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WEDNESDAY. NOV. 80. 1887. VAN8LYKE, Editor. : rms PA PER «°r" ylJOWI8J.iL A CO.'S "Newspaper Adver t i s ing ; j ' | luvMu (10 Spruce S t ree t ) , where adver t i s ing fe"t! S NEW YORK. JST'Liucolo, Neb., is without a May- and City Council, the officials hav­ ing surrendered themselves Monday to the United States' authorities, and he- t" tng now in jail. They were fined for Contempt of court last week iu depon­ ing I'ollce Judge Parsons. The police judgefls A. F. Parsons, formerlyV>f this Village. > #3TThe people of Dakota on the . v Eighth instant, voted In favor of di- fiding that territory. The domain named Dakota covers acres enough to snake eighteen States of the size of liasfeac.hnfietts, yet it is but little more, MET BY CHANCE. »t ZADA. • ; passed between them, for Rupert, now thoroughly in love, feared to ruin all by too premature an avowal; especially as, once or twice when he had ventured to broach the subject, Flora had sud­ denly grown haughty and cold. A final picnic hail been planned to close the season. It proved a great success. The day passed merrily on until luncheon time. Rupert had mode up his mind to have a quiet ramble with Flora after this meal, and if things went well to speak* of his love. But lie had reckoned without his host,' for when luncheon was over and he had < gotten rid of his aunt, Mrs. Judsre t Stone, who had called him to her sid&r e to wait, on her, lo! Flora had disajv » peared. Full of jealous fears, and de­ termined to find out who his rival was, * he aet forth through the woods tc find * Flora. He had not gone far before her I }>et dog came bounding toward him, * jumping and barking and manifesting tlic greatest delight at seeing him. I But when Rupert stopped to pat his | namesake, the dog darted ahead; then t-stopped and looked wist fully at Rupert, and then rushed on again. "What oan he mean ?" said Rupert. A sudden fear seized him that some- thing was wrong, and he hurried on, the dog rapidly leading the way. 4^A* last, in an opening of the woods on a moss-covered rock, he saw Flora, pale, breathless, and, apparently, in pain. In a moment he was at her side. All his jealousy was gone. Love was uppermost. "Oh, darling!" he cried, "what is it? Thank God, I have REVERDT JOHKSON. BMOUWUMI of Pretty, saucy Flora Parker went swinging up and down, up and down, found you." her light, cambric dress waving and "Oh! Mr. Morrison," she cried, fluttering in the breeze. with a little sob, "how glad I am to "Glorious, Rupert, isn't it?" she see you. I began to think L would cried, calling to her pet and companion, j have to stay here all night alone. I've sprained my ankle so badly I can't a huge, shaggy, Newfoundland dog. "But where are you ? Why don't you answer, sir?" and swinging more slowly, she looked everywhere around her. Flora was down at the bottom of the old-fashioned garden, back of her father's farm house, where a swing had been put up for her, in a little grove of trees. Suddenly, in answer to her inquiry, a merry voice cried, "Here!" and a handsome young man leaped the low fence and advanced toward her, laugh­ ing and doffing his hat Flora was out of the swing and on her feet in an instant, her eyes dashing, her figure drawn up to its full height. She looked prettier than ever, in her indignation. "I beg your pardon, said the in­ truder, bowing half-mockingly; "but I was taking a short cut across the field when I heard you call me." "Call you!" Flora looked as ifsha would annihilate him. "Certainly," with the utmost cool­ ness, "you called "Rupert' didn't you?" "I was calling my dog, sir," said Flora, with infinite hateur. "Well, I'm not exactly a dog," was the laughing answer, "but I've often l>een called 'an impudent puppy.' At your service, Miss! and he again bowed pro­ foundly. "I should think so," snapped Flora, and partly turning away muttered, "such impudence!" u.u this comforting conclust The stranger heard her and his man- hcad sank on hfg 9houlder ner changed. He became ~ ~ as senous and deferential, as the most chivalrous knight of 'ye olden time,' in the pres­ ence of his mistress. "I beg pardon. I'm afraid Fm tress­ passing. But the path through the field was trodden as if one had the right-of-way there, and I heard you call--well, I made a mistake." Again the mirthful look danced in his eyes. "Good morning!" He swept the very ground with his hat as he executed another profound bow, and then turned, and putting his walk. What shall I do!" and she burst into tears. Our hero took both her little hands and held them tightly in his own, while he questioned her anxiously as to the accident, relating, meantime, how he came to find her. "But how," exclaimed Flora, rue­ fully, when he had done, "how am I ever to get back ? I don't believe I can walk a step." "Of course you can't. Who said you could," cried Rupert. "But you'll get back all £he same, for I intend to carry you." Carry me!" Flora gave a little scream, and shrank back and covered her face with both hands, for Bhe felt the hot blood in her cheeks. "O, no! that would never do," and she blun­ dered out unthinkingly, "what would people say?" But Rupert did not stop to reply to this question. Very litUe he cared what people said. Without a word he put his arms about Flora, and, lifting her from her feet, walked off with her as though she had been a feather­ weight At first Flora struggled a little, but the strong, manful arms held her close, and soon she began rather to like it and think it all very delightful. "At any rate," she said to herself, "I can't help it; he is too masterful to resist." With this comforting conclusion her fair and for the first time in her life Flora knew what it was to be supremely happy. Rupert carried his lovely burden to his own buggy, which stood apart from the crowd, and carefully placed Flora in it. "There, now," he said, "I shall take you home immediately, and stop for a doctor on the way. Nobody can drive you with as little pain as I can," he added, seeing she was about to object; "besides you must begin to obey me, so as to get your hand in, for you are go- hand on the top of the fence. TaJlted ! be mJ over, .•«] the next moment ™ oat of , jTJa " . T /wgT siirltt. 1 P "er h08®' but sh® Flora did not swing anv more that! SJ' w"h a?Ser day, but went back to the house, mut- ! blasbed * the tlP* of her daint.v taring, "the impudent fellow," while, „ . , , „ ' the real - Rupert, who had been off 0f course, retorted Rupert, as he chasing a rabbit re-anpeared just at • 8^ePP softly into the buggy and took this juncture, and accompanied her, ' l*Hideher, looking half-saucily, frolicking and barking around her. 11 But thi« was not the Rupert she meant when she said the "impudent fellow." A week passed. Flora saw no more of the -t: anger, though she often won h.ilf-foudly into her eyes, which fell be­ fore his. "I've meant it all along. Didn't you?" "Really you are the most 'impudent puppy' I ever saw," cried Flora, burst- of the F*mwu tha Bar. [Baltimore American.] When I began the study of the law Reverdy Johnson was, by common oon sent, conceded the leadership of the Maryland bar, which at that time boasted many intellectual giants. He was rather below the medium stature, being probably somewhat less than five feet six inches in height, but he car­ ried himself so erect--as, in fact, he continued to do until the day of his death, at an advanced age--that he ap­ peared somewhat taller. He was strong and sturdy in build and seemed des­ tined to live to a verv great age, as he undoubtedly would Lave done had it jiot been for the accident which so sud­ denly ended his life. His chest Was broad and full, and his voice powerful, which, in using, either before court or J'ury or on the rostrum, he was in the tabit of giving the fullest scope. He would without any apparent reason for great emphasis, and even when arguing grave questions of law before the court in his usual tone of voice, burst forth, after a single instant's pause, in the highest key that his powerful lungs enabled him to reach; and this he did always and constantly, not only before the court, but also before the jury, in ^ the Senate, and on the rostrum. Prob­ ably he followed iu this respect--per­ haps unconsciously--the example and defect in the style of William Pinkney, whom he told me he considered the greatest advocate he had ever known, although he considered Luther Martin a more profound lawyer, His voice was not musical, and he made no pre­ tension to the blandishments and ac­ complishments of oratory. He had a high and intellectual, brow, and his head was well covered with a suit of gray hair, which rapidly turned to white, and which he kept cut very short His nose was medium size, and rather straight and well shaped; his mouth was somewhat large and very firm, and his teeth strong and irregular. He rarely, if ever, laughed, but fre­ quently smiled a smile which possessed much facination. He had great dignity of manner, and to those who lid not know him appeared haughty and re­ served; but no greater mistake was ever made, for he was always kind, considerate, and affable in his inter­ course with members of the bar, old and young, as well as with all others with whom he came in contact, either socially or professionally. He was very fond of talking, and possessed conver­ sational powers of a high order-abound­ ing in anecdote and reminiscences of the very many eminent and distinguished men with whom he had come in con­ tact, both in Europe and this country. He wa3 always well, even fashionably dressed, and paid much attention to his appearance. His habits were studious --in fact laborious--and he had a vast fund of legal learning. He possessed great knowledge of human nature, dis­ covering almost at a glance the weak points of a witness, aftid using them with telling eflect, both in cross-exam- inations and before the jury. His ex­ amination and cross-examination of witnesses were the ablest I have ever heard, and they were always conceded to him by his colleagues, many of whom would have conceded them to no other lawyer. His arguments before the court were powerful and exhaustive, covering the entire case, and often, when he represented the defendant, and, therefore, was to be followed by an able opponent, suggesting points that had not been made in the opening, but which he thought might be made by his adversary in closing, and he thus had the advantage of answering them in advance and arguing their force away. During the latter part of his life he sometimes sacrificed strength to his fondness for telling anecdotes, or for ventilating his views on some of the questions of the day, thus leaving the subject in hand and traveling largely outside of the record, but never for one moment losing the attention of the court, jury or auditors. dered who he could be, and if he was ; i11*0 laughter iu spite of herself, staying in the neighborhood. At the | But for all that she did not repulse end of that time she attended an even- j t^e kiss with which Rupert before ing party at Judge Stone's. Almost i starting thought it necessary to fortify the first person S£LH saw entering the ! himself for the journey. What more is room was the handsome stranger. "I wish to introduce you* to my nephew," said the Judge, leading that personage up to Flora. "His name, by baptism, is Rupert Morrison; but he is such a saucy fellow that he has been known among his friends as that im­ pudent puppy!'" The eyes of the two young people met Young Mr. Morrison's were dancing with fun. For the life of her Flora could not help laughifig. So they laughed in concert, and he said, bowing low and repeating the words he had used in the garden, "Yes, 'that impudent puppy'--at your service." "He is making sport of me," thought Flora to herself, and drew herself up haughtily, and the rest of the inter­ view was cold and reserved, confining herself to monosyllabic replies. Very soon, at the appearance of one of her many admirers, she excused herself and went oft" to dance. "A bit of a tartar, I'm afraid," solilo­ quized Rupert "But how pretty she is. She looks, too, as if she had a noble character; and she can take her own part as I've found to my cost But I'm afraid she ha 4 been spoilt by admira­ tion. To get iuto her good graces one must go on his very knees to her; and faith it is almost worth while to do it. But no! Rupert, my boy, keep your self-respect" Then with a laugh, "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing ?" Yet often that evening Rupert found himself, as if by some magnetic at­ traction, down to Flora's side. Flora, there to tell? Very little. For Flora and Rupert were married early in the autumn and were very, very happy. "Do you know," said P.u;>ert, one day, "that it was the merest accident we ever knew each other ? I had come down to my uncle's for *a single night only; when I saw you in the swing my whole life was changed. I fell in love at first sight, and resolved to stay and make your acquaintance, even if it took all summer!" "So I owe my happiness," answered Flora, archly, "to my faithful dog- dear, old fellow--being off guard that afternoon." < "And to an'impudent puppv' coming along, " retorted Rupert, with a kiss, "just in the nick of time and taking his place." Natural Science in China. " In a Chinese report made some two centuries ago it is stated that the num­ ber of books compiled during niuetv- three years concerning the Christian religion, the sciences, and other sub­ jects was over 500 volumes besides manuscripts. And yet the earth still occupies the center of the universe in the official text books! Maps are pub­ lished even no win which China is shown as the "Middle Kingdom" with islands dotted round to represent the coun­ tries of the "barbarians!" While in others, professing to embody recent geographical discoveries, the African continent is ethnologically divided be­ tween "Black Devils," "Jabbering Cur- ,, ly-Haired Devils" and "Straight-Haired too, could not help occasionally glanc-1 Black Devils." But for "light science" ing, admiringly, at his handsome face for the masses commend us to the "Im­ perial Almanac." This is unquestiona­ bly one of the most remarkable "officialr publications extant. It is prepared by a special committee appointed by the Emperor, and may be roughly de­ scribed as a potpourri of science and superstition. Among other curious things is a table of lucky and unlucky days; although the Jesuit fathers were authorized to regulate the astronomical and graceful figure. She saw, very soon, that he was the best dancer in the room. So, when a waltz struck up, and he asked her to join in it she could not resist "If I don't dance with him," she said to herself, "the girls will say he didn't ask me; and that would never do." Flora had never enjoyed a waltz so muoh. She forgot the ridiculous episode in the swing, forgot the i , - -a -- -- part of the work, they were strictly for- stranger s cool effrontery, forgot every- bidden to meddle _with the table. The thing but the dreamy music, and the fun of the book reaches a climax in the rhythmical movements of her com­ panion. When the band stopped she sighed involuntarily, wishing it was all to go over again. Balls, picnics, and tennis parties followed each other in quick succession for the summer was a gay one. Flora •nd Rupert were together almost constantly. Somehow Flora fell into the habit of expecting Rupert always as her special escort, and he began to feel that no one but he had a right to Flora, and to be very jealous when Others attempted to pay her attentions. As jet, however, no words of love had the "Book of Rites," a few extracts from which, relating to the months of the year, show that the "evolutionary theory" is accepted more freely by Chinese scholars than it is among our­ selves. In the third month "mice are transformed into pigeons and rainbows are first seen." Sixth month "grass de­ composes and produces glow worms." But the most remarkable development of the evolutionary theory is reserved for the tenth month, when "pheasants «o to sea and are transformed into oysters and rainbows cease."--Na­ tional Review. Authoresses as Wives. No female novelist worthy of the name appeared in England until the reign of George IIL The lady who first h&d the courage to brave public opinion was Frances Burney, the friend of Garrick and Dr. Johnson. Miss Burney remained unmarried until she was nearly 40 years of age. Romance is then supposed to exercise a less domi­ nant power, but she, nevertheless, had the imprudence to espouse M. d'Arbiay, a French refugee, whose income con­ sisted only of a precarious annuity of £100. The marriage, however, proved a very happy one. Macaulay describes M, d'Arbiay as "an honorable and amiable man, with a handsome person, frank, soldier-like manners, and some taste for letters." The pair did not suffer from poverty; the wife became the bread-winner; and not long after her marriage her third novel, "Camilla," was published, by which she is said to have realized over 3,000 guineas. Charlotte Bronte, in the zenith of her fame, married Mr. Nicholls, her father's curate, a thoroughly good, con­ scientious man, but possessing no liter­ ary tastes. It was the woman, not the authoress, with whom the hardworking clergyman fell in love, and he would rather have preferred than otherwise that she had not written at all. This fact seemed to add to, not to detract from," his wife's Imppiness. Writing of him to a friend shortly after her mar­ riage, she thus speaks: "One of the villagers, when proposing my husband's health, described him as a consistent Christian and a kind gentleman. I own the words touched me deeply, and I thought that to merit and win such a character was better than to earn wealth, or fame, or power." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a great benefactress to her country, and a very clever and beautiful woman; bat she was not quite fitted for domestic life; though, however, she chose to re­ side abroad while her husband re­ mained in England, they regularly cor­ responded with each other on the most friendly terms. Mr. Edward Wortley Montagu was by no means deficient in talent. He was the intimate friend of Addison, and distinguished himself in Parliament as'an able and upright poli­ tician. He was much older than his wife, and it is very probable that Lady Mary would never have accepted him in spite of his entreaties had it not been to escape from a most distasteful mar­ riage into which her father endeavored to force her. Few young ladies would like to imitate her example and elope with a man with whom they were not in love, but the high-spirited daughter of Lord Kingston would not be given away against her will. The life of Angelica Kaufmann, the gifted Swiss artist, was a'very romantic one. It has been said that she actually refused the hand of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Whether this is true or not, it is almost certain that while in En­ gland she married an adventurer woo represented himself as Count Horn, a Swedish nobleman. Her second and last husbaud was an artist of the name of Zucchi, whom she had known from a ohild, and the remainder of her life was spent happily with him in Italy.-- London Exchange. How to Use an Umbrella. The proper way to open an umbrella 'without damaging it is to loosen the folds by means of a quick shaking of the right hand, in which the umbrella should be held by the handle. Then press the fastenings with the thumb of the left hand, and you will find that the umbrella opens without hindrance at any point Many fine silk umbrellas are damaged and frequently ruined by carelessness on the part of the owner. You frequently see the band that holds the folds in place unfastened by a tug at the end which projects beyond the button. In order to render the band and button more serviceable, the band should be pulled gently as if to tighten it about the handle. This will permit the button to pass through the opening without the necessity of half- wrenching it from the band by a fierce tug. Then the umbrella-smasher clutches the handle in one hand, and without loosening the folds; which may be damp, he presses the fastening with his thumb, and is surprised that the umbrella does not yield to the pressure. Then he pushes at the fastening until something gives away, Perhaps the umbrella will open, and perhaps one of the ribs has been weakened and forced through the covering. In order to fold anfe umbrella neatly, hold the handle in the right hand io such a way as to keep the ends of the ribs pressed close to the handle be­ tween the forefinger and thumb, as yon turn the handle dexterously by elevat­ ing the wrist, your hand, of oourse, being palm downward on the handle. But the neatness of the fold depends equally upon the service of the left hand. With the left you grasp the tether end of the umbrella, palm up­ ward, as you turn with the right use the left to gather and hold the folds securely, as you move it along carefully until it strikes the band. Hold the band with the left and fasten it with the right. If the folding has been done properly the band can be placed over the button without tugging at the end of the bfend with all your might.--Albany Journal. _ A Japanese Chemist's Shop. The quaint old man whose loyal ad­ herence to the customs of his ancestors afforded me such an interesting illus­ tration both of old Japan and old Britain, was a seller of cureyakie, i. a, carbonized animals; in other words, animals reduced to charcoal, and potted in small eovered jars of earthenware, to be sold as medicine for the sick and suffering. Formerly all these animals were kept alive in the back premises, and customers -selected the creature for themselves, and stood by to see it killed and burned on the spot, so that there could be no deception, and na| doubt as to the freshness of tlieiij charred medicine. Doubtless some ini sensible foreign influence may account for the disappearance of the menagerie, of waiting victims and their cremation- ground ; now the zoological back yard has vanished, and only the strange chemist's shop remains, like a well- stored museum, wherein are ranged portions of the dried carcasses of dogs and deer, foxes and badgers, rats and mice, toads and frogs, tigers and Repliants. The rarer the animal, and the farther it has traveled, the mor* precious, apparently, are its virtues. From the roof hung festoons of gigan ­ tic snake-skins, ' which certainly were foreign importations from some land where pythons flourish, Japan being happily exempt from the presence of such beautiful monsters. I saw one very fine piece of a skin, which, though badly dried and much shrunken, meas­ ured twenty-six inches across, but it was only a fragment ten feet in length, and was being gradually consumed, inch by inch, to lend mystic virtue to compounds of muny strange ingredients. I was told that the perfect skin must have measured verv nearly fifty feet in length. I saw another fragment twenty- two feet long and twelve inches wide; this also had evidently shrunk consid­ erably in dying, and must, when in life, have been a very fine specimen. Paper Axle Boxes. Experiments are being made on Prussian railways with axle boxes fitted with bearings of vegetable parchment in place of brass. The parchment is strongly compressed before being used, and it' is thoroughly dried, to prevent subsequent shrinkage. Wooden rings are placed on the outside of the bear­ ings, fitting the collars of the journal. An emulsion of water and oil and all the mineral oils are used as lubricants. The parchment soon becomes impreg­ nated with oil, and is able to go a long time without a renewal of lubrication. It is between the body of the journal and the thin edge of the parchment segments that friction takes place. The claim is made that these com­ pressed paper bearings make a tough material that is superior to metal. Such bearings are also in use in a German sawMnill, with satisfactory operation.-- American Cultivator. The New Testament in Calmuck. The Imperial Academy of Science has recently completed the publication of a translation of the New Testament into the language of the Calmuoks. This is th« first attempt to made known to the Calmucks the text of the Chris­ tian gospels. The initiative is due to the British Bible Society, by which the work of translation was confided to Prof. Pozneietf, of the chair of Mongol and Calmuck literature in the Uni­ versity of St. Petersburg. Two hundred copies have been sent to Astrachan and sold to the converted Calmucks of that province. The rest have been sent for distribution* in Asia by European missionaries.--London Times. Tree Rings. The old supposition that each con­ centric ring marks a year's growth has be n proven to be erroneous by obser­ vations during recent years. These re­ sults were yielded by trees whose ages were positively known at the time of cutting: Pig hickory 11 years old snowed 16 rings; green ash, 8 years, 11 rings; burr oak, 10 years 24 rings; chestnut, 4 years, 8 rings; pe&ch, 8 years, 9 rings; chestnut oak, 24 years, lb rings; Kentucky coffee tree, 10 years, 14 rings--Arkans&w Traveler. WHOEVER considers the study of anatomy I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body and coherence of its parts being so strange and paradoxical that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.--Lord Her• bert of Cherbury. WHEN von are nailing down earpeti and pound your finger it's time to toy a new tack. Enforcing Strict Discipline. When Julius Mohl, the professor of Sansorit in Paris, was obliged to enter the National Guard, he mastered the 287 articles of war. Then he used them constantly to thwart his officers, who were ignorant of their provisions, and thus made himself so obnoxious to them that they turned him out of the Guard --which was precisely what he wished to bring about The law authorized the officers to call out the members of the National Guards for twenty-four hours' duty, but they used to add to this two hours extra, calling them out two hours before the duty , began for drill and parade. Mohl knew this, and, not liking it, Used to present himself two hours after the appointed time. One day he thus presented himself ready to fail in when the parade was over and the Nationals dismissed to their respective posts. "Why did you not come before?" asked the Colonel, seeing Mohl stand­ ing at his ease. "Because," answered Mohl, "the law only allows you to call me out for twenty-four hours, and as I know you will not send me away before 11 o'clock to-morrow, I have not come before 11 o'clock to-day." "The National Guard will destroy itself by reasoning!" exolaimed the Colonel, angrily. "Well, then it will be destroyed by its natural enemy," replied Mohl. "I will give you double guard duty," said the officer, and he ordered him to stand at the gate of the Tulleries for four hours, instead of two. Mbhl him­ self must tell the final result: "Well, then I went, and as there were a great many of my friends going to and fro there, I began talking with them, when a little gentleman, with a fine cane, begins a conversation with me. " 'Well, National, it is a fine day. How do you like being on guard ?' and after a word or two he says, 'You don't seem to know me.' I say, 'I have not the honor of your acquaintance.' "Says he, 'I am the Colonel of your regiment.' "Says I, 'I am the National Guard whom you ordered to double duty this morning, and if you are a Colonel (he was in plain clothes), you ought to know that it is an offense to speak to a sentry on his post, and I therefore ar­ rest you for it, and will trouble you to walk into my sentry box till the cor­ poral comes around to let you out' i " 'Ah,' he says, 'that is a joke.' " 'Is it?' says L 'I never joke but with the bayonet. Go into the sentry box, or the soldier opposite will put his hand on your collar and put you in.' "He did not like this at all, as he was one of the fine gentlemen of Paris--the Duo de Grammont, I thiftk--and he did not like to stand like an ape be­ hind me in my sentry box, for all his fine friends to laugh at as they passed. "What could he do? He had before him a man with a gun in his hand, with the law on his side, for he was in tho wrong, and his mortal enemy. He made a great fuss about it, and at last I let him go, telling him he had better not be so strict to other people another time. After that I was never called out to do duty again. -- Youth's Compan­ ion. For Removing Ink. A newly-patented composition for the removal and erasure of writing-inks or writing-fluids from paper, cloth, and all other substances which writing fluids and inks may come in contact with, without injury to the paper or other substance, consists of the follow­ ing ingredients, viz.: Four quarts of water, four ounces of citric acid, twelve to sixteen ounces of strong solution of borax, and three-quarters of a pound of chloride of lime. In preparing the composition two quarts of water which has been previously boiled and cooled are taken. Four ounces of citric acid are added, and aft$r the acid has been dissolved, six to eight ounces of a strong strained solution of borax are added, and after which the whole may be put in a bottle or suitable receptacle. Two quarts of. water which has been previously boiled and cooled are taken, adding thereto three-quarters of a pound of chloride of lime. The whole is well, shaken and left to stand from four to six days, after which it is strained, and then (from six to eight ounces of strong solution of borax are added, and the whole is placed in a separate bottle. When it is desired to remove ink from paper, cloth, or other absorbent substances, the composition in bottle No. 1 is applied so as to thoroughly saturate the place oocupied by the ink, a blotter being used to ab­ sorb all waste moisture. The composi­ tion in the second bottle is then ap­ plied. By the combined use of the two fluids thus described, writing inks or other writing fluids will be immediately dissolved and removed from paper so that the latter may be again written on. Wasn't Ashamed of Her. "Now, Liga, don't you be ershamed uvme." This remark was addressed by a tall, stoop-shouldered girl, dressed in a sort of wrapper made of yellow linen, to a fat, "chunky" young fellow. They con­ stituted a bridal party and were feast­ ing their eyes on the exciting scenes of city life. "Now, don't you be ershamed uv ma " "Ershamed uv you, honey T W'y, I don'tyknow who in the nation would be ershamed uv you." "Kit an' Sis an* Tobe 'lowed that you'd git me down here an' be er­ shamed uv me." "Wall, they didn't know whnt they was a-talkin' about. Ef a man was to tell me that I would be ershamed UT you, w'y, we'd mix too quick." "I know you've seed mo'n I have," she said, after a few moments' silence, "but you ain't goin' to be ershamed uv me, air you ?" "You bet I ain't." "I coulder married Jake Bumpers ef I'd er wanted to, couldn't I, love ?" "Yes," he replied with a swagger of conscious superiority, "but I jest come along an' knocked his props right from under him. I just nachully grind sich fellers into sassage meat, me." "Some nv the folks 'lowed you wouldn't be good to me, Lige, but you will, won't you ?n--Ar!.ansatv Trav­ eler. Force of Economy. Burlington Husband--Are you aware, my dear, that you make away with about $30 a year in horse-car fares riding to your sewing society and other meetings ? Wife--Yes, sir, I am; but I da it for economy's sake. I don't believe you could afford to have me walk. Husband--Why so, pray? Wife--Perhaps you are not aware that between our house and the Post- office there are four milliners' shops.-- Burlington Free Frexs. A kax must ask leave of his stomach to be a.happy man.--Beecher. Eyes of the Bee. Any one who will take the trouble to examine with a lens the head of a bee will see on either side the large, ronnded compound eye, and on the forehead or vortex three bright little •imple eyes. The latter are, as their name implies, comparatively simple in structure, each with a single lens. But the compound eyes have a complex structure. Externally the surfaoe is seen to be divided up into a great num­ ber of hexagonal areas, each of which is called a facet, and forms a little lens. Of these the queen bee has on each side nearly five thousand, the worker some six thousand, and the drone upwards of twelve thousand. Beneath each facet is a crystalline cone, a so-called oerve rod, and other structures too complex to be here described, which pass inward toward the braia. It will be seen, then, that the so-called oom- pound eye, with its thousands of crys­ talline cones, its thousands of "nerve rods" and other elements, is a structure of no little complexity. The question now arises, Is it one structure or many ? Is it an eye or an aggregate of eyes ? To this question the older nat­ uralists answered - confidently--an ag­ gregate. And a simple experiment seems to warrant this oonclusien. Pu get, quoted in Goldsmith's "Animated Nature," adapted the facets of the eye of a fl--pardon me, fair reader, of a minute aphanipterous insect of the ge­ nus Pulex--so as to see objects through it under the microscope. "A soldier who was thus seen appeared like an army of pigmies, for while it mul­ tiplied it diminished the object; the arch of a bridge exhibited a spectacle more magnificent than human skill could perform, and the flame of a can­ dle seemed the illumination of thou­ sands of lamps." Although Cheshire, in his books on the bee, adopts this view and supports it by reference to a similar experiment, it numbers to-day but a few supporters. One is tempted to marvel at the ability of the drone to co-ordinate 24,000 separate images into a single distinct object. Picture the confusion of images of one who had sipped too freely of the sweet but de­ lusive dregs of the punch-bowl! Under similar circumstances human folk are reported to see double. Think of the appalling condition of an inebriate drone! Those who believe the facetted eye to be one organ with many parts contend that each facet and its under­ lying structures give not a complete image of the external object as a whole but the image of a single point of that object Thus, there is formed, by a juxtaposition of contiguous points, a stippled image or an image in mosaio. Hence this view is known as Miller's mosaic hypothesis. Lowne has experi­ mented with fine glass threads arranged like the cones and nerve-rods of the bee's eye, and finds that (even when they are not surrounded by pigment, as are the elements iu an insect's eye,) all oblique rays are got rid of by numerous reflections and the interference due to the different lengths of tlie rays. Some modification of the mosaic hypothesis is now generally adopted, and Dr. Hickson lias recently worked out with great care the structure of the optic tract which lies between the crystalline cones and the brain.--Murray's Mag­ azine. Writing a Poem. The poet Hallock, the author of "Marco Bozzaris," used to keep his poems by him a long time, that he might give them the last and happiest touches. Possessing a tenacious ver­ bal memory, he composed his poems without committing them to writing. He revised them in the same manner, murmuring them to himself as he walked the streets of New York qr rambled in the country. Mr. Wm. C. Bryant, in his address on Halleck's life and writings, told this story illustrat­ ing the poet's habits of composition: "I remember that once in crossing Washington Park I saw Hallock before me and quickened my pace to overtake him. As I drew near I heard him croning to himself what seemed to be lines of verse, and as he threw back his hands in walking I perceived that they quivered with the feeling of the passage he was reciting. "I instantly checked my pace and fell back out of reverence for the mood of inspiration which seemed to be upon him, and fearful lest I should intercept the birth of a poem destined to be the delight of thousands of readers." There are those who still read Hal- leok's poems. "Marco Bozzaris" re­ mains a favorite of declaiming school­ boys, because they admire th6 graceful­ ness of the diction, and the melody of the words, and the transparent clear­ ness of expression whioh allows the thought to enter the mind undimmed or undistorted. These qualities, not so marked in modern poetry as they should be, were not gained by hasty composition, but by patent revision, such as Horace commends. "It is much harder work," said a learned judge, "to rewrite an old opin­ ion than it is to write a new one; but the old opinion is more likely to be & better one, and the work of revision is a mental benefit to myself." One Cause of Diphtheria. "See here! when you speak of the causes of diphtheria, why do you ut­ terly neglect the principal one?" The speaker is one of the best-known residents of Davenport, and has had his home here more than thirty years, and been "a man of the world" pretty ex­ tensively. The scribe wanted to know what new information he had received as to the origin of the dreadful disease so unexpectedly and in unwonted places. Thought that about every cause had been mentioned. "There is no new information about it--that is, nothing but what has been kuown in the East for years, though the intelligence may be new here. The cause I refer to is nothing less than kerosene fumes," was the reply. "Why, it is a wonder that this noxious and universal agent has been overlooked here so lon|j. The New York Board of Health a few years ago decided that to this, more than to any other cause, the prevalence of this disease was to be at­ tributed. The other causes--impure water, milk, etc.--are all doubtless as you state them, but why it is that the spread of diphtheria invariably begins with the short days and long niglfts? Simply because; that is also the season for the turned-down kerosene lamps. Children dislike to go to bed in the dark, and the kind mother, lets the lamp remain in the bedroom, usually turning down the flame so that the light shall not keep the child awake. Many bedrooms are thus semi-lighted all night, and the windows being closed, or raised but slightly, the at­ mospheric eondi tion is Bin iply deathly. A turned down kerosene lamp is a magazine of deadly gas that the health­ iest lungs cannot safely be exposed to." --Davenpori . PITH AND POINT. THE lay of the land--Hail Columbia. c. Do You suppose the clock feels any richer after it has made a ten-strike ? IN these days the preserving house­ keeper has a good deal to put up wiSL"' A LITTLE knowledge is a dangerous thing, particularly if it happens to be on the subject of the fashions. "OCB ice is going off like hot cake%" "&Hys an ice dealer. Hot cakes of • must be something of a novelty.--Textm Sifiiiigs. 4 A MONTANA man won his seventh - spouse in a game of old sledge, and their seven-'uptials were celebrated at once.--Texas Siftings. THEBE'S one good point about the hornet When he comes to see you on business he doesn't try to lead up to the subject by slow degrees. ( AN absent - minded Pittsburgh preacher remarked in a eulogy from his pulpit last Sunday that "Death loves a mining shark." Thereupon, four stock brokers and -a man with a brother In Colorado got up and left the sacred building. "CONDUCTOR," said a passenger on a southern railroad, "my hat has blovm out of the window." "How long ago?" "About ten minutes." "Well," said the • conductor, pulling the rope, "I'll back up for it; but it's lucky for yon yOtt spoke in time." STUCKONHIMSELF-- Ye know, Mten ' Bluff, it's these swells that make peow pie sick at sea. Miss Bluff (who-is very : much interested in a thrilling novel)-- I don't know as they are particularly bad at sea; they have the same effeet , „ on me anywhere. "WHAT makes you look so pale?" : "Nothing--that is, I have jjwt had FM interview with that auburn-hairea young lady in the next block." "Don't understand." "Why, haven't you heard chat a white toss always accompaniesi red - headed girl?"--Boston Tra0 script. u: , IN a Chicago Court: Prosecuting Law ­ yer (referring to prisoner)--And, yowr honor, I am forced to say that this mira is an enemy to mankind. Judge--" Hold on a moment. An enemy to man­ kind. (To prisoner) How long have you been a coal dealer V'--Arkansaw Traveler. - BROWN--Well, sir, I don't believe I ever enjoyed excursions so much as I have Ithis season. Smith--Were the objective points unusually interesting; or do you attribute it to the company you were in ? "Neither, I guess. I staid at home."-- Binghampton Re­ publican. "JOHN," said his wife, "clon't you spend more than you ought for lunches down town? I can't understand how it is that the money slips away as it does!" "No, m' dear, I eat (liic) free-lunch nearly ev'ry day." "Well, I wish you * would give up free-lunches, Johii.1 They cost you more than wo can affor&" --New York Sun. HOUSEWIFE (to new domestic)--There is one thing I wish to say to you. The last girl had a habit of coming into the < parlor and playing the piano occa­ sionally. You never pipy the piano do you? New domestic--Yis, mum, I plays, but I'll have to charge yer a dol- ' lar a week aixtry if I'm to furnish mu­ sic for the family.--Tid-Bits. "WHAT it that, mother?" "Tho rink, my child; The year It wits built all tho people went wild. They crowded its walls, and to music's glad sound On furniture castors they slid thrmselves round; But the Fool-kUler came, with his two-handed club, And ha smote all the sliders, from graybo&rd 6f> cub; *--Aal • • And the building so silent is used, as you see, By the Mourners' Embalming and Bhrond Com­ pany. --Burdette. NOTED Congressman--What are you crying about? Little Son--I haven't jany cake. "But, didn't you eat it?" ;"\es, father." "Well, you can't eat jyour cake and have it too. I can't see !why you should be such a fool." Phil­ osophic Friend--I can. He is the son jof a man who thinks the people can llock up their money in the United States Treasury vaults and have it in circulation too.--Omaha World. Social Blunderer!*. One variety of the social blunderer ii , he who blandly inquires after the (late) husband and hopes he is well, as he has not seen him lately; or after the divorced lady, whose presence he looks around him vacantly to espy. He then remarks on her absence and inquires with feverish energy after her health. He it is who asks after the runaway daughter or the scapegrace son, whose name is never mentioned at home, or recalls with a visible effort the name of the person he is addressing and then mangles or mispronounces it. He re­ marks on a girl's looks to her mother and discovers the fact when he has done so or else puts his foot into it too deeply for extricatsn or apology. He like minded also who observes, for example, that her ladyship's dress is cut too low to her indignant lord, whom he mistook on entering for the butler, and then apologized on the ground that such >had been his impres­ sion. Such folk are not generally pop­ ular. They mean no harm, but achieve a good deal. Sufferers are too apt to suppose «sorae malice in their mis­ takes, of which they are for the most part quite innocent They constantly repeat overheard remarks to the wrong people. They read fragments of let­ ters aloud and blurt out pieces of in­ formation they were bound to keep quiet, or they involve themselves deeply in explanations and apologize to you for things they have inadvertently uttered as to your character or pros­ pects which fill you with dismay. The society they adorn would gladly, if it could, exterminate them; but they in­ variably presume a welcome and dis­ port themselves with a flattering as­ surance, only to plunge deeper into the slough of blundering, from which it is often impossible to extricate them.-- Sunday Queen. Belgian Coins. Some of the small Belgian coins, which are, perhaps, the prettiest of all the modern examples, have vigorous effect given them, not by raising the effigy in the center much above the general surface, ̂ but by surrounding it with a sunk space, from which it stands out bold and round, although protected from wear by the rim which carries the inscription. With the English or Ameri­ can coins, in which a profile head or other figure swims about in an ocean of background, such a treatment would be impracticable; but the Belgian de­ signers fit their lion very cleverly into his circular frame, without either crowd­ ing or awkward vacancies. A disposi-. tion of this sort would be the very one which would occur to a trained decorat­ ive artist, to whom the jumbles that now pass muster for coinage designs wonld be abominations; and a sculptor of the first rank might then be called in with great advantage to complete the modeling.--The Epoch.