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Vol. III., No. XVII. CHARLESTOWN, JEFFERSON COUNTY.
No One Need
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A Dyspeptic.
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T. I4. LIPPITT. ;
THE soft or a lord!
A VpUNG ENGLISHMAN IS TAKEN
SOMEWHAT BY surprise.
A Society Miss Takes the Conceit Oat of
• Young ltrlton of Noble Blood—See
ing the United State* on the “Two
Day" I*lan.
The mention of Florida recalls tho experi
ence of some young Englishmen who came to
Washington for two days on their way to
that land of oranges and alligators and who
stayed here two mouths. They got into offi
cial society and found it so attractive that
they could not get away. One young Briton,
apparently not many years above 21, and tho
son of a "real lord," but traveling as modest
Mr.-, went out to make calls last week.
The daughter of a well known hostess had
several young women assisting her, and with
these he proved a voluble and unflagging
talker. Finally, to give him variety and re
lieve one of tho assistants, the hostess said to
n caller:
“Do let me introduce that young man over
there. I want to get Miss A. away from him,
and he shows no signs of giving up.”
Tho introduction was made, bows wore
exchanged ami the son of a "real lord” was
left with the other woman.
“And what are you doing in Washington, if
I may ask tho question.*" were the first words
of tho young man, as he gave one sweeping
inclusive glance, from her tall bonnet down
to the hem of her gown.
“Oh, I am doing what most other women
are doing—making calls," she replied, with
a flash of quickness, and showing no sur
prise at the unexpected and abrupt question.
K* WAS SET BACK.
The surprise was on the other side, ouu lor
au instant he was set bac k by her readiness.
“Ah—oh—don’t you know—that's really very
good," he sai l, laughing, and recovering
himself.
“And what are you doing in Washington,
if I may ask the question?” she added the
next moment, and giving him a second start
“Ah—oh—really, you Americans are very
quick, don’t you know,” he answered, a trifle
subdued, and in rather more a tone of
respectful deference. “ I will tell you. Wo
have just come across to look about a little.
Spent two days in New York, you know.
Ran on here for two days, and well—really,
there is a good deal in your towns, you know.
Quite a lot to see.”
“Two days in New York and two in Wash
ington! Is it possible, Mr.-, there are two
whole days of sightseeing in either city for
an Englishman! Ob, I understand. You have
just run over to get thoroughly acquainted
with us, and will then run home to England
and write a book about America. Of course
this accounts for your long stay in New York
and two whole days at our capital! But I’m
so glad you find a lot to see,”
“Ah—oh—really now. You can't mean to
be 90 hard on a fellow. I should nevah, you
know, give my impressions without really
knowing America. I was just going to say
that really, after two days here, your capital
is so very charming we couldn't get away.
Really wa couldn’t. And we went down to
the booking office and the fellows fixed it all
right with the tickets. Now, instead of two
days, we’ve really been in Washington seven
weeks. It’s a fact. I wouldn't believo it my
self if I didn't know it, you see. Seven
weeks! But we really, you know, must get
off to Florida next week. Sorry; Washing
ton is very delightful; people charming, you
know.”
UVST uo WEST.
“And, of course, you go to Chicago. No
book on America is complete without Chi
cago, the big city of the west. Oh, you must
go west,” she said. He was rising rapidly in
her estimation, and she was a little sorry she
had been sarcastic. The next minute down
he went again, as he said:
“Ah—oh—yes. I have heard of Chicago,
you know. Quite a town, of course. But 1
really, Miss-, I can’t fancy how you dis
covered I thought of writing a book. Now,
really, you know. Do I look like it? How
did you happen on t hat ?’’
“Oh, you all do it. You come over on the
two day plan of seeing the country. And
you’ve all heard of Chicago. So you go home
and write about us, wheu you really don’t
know anything about America or Americans,
after all,” she said, squarely and frankly.
, She had come up in his estimation as fast as
he had gone down in hers. He was taken by
her offhand manner of talking and quick
understanding. He was about to coucludo
his call, and as ho turned to go he said seri
ously and wholly without his former con
ceited air:
“I will tell you what we do know, and wo
are not slow in learning it, you know, !
either”
“I’m so glad you really know something j
about us, if it’s ever so little,” she put in, ■
laughiug.
“We learn, as soon as we meet American
Women, that they are the best talkers in the
vorld. Now, Miss-, I promise you. if I
write my impression, I will go to Chicago and ’
to all the rest of your western cities. Good
by. We're off to Florida to-morrow.”—
Washington Cor. New York Tribune.
The Alaskan's Kiclies.
Alaskan Indians do not reckon wealth by
the amount of money or gold a person pos
sesses, but rate a man as worth so many
blankets. A government blanket sells in the j
stores everywhere throughout the country at j
the nominal price of $1. It is never more,
never less. If an Indian gets hold of $20 and i
desires to save it, he bus's live blankets and
adds them to the store he already possesses.
An Indian who owns 2,000 blankets is im- '
mensely wealthy, and is looked upon as a (
nabob by the poor members of his tribe. This :
is the currency of the realm among the In
dians, and is recognized by the whites as well '
in trading with them.—Lieut. H. T. Mona- >
ban in Brooklyn Eagle.
Purpose of the Ballet.
Twelve-year-old Miss—The opera was very
long, wasn’t it, momma.'
Mamma—Yes, daughter, and very stylish. |
Miss—The ballot girls don’t sing, do they,
mammal
Mamma—No daughter.
Miss—Why do they have the ballet then, j
mamma?
Paixi—'To make the opera os broad os it is
long, daughter. Dou’t ask any more ques
tions.—Washington Critic.
Second Baud Gravestones,
Buffalo has a citizen w ho deals in second
hand gravestones. He buys old ones, erases
the letters and engraves new inscriptions to ;
snier. ‘'Lots of people seem to want to sell,” !
ho is reported as saying, “aud plenty of others
are willing to buy when they can get a good
article so cheap.”
Distance Lends Enchantment.
Mobile has a brass band with a conscience. j
It goes out in the suburbs on a Sunday and
hides itself in the woods to practice. At a
iistance of two or three miles the music is
limply enchanting.—Mobile Register. >
The newest craze in New York city is for
white furniture.
HOW CODFISH ARE CAUGHT._
Where tho Finest Fish Are Found—Fore
runners of the Coming Catch.
• •The deep sea commercial fish come
out of the cold water seas, said an au
thority on the subject the other day to a
correspondent, “It is not true that the
cod and herring migrate to the arctic
seas, as was once believed. These fish
are local in their habits and confined to a
limited area, governed in their move
ments bv a supply of food, tho instinct to
spawn and the temperature of the water.
They go out from the cold waters to the
warmer to spawn, and come back again
in a direct line. Like all animals which
have homes, they come to the place of
their birth for ' reproductive purposes.
Generations of fish from immemorial time
have come back to their native banks
and sports. The cod drops its spawn
free into the sea at a considerable distanco
from the bottom. The spawn does not
sink, but swims near the surface in
transparent eggs, and in about sixteen
days they hatch. Tho male fish in
spawning swims deeper than the female,
and the milt rises, as soon as it is j>ourod
out, to the surface. The young cod in
its first year grows to be a foot long. It
cannot reproduce till it is 4 years old.
“The Rev. Mr. Harvey, of Newfound
land, in liis history of tliat island pub
lished only four years ago, says that the
finest codfish does not swim near sand
borne by the gulf stream or the St. Law
ence, but upon rocky bottom, which
sometime's is only fifty feet below the
surface, but generally nearer 400. There
is an outer bank called the false bank,
where the water is 700 or 800 feet deep.
The fishing grounds have an extent of
200 miles long by 00 miles wide, and this
particularly line ground is called the cod
meadow, and it has never decreased in (
productiveness. Thirty codfish make a
hundred weight when dried.”
"How do they know when tho cod are
running on the banks?”
“A little fish called the caplin, about
seven inches long, precedes them, swim
ming on the surface in enormous swarms.
The coil follow them in to devour them.
The fishermen take the caplin for bait.
These little caplin fish, when they come
toward shore, are so thick that a man
can stand on the banks with a casting net
and fill a cart with them in mi hour.
The caplin are used by the farmers for
manure, anil are put up like sardines.
Next come the squids or cuttlefish, which
remain six or seven weeks, and are also
used for bait. Then the herring come in
the fall. These bait fishes run from the
1st of June till near winter, and without
them hardly anything could be done in
capturing the cod.”
“Why is the codfish particularly valu
able?”
“Because you can eat nearly every
part of it, or use it somehow. The head
is good; they make guano of tho offal and
bones as good as Peruvian guano; from
tho bladder isinglass is made; they send
the roe to France as bait for sardines; the
tongue and sounds are sold in Boston and
Now York for delicacies.”
“How ilo they take the coil ashore and
dissect him?”
“The Newfoundland or Cape Breton
fisherman comes right in from sea and
lands at a platform projecting over the
water. With a kind of pitchfork he
flings the fish on this; a man up there
with a sliarp knife severs the gills from
the belly, slits the abdomen to the vent,
and makes a cut on each side of the head
near the base of the skull. Another man
takes out tho liver for cod liver oil, pulls
off the head, removes the bowels, which
are thrown into a scow for manure. The
tongues anil bladders are taken out mid
pickled. Then a third man, called a sput
ter, puts the body of tho fish on its back,
holds it open with the left hand, and cuts
along one side of the backbone to the
tail. Tho liackbone is then taken out
and tho fish salted on the floor mid
spread out on flakes to be dried. When
they aro packed they are divided into the
merchantable, tho West India, and the
broken fish. Tho West India cod is eaten
by negroes.”—Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Primitive Turkish Ruth.
“The first time I tried a Mexican sweat
bath,” said Col. Joe Shelly, the famous |
scout, “I thought I would die, but I shut
my teeth together ami said: ‘I can stand
it as long as you can, old fellows. ’ It
was at the close of a long march on a hot
day. The Indians fixed a tepee until it
was air tight, heated a rock and then
rolled it into the tepee. One by one we
crawled into it. after having stripped off
our clothing, Somo of the Indians didn't
have much on. and then we packed to
gether as close as sardines in a box. I
thought I would melt. Every few min
utes the lord high executioner or master
of ceremonies would talk Indian and
throw a little water out of a can on the
rock. This would fill the room with
steam. It seemed an age before they let
me go, but I guess it wasn't more than
half an hour. Then we all made a rush
to the river uear by, and a dash of r few
minutes made us as fresh as a daisy. No
matter how- tired we were, the sweat
bath made us feel like kings. ’ ’—Toledo
Blade.
A Mattress Maker's Views.
“Nobody respects anything now, and I
saw a rich woman the other day let her
boy G years old empty a box of candy on !
a palo blue satin couch and thou sit down
on it and rub liis shoes up and down on
the edge. I say when there’s no respect '
left for anything it’s no wonder decent
work conies to an end. I make a mat
tress and there isn’t an inch of it that
isn’t sewed to last and that isn't an
honest piece of work, but you can go
into any house fumisliing department and
buy one that looks just as well bra third
less money. Everything’s so cheap that
people don’t care whether anything lasts
or not, and so there’s no decent work
done, and people pretend to have learned
trades when really they just botch things
together.”—Helen Campbell in New
York Sim.
Musical Tones Among Anitnuls.
According to a book recently published
by an English organist, a cow lows in a
perfect fifth and octave or tenth; a dog
bark^in a fifth or fourth; a donkey brays
in a jK'rfect octave; a horse neighs in a
descent on the chromatic scale. Each
person has his fundamental key in which
he generally speaks, but which he often
transposes in sympathy to other voices, or
when he is excited.—Chicago Times.
Rice straw shoes are worn by the labor
ing people in the south of China.
FRANCE'S NEW RIFLE. "
NEW ARMS AND PROJECTILES BASED
ON ADVANCED SCIENCE.
The Fate of Great Battles Generally De
cided by the Efficiency of the In
fantry—The Franco-German War—The
“Chalons Kifle.”
The French nrniy has been devoting its
energy to devising new arms and pro
jectiles based upon the most advanced
science. The melinite shell has been
adopted for their artillery, and it is
claimed that the explosive force of meli
nite is 100 times greater titan gunpowder
and tenfold as great as dynamite; that
neither masonry nor ironclad forts can
resist its force. The now progressive
powder, invented by Col Brugere, is
vastly more powerful than ordinary gun
powder; its peculiarity is that it burns
without smoke, uml almost without noise,
and developing it* energy gradually while
the projectile is moving through the bar
rel of the gun, the recoil is reduced to a
minimum, aud it may be letter described
as a “push” rather than a shock.
The fate of all great battles lias almost
invariably depended upon the efficiency of
the infantry. The Macedonian phalanx
of Alexander, the tenth legion of Ctcsar,
the English infantry of the Black Prince,
the Spanish infantry of Charles V, tho
grenadier guards of Frederick the Great,
the imperial guard of Napoleon, the Brit
ish infantry of Clive and Wellington, tho
“Stonewall brigade” of Jackson, the Prus
sian infantry of Germany—these have suc
cessively been the great factors cf victory.
Therefore, the development of infantry
tactics and arms has always been the ob
ject of great generals. Tig* substitution
of the iron for the wooden ramrod by
Frederick the Great made the Prussian in
fantry able to lire more rapidly than their
opponents, aud win the victories which in
troduced Prussia as a military power.
Napoleon, cliangiug the principal cf infan
try tactics from the volley we <•); i.irmish
lire, revolutionized warfare, mid laid
down the principle that the lire
and not the mass of infantry was its
best work. Wellington, carrying out this
idea, trusted to the “thin red line”—in
fantry in line of battle and noi in column;
yet in those days the infantry arm was tho
smooth bore intlsket of very short range.
Though the rifle was furnished to tho
flank companies of regiments and to spe
cial corps fifty years ago it was not until
our own civil war that whole armies were
armed with rifled muskets, the use of
which made the fate of heavy columns of
attack against steady troops a foregone
conclusion; witness our attack on Marye’s
heights at Fredericksburg and Pickett’s
charge at Gettysburg. The development
of infantry fire lias in fact relegated the
bayonet to the limbo of medieval pike
and Roman swords, and has converted
cavalry into the eyes and ears of tho
army rather than its mailed arm in the
decisive moment of battle.
A cavalry charge is “r,ngnitk-ent, but
it is not war,” as the French Gen. Bos
quet said of the charge of Balaklava.
The cavalry saber lias been driven from
the battlefield by the revolver and rifle;
in the Franco-German war, with 80,000
German cavalry and nearly as many
French cavalry, the hospital returns show
that there were only 212 wounds by
sabers and butts of muskets, all told. At
Sedan a squadron of the hussars of tho
French imperial guard charged the
German skirmish line at 400 yards distant;
none of their bodies were found nearer
than 100 yards; three-fourths of tho
squadron fell in galloping 800 yards.
Sucli was the terrible work of the breach
loading needle gun.
Ouce only was the column of attack
used in the Franco-German war. In one
of the battles before Metz, Gen. Stein
metz formed the famous Brandenburg
brigade in column to pierce the French
lines. In spite of the bravery and dis
cipline of that picked corps, they were
ignominiously routed, and Gen. Steinmetz
reprimanded for thus throwing uway tho
lives of splendid troops.
If sucli were the conditions of battle in
1870, what must they be to-day, when the
rapidity of infantry fire has been increased
manifold by the use of magazine breach
loaders ami the effective range of mili
tary rifles doubled by the use of “progres
sive” powder and improved projectiles?
The French army is now armed with a
magazine rifle which i>ossesscs almost all
the above qualifications—the “Chalons
rifle,” invented by Col. Lebcl, superin
tendent of the infantry seb ">ol at Chalons.
The range of the Chalons rifle is unprece
dented. At 2,000 yards its effects arc
frightful; the ball leaves the rifle with a
velocity of 1,800 feet a second, and re
volves 5,000 times n second; its point
blank range is J300 yards. The caliber lias
been reduced to 82-100ths of an inch,
and the lead projectile covered with a
thin coating of steel and brass, so that it
may take the riile grooves without leading
them in the quickness of revolution of tho
projectile in tho barrel.
The importance of infantry armed with
guns having a point blank range of 500
yards can hardly be overestimated; the
use of a smokeless powder removes one of
the greatest difficulties to quick tiring
rifles; the use of magazine guns, like the
Chalons rifle, makes it practically impos
sible for an enemy to cross the death
swept zone of 500 yards in front of them.
—Boston Herald.
A niut I* Correspondents.
“Correspondents Bonding newspapers
should be careful to mark the paragraphs
they wish the editor to see,” says an
English contemporary journal, and we re
produce it on this side of the ocean with
an emphasis proportioned to the distance.
If our correspondents could know’ how
mneh valuable time was uselessly spent
in looking over papers in the often futile
endeavor to find out why they were sent
they would save us much trouble. Make
a dash with a blue, red, or even black lead
pencil, or with ink if it be preferred, at
the upper left hand corner of the article
to which they would call our attention,
and the eye will catch it at once, and the
object of sending the paper be accom
plished.
Electricity In Wearing.
A manufacturer of Roubaix, M. Henry
Bulsinl, has just discovered a very curi
ous application of electricity to looms.
He adopts an indicator which strikes
when a thread in the warp breaks, and
thus saves the warper from taking out
any of his work to find the flaw, and he
need not pay such close attention to the
quickly moving threads, which is so in
jurious to the sight. The invention can
be applied to power looms.
Retired List of tbe Nary.
The retired list of the navy is swelling.
There are fifty rear admirals, fifteen com
modores, fourteen captains, twelve com
manders. twenty lieutenant commanders,
forty-one lieutenants, forty-six surgeons,
twenty paymasters and 6eventy-two engi
neers—Brooklyn Eagle.
RICHMOND’S FAMOUS FIRE.
How a Great Piece of New* Wa* Treated
in the Old Day*.
The editor of The Richmond Standard
was present, and wrote the following ac
count for his paper tho next day:
“Last night the play house in this city
was crowded with an unusual audience.
There could not have been less than COO
persons In the house. Just before the
conclusion of the play the scenery caught
fire. The editor of this paper was in the
house when the ever to be remembered de
plorable accident occurred. He is in
formed that the scenery took fire in the
back part of the house by the raising of a
chandelier; that the boy who was ordered
by some of the players to raise it stated
that if he did so the scenery would take
fire, when he was commanded in a per
emptory manner to hoist it. The boy
obeyed and the fire instantly communi
cated to the scenery. He gave the alarm
in the rear of the stage and requested
some of the attendants to cut the cords by
which the combustible materials were sus
pended. The person whose duty it was to
perform this became panic stricken and
sought his own safety.
“The flames spread almost with the
rapidity of lightning, and the fire falling
from the ceiling upon tho performers was
tho first notice the audience had of their
danger. Even then many supposed it a part
of the play, and were a little time re
strained from flight by a cry from the
stage that there was no clanger. The per
formers and their attendants in vain en
deavored to tear down the scenery. The
fire flashed in every part of the house with
a rapidity horrible and astonishing, and,
alas! gushing tears and unspeakable an
guish deprived me of utterance.
“There was but one door for the great
est part of the audience to pass. Men,
women and children were pressing upon
each other, while the flames were seizing
upon those behind. Those nearest the
window's, which were very high, were
afraid to leap down, while those behind
them were seen catching on fir® and
writhing in the greatest agony of pain and
distress. . . . Imagine what cannot
be described. All of those in tho pit es
caped, and had cleared themselves from
the house before those in the boxes could
get down, and the door was for some time
empty. Those from above were pushing
each other down the steps, when the hin- ,
dermost might have got out by leaping
into the pit. There would not have been
the least difficulty in descending from tho
first boxes into the pit.”—Richmond Cor.
New York Sun.
ltoll Call In the IIousc.
A Washington correspondent describes
a roll call in the liouss of representatives:
‘“Roll call!’ shout the pages, running
about the corridors of the house wing.
‘Roll call! Yeas and nays! Yeas and
nays!’ It reminds one of the boys about
the theatres or opera singing. ‘Opera
books! Books of the opera! Libretto!
libretto!’ The effect, however, is quite
different. If you arc in the restaurant
when an important bill is pending yon will
witness a stampede when the little fellows
run from table to table with their ‘Roll
call!’ Division of the house!’ or ‘Call
of the house!’ The latter is a variety,
but the former signals to memliers occur
every day. Down into the sub-base
ment, down into the subterranean com
mittee rooms, into the restaurant, into
the bar, along the main corridors, among
the reception rooms, and even across to
the ‘Congressional,’ the small hoys with
the silver badge skip with the cry: 'Roll
call!’ ‘Roll call!’ And the members who
are interested in that particular measuro
drop knife and fork, drop gossip with the
ladies, drop stories with the gentlemen,
drop cocktails and courting and rush to
ward the hall of the house. This is man
aged differently from a few years ago,
when every member had to be on hand
and look out for himself. Now the floor
may show less than a quorum when the
clerk begins to rend, and then Ixjforo the
second call logins for absentees the mem
bers have been gathered in from the rooms
and corridors, and a pretty full house is
recorded.’’— Pittsburg Dispatch.
Xew Tanning Substance from Coal.
A new extract of coal is being intro
duced in Germany for industrial purposes,
especially for tanning leather and disin
fection generally, to whicli tlic name
“pyrofuxin” is given by the discoverer,
Professor Paulas Reinsch, of Erlangen,
Bavaria. Unlike the generality of such
compounds, this new material Is not a
derivative of coal tar, or of any of the
distillates of coal, but is obtained directly
from coal itself. Pit or bituminous coal
contains most of it, and is prepared by
being broken into nuts. The crude pyro
iaxin is extracted by repeated boilings in
A solution of caustic soda. The pyrofuxin
enters into solution and is allowed to
stand for a tijne. It is then poured off
and a carl»ouic acid gas is passed through
it. The resultant liqnor has a specific
gravity of 1.025 to 1.030, and holds from
ten to fifteen grammes of pyrofuxin to the
liter.
In its purified form the compound is a
fine, non-tritnrable substance, withont
taste or smell, non-poisonous and in ap
pearance like catechu. Some Russian
coal contains 18 per cent, of pyrofuxin.
After the extraction of this material the
coal remains combustible. It is described
as being one of the most powerful and effec
tive antiseptics known to science. On this
account it is expected to be most valuable
for tanning, as being twenty-eight times
quicker in action than bark and produc
ing a better result at decreased cost. It
will be soon enough to give credence to
this alleged leather tanning agent when
specimens of good leather are produced.—
Scientific American.
Slang in the Reataarant.
Men who write books about slang might J
And material in some restaurants. In
Kansas City there is an abundance of it.
Only in one place in St. Louis—on Morgan
street—can you hear downright slang in
the giving of the orders, and curious it is.
If you tell the waiter you want an oyster
stew, he shouts out to the kitchen: “Jesse
James!” A beefsteak becomes “slaughter
in a pan;” plain, black coffee is “coffee in
the dark;” potatoes unpeeled are “Murphy
with his coat on;” two eggs fried on one
side are transformed into “sunny side up;”
buckwheat cakes are spoken of in gambler
fashion as “stack of reds with copper on
top.” and batter cakes as “stack of
whites."—Waiter in Globe-Democrat
White Malleable Iron Ore.
A writer upon the products of Arkan
sas says: “The most remarkable and in
teresting mineral of all this region is the
white malleable Iron ore, regarding the
existence and malleability of which a
great deal of skepticism is said to exist.
It is fonnd in the corner of Howard
county, adjoining the frontier of Mont
gomery, Polk and Pike.”—Exchange.
A woman who married a “perfect angel
of a man” is usually a widow. This is
tough, but it is true.
THE DRUMMER DID IT.
A Class or Honest and Enthusiast!*
Nuisances Who Never Die.
All investigations by archaeologists into tho
various races and their history break on an
inexplicable influence that seems to connect
widely different places, periods and j (copies.
They find old jars in uso in India that thi
mound builders bad here, and they come
across iron teaspoons in the primeval forest
beds of coal. They are astonished to find the
gridiron of tho north of Ireland figuring in
tho social life of China three or four thousand
years ngo. Tho Bedouin Arab has tho army
blanket of tho Esquimaux, and in tho ruins of
Pompeii they como across peanut shells like
what the sweeper sweeps out of tho gallery of
the theatre to-day. Well, why is this? Archae
ologists cannot tell. I can. The mysterious
ubiquitous influence that leaves no track save
the article is simply the drummer. It was
the drummer who did it all He left those
curious Grecian scrolls in Egypt; he carved
those hieroglyphics on the rocks of ancient
Britain; ho is tho man who introduced French
candy into Herculaneum and stuck the
mound builders with iron teaspoons.
Do you ever know what becomes of a
drummer? Not that you care, but have you
ever seen a dead drummer? I don’t lielievo
drummers die. I bolievc they simply talk
themselves into gas. “Gas thou art, to gas
rctumest,” was written ot the drummer. I
have met one or two men who have been
drummers, but they do not talk much about
it When a drummer gets tired of talking
ho just disappears. I do not see how this
country survives the existence of drummers.
You go into a small country place; you step
iuto the hotel; you find in the office sixteen
coats hanging up on tho wall and sixteen
valises in a row on the floor, and sixteen men
sitting with their thirty-two feet up on the
stove, telling sixteen lies about their business
and their adventures, all at one time. ^ ou
can’t get what you want in that town. The
drummers have made the store keepers buy
what they have to sell, and you’vo got to take
it or go without. It seems almost impossible
to believe that a drummer should ever be
able to disguise his identity. He is, as a rule,
aggressive and runs things.
If you see a man come into the office of a
hotel and step up timidly to the counter and
ask the clerk if therolire any letters for him,
please, you may know that he's a humble
private citizen and a plain guest If you see
a fellow bang open the door, stride in and
leave it open behind him, go and hang his
coat on a peg and jam his valise on the floor,
walk behind tho counter, take out all the let
ters and read the addresses from every box,
open tho drawer and look in, then you'll know
it’s a drummer—goal for one night’s lodging
and several drinks. Ho generally lets every
body know that he’s »<old a lot of stulT, and lie
talks very loud about tho fun he’s had some
times. But they told me of one drummer
who called himself a coant, and wore a long
fur lined ulster and an Imposing foreign look
ing mustache. He caino in the summer sea
son and stayed a long time. Ho was the rage;
tho girls fell inlovo with him; the munimas
admired him; he was on the eve of getting
engaged to a haughty Son Francisco belle,
when a lady walked iuto a drug storo one day
and found him with a lot of samples of soap,
trying to stick the proprietor with his stock.
That let him out and he disappeared. But
tho profession disowned him, for ns a rulo the
drummer is a straightforward, open, honest
and enthusiastic nuisance.—Bou Francisco
Chronicle.
Geu. Grant In 1H03.
I find in my notes a description of Gen.
Grant written behind Vicksburg in June,
18153. It may Ins of interest at this remote
date:
Almost at any time one can see a small but
compactly built man of about 45 year* of
ago walking through the camps. He moves
with his shoulders thrown a littlo in front of
tho perpendicular, his left hand in tho pocket
of his trousers, an unlighted cigar in his
mouth, his eyes thrown straight forward,
which, from the hazo of abstraction which
veils them, and a countenance plowed into
furrows of thought, would seem to indicate
that he is intensely preoccupied. The sol
diers observe him coming, and, rising to
their feet, gather on each side of tho way to
see him pass—they do not salute him, they
only watch him curiously, with a certain sort
of familiar reverence. His abstracted air is
not so great while he thus moves along as to
prevent his seeing everything without appar
ently looking at it; you will discover this in
tho fact that, however dense the crowd in
which you stand, if you nro an acquaintance,
his eye will for an instant rest on you with a
glance of recollection, accompanied with u
grave nod of recognition.
A plain blue suit without scarf, sword or
trappings of any sort, savo the double starred
shoulder straps, an indifferently good Kos
suth hat, or slouch, with tho crown tattered
in close to his Lead, full beard Letwcen light
and “sandy,” a square cut face, whose lines
and contour indicate extreme endurance and
determination, complete the external a|>
pcaranco of this small man, as one sees him
passing along, turning and chewing restlessly
the end of his unlighted cigar. His counte
nance in rest has the rigid immobility of cost
iron, and while this indicates the unyielding
tenacity of tho bulldog, one finds in his gray
eyes a smile and other evidences of the jios
session of those softer traits seen u[»on the
lips and over the entire faces of ordinary
people On horseback he loses all the awk
wardness which distinguishes him as he
move* about on foot. Erect and graceful,
bo seems a portion of liia steed, without
which the full effect would be incomplete
Along with a body guard of the general rides
his son Fred, a stout lad of some 12 summers.
He endures all the marches, follows bis father
under fire with all tho coolness of an old
soldier, and is, in short, a “chip of the old
block.”—“Poliuto” in Chicago Times.
A Mlwr'i Sharp Practice.
In the room of a miser physician, who died
in New York dty a few days ago, were found
hundreds of empty bottles and packages,
which showed that lor many months he bad
lived on the various nutritions articles widely
advertised in the medical journals. This had
cost him nothing, for he had taken advan
tage of the sharp rivalry in wares of this *
kind and had written to the proprietors for
samples, implying that he might require a
largo quantity if the trial proved successful.
HU name appearing in the list of regular
practitioners, his requests were freely granted
and bo obtained all sorts of cereal foods,
wines, malt preparations, koumiss and tonics.
His peculiar diet may have killed him, for be
died of a gastric disease.—Chicago Times.
A Valid Excuse.
“My dear,” said the elder lady, “you should
have thanked that gentleman who so kindly
gave you hu seat”
“My failure to thank him, mamma, was be
cause of consideration for him. He may have
a wife and family dependent upon him.”
■’I don’t understand, my dear.”
"You see, mamma, I feared the shock
might be too great for him.”—Pittsburg Dis
patch.
An Earmark.
Her form Is like the sculptor's dream of lore.
Her speech is like tM cooing of a dove,
Her features e'en an anchorite would please.
Her eyes—those specs! alas, she’s Bostooese.
"WHEN I WAS A BOYr
“When I wan a boy," the graudsire said
To the bright lad by his knee,
“Of the victors crowned with fame I read
Who triumphed on land and sea'.
And through the years, from the deathless page,
A summons lias sounded long:
To youth, aud manhood, and hoary age.
The message is this: ‘Be Strong:'”
“When I was a boy—" he paused aud said
To the listener by his knee,
“Of the men who were as lights I read
In a dark world's history!
They prized the truth and were loved of God,
And no fear of man they knew;
And still from the gloriora heights they trod.
Tlw message was this.”'Be True
—J. R. Eastwood In Tlw (juiver.
RESEARCHES ON SNAKE POISONS.
Peculiarities of the Venom of Serpent*,
llow Death I* Caused.
Tho Smithsonian institution has pul>
lished Dr. Mitchell's and Professor Reich
ert's researches on snake poisons. The
Boston Medical ond Surgical Journal says
of tho work: “Tho new researches have
been executed with so great skill, the re
sults are so important, and the presenta
tion of the whole matter is so excellent,
that tho memoir must at once bo ranked
a classic.” We give a few of the results:
No chemical difference can be detected
in the poison of all known snakes. The
poison resembles in some respects the
saliva of other animals, and differs hut
little from normal elements of the blood.
Introduced witliin tho living tissues, it
produces destructive changes more rapidly
tlian any other known substance, and yet
it is harmless witliin its own tissues. I lore
in, as Tho Journal suggests, it resembles
the gastric juice, which digests nil sul>
stances except that of tho stomach itself.
Like most other poisonous sulistanoes,
it is associated with more or less innocu
ous matter, from which the activo princi
ple can be separated by chemical analysis
and obtained pure.
It has generally been supixx*ed that
tho malignant effect of the iwison was
due to an intense inflammation to which
it gave rise. But in inflammation it is
principally tho white corpuscles that
oscape from the blood vessels, while
snake poison causes the blood to exudo
unseparated. In the former case, also,
tho blood strongly coagulate's; in the
latter, it retains its fluidity.
The red blood globule, in its normal
form, is biconcave, or hollowed out on
both sides; tho poison renders it round,
softens it, and causes tho globules to run
together like a gelatinous mass. Tho
tissues become black with tho infiltrated
blood, break down, and rapidly putrify
and slough.
It is proljablo that iu most cases death
results from tho paralysis of the respira
tory centers—those parts of tho brain
tliat preside over tho acts of respiration.
The bushmen of South Africa use as
an antidote the powdered poison sac of a
different species of snake; some, a small
lizard, dried, powdered ami rublied into
incisions around tho bite. Oliservationn
of travelers seem to confirm the efficacy
of these antidotes.—Youth's Companion.
Queer Thing* in China.
A decree has been published in The
Pekin Gazette which gives definite shape
to tho negotiations of China with the
pope. The cathedral schools, dwelling
houses, hospital, museum, printing office
and library, so well known for 150 years
as the Peitang, are to lie removed to an
other site a quarter of a mile distant.
Tho bishop is highly praised und rewarded
with second rank decorations, as is also
Mr. Commissioner Dcitring of the cus
toms. Tientsin. Abbo Fnvicr, who went
to Rome and Paris from Pekin to con
duct the negotiations, is honored with the
third rank decorations and 1*500. Tho
accord of France with China seems to 1*>
perfect.
The new cathedral and other building *
will bo erected at tho expense of tho Chi
nese government, following in this re
spect the example set by the great Em
peror Kanghi in the latter ]>art of the
Seventeenth century. The empress
wiyhes to have tho cathedral, which
overlooks a park where she will reside
occasionally, in tho western precincts of
'die palace. What she will do with the
Cathedral is a secret, and pcrhajis not yet
decided.—London News.
Slavery In KMlitrn Countries.
It is a mistake to regard the condition
of a slave in the east as utterly wretched.
On the contrary, he is much better off
than the average artisan in Europe. The
worst he lias to endure is the severance
from his home and the journey to his
place of destination. The relations be
tween master and slave in eastern coun
tries have little analogy with those form
erly existing in Brazil and North America.
It is usual for the Arab to grant freedom
to liis IponcLsman after a certain term of
servitude; but in general the boon is de
clined and the slave prefers to continue
in a service where he is well taken care
of. The children of a Moliammedan
master and a female slave stand upon an
equal social footing and enjoy the same
legal rights of heirship as the offspring of
the legitimate wife. The mother, by the
very event of the liirth, becomes free and
cannot be sold. An emancipated slave
frequently inherits his master's property
and carries on his business. In Meccah
and Jeddah I know many freedmen of
this class who lave become eminent mer
chants.—Cot. St. Louis Globe-Dispatch.
L«pro«y In New Orleiui*.
While delving for information on the
subject of the city's health I ascertained
what I believe is not generally known in
New Orleans—that leprosy exist s h re to
a i emarkable extent. It has been kuown
here in a vague sort of way tlot llicre
were some cases of the dreaded disr :w in
the lower parishes, but not that it j re
called to any extent in New Orleans.
There are now under treatment i.: dp*
Charity hospital no less than eighteen
cases. What is more remarkable, and
should be of absorbing interest to the ;x-o
ple here, is the fact. I am inform* -1 on
authority, that the luckless victk.i; do
not know with what they an- a ('dieted,
and arc going about their usual voca
tions.—New Orleans Letter.
A New tad Durable Bronze.
The new Reitz alloy, the patented pro
duction of a German chemist, is n 1 ::zc
for which remarkable durability ! re
sistance to all acids are claimed. prut aged
exposure to concentrated muriatic ..c;d
having caused less than haIt the l .: >
tained by any other alloy, and otlx r uis
laving been equally successful.—Aidau
saw Traveler.