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J r THE PINE KNOT. I SOUTHERN FINES. N. G. The only civil pension1? paid by the United States go to the widows of Prosi denls Polk, Tyler, Grant and GarfieUl, and the widow of Rev. Mr. Cheat'.am, who was killed With General Canby in the Modoc massacre. The former cet $5,000 a year, while the latter receives $1,200. ; -v-i ;;: V;: ':v.fv Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, who is much interested in e .cry phase ol : woman's work, has kindly furnished the pupils of the Detro't School of Journal ism witha motto which shall inspi e them to do good work. Ia a letter to . the director of the school, Mrs. 31. L. Rayne, the lady say3 : j I admire, your enterprise and see in it a great gobd to many. To suggest a motto to keep in sight of those good girls I am i. imagining you to be training into systemati ? ? methods of journalistic work let ma bej you to remind theru, thus: Good work is ueycr wasted; it brings t a :k to you tbe exa t worth of what you put iuto it. It is, there fere, the only safe investment in'th? world. Hose Elizabeth Cleveland. . JJ s The Manhattan Elevated Company of New York, with its four lines of road, carried 115,109,501 pas sengers during the year ending Septem ber 30, 1880. This is equivalent to 300. vuu persons uauy. ..me numD2r oi pas fcengers car.ied by all the surface roads for the year was 101,105,031. The ele- vaieu roaus received an average or a little over six cents lor each passenger, their gross earning? being $7,42i,21G, and tbe net earnings $3960,101. From the latter $1,531,085 was paid for inter est ana rentals, ana $374,909 for taxes and on structure. The snug sum o $1,560,C00 was paid in dividends, and $99,031 carried to the surplus account. me roaas couia well ariora to pay a large sum annually for their valuable franchise. The headlines in a Chicago paper run as follows: "Sinfulness of London Eating, Drinking and Wickedness Run ning Riot The PeopTe Daily Swallow 500,000 Oxen, 2,000,000 Head of Sheep, 2ODjO0O Calves, 300,000 Swine, 8,000,000 Head-ol Fowls, 500,000,000 Pounds of Fish, thYsame of Oysters, and. Any Quantity oV Other Stuff, Washed Down with 200,000,000 Quarts of Beer' Ac cording to the last census report London had a population of about 4,000,000 in round numbers. On this basis of com putation it would appear that each citi zen of the metropolis consumes every day one eighth of an ox, half a sheep, Beveral breasts of veal, a good-size 1 ham, two chickens, a hundred or more pounds of fish, the same of oysters, to say noth ing of vegetables and other things, and worst of all he drinks fifty quarts of beer a day.1 It is difficult to understand how famine can exist under .these cumstances. cir- The London Tclegriph tells of a curi ous custom among the natives of Java in the neighborhood of the Bromo volcano. "It is said that whenever an eruption takes place the natives, as soon as the fire (the molten lava, no doubt, is meant) comes down the mountain, kindle at it the wood they use as fuel for cooking. They keep in the j fire j thus made for years, and whenever itgbes out, through neglect or for any other reason, they never kindle it anew from mutches, tiut they get a light from tbe'r nearest neigh bors, who:C tire was originally obtained from the volcano. 'The fires in use up to the late outburst iu the native cooking places were all obtained from the iJromo eruption of 1832." i ' There are cnlv ten rVisinr.Ta the rolls who have! lost a leg at the hip- joint. The Walking Staff. Canes." said a D-troLt dealer to a Free Press reporter, "are intended as a support. But it is only old gentlemen or those who arjlamc who use them in that way. They are a sort of ballast for a well-dressed man to keep him in equi poise." '. ' j "What are fayorke sticks?" "Blackthorn. snakewood, inalacca,; ebony, oak and ash, with ivory, silver or bron.zc heads. jYoung meu use slender, flexible steel canes, unless they are pe destrians. Then they carry a walking stick or alpenstock. V 'Here are some of the fashionable knobs,' continued the dealer. "This head of Mephistopheles in silver, with ruby eyes, cats' heads, tigers' heads and different fancy styles are popular. But the neatest of all is just a carved bar or scroll, that will not b2 passe in a year or so. Here arc tha flexible steel cane3, with loaded heals, and ths dirk canes. These are used for protection in case oil assault.". '' , "Arc jcanes as much used as ever ?" "They arc indispensable. A man can not walk with his hands iu his pockets, nor carry them swinging -at his side, when he is out at hi? leisure. Canes are not used during business hours. They belong to the promenade toilet. Notice a dozen young men on the streat of an afternoon and you will see a character distinction in the way each one handles his cane. Eiderly gentlemen are very fond of theirs. Some of them bring singular sticks here to be made up one from the branch of an apple tree that grew near his childhood's homo, another a bough from some reat man's grave. It used to be a common fashion to bring sticks from foreign trees, but that was when a stick was more a staff than it is now. I have noticed one thiug. A homely old knotted cane is always high ly valued, perhaps from associations. The proudest cane is the presentation stick with a bix gold head, and a long inscription. And it is the mot uncom fortable one to carry, as it - needs con stant watching." Imprisoueil for E listing S aves. A few weeks ago a public statement was made by Gen. Howard that an Iowa soldier wa, during the war, imprisoned by order of Gen. Hallcck for freeing slaves. I The name of the soldier was not then giyeu, but he lias responded for himself.! Hu was Dr. R insom L. Har ris, of Tabor, Fremont County, Iowa, a Lieutenant of the First ' Kansas Colored Volunteers. lie says it happened near Springfield, Mo. Slaves came into camp and gave valuable information regarding the movements of Price's army, and he ! decided to ut lizs theni by enli ting them, liut Hallect heard of it and ordered them sent back to their masters and him put into prison. The slaves, however, managed to escape. The doctor was re leased after several weeks, and subsc- quently led slaves in five Southwest. a large number of those hard-fought battles in the Chicago Jour ml. ' ' Qualifications or a Millionaire. "What makes a millionaire?" asked a man. ; v "Energy," responded one. "Perse verencc," said another. '.'Opportunity and ability," responded a third. "Strict attention to business," hazard ed another. "I should say all these things and add one or two more in the same line," said a fifth. -.' . "Alif wrong,' remarked the first speaker. i "Wrong!" chorused the five. "Yes." V r : -'I; "What makes a miilionairej then fT "The necessary millions." Pi ttsturg Diratc. To France belongs the credit of giving to modern medicine a scientific system of massage; and yet, in spite of many able works, and various discussions at the Academy of Sciences and ether learned j Eocuities, it remained a sort of secret practice almosl J wholly under the domain of empiricism; but with the waning interest of French physicians the Germans and Scandinavians took up the subj A:t ; and about tea years ago Dr. Mizirer of Amsterdam brought massage to be acknowledged as a highly valuable method. He placed it upon the basis of practical knowledges, thus taking it out of the hands of ignorant charlatans. He did not write much about it Knf cimrkltr t. employed the teaching of facts. To physicians who wrote to him for an ex planations of his treatment he only said : "Come and sec." r To Prof, von Mosen- criil is nwinrr tbo prcscut accurate and o o - i scientific knowlclire' ge oi me suujcct; oy his careful ami painstaking observations he has brought massage n!o high es teem so that it is now acknow!eJycd as a special branch of the art of medicine. Cfiamber's Joui'jipU ? The "Xob'c Forehead" Idea. It is popularly supposed that the high forehead is essential to a goo 1 brain, and intellectual superiority is usually asso ciated with the conception of a storied brow." Dr. AVilliam II. "two Mays ably combats this idea in the Western Lancet. He say3 4'thc size qi the fore head depends much on the line or growth of the hair that limits it. A man may have what is called a low forehead; but but if the hair could be removed to the height of four or five inches, the same individual would present as fine a spec imen of the traditional "noble forehead" as could be wished, a perfect "dome of thought" particularly if the frontal sin ues happened to be large or protuber ant. Again, a low forehesd has ever been held a sigiji of beauty in women, and has certainly never been regarded as an impeachment of her mental capacity. The truth is, the front part of the brain has very little to cU with the intellectual process. It is the) posterior lobes of the brain with which the higher faculties of the mind are associated. Cliarms fpr Chinamen. Charms form a prominent feature of Chinese life, and these can be purchased in Chinatown in bewildering variety, and almost everv Chinanian has one or more. These are purchasdd by tourists from the East as bric-a-brac or curiosities. One of the most;, common is a dagger about . twelve inches loug male of coius of va rious kinds, and j kuown as the sword charm. Brass mirrors can be purchased for a small sum that will cure mad people. The money dagger, that costs perhaps a dollar, is to hang on the bed or about the room to ward off malignant influences, demons, genii and other troublesome - possibilities Other and Jess expensive charms are the leaves of the sweetflag j o and Artemisia joined in a roll, and near beds or bunks or over the lintel a branch or sprig of peach blossoms is often seen that will drive offj the most powerful de mon. Gourds, tiger claws and a thou sand and one other objects arc sold for the same purpose, rich and poor being, as a rule, equally superstitious. Sin Fran cisco Call. j ' . Drawing the Line. Magistrate You say you are a tourist t Prisoner Yes, sir. I love nature in all hvr radiant tcnuty Magistrate (hastily) Never mind that ! How much money have you about your clothes? Prisoner S'2vefty-fiv3 cents! Magistrate (severely) Then I thai commit yon as a tram n. We draw the lim; between tourists ani tramDS at tl. PLiladeli Gill. CLIPPINGS FOtt THE CCKIOUS. Te Sultan of Morocco has C000 wires they ray. In northern Asia now they arc making; whiskey of .rein Jeer milk, which is rich in alcohol. -Prof. Hughes, F. R. S.,.is of opinioa that a ribbon instead of a rod of meta is the best lightning rod. The government pays cut $7,000 in pen sions every hour, according to the calcu lation of a Washiugton correspondent. A fanner at Suisan, Cal., seat a friend an apple weighing eighteen ounces, say ing that it was the smallest on t ho tree.' Some of the apples, he asserts, would weigh over two pounds. A lady named Augustina Ahuraada has died recently in Santiago, Chili,- at the age of 115 years, and at Talca Mrs. . iuana Gatica has died, aged 130 years. The latter leaves two sons, one 89 and the other 93 years of age. A repeating rifle, invented by a French officer, can be loaded with its seven cartridges in ten seconds and completely discharged in four, and it does not re quire to be removed from the shoulder until the magazine is exhausted. When the English first came over from 1 Germany even Eugland itself was not one There were many different kingdoms and kings. LUtle by little these kingdom were united. Then there was one prin-; ciple king and the other kings were under him ;after wards the kings dropped off and the principal became the only one among the English. Eugne Tyler of Adairville,Ky.,i3 pre- ty well . charged with electricity, it U said that after rubbing his hands to gether quickly, he can place them on 4 man's phoulders and control him com pletely, and that no one has yet been found that can resist the influence thus exerted. He can also light a gas jet by aa electric spark sent from his finger two feet away from the burner. The mappa was a table napkin in use in ancient Rome for wiping the hands and mouth at mals vulgar persons fastened it under their chins to protect their clothes from stains, as some do now. In ordinary cases the host did not furnish his guests with napkins; but each per son brought his own mappa with him, occasionally carried away in ilf; some of the delicacies which he could not con sume at table. What a Shark Eats. The shark has the reputation of a ra pacious appetite and a good, strong ' siomach. He is not satisfied with trifles, nor can the keca edge of his appetite bo turned by a "diet of worms." He re quires a substantial bill of fare, and like the black country operative who asked the carver for a "piece of meat that would not bend," he is fond of solids. The stomach of a shark, which was re cently cipturcd in Watson's Bay, was opened and an examination of its con tents made. According to the papers, among other things discovered were a number of human bones, the leg' of a. pair of gray tweed trousers, a pocket containing a penny, the buckles of a pair of braces, the blade of an oar, an empty beer bottle, the seat of a child rocking chair, two tin meat cans, a gum pot, an old gridiron, and last but not least, a half-digested silk hat. It is pre sumed the thm had been out to dinner with some gay fellow sharks the night before. Cordial Ke'allon. "Are their relations cordial?" asked 'one friend cf another, respecting a cou pte of politicians. "Blamed if I could, telh You 6ce 1 was over in the corner when they cams up to the bar, and I conld only see the neck of the bottle, but it looked more like whiskey." Wanhinoton Critic.
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