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THE LATE JOHN W. GARRETT.^

In the death of John W. Garrett, which occurred on S.'pt. 26, the country loses the giant among, railroad managers. Garrett wax born in the city of Baltimore, July 31, Ift.'O. mid was the second son of the late Robert Garrett, who came from Ireland |oor, bat liecame a wealthy merchant and hunker. Hit* education was completed at Lafayette college in Pennsylvania, when he entered his father's counting room, and was shortly after, at the age of nineteen, made a partner in his father's business. His Brat connection with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, was in October, 1857, when be was made a director of the company—a time when the embarrassment of the road was of a nost serious character. In 1858 Mr. Gar re was elected to the presidency »f the company, which position he retained till his death. The practical wisdom of Mr. Garret at once inaugurated that policy of economy, retrenchment, aud personal supervision that has ever since characterised his management, the first practical result of which, was tlio payment to the stockholders 31 the spring of 1859 of the first of that un'iroken series of dividends that has continued io this day, and raised the value of the stock to $57, the highest quotation at the time when Mr. Garrett took hold, to something »ver

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extended the main line aud branches, withjut increasing to any considerable extent the capital stock of the company, and without constructing a debt equal to that of 3)any roads of far less mileage and business. Sir. Garrett was also the head of the banking house of Robert Garrett & Sons. _,

W«lk*"K a [New York Star.]

-When a mun milks a cow, he should' not Attempt to smoke a cigar at the same time. A young man out in the country tried it, •ad got along well enough until he lowered bis head and touched the cow's flanks with the lighted end of his weed. The next initant himself and the cigar were dreadfully "pat out." The cow introduced about two tons weight into one of her hind legs, and then passed it under the milker's jaw. When he ceased whirling around, and the myriads of stars he saw had disappeared, he said farming was the hardest work a man could put his hand to. J.,,,

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LOUISA KAY ALCOTT.

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pa, in 1833. Her father was the social philosopher A. Bronson Alcott. She early s-: showed a talent for writing fairy tales, her first book appeared when she was but 22.

Bhe has since been a contributor to many of the magazines and author of numerous books for the youth. All her writing exhibits the s» kindly, charitable disposition of the author, which was shown in a practical way by her volunteering as a hospital nurse in the Union a a 7 licW-i ,/ The Bicycle In Agriculture. [Springfield Republican.]

A Vermont farmer's boy has bought himself a bicycle, and wishes he hadn't. His father has utilized the thing by making it furnish motive power for his winnowing mill, corn shelter and grindstone. This he does by suspending it from the axle, removing the tim rom the wheel and connecting it by an endless rope with his agricultural machine, then making his son mount and do th% propelling.

The Editor of London Truth.

HENRY LABOUCHXRE.

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quoted this country tnan Truth, and It is owing to the bright and intensely sarcastic pen of its radical editor, Labouchere. Though he is himself descended from the peerage, and was an attache of the British ministry at Washington, he takes a special delight in showing up the cumbersomeness and weaknesses of her majesty's government. Labouchere first attracted attention by his "Letters of a btsieged resident," written from Paris during the siege. In 1874 he aided Edmund Yates in starting The London World, but soon after retired to establish Truth, from which he now derives an income of $50,000 a year. He is also a member of parliament, being elected as a Radical.

The Veteran Author, Raconteur ssl Correspondent.

BEN: PERLEY POORK.

Maj. Ben Perley Poore is one of the most industrious men of our day. He has accomplished wonders in the various labors he lias undertaken and a mere record of which would fill a volume. He was born in 1820 at Indian Hill farm, abont four miles from Newburyport, Mass., where his ancestors have lived in unbroken succession since 1650. At tlie age of 7 he was taken to the District of Columbia, where the principal portion of his busy lite has since been spent in public: duties. In 1831 he accompanied his parents to Europe, where he had the pleasure of meeting Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Moore, Gen. Lafayette, and others distinguished in literature. Upon his return from Europs he was placed in a military school to receive a preparatory training for West Point. The prospects of a military life, which his parents ha4 intended he should follow, being particularly irksome to him he ran away from school and home, apprenticed himself to a printer in Worcester, Mass. After a period of drudgery here he visited his home, when his father purchased him a newspaper office in Athens, Ga., where he spent two years, when he accepted a position as an attache to the United States minister to Belgium, remaining five years, and visited every portion of Europe, the Holy Land, and Lower Egypt. On his return in 1847 he began in Washington the correspondence for Massachusetts and other papers which he has since continued. In 1802 he was appointed clerk of printing records for the United States Ben ate, and has also edited the Congressional Directory. His home at Farm HU1, Mass., is a mansion of sixty rooms. It contains more historical relics, documents and records than any public library in the coun try, not excepting the government archives. It contains an amatuur printing office, a model of its kind, and as the major is an expert in the matter of agriculture his farm and stock are not to be surpassed anywhere.

A French Dramatist and Novelist.

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"ALEXANDER DAVY DTTMAS,

Ibe elder, was born in 1803. As a youth he held a small office in the household of Louis Philippe, his African blood preventing him from holding a very high position in the court. This social ostracism spurred him to extraordinary efforts toward self-education, which resulted in his beginning at the early age of 20 a career as novelist and dramatist which was extremely prolific and profitable. By his novels, which have been widely translated, he derived a large income and fame.

His Patients Were Not Healthy. [Arkansaw Traveller.] "I understand that you have stopped practicing," said the secretary of state to an eminent colored physician. "Yas, sah, 'eluded ter gin up de trade an' go ter preachin'. In dis country dar ain't no money ter be made in de practicin' o' medicine. W'y, sah, ef I had er 'voted my time es close to suthin' else ez I has ter dis business I would er been putty well off by dis time. Ober two-thirds of my patients neber paid me, sah." "Why didn't you sue them!" "'Twouldn't done no good, case da wus dead, sah. I got de wus' class o' patients. None o' 'em neber had no health an' constitution." A member of the Freneh Academy.

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education, his son, wbn was born In 1834, had the best France afforded, besides being at an early age introduced into the society of literary people and given the advantages of travel with his father. Dumas, jr., has been a disappointment He has succeeded best as a dramatist, and he misused his talents in magnifying the worst side of society. In 1875 he was admitted among the "Forty Immortals," as the members of the French academy are called, and is now trying to redeem his reputation.

Who Invented the TelepfcoaeV

DANIEL DRAWBAUGH.

Who claims to be the inventor of the telephone and who is one of the contestants in the present suit to decide who is the real inventor, and which suit is attracting universal attention on account of the value of the instrument in dispute, has always lived where he was born at Eberly's Mills, a little village of perhaps a couple of dozen houses, some four miles from Harrisburg, Pa. Drawbaugh is one of these odd geniuses often found in country communities who can do pretty much anything in the mechanical line. He repuired clocks and guns, painted wagons and portraits, built furniture and machinery with equal facility, and bore the title of machinist by way of courtesy. He has mad« electric clocks and all kinds of electrical apparatus, invented nail making and other machines, but has never been able to keep himself and family above extreme poverty. He claims to have m^de in 1866 that which Bell patented ten years later,

Governor of Nebraska*

JAMES W. DAWES,

Gov. James W. Dawes, of Nebraska, who, was elected to the gubernatorial oh air jn the autumn or 1883, has bei-n unanimously ipuonunatod by the Republicans. His present term expires on the 8th of January, 1885.

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fJhamplon Oarsman of the World*

WILLIAM BEACH.

Edward Hanlan, the American oarsman, who has had a p'lonomennl success in defeating every rival that this continent or Europe could produce, has at last been obliged to forfeit his laurels to William Beach, an Australian oarsman, who, on the 16th of last month, in a race at New South Wales, defeated the American champion by sven lengths. Th-j Australian is in a thirty-first year, and has only devoted the last four years to aqtritics.

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CREMATORY TO BE ERECTED NEAR NEW YORK.

At Mount Olivet, near New York, will shortly be erected a marble and brick crematory. It will contain besides office and reception rooms a main hall where services may be held while the remains are being incinerated in the furnaces below, an operation which will require one hour of time and will reduce the body to snow white ashes at about four per cent, of its original weight

Nets York, Commercial Advertiser: At a recent marriage ceremony in one of the Providence churches the contracting partfra were thirty minates behind time, and the ergan pealed out: "O, dear, what can thl matter bef

The Kni of Summer. [Redrawn from Life.]

WHAT SHE SAYS:

WHAT HE SAYS:

''Good bye." What xhe does not way: We have had such lovely times together and after all that has happened you calmly shake hands and go as if—well, men are brutes.

"Good bye." What he does not say: There have been times wheu I would swear that you cared i'or me, but. I kuow how you have treated other fellows and I'll be hanged if my scalp shall decorate your wigwam.

Rill Nye on Polar Expeditions. [Denver Opinion.] Everything shows us that the summer ii gone and the twilight of the year is settling down upon us. We begin to wonder whether we had better run the furnace this winter or take the money and buy Cuba so as to a winter resort. Speaking about winter resorts, a military friend of mine writes me that he wouldn't ask anything better that a commission to make a trip in search of the open Polar sea- .* invites me to go. I thanked him for the invitation and asked him when he wanted his men picked, before or after the trip.

While I would like well enough to catch a few pickerel in the open Polar sea and breathe the crisp, pure air of no degrees and/ no minutes longitude due west of a given\ joint, I am almost positive that.I will dig tiw olinkers out of a large base burner this winter and write foamy, frothy, sunny, soothful poems for a dying, world.

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The Giddy Whirl of Esquimaux Society. While no one would more cheerfully enter into the giddy whirl of Esquimaux society, or load his stomach with cod-liver oil, and old harnesses and saddles with vinegar, in order that he might gratify a morbid curiosity as to whether the North Pole had a hot box or not, yet I shall not avail myself of the opportunity to go this winter.

While few could more joyously contemplate a life where it would take a ninety day note a lifetime to mature, I am free to say that I would rather, at present^ climb a tall tree until the payee gets by.

The Great American Tuft Hunter, [From Life.]

This illustrious philanthropist is said to be a lineal descendant of the famous Irish Bulls, although there is soma reason to believe that he was derived from one of the Papal Bulls of the twelfth century. Sitting Bull was born in a wigwam forty-nine years ago, and he has made many a wig warm since. He embarked in the cattle and hair business when a mere lad. and has now accumulated a fortune valued at several hundred scalps and several kegs of fire water. He is the typical Cooper Indian, and dresses exactly like a retail tobacco sign. From his habit of assuming a sedentary position upon the United States troopa sent in pumrit of him, he received his title. He is at present exhibiting himself to those possessing scalps at the rate of fifty cent* per scalp.

Hoging to a Cigar Fijcure." [New York World.] Henry Satterlee, a stylishly-dressed youth, was arraigned at Essex market yesterday for being drunk and disorderly. "What did he dof* asked his honor. "He was singing to a female cigar figure," aaid the officer. •Do you remember what he was singingf "Yes, sir. He extended his arms to the figure and sang 'Can Ton Forgive and Forget, Lovef

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Elopements Can Be frevestel, [Puck.]

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By employing married coachmen and letking their wives ride with them oa the box

Why the Youth's Hair Turned Gray. [Chicago Herald.] *'Did you ever get scared half to death fer nothing?" asked a clerk in a down-down store who had just returned from his vacation. "Well, I did, and I will tell you about it Out where my folks live there is a railroad bridge of the old trestle style. It is about forty feet high and crosses a valley only, there being no water under it. When was a boy I used to walk that bridge day or night, and the other evening I wanted to go across and started out just as I used to. Wlion I got about half way over I heard a train coming, and seeing that I could not reach the other end, I let myself down under the stringers and hung by my hands, as I have done a hundred times when a boy. Somehow my arms are not as strong as they used to be, and they ached long before the train came. In my haste I had got into an uncomfortable position before it was necessary. Finally the locomotive struck the bridge* and at last went thundering over my head. Ay hold was weakening Bvery minute, and I soon realised that I could not hang on much longer. I believe that train was a mile long. The perspiratioif fairly streamed from me as I thought of the awful plunge I must soon make. Then my head reeled, and my nerveless finders slipped from the stringer, and down I went—about six inches. They had been filling in the old trestle with earth, intending to make an embankment there, and I had not noticed it in the darkness. If you see any gray hairs in these auburn locks of mine you will know how they got there."

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Mr. DavU* Two Transactions in •ohtall Consolidated. [Financial News.]

In California, in the days of the Cornstock sxdtement, when all kinds of wildcats were being floated on the market and rapidly bought by an indiscrimin&ting public, a Mr. Davis bought a claim, known by the name of the "Bobtail Consolidated." The speculative Mr. D. organised a company. To a particular friend of his he sold a large block of 10,000 shares at $1 per share.

For some time the mine amounted to nothing, and after a few 85-cent assessments had been levied the stock really would not have been cheap at a gift.

For this reason Mr. Davis and the friend to whom he sold the 10,000 shares as a good thing were not on speaking terms. One day, however, the friend, to his utter and complete astonishment, received a note, asking him to call at once at the residence of Mr. Davis. He went, and found Mr. Davis in bed. The table was covered with medicine bottles, and Mr. Davis looked as if his head had been reposing in a sack of flour.

I haven't wt«rty hours to live.

"Jim," said Davis in a Hoarse and feeble voice, "I did you a dirty trick a few months age in selling you them 'ere bobtails, for I knowed you couldn't afford the money, and heaven knows they've not brought me no luck." "Well," said Jim, "what has been done cannot be undone now," at the same time gazing compassionately upon the sickly form of the prostrate Davis. 'No, no," urged Davis, "I done you a wrong. The doctor says I haven't many hours to live, and before I die I want to undo as far as I can the injury I done you. Where are them sharcsf' "Got 'em down at my office," was the reply. "You bring 'em up here as soon as you can," said Davis, "and I will give you the money that you paid for 'em."

Muttering expressions of grief, and with res rapidly becoming moist with tears, Jim rushed off to the office and brought up "them 'ere shares." The shares were handed to Davis, who, with an expression as it it were his last earthly transaction, handed his friend $10,000. "I never thought you ever meant to do me wrong." said Jim, speaking as if he was about to choke, 'and I do hope you will soon be better, old man." Jim then vetired with his hands full of greenbacks and his eyes full of tears.

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[Pittsburg Chronicle-Herald.] "You can't deceive me, Mr. Jarphly," said Mrs. Jarphly, snappishly and emphatically. "It was after 1 o'clock, and I wasn't asleep." "Why, Amandy, you're badly mistaken," respond Mr. Jarphly, in a conciliatory voice. "It wasn't more'n half afte» eleven." "Now, Jarphly, don't you sit there and falsify to

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token, my dear, for it was only half-past eleven, or mebbe twenty-five minutes to twelve." "Jarphly, wot's the use of your sitting there and lying! Don't you think I could see the clock!" "Well, Amandy, Pre got nothing more te say, if youM rather believe a ninety-five csnt niokel-plated nutmeg dock than your own married husband," responded Mr. Jarphly, deeply injured.

Jbotfs Bun: John L. Sullivan says ho wQl never fight again. I* probably wouldn't be safe te oall himaUar siadhans thief all the

I guess I had him that time»

No sooner had he left the room than Davis, suddenly recovering, jumped out oi bed and did a war dance on the floor. Wiping the flour from his face and taking the rag from off his throat, he remarked to confident: "Well, I guess I had him that time?" "I guess yon did," replied the iwrtfidant

The following morning the news wai blazoned forth in all directions that the "Bobtail Con." had struck the greatest body of ore ever seen on the Pacific coast, and the shares bounded up from 75 ccnts, the last assessment unpaid, to (7. The last time Mr. Davis was seen he was living at the Hoffman house in New York, "feasting on the fat of the land. He was then the largest individual holder of "Bobtail Cons." and drawing a princely revenue in the form of monthly d'vidends from the property. But once again Davis and his friends are not on speaking terms.

•*-he ltaie Kiln Club on Campaign music. [Detroit Free Press.]" "Hie matter being referred to the proper eommittee, it reported as follows: "Brass bands should be looked upon de same as biles—to be endoored only until dey kin be got shet of. If de tootin' of a ho'n becomes annoyin' to any pusson, de tooter urns' be suppressed. De laws in de seb'ral states fur de suppreshun of vice in var'us forms will reach dis case an' give each member at leas' two y'ars in state prison. We recommend prompt akshun." .if.,-'-.-rforristoum Herald: The Oil City Derrick **aats to know what a "pelerine" is. Such

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Blorabla. A perline is an article of drees wwn by the female sex, and differs from tke r""-» and the redingote and the fichu .~i the satin mervilleux polonaise, and these thing*. We supposed everybody knew a pelerine ia