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' PIANO PLAYING. . .j Min P'KribM th Mule of Ua . Ullrt4 tr. yaOrlMn XlweiDeuiocrat ,T &s loafing round Uie streets "A .t," BoidJim Nelson, one 6f WTit engineers runniner into v Orleans, "and as I bad nothing L I dropped into a concert and f 3 a slick looking Frenchman play FT-Loin a way that made me feel .L, in swots. As soon as he sat fn on the stool I knew by the way i,fl handicu iituiov. - - Mod the machine he was running. He tapped the keys away up in one end as if they were guages, and 2 wanted to see if ho had water noneb, and then he looked up, as if S wanted to seo h6w much 6team he 1 carrying, and the next moment Uculled open the throttle and sailed out on the main line as if he were a half of an hour too lato. . ..you could hear her thunder over the culverts and bridges, and getting faster and faster, until the fellow recked about in his seat like a cradle. Somehow I thought it was old 80 a passenger train and getting Jut of the way of a 'special. The fel loe worked the keys on the middle liio lightning, and then he flew along to the north end of the line until the drivers went around like a buzz-saw, and I got excited. About the time I was fixing to tell Ijm to cut off a little, he kicked the dampers under the machine wide open, pulled the throttle away back into the tender, and Jerusalem jump ers! how he did run! I could't stand it any longer, and I yelled to him that she was pounding on the left side, and if he wasn't careful he'd drop his ash pan. But he did not hear me. No one heard me. . Everything was flying and ifhizzing. Telegraph poles one side of the track looked like a row of corn stalks, tho trees appeared to be a mud bank, and all the time the exhaust of too nlrl machine sounded like tho hum tUV v of a bumble bee. I tried to yell out, but my tongue would not move. He went around curves like a bullet, slipped an eccentric blew out his soft plug, went down grades fifty feet to the mile, and not a confounded brake set. "She went by the meeting point at amileand a half a minute, and calling for more steam. Mv hair stood up like a cat's tail, for I knew the game was up. "Sure enough, dead ahead of us was the headlight of the 'special'. In a daze I heard the crash as they struck, and I saw cars shivered into atoms, people mashed and mangled and . bleeding, and gasping for water. "I heard another crash as the French professor struck the keys away down in the lower end of the southern di vision, and then I came to my senses. There he was at a dead standstill, with the door of the fire-box of the machine open, wiping the perspira? tion off his face, and bowing at the people before him. If Hive to be a thousand years old I'll nover forget the ride that Frenchman gave me on the piano. lie Was in the Army. Brooklyn Eagle. A distinguished company f lawyers nt in the Supremo Court-room, talk lisr of r11 tiTYipq. Anion? them was Col Charles S. Spencer. He was in his usual happy vein and told a new story. ."I was retained," said he, by an ex soldier of the war to sue for the recov ery of some $1,800 which he had loaned to a friend. The late Edwin James vas counsel for the defendant. I went to work zealously for my client. James cross-examined the plaintiff in his usual forcible way. "You loaned him $1,800?" Mr. James asked. "I did sir," was the reply. "It was yca5 own money?" contin ued Mr. James. It was, sir," my client responded. "When did vou lend him the money?" was the next question' An July,18GG, was the answer. "WTifrt AiA vnn rot flint, mnnev?" vv j &- James demanded sternly. "l earned it sir." The words were said in a meek tone. "Vou earned it eh? When did you earn it?" "During the war, sir," was the reply still in a very humble tone. "You earned it during the war. Boy, hat was your occupation during the Mr James inquired. "Fighting, sir," the man replied, Modestly. "Oh, fighting," Mr. James said, offiewhat taken down and instantly tlianging his manner. .1 Mailed triumphantly and even tiered a little. James was half Well, we went to the jury, and I coarse, had the last sav. I sailed up tforr. I spoke of the war; of ih? fcH m1 treasures it cost us; of the ful battles which decided the fate J toe Union ; of the self -tlenial and the tTy f kh" men who left home, ife an.l children and father and tWr and everything that was dear the nation. I pointed to thi plaintiff as he sat there, still in the same air of humility and even sadness, and Raid that was the sort of men who had fought our battles, and saved our flag, and shod his lifo-blood that wo and our children might enjoy uncurtailed tho blowings of freedom wrenched from tho hands of despots by our sires. I worked up that jury, lean tell you, and tho plaintiff himself drew forth an unpretentious handkerchief and wiped away a tear. I got a verdict for tho full amount, of courso. "As wo were quiting the oourt-room, James said, "Spencer, your war speech gained vou tho verdict. Tf vnn hiul nnt. discovered through my cross-examina- non mai me man hail fought in the war, you would have been beaten." "Mv friend "I renliod. "if vnn lmil only asked the man on which sido he fought, you might bo going home with a verdict. My client was a rebel." Keeping Warm hi tho';Xortli. I reached home on the 13th, tho cold est weather I experienced on the trip being on tho 13th, when about two hours before sunrise, tho thermometer indicated fifty-three degrees below ze ro. That day I mado a journey of twenty-five miles, riding most of the way on tho sledge, and at no time during that day did I feel un comfortable, tho highest tho thermom-f etor reached being fifty degrees, and I might here say. that I really enjoyed the whole trip. ' I attribute this wholly to the Esquimau reindeer clothing and constantly living in a snow igloo like the natives, where tho temperature is never above freezing and generally ten to mteen degrees below that point. I do not believe and my belief is con firmed by tho written account of others that any Arctic voyagers, housed in warm ships as their base and clad m the usual suits of Arctic explorers, could stand such a journey without more or less material discomfit. Only once did I learn tho lesson of caution. I took off my right mitten in attempt ing to get a shot at a passing reindeer, the wind blowing stiffly in my face and the thermometer thirty seven degrees below zero, when the persistent refusal of the frozen gun-lock to work kept my hand exposed much longer than I had intended. When I attempted to use it again it seemed paralyzed, and looking at it I noticed the skin looked as white as marble. Tooloah, who was beside me, noticed it at the same time, and with an Innuit exclamation of sur-, prise hastily doffiing his mittens.grasp ed it between his two warm hjnds, and held them against his warmer body under his coo-le-tah, or Esquimau coat. It soon resumed its functions, and although I felt for some time as if I were holding on to a hornet's nest, I experienced no more serious results than a couple of ugly looking blisters where the iron had come in contact with the bare hand. The reindeer -escaped. As the reindeer clothing is the warmest in the Arctic, so it makes the warmest bedding, two long skins made into a coffin-like bag or sack, the hair side' in, being a sufficient protection in coldest weather when in a properly constructed igloo. When the first se vere cold came to North Hudson Bay I'was sleeping in a blanket and two fine buffalo robes, which I found, as the thermometer sank thirty to forty de grees below zero, Fahrenheit, to be in adequate to secure comfort, until I se cured a reindeer sleeping bag, weighing not half as much, after which cold nights were no longer dreaded. The robe of the American bison seems to become damp under the least provoca tion and then freezes as stiff as a piece of sole-leather. Once spoiled in this manner, 'it is difficult to restore it to its former pliability in the low tempera ture of an igloo. The furs of the musk rat I found to be equally unsuitable to our mode of life, and I believe all oth er furs of the temperate zone would the same opinion if tested in the same practical way. Lieut. SchwatkaA Ostrich Farming. A tract of six hundred and forty acres of land has been secured at Anaheim, Cal., for the purpose of breeding ostriches. These ungainly birds are valuable for the feathers they produce, and it is supposed that the new industry will be a veryprofit able one. Some twenty ostriches have been brought from Southern Africa, and have so far taken kindly to "the glorious climate of California." The females have commenced laying egps. These last are formidable in size, for they measure four inches and a half in lateral diameter, and seven inches in longitudinal diameter. They weigh three and a half pounds. A new egg is laid every alternate day, till ninety es are collected. It is believed that irTtime these birds will be quite com mon in a wild state in southern Cali fornia, Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas. Ostrich hunting is said to be capital sport, but the great value of the animal exists m its feath ers, which furnish plumes for female headgear. -Demrtt' Monthly fo May. t lmrcli has offered a preacher a salary of $10,000 and two months- vacation every year. He re cards it as a "call to preach the Gos- b . r a Ana eUP VOUlil aC- rr. . cZer. but would call It TOc Coming Wild Mau. . A rehearsal of a follow who was to make- his debut as tho wild man of a sido show, and who had heightened his natural ugliness by letting his hair ami nails and beards grow very long was witnessed by a Chicago Herald corres pondent, lie has lecome proficient in uttering an unintelligible jargon, and in posing and gesticulating like a mon key. But on being subjected to criti cal examination by a showman it was found that he lacked one desirable ac complishment. "A wild man ought not to bo able to cat in a civilized man nerV said this export. "You say that you are going to show yourself in ft cage, pawing and growling around like a brute. Very well. Now, what is it in a menagerio that catches the crowd more than anything else ? The feeding of tho animals, ain't it? When you filing a chunk of fresh meat at a lion and he fiercely devours it, tho spectators just shudder, shrink back and enjoy themselves. Now there's the hint for your racket. You must devour raw meat." "Darned ef I can do that," said the wild man from Kentucky. "I have lived on fried bacon and hominy tpo long to eat raw meat. I . swear I couldn't swaller it." "But it need not be raw for a fact," said the showman, it can bo cooked beef faked up to look raw." This counsel was heeded, and tho wild man in tho rehearsal, tore a beef that was blood red but not really raw, with fingers and teeth in quite a fiercely ravenous way. "The perform ance was crude," saj's the narrator, "but will doubtless become startlingly effectivo when perfected by repetition." A Necessity of the Day. Few minor inventions have been so readily appreciated and come so quick ly into general use as the stylographic pen. None who have .used one will ever be contented with any less con venient apparatus for writing, and in a short time there will bo a few who have occasion to write at all who have not adopted it. The general princi ple of the stylograjihic pen is so fa miliar as to require no explanation. We have made trial of various kinds, but have found none to equal the im proved Livermore Stylographic Pen, which combines all the advantages of other makes. It is convenient to use, writes with any kind of gook ink, and is practicably indestructible. Sold at first for $3 each, the price has recently been reduced to $2 for plain pens, with fifty cents extra for gold mounted. By sending that amount to Louis E. Dun lap, Manager Stylographic Pen Com pany, 290 Washington Street, Boston, a pen. tocrether with a packaere of su perior ink. will be sent by return mail, and the money will be at once refunded if they do not prove to be perfect in every respect. Moiiiing Mail, Lowell, Mas. The taxes in the form of stamps have been abolished by the new tariff on the following articles : Uank cliecKS, pat ent medicines, perfumeries, and cos metics, playing cards, cigar lights and tapers, matciies, ana ine tax on oanK deposits and bank capital. It also re duces some taxes as follows : On ci gars from $6 per 1,000 to $3 ; on ciga-r ettes from $1.75 to 50 per 1,000; to hn.oon and snuff, from 15 cents per pound to 8 cents per pound ; the special tax on retail dealer in leaf tobacco, from $25 per year to $12 per year ; manufacturers of cicars. from $10 to $9 per year ; niamifacturers of tobacco from $10 to SO per year; dealers-in manufactured tobacco, from $5 per vpar in &2.40 : and peddlers of the first p.lftss. from $50 to 30 : of the second class, from $25 to $15 ; of the third class, from $15 to $7.20; and of the fourth class, from $10 to $3.50. The urorrtnrn.t,A reduction of taxes thus ef fected is estimated at $10,000,000 per year. A Tlallaa inrv awarded $4,000 dam ages for the loss of H. Rider's arm by carelessness of the Houston and Texas Central railway. nrva t.Tiov nav. can onlv lav ecrcs iD daytime because at night they are roosters. All the military telegraph lines in Texa3 are to be discontinued. 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