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The Northwest Enterprise. VOL. ! • Dt NORTHWEST ENTERPRISE. PVBIISHK » KVK.UY SATI’KDW VT %KMIX«TO\ TER in ALF. D. BOWEN & CO. r> ». WAI.HH. AI.P. I>. lOVI N. - imwc ond-Ha*-. nwttiT. HIBMI RIITDA KATKM: (In all <•;»*«** invariably in advance*) "♦* o On*' y«r, rV Six Months- 1 ;•* Thu* Month" 1.K4.A1. AI>Vi:»ITISI\»i KATUN: ft* Sonar.' (12 liiu«). fiwt inwsrtion "I CO EarbouhtHHiio'iit niM'Stion 1 PHttPKHSIOSA /. (M fins. AMOS BOWMAN. Xotar.v l*nl>lif ami <’onveyanft r, llin ‘ ’ ingaiiil Nlvll IlMginm’. ANAUOBTEB. - W. T. 0, C. HASTINGS. Portrait ami l.n«dHrapi‘ JMi«tojrra|»lior Hea.l of Union Wharf, opponilo Central Hotel. PORT TOWNSEND, p - - - W. T. TAEBSONS in need of efoai. flanks. I Mich aMClmlU'l MmlttJuc*" , Dnil-I'l limn.anil Warranty Doe.U, etc., wonhlilo »"ll to nuikenp plication at this offn-e, where they can he oh taiiiwl lit reaHoimhle prieea. lilnnk.s j.nnteil to order on shi.it notice. McNAUGHT & TINKH.AM, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LA CONNER, - - - VV.T. Office;— Next dour to “ Puget Bonin! Mail.” Will attend to all District Court amt Land Office buniuon*. DO W. T. STOLL, ATTORNEY AT LAW LA CONNEH. - - - - VV.T. Practice in all the Courts. Conveyancing, etc. JAMES A. GILLIAN!), LA CONNER, - - - - W. T. Land Business OF Any Description PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Hy arrangements with reliable land attorne s in Olympia anil Washington, l>. C., icy custo mer* can have their land business attended to the name as if personally present at either place. Parties wishing to purchase or locate Land Scrip, would do well to consult me. latest Land Laws, Hub's and Decisions kept on tile. Land Warrant* bought and sold. Conveyancing, taxes paid, uurchases and sales made. Collections made and proceeds prompt, ly wmittid. 1,11 SAMUEUKENNY, First-Class PRACTICAL TAILOR. —AND— JOHN KEMNV, First-Class PRACTICAL SHOEMAKER, (Both occupyiDK hutuo store.) COMMERCIAL STREET. SEATTLE, W. T. Are prepared to furuit.li evorjthiiiß in tlioir line at reasonble prices. Fits guaranteed both for body and feet. Also a general assortment ofl Ladies* and Gentlemen’s Poot\Wear t and a general assortment of Clothing, KorniKhnig Goods, Hats. Caps, and everything in the Gnu I s Furnishing Goods Line, which we oflor at the most reasonable rates. ** W JOHN E. DAVIS, BLACKSMITH AND MACHINST, Laconner - - WashingtonlT’y. Will repair on ehort notice all kinds of FARMING) MACHINERY A Spccialty 6 made of LOGGING CAMP WORK. pieces of of all Htuntlaril plow* ant) Machine* always on hunt), and »olcl at Vort land price*. M LATIMER & CO., —Wholesale ami Retail Dealers in— Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines AND Fancy Articles, PAINTS, OILS and GLASSWARE, Pure WinrN and l.lquor*, (For Medicinal Use.) IP Orders filled with dispatch. Prescription* compounded ilay anil night. Water St., opposite Central Hotel I*OKT TUWNBF.NI). 221 y JAMES JONES, Cash grocer CHOICE —— latter. Cheese, Honey, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Pwrrisions and Supplies, Nuts nnd Confection ery, California Wines, Kentucky Whiskies, direct from the Distilleries. Also Dealers in all kinds of Stationery, School Books and Periodicals, Rifles, Breech-loading Shotguns, Powder, Shot, Wads, Paper Shells, Etc. Port Townsend opposite Central Hotel, * Head of Union Wharf. 23 S DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WHATCOM AND SAN JUAN COUNTIES AND THE WHOLE NORTHWEST. HIM (iIVL-AWAY GAME. How Easily an American Crowd Can be Duped -1-001 INC MIT IT.OI’LE WITH SOAR “Do you know,” said a man who was selling jewelry from a dry goods box to a reporter from the Atlanta Constitution, “that the Americans are the easiest humbugged of any iu the world ? It is true, and I have helped to humbug them about as much as the average man.” Some body had just been reading an ac count of the Louisville lottery draw ing, which brought forthhhis speech. “Can’t you tell some of your ex perieuce in that line?” asked a man near. “ Well, you would laugh to know what foils people make of them selves sometimes. About two years ago 1 was down in Brunswick, when* I saw a fellow running a perfectly square game, but which was the most out and out steal I ever heard of. His plan was simple, and hundreds of the very best people of the town Hocked to give him a trial. Ho rent ed a store and put a show ease across the counter iu the center. In the show-case he had, I know, my hat full of ten and twenty-dollar gold coins, piled in a heap m one corner, and in the other about the same sized pile of silver dollars. A dice box and six dice completed his outfit. By paying half a dollar a man had one throw with the dice. If ho throw six sixes he took the entire pile of gold: if he threw six aces he syas en titled to all the silver. Of course, no one ever threw all the sixes, neither was it possible to get the aces to come all in a bunch. A man might as well expect to get struck by lightning from a cloudless sky at noonday as to throw six aces; it is al most an impossibility, that’s all. Well, the fellow made several bun dred dollars and left.” “Did you ever hear of how easy it is to f.K.i a man with soap?” contin ned the talker. “ VVe street men know that ns an old story, of course. I was down to Troy, Ala., several months ago when a fellow came along almost strapped, lie went to a grocery store, bought a few bars of this transparent soap, cut it into small pieces about the size of one’s thumb, wrapped it in a colored tissue paper very neatly, and then covered the package with tin foil, sprinkling the whole with a bottle of cologne to give it a good smell. Well, sir, that fellow got on n box and soon gath ered a crowd by some nice talking, and proposed to take out all the grease from hats, coats, etc., that could be brought in. The first case presented was the city marshal, who walked up with a great njx*t on his coat which he wanted taken out The fellow carried a sponge well sat urated with benzine and arnica, which of itself will take out almost anything, amt by using a bit of the soap soon had the marshal's eu tirely free from grease. That start'd the soap sales, and in two or three hours, it being Saturday and a crowd in town, the soap man had sold s3(l wort In nearly all of which was clear profit.” Stopping to draw a long breath the jewelry man continued his interest ing story. “ 1 tell you you can hum bug anybody. I am not unlike- the rest of the world. I believe I would bits' at my own tricks if I could only get in the crowd.” “The way to do it is this: Get a lot of line gold rings which cost about a dollar a dozen ami propose to be ad vertising some big gold concern in New York. I called mine the great brazed gold of San Francisco, stated that I would show the crowd a thing or two, ami soon got them in terested. First, I made a speech in which I stated my business; then 1 commenced to oiler the rings at any price from two cents up, telling them that they could not be bought for less than four dollars apiece at a jew eler’s. 1 let out about, twenty rings at two cents, and then asktnl every body who had bought rings to hold them up. Instantly every ring was in the air. ‘Now,’ said I, addressing the crowd, ‘this is your money, is itf ‘Yes,’ said a dozen. ‘And you give it up freely for the rings?’ ‘Yes,’ came again in chorus. ‘Very well, here’s twenty cents for you, sir,’ nnd twenty cents.for yon, sir, and so on around the crowd. They commenced to won der what in the w’orld I meant; said I was crazy and a lot of other things, but I only told them I was adverbs ing goods for my bouse nnd had plenty more things to give away, Next I took up some of my handsome dia mond studs which I explained were Lake George diamonds, equal to any on earth, etc., and that I was going to sell them from twenty-live cents up, the more one paid the better it would Ik‘, of course, for him. Twenty studs were soon out and the same speech made. Then I made the crowd hold up the diamonds and each man got fifty cents back who had bought. “The thing got to be very interest ing, and the crowd numbered 900 or 400. Then I got out some beautiful gold plated sleeve buttons, which I explained could not be bought for less than sl2. These I proposed to sell for fifty cents each, giving to all who bought a dollar additional as be fore, each time doubling the money gift. The buttons soon went off, as had the other things, and I was ready for the final “bite” at the crowd. The twenty pair of sleeve buttons had been sold for half a dollar, and I had given back twenty silver dollars. ANACORTES. AV. T.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21. ISS2. That fellow’s a darned fool, I hoard all around nn>, hut i replied to this by saying that last week, in Macon, 1 had given away SISOO, and that 1 was ready to do it again. “The crowd was perfectly crazy to see what came next. It was watch chains. The chains I was to sell at any price from $2 50 to anything above that one wanted to give, I tell ing (hem the while that the more they paid the better it would he for them. I hinted that the watches would come next, and this let them off like a lot of madmen. The trick now was to sell as many chains as possible at $2 50. I had a devil of a lot of chains, and so I sent them out right and left. The dollars came rushing blindly at me, and 1 raked them iu like chaff. Then I got out of chains. J‘ Previously I had prepared two big red silk handkerchiefs, exactly alike, and as soon as the chains were all sold I took the money, and, in the presence of the crowd, tied it all up together, and after making a speech, proposed to throw the bundle in the crowd for the licet man to take. While talking I purposely dropped the bundle into my little box by my side, in which I had the other handkerchief, in this was ten dollars in silver and some paper to make it stand out and look like the one I had dropped. All this had been arranged beforehand, of course. With a whoop, I swung the bag around my bead after stooping to pick it up where I tirst dropped it, and up it went into the air. Great heavens! you should have seen the mob! 1 never saw anything like it. They fought like tigers over the handker chief, while I took occasion to leave the spot. I had also arranged to bring the thing to a climax about the time the Albany train left, so I was driven at once to the depot. I was just S2BO ahead. But I got very weak iu the knees while waiting at the depot. I was a little too soon, and about a dozen young men run up, raising (he very mischief of a noise, which I thought was for me. and it proved to be true. They saw me and came around me laughing and knock iug each other like crazy men. I didn’t know what on earth was the matter, until Ihey told me it was the best joke that had ever I men played on Brunswick, and, although they had been victimized, they wanted to assure me it was all right. “1 had sold the chains to nearly all (lie best men iu Brunswick, some of them paying me as high as $5 for them. I was satisfied to leave, and had my revenge. You may put it down for a fact tiiat any average American crowd can lie humbugged the same way every day in the year.” | Chicago Herald. * OLD PIANOS. The New York Herald is too bail. It, is cruel. It Hpeakn more in sorrow than in anger, it is true, hot its sever ity is none the loss pungent In an swer to a London journal's innocent question —“ \V hat lieconmn of the old pianos?” It sarcastically replies that to all appearances, the superannuated and dilapidated “grands” and “cab inets” and “cottages” which were once tl»e ornament of the Old World, are now the torture of the New. It says, that if any European tourist will stroll through the streets of an American village on a summer’s even ing, when all the windows are open, he will hear a satisfactory reply to his impudent question, although “ whether it will be satisfactory do pends on the enduring power of the ear.” Now, this is saucy to say the least of it. It reflects upon some fair performer as well us upon some much abused instrument Furthermore, the cynical journal says that one pia no past service is as difficult to find as “ a dead mule, or a Civil Hervice Reformer.” This is coarse, but an adjacent sentence is no improvement on it: “ It is impossible to find an old piano so bad that some dealer will not buy it and then get a purchaser who will put the old thing in his par lor, instead of his woodyard. It is on such ancient instruments that thousands of the young women in America practice until they scarcely know harmony from discord, and until their neighbors thank heaven that pianos are not to furnish music for the celestial future.” The Herald thinks that a State like New York, which pays a bounty of thirty dollars to every person who destroys a full grown wolf, should bo willing to pay at least as much as anyone who will demolish an old piano. It appeal’s from what the Loudon journal says, that all the old pianos of Europe are bought up by specula tors ami shipped to this country. “ Almost every ship that makes her number at an American port,” it says, “ brings with her a fresh contingent of ojd pianos.” What becomes of them? They certainly are not sold in important commercial cities, where new Steinways, (Jhickeriugs and An tisells compete for sales. The Lon don paper answers the question cor rectly, iierhaps, when it says that “ there are pianos in all the hotels and most of the board! ng-houses and river steamers.” There are “piano thumpers” as well as piano-players, and for them cheap old importations of discordant castaways serVe a pur pose to which an instrument in del - icate tune should not lie subjected. Let the pianos come to make night hideous. It is entertainment to some, and night made hideous can survive the infliction. The man who was hemmed in by a crowd has been troubled with a stitch in his side ever since. A farmer at Valdosta, Go., has made two crops of corn on the same piece q! land this year. ALASKA SNOW DRIFTS An American Signal Officer's Experience in the Northland. ARCTIC RKBIONS NOT THE WORST. In a private letter to his brother, Mr. Charles Bay, of Milwaukee, Mr. I*. W Bay, in charge of the United States Signal Station at Oogloannie, Alaska, writes that he has his Hag, as a signal ofticer, Hying further north than it has ever before been borne on the American continent, a locality where (In* inhabitants dress in deerskins eight monthsof the year, and the official distinction of an of ficer is marked by a wolverine’s tail worn on the back of his “Ahlega,” or fur coat. ” The year has passed very quickly with us,” continues Mr. Bay. “My party has had all they could attend to in making the required ob serrations, and 1 have been kept busy picking up the threads of my new life, and taking up the practical use of scientific instruments and in con ducting an expedition like this to comply with the requirements laid down by the Vienna Congress. “We had a rough time in estab lishing ourselves here, for beside a late start from San Francisco, we met with bad weather both in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and were fifty-two days on the voyage. Win ter had already set in when we ar rived, thin ice had formed on the in lets and along the show, which warned us that wo had no time to lose if we would save the ship, for ordinarily the sea is closed at the date on which we landed, so 1 dis charged (he vessel tin* day the last of our cargo was ashore. As 1 watched her sails fade away in the distance, and turned to my work, I must confess that it did look just a little gloomy. My stores were scat tered along the beach for 500 yards, just out of (he surf, where they had been landed from the native ca noes and whaleboats. The natives swarmed around, whose reputations were none to good; two lone tents on a low, bleak point of land, and over it all a drifting snow storm, com pleted the picture of desolation. With the exception of one man of tin* nine that composed our party, they wen* totally inexperienced in the ways of the savage, or of front ier life, and some of them had never had a rifle in (heir hands. Taking into consideration the fact ihal we had a house to build and 180 tons of freight to be stored therein, carried by hand, the outlook was anything but cheerful. I settled the na lives first by judiciously punching the heads of the first I caught steal ing, and hiring tin* best of them to help carry the stores. We had our house completed by Oct. 1. our in stnnuents in position and were tak ing observations Nov. 1. but our house did not dry until the following summer, the lumber of which it was constructed being coated with ice. There were a great many nights that I did not sleep, and my hair has grown very while, but X feel bet ter than for years. “Life in the arctic regions Is not so terrible as some men have tried to paint it, and America has had too many explorers who were seeking for self glorification rather than l*»t tom fact s. I hope that the next few years will demonstrate the fact that it was not owing to the climate that such men as Hall, Kane ami Hayes left death and disaster in their tracks. A healthier climate I never saw. Not one of our party has been sick since wo lauded, with all their expos tire, and I believe any party can have the same experience if (hey observe proper discipline and conduct t hem selves in a proper manner. I think we will sr*o IHS4 safe and sound, and return to the United States with our records, of which 1 keep two copies and send one to Washington every year in case of accident. “ Aside from its healthiness, I can say nothing for this country. It is the most desolate piece of God’s foot stool that I ever saw. It lies very low - but a few feed abovj* the level of the sea -is covered with a dense growth of moss, and as fur as I have ls*en in the interior, altout KM) miles, the whole region is one great net work of lakes and rivers. The frost comes out of the ground only to the depth of alxmt a foot in the summer, - so that at that season it very much resembles a Wisconsin cranlterry marsh, except that there is an utter absence of trees and bushes of every description. In the winter we are north of the line of animal life on the land, and only seal exist in the sea. The temperature last winter sank twice below G5 degrees in the open air. 1 have some doubts about the correctness of the instruments used by some explorers that give the very low temperature reported of from 70 to HO degrees, for from what X have experienced I believe such a temperature would be fatal to ani mal life excised to it, as it must uec essarily Is* in making an observation.” A vounci Austin lawyer was appoint ed to defend a negro who was too poor to hire counsel of his own. After the jury was in the box the young lawyer challenged several jurymen who his client said had a prejudice against him. “Are there any more jnrymen who have a preju dice against you?” whispered the young lawyer. “No, boss; do jury am ail right, but now I wants you to challenge de Jodge. 1 has been convicted under him seberal times already, and maybe he is beginnin’ to hab prejudice agjn me.” Virginia’s grape crop is seriously affected by dry rot. A DUEL IN THE DARK How a Ventriloquist’s Art Served Him. Dallas, Tex., Sept. 25. The h'rru iny Time* publishes a letter from Carrizo Pass, (JOO miles west of Dallas, giving an account«»f a hostile meeting between two miners in the Pecos Mining company’s, 20 miles north of the Mexican bonier, last Monday night. The duellists wei'e George Hollenbeck and Wm. Stratton both New Yorkers, born and raised near Palmyra; (hey were of rich tie scent of the early Hollanders. They wen* educated at Cambridge; the for mer graduated as a lawyer and (be latter as a physician. They came out of college about the same time of Lincoln’s first call for volunteers to • suppress the Southern rebellion. They enlisted and went through the wgr, serving in Col. (Jordon’s One Hundred and Forty-fourth New York regiment. At the close* of the war (hey returned home, but (hiding professional pursuits too tame for them they concluded to go West, Before they left home a difficulty arose between them which was pre vented from ending in bloodshed by by the interposition of mutual friends. Before they had a chance to meet again Stratton sought his fortune in the far West, lb* wan dered to California where la* went to work as a miner. Hollenbeck went in the same direction, but stopped at Colorado, where ho also became a miner. |They never heard of each other after this. They have since followed the business of mining, but have never become as rich as they at first expected. A few days ago (hey met in the Pecos Mining camp and recog nized each other. The school and social polish had been nibbed oft’by the trial and hardships incident to life in the mining camps. Hollen beck was overjoyed to meet St ratton, who repelled him and said they would sett le that little unfinished dif liculty which arose between them at their last meeting. Hollenbeck said that he had forgotten all about tin* difficulty referred to, and entertained no ill f(*eliugs whatever against him. Stratton insisted on a settlement ac cording to the code. Hollenbeck said if nothing short of that would do he would accommodate him. Accordingly arrangements were consummated for a duel. They wei’e to light with pistols in a dark room. Each was to announce ready, after which a third party was to count three, when they were to fire. The room was as dark as Egypt. They went into it and an nounced ready from opposite corners. ‘One, two, three.” and Stratton tired. Stratton tired a second shot, but the only response from Hollenbeck was a groan. Stratton believing he had wounded Hollenbeck, fired a third shot in tin* direction of tin* groaning. The reports of a pistol came from a corner directly opposite from where the groan appeared to proceed from and Stratton fell. No more shots be iug exchanged the miners opened the room and entered. A light revealed the fact t hat Stratton had been killed, while Hollenbeck was unhurt. Hoi lenbeck is a ventriloquist, and, on entering the room, took his stand in a diagonal corner from his adversary, and to make him believe he was in the opposite corner, threw his voice in that quarter of the room, where the bullets from his adversary’s pistol harmlessly buried themselves in the wall. It had been so long since they had seen each other that Hollenlieck’s ventriloquism had en tirely escaped the memory of Stratton The aft'uir Tuts caused a great deal of excitement through the camp; but as anything is called fair in such busi ness, no fault is found by the miners with the strategy employed by Hoi lenbeck. Borm.ATioN of the Earth. The populat ion of the earth has long been a fascinating study for statisticians Behm and Wagner, who have just fmblished an amended edition of a ormcr work in Germany. They give the total as 1,151ft,K87.500 which is about 22,000,000 less than their esti timate of two years ago. They have concluded that China has 50,(MM),0(M) less than lh<*y formerly supposed Theie has thus been an actual in crease of altout 518,000,000 in the pop illation of the. globe an increase however, which must In* spread over ten years, as many of the recent cen suses are decennial. For Europe the present population is rated at 5127, 7-451,-i(M), showing an increase of altout 12,000,(MR) over the previous figures by the operation of tin* censuses. In Asia, making allowance f.>r the re ad justment of the population of China, there has been an increase of 20,000, (KM), the present jiopulation Iteing set down at 705,501,(KM). Of course, the estimates must sometimes be little more than guesses, for example, for such places as Africa. For this con tinent Hr. Bohlfs maintains that an estimate of 1(H).(MM),000 is quite enough, while Behm and Wagner re tain the old figure of 200,000,000 with considerable hesitation. — Tlu' Jeanne d’Arc corsage. open on one side ami laced with silk cords, and corsets laced under the arm, al 1 tided to early in the summer, will he much worn with full* evening dress this and the coming season. These corsages are cut square, heart shape, or in a V point in the neck, and ac companied by a guimpe and sleeves of wuite lace, or a chemise Itusso of white muslin, broidored in the varied colors of the dress. The honest tradesman knows how to make a customer happy. All that is necessary is to charge him 20 per cent, more than the market price, and whisper in his oar, “but I’ll let you have it for 10 per cent off.” TILDLN’S CITY TALATH How Money Has Been Lavished on the Ar Decorations of the New Edifice. A HOUSE THAT WILL COST $500,000. While the unsubdued Pashas of the Tammany and living Hall tribes are drilling their Bedouins for active service at the State Democratic Con vention in Syracuse, “Uncle Sammy” Tildon, New York’s political Khedive, is iu retirement, wrestling with a private architectural problem. A year or so ago he decided to trans form his famous Gramorcy Park re treat into a mansion that would throw Vanderbilt's new palace completely in the shade. At that time it was said that the house, with its owner and other curios, was to form a sort of matrimonial prize-package for a St. Louis belle, but as there is no nursery iu the new edifice the story is now believed to have been made out of whole cloth. Be that as it may, the mansion is undoubtedly the hobby of Mr. Tilden’s life, and when completed it will have cost something like a half a million dollars and eclipse in artistic finish anything of the kind in this country. For months past he has spent one or two days every week in his architectural temple, and when he does not appear on the scene of action he sends down tri weekly documents of in struct ion from his five million dollar place on the Hudson. When he began the alterations Mr. Tilden intended to spend about $50,- 000 on them. But that sum was swelled to $300,000, and it is thought that $200,000 will lie required to finish the decorations. The building fronts on Gramerey Park, and takes in No. 15. Mr. Tilden’s old house, which has been remodeled through out and united to an adjoining building of the same size. This gives the new place, which is four stories high, a frontage of sixty and a depth of 110 feet. THE STYLE OF THE STRUCTURE Traces of Gothic stylo of architect nro are noticeable in many parts of the building, but no conventional rules have been carried out. The architects have worked under the jwrsonal supervision of Mr. Tilden and the result is one of the most unique and beautiful residence's in America. The front of the building is bused on brown sandstone from Belleville, N. J., with a superstruc ture of dedicate pink Scotch sand stone. The prevailing.' tone of the facade is pink and a brilliant con trust is brought about by narrow belts of Maine granite wliich sepa rate the native and imported sand stone. These black granite belts are highly polished and prettily engraved. The arches and window trimmings ore all of black granite. There are two entrances to the front of the mansion and the main one, leading into Mr. Tilden’s old house, is remarkably lieautiful. Four columns of polished red mottled granite support. the handsome porch over the main en trance', and above those columns are four colossal feminine busts, repre senting the seasons. These were carved from Scotch granite and are framed in graven foliage, typical of spring, summer, autumn and winter. A slab of black granite, so highly itolished that its underside reflects like a mirror, forms the top of the porch. The stone trimmings of the porch, and indeed the whole front, of the house, are beautifully and elaborate ly carved, and the designs are as quaint as they lire varied. In the countless clusters and garlands of foliage are birds, rabbits, squirrels, frogs, toads, turtles, snakes, lizards, bugs and butterflies the whole forming a marvelously executed study in natural history. It would take hours to examine the foliated carvings in the pink sandstone, for these carvings are representations of no less than 159 varieties of foliage, ranging from fern and clover to mu pie and oak. In this mass of foliage are over 9(H) animals, birds, reptiles and insects. A CLASSICAL OBOUP OK HEADS. Between the two immense bay win down is found one of the most strik ing pieces of decoration on the build ing. In a large panel of brown sandstone are live niches containing the heads of Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe, Dante and Benjamin Frank liu, the latter occupying the center, with the others at the corners of the tablet. The high roof is broken by dormer windows of modern Gothic style and tinials ornament the coping. Notwithstanding the artistic beauty of (be exterior of the mansion it is the interior that will excite the most general admiration from lovers of profuse decoration. Thu front rooms, a parlor and a library, Hank the hallway, and one of the huge hay windows affords light for each apartment The library, which is twenty feet wide and sixty long, is the largest room in the house. Mr. Tilden has one of the largest and most valuable private libraries in America,and the twenty thousand vol nines it contains will till this new de partment to overflowing. The book cases are of solid rosewood, richly carved. The main parlor is thirty feet long and twenty wide, and the work of frescoing it and the library is not more than naif done. Of all the rooms iu the house, how ever, the dining-hall is the most handsome. It is thirty-five feet square and has a vaulted coiling. This is believed to be the finest din NO. 31. ing room in the country, and al though $55,0(H) have been expended in decorating it, the work is not near finished. DF.COKATIONS OF THE DINING-HALL. This room is in Mr. Tilden’s former resilience and has for years been noted as a beautiful apartment—so beautiful in fact, that the owner would not consent to any changes in the dado or the French walnut, bird’s eye maple and ebony base of the hall. The top of the room is covered by a gorgeous canopy of light blue and gold, and the magnificent center-piece consists of solid carving in bold re lief in sandal wood. The idea of ani mate life in the dmirations has been followed as consistently in this cen ter piece ns it is on the exterior of the building, and the sandal-wood is covered with the same charming pic tures of birds and masses of waving houghs. Above the foliage is a back ing of gold leaf. The semi-circles over the mirrors which line the walls are similarly decorated. The other parts of the ceiling are covered with a delicate diaper-work made up of narrow strips carved and gold hacked sandal wood, crossing each other diagonally and forming light blue porcelain tiles. No money has been [spared in beautifying this apartment, and no form of plant or bird life seems to lie considered too intricate for truthful representation. One of the most striking features about this art work is the endless va riety of the subjects, no two forms of plant or animal life being represent ed in any part of the room. The hall ceiling is gorgeously free* coed, and its polished granite and pinkstomo walls are beautified by ar tistic designs. The elevator is of carved rose and sandal wood, and the art work on it is said to have cost .85(100. The artistic decorations in the upper part of the mansion are not so far advanced as those in the rooms below, but they promise to be fully as perfect when, in the spring of 1883, they are ready for occu pancy. AMERICAN FABLES. One day a giraffe met an ass on the hanks of a river and called ont: "Say, my friend, why can’t you keep that infernal bray of yours still for half an hour at a time. I no sooner fall into a doze than off goes your ‘gee-haw ! gee-haw !* until my nerves are all unstrung.” At that moment a monkey came swinging down from the top of a tree, and remarked: “Air. Giraffe, I wish you would keep your nos*) at home. It isn’t very pleasant to have you come poking it into the tree tops just as tne family are settling down for the night And why do yon go trooping through the forest like a beast who is afraid the constable may attach his neck for debts ?” “Ami I desire to remark,” began the parrot as lie settled down on a limb near by, “that if I was a monkey I’d have Home respect for other peo ple’s rights. You do nothing but chatter and chuckle all day long, and there is a growing suspicion in these woods that you had rather dine on parrot than on berries.” “And what are you talking about!” demanded the hare as he crept through the grass. “As for chatter, I’d like to hear some one equal yon, and your squawks and squeals are enough to drive a hare crazy. You are of so little account that even a hungry huntsman wont waste powder to kill yon 1” “1 wish the whole crowd of you would clear out!” exclaimed the wolf, as he came forward and licked his chops with self-satisfaction. “Fact is, tin honest, industrious wolf can scarcely keep his head above water, when compelled to exist among you.” “And I would like to add,” ob served the alligator as he crawled to the bank, “that if any of are meaner than the memlter from Ar kansas who Inis just sat down I’ll present him with a medal P’ “And it was only yesterday that this alligator devoured one of my kids P’ shouted the goat as he came down the the path. “And you have often torn down my houses for the mere fun of the thing!” charged the ant as she came ont of her alx)de. moral: “Ladies and gentlemen,” remarked the rhinoceros, as he hove in sight “let this convince you that we all have our faults, and that we are ex pected to bear with each other’s. While the ass may bray, the parrot chatter, (he wolf howl and the alliga tor rake in the pot, they allow the rest of ns to go our ways and do as we like. He who begins to find fault with the ass will not stop un til has he discovered that the whole world is wrong. Let us now shut up and look for breakfast” It is quite the fashion to have two different animals represented in the ear rings. This is the case in a pair that accompany a pin shaped like a wicker basket out of which a cat and a dog are snarling at each other from the opposite sides across the handle. The heads of the animals are a mass of small brilliants, but they no wise mar the features. The dog’s eyes are little rabies and the cat’s are emeralds while tiny pink couques form the, tongues. One ear ring is a cat’s head and the other a dog’s. Whsn the war closed a party in Georgia owned 100,000 Confederate bond* that have been lying in the safe for seventeen years, and regard ed as worthless. The other day he took them to Atlanta and sold the pile for 1050 in currency.