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ENGLISH PARLIAMENT;
THE MOST CELEBRATED REPRE'
SENTATIVE BODY IN THE WORLD.
What May be Seea by a Vlaitor li
GalleryvHow Boslneaa is Conducted.
No Limit to the Length of Spssta .
Mr. Gladatone the Chief Magnet.
A visitor goes down to Westminster, let us
say on Monday, when the house of commons
is to meet, at 4 p.m. (nominally), in order to
see the oldest and most celebrated representa
tive body in tao world. After being elbowed
about among the "strangers (as the British
wh.t t.
public are officially designated in
supposed by a polite fiction to be their bouse)
and ordered about by policemen who look at
him as though be was a spy or a traitor, the
visitor takes his seat in the gallery and
glances down into the arena. It is 4 p.m.,
and the speaker is in bis chair, but there are
few members present, and nothing seems to
bo doing. Af tcr a while the visitor becomes
aware of a dumb show going on a sort of
pantomime in which the chief performers are
a clerk in wig and gown at the table and
a gentleman who stands at the right bond
side of thai piece of furniture. It is tuo read
ing of the private bills. If any of these
should be opposed, members will flock in, and
there will bo a debate and division. But
otherwise tho chamber will be almost empty.
Gradually members come straggling in and
take their seat. There is scarcely room in
the body of tho chamber for two-thirds of the
members, and therefore as the benches fill up
the late arrivals take their places in the side
galleries, whence they survey the scene.
There are no conveniences for writing or
taking notes, and as nearly every one has his
hat on, a less businessliko working body it
would bo difficult to imagine or describe. It
is more than 4 :o0 o'clock before the real busi
ness begins, for these gentlemen who are sup
posed to be dovoting themselves to the service
of their country arc really engaged during
the working part of the day on their private
affairs. Their beat energies are given to th
stock exchange, or the law courts, or the
office, or to pleasure; the dregs they kindly
offer to the unfortunate country.
BEGINNING OF BUSINESS.
Tho first indication of business is in the no
tices of motion, members (who are called by
name), reading out the terms of a resolution
which they announce they will move on a
given occasion. Then cornea "question time,"
which generally consumes from three-quarters
of an hour to nearly two hours. Any
member who has previously given notice of
his intention may put a question to any mem
ber of the government in the house on any
subject, from a momentous diplomatic inci
dent down to the parish pump of Little Ped
lington. It cannot be denied that these ques
tions sometimes bring forth valuable infor
mation, but that information might all be
printed, instead of valuable time being con
sumed in the answers. For be it remem
bered that these answers are, in at least half
the instances, all written down by officers in
the particular department, and the minister
merely reads what has been prepared for
him.
To show the absurdity of this in reference
to Ireland and the consequent necessity of
home rule there, a member gives notice on
Monday of a question be will put on Thurs
day to the Irish secretary. That gentleman
probably knows nothing of the subject matter
of the question. He writes or telegraphs to
Dublin for information and on Thursday re
ceives a reply from Dublin which he solemnly
reads in the house. It would bo difficult to
conceive greater inaptitude. Some of the an
swers given evoke party demonstrations on
one side or the other, for the house is always
full at question time. Whether it will be full
immediately after depends upon the subject
and the speaker. If there is an adjourned
debate to be opened by an eminent member,
most of the other members retain their places.
Mr. Gladstone is, of course, the chief magnet;
be attracts every one. Next to him Lord
Randolph Churchill draws the fullest bouse;
and after that erratic politician would come
Mr. Parnell, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Morley,
Sir W. Harcourt, Sir W. Lawson, Mr. Sex
ton and Mr. Chamberlain. But if an unim
portant or dull man rises to speak there is a
regular stampede, and where 400 or 500 men
were just now sitting you will not see mors
than forty or fifty. The rest have gone to
talk political gossip, or to write letters, or to
see some of their constituents.
ARRAY OF EMPTY BENCHES.
By 7 p. m., or a little after, as a general rule,
nearly all the members have gone to dinner,
and the chamber presents a beggarly array of
empty benches. To these empty benches and
to the weary speakers the bores and wind
bags bold forth for three mortal hours. The
period from 7 to 10 is generally sacred to
them. They have nothing to say and they
say it very badly. You have read or beard
all the old dreary arguments a hundred time
over; but these men bring them out as im
pressively as though they were stating new
ideas of the most profound nature. There is
no time limit to speeches in the house of
commons; and it is possible that this whole
three hours might be taken up by one bore,
though that is not of ten the case. At about
8 o'clock there is usually a brief cessation,
when the speaker goes out for refreshment
(which is popularly supposed to con
sist cf a mutton chop and glass of
claret); on his return the droning con
tinues. At about 10 o'clock p. m. the members
begin to drop in, several of them in evening
dress. If a good speaker is on his legs this is
a lively time; if not, several of the gentlemen
who have eaten and drank not wisely but too
well go to sleep. Some time between midnight
and 2 o'clock in the morning tho debate is
either adjourned (generally after a wrangle),
or there is a division; then, as the newspapers
say, "the remaining motions are disposed of
and the house adjourns."
Of the house of lords I will say nothing; it
is too terrible a theme. A dozen peers and
three or four bishops sitting for an hour con
stitute the nominal session of that body.
What I have written is of the "popular"
house. On that chamber decrepitude seems to
have fallen. The visitor is struck by its list
less ways. With a few exceptions the mem
bers do not seem to have gathered together to
do anything; the nation's business is not
transacted here You meet several good and
earnest men, a very few able men; but col
lectively they appear to be helpless. And so
things are drifting, drifting whither, who
knows? London Cor. New York Commercial
Advertiser.
OFFICIAL FEMININE BEAUTY.
ow the Gnshlar Wasblnetoa Co:
spondents Overpaint Their Pictares.?
It is not always safe to accept the descrip
tions of the society correspondents at Wash
ington literally. The standards of judgment
there are not precisely the same as elsewhere,
and loveliness is considered as going as a mat
ter of course with certain positions. For in
stance, a congressman may be ugly or good
looking, able or weak, honest or knavish;
bat a congressman's wife is ex-offido lovely;
and though various congressmen with all sorts
of wives, old and young, brown and blonde,
tall mtmI ahnrfc inrMt. anil Bhrawfott rnmn anrl
vriert? Tic iiikt3 n Mmnai frsu.,.v. . ....
Tribune. He called at this office.
Mrs. G. G. Bowman, of Columbus,
vas in the city last Saturday. She re
.urned the same day with 'her, little
laughter, Farthenia, who has been vie
ting here a couple of weeks with her
riend Minnie Curry. Schuyler Quill.
Geo. Alexander tells us the Stein-
jaugh Bros, in four days and a half
ihreshed 9046 bushels of wheat forThoe.
Dack. The grain was the product of
160 acres. 188 bushels to the acre is a
.'air yield for what is called a dry year.
capital, in than- faaey, It it peopled with
beauty like Armida gardeaor the enchanted
j island of Camoens, or the paradise of Ma
.hornet They have beard of at least fifty wo
men who walk with the grace of Diane of
( Poictiers, 100 who have inherited the witch-
fog smile of Ninoad l'Eaclos, ISO who have
found the lost amai of the Varna of Milo, 900
1 with the petwaadT charms of Phryne and
so on through the long catalogs of prof es-
atonal beauties of history, art aad poetry.
I But the Imaginative toaxiat finds little la
j the reality to justify his anticipations. The
gay and festive ladies of the eodety cor
. respondent generally appear to hie unskilled
eyeaa aeneibla, middle aged, or elderly wo
men. The lithe, the graceful, the sinuous,
the svelte, the luminous eyed, the full
bosomed dames that are metamorphosed into
i rer3r rdtaary people connected by marriage
running the govern nvwt. Rochester Post
Express.
FASHIONS FOR THE DEAD.
Caatoams el Dresslag far the
Grave Have Bee Chaaged.
There have beta within she last few years
many merited changes lathe conduct and in
the accessories of funerals. Tbechangeshave
been brought by Influences not clearly de
finable. Oa old lady who died not long ago
lay in her narrow casket robed in a pilgrim
suit of brown broadcloth, the cape covering
her shoulders and shrunken form, and a
girdle holding the gathers about the waist.
A small, dose, little felt bonnet was worn,
and the inf uetoa of some chemical gave the
face a most lifelike appearance. A favorite
funeral gowa Is the modified Greek dress,
such as Mary Anderson, Mai Eastlake and
Ellen Terry have been seen in. These outfits
are made without trimming, possibly a girdle
or braided cape being and as a finish. The
fabric used Is some fine flannel or worsted
j . - Tellowish white color
i C2 """".TciJS"
Not two years ago the wife of a rich young
west aider was dressed la a fac-eimilie cos
tame of that worn by Viola Allen in "Vir
ginias." Her sickness bad been very brief ,
and when "the final summons" came the
body retained its lovely round contour. In
the coffin the arms aad seek were bare, the
yellow hair was arranged la loose ringlets
about the face, aad a necklace of pearl beads
encircled the throat
The winding shut has been revived, aad if
the rumor one gives ear to can be credited
some very prominent people will "wrap the
drapery of their coach aboat them" when
they go aenc. The quotation is hardly
pertinent, for ia puce of the cold, white
winding sheet of the "sailor boy," a plaid of
white billiard cloth, made after the style of
Sir John Moore's sable robe, a considered the
thing. So far the winding sheet has been
used ia Chicago at the;bierof young men,
and then the funeral services have been con
ducted with great privacy.
Another innovation at funerals is the
evening or vesper burial Services are held
at the residence late in the afternoon, the
friends retire immediately afterward and at
nightfall the coffin Is placed in the under
taker's carriage and driven to the vault, fol
lowed by a single eoape. This programme is
becoming very geasral in west side circles
and is preferred to any other arrangement
when the remains are taken out of the dty
for buriaL Inter Ocean.
Marshall P. WlldeVs Mlmlery.
Mr. Wilder supplemented this scientific ex
hibition of his supernatural powers with one
of his inimitable parlor entertainments, giv
ing imitations of the telephone, including the
frying sound while "Central" is making con
nections, and bits of dssJogae, illustrated by
his wonderful face In such a way that Wilder
completely disappeared aad the character be
portrayed stood alone. He concluded his en
tertainment by giving an original play In
three acts, which merits serious consideration
by our managers:
Act I Young girl, beautiful, blue eyed and
strawberry blonde, is seen weeping at the
front gate of a palatial mansion in Hoboken.
She discloses the sad story of her heart she
had inadvertently eaten onions the day
before, and her lover, the hero, has left her
more in rorrow than in wrath. What is to
become of their beautiful ancestral home,
built last April! Alas! rent day is at band,
and nothing bat one paltry hundred dollar
bdl Uesbetween the family and ruin. What
shall she do what shall she dot
Enter the villain. "Ha, ha! you van
sgorned my prodesdations of luff, und now,
py chiminy pessvax, I got der gkunps on you,
tond it!" She falls to her knees; she begs,
she entreats. He is unmoved. "Vhere is
your fadderr be thunders. Alas, she knows,
but .cannot telL Her father cannot return
for three hours, for he has gone out to wind
up his Waterbury watch. But will be not
show mercy t The villain demurs. "Oiff me
von gias vrom does rupy lips und" She
breaks from him with a maiden's scorn; she
flies, be pursues; no help is at hand; at last
be overtakes bar. and, despite her piteous cries
and frenzied entreaties, kisser her squarely on
the mouth with a regular, three ply Weehaw
ken tunnel kiss.
"MyP she says, "how you scared me.
Scare me again, please.'' New York World.
A Pathette Iaelaeat.
A few weeks ago in this city a poor widow
died, leaving one child, a little lame boy, to
tho cold charities of the world.
After his mother's funeral the little fellow
was taken ill from the combined results of
grief and neglect, aad ft was then evident
that he would soon be Baited to his only
friend.
He was left alone much of the day, there
being no one who could spare the time to stay
with him. It was often noticed that the
voices of two persons could be beard in his
little room. But whea those in charge entered
he would be akne and apparently asleep.
One day they listened, being quite sure that
no one was with the cnild, and they overheard
this strange monologue:
"Is you rite there, mammar
"Yes, my little boy, I is rite here."
"Was yon weat away yet!"
"I wanted back to heaven to toll God about
my little boy."
"Did yew was afraid, mammar
"No, my own little boy, 'cans God is nicer'n
peoples."
'Did you told Him aboat me, mammar
"I tolded Him I had a little boy named
Harry an' an' "
There was a load noise of sobbing then, and
the listener without cried, too. Presently the
cnild's voice resumed:
"Did you told God to let me come np there,
mamma!"
"Yes, my toy, ah' he said 'Bime by, bime
by.'"
"Mamma, I'm so tired en' an' sleepy
an' I want to come an' stay with you
an' God."
There was a long sfleac then, broken by
no cry or sob. The listeners went in after re
solving ia their hearts to be thereafter very
patient with the motheciem oae.
Bnt death had been kinder than they. De
troit Free Press.
A Teaer aad Hie
Niemann, the illastrloas tenor, prefers
to expose his throat to the cold air and
to promenade In the streets, after singing
a laborious role rather than to muffle his
neck and go home In a does carriage. The
cold air serves his larynx as a teak, and the
prune aonne who are afraid of it
mistake, be thinks.--Public Opinion.
President Barries' gaeu
Tony Barrios, son of the late president
of Guatemala, is a stadent at West Point,
and young Zarala, son of the man who over
threw and caused the death of Pretideat
Barrios, is also at West Point aad las
"Five hundred tall ladies to
rlnalra ma am mAvmrtiaammam "
New York.
OLD AND RARE BOOKS.
A. FEW ERRONEOUS IDEAS WHICH EX
IST CONCERNING THEIR VALUE.
The Comparative Worth of an OU Book
Dependent oa Imprint, Authorship,
Ownership, Edition and CeadlUesv-A
Ust of Bar Volume.
Not a few erroneous ideas exist about the
value of old books. In order to correct some
of these misconceptions I have concluded to
take old books for my text. I may dispel
some pleasant illusions, but If I do it is be
cause I cant help it. Allow me to say in the
first place that age is no criterion of value in
books. The mere date of printing does not
fix its value, though, of course, any book in
fail- condition bearing date earlier than 1470
is worth something merely on account of its
approach to the date of tho invention of
printing. On the other hand, there are books
as late ia date as1886 which are, rare and.
which are'much" desired by a certain class of
buyers. There is no rule for knowing the
comparative value of an old book, because it
may depend upon so many things, such as
imprint, authorship, ownership, edition and
condition. A New York lady recently came
into the possession of a book which she sup
posed worth at least 13.000. It was a fine
large folio, in excellent condition and 250
years old. Imagine her disappointment when
the highest offer made her for it was S3. Its
age, sise and condition didn't count for any
thing. The book wasn't rare, and had no in
trinsic value.
"THE MARTYR BOOK."
I remember the exdtement which existed
some years ago over "The Martyr Book,"
printed at Ephrata, in this state, in 1747-48.
It was noised abroad as a valuable find and
exceedingly rare. What followed then!
Why, no less than fifty copies of it were un
earthed among the farmers of Lancaster
county alone. And what followed next? A
dead, thud like fall in quotations from 1120
to $20 a copy. The quantity depreciated the
quality; it wasn't exreediujcly rare, after all.
It deserves fame, however, as the first large
book published in this state, and as an excel
lent product of the printers, papermakersand
binders of that period. Almost as much zeal
is shown in getting possession of old books
with the Germantown imprint upon them.
The first German books in the state were
printed there. Some are rare and high priced;
others are oomparitively common.
There was a scurrilous epitaph on ascer
tain Great Man" (Benjamin Franklin), printed
anonymously in this dty about 1763. It con
sisted of but eight pages, and yet a copy of it
brought (82 at the Brinley book sale in New
York. There were only three copies known
to be In existence. Mr. D. McN. Stauffer,
editor of The New York Engineering News,
one day picked up a pamphlet out of the dirt
in the bottom of a doset, and found himself
the possessor of one of tho known three. You
see, if you are looking for rare and valuable
books, it is something to know which are rare
and why they are valuable.
You are not always sure even in buying a
rare book by catalogue. I clip the subjoined
from a letter received by me to-day: "The
'German Heraldry' is an example of the dan
ger of buying from foreign book catalogues.
I sent for the two volumes, paying a good
price for them. There was no evidence on
the title that there wore three volumes, and it
was only upon plodding through the Latin
text that I found reference to a third and
missing volume. I attempted to sell the
books ms I 'had received them' to the German
library in your city. There I met Professor
Oswald Siedenstucker, a very learned German
scholar, who knew all about the books and
the fact that the rare 'third volume' always
'turned up missing. I have the two volumes
yet."
EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE.
Among the rare books are the first folio
copies of the early editions of Shakespeare.
The rise in their commercial value can be seen
in the following order of sale: In 1750 Gar
rick bought a copy for 1 16s.; in 1796 an
other copy brought 40 19s.; in 1618 George
Grenville paid 121 for a copy; in 1847 the
Hibbert copy sold for 159; in 1854 another
copy brought 250, and in 1864 the Baroness
Burdett Couts paid 716 2s. for a copy. I
hope this will not set yov to skirmishing
around for folio copies of the early edition.
Of the first edition of "Pilgrim's Progress,"
printed in 1678, of which no copy had been
discovered when Southey wrote his "Life ot
Bunyan," there are two copies now known to
be in existence. One is in the library of Mr.
Half ord in Gloucestershire, England, and the
other in the Lenox collection in New York.
Three years after the first London edition
there was an American edition. The last
lines on the title page were: "Boston in New
England; printed by Samuel Green upon as
signment of Samuel Bewail, and are to be
sold by John Vsher, of Boston, 1681." The
only known copy of this issue was stolen from
the Lenox collection. If you should find it,
or another like it, you can be sure that you
have found a valuable prize. The first edi
tion of Tyndale's New Testament, published
in London in 1536, is quoted at big figures.
I will close by giving the names and dates
of sundry rare American books and the prices
obtained for them at the Brinley book sale in
1882: Colden's "History of the Five Indian
Nations," 1727, $320 (this is the book bought
In the Judge Yeatos lot for thirty cents);
twelve pamphlets of the "Paxtou Massacre,''
1763-68, $430; American Weekly Mercury,
1729-32. $460; Cicero's "Cato Major," B.
Franklin, printer, 1744, $200; "Kalendarium
Pennsilvaniense," William Bradford, Phila-
1 delphia, 1685, $555; Colden's "Encouragement
of Indian Trade," eta, 1724, $683; Pennsyl
vania Gazette, Kleiner & Franklin's first
newspaper, Philadelphia, li28, $580; "Jour
nal of Major George Washington," Williams
burg, Va., 1754, $560; Eliot's "Indian Bible,"
first edition, 1663, $1,000; first edition of
small copy of the same. 1663, $550: second
edition of small copy of the same, 1680, $500.
Philadelphia Call
STANTON'S PUBLIC RECEPTIONS.
Th Secretary was Always Accessible t
Soldiers wh had Fanght.
Although Mr. Stanton was by nature an
emearible nan, it was simply impossible for
him to give private audience to a tithe of the
persons who daily inquired for him. Even
senators and representatives in congress often
had difficulty in seeing him at times and in
the manner they desired, and frequently ac
cepted pot luck with the crowd in the recep
tion room. Cot Hardie, a handsome Scotch
looking officer, took charge of tins room
early in the morning, and, in the name and
by the authority of the secretary, dispatched
the business of such as neither needed nor
insisted hpon the personal action of the secre
tary. He also sent in the names of such
callers as be thought the secretary would pri
vately receive, and from tune to time went
in himself to take the secretary's commands
upon some case of special difficulty or im
portance. As nearly as possible to 11 o'dock,
the secretary, who had an almost religious re
gard for this daily observance, came into the
room and took station at the little high desk
near the bottom, CoL Hardie or Ma j. Pelouse
being in attendance to assist him. He waved
everybody back who approached him, until
be bad completed a deliberate scrutiny of the
company and bad received from the officer in
attors'snoo a statement, in a low voice, of the
exceptionally urgent or meritorious cases.
Then, oae after another, he indicated thorn
whom he wished to draw near, beginning
with the soldiers, and. after them, calling up
the plainly dressed women, who looked as if
they might be soldiers' kinf oik. If be bap
pstad to notice that a soldier bad crutches or
was weak from Alness be would leave the
eskajMl go to him where be wm seated. Of
Icers bearing visible tokens of wounds or dis
ability were also preferred suitors, bat with
other gmtlsasen of the shoulder strap be was
asaaUy cart. Civilians he treated accord-
ing as ha humor was affected by their
statements or manner, but there was always
a general observance of the underlying prin-
dpi that this public reception was for those
who bad no other means of access to him.
It was here that Mr. Stanton might usually
be men at his best. If a case of unusual gal
lantry, merit or suffering were stated he
would comment upon it aloud to the company.
, ending with a moral, inviting to patriotism.
virtue or fortitude. On the other hand, if
be found a woman suppliant embarrassed by
the publicity of statement and action, he
would draw her beyond the desk to the win
dow recess and hear her. there, or send her to
, his room to be beard more leisurely or pri
vately. Some of us used to think, while
j watching the secretary at these receptions,
that a great power had been lost to the pulpit
when be became a lawyer; for he was an ad
mirable preacher, and far from averse to
' moniziug. The Century.
An Old Tim New England Doctor.
Dr. John D. Meers, of Naugatuck,
widely known as one of the most skillful and
seeeafnl physicians of his time. Hia prac
tice among the farmers was quite extensive.
t and it was his custom to take his pay for ser-
I vices in the produce of the farms, seldom or
never keeping accounts or making any
charges, but sending for a bushel of potatoes
or corn or a barrel of cider as he happened to
i want it His drafts on the farmers were al-
) ways honored at sight, for ho used to say he
( "did uot intend to overdraw," and, as the
families in those days were large and the chil
dren quite as likely to be sick then as now, it
is quite likely that be paid in his way for all
that he received. He was always very care
ful not to injure his patients and gave very
little medicine, but, if called to see a man who
was a little out of sorts, would prescribe-a
diet of toast and cider, or something equally
simple, and leave nature to effect a cure. He
was once called to see a man who hod been in
bed several days, and on entering the room
he sat down, stuck his long legs under the
bed, moved his spectacles to the top of his
bald head, and sat and told stories for an
hour. He then sent one of the boys to draw
a gloss of dder, which he drank, and made
bis preparations to leave the house. The sick
man asked if he was not going to prescribe
for him or give him something to take.
"Oh, yes, yes," replied the doctor; "you
just get up and stir about a little, and wash
up and put on a clean shirt, and you will be
all right, I guess."
Notwithstanding the doctor's peculiarities
in such cases, he was one of the most careful
and devoted physicians in cases of dangerous
illness, and would often appear, unsolicited
and unexpected, in the sick room long after
midnight, so great was his anxiety for the
welfare of his patients. Waterbury Ameri
can. Shrewdness of the Newsboy.
Tho newsboy is a grade above the ordinary
gamin; he frequently comes from better
stock, and is under more restraining influences.
He is more intelligent and, I almost feel con-
strained to say, more unscrupulous. He has
facility of expression, though it may lack
correctness; he is posted upon current events;
ho has opinions, formulates theories, encour-
ages expectations. He is generous, he likes a
good feed, ho is ready to help a chum, he
hates shams, he doesn't indulge in moke be
lieves, he is sure of the past, he is confident of
the present, be doesn't trouble himself much
about the future.
He is shrewd, wary, artful; he is quick at
resentment and sharp in repartee. At one
time I had a weakness for chaffing newsboys,
but I don't chaff them now. I generally
camo out second best in the encounters. Out
of many instances I can recall two in which
I was left three or four laps behind. On one
occasion I gave a newsboy a bright new cent
for a paper. "I made that cent," I said. He
shot me a swift glance and replid: "Well, '
you look like a counterfeiter." On another j
occasion I said to one of them: "Bub, do you j
know bow you can sell twice as many pa
pers!'' "HowP he asked, with keen interest
"By keeping your face cleaner," I said.
"Humph!'' he ejaculated, with a scornful, de- i
liberate survey of me. "If my face was as
hairy as yours I reckon it wouldn't matter
much whether it was clean or dirty." "Ob
server" iu Philadelphia CalL
A Glimpse at the Csar.
The reserve which for many reasons was
forced upon the present czar while yet heir
apparent seems to have grown into a settled
habit In society, during the St Petersburg
season, which, however, plainly bores him as
much as it visibly delights the empress, there
is nothing more striking than bis majesty's
mild and severe look at one and the same
time. It is curious in this connection that
among nil bis portraits painted since his acces
sion there is no uniform and settled stamp of
expression given to the face. For some time
past, however, the gloomy cloud that used to
hang about the brow long after the terrible
death of bis father has been gradually wear
ing away. In order to be seen perfectly at
his ease, he should be observed with bis child
ren in the grounds of Gatschina, where he is
much more at home than in St Petersburg.
His physical strength, it is said, fully accords
with bis enormous size of body and limb, and
one often hears it said that he can easily
break an ordinary horseshoe with bore hands.
Of one thing there can be little doubt, and
that is certainly his tenacity and obstinacy of
opinion and purpose. St. Petersburg Cor.
London Times.
i
Cat and Canary.
From a private letter I quote: "I have a
handsome black cat and my wife's sister has
a canary. Noticing that Mr. Thomas ap
peared to desire a closer acquaintance with
the bird than could bo induced by his love of
music and fearing that he might get at the
bird, I placed an electrical machine on a
table under the cage, so arranged that one
touching its top would receive a shock. Then
I put a chair near the table, and retired to
watch the result Presently Tom slyly ad-
vanced to the chair, jumped into it, and (
thence to the top of the machine, immediately
to spring into the air with a terrible cry and
rush from the room. After that he gate no '
attention to the canary. Indeed for weeks, '
nothing would induce him to enter the room
where he was so shocked." TheCosmopolitan.
Saved the Hole.
When Gen. Wilder in 1862, from the north
bank of the river, shelled Chattanooga, his
principal target was the Baptist church,
which stood in the same spot now occupied
by the sanctuary of tho First Baptist society.
Services were being held in it at the time, and
the congregation dispersed without waiting for
the benediction. The house was directly in
range and the first shell struck it, making a
hole in the clapboards. In all the years since
the aperture has not been filled or covered.
Lately repairs were made on the residence,
and the little bole was given to W. A. Wool
son, according to an old promise. The re
ceiver cut out three pieces of the siding and
put them in their respective places in a frame.
Chattanooga Paper.
Experiment With Earth Worms.
Mr. Graberbas lately made some curious
observations upon the effect of light upon
eyeless animals, a report of which appears in
the proceedings of the Vienna academy. He
put a number of earth worms into a box,
which was nmvirlAr? with an mwrtitim at-, niu
side, through which b'ght was allowed in- j
gras. ine result oi many experiments
showed that the worms sought the darkest
part of their temporary prison and that at
least two-fifths of their number shunned the
light Experimenting with rays of different
colors by means of stained glass, he found
that the worms exhibited a marked prefer
ence for red light Boston Transcript
The Craw Iadiaaa.
The Crow Indians in Montana have made
aboat $10,000 during the past year by
charging cattlemen for the privilege of driv
ing stock across their reservation CMeago
CHEWING IS BAD FORM.
HABIT THAT IS RAPIDLY BE
COMING OBSOLETE.
Men are Taking te SastltateeThe Con
venient Slip of Slippery ElsaIJeorlce.
How Koeee Coaklias; Broke Cp a Bad
Habit.
Manufacturers of tobacco my that the habit
of chewing is rapidly hemming as obsolete as
that of snuff taking, except amoug working
men. "You will find some of the older men
of wealth and refinement who cbew nowa
days," said a large dealer, "but they acquired
the habit years ago, when it was not thought
t vulgar or disreputable to chew. Some of
the older judges chew, and there were
members of the supreme court of the
Uuited States who were not easy on the
bench unless they had a quid. A very
few clergymen urn tobacco in this way, and
not a few of the older lawyers and other pro
fessional men of years. But In the younger
generation of cultivated men of good manners
there are very few, comparatively, now to
be found who chew. The young men of to
day rarely acquire the habit, and I predict
that within the next few years users of the
weed in this form will be only those who bo
long to the less cultivated society. It is now
regarded very bad form to chew, though
thirty years ago it was not No; chewing Is
going the way of snuff taking."
Many of our most prominent public men
have fought hard to overcome this habit In
Chicago and St Louis chewing is now re
garded as vulgar by persons who make any
pretensions to social standing, and many of
the devices employed by men to overcome the
habit are amusing. At the late trial of Max
well in St Louis the three prosecuting offt
cero were noticed constantly chewing during
the trial, and one of them said: "Yes, we are
chewing spruce gum, and we are doing it to
break the habit of chewing tobacco, and if
you will notice on the street you will see
three men out of five (I mean, of course, those
who are not workingmen) vigorously work
ing their jaws. They are chewing gum, f cr
there seems to be a sort ot tacit agreement
among gentlemen hero to quit chewing to
bacco. A BIT OF SLIPPERY ELM.
Many men now carry a strip of slippery
elm in their pocket, and when they feel th
old craving come over them then they bite off
a bit and chew it A down town druggist
said that be sold a great deal of licorice root
to men who were trying to break the tobacco
habit Roscoe Conkling used to chew, al
though he never used tobacco prepared for
chewing. He had a habit of taking a good
. cigar, cutting it in two in the middle. Then
j pladng the cut end o: one of the halves be-
' tween his teeth be would cbew it. He did not
take what Ben Butler is so fond of, adrj
J smoke, as it is called, but he chewed the
dgar. He determined to break this habit,
and to help him tho more easily to conquer it
' he filled his pockets with lozenges or other
choice candies every morning. Conkling has
' a very sweet tooth and is very fond of good
candy. The last three or four years he was
in the senate he was rarely without a lozenge
or other candy in his mouth.
Senator Eaton and Senator Jones, of Flor
ida, were both pets of Conkling, and both
being pets of Conkling, and both being very
fond of candy, almost doily performed this
little comedy: Eaton would stroll over to
I Conkling's desk and chat a few moments.
never failing to evince the Drofound admira
tion for Conkling that he had. By and by be
would say:- "Conkling, what do you do when
your throat is dry and husky)" Thereupon
Conkling would produce a box in which were
the sugar plums, and Eaton, taking two or
three, would stroll leisurely away with one in
his mouth. By and by Jones would walk
across the aisle and make his obeisance to
Conkling. Then he would cough and hem
and dear his throat Out would come the
box, and Jones made himself happy with two
or three candies after sufficient hesitation
about taking them. Once when Jones, of
Nevada, was making a long speech and his
voice grew husky, Conkling arose, pulled his
box of confections from his pocket and pre
sented it to the miner with as much formality
and dignity as though conferring the order of
the garter. Ho afterward told Jones that if
he would eat more candy and use less tobacco
he would have no trouble with his voice.
But if the habit of chewing is decreasing
that of smoking is gaining. The coming gen
eration, by all signs, will all smoke. New
York Sun.
ALL CRIMSON AND GOLD.
Private Theatrical Boxes That Are Samp
tuoua In Their Appointments.
The person who sits in the auditorium of
the Metropolitan Opera house and looks
around him finds himself encircled by two
tiers of private boxes. At least the private
boxes are all that strike him of bis environ
ments. These boxes are alike, as far as shape
and furnishings are concerned. They are
deep, broad and commodious enough. They
were originally upholstered in yellow velvet,
which gave the house when it was opened a
most bizarre aspect Now they are all crim
son and gold, and the effect is rich and har
monious. Some are in choicer locations than
others, but all are in the main mere private
boxes, such as are familiar adjuncts of the
proscenium of any theatre, only larger and
more sumptuous in their appointments than
most theatrical boxes.
But behind each of these boxes is a private
room, the same size as the box itself. Orig
inally these anterooms were fitted up in keep
ing with the open section to which they give
access. But wealth demanded more than
mere richness of them. Taste and tasteless
ness have made great changes in the interests
of display, and few, indeed, retain their orig
inal sumptuous simplicity. Some box holders
havo transformed them into little drawing
rooms, opulent in furnishings and decora
tions, where pictures adorn the walls and
costly bric-a-brac abound. Some have made
little alteration in their snuggeries, but when
they take a party to the opera have them
profusely decorated with flowers. In one
way or another these nooks reflect the tastes
and the habits, the pretensions and extrava
gances of their owners, and are tho scene of
many pleasant and some decidedly piquant
social episodes.
It has got to be tho fashion for ladies to hold
regular evening levees in their anterooms at
the opera,
They receive friends in them, and
retire to them when the act happens to be a
dull one. Business men even transact busi
ness in them. There is a good deal of loud
talking and ill bred merriment in tho boxes
during the performances, but there would be
much more if the anterooms were not so con
venient Like every other new toy it chances
upon, society seems to get a great deal of fun
out of them, and, considering the price it pays,
one can scarcely grudge it whatever pleasure
it may reap from its investment Alfred
Trumble in New York News.
Adelaide Nellion's Childhood.
A lady prominent in the social life of this
dty has in her employ as parlor maid a
woman ffroin a little village in Yorkshire,
England, where Adelaide Neilson was bom.
The woman says the actress had neither Span
ish nor Gypsy blood in her veins, as the
claimed, but was the child of a basket maker,
a poor, drunken fellow, and a Yorkshire
woman, a decent soul, but wretchedly poor.
Lizzy Jones, as Miss Neilson was then known,
was noted in the village for her beauty and
her Idleness. She spent all her time hanging
about the shops and gathering all the newt
travelers and peddlers brought from the out
side world. When she was 12 years old her
uncle was going up to London, and Lizzy
coaxed him to take her with him in his mar
ket wagon to see the great dty. When they
reached London bridge the girl dropped off
the tall end of the cart and her family never
heard of her again until they learned that the
great Adelaide SieUson was tueir daughter
Lizzy. Onlyfho yean had pasted between
the time that the barefooted country girl,
who spoke with a strong Yorkshire accent,
bad dropped from the back of the cart and
the time when she appeared as Juliet In
those five years she bad attained the educa
tion and bearing of a gentlewoman and had
mastered French and Italian and the still
more difficult tongue for a Yorkshire peasant,
pure English. Philadelphia Press.
Looked Like the Jack or Spades.
Mrs. English, the mother of Lucille West
ern, an actress of merit and beauty In her
day, told an incident of her past theatrical
career, in which a certain tragedian, of rathei
stout proportions, was the unfortunate hero.
He was playing Macduff to her Lady Mac
beth. The child who played one of the ap
paritions which worn Macbeth of Macduff
became very fretful before the curtain went
up, and began to weep copiously. "Lucille,
said Mrs. Euglish "brought the child a pack
of old cards from the property room and en
deavored to keep her interested in them until
it was time for the infant to appear. "This h
the aco of spades, thii is the king of hearts,'
said Lucille, 'ami this littlo fat fellow is the
jack of spades.' When it was timo for the
apparition to appear the child had finished
its crying spell. 'Macbeth, beware,' it re
cited, 'Macbeth, beware of here she became
confused and looked hopelessly back for as
sistance. The gentleman who was playing
Macduff waved bis hands to attract her at
tention mid tried to give her tho cue by
pointing to himself. In hissbort kilt, plumed
lionnet and general rotundity of figure he had
a most unfortunate effect upon the infant.
Oh, yes,' she said cheerfully, 'Macberh, be
ware of tho little man that looks like tho jack
of spades.' "Philadelphia Press.
Dullness of Southern Landscapes.
One never hears of a tourist going a second
time to bask in tho splendors of tropical scen
ery. Tho reason for this is because, not to put
too fine a point upon it, there is no tropical
scenery. Tho south has its magnificent mag
nolias, with their dork green, glossy leaves
and dazzling white flowers, its pines and its
palmettos, its fragrant orange trees, its never
f adinc flood of moonlight, turning night into
day, and the phosphorescent sea into a blaz
ing mirror; but it has no scenery. The gen
eral aspect of every southern landscape upon
which my eyes have rested, from Charleston,
S. C, to Pernambuco, in Brazil, is that of a
gray, colorless, dead and dying waste of veg
etation, in which there is nothing attractive
or even tolerable.
The magnolia, separated from its natural
associates of gray moss and dead creepers,
and transplanted to the lawn, becomes a
splendid tree with the landscape gardener's
care; but a single tree is not scenery. Con
sidered singly, there are many beautiful flow
ers, shrubs and trees in the hot latitudes; but
collectively, in its natural state, the southern
forest is a dreary, sunburned jungle. It can
not for a moment be compared to the bright
ness and freshness of our northern deciduous
trees, or even our perennial pines. Detroit
Free Press.
Test for a Gentleman.
"I have here tho best test fora gentleman
that there is in New York," said the o!d, gray
haired servitor in tho blue naval cap who
wanders about the corridors of the postoffice.
"A gentleman will never let the door slam in
the face of a man or woman who is follow
ing, no matter bow much engrossed in other
things he may be. A gentleman will always
hold the door open until the person behind
him gets bis band upon it Judged by that
test there are not very many gentlemen in
Now York city. I kept a kind of score for an
hour the other morning of the number of or
sons who showed any consideration for their
ieiiow beings, mere were 1,11b persons
went through the doors in that time, and of
these I saw eighty-seven stop and hold the
door so it would not slam against those be
hind them. Fourteen, all smart young fel
lows, bank clerks or something like that, I
judged, threw the doors wide open, so that
they might slam back the harder. The rest
showed no knowledge whether that there
were any other persons in the world than
themselves. All of these were men. I kept
no count of tho women. Why not? Becaute
in all my life I never saw a woman hold a
door for anybody except for her own child.
They just open the doors wide enough to
squeeze through mid slip out edgeways, so it
doesn't make much differences anyway."
New York Mail and Express.
Two to Make a Man.
"Fred Gibbs was sergeant major in tho One
Hundred and Forty-eight New York infantry,
and oue of his chums was my friend, Horace
Rumsey, of Seneca Falls, who was first ser
geant of Company A in tho samo reginvnt.
Gibbs' wound was an ugly one. Tbe ball tore
through his cheeks and mouth and knocked
out bis teeth and reudoi ed him speechless. A
little further along tho lino lay his friend
Rumsey, unable to move, with a bullet wound
in the thigh. In getting off the field Gibbs
found his old friend, and in sign language
made known his loss of speech. 'Can you
walk!' inquired Rumsey. Cibbs nodded his
head. Well,' said Rumsey, 'I can talk, but I
can't walk a step. Let mo climb en your
back and yon walk and I'll talk. The two of
us will just make a man.' Gibbs knelt down
and let his friend climb on his shoulders and
the pair made their way safely to the rear.
The rear guard stopped them and asked
searching questious, which Rumsey answered
vigorously, while Gibbs stood mute. They
were passed." New York Sun.
Catching Runaway Boys.
I've captured so many runaway boys at ths
Union depot in the lost few months that
people, havo got to thinking it's my specialty
as if a policeman could have a specialty.
But I have got my eyes trained pretty well
by this timo to look after runaway boys, and
I flatter myself that I can tell one of the
chaps as soon as I see him. You see, the run
away boy is never experienced, either in
traveling or any of the ways of tho world
and he betrays himself very quickly if he h
given an opportunity. He generally appears
at tho depot in pairs, mid if tho two don't do
something very singular in buying their
tickets they ore certain to trip in finding theii
way to the train and getting on boonL Some
they ore loaded down with flashy papers or
books, und sometimes they ore armed to th
teeth with pistols, as often stolen as Iwught
Generally they have their pockets filled with
money, stolen from some relative, and theii
destination i almost invariably some western
city. When thej- find themselves arrested
their courage disappears at once, and oncoi
the other makes a clean breast of it Glo'ie
Democrat Tbe Dnde of Chinatown.
The cynosure of all eyes was Ah Spud, who
has amassed a fortune as a potato peeler in
one of our leading hotels, and who is the ac
knowledged dudo of Chinatown. As Spud
stood in tho center of a group of Chinese
dudes, envious glances were cast at his cos
tume. Under his silken blouse he wore a
spotted piquet shirt of the latest style affected
by society young men, and this was the caust
of the jealousy in his "rivals. Ah Spud ex
plained that there were but two shirts of tht
pattern worn by him in the state. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Cases of Brain Surgery.
The fourth case of a successful removal vl
a tumor from the brain has been reported in
England, the weight of the tumor being four
and a half ounces. These cases of brain sur
gery, with tbe exact location from the symp
toms of the spot affected, are feats of which
science may well be proud. Arlanaw Trav
eler. Italian astronomers place the age of the
world at not leas than 80,000,000 years, and
are agreed that it has been peopled for about
50.000,000 years.
Sturgeon akin to now used iu making
hoot and shoes.
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Authorized Capital of $250,000,
A Surplus Fund of - $20,000,
And the largest Paid ia Cask Capital of
any bank in this part of the State.
fyDepoaita recehed Red interpst paid on
time deposits.
13Drafts on the price i'i(d oitits in tliis conn
try and Europe bought and Hold.
y Collections and all ether bneintM Riven
prompt and careful attention.
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