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On the trial his character was shown to the Jary in so unpleasant a light that they decided it to have been injured by the publication to the extent of only $1. H» expenses were $500, and he nofr anes his counsel for that sum, on the ground Qhat his advice was bad. MRS. EMILY C. KIMBALL, of Biley, Mich., deserves to go on record as a model American woman. She is 83 years of age, and has within the last two years knitted twenty-four pairs of aocks and stockings • and four pairs of mittens, and made and quilted nine patchwork quilts, some of them minute pieces and intricate patterns, beside assisting with the housework and doing general sewing for the family. The old lady is a better housekeeper at 83 -than many of the candidates for matri­ mony at sweet 16 ar& ------*-yv j»v WILLIAM L. MABCY, JR., a pft nudson of the late Hon. William L. Marcy, of Jew York, has lately achieved the dis­ tinction of having two of his pictures admitted to the French Academy. Mr. Marcy is only 17 years old, and is the youngest artist whose pictures have oyer been admitted to the exhibition of the Salon during this century. Pri­ vate letters from Paris describe the pict- wes of Mr, Marcy as works, of great merit, giving promise that he may be­ come as eminent in art as his illustrious ancestor was in statecraft. THE fame of an American lady doctor is declared by Nature to have "spread far and wide over North China." Her name is Miss Howard. Some time ago she attended the mother of Li Hung Chang, the great, Viceroy, and now she is treating his wife. She is said to have * great number of applications for as- afstanee and advice from the women of wealthy families, "who would die rather than be treated by a foreign male phy­ sician." Nature adds that it "looks as if the Various countries of the * East offered an almost-inexhaustible field for ^omen possessing medical knowledge *nd skill." THE French Government is experi­ menting near Lille upon some naval and siege guns of novel construction «o»d enormous power. One of these, as described by a technical journal, is of ateel, and nearly thirty feet long. The tube is strengthened with ten coils of plaited steel wire, one millimeter (0.039 inch) in diameter; The compo­ sition is such that the cannon, after a few discharges, becomes elongated by three millimeters. The weight of the gun is five tons; it projects a shell weighing 297i pounds, capable of pene­ trating armor plates nearly six inches thick at a range of seven and a half miles, and its cost has been $116460. LEADVILLE now has a population of 25,000--some twenty men to one wom­ an. The streets night and day are kept •quite free from improper persons, and ladies can walk about without fear of annoyance. The tax from gambling- houses realizes $800 a month, and that from dance halls $600, Chinamen have l>een kept outside entirely. Two wan dered unwarned into the town three years ago. There was a double funeral almost immediately afterward, and those Chinamen have never been aeen since. A correspondent recalls Tal- mage's visit, and says that the eminent •divine did not escape from his visit to the dives without much unwelcome os­ culation. Leadville, he says, has never been more prosperous than^ to-day| jincl is good for five years yet. THERE are in the Dominion oFt?ana<Ta 110,505 Indians, of which number 37,044 are living under tribal relations in Manitoba and the northwestern territo. lies. The Indians are kept on reserva­ tions, under conditions generally simi­ lar to the American Indian system. The difference is that'the British Govern­ ment maintains a more consistent, be­ cause a less political, control of her red wards. They are taught to support themselves by farming, and are gener­ ally peaceable. : The blood-stirring ac­ counts of recent Indian raids in the Southwest; or of former outbreaks in Montana, are never heard of by the British Indians. The reoent report of the Dominion Indian Commissioners al­ ludes with considerable anxiety to the fact that the international boundary line is still a protection for the raiding tribes who will not stay on reservations. Lr the State. Library at Jaeksoa, Hiss., is a crayon portrait of Jefferson Davis aa he appeared when captured. "M. Quad," of the Detroit Free Press, in a recent interview with' him a few days ago, asked if this portrait was his­ torically correct, which brought out Mr. Davis' latest revised edition of the •celebrated "petticoat" story: *1 had laid down," he said, "without removing a garment, I had high ca pantaloons tuckdd into the tops, a grag blouse and a soft hat. Upon the alarm being given, I stepped out of the tent and saw a Federal cavalryman thirty or forty feet away. He ordered me to halt. At \he same moment Mrs. Davis threw over my shoulders a folded ahawl I saw that my only chance of escape was to secure the horse of the Federal. I advanced straight upon him, feeling that he would fire upon me, but believ­ ing that he* would miss hi* target. Had this occurred, there would have been a struggle for the possession of the horse. As I approached the soldier, he lowered his carbine as if to shoot, and at the same time Mrs. Davis rushed up and threw her arms around me. The sol­ dier hesitated a moment, turned his weapon aside, and I walked back to the fire and stood there until made pris* oner." --:-- i •' - COL. "JACK" HAYES, well known as a gallant fighter in the Mexican war, and in later years as a conspicuous figure in the early history of California, died not long" ago in San Francisco. Col. Hayes commanded a company of Texan Rifle Bangers during the war of the Lone Star republic for independ­ ence, and he served, with his mounted rifle shooters, as an auxiliary in the American forces during the war which was subsequently carried into Mexico. "Texas Jack," as he was called, was as remarkable for his modesty and amiable qualities as for the dauntless bravery whioh rendered him the terror of the Bio Grande frontier and made many a Mexican tremble. His reputation was so great, indeed, among the Mexicans that they stood in constant dread of his hardy band of soldiers. It was said of the Texas rangers that they could lire on'less and go further than any men alive, not excepting the Indians. He was once captured and taken to Castle Perote, near Monterey, whence he escaped by digging through the walls, and made his way back to the American lines. Innumerable stories of his courage, audacity and skill are told, and' a paper-covered edition of his biography preceded the absorbing "dime novel" of later days. He went to Cali­ fornia as soon as the Mexican war was over, and was an independent candidate for Sheriff of San Francisco at the first county election held there, April, 1850. John W. Geary, who was subsequently Governor of Pennsylvania, was the first Alcalde of San Francisco, and David C. Broderick, afterward United States Senator, had just been elected State Senator. The election that resultedi n the ohoice of the Texas Banger was long remembered as one of the most exciting and spirited ever known in the country. There were three candidates in the field, Whig, Democratic and In­ dependent. There were processions, open-air meetings, torchlights show and other great displays. During the height of the Independent, or Hayes boom, the renowned Bifle Banger sud­ denly appeared, in full rig, but bare­ headed, and mounted on a fiery black charger. Darting into the midst of the excited crowd, he exhibited sundry splendid feats of horsemanship, re­ straining his noble steed, but prancing wildly about while trrtmpets blared and cannon murmured. This characteristic stroke turned the scale. Hayes was avastmai°rity- •" •" r -IT •... . z.. 333#:,-' Old Love Letters. You shall now Aceive, dear wife, my last words in these my last lines. My love I send you that you may keep it when I am dead; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not by my will present you with sorrows, dear Bess; let them go to the grave and be buried with me in dust. And seeing that it is not the will of God that I shall ever see you more in this life, hear it patiently and with a heart like thyself. First, I send you all the thanks my heart can con­ ceive or my words can express for your many troubles and cares taken for "me; which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet the debt is end­ less, and pay it I never shall in this world. Secondly, I beseech you, by the love you bear me living, do not hide yourself in grief many days, but seek to help the miserable fortunes of our poor child. Thy mourning cannot avail me. I am but dnst. Remember your poor child for his father's sake, who chose and loved you in his happiest time. God is my witness, it is for you and yours I desired life; but it is true I disdain myself for begging of it. For know, dear wife, that your son is the son of a true man, and one who in his own respect despiseth death, and all his misshapen, grizzly forms. I can­ not write much. God knows how hardly I stole the time when all sleep;, and it is time to separate nay thoughts from all the world. Beg my dead, body, which living is denied thee, and either lay it in Shelbourne or in Exeter by my father and mother. I can write no moref Time and death call me away. The everlasting God, infinite,' powerful, inscrutable; the Almighty God which is goodness itself, mercy it­ self; the true light and life, keep thee and thine, have mercy on me and teach me to forgive my persecutors and false witnesses, and send us to meet again in His glorious kingdom. My own true wife, farewell. Bless my poor boy. Pray for me, and let the good God fold you both in His arms. Written by the dying hand of sometime thy husband, but now, ala* 1 overthrown. Yours that was, but not my own.--Sir Walter Raleigh. WHEN sinners have supposed them­ selves to be dying and professed to be converted, but afterward have un­ expectedly recovered, in most cases they have lived as they did before. This is "the general opinion of pastors who have seen these supposed death-bed con­ versions, as reported by the Christian Advocate. THE gold annually taken from the Siberian mines is estimated to be worth $6,000,000. The first discovery of the metal in that country was made at the beginning of the present century. The average cost of an expedition in search of gold is estimated at $3,000. IMI1II lllllll • ' MAHT Connecticut farmers have been saooessfol in raising early amber cane, •ad getting a good quality of both sir­ up and sugar from it. The yield has ranged from 100 to 300 gallons of sirup per acre, at a cost of about 26 cents per gallon. AH excellent vegetable is salsify, nr "vegetable oyster." It is not grown as generally as it ought to be, and is often hard to obtain. It should be sown ear­ ly in the spring in deep, rieh, mellow soil, and not a weed should be suffered to dispute the ground with it. THE value of wood ashes as a fertil­ izer is too little appreciated. Thev contain in varying proportions the vai- uable mineral properties needed by plants. They aire especially valuable for orohards in bearing, having an as yet unexplained effect in perfecting the fruit. It is better to give a light dress- of any potash manure every year than to give large doses at any one time. ALTHOUGH the tubers of the Jeru­ salem artichoke are said to be rich in fat-producing elements, yet nearly every one that plants them finds them undesirable, as the yield is small and the plant spreads by its roots and is so tenacious of life that it is rarely killed out. It becomes a weed, a nuisance and pest that interferes with the pro­ duction of every other crop on the land thus occupied forever. MANY farmers who secure for them­ selves all the labor-saving improve­ ments are slow in arranging similar help for their wives. A reaper or mower is used at the most only a few days in the year. A creamer to make butter-making easier will be in use nearly or quite every day in the year, and the butter product will bring enough more to pay heavy interest on first cost, beside the saving of labor. A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gentleman gives it as his opinion that, in regard to scalding, boiling or steam­ ing, an experience of five years with steamed food for a dairy of from thirty to fifty cows led him to the conviction that, if compelled to take his choice and pay for it, he would pay more for the exemption than the adoption. He is convinced that cutting the long for­ age pays better than any other prepara­ tion in a well managed dairy. LIEBIO, the great agricultural chem­ ist, said: "A certain mass of gold and silver circulates in the world, and the art of becoming rich consists in know­ ing the way to divert from the main stream an additional brook to one's own house. In like manner there cir­ culates in the air and in the soil a rela­ tively inexhaustible quantity of the food of plants; and the art of the farmer consists in knowing and using the means of rendering this food avail­ able for crops." AN Ohio man has invented a grain drill which sows the grain upon the surface of the prepared ground in a row six inches broad, and covers it by shov­ els which throw the surface soil over it, I leaving an open furrow between the I rows of wheat. His drill tubes are one | foot apart, so that half the land is occu- I pied with grain and half with furrows , between. By this method he deepens the soil by placing the seed at the sur- { face and then putting the surface soil j from between the rows on top of it. THE particular point about feeding ! calves is to see that the milk is sweet ! and not too much skimmed until they have been brought gradually to the | poorer article, and also to see that the ! drinking vessel is sweet and clean. I Nothing will bring on the scours | quicker than old, stale and sour milk ; left over in the drinking vessel. It is also a good thing to see that the calf is ' not fed too much at one time. Three i pr four, or even more, feeds a day, with a small quantity at each feed, is far bet ter than a full supply and overloading the stomach at one time.--Chicago Journal. I A "YOUNG FARMER" wishes for infor | mation in regard to the cultivation of : onions. The ground should be broken | at least one year before putting onions | on it, and should be very rich. Onion i sets are produced by planting out on- ! ions that were raised from sets the last season. These onions will produce sets the second year on the tops that grow up. Onion sets can be produced from the black onion seed by sowing it very thick, at the rate of forty pounds : of seed to the acre. When started | thus thick on the ground they cease growing usually by July, and the tops I die, leaving very small onions that can be kept over until the next year and ! used for sets. The sets should be put I in rows fifteen inches apart, and four j inches from each other in the row. I The only object in using sets in place of 1 seed is to produce a very early crop. | Onions grown from sets will mature | from three to four weeks earlier than i those raised from seed. Onions-- either seed or sets--should be planted as early as the ground can be got in order, in March or April.--Chicago Journal* IN a paper read before the Syracuse Farmers'- Club, Mr. A. M. Williams says: "It is to be regretted that up to the present period there is no such thing in existence as agricultural sci­ ence. There is a science of chemistry, a science of philosophy, a science of mathematics and a science of astrono­ my, but thus far agriculture has been to some extent an art, but never a sci­ ence. Every science is in the beginning founded on a false foundation. This foundation is composed of the false and the true, and by degrees the false is eliminated and tne true science remains. We are just beginning to lay the found­ ation of a true science of agriculture. To effect this object it is necessary to frequently compare the observation and experience of the farmer with the reseaches of the chemist. One by one we will soon eliminate the errors that now divide and mislead us; one by one we will soon establish general truths on this subject, on which we can always and everywhere depend. We will then have, and not till then, a genuine agri­ cultural science." A FARMER has fences and buildings constructed of unplaned boards, which he does not feel that he can afford to paint with lead and oil, that could be cov­ ered very cheaply with whitewash and thus greatly improved in appearance, and, what to most farmers is important, made to last twice as long as if left ex­ posed to the changes of the weather. The great drawback in common white­ wash is the want of durability, it being necessary to renew it every year; but an improved preparation may be made at a very low cost that when properly put on will last some years and look very well. It is made as follows: For five gallons, slack six quarts of good lime in hot water, covering it up while in the process of slacking to keep in the steam; when slackened strain through a coarse cloth; add one quart of salt, prepared by boiling in water until dissolved and r > * » • pound ot *6^12^56 t̂emrSKira pound of potash, fwps quarts of very fine sand,, and coloring Ik) suit the fancy. This preparation shotud be put on hot; if properly done it makes a datable paint. To mnke a brilliant whits: To the amount of lime above mentioned, add one-fourth of a pound of burst alum, one poind of refined sugar, three pints of rice flour, made into n thm paste, and one pound of dissolved glue. This, like the ether, should be applied hot. If the loane be good it will make very pure white that will last seme years. , iopSBBEBPMy JELLY CAKK FRITTERS.--Cut stale sponge or very plain cup-cake into rounds with a cake-cutter; fry to nice' brown in sweet lard; dip each mund in boiling milk to soften it and get rid of the grease; lay upon a hot dish and spread with sweet jelly or jam; pile neatly one upon another and send around hot, sweetened cream to poor over them. <" •<* POTATO STRIPS.--Pare, ant in long strips, lay in cold water for an hour, dry by spreading them on a towel and pressing another upon them; fry to a light brown in salted lard; shake off the fat in a hot colander; line a deep dish with a napkin and put in the strips. They should not be orowded in •frying, but each should be distinct and free from the rest. BABY POWDER. -- In place of any known preparation sold under the name of "baby powder" use some fine starch. Put a few lumps in a cup and pour over enough cold water to dissolve it. After you are sure it is dissolved let it stand until the starch has all settled and the water is clear; then turn the water off. Let the starch dry, and then powder it and put it in a soft muslin bag, through which it will sift out. This is very healing, and ansYrera ad­ mirably any purpose the powder is supposed to do. RAISIN PIE.--Baisin pie, which is preferred by many people to grape pie, is made of one cup of crackers, rolled very fine; one cup of water, the juice and rind of one lemon, one cup of raisins, stoned and chopped very fine, and one heaping teacupful of sugar. Beat these thoroughly together and add one egg the last thing. 'Bake with a thin upper and under crust; rub the top crust with the white of an egg or with a little milk with sugar dissolved in it; bake in a moderate oven, but brown the pie by setting it on the shelf in the oven. FRENCH BREAKFAST ROLLS. -- One pint of sweet milk, heated almost to the boiling point, half a cup of butter, a third of a cup of sugar, one cup of yeast. Let the milk cool so that it will not scald the yeast, and yet will be more than lukewarm. Stir the yeast and sugar in it, and with the flour make a light sponge. When it has risen for the first time knead the butter into it; let it rise again, and then cut it in strips and roll in proper shapes, or cut it in round cakes and butter one-half of the top and double the cake over, a la bakers' rolls. If started the night before and allowed to rise the last time an hour before breakfast, the time will be sufficient to insure delicious rolls. The oven should be hot, and from fifteen AQ twenty min utes will serve to bake timm. BAKED HAM.--Try this from the Country Crentleman: Soak a ham over night in warmish water. In the morning make a paste of rye or wheat flour and cold water, and cover the whole ham with it, end of bone and all. Put small rings or a few skewers into the bottom of the dripping pan, so as to keep the ham an inch from the pan. Put the pan with the ham into the oven and bake it three or four hours, accord­ ing to size. It will be more accurate to weigh the ham and allow fifteen min­ utes to a pound for a small one and twenty minutes for a larger one. The paste will make a hard crust around tho ham, keep in all the juices and render it delicious. When it is done, break oft the crust carefully in pieces, and all the skin will come with it. Scatter bread crumbs and brown sugar all over the fat, stick in a few cloves, add a little pepper, and place the ham in the oven to brown well on top. It can be served either hot or cold. Garnish it with sprigs of parsley and slices of hard- boiled eggs and cold pickled beets. The Circa* Man's Slogan* The class in experimental study chanced to discuss the attack by a mob, in Dover, Del., upon the people of O'Brien's circus, and the question was raised whether or not the cry of "Hey! Rube!" is, as was affirmed in the pub­ lished accounts of that occurrence, the circus men's rallying cry for war. Mr. W. C. Coup, the veteran circus man­ ager settled it. Just as he came in one of the partv tested him by an experi­ mental yell of "Hey! Rube!" at his back, and his instantaneous jump and look of combined alarm and ferocity were reply enough for even the most skeptical. He said: "That is a terrible cry to any man who has ever seen its consequences, and it gives me a cold feeling down my back even to hear it in conversation. It means savage force, desperate com­ bat and too often death. A man who has heard that yell sounded in earnest, as I have, will not monkey with it even in a parlor, among ladies and children. don't know what its origin was, or how it came to be be so universally recognized. I only know that ever since I have been in the business r r known anything about it that has*been the circus man's slogan. It used to be equal to immediate discharge for a man to yell that about my show. Why, I'd rather have given $1,000 any minute than hear it from one of my men. Fire it up in the air once and it brings to­ gether, as if by magic, 200 or 300 men, all there are about the show, generally powerful and determined fellows, armed, perhaps, only with stakes and clubs, but stakes and clubs are terrible weapons in the hands of such men, all wild with excitement, and ready for a desperate and pitiless fight, for they know that is what the rallying cry means. It signifies to them, ' You have to fight for your lives, and to stand by one another or be killed.' Thank God, it is less necessary now than it used to be in early days of circus life in this country. I say 'necessary,' for there was a time--and sometimes it comes nowadays -- when Circus men had no other recourse than to fight or be slaughtered, and then they had to stand together."--New York Sun. -A YOUNG man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is re­ flected from a true woman's eyes, for God himself sits behind them.--J. G. Holland. i wet '""y KM|»rf»wn mtthm MMlgu nmrDiW Few people,. •ays a writer in the De­ troit Freer JfVeas, have any adequate idea of the dangers and and discom­ forts attending the life of a "river driver. " Four months of the year, and these during the raw and chilly spring, when he is working from daylight till dark in the water, his clothes are often wet and frequently frozen for a week at a time. If he falls into the cold river in the morning, he must keep on with his work till night. Often the heat of his bed--for the riverman's eti­ quette teaches him that clothes are made to be worn, not hung cm a chair at night--is only sufficient to thaw out the garments without drying them. I talked with one of these river drivers. Every bit of information was given grudgingly, though earnestly and with candor. He said: "I have followed the river every spring for twelve years and there are mighty few streams in Michigan that I haven't gone to the bottom of. "Dangerous business? Well, that depends on what part of the job you are working at. If you are the cook, there ahi't much danger, unless the bovs find pebbles in the beans or mice in the blackstrap. But if the crew are 'break­ ing^ jam* and the old man sets you to 'hitching on' things are liable to be pretty lively. What is 'hitcihng on* and 'rollway?' Ever see a high bank at a river? Wall, loggers draw their logs during the winter to the highest bank of a stream they can reach, and roll them down it onto the ice below, piling them up by thousands and tens of thousands^ In the spring these piles of logs have got to be loosened so that tbev will float down the river. That is what is 'breaking a jam.' Now about 'hitching on.' "Sometimes they 'break a jam' by prying out the logs with canthooks and sometimes they run a rope across the river. A yoke of oxen are 'hitched on' to it, and it is thrown around a log. The oxen are then started, and they 'snake out' the log. Why is that dan­ gerous ? It often happens that one log is wedged in such a shape that it holds from fifty to a thousand others and to save time this log must be hauled out first. Then if the logger isn't minding his concerns when the pile starts, the whole pile is onto him in a jiffy. Did I ever meet with an accident? Yes; but the most mysterious accident I ever met with didn't turn out very badly. We were 'breaking a jam' at the highest rollingway on the Manistee river. There were millions of logs on the bank, and it was pretty ticklish work. I hadn't had as many turns of rheumatiz then as I have had since, and I called myself as limber a man as ever dodged a Norway. I was 'hitching on,' and after I had been at work a little while the boss, who was giving orders from across the river, sung out 'Do you see that loose log up near the top?' I looked up. The rollway was about 160 feet high, and there was a big log ten or fifteen feet from the ton that appeared to be loose. "I started up over the logs with my peevy in my hands. The log was about twenty feet long, and I shoved my peevy into it to sort of Bee how much work it was going to be to loosen it. I found out, I tell you. I no sooner touched her then she started like a flash of lightning down the rollway. There was no chance to run around the end of the log, and it was too high to jump over, so the only chance I had was to turn and give her a foot-race. We were, as I said, near 150 feet from tfye brink. The river was about sixty feet wide and was pretty deep. That was in my favor, if I could only reach it. I didn't stop to calculate chances or pick nice stepping places, but I just made jumps for all I was worth, and before I'd fairly light away Pd go again, and you bet that log was right after me. I could feel the wind from it, and it seemed every time I struck that it was on to me. I don't believe my heart beat, or that I breathed, going down that rollway, and I thought of every ' tear' I had ever been on and every mean thing I had ever done. I kept ahead all right until I got within about twenty feet of the river, and then she struck me. I was in the air, and when the blow came I went like a cannon ball out into the river and to the bottom. As I came up a dozen of the boys grabbed me and brought me ashore. They had been watching me from the other bank, and when they saw me shoot out into the stream they rushed intd the water to bring out what they thought would be my corpse. But wasn't hurt a particle, though it took some time to get my ' bellus' into run­ ning shape again. That log struck me on the hips and threw me fully fifty feet, and that was what saved my life; for if I had landed near the bans that log would have crushed me." "That was a close call." "Tolerable, tolerable." , He Wbe Jlnns Xay The lives of most men are in their own hands, and as a rule the just ver­ dict after death would be--felo de so. Light gives a bronzed to tan color to the skin; but where it uproots the lily it plants the rose. Mould and decaying vegetables in a cellar weave shrouds' for the upper shambers. A change of air is less valuable than •i change of scene. The air is changed every time the direction of the wind is shanged. Health must be earned--it can sel- lom be bought. Girls need health as much--nay more than boys.. They can only obtain it as boys do, by running, tumbling, by all forts of innocent vagrancy. At least once a day girls should have their halt­ ers taken off, the bars let down and be turned loose like young colts. Calisthenics may be very genteel, and romping very ungenteel, but one is the shadow, the other the substance of healthful exercise. Blessed be he who invented sleep-- but thrice blessed the man* who will in­ vent a cure for thinking. Milk drawn from a woman who sits indoors and drinks whisky and beer, is certainly as unwholesome as milk from a distillery fed cow. Dirt, debauchery, disease and death are successive links in the same chain. --Dr. Frank H. Hamilton's 44Health Aphorisms." The Bill Was Approve!. Some negroes were listening to one of their number as he read to them the Eroceedings of the Legislature. When e got down to the bill "to protect and preserve unimpaired the right of trial by jury," old Si spoke up and sakl : "What's dat mean? Who's a-gwine to hurt de jury?" Dat means a heap, I'm atellin'yer! Dat s a good thing," re-* plied Pete. "Splane it, den! Whar's de Lecessaryness for it?" urged Si. "Why, dis way," said Pete. "Dar's a a gemman down dar at the depo' what was on de jury de odder day, an' I hear him tellin' how dat he didnt want ter 'gree wid de rest ob em, when a big feller came up and' tolehim if he didn • 'gree in 1x>ut two second dat he bust him wide open; what you t'ink ob datf* The bill then received ap­ proval.---Georg ia Major. Modern Novels, The reoent school of American novel­ ists, represented mainly by Howells and James, is endeavoring to work a reform fiction. Instead of in a Dickens or Thackery manner finishing a story, Mr. Howells especially amuses himself by chopping it off, leaving the reader to draw his own conclusions. This is cer­ tainly very accommodating, but it is not art. Every piece of literary work should have a decided ending where all of the wrinkles are smoothed out, when the reader is allowed to sit down and rest. If this style prevails among the younger writers, as Mr. Howells no doubt desires it should, the future novel will end very much in this way: "Walking rapidly through the fields, Arthur sought his old home. The tall clover stood in perfumed tremor, and the bees buzzed in insectiferous chorus. The young man thought, as he passed, of his long engagement with Miss Bikles and wondered if she were still living with his aunt. He longod to meet her, and to know that she still loved him. He climbed the field fence, entered the lane leading to the house and walked along, reflecting d ep y. He neared the house. A white dr ss fluttered at the gate. He rushed tor- ward. The end." Now, what sort of an ending would that be? The reader would never know whether it was Miss Bikles or some other woman's dress that was fluttering at the gate. No matter how much the romantic young girl might be interested in the marriage of Arthur and Miss Bikles, she would never know whether or not the ceremony was per-, formed. It is the duty of every story-teller to settle up with his characters before closing his book. It would not be a bad idea for a novelist to have a literary balance-sheet and settle with each character the first of every month. This would keep everything straight and prevent anything like confusion. Howells' "Modern Instance" looked as though it were taken by instan­ taneous photography and "fired off" before the rear end of the procession attained good position.--Arkansaw Traveler. Perseverance Rewardefl. A well-known citizen of Detroit was out on the street with a $3 umbrella over him when he observed that a stranger was dogging his footsteps. After making sure of this fact ne wheeled around and said: "See here, sir, are yon fallowing me?" "Yes, sir," was the prompt reply. "What for?" "Because I want that umbrella. You will leave it somewhere within half an hour, and I might as well have it as some one perfectly able to buy a dozen of them!" "Don't you worry about my leaving it," observed the citizen as he walked off. He entered two offices on Griswold street, took a shy up the stairs of the Walker block and made a call i t tele­ phone headquarters. When he came out of the latter place he started for the Postoffice, and had just entered the building when he threw Up his hands and exclaimed: "Hang me! if I haven't left that umbrella!" He rushed back to the telephone of­ fice like a man going to a fire, and when he gazed around the room in search of the lost article, one of the clerks remarked: "Oh! was that your umbrella? It was carried off by a man with red chinwliiskers!"--Detroit Free Prem. ^ 'Wagner and Dunas.; r'*. Wagner could never join in little jokes against himself. Alexandre Dumas, calling upon him once, made some good-humored remark about his own ignorance of music--which he had once defined as "the most expensive of noises"--but his pleasantries were lis­ tened to with such a Bmi^less stolidity that he went home in a huff and wrote his contemptuous protest against "Wag­ nerian din--inspired by the riot of cats scampering in the dark about an iron­ monger'shop." On the day before this protest was printed in the Opinion Nationale, Wagner returned Dumas's visit, and was kept waiting for half an hour in an ante-room; Then the author of the "Trois Mousquetaires" marched in superbly attired in a plumed helmet, a cork life belt and a flowered dressing gown. "Excuse me for appearing in my working dress," he said, majestic­ ally. Half my ideas are lodged in this helmet and the other half in a pair of jack boots which I put on to compose love scenes." Snubs of this sort--of which Wagner encountered many-- rankled deep in his mind and made him say that the French were Yandahu n a tn4& I sod third iKthoHooMoatlwSa.tftflr aMtoa. - *~T, TTB» •|l|mm<« -- t h t a o - M l M sad the Jotunul of the Hoot MI pervdwftk The foUowtSTldbi w Tto onanist sofeool dtatricta by habitants; mroridtac tat at < nOrosds; to i*ralat» batter . torieo; to nrovta* far nd aid to# boy*, xhls MUto distgi for talda* bametaM wtftfe (ran MM cafdy-ei tapn to educate than. jtWa* t orderlMBerwal bilto to SMM tnr, tmHoine adjourned. TAS Senate and House fceMLbnt formal -- •kma on tb» SBUl Neither bodywaiiLdt Uf- thlnfr. owing to a aborts** la aHMnbsna. ln| or four Senators wo* pw--at, and aboot a dosen member* of the Hotue. A motion ' consider the BaQroad Corporation < bill which passed the House some days now pending. ON the 29th a mo wage was i Seeded' *e*a the Governor announcing Uo nilBSal 10 alga the t AaoorfaOon ML Chicago Firemen's Benevolent claiming that it i stitutional, aa it allowed the director* to tribute a larsre amonnt of.moaoy OianirS without remrd to their saee is quite lengthy, andtta i poiierl for a better attendants The Appropriation bills about a dozen were passed to House then adjourned until' ONLT twenty-six members ot ftha floaSta answered to their nanus on th^ morning eC tike 31 *t nit., and consequently but little bmilanaf was transacted. Mr. White tat edneett a Mil for the control ot pa ka. It a cj»y of a Boast hill now under con8id< ration. The only ether bus n ss done was advancing several bills to second and third readlnjc. Taere Wm a i;ood attendance in tta Tip--o, and immediately after the opening sf tbe session a discussion was begun oa the pendtng question, which was to atiikeont tbe eaaottaig words of the hill providing for tfcepvbHeatSoB of certain legal advert isementa In tas Penman language, which was lost by a vote Of Si to lft. After discussing some items of the Appgopria1' tion bills the Hocee adjourned. W- •3v Two Canine Dromlos. Mr. McCormick was walking dowtft town, not so much in the interest of hil business, which runs itself, nor for thia personal benefit of the physical exer­ cise, but that the walk might tend to! reduce the undue fleshiness of his faf vorite Irish red setter dog, Tip, who accompanied him, and who, because of the season's scarcity of rain and ducks, and because of ^setting" too much around the bar stove, manifests an un­ desirable predisposition tb mental and physical inactivity. When McCormick was about half-way up the block his tender heart was suddenly startled aa he heard cries of sharpest distress, arid instantly recognized the voice as that el his favorite. Turning and looking bach/ he could scarcely believe his eyes whelk they informed him that an uncouth ilk? dividual had gathered Tip up by tha scruff of the neck, and that the matt was diligently and dexterously, in tech­ nical language, kicking the stuffing out of Tip. And as the man kicked ha ejaculated: * "You won't do what I tell you, ehf . You won't come to me when I call von, . v eh ? I'll pulverize you, you viper !* With a yell as of a tigress robbed of h& * * n u m e r o u s f a m i l y o f y o u n g b u t i n t e r e s t * < f , ' ing tigers, Mr. McCormick leaped for the foe. Before the man had time t* ,. . fall in the gutter the angered and arti^/^ tic Mr. McCormick had struck him iii s• three different places fit one time, be­ side having kicked him simultaneously " in the vest pocket and the small of hja ' back. The confused man having im­ prudently struggled to his feet, Mr. : McCormick varied the second downing 3 of him by effecting it with three kicka and two blows. "Wot's the matter of you, anyhow IT asked the bruised, bleeding and mud- < died victim from his vantage ground ot : " a now wisely-maintained horizontal si tion. "Wot did you kick my dog torf*v'J' asked the glowering McCormick. '"Tain't your dog--it's mine," said the prostrate man, doggedly, so •§%4% speak, and then he called, coaxinglv. "Here, Silk, Silk, Silk." t^| In response to this call for a witnesa, a badly-intimidated and evidently ra- cently-kioked Irish red setter dog made<J a cowering approach to the recnmbeijl 9 ? supplicant, as if he had not yet clearly ; taken in the situation and did not know > What diverse fate of kick or caresa might portend. Mr. McCormick looked at the dog critically, then he cast h% eyes searchingly round,and immediately in his rear, seated serenely on hs ' haunches and gazing approvingly and att- unkicked at his master, he beheld hi|'..;> own beloved Tim. u "Well, blame me," finally ejaculated.' McCormick, "if they don't "beat ghosta^ " or the Siamese twins! S»y, boss, yoh v must excuse me, but your dog is tha very counterpart of mine, and blama me if I didn't think all the time it waUr Tip you was kickin'. So long."-- Francisco Chronicle. ^ Characteristics of Greyhonnds. Ih When a greyhound chaaea anything h£\means killing it. Should a* littlft dop become scared and start to ru^, from two or three greyhounds, hil; life may be numbered by seconds un-f less he quickly finds a place of where his pursuers cannot obtain cess to him and where he can "bow*»:y wow" his disgust at their want of dial; kL courtesy and bloodthirstiness withoul V fear of retribution. As for cats, of aljfr ! the many enemies of the feline racf^^f" none are more to be dreaded by them!," : - than the greyhound. In a field whera^ ."' . ' there are no trees poor pussy is soon run down, when one grip from th^,; v long, powerful jaws of her pursuer in|' , He Waited for the Ladder. While a great elevator was being ^ built in Kingston, N. Y., a remarkable stantly settles her account in this world, \ exhibition of coolness and presence of * mind was given by one of the workmen. He was standing on the scafolding about sixty feet high when one of his companions thoughtlessly removed a stone at the foot of the structure. The ! whole thing gave way, and the work- And this habit of chasing everything^: that ruDs from them is so much part " 4 and parcel of their nature and is so- fostered by training, that to eradicate it is impossible without rendering tho«. £" dog useless. On the other hand, I hava# " many times seen them run up to a smal4 man was only saved from being dashed ! terrier, who was plucky enough to stand- to the ground by seizing a projecting 1 and face them, awaiting the course of '• plank. While hanging suspended in events, when they would simply nose* the air he did not get frantic and let go; j him all over, as is the nature of stranga : he simply remarked to a friend below: • dogs in general when they meet one an- s * ^ "Jim, you'll find a ladder on the end of t other, and let liim proceed on his way;';: : . the wharf," and waited till the ladder ' unmolested, although I must admit was brought. Then he said he would i* generally a "lurking devil" in the cor* ; take it as a personal favor if his fellow ners of their eves as he trots quietly o#M workman and companion would refrain to see if he will not break into a from removing the foundations of the 80 giye them an excuse for aohavj<*f •' * •%' scaffolding again whilo he was np aloft. 1 hig" him forthwith. Also this bre6d^-}:!;; ^>- ' , one and all, must plead guilty to tha PEKHAPS the deepest coal-mine on' charge of larceny. Moat impudent f this continent is at Pottsville, Pa. The ' thieves they are, too, not being at f , shaft is 1,576 feet deep--near'y a third ' particular about stealing under th#^^;" of a mile. Every day during the busy ! very noses of the owners of the property^; , season 200 cars, containing four tons ' purloined, and, having got posseeuantv;. t r each, are Bent from below to the upper of the coveted plunder, they, to quote* world, the time of each trip being a lit- ^n expression of our American brethren, ̂ ' f-»|! tie over a minute. j "hop around lively," leaving the ag- ."i'Js, • j grieved proprietor the option of vowing; HORSESHOES made of three thiek- vengeance against greyhounds in gea-ift - r.e-tses of green rawhide, compressed in oral and that hound in particular, and«^||l|.... a steel mold, are used to some extent in ®o put up with his loss, or else visiting ^ J; ^ '" England. They weigh about a quarter the owner of the dog and endeavoring, ' as much aa an iron shoe, and are said to to obtain satisfaction and redress from' ' : J wear longer. ; that quarter. The best way to escape, : ; ̂ £ trouble from either of these two famta.;^{>•.'*' - is to keep your hounds coupled so long as you are in the neighborhood of ahona; - . - and, although this may not be a perfect ** * 4 euro for the evil, you will find it a great*' **. ^ ehcck on their propensities in theas 1 - ^ directions.--Toronto (Holw. BAMS of choice breed fetch from $1,000 to $2,000 in Australia, while first- class mutton sells in Adelaide and Sid­ ney for 37 cents the stone--fourtean pounds. Coi OBADO is one of the few States that can boast to-day of freedom from debt. Uxa&ATKrvu>B8s is the tery of manhood.--Sir Philip Sidney. ' -iA \ J® . 4 J..Hi. Jj.n i.. . ,Ht ^ jL J