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AMERICAN GEMS.
Quality anil Value of Preclou Stoat
Found In the United States.
Mr. George E. Kunz, of this city, is
the author of an admirable monograph
on "Precious Stones," issued by tho
Department of the Interior, being an ab
stract from the Report of the United
States Geological Survey in regard to
the "Mineral Resources of the United
Slates." In these sixty pages tho
student of this most fascinating depart
ment of mineralogy will find in
formation which he could not
possibly gather from other sources
or by any amount of personal
effort. Air. Kunz is an indefatigable
student and collector, and writes no
line which does not contain some fact
of interest.
Considering the vast extent of our
territory, this country is not remark
able for its precious atones. In 1884
more than 69,000,000 worth of
diuiiynids and other precious stones
wore imported and entered for con
sumption in the United Slates. In
thai same year it is roughly estimated
Ih-it the value of stones found in the
United States and cold as specimens,
curiosities and to cut into gems, was
considerably less than $100,000. But a
very e-mail part of this includes stones
ranked as precious most of it being
expended for fine specimens of varieties
of quartz, garnets, etc. But our
variety of truly beautiful mineral de
posits ami crystals is rich enough to
awaken the enthusiastic interest of
every one who finds in stones the en
during glory which is so frail and
evanescent in foliage and flowers.
Diamonds have been found in Vir
ginia, North Carolina. California and
other places, but nowhere in such num
bers and of such quality as to command
much attention; 500 is said to be the
highc-l price paid for a California dia
mond in the rough, though large num
bers have been sold for from 10 to
$100 each. Valuable emerald-green
sapphire (oriental emerald) have been
foin-.d at Franklin. N. C, and sap
phire gem of other types have been
found in other part of tho State, nlo
in Penn-vlvania, Montana and clse
wheie. But all together they could
not ! of much value, for the estimated
value of sapphire gems found and sold
in LS-vi was $2,200, and in 1S81 only
.Si. 750.
Stiil we have some remarkable talcs
of gem discoveries relating to our own
neighborhood. Twenty years ago im
meuM' spinel crystals were found near
Monroe, Orange County, N. Y. The
exact locality was known only to two
mineralogists, "who worked it for sev
eral years by moonlight for secrecy,
ami from it took Calais that realized
over $6,000. Since the death of the
former miners the position of this most
wonderful locality has been unknown."
One of the finest gems ever found in
America is a topaz of 125 carats, from
Platte Mountain, near Pike's Peak.
Mr. Kunz says that topaz erj'slals from
this locality are equal in quality to
many of the finest of the same size
from Siberia, and are sold at a valua
tion of from fifty cents to $100 each.
Emeralds are found in New England
and North Carolina, but scarcely any
of gem value. Their near relatives,
the beryls and aqua-marines, are found
in a greater variety of places, and
main- of them arc very transparent and
beautiful.
Tourmalines abound at Mount Apa
tito, in Maine. They are found in other
localities in that State, and also in other
States.
As to garnets, Mr. Kunz says that
"there is undoubtedly no finer garnet
found that looks better in the evening
than those from the garnet regions of
the United Slates. The. dark color in
Cape garnets remains by artificial light,
whereas with the American garnet
nothing but tho clear blood color is
visible. They are of fine qualify, and
plentiful on the great Colorado pla
teau." They are found also in other
States west of the Rocky Mountain,
and in Maine, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
North Carolina and elsewhere.
We have not space enough to men
lion even a few of the great number of
beautiful quartz mineral' and feldspars
which are described by Mr. Kunz, such
as the remarkable anietiiyt recently
deposited in the National Museum, 'Si
inches long, 2 inches wide, 11 inches
thick, transparent, flawless and uncut.
N. Y. Observer.
SELF-INSTRUCTION.
A Fauioun Scholar's Method of Acquiring
Foreign Tongues.
For the benefit of a large number
who have asked advice as to the best
method of learning foreign languages,
we givo Dr. Schlieniann's method,
which wc find in bis Ilios. " Nothing
spurs one on to study more than misery
and the certain prospect of being able
to release one's self from it by unremit
ting work. I applied myself with ex
traordinary diligence to the study of
English (German was his native
tongue). Necessity taught meameth
.od which greatly facilitates the study
'of a, language. This method cousists in
reading a great deal aloud, without
making-a translation. Taking a lesson
every day. constantly writing essays
upon subject. of interest, correcting
these under the supervision of a teach
er, learning them by heart and repeat
ing in the next lesson what was cor
rected on the previous day. My mem
ory was bad, since from 1113 childhood it
had not been exercised upon any
object; but I made use of every
moment, and even stole time
for study. In order to acquire a
good pronunciation quickly, I wonttJice
evcrj Sunday to the English church,
and repeated to myself in a low voice
every word of the clcrygman's sermon.
I never went on my errands, even in
the rain.wituout having nry book in ny
hand and learning something by heart,
and I never waited at the post-office
without reading: By such methods I
gradually strengthened my memorv and
in threenionths' time found no difficulty
in reciting from memory to my teacher,
in eacfc day's lesson, twenty printed
pages, after having read them atten
tively. In this way I committed to
memory rbciwliolc of Goldsmith's Vicar
of Wakefield and Sir Walter Scott's
Ivanboc. From over-excitement I slept
but little and employed my sleepless
hours at night in going over in nry
mind what I liad read on the preceding
evening. The memory being always
much more concentrated at night than
in the day time, I found these repeti
tions nt night of permanent use. Thus
I succeeded in acQuiriug in half a year
a thorough knowredge of the English
language.
"1 then applied the same method to
the study of French, the difficulties of
which I overcame likewise in another
six months. Of French authors I
learned; by heart Qtc whole of Fenelon's
Adventures de TjtfftnQquc and Bernar-
din do St. Pierre's Paul ei Virginia.
This unremitting study had in the
course of a single year strengthened
my memory to such a degree that the
study of Dutch, Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese appeared very easy, and it
did not take me more than six weeks to
write and speak each of these lan
guages fluently."
This was before Dr. Schliemann was
twenty-two. His method of work at
night can not be recommended to an
American youth. Our climate is not
that of Holland (where Dr. S. was then
a clerk at one hundred and sixty dol
lars a year salary), and in our climate
abundance of sleep is imperative. But
an adaptation of his methods may be
very helpful to tho aspiring and reso
lute student. N. Y. Tribune
HINDOO PILGRIMS.
Scenes at Allahabad at the Time of the
Annual Pilgrimage.
Allahabad is the holy place of the
Hindoos, the city of God. Its halo of
sanctity arises from its location at the
union of the Jumma and the Ganges,
tho two sacred streams of India. The
tongue of sandy land at the junction
is the hallowed spot, and here myriads
of the devout resort, like pilgrims to
Jordan, to purify the soul by bathing
and prayer. This custom takes the
form of an annual festival, lasting a
month, when the lowland at the con
fluence becomes a vast encampment.
As the Hindoo religion works on a cash
basis, these occasions are embraced for
purposes of gain as well as of worship.
Owners of various portable shrines hold
forth their efficacy; Brahmins read the
Shasters in return for pious offerings;
the makers of gods are present to sell
their wares, aud groups of Nautch girls
find an abundant harvest. Traders
erect booths or bazars, and the traffic
in merchandise reminds one of the
great Russian fair of Nijni Novgorod.
Every twelfth year, when Jupiter
enters a certain sign of the zodiac, oc
curs tho great Mela, as the pilgrimage
is called, when the concourse some
times readies millions. The last took
pb.ee in 1882. The holy mendicants al
ways attend the Mela" in great num
bers, begging or exacting food and
money from the great masses. Under
the pretence of sanctity they almost dis
pense with clothing, allow their hair
and beard to grow wild and twist a coil
of gray rope about their heads, or else
wear nothing, while they smear face,
breast and limbs with ashes from the
funeral pyres, relieved with daubs of
ocher and vermillion. During Mela
they inflict a variety of tortures upon
themselves. One, for example, will
bury himself in the ground until only
his nose and mouth arc exposed, and
feign to remain several days without
eating getting up in the night, like
the knave he i, and stealing the ma
terial for a hearty meal. Boston
Herald.
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JAPANESE TOILETS.
The Costume Worn !y 111 Mikado'i
Fair Siilijecla.
In making her toilet for the day, the
Japanese girl first puts on a garment
made usually of some coarse material,
not very long, and reaching only to
the waist, but with long sleeves. On
the neck of this garment is sewed a
deep fold of scarlet or some bright
colored crape or silk.
A long, straight skirt of blue or red
crape, silk or wool is tied around the
waist, and over all three of these gar
ments is worn the kimouo, or dres.
This is of some dark color, and made
of coarse spun silk or thick crape.
For festivals and holidays the dresses
arc of very fine material and very
handsome.
The outer dress is simply a wrapper
reaching to the feet, with very long
and wide sleeves hanging nearly to the
ground, and u-cd as pockets. On
each shoulder a deep tuck is made
which extends to the waist, thus mak
ing a little fullness for the skirt.. But
the dress has no gathers, and is straight
all the way down.
The neck is adorned with a wide
piece of black velvet or satin, which
reaches nearly to the waist, and the
dress is crossed over the bosom and
confined by a girdle. Over this is
worn a very wide sash, a piece of
brocaded silk or satin, stiff with em
broidery in gold or silver, lined with
soft silk and fastened behind with a
large bow. When these are all on,
but barefooted, or if in cold weather in
white mitten socks, made to reach
only to the ankle, and with a placo in
which to put the great toe (just as mit
tens have a place for the thumb), she
goes out to say "Ohaio," or good
morning to her father and mother.
X. Y. Times.
WILLING TO CORRECT.
Bat the Correction la to Be Made After
the Expiration of a Decade.
He walked into the office the other
morning, looking pretty much like r.
man dissatisfied with general results.
"Can I see the editor?" he inquired.
He was directed to the foot of the
throne.
"Good morning, sir," he began,
grullly.
"Mornin'," grunted the editor.
"I came in," he proceeded, "to tell
j'ou of a misprint in the paper."
"What is it?"
"Well, I sent a notice around here
that my friend Smith had just been
married, and your infernal compositor
got it: 'Mr. Smith has just been mar
tyred.' "
"Ugh, j-ou call that a misprint, do
you? Well, don't, and I've raised
"that compositor's wages. If yon
don't like it, send Smith around tc
me ten years from now, and if he
wants it corrected, I'll have it done."
The visitor departed to see Smith.
Merchant Traveler.
The Lake of Constance.
The Lake of Constance is only some
fifty miles in length, but any one who
travels from pier to pier and wishes to
know the right time of day at
each ought to carry five watches. Ite
waters wash the shores of five different
States Austria, Baden, Wurtemberg,
Bavaria and the Swiss Federation. If
you land at Rorschach and want to
catch the train for Ragatz or Chur,
your watch ought to stand at Bern
time. In Fricarichsbafen yon most
know the Stuttgart time, in Constance
the Baden time, in Lindau the Munich
time. The Austrian time is not reck
oned from Vienna, but from Prague,
which differs no less than twenty-eight
minutes from the Bern time. Henca
a traveler crossing over the Austria
frontier at St. Margareten most pat
back his watch half an hour in order to
set himself right at the Swiss station.
N. F. Observer.
TAILOR TOPICS.
A New Generation of Clothos-Makera Oa
of the Fatnre PoMtbUllied.
So much time and attention have been
given of late to the all absorbing topic
of fashionable attire for the male sex
that it woidd seem eminently proper
eventually for some enterprising pub
lisher to launch forth a magazine es
pecially devoted to their whimsical wants
and ideas. The magazine would havo
to be conducted upon the same plan of
those designed for the fair sex, and
this of itself would be a novelty, if noth
ing more. Columns arc devoted to the
matter in almost every paper in tho
country, and at this rate woman, who
has unquestionably held the fashionable
field, stands a chance of being crowded
out to make room for other darlings.
There is a class, however, who smile
complacently at this probable turn in
aflairt, aud who chuckle to themselves
in .delightful anticipation. They are
the laiiors those squatty figures, who
perch on a bench after the manner of
a Turk, deep in the mystery of shaping
coals and pants for aspiring j'outh.
"I tell you what, though, said a pop
ular tailor, "there is going to be an
alarming scarcity of clothes-makers
pretty soon. At the present day, no ono
wants to be a tailor. Nobody wants to
learn the trade. It's almost impossible
to get an apprentice, and I venture to
say that when the present generation of
tailors dies off there'll probably be no
one left to undertake the business. Did
you ever see a young man making a
pair of breeches? I don't think you
have. Nearly all are old hands with no
successors when they shuffle off. A
great many applicants don't want to do
anything but cutting, and most of them
are botches. There has been quite a
falling off, too, in the number of tailors
recently. Do others take their places?
Not often, and when they do soon quit
in di.sgu.sL There is only one alterna
tive, as far as 1 can see, and that is for
women to take the matter in hand when
no men are left. This event may 1)0
long distant. But it is extremely prob
able nevertheless."
"Can a woman equal a tailor in mak
ing clothes for men ?"
"I never heard ot any. If they're in
existence the must be very scarce.
Some women can make shiits and pant?
for youngsters, but never knew one to
tackle a coat or vest. Ami I'll bet you
a man or boy couldn't be persuaded to
wear them after they were made. How
ever, men should accustom lhe!Ueles
to women-made garments, for 1 think
it will only be a few years when the task
will devolve upon tiieni entireh."
"Heretofore," he continued, "it has
been regarded as a distinction between
tailor-made and mantifaciiiied clolhcs
that the pant of the former were
pressed out round and Mti.iulh, without
any crease down tho leg. But il seems
that the m.'.niiiaciurcrs have caught on
to this, ami now their pants are also
pressed smooth b tailors employed for
that purpose. If, upon reaching their
destination, they slill retain a crease
caused from packing, the dealer to
whom the' are consigned makes any
alteration thai may be nee.-s.sary to suit
the purchaser. What must then be
done? I see that in New York all the
tailors purposely make a crease down
the lege of pataloons in order
to again distinguish them from
store clothes. The whole thing
naturally looks absurd, hut there must
be a distinetion. What other follies did
you say? They are too numerous to
mention. A man comes in ami wants
a suit made. If he simplv gave his or
der and chose the cloth and style there
would be no trouble. But he want.- the
breeches to fit jusl so ami so around tho
leg and to delicately fall over the feet.
And the coat must not have a wrinkle.
The shoulilers, however, receive more
attention limn the whole business. They
must be systematically padded, and to
do this will require great skill. This
feature of the eoat has the greatest
charm imaginable to the happy pos
sessor. Many hollow-chested persons
with slopingsliouldersliave the. -liouliiers
padded to make them square ami give
the body an upright position. Thl will
account for some of the finely foi med
men you encounter daily, and if ou
took their coats off you would find about
an inch and a half of p.idditig on e-teh
shoulder. It is perfectly reasonable to
wish to improve a defective form by ar
tificial methods. But the matter of pad
ding is carried to such an extreme that
it becomes disgusting. What a. unit
skin-tight pants? I think their day is
almost over, though its hard to .say what
will take their place. Yes, sir," repeated
the tailor man, as he resumed hiss pat
ting position, " our race is almost run,
and unless more men learn the buine.s
there'll be a panic for pants one of these
days. ' ' Galveston News.
EDUCATION AND LIBERTY.
The Kaphl rrogro Recently Mitric by
Jiip:tu and Jli-.iril.
Gilbert and Sullivan in their burlesque
of the "Mikado" have got theatre iro.-rs
and amusement lovers to lauph at :he
oddities of .Japanese customs ami man
ners, but Japan itelf is making pro
gress in fields which promise to put it in
advance of the most civilized nations-.
It has settled by law the vexed quo-tion
of free popular education. Her -.tier
all childn.11 between the age- : . md
fourteen are to be compelled to : t.-ml
school from three to six hours a tl: for
thirty-two weeks in the year, and all ex
penses, including the use of school
books, are to be paid out ol lite nublie
treasurj. This in a few year will' placo
Japan in the front rank with (iermany
iu the universalit uf a free common ed
ucation, while it will hi far in advance
of the United Stales and England. In
the latter country such of the poor as
can contribute to the support of the
schools arc forced to do so, while in the
United States education is not compul
sory, and hence some sixteen per cent,
of our population is illiterate. Then
there is Brazil which has taken another
step forward in hastening the day when
slaver- is to disappear from the great
South American Empire. Enforced
slavery is rapidly disappearing from all
parts of the earth's surface. The num
ber of slaves in Cuba is steadily dimin
ishing; the day is certainl coming when
over the whole eaith it may be said that
the sun does not rise upon a master or
set upon a slave. Demorcsfs Monthly.
An exchange sas thai "Vanderbilt
left from $170,000,000 to $200 000,000."
What if he did? Theie's immv a poor
devil who hasn't ten cents to his oack,
and if he were to die to-night he would
leave the whole world. Xorristovon
Herald.
Guano has been discovered on the
island of Southern California, and
three hundred tons were, recently
hipped to Europe
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coz.TjracBXJs neb.
Authorized Capital, -Paid
In Capital,
Surplus aud Profits, -
8250,000
(50,000
13,000
OFFICERS AND PIKKCTOKS.
A. ANDERSON, PresH.
SAM'LC. SMITH, VicePres't.
O.T.KOEN, Cashier.
J. Y. EARLY,
HERMAN OEHLRIOH,
AV. A. MCALLISTER,
G. ANDERSON,
P. ANDERSON.
Foreign and Inland Exchange. Passage
Tickets, auu Real Estate Loans.
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BUSINESS CASDS.
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Drs. MARTYN & SCHUG,
U. S. Examining Surgeons,
Local Surgeon. Union Pacific, O., N.
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Chronic Diseases and Diseases of
Children a Specialty.
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Five years time, on iinproveil farm
with at least one-fourth the acreage under
cultivation, in sums representing one
thinl the fair value of the homestead.
Correspondence solicited. Address,
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Office up-stairs iu McAllister's build
ing. 11th St. W. A. McAllister, Notary
Public.
TyrOTICK TO TKACIIKRN.
W. H. Tedrow, Co. Supt.
I will be at mv ollice in tho Court
House on the t i"rd Saturday of each
month. Tor the purpose of examining
teachers. :'!'-,f
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ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION.
A Number of Inoxplicablo British Fecal
Urltleo.
In tho obituary notices which the
death of the Duke of Somerset called
forth n curious diversity in the spelling
of the family name was noticeable. Tho
old Duke, a plain, rough-tongucd, un
ostentatious man, spelled it Seymour;
the new Duke, who himself is seventy
five years old, writes it St. Maur. And
as the old brothers disagreed on this
point so the nephews of the present
duke differ, for there is among tliem a
Lord Algernon St. Maur and a Lord
Edward Seymour. When members of
the family arc themselves of two opin
ions it would be temerity indeed for a
plebeian outsider to attempt to deter
mine the right of the thing. Apparently
the original name was Norman, and
the family harks back to a William de
St. Maur, who held lands in Monmouth
under Henry in. But three genera
tions afterward, in the time of Edward
III., the head of the house wrote himself
if. indeed, he knew how to write at
all Roger Seymour. This name they
bore with them when, iu Tudor times,
they emerged from obscurity by a lucky
chance, gained court favor," fattened
themselves on church lands and finally,
from the pinaelc of the Lord Protector
ship, gained the right to sniff at all tho
other families of England, barring only
the Howards. Indeed, I am not sure
that this exception ought to be made,
for although the Dukes of Norfolk
(1483) antedated the Dukes of Somer
set by some iixty-four years, it is well
known that Howard is a corruption of
the excessively common-plaee Saxon
name Hogward, while now that Sey
mour is spelled St. Maur, there can be
no manner of doubt ::l ut it-. Norman
bluc-bloodedncss. Of eoure, it i Inn
that vulgar tongue.-, conupted the name
for something over live centime. : hut.
thank Heaven, it has been restored now.
and we can all breathe easier.
The name will continue, however, tc
be pronounced Seymour, jnt-l :is Si.
John is called Sinjun. and St
Legcr is spoken Sillin.-r. Alas! we
did not all know this la-t until lately
at least lite reporters in the Commons
gallery didn't-and when the ariMo
cratic Marquis of Ilarsinglon spoke ol
the correspondents who hud been killed
in the Soudan, one of whom was nauiec
St. Leger, the papers next morning all
had it Sillinger. l$ut not that we know
what fashion demands in the matter ol
orthocp3' it shall never happen again.
Sometime I am going lo make a
whole book about the funny things ir
English pronunciation. Everybody
knows about Majoribanks being Alarnh
banks, and Cholmondciej being Chuni
ley, and Levison-Gower being Lewson
Gore. These are stock samples familiar
to all. Most people know, too. that
the Norman names of Belvoir and Beau
champs arc pronounced Beaver and
Bcecham, while the equally Norman
name of Grosvenor retains its French
sound. But these arc only sign-posts
on the road to a general knowledge of
the subject. When you get to know why
Boughtou is pronounced Bawtcn, while
Houghton has the long o, why Wemvs
should be Wccms, ami Knollys should
be Knowles, you will be getting on in
the mastery of the subject. I'ut Inert
arc no rules. Some words like Tall Mall,
which is pronounced pell moll, retain
the sound of foreign origin after thej
have lost its form. But, then, the wort
mall, meaning path, is pronounced mal
and as they both came from the ole
French game of paille maille, it may be
seem that the Englishman disdains inert
laws of analog. He -ays liumted
when he refers to Bolhanistead, but he
pronounces Southampton out fulry
and clearly. In London, too, he has a
dialect of his own. He says dark, but
the rest of England savs clerk. He
turns all his long a's into long i's, say
ing dyly pypcr instead of daily paper,
but the country people do not. But,
then, he says Herefford. while the na
tives of that shire call it Harford.
London Cor. N. Y. Tnnts.
THE EARTH'S CHANGES.
Why Our GIoWs Cu.it it l'erpetu.tlly Get
ting T Ms For It.
Our world is growing old and grow
ing cold, and as it waxes older and
colder it shrinks and shrinks, and
shakes and quivers, so that its coat is
perpetually getting a little too big Tor
it, and has to be taken in at the scams
from time to time. The taking in is
done by the simple anil primitive meth
od of making a bulging tuck. The
Alps are situated ju-t above a seam, and
arc themselves one of tiie huge bulging
tucks in question.
According to Prof. Hciiu, the folding
of the cni'-t has been so eiiomioui
that points originally far apart have
been brought sevciii-f ur miles nearer
one another than the were at the be
ginning of the mow m n of pre-siire.
In fact, Switzerland mu-t have been
originally quite a lari country, with
some natural pretention-, to be regarded
in the light of a lir- late European
power; out its outride ha been folded
over and over so often that there i
now very little of it left upon the ur
face. What it once poesood in area it
has nowadays to lake out in elevation
only.
Prof. Judd lias well shown how great
is the amount of wear and tear lo which
mountains are thus subjected, and how
enormous is the loss of material they
undergo in the case of the extinct vol
cano of Mull, which ro-c during the not
very remote Miocene period to a height
of some ten or twelve tlnm-and feet
above the sea level. It had a diameter
of thirty miles at its base, and its rcat
cone ro-e gigantic like that of Etna, or
of Fusi on a Japanese fan, far into the
sky, unseen b' any ee save that of the
half-human, ape-like creatures, whose
rude, fire-marked flint flakes the Abbe
Bourgeois has dis-cntombed from con
temporary strata in the North of France.
Since the Miocene days, rain and fro-t,
and wind and weather have wreaked
their will unchecked upon the poor, old,
broken-down, ruined volcano, till now,
in its feeble old age, its youthful fires
long since extinguished, it stands a mere
worn stump, consisting of a few scat
tered hills, none of which exceeds three
thousand feet in height above sea
level. All the rest cone and aahes,
lava and debris has been washed away
bj the Mtiless rain, or split and de
stroyed by the powerful ice wedges,
leaving only the central core of harder
matter, with a few outbjing weather
beaten p.iteiica of solid baxdt and vol
canic conglomerate. Golden Days.
At a sal- of autotrophs in New
Yok, one S Washington sold for
S20.80; one '. John Adams, $10.50;
I .'; P.tu Joi.c, tfll'.oO; General Put-ii.-.iii
t'' !'5io:ii:i Jefferson, S-l. 25; and
Lafaj.Mc'.s, yb.i:. - N. Y. MaiL
LAWYERS AT SEA.
Kolsaace a Board Ship Who
Kaewa
More thnu the CAptala.
'Tve shipped a good many crews in
my time, said an old vessel captain the
other evening as ho sat in the tug
ollice toasting his feet at the stove and
sucking away at an old pipe. "A good
many crews, and never had any trouble
with the men but once. It was on salt
water, and I was engaged to sail a brig
from Boston to Rio Janeiro and back.
When the boys came aboard I thought
what a good-looking crowd they were,
and sure enough they proved to be as
good men as I ever sailed with.with one
exception. He bothered me a good deal.
He knew his business well enough and
would do what he was told, but with a
kind of a way about him that was very
provoking, just as though he was doing
a favor, and if he was told to do any
thing as like as not he would ask, as
politely as you please, if it wouldn't bo
better to do so and so, but if I gave hint
a bit of a jawing he would go about the
job easy enough.
"Well, one day one of the boys drop
ped a 'block' on the mate's toes, by ac
cident, and the mate he cussed him
pretty hard, and this blanked Iyer
lawyer? Yes, Iyer, that's what he was,
a regular sea Iyer lie kind of smiles,
tickled like, and takes hold of the fellow
that dropped the block and goes down
in the fo'k'sle. 1-iirty soon he comes up
to me and begins to argue with me
about the male abusing the men. The
mate was as kind a fellow as ever lived,
and wouldn't hurt a hair of a man's
head. Well, I kinder laughed at him
and said in course the mate would swear
when he got his toes -mashed, but it was
no use; the more I gived in the more he
jawed away, and at last I ordered him
furred. The cuss smiled all over and
sez that, accordin to law, ho has a
right to state the case and demand to
have the crew treated properly, and
then he gives me more law in a minute
than I ever heerd before, and I got
right hot and tells him if he don't go
forrcd I'll have him locked up below.
Then he sez. sez he: 'Please do lock me
up if you waul to,' and begged me to
punish him, ami I dassen't. and the cuss
knew it, for he would have hail me
hauled up for it at the first port we
touched, for he wasn't doing nothing
wrong. It was his watch below, and
the weather was fair, so I didn't have no
excuse to order him aloft. He jawed
away until I went aft to get rid of him.
"All through that trip it was hard to
tell who was captain of that vessel, me
or him. Every day he'd come up with
some question or other, and the madder
PI'd get the more he'd smile, until it is a
wonder I didn t put him in irons and
stand my chances in court for it.
"Well, wc got through that trip at
last aud I give him the sack pretty
quick, you bet. I've heard of sea-lycrs
before, but if thoie was ever a tougher
one than that fellow I want to know it.
I ain't afecred of no mutiny, for a bold
stand and the sight of a revolver will
make the boys come to time; but I'd
rather ship a loose manageric than
another sea-Iyer." Chicago News.
A STRATEGEM.
Tfea itratulng Ulnmlcr Committed by a
Long Inland ltclle.
A young lady from Smithtown re
turned home a little late the other eve
ning, and after parting at the gate with
a "some one else," crept up the front
stoop and very softly inserted the
night-latch key in the lock, unfastened
the door and crept iu the house so as
not to awaken her parents, who were
slumbering upstairs. But luck was
against her, for she upset a chair, 4iul a
voice from above immediately nkcd:
"Who's there?" "Only me, papa."
" What time is it. and where have you
been?" "I only went down to 's to
spend the evening.' Imagine the
young lady's feelings when she heard
her parental ancestor get up anil pre
pare to come down stairs. She immedi
atelv set her brain at work to get out of
the coming storm. She had better turn
the clock a little back, so she went to
the mantelpiece, and as there was 110
lamp in the room she had to feel for it.
She found it, and gave the hey
which turns it a twist, and with a smile
sat down to warm her feet and await
the arrival of her dear papa. In due
time he arrived, and brought with him
a Iani. The hands on that much
abused clock registered 5:30 a. m. The
young lady, instead of turning the
hands back, had turned them ahead.
What followed we don't like to tell.
Long Islttndcr.
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TWO STRINGS.
An Knteriiritiiig Tnucli-i- U'lut Knows All
About IIU I'rofV'.il'Hi.
A very dilapidated looking tramp
entered the counting-room of one of the
wealthiest merchants on Austin avenue,
and coining up to the dek asked:
"A'int vour folks from Posey County.
Imliany?"
"Yes."
"And your name N John Smith?"
"Yes."
Shake! You have at last found your
long lost brother Bill. I am in need of
money.'
"Here is a quarter. Take it and go."
The long lost brother turned over the
quart r a time or so, and then -a'd:
"Is a qu.nter all you can sj);ro for
your long lost brother?'
"That's all. Go. now, or 111 call a
policeman." .said the merchant.
"I'll accept the quarter on account of
our relationship. That i a family mat
ter: but, besides being your brother, I
am a tramp and a dead beat. Now I
apply to you professionally. Give me
another quaitcr." Texas Sif tings.
New Butter Test.
"Say!" exclaimed a hotel guest, call
ing the attention of an urbane waiter,
"this is a terrible deal you are giving
rac in the way of butter."
"It's slighth off color; is,n't it?" in
quired the waiter.
"I should say il wad."
"Rancid?"
"You bet?"
"Strong?"
"Strong as a mule.
"And fearfully frowy?"
"Worst I ever saw in my life."
"Yes, well that proves it's genuine
butter, don't it? If it was oleomarga
rine there wouldn't be nothing the mat
ter with it. There is considerable dif
ference now-a-days between churned
butter and painted tallow. Texas Sift
ings. m m
A drummer who has just returned
from Southern Florida says the beef in
tfcat section is so tough as to make it aV
aost impossible to etick a fork into tb
jravy.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Senators Sherman, Evarts and
Hoar are consins. N. Y. Tribune
Mrs. Brownlow, the famous par
son's widow, is still living at Knox
ville. Tenn.
James R. Randall, who wrote "My
Maryland" when he was twenty-twe.
is about to publish his first collection of
poems.
Jabal A. Early is described as a
venerable appearing man, his long,
white beard reaching to his waist, and
his bent figure indicating the rapid ad
vance of extreme old age.
Baron Tennyson's fortune is esti
mated at $100,000, all of it of his own
making, for the poet is practical and
always makes profitable bargains with
his publishers. Boston Journal.
M. Pasteur has his theory of hap
piness. "True happiness," he says,
"appears to me in the form of a man
of science devoting his days aud nights
to penetrating the secrets of naturo
and discovering new truths."
Parson John Jasjicr, the famous
colored preacher of Richmond, claims
that he lias recently been solicited to
go to England on a lecturing tour, and
that a man offered him four hundred
dollars to deliver his great lecture on
"The Sun Do Move.'"in a Northern
city.
It is said that the wife of President
Adams contributed largely to the State
papers of her honorable and distin
guished spouse, and that Mrs. Madi
son was often useful in moderating tho
temperament of the addresses which
her husband wrote during his term of
office. Chicago Herald.
"Mr. Parnell," says a writer in
the Chicago Tribune, "is a bachelor,
and lives the simplest sort of life in
lodgings, as a rule, taking his dinners
at a hotel. His habits are so quiet that
he and his sister Anna were guests at
the same hotel for weeks without know
ing that they were under one roof."
Mrs. Bancroft, the wife of the his
torian, is said to be preparing a vol
ume of her reminiscences anil experi
ences, and as she was a belle at Wash
ington siiy y ears ago and ha seen the
best people and places at home and
abroad, she can not fail to favor the
public with an uncommonly interesting
book.
Whillier says: "I have never
thought of myself as a poet in the sense
in which we use the word when we
speak of the great poets. I have jusl
said from time to time the things I
had to say, and it has been a scries of
surprises, to me that people should pay
so much attention to them and rcnic'm
ber them so long."
John B. (tough re-appoarcd on tho
lecture platform at Melrose, Mass , a.
few evenings ago and introduced him
self bj explaining the cause of his long
silence. "I appear to-night," he said,
"for tin: first time in three months, and
for the first time in my life with a set
of crockery in my mouth. I havo
dreaded greatly appearing before the
public, not under false pretenses, bnt
under false teeth." Report say lhat
Mr. Gotigh spoke "with all of his old
eloquence and vigor."
HUMOROUS.
The say those artificial eggs can
not be beaten. Pittsburgh Chronicle
Jones must have been pretty sca-i-iek
going to Europe when he threw
up his engagement with his girl.
Lowell Citizen.
Said an Alabama mother: "Never
would I call a bo- of mine Alias, if I
had a hundred to name. Men by that
name is alius cuttin up capers."
Papa, what is a luxury? Father
It is something, my so", that we can
hi without. Logical boy What a lux
ury a mosquito mu.stbe. f7rf''7t Days.
From the prompt :nd safe way in
which horse-t'iievesare hung out West,
it looks as if that portion of our nc
loved country was under the rule of a
hemp-era. ?r. Y. Lrdaer.
"Why didn't 3-011 come when I
rang?"' said a Texas lady to a domes
tie "Because I didn't heah the bell."
"Hereafter when you don't hear the
bell 3-011 must come and tell me so."
"Yes, mum." Texas liftings.
"Speaking of oleomargarine," re
marked McSwilligen this morning, "it
has occurred to me that there is one
kind of butter which will always defy
coiint-rfeiting. "Ah! what kind of
butter is that?" asked Squildig. "The
goa t. ' ' I'itlsb urgfi Ch ron iclc.
Angry Father- Now, confound it,
wii3' don't 3-011 go to practicing? Just
see that girl across the street how de
voted she is to her music! Unapprcci
ative Offspring Stop right there,
father. The girl nuiy be studious ami
all that, but that's a type-writer she's
plaving on. Puck.
A Lowell small b3' who attended
the Old Ladies' fair had to be told a
great deal about the chance, he would
have to "grab." This became the cen
tral thought in hi-, mind, ami he had'ut
been lonr in the hall when hebejjan to
ask: "Manmfti, when can I begin lo
steal something?" Lowell Conrirr.
Fender-on, who recently' pur-cha-ed
an alarm clock. say. the thing
is a confounded humbug. " I set tho
alarm, ' he explained, "before going
to bed, after taking the precaution to
stop the clock, so that its ticking
shouldn't keep me awake. And
would 3-011 believe it, I overslept next
morning a whole hour later than
usual!" Iiolon Transcript
Chatty- Passenger " To show 3'cr
what cheats they arc, sir, friend o
mine lots o' mono;- and fust-rate
taste, give the border "to one of 'em to
decorate his ikw 'ouse in rcg'lar slap
up st-!e. spare no expense, with all
tho finest chromios that could be 'ad.
You know what lovely things the3 are.
sir! Well, sir, would 3-011 believe it!
After they was sent, they- turned out
not to be chromios at all, but done by
'and" (with withering contempt)
" done by 'and, sir!" Harper's Bazar.
Rhode Island Coal Mines.
The "Coal Mines" is the name by
which a hamlet and station in Ports
mouth, R. I., arc known. Two mines
that are said to have been originally
opened in the present century, and to
have been worked spasmodically since,
are situated there. The product was a
cross between slate and ordinary an
thracite, with a preponderance in favor
of the former. It could not be burned
in ordinary stoves, though iu war time,
when anthracite was bringing fourteen
dollars a ton. Newport people to soma
extent bought Rhode Island coal at
eight dollars a ton, and managed to
burn it by mixing it half and halL Of
late years the demand for il has fallen
off, and a few months since mining was
suspended altogether, after penetrating
to the depth of sixteen hundred feet.
The mine arc full of water, aud coal
mining In Rhode Island is probably
ended forever. Chicago Herald.