Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1890 — Page 4

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The Supreme Court of Minnesota is reported to have lately rendered a deBision declaring that “bank checks are not cash, and do not possess legal value as money until cashed.” Dr. Talmage seems to have unearthed the private ledger of late lamented King Solomon. Anyhow he estimates the wealth of that muchmarried sovereign, to have been £6BO, 000,000 in gold and £1,028,000,377 in silver. The Penobscot River, the largest in Maine, drains 7,400 square miles, a region as large as the State of Massachusetts. From Old Town to Bangor, a distance of twelve miles, the river falls more than ninety feet, giving several of the finest water powers in the world. At this season the amateur photog rapher is at his best. The roads and fields afford firm footing for his pedestrian excursions, and the landscapes were never more beautiful than now. Views are taken that will afford pleasure in the album of prints and on the stereopticon screen during the coming season of indoor entertainments. Newspapers do not flourish in Persia. No daily journal is published throughout the empire, but there are four weekly papers of mediocre interest and merit. The best Persian organ is the Akhtar (Star), which appears in Constantinople, in order to express more free opinions restricting the Shah’s empire than would be permitted within the country itself. Ames, of long-handled shovel fame, did not invent the implement. A boy who was digging out a woodchuck, broke the handle of his shovel and fitted in a temporary one of double the length. Ames happened to pass by, and noticing how much easier the shovel was handled, he caught on and started a factory. The boy got a dollar hat and the woodchuck out of it. Slavery existed in New York until early in the nineteenth century. Near the close of the eighteenth century the Legislature passed a gradual emancipation law, and subsequently an act was passed declaring all slaves free on July 4, 1827. The census returns show that there were about 21,003 slaves in the State in 1793, 20,003 in 1800, 15,003 in 1810, 10,000 in 1820, 75 in 1830 and 4 in 1840. Tunisians have a rather unpleasant custom of “fattening up” their girls for marriage. A girl after she is betrothed is cooped up in a small room. Shackles of silver or gold are put upon her ankles and wrists as a piece of dress. If she is to be married to a man who has discharged or lost his former wife, the shackles which the former wife wore ar e put upon the new bride’s limbs, and she is fed until they are filled up to the proper thickness. The census returns sustain public expectation as to the increase of population in the natural gas counties of Indiana. Of those re ported, Madison County shows an increase of 8,445, of which 6,633 is in Anderson, and Delaware follows close with an increase of 7,198, of which 6,120 belongs to Muncie. It is gratifying to observe that the country has shared in the increase as well as the cities, showing the influx of an enterprising class of farmers. A citizen of Brooklyn has caused the arrest of a druggist in that eity for refusing him permission to look over the book in which sales of poisons are recorded. The complainant has a wife who is addicted to the morphine habit, and he desired to ascertain if she got her supplies at the druggist’s store. The law imposes a fine of SSO when such a request is denied, and the defense in this case is that the demand was not couched in civil language. Some very strange accidents are brought to light by the accident insurance business. For instance, a man at Zaliska, Ohio, a stationary engineer, was kicked very severely by a hog. It disabled him for quite a number of weeks, and he was paid SB7. Another case was that of a man at Chillicothe, Ohio. As he was stooping to pick up some kindling wood a game rooster gaffed him in the wrist, catting an artery, which disabled him for some time. California after celebrating her fortieth year of Statehood by the miracle of keeping “the old homstead” in peaches, pears and grapes while the vineyard and orchards of the “effete East” went on strike, has just had a narrow escape from losing a large part of what remains to be gathered of her own great fruit crop. The winegrowers in the southern counties have indeed suffered severely from the early rains, but th** other fruit culturists turn out to have been comparatively unhurt, and the whole country may rejoice with California in her season of unexpected prosperity. The new gold bids fair to outweigh the old, and, happily, the lode need never “play out.” This new “sweetener,” which the French Government has already prohibited, owing to what they call a dangerous element which enters in its formation, does away entirely with the use of sugar. It costs almost nothing. About a month ago a prominent member of a canning firm of an Eastern city, while experimenting with saccharine, discovered tjiat pineapples preserved in

it would almost entirely retain their natural taste. This is in itself a great discovery, as almost everybody knows the difference in taste between canned pineapples and those which are imported from the South. _ “Yes, indeed; send horse and carriage to’depot,” was the innocent message that went to a lady in Utica not long ago. She was married, and her husband, usually called Joe, had been away from home for several weeks. The wife had telegraphed a lady member of the family to come up and spend a few weeks with her. and the answer was sent as above. The Utica lady was prostrated with grief when she received a dispatch reading: “Joe is dead. Send hearse and carriage to depot.” Arrangements were made in a hurry, and the hearse and carriage were in waiting when Joe and the lady stepped out of the train. The accident by which the woman on a Burlington train near Galesburg was killed is perhaps the only one of the kind in the history of railroad casualties. She was sitting at the window of the coach when the door of a car belonging to a freight train going by on a parallel track broke from its hinges, and fell in her direction and crushed in her skull. It has never been safe for trains to attempt to pass each other on the same track, and as this accident proves, there is danger when trains pass each other on different tracks. It is not a comforting reflection that the possibilities in the way of railroad accidents are outrunning precautions tc prevent them. A Minnesota court has decided that the man who pays for the lower berth in a sleeping car is entitled to haye the upper berth closed, and hence to the use of the section unless the upper,berth is sold to some other traveler. This is probably good law, and is certainly good sense; but the strict application of the rule may work some inconvenience. As, for example, when the traveler who controls the lower berth and who has ridden, let us say, from Chicago, with the upper berth made up and ready for occupancy, is disturbed at the Minnesota line by the porter who, in compliance with the law, proposes to close it, or when the man traveling from St. Paul is rudely awak ened at 1 o’clock in the morning by this same sable nuisance, who desires tc open and make up the upper berth that it may be occupied by some newly booked traveler. Owing to the faulty construction of the tank the tank drama had an unfortunate ending a few days ago in a town in Indiana. The tank sprung a leak. Nc cultivated and intelligent patrons of the tank drama can patiently endure such an accident. This lamentable disaster occurred at ;• critical moment in which the villain hurls the unfortunate heroine into the flood and the brave young hero leaps in and saves her from a tnnky grave; and when the Hoosier audience saw the tank spring a large leak and the water disappear in which these thrilling incidents were to be enacted they made a great row and broke up the play. This impotent conclusion of a great realistic drama, however, was not the worst of the troubles of the manager. The water leaked down into a drug store underneath the theater and the proprietor seized the tanlfftnd the other stage properties for damages. Unless mechanical art, on which the theatrical manager must depend for a tank that won’t leak, can co-operate with a genius for stage realism better than it did in this unfortunate instance the tank drama is forever doomed.

A LESSON IN MAGIC.

How to Free Your Hands When They Have Been Tied with a Rope. Take a stoat rope about twenty feet long, and hand it to your audience for inspection. While they are examining it, let a committee of gentlemen, that being the approved style of doing the thing, bind your wrists together with a handkerchief. This being done, have one end of the rope passed over the handkerchief, and let the cords then be held up by one of the company.

no way of getting the rope off except the ends are released or the handkerchief untied. You soon explode this idea, however, for, after making one or two rapid movements of your hands and arms, you throw the rope off and exhibit your wrists still tied. Wonderful as this all seems it is very simple and jequires but little practice. The accompanying illustration explains it clearly. The part of the rope marked “A” is rolled between the wrists until it works up -through the handke-chief and forms a loop, through which you pass one hand, and then by giving the rope a smart jerk, it will easily come off. An official report to the Belgian Government states that the “gaimbobo.” or “angu,” of the Mexican State of Vera Cruz, possesses a fiber finer and stronger than silk, and of a similar luster. Exeriments already made are said to indicate 1b at the guimbobo differs essentially from ramie, cotton and hemp in having the plant covering around the fiber instead of mixed up and interlaced with it. This makes it practicable to separate and remove the bark by means of machinery. The plant grows luxuriantly wilh little care, and produces a highly esteemed food in addition to the fiber. Never f'gh; smoke, but hunt for the fi.o.

Now request the person holding the ends to pull one way while you pull the other, to show that the handkerchief i s .tightlytied. There is now apparently

HANNAH'S JERSEY.

BY CLARA M. HOWARD.

“A fine Jersey!” Wai. yes. sir; She's made o’ the right kind o’ stuff. “Buy her!” Ah, no, sir, You haven’t money enuff. “Gentle?” To me she's alius bin so, But she hat os men like pizen. An’ to show it she’s never '..in slow. “Wouldn’t own sich a critter.” Wai, no, sir; To milk her you never would try, Fer jest let Jabez come nigh her An’ see how she’ll let her heels fly. “How does she know the difrcnce?” Wai, sir, she knows more’n you think; You see Jabez abused her While tryin’ to tern her t j drink. “How wus that?” Wai, sir. I’ll tell you; It happened in this way: Yer see, ’Twas in springtime—lhe men wer all bizzy, So the milkin’ fell on Jabez an' me. Now he hates farmin’, does Jabez, An' work alius makes him feel sure, Fer he was railed up in the city— Wus clerk in u dry-goods store. But father’s broad acres wur temptin’, An’, as I wus the only child, lie proposed. Of course I accepted. Though I think now I must hev bin wild. Father wus sore disappointed ’Cause I choze a husband from town: His folks thot he'd married beneath him— Fer him 'twos a mltcy cum down To change his store close fer blue drillin’, An’ knuckle right down to hard work, Though I’ll say this much for Jabez: He’s nsver bin known to shirk. But he likens himself to the eagle, Tied down to the barnvard fowl. I fail to see the resemblance— He’s more like a great stupid owl. He boasts of his great cddication, But sez. 'tis all wasted down here, Where we’re only a set of ciodhoj pars; He feels quite above us—that's clear. Yet. with all of his top-story knowledge.

“GENTLE? TO ME SHE’S ALUS BIN SO.”

He’s lettin’ ihe farm run down; His heart's not in his work, sir. An’ he’s alius lonxin’ fer town. When father was livin’ ’twas difernt, Fer he alius looked after the farm, But he wus ailin' all winter— Thot he’d git well when ’twas warm— But he died. An’ then Jabez Sod the farm didn't pay an' we’d sell; But I thot different; ’tis my home, sir. An’ I’ll not leavedt, at least fer a spell. I tell him his brains an’ ills Jarnin’ Are just as much needed here As they ever were up in the city. Fer the farm needs a good financier To make things come out even, An' balance the profit an' loss— To know what crops pay the best, sir, An’ not got cheated buyin’ a boss. The farmer needs somethin’ of science, Likewise a bit o’ the law, To understand effects an’ their causes. An’ tj make all his trades 'thout a flaw. Of medicine, too. he needs knowledge— How to give lotions an’ pills, In order to care for his stock, sir, An’ cure their numerous ills. An' then he must be a good flghtir, Fer tell of a gineral you know. Who fought such a numberless army, As the persistent potato-bug foe, To say nothin’ of 'hoppers an’ chinch bugs, Of tramps an' lightnin'-rod men, too— An’ to vote for the right man at ’lection— Is there aught he don’t need to know? But Jabez, like all city-bred people. Looks down on us plain country lo.k. Guess they'd find 'thout us farmers That llvln’d soon be a stale joke! Wh'i’d furnish their bread, an’ their butter? Where’d be their pork an’ their beef? Who’d keep all their big mills a runnln? Yes, without us they’d soon come to grief! Without us where’d be your railroads, With all their rush an’ their noise? An’ where’d your great men all cum from If the farmer quit raisin’ boys? When 1 talk all this to Jabez he scorns it,

“CAUGHT THE OLD COW BY THE TAIL.”

An’ ses I’m not up with the times; Thinks lie can live without farmin’— From his brain coin dollars an’ dimes. He thanks God he was not born a farmer, ’Tis such a low calling; but then ’Tis the noblest an' first occupation God ever gave unto men, Fer wasn’t Father Adam a farmer? An' the garden of Eden a farm? Then why scorn the brown-handed toiler, Who from the earth gains a livin’’ ” By the aid of his strong right arm? » * * * » * Let me see! Where was I? Out to the barn. I think. ’Join’ a. part o' the milkin’ An’ learnln’ the calf to drink. Wai, the heifer—her mother—was restive At bein’ d -prived of her calf. An’ Jabez got riled putty easy— He’s got too much temper by half— But he mana ;ed by some loud takin', An’ several sound blows from his fist, To frighten her into submission— On beatin’ he’d alius insist. Wai. when we’d finished the milkin’, There was the calf to be fed. So hejiacked it. up in the coiner, And into the pail jammed its head. The calf choked an’ struggled— I sed “Jabez. that’s not th ■ be it way. Father alius .” “You shet up, Hanner!” An' I’d not a word more to say. “Ther's no use in her suckin my finger. Th it s a reg lar old fogv plan: I believe in new to do ti.l.igi— I'm not that kind of a man!” All this time IL6 cuif wus a strugzl'n’— Bae didn’t seem ,o Vke the “now way”—

An' landed Jabez plump in the gutter, Whicn hadn’t been cleaned that day. Some way as he was a failin'. * Hix head got jammed In the pail— He tnrew his hands up blindly. An’ caught the old cow by the talk Of course at all this commotion. Though a staid an’ dignified beast, She kicked, and hit poor Jabez A dozen t mes at least—’Tbout hurtin’ him much tho’— An' he ro e. very black in the face, Swore at farmers and farmin’. An’ cursed the whole bjvine race. Then he knocked the calf down with th, milk-stool, An’ kicked it until I cried, And. though I kr ow it wus wicked, I wus glad his four boys hed died; Fer if he’d abuse a poor helpless creetur, Why wouldn't he abure his own child? An’ I thot how different was father— So gentie, so kind, an' so mild. I looked at the (alf, ’twas a gaspin’, An’ I took her pour 1 ead on my knee, Balsod her up gently an' fed her, An’ that s whv ilia's gentle with me. She hates Jabez, an' fears him. An’ some way I lost my re-pect Then an' thar. in spite of his lamin’, His brains an’ his great intellect. Fer a man o’ his boasted knowledge To be so easy upset! Somehow 1 felt sort o’ disgusted, An’ I hain’t tot over it yet! I wouldn’t glvo a mill on the dollar Fer a man. tho' he’s smarter by h ilf Titan all ti c wise mtn in creation, If he’d abu ,e a poor little calf. Harvey, Wi«.

The Battle on the Sands.

Tho other day one of the waiters a! our hotel made some sudden move in the serving room which brought his elbow against the ivories of another waiter, and the face of the moon was a; once covered with blood. Some of us noticed their belligerent demeanor, and now and then we caught such expressions as: “Yo’ ar’ no gem’lan, sah!” “An’ yo’ is only a nigger!” “I sco’n yo’, sah—sco’n yo’ fur low trash!” “Hu! I’d like to be shet up in a room wid yo’ ’bout two minutes!” We were not, therefore, greatly sur prised when we were waited on by a third party, who was a mutual friend, who asked us to arrange a meeting between the hostiles and see the affait through according to ship-shape rules. It wasn’t to be a duel, but a set-to. with gloves, and as we were tired oi fishing, crabbing, sailing and shooting porpoises, he hailed the new departure with glad relief. “Yo’ white folks dun knows all ’bout it, an’ yo’ go right ahead an’ fix it up,” said the mutual friend. We borrowed gloves, bought rope enough for a ring, made stakes, and the site selected was in the sand behind the scrub. The tip was given, and when the hour came about seventy-five spectators had assembled. The rivals were on hand in good time, but it was noticeable that both were trying hard to look pale, and there was a movement of the chin which betrayed much mental anxiety. They were known only as “Jim” and “Tom,” and while we were putting the gloves on Jim he arose and called across the sands: “Does you ’pologize to me, sah?” “I dun ’pologize if you’pologize, too,” was the reply. “Den I dun ” But we stopped him and braced him up, and two or three minutes later they faced each other in the center of the ring. Each man’s teeth were chattering, each one’s eyes were all white, and there was a wobbling of the knees. “Look out, now, yo’ nigger! I’ze gwine tb bust yo’ head off!” “Look out yo’self! If I hits yo’ in de lung yo’ won’t git over it in two weeks!” “Whydoan’ yo’ hit?” “Why doan’ yo’ hit?” “ Yo’s skeert o’ me 1” “ So’s yo’ skeert 1” They were walking around each other, pushing at arm’s length, and it would have stopped there but for the timekeeper, who shouted to them to go in. “If I hit yo’ in de eye look out!” “If I hit dat nose you’ll be dead!” “I’ze cornin’ fur yo’ purty quick!” “I’ll be right around dar!” The referee shouted again, and, moved to sudden resolution, Jim flung off the gloves and grabbed Tom by the ankles and lifted him off his feet and dumped him on the sand. Tom’s gloves fell off as he rolled over, and he had scarcely struck when Jim made a break through the ring, running like a rabbit. Tom scrambled up with a “Hu !” and broke through the other side, and while one legged it for the hotel the other sought safety behind the sand dunes, and the great match for blood ended in water. As I had acted as Jim’s bottle-holder I felt called upon to reproach him that evening at the kitchen door, and he came out into the moonlight and explained: “ ’Deed, sah, but I didn’t dun mean to do.it. I meant to stan’ right up dar an’ fight dat nigger one millyon rounds ’cordin’ to Miss Quee’sberry rules, but when I got de gloves on my sand went right away, sah—went right off down de coast a flyin’, and afore I knowed it I was back heah in de hotel a-wipin’ spoons an’ a sayin’ dai if I eber caught dat nigger out in de darkl’d smash him, sah—l’d smash him ’till his own mudder wouldn’t dun remember his sad remains!”—New York Sun.

How to Take Care of the Brain.

The brain stands most abase of any organ in the body. The best tonic and stimulant is success. The'eworst and most depressing thing to it is failure. The most injurious effects come by using stimulants in early life. Young people should never use liquors, tea, or coffee. The latter two may not exactly do harm, but they are conducive of no good. They act mostly on the brain and injure its growth very materially. Abundance of sleep is necessary. Eight hours is not more than enough. Sleep is the time of relatively lowered expenditure aud increased repair. Prof. Cohn, of Breslau, has found that the heating of hay to a point of spontaneous combustion is due to a fungus. He first studied heating barley, finding that the temperatui-e ol this is raised about 40 degrees by tho process of germination, and that a rise of more than 60 degrees is caused by Aspergillus fiimigatus, which acts as a ferment.

BOURBON PRINCES.

The Count of Faria Revisit. the United Slate, with Hia Son. “I am glad—l am delighted—to step once more upon American soil,” were the first words spoken by the Count

of Paris, as he stepped from the gang-plank of an Atlantic steamer in New York recently. The royal traveler was accompanied by his son, the Duke of Orleans, the Prince of ’Joinville, and several other distinguished

rovalist leaders. during the civil American interest war. in the Comte de Paris is based mainly upon the fact that he and his brother, the Due de Chartres, participated in the war for the Union as officers on the

COMTE DE PARIS. 1880.

staff of General George B. McClellan. Their coming at that time reminded the people of this country of the gen-

erous and distinguished services of Lafayette in the war of the revolution, and the young French princes received a hearty 1 welcome. The attitude of Napoleon 111., then in the heydey of his pow-

er, was most un- dug d’ Orleans. friendly to the cause of the Union, and Americans accepted, perhaps too readily, these scions of the house of Orleans as representing the better sentiment of France. The Comte de Paris was then but 21 years of age, and he was anxious to show the French people that the young man who aspired to be their king was made of sterner stuff than the later Bourbon kings had shown themselves to possess. In 1886 the Count of Paris and all other pretenders to the throne of

PRINCE DE JOINVILLE.

sideration of former good service in the army and his splendid contributions to the cause of science. ThewellestablLhed connection of the Prince and his followers in France with the Boulangist plots has destroyed all hope of its revocation in regard to any other member of the Orleans family in the lifetime of this generation.

MARQUISE LANZA.

A Fair American Woman Making a Name in Literature. Marquise Clara Lanza, daughter of the famous Dr. William A. Hammond, has found time, in the midst of her social duties, to write several books that have a large sale, and now she has been turning her attention toward dramatization. Her first attempt in this direction is with her novel, “The Righteous Apostate,’"which makes a really powerful play. The leading character is two women—played by one—who must be alternately angel and devil. They look so much alike that the angel’s lover vault tell her from the “real devilish” one for a long time, and there bangs the play. Mrs. Langtry wanted to buy it outright, following her usual motto, “All or nothing,” but madarne la marquise, who is an uncommonly shrewd business woman, for all she is so pink and white, with curls of baby gold hair,,js resolved not to part entirely and irrevo-

MARQUISE CLARA LANZA.

cably with the first dramatic offspring of her prolific brain. It is dMarquise Lanza’s practice to lock hetself up in her study from 10 to 1 o'clock every day. devo'ing herself during that time strictly to work. Her latest book, . “Basil' Morton’s Trans-gie-sion,” has been classed by the critics w’ith the erotic romances of the day, but in spite of them it has made a marked success. Parisian Anglomaniacs send their linen to London to be washed.

France, and all descend an ts of former reigning families were expelled from France by the enactment of a special law and prohibited from setting foot on French territory. That law has since been abrogated in the case of the Comte’s uncle, the Duo d’Aumale, in eon-

EDMUND RUSSELL ABROAD.

A Delsartean Student and Dress Reformer - Explains His Mission. Edmund Russell, the American lecturer on Delsartism, is now in London, after having completed a successful

EDMUND RUSSELL.

uses naturally. But advanced eivilization has a tendency to destroy this art. of expression and substitute angularities for gracefulness in sitting, walking and speaking. Delsarte studied, what position and gestures meant, formulated the laws which govern expression, and arranged a system of gymnastics, which are practiced by public speakers and by those whowant to be natural and graceful in all l their movements. This is Delsartism, and it is this which Edmund Russell' and his brilliant wife teach, having.learned the secret from Delsarte himself. He carries on a campaign against tight waistcoats and shoes, high collars, top hats, and other excrescences-, of civilization, because, as he claims,, these things interfere with naturalnessof expression, and, consequently, Delsartism. Delsarte, in studying the mechanism of the human body, found that alf parts should move in harmony with each other, but how can movementsof the body be graceful and harmonious after passing through the hands of ’ the tailor? It is all straightened and stiffened up. Our clothes destroy themotion of the body. The ridiculoushigh collar ties up one of the most - important organs of expression, as theneck is the bridge which carries the expression begun at the head tothe body. The tightening of clothes on our chest interferes with expression and makes your soldiers look like mechanical automatons. Contrast the-.-manly and graceful form of the Oriental warrior, with his flowing bournous,. his dramatic ornaments, with your cramped and stiff soldiers, who givens a curious example of an active and passive nervous rigidity.

Senator Ingalis Couldn’t Fool Him.

“I used to know Senator Ingalls yearn ago,” said a gentleman from the far* "West to a reporter for the Washington Post. “He was thinner then than he is. now and looked just about the same. He lived in Atchison and had the reputation of being possessed of more brain and less flesh than any other adult in. the State otKansas. One day he went • up to the office of a friend of his, a doctor, and while he was in there a newsboy dashed in. Now, the kids who sold papers around Atchison in those dayswere the noisiest I ever heard, and thodoctor’s assistant, a cheerful youngstudent, was always on the alert toshut some of them up and to prevent., them from invading the privacy of hisroom with their stamping feet and easpiercing. yells of ‘S’u Louay paper’. The assistant had seen this particular boy as he entered the building, and in an instant had placed inside the doorway of the office a full-grown skeleton. When the youngster threw the door open and was midway through one of his declamations the skeleton fell overon him. With a shriek that was worse* even than his regular street cry the boy rolled down one flight of stairs and! stumbled into the street and his murmurings continued right straight along. “ ‘You have scared that boy to his. death!’ exclaimed the budding Senator, who was overflowing with indignation.. Thea he went to the window and bending out called to the grimy but pallid' face of the victim: “Come back here, boy; I’ll buy some of your papers. Heshan’t hurt you.” The response was instantaneous.. The boy’s cobs ceased and he shouted: “No. you don’t! You can’t fool me if you have got your clothes on.”

She Will Not Pe Familiar.

What strikes the pilgrims from otherlands, writes a Philadelphia Pretty, correspondent, is the predominance of” women in Boston. Women everywhere—in the restaurants, "behind the lunch', counters, in the shops, in the offices,, women seem to be doing all the work. I don’t find any fault with this arangement. They are more civil than themen. I only wish they could becomestieet car conductors. Probably they may some day. Down here at Nantasket Beaeh you find the same abundance* of the fair sex. They preside at the popcorn booths with all the dignity of long.' lineage and great mental developmentForeigners from New York or Chicago, ignorant of the customs of the country,. sometimes make an effort to be pleasant with these young ladies. The result is always disastious to the foreigners. “111 wait upon you, but I’ll not be > familiar with you!” That’s the shibboleth of the Boston > serving lady. I was much amused at the attempt of one of these “foreigners” just mentioned to bestow a small fee upon one* of these young women, She drew herself up with all the hauteur of familypride—for no doubt her name was Winthrop, or Adams, or Hancock, or Winslow—and then she remarked: “Excuse me, sir, we are liberally re- - warded for our services by the corporate lessees of the beach, and, conse quently, the offer of any gratuity is entirely a supererogatory act.” Them turning to a small boy, she murmured-: “Johnny, accept the gentleman’s', nickel. “We keep him for that purpose, ini order not to offend those who may be* strangers in Boston. Crushed steel—made by crushing in. a stamp-mill high-carbon steel quenched in cold water from an extensively high temperature—is being used for cutting stone It is very hard, andj cheaper and more effective than emery. “Why don’t you live in more’fashionable quarters?” “I haven’t got thedollars.”

lecturing tour in his own country, and is preparing to return to organize another course of lectures for the coming win-' ?ter. Delsarte discovered a system of gesture, a language of expression, which man in his wild state