterday
coming along. Things have been
changed." Sacramento Bee.
GOT SATISFACTION.
IIow a Young California!! Obliged
rclioine I'arlslun.
Quar-
Tho experience of a young man, well
known in social circles, during a visit
in Paris is about as funny as thoy make
them. It seems a party of young
Americans, including the adventurous
Californian and a notable joker from
New York, found themselves late one
night at a ball in Paris. The wino had
been flowing freely, and the town was
rather on the riot. The Americans
were having lots of fun, when in pass
ing a group of Frenchmen the New
Yorker stepped accidentally on a Pa
risian toe. The Parisian "lapped him
gently on the shoulder.
"You trod on my toe, sir."
"Did I P I didn't sec any toe.'
"You are insulting, sir. Here is my
card." '
The American took the card, looked
at it, then very solemnly put his hand
in his pocket and handed over another.
It was the Califoruian's card, which ho
happened to have. Next day principal
and second called at the rooms of tho
Californian. He received them blandly.
"You are not the man who trod on
my toe," said the Frenchman.
"Oh, yes, I am. You are mistaken."
"No, no. It wa3 some other gen
tleman." "Do yon mean to tell me I lieP"
asked tho Californian. "I tell 3-ou I
stepped on your too."
"We have called to demand saisfac
tion." "And you shall have it.".
The other American, anticipating
fun, had dropped in.
"Very well, sir. When and where !"
"Hero and now," said the Califor
nian. "This is against all rules."
"I believe I am the challenged
pnrtv."
"You are, but "
'And I can choose any weapons."
"Certainly, but "
"All right. Here you are."
And he brought out a pair of boxing
gloves. "Put 'em on and we'll have it out
here.
The Frenchman could not but ac
cept. The door was locked and their
honor was satisfied by both principal
and second being knocked about so
fearfully that they kept their beds for
a week. But they had their revenge,
for thoy put the police on the Ameri
cans' track and worried them so that
thoy got out of Paris. San Francisco
Chronicle.
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Value of Race-Horses.
The decline and fall of the Roman
Empire ma astonish readers of his
tory, but more astonishing still are the
daily cases of decline and fall in the
price of slocks; and most astonishing
are the rapid decline and fall in the
value of race-horses. Not many years
ago. The Marquis, winnor of the Two
Thousand, second for the Derby, and
winner of the Doncaster St. Leger,
was sold in the home of his exile (Aus
tralia) and in his (by no means help
less) old age, for twenty-one guineas;
and only a few weeks ago The Prince
(son of Balfe and Lady Sophie), who
cost ten thousand guineas at three
years of age, was sold, at the early
age of five, to the Germans for eight
hundred guineas a decline and fallof
ninety-two hundred guineas in two
years. And Hampton Court, now per
forming in Sanger's circus, was bought
as a yearling by the late Mr. Stirling
Crawford for eighteen hundred and
fifty guineas. Illustrated London News.
Burmese Divorce Law.
The Burmnn marries early, and,
though polygamy is permitted, has
only one wife, whom, with the other
females of the family, he compels to do
all the work, Divorces by either partj
are easily arranged, and arc ven com
mon occurrences. If two persons are
tired of each other's society the dis
solve partnership in the following sim
ple but conclusive manner: They re
spectively light two candles, and shut
ting up "their hut, sit down and wait
quietly until they arc burned out. The J
one wnose canaie mirns out nrst leave!"
the house at once and forever, taking
nothing but the clothes he or she may
have on at the time, all else becoming
the property of the other party. Lon
don Queen.
m
Elizabeth, N. J., has a ghost that
insists upon kissing all the girls found
on the streets after dark. All the
ladies of the town now make calls at
night, and rc liognfraid to go alone."
Nmcark RqitUr.
WOOL COMBING.
Issprovenicnln In Machinery for Bedaetaff
Wool Fiber.
Every improvement in machinery
for reducing or preparing fiber adds
to the profits of the producer, because
it cheapens manufacture, allowing tho
dollar to exert a greater purchasing
capacity than before. The growth of
improvement, however, is slow. Wool
combing, for instance, is one of the
most ancient of industries, and yet un
til within recent times the combs, fire
pan, etc., were crude and stationary,
until in 1790 Carlwright succeeded in
j constructing a practical machine for
the combing of wool, winch, however,
was deficient in many respects.
lhe Icxltlc Manujaciiirer gives a
succinct account of the various im
provements since that time, which,
condensed, shows that Hawksley, of
Nottingham, made a considerable ad
vance upon Cartwright's machine, and
this was followed at an interval of
thirty-five years by the more successful
attempts of Plait and Collier. These
were again distanced in 18-12 and 1814
by the further advances made by Don
isthorpe. It is, however, toJosuc
Heilman, the inventor of tho combing
machine known by his name, that tho
trade is most indebted for the success
made in mechanical wool combing.
The principle of this machine, which
has been further developed and im-
Iirovcd upon by Messrs. Lister and
Jonisthorpo and others, rendered me
chanical comMng sueh a success that
the old system rapidly disappeared be
fore it, and '.' '! imber in tho
wool indu- '.. n .nw become as
nearly extin - ' ii-ml-loom weaver
in the cotton ir.iile.
These several defects have now been
romedied in the following ways: By
the introduction of a new motion for
driving the dabbling brushes, from
which noth dabbling brushes arc driven
by one strap, alternate action being se
cured by lhe cranks being set at half
centers. This perfectly effect the end
in view so fur as that point is con
cerned. Another advantage is also
gained by the dabbling brushes starl
ing to operate at full speed before the
comb eireles arc on the move, which
never allows the sliver or fiber to pass
the center where the two combs come
together before it is properly dabbod
into the pins of the two circular combs,
and as they descend upon anil are lifted
from the teeth of the revolving comba
more quickly than heretofore, they are
loss exposed to wear from tho action of
the revolving combs than formerly.
Chicago Tribune.
OLD AND YOUNG.
The
Desire of Dispensing With Veteran
Too 6 rent in the l'rescnt Age.
A certain measure of indifference,
selfishness, insensibility to the interests
of others, general indifference, is insep
arable from youth, when all is expecta
tion and looking forward. Duly in tho
larger sense of the word, the measure
of justice one human being is bound to
deal out to another in the least as well
as the most trilling transaction, the
sense of responsibility only ago can
give these are lessons of life not to bo
learned at once. Later on, during
those brief years allotted to both sexes,
by custom and general opinion, as
their prime, men, no more than women,
are likely to do their work better than
when, from a business point of view,
they are set aside as incapable. On the
contrary, lhe daily disehargo of routine
duties, however irksome, will bo easier
to those who have learned, perhaps by
bitter experience, the value of time, of
money ana ot conscience. Granting
that a" man or woman of sixty may not
be able to jret through so much work
in the same time as those half their age,
is not the conscience put into the work
to be taken into consideration? True
enough it is, as our poet says:
'Conscience In work is quite grown out ol
dale."
Suver were wages so high, never ox
ations of work people so exalted as
now, and never was it more difficult to
jret any piece of manual work effi
ciently done. The job is got through
somehow, paid for, and there is an end
of the matter.
Old servants, too, are rapidly run
ning out of date. The time-honored
retainers of former years are now re
placed by pretty girls and smart young
men, who stay with each employer tilt
thev cap improve their position and no
more; whereas serving folks, who havo
grown gray in their master's service,
naturally have their interests at heart,
and prevent thcffkoliation in the kitch
en, which goes well nigh to ruin so
many families.
Youth has charms. "A pretty girl
is the poetry of a work-a-day world,"
says one of our novelists. Unfortu
nately, the greater part of human af
fairs has to do with bare prose; and for
tho daily transactions of business,
bright eyes, rosy cheeks and a slim lig
ure arc le.ss necessary than steadiness,
rectitude and unswerving devotion to j
work-a-day duty. Chambers'' Journal.
TRIANGULAR MIRRORS.
A Charming Device for iJialles Who
Ar
Anxious to See Their Khi-U If nlr.
"Women, as everybody knows, art
tho hardest people in the world to
please," said a wan, pale-faced clerk
in a large jewelry establishment the
other day, just after wrestling for an
hour and a half with a fat girl in a
red hood, who had bought only a silver
bangle bracelet for a dollar. The pale
faced clerk sighed and then continued
in a dull ami listless sort of a way:
"But I think we've got something
now that even the prettiest and meaiv
est female in the world can't complain
about. You know (or mebbe you
don't know, you don't look as though
you were married say, I've been mar
ried two years), every woman would
rather see the back of her head just
after she has put up her hair than any
thing else on earth. Well, the'e
been straining their necks and using
hand glasses in front of their mirrors
for a long time, and the result has not
been particularly satisfactory. It has
at length occurred to somebody to in
vent something to remedy this. There
is a three-sided glass. It's rather ex
pensive, j-ou see. French plate glass,
with ivory backs. The sides are
movable and adjustable. A woman
can arrange that thing so that she can
sit in front of it nd see her back hair
without turning her head. The ad
vantage is simply beyond calculation.
She can catch her dressing mai in
a lie regularly every morning." Phila
delphia Pi-ess.
Mules Sell Better Than Horses.
For mules there is always a demand,
and, independent of his service on the
farm, a large, well-trained, gentle mule
would always demand a good price,
and could at any moment bo converted
into oash. A mule is about the only
product of the farm for which dealer
will seek, and every good mule would
command its market value on the spot
wnere it is grown. We rarely hear of
a native-raised horse that caii be sold
for more than two hundred dollars,
and then only to some one who hap
pens to fancy him; but to good mules
there is a lixed market value. Two
hundred and fifty dollars is no unusual
price paid for a fine mule, and in tho
cities of the West six hundred and even
eight hundred dollars are paid for a
fancy team of mules. Natchez (Jfto.)
Democrat.
PERSONAL AKO HtPKHSONAL.
Captain J. m. Storey, of Greens
boro, N. C, was struck twenty times
by bullets In the late war, and is alive
yet.
Dr. Edwin B. Webb, after a pas
torate of twenty-five years, retired
from tho pulpit of Shawmut Congre
gational church of Boston recently.
Old names for girls, such as
Gladys, Elfrida, Wilfreda, Enid, Ethel,
Clarice, Rosabel, Christabcl and Clari
bcl, aro again becoming fashionable.
Chicago Iferald.
An investigator of names says
after a long search for it he has been
unable to find any ptrson who ever
bore that of Printer. He has found
Painter, Slaincr. Shoemaker, Tanner,
Tinker, Carpenter and many others
derived from trades or occupations,
but no Printer. V. Y. Tribune.
Tho papjv on which the historic
Bancroft writes is a singular combina
tion of yellow and greon. He says
that with ordinary white paper before
him the composition of a singlo sen
tence is the work of fifteen or twenty
minutes. His thoughts will only flow
when this peculiar paper is used.
Baroness Burdett-Cnutls has the
satisfaction of knowing that her young
American-born husband beat the Mar
quis of Lome for a seat in the House
of Commons. Tho Marquis is tho
Queen's son-in-law, and it was hor
Majesty who snubbed the Barouese
because she married a young man.
Chicago Times.
Dr. Archibald Dodds, a young
Pittsburgh physician who removed to
Syria some years ago and who recently
camo home to bring his Iittlo boy to
live with relatives, was drowned from
tho Luuaru steamer Muon white near
tho coast of Spain. Tho Sidon had
fltrm-k a rock. Dr. Dodds had twice
secured a life-preserver, but gave it up
to a lady each time. Hltsbhrgh Pout.
There are two well-known house
decorators in New York City who are
brothers, of the same height, weight,
complexion, and build, wearing clothes
of the same color and style, and lunch
ing together, without speaking a word
to each other, every day at Dolmonico's.
Tho crdina;y mortal can not toH them
apart, and one never knows which of
the two he is talking to. N. Y. Mnit.
Charles Schneider, of Cincinnati,
several years ago married the daughter
of John Grossions, his employer,
against the father's wishes. The young
wife was aftor a time persuaded to
leave her husband and return home.
Her husband tried to reclaim her, and
failing, shot at her. For this he was
sent to the penitentiary, and his wifo
secured a divorce. Since then her
father died and left her valuable prop
erty, and recently the young husband,
who had served his term in the peni
tentiary went to see his children, found
his wife still loved him, and they were
again married. Cincinnati Times.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
"Capital punishment!" said the
boy, when the schoolmistress seated
him between two girls.
The young lady meant well who
wrote to the editor: " "I was pleased to
see tho obituary notice of my father in
your columns."
Vinegar is rapidly declining; prob
ably on account of sharp competition.
Puck. Wc think there must be some
mother reason for it. Boston Common
wealth. A fashion item says "Red kid3 arc
now fashionable." This is not an
original idea. It is an aboriginal no
tion. Hed kids
ionable among
have lonjr been fash-
thc Indians.
-Norris-
town Herald.
A German scientist counted the
hairs on his wife's head, and quoted
her at a hundred and twenty-eight
thousand to the inch. We don't see
how he could tell which was switch.
N. Y. Graphic.
"Is there any danger of the boa
constrictor biting me? asked a lady
visitor at the Zoological Garden. "Not
the least, inarm," cried the showman;
"he never bites he swallows his wit
ties whole.' X. Y. Ti'legram.
German humor: "Herr Professor,
how do you like my new tragedy?"
"Very much, indeed. Especially the
robber they aro first rate. In fact.
thoy aro the bast thieves I ever heard
of ; even the words they speak arc
stolen from other books."
"Why, Allie dear, is that the way
to begin" your dinner?" aknd the
mother of her little daughter, at she
began the pic instead of the potatoes
with gravy. "Well, I declare, mamma,
I was going to eat my dinner upside
down, wasn 1 1?" Rochester Democrat.
Little Ethel wont to see her grand
mother, and, for the first time in her
life, alone. The experience of being
without her mother or nurse in the city
streets quite unnerved the child, and
on reaching her grandmother's she
staid but an instant, so intent was she
on getting home again. On returning
there, she asked Ker mother: "Can
I go and tell grandma I'm safe back?
I told her how frightened I was, and I
know she'll worry." Harper's Bazar.
Life is full of compensation:
No more- alotJir the silvery sands tbey stray
When balmy night succeeds the golden ujr
And Dian with serene. unblUAh'iiiv fao
Glides calmly from Poseidon's fund embrace.
No more they Unxur on tbo pebbled straw!
And make, belie Vo to listen to tho bund
Discoursing airs from Sullivan nud fe'trausa.
The niRhts nre cold they anend them in tho
house.
And do ttiej roisa tbo beRch. the pleasant
walk?
Not by a very much ejttouded chalk.
For In tho parlor meet the pair
Now, when tho day is done:
Two forms with but one rockjog-ohalr,
Two hearts that beat us one.
Boston Courier.
Influence of Nitrogen on Iron.
According to M. Fromy nitrogen ex
ercises an important influence on iron,
and steel is due not to the presenco of
carbon alone, but to a combination of
iron with nitrocarburets. Careful
analysis, however, shows that there is
no fixed relation between the proper
ties of nitrogen and carbon- in cither
steel or iron, and also that the propor
tions of nitrogen are found to vary,
while those of carbon are more con
stant; hence it has been supposed that
the presence of the former is more or
less accidental and unimportant. It fs
known that there are special "ores oi
steel"' which naturally produce steel at
a certain stage of fining, bat which by
still further lining pass into iron; again
this same iron gives steel a superior
quality for cementation. All metals,
m fact, undergo remarkable arranges
through the influence of exceedingly
small proportions of various foreign
substances. Copper is partly modified
by the merest trace of oxygen, sulphtlt
or lead, zinc or tin by only a few
tenths of one per cent, of iron, and
gold is made brittle as antimony by
one-hundredth of one per cent, of lead
or bismuth. N. Y. Sun.
Philadelphia Doctor."
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were humorously styled "Doctors Phil
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the prosecution of such persons who
persist in advertising themselves as
specialists" in Germany on the
strength solely of such diplomas ie
authorized. The happy possessor of
such a diploma, a "Dr. Rescck, in
Berlin, was fined three hundred marks
for calling himself a physician and one
hundred and fifty marks for wearing
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