Bloomington Telephone, Volume 14, Number 31, Bloomington, Monroe County, 27 September 1889 — Page 3

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, WALTER BRADFUTE - - Pubxjsha

The shooting of a car porter by train rctbers ia Arkansas, -was doubtlm a case of professional jealousy. ?HE Spanish Government has offered two prizes, $5,790 and $2,895, for the two best essays on the life of Christopher Columbus. The awards are to be made in 1892. .Believers in lieif

Ericsson need not apply. The British Museum has paid 37,000 marks for the prayer-book which the late Louis of Bavaria ordered from Franz Fleschutz. It is adorned with eo ies of the decorations of the famous o- jailed "great church treasure. A Maine paper accounts for the scarcity of school teachers down there by the fact that young women can make from $5 to $12 a week in a shoe factory, and only from $5 to $7 teaching school. Maine seems to be going from head to foot . Howells, the author, says he made more money out of his patented scrap book, which had nothing at all in it, thai he has out of all his alleged literary works. That, however, should not encourage authors to publish books with nothing in them. A well of water on a farm near Harmonyville, Chester County, Penn., suddenly "fell out" while the farmer's wife was drawimr water a few davs afro.

Then the walls of the well abrutly collapsed. It is suspected that an underground lake or river drew away the water. George W. Curtis concludes his reminiscenes in Lippincott!s in this way : "If asked what, as the result of my ex perience, is the greatest pleasure of my life, I should say doing good to others. Not a strikingly original remark, perhaps but seemingly the most difficult thing in the world is to be prosperous and generous at the same time. The Christian Witness is shocked that a colored church in Maryland rented a hall, hired a band, and sold tickets to a prize-fight between two colored brethren. The Witness opines that a prize-fight isn't more out of place than setting up pretty girls to be kissed at so much a kiss for the benefit of the church. It is rather more fascinating, however. Mb. Gladstone has solved the domestic problem. "Whenever my wife insists I submit," says the great Liberal ; "whenever I insist she submits. We never discuss family affairs at the table, and if anything unpleasant occurs during the evening, we never refer to it until the next day." No wonder the grand old man has enjoyed his fifty years of married life. Pkof. E. Stone Wiggins, the weather prophet, of Ottawa, Ont., expects nothing less than to be knighted by the Queen, who, he says, owes him personal gratitude for his warning Princess Louise not to embark for England until one of the great storms he had predicted should have passed over. He is now worried as to whether he shsfll call himself Sir Ezekiel S. or Sir Stone Wi&jins.

According to the Albany Evening

Journal, Gen. W. T. Sherman came hr

from Cooperstown recently. On the train he was approached by a middleaged man with the query: "Is this General Sherman ?w "Yes; what of it?" the old warrior replied in a gruff tone. "I minted to speak to the General under vhom I fought, the man replied. "You would have had to serve under some one, any way, wouldn't you? I am no different than any other man." Tax "Sunshine Mission" is a new entei prise projected by Mrs. John A. Logan, Mrs. J. Ellea Foster, Miss Kate Sanborn and Miss Frances Willard, and others, who propose the organization of a joint stock company, with a capital of $50,000, for the establishing of a central training home where both American and ::oreign girls will be received, cared for, trained, and homes secured through an intelligence bureau. After that branch homes in all the larger cities will be established.

The extraordinary craving after notoriety which leads people to get married ia balloons, under Niagara Falls, standing on their heads, riding wild mustangs,or speeding down the Switchback railroad at the rate of a mile in two minutes is incomprehensible to the majority of people who look upon marriage a more than the wild and rapid freal: of the moment. No position is too grotesque, however, for the wedding cranks to embrace, and ingenuity fails in foretasting the next freak of this peculiar lot of seekers after notoriety, Mas. Lakadrid's one-cent coffee stamls for the poor of New York are a (0el success so far as the good they do goes. She gives excellent food for the mon 3y, and is enabled to do this by doing her own marketing and making the best bargains with the dealers. The stands, of which there are six, cost between two and three thousand dollars a year. Mm Lamadrid says that so far her greatest trouble has been with the

men in charge of the stands who, following the devices of Wall street, watei the stock for the sake of selling more coffee and soup. A New York reporter tells what may be a true story about the Syrian immigrants detained at Cattle Garden. "A very large lithograph representing tinhead of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, used as the advertising card of a certain brand of cigars, hangs in a conspicuous position on one of the walls of the garden. The serene and saiutlj visage and the apparently shaven crown of the man represented in this picture struck

the Syrians as evidentlv those of some new American saint, and they thong lit, probably, the patron of the place. With the greatest solemnity and reverence, therefore, they crossed themselves and devoutly murmured prayers before it." Frances Willard's advice to women to read the newspapers is pertinent and forcible. She says: "Women are a set of passitMties on that subject, as a class; and I am never more annoyed for my 'sect' than when the newsboy goes trotting through at full speed, if he finds the car contains chiefly women, never dreaming that they want a paper. I clutch his sleeve with a vim and buy one of every variety he has, and ask him what he is thinking about to lose patronage in that way. Gossip is nothing but small news the nickels, pennies

hiiCl dimes which the newspaper deals in dollars and Vs and X's; so it widens the 'mind more to read the newspaper than to gossip about the neighbors. n The systematic use of dogs in military service has recently been pro-

prosed, and it is believed that under proper training the remarkable qualities of these intelligent animals would be of great value. Their acuteness of scent and hearing, with their ability to distinguish friend from foe, fit them for sentries and for scouting, and their vice, while they might even carry small loads of ammunition. After an engagement, they would render important aid in hunting up the wounded. This subject has before attracted the attention of military men,, while on the Belgian frontiers smugglers have long used dogs to transport dutiable goods, and the custom-house officers to counteract the operations. A German professor has addressed a very serious warning to parents and guardians on one of the evils of the present system of teaching girls. He points out the difference between the "musician" and the "pianoforte player," and shows how far they are from being synonymous, as they are often supposed to be. He refers to the illogical practice of excusing children from certain subjects of the school course, and at the same time insisting on long continued and excessive exertions at .the piano

forte. He shows how great a dPaHrofl

the nervous, energy of the body is entailed by pianoforte playing, and says that where parents canbe prevailed upon to diminish the hours of pianoforte practice, or stop it altogether, a marked improvement in general health invariably follows. The professor, therefore, recommends that pianoforte instruction should not begin until the age of twelve; that only girls of sound health, and who show some talent for music should be made to play.

To Soften Wet-Stiffened Shoos. The women have a new use for vaseline," observed a Fifteenth street drug clerk, as h jerked his thumb over his

right shoulder in the direction of a well dressed lady who was leaving the store after having made a purchase of the petroleum compound. "What's that? "They are using it on their shoes now." "On their shoes?" "Yes, and the ladies must be given credit for having made a valuable discovery. The ingredients of vaseline have a wonderful effect on fine leather and is fast taking the place of all the compounds manufactured for softening the shoes. Take a pair of shoes that have becouie stiff and uncomfortable by constant wear in the rain and apply a coat of vaseline, rubbing it in well with a cloth, and in a short time the leather becomes as soft and pliable as when it is taken from the shelves ot the shoe dealer. Yes, indeed, this rainy weather has caused quite a boom in the vaseline trade." Washington Pout. Hurrying Him Up. Jack," said a pretty girl to her smaU brother, the other day, "I want you to do something lor me that's a good fellow.'' "Well, what is it," growled Jack, who is the brother of the period. "Why, you know that wig and mustache you used in the theatricals?" "Well? "Well, won't you just put thera on and go to the concert to-night? Augustus and I will be there, and, -Jack, I want you to stare at me the whole evening through your glasses." " What ! You want me to do that ?" "Yes; and as we come out you must stand in the door and try to slip me a note; take care that Gus sees you, too." "Well, I declare!" "Because, voh see, Jack, Gus like? me. I know, but then he is awful slow, and he's well off, and lots of other girls are after him. and he's got to be hurried up a little, as it were." Texas Sif tings. Old age has its privileges. It is a blessed thing to grow old and be respected and honored and humored. The very old and th very young are the light and hope of the world. The dignity and. wisdom of and the innocence of childhood are the best fea tures of life.

AS TOM) BY HIMSELF.

A Buffalo Man V Moiy ofllU Mentlnff With Gotham Iiunco Sharps. There is in this town an individual operating as u advertising agent, whose friends fir short call him Bob. His other name isn't Smith, but to speak of him as tmuh will serve just as well for this recital. He has traveled some. His e,ye teeth Mere cut a good while ago. When the New York crooks last week planned to gather in his boodle they Varked up the wrong tree. He thus tolls the story and lie has hitherto maintained a good reputation for voracity : "I was on lower Broad wav one morning when a well-drced man whom I didn't recognize addressed me very heartily to the effect: 'Why, hello Smith! How are you? How is advertising, and how 're things in Buffalo?' "For the life of me I couldn't place the fellow or remember him when he mentioned his name, but the beguiling cuss knew so much of my affairs that I thought wo must have been acquainted before. We talked as we walked, and presently ho said he had to buy a ticket, and asked me to stroll with him to the office- We went into Broome .street and entered what was to all appearances a railroad ticket office. There was the ticket case and all complete. My friend was talking with the man ostensibly in charge when in came another personage, who affected a very free-and-easy manner. Tm from the South,' he said. 'Come heye with a load of cotton. I reckon I'd better be gittin' back. Say! Can I get a ticket to Mississipp, and one for a nigger, to travel separate V " 'i guess we can tix you and the colored man,' paid the ticket Roller. " 'Colo'd man be d d. He's a nig-

ger. xnat s wnat we call em down our

country. I don't know a farmer it York State that is tnakiu' enough to paj for labor on the arm." That nigh I three burglars who overheard the old man talking in this strain to the church clerk came into his house at midnight, gagged him, tied him down on the kitchen table and held a torch to his feet until he came down, and they got away with $4,000 in cold cash, $3,500 in United States bonds, four gold watches, two breeehloading shotguns, English; &00 worth of solid silver and about a dozen cutthroat mortgages on western farms, drawing 9 per cent interest. Ananias doesn't fall dead as he used to, but ho sutlers a great deal more than if he did. Burdcftc,

Mexican Football. It is claimed that our national game of base ball is deri ved from the old English game of rounders, although it has been so much amended and improvedin later years as to little resemble its progenitor. Now, it appears that the football has a better historical right to be called our national game than base ball. The ancient Mexicans, who were certainly native Americans, had a game of ball resembling modern football, and we are told that it was their favorite game at the time of the Spanish conquest. The ball was of solid rubber, the players were , divided into sides, and there were frequent " scrimmages, w as in the modern game.

Herrara gives a game, which the "tlachtli," of which translation, taken

description of this Mexicans called the following is a from Stephens'

way. Say!' he continued, now address ing my self-introduced companion, 'here's the funniest thing I ever saw. A fellah showed it to me, and I won a pot of money on it. I'm going to take it with me to Mississipp and show it to the folks.' "The gentleman from the sunny South here produced four cards, which he tossed on the desk. Bet you can't turn over the card with the base ball on it,' said he. 'Twenty to one.' "My friend laughingly laid down a dollar and turned up the right card. " 'Why, how did you do it so easy?' the other exclaimed, affecting great surprise. 'Here's your $20. You won it fair, and we Southern genTmen always pays when wo lose. Now you try it for the fun of the thing "I drew out a dollar, and turned the right card, as was of course intended. The man from Mississippi made much show of astonishment. 'You can't do it

again he declared. " 4Go him, go him heavy urged friendly citizen at my side, in an phatic whisper. "Now I was dead onto the game, as soon as it had been introduced

dead onto the capper. For answer, I suddenly picked uj the four pasteboards, threw away the one with the base ball, and proceeded to manipulate those remaining in approved three-card-monte fashion. 'Gentlemen said I, 'this is the way we do the thing where 1 came from. Do you want any of it?' "You ought to have seen the stupiiied 2u42irfriMfftM them scamps. At

last the Mississippi nYftn 1 i n d to. the other. 'You d fool, you are a 1 1

oiggerucker than the one you caught and seizing his cards lie decamped forthwith. "Presently my friend, the disheartened capper, moved to the door. So did I. As I passed him I mildly suggested: " 'It looks like rain !' ' 'Damn ! he said savagely, and dusced." Buffalo Courier,

the emand was

She Overcame Her Awe at Last. Harriet Beecher Stowe's son, thellev, Charles B. Stowe, of Hartford, Conn., met with an experience the other evening which completely nonplussed him. One evening quito recently he dined with Mrs. J. W. Boardman, proprietress of the Hotel Woodruff. Visiting Mrs. Boardman is a cute little niece at out five years of age. She is a regular chatterbox, and makes many bright remarks during a day. Fearing lest the child would astonish the preacher by some outlandish saying her aunt warned her to keep mum during the dinner. The admonition was listened to with

awe, and at the table the little one scarcely iared look at Mr. Stowe, not wishing to commit a supposed siu. While the servant was absent from the room, the little girl noticed there was no butter on her mall pink dish. She didn't mind holding her tongue, but to eat bread without butter that would never do. She took a survey of the table, and lo and behold, the butter-dish was directly in front of the preacher. Wistfully she gazed at both for a few seconds. Never in her brief existence did she appear so pensive. Then gathering all her courage and clearing her throat she said: "Dear pastor, won't you please, for Christ's sake, pass the butter?" The Rev. Mr. Stowe never received such a shock. He leaned over in his chair to pick up his napkin, which, of course, had not fallen. Mrs. Board man must at that moment arrange a windowcurtain, and the other guests were suddenly troubled with a friendly cough. Little Mabel, ftelf-satisiied"that she had done the proper caper, was the only one at the tf.ble who could positively prove that he way alive. CVacago Times. By Their Words Yon Shall Know Them. "No, sir," said Farmer Thistlepod, "you needn't tell me anything about the the beauties of a free government. I'm sick of it. I've toiled and moiled and dug and delved on this farm, boy and

all I've been

-Travels m Yucatan." It will be observed that Berara likens it to tennis, although it is difficult to see the resemblance: "The king took much delight in seeing sport at ball, which the'Spaniards

have since prohibited because of the mischief that often happened at it, and was called by them 'tlachli being like our tennis. "The ball was made of the gum of a tree which grows in hot countries, which, having holes made in it, distills great white drops, that soon harden, and being worked and moulded together, turn as black as pitch. The balls made thereof, though hard and heavy to the hand, did bound and fly as well as our footballs, there being no need to blow them; nor did they use chaces, but vied to drive the adverse party that is to hit to the Avail ; the others were to make good or strike it over. "They struck it with any part of their

body, as it happened, or a3 they could most convenieutly, and sometimes he lost that touched it with any other part than the hip, which w as looked upon among them as the greatest dexterity; and to this effect, that the ball might rebound the better, they fastened a piece of stiff leather on their hips. "They might strike it every time it rebounded, which it wond do several times, one after another, insomuch that it looked as if it had been alive. "They played in parties, so many on a side, for a load of mantles, or what the gamesters could afford, at s. many scores. They also played for goid and feather-work, and sometimes, played themselves away, as has been said be fore. "The place where they played was a ground room, long, narrow and high, but wider than below, and higher on

wMSMswthan at the ends, and thev

kept it verv well plastered and smooth

both the walls and the floor. "On the outside walls thev fixed certain stones, like those of a mill, with a hole quite through the middle, just as big as the ball, and he that could strike it throug'ii there won the game; and, in token of it being an extraordinary success, which rarely happened, he had a right to the cloaks of all the lookers-on, by ancient custom and law amonsr

gamesters; and it was very pleasant to ee that as soon as ever the ball was in the hole, the standers-by took to their heels, running away with all their might, to save their cloaks, laughing and romping", others scouring after t,hem to secure their cloaks for the winner. Excessive. Lawyers are not much in the habit of giving away their opinions, but now aud then they make an exception. According to the Lewiston Journal, Judge Walton, of the Maine Supreme Court, was one day ut work in his ollice, drawing up an opinion in a knotty and important case, when a brother lawyer walked in. The visitor was a man for whom the Judge entertained a pretty decided dislike. "Wcll.Brother Lightweight," he said, curtly, "what can I do for you this morning?"

vu, uubiutJg,

answered the caller.

"I merely dropped in for a few minutes." A disagreeable silence ensued. Then the Judge looked up and asked, "Brother Lightweight, why don't you get married?" "Because I can't afford it. How much do vou suppose it costs me to live now?" The Judge declared that he couldn't guess. "Well? it costs me all of $6,000 a year just for my own living. "Dear! dear!" said the Judge, in a tone of astonishment. "Why, Lightweight, I wouldn't pay it. Jt isn't worth it."

A Yaiu Search. Yellowly Why, Browuly, how bad you look this morning. Did you sleep any last night? Brownly Not a wink. "Anybody sick?" "I am." "What's the matter?" "Well, you see my wife has been in the habit of goiug through my pockets fit. ninrht. n.r( T tiwino'lif: vhn.t waa rnn1

man, lony-iive years, na all l ve been j for thtJ der va od for the 00 able to do has been to pay taxes keep j B0, ftfter she fell aHleflp lasfc ni?ht I up the interest on a mortgage and wish ar08e and 8ot ont to g0 trough her

insurance on the stock, but I can't do nl

it. Pastor was bore this morning urgin' me to try to do a little more for the church, an' I had to tell him I was goiu' to give up my pew at tne end of this quarter; just got to do it; 1 haven't the money, I tell you, mid what's more, you can't make it on a farm in this

Get anything?

No. Searched the dress over and over, spent the whole night at it but find tha poc ke t M Boston Courwr. Forgiveness is rarely perfect except in thebrea&Uof those who have suffered.

Making Cotton Ties Dorm South. The ne w rolling mill at Borne ia turning out ten tons of cotton ties a day. At this rcte it will make enough to hand one-twelfth of the cotton crop, and by running night and day y it willsupply one-sixth oi the whole demand. This is one of the results of the Rome boom two years ago, and the active work of the business men to bring new industries there. Mr. Nevogold, th president of the rolling mill, is a Penn sylvanian, who wa raised in the manufacture of hoop iron and knows all th details of management by which the business is made profitable. As we stood looking at the ro.lt

uimugn wmcn tne unlets were passu.

the white hot iron came out of tho nexl to the last roll a long, thin, incande-i cent hoop,, which might have been compared to a fiery serpent. Instead of pulling ib straight out ant sending it back through the last roll 1

the reverse motion, the bo v who stood

there seized the end with a pair of tong?

as soon as it appeared and bent it round him to the last roll, which seized it and

curried it through in a second. Meantime he was standing inside the fierj

circle that whipped by his legs so fast that he seemed in imminent dancer ci

having his calves burned off.

"That Mas the secret of my father's

success," said Mr. Nevegold; "when 1

was a boy I started that method more fram laziness than anything else, and I became so expert in it that it was regularly adorned. We found thai; wo could

run it through the rolls quicker and get better results that wav, so we have used that plan over since.

"It is not necessarv, however, for the

boy to star d there and bend the hot

hoof) about his legs. I have a guide box

winch leads it round to the last roll and

dispenses with the boy altogether. 1 will put tint on by-and-by." This mill first takes pig iron of the

various grades used to make the tough

composition for cotton ties and puddles it. Then it is hammered into blooms, which are reheated and rolled down small billets. These bil lets are cut into short pieces and heated again. Passing through a number of rolls thev come out at least

one thirty-second of an inch thick and forty-six feot long. They are then run through a smoothing machine and trimmed at the ends to a length of fortyfour feet. This is cut into four pieces aud the ties made. All that remains is to put them up in bundles of thirty, with thirty buckles strung on one of the ties. The thirty ties are placed in a long flat box, just wide enough fot two lavers of fifteen to lie side bv side. ft u The buckels are put on one of the inside ties, and the whole pile is doubled over and bound with short pieces of hoop iron. The process of bundling usually takes two minutes, and an expert can put up a bundle in one minute. It takes 400 bundles to make the day's output of ten tons, and one hand can about keep up with the ties as they come out of the cutting machine. The puddling is done at night to avoid the heat. A singular fact in this connection is that the puddlers don't suffer from heat b& much here as they do in Pennsylvatda. foI don't know why it i3," said Mr. Nevegold, "but they do not seem to get overheated so easily. It is not pb n overpowering heat here a? ia the North not so suffocafcgT77 Possibly this is due to a greater humidity in Pennsylvania. Whatever it is, the men feel the difference very greatly and are better able to stand up to their work in hot weather. The financial affairs of the mill are under the management of Mr. C. H.

Cothran, a young business man who grew up and got his training at Eome. He says the product of the mill is largely sold ahead, and they are now working fifty hands with a weekly pay roll of $300. Atlanta Constitution.

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Primitive mauling by natuij a lighting animal, fought for the most part at first with his great canine teeth, hit naiis-and his lists, till in process ot time he added to thone early and nt wral weapon, ihe further persecution ol a club or ehillalah. He also fought, as Darwin has conclusively shown, ia the main for the possession of the laiea of his kind, against other member;, of

his own sex and species. And if yon fight you soon learn to protect the mo&fc exposed and vulnerable portion of your body. Or, if you don't, natural seloo tion manage it for you, by killing you off as an immediate oonseauence. Ta

the boxer, wrestler, or hand-to-haad combatant, that most vulnerable portion is most undoubtedly the heart. A, hard blow, well delivered on the Jefi breast, will easily kill, or, at any raio stun even a strong man. Hence, from an early period, men have used th right hand to fight with, and have em

but? V'l U tIL AAA' Kj LXJJ W V TCI VU? heart and to parry a blow aimed at that specially vulnerable region. And

wnen weapons ot onense and deteise supercedes mere fists and teeth, it ia the right hand that grasps the spear or sword, j while the left holds over the heart, for defense., tho shield or buckler. From this simple origin, then, the whole vast difference of light and loft in civilized life takes its beginning. Al first, no doubt, the superiority of the right hand was only felt in the way ot, fighting. Bat that alone gave it a distinct pull, and paved the way at last for the supremacy elsewhere; for whan weapons came into use the habitual employment of the right hand to grasp the spear, sword or knife, made the nerves or muscles of the right side far more obedient to the control of the will th in those of the left The dexterity thus acquired by the right see how tfce word "dexterity" implies this fa&t made it more natural for the early hunter and artificer to employ the Bane hand preferentially in the manufacture of flint hatchets, bows and arrows, and all the other manifold activities of savage life. It was the hand with wifich he grasped his weapon; it was there fore the hand with which he chipped :it9 To the end, however, the right hand remains especially "the band in which you hold your knife; and that is exactly how your own children to this day decide the question which is which, when they begin to know their irigat hand from their left for practical pur poses. American AnalyisL

The Art of Quarreling. The first words o' a quarrel, which are generally too trifling to be remembered, are like the few sparks that fall upon the dry leaves of the forest. The angry retort Is the puff of wind tfait blows them into a flame. Then the mischief is done, past recall. Then two hearts, friendly a few moments bofore, are full of anger. Then words are spoken which may be forgiven but hardly forgotten, and tho friendship :is seldom quite as it was before. Hence the old saying, "It is the seoond word thrJi mukes theqwreL9 That second word usually wounds the pride or the self-love of him to whom :it is addressed. It may take a form tha.t implies a doubt of the other's veracity a dire offence to any one not wholly dctbased. Often it insinuates a low, small, unworthy motive, Sometimes the maddening word is a truth, as when Btutus told Cassius he had an "itching- palm t

sell his offices for cold " l&A&iua, van

so enraged that he cried : "I art itching palm !

Ton know that vou are Brutus that sneak ft .

Or, by tho gods, this speech were else your Ugly truths must sometimes t spoken, but not when two persons ara bound by interest and duty to avoid quarreling. Another most irritating retort is one which attributes cowardice. Courage and truthfulness being the vey foundations of respectable character, a remark which conveys an intimation of a want of either is a sure provocative of a quarrel. There are tones in the voice whieh cannot be described, btt every reader, unless he is a high-class saint, has used them in the early moments of a quarrel. The most innocent thing in tho world may be said in such a way as to rasp and humiliate, particularly if it is accompanied by a certain look out oi! the eyes. Human beings, old cr young, nver appear in so poor and mean a light aa when they are quarreling. A family quarrel is among the most sorrowful

and vulgar oi all displays of human in-

"Forbidden." The exhibits of machinery and of the industrial arts aro in some respects the most interesting and suggestive to Americans of all the departments of the Paris Exposition. The correspondent of the Scientific American commends the excellence of the workmanship of the French and Belgian machinists,

wniie ne tninss tnat m pome ot design, and especially ia light machinery, the Americans are superior to them. Though thegxhihitors are very willing to have theJf!achines examined, and patiently and courteously explain their methods of working, some of them, not wholly unnaturally, show great annoyance if any sketch is made of their ma-chines.

A few days ago I was just beginning i firmity.

to make a sketch of an odd piece of de- Among people living in the same signing, when the machinest, putting ! house, sitting three times a day at the the engine together, caught sight of my same table, being together in tba evenpencil and note book, and the oelerity ing, working together in the daytime, with which he got up and came over to all possessing a nervous system and a me, put me on my guard, so that I just tender self-love, it must needs be "hat prevented him from snatching my book offences come. Irritating words will be

out of my Lands. j unintentionally spoken; expected at ten- ' It is strictly forbidden (Clest abso tions will be omitted; the material of a lumant defendu) to make sketches, quarrel will be frequently created. said he, and I won't have it.w 1 Two things should be borne in mind This, however, was not true, their by every one; one is, that it takes two being no official prohition of making persons, at least, to make a quarrel; drawings for scientific journals. the other, that the quarrel usually d iteo Putting my sketch book away, I from the second word. bared my cuff, and made a pretence to ; Tom What did you take my bat sketch on it. He was completely non- for? plussed, and began to look about for an Charles I didn't take your bafc, and officer. The a I turned to him ilnd you know it ftsked: it also absolutely prohibited , Tom You are a liar! to carry away the design in your head?" i In this case, Charles made the quar Whereupon I turned my back to the e because he met the mexely irritat engine, took out my note-book, tore out ing tirst word with a grossly insulting tho embrvo sketch, and handed it to second. Put down the brakes hard him. Ho tore it into shreds with great upon the secoad word. louth' Cornsatisfaction, while I, with my back still PWon

to the engine, made a side elevation,

and a plan of the connecting rod end, for that was all it was, and showed it to him. He looked at it, called his assistant to see it, shrugged bis shoulders, spread out his hinds, and said, "Mai& gu'est ce que on petit faire aoec unvoledr comme ca?n (But what can be done with such a thief?) The most laughable part of the whole business is that these men, or many of them, se-MU to think that Americans want to copy their designs, whereas in a great many cases the thing sketched are absuiditie fi;nm an American point of view.

A Veteran's Appeal. Applicant Can you help an old soldier, mum? Benovelent Lady Poor fellow! Here's a dollar for 700. Were you wounded? Applicant (pocketing the bill) "No, mum, but I wins 'mong the missin twice. Benovelent Lady How terrible When was it ? Applicant Je' afore the battles of JLntietan an' th' Wilderness, mum.

The race hi not because sometimes fleet at anchor.

sjways to the floet. a stexm kotps the