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VOLUME IV.
HILLSBOROUGH, N. M., OCTOBER 16, 1880.
NO. 34.
HE STAID UNTIL HE DIED
B' a little country stream,
J here tin purling wiitera Kleain,
here the jrravs wan wild and .ank,
J rowing on the Mit-ltertd Imuk,
Hat anmi with nut in hnntl,
r-iittf iK in a inMimrr lilnud:
), I wonder whv the tlitu
Do not t),U' hs 1 would wMi?
But I'll eiiu li ono with tins fir,
Or I'll stay hero till I d;e."
Bummer bud wore sere and dead,
And the row ml hud tied.
And the hi it sees on Dm hank
All were, dettd and wild nod rank;
But the iiihii ffim a ttntr I hero
Hiltliur Willi ti trhoMtly Mare;
All h ft loeliH iv cro volute mid pray,
Having some h:id dropped away;
iiil he cat h aire stole on,
HIiiM in mi undertone.
As the ears went roiling hy :
"1 ahull catch a tisti or d o."
Years had alowlv pulsed nwny
Youth were men now old mid gray;
Mu riel) now were inniroufl ffiown,
Babes and children ol their own;
But tin old and wrinkled mine,
Hoary with the frosla of fltf
Bent beneath his iniiny jcars,
ad with Hoods of briny tcard.
Hat lies de a purl-iitf brook
With a wiliow rod mid hook,
(itigp-nif in a feeble a ph:
"I shall eat tli a tlu or die!"
' Onward flew I he sflont year
Venn of riiku'Ii find el teara;
Outlines hud pushed awnr
Hi nee (hat man went forth one day
To (he si renin let' tt innsny hunk,
M here thi knir wai wiid and dank,
And a Hi raiiyer. tlouting down
On the stream Mint led from town,
Found, hetdo n heap of stones,
A lone pile of hoiniiu hone:
Though no cJoi luiiy nerved to drnpe,
81 II iht'y hud the mortal shape.
In the lit sIiIcns hand the pole
Still whs held, at though the soul
Would obey the inorlui wish,
An.! attempt to enteh a Hah;
On the skull u Dorbv lint
Whs hv IcuipeM hetiien tint;
And niton i lut pulseless breast,
Wh ch for dtreu wan at rest.
There wtis ai nipped a wooden alien.
Bearing 1ml a lonelv 1 no,
Wh ch must eat eh the stranger's eye:
"J shall caich a flsh or d el"
Walt MtfKtm, in St. Louis M'itp.
AX "IMPREGNABLE" MAN.
How a Brlttrti'custoniB Official Ite-
,rlfused a "Tip."
In tho ecu lor companion way of
most Atlantic steamers there is framed
a public notice which attracts a good
deal of attention from the passengers
on the way over. It is published by
the British Government, and is to the
effect that any person offering a bribe
to ono of Her Majesty's customs offi
cials will be heavily lined. The amount
of this tine is mentioned, either jC 10 of
100 or something of that sort. Tho
coiifcmchition rif 1 his nut ioo for nin
or tell davs every time a person goel
yxtum
p the center companion way is calcu
lated to give that person a very great
respect for the uiibribabilily of the Liv
erpool customs otlicer. The American
(ioyeniiilent has no such notices posted
up anywhere that I ever saw. Wheth
er it is because it is so well known that
the American customs otlicer never un
der any circumstances accepts a bribe,
or whether tho (Iovernnient fears that
the public would regard tho posting of
such a notice as a joke, I have not been
able to ascertain.
I have never met any one yet who
would bribe a Liverpool customs otli
cer. The penalty which has stared him
in the face during the voyage is apt to
discourage all such attempts. How
ever, there are few things which a per
son could take into Kngland on which
duty is exacted. I believe the customs
lliccis have a prejudice against dyna
mite, against pirated reprints of En
glish books, against tobacco and some
things of that sort, but, as a general
thing, the American traveler carries
nothing with him on which duty could
be charged.
Our big steamship reached Liverpool
late one evening last summer. The
customs authorities penned us all up iu
the several rooms of a building on the
landing. Here there was a good deal
of fuss and shoving through a passage
way that was very narrow, and the
hand baggage was examined as we
passed out. This was a very slow and
tedious arrangement, and it was nearly
eleven o'clock at night before we were
through with it, and even at that time
the trunks had not been looked at. We
were then passed up into a room which
we reached by a long incline. On
climbing up this incline we entered a
large building seemingly containing
only one immense room. It was well
lighted, and the scene was ono which
once looked upon a person would not
forget in a hurry. On theright-hand side
were piled trunks, bags, valises, hand
satchels and baggage of every descrip
tion. On the left ran a long, low
counter on which trunks were being
examined by the uniformed custom
house officers, while, bending over
their open baggage were the owners,
generally talking rapidly to the imper
turbable officers. All over the room
were some ono hundred excited pas
sengers running wildly hither and
thither trying to collect' their luggage.
Trunks that were marked with names
were arranged in alphabetical order.
The sections of the building were let
tered with tho alphabet painted large
and conspicuous along the right-hand
side, but, as the great majority of the
trunks had no name, the owners had to
run about in quest of them. Porters
were there with their short jackets and
numbered caps, dragging the trunks
about under the owner's directions,
and as soon as one trunk had been ex
rmiucd it waj taken away by a stal
wart porter who called a cab, and
its place was filled by another
trunk slammed down by an
other stalwart porter. It was a
Scene of bewildering confusion. As
1 always travel as light as possible, en
deavoring to compress my belongings
into a satchel that can be carried by
hund if necessary, my troubles were
soon over, and so" I strolled along with
comparative indifference, enjoying tho
strange and bustling appearance of
the place. I was able to give some as
sistance here and there to companions
of the voyage, and rather put on airs
as being an old traveler with some ex
perience of thai sort of thing, don'tyou
know, and plumed myself on having
my baggage examined long ago.
At tho fu-ther end of the room were
ft couple of ladies who were traveling
alone. One of them had a large trunk
and the trunk had a new-fangled lock,
the latest of American patents. A cus
tom otlicer was vainly trying to unlock
this trunk, and the owner wus looking
oi with much concern . . his ineffect
ual attempts. Slio had tried herself, it
seemed, and had been unable to open
it.
"You are, not doing it rightly," said
th ' Second young lady. "You have to
p sh this clasp that way, then turn the
ey half way around, push the clasp
buck and give the key another turn
and then it will unlock."
The otlicer looked up, smiled and
shook his jarred finger, and I said:
"Let me try the unlocking."
I followed the directions as well as I
could and nearly broke my lingers, but
tho key wouldn't turn. I am afraid
the magic words I said were not tho
"open sesame" that was required.
"I am very sorry, ladies." said the
officer, "but I shall have to break the
lock."
The ladies were very sorry too, but
they made no objection and the otlicer
departed and returned with a hatchet.
This he placed under the obnoxious
catch and tried to pry it open. But
the lock w as built very strongly and it
wouldn't give way. The hatchet
slipped and the officer cut his finger.
Can't you stretch tiro law a little,"
said I, "and let the trunk pass. The
ladies arc not going to stay in Kngland,
but are going directly to Franco. I
am sure you would iiud nothing dutia
ble in the trunk or they would have
made some objection to your breaking
the lock."
It was now after twelve o'clock.
Most of tho people had claimed their
baggage, had it examined and departed
for their hotels.
"Well," said tho officer, "I ought
not to do it, you know, but 1 will
chance it," and with that ho put on
the requisite mark that would enable
it to pass out. The owner was very
grateful indeed, and while ho was
stamping the triune sue saul to mo.
Jl "I would like very much to give
'Kim something. How much do you.
jlhiiik I should offer him?"
"Well." 1 rnntieit. "ns
.
Well." 1 rcnlicd. "as a general
thing in Kngland it's safe enough to
give a tip where a service is done, but
tho penalty hero seems to bo very high.
I don't think I would risk it. Yet I
don't suppose he would object to a
shilling if it could bo given him so that
no one could see it."
"1 will give him half a crown," she
said, "if he will take it."
"All right," I cautioned, "but don't
do it very publicly."
The lady approached and said in her
kindest voice:
"I am vcrv sorry you have hurt your
linger."
Oh," said the otlicer, "it Uon t
matter in the least, I assure you: a
mere scratch."
"Well, I am very much obliged in
deed," she whispered, "1 hope you
will let me give you this, not as a com
pensation, you know."
"Ah! miss," he returned, smiling
;nd bowing very low to her, "glad to
have been ot any service to you, out,
really, we are not allowed to take any
thing; it is against the rules," and ho
waved his hands up and down as he
said this.
But," persisted tho ladv, "it is only
a very little and don't at all come un
der the head of a bribe."
I assure you. miss," he said, "vou
are not indebted to mo for any thing.
and, as 1 said before, I am only too
happy to have been of any service. You
see, miss, ho said, as we walked away
after tho porter who had shouldered
the trunk, "officers of the customs are
never allowed to take any thing, no
matter how small, under any circum
stances whatever." And with that he
again bowed very low to us and I
walked with the ladies out to their car
nage.
Weil, saul l, "ins refreshing to
see a customs officer that will not take
a bribe."
Tho young lady laughed merrily.
"I am glad to hear you sav so," she
said, "for I know now we did it very
cleverly."
"Whv. vou don't mean to say that
you gave him the money?"
sue field up ner oanas. luey were
empty- . ... ,
"1 slipped una a crown mio nis nanu
the first time I spoke to him, and ho
concealed it with a deftness that con
vinced me he had done the like be
fore."
iiTIi.h irnn nrrraA torn tn tnlfA it ftftor
he had it in his Sand, and he refused it
with such a Chesterfieldian air while
he wan really in possession ot it!"
Exactly, she said. "Wasn t tt
neatly clone on both sides?"
. - . t . i a I ".. 1 1 T -1 . 1 J
J, H V uuuer ?vci, A iiiuuiu ft
so. But wnai a pair oi nypocrues ooiu
of you are!" Luke Sharp, in Dtiroil
Fru Press.
One of the Pullman sleepers des
troyed by tire in the Erie railroad
vards recently at Jersey City, was the
Jay (Jould, which was built a few years
ago at a cost ot o",uo". ana was con
sidered one of the finest drawing-room
cars in the country.
PHYSIC-TIPPLERS.
for Tmmrano tit the V of
Moilli'liml I'reparutlom.
of the most interesting of the
One
papers read before the State Sanitary
Convention was in the form of a warn
ing against intemperance in the use of
drugs. Tho writer, Dr. Frank Wood
bury, of this city, has permitted the
publication of this noteworthy contri
bution to popular knowledge in ad
vance of tho annual report of the con
vention, and it is certainly worthy of
careful study. The habit of taking into
the system drugs of whoso ultimate
effects the partaker is either ignorant
or supremely careless has grown very
common of late among a largo class of
people who are usually credited with
more than ordinary intelligence. Dr.
Woodbury's experience leads him to
the conclusion that it has attained to
such considerable proportions as to
command attention and consideration
from all medical practitioners. He
finds the physic-tippler and inedieine
bibber every where not the solicitous
and over-nnxions citizen, who, with
every slight cold or sore joint, rushes
off to a doctor for a course of constitu
tional treatment, nor altogether the
devotees of narcotic and stimulant
drugs, but a great mass of people who
use almost every description of real or
pretended medicament without knowl
edge and without stint. Even the com
paratively harmless and innocuous roda
waterfountain has been diverted to the
use of the physic-tippler, for upon in
quiry Dr. Woodbury found that power
ful tinctures, extracts and elixirs, as
well as potassium and sodium bromide,
soda mint, sodium bicarbonate, acid
phosphate and aromatic spirits of am
monia, were regularly served out to
patrons of soda-water fountains in the
drug stores. Probably very few of
these customers could givo a logical or
pathological reason for this form
of indulgence in extemporized
mixtures, which might or might
not prove harmless, but which,
iu any case, could not be classed as
remedial agents. For over-medieution
is a danger against which the physi
cian guards no less carefully than
against the earlier stages of an acute
disease. He knows when to adminis
ter and when to withhold. But the
slave of a habit of drugging often per
sists until an enfeebled digestion Biid
a collapsed nervous system sound im
perative notes of warning.
In tho immense increase noted of
late years in the preparation of nar
cotio and alkaline drugs, as well as in
lhe continuous accessions to the
tamonnl of money invested in making
ruhlonl mr,l irii no.. llr YV'iin. I Kti fv filiita
pjitent medicines, Dr. Woodbury finds
reasons for believing that the practice
of medicine-bibbing is more than keep
ing pace with tho growth of wealth
and population. Especially has thero
been increase in the demand for those
drugs that act specifically upon the
nervous system. But few years ago
the bromides were little known or
used; at tho present time it is esti
mated that over two hundred tons are
annually used in this country. Chloral
hydrate has been in use but fifteen
years, yet its consumption in Europe
and America now amounts to many
hundreds of tons each year, while of
the opium products, of ether, chloro
form and tho iodides, there is a con
stant flow from a severely-taxed yet
apparently exhaustless source of sun
ply. Dr. Woodbury tells of a formula
for a mixture containing chloral which
ho saw conspicuously posted behind a
druggist's counter. It was found on
inquiry that the posting was merely a
matter of convenience, since the calls
for tho mixture were exceedingly fre
quent. Alcoholic mixtures he learned
were similarly reilemanded, often for
mouths after the occasion for their use
had passed away. Intemperance in
drugs and medicines, it appears, is no
less common than are other forms of
self-indulgence. Philadelphia Jtccoril.
Statistics of Blindness.
The world's blind are computed to
number about 1,000,000, or about one
sightless person to every 1,400 inhab
itants. In Austria, one person in
every 1,78. is blind; in Sweden, one in
every 1.41S; in France, one in every
1.191; in Prussia, one in every 1,111;
in England, one in every 1.0.S7.
l'he proportion is
where, in Cairo,
is greatest in Egypt,
there is one Ijlind
person to every twenty inhabitants;
while in New Zealand it falls to one in
every 3,67i0 inhabitants, (jermany has
the greatest number of institutions for
the blind, thirty-live; England has
sixteen ; France, thirteen ; Anetris
Hungary, ten; Italy, nine; Belgium,
six; Australia, two, while America,
Asia and Africa together are said to
possess only six. Arkansaw Traveler.
Just About Right.
"Say, young feller, is this the road
to Boilbug?" said a traveler to a
Hoosier whom he met at the cross
roads digging for angle worms.
"You're 'bout right," replied the
man, without looking up.
"Fine day for fishing?" continued
the traveler.
"You're 'bout right."
"Good many fish around these
parts?"
"You're "bout right."
"You like to fish?''
"You're 'bout right."
"You galoot, any one would think
I had no sense tho way you answer
me."
"You're 'bout right." National
Weekly.
PICTURESQUE "JAPAN.
An Kntplro Which In Spring ft'nl Mummer
MciMiia One llujre (iftrrirn.
The spring and summer in Japan is
full of picturesque beauty, and yields
an atmosphere of delightful comfort.
The skies drop gladness, and the earth
teems with loveliness. Its garden pic
tures are changing as a kaleidoscope.
The terraced hill-sides, rank with ver
dure, vie with wheat fields bending
'neath their load of grain; some just out
and supplanted by rice, in fields flooded
with water, while others, green with
the tender shoots, are ready for trans
planting. When the seasons aro un
usually dry nothing is left to suffer,
l'he reservoirs are so large, and tho ir
rigating system so complete, that
Japan's wondrous garden smiles on
beneath scorching rays.
The trees of Japan are a wonder.
Hero is the "nioekungi," with its pur
ple, hell-shaped flowers; also the mag
nolia, with its rich white and piu'ple
clusters. Queen among the trees tow
ers the camellia. Some ot these tiro
sixty feet high, and aro covered with
blossoms from January to May, of
many varieties, from the largo pure
while, resembling a double rose, to
various shades of pink and pink.
Tho cherry and plum trees aro culti
vated solely for their blossoms, and
are trees of rare beauty. The former
grows thirty feel high and as many
broad, its " branches covered witii
red and white blossoms, two inches
in diameter and perfuming the air at a
great distance. Its petals of snow and
cream, falling in showers, spread many
a carpet for the feet on the stono-paths
leading to tho temples, verifying tho
native poet when he says: "'I here are
snow showers which do not descend
from the skies." 'l'he plum tree is par
excellence the poet's tree. Often it is
seen standing leafless in the snow, yet
adorned with blossoms like a bride.
The tree bursts into soft clouds of
bloom and fragrance in February, but
without leaves.
Along the hill-sides maples and pines
aro covered with vines of exquisite
loveliness, trailing and intertwining
with bewildering intricacy; among
these are tho wistaria anil tliunbcrgia,
with their purplo stars and tufts. From
the verdant valleys to the tops of tho
mountains are seen lilies, pinks and
roses of endless variety. The grass is
studded and flowers spring even from
the (i,uaint, artistic thatched roofs of
tho tea-houses, asking leave only to
draw and bless the light, Tho "tea
houses seem idyllic. They are a na
tional institution, for they are every
where, as tho J eoplu aro everywhere
along the city streets, by the load-
side, iu tho groves, woods, parks,
alleys and up tho mountain-side.
Brooklyn Magazine.
FRENCH PAWN-SHOPS.
The "MmitK de r;et." KstulilUlieri Many
Ycitri. Atfo In r'riinre.
Outside of tho national institution
pawn-broking is prohibited in France.
A man was reeiyitly caught who oar
ried on a successful business by buying
up pawn tickets, mid ho will iu due
course be punished.
flic pawnshop is an ancient institu
tion. As early as ll'.tS one was estab
lished at Liege.
In tho year HO'.l several establish
ments called Monti di Biota were
started in It-ily under I he care and
protection of the church, in opposition
to the Jews, who even at, tins remote
period seem to have embarked iu tho
old clothes and money-lending busi
ness. All the early Monti di Pieta wero
connected with churches or hospitals,
and were n species of charitable banks
which charged no interest.
In I'kW tiie Lombards began to run
pawnshops in opposition to the Jews,
in Lombarily and in Holland; but from
the presence of tho Jew and the three
brass balls in the same house it would
seem that the two had amalgamated
at some period in Iheir history.
I he Monte li Biota was long of be
ing established in France, chiefly owing
to the oppression of M. Do La
Kevnie, chief of tho police in
Paris. Numerous projects wero
put. forward during the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. but
thev foil through, though Colbert and
other prominent statesmen favored
them. In 170." the Council of Finance
declared it would be to the "(ilory of
(iod, the service of the state and tha
public interest" wero Monls de Pieto
ettablished. Necker took tho same
view, and protested against the conduct
ot avaricious Jews and ollieis who
practiced on the cupidity of the publio
and successfully fleeced them.
It was not until December, 1777, that
Louis XIV. sanctioned the Monts de
Piete. Soon after this the first was
opened at Paris. It was under tho
charge of the chief of police and four
administrators of the general hospital.
The rate of interest charged was 1!) and
4J per cent. The concern was a tre
mendous success. In the year 17M8
there were 600,000 different articles
pawned.
At the time of the revolution tho
Mont do Piete was suppressed on the
ground that it was a monopoly, and
immediately the Jews and the Lom
bards stopped in and carried on a flour
ishing business.
The republic, considering the condi
tion of things intolerable," rc-ostal)-lished
the Mont de Piete after live
years, and w ith slightohanges now and
then in the administration, it has con
linued ever since with increasing suc
cess. Ciitrinnati Enquirer.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
The recent unmarried girl in Phil
adelphia is Miss Helen M. Serrill. She
is young, attractive and owns S.'i.OlMJ,.
UOtl. I 'A UaUelph ia I 'reus.
The most modest girl in the world
resides at Syracuse. It is said of her
that when a pupil at Vassar she re
fused to work on improper fractions.
N. i'. World.
The prodigal son of a Minneapo
lis man was recently invited to rocon
eiliation by a telegram from his father,
saving: "The veal spread is ready
when you are."
Mr. Crosby of Fort Ann, N. Y.,
was very mad over his daughter's
elopement, but he says it would have
been all right "if sho had not ruined
two hills of potatoes by jumping out
of tho window." X. '. Time.
(ioorge Story, aged eighty-six years,
of San Francisco, hasn't a gray hair
on his head. His hair is luxuriant
growth and is nearly jet black. He
has boon a resident of San Francisco
since 18I'J." San Fraiirisco Chronicle.
A reunion of tho descendants of
Philip Jones, who went to Maryland
iu 1 7 20, was held the other day at the
homestead near Baltimore. (Iyer two
hundred Joneses were present, repre
senting four generations. Baltimore
Sun.
Mark Twain is said to have met
with disastrous failure in a recent effort
to ride a bicycle. Tho machine throw
him with the promptness and intelli
gence of an unbroken bronco, ami the
spectators thought its performance
even more amusing than the jumping
frog iu "Innocents Abroad."
Larkin street, in San Francisco,
says the Alia, was named after the
first, last and only Consul of tho United
.Stales to the Port of Monterey. Thomas
Larkin was that Consul, ami had more
to ilo with our acquisition of California
'than Fremont had, although his name
is lost sight of iu that connection.
Colonel Ellsworth, of the New
York Zouaves, whose tragic death
made such a sensation early in the war,
was a native of Meehaiiicville, a few
miles south of Saratoga. His war
horse has grazed in the beautiful pas
ture adjacent to that busy villiago until
recently, when ho died at the ripe old
equine ago of thirty-three years. Troy
1 tines.
Thero aro people in Exeter, N. II.,
who are incapable of imagining the
existence of any thing outside of that
city. An example of their overpower
ing ignorance is shown in the story of
an old man who had never left tho bor
ders of tho town and believed that
Exeter comprised the better part of
creation. One day ho was induced to
go to Hampton Bench, ana there, go
ing out boating, lost his oars and
flouted over to tho Isle of Shoals. When
tho hotel proprietor kindly assisted
him to land and inquired where he
hailed from, he innocently replied: "I
came from America, sir,1' supposing,
of course, that was sutiicent to indicate
Exeter. Button Transcript.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE."
Tho man who gels hold of news
and won't givo it up to a reporter is
probably restrained by feelings of pro
fessional jealousy. He is an item
miser himself. mi reliant I rui'eler.
The Major (rocking Nelly on his
knee for Aunt Mary's sake) "I sup
pose this is what you like, Nelly?"
lea, H s very nice, tint 1 roilo on a
real donkey yesterday-1 mean onn
with four legs, vou know." N. Y.
Run.
"What a good t hing it would be if
men were angels! said one young
lady to another. "Well, my dear, nil
those who mado lovo to mo were."
"How so?" eagerly asked the former.
"Why, because they have all flown!"
.V. T. Lcdicr.
"My Thousand-Dollar Smile" Is
the title of a poem in an exchange.
Some drunks aro pretty expensive,
that's a fact. The poet must have bor
rowed the money to pay for the de
struction ho caused after absorbing his
smi le. " Xorrixtoivn Herald.
Bagley "1 notice that you fre
quently speak of things that happen at
two a. in. and so on. Are you a news
paper man?" Do Uaggs "No, but I
frequently walk tho streets all night."
"In-Mvuinin?" "No. My wife locks
the door at ten p. m."Vhiladflpltia
Call.
"Just throw mo half a dozen of the
biggest of those trout," said a citizen
to llio fish dealer. "Throw them?"
queried the dealer. "Yes, and then
I'll go homo and tell my wife that I
caught 'em. 1 may bo a poor lisher
man, but I'm no liar." Uiiewjo Tri
bune. A chestnut: Miss Jenny "I will
always esteem and respect you as a
friend, Mr. Old Boy, but rt Mr. Old
Boy "Very well; I know the rest by
heart. You women are all alike; no
originality. You are the fifteenth ono
who has said the same thing." Harp
er' $ Bazar.
The latest fashionable freak in
floriculture is the cultivation of the
Scotch thistle. A Newport florist has
a p-uU rro of this pu turfs.jno plant
which is greatly admired, l'he other
day a Now York dudo at Newport took
a Boston dude to see this parterre of
thistles, and the two stood iu an atti
tude of genuine admiration. Finally
the Bostou dude said: "Aw, there's
something so cheerful and aw
fwagwant about thee thistles; some
thingaw quite appetizing about
them, don't you know!" "Weal I v, so
there is," (-aid the New York Judo;
"anil, hah Jove, how cleverly you ex
pwebs it!" Boston Bccord.
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Four hundred foreign-lorn woman
keep saloons In New York City.
It is stated on good authority that
a mortgage on a house weighs Iwice as
much as an iron roof. Philadelphia
Call.
The funniest sight that a San Fran
cisco hid it saw the other day was a
building being moved which had over
the door the sign "Stationary Store."
The San Francisco mint employs
at present three hundred hands. It is
the largest in the world, having a coin
age capacity twice that of Philadelphia
and thrice that of the English mint.
The church bells in Oakland, Cl.,
are rung at nine o'clock each evening,
and children found on the street after
the bolls are quiet are arrested. This
wouldn't lie a bad plan for other cities
to adopt.- A'. Y. Shu.
Cents are nut wanted In British
Columbia, says tho British Columbian.
"Five-cent pieces are in circulation!
and we hope that no smaller change
will ever hud its way into this prov
ince. This is not a land of coppers."
Johnny Lattimoro, of (lion's Falls,
N. Y., was asked by acanal-boat driver
to hit one of his hoises that was shirk
ing. Tho lad struck the horse, and
quick as a flash the horse struck back,
and the result of the kick was a com
pound fracture of the jaw and a ruined
face. A'. )'. Sun.
The oldest seaworthy yacht in Bos
ton waters, and probably in American
waters, is Sidd to be the Fairy, owned
by Edmund J. Baker, of Dorchester
Lower Mills. She was built in Boston
lifty-six years ago, and Mr. Baker has
owned her ti ft V - ti vo years and has used
her every summer. Boston Journal.
The surprising growth of the
florists' trade in this country is illus
trated by the increase in New York.
On New" Year's Day in New York in
1MI4 IP2O0 worth of' cut flowers were
sold. On tho lirst of laM January at
that place $100,000 worth were sold.
During the year tho sales iu New York
reached $3,000,000. A'. Y. Herald.
Policeman lleaney, of Natitieoke,
Ph., was recently arrested on a chargo
of Assault and battery preferred by II.
Herskovicz, a banker of that jilace.
Ho was held iu three hundred
dollars bail, which be found it
hard to get, and waa about to
be locked up, when the plaintiff him
self came to his rescue and became his
surety. Pittsburgh Post.
( Ionium photographers hl)e suc
ceeded in photographing a projectile
in the course of its flight, ana some of
these photographs show tho head of
condensed air which precedes cvorv
shot. It is said to be this "head''
which prevents even skilful riflemen
from hitting an empty egg shell when
hung on a long thread. The air blows
the shell out of tho way of the bullet.
Of Into there have boon harrowing
reports of famine and hunger in Lab
rador, but a traveler who lias just re
turned from that country says thero is
-iity of fish and soap grease there,
and that tho inhabitants am as fat and
saucy as usual. The Lahradorians live
in a cold and cheerless climate, but
they do not intend to get left on llio
destitution for revenue only business.
"It is probable that a great change
will soon be niailo in the way of dress
ing (he hair. French hairdressers aro
gradually taking the hair off tho fore
head, which will abolish crimps, curls,
etc.," says the New York Tiincf. "As
this fashion is different from any thing
ladies have been accustomr-d lo seeing
for some years, it will naturally take u
short lime for the stylo to become geu-
ral."
Nineteen years ago a man In Du
Hois, Pa., lost his voice so that he
could speak only in a whisper. A year
ago he hurt his arm, and since then
had occasionally found relief from the
pain by placing it on a large driving
belt that generated considerable elec
tricity. Iteeonlly while doing so his
voice suddenly and completely re
turned and has sinoo been good.
Philadelphia Press.
"Let her go. Gallagher," is a New
Orleans product, and is gotten off on
drivers of street oars, who are called
(iallatrhcr. visitors to the late ex
hibition in (he Creole city wero struck
with tho number of that family en
gaged in driving street cars. Thero is
a legend to llio eltcct mat fne driver or
the first street car run in New Orleans
was named (iallagher, which probably
accounts for the origin of tho gag. N.
(J. Iirriiunc.
At the recent convention of home
opathic physicians at Saratoga, a doe
tor from Springlicld, Mass., telling of
ins success Willi diphtheria, Is reported
to have said: "I Imvo cured hundred!
of oases with sulpho-earbolate of soda,
and never lost one, while my neighbor,
a high dilulionist, hits lost every case
he bad.' "Xamp him! Name him!"
cried the delegates, and the doctor did
name him, and now there are two
Springlicld jibysicians that are bitter
enemies. 'J roy Time.
Henry Donnelly, of Now Haven,
noard cries for help coming from Mill
river. Pa., ran quite a distance
at toil bpeod, reached tha water
in time to see a small boy sink
for tho third time, plunged in,
breathless as he was, without removing
even his shoes, failed to get the boy at
the first attempt, dived again, and just
managed to bear the apparently life
less ixdy ashore, when his strength
gave out. Donnelly was dragged out
fainting, the boy was resuscitated, and
so was his mother, who hart in the
meantime arrived and faipted. UarU
lord Post,