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tKt Winds.
The North wind' howling; legions
Swept down from boreal regions,
From the pallid zone where winter's throne
Was wrought in the wide wa w, wan a-d
lone,
Uunutnbred years ago;
They come 'on wings whose fluttering
Bestrew the world with snow,
And their icy breath is I itter death.
Their footfall only woe.
Th East wind comes with sadness.
And pain, and midnight maices?,
From a solitude where curses brood
And poisoned dews on the dales are strewed.
And sorrow throttles gladne s;
It comes like a gho;t from spe.tral coast
Where cypress branches ware,
And out of its plumes fall ghastly glooms
Like those that encircle the grave.
The South wind comes a-sighing,
To buds and blooms replying,
Ho comes in quest of lore and rest,
And presently, on a rose's breast.
In rapture lies a-d ing;
He comes like dreams, and only seems,
His cradle is his tomb;
His life is a song to murmuring streants.
His death a rich perfume.
The zephyr, fragrance laden,
Brings balm to man and maiden
Brings dove-eyed rest to the troubled breast
Prom the mystical regions of the. West
From love's enchanted Aiden;
It comes with news as fresh as the dews
, That gather in starry hours,
With wonderful store of tender lore.
From the sweet book of the flowers.
-George K. Camjt.
ATTACKED BY PIRATES.
James Torrence was a foremost hand
on the Eritish bark Huntress, and oue
morning in the seventies we left Singa
pore, bound to the South by way of the
Straits of Sunda. "We had sixteen hands
on the bark, and for armament we had
a nine-pounder mounted on a carriage
and a good supply of muskets and pikes.
All of the seas to the north of Australia
are suspicious waters for an hone. t ship.
Pirates have abounded th.ere ever since
ships began to sail, and I'm t hink'ng it will
be long before the business is wiped out.
1 here are hundreds of islands in the Java
and Banda Seas, and cae'.i one of them
offers a secure headquarters for a gang
' of native pirates. They are not as bold
as before the government cruisers got or
ders to patrol those waters, and sink
every craft which could not show honest
papers; but they are there still, and the
temptations are too great to expect they
can ever be entirely suppressed. On our
way up, when off the Red Islands, on the
northwestern coast of Sumatra, we over
hauled an Italian brig called the Cam
pello. She was stripped of sails, cordage
and most of her cargo, and had been set
fire to and scuttled. For some reason
the flames died out, and the water came
in so slowly that she was floated six
hours after, the pirates abandoned h?r.
Our mate was sent off to board her, and
he found a shocking slate of affairs. She
had been laid aboard without resistance by
two native boats, armed only with muskets
and pistol The crew had at once been
made prisoners, ad set to work to strip
the ship and hoist out such cargo as the
pirates coveted. She was run in behind
one of the is'ands and anchored, and for
three days and nicrhts the pirates were
! hard at work on he". Fach man of the
i "
j crew worked under a guard durinjr the
j day. an i at night Captain and all were
j secured in the forecastle. Te crew
' numbered fourteen.
; Toward even'n of the third day the
j pirates had secured all their plunder. Scv
! evcral native crafts had been loaded ani
i sailed up the cast to some rendezvous,
j and only one remained to take on the last
i of the plunder. As no actual violence
had been oTered Captain or crew during
the three days, there was hope thnt the
pirates v o Id go away and leave them in
possession of the robbed and dismantled
brig. Just vvhat shift they wou'd have
made in this case I cannot say, for the
craft was left without sail, rope, block
or provisions." About 4 o'clock in ihe
aft moon the crew were ordered forward,
while the natives collected aft, and at a
given signal f re was opened on the .de
fenceless men. To their credit let it be
recorded that they seized whatever woap-
i ons they cou'.d lay hands on and dashed
at the pira'cs, but it was simply to die
like brave u'en. Iu ten micu'es the last
one was shot down. The pirates then
raised the anchor and got it into their
boat, bored holes in the ship's bottom,
and started a fire in the hold amidships.
The information I have given you came
from a little chap on board who was
making his first voyage as an apprentice.
He was. if I'remcmbcr right, only thirteen
years old. On the morning of the third
day he managed to hide among the
cargo, and the pirate? completed their
work and sent the hulk drifting out to
sea without having missed him. He was
on deck to catch the painter of the
mate's boat when she drew alongside,
and to one of our crew who could speak
Italian he gave thq story as straight as
the Captain could have talked.
We reported the affair, at Singapore,
and a British gunboat, was sent off to in
vestigate. She returned before we had
completed our loading, and reported
that she had made no discoveries It
was a warning for our Captain, and he
wisely determined to heed it. We took
on shell and grape for our cannon, a
dozen revolvers. were purchased for the
crew, and on the very 'day wc left, Ihe
Captain brought ob: ard two very heavy
rifles5 which he had picked up somewhere
at a bargain. . I call them rifles, but they
were young cannon, carrying a three
ounce ball, with powder enough behind
it to kick the marksman half way across
tie ship. -We left Singaporeas well pre
pared as a m reliant vessel could be, and
it eems that the Captain was advised to
bear well up toward Uorri30, and givf
t!. Red Island) n wide berth. W
ciossel the equator at least a hundred
miles to the east of t ie. islands, at I over
heard the Captain s.y. md then niterec
our cour. to the soutlnist, ca'c dating
to pa83 'to the east, of Uiliton Island be
'ore bnuling away for Sunda Strait.
The bark male good weather of it,
a d ne hal crossed tee juator and run
own on the new cojrsc until Eiliton
iniht hive been sighted from the mast
head, when the c cams a calm. Tht
w'nd had died away about midforenoon,
and the drift of the bark was 'to tht
norlh. We looked for a change at sun
vet, but nothing came, and the night
passed without wind enough to move a
feather. My watch was below when day
light c ame, and v c got the word to turn
ip lively. To the Northeast, off the
coast of Borneo, two or three green
Islands were in eight, and between us
and the islands were two native craft
bearing down upon us. These craft were
about the size of pilot boats, half decked
over, and rigged like a catboat. They
had been sighted when six or 6even miles
away, and as my watch came on deck
the mate descended from the perch aloft,
where he had bsen using the glass, and
reported to the captain that the craft
were approaching us by the use of sweeps.
The calm still held, but it was clear
enough to a sailor's eye that we should
have a breeze as soon as the sun began
to climb up. No man asked himself
the errand of those boats making out for
the Huntress. At that time and locality
there could be but one answer. The
Captain presently called us aft and said :
"Men, the craft which you see pulling
out for us are pirates. We shall have a
breeze within an hour, but they will be
here fi 1 t If we cannot beat them off,
we are dead men. They take no prisoners.
I look to see every man do his duty."
We gave him a cheer, and began our
preparations. The cook was ordered to
Ell his coppers fujl of water and start
a rousing tire, and the arms w re
brought up and served out. There were
three or four men who had served at a
heavy gun, and these took charge of the
cannon, and the piece was loaded with
a shell. When the Captain called for
some one to use the rifles, the only man
who answered was an American. He took
them aft, loaded them with his own
hands, and by the time the pirates wero
within, a mile we were as ready as we
could be. The bark was lying with her
head to the east, and the fellows were
approaching us from the north, on our
broadside. The mate kept his glass
going and announced that both craft
were crowded with men, but that he
could see no cannon. They made slow
progress, and we were impatient to open
the fight. By and by, when they might
have been three-quarters of a mile away,
the Captain passed word for the gunners
to send them a shot. In a few seconds
the big gun roared, and we all saw that
the shell flew over the pirates and burst
in the air. It was a good line shot and
something to encourage, but .before the
1 cannon sent another shot the American
! had a try with one of the rifles. The
1 mate was watching his shot from the
1 rigging, and the report had scarcely died
awav before he shouted :
"Good for the Yankee! He hit at least
a couple of them."
The second shell from the cannon burst
over one of the boats and took effect on
some of the men, as reported by the
mate. The American then fired again,
and again his bullet told. We were doing
bravely and were full of enthusiasm, but
the struggle was yet to come. The fel
lows bent their energies to creeping
closer, and pretty soon they opened on us
with musketry, and the balls began to
sing through the rigging in a lively man
ner. . We had our musdets ready, but
the Captain ordered us to hold our fire
and keep sheltered behind the rail. One
of the piratical craft was a quarter of a
piratical craft was a quarter
mile in advance of the other, and the
third shell from the cannon burst aboard
of her, and must have killed and
wounded a dozen or more men. There
was great confusion aboard, and she re
mained stationary until the other craft
came up. During this interval the Ameri
can got in two more shots, which found
victims. We now looked upon the vic
tory as assured, and there was . cheering
from one end of the ship to the other. We
were a little ahead of time. The third
shot from our big gun burst it, and al
though no one was hurt, we were thus
deprived of a great advantage.
As soon as the Captain knew what had J
happened, be called upon all the crow to
shelter themselves and wait to fire at
close quarters. One man was detailed to
assist the, cook with the hot water, and
powder and bullets were placed handy
for reloading the muskets. I was sta
tioned near the gun carriage, and I no
ticed several shells lying about under
foot. The American kept firing away
with the rifles, knocking orer a pirate
at every shot, and pretty soon the two
craft were near enough for us to open
fire with the muskets. I presume we
wasted a good many shots, for we were
green hands and greatly excited, butJL j
am likewise certain that we also did j
great execution. We had a plunging j
fire down upon a mass of half-naked fel- j
lows, and we must have weeded out a j
full third of them. There was no air
stirring, and the smoke soon grew thick
about us. . By and by the shouts and
veils of the pirates sounded close at hand,
and their craft were laid alongside and
they began climbing the rail. We now
flung down the muskets and used the re
volvers and pikes. When the revolvers
. were empty we used capstan bars, clubbed -muskets,
or whatever we could lay
hands upon. Our rail was clear in half
a minute, and then I picked up a shell
and a burning wad and ran forward. A
dozen natives had gained the bow and
were pushing our men back. I lighted
the fuse and gave the shell a roll along
the deck into the crowd, and I give you
my word that not one of them was left
alive after the explosion.- One of our
men on the quarter threw a second shell,
and I brought the third one and threw it
from the bow.
The fight was ended. A bit of wind
blew the smoke away, and we looked
down upon a terrible sight. The boats
seemed full of dead and wounded, the
living sought shelter under the half
decks. Why, there were bodies without
heads, heads without bodies, and arms
and legs and pieces of bloody meat enough
to make the bravest turn pale. Aa we j
cut their lashings they drifted off, and j
the Ameiican with his big rifles, and two j
or three of the men with muskets, kept (
up a fire on every thing that moved. Prcs- j
cntly the breeze came up, and as we made j
?ail and cot tho bark where we could
handle her we ran down for the dhows. :
1
They were light built, and it needed
only a fair blow to crush them. The first j
ono'wc struck on her starboard quarter,
and, although the bark glanced off, we ;
crushed-in her t'mbers, and she filled and ,
went down inside of five minutes. There
were about twenty living men on the
other, and ai we bore down for her at j
a good pace they uttered shouts of terror
and made Bigns of surrender. Our Cap
tain Lad no'mcrcy for them. Wc put
the ship right at the dhow's broadside,
and we cut her square in two and rolled
the bow one way and the stern the other,
vhile the living, wounded, and dead
went into the sea together. New York
Sun -
A Rich Editor's Stables.
The stables belonging to George W.
Childs,' proprietor of the Philadelphia
Ledger, arc described by the Philadelphi?
Vcw as folow3 :
"A merciful man is merciful to h'v.
beast." Mr. Childs is a merciful man.
That goes without saying, but I will sa
it nevertheless. His stable is larg-, f.n:
and fitted with every comfort for horse
and convenience for attendants. It ha!
none of the brass mounted frippery 01
nonsense that mr.d; me think, when I
visited Frank Work's equine palace ir
New York, that there cught to be a lavs
lo prevent men wasting money in such a
manner. Mr. Childs's stable is not onlj
comfortable and convenient, but it is also
architectually beautiful and in harmony
w-ith the house of which it is so neces
sary an adjunct. The stable for his Jcrs?3
cows is plain, but fitted with every com
fort desirable for the. beautiful animals.
What a blessing it would be if all dairy
men were to have their kine as clean and
as well kept as his are. There is plcntj
of running water at Wootton. "A little
creek is being trained at present to run
with multifarious waterfalls. Its water is
utilized in many ways and cools the milk
j jn tne ffi03t perfect spring-house I evei
5aw The trough in which the watei
runs around the milk vessels is of whit
glazed tile, and the water flows through
,it as clear as crystal. The interior ol
the building itself is of white flint, ami
I never saw anything cleaner or sweetci
locking.
The Bee's Sting.
The hive and its inmates afford, per- :
haps, a more interesting field for micro- j
scopic research than anything else in the j
whole insect kingdom. Take the bee's j
sting; why, that alone might occupy all j
the rest of this paper. The sheath makes
the first wound, and, inside it, so man
aged that they inclo3e a tube-like space
down which the poison runs, are two
darts, all built in such a strictly mechan
ical way that Mr. Cheshire says they
remind him of the guide rods of a steam
engine. The poison is gummy, but it is
prevented from clogging the machine
by a gland which secretes a lubricating
! oil. Th3 queen's sting is bigger than
the workers7 drones nave none duui
is pract cally barb!ess, and can therefore
be easilv brouerht awav instead of tfeing
left in the wound md thereby causing
the death of its precious owner. It is a
formidable weaDon. the sheath so hard
that it turns the finest razor-edge ; but a
queen never stings except in contest with
another queen ; she may be handled with
impunity. Of the worker it is a mis
take to say that it always leaves its sting
in the wound, and dies from the loss.
If it generally does so, the fault often
lies iu your impatience; bear it like a
hero, and the bee will work its sting
round and round till it is able to with
draw it without impediment. Of course
you get pierced deeper and deeper, but
then, consider, the creature's life is saved
by your suffering. A 11 the Tear Bonn I
. History of Caffes.
It was somewhat singular to trace the ;
manner in which arose the now common
manner in which arose tne now commuu ,
beverage of coffee, without which few!
f : i.ir fiw .iiirfd !
persons, iu any iumi ui iuuj
coun
try in the world, make breakfast,
be time Columbus discovered Amer-
At the time Columbus
ica it had never been known or used. It
grew only in Arabia and Upper Ethiop'a.
The discovery of its use as a. beverage is
ascribed to the superior of a monastery
in Arabia, who, desirous of preventing
the monks from sleeping at their noc
turnal services, made them driuk the in
fusion of coffee upon the reports of shep
herds, who observed that their flocks
were more lively after browsing on the
fruit of that p'.ant. Its reputation spread
through the adjacent countries, and in
200 years it reached Paris. A single
plant, brought there in 1814, became the
parent stock of French coffee plantations
in the West Indies. The Dutch intro
duced it into Java and the East Indies.
The extent of the consumption now can
hardly be rcalizccL,
BENNETT AND GREELEY.
The Two Great XewYork editors In
a Rage.
From an interesting article on New
York journalism of a past era, written
by Hugh Fnrrnr McDermott for the
World, wj make the following extracts:
Tied Wilkms dil the drama ana opera
inthosadays for the (I.rad. Alboni
was singing at th Academy of Music.
Before going to ! the Acidemy Ned
thought he would take in Pfaffs on the
way. He did, and he took in hot whis
kies with Halleck and the gay company.
Before losing his senses he called for a
newspaper and looked over the cast oi
the opera. Then he dashed off a criti
cism of many pages, cailed a waiter,
gave him a dollar and told him to hurry
at once to the He a7d office with the
critique. There were no messenger boys
then Nxxt day all the morning papers
save the Herald had a couple of lines
each stating that there was no perfor
mance at the Acad ?my owing to a sud
den indisposition of Alboni. Old Mr.
Bennett did not seethe statement. Bat
he did see, on the following day, very
funny articles in the Times and Tribune
on the HernWa blunder. They main
tained that that was on a par with the
Herald's claimed correspondence from
Thebes, Damascus, Bagdad and Jerusa-
lenr. Bennett was will. Tho joke went
ovWthe country. Nearly every paper
had a slap at Eeonett. As he read them
day after day he would jump from his
chair and tear through the office, shout
ing in his broad Scotch accent: "Oh, the
dom fool? Where is he? Where is he'f"
But Fred Hudson gave Ned the hint that
Old Sandy was in a towjiing passion,
: and, like a discreet young man, he did
not put in an appearance, except to draw
, his alary of $35 a week, for two
; weeks. Just as old Sandy's wrath had
cooled and Ned was once more in favor
a bad error occurred in one of Mr. Ben
nett's editorials. In those days many of
the regular hands in the composing-room
i put on substitutes on Sunday. Those
substitutes were- and are now called
: "subs" for short. Mr. Bennettv had
' written for Monday's paper an editorial
about "the Spanish Government, and
; he abridged the word government
"govt," believing, of course, that the
j printer had sense enough to spell it out.
j But a "sub" got hold of the copy, and
1 the proofreader that night was in a
I maudlin state. The "sub" set it up the
: '-Spanish goat" in every instance, and so
' it appear to Old Sandy's astonished gaze
the following morning. Then there was
1 music in the Herald office. Bennett
could eat no breakfast. He came with
' the sbeed of a crazed and ruined man
a
from Mount Washington to the office.
i He glared at Hudson. He asked for
j Bill Smythe, the foreman of the composing-room.
He wanted to know if every -
' body in the building and about the
building was a "dom fool!"
i "It's a 'sub's' blunder," said Fred
; Hudson.
"It's a 'sub's' error," said Bill Smythe.
"What's a 'sob?; shouted Mr. Bciyutt.-
"Dom the 'sob!' Is it a mule or a luna:
j tic?"
"Sob" was explained to him. and as
1 he was leaving in despair he met a young
man on the stairway smoking a cigar."
"Don't you know," thundered Bcn
; nett,"that it's against the rules to smbke
! in this building?"
i "No,-sir, I do not," answered the
I smoker with fear and trembling.
"Then who are you, and what dc ou
want here?" asked Bennett, ready to
pitch the smoker downstairs.
"I'm only a 'sub,'" was the imploring
answer.
"Ho! ha? You're the dom 'sob' that's
been making all the dom blonders! Go
upstairs and get your pay and never come
into this building again."
Before reaching the foot of the stairs
! Mr. Bennett met Ned Wilkms going up
j and whistling a lively air from the latest
, opera.
"Whistling, is it?
for the misery you
This is your sorrow
have caused me!
j You'll live on kale, Ned, two weeks
j moie. Not a cent will you draw," and
: the jrreat old man passed Ned all broke
rsut r reel nuusuu
salary all the same. '
i t-.i rr...i n.iH Nmi ina
No more tender-hearted man than the
elder Bennett ever lived. His fury was
always over in a couple of hours and 'he
had a fatherly liking for every employe
of the Herald.
Speaking of Bennett's anger by times,
1 may refer here to tnat oi norace vjiee- ,
ley. Greeley was a Donnybrook Fair
Irishman through and through. He
ripped and swore and tore like a mad
bull when angry. His manuscript was
execrable, and a "sub"' occasionally got
hold of it. Greeley had written an ar
ticle entitled "William H. Seward." A
J'aiiV" nam hi Peter Hacker, fresh from
- iT:Q tfco Third "
Shgo, set tt up ."Richard he Third,
and dashed away with great confii en ce,
, - - -
uii tauicauw. .v.-.. -
from Shakespeare-" 'Tis true, 'tb pity;
nitv "tift 'tis true." 1 He HgO genneman
rushed ovei" to the philosopher, copy in
hand, and
triumphantly read "Its five
ifs forty, it's forty it's five,
and what the
devil's that?" Then and th-re Greeley
offered to pay Mr. Hackett's passage
back to Ireland. On another occasion
a "sub" 4t hold of Greeley's chirog
raphv. H set up wagon
with wo g's.
Greeley marked
one out.
The."Kub"
thought he knew more about spelling
than the philosopher, an let Dotn g
, a iCfiK" ttin
go in. ureeiey ragcu. '
following day. The "sulf repnea tnat
v,n he Went to school there were two
g's in wagon. "Well," fad Greeley, in
his piping! voice, "wagons were bigger
then than they are now.
H was k constant victim of indolent
printers, wno Dorrowed f5 and 10 01 ,
him on all sorts of representations, but j
t'n K Riwnfc in the Pewter Mur 01 '
Cobweb Hall. A few years before his '
. ..." .1
J death a sentimental lady wrote him, a-k-;
ing him where she could get an auto- j
graph of Edgar Allan Poe. The philoso-
pher replied that she could procure that
autograph for 30, as he held Poe's note
for thit amount. Thoreau.ho was a
weak imitation of Ralph Wald Emcr
Sun, was also one of Greeley's mendi
cants. .
At a Fair in Savsy.
CIcsj to the gendarmerie there stands
a caravan, the portal of which is deco
rated with a picture calculated to strik
terror into the doughtiest heart. It 1 ep
ic -ents a French sailor being leisurely
ca'en up by a band of sivagc:-. Al
though the luck'ess maiiuct is almost
dismembered, the expression of his facj
betokens an intense interest in the ulti
mate fate of his own left leg, which is, to
all appe irances literally a bone of cun
tention between two of the bon vivant-s.
A r.fl-tufftd cap and a striped jersey,
lying nea''. would lead one to suppose
that a belorci comrade is by this timo
undergoing th? process of digestion.
And abo-e all this is a richlv-emblazoned
tcroll, which states . with pnrdon-vde
tautology that for two sons a head the
public can see the man-eating cannibal ;
from Patngohia. The door ;s opened
the clock strikes twelve and the booth is
opened. In an iron cage is the savage,
clad in little mere than a string of shells
and an elaborate headdress. He is but
small and, despite his du-,ky ?kin, is by
no means so terrible as one m ght have
expected. The proprietor of t'.i.; show
is a voluble little Gascon, wi.o rapidly.'
relates the history of the cannibal and
the thrilling incidents of his capture. !
The story finished, the keeper cuts with
. . T A f. I
a snort swora some raw mcai i.mu .i
joir.t and, unbolting the cage -door, flings
it to the savage. The ktter'seizes it and
tears :t it ravenously. The keeper Jurns
away for a moment to relight his cigar
e'.tc, when a wild shriek is heard and a
n-encral stamncde commences. The Gas-
o
con, it seems, has omitted to bolt the j
door, and the cannibal, h iving seized a : rigor of the upper motor muscles. 1 lie
club which 'had hitherto been lying in I affection begins with a peculiar stiffness
the corner of his case, has dashed out in the back part of the neck, rendering
among the audience. Well might the j every sideward motion of the head pain
women clasp their children and cry for j ful or even impossible; before long the
aid. The proprietor, however, is equal ! cramp-like sensation extends to the spine ;
to the cmcro-enev. Throwing hunsell
before the savasre. h
rlrivos him back, inch bv inch, to the i
dim recesses of his lair. - The door is
once morcbolted.and the keeper is ovcr-
whelmed with gratitude and caporal ! the teeth led set as nrmiy as inosc oi a
cigars. His heroism is the talk of the j powerful steel trap. The patient leans
fair, and the beoth is. crammed all day j his head on his clutched fist, while
long. The other " showmen, however, spasms of the neck inus- 1-s often beget a
laugh incredulously. Every fair com-j sensation as if the hinge; of the jaw
menees, they say, with a similarly tragic j bones were mechanically riveted, and
occurrence, and they hint that Cheuzcl, j could bo moved only by a breaking force
the "man eating cannible," is a verj I if not b; a miracle: Vet a steam bath,
harmless native of the South Pacific or even a wet pack in sheets drenched
Tnds with an unrequited attachment with warm water, is generally sufficient
f:r the nitr faced ladv.and a pretty taste
in the matter of .cntre -London iilotte.
Human Interest in Animals.
The interest which yearly increases in
horses and other domesticated animals
will be as much manifested as ever at the
summer resorts. Although attended with
much difficulty and annoyance, . people
with ho.ses of th.ir own, used either for
the saddle or driving, try in many in
stances to have them removed to the sea-
side or suburban places -where th-y make
j tiie;r ionorest suburban ttay, in order that
they may have the enjoyment of them.
To a greater extent thi3 is the case
with pet dogs, though many of the best
summer hotels and boarding-houses ob
iect to receiving them, and there is
j hardly a hotel man who has not had to
i meet and settle the difficult dog prob-
lem; for while guests, as a rule, object
to having miserable litue w nipper
trotting and snarling around
the passrges and seeing them, as
sometimes happens, brought into the
dining-room, there are many persons who
th:nk so much of their pet bow-wows
j that they will not go themselves where
their canine darlings are refused. It is
mainly in order to gratuy tnc
i Cnn.nc. m Mm on'miii W'.'irin mat
. uuiuau lutncoi. ah ,
i at so many places of summer resort
special accommodations for horses
other animals are being provided and fa
cilities increased for having them con
tribute to the amusement of the great
crowds that congregate at these places.
Philadelphia Timis.
' Queer Tavern.
George Wickham, the brother of cx
Mavor Wickham, who has just returned
from Europe and dazzled the other dia
mond merchants with the splendor of
his importations, describes an eccentric
establishment in Shoreditch, London,
icnown as "Dirty Dick's." The original
proprietor would not have the spiders
disturbed nor the floor swept, and was
I U1SLU
. by ft chop
: ( i Xew York. !
house m 1 names
But he had other pe
. , - . ,
cuuariues wmvu v. -
; successors. No person could be served
r . - t vig tar Gn tnc same ua) . "
i who triea to deceive the landlord by
i,1k:n out and
then coming back
, " o . 1
through another door, with their coat
collars turned up and their hats tipped
over their eyes, discovered that the bar
keeper was keen enough to detect them,
and that the rule was inflexible. All
j drinks were the same price. 1 or three-
j pence you might, take a g.ass of ale, oi
j in Gf brandy or of champagne.
The
a ; qUeer tavern in a
street of London, which
i a TVuvprv was the first
i correspond i- j
i place in wnicn cnampague wa j
the glass. As patent corks were not yet
invented, the cranky proprietor preferred
to spoil a whole pint of the wine rather
than viblate his own regulation about
prices. New Tori Star.
words of Wisdom.
Jealousy is te apprehension rf su 'm
Priority.
t r t A l
1 ns love or an inings spnn-s iron. m
love of ore.
Who overcome by force hath oor-
come but half his foe
The flnest fruit cnrtn Q
Id u to its
Maker is a finished man.
Good thoughts are no better tnan good j
dreams, uules;.they are execute!.
No rules can make ara'ability; our
minds and apprehension; make that.
All history is only the precepts of
moral philosophy reduce 1 into examples.
The innocence of the intention abates
nothing of the mischief of tho examp'e.
Malice and hatted are very fre'tting,
and apt to make our minds sore and un
easv. Mere beauty ever wao, and ever is, a'ld
ever will be, but a secondary thkig, ex
cept to fooK
Though mcns"person ought n't to be
hate l, yit w.fh 'Ut all rcrad entur their
practice jiis'ly ma;.
-A man's nature runs cither to herbs O'
weeds : theref( re let hioi seasonably wet r
the one and destroy the other!
It was the policy of the good eld -gentleman
to mai-cc his chil Iren - "feci that
home, was the happiest place in th" world ;
and I value this delicious home tecling
as one of th3 choicest gifts a paient ca i
bestow.
'Tii pitiful, says Emerson, the thing
by which we are rich or poor a matter
of coins, coats and carpets, a li'.t'c more
or less stone, or wood, or paint, the
fashion of a cloak or ha'.; like the luck
of naked Indians, f whom one is proud
in the possession of a glass bead or a red
ft ather, and
Vant of it.
the rest miserable in tho
j
Moisture and Lockjaw.
Dr. Felix I... Oswald says iu Ifame and
Farm: Moisture, in the form of a vapor
bath is an excellent remedy for tetanus, !
or lockjaw. The immobility of the jaw
is only the culminatiye symptom of a
complaint which might be defined as a
the patient iceis lnipeueu to ncnu iur
ward to lelieve the strain
on the snoui-
der muscles
headaehes acd a feeling of i
general numbness beget a disposition to
sleep, and on awakening from a fitful nop
j to accomplish that anin el
The ( om '
bined influence of warmth and moisture
seems to.relax the rigor of the muscles;
first the spine, and by-and-by the ne'ek
and jaws fed the relief, and by continual
friction the danger of a relapse an be
obviated for a quarter of an hour, after
which the abnormal symptoms will be re
duccd to a tin rering numbness, as after a
Stunning fall.
Vashinqlon's Private Secretary.
There is in (lie western part of the city
an old warehou-e, built-in the last een
tury, in which the archives of Govern
ment were stored when brought here by
water until houses conld be prepared for
their rec -pti.n. This warehouse belonged
to Col. i.ear. a native of Portsmouth, N.
H., who was fitted for college at Dum
mer Academy at Byfield, Mass graduated
at Ilnrvard University in 178 ?, and two
years later became Private Secretary
to
Gen. Washin .t n. In 102 he became
Consul-General at San Domingo, and in
IfO 1 he tilled the same position at Al
giers. The i.e t year (l0') he went as
Commissioner to negotiate a pcece with
Tripoli. On- leturning to the United
States he br me an accountant in the
War Dcpa tm:n . One morning in Octo
ber, 1H1C, af er Col. Lear had finished
breakfast l.e took-the morning paper
-i. x .v.. i.o hi
ana waiKea vj iud Bummuuuov
vard Soon ahcr the sounds of a pistol ,
werchea:d, which alarmed the family,
and proceeding to the summerhouse they!
a r-..i t in - ca.P,l on a bench with !
l.ir.wn nut and the fatal dMoi
ii io uiU'H' . - - . . :
H his death grip. When Washington
gave Col. Lear his war corresponde.ico
to classify; he directed him to burn the
letters of Mrs Washington as he tame
across them. She was not an accom
plished schola-. and her noted closeness
in money matters ' doubtless led her to
make occasional remarks in badly spelled
sentences, whi-h Washington wished to
have destroyed. Ben: Perlei) Poore.
Ticeistio i.e over the famous Xa
varro fl its w-'.icw York, th3 model and
'aiammoth a;.:rtment buildings th.lt were
to revoiutio: ize methods of living, min
fmizc the in onveniences and annoyances
ir.d a ro d th : maxima of comfort, lux
ury and convenience for housekeepers.
The plan do sn't appear to have proved
ivhol'y successful, and the insurance
;onr):;r.y which holds a mortgage of $1,
KO 0)) on t!i2 buildings is to foreclose
t s c'.aim, wldlc sura? Aggregating $40,
0J fire duo for taxes, watcrrent and
thc:- incident .1 -. The condition of af-
fairs fcjnisio i :uitaie haul iuucw
n ap Ttment-honsc" build ng which it
isn't sr.fe to pa s. Tenons, who can af
ford to pay f r such accommodations as
ihe JCavano plan promised not unnatu
rally prefer in most cases to own their
wn houses.
FUW.
"By their works shall ye know them.
Watches. Merchant Traveler.
The more you cheque a spendthrift
the faster he goes. National Wtelly.
Why is a successful poultry-manlike
a carriage-builders? Because he makes
a coop-pay.
The barber can be relied upon for data
in the making up of "crop" report.
Vvnkert Gaiette. v
A way to get even with the Canadians
on the dshery question: Make them eat
shad. BtHiton Pott. .
A theatrical manager in London says
that 150,000 persons in that city lire by
playing. Free Prest.
A young man who dives on a rich
mother-in-law is not necessarily a Canni
bal, but approaches that tribe for lazi
ness. National TTVity.
Australia his had a ball game, but as
the Australians have not learned to kick
at the umpire's decisions, it was not very
exciting. L-nicell Citizen.
"1 know what the nights'of labor are,"
said the mother of sis boys as she sat
down to repair the pile of trousers and
jackets. Untrft Courier.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes used to be
an amateur photographer. When he pre
sented a picture to a friend, he wrote on
the back of it: 'Taken by O. W. Holmes
A ; Sun." Detroit Free Pre.
Bornsternc Bornson, the Norwegian
poet, wants to come to America for
v;s'r- lj j j j j j j J-1 Thos0 f belong
in the name somewhere, and the reader
can distribute them to suit his taste.-
N-riri h HuVetin.
What every married man In this coun-
try wants is a trained, fierce-looking lit-
tie mouse- that will appear whenovcr
called. It will stampede a family quarrel
in less time than it takes to provoke
one. Mton IVIeijrajih. '
"Have you heard Miss Simpson sing
sim c she returned from Europe?" "Sev
eral times. v "Do you think-she ha? im
prowed?" "Very much." "In what
particular :" "She doesn't sing as much
as she used to."- - Manic d Journil. '
"Horace, why don't you sit down ?
You've been standing there for over an
hour.". "Cawn't sit down, Fwcddic.
doing to the reception, you know."
"Wcl what of that i It's early yet."
"Ju-t had my twowscrs cweased, "Fwcd
dic. Do you think I've got.s-s-8-soften-cf
the bwain ?" Life.
How to Punish Children.
"How to punish children," said Prof.
Adler.in a lecture recently, "is one of tho ,
burning questions of the day. Upon it
depends in a greater degree than people
imagine the welfaro of the state, tin
family, society a .d the ethical develop
ment of humanity itself. Wc 'would b
the physicians our enemies; wc would -.rofit)by
their hostility and lead them tc
.i better mind by gentleness and firmnesi
combined, and even chastise themwhen
their own good and social advancement
icquire it. How many parents know how
to punish children .' .
"A child will grow tip, in nine casci
out of ten, the 'embodiment of the in- ';
iluencest hat sui round him. Never chastist
n child in auger. Socrates, Jhc great
Pagan hilo opher, refrained from pun
ishing a slave until his passion had
cooled. An angry father sets a perilous,
example to his offspring. He exhibits his
weakness when he should be firm and
contained.. The child drinks in the les
son, anil ids moral nature is lacerated and
warjyjd. -
"How many children arc spoiled by
discouragement '. Parents grumble and
chide the livelong day, and never praise.
It js wrong. Nothing will so'-effectually
crush a child's ambition toljp good and
nobl". The sweet approbationof a good
mother is enough to make a young man
face tire and death iu a worthy cause." "
Humors of the Pulpit.
At a reccpt on to the Rev. Dr. Seward,
in New Britain. Conn., recently, remin
iscences were in order. It was said that
Dr. Seward insisted, when, appointed
pastor, in 183"). that he should not be
cailed upon for more than two public
ervK-es each Sunday; mat one mcmoer
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of -the Church shortly afterward prayed
that the pastor would receive grace to
preach in the morning and afternoon
and, "if his strength held out, he might
continue in the evening.
Dr. Seward
told of receivinga bushel of turhip3 once
for marrying a couple, and some years
later the bridegroom appeared and passed
out a 10 bill, .'ayiug that "hU wife had
turned out so well that he felt justified
in the expenditure." A man once camo
into church late, and started, with
squeaky boots, to walk the whole length
of a side gallery, when an exchange pai
tor stopped suddenly in his prayer,
!cpen:d his eyes, and pointing a long
finger at the disturber, said, 'You sit
right down where you are." He then
resumed his prayers
Here is another argument- for oatmeal
and milk- There are living in West
River Settlement, Nova Scotia, , four
brothers MeLeod whose united ages
I jot up 324 years. They are as follows :
Hugh, eighty-four yen; .William,
eighty-two years; Daniel, eighty years,
and Anthony, seventy-c:ght .yea's. Th"y
p.re all hale and hearty and able for their
porridge and milk every morning.
A Pittsburg builder-of cheap" houses
asei matched flooring instead of lath and
plaster. On this cotton cloth i glued, '
md on the cloth wall paper is pasted.
Thii he ch ims is better and cheaper than
'olaMcr. an3 thus houses can be built:
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