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VOLUME IV.
IIILLSIJOUOUOII, N. M., SEITHMIiKIl 11, 188(1.
NO. 29.
i WHEN YOU WERE A BOY.
Oh. don't yon rnn'einhi-i-whcnyoinvorenboy
! ui.ni-11 i-i niiu i rmiiin you wane.'
lli j on were u sorrow nisii-ud ol ft jvj
i'o paicnujou never ouej eilr
Htt little you hooded their lov 1'tr voico?
Mow Kiiucyyoll were to lliein. tno:
Anil how ii.ii would iiiiuihku liy ev'ry drvlca
JU Ml, 111 IV Illl Illl-y lolll you 10 1X0I
How coltish mn worn In enjoying: your fun;
How 1 itk'iia stance you iravo
lo keep up the titiuiu wb.cb your parents
IIIIU MU
For you liy UciiliiU 80 brave.
nd do nit forget, when ynu Ihv ill your cot
In sickness, llieir nursing nnd careV
And tlcin t yt ii tnii th nk cf i lie whippings
lor vi h.i h you resoivcil to iret "su,unro?"
well to remember these thlnirs when you
tin, I
Your children tiro rop'rs of you,
And then, when you wollop them, bear It in
mind
And try wlmt morn pntirnoe w ill do.
. V. ttnl;e, in (jiHidtiU'g Sun.
MY FJRIKND, TJ1K MAJOJi.
The Truth Not in Him, Yet All
Loved Him,
Do you know my friend, tho Mayor?
He is a rave bird, lie is an optimist
on pi t 1 1-i j i If, iiii.I n liar Ill-cause hu can't
help il. To Know the Mayor is a lib
eral i-ihicalion nt least, bo far as llu- line
nit of prevarication is concerned. The
Major lirsl attracted my attention dur
ing the war. lie was exempted from
Service on account, of some slight disa
bilily, 1 tit as soon as hostilities opened
lie announced his attention of joining
the army. lie made no secret of his
determination even to strangers.
Whenever he saw a crowd of nble
Itoilied young men he would introduce
Iiiniscll, congratulate them upon their
manifest ability to sirve their country
in the held, and wind tip with the
Btateim-ni that, although n cripple him
t If, he did not prcposu to be cheated
tint of his . share of the glory, and was
then making his arrangements to go to
the front.
The ellcel of this kind of talk may be
Imagined, in those, days every body
was patriolic or nothing. Many a
liniiil man was made so ashamed of
ttoiself by the Major's devotion to the
"wm-dorucy that he prineipitately vol
unteered and marched o!l' with anius-U-t
uti hi should-, r. All through sixty-one
and sixty-two this gallant pa
' triot gave himself up to this work.
Finally il. began to draw upon us that
lit-was losing a good d'-al of time, and
missing all the lighting right straight
tilling. Soiyclliing of the sort was
liinted to him, but lie promptly silenced
nil criticism. He had been delayed by
so many things, be said. First, ho had
intended to join Colonel Blank's rcgi
nient, but the Colonel was killed, and
Hint caused him to change his plans,
lie had found it dillicull to decide be
tween the infantry, cavalry and artil
lery branches of the service. He, also
thought of the navy, and at that very
time was waiting to hearfroin a certain
Admiral who w as an old friend.
After hearing these voluble explana
tions, men would wink significantly nt
each other, but they kept their suspi
cions to themselves. Il was useless to
nuke w ar on the Major. lie was hand
in glove with the authorities, nnd the
women were all on his side. The sae
riliee which he proposed to make in
puing into the army, in spite of the
exemption, stirred the feminine heart,
nnd so much was said about it that
penri-s of men less lit fur duty than the
Uigur found themselves unable to stand
the pressure. They rushed oil' to the
tinny, but the Major utill lingered nt
jjtT.ini the siege of Atlanta my old
friend n!'J,e himself very useful, nnd 1
think hurried up matters not a little,
jle attached himself to a Hag of truce
parly one day, and although present as
a citizen he wore an ollicer's coat. He
strolled about, got left by bis party,
and was picked up by the Federal-1 as a
spy. lie' as so defiant, so voluble ami
so' bright that ho w as carried before
(iem ral Sherman In the presence of
this terrible commander the Major did
not abate one jot of bis natural dignity.
He explained his position .satisfactorily,
tinil ni response to the questions put to
him said that Atlanta was defended by
60,0011 men: that (ieneral Hood had 2(K)
big guns, unlimited ammunition, and
nil the supplies he needed. The garri
son, he said, would be reinforced by
411,1100 militia from the South Atlantic
Mates inside of fen days. To make
him slop his everlasting jaw, Sherman
ordered him to be escorted to the Con
fe! rate lines.
As soon as the Major got back to the
lie was interviewed by every body,
(mm (ieii.T..! Hood doviii to tin; uews
jjpjs. To all these searchers afler
truth the Major was gracious and com
nmiiieativc. He said that Sherman's
force, nt, a moderate estimate, amounted
to 1 1 h. om men, and oO.OOi) more were
on the way. He had seen 3K) heavy
6!fgc guns pl-ieed in position, and had
learned that it was the programme; to
open tire on the city with all of them
jn forty-eight hours. He had also seen
g brass band witli instruments costing
.H,oo--. Thi.i band bad just arrived
from Washington and had been sent
for to furnish H'0 music when Sher
iunn made bis grand entry into tho
ciiv-
Looking back to those days, I can
MMiy see thai the Major's fearful
yaws must have driven both Sherman
jir.il lb o'l nearly crnzv. llolh (iorier
ds r.ind" some very eccentric move
,,,(, soon ni'o-rwards. nnd my old
friend
tJjc. H I
was uoiiouess responsiuie nu
de, Luiiue.-ti. After luring si-'Ut
of this amiable personage for nearly ft
score of years, 1 found him some lime
ago comfortably established in a small
town, not a hundred miles from here.
Time had dealt gently w itlt him. lie
was rotund and rosy, and his face wore
a perpetual smile. 1 accepted an invi
tation to ride with him into the coun
try, nnd on our trip 1 learned still
more about the man. We passed a
farm neatly all hillside, but with a
narrow strip of bottom land. The
corn on the hillside whs stunted nnd
worthless, but in the bottom it was
Very line. Stopping suddenly in the
road, tho Major haHed tho farmer, a
blue, hopeless-looking man.
"Say, Jones," he shouted, "that's
mighty line corn in tho bo'lont."
"Yes, it's tolerable," was the de
sponding reply.
"Tolerable ain't no name for it,"
said my companion. "There ain't no
liner corn in the country. I always
did tell those town fellows that what
you didn't know about farming wasn't
worth knowing.''
The gloomy Jones smiled with
dent pleasure.
"It. is my opinion," continued
Major, thoughtfully, "thai you
cvi-
tbe
will
soon have the bet-paying farm of its
size in the country. Just keep up tho
lick, you know."
And, with a cheery smile and a
wave of tin; hand, he drove oil'.
Turning to me, he said:
"Now, 1 talk that way on principle.
Why call Jones' attention to his hill
side corn? l'oor fellow! he looks at
that too much anyhow. 1 made him
look on the bright side of things, and
whooped him up. That's the way to
do it."
Throughout our ride this rosy, smil
ing old man stopped every man, woman
and child, and gave them just such a
leket as he bad given Joins, suiting
bis talk to the varying circumstances
of each case.
On our return to town I could not
elp noticing that the Major's encour
aging words bad already produced an
ell'cct. At uianv of the farm houses
the women folks had been told by their
husbands of what had occurred. They
looked upon us smiling from their
doorways, and at several places little
children were sent to waylay us with
fruit and buckets of cold spring water.
Kvcn at the cottage of the despondent
Jones we saw that gloomy individual
.mining in liigli glee ami chucking Ins
w ife under tin- chin.
"Jones will coineout all right," said
the Major with a grin, "if not this year
then some other year."
Naturally I asked the Major how he
was getting along.
"Splendily." was the answer. "I've
made about if 10,0(1(1 since 1 catno here,
and I'll clear .'), 000 this year."
He said much more, but these figures
will do. liefore leaving the village I
had an hour to myself, nnd improved it
by making a few inquiries about the
Major. I found that all he had in the
world was a place worth a few thou
sand dollars, and heavily mortgaged. I
found, too, that he made only a bare
living. He must have known that 1
would learn the 'titer falsity of his
statements, but his old habit of lying
was irresistible. One thing struck inc.
Kvcry man in the town stood up for
tho Major.
"He'll never pay out of debt," said
one, "but that makes no difference.
Nobody's going to press him."
"You like him? " said 1.
"We love him," was the answer.
"The Lord don't give us many such
men."
All the testimony was to the same ef
fect. As the train w hirled me back to
the city my thoughts were decidedly
mixed. I said to myself:
"Here is a cheerful old fraud who
can't tell a truth to save his life. He
played double during the war. Holives
by false pretenses. He is lazy, extrava
gant, and an old bag of wind. Yet all
these people love him. They would
fight fot him, die for him, and. most
incredible of all, thev credit him.
What is the secret of it till?"
Then I thought of the talk with
Jones, and the other farmers and their
wives, it nil Hashed upon me m a
tui'iiHMt. With all his faults, the
Major'sgenuine love for his fellow-man
made itself f"lt. It was Invincible,
and it won llu! devoted fricndnliip uf
the very men who (toted his besetting
sins. Human syui)aKw.' is a wonder
ful thing. It w ill win a "spontaneous
return when every thing else fails.
We can not well spare such men as tho
Major. We need them to whoop up
tho Joneses. Atlanta Constitution.
Convention of Stenographers.
It is proposed to hold in the autumn
of 18X7 an international congress of
short-hand writers of all existing sys
tems and of persons interested in short
hand generally, to celebrate conjointly
two events of importance (1) the ju
bilee of the introduction of Air. Isaac
l'i t man's system of phonography,
ni tvking as it docs an area in the de
velopment of short-hand on scientific
principles; (L) the tercentenary of
modern short-hand, originated by Dr.
Timothy Hvigbt about 1.W7, continued
bv Peter Hales (1.W0), John Willis
(lCoj), Kdmond Willis (HilH), Shelton
(Ifi-'tl), Cartwrigbt ( lflf-J). Hich (11546),
Mason (ItiTi'). 'iurnev (1740), Kyroin
(17(57), Mayor (170)." Taylor (17K6),
Lewis (l'Ml--'). and many others
in past generations, and finally by Mr.
Pit man and other Knglish and con
tinental authors of the present day.
'" Mull tturrtlr.
- A Preston (Conn.) man has a cat
whoso favorite t idbit is a nice fat grass
hopper, which she captures for livrsUt
'Jurturd V...
FRANZ LISZT.
Sketch of tlia Itffrn-ntly leoen-d Corapoa.
fr'a l ire inn l'rlnrlial Work.
Franz Liszt's death deprives tho
world of one ot the greatest piauisU
the world has ever seen, nnd one of the
greatest, composers. His early piano
forte works gained instantaneous suc
cess, because when interpreted by him
their ctl'ect was irresistible; and no
doubt much of the power he had been
ablo to wield during his life has been
due lo his position as a pianist. In
this country he was never heard, but
his praises have been echoed and re
echoed so often that we have also coma
to look upon him as the greatest pian
ist, as though he had lived and won
his fame among uk.
Many of his compositions, both for
piano and orchestra, are well known
here. Indeed, its a composer for or
chestra his popularity here is mor
general than it is in Kurope, for there
are cliques in (ierniany, which, w hile
acknowledging his supremacy as a
pianist, have regarded him as a sort of
ennut ttrrililf among coin posers. His
name, for instance, has never appeared
on the programme of such conserva
tive organizations as the (iewandhaus
orchestra of Lcipsic. Here, however,
his finest compositions have been fre
quently played by tho philharmonic
society and its rivals of other days and
to-day, and some of bis works, liko his
symphonic poems, "Tusso" and "Les
Preludes," are heard quite as frequent
ly as any other classic symphonic;.
Liszt himself often acknowledged tho
welcome his works received in Ameri
ca by his gracious bearing toward tho
Americans whom he had met, and fre
quently expressed to thenihisgratiludi)
for the ready appreciation awarded his
works in this country, saying thai ho
could never forget that his orchestral
works were known anil understood hero
long before they were known and un
derstood in his own country.
Personally Liszt was very charming.
He seemed to plnv upon human nature
w ith a touch as light, yet as sure, as
that to which his instrument responded.
His manners were winning, his bearing
gracious, his conversation brilliant,,
and he drew to himself Princes ami
nobles as easily as he did musicians.
Ho was a friend of the (irand Puke of
Weimar nnd of Pio Nono, and had re
ceived tribute from Kings and Km-
pcrors, yet he was always realty to help
along the humblest members of his
profession.
He was born atllaiding, in Hungary,
on October 22, 1K11. His father was a
musician and gave him his lirst instruc
tion. When he was nine years old a
Hungarian nobleman who Imd heard
him perform expressed his gratification
by .sending him to Vienna and later to
Paris to study, in lS'.'if ho played in
small cities, nnd, returning to Paris in
1H2.), won instantaneous success. With
the exception of a few years which hu
devoted to religious studies, his life was
a succession of artistic triumphs, until
his latter days, which he spent among
bis friends in Weimar, Pesth and Koine.
To musical literature he contributed a
'Life of Chopin," "The (iypsies nnd
their Music," and articles for different
musical periodicals.
A few months before his death ho,
visited Paris and London, where he re
peated the triumphs of his younger
years. Society lionized him, and hu
received great ovations whenever hn
appeared in public. A description of
the great artist as he appeared during
bis visit in London contained this:
"At seventy-live Franz Liszt has re
tained the noble, marked, severe fea
tures that were so characteristic, but
they are slightly pulled out with
age, which lends to his face a
scini-monarehial expression. His
hair, which he wears long ami
tumbled as of yore, is entirely
white. His eyes have lost neither their
piercing, falcon ghmee, nor the sudden
twinkle of irresistible humor. He is
tall and spare, with sinewy limbs,
wrists supple and firm as steel, im
mense 'fng lingers and powerful hands,
wearied liy the incessant hammering of
the keys; but w hen he sits down before,
the instrument, preluding by a few
chords, he can still evoke the impet
uous, frenzied work of harmony which
ever obeyed bis call in earlier davs.
Ar. Y. Sun.
Archaeological Discovery.
A remarkable discovery has recently
be:n made in the village of Kaniinia
in Lcninos by two young scholars
MM. Cousin nnd Durrbach from tho
French school ar Athens. This is a
rectangular stone bearing two inscrip
tions, one surrounding the. head of a
warrior, the other consisting i f thro
lines engraved on a' different face of
the monument. The inscriptions are
in the same alphabet, though there are
slight variations in the forms of some
of the characters. The alphabet is an
archaic (ircck one. Dr. I'auli would
refer it to the latter half of the seventh
century li. c. lint the curious point
about the inscriptions is that the lan
guage embodied ill them is not (ircck,
but an otherwise unknown tongue,
M. Peal observes that it would be nat
ural to connect it with a dialect spoken
on the neiglilsiring mainland of Thrace,
lie notices, however, the curious gen
eral resemblance that it offers to Ktrus
can. -V. 1". l'ost.
The Pittsburgh Chronicle tells how
an engineer of a steam fire engine de
clined to allow the machine to go to a
tire because, as he explained, "1 spent
three hours yesterday cleaning up and
shining the brass work."
A HEALTHY GROWTH.
Jim lellriar' N unit-rutin Vernlons of lib
i:ti rliiie Willi Jllgli Wattirn.
A number of years ago Jim Mellryar,
who now live near Ksfclliue, resided
ill Northern Missouri. One day h
crossed Coon creek at an old ford anil
when he arrived at town told the utoty
as follows:
"I give ther new bridge Iher shake
ter-day and conic in by Lim ( 'hapmau'i
old fori."
"Was the water very deep?"
"It was only 'bout a couple o' foot."
A year later ho was talking with a
group of friends when some one re
ferred to the creek, and Melirvar said:
"Yes, I cale'lale ther water was
pertly mid'liii high in Coon creek last
spring. Forgot ther time i was in a
miri'v and cut acrost at the old ford?"
"The w ater was pretty high, wasn't
il?"
"You bet it were! Il come right up
lor tln-r wagon box and my oil' boss had
; r swiiii a little, but I made it all
right."
Some live years afb-r h-t w as one day
icing in front of a grocery store and
old the story like this:
"You know that soring of '(irt, when
her water wen? so blame' high over in
v 'mm creek ?"
"Yes."
"II. just b'iled. you renienilier. Well,
.il', the day Iher bridge w ent out I come
o town and crossed w here ther want
no ford neither."
"Wasn't it. dangerous?"
"Well, I should just reckon it wus! I
lon't knuw how deep the water might
V been but there want no bottom. The
old sor'l nnd bay bad ler swim 'bout a
hundred yards. I stood right up in
iher wagon and then 1 got pertly wet.
I tell you I don't want any more such
'spcrienees. "
Some years after old Jim moved to
Dakota. He had been here but a short
time when one day be got, a crowd
around him on the street corner in Ls
lelline find said:
"(Ion' lemon, 1 I bought one of yer
qioke of high water in ther ISig Sioux?
Yes, 1 'lowed 1 heeled it. Well, now
i ll tell yer yer don't, know nothing
bout high water np'n this country. 1
had a little Vpcricnoe with water down
in Missouri that wuz just 'bout till I
wanted."
How was il?"
"W'y it wus I lie spring of 'li-', after
the hard winter ami 1 crossed the
(Irand river after cr doctor. The
bridge w lis all gone nnd bouses wuz
floating down like steam-boats. had
a line team o' bosses and I had t- r get
acrost so I just drove right, in and made
'cm swim. It were nigh on half a mile
and it were rainin' and the waves were
a-rollin' but 1 just stood right up 'n the
wagon and swung the whip and got
acrost at last."
One day this week Jim came into the
it'' ollice and said:
"Young man, I reckon you never
had no 'rqierieiice with high water?''
"Not very much."
"1 'lowed' von hadn't. Weil, I have.
1 swum a four-boss team and a stage
full of pas'ngefs 'crost the. Missouri
river once."
"Is that a fact?"
"You bet it are. You set- I was
drivju' a stage the spring of 1Ko7, after
the deep snow, and there come up a
big storm and I didn't git to the river
till dark, bin 1 wus hound to cross.
The river were, foaming and leapiu'
and the waves was riinniu' high and it
were full of logs and ice and the houses
and men and cattle that il'd washed
away, but 1 just say to my pas'ngers:
'Ladies and gen'lenien. we crosses
her!' and I drove in. It were two
mile lo the other shore and dark as
the inside of a cow and the rain and
hail were pouring down and the light
niu' strikin' all erround us, but I stood
up and whooped a couple of limes and
in we went. I tell you it were a pow
erful had place ler be and I he pas'ngers
were mighty sheered, but I just ki p'
whoopin' and goin' through. Hadn't
gone fur when one boss was struck by
lightniii' and lloalin' frees and buihf
in's ami cakes o' ice and cattle and
men were rttshin' erround us and
niakiu' the cussedest, noise yon ever
heeled. I kep' whoopin' and larupin'
the bosses but every little while one of
'cm would get struck by lightniii'. The
current took us down 'bout four mile
but, the bosses kept her swimmin' and
1 kep'er whooping' and at last we got
over. U were tough now 1 tell you.
young nan, and since then it just
makes me sick to bear some of these
fellers that never see notion' bigger'n
a trout stream talk 'bout high water."
EsUulinc (It. T.) licit.
Labiche's Aversion to Music.
A writer speaks of the curious aver
sion of the French dramatist. Labiche
to urn ic. He says that Labiche could
only once be, persuaded to attend an
opera- on the occasion when he was
fo meet at the theater a voting lady in
whom he was interested. The opera
was Hossini's "William Tell," and soon
after the beginning Labiche became
restless and excited. His nervousness
increased as the performance pro
gressed, and before the end of the
second act he rose so suddenly as to
upset the ( hair in his box, left his in
tended without a word of explanation,
and never again saw cither her or the
(irand Opt ra. 'am Mmulc.
Hops rro very fashionable this
summer nt the icaside and in Dakota.
The hops in Dakota are not much
enjoy ed, however, as they at" nil at-tacii-d
to grasshoppers. 'j'ola'At UUtdc.
CF GENERAL INTEREST.
Thetvi are, it is said, fifty thousaud
Morn. o'l children in I tali.
The (ioverninent loses one million
dollars u year in the smuggling of
opium.
A merchant nt Wallingfonl, Yt.,
recently reduced to asliu a book that
bad ten thousand dollars of bad ue
eotiiiis on its pages.
In l'.ioO, it is asserted by court
prophets, the entire House of Lords
will be bossed by American heiresses,
pro Idi d it lives as long. W'aftiiinjtoH
llttMid,
No jury w ill ever convict n man of
stealing an umbrella. Kvery juror has
once or twice in bis life been caught
out in the rain and -but this is getting
personal.- - l'hiUulcltJiin Cull.
Lady philosophers are priming up
for (uncord. (Question for solid dis
cussion: "Are caramels w horow ithals
ot the wherefore, ,,r w hereofs of the
whereabouts?" ,'. )' Journal.
London engineers 'say tint, as a
matter of theory , it is possible lo make
steamers to run fowy knots an hour
and cross the Atlantic in three days,
i'uit the vessel could "lily carry passen
gers. Very little of llu New Orleans mo
lasses linds its way :nlo I'lah, and foi
that inatti r into any part of the great
West and Northwest. The sirups
mostly consumed in that locality are
made in San Francisco. Cliicmo Time.
At Philadelphia recently thel'niled
Stales attorney brought suit against
William Urown, manager of a concert
park, to recover one thousand dollars
penalty for the importation of foreign
musical talent into this country under
contract, which is a violation of flu
law. The Indian agent at the Koschud
Agency refused to give the Indians
their agricultural implements unless
they used them w here he designated.
Whereupon, say., the Nebraska ,S7'ii
Journal, the Indians organized a strike,
which was so successful that the agent
not only turned over the implements
but "set up" three barrels of sugar and
a lot of fancy groceries.
oi (he thousand or more prisoners
discharged from Sing Sing Prison dur
ing the last year and a half there was
not one who was not able lo sign his
nam.'. Many had learned this while at
penal service. . More than one w ho has
entered the prison Ignorant has been
able on coining out to make a new
start in life with tho education he ob
tained within prison walls. 'J'rvi (X.
Y.) Time.
The (ievman army is arranging a
celebration in honor of the forthcom
ing ninetieth birthday of the Kni
peror, which is intended to be fully
worthy of I he occasion. 1 1 is proposed
then to form a union of the ollieers
of the cut ire army corps and found a
philanthropic military institution in
honor of the Kmneror. The Kmperor
will be ninety years old if he lives
till March -J-, 1SS.7.
A man appeared at Hie police sta
tion ill Meriden, Conn., recently nnd
asked to be taken in. The jailer in
quired for a reason for putting him in
the cell, and the man replied: "You
see, my wife is on the war-path again,
and there is always the devil lo pay at
home on ooca - ions of this kind. You
had belter lake me in now;, for you will
.surely have lo do mi before morning."
-Hun hint ( mranl.
A quarrel recently arosiv between
Joe Shearer ami John liird at Forrest
City, Ark., over the ownership of ten
cents. The lie w asgiven and retiirm d,
and both seized their guns. Joe se
cured his lirst, but instead of Using it
on his adversary shot and killed the
hitter's son, an eighteen-year-old lad,
who was standing m ar, but. had taken
nohand in the trouble. Shearer was
in jail awaiting trial.
It is estimated that, the annual
revenue from the two-cent, fax on oleo
margarine will amount to one million
dollars. This is on the basis of a homo
consumption of lifly million pounds,
and is a low estimate. The exports of
oleomargarine last year amounted to
nearly thirty-eight million pounds.
The total production of bulter in flic
I'nitcd Stales in 1KS0 was 777,--'0O,.')H7
pounds. Washington 'w.tt.
It is among the curiosities of Mor
monism that its projector, Smith, was
horn in Vermont; Hint the second spir
itual and worldly high priest of the
system. Hrigham Young, w as originally
from Vermont; that Kdmnnds, th"
fraiuer of the Kdmunds law, w as and is
a Vermont Senator, and that the Re-
Iitiblicau commissioner selected from
own was born in the same (irecn
Mountain slate. Cliicmjo lcrald.
M iss ooilforil, the famous stake
winner, is one of the pels of Long
llraiii h. Her owners pay the strictest
Ktlcntioii to her needs, and see that sin
is provided with the best of wardrobes.
Her raiment when in pubiic consists ol
a pannier worn with a broad girth, a
narrow band under her chin and a
silvered front, piece lo hold her bangs
in place. She is invariably accompa
nied by a little man in knee breeches
and a parti-colored cap. A'. )'. Moil.
Jacob Noveck, a Polish peddler, ol
New York, went to the police head
quarters and asked when the lirst bal
loon started for Hamburg. He had
been told that a balloon line was to
connect Mulberry street with Hamburg
ami be was anxious lo go, n he under
stood the first passellgelS were to get a
free trip and live hundred dollars. He
would ri-k it for thai. Tim police au
thorities iiiforiu.-il him that theballoons
would not start" for some time yet
n. r. bun.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Jack Costcllo Is not yet two yours
old, but lib has crossed the Atlatiliu
three times, tho Int time coming alonti
from Ireland to New York. A'. 1'. Tri
bune. Queen Victoria is said( to be fond
of seeing her name in print. She sel
dom has thai pleasure, though. Here
it is: Mrs. Vu'llin. Ttrre IlunU (in
zcttc Just thirty years ago Sarah L.
Hickford, of Porter, Me., loaned her
autograph album to her cousin, Julia
A. Lil-I.y. that shn might write in it.
A few n ecks ago Julia returned the al
bum fo Sarah. -Huston Herald.
There are two kimN of girls: One
appears the best at home, and tho
oilier in the ball-room or gay crowd.
When one is selected for keeps, the
home test of character is by all odds
the best. Cliicinjo Intcr-ttrenn.
Dr. J. S. H. Fogg, of South Hoston,
Mass., lias acoiuplcte set of autograph
of i he signers of the Declaration of In
dependence, having, it is said, paid
sixty dollars for one scrawling signa
ture cut from the liy leaf of a book.
Hoxton Journal.
A we.-'llliv gentleman, Kli Krupp,
of Philadelphia, has been traveling
about the country for the Inst eighteen
years attending caiup-incelings. Ho
carries a tent in two trunks and ramps
alone: doing his ow n cooking and wash
ing. I'luladi Ijihia I'rexs.
An eight-year-old child boarded tho
train recently nt llichmond Va., for
Ncalville, Kan. Around her neck was
a strip of blue ribbon, to which was at
tached a piece of card-board and an en
velope bearing the address and contain
ing money for her transportation. Sho
was sent lo her relatives.
The Prince of Wales, as future
head of the Established Church, is
sharply scored by tho Enqlish Church
man for a recent Sunday dinner hit
gave forty guests, followed by a variety
show, at which Japanese jugglers ex
hibited and siring band playeil, "care
fully avoiding sacred music."
A romantic marriage was solem
nized at Kerhonkson. N. Y. The groom
was John Ward, of Wolf Trap, Va., mid
the bride Mrs. Jennie Lansing, of Ker
honkson. Neither of tho newly wedded
couple had ever seen ono another until
Ihenight proeedingthe marriage. The
courtship had all been carried on by
! tt cr. JluJ'ah Airim
Ir .Simoon Duck, of Victoria, 11.
('., is the seventh son of a seventh son
In 1S(I7 he left London on the seventh
day ol the seventh month, and arrived
in this country on the seventh day of
the following month. When seeking
an election to the. liritish Columbia
Parliament he was elected by seven
voles, and the following year he was
defeated for tho same ollice by tho
same number of votes.
W. S. OTirien, of Huston, found a
pocketliook in wliicli were nine Hun
dred dollars. He at once set about
linding the owner, and succeeded at,
ength. The book belonged toil Provi
dence man, who not only awarded
OTtrien with money, but wrote a letter
to the Huston papers telling of
OT'.ricn's honest v, and giving him and
his business an advertisement that is
likely to be worth much more than
nine hundred dollars to the honest llos
lon mail. I'roeidencc Journal.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
It is bad enough when a young
man's sister takes his night hat when
going for a horseback ride, but when
she calmly appropriates his base-ball
mask for bustle, she trilles with broth
er's love. I'uck.
A correspondent asks: "Would
you, or any of your many readers, in
form a constant reader how la learn to
tibiv the flute?" No; wo have some
sympathy for the long-snlTering public.
Ai ) Ilurai Arum.
A lady recently sought to instruct
her little grandchild in relation to the
provident care of Heaven. "Who gives
y ou a our daily bread?'' asked she.
"Dod," replied Ihn child, "but I'nclo
lohn toils the butter and sugar on."
Chiiii'o Triliun.
"Do vou know that Nigster is so
weak that hi' can't stand iiloneH" asked
the Judge. "Mercy, no!" replied the
Major. "What is the matter with
him?" "Why, I asked him if ho could
stand a loan of live dollars, and he
said he couldn't." Tidbit.
"And so that is a Konnin candle?"
she asked, upon seeing one of those
nvrolecbnics in full blast. "And do
they always lake one of those in Home,
upon retiring!' True, they make quite
nn illumination while they last, but I
houbln't think they'd burn long
enough fo go lo bod by. Boston
'J'lanscrijJ.
Suppose you've heard that they
are selling birds at all the soda-water
fountains?" says Hie man wilh the
gag. "No, I haven't." "It is a
fact. " hat kind of birds are thev
ling there?" "Swallows." Then
the man with the gag runs. Cineith
nidi Titnc.i-Stur.
Ho rang the door bell several times.
and was going down tho stops wheu a
boy came along and said it was an
empty house. "Ah! but I thought the
family might be sojourning at Hie sea
shore'." (), you did. Well, I belong
to Ihefamily, and at present we nro so
journing on the fourth floor back in the
next street. We haven't been to the
seashore since dad thought oil was go
ing to lump several points. "IMdn t it
jump?'' "She did, but it was back
wards, --.it art btrat Aews.
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