Daily News, Franklin, Johnson County, 9 November 1889 — Page 8

HERE AND THERE-

Hi» fouMn't *ieep:

waited the to***-

He pvj-o kiektat hlmwli. Hi* h*ir ^»tnW i,,. titmon tlic A long, slim, odd-looking man with faded rel hair and a freckled face dropped into a West Hide liar room this morning und called for a drink of whwkv "with pemwr in it•tapper in it?" queried the aaloon

man

S »'W«0 0X«-0«e

irith a look of perplexity on his comfortable and picturesque Japanese dough-like countenance. dress to Die foreign

*Ye#,'f replied the freckled man, '•with

^fy-w'y/' stammered the bartender, "I have no fx?p *'I mean strong whi«kv, you mummy, exclaimed the fwckled individual. "Here," said the bartender, "don you call me names." .. "(iive me some whi.-kv.

The dealer palatal^ liquids controlled his resentment on sight of ine monev. and produced a bottle containing in all probability an article which merited the name of "blood-raw bourbon The slim individual j.o tired out a Health) -nit." and gulled it down. "nave anv idea who I am. said leaniuk over' the counter as he pockeed the change. The bartender had to

The Hlitu man Hl#-pie.l bark Iron. Uu. counter, drew hiinwlf up, pitched torward on to !hw hand* and rolled awa like a wheel making a hundred n\ utionK to the minute. It re«|U"V'' but a few Mecon.lH for him to reach the oopmib end of the room, and when he had HO he moved

HIOWIV

back toward the

bar,

«iii tin- uhile i»ertonuititi the newt marxe- coi lie evolutions that the saloon

IOIIH gymna«t man had ever Hecn. "1 lowV that'.' Maid Mop, after a double mid-air *omeroaul "That great!" »aid the naloon with unfeigned admiration. "Well, nav, couldn't you yive me a hitch at the

I ant. I walk for a living and

tumble for my whi«ky. Just now lam walking on a wager. Shake! The freckled man grasped the naloon keener'* hand, pnwned it heartily, and Hallted out, whistling, "Johnny, get your gnt*'"

A Hchool teachers life i.n not a bed of rosea by any means and they proba »1 encounter snore aggravating things in the cmirne of a dav than any other profomton known. Ib.wever, there in mune titnea a little fun ami noliody can enjoy it more than they. Some ol the requeata they receive from pupil* and parents are often amusing the extreme. A

HC1MW)I

Miaa read the note with a great deal of interest and wondered HeriouHly how Touy came to be in that terrible plight, but there wan no explanation at hand. She pictured Tonv -btg. "it. awkward and luhlwrly literally busted The whole thing wtw ao ludicrous that ahe thought it would be a ahame to ait theiv and laugh all by herwlf, ao ahe pnicewhal to lot others into the joke. At noon all of the teacher* were assembled in one of the rooms, ami then Mtaa read the note. To aav that it created a laugh would not halt cxpnw it. And how thoae teachers do enjoy a joke.

WARDE AND CLINE.

I he

I'l'.i-iiM'r l» Meel tl»r l.nt tor in I Itlle I iK iimitrr, It haa laxn the deaire of local sporta, ever aince Patrick Warde. of lioacdale, ajirang into prominence an a challenger of Mike (Jainey. to arrange a inatcli Ih»ween llw former and tieorge Cline, an amateur aapiront for ring dtatinction of of this eity. When Mr. Warde w*a* hert* wiHk or two ago he said that he would see (Mine and tnat if the latter vvsia not too heavy. tHMhaj^ satisfactory arratig^1nUMits eoulo be made for a go. It aeom» that since then Wanle haa ctune intol pi»a»»aii»on of a statement to the etlect that CHne weighs well up toward -HX) pounds, and therefore is too heavy a man for him. At any rate such is Wardcs position aa revealed in a letter from him to Mike *ainey on the subject.

In that letter Warde refuses to go against Cline owing to the latter a twrt 1 dimenMiona, lut annouiii-ca tltat tse will nd and cet a man who will meet Cline, pitv that a jungle

It Hccms quite a ... match cannot lw drummed up when the

.IT

rt»««

I or

while until "the Monvilmn-Farmer set-To Roumanian lathers t«e in to come otl. The lime set n»r that en- around the ankles of ttwnr counter is Novemlvr in, pvomrx* them from harm.

thr

"fifcki,-

E O S iS O W O S O

"Who Hall From th« T.aod

TOUrt

pepper'in it." ,._ the fact Uiat she is one of the first Jap *l

aneHe

you

jay, !**r-

sisU his freckled nil*. "I tell you "Will vott or will you not give me a slug of blood-raw »our!on7" roared the slim man. and he planked down a silver dollar.

!'em that he had no idea who the fre. kled man wah. •'Me!" cried the freak, with yrin ''me! hv, 1 nt l'i'j Sever heard of Ihlly Balloon. Hilly balloon, the nhick rojx- artixt and peoestrian. Hilly H.alloon, the hornHt" Never heard o! billy lmlloon Watch'" ..

(ldeoiif* ialloon.

numlH«r•

lining to a lull otueraaul. nan.

:bli)od-raw'

on the *tivngtli

of it?" "Cert. Help voum-lt. "Ivememlx.T I told you a pedestrian-" Haid the freckled Ireak «.h he poured out bin drink. "Yea." was the answer. "Well" he nwallowed the bloou-raw ,.,".HO

efts'

time I MOO gallons. This work is finished t*rn at the last quarter

up cAsiiv in twelve hours and the enpao uv of the distillery is abundantly equal to a diurnal consumption of S.0t^busht which means gallons.

Krt

)«hUr*«*-

[isuiug the election in the new state of Washington an up-country newspa^r telegraphed the IVimx-ratic Walla Walla Statesman for *mli on the result. The editor being out looking up the return# with the Nys, the local "devil took advantage of the opportunity to reph "Then' ain't no 2W wonK Kver tlung g*me to he-H.' can.

-Walerlmrv Ameri-

Old J»k».

ftU-i r*r.- »». a ...

Vt.a ii ti it thv «\Mh« hW !tr"? h,-f *a|W iSw »».t!

mm •i

h" Mlk*da

and Olh«r K#tlo»».

The Counter Oyana. wife of the Jap-anese-minister of war. is one of the few ladies of the court circle at Tokio who "receive" at their own homes in the native costume which European fashions are so fast driving out of the land of the

Mikado. The Countess much prefers the

costume*

^h^the

has adopted, and th» »pite of

women educated in America, having graduated at "S assar, in 1882, the only woman of her race who li»* received the baccalaureate degree. Stematz Yatnakawa, as she ws» known before her marriage, spent about ten years in this country, coming with the Japanese embassy in 1875, and returning so thoroughly Americanized that she had almost forgotten her own language. She is remembered by her college mates as an extremely attractive girl, pretty even to American eves, tall, graceful, and we formed. The return t« her native oountrv wan to her something of an ordeal. She came here a girl of 12 years, adopted the hri.Htian religion ami the customs and habit* of thought of Western civilization. and went bark a marriageable I woman of with the knowledge that I her parent* would immediately hnd a husband for her, very possible one not at all in sympathy with her ideas, Fortunately the chosen spouse was the Count

IttuoOTana, who was himself educated in France, and as whose wife she lias taken immediate rank in social and philanthropic circles of Tokio. A number of Japanese women have since come to thin country a* student*, and several ara .Miss Ship? Nagai entered the Va-«4I school of music in 1878. and made a love match with lieutenant Urm, of {he Japanese navy, who »'a^ edacatad bv his government at our naval academy at Annapolis, and first met hi* piquant ,nntrv woman at a Yassar fete to winch tin vited. Tilt wedding wan agreed upon before either returned home. One of the festivities attendant upon the marriage in Tokio. was tlu? amateur presentation of the ".Merchant of Venice" before the count and mikado. Miss Ume Tsuda studied at the Archer institute in Washington, and is now teaching in the Peer-

of Anuapolin youths were

school

entire

inarm who

well

known to the man about town receive.I the following note from an old lerman ladv, the mother of one of her biggest ami dumbost boys

for Japanese noblewomen.

1 r*. levplund u* a F!oiit«"inj»Uer. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have occupied their new home at 81 ft Madison avenue, New York. The house has en elegantly fitted up, Mrs. Cleveland having taken

charge and directed the work of furnishing. Most of the floors are laid with hard wood, and over their joli»hed aurfacw rugs of Persian, Turkish, and Daghastan looms will Iks laid. The halls will 1* Moorish in furniture, the dining-room Kngliah, the

drawing-room

bric-a-brac

will differ from its neighbor, and again* the ain of crowding Mrs. Cleveland in sternly resolved. "I ho|w you- will not consider in© churlish, aiio aaid, "if I rofnue to l«t you 1)0 ajieciflc. Personally 1 wifl be plea.st'il to show you through u»y new house, but I must ask you not to make any sketches. It is a private house and I would ather keep all detaHs out of print. Will 1 like housekeopiHg? Certainly, There ia no other way to live. Only a woman knows the joy there is alxnit a house of her own-*- She must have the excitement and delight of selecting goods and the vexation and disappointment that go with the ordeal to thoroughly appreciate homo makkig.

Mrs. Clevelaud never looked pettier than she did to-day in a simple cloth suit Since her return from Washington sho hup a uuuihor of friftiulu, nan ervthing {joint# to a brilliant winter for her. ^olloni liable*.

In 8}aiji the infant's face isawept with a pine tree Iwigh to bring good luck. In America the child is handed over to & nurse with instructions to "raise it on the Inittle."

In Ireland a belt made of a woman hair is placctl about the child to keep Imrrn aw av.

Garlic, salt* bread, and steak are put into the cradle of a new-»orn babe in

rftd nbWns children to

Welsh mothers put a pair of tongs

It is pmhnbly not generally ktto*u the knife is sUmum* that in the mivnufacinrv of distilled far same purpose in some part* of spirits one bushel grain yiehls «n an England. average *»f four gallons and a half. The Among the Vo*®*» peasant distillorv wat this time nisumin|? :V~W anew moon are supposed to have bushels'per dav ami turning out in that

knife in the cradle to insure the *at«*y

s|wjr

children to hav« other*

tongti^s better hung than

snppoiMKi to have ka»» tougue. hut better r^tsining powers

llmrtltM Md ttr»tli«*U.

Tur»juoise ltearls are being ad»ftad ae sleeve-ton*. Gkive biM«ners with white ©ay* handles area pleasing innovation.

A sapphire and a diamond lightly inclined Is a favorite in rm£-«elti«g*. A black pe«uri in a cup of dmmocds a xwffin mwdi alFecte4

Garnets artwticall* grcnqM in *ie»igms twin some d^irabiebrooci^ Sterling silver photo frame*, plsread in flbral clmmcters, area decaraMk: ae^uMtwo.

Maw. iThraritine wota»|**J« tfvvtlX tmt «f

ibh

S8HI

try

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pit

TERKE »..TKDAI.'.YXKW^SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 9, 1889,

FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

There is a growing demand in England for human *kin leather. The pockets of the British infantry coat are to be sewed tip till the men are on active duty.

It has

been

discovered thai one of the

most valuable oils used bv the old mad

vv is wa]nut

oil.

Mr. Spurgeon's admirer? in lx»udon are disturbed by a rumor that he is seriously contemplating retirement from the pu

Eighteen tons of steel disappear yearly on the single system of the London and Northwestern Railway, through wear and rust.

Peat fibre is coming into considerable U-%e in the manufacture of brown paper, being about fifty per cent, cheaper than wood pulp.

The sustaining power of the Forth Bridge may be imagiued from the statement that each cantilever would sustain six of the greatest ironclads.

A small picture was lately sold at the Hotel Urouot, in Paris, for a hundred francs, which, on being verified as his work by M. Meissonier, was immediately resold for 1K.OOO francs.

The country having the largest proportion of cultivated land is Denmark, liusfda having the smallest. The Inited Kingdom has 29 jer cent, of land tilled against 71 untitled.

The Eiffel coiffeur is to be introduced into i^ndon life from Paris, avid will be entirely composed of hair, liie back hair is"to W worked up to any permissible height and is to end very taperingly.

There were assembled at the Ro\,il Palace in Coj-euhagen the other day one emperor, one empress, one empress dowager. three kings, one queen, four heirs apparent, and thirty-five imperial and royal princes and princesses.

A 1-ondon Journal

French, and

the chamliers a delightful miscture of Kroneh and American. Mrs. Cleveland delight# in "snuggeries. and a special feature will be made of the cornese, where hor guestH ou rocpption Jiigfats md afternoons can withdraw from the er»wd for a tete-a-tete.

One corner in her reception-rooin wwl filled with cushioned acataand backed with tufted raw silk. Above thia the two walls will ho mirrored. Portiaroa of soft silk will fall from the crosa rod and from an inner polo lace curtains will be draped. There will be a rug underfoot and overhead a Moorish lantern of mock jewels. Pedestal lamps will abotuid. Kvery piece of furniture and

One of the most important enterprise in Pans is the Compressed Air Company which distributes power throughout the eitv. It began with a pneumatic clock system about 1870. This business grew until there are now about 8,000 pneumatic clocks, public and private, driven from a station alxnit four miles east of the Madeleine, The company distributes power for any pur|»oso. There are al»out 250 motors, varying in power from one eighth horse" power to fifty horse power, for all sorts of purposes, all driven from the central station. The system used is that of Victor Popp. and it is being extended with great rapidity.

ITEMS INSTRUCTIVE AND INTERESTING

The ancient Peruvians kept their records by means of hempen strings woven into a sort of irregular lace called "qttipu." every knot meaning some word or letter, and the size of the meshes all having significance.

Twentv kinds of parasites--'worms of one sort or another—live in the human body and feed upon it. There are six of these enemies in the human head and live in the skin. They constantly diminish vitality and sometimes cause death.

There are *5,000 kinds of edible fruits and JterrieB in the world. SW cereals,

seventy

-five kinds of Indian corn,

Dr. Toetmore, of New ork luis ivpro* duced a human n«w destroyed by disby grafting a portion of the breasthone of a chicken on the peristeum of the patient's forehead.

An international law suit of a religious dvano ter. involving indirectly the pope and the king of Belgium, lias been begun in New York over tlie disputed owner ship of franc# of ecclesiastical funds. Colones Bob 1 ngersoll will ivprezenl the pope's interest.

The hronse doors of the Cathedral of Cologne are i»early ready. They rejwe-j^-ni the four ages of man. fo*tr seaand the wfee and ft«.«i«h virgin*, with ejstfufesitely d. -f^ned -m tamenta. c«R»iikting of of inw, and group* of animals and plants.

A man arreted on Ftf avenue in New York City recently for begging, under pretext of wiling matches, was found in possession of a well-filled

pocket and a bank book -h aving

f&M to his credit He fatbuk! tarsi* month*.

MUJ--

very desponpent

ou the prospects of professional men in England. The rate of emolument for the professional classes, it says, is steadilv going down. It is nearly as difficult now for a member of the professional classes to make i'oOO a year as it was for his father to make a thousand.

Amateur photographers who have lost great opportunities for views through bungling with their instruments, may cheer uj after reading of the performance of Dr. Jolmston-Lavis, deputed by the Uoval Geological Society to investigate the volcanic phenomena of Vesuvius. Having advanced so near to an eruption that his |orters ran away, he got two superb sights only to discover afterward that a portion of his focussing cloth had covered the lens so that only a small corner of the plates showed any impression.

Paul Dt: Chaillu had an interesting time (f it when addressing the British Association on the subject of his forthcoining lK»ok."The Vikings the Direct Ancestors of tin English speaking People." The discussion that ensued produced considerable critical disagreement with Du Chaillu's theory, and finally, after some earnest arguments, he concluded his remarks excitedly with "Patriotism is a splendid thing, but let us have truth. I belong to the other side of the water— America—and they would not accuse me of heing one-sided there."

Thirty TbtitMBd Happy People Wltn Neither Shop, Artisan. Nor Trade. Lving between Assam and Burmah^is the "remote little hill state of Manipur, iatelv viaited by Indian officers, one of whom, writing on the forests of the state in Indian Forests, gives an extraordinary account of Imphail. the capital. It is situated in what appears a dense forest: "Neither spires nor chimneys cut the blue 'sky, nor is smoke observed to ascend from the sylvan scene of the capital. Nothing, in fact, bespeaks the busy home of 30.000 to 40,000 people, and yet hidden away among these trees is the palace of a rajah, and hard by are the housees of his favorites, each family having a large enclosure around the homestead. Imphail may thus be described as a city of villages, or, rather, suburban residences around the palace.

Straight, wide roads lined with trees, freqiientlv intersecting each other at right augles, afford the means of communication. but neither shop, artisan, nor wheeled contrivance exists in the city. Industry and skill occur only in the distant rural homer-:.

The people of the capi al are the promoted favorites of the ruler, who have had assigned to them plots of giound near the palace, and live by pressing upon the persecuted agriculturists of the state. '1*11e capital of Manipur is a royal, residence dedicated to luxury and amusement All are happy. The streets are crowded with smiling, healthy faces, on which few bear the marks of toil or labor. There are no schools in the state and court favor and promotion are secured by success in polo. Coinage is unknown, and the men are not allowed to trade. Imports and exports,except in certain articles that yield a loyal levenue, are practically prohibited.

The women, from the distant villages repair on a certain day to the capital oi to other recognized centers. Each car rieson her head a neatly made .equate basket, in which has been placed thesur plus stock of the homestead, the labors of her industrial skill or of her husband's agricultural knowledge. On reaching the market place the contents of these baskets are exposed and bartered, when each returns again to her family carrying off the proceeds.

On market

days

waist,

the long, straight road

from Mishenpur to Imphail is crowded by groups of w, men hurrying to and fro. Each wears an elegantly striped dress in bright colors, made of silk and cotton. The stripes run along the length, and the top and bottom are neatly embroidered. Along piece of cloth is cleverly carried across the breasts and just under the armpits, instead of round the

and is firmly tucked up, so that the top embroidered edge falls forw ard, adding an additional fold to the garment, while the bottom edge reaches a little below the knees. The legs and arms are left exposed. The women are the only traders in the whole state.

Th* url.us Carmr of Thomas H. Illy the, One of the Arjjonmit* of 1849. Thomas H. Hlvthe was one of the aigonauts of '49. In that year he struck California and made a big find in the gold diggings. He invested his gold in lands and became one of the nabobs of the Pacific slope. In 1883 he died, leaving an estate valued at $5,000,000 and no will, He was then living a bachelor life in a

redwood-palaceon

2,500

vegetables and salads, and 5tK» shrubs nd arotnaties used for drinks or fort iteir taste or odor,

Potatoes when decaying are often very phosphorescent. A cellar full of decaying veatables in Chicago lately emitted so much light as to cause an alarm of tire.

Eugene Snndow. an athlete, has been performing great feats of strength in London, lifting 300 poun weights with one hand.

Nob Hill, in San Fran

cisco, and his death in his hath caused considerable excitement. The coroner a jury decided that lie died of heart dis ease.

A sister and brother soon showed up in England, and in 188-1 a daughter, Florence.

came

who

on, accompanied by a woman

claimed to le her mother and who called herself Mrs. Mary BIythe. The mother swore that the dead millionaire was married to her in London and that he was the father of her daughter Florence. James Crisp Perry, of San r^ian-

•iseo. was appointed Florences guardian- I

and a hot legal figl millions wna begun As the fight progressed the dead mans history was hunted up and it was learned that when he went to California in "49 he had gone there as a probation man from the English convict colony in Van Diemans Land. Then it was br. tight out that he had been an English thief: that after various offenses he was finally convicted in 1842 of tapping a till in Liverpool and transported to llobart Town, Van Dieman's Land, to serve a seven year's sentence there and on the famous Norfolk Island, where with 50,000 other convicts, he toih.nl on government work under first the famous .Sir John Franklin and afterward under the notorious

(rov

ernor Bully Price, who was subse quently murdered by the convicts. He served his term out and with a few exceptions no one in California knew his past record. These few exceptions were associates* with him in the English penal colony and had also grown rich in California. It is this Thomas BIythe that the brother and sister claim as their brother and to whose mill ions they lay claim, but the wife and daughter assert that Thomas

SythKhemS I000*000

monium was the convicts name for D»eroon"s Land.** Thlnff* B«tl*r I*ft Ua«a.id

Miss Bugge—Oh. hot mine such a

horrid nome.

... ,1 ...... *1.^ VMIKS Rm

sci# to the

Young Brown—A—a—um —I"mafraid it's too late to alter it now.—{Punci^|

SUPPLEMENT.

CWtCEMUNG weMm.

Mgfif Bernhardt says she has never quarreled with ber dr—maker. Mue. Marcheai. the famous teacher of singing in Paris, has written her memoirs.

The present queen of Spain is the first qneen of that country to allow smoking at a court dinner.

Mrs. Curtis, nee Louisa M. Knapp, is said to receive 10,000 a year for editing the Ladies' Home Journal.

Mme. Patti-Nicolini sails for New York, Nov. 28. Meantime she is to siag in eight concerts in England, for which she will receive nearly $30,000.

Grandma Brown,of Coldbrook, Mass., who celebrated her 100th birthday anniversary October 17. had her eyesight completely restored a few days ago.

Dr. Emily Kempen, who is an LL.D. by grace of the University of Zurich, is about to open a law school for women in New York. Not being naturalized Dr. Kempen can not herself practice in the courts of that city, but she has law-offi-ces there and prepares cases that are presented by the young man assistant.

The married women who commit suicide are slightly in the majority over the unmarried. "With men it is the reverse. More single men take their own lives than married men. Out of every three married men who commit suicide two are without children, and out of every four married women who commit suicide three are without children, and the same proportions hold good among suiciding widows and widowers.

A pretty tale of devotion came to light in Bayonne City recently. Maggie Kane a prettv brunette 17 years old, tell in love with a voting painter. Her mother opposed the match ami locked Maggie in her room. She escaped, however, rejoined her lover, whom she found in financial difficulties, and endeavored to aid him by begging on the street. She was arrested for the offense, but promptly released when she had told her story.

The feeling of alarm which the public has endured on account of the highwayrobbery and horse-stealing projwnsities of prettv \Nomen is considerably mellowed by the commissioning of Miss Alva Button, of (Jreenup. 111., as circuitrider in the Cnited Brethren church. Onlv a few days ago another young lady was ordained an elder at the session of the Central Illinois conference, and two married ladies were admitted to the conference at the same time.

Mi's. Christine l^idd Franklin, who was made a fellow of Johns Hopkins university for her mathematical achievements, takes a deep interest in the plan of the collegiate alumna' to maintain, each year at least, one young woman, already a graduate of an American college belonging to the association and who gives promise of following in the footsteps of Darwin and Huxley, at a foreign university. The scheme is. in part, Mrs. Franklin's own, and its object is to lend some assistance in the settlement of the vexed question: Will women ever add au important discovery to the worlds stock of knowledge by establishing a fellowship for the

support

of young women

likely fo become capable of original research while they obtain the best preparation

possible for

REWARDS OF INGENUITY.

A large fortune has been reaped by a miner who invented a metal rivet or eyelet at each end of the mouth of coat or trousers pockets to resist the strain caused by the carriage of pieces of ore or heavy tools.

The sale of the little wooden figure John Gilpin"

was

and .1 hot local ficlit for the dead mans 4r..n«..Jred in In a recen'. legal action it transpired in evidence that the inventor of the metal plates used to protect soles and heels from wear

home of industry, Philapelphia. who was threader. To the foregoing might be a companion in servitude with BIythe

incredibly large for

many years, and a very ingenious toy,

known as

the "wheel of life." is said to

have prod need upward of $ 500, (MM) profits

i|lv|,n(or

sold

upward of 12.000,000

plates in 1879. and in 1887 the number reached 143.000.000. producing realized profits of £1.250,000.

As large a sum as was ever obtained for anv invention was enjoyed by the inventor of the inverted glass bell to hang over gas to protect ceilings from being blackened, and a scarcely less lucrative patent was

that

nearly

for simply putting emery

powder on ••loth. Frequently time and circumstances are wanted before an invention is appreciated but it will lc seen that patience is rewarded, for the inventor of the roller skate made over $1,000,000, not withstanding the fact tliat his patent had

expired before its value had been

ascertained The gimlet-pointed screw has produced more wealth than most silver mines, and the American who first thought of putting copper tips to children's shoes is as well off as if his father had left him

in Uni,ed Hutm

the convict are different men. Upward of $10,000 a year was made Superintendent Michael Donn of the

bonds'

the inventor of the common needle

added

and is to give his deposition in the case. I «rtir!e* from which handsome incomes said in an interview: "Of course 1 do not know much about his recent career, I only know that he is the same man I met in Van Dieman's Land. Now there are other millionaires in San Emncisco who know this and who were like BIythe and myt«4f convicts on Norfolk Island. One day while I was looking at some machinery at a county fair near San Francisco 1 noticed two finely dressed men with big diamonds closely regarding me After a bit one of them came up and mid: Peter, this heats Vandemonium, don't it. I immediately knew him for an old convict, because Peter eathersbnne was my convict name, and Vandetha fnnvirt*" name for Van

thousands of trifling but useful

articles from whit are derived or for which large sums have been paid.

One of the most successful of modern toys lias been the "chameleon top," the sale of which has been enormous. The field of invention is not only vast and

or age. station or means. The nierest trifle mav be the key to a fortune, if it be an article that the public actually wants in great numbers.

That favorite American" toy, a "return bail"—a wooden ball with an elastic

attached—yielded

serpents.

-3L

MSS

^ort: LISTS 1 iX S A

Amusing KxperteiM?e* of Several Noted Writers of Serial Stories.

Major Calhoun, one of the most prolific of modern blood and thunder storywriters, and Louis Neumann, who is the author of three composite novels, adapted from the Gorman, Spanish, and Italian, and averaging a million words apiece, were comparing experiences a few days ago. -1 once hail a rather exciting passage with the late Ned Buntline." said the majon He was writing a story for a weekly paper ou which we were both frequently engaged, when he took a sudden vacation. It was a way he had and nobody thought anything of it but in this ca^e the publishers were in a dilemma, as they had but a single installment ahead. I was sent for and told to read the chapters already printed, then set tow ork and finish up the story in one or

two

install

ments. "Well. 1 read lie part that had appeared, and it ts a job. I soon discovered that there was an enormous number of characters in the story: more than I could very well handle for Judson was a man who could keep track of a large nunilvr of persons all at once. This multiplicity of characters puzzled me. Finally. 1 resolved get rid of some of them, and 1 adopted a very original method. I put a numler of them on board an excursion steamer and then exploded her Ixulers, sending them to kingdom come. With the rest I worked out a plot to a climax and wound up the story in fairly good shape. "You may imagine Judson wrath when oil returning to the office two weeks later, he learned what had Ih'cu done. I explained that I had acted under orders, of course but he couldn lie pacitiod, and was a very mad man. indeed, lie cared nothing, he

said.about

the finish

ing of the story it was the brutal wa} of killing off his characters that he objected to—the wholesale annihilation, which he declared to be inartistic. By-and-b\ he saw the thing in its proper light, and wo had many a good joke o\er it." "That reminds me," said Neumann, of a somewhat similar incident that occurred in Paris. A highly sensational story was running in one of the daily pajers. and the chief had a few instalments on hand when the brilliant joung author took it into his head to go otl ami get married. Then he set out on a eliding tour which was

last a week, llio

instalments wore soon used up, and another member of the staff was directed to wind up the story. He sent the heioine to a watery grave in the river Seine, he poisoned the hero, slew the abl»e,who was the sole witness of the marriage, and closed the tale in a most tragic and harrowing manner. It was a dark and weird success you may believe. At tho end of the week the author showed up. He had with him several installments, which he tendered to his chief.

Your story is finished, said the editor. Pardon me, sir,'" returned tho undaunted novelist, "it is not finished. 1 have here the continuation, and there is more to come. Indeed, the best part of it is here."

Tehut," exclaimed the chiel, 'why insist

Hay

to do it in

working alongside of

world's scholars.

it is finished. had

your

absence.'

I am aware that he wrote several chapters," said

the

unblushing romancer,

•but if you will kindly read this manuscript, 1 am sure you will agree with mo that I am right."'

The manuscript was passed over, aud to the chief's surprise, it was a remurkably dramatic sequel to tho story. Tho heroine instead of being drowned wsis rescued by some fishermen in the river below Paris the hero was saved by a medical friend who applied the stomach pump in time, and the abbe recovered from his wounds and was on hand to bless the nuptials of the happy pair. "My friend," said the composite novelist. as fie turned to the contemplation of a Portuguese book on short-horn cattle, which he was translating for a Mexican ranchero, "there is no obstacle that true gen in ,can not overcome. [Mail and F]xpress.

v^id'but it is opeti to everybody, with- M.Jules Ferry was president of th« out respect or favor of any kind to sex council when France was at war^w.th i""- China. M. Ferry wanted to strike terror to the hearts of the celestial*, and this ht how he proposed to do it: He telegraphed fco Admiral Oourbet. who was in command of the French fleet, to ask him how many *hips he could detail oil bombard Peking within forty-eight equal to $•"*.'** a

the patentee an m-

and

in*

a toy much in vogue some anything. aJthongh I

vean» ago was the outcome of some

Information about Yournelf.

The Boston Journal of Commerce prints tho following "About Yourself:"3 The average numlier of teeth is 32.

The weight of the circulating blood in 28 pounds. The average weight of an adult is 150 pounds and fi ounces.

The brain of a man exceeds twice that of any other animal. A man breathes about 20 times a minute and 1.200 in an hour.

A man breathes alxut 18 pints of air in a minute or upward of 7 hogsheads in a day.

The average weight of the braui of a man is 3 1-2 pounds of a woman 2 pounds and 11 ounces.

F'ive huudred and forty joUuds, or 1 hogshead and 1 1-4 pints of blood, pass through the heart in one hour.

The average height of an Englishman is 5 feet 9 inches of a Frenchman 5 feet 4 inches of a Belgian 5 feet 6 3-4 inches.

The heart sends nearly 10 pounds of blood through theveinsand arterieseach beat, and makes four beats while we breathe once.

One hundred and seventy-five million cells are in the lungs, which would cover a surface of thirty linn's greater than tho human body.

3 ule* Ferry ««d Peking.

The Paris Gaulois tells the following rtorywhich.itsays, is "absolutely histor

I Peking is not on the coast.

inT^w. of "FWaob-. dartin*. ami jr"" »h»ll n.v«-want for

of being

rather close. She

i^kTexperimenta. and brought the deed! I never should hare su«p*ct*d it. inventor mors than **,000, J_lLawreace American.

bo here

land will Warren U»lo is .ed at Mr. 1

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