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vSljc ljntl)am Record
KATKS
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION,
copy,
cope,
copy.
$ '.'.('(
$ I .Hi
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!!'
Oil''
six mouth; ,
three lllolllhs
I'll lines.
Far from the l-rn uti I moss,
Fluttering birch and wee til cross,
An I llu pine's low inurniiii in?,
WhiHo tli frightened lichens fliiu
To I ho overhanging edge
I If Ills precipice mid I nlgo.
Fearless in thi'ir iliiint.V g'o:
Wave llio harebells merrily.
From llie thi-ky rafters hung,
Ne'er in Helgnui belfry sunns
Beds iiuiie '.xiiii itcly wrought!
Hy In- : i n ' ii i ii hrc zos caught
'Jos.ing, swaying to and fro
Wliil" li-siilw tlii-iii. Is-n lius low
rlrcathless I w lit lo In-ill-Kehoof
ih-.iii- chiming clear.
Unt tilt- airy barinnuy
Is too w outlet till for mo.
And I i ainiot l uli'li n si ruin
Of tiuit rare mi I sweet ii-rmin.
Yet tliu tiny U'lts still ring,
Ami they shall niv I iti--j brin?
Til', ili-ugh n'iii' so softly Ntiircil,
Kvery 1 1 1 1 1 1 l i 1 1 nolo is h-iml.
-.Uin iiii II. M'r.i in Ihr Co'. i.;.- llettrth.
A CASE OF BRIBERY.
l-.V I.I 'hi--. Ml Mil'.
Ill tlie centre companion way of most
Allantii' -learners tlnr.' is framed n pub
lic notii-.- which attracts a good ileal of
ntti'ution from the pa-soiigcrs on the way
over. It is published by the lirilish Cov
eriiinciit, ami is to the tlTi t that any
person offering a bribe to one of Her
Majcsty'si u-touis olliciak will ho heavily
lined. The amount of this line it men
tioned, either tl't or V. 1 00 or something
of that sort. Tim contemplation of this
notice for nine or tui days every limr- a
person goes up the centre coiiipnnionway
is calculaHd In jji vo that person a very
great respect for the unbribability of the
Liverpool cii-toins olliccs. 'I'h: Ameri
can liiiVcTiiiclit his no such liolicis;
posteil up iin where that 1 ever saw I
Whether it i because it is so we'd known
that the A -in rlcan customs otUcer never j
under any lin iimsiaiic i accepts a bribe, I
or whether the govt i nnieiil fears that the !
public would repaid the po-ting of a no- j
tice as a joke, 1 h:ivu not been able to j
ascertain. j
I h ive ni v . r met anyone yet who would
hrihe a I.ivci pool customs olliccr. Tin
penally which has st. ired him in the face '
during the voyage ;s apt t discourage
nil such attempts. However, there are
few things which a person could take j
inlo y. iglaml on which duly is avai led.
lielicve the cil-t-ni- olhcers have a I
prejudice, against dynamite, against pi-
laled reprints of F.nglish hooks, ngain-t I
tohacco and suiin: things of that soil, J
hut, as a genera! tiling, the A m rii-an
traveler carries nothing with him on which I
duty could he charged.
Our big steamship re idled Liverpool
late one evening ia-t summer. The cu--
loins authorities penned us all up in the
several rooms of a building on the land
ing. Hero there was a good ileal of fti-9
and shoving through a passage way that
win very narrow, and tho hand
ha-XKH-J'! was i iinined .n we
pns.ed mil. This was a very slow
and tedious arrangement, and
it was nearly 1 1 oYloch at nii-ht heforo
we were through with it, and cv.n at
that time tin- trunks had uothi eii looked
at. neii ihcn pa-si- I up into a room
which we reached ley a lonj; incline. (In
climliill1 up this iiu line we inteied a
lare liuihlin seininlv contaiiiiiio
oiily on iiniie ne room. Ii was well
lighted, and the .scene was one which
once looked upon a p"i s m would not
forget in a hurry. On the ri'jht hand
h do wereiiih d trunks, haj;s,valise.s,hand
satchels ami liao-aoe of every descrip
tion. On the h-lt ran a loiio, low-counter
on w hii h trunks were heinj; examined
hy the uniformed custom heu-e ollicers,
while, hen lin over their open liaj-oa;-e
were the ow mrs, ociurally talkino rapid
ly to the iinpeiturhahh; ollicer. All over
the room were .some lutl excited pas
se liters iiu i ii i 1 1 -4 wildly hither and thither
trying to collet t their luoi-n -i'. Tiunks
that wt-rti iiiiuked w.th names were ar
ranged in nlphahi'tie.il order. The, sec
tions of tho htiildino; wero
lettered with the itlphahet jiainted
hiro and conspicuous aloti"; th"
rioht han I side, hut, as tho great
majority of the trunks had no nam-, the
owners ha I to run about in quest of
them, rollers were there with their
hhort jackets and iminlii red taps, diai--rdno
the trunks ahout umh r the owner's
directions, mid as soon us one trunk had
beau examined it was taken away ly n
stalwart porter who called a cah, and
its place was til'ed by another trunk
shimmed down by ftnothcr stalwatt
porter. It was n scene of bewildering
confusion. As I always travel as lidit
ns possible, riidctivoiiii! to compress my
bclonoinirs into a satchel that can bo
carried by hand if necessary, my troubles
wero over, and so I strolled alonj; with
comparative indilT rence, enjoying the
strange and bustling appearance of the
phice. I was uh!o to ivo soino ns.stst
nnee lu re and there to companions of
tin; voyage, and rather put on nirs as
beiii2 an old traveler w ith some ex
m rienco of that sort of tiling, don't you
know, and plumed myself on having my
bnggnoc examined long ago.
At tho further end of the room wero a
couple of ladies who wero travelling
alone. One of them had a largo trunk,
and tin) trunk had a new-fangled lock,
the latest of American patent A cus
toms offl -it whs vainly trying to unlock
this trunk, and the owner was looking
VOL. IX.
on with much concern nt his ineffectual
attempts. She had tried herself, it
seemed, and had heen unable to open it.
"You are not doing it rightly," said
the second young lady. "You have to
push this clasp that way, then turn the
key half way around, push Iho clasp
hiek and give the key uuutlur turn and
ii,.... u .. ;n ... '
The ollicer looked up, emile I
shook his jarred finger, and J said:
"Let ine try the unlocking."
I followed the directions as well
and i
could and nearly Inoke my tinners,
Lilt
the key wouldn't turn. 1 am afraid thss
magic words I said were not. the "open
sesame" that was required.
"I am very sorry, ladies," said the
I'tliecr, "but 1 shall havo to break the
lock."
The ladies were very sorry too, hut
they made no objection ami ulie cllieer
departed and returned with a hatchet,
This he placed under the obnoxious
catch and tried lo pry it open, lint the
lock was built very strongly and it
wouldn't give way. The hatchet slip
ped anil the ollicer cut his linger.
"Can't you stretch the law a little,"
said I, "and let that trunk pis. The
ladies are not going to stay in Knglaml,
but are going din t Cy to I-'i.ince. 1 :nu
cure you would I'm 1 n ithiug dutiable in
the trunk or they would have made
some objection to your breaking the
lock."
It was now after l ' o'clock. Most of
the people had claim! I their baggage,
had it examined and departed for their
hotels.
"Well," sa;d the oilier, "I ought not
to do it, you know, but 1 will chance it,"
and with that he put on the rcipiiite
mark that would enable it to pass out.
The owner was ve-y grateful indeed, and
while In was stamping the trunk she
said to me :
"I would like very much b give him
something. II w much do you think 1
should offer him:''
"Well," I replied, "as a general thing
in Knglaml it's safe enough to give a tip
where a service is done, but the penalt,
lu re seems to he very liiidi. I don't
hink I would risk it. Yet I don't su j-po-e
ho would object to a shil
ling if it could he given him so tint no
one co-.ihl see it."
"1 will give him half a crown," she
said, "if he will take it."
"All right," 1 c am lulled, "hut don't
do it very publicly."
The lady approached and said in her
Kindest voice :
"1 am very sorry you have hurt your
linger."
"O.i," said the ollicer, "it don't mat
ter in tin- least, 1 assiiro you ; a mere
scratch."
"Well, I am very much obliged, in
deed," she whispered, "I hope you will
let me give you this, not as a compciiMi
t inn, you kn w."
"A ! mis,'' he returned, smiling and ,
bowing very low to her, "glad to have
been of any .service to you, but really, I
we are not allowed to take anything; j
it is ai',iin-t the inles," and he waved !
his hands up and down s he said this.)
"Hut," pcisisted the lady, "it is only I
a very btilc, and don't at all come under
the head of a bribe."
"I as. lire you, miss,'' he said, "you !
are not indebted to tin- for anything, and
as 1 said before, I am only too happy to !
have been of any service. You see,
miss," he said, as we walked away after
the porter who had shouldered thetrunk,
"olliceisof the customs are never allowed
lo tako anything, no matter how .small,
under any circunistanco whatever."
And with that he again bowe l very low
to us, and I walked with the ladies out
lo their carriage.
"Well," saitl I, "it is refreshing to
see a customs ollicer that w ill not take a
bribe!"
The young lady laughed merrily.
"I am glad to hear you say so," she
said, "for I know now we did it very
cleverly."
"Why, you don't mean to say that you
ijiin- him the money
site held up her hands. They wcrr
empty.
"1 slipped half a crown into his hand
the first time 1 spoke to him, and ho con
cealetl it with a deftness that convinced
me lie had done the like before."
"Then you urged him to take it after
he had it in his hand, and he refused it
with such a C'hestertieitliau air while he
was really in possession of it!"
"Exactly," she said. "Wasn't it neat
ly done on both sides;"
"Nently done) Well, I should say so.
Hut what a pair of hypoeiites both ol
you arc 1" Detroit Free l'rt
A Wise Eel.
In tho summer of lHIW Pelcr KffQ of
Washington township, I'enusylvauia,
caught a small eel and put it in a well in
his yard, where it still is. It is four
feet long and about live inches in diame
ter. It keeps itself concealed at the
bottom, except at irregular intervals,
when it comes to the top, and these ap
pearances are always followed by rain
within a day or two. During haying
anil harvest and oilier critical vcrio Is of
farm work tho farmers for miles around
send every day to Kuril's for intelligence
of the eel. It will have no other kind of
fish In the well, mid kills all that arc put
in. fhlUJcljihia Ibcord.
ITITSli()K
A Woman's Itlble.
While in New Jersey, writes Theodoro
Stanton to the Chicago Inti r-lhvtin, I
had a peep into a most interesting sanc
tum, j saw the woman's bible committee
at work. lit a richly furnished drawing
room, about a broad table, sat a half
dozen women witli intelligent faces and
busy pens. E ich one had a cheap bible,
which was being read with care, anil
evi r ami anon a verse would be cut out
bodily by a pair of scissors and pasted
nt the top of a long sheet of white pap r.
Then the other ladies would cut from
their bibles tin) self sain" verse, and
w hen all had their text before them they
would begin todi-cus it in turn. One of.
these commentators is an excellent (ireek
mid Hebrew scholar, another is deeply
versed in current biblical criticism, whiln
still another has gone through with care
all the big tomes of the great commen
taries like those of Henry Scott and Dr.
Adam Clarke. After the verse in iiics
tioii has been fully discussed each la ly
w rites under it w hat she has tos iy about
it, and then all the sheets arepas-cd on
to a secretary. This secretary, a recent
Vassar gradua'c, cuts out the verse from
another bible, pastes it on another sheet
much loiiL'cr than those ihat had been
just hand' d to her and then carefully
copies under it all the notes made by thu
learned ladies sitting about the board.
rsonio of your readers will begin to
ak, "Hut what docs all this mean 2"
Tuis wit". exactly the ipiejtion that I put
to the eldest lady of the group, who
scenic I to be the presiding genius of the
com lave, after 1 had puy.liiigly wit
nessed what I have just recounted in
the foregoing paiagr.iph. "Well," be
gin my friend with a tnerry twinkle in
In r eye, "we women mean to do w hat
you men have been tloing for eeiituiios;
you it vised the seri lures after jour
fashion, and now we intend to tin the
same tiling alter our fashion. We have
gone over the old and new testaments
with gnat tale, and wo find Ihat about
one-tenth i f tiie bible touches, in our.
way or the other, on us women. Now,
we want so know whether male transla
tions interpretations and commentaries
have In en made in a spirit 1 1 it-it ily to i
to our sex. We and a great many other j
women have our doubts on this p.. ml ; in I j
n worn, we propose Issuing what may lm
called 'The Woman's 1! hie.' On our re-
I vi iug comnii tlce m1 able women from
I'.ii jl.iiel and A uk-i k a. We have a we I
! know n pulci-licr w ho stands ready to
lake our manuscript, and before this
time next year we hope to give lo the
I world the bible as revised by women."
This very hold speech was th.livi red
in a very gentle manner, and tiie lady
thi n fell to work again, ore of the board
, having discovered another passage that
i was to be dealt w ith in the wav alreadv
describ d. I returned to New York
pondering over this strange scene and
this mid conveisatioii, and 1 Incline
convinced thai when this new hook ap
peal s it w ill create a bl'ce.e in church
and state.
Insomnia,
Sleep is a positive function, and not by
any moans a negative fact, as has b-eii
t Itell suppo-ed. There is notable,
difference between ge mine sleep, proper
ly so-called, ami the artificial torpor ob
tained by the us of narcotics, l-'roin a
physiological stand point, every one should
be able to command sleep at will; ami
habit has a great influence in this direc
tion. Napoleon I! mapartc possessed
this power to a remarkable degree, being
able to sleep peat chilly at any moment
and under the mo-t adverse condition-:.
And William (iladstoue had the samn
fatuity for many year-, but of late ha
has complained of insomnia, due pioli
ably, in his case, to overwork and anxi
eties, which have ended by weakening
his will-power, or, at least, there is si nun
physical cause which renders the work
ing of cerebral nutrition less docile than
formerly to the orders of the iiervoiii
center. He this as it may, it is a matter
nf regret that physicians as n rule tie
not attach sufficient importance to tluj
fact that "want oT sleep" is in reality ai
exaggerate I wakefulness, and it i
necessary to i ivesligate the cause of thii
condition, and to examine minutely
the relative excitability of all thu
organs, central ami peripheric.- .). tieul
HWI.I.
Missionary Life in lliirmali.
.My brother has lured four Ivolali men
to watch the place nights (sleeping and
co king on the compound daytime-),
and Mr. I lose gave two of them spears.
Mrs, D. and I have our revolvers, and
we keep them close by, you may be surf.
Mine is under my head ready loaded at
night, and we all lay out our gowns,
etc., when we retire, ready for flight.
This morning when we went to Sunday
school, I left my revolver for Miss Stark
uch a pity she has none- ami my
hiothcr look his with him! it was
funny to have "the superintendent give
nut "Come ye sinners," and relict that
h had a loaded revolver in his p. i-kct
ready for lln-in. If we couldn't find
sum thing to laugh at I don't know
w hat would be. nine of us; the constant
f. din of d ingi r threatened, of uucer
tai ity as to the future, takes the heart
t nt of everything, and comb ned w ith
th- heat 100 dcgie-s to 104 tlegroes--lll
i hi-' systematic woik nblio-l impossible---
Hi Jiimj liiml.
CHATHAM CO., N. (.,
(HILIMIEVS (01 I MS.
Autumn Leave..
lYhnsoii and scai-M and yellow,
Kiiiciald tiirnini; to gold,
rsliinmiering there in the suulieams.
Shiver nj; here in th Id;
Waving farewells as ill leninst
Kuthlessly tears them apart,
riulteiing, dan- ingaud nM'iiur
As hither and thither tliev dart;
liccklcssly sailing th- rapid-,
l-a.ilv swimming the pool ,
Mining "I spy!" w.th eieli oilier
I'niler the puffy toa l-'o-ls.
AVri-aths for thu wails of her ilnelling
.Kaeh neat little hoiis-k- ) - weaves,
And tin-re, amid ileliea'e fern sprays,
-Nistle the bright nii'niiin I. lives.
- K. I.. i.-)i.-.i.-' 1.1 V.o.ii.y 'coy,;.-
A lirtHlltftll l.i'ft.OH.
I'ivc hundred years ago there was liv
ing in Italy a great poet of the name of
I'ctr.uch. There cam- on a gr al trial :
a number of people h id to give w itness,
nnd they all had to t ike an oith b fore
tloingso. IVti arch c nne tobcarwilnes
bill ih- ysaidof him. '-you me I not
liiakehim take an o il Ii. He will be -lire
to t II the truth." Si liny did not make
him take an oath, because evcrybody
kiiew how true he w a-;.
Ilillltf oil l.lhi-
W lien our Tom was
went into the lor -I
in el the hired man,
home with a lml "I
n Itrnii'i'
six years ol I, In
line afli moon to
who was coiuii g
wood. The mail
placed Master Tommy oil the top of the
load, and drove homeward, .lu-t before
reaching the farm, ihe team went pntiy
bri-kly down a -p ( i hill. Win n Tommy
entered the hou-i , his mother said :
"Tommy, my dear, were you not
frighlt ned when the hoires went trolling
so swiftly down Crow Hill i"
"Yes, mother, a little," replied Tom,
honestly; "I asked thcL -rl tohclpme,
and hung on like a beaver."
Sensible Tom ! Why sensible ; H- cau-e
he joined working to pi trying. Let his
words tench the life le-son ; in all trou
bles, pray and hang mi like a beaver; by
which I mean, that while you a-U Hod
to help you, you niu-t help your-clf with
all your might.- - ' Vijrim.
Nui'Wrgi in lluspilii'iiy.
In no land is hospitality more opea-
iaii'lc'1 au l mot" uiiall t ie I man in
.Norway, and though this- fniiures are
nalir.ally becoming blnnlcd along Un
beaten liin s of travel, the genuine good
ness of he at I, Ii g-nt leinanh" feel
ing, and t ill iie abs -in c of licit sordid-
lie s xv 1 1 rh is so often s
nt,v regions, cannot
uiiiucjudiced ob-crvi r.
igno'ed by even the ru I
In the cities the sir i'ig'
many b'uudcrs. In I In
ever, this is not le-s
pcr!iap. the visitor will
dl eVcll III prilll-
fail to strike the
N r is etiipn tlc
-I ofthe pic.
r i- apt to make
ci ami ry, how
iii r ,ed, though
It- ll -S COllsl'ioUS
lif ils presell
of the N.,rw
One of the peculiarities
ian farmer is that, when
visiting a friend, he nri-t ignore all the
preparations made for hi- i nb rlainn t'lit.
lie will see the colo-i- roa b d, and the
i ups set out, and lln-i, ju-t wh-n the
good wife is about to oil' r iiim her hos
pilality, he gets up, bid- the family
good bv, and is only p' r-il ided to re
main af'cr sum- ivsi-'.a'u e. Kvery cup
must he Ii ill. I to ovel flow .llg, otherwise
the ho-l would be thoii;hl -lingy. When
milk, brandy or beer i. off -red, the guest
invaiiab'y begs that il v ill not "be
wasted mi him," an I tli-n, after empty
ing the cup, declares that "it is too
much" going through the same formal
ities, it may be, thn-e or four limes. In
the farmhouses, or up'aud "-icier-" the
guest is left to eat alone, silver folks and
spoons bcin ; often substituted for the
curved woo len ones u-ed by the family,
and a line w hite cloth for the bare boards
which serves well enough on tudinary
occasions. To a punctilious guest this
may not be a drawback, for at the
family table, as, indeed, among the
peasants in Scandinavia everywhere, the
different individuals dip their spoons
into the same dishes of "gr-d" and sour
milk; but for any one desirous of study
ing a people a load of foreign prejudice
is a grievous burd -n to cany about.
Win n a child is horn the wife of every
neighbor cooks a dish of ' 11 1 legrod"
(porridge mailt- with cream instead of
milk), an I brings it to the convalescent
there being a g I deal of rivalry among
the matrons to outdo each other in the
quality and si.c of the dish. When any
one has taken fool i.i a Sean iinavian
house he shakes hands with the host ami
hostess in rising Iroiu the table, and
says: "Tak for mad" ("Thanks for
food''), to which they reply; "Veil
hekoinint:" ("M ay it agree with you").
In many parts of Scandinavia all the
guests shake hands with each other and
r pe it tie-latter formui: ; and ii Nor
way, at least, it is the fashion for a
guest to call on the hostess a few tla s
later, and when she appears to gravely
say: "Tak for sidst" ("Thanks for last
lime"), great gravity on this formal
visit being a mark of good bree.ling.
',-.,, t'.e, r'.l.
How He Escaped.
I) 'i ter "W hat is that scar on your
leg, Mr. Haul.:"
I' it ic tit-- "A dog bite received in boy
hood. "
"lioo lness gracious! Didn't you get
the hydrophobic 1"
"No, I hain't heard of hydrophobia at
that tune."- -Oimllm Wnllil.
)( TOliKIi s, IKSC.
CKKAT MEMORIES.
Plieiionviinl Powers Devel
oped by Si iino Mi-ii.
Ordinary Abilities joined toEx.raorJiu try
Strength of R-jcollection
If "all greit people have great inemo
lies," as S r Arthur Helps declares in his
tic ightful book entitled "Social I 'res
Mire," it by no means follows that all
those who are possessed of great memo
ries are "great people." Many an in
stance might he cited to show that men
cf very moderate, intellectual capacity
may he endowed with a powi r of memo
ry which is truly prodigious. In ad
tin ion to this, there are plenty of xvell
liulhenlieateil examples of the extraordi
nary power of memory displayed even by
idiots. In the Memoirs ol Mrs. S nner
ville there is a curious account of a most
extraordinary verbal memory. "Tin re
was an idiot in E linburg,"' she tells us,
"of a respectable family who had a re
inarkaba! ni-ni try. II : never faded to
go to the kirk Sunday, and on returning
home would repeat the sermon, seying,
"Here the minister coughed ; here he
slopped toblow his nose." "1 luring the
tour we made in the Ilighlauls,"
she adds, "wo met with an
other idiot who knew the
Hi hie so perfectly that if you a-ked him
where such a verse was to be found he
could tell without hesitation and repeat
the chapter." These example! are suf
ficiently remarkable; but what shall be
said of tho case cited by Archdeacon
I'cnron in his valuable pamphlet on
"Mental Vigor ?" "There w as in my
father's parish," says the An hdeat im,
"a man who could remember the day
when every per-on had been buried ia
the parish for thirty-live years, and could
repeat with unvarying accuracy the name
ami age of the deceased, with the mourn
ers at the funeral. Hut lie was a com
plete fool. I bit of the line of burials, In
had hut one idea, and could not give an
intelligible reply to a single ipie-tioii,
nor be trusted to feed himself."
These phcnoiiK nal instances may he
matched by the Su-scx farm-laborer
(icorge Watson, as w- I'm I recorded in
"II me's Table 1! i ok." Watson could
neither n ml nor write, yet Ii i w as wont
to perfor wondrous feats of menial cal
culation, and his memory for events
seemed to he almost faultless. "Hut the
mo-t cxtraordiu.irx circumstance," says
Hone, "is Iho power he po esses of re
collecting tin- events of eveiy day from
an early period of his life, t'poii being
asked what day of the week a given
day of the month occurred he immedi
ately names il, and al-o meiition- where
hi! was and what was the Mat of the
weather. A gentleman who had kept a
dairy put many iiucsiioas to him, ami his
answers were invariably corn el."
of a similar kind is the m ni uy for
which Daniel M'Civtii-v ha- become
famous in the l'uit-d Slate-. The
strange story of this man's acliicvmeals
is told by Mr. Ib nkle in th- .-,,,, '
Sftt'iil ttin- l'!iibn"i'h;i. M Cirtney, in
("sii'.i, declare 1 that he could r member
the day of the week for al y date from
.1 iniiary, Sg7 -that is, from the tune
win n he was !l years and I months old -I
i years. II- has :teu been tested,
and, so far as Mr. il nkle's account goes,
had not failed to tell his tpiestiou r what
day it was, and to give s nne informa
tion about the weather, and about his
own whereabouts mid doings on anyone
of the lo.noil or more dales that might
he named. Win n Mr. lb nkle lir-t met
this man or marvelous memory he was
employed in the "Mice of the lion. T. K.
Hurkeubrod, editor of IheSilcni )
I ii'ii ii, where nothing better could be
found for Mi Ctitney to do than "turn
the wheel of the printing-press two days
of each week." On the lir-t formal ex
amination this man underwent, his an
swers were tested hy reference lo the tile
of a new'spap r which gave the day of
the week along with the date In one
cac his slaleiiieu. w as ili-puted, for the
day he named was not the same as that
given by the paper; but on further iu
ipiiry it was found that the new-paper
w as w long, for th-printer had made a
mistake. Shoilhaud notes of tho
conversation were taken at subsequent
interviews. The report of these is very
curious reading. Take the following as
a sample. "tjuesiion - Oct. s, s-n;
Answer (ill two second ) Wednesday.
It was cloudy and driided rain; I car
ried dinner lo my father where he was
gelling olll coal. ( J icslion Kcb. il,
s-g$i Aiiswcrtin two seconds) Saturday.
It was cloudy m the morning ami clear
in the afternoon; there was a little snow
on the ground. An une'e w ho lived
near sold a horse-beast that day lor $-"i.''
And so the conversation ran mi for hours
ranging over forty years of Mi Cailney's
personal history. Dr. II mkle tells us
that if he went over some of the dales
again alter a few day-' interval, the an
swers, although given in different terms,
were essentially the same, showing ins
tinctively that he remembered the fai ls,
and not the words previou-ly used. Mo
Caitney's ineinoiy is not confined t i
ilatis and events; he is n ran- calculator,
can give the cube root of such niiinb is
as .111, ;tl!t; i r .Tt, T7, etc, can repeal
sonic ioU liymn,and stm t ion tunes; h is
a Bingailtiry ex ensive ami act urate
N( . s.
knowledge of gi n riohy, and never for-l
gets the mini'! of a p r-oit he has untie,
.seen or read of. Willi all this singular
power of memory, however, he is not a
man who-e general grasp of mind is no
al all noteworthy. t'ooi' "' ."irmil.
Tree cliiiihiiig I ray-Fish.
To show how a flood or over supply of
water will at certain limes ahum tln -e
little creatines, a gent leman resitting ill
I'lccporl, III., informel me that not?
many months ago th-y had some very
heavy rains, (b-,t greatly increased the
volume of tin; linle river running
through the (own. The water gradually
rose until numbers of quite large trees
wen-submerged, and the stream was al
most twice its ordinary width. Such an
unusual occurrence naturally attracted
considerable attention, and my inform
ant and a number of others visited the
trees several times, and when the river
was at the highe-t they presented a
strange appearance from a little dis
tance. Their trunks s. a nn d to have
changed color from the water up to the
branches, and on closer inspection it
was found that liny were complete
ly incased with t ray li-h, which covt red
every available space, crowding upward
hy hundreds, din Jug to the bark and
locat bother, in -nine -pol-packed one
upon another four and live deep; every
moment added to Ihe throng, new ones
emerging from Ihe wat-r, while those
above, urged on, crept out upon the
branches, and completely covered them,
pre-enting a novel and interesting sight.
Tin- animals in many cases retained their
positions for several days, and did not
seem to be alTci'ted by lie ir slay out ol
water. The occasion, however, was
tak- I! advantage of by the people, who
cami! with buckets and brooms and
swept them from the trees by hundreds,
storing them up for future use. The
cray-li-h in certain poll ions .. the wi-t-crn
country is a pest to the agriculturist,
and the woik of these little en alutes of
ten greatly increases the labor an I ex
pense of breaking up land, i specially al
ter the burrows or mounds haveslood for
many yi ar-, th- vegetation 111 t has
grown upon them often increasing their
si.e to mammoth proportions. -I'vjmbir
S-i,.i; M.ni',hi.
The J III one id' Lilies.
This name is applied lo the throne of
I'ranee because of the old l'rench Na
tional emblem - tin- . ur de-li-, a species
of lily. The st ry ol ils adoption is as
follows: Winn Ciovi-, King of tho
fraii k -, m a rrie d tin- I'iIihc-- Cotihla, of
liiirgundy, in I'.ci A. D., sh- was a
Christian, but the King, like tit - m i-t
ofthe I'r inki-h nation, was a lie.ii.icn.
The young queen car t ly di -'nil the
collVI-ioll of her llll-batld, bill her
arguments had little cfTo-l on him.
However, in Iml, the king, when en
gaged in halt le with the Alle-ianni
1 1 termaii i, al Tolbiae, m ar C .logne, w as
hard pn-ssi-d and ill his ncc-s-iiy tailed
upon the tiod of the Christian-, vowing
that slnml I he obtain the vicl ay he
Would hiin-ell' become , Cnri-tian. The
Allemanni were routed, and on Ciiri-t-inas
day of the -aine year Clovis ami
several 1 1 1 1 -: 1 1 1 1 1 i f his soldiers wcru
baptized. Thu- far w- li'ive vi li able
history, but we iiiu-l r g ud as legendary
tin- e nielu-ioii of tin- tale, that on the
eve of his bipti-m an .'ingei from le aven
presented King Ciovis with a blue ban
ner cuihroi'h re I with golden ll ur-dcr
lis, which he was lo adopt a- tin bonier
of I'ranee. l'lobably sw'i i t Clotilda her
self embroidered the lilies and person
ated -a- she well might I he angel.
However this may have been, from lilt!
t no of Clovis lo the French l!-voluiion
the King-ol France bore a- their arms
an indcliiiiie number, aul latterly three
golden lilies on an azure lield. .;-
h; ,ln.
(riiveyaril (ieiigraphy.
There have been niiiiien.u- r-a-ons
given to nccouiil for tht! fact thai tho
north sides of churchyards arc so often
devoid of graves. In the west of Eng
land there is an idea that the north -i. 't
was not consecrated, but was left, for a
playground for the children. Tie n, some
again say it is from tin- I l a I il ion I hat
Jesus, when dying, turned Mis heal to
the south. Another rea-ou given is that
the smith is the -lliuiy side, and ihe -i lo
w here the church door commonly is
placed, nnd where, eoii-i-,jneiiily, nm-t
people pa-s. The commonest lea-im ap
peals to In: that formerly murderer-, ex
communicated person-, si illborn children,
etc., were wont tube buried on the north
side, ami some rustics say that ghosts
always choose the north side for I heir
peregrinations. Tin-re is, however, an
ecclesiastic reason. The cast is ii id's
still-, w here His throne is set ; the west
man's .side, the (lilil I the ticntiles;
the south, when'! the sua shines in its
strength, is tin; side of ange s and spirits;
the north, tin- devoted region of Satan
and his hosts, the lair of ilcmons ami
their haunts. -C'AV . Trilnin.
What lhl He Mean!
She -"Why, Charles! How can you
call Miss .lames plain? I wish I was
half as g I looking us she is!"
lb- - "You are, llattie, ami you know
it."
At la-t advices llillie was endeavoring
to tlet ide w hether she ought to be pleased
orcfl 'irled at the compliment. i'.tfe
Trantcrijit.
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Our Ship at Sen.
Ileal- It-art, we two have wuitod
i'o,- many a weary yi nr
Th- -h i Me laimeheil at sen.
Freighted with h"ie for you and inn,
And carrying never a fear.
"t -watched Hie in i-nilnway.
As we sti o I en tin- shore,
Ami swei tlv we did dream,
Willi 1 1 u love for our the mi-.
j Wh. n their voyage should In
We sail. -Wh u th-y r. turn Ion-,
I l er Ih- ocean's briny foam,
We'd build a kingd-- heavenly fair,
Willi love and faith. Iw. llmg thero
e ll i-all our kingdom homo."
' l.-e w as wieeked on an angry sh-i'.,
I I n the nicks of worldly gum,
j And .Ii! th-sn l.l-st -ight lo m-,
I F.ith w- lo-t in a dismal sea
l shinier, doubt and pain.
Vet o'er Ihe 'l.-uk and angry naves,
Hang-III- l'W ol pioiiii fair;
It t.-IS .if th-it brghl and better land.
With l.oeand failli. an unbroken ban I,
Cp there, ilear In art. up there.
Ill MOItOl S.
d- i - against the grain The reaper.
If l here is any out- who should bo
"rapped in .slumber," it is the man who
snore-.
II e- can predict the wialhcr. Com
bine a bee and a small boy ami tin y call
produce a-ipial!.
"I don't, see tin- point, but I realize its
force," said the man when the becsettled
on the back of his neck.
A m ii who iidverli-ed for a perma
nent position, win re -alary was no ob-i-ct,
was advised lotry th" cemetery.
A new game of cards is called "matri
mony." If the mall win, he takes thu
giri; if the girl wins -he takes the loan.
The tlilT-r ,c- In twceii two gn at po
litical paiti - cu'Iy explained to for
eigners, t'l'c "t- I he olliccs the other gets
left.
The discovery "I ' sc. olio , nake is re
ported by an Ontario paper The mail
who di. covered il ha I in all proi.abilitv
been painting the town red.
An Ohio man claims lo have invented
a machine that will cm! inn-to run with
out stopping until it wears itself out. It
is evidently an inlringi tuciit on a book
agent's tollglie.
Lady to small boy "Then yo'i never
had educational advantage-;" "No,
iiiuiu not that I know of. I've had
any siplas. If what you s ml is worse
nor I h:. 1, 1 dou'L w anti r tateh it."
"Mary, 1 wi-h you would be a better
little girl," said a father we wot of to
his little, girl. "You li.iv no idea how
si -fry I am that mamma has to scold you
so much." "Oil, don't worry about il,
papa," wit- tin- reply; "i'ui not one of
lho-e sensitive i hildreii. Halt the time
1 deei'l hear what she says."
( liin-i'clpr iu llaiiihM'iliiig.
Then-arc people wln claim to lead
lin n'- characters from their handwriting.
As the w riling of every nation is dis
tinguished by siroiig national peculiari
ties, it j, easy for an cxpeit th decide to
what nation a writer belongs. Having
settled that, certain large characteristics
w hich are coiiiuiou lo all men, but in
dilf rent tl-gi es, can be seen in every
baud w riling. A certain number of men
ate i aim, even-lived, sensible and prac
tical. Men of th it i lass are almost cer
tain to w rite plain, round hands iu which
every letter is distinctly legible; neither
very much .slanted forward, nor lilted
backward; no Idler very much bigger
than its neighbor, nor with leads much
above or tail- much below the letters not
so distinguished ; tin- letters all having
about I he same general uprightness, ami
the lines true to Ihe edges of the paper,
neither tending upward nor downward.
Exact buiuess-like people will have an
exact handwriting. Fantastic minds
revel in quirks and si reamers, par
ticularly for the i a pit il letters, and this
quality is not inlri ipu ul in certain busi
ness hands, as if tin- w riter- found a relief
from the prosaic nature of their work ill
giving nourishes to certain b iters. Firm,
decided, downright men arc apt to bear
on the pen while writing, and to niako
then strokes lend ami thick. I'll tin)
contrary, people who are not sure of
themselves, and are bit king in self-control,
press unevenly, and with anxious
looking, scratchy hands. Ambitious
people are apt to be overworked; they
are always in haste and either forget to
cross I heir t's, or dot their i's. They
in- als i apt to run the last few letters of
every word into an illegible scrawl.
Flurried, troubled, and conscieneo
twinged persons have a crabbed and un
even haiidriting.- -'. AVeteis.
An Kxira Tea.
Major .lolmstone is very particular
about the spelling of his name, lie is a
j very pnuid man on general principles,
j Nothing exasperates him more than to
! be mixed up typographically or other-
wise w ith the coiniuim herd of .lohnson
1 without a t. He was about having a
j hotel in Dallas. He had asked for hia
bill, and when it was handed him by
' the clerk he scowled fiercely.
"Is there any mistake in the bill?"
asked the clerk.
"There is, sir; you havo spelled my
j name w ithout the t."
I "Ah, 1 see," replied the clerk, "you
slmu'd be charged with an extra t.
Fifty cents more, if you please." Tttat
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