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BY 6HW XDlSpOOB.
A kind 7, itlrXiot, (fentiis face,'
And teniler, JoTing, Rlnwlsg tfrt, "
A rounded fnrm H womlrougroe, . .
Oarrod by tM Artlt( ttif (kJa
A witching Yfe that tolli tale
Of nothing wbioh aoulil ipeok of xln)
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Which hides the soul MutdireHa within f ..J
Cold, (tern and pale, with raukeu jrw
And hollqw meumful, grlncliK voice,
Which eauMW wonder and am-priM 11
That auch being can rslolor; ..,.- v.
A face whose feature fciirelr rfttf V " x
The thoiiKht thai It la raid of via.
But who ahnll know while we may livn
The throbbing heart that burns withinT
It matter not how Xalr Ihefaoa, . , . ,
Or 11 the Tntca he ot and low,
And trained twirranrtnemral plae- c
Innlruetinn Oftena to UHOow,"
6o pure and true within the breaxt
Ileata a fniul heart that truth can win.
To tell to Hiin that kooweth best ( , t v
The longings of the soul within.. K i
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The Anatomy of an Oyster-
Every oyster has a, , mouth, a heart, a
liver, a stomiich, cunumgly-devined in
testines, and other 'necessary organs,
just as oil living, moving, and intelligent
creatmes havo. And all these tilings nro
covered from man's ntdelv-inauisitive
giuso by a mantlo of iKJiirly gauze, whoso
wool and warp puts to ukuiuo tho frost
laco on your windows iu. winter. Tho
mouth is at the smaller end of the oyster,:
adjouiirig tho hinge. Itis of oval tdiape.
wne acirowrfeT f
M- Jnm, though not readily seen by ou un-
pructiccil eye, its location ami size caniH)
!sily dist-overed by geutly prishin.o; n
blunt bodkin, or similar ; iiistiiunent,
along tho surface of tho locality men
tioned.' When the spot is found your
Inxlkin can be thrust between the deli
cate lira and a considerable distance
-down toward the stomach wttJiout caus
ing tho oyster any pain. From tliis
mouth is, of course, a sort of canal to
convey food to tho stomach, whence it
passes into tho intestines. With an ex
ceedingly delicate and sharp knife you
can take off the "mantlo" of the oyster,
when there will 1k disclosed to you a
Jialf-moon shaped space, just above tho
muscle, or so-called ' 'heart. " This space
is tho oyster's pericardium, and within it
is the real heart, the pulsations of which
nre readily seen. This heart is made up"
of two parts, just as the human heart is,
one of which receives the blood from the
gills through tho network of blood ves
sels, and the other drives the blood out
through the arteries. In this important
matter the oyster differs in no respect
from other warm or cold-blooded ani-
"Tmals. And no one need laugh incredu-
- lousiy at the assertion that oysters have
blood, but it is, nevertheless, blood to all
oyster intents and purposes.
In the same vicinity, and in marvel
onsly proper positions, will be found all
the other organs named. ' But it is very
proper to be incredulous about this mouui
and organs fact. At first glance it would
Becm that they are utterly useless, for
the' mouth cannot snap around after
food, and the oyster-has no arms where-
with to grab its dinner or lunch. True,
apparently, but only apparently, for
each oyster has more than a thousand
arms, tiny, delicate, almost invisible;
But each of them is incessantly at work
gathering up food and gently pushing it
into the lazy mouth of the indolently
comfortable creature. The gills aro the
thin flaps so notably perceptible around
tho front face part of the undressed oys
ter, below the muscle.
Each of these gills is covered with mi-
unto hair-like arms, very close together,
and perpetually in motion to and fro in
the fiiinie unwearied directions. They
oatcb food from the water, strain it care
fully of improper substances, and waft it
upward ovei 'lie mantle's smooth surface
-to the gnpiiift mouth which placidly gob
bles it up until hanger is appeased, and
then the body goes to deep without turn
' ing OYor.-rr-Tomsontown ' fd.) Journal.
A Wisconsin Hermit. . ?
Ole Nelson, who now rcBiedcs
noar Hturfjeoii Bay, Wis., in the northern
lnrfcof that oounty, was several yoors
iigo quite well to do, but ho got minted
up in several law unite, which caused a
stoatly drain ujion his iKKJkot-lwok, until
ho "was reduced to the mont abject pov
erty. He then went to his present place
ol aiwvie, Dtnu mmseii a rime uui, iu
latod from any neighbors, where he lives
alone in dirt and filth. . He never works,
but picks up his food in the woods in the
6tiniiner, out of which ho leaves enough
to l.ifit him through the winter. He
never changes his clothing until they
"actually rot from liim. He will not even
Yut liis fire-wood into stove length, but
takes long sticks as he finds them, puts
dip end into the stove, and as fast as it
li is off shoves it in further. Recently
sf, . e of Ids neighbors kindly volun
teered to clean out his hut, which is Bivid
to be as filthy as a hog-pen, but he posi
tively refused to allow them to help a
particle in that cespcet Grand Rapid
' Faille. . . '
A California Story.
Pin Fmiicmco CorrcupondcnrK lUHimore Sun.
Tigs run at large in Kern County, and
hrcoino wild, knowing no owner. Tliii
dry year has made forage scarce. Un
umi.il collections havo been noticed,
icmingly in council, and rigs In pairs
hsvo been seen to Ivive Dy different
routes, now supposed? to be prospecting
parties, because lately there hasten a
general stampede in the direction of
jjuena Vista Lake. Into this lake all
plunge daily, and fish for clams that
Htrew the bottom, under cover of nearly
two feet of water. Their multitudinous
unortings are heard after as they emerge
from clamming to get air. Thisbtvalvular
diet is relished, and a fat slaughter is in
preparation.
JIast Bom an Catholio missionaries
bjq undertaking journeys into Africa,
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A JNetctle Core for Diabetes.. r
a imitui; van ivr xiauetcs; ,
All starchy y fopd must bp wholly
avoided.' Oysters and clams may Ik?
eaten row or cooked without flour. All
soups .in wliflf there is no flour;' rfco,
vermicilli, or any of the prohibited vegetables.-.
Fish of all. kinds, and incut of
all kinds except hver Beef and mutton
Stb the lest, Tnil f ripe, ham, "tongue,
hiiconltnd sausages, are' safe for thoso
wlto like them.. Poultry and game of
(ill kinds, but no sweet jellies or sauces
with them. .Sidivds, including lettuce,
cucumler8, water cresses, and cabbage.
Cklery, .asparagus and tomatoes aro
rather to Ijo; avoided,
Potatoes, bapts. enrrofs.
r"nl,rnrtt -
Bips, peas,
Jioiiibitod," 1
mcied.i ' I
Caulittow
Btrulgbeans-ttrwxJmmtwIedTurT,
apples, cut in quarters, dipped in beaten
eggs, rolled in cooked gluten, and fried
in very hot fat, make a good substitute
for potatoes. ..
All kinds of tart fruits, especially
peaches and strawberries with cream, but
no sugar, may bo freely eaten.
Milk in moderation, cream, butter,
buttermilk, aud all kinds of fresh cheeso,
especially Neuohatel, ore to bo eaten. .
Positively no sweet cako, no bread
froia ordinary, flour, . and nothing that
contains sugar or starch. Tho gluten
flour from which starch is wholly' ex
cluded, may be purchased for twenty-
live cents a pound, and from it bread,
rolls, pancakes, fritters, mushes and pud
dings (without sugar or molasses) maybe
mode and freely euton. No pastry shoidd
be touched unless made from tho gluten
flour.
. . Nuts are allowed, and in any quantity
or shape are highly recommended.
Coffee and cocoa with cream (glycer
ine if liked, but no sugar), may bo
drank in moderation. . Tea is not desir
able. ; -'.! . V -
No spirits or molt liquors, nor sweet
wines: all tho sour wines, claret. Bur
gundy, Rhino wines, etc., may be taken, 1
and tho claret is especially recommended
for every dinner.
Eat slowly, drink chiefly at the close
of the meal, and not much between
meals; take cold or tepid baths in the
morning, and exercise afterward, and
stick to the diai 2ie year round.
We know a lady who was suffering
from diabetes, with an intolerable thirst,
night and day, that nothing would allevi
ate. She had an interview, over a year
since, with Mr. C. C. '-, Waite, of the
Windsor Hotel, who himBclf adopted
this regiment after consulting the best
physician in Europe, and she followed
his example. Her disease was at onee
arrested, her thirst wholly relieved, and
she enjoys very 'comfortable health,
which fully pays for the self-denial at the
table. Jfew York Courier-JoumaL
English and American Farming.
A London paper gives an interesting
and very careful comparison between
English and American farming. In
England, one acre yields on an average
thirty bushels of wheat, while in America
it yields onan average only thirteen. The
American farmer must consequently cul
tivate two and a half acres in order to
produce tho same quantity of wheat as
the English farmer raises iu one acre.
How is it, then, that the American far
mer can, nevertheless; not only compete
with the English farmer, butevenbont him
iu Iris own marKct? Tho answer which
first presents itself to this question is
the enormous difference of rent in Eng
land and American, but this difference
is nearly, if not altogether, obliterated
by tho cost of transportation from the
western fields to tho tkiglish market.
JXho real advantage wluch the American
farmer has over the English lies hi the
cheapness of cultivation. While the
American soil needs little if any
nmnuro at all, in order to yield an av
erage harvest year after year, tho English
farmer must apply a heavy quantity of
costly artificial manure to the soil every
year, if he exacts to have an average
yield, and a similar cheapness reapjM'nrs
at nearly every point of tho cultivation,
except that of labor. In tho settlement
along tho Red River, in Northern Minne
sota, a plow may rim through tho soft
alluvial Boil for miles in a straight line
without encountering a stone, a tree, or
a hill, a feature to which England does
lot offer the faintest approach. .
In the Great Tunnel.
A Viouna correspondent, writing about
the St.Ciothard tunnel, says: "Those
who went into tho tunnel before it was
entirely pierced, nil tell of their delight
in having got out of it again unsciithed.
It seems tliat the heat, the bad smell, the
mud, and tho noise of tho machines are
simply uuhearablo. Of tho work-people
one-third were always on tho sick-bed,
and great numbers of the horses fell a
sacrifice to the difficulties that had to be
contended with A great deal, it is true,
still remains to lie done, but from the
moment the opening was mode by dyna
mite, air began to pass through tlio tun
nel, and although it niay not yet bo the
mr t healthy place, still if will bo sup
I tollable. Tho calculat ions of to en
gineers were right to two metres, tho
length of tho tunnel being 14,918 metres
instead of 14,!)'20, as they calculated.
When the ot'iiing was made everyone
stivtd awe-struck, and an Italian, Angelo
Chi'.'KO, was the rirsy who passed to the
ofh. r side. The tlnfta will take a little
more than half an hour to pass through
the tunnel."
It is estimated that this year the col
leges and universities of the country will
turn out one thousand new ministers of
the gospel, two thousand new doctors,
altout one hundred of them women, and
three thousand new lawyers. It will lte
seen from this that the world, the flesh.
and the devil have greater attractions for
the rising generations than the church
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Uhe War They Cfanra In Texw I
The Way They Cham In Texas,
I thonght that I had seen a good many
kinds of churns before I came down here
(says a New England Yankee, writing
from Texas) crank churns, dasher
churns, and "chemical churns.'.'. But
I will now describe a mode of churning
bnttor that will, I think, make New En-,
gland folks open their eyes. ; Common
ly, they do not make much butter in this
county, and the settlers here conie to
get along without it; but, by the time 1
had been, at the poesta two or three days,
I began to want some butter on my
bread. -
r JW-4- had a herd -of twenty-five or
f ! ..cnttip which he kept for leef,
rmn wee a nnmher ox mtjn
was bidden to set the milk
.four" hours, and the next
told Lizado, or "Liz,"
him, to churn. They had
done such a thing as to churn buttor be
fore, it appears. Liz went out and
brought a bog of raw hide, about as large
as a common meal bag. How clean it
was inside, I am sure I do not know, but
he turned the cream into it, and poured
in new milk enough to fill it two-tlurds
full, and then he tied it up with a strong
strip of hide.
stood with a broad grin on his
face. I was already too much astonished
to make any remarks. Lia now carried
the bag out of doors, and then got his
horse. Taking his lassoo off the saddle,
he made one end of it fast to the cream
bag, the other end, as usual, being at
tached to a ring in tho saddle. This
done, he jumped-on the horse and tucked
spurs to him. Away he went, and at
the first jerk that bag went ten feet into
the air, and fell with a squoch, close up
to the horse's heels. At tho next jerk it
went higher still. Ho soon went out of
sight, with the bag dancing after him.
Sometimes it hit down alongside tho
horse,- and sometimes it struck slap on
the animal's rump. M wo con
vulsed with laughter at me, I suppose;
for I must confess -that this npset all
my previous idoas of butter-making. In
the course of twenty or thirty minntos
Liz came back, the horse looking pretty
hot, and tho bag very dusty. .
"E8 mantica ' (butter's come), said
ho. Ed untied the churn, ana, sure
enough, there was a good homely chunk
of butter in it; and it proved to be very
decent butter, too. 1 asked if that was
the way they always churned. They
said it was, and Ed declared it was " a
dale asier than turnin' ft crank." Sol
respectfully submit the "method " to all
our good people up North. Everything
needed for it is a sole-leather bag, a
clothes-line and a horse, 1 .
An Enterprising Woman.
Some days ago a curious case, illustra
tive of the length to which tt deep yearn
ing for emancipation from the conjugal
yoke will carry Indies of resolute and
enterprising temper, was tried at Lille.
The wifo of a Belgian officer had insti
tuted proceedings before the High Court
of Tournai some months previously, with
the objectof obtaining a divorce from her
husband. Failing to bring her case to
Txmclusion as she . desired, aid highly
irritated by the "law's delays," she
happened one day to noticrf a newspaper
paragraph in which Monsieur Loredan, 1
fencing master, rerident at Lille, War
enthusiastically praised for his extraor
dinary dexterity with tho small sword.
Forthwith she traveled to Lille, sought
out M. Loredan and offered him a hand
some sum of money to mako her hus
band's acquaintance, pick a quarrel with
hint in such - sort as to provoke a chal
lenge, thus securing tho choice of weap
ons, and then, by the exercise of superior
skill, deliberately slay him. Loredan
struck n borgan with her, received 800
francs on account, and actually started
for Tournai to .execute his homicidal
mission. On the rood to the station,
however," he dropped into a cabaret
which he was in the habit of- frequent
ing, and finding several of his intimate
acquaintances assembled, "Btood treat"
to such purpose that, his tongue lxing
unloosened by "potations bottlo-deop,"
ho confided his enterprise to all present.
His arrest, as well as that of his fair
client followed tlicso revelations, as a
matter of course, and both -parties to this
sanguinary bargain were tried for con
spiracy to tako life. Tho lady was sen
tenced to a 'month's imprisonment and
100 francs fino, but Loredan was ac
quitted. London Telegraph.
The Powr of a Cyclone.
The I-ondon ri'snys: In discuss
ing the two cyclone which visited the
Bay of Bengal in October, 1876, Mr.
Elliott, meteorological reporter to the
Government of t'engnl, incidentally
gives some idea of the cyclonean, forces
which arc developed by such storms.
The average "daily evaporation" reg
istered by the t engal instruments in
October is " two inches." The amount
of heat absorbed by the conversion of
this amount of water daily over so large
and area as the Fay of Bengal is enor
mous. "Roughly estimated," said Mr.
Elliott, "it is equal to th( continuous
working of 300,1)00 steam engines
of 1,000-horsc iower." A simple
calculation will show that it suffices to
raise aloft over 4.r,000 cubic feet of
water in twenty-four hours from every
square mile of the bo'ora of the bay, and
transport it to the clouds which over
hang it. When we extend, the calcula
tion from a single square mile to the area
of the whole Indian Gulf, the mind is
lost in the effort to conceive the force
which, in a day's time, can lift 60,000,
t00 tons! Yet it would be easy to show
that such figures, fabulous as they seem,
do not adequately represent the cyclonic
forces of a single storm.
Farbwki.l, my hone," sang the lar
ber, as he saw a thief making off with it.
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' ' ilirC)iirteoug Lawyer. .
9 jlne Courteous Lawyer..
Ton recognize the courteous lawyer at
once. ,He jplnces a chair gracefully for
his client, whether the client is an ele
gantly '. htQ-ed :. lady in sealskins and
riamondfl or a clumsy bnmpkin in home
pun and liquor. He smiles sweetly at
his opponent, and bows to the jury in a
deferentiully familiar way. He pays the
fees to the clerk before he has the
trouble to ask f yr them, and draws the
bills out fr his . tcket book slowly, one
by one, as gently as he would lead a
belle fromjher carjiage to the ball-room.
His bow M the iet&vijuig' M.an apology
fojr havmgjcome intotue l4; ."Vjfion con
tompwtpfftuslyi with his Honor. He
handles aptness as though .he was the
frail jjjolden setting and his testimony the
gem he was trying to remove. His tones
are carefully modulated, and he appeals
for a reply to the kindly sensibilities of
the witness. "Be so good" is the cap
tivating exordium, and " thank you " the
palliative peroration. Ii he wounds with
a question, he binds up the sore the
next moment with the liniment of polite
ness. To his opponent he overflows
with generous waivers and admissions,
and if by chanee ho interpolates a re
mark, he does it as though ho was put
ting a boquet in his adversary's button-,
hole. He thinks he understands the
court. He hopes he docs not misappre
hend liis learned friend. He trusts the
witness knows what he means. In ad
dressing the jury, he unbosoms his ap
preciation of their intelligence and
ability. He lays his arguments before
them with respect amounting almost to
reverence, as though they were pro
pitiatory offerings to a deity whom he
wished to placate. To the court his
whole demeanor is redolent of respect.
Tho court is most honorable; the judge
most distinguished. He is, in short, so
filled with human consideration for every
thing and everybody arpund him, that he
finds excuses for the jury that beats him
and for the court that nonsuits him. It
is true, he has been know to revile an
adversary in private, to curse surrepti
tiously, and to sneer at the judiciary in
tho social circle. It is also true that he
can wrench a fee from a client in a ruth
less moment and take a snap judgment
when he thinks it safe. But these little
trifles only show that he is human, and
he knows that men are not apt to believe
that a head with such a halo of polite
ness around it can have for its pedestal a
cloven foot .
Three Man-Eaters.
Dr. Swan 'tVe surgeon of the Pacific
Mail SteatnslWp Odima, which arrived
in this port a few days ago from the
isthmus, reports an incident on th- ship
worthy of mention.. He states that
while the Colima was lying at Acapulco,
on the trip tip, she anchored one day
close to the steamship China, fc'orne of
the hands on the latter baited a hook
and CAught a shark of the man-eater va
riety about fifteen feet long. The shark
was'pulled up and cut open, and in the
bcliy was found a human arm entire,
just as it had leen torn by the devour
inir lrdnstrr fiOtn the shoulder. There
were also found in the maw of the shark
the heel and toes of a human foot. " The
regains had evidently been swallowed
but a short time. '1 he nun was the left,
and upOM it were plainly visible the
initials in fnnia ink, "A. H. V' About
ten days previous to the taking of ib
shark a sailor from a British brig then
lving in the harbor, while under the in
iiifluence of liquor, fell overboard and
was lo t. It it supposed that the shark
had been fo-ding upon the body a short
time before his capture, an .lose Joe,
the monster shark of San Jose de Guate
mala, was recently seen by the captain
of the China. This shark has for many
vears been the terror of the coast from
San Jose de Guatemala to Punta Arena.
He has been so frequently seen that he.
is as familiar to the mariners of that
coast as its most peri' otts headlands. 1 le
is said to be ovei forty feet in lemrth,
and is extremely ferocious, human kind
being his favorite prey Capt. Sea bury,
of the China, is ready to" swear to forty
two feet and over, having once seen Jo?
passing behind his vessel, which is forty
two feet in the beam, niul the head and
tail of the shark extended past either
side of the vessel. The captain of the
.uouth Carolina, and ( apt Witeberry
m testimony also to the shark's 1cing
o,wfortjMeet long In the last few
years "Joe," as he is wn all along the
coast, has devoured half a" dozen men,
and some years ago the Guatemalian Gov
ernment oflbred a reward of $500 to any
one who would kill the devourer, lie
has been shot a couple of times and har
pooned thrice," "M survived these as
saults and still roams his old haunts
looking for his favorite nioreeau.
Speaking of sharks rejHtrt has just
"come to hand setting forth the informa
tion that one of his family, evidently a
first cousin to Joe as he was tlurty fort
long, and probably- weighing five tons,
was caught at Hoquel beach on Friday,
being the largest ever caught on that
coast. It was a species known as the
basking shark. San h"ranci$eo Chronicle.
In the backwoods of Presue Isle
County, Wis., is a town that has just
elected its first Justice of the Peace.
Like the rest of the residents, he is a
rough lumberman, and the first case
brought before him was that of a noto
rious brawler. The Justice readily found
Ujm guilty, but as the man had no money
to psy a fine, and the town had no jail,
the matter of punishment was puzzling
After mature thought the magistrate
laid aside his ermine, rolled up his
sleeves and, descending from his desk.
ave the culprit a sound beating.
A Mif R of $100 has been offered by the
Royal College of Physicians, London, for
the besiessa.v on hydrophobia.
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, i . ADTICE TO I
ADTICE TO IADIES
WM at re ,raaatll1 tm Tru-rel ataae in
, 1 - 1 flw law. '
L bestow you know where yon want
to go before yon get on.ths train. , .
IL'-When you purchase your ticket
you will have to pay for, it; no use to tell
the ticket agent to " charge it and send
the bill to your husband." And if he
says the price of the ticket is $2 0G,
don't tell him you can get one jtist like
it of the conductor at the other store for
$2 50; he won't believe you, and he may
laugh at you.
, ILL Never travel without money. It
requires broad views, liberal education,
keen discernment and profound judg
ment to travel without money, N,ipno
can do this successfully but tramps and
editors. -
IV. Beware of the commercial trav
eler. ' .
V. Don't give a stranger your ticket
and ask him to g6 out and check your
trunk. He will usually bo only too glad
tf do it And what is more, ho will do
it, and your trunk will be so effectually
checked that it will never catch up with
you again. And then when the conduc
tor asks for your ticket and you relate to
him the pleasing little allegory about the
stranger and your baggage, he will look
incredulous and smile down upon you
from half closed eyes, and say that it is a
beautiful romance, but he has heard it
before. And then you will put up your
jewelry or disembark at the next station.
VL II you are going three hundred
miles, don t try to get off tho train every
fifteen minutes under the impression that
you are there. H you get there in
twelve hours you will bo doing excel
lently. YIL Call the brakernan " conduetor;"
ho has grown proud since he got his new
uniform, and it will flatter him.
VIII. Put your shawl-strap, bundle
and two paper parcels in the hat-rack;
hang your bird-cage to the corner of it,
so that when it falls off it will drop into
the lap of the old gentleman sitting Ite
hiud you; stand your four house
plants on the window-sill; set your
lunch-bosket on the seat beside you; fold
your shawls on top of it; carry your
pocket-book in ono hand and hold your
silver mug in the other; put your two
valises under the seat and hold your
bandlwx and the rest of your things hi
your lap. Then you will have all your
baggage handy, and won't be worried or
flustrated about it when you have only
twenty-nine seconds in which to change
cars.
IX. Address the conductor every ton
minutes. 'It pleases him fovbave yu
notice him. ' If you can't- think of any
new question to ask him, ask him the
same old one every time. Always call
him " Say," or "Mister. "
X. Pick up all the information you
can while traveling. Open the window
and look forward to see how fast the en
gine is going. Then when you get homo
you can tell the children about the big
cinder you picked up with your eye, and
how nice and warm it was, and what it
tasted like.
XL Don't hang your parasol on the
cord that passes down the middle of tho
cat. It isn't a clothes-line. It looks
like one, but it isn't
Xif. Keep an eye on the passenger
who calls the dayofter Monday " Chows
day. " Ho can't be trusted a car's
length.
XIIL Do not attempt to change a 20
bill for any one, if you have only $0 25
with you; it can't be done.
XlV. If you want a nap always ho
with your head projecting over the seat,
into the aisle. Then everybody who
goes up or down the aisle will mash your
hat. straighten out vour frizzes, and
knock off vour back hair. This will
IV ill H. rk Kill JUIU JV Ut. ino " r
keep you from sleeping so soundly that
you will' be carried by your station,
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-Iiurdette, in Burlington llawkcyt.
The Richest Wovnan In America.
The richest woman in America, and
indeed, excepting royalty and Baroness
Burdett-Cknttts, the richest in the world,
is Mrs. E. H. Green, the wife of the
Vice President of the Louisville and
Nashville Bond. She. was a Miss Robin
son, and her father u ns a whaling master
at New Bedford. He owned a lleot of
ships known ns the Blue Lino of whalers,
ami from his profession was known as
"Blubber Robinson." Ho died when
his daughter was a mere girl, and kit
her a fortune of about eight millions.
Ho lived slenderly and prndently, and
gave the management of her affairs to
Mr. John J. Cisco. As her tastes were
simple and her wants few, she was able
to transfer her enormous income almost
every year to the Ixxly of tho fortune
itself and it bos now 'accumulated to
more 'than $27,000,000.. Ih husband,
f riiwn ti-im a verv rieu man mu
liim and has been snccess - 4
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fill C1.liA Tt is RAiil bv one who should
a i'au - , . ,
know, that the income of this couple is
$2,500,000 a voar. Mr. Green is rather
largo in stature, quiet, reserved, saga
cious, and of modest habits. He is
about 47 years of age, and she is
about 43. ... ... ,
Tho richest young ladies in New lork
ore the Misses Garner, the daughters of
Comnnxlore Garner, who was .lrowned
nnder a yacht that overturned a few
H niiulo his fortune m W all
atrial Ill-Mill lna death was able to
leave his daughters four or five millions
eachr Added-to this, they are charming
and beautiful young ladies.
A tes-volvme dictionary of the an
cient language of France has just ,been
sent to press ana toe nrsi volume is ouu
It has cost the compiler thirty years'
ork . and $70,000. The government
gives $30,000 toward it and receives ill)
copies for distribution among the, pub
lic libraries sod collegesof France. Thie
work deals chiefly in words found in the
literature of the eleventh, twelfth aud
thirteenth centuries.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
TflBBH are 6,000 Indians in Nevada. 1 1
j BosTfos the head center of the cottoa
waste trade of tho country. , , v
"Tins population of Belgium on Decern- ,
ber 31, 1879, was 5,476,938. , ,
' A Webtebn coroner recently had, in
one day, three cases of did-not-know-it-wos-loaded.
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The evil that men do lives after them.
Cows likewise do not give oleomargarine
-until they are dead. . .
The other night, in a Missouri town,'
a thief, being caught in a man's cellar, '
explained that he was there to get oat of
tho way of a cyclone. --. fe.
- Thb Canadian Senate lately rejected
by a vote of 32 to 31, the bill legalizing
marriage with a deceased wife's sister or
a deceased brother's wife.
It is now fashionable in France to
have a pet tiger. These pets have .thus
far shown that they would as soon eat a
Frenchman as any kody else.
A Wisconsin clergyman preached on
the sin of attending to money matters on
Sunday, and when tho deacon passed the
contribution plate not a person would put
a cent in it. And somehow the preacher
didn't feel flattered at the effect his ser
mon had produced.
A cENTENABiAjr ex-soldier, who re
cently died in a Russian village, con
tinued his business of tailor until death,
though he had been blind for forty years.
His senso of touch was so acute that he
could distinguish different bank notes.
He used to thread his needle by means of
his tongue.
At Kernevel, in Germany, the other
day, just as a rehgious procession was
entering the church, the bell hung in the
tower, weighing half a ton, came down
with' a tremendous force, crashing
through three floors on its way, and fell
at the feet of the man who headed the
procession bearing the banner. A mo
ment later and a fearful catastrophe
would have been the result As it was,
no one was hurt.
With William Black, the novelist, the
writing of stories is a business. He is
shrewd, practical and quick. He has a
second wifo. At Brighton he has a beau
tiful'jiouse which overlooks the ocean.
He makes about 25,000 a year from his
writings. He does not depend upon
a publisher for a percentage; he gives
one to a publisher. Black was born in
Glasgow, and is in his fortieth year. He
wont to no college, and his journalistic
work was on the London News.
There is long grade on theTerre
Haute and Logansport Railroad, in In
diana. A heavily-loaded freight car
broke lome from a train and started
down this incline. It gained a frightful
rate of speed, and was going in the di
rection from Avhich a fast passenger
train was soon to come. A dreadful col- i,
lision was thus imminent A locomotive
. was quickly sent in pursuit of the run
away. The, chase was most exciting.
The engineer, by forcing a speed of sixty
miles an hour, finally overtook the
freight car, fastened to it, and drew it in
a reverse direction, just in time to pre
vent a disaster.
"Closed on account of a wedding,"
is a familiar sign in Paris. It was to be
read three weeks ago on the shutters of
a jeweler's shop in tho Faubourg Mont
ninrtre; but as no signs were shown of
the establishment being opened again,
tho neighbors grow suspicious, and com
municated their fear to the Commissary
of Police, who finally entered the shop
and found it despoiled of the whole stock .
of jewelry, said to have been, worth
$100,000. The jeweler and his. wife
had disappeared, leaving a multitude of
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goods supplied, are of considerable
amount The absconding tradesman
l.o.l nnmnt anrf hnA TlOfc even flft-
items unpaid, some mum, uiiu
frayed tho
expenses of his shop fumi-
ture
Tonching Incidents.
A singular and beautiful incident
happened in JacksonvilleFla., not long
Bgo. The little daughter of a resident
of that city was in the habit of daily
feeding a nightingale, which would come
to the house every morning to receive its
food. Not long ago the little girl sick
ened aud died, and as she lay in the
coffin.' the nightingale flew through an
open window into the room, sang one ot
its most beautiful melodies, and de
parted. An hour later it was found in
the front yard, having evidently perished
from grief at the loss of its young friend.
Arte York Post.
A precisely similar incident happened
in Chicago last winter. An old man had
h..en in the habit of throwing fire-wood,
boot-jacks, and what furniture he could .
spare at ah o!d tom-cat thatcame around
- jWiit two o'clock every morning. One
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day the old man aiea, ana as ne lay iu
his coffin the cat came around and
uttered one of te most defiant melo
dies. A minute later it was found dead
in the back yard, having evidently died
of grief at the loss of its head, which one
of the mourners had blown off with a
shot gun. There can be no doubt that
history repeats itself. Chicago Tribune.
FBKSffaU "Please, sir, did I pass
rrofessor "Well, no;
Pm sorry to
nav vou
dicuvt quite come
up to the
mark$ , . . ,
Freshman "Thank you, su ' (and
starts out, smiling all over, as if highly
delighted).
professor " Excuse me, Mr. - -,
I'm afraid you misunderstood me. I stud
vou hadn't passed." ...
Freshman "Oh! I don't care anything
alout
eame.'
that 1 ve won my Dei su uw
Yale OouranL
Thb mark of cane dust on the unruly
school-boy's jacket -
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