ESTABLISHED 1800.
Volume LXXXVII.
NORWALK, CONN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, l887.
' TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
Number 6.
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THE RB]: ACORN.
BY JOHN M’ELROY,
Author of “Andersoneilie,” Etc.
[Copyrighted by National Tribune Publishing 00.,
and published by arrangement with them.]
[The name given this storyis made glorious
b the valor and achievements of the
iist division of the Fpurteenth Army
corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson
acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant
soldiers and borne upon their battle flags.)
Continued.
How bad it oeen faring all this time with
Harry Glen and those with him!
The fierce wave had dashed against the
regiment early in the morning, and although
the first fire received from the Confederates
made gaps in the ranks where fifty men fell,
it did not recoil a step. but drove its as-
sailants back with such slaughter that their
dead, lying in the open ground over which
they crossed, were grimly compared by Abe
Bolton to “punkins layin’ in a field where the
corn’s been cut off."
Then the fight settled into a murderOus
musketry duel across the field, in which the
ranks of both sides melted away like frost in
the sun. In a few minutes all the field of-
ficers were down, and the only captain that
remained untouched took command of the
regiment, shouting to Harry Glen at the same
moment to take command of the two com-
panies on the right, whose captains and lieu-
tenants had fallen. Two guns escaping from
the crush at the extreme right, had galloped
down, and opened-gallantly to insist the regi-
ment. Almost instantly horses and men went
down under the storm of bullets An aide
broke through the cedars behind. -
“Fall back—fall back, for God’s sake!” he
shouted. “The Confederates have got around
the right, and will cut you 03."
“Fall back, boys,” shouted the captain in
command,‘ “but keep together, listen to
orders, and load as you go. ” The same instant
he fell with a ball through his chest.
“Sergt. Glen, you’re in command of the
regiment, now." shouted a dozen voices.
The lieutenant of the battery—a mere boy
—ran up to Harry. A stream of blood on
his jacket matched its crimson trimmings.
“Don’t go of! and leave my guns, after I’ve
helped you. Do not, for the love of Heaven!
I’ve saved them so far. Bring them of! with
you."
Harry looked inquiringiy around upon the »
ism than one hundred survivors who gath-
ered about him, and had heard the passionate
appeal. Every face was set with mortal
desperation. An Irish boy on the left was
kissing a crow which he had drawn from his
bosom.
The tears whidi strong men shed in wild
fits of rage were rolling down the checks of
Edwards, Bolton and others.
“I don’t want to live always!" shouted
Kent. with an oath; “let‘s take the —
l" ‘
“I don’t want no better place to die than
right here!” echoed Abe, still more savagely
profane. “Le’s have the guns, or sink into
hell getting ’eml” '
The remnant of the Confederate regiment
had broken cover and rushed for the guns.
“Attention!" shouted Harr .
nets!” -
The sharp steel clashed on the monies.
“Foams”. Cannon!"
“Fix bayo-
, _, .ze“; ~r
“Attention," shouted Harry.
‘ ‘ Charge!"
For one wild minute shining steel at arm‘s
length did its awful work. Then threescore
Confederates fied back to their leafy lair and
as many bluecoatswithdrew into the cedars,
pulling the guns after them.
“Pick up the lieutenant, there, some of you
who can do a little lifting," said Kent, asthey
came to where the ”boy artillerist lay dead.
“This prod in my shoulder has spoilt my lift-
ing for some time. Lay him on the gun and
we’ll take hiin back with us. He deserves it,
for he was game clear through. Harry,
that fellow that gave you that beauty
mark on the temple with his saber got his dis-
charge from the Confederate army just after-
wards on the point of Abe’s bayonet.”
“Is that so? Did Abe get struck at all?”
“Only a whack over'the nose with the butt
of a gun, which will doubtles improve his
looks. Any change would.”
“Guess we can go back now with some
peace and comfort,” said Abe. coming up and
alluding to the cessation of the firing in front.
“That last round took all the fight out of them
hell'hounds acres the field.”
“Some of you had better go over to the
camp there and get our axes. We’ll have to
cut a road through the cedars if we take these
guns 01!.” said Harry, tying a handkerchief
around the gaping saber wound in his tem-
ple. “The rest of you get around to the right
and keep a sharp lookout for the flank."
So they worked their way back and a little
after noon came to the open fields by the
pike.
"Forward!
As the wagon rolled slowly down the pike
toward Nashville Rachel, in spite of her
anxiety, fell asleep. Some hours later she
was awakened by the driver shaking her
rudely. .
“Wake up!” he shouted, “of ye value yer
life!”
“Where are wet” she asked, rubbing her
eyes.
“At Stewart’s credk,” answered the driver,
“an' all 0' Wheeler‘s cavalry are out thar' in
them woods.” .
She looked out. She could see some miles
ahead of her, and as far as she could see the
road was filled with wagons moving toward
Nashville. A sharp spurt Of firing on the
left attracted her attention, and she saw a
long wave of horsemen ride out of the woods
and charge the wagon guards, who made a
sharp resistance, but at length [led before
overwhelming numbers. The teamsters, at ,
thefirst sight of the formidable line, began
cutting their wheel mules loose and escaping
upon them. Rachel’s teamster followed their
example.
“The OR mule’s unhiteht; jump on him an’ _
skip," he shouted to her as he vanished up the
ike.
p The Confederates were shooting down the
mules and such teamsters as remained. Some
dismounted, and with the axes each wagon
carried, chopped the spokes until the wagon
fell. while others ran along and startedfires
in each. In a little while five hundred wag-
ons loaded with rations, clothing, ammuni-
tion and stores were blazing furiously. Their
work done, the cavalry rode off toward
Nashville in search of other trains. .
Rachel leaped from the wagon before the
Confederates approached and took refuge be-
hind a large tree. whence she saw her wagon
share the fate of the rest. When the cavalry
disappeared she came out again into the road
‘ V and walked slowly up it, debating what she
could do. She was rejoiced to meet her
teamster returning. He had viewed the oc-
currence from a prudent distance, and, being
kindly natured, had decided to return to her
help as soon as it could be done without risk.
He told her that there was a wagon up the
pike a little ways with a woman in it, to
which he would conduct her, and they would
go back to the army in front of Murfress-
boro. .
“It seems a case of ’tw' t the devil and the
deep sea,” he said dcspairingiy. “At any rate
we can’t stay out here, and my experience is
that it is always safest where there is the big-
gest crowd.”
They found the wagon with the woman in
it. Its driver had bolted irrevocably, so
Rachel’s friend assumed the reins. It was
slow work making their way back thrOugh
the confused mass, but Rachel was lucky
enough to sleep through most of it. When
she awoke the next morning the wagon was
still on the pike, but in the centre of the
army, which filled all the open space rouud~
about.
Everywhere were evidence of the terrible
work of the day before, and of preparations
for renewing it. The soldiers, utterly ex-
hausted by the previous day’s frightful strain,
lay around on the naked ground sleeping or
in a half waking torpor.
An ofiicer rode up to the wagon. “There
seemsto be some flour on thiswagon,”said
the voice of Dr. Denslow. “ Well, that may
stay the boys'atomachsuntil wecan getsome-
thing better. Goon a little ways, driver.”
“ 0, Doctor Denslow," called outRachcl. as
the “syn starred unin- “wk-t
newlf' ' ‘ ‘ ‘
I
we. steam... imam
nixing the voi&; “ well, the? is good news.
When I heard about Wheeler's raid on our
trains I was terribly alarmed as to your fate.
This relieves me much."
“ But how about the army 1”
“ Well, it seems to have been a case of
hammer and anvil yesterday, in which both
suffered pretty badly, but the hammer got
much the worst of it. We are in good shape
now to give them some more, if they want it,
which so far they have not indicated very
strongly. Here, Sergt. Glen, is a ccuple
of barrels of flour. which you can take to
issue out to your regiment.” ‘
Had not the name been called Rachel could
never have recognized her former elegant
lover in the stalwart man With tattered uni-
form, swollen face, and head wrapped in a
bloody bandage, who came to the wagon with
a squad to receive the flour.
A tumult of emotions swept over her, but
superior to them all was the feminine feeling
that she could not endure to have Harry see
her in her present unprepossessing plight.
" Don’t mention my name before these
men,” she said to Dr. Denslow, when he came
near again.
“ Very good,” he answered. “ Sit still in
-the wagon and nobody will see you. I will
have the wagon drive over to the hospital
presently, with the remainder of the flour,
and you can go along.”
All the old love seemed to have been out at
' compound interest, from the increment that
came back to her at the sound of Harry
Glen’s voice, now so much deeper, fuller and
more masterful than in the fastidious days of
yore. She lifted the smallest corner of the
wagon cover and looked out. The barrel
heads had been beaten in with stones, and a
large cupful of flour issued to each , of the
hungry men. They had mixed it up into
dough with water from the ditch, and were
baking it before the fire on lar'ge fiat stones,
which abounded in the vicinity.
“I’ll mix up enough for all three of us on
this board," she heard Harry say to Abe and
Kent. “With your game arm. Kent, and
A e’s battered eyes your cooking skili’s about
gone. You ought to both of you go to the
. hospital. You can’t do any good, and why
expose yourself for nothing? I've a mind to
use my authority as temporary commander
of the regiment and send you to the hospital
under .”
“You try it if you dare, after my saving
your life yesterday,” said Abe. "I can see
well enough yet to shoot toward the Con-
federates, and that‘s all that’s necessary.”
“I enlisted for the war,” said Kent, “and
I’m going to stay till peace is declared. I
went into this fight to see it through, and I’m
going to stay till we whip them if there’s a
piece of me left that can wiggle. Bragg’s got
to acknowledge that I’m the best man before
I’ll ever let up on him.”
Rachel longed to leap out of the wagon,
and do the bread making for those clumsy
fellows, but pride would not consent.
The dough was browning slowly on the hot
stones, but not yet nearly done, when the
spiteful spirts of firing out in front suddenly
burst into a roar, with a crash of artillery. A
bugle sounded near.
“Fall in, boys,” shouted Harry, springing
to his feet and tearing off the flakes of dough,
which he hastily divided with his comrades.
“Right dress. Right face, forward, file right
—marchl"
“If there is anything that I despise, it’s
disturbing a gentleman at his meals,” said
Kent, giving the fire a spiteful kick, as he
tucked the bread under his lame arm, took his
mus et in his other hand and started 01! in
the rear of the regiment, accompanied by the
purblind Abe.
Rachel’s heart sank, as she saw them move
off, but it rose again when the firing died
down as suddenly as it had flamed up.
Soon Dr. Denslow took the wagon ofi' to a
cabin on a high bank of Stone river, which
he was using as a hospital.
She called some question to him, as he
turned away to direct the preparation of the
flour into food for his patients, when some
one cried out from the interior of the cabin:
“Rachel Bond! Is that you? Come in
heah, honey.”
She entered. and found Aunt Debby lying
on the rude bed of the former inhabitants of
the cabin.
“0, my love—my darling—my honey, is this
you?” said the elderly woman, with streaming
eyes, reaching out her thin arms to take
Rachel to her heart. “I never expected ter
see ya ag’ini Blit God is good.”
“Aunt Debby, is it pomible? Are you hurt,
dear?” -
“No, not hurt, child; only killed,” she
answered with a sweet radiance on her face.
“Killed? It is not possible.”
“Yes, honey, it is possible. It is true. The
gates open for me at last."
“How did it happen?”
“I got through Breckinridge’s lines all right,
an’ reached the river, but thar was a picket
thar, hid behind a tree, and ez he heered my
boss’s feet splash in the ford, he shot me
through the back. An’ I didn’t get through
in time,” she added, with the first shade of
melancholy that had yet appeared in her face.
“Did you?”
“No, I was too late, too."
“An' Jim must’ve been, too. Hev ye seed
him anywhar?”
“No,” said Rachel, unable to restrain her
tears.
“Now, honey, don’t cry fur me—don’t,”
said Aunt Debby, pulling the young face
down to where she could kiss it. “Hit‘s jest
ez I want hit. On’y let me know thet Bragg
is whipt: an’ I die happy. ”
All day Thursda the two bruised armies
lay and coufron each other. as two bull
dogs, which have torn and mangled one an-
other, will stop for a few minutes to lick their
hurts and glare their hatred, while they re-
gain their breath to carry on the fight.
Friday morning it was the same, but there
was a showing of teeth and a rising fierce-
ness as the day grew older, which was very
portentous.
While stan ' at the door of the cabin
Rachel had seen Glen march down the
bank at the head of he regiment and cram
the ford to the heights in rent of Brecken-
ridge. She picked u a field glass that lay on
a shelf near, and fo owed the movements of
the force the regiment had joined.
“What if ye see, honey?” called out Aunt
Debby. She was becoming very fearful that
she would die befOre the'vlctory was won.
“ people,” answered Rachel, “seem to be
concentrating in front of Breckenridge.
There must be a division over. there. Breck-
enridgeseesit,andhis cannon are firing at
ourmen. Hersh ’ ’ gmenupat thedouble
Hm Fkéd‘li aspasm of fear in
regard to c 0 er.
G3 on, honey. What are they doing
now
“Our men have formed a lon line reaching
from the river u to the w They begin
to march forw Breckenridge opens more
fins. They cut lanes through them. Now
e infantry begins firin' g.’ A cloud of smoke
settles down an hides both sidu. .I can-see
no more. 0 my God, our men are running.
The whole line comes back out of the smoke,
with men dropgping at every step. If. Harry
wen; onlysat’ yout of there, I’d give- my
life.
Aunt Debb ed. “Look again,
hone ,” she sai after a moment’s pause.
“It s worse than ever. Breckenridge’s men
are swarming out of their works. There
seems to be a myriad of them. They cover
the whole hillsrde until I cannot see the
ground. They yell like demons and drive
our men down into the river. They follow
them to the water’s edge and shoot them
down in the stream. Ah there goesabat-
tery on the gallopto the ' in front of us.
It has opened on the Confederates, and its
shells dig great holes inthc black masses, but
the Confederates still come on. There goes
another batte on the op. It has opened.
There is auo er. 8 another. They are
gallo ing over here from every direction.”
. “G cry!” shouted Aunt Debby.
“There’s a fringe of trees near the water’s
edge, whose tops reach nearly to the top of
the hill. The cannon shots tear the branches
of! and dash down great ranks of Confeder-
ates with them."
“The arth rocks as when He lays his finger
upon hit.” said Aunt Debby.
The ground was trembling under the ex-
plosion of the fifty-eight pious of artiller
which Rosecrans h ' y massed at 4 o’cloc
Friday afternoon for the relief of his over-
powered left. “What’s them that o ‘boo-
woo-woo,’ like t big dogs barkin l"
“Those are ohn Mendenhall’s big Napo-
leons,” said a wounded artillery ofllcer. “Go
on, miss. What now?"
"The Confederates have stopped coming on.
They are apparently firing back. The shells
and the limbs of the trees still break their
lines and tear themto pieces, Now our men
dash across the river again, and begin a
musketry fire that mews them down. They
start to run, and our men charge after them.
cheering as they run. Our men have taken
their cannon away from them. The Con-
federates are running for life to get inside
their works. The hillside is dotted with those
who have fallen, and there are rows of them
lying near the water. Now everything is
quietiug down again.
_ “Glory tor God! for he has at last given
the enemy interour hands. Come and kiss
me honey, an' say good-by." .
rom the throats of 25,000 OXCIIEd' spec-
tators of the destruction of Breckenridge’s
division rose cheers of triumph that echoed
to the clouds. '
“What sweet music that is!” said Alnt
Debby, half unclosiug her eyes. “God bless
ye honey. Good-by.”
The gentle eyes closed forever.
Late in the evening Dr. Denslow’s stretcher
co brought in Harry Glen, who had fallen
in elast charge with a flesh wound in the
leg. Until he awoke the next morning to
Ethe-
find her sitting by his bedside Harry thou ht
' that he had been dreaming all the time at
. Rachel Bond had come to him, dressed in
quaint country garb. and loosed, with gentle,
ess fingers the stiff, blood encrusted
dage about his head, and replaced it with
ametlnngl ' that soothed and eased his fevered
in ca.
“ have verygood news for you," she said
I laterinthgday, .“Eent Edwards SAYS that
you are promoted to ca tain, by ' 'i'al’OF-
ders, for co icuous try on the battle-
field of Stone ver.’ ’
“You are promoted to captain," she said.
“and when are we to be married!" he
“Just as soon as you are able to travel back
to Sal-dis.”
_ Tncy_looked up and saw Dr. Denslow stand-
lngbeslde them. A stunned look on his face
indicated that he had heard and understood
all: This speedily gave way to his accus-
. tomed expressron of serene philoso‘phyl.
“Forget me, exce t as a frien ,” c said.
“It is better as it is or you, Harry and cer-
tainly better for her. Possibly it is better
for”—w1th a little gasp—“me. The sweets of
love are not for me. They are irrational
and irrational things are carefully eliminated
from my scheme of life. ”
Towards evenin Fortner came in with the
news “That old icked n his tm
and skipped out fgggTufiahoma Iloans lg
hurts, leavin’his wounded and lots 0’ stores
in our hands.”
iSo was gain‘ ed the great victory of Stone
r ver.
In m.
BATTLE OF CHICKASAW BAYOU.
A Desperate and Gallant Charge Made
by Gen. Frank Blair’s Brigade.
A charge made by Gen. Frank Blair on
Monday, the last and bloodiest day of the
battle, was one of the most desperate and gal-
lant feats recorded in history. Separating
him from the steep blufls occupied by the
enemy was a cottonwood grove, which had
been felled by the Confederates, and which
was an entanglement through which an un-
armed, unincumbered man could pas with
only the greatest difficulty. On the side of
the cottonwood maze, next to the enemy's
position, was a. deep bayou, whose opposite
bank was some ten feetin height. On this
bank was u. series of abattis, whose pointed
limbs barred the approach of a hostile force.
Just beyond the abattis was the first line of
ride pits. ‘Gcn. Blair, with four regiments,
was assigned to carry the position in front of
him. He must make hisway through the
dense fallen cottonwoods, he must then de-
scend into, cross the deep and muddy bayou,
climb its steep bank beyond and then break
through the deep abattis that crowned its
top, where he would find himself on a level.
uncovered space swept by rifle pits, scores of
and other lines of defenses which cov-
ered the foot of the sloping biulI beyond.
One wbuld fancy that the feat of charging
acres this space, every inch of which was
swept by rifiemen and artillery, would be an
utter impossibility. Mounted and in full uni-
form, the gallant Missourian led the charge.
How he ever forced his way through the
fallen timber, descended into and climbed
out of the bayou, gained a passage through
the abattis, and all the time covered with, a
tempest of shell and bullet, and escaped an—
nihilation cannot be told. But he did it all,
and accompanied by a single man, also
mounted, he rode into the first line of rifie
pits. His regiments struggled after him, and
secured lodgment in the first line of works,
and held them for a time, but, being unsup-
ported they had toreturn to their original
position.
Blair was a most interesting man in every
respect. Tali, well formed, with a “sandy"
complexion, light gray eyes, heavy mustache,
clean shaved face, andafine forehead cov-
ered with a mass of reddish hair, distingue in
style and hearing, be was handsome and
commanding. He was slow and deliberate
in speech, like one accustomed to addressing
large audiences; he was versatile, doing
uncorkinga bottle, and in all instances char-
acterized by a. calm, dispassionate manner
and a manner full of dignity. Henever
seemed to have the slightest knowledge of
the composition of fear—if he did, be con-
cealed the factsocompletely that on no oc-
casion was its existence discovered. In con-
versation he was a polite, attentive listener,
and an engaging, unasuming talker. Be-
ueathall his outward calmness he had a tre-
mendous force, a fact which was demon-
strated by the momentum with which he
threw his columns against the bristling,
deadly heights of Chickasaw bayou—“Po-
linto” in Chicago Times.
Table Land of Tennessee.
There are peculiarities of climate that are
not easily accounted for. Perhaps were any
one of them to be left out. the charm would
be gone, but altogether make it a marvelous
place. The altitude is but a little 'over 2,000
feet, but there is such a delightful breeze
sweeping over the plateau, uninterrupted by
surrounding heights, that no vestigo of
malaria could possibly lurk there. Then the
water, while limpid and pure as spring water
can possibly be, is strongly impregnated with
the minerals that underlie the mountains. If
there [is disease of any kind in the system,
these waters will bring it to the‘ surface,
either in the form of boils or a fine eruption,
which is not agreeable at the time, but which
leaves the patient well at last. It must be
the climate and water combined that do this,
for until a few years past the diet was cer-
tainly adverse to health, being confined to
bacon and corn bread. With the new civill-
zation, allthe comforts and manners of the
outer world have crept in, and as wild game
abounds, the table need neverbe limited. In-
deed, I think the menu of a supper [given
there a few weeks ago would compare favor-
ably with any one in our larger towns, be-
ginning with oysters and ending with Nea-
politan cream—Cor. New York Sun.
Organized Charity in Chicago.
The Provident wood yard is an institution
for the confusion and discomfiture of tramps.
It isin charge Of a stony hearted young fel-
low named McAulifi. It is under the direc-
tion of the Charity Organization society, and
is self-supporting. When a tramp asks a
charity organizer for help the charity or
ganizer refers him to the central ofilce and
the central ofilce sends him to the Provident
wood yard. When he gets there 'Mr. Mc«
Aulifl helps him to a bucksaw and a few
large bundles of wood and shows him how to
saw for a living. The tramp saws may be
half an hour, and then goes on a strike, curs-
ing charity organizations and monopolies in
general, and the man who invented a buck-
saw in particular. But if he sticks to work
for two hours or so, until he has one-sixth of
a cord of wood sawed into kindling, he earns
a ticket which is good for a 10 cent meal or u
10 cent lodging. Then, when he has walked
two miles or so to the eating house and gorged
himself on what his ticket calls for, he has
received a good practical lemon in the virtue
and reward of honest toil—Chicago Tribune.
5
Queer Funeral of an Epicurean.
A funeral of an extraordinary character
took place in Yorkshire, when Mr. J. S.
Broderick, a well known follower of Epicurus,
of Hawes, in North Yorkshire, was buried.
The interment took place in the deceased gen-
tleman’s own land at Spring End, on the top
of a hill. Mr. Broderick, who believed in the
transmigration of souls, had directed that no
minister of religion should attend his burial,
and that no religious ceremony of any kind
should be performed over his remains. The
funeral, therefore, was almost of a unique
description- n The procession had to pass over
Stagefell, one of the spurs of the Pennine
range, and as the road was blocked in plows
over twelve feet deep with snow drifts the
mourners had a most difficult timk. The im-
mediate place of sepulchre was very rocky.
It had been chosen by the deceased gentle-
man, and blasting operations had to be car-
ried on during the whole of two days to com-
plete the grave, which is nearly twenty feet
below the surface—Pall Mall Gazette.
A Clover Business Woman.
Riding with me through a thriving Maine
town recently. a friend indicated a large tan—
nery and remarked: “That establishment
has an entertaining story. Its founder built
up a large business and willed it to his daugh-
ter, instructing his executors to permit her to
manage the business herself. The neighbors
predicted a collapse of the concern; but the
' girl proved to be even a better busine- man
than her father, and cleared 87,000 the first
year. Sheranit several years and then a
minister settled in town, who took to her.
The taking was mutual. He married her,
left the ministry, is now running the tannery
with his wife’s help and drives the fauciest
team in town.”—Lewiston (Ma) Journal.
Wanted the Spurs.
The Prince of Wales having expressed a de-
sire to have the pair of spurs worn by Fred
Archer when he rode Ormonde in his last race
at NeWmarket, the executors have sent them
‘ to his royal highncss, together with the sad-
!' die used on the occasion.
everything well, from leading a charge to '
THE COLDEST COUNTRY.
WHAT LIEUT. SCHEUTZE SAYS OF
THE LENA DELTA COUNTRY.
How the Yakuts Manage to Keep Warm
in Northwestern Siberian—Huts and
Their Filtliincsa—Food and Clothing.
Eating Butter.
Lieut. W. H. Scheutze, of the navy, who
was sent to the Lena delta in northwestern
Siberia to deliver to the natives gifts from
the government of the United States to repay
them for the aid they rendered hilii in his
search for the raising members of the J can-
nette party, says in his report that the town
of Verovusk, Siberia, is the coldest inhabited
spot in the world. The thermometer stood at
eighty-six below zero when he was there, and
he says it seldom goes above fifty below. I
asked him the other day what the people did
who lived at this blissful spot; what they had
to eat and how they liked it.
“Why,” he replied, “they think itis apretty
good sort of climate. _ ‘Home, Sweet Home,’
is the song all the world over, and if the Ver-
ovuskers should come here they would won-
der what people did where it is so internally
hot. They would smother in this climate,
and pine for a stifi northwesterly arctic gale.
It is wonderful the amount of cold human
flesh can endure. The natives of Terra del
Fuego go stark naked the year round, and in
their country it freezes every night. It is
much colder in the Lena delta. yet the peo-
ple manage to keep comfortable, and. more
die of smalpox and scurvy than from the
effects of the intense cold. You seldom hear
of any one freezing to death, and then it is
those only who expose themselves impru-
dently who die in that way. More people
are frozen to death in the United States than
in Siberia.
now so mi! warm.
“But how do they manage to keep warm!”
“Well, in the first place the Yakuts are an
enduring race and are born in that climate.»
Then they dress in furs, and have learned
from their ancestors, or from their on ex-
perience, how to keep warm. - Their houses
are built of logs, smeared over on the outsrde
and inside with manure and mud. In each
cabin is a large fireplace, which is used for .
both heating-and cooking. There isseldom
more than one room in these cabins, and
usually the owner’s cattle, if he has any, oc-
cupy one end of the room in which he lives,
being tied, or prevented from tramphng on
the babies by abar. The houses are com-
monly very comfortable, but are awfully
dirty, and smell—there is no word to describe
it. Often, until, I got used to it, I would
rather lie down in the snow outside, with the
thermometer fifty below zero, than sleep in
one of these lflits. But you’ve no idea what
a man can stand when he has to.”
“Have they windows in their houses?”
“Yes; ice windows. They use ice as weuse
glass. A clear piece is selected, about five or
six inches thick, morticed in the window
opening in blocks two feet, and sometimes as
large as four feet square, and with water is
made solid. The water is as good as putty.
When the window becomes dirty they scrape
it off with a knife, and when it has been
scraped thin they substitute a new pane.”
“Doesn’t the window ever melt?”
“Bless you, no; it is freezing cold that far
from the fire. It the room ever got warm
enough to melt the ice the Yakut couldn’t
live in it, and would have to go out doors to
cool off. At night thefire is allowed to go
out, as they have to economize in fuel. All
they have is drift wood, gathered on the banks
of the Lena river in the summer time.”
“How do they sleep? Do they undress when
they go to bed!" _
“Always. They strip to their shirts, which
are made of a thick sort of Russian cloth as
heavy as our canvas. The men and women
wear the same kind of garments, and never
have more than one at atime. I took up a
lot of thick flannel for them, enough to last
the rest of their lives, and it will be a great
deal more comfortable than the native stud,
although they don’t like it at first. When
they undress they get into bunks built in the
side of the house—sometimes a man, his
wife and all his children in the same bunk.
They have reindeer skins under and over
them, and curtains of the same hanging be-
fore the bunks. The last man or woman to
undress hangs all the clo___ __ 9f therest
out doors over a pole that is kept for the
“muse 1’
p emu MD or mam.
“What is that fort”
“To freeze the lice. They couldn’t live if
they didn’t do it, and it has becomes national
custom. The lice get into the fur and that
is the only way to get them out. By hang-
ing their clothes over the pole every night
they can keep reasonably free from them, but
the fur fills up again the next day. ”
“Do they ever bathe?"
“Never in their lives; they haven’t any
word for bathing in their language, and the
impossibility of keeping clean is one of the
test hardships of Arctic life.”
“What do they eat!"
“Reindeer mmt, beef—they have cows,
queer looking animals, about half as large as
ours, with a hummock on their backs like a
camel—fish, bread made of black rye flour,
tea, and imported food made of chopped beef
rolled into balls about the size of a marble,
and covered with a dough. These they pound
up and make into soup. Then thereis awood
that is very nutritious when it is ground up
and boiled. Mixed with reindeer meat it
makes a. good soup. They often eat their fish
raw. Of course they freeze solid as soon
as they are taken out of the water, and
the native, particularly if he is on the
road, cute them oil! in shavings as thin as our
chipped beef and eats them raw. They are,
palatable, and I have lived for days at atime
on them, with a cup of tea made over an al-
cohol lamp by way of variety. The greatest
luxury they have is butter, and they will eat
it by the pound as our people eat confection-
ery. A poor sort of butter is made from the
milk of the native cow, that looks and tastes
more like cheese, and they prize it above all
other classes of food.”
“The amount of butter a native will eat
when he can get it,” conttn
Scheutzc, “is astonishing. A friend of mine
in Siberia told me of a. man who ate thirty-
six pounds in one day, and then didn’t get all
he wanted. They have 0. way of riding
u a red berry and mixing it wi butter,
which gives it a beautiful pink. tint and im-
provcs the flavor. Their drink is the Bowen
vodka, almost pure alcohol, and they wrll
trade their shirts for it. The liquor is scarce
and expensive, so they arc necessarily a_tem-
teteople. ”—‘Percy Drummond in Chicago
ter Ocean. .
now Heaven Interfered.
Sir Francis Hastings Doyle put the follow-
ing good story into his lately published book
of reminiscences: “James Allan Park was a
worthy old judge, a believe“:- in special provi-
dences and extremely eccentric. He was in
the habit of talking aloud to himself without
knowing it. In one case that came before
him the prisoner was accused of stealing
some fagots, and Park, on the bench, was
heard to mutter something to this efiect—
that he did not quite see his way to a verdict,
one fagot being as like another fagot as one
egg is like another egg. The quick—cared
barrister retained for the defense caught
these murmurings from above, and instantly
made use of them. ‘Now, witness,’ he cried
out, ‘you swear to those fagots; how dare
you do such a thing. Is not one fagot as like
another ingot as one egg is like another egg?
Immediately the judge, who though a good
man, had mrtainly no claim to be an angel,
rushed in without any proper apprehensions.
“Stop the case,’ he shouted, ‘stop it at once;
the coincidence is quite miraculous. I vow
to God the very same . thought in the very
same words passed through my mind only a
'few seconds ago. Heaven has interfered to
shield an innocent man. Gentlemen of the
. jury,you will acquit the prisoner.’ ”-Chicago
Herald. .
Dinners In Large Cities.
Dinners in New York, in London, in Wash-
ington, in Philadelphia, in perhaps all large
cities, are conducted on debt paying prin-
ciples, and therefore they grew very dull.
Not that people desire indecorous pleasure,
but they get bored to death by gilded and
overburdened splendor. Almost all hard
working men in America - are dyspeptic and
only look at their hands during the three or
fear last courses. Two peopleare brought
together, perhaps, who~have never met be-
fore.- They have pofitively no subject in
common. To relieve this awkward moment,
to raise the dull, depressing cloud which set-
tles over the jaded senses, what better that an
ingenious dinner card, with a quotation from
Shakespeare or a few lines of original poetry?
Here at least is an opening wedge, a text, a
beginning, asubject of common interest. It
is worth a world to an anxious hostess. To
see her guests thus amused, introduced, and
put at their case at once is worth much
wasg-Mrs. John Sherwood in New York
01'
_ The Ears of Criminals.
The president of the Berlin police calls at-
tention to the advantages accruing to police
authorities everywhere by taking profile pho-
tographsof criminals which will distinctly
show the left car. .He says that while the
features of the face changein the course of
time. the car retains its shape forever, and
furthermore, there areno two persons whose
ears are identically formed-Boston Trans-
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VALENTINE’S DAY.
HOW A BISHOP’S NAME CAME TO BE
PERPETUATED.
The Vulgar Valentine and Its Base Uses.
A Weapon iln Vogue with the Coward-
ly and Vile-Demons of Spite-School-
boys‘ Opportunity.
The revengos of time are very peculiar.
There was Bishop Valentine. See what he
was made tosufi'er for nearly 2,000 years.
It was about 1,626 years ago that he was
foully set upon, arrested, beaten with clubs,
and finally beheaded. This was, to say the
least, very harsh treatment of an elderly and
respectable prelnte. He had aroused local
feeling in some way, of course, or all this
would not have happened. But how? Many
believe to this day that he was the author of
the practice of sending lovo messages on
Feb. 14, and that his punishment was
not incommensurate with his crime. But
history exonerates him from so serious 9.
charge. The poor old man had no cupidal
experiences that any one ever heard of. His
offense was no worse than befriending the
Christian martyrs in the persecution of
Claudius II. On Feb. 14, 2'70, ho was be-
headed. ,
After that event some of his friends set
about doing him honor. Pope Julius built a
church to perpetuatephis memory near Ponte
Molle.
called them, werein the habit 01" having a
festival on Feb.‘ 15. The boys drew
the names of girlsinhonor of their goddess,
Februata J one. In order to abolish this cus~
tom several zealous pastors substituted the
names of saints inlbillets given on this day,
Feb. 14. So Dr. Valentine’s name got started
as belonging to this day, and it was no time
till the world was ready to give him the
credit of the whole business. There was,
however, no connection between the good
man and the custom of St. Valentine’s day as
it has been known ever since. It is sup-
posed to be of pro-Christian origin.
A DEGENERATE FESTIVAL.
Inavery modern work the 14th of Feb-
ruary is described gas a “degenerate festival,"
upon which “jocular anonymous letters are
sent to persons whOm one wishes to quiz, and
these chiefly by the humbler people. Maid
servants and young fellows interchange such
epistlee with each other, no doubt conceiving
This is a very thine description of the de-
generate side of St; Valentine‘s day. In the
vulgar valentine vae’s mortal enemy, Hate,
is represented. The other. side of the story
has a hearing. Originally Momus had a hand
in it, but the returns became too heavy for
him and he fled the field, leaving it to all the
little demons of spite, revenge, envy and jeal-
ousy. The coward who wants to hurt some-
body and not be known as striking the blow
finds a weapon all ready to his hand in the
vulgar valentine. {He sends it and then sits
down and laughs 'over the rage of the re-
ceiver, as he pictures it in his mind. He fan-
cies that he has perpetrated the most uproarl-
ous joke. It, is a one-legged joke, and he
owns the leg, but that doesn’t disconcert him.
Men of cruel and low instincts have always
laughed at the wounds they have inflicted
upon others. There are still living persons
who find cause for mirth in pulling a chair
from under another person. Ideas of humor
keep pace with the intellect. The fun a beer
expires over would be only gross and unpar-
donable rudeness to a gentleman.
About this time the landlady of the board-
ing house gets a very large mail. She sees
herself and her table, her daughter, her dram
and her tastes caricatured without mercy.
She knows that these printed and painted in-
sults emanate most likely from the men and
women who sit at her table, but she is not in
a position to escort them through the street
door and tell them never to return. She feels
these knives of malice very keenly, but she
pockets her wrath and says nothing.
cowsnns’ van'raon GROUND.
Unmarried women in their thirties are
blessed on ' St. Valentine’s day with numer-
ous coarse reminders of their years. Pictures
of hideous bags are sent them as gentle hints
that their youthful charms have departed;
or they are represented as flinging nooses at .
every male creature they see. These. polite
Offerings ewawmcoameaninded rivals.
or snubbed beaux of‘uo pafiifiilar decency of
thought.
School teachers are apt to get plenty of
sealed envelopes on St. Valentine’s day.
Many a small boy nurses his grudge patiently
until the dreadful time comes round, and
then unloads his pent up wrath by means of
villainous Iampoons, whose depravity he
isn’t even large enough to understand.
It may be that a day devoted to exchanging
insults is a necessity with a low order of mind.
Otherwise the ebuliitions might be more fre-
quent. At all events, the day viewed as a
vantage ground for cowards to mail lam-
poons to those they ei er envy or hate has
become important eno h toestablish a trade
in its vile merchandise. Flash news stands
drive a lively business for a fortnight before
St. Valentine comes round. The person who
stands in need of a particularly incisive lam-
poon to send to his enemy can find one ready
made and colored to his hand. The authors
of these fearful documents have left no body
unprovided for. They have the list of types
of men and women made up with a complete-
ness that savers of genius. And they, have
brought printed insults down within the
reach of the humblest and poorgst. For five
cents one can get a valentine of the most in-
cisive and oflensive description. This is no
trade that caters to the rich. Anybody with
a nickel ahead can treat' his rival or his
enemy, or even his benefactor, to a pang of
discomfort. Attacks on one’s self-respect are
thus made so cheap that anybody’s enemy
can arm himself with one or more of them.
Gunmen]: Ganmson
A." Queer Bundle of Mali.
“W e caught the mail in dead earnest the
other day,” said a mailagent on the Northern
Pacific road. “One of the small places where
we catch a bag is between Eczema and Bil-
lings, M. T. About three weeks ago the man
who works the hook on the car saw what he
supposedtobeamailbagsuspendedfromthc
arm of the scaffold at the latter town in ques-
tion. We were running pretty fast, consider-
ing the hard wheeling, and it took us but a
jiffy to grasp the dangling sack. It fell upon
the floor of the car like a log. A glance at
the bundle was sufficient to satisfy us that it
contained something more solid than letters
or papers. The sack was rippedopen and out
rolled the dead body of a man—a man with a
red beard and heavy, shaggy eyebrows. The
body was frozen still, it' having hung all
night from the arm of‘ the scaffold There
were three bullet holes in the man’s brem,
two more through his neck and one in each
leg. Pinned on the left side of the dead
man’s coat was a piece of brown paper, which
bore these words: '
“ ‘This is a horse thief.’
“ ‘Snatch him baldheaded.’
“That was the queerest piece of mail matter
we ever caught. We took the corpse to Bil—
lings, where we turned it over to the coroner.
l suppom the fellow had been caught stealing
horses and shot on the spot. They have a
ing an objectionable corpse to a neighboring
town.”-Chicago Herald.
Too Young to Tell the Time.
A young man recently returned home to
his faithful and wakeful spouse so near day-
break that you might call it earlyin the
morning.
“My dear, how late you are to-nightl
Where in the world have you been!” was
the greeting he rweived from his benight-
gowned wife as he shufi‘led upstairs.
“Late? (hie) ’Tishn’t late. What maksh
you (hic) shink ’slate?"
“Why, the chickens are crowing. Don’t
on heart”
“Shick’ns? Shpring (hie) shicks. They
don’t (hie) know what time ’tiss.”—Colum-
Blsmarck’a Admirable Notion.
Prince Bismarck is noted, at least, for his
practical ideas, as may be shown by a recent
circular he issued to all the officers of his de-
partments commanding the adoption of a
plain signature to all documents submitted
for his inspection. This is an admirable no-
tion that might be utilized in other countries,
as instanced by a very amusing incident that
occurred recently at a session of the Flint
town council. One of the items for considera-
tion was a letter received by the mayor from
the Prince of Wales relative tothe celebration
of her majesty’s jubilee. The mayor read the
letter and his reply. He said he had been un-
able to decipher the signature to the royal
letter, and consequently in sending back his
reply to Marlborough house he imitated the
signature as nearly as he could. The letter
found its way to the dead letter omce, where
the imitation signature was deciphered as
“Albert Edward. ” On bringing greater mag-
nifyingpowertobeur uponthe original -
nature he found that it really was “Albert
Edward.” The statement was received with
great laughter, and the suggestion was made,
that in future the prince should be more care-
ful of his P’s and Q’s, although those letters
are conspicuous by their‘ absence in tho
prince’s signature—San Francisco Chronicle.
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Gao.’ R. Co'wtss. Secretary. ’ '
L. E. QUINTARD,
Successor to W. E. me'raan,
URBERTAKER & EMBALMER,
OPPOSITE HORSE RAILROAD DEPOT.
Residence 143 Main Street. Telephone communi-
cation with office and residence,
w. '11. means,
Pinon, Steam and Gas Fillinl.
SOUTH N ORWALK. CONN.
Sanitary Plumbing, and Ventilation, and low
Pressure Steam Heating, a. Specialty.
PLUMBERS’ SUPPLIES.
Pipe and Fitting for Water, Steam and Gas.
Agent for the Florida Low Pressure Boiler.
Piggscllitiea fo Cutting and Threading algoglzes of
PETER L. GU-IGUE,
FLORIST NEW YEAR,
UNION AVEN UE,
North of Norwaik Cemetery,
“DIWALE, ' II CONE.
Dealerinln Green House and Hot House and
Bedding and Vegetable Plants, Fruit and ornamen
tal Trees Shrubbery, Vines. Cut Flowers alway
on hand andallsorts of dealgnsin Flowers arranged
to order. , uys
Grading and Re-filling Cemetery Plots
promptly attended to.
FOR SALE.
A STYLISH
VICTORIA,
Newly Trimmed and'Painted.
A Fine Family Carriage.
Will be sold at a very low price.
HENRY TILLY,
CARRIAGE MAKER.
SOUTH NOR WALK.
GENERAL MARKET.
Meat, Fish, Vegetables. arc.
LOCKWOOD it ANDREWS
MAIN STREET.
Allklnds of the best qualities of Meats, Fish,"
Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept constantly on
hand. and will be sold by us as low as can be pro-
cured at any market in Norwalk. We intend to
prove to our customers that we deserve their
patronage by fair and generous dealing.
lyso LOCKWOOD .t ANDREWS.
R e m e m b e r I
The Best Meats in Norwalk
--ARE SOLD AT—
WIXSON'S mm, ON THE BRIDGE,
-—-AND FOR THE—
Lowest Prices for Cash.
PLATES OF BEEF, 5 cents per it; CORNED
BEEF, from 5 to 16 cents er lb. I will not be
undemld for the Best uafiies of Men . Pou
Drawn to Order. Q t lyimy
James E. Wises-on.
27 Wall Street.
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SNOWFLAKES.
Where do they go,
The melting flakes of the bright, white snow!
They go to nourish the April showers;
They go to foster the Maytime flowers;
Where the roots of the hidden grasses grow,
There do they go. .
How do they go?
Drop after drop, in a silent flow,
WhenI in: warm rain falls, and the winds are
on . .
And the swallow sings in the rift of the cloud,
Through the frown veins of the earth below
They softly go. '
Why do they go!
Because Dame Nature will have it so!
More than this, truly, I cannot tell:
I am neither a seer nor an oracle!
When all is answered, I only know,
That they come and go,.
—-Kate Putnam Osgood.
THE SEWERS OF PARIS.
A Pleasure Trip Under the Streets of the
Gay Metropolis.
Excursions under Paris form one of the
features in the movement for the benefit of
the suiferers from the recent floods in France,
and the gorgeous sewers are liberally patien-
ized by the fashionable world. A reporter
of The Gil Bias gives this description:
“We starwd from the Place Chatelet at 3
o’clock and descended a. little winding stair-
case, the steps und walls of which were cov<
cred with a green cloth fringed by a red bor-
der. There is not the slightest danger of soil<
ing your clothes or of encountering the
slightest disagreeable odor. 0n arriving at
the foot of the stairs a fine display of fruits
and vegetables was the first thing to greet
our eyes. These products were from Game-
villiers, and were grown in gardens that are
watered by the sewers. We got into a
wagon, in which were seats for twenty per-
sons. Ofi we went, shoved along by solid
looking fellows, all neatly dressed. Above
us was a mass of tubes and pipes. They are
the water pipes, the two largest containing
our drinking water from the Venue and
the water of the Ourcq, which is used for
washing the streets and sidewalks. Then
there are the pneumatic tubes, in which we
can hear the rattle of the dispatch boxes as
they shoot along. ’
“Suddenly weheai'd the passengers in the
wagon ahead of us uttering cries of admira-
tion. We were under the Rue de Rivoli, but
soon we reached the crossing of the Rue du
Pont Neuf. This tunnel is lighted from end
to end with garlaDds of colored lamps. The
effect is fairylike. The same efiect is repro-
duced under the Rue du Louvre, the Rue de
Richelieu and the Place des Pyramids, where
precisely under the statue of Joan of Arc ap-
pear iri luminous glass the arms of the city of
Paris. We passed along, still following the
Rue de Rivoli, where each house has its unin-
ber in the sewer, just as in the street, until we
reached the Place de la Concorde. There the
electric fights, crossing their fires with the re-
flections, of the Venetian lamps, turn the
square inth sort of ball room. Nothing is
wanting, not even the music. We all got out
of the wagons to embark in large boats fur-
nished with cushioned seats. The music was
inthe first boat, which was decorated with
flags and lamps. The boats were started.
We followed the entire route of the Rue
Royale by the light of fifty dazzling electric
lights.
“After a quarter of an hour in this boat we
landed at the foot of a staircase, which we
mounted, and in three °minntes we were
above ground at La Madeleine. Itismuch
‘ colder in the streets than it was in the sow-
ers, where the temperature, summer and
winter, is always uniformly pleasant. "—New
York Sun.
THE BODY AFTER' DEATH.
Four Methods Which May be Used in
Lieu of Inhumatlon—The Latest.
Modern science has determined positively
against the common practice of inhumation
on sanitary grounds. Wherever the popula-
tion is dense. as it is in all great cities, it is
seen at once that the custom of burying the
bodies of deceased persons is a certain and
fruitful source of disease. Water and air are
alike polluted and rendered dangerous to life
by the placing in the earth the lifeless lumps
of clay which will in time be resolved into
their native element, but which, in the mean-
time, give forth noxious exhalations. For
this reasonthe practice of, intro—mural burial
has been done away with, and modern ceme—
teries are placed as far as possible from
municipal centem.
In lieu of inhumation, the scientists bf the
present day have devised four methods,
namely, cremation, cementation, coking and ,
electroplating. Cremation is only the classic
funeral pyre, but without any of its unpleas-
ant and revolting attendants. The body is
reduced to a handful of ashes by intense heat
in a furnace, so arranged that nothing dis-
agreeable transpires during the process.
The process of coking is similar, but in-
stead of being burned the' body is exposed to
a flameless heat and reduced to a hard, brittle
substance instead of to ashes.
Cementation does not deal directly with the
body but with its environments. It consists
in hermetically sealing the coffin by a coat of
the finest cement all round it. The advan-
tages of a sarcophagus are secured in this
way without its expense.
But the latest method and one which is
growing into popular favor is electroplating.
It is the application of a perfectly even
metallic coating to the surface of the. body
itself by the same process which produces an
electrotype plate. The method is briefly this:
The body is washed with alcohol and
sprinkled over with fine graphite powder, to
insure the perfect conduction of electricity.
It is then placed in a bath of metallic solution
containing apiece of the metal to be used.
To this is attached the positive pole of a
strong battery, the negative pole is applied to
the body and a fine film of the metnl‘at once
begins to cover the body perfectly and
evenly. This may be kept up until the coat-
ing attains any desired thickness.
To'this process there would seem to be no
valid objection. In effect it transforms the
corpse in a beautiful statue, form, features
and even expression being perfectly pie
served. No change is brought about in ap-
pearance, except that face and figure are
covered with a. shining veil, through which
the familiar lineameuts appear with all their
well¢remembered characteristics and ex-
pression—San Francisco Chronicle.
Ravages of Leprosy in Hawaii.
Dr. Frederick T. Miner, a prominent phy-
sician of Honolulu, Hawaii, is spending a few
days in New York, winding up the first visit
he has made to his native country in twenty
years. ‘
“Hawaii is one of the most beautiful and
delightful spots in the world,” said the doctor
the other day to a party of friends who had
given him a dinner, .“and it is only a ques—
tion of time when it will become a very rich
and profitable dependent of some country.
The native dynasty 'canuot last much longer.
At present it is lime more than a. name. The
king is sunk in idleness and luxury, and for-
eign influences struggle for the control of '
things. The native population of Hawaii is
rapidly passing away. In a very few years,
comparatively. it will be practically extinct.
What carries off the people? Leprosy, for
the most part, and then some such mysteri-
ous incompatibility of races as made the
North American Indians melt away before
the Europeans. The islanders were a fine
race originally, but the vices they have
learned from the white men have worked
their ruin.
“The ravagrs of leprosy in Hawaii have
not been overdrawn. I don’t know how they
could be even adequately described to one
who had never witnessed them. The terrible
disease seems to be a poison in the blood that
will eventually run through and wipe out the
entire native race. The ”government does
what it can in its feeble way to keep the dis-
ease from spreading. All authenticated cases
are isolated on an island in the harbor. Phy-
sicians hired at the public cost watch for the
disease and study its symptoms. But it still
increases steadily among the natives. The
foreigners catch it sometimes. It is a great
mista' ke, however, to suppose, as most people
do, that the disease is contagious. It can be
communicated from one person to another
only by contact and an actual transmission of
virus, as by a wound or a sore. I have treat-
ed thousands of lepers, been with them when
they died, visited the leper hospital on the
island and ate the food prepared for leper
palates by leper hands. I have handled liv-
ing and dead lepers with impunity, and so
have hundreds of other Caucasians. 0n the
other hand, hundreds of white men have been
infected by the disease in the way that I have
named and have died the most horrible
and loathsome of deaths."—New York Mail
and Express.
Absolution Granted.
The Accident News tells of two well known
newspaper men of this city who met the other
morning with contrite hearts and big heads,
and swore of! for six months. At 8 o'clock
that evening one was sippiuga glass of seltzer
when the door opened and No. 2 entered very
intoxicated. He paused to recover his bal-
ance, perceived his friend, straightened up,
and, advancing to the latter, said with great
dignity: “I ahsbolve you from your plesh.
Drink (hie) all you pleash.”—New York Sun.
‘So far has the competition mania gone in
England that prizes have been given for the
best three epitaphs on the late Fred Archer—
one of them “for racincsa”
Norwalk Chronicler