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- WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1886.
Stttnl at tt rottoSei, Collates, Sis.. i isces!
cImi Batter.
THE CHECKERED APRON.
She put her checkered aproa ob, sad tied it
rotus her waist
Noqaeenwith jeweled diadem could be more
fitly graced.
And when she sauntered down the lane and
reached the linden tree,
I thought I saw my coming fate, whose name
was Kitty Lee.
X had not spoken much sf lore, though often
we had met
And yet she answered something, once, I
could not well forget:
But she was fair and rosy, and I thought
how nice twould be
If, when she tied that apron on, the tie was
meant for me.
The summer sun was nestling down beyond
tbe distant nil is.
One voice alone saluted us the plaintive
whip-poor-will's., ' o- ;
I spoke about ay loneliness, of tolls and
cares that fret,"
And she. with soothing readiness, was, glad
that we had met.
One knowanot how such little words proceed
from less to more.
But, somehow, we cam nearer than we ever
stood before:
And, when I saw the meaning that her beam
ing face supplied.
I found my arm was resting where I saw that
apron tied!
And so I put the question that must happen
soon or late.
And found that Lore was ready to obey tba
call of Fate.
O Kitty le. 1 thank you for when you that
apron tied.
You shaped a wondrous love-knot that woa
you for my bride.
Joel Benton, in DcmaresT Monthly.
A FINANCIAL FEAT.
How a Simple Girl and a Lawyer
Accomplished It.
Effie Ford with tear-stained face sat
amid a pile of formidable documents.
She was in psrp mourning. Only one
2ckJrc, she bad laid away the re
mains of her only surviving relative, in
the shadow of the cross-crowned church
over the bill. It was a dismal prospect
for a girl of seventeen, aud one who was
absolutely ignorant of business. The
Fords had always lived in luxury. But
on his death-bed, Mr. Ford called Effie
to him; his articulation was imperfect,
but she caught: "Bad investments.
mortgage bonds. Poor! Poor
Barker will tell you." A few gasps and
it was over.
All day she had tried to bring order
out of chaos. At last with a sigh she
tossed the golden fringes from her fore
head, us if even their light weight was
an oppression.
"It is useless," she murmured, "I can
make nothing of anything." Then
suddenly the remembered: Barkcr will
tell you!" The memory came with a
nigh of relief.
A servant answered tlic ben.
"Take this to Mr. Burkcr," she or
dered, "and wait for an answer."
It came in less than an hour.
"Mr. Barker will wait upon Miss
ford at five." She glanced at the clock.
It lacked five minutes of the hour.
- Barker was a lawyer in the same
town. She had always known him, and
she remembered that he had been with
her father frequently before she went
to school for the last time. As he en
tered, Eflic started. She had thought
of him as rather elderly, but the man
who stood before her was extremely
handsome, and perhaps double her sev
enteen years.
"You arc kind. Mr. Barker, to re
spond so promptly. I did not know
what to do, to whom to turn. I can
make nothing of papa's papers," she
sighed wcariedly-
Of course. What can you know
about law?" and together they turned
to the perplexing pile.
Barker ran his eye over paper after
aper, and a skirt leu look, came into
eyes, keen lawyer s though they
were.
"Arc these all?" he asked.
"I believe so. Papa kept his papers
in that secretary; ami, Mr. Barker, I
know from wiiat he said, that there
were losses that I shall not be very
well off. I do not mind,'" she said
quickly, "other people are poor, why
not I?"
'Some losses! Not as well off as she
had been!" He regarded her queerly.
Poor child! Did she know that house,
lands, even the costly furniture was
covered with mortgages? No, and he
determined she never should know. He
had no living relatives, and why should
he not do for this helpless girl what he
would have liked some one to do for
sister or wife of his?
There will be something left after
the debts are paid, will there not?"
The pretty pathetic eves looked
squarely into his. He could not answer
this child-woman with evasion. "If
you will trust to me. Miss Ford, I will
do my best. Your father trusted me
upon several occasions." (He did not
add, if that father had been guided by
his judgment his daughter would not
now be penniless) "and I am confident
I know more of the business than any
one else." He waited her reply.
"O, yes, and thank you, Mr. Baker."
With a childish, trustful motion, she
lipped her hand in his. Barker's ex
perience with women was bounded by
aggrcssivo little widows, and soul-tcr-rUying
Sally Brasses', and there was a
queer little flutter in his manner as he
bid her good night.
Mr. Ford's affairs were in a hopeless
tangle. Ruin was inevitable. Such
was Baker's verdict after a repcrusal
of the Ford papers. "Poor little
thing!" he whispered to himself; "sho
shall never know if I can help it."
Out of those deeds and mortgages
seemed to start the vision of a home
Eden, where certain eyes looked into
bis with bewildering love. Bah! What
have sentimental love-dreams in com
mon with an austere lawyer s office?
A puzzled face appeared at the office
of Barker & Hawkius one day, not
long after.
"I am sorry to worry you; but see
here!" Eflie produced a slip of paper
which she held toward him. It stated
the existence of a note, covering ten
thousand dollars, principal and inter
est, held by one Isaacs & Tobias,
brokers in a neighboring city.
"When did you receive this?" He
avoided looking at the captivating face
as much as possible.
"To-day; and, Mr. Barker, it must
ce paid. The ten thousand you saved
for me will just cover it
Will you do !
i - .."
"Yes. Miss Ford. It is fortunate,
however, that I. changed the invest
ment By the new arrangement it has
doubled. You can pay this bill and
retain the same amount"
"I can? How mice! I thought I
would have to go out as nurse-maid or
something. Mr. Barker, when is
I our client coming, who owns the
ouse? I feel as if I were an intruder,
somehow."
You are not The favor is to him.
I have his word for it"
She still lingered. t'Mr. Barker, you
have been so 'kind and good. I wish I
could do something for you. If I can
ever, will you let me?"
"Yes, Ujss Ford." '
Ease left the office with a queer dls-
awtiafied foelincr at her heart. Down
the drowsing street filled with lazyj
shadows, the strolled. As she turned
a coraer she collided with a rakish-
looking youth. He recovered hisaself :
with an apology. There was such a
look in his bright blue eyes.
i took to au at once. Beaa-
cotnpanicd fter as far as . the gate,
optmed it, Bad, with a bow, turned
toward the open plaza. "What a very,
Tcry nice, accommodating boy," was
Effie' mental comment
She met the very nioe boy' fre
quently after this. He was eighteen,
and quite idle. He obtained a conven
tional introduction Bert Gwynno was
his name and he constituted himself
Effiie's veritable double. On the street,
at church, Mr. Bert Gwynne was al
ways present, and he assumed the atti
tude with such an of-course-it-is-agree-able-to-you
air, that Effie became in
censed, and determined to give him a
niopr of hf.r mind.
One dav he commenced to poke fun'
at "old Gabc Barker." Then the
dynamite exploded.
"He's not old," she flashed.
"Forty if he's an hour," insisted the
provoking.
"I say he is not," declared the frank
little lady. "Any how he's not a pre
suming boy, great acrimony in the last
words.
"He'll make you marry him after a
while; now you see. He bought up ev
ery one oKhose notes," criedthe badly
conducted. "What notes? Tell me!" Effie was
aflame.
"Your father's. Who do yon sup
pose paid the debts? Why. .Gabc Bark
er, out of his own pocket This very
house is his," continued he.
"You are a wicked person, and I don't
believe one word you say," burst out
Effie.
"It isn't such a mighty thing after
all. I'd do ever so much more, Effie,
if you'd let me. But you called me
presuming, and it made me angry."
"So you are. I hate you. and I'm
going this minute to Mr. Barker." She
flung on her hat
"I wouldn't Let it alone. He's
well able to do it if he wishes." Bert
thought he had never seen Effie so de
sirable, as with that angry pout and
the infinite air of scorn with which she
regarded him.
"Mr. Barker, is it so? Tell me. I
will know;" with tear-flushed face sho
raided in on him. "They say that papa
died insolvent, and and you bought
up his no-otcs, and tell me!" she im
plored passionately.
"Effie, don't! you will be ill. Who
told you such cruel things?" He shuf
fled his papers in agitation.
"Bert Gwynne. He says it is the talk
of the place, and "
Heavens! What ha she almost said:
'He'll make you marry him after a
while." He marry her! such an insig
nificant nobody.
"Effie, listen; I am not going to deny
what I have done."
"Then you did! oh!" Sho went
down by the stiff old client's chair in
a heap, and hid her face in her hands.
"Child, what could I do? The cred
itors threatened. There was nothing
to pay them, and you looked so little
and helpless. Besides, it is only dis
charging an old obligation. Your
father was very kind to mo when I was
a poor lad. Effie, don't be angry."
(Sob, sob from the rounds of tho
chair).
"Is the house yours too?"
"By heavens, Effie, if you ask me any
thing more Til deny every thing," des
perately. "Is it I say?" tempestuously.
"Yes."
Gabrielle Barker was as abashed as if
he had been confronted with selling il
legal whisky.
"Do you hold those notes?"
("Confound that meddlesome Gwynne
boy; I'll thrash him to morrow, if I
live). Yes, Effie, but they arc yours.
I have left them to you in my will.
Here they are," laying a bundle in bur
lap. "Take them away. I will not have
them," she said excitedly. "Unless
Mr. Barker you tell me how I e.
pav vou."
"Will you. if I tell you, Effie?"
He opened his arms, aud she crept
close to his heart whispering:
"Yes, Gabriel."
"How could you afford it? Didn't it
take quantities of money?"
"You remember an uncle who died
in California a year ago? He left me a
hundred thousand dollars. I have
saved twenty-live thousand and the
house; so you won't be quite destitute,
sweetheart"
"Destitute? Shcba's queen was not as
wealthy. She didn't own my Gabriel. ' '
They were married in the morning.
That evening, as they sat together in
the library (for they took no wedding
journey), he leaned toward his white
robed treasure.
"Effie, will you burn those notes for
me?"
He kindled a bright blaze on the wide
hearth, and Effie took the fat bundle
and commenced, woman-like, to untie
it
"No, no!" he objected, "burn it so."
"But it will burn quicker;" the will
ful little fingers tugged at the strings.
"I desire vou not to open it, Effie."
"But, Gaoriel, I will." Out dropped
a scaled letter, directed to "Miss Effie
Ford." Underneath was scrawled:
"To be delivered in case of my death."
The despoiling fingers closed upon it
greedilv.
"No," Effie," he pleaded.
"Gabriel," solemnly, "listen, and
believe me; I shall never be really
happy unless I read this letter."
"Eve thought the same."
"Hush about Eve! I never ate any
interdicted apples," and the nineteenth
century Eve deliberately seated herself
to enjoy her forbiddeu fruit. It was a
letter of impassioned love, but just at
its close was the clause he did not wish
her to see. It showed a jealous pang
at her preference for Bert Gwynne.
But that one sentence of renunciation
bound her to him more closely than a
world of protestations. "My true love,
how could you imagine such a thing!
That stupid boy! I should never have
loved you as well, Gabriel, if I hadn't
read this, for it shows you a noble fel
low." Tid-Bits.
TO THE POINT.
How m Saa Francisco Photographer Bart a
Young Lady's reeling.
In one of the popular photograph
galleries, of which San Francisco has
several, there is an operator at the
camera who, not content with being an
Al artist with the lens, combines there
with the further attraction and recom
mendation of being a "funny man."
His jokes and sayings, though not
alwavs of the brightest order of wit.
have become well Known about town.
ana occasionally are worm repealing
in print.
The other day a fashiouable young
lady presented herself at the gallery,
accompanied by her pet English pug.
"What style shall vou desire, miss?7'
asked the photographic wit, advancing
to meet her. "Carte de visite, cabinets
boudoirs or"
"O. I don't want my picture taken
to-day, thank you," she replied. "I
only came to get a carte of my dog's
head."
Now. if there is oae thing more than
another that photographers detest it is
nhotoeranhinr doss. But like the
! weazened mugs of skinny and fussy old
maids, which they as equally bate being
instrumental in reproducingon albumen
paper, taking dogs pays, and therefore
they manage to stand -it"
The frown upon the operator's brow
Eye place to a quizzing smile as a
ppy thought came into his head.
"Want a carte of your dog's head,
eh?" he repeated. "Don't you think
wagon of his tail would do at wellf"
Sam Frmmeueo Nme$-LUr.
A JERSEY CYCLONE.
The Playful Zephyrs "Which Blake
a Js
seyman's Lire Worth Living.
There is a recklessness about a Jer
sey cyclone which at once appeals to
the sensibilities of the uninitiated. Dur
ing the prevalence of one of these lung
teasers, which visited our town with
out license or the services of an ad
vance agent, I occupied a position
where an uninterrupted view of the
proceedings could be maintained, as I
thought without being crowded, or as
sailed by the peanut-shucks from the
gallery. I had read the prognostica
tions of weather prophets from time to
time, and waited patiently for a rare
opportunity to occur, by which I could
visit Jersey and gather in a few shares
of one of her boss cyclones.
This species of entertainment always
finds more patronage outside the home
circle than within. It is a malignant
type of the outside show, which is by
far wilder than the wildest wild West
show that was ever blown across the
area of our territory with a long-haired
leader. The average out-of-door per
ennial show, which comes identified
with emblazoned fence-posters, can
usually be "run off" under a canvas
covering something more than an acre
of corn-field; but you couldn't crowd
the after-attraction of one of these
March visitors into ten times that
amount of space. Free shows always
draw better than those which charge
an entrance-admission. This is why
the Jersey cyclone has been so success
ful of late.
I have been saved the pain and dis
honor of a law-suit with my hay-seed
neighbor by a means which I know
Providence alone ordained specially to
serve my purpose. This man had con
cluded last haying-tiine to economize
space by building a hajr-rick against
my house in such a way as to obscure
the light from tho best window I owned
While I was on my way to consult a
lawyer about the matter, I saw the sky
taking on an olive-green tint; then the
dust rose up, squirmed about for a
while, and tried to settle down again.
So did I try to settle down, but the cy
clone caught and flung me against a
rail-feuco with great playfulness and I
had scarcely become disentangled from
the rails when I saw my neighbor's
hay-rick sailing like a balloon above
me, and, notwithstanding my devotion
to gathering up my lost energies, I
watched the great cone-shaped mass
wending its way across the inky hori
zon and became happy. I heard, sev
eral days later, that it was still travel
ing in a south-easterly direction.
There is another c'ccentricity about
the Jersey cyclone: it makes itself its
own confidant. You never know it is
coining; but you may best expect it
when "Old Prob" denies its approach.
1 have had an experience of eight days
with this style of grand uncertainty, and
have been taught to realize that a
cyclone is advancing when the sky as
sumes a genuine bath-briok hue. This
is caused by the peculiar tint of the
Jersey soil, which, when H rises, gives
the sky this strange color. I give you
the ""tip" so that you vrftl not think
you have struck aphenomenon when
you are caught unawares and thrown
within reach of the burliest bull-dog in
town.
Washerwomen in our district have
become despondent and morose of late
since the March zephyr can strip more
whole washes from their lines than
twice their number could hang out.
This fact never became more painfully
apparent to me than whcf lirst advised
of a shirt bearing the initials A. W. M.
having been found clinging to a currant-bush
on a farm in an adjoining
county. The loss of the shirt was hot
so bad; but it carried its identity with it.
Our pet spaniel has not been home
for three days. He was hist seen buek-irig-against
the wind a mile away from
our friendly abode, having been car
ried off on the breeze while trying: to
tree a cat. The cat has also disap
peared, and it is believed she is still
clinging to the blizzard, and afraid to
drop on.
I was asked to give an estimate of how
fast the cyclone was traveling on one
ofits best days. Being somewhat ex
cited with the experience of the day
before. I replied, in an unguarded mo
ment: "Seventeen miles per minute."
This estimate was printed in the Daily
Visitor, the day following, as coming
from an authority. 1 felt torn up when
I saw such an assertion credited to ms;
and was compelled to publish a contra
diction in the next issue to the efl'ect
that the wind at the time specified was
actually traveling thirty-eight miles per
second.
When you feel disposed to investi
gate into the true inwardness of the
genuine Jersey cyclone, you want to
banish from your mind all the preju
dices caused "by the often-told tales of
the Western blizzard, and settle down
for something worth your waste of
vitality.
If you have punched sand-bags, and
spent years of hardship with the coast
patrol, then you may feel inspired with
sufficient confidence to enable you to
brace up to the occasion. Otherwise,
stay at home, and bury yourself against
the cellar furnace, and listen to the
aiolian rhapsodies, as tfiey arc wafted
to your car through the draft-pipe ex
tending to the chimney.
A Jersey cyclone is a splendid thing
to look at, a noble thing to get mixed
up in, and one of the most thorough
exponents of scientific rough-and-tumble
thumping that you ever came in
contact with. And besides all this, it
gives you the largest number of dislo-.
cated shutters and fence-gates to hunt
up of any thing of a similar nature
which I could suggest A. W. Muhkit-
trick, in Puck.
fir
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IN HIS MIND.
Two
Darkles Who Are. Approaching;
Uncertain Fate.
We were at the depot in Griffin, Ga.,
waiting for the Atlanta train, when a
colored man came along with a wheel
barrow and purposely collided with a
brother of color who was coming down
the street There was a war of words
for a few minutes and then the one who
had been hit limped to the platform
and said: --
"Ize gwine to hurt dat man afore he
gits frcw:wid mo."
"Why don't you challenge him?"
asked one.
"Dat's no good, sah. Ize dun chal
lenged him fo'teen times, an' he's dun
challenged me jist as often."
"And you can't bring about a duel?"
"No, sah. Ebcry time I challenge
him be wants to tight wid pitchforks.
an' of
co se
I doan' accept Ebery
time he challenges me I wants to fight
wid shovels, an of co'se he doan' ac
cept."
"You'll never get together."
"O, yes, we will. We'sedgin' along
to it ebery day. We'll keep dis thing
up till bimeby we'll agree on cotton
choppers, an' den you'll bar dat Will
iam Henry Washington was cut down
in his bloom at de fust blow. We's
edgin', sah, an' in my mind's eye I'm
de head mourner at dat man's funeral."
Detroit Free Press.
Young men of Baltimore need not
fear to partake of delicacies at the hands
of the young women of Baltimore. One
of the latter bought a love powder tho
other.day, warranted to bring any ob
durate young man to her feet She had'
it analyzed and it proved to be pulver
ised white sugar and nothing fdw.
Baltimore Stm
STUDY OF BUMPS.
Sew Phrenology Ha Become Oae of tha
Effete Branches of Thought.
M. Dumas, the well-known French
writer, recently delivered tho oration
at the funeral of M. Desbarollcv
who had made a reputation as an ex
pert in the science so-called of chiro
mancy, or palmistry. In the course of
his remarks M. Dumas said that Dcs
barolles had done for the hand what
Gall and Spurzheim had done for the
brain. This leads an English paper to
observe: "If this parallel is to be taken
seriously, it is not too much to say that
the science of palmistry must be re
garded as practically extinct. Phrc-
nology to-day is an effete branch of
thought We look in vain for anv
mention of the word in the'indices of or cold? Have we, as some physiolo
works for the brain which deal with the j gists aver, a sixth sense, tliatof tempcra-
latest information science has elicited
respecting the organ of mind. No
one possessing the most elementary
knowledge of the progress science hits
made within the last twenty years, in
the matter of the functions of the brain.
can for a moment accord to phrenology
a stable position in the list of modern
branches and modes of inquiry. It is
perchance only breaking a butterfly on
the wheel and slaying the slain to say
so much. But the science of Gall,
Spurzheim and George Combs still sur
vives in holes and corners among us,
in the shape of demonstrations by peri
patetic phrenologists of tho "charac
ters" of their clients. Busts are still
to be seen and bought in which the
human head is mapped out into spaces
of destructiveness' and 'veneration,'
into areas of 'amativencss,' form,'
color,' 'language' and so forth. There
are ninny persons who still believe that
the mystic faculties of human nature
are all pigeon-holed, as the phrenolo
gist teaches, on the contour of the
brain.
"The reading of character and the
constitution of mind would be an extra
ordinarily easy matter were such things
true. The brain, alas! is much too
complex an organ to be so lightly dis
posed of. It has taken the best work
of a quarter of a century in modern
physiology to open up the subject of
brain functions, and it will occupy the
energies of many years before we are
able definitely to sum up clearly and
explicitly theexact nature of many of
the brain's ways and works. But what
we do know ot" cerebral structure and
action slays phrenology more com
pletely than it has ever been disposed
of before. The work of Hitzig, Fritsch,
Ferrier and others has taught us the
new phrenology that of experimental
science. It has exploded the old
myths about faculties, 'bumps' and
brain-organs, of which so much talk
was heard half a century gone by.
We are able to-day to indicate gener
ally how the organ of mind works.how
certain of its parts come to the front
over others, how there should exist
lower and higher 'centers' in its sub
stance, how one part regulates speech,
and another seeing and another hear
ing. In our hospitals for nervous
diseases to-day, the physician, from his
studies in the work of the normal
brain, is able to place his finger on the
region he regards as affected in his pa
tient, and post mortem inquiry, as well
as evidence of other kind, is brought
into the field of research to confirm
his deductions. Looking back to the
days of palmistry and soothsaying, wo
sec in the old phrenology, which still
survives in unlearned circles, a fit ac
companiment of the 'science' of hands.
The art of physiognomy, too, maj'
well be left in compauy with these an
tique modes of thought Face and
hands only reflect in a dim fashion,
if they reflect at all, the nature of their
individual possessors. Human nature
is not such an eas' study as to be capa
ble of being laid bare before the
crowd by the inspection of palms or by
the manipulation of the head for 'or
gans' of mind, which have no exist
ence in the brain." Milwaukee Sent
net.
MOZART'S POVERTY.
Ha
Received Many Watches, But
Not
Cnough Money to Go to Pari.
Mozart made, as pianist chiefly, the
little niouej' whicl sparingly came to
his pocket, while he had trouble to
earn any thing with his compositions,
which rnoreover, he gave away for
nothing. It is the same in our own
days. Rubenstein, who told me main
years ago that he should give up play
ing andonly "soil paper," has to this
da' to play in order to make money.
Mozart played once at one of those
numerous "little courts which then
existed, every Archbishop and every
Ckurfurst having his palace and em
ployes, officials and band. He wanted
to travel to Paris, and of course money
was needed. He complains that they
presented him with two swords, with
snuff boxes and kisses. Instead of
money he received a watch, and he
writes to his father: "I have no money
for the journey, and this is the fifth
watcli I have received. I have a- good
mind to get two watch pockets made,
and to have a watch, with a long chain
to it hanging outof eaclw poekeL
so thjiMFi they ,aWiduId smVvav ni
no more watews." IifTi simfnmr
manner Mine. Patti told mo once, when
I informed her that it was on the tapis
to give her by subscription a golden
laurel crown. ""What," she exclaimed,
"another laurel crown! That is the
forty-third, then. Pray tell them I
would by a long way prefer a diamond
bracelet." Poor Mozart would have
preferred cash. He was not born with
a grand soprano voice; he was not ready
with his roulades to tickle the ear of
opera-goers: he was only a composer
of immortal works, sacred and operatic.
vocal and instrumental, which, after
his death, have formed the study and
admiration of generations: but then he
would have hail to be dead in order to
have what to live on. His father
preached to him perpetually about the
necessity of making money, and not to
give hundreds of lessons for nothing
which is very kind, but very stupid
Mozart replied that he thought so long
as ho was well he was quite uncon
cerned, bceausc happiness was merely
imagination. This is an idea which
seems much nearer truth than one
might think, because if you can con
tent yourself with $200 a year, aud you
have no further wants, you may be
happy; while a palace, a yacht, a pack
of hound.s forty horses in the stable, if
you wish for a throne, will not suffice
to make you so. Mozart was not ex
travagant in his desires. In one house
he gave the daughters lessons for the
dinner; in another for the supper, and
when he was paid he received eighty
cents per lesson, Temple Bar.
Contemptible Bank Directors.
Mr. Coldcash Say, have you hoard
the news?
Smithers No, what is it?
Coldcash Why, the Argentine bank
has gone up.
Smithers O, the scoundrels ! I
might have known such a rascally set
of bank directors would rob the depos
itors. -
Coldcash Why, did you have any
monev in it?
Smithers Every cent I made over
to my wife before I failed the last time.
O, the scoundrels! The Rambler. t
-.
An excellent quality of paper has
been made from the pulp of the banana
but as yet no legitimate use has been
found for the eel thereof, except as a
substitute for ice on the sidewalk. -i-Lowell
Citizen. - 4
SENSE OF TOUCH.
Th Most Complex aud Levitt Understood
of the Uaman Senses.
Of all the senses we possess tho senso
of touch is at once the most complex
and the least understood. Blindness
and 'de:ifncss are only too common, and
we can all more or less appreciate tho
nature and extent of these dire afflic
tions. But who ever thinks how he
would be affected by deprivation of the
capacity to feel, inability to dis
tinguished by touch between smooth
ness and roughness, heat and cold, "or
by an impaired power to receive the
various sensations of pain and pleasure
which reach us through the surface of
the body? How is it that tho same
finger which tells us that a substance is
! hard or soft tells us also that it is hot
tare? if not how comes it that a
single touch of the finger conveys to
the brain, in the same instant, two
distinct impressions, perhaps three, for
the substance in question may be wet,
as well as hot or cold, hard or soft?
Physiologists can not tell us; they only
know that the sensations so conveyed
are separable, and that the ways by
which they reach the brain are not the
same. The subject is by no means new,
but fresh light has lately been thrown
on it by the researches of two Swiss
savants, M. A. Herzen and Prof. Soret
The observations of these gentlemen,
besides being highly interesting,
psychologically as well as physiolo
gically, are of considerable practical
importance in their relation to the
training of the blind.
Pressure on a limb as, for instance,
when we fall asleep lying on one of
our arms if continued for some time,
makes it more or less numb. It grad
ually loses the power of transmitting
Sensations to the brain. According to
rtheobserrations of M. Herzen, the first
sense lost is that of touch, the second
that of cold, the third that of pain, the
last .that of heat He says that when
one of his arms is so torpid that he has
to feel for it with the other, and it is
impervious to a pinch or a prick, it is
still sensible to the warmth of the other
hand. If the pressure be prolonged,
the limb ceases to be affected even by
heat There are people, otherwise
healthy, whose capacity of feeling is so
far incomplete that they never know
what it is to be cold so far as sensations
conveyed by the skin are concerned.
Winter is the same to them as summer.
This probably arises from an abnormal
condition of the spinal cord. M. Her
zen mentions the case of an old woman
whose legs, partially paralyzed, could
feel only pain and cold. At her autopsy
it was found that the spinal cord in the
neighborhood of the nervous centres of
the back was shriveled and otherwise
in an unhealthy state. But M. Herzen
has not rested content with observa
tions on his own species; he has made
experiments on the lower ani
mals, classified several of the sensations
of touch, and discovered their loca
tions in the organism; and Prof. Soret,
taking up the psychological branch
of the subject, has tried to find out how
far the sense of touch ma" be made to
convey to the sightless an idea of the
beautiful. For as a deaf musician may
enjoy music, despite his deafness, so
may a blind man find pleasure in
beauty of form, notwithstanding his
blindness. In the one case the pleas
ure comes from the rhythm, or rather
from sonorous vibrations in the air,
produced by the playing; in the other
from the symmetry and regularity of
the object handled.
"When music is going on I feel
something here," said to M. Soret a
deaf mute who enjoyed operas, putting
his hand on his stomach. The blind,
evon those born blind, as Prof. Soret
has ascertained by inquiries among the
inmates of the Blind Asylum of Lau
sanne, have the same love of symme
itJt as t!i: deaf. The irirl embroiderers
attach much importance to the perfect
regularity of the designs which they
are required to reproduce in their work".
The banket-makers insist on the willow
withes they use being all straight and
of the same length. Solutions of con
tinuity in the things they handle are.
to the blind, indications of ugliness.
They like evenness of surface, regular
ity of shape: a cracked pot. a rough
table or a broken chair causes them
po-itive discomfort But to create in
the mind of a person born blind au
artistic idea involves a measure of psy
chological development which it is very
diihVult to impart, and requires from
both teacher and scholar groat pa
tience and long-sustained effort. Pall
M'tll Gazette.
OPIUM-DRINKING.
A Terrible Habit Prevalent Aiiuinjr
glWIi Miui:r' Wive-t.
Some startling t:itenionts a? to
prevalent ns of opium in England
Kn-
thc
arc
contained in tho yearly report just sub
mitted to tiie Spuiuiyinnor local board
by Dr. O'll-mlovi, their medical ollicer,
who has occupied that post for eight
years. The medical ollicer thus writes:
"Few people arc aware of the enor
mous consumption of opium by miners'
wives. They are left alone "either a
"Efat part of tin; dav or niirht and one
tenches the other the habit." From
inquiries we have math of local experts
in drugs itwoulu appear that the opium
draughts which Or. O'Hanlon says arc
consumed in "enormous" quantities,
though of so .highly deleterious a
nature, may be enjoyed without re
striction by tho-e who are infatuated
with the degrading vice. Medical men
tell us that the decoction is one of
simple prescription. About two and
a half ounces of opium arc di
luted in a pint of proof spirit
and the nee.-.-sary ingredients may bu
purchased of the chemists practically
without let or hindrance. The condi
tion induced by opium-drinking is that
of. intoxication after another fashion.
The serious nature of the statements
forthcoming from Dr. O'Hanlon in
duced us to commission one of our
representatives to make personal in
quiries on the spot as to the extent and
general features of the alleged evil.
The investigations made leave it clear
that among the profession in Spcnny
moor. Dr. O'Hanlon is alone in hi?
bold and emphatic declaration with
respect to opium-drinking. It must
be remembered that this is not the lirst
time that Dr. O'Hanlon has publicly
denounced the vice of opium-drinking;
aud we may here mention that both Dr.
Parsons and Dr. Page, who are attached
to the ollices of the local Government
board, have each, at former periods,
been in communication with Dr.
O'Hanlon on the same subject, and
have leen satisfied by the doctor that
the reports rest upon foundations of
truth, strengthened by observation and
experience. It would be idle, on tho
other hand, to attempt to conceal the
indignation which prevails among
those at whom the doctor paints his
linger. KorUiem Ec10.
A man who was not of much ac
count himself was forever boasting of
his ancestrj. A plain farmer, tired of
this nonsense, asked him why his family
were like a hill of potatoes. He gave
it up. "Why," said the farmer, "the
best part of them are under ground."
Western Rural.
In the United States every 200th
man takes a college course; in England,
every 500th; in Scotland, every 615th;
and in Germany every 213th. Chicago
Herald.
The Alta California'' s advice , on the
Chinese question: "60 slow and driv
in the middle of the road."
MISCELLANEOUS.
A California Chinaman recently
ran away with another Chinaman's
wife, and, to throw the pursuers off the
trail, took her aboard a steamboat rolled
up' in a lot of blankets, carrying her on
his shoulder.
The petrified skeleton of a whale
over thirty feet long has been discov
ered by air officer of the Coast Survey
nn u r-moro (if niniintniiw in Inntm-.iv
County, Cal., over thirty-three hundred
ieet above the sea level.
Artificial sponge made of cotton
rendered absorbent and treated wit
antiseptics, has been invented in En
gland. A piece of the- .-ize of a walnut
has absorbed water until it reached the
size of a cocoauut. It is so cheap that
it need be used but once.
French proof-readers in the Gov-
eminent office are paid $9.00 per week;
machine men, $1.75 to $2.25 per day;
bookbinders and pressmen. $1.00 to
$1.25 per day, and type-founders. .!).25
per week; laborers, $10.25 per mouth.
N. Y. Mail.
A learned Berlin professor has
given to the world the information of
what makes a "merry twinkle." It is
caused by a peculiar abri liar-like move
ment of the lids, the orbicularis palpe
brarum and the parts around the nose.
The new reading of "Twinkle, little
star," would then be: "Abrillar-like
movement of the lids, the orbicularis
palpebrarum and the parts around the
nose, diminutive satellite." llochester
Posl-Exjtress.
Overheard in a street ear: First
lady Why, yon know, dear, my hus
band is too forgetful for anything.
Why, do you know, when he goes out
he really don't remember- where he is
going. Second lady Well, all men
are alike. They keep on talking and
half the time they forget where they
are going. Firstiady (to conductor)
Stop at College street, please. Con
ductor Two blocks back, madam.
Ncio Haven Ac.vw.
If the populous and fertile region
Known as Wyoming county, .N. I., is
not shortly transferred into a howling
wilderness it will not be the fault of Mr.
Samuel Woleott', an enterprising citi
zen of Arcade, who proposes to start a
skunk ranch. The animals will be
raisod on an extensive scale for their
hides, which brin;; a hi;h price in the
market. Mr. Woleott has already ob
tained one hundred breeders, and the
business is expected to prove very re
munerative. A skunkery has at least
this advantage over a chicken farm,
that no one will, in all probability, at
tempt to steal tiie skunks from their
perches at night. Buffalo Express
It is not surprising that Mrs. Wil
helmina Brown, of Louisville, Ky..
should have been disgusted when she
learned that her daughter Ellen had
cloned with a newspaper man; but she
bhouhl not have permitted herself to be
so far overcome with grief as to light
a lire in the range and then lie down
upon it. Such a proceeding could not
have removed the tain from the honor
of the Brown family, even if Mrs. B.
had succeeded in roasting herself. But,
fortunately, before she was nuite done.
a neighbor came in and took her oft
the stove. At latest accounts her pros
pects of recovery were fair to middling.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mr. Alford married during the
second year of the late war. He only
had $4.80 to start out with, and this is
the way he got it: His father was a
mechanic and was gone all the week
at his work. When he came home
every Saturday night he gave each of
his children a five-cent piece. James
had a disposition to save. He got s.
piece of timber and bored a hole in it
to lit the half-dimes and every one his
father gave him he put in this unique
savings bank. He kept this plan up
until he married. Upon investigation
he found he had saved $4.80. With
this capital the young farmer begac
the battle of life. To-day he is worth
over $10,000. Uarlwell (Oa.) Sun.
L
LOOKING FOR GREEN.
Th Smart Detroit Urumnier Fails to
Col.
lect the Bet.
A traveler for a wholesale Detroit
house was waiting in the depot at Pon-
tiac the other day when a stranger ap
proached him and asked:
"Lsn'tyour name Green, of Grand
Rapids?"
"No, air."
"Ah! beg your pardon, I never saw
him but expected him here to meet 1110.
Green is going to travel with a circus
this year, and was to give me twenty
live dollars to post him up on some new
catches."
"So you've got something new?"
queried the Detroiter.
"Yes, afew things. There is one little
trick I gave to a drummer a few weeks
ago, and he's made seventy-live dollar
on it already."
"May be you'd be kind enough to
give it away to me? I'm one of the
bovs, yon know!"
"Certainly. The trick is to tell the
date of any coin a man may have in
his pockets without your looking at it."
"But you can't do that."
"O, yes, I can. Have you got any
coins in yoHr pocket?"
"Yes; twenty of them."
"Well; I can write down the date of
each and every one of them."
"Say, I'll bet you ten dollars you
can't!" exclaimed the drummer.
"Done!" eaid the other, as he pulled
out a bill.
A very respectable-looking man was
standing by, and the money was placed
in his hands.
"Now," said the sharper, "you turn
your face to the wall and fold your
arms. I will write down the date and
compare them."
At the end of three minutes he had
twenty dates, and they put the coins
on the scat to make a comparison.
The man had hit only two dates out of
the lot.
"I'll take that tenner," said tha
Detroiter, as he rose up and looked.
But he never did. The stakeholder
had slid out, and the man with the trick
was a bigger chap than he cared to
tackle. Detroit Free Press.
CLOTHING FOR DOGS.
A. Trade Which Has Bee a Developed Dur.
w ins the Fast Year.
"Famishing decorations and clothing
for dogs is developing into a great
trade," said a manufacturer to a re
porter recently. "In Paris alone nearly
two thousand persons arc engaged in
this business, and the trade represents
nearly one million dollars capital. The
rage for dressing canine pets has
reached New York from Paris. Every
variety of dog has his peculiar dress
and proper toilet and toilet-cases, with
powder, sponge, comb and so forth. It
would be a rank breach of dog manners
for a bull-dog to appear on the street
in the dree of another; indeed, the dog
would pine away from sheer mortilica
tion. Smooth terriers wear bracelets
on some of their legs, and bear in mind
always put the ring on theleftleg. That
is the fashion. As to collars, blankets
for cold weather, netting for warm
weather, the rule holds goodevery
one to its own and no other. We'll very
aeon have aristocratic dogs appearing
on rainy days in long-legged boots
made of doeskin and fastened on with
rubber rings. At certain season! of the
year dogs most be muzzled, and this
calls for fancy and decorated muzzles."
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AYER'S
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