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THE PRESENT TIME.
Voices that call upon us from the past -
Strengthen our hearts and daily cheer us on
A noblo legacy, which long shall last,
Is our inheritance of deeds well none.
But Hopelooks forward with a brighter face
Than Memory's. Forgetting days gone by
It Bets its foot to run a better race -
Than any mortal yet has dared to try;
It sees more glories than have yet been woa,
It hears strong voices, urging men to rise
And look no more on what is past ana gone, -But.
with their faces lifted to the skies,
To live like heroes, so that men shall say.
"life never had such meaning as to-day.
0. M. Sheldon to Youth's Companion
LIFE IN ANDALUSIA
The Sellers of Eatables The Potter nd
Ills Clay Law and Order, a,.- .
The street life in Andalusia is full of
interest, too, The oil man----a,-fuTiction-ary
answering to oaf rriftWrnan in some
respects. will be the first to awake you
with his discordant cryv then ccme the
sellers of fried comestiblea of different
kinds, which you are supposed to require
as an adjunct to your morning chocolate;
later on the venders of vegetables, clneny
patronized by those who find the market
too far off. : It is very amusing to watca
the transactions with these "costers."
As winter approaches, various delicacies
unknown in other countries, I fancy
will make their appearance. . The batata,
or sweet Malaga potatoe, candied,, or sold
in a syrup made of sugar, is delicious;
turron, from Alicante (a sweetmeat re
sembling French nougat), quince cheese,
and many cakes and bonbons, some of
wliich inspire suspicion in the mind of
the foreigner, will lie sold in enormous
quantities, for your Spaniard has a sweet
tooth.
As you pass along the .narrow streets
and byways, you may notice through
some open doorway a great baking fur
nace, fed with piles of heather and rose
mary; here and there an untidy garden
with a noria. or Moorish well, -whose
wheel a patient old mule is turning; per
haps a family sitting outside m the sun,
making the clay pota which play so large
a part in the arrangement of the -cuisine
here, the said pots being dried in the open
air; indeed, you may light on some very
remarkable interiors if you an; curious in
that way, and will take the trouble to
seek them out. The last sound at night
is usually the "sereno, or watchman,
calling out the hour and the state of the
weather as he paces up and down in si
lence. whistling, occasionally to his fel
lows to keep up communication of some
sort with them.
When it is cold they light fireH at "the
street corners and look uncommonly pio
turesque .as they lounge about in their
great cloaks and three cornered hats:
they do wonders in the way of keeping
order among this lawless people, whe
draw out their lorg knife Ynavaia) on the
slightest provocation, and do such deadly
work with it. Even the country roads
to a reasonable distance arj now pretty
safe; you will hardly meet with anything
more unpleasant than a beggar or two.
hungry, lean dogs, or long lines of mules
with a palm leaf earefully cut in relief
on their sides and necks, gayly decked
out with tassels, fringes and bells, ridden
by picturesque looking brigands sitting
sideways, got up in crimson sashes, very
whito stockings, sandals and remarkable
hats, who will courteously offer you
some of their breakfast or dinner, if they
happen to be eating it, and will expect
you to reply m tho negative, Cor.
Homo Journal.
lie ad y Ilado Sermons.
I am acquainted with a man who be
gan life 33 a divinity student. An irreg
ular life has been his bane. He lives by
writing on general topics for the press.
ana ior a iong.nme nas earned. $15 a
week by Jumishing a clergyman of this
city with his sermons. I have heard the
discourses read to me in manuscript by
the author, and have often seen portions
cf them quoted and credited to the
preacher, who presides over a wealthy
congregation and 13 in receipt of a nana
some income.
1 maae me. acquaintance 01 tne man
who furnishes this clerical impostor with
lus rhetorical ammunition ten years ago.
lie was then, as he 13 now, addicted to
drink, but he has always preserved con
siderable personal dignity, and his brill
iant intellect would captivate any one. He
once borrowed some sioney from mo,
telling mo the story of his ministerial
employer in excuse. He read me part of
tne sermon ne had written for that week,
andti3 1 doubted his story I went to the
church on Sunday and actually heard it
pTeacnea. A number of times I have
suggested texts to him and read or heard
afterward .of their delivery in the chape
he worked them into. I fully believo the
author, in Ins assertion -that for more
than a dozen years las patron lias never
preached xcept Trom a manuscript of his
providing, and. that in all that time he
has been obtaining a fine salary from his.
congregation under lalse pretenses. Al-
irea irumble in .New York News.
Clipping, Piling, Sweating Coin.
bulling" tho edge of vour gold and
saver coins,-termed also ,graining,, and
"crenating," first employed in 1646, to
prevent their being in jm-ed by wear, and
more especially by being clipped by
rogues, is aiunt taken from the ancient
bynana and Romans, who treated their
coins similarly and for like reasons, by
cutting out regular notches round the
border, so as tqMfehow the inside of the
metal. But the old forgers were, not to
bo so easily beaten, and madecorrespond-
15. iiiui&ujua ui . jifitur . copper imitations,
plating them over with silver. Clipping,
niing and sweating coins that is,J im
mersing them an some strong acid that
will eat away - tne surface," thus -causing
ia lose uieir weigni, and conse
quently their value areamong the clum
sier aouges; while the plan of covering
yiewss vj. iron, lead,; copper, or other
metal, cut to tho .size and shape of the
coin lo be imitated, with a thinjlate of
cold -or silver neatly stamped and solderivl
'A at the edores- which cati W Ha Aa.-cnA
byv weight and sound, calls fox a greater
W:
Bleat Dishes iff ' Rome.
Ton may get the choicest and antiest
i serves, &ud uie,TeiT,fme&t-of -Tegetahles
ripest -otfruils;
supply the want of roast beef . Veal cut
let cut into thin slices and fried to a
crisp is about the best meat dish in Borne.
NOT AVERSE TO BLOOD.
An Important Trait Viewed as a Human
Instinct Explanation. .- , ' -
As Rochefoucauld . aysV there issome-
I thing in the misfortunes of , otir very
1 f nends that does not aitogetlier displease
lis, and an apostle of peace will feel a
! certain vicious thrill run through lum'
and enjoy a vicarious brutality as he
turns to the column in his newspaper at
the top of which "shocking atrocity"
stands printed in large capitals." See how
the crowd flocks round a street brawl!
Consider the enormous annual 'sale ' of
revolvers, to persons, not one in 1,000 of
whom has any serious intention of using
thenivbu; of whom each one has his car
nivorous, self r. consciousness agreeably
tickled by the otiori, as hexmtches the
handle vof .his weapon; that ho wiELiie
rather a dangerous customer to meet.', .
See the ignoble crew that escorts every
great pugilist-parasites who feel as if the
glory of his brutality rubbed off upon
them, and whose darling hope from aay
to day is to arrange some set to, of "which
they may share the rapture "withouf en
during th8 pains!" The first- blows at. a
prize fight are apt to make a. refined
spectator sick, but his blood is soon up in
favor of one party, and it will seem-as 11
the other fellow could not be banged and
pounded and mangled enough the re
fined spectator would like to re-enforce the
, 1 1 , rf-w '.1 J !
diows mmseir. UTerura auuBter urgiw
of blood of certain depraved and insane
persons let a curtain be drawn, as well as
over the ferocity with which otherwise
fairly decent men may fte animated, when
(at the sacking of a town, for instanee)
the excitement of victory long delayed,
the sudden freedom of rapine .and lust,
the contagion of the crowd, and the im-.
pulso to imitate and outdo, all combine to
swell the blind drunkenness of the killing
instinct and carry it to its extreme.
No! Those who try to account for
this from above downward, -as if it re
sulted from the consequences of the vic
tory being rapidly inferred, and from the
agreeable sentiments associated with them
in the imagination, have missed the root
of the matter. Our ferocity is . blind and
can only be explained : from below.
Could we trace it back through our line
of descent we should see it taking more
and more tho form' of a fatal " reflex .re
sponse, and at the same time becoming
more and more tne pure and direct
emotion that it is. Popular Science
Monthly.
Gypsies Improved y Prosperity.
The fact is that the prosperity of the
American gypsies has permanently soft
ened the asperity of their natures typified
in some of Greuman s olden gypsies, in
tensified in Scott's, "Meg Merrilies':' into
a dreadful witcn, ana given a most un
fair and prejudicial grotesqueness by even
so earnest a man -as uarrow. urpsies
may occasionally sinz their barbaric
ballads under the trees as a weird minor
to the song birds above: ana you may
keep reading on and on of the wolfish
gypsy of old, or frighten your child with
tales of gypsy horrors; but that sort of:
gypsy is sa much of a wraith of the past
as the tale teller who will thus maunder
about him ought to be. -
In a quarter century's frequent com
panionship with these people, I have
never found an ill natured, a dishonest or
an actually mean cypsy. I think it
would be difficult to find in this country a
jail record of a gypsy. While city gypsies
are never winsome and are altogether
uninteresting, the gypsies of the tent and
the road are ever the simplest, the easiest
pleased, the most jovial, the .kindest
hearted cf men. Possibly the .original
devil has not bleached out of the women
so rapidly. They are loth to give up
then handy black art tricks. But as a
whole women and men are good. " I do
not mean religious and pretentious and
pharisaic; for the gypsy has no more use
for your pulpits than your politics. But
he is morally -clean, wholesome, win-
somely merry, grandly loyal, upright
and downright good, without making an
aggressive and oltensive virtue of it. ; In
deed, his goodness is of that unconscious
and glowing sort that contrasts with
civilized actualities strangely. There
may be no merit in it. It simply is so.
It is of a land dehghtful and'' restful to
know. Edgar L. Wakeman's Letter, -
T!ie Holieniollernj' Skolls. " '
By order of tho German crown prince,
Professor Virchow has recently rxtede a
physiognomic examination of the skulls
of those members of the Ilohenzollern
family, whose remains are deposited in
tho vaulis of the Berlin dome, for the
purpose of discovering certain character
istic traits, such as are known to exist in
the Hapsburg and Bcurbon familv.'
The result cf these studies 1st' of course,
not to be made public Certain "connois
seurs,. declare that nich a family trait is
net discerniblo in the llohenzollerns,
although certain nhvsiceTiomiAR renpat
themselves frequently, rfome representing
the late King Frederick William Ivy the
others ihe. present Emperor ; William.
There is, for. instance, a great resemblance
between Frederick William TV and the
elector. Johann Cicero, as may be seen by
the bronze statue of the latter in the
dome,, the work of the famous Peter Via-
cher. Boston Transcript.
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A Race of Small Turkeys.
A curious case of race deterioration lias
been furnished by Mr. J. D. Caton. Ten
years ago a number of wild turkeys wore
sentry Lira frehi Ottawa to SantS Grtiz
Island, located m the Pacific, some twenty
miles from the. American coast, v Late
.descendants from theso "birds are f6und
to groyir only one-third as . large as their
ancestors the largest cock hardly weigh
ing six poundSc This remarkable diminu
tion insize is believed to have Resulted
solely from inbreeding, or too close
relationship . , of parents. Arkansaw
Traveler. - " --
The Emperor of Japan.
The emperor of Japan is dark and his
features are :eavy and Irregular. ' but
there is much dignity and majesty xi his
carriags. His uniform is handsome, the
white cloth trousers having broad stripes
; of gold 'Clnysanthemums and the black. I
coat being Almost covered with embroid
ery " in . hjysanthemums.Bi,coklvn
- Yneqnallty fn the Pnpfls.;
Inequality in the pupils of the e res has
been takon as i Symptom of illness, but
in 134 liealthv peraomt a' TiiiRSijin nlivVa-
cian ' has " found only, twelve with right
ana left pupus 01 equal size, Arkansaw
POWER - OF-OLD OCEAN
I Seen by the Keeper. :of. the
. land Ug-ht on Cape Cod.
High-
In 179G Mri James " Small sold to the
general government ten acres of land lo
cated on the bluffs at the back side of the
cape, Jknown as the s Highlands, ; and the
following year a wooden lighliiouse, the.
first on Cape Cod, was built on the spot
jand called Cape Cod BglThe building
was a crude, affair, aft was the light,
which consisted of twelve oil lamps with
reflectors, which, combined, threw, a fight
about eight or ten miles out at sea. - W ith
the advance of' Bciene improvements
werelrom time to time jnade.both in the
light, and" the building.: -Tlie .wooden
structure gave place , to ft stone tower,
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and tms was aisq jpuowea m lime py xne
present structure, wlrioli is a substantial
tower- of brick, situated- m latitude 42
degs. 2 mihuteB &1 seconds, lomgitude' 70
degs..8 minutes 18,secondsf on cuffs l&Q
feet above mean sea level in tins section.
The lens is 0 feet across and 10 feet
high, being large enough to allow -a per
son to stand erect inside, and with out
stretched arms just touch the opposite
sides. - It is of: French manufacture,
made by L. Sautter & Co., of Paris, in
1834, and was put in position in 1857.
Its cost was $30,000. In the center or
foous of tho lens is. a brass lamp of 10
caHons capacity. -The burner is supplied
with oil through a supply tubo and : float
chamber containing a float . to regulate
the flow of oil, supplying it as fast as
consumed. The oil is. forced into the
float chamber by a plunger within the
lamp of 100 pounds weight, made to fit
air tight. The bulk of the oil. is kept as
far from the burner as possible to prevent
heating. The burner has 5 wicks of cir
cular form, one within the others with
air spaces between, the outer wick being
4 1-3 inches in diameter; the 5 wicks
taken . together measure 43 inches in
length, and the flame from which is car
ried to' a height of 5 inches. The con
sumption is 2 quarts of first quality
mineral oil every hour. This oil is
strained four times before reaching the
burner.
. : Hie lamp is connected by draft pipe,
having a damper . to regulate the flame.
with tho external air through the top of
the lantern, and is thereby dependent on
me activity 01 tne outer air and very
sensitive to every change in direction and
forco of wind, and requires constant
tending.
Highland, light is one of -the most
prominent points, of the American coast
and, in tun view of tne coasting fleets as
they go trooping past from the different
ports. The sights times is a. magnifi
cent one, as many as COO vessels, having
. been counted passing in one day.-. With
tho fOoasters occasionally appears, a for
eign "tramp" steamer from, the' West
Indies, and' frohiojat ; at sea, comes the
square rigger front Europe- or the far
East Indies, while away off on the hori
zon can be seen the smoke of the passing
ocean steamers to and from Europe.
This is the first light made by the vessels
from foreign ports coming on this part of
the coast
The storms seen by the light keepers
are often terrible . pictures of the powers
of old ocean. The hugo waves come roll
ing in twelve and fifteen feet high, and,
breaking-on the bars, cover the water
with foam two and three miles from tho
shore. Tho treacherous fogs often shut
in very quick, making it at tunes impos
sible to see fifty yards from the shore.
Connected with tho light 13 a Daboh
fog signal, wliich has been in operation
about fourteen years. The blast of the
trumpetis of eight seconds duration, with
intervals of thirty seconds between blasts,
and is supposed to be heard at a dis
tance of six miles.
Tho signal is run bv the Ericsson
caloric engine. There are three engines
m the building, two horse, power each
two being used at a time, it reqruring two
to accumulate pressure as fast as blown
off, the third being kept in reserve in case
of accident. These hot air-engines are
much less dangerous -and more econom
ical in fuel consumed, using but twenty
two pounds of ooal -per hour,' while
steam fog signal at Race point uses about
three times as much m the same tune.
This trumpet is a reed instrument,
copper about twenty feet ia length Tho
reed is a solid piece of steeL about ono
foot long, narrow and thin, and it is the
vibration of this reed, as air under a high
pressure is thrown against it, that causes
tho hoarse sound that is thrown over the
wild waves. ...
v- Many ..strange scenes have been wit
nessed by tho keepers of this well known
light; and ghastly relics of shipwrecks
have been found along: the shore The
log book tells of the loss of many a good
ship; sometimes it is written ''all lost;"
nex, some have lived to tell the. talc, and
next come the cheerful "r words "all
saved." Of the ten acres originally
purchased about seven remain, "a sure
proof of tho ravages of old .ocean. The
cliffs, at this point are 'of 'a heavy clay
soil and wear away -very, slowly. Beach
grass has caught in along' the foot of the
cliffs in places, and lias done more than
all the money spent by the government
to prevent the cliffs from washing away.
Beach grass grows, well" in- sandy
places, and lias proved one of tho best of
protections to Cape rCpL The gradual
waste away in tliis vicinity has been esti
mated to bo about one - footiper year,
while at some other points the coast line
has increased. , ,Tho tides along here are
somotliing wonderful," sweeping dpwn the
coast faster than .a man can walk.;v' v
1 The establishment of Capo Cod light
was' followed, in 1316,. by the fixed white
light-'on Rac& points " In i.1823 by the
liglit on JMoncnomy point.: In 1826ly
the fixed white light on.Lonff point, at
h tlie entrance of Providence harbor. Tho
three leacons at NauBet'werei established
in 183.7, and the- revolving red. light on
Wood end. in 1872.'- .These constitute the
cordon of -"lights that ..guide, the 'mariner
along tho back chore f Cape Cod.--l3os-
ton Globe. " ,
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" - ' Too Great A Temptation.--
Buses are ' not plentiful in - our city
irardensT or even in our parks, c Last year
tho 5 Lincoln - park Chicago) , gardener
ihade some effort this way by a gorgeous
ImkI of thechoiecr Remontant roses.' But
-Tor lus temerity lie-had to protectliis bed
.by a svirefencd. . Tlie plateaSsof picture
gardening on the: green 'grass, xne mon
etrous !beds of eolot around the fountain,
or at the end of ;:the:walierisi.-all;;6life;'
but a IxkI of grand roses .as top great a
tenfetioafor those wlio see tnemgener
"aJlvv only "in 1 the oiri wmdowsr
An Honest Portrait f Victoria. ' .'-
None of the published pictures of the I
queen .give a correct idea ot .'herBlMisJ'-New
so much sherter-than ner Photographs
represent ner. The pictures : are . pro
ductions of a photographic trick. In all
ull length photognrohic portraits of the
queen she. is posed standing' on a raised
platform. The train of her dress is then
brought around in front so as to conceal
the step on . which she is staiiding, and by
this means she is made to appear ' fully
four inches taller, than she is She does
not look.to be inuch over five' feet two
inches in lieieht. " The "effect of -evlai
this height is lessened by her.stoutnessj'l
She is Verv stout: and when jshe stood nr i
tuw vuiei oiuuuuuu w receive xteu onui 1
at the Wild West entertainment she was
anything but an unposing looking figure,
1 had a good opportumty then for'
fifteen or twenty minutes of seeing- -the
chief, ruler of "England. ? There was no
visitor to the Wild West "show this year
Avho was more plainly dressed than the
queen. She, rigidly adneres: to ;t black
cashmere ; dresses , and plain cloth capes
except upon state occasions.:- It is said
that she - wears these " soft cloths on axK
count of her stoutness. Although she is
so stout she does not look at all apoplectic.
Her flesh looks as hard ; as iron. Indeed
there is'something very stolid and wooden
like in hef figure and face. The photo
graphs of course flatter her jgreatly; r I
have not seen a photograph, of het in
London which, shows a wrinkite' in her
face. She has but few lines in her face,
but these are very pronounced. She is
very full under tile eyes. She'hasthe
"pop eyes" of a voluble talker. Tins
fullness under the. eyes is criss-crossed
with wrinklest Her eys are very large.
On each side of her nosft are two marked
lines. There is not a wrinkle in her fore
head and only a faint, line at the corner
of each of her eyes. Her face shows no
signs of care, annoyance or anxiety. It
is a very cold face and has but littlo ex
pression when she smiles. New: York
World. -
In a Muslo Box. Factory. .
An - attendant invited him to take a
seat. He did so, and strains of delight
ful music came from the chair. He hung
his -hat on a rack and put lus traveling
staff in the stand. Music came, from
both rack and stand. He wrote his name
in the visitor's register, and, on dipping
his pen in the ink, the music burst forth
from the inkstand. -
The manager of tho factory explained
the process of making music boxes, a
business which- requires patience " and
nicety, Therdifferent parts arenade by
men whoare experts in those parts, and
they do nothing else, year in and year
Tho music is marked oif the cylinder
by i man who has served several years of
apprenticeship Another man inserts in
the marked places pegs which have been
filed to a uniform length.
The comb or set of teeth which' strikes
the I'pegv and makes the sound, is ar
ranged by a man who does nothing else.
The cylinder is then revolved to see that
every, peg produces a proper tone. . , .
The most delicate work of all is the re
vising of each peg. It is done by a work,
man who has a good ear for music. He sees
that each peg is in its proper place, and
bent at the correct angle. When the instru
ment is in its case, an expert examinee
it to see that the time is perfect and good.
The best workmen, those who mark the
cylinder and adjust-the pegscarn $1.80
a day,' after serving an apprenticeship of
ten or twelve years. . An ordinary work
man earns $1 a day. "A Tramp's Trip.''
About the "Consumption Plant.' J
The natural history of the bacillus is
very instructive. . .It . never grows "spon
taneously outside of an animal body , It
requires a temperaturo between 65 and
108 degs. Fahrenheit -in order to develop
it at all. .- It must remain full ten days in
a moist situation at the temperature above
stated before' .it . shqws any tendency
to increase or even fix itself in its proper
sou. The heat of boiling water "destroys the
plant and its seeds (spores), but cold does;
not kuT them. From a consideration of.
theso facts it may easily be seen how it is
possible for isolated populations to escape
the ravages of ' this disease for genera
tions, and the region tiros acquire a repu
tation as a proper resort for such invalids,
and the further fact that after consump
tives have invaded it for a few seasons
the native inhabitants develop the affec
tion from which their ancestors were free.
The plant has been introduced and found
a congenial soil for its growth, that is all.
The elimate has not changed, as records
of temperature, : moisture, etc., demon
strate. ;The "aborigines of a country do
not 6Ue of alcoholism until the enterpris
ing white man brings whisky to them.
Globe-Democrat. ' - -
" Her Boyal Blshness Xllndness.
The following story" is told of
Che
Princess vof Wales: 'A little while ago
siro visited -liUbank female prison' and
was shown over the place by the zealous
and devoted chaplain, , the Rev. George
Merrick In ono of the cells tho princess
was shown a woman who .was so violent
that it bad been found necessary to hand
cuff her 'Her' royal highness' ;spoke
kindly and tenderly" to tho woman, re-'
monstrated with her . as to her conduct
and completely broke' down her sullen
ness.',Tlie . refractcry iwoman burst into
tears, and on the princess asking hor to
promise that 'if tho liandcufls were xe
moved she Woul ; not bo violent she
faltered out in a voice choked with -sobs,
"I will reaHy be good, my lady, if they
take them things off.'": - They-were . at
once taken off. Chicago Tribjonc.
" '. An Ingrowing- Toe NalL ' S'"
" Tha cause of the ingrowing, too nails : I
-don'tJthink has been properly stated.: My
observation lias - taught me that tliat
trouble is caused chiefly lay tho use Of the
knife in the trimnung of tlie xiaOs, -"Eci"
sors should always be used insteadThe
knife tears the nail OiTlntoihe quick, and
thus tho ingrowing comnaenees. Much of
it is 7 caused - at : Turkish bath" establiaH-
faentsi- ; There I have seen persons let an
ignorant darky "Vliittle off their nails with
a knife, or try to correc fhs f-rowth of
an mgrowing nau." The carelessness peo
pie display-in the' handling of . the jnost
important portions of their body 13 aston
ishmg.;Ch1ropodist "in Gtobe-Demccrat.
31yraiiApp1ness consi3taprirnarilj'
in. a good appetite for breakiast, and scc
ondarilv. in peace of mind.-Sighor Max
AXJerman fteststirant In Tfew York.-
' There is an eld German "restaurant in
jTork which is celebrated Among the
vaermans, put prooaoiy not one out 01 a
nunorea Know or- its existence.: . it, is
away ovr on the east side of JSew York
in an ancient, dilapidated looking house.
After climbing a short, flight of . broken
stone' steps I entered a long, spacious
apartment filled with fully fifty-Germans,
all talking, together . .and . keeping up a
lively acconipaniment with the - rattle of
their knives and. forks. Several active.
waiters shouted out the orders in "GerC'
man, and- tho numerous rchshes on the
oill'of . fare were, all written in the same
language, Nofcn; cBuld
ijbsv1 . onw- B.mci.u. iiv;
waiter, in addressing a'customer, tcoky it?
for granted that the latter understood the
language of. the-fatherland. r'
: i A German friend who was witiime 'did
the ordering and some astonishing dishes
were placed before us. A Very highly
seasoned soup,"ocnitaining a quxmtity.of
(limmutive, flat, imported peas, opened
the fray. - Then came a mysterious, fish
salad flanked by an equally problematical
dark? - brown : sauce, . stxongly seasoned.
with; garlic After, the fish three kinds
of meat, accompanied by half adozen. dif
ferent vegetables were : pmmped . down
uvu vuo Ktuiv oiyufj .wivu am wvu-v va va
ceilent red wme. Iioast turkey was then
served) with a salarmado cf thmly
sliced celery root; : A dish made of im
ported sausage, cabbage and potatoes was
one of '. the - luxuries Of the repast.- ,. The
dinner -came to . an " end with tiie usual
black coffee and brandy. After dinner,
the tables were cleared, cigars lighted
and, those who wished to could pass the
balance of the evening in drinking beer
and playing cards. ; When I left the-at-mospnere
was blue"with smoke and the
din of voices louder than ever. Brook
lyn Eagle.
. Stamped Coins for China.
China will -shortly be supplied with
stamped coins of her own for the first
time in her history. The government
has purchased of an .English manufac
turer at Birmingham coining presses and
all the apparatus of a mint, which will
be set. up in China within - year.
Hitherto the coins mainly in circulation,
have been Wall brass tokens, roughly
cast in sand, about the size of a half
penny , and perforated with a square hole,
by which they are -strung - together.
liey are of infmitesimal ; value, , being
equal to the one thousandth part of the
dollar or-five shillings. : V r
;The currency of higher value is silver
in the form of balls; and bars, the value
of which ls jcalculatedJby weight. There
is-also some paper taurency, and Mexican
dollars have circulated freely f The new
inachmery will turn . out the dollar, aid
three lesser corns ui silver equal to one-
half, one-fifth and one-tentlv and also
the brass' coins equal to one: thousandth
part of ths dollar. The presses will turn
out 2,700,000 coins per day, of the Value
of 25,6o0. The brass coins will retain
the square hole, which prevailed from
time immemorial, . this : being a point
which Chinese conservatism could not
forego. Home Journal.
- Banning a Sewing Machine. -.
I sometimes oestion if - the " sewing
machine has been as..reat a-boon to
women as is popularly supposed. Those
women who get their Hving by. sewing
earned just as much- in; the old time, , for
they got $1 for making a chemise that
took a couple of days to build where now
the women rattle off ten -of -them for
ten .cents a piece. There is no question
but the exertion of running a sewing ma
chine 'long", .enough to make ten.7 shirts
does greater harm tha" the old time con
finement necessary to make one- by hand.
But tho great evil wrought by this labor
saving invention . is the 1 abandonment
of the pleasant mdust. niaiang one's
I girl will sit down ; and, by adding one lit
tie sutcn to anotner, consxruci; a garment
that she" can go forth and buy at a smaller
'outlay than the material would cost
Clara Belle's Letter. , . "...
v where the Presidents are JBaried.
The burial places of our presidents are
widely " scattered. - .Washington lies at
Mount- Vernon: 4 the two Ajdamses are
buried under the . old church at Quincy , J
Mass. t - Jefferson resb at Monticello;
Madison's grave ia at Montpelier," not far.
from Monticello; Monroe s remains he inl
the Richmond cemetery; Jackson s grave 1
is in front of hi3 old residence, . "The I
Hermitage;' Van Buren was buried at
Kinderhook; t Harrison at Worth fiend,
riear "Cmcinnati: Folk at( Nashville;,
Taylor's : remains are, near:, Ixraisville;1
Fillmore- lies in Forest Lawrt cemetery,
Buffalo: -Fierce was buried: in Concord
and Buchanan' at. Lancaster; - Lincoln's
grave is near Springfield, Johnson's at
Greenville, - Oarneld's v at Cleveland,
Grant's at Riverside and Arthur's at
Albany, Washington Letter. ,s .;- -. ,.r.
o A Many Women as Men. ,
. i There are still a few theorists who jus
tify polygamy on the ground thai more..
women -are Horn - into tne : world tnanj
men. but tho theory has long been exr
"Ploded. ' August BebeL in . his remark-1
able work, recently translated into ing
Iish, shows that in tbn states, with a
population of 250,000,000,1 th excess of
females over males was only 2,500,000;
and when we remember the extent to
-which -men outnumber wornenf in the
colonies, and the fact that in India .there
aro 6,000,000 moro men than women,tne.
natural inference is that if the inhabi
tants of the earth wire distributed ac-.
nardinar -to tha. sexes men; and 'women
would - bo found to exist, in ' about equal
proportions. All the Year Kound.
, ' '.One Hundred Year Ago.. ; -
' Town" meetings occupied themselves
wlfh good many things: 100- years ago!
to which modern town meetings pay little
attention. At "the town meeting held in
Fitchburg, May.li8,M787f" the following
ote was passed: , - . - :
Vntl tnrfne- five -timea in tho wor-
shining on the Lord's day in the follow"
inar. manner:; The first -singing before.
prayer, with reading, ; line by. line, .and
set to such tunes as the congregation can
fn general smg; first fa the afternoon be
fore pray er, without reading after prayer,,
withreading; after sermon, without readV
3ng." Boston Transcript. - 4 , ' c ; ; '
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There is no tree that is -so sure to grow
without any care as- the willow."1 "A twig
from a branch of. the tree stuck into, the
moist earth, and 1 jtho labor is compleied. -
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