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THE FAIR PLAY. J . WTIIK.. Palili.brrs. 6I..M frr tear. ST13. (iKNKVlKVK, MO., JAXl.'AKV 20. I-Ti; VOL. IY.-XO. ... TKKMSt r (iENCKAL BREVITIES. Kabbits are so thick on the lower portion of Beaver Kivcr, I tali, that no crops van lie raised. Sxow-sheis have been placed over the railroad tracks in the Sierras, ami no fears of a blockade are felt. Imia lias not a single port on the vast sea eoast line lietwecu Bombavand Calcutta where a vessel could discharge her cargo at a jier. A Pennsylvania man naiuetl his first three hoys America, Cn"d States, and Christopher Columbus, and a new comer he has ealied Centennial. A letter was received at the Nor wich (Conn.) Pst-ofl'-e several days before Christmas, addressed in a child's hand, to Santa Claus." It was Jield for postage. Kkkti.X'KY has a law that all money won in twitting on elections shall be con fiscated to the school fund, and the (rand .Inrv at Ioiiisvillu are rollin" 1111 . - rr - m a fearful list of indictments. A womas at New Haven recently bought, at an miction Kale, for a few V--cuLs, a$l,.rK India shaw, which had Accidentally got among some articles - iscnth the auction room. Doss Piatt happy man has met somewhere in his recent travels a wo man of whom he says: II. t smile in Minliirht ami her laugh Hint Kiinlit:lit n-i tune; Jler lit the honey bee might quaff Ami ilreain of liu-L in June. Accokiuki; to a French journal, one dines in England fir recuperation, in Italy for the utilization of indigenous products, hi Spain for the enjoyment of the post-prandial cigarette, and in France for the sake of dining that is, for c halting, for the enjoyment of life, and for the exchange of social ameni ties. As English ilway company has lntn compelled 1y the decree of ail Euglish ' tfwmrt to 1 1- t i liti m t to... I 4lifi 41 6s M damages ami hotel expenses, lie- ;e the tram on winch he traveled Tailed to connect with another train, as promised by the time-table, and he was compelled to lav over one night aftllou ecster. TliK building proposed to be erected by the Centennial Photographic Com pany will Im on Belmont Avenue, and is to contain a model studio, manufac tory, ami art gallery combined. The building will be feet long, titf fit-t inches wide, and will be built aroiintl a court or garden, toward which the glass houses will incline. The front will include a spl ndid reception room and two large art halls. Miss. Hannah Stover, of Bowdoin ham. Me., has a right to Ik? regarded as the heroine of the Centennial year. She was iMirn on the Fourth of July, 177ti, at nearly the same hour when the great bell was ringing out t lie news of the Declaration from the old hail in Phila delphia. She is in good health, and hopes to celebrate the hundredth anni versary of the nation's birthday in July next. TOO LATE. Each on hi own i-triel line we move. Ami wniie llnl ik-atli e they tfu.l hive, so far apart Uu-ir lives an- thro n From the t in soul titat halve their own. And -metimes, t-y Mill har-ler fate, Tlie lover meet, bill meet t late. "hy heart is nunc True, true! nh! true. Then, love, thy u.in-l Alt, no! ailieu! Matlhem Arnold. Til EKE is nothinglike making the licst of one's opportmiilics. That, at least, was the view taken by William Smith, a prisoner on trial in the Criminal Court of Memphis. In the course of the trial Ithe attorneys for and against the pris oner entered into an argument which J progressed into an exchange of abuse and culminated in a rough-and-tumble fight. This proveil so interesting to the officers that they forgot all about Wil liam, who quietly walked out of the room, handcuff and all, ami made his escape. The Herald gives this instance of Af rican superstition in Vicksbuig. A col ored woman on Ia-vcc Street yesterday beheaded a turkey preparatory to plac ing it in the diuuer-pot. and held it by its feet while it was struggling in the last expiring throes of death. A negro man standing near caught her by the arm excitedly and cried, "Turn -dat fowl loose. If you letf 'em die in your hand you gwiue have the wust kind nervousness all your life, and St. Vituses dance, so voii'can't stand still.' . i; 1 .1 . . waV,!ligger, repiieu t lie woman, u tie fowl die 'fore the neck quit bleeding, dat's good luck. I knows what I'm doinV Sieakis of society in Washington, and its reporters, a correspondent of the Boston tllobe says : " Of late years the Jenkins' business lias been done mostly bv women -lady correspondents. as triey stvle themselves. You would be ltniazcd to know how these women are Sought aftcT by the leaders and devotees of fashionable" Society,' who are eager to see their names in print and to have .the public acquainted with their etiter "tainmcnts. The female. Jenkins is al ways 'invited,' but she is often taken be hind the scenes before the show begins and furnished by the lady of the house with a minute description of the salient noinls of tin- reeeotioii. wedding, dill- j itor.ii'irt v ir vliMtv-el it 111:1V he. 1 his is done in order to avoid mistakes,' which, in the days of blundering male Jenkins, were sometimes very embar rassing. Not a few write accounts of their entertainments them-elves, and send them to the local new.pajcrs. when Jenkins fails to put in an appear anceany thing rather than to fail of a notice. The 'men are as vain ami fool ish about these things as the women. I have seen a grave-looking Coi-grcss- ; men go up to a Jenkins at a reception and give him a description 01 ins wiie s toileU and then spell. his own name and that of his beloved carefully, so that there should le n mistake about it." The Ieclie r New England. The Western fever removes by install ments of whole generations the young men of New England. In many places in the very heart of Massachusetts it is as it was in F.deu ln-fore the creation of man, when we read "there was not a nan to till the ground." Thirty miles inward from Worcester there are whole acres which sixty yearn ago sold for an acre, which to-dar can l had for 1 1, though railroads and telegraphs skirt the fields, and the fields are ex cellent farm laud. You find old men and hired farm laborers, but no yeo manry indigenous to the soil; it is an element unknown. The young men have gone West, moved by various im Hlling causes. Portsmouth, Newbury Hirt, Itristol, Stotiingtoit, Nantucket, New Itedford, are already like the fin ished towns of the old world. Ill reli gious matters, Maine and New Hamp shire and parts of Massachusetts are like mission-lields at the West. To be sin-cessfully erved with the iospcl, the time is soon coining when the decayed and feeble parish organization in rural districts must yield lefore the stronger and more helpful method of the mis sionary circuit. We may build churches and raise money as we see lit, but the wail which, has already commenced clearly indicates the rural parochial decline. Even the literary headship of I his ton feels the final attractions of the great- metroimlis. Even the Atlantic Muidhlif ami Old and AV r fly away, like the coot of Itbrador, to the milder shores of long Island Sound. Of course there are two sides to this subject. What is fun for the bovs is death to the frogs. The decline of New England means the marvelous development of the West. It is force not lost lo the country at pres ent, but only transferred from one sec tion to anoi her. ' un Monthly. - - Yield of Precious .Metals During 175. I. J. Valentine. Ccncral Superin tendent of WelN, Fargo & Co.. pul-lish.-s the annua! statement of the pr-dm-tion of the precious metals in the Mates and Territories west of the Mis souri Kiver, including liritish Columbia and the western coast of Mexico, during I.s7.". The statement shows an aggre gate vicldof !s.so.S.sn.i;;7. being an ex cess of ?i;.-s7,,.s- over that of 1S71, which was the greatest previous annual yield in the hislonrfof ihis coast. The yield iu Nevada," Colorado, Mexico, Oregon, liritish Columbia. Montana, and Ariotia increased. It decreased in California and in Idaho, I'tah. and Washington Territories. The increase is actual, except for Mexico, Oregon, and Arizona, where it is apparent mi her than real, as compared with other years. The decrease in California is. in the main, occasioned by a stinted water supply for placer and hydraulic mining. The present pnspects indi cate an aggregate yield of .1H,imnvhmi for ls7ti. of which "Nevada will doubt less produce .?."iti,iiN.i'H. A Bibulous Court. At a recent trial in the Eiko County Court our friend P.i-lioiV of the Hum boldt l.rewery was called as a witness. Mr. liishoff is one of the solid men"' of Elko, where he has been iu business since the town was started in the win ter of IS'iS. l"pon lieing sworn. Coun selor Kami, one of the attorneys in the ease, who, bv the wav. is also an old resident of Elko, said: "Mr. P.ishofT, where do you reside?"' "Where do I reside? What for you ask me such fool ish things? You drink at mv place more ! as a hundred t mes." That has noth ing to do with the case on trial, Mr. Bishoff; state to the jury where you re side." I V shurry ! de" shurry !Oh, py jiniiny! ofery gentleman on dis shurry has a string of marks on mine cellar door just like a rail fence." His honor here interrupted in the counselor's be half, and in a calm, dignified manner requested the witness to state where he resided. Oh. excuse me. shndge; vou drinks at mv blaye so many times and pays me liotings, I dinks you know old Bishoff vat keeps the brewery." -Yo rud'i ttilvtr SMe. (itLT-EiwiKH visiting-cards is a swell thing in New York. Some liood ltg Stories. He was born in Sprimrlicld, and had in some strange way broken 1m.i!i hi - nmu legs. lie imgrieo ill agony, inoimti kindly cared for by many whopiticd him. .11 it-iii ii win- ii.o, oiaulll 111- Illll'ilul IHlH-ilog f!tp-eimg toj-:s. ,1:l,,. tilatcd legs behind him, indifferent to ! a en: at it with His whip, au l .-truck it sulleriiig, he soujrht the nearest pond; smart Iv. Th- dog tuivi.d r ;md iti and deliberately went into d.-cp water j stantlv :n-l ru-hcl at the man. as i verv until the water enjrnlfed him. Pliable one thought, but he m-wr .!!" r. -I to lav to en-lure his misir, the MHir brute had j hold of him. and ken; iuntuitig :.t the deliberately coitiiiHtb-d sii'n ide. whip, which the man hi-M high out of A r triever dog. whose owner was; reach. The man then b-gan to In-at it working iu the gar-Un of the Bath in- j with the u hip. till the auiuial siiatcheil stitutiou. lately kii'.cl a favorite cat, a i i: from his hand and w-n rit-d at it fu freqttc liter of the sane grounds. Il.iv- rion-!y. Having reg.imeil ,.f the ingcomm;t!-d this iiiprovoketl murdi-r, j whip." he swung fhe d ig r .imd and 4.1 I. I I : I ; the dog d; :Iile-ra:e! tiik the cat in Ins in. mtli, carried it s-iiie distance, dug a d--ep hole iM-hiud soue bii-hes, and af - ter dcM.Mting the tit therein carefully replaced the earth, .Hid had he not Im-cii ohscrved there woud have lieen no evi - deuce of the crime. Philip Cilliert Ihmertoii never told a more iM-autifulstnnt han the following: A dog was berea-cdof his master and became old and blhd, passing the dark evenings of his exitence sadly i:i some corner, which he tardly ever quitted. One day inline a sep like that of Ins; lost master and b suddenly left his plait. I lie man wio nan just enicreu wore ribbed si-M-kngs; the old dog had lost his sifiitaiidrferr.il atonit to the stockings that he i tiieiiiln-red nibbing his face against. Jelicving his master had returned afterihose weary years of j absence he gave ':iy to the nnst ex- travagant delight. 1 he man sjioke. The! moiiicutarv illusio was disiH-lleil ; the dog went sadly bak to his place, lay down wearily and lied." A Kadnors'hire tdy, who was in.ir riitl in March, and caiiw- to reside in Yorkshire, Englan, reit-ntly paid a vis it to her father, wl, before she was married, had kept. wo or three, shit-p dogs, of which die was ery fond. Since t lieu la hisctired from business and disHsed of :i but one dog. This one met the lady villi demonstrations of great delight npn her arrival at her father's house, am that night the dog went a distance ofseven miles to a farm house, where one f the other dogs had b-'cn sent (the latirwas blind, but kept as being an old faoritc). In the morn ing when the l.ely.vcnt to tin door she not only saw tlft og which had given her such a glad recpt'on the day previ ously, but also th. old blind one, which had evidently bit brought by the oth er dog to Welcolil her. When the sec ond night came tr old blind one was taken back to its lone by the same dog, which atterward Itiirne,!, having Irav elcd a distance ofwciity-cight miles to give pleasure to tfc old build one. .... . .i II IM'ilig III povssnill o llll-".signs j known onlv to ihtlSrothcrhoodof (;,m . leuiplars. and oJerving the essential j qualification of t-l abst.-mi.ui from all i intoxicating lupps ci-iisnimea "nroiii er," Mr. J. I.ees Newfoundland (assuming of com-that lie ims not in dulge in other tin tin usual canine lieverages), aecoiiug t the Newcastle Ihiili Journal, ullld sceill to have a right to the full lm-iils of mcmlx-rship of that brotherlud. This dog. it is stated by the abo journal, having for some time past aended with his m is ter at the"Pridof the Tyne" lnlge of ;mhI Teniplat, at Ilaiiu histle. a pears to have foul out I heir mysterious rap for entering 6- lodge-room during their meetings, n the last lodge night he sit-ins to haveingered by the way, and bis master citivd the lodge with out him and close thed-ior. A short time after the in:r-gn:ird and part of the nienilH-rs lnd the well known knock at the inncloor, when theguard arise and opetnt it. ;'.t:d the black brute walkejl majlically in. greatiy to the surprise of tucigilaul guard, caus ing no small aiiwmcnt to ttie whole company."' Who carries th mail from tte-tra- irmi.tiiili mu',11 ii mi tlii l imiesota line to the tiearestonticr settlement iu j Dakota? Whv. lis. a mongrel kind I of dog. nn appant ulttaiate result ot the mingling oi evy kiniioi iiogioTi-m in the Territorv. ss master a ago was a drunkcihalf-breed who was paid tj-'i a trip in snmer and--") in win ter for taking ihetiails a distance of some sixtv miles. Ioss master was honest, anil neve purloined a letter, but he had a way 'inking on the mad. and the mails wetofteii deferred. East January the mail-rricr never reached his destination, b was found iVo.eii stitfin a snow-bati three miles lH-yond Jobley's Run. B was kcepingguard over his master 1 the mail. Now llos runs t lie in line in bad weather. AH that has to hefme is to take Boss j into tiicir midst. The mother sold the and secure the letr round his neck in rags and tin little family had a comfort in oilskin wrat. .d awav goes ISos to aide il:unr that dar. Ltftt'tte 'ou- thA on.l of the in.- route ou the biggest kind of a lope. Tre is no use of stain ing Boss, like pole l pigeons, to get him to work, tho h he dies exjMH-t a feed at the conchon of his journey. No one as yet ijiitriguing for l!ss' place. Sixty-two iles as the crow flies, carrying the ni:hroiigh the snow, is not a position nit oilice-seckcrs care for. in i aimon street. City witness to an etra- of London, I wa ordinarv seeiir I loin-r aloin; ;ie street I was an "emi.t v co al ua 'on. wit'i a t ill i toiit w.isoner, lots 1 walking bv its si.ie. v.h'i iu Intnl. A !le:-W. llotxer- ... . . . ro;!ii,l, l.un:T.ing it l.ea .:! against the pavement, 'till the -r..d cried j Shanif!" The dog was lie n choked j ..iT, and the whip returned to its owner. ''he dog. however, as o.u as ! ,ini- : mediately returned to the charge, when the driver. eidentlv not desirous of ; eoiit inning tl uitet, tlirew the of- i fending weapon into the wagon. Tin dog now tried two or three iiictVcctual jumps to follow it. but lin.ling hiuiM-lf ballleil, trotted oil' crestfallen, amid the jei-rs of the erowd " ! at last, old fellow." The most wonderful thing was that the animal could imly see the the real of- proiiu:te cause, and not fender, M. Iliiiiiotit has a dog, pompier bv name, and his master is dcvoied to tmoking. Sometimes M. Iluninut gets out of tobacco, and Pompier, knowing where the tobacconist is, has live sous given him. when he straightway "oes to thetobaci-o shop, buvs the iv-ed.:ind returns with it to his master. Soil: time ago Pompier had some money giv en him for tobacco, but, imt-tiiig a spaniel just around the corner, the two dogs had a game of tag, and the i. otiey was litst. W hen Pompier came home without any tobae.-o he got a sound thm-hing. Next day Pompier went out again with more inouev for t-ibait-o. Bound the eoriu-r, sure enough, was the same spaniel, trying to lure poor Pompier from the path of duty. Pout pier did his best to resist tempta tion, but alas! he was weak, and he fell fro ii grace a hihiuI time, and the money was lost. Now, lieing a French dog. of course some ideas of su icide Hashed through his brain, but lie ing a mora! dog, and a relleeting dog withal, he looked carefully at the situa tion. An hoiirafterw.-trd Pompier march ed into Mr. Ihiinoiit's prcsem-c wit Ii full ten sous worth of loliaeco. flfeoiir-e his master was sat islied. Next day t he dog and his master took a walk in the Luxe uiliourg gardens. They approach ed a group of Imys engaged in playing pi!.-ii-M iinv. -I say, yu. ir. nj, riiil one of the gamins, "that is a log Vol! have! t Mi, 1 reingnize him. .-hall tell the police a!i V), :-,. t :l Iii.-f, vour aboui it. If . Yes- ibtg trrdav when we Were plaving here that dog m-iile a jump for th- pennies, gob bled tlie.n all up, and was i:f again like lightning."' "I: i with regret," adds the authority for this dog story, "that I am forced to state in the ino-t positive terms that Pompier was a Ihief. of course, it may be quite in order to insist that dogs arc endowed to-day with a superior order of intelligence. I have nothing further to advamt-, nor do I wish to extenuate Pompier's crime." Hw Christmas t ame lo One Poor Fata- Two little twin girls living on Center Street, wan with hunger and sut'ering with tin cold and damp of a dreary, dismal day, Ivcggcd their !uoth'-r for bread. The poor mother looked sor rowfully upoa her little darlings, ami told t hem there was not a morse! in the j house, not cveii so much as a crust -f nrcad. I.nt -he t.-i.i tii.-m that if the rag-man would com.- s:ie w.ni.. sell "the bag of rag-. ami :: would luiy tiiem s..m. th:ng to cat. i.ik oio.iLi'i n nil mis e..ii.iinonai pr.i!ii:-c t:n- nine i im - i-aiii nir.g ai, d s tid they v.otiM , watch lor tin rag-mat:. Accordingly they wei.t out iio(.-s a'id -r.t f-r an hour upon the coid step-, urit.-hing f ir the little wagon which children know so well. Tin- !itt!e gills v--rc just large leno - igh to g,( to Sunday-school, and had I ic:ir:e'd a tew vcr-es ot some songs. which thev sang together as thev sat iu the cold, until tiualiv the uagou and tie man w:n t-rie- out " nags oie ; lern, came in sight, when they ran to their mother and repeated the fact with as much joy m their countenance as though a fortune had dropped down rUr - Jurntl, A FACr-Tiots lawyer who heard "Macbeth" rehearsed was struck bv the answer of the witches when asked what they were doing: "A deed with out a name." Why, that's void," exclaimed the lawyer. "" I'll burst a ( without a n-iMie' iu any court of Christendom." Some time ag. ITSbENT PARU.IUPIIS. t: f.irth in haste, with bills and paste, I'r-i-lntn ! nit rn-atlen : IN nti'it are ft i-e l.o a-lvi-rti-e In the n ent iti-iK-ralion. The pN-m entitled "l-autiful Snow" has reappeared as original in a Montana paper, and credited to a oor. but intel ligent, young man. named Tompkins, w ho is tending bar. M any of us are kept iu a position of moral rectitude, as stones are kept up right in a wall, by the pre-siire of the rest. .Itini'K Frit hum t'larkf. MKX scent neither tolllldert:l!!d their riches mr their strength -of the former. ! thev believe much greater things than l . i...".. i m. ..i ,i. " i. i . " Tis strtft to sit at eventide Snne w ulin' ft-itiat f-rm lie-i-le. An-I like urran-l .nh-kt r; T- feel, whali ver -levili-h aris Are sun-rriniroiher kin-ln-,1 ItearU. You t are cr-in in tit rki-r. It was in Omaha. A lawyer was ad dressing the Judge, and the Judge waa eating H-anuts and reading a novel. The lawyer bore it for some time, and then angrily remarked : I supjiose lm entitled to claim the attention of this Court." "Well, sir," retorted the Judge, "the Court has long susHetit you, and will do its duty the first chance it gets." " MTitisK." said a brow-Wating lawyer to a witness he was Irving to badger, one day last week. "supose I should tell you that I could bring a doz en men from your town to this court room who would not leliee you on oath, what would you sav ?" And caliulv the witness made his reply : " I would say oii lied." A gentle smile diibiscd it st-If all over the court-room, like a lump of butter on a hot ake, and the tllimflb-d witness stepped down. Fi'LTon. of the Baltimore .inrri-an. says that the French and ticriiians have, more varieties of hash than we have of staple dishes. They may hae more of them, but they can't U-at us either in quality or animation. Why, we have a hash at our lioardiiig-housc which is so frisky that when "dot little Sherman baud" comes II lid blays "Old dog Dray" at the window, it immediately barks, and frightens the landlady out of her seven senses. Talk about h:-.sh! ln'.i r-fAv'i. The Boston Cooking School. The Boston cooking school is a capi tal affair. It is under the management i.f a company of ladies who hire the r-NH-is : tail see that the cook teacher is coiiiM-tc nt . Then lessons of two hours each are given to classes of two, three and four, or to a single pupil, as the learners prefer. Tin terms are j. for ten less-ms. The pupils do the cooking themselves under the direction of the teachers, and may, if they like, eat what tln-y cook. Many of the classes are coni- ...-! of middle-aged la-lies uho arc ex cellent housekeepers, but go to the cook ing si.-hoo! to learn to make certain de lii ions or ortiamental dishes, in which the teacher excels. The school has no publicity, and it s classes an- formed and waiting long before they have oppor tunity to go. The results are excellent, and every city would find such a school would be well suptortcd. The Poor Womh-b r Rostra. On a Saturday night, not long ago, three girls came home with their week's ay. and, as the firt one said "Mother, ndd your apron."all threw their money into it. I congratulated the mother bo cause they were so good. She answer ed, "I wi-h they were bad; then it would not break my heart to see them deny themselves every pleasure and work like slaves." One girl, who was out of work and in debt last spring. could not In-ar the cross look when she wer , table, so she in her despair u -.n.lcr.-.i awav into the Mctriqiolitaii ear-ltoii-e. slit-ping tinder a ear three ilLr!-iB -mil uting in an olliee in Iheilav- ,;,,.. - his exposure to the eutrtii" i.U of March liearlv cost her her life. Wl.cn she found something to ihi. she dropped on her knees ami began ft Spauish (,'onsrrlpts. Wiiat we found far more iiiterfMin; .v.i- a room dim with toba-t-o smoke. where conscripts w--re being measured a.el weighed f.;- eulistiug. M.u.v of then were verv voung. between K and 2", and their laces wore an awed, fnght- encd apearam-e, not at all soldier-like and very pitiful to see. Outside some women sat waiting in different attitudes of suspense and grief ; one or two were" crying disconsolately, as if hojieless; another, with little hands clinched tight, stood motionless besidethe door, giane ins up keenly every time it opened.and, as I noticed the face, I said to the Col liel, "That woman won't let the one in whom she's interested go without a struggle." "No," was the answer. "She will exhaust all means of saving' him, fail and then tlie. B'tretlona for. St. L'jiii Olobi.