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Tbere Are Xaay Keasea Wky It la Wall
Hurt This Sheald Be So Undereiurreata
of Enjoyment The Superficial Way f
Valnine tlie Works of Men.
Tlje tendency of the present nge is to
place a pecuniary value upon everything,
ami to underestimate, or hold in con
tempt, anything Tvhich cannot at will be
turned into cash. That this is a superficial,
incorrect and vulgar way of estimating
the value of things cannot be questioned,
but it is equally true that nowhere is this
tendency more pronounced than in this
country" Millets "Angelus' is likely to
attract wider public attention and be
valued more highly than any other paint
ing, .siuip'ly because it lias cost more,
and no other means of advertising could
liave been niore effective.
THEY NEVER STRUCK.
Intellectual labor can claim no such
advantage to give it charm Li the popu
lar eye, nor can it hold out the attrac
tion of great pecuniary rewards to young
men choosing a career, such as many of
the commercial activities of the present
time can safely promise. "When it
remembered that clergymen, lawyers,
physicians, writers of all kinds and art
ists are picked men, with more than av
erage talent, and of many years of ex
pensive discipline and experience, it is
evident that their pecuniary rewards are
small compared with tho$e of many
other callings requiring no greater talent
and far less preparation.
The moment such a topic is suggested
countless illustrations come to mimi of
the inequality between the service ren
dered to the world and the pecuniary
return tliat the world has been willing
to give. Hilton received 5 for "Para
dise Lost;" a host of authors whose
names are inseparably connected with
the chief glories of English literature,
including Johnson and Goldsmith, al
most starving in London, Heine and De
Musset dying in garrets in Paris, with
the financial straits to which Carlyle,
3Iatthew Arnold and even Emerssnwere
often reduced, are striking examples of
the truth running all through ancient
and modern history that great thinkers
are not rewarded in money by the gen
eration which they adorn.
Of a certain class of literary workers
this is always true. The works of Her
bert Spencer, widely a3 they are known
and great as has been their influence
upon contemporary thought, have never
yielded their author an annual support.
Great pecuniary prizes are frequently
won by striking some popular chord,
and the growth of habits and of facili
ties for reading have made the rewards
of literary labor greater now than ever
before; but, nevertheless, the world's
thinking is still largely done for it gratu
itously. Tlie greater number of literary
aspirants arcbbliged, like the Edinburgh
reviewers, to ''cultivate literature upon
a little oatmeal," and the majority of
professional men are compelled to live
in modest circumstances and with the
practice of a rigid economy.
There are many reasons why it is well
tliat this should be so. There is a certain
degree of self denial which seems neces
sary to the attainment of the strongest
influence over mankind. The thoughts
and labors of many a man, living in pov
erty and sacrifice, have a weight which
would never be given them if it were
known tliat they were well paid. This
has always beenTecognized by the great
majority of literary workers, and con
sidering the degree of their deprivations
they have not been discontented at giving
their labor to the world without ade
quate return. They have never struck
for higher wages.
THE REWARDS.
Few of the great writers of the world
have not been more or less under subjec
tion to this stern mother of invention.
Whether this was best for them or not
the world lias freely left them so. It
has often refused bare existence to its
most richly endowed members, except on
condition of earning by manual labor
the rewards which the fruits of their in
tellectual toil were not thought worthy
to receive..
It might liave been thought tliat the
latter part of the eighteenth century
could liave made a better use, for itself
and posterity, of its most exquisite genius
for song than to have made liim an ex
ciseman in the Scottish lowlands; or
that Charles Lamb or Nathaniel Haw
thorne could liave been better employed
than the one as a clerk in the India office
and the other as a custom house officer
in Salem. It was poor discernment, as
well as inadequate reward of genius, to
have left Thoreau with the larger part of
the edition of "Walden" on his hands,
and to have allowed Corot to have re
tained an almost unbroken collection of
his own paintings until he was CO years
old.
It would be unjust, however, to speak
as if the rewards of intellectual toil were
confined to, or mainly represented by,
either the recognition of mankind or pe
cuniary returns. la no othar sphere of
life can so much happiness of a high and
noble kind be found. Whoever has fitted
bimsolf by whatever expense of time and
toil to appreciate the best that has been
said and done in the world, to take part,
however humbly, in molding public opin
ion, and in contributing to tne advance
of the race toward better conditions, has
entered on a career which may have its
deprivations, its perplexities and discour
agements, but has also an undercurrent
of enjoyment that nothing can wholly
disturb. The physician who has saved a
valuable life, the clergyman who clears
away the mists of superstition from the
minds of a large congregation, and gives
them a vision of religious things in their
true rationality and beauty, or the states
man, author or editor who aids in lifting
his generation up above itself, can afford
to be ill paid in mere money.
Such men's payment comes in different
coin in a daily increasing personal
worth, in the satisfaction of thinking the
best thoughts of the time, in the con
sciousness of contributing to the world's
advancement, and in the increasing grati
tude and affection of the best men and
women. Providence JotxmaL
The Hindoos are early risers. In the
warm season extending from April to
October they sleep either Bpon the
hoesetop or in the court yard, or in the
veranda, if rain should be threatening,
and are usually up at 5 o'clock or earlier
in the morning. In the cokl. weather,
when they sleep witaia doors, they rise
laser, bat they are oat before 7. Sieiag
m the MonuBc while kasha awake, the
Hindoo-repeats the of Baas sev
eral tistes. Hariniiiee to yawn, he im-
is
finger, though he does not know wny.
He prepares for hie inorning toilet. He
plucks a twig from the bitter seem tree,
breaks off a span length of it, crushes
one end between his teeth and extem
porizes a tooth brush. He next draws
up water from the well in. the yard with
an iron bucket, and prepares to wash his
hands and face. This is quickly done.
He then throws on an extra garment, the
thickness and texture dependingon the
season and weather, lights his hooka,
takes a few pulls with his euphonious
hubble-bubble, and is ready to go out
With a passing "Rama, Bama" to friend
or acquaintance, and a neighborly gossip
by the way, he repairs to his place of
business. While going he will sedulously
avoid those signs and sounds which may
augur ill for the day. Should one sneeze,
or should he hear the cawing of a crow
or the cry of a kite, or should he meet an
oilman, or one blind or lame, or see a
cat cross his path, he would be greatly
distressed as to the day before him. Oa
tlie other band, if a fox crosses his path.
if he hears a gong or shell summoning
him to worship, or if he meets a Brah
man with his head uncovered, he would
rejoice, hailing it as auspicious. Some
are so superstitious that if any evil por
tent occurs on the way they return home,
have a smoke or chew a betel leaf, and
proceed afresh. Science.
Eaztaeerlac Feats.
It is a remarkable fact that nothing
surpasses in modern engineering the
pyramids of Ghizeh, built more than
5000 years ago. It is universally ac
knowledged by the highest professional
authorities in architecture and building
tliat the maaonry of the pyramids could
not be surpassed iu these days, and,
moreover, is perfect for the purpose for
which they were intended above all, to
endure. After the building of pyramids
was once commenced it was the fashion
for about ten centuries to erect, huge,
meaningless, pointed piles of masonry.
Of the hundreds" erected about seventy
have resisted the ravages of ages, and
may still be seen. Many of those re
maining contain enormous blocks of
granite from thirty to fifty feet long,
weighing from 300 to 500 tons, and dis
play the most consummate ingenuity in
their construction.
A more, difficult operation 'than the
mere transportation of immense stones'
tliat of erecting obelisks weighing 400
tons was performed with precision by
the Egyptians 300 years before the time
of Christ. Of the ancient method of
raising immense stones nothing is now
known it is one of the many lost
arts. The ancient Peruvians had a
method of transporting immense blocks
of stone that would be a fortune to the
modern engineer did he possess it. The
Romans were also eminent engineers,
and by some authorities are set down as
even exceeding the Egyptians in that di
rection. Immense stones were used in
constructing the temple of Baalbec; one
lies ready quarried which is seventy feet
long and fourteen feet square, and weighs
1,135 tons! Chicago Times.
The Desecratloe of Rome.
In order not to wander too far from
the main subject I will cite one item
only of these annals of destruction. I
will mention what happened in the val
ley of the Forum between 1540 and 1649.
In less than ten years' tune the men em
ployed by the contractors of St. Peter's
to search for building materials crossed
the valley of the Forum from end to end,
like an appalling meteor, destroying, dis-
mantling, splitting into fragments, burn
ing into lime, the temples, the arches,
the basilicas most famous in. Roman his
tory, in the history of the Old World,
together with the inscriptions which in
dicated their former use or deuign, and
the statues and bass-reliefs which orna
mented them. In 1540 tlie podium,
steps and pediment of the temple of An
toninus and (Faustina were removed to
St. Peter's or otherwise made use of.
Between 1541 and 1545 the same fate be
fell the triumphal arch raised in honor
of Fabius Maximus, the conqueror of
Savoy; the triumphal arch raised in
honor of Augustus after the battle of
Actium; the temple of Romulus, son of
Maxentius, and a portion of the Cloaca
llaxiuia. In 1546 the temple of Julius
Caesar was leveled to the ground, to
gether with tlie Fasti Consulares and,
Triumpliales engraved on its marble
basement; in 1547 the temple of Castor
and Pollux was dismantled: in 1549 the
temple of Vesta, the temple of Augustus
and the shrine of Vortumnus. Black
wood's Magazine.
A Great Qaeatleai Settled.
At the high school, in the first class,
an interesting debate was had on the
subject, "la the Mind of Woman Inferior
to That of Manf Andrew M. Bush, Jr.,
and Harry Macomber took the affirma
tive side of the question and Miss Julia
Hunt and Miss Edna Tobey the negative
side. Tlie girls argued that the most
temperance work is being done by wom
en. The boys replied that all the greatest
temperance lecturers were men. To this
the girls retorted that it was easier to
talk than to work. The boys remarked
that the average weight of man's brain
was greater than that of woman's. "A
fool's brain weighs more than a wise
man's1 was the answer of the girls. "But
we said ihe average weight," replied the
boys. A girl said: "I think quality
should be considered rather than quan-'
tity. The clincher came when one of
the boys arose and said: "AsIunder-!
stand it, God is a man, and if the mind
of woman is superior to man God would
have been a woman." At this climax a
vote was taken and favored the afirma-:
live side. New Bedford Standard.
AdaltenUeA Cia Tea.
The heathen Chinee, who is nothing if
not economical, has an ingeniously
simple method of eating his cake or,
rather, in the celestial translation, drink
ing his tea and having it also. He
makes the tea, drinks the first delicate
infusion and then dries the leaves again,
packathem in those mysteriously lettered
boxes we know and exports them to the
western barbarian, who, he has found
out, likes his tea strong and stewei. It
is true that the tannic add apt to some
out of tho leaf in the second ix,.uaioa
may injure the British etossarh Thatie
not John Qunaman's business; he knows
the beauty and profit of adalteratioa.
New York Telegram.
Well
McFingle There is a firm in Minneap-
alis that goes under the style of Fierce efc
Quest.
JfcFangle WeD, what abowt MS
McFiagle Nothing, esdy 1 was tWak-
iag that fiMir employes mart iMvetosaiad
J their Fs asdjj's. Lswreace
QUEER TRADES IN PARISL
ODD CRAFTS THAT ' SURPRISE THI
YANKEE GLOBE TROTTER.
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There are many queer trades in Paris.
One of the oddest is that of "painter of
turkeys' legs." This artist is known only
to the poultry dealing fraternity and is a
highly useful member of the community.
By his artistic skill he enables the trader
to palm off a bird of patriarchal age,
with a certain vague romance as to the
date of its decease, upon a misguided
housewife, or even upon an experienced
buyer, who has learned to judge a tur
key after the manner of cookery book
writers. Turkeys when freshly killed
have shiny black legs and claws, brat as.
the day of their death becomes more or
les3 a matter of ancient history their
lower extremities assume slaty, dingy
gray color. Old turkeyn.ioo, hare long
claws and horny looking beaks, which
the ingenious artist pares and varnishes.
The artist goes round to his' customers
three or four times a week, paints the
feet of the birds with his solution (which
was sold as a trade secret to the present
owner for 40). carefully pares the nails
and beak, and there you have a turkey
that will fetch half as much again. It
is only during the desperate struggle with
the ancient lieast that ensues at dinner
time that you realize how fraudulent are
its pretensions to juvenility.
rHE CAT INDUSTRY.
"Cat killers'' are not numerous, but the
few who monopolize the trade make a
great deal of money out of it. They
walk through Paris about midnight with
a sack and a couple of terriers, and when
they catch sfaht of a stray puss off go
the dogs, who seldom return to their
master without their prize. Their skins
are sold to furriers and their flesh to the
keepers of eating houses in the suburbs,
where "rabbit stew" is a favorite dish.
But for stewed rabbit one likes to be sat
isfied that a bunny has been sacrificed,
so the workmen who delight in this
dainty require to see a rabbit's head as a
proof of the bona fides of tlie dish. This
would puzzle an ordinary individual, but
the "cat killer" la a genius and a French
man, and is not so easily disposed of.
He also deals in rabbit skins, and has
an arrangement with the cooks in the
neighborhood to let him have the heads
at the same time as the skins of the rab
bits for his penny or two. By this in
genious method he is. enabled to send out
to his customers two or three cats'
bodies, minus the tails, with aeach rab
bit's head, and one more dainty dish is
added to the Parisian menu and eight or
ten shillings to the well filled purse of
the exterminator of the feline race. The
French capital harbors the largest num
ber of cats Ou any city in the world in
proportion to its size. Whole colonies of
them are to be found in the vicinity of
the markets, where they feed on broken
victuals and make incessant war on the
rats.
At the Halles Centrales their numbers
have increased so rapidly of late tliat a
portion of them had to be destroyed, as
they roamed about in bands like wild
beasts, and were beginning to be dan
gerous. Puprez, the well known tenor
singer, has earned the title of Le pere
des chats, for he daily feeds hundreds of
these animals at his own expense. The
prefecture de police likewise entertains
a large colony of cats which are placed
under the care of an old woman of 70,
who supplies them with daily rations of
meat and milk.
"AST FARMERS."
"Ant farmers," though only number
ing half a dozen or so in Paris, are by no
means to be overlooked in our study of
odd trades. One, for instance, rejoices
in the name of Mile. Blanche. She is
not prepossessing in appearance. Her
skin looks like dried pippins, and is
tanned like crocodile hide. She has
leather gauntlets and trousers, a regular
coat of armor, but notwithstanding this
she is knawed and bitten by her ungrate
ful stock to such an extent that she is
perfectly hideous. She sleeps in the
middle of the sacks of ants, and her
epidermis has become so insensible to
the bites of those insects that she slum
bers soundly and sweetly while hundreds
of them are endeavoring to extract a
meal from her thick skin.
She was some time ago compelled to
remove her quarters to a spot just out
side Paris, because the neighbors not
unreasonably objected to the stray mem
bers of her farm skirmishing on their
own account in the pantries of the ad
joining houses. Mile. Blanche supplies
breeders and keepers of plieasants, the
zoological gardens, aquariums and large
bird dealers with ants eggs and receives
never less than ten large flour sacks of
ants a day from Germany and elsewhere.
By keeping ihem in a great heat and
feeding them well they are induced to
lay a vast quantity of eggs. It is inter
esting to record that Mile. Blanche is by
this time possessed of a handsome
fortune.
Horseflesh is still eaten by the Paris
inns, much as such a statement may
horrify my readers across the sea. At
least a thousand horses are killed here
every year to supply this meat -to the
capital. About thirty shops sell nothing
but horse, mule and donkey's flesh.
Many of them have over their doors
boucherie hippique, and do a rushing
trado among the working population,
who have no foolish scruples about eat
ing portions of wha$ fs certainly the
cleanest of animals. It is no secret that
the major part of the "beefsteaks" at
the restaurants as well as nine-tenths of
the sausages come from defunct gee-gees.
The thin flattened sausages from the
north of France are made from horse
flesh, and the Lyons sausages from the.
meat of the docile donkey. Cor. Phila
delphia Times,
Carlfle sad the
One morning, a fewminutes before the
school hoar, when most of the pupils had
arrived and they had gone into the school,
a donkey was entering the playgroaad.
Bill Hood and I were so far on oar way,
rushed to mount the animal and begsM to
guide and force it into the schooL With
desperate sparring the donkey was in
duced to carry its rider over the thresh
old, and what a reception both of them
got from the juvenile crowds! Bags of
books were at oace fastened to the tail
aad around the seek of the ass, sad so
basywere BQl and half a dosen compan
joas ia nrgjag the fbrfeto cmtet aroaad
the school aad to ascend the short stair
of the sshr's desk that they did not ao-
&tfccwtiaM
they coald ressove the stranger Mr. Car
lyle appeared. We expected a Ueuica
doue explosion of wrath, bat he burst into
a roar of laughter each a roar, however,
as, instead of tempting as to join ia it,
prodaced a sadden and complete hush,
and that roar was renewed again and
agaia, when the ass, withdrawing its fore
feet from the first step of the desk stair
and turning round, took a pace or two
slowly' toward the master as if to salute
hiy. '
"That," exclaimed Carlyle, "is the
wisest'' and best scholar Kircaldy has
yet seat me; be is At to be your teacher."
He tapped the donkey's head, as he
was wont to do ours, and said: "There's
something here far more than in the
skulls of any of his brethren before me,
though these skulls are patted in fond
admiration by papas and mammas, and
though that far grander headpiece meets
only with mercQess blows." '
He then gave some hard taps on Bill
Hood's head, and would not allow him
todjesaouat, Teat feraesadty ordered hum
to rluVopand-down the school for an'
hour, while the boys who had been most
active in helping Bill-to go through the
farce had to march in pairs before and
behind the perplexed-looking ass. He did
not require the other scholars to attend
to their school lessons, but silently per
mitted them to stand as spectators of the
grotesque procession. Then he himself,
seated within the pulpit-like desk, sur
veyed Bill and his company with a
strange mixture of mirth, scorn and
fury. Cor. Edinburgh Scotsman.
Ia Keataekr Cave.
Provided with lanterns, several young
men started in the entrance known as
Coleman's Cave Spring, near Harrods
burg, and went eastward three miles,
where they could distinctly hear the
trains on the Cincinnati Southern road
at Burgin, which is four and a half miles
from this place. They found a stream
of water running the entire distance ex
plored. In this stream they found fish
and frogs innumerable. Tlie passage
was from seven to fifteen feet wide and
about the same height, except occasion
ally narrowing down to a fat man's mis
ery. Not far from the entrance the ex
plorers found a large room, twenty to
thirty feet, studded with stalactites. In
the center of tlie cavern is acirculai
chamber thirty feet in diameter and ne
less than fifty feet high. This is a veri
table rotunda, covered, as it were, by a
high, well shaped dome. Over the en
trance is a large curtain formed by the'
union of stalactites and stalagmites, fif
teen feet wide and as many high.
The most unique thing found by the
explorers in the cave was the fac-simile
of a side saddle, all of solid sandstone,
opposite the doorway in this chamber.
The young men attempted to sing tlie
"Star Spangled Banner," but were forced
to desist on account of the terrible rever
berating echo that filled every nook,
corner and recess of the cave. They
found a number of bones of small ani
mals, but aside from the fish and frogs
no living creature was found. They will
explore the cave in a few days, going a
different direction from the one taken by
them yesterday. Near the outer opening
of the cave, cut in stone, was found the
initials "D. B.," and numerous figures
and designs of animals and birds. The
initials were supposed to be for Daniel
Boone, and those who saw them say they
look to have been placed there years ago.
Louisville Courier-Journal,
Proverbs Aboat RaJa.
When there is unusual clearness in the
atmosphere, and objects are seen very
distinctly, there will probably be rain.
When clouds are gathering toward the
sun at setting, with a rosy hue, they fore
fell rain.
Evening gray aad morning red.
Pus on your hat, or you'll wet your head.
If rain commences before day, it will
stop before 8.a. m.; if it begins about
noon, it will continue through the after
noon; if not till 5 p. m., it will rain
through the night; if it clears off in the
night, it will rain the next day.
If it rains before seven.
It will clear before eleven.
If it rains before sunrise, expect a fair
afternoon. If it rains when the sun
shines, it will rain the next day. If
clouds appear suddenly in the south, ex
pect rain.
Bain from the south prevents the drouth.
But raia from the west in al ways best
When rain comes from tlie west, it will
not continue long. If rain falls during
an east wind, it will continue a full day.
If an assemblage of small clouds spread
out or become thicker or darker, expect
rain. Small inky clouds foretell raiu.
Dark clouds in the west at sunrise indi
cate rain on that day. If the sky after
fine weather becomes heavy with small
clouds, expect rain. Boston Journal.
The Other Way.
A well known Chicago attorney tells a
good one anent the quick wit and ready
tongue of that brilliant lawyer, the late
Emery A. Starrs. It was after the ven
erable Justice Skates had left the Illinois
supreme bench. The justice liad specu
lated a good deal and had been unfor
tunate. He had been sued to recover
certain claims, judgment had been en
tered against him, and attachments
against his property had been taken out
But none of hi3 property could be found
and the attachments remained unsatis
fied. On account of the prominence of
the justice, the case was well known
among lawyers. Not long afterward
Mr. Storrs was defending a heavy at
tachment suit, and the lawyer on the
other side took occasion to cite a certain
decision of the Illinois supreme court in
support of his position. Storrs was on
his feet in a moment. "Whose decision
is tbatr he asked. "It was written by
Justice Skates," replied the other attor
ney. "Well,'' said the witty Storrs,
"'Skates on attachments' may be all
right, but attachments on Skates ain't
worth a cent!" Chicago Herald,
A lease fa SaeUIae;.
Pay great attention! What does this
spell Gboughphtbeightteau?- Well, ac
cording to the following rule it spells it
spells Do you give it up? It spells po
tato, viz. gh stand for p, as you will
find from the last letters in hiccough;
ough for p, as in dough; phth stands for
t, as phthisis; eigh stands for a, as in
neighbor; tte stands for t, as in gazette,
and ean stands for o, as in bean. Thus
yon have p-b-t-a-t-o. Who will give
gnother? Yenowine's News.
Haw Va Spelled It.
Jessie Don't you agree with me, Mr.
Doodkigh, that Miss Jiltem is the most
artless of girls?
Doodleigh (an ywiiucressfal wooer)
Certaialy. Awfully artless. (Sottovoce.)
BjaiXsaeil it with aa"h.'
LAND OF KING ARTHUR,
SIGHTS SEEN ON A JOURNEY ROUND
THE CORNISH COAST.
Jutting far out from England into the
furious AUaatie is a bit of rock-but.
tressed liml of most singular shape which
snati'ns a distinct and interestiag peo
ple. Iu geographic contour suggests the
curious silhouette of some coachant gi
gantic mastiff, or huge wild beast. It
b easy to see ia its southernmost out
reaching, its two powerful fore feet; fa
its northern coastline its braced aad brie
tliag back; in its most northern projec
tion an erect and pngaarious tail; in iss
eastera Devonshire houadary its
hsnacsss aad laMfeet,
the eternal granitaof Devon.
A WIDK TTSW.
Standing upon Hehsbarrow, one of its
drear and highest peaks, one can see
smiling Devon to the east: almost to
Land's End, its farthest westward wall;
to (Lizard Head, its remotest southern
headland; across its entire reach of hills
and inoorlaads far out upon St George's
channel to the northwest, and over the
white sails of fisher and coaster to the
southeast, where the savage sea lashes
and fumes in vain about 'the most furi
ous of all mariner's beacons, the won
drous Eddystone light
But standing there, with all this majes
tic cyclorama before you, desolation
only is apparent to the eye. The moor
lands stretch dolorously as if in bound
less loneliness. The tors and hills are
bleak and bare. The whole face of
nature seems torn and scarred, as by
tremendous elemental struggles. A
myriad hissing fragments of exploded
planets hurled in awful upper rain upon
this land could have left no more un
.sightly hurts upon it Yet all these
caverns and chasms which disfigure it
were made by the hand of man. Its
granitcv shale and slate hide copper, tin
and iron. For more than 3,000 years its
surface has been cleft, and its depths
gored and bored, until its face is pitted
as if with extinct volcanoes, whose bases
were honeycombed to a mile's depth,
and, laterally, so far outward' beneath
the ocean, that its very shell was cracked
and broken, until, to prevent the sea
dropping through, the bottom was
stuffed and plugged and soldered like a
leaky basin! m
Almost unto today, as time is' meas-.
ured. this land to the rest of England
was a veritable terra incognita. "West
Barbary" it was called to fitly describe
ifcj uncanniness, its supposed ignorance
and its popularly accredited semi-barbarism.
Of its 400,000 souls, one-eighth,
from youth to death, in darkness pick
and blast in shift and drift beneath its
wind swept moors. Until a century
since a distinct Ianguago was spoken,
areached and taught Today in the
larger towns "the purest English spoken"
is said to prevail; but again today not a
league from these towns among- fisher
folk, miners and peasants, an ordinary
Englishman or American can scarcely
understand a word uttered.
KDJQ ARTHUR'S LAND.
Yet here are lifevand scene of the
greatest fascination; both life and scene
of simplicity, beauty and grandeur;
while romance and legend glow wonder
ously in every tor, combe and stream;
romsnee and legend the oldest and most
winsome in all England. For here lived,
or were born to deathless legend, Arthur,
Launcelot and Guinevere, and the brave
old Round Table Knights. This wild
and sturdy land is King Arthur's land.
It is CornwalL
The writer began his journey around
the Cornwall coast from the little sea
port bathing place of Bude,onBude bay,
not more than two leagues from the
northern boundary of King Arthur's
land. Beyond this for a dreary distance,
above you stretch treeless downs, below
youaro jagged cliffs, and beyond these,
notliing but myriads of sea fowl and the
measureless sea. At High Cliff one
stands over 700 feet above the ocean,
where every landward sound is annihi
lated by the thunders of the sea, but one
of the finest coast views in all England
is provided. Not four miles further
down the coast you come as to a Mecca
of hallowed romance to wild and drear
TintageL What matter it whether ro
mance or fact coined the sterling gold
that rings through the legend old. Call
it fact because it was good, and made a
'stainless king." So there before you
on that wave lashed, almost island pro
montory, stands today the still easily
traced remains of Tintagel of old! Here
was the very landing place of King Uther.
Here Uther Pendragon besieged the duke
of Cornwall in his twin castles, Tintagel
and TerrabU, slew him, and the same
day married the dead duke's wailing
wife, Ygrayne, to whom in time a boy
was born. The enchanter Merlin reared
the child Arthur under good Sir Ector's
care, and restored to him the kingdom
of Cornwall on Pendragon's death. The
noble Arthur instituted the Order of
Knights of the Bound Table, whose
saintly acts, in the service of God and
man, until they fell into sin, are the
most shining deeds of all tradition; he
loved only and married Guinevere,whom
Launcelot, his dearest friend, betrayed;
and at last, receiving his death wound in
the battle with his rebellious nephew's
forces, just over there at Camelford, but
two leagues from where yon stand in the
ruins of Tintagel, Arthur bade his last
loyal knight, Sir Bcdever, carry him to
Dozmaro Pool also but a little distance
away, where the Cornish demon Tregea
gle once had his dwelling fling his
sword Excalibur therein, when a boat
rowed by three queens appeared. These
queens lifting him in, wailed over him,
and they all sailed away over the mere
to the "island valley of Avillion" that
his "grievous wound might be healed."
Cor. New York Commercial Advertiser.'
A Talesele Asm Chair. -The
Lodz Zeitung states that an extra
ordinary discovery was made in an old
lumber room at Lodz. An old arm chair,
winch had belonged to the present own
er's grandfather, and had bees pot away
man attic for want of room, was brought
cut the other day to be recovered. When
tho old cover was taken off a large packet
was found staffed into the seat of the
chair, containing three bank notes of
1,000 roubles each, 800 roubles in gold, a
receipt from the bank, dated 1817, fee
0,500 roubles, aad several aoadc The
chair has bees in the pnssfsiiiisi of the
reseat owner for aoma years, aad was
looked upon as a useless piece af aid far
akure.' 'Loadoa Glahe
H1AT IS TAIIO ABOUT.
TaTXKB are esdy two ex prcsideaai Mr
iafl Hayes aad CSevelaad aad but aae
vice areaidsat Himlai.
Tu charters of some t
have been revoked by the secretary ef
state of Missouri for failure to comply
with the anti-trust aad pool law caacted
by the last session of the legislature of that
state. The companies areall reported as
continuing business at the old stands
and awaiting the further actioa of the
Missouri authorities.
Weathkk Ppophet Blakk of
is out in another ktter warning the pub
lic that December will be a cold moath;
that the coming winter will be a cold
winter, and that the sunmer of 1980
will be a summer of extremes ia temper
ature and rninfaJL
Cmzr MaybH, ef.the
has issued a Thanksgiving proclamation
in which he sets forth that the original
Thanksgiving celebration in this coun
try was the annual "green corn dance'
of the Indians, a mystic ceremony of
praise and thanks to the Great Spirit for
the gift of maize.
HaNsOleson of Preson, Wis., was
very unpopular at home, and when a
mob of citizens called at his house oa
Tuesday night his wife and son joined
the party and helped to pull the rope
that strangled him.
A Turkish ship with 500 Mohamme
dan pilgrims on board went down in the
JEgan sea. All perished save the cap
tain and two of tlie crew.
Seattle has risen Phoenix like from
her ashes and offers $25,000 for a finish
fight between Sullivan and Jackson.
Negotiations are in progress for tlie
sale of the foreign patents on the Griggs
Schroeder gun to representatives of En
gland. The Americans who control the
invention will realize about $600,000 by
the sale.
The highest wages paid for labor any
where in the United States an average
of $2.25 per day are credited to the
smelting anil refining works at Argen
tine, Kan., the largest institution of the
kind in the world.
Fifteen mines in Boulder county.
Colorado, representing a daily output of
2,000 tons of coal, closed down, the oper
ators and miners holding different views
as to the value of overtime.
The scenes of the big fire in Boston in
1878 were re-enacted last week in the
same district, the losses aggregating in
tlie neighborhood of ten millions. With
the exception of temporary incon
venience to business firms and the em
barrassment of some of the weaker in
surance companies, tlie effect of the fie
will not be materially felt in general
business circles. One notable fact de
veloped by this conflagration is tliat the
word "fire-prooF' may not be correctly
used in connection w'th buildings in tlie
compactly built cities, for solid blocks,
apparently of stone and iron, burned,
cracked, and fell, offering but little re
sistance to the flames.
The officers of the ltouse or the Fifty-first
congress are as follows: Speaker,
Reed of Maine; clerk, McPherson: ser-geant-at-arms,
Holmes of Iowa; door
keeper, Adams of Maryland; postmaster.
Wheat of Wisconsin.
TnE action of the late silver conven
tion is likely to be felt during the pres
ent session of congress.
The Republican congressional caucus
has finally settled the speakership ques
tion by the selection of Mr. Reed of
Maine. Mr. Beed is less popular among
public men than either McKinley of
Ohio or Cannon of Illinois and his selec
tion was due to the division of the west
and south and the almost solid vote of
the east in his behalf. An Iowa man
was recognized in the selection of the
caucus Hon. A. J. Holmes, for ser-
geant-at-arms.
New York's world's fair guarantee
fund has finally reached the live million
post and in comparison with the action
of the Chicago fund seems to be growing
no larger very fast. Tliese guarantee
funds are somewhat deceptive on tlie
face. Under a strain of local patriotism
and nerved up by a hope in the future,
men have promised bums which in many
instances can not and will not be paid,
and when the fortunate city lias been se
lected, and the committee attempts to
realize upon the liberal contributions, the
matter of shrinkage in the fund will be
come painfully apparent Ten millions
in contributions will be none too much
to cover the five millions in money.
Hox. W. H. West, who headed the
Ohio delegation to the silver convention
at St Louis, has made a repot to Gov
ernor Foraker, in which lie intimates the
call was a delusion and the convention
itself a snare. Instead of 2,000 delegates
he found a couple of hundred in attend
ance and nearly all from states and ter
ritories west of the Mississippi. He de
clares the wlwle proceedings to have been
in the interest of wliat he terms tlie sil
ver clique.
An attempt lias been made to assassi
nate M. Tisza, the president of the Hun
gerian council. Four men placed a
quantity of dynamite under the pave
ment in front of the lower house, intend
ing to explode it as the premier came
out M. Tisza raade his exit from the
rear and thus escaped death. It seems
that a brass band concert accompanied
the exercises of placing the dynamite,and
that the premier was ad vised of the cheer
ful fate prepared for him.
Sumway Mr. Fangle, may I take you
apart for a little while?
Fangle Do you think you comd pot
s&e together again? Munsey's Weekly.
First PoliticiaB Where are you going?
Second Ditto To pay a gas btlL
"Ah! I see. Paying off year stomp
r W mt
"Bea Har"ha recently been trans
lated into -Dutch, as has also "John
Ward,
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over Cohuahaa
Celassaaa,
Nebraska.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OaW over First Ifstioeal
kanaka.
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COUXTY SUKVMTOM.
tW-Partis il tile. iii -
dreasBse.atCoteaibaa.Neew.orcaUati
ia loan hi
CO. SUPT PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
I will ha I w -m- - ik. f.
third Sataidar of each aeath for the
uwh oc appuraaut ror rieiasis ei
for the traasactioa of other school
"."Mam
T at. CdhwKlJM,
DRAY and EXPRESSMAN.
Li-ht aad heavy luuuW floods Handled with
care. Headqaartem at J.P. Brcker Co.'s osare.
Telephone. and 31. ZbaaiSStf
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UBLE A BRADBHAW.
taacccasor lo taulUe er BuaAtU),
BRICK MAKERS !
r-Coatractors aad builders will fad par
brick first-ckue aad offered at n aniiiislils rates.
We are also prepared to do all kiads of brick
JJf K. TUaUrXa-L At CO,
Proprietors aad Pabliaaers of the
eeLtnoro xnsALtu tiara. riuLr jwxa
Both, post-paid toaayaildreM. for g&M a year.
strictly in advance. Fawu JocasAL, 1.00 a
year.
w. a. McAllister. w.m.cornkuub
McALUgTEB e Csft-KUIjS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ColBBbas.Neb.
Office ap stairs over Eraet Srhwan's store oa
hleventh street. MawytsJ
JOHN G. HIGGIXS.
C J.OAKLOW.
HiQonii outtow,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Specialty made of Collectioae by C. J. Garlow.
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or
Til aid Sleet-Ira. Ware!
Jtb-Wark, iMiif Mi fettar
if alaunalty.
s7Shop oa 13th street. Kraase Bro. old
stand oa Thirteenth street. X3f
Chas. F. KnArr.
Fbakk R. KxArr
Contractors aii Biiliirs.
.Estimates fornieeed oa 'brick aad etoae'work
and plastering, free. Special attention givea t
setting boilers, mantles, etc. Stainias aad
tack pointing old or new brick work to repre
sent pressed brick, a specialty. Corresf naiieace
solicited. References given.
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