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VOL. XVII.-NO. 6.
THE DYING SHOEMAKER.
Dear wife, I'm waxing near my end,"
The dying cobbler said;
Ston to an upper world my sola
Its lonely way must thread.
"1 fear. Indeed, I'm pegging out;
Rnt then what boot it, love?
Here, we have been a fitting pair.
And so we'll be above.
"My ills, I know, no drugs may heel.
So It's welt to prepare;
We can't run counter to our fate
Just put a peg In there!
"The future need not give you care,
I've loft mr awl to you;
For dep within my inner sole
I know that you've been true.
"I've always given you your rights.
But now you must be left:
However do not grieve too much
When of me you're bereft.
"A last farewell I now will take."
He smiled, and raised his head,
"It-last the cruel malady
That lays you low," she said.
"I'll slipper way In peace," ho signet,
"The strlfo will soon be past."
Ills head fell back, he sweetly smiled.
And then he breathed his last.
It A. Lanqford, in A'orriMtoum Berata.
MSHERMAFS LUCK.
A Fortune Discovered By a Young
Man in a Shark.
Arming Southerner, who for some
months has been enjoying himself in
Paris, is the hero of an odd freak of
fortune, -mil perhaps "fisherman's
luck" has never been more happily ex
emplified than in his case. This is the
6tor3':
The young man his name is Stan
hope Randolph is a native of South
Carolina, where his father had large
possessions in Colleton. He served in
the Confederate army during tho last
two years of the war, though still two
young, and when the war was over set
tled at Pocotaligo, poor as a church
mouse. His father's estate was nearly
ull gone, and what still remained lie
resolved should be religiously devoted
to the needs of his mother and sisters,
who were now living in Barnwell in a
very poor way. Young Stanhope Ran
dolph had capacity and industry, but
these were not sufficient to get him
work in a State where all things were
prostrate. He procured some odd jobs
on the railroad, but these soon failed
him, and at last, in despair, he shipped
iMifore the mast in a trading schooner
that belonged to Machias, Me., and
made irregular voyages between Bos
ton, Beaufort, S. C., Havana and a
market. In three or four years he got
to be mate of the tnulcr, anil finally the
owners began to promise him a vessel
of his own. one now building, if he
would purchase an interest in her to the-
extent of fifteen hundred dollars, liis
own savings amounted to nearly half
that sum already, and he took a fur
lough from the schooner for the pur
pose of seeing his mother and some
other friends, in order to try to get a
temporary loan of the balance needed.
Money, however, was hard to get.
No one "doubted the security, but they
did not have the money to spare. After
several futile efforts young Stanhope
Randolph was about to give up the pur
suit in despair when his mother be
thought her oi Colonel Jacob Euler, her
cousin, still livinir near Port Royal, and
thought to be rather better oft than the
rest of tho connection. Stanhope Ran
dolph was only very slightly acquainted
with Colonel'fiulcr, but his mother in
sisted that he should take a letter from
her to her relative, and thus leavo noth
ing untried in a matter which so in
tiniately concerned the pushing of his
own fortunes.
When Stanhope Randolph arrived at
his cousin's place on Port Royal sound
he found that the family were not well
prepared to have visitors. In fact, only
two nights before, the house an old
brick mansion had been burned down
to the ground, and tho family were now
living in a couple of tents pitched on
the lawn in front of the ruins. Colonel
Eulcr had lost everything the house
contained and was now down with an
ague, his daughter was ill with hysterics,
and everything was in confusion and
disorder. In fact, as Mrs. Euler, piti
fully told Stanhope Randolph, "there's
actually nothing to eat in the house in
the tent, I mean," she said, with a feeble
smilo, "and the Colonel is too ill to go
fishing to-day."
Stanhope Randolph did not show his
letter nor mention its subject. On the
contrary, he tried to make him useful,
gave Mr. Euler his dose of quinine,
taught Mrs. Euler how to rig her tent
sails in a safer and more comfortable
fashion, and then, taking a small negro
boy with him, launched the boat, hoisted
Fail and went fishing for the replenish
ing of poor Mrs. Eifler's exhausted lard
er. Well acquainted with the sound and
its fishing round, he soon caught quite
a mess of fish, and was beating back
i again when a startled cry of tho negro
boy, who was by the mast, attracted his
attention. The cause of the bo-'s alarm
was a large shark, between "ten and
twelve feet long, which swam directly
in front of the boat and seemed prepared
to dispute its passage. Tiie boat, as is
common in those waters, carried a small
harpoon attached to a long line, for the
purpose of using upon the devil-fish
frequently met there, and the chase and
capture of which is a favorite and excit
ing sport of South Carolinians. Hastily
calling the boy to the helm and giving
his lugger sheet plenty of play, Ran
dolph snatched the harpoon and line,
sprang to the bow, tossed a large fish in'
the water and, as the shark turned up to
seize it, drove the harpoon into his belly
with so true an aim and such fatal force
that the huge fish only struggled a few
minutes before expiring. He was not
able to get his prize aboard, but deter
mined not to lose such a tropin- of his
arm's strength, took it in tow behind
his boat and was soon able to land his
cargo and tow in safety near the burned
mansion.
Securing hiB boat, Randolph now sent
off the boy for help to fetch away his
fish, and amused himself by disembow
elling the monster. His jack-knife
struck upon something hard and metal
lic in the viscera of the fish and, exam-
ining it more closely, he brought to
light a square, flat zinc box, about the
size of a one-pound gunpowder can,
much corroded, but apparently hermeti
cally sealed and water-tight. He
washed it off, dried it and put it in his
pocket for future examination; then,
the boy having come with help, took his
fish and some tid-bits from the shark up
to the tent, much to the joy of the occu
pants, who could not thank him enough.
Colonel Euler, to whom Randolph
showed his box, immediately thought
he recognized it as one of a peculiar sort
of dispatch-box used by the Confederate
Government for their messages by sea
and in blockade runners, being Tconve
aient for carrying in die pocket and for
flu-owing overboard hi case 'the vessel
was captured. The box was carefully
opened and was found to be precisely
rhat Colonel Euler suspected dis
patch-box of the Confederate Govern
ment. The contents, in addition to
some papers of no present importance,
comprised a series of long dispatches in
cipher, addressed to a well-known agent
in Paris of the defunct rebellion, and ten
certificates of deposit, promising to pay
money of Ambrose Gunter's. now on
deposit with the banking-house of X.
Animas Freres, Bordeaux, to John
Brown or order, when properly coun
tersigned. The amount of the certifi
cates in all was eight hundred and ninety-six
thousand francs. "Worth noth
ing, of course,' said Randolph, down
on his luck, as usual.
"Not a nickel, my boy," said Colonel
Eulor; "but, nevertheless, you must
come with mo to-morrow and show them
to Mr. Thompson. To-morrow is my
well day, and I'm going up to Charles
ton to sec about getting a shanty put up
for my folks to live in.
In Charleston next day Randolph was
taken by Colonel Eulcr to Mr. Thomp
son, ana introduced to that gentleman,
to whom he told the story oithe shark
and presented the box and its contents.
Mr. Thompson eyed him sharply and
asked him if the whole story had been
told him. Colonel Euler vouched for
his kinsman, and the ex-secretary
opened the box, glanced at tho cipher
dispatch, and turned very pale.
"Have either of you read this?" he
asked.
"No," said Randolph. "I intended to
make out the cipher, but have not yet
had time."
Mr. Thompson answered nothing, but
taking the drafts out of tho box, applied
a match to tho remaining papers and
watched them burn to ashes with a sigh
of satisfaction. "Perilous secrets,"
youug man," said ho, "and happy am I
to dispose of them thus. Not only repu
tations, but lives would have been
sacrificed had those matters becomo pub
lic Now, as to those certificates they
are very probably worth nothing but
you have done mo a real service in this
matter, and more besides me, and if you
can get anything out of them and it
is worth trying, vou are perfectly wel
come to it all. The money belongs to
nobody, strictly speaking for I do not
consider that the late Confederacy had
any heirs and if you can get hold of it,
do so."
"What money is it, or was it?" asked
Colonel Euler.
"I am going to teil you,' answered
Thompson, "and it is a remarkable in
stance of the hard fortune of war that
seemed to pursue tho Confederacy
throughout You recollect the ster
ling cotton loan we made duringthe
last year of the war tho loan by which
our "English brethren were made so
sick? That money was raised to pay
for ironclads, you know. The gun
boats were built tho Stonewall was
one of them but not delivered. Di
plomacy kept us from getting to sea
with the English-built ones, and it was
thought the samo reason kept the French
built steamers from going to sea, but
that is not exactly tho fact We would
have succeeded in getting them out if
they had been fully paid for. We made
what we thought were ample arrange
ments for completing the payments,
but they failed through our persistent
bad luck. For instance, take the case
of these very certificates. It was nec
essary for us to use all sorts of precau
tions'in buying this sort of goods to
protect the parties wo dealt with, for we
knew the Yankees would throw every
mother's son of them into court.
Hence the money was deposited in vari
ous banks in the names of private
persons, but so that it could not be
drawn unless the certificates were in
dorsed in a particular way. This
is a deposit, you see, of Gunter's
money pavablo to Brown on certain
terms in other words, it is a Con
federate draft sent out 'by express mes
senger and payable when indorsed by
the agent to whom sent Tho agent
must indorse it in a particular way, and
would not do so unless the messenger
brought certain credentials. This sys
tem of checks and balances was neces
sary for our financial secretary, but in
this case, and several others like it, was
fatal to our plans.
"The messenger to whom this partic
ular box was intrusted young Rioaud,
I remember the very morning I sent
him was instructed to go to Wilming
ton, cross to Bermuda in the blockade
runner Fannie, sail thence for London,
report to an agent there, and from him
get further orders. BJcaud, instead of
going on the Fannie, took another
steamer, the Gannet, for Nassau. The
Gannet was captured, Ricaud's dis-
Eatch-box went to feed the sharks and
icaud himself to rusticate at Johnson's
Island. Meantime we, who knew of
the Fannie's safe voyage, were con
gratulating ourselves that our agent
was on the road to Bordeaux, and we
did not discover tho truth until it was
too late to provide a remedy. This sort
of thing happened several times, and
our French gunboats never got to sea."
"Then those Bourdalese still have our
money?" said Colonel Euler.
"That remains to be seen. I was just
coming to that point This particular
deposit has never been checked out of
that I am sure. It was quite forgotten.
Ricaud never got South again till June,
18G5, and then his little story was only
5artly credited. But whether Animas
freres will pay tho money or not is
quite another matter, and depends upon
a variety of circumstances which it is
useless to speculate about As I said, I
want our young friend here to try, and
I hope he will succeed."
So saying, Mr. Thompson took pen
and paper and wrote hurriedly. "Here,"
said he, "is a check for 9600. You
must look upon it as your reward for
restoring to me those dangerous papers.
It will pay your expenses to Bordeaux
and back; so, if you can gain nothing
you will lose nothing. I hare indorsed
these certificates with my name. Take
them and this note to London to Mr.
Brown. He will tell you what further
can bo done, if any thing. Do not
expect much, but at least try fortune
may favor you; and I am sure you de
serve it." .
It seemed, indeed, as if Stanhope
Randolph's good fortune had begun.
Taking leave of his friends, he came
over to London, found Mr. Browm and
made such a friend of that gentleman
that he undertook personally to look
after the matter which Mr. Thompson
had recommended to him. The ex
agent, whose indorsement was needed,
happened at the time to be in .Nice, and
Mr. Brown went thither with Randolph
and secured the requsite signatures.
Then he accompanied him to Bour
deaux. Alas for the best laid schemes
of mice and men! The firm of X. An
imas.Freres was bankrupt and.their
assets, and affairs in the. hands of the
syndic" The elder brother of, tha. fina
was dead, and then .was' but Jdttlakope
of getting any thing onto! the liu 1 1 ! If
brother,: who, indeed, did, not bear la
best of .-names. ';-,..,. 1
fMr.Brown1ookU.pendlMrtold
Randolphnot to uaspair. ."If he's ; am
honest man we wont get a cent," of
Joonrse; bnyasaeseeBMtOBaaalijppaTy
COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. .TUNE 2. 1886.
fellow, there's a chance for it yet.' He
called on the syndic, consulted a
notary or two in town, and then sent
M. Animas a message to call upon fiira
that night at his hotel. M. Animas
came, a sallow little Gascon, with
purple gills and an uneasy eye. He de
nied every thing, of course, and said
that anyhow he was totally insolvent
couldn't pay ten centimes in the hun
dred. "Exactly," said Mr. Brown. Your
debts amount to 8,000,000 francs. You
have given in assets to the amount of
8,500,000 francs. You still have in your
possession the sum of 3,000,000 franca,
property of the late Confederacy, Brown,
Gunter and all that firm. This money
you have not returned to tho syndio as
Eart of your assets, but are trying to
ide away. Now, M. Animas, it is z,
question of arithmetic between us. My
young friend here has legitimate checks
for 896,000 francs, whichhe is entitled to
and wants. You will pay him or else
you will prepare to-morrow to pay thn
syndic the 8,000,000 you are concealing
and stand trial for fraud besides."
M. Animas wriggled and turned, and
asked for time; for a mouth, a week, any
thing.
"Not a moment," said Mr. Brown,
decidedly.
"But my children, my wife," pleaded
M. Animas in despair.
"Shall I call the officer?" said Brown,
sarcastically, laying his hand on tho bell
cord.
M. Animas turned grpen, and then,
pulling out a plethoric pocket-book, paid
the money, and that is how Stanhope
Randolph got rich. Ed. Spencer, in N.
T. World.
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
A Highly Popular Amusement The Small
Cost or Outfits.
"It is astonishing," said a dealer in
photographic materials to a reporter,
"how much can be accomplished by to
tally inexperienced amateurs in the art
of photographing, with a little taste and
judgment The introduction of tho
gelatino-bromide dry plate has so revo
lutionized photography that but little
knowledge of it is essential. Of course,
it is scarcely to be supposed that success
should always attend one's first efforts,
but rapid progress can generally bo
mado by old or young, lady or gentle
man, who may manifest tho slightest
disposition to excel. Unlike tho old wet
plate, this new process has the advan
tage of admitting a much wider latitude
of exposuro that is to say, the actual
time which the sensitive plato may now
bo subjected to light though still im
portant, is far less so than by the old
collodion process, and the subsequent
operations are free from the former
objections of complexity, uncer
tainty and stains. The apparatus and
chemicals required are also few and in
expensive, and there is nothing which
tho veriest tyro in chemistry can not
readily master. This is why amateur
photography has of lute become so pop
ular, and so great is the demand that
we make special instruments and pub
lish special (Catalogues on the subject.
Young people buy them for amusement,
and men of family buy them to take pict
ures of their homes and surroundings.
Nor is such a camera in any sense a toy.
All arc practical working instruments,
such as are in constant use by profes
sional photographers. They arc adapted
for landscape and out-door groups, and
in a good light require but a second's
time to make a picture. But in buying
the amateur should not forgot that no is
not going to make an experiment Suc
cess is assured if the directions oro fol
lowed. Thousands have succeeded with
only the ordinary amount of brains and
some with less than is allowed to man
kind generally. The chief advice I have
to offer is, when you buy, buy as good
an outfit as you can afford. With a
cheap instrument you can do good work,
but with a better instrument you can do
better work more easily."
"What do some of the amateur out
fits cost?"
"For Sll you can buy a mahogany
camera, for making pictures vertically
or horizontally, measuring four or five
inches, with one double plate-holder,
fine single acromatic lens, improved
tripod and carrying-case, with an extra
double dry plate-holder. Tho entire
weight of such an equipment is only 8
1-2 pounds. From that they run up to
$25. $37, $40 and $50, according to tho
3uality and size of the camera. For a
eveloping outfit with the $11 equip
ment that is a 4x5 picture, the cost is
$5.25. In this you want a pocket ruby
lantern, a dozen dry plates, two devel
oping trays, several bottles of chemi
cals, funnels, filtering paper, scales and
weights and a few other articles. This
includes everv thing necessary for de
veloping a dozen negatives. Ono of
the newest things in this line is the de
tective camera. It is focussed once for
all by means of a ground glass which
slides in the place to be occupied by tho
double dry plate-holder for objects of
various distances, and the position of
the focussing lever on the top of the
camera is marked for each distance.
After this the ground glass may be en
tirely dispensed with, as it Is then only
necessary to estimate the distance of tho
object to be photographed and move tho
focussing lever to the mark correspond
ing to that distance, when the
camera will obviously be in
focus. The small lens serves
to throw the picture on a piece of
ground glass on the top of the camera,
thus showing the position of the image
on the plate. When the picture appears
in proper position on the ground glass
it is only necessary to touch the button
on the right of the camera and tho ex
posure of the plate is instantly made,
its development being afterward accom
plished in the ordinary manner. An
other novel and most ingenious little in
strument and one that supplies a want
long felt in the profession is the pneu
matic photograph shutter. This is a
long rubber tube, connected with the
camera, the end of which the operator
holds in his hand and by which the lens
is exposed and capped. It has been re
marked by eminent photographers that
the arrangement is a most useful one in
enabling persons to be photograped
without being aware of it. The efforts
in this direction hitherto necessitated
the operator being close to the camera,
but here we have an instrument which
permits him to be in any part of the studio
he pleases. Many have experienced the
difficulty of taking children's portraits
with the proper amount of profile, but
with this instrument all difficulty van
ishes and the operator may be by the
side of the child and attract its atten
tion in any direction. AT. T. Mail and
Express.
A forty-niner who amassed a large
fortune in California during the gold
fever there, but spent jt foolishly, was
.found walking barefooted through the
streets of. New, York recently and ar
rested. He is without friends or home,
and hat been leading the life of a tramp
allies misfortune overtook him thirty
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Deposits received and interest paid
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Drafts on the principal cities in this
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(From our regular correspondent.)
Washington, May, 1886.
Many Congressmen are in a dis
turbed state of mind, lest they will
not be returned to their seats next'
fall. They are waiting anxiously for
news of renomioation. Quite a num
ber of them, it is thought, are doom
ed to disappointment, and the thought
of their dilapidated fences at home,
makes them anxious for an early
adjournment.
The passage of three appropriation
bills by tbe House last week made
tbom hopeful of an early release, and
Speaker Carlisle is quoted as saying
that it is possible for Congress to ad
journ by tbe 25 of Juue. That will
be less than six weeks. Tbe prevail
ing opinion, "however, is that Con
gress will not get away before Au
gust. Work is far behind, and while
many mombers would like to be
among their constituents, others
want time to make Congressional
records for tbe approaching canvass.
A good joke was perpetrated upoi
Senator Vance by Senators Keuni
and Sanlebury. On entering tbe
Senate chamber Tuesday moruiug
these gentlemen saw a beiutifu
basket of flowers upon the North
Carolina Senator's desk, and befort
the latter catae in, removed it to tha
deak of Senator Beck. When Mr.
Vance entered, they called his atten
tion to the Kentucky Senator'
"floral tribute." Oh, yes, remarked
Mr. Vance, in hi disrespectful, jovial
way: Beck bought it somewhere.
That's the way all these fellows get
flowers. Mr. Konna suggested that
Mr. Vance examine the card attached
to the basket. When he discovered
that the flowers were for himself, Mr.
Vance took possession of them with
the remark that there were excep
tions to all rules.
Representative Kelley, of Pennsyl
vania, who is called tho "Father of
tho House" because he is the oldest
member in it and has Rerved through
more Congresses than any other man,
was talking about the general deport
ment of Congressmen now, and away
baik at tbe beginning of the war. Hi'
saj s there is more courtesy anions
members of tho present day, they
wear better clothe, and tlicro is less
intomperauce. When he first came
to Congress there was scarcely a
committee room which had not a
full supply of liquors. There was
an abundant supply of whiskey in the
office of the clerk of tbe House, and
a regular bar was kept in tho base
ment restaurants, while there wa;
then no such name as "cold tea" used
for whiskey straight. There was al
so more intemperance on tbe floor o:
tbe House, and tbe drinking about
the clerk's office became so common
that John W. Forney, when he want
ed to be Secretary of State, bad t
make a pledge to Vice-President
Williams aud Charles Sumner that
no liquors would be kept in hi
office, before they would vote for him.
But as to the oratory in Congress
the venerable Pcnsylvanian dnes not
speak 60 hopefully. He thinks it i
on the decline. The business of
Congress has changed of late years,
and it is now done more by the con
sultation of leading members, by
committee, and. by caucus. Speeches
do not have much influence on legis
lation now, and this influence seems
to grow less from year to year.
The Senate has passed a bili to ap
propriate from tbe Treasury $500,000
to a monument to Abraham Lincoln.
Another has parsed for a monument
for General Grant to cot $250,000.
It has been suggested that this
money would be ppeut in a more ap
propriate way if put into a memorial
bridge across the Potomac, to bear
the uames of these good aud great
men. It is held that the carryiug
out of such a plan would be a climax
to our great river improvem nts,
that-are, one day, in spite of log roll
ing River and Harbor Committees,
to bo tbe pride of the nation.
If our late ex-Presideuts Lincoln
and Graut could be consulted in re
gard to this matter, there could be
little doubt as to what their decisions
would be. A great, useful structure
like a bridge from tbe Capital of the
nation across the Potomac to the
soldier's national cemetery at Arling
ton Heights would be a grateful per
petnatinn of their memories. It
would be far more sensible than an
exhibition of broi.ze or marble, in
some uncomfortable attitude, to
stand for ages in tbe wind and
rain and heat and cold, and to be
criticised perhaps as inartistic.
It is now supposed that if Mrf.
Geo. H. Pendleton hsd retained pres
ence of mind and remained in her
carriage, be would not have been
even hurt.
Toe River and Harbor bill is
growing in additions. The forty
amendments, if adapted, will add
eeveral millions to tbe appropria
tion. The conviction and sentence of
Jaebne, tbe corrupt alderman, in
New York City, is a straw showing
which way-the wind is blowing.
The probability is that there will be
a long, loud objection to tbe im
mense expenditures of public fuads
by the present eoagraat.
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OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Brick Fomeroy wants to mate
lemonade the national drink. Boston
Post.
Ella Wheeler-Wilcox says nothing
flatters a man's vanity like being tolu
he is not like other men.
The echo of the Kiel rebellion is
the liberation of Poundmaker. In this
tho adage of Hudibras is reversed:
Poundmaker fought, and lives to light
again, while Kiel ran away, and was
hanged.
A mathematical musician has been
working out a calculation as to the pay
ments made to Mine. Patti at the re
cent Paris concerts. The prima donna
received 600 per night, or 20s. for
each note.
The snort of the iron horse is heard
on all sides of our go-ahead town. It
looks as if it was being girdled with
bands of steel, but notwithstanding it
continues to bulge out. Bartow (Fla.)
Informant.
' :Everyhodj-Ts glad that Mr. Edison
is married. They want him to invent
a method whercb5 the baby's midnight
shrieks will he carried off on a wire to
frighten away the cats on the roof.
Macon Telegraplu
The largest plate glass window in
this country was put up in Broadway.
New York, a few days ago. It is pure
French plate, 13 feet 11 inches in
height, y feet -l inches wide aud lj
inches thick. X. Y. Sun.
The innate modesty of newspaper
men is shown by the fact that a Texas
editor killed three men the other day,
and in alluding to the incident after
ward acknowledged that he only tried
to kill one. New Iavcn News.
A fast train moves DO feet in a
second; sound. 1,100 feet; the earth in
its orbit, &),000 feet; and light, 1,100,
000,000 feet, or a million times faster
than sound. The earth in its orbit
moves 18 miles in a second, meteorite?
86 miles, and comets -io miles.
The American Iron and Steel As
sociation of Philadelphia has received
from the manufacturers complete re
ports of the production of cut nails and
spikes in lSts3. The total production
was C,G9G,815 keg.s of 100 pounds each,
against 7J81,'.7) kegs in 1SS-1 and
7,71)2,737 kegs in 1883. The product ol
1883 was the largest ever attained.
A young colored woman called
upon a Lincoluton, (a.) judge re
cently, and asked for a marriage li
cense. When the judge asked for the
name of her intended husband, she
saidslie hadn't decided ct. but thought
it would be a good thing to have a li
cense in case some man should oiler
himself. She didn't get it. N. Y.
Herald.
A prosperous fanner of Owings
ville, K., a well-preeretl wid
ower of over fifty, has two sou, wiio
were both in love with the same rirl.
She found ditlieiilty in deciding wnieli
to take, and the old man solved the
problem by sending the bos oil on
business and marrving the jrirl himself
while they were away. Louisville Courier-Journal.
Frank Carpenter, who was a Lieu
tenant in the Eighth Vermont regiment,
cherishes carefully copies of the Rich
mond Jiujuircr of lMil. He wa then
a prisoner in Libhy prison, and was a
subscriber to ihe Inquirer, p:ting
twenty dollars for a three month-.' sub
scription, lie paid si dollars for the
insertion of a personal, which was
copied in New York and led to hi iv
leaie. A Pittslif-ld (Mas-.) man has
acquired several thousand dollars
with his buck-saw. II- is intelligent
and liberal, recently gae nne humin-d
dollars iu a lump to a publu; enter
prise, has represented the town in the
Legislature, is an active politician and,
although more than sixty ears old.
sawed nearly three hundred cords of
wood during the last ear.- Boston
Journal.
The underground railway in Brook
lyn i- estimated to co-t the million
dollars. A speed of t him -live miii
an hour is prnmiM.'d. The fare will be
livo cents over the v. hide road. It will
take a person twenty minutes to go a
distance which now oeeupies two hour
in passing oer. The road will have
an average depth of twenty-two feet.
The roof of the tunnel will be white
porcelain brick, which will reflect the
light of the electric lamps. Brooklyn
Eaijlc.
Practical education: A college
student at Easton. Pa., promptly
nipped a hazing party in the bud by
unlimbering his pocket Lattery and
shooting the door panels full of holes
just about the time the committee on
the powers of the Senate were d-mand-ing
his papers. This shows how thor
oughly is that young man prepared for
college life who learns how to hoot
while attending the grammar school o
his native viluige. Don't leave every
thing to be learned in college, young
man. BurdeiL .
Henry K. Brown, the sculptor,
who lives at Xewburgh, has been ail
judged of unsound mind and a com
mittee will be appointed to take charge
of his affairs. Mr. Brown is now in
his seventy-second year and has been
in feeble health for a long time, but hl
mental failure dates from the death of
his wife, a few years ago, to whom he
was devotedly attached. He is one of
the most justly honored of American
sculptors, and his statue of W:ihin it
ton in Union Square, New York, is
still the best equestrian figure that has
been made in America. X Y. Tunes.
No, young man, no. you do not
"have to know very much about eanLv
to play progressive euchre." In fact,
the less you know about anything the
more you'll Jliy cards. Th mot ex
pert card player and most successful
gambler we ever knew was a man m
Denver who spelled Clod with a little g
and two d's, swore everv lime he said
anything, lied everv time he swore,
and could be safely tnrsted to steal
anything he could hide in his hands.
Card playing may require high culture
and refined training, but somehow the
lives of the beet experts do not seem
to indicate this. Burdct'e.
At a theatrical entertainment a
few weeks ago a young lady with a
three-story hat sat immediately in
front of a newspaper man. Noticing
that her exaggerated headgear ob
structed the journalist's view of the
stage, where a temperance lecture, or
a Scriptural panorama, or something
was taking place, the young lad, with
a sweet smile, removed her hat and
placed it in her lap. Tho newspaper
man was profuse in his expressions of
thanks. The next clay he caught a
severe cold, contracted the pneumonia
and died a week later. When his will
was read it was discovered that he had
added a codicil, giving the young lady
who sat in front of him in the theater
two million forty-seven thousand four
hundred and sixty-eight dollars. There
k A moral in thia.Norristown Herald,