Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 27, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 April 1881 — Page 3

A SMALL AUDrBJSfGBl

A Full Performance Given by Joe Emmet to One Man, Witli a Profitable, Consequence.

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New York Sun. - ."The smallest audience I ever had was in Columbus, Ohio. The managers had been trying to introduce matinees, tut with not much success. Joe Jefferson, Denman Thompson,and some of the biff stais had gone through the mill, and the audiences had been so small that they had shied, and refused to take the gate. The money had been returned at the box office, and the dis

appointed tieket buyers had departed determined never again to patronize a matinee in Columbus. The afternoon business was at its lowest ebb when I struck the town. After two or three performances the posters announced a matinee. T went to the theater at 2 o'clock that afternoon and found my company skylarking behind the curtain in their every-day suits; I looked out in the auditorium. There was jast one man in the theater. He sat clear back in the parquet. It was as much as I could do to outlinehim in the darkness. I went out to the box office. Did that man pay for his ticket?' I asked, lYes, Mty cents,' the treasurer replied, The manager told me to return him his money and close, the theater.' 'No yon won,tI said, I have never disappointed an audience when I'm ?ober, and I donHpropoaeto do so now. .Well play for him' I went into the parquet introduced myself 4 to the man, and thanked him for his attendance. I told him that as he had thought enough of me to come and see me and pay fifty cents for the privilege, he should have as good a performance as though the house was packed, I then went belnnd the curtain and requested the company to dress; 'Great CSesar, Joe. one of

thernfsaidou ain't a going to play to that one man, are you?' 'Yes I am,' I replied. 'He's paid his money and he shall have his money's worth.' ,Ob, thedevhy broke in another member of the company, 'I'll pay his fifty cents and you let him go.' I told them that the perormance must go on as usual, and I warned each one that any attempt to guy the audience or" any, failure toqriay a part in full would be the signal for a discharge. "Well, the ' orchestra played an overtiire and the curtains rose." Fritz continued: I walked down to the footlights,: I invited the audience to acme toward and takeJront seats, where ha could see and be seen. He thanked me and settled himself in the front row. I suggested that little generous applause thrown in' where ke thought the actors deserve it would serve to inspirit hem and warm them to their work.' He seemed to appreciate the situation and agreed to give us all the encouragement' that he thought we deserved The performance began. I don't think I ever oiayed better. I threw myself heart snd soul into the character, and sung the 'Lullaby' so tenderly that the whole-- audience was in tears. " He called for an encore, I

told him we rarely gave an encore, but as this was an extraordinary occasion he should have one. He applauded liberally at v times where no applause was deserved. At . such times I called his attention to the . omis-don, and asked whether on reflection he did not really think that he had made a mistake. A hint was sufficient. He would clap his hands perfectly enchanted and' shout, 'bravo! like an Italian or alvini. The company paid noatttention to him. but; wenton with the performance as regular as clock Work. Between the acts, however one or two of them evinced a dispsi.tion to go uut to the auditorium and mingle with the audience. I set? my race against it and they re&ained.4 At the close of the second act the manager, entered the theater. He had been out for a walk. He seemed dambfoun ded al seeing the house so brilliantly lighted, and orchestra playing soberly to one man. But he was more astonished when the curtain rose and the performar.ee1 was resumed with as much unconcern as though there were thousand of dollara in the house. But he had an eye to business. . He sent word to the newspaper reporters, and half a dozen of them arrived in time for the last act. No actor received better criticisms. Some of them were over a column long. It turned - out that the audience was the owner ' oi a. copper mine in Michigan, and very wealthy. On the following night he gave the whole company a banquet at che leading no tel. He entertained us a3 handsomely as we had entertain r ed him, we parted with mutual regrets. r Just a year afterward I anaouneed ai-

. other matinee at Columbus.' It waa well advertised; and- the house was

pacsea xo sunocation. x tooK in over

of all mechanical operations on the farm, but the time, the desired depth, and the manner of doing the work depends upon various circumstances, as the kind of crop to which it is intended to devote the question that the time and labor of plowing some fields for spring crop are unnecessary, or in other words that fields which have been well tilled during the preceding

season may De put in good condition

tor tne reception of seed by the use of

implements which greatly economize time and toil. Bat, of course, this method cannot be followed at random. Every farmer knows that a great deal depsndaupon the season as well as the kind of character of the soil. It sometimes happens that a licrhfc or natural I v

friable soil has become packed and hard by beating storms, and that plowing it is indispensable in order to put it into proper condition for a crop, while under other circumstances, soils of a much heavier r texture turn over like an ash-heap; so -that in this, as. iu other things, "the judgment of ths farmer must govern in the methode employed in carrying on the operations of his tarm. A few words here upon spring plowing are not out of place. Sandy or

graveiy sons may oe piowea or replowed in the spring Without running much risk ; but it is different with clay soii3, and the role should govern that

clay is to be plowed in the fall or win

ter, to pursue a dnterent course involves a risk, especially with und rained land. A clay loam which is underdrained and has been well cultivated may be treated more like a lighter soil ; but even then prudence is required, for clay soils are sensitive, and- are often injured by starting the plow too soon after a heavy rain, showing the effect in tlie yield of the crop. Stiff, adhesive soils, whether claey or loamy cannot be plowed to advantage while wet or very dry. However, such soils are improved by frequent plowing, as this reduces them to that "finely com

minuted con dition which is favorable to the growth of plants. All tillable land has more or less clay in it, and if worked when " too wet, the result is hurtful. It is in this way that disappointment occurs in the yield of rich alluvial lands, which tail to produce abundantly because the clay is thus rendered comparatively useless. It may seem superfluous to some of our readers to offer suffgestions that are well understood by them. It must not be forgotten, however, that many of our later readers are young farmers, or men who have had little or no experience in tilling the soil. .. Nor is out of place to occasionally remind farmers of longer experience that much care must be exercised in plowing or re-plowing land in spring. In no small degree does the success of the season's crop depend on the farmer's prudence in this regard ; nor does the matter end with a single season, and this is one thing that is frequently lost sight of at the time a farmer may be turning over his land. While land is too wet to plow, whether in fall or in spring, to turn it up so that it will bake is to injure it for several years, entailing much unnecessary loss both of yield of crops and of labor to restore it to a naturaCcondition of fertility.

flower animals the dutiful hen wno nam I don't remember much about, the

done what she could toward making olofc of the nlav. except that a onns

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Secretary Sirknood and His Office. Sm alley's Washington Letter.. Secretary Kirkwood carries his sixty' eight, years ligntly, and can., do more hard, close work in a day than most men of forty. He has a strong, shrewd, kindly face, with high eheekbones,deep wrinkles and heavy eyebrows. A remnant of whiskers is allowed to escape the barber high up on each cheek. .The gray does not yet dominate over the brown in his hair. His clothes look as if a village tailor had constructed them under strict orders to pay no attention to fashion-plates and to make them ample strong and comfortable. The big slouch hat which he wears on the street must be a veteran of many contests with wind and rain on the Iowa prairies. Its owner never minds the snape it gets into when he swings it upon hi3 head, takes his stout stick and strides out of his office. You would say.

Easter literallv a feast, should have an

exalted place. Yet, according to a

Chicago edict, little chickens are more

fashionable for .Easter tnan eggs

Whether to be eaten or used as orna

ments or set up on easels in the parlor

is not mentioned. Even Easter must

succumb to sty le, and if the fickle Goddess decrees that hereafter true lovers

must exchange little chickens on Eas

ter morning, so be it. Another modern

attribute of this, season, and one de

servedly popular, is the idea of Easter

Cards. The demand for them has evoked a great deal of talent, and to

what finer use could it be devoted

Friends long departed exchange them.

Lovers select and send the choisest

ones. tiTistinsf much to their dumb

eloouenee. The invalid looks grate

fully upon their daintiness from the sick bed: the acred see .in them the

promise of the lift to come, while the

young feel only the beauty of ..the joybus present. In every household they diffuse their brightness and proclaim their untiring message, Christ is Risen. The practical consideration of new clothes 33 also one which obtrudes itself frequently about. Easter: time.

When the earth! is awakening lo anew life; when the birds are twittering an extra thrill into their Easter song, as if. they were salaried singers; when blossoms are showing themselves in all the spring-tide novelties, pray why should not poor human flowers who have endured" the frosts of half a year lift their heads above the snow and surmount said heads if possible with a spring Jjonuet? If the reptiles have the privilege of dropping their old skins and appearing after the first spring opening in brand new attires, it is meet that humanity should do likewise, and happy they who can east behind them their winter garb and appear in Easter brightness. Easter bears a joyful promise to churches floundering along in debt. The ambitious , steeple towering toward heaven- unpaid for, may perchance be no longer ashamed that it marks the consecrated fane where, "Owe no man anything" is preached, and owe every man something is practiced. The purse strings are loose on Easter, and to-day the rich man - Will give from his abundance and the poor from his little, and many an ottering the fruit of self-denial "will win as

sweet a plaudit us the Peri's gift at the gate of Paradise. To-day, all over the civilized world, Easter is being celebrated. Thousands of prayers will ascend from grateful hearts; masses of blossoms are giving out the: r dying fragrance sis incense before the shrine of the Most High ; from many a pnlpit words of earnestness shall tell the same old story that is new with every spring-time, and a thousand rejoicing voices shall sing that music most sweet to the Christian's ear, Christ is risen from the de$d.

girl in love with the hero, disguised

herself an a pace in order to f ollow

him in a battle, where she is slain. On the first night. Manager McVieker

who was and is very particular about matters of dress, discovered that

the young woman who took the part of

the page had slippers on . 1 .Don t you know any better than to wear slippers on a field of battle?" he demanded. She timidly replied that "she had neither money nor time to get boots on such short notice." Well," said McVicker, "you must borrow a pair or do something, for I certainly shall not allow you to go on in those slippers." The poor girl was in despair. until the goodnatured leading man, seeing her distress, tendered her the loan of a pairfof top boots, an offer which she gladly acceptel, in lieu of nothing batter. They. were rattier. .large, to be sure, but she managed to navigate in them pretty well, and things went smooth lyjuntil the scene of her d ath While she

is lying dead on, the battle field tho hero and his servant meander in, and discovering who she is, the former de

livers a touching eulogy over the remains, and then orders' his servant to take her off,' while he indulges in an

effective soliloquy, a 3a the melancholy

Dane.

As the raau .dragse i her off by the

arm-nits, the poor page found that in

spite of her frantic efforts to keep them on, she was slowly and surely being nulled out of her boots ! The man kept

on pulling, however, until he had her

in the wings, and the big boot- were

left on the stage with the disconsolate

hero. Imatrine his feelings! especially

when a small voice from the gallery piped out, -She left thorn for reaiem-

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A. WOLF-HUNTER.

W ilburn Water's Adventure with a

Pack of Wolves on Boan Mountain.

Traveling FacilitiesPhiladelphia Times. Tnis. morning two additional fast morning trains have been added to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company' passenger service between Philadelphia and New York,, a train leaving this city at eleven and one leaving New York at eight o'clock, both runniug through in two hours, tho, time made by the several ., other fast trains already on the passenger schedule. These added facilities for travel between the two. cities suggest a glance backward at the manner in "which the science of transportation has. been developed almost within our own time. A little less than a hundred years ago, when "tbe French packet1? left "New York about the 15th, and the British packet on the first Wednesday of every month," the journey between Philadelphia and New York was a pretty serious undertaking. Tho public prints of the day contained, this announcement: Stages to the., eastward set out for New York every morning (Sundays excepted) from Mr. DennisoiVs, at the George Tavern , corner of Second and

r Jflfe ,of .d5 to toM pnei friendly criticism, bur bo is energetic,

Arch streets; others return every ; evening (Sundays excepted). Iu sum-

seeing him goby: lWhat a fine speci- j.mer the stages reach New York in one

men of a substantial, intelligent West- i day, and m two in winter, fro stages

era farmer' This farmer-looking man carries a vigorous, practical brain under his felt hat, a warm heart under his loose sack coat. . He has played a great part in the building of the magnificent young State of Iowa, was her Governor in the stormy war time, has represented her many years on the floor of the United States. Senate, and is nr,w at the head of the most exacting and laborious of ail the government departments. I predict that be will succeed in his new position ua he has in the many others he has held. He has a trying task before him, and will

be subject to m ucn ignorant; an d un

man, who had invested Che small sum

of a half a dollar, had returned me a

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The Sonographic Ma ine.

Blr. 32 E.' Munson, a stenographer of New York, who has a photograph' of the Fren ch stec ographie much ine and some specimens of its work, gives the following description of it : The apparatus is about the size of is. type-writer and has t aro key-boards, one for each hand, each containing A eleven keys. In the center, and separating the keyboards; is a large revol ving wheel, on V'hiehis wound the ribbon of paper. C-onneeted wife; a:id ooeratfKl bv each

key Is a little character stamp," by Which indentations are made in the paper on the wheel. Ho two of the impressions from these stamps are alike and the alphabet is made up of the

various dinerent. .combinations that may be made from them. As two or more keys may be pressed do wn as quickly as one, it follows that these various compound chaacters may be made as speedily as s mple ones. Then by using some of them as arbitrary signs for whole words and fi equWt

Ikiirases, np.uouot good speed may fee j attained. ' Br. Munson does not believe, however, that the machine can eomoete with the best systems of E jglish shorthand. He says the French are behind die go in short-hand matters, and know

almost nothing of the skillful stenographic work that id done eyeryf - day

in mis country am m jKngland. Br. Shierry-Meig, of Paris, himself the author of a system of French stenography," confirms this statement in tne following words: "When we seethe , jprosevering and laborious efforts which the human mind has made in other ; countries than France toward the invention, of a g -od stenograohv, und 4 the resuSts already obtained," particu4 irly in English and German-speaking t counCries, it is painful to have to state -. tbeprecarious condition in which this af f in still found in France. " Mr. j Munson adds: 4The claim that Michef la's machine can be used bv a person who does not understand the" language he is reporting is not weli founded, because no one can readily separate and V anaivze sounds and words spoken in a . language with which he is- not familiar." -.".

; r Sprang Plowing. ;tDo we pIow too much? was the

.-ijumuvu .My one or . our reaaers a week ago, .who then proceeded to frivA ilia frvn&rlffr- Sn thi t.n.i

. r of laud for corn without otowiuL on

which corn has been growing the year

Auuier implement was used;

- ttuwuuc avguKpn .nw our cor

respondent, proved verv satisfactory in saving time and labor," and also in the ouf come of the ciop. This experimem i suggestive, and no doubt arrested the attention of numerous- read ers, and iri not improbable fiiat some

or ui&m inav auoot tho d

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. jtenar-

I -ho prep iration of t lUfc htod

. 1 1 jforhe big crops, '

lectiou of seed is the mosfcimnortanrJ,

straightforward, sagacious and sturdily bones t,and will not be long in winning a new title to public conlidence. There is a great deal he can do to lift his department to a higher level of efficiency. The Indian Bureau needs vigilant oversight and the steady,patient application of weL-matured plans lor the progress of the Indians towards civilization . . The Pension Bureau needs aid in its effort, begun, unhappily, at a very late day, to purge'its rolls oflfraudulent pensio ners and prevent new onesfron getting on them. The Landon"! ces system needs overhauling by the aid of congressional action, to far cilitate the settlement of the grazing, forest and mining districts of the far "West, and to encourage irrigation of arid tractSi The Bereau of Education will have to be put upon a much broader basis, if National aid is given to the common schools of the Souths Something could perhaps be don e . i n the patent-office to give more encouragement and protection to valuable inventions, and to discourage the multidude of worthless or irauduient ones. So the new Secretary of ..the Interior has plenty of work upon his shoulders, but

they are broad enough to carry it ail and more.

for New York, partly bv land and

partly by, water, leave the Crooked Billet Wharf on Weduesday and Sun

day mornings, ar.d return generally on Tuesday and Friday' evenings. From New York the stages reach Boston in six days." ; Great as the change is from these primitive times to our own1, we notice it less because it has come so gradual

ly. When the old Camden and Amboy Line was open to travel forty years or so ago, the improvement upon the stage coaches which covered the distance in a long day-and t ii? only under favorable circumstances was very great; but it was not. so great as tne improvement upon primitive railroading which the Pennsylvania Kailroad Company has effected within the past ten yeais. Some of us remember with feeling of misery the six or eight hours in the wretched little cars and in the slow-going boat that the journey to New York involved. And yet as we journeyed we marveled not a little at what we regarded as the greatest wonder of tho age a loeom oti ye : en gin e moving at the rate of twelve or fifteen m lies an hou r. As t ravel ing ! facili ties have increased travel has increased proportionately. These forty traina which' ply between tho two cities every day carry backward and forward eight thousand or more passengersmore than in old times made the same journey in', a year; Nor is this increase surprising when' we reflect thatJa business man ear: ; do a good day's Work in either city and still have time on the same day to run across to

rthe other for business or uleasure or

both--combined; can leave Philadel-

The Private Life oi Prince Hetter-

' ? nich. The glimpses of his private life watered through his letters. are Jess num

erous than could be wishou. Ho had

written oyer his small villa near.. Vim

natne legend, "J'arva nonius magna

q tiies," but thought the latter half of

the sentence somewhat false. He oe-

scribes his library with almost boyish delight as a splendid room, eighteen

feet high, Idled up to the ceiling with

books, and containing uearh lmetm

housand volumes, "in me loiuuie 01 he room is Caaova4s bran5fu3 Venus. '

The room aafuli of worku of art, and

2e was ofu?n amused at the distraction

of strangers who had."t maK ou. their visits amid such a varitd collec

tion of things." uTn Ihis treasury,'.'

le savs, VI pass seven-eighths of my

ime. :f r 1 live unwillingly iu

small rooms, and unwillingly work in

them. In a contracted spaco the mmd

contracts, the thoughts hide ibemselves, and even tbe heart grows with-

cred

His children were taken to him by

their mother wbwi they were good,,

but he thought they came so gladly

not from love to him, but because it was just like market t o them, "for my rooms are very similar ?.o shops," There much pathos in his love for Clemen lino, who gradually fades away, while the father, as he says, goes from the revolutionises and demagogues who people mytudyr.o find (iare and sorrow in the sick room." Perhaps one ot the best illustrations of his prompt and vigorous character is in a story h tells in a letter in 1825, to show that be was not aceessable to fear. Ooe day a man got in at his bedroom window and stood by the bed. He may have beeu a thief or a murderer, and he thought Mettarnterr was asleep, but he was awake and observant. 'I allowed him," says Mat ternich, "to come nearer without moving, but loosened my sheets so that nothing might be in " the way. One jump and I stood, up, seized him, throw nmi out of the window1", and lay down again. . He or I,' was my thought. That is logic in business as with robbers." He. was not fond of ISn gland. Plis refereuces to Queen Caroline's trial are of the mostjscornful character: 'This Queen is really a horrible woman. If people knew what 1" know about her they would be surprised at her audacity." Her reception did not astonish him. "A virtuous Queen, worthy of the Crown, would iu all probability be besnatted with mud by the people." Writing about England somewhat later, he says: "What vexes me with the English is that they are all slightly mad. This is an evil which must be patiently endured, without noticing too much the ludi-

i erous sice of it."

Escaped in a Coffin. Gotdsboro, (N. C.) special. A convict named Kinchen Ginn, who effected his escape irom the S-alo piison a few days ago, was arrested at his home at Gold Hill, near this place. Tho manner in .-which he secured his exit from his prison cell is as remarkable as it is novel. It seems that Giun raid another convict were sick, and placed iu the same cell. His companion died. The body was coffined and left until the next day, when it was to be buried. The idea struck GHim tnat he might, by means of substituting himself for the corpse, effect his escape. The body of the 'dead prisoner was quickly taken out of the coffin and concealed under the bed, and Giun got into Ihe ease. He managed to remain quiet until the coffin with its supposed body was removed to the grave prepared for its reception. Iu the prison yard two negroes", who happened to have all the superstitious fears of their race, were detailed to commit the body to its last resting place. As soon as the coffin was earned to the grave flhui commenced rolling about and

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groaning. Tne uaraies oscame iru'iu-

ened. dropped the box and ran ofT as

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Easter-Tide. Easter, derived from a Saxon

word meaniug to rise, is the name given to the festival which commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is always held on the Sunday after the full moon, which succeeds the 21st of March, the vernal equinox. It cannot be. earlier than March 22d or later than April 25. Time was when Easter, like Christmas, was observed only by the Lutheran, Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches; but as the world opens its eyes wider each year to the beauty of a liturgical service which celebrates every event in the life of our Savior, so it has come to incorporate these joyous occasions into its list of holidays or rather holydayo. Easter is the brightest day in the church calender, the day when Christians celebrate their risen Lord. Coming after the forty days which mark the fasting of our Lord in the wilderness, and the still deeper gloom .-.of the Crucifixion, Easter morning seems as radiant as a snow-white dove flying from dark clouis. From earliest ages, poets have selected their choicest thoughts to embalm this beautiful idea of Resurrection dayfV Nearly three hundred years ago Holy George Herbert wrote his quaint Easter hymn : : -Rise Eteartt Thy Lord is rUan. lug hi praise without delays Wfco takes thee by the hand that Uiou-like-wise. with Bim may rise. But Easter, like many more things means differently to different people. It is an indisputable fact that to some persons Easter means nothing more than Eggs. The matronly and conscientious hens who have exerted themselves to the utmost, in-order to carry their ideas .f Easter, really have more exal ted mo tives than in an v o (

the people who ravenously devour the

rruitortneirinuustryon Sunday morn

ing ana tnink Jiaster is the Latin for

phiaf at eleven o'clock, have thwe ;rapidlv as nossible.' The convict got

out and, climbed the prison walls and escaped. V The trick was soon discovered, but not in time to catch the perpetrator of it Gin n worked his way to Gold Hill, in Greene county. He was traced to that place, where he was

arrested to-day, and will be at once

returned to.his old cell in the jState

prison.

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hours" m Tvew York, and get back to

Philadelphia again in ti me for dinnei at 0:80. . i, y: ' Fauny Death S-sones Nym Crinkle's. It seems to me the most ludicrous

accidents and situations on the stage I

occur in death scenes, and this is probably owing to the fact that the; groat contrast mates tlw humor more percept: ble. . . Two'instaucea illustrating this tomes to my raiud. The first occur red many yeaivs ago, when most of our sterling 'actors were only aspirants to fame. The Forest Amateur Dramatic Association of Philadelphia was playing Venice Preserved. J. i. Little and a man named, 1 think, Vjbite,. assumed

I the parts of Pierre" and JafTier." ; In

the Inst scene, where both tho.conspirators die, Little hd to give up tho ghost lirst which he did .to the., great satisfaction of the groundiings,8 taggering all oyer the place, and ...giving convulsive gasps, foc., taking caie to give his last expiring kick in the exact center of the stage. The other tragedian then commenced his go-as-you-please, walk around preparatory to shuffling off. It stents that he also had made calculations to die on . this desirable spot, and finding himself

balked in i;his, he determined to fail as near the center as possible. As the circle of "White's staggering became smaller, Little became visibly uneasy, Hebore it manful ly, however, until White began to totter if ready to drop. Then his courage left him, and casting aside every regard for appearances, he electrified the audience by

sitting up suddenly and-, crawling nearer to the wings, when he again lays himself out. 1 Thiu was - too much for the audience, and it k safe to say that never was a he mvy tragedy 'ended amid such shouts of laughter as was Venice Preserved that night. ' s The other in cidont occurred at Mc Vleker's theater, Chicago, in those good old days wiien sti ciw com:anits llourished. and the bill was changed week! v. This necessitated a crroist doad

In theolysium Prepared for the i of studvinflrandhastil votnrjoofltumes.

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Rcmaneos of Arizona Mining. Los Angelos Herald. Six months ago a middle-aged man, a former resident of Gospel .Swamp, had to borrow money to. buy a burro to go to Santa Catariua MouiiUuns prospecting.-. He sold, the other day.

a mine for 10,000; and has better mines still for sale." Another former

resident of Los Angelos discovered a mine in the Dragoon Mountains and kindlY placed a friend in the claim.

After a while he was offered $75,000 for

it; and finding the other halt owner

discovered that he was in an advanced stage of intoxication. The whiskyeyed individual , who had not put a dollar ia the claim, concluded: 11 Worth

a million if itTs worth a cent. Won't sell for $75:000. Our Wives will be

dressed in silk down in Los Anffelofl.'1

The result was the parlies bought out

the sober partner, and are now en

gaged itu freezing out the would-be

millionaire. Another instance and

will leave mining matters. A certain

miner here owed a merchant $110, and

on coming to nay his note had only

$100. The merchant tore up the note,

remarking that "it was all right. Put

me on some chum that you discover. "

flM.ic niinrii' ilifl 5 Hi -ill f mi rtl ft, l iYi fin i.

U( ! l.iVJ VU1IIU UHi) since i been sold for $40,000.

A New Hampshire farmer recently agreed to sell his farm for $2,000, but when the day came he told the ex? peetant purchaser that his wife was in hysterica about the trade, and ho 41guessed he'd have to back out" The

purchaser complainetl,aUdll ualiy a ked how much more would Induce him to sell. " VVell," replied the thrif ty son. of the Granite State, "give me $250 more ind wellet her cry4 ' 1

KnoxvUie (Tonn.) Tribune.

Some years ago, but little hunting having been done for som6 time, the

wolves became very numerous :is well

as very destructive, not only m (southwestern . Virginia, but fearfully so in Westerri North Carolina; so much so that but fews&eepbad escaped them in the vicinity of the Black, Yellow and Boau Mountains, in Iip .yan Winkle's dominicJis. The fame of Wilburn Waters m sn intrepid and suooessful hunter s.nd trapper having goue out into the country, a number of farmers and stoc'rc-raisers, whose folds had been broken up and scattered some sixty in all drew, up an obligation to give him one sheep each for every wolf he would capture, iu addition to the So bounty given by the county for each scalp. Wilburn accepted tho proposition and killed several wolves, but the

depredations continued. He again started on the hunt. According to CoaleTs life, he held out faithfull y.

though the wolves led him from mountain to noun tain and from gorge to

gorge, to great distances and for wee&3.

But when he returned, he. brought the

scalps rot only of all that gang, but of others, making iu all forty-two wolves in his Winters hunt. Besides these

ho captured during the hunt a number

of catamounts, a lew bears, an otter or two, and any number of wild turkeys and otl er small game. During the same general hunt he

had au exciting time with a detachment o.! five wolves that had wander edoff to some great distance from the same g.xng. He was entirely alone, without even a dog, high up one of the tall peaks of the Iloan Mountain, and sev eral miles away from the uearesrt human habitation. The live wolves he was in search of were two old ones and three half-grown. They had destroyet . a great deal of , stock in the range, as well as the adjacent valleys, running out dogs that bad been put up n l Lie trail, and even evincing a U odcion to attack mim when alouo, WiPni.u bad found .."sign," and had follow d up a tall cliff near the summit of one of the highest and most inaccessible peaks in the range. It was x xi It r v , d rural v, day, and, Lav! ng ;reaiH fatigued himself working his vrav Uj through the tangled vines and tauVt1! im;ie?, and climbing over and round strep and ragged precipices, he i.-y dp n to rest under a shelving rock iu rell asliep. In about an hour he i freshed, and,, crawling out of hfc ruling place, he found that the old leader of The gang had leenaecounoiteriug while he filpt, and had passed along on a ledge a few feet below him. Picking up his gun and tomahawk, ,h' lor' it the track, and on approaching a precipice he saw ihe old male wolf at its base quietly licking his chops and appaicntly winding prey or an" enemy in the dislance. Stealthily advancing within convenient range. Wiburn brou it his. shotgun to bear a ud fired, wSsit the largest and most formidable wolf of the gang fell and died without a struggle. Securing .the skin, he made his way with great difficulty to the top of the precipice, and there, just beyond the turn of the summit, he faw the four others, three of them gamboling like puppies around the dam, not hav ing hiarri the report of the gun under th e c 1 i f f. They were in a u open place, and it was very difficult to get within range without being seen, heard or winded, but be made out to "snake" in to with i forty yards of them and "pulled down.7 Two of them dropped deao, but the old dam and one of the cub? escaped into a cavern near by. Having started out with the determination of capturing-the whole family, he wont to digging with a sharpened stictt : he soon reached the old one, whioh was too large to get far into the hole-, drew her out by the hind legs and tiea her feet together. He had to widen the passage for a distance of ten or twelve feet before he could reach the othn. The whole, after being thiiB worked out, was barely large enough to admit his body, and, it being impossible for the wolf to escape, he had. to meet it face to -face All that he could see of the animal was its eyes, which shona like two balls of fire in the darkness of the cavern, and, having no room, to operate with gun or tomahawk, he cautiously slipped his hand over the wolfs head, gr isped it by the neck, brought it out, and tied it as he had ihe other. He then marched out int) the settlement with two live wolves and three skins, without having received a scratch or wasting a load of ammunition. The day's work brought him $172. made up by the setr tle:s whose stock had been destroyed ami whose lives had been menaced by

the gang.

Expert Pistol Shooting.

New York World

For ten weeks past a series of tests

at pistol shootiug has been in progress at -she shooting-gallery of J. S. Cottliu,

No. 1,222 Broadway. The pistol used

is of 22 caliber, with a barrel of ten or eleven inches long, and a very light

trigger-pull -in fact a dueling-pistorof thi old handle style, ex 'opt for the

hair-trigger and large bore. The shoot

ing, according to the conditions of the

tomnameot, woicn closed lasc even-

ing, was sti"Ciiy ou uaua, was open: to

ail comers ana was aiviueu into ten stages of one week each, with a ditfer-

ei)'; sore of target or mark every weeK.

A riong the competitors were (Joionei

IT. G. Litchneld, the head or the .de-

pa" tment of rifle practice on General Hancock's staff; Colonel J. J. Dunn.

tho champion pistol shot, and Colonel

Ii.iVY. Wicaham. Dr. jj. t. t. warsn,

Win. M. Chase, tlie artists; D. A. Da vis, of the New York club; ex-

Justice Smith, Pierre jjoriliaxti,jr.; Captain L C. Bruce the holder. of the

best long-range rifle-match record, and It S. Giftord. The first week a measurement target was shot at and Mr. Chase was the winner, his 10 shots at. 10 yards aggregating 5j inches of distances from the center of the bull'seye, at 15 yards 6 inches and at 20 yards 9 inches or for the center 30 slots 20J inches,, which means that every one of the shots would have kit a trade dollar. Tho target of the sec ond week was a quarier-iueh bullot, or small buckshot hur.g by a thread at 21 feet distance. In ten shots I). A Davis hit seven of the pellets. At 30 feet ten bullets, each one-half an inch in diameter, were mini liar ly suspended a,i id Mr. Davis hit five. At 45 feet the bullets were three-quarters of an inch in diameter and he hit three. The. third week was devoted to shooting Mat the word," 10 shots at 10 viirds at a ready measurement target. Tbe marker calls out: "Fireone

two three,' 1 at half second intervals, and in the IK seconds thust covered the aiarksman rami roise his pistol, aim and fire. Dr. Marsh made the winning score of 5J inches total measurement for. the 10 shots, the whole 10 shots iu each case coming within the compass of a a silver dime. Mr. Coase's score was 5f inolie, and Colonel Dunn scored 5 inches, Mr. LorillartVa score was 7 inches. In tho fourth week the shooting was $t a wooden ball, swuug through an arc of ten feci chord. The marksmen stood 30 feet off. Dr. Marsh hit 14 consecutively, and Mr Lor i'. lard 11. The. filth week's work, whs at f-inoh

bullets suspended ten yards off, before a white back-grou nd. In 20 shots each, D. A. Davis and Dr.. Marsh were tied at 12 hit8.: Wm. 0. Southwick, of Dey street, scored 11 . The uext week tlie marksmen drove tfriks. A row of '10 ordinary taeks were stuck into a vhite painted board Dr. Marsh 'drove iu (3 und Du nu 11. The sevei i th week w as employed in maliiug holes in card board targets of the Wimbledon .. pattern, reduced for ten yard's dis tance. Mr. H. W. Wickham and I)f. Marsh each put nine sjaots iiito tjio inch

bull's-eye, but Dr. Marsh's,, tenth shot was one-eigth of an inch away from ihe black center, while Mr. ' Vickham's tenth shot was but 1-16 away, and the latter won. The eigthth week was a variation of the fifth. The j-iuch bullets were set swinging at least IS inches from side to "side, while the marksmen stood 21 feet off. Dr. Marsh n 20 shots hit 16 bullets. Mr. Wickham 14 and Mr. M. Davis 8, For the ninth week the target was a ten of spades, and Mr. Davis cut out nine of the spots successively, but a tremer from a passing omnibus sent the tenth

shot less than one-eighth inch oft tlie remaining spot, J. B. Miller scored five hits and Dr. Marsh hit seven spots.. Last week was devoted to shooting at fifteen yards at a Creedmoor target with a one-inch bull's-eye, Marsh and Davis tied at 4S, each having eight bull's-eyes and two very close shots. Dr, Marsh, .however, had won the championship. Under-Ground Wires in England Chicago Times. The laying of wires under ground was commenced as far back as 1837 by a private firm: and on the success of

the method having beeu established it

became the oreyaihag one within the

limits of all cities. It may be said, at

this noitit. as bearing evidence that the

English are not very nrosressive, or

that they reached the proper conclu

sion at the very beginning of their ex

periments that the method which was

decided on in 1848 is substantially the one which is in use at this time, both

as to the mauner of laying the wares

and the process ol covering them.

About the only difference between now and then is to be found in the use

of smaller wire, the abandonment of the "guttapercha mechanical joint," and the substitution of a different opening into the iron pipes from the exterior. The pipes are about nine . feet in length and four inches iu diameter. A pipe of this diameter will hold one hundred and twenty-eight "wires of "No. 7 gauge prepared," while n three inch pipe will contain te verity-two wires, although it is considered that this number will have the5 eJfect to crowd the interior. The pip-as are nine feet long, and previous to being laid are well cleaned inside by having a heavy chain or mandril drawn to and fro to rub ofl" any superfluous substance left in casting. The socket joints are pocked with tarred yarn, and lead run in as is done in case of water and gas pipes. A greet deal of care is exercised to' prevent the lead from running iu the pipe, for the reason that the effect of contact on the wire;? of the lead would be deleterious. As a rule, the pipes arc laid under the sidewalks, although in ?ome instance which I have witnessed since coming here, they are laid in the street close to the curb-stone. "Flush-boxes" two feet and six inches long, eleven inches wide, and one foot deep, are fixed fifty or one hundred yards apart, according to the number of wires required and the nature of the streets. The amount of underground wire in use by the government is about 10,000 miles. Of course between towns the wires are carried overhead! The cost of .laying the wires is at the rate of $100 per mile for each wire. A four inch pipe has a inaximun capacity of 128 No. 7 wire; and it has been shown that, while the instillation f.s substantial ly com pie te the diff eren ce of speed between an underground &nd an overhead wire is a noticeable one, there being in the case of the former a retradaion of about oue won! a minute

mile in a circuit of 1,000 miles.

the opinion of sensible people, Monaco f

wuuiu uc ijuiM? ua tiLtnvuilv .11.. xne gam Wing rooms were forthwith closed. Taere is, perhaps, no spot in Europe, certainly noue in Franco or Italy, ep porfect as Monte Carlo, Everything there has a charm of which it is useless to attempt description, and. which only those who have seen it car. appreciate. Even the overgilded arid altogether too magnificent t neater seems, when one is at Monte Carlo,, tasteful and proper. It would not loofc like a work of good taste in the pale blues and grays of Paris, but under the bril

liant Italian sky, and by the side of the Mediterranean w&ter, its excess of. ornimentatioti is pardonable. The gardens are beyond praise. Terrace after terrace rises from the water, loaded, like the beautiful Islands in Lago Maggimore, with semi-tropical shrubs and plants, with geraniums, aloes, palma

chrystis, myrtles, palms worthy of Africa, and orange and lemon trees. The picturevsque fortress, thp curious little port, the bath-houses, and the infinite n Limber ot beautiful walks and drives, furnish all the amusement which the ordinary man can desire. But the fashionable world has dictated that the most fragrant vices of the cities shall be conspicuous in this earthly paradise, and the result is that pig eon shooting by absurd French and English noblemen, in costumes copied from the Opera Comique, gambling aid late

suppers, ana mration with the worst

PITH AND POINT.,!

O

Pbrynes of the boulevard, shall be the chief occupations, and furnish the most conspicucons eights in the principality. It is a biting comment ou tho silliness of the rich that they can ihiuk of nothing better than that which they adopt during their winter refuge in the land oi:' the sun. -

Life.

Each wire, J may add is eoated with

giittapenma, A Fable, THE FOX'S ADVICE TO MUS HARE. Detroit Free Press. One day a fox discovered a fine chance to capture a pullet for his dinner, the only drawback being the fact that the farmer had set a trap just iu the path which any depredator must travel. In this emergency the hungry Reynard hunted around until he found a hare, and after few remarks on the state of the weather, the scramble for office, the Whit taker investigation and the Turkish question, he said: I was just thinking, as I overtook you, what imprudence some folks have." "How?" "Why, I. met Miss Pullet it short t ; me s i nee, and sh e boan ted o f bei n g able to out-run you." "The brassy creature!" exclaimed the hare. "Why, I ca?a run as fast as she can fly." "Certainly you can; but she's doing ou great injury among your friends hy. her stones. If X were you I'd see her and warn her that this thing must stop." 'LVJI do.it! .1 was built for speed, and everybody knows it, ami I won't have no pullet boasting that sbe can outrun me. Come along and show me where she is," "Well, F31 go as a special favor to you, of course,' humbly replied the kvAy "and to show Pullet wnat the foxes think of the hares. I will let; you take the lead and follow in your footsteps."

As they neared the coop tho hare berran .to" arrange a: little speech of j greeting, but he soou had other fish, to fry. He walked infj the trap with eyes wide open, and ere be had recovered from the shock tbe fox had ee- ,

cured his dinner. "Say! Say! I'm, caught!" . yelled tho hare as be struggled with the trap. "So I observe," was the reply. ? . , "And what is your advice?" ; "To get-away as soon as you can!" mohal: Every neighborhood scandal has three lies to one truth. No person becomes a tale-bearer except to forward some scheme of his own.' When a fox is anxious to preserve the reputation of a hare, let the hare look out Gambling at Monaco, . Kdward King In Boston Journal. The gambling at Monaco is generally at its height in December and January, but there'is a boatdeeaison toward the end of March, whe n the bs nk makes a little fortune out of the inexperienced travelers who are seduced into gam-

hlinir. Those who were at iiomoourfl

ten years ago would rind little new in the gaming , tables at Monaco. The same Bussiaus, Germans, English. Irish, and Americans who -frequeuted the beautiful watering place near Frankfort may b-3 seen at Monte Carlo They seem to live on uu ch anged , 5 or the excitement of that terrible over nervous man or woman who rushes onto commit suicide after a heavy loss A few moment's reflection make the

disasters seem less and less irreparable Every year there are very sad cases at; Monaco, uases. of young girls witb small resources whose cupidity iv awakened, and who lose their all ant get iu to disgrace at Nice or Ca nnes and cases of employes in prominem:

positions who play with money thai

does not belong to mera. uu uio fessional gambler it is not worth while to waste auv compassion. Whoi Monaco is closed, he will go to the place that remains open. He is incorrigible, and his life is so twisted out of shapo that it can bo of no use to himself or anyone else. There are a large nuro bei of Russians and Germans who play boldly at Monaco, but who never conns to grief. These people have very largo incomes, and tliey systematically devote a third, or .perhaps sometimes onehalf cf their yearLv resources to the gambling table. They take pride in sitting with immense rolls of Napoleons and bundles of 1,000 franc note-

imt'n.i, i!rtt kA T'lfi M ttif inn nf-n. v.iK

number in 'Ihe gray morning jdvfiM them pleuty to talk about furaweeg , But they never go beyond a limit,. ami sheiv bodies never decorate the rocky shores of tho .Mouaoo jnomoutory, In

Threo men Struggling for-

Helena (Montana) Herald. A story of almost incredible endurance and fortitude comes from the far. W est with the reports of flods and snow-storms. Three men ic eluding, E. D. N. Cooke, superintendent of the stage line, started from Fort Fetterman, on the uppper North Platte river, for Rock Creek station, on the Union

Pacific railroad, on a buc.kboard drawn oy two powerful horses. Tho snow was falling fast and drifting ba:dly, and before they had reached the twenty-two-m iie station they, had completely lost the trail and the horses Were suffered to wander about guided only by their own instinct. After a time "they loft the buckboard behind them and endeavored to push toward on horseback. At one point Mr, Foote was nearly kill ed by his horse, which fell backward into a snow drift eight. feet deep. After this the horses were abandoned, and (he men struggled along on foot, and hands, faces and feet being badly frozen. The three men had their sacks of mail and a ca rvas overcoat. The first man would stand on his mailsack and throw the coat ahead of bim, allowing him to take one step. Then each man would follow on, step, ... by step, and the last man, picking up the fourth's bag, would heave it a i.ead for :he first one to step on. In this way ;hoy made something like three miles, and when the third night set in they oegan calling for help, and in half an hour or so were answered. Dther 'calls were made, and they were again ,ani wered by the tlri ng of a gui i , but the wind was so strong they could not form an idea of the . direction it came from. Again and again they called., and finally a light was seen ; and in an hour and a half they made the last quarter of a mile, finding themselves at the stage station, twenty-eight miles from the starting point. The driver had .to be dragged the last quarter of a mile, and Mr. Foote says: "When I knew that I was safe It seemed impossible for mo to walk. I fell, down twice m making the last few yards from the stable, I had no strength to walk, and after entering the barn I. could not eat"

Speak English, Pray ! New York Sou. There was severity in the words.and in the sound of them, as they were turned upon the proprietor of the London Telegraph by the editor of the London Truth, in court,a few days ago Mr. Labouchere when cross-examining Mr. Lawson in the libel suit that has been amusing Englishmen during the past fortnight, had a question, in the answer to which Mr. Lawson spoke of uhis father and his entourage. " 'Speak English, pray Vs cried Mr. Iiiibouchere as the French word struck his ear. The words of the London editor have a Shakespearean jing about them. It; i3 good advice. Tha speakers anl writers of English should keep within the English lines. There are Words in our language for all the thoughts 'of every man who in telle ctu&iiy sane. It isYich in words of thinking, feeling, and description." What notion ever grew in your head, what thing have you ever seen with your eye, that you could not tell of in English? : Mr. Labouchero's advice is good for editors. It is good for the editor of the World, who, knowing many languages is apt to jump over th ' English at times. It is good for all those reporters who are apt io. think a French or Latin word has a neat look in their sketches. It is good advice for college professors and school teachers to give to their studon Is and sell olavs, an d 1 3 keep to themsel ves. Speak English, pray ! ,'. It is good advice ftir preachers. The great men of tho pulpit, iiud words enough for their thoughts in the English language. f It is good advice for boot wiiteis,. including uovelists, We have seen, a novel, presumed to be in thi: English

I on ff tie, nearly every-pae oi - vnion was

so rink led with words of f'tber lan

suage

huudt

writer of it was a woman. Ttisirood iidvicafor all sorts

conditions oi men whose native speech

tbe English. Speak EogiMi, pr?.y I

es,not to be understood by one in a I red' of the novel's readers. The

and

And she wrote lu a handwriting ;lerfey,' ,r And sue talked with an em pbasis Jerky j . And she painted on tales , .: In the sweetest of styles, . . 4 But she didn't know chicken from-turkey. "The poor ye have with ye always,"! out the rich go away in the aummer3 time, .. Thermometers reform late in life: they never become sitmpeiat(! untiK nearly 60. 3 ? f y : - :p. Mines have been discovereel in St. Petersbu rg. Aa tliey are genuine ones, : it is not likely that these willcoyer rfe quoted on the marketPuck. An exchancre sneaks of a Chicaero

man who "has one foot, in the grave." Presume its all they could get ia without enlarging the cenaeteryBoston.r; Post. rJ ..- " A Boston musiciayu has just written for a soprano voice, a biBautiful song r entitled "Would that I were Young: -Again." So much time wasted. The woman can't be found who will sing it., "Archimedes, you say, disco vered specific gravity, on getting into his" f bath; why had the principle never be4

fore occurred to mmr' "rroDaeiy thia was the first time he x eyer toofoa;: s bath." Harvard Lampoon. ; ," An Ottawa policeman arreted two; ? respectable young women in that cilg. ' one day last week because they were' wearing "loud" hats. His object, asf: he explained, was to 'teach them jho;w;; to dress quietly in the future," :. ? A northern paper praises the"Indiari Kair Restorer." He is a fraud. No Indian was ever known to restore any hair. He riles it away as a certiftcite s on which to draw jration from Uncle

A man was found dead near Lapeerr

Mich., with a whisky bottle in his poeket. It is said that he was an edit tor; but that is impossible. The idea is ridiculous. Tlie bottle was half full . of whisky. . ' , ; : Harriet Beecher Stowe :wriies ai poem 0:1 "The Other World,'? the firat line reading: "It lies around us like a cloud ." A good many people who are r going to that "other world" are also f

lyiiijfi: around like natural horn iiaiaf . Jpulton Times. , ." ",

A small boy in New York pohce court being asked the other day if he knew what would happen to him if fcer testlfieii falsly; replied " "Yes, sir; FlU

be damned if I do." At first the judge

was disposed to fine him for contempt, , but on brushing up ids theology Jhe saw the boy was right ; ' K v. , : " Bnt, my dear fellaV said the ne wl y- arrived Englisliman to the Gal-. . vi-ston hackrdriver who had called him 'colonel;' but, my deah fellah, don't belong to the army, yer . knows, .That don't make any diiicrence; here; in Galveston we call almost every loaf- -: er and deadbeat colonel pr major. Have: a kerridge,. general?r 'Galveston I Kews. 'f ..... .. '- A personal item says: "General Butler goes to St Thomas for the purpose of visiting the grave of his father, who who is buried there." If he had been buried in New Jersey, we don't suppose the General would have felt enough interest in the St. Thomas grave to have visited it. It is always best to bury a man where his gravein. i: Norristown Herald . "Why is it that t wo souls, mated in tr tbe impenetrable mystery , of their V . nativity, float by eash other on the ocean currents of existence without -being instinctively drawn together, , blended aud beautified in the assimilative alembic Of eternal love?" s'gbed ", the fair Bostonion, gazing through the . window at the dtaistudded belt; of Orion ; after wbieii she plunged herv arms elbow deep into the foaming., wah-tub, and wondered what Ralph Waldo Emerson would think of her if he could seel her now- Brooklyn Eagle. , S

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O :o of Kapoleon's Boldiers. s Loudon TelegmpU. Another of ihe First Napoleon's veterans, a'survfcjorof tfaatrand Annee' whose exploits ftUed.so many irlorious pa ges o f en ch m il itary a n u als, lias passed away at the patriiVehal age' of one nun 1 red aud six yeans. Jacques Lftmbertfconunoniy spoken of through

I the neighborhood of the Hue Balagnv, I in which he had redded for nearly huif

a century previously to his decease, as 'Father Lambert") entered Ivleber's corps as a volunteer eighty years ajo, and took an active share in the Afric an campaigns of 1805.. 1806 and 1812. Shortly after the Restoration he obtain ed his discbarge from the service with a small pension, upon which, and the proceeds of a handicraft, he contrived rosupport himself respectably for many years. It is stated that his pension wafi.- augmented under the Second Empire to an amount sufficient to relieve him from the necessity of supplementing it by m anual labor in his extreme old age. The venerable warrior died in the mkijHfc of coovival surroundings. He had been invited to a friend's house to crack a bottle with some acquaintances, eager to listen to his campaigning stories ofc by-gone days, and was sitting at table, holding forth on his r vori to topic, Ihe Egyptian expeditions, when be suddenly ell back in hlsehairand was dead without groan or struggle.

Who Fought m the Wax. The following (igures have b3en published, giving, it is said, the exact number and nationality of sold iers who were engaged on the union side in the ulate unpleasantness

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Tho new Czar 1 leads a very simple life, t He rises early and takes a long walk ; then breakfasts with the family. After dinner he spends a lone time in amusing himsel f with hii? children. The vdfe of Oliver Wendell Hohns, Jr., is exhibting her embroiderye, work in New York, and it is said to be tho handsomest and . most elaborate ever executed byi any American, lady. SCO.,.;? :.-.:.-,;.' ': "m The Chinese Minister lenipotentiary. the Ms rquife Tseng; who gs traveling in Earope, wilt not demean v himeelf bv sleeping on the beds used, by outer barbarians, and so he carries; his steeping appai-atus with him. r Barnum is not to be outdone in . thea 4tbeaatiiful women'- matter, and it is said bis enterprising agents havecabled Lily Langtry, the celebrated Eughsh beauty ,to corae over and they'll give her a chance. Mrs; Langtry hm notr been heard from. - ,,. , ; Richard Wagner, the composer, has a cat which sleeps on his bed and eafe with him :t- the table. He: has aiwflvs had a - predilection foi cats,, having owned more than 100 duringthe last forty, yeais. He : has everr fonv. d musical ideas 1$ thminigHt . trilogies of his pet. v . rt Aq intelligent witness was ontlio stand 5 a a Bead wood lawsuit, and the , lawver asked him : JVo ?ou; know ; Jennie Dry sdale!" r Yes, sir." V 4 What is her reputation for trujh and veraalivY i Weil, her reputation for-truth is good, but I can't say - as much for her reputation for veraci ty; I'm afraid it teaHr first-classs.' ' & ; , i "Heiiry in so practical !f' said Mrs., Youngwife. 11 When mother went into the country last year he sent all her things after her the next day; he said she might want some, of them, you trnr.w. And it's kiad o' funny," she

vei t , umother did want t hem, for 1 j. he has never come hack to live with j

us si nee. vv asnt u queer f -viuiuiv, A telegram from Ottawa reports that ' a sbort lime ago a young man in Gloucester township, Canada, hadthe brecch-pin of a gun, two and a half inches iuilength, imbedded iii his skull y it being fractured and the lram nAnutm . und that ths pin waa Wfeir:

moved by a surgeon, and tbe young

man revived from his comatose couditioa and is now about all right again. We have received since 1790 Xha aggretrate of over 10,750,000 foreign immierants, and more tlian eight millions of them have landed on our shores sinco 1850, in the last thirty" yeais. Is is accordingly easy to ac count for the 6h677, 56u foreiguttorn in

habitants rounu in tne country oy (09 census of 1SS0. When we remember than tbe eia:ht millions of foreigners Who have come to us since IStfO are mone plilic than theold native popu- - r latlout and that emigration is not nsmllv under takerrexcept during the ' most active years of maturity, . we, H , must attribute to them a largo part of our u ati iral 3 n crease in population . Of our rlttv millions of inhabitants they and thf ir deiCendeats make up a frats?; tion which we cannot yet determine

from the census, out it is unquestion-

ablv a great oneabove onintn, probably. These imm grants of thirty years have modified our national

characteristics, aicecteu our ivuiuu

Mionffbt and nractice. ana CLwuxm

many of our social eustomsf And they ' will go on increasing,- both by oirtbs n a uv i w ftiifl titl greater accessions

from aoroaa.

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ft

STatlvt? AroerieiuiS..

cipi-mau Irish - y. RrltisU Anuu-lea ? Otlier-ftirelgiMta Kullrfh Foteigneis nnisnowO- ... .....

15,300

5.18

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Total mimpcr ;2,0is,2W

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Xjylsi year uww . - ; 2 h i

larger aggregate' immigration tnan; i .-fjm wo'ha.1 beiore witnessed, and this year. ;. is likely to parallel ic in that resieotv - jfcTfcLB

TP fhft tirovftl'itV UCOii

entered continues, we shalli prolw bly j$ . lOQ't iir.f 1?XA . f m A

re?,3iye wnvt-cu. ; 1 aou w four til live million settleis from, abroad, and (hen at least a thirl of the. popn anai of the United States will be composed of the foreign born anrf the desceodents of the immigrat ts who

landed here dudag: the fowy

from laoOlp itAf : ji

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