Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — Page 6

@lje BemocraticSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEK. - - - Publishes,

SHIPS OLD AND NEW.

VBSSELS OF VARSOyS COUNTRIES AND TIMES. Bow Great Navies Grew—A Grand Historieal Exhibit for the Exposition— Development Through Gradual Change of Facilities in Water Transportation. Nani Architecture. The perils incident to the navigation of lakes and streams of any considerab.e magnitude a few centuries ago were sufficient to test the courage of the boldest and bravest: but the real and imaginary dangers that confronted the mariner who ventured in his frail bark upon the nnknown open sea were appalling. • To

cross and recross the Atlantic is now pastime—a journey as safe and swift as one covering the same distance on land. But in the time of Columbus it was altogether a different all air, and we can never sufficiently admire the moral fortitude and grandeur of purpose which Inspired and sustained that heroic, navigator (contemptuously regarded as a “crank” by the wise men and derided as a fool by the ignorant of his day and generation) who, after overcoming the intrigues of a hostile court, by the aid of Queen Isabella, set sail at last, and, in epite of adverse winds, and a mutinous crew, completed his fir.-t transatlantic voyage with results so startling and stupendous. The International Exposition of 1893, to be held in Chicago (named Columbian to his honor) will be a worthy tribute to tils genius and lifo work. One of tlfo trappiest features among single exhibits •will be the exact renroduction in size, form and equipment, down to the mieutest detail, of the famous vessel from whose deck Columbus caught the first glimpse of the shores of the new world The plans of this exhibition are not to be limited to merely a competitive dis-

THE ANCIENT SHALLOP.

play of the finest specimens and models •of ships, steamers, yachts, boats, etc., of the latest improved construction, but Is Intended to show in a realistic way the methods of water conveyance peculiar to all countries from the most enlightened to the semi-civilized and barbarous. A series of object lessons in chronological order will punctuate each progressive step in naval architecture -from the crude attempts of boot builders to the stately steamships and ironclads of to-day. Such an arrangement of naval specialties and curiosities will not only •gratify the sight-seer, but possess a his"torical and educational suggestiveness that will invest them with far more than -ordin&py interest. A similar judicious •plan will be adopted in the grouping of •articles belong ng to the other two distinctive classifications of this department comprising railways, their operation and “equipment, and vehicles on ffimmon roads. The continent of North America, from the date of its first settlement by white paen, will a : one furnish material for an ample and varied collection of naval curios. 'the aborigines did not lack the

COLUMBUS, SANTA MARIE.

facilities to ascend rivers or paddle over lakes on thoir ,iy utiug and fishing excwstous. Ti.-e dugout, laboriously hewn with sMSIs or buraed out of a tolid log; the birch-bark c» oe, and the coracle, the latter consisting Of wicker frame work coversd with skins, were their chief means of water transpo tation, and at first, for lack of anything better, the whites were not slow to adopt Indian methods. Some Of their canoes were by bo menus insignificant affairs. The IroCOi* nude them from twe.ve to forty /eet long, w th a rapacity for t arrying

ROBERT FULMON'S STEAMBOAY

W * fp men. Thfi Chippewa* the rind of one birch tree, shaping tt to a Miieeiu. model and sewing It with

tamarack roots. When Columbus landed at the West Indies on his fourth voyage he was visited by an Indian trader In a canoe eight feet wide, formed out of a single tree and propelled by twenty-five rowers. The canoes of many Western tribes were frames of osier or flexible poles covered with buffalo skins sewed together with the sinews of the deer On the Atlantic coast canoes were used extensively by the first European

1714 designates them as “sloops, pinks, settlers for collecting oy.-ters and clams. In time the shallop came into use, then the >loop and the pink Rut the largest vessels of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were comparatively of small dimensions, very few being over 100 tons burden. The waters of Maine were explored in one bark of fifty and another of twenty-six tons. John Smith pepotrated the rivers and bays of territory now known as Virginia and Maryland in a long boat *of twenty tons and two vessels of forty and 100 tons. A record of craft in Massachusetts from 1674 to

ketches. brigantines, barkes. and ships,” of which sloops were the most numerous. liut prior to the revolution shipbuilding in the colonies had attained a considerable magnitude, their vessels of all classes in 1769 aggregating o er 20,000 tons. The canoo ultimately gave place to the batteau. or broad-bottom skiff on the interior waters of the United States. These boats were pointed at the bow, broad aft as amidships, and fiat on the floor, with upright sides They are still in service on the Aroostock (Me.) River. Then followed the era of flat boats and “broad horns" (the latter for coal,) raft 3, arks, etc., exclusively adapted to

descending river navigation, the great bulk of the tarrying business from

BIRCH-BARK CANOE.

headwaters to New Or'oans being effected in this way. For ascending strean s, keel boats were provided. Arks and rafts played a conspicuous and important part in the transportation of heavy material, live stock, etc., the farmers of Central and Western New Yobk, before the construction of the Erio Cana!, sending their produce to markets in arks down the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers. Keel boats covered in with cabins for passengers were called “barges. ” Some of these were from TO to 100 feet long and 00 to 100 tons capacity. Steamboats for crossing ferries (of eight-horse power; were in use from 1818 to 1824. Early canal projects made slow headway. The completion of t.ie Erie Canal, however, in 1825, and its success, both financially and as a great artery of commerce, stimulated the construction of similar enterprises elsewhere, especially m Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Rut the first successful application of steam as a motor by Robert Fuiton in 1807, who made an initial trip in the Clermont up the Hudson, a distance of 110 miles in twenty-four hours, practically revolutionized existing methods of transporta- , tion and travel. The first steamboat on

MISSISSIPPI RIVER RAFT.

Western waters, the Enterprise, made its trial t ip from Pittsburg to New Orleans, and was subsequently (in 1814) wrecked near Natchez.. We confidently expect to see models of some of the original stern-wheelers of which these vessels were the type at the coming exposition. The record of steamboat construction from 1830 to 1841 showed an increase that more than doubled all previous efforts, the tonnage of steamers in 1838 being about equally divided between high pressuie and low pressure engines. The former werp almost exclusively used in the Mississippi Valley, while on the Atlantic coast the latter has been generally adhered to. The speed, size and tn-engthof the Hudson River and J.ong Island steamers ha< been materially Increased. The AI baby, -18-32, was 272 feet long, 62>4 feet team, and registered 588 tons The Massachusetts. traversing

Long Island Sound, was 202 feet long, 29 f»»t beam, and of 676 tons. Meanwhile the vessels plying between Atlantic and foreici* ports had also greatly increased in numbers and efficiency. An American merchantman of 1,133 tons in 1841 v/as said to be the largest in the world. In 1850 vessels of 2,000 tons were not uncommon. The Republic, 1853, had a tonnage of 4,555. From 1840 to 1360 the finest sailing ves-

THE U. S. CRUISER CHICAGO.

se’s were built for ocean service, making remarkab y >wift voyages between English and Atlantic seaports, and China, Australia and Pacific coast points. It was a period especially active and eventful in matters bearing on all classes of navigation interests, most important changes being due to the successful application of the screw by Ericsson. In JB4O the Cunard line was established. In 1851 as many as fifteen companies isixtythrec steamers, 111,496 tonsi were running lines between New York and London and Liverpool. In the United States there was a corresponding Increase In

THE VICTORY, BRITISH NAVY.

si/e and splendor of river and lake steamboats, the Hudson River boats attaining an acknowledged superiority

over all other vessels of their class In the world.

HUDSON RIVER STEAMBOAT.

In' connection with models, photographs, and sketches illustrating the many changes in construction, equipment an i propulsive devices which have marked the important transitive periods above briefly referred to, the reproduction of designs and improvements adapted to the protection of life and property on the sea-, buoys, signals, lighthouses, docks, wrecking apparatus and appliances, will be hardly less interesting. In the modern yacht ship-bu Iding

has attained its highest perfection as a tine art, and maintains a leading place in naval architecture. To other vessels it is what the thoroughbred is to the ordinary roadster. Human geuins and constructive skill all stimulated to their utmost by competitive tests in which the victor is crowned with honors and substantial rewards. When in 1851 the Ameries>captured the internat onal cup from' the royal yact squadron, of England, it was thought that fast sa ling had reached its limit. But this belief was signally disye led by subsequent faces, notably that between the Genesta and Puritan for the same prize. 'lhen the conviction became general

that vesseli of the Burgess model could outroot any craft of Its class thlt could be designed. But to the utter aioa.g-

THE ARK.

SANDWICH ISLAND BOAT

ON THE FRIE CANAL.

ment of yachtsmen and shlp-butldero, one Borreshoff steps to the front with the Gloyiana, a strikingly unique and bold departure from all precedents in lines, build and rigging, at present conceded to be the fastest yacht afloat The international regattas held in this and foreign waters have been fiuitful in good results. Aside from the gratification afforded by a contest honorably conducted, every suggestion of improvement in strength, speed and beauty which such races determine are eagerly caught up and incorporated in naval construction on a large scale. The Monltor-Merrimac duoi demonstrated for the first time in a combat of national importance the superior efficiency of heavy guns and armor plates in naval warfare. Thenceforth the “wooden walls,” which for centuries had been the pride and glory of England, were so much useless lumber. Such illustrious vessels as the Victory,, the Constitution, the Hartford, and others, still ex si *s faithful reminders of patriotic duty . obfy-performed. Their splendid recorf- have glorified history, and their re pro notion in modol will prove a profound!, mien-sting feature.

E [?]rt Countterfeiting.

Perhaps ■ te most surprising curiosities in t • treasury scrap-book are proofs of cunnin plates which appear to have had heir surfaces scratched aud bat te ret. to the utmost possible extent. The plates were those of the famous 7.30 bonds, executed by Chas. H. Smith and printed by Chas. Brockway, which w re the occasion of a great lawsuit against the Government. Such w->rks of art were they that no question of their genuineness was raised until Jay Cooke & Co. forwarded $84,000 worth of them to the treasury here for redemption. Although Mr. Casilear declared them counterfeits, it was claimed that they must have been printed from the original plates made by the treasury, and on the strength of that assumption suit was brought by Jay Cooke & Go. against the Government. The cause was lost by the plaintiffs, however. Smith was undoubtedly the most remarkable forger that ever lived. For twenty years, while leading a life of she utmost apparent respectability, he produced counterfeit after counterfeft of the most marvelous character, both of notes and bonds, from SSO to SI,OOO. Probably not less than $1,000,000 of imitation money of his manufacture found its way into circulation. It was only through the discovery of his association with the notorious plate printer, Brockwaj, himself a marvelous expert in his line, that Smith was arrested in 1881 at No. 42 Herkimer street, Brooklyn. Thus was broken up one of the most dangerous combinations against the national flnanees that have ever existed. Smith and Brockway did all they could to give evidence against one another, each for the sake of securing his own immunity from punishment, after the manner of counterfeiters, who invariably, when they are caught, turn traitors to their comrades. Washington Letter.

What’s in a Name?

The physician in charge of an insane asylum in Ohio preseribed a large dose of castor oil for one of the Inmates, a man of great strength and wild, unmanageable temper. The attendant who had been commissioned to administer the nauseous dose foresaw that he was likely to find the task more or less difficult, and therefore took with him several assistants. On reaching the lunatic’s cell, the attendant put on a matter-of-fact air, and, cup in hand, stepped inside the door. The madman divined his purpose instantly, and rushed furiously upon him. The assistants were too quick for him, however, and, after a severe struggle, threw him down and attempted to pinion his arms. The man fought like a tiger, but found himself overmatched. Suddenly he became perfectly quiet, and, putting his hand to his mouth, said in a whisper to the chief attendant, “Call it oysters.” The attendant was a man of great natural shrewdness—as dealers with the insane need to be —and at once understood the lunatic’s meaning. Directing the wondering assistants to release the patient, he took the cup from the shelf on which it had been set, approached the crazy man, and said in a tone of ceremonious politeness: “Good-morning, Mr. Smith; will you try this dish of very tine oysters?” The lunatic .smiled pleasantly, returned the bow with one still lower, and answered: “Thank you very much; you. are very kind.” So saying, he took the cup and drained it with every appearance of the deepest satisfaction. “Ah,” said he, as ho finished the dose and smacked hislips, “those are, indeed, fine—the flnesti oysters I have ever tasted.” He had saved his self-respect and had taught his keepers an excellent lesson in their own line.

Driver Ants.

There are certain ants that show wonderful intelligence, and the “driVer ants” not only build boats but launch them, too; only these boats ale formed of their own bodies. They are called “drivers” because of their ferocity. Nothing can stand before the attacks of these little creatures. Large pythons have been killed by them in a single night, while chickens, lizards, and other animals in Western Africa flee from them in terror. To protect themselves from the heat, they erect arches under which numerous armies of them pass in safety Sometimes the arch is’ made of grass and earth gummed together by some secretion, and again it is fqrmed by the bodies of the larger ants, which hold themselves together by thelx strong nippers, while the workers pass under them. At certain times of the year, freshets overflow the country inhabited by the “drivers,” and it is then that these ants go to sea. The rain comes suddenly, and the walls of' their houses are broken in by the flood, but instead of coming to the surface In scattered hundreds, and being swept off to destruction, out of the ruins rises a black ball that rides safely on the water and drifts away. Ati the first warning of danger, tbe little creatures run together; and form a solid ball of ants, the weaker in the center; often this ball tektrger than a common base-ball; and in this way they float about until they lodge against some tree, upon the branches of which they are soon safe and sound.— St. Nicholas.

WITH AN UNSEEN POWER.

A- Trick Upon Which It Is Safe to Lay a Wager Every Time. On a dry day rub with a brush, oi with the hand, a thin piece of paper; it will become electrified in a short time and adhere to your hand, youi face or your coat as if it had glue on it, and you will not be able to get rio of it, Electrify, in the same manner, a thick piece of paper—a postal card, for example—and you will see that, as with sealing wax, glass, sulphui

or resin, this card can attract light bodies—small pieces of cork, etc. Balance a cane on the back of a chair and wager anyone in the audience 'Aatyou will make it fall without touching it, blowing on it or moving the chair. All you need to do, according to the Churchman, is to dry the card well before the fire, rub it vigorously with your sleeve and put it close to one end of the cane, which will follow it as iron follows a magnet, until, having lost its equilibrium, the cane will fall to the floor.

A Woman’s Memory.

“Memory, the warder of the brain,” says Shakspeare, but with many it would seem that the full meaning of the aphorism is sadly lost. Almost everyone has some sort of a memory, good, bad or indifferent, as the case may be, but one person out of every fifty has some process or other intended to aid their memory, hoping in time to be able to retain in mind all matters worthy of retention. This recalls to a writer in the Kansas City Times a story told of a young lady friend, who has lately taken on the fad of “memory brushing.” She confided in a gentleman acquaintance that she was poor at dates, a sad failure on place and weak on events. “How may I learn to retain things in my mind as they should be?” she exclaimed, as if in disgust at her intellectual shortcomings. “Oh, that is easy,” replied he, “as all you have to do in each case is to form some little couplet with anything you wish to remember and you will never forget it.” “Explain,” she said. “For instance,” the gentleman replied, “In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” The young lady was in a high state of glee at such a practical and really beautiful manner of aiding memory, and her thanks were profuse. Time went by—two days, I believe —when the two met again. ‘ ‘How are you getting on with the couplets?” asked he. “Capitally?” she exclaimed. “A pound of candy goes that you don’t remember what I told you, verbatim,” he banteringly said, and she took the bet on the spot. Then she rattled off the words: “In fourteen hundred and ninety-three Columbus sailed the deep blue sea.”

A Mystified Monkey.

An officer in India gave his tame monkey a lump of sugar inside a corked bottle of such stout glass that it could not well be broken. The monkey was of an inquiring mind, and it nearly killed it. Sometimes, in an impulse of disgust, it would throto the bottle away out of its own reach, and then be distracted until it was given back to it. At others it would sit with a countenance of most intense dejection contemplating the bottled sugar, and then, as if pulling Itself together for another effort at solution, would take up the bottle afresh, and gaze into it. It would tilt it up one way and try to get the sugar out of the neck, and then, suddenly reversing it, try to catch the sweet morsel as it fell out, under the impression that it would capture it by surprise. It kept rapping its teeth against the glass in futile bites, and, warming to the pursuit of the revolving lump, used to tie itself into regular knots round the bottle. Fits of the most ludicrous melancholy would alternate with these spasms of furious calculation, and how the matter would have ended it is impossible to say. But the monkey one night got away, and took the bottle with it, and, ft has always been a delight to its former owner to think that whole forests full of monkeys have by this time puzzled themselves into fits over the great problem of bottled sugar. What profound theories these long-tailed philosophers must have evolved! What polemical acrimony that bottle must have provoked! And what a Confucius the original monkey must have become! A single morning with such a sanhedrim discussing such a matter would surely have satiated even Swift with satire. Charles Algernon Swinburne, the fleshly poet, has been visiting in a house in Cheltenham which was originally built for and occupied by Sir Walter Raleigh. We should think Sir Walter’s ghost would haunt him for the remark Swrfcburne once made, after going through every room in one of the London clubs, looking for one in which thgre was no tobacco being smokfed: “Xing James was a scoundrel of the deepest dye; but I honor and respect him, because he slit the throat of that other villain, Sir Walter Raleigh, who introduced the custom bf smoking in England." ' In Australia there is manufactured a hat which is said to resemble the Panama hat very closely. It is made from the unexpanded leaves of a native plant, which are immersed 1n boiling water and then dried. The fiber obtained from this treatment is plaited as in South America. A goose farm has been started in Michigan. It will be managed by a Michigander.

BATTLEDOOR REVIVED.

A Game of Our Grandmothers Again in Vogue. That gay little game called battledoor and shuttlecock, which was so popular in our grandmothers’ day, bids fair to become popular again with the invention of badminton, which it so closely resembles. It requires no especial muscular development, says the New York Recorder, only ability and as much grace as may be convenient. There are old-fashioned folks still who think that a sedate game of croquet, or even the terribly earnest tennis, affords no such real sport as did this simple little game of the past. People make work of their sports to-day, these old folks say, because it is a workaday age, and they must cultivate their brains or muscles, or both, even in popular pastimes. Battledoor and shuttlecock insures one of the most beneficial means of exercise, the continual upward movement of the arms—the reaching—which is the best of tennis, from the athletic point of view. It isn’t an expensive game, either, for the implements cost almost nothing. A battledoor and shuttlecock club may be organized by any set of young people who have a moderate spread of greensward available. A little garden hat, with a brim wide enough to keep the sun from the eyes, pretty bodices on the peasant style, or with Swiss .belts, the under blouse sufficiently easy for free arm movement; skirts short, full and

AS OUR GRANDMOTHERS FLAYED.

piquant (no demi-trains), and stout little boots are the costuming essentials. Striped outing flannel shirt sleeves for men, with tennis caps and knee breeches. The game, to be interesting, must be conducted under the general rules which prevail in ball games. Much may be made of it by those who are skilled in ball-playing, though it calls rather for grace than for skill or technical knowledge. Battledoor and shuttlecock is a very old game. We hear of it, along with other light rollicking sports in which women participated, among the court pastimes of Louis XIY. The court of Henry Quatre was famous for all sorts of romping games. Henry of Navarre was too much of a warrior not to be fond of athletic sports, and many of those indulged in by the Queen and her ladles, as well as by the King and his followers, were almost boyish in character. There are old pictures which give the shuttlecock quite the form it has to-day, though the battledoor has changed.

Stealing Lion Cubs.

The lioness does not leave her cubs, even for a moment, until they are three months old and have finished teething. Gerard, the famous French lion-killer, says in his “Adventures,” that teething is an important crisis in the life of the lion cubs, and that a large number of the young die during that period. When the cubs have finished teething, the lioness leaves them a few hours ea ch day, and on her return brings mutton, carefully skinned and torn in small pieces. The Arabs, on discovering a litter of cubs, watch for the departure of the lioness, and then rob her of the whelps. They post themselves on a high cliff, or in a tree overlooking the lair. As soon as they see the lioness go down to the plain, and are sure that the lion is not near, they creep to the lair, wrap the cubs in the fold of their burnoose in order to smother their cries, and carry them to the edge of the woods, where men are waiting with horses. One day sixty Arabs surrounded the woods where there was a lair, and by shouts tried to rouse the lioness. She, however, remained in her hid-ing-place. Several Arabs then crept into the thicket and brought out the whelps. The Arabs, pleased at their success, were retiring to their tents, thinking they had nothing more tb fear. Suddenly the sheik, who was on horseback, and a little behind Ms men, saw the lioness rushing out of the woods diirectly at him. He called, and his nephew, Mecaoud, and his friend, Ali, ran to his aid. The lioness sprung at the young nephew, who, facing her with his gun at his shoulder, pulled the trigger when she came within six or seven feet. The cap only exploded. The youth threw the gun a wav, and presented bis left arm wrapped in his burnoose. The lion seized the arm, and began crushing the bones. The young man, without a cry, drew his pistol and fired in her breast. She dropped the arm and bounded on Ali, who fired a ball down her throat as she sprang at him. He was seized by the shoulder and thrown down, but the lioness, before she could injure him greatly, expired on his prostrate body- The nephew died the next day.

John Bull at Work on This Side.

Great Britain is going steadily ahead in the work of fortifying the coast line of her American possessions on both sides of the continent. Important fortifications are being built on the British Columbian coast, and the authorities, have now decided to place two revolving turrets at the Fort York redoubt at Halifax. One is to be placed at the northern end and one at the southern end of the fort. Each turret will be built of stone and will contain four sixty-ton guns.

HUMOR OF THE WEEK.

STORIES TOLD BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. SI any Odd, Carious, and Laughable Phases of Hamaa Nature Graphically Portrayed by Eminent Word Artists of Our Own Day. Safer Than Any Safe. WishletS—These summer resorts are so full of all kinds of crooks, that for fear of being robbed, I always leave my money in the hotel safe. Bishlets—l have a much better plan. “What is it?” “My wife carries the boodle in her dress pocket. ” —Brooklyn Eagle. “An Early Bird,” Etc. She (hew to rural life) —So that is an apple tree? He—Yes. “Why doesn’t it blossom?” “It’s a trifle late for it to blossom. ” “Well, let’s get up early to-morrow morning and see it blossom then. ” New York Herald. How to Treat Drowned Men. Little George Washington Oh, pappy, I’se done learned a powerful lot in ma school to-day. I’se learned what to do wiv a drowned man when you find him in de water. The Old Man—G’way, chile! “Yes, I did, pappy! Did you ever find a drowned man?” “Cou’se, yes; lots ob dem!” “Den what did you do de berry fust t’ing?7 “Me? Oh, I jes l go frough deir pockets to see if dey hab anyt’ing wuss takin’.” —Boston News. ,An Expensive Diet. Mrsy CanbyHph, Titus, tm* baby has swallowed a hairpin!” Mr. Canby—'fhat’s it; |ust as I expected. Now, yott’ll want money to buy some more. It’s nothing but money, money, money, in this house the whol.qjplessed time. I’ll bet that baby ftas more than SSO worth of hairpins ih the last three months. Now, madam, this thing has got tb* stop a right hars-4-either that baby will quit eating hairpins and come down to common grub like the rest of us, or I’ll know th'e reason why—you understand?—Epoch. k J i ,.} Kls Natural Stopping Places. “Where did you spend your vacation, Lakteel?” “I made a tour of the watering places, Bangle.” “O, yes, of course! I forgot for the moment that you were a milkman.” —Pittsburg Chronicle. A Solution at Any Cost. Giddings—Did they catch the fellow that tried to piejer Mrs. Waight’s pocket yesterday? Rawley No; but he gave himself up. “What did he do that for?” “To force her to testify whether she had a pocket or not.”—Puck. Goodness Its Own Reward. Mrs. Ponsonby—Why, my dear, what has become of all the jewelry you used to wear so much? Mrs. Popinjay—l have given them up to save the heathens. “How good of you?” “Yes, but I will get my reward. Harold will buy me a new set of the latest style. ” —The Jewelers’ Circular. A Groundless Complaint. Grieved Guest You advertised fresh fruit every day; and I’ve been here two weeks and I have not seen a single piece. Shrewd Host—You haven’t! Well, what’s the matter with them tomatoes right there in front of you? “Well, tomatoes and fruit are two very different things. ” “They be, be they? Well the next time you lay out to pass the summer in a family of culture, you’d better put a little botany into you.”—Boston Courier. Highly Accomplished. Miss Breeze, of Chicago—How did you like my gentleman friend from St. Louis? Miss Wabash, of ditto—Oh, wan’t he nice? I love to watch him eat. Miss Breeze—Yes, he carries his knife to his mouth so graceful.— Boston Courier. A Rose with the Thorn. Griffin —Then there is no hope for me, Miss Julia? Miss Julia—None, Mr. Griffin, I’m afraid, but I’ll be a sister to you. Griffin—That’ll do nicely. We’ll mention it to your father that I’m your brother now, and then, perhaps, he’ll treat me a little more civilly.— Drake’s Magazine.

A Bullet’s Freak.

A few years ago there was in portions of the new West much lawlessness of one kind and another, checked only by an occasional piece of individual retribution or by an outburst of vigilance-committee work. A curious shooting affair which occurred in Medora, North Dakota, is thus described by Mr. Roosevelt: I did not see the actual occurrence, but I saw both men immediately afterward, and 1 heard the shooting, which took place in a saloon on the bank, while I was swimming my horse across the river. I will not give the full names of the two contestants, as I am not certain what has become of them; though I was told that they had since been put in jail or banged, I forget which. One of them was a saloon-keeper, familiarly called "Wei shy. The other man, Hay, had been bickering with him for some time. One day Hay entered the saloon, and the quarrel beeame at once violtent. Welshy suddenly whipped out his revolver and blazed away at Hay. Hay staggered slightly, shook himself, stretched out his hand, and gave back to his Would-be slayer the ball, saying, “Here, man, litre’s the bullet!"' It had glanced along his breastbone, gone a roundabout course, and come out at the point of the shoulder, when, being spent, it dropped down the sleeve into his hand. *MA train of pure. thought will only run on the track of a well-graded miiuL.