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. I r t iETHR ON THE THRESHOLD. I - Ring out, oh bells, ringsilver-sweoi.o'er hill and moor ana fell! In mellow echoes let your chimes their hope ful story tell, Ring out, ring out, all jubilant, this joyous "glad refrain: ; "A bright new year, a glad new yoar, hath come to us again! " IL Ah, who can say how much of joy within it there may be Stored up for us, who listen now to your sweet melody? . . Good-bye, Old Year! Tried, trusty friend, . thy tale at last is told Oh, New, Year, write thou thine for us in lines of brightest gold. - III. The flowers of spring must bloom at last, when gone the winter's snow ; God grant that after sorrow past, we all some joy may know. Though tern post-tossed our bark a while on . Life's rough waves may be, There conies a day of calm at last, when we the haven see. IV. Then ring, ring on, oh, pealing bells! there's music in the sound. - Ring on, ring on, and still ring on, and wake the echoes round, 1 The while we wish, both for ourselves and all whom, we hold dear, -, -. That God may gracious be to us in this the bright new year f ; f Chambers's Journal. THE OPERATOR'S STORY. One afternoon la6t September, at the Glen Mountain House, at Watkins Glen, New York, a telegraphic friend toll me how he won great success in his profess ion; as follows :' Almost thrce'years ago I visited this famous watering-place. I had ben "working a circuit" in various cities, and 6topped oil here for a little recrcatiou. One evening, in the dining-room, amid the clatter of dishes an 1 knives and forks, my trained ear caught a meaning from the idle drumming on the table of knives in the hands of two well-dressed men opposite me. To the crowd, if no ticed at all, those sounds only indicated impatience at the hurrying, yet delayed waiters. . If it had been commonplace conversa tion I should not h ive heeded their com munication, except, perhaps, for sport to "cair them. ' They ticked off a phra-c cr two at intervals during their meal.' Once the head-waiter noticed the clink ing of a spoon upon a cup, and inquired if cither of them wanted anything. For an instant they were confused, then, one said he wanted more coffee. A waiipr replenished hi3 nearly full cup. After ! that the ticks were less frequent. Of I course it was none of mv business, but T i could not help hearing the tick-talk,and the conversation was so curious it great ly interested me. . ' - That very eveniner. -while T wr rend. mg in tneo.i ce, the two conversers in lightning-lmgo at the table came' in and lit fresh cigars.'. Occasionally the ho'tel "sounder" clicked tiding from' the world in the surrounding night. The death of amanof national prominence wasnerawieu ty the instrument. Be- fore the hotel operator informed the bv- j standcrs of that iinpoitant news one cf'f i the stranger operators aid to the other : "He's dead at l ist." ! j "Hush!"' whipered the other. ' I Nobody seemed to notice the betray- ; ing observation or its rejoinder. ; As I wondered at the "object in view": of that pair of mysterious converserers I' did not reveal my ideutitv, but de- ; terminal to heed any signs. Whenever : they were in the dining room 'first I thought best not sit near them, and, ; therefore, did not then obtain anv pc cnliar information. After a steamboat ride on hiatitiful Seneca, I visited Ithaca,. ; to inspect Cornell Unr.ersitv. hen I returned to Watkins, the landlord -told ; iiu nestuii f iic .cou.'ci not "ive mc my former room, because of an extra large excursion party. He could, how ever, give me one as good, which I thank- ' fully accepted. . : That night I was i;ir from being sorry for the change of room, as I heard mys- j terious rags on the wall. Somebody was Mgnaiing tosouie one in another room. 1 If the message hal been ordinary I should have signaled that I was an un intentional listener. It was the same oldjargon of unineah ing words and phrased From the fre quent repctition'of some of them, :i few i had become, familiar to mc As a com mercial operator, I had hind led many cipher messages. To amuse myself I tricd to solve these. In them a lea iing expression had been : ' The soup is late. " "Now thp r;in said: "The sou;) is ret- ting hot." I was more than ever.ron. - ' - wui-c . x UU Q.J Ik t I vinccd there was a plct somewhere a! out something. The e conversations, being disguised, were in themselves susph ious! I thought . I had made -out some of the key to the ciplur. . As the night was pleasant I went down stairs and took a stroli. A few stars peejp d out. The wind s'ghed through the famous gorge elose by. I sauntered along, cautiously however, as the adja cent chasm would have been a convenient place for a footpad to dispose of his vic tim without exciting alarm. Suddenly I saw a light flash out and disappear above the glen. Almost with out any reason, I turn- d my head and saw a light flash from the upper portion of the hot;l. The moonless n gh; swal lowed up both lights. Perhaps the H'-ht ! in the hotel was accidental. 3Iaybe rnv - excited senses were deceived about the ' gleam over the glenV Nobody of tlesh aiict blool could flasrf a light one hun dred and fifty feet above the 1 ttle stream whose Vllil'fi WHS liut in ll.o ".! ,. L- il.. below. 1'erhans it wa-i a fire Iv fl;ihhicr I " u . .u i iiv ini K ii r . : 1 1 1 1 its tiny lamp out in that emptiness ne irlv I 'l J Jl r . r . . J ! Ave hundred feet from bank, to bank at that point. ' I stepped close to a large tree,; and thought for some t me about the unknown ingredients of rhat "soup. ' I huuged theitriendly plne-tte as, somebody warTved "cautiously past, going toward the hotel. A few minutes after I determined to investigate one theory. Cautiously I sought the track of the railway. Carefully I crept along the ties and went out over the abyss. I estimated the distauce where the light flashed, and N earnestly groped for something, I knew not what, j ou may thinkU was foolish. ? , I was about to go back to the hotel when my right hand, beside a rail, touched a fine wire. I struck a match,' and, shielding the blaze, I perceived that the copper iv ire ran into a pasteboard cuff bo v, tied securely under a cross-tim-ber. . The wire led into the air toward the hotel. : The. brief light was out. .There I t cluDg," held up by the structure which, , - for all its stone, iron and wood, seemed . to almost sway in the gale sweeping down "-fjanyon: Taking out my pocket-knife, I gras'jSi110 "wire on. the outside of the rail withZ wrnana, ana, witn my right, closed over it the big knife-blade The outer severed end I fastened arouni a rail. ' ' You may be sure I carefully untied that box. I was. tempted to heave into the gorge, but recollected that sue! a course would frustrate ray plan to de tect and convict ihose dynamiters. Ai if treading a path among eggs, I started to return. I left that mysterious box ii the summer house to guard against an spynoting it'in the hotel. rBy urgent request the nigit cleric cau tiously admitted me to the room of tin proprietor. "With due precaution, I con tided in him, He went out and gaye tht clerk some instructions in a low tone and handed me a pass-key. I slyly weir to my room. j Tlie house waa still. Suddenly then rang out an alarm of fire. Soon confu sion reigned. Guests were rudely awak ened. They hurried out of windows or down the stairs. In a few minute 5 every body returned, pale, tremblinir, and nervous. 1 he hre had been put out war. not very heavy damage, strange to say Xobody, fortunately, Avas hart7 Every body congratulated everybody on narrow escapes. I o this xlay there are, i under stand, only three persons who havt known the origiriof that tire alarm. To any outsider would it not have been surprising jthat the occupants ol rooms "adjoining mine were more dressed than others of the fleeing guests? Fur thermore," my neighbors had scarcely disappeared for downstairs, till my pass key, furnished by the proprietor, was used. If ever an intrusion was justifi able that was, for a quick glance, befor-j a hasty exit, showed me a lighted bull's- eye lantern set on the carpet, and near it an open valise. That valise held an elec tric battery. Its wires led to anothci valise . which contained a reel, from which led a wire running through a space beneath the part ally-raised lowir sash out into the darkness toward the railway bridge. Scarcely had the fire-alarm commotion subsided when there, was a rumbling and a.roar in the'quiet'-tiight. The New York-night express was nearing Wat kins Glen station. The bridge watch man came from his shanty, and signaled, "Go ahead!" To what The ponder ous train cfeplt over the bridge. I shud dered, thinking of what , might have happened. ' j . The conspirators were hushed. I could imagine one,, whose room gave him a view of the bridge, peering out anx- iously as the train's. lights Hashed onto the doomed bridge. Dia any remorse seize him for the dastardly deed of try ing to hurl that 'unwarned train to cer tain dc.dh and rii n? He seized the reel with one hand to! quickly draw in the evi dence of his crime. With tiie other he pre sed the electric button jand speeded the electric spark to the end of the wire. The devilish contrivance dd not work. Before the fiend could recover from his astonishment the train had passed safely across the bridge. With an oath the villain turned as the door was flung opbn, and revolvers held him prisoner. The tarantula, when cor nered, stings its'jlf. The train Avrecker pushed his right! hand into a side pocket, and Withdrew it; not holding a revolver, but something which lie swallowed. He staggered and fell dead. Prussic acid, carried for years, had rescued him from earthly punishment. His partner, next door,' was captured by surprise. lie, too, was fully dre-sed, but stoutly de- i niei his complicity in any crime. I The electric apparatus, wire, infernal 'machine, and niv testimony convicted him. He is how visiting Auburn, to be cn i tertained by the State for ten years. He j turned traitor to the rest of the gang, i and tried to turn State's evidence. A .' number of rascals had planned to wreck ; that train. Several stationed themselves in ti;e glen beiow to plunder the, debris aud'bodies J" srood .luck in frustrating the inur- i derous design -commended s: e to the rail road company, and I was given a lucra tive position asisome of my reward for ! preventing what: would have prove'n a calamity almost unparalleled in - the his ; tory of railroad-!. That cull box is kept among the archives of the company. Conic out uorth-of here to-morrow, and : I'll show you a 1 ole like a cellar dug by -1 the explosion of its contents. It con tained enough dynamite and ter-chioride ! of nitrogen to i have more 'than accom i plished its villainous purpose. -2'. G. ; La M'i'le, in Cnricxt. Slaiisrhtcriiiz for Prizes. The slaughtering contest in connec tion with the Chicago Fat Stock Show lor the Washburn prizes attracted wide attention, an I the leading butchers from nearly every city of importance through out th? country were i i f.ttendautie watching tho competitors. Twenty-five butchers from Pittsburgh Pevtur, were pre -rent 'when the contest ended. The racas- re of t m which it was sup posed each butcher would c msume from 'calling of tin: e" to "finish1' was fixed at tw .'tits'-li-. e minutes; for which twenty points were scored.. Fach butcher was s orcd two points less lor each minute coi.su r.ed over; twenty-five, and two points more for each minute he consumed less than twenty-live. The "time" was call'.d when the bullock was j.ritchcd up. gullet raised, forward feet off, and nirht lor lMVl'ftn and 'finish" called when the .entrails, feet, head and hide Averc thrown one side, the caul phy-td in a tub, and the, carcass hoisted up and. Split down. The winners were: M. F. Mullins time, 10:17, total points, 108.4; Larry Xoonan tiin i0:o,5, total points, 107 ; Walter Dennisoti time, l;:o, total points, 1(:?.S. First prize, $100; sjcond, $50; third, $3.3. s When He First Saw the Sky. 31. Francisquo Sarcey, the critic. has wrilteu .about his eyes. He was always Vear sigllted. but he was a schoolboy be- fore he fv-undit out. Une day. for the fun of the thing, he put on his father's spectacles. "Fifty years have passed since then," he savs, "bat the sensation I exp rienced is keen and 'thrilling to lns day." Hitherto he had seen the I... . K.I..,. v.:. II 1 heavens above him "only as thick green cioth. Now, "Oh, wonder and delight!" .he saw -'what so enchanted me that I caifjlot spc ik of it to t'.iis day without emotion; betwe n the leaves and far be yond them 1 ttle glimpses of bright blue sk After that master Swrccy had a pair of spectacle', of Irs own. The study of myopia is his hobby, and it makes him melancholy, as it makes many oiher peoph?, to know that in fifteen years the proportion of short-sighted laci3 in the. I 'oly technic school of France has risen frcm 80 to 50 per cent., while 80 per cent, of the students wear glasses. Yet in the beginning of the C hristian era myopia, which is now "increasing like an cp deinic through Europe," was prac tically unknown. f. James's Gazette. Courtship; The youth wi'.h her was deep in love, His feelings he could scare command; "And so he said: ''Oive me tbis-glove . That now protects your lily hand!" A tear shone in her eye so blue, And, as her bosom rose and fcjl, She said: '-.The glove is yours, if you Will take the hand as well." ' Boston Courier. WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LiITJERATURE FEMININE READERS. FOR The Girl in Front. Sho sat before me down the aisle, . She looked so sweet, so free from -ruile, , I sat and watched her for awhile, Thoughtless 0f pray "'r... She bau a fashionable hat In shapo the opposite of flat, And all that I could see was that. And her back hair. Buch shoulder3. such a perfect waist A Grecian Venus might have graced, . Her toilet was in pci iect-tasre And fashion new. "I know that she is fail," I said, "As fair as dainty, and well bred," Then, wheu.shc turned her pretty head, Sho turned mine, too. . " Ramble?. Tailor-Made Jackets. There is only enc place in which a man can detect the diiierence between the genuine and the bogus tailor-made jacket. That place is the theatre. Your real swell, who backs her style with a plethoric portemonnaie, walks to- her orchestra chair, shrugs her shoulders with a compressive wriggle that drops the collar of the jacket down her. ba k, pulls one sleeve o.I and then the other, and finally foids the garment outside in with much ostentatious indifference and tosses it over the back of the chair so as to have the collar vith the Fifth avenue label exposed exactly under the nose of the lady in the seat behind her. The spurious and economical swell does noth ing of that sort. Peaching her seat she turns her back to the stage and her face to the folks in the next row b ick squirm3 out of her jacket, folds it outside out, and liaiigs it so skilfully over the back of her chair that no one hut a mind reader can ever discover whether it has 'the right .stamp within or no stamp at all. lint everyone knows by the way the garment is folded whe.her it is. the genuine article or not New York Letter. Chances of Mat rimony. I do not undertake to tell each of my fair readers how old she will be when led a blushing bride to the altar, if that should prove to b ; her destiny, but sii:; can be told what the chanc. s are in the present state of our knowledge of statis tical facts. If Ave take the weddings that. actually occur, we shall lind that in every thousand there wil be 17!) wives under twenty years, while there will be only nine husbands of that tender age. But perhaps these facts will be better Stated as lollows. thus: In every thou sand marriages there will be: .- " v Husband. Wire. Ae: ITU ru.ieiriO. W-i V J . . . . :.. Bet ween :.') and T. fM'S S3i livt - veen :2.j and .0. 81 Bet'veen HO and "Jo. Si 4.; j Bet vveeu :J.j an. 1 40. 44 'JO Pet ween 40 and 4.. 2" J Betwte i 45 aud'(t. 1 . '! Between .'0 and ."". U. 1 Betwdcn ;"o and i!i. , The remainder, nine men and five women, will be scattered a'oug between sixty and eighty 3ears an age at which llmost any one would be expected to know better. It will be sceii. however, that the' desire as well as the opportunity for marriage falls off rapidly in both ees after thirty; up to that" age both seem to increase. teroAlvn EiiLc. Hindoo Child Mania-ros. . It is e-sential for the honor of a Hin doo family of ood cate, says a writer in a contemporary, that it should on tain no unmarried jdaugh er of mature fears. The existence of such a daugh ter is not only a social disgrace, but a re- igious crime. When, therefore, a fe male infant is born, the. first id-a of her father's mind.is not one of pleasure, nor perhaps ol very a-tivc regr.. t, but sim ; ly how to find a husband for her. It s not necessary that she sho.ild become i wife in our sense of th" word, it suf- Bces that i-h should be given in mar aud go through the ceremony of-i the seven steps, which completes the re ligious rite.' Aged Brahmins ol goo 1 family still go about the country marry ing, for a pe uniary consideration, ie aiale infants whom they sometimes never ee njain. v, itnin tnc mcinorv or men still liviiig this abominabie practice was ! i flourishing trade. , A Ivuliu Brahmiu perhaps white-haired. aud hilf-blind ind decrepid, went the round of his bed each spring, going through tha peremony of marriage with such Cma!o ini ants as were o.tered, and pocket ing his fee, and perhaps never re lumed to : the child's house. So long as lie lived she could ma:ry no other man: when he died she became a widow for life. The Hi. uloo child-widow is Iciokid upon as a thi g Wpa? t and ac-2ur.-;ed, liearing thep: iial,y in this world for sins whih she has. committed m a jjast e.iteiu-u. liar hair is c ut short, or aer head is .shave altogether; she ex changes her pretty childish clothes for the widow's coarse and often squalid gar ment; she is forbidden to take part in iny viPage festival or family gathering; me very feight of her is regarded as au ill omen. Her natu:al woman's instincts ire starved into inanition by constant fasts, sometimes' prolonged to seve dy two hours. -Amid the genial an 1 bright colored life of the. Hindoo family she lilts fcbout disarrayed, sd"nt, shunned, dis figured in some parts of India a hide ously bald object forbidden U joy and ill hope. There are hundreds of thou sands of widows in India Avho have ac quiesced in their cruel lot, - They accept with a pathetic faith and resignation the priestly explanation which is giveff to ihein. They penitently believe that they ire expiating sins comu 'ttcd in a pas't iife, and they humbly trust that their purifying sorrows here will win a reward in the life to come. London Standard. Marriage Customs in Turkey. All wedding's in Turkey. a'nong Turks, whether in provinces or cities, ae ar ranged by, old women, and are compli cated, tedious affairs. The bridegroo-p aolcls fete several days at his home for his men friends, ifnd the prospective bride it her home with her oung friend s rirls. of course. The night before the wedding the married women of her ac iuaiutauce come and eat the married women's dinner with her which consists principally, as Sam Weller would , av, of & "swarry" of leg of mutton and trim-' aiings. The uet day the bride is taken to the bridegroom's hoise in a sedan chair, with a retinue of slaves carrying her wedding pre eiUs on trays on their beads, covered witli coVored tarlatan. The procession is sometimes q'.rte im posing. The bride's female relatives are also there in the new hart m until night fall and they retire lo the r homes, leav ing the bride on a sort of throne, veiled. The bridegroom is then admitted, and he 5 to throw himself tt the bride's fe d; and iffer her his wedding present o: Eome handsome jewelry, aud b g h r to' raise her veil and strike him "blind by her beauty. Sometimes he :s str.ick dumb by her ugliness, for he never looks on her lace untn auer tnc wedding. -When a baba rfc born in any house, there is great reccing if it be a boy, .-, g'fi' Vlc Wlft! is P"0"1 lor awuilo: but Turkish women are not good mothers. They are too-child-like them selves. Whm a girl is born to a Sultan they fire seven guns; when a boy. 'twenty-one. The boys die early, the girls are more apt to live. This is supposed to be a divine interposition of .Provi dence to prevent too many claimants to t .e throne'. Babies are dressed like Eiimm ej iu swaddling clothes for six months ; "then the boys are put in trou sers, somet mes in generals' or colonels' uniforms, regularly made. When the Sultan, takes a wife no cere mony fi considered necessary more than to present his bride. The new Sultan inherits fill the widows and slaves of his predecessor, and every year of his reign, at the feast of the Ramazan, he receives a new one from h s mother and takes any other girl or woman to hi3 harem who happens to strike his fancy. Slaves who become mothers are instantly pro moted to the rank 'of Sultana. Six months before the feast of i-amazan, the Valide Sultana orders that all the young candidates be brought to her, and she chooses fifteen and sometimes more of the lot. There are immediately put under diet and training, and at the be ginning of the great feast she again chooses, and this tin.e the choice is final. ! Girls arrive at legal majority at nine years of acje and are frequently married at ten. Children of twelve and thirteen are often seen with babies of their own. They are eld at twenty-five' .The old Turkish women have a hard lot of it. Beyond a respect for age which they con trive to inspire by tooth and nail among younger -wives than they, their lives are not happy. Still, they are provided for, and as long as a man lives he feeds hi3 family, one and all alike. Brooklyn, Maaashw , . i Fashion Notes. Velvet is the material for winter bon nets. Black velvet bonnets with white strings aro very stylish. The most stylish bonnets of the season have soft crush crowns Toint d'-esprit is a lace which will be much worn this season. Plaid neckties make a bit of brightness in little boys' costumes. The Dutch peasant costume is a favor ite dress for girls from six to ten years. The plumage of the osprey is very popular for millinery purposes this sea son. Square and diamond-shaped buttons are-considered more stylish than round ones. Double revers, extending to the should ders, appear on some of the new dresses. : ; vT!a'n skirts should be of richer mate rial than that used for the rest of the costume. Canya, tweed and cheviot arc-the ieadinglrcss materials this season for general wear. Brocades in which are woven gold threads are very elegant- and stylish for evening dresses. (J ray watered silk with black cashmere is a favorite combination for gowns for elderly ladies. A handsome fichu of tulle and old point lace is sprinkled with tiny shells of mother-of-pearl. Silver' gilt braclets are very narrow and are set with turquoises after the manner of garnets. "Sackcloth" is a lbosely-woven serge of ludit weijiht which bids fair to be come popu'ar, as it drapes nicely. , Ida k an:l yellow iu combination has not been seen in a long time in elegant costumes, but. this winter it reappears. Dark red shades are much used for velvet toilets, an'd for use with the:e are passementeries, that have red stones in them. Manv elegant impoited sjiits are black throughout, or else in combination with jnvliite, 'uedc, greenlor the brighter or .1 L- - 1 - fiuU red shades ! Tho'c is a marked contrast in gowns I of French aud Euglish make, the former ! being much gathered and puffed, the lat- ter plait e 1 and plain. I I laid velvet for i ctticoats to walking suits arc more aml more- popular as their natty c tec is appreciated, the same p'ai t appears on the bonnet or toque. Chestnut bells of enameled silver, so like tho ripe nut that it is hardly possi ble to distinguish them, are worn upon bangles and keep up a tintinabulation with every movement of the wearer. Popular combinations for elegant, gowns of satin and velvet are green and b own, or heliotrope and Suede, or two shades of heliotrope, trreen or brown, the dii'erenee in shade often depending merely on the difference of the two ma-; terials. The World's Greatest Railroad. Did you ever stop to think what a great corporation this l ennyivania Railway iy. ' trfthe 000 miles of railway n the .I'nited Stales it operates TOOO. Of 21,000 locomoti . es in the country it owns 2,0 ;0. Of 750,( 0 ) cars of all kimb 100, 00P run on its lines. Its shareJpf the gross earn ngs of all American railways - 750,000,000 a year is ten per cent., or $1, 500,000 a week. Every year it car ries -;0, 000, 000 lassengers and GO, 000, 000 tons of freight, the tonnage being' one sixth of the estimated total for all rail ways in the country. To carry on its vast operations an army of 80,000 men is employed.. Hitherto o tr Chicago railways have becn the must ambitious iu An erica The vigorous munaer in which they have reached their iron fingers out into the West has been simply, marve'pus. Al ready at the base of the Rocky Mountains, it is predicted for the Northwestern, the St. Paul and BmlinjtrTn the great trio that another decade will see theirloco motives taking drink from the Pacific. So rapid are their strides, indeed, that the Pennsylvania must go ou into the. West and conquer new' territory, or be soon compelled to yield to another the title of greatest railway in the world. r. Chirajo Herald. An Old Fashion Revived. The old healthful' and happy fashion of having one or two wide log fire-places in either hall or library has been revived, says an exchange. An -increase in the number of these is noted by architects and designers, all of whorn approve the revival and predict the happiest possible results from the fashion. There is no home delight qu'te equal on long winter nights to that of watching the great logs as they slowiy burn, send ng their count less sparks up the chimney..." Where the winter is mild 'this droymy pastime is" m -re or less circumscribed, of course, -but in the regions where winter means something more than rain and mist, those who once sit by such a fireside never for get it afterward, and it is. ncrhans. not too much to say that they never are liiappy without one. j ? .r I A New Jcrsev man.has been fined.$50 t for keeping a ow. The cow belonged 1 to a u. j 'libor - e BUDGF OF FUiX. HUMOROUS SCETCIIES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. A Wife Wortli Having Sensible Say agea An Expensive Pin The Dreamy Bookkeeper The Landlady's Retort, Etc. 4 'Mr. Winks 4 'Great Scott ! there comes J inks. He has a bill against me. Tell him I am out." - . Mrs. Winks -"Well, III tell him you have just gone down town to pay a bill." . "No, no; he'll know you're lying then. Tell him. something he can be IIgvg. " ' 4 'Well, I'll say you're on another spree, dear."' Omaha Worth Sensible' Savages. "What queer things there are in th world." said Mrs Brown,, looking up from a book of travels which he had been perusing. "Here it says that a New Guinea savage gives a friendly salutation by pinching his nose and patting his stomach at the same time. What do you suppose such a performance signifies'" 4 'That you can lead a man by. the nose when his stomach is full," returned Mrs. Brown, promptly. "Those New Guinea savages must be a very sensible race." Harper s Ha:ar. An Landlady's Retort These biscuit,' said the Professor, 4 'are like the Statue of at night. Thev would give better satisfac tion if they were lighter." "Yes, " said the third floor back, "and this piece of chicken reminds me of a great hero Bonaparte.1' "But neither of your board bills are like the Balkan troubles," said the land lady. "Why so?"V asked the Professor and' third floor back. : ! "Because the Balkan troubles will, probably be settled. Xem York Sun. An Expensive Pin. . One fine day a Scrigglcsville man came to town with a pailful of clams, which he sold. Then wasliirig out the pail care fully he had a gallon of molasses poured into it and started for home. Feeling' the weigh't of his burden he put a stick through the pail and hung the puail over his shoulder. - - Presently, jogging along in an ab stracted fashion, the Scrigglcsville man espied a pin in the rcad,au.l being of a frugal turn (he stooped over to pick it up. This seemed to the molasses t ) be as good a chance as it could find, and it promptly stepped out of the pail and walked all oyer the back of the Scrig glcsville man's neck. "Good heavens!" ga pe 1 the Scr ggles man, as he struggled to hU feet and viewed the devastation wrought upon the scenery, "a gallon ot molasses for a pin. " lit'chhini Me. 4 Oimrier-Journal. Tlie JJieamy Bookkeeper! A tall, gaunt, absent minded man at tired in a drab sack coat and a pair of chcckcr-plaid pantaloons stood "on the corner of Charles and Baltimore streets yesterday afternoon smoking a cigar and conversing with two ycuag ladies r.i he party were waiting for a car. As the carapproached, the young man, who was evidently a bookkeeper, , -mechanically stuck the lighted cigar behind his ( ar, under the impression 'that it was a lead pencil. The cigar remained behind the ear ex actly two seconds. Then the young man's mouth opened like an old-fashioned barndoor swinging on its hinges "vJee-ru-sa-lem." hi yelled, jerking the cigar away as though it were a bum blebee and pro jecting h s anatomy abut two feet into te st II and placid atmos phere. ' The cigar had "singed the hair off from a spot on his head the size of a silver dollar, and the top of his ear vas burned to a blister. Baltimore Jhrald. He Guessed at It. Superintendent Judson, of the Chicago and Iowa Koad, telLsoi'.a section boss who several years ago sent in a report, which made a byword for the boys about the general ofliccK that is in use to day. ' Section bosses ate provided with'b'ank, on which they are required to report all cases of' animals killed by trains. The blanks have spaces for telling where, when and how the animal is killed, and what disposition is made of the carcass, whethcrit is .buried or "sold. . : ' One day a cow was killed o.it on the Rc'chelle section, and asecrion bo-s whi had been recently promoted 'went vt to make the report. , He told in the proper spaces what train killed the tuiimal an'd , under what conditions it was done. Then he came to the line: "Disposition "Weil," said he, scratching his head, "I'll be clanged if I'm sure about that, but being's she was a cow I think I can guess at it. ' So lie filled out the line, which, when it reached the general oitice, read: "Disposition, kind and gentle." Chi cago Netcs. ' The Time Fiend. On one of the recent cold nijriits anian was hastening across the Common with his overcoat buttoned up to his .nock. He was rather anxious to know what time it wa, but he was .too lazy to un button his" coat, in order to get at his watch. Just then he saw a man of well dressed appearance coming iu the 'dis tance, and remarked to himself: "Go to! I will e'en ask yon genteel stranger what time it i-, and 'he will un button his coat, pull out his watch, lind eke inform md of the hour of the night." - r- He perceived that the stranger was buttoned up jut as Tr- was.- When he came up, the man who wanted to know the time touched his hat politely and said : v "Sir, do you know what time it is?" Th stranger paused, removed his right glove, unbuttoned his overcoat from top to bottom, unbuttoned his un der coat, and Ijiially pulled out his waU-h, while the cold wind beat against his Unprotected breast. '.. ' Holding up the watch' so that the light would shine on it, he scrutini.cd it an instant, and said : , "Yes." And; then he passed - on without an other word. Boston lleconl. The Hanjchty Wife. In one of the cities that lie over against Boston there lives a family whose mas culine head i3 a man who has won con siderable wealth, from humble begin nings not unlike those of Commodore Vanderbilt, with the difference thit while he, like -Vanderbilt, began as a boatman, he was expanded -iuto the bank ing business instead of into the rartroad business. Ever since he became a banker his excellent wife has been smitten with the great importance of her husband's new occupation and has advertised it on every possible occasion. The horse-car conductors on the line which runs into her city all know her, and smile when she enters the car and grandly utters her command: 1, . - ' " " 4 'Conductor, let me off at my hus band's bank!" " ! . ' One day lately a trampish-looking old fellow with a red nose got on the car just as- the bankerXwife delivered her usual order to the conductor. The old man watched her performance curiously, and then arose, pulled himself together, and called out with a magnificent air that was inimitable : I , "Conductor, let me off at my old wo man's peanut stand !" I A roar went through the air, and "my husband's bank" h been alluded to more than ever since that time. Boston Record. ' ' . Well-Wakes. The well-wakes, sp strongly denounced by the clergy iu early times, lingered in some places in Shropshire (England) even into the present century-chictly in town ships whereTW church or chapel existed. The Eas well at Baschurch, in a field beside the River Perry, a mile west of. the church, was frequented till twenty year3 ago by young people who went there on Palm Sunday to driuk sugar and water and eat cakes. A clergym in who was present in 18;:0 speaks of see ing little boys scrambling, for the lumps of sugar which -escaped from the glassei aud floated down the brook which flows from the spring into the river. St. Margaret's well, ab mt a quarter of a mile from Washington, renowned for its eye-healing virtues, was yearly visited by Black country folks and others,; who douked. or dipped, their heads in it on Good Friday. Around! Oswestry, both iti Shropshire and Montgomeryshire, are various "Trinity wells,; ' at which folk drank 'sugar and water at "Trinity wakes." At the "Halliwell wak' s" at Partington a township in the parish of Chirbury, the well was; adoried with a bower of green boughs, rushes and flow ers and a May-pole was set up.. The people fused to walk I around the hill, with fife, drum and fldd'c, dancing and frolicking as thev went.f' and Hien fell to feasting at the "well-side,! finishing the evening by dancing to the, music of fid dles. They threw pins into the well an offering which one old jnan, a black-, smith at Hope, says was supposed s to bring good luck to those' who made it aid to -Hieserve th4h frdni being bc twirchedj; and " they Jalso drank some of the water. But the jwre spring water waa not the only nor the chief material of the feast. Soon after Chirbury wakes (St. Michael s) a b irrel of ale was al ways brewed on Horrington green, which, on the following Ascension day, was' taken to the side of the holy well and there tapped. Cakes, of course, were eaten with the ale. 1 They were round, flnf linns frnj'n thrip. to four inches across. sweetened, spiced andj marked with a cross. They were supposed to bring good luck if kept, j Several fatuous makers of them a.c remembered, by whom they were sold o a' I corners, together with nuts, etc - The wake is said to have been discontinued about 1 sv to 18 54, at the death of one Thomas Cleeton, who used to "b ew the drink." Almost exactly the ,;ame customs pre vailed at the lady wellj at Old Church stroke, aTtownship in the adjoining parish of Church-troke, in Montgomeryshire, where the wake obtaint)d the queer name of "Codger wakes," fromhe sur name (nickname?) of I Codger, of Old Churchstroke, "who used to brew the drink." Here also j the Well was "dressed" with flowers and rushes on Holy. Thursday, and the people dropped pins into it, and sat ardund eating cakes and drinking sugar and 'water from cups .passed round the circle. hrcpihire FoiL L- re. ; . The Vest as a Luu Protector. Mr. James Hess makes a sensible sug gest:on in the lie 'Mid of' IJcdth,' when he calls attention to the absurdity of our present curlou - habit of .w-. aring cambric back, vests, while the i fronts are of a heavy mater al and sometimes wadded, and urges the propriety of protection for both sides of the iung. 'i he habit, of course, has grown from the belief that the outer coat is sufficient protection for th -back, whslj the chest 'needs warmer covering, on account of the coat being open. Hut it see.ns a j di-proval of the reasoning that the first unpleasant teusa tions of c lillncss are thej so-called "creep ers" running down the spine. Even when the warmest woolen material is se lected for a suiting, the tailor, unlesi otherwise ordered,' NviiLinyariably make the backof the vest of some thin flimsy material like cambric or silk, though he may deem it a Ivisable fc ad the front with cotton wadding. There is no proper reason why the back of the vest should be made so insufficient.' The front may be made uncomfortably thick, and still fail to protect the lungs unless the back is made equally thick and warm. In front they are protected about five times as much as in the back by clothing, ribs, flesh, muscle aud fat. ; In the back the lungs tome almost to j the surface, and therefore need more (protection. Mr, Hess asserts thatrit has been his custom for two years past,? and that many gen tlemen to whom he has mentioned the matter hive had their vets made with good, warm backs, and after a j winter's trial ate quite enthusiastic 6ycr the change. They have passed through the entire Winter and spring without once taking cold, which is the best evidence in support of the thick vest-back propo sition, that could be adduced. Popular t?L tence JS'etrs. . ; . A Barb v'sjshop for Women. A newspaper correspondent has found a place in A'cYmk where women are shaved, and he had the opportunity of watching, the operation, which he de scribed as follows: VThere was a high foot rest in f rout of thej chair, but it did not appear to be required oU this ok casiou. A napkin was tucked under Ee? chin, and the operator applied a quantify of shaving cream or lathor squeezed out of a tinfoil tube, instead of beingVmixed up in a cup with a brush. A little cehtle rubbing -with "the ends of the lingers ! softens tlie skin' and the .hair on the Tip, the operator refraining from remarks I upon the weather or elections during the I ..... ... --- process, vvtiicn imparted a wictd, un natural air to the' whole performance. The barber then deftly stroppecj a small, thin, short-bladcd v razor with a pearl handle, seized thevictim gently by her pretty nose and began to shave the lip with a quick but delicate touch. The best feature of th-3 operation -wait that at its close, the barber alio'wed the customer to 'depart' without telling her that she needed a shampoo, or that she ought to h ive a hair tonic. I . . Views of Life. "Life is short!"' the preachercried From his pulpit up onhigh.. j. . Jameson heard, and softly Signed, "True! at, true! And so am L" ; "Life is real!" the preacher said," Jameson nodded. I Vain regrets Bowed in -penitence his bead. ' "So," he sighed, "are all my debts, ' "Life is earnest' nexl he heard, -f Cold sweat '00: ed through all his - - pores; , -." I "Yes" ho whispered, 'that's the woid, Wo are alt my creditors." ,-. .. Homerville Journal,'' HONDURAS: PRODUCTS OF Til i ... AMERICAN Lin I Its- Woods and Fruits Nutritive Plantain, na 1 and Cocoanuts Trf.P, American citizens have a mo the vast fruit, fiber,, nut and tr'' trade of Spanish Iloiiduns. rC1 employs numerous ocean t -ariiA: nearly all of the rative !aboi6 beginning of these IndutrieA 1V78 laho?anv in. nnu- m . 0 j ( lllc where it is used largely fot 'J Cannon balls go lliKm!) j' i5 splintering pr splitting thc.Vl T bsst timber isv shipped to pn,r. (, thfrcheaper qualities co n,. j,, States for the manufaciu c o'"t r I .... 1 I lr' ana lor interior, nni-ti. v..; i .: i ,i : 'i Sleeping aim , uiawuig rni,m r . , finished with it. '. ' 7Sm?ricau3 are takin-r fIOu, jj , and shipping thein : c: w)i t 'J Iruits and woods or dhe , at these products will ecu im;r.,! ihn hrtit in forme 1 nomil,. - ' i i ' i i ni cigar-boxes are made fr.ua the s i cedars of Honduras. Tliis voojt'1 ceptible of a beautiful poij H much in use for interior lini.,. ' j'i nearly resembles mahogany. afly. f haps, the only wood wh: k v,;i JA pregnate cigars withitsodor. lw,i r .i - :c.i ' .. i . -"5 wood g;o piciitirui.v. aim j. ,r the pr.ncipal building ti nb r- of j: dur.is. It is yellowish i.-i cat. 5, a beautiful hard surface. Th ta compares very tlosely. .with mah except that it h very. hard a:ii ,,itf; is urcd for panel and vein-' v,r, saoodilla is a very ; linrd, (' J -wmn 1 Hiii-nltln find Rtl'rin. 11 percentage oi our mius are it,ai it. The ; ebra-wood will VJtti form of knife-handles. It thv! rosewood. It is lighter than it v.j American variety, and very tint . also used for veneer work and ,,H of rosewood venccriiig. ''Iie!: vite, which is a'so used for Knife dies, etc, is quite we!l knm-ti, I cabbigc-palnis are found in our I beaut ful canes, and are liKc Ly t the brush-backs of the fiitnr-. T or thitty oU cr varieties uf wcol there, more or less in u-e. Hi found in the mountains is t tn hard p t by for any use except as tim'j r The mahogany-trees a c hti it i i fall months- Tiic lab iters are & about Christmas time. Dun th reason, the logs arc floated d-rv; river to the steamships 0:1 tlv loaded. The trucking is dew tithg'' two-wheel trucks,' with seven to t.--- wheels, drawn by five rnd eiulit vs, oxen. The labor is all don.' Iiv Every man is given a task of s . t.f logs to fall, to square, or so many !f paths to make, etc. The monaU vided into gangs of twelve and under a foreman, who sees that im j per'orms his task. .Laborers :irj from SU to l") per month, .'with nj Their rations consist of four iioii- pork and seven quarts of flour or, if . preferred, fifty plantains ;'r,f pounds of beef. The lorcmcn 2'ti; rations and coo"ee and mi gar. Tl)Cf' drivers are allowed mocca:ns I "I ; rest go barefooted.' The. niiilKijii; generally fouud in the. valley-, nkt . small streams, up the raotinjs. j', convenient supply is very tautt. will soon be exhausted. TiictMsH H.mo Tmm t onn t, uVO-n - -t . .f Im ! each. They average from forty to feet in he'ght and from t.vd Jo eidiU in diameter. . j - New Crleans consu n;s a'l th 3 tains shipped from Ilonduia Tltid derful fruit contains all the nutiitivf ments of wheat, and quite an apicmj saccharine matter It makes a dli article of food, whether fried. H'li roasted. It re- em bles the b;ui A color and appearance, but 1 iiir larger in si e. Tue plantain, vith f beef, forms almost exclusivc'v tlH of riie Honduraneans, paiticnli: - j . ierior to all othert:. jr. For b.inanas, the laud, is fit si i't j" by cutsing down the bruh and! x trppa nn.l liiirniTio1 thi lun'd nvi r V. Inui.-iris. ro lie or.itiorou nip 1 I -e cle. ring, the suckers are pLiiitta s juares, twtnty feet apart. K r h i c produces a bunch of fruit i ' s'dcjf'i-. mouths I The suckers arc cut d ; . the fruit gathered. Meanwhile new p spring from the original p'an. lin pr t of which are left in. each hill, - ''i1 about two yean a contit u ns cr,1 gathered of ; 00 or 40 ) btii!(hc; acre. The bananas arc cut viii ttp two-thirds ripe. After reacfiin.j oa!''3' k-jt the fruit is ripened in rooms. It has a richer flivor My ripened in this wa. . Owinr tcth- cliarine matter retained in the 2 banana gi'' --i juice at its sl in size fruiii.Hi A 7. lllllll (III IY 111.11 IIIV ----- imh am .iAh f ht D.'l I1;I1I:L !Ml '- fru t abso bi tnc j 1 Uanana farnn vary two hundred acres. Cocoanut trees are planted -..t 'ch-u coast just back of the wash f tli' 'i' They will not' )ioducc more '-' fourth of a mile from the -ad.i 1"V nuts are planted together wi h the t'f down. As they grow tneysprea 1 ein adapt themselves to the space of twenty-five apart. The tree- product five years. Orchards cover a 1 . 1 rtic f-I being often twenty miles by. one'-lotr wide. Trees .will produce for j years, aud drop from i .'( to nufse per year; so that each tree lives f dr lrom e.OIO to 12,00!. A ti e ii drons one nut nor d.iv. The nuts; r p perpetually, but the yield is h -i ur; the. four, summer months Hi' T played by the monkey in pi kingjeof nuts ia n. mvlli 'Tlir. ii:itivis (In lli'.'l"'' husk the nuts and hip them TijH-'' . 1 . . : I .. .. 1 ' or nore is an imftortiini a'ii;. ,. merce. It is made info ma' tin-. 1nd tba purpose nlotc laige ipiantit nuts are snipped tfl England. 'I r' , has been waited in this cor.ntrji this time, but a concern has taken of anew invention to utilie it. ini!'f vention is intended alo to strip hi arate the fibres of the banana an Oranges, limes and lemons pn( four vearsr the cocoa tree. IK'ia ;i0 n. .1 i 1 , :n ttic'1. on ui uui ciiucuiaiu is lnauy. "y , time. There arc also nuibersoi ' cious f mits. uot shipped because tV'J ( 00 dclicatej The pineapple lure f to a large site. Frank Le.di- : 1 i Cakrs for Ererybodj A ,1 ...... 4.., k.i,),. nlm 'nridct self upon tho quality of Ins cake en iscs iuus: For the nrettv girl iiiige! cake For the pugilist - pound :;--c-.. For the el peptic - stomach cake. For the laborer back ake. For the agriculturist hoe cake. For the 1 cd headed girl -'cr Fcr the chiropodist com cake ; :For tho beat sponge cake. Knr thf iimwriininni niilll ni1'' It - - ,....v... . 1. . 4.1. . 1 cntra C r 01 wie: parngnipjici- t- : ' ' ...5
The Weekly Record (Beaufort, N.C.)
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Jan. 27, 1887, edition 1
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