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Nun-LY. Qumran o Canny Exm
Necessity.
Necessity, whom I long deemed my foe,
Thou cold, unsmiiing and hard-visaged dame,
Now I no longer see thy face, I know
Thou wert my friend, beyond reproach or
blame.
My best achievements and the fairest flights
of lay winged fancy were inspired by thee;
'l‘hy stern voice spurred me to the mountain
heights,
Thy importunings bade me do and be.
lint for thy breath the spark of living tire
)Vithin me might have smouldcrcd out at
length.
But for thy lash, which would not let; me tire,
i never would have measured my own strength.
lint. for thy oftimcs merciless control
Upon my life that ncrvcd me past despair,
I never should have dug deep in my soul
And found the mine of treasures hidden there.
And though we walk divided pathways now,
And I no more lnay sce thee to the end,
I weave this little chaplct for thy brow,
Thus other hearts may know and hail thee
friend.
-——o-o—.-. ”0——
Patty’s Literary Experiences.
Patty was not pretty—she knew that
——but she was just as “nice," a compre-
hensive adjective. She had a private
conviction that she was a genius, but I
can conscientiously affirm that I never
knew of the opinion being shared by
any one in our village.
She did not consider that music was
her strong point, though she played
dances very well, and sang “Robin
Adair," “Gathering Up the Shells by
the Sea-Shore,” and kindred melodies
very prettily in u. boarding-5011001 voice.
Art needle-work was not her specialty,
though she embroidered suspenders for
her seven brothers, and undertook
Kensington stitch, and Arrasene. ,
Painting was not, though she had
plaques enough to shingle her father’s
house as unimpeachable witnesses of her
skill. No, Patty’s soul soared above
these. She was a poet. She felt destined
for a career.
She had not published much at the
time om' story opens. Nothing, in fact,
but some acrostics, and a poem on
Romulus and Remus; but she had a
number of fine manuscript poems, with
which she sometimes favored the Mutual
Aid Literary and Musical Society when
called on to read, to say nothing of a
half-finished tragedy, which the family
felt sure would .work a revolution in
dramatic circles when she got it comple-
ted.
Somebody has been wise enough to
say that we cannot make our oppor-
timities, we must wait for them to come,
but if we are wise we will not let them
pass by. This Patty considered an
aphorism worth remembering when Col.
McFad, the editor of the “ Daily Chan-
ticleer," called her into his office one
day, and announced that he wished to
talk business. She felt slightly per-
turbed at first, thinking more of the
gallant colonel in the role of widower
than as a disseminator of facts and
ideas. His first words however were re-
utsuring. \
“ Miss Patty," he began, “ I am about
to add a new feature to the attractions
which have made the “Chanticleer " so
deservedly popular. Our village is
beginning to assume urban proportions,
and it behooves us to emulate the spirit:
of progress exhibited by metropolitan
journals. With this object in view I
have decided to publish a social column
in each Sunday’s issue. Knowing your
ability as a writer, and your intimate
acquaintance with the slits of Higgins-
ville, I‘decided at once to ask your co
operation. In other words, would you
be willing to run the social for a while?"
‘ ‘ I—that is—really—perhaps , " stam-
mered poor Patty. _
The remuneration will not be great at
first," continued the colonel, “but in
time we could doubtless increase it. ”
“I never did any reporting," said
Patty, tempted, but still hesitating.
“My dear young lady," said the colo-
nel, with a superior smile, “ you must
excuse me for contradicting you. Do
you not report every entertainment in
Higginsvillc to your family, from the
the number of spoons on the table, to
the fancy Spots on the ladies' dresses?”
“No, I do not,” said Patty. “My
brothers are not fond of amusements, so
that it does not always lie in my power
to be present at our entertainments."
“As to that, I’d take you myself,"
raid Col. McFad, magnanimously.
“That need not deter you. You had
better join me in this undertaking,”
continued the colonel, impressively.
“ Remember this is the first mug in the
ladder of fame. It will give you prac-
tice, and polish your style. It will—ah!
—ahem!- I will be glad to drop in
from time to time to give you points,
and advice, and when you are in doubt
come to me."
Patty’s excitement lent wings to her
feet. ‘ \~
“I have agreed to write society items
for the “Ladder," she exclaimed, burst;-
ing into the family sitting-room. “It:
is the first rung in the “Chanticleer,"
and I am to go to him whenever I am in
doubt."
“Mercy, child, what do you mean?”
queried her mother, anxiously.
“ Too much learning hath made thee
mad,” gravely quoted her brother Will.
f‘I mean," said Patty, recovering her
breath, and not dcigning to look at Will,
“ that I am to write for the ‘ Chanti-
cleer.’ It is to have a social column
just like a city paper, and I am to con.
duct it. "
“Hadn‘t you better consult your pa
and the boys, Putty?" asked Mrs.
Brown. “ It seems like a bold step for
a gir ."‘ ’-
“ Nonsense, ma! What .10 they know
about it? I must make a beginning in
literature some time. I think this is
just the thing. I've already promised
to describefl'the costumes at Mrs. Grin-
der’s party to-morrow night.”
“ I’m not going," said Will, promptly.
"I fail toappreciate her cheap suppers
in fine dishes."
“That makes no difference to me,"
retorted Patty. "Col. McFad is going
to escort me."
“Whewl are you going to take Sauna
my and tho twins along 1’ ” :31
”Don’t be ridiculous, Will. We are
going professionally, not as frivolous
pleasure-seekers. "
“Beg pardon. Of course that alters
'the case," said Will, winking solemnly
w‘at his mother, with the eye fartherest
from Patty.
The following day Patty out from the
“ Chanticleer, " and pasted intoher scrap
book, this delightful paragraph:—
“ The ‘Chanticleer,' always wide
awake to the interests 'of its immense
list of subscribers, and spacing 110, points
or expenseto justify their liberal P051011:
age, has added to its attractions 9. 50.91511
column, and secured for: its editor, High.
ginsville's favorite poetess, MissPatty
Brown, a lady toowell known to fame to
require laudation from us. .
“ Items of interest the boa ton, invita-
tions, requests for personals, and so
forth, should be addressed to ‘Social,’
care of this office.”
The first week nothing in particular
happened. The second, Patty enthusi-
astically declared that it was So. nice to
write pleasant things ,of you! fliepds.
and receive their grdtitudc.‘ The this?
she heard that Mrs. Smith was furious"
because Mrs. Green's house had been
spoken of as a “ palatial n1ansion,”.wllile
her own, which was half a story taller,
was designated as a “hospitable villa.”
That same day her best friend passed
her on the street with the coolest of
bows, owing, aho aftemvards'learncd, to
said friend’s party dress figuring in
print as “sprigged” instead of bro-
curled.
Melissa Longbow stopped her a block
further on, and complained that her
firms had been described as muslin, and
not as surah‘ silk.
‘ ‘ It wouldn‘t have cost you anything,"
said the irate Melissa, “and I should
have bought three papers to send away.
Now I won’t. See what you lost by
your meanness. ”
Melissa’s eloquence was broken in
two in the middle by Mrs. Boggs com-
ing up to demand an apology. Her
Susie‘s name had been omitted from the
list of those present at the last; meeting
of the Dorcas Society. “The poor child
had almost cried her eyes out. "
The forth week she broke down with
a. nervous headache, and could not finish
the report of the week’s doings, where-
upon the majority of Higginsvillc'a
population rose, and denounced her :11
1. partial, and a toady to the rich and
great.
The fifth week, with fire, in her eye,
and fury in her heart, she called at the
office to inquire of McFacl if he thought
she would so far forget herself as to
attend beer garden dances and free
having been delivered to herby Sammy,
the colonel’s ten-year—old hopeful.
The suave colonel explained that it was
a mistake. The invitations were inten-
ded for the foreman. Thus peace was
restored, but only to take flight forever
the following week, when her youngest
brother, Tommy, came home from
school to ask if it were true that she
meant to marry old Major Possum?
The boys at school said their pas and
and mas thought she was setting her cap
fOr him, because she wrote him such
gushing personals, and such a lot of
them. '
This was too much. Truth to tell, the
festive major had kindly saved her the
trouble by writing his own personals.
That evening, when the colonel
“dropped in, " as was his habit of late,
Patty promptly resigned her, position,
giving adozen or two out of the many
scores of reasons she had for the step.
He was plainly disconcerted, and
attempted to rally her out of her reso-
lution. >
“You are two sensitive," 'he pros-
trated. “Being a womaneno one would
think of thrashing you."
Patty was obdmate. .
“I’m dreadfully disappointed,” con-
fessed the colonel, disconsolately rubbing
the shiny spot on the top of his head.
“I took great comfort in considering
you as a co-laborer andwand talking
things over, and getting the benefit of
your womanly intuitions. And Sammy
—Sammy’s heart will be broken when I
tell him he is not to come for any more
‘ copy.’ ” -.
“ I shall always be glad to see Sammy
whenever he feels inclined to col .”
“ I could not allow that. I fear he
would prove troublesome. Tell you
what, Miss Patty," he continued, with a
sudden change of the subject, “ you
mustn’t quit. You must try your hand
at the obituaries. There is poetic scope
in them. I don‘t wonder ‘at your getting
sick of calling calico wrappers dainty
oostumes,’ aplate of sardines ‘ a. collation'
and mush and milk for three ‘a banquet:
but this will be more congenial. It’s
easy writing, and pretty. All you've
got to do is to speak of the old fellows
as old oaks fallen, the young ones, as
stately cedars laylow. The ladies are all
angels, and the children rosebuds. Then
you‘can throw in something about the
dread reaper, the dalk-robed angel, d
ceterc, and make consoling reflections
about the ‘sweet by and by,’ and there
you are.”
Patty at first refused, but was finally
won over.
“Old Mullins died yesterday; you may
begin with him,"sa.id the editor. “ He
was a regular subscriber, So give him a
good send 0 .”
“Why. what can I say?" asked Patty,
in amazement.
"Well, ” confessed the editor, “you
might say that he is dead at last, of deli-
rium tremens, and the only wonder was
that the high-tempered old soak had lasted
so long, but perhaps the family would
like it better if you put it that Mr. Mullin 3,
our esteemed fellow citizen, breathed his
last Tuesday morning. He had been in
failing health for some time, but the im-
mediate cause of his death was brain
fever. If you feel desperately honest,
you might say that he had his faults, who
has not? but he was a man of quick im-
pulses. Then generalize a little on death
and immortality, and wind up with a re-
port- of the ‘obsequies. Do you catch the
Ida?” -
She thought she did, and prepared an
elaborate notice, which was so good that
she read it aloud to the family with
honest pride.
into a store to do a little shopping. What
sights and sounds greeted h T! There
stood McFad, with the - .ing twins,
Almira Constance, and Ennnciine Lenore,
on either side of him, whilelthe proprietor,
a brother of Mr.’ Mullins, was wildly
flourishing a paper, and apostrophizing
its editor in the following manner :—
“ Blank your blank, blank impudence!
No, I won’t give you any advertising.
What do you mean, you vile, low cur, by
speaking of my brother like this?" and
he thrust the paper under the colonel’s
eyes.
“ VVhat’s wrong? " -
“ Everything. How dare, you hold the
sainted dead up to ridicule, sir, and his
family to oblopuy, by saying the remains
were in ‘ an elongated, stem-winder
buskct?’ I‘d have you know he had the
fin est coffin money would buy. "
“ Certahlly, certainly, Mr. Mull-ins,
we all know that. The expression you
refer to is a typographical error. Our
proof-reader is sick. It should have read,
‘elegant, silver-mounted caske ’"
‘ ‘ What's this, then, about the mourners'
faces being covered with tin, you abomni-
able—”
“Softly, softly, my good sir. The
faces of the mourners should have been
covered with tears. I’ll make the correc-
tion in tomorrow’s issue."
“ Well how are you going to get out of
this?” said the slightly molified Mullins.
“ ‘The Reverend Adoniram Jinks looked
unmistakably mad when he stood up to
pronounce an eulogy on the deceased.‘ ”
“ ‘ Sad,‘ Mr. Mullins, was the word.”
Patty waited to hear no more. She
fled home, and indited a note to the
colonel, in which her resignation from
newspaper work, and her thanks for his
not betraying the authorship of the obitu.
ary, were strangely confused.
He answered at once in person.
“Mr. Mullins was all right. The fault
was all the woof-reader’s. His trusted
co—laborcr must not desert ' _” were the
consoling statements he brought with
him, but the co-laborer waSqottqibeperu
mauled- 8119 even ,decghp;911;.ni.tkierg
-
lunches, invitations to such festivities -
The day after the funeral she stepped ‘
172.1sls an invitation to tread the flowery
pawns of local advertising. She was going
back to private life and domestic duty.
Hr:- mind was made up.
The colonel brightened perceptibly.
“ That would suit me exactly,” he do-
cla rod. “ '\Ve’vc worked together so long
and harmoniously that it seems like we
ought not to part. Sammy is devoted to
you, an<l—er—uh--—so am I, and I don’t;
bz-liuvo the twins have seen a happy
moment since they were taken out; of
your Sunday-school class. Since you
won’t; have. a. literary position, take all I
have left to offer; take me, my family,
my house—keeping."
She took them. .
“H-m-m,”said Mrs. Patty, reflectively,
“whcnI started out for a career, I (lid
not dream I should get a husband.”
H—oa—o—
SEA OF
THE DEAD TIIE IVEST.
The famous “Dead Sea of the West,"
Mono Lake, situated in Mono County,
California, is thus described by a writer
in the San Francisco Chronicle :
Its water is so strongly impregnated
with alkalies that the hand held for a.
few minutes in it will crack open and
the skin be eaten off. No [living thing
exists in it. though it is said that often
after strong winds have blown across its
surface, there is a layer of worms several
feet wide on its leeward, shore. It
cleanses clothes dipped in it almost in-
stantly, and if they are are not as
speedily removed does worse. Its Shores
are barren, bleak and lonely in the
extreme, bordered by a soil that will
grow nothing but the scrubbiest of sage-
brush.‘ In the prosperous times of
Bodie a steamer plied on the lake, but it;
is now laid up and unused. The length
of the lake is about thirty miles and its
greatest width about eighteen miles.
Seen from this magnificant point, sur-
rounded by the great walls of Bloody
canyon, it is one of the noblest views on
earth, but at the same time it only proves
to one who has been about its shores
nd toiled across t he deserted and sandy
nterval to the welcome foot of the Sierra,
wit-h even no better way across than the
Bloody canyon, that truly “ Distance
lends enchantment to the view.”
now A TREATY was MADE.
During the French conquest of Algeria
negotiations for peace were entered upon
with the sheiks of certain Arab tribes,
and a meeting for the 'thc settlement 0]
terms was arranged to take place at the
French headquarters. The French
officers received their guests of the
desert with great hospitality, and a ban-
quet was given in their honor. At- this
;hc utmost splendor was unfolded in
)rdor to dazzle their eyes and captivate
aheir simple minds. At its conclusion
an adjournment to a large hall was pro-
posed, Here M. Houdin, the celebrated
zonjurer, who accompanied the French
forces, was to give them an exhibition of
dis skill, which to them seemed super-
natural. They stared in opemnouthed
wonder at all the tricks that were per-
formed, and a feeling of awe crept over
711cm as they saw the mysterious appear-
ngs, and disappearings of various objects.
But the greatest marvel ,to them was the
apparent manufacture of cannon balls.
The conjurcr passed around among them
thigh hat. This they examined very
:arefully, but without being able to dis
:over anything unusual in either its
nuke or appearance. “Then it was
returned to him M. Houdin placed it on
she floor in the middle of the stage in
full view of his audience.“ He then pro-m
seeded to take froinmtliathhatflcannOn
Jalls apparently without number, and
:olled them across the floor into the
rings. This terminated the prelbrm-
nice. The chiefs consulted among them-
;clvcs, and came to the conclusion
dint it was useless to oppose an army
shat could turn out its ammunition in so
easy amanner. They therefore signed
she required treaty, and departed to tell
flieir friends in the desert of the wonder-
ful power of the invaders.
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BOUL'I‘ON AND WATT.
Boulton was the proprietor of “ the
largesthardware manufactoryinthe worl ,”
and employed at Soho 1,000 hands. He
was one of the most remarkable men of his
day, indefatigable in industry, a shrewd
man of business-like habits, and proficient
in many important branches of practical
science. He became interested in the im-
provement of the steam engine, the want of
water power being a. serious defect in his
arrangements at Soho, and, therefore he
commenced a correspondence on the sub.
ject with Watt, which eventually led to the
establishment of a partnership between
them. This was the turning point in the
career of J ames Watt, and it came about in
the very nick of time.
Hitherto there had been no scope for his
genius; he had always been cramped and
thwarted, and unable to give his inventions
practical application. Nine years had
passed since, his great discovery, endless
study labor/had been expended in working
out the details of his engine, all the money
he had gained had been spent upon it, and
his fortues were at their lowest ebb when
Boulton undertook to relieve him of
his difiiultlcs. Watt was not a good busi-
_,ness man,Boultonjwas. Wattwus poor,Boul-
ton rich. Watt was nervous, Boulton self-
reliant._ ‘What each lacked the other sup-
plied, und together these two, men labored,
each in his sphere, but with one object be-
fore them—~the perfecting of the steam en-
gine.-—Hemes qf Britain in Peace and War.
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AN AUTOEIATIC POST OFFICE.
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In the greater number of railway sta-
tions in England there is a small box on
legs, painted crimson, which may be -
called an automatic post-office. It is
divided in two compartments. 0n the
top are apertures admitting a penny,
one being for postal cards and the other
“for envelopes. You drop a penny
through the slot and open a little drawer
beneath, and presto, you find a postal
card. Drop two pennies in the right
hand slot, open a corresponding drawer,
and you find a stamped envelope con-
taining a dainty sheet of. note paper.
These little conveniences are the prop-
erty of a private company. The profit
is very small, and only on the envelope
and sheets of paper. You can't get the
best of it by dropping in a bad penny,
as if not full weight it refuses to deliver
and keeps your short coin, confiscating
that as a. punishment for your attempt
to cheat. It hasu golden rule that works
only one way.
A CURIOUS TRADITION.
The Abyssinians have a curious tradi-
tion as to the custom of burying the
dead. They say that when Adam found
the hilly of the murdered Abel he carried
it about upon his shoulders for twenty
days, not knowing how to dispose of it.
The Almighty :took pity on him, and
sent forth a crow with a dead young one
, on its back.- The crow flew before Adam
until it came to a tract of shady ground,
. in which it dug a whole with its feet and
there buried its young one. When
Adam saw this be dug a grave in the
sand and buried his dead boy in it.
The religion of some folks is a matter
of ornament, like the stone gods which
richmen sgtpp in their gardens.
‘to Catherine do
become a confirmed smoker.
THE INCH AND THE OUNCE.
As the Jews had a. mystical reverence
for seven, and the ancient Welsh and
Celts for three, and the Greeks a perfect
philosophy constructed out of the bar-
monies of all sorts of numbers, so the
Romans fell back upon a scale of twelve,
or more properly, upon a. sclac with a
base of six. Accordingly as they divided
the pound into twelve uncles, so they
also divide the foot, which was the stan-
dard of linear measure, into twelve sec-
tions, and called these twolvo unciw, too.
But how did they get at the inch origi-
nally? Rather, how (lid they get at the
pound? for that, and not the inch, is the
unit. There seems to be no precise
information. They would divide any
unit. into twelfths, and a prevailing
notion was at one time that the linear
«male was really the original, and was
then transferred, as a name, to the weight.
This, though plausible, is hardly the
case. Sometimes, especially inold-fash-
wioned books, written at a time when
philology was not what it is now, it was the
word in the Greek, because after the re-
vival of letters in Europe the admiration
of the Greek became so. great that when-
ever similar words were found in it and
in some other language it was alivays
said that the Greek was the older and the
original, and that the other language
borrowed them from the Greek. That is
very far from being always so; and, in
the present instance, the very reverse
appears to have occurred. The ounce
is literally “the twelfth;" and thus we
see at; once the sauce of speaking of an
ounce of time, an ounce of land and an
inch of milk, just as of an inch of a man’s
will or an inch of interest for money on
loan. It: was always the twelfth of the
unit—twelfth of an hour; twelfth of a
jugerum, that half acre which the two
oxen ploughed in a. day; twelfth ofa
sextartius or equivalent to our pint;
twelfth of entire hereditas; twelfth of the
principal lent on hire when it was money
at usury, 2'. 8,, over 8 per cent. It is
accordingly as much a mistake tosay
that the primary meaning of the word is
a linear, which is to say that it comes
straight from the Greek into the Latin,
and thence on to us. The whole riddle
is plain enough when we get to the true
origin of the word—a twelfth. Once,
indeed, it used to be said that the true
origin was that the word meanta thumb-
breadth, because its equivalent pollex in
linear measure was often used in its
place. But this is not the case. Some
of the old Latins themselves, moreover,
thought it meant literally “the unit;"
but even this will' not hold beside the
proper signification of a twelfth. The
pound weight was really never divided
by inches or ounces. It was divided by
twelfths, by halves, by thirds, by fourths,
and by sixths. And here, again, we see
what a convenient; base a. system of
twolfths is for division compared with a
system of tenths, which could only be
divided evenly in two ways—by two and
five. For seven ounces they used the
literal seven-twelfths; for eight ounces
they said “two-parts," 2'. 8., two-thirds;
for nine, “wanting a fourth,” which
with us reads a roundabout way of ex-
pressing three-quarters; for ten, “ want-
ing a sixth;" for eleven, “wanting a
twelfth."
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CIGARS . AN]! PIPES.
Cigars were not known until 1815.
Previous to that time pipes were used
excusively. Chewing had then been in
vogue to a limited extent forsome time,
"ivhilé’s’nulfi'ng dates back almost as far
The first package sent
Medici was in fine
powder. She found that smelling it in
the box affected her similarly to smoking,
which led her to‘ fill one of her smelling
bottles with the dust. Her couriers
adopted the habit of snufling small
portions of it up their nostrals, and as
the precious stuff became more plenti-
ful the snufling habit became more
general, until at lastaman or woman
was not considered as in proper from
unless they snuffed
-This custom became so common in
England that a snuff-box was no' longe
a sign of rank. Then .it was the law
prohibiting the culture of the plant,
except for medicine, was passed. About
the same time a heavy tariff was placed
on the imported article, there by practi-
cally placing it beyond the reach of
the common herd and giving royality
a complete monopoly.
Since it first began to be used as a
luxury, there have been conflicting
opinions in regard to its effects. The
Roman Ch" "1 once forbade its use and
the Church of England acclaimed
against it. The -,Wcsleys opposed it
hotly, and atone time it was considered
so unclean as to unfit men for member-
ship in the Methodist Church. Baptist
and Presbyterian ministers preached
against it, and societies were organized
to oppose the spread of the habit, but
all to no purpose. Parents disowned
and disinherited their children because
they used it and husbands divorced
their wives on account of their having
contracted the habit of smoking.
It is singular that when women get
into the habit of smokinga pipe they
.prefer a strong one. There are few men
who have nerve enough to smoke a pipe
such as a. woman likes when she has
When
they first begin pufling cigars they pre-
fer them very mild, but it is not long
until they want then black, and lots of
as smoking.
them. '
The first chew or first cigar is long
remembered, for they almost invaribly
produce a sickness only paralled by
that of sea-sickness, and like the latter,
the victim is not at all frightened, but
wants to die, or at; least does not care
whether he lives or not. As soon as the
attack is over, however. he is ready to
try it again. By patience and presist-
once the nauseating effects are over-
come and the deathly sickness gives
place to delightful sensations.
Spanish and Portugues ladies, of all
ranks, smoke cigarette—little cigars,
not those vile paper things that pollute
the air, but fine flavored, little cigars.
They are also used to a considerable
extentin France, but the custom has
never prevailed to any great extent in
England and America. - The pipe is less
popular among ladies inthis country
now than it was fifty years ago. In the
Southern States, however, the women
of the middle and lower classes nearly
all either smoke or rub snufi‘, . and not a
few do both. Storekeeper-sin many
parts of the South buy snuff by the
barrel and keep it. under the counter
with the sugar. and coffee.
1*
A NE\\'SPAPER ‘VITHOUT AN EDITOR.
A newspaper in Madrid, called the
(Im'resmndcncfc. is peculiar in its way.
It has the hu'gest circulation of any
paper in the capital, reaching 200,000 to
300,000 a day. It has no editor, but a
dozen wide-awake reporters, who scour
the town _for every kind Of information.
They come to the office. anddrop the
manuscripts in a bag, and there they
stay until the forman wants copy. Every-
thing is then thrown intolthe forms
without regard to order or anything else,
and the paper is read from end to end
in spite of this 'fact.
fashion to derive the meta from the same -
BO BROW'ED BOOKS.
Books possess in a hardly less marked
dcgn‘oe than umbrellas the power of
exciting the acquisitive propensities of
the prescriptively respectable, and the
appropriation of a book is, like that of
an umbrella, regarded as a peculiarly
vcnial breach of the Eighth Command-
ment. The form which the offense or-
dinarily assumes is that of the pennan-
cnt retention of a book lent for tempo?-
ary use and enjoyment. The neglect to
return the volume does not; necessarily
imply dishonesty on the part of the
borrower, as the omission may have been
due to simple forgetfulness on his part.
But the ardent bookhunter whose pas-
sion for rare works and rare editions
amounts to a mania, will sometimes be
hurried in the eagerness of pursuit into
acts unsusceptible of any such charitable
‘interpretation.
mane is indeed one of the most deter-
. mined and remorseless of human beings.
“ Tall " copies and “large‘paper ” copies,
incunebula and Elzevirs, possess a fas-
cination for him compared with which
ing table are tame and. commonplace.
If none but equivocal means present
themselves of realizing acme long-cher-
ished bibliographical ambition, they must
be crooked indeed if he recoilsat them,
and bibliomania is of allmamas perhaps
that most nearly allied to kleptomania,
Tallemant des Reaux tells us in one. of
his Historiettsl that when Dumoustier,
the famous French draughtsman, was in
the height of his fame, he received a
visit one day in his studio from Cardinal
Barberini, Urban IV. ’s Legato in Paris,
who was accompanied on the occasion by
Monsignor Pamphili, one of his assessors.
The attention of the latter was attracted
a. table in the room, which proved to be
be a copy of the rare English edition of
the “History of the Council of Trent.”
Pamphili took the volume up, glanced
through the leaves, and, profiting by a
moment when Dumoustier’s attention
seemed to be completely monopolized by
his other visitor, slipped the book inside
his soutane. The artist had, however,
noticed the act, and instantly interrupt-
ing the course' of his conversation with
the Cardinal, he asked permission of his
Eminence to point; out to him a thief.
He then went up to Pimphili, tore Open
his contour, and snatched the book from
its hiding-place. What adds piquancy
to the story~ for the the truth of which,
the gossiping abbn, it; would be rash to
vouch—is the fact that this same Mon-
signor Pamphiii subsequently satin the
papal chair as l’opc Innocent X.
.«OH
FANN Y FERN.
___..
The Boston Budget says: Some fmty
years or less have passed since prome-
naders and others passing through
Washington street on almost any fine
day were sure of meeting on some por-
tion of that fashionable thoroughfare, a
tall, dashing, and rather fantastically-
dressed woman, accompanied by two
little girls, quite as flashily attired. She
possessed a fine figure, but had a plain
face. She had a. bold, half-defiant look,
as though she was at “loggerheads”
rith every one she met, but was resolved
to face them down, especially if they
were of her own sex. Her proud,
haughty, and aggressive manner was
disagreeable to look upon. The remark-
able-looking woman was the “grass-
widow,” Mrs. Sarah Eddington, after--
ward known extensively by her 710772. de
plume, Fanny Fern. She had recently
separated from her second husband, and
was said to be very poor and proud.
Her father, Deacon Nathaniel Willis,
editor of the Boston Recorder and the
Youth’s Companion ; her oldest brother,
Nathaniel P. Willis, was already a writer
of established reputation. She was not
a favorite in her own father's family, or
scarcely anywhere else. In revenge for
some imaginary slights and wrongs,
she published a book called “Ruth
Hall,” in which she circulated in a
shameful manner many of her relatives
and best friends. Her father, as Old
Ellet, and her brother Nathaniel, as
Hyacinth Ellet, were broadly bur-
lesqued The publication of this out-
rageous book was a hard blow to the
poor old father who had pinched himself
financially to assist the unfilial daughter.
Her abuse of Dr. Eldridge and his wife,
the parents of her first husband, Cashier
Eldridge, of the Mcachant’s Bank, a
gentleman well remembered by our older
citizens, and the father of her two
children, was quite as shameful as that
bestowed upon members of her own
family. Norris, cf the Olive Branch, was
her first benefactor, and her contribution
was published in that paper. “ Fanny "
was born in 1811, in Portland, Me. In
personal appearance she resembled her
brother Nathaniel, though she was not;
as good-looking, for Dr. Oliver Wendall
Holmes says he narrowly escap ed being
handsome.
”oi-W
LAST DAYS OF PEG IVOFFINGTON.
Her last; days were passed quietly and
decorously at- Tcddington, where She
owned or rented ahouse, still recognized
by a not too insistent tradition as Udney
Hall. In the little Goergian church
hard by, whose incumbent at that date
was the “ plain Parson Hale[s ” of Pope,
a rigorist who still compelled the trans-
gressor among his parishioners 'to do
public penance for his sins, is a”neat
mural monument to “Margaret Wolfing-
ton, Spinster;" and next the grave-yard
is a picturgsque row of buildings with
dormer wnidows which pass as “Mar-
gnret Wofiingfon Cottages." These, it
is said, were built for almhouses by the
once famous stage-queen in her benefic-
ent retirement. Unhappily, in spite of
O’Keefe's statement to the contrary, she
does not seem ,to have endowed them;
and they have now passed into private
hands. \Awriter in “ N 01:23 and Queries, "
from whom some of these particulars
are borrowed, and who, above the signa-
ture “F. G.," delights in recalling the
arm of the last ccnttu'y, points out that
Mrs. Woflington’s whilom rival and
opponent, the Kitty Clive of Walpole
‘anleohnson, the clever actress whom
Fielding called “the best wife, the best
daughter, the best sister, the best
friend, " lies not very far off at Twickon-
ham. They were fierce enemies in their
lives, these two. “No women of high
rank,” says gossipping Tom Davies, 0
Russel street, "ever hated one another
more unreservcdly than those great
dunes of the theatre." “The honors of
war, it.appears, generally remained with
Mrs. Wellington, who was well-bred,
ironic and always mistress of herself
while poor Mrs. Clive, notwithstanding
her excellent quality, was as inflamma-
ble as touchwood and therewithal hope-
lessly crude and violent. Now “after
life’s fitful fever, they sleep well ” in
their peaceful resting-places by the
Thames ; and the pilgrim of to-day may
easily walk from one grave to the other.
W
All the shoe dealersof Pittsburgh
abbreviate the names of their goods,
and so many cartons are labelled “Cur
Kid " that the citizens of the “ Smoky
City” fully believe, it is said, that they
are wearing dog-skin shoes.
The confirmed biblio-,
the fascinations of the'turf and the gam-‘
to a handsomely bound volume lying on '
or indeed Of :mvthin" else comin fi'Oilb
o B
3 Say about
Dr. H. 0. 119115113 REMEDIES.
Bridgman, 007177., March, 1885.
>“Dr. Flowcr’s Liver and Stomach Sanative can-
not be too highly recommended to those suffering
from dyspepsia and kindred troubles. I have used
it myself, and know whereof I speak.”
ltsv. SYLVESTl-iit CLARK,
Rector of Yrinity Episcopal Church.
12 Prospect SL, Bridgeport, CL, Felt, 1885.
“Dr. Flower’s Nerve Pills have been of great
benefit to me. They are simply invaluable.”
Mus. CHAS. E. WILMOT.
Clinton A re., Slumfurtl, 007m. A mi], 1885.
“Four bottles of Dr. Flower’s Liver Sunative
have done more for my wife than all the dectors.
Before commencing its use she suffered intensely
from liver troubles. She is to-day in better con-
» dition than she has been for years ; is able to attend
to her household duties, can enjoy her meals and
sleep soundly; somethingtthat was for months be-
yond her power." HERMAN IIEISER.
‘.' ' Norwalk, 007171., March, 1885.
“Dr. Flowcr’s Liver Sanative is the best medi-
cine for stomach troubles I ever saw. It has cured
me_ of a. case of long standing, and I gladly testify
to Its merits.” MRS. A. G. BETTS.
Drmirury, 007777., April. 1885.
"‘1 can thoroughly recommend Dr. Flower’s
Nerve Pills. They are just what every woman
who has the cares of a house and family needs, for
they seem to have a sedative and quieting effect on
the nervous system without leuvinguny unpleasant
effect behind." Mus. J ANE i-lorT.
109 Pearl St, liar/ford, 007172., A pri i, 1885.
"‘I recommend all sufferers from dyspepsia or
liver complaint to use Dr. Flower’s Sanative. I
speak from personal knowledge of its value. It
has helped me wonderfully." MISS MARY Manx.
. 1;;‘mcslers, N. Y., April, 1885.
"I have been troubled with a. torpid liver for
years, and have never found permanent relief un-
til Icommcnced using Dr. Flower’s Liver Sana-
tlve. I am happy to be able to add my testimony
to its worth." Mus. F. C. BAILEY. ,
12 Van Relpcn. Arc,
Jersey Oily, A". J., April, 1885.
“Your Snnatlve is doing me great good; my apn-
petllc has improved, and I aln growing stronger
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After twenty years’ use of 0. I. 0., I can safely
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. S. S. W. SMITH, Echeconncr, Ga.
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The Electric Lamp is one of those useful articles
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by electricity at small expense. The Incandescent
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mailed on receipt of price by the manufacturer.
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N. B.-——Estimates furnished for factory, church,
residence and municipal lighting at lower cost, and
all kinds of electrical work undertaken by contract
Jusr wrur You Anvil, Vise, Cut-
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size 84.50, 36.50
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Bibles at 1.2 and Old
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-- lish editions, and equal
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paper, rinting and accu-
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C HOWE J; (10 ,
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.m presents given away, send us 5
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HALLE’I‘T .i: Co.,»Pcrtland, Maine.
FOR earn
A STYLISH
ViCTOfiiA,
Newly Trimmed and Painted.
A Fine Family Carriage.
Will be sold at a very low price-
HENRY TILLY,
CARRIAGE MAKER,
SOUTH NORWALK.
BEING UNABLE TO MANUFACTURE
HARNESS
To compete with large concerns, I have taken the
agency of one of the eldest and largest estab-
lishments in the state for the sale of
Harness. Saddles, Halters, Sur-
cingles, Genera, 851:.
I shall also Make .
‘Eine Harness to Order,
as usual, at the old stand,
Ho. 7 WATER STREET.
where I will keep a regular line of Whips, Sponges
Chamois, Blankets, Robes Feed Bags,»—
Travelmg Bags, c.
«T. F. PEOKELL.
SPECIAL BARGAINS
_ IN—
I o .o
Chome Bulldmg Lots
Situated on Spring Hill, Wilton Avenue,
Fair Street, and Riverside Avenue. En-
quire at GAzaTTE OFFICE, or of ,
tf18 B. J. STURGES.
O. E. WI L‘SONi
General insurance it Real Estate Agent
.Money to Loan.
Room No. 3 Gazette Building. Not-walk, Conn.
Af'I‘NA [S URANC-E Co., of HARTFORD.
4 Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetual.
CAPITAL AND ASSETS, $8,902,272.
Insures against loss and damage by Fire, on
terms adopted to the hazard and consistent with
the laws of compensation. COWLES a MERRILL,
Sole Agents for Norwalk and vicinity.
6-1.
v THE
Norwaik Fire Insurance Co.
Has now completed its
18111 SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR
And has not outstanding a dollar of unpaid losses
orclalms for losses. No sound «077117111121 insures
for less.
W. C. STREET, Pres, S. E. OmsrnAn, '1‘rcas.,
GEO. R. Cowms. Secretary.
A CARD.
Having purchased the
FURNITURE BUSIN PISS.
Recently carried on by WILLIAM Locxwoon at
No. 36 MAIN STREET.
I am prepared to meet the wants of all prospective
purchasers of furniture, both STAPLE AND
OliNAMENTAL. 1 have on hand a large
stock which I will sell
VERY CHEAP FOR CASH.
Ishallbe pleased to meet all old or new friends
and will guarantee satisfaction in
every case. ‘
gposcs. H. RAYMOND.
PETER neurons,
FLORIST Mill 81 Will
UNION AVENUE,
North of Norwalk Cemetery, "
monwanm, - .. com. ,.
Dealer in In Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and Ornamen
tal Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers alway
on hand and all sorts of designs in Flowers arranged
to order. 41y2
Grading and lie—filling Cemetery Plots
' promptly attended to.
S. B. WILSON,
Carpenter's Builder,
Steam Band & Scroll Sawing,
WindowFrames, Blinds, 61c.
Packing Boxes, Mouldings and
Brackets Made to Order
Orders by Telephone or Mail promptly attended to
First-Glass Turning done-11011131.
Shop and Residence, 11, Summer, Street,
”39 Nor-walk, Conn.
ROOMS TO LET on moderate terms to the right
parties, in first-class neighborhood. Apply to
S. B. WILSON.
IV. E. BIEEKER.
54 Main Street,
SOUTH NORWALK. CONN.,
Practical Plumber,
Steam and Gas Fitters, Dealers in Plumbers’ and
Steam Fitters’ Supplies, and Gas Fixtures.
Jobbing promptly attended to. 1y21.
PENSIONS
And. Government Claims my
Sqle Businers. Thousands have
3.1311115 Neglected. ' -
ADDRESS, Free of Charge, ‘
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P011, While all] Giuliani,
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York market. Correspondence
‘ Invited.
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GOLDEN SPECIFIC 00.,
13119 185 Race Street, Cincinnati, 0.
F. .51. PE CII WE L L,
ARCHITECT, ‘
No. 7 WATER STREET.
Gilbert Lock Company.
Dibble Manufacturing Company's door
knobs.
New York \Vood Turning Company.
Corner Blocks for window casings.
Round and Square Turned Balusters.
‘5 5‘ (5 ‘5 Nell/81S.
Plain and Double Moulded Stair Rails.
Also Flat Moulded Door and W'indow
Casings furnished at short notice. '
R. B. CRAUFUBD,
Insurance, Real. Estate and
Investment Securities,
3| Main Street, Norwalk,
AGENT FOR THE
American Ins. Co., of-Ncwark, N. J.,
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N orthern Assurance Co., of London ..... 15,225,422
Germania Fire Ins. Co., of New York. . 2,700,076
Montauk Fire Ins. Co., of New York. . . . 339,666
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Securities 0 all descriptions bought and sold at
New York Quotations.
A large number of desirable dwellings and farms
for sale. 13tlc
J OIIN II. SMITH,
FLORIST,
EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, SOUTH
OF RAILROAD, ~
City of South Nor-walk. Comb,
Plants &Flowers at all seasons
Flowers for Funerals furnished and tastefully
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Notice to Farmers!
plows AND PLOW REPAIRS.
HAVING purchased the stock of Flows and
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Apply to
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\ ILL be sold at aBargain,if applied for soon
. a small, heat Cottage, of sixr coins, in good
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‘ For Sale.
A Chestnut Standing Desk. Apply at
. THIS Orrrcn.
For Sale.
DOUBLE BARRELLED RIFLE made by John
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Enquire at this oilice.
.FOR SALE,
ONE two seated square hcx side bar wagon.
0518]].
One light lumbcrbox wagon.
One second-hand square box wagon.
One one-horse cart.
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33!
a. commas,
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OPPOSITE HORSE R. R. DEPOT,
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GEO-WARD SELLECIK,
Haaosusaocx’s BLOCK. WALL srnssr,
FAMILY GROCERIES,
ALEX. S. GIBSON,
Organist of the First Congregational Church,
Teacher of
Pianoforte, Organ and Musical
Composition,
Lock Box 3 P. 0., NORWALK, CONN. »
J. BELDEN HURL‘BUTT, "
1111111111 and Counsellor at Law,
Room No. 4, Up Stairs,
GAZETTE BUILDING, NORWALK, CONN
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—MERCHANT TAILOR,—
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The Life is the Blood—Prevent Disease—Surgery
the Last Resort—A Telling Letter.
It is conceded that DR. KENNEDY’S FAVOR-
ITE REMEDY, of Rondout, N. Y., is the lnost
effective preparation now in use for all diseases
arising from a foul or impure state of the circula-
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of the following letter had had habitually taken
“FAVORITE REMEDY" ten years ago, he would
never have suffered from Cancer :—
I’trrsrinm), MASS, March 22, 188-1.
Dr. D. Kenneth/,Rondoul, N. Y. :
DEAR Sm :—About six years ago I was obliged
to resort to external treatment for the removal of
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- KEY on DEATH. A"
In the collection of curiosities pre-
served in the arsenal of Venice there is
okay, of which the following singular
tradition is related :
“About the year 1600 one of those
dangerous men, in whom extraordinary
talent is only the fearful source of crime
and wickedness beyond that of ordinary
men, came to establish himself as a
merchant or trader in .Venice. The
stranger whose name was Tebaldo, be.
came enamored of the daughter of an -
ancient house, already-affianced to an- '
other. He demanded her hand in mar-
riage, and was of course rejected. En-
raged at this, he studied how to here-
_ vengcd.
“Profoundly skilled in the mechani-
cal urts, he allowed himself no rest until
he had invented the most formidable
weapon which could be imagined. This
. was a key of a large size, the handle of
which was so constructed that it could
be turned round with little difliculty;
when turned, it discovered a. spring,
which, on pressure, launched from the
other end aneedlc or lancet of such
subtle firmness that it entered into the
flesh and buried itself there without
leaving external trace. Tebaldo waitedin
disguise at the door of the churchin
which the maiden whOm he loved was
aboutto receive the nuptial benediction. ,
Thea ssassian sent the slender steel un-
preccived into the breast of the bride.
groom.
“The wounded man had no suspi-
cion of injury, but seized with a sudden
sharp pain in the midst of the ceremony,
he fainted, and was carried ‘to his
house amid the lamentations of the
the bridal party. Vain was all the skill
of the physicians, who could not devise
the cause of this strange illness ; and in
a few days he died. Tebaldo again de-
manded the hand of the maiden from
her parents, and received a. second re-
fusal. They, too, perished miserably ina
few days. The alarm which these
deaths—which appeared almost miracul-
ous—occasioned, excited the utmost
vigilance of the'magistrates ; and when,
on close examination of the bodies, the *—
small instrument was found in the gan-
grened flesh, terror was universal; every
one feared his own life. The maiden thus
cruelly orphaned had passed the first
months of her mourning in a convent,
when Tebaldo, hoping to bend her
to his will, entrcated to speak with her
at the grate. The race of the foreigner
had been ever displeasing toher, but
since the death of all those most dear to
her it had become odious (asjthough she
had a. presumption of his guilt), and
her reply was most decisive in the
negative. Tebaldo, beyond himself
with rage, attempted to wound her
, through the the grate, and succeeded;
the obscruity of the place prevented his
movements being observed. On her
return to her room the maiden felt a
pain in her breast, and uncoveringit, she
found it spotted with a single drop of
blood. The pain increased ; the surgeons
who hastened to her assistance, taught
by the past, wasted no time in conject-
ure, but, cutting deep into the wormded
part extracted the needle before any
mortal mischief had commenced, and
saved the life of the lady. The State
Inquisition used every means to discover
the hand which dclt these insidious ’
and irresistable blows. The visit of
I‘ebaldo to the convent caused suspi—
zion to fall heavily upon him. The
house was carefully searched, the in-
famous invention discovered, and he
perished on the gibbet. ”
BEFORE FREE
Wood was one of the earliest sub.
stances employed on which to inscribe
names and record events. Stone, brass,
lead, and copper were also used at an
early period ; after which the leaves of
trees. These were superseded by the
outer bark of the tree, but this being
too coarse the inner bark came soon
after to be used, that of the lime being
preferred. This bark was called by the
Romans liber, the Latin word for book,
and these bark books, that they might
be more conveniently carried about,
were rolled up, and called column,
hence our word volume. The skins of
sheep, goats, and asses were the next
materials used, and so nicely were they
prepared that long marratives were
inscribed on them with the greatest
accuracy. Some of these were 15 feet
long, containing 50 and 60 skins, fastened
together by thongs of the same material.
The intestines of certain reptiles were
also used, for it: is a well~authenticated
fact the poems of Homer were' written
on intestines of serpents in letters of
gold. This roll was 120 feet long, and
was deposited in the great library of
Constantinople, where it was destroyed ,
by fire in the sixth century. The next
material was parchment—skins smoothed
and polished by pumice stone—to which
succeeded vellum, a finer description of
parchment, made from the skins of
very young animals. On this vellum
gold and silver letters were stamped
with hot metal types. Some of these
productions are very beautiful, requir-
ing much time and labor to prepare and
complete them, and the more carefully
they are examined the more do we ad-
mire the taste and ingenuity displayed.
“’HERE FASIIIONS NEVER CHANGE.
“Coreaus have a national costume,
which does nOt change its fashion with
every year, and which is worn by all
classes, the only difference being in the
quality of the material used. A major-
ity of the fourth class dress in white,
simply" because cotton of that color is
cheaper than any other stufi‘, but dark
colors prevail among those who can
afford them. The high officials at: court
Wear robes of peculiar cut on state oc-
casions, with different insignia of rank,
and hats that vary from those in general
use, while the King dresses in gorgeous
brocades, wears the embroidered emblem . .
of royalty upon his breast, and upon his
head a winged hat that can be worn by
him alone. Hats, by the way, are a
prerogative of married men, and youths
and bachelors must always go bare-
headed.
“There are no public mean of con-
vcyance, and. so the poorer folk travel on
foot, while the wealthy are transported,
as arrulc, in sedan chairs, although the
gentlemen occasionally go on horse-
back. Cammercial transportation in
.the immediate neighborhood of the cap-
itdl is, to a small extent, clone in uncouth
heavy carts, but almost all the traffic of
the country depends upon pack animals,
horses being employed to some extent,
but to a vastly greater degree bulls and
cows that are trained for the purpose.
The horses, or more proper ponies, are
of a puny, miserable breed, but the
cattle are of a very superior order. They
are highly bred and very handsome,
looking very much like our best Dur-
ham stock, and are peculiarly gentle in
disposition, even the bulls being
thoroughly tractable. Although thgre
is an immense number of cattle in the
country and beef is 'universally eaten,
itisa curious fact that milk is never '
used as an article of diet, and our so.»
. employing it: was a source of unceasing
astonishmentto the natives.
Norwalk Chronicler