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'ming with mademoiselle; .
kno-ws such a lot About. everything
be talks quiteuncommonlywell. ,
• e her his views on a ball game of two,
sea a new book or play, -
kes an assertion he doesn't believe,
hear what the poor thing can say.
9r big brother strolls into tiny room, -
row 1 What a change do we sec!
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tier attraction has she.
im on their hobbies and off they career,
g science, athletics, or art,
clock interrupts with a ,warning so
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e hastens at once to depart,
Woman's Woman.
.',At the Ribbons.
ur.s of character forceful,
e often declared she'd contrive
hen she married, a husband
-sive—a man she could drive.
and after the marriage
; put in motion her will,
Ali\ ears with a run that was gentle
Sh .ove him with consummate skill ,
Atslength she resorted to spurring,
And drove inin to misery's brink;
Then over the precipice plunged him„
For she finally drove him to drink.
A. inter iteitutitui Snow."
" Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,"
That we looked for and longed for a full month
ago,
Is coming at last, so fleecy and light,
To hide all defects 'neath its man, le of white.
Gay prancing steeds speed about to and fro,
And the bells ringing welcome the beautiful
snow;
There are gay hearts and sad, as the snow falls
to -day •
Some brimful of joy, some too sad to pray.
Would God this pure mantle could hide from
our sight,
That crime in our city, that crime black as
nigh t.
There are mothers to -day that wish long, long
ago,
They had laid their dear boys 'neath the beauti-
ful snow.
God pity those boys, they know nothing but
woe,
Forgive them and shield them with thy mantle
of snow.
Buffalo, Jan. 6th, 186.2: W. R.
110W TO KILL RATS.
Gave Them Limburger Cheese and Brim
stone.
Detroit News : In a recent issue 'of the
News I saw an article headed "Postoffice
Rats," wherein the long-tailed beauties are
clamoring for positions under the adminis-
tration. Four years ago I moved into a
house in Milwaukee which was •infested,
with rats of all sizes and as numerous as
the sands of the aea. I, as did the post-
master, tried every known means to exter-
minate the intruders, without the desired
results. We were just on the eve of mov-
ing into other quarters when an idea struck
me. I purchased two bricks of limburger
cheese iiiid two pounds of -brimstone. I cut
the cheese into small bits and, mixed
with the satanic powder, put the compound
into an iron vessel and placed the same in
the centre of the cellar. I then removed
all eatables (which we were compelled to
keep in the tin -lined boxes), then closing
windows and doors, set fire to the "sinner's
doom." Twenty-four hours thereafter I
took a 20 -foot pole, with a hook fastened to
one end, and jerked the window out. After
24 hours more I ventured into the cellar;
and, to my great joy and surprise I gathered
up seven bushels and a half of dead rats,
which had been enticed into the cellar by
the cheese and suffocated by the fumes of
the sulphur before they could get back to
their holes. I give thaabove recipe before
the new year, as I intend turning over a
new leaf on that day. •
— TUE EXPRESS DEAL.
The Grand Trunk Likely to sorb the
Dominion Express co
A 'Montreal despatch says : "The
Doniinion Express Company and the alleged
deal with the Grand Trunk is the topic of
conversation in iitilroad circles. Neither
Mr. Cheney nOr the Grand Trunk authori-
ties care to speak, but it is the general,
impression that there is something on the
carpet. Sir Richard Cartwright and Mr.
George A. Cox, of Toronto, are both heavily
interested in the Dominion company and
ve been paping frequent visits to Mon-
eal recently to consult with Mr. Cheney.
gentleman well posted in G. T. R. matters
etates that it is generally understood the G:
T. R. will absorb the express business of the
Dominion and that the change will come in
the near future."
. They Won't Tell. '
. The occasion was the funeral of a proni-
inent citizen who had been a Free Mason.
• A delegation of brother Masons had at-
tended, and they had just come out of the
. house and were waiting to enter the car-
riages assigned to them: They wore part
of their regalia; which attracted the atten-
• tion ,pf the ever-present small boys, to
whom funerals are all ono with weddings,
considered as food for curiosity.
"Say, Jimmy, who are they ?" tasked one
of an enother, in an audible whisper.
• Jimmyglaneed at the embroidered sa he.
' 44 Why, don't you know,.what-those..,are,
;fanny'?" he said, with the diSAt4tOpt"Tir
0 superior knowledge for ignorance.' ' ' • ,... No ; what are they ?"
" Well; you are stupid !. Why, them's
the fellers that know something . they -Won't
Itell !" .
" Oh !" said Johnny, meekly.
_TUE CAUDI ',VERB STACKED.
And December Called Rather a Doubtful
ffloy"s Bluff.
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Thomite Maxwell, of Austin, Texas, and
Mies Belle Taylor, of Green Bay, Wisconsin,
will not exchange Christmas presents this
year, but they came very near doing it.
Some time ago Mr. Maxwell, who Owns a
large cattle ranch in Texas, came across a
tOpyl;fweiliagrifair,germiteimaiteativii.
advertisement to the effect that "a young,
handeome brunette, 20 years of age, of lively
disposition, wished to correspond with a
wealthy gentleman, with a view to matri-
mony." He wrote a few tender thoughts to
the young, handsome brunette,' who
proved to be Miss Belle Taylor, of
Green Bay, Wisconsin, and they ex-
changed photographs. They . were to
meet here and be maaried_ to -morrow,
a Chicago special to the World says. Miss
Taylor landed in Chicago this diorning.
Where they met is not known, but at noon
the big policeman who guards the ladies'
waiting room at the Milwaukee & St. Paul
depot observed a woman of ' uncertain age
sitting all by herself in a corner. She was
weeping hysterically. She confided to the
officer that fike had !?egn the victim of a
taoss deceptiorrt
"Look at that tintype," she sobbed;
"How old would you take that man tobEr
"That man's about 30 years old, 1 should
• say," replied the attendant.
"Thirty ! He's a good deal more than
60. He's nothing but a wretched old fraud.
I'm out my fare from Green Bay to Chicago.
Can't I have him arrested for obtaining
money under false pretences ?',
Over the gentlemen's waiting room of the
Chicago & Alton, in the same depot, a
weather beaten man of 50 was saying to
another policeman : "To thiek that an old
woman like that should fool me! Sent me
the photograph of her youngest sister an'
had the audacity to lie me aoat until I
called her bluff. The cards were •stacked
on me this time, but what'll they say down
in Texas ?"
At 7.30 o'clock Miss Taylor and her trous-
seau were on the way back to Green Bay.
At 9.30 o'clock Mr. Maxwell, with a photo-
graph in his hand on which he cast a stony
glare, was on his way back to Texas.
WIIA.T A COLD WAVE ' IS.
It Is Not a Wave But all Avalanche of Cold
Air.
The term " cold wave" applied to a
sudden and great fall of 'temperature is a
figure of speech. It is rather an avalanche
of cold air that comes down upon the
country, explains, Professor Russell in the
Engineering Magazine. The essential idea
in a wave is repetition. In the eastern part
of the country there is a regular change in
the temperature of the air of about fifteen
degrees from day to night., In the high and
dry regions beyond the Mississippi River
the daily range is 45 degrees in some places.
The great irregular changes called cold
waves have no definite period.
The weather bureau definition of a cold
wave is afall in temperature of twenty
degrees or more in 24 hours, • free of
diurnal range, and extending over
an area of at ° least 50,000 square
miles • of country, the temperature
somewhere in the area going at least as. low
as 36 degrees. Marking on a map where a
cold wave has occurred by lines through the
places of equal fall of temperature the
areas are seen to be inclosed and sometimes
very great in extent. In one of the greatest
cold waves in recent years, that of February
17, 1883, the temperature at 7 a. m. was 20
degrees lower than at the same hour on the
day preceeding throughout an area of
1,065,000 square miles, extending from lake
Superior and Georgian,bay on the north to
the Rio Grande on the south, and from
Kansas City to Cincinnati. Inside the area
of 20 degree fall there was an area of 30
'degree fall to 640,000 square miles ; inside
the area of 30 degree fall there was an area
of 40 degree fall 187,000'square miles • in-
side the 40 degree fall there was 31,000
square miles of 50 degree fall, a fall of 60
degrees at Keokuk, Iowa, the centre of the
cold wave, the temperature, which was 60
degrees on the morning of February 16th,
being zero next day.
Be Got Even.
A young couple in Brooklyn, who had
been keeping, company two years, became
engaged -vvith the caneenteafaall concerned
and looked forward with the customary
supreme bliss to the coneummation �ftheir
bearothal. Suddenly the betrothed maiden
changed her mind and told her lover she
would not marry, him. When he recovered
his breath he begged for an explanation, but
could get no other than that shehad decided
to marry somebody else. Sorrowfully he
left her and in the solitude of his chamber
put on his thinking cap. The result was
that the jilt received a formal note' from
him telling her that he would call on a cer-
tain evening for a final answer. He called
and met with a frigid reception. His affi-
anced tolchilin that her decision was irre-
vocable, and handed him a package contain-
ing all his gifts to her. By Jove 1" he
cried, "you're t.le best girl in the universe!
1. eeJ tho»ghon might have been lifted
,Irdwooylk, e grabbed the package
'and hi a hat) and made for the door. The
girl was petrified with amazement. "What
is the meaning of all this?" she stammered.
"Why, it means, he answered, "that I' am
free. I tried my best to muster up courage
enough to/ sk you to release me but
couldn't d t. I'll send you your letters
and every ng but the ring. • That, I am
afraid, Co will not give up."
• "And Pray, who may Cora be ?" was
snapped en rather viciously.
"Oh, 's the girl I'm going to now ask
to marry o. She's a beauty. I'll send
you her picture and I'll give her the dia-
mond earrings you have returned to me."
His hand was on the knob when these
words arrested him,
" If you attem t to go I'll scream. 1.
Want you to understand thateaur engage
ment holds good. Don't you go near that
Cora again. I am going to marry you my-
self,"
The nuptials will be celebrated at the
time originally set.
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- A Poor Rifle. eSc.
Judge: Agitator—I tell you this eight-
hour work day is going to do, a lot of good
to the mass of- einployed peeple. By the
way, Sarah, is supper cede ?
Agitator's wife—No; pi,' eight hours was
up at 5.30 to -day.
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Hard 0
New York Herald: Mrs, De Onsh—I
never expect to find a husband like poor
Willie.
Mrs. De Kash—Why not?
Mrs. De Gush—It would be hard to Match
that shade.
A V' h ti tl ti
cal machine for adding columns of gures.
It is expected to be a great boon to book-
keepers, for, according to all account's, it is
aiinply constructed and can be easily used.
rem sc en s las inventeda fiiprac -
"ram at your -se -Mee; intirana,/r as the
burglar said when the lady of the house
eitlightlittifiarealifigathiatiliferWistava-a--'-a--4--a-
ne theatres in London regularly employ
over 12,00Q people.
George—Whew? What can be the mat -
tor? Telegram says, " Come home, imme-
diately." Rushing into hia suburban home,
one hoar later : "Tell me quick, my dear.
What is it ?" Young Wife—The baby said
"Mama."
*Azzeurs covits,cm._
Uow tke Walill01111 Italian Exile net His
Easemles.
The famous Italian exile was forewarned
that his assaesination had been planned,and
that men had been despatched to London
for the purpose, but he rna,de no attempt tie
exclude them from hie house, says an ex-
ehange.
room .,and found him listlessly smoking.
"Take cigars, gentlemen," was his instant
,invitation.
Waiting and hesitation on their part fol-
lowed.
"But you do not proceed to business,
gentlemen," said M'azzini. "1 believe your
intention is to kill me."
The astonished miscreants fell on their
knees, and at. length departed with the,
generous pardon accorded them, while a
longer puff of smoke than usual was the
only malediction sent after them.
• Mazzini once, when he was staying with
his friends in an Italian city, where his
head was forfeited, Baty guards approaching
the house to arrest him
On their way up to the door—the chateau
stood on an eminence—they met a person
Eatilltering deWil toward them smoking a
cigar..
Es! gave them the salutation of the morn-
ing, which the captain returned. On
arriving at the chateau Mazzini was de-
manded.
" We well know he is here," said the
chief officer.'
"Certainly," said the host, who knew it
was in vain to profess ignorance; "he was,
but is not now. It is he whom you met;
saw him salute you."
They had been completely thrown off
their guard by the coolness of the emoking
stranger. Once out of their sight they
knew it was vain to expect to lay hands on
that ubiquitous smoker, whom no man ever
betrayed.
We are told at Pisa, where Mazzini died,
his long, solitary days were passed in read-
ing,avriting and incessant smoking.
Diming the fits of delirium in his last
illness the incessant smoker fancied he was
enjcying his favorite—perchance for a man
so abstemious, his ' only luxury—and he
moved his wan fingers to and fro as though
he was putting a cigar in his lips and taking
it away.—New York World.
The Children's Logic.
One of our school commissioners inspected
a down -town public school the other day
and examined several girls.
Commissioner—Now I will ask you to tell
me the parts of speech of some words you
bave just read. What part of speech is
"Mary Ann?"
Little girl—Noun sir.
Commissioner—What kind of a noun?
Little girl—Common noun.
Commissioner—Pray, why do you eall
"Mary Ann" a common noun?
Little girl—Because there are so many
Mary Anna, sir. • *
The commissioner smiled, and observed
to the teacher that the answer ought to
pass.
On another occasiOn the commissioner in-
quired:
"You say that all the rivers flow into the
sea. Why, then, does not the sea become
too full and overflow with all the waters
from all the rivers?"
The youth addressed eagerly replied.
"Because • the fishes drink the water,
ir. "
Dow It Was Pronounced.
"1 bought a new hat to -day," he WEIS
saying, "from Geoghegan
• "From whom ?"
"Geoghegan."
"You pronounce it wrong. It's ' Gaye
;gam, ,,
"No," corrected another. " It'a called
Jee-hay-gun.' "
" Goo-gan," suggested a fourth speaker.
" Hig-gog-gan," says number- five.
" Gay-hee-gan," thinks the sixth.
"Hogan," the seventh asserts.'
"Nay," says number eight; "its Kee-
jay-gan.' "
" Gig-heg-gan," is number nine's version.
" Ge-og-hayagan," ventures the tenth.
"Jag -on," says number eleven.
" Jig-hee-gan, ' thinks the twelfth.
" Hagagay-gun," says thirteeia
"No," says a new -comer ; "it's "Jee-
hee-gan.' "
"Wrong -again,"*said the president;
"pronounce it `Jag -again."'
" What's the matter with Gee-off-
egan' ?" said another; but the puzzle ie still
unsolved. —LouisvilleCommercial.
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Beautiful ami eood.
Detroit News: Good snow is always a
good thing to have in winter. Some snows,,
such as the coffee -colored, slushy snow of
Cincinnati and the flinty, ' cinder -like, icy
snow of the plains, may not be truthfully
}called good ; but the feathery, flaky, fleecy
snow that robes all out -doors in downy
garments is a good thing and entirely wel-
come. It is good for man, woman and
child, is winter's most delicious caress, is a
tonic in business circles and an invigorant
to our social diveraions. It improves the
popular digestion and stimulates the relish
of life.' f Good snow is a good thing, and
the News gives public thanks to our good
friendaJack Frost, ' who is not a half -bad
fellow, although a little forgetful this year
of the midwinter holidays.
What Ile Despises.
Albion Herald: If there is one thing trat'
a newspaper man despises more than an-
other it is to publish a long 'obituary notice
free of cost and then have the widow or
, representative of the deceased step in and
stop the paper. That is Christianity with
a hypocritical flavor. .
fyrirs1rsttie-13brkstot -M66`en
Certainly. Were You ever present at a fire
bout the time the hose burst?
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She Didn't.
Buffalo News: Who wrote Caaar's Com-
mentaries?" asked the teacher in a Lewiston
school the other day.
There was a blank look on the faces of all
those present until a little girl raised her
hand and said : "Please, ma'am, I know I
didn't."
—Tho average marrying age of a French-
man is thirty years.
Miss Jane Cobden, the young woman who
is to marry T. Father 'Cowin, the English
publisher of tho Cealuay Maiicuzine, is a
daughter_ of Richard Cobden, the free trade
was
elected a Member of the Londcin County
Cotmeil. She is about thirty-five years old.
esseass
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• WUNGES VERSELluzielxv—
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The Luscious Fruithi Good for Drunkard*
• as Well os for Beauties.
The value of oranges as an article of food
is well known, says the New York Tint e8.
"1 buy them by the box," says a mother,
"and let my children eat them constantly
• in lieu of candy or ether prized children's
dainties. I cowl,* ahatatmaaaampagyakya
it. At "of the—inebriate asylums
oranges have proved an efficient substitute
for alcohol, patients sucking the juice of
them abundantly every time the thirst for
liquor comes upon them. This fact is so
well recognized that often at temperance
coffee stands piles of luscious oranges are
also kept. And now another benefit is
alleged for them. Some famous French
beauties of former days, it is asserted,
secured and preserved their marvellous
complexions by a free diet of oranges. One
in particular lived almost entirely -upon the
fruit. A dozen each at breakfast and
luncheon made up these repasts ; at dinner
a dozen more, with a crust of bread and one
glass of Burgundy. Doubtless an orange
fad is threatening—for the pursuit of
complexion is a very absorbing one to
women.
Municipalities and Street Railways.
Out of the dissatisfaction felt by the
citizens of Chicago with the inadequacies
of the exieting systems of street railway
transportation has come a proposal for mu-
nicipal ownership. A resolution has been
introduced into the City Council instruct-
ing the corporatien counsel to prepare an
di n bl the cit t la a d
the street railway tracka imder ekrtain con-
ditions, and to Wags them for specified
periods to individuals or corporations.
This resolution, while apparently contem-
plating no more radical changes in
,
the existiug arrangement than have
been accomplished at Liveipaol and else-
where, has been opposed, upon the ground
that the city cannot lawfully go into the
business of building and leasing such lines.
The discussion of a rapid transit system
• for the city of New York, and the tendency
which is to be noted in many of the larger
cities of this country, of great corporations
to buy up small street railway lines and to
consolidate them into one system, unite to
dass the determination of the scope of
municipal undertakings and the relations of
the civic authorities and corporations con-
ducting a quasi -public service among the
most interesting questions of the day.
Our readers are aware that the action
proposed in Chicago is no new thing. We
have ever urged that street tramway rails„
should be laid -and owned by the city, and
utilized for the best interests of the public.
This practice is in successful operation in
Liverpool, and the contention of the oppo-
sition in, the city of Chicago that a munici-
pality cannot legally take this step, is not
well founded, and it is time that a more
enlightened view of municipal relations and
powers prevailed. Reforms Of this nature
make baste slowly, and perhaps it is wise
that they should, but we look for
a general recognition of municipal control
of urban tmnaportation in the line
pointed out. Especial attention may also
be directed to the recent action of the city
government of Glasgow, Scotland, where
the municipality now proposes to take over
the existing 'street railway tracks, with the
entire equipment of the present companies
and to operate the roads. This, it may be
pointed out, is a mach more radical mea-
sure than is proposed for Chicago, and in
the operation of the road is going beyond
what we believe is a desirable policy for
American cities. In Glasgow the main
argument for municipal ownership and
operation of street railways was that the en-
tire profits beyond interest on their costa
would be put into extensions of
the service to outlying districts,
thus building/ them up and increasing
the number o eheap and accessible homes
for the people. It was maintained, and
with much reason, that a corporation's first
business is to earn dividends, and it
naturally resists furnishing increased facilia
ties in advance to the prospect of an imme-
diate paying return. Glasgow has success-
fully conducted its gas and water supply
works, in which there was no opposition,
but in taking over the tamways, it will
meet with such competition upon a com-
mercial laa.sis from underground railways
and cable lines as to make this, experiment
n municipalization worthy of atten-
tion. Municipal control, as a principle.
is yearly becoming better understood
in. this country, as ex eerience is
gained in the ,operation , of gas and
electric lighting plants, and Chicago has
• already cominitted itself to the extent of
owning and operating its electric street
lighting plant. That city is in urgent need
of tbe(development of an adequate system
of urban transportation before the.opening
of the World's Fair. We believe that the
only logical conclusion to be drawn from
the study of this problem is the establish-
ment of the principle that the city, owning
the street, should own, lay and maintain
the lines of rails therein, with authority to
determine what corporations shall be al-
lowed to run cars over the rails and how
they shall run them:—New York Engineer
ivg Record.
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JONESSOIVELL...BALLtk1.
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Nod Instauce of the Abuse of tile
Jones,' ha. Ving- bythyeevarrsefrjoaf. e- donomy
and a hard fisted meanness toward his ein-
ployees acquired a comfortable fortune, a
thought it about time that ke began to en- 1-
tertain somewhat. This idea did not spring•
'at all from a desire togive pleasure • to hin
ueqtmrtttr-tittxaTiMtrfktiiif4atiVfglf--Vriiratfir'r"
off his daughters into good society, and to —
get rid of the burden of„ supporting them.
Being of a:thrifty and frugal nature, he did
not propose to waste any money on these
entertainments,_ but determined to Make
every dollar tell. Therefore, on the Morning
of the day before the one on which' his first;
dancing party was to corne off, he stopped
the editor of a paper which gave considera-
ble space to fashionable affair* whom he
met in the street and knew slightly. After
• greeting him cordially and asking after his
health and his prosperity, he said :
"By the bye, we're going to have a dance
up at our house to -morrow night. A lot of
fashionable people invited, etc. These fri-
volities of social life cost money, my dear
sir, but we have to have them, I suppose,
or we would not be in the swim, eh ?"
"1 suppose so," replied the editor, with
a quiet smile. "Good day," and he passed.
Jones did not look as if that was the re-
ply he expected. Next morning he called
on the editor. "Look here," he said, "A
just dropped in to say that I hope you did
not misunderstand me yesterday when 1
spoke to you on the street about the ball up
at our house to -night. It occarred to me
or na de ena e Yr y OWli afterward that you might think I wanted
you to mention it in yoor paper."
"Oh, not at all," said tile editor dryly.
"Well, I was afraid you might, so I
thought I'd just run uaaliere and ask you
not to make a spread ol it."
The editor promised he would not.
"Because I think it very bad taste in-
deed for people to try and force themselves
into society through the newspapers,"
added Jones.
The editor agreed with him cordially.
"Although, of course," continued Jones,
" since- you have been so agreeable about it
I don't object to you having the news. It
will be what you call a 'scoop' on the other
papers. None of them shall hear of it. But
no cuts, you 'know, or anything like that,
for I don't suppose, after all, that it does
any harm, to be mentioned alongside the
Vanderbilts, . the Lorillards, etc. .Leta
people know in a modest way that you are
in it, eh ?"
" It does," assented the editor.
" The social world is much like the busi-
ness ,world in some respects," said Jones.
"A man to succeed in either must keep hill
name before it, I suppose."
"Certainly," answered the editor.
"Now, something like this, I dare say, -
would do no harm," and he handed the
editor a type -written sheet which read an
follows : ",Mr. James De Courcey Jones,
that popular leader among the 400, gave a
recherche entertainment at 'his palatial
residence just off Fifth avenue last night.
The magnificence of tbe decorations, the
costliness of the collation and the select-
ness of the company have not, in our judg-
ment, been surpassed by anything this
season."
The editor smiled more broadly than
before and handed to ,111r. Jones a little card
bearing the paper's advertising rates.
Mr. Jones glanced at the card, changed
color, pretended not to know what was
meant, and bowed himself out. Then he
went straight to his advertising agent.
"Look nere," he said gruffly, "you've
spent a good deal of my money on the
Howler, see if you can't get something out \
of them for me now! If they won't do me
this little 'favor, just let them understand
clearly that my ad ' in the Bugle will be
doubled and theone in the Howler cancelled
altogether. I'm going to have a ball at my
house to -night and I guess its just as well
worth the paper's time th notice it as it is
to write up the balls of people who never
advertise a cent's worth,, ' and he. slammed
the door as he stalked out.
The crafty advertising agent, anxious to
please so good a customer, went off to the
paper, and, carefully avoiding the editor,
got in his fine work at the business end.
The result was that next day thereappeared '
in the paper the following: "J. D. Jones
gave a dance last night at his house in
Fifty-fourth street."
As Jones was passing down town that
morning in the street car he was accostedby
an old business friend,„ who exclaimed
" Efelle, Jones, you're getting to be a social
light, eh? I see an account of your ball
last night in the Howler this morning."
"What's that, what's that? ",exClaimed
Jones. "The Howler meddling '4, in my
affairs! Confound its impertinence. Why
ean't a man's private life be left inviolate in,
this city? How did they get en to the fact,
I wonder? Their indefatigable industry is
only equaled by their eold gall. I'll go
down there to -day and give that editor _a.
piece of my mind. If there is anything I de-
test, it's having one's name noised about in
the papers. It's so common ! York'
Trihne.
Out of the Way Cable Stations.
A glance through the Oode of instructions
issued by one of the big cable companies
shows that there are a number of places
avhich rarely appear on the map that may
be reached by wire from this country. For
$2.25 per, wet d one may communicate from
New York with the hectie town of Pram
Pram, upon the west coast of Africa, while
connections can be established with the
lively hamlet of Grand Bassam, in the same
region, at $1,04 for every ten letters. For
$1.17 per word you may addresseyour long -
lost relatives or businesspartners in Djedda,
Mecca and Al Hedjas, while the rate to
Bunder Abbas, Bassidore and Lingah is 64
cents ia addition to the boat hire from 'lash,
Persia, where the massage is delivered.
Every word sent to New Zealand, via
Northern Siberia, costa the sender just
$3.74, which is the highest rate on the list.
It costs 60 cents a word to reach Reman-
ganaguas and Aquada de Pasageros down in
Cubeaand $1.88.to lot the old folks in.Sungie
Ujong,on the Malay Peninsula, know you're
living.
"A man' without an ideal sinks the man
with one rises, but in so rising _passes
ea -trough ag tkt *iThliithiurgatory.
Ooly the man without an ideal is happy—
brutally happy." --8. Raring -Gould.
saasaa• •
`0.•tr•''
asatsata•
Avoiding Disgrace.
Puck :—Upson Downes (7 a. m. )7 -Great
Caaar ! A sneak -thief has been in our room
and taken all our clothes'. What'll.we do? •
Rown de I3out—Not all. • He has missed
our dress suits. We can put thein 'On.
"What? Dress -suits in the morning.
We'll be eternally disgraced." •
"Can't be helped. We must put then'
on and go out th breakfast. Perhaps our
friends will think we've been out all night."
"By Jove 1 Good idea ! We'll pretend
to be drunk."
olive Branch and sword. .
The following is the sweet and simple
lullaby a 3 -year-old girl of Boston was over
heard singing to her sleeping brother:
Go to sleep, my little brother.
Go to sleep, charley dear
Go to sleep, my little brother,
Go to sleep, orl win spank you.
Only a few years ago nearly all the
matches used in Russia were imported, but
there are now upwards of three hundred
match factories in that country. The
imports have fallen from 1,535,000 pounds
of inatchea in 1884 to 13,392 pounds in 1889,
and in the latter year 31,000 pounds of
matches' were experted faom Russia.
More than 24,000,000 francs have been
expended on the construction pf.tbe
'Or tli6 -fflieiiikr-Tfeiti:f' 'Nris, ind Ft is
estimated that an expenditure of 5,060
francs more will be required to Complete
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