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Secret akt J?olger!$ minu'ce attention to the business of the Treasury Department is illustrated in a story told by one of the Washington correspondents A friend calling in and finding him, as usual, busy with some minor details, saiji; "Judge, I find there is one thing here yon do not da" "What is that?" inquired Mr. Folger. "You don7t run the elevator," said his friend. According to the Lumberman's Gazette, paper bottles are now largely manufactured in Germany and Austria. They are made of rags, wood pulp, and straw, and are coated on both sides with defribrinated blood, lime, and alumina. They are manufactured in two parts, and are submitted to a high pressure. When completed they will hold spirits, acid, etc, and are not easily broken. Their cost is very low. The faces of Europeans, as a rule, are broader than those of Americana The common distance in this country between the centers of the eyes is three and three-eighths inches, bjit among foreigners it is three indies and a half. Sometimes t&is is increased from one to three-eighths of an inch more. If spectacles are worn with the frames too narrow, the focus of one eye conflicts with that of the other, and an effect is produced very similar to that of being cross-eyed. A most dainty incident is related of the little daughter of Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who recently celebrated her third birthday. The festivities of the occasion greatly delighted the soul of the wee maiden, who evidently thought a birthday was something to be kept when once found, for when, on the following morning,
she woke to hnd the world once more running in its everyday grooves, she looked all about, and then cried out:
Oh manuna, where is my birthday."
Some of the cleverest detectives in New York are women. They are of the different types of beauty andfmind calculated to gain this or that man's confidence and learn bis secrets. One is coquettish, another has a deeply religious exterior, yet another is a delightful musician sings well or sketches cleverly. They may be sent to follow up their prey in Europe, and may even leant to love him, so dangerous is propinquity but then there is the Nemesis the fateful report to be made to 'the inspector" when they return. The famous Chinese Viceroy,LiHung Chang, whom General Grant declared to be the greatest statesman he met on his tour around the world, was a friend of General Gordon. On the occasion of Gordon's last visit to China he became so disgusted with the state of affairs politically in that country that he sought the Viceroy and offered to make him emperor. "Give me 8,000 me," he exclaimed, "and I will march on Pekin and declare you emperor. But Li declined, and now has the pain of seeing all of Gordon's fears realized.
Chbistopheb Matthews, a Lynchburg lad, is a rival to the numerous magnetic girls, his specialty being the moving of heavy tables, with men opposing him A heavy oak table, which his father owns, has been badly used by him, send, is now under repair. A few nights ago, it is alleged, he kept a table suspended in the air at a neighbor's house with four or five men attempting with all their strength to get it to the flow. At another time he "literally tore a large dining table into fragments while several men were working with all their might to wrest it from him.9
Whes Dumaafe bootmaker went down to the Castle of Monte Cristo to collect the prices of a pair of boots, Dumps would welcome him with delight, order more boots, send him into the gardens to watch the Arabians carving a Moorish pavilion, breakfast and dine with him on the choicest food, give him bouquets for his wife and fruits for his children, command a carriage to take him to the station, and slip a Napoleon into his hand for railway fare. All this repeated many times for a debt of $20l "You never 'thou' me as you do others, the bootmaker complained. "Well, thou means lend me fifty louia, was Dumas's reply. The Greely party sailed July 7, 1881, a few days after President Garfield was shot. The last news they received at St. Johns was encouraging, and they believed he had recovered. More than two years elapsed, during which they were utterly cut off from communication with their fellow-men, so that some meager scraps of newspapers which ha& been used as wrapping paper were treasured like gold. They were spread out, put together, and eagerly scanned. President Arthur waa alluded to, and they then knew the fatal issue of the assassin's shot. The loss of the Jeannette was mentioned, and they supposed the entire crew had perished. The word "dude appeared in the print.
wero fhe controversies regarding its signification. One of the first interrogatories uttered from the throat of the feeble survivors aa they eaw approaching the rescuing party was: "What is a dudo?" A very extraordinary diamond of no less than 457 carats has been shipped from South Africa and sold by a London firm to a syndicate of diamond merchants. The color equals, if not excels, that of the floes t India diamonds, and in the opinion of competent judges it will cut to a perfect and lustrious brilliant. In drop shape it will weigh as nearly as can be estimated about 220 carats. The brilliant will, therefore, exceed in weight all the historical diamonds. The Koh-i-noor weighs 100 carats, the Regent of France 136 carats, and the Orlooff, which was cut for weight, 195. In size, color, purity, and quality, it is expected to prove to be the most marvelous stone ever known. Treasuey finding by dreams has not yet gone out of fashion. A case has recently happened in Walton Grove, Georgia, which is calculated to place in the shade all such occurrences of ancient as well as modern history. Miss Laura Sheburt was the dreamer. Before her imaginary gaze was sp read the panorama of the surrounding country. A young man, elegantly dressed and ornamented with a red necktie, stepped up to her, and, pointing out a certain spot, told her to dig, and wealth would be hers. Just then she awoke, and the young man was gone, but the money of the dream so troubled her that she slept no more that night. The other night the dream was substantially repeated. The third night she again had the dream, which so impressed her that on the following morning she went out, and, sure enough, at the designated spot, about two feet under the ground, she found a small tin box filled with gold coins. There are witnesses both to the finding and digging up of the box of gold. The whole community is excited over the finding of the treasure.
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A resident of Hartford, Connecticut, is the possessor of a tortoise shell which has an interesting history. The oldest date on the shell is 1851, underneath which is the name of Charles H. Cook, a Litchfield man, who at that time worked for Mr. Tuttle's father. Next in order is the date 1856, followed by the name of George L Allen, who came over from Goshen to work as a farm hand. Three years later the peripatetic turtle was picked up by Orrin L. Hopkins, who further embellished him with his initials and the year of grace 1859. Twenty-one years later, in 1880, he was discovered again, and this time he bore away with him the jackknife carving of J. L. Tuttle, 1880. The same year Mrs. Ellen M. Hopkins put her initials on him. In 1882 Frank L. Hopkins captured the veteran and left his initials on him. A week ago last Friday the perambulating hieroglyphic was again espied by Mr. Tuttle, who put him in a milk barrel tha the might have a substantial milk diet before proceeding on his way that being the process of fattening insects of this species for market. Saturday morning, when taken from his milk bath, the old fellow showed signs of approaching dissolution, and in the course of the day yielded up his spirit. Writers who know of what they say, state that were it not for Mr. Gladstone the new English suffrage bill would have given the ballot to women. The radicals and advanced reformers have been committed since the time of John Stuart Mill to the cause of woman's suffrage; but the more conservative Liberals and Whigs of England are opposed to taking what they call a "leap in the dark." They actually fear the bulk of the women would cast their ballots for the Tory party. They say women dislike change, they are impressed by rank and public station, and would side with courts, kings, and nobles in any contest with the people. And it really seems as if many of the Tories are eager to confer suffrage upon women The late Lord Beaconsfield always voted that way when in the House. Sir Stafford Korthcote, the Tory leader in the pi'esent Commons, avowed his intention of supporting woman's suffrage. There is, it seems, a clear majority of the House of Commons who hold that view, but Prime Minister Gladstone, while not cemmiting himself against woman's suffrage, declares that he will introduce no such changs in the electoral, system of England while he is in power. The question is to be settled after he has passed away.
Khartoum in the Native Mind of Africa Kartoum is a name that is known among the wildest savages of equatorial Africa who never heard of Paris or London ; to them it is the center of all that is great, and it is the capital of everything. The abandonment of Khartoum would, in their estimation, be the disruption of a central power, which would imply impotence. The slave hunters have been suppressed by the authority from Khartoum, and the force required for that suppression has emanated from that center of strength and government; if, therefore, Khartoum should be abandoned, the protection that was the support of loyal tribes of the interior would have been withdrawn, the supporting power would have been overthrown, and the slave
beard it before, and many and sharp ant. Sir Samuel Bakeh
HIS WEDDING TRIP.
The Transmigrations ol an Anecdote Illustrated by a Bright Kxample. There is a story about a wedding trip that has been knocking about the country for some time. We have tried to keep it outof the "Drawer," but it is no use to kick against it any longer. It was first told to the "Drawer" editor in October, 1883, by a clergyman of strict temperance principles and high character in fact, a total abstainer who had it from a friend o his, first-hand, who had just returned from the west. This friend, mind you., saw and heard what he related, and he was a person of undoubted veracity, though perhaps as an abstainer, when traveling, not so total as the clergyman. It was, in brief, to this effect : In a car on a train from Toledo to Chicago was a man who sat alone, look ng absently out of the window and appearing dejected. During the passage an incident happened to a newsboy and the generous passengers passed round the hat for him. ihe solitary man alone of all the car full refused to contribute anything, not even a quarter. Somebody remarked audibly upon his stinginess, when he turned round and said: "Gentleman, it may appear strange to you that I give nothing ; but I haven't a cent of money. The fact is, I was married yesterday, and I am on my wedding trip, and I hadn't money enough to bring my wife along." In December following the editor of the "Drawer" was seated with two other gentleman in a library in New York. One oMhem said: "I heard a good story the other day from a friend of mind who had just returned from Europe. Going down the Danube from Pesth last summer he noticed on the steamboat a melancholy-looking man,
who did not appear to care much for the scenery.but leaned upon the guards and vacantly regarded the river. Fall-
lnsr mto conversation with him he as
certained that the man was a Prussian.
Remarking that the journey did not
seem to interest him, the Prussian said :
'No: I'm rather loansome. The truth
is I'm on my wedding tour, and I could
not afford to bring my wile.
t The editor of the "Drawer" said it
was a good story, and that he began to think it was true, as it was confirmed bv so many independent witnesses.
Thereupon Lie took from his pocket a
letter which he had received that morn
ing from Paris. In it the writer, a gen
tleman of culture and travel, said that
a curious incident happened to him
last summer. He and his wife were on
a Rhine steamer, when they noticed a
melancholy passenger whom all the beauties of the scenery failed to rouse
from his dejection. He was an object
of interest to them all the morning, and at length his wife's sympathy was so much excited that she proposed to go
and speak to the melancholy stranger and find out the cause of his sadness.
The husband said that would be a fool
ish thing to do, and she might get into trouble. But the wife insisted (for though American women have little curiosity, they have warm hearts), and crossed over to where the stranger stood, and accosted him, and they engaged iu conversation. In a few mo
ments the lady returned laughing. "What is it?" asked the husband. "Why, the man is a South German. He says that he is on his wedding trip and couldn't afford to bring his wife." The editor then related the true story as it was told him by the T. A. clergyman. So it appeared, on unimpeachable testimony, that the same strange
incident happened in the experience of
three persons the same year one near Chicago, one on the Rhine, and the other on the Danube. Did it happen to any one of these veracious people? When the editor had raised this question, the third member of the party, who had been silent and had not interfered with thejstory in any way, said : "1 can tell you the real original of that story. Several years ago, in a wellknow wholesale house in this city, an old bachelor book-keeper, who had been years with the firm, suddenly announced that he was to be married. The partners gave him a week's holiday, and his fellow-clerks raised a little purse and presented it to pay the expenses of his wedding trip. A couple of days afterward one of the members of the firm went down to Newport, and there, lounging about the Ocean House, and apparently enjoying himself immensely, he saw his recently married old book-keeper but alone. Where's your wife?' 'She's at home.' 'But I thought you had money given you for a wedding trip V So I did, but I didn't understand that it was intended to include her " Now we are not saying that this is an unwise way of taking what is really one of the most perilous journeys in life a wedding tour. But what could have induced all these different respectable people to appropriate this particular instance to their own personal observation? It sometimes seems as if people are not what they should be. Harper's Magazine, Beauty. "Whatever in this life is productive of pure and unalloyed happiness must perforce be good for us, must ennoble our nature, lift us higher and take us further toward a better life. And so we should be grateful that we live in an age when so much of beauty is everywhere ready for our enjeyment. Let us open our eyes to our surroundings, and learn to trace the handiwork of Deity in all the beauty that strews our pathway. Whether it comes to us in the face or form of our fellow creatures, in their natural grace, their accomplishments, or the good they say or do; in the great works of nature, the lovely flower, the songs of birds, the glorious livery of the vegetable world, or the delicate coloring in the heavens above us; in the grand heaving of old ocean's bosom or the calm, smooth surface of some sparkling lake; in the deeds of charity or the soothing words that come from the hearts of those who love their fellow men ; in the sweet smile of baby-life, the trustful confidence and innocent purity of childhood, the aspirations of youth, or the "calm sunset of a useful life" ; all are full of beauty if our minds and hearts can only realize it. While there is beauty to be found in all the varying forms on earth, not all
of us ate endowed by nature or gifted by education with the power to discern and enjoy it. In seeking for that which is valuless or unattainable, we often pass unnot.ced the lovliest forms of
earth's rich treasurv, and fail to discover beamy because we have not learned the wav to seek it. All the volumes ever written would not contain a tithe of the myriad beauties that cluster around our path, and richly blest he who seeks an I finds even a few of them. Those are the true philosophers who see only the lovliest aspects of everything, and leave the less pleasant pictures with but a passing glance; to whom the bright side of humanity or nature is ever hitherward, and who, while they are in the shadow of the passing c.oud, can think only of its "silver lining." If we Seek the good and beautiful we shall surely find them. Wise are they who surround themselves with an atmosphere of gladness and of beauty, and cull the sweet flowers of goodness so ready to their hand. Seeking only for that which is good and beautiful and true, with hearts full of love and kindness to all God's creatures, and hands ever ready to help those who need, the usefulness of beauty will be apparent in our lives; and as the 'golden sunlight" shines upon and gladdens all things, so will the beauty in our living irradiate our homes, while the lovely light of affection and goodness gives joy to all who come within its rays. It. A. Meera, in the Current Wetting a "Hp." In a sketch of the racing career of Lord of Dalmeny, an English sporting paper tells the following anecdote: His lordship was on a journey to a race meeting at Ayr, and for his companion in the railway carriage, had a remarkable pushing species of commercial traveler, who attempted to force a speaking acquaintance. Seeing his lordship perusing the liac'mg Calendar, he "broke earth" with the remark: "Bacing is a great institution. Suppose you are going to Ayr meeting?" "I am going as far as the Ayr," replied his lordship. "Pity young swells get fleeced by black-legs. Some noblemen, I hear, drop fortunes on the turf." "Indeed!" "I do a bit myself sometimes a tenner or a pony's about my cut. Know anything good for to-day worth my while touching?" "I am not a tipster." "Beg pardon; saw you reading the Racing Calendar thought you might know. 99 "Well," replied his lordship, with a quiet smile, "if I give you the 'straight tip', will it be of service to you?" "Depends if I fancy it." "Put your tenner or pony on Lord Boseberry's Chevronel, for the Welter Cup." "Not for Joseph; I never back Lord Boseberry's horses. They say he's a regular chumpltin." "Indeed ! Perhaps they're right. However, you asked me. I can only add that I heard Lord Boseberry himself tell, what you term a chumpkin, to back his horse." "Depend upon it, if he was all right, he would not let you overhear his conversation. Mum, would then be his game. Why, there's a lot in that race! I'll bet you a pony Lord Bcsebery don't wiu it." "Really, I am not accustomed to bet in railway carriages with strangers." "There' my card Mr. Bobert Pushabout, representative of Messrs. Fleecy, Wool & Shoddy, Beed St., Cheapside. Fact is, you ain't game to bet." "I think you'll loose your money; but as you challenge me, let it be a bet. You'll see me in the steward's enclosure at the course. I have no cards with ma" "Agreed; it's a bet I bet you an even pony against Chevronel for the Welter Cup. But what's your name, young fellow!" "Primrose. Sometimes I am otherwise addressed." "All right, young Primrose; pay and receive alter the race."
The companions separated at the station. Chevronel won in a canter, and the commercial man received in the morning a short note by a messenger from the steward's stand. "Mr. Primrose (Lord Boseberry) would feel obliged by Mr. Pushabout handing to his servant 25 which his lordship will have much pleasure iu forwarding as a donation to the Commercial Traveler's Orphan Asylum." The "bagman" paid his money locking very crestfallen, and was heard to ejaculate: "Done! Who on earth would have dreamt that the young, good looking affable fellow, whom I imagined was a chumpkin, was in fact none other than the Earl of Bosebery, giving me a d d good, honest tip about his own horse, by which I was fool enough to loose 25. Anyway, he's a regular trump, and he's right. I'm the chumpkin, after all."
A Cat Ueats a Fly-Trap. A man who lives not a hundred miles from this city has a cat that catches flies for a living, or lives to catch flies. It is a tiger-colored kitten about three months old. When a reporter saw the animal bounding about the room he asked what it was about. "He's catching flies," explained his owner. "That's what he does the whole day. He has eaten nothing else since he was weaned. I can't tell you how he came by the habit. We have offered him milk, meat, and other food, but he will not touch it. He catches and eats as many as 200 flies a day. The cat becomes very much excited over his work, and will spring upon a chair or onto a window for a fly. He invariably uses his right paw and rarely misses his aim. Syracuse Herald,
Dio Lkwis says we must give the "old folks at home" soft foods, savory and well cooked not heavy masses of butcher'a meat. To give old, inactive people butcher's meat every day, he says, i to load their systems with waste products with material which is
virtually poisonous. It is not probable that any arrangement can be made to have Dio Lewis and the butcher take tea together.
CUUIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.
Piiof. William Nobth Bice says that the Connecticut river was once 150 feet deep and fifteen miles broad. The best India ink has a brownish tint, is very hard and heavy in the stick, and has a metalic wring when struck. If it sounds dull it is not uniform. An enterprising Frenchman has invented a baby which no ordinary traveler could distinguish from the usual infant. It cries at am moment desired without the aid of pins or colic and is used by women desiring to have a railway carriage all to themselves. In a foreign school of industry it was observed that the girtet were doing better work industrially and making better progress mentally than the boys. The girls were given only eighteen hours a week to study ,wbile the boys devoted thirty-six hours to school. When the boys were submitted t ) the same rules as the girls the result was more even, thus showing that a ; ai.tr assignment of manual with mental work is the best plan. Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. To make gum for thick labels dissolve one pound of gum arabic in ore quart of cold water, and strain through flannel. For chemists1 labels take one pound of gum arabic and dissolve it in three pints of cold water; add one tablespoonfull of glycerine and two ounces of honey. Strain through flannel, and apply with a piece of turkey sponge, which will last in constant use three or four months; common sponge goes to pieces almost directly. Lay the sheet to be gummed on a flat board and gum over evenly. Some remarkable observations have lately been made in regard to the heat of the human body. By means of an ingenious instrument invented by Dr. Lumbard, of New York, it is ascertained that a woman's body is warmer than that of a man by about three-fourths of a degree, and sometimes as high as one-half a degree, while in n6 instance has the warmth of a male's body been found to be greater than that of the female. It is also definitely ascertained that children are decidedly warmer than adults, the difference being about one degree Fahrenheit, and that the younger the child the greater the diversity. A difference in the heat of the sides of the body is discovered to be an invariable law. The left side of the head, and extending downward to the base of the neck, is much hotter than the right side. These curious facts open up to medical men a new line of research and inquiry. An interesting discovery has been made by Mr. Carl Lahmeyer, a young professor of music in London. Some time ago he had an opportunity of in-
snecting a grand piano made for M.
Alma Tadema, from the artist's own de
signs. Mr. Lahmeyer noticed that the instrument was decorated with repre
sentations of birds. On pursuing
some researches at the British Museum
he observed on a sories of Egyptian
sculptures a set of birds of precisely the same character as those he had seen on M. Alma Tadema's piano. They
were arranged in uneven rows, some high and some low, and it occurred to
Mr. Lahmeyer that possibly they rep
resented musical notes. He put the
matter to the test, and found that the
position of the birds corresponded to
that of notes in our modern scale. He
made outof them a distinct melody, which he surmised to be an Egyptian hymn. The air is of the simplest pos
sible character, but it is very sweet Success of Co-operation in England.
It will probably surprise most people
to be told, that in England, co-opera
tion has made such headway, as to in
duce a cautious journal like the Spec
tator to predict "that long before the
century is out, the whole of our work
ing class will be in association, and will
have the staple trades of the country in
their hands, or under their cohtrol."
Yet the statistics of the movement seem
to show that such a prediction is not
idle exaggeration. At present there
are over 12C0 societies of working-folks
numbering 600,000 members. Almost
all of them are heads of fannies, and
they therefore represent 2,500,000 peo
ple, or one-twelfth of the whole popu
lation of the kingdom. These societies
possess a capital of $45,000,000, and make a net pr fit of $10,000,000 yearly. Besides this they have a wholesale society, now in its twentieth year, which, on a capital of $200,000, does a business of upward of $15,000,000, with a net profit of $160,000. This concern has branches and depots in Scotland, Ireland, this city, France, and Denmark, and owns three large steamers which ply between England and the Continent on the company's business. And the constitution of this already great union, pledges it to "the promotion of the practice of truthfulness, justice, and exchange (V) by the abolition of all false dealing, either direct or indirect ; (2) by preventing the waste of labor now caused by unregulated competition : (3) by conciliating the conflicting interests of the capitalists, the worker and the purchaser, through an equitable division among them of the fund commonlly known as profits." No society is admitted into the union unless it agrees to accept these principles as its guiding rules of business. There is thus established a system which promises, in good time, to solve the most difficult economic problems of the age. He Practiced, "What is that drab object hanging from the lower limb of that apple-tree?' asked a dude of a freckled country boy, "That," said the boy, "is a sort of foot -ball that we strike to make our 'muckle big." "May I try it?" asked the dude. "I guess so,' replied the boy, as ha moved off a good distance. So the dude drew back and drove his fist right into an old fashioned hornet' nest and got his sleeve chuck full. Send a 2-cen stamp, with your name and address distinctly written, to the boy if you want anything like a true picture of the tinale. We are not equal to the task. Puck. The world is a picnic to which every one takes his basket, to carry back whatever he can grasp. 1
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