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JUST' lIIS LUCK. “Thor maybe iiothin’ in luck.” said old man Plunket. “but thar’s some mighty strange things happens in this world. “I kuowed that thar fellow what just rid by here crwhilc ago when he was or boy, and I knowed him all ei'lontn,r through life to the present; time, and it was said that he was the smartest; boy in the settlement, and when he was er young man it was said he was the luckiest fellow in the settlement, and it did look like luck to me, for he never turned hishandto anything when he first started out in life but what,it was sure to turn out well and make him money, and ’fore he was 23 years old he’d bought two likely niggers and had his farm well stocked. But; he ain’t got no farm now and he ain’t got nothin' else, and its because his luck changed. . His name is Jasper Green.” Plunket stopped to take a chew of Brown's tobacco, and then continued: - “'l‘hnr’s Squire Simmons, who lives yonder where you see that fine barn, was just the same age of Jasper Green, and they war raised boys together, and while everybody said that Jasper was smart and lucky, they had to say that Squire was or fool and tho unluckiest cuss that was ever allowed to live at all." Old man Brown agreed with Plunkct, and stated that he remembered the raising of both boys, and “it was just that way. ” “Squire Simmons was or green one," con- tinued old man Plunket, “and when I remem- ber how he used to git ei'rouuil in his‘copoi'ns [witches and jeans jacket at the parties in the settlement, I can’t tell' how he ever did turn out like he has, or how h- ever got the woman for or wife that: he has got." “He got her,” said old man Brown, “and he had J usper Green crgin him, for Jasper wanted the same girl, and the girl's father and her old aunt, that lived «along with ’em, were ngiii Squire. tea, and called him or fool, and unlucky and gsuky, and. the old man swore he should never have her, and told him to never darken his door ci'gln. Her maiden name was Lula Bright." “Well, you see,” said old man I’luukot, growing somewhat animated as the fountain of memories began to stir; “I know all crbout the whole business. Old man Bright had watched Lula and Squire crlong time and he seed that she was always ertakiug up for him, and he seed that Squire thought; luore of Lula than he did of anybody else, and he took to trying to bring him out; and make something of him, but old Bright got disgusted with Squire’s awkward ways, and then he went to work and tried to git his girl disgusted too, but he couldn’t. “The first thing that old mail Bright done for Squire, to kinder bring him out, was to give him a young horse, for Squire’s dude was a druukard and never did have nothing Squire got; the young horse home and him and his dude. turned in and broke him to work to or little old one horse wagin what they had, but he was as wildas a buck, and one day while . they war passing erlong, Squire driving and the old man walking erloug with his gun looking out for or turkey, they met "three or four boys of the settlement and one of 'em \vns Jasper, and they would have Squire to stop and talk or while, and as he stopped the old man didn’t go very far till he set down on or rock, and Jasper hadn’t been BI‘I‘OlIlld the house long till he seed how skitish he was of strangers, and so he’d just siiuflle his foot on the ground a little and the horse would shy, and Squire was busy talking tothe other boys and didn’t take no notice of what was going on, till Jasper, gitting or little closer and closer to the horse, all at; once give a big shuflle on the ground and out jumped the horse down the road, kicking and er flyin, and the old man was terribly excited and Jasper lowed to him: . “ ‘Shoot the horse, shoot the horse, he’ll kill your son,’ and the old fool blazed erway and down he fotcli him. They skint the horse, put the skin in the wagin, and the old man and Squire took hold and were pulling the wagin on back home, when who should they meet but old Bright. “ ‘Hellol’ said old man Bright; ‘where’s your horsel’ “ ‘Thar’s what’s left: of him,’ said Squire’s dado, pointing to the hide. “When the people in the settlement bored of it they all said, ‘Just his luck, justhis luck.’ But Lula she cried when she hered about it, and old Bright didn’t like it, and he thought he‘d give Jasper another young horse what he had there and see how he’d come out with 'em, and maybe Lula would see the difference in the two fellows and be- come disgusted with Squire. 80 old Bright he didn’t let on, but he gave the horse to J as— per, and the first; thing anybody knowed he had him broke and was cutting shines round the settlement, riding out the girls and hav- ing or fine time. Old man Bright lot ‘it run on this way for some time, till at last he called his daughter to him and pointed out the difference in the two young men, citing the horses as an example. Lula she just cried and went ei'long, and J aspcr he’d ride over in his buggy 'to see the Brights, and Squire he’d walk over to see ’em, and old man Bright thought he‘d done the very best thing he could have done to break up the attachment that was evident between his daughter and Squire. " “After that,” continued old man Plunkct. “I remember that one day the two young men happened to meet at old man Bright’s, and the old man he'd got some fine seed corn from off somewhere, and as it was com plant- iug time he give the young fellows an equal number of grains. and they were to plant in a rich spot and git in the seed of it. Jasper he went home and fixed his ground up well and planted his grains, and it wai'n’t no great while—before the corn was up and looking fine. Squire he went home and picked out a rich spot just block of his mama‘s garden and fixed his ground and laid off his furrows, and then took his corn and went erlong and dropped- the grains, intending to cover when he got through dropping, when 10, as he dropped the last grain and straightened himself and turned. he seed that an old rooster had been * right behind him all the time and picked up the grains as fast as he had dropped 'em, and people, when they bored of it, just lowed ‘it’s his luck, it’s his luck’, and it looked that way to me. “When old man Bright," continued old man Plunket, “seed that nothin else would do, he got mad and forbid his dadghtor ever speak- ing to Squire ergiii, and he told Squire never todnrken his door if he didn't want to git shot, and the Squire kuowed old Bright was or tough customer, and that he’d do. just what he said. “Old Bright had or nigger named Pomp that loved his young mistress, and hated Jas- per Green, for Jasper was mighty bad erbout pateroliug. and he carried little notes from Squire to Lula, and from Lula back to Squire, and in the course of er year or so Squire had fixed things up so that he would go over to old man Bright’s and take his seat ' on of bench what was in the grape arbor after it would git dark, and he wouldn’t set that- long till Lula would meet him there, and they’d set fiber and talk, and ‘old man Bright was none the wiser. But Squire's bad luck was with him yet. and so one night, while he and Lula were out under the arbor and old man Bright was done gone to bed and thought his daughter was in her room, the chickens what roosted in some cedar trees let in to equalling, and the guineas riot in to. making such or fuss, that Lula‘s aunt stepped out in the yard to see if somebody wuriit trying to steal the chickens, and Squire he slid 08 down the path and Lula went back intoher room, and the old aunt she spied Squire’s white shirt as he got over the fence, and she flew back into the house and woke old Bright and told him that some nigger had got all her chickens and was running of! with ’cm, and old Bright he lit cuten bed and blowed his horn, which was a signal between him and Edd Tamer, who kept a pack of nigger bounds, and Edd he was up and grabbed his horn and blowed up his dogs. and ’forc old Bright had got his clothes'all on, Edd was at his house and ready for businem. “It wasn’t no time ’fore the dogs was on the trail of poor Squire, and be bored ’em or com- ing, and he struck off in er run-to git: home if he could, and Luis. she hered ’em and she was scared to death, and she listened to the bark of the bounds as they went down the spring path aiid over the fence and then through the old field and into the woods and she could here the tearing down of fences so the horses could git over and the voice of Edd as be set on his dogs and she come mighty nigh going crazy for fear the dogs would catch Squire and fear him up, but; they didn't for he just took to or tree and set; than till the dogs all come up, and then be surrendered and they took him over to Justice Smith’s and put him under guard till morning and then they war going to try him for stealing chickens and put him in jail. ,The next morning, bright and early, Lula she come here to my house or crying and or wringing of her hands, and she told my old ’omnn just the truth of the whole matter, and said she didn’t want Squire hurt nor she didn’t want her father to find it out, and she didn’t know what to do. The old ‘ “Led me innnd told me erboutyw i: was, and I just saddled my ring and went over to J ustico Smith’s and stood Squire’s ball for $500 to appear at big court, and that settled it. “That was in the spring of ’01, and Squire he joined a military company and weutfito Virginia, and he made as good a rebel soldier as their was in the war. Squire he sent let- ters to me for Lula and I’d give ’em to the old bump and the old 'oman would take ’cm to Latin, and to this day me or my folks can get anything that tho Simmons have got, and thoy‘nre the richest folks in this settlement, and that follow what passed here or while ergo is Jasper Green, and you can tell what he is by looking at him. . You never know what of man’s gwyiie to be till he dies." at s- at a t a: “When Sherman came down here," contin- ued old man Plunkct, “old man Bright gath- ered up everything in the way of gold that he hadjrept all through the war, and hid it out. Thur was not or living soul that knowed how much he had nor what he done with it but his old nigger, Pomp. When we her-ed the Yankees were apt to git down this way, old Bright he went to studying how to hide his money, and be trusted old Pomp with everything, and asked his opinion as tothe safest way to hide in. Old- Pomp said he'd fix or way to hide it so that every Yun- kcc in the world couldn't find it. Bright told him .to go ahead and not let er liv- ing soulknow about it. Old Pomp he went off and gathered up a whole bag full of guards and he fetch ’em and give ’em to old man Bright, and they put all the gold and sil- ver into ’em and them old Pomp he gets hatchet and told his master to come ahead and they went down in the creek bottom and begin to look for hollow trees and every time they got one that suited they‘d put one er the gourds‘iuto the hollow, and old Pomp would mark the tree with his hatchet, till they got all the money stored away. Old Sher- man wam't long or coming and old man Bright, he lit out on his horse ‘to go over the river and the bridge was burned and he tried to swim with his horse and that was the end of him. He got drowned and the soldiers got the home, and no one but old Pomp knowed anything erbont his money, and he wouldn’t tell, and everybody thought the Yankees got it.” Plunket took it, fresh chew of Brown's to- bacco aiid then continued; “Right that luvhnr Jasper Green‘s luck changed for the worse, and whar Squire Simmon‘s changed for the better. Lula was poor then, the war was over and it was hard times. Squire came home from Virginia, and he was glad old Bright was dead, I reckon, for he went right straight tosoc Lula, and they war married, and everybody said that Squire had changed or heap, and had more sense than he used to have, and they went to keeping house, and in erbout or month up steps old Pinup—the Yankees had carried him off—and told him all about the money in the gourds and they got it, old Pomp remark- ing: ‘Ef young miss had or married Jasper Green he’d never knowcd nothin’ erbout these here gourds.‘ Old Pomp is dead, and he's the only nigger I know that's got or tombstone. Squire and Lula put it thar on his grave, and the reading on it is this: Hans Inns Pour, rim Suva. i Ills skin was black, but he was a faithful friend and an honest man. “Twenty-one odd years have passed since Squire and Lula were married. Squire hain’t no duneo now, but he could go to the legisla- ture any day he'd say the word. Some say it’s his wife, someasay it’s because he's honest and treats everybody right, some say one thing and some say another, but I say it's J ust His Luck.”—“Snrgc” in Atlanta Consti- tutioii. COLLEGE SOCIETIES. NOTED ORGANIZATIONS AMONG THE CLASSES AT YALE. the Most Profoundly Secret “Skull and Boiios"—Tlio “Scroll and Kay" and the "\Volf’s IIcnd"—0tlior Prominent Clnsl Societies. Yale’s most celebrated senior societies are “Skull and Bones.” “Scroll and Key" and “Wolf’s Head.” To be elected a member of “Skull and Bones" is considered one of the greatest honors that can fall to a Yale man. To secure such an election a man must achieve celebrity in one direction or another. Wealth or popularity is of minor importance. The society is limited to fifteen. members. Among them are genornllyto be found the captains of the university crew, the baseball and football teams. and also prominent track athletes. Among others generally chosen are the vsledictoriau of the senior class, one or inoro members of the board of editors of The Yale Literary Magazine, and one or more officers of the various athletic organizations. The society has been in existence fifty-five years, and numbers among its past incinbcrs some of the most noted men who have grud- ,uated from Yale. Its meetings are held in a mom covered sandstone building situated not far from the campus, and are conducted with the most profound secrecy. N 0 “Bones” man has ever been induced to disclose any of the doings of the society, and genuine offense is taken if it be referred to in his presence. Next in importance comes the “Scroll and Key?’ society. Its members are all men prominent in some direction, but, as c. rule, they are lost celebrated than the “Bones” men. Popularity and wealth are important considerations in the choice of many of the “Key s” men, and the honor of membership is almost as eagerly sought as in “Bones." The society yclept “Wolf's Head” has sprung into existence within a few years, and has grown to a good deal of importance and popularity. It has, like its sister organiza- tions, a beautiful building, the interior of which is said to be handsomely furnished. - mi: JUNIOR socrxrnrs. The junior societies, “Delta Kappa Ep< alien” and “Psi Upsilon,” are ancient and. honorable organizations which have been celebrated in story and in song. Prominence and popularity are the important factors in the choice of members. Up to the year 1877 both societies were accustomed to give Thanksgiving plays in Alumni hull. These performances: were very attractive to. old graduates and town people, but the . .college boys fell into the habit of doing and saying such objec tionable things on these occasions that the faculty finally prohibited further public por- formancos; and so it has come topass that the yearly exhibitions are now witnessed only by the members of the society under whose auspices they are held. The exhibitions take the form of minstrel shows and burlesques on the plays of Shakespeare or some more modern author. The minstrel shows fre- quently include imitations of eccentricities of the various professors, and are invariably received with great gusto. Costumes from New York are employed, and much time is spent in rehearsing for the presentations. limitin- playsare given in May on the oc- casion of the initiation of the sophomore members. In addition to the fraternities mentioned above, there are several sophomore and freshman societies and a large number of Sheffield Scientific school societies; but they are less important than those that have been eott’a The Big raid; of Literature. Stanley is to get $50,000 for the account of the trip he is now undertaking. This is one of the largest sums ever paid for a single volume. Thackeray's largest income from 'any one book was not over $25,000; Wilkio Collins got 820,000 for “Armadale,” George Eliot $40,000 for “Mlddlemarch,” Scott $40,- 000 for “Woodstock,” and Macaulay $100,000 for his history. The $494,000 received by M Grant for-the memoirs of the general stands unique in literature. The earnings of the late Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., who wrote those rc- marknblo tales for the New York Ledger, were; about 810,000 a yeah-Philadelphia Prose. The Penny \Valk. “Look at that couple. See, they are taking a penny walk.” ' “A penny what?” “Aperiny walk. Don't you know what that l is'ziNo. ’1 “Why, you see ll young couple, or perhaps a party, set out for a walk.” “Yes.” “Well, when they reach a corner the leader tosses up a cent. Heads, they go to the right; tails, to the left. Next corner they do the same thing. Sometimes when they get ready to stop they don’t; know where they are. Lots of fun. . There they go to the left. Tails that time. "—Bufl‘nlo Courier. Artcmul Ward's Will. In Paris, Oxford county, Me, is a copy of the. will of Artcmns Ward. Paris is the birthplace of Hannibal Hamlin. Artemus Ward was acompositor on the country paper, The Oxford Observer. His will directed that his body be buried at Waterford, about ten miles from Paris. After making a few bo- qucsts, he gave the balance of his property to found a home for worn out printers, Hor- ace Greeley to be sole. trustee. As there was no balance the home was never established.— The Argonaut. named—Arthur Edmands Jenks in Lippin- STORY OF THE corona. HOW THE WRETCHED OF NEW. YORK SLEEP ON HOT NIGHTS. Snoring Upon the Stoops, Sweltering in Ash Bins and Sleeping In the Gutters. Startling Revelation on :i Midsummer Night. You have imagined the story of the fool; now listen to tho story of the gutter, a story utterly foreign to the understanding of peo- ple who live in comfortable homes and known to the denizens of the roofs only by hearsay. Twenty thou sand people on the hot nights snared upon the stoops, swoltered in ash bins, slept in the gutters of New York’s streets. The cleansnig processes of civilization long since brushed away the foul and dirty pest places Loon .i as the Five Points, and societies devoted to the prevention of cruelty to chil- dren and to the children‘s did have done much in their good evangelical ways, but there are now strut-tn upon streets in this fair metrop- olis on which stimd rickety buildings, dirty, unkempt, niicai-cd for, filthy beyond descrip- tion. where crime goes hand in hand with suffering, and poverty is the bed fellow of utter wretclicducss and despair. Within an eighth of a mile of the city hell are many huge buildings called tenements, in which scores of families live, breed and die. Dirt and squalor are their normal condition; untidiness, foul odors and indecency are things familiar to young eyes and the every day surroundings of old age. WINTER AND summit. In winter time it is possible for the dc- graded creatures who burrow in these ken- nelsto exist, because the more crowded they are the warmer they are, and in winter the" two things most needed are shelter and heat. Utterly reckless as to appearances, careless of what may happen to one another in the way of immorality, with no prejudices in favor of clean faces or tidy linen, these, families live together as bugs do, literally rolling one over the other, content so long as their lowest physical necessities are even partially met. In the summer all this is changed. Shelter, to be sure, is desirable, but them are condi- tions of caloric utterly unbearable, which even these people, unaccustomed to ease or ’ comfort of any sort or kind, insist upon, so far as they are able to control affairs. It requires no very great stretch of imagina- tion to understand that the close, unventilated rooms in which these people burrow, where children are born, the sick are cared for, the dead lie waiting burial, where cooking and washing undo. thousand and one domestic economies necessary in every household, how- ever humble, are carried on, cannot be very desirable places for any oneto slew in during the frightful nights of torridity. hat, then, must they be when not only one, but a dozen, are expected to'find nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, in the contracted, foul smelling, alluOst loathsome places in which these people sta f y BWARIIING on Tim srnau'rs. They cannot go to thereof; it is already occupied. 80 they swarm upon the streets. First come, first served, is their motto. As soon as the evening shades prevail these crea- tures emerge half clothed, dirty, comfortlcss to the last degree, and wind their way through the crooked passages, down the stairwnys to the narrow street. The steps are soon taken possession of. Every point where ii person can rest his weary body is- occupicd. For in the evening hours, when children of people in moderate circumstances are asleep, these streets are noisy, echoing with the cries and sports, the fights, the broils, the ramps of wretched little children, whose dirty faces are stained with tears, to whom it crust is a banquet and a pillow an unheard of luxury. A walk through one of these streets at 11 o'clock ’ of a frightful midsummer night would do much to ally the discontented fever which eats the very hearts of so many of New York’s well to do people. Children are seen there by the hundreds who have not been in bed for weeks, who have not changed their clothing in months, to whom a good wash would be a revelation more absolute than the most startling sentence in the apocalypse. Curly headed boys and girls, with bright eyes and sturdy figures, literally romp in the street and pelt each other with its dirt. Miserable, big headed, weak eyed, pallid faced, .wasting babes lie upon the laps of slattcruly women and roll their heads from side to side in pitiable weakness. All manner of costumes can there be seen. Barefooted men and women, half grown boys and girls, with but a single garment between them and the outer air, disappointed looking men and disheartened looking women, form the motley groups of every possible .age and every imaginable condition of trouble and distress. --Joc Howard’s Letter in Detroit Free Press. THE VILLAGES 0F RUSSIA. \Vliat a Traveler Saw—View of an Into- rlor—Supcrstltious Peasants. Houses are never solitary, but always grouped into hamlets, villages or towns. At the entrance to every village there is a board giving the name of the proprietor of the surrounding estate and the number of houses and inhabitants. One villagcisex- octly like another, except as one contains a church and another does not. In any vil-‘ loge containing a church a store can be found; at one without a church there is no place at which anything can be bought. An average village consists of a range of dingy log houses on either side of the road; the go.- bles are always toward the road; they are roofed with boards; the floors are always five or six feet above the ground, and the space beneath is generally used for storage. They are never entered at the end toward the road, but always at the side, and up an inclined bridge of logs. There is no paint outside or inside, and every peasant’s house between the Arctic ocean and the metropolis is inno- cent of color. The furnishing is of the simplest; kind; two or three board tables, and for seats a few benches around the walls. They sleep on top of the stove, that is, as many as can be ac- commodated thereon; a country stove in Russia is ,a brick structure sixfeet square and six or seven in height; it is covered with stucco and whitewashed; the top of this stove is the favorite bed of the house. A broad shelf extends from the top to one side of the room; this affords a sleeping place for those who escape the pirrgatorial accommodations on the stove top. While the Russians are re- puted to be very filthy, and some of them are, many of these log “IZDBS,” as they are called, are scrubbed to glistening whiteness. There are usually two P001118 in the “lzba,” with the great brick stove in the dividing partition. In the eastern corner of every Russian house there is asacred image of some favorite saint; before this image, in many houses, a small lamp or taper burns constantly. On arising in the morning every member of the family bows and (Emma himself before it. In time of danger or sickness petitions are offered to the “Obrax,” for that is what: the saint in the corner is called. When. one Russian enters the house of another, no word is spoken until he has crossed ldmsclf before the “obi-a.” 'When a Russian crosses himself every series of motions is followed by a low, sweep- ing how. He crosses himself whenever he passes a church, shrine or cemetery; when he cranes a river; when he boards a. best; when he goesto bed, and when he gets up; when he begins to eat, and when he stops; when he passes a funeral procession, and when it than- ders. Whenever the mouth involuntarily opens for yawning, it excites strange fancies in the superstitious peasants; they consider it the work of the devil, and that he may not slip in to snap up the soul, the sign of the cross is made rapidly before the mouth—James Ricalton in Outing. — ”rink. for- Hot Weather. A reporter who talked with a local drug. gist obtained much valuable information concerning the liquid tastes of Brooklynites. This was in part what he said: “People in hot weather drink cooling-drinks'for' the pur- pose of cooling 'ofl. Thisisa mistake. A man may be over so warm and while be ob- tains temporary relief by drinking a glass of something cool, the after effects are even worse than before. Those men who perspirc freely are seldom sunstruck. The pores are always 0pm, and while cool drinks do not cool I would not advise any one to abstain from liquids during hot weather. Did you ever take a hot bath for the purpose of cool- ing off! No? Well, try it. You will find thiit the effect is instantaneous. On the same prin- ciple that a Turkish bath has a cooling effect on a heated body so a hot bath in your own house has a similar effect. “I have made a. study of cooling drinks and of the many kinds offered I find that sour lemonade gives the best results. A lemon will at once cool one thoroughly and the effect is lasting. No, I don’t think highly of tar cream soda. In the first place, the cream, syrup and carbonated gas make a. poor combination, and to a weak or dyspeptic stomach the efiect is demoralizing. Acid phosphates, lime juice and certain kinds of mineral waters are next to lemonade for cooling purposes. Beer? Oh, noi Any kind of malt liquor is most heating to the blood. The more beer a man drinks the more he wants. That man who gets fat in summer when others are becoming thin- ner daily drinks beer and his flesh is not not- ural."—Brooklyn Eagle. , k-_. ' THE WEED IN PERSIA. AN ORIENTAL LAND, SAID TO BE THE SMOKER’S PARADISE. The Persian'o Social Position Shown by the Number and Value of His Pipes. The Eternal Water Pipe—The Etiquette of Smoking. Persia is the smoker’s paradise. In the first place. tobacco is cheap; fourteen pounds 0f it in the cured leaf cost froni'threc mien shill- ings. There is no middleman or manufac- turer to mix, chop, scent, flavor and adultcratc it. The grower cures it; and packs it: in bags of skin. In these bags the merchant sells it to the retailer; and then the smoker, pipe in hand, samples the various lots, and purchases from n peiinyworth to a bagful, as secmeth to him good. There are various kinds of tobacco in Persia: the leaf tobacco; which is smoked in the kalinn, for bubble-bubble; the Kurdish tobacco, which is almost: White, and consists of the leaves and stalks of 0 plant coarsely pulverized. This is a we fragrant pipe tobacco, and may be obtai , mild or excess- ively strong, and it is smoked in chibouqucs or in the Arab short clay pipe. The only recommendations of the Arab pipe are its chcapness and its portability. It is a simple tube of clay nbout,six inches long, with a bore an inch in diameter; it is constructed in the middle, and at at nearly a. right angle. It; is essentiél y the poor, man’s pipe. Crummed with a Kurdish Como, of which it wrll hold half an ounce, i018. passed from hand to hand until it; is smoked out. In the north of Persia and in the capital the paplros, or cigarette, is, rapidly gaining ground; the commonest Sitmsoon tobacco is used as a rule, or a. very similar article grown in Ghilun and rather superior to it. But the real national pipe of Peril} is the knlian. Among the merchant andf tradesmen class the kallcn is ever betwe it the lips. The peripatetic vender of some is seen in Persia in every place where mitt congregate for business or pleasure. Eve of: executions the criminal will ask for and :receive a farewell whiff of the eternal water; pipe before he is blown from a gun. I havp seen a man uii- dergoing the long agonies of crucifixion seek- ing solace in the kalian. i q ‘ rim magma AND ins Press. The social position of the Persian is shown by the number and the value of his pipes. The pipebearer to a great'mun is a highly paid domestic, who may 'have i n his care from fifty to a hundred pipes, varying in value from £5 to £500. The pipes of the king and of the royal princes are often made entirely of gold incrusted with a. profusion of gems; the middle and upper classes generally content. themselves with kaljans whose reser- voirs and stems are of solidlsilveiy the bowl only being of gold Ornamented with gems or enamels. The religious (3108865 mostly affect a kalian of the simplest kind; the wafer reser- voir beingn. wide moutheifbottlc of course porous clay, the stem being composed of curiously turned wood stained a bright crim— son, and the bowl made of' a black porcelain resembling ebonyln appearance. But in the privacy of their own harcm's the holy men do not disdain to smoke the costly pipes of their wives; for everybody smokes in Persia—old men and maidens, young men and children— aud the old women are the most inveterate smokers of all. Among the middle classes the water reser- voir is often composed of glass, elaborately cut and often decorated with the florid col- ored and gilt ornamentation which Turkish art has rendered familiar to us. These glass reservoirs, for which there is an enormous market throughout Persia and central Asia, are made in Russia. Rose water isfrequently used in place of the vulgar fluid; rose leaves, tiny rosebuds, and the immature fruit of the almond or plum are tossed into it, and as the smoker at each inhalation sets the liquid in violent motion a pleasant sight is thus offered for his contemplation, much resembling the pretty toys that may be seen in some of the filter shops in London. In the hot weather a porous clay reservoir is affected by all classes, as it is supposed to cool the water that puri- fies the fragrant smoke; they will even ice the water. The water is changed every time the pipe is lighted, and is itself not without its uses; for it is an ever handy and never falling emetic—a useful thing in acountry where poisoning is not infrequent. Erroonrm AND PUNCTILIO. Probably the Persians are the most poetical as well as the most practical people in the world. All through the summer the stems of their pipes are decorated with circles of tiny moss rose buds; or, the interstices having been filled with grass seeds or grains of com, the pipe is handed to the' smoker covered with rows of sprouting-,verdure an inch and a half long. This decoration of pipes is part of the duty of the pipe bearer or of the ladies of the harem, and the pipe bearer-’5 office is no sine- curc. He has several stocks of tobacco of varying quality. The etiquette and punctilio of pipe smoking are endlem. When a visitor is oflered a pipe, and there is not a second one, he declines it at , once; his host must smoke first. This, if the entertainer be much superior in position, he will actually do, but otherwise he declines, and the guest, having first offered the pipe to the other visitors, who decline it as a matter of course, proceeds to smoke, and then it is handed round to everybody in order of rank. No business in the east: can be done with- out the smoking of many water pipes; it forms a large portion of the enjoyment of the Oriental both, it fills up the pauses of conver- sation, and, when a man is at a loss for an answer, it gives him time to think. The very sound of the bubbling water imp. hot country is soothing to the car. That it is not smoked in Europe is probably due to the fact that he who would smoke the Persian water pipe would need to keep a Persian servant to fill it for him—Foreign Letter. A Sketch of You Moltke. The great stra ' 'st; represents in its high- est; development t 0 modern military mind. His intellect is spientific, cold, mechanical. He was remarkable in his youth for his great powers of sustained thought. Imagination, though not absent, is in abeyauce. For all great scientific, oven mechanical nchieve-‘ meats, a. certain amount of imagination is necessary. He is constituted to be the soul of a machine. His genius, which is constructive and not creative, is a faculty for mechanicfil combination, for scientifically manipulating military forces; combining, dividing, con- centrating, launching them in new combiner tlons, rearranging them, and hurling them again so as to thwart, paralyze and decimatc systems of opposing forces, according to far reaching, elaborate schemes. Yet his method is not rigid or bizarre; his plans are not laid down according to mere theory, in were thou of the strategist of the Russian army in Turkey—in consequence of which defect was heaped upon defeat. Moltke’s plans oYc simple and general, mea- tially vital, fien'ble, adaptable, giving perfect- ly free scope for modification. Everything is taken into account; everything calculated for; all is contrived with perfect tact of cir- cumstance, with regard to all contingencies, allsltuations, with a foresight that has ap- peared well nigh prophetic. Again and again during the last war he divined the cue- my’s plans and counteracted them—Tune. Triumph of the Dlvlnlng Rod. One of the most recent triumphs of the di- vining rod in Britain has been at the Avon- dale docks. The company owning the docks having received an intimation that an Amer- ican company proposed establishing a sugar- factory near the docks, provided a. good water supply could be secured, a certain Mr. Lawrence—who has the reputation of success as a water finder—was engaged toexamine the neighboring ground. In this case the rod em- ployed was a piece of spring steel. which was bent to the shape of a horseshoe, as the searcher, holding ills elbows close to his sides, began to walk slowly over the field. After a while the steel became so violently agitated, and twisted itself with such force, that one of Mr. Lawrence's fingers Was cut. He directed the company to commence boring at the spot thus indicated by the shedding of his blood, and the work was accordingly commenced. At the depth of 107 feet water was struck, and has since flowed at the rate of a thousand gal- lons per hour. ‘ In New England, also, the location of wells is said to be frequently decided by the aid of the water twig. And moving westward, we are told that the Southern Pacific and Con- tral Pacific railroad companies have, in cross- ing arid plains, been glad to avail themselves of the services of the divining rod in order to successfully locate their nrtesian wells. Dou btless cm long this seemingly mysterious power will be scientifically explained. For the present, however, it remains among the number of unfathomed mysteries, of which a few still remain, to puzzle our wisest men and to provoke contemptuous Sheets of those who (forgetting how little our grciit-grand- [mi'ents knew of tbb forces of steam and elec- tricity and how certain it; is that nature still holds many a secret which science has you: failed to discover) believe that whatever is beyond their own power of understanding must necessarily be foolishness—Miss Gordon Cumming in The Quiver. Aid \Vliero Aid In Needed. Sec even how nature aids the aspiring humorist. A mule with five logs, three of which are hind ones, has been born in Georgia—Exchange. SCANDINAVIAN Tourer. THE MEN WHO ARE CONQUERING THE FAR NORTHWEST. A Scandinavian Settlement in North- western Minnesota Sixteen Years Ago:\ Ilow American Enterprise “as Since Yielilcd to Stolld Determination. Sixteen years ago I rode slowly through in Scandinavian settlement in northwestern Minnesota. Today I have returned from a trip over almost the identical ground I then rodc over. Then these people were poor and dirty. They lived in holes called dugouts. They owned but little property. They were strang- ers in the land and they were timid. Tho Chippewa Indians, then recently removed from Red Wing to White Earth, amused themselves by chasing, stick in hand, thc Scandinavians around their farms and threat- ening to kill them. It was rare good sport for the rather cowardly Chippewa to find white men who were not expert with rifle and revolver, and who were afraid of fish eating Indians. The Americans who lived in the country previous to 1870 were rough, courageous men, who correctednu Indian but once; then he was buried by sorrowing relatives. So the Chippewa enjoyed the new breed of white men, who could not fight and would not swear, until they tired of the pleasures of the chase. The dugouts in which the Scandinavians, lived were generally excavated in the side' of a bill which overlooked a small lake, and near at hand stood timber for f ucl and shed building. Their plowed fields were very small. ‘ They impressed me as men who had been cowcd and mentally injured by a life of hard, unremuiierativo toil and scanty dict. ' They were dirty and vermin infested. They drank sour milk and ate heavy bread. They were not meat eaters. Poverty stalked among them. He who owned a yoke of cattle, a plow, a. wagon, a cow, and a few chickens was a man of wealth. Scattered among these ' Scandinavians and living on adjoining claims were vigorous, courageous young Americans, who had been raised onOhio,.lndiuiia and Illinois farms, and who had been educated in our common schools. Tlioy sprang front prime stock. They were accustomed to our laws and ways of living and methods of thought. They were handy men with tools. They were resource- ful. They worked hard and lived as well as they could. They, too, lived in dugouts, but, as a rule, they had a better start; in life than their Scandinavian neighbors. It; was patent to me in those days that the American youth were sure to succeed, and' that the native Scandinavian would fail tomako a living. That was a self evident proposition and easily comprehended by the dullest intellect. now 11' TURNED our. How did it turn out? Today the larger portion of the Americans who attempted agriculture in 1871-13 on the northwestern plains are scattered from Lake Superior to Puget sound, from the Saskatchewan to the Rio Grande. They work in every mining camp lying in the Rocky and Salmon river mountains. They live in huts standing by. lean and small placer mines. They pack heavy burdens on their books as they prospect in the Vermilion Iron range. More than half of the Americans who then so hopefully under- took to create homes in Dakota and north- ' western Minnesota mortgaged their farms and lost them, lost years of their lives, lost their hope and steadfastness of purpose, and they are today virtually wniidcrei's who live from hand to month. And the Scandinavians? They are, as a rule, highly prosperous. The dugouts were long since abandoned as places of residency, and in their storm are large, well built frame houses, which stand among shade trees and , well kept gardens. Such houses as I looked into were well furnished. Sewing machines stood in almost every house. And the land which was wind swept and desolate sixteen years ago is today divided into fields by good, cattle proof fences, and heavy crops ' of wheat, oats and barley gr w on the inclosed land. Cattle graze in lie] or on the adja~ cent prairies, which is owned by land specu- latorsfnnd frequently these small herds are tended by alight haired ”boy, who rides on Indian pony. In sheds stand valuable agri- . cultural tools,which»havo been paid for. The work cattle were sold long ago, and in their stead are two or three teams of powerful horses. And meat is in the pot three times a day in the kitchens of these houses. These people have good credit at the trading points, and they seldom abuse it. They only of all the people who have pushed into the North- west; have, as a rule, made a success of life as lived under the hard conditions enforced by the climate, the land grant railroad corpora- tions and the high price of the goods they consumed. They achieved this success by tireless industry, supplemented by rigid econ- omy. TODAY rr IB FALBE. It has been said sneer-ingly and with lips carved with contempt, and so frequently as to be generally believed by Americans who live in the west, that “the Scandinavians sell all the agricultural produce that they raise which is marketable. They feed the best of the remainder to their pigs, and what the pigs refuse to out they eat themselves.” Fif- teen, sixteen years ago, when these people were getting a. start, that statement was but aslight exaggeration. To—day it is false in every particular. They live as well as their American neighbors, and they pay for the groceries which they eat; and that is a finan- cial transaction which the eve 0 American farmer who tills land on the frontier shrinks from until heis screwed up to the paying point by the long headed merchant flirting chattel mortgages which bear his name in his face and talking savagely the while of pro- coedings against him the next time court meets. The land owned by Scandinavians is, can rule, unincumbered, or so lightly mortgaged that the payment of interest is not an oppres- sive burden. Some of the farms are mort- gaged ibu- from $300 to 8500. These mortgages were laid to raise money to buy stock‘and could generally be paid at any time. I know of no Scandinavian who has mortgaged his acres to the utmost extent, as Americans very generally do, and I know no farmer of that people who speculates in the wheat pits of Chicago, as thousands of American farm- ers do. The young Scandinavians of American birth, or those who came here when they were young, have lost the peculiar look characteristic of their parents. And, what is more important, they have lost: the methods of thought employed by their people a hen first they arrived on our shores. With gout and abundant food has come courage and in- telligence, and cleanliness, and in many cases beauty. They are Americans in thought and feeling and action. No people who have come to our land have been more quickly a:- similated than these—Frank Wilkoson in ' New York Times A Bravo Girl. “I think ice cream is delicious, George," she said; “I just love it." 'f “But don’t you know that it’s very danger- ous?" inquired George, uneasily. “Yes, I suppose it; is dangerous, but I'm no coward, George.”—New York Sun. That virtue which requires ever to be guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. Hay fever asthma. Relief guaranteed. Fontaine’s Cure. For sale by druggists., and LA. Meeker, 11 Main Street, Norwalk. Au idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound is a positive cure for all those weaknesses so common to our best female population. If you desire to be held wise, be so wise 'and hold your tongue. There are over 17,000 Mathushck pianos now in use and we have never heard of one being returner! or exchanged because it was not satisfactory. At Loomis’ Tem- ple of Music. ‘ Dresses cannot be beautifully draped without some underpinning. ‘ I have used in my practice Dr. Seth Arnold’s Indian Vegetable Pills, and must say they act more pleasantly than any other pill I have used or prescribed.——J. A. Supp, M. D., Sninevillc, Ohio. 25c. at druggists. Choose brave employment with a naked sword throughout the world. Kettle lard is often adiiltcrated, but if it bears the well known brand of Sperry and Barnes you can purchase in knowing that it is strictly pure, Ask your grocer for Sperry and Barnes’ Hams and Shoulders and insist upon having them. Advice is like custor oil; easy enough to give but hard enough to take. DR. S. E. \VIIITMAN says: “Have found ‘ Digestylin ’ beneficial 'in severe cases of Dyspepsia." Sold by all Driiggists, $1.00 per bottle, . or Wm. F. Kidder & 00., Manufactur- ing Chemists, 83 John street, N. Y. If you can’t go to the seashore, stay in town and sue Judge Hilton. There may not be much profit in it, but it’s fun, and what's more, it’s the fashion. ' POWDER Abs‘blutely Pure. This Powder never varies. A marvel of pure strength and -wholesomeness. More economic than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in com- petition with the multitude of low test, short weight, alluni or phosphate powders. Rout. BAKING Powniin 00.,108 Wall St., N. Y. The Best in the World. Sperry & Barnes’ Ilaiiis, Shoulders. Breakfast Bacon, ——-ANl)— Sausage ARE GUARANTEED THE BESl IN THE MARKET Our KETTLE LARD ' is Strictly Pure and Free from all Adulteration. Look Carefully for the Brand. We manufacture all goods bearing our brand at our packing house in New Haven. tfas Snorer & Barnes, New Haven, Conn. August Vacation, And hot weather is now in order, but whether at name or away at the seashore or in the country, don’t or- get that . Fould’s Wheat Germ Meal, . (the germ and gluten of wheat) is the best cereal , food in the world for breakfast. Have it. for the children for If they are fed on cake and pic, They'll have Dyspepsia by and by. A quart of boning water, a cup fall of wheat germ meal and 10 minutes gives you a dish fit for a queen, Grocers sell it everywhere in 15 cent packages. BUTLER, BREED l: 00., Agents, Boston, Mass. Lessons IN FRENCH. MISS BAIRD’S INSTITUTE.- Po-of. LaLande, Widely known as the director of the French Depart- ment of the Summer School of Languages at Chatauqua. wit. come twice a week to Miss Baird’s number of pupils outside of the school will be admitted to these classes For circulars and other information apply to ‘ Miss N. F. BAIRD. 6 Ole Institute to give Lessons in French. A limited‘ ’onuneuo neuron. Meat, Fish, Vegetables, ac. LOCKWOOD it ANDREWS. MAIN STREET. All kinds 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. ly40 LOCKWOOD la ANDREWS. i WANT EVERYBODY ——To come in and look over my stock of— Monum’ ents —-—iiim— HEADSTONES‘ Before they buy anything of the kind. A selection can be modern-om them much better than from a photograph or pencil sketch. Respectfully, a. P. W. Bates. J. G. Gregoryh Go. "Desire to state thatin addition to a full line of Drugs, Proprietary Medicines and Druggists’ sundries they are prepared to receive orders for Silk, Cotton or Linen ELASTIC HOSE For varicose or enlarged veins. War-ranted to fit, and at reduced rates. They also desire to state that they have accepted the agency of the New York Vaccine 00., and will keep a supply of . PUREBIIVINE VACCINE VIRUS Constantly on hand. ' They have in stock Electric Batteries, which will be-sold at. close figures. They ca also a full assortment of Keystone Writing Paper rickets. DEBENTURE BONDS —AND— Guaranteed Monoeoes 0f the howling-land Loan and Trust Co. This is, one of the oldest, most conservative and scccessful institutions dealing in such securities. Eleven years' experience without a dollar of loss to investors. Each $100,000 of debentured is secured by $102,- 000 of mortga es, assigned to and deposited with the Farmers’ an and Trust 00., New York. trus- tee. Interest payablc at Bank of New Nork, Mertgages from best Corn-Producing regions of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. For full information enquire of ii'.) 0. E. WILSON. Ii till 7 IIBI‘ Cillll. Farm Mortgages —OF THE— Equitable tfortgiige Co... Kansas City. Incorporated—Capital, $000,000. Principal and Interest Guaranteed. Security from three to six times the amount of loan. Coupon Bonds. Interest payable in New York. Also, - iy34 Six per cent. Debenturc Bonds of the lilldillesex Banking Company, of Middleton, Conn. Organized under the banking laws of the State of Connecticut. Coupons payable in New York. R. B. CRAUFURD, Agent. 31 Main Street, Norwalk. MAGIC SOAP. Annually made on a capital of $5q000 $100. $40 profit has beenmadeby one person in one half day. It requires no ma- chinery to manufacture. 'These goods have been used in the N.E. states to years. Will sell county or state rights at $2.00 per 1,000 inhabitants. If you wish for a trial first in your family send $3.50,- and will sing you 50h: ; regular price $4.00. E. . BARRETT. Northampton, Mass. Lock Box 10. . 6m33 BLASCER’S ' TIME HONORED “OLD BRIDGE STORE.” sell me. depended upon— N early half a century ago my store was christened as above, and has since been known and honored among the old residents of N orwalk by that appropriate name. But that is a matter of little consequence to the public in these piping times of severe BUSINESS COMPETITION. The one important question to purchasers is Where can We get the Best Goods for the Least Money! From time to time the report comes to me that some of my'near neighbors have boasted that they could under- N 0 one who has ever tested the truth of such a. claim by coming and examining my carefully selected and UNEXCELLED STOCK 0F GOODS and the extremely low 'prices at which I offer the same has cverleft “The Old Bridge Store,” With any other feeling than that no one in the trade can or does offer greater inducements to cash customers than 'I do. I have the choicest exhibits of AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN f GROGKERY 86 GLASSWARES. Also about every conceivable device for Table Furnishing, Mantel Decoration, with House Cleaning and Cooking Implements of every description. examine and be convinced that my: statements are strict- lv true as to my carefully selected stock of the — itoleest outlines and. Varieties of tools In my line are . Sold at the Lowest Possible Prices. We strive to strictly attend to our oWn business. We never run down or misrepresent other dealers, and we ask simply a chance to show our customers our stock and let them satisfy themselves; bill; one thing may be Call and NO OTHER CONCERN SHALL UNDERSELL‘ ME! The times, the times, The “Old Bridge Store” is all the rage; Tell of the town or city, where they keep Such goods at once so rich and yet so cheap! For of all cheap stores beneath the sun, B. S. BLASCER’S is the cheapest one! B. S. BLASCER.‘ Norwalk, April 4th, 1887. the rige, the age— RURAL PLEASURES. Here cosy quiet, a secure retreat. A hamlet. life that knows not. how to cheat. ,“ With home-bred plenty the rich Owner bless, . ‘ And rural pleasures crown his happiness. Unvcx‘d with quarrels, undisturbed with noise, The country king his peaceful realm enjoys; ~Cool grots and living lakes, the fiow’ry pride Of meg: and streams that through the valley 3 C, And shady groves, that easy sleep invite, And, after toilsomc days, a sweet repose at night. VICTIMS iN THE MORGUE. How the Mangled Remains Are Patched Up So as to Look Bcspcctablc. ho worst bodies. we have tohandle after the caters," said the superintendent, “are the victims of railroad accidents, who are all mangled and tom to shreds. They are brought in here Sometimes utterly unrecog- nizable, just chopped up fine so. that the pieces of flesh just quiver when Shaken in a. box. One man I remember was struck by a. train out near the cemeteries and dragged $00 yards. The remains were brought here in a barrel and there wasn’t in the whole horrible heap anything by which it could be recognized as the remains of u. human body except one little finger. There wasn’t; two inches of flesh and bone together, and even thc'man’s clothes had been cut and torn to little shreds. He was never identified. A negro boy was struck by a train on the levee and when it had passed there wasn’t a recog- nizable thing scattered along the track but a , pair or boots. "Once I remember a man was roll over at the mouth of the tunnel and his head was cut off at the shoulders as clean as if it was done with a knife. I dressed the body and I sewed on the head and hid the stitches with a high standing collar and dressed him up nicely, and he was sent home in just as nice condi- tion as if he had died in bed. One man was mangled all to pieces. His hands and feet were cut; of! and the wheels, passing ~ over his head, had cut through it side ways, so that the face and ears came 08 together. The rest of his body was all in small pieces. His friends had me fix the body up. It took me twenty-four hours to do it. I had to sort out the pieces and put. in sticks of wood where the bones had been torn out, and I fastened the flesh around the sticks. I made a light wooden breast bone and some wooden ribs to fill out the chest. I sewed the two halves of the head together and then the entire head to the shoulders, and then cut the burial suit in two and spread it over the breast and legs and put on a col: lar. I made wooden bones for the arms and for the legs and then sewed on the feet and hands. “I remember very well how my insistent, a colored man, made me awfully mad, and then how I had to laugh when just as we thought we were done we found we’rbscwcd the hands on the wrong arms, and we had to do it all over again. “70 got the job finished, though, and that man was sent home looking as pretty as you ever saw a corpse look. It was a. fine job and I got 5325 and my assistant: $25 for our services. Ohi I’ve fixed up many a. one of them, I tell you. It's right to do it, because people don’t like to look upon their mangled relatives. I’ve plugged up bullet holes and knife wounds with plaster of parts and painted them so they couldn‘t be seen. There isn’t any man but what, if he’s acorpse at all, wants to be a respectable kind of corpse. "-Olobc-Democrat Interview. Lemon and Hot Water. A sallow faced young man stood at the pre- scription counter of an up town drug store the other day and surveyed the clerk with heavy, yellow eyes. “Not; feeling well!" observed the latter pleasantly. “Should say I wasn’t,” responded the other grufily. “What‘s the matter?” . “Headache, liver out: of order, can‘t eat,. _ can’t sleep, can’t think, can’t even drink. Life’s a gloomy, dismal, dyspeptic fraud.'nnd ‘ ‘ I don’t know what to do. I believe I’d die to: dny if I didn’t have a business engagement to-morrow, and I hardly think I could get over it in time to meet my man.” - : “I’ll tell you what to take,” observed the clerk suavely. “It will do you good. If it doesn’t I don‘t know What will.” “What is it? I don’t want any old medical chestnuts. My stomach is educated up to ap- preciate novelties.” , ’ “It is a simple remedy and efficacious,” io- tumed the clerk. “It is merely lemon juice squeezed ‘into a glass of hot water, without sugar or a. stick. Drink a glass of this night and morning and see what the effect will be. I recommended it: to a friend of mine the other day who was much sicker than you. He tried it, and found himself better almost Immediately. His daily headaches, which medicine had failed to cure, left him, his ap- petite improved and he gained several pounds in weight within afew weeks. After a while be omitted the drink, either at night or in the morning, and now at times does without either of them. I am satisfied from experi~ ment that there is no better medicine for per— sons who are troubled with bilious and liver complaints than the simple remedy I have given. It is far better than quinine or any other drug, and it; is devoid of their injurious consequences. It excites the liver, stimulates the digestive organs and tones up the system generally. It is not unpleasant to take either; indeed, one soon gets to liking it.”-New York Mail and Exprem Daniel Webster's Advanced Age. Guest (dining “upstairs” at Revere House to English weitcr)—Daniel Webster has dined in this halL He has made speeches here. English Waiter (anxious to keep up a pleas- ant conversation and earn a tun—Yes, sir; there was some talk of him here this morn- ing, sir. Guest—Indeed! What; was said of him? English Waiter (considerably taken back and exciting the guest’s suspicion that his re- mark had been a bold, venturesome men- dacity)——Well, sir, I dbn’t know as I could tell you what was said—but there was some talk of him, sir. Guest devotes himself table tenderloin and remains silent. English Waiter" (distressed by the miscar- riage of the conversation, starts on a. new teem—Mr. Webster must be getting along pretty well in years now, sir. Guest (“catches 'on”)—Yes; I shouldn’t worn der if he dropped OE very soon. English Waiter (delighted at tho auspicious renewal of the coriveisation)—Yes, sir; yes, sir; all the great men are dropping off nowa- days. Guests-Have you heard anything recently in regard to Mr. Webster’s health? English Waiter (doubtfully)—-No, sir; nothing except what I see on the bulletin. When I get off at 3 o’clock I will see the bul- letins again. _ Guest—You must be sure to keep an eye on the bulletin. Mr. Webster is a great man, and his dropping off this year will create a great sensation. English Waiter—I know itvwlll, sir; I know it will. aniter scores a tip and guest departs with n beaming countenance. which legitimately accompanies the bestowal of a. ben‘cfactiotu— Boston Post. Sword Practice in India. The quiet dweller in Europe will scarcely believe the prodigies performed in sword cut— ting by these coarse, ill looking bits of curved uiotal, costing frequently no more than ls. 6d. 00 35.1 had Shot numerous wild beasts, ' when I was told by an expert that my llllllt~ iug education was very deficient, as I could not handle a scimetcr to stop my game. I was told to exercise continually on a pillar of soft clay, and thus acquire the drawing out. " at the proper part of the blade, then on a z . newly killed wildcat or jacks], kneaded pre- " ‘ vious to the practice by tho’ feet of a heavy man till the carcass becamcaloose, soft mass; then on a great pond carp,.a fish clad with heavy, horny scales, like elastic mail—con- sidered an A1 font to best man and sword. My first trial at this experiment resulted in a triple fracture of the good blade, sundry scales flying through the air uncut, only dis- lodged; their the artistic tour do force at paper cones placed on a table, - and muslin thrown up to a heightrall manner of strange and difficult tasks, which being only orna- mental, I forsoolr for the useful and more easy decapitation of fiem quadrupeds, begin- ning with a wounded wild hog of full growth, and on cssaving the sloping stroke behind the ear sweeping off the head nearly, that important part dropping between the fore feet. Not long before I had seen a bold young Ghoorka princeling dismount from his elephant, leaving it standing to await his re-' turn, and follow on foot alone an immense boar he had wounded with his rifle. On near- ing the powerful brute it chainped its foamy tasks to charge. He drew his kookro (or No- paulcse sword) and us it sprang at him the blade was buried acrom piggy’s back, all but; seV‘eriiig lilni in two portal—English Mechanic. Accumulation of" Bonds. An otEerving Washington gentleman has been examining the records and finds that the accumulation of government bonds is becom- ing marked. Interest checks are now sent to 30,000 persons, whereas not long ago 00,000 checks were issued on the same amount. The concentration of holdings in‘ large cities is also noticeable—Brooklyn Eagle. In a new comic opera is atopicai song illus- trated by a stercopticou. '
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