THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, HAKC11 10, 1SSG.
Xstrcci at ttt FettcSee, C:last. Kei.. stead
cIih aatter.
FEL16 SANCTORUM.
Wfeo, in the o&oc lone nod BUH,
Uflitfi round and round as his sweet wlsl
iWwtt the paetc and tutnge like that?
sstk, silent bfH H fa the cat.
Hfco iait lank and lean and thin.
9tet cats the paems yoo aeaa in?
Wbo laves an qOcw, but loathes a rat?
Itll the dreadful offlee eat.
hp hath no ear of knight or clown?
seu ine type is upnao uuwui
HnatM vonr Utile Joke so fatT
9&0 rjfisanthrowic offee cat.
fcpee tax is soft, whose puatJsligat?
Sfce& jfoWleth te the nightf
AB9 yet jhe 4s for all of that,
TkcrvCrleatAend? TbooBoecat.
Jfc J. BunUUc.in BrOdUm Eagle.
GOING HOME RICH.
ALatenr
"With 8600 a Baton in
Hungary.
It is estimated that within the past
three years over she hundred thousand
dofttSB have been sent to Hungary
from the Shenandoah (Pa.) region by
the foreigners who came there to
$trugghj for a few years by roughing
it, and then return home rich men.
These foreigners come to America,
live like animals, 6end home their sav
ings, work for next to nothing, live
cheaply, and in a few years save
fcnough to go back to Hungary and
live on the fat of the land ever after
ward. A sample story will fit into
hundreds of communities.
A reporter met an intelligent Hun
on his way to New York. He was
bound for Hungary. He could undcr
etand English only fairly, but suffi
ciently well to take part in a conversa
tion. The following conversation took
fece:
"afou go back to Hungary?
O"
tcs.
aw long have you been in Ainor-
",
Rour years.
rtfour aero."
JfTliirty-five."
"flow much did yon pay to come
here?"
"Sixteen dollars. I come under
contract. I work for my passage.
Fay to zc agent so much a week until
ftfc all paid."
"Do manv come to America in that
WaP"
'fearly all. A law is against it,
twt foreign labor comes in nearly even
day under contract with some agent. '
"Why do you return to Hungary?"
"I have saved enough money;
workrd very hard; lived like a hog;
now I go back to live like a man in my
native "counlrj."
"How much have jou saved in four
years?"
"Six hundred dollars. I sent all my
savings home by the month.'"
"How do you send money home?"
"With the" postmasters. They do all
our lm.sine.ss. We trust them."
"How much can a laborer earn in
Hungary by working hard?"
"Six guldens a month, or about two
dollars and forty cents. In America I
average eighteen dollars a month."
"Quite a difference."
"Yes."
"How much could you save out of
your eighteen dollars?"
"About thirteen dollars a month. It
costs five dollars a month for board,
wash, tobacco, rum and boots."
"Nothing for clothes?"
"I bought one suit in four years."
"Then you saved S156 a year, orS624
in four years?"
"I sent home $600, and $24 I have to
go b3ck home with."
"How much does it cost you to live
in Hungarv a year?"
"About 30: but then I live very
good."
"How will you invest your sav
ings?" "Buy land or loan it out on first
mortgage."
"How much interest can you get in
Hungary for yogr $500 savings?
"Owe hundred guldens bring six
teen guldens interest a year; that is,
$10 American money bring $6.40 in
torest a year, or $600 bring 06 a year
interest tome; three times more than
it will cost mc to live."
"You have closely calculated it."
"Long days and nights I calculated.
I do not overstate it. ft is true. In
terest is high in Hungary. It keeps
all the people poor."
"Then you will be a little nabob
when you gel back homo?"
"If I get back safely I will be all
right. It is a great risk to come to
America. Like' a big lottery. Come
three thousand miles over "the sea;
Work hard here four years; live in a
shanty all together like pigs; eat rough
black bread, cheap potatoes; drink bad
rum; smoke strong tobacco; live with
rough, bad men, all men and no
women; very cold in winter; nothing
clean: sleep on straw on the floor; risk
in sending money home, might get lost
at sea; I might get sick, might get
killed; now 1 go back; must cross the
ea once more; do 1 get back? Sou
What a big risk big lottery!"
"Where is your baggage?"
"I have none when I come; I have
bone
when I iro.
I am baggage. No
more.
"Did von never become a citizen of
the United Slates?"
"Nosir. Out of about two thousand
Hungarians 1 know in America only
one is a citizen."
"What is the highest wages 3011 ever
got in America?"
Ninety cents a day."
"The lowest?"
"Fifty cents."
"How much did it average you for
board?"
"Five dollars a month. One man do
tbe cooking for twenty Huns. We pfty
in so much apiece to pay for all."
"Do all Hungarians live in that way
fcere1?"
"Nine-tenths of all who come to
America to stay only a few years join
together, and live cheap in that way."
"Then you work cheap and cut down
the average rate of wages for labor in
America? '
"Oh, yes. Some foreigners are
brought to America under contract to
work three years. They get si.vly-fivc
cents a day, ami their boss or agent
gets seventy-live cents. He makes ten
cents a head. It is white slavery.
Sec?"
Were you under contract?"
Only to pay my passage money."
"Do "many" Huns go back with
money?"
"I know about seventy-five. More
wjll go back next vear if they live."
"Where do thej-'work?"
In the mines, on new railroads, in
the coke regions and on farms. Many
get killed in the mines. Their money
gent home goes to their relatives. Not
many havo wives or children at home.
Strong young men come to America,
make their fortunes if they have good
luck in a few years, and tlien go back
tome and get married. But it is a
great lottery.
"What is your native language?"
Magyar.
"What is the population of Hun
gary? "About 16,000,000."
, "Can you read or write?"
"Oh, no- Few can who cone to
Aaerjca to work hard
What is the principal occupation of
your people at home?
"Tanning, making rum, flour, sugar
and some mining."
"You know considerable about Hun
gary?" "I listen good to my boss who read
much in a Hungarian paper. I got
good ears. One is a little deaf, bad.
What I bear don't go in one ear and
out the other."
"How do Hungarians compare with
PolesP"
"Poles come to America to stay gen
erally. They come to America to es
cape army service. Huns do not.
Poles are smart. Nearly all are young
men who come to America. Nearly
all can read and write something.
Some old Poles can't read. They never
learn. They first live like pigs, but
soon get on better and improve. They
settle 1n America, build churches and
become good citizens, miners, laborers.
-clothiers, grocers, shoemakers and sa
loon keepers, rour to one come from
Lithuania, a grand duchy of Poland.
Many women and children come to
America. They settle in small places?"
"Do they save money?"
"Much. Here in Shenandoah thev
own $150,000 worth of property. So ft
is all over the coal rcgious."
"What were the Poles ablo to earn
in Poland at farming?"
"Half a rouble a day, they say
about 26 cents in American money.
But that 26 cents could buy as much in
Poland as $1 can here. They come to
America to escape military duty, to get
into a free country."
"What do expert laborers earn in
Poland?"
"A good workman earns one rouble
a day; buy as 'much as $2.25 will in
America."
"What can 3011 say of Italians?"
"Very many come to America under
contract, like slaves. There is one
woman to a hundred men, same as
Hungarian; Poles, one woman to thirty
men. Italians are lazy; come mostly
from Aaples. Work very cheap and
spend all they earn. Have no object in
life. Don't do America any good; only
cut down wages of American working
men, like we all do."
"Do 3'ou know any reforms that the
foreigners in America should begin?"
"Yes. Stop drinking, stop stealing
and stop going to law."
"Then the Ijest clas of foreigners aro
Polanders?"
"Certainly. Theycomoto6tay. They
make good citizens. They soon learn
to strike for higher wages, just as much
as Americans get."
"With all your knowledge, couldn't
3ou do belter with $600 in the saloon
business here?"
"No, no, no! I go back to Hungary
a rich man. There I live like a Baron.
I get married and enjoy myself for al'
my trials hero." JV. Y. Sun.
SILVERSMITHS.
An EnglUh Journal's Admission of the So
periority of American Work.
The reason for the beauty of the fin
ish of American articles is that the
great makers adopt the latest and most
improved systems of manufacture.
Thc' can not afford to lsave anything
but the very best. Where manual
labor is so dear, and often so difficult
to obtain, it does not pay to have
stampings come out of the die, castings
out of the sand, so rough and burred
as to require hand-work upon then
afterwards. Hence it is that their cast
ings on leaving the mould are frequent
ly "sharper, cleaner and more perfect
than the finished article in England,
and the spoon or fork that goes into
stamp a mere blank scarcely requires
touching before it goes to the plating
bath. It is not that their sand, as id
often alleged, is one whit better than;
our own, but that they make and face
the mould with three times our skill
and care. By the excellence of their
preliminary work they save themselves
a great part of the labor bestowed upon
an article in Sheffield or Birmingham)
and thus the makers eau afford to pay
for good design and yet sell their goocH
at a cheaper rate than we. Doed
a labor-saving machine apcar, even
though it bo but a slight improvement
on what they already possess, that
machine replaces their old one. They
know that thoy can not be behind the
time with their appliances and yet keep
in the front with their production.
How different is this in England.
Smith & Co., "established 1815," or
Jones & Brown, "the oldest silver
smiths in England," go on employing
the same appliances and working much
in the same method a& their grand
fathers did before them; they use the
old time-honored stamps and" dies and
presses, or, at least, endeavor to con
vert some effete and worn-out model to
newer shape or service. So many
blanks out of every gross are "wasters;
so many castings "poms;" so many
pennyweights in every ounce are
"burr" and "waste;" and, consequently,
m much time, the most expensive of
all items in a manufacturing business,
is wasted and irretrievably lost. Labor
ing under these self-imposed, or rather
self-retained, disadvantages, is it sur
prising that our manufacturers arc dis
tanced by their American rivals?
What is true of the masters is also
true of the men. It is undoniablc
that not more than one out of ten
English mechanics who emigrate to
America knows how to use the
tool placed in his hands. Any in
telligent workman who has emigrated
to the United States and gone into one
of the best workshops there will ack
nowlcdae the fact. Ho thinks he
knows his trade till he gets there.wben
he discovers that in most things he hjjia
to begin all over again. Magazine t
Art.
m s
GENERAL GRANT.
Ill Course at the CrisI or the Battle of
Fort Donclnnn.
I saw the men standing in knots,
talking in the most excited manner.
No officer seemed to be giving any (hV
rectious. The soldiers had their mus
ket, but no ammunition, while there
were tons of it close at hand. I heard
some of the men say that the enemy
had come out with knapsacks and
haversacks filled with rations. They
seemed to think this indicated a deter
mination on his part to stay out and
light just as long as the provisions held
out. I turned to Colonel J. D. Web
ster, of my staff, who was with me,
and said: " Some of our men are
pretty badly demoralized, but the
enemy must be more so, for ho has at
tempted to force his way out, but has
fallen back; the one who attacks first
now will be victorious, and the enemy
will have to be in a hurry if he gets
ahead of me." I determined to make
the assault at once on our left. It was
clear to my mind that the enemy bad
started to march out with his entire
force, except a few pickets, and if our
attack could be made on the left before
the enemy could redistribute his forces
along the line, we would find but little
opposition except from the intervening
abatis. I directed Colonel Webster to
ride with me and call out to the men as
we passed: "Fill your cartridgo boxes,
quick, and get into line; the enemy is
trying to escape, and he must not be
permitted to do so." This acted like
a charm. The men wanted some one
to give them a command. General
Grant's Memoirs.
Said a Halifax yonnglady to a tele
graph operator the other day: "You
must be terribly exposed, receiving so
many dispatches from the places where
they have smallpox. Of course yon
are vaccinated!" Montreal Witneu.
ALUMINUM.
The Metal Destined to Bevolatloatoe tlM
Industrial Arts.
"The metal of the future," said a
prominent mechanical engineer to mo,
"is aluminum. In a few years it will
displace iron and steel, and simply
revolutionize industrial arts every
where. The millennium will be the
age of aluminum." "But," said I,
"iron is the commonest of all metals,
and aluminum is comparatively rare.
Is there enough aluminum in the world
to take the place of iron?" "Yes,
said he, "and your former assumption
is an error. Aluminum is the most
plentiful of all metals. The world con
tains ten times as much of it as of iron.
It is everywhere. Every olay-bed is an
aluminum mine." "What is the rea
son," I asked, "that it has not already
come into general use?" "The great
cost of producing it," he replied. "The
metal called sodium is used in the pro
duction of aluminum, and it is very
expensive. Numberless methods have
been tried, and hundreds of chemists
all over the world are devoting their
lives to the task of finding a cheap way
of producing aluminum. The man who
succeeds will be more fortunate than
though he had found the philosopher's
stone. Whoever can produce aluminum
at one dollar a pound will make a for
tune, while a man who can make it for
twenty-five cents a pound can buy out
the Rothschilds in a day." "What is
the cost of aluminum "now?" "The
raw materials for making it are not
worth twenty dollars a ton that is,
twenty dollars for enough to produce a
ton of the metal; but a ton of alumi
num, perfectly manufactured, is worth
twenty thousand dollars."
"What are the valuable properties of
aluminum?" I asked, "and to what use
can it be applied?" "It can take the
place of almost every other metal in
the world," said he, "and very largely
that of wood also. In the first place it
is very strong. Its tensile strength
is more than three tons to the square
inch greater than that of the best
Bessemer steel. In fact, it is by far
the strongest metal known. A cannon
made of it would be three times as strong
as one made of steel or gun metal.
It is very stiff or rigid too; three
times as rigid as the best of bronze.
Another important thing is that it will
not tarnish. Neither air, nor water, nor
salt, nor acids, nor corrosive gases
have the slightest effect upon it.
Neither does intense heat change its
color. It is the.best conductor of heat
known in the world; also of electricity.
It would make the best telegraph wires
in the world, having twice the conduct
ing power of copper with only a third
of its weight, and lasting practically
forever. It is very ductile and can be
drawn into wire more easilj' than al
most any other metal. Moreover, it is
e:isilj worked cold or hot. It is suita
ble for anything that iron or steel or
copper or brass or bronze or gold or
silver is used for, from the wheels of a
watch to a monster steam engine."
"How docs it compare in weight with
other metals?" "It is by far the light
est; lighter, indeed, than many had
woods. It is little morcthnu one-third
the weight of cast-iron. To be exact, a
cubic foot of aluminum weighs only 166
pounds. The same sized block of cast
iron weighs about 451 pounds; of
wrought-iron, 487 pounds; of copper,
554. pounds; of lead, 709 pounds; of
brass, 528 pounds; and of gold, about
1,200 pounds. In brief, it is the light
est, easiest worked, strongest, most
durable, and generally the most valu
able of all metals, and the man who in
vents and patents a method of making
it cheaply will revolutionize industry,
and become '.he richest man in the
world." Trenton Cor. Pittsburgh Dia
patch.
NEW WORK FOR WOMEN.
Tho Sphere of the "Drummer" Invaded bj
the Fulr Sex.
There is a new field opened by ono
of the most prominent firms in the city
for the employment of female labor.
The scheme is certainly unique. To a
reporter the manager of the firm un
folded the plan.
"The idea," he said, "that I have
been following since the first of last
July is the employment of young
ladies as saleswomen, to introduce our
goods on the market by creating a de
mand on the dealers from tho consum
ers. When they first enter my employ
I have them solicit trade from house to
house in the city, find out from what
grocer their customers are in the habit
of purchasing a similar article, and,
when they havo secured a sufficient
number of orders, they turn them over
to the different grocers, who, for the
sake of getting them, will give an order
for double the amount of goods re
quired, at tho wholesale price, thus re
ceiving an insured profit on half the
order without any work.
"As soon as any ono shows herself
proficient I put her on the road. No,
not alone. Eight -onng ladies go to
gether under the charge of an elderly
Fady in whom we have confidence who
has authority over all of them. This
party of nine go to a town, pnt up at a
hotel, and canvas every house in town
and turn the orders over to one of our
salesmen, who keeps track of several
parties, arranges for hotel accommoda
tion, transportation, etc. In short,
each company is run just like a theatric
al troupe, and the young ladies have
no bother at all outside of the canvass
ing." "How do you find them as compared
with men?"
"They compare favorably. They aro
steadier, as a rule, and more depend
ence can be placed in them. They
don't fool away their time in saloons
playing billiards. It is not their na
ture, and, even if it were, tho fact of
some one being over them and who
travels with them always, would put a
stop to any foolishness of that kind.
Thus far I have been quite successful
with them, and next year tho firm in
tends to cover every State in the Union
in this way; so, you sec, we will have
employment for a good many. I have
now Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illi
nois covered, and part of Iowa. This
takes about three hundred young la
dies, and vou can figure yourself how
manj' it will require to cover the whole
country."
"Doyou have many applicants?"
"Yes, a good number. Probably we
only employ fifty per cent, of those
who apply. Some we don't want, and
some don't want tho situation. Their
salarj- on the road is from seven to
eighteen dollars per week and expenses
paid (that is, hotel and traveling ex
penses), which is, indeed, much more
than the majority of girls in this city
make. Besides, they Have the advan
tages of travel, which is of benefit to
any one, especially as they are going
over new ground all the while." Chi
cago News.
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The mnfls in the newest French
fashion-plates are eccentricity itself.
Some are gathered at the ends so that
they look like musk-melons; some ap
poar to be drawn together in the center
and flare open so as to seem like two
fans fastened together under a ribbon;
some are hooped like a barrel, and
one, otherwise simple, is ornamented
by a bow of ribbon from which depends
a shield with armorial bearings. Troy
Times.
m
The semi-centennial of Queen Vic
toria's accession to the throne will oc
cur June 20, 1887, and it is understood
to be the Queen's pleasure that the
event shall be celebrated by a general
labile throughout hex dominion.
THIBETAN MONKS.
Peserlptt of Edtmasserjr and the LUto et
Its Imnntes.
The young apprentices or novices,
passing through their novitiate, are
generally called Peng Giong, and
sometimes La Tchru (small Lamas).
These are generally recruited as fol
lows: Should there be a son too many
in a family, as the third would prerre
in a poor one, or the fourth in a richer
one, he is generally packed off to the
Lamassery of the district. Not only
to disembarrass the family of a surplus
son is this done, but also to gain the
favor of tho Lamassery, as although
these have no civil power by right, still
they are strong enough to usurp and
exert a great deal of power. Again, if
a boy has shown particular shnrpness
or boldness in fact, that ho is worth
having a Lama or some lower "ec
clesiastic" walks into the parent's
house unasked, as is quite permitted to
aay Thibetan to do in any Thibetan
house, and hi the course of conversa
tion this "ecclesiastic" casually tells
the fbrtnno" of tho family. For tho
6on he wants ho predicts all sorts of
ills and sicklies?, which can only bo
averted by his entering a Lamassery.
This has the desired effect, and he is
handed over to save him from the un
happy alternative. This result has
often been led up to by preparatory
predictions given from time to time
concerning the son. Thanks to the
above systematic fraud, there is now
About one-twelfth of the total popula
tion of Thibet in Lamasseries. Deduct
for the women and children, and it will
be evident what a ruinous proportion
of tho male adult population is wasted
in Lamasseries, perfectly unproductive
and living in a great measure on tho
toil of the remainder!
As regards the interior "monastic"
life and regulations, the members of a
Lamassery (miscalled "Lamas") roam
whither they will, and as a rule with
no proper or moral purpose. They
are practically subject to no discipline
whatever, nor can there be said to be
any real rules followed, except perhaps
at three limes of the year. These
periods arc the fifth and ninth moon,
during each of which three days must
be spent in the Lamassory, ostensibly
in prayer, though the latter H. not do
rigueur; the other period is at the new
year, when when they must pass fifteen
days in the Lamassery, also ostensibly
in prayer. The members have no com
munism, some being very poor these
often acting as the servants of richer
members; others being rich, and all
living exact as suits each individual's
tastes and means. A few of tho elders
remain pretty constantly in the Lamas
series, when, having outgrown the
pleasures and passions of youth, their
vices have left them, and they have in
consequence elected to abandon their
vicious courses. The great majority,
however, rove about at will, with no
moral intent, as we have said.
As far as the so-called Lamas them
selves are concerned, their religion is
a farce they do not believe, save in so
far as it brings them in the good things
of this world. For that purpose they
thoroughly appreciate its value. The
people, too, already realize and make
common talk of the immorality of the
"Lamas" as a body, and only except
from slander a few, chiefly the very old
"living 1'uddhas." Nearly all largo
Lamasseries have oue or more of these
"living Buddhas." Nineteenth Cen
tury. RELICS OF IRVING.
How Spaniards Honor the Memory of the
; Grout Americni Author.
There is a hotel in Granada that
bears the honored name of Washing
ton Irving. From its windows the
guest, in the morning, when the sun
light is sifted down through the Wel
lington elms, sees one of the blank
walls of the Alhambra. Its proprietor
is a Spaniard, not literary and not too
familiar with the name he has taken in
vain. Two volumes, fragments of two
separate works of the author, one of
them in French, are all that the hotel
possesses, though a copy of Sale's Ko
ran is sometimes brought to the trav
eler under the impression that it ali-o
emanated from Irring's pen. There is
a portrait from a photograph in the
reading room not unlike the original,
bat no other mementoes are discover
able. It is so very long since Irving
spent his three and a half months of
spring and summer within the Alham
bra's walls more than fifty years
that few persons are now alive who
ever even saw him, though scarcely a
person who comes here does not talk
of him and of his books; he it was that
made Granada famous. The faithful
Mateo, his body servant, died many
years ago, and his son, who now acts
as guide, is an old man of nearly sixty.
His wife died of the cholera, and ho Is
in temporary retirement at the house
of a son-in-law in the old quarter. I
made a diligent search for him as one
of the relics. I was shown into a little
room beside the entrance, filled with
ancient furniture, and he soon camo in.
He is thin and gray-haired, and looks
at least seventy. He spoke no Eng
lish, and it was necessary to converse
with him in French. He was only
three years old when Irving was here,
but remembers or thinks he remembers
the round-faced, good-natured gentle
man, dressed in black, with black cra
vat, standing collar and broad expanse
of shirt frontr.who used every day to
give him a copper. Whether this is
partly copied from the portrait and
partly from family reminiscence, no
one can tell. He. expressed great re
gret that he could not have acted as
my guide. Then he looked up for me
a small photograph of his father, and
I left him, slipping into his hand a
peseta In the dark passage as I passed
out. American literature is young,
and yet here is an old man of sixty
who," when a child of three, knew
Irving, who had already passed middle
age. Granada (Spain) Cor. San Fran
Cisco Chronicle.
"THE MONK."
n Ocean CUft" Which 11a Fallen a "Prey to
the Wash of tho Sen.
An official notification from the
Danish Ministry of Marine announces
that Denmark is poorer by the loss of
an island and of an intcrcstingnatural
object. South of tho island of Sudaroe,
ono of the Faroe group a mighty clfff
rose sheer out of the sea to a height of
from eighty to one hundred feet.
Looked at sidewise from a distauce at
sea, it resembled a grunt ship in foil
sail; but seen from Suderoe it pre
sented the appearance of a monk,
whence it received from the Faroese
the name of Munken. The Monk was
not merely a picturesque objfcct; it was
also a valuable land mark for sailors,
warning them against a dangerous
whirlpool which swept around its base.
but it is now only a thing of the past.
Last year a portion of the cliff fell
down, and this year all that remained
was broken off "just below the water
line, leaving in its place a dangerous
reef, which is covered even at low
water. Fortunately it was uninhab
ited, so no lives were lost. The occur
rence is noteworthy as proving that
tho continuous wash of the sea, aided
probably in the winter by the action of
driving ice blocks, is able to saw
through immense masses of rock con
sisting of hard basalt, cutting them
olean across at the water's edge. N. .
Post.
m
A German professor finds that
oiTee is an absolute antidote to alcohol,
if it be taken in sufficient quantity.
!
HARD TIMES.
sVb Xloaest Sailor's Futile Attempts ! 8s
core Wiutt-r Outtrtcr.
Soon after eight o'clock the othei
morning a man about forty years old
rang the office bell at the Workhouse,
and to the dooi'-koepr who answered
it, he asked: "Can I come in?"
"Why, yes, of course. Whom did
you wish to see?"
"Oh, nobody in particular. You may
put me down for about ninety days."
It was soon discovered that he was a
sailor who wanted to be locked up for
the winter, and the door-keeper was
obliged to inform him that he couldn't
be taken in after that fashion.
"So I've got to be arrested and taken
before the polico judge, eh?" he en
quired. "Yes, have you any money?"
"About twenty dollars, which I want
to save until spring."
"Then you can bo arrested as a
vagrant. You will have to commit
some offense. You'd better get drunk."
"But I am strictly temperate."
"Well, get np a row with somebody,
smash a window, or run off with some
body's horse. It ought to be an easy
matter to get arrested."
The man walked down to the hay
market and looked around for some
body to get up a row with. He selected
a farmor who seemed to be a good
he.irt.Mi m.n, and walked up to him
and aid:
Say! I w.tut a row with you. I want
to be arrested."
"Look a-h-s young man," replied
the farmer, ' !.'t"t you come fooling
around mo! ' - !! .:nd mad, and if
you give nu .. . -t provocation, I'll
make dog-m ; -if you."
The sailor turned away and picked
up a rock and walked down to a saloon,
determined to hurl it through the win
dow. The old man who keeps the
place saw him coining, and ho went
out and said:
"You keep avhay! If you throw
dot shtonc in my window I'll shoot
you so help mo gracious!"
"But I want to do something Is) be
arrested."
"I can't help dot! you keep avhnjf
or I put 60tno bullets into you!"
The man passed on about a square
to where a horse was hitched, and he
was untying the animal when the
owner came out and said:
"Say, you get up and fkip or I'll
break your back for you!"
He drove off, looking back and ut
tering threats, and a policeman came
along and asked what had happened.
"Why, I want to be arrested, and I
was going off" with his horse. Will yoi
arrest me if I abuse you?"
"Try it on!"
"Well, you are a bow-backed sheep
thief, an infernal liar and the biggest
coward on the force! I wouldn't have
your face on me for ten tlious !"
The officer seized him and Hung him
over a yard fence into a lilac bush, and
then looked after him and said:
"If you don't leave town before night
I'll hunt you down and hammer you
until your own mother can't identify
tho mangled remains!"
"I'll be hanged if I don'tlyou haven't
got enterprise enough to keep the
moss off in- back, and I'll get
out if I have to go on my hands anr
knees!" Detroit Free Press.
THE WORLD'S WAY.
The New 11 oy Asserts .lllmiclf and Bus:
the Roost.
The new boy had moved in that is,
the family which owned the new boy
had moved in. It was quite likely the
new hoy would show up in the back
yard during the afternoon, and so after
school seven boys headed that way.
The new boy had only been seen from
a distance. Was he sassy? No one
could answer! Would he fight? No one
could tell. He must be tried! It was
the solemn duty of every boy in that
neighborhood to mako this important
discovery at the earliest possible mo
ment. If he could be licked, well and
good; if he was a fighter ! They
breathed hard ovor the thought.
In half an hour seven heads appeared
above the alley foncc behind the
boy's house. He seemed to be ex
pecting them, and had heaped up a
peck of gren tomatoes at the foot of a
plum tree.
The seven glared down at him. He
glared up and back.
"What cher want?"
It was the now boy, and there was
"tans" in his tones.
"None o' ycr bizness!"
It was one of the seven who an.
swered.
"Git ofl'n that fence!"
"We won't!"
"I say git off!"
"Shan't do it!"
The new boy stooped for his tomat
oes, but when he raised up tho seven
bends were "one. It was settlod he
was sassy. Would ho fight?
"You there?" from the alley.
"Who?" from the yard.
"Yon dnsn't fight?"
"Yes I dast!"
"Dasn't come over!"
"You see!"
He came over. It had been settled
that Johnny Flynn should tackle him,
and Johnny was ready. He grabbed
for the new boy's hat, and the now boy
grabbled for his coat, and they tugged
and twisted.
"Sick him, Johnny!"
"Clean him out!"
"Pull his hair."
But the new boy had the bost of it
He came down on top of Johnny and
goured his eye and bit his finger, ant
offered to lick any one else in th
crowd. His father came out just then
and the seven ran away, but the evi
dence was all in. The new boy would
not only sass and tight, but he was
boss. Before sundown that night he
had been presented with two big bites
from an apple, three marbles, a ball of
kite string and half a pound of brown
sugar in an old straw hat, and other
boys were waiting to shower honors
and presents upon him at sunrise. N
Y. Sun.
The Lady Beetles.
The Lady Beetles, or "Lady bugs,"
arc well known to every farmer's boy
ami girl, and are among the most beau
tiful a well as moot useful of the great
order to which liiey belong. They may
easily be di-lni'ui?hed by the oval
shape of tluir bodies, their hard shell
like covering, w hirh is usually brightly
colored, with :i common ground tint,
or ornamented with spots of another
color. The Lady beetles in both the
larval ami perfect stages live upon
other iiisect.s, and hence arc of great
benefit to the farmor. They are espe
cially fond of the little "green flies" or
plant lice to be found in the summer
upon almost every tree, shrub and herb.
The.e little beetles form a vary distinct
family, which contains about one thou
sand species, and which naturalists
call coccinellidre. Prairie Farmer.
The Status Quo Ante.
Topalovich siid DJuklulteh,
Michlovifcli and Tobakavltcli.
And aJl the ton that end In 'Itch
Bonocky mid Aiiltjoh
To Zji rib rod will take their war.
Via Krajcva and Kulafat.
Krajuzcvatz and BaMerfat
And some that are not quite m fat.
To capture Akpslaknftu.TtckIopaehitltU.
lttitton TUcurA.
Prof. J. N. Langston (colored),
formerly United States Minister to
Hayti, has been appointed President of
the" Colored Normal Collegiate Inttf
nte, uear Petersburg, Va.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The total amount of press tale
f trams sent over the Western Union
ines reaches a thousand million words
a year. .V. Y. Tribune.
A dog belonging to a Cincinnati
shoe dealer chews tobacco, using up
about a quarter of a ten-cent ping ev
ery day. Cincinnati Times.
A Nnv Ynrlr minor ovawalv Ha.
I dares that "it is now the aim and am
bition of the girl of the period to make
herself as conspicuous as possible."
A Southington (Conn.) farmer un
able to sell a load of apples at the
cider mill dumped them into the mill
stream "to float away to Long Island
Sound."
A Philadelphia "doctor" is doing
a lively business among the colored
Jicoplo of that city by selling a liquid
or the hair that takes the curl and the
kink out.
A Bostou man has written an elab
orate article to provo that before the
close of the next century all of North
America, including tho British posses
sions, Mexico and Central America will
belong to the United States.
An alleged doctor In Georgia, to
relieve the earache, inserted a urmch
of cotton saturated with hot glue in a
young man's ear. 'The gluo got cold,
and it becamo necessary to call in a
real physician to extract the cotton.
The spectacle of a little man un
der a hat too big for him Is only lu
dicrous, but the sight of a young coun
try like Canada laboring under a debt
of nearly $800,000,000 is too serious to
bo amusing. Toronto Truth.
Nova Scotia has a known coal area
of nearly seven Imndred square miles,
or nearly twice tho area of the Penn
sylvania anthracite fields, and sonio of
tho Nova Scotia fields have a greater
thickness of workable coal than prob
able exists anywhere else in the world.
The doctors have found that bicycle
riding and tenuis playing, when carried
to excess, produce peculiar muscular
diseases. It is to be hoped their dis
coveries will not tend to lessen tho
popularity of these sports. There is nc
kind of athletic exercise which is not
injurious when indulged in immoder
ately. Breathing can be carried to any
unhealthy extreme. Chicago Current.
Bread is a luxury among the peas
antry in parts of Southern Austria,
Italy and in Ronmania. In a village
not far from Vienna the staple food of
the people is sterz, a kind of porridge
made of ground beech nuts. A por
ridge made of boiled maize, called po
lenta, forms the chief article of food ia
Northern Italy. The same thing, some
what differently prepared, under the
name of mnmaliga, is the common arti
cle of food in Koumania.
The Shut-in Society is the title of
new organization in New York for tbe
mutual benefit of the suffering. It al
ready numiers fifteen hundred mem
bers. To be "shut in" from the outer
world by suffering is the only condition
of membership. It is not a charitable
organization iu the ordinary sense, but
aims at the intcr-cominuuiou and
friendship of invalids who becoino
known to each other by letter. Con
certs of prayer iu which" invalids pray
for euch others' consolation and faith
are a feature of it. It publixhes month
ly the Open Window.
Miss Anna Ripley, of Buxton, Me.,
has, unaided, secured the necessary
papers and a iension for George V.
adgcrly, an old broken down Soldier
of her town. While engagt'd in this
work she took the affidavit of every
man in his company, from Maine to
California, every physician who had
treated him, and personally supplied
his wants as long as sthe was able
rather than allow him to go to Hie jroor
farm. When the pension was granted,
one thousand and seventy dollars was
allowed as arrearage. She asked and
received no compcn.ntton for her
efforts. Boston Journal.
Smith "I nover was more sur
prised in my life than I was last night."
Jones "Indeed! What was the cause?"
S. "As I was passing along the street
two ladies came to the door of a house
one evidently the hostess, as she had
only a shawl wrapped around her head
the other a visitor. As they reached
the bottom of the steps the visitor said:
'Well, I've hail :t very pleasant time.
Good-night, Mary.' and the other said,
'Good-night, Mehitablc,' and they
parted." J. "What, without another
word?" S. "Without another word."
J. "H'ua! I guess they were men in
women's clothes." Boston Courier.
In tbe first generation a man reck
ons only two ancestors, his father and
mother. In the second generation the
two are changed into four, since h
had two grandfathers and two grand
mothers. Each of these four bad tw
parents, and thus in the third genera
tion there aro found to be eight ances
tors, that is, eight great grand parents.
In the fourth generation tho number of
ancestors is sixteen, in the fifth thirty
two, in the sixfth sixty-four, iu the sev
enth one hundred and twcnty-4ight, in
the tenth one thousand and twenty
four, in the twentieth, one million, forty-eight
thousand, five hundred and
seventy-six, in tbe thirtieth one biHion,
seventy-three million, seven hundred
and forty-one thousand, eight hundred
and thirty-four. This may prove that
all tho wofIds akin. Chicago Living
ChureJi.
The water-hoy who goes through
the passenger trains in Connecticut,
with Bis pail of water and tray of tum
blers, offering frco drinks to all the
passengers, is a survival of the war
period. During the rebellion thou
sands of sick and wounded soldiers
passed through the State on their way
norno to be nursed, and many of them,
their canteens being empty, longed in
vain for a draught of cool water. Tho
late John F. Trumbull, of Stonington,
who was in the Legislature at tho time,
having ridden on a train in which
were home-returning eohtfem, and no
ticing their distress on account of their
inability to get water, at once pushed
a law through the Legislature provid
ing that al) railroads in the State must
carry water-boys on their passenger
trains. The statute still remains in
force. Hartford CouratU.
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FREEING THE SLAVES.
An Institution Which I I'asslap Away
from All Civilized Xatiaa.
The Brazilian proclamation abolish
ing slavery has not excited the atten
tion that it should; and it is especially
noteworthy from the fact that while in
Spain and Portugal ever form of
slavery is being abolished, Brazil's
method is the most gradual and the
time the longest extended. The new
emancipation act of Braail is a se
quence to that of 1871, which freeH
slave children born after that date
upon reaching the age o twenty-one
years, it also provides a reaemptton
fund for the purchase of the freedom
of all slaves. The new act just passed
determines the price at which masters
may value their slaves, and sets aside
five per cent of all the revenues of the
empire, except the export taxes, as an
emancipation fund. All slaves are
made free at the age of sixty, although
required to render three years of sub
sequent service when sufficiently strong
to do so. The act is a wise and benefi
cent ono. At the close of the century
slavery will have passed away from
ail civilized nations. It may still lin
ger m the Soudan and other parts of
Africa, and Mexican peonage itself
gives little signs of passing away. The
work of universal emancipation ia
slow, but it is sure. It is but a que
,tion of time when tbe globe will be t
world of freeman. Christian mi Work.
For Instant Use
As a reliable remedy, hi car of Croup,
Whooping Cough, or m:KI.-ii CoMi,
and for the prompt relief and cure of
throat and luHij diseases, Air". Cherry
Pectoral I invaluable. Mrs. E. U. Eih-vrly,
Council Bluffs, Iowa, writes: 1 consider
AVer's Cherry Pectoral a most Importing
remedy for homo use. I have tested lti
curative power. In my family, many
times during the past thirty years, and
hare sever known It to fail". It will re
lieve tho most serious affection of the
throat and lungs, whether in children or
adults." John II. Stoddard, IVtt-rxtnirv.
Vt., writes : "I havo never fouad a mi-tt-kins
equal to
AYER'S
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Mrs. L. S. Herman, 1S7 Mereer at., Jer.t.-y
City, writes: "I havo alway found
Ayer"s Cherry Pectoral useful in :ny f.iiii
By.' B. T. Johnson, Jit. Savage, 3Id..
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ed with Croup, I have never found anr
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It Is the most potent of all the remedies I
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sumption. Wo now regard tho IVetor.-.I
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enridgo, BraJnerd, 3finu., writes: I
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go, ant always sura to haro a bottle of
Ajfer's Cherry Pectoral
with me. It is without a rival for the cure
of bronchial affections."
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