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(l^irtflu liyMMtM. BLLDrom •pr'-s Hs * 1 gv - t'M v-"i A PUBLIC SCHOOL BY B. FKAWK MNTAJNHfc. j& "$(*n II in, eraut It in.-- CWWwn'» bead'* are hoUotl Mswi it In, j> m :ii. in.-- BUU tfcere'a mora to Wlii Hygiene «•..» History, Attrawm c mystery, , • Algsbra, KUtoiogy, * V f Latin, Etymology, wwB»«rjr^ . .Si - Greek and Triironf>i»»bry,-- ' Kaon Jt in, cram it fca, CbildreDa'.beads an Bap it ia, tap it in.-- What earn teachers paid iBrf . Bas;g it. in, alap It-in.-- What are children made tor? Aacient Archnlogy, Aryan Philology, ^..V Frosody, Zoology. >£•%' Physic#, Clinictology, . Calcnlua and Mathematics,--- Bhetoric and Hydrostatic*),-- Hoax it in, coax in it, Children's bead* are hollow I Btab it in, club it in. AH there is of learning; Pwieh it in, crunch it in, , Qnench their childish j .Por the field and grassy cook. Meadow green and rippling brook Drive bucu wicked thoughts afar' Itoach the children that they are Bat machines to cram it in, Banc it in, i*lam it in-- TJ walked In on ia©. an Indianis in good luck he! [ gib$ natured. Those who had} aj^lbnte companions were now ing with their scalps, horses, andffftfta. I bid act hurt anybody. Roman Nose had defied the fort and got away with station horses. There was every teason for rejoicing, and as they formed ft circle about me every face wore ft •mile, and several of them greeted me with a "howdy?" They knew me for a government scout and rider. They knew I had killed three Cheyennea on the Smoky Hill Fork only the week be­ fore. They knew that I had balked two of their raids on stage .stations, and that I had once ridden right through a camp of 200 of them and carried off the beet horse Roman Nose ever had. An Indian sizes a man up according no I had fi He chief their vl_ they treated *»• more as a guest than a prisoner. Another friend had m, . . . fort who for me. workingin^myiatereHt duringt̂ eday, but I did not diwow it nntu an hoar before the courier arrived. A bottlt of whisky had in some manner com# into possession of the guards. The bot­ tle was kept out of sight, and it was only when their demeanor betrayed them that I knew what they had been up to. None of them was drunk, but all were happy and quite good natured. It was after 5 o'clock before we liere ready to set out The five posies and •i ?ir £ ; it in, fclam it in-- v ty 4 hat their heads are hollow! j r ' H , • , fieold it in, mold it in, v1 *,• . • All that thov can swallow; ^ ̂ m it in, hold it in, Still there's more to follow! ' Yf. pinched and sad and pals 4 • 1 , * * Tell the same undying tate.-- V M!.rTall of moments robbed from Bleep, • ; Meals untiste.t, studies deep. ° "'> - Si08® wl3°'ve passed the furnace thMujh, •i , With achiDg brow will tell to you '/•n • How the teacher crammed it la, ": Batned it in. jammed it in, n •••• Crunched itin, punched it In, ' 1 C Bubbed it in, clubbed it in, ' " -,4 „ i, Pressed it and caressed it ia, j ' Banned it in and slapped it in . s'.Vj _ When their headawere bollowl / i> fr£f--Awfi Library, ====y;,:;:i "THE SCOUT'S ESCAPE •ra»; * v» * j 't Bm* tor Life •& tin Wester* FlalM. 'i£k N the 16th day of June, 1867, a small body of Indians appeared to the west of Fort Wallace, and from their maneuv­ ering seemed to be spy­ ing out the chances of cutting out the stage station, half a mile from the fort, writes an old /* Government scout. The wr. station was guarded by , four or five men at the 3<fa»e, and the corral held about thirty- • ^fl»e horBes. I had just come in that r Snorning from a long scout and was : j | 1, ' .»«sleep when the Indians were first seen. a As soon as routed out I took two men ^ •with me and rode down to the station. *$'""} We picked up a fourth man there and . v=- /.tibeaded direct for the redskins, who ' "iwfciie then a mile away. We were'not a quarter of a mile away from the station I became suspicious that it was to draw us away. We brought Nwr horses down to a walk, and after half a mile from the station we nroeata the left as if to circle back. At that moment 800 Cheyenne warriors, Jtd'by old Roman Nose, burst out of "the dry ravines, where they had been concealed for two hours, and straight for the station. The plan would have done credit to a ier. About 200 warriors threw Ives between the station and so ms to be ready for any move part of the soldiers. Thirty feed the adobe huts constituting About fifty made for the where the horses were kept, jipji the others rode to cut us four off ,£1traie the fort. Only one part of the miscarried. The men at the made such a fight that the In- £•' dians oould not break in on them. u They killed three warriors and wounded CHIEF BOHAX HOSE* BIS ESCAPE i'ROM THE OUABDS. "f*1 y" /'v j* r * j" ~S. fi, 11 • seven, while they suffered no Joss themselves. They got the horses, P»i'tly destroyed three stages, and kept the soldiers off, and the four of us, see­ ing that escape to the fort was cut off, rode to the west in hopes to outrun -our pursuers. Unfortunately for me, I •was mounted on my own horse, who had done sixty-five miles the day be­ fore and was jaded. For three miles he showed a good leg, but then he be- g»A to weaken. We were then on level ground, and I held him up with voice and spur for another mile, or until we gained a spot covered with outcrop­ ping of rook. .Those who wrote of this incident at the time held the three station men up to contempt for deserting me. I did not blame them at all. They were only •employes of the stage company. None •of them had ever been at close quarters with the Indians before, and it would to his deeds. They took my rifle, re­ volver, and knife, but were very re­ spectful about it. I was then mounted on a station horse, my feet tied under his belly, and he was led behind a war­ rior's pony. They headed to the north­ west, and about an hour after dark we came up with the main party, which was encamped in a grove of cotton- wood on a small creek. I had no sooner dismounted than I was taken into the presence of Roman Nose. His­ tory has said that he was one of the smartest chiefs any" Western tribe ever had. He was smart only as an Indian. He was a liar, hypocrite, and assassin. He had the smartness of the coyote, in avoiding a superior force, and the cun­ ning of a serpent in approaching a foe. I knew he could hold a conversation in English, but as he did not know that I was aware of the fact he called up a half-breed to act as interpreter. I was pretty well up in the Cheyenne tongue, but Roman nose did not know .it. He began the conversation as follows: "How many soldiers are there in the fort?" "About a hundred," I answered, giv­ ing him the correct number. "Why didn't they come out and fight us?" "They were hoping you would come nearer." "You are called Night Shadow?* "Yes." "You have killed some of iny peo­ ple?" - "After they had sought to kill me." "Hu! The Indian has a right to de­ fend his own lands. The white man wants everything, even the dry rivers and the bare rocks. In an hour I shall burn you at the stake." 1 hadn't the slightest reason to hope he wouldn't. The Cheyennes had an old score to settle with me, personally, and their loss of men at the Btation that day must be avenged. I was turned over to a guard of three war­ riors, and they gave me something to drink and to eat. I was hungry and thirsty, and made as good a meal as if I expected to live fifty years, instead of an hour longer. A stake was driven while I was eating, and before I hftd finished the warriors had begun eol- lecting brush. It was written of me by a correspond­ ent at Fort Wallace that Providence saved by life. Soon after the stake had been driven it began to rain. Although the Indian is half animal, he dreads the rain, and the storm took all the en­ thusiasm out of my captors. At the same time almost a scout came in with some news, and I was soon told by the half-breed that I had been respited. This scout, as afterward appeared, had discovered that the fort had neither cannon nor fortifications, and it was be­ lieved that the soldiers were demoral­ ized and would surrender if at­ tacked. At about midnight, when the rain began to hold up, all but five men eet out in the direction of the fort. The five were left to guard me. They did not hesitate to tell me that the fort was to be attacked, and that they were sure of victory. I slept from midnight to daylight, being staked out at the ankles having a warrior on each side of me. Soon after daylight my guards were astir, and when breakfast had been prepared my feet were tied together, and I was al­ lowed to sit up and help myself. We were fully twenty miles from the fort, and no news was expected until late in the afternoon. When they asked me what I thought of the chances I an­ swered that Roman Nose would be beaten off, and we argued the matter pro and eon without the slightest ill feeling. What happened at the fort I did not learn for some days afterwards. Had Roman Nose made a secret approach to within striking distance and then charged in he would have won a speedy victory. The presence of his force was the station horse were brought up and bridled and saddled. This work was done by three of the warriors, while the other two were gambling tor a blanket. I sat about ten feet away from them. There had been no time since noon when 1 could not have oast off my bonds at will. There had been no opening for escape, but one was made now in a manner totally unexpected. The two gamblers got into a violent dispute, and the three warriors ap­ proached to quiet them. Some one was struck, and this led to quite a row. The instant it began I cast off the thongs, whirled about, and at one jump was beside the pony. Five seconds later I was in the ssiddle and digging his ribs, and I believe I was out of the grove before I was missed. Every horse followed mine and went to the south as fast as horse-flesh ever trav­ eled the plains. Half a dozen shots were fired after me from the grove, but they only added to our speed. The run lasted for ten miles before the pace WAS decreased, and when night fell I had added six or seven mora To mid­ night I Kept jogging, bearing to the left to approach the fort from the east. From midnight to daylight I rested, and at sunrise next morning was run onto by a wagon train and esoort pro­ ceeding to the fort. have been strange if they had not been j betrayed at an early date, and the gar- rattled. They were &head of me as my ; riaon thjrew up a breastwork from what- horse went down, and I do not believe j ever could be had, caught up their they missed me. •*; .°°r fellows I Had j horses, and the first charge took all the the four of us l>een there in the natural rifle pit among the rocks we could have stood the redskins off in a handsome 'manner. As it was I was captured, and they were shot down one,by one as they •^continued their flight. j , Only thirty-five Indians took up the pursuit. When my horse fell with me ! -fifteen of the warriors remained behind j ' to effect my capture. I rolled into a j natural hollow, pulled saddle and blan- j ket off my horse, and then, as he strug- | - gled up, I drove him limping away. It was an unfortunate thing. He was - only thirty feet from me when they shot him dead, and as he fell I saw that ; he was in line with a dry ditch upon which the enemy could creep and shelter themselves behind the body. This was just what they did do. They didn't dare charge me, although fifteen to one, but conceit out of the 300, several being killed or wounded, and the chief him- eelf sustaining a severe wound from a bullet. One charge en masse would have swept every cavalryman' off the earth, but it was not made. After an hour of long range firing the redskins witedrew, excusing their cowardice by | saying that the Evil One had sent men | with black faces to blind their eyes. This refered to a few negro soldiers who took a gallant part in the defence. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon a courier reached us. I knew, as did all the others, long before he reached us, that he had no good news. He told big stories of the prowess of the Chey­ ennes. but had to admit they were driven off with loss. My guards were directed to report with me to a certain spot on Red Deer Creek, about six- lnsttnct of Bees and Ants. How insects, and especially bees and attts, find their way back home is one of the marvels of natural history, Bays a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, My wife keeps bees, and my little boy has a taste for entomology and is always making experiments of one kind or another with them and other insects. He has been trying to find out how far away a bee can be taken and not get lost, but has not yet succeeded. I live in the country, fourteen miles from the court house, and duriug the summer that boy has been in town with me a dozen times, and on each occasion he brought some bees along in a little tin box. He colored their wings with violet ink, so that he would know them again, and let them go in the heart of the city. The first time he did it he released six bees at the Biddle street market, and I believe they got home before we did, because they were all on hand attend­ ing to business the next morning, just as though they took a fourteen mile journey every day. Occasionally a bee fails to come back, but in nearly every instance they return in a few hours. Once he let live, whose wings had been colored red, out of their box at 6 o'clock in the morning on the corner of Fourth and Biddle streets, while the little sis­ ter watched the hive at home. One arrived, tired almost to death, and dropped at the door of the hive a little be­ fore 2 o'clock, and three more came be­ fore 5 o'clock in the evening, all appar­ ently much fatigued. His experience with a nest of large black ants have been equally satisfactory, for some marked ants have found their way home after being released more than a mile distant from the hollow tree in which they lived. How they do it is a question, but they generally do, and so it is likely the travels of both ants and bees are much wider than is generally supposed. Epidemic of Sntctda tn Paris, For some time past as many astvpelve to eighteen suicides have been regis­ tered daily at the Prefecture of Police. Sunday the total was eleven. In the Rue Berthe a woman suffering from a nervous affection put an end to her existence by swallowing tincture of iodine. A diamond merchant named Cohen in the Rue Maubeuge blew out his brains for reasons that have not been ascertained. An old man of 60 in the Rue St. Martin committed raioide in a similar fashion. In the Rue des Boulets a man hanged himself, leaving behind him a paper on which was written; "No work, no bread. I have not eaten anything for two days. Enough of this. En route for the tur­ nip-field." Starvation also induced a widow in the Rue de Palikao to suffo­ cate herself and daughter, aged 13, with charcoal fumes. Two young women drowned themselves in the Seine, and an individual in the Rue des Pyrenees poisoned himself with lauda­ num. The annual statistics show that an emidemio of suicides takes place regularly at the commencement of spring and autumn. Last April the morgue was occasionally filled to over­ flowing with the bodies of suicides. Drowning in the Seine is most gener­ ally selected in the spring; in the autumn preference is given to asphyxia­ tion by.charcoal fumes.--Public Opin­ ion. they secured positions from which they ' teen miles away, to which the main eould shoot me if I raised my party had resorted after being driven head six inches from the earth, and off. When I learned that Roman Nose when I realized that I was helpless I had been wounded 1 knew what was in There was little formal-aarrendexed. aboBtHt. Among the besiegers I store for me. He wonld get some small satisfaction for his humiliation by put- Utlltelng Old Tin Boxes. • In Paris the thousands of sardine and other tin boxes that are thrown away every month form the basis for an in­ dustry which has reached large propor­ tions. These refuse cans are stamped by machinery into tin soldiers, and sold BO cheaply that the poorest children can possess them; yet the manufacturer makes a fair profit, which he eould not do if he used new material. m me to qpag savs to him, leckrs, end ; t Jl^1> ® ifc' „ • < mother,' says, he, •you won't have no trouble at all. You jest git on the Mm and you have sice ffgftb- ioned aeali, and you see lots of strang­ ers. ICother,' says he, 'you would like ittl.fcnoig.? " 'Well, John,' I,say,; *it don't peem right ** foe, an old go ged- dm^jkbopt in new-fanglede#*.' "But every time he oome to our house he kept a urgin" me. ." 'JoJuj,51 says, 'I might go if I oould do some knittin' *on the cara., But I aia't wilm' to set idle with ngr hands erossednnddo nothin'.' " 'Why, mother,' says he, 1 ain't never seen any women do muoh sewin' on the.cws, but, bless you, lots of 'em knits. You can jest sit there a^d knit till you git to Bridgeport.' •'John,' says I, 'I'll go to please you, but I don't think it's right.' * 'Now, mother,' says he, Til oome up and get you, or you can have Henry oome down.' , s " 'No,' says I, 'Henry must stay to home and look after the farm, *ad I guess I kin git to Bridgeport il thenars will take me there.' " 'They will take you right there, And I will meet you,' says she. " 'How will I know,' says I, 'w>hen we are to Bridgeport?' " 'Why, mother,' says he, 'the brake- man will put his head in the door and say what station it is.' ' "So here 1 am on the cara for the first time. It ain't much use for me to be wastin' my time* an<t I guess Fil do some knittin'." The littlefwoman put on her glasses, and, feeling around her clothing with trembling hand, drew forth her knit­ ting. * "Do. you know," she said, turning around her work and looking at it closely, "the cars run quite rsmooth. I don't seem to mind 'em at all, but it don't ceem right for an old woman like me to be goin' about on cars." She picked up two or three stitohes and was on the point of starting her slender needles on their way when tbe brakeman opened the door and cried, "Bridgeport. Bridgeport!" "What did he say?" asked the little woman, with a surprised look in her eyes. "Bridgeport. We are coming to it now." "Bridgeport?" she said, folding her knitting. "Now, ain't that aggravatm*? I always thought Bridgeport was forty miles from us. If I had known it was so near I would have walked fc Why, I Ain't been on the cars an hour yet." Nobody laughed at the little woman. "Why, John," she said to a big, strong, honest-faced man who came in to meet her, "why did you foot me about Bridgeport ? I could have walked it in a couple of hours," A "It's forty miles, mother," he said, kissing her wrinkled face. "It's the cars, you know, that makes it seem so short." "Dear, dear," said the mother, "jrin't it ^onderfiit n--Neto x6rk TribUfie. , An Uniortunat* Dutchman. • Demosthenes Blowhard was a Oaadi- date for Justice of the Peace" dowh in Scrub Oak Township, and, as th# po­ litical parties are nearly evenly divided in that precient, he was engaged in a vigorous canvass. While returning from the village poatoffioe, he met Hans Yan Hooflinger, ' and accosted him with: "Hello, Hans! How are you and how's the folks ?'v "Yell, I vas Tell Bud mine frau vas veil, und leetle Hans and Yawoob, and Katrina und der paby vas veil--ve vas all breddy veil, 1 tanks you." "Ah! glad to hear it--glad to hear it," said Demosthenes, rubbing his hands delightedly. "Ahem! I suppose you Know that I shall be a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace at the ensuing election ?" "Ish dot so?" "Yes, they would insist upon my ac­ cepting the nomination; did all I eould to induce them to nomiuate somebody else, but it was no use; seems as though I was the only one they wanted, and they, were bound to have me." "And so you did not vants der office and dey will makes you took it? Dot vas too bad," "Well, you know a good citizen is al­ ways willing to sacrifice his own in­ terests to some extent, where he feels that the public good requires him to do so. And now, sittce 1 am in for it, I suppose I may depend upon your sup­ port?" "Vhen a feller does not vant some dings, it vas not right to make him take it. I does vat I can for you--votes for de odder chap all der dimes, und I talks mit der poys und tells dem vhat you said, and I dinks mebbe I gets you peat. Good evening." Demosthenes now alludes to Hans as a poor, ignorant Dutchman., and says it is a thousand pities that such ignorant people should ever be permitted to ex­ ercise the right of suffrage.--Toledo Blade. Whm Moltke Uti* The residence of Count Moltke lies is a quiet valley about three miles south­ east of the Silesian Station of Schweid- nitz. It is a plain, square building of two stories, with high gables. The principal entrance is up a broad flight of steps, flanked on both sides by big guns from Mont Yalerien, wjbieh were pre­ sented to Count Moltke by the late Emperor William. The estate and house at Kreisan were bought by the field marshal with the funds granted to him by Parliament in 1868, and have been entailed. The entrance hall oontaip* throe valu­ able bronze monuments on large pedes­ tals, one of them representing the late Emperor William in cloak and helmet. The latter was presented to the Count by that sovereign on the sixtieth anni­ versary of Moltke's entrance into the army. To the right of this is a copy of j Ranch's celebrated monument of Fred­ erick the Great in Unter den Linden, j and to tbe left an equestrian statue of < Count Moltke himself, presented to him by the members of the grand general staff on the anniversary just mentioned. The side walls of the hall are adorned by large bronze busts of the Pruj^an Kings and of the "Red Prince," thelate Prince Frederick Charles, father of the Duchess of Connaught. The house contains % large di&ing room, a study, and bed aq# sitting rooms, all furnished with extreme sim­ plicity. The field marshal sleepa there on a low field bed. Most of the wall* •re qdornpd with large map** and on* lit w4«i] and from other gift*%A Mapo*!*, also a large %:• to m y of them ffe eutsi sovereigns. Among ble bust of Napoleon him in the aenith of rooms containing all Moltke those-presents form a regular musoum. --London Standards -- «* tl>« Last Buffalo HunV *V & ,, Buffalo have become so s^^e that anything concerning them has interest for the geheral reader. The Laramie Republican tell* of a hunting party starting out from Laramie in search of buffalo, accompanied by expert las- soers, Their object is not to slaughter the anjrnals, but to lassoe them, and bring them alive to Laramie. A herd has been seen by several* different par­ ties during the past year, and its haunts pretty we? I located. It is supposed to be now ranging on Red Desert, in Car­ bon and Fremont Counties, and that is the objective point of the Laramie hunters. The latter take with them a grub wagon and ten saddle horses, and expect to be absent four months. If at the end of that time they should return with a half dozen or more buffalo, they fcili have a property nearly as valuable as a gold mine, and will in all probability start a buffalo ranch on the Laramie plains, after tbe style of that owned by Hon. C. J. Jones, at Garden City, Kan." , "Buffalo" Jones, as he is familiarly known, has a very large ranch at Gar­ den City, on which he has some two hundred head of full-blooded and graded bison. He has made a great success at breeding them with native cattle, and finds that the animal tlius obtained is in many respects superior to the bison, the robe, particularly, be­ ing of a lovely seal brown, and as fine as a genuine sealskin. Jones has been trying ta get hold of all the buffalo left on the continent, and two years ago purchased the famous herd owned by a party near Winnepeg, paying a.very large price for them. The only other herd known to exist in this country is one at Bismarck Grove, Colo., numbering fifteen and owned by Col. H. H. Stanton, of Kan­ sas City. They are not for sale at any price. One bull in the herd, named "Cleveland," is said to be the finest liv­ ing specimen of a race now almost ex­ tinct. These cases are mentioned to show the importance of the expedition now on its way to Red Desert, should its ob- jeot be accomplished. That the capture of the herd is feasi­ ble is shown by the fact that a few months ago a cowboy who ran across them lassoed one, threw it, and branded it, after which he turned it loose, the State law making it a penitentiary of­ fense to kill a buffalo. The difficulty the party will encounter will not be so much to capture this noble game as to get them to Laramie after they are taken, as ihey are the most stubborn and intractable brute on earth. It is probable that they will be taken to the nearest railroad station and shipped on the cars. There is scarcely a doubt that this will be tbe last buffalo hunt in the United State*--it certainly will be the last in Wyoming if successful, and if through its means the species can be increased and perpetuated the expedi­ tion will not have been undertaken in vain. A full-blooded American bison is worth from $300 to *$3,000^ where they can be bought at all. How to Compute Interewf* Four percent.--multiply the prin­ cipal by the number of days; separate the right hand figure from the product, and divide by 9. Five per cent.---multiply by number of days, and divide by 72. Six per cent--multiply by number of days, separate right hand figure, and divide by 6. Eight yer cent.--multiply by number of days, aud divide by 45. Nine per cent.--multiply by number of days, separate right hand figure, and divide by 4. Ten per cent, --multiply by number of days, and divide by 36. Twelve per cent--multiply by num­ ber of days, separate right hand figure, and divide by 3. Fifteen per cent.--multiply by the number of days, wad divide by 24. Eighteen per cent, multiply num­ ber of days, separate right hand figure, and divide by 2. Twenty per cent.--multiply bynum- ber of days, and divide by 18. Cut this out and paste it in your h»k ' • • She Saw the Point. He had his blacking box thrown over his shoulder. His face and handa were several shades darker than rightfully belongs to the little arabs. She was walking briskly along the street, intent upon anything but street gamins, at once the little necessary evil forsc his companions, rushed up to ~ said: "Say, will yer give me a peni He was ao earnest and the lady, much amused, an tended astonishment, said: "Why! what for?" Blacky drew his ooatplc face and replied: "Well, yer see I wasj I lost de last cent, an' ~ egin." "Started in gatablis - *Naw, in de "How are you goi penny ?" With a look of ance he said: " Jes' buy two pa] sell 'em, den buy and<yer started. A TunO' /Without a momj plunged into a t " Were you I quired Mr. Meloj emerged into "N-not mm blushing bi -If I had was a short pered," I of the love. 7 "Didn't the .wond half ado: wa bustQhi' a 15-y tested prtosectf ter »uad ikted fro: oently con: Agony wa* to release O Xbligf wai:* eotf ttd of the chain. /*»((M»t was crmtrivedito itaMr# bo# the going a><d the strildof jteil^ ••d there w*< occasionally m Oa tbe introduction of the tong p^dua lam, clocks f-eem to have aasumed ft different chamc er. Catgut was sub­ stituted for the chain, and barrels were iettoduced, on which the catgut was Jjrcraad itp ̂and, a greater length of Um. bein^anployed, clocks were made to go for eight days instead of thirty hours, and ft chime of bells playing every quar- fcerofanjbour was often added; the weights and long pendulum hung down, and ft* there was danger of their action being interfered with, tall wooden cases were made to protect them, on the ton of which the movement was placed. This was, I believe, the origin and date of the tall, upright clock oases, whieh wejr© often Biftat of oroftmentfil &nd enriched with fin® ttftnjfietry. 1 have one myself in an eaî y -marquetry , made by Thomas Toiapkm, with a sase, beautiful set of chimes, about 1,690, tad it is an admirable timekeeper, though it aas only the original iron wire for the pendulum rod; and similar instances ire numerous. The earlier cases are tnade of oak and walnut, the mahogany sases being of the following century, when that wood was introduced. The brass "button and pillar clocks" seem to have gone out of use about this time, rod probably few were made at the end sf the seventeenth century; but that will appear more clearly if I receive many sommunications from the owners of 3ated examples. With regard to the name of brass clocks, I have heard them jailed very many years ago "button ind pillar clocks." The meaning and prigiu of the name I cannot tell, unless it is derived from the pillars at the cor oers and the hook or button on which the clock may be hung up against the walL--Notes and Queries. BeeC Talleyrand, like most diplomatists, was famous for his attention to the de­ tails of etiquette. He prided himself on an ability to adjust his mode of address to the rank and position of the person to whom he was speaking. On one occasion, when a number of distinguished men were dining with him, he varied his formula, when invit ing them to partake of beef, in such a manner as to suit the rank of the re­ spective persons. May I have the honor of sending your royal highness a little beef?" he asked a prince of the blood. To a duke he said, "Monsiegnour, permit me to send you a little beef." "Marquis," he contiuued, "may I send you some beef?" "Viscount, pray have a little beef. "Baron, do you take beef?" ran the next interrogations. "Monsieur," he said to u untitled gentleman, "some beef?" To his secretary he remarked,caaually. "Beef?" But there was one gentleman left who deserved even less consideration than the secretary, and Talleyrand, poising his knife in air, favored him with a mere look of interrogation. If the guest was possessed of an independent spirit, one can imagine that he did not take beef that day.--louth's Companion. A Perilous Llfo. The fishing season along the New England coast has practically come to a close. During tiie season there have beeu lost a total of eighteen vessels from Gloucester, Mass., alone, and eighty-six seamen and fishermen. The total losses are nearly double those of last year. When it is borne in mind that the insurance on the fishing ves­ sels is almost wholly in mutual compa­ nies composed of the owners, it will be seen that the loss falls directly upon the industry. Of the eighty-six men lost this year, againBt seventy last year, •early one-half went down with all their companions and left no survivors. Of the eighty-six men lost from Gloucester since the fishing seasoi opened, eleven were lost in dories. F< people away from the coast can rea] the horrible fate of those eleven fij men. A dory is a fisherman's shop. It is a boat that is iargjl » ^ looks a good deal like a flat-bof-.-)v-'lV'--f row-boat such as is found on and rivers. Two men are ado? and their duty is to sit trawls, the "out lines" fishermen. It very; the dorymeu must vessel when the cannot see a tp| follows thafc' abieutj is, in i*i obtain .. , hObits to SBwfeii' »tul affairs inth* orient. feature of the great fehow ta,.;4 to represent the East, ite peefft#, meaner* and its products. Instead getting together a lot of entai goods wad putting them in cases for the edification of tude, there will be ft bonl cross streets, each of wl made to represent with as muck aces racy and vividness as possible an actual street in an Eastern city. It is lft^liif for the purpose of tasking eucsh ogr^qjr fforw will ei*5bj# we to property fljjgSj; struct these giimjk.es of Eastern ^tj^ that I am about to make this journey. The streets will "be actual 6opies of real ones that are most typicpl in Cair«^ Damascus, Bagdad, Bayreuth, {Jonis-* lem, Alexandria, Constantinople, a»d! elsewhere. I shall visit each of thews towns and shall obtain tbe n« data on the spot. With sueh ings visitors to the fairfwi!! be made to feel as ii they were jotfeceying through the Orient. Turning around a corner from a street in Bagdad, they will find themselves in Damascus, whence another turn will take them into Jeru­ salem, and so on throughout an imagi­ nary journey in Eastern lands. They will have presented to them in this way, a picture of life as it" is" lived in those far-away countries. In the shops along the way they will gaze upon the people engaged in their native occupations and incidentally they will behold the actual production of the manufactures placed oa view. For example, the glass-workers of Hebron will be seen making their famous ware after the same method* they have practiced for thousands of years. Damascus, naturally, will be represented by its manufacture of cut­ lery, for which through so many cen­ turies it has been famed. From Syria' will come the makers of silk and carpet wools, while the Egyptians will show what they can do in the way of making furniture and tauningskins. An Orien­ tal tannery will probably be a point of interest in the exposition; likewise an Eastern theater and eating house, The curing of fruit, the manufacture of preserves and the preparation of prunes for market will be among the things worth seeing. But these are ouly a few of the ideas which are likely to be carried out. I can tell you better when I come back about the wonders of that part of the world which the Columbian lair may be expected to display." The Prairie CUokea. The pinnated grouse or, as it ic.̂ com­ monly called, the prairie chick on, is m queer bird. Shy, and often difficult to \ approach, it still loves to be in the vicinity of hiVmau habitation, Writes Walter M. W6>Me, in Outing. It has followed the farmer from the Western Reserve to the prairies of Illinois, across the Mississippi, and it is now begin­ ning to be abundant in the we*tern counties of Kansas $nd Nebraska and in Eastern Colorado. Before it has jfod tailed grouse, that for. in the uplands of Iowa, Dakota, Followin g it is Bob White-- the bird of i and timber, as the prair cornfields and stnbblj with the homesteader] meadow lark, and welc bluebirds, and warblers^ when orchards are claims are well under ai In some respects the plains cham " habitat. 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