Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 December 1883 — Page 4

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life and society.

Women, Marriage and Luxury.

AN IDYL OF THE KITCHEN.

John A. Frazcr, In the Century.

Jn hrovrn liolland apron she stood in the

Herki8ieevc's were rolled up, and her •Her hair6iw '"offed neatly, when I, indititl V*

Stood wai-hing

while Nancy was knead

ing the doueh.

^•0w, who could he neater, or brighter, or

Or wii^lunu a song no dellghsfullv low, »ir who look «o Hlender, so Kracerul, HO \g Nan'eyi sweet Nancy, while kneading the dough? How deftly elie pressed it, and squeezed it, caressed It,

And twisted and turned it, now quick and now slow, Ah, me, but that madness I've paid for In sadness!

Twas my heart she was kneading as well as the dough. At last, when she turned for her pan to the dresser,

She saw me and blushed, and said shyly, "Please co, Or my bread I'll be spoiling in spite of my

If you stand here and watch while I'm kneading the dough."

I begged for permission to stay. She'd not listen The sweet little tyrant said, "No, sir! no! no!" yet whon I had vanished on being thus banished,

My heart staid with Nancy while neadIrig the dough. I'm dreaming, sweet Nancy, and Bee you in fancy,

Your heart, love, has softened and pitied my woe, And we, dear, are rich in a dainty wee kitchen

Where Nancy, my Nancy, stands kneading the dough.

Tainted Trimmings.

New York Post. Painted trimmings of all kinds meeting with marked favor, and many silk, velvet, and satin plastrons, revers, panels, and waistcoats for cutaway bodices are now in the course of preparation, to wear combined with elegant evening dresses of a contrasting material. Young ladies who have a taste for it are busily engaged in painting sprays of tiny flowers upon yards and yards of three-inch satin ribbons, these to be caught up in loops, and to droop in long ends amid the folds of the skirt drapery. For dancing and fancy dress wide sashes are decorated to correspond. A more delicate and still more beautiful work is that of painting lace, a bit of artistic occupation requiring the nicest care, the truest eye to the blending and shading of delicate colors, and the daintiest and deftest of fingers.

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Tiny palm patterns and Oriental designs in a great variety of rich colors, the intermingling of which takes off any effect of gauuiness, are to be seen both in silk and woolen fabrics as well as in fancy mixtures of both materials. These are not this season employed for entire dresses, but rather for effective appliances such as scarfs, panels, vests and facings. On the other hand, plaids in the Madras style prevail in many of the latest goods. Uncertain shades of blue, with every possible hue of yellow or gold, red, dull shades of violet, grays, and browns in a variety of shades are favorite mixture, which are as different as possible from the old bright-colored tartans.

Influence of Good Cooking.

W. Mattieu in Popular Science Monthly for December. Some people may be inclined to smile at what I am about to say, viz.: that such savory dishes, serving to vary the monotony of the poor hard-working man's ordinary fare, afford considerable moral as well JIB physicial advantage.

-will illustrate this. When wandering, alone through Norway in 185ft, I lost the track in crossing the Kyolen fjeld, struggled on for twenty-three hours without food or rest, and arrived in Borry plight at Lom, a very wild region. After a few hours' rest I pushed on to a still wilder region and still rougher quarters, and continued thus to the great Jostedal table-land, an unbroken glacier of 500 square mile then descended the Jostedal itself to its opening on the Sogne fjord—live days of •xtremo hardship, with no other food than flatbrod (very coarse oat cake), and bilberries gathered on the way, varied on the occasion with the luxury of two raw turnips. Then I reached a comparatively luxurious station (RonDei), where ham and eggs and claret were obtainable. The first glass of claret produced an effect that alarmed —a craving for more and for stronger drink, that was almost irresistible. I finished a bottle of St. Julien, and nothing but a violent effort of will prevented me from then ordering brandy. attribute this to the exhaustion consequent upon the excessive work and insufficient unsavory food of the previous five days have made many subsequent observations on the victims of alcohol, and have no doubt that overwork and scanty, tasteless food are the primary source of the craving for strong drink that so largely prevails with such deplorable results among the class that is the most exposed to such privation. I do not say that this is the only source of such depraved appetite. It may also be engendered by the opposite extreme of excessive luxurious pandering to general sensuality.

The practical inference suggested by this experience and these observations is, speech-making, pledge-signing and blue-ribbon missions can only effect temporary results,unless supplemented by satisfying the natural appetite of hungry people by supplies of food that is not only nutritious, but savory and varied. Such need be no more expensive than that which is commonly eaten by the poorest of Englishmen, but it must le far better cooked.

Ornamental ami I seful.

JIINTS FOR TllK PARLOR AND KITCHKX.

A strip of plush is now lightly bound around a flower on a drawing-room or dining-room table, and finished ofl with a bow, or by merely tucking the end in. Ruby plush round a pot containing maidenhair fern looks particularly well.

The flower pots, with troughs inside for cut flowers, ivy, or ferns, are very ornamental. The plant grows in the center as usual, and the outside of the rot can be quite hidden by ferns or leaves bent over the edge of the troughs. One trough goes round the top and the other round the middle of the pot.

In some small drawing rooms four colored irlass lanterns are now hung near the corners of the ceiling, instead of the orthodox center light. If additional light is required, candles with shades, or lamps, are placed on small tables. A dim atmosphere is aimed at. This style usually goes with the oldfashioned furniture, an old English lire-place, dull-colored hangings, towering palms, and a heterogeneous collection of knick-knacks, which, though •pleasant to look upon, drives the gtrl lo distraction.

The Syrian curtins are still very popular, and the last way of adapting hem to windows is by mounting them «n a draw-stringat the top and bottom «f the window, and tying them in the icnter with a large bow of satin ribbon, liour-giass fashion. They are also ilraped as toilet table coverings over old-gold or any colored satin, and finished ofl with loops or large bows nf harmonizing ribbon or plush. Large mirrors, or pictures mounted on easels, are often to be seen draped with a Syrian curtain on one side and a strip of colored plush on the other, and occasionally both are deftly mingled.

On opening the kitchen in the early morning the first thing should be to empty the standing water from the

Turn on tne hot and cold

pipes,

•water spigots, both for a few momenta,

spigc

that the water which has been standing in the pipes all night may be jun oft'. If yon do not, then your coffee or tea or oatmeal will be cooked

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in lead-water* that is, water which has "been standing in lead for eight or nine houre. The early bird, in this instance, gets all the lead, or stateness. There is a story of oatmeal porridge, made always from the first drawing of the kitchen water in the morning, that got to be a slow poison for the invalid for whom it was cooked. Most people fill up the tea-kettle at the hydrant the first thing after they come down stairs. Therefore their coffee or tea, etc., is always mnde from the standing water in the house pipes. It is nicer to free the pipes by a few minutes' flow, and then you are sure that the cooking and drinking water comes from the iron pipes in the streets.

Pretty table covers, and covers for shelves and lambrequins, also, are made of the new shades of flannel, which comes in double widths. For some uses it is even preferable to felt, and is found to be very serviceable.

A handsome square spread for a table is made precisely as if it were one block of a crazy quilt. To make it, and have parts all join in together and harmonize as they should, take the lining of cotton and cut it the exact size of the spread, and begin to put the work on at one corner. This is tastefully finished by putting a band of velvet around the edge and trimming that with lace or fringe, or of tassels put on at an equal distance froin each other.

Female Krcaks.

The Ellen Terr fj'ipptr is exhibited in New York. Certain women in Eurmali have beards like the Skye terrier.

A Chicago woman lias just received a divorce from her husband unaccount of hiB iuability to dance. She admitted, liowevei*, that she had never stood before him with a roling-pin in her hand.

When Grace put on a new pair of shoes which fitted very elosety. and moreover had a low heel, she was asked how they felt. Her reply was: "They make me feel as though I wanted to walk like a grasshopper."

Among the wedding gifts received by the "happy pair" of giants in Philadelphia on Mond?v was a forty-five pound loaf of bread, five feet in diameter. It is said that the kid gloves worn by the blushing bride were the largest ever manufactured by the firm that had the contract. The advertisement of ttie giants was, however, the biggest thing about their marriage.

When a middle-aged traveler for a Chicago tobacco house arrived in that city he was met at the station by a pretty young girl, who flung herself upon his bosom and kissed him all over the face and head. Then she looked up in his countenance and shrieked: "You arc not. my pa," and flew away like a bird and hid herself in the thicket of people. Ho was, sure enough not her pa, and when he rhached his room at the hotel, he discovered that his diamond breast-pin was gone.

A well-known and highly respected society woman lias been accused of being a kleptomaniac! And, what is still worse, the charges against her have been proven. It seems that she has been going around taking valuable books, bric-a-brac, etc., from the houses of her friends, all of whom are very prominent. In one or two instances, where the articles have been of particular value, their loss has been made public and the servants in the respective houses arrested for theft.

At a fancy ball at Sidney, New South Wales, Mrs. J. M. Sweet, the wife of the editor of the Morning Herald, appeared as the "Press," in several pages of the paper named, printed in colors on a beautiful white satin. Every column was in a different color, and each was brought out as distinctly as though printed on paper in the ordinary issue. The body was represented with Hags of the yarious colonies—all in their proper color. The head dress was that of Minerva, with the words "The Press" in bold rolief, printed in thirteen different colors. The costume

GENERAL GRANT IN BUSINESS.

Hon He Conduct* Himself ns a Hanker. Uat.li Interview with James 1. Klsli, Hank President. "How did General Grant couie into your firm?" "In this way: Ward came down lo me one day and said that he and Grant wanted to form a partnership in the general banking and brokerage busi- }. Said he: 'Grant has got $100,000. I think I can raise $100,000." 'Well,' said I, 'Ward, I don't believe I

Said he: 'Come in with us and make the firm name whatever you like.' 'I do not want my name in it, said 1. 'You had better call it Grant & Ward.' So we put in $100,000 apiece, drew articles carefully, and it was specified that Ward alone should draw the checks and make the contracts. General Grant, of course, got to know Ward, and in the course of time, seeing how good the business was, he wanted to come in. I told Ward that as we increased the partners the relative profits might decrease, but that General Grant was a man of such reputation and honesty that 1 was rather favorable to his coming in. He put in $50,000. The business continued to be very good, and then Jesse Grant wanted to come in. We talked it over, and concluded that the best way would be to let the General increase his investment 100 per cent., and it might be for Jesse or for himself but we would not alter the number of persons in the firm. The consequence is that General Grant now has a full fourth in a capital of $400,000. There is hardly ever atime when we have not $800,000 or more of bonds and strong securities in the vaults." "Does General Grant take any hand in the business?" "He is a very useful man at times. If I should go to Seligtnan's for instance, well, as I know them all, and want $30,000 suddenly, he might say to me, being intimate with me and not afraid of me: 'Fish, we are pressed ourselves hard to-day but if General Grant were to go there the probabilities are that they would let him have the money, not desiring to explain it to him." "Is Fred Grant in business with you?" "No. Fred is in business on his own account and has been doing very well. Commodore Garrison thinks a great deal of fiim. General Grant is an agreeable man—never interferes with Ward, and is remarkably good-hearted. If he had his way we should lend to every body who'comes, lie has great faith in people, listens to what they have to say, and sees the generous and successful side of things."

A Story of Thadcus Stevens. Philadelphia Press. It is related of Thadeus Stevens that shortly after his removal to Lancaster he heard of an old friend in York, a lawyer, who, pressed hard by necessity, had diverted to his own use $300 due to a widow client, hoping soon to repay her. But "unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster," until the poor fellow's mental distress was actually killing him.

Mr. "Stevens hunted up the client, paid her from his own pocket the $300, obtained her receipt, and went to see his friend. "Halloa! old fellow," he exclaimed on entering his office, "you must wake up. Don't be so downhearted. Say, don't you suppose you've really gone and paid that woman and then forgotten it?"

A desparing shake of the bowed head was the onlv reply. "Well, I believe yon did, and I'm going to look through your papers and see it I can't find the receipt.' Then he pretended to ransack some pigeonholes, and a moment later exclaimed, "Well, if you're not the biggest fool I ever heard of! Look here, old man! What's this."

So saying, he showed th«» receipt to his astonished friend, who thereupon recovered his spirits, and happily, his fortunes also. Afterward he repaid Mr. Stevens, and the latter was never able to find ont how his generosit bad been detected. -a

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JOSIE MANSFIELD.

ATnlkWltli ttaeActresS Who Introduced to Her.—The Famous Cyprian Now Married iu Paris. Cincinnati Enquirer. wij|

I was seated in a theater the other night with a well-known manager witnessing "Skipped," and marveling al the ease with which the average playgoer was made to laugh nowadays, when suddenly a fleshy, medium-sized actress appeared on the scene. "To look at her now," whispered my companion, "you wouldn't think she once possessed the finest form and figure of any girl on the stage, would you?" "I certainly would not," I answered. "Well, she did," said he. "She was my 'Stalacta' for two seasons. You must meet her, for she has a history. She is the woman who introduced Jim Fisk to Josie Mansfield."

I eagerly asked to be presented, and was. When the lady learned that I was a newspaper man she was very much inclined to refuse me the "interview" I sought, but upon my friend vouching for my reliability, and on my promise not to jprint her name, she consented to tell me of the affair. When I met her at her hotel she said: "At the time of the killing of Fisk by Ned Stokes I was almost run to death by reporters, who printed so many untruthful things about me that I almost took an oath never to speak to one of them again, but time lias mollified me. I have been twenty-three years on the etage, and I met Josie Mansfield through her husband, Frank Lawler. We became very intimate, and from her own lips I learned the story of her life. She is a Boston girl, whose mother was the mistress of a prominent maizon de joi there. Like many women of her kind, she was anxious to keep Josie from following in her footsteps, and at a very tender age she sent her to a convent to be educated. There she remained until grown to woman's estate, when she was Bent to a fashionable boardinghouse. 'What is bred in the bone can't be taken out of the flesh,' and 'blood will tell,'are proverbs as true as trite. At the time in the first blush of girlhood Josie must have beenradiently beautiful. She had a beautiful complexion, with skin as smooth and soft as velvet and as fresh as a peach, eyes that were as bright as diamonds, lips like cdral and teeth like pearl8. Her beauty was of the voluptuous order, and, notwithstanding her convent education, she was forward, dashy and fond of the admiration of the opposite sex. She had not long been out of the convent when she formed the acquaintance of a stylish young business man connected with a leading dry goods house on Broadway, INew York. Through him she was led from the paths of rectitude. Her mother, learning of this, broke up her Boston establishment, and with Josie went to California. In San Francisco Josie saw and admired Frank Lawlor, the actor, who was then a splendid looking fellow. After a short acquaintanceship they were married. Right here let me explain that Josie never was "an actress. While with Lawlor in California he managed a company that played in many of the little rough mining towns. One of their stock pieces was 'Aurora Floyd.' One day one of the ladies of the troupe, who had a small part in the piece, was taken sick, and it was seen that she would be unable to play that night. Josie had seen the piece played dozens of times, and knew all the smaller parts by heart. She besought Lawlor to let her play that night, and he consented. At the supper table she knew her part as well as she knew, the Lord's prayer, and as the character 6he was to portray was something like her own nature every one thought shs ij m.Voo lilt bat when she went on aho got slagc-fnglll, iter fougut? clove to the roof of her mouth, and she could not articulate a word. In vain was she prompted. She could not go on, and her lines had to be spoken for her by the actresses. That was her first and last appearance on the boards. So you see how little justice there is in saddling the dramatic profession with her peccadilloes. When Lawlor came East he brought Josie with him, but they did not get along together very well. She worshipped him, but they were jealous of each other, and of course that caused trouble. Poor Frank! He is on his last legs now, and I do not want to say anything that will cause him pain. But truth is truth, and for Josie's wild career he has much to answer. But that is neither here nor there now. I suppose you want to know how Josie and Fisk met Well, Josie had caught Frank in flagrante delieto, and had obtained a divorce from him. For a while she lived with her mother, but she grew tired of supervision, and returned to New YorkJ She was always able to get a little money from her dry goods man but he was Far from being in good circumstances, so that it was only a little that he was able to help her any way, and that he gave her as a sort of conscience money, For they never resumed their earlier relations. She came to me in her distress. and I loaned her $100 with which to pay her board and discharge some minor obligations. I had made a hit in one or two burlesques, and had met Colonel Fisk, who was very anxious to build me a theater as a business venture. Josie happened to be in my house one day when Colonel Fisk called to see me about it, and while we were talking, unaware of his presence, she walked into the room. I introduced them. Fisk became infatuated with her, and shortly after that set her up in an establishment of her own, paying $40,000 for a brown stone house for her. Of her career with him I need not speak, as it has long been

public property. It was through Fisk that she met Ned Stokes, who was brought to her house by him. After Fisk was killed and Stokes was sent to prison she went to Europe. She returned and disposed of her New York possessions, and then went back to France again. There she led a very fast life for quite a while, until she attracted the attention of a rich lacemaker, who married her. A couple of years ago I was over in France, and' one day, while walking through the gardens of St. Cloud, who should I encounter but Josie leaning on the arm of her husband. He was a stout, portly man, much the build of Fisk, and looked to me like a Russian rather than a Frenchman, and I think he must be a Russ. Josie was elegantly and most richly dressed, but in plain black and laces. She bad grown thinyer, had lost the Hesh that for awhile made her look gross and sensual, and was radiantly beautiful. We did not speak as we passed by, and though each knew and recognized the other, I doubt if her husband or any of my party were aware that we had ever met before. Her husband is enormously wealthy, I am told, and is devoted to her. I wonder if she ever thinks of the rack and ruin she has caused

I may remark, en ja*mtit, that Josie's mother lived on Wilstaeh street, in this city, a few years ago. She then retained traces of the beauty that her wayward daughter inherited from her.

Iowa Graded Schools.

The IOWA Normal Monthly for November contains a very complete Iowa educational directory, and from that we select the following interesting faets: There are seventy-four schools which are in session ten months of each year, but of these forty-two are in the cities of Burlington, Council Blufife, Davenport and Dubuque alone. Twenty-two schools are in session eight months, and four schools but. six months. The remainder have a school year of from eight and one-half to nine and one-lialf months The salaries of the stiperin tendents or principals vary from $250, at Lucas, to $2,000, at Council Blufl's. Next to Council Blufls, Bur-

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lington, $1,900 and six paying$1.800 each. Besides these there are fortytwo which pay from $1,300 to $1,700, and fifty-four from $1,000 to $1,200. The Monthly adds: "Of the ninety-nine superintendents elect, but fifty-eight are the present incumbents, and of these but twehty-two have held the office more than one term. Though this may look discouraging it is somewhat better than heretofore. Two years ago only forty were re-elected and but ten had had more than one term four years ago fortyfive held over and eighteen hsd had more than one term six years ago fifty-one held over and twelve had had more than one term, while eight years ago but thirty-two held over, only eight of whom had had more than one term. DISABLED EX-CONFEDERATES.

Organized Efl'grts for Their Belief In Several Southern States. Charleston (8. C.,) News.

Some days ago the News and Courier gave an account of the organizations that are now being formed in North Carolina and Virginia for the relief of the old Confederate soldiers who were disabled during the war and are now without any adequate means of support. In Virginia such men as the gallant Capt. Charles U. Williams are moving zealously in this matter, and it is indeed gratifying to know that their efforts are meeting with encouragement. In a recent letter Capt. Wil liams states that Lee Camp No. 1, of which lie is commander, has nearly 300 members, that it is receiving five or six additions every week, and that other camps are forming in different parts of the state. The dues of the membership are small, so that camps do not accumulate much money, but Lee Camp No. 1 now distributes about $20 a month to help the disabled soldiers. This is a small matter, but it is a beginning at any rate, and will doubtless arouse some interest in a cause which has already been too long neglected.

In a late number of the WinBboro News and Herald there is a thoughtful and intelligent article on this subject, urging the state legislature at its next session to pass an act making some provisions for the relief of "our disabled soldiers," and citing as a precedent for such a step the action of the legislature of Louisiana in appropriating $5,000 for the support of a home for disabled Confederates. The only help ev?r extended to our soldiers by this state was by the act making appropriations for the purchase of artificial limbs for those who lost iheir limbs in battle. As far as it went this appropriation has served a noble end, but there are hundreds of old soldier in the state who did not lose a limb and are as destitute and deserving of help as those who were maimed. Broken down by the hardships of camp and field, they are living in abject poverty, and are utterly unable to provide themst Ives and those dependent upon them with the necessaries of life. Their condition is deplorable, and without assistance from some quarter they must contiue to endure the discomforts and privations of poverty until death ends their sufferings antl they go to join the innumerable caravan of their comrades which has moved on to the front. Something should be done for these people. The state has never had more devoted sons, and it would be an appropriate recognition of their valor in the field and their "patience under suffering" if, after this lapse of years, the state should do something for their relief. But whether the state comes to their relief or not, the obligation resting upon their comrades and the people for whom they fought will not be discharged until some way has been found to give them support. We have buried our dead and we have erected stately monuments lo their memory. It is high time to do something for the

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ABOUT PROMINENT MEN.

Broadway Lounger in New York Tribune Joseph McDonald's friends are covertly saying that his beautiful wife is too confiding and believes too much in his favor, and that a trip to Europe would do her good. The McDonald boom is again inflaming Hendrick's toe.

Raid John G. Thompson during the week: "In the Hancock campaign men were accused of turning the press against Hancock. Now I saw how it war, because I came here after the October elections had gone against us. Such is the propensity for gambling in this town that every Democrat you would meet offered to bet you Garfield would carry New York or be president. The pecuniary turn of the matter absorbed all their patriotism. How could anybody report otherwise than that in New York Hancock's prospects looked gloomy?"

I shook hands with General Sherman iu Broadwav last week. He is nearly straight, but I thought looked a little white and floury, aB if moving had been too much for him. Said he: "My wife says she already experiences a homelike feeling at the prospect of having our own time, we hope, for some remaining years." Sherman and Grant were both St. Louis men before the war Grant drove in cordwood, they say Sherman was president of a horse-car line Sheridan dug and carted earth out of a canal cutting in Ohio. They all started so plainly that although a horse they feel tne opposite of Sidney Smith coming through the toll-gate: "How much is the toll?" said he. "Nothing, sir, for foot passengers." "Dear me," exclaimed Smith, looking down, "I thought I was On horseback."

How They Are Put Through. Yarious are the methods of initiating Harvard students into the secret societies. All aspiring young men are put through, for two weeks, a series of mental and humiliating drudgery and subjection. One New Yorker is sfcid to have been lately made to sell papeis for a week, dressed in striped bedticking. A well-dressed young man obediently dashed through Harvard square, holding out a long-handled tin dipper, and pathetically inquiring: 'Won't you give me a little something?" Others were fantastically dressed and placarded and sent on rediculous errands. The penalty of disobedience is a closing of the doors of the societies forever to the candidate. Violence is not resorted to in the institutions, which are curious and ingenious methods for making candidates ridiculous.

Money in the Wheat Bin. Pimilico (N. C.t Enterprise. After the end of the recent wheat threshing season, Messrs. McRary & Co., of Davidson township, threshers, went around collecting tolls, and at the house of a certain man Mr. T. L. McRary was measuring out the toll when, in "striking" a half bushel he hit something han'. He discovered a "poke" in the measure, and fishing it up from among the wheat, found that it contained about a teacupful and a half of gold and silver money. Like the honest man that he is,he instituted inquiries and found that a man's wife had hid the money in the wheat and had forgotten about it.

The Place to Catch a Cold. Chicago News. Patti's cold the other night cost her $5,000. We advise her to bring her pocket-book with her to Chicago, where one doesn't have to aprinklesalt on a cold's tail or go foraging around on horseback with a lasso to catch a four-horned, double-snouted, ringtailed, pneumonia, or man-eating, walleyed, double-jawed, red-headed bronchitis. If P&tti will stand three minutes al the business end of a Chicago blizzard we will insure her

cold that

will tear her lungs up into conibeef hash, and give her a eongh that can be heart! from Mnskecron fo Orand

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THE TERRB HAUTE EXPRESS, SUN©AY'MORNE*Q, DfSGEMBERa, 1883.

at the railway station.

Bill Xjre Discourses on the Hoars at« Depot. Laramie Boomerang.-

Percy, Wy. T., can hardly be called a rity. It cannot boast of an opera bouse, sewers, Aldermen, .daily papers, the electric light, or. a dog pound. Qotside of the section house and a small affair called a station there, are no buildings to speak of, if one cares to speak the truth. Not so very long ago a man named Allen—Winfield Scott Allen, was stationed as night operator, and one Sunday evening, after said Allen had been engaged in a game of draw with the section men in. stead of wooing the drowsy god whose name looks very much like "morphine" in print, be received a message from the dispatcher's office in Laramie, telling him to "hold No. 7" for orders. He to his novel. The arduous labors of the day, however, bad told upon the frail constitution of Winfield, and just as he had reached that point in the volume in which Gwendoline had consented to bid defiance to her stern and unyielding parents, and elope with her own and ownest Gerald McCloskey, the tired operator dropped off to sleep, showing a lack of sympathy for the heroine that could only be excused on the plea of extreme fatigue Meanwhile his red lamp within had gone out, It was but a weak and sickly light afr its best and the poor thing probably felt so bad at being hung out in the cold alone by itself that it concluded-, that life was not worth the living—at any rate it croaked, and as trains do not stop at Percy unless ,signaled, the reader can get ready for a terrible collision, with the accompanying crash of engines, noise of escaping steam, the shrieks of the wounded, etc.

No. 7 came tbunderingalong—a long train of loaded freight cars with a half dozen emigrant coaches in the rear, filled with men, women and children en route for the Golden Gate. Engineer Mathison,ashe seared the station, glanced inquiringly at the signal post in quest of the red light which he naif expected to see there but all was dark. The long train swept by and disappeared in the black night. Allen still slept the thunder of the passing care had not broken, in the slightest de gree, his slumbers, or the regularity of his snores.

For the last hour the chair on which Allen sits has been throwing out distress signals. The sleeper has tilted it back until the whole weight rests on the rear limbs, which, after sundry squeaks and groans, give way. Allen gives way at the same time. The floor, on which he alights, doesn't. As the overworked brass pounder and four-ace manipulator gathers himself up from the floor and gazes ruefully at the ruins of the only chair there is in building, he becomes conscious of the fact that the instrument On the table is sounding his "call" with staitling rapidity. He grasps the keys and replies"!." "Where is No. 7?" "Hasn't arrived yet," replied Allen. "Are you sure?" "Yes don't think it could get by without my hearing it, do you "TIQUO ITAII

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Have you been asleep

"No." "Got a red light out "Yes."

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"How does it happen, then, that the operator at Fort Steele reports the arrival of No. 7at that place?"

Allen was paralyzed—partially. He rushed to the door, and found no red light—only a lantern.

He took in the whole situation in a second, and seizing the key onc^ more replied: if 1 know. No. 7 hasn't passed here to-night. If she's at Steele she must have gone around by the overland stage road it runs within a few miles of here you know."

There had been no accident: No, 10 but had been delayed at Tort Steele by a hot box until after the arrival of that train.

Allen packed his grip, and every time a train from the eaBt hove in sight got ready to turn over the office to his successor, who, however, did not put in an appearance. One day Chief Dispatcher Baxter came along. He took Allen to one side very confidentially, and he made up his mind that the official ax was about to fall. Baxter said: "Don't go to sleep again while on duty, and for goodness sake don't let any more trains go around over the old stage road. The alkali mud eats the paint ofl' the locomotive wheels, and the amonnt of coal required to pull up some of these hills is simply awful. The next time an engineer tries to give you the slip by taking that road, just take a horse and follow him up. You can catch him, because the roadbed is so uneven that he can't make very good time. When you catch him, kill him, and I'll send a casket and the coroner up on the first train. The company will pay all the bills. .Eh?"

Allen said be would.

HUNTING STOrtn

A Professional Duck-Shooter. To the Editor of the Globe-Democrat.^' MrBPHYSBORO, 111., November 21.—I noticed so.me days ago the publication of what it termed a "Remarkable DuckShooting Story." Here is one that will beat that: Hardin Abrams, of Fountain Bluff, recently killed 178 ducks in one day. He returned from his trip in time to ship the entire lot to St. Louis on that same day. Hardin Abrams is, however, a professional, having killed 3,000 ducks this season, averages forty or fifty a day when out

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Hanting at Covington

Sioux City (lo.) Journal. "No there isn't much wild fowl this fall," answered McKenna, of Walker's Island, to a question of the sporting reporter. Some St. Paul men who have been down every year to shoot in the lake back of Covington, wrote to me about coming, and I had to advise them to go somewhere else. The ducks and geese are scarcer this fall than ever before since I have been in these parts. I think it must he that the settlement of the coantry away north makes them take another route for their flight. But I saw a fine bnck in my corn field the other day. It is the same one that has been around for several years, and I went to drive some cattle, and he stood there looking at me, not further away than the opposite side of the stteet. My usual luck—I had no gun along."

A. M. Brown, who had come from the Covington lakes, iaid that there were a few geese in th« main lake, but so far out that it is hard to get a shot at them.

D. S. Wendall, who lives on the Little f^ioux, a mile and a half south of Oto, was in town, yesterday, and told the sporting scribe about his pet eagle. "It was almost two weeks ago that I got him. No trouble to catch an eagle, if you go at it right. I saw somethini dart down among my poultry, and jumped over the fence'to scare it off, supposing it was a big hawk. There he was, with bis clawa fastened into a goose. I jumped on him from behind, caught his neck in one hand, and held

his winjrs down until I could on his leg-*. That was not so he was holding the goose. He flopped around, of course, bnt I had him, and didn't hurt him. I didn't hold any grudge against him for foraging, for I used to forage, myself, twenty years ago, and know what it is to be hungry in the enemv's country. We feed him on scrape of Iresh meat, chickens, rats— in fact, almost anything that bag the color of blood in it. There is a fellow out there trapping beaver he has caught five lately, -and the eagle enjoyB beaver steak. Dr. Ripo, of Smithland. calls him a grjty eagle. His feathers are mostly dark, excepting about the neck and head, where they are white

Rapids, 4.x Some who have sees him say he is

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Hating a WalrttS.

"A live walrus has jost beeirintroduced to the Weatminster aquarium. This animal, wtiiehis about five months old, is believed to be only the second of its race which has been captured alive, and it was taken at its mother's breast. The steam whaler Polynia, which came into the bay on Thursday weekj brought it, and Capt. Walker, who commands the ship, gives a most interesting account of the capture of the "infant." He states that the vessel was slowty steaming up Davis Strait less than a month ago. when a full grown walrus was observed floating on the top of the Water, apparently asleep. The captain shot the animal,and a boat was lowed to harpoon and save the body. While engaged in this work, the baby walrus, which had been sucking the sleeping mother, made its appearance, and was at once dragged into the boat. The Jittle creature uttered terrible cries, which brought two male walruses to its rescne.. They attacked the bout ferociously. Being armed with formidable tusks of more than two feet in length, they placed the boatmen in great jeopardv, and the Henry's "express" rifle, which had killed the mother of the baby, was again brought into requisition. This killed the two males. Capt.

Walker fed the creature on salmon, of which the ship laid in a stock, and on this food it flourished, becoming quite docile and a playmate with the sailors. The fact of the capture was telegraphed from the Shetlands, and on Wednesday. when the ship was expected in the Tay, there were agents from the American, German and largest English exhibitions waiting in Dundee. The ship was boarded at sea by Mr. Farini, who acquired the animal for the Westminster Aquarium, and it had its firet introduction to London public life on Saturday last. It was not seen to the best advantage, as it had been confined in a box, and as "t had not had the use of water its skit was not in its natural state. The young walrus is between four and five feet long, is a male, and has beautiful scarlet eyes. It is now cutting its tusks, and this condition gives it as much pain as cutting teeth does a child, and the rubbing of the gums gave it evident ease. The creature has caught a little chill in coming from the extreme northern latitudes to our milder climate but otherwise it is healthy, and gives promise of offering an opportunity for an interesting study of its race, which attains the length of fifteen feet. It is fed entirely on fish, The walrus formerly taken was fed on pork, and came, therefore, to an untimely death. The tusks of the mother walrus are also exhibited.

An Oversight.

Detroit Free Press. A citizen who had business at the foot of Woodward avenue yesterday forenoon was approached by a hardlooking man with the request for some small change, and the request was backed by the statement of shipwreck "What vessel?" asked the citizen. "The Arab," was the reply. "Where was she wrecked?"-y "On Lake Huron, sir." "When?" "Five days ago." "And how were you saved "Picked up off the cabin roof by a tug." "IIow long bad you floated!" "About ten hours." "Well, I suppose it's all right," said the citizen, ana he handed out a quarter and passed on.

The recipient of the money joined a a comrade waiting for him under the shed, and whispered: "'feowV^

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"Why, suppose he had asked me the name of the tug? We forgot all about that in cooking up the yarn."

The Jury Went Democratic. Washington Special. A postofflce inspector, just returned from a trial in North Carolina, states that while he was waiting in court for the case upon which he was called, a jury came into the room, and he noticed that seven were white and five colored.

Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?" asked the clerk in that solemn manner which pertains to court clerks. "We am, sir," responded an old gray-headed negro who ha been made foreman of the jury. "What is the verdict?" asked the clerk. "Why, jedge," said the colored foreman, looking up to the court, "the jury am gone Dimmycratic."

Now that Anna Dickinson has abandoned the stage, it is supposed she will dispose of the right to her beauti ful play, "A Crown of Thorns." She might have made a barrel of money out of the piece by putting it in the hands of a competent actress, but Bhe has so far preferred to becloud the real merit of the play with her mediocre histronic abilities. It is hoped that her misfortunes have taught Amia the extravagance of being cranky.

They have been weighing the late Mr. TorgeniefTs brain, and they find that it is the heaviest brain on record, weighing over seventy ounces. We know nothing about the ounce system of weighing, but there area numoer of American statesmen we are acquainted with whose brains would probably indicate more drams, though perhaps less scruples, than the Russian novelist's cerebellum.

A tribe of Indians having tails from six to eight inches in length have been discovered in Paraguay. Should this announcement prove true, the Journal of Science protests in advance against their being paraded as "the missing link," since tne anthropoid apes have no tails.

Murat Halstead is still in the east— at least we suppose so, it having been authoritatively announced that John R. McLean is still there. It is pretty well understood that wherever McLean is, there also may Halstead be found to head him off. t)U

The Corean embassy is reported in a condition of abject financial embarrassment. We suppose it will at one proceed to erect a chain of magnificent theaters in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and other leading American cities.

A recent Texas dispatch speaks of a man who "had been marshal four years, during which time he killed two men, and had a state reputation."

Forepaugh has had to pay $1,000 to a woman who was run over by one of hiB circus wagons at Newburgh, N. Y.

"Appropriately enough," says a stranger visiting New York, "Maiden lane opens right into Courtland street.

President Arthur has shut himself in the Soldier's borne to work on his message without interruption.

In Normandy it ia no uncommon sight to eee a driver refresh his tired horse with a pail of cider.

Steps are being taken in Canada to prevent further assisted immigration from the old country.

Forepaugh has had to pay $100 to a woman who was run over by one of his ciims wagons.

KllenTerry's breakfast consists of a hard-boiled egg and bread dipped in sherry wine.

Her Britannic majesty already weighs 200 pounds, and is said to be gaining flesh daily*,.

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