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? f**"*???****? THE STRUGGLE. " Body, I pray you let me go!" (It is a Soul that struggles so.) " Body, I see on yonder height Dim reflex of a solemn light; A flame that shineth from the place Where Beauty walks with naked face: It is a flame you cannot see,? Lie down, you clod, and set me free. " Body, I pray you let me go!" (It is a Soul that striveth s<>.) 11 Body. I hear dim sounds afar Dripping from some diviner star; Dim sounds of joyous Imrmony: It is my mate that sings, and I Must drink that song or break my heart,? ; Body, I pray you. let us part. " Comrad?, your frame is worn and frail, Your vital powers begin to fail; I long for life, but you for r.^st, Then. Body, let us both be blest. When you are lying 'neath the dew I'll come, sometimes, and sing to you; But you will feel nor pain nor woe,? Body, I pray you, let mo go." Thus strove a Being: Beauty-fain, He broke his bonds and fled amain. He fled: the Body lay bereft. But on its lips a smile was left, As if that Spirit, looking back, Shouted upon his upward track. With joyous tone and hurried breath, Some message that could comfort Death. ?Danske Dandridge, in the Century. Aunt Tabitha's Mission. BY ADA M. TROTTER. "Taik of Peter the Hermit," ejacu- ; lated Aunt Tabitha, as she walked into j her nephew's house, "I wished I could j hoist a banner and attract some attention j to God A'urghty's laws of health." John's house wa* ai pretty as good taste co;:ld make it when hampered by small means, but Aunt Tabitha viewed it with disfavor. Her healthy sense of smell at once detected that no windows had been opened in the reception room since the . previous evening. The air was heavy j with gas, and the portieres seemed j specially designed to impede ventila- j tion. Up went the windows in a trice, the ; portiers were pulled back, and Aunt Tabitha stood by the door, swingiug it 1 1 JJ r tU _ J ^ 4.1 utu;ik-uuu jurtu iu unve out me ciose air. This doue to her satisfaction, she went upstairs in answer to the call of: "Auntie, do come up and speak to me." Ti e speaker was lying on a couch in a darkened room, which also bore tokens | to Aunt Tabitha's keen senses of lack of j ventilation. Before saying a word to ; the invalid, she threw oven the window j and let in >ome fresh air, laden with sun- j ^ be.mis. h. Aunt Tabitha, please don't. I've got such an awful cold.'' "That is only too evident to the eye," , replied Aunt Tabitha. "I ha'.e to look i at an unhealthy person. Your hair has lost its lustr.*, your cheeks are sallow, j your eyes red and watery, and you look j _ aeciepid geneia lv. Preserve me from a v> iruiau wuv m iui euj?ijr ment of poor health." "Aunt Tabitha, how can you be so cruel? You know I can't help being so delicate. I just get one cold on another,'' said her niece. "I don't see auv reason why you, at twenty-five, sh >uld" be less healthy than I, at sixty yeirs of age," said Aunt Tabitha. "I must say I am sorry for John." This was too much for Mary, sweettempered though she m'ght he. fche j eat up and looked at this dreadful Aunt Tabitha, v. h > sat up smiling and brisk, | very youug for her sixty years. "irorry for Johu!" she cried. "Why, ! auntie, you know he is just wrapped up j in me." "Well, with my experience of man- | kind, I shou'd say he'd soon get un- I u : J a rn v?iv - j__i? I wrujipcu, saiu auui lauuua, suuaeniy j holding a hand gla3?in front of her niece. "Look pretty, don't you?" Marry wits not a vain woman, still she colored with annoyance. Then she sneezed violently aud took refuge again in her pillows. "I'm not tit to talk to anyone to-dav," she said. "I)o come and see me another time, auntie." "You wnnt me to go, T sec. Well, I'm not going till I've had my say, and if you are a woman of seuse, you will j listen and give up once tor all this semi- ! invalid condition which is making you \ an old woman before your time.'' ''But, auntie, I can't help uiysplf. I ! catch one cold on another, aud it just j kceos me weak." "You catch cold because you do not I obey the simple laws net ?-(-iary tr> keep: your body in a healthy condition." "Laws! I can't see what laws have to ; do with me," replied Marv. erossiv. "Keep to the laws of health," said ! Aunt Tnbitha, "and be strong; break ' them and be sick." "I don't breik them,'' said Mary, i "The lung and the short of the matter i is this: I am a delicate woman, and the j climate is too severe for me. The doctor i gays I ought to go to Florida/' "Bosh! You are my own niece, and I | know you started with a fair constitu- ! tiou. Apply your common sense to your daily liVand you can be a well woman , in a fefc weeks," cried Aunt Tabitha, with spirit. "Oh, if I only could," groaned Mary, with another sneeze. "If I lived a3 you do, improperly ; clothed, fed and warmed, I should soon be in your condition," said her aunt. "Aunt Tabitha!" . "I mean it. Nature has given you a large frame, but you ignore the fact,and i make your waist so small, you look like | a dyspeptic wasp." 4,T Tifvpr knpw nnvnne who rmtlri <snv such unkind things as you do," said : Mary, with a laugh. "Oh, that's iny mission." cried Aunt Tabitha. "I'm for common sense versus . drugs." ' Well, go on; I suppose I've got to hear your lecture some time or another," j groaned .Marv, with a spasm of sneezing, i 'As the case stands," said Auut j Tabitha, ''I am decidedly sorry for John, j Honey is spent lavishly on medicines and tonics for you?money that should be in- j vested in real estate, or in buying books and plea-ures for you both. Now. instead ' of this, apply common sense to your daily life. If you are downstairs have i your bedroom window open, so as to ! keep the air pure for the night. If you j 1 ka.Ia. A*\An f V?of win/lAnr if l\nf I leave me panvi ujitu uut ? lt ?uv . little, so that your lun^s will have some-; thing better for food than devitalized ' air. You have no open grate3, no chim- j neys to ventfla!eyour rooms with, and in : consequence must keep your attention | very carefully on the necessity forchaDge . in the air." "But, auntie, if I kept opening and j abutting windows like that, I should ! catch cold all the lime." "Not if your body was properly protected by undergarmeuts of wool. Wear . warm vests and thicker gowns and keep j your bouse cooler. Never let the ther- \ momcter get above sixty-eight degrees. . By keeping your house aa warm you j -* make the contrast between the open air i and the house too great, and thus render J yourself in a condition to catch cold. | There is another thiug that will help you ; to resist cold. Fat nourishing, plain food, aud let hot cakes and sweet trash alone. Your body is not well nourished. Your appetite is poor because you live in ; j unwhiiisome air. Take a br'sk walk daily, rain or shine, aud you will soou j get a healthy desire to eat." " i\ nyoi.e would think, to hear you i talk. Auntie, that health depends entirely upou one's own exertions," said > Mary, laughing. ''It ought to,'' replied her aunt, i merrily, ' for certainly some people j think themselves sick by their owa exer- j tions." "Well," siid .Vary, rising, "lam go- I iug to act on your order. If I die of my j efforts you must consider yourself the 1 electric spark that killed me." " Oh. you don't come of a short-lived i * ? * -A m ~l. I lamuy," saw auqi iiiun.ua. us auu uiuuo her way downstairs, " but if I were you I I'd Fooner live than exist.'' With this the good woman disappeared, i Th' y heard the front door shut with a hearty bang. Aunt Tabitha was on her I way to Deacon Margrave's house to see j Mamie, who was down with nervous I prostration. Mary left her place on the sofa as tha ' door closed 011 Aunt Tabitha. Then, being a woman, she went to the mirror to find out if she really did look so forlorn as auntie pictured in her extremely personal remarks. The result was not pleising. Where had her good looks gone? Her countenance was one which depended on health for its attractiveness. As she glared at her reflection, lack lustre hair, hollow cheeks and eyes, she tersely exclaimed: lii ou're a fright!'' ?V>o \xrna .ihlo tr? nof-R that her whole appearance was forlorn. Her collar was | tumbled, and the shawl in which she had wrapped her shivering frame was dowdy. To ao her justice, she was not a vain woman, nor inordinately fond of dress. But John was very particular, very neat, and certainly liked his wife to make herself look charming. Strange to say, the more Mary forgot i her pain and aches, the less violent did j they become; there is something in ' "mind cure" after all, as all sensible j folk well know from personal experience. The day passed ou, finding Mary I very busy doing a variety of household j matte.s that had fallen into arrears late- j ly. She found herself vowing "I am ! not going to be sick any more, if common sense can keep me well." The clock struck six. It found Mary in her room, in a pretty garnet cashmere dre.'s, fastening some dainty ruffles iu the sleeves. It found her, too, con- ! suiting the glass a little anxiously, to j sec if she we e still disagreeable to be- I hold. Aunt Tabitha's scathing remark ' I hate to look ;it an unhealthy person," recuncd to her mind, as she stood doubtfully gazing at the mirror. John came in, bringing a friend with him. Ilis cheery voice was lowered to a whisper as he said : "We shall fiudrny wife ou the sofa asleep, perhaps." "No, you will not," breathed Mary to herself, noticing with a keen pang the dejected tone of the speaker. "She is not here. 1 am afraid she is not so well as usual. I'll go upstairs and see after her when I have lighted the gas." As he turned to leave the room a light foot ran downstairs, and though the owner arrived at the door a little breathless, she was not more s-o than John. Poor Johu! He cxpeeted to see a pale, denres-:ed creature, shivering under a shawl, too inert to eat, or to talk with j interest on any topic but that of her own ailments. Mary gave him a little pinch as she parsed him to welcome Mr. Vane, but he contiuued to stare at the bright apparition as though he hud uever seen his wife look charming before. "Whj, Mrs. Bayne, John told me that you were quite an inval'd " ''Only a cod," said Mary, suddenly overcome by a terridc sneeze. "But I am much better." "What!" cried John, blundering somewhat. "You told me this morning it was in its worst stage." 4 4 Mnncnncn ^lin TTYMl IrtlflW that is hours and hours ago. Corac and have some dianer, I think that is tho bell." At dinuer she farced herself to eat, and found that in enjoying John's amazement her spirits were rapidly improving. She made herself so charming to Mr. Vane th:it he enjoyed every hour of the evening. She asked John to sing, and j played his accompaniment?, to his great j happiucss, for, be it known, that if a j man has a voice he likes to show it off to ! advantage. Will, backed by common sense, finds : a way. Mary's "enjoyment of ill health"' came to an abrupt end. Hei house was kept reasonably cool, her body well nourished and sufficiently clothed to enable her to withstand the eccen- j tricities of the climate. Last, but not j least, she daily took a b:isk walk, rain 01 ; shine, and wore her dresses loose enough ! to give her lungs free play. John grew every year more devoted to his cheerfui, healthy wife. "Common sense versus drugs," says : A ?ir*f ToKithq ? Cranberry Culture. Years ago, when the entire cranberry crop of the country was obtnined from the wild "cranberry bogs," scoops and rakes of a peculiar construction wero u?ed in gathering this fruit. Iu using these implements the vines were usually broken off or pulled out by the roots, aud large quantities of weeds grass, and mud got mixed with the berries, all of which ha l to be pickcd and washed out before the fruit was ready for use or j market. The cranberry rake is still u?ed | on some of the wil 1 plantations, but ! much of the fruit gathered with this im- j pleineut is biriiy bruised, causing it to ! decay much sooner than the hand picked. Gathering by hand is now considered j preferable to any other mode, not only ; as being the lost injurious to the vines, ! but also to secure clean, sound berries. ' Aa tlid hand-rvnlfprl frnif rnmnifmils n ?- ;?7 i | better pr.ee in market than that gathered j with scoop3 and rakes, the extra expenso of gathering it is more than made good to the cultivator.?Xevo Yo. k Sim. Fleet Birds of Passage. There seems to -be no doubt that the "frigate bird," an inhabitant of the tropical seas, is the swiftest bird that flies. It has been impossible to calculate its rate of flight within fixed limits, The pectoral muscles are immensely developed, and weigh nearly one-fourth as much as the whole body of the bird. Another rapid flyer is the common "black swift." It has been computed that the great speed it attains is about 27(3 miles an hour, which, if maintained for about six hours, would carry the bird from its summer retreat in England to Central Africa. Our American "canvas back duck" is commonly computed to be capable of flying 200 miles an hour.?New York Dis/.atcfi. >. y\~'' . .-Lei,. ' ~ CEDAR WOOD. DEXSE FORESTS WHICH SUP-! PLY THE WORLD. felling and Marketing the TreesWhy This Fragrant Timber is Used for Manufacturing Cigar Boxes. Cedar is used for cigar boxes, says a New York correspondent, becausc it is j the most porous wood, is easily dried, and can be cut and nailed better and i quicker than hard wood. But the priucipal reason is becausc of the flavor, ] wh'ch is contained in the essential oil! with which the wood is saturated. The j fluvor of the oil evaporates freely, and j has the most beneficial effect? upon any kind of tobacco. The best cedar?the largest and finest in color and quantity?conies from the ; n-s.,tliA.n fnilf of Mpvicn T.atelv I OV/UbUUiu ^uii uvu>ii. ?m 4>iw...?vt j , the cedar market ha* been very rau-.h depressed, tejuuse man fictuters of clieap cigar bojces have found it practicable to use staiued and grained wood, J in imitation of geuuiuc cedar, for cheap I boxes. The grain is pressed on the j wood while it is running through rollers, 1 and the imitation is nearly perfect, ex-. eept the peculiar aroma. In Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala and the Central American State9, cedar grows in J forests, singly or in clumps of three or j four trees, aud these trees are very often j fifty to 100 yards apart. They grow . frequently in company with mahogany. J The trees being so lar apait it is very troublesome to get them out of thfl i woods after they are cut. In the major- j ity of instances a special path has to be made through the woods, through which i the timber is dragged to a neighboring j creek, the water of which bears it to market. The trees are cut by Indians or halfbreeds, for which they are paid in Mexico and the Central American States, twenty- j fivp fn fiftv rnnts a d;iv. The monteros i who engage these peop c generally man-1 age it so that nothing is left after pur- ' chasing the supplies, tools, etc.; all this i is deducted out of* the Indians' or halfbreeds' pay, and if anything is left the j montero usually gambles it away. The chopping of the tress is generally ; done during the dry season. When the ! rainy season sets in, which is in the fall' months, the creeks and rivers commence ! to swell, and the timber is f'oated down ; to the larger streams, and from there it is sent in rafts to the shippers near the ; seacoast. Advances in the shape of i money, provisions and tools are m dc to j the mouteros by the shippers. C'edar j and mahogany are shipped to New York, ; Havre, Liverpojl and Hamburg on con- J signment. The cedar is now in New York. Pos- ' sibly it has lain two or three seasons i ' ' < ?? k 4-I.A ' wnere it iias uc^'u uui uu u^wuut wc seasons not being rainy enough to float j it to tidewater. It is now in rough logs, 1 the only attempt at dressing done be nij 1 simply to remove the baik and to fa-hion i it into a square shape. How it is made ! into cigar boxes is a process that can be readily imagined. First, the log. if too long, is sawed off j to a required length. Then it is hauled 1 up an inciiiied plane to the mill. Here, i by means of an endless band and veneer i saws it is sawed into one-quarter and three-sixteenths inch iumber. The cut i timber is taken to the drying-room, j where it is placed in racks, where the ' circulation ot' the air is free and sub- ' jected to hot steam until the moisture' of the wood is all dried up. The lumber is then takeu out of the dryingroom and planed. The seasoning and ' planing constitute the most important elements in a good cigar-box. The t mber is nowtinished, trimmed, and the edges smoothed, and it is sawed crosswise into the sides, bottoms and tops of the cigar boxes. The selectors now take hold of the cedar, and pick out the best pieces for the front and the wor<t for the back of the boxes. The - .1- 1 piQCt'3 are now reauy iu uc puu luyeiucr, but they niU3t first receive whatever printing and embossing the cigar manufacturer may require. A ci<jar ! box ordinarily needs four or five lm- j press ions. Besides the brand, which is j stamped and priutcd on the top, there j are legends, 9uch a< "Conchai J-pecials," "Favoritas" and similar distinguishing j words printed on the sides. The district internal revenue number of the cigar factory using the box and the (juantity j is impressed, according to law, on the j bottom of the box. The pieces are nailed into hooks first j ?that is, an eud and side piece are put! together. The hooks are joined and the ' box is ready for the top and bottom. The ! latter is nailed on and a muslin hinge is j pasted on the former, which secures it: the bo\. From the nailing room the boxes are taken to the pastiug room. Here girls paste the cdires, labels, etc., and the box j is stood outside to dry. The box is now j ready to receive cigars. Sometimes fancy 1 touches in the way of varnishing and putting on fancy paper are desired, but I the oidinary ce.lnr cigar box receives the j treatment I have described. When it is Vint n ninnr Knv fulfills its mission the moment it receives its cigars, and must be dotroyed, by law, as soon I as it becomes empty, the number of i boxes used in this country, .with the] progress of the cigar industry and the I law prescribing them as the only packing for cigars, it almost equals the number of hair pins manufactured. ? C-hkano Times. A Rhinoceros in n Rage. "An infuriated rhinoceros,said Mr. l.ohsc, a hunter of wild aninals in Africa, "is literally 'blind with rage." He puts his head down, and runs in a bee line, kno.king down everything that gets in his way. If there was a stone wall in front of him he would smash right i up against it. Some of my Homrahn hun- J ters wounded a female rhinoceros one I day, when the brute ran off. The men i were securing her young when she sud- J denly stopped and rus'icd toward them, j It was such an unheard of thing for one | of the animals to do that the hunters ; were taken completely by surprise. One of them was caught by her horn and thrown high in the air. He dropped to the ground a corpse, for the rhinoceros had disemboweled him."?New York Sun. A Case of Hard J.nek. Manager Brown, of the Witherald & Brown ifclling Mill, at Find!ay, Ohio, thinks that luck is dead against him. He was the victim of a most peculiar accident the other day. He drew $500 in bills from bank, and placing the package in an outside pocket of his coat started on the railroad track to walk to his mill. A train passed him. and from the smokestack of the engine n spark of fire was thrown into his pocket, alighting upon the package of money, causing it to burn. When Brown discovered and quenchcd the fire it had eaten clear through the centre of the bills, leaving only two ends of each bill unconsumed. It is the opinion of bank officials that enough of the money remains to be redeemed in bills. ? Washington Star. ' An Extraordinary Chinese Funeral. The most extraordinary Chinese funj eral ever seen in America took place in I San Francisco recently. The deceased was I oo Muck, a Chinese merchant, who thirty-five years ago founded the Gsee [ Kung Tong I.odge of Free Masons in that city. The general impression among the thousands of American people who gazed wonderingly at the funeral procession w.is that it was a pageant of one of the powerful societies of highbinders. American Free Masons who witnessed the ceremonies, however, recognized in the display a formal funeral of a brother Mason. ]Masonry has spread among the Chinese so that there are now, it appears, 18,000 members in California. Delegations had come from all parts of the Pacific coast to attend the funeral. The procession took an hour and a half to pass. A band oi Chinc-:c Masons in long blue gowns with long black swords iu their hands and bands of red, white and blue ribbons tied across their foreheads and streaming down their backs led the way. Then came a company of several hundred ( hinesc soldiers in bright blue tunics and carrying short broadswords and highly ornamented shields. A band of cavalry in red, green and orange uniforms, with quivers of arrows and loug double-edged s-w/irds slung across their backs, followed. Then came in long array some foot-soldiers, spearsmen, and warriors with broad battleaxes. warriors on foot, mounted warriors riding with short stirrup-leathers, numerous bands of terrible Chinese music in hacks, aud finally the hearse drawn by four black horses. On top of the hearse was a georgeous catafalque of paper and tinsel in the Chinese style. The coflin bore upon its sides the square and compass, with the letter "G" in the centre. The standard-bearer who preceded the hearse carried the Masonic emblem. J The preliminary ceremonies were an Masonic. Precisely a? the bell oa St. Mary's Cathedral, contiguous to Chinatown, had announced midday the Deputy Grand Master gave the word that the hour of high 1*2 had arrived. On this the officers of the grand lodge lifted the casket. The display of corn, oil, and the pot of incense, with other signs only known to the craft, were fully understood by American Masons in the great crowd of spectators. The blowing of the trumpet by the high priest and the incantut'ons, with certain signs well known in the higher degrees of Freemasonry, showed that the Chine e have a knowledge of a craft that would gain them admission to an American lodge if they only understood our language. The display astonished American Masons, many of whom followed the strange procession to the cemetery, where the dead master was interred in the ortho/]/?? \l.inrfnlinn atvlo llfllinPrS And VAU1 ...WUjjWWv... -vj... _____ I adges of the mourners being burned in a great bonfire at the gates, while a liberal fea9t of roast pork, poultry and drinkables of many kinds was spread j before the tomb for the spirit of the departed to entertain his friends. As each carriage load of moumeis passed out from the ccmetery, Chinese stationed at j the gates handed them money, while dimes and nickels were filing into the ! fire to establish the financial credit of j the departed in the otner world. Alto- I gcther the pageant was indescribably | strange. ? Chieago Tribune. A Rat Tail Supper. James Wallace, a wealthy Irish farmer, is to day, perhaps, says a letter from Shawnee Mound, Ind., to the Chicago Hernl'(, more respected by all his neighbors than any other man iuthut district, simply because his name was attached j to the following, found posted on all the J school houses and prominent gate posts: I Take notice: Tha rat must go. The farmers have been tormented by those pes'.y animals long enough and the enr for pro ection is abroad in the land. Therefore, be it known that on Tuesday night a week hence there will be a supper given at Pin Hook J_, ?rlll Ka school noust?, 1110 piuferai UL nmwu "? ? uu given to the man, woman or child who brings the largest number of rat tails. It would be expressing it mildly to say that the farmers were pleased when they road the above. The scheme whs 90 plausible to them that they were almost wild with excitement, lat-tail societies were formed among the farming youths 1 and various plans of extermination dis- | cussed. In a few nights the campaign ! be^an. The scene was an exciting one. j Dotted here and there for miles around one could see the lanterns and torch- , lights bobbing up and down among trees j and hedges, while the frequent reports of pistols and sho'guns sounded to the! listener like skirmishers at war. When j a single family turned out, the father aud sons wielded the weapons of destruction,while the women folks brought up the rear, armed with a pair of scissors 1 each, with which to clip the tails from j the dead and dying, and it nviv be added j that a large number of rats were running about minus their tails. Was the "rat tail supper" a success? To the tunc of several thousand tails, and on the night of the supper it was an amusing sight to see the Cupid stricken farmer boy, in company with his best girl, walking arm and arm into the school house with a bunch of rat tails in cach of their hands. The school house was packed full of country people, and rat tails was the leading topic of conversation. !-'ome of the tails had been cut short and some long, thus affording an insight to the manner in which they had been clipped by the excited women in their great hurry to carry away the trophies of their labor. Previous to the announcement of supper a general handwashing took place in a large basin prepared for the occasion. No one can wonder at this after the handling of so many rear projections. I Then came the supper- oysters?after , which the ta k of counting the iaus : began, and lasted tor over an hour, disturbed frequently by the clapping of hands ns some prominent farmer's number exceeded that of his neighbor. Amid the shouts of every one in the school house the result was announced in favor of James Wallace and family?the man who had carried the scheme through? and then followed congratulations from all sides until that gentleman's aim was almost shaken from its socket. The rat has lost his hold on Mriwnee prairie, due ! to the famous "rat tail supper. The World's Coal Output. The following table shows the total output of coal throughout the world for the calendar years for which statistics are available, except the figures of the United States for 1387. Gross tons of 2240 pounds are used in giving the statistics of Great Britain, the United States, Russia and other countries, and metric tons of 2204 pounds for all the other continental countries of Kurope: Counlrie*. Tons, 1886. Great Britain 1,413 i;x,010,103 United States 102,143,883 106,548,329 Germany 78,206,388 75,627.766 France 19,510,530 20,014,597 Belgium 17,846,000 17,2.53,144 Austria- Hungary.... 17,393.819 18,352,623 Russia 4,500,000 4,650,000 Spain 945,904 1,000,000 Nova Scotia 1,352,205 1,502,011 Other countries. 7,000,000 7,000,000 Totals 408.634,047 409,407,553 ? .. .. - - r- -r ' - ' s j BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. A Shining Society Liffht?A Freak of Nature ? Robbing River Banks ? Her Strict Sense of Propriety, Etc., Etc. A pair of shiny boots he wore, Likewise a shiny hat, And eyed the damsels at the door Who came out from the mat No answering glance they gave him back. As swiftly past they flew, Because like nat and boots, alack, His coat was shiny too. ?Boston Courier. A Freak of Nature. Timpkins?"I say, Jones, tho3e trousers of yours are mighty shabby." Jones (who is sensitive on the subject and replies with some asperity)?"Well, anyway, th.ey cover^a warm heart!"? i Judge. .. Robbing River Banks. "I see in the paper," remarked Mrs. Snaggs, "that some river thieves have been arrested." "Yes," replied her husband, listlessly. "It's a good thing they are arrested. Think how Pittsburg would suffer if they had stoien the Allegheny or the Ohio."?Pittsbui g Chronicle. Her Strict Sense of Propriety. On the archery ground. Miss Prim? "Did you hit the masculine bovine optic, I Mi. Gubbins?" "Beg J ardon?" Small brother Prim to the rescue: "Aw. she wants to know if you hit the bull's eye, Mr. Gub., only she's tootoncy to talk p!ain English. Cheese yournonoonca Rno " T)nnon7/o The Instrument Was Shocked. First Telegraph Operator?"What's the matter with your tnavhine, Jack? It acts as if it were going to tear itself off the table?" Second Telegraph Operator?"Oh, it's that fool fellow in Washington." "What's he doing?" "He's sending the proceedings of the woman's rights gathering there, and he just now gave the name of the president as Susie Anthony!''?Chi ago Mail. A Chance to Show Attention. "Do you think, Miss Ethel," he inquired, tremulously, "that I could see , your father this evening?" "I hardlythink so, Mr. Lastyn," she , replied with a soft and not unbecoming blush. "Papa is in the library with Mr. Getthere, and I expect he will need me, too, in a few minutes. But I am sure that any other evening papa would be . more than happy to have you call on ; him. He is always pleased when young people showjiiim attention." ? In a Contemplative Mood. " Why so contemplative, papa mine? " said t^e beautiful Miss Wubash to her father, the eminent Chicago pork packer; "i* your mind upon business carcs intent? " "Yes, dear,"'he replied, pushing her away gently; "and you mustn't disturb me now. I have perfected a system by which I can make silvered pigtail favors for the german, and I am trying to think out somelhing that will prevent the grunt from running entirely to I waste."?New York Sun. A Waste of Raw Material. Mr. Thrippair Bacque (who is showing ; Miss Terrie Hutt the sights of the town)? " Look at those seals, Miss Hutt: Don't you think they're sorter int'resting? See 'em flop about!" Miss Term Hutt (sternly)?"I think they're an awful waste of material, if you wanter know, Mr. Bacque. I calculate there's a sacque and a half in each one of those insects, and now they're naturalized: I don't s'pose there's a cent cf duty on 'em. Where did you say the monkeys' cage wa3?.''?Puck. A Sarcastic Order Literally Obeyed. A missionary once took a Hindoo coun- ' try lad as a servant, when going on a boating journey. As there are no lava'ories on board these country boats, one's ablutions have to be performed in a very | simple manner, an ordinary bucket serving as a wash-bowl. Tbe boy was ordered to bring some water, and in doing so, happened to spill a little on the floor. I 'Why don't you throw it all over me?" j askccl tne missionary, jocosely. "Ana, ' i said the lad, and immediately, to his master's astonishment, took up the pail' and emptied it over that gentleman's ' head. The boy could not possibly un- J derstand the humor in the speech, and j was astonished to find that words are ; not always used to express the same idea. Whore He Drew the Line. "I dropped into a down-town hatstore last week to have my hat ironed," says a writer in the New York Toicn To})i>*. "A gentleman having just purchased a silk hat, one of the clerks had taken it to the inner room to have it shaped to his head. While he stood bareheaded awaiting his tile, another gentleman entered, and, mistaking him for one of the clerics, said as he handed him his hat, which was an old one"': ' Want to have it ironed." The gentleman accepted the situation humorously, and taking the hat to the back o.fice. called out: "Justiron that hat, please!' Presently his new hat was brought out to him, and while he was just adjusting it, customer number two camc up briskly and said: "You need not try it on; it looks all right; give it to me." " Well, my good man,'' was the somewhat sarcastic retort, "I don't mind being mistaken for a hat clerk, but when it cornea to giving up my new hat for that old campaigner I have just passed in, the line has got to be drawn." Larry Jerome's Scarf Pin. A week or so ago. just as Larry Jerome, < the New York millionaire patron of outdoor sports, was leaving home to come | over to Washington, he stopped in at j Macy's and bought a handsome solid gold. scarf pin, set with a beautiful sapphire, for which he paid tho regulatiou price of $3. On the handsome Jerome this pia loomed ur> like a gem of purest ray ; serene, and he flattered him-elf that he ; was giving the jewelry a great send-off, ' And tnlrinrr in .all nhservprq hv its <?lit- I ter. When he reached Washington and 5 Chamberlin's the first man he met was John Hoey, and the first thinghe noticed on Mr. II. was a fine diamond scarf pin. "Larry's mind was soon made up and he began to "approach'' his friend, the millionaire. "That's a fine pin you are wearing," he said, with innocent confidence. "Yes," remarked Mr. H., "and I ol>-1 serve that you are wearing one that isn't any slouch." Larry blushed and went at him again. "Yes," he said, "that's a fine article, but I like yours better in some respects than my own." "Oh, I don't know," said Hoey, evasively." "How'll you trade?" i -. v ' fsj? '^T; |X2f W' % <: % " % "Well," hesitated Larry, shrewdly, "I am not very anxious, but if you feel like it, I'll go for you for friendship's sake and take the chances." Each one assured the other of the great bargain he was getting, and finally the pins were exchanged. That night the two friends went to the theatre, and Larry, fearing that Hoey might want to play "Injun gift," wore his new scarf pin in his pocket, so his ftiend wouldn't sec it and be reminded of the past. "Gf course," thought Larry, "Hoey wouldn't wear anything but the best, and I'm just in to the extent of a $50 scarf pin." The next day Hoey left, and Lnrry was in high feather and went to John Chamberlin to tell him his luck. "By Jove!" he said to John, "I worked Hoey in great shape," and he proceeded to give him all tne particulars. John tumbled into a chair and fairly yelled. harry joined Kim ana ronrea even louder than John did. "Wh.it are you laughing at?" asked John, finally. "At the way I worked Hoey, of course,"said Larry, in some surprise. "I ain't," said John. "I'm laughiug at the way he worked you." Worked me?" exclaimed Larry, getting cold. "Of course," said John. "Didn't you trade him a$3 pin;" "Yes, and got a $50oue for it." "Xot much, you didn't. Hoey told me all about it, and that pin you've got cost him just fifty cents, and he didn't try to beat the dealer down a single cent, either." Larry was so indignant that he bet C'haniberlin a basket of champagne he didn't know anything about jewelry, and then taking him out to a jeweler's, the question was put to the expert as to the ^ - r i.t_ _ _ vaiue ui me piu. ' Well," he said, after a critical examination, "I don't know what it is worth to you, but if I were buying I'd give about twenty-five cents a quart for pins of that grade." Larry col!a(.ssd, and now he is looking for Hoey with a club. ? Washington Cri ic. The Australian Aborigines. The character of the Australian aboriginal, when studied, shows traits that his white oppressors might be proud to possess. His faithfulness is remarkable, and he has been known to stay with his sick master on the desert plains of interior Australia till death had taken them both, though his own safety might have been secured with ease. Their power of endurance i* such that they have been Irnnwn travel over 125 miles in twentv four hours, and be ready to move on if required. Their keen power of scent and observation is now appreciated by the police, and woe be to the criminal whose track they are upon! Not a disturbed leaf nor an Overturned stone will escape their keen eyes. last November three desperate bush rangers escaped from the jail at Perth, Western Australia. They were familiar with the bush, and had hours' start, yet with the assistance of the "black trackers'" the escapers were in the hands of the police within twenty-four hours. But the "black fellow" will not work; if any duty i3 required of him, and the idea is impressed upon him that it is only play, he is ready and willing to do it, no matter how arduous the task may te. He will ride horseback all day after cattle aud stay awake all night- to watch them, if he thinks it is fun. but let him fiud it is his work he is doing and he will take to the bush at short notice, nor will he return to the same master. He asks no pay; clothes he does not need; a bite to eat and his satisfaction is complete. It is the fashion of the Queensland ladie3 to have a little black boy for a pet. Tricked out in gaudy c'othea the little fellows take the place of the pet poodle of European society. ? These boys are usually taken from the "Gins" by force, but as it i3 nobody's business the crime is never noticed.? San Francisco Alta. Making Cork Bottle-Stoppers. "Cork has to be prepared before it can be manufactured into bottle corks," said a dealer to a reporter for the New York Mail and Exprest recently. "How* is this done?" "The bark which is intended for corks i3 kept in a damp place. "When taken into the shop to be worked it is cut by the first workman into strips, the width of which corresponds to the length of the future cork. A second workman cuts these strips into squares, suited in | size to their diameter. The squares, I strung, are plunged into boiling water to make them swell out. They are then stored in a cool place and kept constantly moist by sprinkling till they pass into the hands of the cork-master. He applies them m succession, giving them a rotary motion, to the edge of a widebladed knife, drawing them at the same time slowly along its length, and by skillful manipulation transforms the square into a round cork. This is the French method. In other countries the workmen handle the knife in a different manner.'' "Are many corks made in this country ? *' 4 4 Vaa n rrroof mnnv HTriPV fmTi* fttlfc 1">V ? G-, a givai "-"""J ?- -J | a machine. Only the best are made by hand. To obtain a good cork it is essential that it3 axis, a3 it is cut from the bark, be parallel with the axis of the tree on which the bark grew, but the broad, flat corks have to be cut perpendicular to the axis of the tree. A good workman can make 1000 corks a day." The Struwberry's Name. Over four huudrcd years a?o "Strawberries !" was a cry of the London streets; and the garden of the Bishop of Ely at Holboru was famous for its tine growth of the lucious berry. Its name is an Anglo-Saxon one, supposed to be derived from its straw-like stem, but quite as possibly it is derived from the circumstance of its growing uinid what was called straw, or from the custom of stringing and braiding the long-3tcmmed berries into a biinch of straws, as some of the countrv folk do to-day. Beside our own - - ?if .3 numberless varieties 01 trie same wuu berry, cultivated out of all acquaintance with its parent stock, there is an East Indian variety with showy yellow flowers, valuable only for ornament, as the fruit is worthless, and a charming Chilian species with thick dark leaves, and a berry sometimes of a pale rose color and sometimes of a rich creamy tint, and often as large as a hen's egg. ' The Chautauqua Salute.* Sunday night, when Mr. Burdick arose to begiu his address, the ladies, in accordance with a preconcerted plan, gave him a Chautauqua salute. Every lady in the house waved her handkerchief, and the effect was beautiful. We didn't suppose there were so many clean white handerchiefs in town. From the parquet, the circle, the gallery and the stage fluttered the dainty fabrics, giving eloquent though silent evidence of the warm place Mr. Burdick has won in the hearts of the ladies of the village.? Dansville (2V. F.) Advertiser. .V- ' '* *- T v/- V. . -\f ' v.\- \ ! - - W& r "j 4 CtSIOUS FACTS. The world takes one ton of pills every week. *' Muskets were invented and first used in England in 1421. Darius, of Persia, at the battle of the Granictis, had 600,000 men. It takes eight hundred full blown rosea to make a tablespoon ful of perfume. A man in Missouri claims that he can * tell what a person is thinking about by the way the person winks. George R. Cowherd, of Greensburg, Kentucky, has a dog that crowa for day in company with the roosters. Two well-known firms in Kingston, New York, recently had a lawsuit over forty-five cents, and both oogaged law-yers. The English call an elevator a " lift," and the French call it a "help," while, the Scotch put in their oar by referring to it as a " drop." 1 UC YYUIU. UlOUUlb 10 lltuiu IUI l n 4.V.U baked/' because originally that was the raode of entirely depriving it of moisture to insure its keeping. "Johnny-cake" was originally called *' "journey cake'' from the facility with which it could be made, and its value as a ration in traveling. A philanthropist in London has established a spectacle mission, where poor printers, tailors, shoemakers and seam- : stresses have their e^es tried, and obtain spectacles for little or nothing. One of the most enterprising of the newspapers of Buenos Ayres is edited by Winslow, the Boston forger. Bince he became a citi/en of the Argentine Republic he is said to have amassed a fortune of $ij00,000. The smallest mite of humanity ever born in Pennsylvania was given birth to by Mrs. Robbins, of Throop, Lackawanna county, recently. It is a female child, and, it is said that a finger ring could easily be slipped over its head. In the city of Mexico, not long since, iiiey irieu a mxiu a coinage ujr suuvuu^ him up in a room with six rattlesnakes. At the eadof six hours they opened the ioorand he was standing on a window (ill. and the snakes had fought and killed each other. A schoolboy of Insterbnrg, Germany, recently wrote to the Emperor of China asking for some Chinese postage stamps for his collection. A few days ngo the Chinese Embassy in Berlin forwarded to aim a letter from the Emperor enclosing the stamps which he desired. A Chicago street-car conductor with a tast for gardening ekes out his modest salary by raising mushrooms - in the cellar of his house. So far this month the beds have yielded an averege of four ; pounds of mushrooms to every nine ia wjo/Io aala fnr pij URIC lv, t Lj UUU iUVlC W 1WUUJ WUIV *V4 them ia them in the market. Mr. John S. Wilson, an old St. Louis - . locomotive engiaecr, has in his possession a silver dime of the coinage of 1837 * which was presented to hira as a token of friendship by Andrew Jackson just before his inauguration as President. It has the name of the donor, the date of the presentation and the name of the recipient engraved upon it. Printed matter is measured by "ems," the letter "m" being the unit. The following compilation is by Professor A. P. Lyon: The Bible contains 8,500,000 "ema," Webster's Dictionary 20,000,000, Chambers's Encyclopedia 58,000,000, Johnson's Cyclopaedia 56,000,00'), Appleton's Cyclop idia 60,000,000 and Encyclopedia Britannia 110,000,000 4'ems." The common people of Hamburg rarely eat meat, it is ao dear. Soups are made in great variety, including one from beer. The poorer kinds of fish only are cheap. Economy is not confined to the poorer people. Servant girls are generally allowed for the week their loaf of bread and quarter or half-pqund of butter or lard, and are only permitted to use a certain quantity at each meal, the rest being locked up with the family provisions till the next meal. The Art of Boning Fish. "After all, this is just about the finest fish that swims," said a Qilincy (Mass.) market dealer to a Globe-Demoera' correspondent as he laid upon the scales a big shad that made the indicator iumn around to the seven Dound w* j r - * notch. "So far as flavor is concerned," replied the customer, "it is certainly uneqnaled; but the bones are a serious drawback." The fishmonger smiled. "If you don't like the bones,'" he remarked, "why don't you take them out before you cook the shad." "You are joking. It wouid not be possible without pulling the fish to shreds." "You are quite mistaken, I assure you. If you like, I will bone this one for you. Watch me closely, and next time you will be able to do it for yourself. You see, I have already spread the fish out flat, as if for broiling, by dividing the back with a knife from head to tail. After disemboweling it I cut off the tail and head, and then inserting my knife as carefully as possible beneath the backbone, I disect it out as the doctors, would say, from the nrratlior wi:h the ribs IJVfOUj VVgV?M?> ? and smaller bones attached to it. If this is properly done nearly the whole of the bony system will have been removeda when the belly and other useless portion, are cut away. Nothing now romainse you perceive, but the edible part of thf shad, ready for the grirdiron. For, o. course, boued shad must be broiled, Scarcely a scrap of meat has been thrown away, and all the bones are taken out, save only two or three rows of little ones " that can be readily withdrawn from between the longitudinal flakes. The shad's skeleton is far more elaborate in structuie than Ikat of any other fish, and the difficulty of performing this operation upon it is proportionally greater. With a mackerel or cod there i.s comparatively little trouble. Here is your shad now, sir, without a bone in it. It is a delicacy. I will venture to say, that you have never seen upon anybody's table." Hunting Woodeliucks With Terrapin., A mau in Webster county, W. Va., baa a novel way of catching woodchucks. He first c&tchcs aland teirapin and bores a hole in its sh~ll ju?t over the tail. Thorough this noie no runs a oau oi candlcwick, leaving the ball about two ieet from the terrapin. When he w.ints a woodchuck for dinner he takes the terrapin in his pocket to the hole in which the woodchuck has taken up his permanent residence. When there he puts the terrapin in the inouth of the hole, saturates the ball with kerosene, applies a lighted match and in the turtle goes, followed by the ball of fire. The owner then stands at the other end, or exit, and awaits progress. In a very short time the woodchuck appears at the mouth of the hole in a puzzled fraaie of mind. A sharp blow from a club winds up the woodchuck's existence. The terrapin is always close behind his prey; he is picked up, the burning kerosene extinguished, and the hunter i3 ready for another. ? Chicago Ilerald. -