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■ Col. Snowden on the Trade
Dollar.
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k Colonel A. Louden Snowden,
Ëiperlntendent of the Mint, at Phila
■dphia, ta of the opinion that the
■ovemment should retire the tr .de dol
lr. Tbe principal causes for the dis
Rpiile into which thcYoln has fallen, he
Lgds, is due to its want of legal tender
au d the enormous fall in the
« of silver. Its bullion value at the
K-' of its authorization, February Id,
10*2 j cents, and in July of the
all
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was
I <• year 1021 cents. Now it fluctuates
I -.ecu WVJ and 87 cents. While the
I ,e dollar has always beeu acceptable
I . in other cities it has teen from
I e to time rejected, and us a couse
■ uce l'hüadclp! ia is burdened with
I ry large proportion of the depre
led coin, largely in the possession of
ill sfiord
■ laboring people, who can
n or per cent discount.
■ lulossofa
■ n le>s relief was granted Colonel M»ow
Kit-n said the loss would fall upon those
'east able to bear it. If not ex
standard dollars they would
vexatious element in daily
.»actions. They should he
ument aud retired
r sons
Unged iu
1
V:
tniue
irai
Hull'll by the Hovel
circulation, if for no other reason
discreditable for a na
into circulation at
ii
,n that it was
n to be forcing
, Jolla' of 41-1 grains when dollars
L grains of the ™' ue 'd» ndard ,lne -
Li,sued by authority of the same
L ament, are reiused at more than
I. The only loss to the (.overn
1 , „hanging standards for trades
L silver used. _
i u
j^ny mean people
Second ice man—"I
: m eaueBt act Ie™ r
of five families
. man
1«
Liur rouie ?"
ft^ay so «
three out
ImatfciH
'
with
no place like a
horns l \
A Charm from the .k,^ m , shallow u,
(Like the lore of a *hor,
8ur|.MBing »11 other Ï
Which,%eek throuRh tiWld. is ne'er ten
met with else WhenX ^
1 here « u ^pell in the U*
^.SÄXnor.taP
than Despair I V
vfcl„r dazzles in u
of
again, ^ ^ "V* ***"
The bird* and the iambkii.^hht come at
Those whiTnamed me wi||osi»le t —
Thone who played by raylc
■ ;V:.n'.T ! w > tuth< ' 1,,n * , '" d "* r
Tiie joj« <,r tiie pslaos» llir.i^jwhirii I
"°
ed
HOME, SIeT HOME.
(As origii^ written.)
though
'Mid pleasure* and a
ho hunihh ^
may
m h
Sven
An exile from Home, sp
vain !
K«ve
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HOME. HWKKf HOMf.
I
(Ab rovitfxi by the author, dato mllaown.
id to be* copied from Mr l'tynos
id with his own prec|pYim
and aa
manuscripts,
tuation.)
Mid pleasures aud palaces though
humble, there's no plawllke
Be it ev
home! \
A charm from thoiky seoms to hall*w^
there. . \
Which, seek through the world, is 110 \ |
met with elsewhere I
Home, home, swoot, sweet home t
There's no place like he
1 hero's no place liko home!
An exile from home, splendor dazzlos in
1
!
m '
my lowly thatchod cottage
at my
them !—and the peaco of mind,
dearer than all !
Homo, home, Hweot. sweot home !
placo like homo!
There's no place like homo !
KTANZAK.
O, give me
again I
The birds, singing gayly, that co
call—
<. î' •
There's
AoniTio
to the
(The following «dJitional ven
ongof •• Home, Hweet Homo," Mr. rayno
rtixed to the shoot <-f music, and presented
diem t<> Mrs. Ratos, in London, a rolativo
of his and the wife of a woalth.y hanker.)
To im in spit« of the abseneo of vi>ui>.
How swoet the remembranee of m*MK still
Prom allurements abroad, which but flatter
the eye.
The unsatUfled heart turns and says with a
sigh, ,
"Home,home, sweot. sweet home.
place like home '
like home!
There i
There i
P>
You» exile is blest with all fate can bestow ;
Rut mink has Wen cheokored with many a
woe I
Yet, though different
thoughts
Ynd both, as
claim :
*• Home, home, sweet, sweet home!
like home!
place like home I
John Howard Pavnx
fortunes, o
the same,
think of Columbia,
There's no pi
There's
A Love of a Bonnet.
depai
this
it !"
"I promised to buy my wife a new
bonnet," remvfked the editor of the
llefluniery ■ as he crossed Canal street,
arm iu a' m with his bosom friend, A1
Knowlt§ n> dodging a trttek as he uttei
ed the,words, and stubbing the toe of a
tight 'toot against the cürb i
ed
the
been
at
«•onse
queute,
"Vf e ii, l)0 w that you are iu town aud
01 iLoadWiiy, you ought to keep youi
wui x i mul buy her as nice 1 bonnet a*
can find,'' answtred bit friend a.*
he H.**adied the newspaper man, rest 01
ing to him nio equilibrium.
"Yes, I know I ought to; but you
see we country editors
usually with hs mu/vy dollars as there
.ire quads iu the case. J have come OP
to New Y'ork to buy material and to see
ab^ut commission merchant's afls., and
l must not ruH myself ^rort. Then
again, it is a matter of- two hundred
miles to Freetown, and 1 must go up
the fiver on business before I go home,
ihe whole the expense aud
>
an
not lleseed
more
$50
,
his
the
to
a
find
so that
the trouble of carrying the head-gear
is too much. I guess Angel will have to
do without it."
"l)o without it !" exclaimed Knowl
ton, with a wealth of reproach in hie
"Do without It ! Yon are a prêt
fellow to grumble about expense and
distance! Your generosity is about ae
poor as your grammar. Y
tone.
cj
say you
to New Y'ork to buy
he
the
Id,
the
have coine on
printing material ;
and buy a bonnet for your wife !
do the opposite* but she will bless
the expen» if it is a handsome hat, and
site can let her neighbors know it came
all the way from New York."
"No, I guess I won't get it this time,"
said Editor Bawsliay.
"But I guess you will, though,
plied Knowlton. "ï'11 give you no peace
until you purchase a very love of a bon
net for that charming woman to whom
you refer so carelessly as 'my wife.'
Come, now, we will begin with the first
store where there is the least likelihood
Here, old fellow, is a
1 say 'come on'
You
re
the
of
of finding one.
place where they sell artificial flowers ;
let's go in aud see if by chance there is a
bonnet for sale."
Somewhat against his will Bawshay
suffered himself to be drawn Into the
trap, and presently Knowlton was ask
ing to "see some bonnets."
"Well," said the proprietor of the
establishment, in reply, "well, we don't
keep bonnets; our business is confined
«• ^ artificial flowers ; but perhaps we
l ave oue or two which have been used
t > display samples of our goods which
can let you have at a low figure. Step
ex
daily
he
reason
na
at
dollars
,lne -
same
than
trades
ve
t iis way."
In the rear of the large store the bon
nets were found and duly inspected.
The flist four were unanimously con
demned, but the fifth was charming.
So thought the two male connoisseurs
they gazed at the delicate affair, held
aloft ip the right hpnd pf the meçchapt,
who swayed gracefully in curvilinear
lines—giving it a sheer now to larboard
aud now U> starboard.
"Y'es," quoth Knowlton—who was a
bachelor, and of coqfse at* fait In all
■
people
families
\
/
!
ImatfciH of Lis *ort \"lt ta just the so
' tlilittjuu mint, Bawsliay—buy it." .
SuAenly the proprietor waa blesaed You
with «happy thought. y»«
■'Here Jenny," he cried addressing ! the
a „looming young girl, the center of a life
group of live woman (tin seme number my
^ ^ „„„ were e n- to
gaged in arraying roses and leaves not bright
uti,.«. i*.nnv will vou along
ten feet away. Here, Jenny, win you
^ ^ RO od M , to try this on?" to
* love ly creatuxe, who evi- one
den«y y co™ make au, bonnet »cm
other than It was by simply wearing your
in u gj, e did no t api)ear to like the idea just
of fitaimrtiiicr herself before two strange part
men in order U> show off the becoming
at of an e i e gant head covering as an
inducement to the* to pnreha» the
ie it wa8 a little out of her line ; she
r hut she came forward and tried the Ism
I uet ou biusliTiig gloriously the while, m
"° ÄredS?»n^Ä.O
ed with ..pel, ami ' undisguised admira
I
"it is just the
■
Tbe hat wai Announced "perfec- | her
tion iUelf," and tbe charming girl re- like
turned it to the miacliant with a deli- to
clous air ot confssion and embarrass
ment.
Bawsliay produced a i oil of bills, thus
apparently giv
I ion.
her
be
\
\
110 \ | end about C
in
the lie to the leg
editors' incurable
to
1 irapecunlosity, »no demanded, "How
Üuueh ?" v
\ "Any milliner inlown would charge
um at least $25 for i, but as we don't
V II hats, and this is dbmething unusual
% iyli us, you may have it for $5."
\ "Five dollars !" sail| Knowlton, un
ir his breath.
to value, but d\rt cheap as hat
1
is
cottage
my
mind,
dollars ! About
"FI
rikliL
goes."
Al light," said Blwshay.
rigliV; please put it up.'i
Knowlton hoped that lie lloweruian
woulcm ioloug tbe proces% for he was
infatuV *1 with the fair girl who had
exhibited the article of dress in such
a Switching manner, and he could
"hardlyikeep his eyes off her," as the
phrase Acs.
BawriiVy, married man though he
was, furtiely regarded the young lady
as she plitftJier vocation, still as red as
the roses A was at work upon.
" SniitteiJ
the friends i
the baiid-lxixlpontaining the treasure
between then
"Well, JW«,
returned I
I have beJI
I can evek
her?"
Pi
"All
the
rayno
rolativo
still
flatter
with a
h ?" said the editor, as
ched the sidewalk, with
bestow ;
many a
o
.am, and no mistake!"
"That's the girl
rig for—I wondet how
|uie acquainted with
[on.
M
to
shay
to
ever
to
changes
never
makes
law
"That Is
shay. "You
you? Well, ^'*1
depai and bv >%our stock at ;hiB
eHtablisliment ; ask tlī proprietor to let
this beauty wait on Jou ; improve llie
acquaintance and trunt to luck."
"Capital ! " said lvViowltuu. "I'll do
it !" And lie did. V
said Raw'*
■kiougll,
. fancy store, ^on'L
artificial flower
The bonnet reached wieetown in due
course, aud many bless were invok
ed upon Bachelor Knot Eton's head by
the editor's delighted «Rule, who had
been inhumed of the iiicments of the
purely*«,, V.*mI wlu> wprev.lu%husband's
appreciated gift so dai us\
J such supreme elegance as to
at once the applause aud envy of the
whole village. Bawsliay himself had
solid comfort for his $5 Ilian any
A
\
•with an
for
roofed
the
stands
and
by
that
by
who
an
has
more
$50 he had ever spent.
, Aud while this " love of a bonnet"
crealing such a semation in ITee
, it was exerting a i*owtrful in
ct. still iu New York. Following
his lVerary friend's advice, Knowlton
becan\e a customer at the store where
the now famous example of the milli
ner's skill had been purchased. Ac
cording to programme and arrangement
with the owner, the blooming young
girl who had\^aciuated his
first sight waited«upon him,
Bhe was not as ditUflent as he expect
ed. »She served him x with exquisite
grace, answered his questions, listened
to his diffuse and effusive leuiarkt
with an enchanting air, seen:etf\to like
the young fellow immensely, and after
a few weeks the proprietor thought he
had not done a very good thing in allow
ing Jenny to wait on his new customer,
as he took up too much of ber time
over very small purchases, and seemed
to be waiting on her rather than she on
find
ae
senses at
iu
a
first
a
him.
At last he remonstrated. The next
lime that he dropped in to buy he found
the charming youug lady more cordial
aud merry Ilian ever before, aud his in
toxicated renses reeled with delight, so
that he did not know— «8 his grand
mother used to say—whether he was
"stuuding on his head
AU at once the fair girl's sweet voice
startled him beyond measure. In silver
tones of dulcet softness, with a world
of Insinuation in them, she asked, as she
leaned over the counter, beaming upon
blur with a melting smile :
"You are becoming very fond of me
—aren't you ?"
Like Clark Russell's Cirosvcnor in a
crossrea, his mind was"lakenaH aback,"
and, like the vesrel, he was In danger
of sinking wrong end first.
"Becaure," continued the lovely girl,
"I don't want to create a false impres
re
on his heels.
;
is a
the
ask
the
don't
we
used
which
Step
sion. 1 am married. My husband is an
invalid at present, but will not always
be so, and I expect to leave this situation
soon.
bon
con
held
was a
all
I took it to keep the wolf from
the door, but I haven't found it neces
sary to grow pale and thin over it \ apd
as 1 always believe ip iookipg at the
bright side, I am, my friepds tell me,
younger looking than I am."
Knowlton
dazed, but be heard
every word as she went on :
" Now I like you very much—I liked
you the first time I saw you ; it seemed
a
v
so good of you to urge your friend so
. anieaLly to buy a bonnet for his wife
You continued a convenait Urn about it,
y»« remember, that evidently tegun
! the street. Mr. Knowlton, my u»ri
life has been very happy, and althongt
my husband is sick he ta in a conditioi
to get well again, and the future ta
bright with hope. I have thought all
along that you only wanted a good wife
* J /. 'ted eut
to complete you, and I have picked out
one for you who, if you take to, and are
fortunate enough to win, will make
your life lrnppy. I have a sister who is
just like me in everything
part in fact ; she is employed in a storw
something like this, fartherupthe
street. I will give you a letter of vn
traduction if you like. I »1IBowem,
; she sella feathers , you can make her
aci|«»hiU..c^buy feathers, etc., and
m time, you may he intimate enough to
"uiiurtiitr 3m,while unZ Z
desire it ; but if you makeslow progress,
I will arrange it so that you can meet
I am sure she will
kept
regard
for
Dally
alty
bling
ibis
one
—
■
ed
counter
the
in
do,
be
| her at my home,
re- like you, and if you like me, yon o.ight
to like her. How doe« the proposition
strike you ?"
At last the merry litte woman ended
her speech, and waited until her would
be admirer had recovered sufficiently to
The novelty of the
leg
make answer,
whole affair, from the buying of the
bonnet to the proposed introduction
to a second fair one, caused tbe "dumb
foundedly perplexed" bachelor to
un
hat
plain :
"Well, this is the oddest experience
1 ever had ! I have always said that
my state should be oueof blessed single
ness—and her I am in tbe matrimonial
net, caught fast ! Yes, I'll see your
sister!" said Knowlton, decidedly, jump
ing to bis feet and giving the stool a
whirl. "I'll see youi sister ! And if she
is half as jolly and good as yourself, l
do my liest to wed her !"
Feathers proved
text as flowers. Knowlton made extra
ordinary progress in a few brief weeks
and "Sister Hattie," who was, if any
thing more lovely than Jenny, was
captured completely. Their first meeting
was an example of simultaneous, strong
mutual liking and as the days Hped on it
deepened.
his business
was
had
such
could
the
he
lady
as
"All
H
I
excellent a pre
as
Knowlton prosi>ered in his business
and prospered iu his love ; Jenny's hus
band got well, and there being nothing in
ilm way, the geneious bachelor became a
benedict, married Hattie, built a small
double cottage on Bergen Heights, so
that the sisters are next-door neigh
bors, and though be may have occasion
to grumble at "expenses as much
shay hereafter, he has registered a vow
to draw the line at bonnets ; for how
ever reasonable it may be for other men
to complain of prices, and frequent
changes in millinery styles, he
never say a word so long as his wife
makes good selections and his sister-in
law wears "aJove of a bonnet."
scaj»e
of
or
Biiw
of
Another Landmark To Go.
A Resort that was the Centre of
Philadelphia's Trade In Pre
Revolutionary Days.
\
1 er pre-revolutionary landmark
im tue past wo**k been selected
for dfttruction. The si nature in
questiol is that old two-stor^^Ue
roofed bVro whioh was once knowulfe
the LomVm Coffee House, and which
stands on\the southwest corner of Front
and Market streets. It Is now occ upied
by the firm of G. & A. Ulrich, wholesale
tobacco merchants, and has beeu in
that family since the year 1817, at
which tiiV* rhe business was established
by the faWr of the members of the
present film. It was originally built
about the yfear 1702, by Charles Reed,
who boughnhe lot iu 1701 from Letilia,
daughter ol\VfilUam penu, In 1730
Reed's
has
he
on
a
çpmeyed the property to
Israel who, on his death
iu 1751, wiled it to his son John,
whose deatljt was sold to the Pleasant
family. Film the latter's hands it
passed in IlH. into those of James
Stokes, for %ha was then stated to be
'ihe great sL ^£821613s. 4d.," and
Mr. Stokes' limy held it until 1817,
when it pas* iito the hands of the
senior membr o the firm which now
occupies it. »(fMfts first opened as a
coffee house iuie >ear 1754, the pro
prietor being It* William Bradford,
a printer, whâjn applying to the
Governor for J.reuse to keep the
house, said : "Wuig beau udvisixl to
keep a coffee l|Qm«ar the benefit of
merchants and ™ ts
on
in
so
was
she
upon
me
a
girl,
, snu, as some
people may ai tifil i*. Utsiroua to be
furnished with 1er liquors besides
coffee, your i>etijer apprehends it is
the Governor's
at once became
popular and wa ^jitroni/ed by the
ther persons of
prominent and
necessary to h
license." The l
Governor and
note, as well as hj
well-to-do strange
Being situated
nd then central,
to
iu such a conspicu
part of the city, tl^fj,^ house soon
became a sort of
fe, and public
sales of slaves, live
wagons and
carriages and lesser were held in
the street in front <
In 1780 the premi
Gifford Dally by JolJLmberton, the
then proprietor, w Ving a stanch
Quaker, made Dally fhe following
agreement before lea
"On the 8th of 7
public room,
ere rented to
an
always
from
neces
apd
the
me,
Kt the Uopse.
I, 1780, the
k agrees and
krt his en
said Pa|ly covenant
promises that" ho w
deavors, as a Chrisi
decency and order inj
discourage the profaj
name of God Aina
sweaiiug, etc., andji
the first day of the ■
to preserve
puse, and to
If the sacred
ly cursing,
I house on
II always be
heard
liked
seemed
kept closed from public use, that due
regard and reverence may be manifested
for retirement and the worship of God."
Dally also bound himself to pay a pen
alty of Ü100 if he permitted any gam
bling with dice
ibis purpose bis first lease was only for
one year and bis second for twice that
length of time. At the end of that
period It was used as a store and
dwelling, and later simply as a dwelling.
— Pa. Exchange.
I
cards, and to fulfill
For the Fair Sex.
Summer Wrap».
One of the latest styles of ulster gives
the effect of a suit, but the only object
in improving it in this way is to make it
take the place of a suit, which it cannot
do, for in that case it ceases to be itself
and becomes something else. The oh
jection to it lies in this : That massing
more folds above the drearies of the
dress increases the weight without
adding anything to the
beauty ; for au ulster is not intended to
be beautiful, and, In summer particu
larly, requires to bo as light as possible.
The dust cloak In which the cape forms
the sleeves, and which is held in to the
back, is perhaje the most desirable
summer wrap. It does not crush the
sleeves of the dress like the tight-fitting
ulster ; it is easy to put on or take off,
and may be made in cloth of light
weight, in dark linen, or in summer silk
small check or hair stripe. Where a
little warmth and very light weight is
required, cost not being so much of
object, the gathered cloaks in fine camel's
bair, with lining of twilled silk and
facing down the front of strii»ed moire,
are very good and useful, either in black
or the
a
ecru.
Shade Hats.
Large garden hats and that classof sum
mer headgear designed specially for pro
tection from an unrelenting summer sun
seem likely to acquire aud retain a
character of their own. For one thing,
the requirements are always the same,
and they are of an informal and uncon
ventional, character. So long as a
I "shade" hat does shade the face and
make a picturesque object in tbe land
scaj»e it does not make much difference
whether the braid is fine or coarse, the
crown high or low. There is a sense of
fitness, however, iu making it as light
looking as possible, and the trimmings
of white lace aud India muslin, there
fore, which have been in vogue for several
years past, aided by chrysanthemums
or yellow field flowers, such as mustard,
buttercups, have at least
cowslips
seemed highly appropriate, and sug
gesteil refinement without any great
cost. But the fashionable shade hats
of this season, tbe large Leghorns and
basket straws, have dropped the sim
plicity of muslin aud ignore the butter
cups ; they have restored the white
plumes, the black velvet ribbon and the
pink roses, aud make the shade hat as
costly and elegant as if it were a dress
bonnet. Of course, they can be worn
for finer and more formal purposes than
the simple muslin trimmed hats ; but
they canmT be used sq conveniently,
and are a source of anxiety iu case of a
sudden showe.^ while in the first in
i' jvould make the most
;ood again as new.
Splodge the coarse
llu and flower
stance
satui^l
tfl hat as
nothing
straw hat, with its mT
It is prettV aß d cheap,
Uy be
trimming.
easily remodeled and unT
coming, and while it will do for some
ladies, to whom money is no object, to
indulge in country remihiscences of
Versailles and the court of the Grand
Monarch, yet to the majority summer is
a season of release from a too burden
vironmeut, and the less difficult
summer requirements are made the
better,
some
it
a
Street Garments.
The street garments of the present
small, but rich and exceed
ingly graoeful. The solid styles are
usually of thick, satin-fiuislied Ottoman
silk short upon the back, but with leaf
shaped ends in front, aud magnificent
finish of twisted chenille fringe. Other
styles have a basque finish, aud trim
ming of handsome thread lace aud
passementerie. The lace is all-lace,
that is, body part and trimming. The
latter is someth
season
arranged in a full
double fall .upon tbe shoulder, and a
double «ounce below tfie strip that
constitutes the garment proper. In the
small summer garments there is an in
finite variety in lace, netted chenille,
netted slfir with jet, lace embroidered
with lieads ; and the richer real lace,
which is seldom ornamented in this way.
The simplest of all the small out-door
garments is the cape, and this is so
venient that It will not be easily relen
quished. At present it is almost uni
versal ; few ladies but possess one or
more in black ohenille, or law, and
others made to be w
with dresses en
suite ; the latter are particularly adapted
to gingham, and woolen dresses for
young girls.
Mike Finnegan (to pustotflee clerk) :
"Sure, is there a lether for me ?" Clerk :
"Mfhat name?" Mike: "Oh, never
mind the name. Don't be tooinquasi
tive. Oi only wants me lether." Clerk :
"Y'es, but I cauuot give you a letter
unless I know your name." Mike:
"Well, thin, me name is Pat O'Don
nell.
The clerk could find po letter
for that n^me, and Mike went off mut
tering : "The inquasitive spalpeen
thought
Oi'm afther pulling the wool over his
otves, for I guv him the wrong name !"
be
how he was schmart ; but
A Few Good Ones.
Romantic gorges : "What do you
think of the mountain gorges, Mr. Spi
cer?" asked Miss ladybird of her
neighbor at the hotel table. "Well,"
said the other,thought fully, as he looked
about bim. "I think that old anaconda
at the head of the table has gorged him
self about up to bis collar button."
Why he saw him ? "Didn't I tell you
I didn't want to see you in this court
room again ?" asked a police judge of
au irishman. "Yes, sor." "And didn't
you promise that I would never see you
again?" "I did, yer honor." "Then
why do I see you ?" "Because ye are
not blind, yer honor."
ing
ed
ed
by
in
A coroner's jury, impaneled to ascer
tain the cause of the deatli of a noto
it
to
the
the
off,
silk
a
is
and
rious drunkard, brought in a verdict of
"Death by hanging—about ^a rum
shop." In California a coroner's jury,
under similar circumstances, rendered
a more courteous verdict : "Accidental
death while engaged in unpacking a
glass."
This from Fiyaro shows that French
children are not altogether unlike
American : Little Jack is on his father's
knee, and kissing him affectionately.
In a tender voice the author of his
being exclaims : "You love me dearly,
do you not, my child ?" "Oh, yes I 1
love you ; because you are such a very
obedient papa."
A rich father : The late Barou de
Rothschild once took a cab to his ollices
and on alighting^tendered the proper
lare. The cabman received it, but kept
his hand open and looked at the money
significantly, which caused the baron
to inquire whether it was not right.
"Oh, yes;" replied the cabman, "its
quite right, but your sons usually give
me double." "They do, do they?"
was the baron's reply ; "well, they have
a rich father and can afford it ; 1 have
not."
The Abbe Moiguo has formed a com
pany in Paris and has raised $150,000
for the purpose of dragging the Red
Sea and Bitter lakes in order to recover
the chariots, treasure, arms and other
remains of Pharaoh's host, which he
believes to lie there covered with a sa
line deposit. The research will be pro
secuted by divers. The expedition is
ready to leave Marseilles, and is only de
tained by the outbreak of cholera at the
Red Sea ports.
The Bushel Value of Love.-*
Wliat Is love ? Loye is keeping a ten
dollar family on a six-dollar salary.
When a young man kisses a girl and
calls it heaven, it shows plainly that he
doesn't know any more about heaven
than a gosling knows about Beethoven's
sonatas. Love is like beer, it gets fiai
when it is uncorked all the time. Some
girls can't tell the difference between
love and taffy. A baby is love mate
rialized. Whenever love has to play
second fiddle it is time to break up the
band. Love will make a mau spit ou
his hands and take another hold
when every other power on earth has
backed out aud given it up as a bad job.
Love is worth two dollars aud a half a
bushel to any man or any woman liv
as
a
in
infl
The One He Didn't Take.—
"James!" "Yes, papa." "There
were seven California pears In that
cupboard. Six of them are goue. Do
you know anything about it V "I never
took one of them." "Sure?" "Cer
Wish l may die, if—" "You
tain, pa.
wicked, bad boy ; how often have I told
you never to use such an expression ?
:e comes ma ; let us see if she knows
be
to
of
is
n
k" about it." Mamma says she
anythi
saw James taKe^
"You little rascal ! How^a,
me you nevur took one, and here's on
this little one with the grub eaten side
ieft ?" "Oh. pa, don't hit me.
didn't take one of them—and—-ainv
alid that is the one I didn't take." Fa
relented.
least five of them.
e-fiftn tell
the
X said I
are
Curious and Odd.
Aaron Glover, a Sumter county,
Ha., negro, does not perspire like any
other man.
The left side of his face
will trickle like a stream while the
right is as dry as a bone. Then his
body is just the reverse -the right side
seems a continual stream w hile the left
is as dry as a piece of irou lying before
a big fire. Aaron enjoys most excellent
health.
a
the
in
or
A post-mortem examination of the
body of Jonathan Chealey, of North
woud Centre, N. II., a blacksmith who
died suddenly, showed that his stomach
had teen eaten by the common hot',
a grub wor
is supposed thrt he swallowed the eggs
of the bott fly which had been deposit
ed on the tags of horses he had shod,
and that they had hatched in his stom
ach.
which attacks horses. It
An old black doctor, who said he
graduated iu some foreign country, re
cently hung out a shingle in Louisville.
He soon had the black population in
mortal terror, it being believed that
he was a hoodoo. When asked about
it he said :
and wrap two h»xs from your head
about it and put it under a girl's pil
low and she'll be dead in love with you.
I put something else in it and she'll
hate you. I eau gat your picture and
by getting the kind of drqgo 1
make you sick or wtU tm I please. The
white folitfi laugh at hoodoo doctors.
We olack folks, however, believe it,
If you read the Bjble you will Und it
was know'n and honored then. I could
led you things I'da done that would
make your hair rise. But the blacks
here are fools. I can't make 'em believe
anything." i
en
for
"I tale this piece of wax
:
:
:
..u.
his
!"
to
The Broad Field of Science.
Oxide-Bronze A New and Remark
able Compound Metal.--The Pur
poses to which It
One of the most valuable and interest
be Applied.
ing products of the scientific investiga
tion of the age is the new material call
ed "Oxide-Bronze," which was invent
ed by Mr. J. B. Stamour of Philadel
phia, and la now being manufactured
by the American Oxide-Bronze Co., au
organization incorporated here in Nov.,
1882, with a capital of $2,000,000, $20,000
shares of $10 each. The oflftcers of the
President, John J.
company are :
lteese, M. D., Professor of Toxicology
in the University of Pennsylvania;
Secretary aud Treasurer, E. V. Ma
chette, and J. B. Stamour, Superintend
ent. Oxide-Bronze may be described as a
compound metal, stronger, harder,
tougher and more durable than brass,
or any other alloy, and considerably
cheaper. It is adapted to almost every
purpose that brass is used for, and is
particularly valuable for situations
where there is much friction,
car boxes and journal bearings.
Reihle Bros., the testing machine build
ers here, have recently tested the oxide
bronze and found that its tensile strength
a
his
1
de
"its
give
have
I
was 36,502 pounds to the square inch—
a strength greater by several thousands
of pounds than that of any other metal
yet known. Thomas Wood, of this city,
who manufactured the Brush electric
light machines here, used oxide-bronze
in the journal boxes, and after eight
months of constant
they were taken
out, and the metal was found to be per
fect, notwithstanding the tremendous
friction to which it had been subjected.
Other severe tests of the new metal have
beeu made, with equally satisfactory
results. Owing to the immense strength
and durability of the metal, it is admir
ably adapted for paddle wheels and
spikes for steamships. It is also being
satisfactorily used instead of brass, for
cemetery and lawn railings, etc. As
it can be made of any color and of any
degree of hardness, and as it possesses
so many advantages over brass, bronze,
etc., and yet can be sold at so much lower
rates, it is certain before long to prac
tically supersede the dearer and less use
ful material.— l'hiladelphia Exchange.
Red
he
sa
pro
is
arkable prop
erties to steel. When there is from
10 to 12 per cent, present in the steel the
latter cannot be worked on the lathe,
and it resists the file, but it may be
forged and polished. Steel with 5 to
6 per cent, of tungsten is still hard, but
be worked ou the lathe. Tungsten
steel can be highly magnified, and mag
nets made from it have very great power.
Tools made from tungsten steel are
very hard. They are first forged into
shape and then ground.
Experiments have been made by M.
Leforte on the production of vowels
and whispered speech. Air is blown
into a cavity of variable capacity, open
and closable at the upper part. The
sounds characteristic of vowels aiethi s
produced. The author claims to prove
the vowels are not timbres (as generally
taught) ; they are notes of different
heights of the instrument of speech
(quite distinot from the vocal iustru
ment). Various timbres may be com
municated to them by action of tbe
muscles of the organ of voice.
Every bread-maker has observed that
the temperature at which her dough is
kept while rising has a decided influence
upon its quality. If it is kept warm,
so that the process of fermentation
goes on rapidly, the bread will be whitei
and tenderer than if it is allowed to
rise In a low temperature, The little
yeast plant with the long name flourishes
H&Ua^iimperature of about 72 and
Tungsten imparts
it
?
bötfi/at Vr- L . |UU pie i
when it has abundance
upon,
dough the plaDt converts the starch
of the grain into sugar and feeds
If no sugar is put into tbe
upon
it.
In an article published by Dr. It.
Koch it is asserted that the only sub
stances worthy of the name of disinfec
tants are chloride, bromine, iodine,
mercuric chlorine, and, perhaps, potas
sium permanganate and osmic acid.
It has been found that spores of the
bacillus of splenic fever kept for many
days in a S per cent, zinc chloride solu
tion develop when placed in suitable
nutritive liquids and even when added
to »rum containing one-half tier cent,
zinc chloride. The author expresses won
der how this salt should ever have been
seriously regarded by respectable chem
1st as an antiseptic.
It has been estimated that at least
5000 meteoric stones reach the earth
annually. The» stones are usually of
inconsiderable size, but as they have
been falling since a very remote period
in geological history the
mass which has thus been added to
planet must be very great. The largest
meteoric stone ever found is in the
Royal Academy of Stockholm, anil
weighs twenty-five tons. The museum
at Copenhagen contains one of ten
tons ; the Biitish Museum one of more
than five tons ; the museum at St.
I'etersburg one of 1680 pounds ; Y'ale
College one of 1635 pounds ; and the
Smithsonian Institute, one of 1400
pounds.
aggregate
our
Effects of Extortion.
Niagara Falls ^suffering severely
from its reputation for extortion.
The village, looks squalid, the hackmen
are idle aud tourists shun the place.
Nevertheless, the "tolls," making It
impossible for the visitor to move with
otTupaying from ten cents to half a dol
lar, are still maintained,
At the magnificent lianquets which
Nero gave he caused a shower of roaea
to be rained down upon his guest from
an aperture in the ceiling. Heliogaba
lus carried this to such an insane length
as to cause the suffocation of several of
his guests, who could not extricate
themselves from the heap of dowers.
And Antiochus, even in winter, slept
in a tent of gold and silk on a bed ot'
roses. Cleopatra, when she entertained
Antony, covered the floor of the ban
quet room to the depth of an ell, and
Heliogabalus was not content with
drinking a certain kind of wine made
of roses, but was extravagant enough to
bathe in the ''wine of roses."
A little daughter of Mr. Peacock, of
Winstead, Conn., fell into a tub of
water and remained in the water about
live minutes, wheu it was found life
was supposed to be extimt, aud a phy
sicin»» who waa called i
opinion. About 4 o'clock the next day,
while the mother and another woman
were standing by the coflin, the latter
remarked that a flash was coming over
the pallid face of the child. The women
looked and the cheeks slowly regain« d
their natural hue, and the blue lines
s yf tened add grew red. At last the infant
gave a faint gasp, opened its eyes a
moment and then closed them again.
The mother frantically snatched the
child from its coflin, tore the clothing
from its body and chafed its limb«.
The other women went for a doctor,
and when he arrived the child had near
ly regaiued consciouness and is now
about well.
iu Tusco
loosa, 111., presented himself one day re
cently at the kitchen door with a good
sized pup in his mouth. As there were
no young canines about the premises or
in the immediate vicinity the members
of the household were considerably sur
prised, and esiiecially at the manner iu
which this one had been ushered into
their presence. Food having been given
them the dog
charge, returning shortly afterward
without it. Search
no pup could be found. For several day.- 1
afterward the dog was noticed to carry
away the greater portion of the food
given him without scarcely ever eating
any. Upon following him it was learn
ed that he carried his food to the
aforesaid pup, who was found to lie
snugly housed under a porch near by.
A dog belonging to a
disappeared with his
instituted, but
a
s
is
to
and
Catching Flies— and Suckers.
A very small boy, with a tattered
straw hat and barefooted, was engaged
in a species of occupation whose nature
was not manifest. In his left hand he
held a tin box, and with his right hand
he was making dowuward sweeps frith
the earnestness and regularity of the
piston rod of a steamboat engine. A
said ; f ,
"Say, boy, [what are yop—fl omg
there ?"
The boy did not look up to see who
his interrogator was. His arm merely
went faster in its curving sweeps, as he
answered laconically :
"Ketchiu' flies."
" What do you do with those flies ?"
The boy ceased his gyrations and
turned round.
-
"Look a here," he said, "yous peo
ples lathers me too much. Ef I tell
you what I does with these flies, what'll
you gi' me ?"
"A nickel," said one. "A dime,"
said the man who asked the question,
aud " a quarter," said another.
" All right," said the boy, screwing
the top on his box aud shifting himself
about, while the flies returned to tie
top of the sign-board again : "hit's a
go, but yous peoples got to put the
suvar un flw> " |_
" in the
IMÄ
They " put upH
boy'« baud. There
Junction
th^
was a quar
dimo aud a nickel, and when tl
was confident that the forty
all there he picked up his box
moved about a foot away so as to j
good start en the crowd. The c
watched his motions, and the
asked him what he was doing, whe"
the suspicious action, said :
" Hold on, boy, you haven't to(|
yet why you catcli those flies."
"AU right," said the buy,^^01
putting another foot of pa»^
tween himself and the crowdT,"
you ef you really w ants to kn «
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ketches them flies."
" Y'es, yes," answered tliedwd in a ^
breath, finally losing patienc
" Well," answered the fco as lie pre
pared to run. "ketchiu' fis is only
part of my business. K.dun' sue- ,
kers at forty cents is the otbr part. ..
think I does best
he disappeared around, the
/J
the
corner.
Scrajls.
What soup would cannibals prefer ?
A broth of a boy.
A terrible "frame" of mind inclose«
the "picture of despair."
It costs eight gi>od dogs to get
ordinary kind of a wife in Siberia.
They come high, etc.
A boy w ithout liar J-r f
rested at Altoona foil$*
minus hands, be seeirJUV«
foot in it."
"My dear, I fou^BM
lying across the paMlS®
"Y'ou goorey ! those aiiM
gloves."
Aunt Esther was trying
litt e Eddie to retire at si
bh an argument the', the little
s
even
' oruMtUBb.:
J.iiKluidiatlic
. ".otico
It
. Hfdaooth*.
L y-i ■
'««to
■ Yoi-k.
Sx—,
weut to roost at that time. "Yes]B
Eddie, "but then, aunty, the old h
ways goes with them."