NORWALK GAZETTE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20, 1590. A FOET’S PRAYER. Others may need new life in heaven— Man, Nature, Art—made new, assume! Man with new mind old sense to leaven, Nature—new light to clear old gloom, Art that breaks bounds, gets soaring room. I shall pray: “Fugitive as precious-— Minutes which passed—rota rn. remain! Let earth‘s old life once more enmesh us, You with old pleasure, me ——old pain, So we but meet nor part again 3“ ~Robert Browning. AN ETEITTTNESS. “\Vell,” said the judge, a grave and stern old man to whom long experience had given the faculty of moving the keys of criminal souls as a skilled musician plays upon those of the instrument before him, “so this is the room where. but two days ago the horrible murder was committed. ,LJustice in this case has traveled quickly. Armando Dufiot,” he continued, turn- ing to a young man of :51 mm :30 years, who stood before him pale, but. composed, well gloved and cloth-ed in due .' vurning, “do you still persist in denying The assassi— nation of your uncle?” “I do, sir.“ “th”——ai'nd here the official steiiographer bent forward to his notes while his. pencil commenced its rapid travel—“yet it is known ihat the late Monsieur Dullot had not a single personal enemy. You were among the few, the Very few, with whom he was on terms of intimacy. It is said that his affection for you was more like that of a father for a son. N otwithstand- ing his great wealth he spent but little; a careful steward of the goods with which he was endowed. From an inspection of hismethodically kept accounts it appears that you drew frequently upon his purse. We find, on the date of the 10th of Febru- ary, this note: ‘To my nephew, 1,000 francs forpaylnent of a gambling debt contracted by him.’ On the St of March occurs: ‘To my nephew, 750 francs for payment of a gambling debt.’ On the 10th of Septem- ber we read, 1,850 francs for payment of a gambling debt.’ And so on. “I have in my possession a memorandum of the total year’s expenditure for similar items. Prior to this, in order to establish you in Paris, he had at different times (the dates are specified) advanced the sum of 15,000 francs. His generosity, at least, bears witness to your intelligence; ample means were provided you to insure your easy and certain progress in the world, but evil passions, gambling and other vices led Eon to dissipate them all. Your uncle was anwhld man, close upon his seventieth year, yet exceptionally vigorous and robust, ex- periencing the benefit of an honest, healthy life. As for you, a man of indolent habits and luxurious tastes, hopelessly involved in debt, with no energy for work, it was but natural that you should eagerly look forward to his death.” «J‘Tllpgllortfl interrupted Armando Dufiot, Twit a smile, “as his last hour did not sound, I have with a thrust of my thumb moved forward the hands of the clock.” The judge, for one moment, looked at him through the half closed lids of his small gray eyes. “Of course,” he said, “the ‘thumb thrust’ in this case is but a .L; ‘7! re. of speech. The reality is this: that you .-.ivc strangled him with your ten fingers, strangled him with both your hands. Nay, had you possessed a. third hand you would undoubtedly have used it, to make more certain your cruel purpose. Perhaps you would wish me to discuss your plea of an alibi. For the present we will leave it. Its shallowness is only too apparent, and I have other means of proving your guilt. You alone had an interest, a direct, nnmediate and patent interest in your uncle’s death; you were his sole heir, you who, but just before the crime, giving as security your word of honor, gambled for ten thousand francs and—mark Inc, Armande Duflot—lost them!" Dufiot slightly shrugged his shoulders, and with the same little disdainful smile again interrupted the judge. “All that you have so far said, sir, is based simply upon presumptions. Let us reason for one moment. My uncle, you say, and I acknowledge its truth, was close upon an age when life is, to say the least, precarious. At 70 years to the average man the grave is well in view. Do you suppose me capable (since you have been good enough to credit me with some little intelligence) of having, even for a moment, contemplated a crime which M. Dufiot’s age rendered useless and absurd? You have reminded me of a debt which I had unfortunately contracted. Could I not, by your own showing, have confidently re- lied upc-n my uncle’s exceptional kindness and never failing generosity to have re- lieved Inc from that difficulty, even as he had relieved me from so many previous ones?” “One :nomen ,” said the judge. “I will turn your argumentagainst yourself. Yes, you certainly did hope that M. Duflot would once more lend a helping hand and drag you from the scrape into which you had got yourself. I am well aware of the unwritten law which exacts from ‘men of honor”——0f that honor which even you can boast of—the payment of a gambling debt within twenty-four hours. You came here to find your uncle; you played the role of the penitent, of the true repentant; you promised him that if he would settle this debt for you, more urgent than any of its many predecessors, you would renounce the gambling table forever. M. Duflot re- fused, and absolutely. Then the thought flashed across your mind that he alone stood between you and the inheritance of all his wealth and the consequent safety of your good name. From this resulted what you with delicate irony have called a ‘thrust of the thumb.’ ” “Stay, sir!” cried Dufiot impatiently; “these are mere suppositions, vague ideas. You are simply building up a sensational romance.” “Indeed?” replied the judge, making, as he spoke, a sign toward the end of the chamber; “there is another also who has a word to say, whose testimony will be worth taking. You will own that I have done my best to introduce him with due effect.” A folding door was heard to open and to close again, and the sound of some weighty object being wheeled along the floor. Du- flot following with his eyes the direction of the judge’s outstretched finger beheld the bed}: of his uncle lying back in the huge arm chair he had been wont to use in life. It was :I ghastly sight; the head had fallen back; the lower jaw had sunk, and from the open mouth the swollen,'black— ened Itnguc projected. The stiffened hands Icnaciously clutched either arm of the chair, and beneath the folds of a cloak could be seen the rigorous outlines of than, legs, extended to their fullest length. Du- fiot gazed fixedly at the dead body, and in a quiet, almost gentle, voice said: “My poor uncle! ‘What a sacrilege!” No Sign of surprise or startled guilt, was in l ,9, seen in his face, but only in his eyes on expres- sion of pensive sadness and regret. After a moment he 1‘urned toward the judge: “I Tell-eve flzis is winu. you call, in legal Lav; terms, a confrontation. You are an advo- cate, I see, of measures in which emotion has no little share. But be reassurede will spare you the sight of a grief which, without doubt, you would turn into testi- mony against myself.” ' “Well,” said the judge, not heeding his remark, “is not M. Duflot, the elder, before you now, just as you last left‘him, when the crime was done? Do you not recognize the familiar attitude in which he sat, the very clothes hewore? The position of the body and the head is not changed by the fraction of an inch.” “And how, sir, should I know, as I was not there at the moment when this ex- ccrablo crime was committed?” “You will observe,” continued the judge, perfectly unmoved, “what has perhaps for the moment escaped your attention; you will notice how easy it is for one to imagine the whole. scene. The assassin was behind the chair in which M. aniot sat, when he refused to countenance any longer your misconduct. It is certain that some figur- ing had been done, some accounts reckoned up; that, by mischance, you had soiled your fingers with ink, for one of the hands that was laid in violence upon this vener- able head has left a mark imprinted in the self same ink that is in the ink bottle on this table. It was the left hand—ah! you start!———it was, I say, the left hand, and you are a left handed man! Almost at the same instant the right hand—look, you can see the mark of the thumb—closed upon M. Dufiot’s neck and pressed the carotid, not quite so forcibly, perhaps, as the left, which soon came toit’s fellow’s assistance and com- pleted the work. 0111 you can easily fol- low it out yourself! See! let me ask you to place your fingers here, upon these finger marks—oh! but without gloves, Without gloves, I beg!——good! perfect! Is it not strange that these hands of yours, so deli— cate, should have been able to perform so much? New, give a slight pressure—~50, gentlyv—what have you to fear, since you were not the assassin?” _ "Listen, sir,”said Dufiot: “this is almost sacrilege! Besides, you will see my thumb much more than covers the mark left by the assassin.” “But you must surely be aware,” cried the judge, smiling, “that your thumb ap- pears longer now because it is in repose. At that moment, you will recollect, you contract-ed it—let me show you—so. As you have it now there is little doubt—but see what has happened—extraordinary! M. Dufiot’s eyes have opened!” Arma-nde Dufiot made one quick step backward; his face in an instant grew pale as death; his lips visibly trembled. Over the face of the dead mana change had come; the eyelids had contracted, disclos- ing the bloodshot eyes, fixed in a glassy stare. “It—it is indeed extraordinary,” said Duflot, with a visible effort. “And see, how he keeps them open, as if he were looking at us. Ah! I do not like this—no, truly I cannot stand it. It is a ghastly farce, and sickens me. For God’ssakc close his eyes, as you know I had nothing to do with it! Ah! I remember; yes. I remem- ber once when he looked at me like that. It was because of a debt, I). gam- bling debt—a gambling debt. He would not —no, this time he would not—in any case, not immediately,and at last he looked at me, just as he is looking at us now, and he said: ‘Yfi'ell, so be it; this one Iwill pay, but if you recommenee I swear to you I will disinhcrit you.’ Let me ask you, should he have spoken so? And the whole time he looked at me like that—if I should ' live for a. hundred years, I could never for- get that look. But enough! I tell you I cannot look any longer, I cannot. Then I left him and ran—no I did not, I walked slowly, I remember, quite slowly to my club—and his eye followed me, I could see it always before me. Ah! have I said any thing bad about him? And you? XVhy do you, also look at me like that? Bah! they are all looking at me, they all have ghastly faces, they all turn their terrible eyes upon me. Tell me, have you not had sufficient—will you not let me go? After all, one look is just like another-there is no reason why it should be otherwise. Ah! old man, you have tried hard to frighten me, but I will not be supersti— tious. I will not, I tell you But let me go on. For two months past I could draw nothing from him. He firmly refused. It was unbearable! And all the time there were his drawers full of gold—of gold! I had only to stretch out my hand—but for God’s sake close his eyes! Ah! ah! Tell me, were they like that when he was first found? \Vere they still like that? Had he not his old fashioned spectacles on? Ah! close his eyes! They fasten upon me and are sucking my blood! Stop! Yes! It was so he looked at me when I grasped his neck from behind! Every moment since then his eye has looked at me like that, and—and—take me away, take me away! Do I not tell you that—- It was I———I who kiled liiml”—Translated for Short Stories from Camille Lemonnier in “Gil Blas” by A. C. Townsend. A “‘oman’s Many Troubles. As “Mr. Punch” once remarked, it is rare for the same person to be simulta- neously attacked by yellow fever, arrested for misprision of treason and thrown out of an active volcano. But an analogous concatenation of misfortunes was recorded in the case _of a poor woman who asked Mr. Montagu Williams to remit a fine of five shillings that had been imposed on her for neglecting to send a child to school. She had nine children in all; her husband was out of work; her children simply could not go to school because they had no boots; and on the top of all came the impossibility of meeting the fine levied bythe law. The magistrate “could not remit the fine,” but he. did the next best thing, which was to pay it for the distressed applicant out of the court poor box. As we have the poor always with us, it is sometimes fortunate that we have the poor box with us as well. -—London Telegraph. Bare Legged Highlanders. Highland soldiers, so famous in Scottish chivalry, are among the most prized of her majesty’s army. Their uniforms are quaint and striking. The knees and a consider‘ able portion of the legs are entirely bare, and they seem to be quite comfortable even when other men are shivering in panta— loous and overcoats. They say that when they are off on furloughs and for decency’s sake wear pants they find them very dis— agreeable and cumbersome. A regiment of these Highlanders now occupies Belfast and is frequently seen on the streets. I was told that when it was first stationiul ’ there the Irish boys and girls made fun of the Scotch laddies with bare legs and kilts, but when the riots broke out they found that the Highlanders were warriors true and knew how to disperse a mob.——Cor. Pittsburg Press. Ought to Be Punished. First Elmira Man—There’s a 10-year-old boy up here who has just shot and killed his father. , Second Elmira Man (excitedly) —- The young scmnp! T'Te ought to be spanked!— Judge. l ‘ A MYSTERIOUS FORCE. REMARKABLE POWER OVER MEN POSSESSED BY A WOMAN. Six Strong Men Are Unable to Move Her. She Can Resist the Combined Strength of a Dozen People—She Is Slender and Does Not limlerstaml Her Gift. A few days since I chanced to be where that remarkable woman Mrs. Lulu Ab- bott (so I have heard her called; I didn’t notice the bills) was exhibiting her won- derful powers. I went to see her public ex- hibitions, had a private interview with'her and must truly say that she nonplused me, as she did every one that saw her. 'At one exhibition where I saw her there were six or seven gentlemen on the stage with her—gentlemen who irprcsented the business intelligence and acumen of the place, a clergyman and several physicians who represent the highest attainments and skill in their line. These were invited there to examine, criticise and try by every means in their power and knowledge to find out what was the source of the re markable powers of this little woman. Mrs. Abbott is a small and pretty wom- an. H er normal weight is from ninety—five to ninety~cight pounds. She is of delicate complexion and of the simple ingenuous manners of a child. She is about 85 years old, and she finds herself possessed of a most remarkable power to overcome any physical life or animal power that may be brought to bear against her. She knows nothing of what this power is. She is not aware that she makes any effort of will- concentration of thought, certainly not of muscular thought, to perform the wonder— ful feats of what we call strength that she performed by the dozen before 'audiences made up from the best, wisest and best edr ucated people of the place. LIFTIXG 61x MEN. For instance, half a dozen of the gentle- men on the stage piled one upon another on one—again upon two chairs that were on the stage, and she, standing behind the chair and touching lightly the wood of the back of the chair, would instantly lift the chair and all those men from the floor. She barely touches the chair, passes her hand and fingers along the upright posts as a musician runs his fingers lightly over the keys of a piano or guitar to see if it be in tune or to find the dominant tone or chord in the piece" he is about to play; or, it seemed to me the most like this of any‘ thing, that she was seeking “thedominant seventh.” Again, six men took a. billiard cue, and standing it upright on the floor, with their hands clasping it tightly near the top, an- other man, thc heaviest and strongest per- haps of all on the stage, with Mrs. Abbott, mounted to the top and sat upon the top, the hands of the six other holders of the cue forming a kind of seat for him to sit upon. The cue began to bend as though it would break, when she touched it lightly with her delicate fingers, passing them lightly over it as along the strings of a guitar, when it at once straightened, and clasping it in the most light and deli- cate manner, and apparently putting forth not the least effort or strength, she lifted the one half a foot from the floor against all the force these six men and one on the top could exert to keep it down. Again, standing upon one foot on the floor, not the force of the strongest man or any two men could pull of push her from her position. Calling a little boy from the audience she passed her hands lightly over his hands and arms a moment, and he was firmly set against the power of all these men as she had been. Twisting a handkerchief that some one handed her into a kind of ring she and the little boy both took hold of it with no apparent strength except merely to hold it, and the little boy stood as im- movable as a mountain against all the at— tempts of one or two or more men (as many as could reach the child) to move him from the floor. SHE MAKES NO EFFORT. So standing with her hands pressed so lightly arrainst the door casings that she held an egg under the palm of each hand and did not crush it all the strength of as many men as could reach her could not pull her from her position. This feat she tried many times, and sometimes placing her hands over the hands of oneof the gen- tlemen, who himself held the egg under his hands, and one of these gentlemen who assisted in this feat assured me that he felt but the slightest touch of her hand upon his and no pressure whatever to indi- cate any effort put forth on her part. Indeed she makes no effort. She says she is not conscious of putting forth any will power or aiming at any concentration of thoughts. The effort does not tire her in the least. Again, she took the one in her hands, so lightly holding it—it really lying on one of her hands rather than her clasping it—one, two, three and even six men together tried to wrest this from off her hands rather than in them, and they were as powerless to do this as would be a fly lighting upon the rod. The power would seem to be a current that in passing through her is arrested for this application in some way that she as little understands as any one else. Normally she is very deli- cate, and Can lift only very light weights. “This power,” she said, “does not help in the least to do my work about the house: I wish it did,” for she can with it only lift or move things that have animal life in them. She found herself possessed of this pow- er when she was a child, when annoying her father in playing about his chair. He told her if she did not stop he would put her away from him. She said it came to her to say to him, “You can’t put me away.” He tried to lift and carry her off, and found himself powerless to lift the child. An older brother then tried to put this child, only 7 years old, out the door, and could not stir her from, her standing place on the floor. She is conscious of no peculiar feeling except a kind of tremor passing through her arms. Holding a glass tumbler between her hands one may hear aloud musical whirring and every second or so a click like that of telegraphing. In conversation nothing is more apparent than that she is entirely sincere and sim- ple as a child. She would like as well as any one to know what this strange power is and whence it comes hen—Cor. De- troit Tribune. Flowers Every Day. For fifteen years :1 Portland business man has received from the florist’s every other morning a fresh bunch of fiower~s~ro$es, heliotrope, forgeteme-nots and the like, and placed it directly infront of him upon his desk. The bouquets have sweetened his life and who doubts that they have helped on his pro‘sperity?—Lewiston J our- nal. Neighbor Jones is growing poor because the street car fare upon his daily route has been reduced. Formerly he saved six cents by walking to his work; now he saves only five. ,_ Boring Snails. Naturalists have long been acquainted withthose enterprising sea. m'ching'jvlhfch cut their way into hard rocks. urchin“; provided with a- boring apparatus have beenfound on the shores "of France, Eng- land, Algeria, the Azores, the India isl- ands, California, Panama, Australia, Mau— ritius and recently on the island of Grand Marian, N. B. It seems that they share their talent with some of the snails. The snails, of course, here rocks out of water. A block of compact, blackish gray lime-~ stone was recently sent from Constantine to the Academy of Sciences in Paris. The stone was riddled with hemiSpherical per- forations. At the end of each of these small arched passages slept asuail, a Helix aspersa. The Specimen was put in the museum gallery of geology in October. The jour— ney from Algeria had not disturbed its tenants, and they passed a quiet winter. One day in May while the stone was being sketched they suddenly roused themselves, came out and would have crawled away had they not been captured. A scientist decided the question as to whether they secreted an acid which cor— roded the stone, or cut their way by means of hard. sharp structures in the feet, in this , way. He killed a snail by holding it under water, took it from its shell and put it into sulphuric acid. All the animal substance of the snail was rapidly carbonized and dis- solved by the acid. This was washed away with water, and a hard, insoluble sub— stance was left. The hard, irregular grains were evident— ly flint. There was of course no indication as to where in the body of the snail they had been, but it isreasonable to suppose that they composed the structure by which he had bored holes in the limestone.— Youth’s Companion. Brown Bread and. Ice Cream. People who have a. taste for ice cream, ' and a liking for this dish is not altogether limited to women, should try the fad of eating Boston brown bread with their cream. It is a combination that will de- light any lover of good living. The other night three young men dined ataquite popular restaurant down town, and when it came time for them to have somo‘dessert one proposed that they should try this novelty. Unfortunately, the restaurant did not have an excellent quality of ice cream and had no brown bread at all, so the young men went to another restaurant near by Where both are obtainable. There is sold there a most excellent ice cream which is called Italian, though it might . just/as well be called Russian or French, or anything else. It is rich and yellow and flavored with the vanilla bean, which is ground up and sprinkled through the cream, so that it looks very much as if pep- per had been thrown in it. A spoonful of this ice cream placed upon the edge of a slice of Boston brown bread is a. mouthful to linger over and remember with pleas- ure. This combination is far better than the more common one of Boston brown bread ice cream, which is really nothing more than ice cream frozen, with the crumbs of brown bread mingled in it.— New York Sun. Detection of Oleo in Butter. Dr. Thomas Taylor, microscopist of the United States department of agriculture, proposes the following new method of de- tecting oleo in butter: Dissolve in twenty cubic centimeters of petroleum benzine 140 grains of mixture of oleo and butter. Heat slightly to secure a perfect solution of the fats. Cassine and animal tissues may be readily removed by passing the liquid while warm through fine muslin. Fill a test tube with the solution and place in ice water. In about twenty minutes the oleo fats will separate from the butter fat and fall to the bottom of the tube, being in- soluble in cold benzine, while the butter fat will remain in solution in the benzine. Separate the oleo fat from the liquid but- ter fat by filtration The fat recovered may be solidified by mechanical pressure, placing it between several layers of bibu- lous paper to absorb the remaining ben- zine. after which the sheet of solid oleo may be removed from the paper Witha palette knife. The butter may be recov— ered by evaporating the benzine by means of a sand bath—New York Telegram. Fooling a. Bulky Horse. A horsewr nag balked in front of the Universalist church at 6:30 one evening and declined to go further in the direction of Greenville. The driver, after striking the bell to go ahead, tried several times to coax the animal forward without avail. Finding he could not have his way he concluded to let the horse have his; so turning the horses round he attached them to the other end of the car and start— ed toward Franklin square, an eighth of a mile away. The horses made good time to that terminus of the road in front of the Waunegan house. They were then taken to the Greenville end of the car and given another start. They were given a free rein, and passed the Universalist church at a rate of speed which promised to make up for the delay caused by the driver’s man~ euver. That driver had evidently argued with the home before, and knew just how to calm him down and make him do his best—Norwich (Conn) Bulletin. Genuine Maine Humor. “He’s a. horrid wretch, and I won’t do no sech a thing!” exclaimed an old lady who 'had just come out of theAroostook and who was riding along the Maine Central road, bound for Burnham station. She was asked the trouble, and then she said she “Never did see sech a sacy feller as the brakeman who had opened the door and cried out: ‘Burnham, Burnham, change for Unity, Thorndike, Knox, Brooks and Belfast. Do not leave your packages nor umbrellas in the car—Burn-um; Burn- uml’ ” She said she had some twisted doughnuts, a homemade cheese, some homemade socks and a patchwork quilt which she was bringing down to her darter Nancy, and she shouldn’t “burn um for nobody nor nothing.”—Lewiston Journal. Knew He Was Right. There is an old story of a man who was so determined to prove himself in the right that he was always declaring, “I told you so.” One day his son, anxious to teach him a lesson, rushed into the house, crying, “Father, did you know the cow had eat up the grindstone?” “There, I told you so!” exclaimed the old gentleman. “You shouldn’t ha’ left it in the yard!”—Youth‘s Companion. An Honest Man. Bronson—I suppose I may as well charge up that $25 you owe me to profit and loss. Brokeley—My dear sir, I am a man of honor. I will pay you that money sir, if I have to steal it.—Munsey’s W'eekly. The appliance of hydraulic power to the manufacture of steel seamless boat-s is one of the latest things in England. These boats are thought to be in every particular superior to those made of wood and can be made at about the same cost. THE .Iovs' ’ OF LEADERSHIP; . Some of the Things a. Politician Is Called . . Upon to Do. “It’s all well enough to have the honor and glory of being leader of your district if there is any honor and glory attached to it, but when you come to analyze the mani- fold duties of the place you will discover that it’s not so pleasant.” The speaker was a typical Tammany district leader, one of the big chiefs of the Wigwam, and a character who stands high up in the or- ganization because of his ability to “car- ry” his district under the most trying cir- cumstances. ' .. The political district leader, as he is found here in New York, is a thing indig— enous to the metropolis. You find him nowhere else as he is here. He is an outr growth of the old ward boss. He is a pro— duct of the system of political organization that obtains here The Tammany “lead- er” is a. peculiarly interesting type of this product. He is well known in his relation to the organization, and in a general way the public knows pretty well how he “runs” his district and manipulates the machine vote. But there is another side to his life that less is known about and which is not without interest. — “The district leader," said the Tammany man, “has more personal duties to perform for constituents than many persons have any idea of. He must be both father and mother to a portion of his flock. He is called upon to perform almost all sorts of services for his constituents, and it is in doing these things that he gets much of the ‘pull’ upon which his individual political strength is based. “There are many persons in every as- sembly district who look upon the district leader as the man who can help them out of all their troubles. Poor Mrs. Smith is all out of coal and food, and Mr. Brown, who knows the leader, huri‘ies ofi to him and tells him of Mrs. Smith’s strait. The leader useertains what he can about the case and then does his best toprovide forher. Very often he has to go down into his own pocket to do it, but that is part of his bus- iness. Then, again, Mrs. Smith has no money to pay her rent and is about to be dispossessed. If she can only secure a few days’ more time in which to get the money to pay up she will be all right, and then the leader’s influence is brought to bearon the landlord. “One of the leader‘s constituents dies and leaves a will. The widow does not know what to do, and the leader is called on to aid her. Mrs. Smith’s husband is arrested and is in sad need of a bondsman. Smith has many friends, and each friend has a vote, and the leader sees that the bond is procured and does what he can to pull Smith out of trouble~ Sometimes it is Mrs. Smith who gets Mr. Smith arrested. Smith has indulged his pug‘ilistic instinct to the detriment of Mrs. Smith’s eye, but, ‘sure, the poor man is a fine fellow,’ and so a day or two after the arrest Mrs. Smith calls upon the leader and implores him to do his best to get Smith out of the peni- tentiary. “I have lots of just such cases as these every month. The people seem to regard the leader as a man who should know everything. They pour their domestic as well as their financial trr “bles into his ears, and he is kept very busy trying to disen— tangle the troubles of others. “All this time an army of men is hust— ling after him, and every man wants a good job. If you can’t get him into the public crib you must do your best to see that he gets work in some private concern. The alderman of the district usually looks out for places among the city departments and gets what he can for his district. “One class of men very difl‘icult to dis- pose of is composed of sons of fathers who have toiled to educate them. W’hen the father thinks the boy has education enough ‘he comes to us to see if we can’t place him where he can earn a living. The young chaps always object to manual labor. They are educated down too fine for thatand not educated enough to take places of respon- sibility, so I usually get them on the horse cars as conductors. So you see the leaders have pretty hard rowsto hoe after all.” “How much does it‘ cost to be Tammany leader’of a big district?” “Well, I have often figured that out and I find that it cannot be done up right on much less that 85,000 a year. That is what it costs the leader out of his own pocke .” “And where does the leader come in?” "Oh, he comes in all right. Don’t worry about him.”—New York Times. Leaves for Textile Purposes. For cordage and other textile purposes numberless leaves are used, and they serve very generally for packing and wrapping up small parcels in India. In Guiana Tibisiri fiber is obtained from the inner surface of the spiral leaves of the Rs palm, Mauritia fiexuosa. It is used by the In- dians for making hammocks, etc. The leaves are out before they are open, and the midrib separated by drawing each di- vision of the leaf through the finger and thumb. After- drying the fiber is ready for use without further preparation. About a quarter of a pound maybe pro- cured from each leaf, and if the central leaf is left uninjured no evil'efiect is pro- duced from the tree. Bags and matting could be easily and cheaply made from this fiber, as well as hats similar to those known as Panama—New York Telegram. Advice to Prospective Engravers. “'e find in a horologlcal exchange the following sound advice to persons learning the art of engraving: “There is no greater hindrance to progress in learning to en- grave than in trying- to cut with a badly set or a half sharp graver. Such aprac- tice speedily engenders some of the worst evils, ‘constraint’ and ‘restraint’ in the use of a. graver, by which is meant the wrist becomes stiffened, the easy motion of the hand impaired and the ability to hold a gravel- lightly materially crippled, .and thus the power to cut strokes clean, true and free is measurably destroyed.” To Prevent Silver from Tamishing. An effective means of preventing the tarnishing of silverware by exposure. to the air or from sulphur fumes liberated by heat is by painting it with a little soft brush dipped in alcohol in which some col- lodion has been dissolved, says The 'Deco- rotor and Furnisher. The liquid dries im- mediately, and formsathin, transparent and absolutel ' invisible protection. It can be removed at any time by dipping the article in hot water. Hex-rings l'lIultiply Rapidly. A single pair of herrings, if allowed to reproduce undisturbed and multiply for twenty years, would, at the end of that time, not only supply the whole world with food, but would have become inconvenient- lyZnumerous.——Chattcr. , Longfellow’s favorite gem was the royal amethyst; that deep, flashing purple that changes to ruby by an artificial light. This love was shared by the artist Hunt, and‘the two were always looking for new speci- mens of this stone. LIHIM QSL‘KE ANY OTH’SfP .. As much For INTERNAL as EXTERNAL use. 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