Show A railroad adventure A correspondent adelos writes as ae follows from chattanooga tend under date march 9 1889 we arrived here all well found our lends friends fi in the lo 10 loc in the enjoyment of the same bwl brew ing I 1 will ill just relate an v of in our travels which was nov not 41 A the e boost kind agreeable although arble gt very disastrous t in its results just st as aa we were pulling out of ansas city a heavy well dressed nan 11 stepped up ta to a member of our mika ry y who had just taken his wal fr from in his pocket in order to get his w ti ticket and intimated his bis desire to bo borrow arow money he was met 11 wever however with a refusal the anger then asked for change for a 16 40 i 11 and was again answered ath a respectful ro HO thereupon be ue snatched the wallet which confined 10 and the railway ticket and d made for the door this was waa scantly st antly opened by a confederate from gom the outside but the victim of the lne robbery caught the thief wore WO we re he could reach the door boor the two fell upon the together in the course of mae struggle but assistance was soon ten given to each party the assistant th be lef ef trying to get his companion oft off while several of of our com endeavored to hold on until an ot t could be accomplished the two abber boer however slipped out of his coate ats and disappeared in the h lakness lf kness the th e prope property arty he left be fant id w waa as est estimated hafed to be worth 20 d was sent back to the police for when last seen blood A was 18 running down the face of the fugitive wave thief the american language lang aagre eri canese is not a mere mod eru n improvement or corruption whichever lc hever we diketo like to call it of the 13 e which is spoken in these ads says the london TeZe telegraph graph 0 tte agte the contrary dr freeman one of his essays has pointed out while ahil in amerl ameri 0 some respects ani area are a great deal newer than ft tes elveS in some others they are dlly older much that has out out t of our politics politic sour our societies vt 01 and customs still W ila n the states so eo it is with the As evey every investigator luh ws much of it is not new eng old 0 at a all but genuine old english vo word rd provincial acial Qc ial forms old local old 0 dialectical peculiarities v have bave become obsolete or mere with us have ke t th e jr n the new angland the and 1 l thence ul have spread t over over to 10 spread in time WW the we world A good deal of ift idin 18 we e regard as yankee vulgar thet good honest anglo saxon aad was torrent current in conversation for centuries before the the tower er al sighted cited plymouth rock uati e t 1 I guess of the new 20 bear risa 1 I a case in point pull ys pa nry ile was of age I 1 guess 11 boft ronge chaucer 08 concerning the waa nutrell of the canterbury afe me e hosea biglow would ellal eltiy Y y ye used the phrase differ beart De art similarly til arly such words as ald and d brash and slick ae squirm which strike us a to I 1 ay rany racy of the states are pech aach othis f day ln in the common 0 artho the common people in th and eastern england england in of that eminent t 0 aarn 2 atoo s1 sa of slie slick one may find meni VIM U a person son being smoked a butt of just as in et tand and fielding and others othere of EO E O our last century novelists an american will use sick armad or mad just as their forefathers fore fathera would have done in places where we should employ ill and angry we owe our cousins a certain amount of gratitude for clothing re with conversational respectability many of the highly convenient words words which had somehow dropped out and been replaced by much less direct and much less expressive substitutes whether we need be so much obliged 0 bb ed to them for the odds and ends engs which they have picked up everywhere and put into current circulation is more questionable tio for the american is the most larcenous of linguists he has been at a feast or of languages and stolen the scraps 11 1 1 the slang of the chicago or san francisco loafer has levied contributions on half the aryan and two or three of the non aryan tongues all the elements that go to make up the cosmopolitan population of the union contributed something to the medley there Is a little french a good deal of I 1 dutch ff a foj r quan ity of spanish a sprinkling of scandinavian italian a hint at chinese and something more than a perceptible dash of the tongue of the red man it is altogether a strange amalgam this american language not unlike the equally remarkable mixture out of which in due course the american people is to be evolved but at present both the people and the language are in the process of making and nd it is pretty certain that they will exhibit more remarkable developments still before the manufacture is completed jkr ex sponging a tiger when the ii lion tamer was at moscow with his m menagerie onna gerle he had occasion to employ a a fine specimen of a cossack to clean out the cages of the wild beasts the cossack did not understand a word of french and the terms of the contract were settled in dumb show by way of instructing him in his new duties went through a sort of pantomime with the broom sponge and water bucket the watched him closel closely a and n da appeared eared fully to under understand stan 07 t the he Y details ails of the lesson given next morning armed with a broom a bucket and a sponge he opened the f first rat cage he came to and IV quietly etly stepped in as he had seen his master step on the previous day into two cages of harmless brutes but this one happened to be tenant ed by a splendid but untamed tiger that lay stretched on the floor fast asleep at the noise made by opening and closing the door the creature raised its head and turned its green eyes full on the man who all unconscious of his danger stood in the corner dipping his big sponge into the bucket at that moment came out of his big caravan and was struck dumb by the terrible sight that met his gaze what could he do to warn the man of his danger A sound a movement on his big part might enrage the n great reat bea heastand stand hasten its attack 0 on n tte the defenseless cossack so pe zon stood awaiting developments ready to rush to the scene when the crisis came the s sponge onge in hand coolly approached ake the tiger and made ready to rub him down with the stolidity of a military bootblack polishing his captains boots the sudden application of cold water to its hide evidently produced a very agreeable effect on the tiger for it began to purr stretched out its paws rolled over on its back and complacently offered every part of its body to the vigorous treatment of the who went on scrubbing with might might and main all the while stood there with his big eyes wide open and as if nailed to the spot when he had finished his job the cossack left the cage as quietly as he had entered it and it required the most energetic and expressive gestures on n the part of the son lion tamer to prevent his repeating the experiment on a second wild beast ib london times ama cliff dwellers one of the most attractive portions of colorado if not in the end entire re west is that part pait of the state in which are found the cliff dwellings of a long extinct race the district in which these ruins are located covers an area of nearly six thousand square miles chiefly in colorado but which includes narrow belts in the adjacent territories of new mexico U utah and arizona the ruins of this region says the cincinnati commercial ette like most others of the extreme west and south are the remnants in a great measure of stone structures it ii to is evident eviden t however that a great portion of the villages and dwellings of the lowlands which comprise the district have been of material other than stone frequently doubtless of rubble and adobe combined the cliff houses conform in shape to the floor of the niche or shelf on which they are built they are of firm neat masonry aud and the manner in which they are attached or cemented to the cliffs cliffis is simply marvelous their construction has cost a great deal of labor the rock and mortar of which they are built having been brought hundreds of feet up the most precipitous places the they K have a much more modern loo look than the valley and cave remains and are probably in general more recent ce nt belonging rather to the close than the earlier parts of a long period of occupation it seems probable that a rich reward awaits the fortunate gist who shall be able to thoroughly investigate the historical records that lie buried in the masses of ruins the unexplored caves and the still mysterious burial places of the northwest but it is quite improbable that any certain light will ever be thrown on the origin of this curious race or its history ex prophetic trees in parts of germany when at evening the clouds rise and bear some resemblance to a great tree that is when there is as it were a pillar of vapor between the horizon and the overarching canopy of cloud the peasants call it abraham tree or adams tree A mackerel acme sky provokes the saying we shall have wind adams tree putting forth leaves if the leaves appear in the afternoon it is a sign of fine weather if early in the morning of storm the serpent that gnaws the roots of the Y 9 brassill dras sill seeks the destruction of afe the universe when the roots are eaten through the tree will fall over the end of all things has come the old english maypole is the same tree bursting into beauty and foliage in the spring As our anglo saxon forefathers regarded with the norseman the ash as the world tree and the ash is deciduous they kept the festival of its restoration to vitality the germans took the evergreen silver fir as the symbol of the tree of the worlds life yet they also keep some festival analogous to our mayday saag azine assine the empress of japan the london mode of fashion says that the empress of japan is at the head of a powerful movement for bettering the condition of the women of that country she has established a college for women at tokio under the management of a committee of european and american women the standard of education is very cipry low especially in the country district t r act and it I 1 is hoped that this college will w ill prove brov e a 9 valuable aid in raising the women of japan to a higher level in one of the london hospitals there axe are now three japanese mies ladies who are going through their training as nurses with the intention of returning to their own country when aen qualified and teaching their own countrywomen countrywoman country women detroit lwe free fress fresa A race of dwarfs A representative of a very curious type of aborigines who dwell in a mountainous district in guatemala central america recently arrived in philadelphia ona on a steamship from aspinwall in charge of senor are arc eaga of central america the native represents a race of people hitherto almost entirely unknown and the attention of several scientific societies in new york is to be called to him within a few days the dwarf is not brought to this country for exhibition at a museum or elsewhere but as an ethnological curiosity for scientific men to examine the dwarf is 3 feet 8 inches in height by actual measure ment but a remarkable specimen of humanity his head bead measures 26 inches in circumference and an american hat size 8 83 could barely be forced upon his head A mass of long straight thick black hair covers his head in a thick shock and down almost to his neck his skin is of a deep copper color and his features flat like those of a negro race but he has not the expression of a negro nor the color he is undoubtedly of indian extraction but such an enormous though not ul head set upon so diminutive a body makes a strong contrast and his little arms short legs and body add further to his peculiar looks the indian or whatever he might be called is a powerfully built man when his size is taken into consideration in fact he is a veritable little hercules his feet are five inches in length from heel to toe and his fingers measure from two to two and one half inches jn in length his great peculiarity however is his face his eyes are so widely separated as to leave room for the eyebrows to grow down on each side of the bridge of the nose and still leave a space between them and the corner of the e eyes he is forty two years of ag age el andes and is is a priest of his tribe I 1 in n speaking of the dwarf senator archaga told a philadelphia telegraph reporter that during fourteen years sojourn in central americo america and guatemala he be had heard of these little people and determined ter mined on his leavi leaving nir the country to get a specimen iu doring an him to new york for the scientific world to see he journeyed to the mountain home of the tribe of dwarfs and after much bargaining secured the man he now has with him he says that the only other representative senta tive of the race ever seen by white men was a brother of the man n he now has who was brought to new york many years ago but who died soon after landing here these little people are semi civilized and all speak spanish which is the language of the country mrs cleveland and the white house it was one morning in the bed room before Presidents the plans were sett settle lei says a washington letter to the a new york limes that mrs cleveland talked frankly and sensibly about herself so as mistress of the whitehouse I 1 ilour plans were fixed I 1 should be glad she said I 1 it would of course be a little relief to know where we shall live but I 1 am sure people can not understand how I 1 feel about leaving the white house they think it hard I 1 suppose for me to give up the life here because I 1 am young but it is because I 1 am a young woman that I 1 feel less regret if I 1 had lived half or the greater part art of my life before coming to the cite white house I 1 know I 1 should have more regret about leaving it all of the women who have been here before me were older than I 1 am most of them had a great deal of a womans comans life before being called to this position and I 1 think they must have been more sorry to give it up than I 1 can be cousee you see with a smile of charming fi frankness 1 I have not had my life yet it is all before me the red real life and the real home bome after my father died we lad had no settled home my mother and myself I 1 was at school and then you know soon after came to the white house I 1 cant tell you how much I 1 desire a home of my own oak view has given me some idea of a home life but even there I 1 have felt that it was only for fora a short time perhaps if this desire had not grown stronger and stronger I 1 should feel more regret As it is I 1 am not saddened by the me thought of leaving the white house one thing though would make me very sad if any change chang e should be made in this beautiful fu 1 house it is to me with all it citations ciati ons the most beautiful hou seito the world no other white boia could ever be the same to id the people deop I 1 am sure if there must be aw any thing new let it be executive office but never a new white house 16 ja not only the beauty of the old faour that I 1 love but I 1 have a feeling of w reverence for the past there ab seemed in the busy life here so 00 little UM time for me to think of its history and the people who have been hero hem before me but sometimes when I A walk through the to am alone and rooms and think of theme the men n who wn have been presidents and of th the air wives the grand old house gives Is aft a feeling of awe oh I 1 could not bear to think of it as changed and an different after I 1 leave it I 1 want wandw to think always of it as it is now slid SW 1 L know it the white W hite house of the pie and the presidents house 01 degraded by drink in 1878 1873 miss 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