HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-12-19, Page 9December 39, 1E014,
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The N.Y. Independent publielmid to.day
• the following new poem by Lord Alfred
Tennyson;
reatEnom.:
Q thou rio fair in summers one •
While yet thy fresh and virgin soul
Interned the columo'cl Parthenon—
The glitterlog capitol ;
go fair h. southern sunshine bathed,
But ecaree of suela extqestio mien
As here with forehesd vaper-ewatlied
Intheadewit Ovee green;
For thou—when Athene reigo'd mid Remo
Thy glorious eyes were dinam'd with Pain,
To roa.rk in mail a freeman'e home
The nave, the eeeerge, tiao ;
0 follower of tbe yielon, still
In motiowi to the distant gleam,
Howe'er blind Woe and Weirdos Trill
May jar thy golden dream,
Who, like great nature, wouldst not mar
By that gee all the fierce and fast,
Thie order of our humen Oar,
This heritage of the past ;
0 scorner of the party ory
'hat wanders froux the public good,
Tbou—when thu nations rear on high
-Their kiol smeared with blood,
Arid when they roll their idol down—
Of saner worship sanely proud,
Thou loather of the lawless crown
As of the lawlere crowd;
Hew long thine ever-growing mind.
Hath ballet the blas and strewn the wave,
Though twine of late would raise a wind
To sing thee to thy grave, ,
Men loud against all forms of power— •
Unfurnished brows, tempestuous tongues,
Expecting all thi1 go in an uour—
Brass mouths and iron lungs I
Chorus at A nglomaninea,
(From advance eheets •of The Bunting Ball,
poetical satire on New York society.)
It is positively fake to cal) ES frantic, -
For the sounolfiqs of ur mei tal stateds pure; ,
'et we leek upon thte sid, of the atlantic
As a tract of earth unpleasaat to endure.
We consider dear old England as the fountain
Of all institutions repuably sane;
, We abominate and h met, a Rocky Mountain ;
. We regard a rolling prairiewith disdain4
We assiduously unitate tbe pelf& ,
• That we notice round tile english nabob bane;
We unfailingiy endeavor to.abolieh
li'roat our voices any trace of nasal twang.
Nvery patriotic duty we leave undone , •
• 'With excretion moth as Hebrews hold fOrpork,
fiince we venerate the very nano of London
In proportion to our hatred of New York.
No entreaty-oculd in any manner soften
Our. contempt for native tailoo, when we
dress'
If we bet', we "Jay a guinea," rather often,
And we always say"1 fano " for "1 guess.",
We esteem the Revolution as illegal; ,
If you mention Buelter Hilt to us we sigh;
We particularly execrate ae eagle, • '
And we lauguith on the fourth day of July.
We are not preps., ed in any foolish manner
The vulgeritis ot Uncle Saw to screen; •
We dirilike to hear that dull titer Spangled Ban.
new,
But we thoroughly respect God Save the Queen.
-We revere the Prince of Wales, though he should
prick ue
• 'With a sneer at the republic we obey
'We would rather let Eli, Royal Hielinees kith us
. Than have been tha boom friend of Henry.
Clay.
coatentment-
" My little world is very small, .
Scarce worth your notice, eir,at all,"
The mother said. •
"My gr od, kind husband, es you see;
And those three et tldren at my.itnee,
'Who look to us no t.ustiugly. •
For daily bread.
"For their sweet sakes, wbo love me so,
I keep the iire•ight tit a glow.
In our dear home,
That, though the tempest roar outside, .
And fierce ly u reaten ler .aed wide,
The cheery bk. ze may serve to guide
Dear feet that roam.
"And as the merry kettle boils
We web°, me him who daily toils
For us each day.
Of true love kisses lull a score
Be gets, I'm certain, if not:store,
When fond oues meet bittl at the dpor
At twilight &lay. , •••
"One gets the sli, pers•for his feet,
, Another leads h kb tu hie •eat—
The big arm chair—
And while the thieoeu round bite sing
And make the dear old ratte s ring,
One little de ughter t rowys him king • • .
With b.ossome fair.
• •
" Ah, sir, we are not rich or great,
The owner of a vast eetate,' '
The mother said :
"But we have better far than gold,
Contentment, and a little fold
As full of love as it 0e1.1 bold;
With daily bread." .
What Vd
`I'd swear for her—
I'd tear for her—
Ther,ord knows what I'd bear forher.
I'd I ie.for ber,—
I'd sigh for her—
I'd drink the Ohio dry for her.
• I'd cuss for bar—
Do wus for oer—
rd kick up a thundering fuse for hex'.
I'd Weep for her —
I'd leap for 1 01—
I'd go without seep for her.
I'd tight for her,—
I'd bite for her—
rd walk the area all night for her.
•
. _ .
I'd plead for her— .
raesee,) for her -
1'd go Withent my feed for her. • .
rd.booterriter —
• • rTelisot for
ber—
Arival Who'd cometo butt for her.
• I'd kneel for her—
I'd steal tor her—
Such is the love I feel tor her.
I'd slide for Mir—
I'd ridefor her— '" • •
rd swim against the voile awl grid for'her..
•
I'd try for tier—
I'd cry 1 r her—
But—hang roe if rd DIE. for bev,
Or any nther woman,
•
A Confiding Wile. .
"Poor John," said a trustful witeteeeerg;
ing to the veracious Detroit 'Post, bee Bo
much to do at the offise that he is often
compelled to work nights."
"Aro you Pure that he spends the even,
bogs at his effiee?" aeked another marries
lady who was making an afternoon Mee
.66Bly husband said that he thought he
saw him at the French opera the othet
night."
"Oh, your huthand must have been Miss -
taken, I am euro," responded the truetful
wife. "John doesn't underetarid a word of
French."
A tiger from a ttavelling menagerie
lately got lodge on Selisbury Plain, The
tiame thing „occurred some 60 years ago,
'Then the animal attacked One of the leaders'
et the royal mail, and had to be !abet by the
guard.
Five hutalred dollars for a pair of shoee
seems a high prioe, het it has been paid by
one of the society bailee of New York,
They were of white whin and Were
emhroidered with pearls.
Stuart Cumberland has been reading the
N, thoughts of the Emperor of Germany. Hui
litajeety thought of 1861, the year of his
coronation as King of Prueele, and Mr.
Cumberland wrote the figures at the first
attempt.
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FARM 46.1413 FARMERS.
Coltimu of intoreettoir Agrtoul.
tural Topics
OF •ADVANTAGE TO THE GENERAL READER,.
•
When the Frosi 141 ou the Pumpkin.
When the frost is on the pumpkin, and the fod-
der's in the shock,
Ansi you hear the kyouck and gobble of the
'trotting tuthey cock;
And the cacklin' of the enheys, and the ciliates
of the hens,
And the rooptere hallyloos er as he tiptoe on
the neut.;
Oh, it's then's the time a feller is a-feelin' at hie
best,
With the rieinpun to greet labn from a night of
gracious rest,
As he leaves the house 'bareheaded and goo otit
to feed the stock,
When the frost is on the pumpkin andthe foci-,
der% in the shook.
They's; Bompin' kind o' hearty -like about the
atmosphere,
When tLe beat De ounamer's over end tkte coin'
fall is here;
Of course we Mille the dowers -aed the blossoms
oaths trees,
And the mumble of the humrdin' birds and bets-
. zin' of the bees;
But the air hi appertizin', and the landscape
through the haze
Of a crisp and suurty morning of the early
autumn days,
Is a, picture that no painter has the colorin' to
meek:
When the fropt is on the pumpkin and the fod-.
der's in the shook,
The husky, rusty image of the tassels of the corn,
And the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as golden
as the Worn ,•
The stubble in the furrews, kind o' lonesome -
like, but still
A-preatelm' sermone tp rut of the barns they
growed to iill ;
The etrawsterk in the metlder and the reaper in
the abed,
d'Ite horses in their stalls below, the doer over-
, ' head;
0, it sets my /ware a olickin'like the tlialt,in' 'of a
' clock,
When the frost It on the pumpkin and the 'fed-
der's in the shock.
The, Fartnesos content. r
•
'Farming is,a blow way to make money,
.but tben there is a law of compensation
about everything in this life, and farming
has its bleseinge that other pursuite do hot
have. He is the freest man upon earth
and the most independent. He has- more
latitude aud longitude.- Be has a. house in
the country with plenty of pure air, and
good weter. If be makes bus little' in the
field, be hag no.ocoasion lo•epend but little.
He can raise his own hop, sheep, cattle
and cluelieni. His wood costs him nothing,
and the luxury of big back loge and blazing
fires in open fire.places all . winter is some-
thing that city people long for, but cannot
afford.- My farm cost Me 37,000. I have
120 morel; Of open land in good condition, •
O and it yieldsme on anaverage about five
dollars an Acre •over all expenees.. Say 9
'per dent. upon theinvestment. Well; that
is mighty little, cionidering my own labor
and supervision. I've seen the timewhein
I made five times as not* without any
capital exceptniy head.. But then we have
to keep a pair of hones to ride around and
they have to feed from the farm.—Bill 4rp,
in Atlanta con.etitution.
Dressing Sheep. •
Many termini are deterred ftom the use
of mutton on their tables from the woolly
taste of •the meat when killed at home.
The reason of this is admit wholly, in
theemahner of dressing, To obviate this
•all that is neoeseary hi the exercise of °are.
Allow the sheep •or •liemb no feed for
twenty-four hours before slaughter, but
allow allthe •water—it Wants. Just at
nightfall, having everything prepared,
seize the animal, hang up by the hied lege,
out 'thethroat, being sure to sever all the
arteries of the neck. AS soon as dead did-
embowel at °nee and then skin quickly and
without allowing the wool to touch •the
flesh.' Spread ttie quarters to cool the est-
eem as quickly as possible, hang in a cool,
sweet place, and you will not be troubled
with woolly -testing Mutton.- ,
.•• fillik.
' The breed of the igivr has much to de with
the quality of•the Fooetaiso hasan
important influence Upon quality, -and
afternoon drawn milk is imparter te that of
the morning; " strippings " are rieher than
the firiabdrawn. Analysis proves that the
average of cows milk contains 14. per cent.
of eolid matter, 4 1 of OM* are: °amine,
5,2 sugar, 809' butter and 008 saline
matter. Iream ,00ntaine 84 per cent. of
solid matter, 26.07 of ' which•is butter. RH
specific gravity is about 1018. Skim milk
,00ntaine about half as much butter as new
milk, and he specific)gravity is about 1087.
In other' reepects is is like new mull:
Buttermilk has only about half as Moth fat
iti shire milk. Whey holds a little cuseine,
sugar and saline mattet.
Horse Allmerits.•
Theailment of hordes known its heaves
is usually -caused by the 'feeding of 'dusty
and musty toed, although in some oasee it
comes from indigeation, and in some it id
inherited. Prevention is easier than etre,
and with the thoughful farmer prevent*
is a first consideration. • Relief, how.
aver, ratty be afforded by- feeding
the affected animal with moistened food of
a.nutritious kind, keeping the system open
and -Avoiding severe exertion. ,
*lettere' Notes.
Farmers who feed oabbage and turtrips
to miloh cows ehohld be careful to rejeot
thee° that are partially deosomil. They.
atirceiffain 15 itapartabfii1voris6J oar
•to• -the milk. ,
The best results with grain or oil-oake
are obtained' When they are mixed with
straw, chaff or turnips. Roots and green
fcidder again produce the most paying
results When mixed with dry food. •
It is understood that wooden milk -pane
are in general use in Switzerland,, and an
• effort is now being Made to indite° some
English mabufacturere tO introduce those
made of tin. The wooden Weasels are difficult
to keep clean, though they may have Some
advantage over thee° made of metal in
• preserving a mote constant temperature.
Old cows give Holier Milk than young
Ines. Cows near the end of lactation give
• richer milk, but in diminished quantity,
than at the beginning of lactation. Even.
ing milk contains per cent, more solid
matter than morning milk. The smaller
breeds of cattle yield richer milk than the
larger ones. •
At Indiana dairyman °overt; the cow
with a horse blanket or sheet while
jog, thus prefenting the abnoyance of flies
ma adding greatly to the comfort a the
ooW, whitth is otherwise coiatinually
oolgaleid ie battle with the inseot world. If
a horse blanket is used it should be a clean
otte.
In Uoderdraining it la well to av,oid lay.:
hog drain e hear to elm or Willow treee, as
the roots ot these trees are apt to enter and
°Ulla them. The willow id particlelarly
hitt; otrhvilBalktier iteet' a ae:tdretieninngaeweiathnouett
involve reneh lot% Where, however, there.
18 118t 11111811'12ter in the soil a few Willow
trdeS ausWet of themselves the purpose of
an 1111derdrain1 •
Mr. Willieta At, oingerly, *be bee
experieneed for the latt feet. years , et his
farm at Gwynedd, 1%e itt preserving green
feddot fA tiltie, hag a sun eepaetty of
1,200 tonefie says Mei by the operation
ot this method he is enabled to eathly keep
one cow on the produce 01 one acre of
ground. He fills his silos mainly with
cornstalks out in I.inch lengths. .A tea-
house power'engine will out 0110 taPhlred
tone 12 day..
rieW Phases of Lager.
•A show card iu the Wiodow of, a Canal
etreeb liquor store. yesterday bore the word!:
"Burnt Beep,"
"What is it ? " the bartender Was asked.
• "I'll show you. He drew a phot of beer
101212 earthern none, and, carrying it to the
stove, picked up a bar of iron, one toed of
which was glowing white among the coals.
He plunged the hot iron into the beer and
istirred it around, while the beer hissed and
spluttered. The beer was much more
bitter for the burning, but it was a plea-
flant bitter.
" The English burn their ale," said the
bartender. They call it mulled ale.
Older is mulled sometimes The esthetio
tastes of my customers demanded a new
drink this winter; and they have got it. It
has the advantage of making their eyes
eriap in half the time required by ordinary.
lager,"
6' This reminds me of a queer dish I eaw
the other day. An ,old acquaintanee of
mine was a lamp.ligliter. Last spring a
wound received during the war broke out
afresh, and he was laid' up. His wife
deternoined to learn- eigarma,kine to flap-
per!) herself and husband. Around the
lower end of Avenue, A there are many
Bohemian oigermakers who for $50 or eo
will teach their trade to any one, So this
woman sold all her spare furniture, moved
into one room, and took the money she
raised over to Avenue A.
61 Every day while she wag at work
there the Bohemians dined on 0110 kind of
food. ' They sent out cans for beer just
before hoon. These were' placed on the
stove and then a quantity ot stale bread
was broken into them. The etuff was
boiled up and the resulting stew was eaten
heartily, They told her it was a moat
nutritious as well as economical article of
diet. She tried it several times, but could
n'ot force herself to eat it. She likes beer,
too. I don't think that beer stew will ever
become popular here,"—New York Sun.
• Bowing a Rival 'Reporter.
I remember a dinner at which Henry a.
Raymond told how he onoe got ahead of a
Herald reporter. It was in the old days -
when he was on the Courier and Enquirer,
under James Watson Webb, doing the sorb
ot all-round work that Bennett had done
there a year or two before. 'Raymond was
sent to Coneord N. H. to report a very
important political conference—before the
days of telegraphs. He found there a
reporter from the Herald on a similar
errand. At the conclusion of the meeting,
the Herald reporter -said: "Well, we can't
leave to -night, for the last train has gone,
so we may as well go te bed." ' He was so
very 'anxious to get rid of Raymond that
the latter was suspicious of some trick of
the other's to get off withouthum. He
made some excuse for absence 'and
sauntered off to the new railroad station,
O Where he found a leoomotive all wooded
up and toady to start. An idea strpok
him. " Is thio my engine ?" he boldly
asked the engineer.' " Yea ; I 'epees so, if
Yofi're the 'reporter," was the reply.
"Climb aboard." Raymond did as he was
bid, and got to New York fourteen hours in
advance :of the Herald youth, who had
hired the engine expressly for a "beat,"
and who was in eight whenit started. The
bill for , the locomotive was presented to
Bennett, but Raymond said he never' knew
who paid it. The news he brought was the
most important of the year, .and Webb
raieed his salary.—N. Y. Times.
Schoolboys* Replies.
• One peculiarity of the schoolboy mind is
to put thinge negativelyolays 411 the Year
Round. As for example, a fifth standard
boy was asked to *the a short essay on
pins by way of an exercise in composition;
and produced the following "Pins are.
very useful. They hayed saved the livespf,
•a,,great inany.men, -women and children.=
in fact, • whole fat:allies." "How so?"
asked the puzzled inapeo tor, on reading this.
"Why, by not swallowing them," was the
immediate reply. Op the same line was
the essay of another schoolboy, 011 the eub-
ject cif stilt, whioh he described as : "Tho
stiiff that make potetoes taste bad, When
you don't pat may 011." A prettily humor-
ous examitiation story hi that ot the little
Elootoli boy at the Presbytery, examination.
He was asked. "-What is the meaning of
regeneration ?" ." To be born again," he
answered. "Quito right I Would you not
like to be born again ? " He hesitated, but
being pressed said that he would not,
and asked why not replied: "Fpr fear I
might be bornalassie." A like astonishing
and amusing was an answer given by an
adult examinee who was "silting" for a,
.certifloate as acting teacher. In the exam-
ination to test general knowledge he was
asked, "What is the age of reason?" and
anewered "45 many yeah as have
elapsed since the birth of the person 'so
named." .
tectirilie LI eWspoper hew. • '
•
• A churned hind° is drawn.about every
newspaper office in the land, from within
whielo no Seer& ever escapes. or is ever
matele unworthy use of by the .ousteetens„
inYilhirBeitaloWrela. a etas in
point. A young woman. from Graveeend,
Ls T., advertised for a husband in a New
Haven paper recently. Her good qualities
were Many. She was a *fattens, healthy
girl of 30 years' and 165 pomade avoir-
dupois. To, offset a partial loss of hearing
she had 422,000 in Michigan Tren Mountain
COmhany bonds, 200 head Of battle, two
stnokebrindle steers, 117 yekteof oxen and
5,000 acres et land ,in Indian Territory.,
Every man tionnected with the morning
journal in which the 'advertisement
appeared must have known tho night hetet*?
c,f the prize that might be had for the ask.
iiig; but not one would forget his duty by
tatting an unfair advantage of the reading
public. Instead of rushing off to the hotel
Where the young wonlan was stopping Mod
carrying everything before them with a
tush, after the fashion of newspaper men
-where the ladies are concierned, each aed
.0veryone of the boye Waited until the paper
had appeared on the streets the following
*mug) and then took their chances with
the herd—doubtless to get left.
Edmund YAMS says in the London
World: "An officer Of the Fourth Huse
ears tells me they have got over forty
gentlethen gerving as troopers, and I hear
that the Buffs, or what used to be the
Muffle has 940 got e large uumber of gentle).
Midi privates. This looks Re if the Service
wari improving, and seems to Snow a new
light Upon the question of what is 10
Jasmine of our eons,"
Lieut. Gteely says that of his nineteen
Men who permitted 3211 but One were
smokers,- and that one Was the last to die,
hei seven gerviebre Were notbenneting
hum
The foreign telegram of • the London
Timest,haoluditig a long letter from Khari
tom, °mite en a eingle clay in Otatober 09,-
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1011817114WItritallit.
The so Desiree" opera company Beane
VileuPeeted Vse of Foolish Letter:
Among the dieadvantages ot the position
of prima donna of the light opera sre the
innumerable miseives from maeouline
adnoirere, sometimes tender and apologetie,
but often !grossly impertinent, Last even-
ing, despite the watchful Cate Of the etitge
door keeper at Beverly's Theatre, a 'note
was delivered to Mies Lily Poet, who Wan
singing the title role in "Desiree." It read
ste follows; .
Mr DEAR Afro Posr,—I have seen your charm-
ing impersonation of Desiree, a,rul au. desirous of
becortaing acquainted with you, and for that Per -
porta invite you to sup with me after the per-
formance. I am aware that i have More cheek
than brains, but 1. hsve plenty of money and am
a New Yorker. I shall be seated in Meth row
left, third seat from the centre aisle. If you
accept my invitation, when you come forward
for your solo in the second not please wink with
your right eye. I Will have a carriage at the
etage door.
O Amused, in spite of her vexation, at the
insufferably cool impertinence of the letter,
Miss Post exhibited it to various members
of the company. It was resolved that the
oonoeiteti New Yorker Should be punished,
and in as open a manner ail possible. So
*hen the curtain rose on the second act,
and the whole company was on the stage,
Mr. De -vim Hopper, who, as Pommeret,
should be the first to speak, walked deliber-
ately to the footlights with the letter in
hie hamlet, end, putting on his eye-glaeses,
began to count, in a manner which attracted
Ike attention of the entire audience, until
he singled out the New Yorker,
who was beginning to squirm under
suoh close porutiny. Mr. Hopper
then removed his glasses, and,
after once more glancing at the letter,
slowly and solemnly winked his right eye
and pointed over his ehoulder toward the
back door. The audience by this' time
began to euppeot the position of,affairs, and
all eyes were fixed open the sixth row.
Then Mark Smith stepped to the frontand,
in the same manner as Mr. Hopper, winked,
and pointed over his shoulder, while the
unlucky dude seemed'trying to shrink out
of sight behind his neighbors. But the end
was not yet; for, as thongb at a concerted
signal, the entire company, priricepals and
chorus, fastened their gaze upoo the now
thoroughly uncomfortable young men, Sag
each deliberately winked the right eyes.
This- was too much for his dudeship, and;
rising in his seat, he beat a batty and
inglorious -retreat amid shouts of laughter.
--Philadelphia Press. .
. The Bind /During Starvation.
The retold case' of oannibalism at sea
opens up some curious questions as to the
effects of fasting on the moral nature of
man. To the superfloial observer, death
, by stervation eimply means a mating of
the body, a horrible agony, an increasing
weakness, a lethargic state of the luau,
and e Bleep from while]] there is no awaken-
ing ; but is this all that it melon ? While
this is going on, let us oonsider whether or
not the intellectual fa,oulty, and with it the
power of distinguishing might. from wrong,
is not also undergoing a process of wasting
and death, even before that of the material
part. Reasoning by analogy,We ficid that
in'inany oases of bodily disease, the state
el the mind is the first indicator of the
mieohief going on in the .syetem. Take
even such . a 'ample thing as indigestion,
which,as every one must know, is only a
manifestation of a deranged stomach, and
what do we find? That the lowness of
spirits induced by this affection may vary
'rpm slight dejection mid ill -humor to the
most extreme inelanoholy, sometimes
inducing even a disposition to suicide.- The
sufferer misconceivee every act of friend -
chip, and exaggerates slight ailments into
heavy grievantem. So in sterCation, the
power 'of reaeon eaems paralyzed and the
intellectual faculty dazed reaily before the
functions of • the body suffer, or even the
wasting of its tissue becomes extreme. --
--Popular Sciehee Monthly.
A Curtails ttocuineat.
St. Louis- Globe.Democrat : In the records
of the office of tho Secretary of State at
_Columbia, S. 0., -is the ,following petition,
bearing_iltIte 1788, addressed to the Gover-
nor of South Carolina, and signed by eixteen
maiden's.
The, humble. petition of all the Maid
: whose Names are underwritten:
"Whereas, we, the humble petitioners,
are at present in a very melancholy condi-
tion of inind, conaidering how all the
bachelors are blindly captured by widows
and we are thereby neglected in conse-
quence of this our request is that your
Excellency. will, for the futiore,Crder that
no widow preeume to marry any young
man until the maids' are ptovided for, or
else to pay each ofthem a fine for math*.
tion of invading our libertiee, and likewise
a fine to be levied on all bachelors as shall
be married to widows. The great disad-
vantage it .is to us maids is that the
widows, by their forward carriage, do snap
up the young men and have the vanity. to
think their merits beyond ours, which is a
great impossition to us, who ought to have
the preferenee. This is humbly recom.
. mended to your Excellency's consideration)
and we hope you will permit no further
insults,- And we, poor maids, es in duly
bound, will ever pray, etc."
The Snowy Purity, •
Pittsburg Chronicle Soon winter will
Jestenjoisiteighltangs in the throat at -the„
warm sunshine and euok the red blood
O frono the dying sunsets. Athwart the sky
gray bars of 'rniet will attetolo, imprisoning
the earth and biddiog defiance to the
warmth that Reeks to teat% her frozen
bosom. The 4tuti1 will lurk beneath the
dead and matted jimpson in the far-off
corners of the stake -and -rider fence; Bare
brat:lobes will pencil ,on the dead air a tale
of forest woe and woodland' misery. The
ground will be covered, white and pure;
pure and white—so pare, and white, and
cold, ana stiff, and heartless, and unfeeling,
that we °hell know we were born in sin.;
impure, imperfect! But, oh I give us baok
the green of our hearts, the warmth even
of our faults, for we are but human! And
in this white time that °canoes apace ;the
'man who lost his overociat on 1212 eledtion
bet will call hinoself an idiot.
1/00411‘..L4 A GAUP.
• HIM the Olgeris Served up a New Zen.
• fend Pelle.
Earle, who wrote a very readable, intel-
ligent and but little known account of
the Maoris very early in the present
century, speaks of the gentle manners and
kindly ways of a New Zealand chief,
whom ofterwarde he discovered to be an
inveterate cannibal. He potato that he
visited the place where twits cooking the
body of a young slave-gitl that his friend,
had killed for the purpose. The head was
Hevered from the body; the four quarters,
with the principal bones removed, were
compreseed and packed ieto a, small oven
in the ground, and covered with earth. It
was18 OSSO Of twinetifiable camibalieno.
No revenge was gratified by the deed, and
no erotism °hold be wed° that the body was
eaten to perfect their triumph. Earle says
that he learned that the flesh takes many
hours to cook, that zI is very tough if not
thoroughly cooked, but that it pulls in
phew, like a bit of blotting paper, it well
done. He ciontinuee that the Victim Was a
handeenne, pleasant-looking'girl 01 116, arid
one that he used frequeotly la) see, about the
pah. To quote his own winds: While
listening to this frightful detail, we
felt sick almost to fainting. We left
Atoi" (the chief who had killed the girl),
66 and again etrolled toward the spot
where this diegusting feast was cooking.
Not a native Was now near 'it; a boo
ateam kept oothudonally bursting from the
mothered mass, .1A14the Berne dog that
we bad seen take the head of the girl now
orept from beneath the buehee and sneaked
towezdthe village ; to add to the gloomi-
nese of the whole, a large hawk rose heavily
frem the very spot where the poor victim
had been obi) in pieces. My friend end I
Sat gerng in this thelanoholy place; it
was %Dowering, gusty day, and the moaning
of the Wind through -the bushes, ash swept
eound the hill 011 which we were, imam&
in outran with our feelioge." Earle. goes
on to relate how he and three other cono:
patriots whom he sumnionedfrom thebeaoh-
for the purpose, with the Englishman'e
usuel. impertinent interference and intoler-
anoe of customs differing from his own,
determined to frustrate Atoia intention.
They together visited the hill where the
flesh watt cooking, and; destroying the
oven, buried the remains in the earth.
They found the heart put on one side for
the special delectation of their cionstant
friend and companion, Atoi. Earle was
afterward good-hurnoredly told by the
chief that their interference, had been of no
avail, as they had found the grave where
the flesh had been buried, and opening it,
soon after he and his friend had left; had
finished (seeking It and eaten it all,-
Proni Cannibalism :as a Custom," by .d.
St, ,lohnston, in Popular Science Monthly for
December.
visited Bridgeport, Conn., Yesterday with
for a poper memorial tri the late Post -
Personal P,aragraphs.
blind. . ) '
her) -daughter, aged 70 years on it shopping
souori.d Genhiohoote,
.:
All Eeeland is engaged in a movement
oelebrated her 103rd birthday last August,
master -General Fawcett, who wen die
tinotiop, though he was compelled ter go it
Mrs. Bridget Farley, of Stratford, who
. .
. new the stole sue °
viving officer df the British Penineula, cam-
paign, occasionally doffs his shooting jacket
to don the old scarlet uniform, but there
are•days when Whiohoote is in doubt which
coat to wear. . '
London society paper!), intimate that
Osoar Wilde's young wife encourages biro
in his present vagary of appearing in pUblio
in olosecropped hair eurmounted by the
broad -brim soft •hat of the conventional
Texan ranger. .
Miss Nellie Arthur, misted by a Mingle.
ter of Chief Justice Wehe, is-biusity engaged
in raising the tinkle forte, Christmas dinner
for a crowd of poor children in Washington
who werebenefloiaries of the same' more
favored children latit'year.
. The Prince of Naples, King Humbert's
heir, a lea of 15, is weak in mind and body.
-Hie pe,renteare first cousins. His greatest
aolobmpliehme,nt is talking English, which
e jbe leareed from English nurses and:
governesses.
M. Charles Warren Adams, the plaintiff
.in th,e Coleridge libel case, firet came before
the public) during the St. George's -in -the
• East riots, when he offered his services to
the Rev. Bryan King, the rector, and his
stalwart frame anti imposing appeeranee
made'bino invaluable as a fighting church-
• man. He subsequently Was well known in
the newspaper and literary world, endless
editor for some time of the Western Mail,.
-it Cardiff. •
Mr. Malet, English delegate to the Congo
Conference, has iotiraated to the agents of
the African International A.ssoniation that
tIngland'S recognition of the status of the
Association depends upon the open per -
°hue by the Amoolation of their night in
the Congo territories, Mr; Malet refines
to admit the Frei* claims of priority in
the pukohase. France ha ta stipulated that
free trade in the Congo oountty shall be
limited to 20 year&
The oily of Path wati placarded through-
out on Saturday night autounoing a work.
ingmee's meeting to be held at Betleville
on Sunday 16 deliberate upon the eXperli.
mop of holding a monster Meeting before
the Palace Elyse°. The pollee demolished
the plaoarde.
There newt to be a little yein of humor
15 President OleVeland with all his gravity
and seriothmese. "You are the first Deno.
oratio Preeident I' ever se,W," remarked
a vieltor to the Preilidett-eleob. " 1 am
the first I ever Saw intuit," NM the mib
ing reply.
Ile, tepoke Feelingly.
Ono Of th'e stories the late A. M. Sullivan
WU fond of .telling related tothe corres.
pondenbe between his wife and Sir William
Harcourt,- the bluff Boma Secretary for
England. Mrs.,Selliven is it native of New
Orleans, possessed of the high individuality
of the Southern women' abd the independ-
ence of the American. :While Michael
Devitt was undergoing his penal Bantam:a
there were rumors that he was ill and that
his true condition was being concealed by
the prieon authorities!. Mrs. Sullivan,
_knowing_that her busbandrwho waethen,
in Parliament, would scorn to ask ,any
favor of the Government, Wrote to Sir
William Harcourt for permiseion to visit
Devitt, told obtained it. Accompanied only
by a lady friend, she 'made het way to the
prison, easy the felon, heard thh truth from
,his own lips, and brought back from his
. glance the messages of defiance and deter-
minetion 'which might have been expected.
When it became known that hisi wife -61r
accepted a favor from the Government Mr.
Sullivan was deeply affected,. and going to
the Home Secretary, he said, "Sir Wiloam,
I went you to understand that Mut,
van acted this ,matter on her own
respoheibility.""Oh, certainly, alt,"
soothingly aneweied Sir William, "I under-
stand these embatrasements, Mr, Sullivan.
I have an American wife myself."
Instruction in sowing was. introduced in
the Philadelphia publio eohools reoently.
The London Tuner Circle Railroad •ist
121arVallouB feet e1 engineerifog ekill. Day
and bight for eighteen mouths the work
his been carried 08, and in a Very Ethort
time ttaine will be 'passing over this sub-
terranean read Leader the busiest matte of
the largest oity in the world.
Pavements made of briok impregnated at
a high temperature with asphalt ate found
more durable for wear than. granite or com-
preeseel asphalt. By dtivong out the air
ana water the bricks take up 15 or 20 per
cent. of bitunien ; they are then tou end -
wive oe 12 conerete bed with hot tar;
The free parities Oh Which German
DaptitieS travel by tail to and froth the
Reichstag are paid for by the Government,
They are" free" only In the amnia that
postage etabops are free to meMbere of
the Pennsylvania Legislature—Rothe-body
' has got to fool; the bill. 11 would be inter.
esting to know NH how the tailreade work
that kind of 18 lobby.
THE BAR OPI BOBSEBACK.
Death ot the Fearless .1.ea.Per elt the
Orange Puree Sot 1871,
The Central and oonepiouous figure io the
Orange parade of Jule 12 th,1871,wae a num
in full regalia mounted on a large gray
horse. When the preemption, which con
-
slated of a few Orangemen and a great
many policemen and eoldiere, movedi
through streets that were liped with Orange
hatere, the horeeman'ei conepiououe
position made hire the target for oppro-
brious epithets and later for more substan-
tial missiles. Before the march was over
• stones and briokbets and pistol photo
became plentiful, but the man on the gray
horse never wavered, though those about
him were in momentary expectation of
seeing him !Amok down, Later still, when
the disorder culminated to a riot, and the
militia fired several deathrlettliog volleys,
the orange -bedecked boreeman sat firm in
his saddle, showing a Owego that won the
admiration of friend and foe Alike, He
escaped unhurt.
His name was John Johnson, and he Wee
employed at that time it, the Fifth avenue ,
hotel. About a year atter the riot he was
appointed a policeman. For two or three
years he had a herd time in the several
station -helms to whioh beams sent, owing
to the project* against Orangemen that
wee then shared by many of the' membere
of the force: Then he was dismiesed on
°bargee. He bought a horse a,nd coupe
with his sayings aod earned a livieg for two.
years while fightiug in the courts for rein-
statement. He claimed that the Mese 'on
which he was disnoiseed was a put-up job,
and Showed before the Supreme Court,
when the matter was reviewed that the
two principal witnesses against him were
thieves and ex -convicts.
johneon wasi reinstated, but as he eigned
erstipulation to make no claim for his back .
pay hie horse and mute went to pay his •
lawyers. He lost his first wife and mar.
60- gajp Sickness and a large family -
prevented him from getting anything ahead,
and he died OD Friday, leaving his wife and
five children unprovided for. Ile did not
even belong to the Police Mutual Aid
A.esociation. • He was buned yesterday'
from his home in Eingebridge. He had
done dutyin the Second precinct eitioe its
organization, and got Conlin says he WW1
a good policieman.—N. Y. Sun.
0 W
"3115' Way MYhyo
a'sril; Why?
.
meti agood
mother as elm welcomed her stalwart pride
home; "'what is the matter ? ' What has
happened? Have you been rue over by the
O mrial".
, mother, nO
i , it is noth="
' " There, it's dynamite, I know, or you
wouldn't have your face all patohed--"
It's nothing, nothing, Mother."
"Fell downstairs and broke both legs? •
011, theme orutehes---" . '
"No, I didn't fall downstairs, I—" •
"Then you must have run against a.
lamp -post in the dark, or you wouldn't
have your arm in a sling." '
Do keep quiet. Don't be alarmed, .
rnother.. We won by two goals' and three
towohdowne." '
." Well, I'm glad,' if that's all; but why
did they use you . for the toothall?"—Harte • „,
fordPost.
• A Liight•Elaarted People. .
• One can scarcely pass a day at 'the far
South ' without being- impressed by the ,
happy, apparently contented nature of the
negro. .,„Every day about , the railroad -
stations can he found a group' of negroee.
.ozie. of whom is invariably playing a banjo.
In the evening one can always find parties
of them slitting out Of doors around a fire of
pine loge, dancing to the banjoiat's music or
ea:tieing. 'So; too, was it the ease on the St.
John's River eteamer. Long into the night
we could hear the negro hands on the boat
singing with muoh melody as they piled up •
wood OA the' lower deolm: In fact, such
sights and Bounds are ever.present features
of the life here, and Ream to belong to it as
much as do the fragrant ,pine woods and ,
the -beautiful "hammock" -band.—Florida .
Correspondence NewYork Poet:
. •
Headgear, Hoot:gear and Such.'
• • 4FOund in the Fashion Columns.),
t Bennet etringe are quite short.
1.4 'band homier or otter makes' a, •
coronet for a velvet or felt bonnet
Bronze slippers and,Troyal cardinal -silk
hose ire. populat 'for aftereeep wear at
Gray and black ostrich feathers are
speckled with white, as if speinkted with
• anawle.veteitre White, blaoi, drab, fawn 'and,
tan. The Suede is still the most. popular.
and handsome., , .
Choice sprays. of shaded velvet flowers
appear upon some 'of the most elegant little
Opera bonnets from Parie. •
terta.cotta poke bonoat is lined with
escent lu
'birds of irideboage form the
trolidui.gmolidngs.atit:.. Waves of creamy lace and .
A White cloth oapote, with plaited crown,
bound ' with wide ' brown. velvet woven
with tiny gold loop, has large pompons of • •
zephyr wool. • '
By Cable.
Pittsburg Chronicle: Well, what's on
the billiat fare ?" politely Biked the Atlatti •
tici"Cable of The Latest' from
"Hem, lemme see. 011, Oen. Gordon
bas been the prisoner of El htahdi for the
past month," said The Lategt fora Cairo. '
.6 Oh, no. Don't want it. The whales
are getting sick of that. Give memennee
thing fresh," remarked the Cable. '
"Gordon still holds Khartoum and El
Afahdi's troops are deserting him."
O so. That's too old, too. Ain't you got some
thing lively like for the sick Whales?"
" How will thie suit!you ..--- 1 Ell Mahal •
Reps he will not make au attack on. Ehar-
toum during the month of 1111 Harem,
because it is contrary to the law of the
Ptophet, and will' do more Harrem than
good," •
"4‘ Oh that's better."
. The tairder of an Ocean Steamship.
• Transatlantic passenger Meat/ears ship ,
about 14,000 pounds of freeh Meet for Oath
ttip, 20 tons of ice, 1,400 pounds of butter,
•and 8,000 thgare. Ona teasel of 5,000 bins
7,000 napkins; are usetl every trip, 2,000 ,
esheete and 8,000 towels. Differebt 001bre
are Used On the upholstery and furniture
every day, because of the reliefa change of
beene after& to persons who butane sea. .
nick,' and also owibg to the additional
freehnees of the atraesphere of the cabins
thus obtained, , The steamer is newly
painted on the outside front stem to stern
every voyage, and tech) this work, together
with the repairing and cleaning of tiphol.
story, from 200 to 400 Web are empluyed.
The wasitiing is all done at the end of eaoh
voyage. In the first cabin' of a firetclatie
Matter there 18E40,000 worth of silverware. '
—New York Y'rtith,
• James Russell McCoy, the most oanspieui
ous resident oh Pitt:Mite's island, boarded
a vessel that teoently toualied there and
keported that the 180 inhabitants of tho
Wand were well, and wanting for nothing
except 00m0 neWSPaperfle