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VOL. VII.
PITTSnORO', CHATHAM CO., N. C., AU(3UST20, 18S5.
NO. oo. J;;;
litryii' advert i
w ill lie m.i'l".
lit- lilni.il eon-
M)c tl)all)Am Uccort.
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A Vnj nf Memories.
On a ilny like thin, wlim tint streets nro wet,
Win n tin' sliei:c gun lent thu ruin is full-
How i an you liinili'i nn nl! rr'gif t,
For 11 joy lone nVit.t, nnd n li"in lun set.
From lisin out of its goivo timl rullitiu
CnllicR tn yon, with it voire fo thrill
'1'luit it ft'iui's the rrnsim nii'l Htiins the will.
On a iln.v lik" tins wIipii tint pun is 1 1 I
An 1 yon nml your lirnrt iiru hnsisra together,
l memories conii' to yon nil untold,
And i-oituchiiiij Midilenly u in your Hit,
l.iko n piM of t!ii outdoor woiitkri-,
Why, "ho is nt f.mlt hut tin- ilim nl I l:iv
'J no ilaik lor I ilnir, too 'lull for I'lni '
On n il iy I k tlii, licit is Mm rod unit yiny,
Whi ii tin' ivii hia il ,v, n in n cimm le.- t eh
ion. If n fli c?:?m, lint yon limishod nml pill nv.iiy,
('nine, hifk to i-t'iH' in your liirn nnl ny
Mire. eloeu"it wools ot "sxi'iii ;
If lilt' while v:l-l lllnvolsf .-com utilise,
Why, Iioc:iii h lp it. n il.iy like this?
- i:ii II Wt H'lror. .
A BAREflt, OF SOFT SOAP
"Hain't yon put that rack in the
cellar yet, to hung that or dried b.-of
en?" asked Mr.-. .Mulson.
"N'ii. Judy, I thought niobbti 'twv.uM
rain in a day r t wo, and then .lube
could bo spared to help a little about
the house, fiii' must pjl tuy work
ketched up while wo have good
wtather."
"Yes, there's iil!n- something ye
can't do if it don't rain, and yu can't if
it does; I declare for it; I'd like to
know what, on artli would become on
tn all if 'twant fur me to look after
things."
"('nine, come, mother, don't fret any
more; we don't want a cloud in the
kitchen when there ain't none outside."
"Wal, I've got something else to do
beside peekin' at the weather; and if
ynu ain't it's time that you had."
(J ilea Stntson was a farmer a man
of good habits, honest in his dealing
with his fellow men who in his youth
had married Judith Mcintosh. "A
smarter girl never trod shoe leather."
Sj said the elder Stntson on the morn
big of their marriage.
They had by tho closest economy
acquired a small foitime, in the shape
of a farm, located about two miles
from the village ut M- -. Only one
child had been given them to brighten
their home, and this was a daughter,
-ho at the time, of our story had
reached the age of l'" years.
Mrs. Stutsoti, in you will observe la
this conversation, was one of that
peculiar type of women whose very
life seemed to depend upon scolding
and working, all at the same instant;
and the more she trotted and scolded,
the m re work she accomplished.
The whole family had becomo so
n-customed to this that its cHeel was,
us Mr. Stntson oni u said, "it went in
ne ptir and nut 'tot her."
'Wal, Giles, there's je-t this much
about it; if that ar rack ain't up by
ten o'clock, I'll git some nails and
drive up, to hang that beef on myself.
I've got to clean the cheese, room to
day, and I want that pile of beef tint
of my way."
So saying she went into tho milk
room, to strain the morning's milk.
"H's no use arguing,'' said Mr.
tut.soti to .labe, the hired man.
"When Judy gets sot on anything
she'll have her way, and if she says
she'll do a thing, she'll do it i very
tint". I guess that cheese-room won't
spile if 'taint cleaned to-day, and the
beef is well enough where it is; I can't
bother with it to day, anyhow."
Having thus expressed his opinion,
hi followed Jabe t i the field, leaving
Martha Ann to clear away the break
fast. Having cared for the milk, Mrs.
-tntson appeared and exclaimed, part
ly to herself and put try to Martha:
"Whoever sen sich men folks? They
think a woman can git along any way,
i;o matter how. Here is bilcd dinner
to git, them starch clothes to iron, pies
to make, cheese-room to clean, and
massy knows what, I don't. Ves, and
there's the donation party to the par
sonage to-night. Was ever a woman
so put to it to know what to do fust?
I never wa. Wal, I sha'nt go to the
party, that's one sure thing."
"Why, mother, of course you'll go."
"Of course I sha'nt go! I've got
something else to do beside going sky
larking round nights. There will !
enoagh on 'em without me. Let them
go that hain't got so much to do as 1
have. Here. Martha, you go into the
she l, and behind the door git mo some
nails, and out on the wood pile and
fetch me the hatchet, and I'll see what
1 can do."
All things now ready, Mrs. Stutson,
with hatchet, nails and beef in hand,
started for the cellar, stopping on the
top stair to tell Martha to "bo sure and
wash the greens clean, and not be u
gaping out the winder to Tom ltyder."
Thomas Hyder wo the son of a
neighboring farmer, who had at sun
dry times shown Martha Ann seme
-nton at appls beea and candy
pulls, those Incidents being sufficient
to impress the mother with the great
responsibility which devolved upon
her to keep a watchful eye upon Mar
tha, lest Tom, whom she deomed un
worthy the prize, should rob thorn of
their precious treasure.
On reaching the cellar she found a
suitable- place- over tho pork barrel,
w here to her mind tho beef would bo
"out of the way of rats, and yet bo
handy to get at," ns sho afterward
told Mr. Stutson. Having armed her-
j self with hatchet and nails, she mount
ed tne harrel ami prepared to drive
tho first nail, when tho barrel cover
slipped, and splash she went -into
what?
It seemed that Giles and Jabe hod
been there before her, and in getting
out some cider barrels, had changed
things about, in such a manner that
the barrel of soft soap stood where
the pork should stand; and she, in her
haste, not noting the change, had
mounted tho former.
"Land o' ninssy! What won't that
man do next, I'd like to know?"
Making a plunge for the lop of the
barrel she tried to extricate herioll,
but eneh successive attempt proved
only a failure.
"What on airth's a body going to do
in this tlx? Marlhat Martha Ann:
What, can that gal be about that, she
don't come when I call her? Hang
ing on the fence, I warrant, a-talking
to that Tom Hyder. 1 will Tom ltyder
tho hull lot if 1 ever git out of here;"
Just at this moment Martha came,
through tho hatchway.
"Where ar j you. mother V
"Where be I 'f 1 should think you'd
ask! (in ask Tom ltyder! Mcbbo he'll
tell you that's ail you think on and
leave mo to git along alone."
"Where are you. mother? 1 didn't
hear you call. 1 was washing the
greens."
"Hero I be, I tell you, in the soap
barrel. Where do you s'pose?
"In the soap barrel?" queried Mar
tha. tine glance was siillicient. Convuls
ed with laughter, she seated herself
on a stone jar to recover sulliciently to
render tho needed assistance.
"Martha Ann Stntson! What do
you mean? Haven't I learn't yen
never to laugh at (ither folks' calami
tics? And here you be a-laughing
right in your mother's face."
"Hut, mother, I never saw you in a
soap barrel before."
''Taint noways likely you ever wilbj
...... in it' I ..II ..111 ..I' tl.i- .,n C.I out.
into the lot and call your father and
Jabe to come here ipiick as their legs'll
fetch 'em. Hut vou needn't tell theni i
what's h ippened; they'll fnd that outj. and "i') years of age exceed the males
quick enough when they get here." j of the same ago by about I l.'i'i . In
Martha, onre out ot her mother's, sevenly-vight cities tin; excess of fo
sight, enjoyed another hearty laughs) males i-t 1 ISIMI". That illiteracy pre-
ami ran for the men, who, dropping
their rakes, hastened toward the house.
Martha waited a! the top of tho stairs,
trying to compose her cmintonanco
beforo entering the presence of her
mother; at lea-d she led the way for
.la bo, saying:
Mother h is mot with an accident,
down hero."
reefing through the darkness, hon
est Jabe exclaimed, on beholding her
mother's situation.
"How did yon get in there?"
"It's none of your business how 1'
came here. I'm here, ami have got tn
be got out, some way or uther. Where's
your manners, .Tabes llovey. that,
you'll stand there and laugh at me in
this penliekennent ?"
"lVrd'u kerment! I should say it
was a soap barrel, if I was any judge."
"What if 'tis? lo you think I'm
sobigafoolth.il I don't know what
I've got into? Martha, Where's your
father? Why don't be come along?"
Ho is coining."
Ves, so's Christmas. I s'pose if
tho house was adro he wouldn't hurry
a mite quicker."
"Why, Judy," said Mr. Stntson on
entering the cellar, "where on arth bo
ye, any way ?"
"Where be I ? Can't you see noth
ing? Hotter put on your specks and
look in the soap barrel. Wal, I de
clare for it! Kf 1 hain't got to stand
here ami wait for another to haw-haw
and giggle! Tor my part, I don't see
nothing to laugh at. What are you
thinking on, Giles Stntson, a-standing
there laughing like that at me? What
kind of use Is It for mo to learn Mar
tha Ann to be respectful when you,
her father, don't show no respect."
"Come, come, mother, don't scold,
if you could see yourself as we can.
you'd laugh yourself; you couldn't
help it."
"Hut how came you to get in there,
Judy? Guess you must got foul of
that cider barrel."
"Giles, whiit do you mean a-talking
so when you know I was one of tits
leading wimmln In the, temperance
cause, and the Idee! aecuslng me right
afore sny own cbiid of doing sich a
thins."
"Witl, Miss .Stuts..u, how are you
going to get out?" asked Jabe.
"That's what I'd like to know, Jabe;
you get that wash bench around here
so I hid I can have it to step on to; and
you take hold of this side, anil Giles,
here, you take t'other, and when you
two hist me up, Martha Ann can
scrape oil the soap. Here, Giles, you
ain't good for nothing! Ye never
was knee high to a toad. If 1 over
git another man, I'll git one that
won't have to stand on a sheet of
paper to reach a soap barrel !"
After numerous attempts, Mrs.
iSlutson was partially otilsido the har
rel, with ono knee resting on the lop,
when splash she went baek again,
spattering tho soap in every direction,
a goodly portion lodging on Gile-i shirt
front, while he, with tho others, was
enjoying another hearty latuh.
"I i'.l I ever see sich a pack of fools?"
"There's no usy crying over spilt
milk. Judy."
"Spilt milk and a woman in a barrel
of soft soap are two different things,
and you'll liud it out so afore you get
through."
"I always told you, Judy, if you'd
do a little less scolding, and use a
little moro s,.lt soap, you'd make a
good many moro friends than you do
now."
"Wal, I guess I've got enough out
this time to suit you, and don't you
nev er say soft snap to me ag liu as long
as you live,"
After spending a great deal of time
and strength, Mrs. stntson was at
last as far out of her dilemma as the
wash bench, and commenting upon
her personal appearance.
"Who ever see sich a looking crit
ter? Caliker dress all spilt, shoes,
stocking.-;, and the hull rig."
Mm then ordered Jalm to get a tub
of wafer and Martha to bring clean
clothes. Mr. Mutson had already gone
for the meat rack, thinking it would
I have been cheaper to put it up in the
j first place than have been hindered in
this way, and wishing women folks
K'.nild mind their own business and
let the men folks alone.
"Jest look at this cellar bottom,"
Mrs. stutsmi exclaimed, "and this
bench and things! It'll take a hull
day to dean it up as it ought ter bo,
and all this because the men folk
didn't tend to things they'd orter."
Hut fiom that d.iy to this, whenever
Judy begins to scold, Mr. Stntson
says, "A tootle more soft soap, Judy,"
i and Judv is silent.
The Sexes in the I'tiileil Stales.
Almost all the Southern States have
il nearly equal number of each sex. In
Massachusetts the tenia' es between 20
vails more among women is duo prob
ably to the foreign population. Wom
en contribute less to pauperism, the
proportion being ; 1 . to j;!!,!""1. The
ratio of pris ai imitates ;, lands .i,mW to
M.r.'iT males. Wonien are in excess
among the insane; man in excess
among the idiotic, blind, and deaf
mutt s. The proportion of women who
engage in occupations outside of the
household is smaller in tho I'nited
States than in foreign countries, but
in no country is the proportionate
number engaged in thesuperior indus
trial occupations equal to that in this
country, of the 2,til7,i!on women in
occnpatUms.V.t.i.tiiit) are engaged in ag
riculture, most of them colored women
in the Southern Stales; ti:J,tHMi are in
manufactories, of whom nhoutouc half
itre in New York, Massachusetts, and
Pennsylvania: i;s-j,i)ii are milliners,
etc; 5i,M0 are tailors. Of tho forty-four
occupations recorded its "personal ser
vice," I'orlylind women in them. Tho
.'i- female surgeons of 1-S7i have in
creased to '',17o; the 7 lawyers to 7";
the tio flertrymen to I'm. Tho niinv
berof laundries has 'increased from til,
0 m I in 170 to 122,ltii. and -f the lat
ter lti.S.iitl i are kept by women. This
large increase shows a great lightening
of tho housewife's labor.
The I. ion nml Hie Tiger.
A Lion and n Tiger met by appoint
ment one day to discuss a business
transaction; but the Lion could speak
nothing but the Hostonese jintuis, and
the Tiger could speak nothing but
English; so the Fox, who could speak
both languages fluently, was employed
to act as interpreter. Hut the Fox
was a cunning rascal, and instea I of
ncting the part of an honest interpre
ter, he translated tho words of the
Lion as very insulting to the Tiger,
and the words of the Tiger as equally
insulting to tho Lion. The result
was that tho Lion and tho Tiger
sprang upon tach other and fought
till they were both dead. The Fox
glum invited his friends and feasted
upon the dead Italic-.
Moral : This Tala f eacljes that
nations should not declare war on the
nnsuppoited statement of their dlp!o
matio agents. Lfi.
FINDING GOLD NIGGK'IS.
ytorios lllusti'utivo of Persitt
, ency mid Luck.
! Unearthing B g Lumps of tho Prosious
I Motnl in Peculiar Piaoo".
i -
An old miner who followed the gold
; excitement in its devious wanderings
I in Australia, California, Mi-xic, and
; l'.rittsh Columbia, related to -x full re
; porter a few days ago several inslan
' ccs of lucky discoveries:
I "And old Dutchman brought the
I plodding method of his raee to the
i work of gold digging in Australia.
'All of his companions , hud boulnes
ami dash, but lew bad the stolid per-
sistency in the face of bad U'ck that
this liiitchman possessed. He lull
been plodding along for several
months digging a tunnel. Heavy, dull
j clay was ail about him. Not a pr m
I ising sign beckoned him on. He
seemed to get moro settled in his !e
I termination to work the tunnel to the
! end the more unpromising it looked.
He had been working on in the face of
discouragement for several months.
One morning he was making his way
into his tunnel, anil before he had
gone fourteen feet his heart hil l sunk
within him. Tnem in trout, of him
was his tunnel raved! Tho path that
he had laboriously dug into the hill
was clogged with tons of earth. Hut
the quality of his character asserted
itself. Most men would have volleyed
oaths at, his ill lui-k, and packed up
their kit and left. Tim miner moved
more slowly than before, but be star
ted to work again in the same tunnel,
lie crawled into his tunnel, and with
pick anil shovel set to clearing away
tho hill of earth that blocked his pat ti.
lie had not struck a do--.cn blows with
his pick before the sharp iron point
struck something solid. Mechanically
ho bent forward and cleared away the
earth, and there before him was a big
nugget, as nuggets go, weighing four
teen ounces. He crept out- of the tun
nel, bringing his precious nugget with
him, and when he got into the fresh
air and heard the birds singing, he sat
down and wept. No one begrudged
the liiit.i-liinari his luck.
"A nugget y country that has been
only partially worked is just as good a
lield as virgin soil," continued the
miner. "The spots that have not been
touched may bo the very nests of the
precious metal. It is dangerous to
leave a single foot of ground un work
ed. The fortune of a lifetime might
thus be passed by nnd lost forever.
There aro many instances of just such
cases. There was a poor, shiftless fol
low, with a wife in rags and children
in squalor. The whole family used to
go into tho digging together and shift
about till they had got enough to buy
something to eat. Tin y kept sinking
lower and lower. 1'eit one day tlmy
straggled into the diggings, not having
energy enough to push on abrea.-.l of
the workers. They fell to picking a
little pillar that bad I -eon left stand
ing in the midst of the digging', all
about it having been worke I. I do
not think it could bo more th in three
feet across, certainly not more than
six. It was a spot that had been ne
glected its the diggers push"d their
drifts ahead. The s pi did family had
begun to work on this solitary pillar;
all they hoped was for a few grains to
feed them for the d.iv. A the man
continued listlessly, the sunlight was
caught up by a speck in the pillar
that glistened and flashed. Tne eyes
of the poor fellow saw it; he thought
bis work for the day was done. lie
knelt down to clean away the dirt
from the bright spot. As ho did so
the shining metal grew to larger pro
portions. Iniiimdiitely the whole
family was around it in eager hat. to
uncover it. The further they cleared
the soil away about it the further it
seemed to recede. After working two
hours with growing astonishment
they saw the full outline of their prize
one of the larg"st lumps of gold ever
found. That was the luckiest rind
ever made.
'Thu Mount Moliagul nugget was
found in a most peculiar place," re
sumed tho miner. "There was an
unusually rich digging in the vicini
ty of Mount, Moliagul, Victoria, that
had mado a hundred men rich, it
had been thoroughly worked in every
direction, and it was thought that
every grain of gold in the neighbor
hood had been collected. The crowd
that once made the camp a busy scene
of life dissolved as quickly as it had
collected, leaving the shanties to the
mercy of the weather, which soon
made them a picturesque ruin. Oft"
towiird the east there w as a solitary
treo stump standing on a pillar of
earth that had not het-n cut away by
the gold hunters because of the old
roots of the tree that spread through
the soil. It was not more than ten
feet in circumference as it had been
toft by the diggers. One dsy
two miners eamo to ti.o descrtel
ramp, and stopped over n'got on the
site of the old camp. The stump
struck one of them as a singular feat
ure of tho old digging, and being a skil
ful miner, he knew that one part of a
iiuggety country was as likely to hide
the precious metal us another. It oc
curred to him that tho ground nndei
the slump was es likely to prove rich
as the portions of the neighboring field
that had yielded so much gold, lie
resolved to w.irk the little mound the
next day. His companion, however,
was anxious to bo olt to the latest dig
g'ngs.where the excitement w.m at the
highest pitch. Hut the lirst miner
who had re'olve I to ex
plore the solitary patch of tho deserted
digging, persuaded his partner, and
together they set to work on the old
stump. They began by undermining
one side of the stump, but before they
had dug in three fuel they discovered
an enormous nugget, one of the most
valuable that had b"eti found in I Ik
whole diggings. They continued their
labors iind uprooted the stump, but
did not iin-1 another grain of gold.
.(( I'm to ;'.v ('nl'.
Her Utile Man.
"Here comes my little man." The
voice sounded pleasantly on mye.tr.
and I turned to look at the speaker,
she Wiis ii ruddy cheeked woman of
some l'l years, plainly but neally
dressed; it clean, c unl' ii tal'le looking
body. Sho was stan ling at the gar
den gate of a small house, and t-
words spoken were not spoken to any
visible person. 1 then looked ahead,
and lo and behold! her li'tle ma-t wa-i
approaching, lie was it little, feeble
looking body, rather shabbily dtessed,
with a little round rel iio.m-and twink
ling eyts. 1 should put him down as
a clerk with a by no means gigantic
salary. There was nothing romantic
or particularly lovable in his appear
ance, but id the moment the face of
the woman was beautiful to look upon
by the reason of the plea-ant and
strong iiffe 't ion that beamed from it.
"Her little mail.'' lie ought to have
been proud of it, and 1 daresay he was.
It is goo I to ho somebody'.- bilk
man, or big nuin, il y-ui like that bet
ter -to feel I hilt your heart is tilled,
and not empty and withering foi
want of the glory of the warmth and
light of true love If. as many of tin
poets have snug, the nearest approach
to Heaven is t r no and inme-t Ioe of
one dearer than all, love that never
wavers iind is returned in all it- satis
fying fullness, what a long w ty from
Heaven must an old bachelor lie,
with his heart full of tioth Hg but
missing shirt buttons, smoky clu'
rooms, cheerless lodgings iind vixem-h
landladies.
We laugh at t!n pictures of tho
old bachelors sewieg on t lo ir bu' tons
hnd making their ow n gruel, but rone
of these pictures darken in'o a very
somber background, as the niary au-l
uiicared for old fellows gradually droj
into a petulant decay.
Nobody's little men. I know sono
of them by sight. May by day the
may be seen wearily plodding through
the same streets, with the same pip
and the umbrella, and the sane 1 .,.!
of grim dissatisfaction on their fa'-es
I etper d i ii dip the Conors of then
mouths, higher u;i go their shoulders
and thinner grow their noses and
cheeks. They go homo and there'.
nevcr ii kindly soul with a pleasant
smile, or kiss or word of love. No
body's little n.--..'.' Ft- '..v.
The Depth i f Sleep.
Two of Vierordt's pupils. Moilin g
hoff and I'iesbergell. have made tin:
depth ot sleep th' subj 'i t of an inves
tigution. They worked upon the prin
ciple that the depth of sleep is propor
tional to the strength of the senson
stimulus iicce.--ury to awaken tin
sleeper -that is, to call forth some do
cisivo sign of awakened cm scions
n ess. As a sensory stimulus the
made use of the auditory sensation
produced by dropping a lead ball from
a given heinht. The st renL'th of tin
(stimulus was reckoned in accordance
with some recent in ve-t igat ions ol
Veirordt, as increasing, not directly a?
the height, but as the a..V) power ol
the height. For a perfectly healthy
man, tho curve which they give shows
that fortno lirst hour the slumber is
very light ; after one hour and lifteen
minutes the depth of sleep increases
rapidly, and reaches its maximum
point, at one hour and forly-iive mtii
utps: the curve then talis quickly to
about two hours and lifteen minutes,
and afterward more gradually. At
about four hours and thirty minutes
there Is a second small rise, which
reaches its maximum at live hours
and thirty minutes, after which the
curve again gradually approaches ttie
base line until the time of awakening.
Experiments made upon persons not
perfectly healthy, or after having
made seme exertion, give curves of a
different form. Mvdii'al Jtlcofttte.
AN INM IT S BKKAKTAST.
Early M'-irtiinfi Scene in nn
Esquimaux Home.
li'entenant Schwttka Describing thu Pio
I'lnitiitries tn nn Arclio Journey.
in an article on the routine of arctic
! ife, printed in the New York 'J'ini' ',
Lieutenant Sohwutka says: When
.he first Innuit I as the K-qtiiinaux call
hi-mselvos) opens his ey, s in the arc
tie regions about lor 5 o'clock in tho
morn tig, it' it b" a sprng sledge jour
T"y ;ind most of the journeys are tin
lertaken in that season he will I'm I
it breaking day or poss-biy t ho sun Is
m hour or two high in the eastern ho
rison, iind the layli..rht pouring
through tho thick walls of his house
A snow t ;';oo) almost as lively at it
would penetrate the walls of a canvas
tent. He knows about w hat time it is
ven in his littl-s dosed egu-.-htll like
, liouse of snow, and if he has any
loubts about it, thinkingthut an over
ast morning might deceive him, he
trusts a snow stick (a small edged
i'iek about, the si, ' of a polie inu'i's
-tub, used for beating the snow off
reindeer clothing and bed lings)
'hroiigii the top of tho snow doni" and
take ii peep at the ky ov-roeu I to
satisfy himself nstohis con , ct ures.
I'hinking it is time to b-gin the day's
labors he awakens his wife, and with
l solacing yawn or two tutus i:i be
!weei the reind-cr skins aga.n for a
short nap until break I'a-t is ready.
Among the most eneigeti.- of tho
northern race 1 never saw any of them
slo any work before the morning meal
beyond the labor neces arv to prepare it.
The lady of the lone north land hav
ing dispose I of her preliminary morn
ing yawns di-sses horse! I so far as put
ting on her inner rein leer suit f tho
Esquimaux havo two suits, an inner
and outer,) sits h Tut- on the reii.
leer blanket at the head of the bed
and prepares the lamp. This F-qui-mau
lamp might well be compared in
shape to the half of a (dam shell sup
ported on tli roe upright sticks about
the sie of carp -liter's pene'ls si nek in
the snow. Tie- shallow dish is Idled
with seal or walrus oil. which is kept
in ;i sealskin hag. and when it is near
ly ready to run over the low ll.it edge
nf the dam shell the Esquimau wom
m t ikes ;i little hi! of moss fro n a
eompuet variety that grows on the
stones near tho water, iind rubbing it
in her hands, like some smoker prepar
ing a pipe of toinceo from the wiiit
tlings of a plug, she strings this ma
teria! along the edge o'' the lamp just
where the oil torn lies it and then sets
lire to it with a match. Tin's is the
Poking of tin's strange lamp. The
llauie is about us high as thu emitted
by ii kerosetio lamp, am! extends along
(lie ll.it edge ol the lamp Irom six
inches to t wo feet. ( tver this ll.ime is
done the I-. mking and the drying of
clothes. Above the lire is suspended
;i bo-. -like kettle, with a long' h equal
to t hat of the ll.ime, and holding t mm
a quart to a gallon and a hall". This
is half filled with water, and then a lot
of re:ndecr or seal or walrus meat is
plaee l in it. generally in chunks about
the sie of Hie double list. About
three to four pounds of meat is provi-b-d
for each grown person. The wa
ter simmers illi cit an hour, when the
tl.-sh is thoroughly cooked, although
the witter never boils in the stone ket
tles. All the sluoiboivrs are awak
ened, and tho preparations for break
fast consist in t heir simply sitting up
right and putting on their undergar
ments of reindeer skins. A ladle made
frmn the horn of the musk ox or a tin
pan is supplied to each guest. It is
capable of holding four or live of t hese
chunks of me.it, and the breakfast is
begun. The caters each fa-tens his
teeth into one of the steaming pieces of
meat, holding it with one hat,d, while
With the other he severs the seized
portion witli a sharp knife, and after
a few mastications bolts it, and renews
the operations, being always caret ul to
cut downward lo avoid slicing oil the
tip of his nose. Alter the meat has
disappeared the soup left in the kettle,
and which becomes a very rich meat
tea by the simmering prot-s, is appor
tioned among the guevts, giving each
about a quart, when provisions aro
plentiful. In wilder this soup is
made as oleaginous as possible, and I
have seen two inches of pure melted
fat swimming on the top of it devour
ed with great eagerness. The morn
ing meal having been disposed of the
toilet is completed by tho party in put
ting on the outer suit of reindeer
clothes. The head of the house then
issues from his hut nud announces the
state of the weather, if it is lair the
party prepares for the day's j Miiney.
Horned toads are selling at .v cents
apiece in California, and large num
bers are seen East as curiosities.
Tii are harmless, and can be hand
le! wita impu.iity They are cheap
I"'""' bving six months on two
A Watefl ily.
O, etnr on tliclsenst i f die river'
, marvel of lilooni nml jjiw.1
I:il yen till nu.ii-lit 'I'lv. ii iiom llsuvcn.
I lilt ot till' SWI-i'll'-l 'l ll'e.'
mi me whiii: ns the t ! mrlit ot nn un,;el,
V' in ln' iii is stoc'i' I jn the sua,
l:il yon gniw in die ( , il.li n Cily,
My j'Uii' nii'l neliimt one?
iy. (1:1 v t ti ll out of llciivoii:
tx-ai" e me my saintly white;
It slowly cji .w Ii oiii the Mni knesa
Mown in the 'henry nilit.
t'lcin i he iin,i. ol t!ie ,-ileiit river
I won ley .'ioiy find Ul.li'e,
Willie i. l-ctl not. I 1 inv 1'oel ;
F.u-V li-e lo Cie. s'.vi'.-e.-t i.ic(v
tl I :.'!Oi;t!l s.
Men who pry into things Hur
glars. You can easily tell a dogwool tree
by its bark.
A dentist is ro chicken. He is al
ways a pull-it.
A charity ent'Ttainmcnl is generally
a poor" .-how.
A turnip closely resembling an ele
phant is on exhibition at Key West.
A man closely resembling a beat can
I e .-'en almost anywhere.
A man in Os-cola, Mich., has three
daughters, all of whom are mutes.
He is probuHy the champion dumb
bell raiser of th" world.
It is n iu quite the style for the
bridal couple to he. uo lcmr or two
late, s -i i.-i to proilme the impression
th-ii neither cared very much to g I
married.
"t'ltovdcd out to make room fur
more interesting matter," .-.aid the edi
tor.iis he shoved aside a plate of beans
illld til' kled a pi-'.
It takes but thirteen minutes to
h ad ;in elephant on a train, while it
t ikes twenty for ;iy sort of a woman
to bid her friends good-by and lose tho
check lor her trunk.
It is siid th.it "out of every ono
bundle 1 and nine leimi'e school teach
ers, S'-ven marry every year." How
awful it must be for those seven wo
men to marry every year.
What Ming shall I sing lor you to
night -" .die asked him. ""-ing that
old "-l ot'.h song, ' I caniiii leave the
nuld folks yet, we'd better bide a
wee.' " "Oh. (ieorge. that js a very
ugly song. It sugge.-t.s procrastina
tion. Let me sing that beautiful
song, '.lust now.' "
Landlady, handing bill to boarder:
"This is the forty-seventh time, Mr.
dunes, I have presented this bilk"
Hoarder, taking it from her hands and
examining it. critically. "Is that so,,
Mrs. Sweet '. We!!, il doe.-n't show tho
wear and tear at all. I hive you any
idea who manufactures this paper'."
'Hie I! voiui ion of I'inicl nation.
aion. the first English tuinler,
had three punctuation murks the
comma, the colon, and the period but
says Mr. Hlades, an excellent author
ity in relation to Caxtoii and every
thing concerning him, it is doiti'tful if
he had any idea of the principles of
punctuation. Tho earliest known
manuscripts, are with, ut any points,
nor is there any division between the
words. The confusion resulting led
to the separation of words by a single
dot. Then ii .space le t ween the Words
superseded the dot, which was made
to p'i!,, rm another Mrvioo. vi, to
slo. w the division of ,i seutenec. Tho
Creek grammarians were tho lirst to
recognize tho limbs of a sentence.
A clause they called a comma, a mem
her of sentence a colon, and a com
plote sentence a pcrlo I. Little atten
tion, however, was paid to these
divisions for a long time. .Elius
Moiiiilus. who nourished in the liflh
i ciitnry, and wrote a grammar which
served all Europe until after the in-
tit ion of printing, was the lirst to
distingiti-h the-e divisions by pliving
a dot iit the bottom of the line, where
our lull point now i-, to designate th"
comma: in the middle of the liri",
where the hyphen is, for the colon;
and at the top of the line, where our
apostrophe is, for the full point. It.
Wiis not until well into the sixteenth
century that printers began delinitely
adopting an acknowledged system of
graduated points. I'riutms Cimtia.
Kiici iiriifi'iiig Arizona 'cuius.
An Arizona paper makes tho follow
ing announcement: "We will pay $l'i
lor a good epic poem of one hundred
lines on the 'scourge of the Seventeen
Year Locust.' Said poem must be sound
iu w ind iind limb, but it must not be
all sound; a little sense is desirable.
All metaphors must be new and appli
cable to the subject. No more than
one poetic license to ten words will be
allowed. Hhytne not absolutely neces--ary,
but reason a sine qua non. No
parodies allowed. We reserve to our
selves tho right to work over the
poems of all unsuccessful candidates
into editorials on the need of a new
navy nnd the failure of the wheat
rop."
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