Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 29, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 October 1886 — Page 7

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JA4IWL DfDLUTA. WHAT JACK SAW. at task. nnd mm Morn a waeaiaii EiaadiMir fMt our MMriit tow b a broad, twosao-eeurted soar! Scmh. Jack reatHM sire, kM awl serious, mutt the sky; Fmriowt of u wr Mown MM UK) nttr aosren WHNI I "11" auotb Jaek, wub msdaa "Fat net' d you ovwr mo Sucil MMOOUtft, ftttttastt liMUMCf "yott elOUd-beftd It Mil M . Or unlit, with hU monstrous mourn 0r tbo yr m pine pot led south) Aim! above tke iaged rttek TtMrt' miat-rortaed, wiljr fee, BwaniNa from lb wind thai HtwM luncward. 1 ke a pat-k of bounds; Awd-wh) fibr: don't you apr That big IWlow liftta nlk jlotk bin vasory arnta o stane oim one lurklntt out of sight? Tbea, half cr.nMon, and half dwt. Murk that face of Install fun, Witk Dun rtr, ml m rose. Ok tk tip of kl hiiito Stnwte, now raanv haiea there bs FkMttiaff'ruUSd tht ikv-born Seat Ym, another! . . . WHtofa tt MM TkrmurM lbs swift wavsl . . . MMMVt a whale, MKrfMKMMHl. tOO . . . byOd ft HOW ae Ji imi inaiMvoa nu White ft mltrntjr atal behind Stem to labor clown Oh wJttdt . wqid the boa vena be m-owlaa- eleerr KHl'l for OiktT fOTHM SWr, Uualnter, funnier tbaw. beforst . . . Wlmt a bead, all tM and Hoar, KKln 01 wt fashion bowed, Pown from yonder vlimateriMg etoddl Vcrr bald, and very utr. Orila'a toad wMumi kin wig ; AikI lHik! loiikl a band like Joe's lOurold barier";, arrow and grow Larger from tne dri-un mbtt Tiltono view hi knotted mi Flourishing- a raaor thin Under arandpa's aliilddy ebta; iHkaved a ne.it a any mr. ' K10 Hi'; tarlHr hl hi who: Aht but can't 1 see them atalsT No, I ean't! alt'a vo'd tucmn nraudiMt' beal and Barber Joe Melted like the ChrSftUnaa snow: thaw! tkiwraxet absurdly mixed Kuthlna'a clear, and notbtiMfs Mxedt iyt wb' t make my abrbt ao diw, Sky ami cloud before It swImT' What? . . , my bid. you've wovoh Out of fancy airy mmb: 80 rour lance creative eyes ilbued by w(MJtlif pbanUMdetl Lower from thoe umrvplou akleal" IT WAS "9 O'CLOCK." So Said Mr. Shaw's Time-Ftoo Upon a Notublaj Night. It wm not until fniherl patience had ceased to be a polite virtue that Fred ami I ldtitMl to oarry out our plan. Hu hatl tai(l so manjr times at breakfast, just m ha 1M tlown the can msrkuife and fork, after wa.Uitg on tw all: Flora, my datightrt ton o'clock i lt enough for my young watt to stay on an evening call." And Flora had as often looked up imploringly, her pretty fae on fire, and said: "Why, papa, how can I help it?" To. this defensive inquiry father would notdeifftt to reply, while mother. Aunt Kllaabeth and we boys maintained a profound silence, each doubUeaa pondering how the difficult question might be solved. Roger Pcttijohn was a sophomore in the college town in which we lived. He "led his clas,"vwH the son of his father, Judge Pettijolin, and a general favorite with the young people. Fred and l rather liked him; his boats were always at our service, and it was one of our choice! pleasures to spend an hour in the study which he hatl fitted tin in one of the college dormitories, to "be with the boys." There was no end of curious things there, for Roger was not a mere "dig," but an enthusiastic student of nature and a famous rood pitcher in the colleire nine. Iteskies a well-stocked aquarium and a large col fecUou of stuffed birds, his room was decked out with fencing-foils, patent oars, boxing-gloves, a line pair 01 antlers sent him from Texas, and a good many things that would interest UOT!. But the one drawback to our enjoyment of Rotrer i'ettijohn was that he came to ee onr'stster Flora not less than three evening in a week, and the town clock usually sir nek eleven as he went whistling homeward. Not that ebo-orthe household were at all put out by his long ealls. v e never heard anv tiling from the parlor, save the subdued murmur of talking and reading, and now and then the melodious tones of piano or flute. lUtt it was one of our little domestic secret that Flora was working for the valedictory in her class at the academy, and we all knew she count take it if she count get time to study at home. Mat with all the numberless housekeeping duties which she took upon herself. there was often not mneh of a study hour left her. So Koger te4tjohii's cans, enjoyable as tney might be, were not so -cordially thought of or mentioned in the family circle as they won lit have been had they been fewer or shorten Alt Litis accounts for the plan which treuanu 1 determined to carry oat, We said that Koger Pettijolm should be made aware ot the flight of time, if such a tiling were possible. It was several days before we hit upon scheme that suited us. Any number of rude jokes that might easily be worked out came hi to our minds, but we were not sure we should enjoy rude jokes ourselves. n One day at school Fred looked up iront his algebra with a peotillargrtn. In a few minutes I saw a note work ing Its way from desk to desk toward hie. At last it came, and 1 esgerly opened it almost In plain sight of the argns-eyeti Mr. Wiiiwr, wuo, "we thought, siHititmore of his time In tro hlhitinr evil communications," than in explaining equations and eonstiu ing our dilHeult Latin sentence. Fred's note was as follows: 1.V.JCB W 1W know the eM eJoekt ""; 1 11 aw it striker, m hard M M. wn drjlattd. tkmi fwnt K, More brter." .xiwniy nmieraUMKl; but 1 gave my nswint without hesitation to Fred's plan, whatever it ntiht h- fnr b hl J2tf i3 5J W " long head and a Among the treasures in our workwhm was a worn out clock. The old nftw-meoe, bad , eofne down fro anomer enra4inM. aui UmA b H daye rikmiWe5 but in the Wi wwm Keger reMajeein essste te m ar

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Brhva-brae hunting was a unknown Mania, and a clock that would Mat toll the time of day, no matter now aucieat and nouorebki its niatory. was well out of the way in a boy s workshop. .1.1 .., I. If. I J 11 itxnia oiu ctoea xrvu ana 1 asu HMtaH to nieces and put together again times without number. In the hope of mak ing it keep time so that we eouM pus HIu our room, sometimes it would ge nicely for several hours, and then some unlucky pinion would slip in plaoe, the pendulum would slowly eome to a standstill and the piteous, patient-looking old face would stare at ns as if in blank disappointment at being left behind in the march of time. Hut, worn out and useless as it was a a time-keeper, it could strike as loudly d boldly as in its younger days, and we had no small amount 01 iub m turning the wheels, so as to hoarita silvery ring and asthmatic wheeae. thorougldy and enthusiastically. It hi doubtful if we enjoyed its fruition more than we did talking it over, and eagerly adding suggestion after, sug gestion uuui it was, in our estimation, perfect. The plan is just this, Jamie," said Fred. Take the works out of the ease, fatten them in the fireplace, put a long, stout string on in place 01 uto striking-weight eord, wind the reel oa the striking side as full as we can, them pass the line upoverapully atthe top of the chimney, ana put on ins weienu The old thing will strike as long as t takes thu weight to run down.1' It took some time to get every thing ready. No spy was ever more secret or cautious in his movements than we We never talked of our plans where any one could hear. In the workshop, with doors shut and locked, or at suitdown, driving home the cows from the oasture lot. or at night, buried in the bed-clothe, we discuased it. The prep arations, too. had to be matte in the iii.rlit Wm mtirlv brnk nur nceks climbing out on the roof night after night to arrange our "crack o doom," as Fred called it. Nailing the work of the clock in the parlor fire-place auired all our skill in amateur bur litry. But we managed to acoompliek the task, although 1 was shut up bohind the tireboard half the night, and Fred sprained his ankle jumping out ot the window when mother came into Use room after a book At kit all was ready. By means of 1 strinir which one of us could pul rotii the kitchen (where a ladder wan to furnish a safe retreat to terra firms), a shingle, Holding the weight at the top of the cliininev. would be ierked out: and as the weight began to fall site clock would beiriu to strike. The next tiling was 10 get we oppor tunity to nut our scheme in operation. Stramrelv. Mr. Pettikdm's skdlful feat of millinir our door-bell itut so as to cause the bell to ring out three dUtinct tape and no more, was not periormea for a full week. Fred and I were in mortal tire ad every day that our preparations would be discovered. Any day father might take a notion to clean out tne parior nre-piace anu me emm- 1 ney. fortunately he utu not, ana mx. Koger s peculiar ring at wic ooor oeii at last pealed on ears that were most intently listening for that weleonte sound. We bovs slipped out of the kitchen, where we had been engaged in a tierce debate with A tint Elizabeth on a proposition to keep our pet chicken in the eellar next winter instead of in the barn. (ur first impulse was to plant ourselves in iiosition on the roof of the kitchen ready to pull the string, un second thought we redacted that our intended victim would probably spend the evening, and we concluded to make the be -it of our situation by wak ing until we thought he ought to be getting ready to .depart The better to ward oit'suenieioii we spent the evening several blocks away, with some of our boyfriends. As we approached the house, a little before ten o'clock, we saw the light, streaming from the parlor window,' and knew our prey was still there. I took my place at the string, trembling with expectation of the critical moment when Fred, who hatl stationed himself in the lilac bushes under the south window of the parior, should give me the signal by throwing a pebble on the kitchen roof. Time, always'slow when waited, was never so slow, it seemed, as during the full hour I waited for the thud of that pebble on the roof. The night train came thundering up the valley while I sat there, and 1 counted echo after echo of the shrill whistle of its locomotive, arid traced its snake-like line of light until it wound around a distant hill and was out of sight. How the dogs barked that night! I busied myself in distinguishing the score or more of canine voices whose nightly baying were familiar in our neighborhood. Now and then old Bose. our family horse, would shake himself in his stall and munch his provender for a moment or two, and then cease to make a living sound. Along story could be told of the pictures that were called before my mind by the noise I heard in that single hour. Suddenly in the midst of one of these mental pictures, Fred's pebble fell, striking me so that I pulled the string without a thought of what I was doing. Hurrying down the ladder, 1 found Fred In the lilac. The old clock was striking with a nervous staccato that fairly made us dance with joy. It had then struck up to eleven. Fred had given the signal just as the sitting-room elook began to strike. Flora and her caller were engaged in a duet, she at tne piano and he with his flute. As long as the music lasted we hardly expected they would be dieturlied by the slock. For several minute the piano, flute and clock kept up the peculiar trio, w boy enjoying it with gigantic grin and frequent chuckle. Through a fold of the window curtain we eouW sm: the face of our victim. "Hal" whispered Fred, "Flo hears it! Seet She thinks something's wrong with the music" The players kept on a few minute longer, when suddenly Flora stopped. The finte and clook now had R alone for a moment, and then the sound of smnusl nsnnr"mnMnst MtA sajuj smunttanlt Wnkl suO ePn eenTP WrftfcTune. emPirs ftruj "sk enaw us Hia jtntea. uYa

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over ana ungerea a nwntent wn mdeacribabie. riot had not moved from her put, and sal, with one basfd uplifted front the piano keys, listening intently and wondringly to the measured striking, which now seemed louder than ever. Then we saw Roger' lips move, and Flora turned blushing and said something which, of course, we oould not hear. Whatever it was, they did not seem to understand eaeh other anv better than we did. Alt of a sudden both faces turned - ...... ... toward the aKtlng-room door. Father was coming! In a moment he was in the room, in hi dressing-gown, and holdftog a lamp, as If he had been searching the house over for the cause 01 mis unseemly diewrtMutee. w bathe said we did not hear. It must have been, something severe, for Flora blushed redder than ever, and a desperate gleam cum into Roger's eyes. trod and 1 began to realise that we were in something of a scrape. " nut we were bound to enjoy it while we could, and we managed with a sharp ened snek to pry up the window so we oould hear what was ruing on. " ts uat on earwi uoes wu n Flora?'1 shouted father. Poor Flora had hurled her blushes in her hands, and gave no answer. Father looked from flora to Koger and back to Flora again, and said, louder than before: I want an answer; what does all this mean" Oh, father!" cried Flora, I don't really know, unless the sitting-room clock is bewitched. ' ' I have stooped every clock in the house," replied her father in stentorian tones. Roger's face turned white and red by turns; but be did not attempt to say anything. Father turned to him: "Mr. I'ettiKMin, can you 111 me wn thta unearthly din in mv house at near- i lv midiiisrht means?" noger nau uiajoiiiteu iub uuws, nu laid each bright silverseotion carefully in its nlace in the ebony box which lie had himself made for it. As father finished his question, Roger snapped down the cover of the box and re torted, stifilv: "If you allude to the duet which Mis Flora and I have been practicing, 1 must at least thank you for as much of your comoliment as includes myself. If you allude to the misfortune whioh seems to have overtaken your clock, excuse me if I tell you that you or some of your household know more about It than I do. I wish you a very good-evening, Mr. So aw. Good-even !- ,... t in?. Miss Shan'. And the wrathful Mr. I'etUjohn turned on his heel, and a moment later the front door shut behind him with no uncertain sound. " Miss Shaw!' " I whispered to Fred. "That's murderous! He's fearful mad. or he never would say 'Miss Shaw!'" Roger did not whistle a he walked briskly down the gravel path. We could just his form as he passed in the darkness. When we looked again into the parlor Anat-Kliaabeth, prim and straight, in her morning wrapper, candle in hand and her eyes snapping and gleaming like a cat's back in the dark, stood between father and Flora, looking inquiringly from one to the other. Mother had also eome into the room, her face the picture of bewilderment anil despair. We thought it was time to draw the irtain on our joke. We carefully . ., . , 1 A - I ' curtain lowered the window, and, taking a last look at the distressful tableau, hurried Into the kitchen, twitched off our boots, and hastened up-stairn. in a minute we were well abed. The clock was still striking a we dropped off to steep. Our experiences next morning do not need to be described. We were found out. of course. Flora wore an injured air for a week. Father was stern, but we half suspected that he Inwardly approved our course. Roger Fettljohn's ring did not disturb our door-bell fot months. When It was certain that Flora had vanquished all 'competitors for the head OI Iter OiMM, irea miiu x rawingeu ra rot. him know how "misfortune" came upon our clock. We iHtt the works back m the ease, and with proper ceremony md him a present of it, and it was given an honored place in his room. When at the academy commencement Flora bore off the valedietorv, her largest bouquet had Roger' card neatly attached with a blue ribbon. , The funniest part of the asTsir was that when the clook began to strike on that memorable evening Aunt Elisabeth began counting the strokes,' according to her invariable habit, and although she went down into the parlor and returned to her room after half an hour, she averred that she had counted every stroke, and .the clook had struck exactly m time. Nina hundred and ninety-six o'clock became a family by-word. 1 Awoflo reruM. They Never Strme, There hi a class of people m this country who get up at five o'clock In the morning and who -never get back ? 1. 1 7m , .ibu . into bed until ten or eleven o elook, at Hlgliv; whw vtinn, mininil uvk!ui wm whole of that time, and receive no other emolument than food and the plainest clothing. They understand asiuiutlitno- tt ax-MTV ttrutinll (if iMVlllfllllV auinvining - - -.7 - ------- j and lalMr, from finance to cooking, . . . . ... . ... , Though harassed by a hundred responsiblllties, though driven and worried, though reproached and looked down HiKn, they never revolt; and they can not organise for their own prot-ctioii. Not even sick he release them front their post. No sacrifice is deemed too great for them to make, and no ineomiMiteaer In anr branch of their work is MYoused. No nMr or books or noems are written m tribute to their stealfastnes. They die in the harness and are supplanted a quickly a may be. Those are the house-keeping wire of the laboring nwsu. tcye amt Xeewmir Jfevssw. of the milk recently sold m Nnw Turk Cky was adulterated wRh thirty aWSft irty-lv nee snntt, of water. t-J. Ti

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It is dinWnlt to tell aowsjdays when, the fashions for dresses for women and eitPiln'u begin and end. The material! for the latter are not as eoetly and eh gant a for their eklera, but the variety of trimmings' used, and in many in- ( the complicated draperies as-, looted compete favorably with what should be the more elaborate gowns of their mammas. It 1 a dimeuit matter to arrange suitable costume for girl of fifteen and seventeen years. lhey should not be as elaborate as those of ; their elder sisters nor as simple as those of the younger ones. To hit the happy medium Is often a cause of anxiety and careful consideration. For younger children simple style are universally adopted. The days when our Utile ones wera dressed up to look like duplicates of fashion plate nave passed, and mat and pretty frock take the place 01 tne eiaoorate oonieotions in which they were formerly ttired. Woolens of all kinds are the favorite choice for genaral wear for autumn ami Winter. Flannels of .home manufact ure take the lead in being both com fortable and pretty. These are shown in a great variety of designs, colors and shadings, Plaids in all combinations of colors are considered by many the first choice; next eome stripes of different styles. These are usually combined with the plain material, which oome in all the shades of blue, brown, garnet, gray and green. Cloths and cheviots of different nualitles and weights come in very similar shies and combination of coloring. Inch square of tan brown, red, olive and blue are variously arranged in these fabrics. Two shades of a single color are shown in very narrow striped foods. Chartreuse green and pigeon's loed ruby are two new colors. Boucle goods are agaiii to be worn, ritese come in all-over spots or designs and bavitdere stripe. Thu latter make up prettily for little ones, in a fullskirt and Moliere in one piece, with a close bodice of plain material. Red and brown arc the most popular colors, though red and green, blue and brown, and blue and red are all used. Figured goods are used for the skirt and nlastron with long cutaway coats of the plain material. Cashmeres make up in a pretty combination for ordinary autumn wear; they are ser viceable and inexpensive. Striped angolas are pretty, light weight, soft and warm. They are to be had in brown and white, green'' and red, blue and crimson and black and white: for autumn wear they make up most ei leetiveiv. eitner wiui or wiuiotti uun mines of the plain color. Persian i lamb trimming, in soft gray and black, is much used for bordering 1 short jackets, and has a nob ana silky annearance. etiual to Astrachan. I Homespun tweeds can be hatl in cverv shade, plain and checked. These are stylish for young misses, made, with military braided bodices. Many I new autumn stuffs have been brought out with interplaitedstrijMSflon the sur- , face, which can be used horizontally or as panels. The brakling on many gowns is carried out in braids, half the width of which is plain, the other half intermixed with gold. 1 Blue flannel dresses are made up with gilt buttons, and those also appear on the ulsters, which are tight-fitting and full at the back. Young girls wear gtrijed flannel loose bodices, like the old Garibaldi, with serge skirts and . ..... 1 . . I 1 . 1 - - broad waiM-ueits. a nine siecTeiem , Zottare jacket is sometimes added for additional warmth.. Jersey materials continue to be worn, as well a Jersey . dresses ami waists. t A very dressy costume for a girl ot I fifteen is made witk a plain skirt and fiat Breton waist -coat, fastened on one ide under the edge of the jacket; , these two parte of the costume are made of pearl-gray woolen goods, with mlty velvet stripes. An open jacket and simple scarf drajery are made of pearl-gray cashmere, the edge of both being stitched with ruby silk. 0 M lit An excellent niotiei lor a walking " dress is made of a fancy woolen mat erial in a prettv shade of fawn. Ihe box-plaited skirt is finished off at the back with a long puffed drapery. A long, tight-fitting casaque opens from the shoulder to the edge, over a plain waistcoat of fawn velvet in rather a darker shade; this waistcoat is a trifle shorter than the jacket, the long basques of which are open at the side seams and at the back. The plain collar and cuff's are of velvet and this material is also need for trimming the light fawn-colored felt hat Ph&ttol. vSin Times. A MOA'S SKELETON. A, FrefeoMy Katteet Mtrd Whir AMtael a Metcbt mt Voart Ymt. Among the New Zealand exhibits at the Colinderies in Loudon is the skelej ton of a wot. The moa was a bird much larger than the ostrich, attain- . ing a height of fourteen feet, and but J recently extinct. Indeed, it is held by tome that living, specimens may still exist in the interior of New Zealand, mW .Krou,,t hope in this respect. It is sum y naturalists that the bird lived )' though there is not much ground for argeiy on the roots 01 terns so numerous in the' islands of Australasia, it leg and elaws being of wonderful strength and specially adapted for scratching. In the new red sandstone of the lonnecut ,, cut river valley ... . t.... j in Massachusetts impnnUof the feet of large birds have , been found which are of a character to indicate that the moa, or a bird very nearly like it, once existed on this con tinent, tier, however, it disappeared at an early stage. The skeleton in the Colinderies exhibition k ten feet high, which, with two smaller specimen. have been lent by the Canterbury (New . Zealand) Museum. xhibited with the bird is the onl moa's egg in' ex letcttoc It was dfecovered in the Kaifcoera peninsula, and hi about the sine of two ostrich esxgs. Csjsesvc Tribute A man was recently fined five dol- ! Mrs in the Denver police court for fast driving, and a man wan was run' , try htm and man tne complaint wn t IJaLM aadUana, anjaaBaifnt- faTtsT uaXanjv ayjaw .snmnrren vfsw ffPllrlJ WWITtrMi sTrm usnsrrvK Wmf -- - - -L -.....a m 9

'' In Greenland there an anud Ksquintanx eon verts 1 fostering care of the Danish ry nootety. The nngUsh Church Missionary Society, the richest of the foreign societies, report that of It $1,157,000 Income last year, only 96,600 came front the titled elan. An eccentric divine one saW to his audience: My hearers, there is a great deal of ordinary work to be done in this world; and, thank the Lord, there are a great many ordinary people to do it." AC Y. Kmiminr. I am ant to hear sermon for other people, but to-day I heard for myself." was the remark of a brother in a recent sunaay evening prajermeeting. He was on the right track, ami many others -would do well to follow his example. Chicago SlmuUtrtU Very few graduates of Harvard know that the gildod cross over one of the doors of Gore Hall at the oollege is a trophy of the capture of Louisburg by the New England troop in 1744. It was taken from a French chwreh, nd it present location is the more appro priate since the motto 01 tne colonist troop was "Nil desnerandum Christo due," and that of the college is ' Christo etecclesia." Bowm Journal. The president of the province of West Prussia has issued an order imBoaittff a fine on Parents and guardians of school children for each day of the latter' unjustifiable absence from school. If the fine of ten pfennigs to one mark is not paid, imprisonment of from six hours to three days is the punishment. Employers of children ef the school age during the hours of study are subject to heavier penalties. , Little more than fifty years ago the East India Company, then Governors of India, issued a stringent order that " missionaries must not preach to the natives, nor allow native converts to do so." The present Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Sir Rivers Thomjwon, says: ' In my judgment Christian missionarien have done more real and lasting good to the people of India than ail other agencies combined." The salaries of the English Bishops range from 4.200 to 15,000, and a recent investigation through the probate office, running back thirty years, shows that the thirty-nine Bishops who haye died during that period have left personal property alone of the average value of 54,000. One left a personal ity of 140,000, and three of 120,000 each, being probably persons of landed property. lUmon Transcript. IATTLE PICTURES. The Kxtemtve h PraNtabte 1'HHeraaM Maaliion. Chicago i the center of the pano rama buainess in America. And the panorama business is a more extensive one than most people imagine it to be. There are several panorama factories in town, or near by. One of these stands near the Rock Island railway tracks in Englewood a monster tur ret of wood, whose doors are elosed to all visitors except' those accompanied by the proprietor, Dr. Fierpont In this turret-like house, painter are al way at work upon panoramas not creations, but copies of works already known to fame. Gettvsburr is the favorite, ami it is estimated that there are now in existence something like two dosen copies of this famous pan-, orama. The copies arc known to the trade as "buckeyes," though the origin of t've term in this applHattoa is as yet a mystery. These "bnnfceyea" cost all the way from 3,000 to fSO, 000 apiece, and some of them are fine eoptee of the original, xney are sow to enterprising chap in large ernes throughout the country,, and exhibited usually in cheap wooden buildings. Some of them have made fortune for their owners in a few years. One exhibited at Dayton, 0., has earned fi ,000 a week for several months, and its first cost was only 95,000. The cheaper paintings are carried about the country by railway ears, hem f wound up for shipment on. a big spool and exhibited in tent. . Some of the first "buckeyes" manufactured were turned out by house and sign painters, and sorry jobs they mad of them, too. In addition to their ignorance of perspective and coloring, thfy only knew how to mix paint for wood surfaces, and some of the canvasses which theit clumsy brushes daubed, and which have been carried around the country until they are weary, cracked and weather-worn, do not much resemble the original Gettysburg. A queer feature of the business is that the painters of those "buckeyes" pay the proprietors of the original nothing forth privilege of copying. Photographs are on saw of .ail sections save, one of the Gettysburg pan 0 nam a, the exception being the view of the wheat field. The copy era buy then photograph (, slyly take note as to the coloring while pretending to look at the canvas, and in the same manner make hasty and crude sketches of the wheat field. , It is said there m a scheme on foot to grocure f 10,000 copies of Gettysburg, nil oh. Missionary Ridge, Siege of Pari and Atlanta, (the new picture being painted in We liner's studio, Milwaukee), and combining them all under one canvas "only one admission ticket to the five greatest panorama on earth" go on the road in true circus style. Surely. Uus w a great world for scheme. Gftsvsw Mtritd. tHa of an Atnm. We are reaching down so lew in observation of the constituent of matter that some idea of the sine ef an atom is within our reach. Sir William Thomson ha recently calculated that the average else of a chemical atom k not less than six and not greater than sixty btlHonths of a cubic inch. It ha also been calculated that in a cubic inch of ah- there are three hundred qnintiitkm of atoms. 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at? F4tssuNrh hns 1 4O,O0O toward the meat of a free library in hi naHveeJsf of Mlnburg - zttsnnry rv. Joseph Cilkty, oi Nottingham, If. tt. who fit still liring. at the age f nliety-ix, enjoys the distinction of awing been the first anti-slavery man tent to the United Stat Senate. Mrs. General W. &. Hancock hasbeen engaged during the summer hi writing a volume of reminiscence of her late husband. It ia now about completed, and will be published this winter. . -Man. Fatti recently entertained Henry Abbey at her Welsh castle, and kept the American flag fiyhtg all day Sunday in honor of her guest, wb says she lives in royal style, and ha over sixty servants to wait upon her. Manie Woo Sing, wife of Fiebkf famous Chinese doctor. Chung Sing, died recently after a five weeks' sickBess of malarial fever. The doctor married her in Pueblo last winter, pay ing two thousand dollar for her. one was sixteen year old, and he-was sixty. Sen Vrmeieo Cmti. Christine Nilason, the singer, hi be known a the Countess Angel de Miranda. Her future kuband belonged to the gilded Bohemia of Paris when be went there in the train of the exiled Quean Isabella of Spain in 1868. He was appointed when Alphonso returned to Spain to a post at the Spanish Embassy created for him. Emperor William has ordered the publication of the 'complete edition of the musical works of Frederick the Great. The collection will include sev eral compositions which have hitherto remained embalmed in the library at the Sans-Souci Palace at Potsdam, which have been selected and arranged for publication by the Crown Fnnee. Rev. George O. Barnes, the mount ain evangelist ot Kentucky, says ma he journeyed around the world with his wife and three children entirely on faith. He had no plan when h set out but to preach, had no invitation from abroad, no promises of support, no acquaintance even in the oountr'e he visited. Tet be made the journey and wanted for nothing. "Every day at one o elook tw,000,000 sit around a little mahogany table in an upper room m the western Union building and eat a plain but substantial lunch," say the New York Sun. "The- millions belong to Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon, Russell Sage and ex-Governor Alonao B. Cornell. All were country bovs and wore shoe only on Sundays. Mr. Gould and Mr. Sage got their first idea of finance in village stores, and Mr. Dillon and Governor Cornell were day laborers, and thanked Heaven when they trudged home with six dollars in their trousers pocket en Saturday night' m HUMOROUS. t There are some men so violently opposed to capital punishment that they won't hang wall paper. They let their wive do it. Teams SfKno. lie Was a Careful Man. Mariner Sail, sir; nice breeae on now, sir." Mr. Isaacs" Vot! After a dinner a cost me three-an-thix pen th? Not me." Funny Foiks. f Knm am aaJui: " What has be come of the daisy?" Briefly, she ha gone back to the city, and k staying in the house waiting for her freckle to disappear. New Ifaven New. The Abbe Lisst, one of the greatest pianist the world over produced, died poor. There are a good many, people in this country who seem likely to die poor piaawte. SprmgJhU Union. The Parisians have a' new idol, a aeautiful dancer from Tunis, known a " La Belle Fatsna." She ha adonted as a favorite in the of Sara Bernhardt, who was known a " La Belle Thinnta," Mmmbitr. Would it be considered' impel it to speak of some of the very thin girk who go in bathing a swimming; matches? Perhaps to refer to them ' ... . , . , a part of tne noamng poyuwuiom would be better. Bosfon Newt. Visitor (regardlngtbebaby) iOh, s what a dear little duck of a child! He resemble you both, indeed ho dee. He' got hi mother's handsome eye and his father's hair." Father (who k bald headed) "I think he must have; I haven't" N. T. Tekgram. "I'll pre thee, pre thee yet again," sang the hair-parted-k-the-middk man at th social the ether night, and all the fellows be had borrowed from for two years back went out ia the cool for fear.be would keen hk word. rcweers Sfetomn. OM Soldier "Quiok. doctor! Cauterise thk wound where a dog ha just btttcn me!" Doctor "But, my fond fellow, there k no turn in oautetisiuc a wooden leg!" Old Sokiier "Well, then, burn me on the 'other leg. I'm afraid the pokon has already left the wood and passed into my body.'' TWJHU. Capitalist (just rescued) "We. Mister, I'm much 'bilged to ye for hauling me out of the water, an' here' a dollar an' forty cents for ye all tho change I've got about me now." "ph, no; keep your money. I wowdn t think of robbing you." "Not 'tallt not 'tall! 'Twottid have been lost anyhow If ye hadn't rescued me." rser's Jmmw. Their house In the country wan raked a few feet from the ground, and Tommy, to escape n well deserved whipping, ran front hk mother and crept under the house. Presently the father came home, and, hearing where the boy had taken refuge, crept under to bring him out As he approached em his" hand and knees. Tommy aoxsn: "Papa, k she after yon tnoP" Jf. Y. eOCsfe , Great Literary Critic "Who was it started the fashion among noted an thors of every now and then printing a novel anonymously?" GhwMPabheber "It began In Boston, I beneve." "Weil, the inventor of that idea ought to be W 1, wbat'sharm tfarmt ftMal StflAtti HOW M a t IMS to ekeldsjwhat to say about a lk : Im deosn't know who wree rrrhi

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