Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Number 27, Bloomington, Monroe County, 30 August 1889 — Page 3

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A Danbttr?, Cocru, photographer has a greenhouse, the glass roof of which is composed of old negatives from his gallery. The exportation of petroleum last year was the largest ever known, . Amounting to 612,000,000 gallons. It was worth $40,420,817. A San Francisco jeweler has just revived $700 for diamonds which he sold twenty-five years ago. The purchaser was honest, but he had bad luck. The National Bank Noto Company in New York, has made the Government postage stamps since 1861. We use nearly in the United States, 2.000,000,000 stamps. Mayor Grant, of New York, is trying to suppress hand organs in that city. Whether the Mayor can thus antagonize the Italian vote with impunity remains to be seen. Mrs. John Mokrissey, widow of the late pugilist and statesman, is now in almost abject poverty, and is hemming collars and cuffs, to-day, for a Troy manufacturer, and running a race with poverty. Judge Keatxey, of Iowa, who has made a perspnal inspection of the schools of Alaska, reports that there are about fourteen schools in the territory, three of which are for white children, the rest being for natives. Secretary Noble's house in Washington, the old Tiffany mansion, is one of the most luxuriously furnished houses in the city. It contains, among other interesting things, a valuable collection of ancient armor.

Henry Stickney had an experience at Tawas City. Mich., recently that jcesn't Call to one man in a million. He was 21 years old at 12:30 p. m., and at 1 :30, as he was passing the Court House, an officer took him inside and made a juryman of him. Coi. Robert G. Ingersoll is accepted by those who know as one of the best cooks in New York. He is said to be a gourmet of the highest altitude, and his friends say he prepares with his own hands the biggest part of the menu at the private dinners he gives at his home. New York has a pension law for its mriWiw It is two years old, but the first awards under it have just been approved by the Governor. The highest award is $72 per month, given to a militiftintm who lost both arms and one eye by an accident while on duty under state orders.

Ministers somehow always have good luck when they go afishing, but when an editor breaks away from his desk for a day with the rod and line it's ten to one that it will rain cats and dogs. Young men who are fond of fishing should enter the ministry rather than journalism. In 1866 the Prince of Monaco, wishing to study the course of the gulf stream, threw into it two copper flasks, which have lately come ashore on the coast of Iceland. The icelanders report that they can still smell faint traces of civilization in them. Better set them adrift again!

Boodler McQuade entertained the jury that acquitted him with a dinner, and some of the New York papers are making ill-natured remarks about it. McQuade took this means of showing his gratitude. This, was all. The jury evidently ielt that they were getting nothing more than was coming to them. A Jersey girl was bitten by one of that State's old line mosquitoes the other day and her arm began to swell fearfully. The physician who was called in said that the insect had left his bill in the arm. When be extracted it the swelling went down.' The wonder is that the mosquito did not return with a deputy sheriff to collect his bill. The practice of cremation is spreading rapidly in Italy. In forty-two communities it has been adopted to the exclusion of every other method of disposing of dead human bodies. In twentyone communities furnaces have been in operation for several years. In nineteen communities the authorities are trying to raise money for the erection of crematories. Derosa a heavy thunderstorm the ether night, Mrs. J. K. Blattenberger, cf Liverpool, a town in Perry County, Pa., saw a firey ball drop from the clouds and land on the street in front of the Commercial Hotel. There it lay like a piece of red-hot metal or a live coal, but gradually its brightness died. At daylight she went to the place and ound it to be a meteoric stone, or an Aerolite, nine inches in circumference.

of the four. He died at Philadelphia in 1877. He and the others who have passed away, died prenmturely from exposure and hardships in their noble calling. A jilting which Zebulon Hancox, of Stoningtcn, Conn., received many years ago made him a miser and a recluse. Ever since be has lived alone in a hut, wearing outlandish clothing, and gaining his living by fishing. One of Lis peculiarities is to never buy anything that he can make, and the buttons on his clothes, the spear with which he catches eels and the scales on which the fish are weighed are of his own manufacture. At the age of twenty-nine, he

has solved the problem of living on $20 a year, and has $10,000 in bank" while he has built nine good houses, which he rents. Joe Mitcesll, a miller of Griffin, Ga., eats all the rats he can catch, and says that 4 they are much nicer Uian squirrel or rabbit." A gentleman passed bv the mill the other afternoon aid a large rat, as large as a squirrel ran out from the engine room. Joe, seeing the rat, gave chase and soon killed ih Having noticed the unusual interest manifested in catching the rat, he asked Joe .what he was going to do with it. He said: "Eat it, by gosh." Sure enough he soon had it skinned, cleaned and salted, and looking in all appearances like a squirrel. Smacking his lips over the joyful prospects of a rat supper, Joe went his way looking for more rats. Sheriff Barry, of Missaukee County, Michigan, had two wags of prisoners in his jail. While he was attending a plug horse race the other day these two chaps

succeeded in getting hold of a long piece of wire. On the end of the wire they made a hook, and after working for about an hour succeeded in fishing up both the keys to the cells and the jail. They then left themselves out, starting at once for the race course. The gatekeeper demanded pay from the men, but, of course, they were unable to put up the collateral. Not to be dismayed by so small a thing as that, they went to the other side of the grounds and sneaked in. The- Sheriff was completely dumfouhded when they presented themselves to him and requested that they be taken back to jail and locked up. After the races all iree returned, affording much amusement to everybody in Lake City. Bamboo is of even greater importance to the Chinaman than rice, although the latter is to him what wheat and corn are to the people of other countries. The bamboo is more to him than any other one aiticle is or can be to any other nation of people. With bamboo he builds his house, even to thatching the roof, and around it he puts a bamboo fence. His carts are made chiefly of bamboo, his clothing is often, for the greater part, made of fine bamboo, and his hat is of bamboo. In hot weather he cools himself with a bamboo fan. His pencils are of bamboo. If he smokes opium, his pipe is of bamboo; if he smokes tobacco, his pipe, all but

the bowl, which is brass, and perhaps a small amber mouthpiece, is of bamboo. In short, he uses bamboo for almost every conceivable thing, even to u tilizing the young shoots as an article of food, and a very palatable dish they make, too, when fried in combination with other vegetables and meats. The artist who accompanied George Kennan through Bussia, tells an amusing story about an encounter with a party of tourists, who seemed very curious about the artist's pictures. As the Tartars were armed to the teeth, the artist thought it best to be amiable, and smiled a broad and propitiatory smile,upon the party. Whereupon, the entire .party smiled broadly in return and showed great interest in him. He smiled again, more broadly still; whereupon, the Tartars came around in front of him and began to go through the most extraordinary antics, laughin g still. The artist gathered somehow that he was expected to laugh, too, and proceeded to gratify their evident wish. The more he laughed the more they laughed, and several big Tartars came around in front of him and lay down on the ground, rolling and tumbling. Tha artist laughed until his jaws almost cracked. The thing finally became a little alarming, and calling his factotum and interpreter, the artist bade him find out of the head-man of the Tartar party what these extraordinary antics were all about. "His excellency," said the Tartar, in explanation, "smiled upon us, and showed us something which we never saw before teeth made partily of gold. And as the men of my tribe saw that hislgolden teeth were only to be ween when he laughed, they took all possible ways to make him laugh, and when they rolled on the ground before him, it was only the better to see into his mouth and behold the golden teeth.

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Mis Fannie IUco'm Irfionos Xtftffu rdins S.lken Tight. "I don't mind it much, now that I have become accustomed to wearing knickerbockers on the stage. But, of course, I much prefer to wear dresses on the stage. 33ut, ben, you know I m playing a boy's part in 'The Brigands. and must dress accordingly. The knickerbockers are'much preferable to tights, which the character originally called for. When the plates were first shown to me, and I was asked to play the part which I now have in 'The Brigands I refused, because the part called for tights. Mr. Aronson was very anxious that T should create the part, and when I told him my objection he said I might wear knickerbockers. So I consented, I don't know as the knickerbockers are much better than tights, still I like them better and feel much better than I should in bare tights. "I have played boy parts before, but have always worn pants. I used to sing 'Pretty as a Picture' in boy's clothes, as a little specialty at benefits, and was always very successful with it, I made up as a little ragged bootblack, sung the song, and between the versos I did a burlesque dance. About four or five years ago I did this little specialty for the first time in Boston. It was at one of the Elks' entertainments at tho Park Theater. On the house program it was simply announced that; Miss Fanny Kice would sing Aimee's 'Pretty as a Picture.' There was no intimation to the audience that I was about to make a new and startling departure from the ordinary rut. So, when I made my appearance, costumed as a street gamin, to do this charming little song and dance that had always been associated with a pretty dress, graceful dancing, etc., a dead silence fell upon the house. Looks of astonishment .were exchanged and programs were eagerly scanned to see if anything had been changed. I had no reception, and I was not a .little frightened and abashed at what I had done. The moment I began to sing the audi

ence recognised me, and caught

our associates at their ed, and a person need not be versed in all the intri(ato laws of etiquette to do this. Above all other places, the homo is the school in wnich politeness should be learned and made, if not :irst nature, at least second, by daily practice; for good manners are noc the result of arbitrary teaching, but of constant habit. They grow upon us by use. We must bo courteous, kind, agreeable, civil, gentle manly and womanly at home, and then it will soon become a kind of second nature to be so everywhere. A coarse, rough manner at home begets a habit of roughness which wo cannot lay off if we try, when we go .among strangers. The most agreeable people in company hre those who practice good manners at home. Mrs, J?. F. Flurity. Farmer Zeke's Experience, Course vou know I alwavs had connderable sympathy for the mule. He is the mo&t abused critter in this world. Thft mule has a reputation to maintain, and does his best in that line. I owned one once that was the nost ambitious insect you ever saw. I've known him to kick the rafters out of a sixteen-foot barn every night for a week and never wink. But like a good many other fclks that mule was too ambitious. It was his ruin. One day a circus cane along and stopped right in front of my place. They had one o' them 'ere kickin' bronchos. He performed several sleight-of hand tricks in sight of my mule. The mule looked at him astonished for some several minutes. Then Le went around back o' the barn and give two or three of his sweet touching wails. I knew something was wrong. I went right round whro he was, but it was tco late. He was dead. He died of a broken heart. I never owned another

mule. I can't bear to see them suffer that way tryiu' to keep up the reputation established by their forefathers. The wasp is the quickest individual on the trigger I ever met. I had an encounter with one the other day. He hollered at me to stand and deliver, and I did throw up mv hands just as

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spirit of my impersonation, and would not be satisfied until I had responded to sev n encores.

"An amusing little incident occurred j

while I was standing m the entrance waiting my turn to go on. I was on the stage manager's side, and noticed that the geutlemau who Aas acting as stage manager for the Elks' benefit he was a prominent member of the lodge was looking in my direction in anything but a pleasant manner. He soon came u; to me and demanded to know what I was doing in

bit me over the left eve and raised a mansard roof there in a jiffy. I yelled for quarter but he didn't seem to want anything but an unconditional surrender, and went on slugging me till my wife declared that I must have been in a drunken fight down-town. I couldn't convince her to the contrary, and was in disgrace for

more than ten days. I dn'tiiko wasps.

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ipect. The wav to pick berries is to pick

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here. By 'in here' I supposed he meant ! 1 terries. I've noticed it is the same way in the first entrance, and I replied that j vitb oftice-seekin'. They way to suo-

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"Ned" is the only survivor of the four famous Bradford brothers of Atlantic City. These men formed what was k.'town as the Bradford Life Guards and to their efforts hundreds of bathers at Atlantic City owe their lives. Michael, the third brother, was the most heroic

Where They Are Slow and Sure. Some one says that, taking the railroads mile for mile, there are three accidents in the North to one in the South. It is a wonder the proporti on is not greater. On some of the railroads in the South, when the engineer sees an obstruction on the track a mile ahead, he, without slacking the speed of his tram, jumps off, runs ahead, and removes the cause of the threatened accident, and then waits for a few minutes for his engine to come along. Morris (own Herald.

I could get a better view of the

there, but if I was in his way that I would leave. 'Who let you in?' he next demanded. I saw at once that he thought me some little boy who had stolen his way in, unknown to the doorkeeper, and I made up my mind to keep up the delusion. So that I meekly answered that I was passed in by the doorkeeper. He became very angry, and ordered one of the stage hands near by to 'throw this little ragamuffin out The si:age hand said to him: 'Why, don't you know who that is? That is Miss Kice Well, you never saw a man so taken back in your life. "J much prefer skirts to boy's clothes, however. They are easier to dance in and more agreeable to rae in every way," New York Star. A Duel to the Death. A Southern pnper published recently an account of a duel which occurred in Virginia, during the war, of which nothing has been before printed. The

principals were a young cavalryman of !

Augusta, Ga., and his opponent was a fiery horseman of a Northern troop. The Augusta lad was a devotee of the fair sex, and would run the go.untlet any time to attend a dance or be entertained in a parlor. On one occasion, while visiting a pre try young woman, he found a Yankee cavlrymau at her home. The lady attempted an introduction. The rebel proffered his hand, the Union man turned- his bek, whereupon the Confederate throw his heavy glove into the young fellow's face. The Yankee was fur from a eenvard, ''Meet me at midcig it, mounted, at the big bridge yondei, sir. and you shall repent this insult. f you are a man you'll come." Of course they met, each bringing n friend. They fought with sabers, between 12 and 1 o'clock, in rain and moonlight. The battle was a terrible one. Twice the Augustan was unhorsed, ten times he was cut on body, arms, legs, and head. The seconds tried to settle the dispute. The Georgian had not touched his opponent. Angered to desperation by the insult and pain, mad at his inability to strike his gritty enemy, he would listen to no

i parleying. The fight went on.. During

a flash of lightning, for the moon had vraned, the seconds saw the "big horse of the Yankee stumble, and its rider fall headlong into a ditch near by. He was picked up by tly seconds. The saber of his adversary had split his aknll and entered his brain. The Augustan, too, fell from his horse, weak from exhaustion and loss of blood, but soon recovered himself aud is alive and well to-day. C'oofl Manner. Good manners are the shadows of virtues if not the virtues themselves." Heal politeness is that delicate vision, which appreciates apparent triiies and the tact and sympathy quick to find a ready application. It is oil to the machinery of social and domestic life. Impoliteness does not so often proceed from carelessness, nor from malignity, as from the lack of that nice perception of the little things by which pleasure is conferred or pain inflicted. Ileal kindness which ever finds expression in a sympathetic manner, is the master key which opens all hearts for such persons, consult the wishes of others rather than their own. The self-consaious person cannot be altogether polite; his thoughts are centered too much on self to give attention to the conversation and feeling; of others, or to give pleasing expression of good will. toward moa, which is the very essence :f politeness. For good manners are simply the art of putting

ceed is to git there.

Some men have so little confidence in old mother ecrth that they always do their own sowm and plantin' in the moon. If there was an elevated railway up there they probably would go there to do their harvestin', too. The earth is kinder to such men than they deserve. It never fails them in spite of their distrust. Terras Sif tings. The Barber's Story. "The queerest experience I ever had in my life," said Gus, the barber, to a Chicago Herald man, "was one night about five years ago. I was just quitting work when a messenger came in to say that one of my customers were very ill ct his rooms on Dearborn street, and wanted me to go up and shampoo and shave him. I took up my tools and bottles, went over, and tapped at his door, 'Come in!' he yelled in a voice that struck me as being pretty husky for a sick man's. I walked in, and the iellow immediately locked the daor, putting the key in his pocket. This made me nervous, but when he gave a wild whoop I bec:au to shiver and wish I hadn't come. The man had the delirium tremens, and a pretty severe dose, too. Well, sir, he kept me there all night, and every time I tried to get out he pulled a big six-shooter and persuaded me to stay a spell longer. First he would have a shave, then he wanted u shampoo, and he kept alternating every five minutes until I was so tired I thought I'd drop. He drank alL my bay rum and tackled the shampoo composition until he frothed at the mouth, but that job was too tough even for him, paid he threw it up. Finally I rubbed his head so L.uch that it quieted him f.nd he fell asleep; then I escaped. Two days afterward he sent me a $10 bill, but it didn't begin to pay tor the anxiety I suifered on account of that six-shooter. Occasionally a slice of good luck falls our way. Last time Vanderbilt came to Chicago he te legraphed Ham Parker for a parlor room and a barber to be there at 3 o'clock. That job was worth $5 to me." "Yes," chipped iu the man at the tiext chai& "and Gus blew it all in on

the

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"Stay Bight Thar," He Said. Mr. Justice Lamar is credited with many stories about one Jim Zackery, says a Kansas City paper. Zstckery was the fighter of the neighborhood who "licked" ail the lads, including Lamar, when they wore boys together. Zackory, in his best days, whipped everything before him. One day young Lamar asked him to give him the secret of his success. He said: "Zackery, it can't be that you are bigger and stronger than everybody." Zackery replied : "Well, Lucius, I jest explain it this yer way. When I goes into a fight I takes a. good swar that I'm going to stay right thar. Mr. Lucius," Added he, ''lightm' is, I reckon, the most tiresome business there is. When the other feller begins to git his ire on, then your stayin' right thar will beat him shore." It was Zackery, who, in condoling with a neighbor who had lost a good ard faithful wife, Paid: "I am sorry for you; I know nothing' that ungears a man so as to lose his wife." Toward the close of his life Zackery experienced religion. As he was lying upon m death-bed a neighbor came in and said: "Well, Zackery, you will have to go soon, I am told." "As is agreeable to natur," was his polite and conservative reply. When asked if he thought his fcins were all forgiven he friiid, with eVMi greater conservatism: "I reckon the heft of them

are.

Sweetness and light An anderweight pound, of sugar.

4 Snklde That Didn't Come Off. Our old friend Bibbm was very low spirited the other day. He had been seeing snakes and other uncanny objects all the morning, und finally he determined to put an end to himself. He strolled into a chemist's shop. "Wantsh twopenn'orth loddlum. Besht loddlum." What do you want laudanum for, my friend?" "Toothache. 'Screw 'screw Vorewciatin' toothache;" and he held his hand to his jaw. "Better have a iittle creosote." " Don't want ere ere creosoap. Vantsh loddlum. Besht loddlum' "You have to sign the poison-book, "Shine shine anything. Shine book, shine cheque, shine boots. Wantsh twopenn'orth loddlum." The chemist, seeing the state of the case, gave him a strong but harmless dose of paregoric, and the intoxicated man staggered hack to his lodgings. With a shaking hand he poured the contents of the bottle into a tumbler, half-filled it with water, and then saying, "Benj n, old fier, your j'lly good health," drank it off. "Not bad, but not a patch 'pon old Jamaca," he said, as he threw himself on the bed, and murmuring, "Loddlum twopenn'orch best loddlum," fell asleep. It was noon upon the following day when he awoke. He had a headache, but that was his normal condition. He rubbed his eyes sleepily. "S'pose I'm dead, he soliloquised. Ought to be, by this time. Might be wuss! Might be wuss! Nothin' when you're used to it."

Presently, however, he began to realize that he was terribly thirsty. "Seems t' me Tm jes' 's dry 's if I was alive. Dash my wig," he continued, os he sat up in bed, !'if I ain't alive, and

never berrer never berrer. "Whereupon he began to weep. After a while his rejections took a fresh turn. "Benj'n, m' boy., you've bin diddled. Chemist been havin9 lark with yon. Takes tuppence for loddlum, and gives feller bloomin' cough miksher. 'Spiracy to d'fraud. Blow me if I won't run him in. But when poor Bibbens, having in the meantime mortgaged his waistcoat and indulged in several twopennyworths of old Jamaica, consulted a policeman with reference to running in the chemist, the officer of the law somehow mistook the situation, and ran him in instead. When last heard of he was sitting on a stone bench in a police-ceil, murmuring in indignant tones, "Twopenn'orth best loddlum never berrer !" The Indians of To-Day. . v The city of Taniequah, the capital of the Cherokee Nation, writes C. C. Carlton, is a pretty little flower-garden of a town, containing 1,000 inhabitants. It was just growing dark as we entered. A herd of cows ccime lowing down the lane, in charge of the town herdsman. The melodious tinkling of their bells made music, and formed an accompaniment to the deeper tones from the bell of a little whitewashed church. A bevy of Indian girls trooped by, on their way to the evening worship. They all wore cool-looking white dresses, and all had roses in their hair. They were of nearly white complexion, with just enough admixture of Indian blood to give their features an Indian cast. Some of these girls are finely educated, and many play the piano and sing well. The Cherokees have a female seminary, a corresponding institution for boys and about a hundred primarv schools. The Cherokees. as everybody knows, have a Constitution; are governed by a Chief Magistrate (the chief of the tiibe), arid a Congress, divided into a Senate and a Lower House. The executive, legislative, and judicial officers are elected by tho popular vote of the people; but instead of using a ballot-box, they express their choice by word of mouth. Consequently there is no stuffing of the ballotboxes among the Cherokees, unless one man insist upon calling the mouth the ballot-box. There are 6,000,000 acres of land in the Cherokee Nation proper, and 7,000,000 in the "Outlet," The Nation contains 20,000 people, and each citizen is entitled to as much land as he can conveniently use Eccentric Christenings. Queer names certainly are found in the London General Begistry of Births, at Somerset House. For example, young scions of the families of Bath, Lamb, Jordan, Dew, Dear, and Smith, are christened respectively Foot, Pascal, River, Morning, Offspring, and Smith Follows. Mr. Cox called his son Arthur Wellesley Wellington Waterloo. Mr. Jewett, a noted huntsman, named his Edward Byng Tally-ho Forward. A mortal that was evidently unwelcome is recorded as ' ie Too Many." Another of the same sort is to Not Wanted James' Children with six or ten names are frequent, but probably the longest name in the world, longer than that of any potentate, is attached to the child of Arthur Pepper,, laundryman. The name of his daughter, born 1883, is Ann Bertha Cecilia " Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez J ane Kate, Louise Maud Nora Ophelia Quince Bebecca Starkey Teresa Ulysis (sic) Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeus Pepper one title precisely for every letter of the alphabet. London News. hovn That WafT" Two or three days ago Station House Keeper John Joiner was sitting out in front of the guard house when an old negro man and a little negro child came bv. The child's thin, black legs were bent after the fashion of pot-hooks, and nine people out of ten that saw the child would stop to stare at its bowlegs. uThat your child, uncle? asked tho station house keeper. ttYeser. Leas' hit oughter be "Mighty bow-legged "Yesser," admitted the old man, "hit iocs look sorter dt way, boss." fc Natural flaf enmity ?" "No., sah,M quickly, "he was jest bora lat wav." Atlanta Ca stitution. The woodman's ax is an inconsistent sveaoon. First it cuts a tree down, aud then cuts it up.

LOYE LEVELS ALL BANKS A. Komantlc Story AImiuI an Englt1im and a Girl With a Mtlk Fail. A Btory come 5 to the clubs from Newport about a wealthy but not over bean tiful girl who has been receiving mar Led attentions from a very hand" some young Englishman of excellent family to such a degree that her friend have taken it for granted that the two were soon to start together down the lane of roaes and thorns, with clasped hands and trusting hearts. One day these lovers rode together out to thee Vite of a gentleman farmer who was a iriend of the young woman's family. as they were galloping along the road toward the house they saw a girl coming' across the meadow. "Oh, there's Maggie with the milk pail, and I'm so thirsty. I'm going to wait for her to come up and then ask her for a drink, n This was said by the young lady, and as she spoke she drew up her horse, her companion following suit. Maggie Tiame up to where they were and said a timid good morning. With her brown hair straggling down over her young shoulders, her wide blue eyes, delicate brown lace and neck, and tall, slim figure, she presented a picture of striking beauty as she btood there assuring the young lady on the horse that she waa quite welcome to all the milk she could drink, and turning her eyes upon the nandsome young Englishman she said: "And you, sir, too can also n But she became confused at that point and blushed furiously under the gaze of the captivated gentleman on the horse. The lovers rode away, leaving Maggie looking after them in the center of the road. "Who is that?" asked the young man of his companion. 44 One of the faro, handg?"

"Oh, no, indeed," was the reply. "That is Margaret, Mr, Bs youngestiaughter. Pretty little thing, isn't she? Lives here the year round, and is as simple as a wood violet. Mil ks cows, darns stockings, and rakes hay. She's very different from the other girls, who all spend their winters in New York. But &he's only 16. Shell have a taste of the city in' a year or so more, and then I guess shell stop milking cows." This all occurred a month ago. The engagement of the young Englishman as announced this week. But he is uoic to marry the wealthy girl- who wanted him so much. He won Maggie and her father in just three weeks, and it is declared that a more beautiful pair of lovers never graced the handsome neighborhood of Newport than this little milkmaid and her sturcy yoan& sweetheart. New Jtork letter, Scene in the Morgue I would like to see the bodyoi Henry Jones I said a slender, pretty young woman, pale, composed and neatly dressed, standing before th desk. "When did he come here? asked Keeper White. "He died in the hospital this morning. He waa four months old and 11 "Oh! yes. Just oome in. Are yoi his mother ?" Yea, sir." "Do you want to bury him?" 44 No, sir. I came in to tell you about that. He was sick always, and I havf been sick too." "His father ? "I don't know where he ia. He nevet saw baby. I 'd like to look at him H3f a minute, sir," . "Well," this more kindly much mow kindly; "you go into the back room and the man will show him to you.1 Into the back room the woman goes, followed by an attendant. Along a row of little coffins, piled a half dozen high, she search e i until she finds the nght name on a little tag nailed on the box-" lid.' The big attendant picks up the box as though it were a paper parcel. It is a very light bo, almost too light to hold a baby that had been alive only five hours before. He puts it on the table ' and with a hatchet knocks ofT the lid, not as reverently as the mother might have liked, nor as softly as a paid undertaker would have unscrewed the lid of a cloth-covered casket; and then, with a gentle touch, he removes the white shroud that covers the baby's facei Over the body the woman londs and tears pour down on tho little lace. She stoops and kisses the lips ar d puts a tiny boquet of flowers she had bought at a near-by stand, on its breast past above its folded hands. Then she turns and goes away. The tnan nails the cover on the box, lays it away on th3 pile, and another body is ready for the Potter's Held. JT. Y. News. i j., i IIJosh Billings' Philosophy The man who has the meet merit is the quickest to see it in others. A good karakter iz all wuss gained bi inches, but iz often lost in onct chunk. To be strong, a man should hav plenty ov friends and plenty ov euemys. Toe menny friends weaken hin, and toe menny enemys make him a vagabond Humility may not make what the world calls a grate man, but it will xaake what God calls a good one. I pitty the man who cannot, think; he oses az mutch az a blind man. Circuzntitanses may alter cases, but they don't alter men. Cimumstansea sho men up in their natral col ors. Beazon often makes mis&kes, but oonshience never duz. It takers a very wise man to be thoroly kontented. Phools are ever sue oneazy and disatisfied az hornets are. Wit iz a kind ov glittering poinyard, which should never be drawn in conversashun, only in self-defence. No man haz a right to go into society and talk about hiz trials and troubles and sorrows, than he haz to whissell in church during service. Yu may liv and die in a 1 large city, and never be knowu bi enny body but the taxgatherer and the undertaker; but in the kuntry yu hav to be irnowxi bi everybody, or be suspekted bi them Munny iz responsible for most ov the dirtv wo:rk that haz been done in this

world. The man who haz nothing to reckomend him but robvst helth and an ex cessive tio ov animal spirits, iz az ua plezant an assoshiate az a 4 year old un broke kolt. Thare iz no one so poor find miser able az to enry tho mizer.--iVtc York