NORWALK GAZETTE wanassoAi SEPTEMB’E
THE BERKSHIRE HILLS.
Dawn sheds its first rosy splendor
On their rounderests;
Last on their baseman, the tender
Glow of eve rests;
Moon and stars keep loving watches
Where their pines wail.
0n them the haw leans, that stretches
O‘er the wet vale.
Under their snows, Spring‘s soft fingers
Opes dainty flowers.
By their mad brooks, aster lingers,
When winter lowers;
Then ferns uncurl, gay vines clamber
O‘er rocks and trees;
White lilies in their lakes slumber
Fanned by the breeze.
Source of the stream, that through meadows
Winds, calm and bright,
Glassing the slopes, where cloud shadows
Sport with gold light!
Leafy halls, where of love‘s sadness
Birds all day trill,
Where through the night of love‘s sadness
Sings whip-poor-will. . ,
D, that our ev‘ry endeavor,
Godward would rise, '
Like their blue summits, forever
Touching the skies!
While, like their clear streams, that water
Orchards and meads,
Over life‘s vale we would scatter
Pure thoughts and deeds.
' ——Good Housekeeping.
One Useful Cigar.
It is told of a sea captain who died not
long ago that he was formerly in command
of a ship in which passengers were carried
from New York to some of the islands. ' On
one occasion the ship caught fire, and the
passengers and crew were compelled to
take hurriedly to the boats.
The captain remained perfectly cool
throughout all the confusion and fright of
thecmbarkation, and at last every one ex-
cept himself was got safely into the boats.
By the time he was ready to follow the
passengers were almost wild with fear and
excitement. Instead of hurrying down the
ladder the captain called out to the sailors
to hold on a. minute, and taking a cigar
from his pocket coolly lighted it with a
bit of burning,r shroud which had fallen
from the rigging at his feet. Then be de-
scended with deliberation, and gave the
order to push off.
“How could you stop to light a cigar at
such a moment?” he was asked afterward,
when some of the passengers were talking
over their escape.
“Because,” he answered, “I saw that if I
did not do something to divert the minds
of those in the boat there was likely to be _
a panic, and, overcrowded as it was, there
was danger of its being upset. The act
took but a moment, but it attracted the
attention of everybody. You all forgot
yourselves because you were thinking
about my curious behavior, and we got off
safely. -‘ ‘—Youth’s Companion.
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Fallen on Evil Days.
[hear sad news about Isabelle, the flower
girl of the Paris Jockey club in the palmy
days of the Third empire. Mr. W'hitehurst,
then the Paris correspondent of The Daily
Telegraph, introduced her to the notice of
the English public, and both in Paris and
London she became quite a personage. She
was not a pretty girl—rather the reverse——
but she was what the French in untrans-
iatablc phrase call chic. She wore a fancy
costume, stood at the door of the Jockey
club when no races were on, and was al-
ways to be found at the foot of their grand
stand at Longchamps when the grand
prize was being run.
It was there the Empress Eugenie saw
her first, bought her flowers, and took a
fancy to her. In those now far ofi' days
Isabelle on state occasions wore in her hat
a gold buckle, with her initials in brilliant,
a present from the empress. When the
empire fell and the Germans entered Paris
Isabelleis joyous reign was over. She was
still the flower girl of the jockey club even
under the republic, but it proved a differ-
ent state of things. Her fortunes gradu—
ally fcll away, till now I hear from one
who knew her in her palmy days and has
helped. her in her distress that she has
been sold up and turned out of her little
shop, where to the last she sold flowers.—
Paris Cor. Liverpool Post.
Anicricnns in Paris.
.'\incricans? Yes, they are here. The
ones seeking social recognition, others
seekin: whom they can marry. It is not :1
particularly creditable state of affairs, but
the American met everywhere is really in
. search of one of these two things. In Lon—
don' she is trying to buy her way with
money. In Paris she is trying to buy in-
fluence with money. This is a distinction
with a difference. She feels that in Lon-
don shc can offer her dollars in the crudest
way, stating what she wishes and how
much she will give for it. Here more care
must be taken, and to get the influence of
a lady from Faubourg St. Germaine she
must be approached most delicately and
the question of money glossed over until
it seems of the slightest moment—Paris
Letter.
Rats Cause a \Yatcllman’s Discharge.
A mysterious affair at the store of Forbes
& Wallace puzzled everybody in the em-
ploy of the firm for quite awhile. Several
, mornings the cords of the cash system were
, found cut, and had to be repaired before
the little cash carriers could be used. Who
did the cutting was a mystery, and several
emplo yes were suspected. Finally the
watchman was discharged and a new one
engaged, but the next morning the cords
were agaiucut. Then a closer watch W ,
set and it was discovered that rats were t ‘ '
guilty ones. The cords blocked up a hole
through which the animals wished to pass,
and they gnawed them off. The old watch-
man was' reinstated and all other suspects
$0njerated.—Springfield (Mass) Home-
ea .
Superstition and the l‘Ioonstone.
The flaw in the moonstone is called the
“magic mirror,” since fortune tellers say
that through these the mysteries of the
future are revealed. Of course this is all
arrant nonsense, but it certainly makes a
good market for imperfect stones, and they
are thus made to cost more than the flaw-
less gem. Apart from its soft, silvery
beauty the moonstone has taken hold of
the superstitions of a superior class of
people, and whether they tell the true rea-
son or not, they all like to own one as an
amulet to protect from harm and danger,
and for the good luck it is fancied attaches
to the possessor.—Exchange.
Magnets for Boilers.
Magnetism is now proposed for overcom-
ing scale in boilers. The magnets are'ars
' ranged Within a cylinder in‘ sheets and
bundles, and the water being kc tin can
. stant motion deposits are preven '__d. The
inventor of the device claims that the same
arrangement can be economically and ad.
‘ 'vanta'geously used for the artificial “98¢? '
,ing” of liquOrs.——Exch‘ange.
, , A Regret. .
Caller (Sunday evening)——Is Miss
lat home? - ,
Servant—No,_sir; I am sorry to sayMiss
gigs has just gone to church—New York
ger.
Bags
AN EMPEROR’S VALET.
INCIDENTS OF NAPOLEON'S LIFE
TOLD av HIS SERVANT.
Little Known Peculiarities of the Great
General— Valet Constant Was with
France’s Idol for Fifteen Years—Why
He Did. Not Accompany Him to Elba.
Napoleon had a Belgian valet who for
fifteen years was in wuataut attendance
upon him, and who admired him to the
end of the chapter. This man wrote, or
professed to write, memoirs of his master,
six octavo volumes of about 300 pages each.
which appeared in 1830. The work has
sunk into oblivion. While not lifting a
finger to dress himself, Napoleon dispensed
with assistance in undressing, but he flung
his garments all over the room—his watch
sometimes missing the table or bed at
which it was aimed and falling broken on
the floor.
As to dress, he despised dandies, never
wore rings and abominated scents, except
eau de Cologne, with which he was often
rubbed and which was his specific, for
' bruises. When coat tails became shorter
he stuck to the old fashion until Constant
got the tailor to shorten them by impercep-
tible gradations. He disliked tightly fitting
clothes, found a. new hat uncomfortable—-
though lined with silk and ‘fvadding—and
stuck to an old hat as long as possible. He
ut on ever , mornino a clean white waist-
. O .-
coat,with knee brooches to match—he never
wore trousers; but as he habitually wiped
his pen on his breaches, after three or four
washings they were done with.
NAPOLEON’S I’lkaFULNESS.
Constant denies, however, the common
story of his keeping snuff loose in his
waistcoat pocket; he always used a snuff-
box, and though he frequently took a
pinch, he simply held it to his nose and
then dropped all or nearly all on the floor.
His snufi injured the carpet, not his waist:
coat.
A pinch of snuff was not the sole kind of
pinch in which Napoleon indulged. He
was addicted to playfuuy pinching peo-
ple’s ears, not merely the lobe as commonly
stated, but the whole car, and sometimes
both cars at once. The better the humor
he was in the harder the grip. He also
administered friendly slaps on the cheek,
hard enough sometimes to cause the effect
of a blush. As to demonstrations of anger,
Constant never but once saw him strike.
An undergroom had put on the wrong
saddle, and Napoleon had no sooner mount-
ed than the horse reared and threw him.
The head groom coming up at the moment,
the emperor give him a lash in the face
with his whip, but presently being told
that the poor man deeply felt the humilia-
tion, he sent for and soothed him. present-
ing him a few days afterward with 3,
francs. He was not a graceful equestrian,
and every horse he rode had to undergo a
special training, that it might not resent
lashes on the head and ears, fidgeting in
the saddle, or being pulled up sharp while
at full gallop.
HE IVAS NO EPICURE.
Latter-1y he had always Arabian horses,
and it is pleasant to hear that his favorite
Styrie, after the Marengo campaign, passed
the rest of his life in case and luxury. He
did not care for the chase, but hunted just
enough to keep up royal traditions. Con-
stant denies that he was ever wounded by
a. wild bOar, as asserted in the Memorial de
Ste. Helene. He did not shoulder his gun
well, and never fired without blackening
ing his arm, to which eau de Cologne had
to be applied.
Napoleon was no epicure. He usually
drank nothing but diluted Chambertin,
and was no judge of wine. He liked plain
dishes —boiied or roast chicken, mutton
chops, grilled neck of mutton, haricot
beans or lentils. His table manners were
not very refined. He would use his fingers
in lieu of fork or spoon, and would dip his
bread in the sauce, the dish being then
passed round the guests, who had to dis-
p'ensc with squeamishness. ‘
The bread had to be particularly good.
He ate fast, quitted the table in twelve
minutes, leaving Josephine and the com-
pany to take their time. When he dined
alone he commonly took only eight or ten
minutes. Indigestion-was the natural con-
sequence of his speed, and he had some-
times to stretch himself at full length on
the carpet till the pain abated. Ile de—
tested physio and professed to disbelieve in
it, a‘ subject of playful discussion with his
doctors. Constant never knew him obliged
to keep his bed a whole day. He was very
sensitive to cold, and had fires and warm
beds nearly all the year.
WHY 11E WENT TO ELDA ALONE.
How wasit that Constant did not accom-
pany so kind a. master to Elba? He was
blamed for it, but his version is this: He
had agreed to go, and Napoleon gave him
100,000 francs, bidding him to bury the
money in his small farm near Fontaine-
bleau, that it might serve for his family.
A few days afterward Gen. Bertrand told
him the emperor had found his accounts
100,000 francs short. Constant explained
what had passed, but Bertrand came back
'with a message that the emperor had no
recollection of givinghim a present. Con-
stant thereupon went and dug up the
money, finding it after some difficulty and
in terror lest it should have been stolen.
Bertrand took the money, but Constant
was so chagrined at the emperor having
allowed Bertrand to think he had embez-
zled the sum that he sent word to the em-
peror that he should not accompany him.
Napoleon sent a message, wishing him
to go, and ofiering him 300,000 francs, but
Constant was obstinate, though no sooner
had his master started than he repented
staying behind. Constant added that the ‘
emperor was not offended, for on returning
from Elba, looking over the pension list
and seeing Constant’s name, he said he had
done well to remain in France, and he or-
dered his pension to be increased. Con-
stant was not summoned to Paris during
the Hundred Days, and never saw Napoleon
again.
Whether we accept this version or not
it is a. pitiful ending to fifteen years’ con-
stant intercourse. It seems quite possible
that Napoleon, in the tumult of reflection
on his fall, had forgotten the gift made to
an old servant, whose comparatiVe poverty
tends to confirm his asseverations that he
never accepted bribes. Constant died in
obscurity in 1845.—-Temple Bar.
An Old Fashioned Bridge.
A project is on foot for spanning the
Danube canal, in Vienna, with a bridge
lined with shops, after the model of the
famous Ponte Rialto at Venice andthe
Arno bridge at Florence. The structure is
to be exclusively of iron. It will, be 64
meters long and 48 wide—cue of the'bi'oad- .
est in theworld. The carriage way willbe
12.meters wide, and the , interior footpath
' on either sides. The itiner'railings will be
flanked by feetpaths 4 miners in; width.
There will be‘sixty-elght shops on 1.1.10.9!
bri e, which will ,be built. an the site 9,
the erdinand’s Brucke, the only w en
crossway that now traverses the ca .-'3
London Telegraph.
p , The Amino, 2. " . .2 »_
In weavingsheds a humid atmosphere};
of equal importance, otherwise,- therein a
continual breaking of threads and other
prejudicial occurrences. The necessary
diffusion of moisture has hitherto been so-
cured at the expense of the minim-t, and
even the health of the factory hands, by
the projection of steam into the atmos-
phere and by dampening the floors with
water. In either case damage is caused to
the machinery and buildings, while an un-
healthy atmosphere is Created in which
the operatives are obliged to work. In or-
der to obviate all this the aerophor has
been invented by a German engineer, and
is largely in use in Germany. The aerophor
is an apparatus for distributing moisture
in the form of a very fine water cloud,
which may be either cold or warm. The
apparatus, which is not large, contains no
movable parts, and a single pressure pump
can work any number of acrophors.
The contrivance, which is fixed just un-
der the ceiling at given points, consists of
two separate nozzles, one for propelling the
air by creating an induced current, and
the other for moistening it. A jet of water
under pressure is projected through a. hori-
zontal nozzle into a casing in which there
is a vertical nozzle. The jet from the hori-
zontal nozzle causes ‘ ‘ 9 induced current
of air to act upon the water entering the
casing at its upper part through the verti-
cal nozzle. The water is passed into the
atmosphere in the form of a fine diffusive
cloud, the large drops of water being caught
and retained by the apparatus. The aero-
phor will only project into the atmosphere,
such particles of water as are capable 6
being absorbed immediately, so that dam-
age to the machinery or fabric is impossible.
In the same way, the atmosphere not being
super-saturated, there is no injury to
health—London Times.
Educate the Girls.
“Educate the girls,” says an exchange,
“and the boys will soon be there.” They
will, indeed, if the girls are tolerably good
looking. And they won’t wait until the
course of instruction is fully completed
either. I have known a young man to get
more than half through his courting be-
fore he thought to ask his girl whether she
had any education or not. So it won’t do
to depend too much on such maxims as the
above; they are apt to mislead. Should
the father of an attractive daughter defer
her education, thinking that the boys
would keep away in consequence, he would
find that he had made a mistake. They
will come just as readily as they would
were she a whole female seminary of learn-
ing.
Then, on the other hand, if you push the
education of a homely, disagreeable girl
with the utmost diligence, will the boys
“be there?” Not much they won’t. They
will go around the cerner and sit up with
the pretty girl who never saw the inside of
a school house in her life. This is perhaps
wrong, but it is the way the world goes
with the young and thoughtless. Wheni
Adam was courting the fair Eve, did he in-
quire what seminary she graduated from?
Did he examine her in arithmetic, English
grammar, logic, geography and the use of
the globes? Of course he didn’t. He
didn’t care a cent whether she knew beans
or not. She wasn’t educated, and yet Adam
was there, Eli. Education is a very good
thing for girls to have, but you ’can’t bank
on it altogether in winning husbands.—
Texas Sift-lugs.
Coughing and Sneezing.
Nurses have to deal with many cases in
which the effort and muscular contraction
caused by the exertions of sneezing, cough—
ing and hiccoughing are very weakening
and trying to be patient. Sneezing is pro-
duced by both external and internal causes.
Externally, by particles of irritating dust in
the air and sometimes by sunlight, or in-
tense color; internally, by disordered ner-
vous conditions, and it is commonly asso-
ciated with whooping cough, asthma and
gout. Pressure upon the fifth nerve will
often temporarily prevent sneezing—as
pinching the upper lip under the nose. The
application of mustard to the back of the
neck will often relieve it; and in violent
cases an emetic has been used with good
reSults.
. Coughing may be relieved in a variety of
ways—and, again, every attempt may avail
nothing; but the nurse should pay especial
attention to the posture of the person, and -
learn that position which most removes '
the tendency to frequent coughing. Again,
coughing may be induced by a tickling
sensation in the throat, which some very
simple soothing mixture or drink may re-
lieve, as slippery elm tea, Irish moss, licor-
ice, ctc. Then, too, many persons cough
from habit. Many times a little exercise
of will would postpone the effort—Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
. Tanned Human Skin.
“The outrage at Canyon City reminds
me of a man’s skin which I once saw
tacked to the walls of a log house at Fort
Halleck,” said Col. Hoyt at the Albany
hotel. “The work had been artistically
done and reminded me more of a gigantic
animal skin stretched out to dry. The man
had been caught in a dastardly act at
the fort and a bullet from the commandant
put a very sudden end to his career. The
skin was left for many months on the wall
of the hut, but was finally carried off,
piece by piece, by relic hunters. The body
was chucked into a barrel, which was
placed on the prairie about 100 feet from
.the trail leading to the west. As time-
passed a deep path was worn by travelers
leaving the, public road to take a glance at
the strange contents of the barrel.”—-Den-
ver News.
Atmospheric Washings.
In five years of observation at Lincoln,
New Zealand, Mr. George Gray has found
that the amount of impurity washed down
from the air by the rain depends more on
the number of showers than on the total
rainfall.
ceives annually (in 28.9 inches of, rain)
about 175 pounds of dissolved matter, in-
cluding 60.5 pounds of chlorine, 15
pounds of sulphuric anhydride, and alittle
more than 2 pounds of nitrogen. Near-
ness to the sea explains the high propor-
tion of chlorine.-——Ark.ansaw Traveler;
Our NoblerPlanet. .
Albert Hart’s home is down in Clinton
county, Missouri. Shortly after midnight
he wandered into the central police station,
and to the captain incharge told the tale
of how he rode and rode through more
towns than he had ever heard of and finally
reached Omaha. ‘ . Q .
: “I tell you,” he- said, “if the world’s as;
big the other way as she is thewayl come;
she’s a whopper.”—‘Oinaha World-Herald. , i
A H i ' , ' ' ”Did you ever observe,” said Dr. James,
Immature Sea Fruit.
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' NEWIVIORK’S FIREMEN.
ADMIRABLE QUALlT-IES REQUIRED
’ OF APPLICANTS.
Education of the Men Before They Are
Appointed—Tests of rmacicncy—What
Constitutes a. Fireman—Courage Is'Yei-y
Essential-Must Bear Smoke.
{Thai The house is on fire!” When that
cryis heard in a building panic seizes u '__n
the inmates and indescribable confu on
ensues Someone runs to afirebOXan'd
sends in an alarm, which sounds in every
house in this city.
0 response on the part of the firemen
and their horses is immediate. There" is
haste without blundering, there is no in‘
terferénce of one man withanother. Eagér-
ness to be 01! and resolution to workare
d on each man’s face. In ten sec-
ouls the drivers are on their seats, lines in
hand, waiting the order to go. It is given,
and away they dash, the horses needing no
urging, the men clinging with one hand to
a rail of the cart, wriggling into their rub-
ber coats. Not many minutes later they
are on the ground, the hose is attached to
the hydrant, ladders are run up and the
battle with the fire begins.
The inmates of the burning building,
who a few minutes before were panic
stricken, regain confidence. Our firemen,
who. without hesitation, plunge into a
burning building, are men who at one
time in life were as liable as any one to
“fire panic,” which influences men to do
very foolish and cowardly things. That
they are not so now is due to the trainin
they mccive and the trials to which they
are subjected. - Let us follow the course
which an applicant fer appointment to the
fire department in this city must undergo
before he can wear the badge, which is the
emblem of “courage and fidelity.”
TRIAL or QUALIFICATION. .
After being recommended by the fire
commissioners for appointment the appli-
cant is examined as to his physical quali-
fications. If they are up to the stfndard
he is turned over to the civil service com-
missioners for examination as to his
knowledge of the common school branches.
If he passes he is sent to headquarters,
.where he enters the school of instruction
of the life saving corps, of which the drill
'7
‘master is Mr. Henry W. McAdams. He
has had charge of the school since its organ-
ization in 1882. No one can go behind his
returns; there is not political pull enough
in the city to secure the appointment of a
man whom he rejects. It is in this school,
and during the thirty days he is in train-
ing, that the applicant proves his fitness
or unfitness to be enrolled in the service.
The New York fire department has a
complete gymnasium, Where, besides the
apparatus for the development and
strengthening of the muscles, are all the
appliances it has in use. Thorough in-
struction is given to the applicant by Mr.
McAdams, himself a veteran fireman, as
to their purpose and proper handling.
Familiarity with these appliances is abso—
lutely indispensable to celerity on the part
of a. fireman. whose essential characteristic
must be quickness. A slow man has no
chance for appointment in the department.
TRAINING PROBATIONERS.
’ Probationers are also taught morality in
an indirect yet forcible manner. Remem-
bering that their calling demands of them
courage and honesty, the probationer who
is with some company, either in the engine
house or at a fire, feels that he is associa—
ting with men who are gentle in their man-
ners, respectful and obedient to superiors,
ready at any instant to hold the muzzle
close against a flame that menaces them
with death, and who would not disgrace
their uniform. If he has the true stuff in
him he will soon conform with them in
thought, purpose and demeanor, and on
every occasion emulate them in zeal and
honor. '
The cultivation of good manners and
other qualities that constitute a man is
taught in an unobtrusive way. For in-
stance, thc applicant learns the story of the
fire at Chambers street and Broadway,
years ago, when the employes of a bank
rushed into the street, leaving $160,000 in
2 cash on the counters. The firemen ran in,
gathered the money together, threw it into
the safe, and locked the safe door. \Vhen
the money was taken out and counted only
3'53 was missing, and that consisted of silver
dollars, which in the excitement had prob-
‘ ably rolled away. Hearing such astory
the applicant of the right material is very
likely to resolve to behave with equal hon-
esty at every fire to which he is called.
MEN OF NATURAL COURAGE.
“Men are natural cowards where there’s
a fire,” said Capt. McAdams to me. “Put
all Barnum’s wild animals in that lot over
there and then drop a child among them,
and in nine cases out of ten the father of
that child will go in after it. But let there
be an alarm of fire in the house in the ni ht
time and that same man will run into fhe
street and leave his child behind. I have
never seen a man suffocated at a fire with
a child in ' ' arms, but I have seen women
lying dea from suffocation with a child in
each arm. The man’s first thought is to
get into the street when he hears the house
is on fire. The woman’s first thought is
her children.”
The probationers are, no doubt, naturally
courageous, and each one resolves to be as
heroic as any man who has won the Ben-
nett medal; but when there is a fire and
they “go in” with the firemen their true
metal is shown. The captain’s eye is on
them. If they waver he sees it, but if they
resolutely hold their faces to the fire and
» obey. orders, no matter if the smoke is thick
enough to be cut and if their'teeth are chat-
tering loud enough to be heard above the
crackling of the flames, he knows that they
are of the right stuff and reports favorably
upon them. If an applicant cannot stand
the smoke, which, Capt. McAdams says,
“feels in your throat as if some fellow were
trying to force you to swallow a baseball,”
he is dropped from the list—Epoch.
Nix’s Mate. ,
Nix’s Mate is the name of a submerged
island in Boston harbor, upon which "an
obelisk was raised some years ago, It_ is
said that Nix’s Mate was a sailor who was
hanged for piracy upon the spot which af.
terward took his name nearly 300 years
.since, notwithstanding his strong protes-
tations of innocence. He predicted that
the island would sink within theyear if
he was, as he claimed, unjustly murdered
by the law. Within a short period many
feet of water were rplling over Nik’s Mate.
g—St. Louis Republic. ‘ '
"l:- ‘ Dyspepsia-and Baldness.
2 -22an 9," dyspeptic person who has 931;;
f f ,gwith the disease fora. year 0:39:12?
' ‘ cisesout of ten. bald? 'llhfidiil'el’fle
Q ”a pé'éuliar effect upon the hair. lit
as"; '. it- to becom' 9 weak and mm.
Tilbleast p ’11 will bring out a ‘ .. .'
Thércisno wn remedy which . pre-
vent thehair from falling outit aman’s
stomach is out of order.”—-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
R 3. 1690.
ROMANTIC TALE OF A surr. _
A. Mill Owner Marries a Lawyer, Adopts
_ Ber Client and’Escapes a Verdict.
“How did you come to marry ?” The
question was asked by an acquaintance of
a prosperous looking man of about 40 years
of age, who sat near a window in the sit-
tin room at the Girard.
“ ell,” he replied, after a little hesita-
tion, “I’ll tell you. At the age of 25 my
father died. Being his sole heir, my mother
having died previously, I found upon my
handsa rolling mill in the center ofthe
state. I took full charge of the works, but
didn’t run them six months when a little
orphan boy employed there was seriously
injured, in fact. crippled for life. He was
under the legal age, and besides, the acci-
dent was the result of a gross piece of neg-
ligence on the part of my superintendent.
”The child soon obtained friends to help
him. They brought suit and obtained
825,000 damages. I had retained the best
counsel that I could find, but it availed
nothing. Of course we appealed, but the
supreme court put their seal of approval
upon the finding of the lower tribunal.
One of the particularly curious things
about the matter was that the child was
represented by a female lawyer, compara-
tively young and very attractive and en-
tertaining.
“Now the entire plant, mortgaged as it
was, was worth only about $30,000, so when
the judgment had been satisfied and other
costs and charges had been paid I found
myself in very tightened circumstances.
‘ ‘Now comes the curious part of the story.
The female lawyer shortly after the case
had been finally settled adopted the boy.
Sharp trick, eh? Well, mine was sharper.
Six months after I met the lady at a recep-
tion. I must confess that her charms com-
pletely captured me, and I was not long in
discovering that I was in love. Certain
circumstances which I need not mention
led me to at least hope that my feelings
were reciprocated. I lost no time in pro—
posing, and to my infinite delight was ac-
cepted. We were married about eighteen
months after the trial, and you can rest as—
sured that from the first I was very much
attached to our little adopted son.” And
he looked into the faces of his auditors and
smiled knowingly—Philadelphia Press.
Eton and Flogging.
Beyond the head master’s desk in the
upper school is a smaller room, still called.
the library, although no longer stored
with books._ Here, in extreme cases, flog-
ging is administered by the head master,
nOne of the assistants being empowered to
inflict corporal punishment. The victim,
kneeling on a wooden step, called the
“block,” is "held down” by two junior
collegers, and a senior colleger hands to
the head master the necessary birch or
birches. A former block was destroyed
during a rebellion in 1783, and fragments
of it were distributed as trophies among
the boys concerned. Its successor was
cleverly carried away by the late Lord
Waterford and two other old Etonians in
1836, and it is now preserved at Curragh-
more as a historical relic.
Flogging was for many generations the
normal punishment for almost all offenses,
great or small, for r'crious breaches of dis-
cipline and for mismkes‘in Latin constru-
ing. Many amusing stories—some of them
true, more of them apocryphal—are told of
Dr. Keate and the vigorous manner in
which he wielded the birch, and it is re-
membered that he suppressed an attempted
rebellion by successively flogging more
than eighty boys in the middle of a sum—
mer night in 1832. Since his time there
has been a gradual decrease in the number
of floggings administered by subsequent
head masters, and Dr. Warre seldom re-
sorts to this form of punishment—English
Illustrated Magazine.
A Clergyman’s Hands. ,
The writer once noticed a clergyman
vhose fingers were never at rest. No
sooner was his prayer begun than they be-
gan their work. \Vhilc the man of God
prayed long and earnestly his busy fingers
explored every portion of the external sur-
face of the reading desk. They found each
nail that had been used in the upholster—
ing, dwelt upon its head with a gentle em-
phasis, as though distinctly to indicate it
to' the congregation—who certainly fol-
lowed the preacher’s fingers much more
generally than his prayer—every junction
of the. plush was traced back and forth as
though to find possible entrance for the
persistent fingers’ ends, and when finally
a small rent inthe covering was revealed
it seemed from the fond persistence with
which the aperature was fondled, coaxed
together, drawn apart and explored that
the object of all the research was at last
realized. Of all this ridiculous fumbling
the perpetrator was, of course, entirely ob-
livious—and that was the worst phase of
the matter; the habit had become fixed,
and is doubtless a life long possession—
such as it is.—Good Housekeeping.
Surgical Enthusiasm.
A great surgeon is frequently tempted
by the mere love of his art to perform an
operation not strictly necessary. Dr. Mott
used to relate an anecdote of his last visit
to Paris. A celebrated Paris surgeon asked
him one day if he would like to see him
perform his original operation. “Nothing
would give me more pleasure,” replied Dr.
Mott. The Frenchman mused a moment
and then said: “However, now I think of
it, there is no patient in the hospital who
has that malady. No matter, my dear
friend, there is a poor devil in Ward No.
—, who is of no use to himself or anybody
else, and if you’ll come to—morrow I’ll op-
crate beautifully on him.” It need not be
said that Dr. Mott declined the invitation.
—San Francisco Argonaut.
A Woman Road Surveyor.
Norway, Me, is solving the problem of
the road repairing business in a novel way.
In one of the districts .the men declared
they would no longer oversee the mending
of the roads, as’it was a thankless job at
best, and they were all busy with their
other work. But the roads were in a bad,
condition and must be repaired. A woman'
was appointed surveyor, and she undertook
the‘work with a. determination to succeed.
The roadmachine and men who worked
under her direction have put the roads in
first class shape. Nogway claims the
honor of having the first woman road sur-
veyor, unless some other place has a pre-
vious claim and takes it.-0xford County
Advertiser. -
. A KindJIcarted Poet.
Mr. John Boyle O’Reilly is one of the
most popular men in Boston, and deserv-
edly so—for ‘ his heart is asbig as his brain.
Not long ago a broken down versemaker
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market, and. the friend sent it to Mr.
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