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VOLUME VI. LAKE PROVIDENCE, EAST CARROLL PXISH, LA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1893. NO. 10
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S Mxis.s Ha- be
1CKe l it true th
lInate .Morris, looking up into hbei
ovuear face with eyes which expressed
a lti-and death earnestness.
l "Why, who on earth told you, pet?".
"Never mind who told me, Dick. Is
"W'eIl, he did make some suggestion
_ the kind; but I don't know that the 4
Sweol have me. Everyone isn't as 4
plesase as you, little one." I
c'Ak-:rIIl" she glroaned. "I-- Is
gi Ote you up, I think, unless I
i was for year happiness." h-a
give i me up atall?" be a
but her reply was
et sand would if I wass eoe
*s for your good," the little a
with such an expreselon
in her face as convinced
g was quite Quiaotic
a I to convince you that
Disk asked, scratching his
ith dadrll expression of per
Syour father will never C
o be lads out not only that
take Was Hackett but that t
Sh~rih~t btoken it to him yet," T
Ise~swered lightly. "I'm an on- st
S 3abow, ndk like to keep my little
Wb to myself as lon as I can."
. As he spoke be lifted "his little th
- ble" elan off the ground with the
. rm which was sound her waist, and
Sset b& then gently down. iesr little
sess sad lfitness had for him a eharm re
emplementsry to that which his great
sie and sitrmgth had for her.
S "e' hiear of it and disinherit you,
Dick."
'I Idon't thik so. My father is not
always like what you asee of him. le
sfore e fhellI aLexpectedly for the tb
Sproperty e the most generous of
Seu; but hi sudden rlehes, which
- e :.' him socially, ruined him mowal- e
ly. He beeame suspicious, cynical and
. iserly, with, however, the strangest in
oeeasional reversleoa to his old gne
eas self. Now, if I caught him in one
of these luid. intvals and confessed S
9utgs smea1to him then, I believe
e' n only approve of it, but give aI
r epgum down for or remigration
i : ut he wen't hear of It from you, to
- S c. Gilbert will tell him."
"Gilbert? He doesn'tknow of ithim
slt"L"
S "Yes, he does; he told *s ,Jackson
of t"
"Phew! He'll eertainly gnt a spoke
Is my wheel in that ase!r'Dick ax
claimed with tasuppresable oneaer.
"P' better be beforehsa-wlth him,
Minlie, and make a elesa beastof it
Sat ase to my father," he added.
S When, however, Dick harried.home
to make this oofesasiona to hi father he
found that his brother Gilbert had been
b elrehabd with him.
"'.. , sir," his father crled, the .mo
' i. he ostered the stuay, nsadhee
:-be eed even open his lips %" sir,
I'm to cogratulate you apon your en
as. _ seenttoe Mtia M.~ts Very good;
' 9 very sol I shall it Sled to make
preclsely the same a nttement in her
c o*tstht I pseaomp to make Uf you
had matrite Mass "ettt "
H' ere Disk slts amsed. It's
N ae atast ye:rw mo at ."lret I r
*xe .dtos si ea yosu. frta eeqe
iass Hckea'U, sad now I premise to
setate o.see atorte ,qus - to
orris 't hs' fir, sit, I hoeg
Iaed , -wit a .aroeb, au ue eagh. .p
"gtsin ais eiho gnm· s pri to help D
ely these who usmed o help"k
st's -ris • , ayL", y, w.. isk bt. -I
,.'In_ hard alran t._al - pI-s en
h prudi, sit- Lt. hMe 1 emet
~. ask yesu 'eaem
.faqrum 4g ber abi s
bee liagh up(atis5)m
the more the more trouble I bring you.
Good night, darlingl"
But she made no reply, or he heard
none. He walked away, thinking of
the inexhaustible patience of her
love, which answered to every demand
upon it a thousand fold more than was
asked for. It was not till toward
morning after a sleepless night that it
suddenly occurred to him to interpret
last night's assurance that all would
be well by her earlier assurance that
she could and would give him up if she
were convinced that it was for his good.
This thought no sooner struck him
than he sprang out of bed, dressed him
self hurriedly and made all haste as the
gray winter dawn was breaking to
wards Minnie's house. He had a sick
ening misgiving from what he knew of
the girl-of her resolute and self-sacri
Icing spirit-that she meant to avert
his ruin by effacing herself. It was
what she had done.
Upon reaching the house he found
her already gone-no one knew whither
--leaving a farewell letter for her
aunt, with whom she lived, and a line
also for Dick:
"DeAa OLD DIcx: I love you too much to
ri you. Do not try to fnd me. You cannot;
e it would make no difference if you could.
I e sot go sway because I fear myself-be
mais I doubt my power to keep my resolution
-kebecause I wish to spare you sand myself
a lle pain I can Won't you now believe that
I loe you better than myself?--oh! a thousan
ttlibetter! Ever, my own dearest Dick, yours.
*"MINxla
"Idisnot thinx your father will press you to
marry Miss Heakett now; I could not bear
that."
UpOn reading this Dick rushed off in
a feisy to the station to find that she
had gene an hour earlier to Liverpool.
He took the next train thither and
spents week in that city seeking her
with the help of every possible agency
and in every possible place-in the $ity
or at the shipping offices-without
coming pon the faintest trace of her.
After a week's exhaustive search for
bim vain he returned home tovent all
the fury of his despair upon his father.
This week, during which he hardly
slept by_ night, or rested for a single
moment by day, had upset him almost
to the paoatead pitch of insanity; and
the reproaches he poured out in full
flood upon his father were nothing less
than frenzied. Imagine his amazement
when the sid man merely and meekly
replied *em: "Well, well, Dick, I
was wi about the girl; but it's not
too late to mt matters right."
"I'm sorry;I spoke so unbecomingly
to you, father," Dick stammered,
amazed and ashamed.
"You had: some provocation, Dick,
but I'll maim you amends by flnding
the girl."
Dick shook his head despondently.
"You think not? I promise you to
hear from her in a week if she's in
England; and within a month if she's
in America."
"Do you mean by addressing an ad
vertisement to ýer in all the papers,
sir?'
"No, no; that tyuldn't answer at all.
She'd never belle that I had come
round, and woulde sure it was only a
trap of yours."
"But how?" gaspT Dick, in breathless
hope.
"You'll see," ch led the old man,
and nothing more uld be be induced
to say on the sub
Dick was perpl to bewderment
by. his father's c of ' lind and
mood, and sudden sealous interest
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"so I'M t CO xNGRATULA o"o
in the match which a week hd 4
opposed so vehemently and d
ly. Was his conversion due to i
viction of Minnie's ehivalrous o
Dick, appealing to him in a
fit-in one of those odd.rek s
th generosity of his youth,o
Diek had spoken? It wasdne la
to thise, in part to Mias Backett?'s
in annaoeing her engagement to
ourto-npon finding that ltsm.
made free with her name as thedi
the rival who drove Mtnie fe
ield-eand is part-in great .ert'
the decoest f t la the at UUt
heerL ovsare orUme The
change whieh s week's aei7 i
made in his son's bhoe-'agiagt"h
year-helped his ather to rea s
unreasonableness of the aewIS
had demanded of him so.
Besides and above allth
nolea appaled to him
in hd. present mood. Smea I
dertaklag to Sad her, whsL he
withont quitting his stady. t
Withia a week Dick did
her. fiah wrote fee. a1
ek bad gaoe tls Ltverpob pe a
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a.
'HE POST OF:ICE CORRIDOR.
The Same Seemes May be Witaessed LI Al
most Any reder! .laMdi.
"A pen, please?"
"Just over there, lady."
This unceasing question and tireless
response is heard daily at the post
office stamp window. No better place
to study human nature in its various
phases can be found than the waiting
room of a large depot or the corridor of
a first-class or presidential postofice.
Everybody patronizes the postoffice;
it has no opposition and does not'ad
vertise its wares. The Italian ditch
digger buys the same class of goods
that the rich lady in costly silks, who
is driven to the entrance of the office in
her coupe, purchases. On an average
only two persons out of every twenty
five pass the Utica post office without
entering it. As a lounging place
the long corridor is an immense
success. In the winter several large
radiators manage to keep the
corridor comfortably warm; men and
boys with more time on their hands
than money in their pockets, stand by
the hour in the corridor looking at va
eancy through the windows. In the
summer the attendadbe is even better
than during the cold weather.
Not all the people in this city have
their mail delivered by the carrier, but
pnrpbeely have it leftat the office; this,
for reasons of their own. How fre
quently is heard the remark: "I've got
to go to the post office to see if there'
any mail for me." Many persons call
at the office for mail when they no
more expect a letter than they expect
the delivery clerk to hand them a gold
bond. The attitudes of the post office
pen users furnish quite a study for the
observer. A lady with a long embroid
ered wrap reaching to and trailing on
the floor approaches the desk; the large
square envelope of Irish linen paper
denotes that the letter was written at
home, but brought to the post office to
be addressed and mailed. She reads
the contents just once more, after
which she seals it and drops it in the
box. The same pen that a moment ago
was held by the fair white hand of the
lady just mentioned, is now grabbed
by a stout, stocky-built young man.
His coat and hair are short; he has had
the smallpox, and he chews tobacco
It is hard work for him to write. A
peep over his shoulder disclose the first
paragraph of his letter, which has
taken him seven minutes to write:
"Deer bill. Here .1 am busted. This
Town is up Good for us people oni
how."
A man with high-water pants, a chin
whisker and a general get up of strict
economy next comes to the desk. He
is writing on a postal-card, for he has
just learned that it costs as much to
send a letter to Deerfield as it does to
send one to Oregon, so he buys a card.
A thick-set Italian comes next to the
desk: he glances at the ink wvell and
pens, then he grins; it's too much for
him, he can't write, so he goes to
the delivery';window and asks one of
the clerks to write the address
for him. He is bluntly told "No; go
out and get someone else to write it."
After he has stuck a five-cent stamp on
his letter, it being intended for Italy,
he pockets the letter and goes out to
fnd somebody who will write the
superscription for him. Curiously
enough, a Hebrew comes in a few min
utes later with a letter which he, too,
couldn't address; he puts the same
question to the clerk at the window,
gets the same answer and goes the
same way that the Italian did-to find
someone who would write the address
on his letter.
Another of the chyacters in the
daily poet office drama, is the man who
after he has seen the carrier go by his
house or store goes to the office and in
quires if there isn't any mail for him on
carrier so-and-so's desk? The clerk
tells him that the carriers when they
leave the office take all their mail
with them unless it is s pack
age too large to carry, in which case
they leave a notice to the person for
whom the package is intended to come
to the oioo and get it. For the benefit
oIthose who are in the habit of using
the-large size psl eaI s with a one
cent stamp afized thereto, to send to
forein ontries, it may be said such
-- as are not forwarded. They are too
Sre. The postal regulations say that
noard over six inches in length and
thite Lnches in width can be sent to
ISuropean eountriea. For this purpose
a internatimonal card is provided,which
eam s two cents The smaller sire
pastel card, with a one-cent stamp at
teeed, are also maillable. The Italians
e mare foreign letters than any
er astionality, the English follow
next, then the Germes. The Welsh
aend4he least of alL--Uttica Oberver.
EVERY-DAY ETIQUETTE.
7earmhseO abe umerved itnwees Has
Barutsids ad wives in speasking of
friends and asequaintances
bmerve a certain formality.
teelms bottom when the
emeu "he' or "rshe" is uned
e- ane for which these
[ld i auge, to be sure, being
Stoebfrfhe-w-y ad primi
of the auntry, is mnever
S*" be werth aeMelag.
hua-bonasha woma
skirt remaking to her
- .n the marks of
Sa_ n r herar
to Se r sekrwocds
"Tia," never as
the iegsber
- tdhewequtu
*ltii hsle8
pulously speaking of him with respeet,
as well as addressing him with courte
ey, his position in the social world
being helped or hindered by her prac
tice in this regard.
If the man have an official title, as
colonel, judge, or governor, doctor or
profesfor, his wife will use that title In
mentioning him in places and on occa
sions and in the presence of persons
whenever or to whom this usage will
be in good taste.
Equally a husband invariably speaks
of "my wife," or "Mrs. Brown," when
quoting his better half, as good hus
bands so frequently do.
She is not Mary or Jennie or Margaret
to anybddy except her own people, and
It is bad form to make the outside world
familiar with her sacred home name.
To children a father naturally speaks
of his wife as your "mother," and in
affectionate families itis quite common
and by no means improper for parents
to address one another in the hearing
of the little ones as "mamma" anad
"papa."
Every-day etiquette is trampled un
der foot in grim and undemonstrative
households, where the pleasant custom
of daily greetings is unfortunately
much of the time in abeyance. Where
a grant does duty for a genial good
morning, or an inaudible murmur isall
that is heard when there should be a
tender good-night, politeness is a plant
of slow growth.-Harper's Basar.
SAVINGS BANKS IN THE HOME.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter ad Their Expertemce
with Hoarding Up Their Mossy.
Mrs. Porter is not a strong woman;
she has nerves and also has a tendency
to semi-fainting spells, when she be
comes helpless and often thinks she is
going to die. Mr. Porter works all
night, and often seven nights a week,
so his better half is often lonely in
their north side fiat. They expecteom
pany this summer, and are preparing
to entertain people as well as a man on
a salary can do it. So Mrs. Porter Is
saving money, or rather she was doing
it. all unknown to her husband, to
whom his salary seems inadequate to
meet the demands of the season.
One night lately Mrs. Porter retired.
after a busy day, and as she had thor
oughly tired herself could not sleep at
once, and was seized with severe pains.
She was almost fainting, and became
convinced that she would die. How it
disturbed her to think of dying alone;
but more than that was the thought of
her little hoard, hidden in a corner
where no one would think of looking
for it. She saw his home-coming in
that darkest hour before the dawn; his
sorrow at her death; the sending of the
news to his friends; and finally the
hustling about to borrow money enough
to bury her properly, while all the time
there was more than one hundred dol
lars in that corner beneath the carpet.
So she suffered, and then the pain
grew less and she slept, to be awakened
later by her husband's entrance.
She told'him of the suffering which
had not yet passed, and then he brought
remedies and she grew better and
brighter. Finally she told the story of
how she had saved and her fear that
she would die and he would have no
money. Before she would sleep again
she bade him turn down the carpet and
take out her little hoard.
Then, with a peculiar smile, her hus
band walked right over her hiding
place into a closet, took down a dis
carded vest, drew from its pocket a roll
which developed into over fifty dollars.
Then both laughed, and she felt better
and slept well.
There is# bank book in Porter's
pocket now and it shows nearly two
hundred dollars on deposit. He is not
as much afraid of the bank bursting as
he is of the hiding-place proving inse
cure.-Chicago Tribune.
A New SeandaL
The old lady was reading her news
paper when she looked up inquiringly
at her daughter.
"Well?" said the young woman.
"I've just been reading here about
the patent office scandal at Washing
ton."
"What of it?"
"Nothing, I suppose, only-" and the
old lady looked troubled-"it seems to
me there are enough officee scandals
already without getting up patent
ones," and she continued her reading.
Detroit Free Press.
She Thought She we HLgs.
"Perhaps an eating jacket won't be
becoming to you," said a very genteel
and languid saleswoman in one of the
large shops to a customer who wa•
looking at spring costumes.
"A what?" exclaimed the lady, not
realising at once that it was an "Eton
jacket" that was referred to.
"An eating jacket," repeated the
saleswoman, "they are all the fashion
now, and are cut Juat like the white
linen jackets the waiters wer at a
restaurant. "-N. Y. Tribae.
"Ef that young spirit of a Slmpkins
comes here again," angrily exclaimed
Pap Mugginar, "by jocks, 'll read the
riot set to himr"
"No you won't, dad," replied'his
buxom, redt-cheeked daughter, taking
another look at herself in the glass.
'You wem't do anything of the kind."
"Why weo't If'" stormed the old man,
hbringng his t downes the tabla
"Because, dad," mid the maiden, giv
ing her rise another destenous jab
with her tapeg ager "yt ea't m·wd
you knorw."-chlage Tribeas
Bsrigg-' thought y mida Mia
Poplin was meh a ges talker? Sbe
has eerey said a wtrd the wholeas
erernig."
wh a iyo Iparter a& whisc -
lasitie ngisa try was
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T NtE MONKEY'S THUMBS.
a..m* Ier...... Fae....=ee .sas n
Useftl Members.
The hands, the fingers, and, above
all, the thumbs belonging to Chico at
Stracted my particular attention. Now
you must know that it is because man
has a thumb, and for the reason that
his thumb is so beautiully Jointed,
supple and adjustable, that he has
been able to overcome all difficulties.
The other fingers are all very well in
their way, but it is the thumb that con
trols the real movement of the hand.
Without a thumb you never could wield
a heavy sledge-hammer or the most
delicate of watch-maker's tools. It is
not out of the way to say that man is
the master, holding every other living
thing "under his thumb."
Here is a little bit of natural history
which must be remembered aboutmon
keys. All the monkeys of the old
world have some kind of thumb. As
Mr. St. George Mivart, a great zoologist
writes, 'Any old-world monkey with a
rudimentary thumb (that is, a thumb
even if imperfect) is superior in that
respect to an American monkey.' In
fact, the American monkey has no thumb
at all. Natrue compensates, in a mess
ure, for this defect in our new-world
monkey by giving kb a wonderful
tail. This American 'monkey tail is
prehensile. It answers almost the pur
pose of a.fifth limb. A South Ameri
can monkey gives his tal a single hitch
around the limb of a tree, and there he
hangs quite comfortably, independent
of hands or feet.
Chico's thumbs are superb, being
fully four and one-half inches long.
The ordinary length of the human
thumb is about two and one-ball
inches. Chico's middle fnger was a
trifle over five inhes long. Mine is
three and one-half inches. The orang
outang's hand was narrow apparently,
but I think about the width of that of
a human being's, only the sense of pro
portion was lost, owing to the extreme
length of the fingers. The knuckles
were small and perfectly in line. The
stretch of such a hand as Chico's
would be enormous, fully thirteen
inches. The octave on the piano meas
ures seven inches. If Chico were a
pianist he could, with little efort,
cover two octaves, and would leave
Paderewski quite in the shade. If
Chico had a taste for the double bass,
once that those long fingers of his were
wound around the neck of a big fiddle,
what a wonderful performer he would
be, providing the instrument would
stand the strain!-Barnet Phillips, in
Harper's Young People.
MICROBIC ORIGIN OF DISEASE.
A Theory Which Is a Dn angeof t eBag
Carried Too ar.
The microbic origin of infectious dis
eases was one of the greatest discover
Slee in medical history. t has largely
revolutionized medical science.
There was a further advance when it
was proved that the harm done by the
microbes was not direct, but due to a
violent poison they produced, some
what analogous to the poisons normal
ly thrown off by the cells of our tissues;
º and these are innocuous so long as they
are duly carried out of the system by
I the eliminating organs.
It was at first thought that the dis
covery would cause a revolution in med
ical practise, and enable physicians to
cure patients with medicines which
would destroy the parasitic microbes.
What may be done in this direction is
still among the problems of the future.
The chief advantages of the discov
ery are that it emphasizes the supreme
importance of general sanitation, and
that it may lead to exteding the princi
ple of vaccination to most infectious
diseases But according to Dr. Trones
sart, of Paris-we quote from the Bos
ton Medical and Surgleal Journal-we
are in danger of carrying the misrobe
pathogeny too far, and of overldking
the part that belongs to the organism.
He affirms that it will be impossible
to explain all pathology by microbes,
and emphasizes the act that the fune
tions of the living cells themselves may
be perverted or destroyed by other
agents than micro-organisms. When
the functions of cells are perverted, the
excesses of screted or excreted matter
become real poisons, similar in their ef
fects to those produced by microbes.
The fact is the cells of the tissues
have an organisation and prperties
similar to t iL the microbe, and
when their li diseased be
I come veritab ~ sites, which the or
Sganism hastens to elinmiate by the
Swell-known process ofat infammation.
All poismns, whatever their orgla,
must be eliminated by the kidaeys, the
Iintestine or the kin. The fact that
the cells and microbes are so similar in
eonstitution and properties intieste
Sthat it is unsafei to admunilter remedies
Sthat would be etfective against the mi
e robe-s.-Yoth's Compeion.
The chsasy IwaSew.
They have come faar to rear theIr
broods in this northern elJmea: farther,
Sperhaps, than almosat say the birds
Snow here, for they come hem the sun
sh·ae of the far Cantral Aeoriea ad
Sfrom the West Indlee-regos whic
Sare part of the world's kitches, al
. ways warmed by the kithe rb~e d
Sthese happy birds leve t for their
ehosean breeding pies ia the gran
spring felds of the fr torth, a tha
ebrders of the weorlip aefrigperatr.
SOnly they do not seek the green felds
mfor their nestingr; they blad their
quer ests in unuse.L ehmeys. Al
the joy, all the lif of thseM remarks
blebirls in the air, sad in fMight.
All thMer vital fauetia me perfored
"cIn thiwrn," eoes te dead twig. cI
wchk th s- agely-uli nests area m
oestrneat are smippel et bMw the
nees wiaet th.'r stdigs p... in
iher e ihtm Thesir 1t ehvemg
,eiinave head in th phamet wee
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THE COST OF REVOLUTION.
now New York sufferet the Wa Seef
New drk suffered greater hardships
during the fight for independence than
fell to the lot of any other Amerlean
city. It lost more than half of its pop.
ulation; it lost the whole of its com
merce, the great fire of 1776, followed
by the fire of 1778, laid a full fourth of
it IL ashes; it was occupied by the
enemy uninterruptedly from almost
the beginning of hostilities until after
peace wasdeclared.
Until the sctual outbreak of hostili
ties, the prosperous expansion of trade
and the growth of the city continued
without interruption; and then, as
suddenly as the coming of the tropical
night-with the arrival of the British
army of occupation, September 15, 1776
--a blight settled over everything
and was not lifted for more than
seven years. Only four days after
Gen. Howe's entry came the calamity
of the great fire, which swept over the
region between Whitehall and Broad
streets as far north as Beaver; thence,
sparing the western side of Bowling
Green, over both sides of Broadway to
and including Trinity church; and
thence, sparing the western side of
Broadway but burning down to the
river, to and including the southern
side of Vesey street-leaving behind it
a broad furrow of desolation three
quarters of a mile long. Two years
later, another fire reduced to wreck al
most the whole of the block south of
Pearl street between Coenties and Old
slips. Through all the dreary time
of English occpation these many
blocks of rains remained as the Are had
left them. No reason existed for re
building, and, no matter how strong a
reason there might have been, nomoney
for rebuilding was obtainable. This
visible material wreck fittingly repre
sented the wreck which had overtaken
the city's most vital interests. Trade
with the interior and coastwlse praeti
cally wps cut off; and, with the destruo
tion of these. Its natural feeders, the
foreign commerce of the port was dead.
When New York was evacuated by
the British troops, November 25, 1788,
the condition of the city was miserable
to the last degree. Streets which had
been opened and partly grad ed bef
the war began had been suffered to
lapse again to idle wastes; the wharves,
to which for so long awhile no ships
had come, had crumbled through neg
lect; public and private buildings,
taken possession of by the military and
used as barracks, as hospitals and as
prisons, had fallen into semi-ruin;
along all the western side of the town
was the wreck left by the fire. In this
dismal period the population had
dwindled from upwards of twenty
thousand to less than ten thousand
souls; the revenues of the city, long
uncollected, had shrunk almost to the
vanishing-point; the machinery of elvil
government had been practically de
stroyed. In a word, without the con
soling glory of having suffered in hon
orable battle, the city was left a wreck
by war.-Thomas A.Janvier,in Harper's
Magazine.
Combastiblllty of siwdust.
Among the results brought to light,
through modern chemical investigation
of the sources and. causes of spontane
ous combustion, attention has recently
been specially called to the fact that
sawdust should never be used to collect
drippings or leakages. It is said that
dry vegetable or animal oil is found to
inevitably take fire when saturating
cotton waste at 180 deg. F., and sponta
neous combustion occurs more quickly
when the cotton is soaked with its own
weight of oil. Danger is involved i
patent "driers," from leakage into saw
dust, etc.; in oily waste, too, of any
kind, or waste cloths of silk or cotton,
saturated with oil, varnish or turpen
tine; also in linseed oil drippings into
a sponge; glycerine or oil of any kind
leaking into sawdust; bituminous coal
in large heaps of pit coal, hastened by
wet, and especially when pyrites are
present in the coal-the larger the
greater the liability. Oil on aour, or
water on flour, is productive of sponta
neous combustion. In fact, all org·anie
structures, being largely composed of
carbon and hydrogen, are readily ex
eited, because of the affinity of the
hydrogen for oxygen.-N. Y. Sun.
as Iada's 1w.e ts Ife.
When the plance of Wales opened the
bridge at Montreal, in 1I61, a yoang
Mohawk Indian, who had a knowledge
of English, was selected to read an ad
dress setting forth the loyalty of his
people to the great White. Queen. On
the recommendation of fir Heiry Ae
land, the prince gave him an invaritation
to Oxford university, wr he exhib.
ited hhih wera, both and atb
letic. Prectieing a physicin la Cn
ads, he stdied the question of ssu
sace s acoentad with friendbly sole
ties, and eare to the aeoelusalu that is
coaldbe arely carried out at half the
usual premimns This dedaction i
smid to have been versled i thela Ide
pendeat Order of Foresters of COnada,
and the sytem haviag been intrdneed
into Engl·ds Dr. Ornbystekha, at
the Memeriel hell, yesterday, isti
tted the high court of England and
the high cno rd Le don, to r.l the
may sm'dihte. eaurts already
frbbmhe, sad ephined the maits
of his pas.-Loaden Telegraph
Ne-A widow? When did her hus
beand die?
She-Lest week
B-at abe is i half-moumnng.
She-Yes it has ea to light that
he had anth wife in Cbicag-Lii
--ew to ive.--"Let m-e se, was it
net Emrsesa who said 'Hitch you
to a st·r?" "Yes, I ballvee."
'~~ s bsatital theeghtl" "Yes,
sad how much hesper it woeld be
sem brygr tiekets"-Tesae ff
-awsd Upy-ahe (~erying)-"N
6usbnts r i k yo would hse bee.
Je-"sYr bat gme bwwh ai
sai 's I
CLIMATTE AND LANGUAGE.
Slarsh-emesdta Names n the North mad
Liquld Bomads In the aouth.
I In looking over the aboriginal names
upon a map of the United States it is
curious and interesting to note that
consonants predominate in the higher
and vowels in the lower latitudes. In
Maine, for example. are Sound such
harsh-sounding names as Puamedmn
i cook, Androbcoggin, Mattawamkeag.
Pongokwaken, while in Florida are
Tallahassee, Suwanee, Kissimee and
Appalachee, with vowels and liquid
sounds in a majority. The same pea
eulfarity may be noted on scanning a
map of Europe. Gutturals predominate
in Norway and Russia, whereas
far to the southward, in sunny
Italy, there is a profusion of such
euphonious names as Palermo, Ve.
rona, Campobello, etc. Even in the
British islands, covering sofewdegrees
of latitude, there is a marked differ
ence between the "burr" of the High
lander and the soft speech of the native
of southern England. A close observ.
er may detect a similar ,difference be
tween the speech of the dwellers in the
upper region of the Susquehanna, in
New York state, and thatof the inhabi
tants of the eastern shore of Maryland.
p The influence of climate on language is
particularly noticeable in the speech of
those who have lived but a compara
tively short time in the southern states
of the union. The tendency to intrj
duce a vowel sound to round outa woa
is noted in the southern pronunieation
of such words as "electoral" and "Tea
an," which are frequently changed to
"electorial" and "Texian." Thaekeray
was amused at the insistence of serv
ants in southern hotels in addressing
him as Mr. "Thackuary."
A theory which may partly account
p for these climatic effects is based upon
the contrast of the stillness which
Snusually pervades southern lands with
i the stormy inquietude of northern
countries. Cloudless skies, for moaths
at a time, characterise the climates of
Italy and Texas, while a firmament en
tirely free from clouds is rare in Maine
or in Norway. It requires, of course,
greater effort to be heard in regions
which are swept by winds and storms
than in quiet southern latitudes, and
to be heard distinctly amid the noise
and confusion of the elements words
must be used which contain many con
sonants. Among, the inhabitants of
more tropical climes the tendency is
toward soft and musical cadences, sad
travelers relate that in regions of
South America, such as Pern and Vene
suela, where atmospherice disturbances
are rare, the natives almost chant the
phrases of salutation.-Philadelphia
Record.
PHONOGRAPHIC MUSIC. '
Some of the Reslts That May Fellen the
MashIne's Use
Some persons have expressed a fear
lest the wide distribution of an appara
tus capable of echoing all sorts of
music, in a more perfect fashion than
any music-box, might lead to the
gradual ektinction of piano-playing or
violin-playing, except for purposes of
public exhibition, the phonographic
echo of some great performer's work
being so much superior to what most
people could hope to accomplish. It
seems to me that the contrary would be
the result. Cheap phonographs, giving
more or less perfect echoes of music,
might make superfluous the painful at
tempts-painful to others as well as to
herself--of the unmasical young wom
an to master impossibilities
To the person of real musical in
stinct and capacity, the wealth of good
music would certainly prove an incen
tive. When the graphic music is
cheap, the housewife an listen to
SRubenstein as she darns the stockings
in the evening, and get superb lessons
at the great fountains of musical art,
if she has any taste that way.
There is no reason to suppose that it
I will be any more difficult to record a
performance of "Die Meistersinger"
than a recitation by Coquelin, or Bee
thoven symphony under Bklow'smbton.
r There is a good time coming for the
- poor man of good taste.-Philip G.
Hu Bbert, Jr., in Century.
some mYdlsa.
"Prisoner," said his honor, "yo have
been convicted of bigamy by a jury
of your peers. Eight of yoar victims
have appeared to give their testimony.
I Have you anything to msy before I pro
r seed to. sentenceyonu?"
S"I'd like to ask a question, your
Shonor."
I "Very well: what is it?"
a "I'd like to know what has beeome of
- the other six!"-Detroit Free Pres.
Two Wess.
SFather--Why isn't supper ready? It's
San outrage!
Mother-I told little Johnny partiou
Ilarly to come home early, and be Isn't
Sback yet. I can't get supper till he
p ras to the store.a You won't g,
Father (five minte slate)-Johanny
has eome in, I see. What ishehowiag
about?
5 Mother-Be's crylra because supper
l n't rneady.--Good News
no Degs hAflwe.
Policeman-Sorry, Miss, but ae dogs
are allowed in the prk.
k iss Dogpetter-Why act?
Pollemsa-Thit'aoramrar. I-rr
pose ttte rk eommsiesdmonr are
dogs might bark the Mtrees-Teamse
I Siftinga ...,
FhamiP rslMrd-I mgrbatlate ye.,
Smy dear sir, oa ths mr s yea
I daughter. I see ye ra ll'u getI C
tiar all the ilr.rdse .su
A OldGoldsar eh.-.Ofl mp.·Is-yes
i bat the wmert .f it I, I hai*ied g
" their husbsads on their fa-?w6.
SMrs. liter-Wist .kml d t cN I
tea do they -s m ithee shtims
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