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Knterel at tlio Post-Office at Savurmah as Second Clans Matter.
VOL. II.-
NO.
3.
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1880.
One Dollar Per Year.
FELIS SANCTORUM.
Who, In the office lone and still.
Prow) round and round at Ills wt will,
And eat the paste and thing like that?
Ah, silent be; It Is the cat.
Who I it, lank and lean and thin,
That eats the ponms you send In?
Who lores an ode, but loathes a rat? '
It Is the dreadful office cat.
Who hath no fear of knlpht or clown?
WJio sets the type In upside down?
Who makes your lit tle joke so tint?
The misanthropic ofllee cat. ,
Whose fur Is soft, whore rftirr Is light? 1
Who never yowlnth In the night?
And yet she is for all of that, ' .
The veriest fiend? The oHIce cat.
li. J. Uwtlrtte, in Jlrouklyn Etmlt,
GOING HOMtTrICH.
A Laborer With $600 a Baroii In
Hungary.
It is estimated that within the past
throe years over six hundred thousand
dollars have been sent to Hungary
- from the Shenandoah (Pa.) region by
the foreigners who came there to
: struggle for a few years by roughing
it, and then return home rich men.
These foreigners come to America,
live like animals, send home their sav
ings, work for next to nothing, live
cheaply, , and in a few years save
enough to go back to Hungary and
live on the fat of the land ever after
ward. A sample story will fit into
hundreds of communities. 1
A reporter met an intelligent Hun
cn his way to New York. He was
bound for Hungary. He could under-
- stand English only fairly, but suffi
ciently well to take part in a conversa-
, tion. The following conversation took
place:
"You go back to Hungary?"
"Yes
"How long have you been in Amer
ica?
"Four years." ,
"Your age."
"Thirty-five."
"How much did you pay to come
here?"
"Sixteen dollars. I come under
contract. I work for my passage.
Pay to ze agent so much a week: until
it is all paid."
"Do many come to America in that
way? "
''Nearly all. A law is against it,
but foreign labor comes in nearly every
., "Why do you return to Hungary?"
"1 have saveu enough money;
worked very hard; lived like a hog;
now I go back to live like a man in my
native country." "
"How much have, you saved in four
years?"
. "Six hundred dollars. I sent all my
savings home by .tne montn.,' . ; . (
"How do yon send money homo?"
"With the postmasters. They do all
our business. We trust them.1'
' "How much can a laborer earn in
Hungary by working hard?"
"Six guldens a month, or about two
dollars and forty cents. ' in America 1
average eighteen dollars a month."
"Quite a difference." '
"Yes." . , i
"How much could you save out of
your eighteen dollars?" ..
"About thirteen dollars a month. It
costs live dollars a month for board,
wash, tobacco, rum and boots. '
"Nothing for clothes?" '
"I bonght one suit in four years."
"Then you saved $156 a year, or $624
in lour years?
"I sent home $600, and $24 I have to
go back home with."
"How much does it cost you to live
in Hungary a year?
"About $30;' but then, I live very
good."
"How will you -invest your saV'
ings?" ; :
"Buy land or loan it' out on first
mortgage."
"How much interest can yon get in
1 lunn,,, fti. vmin filftllfl fi.rln eta 9' '
"One hundred guldens bring.'siX'
toon guldens Interest a year; : that is,
S40 American -money bring 6.40 in
terest a year, of $600 bring $U6. a year
interest tome; tnree times more tuan
it will cost me to live." ' .'
"Yon have closely calculated it."
"Long days and nights I calculated.
I do not overstate it It is true. In
terest is high in Hungary. It keeps
all the people poor."
"Then you w 11 be a little 'nabob
when you get back home?"
"If 1 get. back safely I will be all
rtgut It is a great risk to come to
America. Like a big lottery.. Coine
three thousand miles over the sea
work hard here. four years; live in a
shanty all together like pigs) eat rough
black bread, cheap potatoes; drink bad
mm; smoke strong tobacco; livo with
rouga, bad , men. Ml men and - no
women; very cold in winter; nothing
clean: sleep on straw on the floor; risk
in sending money home, might get lost
t sea; I might get sick, might get
killed; now 1 go back; must cross the
sea once more; do I get back? See
what a big risk big lottery!"
"Where is your baggage?"
"I have none when I come; I have
none when I go. I am baggage. No
more.
"Did you never become a citizen of
me United States?"
"No sir. Out of about two thousand
Hungarians I know in America only
one i a citizen. '
" hat is the highest wages you ever
pot in America?
"Ninety cents a day."
"The lowest?"
Fifty cents."
"How much did it average you for
roar,!?"
"Five dollars a mouth. One man do
the cooking for twenty Huns. We pay
in so much aniece to nay for all."
"Do all Hungarians live in that way
here?"
"Nine-tenths of all who come to
America to stay only a few years join
together, and five cheap in that way."
'"Then VOU Work rhean and rut down
the average rate of wages for labor in
'n. yes. borne foreigners are
brought to America under contract to
work three years. They get sixty-five
. t - .
rente a day, and their" boss or agent
gets sevepty-five cent. He makes ten
cents a head, it is wnite slavery.
See?"
"Were you under contract?"
"Only to pay my passage money."
"Do many Huns go back with
money?" . ......
'I know about seventy-five. More
will go back next year if they live." t
Where do they work! :
In the mines, on new railroads, in
the coke regions and on farms. Many
get killed in the mines. Their money
sent home goes to their relatives. . Not
many have wives or children at home.
Strong youiig men como to America,
make their fortunes U they nave gooa
luck in a few years, and then go back
home and get married. But it is a
great lottery."
"What is your native tanguager t. -"Magyar.
's
"What is the population of Hun-
gary?'.' . - ' J
"About lb.uuu.uoo." i
"Can you read or write?" ' ?
"Oh. no. Few can who come to
America to work hard."
"What is the principal occupation of
your people at home? 'r ;
"Farminc. makin? rum. flour, sugar
and some mining." I
'You know considerable about Hun
gary?" S
'1 listen good to my boss wno reaa
much in a Hungarian paper. I got
good ears. One is a little deaf, bad.
What I hear don't go in one ear and
out the other."
'How do Hungarians compare with
Poles?"
"Poles come to America to stay gen
erally. They come to America to es
cape army service. Huns do not.
Poles are smart. Nearly all are young
men who come, to America. Nearly
all can read and write something.
Some old Poles can't read. They never
learn. They first live liko pigs, but
soon got on better and improve. They
settle in America, build churches and
become good citizens, miners, laborers,
clothiers, grocers, shoemakers and sa
loon keepers. Four to one come from
Lithuania, a grand duchy of Poland.
Many women and children como to
America. Ihey settle in small places?"
,"Do they save money?"..,..,. . ..
"Much. Here in Shenandoah they
own $150,000 worth of property. So it
is all over the coal regions. ; ; '
"What were' the Poles able to earn
in Poland at farming?"
'Half a rouble a day, they say-
about 26 cents in American money.
But that 26 cents could buy as much in
Poland as $1 can here. 'Ihey come to
America to escape military duty, to get
into a free country."
"What do expert laborers earn in
Poland?" ,: .
"A good workman earns one rouble
day; buy as much as $2.25 will in
America.'' , .
"What can you say of Italians?"
"Very many come to America under
contract, like slaves. There is one
woman to a hundred men, same as
Hungarian; Poles, one woman to thirty
men. Italians are lazy: come mostly
from' Naples. Work very cheap and
Bpuiiu nil Hici liun. iiivvc no uujcctiu
life. Don't do America any good; only
cut aown wages or American working'
men, like we all do." ' ,
"Do you know any reforms that the
foreigners in America should begin?"
"les. top drinking, stop stealing
and stop going to law. .
"Then the best class of foreigners are
Polandcrs?"
"Certainly. They come to stay. They
make good citizens. - They soon learn
to strike lor higher wages, just as much
as Americans get.
"With all your knowledge, couldn t
you do better with $600 in the saloon
business here? - ., .
"No, no, not I go. back taHungary
a rich man. There I live like a Baron.
I get married and enjoy myself for nil
my trials here. JS. i. sun.
GENERAL GRANT. v '
Ills Course at the Crisis of the Battle ot
' Fort DoneUon. r. ,
I saw the men standing in knots,"
talking in .the most excited manner.
No officer seemed to be 'giving any di
refit ions. The soldieta had their mug'
kefci, but no ammunition, while' there
were -tons of it close at hand.' I heard
some of the men say that the enemy
had come out with knapsacks and
haversacks filled "with rations. "'They
seemea to tmnk this indicated a deter
mination on his part to Slav out and
ugiib jusv aa iwfig ns me provisions ueia
c - .1 f ; ii
out. , I turned to fJolonol J. D. Web
ster, of my staff, who was with me,
and said: "ome ot -our men are
pretty badly demoralwed, but the
enemy must be more so, for he has at
tempted to force his way out, but has
fallen back; the one who. attacks first
now will be victorious, and the enemy
will have lo be in a hurry if he ft
ahead of me." I determined to njiike
the assault at once-oil or left. It was
clear to niy mind that tho enemy had
started to march out with his entire
force, except a few pickets, and if our
attack could be made on the left before
the enemy "could "redistribute his forces
along the line, we would find but little
opposition except from the intervening
abtis. I directed Colonel Webster to
ride with Ine and call out to the men as '
we Dassed: "Fill your cartridge boxes. I
quick, and get into line; the enemy is
trying to' escape, and he must not be
permitted to do so." This acted like
a charm. The men wanted some one
to give them a command. General
Grant's Memoirs.
- The advisability pi clipping ahorse
in the winter depends upon circum
stances. Its purpose is to prevent un
due perspiration, by which the coat ie
saturated with moifture after exercise,
and danger of a chill is imminent after
the work is over, by the steaming and
evaporation from tne skin. It is this
which makes lung disorders and the
prevailing epizootics so frequent among
road, car and driving horses. All
horses which have a thick coat should
be clipped, and those having a thin,
fine, silky one should not Clipped
horses should be carefully blanketed
after exercise, and the blanket should
reach quite around the body and over
the front of the chest and throat. ff.
J. Tims.
THE SEASON'S PERIL.
No iv Hi o neat and careful housewife,
As she often Old before, , . i ,
Rises ill the nioriiinir early.
Sweeps the sidewalk at her door;
Pours upon it pails of water,
Just as hot ns hot can be.
Thou admires Hint chining sidewalk,
All so clean nuU lulr to see.
gcaroely is the lob completed
When the water, wiirui and uloe,
Parting with its heat directly,
Keen converted into Ico,
Forms a Him upon tho sidewalk.
Thin and cold us charity.
And a slide is there established
lly the urchins Bpcedily.
Then the (rood old man, outward going,
Snmowhnt old and short of e'tflit.
Strides that sidewalk and discovers
All His stars that shine at nlrht.
Harsh and wild the words hu utters,
Not a bit like sonirs of praise.
As he rubs himself and wonders,
Wonders at a womuu's ways.
-N. T. World.
DREAM AND REALITY..
How Augustus Hardiip Was Kalsed to the
Seventh Ilenven of lillss by the Mlachlev
ous Gnomes or Dreamland The Sad
Awakening.
IPam.l
Tart of the Old lloase.'
The Boston Record gives the following
good Illustration of the confusion which tliu
blending of old and new fashions in some
of our modern houses produces In the minds
ot plain people "A visitor at a fashion
able West-End mansion the other day was
from tliu country, and had not beeu In Bos
ton lor several years. During this period
his host had built a spick and span new
bouse on the site of tho old one. After go
ing over the gayly-dccornttid establishment,
surveying the sumptuous drawing-rooms
nnd tliu n'Stlietie attics, the ituest enmo
down to the lower floor, where -the rooms,
Instead of having large plate-glass windows
like those above, had exceedingly small
pmie3, in Imitation of the fashions of a'
century or more ago. The innocent rural
n.
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visitor naturally supposed that here was a
veritable vestige of llie past. .' 'Well John,'
said he, Tin real glad you've kept part ot
the old house, though it's an awful small
part.' "
Mistaken Ideas.
Two Ilighlamlmen, being in Glasgow for
tho first time, wore having a walk through
tho city. Turning a corner, they were sur
prised to see a water cart wetting the
street! Not having seeii "iinytlilugl'ot the
kind before Tougal, under i miBtikqn ldoi
ran after the cart and cried out to the
driver: "Hey; wan! hey, man! you're losin'
a' ycr water." llis friend, nunoyed at Tou
gal's want ot knowledge, rati after him,
cauzht li i in by the arm, nnd Said, rather
testily: 'Tougal, mntij;: Tougal, qon't be
in.-J -
showin' yonr ignorance there; div you'll no
see it s to keep the raddles jtl the back o'
the cart?' London Exchange.
Suspicious Circumstance
Sara Johnsing has been suspected ot
stealing dogs in order to obtain a reward.
A conversation he had with Judge Penny
bunker encourages the idea that he is none
too honest
"Et a man was ter steal dat fine pointer
dog ob yourn, how much reward would you
gib ter get him back, Jedge?"
"About five dollars."
"Boss, gimme four dollars and I'll Jess
luff dat uosr alone. Dem an special rates
which 1 ain't offering de general nubile.
Dar's a circus a coining, and l'se got ter hab
money." Tcxus SifUngs.
"IV.
. .Hatbaads, H4 This LtMHa
An old lady died in Wallingford, Coruv,
the other day, whose life bad been sad
dened by a little quarrel. The day had
been fixed for her wedding, and she and
her intended husband began to put down
carpets in the house they were to occupy.
She wanted them laid one way, he another.
They quarrel 'ed and separated. He died
shortly afterward, and the lady nevr mar
ried. This should teach women the dancer
of permitting their husbands, or intended
husbands, to remain in the house when
carpets are being put down. No man will
init on being pre-en t on such an occasion
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if his wife hints that his absence would
give her more pleasure. Tho same rule ap
plies in taking up carpets. Normtown
Herald.
The Small Hoy In Texas.
He was really a cleric in a grocery store,
but on Sunday afternoon mounted on a high
horse, he looked as It he might be a mem
ber of Congress. Ho was putting on more
V.
UNM MTI HUh ilji.hiIiN
than usual dignity and grace, for there were
several ladies on the sidewalk admiring
him. - lie was satisfied in his mind that he
was creating a great impression when
small boy on the sidewalk called out:
. "llcyl" .
- lie looked around. So did the ladies. -
"Isay, Mister," continued the boy, "last
night you only gave me five caudles for a
quarter I onghter' got six. '.',2'cra sift
ing. - . . . i
The Point Was Apparent.
- 'Tli following 'good Jokfe 1s atthe expense
of 'a' Chteagd doctor:' ifo wa's'aboiit to'
anesthetize a patient when, in answer to a
question, he Informed the victim that he
would be entirely unconscious, and know,
nothing until the offending growth . had
VI.
been removed. The patient accordingly
commenced to fish his loose change out of
his pocket "Oli, you need not mind the
fee until I am through," remarked the con'
siderate doctor. "1 don't intend to pay
you yet," returned the patient. "I wish
merely to count my money to see how
much I have." The doctor saw the point
and was much amused. Medicul and Sur
gical Reporter. ...
The wife of a certain suburban was that
nuisance among good cooka a perpetual
borrower. One day It was a cupful of
sugar; the next a box ot blueing aud the
clothes wringer, and soon. 'And she wasn't
half as good at returning as she was at bor
rowing. One day in tho midst of her cook-
vn.
ing not an ega was to be found. Over .she
went to one of her neighbors, a widow of
small means, and ' borrowed .file' two : or
three eggs she happened. to nave 111 ine
house. Several weeks etupsei wen una
forenoon she appeared 'iiC the . widow'!
kitchen with three eggs in a paper bag.. '
'tioou morning. .Mrs. H. 1 luiva eotnetd
return something you let me. have 'tho other
day. 1 had boiled. w ior. breakfast tins
morning and these are tlux-o I had left over.
Eggs are eggs, you know.u-ioton He
ord. .: . -L, . , . 1
, Educational tlote. , ' j ;
Colonel Yerger, accompanied by Ids little
son, went out last Saturday, for a wane,
Colonel Yerger . had forgotten to take his
watch with liiuu, pin,R .desireita, of know
ing what time it was he told Johnny to ask
f . . 1
!!w;i"hl
a young man elose by what o'clock it wit.
The yohng" man happened to be a student
of the University of Texas. He replied to
the Inquiry p Johjmy:',, ) I ' .
"Tell your pa I don't know what o'clock
it la t too, Jiave been obliged to soak raj
watcn." Tftfru atlnffs. i 'l 4 J
.' '" A Desperate Remedy. -
,fI hear Bill Tubbs was shot t,hrougk the
lung last Friday," remarked a citizen to
"Yes, he got It clean throutn. " 11 (
mdrtkuinftnK'v'.:0 ' - .
"Oh, no. He's Improving, getting bettor
fast" ' . -
Tm glad to hear that ' It's a blessing he
got shot" . -
A blessing? How do yoa mean?"1 .:
"You said he was cetting better, didn't
yon' . v r t ...
"Yes." ' . ' .....
"Wsll, before he was shot, he was getthwj
worse ail the tima, and if anything conld
make him get better, I'm glad he's got it,
that's why." AfcrcJuiiit Trartr.
A Uaarsatee 8m With It.
Dealer That painting, madam, it a Bot
ticelli. Modsra A botty whof
Art Dealer A Botticelli, we guarantee
its authenticity.
Madam Well, will yoa guarantee it
won't crack?
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- VII7. I 1
THIBETAN MONKS.
Beseriptlon of a Lamassery and the Mf of
Its Inmates.
The young apprentices or novices,
passing through their novitiate, are
generally called Peng Giong, and
sometimes La Tchru (small Lamas).
These are generally recruited as fol
lows: Should there be a son too many
in a family, as tho third would prove
in a poor one, or the fourth in a richer
one, he is generally packed off to the
Lnmassery of the district. Not only
to disembarrass the family of a surplus
son is this done, but also to gain the
favor of the Lamassery, as although
these have no civil power by right, still
they are strong enough to usurp and
exert a great deal of power. Again, if
a boy has shown particular sharpness
or boldness in fact, that he is worth
having a Lama or some lower "ec
clesiastic" walks into tho parent's
house unasked, as is quite permitted to
any ilubetan to do in any ihibetan
house, and in the course of conversa
tion this "ecclesiastic casually tells
the "fortune" of the family. For tho
son he wants ho predicts all sorts of
ills and sickness, which can only be
averted by his entering a Lnmassery.
This has tho desired effect, and ho is
handed over to save him from the un
happy alternative. This result has
often been led up to by preparatory
predictions given from time to time
concerning, the son. Thanks to the
above systematic fraud, there is now
about onc-twcilth ot the total popula
tion of Thibet in Lnmasseries. Deduct
for the women and children, and it will
be evident what a ruinous proportion
of the male adult population is wasted
in Lamasseries, perfectly unproductive
and living in a great measure, on the
ion oi ine rcmainucri
As regards the interior "monastic"
life and regulations, the members of a
Lamassery (miscalled ','Lamas") roain
whither they will, and as a rule with
no proper or moral purpose. Thev
are practically subject to no discipline
whatever, nor can there be said to be
any real rules followed, except perhaps
at three times of the year. These
periods are the fifth and ninth moon,
during each of which three days must
be spent in the Lamassery, ostensibly
in prayer, thourh tho. latter it not de
rigueur; the other period is at the new
year, when when they must pass litteen
days in tho Lamassery, also ostensibly
in prayer, llie members have no corn-
nihilism, some being very poor these
often acting as the servants of richer
members; others being rich, and all
living exactly as suits each individual's
tastes and means. A few of the elders
remain pretty constantly in the Lamas-
soncs, when, having outgrown the
pleasures and passions of vuulh, their
vices have left them, and they have in
consequence elected to abandon their
vicious courses. Ihe great majority
however, rove about at will, with no
moral intent, as we have said.
" As far as the so-called Lnmas them
selves are concerned, their religion is
a farce they do not believe, save in so
far as it brings them in the good things
of this word. For that purpose they
thoroughly appreciate its value. The
people, too, already realize and make
common talk of the immorality , of the
"Lamas" as a body, and only except
from slander a few," chiefly tho very old
"living , IHuhlhas." . Nearly all, large
Lamasseries have one or more of these
"living Buddhas." Nineteenth 'Cen
tury. ,:
RELICS OF IRVING.
How Spaniards Honor the Memory of the
Great American Author.
There is a hotel in Granada that
oears the houored name of Washing.
ton Irving. From its windows the
guest, in the morning, when the sun
light is sifted down through the Wei
lington elms, ' sees one of the blank
walls of tho Alhambra. Its proprietor
is a Spaniard, not literary and not too
familiar with the name he has taken in
vain. Two volumes, fragments of two
separate works of tho author, ono of
theinitv trench, are all that tho hotel
possesses,, though a copy of .Sale's Ko
ran is sometimes brought to the trav
eler under 'the impression that it also
emanated from Irving's pen. There is
a portrait from a photograph in the
reading room not unlike the original,
but no other mementoes are discover
able. It is so very long since Irving
spent his three and a half months of
spring and summer within the Alham
bra s walls more than hftv year
that few persons are now alive who
ever even saw him, though scarcely a
person who comes here does not talk
of him and of his books; he it was that
made Granada famous. Tho fuithfnl
Mateo, his body servant, died many
years ago, and his son, who now acts
as guide, is an oiu man 01 nearly sixty.
His wife died of the cholera, and he is
in temporary retirement at the house
of a son-in-law in the old quarter. I
made a diligent search for him as one
of the relics. I was shown into a little
room beside the entrance, filled with
ancient furniture, and he soon came in
He is thin and grav-haired, and looks
at least seventy. He spoke no Eng-
nsn, ana it was necessary to converse
with him in French. He was only
three years out when Irving was here.
but remembers or thinks he remembers
the round-faced, good-natured gentle
man, dressed in Mack, with black era.
vat. standing collar and broad expanse
of shirt front, who used every day to
give him a copper. Whether this is
partly copied from the ortrait and
partly rroni lamny reminiscence, no
one can tell. He expressed great re
gret that he could not have acted as
my guide. Then he looked up for me
a small photograph of his father, and
1 leu nun, supping into nis nana a
peseta in the dark passage as I passed
out, American literature is young,
and yet here is an old man of sixty
who. When a child of three, kne
Irving, who had already passed middle
age. irranarfa (fpatn) Cor. ban t ran.
cisco Chronkk.
Said a Halifax yonnglady to a tele
graph operator the other dar: "ion
must be terribly exposed, receiving so
many dispatches from the places where
they have smallpox, ui course jou
are vaccinated: Montnal M Umsf.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAU
Captain J. m. Storey, of Greens
boro, N. C, was struck twenty times
by bullets in the late war, and is alive
yet.
Dr. Ldwin B. Webb, after a pas
torate of twenty-five years, retired
from the pulpit of Shawmut Congre
gational church of Boston recently.
Old names for girls, such as
Gladys, Elfrida, WiMreda, Enid, Ethel,
Clarice, Kosabel, thnstabel and t;lan
bel, are again becoming fashionable.
Chicago Herald.
An investigator of names says
after a long search for it he has been
unable to find any person who ever
bore that of Printer. Ho has found
Painter, Stainer, Shoemaker, Tanner,
Tinker, Carpenter and many others
derived f roin trades or occupations,
but no Printer. N. Y. Tribune.
-The paper on which the historic
Bancroft writes is a singular1 combina
tion of yellow and greon. . He says
that with ordinary white paper before
him the composition of a single sen
tence is the work of fifteen or twenty
minutes. His thoughts.. will only flow
when this peculiar paper is used.
Baroness Burdctt-Contts has the
satisfaction of knowing that her young
American-born husband beat the Mar
quis of Lome for a seat in the House
of Commons. The Marquis is the
Queen's son-in-law, and it was her
Majesty who snubbed the Baroness
because she married a young man.
Chicago Times. ...: . . ;
Dr. Archibald JJodds, a young
Pittsburgh physician who removed to
Syria some years ago and who recently
came homo to bring his little boy to
Iivp with relatives, was drowned irom
tho Cunard steamer Sudon while near
the coast of Spain. The Sidon had
struck a rock. Dr. Dodds had twice
secured a life-preserver, but gave it ftp
to a lady each time. ruisourgn rose.
There are two well-known house-
decorators in New York City who arc
brothers, of the same height, weight!
complexion, and build, wearing clothes
of the same color and style, and lunch
nig together, without speaking a word
to each other, every day at Delmonico's.
The ordina;y mortal can not tell them
apart, and one never Knows wnicn oi
the two he is talking to. N. Y. Mail.
-Charles Schneider, of Cincinnati,
several years ago married the daughter
of John tirossions, his employer,
against the father's wishes. The young
wife was after a time persuaded to
leave her husband and return home.
Her husband tried to reclaim her, and
failing, shot at her. For this he was
sent to the .penitentiary, and his wife
secured a divorce. Mnce then her
father died and left her valuable prop
erty, and recently the young husband,
who had served his term in tne pent
tcntiary went to see his children, found
his wife still loved him, and they wero
again married. Cincinnati limes.
'A LITTLE NONSENSE."
Tho young lady meant well who
wrote to tho editor: "I was pleased to
sec the obituary notice of my father in
your columns.
-Vinegar is rapidly declining; prob
ably on account oi snarp competition.
Fuck: We think there must be some
mother reason for it. Boston Common'
wealth. " " "'"
-A fashion item savs. '.'Red kids are
now fashionable.' this is not an
original idea. It is an aboriginal no-
tion. Ked kids have long been lash-
ionable among the Indians. Norris-
town Herald.
A German scientist counted the
hairs on his wife's head, and quoted
her at a hundred and twenty-eight
thousand to the inch. We don't see
how he could tell Which was switch
N. Y. Graphic.
"Is there auy danger of tho boa
constrictor biting nier asked a lady
visitor at trie. zoological uarucn. "ioi
the least, maim," cried the showman;
'he never bites he swallows his wit
ties whole." X. Y. Telegram.
German humor: "Herr Professor,
Lmv .Ir. lll'd 1MV nflW t Tit IToA V P' 1
Ll I UV JWll ..III. It- -T
"very much, indeed. Especially lue
robbers they are first rate. In fact,
they are the best thieves I ever heard
of ; even the words they speak are
stolen from other books.
"Why, Allic dear, is that the wav
to begin your dinner? asked the
going to eat my dinner upsiue
down, wasn 1 1? Hochesler Democrat
Little Ethel went to see her grand
mother, and, for the first time in her
life, alone. The experience of being
without her mother or nurse in the city
streets quite unnerved the child, and
on reaching her ' grandmother's she
staid but an instant, so intent was she
on getting home again. On returning
there, she asked her mother: "Can t
I go and tell grandma I'm safe back?
I told her how frightened I wa and I
know ehe 11 worry, liarjwr s isazar,
Life' is full of compensation:
No more alone- the sllverr sanoe tbey strar
when balmy niiiht succeed the (roirten aay
And Dian with serene, unblushing face
Olides calmlr from FoeeWon'a fond embrace.
to more they linirer on tne pentnea sirana
And niako believe to listen to the band
Pscoursln airs from SalHvan and 8trans.
The nifrhts are cold they spend them in the
house.
And do tbey miss the beach, the pleasant
wa kf
Not by a very much extended chalk.
r or In the parlor moet the pair
Now. when the day Is done:
Two forms with but one rocking-chair,
Two hearts that neat as one.
' ' Ikiston Courier,
"Philadelphia Doctors."
By an edict of the Berlin State Court
the diplomas of M. D. bought of a now
defunct Medical University of Philadel
phia, the holders of which in Germany
were humorously styled "Doctors Phil-
adelphise," are declared invalid,. and
the prosecution of such persons who
persist in advertising themselves as
"specialists in uermanv on the
sirengin soieiy 01 sncn diplomas
authorized. The happy possessor of
such a diploma, a "Dr.' Reseck, in
Berlin, was fined three hundred marks
Berlin, was fined three hundred marks
for calling himself a nhvsician and one
hundred and fifty nrarks for wearinc
the title of "M. I)." Chicago Tribune.
mother of her little daughter, as she V ,ou:",F"Ll! mV.'l ",e m"rT'
began tho pio instead of the potatoes 'Good-n.ght, Mehitable, and they
with gravy. "Well, I declare, mamma, lr'V, 0 J ! without another
T mo .rJ,r.o in. onr rmr iU.,nnr lin-id- Word?" S. "Without another Word.'
A TV OCT i! VJ 1 11 w vu 1 1 ... v a. 'Miv 1
OF GENERAL INTEREST. ,
-Tho total amount of press tele-'
. . ... . TT!
grams sent over the western uniu
lines reaches a thousand million worn
a year. N. Y. Tribune.
A dog belonging to a Cincinnati
shoe dealer: chews; tobacco, using up
about a quarter of a ten-cent plug ev
ery day. Cincinnati Times.
A New York uaner gravely de
clares that "it is now the aim and am
bition of the girl of the period to make
herself as conspicuous as possible. ; 4
A Philadelphia "doctor" is doinr
a lively business among ine coion-u.
people of that city by selling a liquid
for the hair that takes the curl and the
kink out. . '- , ji
A Boston man has written an elab-"
orate article to prove that before the
close of the next century an 01 .Norm
America, including the British posses
sions, Mexico and Central America will
belong to the United States.
An alleged doctor m Georgia, to
relieve the earache, inserted a bunch
of cotton saturated with hot glue in a
young m:n s ear. Ihe glue got cold,
jnii it became necessary to can in a
veal physician to extract the cotton.
The spectacle of a little man un
der a hat too big for 'him is- only lu
dicrous, but the sight of a young coun
try like Canada laboring under a dent
of nearly $300,000,000 is too serious .to,
be amusing. Toronto Truth.'. ' '
Nova Scotia has a known coal area
of nearly seven hundred square miles.
or nearly twice the area or the renn
sylvania anthracite fields, and some of
the Nova Scotia fields have" a,grcater ,
thickness of workable coal than prob
ablo exists anywhere else in the world.
The Supreme Court of Massacmii
setts has decided that the word "guest'
as defined by the public statutes under
the licenso law, is limited to persons
who resort to an inn for food and ljo
ing, and clearly excludes those QQffg '
resort there for the purpose'
ing and drinking int-'
The doctors have"iort.iax ..,.. .
rising and tennis playing, wjjen carried
to excess, produce pecuMar muscular
diseases. It is to be hoped their dis
coveries will not tend to lessen the
Iwpularity of these sports. There is no
lind of athletic exercise which is not
injurious when indulged in. immoder
ately. Brcathingcan be carried to any
unhealthy extreme. Chicago Current.
Bread is a luxury among the peas
antry in parts of Southern .; Austria,
Italy and in Roumania. In a village
not far from Vienna the "staple footl of
tho people is sterz, a kind of porridge
made of ground beech nuts. : A por
ridge made of boiled maize, called jm
lenta, forms the chief article of food lii
Northern Italy. The same thing, some?
what diliercntlv. prepared,., under the
name of mamaliga, is the common arti
cle of food in Roumania. ("" -'
The Shut-in Sooioty is the title of a
new organization in New York for tho
mutual benefit of the suffering. It al
ready numbers fifteen hundred mem
bers. To be "shut in" from- the outer
world by suffering is the only condition
of membership. It is not a charitable
organization in the ordinary sense, but
aims at the inter-communion , anl
friendship of invalids who become
known to each other by letter. Con-
certs of prayer in which invalids pray
for each others' consolation and faith
are a feature of it. It publishes month
ly tho Open Window. ; , 5,,
Miss Anna Ripley, of Buxton, Me.,
has, unaided, secured the necessary
papers a
Edgerly,
apcrs and a pension for George W;
au, old --broken down soldier
of her town. While engaged in .thirf
work she took the affidavit of ev6ry
man in his company, from Maine t
California, every physician who had
treated him, and personally supplied
his wants as long as she was able
rather than allow him to go to the poor
farm. When the pension was granted.
ono thousand and seventy dollars was
allowed as arrearage. She asked and
received ne -compensation- for' hef
efforts. Boston Journal. , i,,,,, ,
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Smith "I never was more- sur
prised in my life than I was last night."
Jones "Indeed! What was thcoause?'
S. "As 1 was passing along the street
two ladies came to the door of a house
one evidently the hostess, as she hal
only a shawl wrapped around her bend
the' other a visitor. As they reached
the bottom of the steps the visiter said:
'well, 1 ve had a very pleasant time.
J. "H'm! I guess thev were men in
women's clothes." Boston Courier '
In the first generation a man reek-
ons only two ancestors, his father sshI
mother. In the second generation fhe
two are changed into four, since he
had two grandfathers and two grand-,'
mothers. Each of these font two
parents, and thus in the third genera-
I .1 . A v -
lion were r kiuuu to ue eign nre-
tors, that is, eigkt great grand parents
In the fourth generation the number of
ancestors is sixteen, in the fifth thirty-
two, in the sixth sixty-four,. in the sev
enth one hundred and twenty-eight, in
the tenth, one thousand and twenty
four, in the twentieth, one million, for
ty-eight thousand, five hundred and
seventy-six, in trie thirtieth one billion.'
seventy-three million, seven hundred
and forty-one thousand,' eight hundred'
ana tnNTty-ionr. inis may prove mat
all the world's akin. Chicago Living
fhurrh.
The water-boy who goes through
the passenger trains in Connecticut,,
with his pail of water and tray o tunv-,
biers, offering free drinks to all thu
passengers, is a survival of the war
period. During the rebellion thou-1
sands of sick and wounded soldiers.
passed through the State on thcirwy '
home to be nursed, and many of theoi,'
their canteens being empty, longed mi
vain for a draught of cool water. TlU'
late John F. Trumbull, of Stonington,''
who was in the Legislature at the tim"v
having ridden on a train m which .
were home-returning soldiers, and no
ticing their distress on account of tke ir
inability to get water, at oace pushfl 4 L
a law through the Legislature provrd- , I
ing that all railroads in the State mTrf
carry water-boys on their Rassengvi
trains. Ihe statute still reicains u.
i force. Hart 'font Courant ;
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