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GUERECTED UP TO DATE.
BUILDING LOTS
(ON INSTALLMENT PLAN.)
FOR SALE
0n Wilton Aoenue
APPLY TO
Gen. CHAS. OLMSTEAL,
OR
GAZETTE OFFICE.
l and.
G'reo. S. Gregory.
Livery. Boarding, Sale,
Feed and Exchange
at a. "lo loam
~11,llIY-j-lnjl_l_my_vfll;:\
VERY
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N0. 14: Knigkav silt.
(In rear of Horse Uar Depot),
NORW'ALK, CONN.
Carriagesfuruished a: all hours. Com-remissi-
tention and gentlcmaiily 'lIl lrers.
SO bill Eliot. A "I"l‘EN'.I‘ I 0N
WM. H. HAVWARD,
Pan . “low A flow: ey.
708 East Capitol Street,
\VASHING'I‘ON n. 0.,
Located at the National Capital, adjacent to all Inc
Executive Departments, gives me superior
advantage in the prosecution of Claims
against the United States.
INCREASE YOUR PENSION.
Many pensioners borne on the rolls are entitled
toamucli higher rate of pension than they now
receive. Inagreat majority of cases in which
pension was granted for disease. the pensioner is
entitled to an increase of rate. and in most cases
where it was granted for wounds or injuries the
disabilityincreascs each year. As time passes the
disability of all classes naturally increases. Many
were at first rated too low, and it often occurs
that pensioners are unjustly or erroneously re-
duced by examining surgeons. A pensioner is
entitled to increase on a disability not set forth in
his original declaration. The pension laws are
more liberal than formerly, and honor ratingchi.
be had for many disabilities. 1 make a specially
of Neglected and Rejected Claims. and if you Will
present me witlia brief statement of your case,
stating by whom it was prescnled. 1 will obtain a
rehearing of your case, and,if it- lias merit. will
procure a favorable settlement Many claims
stand rejected before the department, when ll
only requires a competent attorney to make them
goodcases. Soldiers sufering with, disabilities
contracted in service, who have not applied for a
pension, should do so as it is their RIGHT.
SOLDIERS OF THE MEXICAN WAR,
WIIO were in that service sixty days, [or their
wldows if not re-mcrried] are entitled to $8.00 per
month from January'29th.1857. . mm
For Sale Cheap.
A SECOND-HAND Cast Iron Fence, with gate
allln perfect order and as good as new.
Willbe sold at a sacri-
anulre at
UAZE'I‘I‘F. HFP‘ICE
about 120 feet in length.
rice if applied for com:
I Some Curious Ch'fiie'se Slang.
Some of the ordinary expressions of the
Chinese are very sarcastic and characteristic.
A blustering, harmless fellow they call a
“paper tiger.” When a. man values himself
overmuch they compare him to “a rat falling
into a scale and weighing itself.” Overdoing
athing they call “a hunchback making a
bow.” A spendthrift they compare to a
rocket which goes off at once. Those who ex-
pend their charity on remote objects, but
neglect their family, are said “to hang,r a lan-
tern on a rope, which is seen afar but gives
no light below.”—Boston Herald.
Waste “mter'uPo'fls'or Utilized.
It has now become a well established fact
that waste water power can be converted
into electric energy, conveyed from 10 to
100 miles on a small copper wire in amounts
from 10 to 500 horse power, atacost not to
exceed $6,500 per mile for the greater dis-
tauce and the larger p0wer.—-New York
Telegram
It is sad to think that Nebuchadnezzar
after his gay life had gone to grass, but
sadder-111k: thought lllat so many men of
promise and ability find early graves by
carelessness in not checking a cold in its
early stages by the use of Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup. ’
The royal infant king of Spain coptinucs
to improve. He plays with the royal ml-
Lie box and is quilc comforluble.
European emigration to Brazil is sum-
marily checked. Somehow people seldom
leave for a country where disturbance IS
the order of the day.
The base ball situation in all the leagues
is in a most muddled state. It looks Very
much as if llu- struggle for the people’s
mom-y would ruin IIH‘ game.
A century of progress has not produced
:1 101119in equal to Ely’s Cream Balm for
calarrh, cold in tho head or hay fever. It
is not a liquid or :1. snuff, but 18 perfectly
safe and easily applied into [be nostrils.
It gives immediate relief and cures the
wosst cases.
(‘lu'isliau Selene-c is being brought to
book for killing a consumptive in Boston.
va not give the climate of that cast
wind svat town a lilllu of the blame.
The lui'uwdl county nuirdercrs of
South Carolina Il lVC been at work again,
-lIlIS lime riddlinu‘ a negro WIIII bucksbot
because he had been caught in burglary.
Horses are beginning to have 1.1 grippe.
Indeed, the disease very closely I'CScmbles
the epizoolic of some dozen years ago.
Tried and true friends are source. but if
you are suffering Willi that horrible di-
seaso, scrol‘ula. you will find Sulphur Bit-
ters will cure you as it (lid me, war suf-
fering (light years, and paying out hun-
dreds. of dollars to doctors and l’ll'uggisls.
—Jii.\.\‘.\‘i~:'1"rii IIANSCOM, Troy, N. Y
Boston ice «I ulcrs are hunting for good
ice ponds. There is no dearth of ice
ponds lwrvubouts, but there is an amazmg
dearth of ice.
England is trying to bully little Portu-
gal and all the powms stand by and allow
her to (I() ll.
To be frm-‘from sick headache, bilious-
buss, (constipation. ohm, use Carter’s Little
Liver l‘ills. Strictly vegetable. They
geiilly stimulati- the liver and free the
slomm-Ii {mm bile.
5!. Louis has had a big cyclone.
AuolIu-i' argument. for the world’s fair—
somcu lu-I'c clsv.
Do your lamp-chimneys
break? You get the wrong
sort.
The right one is called
“pearl-top” and is made
by» Macbeth & Co., Pittsburgh.
They will dye everything. They are sold every-
where. Price 100. a package. They have noequal
for Strength, Brightness, Amount in Packages
or for Fastness of Color. or non-fading Qualities.
They do not crock or smut; 40 colors. For sale by
J. (l. Aregory & U0. ;
Street, Geo. is. l’laisied, Druggists.
J. A. ll-liggs, No. 11 Main
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GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187;
W. BAKER & 0038 .
= ~» Breakfast Gull
Is absolutely pure and
it is soluble.
N 0 Chemicals
are used in its preparation. It has more
than three times the strength of Cocoa
mixed with Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar,
and is therefore far more economical,
costing less than one cent a cup. It is
delicious, nourishing, strengthening, EA.‘
BILY Drcrsrnn, and admirably adapted
for invalids as wellas persons in health.
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
'V. BAKER & 00., Dorchester, Mass.
CHAS. H. VALDEN
—DEALER 1233-“
GROCERIES,
FRESH Alli] ill.
l shall keep constantly on hand a
Hill LINE N7 All GOODS
usually found in a
FIISI- UllSS-I-Gl‘flflll‘l‘i-Slfllfl
which I will sell at prices
DEFYING HONEST COMPETITION '
to beat. A share of the public patronage ls solicit-
ed and every effort will be made to faithfully
serve our customers. Give us a call and
let us assure you of our ability to
give satisfaction.
CHAS. 'H. VALDEN,
5Wall St.
7.24".
- tional capital.
Norwalk, Ct.)
thieves of time. —Hartford Courant.
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A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
HOW OUR GRANDPARENTS LIVED,
WORKED AND DRESSED.
Fashions Did Not Change in Those Days
so Often as They Do Now—When the
Women Really Made Their Own Clothes.
Henry Clay’s Jeans Breeches.
The costume of the pioneer belle was not
elaborate, and when she left the parental
cabin for a home of her own no Saratoga
trunks were required for her wardrobe. She
wore the larger portion of it. In later years
we read that Henry Clay used to drive to
\Vashington city in his family carriage with
his wife and daughter, and take their \vard-
robe with them for a. Winter’s stay at the na-
Now the luggage of such a
party would half fill a baggage car.
In this day of diversified industry,when one
labor saving invention crowds another off
the stage in endless and rapid succession, one
can scarcely comprehend the patient, perse-
vering effort required of the pioneer house-
wife in the discharge of the ordinary duties
of the cabin. The lack of costly furniture,
handsome carpets, fragile bric-a-brac and
expensive hangings did not lessen her care.
She was both mistress and servant, matron
and nurse, housekeeper and charwonian,
dairymaid and cook. Neatness was not less
demanded of her than of the modern house- .
wife, and her split broom and scrub brush
found ample service in keeping floor and fur-
niture clean and white.
DIVIDED LABOR.
The labor was pretty well divided between .
"The men,” the early writers tell :
us, "hunted and brought in the meat; they
the corn, 2
grinding it into meal at a hand mill or f
the sexes.
planted, plowed and gathered
pounding it into bominy in the mortar,
which was occasionally the work of either or
the joint labor of helix.” But with
oilices the labor of the women was scarcely
begun. Custom and necessity united to lay
the period did not supply, and in all the mul-
tifarious {lutios which engaged her skill and
energy slio labored unaided by labor saving
machinery. And so she milked the cows in
all weather, while sturdy men and boys
watched an operation too eli’cmiuate to enlist
their services. She churned the butter, car-
ried the tubs toaspringaquai‘ter or half
mile from the cabin, or caught rain water in
troughs and barrels from the caves for the
“washing” made her own soap; washed,
picked, carded and dyed the wool; pulled,
broke and buckled the flax; spun the thread
and wove the cloth; contrived and made the
garments; reared her children, nursed the
side.
was the tutelary saint of the frontier.
The first cloth made in Kentucky was in
1770, by the Wife of “'illiutu i’ouguc, who
that year joined the settlement at Harrods—
burg. She brought with her Ho first spin-
ning wheel ever seen VVCSU of the izxountaius,
and she spun thread from the Illl'. cf the net— 2 , . . . . .
1 : that it 1.; among them that is smnetimcs lound
tle, which grew abundantly in the new coun-
try, and upon a rude loom contrived by her
husband she worked it into cloth. This she
Called linen, but by adding a “filling” spun
from bull’alo wool she made a cloth she
called linsey \voolscy. Considerable of such
cloth was made here before the introduction
of sheep, and before (be people began to cul-
tivate flax and hemp.
These are no fancy sketches drawn from a
romantic imagination, but true of pioneer
life, and the world is not half a. century older
since much of that described above could be .
daily witnessed in Kentucky.
A DUEL OVER JEANS.
The spinning wheel, the loom and the reel ‘
have disappeared, except as relics. (It is
'ashionablo now to have our grandmothers"
old wheels, bedecked with ribbons and gov:-
gaws, conspicuously displayed in our parlors
and libraries.) A suit of country brown jeans
is never seen now, except when the revenue
officers bring in a squad of nicousliiners from
the mountains. But following the period of
buckskin breechcs every man were home
made jeans and linens. I have seen the late
(,lovcruor J 01111 L. Helm 011 public occasions,
F WIN-1‘0 he took a conspicuous part, dressed in
. .i suit of jeans.
The celeralod duel between Henry Clay
3 and Humphrey Marshall in 1807 grew out of
. Marshall’s sarcastic criticism of Clay for wear-
ing jeans clothes. Marshall was an aristo-
crat socially and a f .vleralist politically. He
believed Clay’s republican 1.10:2: and ple-
beian tastes afi‘ectoi to give Eizii prestige
with the people, and he gave his ‘stinging
pen and bitter tongue” full swing at him,
until Clay could no longer endure his biting
sarcasm, and be challenged him. The result
of the duel was nothing more serious, said
Co . Sam Major, writing of the affair, than
“a slight wound to Mr. Clay’s jeans breeches
inflicted by Marshall’s Manton.”
One of the early writers, describing the
times in the first quarter of the present cen-
tury, says: “Fashionable young men wore
tight bodied, swallow tailed coats, with large,
high collars, buff or white vests, stockinet
pants, high top boots, wrinkled or fair, with
a tassel in front, high short collars reaching
to the ears, and a few wore ruffles. Gold
watches were uncommon, but a bull’s eye
with a metallic fob chain, seal and key was
usually sported. Tho fashions didn’t change
then as often as they do now. The same bon—
net or hat was worn for years. Men wore
their hats eight or ten years, and yet, not
half worn out, would barter them to the hat?
ter in part pay for a new one of the latest
style.
“The same bonnet was worn as long. the
trimming perhaps changed every two or
three years. Calico was the prevailing ma-
terial for lmlies’ fine dresses, such as were
worn in making calls, attending religious
meetings or evening parties. The more e1-
derly wore bombazine. Six yards were
amply sufficient for a pattern. An article
called homespun wool, or cotton and wool,
was usually worn about the house when en3
gaged in ordinary domestic duties. There
’were social parties in those days, but there
was some regard paid to proper hours for
meeting and dispersing. The company as-
sembled at early candle lighting and went
home at reasonable bedtime, and had no ice
: "cream or oyster suppers.”—\V. H. Perriue in
; Louisville Courier—Journal.
The Benign \Vitchei'y of Candle Light.
Their are so many women who have passed
their first youth who appear at the balls in
New York and receive the devoted attention
of men for whom they must entertain a most
grandmotherly interest. that the question of
light has become a most important one, so
these foxy caterers to the female complexion
have taken a leaf out of French books and
lighted their rooms with candles, the silver
candelabra being set in the walls so that the
light falls from the side, not above, While
pretty little fluted petticoats of rose silk
shade the colored candles. A side light, es-
pecially if it is rose tinted, takes ten years
from a. woman’s age. N o wonder we are in
favor of abolishing the deadly electric lamps
and the flaming gas, if wax candles are such
these ‘
_ . . . ; harmlesslv as he pleases.”
upon her the care of providing for every ‘
household need l'.;at the rude agriculture of z
. cigarettes.
THE BORDER MEXICANS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HAPPY
PEASANTS OF THE SOUTHWEST.
Realizing Rousseau’s Definition of Free-
dom—Simplo Lives That Have a Great
Deal of Unvarnished. Happiness in Them.
A Look at the Better Side of the Greaser.
Along a zone of our southwest border,
from the Gulf of California to Corpus Christi,
on the Texas coast, is found a type of being
that is almost an anomaly, even among our
own cosmopolitan classes. The bad-er Mexi-
can, or “greaser,” has no nation. yet be is
distinctly local. He is the evolution of that
aried and sun kissed bolt characterized by
flora and fauna asacrimouious and as shaggy
as himself and best exemplified by the cactus,
the coyote and the burro. You cannot ac-
cuse nature of making a mistake in his crea-
tion, for he is an adaptation that rises super-
ior to adversity. You will find him pictur-
esque and, when better known, not all bad.
This Mexican is far below the nation’s repre-
sentative, yet he is not the degraded 150011 or
serf of the land. He is rather what the poem
has become in the two generations he has eu-
joyed the freedom of our government, if _ not
wiser, at least less servile. He is genorall y
admitted to be the result of a fusion for some
centuries of the Spaniard with that mild
type of semi-civilized Indian of the ('ertez
conquests, but is nearer the Spaniard, 'u'lzosc
beautiful language, further softened L210 a
dialect, lie stillretains. This may be due to
laziness, but is more probably from the liquid
movement of Indian speech peculiar to some
of the southern tribes, as shown by the pres-
ent language of the Pimas and Maricopas of
southern Arizona. ‘
WANT NOT THE UNATTAINABLE.
The Mexicans are the happiest of contenter
creatures. and, though poverty is their uni—
versal heritage, they have no wants. J can
Jacques Rousseau must have been among a
similar peasant class in Italy when he wrote
so truthfully that “He only is free who wants
nothing beyond what he can get and does
There are two
classes of Mexican peasants, the Labl'udoes
and the Rauclieros. The former are the
mildor. simpler people found sprinkled along
the small canyons and valleys 01 little plots
of bottom land adjacent and irrigated by
simple or community ditches called accquias,
which lead from the streams, Winding along
the bank in a gradual way till the stream’s
lower level will permit them finally to wan-
der over the bottom. 'Tliey bridge no ar-
royos, build no dams, arches or culverts, and
use only nature’s levol. water; to give the
grade required for their canals. In engin-
eering ability they are as far behind the A7:-
tecs, who once inhabited this valley, as are
the present Egyptians behind their ancestors
. . "1
sick, sympathized with the distressed,and en- “ under HIGHER '
couraged the disheartened laborer at her
In all this, and above it all, \vomaii ; ,
5 more.
3 (:nclous and barley); later a crop of i'rejoles
, and calabazas (Mexican beans and pumpkins).
, A little pepper and onions and their commis—
A plot of a few acres supports an entire
family of a dozen, exclusive of dogs—as many
First a crop of melons and cebada
sary is complete. The Ranclieros have more
or less cattle, ponies, sheep or goats. are less
local in their tastes and are more hardy, so
that outlaw element that has made “Greaser”
the synonym for bandit and has stamped the
race as thieving and treacherous. This char-
acter is partly the result of a ti'zulitioiial sen-
timental). spirit of adventurous resistance to
tyranny. ()2 the Mexican side a man who
evades their Outrageous taxes and customs is
a here; one killed in an attempt to do so, a
martyr. The government only is the robber.
The men are fine horsemen, of the firm yet
easy border seat, al ways using that instrument
of torture, tile bocada, or Spanish bit, in the
control of their ponies. Many are expert in
1 tossing the riata and some handle a revolver
vel]. A Pueblo scene is very characteristic.
Adobe dwellings, thatched roofs, arbors be—
? month which are the stone jars left unglazed
for cooling water, and the stone hand mill for
grinding the corn for corn cakes, called “tor—
tillas.” The conservatism of ibis people would
compare with that of India.
a1 methods are those described in the Bible.
Hay is cut with a hoe, sometimes aliand knife
or a sickle; a bougli whose forks embrace the
‘ proper angle in their plow, and their oxen
are yoked by lashing a pole to the base of liver
horns.
AT THE BALL.
A fiesta is usually celebrated by a “hallo,”
or dance. If it be full and the uijg'lit air be
cool you will find this bop inside a “'jacal.”
Everything has been removed from the house
but a row of “sillas” (chairs and boxes),
placed around the sides of the room, which is
lighted by a few beds of glowing coals placed
at intervals on the freshly swept, hard packed
earth floor, by a few candles cemented to
brackets or projecting adobe bricks by their
own wax, and by the star beams that sift
through the thatched roof and ceiling. The
coals serve also as a stove and free light for
The music will be given from an
orchestra composed of a couple of guitars, a
violin, an accordion and one or more harps.
. There are no hop cards, but the habitue can
tell you in advance what the programme will
be—waltzes alternating with the Mexican
redowa or three step, 1a galopa, a polka and
maybe a western square dance or two.
There is no directoire or empire gowns, on
corsage bouquets, none of the traditional
Spanish dress save the mantilla. This is
folded diagonally; double edged front, placed
over the head, the longer end falling forward
is carried loosely over the bosom as high as
the throat and crosses the other fold on the
left shoulder, leaving only an oval of face
visible from brow to chin. The women re-
tain a Spanish fondness for black and also
the Indian love of bright colors. The men
are indifferent to dress except so far as to
having a broad, light felt sombrero, and a
scarf, or sash, of bright colored wool or silk
about their waist. To a Mexican girl danc-
ing is instinct. Their accentuation is so per-
fect, their movements so yielding and full of
muscular grace, that to waltz with one on an
earth floor, Where the friction is something
frightful, is not impossible. Let those who
decry dancing as a vice of civilization, an un-
natural pleasure erected for a sensation,
come and learn of these poetic savages the
rhythm of motion. For they are poetic;
there is a perfume of romance in the songs
found in the poorest “jacal ;” a sensuous soft-
ness that our language cannot render. I re-
call once being at a "hallo,” where in the in-
terval between the dances I asked one of the
young ladies to give us a Mexican song,
which she (lid to an accompaniment on the
guitar. I: was exquisitely soft, though I
could only catch enough of the Spanish to
know that. its theme was love. lVlien the
piece was finished she wanted us to return
the courtesy by a song in English. We
hastened to avow with the usual frankness
in such cases, that we could not sing, but the
girl evidently did not believe us, and would
sing no more for us in spite of entreaty.-—-
Philadelphia Times.
Johnnle’s Whistle.
Mrs. Brown (grabbing him)—I thought I
told you not to blow that dreadful whistle!
Little Johnnie—I know you did, ma. But
I was only just trying to see whether it
would blow it ] should want it. to.-—-New
York Sun.
The agricullurv
BURIAL OF THE BOOTS.
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SOME SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT DEAD
MEN’S SHOES.-
Wliere a. Funeral Is Called a Dead Shoe.
Pretty Little Stories in Which Shoes Are
Prominent Characters—How the Queen
Moved the Farmer.
The superstition of the burial of the boots
probably survives in England. It is about
seventeen gears since the writer heard from
an old gypsy that when another gypsy was
“puvado,” or “earthezl,” a very good pair of
boots was placed by him in the grave. The
reason was not gi son; perhaps it was not
known. These customs often survive after
the cause is forgotten, simply from some feel-
ing that good or bad luck attends their ob—
servance or the neglect of it.
Many years since a writer in an article on
shoes in The English Magazine stated that
“according to an Aryan tradition, the great-
er part of the way from the land' of the living
to that of death lay through morasses and
vast moors overgrown with ferns and thorns.
That the dead might not pass over them baro-
foot, :1. pair of shoes was laid with them in
the grave.”
The shoe was of old in many countriesa
symbol of life, liberty, or entire personal con-
trol. In Ruth we are told that “it Was the
custom in Israel concerning changing, that a
man plucked ofl‘ his shoe and delivered it to;
his'neighbor.” So the bride,who was original- ;
1y a slave, ransferred herself by the symbol ,
of the shoe.
When the Emperor \VIadiniir made propo-
sals of marriage to the daughter of Ragnald,
she replied scornfully that she would not take
off her shoes to the son of a slave. Gregory
of Tours, in speaking of weddings, says: “The
bridegroom, having given a ring to the bride,
presents her with a shoe.”
A CURIOUS CUSTOM.
As regards the Scandinavian Incl-shoe, or
hell-shoe, Kelley, in his “Lido-European
Folk Lore,” tells us that a funeral is still
called a. dead shoe in the Hennebcrg district;
and the writer already cited adds that in a
MS. of the Cotton library, containing an ac-
count of Cleveland in Yorkshire in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth, there is a passage which
illustrates this curious custom. It was quoted.
by Sir \Valter Scott in the notes to “Min-
strelsy of the Scottish Border,” and runs.
thus: “'Wlien any dieth certaiue women sing
a song to the dead bodie, reciting the journey
that the partye deceased must goe; and they
are of beliefe that once in their lives it is
goode to give a pair of new shoes to a. poor-
man; forasmuch as before this life they are:
to pass barefoote through a great Iande, full
of thorns and furzen—excepto by the meryte
ot‘ the almes aforesaid they have redeemed
the forfeyte—for at the edge of the lande an
oulde man shall meet them with the same
shoes that were given by the partie when he
was lyving, and after he hath shodde them
dismissetli them to go through thick and thin
without scratch or scalle.”
This must be a very agreeable reflection to
all gentlemen Who have bestowed their old
boots on waiters, or ladies who have in like
fashion gifted their maids. To be sure, the
legend specifies new shoes; but surely a pair
of thirty shilling boots only half \vorn count
for as much as a new pair of half a sovereign
chaussures. However, if one is to go
“through thick and thin without scratch or
scalle,” it may be just as well to be on the
safe side, and give a. good new extra stout
pair to the gardener for Christmas. For
truly the superstitions are strange things,
and no one knows what may be in them!
There are one or two quaint shoe stories of
the olden time which may be of value to the
collector.
CUPID IN SHOES.
It befel once in the beginnings of Bohemia
4 that, according to Schafarik (“Slawisclie A1-
terthumcr,” H., p. 4:32), Libussa, queen of
that land, found herself compelled by her
council to wed. And the wise men, being
consulted, declared that be who was to marry
the queen would be found by her favorite
horse, who would lead the way till be found
a man eatingr from an iron table, and kneel to
him. So the horse went on, and unto a field
where amau sat eating a. peasaut’s dinner
from a plowsliare. This was the farmer
Prsclicmisclil. is» they covered him with the
royal robes and led him to the queen expect-
ant. But ere going he took his shoes of wilr
IOW wood and placed them in his bosom, and
kept them to remind him ever after of his
low origin. -
It will, of. course, at once strike the reader,
as it has the learned, that this is a story that
would naturally originate in any country
where there are iron plowshares, horses,
queens and wooden shoes: and, as Schafarik
shrewdly suggests, that it was all “a put up
job ;” since, of course, Prschemischi was
already a lover of the queen, the horse
was trained to find him and to kneel before
him, and, finally, that the plowshare and
wooden shoes were the prepared properties
of the little drama. The Seven-League boots
and the shoes of Peter Schlemihl, which take
one over the world at will, have a variation
in a pair recorded in another tale.
There was a beautiful and extremely proud
damsel, who refused a young man with every
conceivable aggravation of the offence, in-
forming him that when she ran after him,
and not before, that he might hope to marry
her; and at the same time meeting a poor old
woman who begged her for a pair of old
shoes. To which the proud princess replied:
Shoes here, shoes there;
Give me a couple, I‘ll give thee a pair.
To which the old woman, who was a Witch,
grimly uttered, “I’ll give thee a pair
which”—- The rest of the expression was
really too unamiable to repeat. Well, the
youth and the witch met, and going to the
lady’s shoemaker, “made him make” a. su-
perbly elegant pair of shoes, which were sent
to the damsel as agift. Such a gift! No:
sooner were they put on than off they start-
ed, carrying the princess, malgre elle, over
bill and dale. By and by she saw that a
man—the man, of course, Whom she had‘re-
fused—was in advance of her. As in the
song of the “Cork Leg,” “the shoes never
stopped, but kept on the pace.” And the
young man led her to a lonely castle and
reasoned with her. And as she had promised
to marry him should she ever run after him,
and as she had pursued him a. whole day, she
kept her word. The shoes she sent to the-
witch filled with gold, and they were wed-
ded, and all went as merry as a thousand
grigs in a duck pond—St. James Gazette.
_ A Sure Test.
Noted Detective (at friend’s homey—This
guest of yours, who, you say, came to you
with such flattering letters of introduction, is
an impostor. .
Friend—Impossible! He is one of the most
cultured gentlemen I ever met.
“True; but all the same. he i§ not what he
pretends to be. He claims to be a. man of
family, a householder, and in businessin a
small town. ”
“Yes Is he not?”
“No, he does not live in any home of his
own; he is used to hotels and boarding
houses” .
“How do you know 0”
"Before beginning a meal he wipes his
plate ofl’ with his napkin.”—New York
Weekly.
Norwalk Chronicler