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Show ' ! Her Wish Gratified. You'd iett. r not w isb for the THE HOME SENTINEL said an gentleman to ;i friend who, in a fit of depression, had wished she had died in her cradle. "You mayget it!" One might apply the eame stricture to wishing for the possible when its atlainment would not. be altogether pleasant. Last summer, says the London Graphic, two ladies staving in India drove in a bullock tonga to 6ee the view from a neighboring hill. The prospect of the thick jungle, stretching away for hundreds of miles, naturul-lsuggest' d the idea of game, and one of them said: "How 1 should like to see a real, live tiger just once in his native possible,' In our t.me there is a strange want cf discrimination between the artistic and the brutal use of what are railed forbidden things, as literary imU;ri.Us. Ir is not "looking b.ckraru the so much as people f this country forward, although, looking the hindsight may help the foresight. m-e- pus-ibl- A sociu. authority dec In im- y, neqYhat a ex- - is tnan can a'Torl to dro-- s Lad Wo a genets or a mump, one or the other of th lie n.ust toe the m .rk con veil' ion. lrish-tongue- v ,. n, gletl." paper i.ropoe Jv c The sun was beginning to sink as mothers t hoy started to drive homeward by but an unfrequented the powers of a bai k , clean'd track what parents arc mere interested ia throu.'h the jungle. Soon they came is how to throttle the powers of Wie to an ojx-- space, ntid there, All at once," w rites one of them, "on lookforward lad. ing up, I saw what I first thought to in the be the stump r.f a felled tree about As oik thoughts follow cio-dawn we are impressed with the same- thirty yards off the roadway. As we ness of the human lot, which never drew a little nearer I saw it was movalters in the main heading of its his- ing. " Look! I said toiny friend. Its tory hunger and labor, seed time and a panther!' death. love and harvest, "Fortunately, the bullocks did not scent him, or they would have bolted caa A M.w process for burning and probably upset the tonga, leavwithout smoke h is lately boon disus at tiie tender mercy of the It consists in sprinkling ing covered. beast. As we were passing him he water containing a special preparation left the tree under which he had been of resin over the coal, and the result standing, and came toward us in a is that there is no smoke, and the glow crouching manner, as if making ready lor a spring. YYe then saw it was a, is as intense as coke. tiger, and a very tine one. To say we were frightened would The Moody Apaches, now supposed to be prisoners lit ML Vernon barracks not be wide of the mark, especially under guard of United Slates soldiers, ns he moved parallel with us for continue to slab and steal and gamble about twenty yards, keeping his eye and get drunk and lead a licentious upon us the whole time, and looking determined to have at least one life just as they did while roaming the 1 hednver of u.s whipped wilds Of Arizona unrestrained. up his bullocks, we shouted, and one us opened and shut a white um Imitation is the sincerest flattery. of breiln. This apparently frightened It is said that at least six novels by the tiger, who disappeared into the popular writers of fiction are to bo writ- bush. ten this year, basal, like "Bon Hur on scenes and Incidents in the Bible. A Great Bridge. Joshua, David, SL John, 8t Iaul and New seems to be in earnest York to are in worthies Bible other figure about ranking the World's Fair of these novels. 1892 something worthy of American No man or woman now living will The idea of erecting a tower (ante. ever date a document without using to eclipse that of M. Eiffel does not the figure 9. It now stanus on tho extreme right, 1839. Next year it will appear to find very great favor. In 2e in tho third placo, where it will re- its dace a far more practical scheme main ton years. It will then move up is advocated by the American press. to the second placo. 1900, and there it A Philadelphia contemporary adwill rest 100 years. vises the New Y'orkers to put a can- A wt.hh.ia fathers ami , j, i fr tilever bridge across the Hudson from the Heights to Morningside park. Any engineer can set a truss upon end ns M. Eiffel lias done. It takes a genius to put thut sticking out sideways over space. The Eiffel tower would not make a railing to tho Forth bridge, which is equal o six Eiffel towers strung out sidewise, and while tho Eiffel tower only bears its own weight, the Forth bridge would carry a pile of .100 locomotives. If New York really wants to to add to the wonders of the world she should match the Forth bridge with a mightier rival. The Eiffel tower is mere gingerbread and spun glass by tho side of such a bridge as would span the space from the exhibition site to the New Jersey heights. The two 700 foot cantilevers and the 550 feet of the central span in the Forth bridge would have to bo beaten, even w it h a central pier; but once done all New Y'ork valuations would feel the impulse for a century of a bridge that blotted out the Hudson for railways and left it untouched for steamships. Other things being equal, if a man wishes a thorough education he must begin by going through a college courso, though it is true that many of the best educated minds have never received a collegiate or university But they have spent in training. study tho time such a courso would require. One of tho superstitions is that the senators take snuff, but the fact is that few of thorn use tobacco in this form. When they do the government furnishes it They get it from two little black boxes on cither side of the presidents platform. The boxes ara fastonod firmly in niches between the wall pillars. The trouble in this country is that we have too many colleges, and many young inen are induced to attend them who might bettor bo devoting th e years to preparation for employments for which a collegiate education is not necessary or oven desirable, and for which alone their aptitudes and capacities fit them. A To interrupt Horace Greeley when the throes of bringing forth an editorial an editorial which has never been equaled in the journalism of America un editorial which wasa Hl0gun for his party, at hunderbolt for hU foegwna a danger which no friend, no enemy, none but a fool, dared to encounter. I was once in his editorial sanctum when the fool was there, said diaunccy l)epew in a speeeli to file Buffalo Press club. To relieve your apprehensions, I was not tl'e fool. Hut lie was one of those itinerant and persistent gentlemen Ho kept witU a subscription book presenting it while old Horace was writing us most of vou remember, with his Tien away up to his chin like (q8 illustrating) and Horace had a habit, when anyone would interfere, of kic king, and so he kicked at the Bubseription fiend. Finally, when he saw he could not got rid of the intruder bv this means he stopped in flic middle of a sentence, turned round and said rnspingly in that shrill voice of his: "What do vou want? State it quick, and state it in the fewest possi- bio words Well, said the subscription fiend. I want a subscript ion, Mr. Greeley, to prevent thousands of my fellow human beings from going to hell. I wont give Said Mr. Greeley: Plans for giving England and France better moans of commutiiciv- tion than by water have always boon impeded by Englands jealous regard for its insular situation. This senti- inent now shows itself in opposition to the bridge which engineers of both n a- tions propose to build across tho En lish Channel. lie was in While the sluvo trade in Afriei has never boon moro active than at pres- ent, tho destination of this human property has long boon a mystery, Where and into what countries the thousands taken out of Africa werosoLl was a source of wonder. A Turkish gentleman, writing to tho London X, News, reveals tho fact that Constant!- nnple is the great slave market of tho vorltl- - Story About Horace Greeley. ' - ( j The true test of morality in literature is Us effect upon the mind of the reader, and by the test every book should be judged. Tho real question is not whether all tho incidents recorded in the story are incidents to bo approved, or whether all tho ehurac- tors havo acted as a high morality xlictatos, but whether, on the whole, the tendency of tho book is to make the reader love vice or loathe it first to I eel the pressure and begin retrenchment by getting rid of some of their luxuries. If there is anything in this rule, hard times are in the near future, for the papers during the Hast two or three weeks have been o literally crowded with the offers d isntleiiKn who are in apparent and ure offering dog carts, broughams, victorias, horses and all the other accessories of private stables, as well as bronzes and bits of to the highest bidder. It does not seem, from casual ol serva-tiothat anybody in New York can The lie very hard pushed for mon-display which is made in the streets and at the theatre indicates boundless wealth. Wail street, however, shows some signs of distress. Money lms been very tight during the past three months. A few days ago it lmd got up to 10 per cent., though in the early part of the summer, and when business is usually suppos 'd to be stagnant, 2 and 4 per cent, ruled easily. Once a Week. bric-a-bra- n, y. Making the Sun Work. One of the most notable inventions displayed at the Paris exhibition is an apparatus for transforming the heat of the sun into motive power for pumping water and other mechanical uses. It is the device of a French inventor named diaries Tellier. This apparatus is of great interest as foreshadowing the time when solar heat, in combination with electric transmission of lorce, will be made to furnish motive power for ail gines, and take the place of eoul and steam a change which will vastly cheapen manufactures and travel, and greatly enhance human comfort the world over. The heat which comes to the earth in tho suits beams is, as has long been known, the equivalent of from one to five or more horse power for every square yard of the earths surface, according to the latitude and the season of the year. The utilization of this waste heat, its conversion into usable power, has been the study of inventors, and much time and great sums of money have been spent upon it. M. Tether's contrivance aims to accomplish this object. Swedesboro News. en-j- How She Foiled the Thief. Some years ago one of the present congressmen from New York State and his brother were examining the stock of a pawnshop in Loudon with the hope of picking up some curiosities. They came across a necklace of green glass beads, which the New York man purchased for $2.50 intending to bring it home to his little daughter. The brother was surprised to find ia the shop a counterthis necklace which he part of home to his little girl. Two brought months later tho latter showed her gift to the jeweler, who pronounced the glass heads to be emeralds,' and who sold them afterward for several thousand dollars. The member of Congress, upon hearing this, took his necklace to the same dealer, who pronounced it to he composed of glass beads. The London pawn dealer lmd purchased them of a thief, who had stolen them from a wealthy woman. The latter kept the emeralds in a safe, anil wore their glass counterparts. Of course no one could tell the difference when the necklace encircled her throat. A New J. well-know- States Story. nnd C. White G. W. business n Elder, both men, for an spent Thanksgiving hunting eagles nest in the Buttes. They found it on top of the highest peak, nnd three little eaglets were comfortably domiciled therein. The mother bird was absent. Elder took one of the little birds and began the descent of the mountains. Ere they had traversed 200 yards the old bird returned nnd assailed them. YVhite carried both of the eaglets while Elder tried to keep the mother off by throwing rocks at her. The scheme worked very well for a while, until the latter, instead of swooping down at them, began picking up rocks weighing from 5 to 15 pounds nnd letting them drop nt them from a ff elevation ot filtyto seventy-fivfeet, when the daring sportsmen concluded twere better to quit, nnd dropped the eaglets and fled from the scene. Gridlev (Mont.) Herald. e baking powders containing alum and other In- the county court under the old tem. B sys- , jurious substances is absolutely pro-,- fcibited ia all the foriegn countries that have food adultoration laws. There is no economy from any point of view in usicig an adultored baking powder. At least 75 per cent of tho jowders on the market are adulterate!. advertisements of the newspapers. perity: of baking powders Manufacturers Do I miderstnn 1 Hliis court aa yhen the columns are filled with should be required to publish on every mivertisemcnt, offering expensive sustaining the motion to squash my package the ingredients of toe powder, articles for considered indictment is Oh! No, kut mi," said the o that the cor.hamyr may bo protect- squire. ominous, because the rich are the 1 Nquashca the motion to squash. ' t ...... BY HIS CLOTHES. Insulted How a Dude Floor-Walk- er One of A. T. Stewarts Friends. One of the leading citizens of YY il- X. C., was John Dawson, minton n As a t,ie ashuigton I 3 s a banker he accumulated larjre invested so which was securely tune, that even the ravages of the war left it unimpaired. Mr. Dawson arose from humble origin. He had come over from Ireland when a lad in the steerage of the same ship which brought Alexander T. Stewart. The two hoys formed a warm friendship, which lasted through life. They ot. lor-tres- and maintained correspondence grew prosperous, each in bis own locality, though tho New Yorker's wealth expaiued with marvelous rapidity. Immediately at the close of the to New war Dawson hurried commerce York. The strangled of the South had left her mar-- , ets bare, and, though wealthy Mr. Dawson could only command a shockingly bad suit of butternut nankeen. llis wife was hardly better clothed. Entering the huge palace of the merchant prince, Mr. Dawson gazed around for his old friend. A dapper stepped up brusquely: Well, sir, said he, what can we do for you? said I want to see Mr. Stewart, Mr. Dawson. He is busy, sir, and basnotimeto see you. Oh, I didn't know. I'll just look arouud then, if you have no objection. The clerk thought he was some who wanted to see Mr. country-maStewart out of curiosity. The old fellow started around and attracted considerable attention trora the ladies who thronged the store. The underling concluded It was about time to interfere, so he walked up and said: I told you it wns no use to wait He is very busy for Mr. Stewart. nnd has no time for any onehkeyou. Now, unless you wish to buy something, you had better be going. Mr. Stewart doesn't want to see me, you say, yount man? asked Mr. Dawson, dreamily. I dou't need to repeat it a third You had time, replied the clerk. better go at once. YYe dont want You will you around the store. drive away custom. Just then the proprietor himself came walking down from the counting room. Hello, Aleck! shouted Mr. Daw- census of opinion In Bisman k, now capital, putting on airs as a state that a man can kiss his wife whenever he pleases so long as he doesn't kiss any other man's wife. This is the limit of liberalism, aDd shows the freedom from conventional restraints that abounds on tie tar western prairies. So far as Philadelphia iseoncprned, this is not likely to leconie a burning issue. Philadelphians are not over given to kissing their wives under any circumstances, and few instances of it in public are ever witnessed. A man may kiss his wife whenever If wants to and she will let him, but be is not likely to do so under circumstances which will le embarrassing to either party or distressing to the public. To-da- The New York llerald has be-- n lectin g legal anecdotes from the L. ing lawyers of that city, many of are very bl ight and funny. The lowing are a few of them: Many of the good, anecdotes that have seen I service in their day and have g. honorably retired long since are favorites of mine, said Mr. Huina. While they possess the rich flavor ages for me, I have found as a gs,. tiling that they were new to mv ienees, particularly to the more yo,-- j j "V j j ' ful element. One of the best of these olj t stories relates to a lawyer in hands was placed a claim for codec lie agreed to undertake tho workc contingent fee viz., a retention half tho amount ho would succeed lie promised to act vr collecting, ously, but weeks passed and the oh heard nothing. He final. v wrote inquire what had been done jn matter. By the return mail lla rete ed this reply: I have already j half of the claim. If you wiii 3Wtdl few months I may be able to 3,:. J'0,1'' hElf. to This mind er . f r I "Your the d.seljV.e edge of the woods, oJoae by the bogus Blaekstone. owl, the two discharged theirgunsat Elijah Simpson, is the reply. Not the son of my old friend L pretended game so as not to be exYYe 11, Simpson ? Yes ? you u, pected to fire at tlie owl. They re- know how glad I am to meet my o load marked that they wouldn't friends son. Give me your hat. he wrings tho young mans t again, they were so near out. The and titmo.--t effusion, adding innocent gunner espied the owl the with the will come and see me olt you moment they arrived in the vi- hope It will be a treat for me, I assure : cinity, and began blazing away at a to have an opportunity of roarer-withundred yards distance. you about your father. After the fourth shot, tired in feverA week later and Elijah calls ag. ish haste, he called to the others to The lawyer rushes forward to fire also. Dou't vou see the blamed him, seizes both hands and six buzzard's asleep, and lie won't wake them, repeating his good wishes till hes hit in a vital spot? He might and over and expressing hi, g. at having had it in his pn get away while I was loading! An pleasure owl as big ns that is worth a dozen to serve Ligos son. Then you have the money for But the friends assured partridges! Simpson. him of their confidence that he would "Certainly, certainly. Here it him was down it that at last, bring and he hands an care!: liis bird, and they would get no glory sealed to the young envelopo fellow, whot in simply assisting at the death. it open and finds five $5 bills. This seemed to inspire him with new "Where's the rest? asks Elijah. is the energy, and tiie shots increased in Oh, my my lee is $81, s j J t S A b o T b a 1; J f. dry-good- c frequency, and a terrible bombardment was carried on against the body of that owl. Finally the bird staggered a moment and then dropped over, hut still clung to the limb with his feet and hung head down. Hes got the toughest hold on life of any bird I ever bliot! pufied tiie almost exhausted hunter. Ill soon put him out of his misery. and advancing to within filty or sixty feet of the ewl he fired the final shot, which had the effect to blow the stuffed creatures head off and to scatter several quarts of sawdust in all directions. It was then that there flashed upon the senses of the deluded gunner that a cruel hoax had been played upon him. And this feeling was confirmed when he saw his two companions rolling in tiie grass and yelling with laughter. Bpi ingfiehl Homestead. Not A Vast Cemetary. Again and again this old poetic fancy of the earth as one great cem- d g n w a tt ply- - so As Sinqpson edges toward the d. he says to his fatYer's friend guess Im lucky to get $2i. awfully glad you didnt know ' ta Y Is M grandfather. A fo ce (jufen and llcr Pearls The queen of Italy has always t passionately fond of pearls, as Let one whoso name is Marguerite,: she has made a fashion that is ck ing enough to please any worn an, likely to be followed only by L whoso husbands are English duke American millionaires. On her i ding day her husband gave her as bridal gift a row of tho finest pea-bfound in Italy, having here formed of her penchant for that ticuiar gem. When the first a versa ry of her wedding jlay arrive, asked what she wished for a gift she said, "another string of per and the second year she answers same way. After that he asked hs more, but always gave the same As she has a son who is quite a boy she has been married more than it is gallant to count, and necklace of pearls counts by this' enough strings to quite cover throat with a collar of gems and. down far over the corsage. Of ec the lower strings are much it than the original 'one to claq throat, but King Humbert always:-exactlthe same number of pear each anniversary, and so she late to wait two years before add. new string. Many superstitious w: are afraid of pearls as a wedding and say it means tears; and there be no doubt that the lovely Quae: shed many, for her husband of years has been treading very c. in the footsteps of his father, wbt known to his whole realm as I Galantuomo The Gallant Kir. o etary buried several times deep with dead men and women and children lias been refuted by figures. But great is error and will prevail, unless the truth be well andsteadily upheld. The population of tho earth is now about 1,500,000,000. Suppose the human race to have existed for 6,000 years and to have been always as great as now. In 6,000 years you have sixty centuries. In each century you may count three generations of mankind, or 180generatious in all, each being a generation ol 1.500.000. Now lay out a cemetery for one generation. It will be a huge estimate to give to every man, woman and child a grave5x2feet, or YY'orld. jt ten square feet. You want for your in Various Cities. The fliscnidlni; Meonheim. then, 15,000,000,000 graveyard, From tiie Philadelphia Inquirer. square feet of ground. A square Smile and simmer, pretty moon, Watching lender lovers spoon. Kansas City is all torn up over tho mile contains something less than Dont you often hear them make 000 feet. 28.000.square question whether a man may kiss his You want, then, a graveyard not Promises you know theyll break wife in public, and, if so, under just fifty-fiv- e they love to look at you yards long by ten wide for How As they softly bill and coo. what circumstances. It appears your whole generation. Now multi- Filling all their future skies that a prominent physician of that ply this by 180 and you haye your Full of tender hopes and sighs. man000 of for 6. years But when they are joined as one, city kissed his wife at the theater, kind. That is a moonlight skies theyre i strip of land 1 ,800 Thentowith and the managef, fearing the influ- miles miles wide will For them you then become by fifty-fiv- e long a Just little bit humdrum. ence of such au example, had him be ample. In other words a cemeno is doubt very true taken out of the building by a police- tery containing 100,000 square miles It Lovers may subsist on you ; hube for would whole sufficient the whole As result the a man. But how sad that when they we.l, subject to lie side by side. The es- Then tho family must have breadhas come up as one of vital impor- man racewhich I havo given you ol timate tance, and there is great uncertainty the size of each grave is very large. letter Rtp. as to the decision. A strictly correct estimate would reYou cant give a letter a good Public opinion in Kansas City seems duce the size of the required cemetery acter. An exchange in a sents But enor- moment says the letter R is the to vindicate the manager of the the- for more than ater in his notion, but insists that it mous as it is, you could layout your in the alphabet, because it is for all men who liavs found in sin, but in virt: must not he carried too far. It is lived on earth, so that they could lay temperance. Yes,always and you new held that there are certain circumstances under which a man may kiss side by side, in Arizona or in Califor- it in any good, but its firstczci his wile in public, hut the line has nia, or you could lay it out in Texas riot and rebellion, and you not yet been drawn. Tiie subject large enough to accommodate the drunk and swear without it ' has excited tlm attention of other race of 6,000 years yet to come, all R vou now? Burdette. cities, which freely offer Kansas City sleeping in the soil of that one state Bore Thn he Bargained for. of this Union. advice ns to the proper limit. YYhat soft Mr. Spooney Chicagoans think a man may kiss Johnny sister has, his wife in a railway car without Dainties of the Primeval Land. remarks make she ever any the but overstepping proprieties, , Snakes, lizards, grasshoppers, me? should not kiss her when parting nt the larva of Her brother O, yes; she f brush beetles, putting her on a street car. In Denremark about you very much ver this is considered a very narrow turkeys egg. wild honey in fact, the one you just made about her. is full of scrub when food know it limitation, although isagreedthat Indeed, and what was it? it jnust not be done in the theatre. how to get it. The best part of a e soft' 8he said you is the liver, which is over a foot rence In that city publicsentiment sustains snake American. a nan in kissing bis wife anywhere long in the big snakes. By the way, except at church, the theatre or in a the natives never eat food that h Some Are That Way. store. There is no limit placed on not rooked. A snakes liver is deMr. Lamb, of Portland, 0 the exercise of this conjugal practice cidedly good, and hasagamev flavor. Lizards flesh is like chicken. The walking out for his health, on the street. of beetle lnrvti are popped into the fire roan asked him the price St. Paul, however, looks unkindly Mr Lamb repaired sheepishly on the whole matter. It objects toa and eaten with wild honey; they began a suit for slana taste like an omelette. Grasshop- courts, man kissing his wife anywhere in result was that he p11' tbe the possible exception of the pers grilled are also capital eating, worth of wool from his front door et p if it is growing dusk. with a nice nutty flavor. Greenland wallet Lamb chops ar cC In strong contrast to this is the con Explorer's Dairy. dish in Portland. Wife-Kissi- I r t r s millionaire stopped and stared! Then he rushed up and threw his arms around tho rough old fellow in the butternut suit. Why, John, where did you coine from? My dear fellow, I am perfectly delighted to see you. YYhy didnt you let me know you were here? I tried to, but thatyoungman But the officious clerk had disappeared at the first greeting. Whore did you get that suit? asked Stewart. My carriage is Get door. the at right in nnd right come to the tailor's. You must have some decent clothes right away. Y'ou must Where is Mrs. Dawson? both come right to my house and stay. So he ran on, as he actually dragged his old friend to his carriage. The officious clerk tried to keep out of sight every time ho saw Mr. Dawson coming, but the latter took a malicious pleasure in running across him every time he eameintothestore and bowing to him. Finally the clerk came one day and, abjectly apologizing, begged that Mr. Dawson would not carry the story of ills rudeness to the pioprietor. Mr. Dawson gnve him a and let him go. tongue-lashingood-humore- 1 my another the owl securely to the Innb of atree, ecdot0 brings relating. to a fee. A Jot of and an attorney,,' then regained their companion, mail visits the office of $10(1 to collect all threestartedliomeward. Near the gives him a claim name ? asks i n son. The Some Practices of Lawyers for The Hunters Joke. dry-goo- floor-walk- BARBAROUS PRACTICE j Two local sportsmen put up a good job on a companion. When the three went gunning the two took along an old stuffed owl, keeping it hidden under the wagon seat, and during the alternoon they managed to get separated from their victim. They wired te T1 so th nu W Pr co tin C in; Mi DU ,! 'yd to 1, ng burial-groun- d - one-lml- burial-groun- A Motion to Squash. Col.M , common wealth's attorney for county, had unbounded influence over the presiding justice of a young lawyer, lmd I teen detained to defend a prisoner, and discovering what hecoueeived to be a fatal defect, in the indictment, submitted a motion to squash. He was proceeding to sustain his point ns I test he could when the presiding cent. There dont half vou a justice, a fat old fe.low. settled himself in his chair and fell asleep. The enough go there now. argument proceeded, and at its dose the squire roused tip, and rubbing Signs of the Times. bis eyes, said, SquaMi'er. is is no surer test It said that there Gol. M was on his feet in a- mo of hard times that can be found in the ment, and inquired, with much as- As is well known, the sulo of JUDGED t. d swa man drea is at Iter trifle disoi ing earlj Disci inqia and the p tree-grubs- 1CCU I pnb-wit- h , if t Go led win to I targe How moni fereat F i Dr. & |