terestino' and important one. ' One Cent. NORWALK’ . Absohi—(ely ffidcpcndcnf TUEoD AY, JANUARY, 6, 1891. “ 1 to light through the medium of the pen- OUR LEGISTATURE Of the Connecticut legislature, which is to convene at Hartford to- men 011', the waterb111'y Amer1can very sensibly lemai'ks thlit 'it 11111 be an especially iii- The 11' 011; of untying the gubernatorial knot is complicated by the: difference 'in the l 2"" political complexion of the two branch- ; ’08 of the legislature, though if“ the "ildemocrats are inclined to be fair and ,do'not oppOse the reference of the CllS' puted points to the supreme court, an amicable Settlement is pi'Obable. ‘One 1 of the mostimportantduties devolving upon theleg151atiire will be the choice , of a United States senator, although i the election of Senator Platt to succeed '" “himself is a fOregone Conclusion. These are probably the chief political questions that will arise after the. organization ‘ "g‘has been effected Many important "Jmeasure's 0f general and special legisla- _' tion are. already in preparation for pr e- Isentation to the assembly 4.. DOES THE 007V SOLIDA TED BOA I) C'ON ITROL THE LEGISLAT'I/ R. E. The HarthId correspondent of the ' Springfield Republican says that it;' is conceded by the Housatonic folks that . the Consolidated road has the legisla- , t'ure by a gode working majority , and the accusations which are being thrown about as to the methods employed by the big corporation_ to secure that ma- jority would make a good deal of lively reading if they were in print. It is, for instance, Said that the withdrawal of ex-Senator Bartram from a second candidacy and the substitution of another candidate who was fortunate enough to be elected over the republi- can contestant; was a straight railroad deal, and that the feelings of Senator - Bartram were salved by sending him to the lower house. It is freely charg- 'ed that the two republican senatorial candidates in Telland county were de- feated by the Consolidated interests. ‘What the road intends to do with its legislature, now that it has it, has not developed. The - Housatonic 'p'eOple profess to believe that an attack is to be made upon the general railroad law, and that there will be some effort to ‘ prevent the suit of the state against the 3‘ :ing any further. ' alleged actions 0f the road was in the - line of defense rather than of attack. _ lovely. 'tise in the DAILY GAZETTE. company for arrears of taxes from go- All this is, how ever speculative. It is more likely that the The Housatonic people will be ferced. . tobe quiet because they have no possi- ‘- b‘le Showfor anything. If they, instead of the “other fellows,” could have made the strike, all would have been IT 1’.-11’s TO AD T'ERTISE. And especially does it pay to adver- N’o other paper circulates so many copies during week as the Dam:- GAZETTE. '- 17A Soft Answer. ' A. young. newspaper man, whois some- what of a Wanderer, found himself in , Whitman county, 500- miles from his base ' of supplies, and "broke. ” In the midst of :‘his adversity he was fortunate enough to find a. farmer Who wanted a hand. The " young man was put to work plowing fur- : . rows for potato planting. ' "not very well trained, and the driver was ""far from being an exceptional one. _ 111' hot lotion/I and it -__ .0. V ' criticised the 1v0111'.2 the, rows. .the time for I'but not wishing .The horses were As a result the rows 11' ere not parallel. In fact they looked as if thev had been made by some monstrous spider, which had been by =~a‘,n upheaval of nature pa: tly buried in the s01], and whose terrific struggles to extri- cote himself hmlleftlus zigz- 2:12' 10:; prints . on the ground the farmer happened and somewhat testily jaw ed appearance of The 1101 -.npci'1n:'.qu'lt that his dcparlurc was at hand, to .‘" tulnte without a protest, replied “I k 1.11. the rows :2.rc rather crooked, hilt 1‘.-l1cs:.1n\1.is exceeding- 2111:1111 1'..’hcm The l'urnu'r’s wrath. . -l:z'. rgcd, the new— .”111 the evenin" "around that wa1,. answer turned 1111.1' and, instead of beinw come. 11"15 971111111 .sinr and much pleas: enter job, and 1.5 .. “(urine farmer’s sowin- Ilaw. ——VV allu ;V'1 ulla Tour 11:11 . Telling Books 11ng Their Odor. A 1111111 11 110' has had .i great deal to do With books told of the way in which he :.'k:X).eW 1'21 English from :in American look. - “The books printc(1‘21.1 England,” he said, odor than those “in nearly (3191 1' .51.- have a pleusanter . _ 2111c here. The differ- ' once is said tube-largely due to the effect -, of the sea air, but the kind of- paste, ink, ' :,. paper and binding. used probably has some- ,~- thing to do Wit-h it. There is also a marked dififcre‘nce in‘ the Smell ‘of books printed m ' this c1ty.. I Would stake anything on my ' " ability to recognize any book published by " a certain house in this city, merely by put- .. ting the volume near my nose ‘.‘The'1e are other ways of telling who the 12111111311913 Of a given book are besides .' looking. at the title page. Somehow every firm gives a certain characteristic look to every volume which it issues and a. skilled man can; in ninecaSes out of ten, merely by looking at the binding and at one of . the pages, tell. from Whose presses and bindery a work comes This of course 3p- " ' plies 01111! t0 the larger firms and to books 1 printed comparatively recently. ’2 —New ' --. York Tribune ‘ London’s Dinner Hour. A maid of honor at Versailles was once asked by Louis XIV what o’clock it Wag simply a blank. , Her reply to the question was often after- -: ovoid quoted as the very perfection of compliment, “Whatever hour your ma.- jesty pleases. ” It has been reserved for a Londou correspondent, and, of all London correspondents, for that of The Leeds 'Mercury, to rival this delicate flattery. " He announces that the future dinner-hour will be whatever the. Prince of ' Wales pleases, and that the prince’s pleasure is4 for 8. The news is reassuring. Our fin do ' siecle banqueting;- hours have lately been toomuch retarded. The prices will serve' society if the dinner hour is pushed for- .ward. s—P'all Molt Gazette.- , he smokes EIGHT YEARS A BLANK. A Strange Story Brought to Light Through the Pension Buieau. A very romantic story has been brought sion bureau. On Sept. 1, 1862, there en- listed at Van Wert, 0., in the Fifteenth Ohio volunteer infantry a slender, blue eyed youth of 20, named Hugh Thompson. At ;lic battle of Chickamauga Thompson was wounded by a case shot and left for dying on the field. He never rejoined his regi- ment, and it was generally supposed that he was numbered among the unknown dead. The next scene in this strange history opens on a snowy country 1"oad in north- ern Illinois, near the village of Cleveland, in the winter of 1870. Night was coming on as a small sized but sturdily built trav- eler breasted his way against the keen winds that swept the bleak prairie. He was comfortably dressed 111a good work- ing suit, with a pair of new boots on his feet and a coonskin cap on his head. He carried an old fashioned oilcloth va- lise, and appeared to be lookin r for a place to stay overnight. And there on the lonely road, in the darkening twilight of that fr eezir,3 '2 February evening in the year of grace 1870, Hugh Thompson, the wound- ed soldier of Chickamauga, “came to him- self,” as he expiesse d' it. It was just as if at that moment he had awakened from a. dreamless sleep ofs ev en years. But his memory was gone totally and absolutely. His other faculties were keen enough, but he could not recall his own name, where he had been, his family or his home. His entire past up to that moment was The only thing that con« nected him with a former existence was an idea that he was looking for a. Mr. Baker, ‘who needed men to work. This turned out to be correct. He found him, and was given employment in a coal mine. Grad- ually his mind came back to him, and he remembered the scenes of his boyhood. The case w as so remarkable that it was taken up by the local papers, and the story at last fell into the hands of Thompson’s father. Their relationship was easily established. Through all his wanderings -—and this sounds like a Sunday school tale, but the incident is legally proved and for ms part of the evidence of his identity— he carried a little Testament given to him by a sister, with an inscription in rhyme, when he enlisted. The sister still living recognized it at once when he exhibited it upon his 1".etuin All his efforts have so far failed to recall to him anv thing that occurred from the time that be tumbled over on the bloody held of Chickamauga until the strange awakening of his dor- mant faculties in 1870.—Cor. Philadelphia Record. “'liy the Sea Ir; Salt. There are hundreds of queer myths and traditions given to account for the fact that the sea is salt. The Arabs say that when the first pair sinned they were living in a beautiful garden on 0. tr act of land joined to a mainland by a narrow neck or isthmus. “7 hen it became known to the Holy One that his people had sinned he went to the gar den for the purpose of driv - iug them out and across the narrow neck of land into the patch of thorns and bram— bles on the other side. Anticipating what would be the consequence of their heinous crime, they had prepared to leave their V beautiful garden, and had actually gone so far as to send the children and goats across into the thicket. When the Holy One appeared on the scene the first pair started to run, but the woman looked back. For this the man cursed her, and for such a crime was :11 most immediately turned into a block of salt. Compare with Genesis xix, 26. The woman, more for gi1 iug than her husband, stooped to pick up the shapeless mass oi salt, when immediately the narrow neck of land began to 01 :1ch and break. As she touched what had once been her compan- ion she, too, was turned to salt just as the neck of the land sank and the waters rushed through. From that day to this, the Arabs say, all the waters of the ocean have rushed through that narrow channel at least- once a year, constantly wearing 3.11 .11; the salt of what was once our first parents, y ct the bulk of the two salty ob- ' jects is not diminished in the least. ——St Louis Republic. How to Read the Tongue. The perfectly healthy tongue is clean, moist, lies loosely in the mouth, is round at the edge, and has no prominent papillae. The tongue may be furred from local causes, or from sympathy with the stem- ach, intestines or liver. The dry tongue occurs most frequently' in fever, and indi- cates a nervous prostration or depression. A white tongue is diagnostic simply of the feverish condition with perhaps a sour stomach. VVheu it is moist and yellowish brown it shows disordered digestion. Dry and brown indicate a. low state of the sys- tem, possibly typhoid. .When the tongue is dry and red and smooth, look out for in- flammation, gastric or intestinal. When the papillae on the end of the tongue are raised and very red we call it a strawberry tongue, and that means. scarlet fever. Sharp, pointed, red tongue will hint of brain irritation or inflammation, and a yellow coating indicates liver de- rangement. When so much can be gained from an examination of the tongue, how important it is that the youngest child should be taught to put it out so that it can be visible to the uttermost point in the throatl—Dr. J ulia. Homes Smith in New York Ledger. Where They Are Unknown. Not long ago a newspaper man in this city wrote to the editor of one of the best“ known English journals proposing to send him descriptions of the summer homes of certain people, mentioning by name the Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Goulds and others equally well known to us. In re- turn the editor wrote saying that the arti- 010 would not be of suffic1ent interest to the English reading public, as the names of the persons were not kuow‘n either to himself or to his public Any time, therefore, that these person~ ages get tired of living in the fierce light of. publicity that beats upon them here they willbe glad to know that they can plunge into obscurity at once by Crossing. over to London. —New York Evening Sun. ' The Curability of Galloping Consumption. The announcement by so well known a‘ physician as Dr. McCall Anderson that. acute phthisis, or galloping consumption, is curable excites agood deal of surprise and quite as much incredulity; yet The Medical Record states that Dr. Anderson retorts seven cases of this character, of Which five recovered. 00113110110120 E'lbridge T. Gerry, of New -Y.°"kv i~ an excellent judge of a cigar, and .a' good many of them. Mr. Gerry buy. all his cigars for his yacht, and they are all sizes and flavOrs', so that the .most 93ml? palatecan be suited. The oommodore’s favorite is La Rosa, and he ”£5.25;th f! .1911: 9f199 cigars. VANQUIS‘H ED BY ANTS. A Hugo Tarantula Intruder Overcome by the Force of Numbers. Frank G ‘ ‘ lette tells of a remarkable fight he WltD85scil between a large tarantula and a. colony of red ants. He had just re- turned from Jack county, where, in the canyons and hi'ils, he had been hunting- In the afternoon of one day he encountered a large specimen of the tarantula which abounds in Texas. He did not dare to touch-01' even go near the deadly insect, which was about five inches in length and of a rather greenish hue, but he got a long stick, one end of which he split, and by a dexterous manipulation secured the taran- tula. between the prongs, whichcoming to- gether held it tight enough to prevent its escape, but not enough to injure it. He repaired with it to a hill of large red ants which he‘had passed on his tramp a short time before. In the middle of the hill he-deposited the tarantula, releasing it from its imprisonment. It was a rather chilly day,- and but few ants were out of their holes. -. But these few gathered around the stranger, looked at it closely for a. brief moment, and then one by one hurriedly entered the different small holes within which were their domiciles. The. taran- tula meanwhile was motionless, occasion- ally blinking its small, sharp eyes, but not deigning to glance upon the small insects. But presently c'ame forth the ants in a body. Although the talebearers 112d en- tered the hill by different holes, the war- riors all issued from the same one. ~~.First came a large ant, and then the others so closely upon the heels of each other that the line looked like a. blood red string. The side of the tarantula was about four inches from where the ants issued from the cone, and they made straight for the enemy without loss of time. The large one in the lead pounced upon one of the furry legs, and the others got their teeth in as near by as possible. There seemed to be an almost unending string of the ants, and in a. minute and a half the entire body of their victim was covered with them. After that the taran- tula did not move a limb scarcely. At first it attempted to pull away the leg attacked by the ants, but findingit fastened it s, oved along withthe disengaged legs, movi per- haps: an inch and a. half, but the rem 'nder of its body was soon covered with tlie in- sects, which devoted part of their force to holding the victim in place. The tarantula only killed three of the ants. These three ventured within reach of the jaws of the tarantula, which closed its mouth with a snap, ending their existence instantly. In four minutes the tarantula was dead. There was not a sign of blood anywhere on its body, though in many places were evi- dences of the fray. Near the head were scars showing where the ants had bitten deepest. Shortly after it closed its eyes and allowed its head to sag many of the ants withdrew, but when there was :1. con- vulsive jerk of one leg the ants ran up again, and this time remained till every sign of animation was gone. Then the ants removed the corpse. It was a heavy body to move, but they accom- plished it. On the flat top of the hill the pull was rather hard and long, but on the incline it was easier. ArriVed at the foot, the ants deserted the corpse and returned to their homes, some entering the holes, others resuming the work they had been interrupted at when the tarantula came among them. —Texas Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Blind Drummer. “There is one of the best tobacco drun- mers in the country,” remarked a. gentle- man as an elderly lookin g man, with :1 long gray beard, in company with a young woman, passed up W yandotte street. The gentleman walked arm in arm with his companion, and no one would have noticed anything peculiar about him until he came to a crossing, and then his companion spoke to him, his step faltered, his foot was put out, as if afraid to advance. His eyes were tui'ned straight ahead and never sought the ground. They were sightless. The man was Mr. James Harrison, of Richmond, Va., and the woman 1vas his daughter. Mr. Harrison travels for a plug tobacco factory, and is regarded as one of the best drummers on the road. For more than twenty years he has made the rounds with two daughters. First one of them grew 11p froma girl to woman and was married. The second one then took her place, and has since been his constant com panion. She goes about with him from store to store, 11012 )5 him with his sample: at the train and the hotels, attends to tick- ets and baggage—in short, does everything that a. tender, loving woman could do for the blind. She is his eyes. The two are known in every city in the cou ntry.—Kan- sas City Times. VYool Grown on Trees. In a little account of India Herodotus says that it is the finest of all the countries of the cast. He says that with the excep- tion of V the horses, the beasts and birds in India. are the largest in the world. He says the people get their gold by washingi't out, while other people have to dig for theirs; And then, as the acme of their lazy pros- perity, he says their wool grows on trees. “The trees there, in a state of nature, bear woolly fruit, which in beauty and in strength surpasses the wool from sheep, and the people of India wear Clothes made from it.” This is the first allusion to cotton made in western literature. It is a little curious, indeed, that no distinct reference to it is to be found in the Bible, which runs back to much further than Herodotus. The Jews must have seen cotton awnings and prob- ably cotton clothing in Babylon, and there could hardly have been an army from the east on the soil of Palestine but embodied many c0tt0n clothed soldiers. —Ne1v Eng- land Magazine. . Millions of People Are Traveling. In New York we have 300 hotels, and the daily average- of visit0rs to town is placed at 80,000. One- of our large hotels proves "by its register that it roomed and cared for 175,000 guests during the year 1890. Now allowing that the other 299 hotels each did one-half of this business, the num- ber of arrivals would figure up to 72,150 a day. I believe this ratio will hold good at allgsmaller cities. That is, putting New Yerk’s population at 2,,,000000 which is ab0vethe actual, it shows that anumber ' equal to 3% per cent. of the entire popula- tion-of the city could be counted as guests of hotels. The population of the United States isnearl y 65, 000, 000. It follows, there-- fore, 113.9. logical sequence if the proportion holds good in other cities and towns to reel: in New- York, why then 2 £75,090 citizens stop or sojournat hotels every-day . in the year. -—Hotel Registefir Two cubic feet of sound,‘d1-y (101'an the ear will make a bushel of corn when shelled. To compute the amount of shelled corn in any crib measure the; length. breadth and height inside the rail. Multi- gly the length by the breadth, this roduct 2the height; divide the product two and the remainder gives the num :- o bushels of 51.151194 corn you will have. ‘ i . ,ing worse every year. thing about it is the confinement to the ' . shop—Detroit Free Press. that.assumed and partly proven to be co1'-' : "' Constantly Reminded of His Generosity. One of the level headed men of the-valua- ' tion commission is Capt. David H. Ingra- ham, of Ro‘ckland. Every one who knows the captain has noticed that he almost in- variably wears a. fine silk hat. He was in business in Boston many years, and one' day a young man entered his office and wanted to borrow $500 to buy a. small hat store. .The captain lent it to him, he bought the store, and today he is one of the wealthiest and most prosperous hat- ters of the Hub. Evernyall, as regularly as the season rolls round, Capt. Ingraham re- ceives as a gift from the Boston gentleman a polished silk hat of the finest quality that can be manufactured. Summers, he. is the recipient from the same source of a natty kersey hat for hot weather wear. On another occasion, when the Cigar- makers’ Cooperative association was formed in Boston, he loaned a workman $100 to begin business in the association. The cigar-maker prospered, paid up the loan and now he annually presents Capt. Ingraham with a box of the best hand made cigars, rolled by himself. Capt. Ing- raham carries a magnificent gold watch and chain which he values far more than for its intrinsic worth. For many years he did business for the late Hon. Joseph R. Bodwcll in Boston, handling nearly all the money which was received by the Hal— lowell Granite company for stone fur. nished-forthe New York state house. Af- ter the completion of the contract Gov- ernor Bodwell met Capt. Ingraham in Bos- ton, pulled the gold watch and chain out and'presented it to him. It is a. $200 time- piece. and the recipient says he would not part with it for $1,000.—Cor. Lewiston Journal. ' Valueof Reason with a Child. In hopes of convincing some of my road- ers of the practicability of the no punish- ment method, I will tell an anecdote of :2 certain child. A vivid recollection of having been vac? cinated when she was more than ayear old instead of in early infancy had given her a dread of doctors. She had a sore throat. The. doctor was sent for. He came at bedtime (always a. somewhat diffi— cult hour for a child). She refused to open her mouth to let him insert a spoon and examine the throat, and on being urged she cried violently. It was necessary to have the throat examined, and the child was firmly but gently held, and the mouth gently forced open. successfully performed, but the poor little creature was in an agony of distress and temper. Then the mother, without a word of re- proach, took her in her arms, and kissed and loved her and soothed her to sleep. The next morning it was carefully ex- plained to her how foolishly she had be- haved, and how necessary it was that the doctor should examine her throat. She said veiy gravely “The next time I will not make any trouble.” Her statement was of course received with a certain secret incredulity, but outwardly with confidence. When the doctor~came that afternoon she bravely walked up to him, and opening her mouth allowed him to in- sert the spoon, with no sign of rebellion but a heightened color in the cheeks.— Harper’s Bazar. \Vliat Lupus In. Lupus vulgaris, of which we are now hearing so much, is an extremely chronic disease of the skin, attacking persons be- tween the ages of 2aud 15. It is character- ized by the appearance of reddish brown nodules of granulation tissue upon the skin, usually of the face. The mucous membranes are rarely affected. The nod— ules start in the cerium, but penetrate the connective tissue beneath and the papillary layer above. The disease spreads by the formation of fresh nodules at the periphery of the original lesion. New centers form and the old ones may gradually disappca1'. If the tissue breaks down an open sore is found, covered with yellowish and brown- ish crusts. Unlike ordinary tubercle, the lupus nodules are rather vascular. Tubercle bacilli are found in the tissue, but they are very infrequent, and often many examinations are required to detect them. Inoculation of lupus nodules will, it is asserted, cause tuberculosis in rabbits and guinea pigs, but inoculation of the skin with tubercle will not produce lupus. For this and other reasons so distinguished an authority as Kaposi denies that lupus is a. cutaneous tuberculosis, although that view is held positively by Koch and his pupils. Lupus, chronic as it is in its ten- dencies, often disappears for a. time under treatment, only to reappear later. Del-ma. tologists generally give a favorable prog- nosis p101 ided treatment is persisted in. -— Medicul Record. How Dolls’ Heads Are Mada. “I wonder whether my little girl and other little girls know how Santa Claus makes the beautiful dolls ‘he brings them?” said a down town manufacturer of children’s novelties. “The making of a. wax doll is quite a. long process. The legs are filled out with moss and sawdust. So are the arms and body. The head is more difficult to make. First comes the mold- ing from a whity brown paste. The head is molded in halves—the back and the front—and then the two parts are joined together by the same sort of paste. “Heads are made by the thousand of all shapes and sizes and left for the moment unpolished. Then they are dipped into boiling wax. After this the head is pro vided with a pair of eyes. Sometimes Santa Claus does not select two eyes ex- actly alike. Then comes the eyelashes and the hair. Santa. Claus, always makes up his dolls’ hair in the newest fashion. Some- times he puts teeth into the mouth. When the head' is finished he easily fastens on the rest of the body.”-New York Telegram. Shoemaking as a Trade. The shoemaker who takes an apprentice binds him for at least three years, and some of’them for four or five. In most cases the apprentice is expected to board with his employer. His first year’s pay will be anywhere from $25 to $50, as may be agreed upon. A journeyman gets all the way from $7 to $12- per week. The aver- age is not over $10. It is not a. good trade to learn. Except in small towns there is little or no use for a shoemaker in' these days, as machinery has knocked him out Most shoe stores keep a. cobbler, and now and then an extra good shoemaker can build up and hold a line of custom, but it is a trade. taken altogether, which is grow- The only unhealthy A Millionaire’ 5 Remark. HenryW. Sage, the great lumber iner- , chant, once said to a reporter: “I am con- sidered a millionaire [he is a' ten million- aire, by the way]. I don’t know what I am worth, but I do know that if Icould. find in all the world fifty men who would 'V work for me withthe enthusiasm, per- sistence and sagacity with which you men work for your papers I .would be worth ten timesas’ much as is to my ICreditto- day "—New York San. - , .movement to that of :1 The examination was. . n A 1 1. Y 4- ""1110 11w A L K - G A 2 13:11:17 n. Will the Sun 11139 in the West. In that remarkable work. "2 ew Astron omy, ” the author say s “ 171112 1 ery mement in which the sun i'elti'Ugi‘ztdos to the west-2 ward, beyond Librz' ... its 1:21.: will act im— rmediately upon 01].! globe in a contrary direction. The movement of the earth will be slackened and decrease progress- ively in order to cease afterward, without any disorder, by virtue of what the move- ments of our planet are common to all the objects Which are upon its surface. We can compare the discontinuance of its steamer which slackens more and more before ceasing to movenltogether. “Then man will witness a celestial phe nomenon very curious. “711131) the earth wfllmave stopped the sun will be seen mo tionloss, fixed in some portion of the heav- ens, and after that stationary state of some interval of time, just as the earth will re- sume,.little by little, a contrary movement of rotation, they will see the sun moving again, but rising on the horizon instead of going down. Then the sun, the planets, thevmoon and the stars will rise in the west and set' in the east. The day in which that phenomenon will take place will be the longest of the period. There will be in that d: 1y two consecutive noons in the countries the meridians of which the sun will have passed, and two consecutive midnights at the antipodes.” 'In the above Professor Trastour fails to note that other philosophers and astrono- mers have predicted that the water will dry'up from the face of the earth, and every living being have perished before it will be possible for old Sol to get within many trillions of miles of the point where the earth will begin to retrograde—St. Louis Republic. American Influence Abroad. What shall .we owe to Americans, then? So far, we confess that we do not see many traces of their presence among us. They have immensely improved our hotels, for which we owe them many thanks. They have immensely altered our journalism, for which we will try to be grateful: but they 'will themselves admit that the inter- viewis an acquired taste, and the inter-- viewer a peculiar product that does not at once commend itself. And they have in- troduced some very strange and rather se- ductive drinks. But these are all material and visible importations, and, like their frozen meat and tinned fruit, have nothing to- do with their personal influence. The fact of the matter is that, apart from his wish to be English, the American is too like the Englishman in all essentials to bring about any possible change in En- glish character. Even in the matter of manners, though the difference in this respect is one of kind and not of degree, it is notso clearly marked as to constitute any real divergence in the two characters. The politeness of the American is of an active and positive kind, a. desire to assist and take a sympathetic interest in his neighbor’s affairs: while that of the Eu- glishman is of a. more negative nature, chiefly shown in his anxiety to avoid 5!. ing offense to others by studiously keep ing to himself. The reserve of the latter sometimes degenerates into a. discourteou's coldness, While the former’ s friendly inter- est not unfrequently becomes intrusive curiosity. -—London Spectator. . Beards. It has been a point in dispute from “.0 .iino whereof the memory of man runnetb not to the contrary” whether men ought or ought not to mow their faces. Van Hel- mont and some other old Dutch philoso- phers insist that Adam was created with- out a. beard, and that the appendage only began to crop out after he had committed sin. But, if so, why was not Eve made a “bearded lady,” since she was at least as much of a transgressor as Adam? Possibly, as the consequence of her fault was the introduction of sewing—which is much harder work than shavingnthat em- ployment was imposed upon her. and made hereditary in the female line, as a set 011 against the . facial nuisance assigned to Adam 8:. Sons. Perhaps it was some such idea as this which induced the Puritan women of long ago to wear green aprons, in acknowledgment of the naughtiness of our common mother, and as a hint to the steeple crowned sex that they suffer for her guilt in being condemned to sew. Angels, the astute Van Helmont as- sures us, have no beards, and he thence concludes that it is Wicked not to shave. This is what the lawyers call a non sequitur. The premises do not justify the conclusion. This wonderful. casuist, how- ever, notwithstanding hishatred of boards. actually wore mustachesl—New York Led- ger- Executed, but Still Lives. A man who has attended his own execu- tion and still survives to relate the details is surely worthy of a short paragraph. The man in question, although .atpresent serv- ing in- the humble capacity of waiter in one of the Paris cafes, was twenty-one years ago one of the historic characters of the world. His name is Col. Marteras, and in 1869 he was on the point of being pro- claimed president of Uruguay when he was arrested, charged with treason and sentenced to be shot. On Monday, June 30, of that year, he was taken by a platoon of soldiers out of the capital to a. cleared spot in the heart of a forest and bound to a. chair. At the word “Fire!” a. nervous shock caused Marteras to fall to the ground. He did not hear thevolley, buta. laborer work— ing near by did. The workman went to ascertain ’ the cause, saw the soldiers marching away and Marteras badly wounded, but not dead by any means, ly- ing on the ground. The laborer took the would—be president home and cured his wounds, and he and Marteras both now often tell of the supposed execution of the “French pretender. ”—St. Louis Republic. Lost Arts and Sciences. An old historian thus speaks of the early textile and other arts. The textile and other arts which flour- ished' in Egypt previous to the Jewish dis- pensation and? in which the Pharaohs took so lively an interest would undoubtedly have reached even a. higher state of perfec- tion than they did had they been allowed tocontinue under such favorable circum- _2 stances, but after the subjugation of the nation by Cambyses, 525 years before our Saviour, the arts and sciences, under a for- eign-yoke,.disappeared; or rather ceased to be indigenous. in Egypt. The Ptolemies, "i indeed, encouraged them,Vbut under their reigns the arts were chiefly controlled by the Grecians. The Egyptians had degen- Grated frdm the knowledge of theira cestors, who'se hieroglyphics they “1813-" selves no longer understood. —Dry Goods ' Chronicle. The Proper Thing. Apack of wolves attacked a man and his dog' in northern Michigan. The man fell -down and. prayed to be spared, and the wolves turned tail on him. Ilis poor (13%: ' not being able to ray, started off on a r but was overhau ed and" de10nred. in a fashion peculiarly characteiisti .. of the Michigan Waived—Detroit Free Press. " . _Co1'. Indianapolis Journal One Cent. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. The oak trees shine' in gold and red, And guy the ro1.1l carpet spread As autumn winds blow chill at night; )ut close beside the garden w alks, ’illid drooping seeds and withered stalks, There bloom in bravest gold and white. Chrysanthemums. My lady gocth down the street, My lady‘s cheeks are fair and sweet. My lady‘s eyes are clear and true; And on the girlish bosom pressed, Fairblossoms, white and golden, rest: Ahlliappy flowers, I envy you, Chrysanthemums. My lady cometh up the street, With tender face and lingering feet, W’ith sunbeams in her clustering'hair: And all the land is full of light, And on my breast, in gold and white, There laughs a. gay boutonuierc, Chrysanthemums. —Ivlary Riddell Corley in Homemaker. Barbers of Spain. The barber’s business in Spain is pecul- 1313111 that be is called upon to ply his shears on donkeys as well as men. For it is an important item in the care of Span- ish donkeys that they should be sheared as to the back, in order to make a smooth- er resting place for man or pannier. So while the master held his animal, one of the barbcrs plied some enormous clacking shears and littered the ground with mouse colored hair, leaving the beast’s belly fur covered below a fixed line, and for a small additional price executing a raised pattern of star points around the neck. The tousorial profession is an indispen- sable one in a. country where shaving the whole face is generally practiced among all the humbler orders, not to mention toreros and ecclesiastics. But the discom— fort to which the barber’s customers sub—' mit is astonishing. Instead of being pam- pered, soothed, labored at with confiden- tial respectfulness, and lulled into luxuri- ous harmony with himself, as happens in America, amen who courts the razor in Spain has to sit upright in a stiff chair and meekly hold under his chin abrass basin full of suds, and fitting his throat by means of a. curved nick at one side. . One individual we saw seated by, the dusty road at the gate with a towel around his shoulders and nothing in his hands to catch his own falling locks. He looked sub— missive and miserable,.as if assisting at his own degradation, while the barber was magnified .into a tyrant exercising sovereign pleasure—St. Louis Globe-Dem— ocrat. Reversing the Address on Letters. ' Assistant Postmaster Gayler doesn’t be- lieve in the plan that has been urged of re- versing the order of the parts of the ad— dress-on an envelope—that is, of putting the name of the state and city first, the house number and street next and the name-of the person last. ' The idea. is that an assorter of out of town mail wishes to read the name of the state first of all'and then of the city, although in most cases he pays attention to the name of the state only. The man who assorts the bag of mail the next time perhaps concerns him- self only; with the name of the town or city, while the one Who handles the letters in a big city cares only for the street and number, unless the person addressed is well known or has a postofiicc box. Mr. Gaylcr says: The method might have been a good one had it been universally adopted in the first place, but it is nonsense to try to introduce it now. The assorters would have a. great deal of trouble if an effort were made to put the proposed system . into use. They have grown accustomed to reading the ad- dresses from the bottom upward, and when the order is reversed they have to stop and read the address downward. They would thus lose-time and temper, especially if the present method were frequently disregard- f ed. You might as well’ try to persuade peo- plc who write Chinese and Hebrew to fol- low our system of writing fiom light to left and down the .column. ——New York Tribune. Elepliunt’s Hide. The tanning of elephant' s hidesis com- paratively a new industry. The method employed' is practically the same as in the tanning of cow hides, except that a stronger combination of the tannic ingredients is 1"equiied, and a greater length of time—— about six months—is necessary to perform the Work. When the hide is taken outpf the vat it is about 1% inches thick. Ar- ticles made of elephant’s hide are expen- sive luxuries. A small pocketbook of ele- phant leather, without any silver or gold ornamentation, costs about $40. Asmall sachel made of the same leather' costs anywhere from $300 to $400. Cigar cases, card cases and similar ar- ticles vary from $35 to 3100. Floor rugs are also made out of the leather In finish— ing the hide no attempt is made to glaze or polish it. Everything is done to preserve its natural color and appearance. It is a very enduring leather, several years’ wear having but little effect upon it. The scarcity of elephants and the great ex- pense entailed in the tanning of their hides precludes the possibility of elephant leather ever becoming a thing of popular and general use. ——N e1v VYork Commercial Advertiser. Careful Public School Teachers. A little boy who came to school for the first time was placed in a primary class in this city among ninety children. Some- how he lost himself and strolled into an- other classroom where there was the same massing of children. When the teacher called the roll this little chap, thinking that he must belong somewhere, answered to a name for which there was no other re- sponse, though it did not belong to him, and he continued to do this for two months. In school the child had .com- pletely lost all identity as to himself, and felt his individuality completely merged with the individual represented. by ninety children or more. In the meantime the first teacher had marked him absent, as of course there was no response to the call of his name, till accidentally. she found the little truunt and carried him back to his right place—New York Teacher. Germany’s Little Crown Prince. N 0t long ago Friedrich Wilhelm Was out riding with two‘ cbuntesses. They were old "ladies of very high rank. One of them told the little prince he was not behaving proxy erly. With this the little fellow rang the bell which toldlthe coachmau- when to stop. The horses were reined in and the attendant wished to know the orders. ffThe countess will get out,” said little V-Friedrich, with a wave of his hand, 'as' ‘if ‘ he were commanding an army. It is need- less to' Say the old lady did not get out and Walk 11011113,] and the little prince found he' was still under 'petticoat government;— __. Except. in the case of tho-death of the (president, 11' hen he steps up to the head of : ‘ the gov elrument', the; vice. president is merely the presiding officer of the senate. He is :;10 over. my: .1: cs only when there is a. tie. :1 member of that bedy, how~- I m“,
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