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-1 R. H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. "We Proudly call ours o Govemmnt by the FeopIo.-f-ClevelancL TERMS! S2.00 Per Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1886, NO. 42. " T : ! : . 1 . - i 1 . Vi Awsow Times. Tcrms:--Cah In AdTsnoe One Year - ... . Sir Months - - Three Months - . $2.00 LOO SO ADYERTISLNG RATES. One square, first Insertion ' $1.00 Each subsequent insertion - -50 Local advertisements, per lis - r 10 gTSpecial rates given on applicatto for mgertime. . Advertisers are requested to bring in their dvertisements on Monday evening of each ftk, to insure insertion in next issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. John D. I?embertoru ATTORNEY AT LAW, - WADESBORO, N. C. " ;-ff Practice in the State and Federa' - arts. , - ' JAMES 1 LOCKHART" Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. C. tW Practice at all the Courts of the States LITTLE. W. U PAKSONS LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEYS AT 1AJV, WADESBORO, N. C. Collections Promptly Attended to. , II . II. DePew DENTIST, "WADESBORO. N. 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J.ES W. KILGO, A. B., Principal. IxT" The Fall Session begins on the Sd of Vuit 1SS5, and runs through five months. TUITION, PER lONTH. Primary, $2.00 j:itoimediate, . - - - - - 2.50 A ivanced - - 3.00 Board trom $8 TO $10 .per mIIl For further particular address the Prin- lipal. . ... - WIIIIIER, MUM CFACTCRER AND DKAXXR IN Tin-ware, S&eet-Inin AJTD HOLLOW WARE. WADESBORO, N. C. HOTELS. Vhenyou go to Charlotte be sure to call on - . S. M. TIIMONS, . tor '' , . Fine Mountain Whiskies IK THE Old Charlotte Hotel GriARLOTTE, N. O. TARBROUGH HOUSE, BALKIGB, H. C. REEUCED.TO SUIT THE TIMES CALL AND SEE US. CALM AND STORM, r- - As, azure domed, And silver foamed, And necked by many a snowy sail ; The ocean lay, One Summer's day, . arce rippling in the southern gale; I felt for fis - That life might be As tranquil as that Summer sea. But, as I gazed. The sea birds raised A cry of dol'rous, ead forebode, Athwart fair heaven . Bla?k clouds were driven, nd high the angry b;lloWs rod. Ah, then for me; Prophetic sea, -Thou told'st in truth what life must be. . Now-arare domed, And silver foamed) Once mere it tell the same sweet taio. And this shall last, When life's Sands past For heaven's bright shore our soul3 set saiL Then smile, fair sea, Less glad, less fro', Than they who to that Harbor flee! Katharine Cooper. THE BEAR PBINOESS. FEOM THE FRENCH. ! Behind the house, Serban sat dream ing upon a bench over which the lilacs formed a sort of canopy, perfumed with their own fresh odor. The house was a fine building, with white-washed walls, and a roof of red tiles. It belonged to Serban's mother, the Widow Lepkowitsch, and was situ ated in the Galician quarter of Zukod, not far from the Custom-house, and very near the woods. Dame Lepkowitsch Was a powerful woman, about forty years of age, whom everybody both respected "and feared she was respected because, ever since the death of her husband, she had man aged the property and its dependencies'' all by herself, oultivated her own fields and carried on a little trade as well in wood and tallow; her great gray eyes made people afraid, as they heard her voice harsh as the sound of a knife passing over a grindstone. Not knowing how to read or write herself, she had taken care to send her son to school at nn early age. Serban kept her accounts and read the papers to her; for the good woman, who could not make out a single letter herself, burned with curiosity to know what was going on at Paris, at Vienna and other remote places. She loved Serban as a mother loves her only child, but she took care not to let him see it. Was it not enough to think of to work for his future from morningr until evening? Serban was a dreamer. The only thing which gave him delight was his violin i his mother had bought him the instru- : ment as an object of distraction for she ! thought her son was melancholy only be- cause he was too fond of solitude and I too much given to -' his own sombre j thoughts. j Dame Lepkowitsch was far from sus j ptcting that her son needed a hand to j direct him, and that that hand must be j the hand of a woman. ! For the time being his mother's hand as sufficient, but later on it would have to be another's; that was certain.. Like a child, he would have to be passed from one hand to another, but Ve thins: did not seem at all eay to do, for it did not appear to please this great strong youth, with his girl's face and blonde curls. " He seemed to have a horror of everything: that wore tra:l:ng dresses and long hair; ! and the moment that the fresh and beau tiful face of a young girl appeared before him, or that a sweet voice spoke to him. ; he made his preparations to flee. He never frequented the tavern, never went to ball's;. he was never seen at the fountain, nor at the evening spinning parties, nor at any of the favorite resorts of the other young men. None of those amusements attracted him. So that after awhile, his mother became a little anx ious, and particularly when she saw him sitting on the bench, as he was to-day, like some prince of fairy-tale bewitched by a fairv. He had been sitting thus in a brown study for some time, when suddenly a strange noise fell upon his ears and .dis turbed his reflections. A sound at once ringing and yet ' me!ancho'y seemed, through the calm oi the evening, to come from the market-place, and break its echoes magically against the houses and among the gardens. ' There was gentle, harmony in the noisy concert. Serban got up, and, with his violin and bow still in Lis hand, he slowly fol lowed the melodious summons, and cross ing the huare safdens, he reached the ZukoS street which leads to- the market place. , . There,, a compact crowd had formed in a circle soldiere, servants, children and in the middle stood a young girl of great beauty, who' was ' making a big brown bear dance. . While the latter was turning clumsily upon hii hind legs, uttering a grnnt of satisfaction from time to time, the young girl was tapping a'tamborine,the booming of which, blending with . the argentine clash of little bells, produced a uniform sbund characterized by a sort of melan choly fury. The profile of the lithe young girl was plendidly outlined against the bright vening sky; it seemed, like the head of some Byzantine saint relieved against a background of gold. . Her feet were shod with dainty red. morocco shoes; she wore a short striped tunic, and round her neck, a string of coral end silver pieces which fell over her richly embroid ercd garment. A piece of red cloth was gracefully " twisted about her handsome dark headland gave her face a somewhat Oriental and prophetic aspect. .. The animal understood every one of . t . ; , ... her signs;' he listened to her with the blind obedience of a.olave who loves and fears his mistress; he sat down and gave his paw, rose up again, and the beautiful girl stood triumphant upon his rugged back; he assumed all the posture J of a clown, and, at another signal, blSgan to perforin a. kind of pantomime. To end With, he threw himself on the ground, pretended to be dead, and the young ' girl stretched herself upon him, in the attitude of a conqueror that has over thrown his enfant.' " - 9 " " ' t Berbaa stoe'd therelwUhouijBOYi&g, but he never took his eyes off her. , ' 'Don't go near her I" cried a neighbor, the tailor Atlas Mensch, "she is as proud as she is wild. I know her well; they call her the Bear-Princess. The best advice I can give. you is to keep out of her way." This warning' came too late. As the young girl approached Serban to pick up the coins which had fallen at his feet, it seemed to him that she had suddenly pulled out his heart, and hidden it away under her magnificent dress. And when she had again put the collar on the bear and left the square with her animal,-he felt as if he also were attached to a mag ical chain, and obliged to follow her in spite of himself. At the entrance of the forest, in the spot where stood the little cross beside which she halted in order to take a rest and to Share a pie. c of bread with her savage friend, she perceived that Serban was following her. "What do you want?" she asked. 'Nothing. I belong to the place." "You are a musician?" "No; my mother has a home and gar den in the neighborhood." "Then what do you want!" ."I want to follow you." ' "To follow me! Are you crazy?" A smile played softly about the lips of the handsome girl. ."And why can't I?" asked Serban, qute discouraged. "Because I forbid you to.' The road is free for everybody." I shall take good care to compel you to go back home." "You can't drive away your shadow. I am your second shadow, t pray you do not be so cruel. I Can't help following you. She looked at him with her great sibyl line eyes and did not answer. While she was eating, he also sat down on the grass a few, steps away from her When she had finished her meagre meal, she rose up. She took the imperial road, and Serban, after watching the young girl for an instant, followed her at the distance of about a hundred yards. He followed her from farm tp farm, frbm village to Village, from One town to anpther; wherever she halted, or wherever she made her baar dance, he stopped, too, and never ceased admiring her. He rested in the same place where she passed the night whether under a peasant's thatched roof, or under the starry sky; he quenched his thirst at the same fountain as she ; ho assuaged his hunger whenever she and hex bear took their meals to-day, perhaps, in a gloomy tavern, to-morrow among the stones of some old ruined castle, or per haps, in a ditch, under some wild sorb. - He never approached her except when he felt her to bo in danger when a drunken man would presume to attempt to take liberties with her when she happened to be in some very lonesome-i place or when, through the night, he perceived the shining eyes of a wolf. Once, during a violent 6tonn, when she had sought shelter under the willows bordering a stream, Serban had placed himself near her, under, a nut tree, and she had spoken to him for the second time. "What is your name?" "Serban; .and . Leptkowitsch is my family name 1 And you?" "My name is Cadina' fYou are not of our country?" "No!" "Then, where are you from?" "From the mountains over there; near the Hungarian frontier." He asked her nothing more ; then he bearan to look at her. He could not- sa; tiate himself with admiring the adorable creature, whose chaste face was illumi nated by two great dark eyes that flashed beneath her magnificent hair. "But what do you want to follow-me this way for?" she continued, after a short silence. "If it is simply a joke, I think it has been carried on long enongh." "On the .contrary, it is very serious." "I beg of you go back homel" she said to him, in her gentlest voice. Serban shook his head. "You won't?" ' "I won't." "And if I order you?" . As she said these words she rose, and. walked majestically toward him. "And if I -order you, will you obey me?" ' . , . ' "No!" 4tSerban, do not provoke my angerni have been well enough able to tame .my bear, and I can just as easily csnquer -that obstinacy of yours." "I pray you, Cardina, do not send me away?" The poor fellow had half risen up, so that he found himself on his knees before her, looking up into her face with sup. pliant eyes. She approached him and stood silent for a few momenta. Suddenly her hand some face resumed its merriment again. "Stay, then,", ; she said; "but in that case you will have to perform trick?, like Iranok, my bear." ."Whatdo you mean by that?" "Itm going to show you right now." She took off the . chain around the bear's neck and fastened it upon Serban. "Corae,;now," she cried,, with a burst of laughter, "pay attention'. for if you don't work hard you will jjet nothing to cat, and if you show yourself disobelient 1 will punish ybU. Up, now !" Serban got up. : . , , , "Dance, my bear, dancer She comoienced to beat her tamborine, and the youn. man began to dance, both of them bursting with laughter, just like two children. ' - - In the meantime the bear had ap proached th-m, and stared at the-n in S8tnni hrnent. Caliaa, in her childi.h glee, still kept cracking her whip. "Come, Ivan ok. come on, my friend, if you want to. Hop! hopT The aninnl rose on his hind legs and made as if he was about to embrace his young mistress. But Serban, mitUnder standing this demonstration of friend" ship and fearing that Cadina was in dan ger, placed himself before her for the purpose oi protecting her. Ivanok pricked up his ears and gave vent to a deep growl, then, taring Ser ban unawares, as the latter was threat ening him With his violin bow which, unfortunately for himself, he still held in his band rushed at him with a roai and seized him in his claws. - Cardina shouted with all her might ; the auimal, and flopged him with hei whip until he let Serban go; but tht blood of the youug man already crim soned the grass, -and pale to his very lips, he sank at Cadina's feet. Cadina stared at him in terror for t moment, then threw herself down beside him. "Arc you dead?" she muttered, shak ing him with all her strength. No ; he still breathed; his heart was beating 1 The young girl at once regained hei lelf-possession ;she drew from her pocket the kerchief she was wont to wear round her neck of evenings, and tore it into strips. Then she dragged Serban to the edge of the stream, washed his wounds with the cool water, and staunched the blood which had been flowing in pro fasion. A few moments later, Serban opened his eyes, and looked at her with a Smile. She bandaged his head where the "wound was, and after having-fastened her bear to a neighboring tree, she ran across the fields and meadows to the nearest village which revealed its pres ence above the birch trees by the three gilded cupolas of its Greek church. When she came back she was accom panied by a barber, who exercised the profession of doctor in addition to his regular calling, and by two men carry ing a .litter. After a second bandaging Serban was carried to the village, where Cadina had engaged lodgings forherself and him, at the barber's house. ' The wounds were not very dangerous, but poor Serban remained for more than a week prostrate with a violent fever. Then, however, he began to get better fast, and after another week he was able to leave his bed. Cadina, who had nursed him day and night, led him outside the house for the first time. He sat down beside her on the bnch. His face beamed with happiness at being able to see nature again in all her bright ness. "Now that you are cured," the young' girl began, without looking at him "now that you are cured, you must go back to your mother, and I shall go oh my way alone, with my bear." "You think I am willing to do that!" calmly replied SerbflO. "No, nol I shall either go with you, or you shall fol low me." "Why, what are you dreaming of?" "I cannot live without you no! lean not!" Cadina bent her handsome head closer to the young man, and fixed her great eyes upon him. "Why should I hide it from you she exclaimed with sincerity. "I also I do not want any man but you; but you are rich, and I am a poor girl.' What would your mother say! No, Serban, that could never be ! you are hot speak- ing seriously." "Do you love me?" "Yes." "Then, that is all I want to know." Serban rose up; for the first time he looked energetic After he had paid the barber he had still some money left, and he hired a vehicle, in which he in stalled Cadina and her bear; then they took the road to Zukoff. On seeing Serban again, his mother, j who . had thought her son lost to ixer forever, sank down almost unconscious. "And what is that you are bringing me?" she asked, as soon as her senses returned.- "A bear and a betrothed. . Will you hwe'her for your daughter-in- law ! If ;spShe will at once -become my wife ; if "not, I shall leave you and follow her and her. bear." "If she is a good honest girt." "Yes!" "If she loves you and you love her the same, my blessing upon her, whether she be rich or poor." Cardina became Serban's wife. The people of Zukoff were astounded by the change that . had taken place in Serban; he had become a totally differ ent man, with joy in his eyes and merri ment in his speech a" man," in short, whom everybody liked. Only Atlas, the tailor, was not a bit surprised. "What could be more natural I" inces- aantly repeated the viihge-fo!k "he married; a wife who has the gift cf tam ing wild beasts, and why shouldn't she have tamed him? It isn't without reason she is called The Bear-Princess." Seu Orlcan Times-Democrat. Breaking a L03 Jam. . A letter from Minnesota describes a monster' jam of- logs in "th St. Croix River: j The workmen did a!l they knew to prevent the cloing of the stream, but in rain. A constant stream of logs poured over the falls, which are' about thirty fee high. . At times the rapids fill with loss" for several' hundred feet, and then all settle down into the jam with" a .rush and roar like the discharge of a tillery, snapping large logs in two as pipe stems, and throwing others on' end forty or fifty feet in the air. This continued un til by the end of the week the jam had reached up over the falls a distance of a mile and a quarter, and logs were still running in at the rate of 500,000 feet an hour. In the mean time the lumbermen, with the aid bf a stationary engine, were busjr trying to break the jam, and each day thousands were loosened and Sent ddwn the river to Stillwater, but, as they ran in above the jam faster than they ran out below, the projrress was slow. In pulling out loirs, savs the St. Paul Globe, a irreafM- deal of judgment is required to know just which are the key logs that should be caught by the ropes in order to loosen th3 largest number. A rope of two inches diameter is used, and on. this are attached huge hooks about like ice tongs, only, larger and stronger. There are probably 200 or 300 feet of this rope in a single length, and it takes from .six to ten men to handle it. An experienced man is at the end", picking hi3 way among the logs at tome distance from the water. He kaows his business, and though it looks as if he looped the end of the rope about any log taken random, he never does this until he has Some good reasoti fo taking this particular log. Sometimes, by making an especially fortunate choice, a raft of ahundred logs are loosened. As the lit tle engine down ort the boat pu!Ts away winding up the rope there is heard a terrible groaning and creaking among the dry logs. It is a terrible strain- that is brought to bear, and then the whole end of the jam seems to be moving down stream. The creak ing continues, and all at once a mass of logs packed together,, their ends stick ing in all " direction?, parts .from the larger mass and comes down on the boil ing water and floats away. No sooner is it kosened from the big jam than a score of the lusty river men run from log to log and mount it, with their cant-hooks pull' ing the small tangle . apart. They keep Up a continuous shouting and. . leaping from log to log until they are all untan gled and float , away, then, by a few jumps-on stray log, they are back again for the next pull. Experts say that there anywhere f 10 n 250,000,000 to 400,000,000 feet of lum ber in the jam, ' and that it m ij last all summer, and quite possibly until next falL If it. is broken up without loss of life it will be fortunate. The Longest Words. Far behind most foreign languages, indent and modern, comes the English language as regards length of words. Except in the word "honorificabilitu dinity'' which, though it exists in litera ture, is, of course, a mere manufactured piece of absurdity we have, I believe, no word extending beyond seven syl lables. To some European nations this may appear, contemptible enouga. In this respect, however, the old world can teach a lesson to the new. In a work I have met with an Aztec word of thirty two letters, "amatiacuilolitquitcatlaxla huilli." It is satisfactory to learn that the signification of the word is worthy of its proportions. It means "payment received for having been bearer of a paper with writing on it." So far as re gards the number of letters employed accordingly we are far more extravagant than the Aztecs. Gallatin, in the "Transactions of the American Ethno logical Society," supplies from the Cherokee language a word even more pretentious. This is "Winitawtgegind iskawlungtanawnelitscsti, "which means: "They will by that time have nearly done granting favors from a distance to them and to me." ' With a vocabulary of this kind a perfect command of speech and writing must be a matter of some difficulty. Gentleman? Magazine. . The writer evidently had not heard of "deanthropomorphization," a perfectly legitimate word coined by John Fiske. The longest word in the Welsh lan guage, has, after a long period of ob livion, been- once more exhumed. It is An awful word of seventy-two letters and. twenty-two syllables, i t i the name of a villtgc in Wales, constituted the subject of a lecture lately given by the Rev. J. King, m. A:, a the Museum, Berwick, in wrich he showed that it meaus: "St. Mary 'a wh:tc haz 1 poo1 near the turning jol, near the wbirpool, very near the -)A by LTa tslo; fronting the rocky U'.J or Cogo.'' Pur-j' 'World..- The man- who probably claims the dis tinction, of being the northernmost editor in the world is the printer and Esqui maux poet, L. Mol!er, who edits the il lustrated Esqu'maux paper, Atuagagliutit, published at -Godthaab, a Danish colony on the west coast of Greenland,' 64 north latitude- This euterprisihg jour nalist joined the expedition of Nordensk jo'.d for the exploration of the interior of Greenland iu order to be able to sup ply. his. paper with illustrated reports of the journey. GUSTER'S FATE, , INDIAN CHIEF'S ACCOUNT OP THE 3MASSACRE. AN Graphic Recital by a Sioux Bravo of the Horrible Scenes of Slaugh terThe Bravery of Cns- ter and His Men. The celebration of the tenth anniver-iary-of the Cnster mast acre by a few of it survivors took place on the scene a slaughter in Montana a short time ago. The great Sioux Chief Gall went over the field and described the manner in which Custer's command was destroyed. Gall is fine-looking Indian,- forty-six years bid. He was reticent at first, but finally told his story with dignity and emotion. His account of the massacre contains many particulars not heretofor given. He said: "We saw soldiers early in the morning crossing the dhide. When Reno and Custer separated we watched them unti they came down into the valley. The cry was raised that the white soldiers were coming and orders were given for the village to move; Reno swept down so rapidly upon ths tipper nd that the Indiari? werfe forced to fight. Sitting Bull and t were at the point trhere Reno attacked. Sitting Bull was the big ined- icine man. I no women auu cmmicu were hastily moved down the stream where the Cheycnnes were encamped. The Sioux attacked Reno and the Chey ennes Custer, and then all became mixed up. The women and children caught horses for the bucks to mount, and the bucks mounted end charged back on Reno, checked him and drove him into the timber. The soldiers tied their horses to trees, came out, and fought on foot. As soon as Reno was beaten and driven back across the river, the whole force turned on Custer, and fought him until they destroyed him. Custer did not reach the river, but was met about half a mile up the ravine cow called Reno Creek; They fought the soldiers and beat them" back step, by Step until all were killed." ' One of Reno's officers ccrafirms this, saving: "It was probably during the interval "of quiet on-Reno's part that the Indians massed on Custer and annihi lated him," Gail continued : "The Indians ran 'out of ammuniLon and then "used arrows. They fired from behind their horses. The soldiers got their sheDs stuck in the guns and had to throw them away.-y Then they fought with pistols.. The Indians were in couples behind and in front of Custer as he moved up the ridge, and were as many as the grass on the plains. The first two companies (Kccgh's and Calhoun's) dis mounted and fought on foot. They never broke, but retired step by stejf until forced back to the ridge, upon which :tl finally died; They were shot down in line where they stood. Keogh's company rallied and were all killed in a bunch. (This statement seems borne out by facts, as thirty-eight bodies of Keogh's troopers were found piled in a heap. ) The warriors directed a special fire against the troopers who held the horses, and as soon as a holder was killed, by waving blankets and great shouting, the horses were stampeded, which made it impossi ble for the soldiers to escape The sol diers fought desperately and never sur rendered. They fought standing along in Tne on the right. As fast as the men fell the horses were herded and driven toward the squaws and old ' men, who gathered them up.- When Reno at tempted to find Custer by throwing out a skirmish line, Custjr and all who were with him were dead. When the skir mishers reached a high point overlooking Custer's field, the Indians were galloping around and over the wounded, dying and dead,' popping ballets and -arrows into them. When Reno made, his attack at the upper end, he killed my two squawi and three children, which made my heart bad. I then fought with hatchet (meaning mulitated the soldiers.) The soldiers ran out cf ammunition Parlv in the day. Their supplies of cartridges were in the saddle pockets of their stampeded horses, wuen ineir ammunition was gone the Indians killed the soldiers with hatchets ; a lot of horses ran away and jumped into the river but were caught by squaws. Only forty three Indians were killed altogether, but great many, wounded ones came across the river, and died in the bushes. We had .Ogallalas, Mineconjous, Brule, Teton, Uncapapa, Sioux, Cheyennes, Araphoes and Grosventres. When the big dust came in the air down the liver (meaning Terry and Gibbon), we struck our lodges and went up a creek toward the White Mountains. The Big Horn ranges were covered with snow. We waited there four days, and then went over to the Wolf Mountains." It has been popularly supposed that Custer entered the river, but such was not the case. Photographic Business. The photographic business is .thoroughly-overdone," said a prominent New York photographer to a Mail and Express representative. "Pictures are taken for a song now. Formerly cabinet size photographs cost $5 and $10 a dozen. Now,, by special arrangement you can get .them for $2 and $3. What has brought 'down prices? Merely great competition, combined with the amateur photography craze. Then, too, the club bing system has had some effect In re-. ducing prices to a minimum. Wltn 9 introduction of the instantaneous pro cess, it is much easier to take a good, natural-looking picture, even by men whe know no more about art than a pig; hence ;he increase in so-called artists." Tht Japaaeta Capital. Tokio covers as area ot 100 aquare miles, but not Until 1604 did it begin to be a city. From that tfnre' to this, how aver, it has grown constantly. It Is charming place, and there are many beau ties to be found within its boundaries parks and temples, the one rich ia colors of flowers, the wonderful chrysanthe mums (the Mikado's crest) and camellias fair and faultless as those brought to us over the sea, the dwarf and grotesque cypress growths and the ponds of bril iant goldfish (some two feet long) swim ming in summer time beneath the broad, blutt-green leaves add pink flowers' of the lotus. The temple are as rich in color as the gardens, and sparkling in gold and jewel, with carvinge as intricate and ever different as the very foliage of the parks. Here are statues to Buddha of colossal proportions, and here the Shintu temples almost devoid of ornament. In a garden near the great temple of the, Asaksa, where the countless white doves lire, are several cocks with tail feathers twelve feet in length. I ascend the steep, long flight of steps to the summit of the Atago Yama, and seating myself before one of th3 ope? booths apd receiving from the pretty at endant a ctlp oi cherry-blossom tea, 1 look below me and faf away. The city, with its tile roofs, interspersed with green trees, lies at my feet. .Here and there a fbreigh flag before the buildings of the legations for a moment carries away my thoughts to other lands. The mountains of Hakone, blue and hazy, and in the distance above all Fuji-no-Yama. To the west are gray stone castles with their towers, the roofs of which look airj and inappropriate as covering for such solid, time-defying structures' Perhaps, however, even a castle does not want to wear the same hat forever. There are the I trees of the Ueno Park full of noisy crows, which perch upon the head of Dai Butsu and caw at all who pass. I have a luncheon or tiffin, as it is called i 1 the East. Sitting shoele ss upon the floor, a pickled salad is brought to me, which does not suit my palate, then rice catcu with chopsticks and washed down witli warm sake. Most dcliciously 'boiled eels, fresh from the water, cut up uiililiu chopst.cks and put int the pretty waitress, h to my mouth In 10 is teaching w how to cftt .i-l.i Japonaisc. Kor vege tables and the sweet wc -.tcd cigarette, a little more fake ati'l a mo t d..!if o- , ciip of-lea; and tiflin is over. .V.r 'Graphic. What Meteors Bring to the Earth. The meteors coming to our earth with out, excepting to their superficial vitrifi cation, undergoing any change, wc are able, by subjecting them to analysis, to derive from them some precise facts re specting'the constitution of the bodies in 6pace. , The first fact, which comes out from hundreds of analyses, is, that they have not brought a single substance which is foreign to our globe. About twenty-one elements, all known tdthe chemistry of the earth,-have been recog nized as present in them. Among these, iron, silicon, magnesium, nickel, sul phur, phosphorus and carbon, are the most important. Whi!e they are all clad externally in a common livery, mc! eor ites, when examined m their fractured part f, along with traits of similarity, present considerab e differences. They have been "Vassitied, according to their types, cording to into four groups, the ' proportion of ac- iion j they contained. Those of tho first group arc composed almost wholly of iron, which is known as meteoric iron. It is always alloyed with nickel and a few other metals, and contaius carbon free or in combiuatLon, as in steel, with fre quently sulphurtt and phosphurc.tof iron in scattered globules and grains. It is always recognizable by a single peculiar ity iu its structure. If we moisten a polished surface of it with an acid, we shall immcdiah ly observe the appearance of numerous straight lines, as fine and as true in their parallelism as if made with an engraver's tool, and crossing one another in a in t: work of regular geomet rical figures. These designs, called, the figures of Widmanstaettcn, after the first observer of lliciti, result from the fact that the met il is not of homogeneous constitution. It is composed of two alloys of iron and nickel, in a crystalline condition, one of which, not being af fected by the acid, stands put in relief from the other, which is attacked by it. The meteorites of this group are.called 7ioloileriLe, or all iron, in distinction from the others, which contain also stony matters. They arc vastly more rare .than those of the other groups. The stony substances of the other groups consist chiefly of Bi!i:.i in combination with magnesia and peroxide of iron, as peri dote or pyroxene. If these silicates are in small proportion and thinly scattered through the iron, they are syssiderites; if it is the iron that is in relatively small proportion and appearing only in isolated grains, they are ipbradosiderites. In other meteorites, comparatively few in number, no mctalic iron can be per ceived, and they are called asidcritcs. The most interesting specimens among them arc remarked by their dull-black color, and a general appearance like that of peat or lignite. Besides stony matters, they contain carbon in .combination with hydrogen and oxygen a chemical qual ity which has led to their being exam ined for remains of organic beings. But no trace of anything of the kind has been discovered. Popular Science Monthly. sapmf nao sji ut'paooo sr nq pHJ jo pastel 'paiio'j jaq?tau uauj st ji -ajg poo2 . jo uoj j m paoid usao n;o?uQ Min qsnpoo ooo ;saq nj. FUN. J Coinage of the brain change of mind. There is a man in Florida nino feet six Inches High. He enjoys good health and is evidently long for Jais world. Good alt$ Sun. ' , - a. "What a beautiful formt" exclaimed Mrs. Nifty, the first time the saw an eel; "such a long waist, you know.? Eottoti Trantript. . "Economy is wealth." "Perhaps," saya the Chicago Mail; "but wo'd like to see a man who could have all the, fun he wanted on economy ' At the Japaneso.Village. Visitor "Is land dear in Japan?" Japanese "No, but the ground rents are awful" Visitor "What's the cause of th'at l" Japanese "Earthquakes. "Siliny A modest youth was be; . . He kissed her finger tip 6he softly said: "Ah, met Why was I born with lir. Boston Courier. - A telegram says: "The Indians are be ing hemmed in." This is encouraging. They have been putting on too many frills of late; but we should prefer to hear that they were being basted. Kor rutoien Herald. "I can't sing," said the young lady, when invited to warble; but she com plied upon being further pressed. When she had finished, Fogg thanked : her and added "otto voce: "I'll never doubt any body's word again.'' Btan Transcript. Creditor "See here. Brown, I am get-' ting deucedly sick of sending around for that bill, and having my boy politely shown the door." Debtor "Oh-, well, I'm willing to do the right thing. I'll have him kicked out after this. Tid Bit. An ex-member of the Chicago ' police department telis a reporter that "people generally have a very queer notion of what a detective really is." Well, per haps they do. One of their queer notions is that they sometimes "detect." Mer 'Jiant Traveler. S. P Causey, of Macon, G a. caught a large fish on a trout line. While the fish was swimming at the top of the water md endeavoring to escape, a hawk pounced upon it. The hawk in. some way got the hook fastened in its beak. Then a ttruggle ensued, the fish trying to dive downward with the hawk and the. hawk trying to fly upward with tho 8sh. After a long fightbetween the two, the hawk was killed by some men who had been watching the struggle. A Short Furlough When the Twenty-Fifth Tennessee In fantry was encamped near Wartrace, in . the spritgof 1863, a farmer from a neigh boring county came in with a largo goods box fulled with "pit an', things." Dur ing his stay, he was approached by a soldier whom he had known in civil life, who wanted to make use of his tmpty box as a means of escape from camp, that he might pay a short visit home.. n, The farmer, not being sire that it woii!d be right to comply with, the re quest, thoush willing to: accommodate the man,' made no promise, but privately referred the matter to Col. Hughes, who. told hirahe had no p-wer to grant a fur lourh to the applicant, but if he could get out of camp in the empty box, it wou'd be al right. He charged the, farmer, however, not to let his friend know that ho was cognizant of his at- tempt to tscipe. That strategy had been attempted be fore, the colonel w is aware, and hb didn't choose to let it continue. The soldier went off in the dry -goods box. As the wagon, with its unsuspicious-looking load, reached Duck River, the next morning, it was met amid. ' stream by several mounted guards, who excused the owner of trafficking in whis key" to the soldiers. This he stoutly de nied ; but they told him they must make search, which they proceeded at Once to do. . Mounting the wagon at a given signal, ! they hoisted the box overboard' into the river. ' V; A s it began to sink, a struggle was heard going on within, and an upheaval of the top disclosed the frightened face of the would-be truant. Gen. Bushrod Johnson ana more man half of his brigade lined the bank to wit less the denouement, and the shouts of laughter and derision were, for a while, perfectly bewildering to the poor fellow, who stood up to his waist in water, not knowing which way to go or what to do. Hiv punishment, though mortifying, proved salutary, for he made -.a good soldier, and served out his time without once asking for a furlough or privilege of any kind. ToutlC Companion. 1 the Seed Wooldn t Sprout. Some tunc ago Sunset Cox forwarded Senator Brown, from Egypt, a pack- . age of cotton-seed that" had been found entombed with a mummy. 1 The mummy belonged to the race of the Pharoahs, and had been pronounced dead 4,000 years before Mr. Cox discovered the re mains. Three of the seed, were sent by Senator Brown to Dr. Connelly, of this city, and were duly submitted to the test of sun and' soil. They were planted in tubs, filled with highly fertilized dirt, and were carefully watched and watejed for a period of thirty days. In spite-of this the seed failed to sprout, a-d tVy were finally dug up and examined. Thej were filled with dust, and it is supposed that the germ of life that once had exis tence in the frail shells had passed away utterly. -Atlanta Constitution. Overheard at midnight on a Cunardcr: Small boy "Ma! Mar! My dinner won't l stay swallered." Chicago Ledger 'i j J h
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