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THE CHLNOOK MIRACLE.
EFFECTS OF THE SPICE LAOEN
.WIND FROM THE PACIFIC.
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As soon as you get into the Dakota
you hear of the "chinooks." From that;
as you go westward, the stories grow
bigger. The chinook b a warm wind
which comes from the Pacific, crones
the Cascade and the Rocky Mountain
ranges, and makes its genial influence
felt as far as the eastern border of the
Dakotas. The farmer on the prairies does
not know whence the chinook cometh or
whither it goeth, but he does know that
it U a blessed reality.
When the mercury is away down fct
that there is danger of it going out of
sight, the eyes of tlie people in the jfour
new states turn hopefully to the west
By and by there appears just above the
western horizon a gray cloud, like float
ing mist, no larger than a man's hand
perhaps. That is the sure forerunner of
the chinook. The cold may be intense;
water courses may be frozen to the bot
tom; cattle may be perishing from hun
ger; the ground may be covered many
inches deep with snow; existence may
seem a burden to all things animate.
Then the cloud appears. Twelve hours
later what a transformation! There is
the breath of spring in the air. The
snow is going off. The cattle are brows
ing on the bunch grass. The coulees are
full of running water. Doors are ajar,
windows are open, and everybody is out
in the open air. The chinook has wrought
the miracle.
CATTLK KNOW TBS SIGNS.
In the closing hours of the constitu
tional convention of Washington, a dele
gate offered a resolution to the effect
that there be incorporated in the instru
ment a declaration that natives of this
new state be known hereafter as "chi
nookers." The appropriateness of the
name, he argued, was found in the fact
that cliinook means a warm breath. He
believed it was much better than the
present custom of calling Washington
people west of the Cascades "clam eat
ers," and those on the east side "bunch
grassera."
Mr. S. G. Cosgrove, of Pomeroy, is the
department commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic of Washington.
Telling of what he had known the chi
nook to accomplish, Mr. Cosgrove said
this:
"I have seen eight feet of snow that
is, eight feet measured as it fell from
time to time go off the ground here in
twelve hours. That, was the hardest
winter I have known in Washington.
Usually the chinooks are so frequent
that the snow has no opportunity to ac
cumulate. But that winter it lay nine
teen days before melting. The farmers
bad not prepared for it, and cattle had a
liard time getting through. There was
an interesting exhibition of the instinct
of the poor brutes. At the very first
sign of the chinook the old cows, which
had been about to drop with hunger,
could be seen staggering toward the tops
of the lulls. They seemed to know that
there the snow would melt fastest and
the grass be uncovered soonest. In east
ern Washington you can see teams
working in the fields every month in the
winter. We have days which are cold,
and when the ground freezes to some
depth, but one day's chinooking will
take all the frost out of the ground. You
may not believe it, but I have seen six
inches of frost go out of the ground in
one hour.'"
SOKE KEMABKABLK THINGS.
Ex-Governor Semple, who is the au
thority on all such subjects, says the chi
nook is a balmy wind that comes from
the Karo Siroo, the great Japanese cur
rent of the Pacific The chinook is a
cool wind in summer and a warm wind
in winter. To it is due the absence of
extremes in temperatures. 'People in
Washington do not freeze to death in
winter, nor are they ever sunstruck in
summer. Long years of close observa
tion have taught the ex-governor many
interesting things about this curious
wind. One of these things is that at
times the chinook is odoriferous, as if
spice laden from the tropics.
"The chinook," said the ex-governor,
"is so gentle upon ordinary occasions
that its presence cannot be noted by its
motion, and yet it is almost miraculous
in its effects. Snow and ice disappear
before it with great rapidity. It seems
to be able to blow for long distances be
tween walls of colder air without parting
with its heat Sometimes it constitute
an upper current, in which case the re
markable spectacle is witnessed of snow
melting on the mountain tops while ther
mometers in the valleys register below
the freezing point At other times it is
the surface current and follows the
gorges and valleys a a flood might fol
low them. It seems to bear healing upon
its wings, like Sandolphon, the Angel of
Prayer. This wind sometimes penetrates
as far as the upper stretches of the Mis
souri, and even tempers the air on the
plains of the Dakotas. Wherever it goes
the chains of winter are unloosed and
the ice bound rivers are set free.
"The chinook is the natural enemy of
the odious east wind, and, while ordi
narily it yields its influence as gently
as the zephyrs that waft the thistle
downs in autumn, still there are times
when the winds engage in giant conflicts
and fight for supremacy, now in the
upper, then in the lower strata, on the
mountains and in the vallevs, alternate
ly driving each other back and forth,
swaying the trees, tossing the leaves,
and swirling the rain drops or the crys
tals of snow. But the combat k never
long, and the victory is always with the
chinook. The inhabitants east of the
Cascade mountains, when, winter has
seised them and the east wind dashes
snow in their faces, pray for the chinook
to come. They look by day for its moist
front and listen by night for the noise
of its combat with the east wind. And
when it reaches them they rejoice. -Sack-is
the chinook, the blessed wind of the
far northwest" Posaeroy (Wash.) Cor.
StIxjuuGke-Denxcrat
ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN'8 FIRST.
V CbfK Baa WUeh aa OM Faraaasa
aaVaafal-Bsja"J"aBM jB) ftfBjBj 1 alBjBXalBB0eIe
lresd in Ike Tribune of thismorn
ingaTeyinteestingParkktterahot the deplorable quarrel between Ikck
aann and Chafnan, the literary yri-
who, niner we Tiniawi nana OC
kansttavCtatrian, have inHssm so
iy.patrk)tic-TinotofwUck
trsaalatsi into Enflish and bmcsi
w iiBsncs. The asxtieBJars
by yourPjuif corjsfnostdmt
rssmecnnf tu xesuinowalviaiBgthe
two" are eosnplstjd by the following
detaihv which I get from Lb Bepub
lique Fiancaise. Tbey-are highly in
teresting, pictaresque aad true, since
ther bear the ajpiatureof M. Edouard
Stebecker, a well known French pa
triot and a literary friend of Erck
mann and Charrian.
Erckmann and Chatrian'a first
novel, "The Illustrious Doctor Mat
theus," had been offered for publica
tion as a "feuilleton" to the Paris pa
per Le OonstitationneL The feuil
leton is a standing feature of all
French journals; it is a novel pub
lished daily, in slices, at the lower
end of the pages of the papers. The
novel had oeen rusting for a long
while in the drawers of the jpeper,
when .they found a friend inside the
place. And now, to cut the story
abort, I will merely translate the nar
rative published by Stebecker.
Old Nathan. Sichel was the foreman
of Lsf CiaawiBafiniiBil's; composing
rooau 3KinJsBited hhnsslf in these
two young writers, who came every
mouth, each in his turn, to inquire
about the future of their copy, ana he
resolved to help them along. The oc
casion to do so came at last Itwason
a Sunday. On the preceding day the
word "end" had been printed at the
bottom of the feuilleton or novel then
in course of publication and the read
en expected another to begin the day
after. Sichel invited to breakfast the
compositor who had the key of the
bureau in which were kept the manu
cage.
managed to get his friend thoroughly
drunk. Then he repaired to the pa
per, and affecting to be ignorant of
everything, he raised a terrible stir
about that "animal and dunce," X,
who did not turn up to open the man
uscript chest, and thus prevented him
from distributing the 4copy" of the
new novel to be published.
"Well," said he at last, "I have
just fished out in another drawer a
novelette. 'TU distribute enough of
it to fill up the place of this num
ber's feuilleton." It was the manu
script of his young friends. On the
arrival at the office of the managing
editor, old Sichel told him all about it
What's the name of the author)''
asked the editor.
"Well, sir, a queer name. E. Kriau,
or Chatrimann. No, no. See, Erck
mann Chatrian."
'Don't know. But perhaps just on
this account the novel may prove bet
ter, than others. How many feuille
tons?" (How many days will it take
to publish itp
"Five or six, by rough guessing."
"That's very much. The director
may be down on us. But, after all,
you do not have the key of the 'bear's
chest,' nor I either; and we have to fill
up the bottom space reserved for the
feuilleton. We cannot print in its
place: 'Ground floor to rent' Against
force no resistance is possible. Xet it
gof
And it did go. "The Illustrious.
Doctor Matheus," not for five or six
days only as had said the cunning
Sichel, but it lasted fifteen feuilletons,
or days, and hada tremendous success.
The door leading to fame and fortune
had been onened to Erckmann and
Chatrian. Let me add that they were
not ungrateful toward old Sichel,
whose eyesight soon failed him. and
who was kept in affluence until his
death by the two young writers whom
he had so smartly protected,' and who
are. unfortunately, no longer the same
friends they were for thirty years.
Letter in New York Tribune.
Fcra Catfceriaw.ta KllUraey.
The bristle fern delights in shade
and moisture, and our first find was in
a rocky cleft in the immediate neigh
borhood of , the Tork waterfall. Sub
sequently within the deep recesses of
a cave, the mouth of which opened
upon the upper lake and could only
be approached by a boat, we discover
ed several splendid specimens, one of
which, with a creeping rhizome, some
three feet long, contained no fewer
than thirty perfect fronds. Nothing
that I have ever seen in my varied ex
perience of fern life equaled the deli
cacy and pellucidness of these fronds,
nurtured in the darkness and the mist
The veins were so prominent, and the
green portion so like a membranous
wing around the veins, that it resem
bled more a beautiful sea weed than a
fern. In this natural cave we also
discovered some of our finest speci
mens of the adiantum, or maiden nair
fern. This plant is called the true
maiden hair, to distinguish it from
some other ferns which share its fa
miliar name. The bright evergreen
tint, the elegant form, and lightlv
waving attitudes of this fern render it
very attractive, and when growing
against the side of the sea washed
rock, or any moist place in any abun
dance, no fern exceeds it in beauty.
T. Johnston Evans in Popular Science
Monthly.
Circus day inspires the thought that
it takes a good many different kinds
of people to make up the population
of the world. The person who can
watch the crowds on the street without
deriving satisfaction from the sight
has no music in his soul, nor any
thing else worth keeping there. In
no place is a better opportunity offer
ed for studying the different pfiases of
humanity. The exhibition is better,
by far than that given in thetentr-Oil
CityBlizzard.
A rainy day of progressive euchre
at the state fat at Waverly.N. J., in
which the forfeit was a loss, led to the
marriage of the loser and winner at
the fair grounds on Wednesday. Miss
Harriet Lockwood, of Springfield, and
Richard A. Parker, of Clinton town
ship, were the bride and groom of the
occasion, and Both of them were ex-.
Hbitonm the fain, as well as friends
of a year's sUiidmg. Philadelphia
Becord.
"What is the refrain of the song
you are singingr amid Jinksby, inter
rupting nk room mate.
"But the letter that she longed f or
never came," was the.reply in a tone
ofajinoyaBee.
"Weti, keep still a nuatite, maybe
itopostinan's arousal tto corner now
waiting for you to get through sing
ing. Why dont you give the girl a
chance for her letferT--lMrcWi
aJapB-"
to a Mw Toraer the
was seised by th
tax da to .the;
hiacUkf1Stoeoltocttseti
scripts or tne novels already approved
by the management and which was
nicknamed the "bear's case." He
ft from Uersaaay
ether day. which
ayiTsr et .was three
tawDaatsd Itatss soae-
KNOW TIIOI AT A (JLAlfOE.
r OW DIFFERENT RACES ARE REAO
AT CASTLE GARDEN.
Kaalcrmaft DtMt Liamlacle EdaeattaB A
BaasarfaM Scholar la PMtcca
Itwlkir Gaaaa.
"He's a Pole.' "Wrong."
"Guess again." "Norwegianr "Wrong
once more." "What is he then?" "A
Roumanian."
Register Douglas, one of the five expert
HngUMrtw of Castle Garden, was pointing
out to a reporter a stolid immigrant,
roughly clad in such clothes as areaold
to woodchoppers in the Michigan lums
her district, who stood a little apart from
Usxomrades ia one of the receiving
pea in the big imiifci sat depot . Ac
tuntt thwo nt rax worlds
"How did you guess itT asked the re
porter. "Didn't guess it I knew it."
"Ton knew the man then?"
"Never laid eyes on him before. Wliat
do you think a man is made of if he
can't learn to tell types of men in this
place in a year or so of time? It is the
easiest thing in the world if you only
know bow, and you learn to know how
without knowing it You can't tell the
nationality of a man by his clothes or Ms
complexion, but there is something about
his face, his expression and the way he
carries himself that will tell to a nicety
what race he belongs to. Now, this man
here is a Polish Jew."
A smooth faced man of 20 years or
thereabouts was nearing the register's
desk. He looked as little like a Hebrew
as a Tipperary man in his fighting
clothes, but before his name had been
pronounced his nationality was as plain
as the nose on his face.
"We seldom make mistakes," said Mr.
Douglas; "it wouldn't pay us to. Sup
pose we liad to try half a dozen lan
guages every time before we struck the
right one? Why, we would have to work
all night to keep even with the busi
ness." "Half a dozen languages?"
"Why not? We all of us speak three
foreign languages fluently and have a
smattering of half a dozen more. Maj.
Semsey there," added Mr. Douglas, point
ing to a dignified, elderly gentleman who
was catechising a lot of Irish immigrants
in the broadest Milesian accent, "speaks
eight languages and can ask questions in
seven more. He is a Hungarian, and is
the most expert linguist in the garden."
"How can a man learn so many lan
guagesr "Not from dictionaries and grammars,
I assure you. It comes from daily prac
tice. The questions, you see, are always
the same. We ask the immigrant's name,
age and place of birth; whether he is
married or single, how many children he
has, where he is going, whether he has
any money or ticket whether he has ever
been in an almshouse or prison, and what
his trade is. It doesn't take long for a
man who is quick at languages, and
has a solid foundation of four languages
to begin on, to pick up a few other
tongues."
"Do yon ever have any immigrants
who cannot be understood at all?"
"Never. If the five registers can't un
derstand them we call in some outside
expert Missionary Goldstein speaks
Greek and Arabic, and we have men
about the building who talk Gaelic and
Celtic. The rarest language we run
across is Finnish. We have to send out
for a boarding house keeper near here
when we run across a man of that race,"
TWO KEGULAK A10EKICAXS.
In spite of the varied linguistic abilities
of the five registers there were two arriv
als on the Devonia who would have put
them sorely to the test had not kind
friends on the other side furnished them
with explicit instructions written in the
queen's English. They were two home
sick members of Buffalo Bill aborigines
on the way to their hide tepees in the
bounding west They could not speak a
word of English save those necessary to
procure a drink of fire water or a cigar,
and they impassively grunted out their
responses to the reporter's inquiries in a
way that would have been simply mad
dening under some circumstances. For
tunately their passports carried them
safely through.
"Do you ever haveany students of lan
guages apply for places here to perfect
themselves in their work?" asked the re
porter of one of the veteran employes of
the garden.
"Not that I know of. Though it is the
best school of languages in the world.
Ed. Heron-Allen, the palmist, applied
for a place here. Why, I don't know,
but he never took it After looking over
the garden he gave up the job in disgust
It was too rough work for him. I think
if a young man wanted to6tudy lan
guages here would be the best place for
him to get work."
"Castle Garden may be a good place
to fit a man to travel and to get a skuuV
taring of every European language
and several spoken out in Asia, but it' is
a bad place to study languages," said a
Union square professor of languages. "I
spent a few months in the Garden as a
register about ten years ago, but I find
that the experience I got there really did
me more liarm than. good. The greater
number of immigrants are .uneducated
and speak a dialect that is as far from
the proper language of their race as
Bowery English differs from that spoken
in Columbia college. I learned a great
deal, it is true, but I bad to unlearn
the most of it When I first went there
to work I studied upon the various Ian
guages from dictionaries and grammars,
but I might as well have studied from a
school geography. I remember once,
after I had spent a month on a Polish
grammar, I prepared a list of questions
thai I was proud of. The idiom was per
fect, and I nattered myself that my pro
nunciation left nothing to be desired.
The first time I tried my questions on an
immigrant he shook his head despair
ingly and told the register I was forced
to caU to my assistance that he could not
speak Eagush. New York News."
Baron Stockmar relates that the pal-
m wa in fit ! v IVm
raa ilManlmanfa mmM Wtitol, iwJ
along its own predestined track with
out any sort of unity or prearrange
menL It was not decided which parts
of the palace belonged respectively to
their control. Lntne time of George
HI theJerd stewaHhad the custody
of the whole pelace excepting the roy
al apartments, drawing rooms, etc.
In the next two reign it was held
thai the whole of tfie srojjnLfloof;
including halls and dining rooms,
was in bjs charge. At the beginning
of the present reign, the lord Stewart
suriendered to the lord chamberlain
the grand hall and other rooms on the
ground floor, but it was a question
quite in the clouds to whom the juris
diction of the kitchen, sculleries and
pantries belonged. The outside of the
palace pertained to the department of
the woods and forests.
One result of this arrangement was
that, while the lord chamberlain
could clean the inside of the windows,
he could uot clean the outside, and
j negotiations had to be carried on to
secure mat me operations wiwin ana
without should oe conducted at tile
same time. The housekeepers, pages
and housemaids were under the au
thority of the lord chamberlain; the
footmen, livery porters and under but
lers under that of the master of the
horse, while the clerk of the kitchen,
the cooks and the porters were under
the jurisdiction of the lord Stewart
'It was the duty of the lord Stewart
to lay the fires and the lord chamber
lain to light them. The lord cham
berlain had to provide the lamps and
the lord stewarl to keep them in or
der. If a pane of glass in the scullery
wanted mending a requisition had to
be written and signed by the chief
cook: it was then countersigned by
the clerk of the kitchen, then taken to
be signed by the master of the house
hold, thence taken to the lord cham
berlain, by whom it was authorised,
and finally laid before the clerk of
the works in the pepartment of the
woods and forests. The authority of
the master of the household was en
tirely unrecognized. The servants
went off duty whenever they liked,
while the dormitories, where ten or a
dozen footmen slept in the same room,
were the scene of smoking, drinking
and other irregularities. Contempo
rary Review.
UMrik Ibaaa'a SfetaoO.
The Danish dramatist writes:
"Everything that I have written is
most intimately connected with what
I have experienced or have not expe
rienced. Each new poem has served
me for the purpose of purifying and
enlightening the mind; for one is
never without a certain share iu and
reponsibility toward the society to
which one belongs." It is not sur
prising to find a man with so grave
oue may almost say so grim a view of
his own geuius seeks from solitude
uot from choice, but from necessity.
"When I am writing," he says "I
must be alone; if I have the eight
characters of a drama to do witn 1
have society enough; they keep me
busv; I must learn to know them.
And this process of making their ac
quaintance is slow and painful. 1
make, as a rule, three casts of my
dramas, whicli differ considerably
from each other. I raeau in character
istics, not iu the course of the treat
ment When I first settle down to
work out my material I feel as if I had
got to know my characters on a rail
way journey; the first acquaintance is
struck up and we have chattered about
this and that When I write it down
again I already see everything much
more clearly, and I know the people
as I should if I had stayed with them
for a month at a watering place. I
have grasped the leading points of
their characters and their little pecu
liarities, but I might yet make a mis
take in important points. At last, in
the final cast, I nave reached the
boundary of my acquaintances; I
know my people from close and last
ing intercourse; they are my trusted
friends, who have no surprises in store
for me'; as I see them now so shall
I always see them."
His work shows the results of this
painful and laborious devotion. His
characters are creations; they could
not, at any turn of the play, do any
thing but what Ibsen records of them.
Nineteenth Century.
Saalat aad Spectacles,
A recent writer on opthalmic sur
gery calls attention to the Tact that
many cases of "squint"' in children,
which, if left to themselves, become
so pronounced that only a surgical
operation can be of service to them,
would be easily cured by the use of
proper spectacles if seen by a compe
tent specialist in the earlier stages of
the affection. The present generation,
he says, has witnessed many improve
ments in the operation for squint The
objects to be aimed' at by operations
have become well understood. But it
is stated that board schools and others
educational establishments are still
busily engaged in manufacturing fresh
cases, though, thanks to improved
spectacles, there are now fewer squints
requiring operation than formerly.
Age is hardly a bar to the wearing of
spectacles, quite young children soon
becoming accustomed to their use. It
is possible that enthusiastic specialists
may sometimes carry their principles
too far. The sight of so many boys
and girls in streets and schools and
offices with "spectacles on nose' is not
encouraging. Still, if many of the
youthful patients are merely under
going a temporary treatment for
Suint, there is less reason for regret
ndoubtedly it is better for a child to
wear spectacles for a f eW years, and
thus be cured, than to have to run the
risk of tendon section in later life.
London Hospital.
Aa laaailsTMt'a rmtaac
Thomas Monahan, an Irish million
aire, who lived in Melbourne for half a
century, died recently. He was .one of
the 960 poor Irish immigrants who sailed
for Australia in 1839, and the ship was
in such a terrible sanitary condition that
ninety of them died on the voyage.
Monahan shrewdly invested his little
earnings in land about Melbourne, with
the result that blocks for which be paid
500 in those early days are now worth
250.000 each. His aggregate wealth is
estimated at 2,000,000. Exchange.
A Tla Wateraiclaa.
Aleck West, colored, we believe, is en
titled to the ginger cake for the greatest
cariosity this season in the way of a
watermelon. He exhibits two perfect
melons joined 'together. Both melon
were fully developed aad the meat we
juicy and sweet just like an ordinary
melon. Aleck states thai he first noticed
that the runners from the viae grew
double. They moved side by side and
the result was the double melon. It was
certainly a curiosity. Greensboro (Oa.)
Journal.
TkeTIcUaa TartUcc.
First Farmer's Boy My father's go
ing to have some men eta tiirashing at
our house next week!
Second Farmer's Boy That's noth
in'. My father does thrashin' at our
house every day. Boston, Herald.
AUTUMN VOICES.
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In Ireland ahelt saadeof a weeaeeft
heir is placed about a child to keep
harm away.
Garlic, salt, bread and steak are put
into the cradle of a new born babe in
Holland.
Boumaniau mothers tie red ribbons
around the ankles of their children to
preserve them from harm, while Es
thouian mothers attach bits of asafet
ida to the necks of their offspring.
Welch mothers put a pair of tongs
or a knife in the cradle to insure the
safety of their children; the knife is
also used for the same purpose in some
parts of England.
Among Voeges peasants children
born at a new moon are supposed to
have their tongues better hung than
others, while those born at the last
quarter are supposed to have less
tongue but better reasoning powers. A
daughter born during the waxing
moon is always precocious.
At the birth of a child in Lower Brit
tany the neighboring women take it in
charge, wash it, crack its joints, and
rub its head with oil to solder the
cranium bones. It is then wrapped in
a tight bundle and its lips are anointed
with brandy to make it a full Breton.
The Grecian mother, before puttiug
her child iu its cradle, turns three
times around before the tire while
singing her favorite song to ward off
evil spirits.
In Scotland, it is said tliat to rock
the empty cradle will insure the coin
in"; of other occupants for it
The Loudon mother places a book
under the head of the new born in
fant that it may be quick at reading,
and puts money into the first bath to
guarantee its wealth in the future.
The Turkish mother loads her child
with amulets as soon as it is born, and
a small bit of mud steeped in hot
water prepared by previous charms, is
stuck on its forehead.
Iu Spain the infant's face is swept
with a pine tree bough to bring good
luck. Lewiston Journal.
Th Father C HI Coaatty.
A good many yeais ago, wheu the
Illinois law requiring physicians to reg
ister births first went into effect I was
practicing in that state and, like a
great many other doctors, not being
used to my duty of reporting the
births at which I officiated, I was not
very regular or punctual about per
forming it The result was that I got
fined for neglect of duty, and conclud
ed then to overlook my books and
catch up with my reports. When I
came to look, however, I found that I
had paid no attention to the names of
the babies if I had ever heard them,
so that while I had thirty-one births to
report, 1 didn't know what to call
them. While puzzling over my di
lemma, an immense joke dawned on
my mind out of which I expected
great amusement, and which I pro
ceeded to put into execution. I pro
ceeded to christen all the youngsters.
The boys I called unanimously James
L. in honor of myself, and on the
girls I conferred my wife's Christian
name. I chuckled while I was doing it,
but that was because I wasn't posted.
There were some tilings I didn't know.
The local paper noticed the pecularity
of the nomenclature in ray assortment
of babies and proceeded to grow fa
cetious. It pointed out the fact so
many little ones were named for me as
an indication of my popularity
among the ladies in the vicinity, and
had fun with me generally. Then my
Eatrons saw this and caught on to the
umorof it They all decided to let
the names stand, and, after the fashion
of this portion of the country, all
claimed a present I had to come to
time, and first and last that batch of
babies cost me more titan I niade out
of them. Dr. J. L. Day of St Louis.
Paid Joker la Raaala.
Dr. Barrett saw a great deal or the
Russian people.
Some funny thinss he observed
among them:
"Did you ever see a paid joker?" he I
said, "Well, if you never did you i
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would be interested to watch one.
There in those Russian cities they pay
so much an hoar to listen to the joker.
1 have always thought that this class
of people deserve some remuneration,
but I never saw such a thing till I
reached St Petersburg.
"How do they work it?
"Well, the joker provides himself
with two or three hundred tickets,
and mounting a sort of rostrum he an
nounces that te is going to regale his
audience with choice tidbits of mirth
provoking lore. He begins selling
tickets at about two and a half cents
each, and when he has sold enough to
warrant his beginning, he turns him
self loose, and ' the audience retnaius
spellbound' by his humorous stories
for an hour or two.
"I listened to them several times,
and although I could not understand
one word the joker said, I was sure
from the way the audience greeted
their stories with roars of laughter,
that the jokers and the jokes were
above the average." Atlanta Consti
tution. ritlB la ateyaax Tlai.
The truth in the lines of Scott in
"Marmion,"
O. wast a tasctod was w wear.
Waas Brat w ftaene to canto!
never received a more amusing illus
tration, perhaps, than in the case of
Uncle Caleb Ware, of W , in the
state of MsBsachnsctts, and his story
about the fast horse be once poseesecdL
Uncle Caleb, who has long since
gone to his rest, was a fanner of the
old sort in the town of W , and
used to like to join the group at the
village 'store, in their tales of strange
and interesting things gone by.
Oneeveningthe talk ran upon tea
speed of horses, and Uncle Que waa
inspired to relate an incident from hat
own experience.
" Twos the year Gineral Jackson
come o W ," said he. "My mare
ew.shewssixyaroH. fet
w uu
wux a 9-year-Uaeon
Jones in
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vra OTMvm aap r v
1838, V that wax jest three yearbe-
rore. nai: wewwaau up m arsa
over Gineral Jackson covin' thru' fm
Worcester; an' me and my hired
man, Zeke Tewksbury, we wux hayin'
down on the medder. That ere saed-
der's jest a mile Fm the
square,
everybody knows.
"Wall We wus hard t work hay
in', as I says, when all to once we
heard the "born on that ere coach
blowin' like time, way over on Wallar
pogbilL 'N what'd we do but hitch
up that mare Betsey, and drive off,
ltcketysplit, for W square. Wal,
sir I An' how long d'ye think it took
us to drive in t"
"How long, Uncle Caleb?"
"Jest two minutes!"
There was a burst of incredulous
laughter through the store.
"Two minutes!" the exclamation
went around. "Why, Uncle Caleb,
it cant be done. Drive over that road,
a mile, in two minutes) Why, there's
no hone in the world that ever did
that or ever could !
Uncle Caleb began to grow a little
coufused and worried, lest he had told
too big a story. And then he tried to
get out of it
"WaL ye see," he said, "it might
not 'a' been done ordinary times, but
'twas such nation slick sieigliin' that
it wa'n't iiothin' very surprisiu' fer
that mare!" Youth's Companion.
Oa a KJvor la Sfaua.
Rain fell heavily during the night
washing the face of nature, burnish
ing the trees, clearing the air and thus
brightening the whole landscape. The
cool, fresh morning air that bathed
our hands and fuces as we started soon
after daybreak was scented with the
fragrance of flowering shrubs aud
trees, and the panorama we passed
through was delightful. Temples dec
orated with dark red and gold and the
picturesque monasteries were set like
gems in the beautiful fringes of foli
age that skirted the banks. Women
and girls, gayly attired in a striped
petticoat or oue of a small tartan,
aud a silk scarf thrown over the left
shoulder, tripped along barefooted on
their way to the market with baskets
of flowers and garden produce.
Here a group of men and women sat
squatting on the sands, having a chat
before crossing the ford. There men,
women and children, with their gar
ments tucked up above tho knees,
laughed and joked as they waded the
stream. Groups of children playing
in the water dashed it about ana
splashed each other. Cattle were low
ing on the hanks ou their way to pas
ture. The sun was lighting up the
bold pates and yellow garments of the
monksaud acolytes, who were passing
in procession carrying their begging
bowls through the streets. Women
and children were reverently awaiting
the approach of the monks, and heap
ing little cups of rice aud saucers of
fish aud condiments into their bowls,
while the monks at least the young
ones, who have the reputation of be
ing a jovial crew peeped over their
fans, which are intended -to veil fair
women from their sight. Blackwood's
Magazine.
Badly frightened.
M. Andre Then net has piven his
memories and impressions of the coup
d' etat on the 2d of December, 1851.
Theuriet was at that time a clerk in
the civil service, attached to the regis
ter's ollice of Bar-le-Duc. He had join
ed not more than a couple of months
before, and was just becomiug used to
the daily routine of his work, when
he saw Louis Napoleon's placard one
morning announcing his dissolution
of the assembly and his appeal to a
plebiscite. Beside it was posted a circu
lar from the prefect, threatening iu
tone, serving as a sort of commeu
tary. These fell upon the ardent
youth like a blow, and he hurried to
the office to free his mind to his col
leagues. They all agreed with him;
the registrar himself, an old man and
an oldsoldier, marching up and down
the office and denouncing the usurper.
Just at this moment' the figure of a
man dressed in uniform passed the
window and a heavy step was heard in
the corridor. Order was instantly re
stored and work- hurriedly taken up
again. Theuriet feit sure in his own
mind that it was he who was to
be arrested and carried off on ac
count of a little secret society
which he and his friend La
guerre had founded, and he suffered
a good deal of anguish before the
purpose of the gendarmes visit
which was to buy a stamp was dis
closed. Apparently there was no fur
ther or more active resistance in that
public office. And so it was, unhap
pily, all over France. San Francisco
Argonaut
Oaaua Work.
Every one knows that Dumas pere
was accused of every species of plagi
arism, and if we could put faith m his
assailants we should have to 'believe
(as Mr. Hay ward minted out) that he
took not merely scenes, like Sheri
dan, Scott, Balzac aud Sterne; com
plete stories, like Voltaire, aud cer
tain passages, like Beaconsiield but
that all his best plots, scenes, images
and dialogues were stolen.
Macquet, who was employed by Du
mas to hunt up subjects, supply ac
cessories and do for hint the soft of
hack work which eminent portrait
painter leave to their pupils, recently
died, and in his will he maintains that
he was the chief author of the most
famous stories of Dumas, including
"Mouto Cristo" aud 'The Three
Guardsmen," and his executors support
hie claim. If Macquet deserves the
credit of these works, how comes it
that he failed himself completely and
ignominiously as a novelist whenever
he wrote on hisowu'account, both be
fore aud after his alleged partnership
with Dumas? London Truth.
Taraaoteea.
A German merchant discovered,
during the fair at Nijni-Novgorod,
that the turquoises offered for sale by
the Persian traders in those stones
were nearly all false. These rogues
have been imposing paste upon their
customers for the last six or seven
years, and it is estimated that, out of
about 100.000'turauoiats which have
been sold during that period, not more
than 10,000 were genuine stones. The
hnjtBtions are described as marvelous-,
ly clever. Jeweler's Circular.
Jaat TOak wf It!
A Cincinnati girl IS years old dug
her elbow into b policeman's ribs with
such force as to crack two of them,
and yet she called it alight dig. Sup
pose that girl grows up and marries
aad Bears burglars some night and
kfcks that elbow out for her husband's
eide:-Detroit Fret Press,
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