Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 March 1884 — Page 10

SOCIETY SHAMS.

le Fro/tids Which Are Sometimes

Practiced by Upper-Tendom.

a lire at Nhow In Frequently lade at Wedttlngs, Dinners, and Receptions with a Small Outlay for Borrowed Plumage.

[Chicago News.]

Jjess than a year ago occurred the wedding !a north side young lady, the daughter of "'enterprising commission merchant and the '•ce of one of the wealthiest and best-known llionaires in the northwest. The wedding

small, not more than seventy-five cards ring been issued, and things were got up arilless of expense, apparently. But few the chosen ones who attended knew aught the bride's struggle to keep up appearies, and the devices she had resorted to. in ler that the nuptials might be celebrated ier the most favorable circumstances. It is the last entertainment for which her rents would be responsible, she being the *, unmarried child, and her mother was iliug to do all that lay in her power for the 1.

WHAT WAS DONE.

.""he toilets were above cavil, and, coming one of those fashionable modistes who material, trimming and all, did not have be paid for at once. A florist was kind ugh to loan quite a number of potted «.nts at a small expense. The next subject anxiety was the collation, which was man3d at no great cost, but had to come from Irst class caterer. The all-important point beautifying the house. The carpets were ^rn beyond any process of renovation by ans of tea-leaves or dry scrubbing, and ''nettling must be done. Something was je, and done expeditiously and effectively, i. A lot of creton, that would light up \l, was bought at a Madison street auction, i, with the help of a seamstress for two ps, covers were made for the shabbily-

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furniture. When the curtains were ndered, the windows were in holiday atand it was thought that the blemishes in wall-paper would lessen, if not entirely ppear, under red illumination. The feadbare carpets made a really good backund for the niue Daghastan and skin "5s which were laid the day preceding the dding. ?here were two large mats in tha center of 1 saloon parlor, smaller ones before the .utels and large pieces of furniture, one I 'ered every door-sill on the parlor-floor, the Persian rug on which the bridal I *ty stood was marked $4(10. One of the tgest mats was decorated with a band of isli and draped the exposed end of the upht piano. At a rough estimate the rugs in parlor were worth little less than $2,000, not a cent was paid for them. The bridect went to one of the largest firms in the y, picked them out and ordered them sent 1 me on probation. "If you do not hear

us in forty-eight hours bill them to pa or Uncle she said. That inded like business. Both names were jd, and the mats were delivered at 5 lock that afternoon. The same scheme was worked at the imbers, who sent to the house $165 worth colored transparent glass globjs. "If the or does not hurt the furniture, I will let jiknow to-morrow evening, and you can on papa for settlement," said the young y. She was true to her word.

NOT A TRACE LEFT.

The wedding occurred next morning, and light streaming through the handsome )bes of crimson and orange brought out the rm, rich colors of the costly rug*, toned wn the spots on the wall-paper, and threw evfect halo round the pretty, blushing

The knot was tied, sixty guests told .r greetings, good wishes and adieux to newly wed led couple, the breakfast was n, the wedding cake pocketed, rice and jky old shoes followed the bridal carriage en ite for the train, and three hours from the tie of beginning the lights were turned out, not a trace of the entertainment was sible. An expressman drove to the wooddoor, the rugs were pitched into the carefully tied up with the identical ~r and twine that the packer had put on, tags were untouched, and accompanying bundle was a note, saying that "papa had ided to tnake the purchase when he nt east, but I thank you for sending '"in, and regret the trouble I have caused." ismall boy was hired for 25 cents to carry 8 globes back and s&y that the colors did II suit the carpet, but Mrs. would call ain.

DAUGHTER'S DEBUT.

Apropos of the subject, one of the heads of partment in a State street dry goods house is interviewed. "Why, you can have no idea of the decepns practised on us by some of the so-called •per ten," he said. "They stop at nothing, the fact that their credit is excellent ables them to hive goods delivered at their mes which otherwise would never be sent. be specific, I remember waiting on a lady hose husband is worth $200,000. She drove in her coupe ani would give me an order she only knew what she wanted in the ay of window hangings and portiere aperies. Would I send up my clerk to ing each window differently, and put old xtains on the doors? Well, that I thought »s a customer worth courting. She made inquiry about prices, and I took card, bowed her to the elevator, id promised that every window and door the house should be hung before the sun ant down. Well, do you know I selected nattiest goods In stock, picked out the mings, had them made and lined, hung rods, and sent two men to put them up. le draperies being odd and of the latest dejns, the effect was picturesque as well as kndsome. A few days after she came in td purchased about (U0 worth of table linen, id left word that she had decided not to do tything about the hangings until after use-cleaning. We learned by accident that 0 curtains were much admired the next ght by the 800 gueats who attended the •but party of her daughter.

BORROWING SHAWLS.

"What did we do? We could do nothing ider the circumstances, for to quarrel with »r would be to forfeit $5,000 worth of trade

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per annum, mat, nowever, was most exasperating, for I had cat up so much costly material which few but the committeeman for some club-home would be likely to purchase. "While such cases are comparatively rare, it is not unusual for a woman to come in and buy conditionally a valuable shawl or wrap. She pays, perhaps, one-half the price, or has it charged to her account. That night, perhaps, she will wear it at a ball or opera, and return it in the morning, saying that her husband does not fancy it. Perhaps she will take some other goods, or, if her reputation is such as to permit that audacity sne simpiy returns tne earners nair aoiman, and that ends the matter. They used to play that same game on us when lace shawls and jackets were the style, but so many of the garments came back torn that we made it a rule not to receive the shawla if they had sen worn. To enforoe this rale a pin with a peculiar bend was fastened in the shawl after being folded, and while it was an easy mat* ter to remove it, not one in a million could replace it without detection. •,

STEALING THE STYLES.

"in would be surprised to know how many women of social standing will have a new style of cloak, a child's kilt, an afternoon apron, or some late design for a handbag, table scarf, or even a tidy sent home c. o. d. When the boy takes it in, he is allowed to amuse himself in the hall glass while madame up-stairs cuts out the patterns. Collars, scarfs, and all kinds of fancy work are reproduced by these talented and artful ladies, who are too nice to wear soiled kid gloves or cotton pocket-handkerchiefs. I have allowed more than one suit of underclothes and dozens of sample baby robes to be sent to avenue homes for mere copies, and when we carri6d a millinery stock this same class of aristocrats would borrow the pattern hats and bonnets and appropriate the ideas we paid dear for in Paris. These cribbers, as we call them, are smart they will buy their own feathers and flowers ana get up almost the same bonnet for a fourth less than we could afford to sell it. "The same is true of suits perhaps they cannot sew, themselves, but if there is a seamstress in the house, and she knows her business, she can reproduce an imported dress to a nicety, and the woman who has no scruples about the way in which her design is obtained has no hesitancy in palming it off as a Worth when finished. A good many people who think lightly of these tricks would shrink from open dishonesty but not even is this generally believed by the class itself, which employes detectives to watch wedding presents and look after the small silver and bric-a-brac during a crush reception."

A MAD MILLINER.

A Wabash avenue milliner, whose opinion was asked for, said: "Women, as aclass, are a set of dead beats. I have traded with them for twenty years, and, I declare, for petty dishonesty they outdo the men by 40 per cent. It is not that they mean to cheat me, but there is nothing open-handed about them. They are always looking for bargains, and when they get me to take off $6 from my price, expect that I will use the best material in the house. But it takes a diamond to cut a diamond, and a good long time for a jewel on the other side of the counter to learn that the best is the cheapest in the end. "Do they appropriate my patterns? Not if I know it. I am up to those tricks, and have not had a bonnet on show for ten years. When a lady wants a bat I fit her with a frame, find out how much she cares to invest, and about the style or suit with which she intends to wear it. Then I make up the order and she tries it on when finished, and pays for it, too, unless I know about her wealth."

CROCKERY COVETED.

A crockery and glassware dealer said: "foedeption is practiced on us every little while, by some of the wealthy vulgar class whose motive I cannot understand unless it be a love of the novel. Parties come in and order a full crystal set, hand-painted, after-dinner or ice-cream services, and s&y they wish to see how they will look under gas. Yes, we send them, and charge a big rate for broken pieces. That they are used for entertainments I have not the slightest doubt, for on one occasion a LaSalle street gentleman returned such an order on the morning after a big dinner party to a famous Englishman. The gools were in prime order, with shavings, wrappers and all, but there was a salad dish worth $19 that that we recognized as belonging to a rival firm."

ALL SORTS.

Inquiry at jewelry-houses disclosed the fact that marble clocks, vases, umbrella stands, bronzes, and armorial placques and wall ornaments are borrowed for various entertainments under the pretext of a purchase, and occasionally several hundred dollars' worth of diamonds are paraded before a handful of guests, who regard the owner of such treasures with but ill-concealed envy. woe unto tne Kieni [Beecher's Sermon.]

Oh, your beggarty princes! Oh, you miscreanfe, who have covered your consciences and imaginations, who have scraped with the devil of selfishness, who have fatten all goodness out of yourself I Oh, you whose souls sit down on the dunghill of filth, are you as generous as you started if you say of a man who has been generous and died poor: "If he had been as careful as I he would not have died so?" Yes, he lost his money and saved himself, while you have saved your money and will be damned.

Thore are multitudes of men like dandelions. At first they look like disks of gold, and after a few days a puff will destroy them, and no one knows where they were. What lives such men live, such utter absence of heroism. How came such heathen in the church? The rich man with warehouses, power in the market, with no true soul power, is like a huge black spider, hungry, though big-bellied, sucking all dry who come to his web. God's angels hold their noses when they 'ook at Mm.

Ark ansa Traveler: De pride ob a man is wus den dat ob a 'om&n. De 'aman wants ter please de man, but de man's aim is ter please his'aet

Wilmington (N. C.) Star: Men who are mere partisans rarely read or write with any other end than to sustain parly. They are intolerant of opinions that d* not fit into their narrow grooves.

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TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1884.

AUSTRALIAN MINERS.

Bow Oold Came to Be Discovered in •_ the Colonies.

Honcure "M Conway's Visit to Ball-

-Hargreaves and Esmond^ the Pioneer Diggers for Wold .—The Brief Kebelllou.

[Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.] Gold costs a good deal. So I thought to* day when I was sinking into a narrow grave, little more than a yard square, 800 feet infb the earth. We had to dress for the descent in the mud-spattered garb, huge boots and horrible hats, inasmuch that we all spontaneously agreed to call each other "bloke," and to divide any "swag" we could annex in the mine. Through the slimy sides of the grave we descended, shuddering—four of us "froze together"—and, after sundry bloodcurdling creakings and stoppings, were deposited in a puddle. Clutching each his candle, we waded through a white mud-soup till we came upon men who, with a-grunt or groan at each stroke, picked at the hard quartz. For their eight hours' daily toil in this hades each obtains 7 shillings, a sum whose smallness amazed me. The eye of the workman emitted a flash as he told us, and he added that he'd had about enough of it. It wai a relief to reach the upper air again and don one's own garments.

THE MINE'S HISTORY.

Then we went over the adjacent establishment, where the quartz is crushed and washed, where the gold-dust adheres to the carpets and blankets over which the yellow water passes, and so on through the stages by which the mint is finally reached, and the gold goes forth with saintly George and his bright-scaled dragon stamped upon it. This particular mine originally belonged to the Band of Hope, now united with the Albion company. The old company toiled for some years without much result on ground where the first discoverers had found much gold a few feet deep. They sunk a shaft very far down, they battled with flood and sand six years before they reached success—£1,000 per day. Now, at the end of twenty-two years, the united Band of Hope and Albion can count over £6,000,000 sterling as their gains. And yet the mud and grime of it, the subterranean slime and cold, the unsunned existences passed in digging down there, combined into a symbol of the quantity of dirt, darkness, drudgery and unhappiness through which, in America as well as Ballarat, many must pass before gold can be piled up. That serpent on the English sovereign must eat the dust all its days.

THE FIRST DIGGER.

The first Australian digger was Edward Hargreaves. George Sutherland, who has written a useful article on the beginning oi the gold fields, started with Hargreaves, who, having been reduced to sell his sheep as tallow in Australia migrated to the newly discovered gold regions of California. He did not do well there, but he observed the similarity of the auriferous soil in California to spots he had noticed in New South Wales. Like the boy in the fable who left his mountain home for the pretty blue mountains, only to find that those he had left were equally blue, Hargreaves returned and literally in the Blue mountains found gold. The Hon. Mr. Mclntyre of the Victorian legislature has told me some particulars of Hargreaves. Capt. Devlin met him in California, and, although regarding his hopes of discovering gold in Australia as delusive, assisted him to return to Sydney.

SUCCESS.

They traveled together, and on the day after their arrival the captain saw Hargreaves mounted on an old horse, to obtain which he had borrowed some money at over 100 per cent. As he traveled to the Blue mountains he told everybody he encountered of his faith and hope, but all laughed at him save one, Mrs. Lister, landlady of an inn where he stopped, who sent her son to be his guide. Sure enough the gold was found and Hargreaves broke into a laugh, paying to young Lister: "This is a memorble day in the history of New South Wales. For this day's work I shall be created a baronet, you will be knighted and my old horse will be stuffed with straw and sent to the British museum I" But he is plain Edward Hargreaves yet and Victoria has not yet paid up all its part of the money voted him by the colonies. However, he was rewarded about £15,000, which, as Mr. Sutherland remarks, is in notable contrast with the poverty and neglect in which died another Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny, which has coined £30),000,000 sterling.

A NARROW-MINDED OFFICIAL. The colonial secretary* of the time disbelieved the discovery, because the regular geologists had not made it and his disbelief was succeeded by dislike of it "You must remember," he said to Hargreaves, "that as soon as Australia becomes known as a goldproducing country, it is utterly spoiled as a receptacle of convicts." This secretary, who discouraged the gold discovery, Deas Thompson, was afterward made a "Sir," but not the discoverer—who, by the way, spent only a year or two in the search for gold, and is now a hale and happy old gentleman of Sydney.

The discoverer of gold in Victoria was James Esmond, who also got his training in California, where his experience was much the same as that of Hargreaves. He returned to Australia with anew eye in his head for rocks and earths, and his discovery was near Ballarat. The name of the spot was, I believe, Poverty Flat,and the name proved ominous. After getting together a considerable fortune, poor Esmond lost it all in trying to make it bigger.

LIVELY TIMES.

I had the pleasure of an introduction to the Hon. Peter Lalor, speaker of the Victorian legislature. He-isalarge and striking figure, but his glory is the stump of his lost arm. The speaker's arm was lost while fighting against the Victorian soldiery in riots at the Eureka mine, near Ballarat. When thousands were out here digging for gold, the government (then under Governor Hotham) imposed on each digger the neces sity of obtaining a license, for which he had to pay SO shillings a month. Mr. Sutherland has unfortunately not told in his pamphlet the story of the riots, a romantic page in the histoy of Ballarat. It was in 1854. when the

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guiu utw was at its neigat, auu uus eosc car licenses—which some did not get gold enough to pay for—was felt to be excessive Bat no rebellion against it might have occurred had not the government enforced it in an oppressive and exasperating way. I have been told by persons who were up in the affair that a man was liable to be accosted by a policeman at any moment and his license demanded, and, if he did not happen to have it about him, was at once handcuffed and chained to a log, there to remain for trial next day. The diggers' blood boiled over at last, but, like many English agitators before them, they made a false sten— cney toon to soiaienng.

AN INSURGENT FLAG.

They made Peter Lalor a captain, raised a flag—the Southern Cross—and built a stockade. Government blood can boil too, and that's the kind of thing can make it boiL When the trampled reformers who marched to Peterloo, in England, threw away their badges and banners and took to discussing their grievances in rooms, they soon carried their reform. At Ballarat the soldiery attacked the stockade and after a considerable number of lives were lost on both sides, the matter was settled as it might have been settled before had the governor been a map of sense. The leading rioters were tried and acquitted the license was reduced to £1, decently collected, afterward to 10 shilling and finally to 5 shillings—where it now stands. Those who fell are honorably memorialized in Ballarat cemetery. Some of the rioters are among the best men in Victoria. It is said that once, when some measure was before the legislature involving the rights of diggers, Peter Lalor, in speaking, made a significant gesture with the stump of his arm, which elicited a wild cheer from the assembly and helped to carry his case.

BALLARAT'S EARLY DAYS.

A graphic picture of the first months of Ballarat is to be found in a novel by George Arthur Walstab, "Pierce Charlton's Wives." Evidently there was a good many roughs there, but I am continually meeting men of fine manners and culture who were among the tented Ballarat diggers of thirty years age and among the rioters of the Eureka stookade. Nor does one of them believe he wai in the wrong.

So far as I can learn, comparatively few oi the great fortunes of Australia have been built up on gold mines. As we drove through Ballarat many houses were pointed out fai sunken in the earth by reason of the excavations beneath them, and the wealth excavated appears to have largely rested on a similarly insecure foundation. In old German folk-lore it is said that they whe would dig successfully for hid treasure must work in silence and fulfill certain formulat demanded by fatal guardians of such tliingf —a single word, a neglected form, being enough to bring not only failure but danger. The real conditions of wealth are not lesi stern than the legendary. They are not tc be met by riding horses shod with gold, though that made one Cameron famous in 1856. Few of .the diggers could have fulfilled all the dread conditions of obtaining riches, failure in the least of which may turn fin ores to devil's dust, or chains more galling than iron. There are true legends haunting these Australian gold fields, which sometimes sound a3 if invented by some sage to teach the vanity of msre luck. A poor wretck finds a thousand-pound nugget and sleeps more. ArJfefl'rfi*'./!/

IM BUINED CITIES.

There is in Victoria a town of ruinec houses—Matlock. Its life began in 1864, witl a rush of diggers. The last inhabitant left it 1879. In that fifteen years Matlock ha found a fortune and seen it turn to dross. The diggers lost their wits, as at Ballarat, lit their pipes with bank-notes and played al skittles with bottles of wine. "On one occasion," says Mr. Sutherland, "two lucky diggers laid a wager about which of them should treat the assembly with the largest 'shout.' The first one ordered several dozens of th most expensive wines, far more than the company could be expected tc drink with the utifiost diligence. Bui the other completely eclipsed this effort by ordering out the landlord's whole stock oJ champagne, amounting to about 200 bottles. It was bought and disposed of in every absurd way that reckless ingenuity could invent. This sort of conduct ruined many ol the diggers." Deeson, the poor man who went out one day with his children's cries for bread ringing in his ears and returned with the nugget ("Welcome Stranger") that sold for £10,000, was a man of good personal habits, but he soon fell into poverty. He did not know when he had enough. He invested his fortune in machinery and lost it alL He toiled on through life in poverty a hundred yards from the spot where a single stroke ol his pick turned up a fortune. .*

Hard to Please Two Masters. [Chicago Tribune.] A curious incident occurred in the legislature to-day, in which one of the chaplains unwittingly gave a sharp rap at the legislators who are inattentive to prayers. After his prayer in the senate this morning, in which reference was made to the death of ex-Governor Hubbard, Chaplain Taylor was approached by an ex-door-keeper, who congratulated him on the prayer, saying it was "the gem of the session." It is reported that the chaplain in some confusion replied: "It is a difficult matter, sir, to address the Almighty and interest the senators at the same time." 4

The Bed Sunsets. [The Current.]

The red sunset discussion is becoming very vigorous and fashionable. The consideration of large mysteries is not without profit yet one is reminded, during this particular discussion, of Theophrastus Such's question to his valet—"What is the cause of tides, Pummel?" "Well, sir, nobody rightly khowa Many gives their opinion, bat if I was to give mine, it -ud be different, 1

Bpea&lUK CO tM r4tm, [Pall Mall Gazette.]

Gen. Gordon's telegram to Khartoum, is thoroughly characteristic, recalling the laconic terseness of his famous speech when he entered upon his duties as governor general of the Soudan. It was expected that he would make along address, but be dismissed the assembly with a single sentence:

will try to hold the balance even." These pregnant sayings of Gordon will serve as the finger-posts his mission. When

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CUtCUS PRIVILEGES,

And the language in Which They Are Talked About

Oddities ef the Peculiar Jargta ef the Sawdust Arena—The Money Value at "Side ShoWud

Ot|ier^rlTileses.

[New York Sun.]

In some inexplicable way the men of the sawdust arena have made unto themselves a language peculiar and to a very great degree unintelligible to the uninitiated. Much of it undoubtedly comes from gypsy sources, was talked generations ago among the horse riders of England, and was imported to this country by the Cooks and other old circus families. Here fertile imaginations have enlarged and enriched it with newly-coined words, idomatic phrases, and slang until it is almost as copious and queer as the "thieves' patter" of London, with which, by the way, it has much in common. Those by whom it is most commonly used are the canvasmen, hostlers, grooms, ring supernumeraries, and other members of what may be classed as the humbler divisions in the circus army. Those who habitually use this speech not infrequently find a serious value in the power it gives them of exchanging ideas, purposes, and warnings in presence of "outsiders" who may be hostile to them, without being understood by others than their comrades. In fact, it answers for them most of the uses of a foreign tongue, and they employ it at times without a thought of its comic incongruity in the gravest situations.

QUEER SOUNDING. I

Several years ago a circus company left behind in Chicago a sick canvasman. The poor fellow was not likely to recover, and the best they could do for him was to put him in a room of the Mattison house and make liberal provision for his care until the end should come. Another canvasman, one of his oldest and dearest friends, remained behind to attend him. After a few days of pain, nature began to give way. Beside the bed sat his friend, a big, rough, but warm-hearted fellow, over whose bronzed cheeks tears of grief were flowing fast, who looked up at the minister who had been called in and said in a choking voice: "Stag his goggles, he's a goin'." [See his eyes, he is going.]

It is related that one time a circus showing in a little Ohio town suddenly lost one of its canvasmen. After the canvas was up and before time for striking it he wandered off about the town. A revival meeting in a little church attracted him. He listened to a thrilling exhortation, felt himself a great sinner, seated himself among the mourners, and "got religion" before the evening ended. The show went on and left him, but the treasurer sent back to him the wages due on his account. He settled down in the town, became a member of the church, found plenty of profitable employment as a carpenter, and lived an irreproachable life, but never could get rid of his old habits of speech, except the swearing, which he left off entirely. Three or four years went by during which no circus visited the town. Then one came, and in its train of employes was a canvasman who had formerly been the convert's closest "pard." The unregenerate new comer chanced to meet his old friend and saluted him with a profane explosion of exuberant joy, to which the other, while warmly grasping his hand, replied, pointing up to heaven: "Silence, cully stow your cackle. His Nibs hears you." Never was an admonition against profanity more earnestly meant, but the mode of its expression might, in the ears of the hypercirtical, have seemed to mar its solemnity. He meant simply: "Silence, comrade restrain your words. God hears you." 7 THE "FIXER.W

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says, means "a good, lively, industrious worker," nothing more. The "general fixer's" business is the getting of licenses for showing in towns and cities, and obtaining permits for street parades. An experienced, capable man, agreeable find smart, can save a good many dollars to a show in the course of a season in doing that work, by making tickets as good as money to petty officials and occasionally, in some rough western localities, the tact and good nature of a "fixer" have been of almost inestimable value in making friends ahead of the show. "Fixer" is a shorter word than negotiator, and, for all practical circus purposes, is as good. That reference to the handling of privileges touches a wider and more important ground. The word "privileges," when used in circus associations, is meant to include all the various' devices for capturing money in and about a circus other than the "big show" itself. Four of these are legitimate, and acknowledgedside show, concert, candy and tickets. It is affirmed, and apparently on good circus authority, that one show, not many seasons ago, leased out the privilege of passing counterfeit money to the "yokels," or countrymen, along its route, and that another leased the "clothes-line privilege," or right to petty sneak thieving of all sorts on its line of march. Strictly speaking, there was not in either case a formal leasing of either privilege, but that which amounted to the same thing was that the counterfeiters and thieves were personally known to the managers of the two shows, and had to pay them liberally for permission to "work" the crowds attracted by the circuses and the country round about.

OTHER PRIVILEGES.

The "side-show privilege" covers the right to exhibit, in a tent adjoining that of the big show, any and all sorts of alleged attractions and supposed monstrosities, with the inseparable adjunct of real monstrosities of paintings outside, to amaze and fascinate rural beholders. The license granted to a circus ordinarily covers all its belongings, including the side show and the running expenses of the latter are very small, by comparison with the big show, so that the profits upon this privilege, in proportion to investment, are often much greater than those of the circus itself. In some cases it has been known that where the circus lost money during a season the side show made handsome profits.

snow given tne mam tent aner tne ring performance end& Though this show has no license or advertising expenses—beyond such advertisement as is given by bellowing fellows offering tickets for sale during the ^'4 main performance—its outlay is sometimes 1 heavy in its list of salaries for specialty per- •. formers, who are often high-priced. It therefore is mnch less profitable proportionately than the side show, but still is quite «. a handsome source of revenue with any good, ,. and successful circus. The "candy privilege"* covers the sale of confectionery, nuts, fruity lemonade, etc., in the main tent The"*' "ticket privilege" involves the right to sell daily, in advance of the openinsr of the ticket wagon, at a siigut increase 01 prise, a certain stipulated number of tickets to the main shorn Thousands of people would rather pay an extra dime on each ticket than*'*' ... struggle in the crowd at the ticket wagon.

A "side-show privilege" has been Intown to •all alone for 930,000 for a single season with a large and popular circus, and a "ticket, privilege" for the same length of time has brought $7,000. Sometimes, circus managers' who had good popular names, but who were financially rained by a disastrous season,, have been put on their feet again pecuniarily and started upon new eras of prosperity by the sales, in advance, of their privileges for vr a single season. Shows have been started,,' 7 I'. entirely by the money paid for privileges, and several of the prominent circus managers of to-day were (onnerly handlers or lessees of privileges.

faen. MeCo«tk on the Indians. [New York World.] Gen, Joseph McCook, the dark-browed warrior of Colorado, is relating one.of.his* western experiences, which, he observes, taught him the inadvisability of coo much, freshness. "About a year ago," says he,

Polk and Blair. [Ben: Perley Poore.]

Mr. Polk, when he became president, to satisfy the nullifiers of the south and Mr. Tyler, consented to sacrifice Mr. Blair, the fast friend of Gen. Jackson, and tlot out his -M name from the head of The Globe newspaper, and substitute another name more acceptable

to the malcontents, as his official organ. It was proposed, however, that Mr. Blair should still contribute to the editorial columns of that print, and "brilliant offers" were held out to him to write sub rosa but this Mr. Blair refused to do. The fame which he had enjoyed during the palmy days of Jackson and Van Buren, and his general reputation as a writer and a full member of the kitchen cabinet, and a welcomed visitor to that of the parlor, was still green in his memory, but ,,, he was not so verdant as to write up an administration which had just put him down. K*' He would not consent to the proposed ar» rangement TuTiK

Anon, President Polk himself and Mr. Bancroft, a member of his council, drove out to Silver Spring, the residence of the ex-editoi to induce him to write articles for The Globe but not to have his name mentioned in print V, in that connection. They who have seen Mr. Blair are aware that he is not a Joseph or an Absalom for beauty, and when the dis- 7 tinguished visitors were pressing him to do as they so earnestly desired, he said to President ^,

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The melancholy discovery is made that "gosh" is the worst kind of swearing. Elliot in his Indian Bible uses

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had a long journey to take through the, wildest part of Arizona. The country was full of Apaches who were going about in small bands stealing anything they could lay hands on and doing whatever they could in a general way to make things enthusiastic for travelers. That is to say I heard a good, ,j deal about these Apaches, but a I didnt see any of them I thought it was simply a case of scare. My driver was a quiet Californian who didn't say much, but ran the expedition to suit himself. Every night when it came time to make camp he would turn off at right angles with the road and drive for a oouple of miles in that direction before unhitching the horses. I kicked about it of course. I said it was a useless expenditure of time. Besides it isn't funny to ride over a perfectly unbroken country. It is too much like being 1 chucked up in a blanket But the more I swore the lesB attention the driver paid to me. Well, one morning whan we struck back into the trail we found a place where there had been a camp the night before. There had also been a fight with the Indians. 1 I never set eyes on such a horrible sight The whole party of white people had been killed and fearfully mutilated. All of them were scalped, and some of the bodies were dismem-. bered, and one of the women was disemboweled. The stcck had been run off and the wagons ransacked. Those people had camped alongside the trail, and the Indians,

who were on the lookout for such parties, had found them. My driver didn't get any more of my views about camping. He could have driven to the gulf of Mexico after that if be had wanted to." "What do you think about the Indiansf "Well, I have noticed that every one who has lived among them expresses just one theory about the Indian question, and that^ theory is very much in favor of feeding them exclusively on Paris green. It is well enough'!"^ to sit down here in the east and theorize about their wrongs and their benighted con-b'' dition. But any crowd that habitually ^5 butchers its enemies and cuts up dead women

ought to be handled with something a little harder than a seamless kid glove If they are in such a state of darkness as folks say, I would suggest .w-tting daylight in£o 'em."

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Blair, with a view of pacifying the old war "J horse of the Hermitage, who "never deserted a friend from policy," Mr. Polk offered the ex-editor a full foreign mission, but this Mr. Blair refused, on the ground that it was hard

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