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Coneeen ljelYellster 'has lost a million
dollen, which elm} had been bequeathed tp
it by the well of the late Jennie McGraw
Fiske, the courts having deoided that the
institution is as riohats it is permitted to
he under its charter. It ie evidently safest
for wealthy persons to help their favorite
univereities while theys,re alive, for theaw
has Orange ways of breaking in .on post-
mortem plans.
" Mex We; Pnerrxxoreen, e German
medical authority, considers that cholera
ie not contagious in the some of being com-
municable directly from person to per-
son, but that it belongs to the malarial
group of epidemics, the germs of which
lind their way from the soil into the air,
and thence through the ,leings, into the
ieystem. He regards good drainage and
pure water as the most efficient eafeguard
against an outbreak.
PEOPLE who complain of the noise of the
Sunday church bells in Canadian cities
would find it worth their while to spend
ew weeks travelling in Spain, which is
one of the most devout countries under the
sun. Ninety thousand belle send forth
their summons to prayers from the steeples
of 24,000 ehurches. The weight of these
bells amounts to something like 95,000,000
of Spanish pounds, and the value to about
10,000,000 francs.
ARCHDUKE A.rainecirr, who celebrated on
the $rci instant his 70th birthday, is the
only field marshal in the Austrian army.
He deservedly holds that rank in virtue of
his achievements during the Austro -Italian
i
campaign of 1866. He s the wealthiest of
all the Hapsburg princes and very ,liberal
in his contributions to charitable objects.
He is also a generous patron of art, and
owns probably the most valuable collection
of engravings in the world.",
BISMARCK'S wife is an interesting woman.
She is more than 60 years of age, egiTirdl
and very gray. Her features are promin-
ent and her cheek -bones very high. Alto-
gether she has a strong face. She is a woman
of very determined character and not un-
like the " Iron Chancellor" himself in
obstinacy. She is fond of telking and
speaks in a loud and decided voice. She is
apt to tell stories which a girl of the period
would not care to have her mother hear.
Sone of the trees of Arkansas have
peculiar properties. The fruit and root of
the buckeye are used by Indians on their
lishing excursions. They put the fruit and
roots in a bag, which they drag through
the water. In an hour or so the fish rise
to the surface dead. Cattle die after eating
of the fruit or leaves. Man eats the fruit
of the pawpaw, but hogs won't. Ropes
and mats are made of its bark. The fruit
and bark of the bay tree are supposed to be
a cure for rheumatism and intermittent
fever.
Otte well-known Countess, whose life is
spent in devising new varieties of social
pleasures, gave a canine "at home" a
week or two since at her London home, at
which more than fifty pet dogs'principally
terriers, pugs and dachshunds, put in an
appearance. A cold collation, served on a
special dinner service, was provided, while,
as a delicate attention, several live rats
were placed in a back room for the terriers,
who were equal to the more exciting task
of worrying them.
IN the death of Aaron J. Vanderpoel the
Democracy of New York loses a sterling
Supporter. The head of one of the most
important law firms in the country, counsel
for Samuel J. Tilden in important suits,
he was more than onee offered.proneotion
to the bench, and mighthave ascended that
of the Couirof Appeals in 1885 had he
chbsen. The life of a simplecitizen pleased
him best. He was a good man and will
long be mourned by those who had the
privilege of his friendship.
GEISBERT leonrcinsen, �f Chicago, is dead
at the age of 73. Hewes the oldest saloon-
keeper in the city of Tyrian Purple. He
went to Chicago in 1842 and opened a
. grocery and bar. Besides his distinction as
the oldest saloon -keeper in Chicago he also
enjoyed the reputation of being the heaviest
man in that city. In 1869 he weighed 430
pounds. His weight decreased as he grew
older, but still registered over 300 pounds
at the time of his death. He leaves a
fortune of about $300,000 to his wife and
children.
IN a duel with swords, recently fought at
orenoble, between M. Menvielle, editor of
the Revel du Dauphine, and M. Gustave
Naquet, editor of the Petit Dauphinoes, the
principals disarmed each other in successive
rounds. In the third round M. Naquet
seized his adversary's weapon and dealt'
him a thrust in the groin. Then Captain
Martin, one of M. Menvielle's seconds,
boxed M. Naquet's ears, and M. Nitquet's
seconds deserted him. M. Naquet has now
been fined in a police court for illegiti-
mately wounding his antagonist.
Aimee the matters to be considered at
the forthcoming convention of the Ameri-
can Bankers' Association at Pittsburg are
the silver question, the uniformity of bank
cheques as proposed by the Chicago Bank -
ere' Club, the uso of "safety paper" for all
cheques, drafts, etc., plans for ecuring
bank circulation otherwise than by deposits
of government bonds, measures for the
better protection of depositors in national
banks, and a memorial to Congress urging
an amendment to the Canadian treaty pro-
viding for the extradition of defaulters and
embezzlers.
LOOK to your water filter and see that it
is frequently arid regularly cleansed. 1:5r.
Blyth, the Marylebone officer of health,
tells of five persons in a family of thirteen
beingseized within two days with fever
and sickness, terminating hi some instances
in delirium. After much investigation it
was discovered that all the -sufferers had
been accustomed to drink water from an
uncleansed filter, the charcoal in which was
loaded with organo matter that bad under-
gone fermentation in consequence of the
hot wether. While a hounhold filter is a
very desirable thing, a filter which is not
frequently cleaesed is Werso than none at all.
TRUTH is stranger than fiction, but OCCS,
SiOnelly fiction is reproduced as k fad.
The old story of the son who had been
away to make his fertile°, doming back te
his parents and being murdered by them
or the take of hie Wealth, has been carried
out in real life. A telegram from Paris
states that a young Spaniard left home,
and after some years eeturtied a compara-
tively wealthy man. He .Wee not rime.,
nizecl by his parents, but gemmed their hos-
pitality, His mother's avarice was excited
by the stranger's wealth, and she killed hire
in the night, eeyeripg hie head from the
body. :Upon finding, out that , the victim
was her son, she paerely obseryee that it
was his own fault as he ought to have made
hinisel .4110WP!
THE Philadelphia Epiecopa/ Recorder
says: And so another Chinese has found e
bride in this country ! We are not a
prophet, or the son of a prophet, hut we
venture to prediot that this is the forerun-
ner of e radical change of sentiment on the
pare of the American public towards the
Mongolian race. If this and the •former
experiment work well, it will be discovered
that the Chinese are good for something
more, and sometheng far better, than we
eVer dreamed. Let them be demonstrated
to be desirable husbands for white girls,
and Congress must remove that embargo
on their emigration to this country, or the
eyes of every member thereof will be
scratched out of his head. Where is Dennis
Kearney? Can he dare oppose himself to
the resolute and invincible army of match-
making mothers in this land? Oh, sweet
will be your revenge, ye Celestials!
D611 PEDRO Ands that his liver is harder
to rule than all Brazil. In Paris a few
days ago his blood was analyzed by Dr
Renegues, the „specialist, who told him
that he was in a bad way. Not only is his
liver out of order, but his kidneys also,
and at his age there is not much chance of
curing him, though the maladies may be
held in check. Dom Pedro is but 62
years old, although he has been Emperor
fifty-six years, and is in length of reign the
senior sovereign of the world. Dr.
Renegues asked him what was his favorite
drink. Dom Pedro replied that it was the
juice of oranges and lemons, iced, and
flavored with Jamaica rum. Better give
it up," said Dr. Renegues. "1 can't,"
said Dom Pedro, "and you wouldn't advise
me to if you knew how good it is."
THE death of Prof. Fowler has incited
discussion as to the standing of phrenology
as an exact science. Which reminds us,
once upon a time a phrenologist was draw-
ing crowded houses in this city. (Maybe
it was Fowler, and maybe it wasn't.) A
young man, who regards phrenology with
contempt, undertook to test the Matter by
"having his head Ult." His real occupa-
tion need not be known, but for the pur-
pose of the visit he choose to describe bine.
self as the organist of one of our eity
charches. He was much gratified to be
told thathis bump of music was well de-
veloped; that he delighted in harmony, and
a lot more to the same purpose. As a mat-
ter of fact, he did not know one note from
another, and there was no subject that,
could be broached on which he was more
ignorant than music.—London .eldvertiser.
Sone singular statements have been
'
his real BerViee to En'elie4 literateee, Dr.
McCesli says; " I do ,not exilieire thee the
euPPosed Prophet Peer Paw 'far WO, the
futare, but he did exhibit the past giri,d the-
presene in a lurid light, His Tatter -Day
2emPhlets.'.110W little read, IP Perhaee his
moo eheraeteristie week. It is to be read
simply ae a oerioatere of his time, as we
read the satires of Juvenal and of Pope."
Wellaen'e Seaeretttions.
I noticed a neat, modest-lpeking ypung
lady pushing her way along in the crowd
on Kearney street the other day, says a
writer in the an Francisco Post, and was
surprised to see BO much epirit manifested
by a girl of her dainty appearance. eWhen
she met several ladies she would crowd
closely to the street -edge or the wall, but
when'xnen earn° along she marched boldly
between them. Calling the attention of
anoth'er lady to her strange manner, she
paid
"oh, I always do that, too. I under-
stand it ; she's superstitious."
"How is that ?' I asked.
"Well, you see it brings good luck to
separate men, when you meet them, but
nothing breeds misfortune so surely as to
divide two women on the street."
I looked to see if she were jesting, but
saw at once that a judge could not be more
serious.
"And do you believe that nonsense ?" I
asked.
"Why, I s'pose it's foolish," she an-
swered, "but I know if I ever do it, some-
thing happens. Now, just yesterday I was
with another lady and was ashainedtoturn
out, and we went right between two women,
and at dinner I swallowed a toothpick and
came near choking to death."
"But you didn't die?" I suggested.
"No, but I was awfully scared."
That evening I went to a party and tried
to find out the pet superstition of each girl
I danced with. And they all have them.
One wouldn't go under a leaning ladder,
another would be dire of coming ill if she
saw the moon over her left shoulder,
another would not read an epitaph for fear
of losing her memory. One girl told me
she could stop a dog's howl any time by
taking off her shoe and spitting in it. In
drawing her kerchief from her bosom a
narrow slip of paper fluttered to the
ground, on which were some hieroglyphics.
" Oh, my charm !" she exclaimed. I
supposed she had lost an article of jewel-
lery, and waseearching about for it when
she seized upon the scrap of paper as though
it were a deed to a San Diego corner lot.
My curiosity was aroused, and she explained
that it was a °herrn insuring success in
undertakings, purchased by her at a great
price from an Egyptian fortune-teller in
Paris, and that its possession alone
amounted to nothing, but it must be put
into the pocket or in the bosom of a dress
during the recital of an Egyptian verse.
'If one failed to remember that, however,
the Lord's prayer might be substituted.
made in the Deutche Monatsehrift concern-
ing the effect produced by different trades
and industrial occupations upon the general
health. Among these facts are those con-
tributed by Professor Hesse, of Leipsic,
who points out the deplorable condition of
the teeth of bakers, and who also asserts
that he is frequently able to indicate the
occupation of persons by the condition of
their teeth. In the case of bakers the
caries is soft and rapidly progressive ; the
principal parts attaeked are the labial and
buccal surface of the `teeth, commencing at
the cervix and rapidly extending to the
grinding surface—the approximal surface
not seeming to be attacked more than in
other trades. Professor Hesse believes
that the disease is owing te the inhalation
of flour deist, the aeries being caused by the
action of an 'acid ,khich is formed in the
presence bf fermentable carbohydrates.
Two interesting physical experiments
are amusing French scientific men. In the
first a lighted, candle is placed behind a
bottle, and the 'latter is blown upon with
the breath for a distance of about a foot.
The meeting of the air currents set in
motion around the bottle quickly extinguish
the flame, though extinction would be irn-
posible if a fiat board or a sheet of card-
board were substituted for the bottle. For
the second experiment two bottles are placed
on a table, with a space of half an inch
between them: The candle is set between
this space, and from the same distance as
before, on the opposite side, the breath is
blown smartly against the flame. Not
only will the latter continue burning, but
it will incline slightly towards the operator
as if through the effect of suction. This
phenomenon, analogous to the first, is due
to the fact that a portion of the air cannot
pass between the bottles and is forced
around them and back toward the experi-
menter.
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A SYNDICATEn
of Detroit -capitalists as
been formed for the purpose of supplying
stored electricity for house -lighting, and a
practical demonstration has shown that
the battery it is proposed to use will oper-
ate twenty-six sixteen -candle power lamps
for twenty-four hours, and show at the end
of that time no visible diminution of power
upon the ampere, It is believed at the end
of that time that sufficient energy to light
twelve lamps for five hours will remain.
The expectation is that one charging of the
battery will light the average house for a
week. After all the tests have been made,
the machinery perfected, and the company
is in good working order, a serious obstacle
will be raet with. Ladies complain that
eleotrio light makes them look "ghastly,"
changes the shade' of their dresses, and in
general works havoc with theirappearance.
Such being the case, it is insanity to sup-
pose they will admit the light to their
houses, unless the "dead -white glare" is
tempered by the aid of rose-colored glass,
somethingor tht willtbeset k p their
complexions up to par,
Is an article on Carlyle, Dr. James Mc -
Cosh, the venerable head of Princeten
seggests for an inscription on a monu-
ment to that great author "Here lies one
who gave force to the English tongue." On
Carlyle's role as a philosopher or a prophet
Dr. McCosh puts small value. Whatever
be was, better or.worse, he was nota &Ike
sopher. The epithet hi a considerable loose
one, but can scarcely be applied in any
sense to the man of Ecclefechan, of Craig
enputtock and of Chelsea." And again:
I"1 do not recoiled in all his writings and
reported conversations of a single sagacious
forecast, such as sonao great men present
to us, of the future at argued froth caused
now in operation." And, after indicating
A Pneumatic Tube to Europe.
• Col. J. H. Pierce, of Southington, Conn.,
who has been studying the use of pneuma-
tic tubes, has reached a_ point at which he
hopes to show that a tubeacross the Atlan-
tic can be used. The tubes will always be
in couples, with the currents of air in one
tube always moving in an opposite direc-
tion from the other. The heaviest cannon
will serve to illustrate the tube. A car
takes the place of the charge, the tube to
be indefinitely continuous, and the speed of
the car to be governed by the rapidity with
which air can be forced through. Time is
required to establish a current of air flow-
ing with great swiftness through a tube
perhaps thousands of miles in length, but
when once created the motion will be
nearly uniform. The speed of the current
may be made as great as may be desired by
using the steam -driver fans employed in
blast furnaces. Niagara Falls coulddrive
blastfans and furnish motive power to keep
in motion the trains to connect this confine
ent with the Old World. The temperature
within the tube may be regulated by pass-
ing blasts of air entering the tube through
furnaces or over ice. The speed attainable
may reach 1,000 miles an hour. The tube
lining and car exterior would be polished
steel, with corrugated sides matching
wheels provided with anti -friction beat-
ings, The speed, owing to the curvature of
the earth's surface, will tend to overcome
all weight, and the pressure will be upon
the upper part of the tube ; thus there is
scarcely any limit to the speed attainable.
Hissed Us All Around.
Sonae little time ago a young lady, who
has been teaching a class of half-grown
girls in the Sunday school of Dr. B.'s
church, was called away from the city,
rendering it necessary to fill her place.
The superintendent, after looking over his
available material for teachers, decided to
request one of the young gentlemen of the
congregation to take the class. It so hap-
pened that the young man upon whom fell
the superintendent's choice was exceedingly
bashful—so much so, in fact, that he in-
sisted upon the superintendent going and
presenting him to the class. Accordingly
the two gentlemen appeared on the little
platform, and the superintendent began:
" Young ladies, I wish to introduce to you
Mr. C., who will in future be your teacher.
I would like to have you tell him what
your former teacher did, so that he can go
right on in the same way. Immediately a
demure miss of 14 years arose and said e
"The Arst thing our teacher always did.
was to kiss us all around."—Anzerican
Magazine.
Tired Young Ladies.
Delicate young ladies, whom often the
least exertion tires, will find that a little
time regularly Eipent in the garden will
have a favorable effect upon them. Devote
, the first part of the morning, or an hour
before sunset, to your garden. Commence
with what seerifs the most pleasant work—
tying a climbing vine against the poreheiut-
ting off the fading flowers, orrakinga flower
bed; but do not tire yourself out in the
beginning; better to work only five min-
utes at a time than bedome fatigued and
diecouraged. With your interest your
strength will inereaeo your drooping spirits
will revive, and tho blush of yont roses W-
eenie reflected upon your Oheeks.
,
' To Mire warts the best thindwas to steal
piece �f beef erom thebutcher,with
the werts ware to be rubbed, after which it
was to be interred, and as the process Of
decomposition went on the warts Would
wither and disappear.
41,1 *PfeENTetic PleVOI
The 'Iiiemeae oF Egeattame BeeliP1 Thee--
ea1148 ofYear Ago T9114641 Into
Medi-
lne,
Among the standard medicines quoted
in the reedicalleooks otNurernburg of two
hundred' yeare ago are" portions of ihe
embalmed bodies of manei flesh, brought
from the neighborhood of Memphis, when
there are many bodies that have 'been
buried for more than one ehousand years,
called murals, which have been embalmed
with costly salves and balsams, and smell
strongly of myrrh, aloe and other fragrant
things." The learned doctors of France,
Germany and Italy all made great use of
this eccentric, drug, and in the seventeenth'
century grievous complaints arose of its
adulteration. Mr. Poinet, chief apothecary
to the lennoli king, records that the king's
physician went to Alexandria to judge for
himself in this matter, and, having made
friends with a Jewish dealer in munaraies,
was adnaitted to his storehouse, where he
saw piles of bodies. He asked what kind
of bodies were used and how they were pre-
pared. The Jew informed him that he took
such bodies as he could get, whether they
died of some disease or of some contagion.
He embalmed them with the sweep-
ings of various old drugs, myrrh, aloes,
pitch and gums wound them about with
a cere cloth and then dried them in an
oven, after whioh he sent them to Europe,
and marvelled to see the Christiens were
lovers of such filthiness. But even this
revelation did not suffice to put mummy
physic out of fashion, and we knew that
Francis I. of France always carried with
him a well-filled medicine chest, of which
this was the principal ingredient. A
traveller also records how one of bis
friends found in the tombs at Ghizeh a jar
carefully sealed, which he opened and
found to contain sable excellent honey that
he could not resist eating a good deal .of it,
and was only checked in his feast by draw-
ing out a hair, whereupon he investigated
further and found the body of an ancient
Egyptian baby in good condition and
adorned with jewels. He does not record
how he enjoyed the meal in retrcspect.
Imagine dining off the honeyed essence of
a baby Plutroah.—Nineteerith Century.
A Dozen Grains of Gold.
We are but curious impertinents in the
care of futurity.—Pope.
All is but lip wisdom which wants ex-
perience.—Sir Philip Sydney.
Life appears to me too short to be spent
in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
—Charlotte Bronte.
Injuries from friends fret and gall more,
and the memory of them is not so easily
obliterated.—Arbuthnot.
The power of fortune is conferred only
by the miserable; the happy impute all
their success to prudence or merit.—Swift.
• I never knew one who made it his busi-
ness to lash the faults of other writers that
was not guilty of greater himself.—Addison.
True glory takes root, and even spreads;
all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the
ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
—Cicero.
There is selfishness even in gratitude
when it is too profuse to be over -thankful
for one favor is in effegt to lay out for
another.—Cumberland.
I would not have children much beaten
for their faults, because I would not have
them think much bodily pain the greatest
punishment. —Locke.
Fame is an undertaker that pays but
little attention to the living, but bedizens
the dead, furnishes out their funeralEi, and
follows them to the grave.—Colton.
A man'ehotild never be ashamed to own„
he has been ,enethee wrong,- which is but
saying in other words that he is .wiser
t6 -day than h'e was yesterday.—Pope.
,The proportion 01 genius to the vulgar is
like one to a mullion; but genius without
tyranny, without pretension, that judees
the weak with equity, the superior with
humanity and equals with justice, is like
one to ten millions.—Lavater.
Differences in Social customs.
Europeans uncover the head as a token
of respect or reverence ; Orientals never
uncover it, and the Turkish Ambassador is
allowed to retain his fez even in the pres-
ence of Her Majesty. In church all men's
heads are bare; in the synagogue it is con-
sidered wrong to remove the hat. In China
to uncover the head is a mark of disrespect.
To salute with the left hand is a deadly
insult to Mohammedans in the East, and
for this reason the native commissioned
officers of our Indian army in giving the
military salute confined it to the sword held
in the right hand, without atthe same time
raising the left hand to the forehead, as in
the ordinary English salute. 'Unlike our
women, who, when they go out, adorn
themselves most carefully, Thibetan women,
when leaving their houses, smear their
faces over with a dark, sticky substance.
It is said that they do so in conapliance
with a law made by a certain Lama, King
Nomekhan, in order to protect their raorals
by making them look ugly when in public.
The Thibetans also put out the tongue as a
sign of respectful salutation, and in similar
contradiction to our own customs the
Malays, Fijians, Tongoais and many other
Polynesians always sit down when speak.
ing te a superior. At Natavulu it is re-
spectful to turn one's back toward a
superior, especially when addressing him,
and among the Wahuma, in Congo and in
Central Africa, the same custom prevails.
The Todas of the Neilgherry Mlle show
respect by raising the open right hand to
the face, and resting the thumb on the
bridge of the nose. By the way of compli-
ment the people of Yddah shake the
clinched fist; the inhabitants of the White
Nilo and Ashantee spit on those they delight
to honor, and some of the Esquinaaux pull
noses.—Loedon Life.
That distinguished Parisienne, Mine, de
eiValeayre, has been petitioning the French
Legislature in favor of the emancipation of
women from petticoats. Her case is that
petticoats an very dangerous, leading tie
innumerable fatal accidents, end that
troeeers arra just as clecent, more healthy,
and far beet eepensive:
. , •
— con inua roue eying a
damaging effect on fruit 'Alla ornamental
trees; the eecent raffia not being odpioes
enough to penetrate to the roots. plenti-
ftd eupply of Water shoidd be fureished by
Moans of it trench Made around the base of
he trees.
PRE or T#F OWs'Pr•O'
eieePlug ea Houses ame Under Tiredgea—*
!Merlin) Dining -1101e.
If the race of Opines is not celebrated for
cleanliness it can eertainly claim the
healthful advantages to be gained from life
in, the ppen says the nutlet. Companion.
The nether of e Our Gipsies" dwells upon
their repugnance to the very idea pi hivixig
in a house. One man, belonging to a wan-
dering tribe, was heard to say, with strong
en:Thule, and apparently with great sin-
eerity "Thank God that e em not com-
pelled to live in the filth and foul air of
towns." A young girl belonging to a gipsy
train was only elaborating the dime feeling
when she declared: "1 should pine away
'and die indoors, emit as a lark would if you
Pet it in e cage. I was born in a tent, I
have lived in a tent, and I hope to die in a.
tent. No one who has a real drop of
Romany blood in him ever yet willingly
took to the life of the house -dweller."
Meeting in London an old umbrella-
raencler, who looked as if he rnight belong
to this race of wanderers, our author ac-
costed him:
" Am I right in supposing you to be a
gipsy?"
Oh, yes, sir, you are quite right," he
replied. I was born under a hedge, and
very nearly the whole of my lifetime I've
slept under one, excepting now ° and then,
and especially the last six weeks, during
which I've slept in a house."
"I'm glad to hear it, because I think
the change you have made in your
sleeping -place is a change in the right
direotion. '
"You may think so," said the man,
rather superciliously, "but we differ in our
opinions on that point. I likes thq hedge a
great deal better than I likes the. house;
aye, that I do, however."
"What are your reasons for what seems
to me a strange preference ?" •• .
" I have two I can give you for that," he
said, very emphatically. " Now, sir, listen
to me. You see, sir, when you sleeps in a
house you don't always know who you
sleeps after, and that is what I don'tlike at
alt; but if you sleeps under a hedge you do
know its clean, and there's no danger of
being teased out of your life by the company
of bed -fellows which are much too lively to
be agreeable."
Another gipsy authority quotes a discus-
sion on the same subject by two old women
of a wandering tribe. Both .were sun.
bronzed and both wore coral ear -rings, and
their sun -bonnets were back side in front.
One was seated in a barrow; the other was
squatted on a evhisp of hay -bands by the
side of a recumbentdonkey, Whose four legs
hedged her in. She had utilized the flanks
of the docile creature to serve as k. dinner.
table. Bread and butter was spread on
and about a quarter of a peck.".of turnip
radishes. There was a bald, shiny patch
on the donkey's hip, set round with hair,
and this was made to contain salt. Every
time his mistress dipped araddish into this
extemporized salt -cellar, and proceeded to
" scrunch" it there was an expression in
the animal's half closed eyes that betrayed
his consciousness of her enjoyment and the
satisfaction it afforded him.
"And how's Cooper a-doin' since he gave
up the wan and took to the house?" asked
the woman in the wheelbarrow.
"He's growin' wus and wus," replied her
friend, with a grim serve-him.right.too ex-
pression in her beady eyes. "He was
right enough on wheels. Why didn't he
stay on 'ern?"
"Ah, to be sure! I know what I should
expect would shortly happen to me if once
I trusted myself atween lath and plaster."
"But it ain't the laths, and it ain't the
bricks, my dear," rejoined her friend. "It's
summit in the mortar that works its way
into your cistern, and that's what'll bun.
nick old Cooper up, you mark my words."
So, though the. word " system " is not
always considered as interchangeable with
"cistern," it is evident that the gipsy has
an original theory of diseases.
A Tale of a Hand -Organ.
Speaking of hand -organs, an Italian sat
in the gutter up in Ellicott street, Buffalo,
yesterday morning over a wrecked instru-
ment. He seemed Mozart broken and
clutched the Handel fiercely. Some one
came along and threw a stone at it, and it
Gottschalk'd so that it was all out of tune.
The man went off in a Wagner something.
"Verdi go?" asked a sympathizing Ger-
man. No one knew. "We'll never Litz
to any more music out o' that," said
another. "You may as well be Chopin it
up into leindlin' wood," said another. "Oh,
he can Mendelssohn's he gets home," said
the corner grocer, whereupon the gentle-
men all went Bach to their respective
houses, and the Italian trudged away.
Japan possesses a professional humorist
named Iwku. His name, at least, islixnny.
Coaches were introduced in Elizabeth's
reign. This occasioned it sudden demand
for horses. The House of Lords rushed to
the rescue, and gravely debated vvhether
the supply of horses was to be brought up
to the new coaches or the supply of coachea
brought down to the horses. A Bill re-
straining the excessive use of coaches was
lost on the second reading. James I. liked
hawking and hunting, and wrote a treatise
on the theory of horsemanship. 'In prac-
tice there is reason to believe that His
Majesty was rather a flanker. Although of
a frugal mind James gave 500 guineas to
Mr. Markham for an Arabian, "Et little bay
horse, not well shaped," which Was easily
beaten, according to the Duke of Newcastle,
by moderate English borses. In this reign
speedy animals appear to have beent bred at
a sacrifice of substance.
A clergyman, the vicar of Pitsmoor, has,
been speaking on tho modes of marriage in
and nese Sheffield. He states that peop/o
are there married in batches; that the
bridegrooms almost invariably get the
ringe too small, and heve at times to lick
the lady's delicate fitiger tie induce the
stubborn ring to move on. It seetne to be
no uncoil -linen thing to And that the ring is
the diffioulty, through its presence or
absence. "Then, again," says the victtr,
" when they come to thet important part
of the marriage Bervite where the minister
asks the inan if be will hit e e this woman to
be his wedded wife, the Man will not un.
frequently turn to the woman and Bay,
'Wilt tha black my beets?" and 'the woman,
will invariably say, '1 will ;" and the man
then rejoins, 't'ot , tha's said it,' and he
holde her to her wora. Such are Vbricshire
maniere.' —Manekester Courier.
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