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RNAL.
VOLUME XXI.
WINCHESTER, TENNESSEE, MARCH , 1882.
NUMBER 1.
THE
$TWS GLEANINGS.
Florida Liu ten lodges of colored Good
Templars. -
There are 1,000 IudlaiiM inthetver-
gtadfcs of Florida.
Mr. Dlackstock, of Jeflerson, Gil,, Los
nineteen children. ,
There are (400,000 lying idlo in the
Alabama State Treasury.
The theological seminary for colored
people near Natchez, Miss., has 135 utir
dents.
Eight coons and thirteen 'possums
were caught in onr tree in Dyer county,
Tenn., last week.
In Tensas and Mudison parishes, La.,
buffalo gnats are killing the horses and
mules to an alarming extent.
The Ordinary of Sumter county, Go.,
announces that ho will issue no more
license to sell liquor in that county.
Pensacola, Fin., has rejected the ap-
y'jiation of the Pensaeoln and Atlanta
nmd to erect thors within the citv liin-
IA company has been formed in Griffin,
ia., for the manufacture of the Brooke
utomatic car coupler. The capita
bck is placed at $50,000.
A strawberry raker in Chattanooga
Bays the prospects for tho coming crop
are excellent. He expects to raise .10,
000 pounds on a nine acre patch.
Crawfishing is a favorite pastime with
some of tho youngsters about Selma,
mho catch hundreds of them in ditches
sod ponds on the outskirts of the city.
In the internal revenue district in
which Nashvillo is situated, composed
of eight countier, there is not a single
distillery. Applications for the Collect-
ortbip are altogether scarce.
The dredging of Mobile channel ir
progressing daily, and it is expected
that it will be completed in lime to 1
available for the shipment of the crop
If 1882.
Atlanta Constitution: Mr..). (). Gill,
If New York, lias carried 10,003 tea-
Yilunts from the" lleno tea-gardens, B:il-
louuie, m jviiicrpnse, r in., wncre lie
utends to experiment in tea culture.
Tourists are so besieged by the hotel
punncrsof Jacksonville, Fin., tbnt vio
tent means have to be resorted to to get
id of them. A man la.-t week pulled
his pistol on the howling mob for pro-
Section.
There is a colored boy in Accommac
bounty, Va., who i six feet eight inches
ugh, weight 234 pounds and wears a six-
teen-inch shoe. His principal diet i
sweet potatoes, of which he can eat a
Jpeck at a time.
One of the industries of the moun
Itains of Western North Carolina and
East Tennessee is the collection of ivv
pots, which are shipped to Philadel
Jphia and Boston to be mndo into door
jknnbs and bowles for pipes.
nnuojuiM Addie ienain, a youne
Pady of Jackson, Tenn., was crossing the
railroad her dress caught on the track,
which threw her down. Just at that
fime a train came along and pas?cd over
jlier ankles, mangling them in a terrible
snannor. It will be impossible for her
o live.
The five daughters of Robert Curry
fcf Augusta county, Virginia, are sti!-
living and in excellent health. Their
rames and ages arc : Annie McDowell
lured eighty-eight ; Jano Young, eighty
B
; roily Currv. eighty-one: Lvdia
ifurdctt, eighty-seven, and Sullio Curry
fevonty-eeven.
Mr, John D. Cunningham, Jr.. drives
(eisurely around his gigantic peach or
hard of 50,000 bearing trees, near Qrif
!fin. fill nlioAM'Aa n'ifli unf iufimti,11 lltnf
he buds are not too precocious, and
complacent v remarks: "I think this i!
hny year." He says that his is the big
gest peach orchard in the world : but
lest romc jealous grower should presume
to dispute tho nseertion, he intends
fet 200 more acres next fall. "Thb
the only region in the world." adds Mr,
Cunningham, "where a perfect peacl:
pn be raised."
Nashville World : Marv Brooker w
arraigned before the Recorder yesterday
on the charge of so line "roudoo bags.
tfll . . u "
She had sold one to a voung colored girl
Minnie Woodfqrk, tolling her that
it
would make her lover niarrv her
The
girl accotdinoly Mid her J2 for
it
Borne time after she lost this bag and
could not find it. Some people who
were living in the same house hunted
around for it, and after Minnie had gone
to work they ripped open the mattress
ana the little bag jumped out. They
assert that the bag jumped out of
Mattress across the room. One of these
"voudoo bags" was opened and found
contain a small piece of loadstone, some
ait, two pieces of chalk and Eome ashes,
' A correspondent writes us to know
which, in our judgment, is the safest
seat in ease of a railroad collision, as he
wishes to settle a controversy with some
menas. From a long and painful study
in this matter, and callinpr to our aid a
ipe experience, we would say, without
fear oi a successful denial, that the safe
eat in case of a railroad collision is the
; top tail of a reliable fence about four
I miles in northeasterly direction from,
j to? polluion, ftqramie Boomerang,
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
The Rcovillo family will all eventually
be to the front.
Marshal Hbniit, who is to hang Gui-
tcou, ii an Ohio man.
The belief prevails that therehas been
rain enough for the present.
Present prospects are excellent for a
full crop and pleuty of fruit
A new reciprocity treaty is talked ol
between tho United States and Moxico.
Trie agricultural population of Dakota
is said to be opposed to it admission as
State.
Ex -Senator Simon Cameron, of Penn
sylvania, was eighty-two years old tho
8th of March.
Oveb 7,000 bills have been introduced
in tho present Congress. Of these about
i,000 originated in the House.
It ih estimated that during the present
rear the European immigration will
not fall fur short of 1,000,01)0.
Colorado ranchmen report that dur
ing the past winter grass hits lioeu uni
formly excellent, and cattlo slock and
fat.
Sootlanu bus begun to ship butter
to this country, but Americans aro not
particularly auxiuiis to play the role of
consumer.
TitE great pedestrinn match in Now
York has finally wound up in a first-class
quarrel over tho receipt. It seems that
they all want money.
On the 9th of March wheat sold hi
Chicngo, all the year, at $1 per bushel.
This aiguilles that thero is considerable
coufidouco in the growing crop.
The Univcrsnlkt L'rrhlrr for 1882 re
ports twonty-fiveft'uinlo pastors who huvc
regular charges, and adds thut they do
as well as tli3 nvcrngo male preachers.
The exceptional mildness of tho past
winter has diminished the usual demands
for gruiu winter feeding, especially in the
Wost and Northwest, thus affording n
compensation for the short crops of last
season.
Mapkras had a breakwater built by
British engineers at a cost of $.1,000,000 ;
but they neglected to band tho great
blocks of concrete properly, and tho first
storm has knocked the whole thing to
flinders.
We hasten to correct the report.
President Arthur is not going to Long
Branch this summer. Furthermore, we
dou't know where ho is going. We
make this correction in order to kill that
advertisement for Long Brunch.
Hazel's legs earned $19,000 for him in
110 hours. His head nover could have
done that well by him. But, then, many
. ' 1.. 1,,. !.,.! 1,: I -I
Ik U1UU B UUVO UUll'CU 1UU1 Ullb
trouble that his head hud got him iuto,
Legs pay best in tho "long run," de
cidedly.
Skoiieleff, whose speech at a bail'
quet seems to have startled Russia some
what, loves to be sensational. In Bul
garia, in 1877, it is said that ho would
startle the correspondents of the English
newspapers by discussing plans for tho
invasion of India.
A druggist at Oberlin, Ohio, who
persisted in selling alcohol in spito of
thoso who waged an anti-liquor war
against him, has been burned out, and
so have a number of othor business men
in his neighborhood. For the present
tho temperauco peopla thero hold tho
trump card.
Whether Capt. Eads' projected ship.
railway will bo pecuniarily beneficial to
tho TJuited States is a question upon
which thoso in position to know, differ,
but that Capt. Eads will profit by tho
ichcuie is as tacit as the most pafont
fact in the laws of successful purchase
and sale.
Mn. Bradlauoh'b re-election to the
British Parliament does not seem to have
redouuded to his benefit. He is still ro-
fused twrmission to take the oath of
office. It is vorv evident that Mr. Brad'
laugh will have to be " born again " (in
eithor sense you want to put it) u neever
becomes a member of Parliament.
An E.nomsh photographer named
Hoxnm is said to have succeeded in tak
ing a flash of lightning. How ho managed
to remove the cloth from tho camera be
tween the time the lightning appeared
and disappeared is not explained unless,
perhaps, the lightning happened to strike
the camera. In that cose it could bo
done, but the photograper would have a
rough time of it.
Trm indications are that Capt. Eads is
goin g to get some money out of tho Govern
men. The Committee of Commerce,
in the United States Senate, has brought
in a favorable report conoering his pro
ject. AU that it ia necessary for Capt.
Eads to do now is to continue to give
ship-railway dinners to our statesmen
until the appropriation he asks for is
made. Then he can go on with Jiis rail
way building at our expense and his
profit
Hbbj (a iomething of interests to pa-
trons of old laoes: "There is a regulur
trade in Now York in the department of
old laco. Muchiuo-madu points aro
bought and skillfully fastened to pieces
of genuine antiques, Tho entire, fabric
is then colored in a solution of coffeo or
saffron, aud sold for real seventeenth
century product at a high price." An
interesting historical legend is hooked
onto tho article, to add weight to its
vnluo.
A Boston girl who has anthropology
on tho brnin, is now living with tho
Omaha. Indians near Sioux City, Neb.,
in order to learn something of their life
and traditions, Slio intends to go next
to tho Now Mexico ruoblos, and theneo
to tho Fluthonds of Washington Ter-
itory. Tho San Francisco Call advises
her to tuko in tho Piulcs ami Diggers
on her way. Life with them would
give her new ideas of tho nobilily of the
Indian character.
Nrw Yoiik is imitating California in
her war upon the Chinese, and is object
ing strenuously to tho low and ignorant
character of Italians who aro being
crowded into that city. They eouie from
the poorest I'roviuces south of Naples,
and thero is oftn gravo suspicion that
they aro H.-lit by Itulian municipalities
glad to get rid of them. On their arri
val tho adults of both sexes becomo
street scavengers, mid their children
grow up iu filthy cellars or crowded attics,
where decency, morality, and cleanliness
aro utterly out of tho question.
With short crops and debts Georgia
farmers aro said to bo greatly distressed,
so that they cuiinot plant tho usual acre
ago of cotton. They cannot buy guano
or phosplmto for tho crop nor wait for
tho late returns, and nie driven to tho
raising of nn unusual quantity of pro
visions. It is thought that tho produc
tion of 6ninll grains this year will bo
wice as largo as in 1RS0, and larger than
ever before in tho history of tho State,
and somo say that if tho disaster last
year gets tho farmers out of their cotton-planting
rut into mixed crop raising,
it will bo a real blessing iu disguise.
Jesse .Tames, tho notorious outlaw,
was reported the other day to hnvo been
onptnrcd, but the report lacked confirma
tion. Tho report also stated that during
tho battle that occurred as an aeeom
paniment to his capture, James killed
nine men. When wo camo to that part
of tho dispatch wo thought that perhaps
there was somo truth m tho story, bo
cause that sounded nbont right, but still
this James has been captured so many
times, when he was away oil in somo
other part of the country, that the public
has lost nil confidence iu the matter, and
can hardly ever expect now to get even
with him.
Trkre nro from ton to twelve thousand
exili sent to Siberia annually, and of
this number about one-half of ono per
cent, aro political oflonders. The rest
nro ordinary felons. Only eight per
cent, of tho exiles are sentenced to hard
labor. On an nvcrngo -100 women and
children accompany each l.OIKJexihs,
nud 1,1)00 of tho convicts escape yearly
to European ltusia. Tho exiles aro not
nowadays driven iu miserable gangs to a
waste, region, but curried comfortably to
comparatively fertile country. The
highest senteneo is twenty years at hnrd
labor, which is tho penalty for murder ;
tho lowest is four years of banishment.
The French police report that they
havo discovered an active agitation iwr
riod on by tho Legitimists. It is most ac
tive ill tho rural districts. A hundred,
thousand portraits of tho Couute i;u
Chnmbnrd, surrounded by his kingly an
cestors, have been put in circulation,
and immense quantities of others wnro
ordered. The bankruptcy of the Union
Ooneralo has suddenly nrrestod tho agi
tation. Most of the great Legitimists
and Fusionists aro ruined or discredited.
Ten thousand portraits of Henry .,
which were intended for La Veudoe, have
been, according to Estafotto, seized in
one of tho faubourgs of Paris, where
they were lithographed.
A cnAHMiNa littlo romance has oc
curred in Georgia. In a mountain vil
lage near Dalton a young lady, the hullo
of the place, was about to leave for n fe
male institute iu n neighboring town to
complete her education. She had a
lover, young, houdsome nnd toleutod,
who, from timidity, had not pressod his
suit, but whou at laRt the young girl's
Saratoga trunk was cornea to me depot,
and with tears in her orb? sho was bid
dingndieu to her friends, tho tardy lover
realized that "faint heart nover won
fair lady," nnd he requested an interview
ere it was too late. This was granted,
nnd, presto! thore was a change. Tho
trunk was taken from tho depot, tho
traveling habiliments were discarded,
and in tho balmy spriug-time wedding
bells will ring out in tho quiet littlo
villago.
Chbistopheb Heidenberg, a wealthy
German living near Indianapolis, Ind.,
has hail five wives, from two of whom
he has been divorced and three died,
His last wife died a fow days ago uuder
peculiarly distressing circumstances,
She had been sick for some time, and by
reason of neglect, latterly grew worse
very fast, the brutal husband refusing
meantime to employ medical aid or to per
mit kindly disposed neighbors to ad
minister io t,he dying woman's wants,
Upon the evening of her death, whon
Heidenberg came into the house, bin
littlo girl told him to call in some of the
neighbors as hor mother was choking to
death, but instead of complying with tho
child's request the man sat down to his
supper with the utmost indifference, and
whilst he was eating his meal, the woman
iied. The excuso which the brute after
wards offered was, that the woman was no
Account to him anyhow. Heidenberg
awns considerable propgrty iu the county
ind in the oity of Indianapolis. It is a
pity that there is no redress for outraged
liumanity iu cases of such erimiual
neglect.
Rp.srEcmo Queen Victoria, and the
Uigh esteem which England holds for her
is a sovereign, the London Lancet has
this to say :
"It 1 no mors figure of ipeoch to nj the
Quctn lives In tho hearts of thou) alia ruloa
over. It in, therefore, not in the lout BurpriB
ing that the notification of her Majesty's
projected vinit to Mcntono ahotild have excited
much remark and givou riso to luino auxii-tiea.
Wo believe we are Justified in sUting that
while, there ia need for the change, there ia uo
:auno for concern aa to the health of tho
wvcreign. It acema to havo bceu forgotten
that tho Queen ia no mere nominal head of this
Umpire. Actual and heavy Htate busincaa
panne Jaily through her hands and taxea her
attention ivorely. Her Majestv has never
lici ii iu the habit of attaching her igii niniiuui
lo unload paper. Hue avecuded the throne in
times of difficulty and with a atrong senna of
duty and responsibility imputed upon her, and
during the lengthened period which has elapsed
tincc her accession the Queen haa giveu a Urge
iharo of her attention to public businoss. Hue
Jcssivo SliiUhtricB havo been formod, borne the
heat of the day nnd fallen, leaving their per
sonnel to seek and And relief and recreation in
retirement, but tho Queen hag never been free
from tho burden of Htate, aiuco first me vroro
tho crown. It is a real burden her Sfajesty bears,
a burden, a caro and anxiety, ajid no human
being could fail to feel the continuous strain
tho bearing of such a burden necessarily pro
duces. These facts should not be forgotten.
The noed for change of scene and climate Just
now is great, but not in any sense ominous."
W1MIS VF SALESMEN'.
iroir III t"nntr.r Morrlinnla Are F.nlci
luliifd lij Tlirna.
l'hib,l,'l,lii!l Sun.
111 nn interview with n restauranteur a
reporter asked: "Who aro your best
customers ?
"Salesmen, by long odds," was the
reply.
'That augurs well for the prosperity
of the salesman," remarked the re
porter, glancing at a bill of fare whose
prices would not give any particular
precedence to thoso of tho West F.ud.
"They must have almost as much
money' to throw awtiy ns reporters?"
" You dou't suppose it conies out of
their pockets, do you ?" asked the pro
prietor. " It's mighty little of it they
pay for. Tho general expense account
is what sutlers."
"And why should the general expense
account sutler for a salesman's dissipa
tions V"
"IJocauso it makes business. The
salesmen who spends money here aro
those who entertain country customers.
I have them here at all times. Some
times they'll como in for breakfast after
u night's spreo. Then it's chnmpagno
cocktails to beuin with, and brandy and
soda as a Fettler. I got up a breakfast
for a salesman and two gentlemen lroiu
tho West this morning thut cost him
Ji'iii. Lunches and dinners that run
from SU'j to $."() ore common, and I havo
them heavier, too. Champagne is tho
pet drink of all the country merchants
who como to Philadelphia, They think
no one here with any pretentions to
fashion drinks anything ulso, ami if
they are good buyers, tho salesmen sup
olies thorn without stint. It is tho cus
tom to treat all customers, big and
little, hospitably, but tho salesmen never
waste money."
The dcalor who has a bill of a few
hundreds of dollars gets a good dinner
or two with a bottle or so of wine, but
none of the gilt-edged banquets and
ooWebbed bottles come his way. Tho
people who get thorn pay lor tnem in
directly, you may bo bound. However
big tho" salesman's" expense account ru-is,
it is always well within the proms oi
the department in whose interest it is
built up.
Tho system by which tho restaura
teur profits so much is ono which has
become a fixed feature of the commercial
system of the city. Nowadays tho visit
of a lieavy buyer to rnuaaeipnia always
means a 'spree to him, if his tastes aro
at all convival. II tney are noi, mo ac
commodating salesman will tako him on
nice quiet drivos, with nico littlo lunches
and dinners at each onu oi tnem, auu n
swell church to drop in on Sundays, nud
weave business with pleasure all the
while until the buyer s whole trip lias
boen quite as ecstatio a dream to his
taste as that of another rural trader is
who has anatomized the elephant from
tusks to tail, and who carries home with
him a head which is as heavy as his bill
a dream from which lie, possibly,
awakes when the invoices begin to come
in out in Greentown, and cold cpmmon
sense demands the auditing of bills. Of
course, the buyers spend something on
their own accounts, but tho salesmen
spend more, nnd spend it with a dash
that makes it show for double its actual
amount. It is the saleman's business to
impress the customer with an idea of the
lavish generosity of the great hotiBe he
deals with. That impression in ninety
cases out of a hundred, meanB a bigger
bill than the impressed party would ever
dream of contracting if it were not for
the delirious recklessness into which his
princely entertainment transport him,
The editor of an exchange can't see
how the leg artist get on their tigets.
Of course not. They pro in their dress
ing rooms and lock the doors, aud stuff
rags in tho chinks just to keop such
fellows as him from seeing how they get
on their tights, but anybody ean see
how he gets on his tights, by just look
ing beyond the green idatted screen,
that stauds just iusido of tho first saloon
floor. Vinoher, "
A Strange Ilallnclnation.
If I were to tell you that I havo seen
and analyzed the witters of a river which
runs two degrees north of the Kqualor,
and found iu these waters eleven pel
cent, of sulphuric acid and one und a
half percent, of hydrochloric, I might
cause some surprise, but little or no in
credulity, even if I were to add tho littlj
known act that in thut region of the
world thero is thrown away in twenty
four hours more of those two acids than
is nrtitlciully produced in Kuropo in n
year. Hut if 1 tell yon that 1 once saw,
outside of my fancy, a woman who was
2,001) miles o'lV ut the time, I shall not
only bo generally disbelieved, but gen
erally laughed at as well. I have often
told the story iu private life, but not till
now huve I told it iu print.
Twenty-three years ago, as I was
looking out of the window of General
Torieo's rancho at Chorillos, ten miles
south of Lima, Peru, thero passed-by
several ladies and gentlemen ou horse
back. A lady, whom I will call .Mrs.
Morcua (tho Spanish rendering of a
common English name), was one of the
gay cavalcade. She was so beautiful
thut I have remembered her face with
the ease with which I am able to re
call the Victoria ltcgiua, or the yellow
convolvulus, or the blue orchid, aa when
I first saw these beautiful tlowers in
their native lands, I had never spoken
with Airs. Morcna, nor her husband,
who accompanied her, and who was
then on his way to Jaiiia, from tho
United States, to get healed of consump
tion.
Threo years ago, as ono morning I lay
musing iu my bunk, iu n Cuuurd steamer
crossing the "Atlantic, in full daylight,
nnd having my eyes wide open, Mrs.
Morona como iiito my cabin, and to my
sorrow went out of it as quickly as b)io
eamo iu. Thereupon I rose, bathed,
dressed, nnd went up to breakfast. It
was lato : tho saloon was nearly de
serted, and I found only two fellow-
passengers, talking together and eating
ham and eggs. 1 had never seen either.
The common linme of Morcna was men
tioned between tho two, aud I being full
of my vision, remarked at a venture to
him who sat next to me, " airs, .uorena
is more plump than she was twenty
vears aso." Mv neinhbor turned on mo
a quiet look of inquiring surprise. Put
ting his hand in the breast-pocket of his
coat, he drew out one of those excellent
photographs forwlneii some American
photographcis are so celebrated.
Is that tno nuiy you menu i lie
gently demanded.
And I answered : " Ueriaiuiv, ana you
see she is rather stouter."
"When did you see her last?' was
the next question, and 1 answered :
"This morning."
The gentleman with the photograph
was Mr. Morena, the husband of my
beautiful lady. We became friends ; we
had many social yarns together; he told
me of his residence iu Jauja, of tho
complete cure of his lungs, the uiiinbt r
of his children, nnd many more dear,
delightful household Ihings, ill which 1
hud no interest, lie invited mo to his
house. On our nrrivul at New York,
Morena telegraphed to his wife ; who re
plied, while ho waited in tho telegraph
oflice, that they were nil quite well at
home. Nothing' happened. 1 bad not,
to my recollection, thought of the
Morcnns for years before. Is it very
diilicult to understand, when two or
three are met together under given cir
cumstances, that a real presence, may be
vouchsafed to each? .1. J. Dnjjirlit in
I.uiuUin Sjii clulur.
He Had Kcrovered His Sight.
Madame Plank was a woman remark
able for her social and tuiit-it fail indus
trial assiduity. She utilized every mo
ment of her time in such a wny ns was
best suited to herself. Among her many
admirers and visitors sho numbered one,
old friend who was totally blind, and
whom she always entertained in her own
boudoir. Ofloner than not, when her
pressing duties demanded a rapid change
of attire, she would call iu tho services
of her maid and proceed with her toilet,
tho whilo conversing with hor blind
friend, who, it is needless to nay, was all
unconscious of tho mysterious wonders
being transacted in his presence. Upon
one occasion w hen ho called he inquired
whether ho would bo received upstairs,
and sent a message to tho mistress, stat
ing thut he had a piece of good news for
her. "Lead Monsieur, as usual, to mv
boudoir," was the lady's order, which
order was immediately complied with,
Sho was not in toilrttc for visitors, to bo
sure, but ho could not see, and the maid
was busy enough repairing tho ravages
of time for the beuil'it of those who
could see. "Ah, my dear madam," ex
claimed tho gentleman, ns he entered,
" 1 have had a stroko of Rood fortune ;"
nnd ho was hastening to tell her iu what
way when she interrupted him with
somo social jottings of her own, and
kept up such a stream of conversation,
and was so occupied with tho gleam of
her white arms in tho mirror, that she
neither observed her friend's evident
confusion nor gave him nn opportunity
to speak. Finally an interval camo ; sho
turned to him, expectantly, and said :
" Now, my friend, for your good uows."
Ho lowered his head and assured her it
was nothing. " Nothing I" she ex
claimed, at the sanio time noting his
perturbed manner. " Nothing," he an
swered, " except that, my dear madam,
I have recovered my sight."
About Mourning.
Speaking about the custom of wear
ing mourning concerning which there
nro many conflicting opiuions a writer
savs: "Why mourninc should be worn
at nil, except at a funeral, I do not under
stand. A near aud dear relative dies.
Ono may deeply regret the loss, but, as
it is irreiorable, it is tho part ot wisdom,
which seeks to make the best of every
thing, to endeavor to forget it as soon as
possible. Why, then, wenr for a lengthy
time a garb that brings back its recollec
tions? A person who is ruined might
with equal sense walk about for several
months with an empty cash box nflixcd
to his back. .
The daily price paid for intoxicating
drinks in New York ia estimated at
8270,000 or -$98,550,000 every year.
There is said to be au alarming iuerease
of drunkenness among the women,
A Lost Alligator Recorered.
About eighteen months ago tho Zoo
logical Garden loaned to the Exposition
a young alligator two feet long to adorn
the cascade in Horticultural Hull and
give an appearance of wilduess to the
artificial scene by the presence of animal
life of a repulsive kind. The alligator
behaved very well for sometime, and
tutiiitcd his appetite with bugs, Hies nnd
mosquitoes, hut one night he disnp
jwared, and he was mourned for lost or
stolen, although the Commissioners
thought that there was no man in Cin
cinnati mean enough to carry away au
ulligator. In a few mouths the absence
of- the loathsome creature was forgotten,
and it was believed that he wandered oil
und died.
llecently it became necessary to hire
the services of a gas litter ut Music Hall
and Mr. Tom Wise sent for Mr, P. J.
llogan lo eoniiect the street gns with the
Music Hall Building. It will be remem
bered that the Klm-strect front of Horti
cultural Hall is about three feet above
the level of the part Used for tho cas
cade aud exhibit of plnuU. Into this
raised portion Mr. Hogan .went boldly
with a wrench and lantern, but he boil
scarcely disappeared from view when a
most unearthly yell was heard, nnd the
poor plumber, without lantern, hat or
tools, rushed out to where the ustoiiiidicd
Wise and his assist mis stood. Hogtiu's
Hair stood up like bristles on the fretful
porcupine, and his eyes rolled with such
uu expression of f.-rror that the other
i men .-.liruiik from him. He could hardly
I ejaculate: " lie .1 s, I'll not eo in there
nio. I here s the most liifcrriiul-lookiu
cratiir I ever saw. It opened its big jaws
and wagged its Imistly tail at uie, and
wanted to nil me up. lie heavens, when
it moved I moved, too. The gas may go
to the divil."
Mr. Wise, thinking the man frigbteiud
without cause undertook to explore the
cavern and heard the monster iu his den,
but he was only absent u few seconds,
nnd made quicker time in reaching day
light than Hogau. Ho stayed long
enough, however, to find out that tho
riplila was au ulligator, and at a rapid
glance seemed to measure four feet iu
length. Here, then, was the alligator
which wns supposed to bo lost, and
Hogan had found him. It had probably
crawled iuto this retreat nud hud hiber
nated in the moist, marshy ground. The
food which Mr. Alligator had indulged
in probably consisted of rats and small
hugs aud insects. At any rate, bo was
still alive and increa-ed his length dur
ing his mysterious absence uboiit two
feet, lint there seems to be n disposi
tion to let him severely alone for tho
time being. Later the floor was removed
and Mr. Alligator was captured and re
turned to the Zoological Garden. fVi
linntiti I'.iHinirrr.
The Show man's Trade.
A showman, after assuring a reporter
that uothing pleases the people more
than sonietliiii'' full of peril aud blood
shed, gives the following incident of his
career; but we don t vouch tor his truth
fulness that is. Hot quite:
" I ran n whole season on a lion that
had eaten a keeper. The people came iu
crowds, expecting every day to we him
make a breakfast of his trainer. Was he
actually dangerous? J lunjferous ! He
eat another trainer, and then 1 lost him,
His widder was actually iu lovo with her
husband, and she swore the animal
should be killed, and the people sided
with her; and as tho beast was getting
old, and the killiu made a paving sensii
t ion, I did it. lint 1 made nil there was
out of it. 1 insisted that the husband
should havo a gorgeous funeral. She said
there was nothing to burv, as tho lion
had eaten her husband. ' JSut ain't the
dear departed iu the lion ? If we bury
the lion, don t wu burv the dear do
luirted?' 'Cert.' she said. And wo bad
it. and it was Korijcous. We had a per
cession with nil our wagons iu it, the
regular street parade, only all our riders
had black scarfs on 'em, and the wairoim
nnd horses and elephants und Bich were
draped ill black, and the baud played a
dead march, The widder was in open
carriage in full mourning, with a white
handkerchief with a black border to her
eyes, lookin' on his mmatoor. Ther
wuHii't no niiimtoor, but she hold a case
just the same. That night tho canvas
eoiildent hold the people. We run that
two weeks to splendid biz When the
woman got over her grief, she went into
the lion trainin' herself,-e. 'SenoriU
Aguurdente, tho Lion Queen.' I gayo
her some old lions to pructieo on, nnd in
less than a month she could do jest as
well us tho old man. She was a good
woman, too. Sho rid in the grand en.
tree, nnd rid in Mho Hall in the Desert'
! did the bar'l act. did a good pad net, and
is now piaetisin' bareback. Sho juggles
tollable, und does a society song and
dar.ee in a side show. When 1 got
talent, 1 pay and keep it. My treasurer
changes the names of my peoplo every
season, so as to nave iresu uiuacuoiis,
O, I know my biz,"
Matchmaking Mothers.
In the very highest circles, as I am
informed by 'the best authorities, this
matchmaking goes on, An women
women 1 ah wedded wife I ah fond
mother of fair daughters I how strango
thy passion is to add to thy titles that of
motheMil-lawi J. nm una urn whou
yon have got tho title, it is often but a
bitterness nnd a disappointment. Vory
likely tho son-in-law is rudo to yon, the
course, ungrateful brute I and very pos
sibly the daughter rebels, the thaukloss
serpent I And yet you will go on schem
ing ; and having met only disappoint
ment from Louisa and her husband, you
will try to get ono for Jemima, aud
Maria, and down even to littlo Toddles
comintr out of the nursery iu her red
shoes. Whou you seo her with little
Tommy, your neighbor's child, fighting
over tho same JNoati b ar&, or oiamoermg
nu the same rocking horse, I make uo
doubt iu your fond silly head, you are
thinking, "Will these little people meet
some twenty years hence 1 And you
awn Tommy r, very large niece of cake.
and have a fine present for him ou the
Christmas tree voukuowyou do. though
he is but a rudo, noisy child, aud has
already beatou Toddles, and taken her
doll away from her, and made her cry,
IK M. Thakeioy.
A man's good brooding is the best
security agalj)st other pepb3'a ill-raaq.
ners. '
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Whales are rarely over fifty feet long.
AnobT four thousaud roses are re
quired to make one pound of ottar of
roses.
Fourteen kinds of docs can be dis
tinguished in the Greek and Roman
records.
The pearl fisheries of the Porsian
Clulf afford support to about 85,000
families.
Forty thousand dollars' worth ot
hewing gum is gathered annually in
the State of Maine. .
The number of persons killed on rail
ways in England is proportionally twice
as great as in Frauce.
I r w reported that twenty thousand
people in India, in the year 1880, were
killed by snakes and tigers.
Tup. milk of the elephant coutains less
water and more fatty matter and sugar
than that of any other animal.
The age of au oyster may be reckoned
by counting the lines in the grove of the
hinges of the bivalve. These lines indi
cate the annual layers of tho shell
growths. Tup. Malays of Singapore used to give
a largo price (or the flesh of a tiger, pot
because Hiey liked it, but because they
thought a person was imbued with tho
characteristics of the auimal he ato.
Italian bees gather honey from flow,
ers which fail to attract black bees, be
cause the former have a longer tongue
and are able to liud honey which is be
yond the reach of the black variety.
Both linen and cotton cloths were
wrought by the Egpytiuua, but, unlike
tho modern work, the warp had gener
ally twice or thrice and not seldom four
tunes the number of threads in au inch
that the woof had.
The leprosy prevalent in tho Hawaiian
Isluiids does uot differ from tho European
and Asiatio forms. The increasing in
tercourse between tho Pacific States,
China aud the Sandwich Islands makes
vigilance a duty in suppressinc tho
spread of tho disease.
A French soldier, stationed for somo
years in the Pontine Marshes, has be
come entirely of a deep brown color,
totally distinct from that shado produced
iu natives of Northern Europe by ex
posure to tho sun of lower latitudes.
In Japan, owing to tho gontlonoss of
the people, the crow has full liberty to
go where he likes. As a consequence,
tho most densely populated cities swarm
with tho noisy follows, who repay the
kindness shown them by acting as scav
engers. Forty yeirs ago only about thirty
auks aud forty eggs were recorded as be
longii g to public and private collections.
At one timu $50 were paid for two auks
and two eggs; a little later, half that
sum for one egg; and not very long
sinco wo read that 8500 wero giveu for
one egg.
One reasou that tho ancients wero
lacking in museums was the fact that
they lacked elllcicnt methods of pre
serving the various forms of life. It was
not until the discovery of alcohol and
manufacture of glass Ixittk-s that muse
ums became of importance.
St. Thomas, of Aquinas, gives the
most ingenious explanation of any of the
ancients on the subject of earthquakes.
He suggests that tho convulsions may
'ie caused by tho struggles of the de
funct disbelievers trying (by a simul
taneous stampede, perhaps,) to escape
from tho pit of torment
Wuisn a Kullir is on a marauding ex
pedition he gives utterance to those cries
und hisses in which cattle drivers indulgo
when they drive a herd before them,
thinking iu this manner to persuade tho
gods of the country he is attacking that
he is bringing cuttle to their worship,
pcrs, instead of coming to take their
heads from them.
Home Education.
The mother, unwilling to subject her
six-year-old boy to the impure air, bad
light and other evil influences sometimes
found about the rooms, grounds, and out
buildings of the school, though herself
unable to add a ledger-column with ac
curacy and dispatch, yet teaches him to
count, and write small numbers. She
tears from some old arithmetic a leaf con
taining easy, properly graded examples
iu addition without answers as, for
instance, pages 17 aud 18 of ietters
practical arithmetic; auu, oy some re
ward, triumg in vaiuo, vcvuin, uu
prized bv the clilUl, uuiucea mm j
add tho examples uuui no uuen
accurately and rapidly. Then she gives
him tho next two pageB, oiu oiny nou
they are fully mastered the next and so
on, until at length it may not be till
after two or three years tho child has
mastered thirty pages of examples, aud is
nble to add long examples on tho 45th
page wHh as much ease and nccuracy as
he can count ton, nud would be trusted
by his father to foot up his ledger pages.
Under the mother's supervision, with a
very little instruction on her part at the
begiuning, she furnishes examples for
an incentive to practice ; the child has
learned by practice to do what she can
not possibly do, and will probablr
be able to do : what few hign
school graduates or teachers can do
namely, to add columns of figures of what
ever length with accuracy and rapidity.
The mother nas in mm
very best kind of teaching. Though she
has seemed to do but little, she has
Induced the child to uo a great aeni.
always in the right direction, auu wuu
such gradual progress from shorter ex
amples to longer ones as w
sistanco almost unnecessary.
TTn van
a man oi consiueraum win.
Mm Franco-Prussian war he waa
much annoyed by the stupidity of a
country sub-editor with whom he had to
do, and he determined to play him a
trick. Bo, late one evening, when he
knew nobody else would be handy to
keep the obtuse one from making a
blunder, he telegraphd through to hroij
" The xTrussians nave uueu uwuiBgi
The sub-editor, glad of apiece of newt
however late, came out with large bills
and headings, "Capture of Umbraw by
the Prussieii." He never bothewa the
contributor any more.
cannot Iom or tod, . .