Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 May 1884 — Page 3

SWEET STRAINS OF POESY.

I hear the erles^aT'follow birth and pupil's death 1 hear huge pestilence draw his vaporous breath "Beware, prepare, or else ye die!" salth. I hear a haggard student tarn and sigh I hear men begging heaven to let them die And, drowning all, a wild-eyed woman cry. So night takes toll of wisdom as of sin. The student's and the drunkard's cheek is thin: .. But flesh is not the prize we strive to win

Now airy forms of fluttering dreams de8C6&d On souls, like Dlrds on trees, and have no end. O God! from vulture dreams my soul de fend. Let fall on her a rose-leaf rain of dreams. All passionate sweet, as are the loving beams Of starlight on the glimmering woods and streams. —[Sidney Lanier. "Ough." The p'ougtaboy whistled behind his plough,

For his lungs were sound and he had no cough He guided nis team with a pliant bough

And watered it well at a wayside trough The toll was bard, for the land was rough Itlay on theshores of a Scottish loughBat his well-fed team was stout and tough.

And he plied his bough to flank and hough.

He ploughed all day, and the crow and chough Klew around his head, though he oft cried shougb, But his pieugh at last struck a hidden sough

With a force that sent the share clear through. Then the team took flight and ran off with the plough

With the speed of the wind from the ploughboy, though He shouted "Whoa!" and into a slough

It ploughed where the mud was soft as dough. The ploughboy wept, for the wreck was thorough H« fled that night from the fajrm to the borough.

Lillian.

household round her

A sweet, domestic beauty—a graceLives in hor every motion, lies

An atmosphere of peace and from her eyes Beams an angelic nature. In her face The Impress of fair sym~

re. ah iitsr 1WJW ipathy we trace. Instinctively she

With all things good. files The paths of folly fond affection's ties Bind her to home—to her the best-loved place.

Her voice is soft as the west wind that sighs On summer evenings anger or disdain

Breathed never In its tones. Tis health supplies Her cheeks with roses while, without a stain

Her soul is, which the lily typifies, Ah, happy he who her pure love shall gain!

JENNIE'S MISSION.

BY KI.LA WHEELER.

"0, this dull round of small duties how tired I am of them all, how I wish some grand mission in life would come to me!"

The children came running under the window where Jennie stood, playing at "Kound the House!" Then they flocked oft together toward the brook that rippled by the school house a few rods distant. Jennie watched them absently. Her mind was not upon her duties tbat day. Her plodding round in a country school room aeemed very dull and mean to her. She sighed for some great and lofty mission. "If I could do some one great act, heroic and noble," she said to herself, "I would be willing to die then. What is life worth if we must plod on forever like this? I am no more than an ant, or a spider, or a squirrel, with the life I live! How gladly would I give up the monotony of years of this routine for one hour of sacrifice, heroism and then welcome death."

How she hated her homely life as she looked back over its nineteen uneventful years. She had always lived in this dull country place, ever since she was a wee child and her parents had efliigrated to the West. She had received her education in this same little school house, attended divine service there also—as the place boasted no church edifice—and her only knowledge of the world beyond was obtained bv a yearly visit to the city, fifty miles 'distant, where the family supplies were purchased, and from a few books and newspapere. Now she was very tired of it all—tired of her dull past, lier duller present, her doubtlesslv dull future. Even the thought of her fond, true lover, Jack Kellogg, who was' building the house where she was to reign mistress, annoyed her to-day. How poor and monotonous life stretched before her.

How much better to perform some one grand act and die, than to live on the •Id age in this dreary fashion. It was a very romantic girl who stood there in the little schoolroom dreaming her discontented dreams, you see.

Suddenly she saw by the noon mark that it was time to call in her scholars. She had no bell—for this was in the early days of Wisconsin history, before the railroads had spread their great iron spider webs all over the state, and Jennie's school was conducted on a very primitive plan. She took the great ruler, with which she inflicted punishment on the palms of unruly boys, and rapped loudly on the window. Then she sat down and waited for the pupils to come trooping in not with the regulation and order which governs schoolrooms in these days, but helter Bkelter, hurry skurrv, laughing, pushing each other and playing "tag to their very benches. "O, teacher, the creek is getting awful high," said Tommy Smith, as he plunged into his seat. And Jennie did Aot correct him for the improper use of "awful," which proved to be more appropriate in this case than teacher or pupil supposed. "I suppose the snows are all melting and running into it," she answered, absently, as she took her place at her desk, and by another tap of the ruler indicated that the afternoon session of school w.i8 now in order.

Then ahe ran her eye over the room to see that no pupils were missing. "Where is Tod Brown," she asked* "I do not see him here." ....

Tod was the smallest child in the school a little boy scarcely 5 years old, who was placed in her charge not BO much to learn his primer, as to keep him out of his mother's way. She was burdened with two smaller than he besides a babe in the cradle. "I left Tod down by the creek," answered Tommy Smith, "play in' thro if pebbles into the water. I told hum school was called." "You should have brought him along, Tod is only a child, Jennie •aid reprovingly. "But go and bring him now ana hurrv, for your leBSOn

In arithmetic comes on directly." Tommy came back in a brief space of time, white and frightened. "Tod is stannin' on a stone and cryin,' and the water's all round him," lie said. "I couldn't get near him at Ml."

The whole school rose en masse, and Jennie at the head of the small army led on to the rescue of Todd.

Yes, there he stood on a stone which a little time before had been on the shore, bnt now alas! *as in the midst of 'the rapidly swelling strain beyond the reach of anyone that

'^"Mamma! mamma!" he called, in

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piteous tones, "Come and take Tod. Tod is 'fraid. Come, mamma, come! Jennie looked over her little fleck of jtjpils who crowded abont her. Not one of them was large enough to wade oat and rescue Tod. The only boy in he her school who might safely have attempted this, had remained at home that day to assist his father.

The water was rising higher every moment What waa to be done, must be done quickly, or the angry waves would seize poor little Tod, and sweep him awav down the swelling stream. "John*" cried Jennie, speaking to the largest boy in the flock, "you stand here on the bank, while I wade out to Tod. I shall want you to take him from my armB as soon as I have him safe. Some of the larger girls must hold fast to your coat, so that you do not fall into the stream."

Then Jennie drew her skirts close about her slight figure and plunged bravely into the cold waters, Binking almost to her waist at the first step.

Slowly, slowly, she made her way toward the crying child, the waves rushing up higher over his feet every moment.

The little flock on the shore huddled together like frightened lanbs, watching their teacher with wide distended eyes and sobbing out their fear and terror, as she slowly forced her way against the waves.

Another effort, another plunge, and she had him in her arms. Then she tried to make her way back to shore, but the waters were growing more furious every moment, as if angered at the loss of their pray. They almost swept her from her feet—they dashed above her shoulder, and her little burden screamed and struggled with terror, making her task ten fold more difficult. 'Just another step, teacher, and I'll catch hold of him" cried John from the shore, reaching out almost his whole length over the waters, while two sobbing girls held fast to the skirts of his coat.

It was an exciting scenes a wild moment of suspense. Jennie's face was white as chiseled marble her long black hair had .fallen from its fastenings and floated back over the billows like a dark mantle her eyes were large with fear, her mouth drawn with pain, and her slender form swayed as if her strength were well nigh exhausted.

With one last mighty effort she laid her burden in John's outstretched arms.

Tod was saved! A wild shout of joy and triumph rose from the excited band on shore, and they flocked about the prostrate form of the almost inanimate child.

Just then a great wave swept down upon Jennie, lifted her from her feet, just as she was about to grasp the shore, and bore her rapidly down the stream like a light piece of drift-wood.

As she was whirled away the whole events of her past life rose before her that life which only an hotfr before had seemed so poor and mean and dull to her. Ah, now how precious and bright —and beautiful it became! She remembered her rash wish, that she might be given some one heroic act to perform—and then die. That act had

Jennie Orson, the pretty little school- pertorm—ana tnen aie. mat act nao mistress,leaned her chin upon her hand been granted her, almost instantly,and aa she mused in the above manner, one had performed it heroically.^ But and gazed OIJ fields, whosC were thruBtir through the snow-drifts.

nvpr tho trrav snrint?

now mUBt

carry

out

over tne gray spring 'j j:„i nh w«s ber thought, and die! Ob, death was so dark—so cold the unknown seemed so terrible she was so young, and life disappearing was so sweet!

feary ploughed furrows their ragged faces up rapidly

low-drifts. the half-completed house. Lite with "Why, how the snow has gone to-

day," she added mentally, aB the

the remainder of

She thought of Jack, her lover, and

that an hour before a dreary, monotonous

him theret

that

an

had seemed

UOJ I DUO UOU BCCUICU mwuvvuuvuu changed appearance of the fields struck waste, now shown upon her like the riennrHncr nhnrnn ni snme lost naraher eye. It waa the last day of March, and all winter long the snow had been heaped in miniature mountain ranges by the roadsides, and on the fields and meadows. During the last week, warm weather had set in, making rapid inroads upon snow and ice.

hour before

departing shores of some lost paradise. Oh, to see his dear eyes Bmiling fondly upon her, once more to hear his voice life, youth, love how precious they all were.

Then all grew blank. "Jack, Jack, I am so cold. 0 God! save me—pity —forgive," she cried, and then sank away into unconsciousness.

Two miles below the school-house they found her tossed on shore with a mass of drift-irood. Quito ileaQ they pronounced her at first, and the old village doctor confirmed the assertion.

But Jack Kellog would not listen to any of them. "She is not dead," he cried. "How dare you tell me such a cruel thing. She is alive, and will look up and smile in my face before the day passes."

They shook their heads and thought the poor boy had gone mad, as he set to work over her. But they all lent a helping hand, and every restorative known to them was applied to the pallid figure of tho young girl.

It was hours before they saw any sigus of returning life. Then she drew a deep, quivering sigh, opened her eyee,_ and smiled, even as Jack had said she would, into his loving face anxiously above her. "Is this heaven?" she asked whisper. "Ithought I died!" "You went out clear to the threshold of death," Jack answered as he clasped her in his arms, "but love was strong enough to bring you back, dear."

bent

very

Gentle Spring in Paris.

Edmund Yates in London World. There has been but a poor show in the Bois, for the hitter east wind has relegated most of the beauties to their closed carriages, and even then they are few and far between. There are plentv of men, but the sight of two bearded pillars of the Bourse, smoking in a brougham with both windows closed, is not refreshing. But there is a far better show of carriages and horses than we can boast of in tho Park some of the horses are magnificent animals, on the way to being spoiled through bad driving. MOBSOO always was a desperate bad whip* and now he is worse than ever, having taken up that worst of'all possible "forms," the hustling his horses into a mad rattling run, which is no "pace" whatever. That splendid sight, a horse "going well within himself,' iB rarely seen in Paris the dogue-car, the village-cart, even the breack and coupe are rattled along at fire engine speed, and with equal noise. The drivers have seldom any control over their animals, and I have seen three bad accidents within the last ten days. The hero of the Bois is old Papa Lessens, who rides solemnly about, attended by half a dozen of his children on ponies and wearing sunpuggareeB to the delight of the populace.

Curiosity Seekers.

St. Joseph (Mo.) Special. News of Charley Ford's death was received with joy in St. Joseph, many of whose people sympathize with the Jameses, and can not be brought to ex ense JeBse's assassination. The house in which this occurred is now occupied by its owner, Mrs. Saltzman, who was forced to take up her residence there to protect it from relic-hunters. Acting upon the suggestion of a friend, a register was provided, and an admission fee was charged. The old lady has received in gate fees alone $1,500 and fully as much more from the Bale of relics. Her daughter, a pretty girl of fourteen, points out the several positions occupied by the chief actors in the tragedy, with the request that you register your name. ThiB list is remarkable. It includes the names of statesmen, actors, editore artists, capitalists, professors and divines. Among them are those of Jay Gould, Talmage, Emma Abbott, Fanny Davenport, John McCullough, Fred Warde,

Col. Burleigh, Rev. Milne, Anna Dickinson, Robson and Crane, Mary Anderson, Maggie Mitchell, Joe Murphy, Gov. Crittenden, Senators Cockrell and Vest

The Parson Takes an Unexpected Part in the Ceremony. Wheeling Register.

and

Mies Flora Stewart, a Ritchie county lady, yonng and handsome, was engaged to be married recently. Her wedding outfit was prepared. The wedding aay arri and the preacher was on hand, bnv cot the bridegroom. The preacher waa a single man, and had an eye for beautv and a heart for love, and the damsel was youthful, comely, and susceptible, so the minister offered to fill the place of the ab- tne wnoie put imo sent groom. 8he accepted the ofier, {covered with water.

became Mre.

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TOLD IN ONE CHAPTER.

Why the Han Was Jfon-Committal,

to Ktke a Contract for Both Jobs— Women Hot Successful as Collectors— Beooming Civilised-

Detroit Free Press. A passenger who boarded a train coming east over the Detroit, Lansing & Northern road, at Ionia, the othor day, took a seat in front of a woman who was very curious-minded about the country. She, asked abont the crops, the price of land, tbe characteristics of the people, the climate, and many other things. To each and every question he returned a respectful: "Don't know, ma'am—I really don't know." "Is this as good a climate as New York?" think so, ma'am, but I ain't sure." "Do the people seem cheerful "I think the do, but I'm not certain." "Whom do they seem to prefer for a presidential candidate "Can't say, ma'am." "Are the farmers low spirited over the price of wheat?" "They may be, but I can't say as to that." "Should you say this was a good state fcr a young man to begin life in?" "I shouldn't like to say ma'am."

His non-committal answers seemed to annoy her, and after a brief silence,

"Have you been in Michigan long? "Three years, ma'am." "And yet you don't seem to have posted yourself much." "Well, ma'am, to tell you the truth," he replied as he turned about, "I'm a resident of Ohio. I came up here and stole a horse, and was sent to the Ionia prison for three years. I haven't been out more than two years yet."

She rose up and took the fourth seat back in the way to make the dust fly, and she dicn't open her mouth again, even to the conductor, until the train was running into Detroit.

OVERDOING THE THING.

Burlington Hawkeye. "Do you love me as dearly as men have ever loved women said Mabel,

Somehow or other he was alone when he left the parlor a few minutes later, and it looks now as though he would have to wait about 700 years before he saves fuel by toBting his shins at the low down grate in that parlor again. There are men, my son, who always overdo the thing they want to be meeker than Moses, stronger than Samson, and ten times more particular than Job, the printer that is. he isn't but he used to Uz.

WOULDN'T DO. ..

Atlanta Constitution. "Yes, I do want a collector," said the millinery man, "but I don't thmir a lady would "Why not?" asked the female applicant. "I could not only do your collecting but also assist in the store, for I am well versed in this business.' "That may be, but there is another great objection." "What is it?" "W*ell, I don't think a woman could make a first-class collector." "Give me your reasons." "Because, answered the merchant, as he grinned a raise-the-plumes-fifty-cente-a-piece smile, "because womens work is never done you know."

AN EYE TO BUSINESS.

Wall Street News. A Brooklyn man who hit wheat for few thousand dollars last week rushed around and rented a brown stone front, and then sought the services of a furniture mover. "I'll take it by the job and do the fair thing by you," replied the mover. "Well, how fair?" "I'll say $50 for the two." "What two?" "Why, the moving this week into the brown stone, and the moving, in abont a month, from that into a cheap frame house in the suburbs! I always job the two moves together in the case of a grain speculator!'

BECOMING CIVILIZED.

Rochester Post-Express. The awe-struck respect with which sundry newspapers and political man' agers are regarding the "dudes" and "doctrinaires" of not so very long ago reminds us of a little incident in a far western mining camp, where a proud and haughty Caucassian, who had undertaken to jump the claims of a Chinaman, was swiftly and scientifically shot. His companions inspected the corpse, inspected the location of the wound, which was in the umbilical region, and produced by a big bullet, and then remarked, sadly: "Them d—n Mongolyuns is becoming civilized!"

TOO BECOMING FOB A MAII).

Philadelphia Call. Mrs. Minks—I supposed all ladies' maids had to wear a cap and apron, but I see you do not require it.

Mrs. Finks—Require it? I do not permit it. Mrs. Minks—Do not permit it! That is strange. A cap and apron would be very becoming to that pretty^ maid of voure.

Mrs. Finks—That is just the trouble They are too beco ig." PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY Arkansas Traveler.

De easiest touch o' de baby'B fingers ain e* Boft ez natur. Nobody, makes no difference how gentle, ken shove ten'er cotton sprout in de dirt without mashin' it, but natur can shove it through a hard clod.

A DISCREDITABLE CREDIT.

Washington Hatchet. The far western editor is a well-read man. He published "Thanatopsis," and underneath it he puts: W. C. Bryant in the Clam County

Courier.

Coffee Drinking.

Cor. San Francisco Bulletin. The Turks are a nation of coffee drinkers. They use coffee as the Italians use wine or the Germans beer. Of course alcholic drinks are popular, but it is illegal to use them in public. Cof-fee-houses are as plentiful as saloons in a mining town, and in addition itinera ant vendere of the drink are omnipresent in the streets. The latter have each a small sheet-iron stove, such ati tinkers carry, an iron sauce dish with a long wooden handle, a bottle of coffee, a paper of sugar, a can of water, a spoon, and a few small cups. When a cup of coffee is ordered from one of these fellows he retires into the nearest doorway and rakee up the coals in his stove. Then out of the bottle is ladled the cofiee, previously ground into an impalpable powder, a teaspoon being taken for each cap to be made. An equal amount of Bngar is added and the whole put into a sauce pan and

Jan^ Barker. |go«a on to the coala and ia allowed to

Then the pan

boil up once. The result looks inviting and smells good, but yon feel more friendly with it outside than when you have got it in. If it did not have BO many grounds in it it would be good Byrup, bnt there is alto-

ITVIUU 1»V gvrvva vtj

thumb in his month and rubbed some fly specks or old grounds out of the insiae of my cup, and somehow it gave me a suspicion that the utinsel was not clean. I told him BO, but he smelled of it and further so polished it with the palm of his hand that it shone like a reflector, so I knew I must have been mistaken. The coffee houses are delightfully free from ceremony. I have seen nothing, except a German theater, that equaled them. They are generally combination concerns, the refreshment, clerk being also a surgeon, a dentist and a barber. The rooms are large, but low, and common ly very neatly whitewashed. The only furniture is a set of benches (divans in poetry) that run around the walls, and, the center, a stool used as operating chair when 'the cook is called on to minister to a diseased body or mind. Against the wall hangs a hand mirror and a case of instruments, and under the benches are a row of narghiii for the use of smoking customers. The man who is to be shaved, bled, or have his tooth pulled site upright on the stool, with no support for his back or head, and gete what enjoyment out of it he can. The smokers and loungers on the benches take no notice of him—nor of anything for that matter. Coffee drinking is a grave matter with a Mohammedan, and he takes his pleasure Badly. He will sit for hours without speaking a word, and, in general, it is easier to get a Missourian down off of a fence than tow ake a Turk on such occasions into animation. A dog fight, perhaps, will fetch him quicker than anything else. But he is subject to such sudden and immediate relapses that the dogs are losing interest, and will not fight without personal provocation.

REVIEWING OIiD COSTUMES^

Where and How the Models for Artie tic Dresses are Obtained. It is no longer fashionable to follow the French modes. A lady who is up to time studies the latest plates from London and PariB merely to memorize them so that she will not fall into the error of wearing any garments patthem. High shoulders

terned from

finding an easy anchorage for her che.ek iong draperies, scant Bkirts, and hip-deep outer garments are all well enough for Flora McFlimsey, but waning Lady Clare must have something else, the for, as Bob Ingersoll says, "they won" 214th encore to which he had respond- do." The ton want something nobody -J nVlnrfr. "Morn, far more

upper vest of his left

about the latitude of his pocket and the longitude suspender. "More," said George, with enthusiasm, for this was about

dearly. Oh, ever so much more." "Would you," Bhe went on, and ~o~get. there

wfaat

j8

I

to work and wait for me, as Kachel

"Seven!" he cried in a burst of genuine devotion. Seven! Aye, gladly! Yes, and more! Even until Beventy times Beven! Let's make it seventy, anyhow, and prove my devotion!"

better) what no

body else can There are only a

t.n Riinnlv this demancf. and. as the\

in he voice that warned* the young to supply this demand, imd, as they man that the star was going to leave do not advertise her lienes and spring something new sjgn»

and 88 the

on the house! "would you be willing them are amply able

y®8

to

b^y,

wainted at the well, seven long years knowing where these master artiste .«« t. aro tft hA Alinrl.

keep them

the average womaiihasno means

are to be found. One of these artistic costumers reresides in the most aristocratic neighborhood of the north side, and the dresses she turns out are simply exquisite. The fit is perfection itself, and where she gets her designs is a problem that baffles the solution of her hundred odd competitors. The secret of her success lies in the fact that every season she goes off to Europe, not to get the styles, but to ransack the shops of engravers, stationers, and art dealers of London for old magazines, reprints, etchings, and engravings of oldtime costuming. She runs in and out of musty old studios, and rarely goes into a gallery that she does not buy some engraving or copy of a full length portrait. She pays fabulous prices to tne book dealer

AP ra of ONFTAW _A Anil wli^io blio »euuua-iiana man cannot be bribed she buys the book, cuts out the illustrations she fancies, and sells it back again to him. All these cuts are then put on bristol board and either bound or tied in a folio to be UBed as models for her favorite customers. Nothing of a modern composition is displayed, and if the whimsical patron finds nothing to her taste in the Plantagents, she has full sway with the Caputian modes.

But it must not be supposed that the girl with the dollar-a-yard dress goods has this choice. No, indeed the favored lady only is permitted to turn over the court dresses of Mary de Medici, Elizabeth, and Cleopatra, for madame knows well enough that any one of these gowns reproduced in $19 brocatelle or upholsterers's raw silk, and fitted to a good figure, will be the means of putting money in her purse.

Hints Prom an Old. Actor. New York Special. Dion Boucicault, the famous actor and author, held his dramatic confer ence at Madison Square theater this afternoon. John McCullough, P. Gilmore, A. R. Cazauran, and 100 others prominent in theatrical circles were present. Mr. Boucicault related number of amusing experiences with beginners on the stage as illustrations. He then considered the cardinal rules of acting, which he said were simple enough. They included perfect command of the voice, gesture (or movement from the waist up), and posture (or movement from the waist down). The secret of good speaking, hesaid, was clear articulation of every sylable and every consonant. The vowals give sweetness, softness, and grandeur to the voice. Too distinct an utterance of the vowals gives a hardness to the voice. The five important letters are 1, m, n, r, and v. The first three have not suffered much, but and have been dreadfully abused. The English habit of sluring these he attributed to the fashion set by the prince of Wales and the duke of Edinburgh. Mr. Boucicault then stated his disapproval of "elocution" as taught by its professors for stage purposes. "When an elocutionist comes on the stage and tries to

act, you know what it iB,'said he, adding with deep disgust, amid a storm of laughter, "gad, it's fearful." The speaker then insisted on the importance of correct gesture, giving examples of the effect of both good and bad gestures. He disapproved of any set system of gesture to express particular emotions, saying that correct gestures must come naturallj' or they are no good at all.

Mr. Boucicault then deliberated on the "lost art of walking," and the difficulty of being "good listener" on the stage, and on the danger of playing to the audience too much—a fault more common on the French than on the English or American stage. He urged on nis hearers the necessity of studying a character from the inside, and not from the outside touched on certain tricks common among old actors, such as always taking the center of the stage, and on the difficulty in finding out the line best adapted to a beginner. Finally he warhed his hearers against burlesque—that buffoonery which is the blasphemy of art, and which has crept into high place. '"Cast it out," he said, "and let it be drowned in the sea of oblivion. It has prevented Irving and Booth rising to their natural height, from fear of ridicule from the litfledude, who will cry out: "Isn't ittoo-too?"

The conference waa voted a success, and will be repeated soon.

Glories of Pompeii Revived. lxndon Special. The three days' artistic festival in commemoration of the ancient gloriea of Pompeii began to-day. Fully three thousand visitors were in attendance, including Gen. Tchernaieff, of Russia, and other distinguished foreigners. The events of to-day were the instaUa tion of the mock Emperor in the improvised amphitheater in the suburbs of the ruined city, the chariot rac88 in the circus, and an inspection of the excavation. The restored pageantry of eighteen centuries ago waa accurate and artistically good.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1-84.

AN UNDRO WNABJjE CAT. begins at a small stream, puses under Mount Kastri, 720 feet high, and is A Medical student's Wonderful DISCOV- about a mile in length, five feet nine ery About sleep. inches high and nearly the same in Cincinnati Enquirer. width. It containsia conduit of «ithen "I've had no sleep for thirty-six tubes, each twenty-fonr inch.* long and thirty-two in circumference, and hours* Thats what I came to see you an inch thick—much like about. What shall I take—opium?" the sections of clay pipe manufactured 'No- not at all. You don't want at Cheltenham, near St. Louis, and a a The bath is not meant for purposes of

tion after the bath by means of a coarse towel or flesh brush, and continued for ten or fifteen minutes. Then, perhaps, you uad best swallow a few drops of spirits of camphor in a wine-glass of water,and my word for it, you will sleep if your room is dark and quiet. Very often the application of a damp cloth to the base of the brain is all that is required to Btop a man's brain working, and to send him to sleep. By all means avoid opiateB until every other means of inducing sleep has been fruitlessly tried. "The idea is altogether too common that when a man wante to go to sleep all he needs to do is to swallow a dose of opium or belladonna, or inject a little morphine into his veins. I toll you every drug that induces artificial sleep is a poison which leaves behind effects from which the user sometimes never recovers."

The reporter knew the orator to be thoroughly posted on the subject in hand, and meekly made a note to the foregoing effect. "See here this is one of my experiments in the study of the phenomena sleep," said one of the 500 medical students in Cincinnati who is making a specialty of this ubject. Producing from a closet in the rear of the room an ordinary water bucket, and pushing back liiB coat-sleeve and cuff, he pluDged his hand into the water and brought out a dripping tortoisesbell kitten, with a five-pound rod iron attached to a strap about its neck. "This kitten has been under water for seven hours, but I will bet you a nickel to a copper that he is not dead."

The little animal waa perfectly limp and motionless. The most careful examination failed to show any action of the heart, any vital heat or other evidence of life. Contrary to what might have been expected, however, its abdomen was not distended with the usual volume of water swallowed by drowning animals but this fact waB explained by the studsnt withdrawing cotton plugs from its ears and nostrils and disengaging a linen band from about its head, which had been so placed us to prevent the opening of the animal's mouth. "If it has been under water for seven hours that kitten is certainly dead." "Not at all. In the course of time 1 will guarantee to take you and to drown you under the same conditions, and ten hours after you have stopped breathing I will pump wind into you and start your lnngs again and a cat has eight more lives than you have." "Never mind. I will take your word for it." "That feat would be nothing. Let me tell you what I saw in India about three years ago—and there area dozen boys about the college now who have seen things that will seem even more incredible to you—I saw a Hindoo buried alive. His grave was watched day and night, part of the time by myself, and at the end of six weeks he was dug up and brought back to life by some of his friends. He went into the ^rave voluntarily, you understand, aaving prepared himself for it beforehand, and slept there six weeks, much as a bear sleeps through the winter. We gave him sixty rupees—that is $30 —for his trouble, and he considered himself well paid. •Tium uavK -jnyeris study particular attention but tniB experiment with the kitten is the only pleasure that I have got out of it, as yet. I am always on the eve of a discovery, but I never quite strike it."

The body of the kitten was placed on the fender, before the open fire burning in the grate, and for several minutes the student rubbed it with a soft

purpose

pried^op^ufhe tightly ^lenched^jaws who and ™to™££r^#,r

SVo'XcoVSt''toal JSft'SS Correspondent London Times

Boucicoult on Stage Custom. From his Lecture. Bember tbat the is a picture, and the prescenium arch is the frame.

Don't try the stage trick of keeping the center of the stage in order to take the house, as we say. In the old prints of Shakespeare's plays the principal character was on one side of the stage.

The cure for stage fight is to m'nd your own business. Don't play to the audience. Only American and English actors are capable of observing this rule.

In going about the stage don't turn your back to the audience if you can help it.

Don't mind your clothing, but study the {esthetic side of the character you are to assume.

Avoid burlesque as you would the plague. BufFonery has displaced comedy. It is the blasphemy of art. Irving and Booth can't do what Salviui does, because they are afraid of the dude, who would think they were going too far. Once, when I saw Salvim as Othello pick up Iago, shake the life out Of him, and trample on him, a dude Baid to me: "Don't you think that ia going too far?" Yes, I thought to6 far for one whose horizon is a breakdown.

Egotism and vanity are natural to an actor, and I wouldn't give a snap of my finger for one who was not egotisticil and vain.

Bored Roads Through Monntains. The recent discovery of along suspected tunnel on the island of Samoa, in Greece, shows that these bored roads through* mountains are not a modern invention. This Greek tunnel is mentioned by Herodotus as the work of the architect Epaulinos of Megarte), and one of the wonders of that day but although repeated efforts have been made to locate and discover it, these efforts have been only recently rewarded with success. The boring

and nearly the same in

^ains a

ndD

wat©rfrom

it from the vessel^ in the head. Give rrS,„ nnn r.irl your body a brisk application of fric-

the stream at which it be

cleanliness, but merely to equalize the gins. There is a right angle near the worth, Neb distribution of blood in the various middle, made necessary, it ia thought, nnrHrnldrlv to draw by the failure of the borings from the parts of the body, particulariyto oraw -te

Bide of the monntaill to

meet.

uppueiic Diwo V/i buv uivuuw.— The tunnel is 3,000 years old.

MATCH-MAKING IN ITALY.

How the Yonng Girls in a Great Hospital Are Provided With Husbands. Falmero Letter in London Times.

The long dormitories of the hospital were clean and orderly, but the curious and peculiar feature of this establishment was the parlatorio or reception room. Picture a large, long room, the greater portion of which is divided off from the sides and further end by an iron grating, which forms a cage, entered only by a well barred street door, through which visitors from the outer world are admitted. Here the inmates sit OH benches to converse with those on the other side of the iron grating. Ones, a week, however, Sunday mornings from ten to twelve, this place is the scence of the most novel and ludicrous courtships ever described. One of the objects of this motherly establishment is to find fit and proper husbands for the girls under its charge. The fit and proper here is much like the fit and proper of society—the one requisite being that the young man is bound to show himself iu possession of sufficient means to maintain a wife in comfort before he is allowed to aspire to the hand of one of those precious damsels.

Having given in his credentials of fitness to the guardian, he receives a card which admits him next Sunday morning to an inspection of the candidate for matrimony. There, sitting on a bench, if his curiosity and ardor will allow him to remain, he awaits the arrival on the other side of tho grating of the lady superior, accompanied by the girl. She has been selected by order of seniority and capacity for household work from the hundred or more between seventeen and twenty-one waiting for a youth to deliver them trom their prison. The two young people, both, no doubt, breathless with agitation atthe importance of the ceremony, have to take one long, fixed look at each other. No word is spoken, no sign is made. These good Sisters believe so fully in the language of the eye that, in their minds, any addition is futile, and might serve to myBtify the pure and perfect effect of love at first sight.

The look over, the Lady Superior asks the man if he will accept the maiden as his bride. Should the anaffirmative, the same

ing. The* young lover again makes his appearance before the tribunal of guardians, and there .the contract is signed, the day of marriage fixed, and he is granted leave to bring the ring, ear-rings and weeding dress, and pre-

course—to his betrothed. _Every thing

has to pass the scrutiny of the sisters, for fear of a letter or some tender word being slipped in with the gifts. During t.h9 few Sundays that intervene between the fir3t love scene and the marriage an hour's conversation within the hearing of the Lady Superior is allowed, but not a touch ii exchanged

place of abode of the suitor. Should the young man refuse the first damsel presented to him, he is favored with the sight of three more, but should he still appear difficile he is dismissed. The girl also has the power of refusal.

THE SKYE CROFTERS.

liquor would find its way down the It is on the mosey land in the center feline throat. After ten minutes ma-

0f

nipulation there were no signBof life

beyond an increasing.degreeof heat,

which was, of course, due to the tire. The rubbings were continued and amounts to about to 5,700 souls—have the throat was carefully stroked for the their settlemente. They are scattered

of assisting the brandy in find-

ing its level. Presently the muscles of

the lower jaw began to twitch, and the student lett his work long enough to cut a pigeon wing. "What did I tell you?" said he. "This cat was not drowned life was only suspended for seven hours, and in thirty minutes more it will be crying for a saucer of milk."

Even while he waa speaking one of the rigid limbs began to curl up in a natural manner, and the pupils in both wide-open eyes gradually contracted. In thirty minutes, as had been promised, the drowned kitten was seated composedly before the fire making its toilet. "There will be some astonishing discoveries made in the subject of suspended animation before many years, and I wonder that the whole medical fraternity are not working on it. Every boy knows that flies that have been floating in a basin of water, apparently dead, for hours, will come to life when placed in the sun, and their resuscitation is just as wonderful. "Fish taken from the water and at once exposed to extreme cold will grow stifl and brittle as dry clay. They mavbe kept out of their native element in this condition for a week, and when replaced in the water their faculties will return to them. "Bears curl up in their dens at the beginning of winter and remain, to all intents and purposes, dead until the following spring opens. It the course of time man will be able to do this.''

over

Be"t8

ener

the Island of Skye that the crofters,

who

£orm about nine-tenths of the

uti o{ the island

which

it. in townships numbering from

twenty to eighty families, or from one hundred to four hundred persons. It is with these townships unquestion ably, and with their ordinary inhabitants,that the inquirer into their crofter system in the Outer Hebrides has to do. What the crofters would like would be to have the fertile belt of "machar" land on the west coast divided into crofts and alloted to them but the reply made to them is that they could not afford to pay the high rent which the land commands in the market. The croftors evidently find the culture of their lands in a very discouraging if not altogether a hopeless task. Noth ing could well be more melan choly than the aspect of most of the crofts in South Uist. The natural sluggishness of the soil is reflected in the despairing indolence of those who work it. The houses of the South Uist crofters are, for the most part, wretched hovels. They are generally built of rough stone, but in some cases the walls are either wholly or partly of turf.

It is the exception, rather than the rule, for the crofters to be punctual in the payment of their rents. Rents varv with the quality of the land from £3 "to £9 a year. But it is with the poorer class of crofters that there is the greatest trouble. Those who are liable for the highest rents are usually able to pay them. The crofters who are most generally in arrears are those who pay, or ought to pay, the smallest rents. Some of that class in South Uist are at the present time behind in their rents to the extent of two and three years, and the arrears now amount to several thousands of pounds, which there is little chance of the proprietor ever recovering. The greatest difficulty, however, in the case of the crofters, is that of over-population. That is undoubtedly the chief cause of the prevailing poverty. The crofters are by no means Malthusiahs in tbeir domestic economy. They multiply at a marvelous rate, and as the surplus population never thinks of hiving ofl, crofter township very soon comes to resemble an overgrown rabbit warren. When a crofer's son grows up and marries, he simply settles down as a matter of courae on his father's bit of land, building for himself a new hut, or putting up a pent-house for himself at the end of his father's cottage. The evils resulting from the overcrowding of the crofter townships point to emigration as the beat solution of the difficulties of the case. The one influence which is likely to Bhake and eventually to uproot the prejudice^ of the island crofters against emigration is that of education. As intelligence spreads among the people it may be hoped that their ideas will be enlarged, and that the ambition of the younger members to better themselves will be qnickened.

Fatal Effects of Laughing Gas, Ph lladelphia Special. Kate Emmer, a young lady living in Riverside, New Jersey, died to-day from the effects of "laughing gas" administered by a Philadelphia dentist. Two weeks ago she had sixteen teeth extracted, and after the operation showed signs of insanity. She made an attempt at suicide by throwing herself in the river and refused food. From a buxom girl of 160 pounds she wasted away to a mere skeleton. The physicians state that her death was produced by the shock attendant upon the three doses of the gas given by body. thn (inntiat. Mr.

A woman in Connecticut has been

madeanotary.

/tof eaithen

A

in^^ two^dXnfe^nce, and °f

Goldsboro, N. C., man is collecting

88a

Penalty

for

Gray Bear, an ex-chief of the Sioux Indians, is a police officer in Fargo, Dakota.

Bits of rope which hanged Kid Wade are selling like hot cakes at Ains-

George Dalzell of Zanesville, Ohio, saw nobody but his Bister for fifteen years. He died recently.

Two brothers in Connecticut married sisters, and the first son of each couple was born on 29th of February.

A careless farmer near Dublin, Ga., found a rat's nest in the matted hair of his horee'ri tail. The young rata were nearly half grown.

A Georgia lady has entered suit against her husband for divorce, because he would not give her the combination to his safe.

Mrs. Susan Canfield, of Nashua, N. H., has a mania for collectig buttons of odd paterns. She has 1,160 buttons of different kinds on one string.

A society belle of Columbus, Ohio, hires a messenger boy to carry her satchel when she gees shopping, while she lugs a nine pound poodle.

A Stratford, Conn., woman dreamed that she saw her husband kiesing a neighbor's wife. She awoke, and struck him in the face, breaking his nose.

A clerk in the Massachusetts state library was so deeply interested in autographs that he cut the signatures of eminent men from the old documents stored in the archives.

Among the inventions recorded in the patent office is one styled a "life-aaving coffin." It is so arranged that any motion by a person accidentally buried alive is registered above ground.

Ann Llewellyn, of Pottsville, Penn., has a wooden leg. Her late husband had one. Her oldest son took one to tie grave with him. Her other boy, an only child, is stubbing around on one.

In Japan age is counted from the first day of Januarv succeeding birth. At that date a child is a year old, whether born on the previous January or at midsummer or on the 31st of December.

An eastern insurance Company has refused to insure houses in which spherical fish globes or water bottles are kept. They act as sun glasses, and three fires are recorded from this cause last winter.

The natives of the Island of Chileo, use the shell of a crab as a barometer. In dry weather it is nearly white, but on the approach of rainy or stormy weather it is flecked with red spots. In a wet season it is red.

A pretty young lady of New Lisbon, Ohio, announces herself as the prize in a raffle—a hundred chances at $1 apiece. She agrees to marry the winner, providedne is nnder 40 years of age and bears a good reputation.

Prof. L. R. Smith, of Missouri, caught a rattlesnake while visiting in Texas this winter. He found it up an

swer be in the question is put to her, and if Bhe bows assent the betrothal has taken place, xexas tnis winter, NE IUUUU IU UFJ «U and they part till the Sunday follow- apple tree and switched it off the limb

Tin* i/min« Iattav amiin malraa Uin nrkin Hn tVio VkOf»lr flf

w*ith his riding whip. On the back of the snake iB a well-defined outline of a woman's face.

A man in Cleveland, O., has taught a dog to steal newspapers from the

ear-rings anu weuumg urcoo, »uu (Joorgteps of houses. The man was arsent them—through the gridiron of

rested recentiy

cauge

but discharged, be-

the indictment was for stealing.

cause the indictment was for stealing. The court held that he was not a thief, but a receiver of stolen goods.

A lady of Huntington, Penn., dreamed that her mother, who died thirteen rears ago, came to her bedside, shook aer by the arm, and told her to get up at once and open the door. She did so. and found the room filled with £ao. TUctiuicry- aDuarnron saveu ner

One of the reasons given by James P. Hicks, of Evansville, Ind., in a petition asking for an absolute divorce from his wife, is that she prays daily that he may die, and as he is a firm be liever in tne efficacy of prayer, he is afraid that her appeal may be answered.

A flower has been discovered in South America which is only visible when the wind is blowing. The scrub belongs to the cactus family, and is about three feet high, with a crook at tho top, giving it the appearancc of a black hickory cane. When the wind blows a number of beautiful flowers protrude from little lumps on the stalk.

AN ENGIilSH DIVORCE CASE.

An Ex-Offlcer Rebuked for Impertinence in Court. London Telegraph.

This was the petition of the wife for decree of judical separation by reason of the cruelty of her husband, Capt. Pole, formerly of the Twelfth Lancers. He answered denying the charge, appearing in person.

Mr. I^jferwick, Q. C. (with whom was Mr. Bayforrd), who appeared for the petitioner, toid that the parties were married on July 5, 1866, at St. Andrew's, Farnnam. Mrs. Poole at that time was 16 years of age, and her husband 23. She was the daughter of Gen. Adams, and had a small fortune, which was supplemented by an allowance trom her father. The respondent was the son of Gen. Pole, and was formerly possessed of a moderate fortune. Under these circumstances there was no reason why the marriage should not have been a happy one, but Capt. Pole appeared to have been very extravagant, grossly intemperate, and exceedingly jeaious of his wife. He soon succeeded in getting through the whole of his property. In 1868 he sold out of the army, and the following year he became a bankrupt, his liabilities being £30,000. which he had spent principally at race meetings. Since then he had earned a few shillings by driving a cab, and lived on a small allowance made to him by his father. He was guilty of several acts of personal violence towards his wife, they living in a state of the greatest possible poverty at the time.

Mrs. Emma Catherine Pole, the petitioner, said that after the marriage her husband lived in a very extravagant manner, keeping two yachts, it ending in his becoming a bankrupt. Upoh several occasions he had been violent towards her. He had threatened her with a revolver, hit ber violently on the arm with his fist because she would not write to her mother for money, and Had struck her violently with an ash stick. In addition, he had on one occasion caught her by the throat.

At this point the respondent hurried into court and complained that he had not had notice of the case being in the list, and that he had not his papers. He went on to allege that the learned judge had prejudiced the case in reference to a bill of costs that had been before him upon another occasion.

Mr. Justice Butt—You had better be careful, sir, for there is such a thing as sending a man to prison for, impertinence.

The Respondent—I don't care two "tinkers's straws" if you do. (Snappine his fingers.

Mr. Justice Butt—Do you wish to cross-examine your wife? The Respondent—I never cross examine a lady.

Jlr. Justice Butt (to witness)—You can stand down. The Respondent—Hut are you going I to judge this case now

Mr. Justice Butt (sternly)—Sit down. Alice Kenworthy gave evidence in corroboration of the cruelty and of the intemperate habits of the respondent.

At some length she was cross-exam-ined by Mr. Pole as to what she knew of intemperance and other matters of an irrelevant character, and was rebuked by the learned judge, who told him that unless he put the proper questions to the witness be would be removed from the court.

The Respondent (excitedly don't care two straws for you or

MJ.

instantly, or I will give you into custody. Tne respondent—I don't care what you do. mod, bad or indifferent.

Mr. Justice Butt—Let somebody take hold of him and remove him. Just turn him outside.

once," replied-Mrs. Langtry,

door to any of them, Bpends nearly ail I

her spare time receiving these young fjr

enthushsts. Upon entering their cour-1

age generally iails them and .tn®J

stammer out: "'I saw you last night,

and I've come to see you to-day. I

These portentous facts having been an-1

nounced the speaker stands Bheepisniy I

and has really nothing more to say. I

With French politeness Rhea court-1

eously comes to the rescue, invites

cuuov v—^ to the rescue, invites them to sit down, and a conversation ensues ending, at least in one case, with "You are too sweet for anyin iv or a it a II I give you mine. The fair exchange is made and the parting visitor is quickly followed bv another.

As an illustration of the indiscreet questions put to actresses, one asked of lady whose name is, for obvious reasons, kept in the dark, may be mentioned. It came from the lips of one just out of her teens: "Do tell me how many husbands you had!" Tableau. Just as many as you've had," came the crushing reply.

The younger actresses are more

aldas or Hazels and when she tells

them how much she has had to go

through before attaining the present splendid position they go away dis conrged.

Then there is the autograph fiend, who ia as bad as any of the other bores, but so much has been Baid of him that a mere mention will suffice. And,

maxe tne taruuu

placed

floor,

and called

gref

manv

Justice Butt—Leave the court I years.

A Graphic Sketch of Forth Worth, a City Which Never Sleeps. Walter B. Stevens writes to the Globe-Democrat from Fort, Worth as

The Respondent (defiantly)—11 follows: The hour 8 p. m. ia a fitting shoulk like to Bee the man who would one to arrive at Fort Worth, for this & turn me out. I'd kick him. I the Texas city which never sleeps. The

the time the learned jadge ought to 1°^ good-a'zed village. About have tried the case. I time the Texas & Pacific pushing^

Edward Pole, son of the parties,

gave evidence as to the drunken habits I ..|, of hie father, who bad threatened the

westward

8bl]

Mr. Justice Butt—There is abundant Probably this wakefulness ia, just aa\ evidence of a long course of very gross I f*w

Actresses Persecutors Stage-Struck

Girls-Artists and tetter-Writers.

Among these various things,

reached "the Fort," aa it is

om.mon

known

*a

petitioner with a revolver. He had I and a growth set in which haa^ seen him strike his mother, and also been so rapid that the legitimate the children usee of the night have been forgotten.-

transient arrivals

misconduct and cruelty. There wil faster that the hotels do, and every. be a decree of judicial separation,jwith I evernng the harraased clerks wrestle Costs and custodv of the children. I with tne problem of finding beds enough to go/ound. Single rooms are BORES THAT ARE 1RREPREB- impossible luxuries. Of all Texas

SIBIiE -H cities this takes the palm for loveliness and a peculiar combination of metro--I Dolitan and frontier character. The

strfcet rnn

"I have come to the conclusion that When most honest merchants are an actress' lot ia not a happy one," I abed the two long business streets, „id actress, parodying tho h».o, ical policeman to the writer, and this

overlooking

remark suggested to him the fo.lowing I with lights from the still open shops, sketch, which embodies nothing but On the main thoroughfare one of tho hard tats. Leaving aside th. fatiqne SftSuSSK? attendant upon travel, rehearsing and

hgg oat

acting, there are many other things to for decorations to make the cowboy^ make the votaries of Thespis, I feel at home as he takes high priced Clio and Melpomene unhappy. [ST.

none are perhaps so distasteful to ing ia a restaurant of metropolitan size the encroachments made on their I and elegance. Down the broad, richly leisure time by people who have no I carpeted staircase streams a flood or claim to their consideration. Chicago light from the second floor. No closed theater-goers are all familiar with the I doors muffle the click of chips and the hideous crayon sketches that from time monotone of the roulette roller as ne to time disfigure the lobbies of the sings: principal theatres. Who does not recol- Round and round the li ttle ball goes," lect the awful caricature of Miss £llen I ^j^^5^ndhe re we roi? again, Terry, grinning like a maniac, in tlav-1 A dime, a quarter, a half a dollar, erly's lobby Then there was one of Everything goes in Texas. ym. Christine Nilsson, which she, sooner I The dusty boot of the cowboy sinks than hurt the artist's feelings, gave a in the body brussels as he moves from place to in her drawing room, much to I faro table to black and red, and thence the merriment of her friends. Fanny to the Mexican monte, on to studDavenport, Annie Pixlev, and others, horse poker, and brings up at the have been pictured in the same style, gaudy rattling roulette circle. "The Mrs. Langtry was not to be spared this White Elephant" was built to meet a infliction. One afternoon, as Bhe was want. It furnishes the visitor with chatting with a visitor, her man servant food, drink, and amusement in variety, announced a gentleman who was de-1 everything but a place to sleep. As 8irous of showing her a picture of her-j has been remarked already, people self. The gentleman was shown in, I don't come to Fort Worth to find beds, and politely enough begged leave to So the institution may be considered display the picture. Permission being typical of the restless, speculative peogranted, the picture was produced. pie who inhabit the city. "Good gracious! that's not me," proclaimed the Lily in horrified tones. The artist, somewhat discomfited, ventured the reply that it was, that he had I Mr. Beecher on the Significance and taken the likeness from an English vaine of His Bite. photograph some three years ago, and I New York Tribune. that he thought she would like to Mr. Beecher was in an excellent isess it. I mood yesterday morning in Plymouth

mony was not

a"d|original

then I did give it to a fellow wno I

of all the British nobility to append to f.aUght or enjoined in the New Testaa certificate in favor of Bome wonder-

ment

ful medicine. I frightened him away. Hardly an actress of any ,reP"t® comes to this city but Bhe is visited by I. parentg jn public to signify that a number of young girls. Khea, '*ie|they would bring them up in the "society pet," who never closes her 1

cently

a mere mention win ,•**.' I to ner. io see amenutu muieo lastly, there is the writer of what is shopping seems to these tyrants and irnntvn in t.hpfttrical oarlanco as "mash yj^tims a degrading spectacle. known in theatrical parlance as letters some are mere boys, who fall in love—genuine school boy and calf love"—with women old enough to be their mothera, or with a pretty BOU brette, who laugh at their fervid dec larations others are men to whom love

is'un*known',and who do not know that

on the stage a woman does not cease to M^jng lackadaisically up at a brown be a woman another kind comes from

A Horrible Death.

electric lights by roasting pulverized

it on the floor. I to get into the house and sit in the John Hoek and another employee "front room" with the old folks. And went up in the retort to lift the lid, so in two months more he will marry her that another pan of coke could be intro- and lock her up, duced. In attempting to lift the lid,

increase

midnight, stop

Loun) ftnd then

resume trips.

the Trinity are ablaze

}n mirrods and interr

Sfrd

Iargo any

jn st. Louis. Adjoin-1

BAPTISM IN PLYMOUTH,

No, I do not care to have it. It is not me, I never wore my hair like church, and preached with all his oldthat" [the hair was represented as time power and vigor. The annual cropped skye-terrier fashion, and the May baptism of infants took place,

UUUCU O&R«RTVIIIVI head resembled that of the Princesse Louise in that respect], "and besides, that portrait is far too beautiful for me it is that of the countess of Lonsdale, who is a great_ deal more hand-

Mr. Beecher regarding it as unsafe to bring babes out for baptism in the winter months. The great audience

aaie, wno is a great, ueai muic occupied every Beat in the church, and some than I am." Truly, the picture I

at

srJS'bS'Sr. ss&ss

ter of opinion." He made one deper-

^me8

appiau8e

teristic of Mrs. Langtry could be found Thirty-three children, most of them in it. babes in arms, were brought into the "I assure you, Mrs. Langtry, that I

church) and

you did wear your hair like that, and I frjen(js ^he entire space between may I suggest that it was a great im-1

ate effort and said: May I I only one cried, while several prattled the theater? Certainly not, was I

broke out spontane-

filled, with their parents

t^e pe^8 an(jthe

Pri?yei?Ten^ on the manner yon wear I bought in Mr. Beecher gazed with it He had overshot the mark. I dismay at the gathering throng, and answer came quietly. That is a mat-

finall id.

pulpit As they were

"Are there any more

He th en baptized one after

merrjiy and

the rejoinder. He was routed. finggraWnrri „thP flnwam

itor. .lout Mr. Beecher said that the ceie •Well, I never lost my temper^ but

the other

stretched their chubby

designed to take away

sin as in some churches, nor

wasjj.

wanted me to procure the signature I jje

because of any efficacy in itself

performed

nature and

it. It was not

jjut BS the custom existed it

admonition of the Lord,

parents

Kood

made a convenant

th£ children

and if they rati-

when«they

grew up well and

but if they then wished its rep-

etjtjon or

desired, to be immersed, the

wiflh was reBpected.

eg-ect on

& plea0 nJ. Bight

Nq bankof

es^edally vTsftod byTweet seventeens, I ride out for a moment without their who Beeing young girls, make a sue- husbands, unless the need is very lmcess,'and ignorant of the many flies

that are to be found in the theatrical I

Baptism had an

the parents and from them

waQ reflected

on the children. It was

to see thirty-three

phfj^rfln thus

brought into church,

flowers bloomed any where

one half so beautiful. Only one or two cried, and it was very uncertain what they cried for, whether a cramp or a pin. [Laughter.]

perative.

man

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A Woman's Life in Mexicov |§3 Correspondence of the Detroit Tribune. ""J1, This is the first year that ladies, even Americans, could walk through the streets of Mexico alone in the daylight without being grossly inBulted. They look her straight in the eye and say whatever they please. As to their own wives, they are prisoners always. They are never permitted to walk or

One call from any gentle-

compromise any married

ado .»«.» to M«»1~. It is not believed

The sweet Annie Russell has to answer to be possible that a woman can mnpmany quest'ons from would-be Earner-

appear alone on the street with-

out

jjer husband. An American lady,

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hoards at the Hotel Iturbide, tells

me of a 8panish-American wife there who, though as well as imprisonment will permit, has not been out of her room once in seven weeks, except to go to church (confessional doubtless) once on Sunday. Her meals are

a

giri a

men who have really lost their hearts balcony, whom he has never been perto some star of the stage, but there is no instance on record of an actress having thus found a husband.

Cleveland Special. (gorgeous wiui At the Brush Electric works they down the legs in double rows, holding make the carbon pencils used in the his

1

Hoek lost his balance and fell to- the I Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Bent

to her. To see American ladies out

I wouldn't like to be a young girl in "Mayhe-co," as they call thiB land—or a young fellow either. It is considered indecent for them to speak to each other without the presence of a third parties till they are married. To be-

Mexican youth at first courtship

hundred feet distant on an upper

balcony, whom he has never been permitted to apeak to, holding his steed immovable and gazing up, on his head a colossal bat brave with great ropes and arabeequcsof gold, on his legs breeches of some fine stuff, troreeous with silver buttons or coins S A 1. JAM11A vAwa

place

at

coke in big retorts. The workmen had especially rain—drenched to the skin, iust taken out a pan of the baked car- persistent and passionate—:well,Iknow in glowing white be*, .»d h.d I

with unwinking eye an hour

a time and coming there day after

wee][ after

week, rain or Bhihe—

Killed at Last.

striking with his hands, head and Jeremiah Campbell, who was in shoulders full upon the white-hot car-1

Btantly

WtedT3:.JKT«teTd.Y.«nlUted «.d wrve.1 his feet and then

dropped

again. His comrades took him. home lieutenant in company B, Thirty-fee-

a physician, but he died in 1

nl«^ the fleseh dropped through the head aCLookout

poal, and in placea the flesh droppwi lay five days on the field from the bonea He was a Hollander I liter he was shot and leaves a wife and BI ^^^h the body. After the war he the served as United States detective, and

It may be strange finally served in the regular army as religious observance of Good riaay, ^th Custer, when Major now so general, is not the continua-1 gene lost seven companies and Camptjon of an ancient custom so much as a bell dug a trench with his pocket knife revival of modem times. In the earl-1 behind a log to protect a woundfd ier part of the reign of George III. I comrade and himself. While carrying

church-going folks took no notice I the wounded soldier, the latter waa of the day. shot dead, and Campbell and hm friend I were wounded.

A special from Shreveport, L* says: 1 —. pptain J. M. Foster, above here, has I Ad Noeleck, Chicago, had a hat under water,some of which I made for him last week, the seize bebeen overflowed for fifteen ing 8J. He is said to have the bigf* head in America.

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killed by a locomotive, at De-

to the floor during the war as a private and first

on(j

Illinois regiment. He was shot

Moun-of