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A NOVEL INSTITUTION.
A PLACE WHERE LONDONERS GO
FOR INFORMATION OF ALL KINDS.
An Office of Uulrerwl Information for
the Publics-Simple System of Anware-xnent-Curlous
faeries Received from
Widely Different Source.
"Nothing is so easy as the invention of
yesterday," is a truism of particular force
when brought in connection with the univer
sal kno w ledge and information office situated
in Southampton street, Bloomsbury, which
iU probably be best known to the our
readers from the sight of elongated persona
with lugubrious faces, dressed in coats reach
ing to thsir feet, and carrying a lightly made
desk, wal'ang along the main thoroughfares
for all the world like a series of new and re
v ised editons "of the Wandering Jew. These
men are perambulating branch offices of the
central information office, and any question
given to them in writing will be forwarded
ts headquarters and replied to without loss
of time. The history of this remarkable in
stitution is brief but curious, sinco it differs
from all siiular undertakings in the fact that
it is neither a commercial concern nor a
money speculation. The establishment of a
universal knowledge and information office
is entirely due to Lord Truro, who started the
office with the double object of benefiting
the public and prov idiug a new opening for
the employment of women. "It was my
idea." said the founder of the bureau in th
course of an interview we had with him on
a recent occasion, "to found a central office,
where anj person could have auy question
answered without delay, where researched
into literature, science an. I art could be con
ducted, where all languages could be written
or trnnsosed, calculations be made, and
statistics be kept always available." Such
an institution is now in a flourishing state of
existence and its work is us various as it is
interesting. .
A SIUrl.K SYSTEM.
The system of arrangement is simple. Cor
resiondenls have been appointed in every
town of iniortauce throughout the world.
Its iuteror working is di ided into depart
ments, each comprising a range of subjects,
from agriculture to Hindoostani and from
literature to engineering. A large staff,
comprising over thirty persons, is kept on
the premises, and among them are linguists
capable of writing and translating every
tongue from Welsh to Japanese aud from.
Portuguese to Greek. One is a practical
chemist, another an engineer, while among
the rest are artists, designers, ladies well up
in the various kinds of tine work. taiestry,
etc., and gentlemen of liberal education and
literary knowledge for general research.
Beside theae some 200 others are employed
on various errands. A large staff is kept
making researches at the British museum,
another at the Guildhall library. In short,
there is no branch of knowledge, language
or subject on which immediate information
cannot be given, providing it is not a ques
tion requiring lengthy research. There are,
However, two things which the office will not
do, and about these Lord Truro, who, by the
way, personally superintends the bureau
every day, is very particular. The first
relates to questions of a detective or in
quisitorial character; the second rule lays
down that the office shall not interfei-e with
any of the professions.
The arrangements in Southampton street
are admirable, but although established only
in January, 1884, the work has outgrown the
space allotted to it and larger premises will
luarc to be shortly- sought. Several hundred
letters are received every morning and more
continue to pour in throughout the day.
Every letter is at onco attended to and put
into the hands of a lady or gentleman in
whose department the inquiry may be. The
questions are next registered in a book and
the answer when sent is also recorded.
Some of these queries are exceedingly curious
and give an interesting insight into the bent
of people's minds. They comprise every
subject, known or unknown languages to be
translated into English and back again
and we may here note that a very large
number of queries come from abroad. The
payment for these foreign questions is gener
ally made in money or stamps of the country
from which the letters come, and in this
way Lord Truro has acquired a large and
curious collection of foreign money and
stamps. Among those we saw were Rus
sian rubles, Roumanian 20 lei pieces, Ital
ian lire, German gulden, American notes
and Spanish dollars, to say nothing of ru
pees and postage stamps galore.
THREE CLASSES OF QUESTIONS.
The questions received in Southampton
street may be divided into three classes
the ordinary, the curious and the ridiculous,
though the last mentioned comprise but a
small minority. Queries respecting hair
dyes, noe machines, quack medicines, etc.,
are, of course, in the ascendant, but of a
more thoughtful kind are those such as that
put by an inquirer wanting to know: "How
can you tell the difference between a blow
and a fall, judging from the effects only1"
Another inquiring mind asks for the address
of "the headuarters of "the non-polygamous
Mormons." Others demand a list of the
different appointment in the gift of the
government for which no examination is re
quired, the first mention of the inebdi, and
where it occurs, why St. James is the patron
saint of Cupar-Fife and fourteen or fifteen
names of men who deal in cotton waste hi
Spain. One correspondent writes from Japan
to learn "the French for opium caste," and
another from Worcester asks "Who is in
possession of two estates in Santa Cruz."
It is the ladies, however, who distinguish
themselves the most, and their queries are
as various as they are instructive. A num
ber liave sent for correct costumes for fancy
dress balls, one even requiring that of the
Queen of Sheba, a request which was met
with a water color sketch of the dame ill
queston correctly costumed. Two different
ladies in different towns have asked for
recipes for preventing blushing, a somewhat
startling fact: indeed, we could have mora
easily understood a prayer for the secret of
an imitation article "Where," asks one
damsel, "can information be obtained as to
the falsetto singing practiced in the Alps,"
and "what," writes another fair maid, "is
the antidote for the poison of a flea' ' The re
quest for a recipe for an ink that will vanish
after it has been on paper eight or ten days
can be easily understood and is often re
peated, but what is meant by the petition
for "full particulars as to flirtation by post
age stamps" we are at a loss to learn. Leav
ing the fair sex and quoting from the gen
eral questions we cull the following: "Who
spoke in the house of commons uninter
ruptedly for twenty-two hours?" "What
are the duties of best men at a wedding"
"How to enter ladies' society?" "What is
the average speed of a fire engine?" "Where
can a dumb piano be purchased?" "Is there
a copyright between England and Russia?"
"Give the names of architects practicing
in Copenhagen." "Give addresses of homes
for ladies suffering from dipsomania," and
"Do Bordeaux pigeons really come from
Bordeaux?"
The registers from which we have quoted
are kept in strict privacy, but were they
available they would give a better insight
into the workings of the minds of the public
than any similar records with which we are
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acquainted. The charges made for answer
ing such questions as these vary considerably,
from 1 shilling for an ordinary query to sev
eral pounds for researches extending over a
icuginy penoa. London Globe.
HOW TO GET STRONG.
Good Advice for WeaklingsSome of Sir.
Blalkle's Maxims.
William Blaikie, the author of that much
read little volume, "How to Get Strong and
How to Stay So," in the course of his lect
ure urged that the education of our bodies
was neglected; that we used our muscles,
but not wisely. Exercise was necessary, and
it should be judicious, well directed and con
stant to be beneficial.
To illustrate how deficient many men were
who were professional athletes, Mr. Blaikie
instanced the case of Edward Hanlan, whom
he had had excellent opportunity to observe
when referee in the famous boat race at
Chautauqua lake, where Courtney's shell
was sawed. "Hanlan hai been pulling all
his life," said the speaker, "and his pulling
muscles were tremendously developed. I
doubted if his pushing muscles were so strong;
so I asked him to try this little exercise."
Here Mr. Blaikie brought forward a couple
of chairs, placed himself between them, his
hands ou the top of the chair backs and did
the "dipping" exercise which was practiced
so much by the late William Cullen Bryant.
'I did this exercise five or six times," con
tinued the lecturer, "and then asked Hanlan
to try. How many times do you suppose
that big, mucular oarsman did it? He got
down on his knees between the chairs and
there he stuck. 'Get up,' said I. 'I can't,'
says he. 'Try hard, ' I urged. 'I am trying
as hard as 1 can,' he protested. Think of
that for the then champion oarsman of
America."
Mr. Blaikie then passed to n review of men
and women who were celebrated for thuir
great achievements, attributing much of
their superiority to their physical strength
an endurance.
Following are some of Mr. Blaikle's
maxims:
One way to derive tienefit from exercise is
to know how to rest.
Fight shy of shower baths; they shock the
heart.
What is the good of superfluous flesh? In
short, what is the good of anything sujer
fluous? Breathe through your nose when running,
and always run on your toes. A runner's
heels should never touch the ground.
Bicycling is a good exercise until you come
to racing.
Deep breathing will save 3011 from many
lung troubles and build up your chest.
Six hours of mental work, or eight at most,
is enough for one da'.
Overwork in a gymnasium is dangerous.
Serious Times.
A Great City's Dead Animals.
"What becomes of the dead animals in a
large city?" asked an official in the health
office yesterday. "I can tell you what be
comes of those we have to deal with. They
are shipped to a rendering establishment
thirty miles south of the city, where they
are skinned, cooked, dried and ground up
into guano. These works are located in a
sort of wilderness just over the Indiana line.
The place is called Globe station, but with the
exception of the huge building in which the
rendering is done there is not a structure for
miles around. No passenger trains run past
this immense animal crematory for the reason
that the stench hanging around the neigh
borhood would nauseate an ordinary person.
The dead nnimals reach the works late at
night. Upon their arrival a nan goes
around yanking off the shoes on the horses'
feet and cutting off their tails and manes.
The dogs, cows, cats and horses are then
taken to the steaming room, where the frost
is taken out of them, after which they are
skinned. The meat is taken off their bones
and cast into a great vat, where it is boiled
to a pulp. From the vat the meat is taken
to a drying room, where it soon hardens. It
is then ground up and sold as one brand of
guano. There is nothing about a dead ani
mal that is not turned to profit. The skin
of the horses is sold for saddle coverings and
boot leggings, while the larger bones of the
noble animd are purchased by manufactur
ers of cutlery. The manes go to the shoe
makers and the long, glossy tails are made
up into livery stable switches. The small
bones of all ntmh are ground up into fer
tilizing material, which is preferred to either
blood or meat guano for the reason that it
contains more lime.
"It costs the city $7,500 a year to dispose
of its dead animals. The owners of the
beasts receive no money for the 'stiffs,' as
they become the property of the city the mo
ment they are removed from the buildings in
whi h they died." Chicago Herald.
Four Cylinders to m Locomotive.
''Thew ie n revolution imnendinir in the
construction of locomotives," said a railroad
engineer the other day, "and the improve
ment, I understand, is due to the success of
the triple expansion engines on ocean steam
ers. Not that compound engines are to be
used for locomotives, but if a number of
cylinders aggregating the same power will
save coal on an ocean steamer why not on a
locomotive. The fact that the present sys
tem is not the best has been well known for
a long time. The transmission of power
through the connecting rods to the two
drivers is an uneconomcial way at best, and
when in going around curves the wheels are
not able to turn in unison one or the other
must slip so long as they are rigidly con
nected. "Now it is proposed to use four cylinders
instead of two, one pair for each set of
drivers. The aggregate power of the four is
equall to that of the two now used, but it
was found in a series of experiments made at
Woolwich arsenal in Euglaudby the British
war office that the power used to move the
locomotive itself was from 30 to 40 per cent,
less with four cylinders than with two. The
experiments were made with an old two
cylinder locomotive altered to use four cylin
ders. Of course the results were not equal
to those that could be obtained with a
mnfhiri tnsde to order. The comimr loco
motive will have a pair of cylidners for each
driving wheel axle." New York Sun.
The Bine Catfish as Game.
All my life I have taken great delight in
fishing, and have had the pleasure of landing
many of the game fishes of our waters.
Among those which have furnished the most
sport is the blue or channel cat.' Of all the
fish that I ever booked it makes the hardest
fight for its life. It differs from them in
that they, when struck, leap out of the water
and rush through it with their mouths open,
thus making it much easier to conquer and
land them; while the catfish takes the hook
in its mouth and starts for the bottom of
the stream or lake with a vim that will test
the tackle of the bsst expert. I have had
more real sport with it than with any other
fidt T aver tackled. It is full of flzht from
the strike to the landing net, and requires
longer to bring it to land than any other of
its weight. Forest and Stream.
A Commendable Art.
It is proposed to the government to an
nounce the coming of storms by firing can
non. The idea seems commendable. Each
signal cannon should be loaded with a
weather prophet. Philadelphia News.
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LOVE IN BOHEMIA.
Bo lay your head on my arm, Lisette;
Have care, ere your little feet get wet
The dew Is bright ou the beiuliag grass,
And the nightingales pipe, '"Alas! alas!"
As they see the rose in damask rain
The garden's emerald border stain.
Cling close with your slender hand, Lisette,
For sweet with kisses we caut forget
Are tha star bright hours that brought us here
A week ago or was it a year?
Di J net my life in the old days hold
Your lips' caress and hair of gold?
Cling closer and fonder still, Lisette,
For the nixht born glamor rules me yet
The spell that came vhen our drifting boat
Saw the snowy gleam of your petticoat,
Aud lore his arrows did through uio suoot,
Front the ambush of a dainty boot.
O. winsome, Ixranie and glad Lisette,
Tie buried life's use-less care and fret
In the red of lips, whosj fragrant breath
Is sweet as tho lily that lures to death
The butterflies with their iris wings
And amorous bees with golden rings.
Ves, lay your head on my heart, Lisette;
Its yellow mesh U tho Cordiau net
That holds me fast, as the nymphs of el J
The radiant charms of Hy las held;
And out from the pat to sunlit plains
i float, bound thus in yuur arms' warm choica.
Who gathers your supple form, Lis.tte,
Owes beauty a tidier balanced debt.
What All your glory and joy are ininj
Ho! garcon! two ilasiLsof anibtr .ine'
Who holds your love at his soul's command
Is king, indeed, of a roj al laud.
Thomas a. ColU-r.
WHEN EVARTS WAS YOUNG.
Hie Early but Iuuoccut Kxperleiu-o with
a Forged Check Silent Amazement.
"Do you know," said a prominent mem
ber of the bar the other day, as he witched
Senator William Maxwell EvarLs sauntering
along past St. Mark's chun-hyard. -that tho
senator's first large lee a a lawyer didn't
do him a bit of pecuniary benefit?"
The reporter didn't know it.
"Well, it's rather a good story,'' the law
yer said, "and a few lawyers evu remem
ber it, it can be told without any fear of the
chestnut annunciator. Tho incident oc
curred in 1S42, when Evarts was only 24
years old anil a slim young lawyer with an
old fashioned choker collar and his inter
rogative forefinger just beginning to bo n
noticeable part of his pract ice. He was then
a criminal practitioner and giving gliinpse3
of that ieculiar mastery of sentences of all
sizes which has kept pace with the effective
use of the forefinger.
"Monroe Eduurds, a very skillful ami con
scienceless penman, had forged a check, got
caught and hired young Evarts to savo him
from Sing Sing. The trial wuia on Juno 0,
and lasted six days. The future senator
stubbed at witness after witness with his
deadly forefinger interrogatories and finally
appealed to tho jury for his client's ac
quittal. It was a marvelous spvch, full of
the fire and impetuosity of youthful enthu
siasm. It was the talk of the courts for
months, and undoubtedly laid the basis of
William Maxwell's fame as an advocate.
But the jury freed itself from the glittering
heap of brilliant sen teni-cs that youiu; Evnrts
piled up on them and found Edwards guilty.
The judge complimented Evarts, and then
sent his client to Sing Sing for ten years.
The prisoner complimented Evarts on his
eloquence, too, and just before he walked into
the sheriff's carriage to go to tho Sing Sing
train gave the tall young advocate a neat
check bearing the signature of a well known
man. It was for several hundred dollars,
and William Maxwell went proudly to tho
bank with it aftor ho had bade his client
good-by.
" 'No good." said the bank cashier when
Evarts lianded it up for deposit.
" 'Why?' cried young William Maxwell,
in amazement.
" 'The signature is a forgery, sir,' the
cashier responded.
"It is related that this was tho only occa
sion in his lifetime that, given a chanco to
use some vigorous and impressive sentences,
William Maxwell Evarts lot the opportunity
slip. He simply stared at the check in
silence." New York Sun.
An Account nf Social Stock.
Take a rapid account of social stock in
New York city. Blackwell's island, two
miles long, ninety acres in extent, studded
from end to end with the epileptic, paralytic,
matenuty and charity hospitals; th? New
York penitentiary sprawling from shore to
shore; tho alms house, the work house, and
the women's lunatic asylum, aud Its growing
population of more than 7,000. Then thero
lies Ward's island, 260 acres, with lunatic
asylums for males, and tho Homeopathic hos
pital, nnd 3, 000 inmates. Separated by Hell
Gate is Randall's island, with infants' and
the Island hospitals, an insane as3'Ium for
idiots, a branch of the penitentiary, an insane
asylum for tho young, and tho House of
Refuge. Then we reach Ricker's island, of
sixty acres, exclusively used for coirectional
institutions. Still further fifty acres with a
hospital for Incurables; a branch workhouse
and a lunatic asylum with U,.700 inmates,
and the ghastly end of tho procession tho
potter's field, 600 acres close along the city,
a witness of its tocial losses. Cor. Globe-
! Democrat.
A Queer Superstition.
Perhaps the strangest fad that any man
has in this town is that of a cashier in a
down town bank, who every 'night at 10
o'clock walks up Fifth avenue to Forty-third
street for the purpose of seeing whether or
not a certain millionaire's front door has
crape tied on it. For four years he has made
this nightly jouroej'. He doesn' know tho
millionaire. He doesn't know any reason
why the millionaire's death should be im
minent. Yet he has a superstition that when
he discovers the crape he looks for, on that
same night some great good fortune is to fall
to his own lot. He bus tried to shako off the
feeling that sends him on this nightly walk
ing tour. It won't shake. And, rain or
shine, he goes religiously up and down the
avenue at 10 o'clock every night.
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Au Author's Confession.
Julian Hawthorne now confesses: ''Almost
everything that I have written has been from
necessity, and there is very little of it that I
shall not be glad to see forgotten."
A Sore Cure.
A correspondent wants to know what is
the best cure for insomnia. Has the gentle
man tried going for several nights without
sleep? Somerville (Mass.) Journal.
Don't Take His Own Medicine.
The man who lectures on tho benefits of
physical exercise takes tho elevator when he
might climb a flight of stairs. New Orleans
Picayune.
The Rev. R. Heber Newton thinks that no
preacher ever sounded the depths of hu
manity as the great poets and dramatists
have done.
The man who will break one of God's com
mandments habitually and continually, if
you will turn bitn loose, will break them all.
Rev. Sam Jones.
The owner of aa eye which is off the
straight line would rather tell a pleasant un
truth than be the bearer of harsh tidings.
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THE MEN WHO SPECULATE.
Uroken-Down Brokers A Large Num
ber Weak to Begin With.
AVhile one sees occasionally a person who
bas made money in Wall street and kept it,
be more" commonly sees the oldest and
strongest habitues down there either poor or
diseased. The brokers require to bo perfect
ly sober to keep their heads, and the cus
tomers as well, yet the conditions of specu
lation demand stimulation, and the wildest
tilings are done when the head is drunk.
You will find the stock exchange and all
other exchanges where speculation rages
surrounded by drinking houses, and a large
proportion of these break in time localise
their proprietors and clerks are drawn into
the market.
A large majority of the men w ho specu
late are weak to begin with. Here and
there ou find u hard brained man, without
much sensibility, started in life amid rough
associations, and to him the stock exchange
is rather a mild and lc-caltniiig society. He
has learned to be reticent, not to talk much,
not to show either his looses or his gains, and
such a one extending his acquaintance may
possiLly co-operate in time with his equals or
supci.urs aud force the quotations according
to his bets, for it is all betting in every event.
Politi.IaC', people of literary turns, actors,
ofilceiof the regular army, advanced clerks
in mercantile houses, keepers of saloons,
butchers, hotel men. are among the sources
of supply tor the stock exchange. Many of
these have not much training or education,
uul but little niorjtl courage; yet the atmos
phere of Wall street is as genial us that of a
gambling house v hen a stranger enters it.
on go intu 1 lie old t.tshioned gaming house,
it uny sueh exist in our day, and you find
polite attention everywhere; order Mnd quiet
are maintained. The chief gambler is the
essence f discretion nnd composure. So in
Wall street you can find the most agreeable
I'xponeuts of human nature, often Useful
men: th h- age for a Wall street man
seems to b.- about -10. These broker are not
often toi.R They have often !een mer
chants, contractors, builders of railway lines,
aud approach the speculative part of their
woik from the lnnte and wholesome end.
He who goes to Wall street had best pos
sess some experience f ical life beforehand.
When a man is worn out there and his money
Ion there U not the least use for him, even
where good cliarity is exercised, liecausu the
business of the street is to buy nnd sell stocks
for commissions, uud to work without any
security of pay is a bore to the broker nnd a
bad example to his customers, besi los un in
asion of liis book keeping and demoraliza
tion at large. In the ordinary pursuits of life
reckoning day conies every quarter or twice
a year, but in Wall street it conies every
1 lay. "It is u rule of the street to follow up
margins closely and collect them promptly.
The mere sucker who goes down there with
a few thousand dollars has but littlo idea of
the huge brute strength he may have to en
counter in the very room where hekeejis his
uccount. He would hardly go to a private
joker room where experts played in order to
hide his purse Hnd his hand: why then should
he enter a business olllco where thjy gamble
f 10m 0 o'clock until 3, only six hours out of
the twenty-four, consider that he is privi
lesed in his communications!' No doubt
there l.-i considerable honor among the
brokers, but a good many of Iheso brokers
are themselves ujwrators, and in ninny cases
they have no other know ledge tnan an ordi
nary newspaper reader or topographical
traveler would have of the condition of cor
porations. "Oath" ' in Boston Globe.
How Archer Killed Himself.
In his early days of riding he was so slight
ly built that he often had to carry as much
u two or three stone of dead weight, but 03
age crept' upon him his daily study was to
keep bi'low his normal bodily weight of ten
stone. To effect this he ltad to go through
shocking privations in the way of sweating,
starving ami physicing. For the first named
purpose he had special Turkish baths built
at his private residence while the chief piece
of furniture in his library was a pair of veiy
sensitive scales. He would exist for a whole
day upon a bunch of gapes, or a single piece
of dry toast and a glass of champagne. Of
this treacherous wine he was particularly
fond, but ho woidd touch none but the very
best brands. He declared that it kept him
alive without in any way Interfering with
his weight. It must not, however, be in
ferred that his table was niggardly. On the
contrary, it was always supplied in bounti
ful fashion, for he was a grand host. His
self denial was marvelous, for when he must
have been simply ravenous with hunger, he
would preside at his table surrounded by the
most tempting viands and j-et merely munch
a dry' biscuit or his hard burned toast.
When the pangs of hunger got almost past
the power of man to resist the temptation to
eat, he would adjourn to his library, test
his weight 0.1 his trusty scales, shake lus
head at the last obstinate pound which re
fused to "come off," and then retire to bed
to be out of the way of the savory smell
from the kitchen. Nature, however, rebelled
against this treatment, and the punishment
came suddenly and swiftly. The last straw
that broke the camel's back was the attempt
to get down to eight stone six pounds to ride
St. Miriu in the Cambridgeshire. He felt
that it was his last chunee to win that event,
aud he had made up his mind to do it at
whatever cost. He rodo but did not win.
On tho contrary he was u wreck, nerveless
and dispirited, and utterly without stamina.
In this condition he went to Brighton and
Lowes, und sufl'ered exposure on the bleak
dow lis in a thin shirt uud silk jacket, with a
pair of hunting breeches. The inevitable
chill followed and the fever demon seized
upon a frame ill prepared to withstand its
lavages. London Letter.
Tricks or Shoplifters.
"We have to keep a pretty sharp lookout
for thieves these days, said one of the floor
walker of a down town store. "The lifters
are up to several new tricks this 3'ear, and,
working us they do in the great crowds of
buyers, it is a difficult matter to spot them
at once. Some of their new games? One of
them is to roll a flvo cent piece or some other
small coin over the counter so it will fall
w here tho saleslady is standing. The latter
stoops down to pick up the money for the
customer, and while she is doing this the
lifter stows away one or two of the artfcles
displayed on the counter. Another trick is
to approach the jewelry counter with small
package, one end of -which is smeared with
tar or some other sticky substance. The
'lifter' asks to be shown some rings, which he
removes from the traj's and distributes
about the top of the show case. He drums
on the glass with one corner of the sticky
end of tho package until a favorable op
portunity presents itself, when he suddenly
jabs it down upon u gold band and strolLs
away saying as he does so that he will call
around ngniu. Those are two of the new
tricks. There may be a great many others,
but wo haven't got on to them yet." Chi
cago Herald.
A KoTel Ballet.
A novel ballet produced at a London
theater illustrates. 13' means of costumes
and accessories, tho most beautiful speci
mens of Dresden ware. Statues in imita
tion of carytides bearing baskets of flowers,
shepherdesses and groujis of figures in Dres
den and Saxony china, makes a unique
stage decoration. New Orlcins Times
Democrat. JOURNAL,
WITH THE
PRAIRIE FARMER,
Both One Year For
$2
HORACE GREELEY.
AH INSTANCE WHERE HE DID NOT
ADVISE TO "GO WEST."
Confidential Words from the Great Edi
tor Prophesying the Day Editorials
and Literary Journalism Would Be
Diiorced from tbo Commercial.
A number of years ego I found myself in
New York with a few dollars in my pocket,
over which I was debating at the cross
roads of indecision as to whether I should
invest it in an attempt to got a foothold in
journalism on some of the metropolitan
papers, or go west, whitber the star of in
tellectual as well as material empire seemed
to point the way.
I had brought with me from my Now
England home a letter of introduction to
Horace Greeley, given me by a distinguished
American poetess, to whom he had long
been attached by tho closest spiritual ties.
Rut so much had I heard of tho savage
humors with which one was liable to bo
confronted, should his presence happen to
bo ill timed, that I felt like one who carried
a free pass to enter a lion's cage, and the
certainty that the pass would carry me up
when ones delivered made it all the more
uncomfortable in my pocket.
On the afternoon when 1 had determined
to hariird the die I passed and repassed the
old Tribune building sevei al times on the
opposite side to get my first journalistic
wind, for I was scarcely more thau u
blushing, shriuking New England boy,
who felt constrained in the presence of
"great mon' to assume tho uttitude of a
toad looking up at St. Peter's.
But I finally gathered myself up, and
sighting the door of The Tribune office,
crossed the street with firm aud steady
tread, and soon had my card in the hands of
tho office boy, who disappeared with it up
stairs. After a few awful moments tiie lad
returned and bade me follow. I ascended a
couple of flights of rickety stairs and soon
reached a door which looked as though it
might b9 an entrance to the top loft of a
grist mill. I entered, and as the door closed
behind me seated myself cautiously upon a
dilapidated chair, for the abiding spirit into
whose presence I had entered turned not
round uor made any sign of recognition.
1 shall never forget the picture of that
editorial "den" if that can bo called a
picture which is thrown together by the
demons of disorder and chaos. Papsrs,
IiamphleUi, books, unused copy, old hats
and editorial brio-a-brao of all descriptions
wore scattered about promiscuously. Mr.
Grcwloy's traditional gray coat was flung
into tho corner, with his slouched bat rest
ing tranquilly upon it. A generous profu
sion of cobwebs und dust forced upon the
visitor's attention the conspicuous absence
of broom, soap nnd toilet furniture. Verily
here was the fitting abode of intellectual
Rattlebones the disputed realm of Rhada
manthus and the S.:u god.
. The figure, w ho-; brawny back was turned
toward me. was elevated on an antique
chair, tho limbs of which seemed to be hold
ing rivalry with those of its occupant. Be
fore him was a desk nearly as high as his
shoulders, on the tide of which was a iot of
ink, set in a pile of quills. The iapcr on
which he wrote was held at a vertical
angle. With his great hand grasped firmly
around thn quill, as though it were tho lever
that moved tho world, he would thrust it
into tho ink pot, and then with a motion
projected from a level with the eye ho
would swing it across and back on the paper,
as though it were a jackplane, till the
sheet was full. Whoever saw Horace Gree
ley swing his quill in that weird sanctum
witnessed a species of "technique" the liko
of which was never seen before in this world
and will probably never be seen again.
When he had finished the editorial upon
which ho was at work he scrambled the
sheets together, scribbled out the headline,
and calling a boy sent the copyjup to the
compositors. Fortunately for me it hap
pened to bo his last office work for that
day, and now my time had come. After
reading over the lady's note, which recom
mended me to his kindest consideration, as
a youth of more promise than experience in
the literary world, he turned to me, and
setting his specs upon his spacious temples,
said: "Well, young man."
Heavens! thought I, now the rest is com
ing. But that which came did not point
westward, but pointed rather, as subsequent
experience has since taught, to the best
sense within me.
"I am in a mood," he continued, "in
deference to my dear friend Mrs. W., to give
you my very best advice as to the advisa
bility of entering upon journalism a3 a
profession, ft you have brains, conscience
and independent creative, literary ability,
my advice to you is to keep away from the
newspapers and work your level best in pa
tience till you can make a point as a maga
zine writer. You have then laid tho corner
stone of your record, aud if you sustain it
the way is certain for j-ou to bo rated for
all you are worth in literature. A news
paper is primarily a commercial enterprise,
whose proprietors are engaged in the trade
of buying mid selling news and of furnish
ing the various members of rociety with
the means of making known to each other
their wants and trade facilities. Outside
of this it is incidentally a literary reforma
tory and educational enterprise; but these
latter phases are bound to be largely sub
servient to the commercial purposes upon
which tho enterprise financially floats. It
is for this reason that young men are not
usually taken into a newspaper office, ex
cept they are willing to begin as new3
gatherers, and thus make a thorough under
standing of the commercial side of journal
ism the groundwork of their efficiency. It
will not probably be in my time, young
man, but the day is coming when the edi
torial and literary side of a newspaper will
be divorced from the commercial. That
day is not yet arrived, and the man who
advertises caudles, pills and old junk in a
great journal feels that the editor is morally
responsible to him for his views on potatoes,
economics and education. You are young,
and will probably live to see the day when
distinctively literary bureaus outside of tho
newspaper office will furnish the editorial
and literary miscellany of the coming
great journal over responsible signatures.
This will extricate editorial integrity from
commercial pressure and make the news
paper a power for good which it finds it
hard to be at present."
The fading twilight was struggling to
reach the great blue eyes of the Tribune
philosopher through the dirt-begrimed win
dow as these confidential worfls were being
spoken in a spirit of .somewhat touching
kindness. 1 felt that I had caught Horace
Greeley in happy moments w hen his great
beautiful self was ready to come to the sur
face. As he rose to look after his coat and
hat, he concluded:
"Now, young man, I have given you my
best advice, and you must do as you think
best. If you want to try journalism, go
down and tell Mr. Reid from me to take
care of you; but whatever you do, try to
make it pay to be a man! Good-by!"
Henry Appleton in New York Star.
There is a rush of gold seekers to the coun
try on tho Straits of Magellan.
2 a year.
ADVERTISE IX THE JOURNAL
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WAYS OF THE JAPANESE.
A Baltimore Iteporter Interviews m
Native Interest Inn Information.
"Tell me something utoiit social life in
Japan." said the reporter. "First of all,
have you any dudes over there'
Tomati at first did not "ketch ou,' but
understood what the scribe meant when
"fashionable young men" was substituted
for dudes. He remarked that the sw ell young
men in the city of Tokio had their clubs
like Europeans where they went to pxss the
time. "Everything European and Ameri
can," he said, "is considered the height of
fashion in Japan among the high toned
people. Three years ago the sack coat was
all the rage. The mass of ieopIe, however,
wear the old time costumes. European
dress is adopted in the urmy and navy, by
courtiers and by the police."
The reporter in the course of conversation
elicited othtr interesting data. Japanese
young men of fashion vfc.it the girls just as
they do in this country, take them out to
restaurants uud fill them up with ice cream.
They have bulls und parties where waltzing
is indulged in ad libitum. The waltz, how
ever, is u very recent innovation, but is liked
by the Japanese exceedingly. The costumes
of the ladies in Japan are more in conson
ance with the dress retorm movement thau
those of American and European girLs.
first of all no corset is worn. The long
silk sash supplies the place of steel and
whalebone. This sash is wrapjed round
and round the waist loosely, and the ends
bang down U-tiiuJ. There is no large,
elaborate lv pinned against the back liko
t.iose st-,.i hi the representation of the
"Mife.l- ou our stage.
Some of tne ultra fashionable girls of To
kio, hwcit-r, hae adopted a method of
making tht-ir wai-s look smaller according
to the Euroeaii modes, but no corset is Used
simply a belt buckled around the waist.
The ludics are fond of picking the strings of
the banjo, and are up to the times in a fash
ion which has lieen greatly in vogue among
mcricau girs. Japanese girls prettily ut
tire themselves in much the same underwear
as American women, but their stockings
aie built more on the order of a mitten for
the hand, there lrt-iicj a M'jwrate receptacle
for the big toe
A verv curious fact the rejMirter gleaned
from the interpreter was this: The Jaaii
ce think that all Euroieaus have very old
types of faces. Baltimore News.
How Kmil obi Works.
Zola writes everything himself, he never
has a secretary for his extensive corre
spondence. He even seals bis wruppersand
addressed them when be sends his trieuds
brochures or his translators material. H
nlso writes bis literary manuscript himself.
Out of it the printers comjose what are
called "placards," large pa'es with four
gigantic columns of text. These are sent
to the author carefully revised and tree
from errors, ami then Zola Lt-gins to cor
rect, lie tills the wide margin all round
with hundreds of marks and letters, ink
lines cut through the text, thin threads, run
crossways and diagonally, entwining lik- ;i
lasso a sentence -cribbled in an open spac...
scarcely a lint is ext uiptcd from the hiero
glyphics of the master. Here a note f in
terrogatioii must make 100:11 lor one of ex
clamation: hero n semicolon is changed into
u full t-oint; a emma bctore or alter the
ot elVcttively divides a phrase: participles
are replaced by adjcctio: substantives
take the place of pronouns; redundant ad
verbs must also disapjK?ar: "the past
definite" is siibst itutcd for the "imierfect;"
more descriptive woiiLs supply the place of
tame olio: for au expression repeated in
five or six pages a synonym Ls introdeued:
whole phrases ure remodeled, sentences are
condensed into two or three words, and
even half columns are ruthlessly consigned
at once into the compositor's type case.
It must be a bitter task to break up the
print again; but there is no help for it. The
extra fees charged elsewhere on authors for
corrections ure not known; nobody com
plains; author uud publisher rival each
other in a common endeavor after perfec
tion. After such a corrected text the Paris
journal prints; and the translations are done
in exactly the same way. Cor. Allgeineino
eitung.
Father aud Mother.
Up to the time a child can talk and say
funny things she it is generally particu
larly so with female chlidren she is her
.mother's jxet. Then she is taken possession
of by the male parent. A little while after
she is bom the new made parent likes tha
novelty of dandling her, but that does not
last long. Then for a while she is a nuis
ance to the father, but when she begins to
get "cute" and cuimiug. when her mother
has with infinite cure and affection de
velojivd her infantile brain, the futher steps
in uuil begins to muuo)olize the credit.
It isn't fair. But the mother always lets
him, and contents herself with lavishing
utlectiou 011 her and attending to the details
the uninteresting details of keeping her
clean.
Fond parents come to me and tell me of
their precocious progeny. It's an excel
lent thing e-sjiecially in mothers; but I no
tice that win 11 a lady tells me a story of her
baby, he says "our baby," but when a fa
ther talks he always begins nbout "mj lit
tle girl,'" and generally s.,s. "I have a little
daughter." I never met -i chlid yet whose
best ideas were not derived from tho mother.
I have heard of children who bad been
petted bv their fathers, but they generally
talked slang, which their fathers thought
awfully bright. San Francisco Chronicle.
Vustnes of Victoria's Keajiu.
The vitstness of the British Indian empire
is curiously illustrated by the enormous
records of mortalitv. which are taken quite
as a matter of course by the sanitary i-oui-
missioners' reports. I hits, as The Times
of India .points out. in the report for Ben
gal during the last year, it is incidentally
stated as a matter of no .particular moment
that in Orissa alone no tower than 1,1.000
.persons must have perished through tho
effects of a cyclone and storm wave with
out any record of their death being kpt.
The chowkidars who should have-reported
the event to the government were swept
away with the villages; no one was left to
tell the tale. Again, cholera raged in "0.000
villages, causing 1T:,767 deaths, while
1,042,0-12 persons died from fever. Alto
gether 1,. 100,000 of deaths were registered
in Bengal, exclusive of the .".O.GOO caused by
the cyclone. On the other hand, there were
1,600,000 births to counterbalance the loss
of .population. Chicago Herald.
D0111 Pedro's Aunt.
Doni Pedro's venerable aunt, the esteemed
and lieautiful Princess Isabella Maria Con
cepion Jane Charlotte Gualberta Anna Fran
cis of Assisi Xaviera I'uula d'Alcanteray
Antoinette l'aphncla Michuelu Gabriella
Joachina (inuzagn eh? where were we!"
what was it
iugton Post.
h, yes is dead. Wash-
Would 'rt Surrender.
A marble bust of Gen. Daumesuil is to bo
placed in one of the Versailles galleries. It
was he to whom Blucher, in a letter, offered
$600,000 if he would capitulate at Vin
cennes. "I shall not surrender,'" replied Dau
mesnil, "nor shall I return your letter it
shall le an heirloom to 1113- children." And
it was all he left them. Chicago Journal.
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Piles, or no pay required. It is guar
anteed to f'ive perfect satisfaction, or
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J3TDenosits received and interest paid
ou time deposits.
22rDrafts on the principal cities in this
country aud Europe bought and sold.
JSTCoUectious. and all other business
giveu prompt and careful attention.
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Consultations in German and English.
Telephones at otlice and residences. .
SSTOth'ce on Olive street, next to Brod
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Just opened. Special attention given
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can addieas Ule ut Columbus, Neb., or
call at my otlice in C ourt Heine.
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I will be at my otlice in the Court House
the third Saturday of each mouth for the
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Chronic Diseases and Diseases of
Children a Spccialtv.
JSyotlice on Olive -treet, three doors
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