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The railroads hi the United Statesgive
Craoked ice. work to 630;000 people;
BY ElazeSEa'II P. ALLEN* Maniteo, Mich., has an orchestra eompon-
, a I n ou women
What does make mothers so ac ry, ecl of tcurtee iy n
"• Martin fretfully,
A four -inch dead smooth file has 864 teeth
.
old t3enn
swinging hie new akatea, hauls Ben'a lest
wonder; a d Y
Chriettnee present, while a small thunder
cloud settled on his round face.
"I onoe knewja little boy," timid mamma,
while theewin mine went whirring op,
"who who said his tnacctherwas too scary about
an old dead limb'; he went out on it and got
his co11ar-bong, broken; did you ever hear
of him, Benny 7'
Bennydid not answer, but the aloud lifted
a little
"I once knew a little ° boy," said mother
again atopping her wheel to pull out the
basting threads, "who thought ilia mamma
was scary because she said the water In the
creek was to, •old for him to go bathing;
he went in, nd liked to have died with
cramps ; • : u ever hear of him Benny 7'
$y this time there was a bit of a smile on
Benny's face,
" Yon needn't go on," he said r, "I know
the rest, about the plum-oake, and Mr, Barn
lett's kicking mule, and all that ; Lilt I
don't see what those times have to do with
New Year'. Day and the long pond."
Mamma was buzzing along so fast., wind•
ing a bobin, that she could not answer right
away ;; presently she said, as if she was done
talking' about the subject now, "The ice is
cracked, Benny, and no boy is safe on crack-
ed ice."
Benny nuderetood this tone to mean
"Enough said ;" and being really an obedi-
ent, good.tampered boy, though he failed
sometimes., he strapped his shining skates
across his shoulder, kneed his busy mother
good -by, and started off for the mill•raoe,
which was not cracked, and not deep
enough to hurt him if he should break
through.
He had hardly left the room before mam-
ma remembered that she must caution him
about not staying too late, and running to a
front window she throw up the sash and
put her head out. Benny was standing at
the gate talking to George Burbank, and as
the little front yard was very narrow Mrs.
Martin could hoar through the atilt frosty air
what the boys were saying.
" What are yon going to that stupid old
mill -race for Y' asked George, whose fade
was set toward the mill -pond.
There was silence for two seconds ; Mrs.
Martin could nottee Benny's face, but
mothers' wita are sharp about boys, and
Mrs. Martin felt what made Benny hesitate;
he didn't want to say : " Mother won't let
mQ.'
y did not say that. "Oh, there is
aggoh a orowd there," was his answer to
George's question.
"Humph!" said George ;;'•Where did you
et to be afraid of a orowd ? and then the
boys went their separate way.
Mrs. Martin closed the window and went
bask to her work, too much disturbed about
her little boy's nncandid speech to remem-
ber that she had failed to tell him about
ooming homely.
Bat Benn}Js'-'c'anscienoe had had a good
training about *'the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, and hills answer
to George kept buzzing along in his mind
all the way to the mill -race even the new
skates did not make him forget that he had
Bald what was not honestly true.
Presently George Burbank and a crowd
of other boys joined him on the mill >race,
" Ho," said George, "we've come to crowd
yon here, Ben ; the ice is smashed over on
the pond, and lot's of the fellows fell in ; they
were all big fellows, though, and got out
agar."
Benny shot. to the bank where the boys
were :strapping ion their skates and sat
down. He felt somehow as If he had jest
had his life saved, and nothing makes people
so honest as to come face to face with death.
"Well, I'll jest tell you, George," he said
slowly, "the real reason that I didn't go to
the pond ; I don't know why I didn't tell
yon at first. Mother knew that the ice was
cracked, and she wouldn't let me go."
"You don't say 1" exclaimed George;
"why in the name of sense didn't you tell
me? I wouldn't have gone on the ice for a
pretty `good sum if I had known it was
cracked.
Ben felt :more ashamed of himself than
ever, but was -more comfortable, neverthe-
less, at having owned up.
They had fine sport an the millrace, and
Benny went home tired and happy. In-
deed hie mother did not at firat like to see
hie face so bright, her own was so grave and
sad.
"Well, mus," he said gayly, "I've had a
jolly time, andit's well you didn't let me
go to the pond, for they had a smash-up
there."
"But Pm afraid my boy has been en
oracked ice, too, this afternoon," acid Mrs,
Martin, sadly.
"Ma'am Y' Benny oould not understand.
"When a boy.ogivea a wrong reason in
place of aright one, son, he is one. danger-
due footing—as dangerous as cracked lee."
"But,' mother," Benny said, eagerly, un-
derstanding now what she meant, "I mend-
ed that crack."
And when Mrs. Martin heard the whole
story her heart grew light again, and she
was almost as gay as if she had been skat
bag all evening on the mill -race.
In Papa's Boots.
BY ILL. CHARLES.
It was winter, and the snow was very
deep where little Katie lived. She did not
like winter, . she wanted to run and play
out of do Oao day she asked bor mam-
mal() let h go out and play in the snow.
"Why Kat ; yon would freeze," said her
mamma
"Papa goes out in the snow, and he doesn't
keels," said Katie
"But papa is larger than my little girl.
Besides, he dresses warmer. Yon know
what large rubber boots he wears when he
goer out in the snow,"
Katie said no more ; but the next day she
found the big boots in the hall, where her
papa had left them. A large coat and fur
cap were hanging there, too.
r.rv, pretty poen Katie'e mamma heard sonic
one Drying. She thought it sounded like
the voice of her little girl. She began to
search for her ; bat she was not to be found
anywhere in the hem. Then she went to
the door. There stood Katie, a few steps
from the house, in the deep snow.
She had on the big boots and the coat and
asp. They were so large and heavy that
she had got etnok fast in the snow, and
could neither go nor come back.
" I don't want to play in the snow any
more, she sobbed, ea her mamma took hoc'
into the house.
She is now willing to wait until the sun
shall melt the avow away,
A Tallahassee, Fia,, despatchsays : Sarah
MoDaniele, a colored woman living on M.
Fish's plantation,lone mild west of that city,
has become the mother during het lifetime
to forty-two children, She is now arobust,
saltily looking -woman,
to the face, or 216 to the InoI .
" A man never bees anything by polite
mese," How about his seat in a street oar ?
For the first time in its history the Dateli•
ems county (N. Y,) jail has not a prisoner
in it.
Buckles of brass of the modern form are
found buried in the prohlatorlq mounds of
England.
Judge Travis le meeting a fine two story
stone residence in Calgary. he appears to
intend to stay there,
There bas been more snow this winter in
London than for fourteen years, and there
is great distress in consequence.
It is said that Shanghai shipped to this
continent last year not less than. 500,000
pounds of willow leaven disguised as tea.
The value of the contents of a barrel of
crude petroleum ranges from 86 cents to $1,
while the value of the barrel itself is $2 50.
At St. Helena, California, a few days ago,
several thousand gallons of ten-year old
California wine sold for three oenta a gallon.
In Paris it costs $3 to cremate a body, and
this includes coal and labor with an urn
thrown in. In Milan the cost is only $1,40,
bat they give no urn or chrome.
A druggist at Louisville advertised his
store as a " free warming place" for the
public during the very severe weather of a
few days ago.
Statiatioe of last year's shooting in the
orisons show that the chamois are increasing
rather than diminishing In that part of
Switzerland.
Angus, Iowa, could not rest until It was
incorporated as a city ; but the city govern-
ment costs so mach that the citizens aro
petitioning to have the city charter revoked.
A silver box, shut at a wedding in Hart-
ford, Conn, the other day, is to be kept nn -
der neat, like that of Pandora, till the time
for the silver anniversary, twenty-five years
hence
School teacher Brink, of Niles, Iowa, will
be tried for manslaughter. He whipped a
12 -year-old ohild so severely that it is snort-
ed the child died from the effects of the
punishment.
Mrs. W. P. Miller, of Buohanan, Mich., is
the fond mother of six children who were
all born within the past thirty-four months.
They came two at a time, and all bat one
are alive and thriving.
.A newspaper of Beloit, Kennett, says that
in Clark county during a recent snow storm
a large flock of sheep crowded close together,
and the snow, melting for a while and then
freezing, fastened the entire flock together.
George Leib, a colored carpenter of Sa-
vannah, Ga , fell backward from a third
story scaffolding the other day, turned a
complete somersault, struck sgnsrely on We
feet, looked around to see if any one was
hurt, and quietly climbed back to his work.
Capt. Tom Gregory of Winohester, Tenn.,
has a unique pair of gloves. They were made
by Miss Nannie Phillips, who snared a lot
of rabbits, carded and spun their fur as if it
were wool, and °from the yarn knit the
gloves. She decorated the back of each
glove with the ear of a full grown rabbit.
Fifteen years ago Mr. Joseph Arch was a
farm laborer supporting his family on $4
weekly wages, and he is now a member of
Parliament. lie is what is commonly call-
ed a self-made man, but as his wife taught
him to read and write he may be consider
ed a creditable specimen of domestic mann.
facture.
A runaway team in St. Paul dasbe 1 into
a funeral 'proemial, just'miseing the car-
riage oontainihe pall bearers, and strik-
ing the hearse squarely. The driver was
thrown to the ground, the hearse overturn.
ed, its glass sides shattered, and the coffin
turned upside down. One of the runaway
horses wae killed and his mate knookod
Boneless.
Wyoming hunters are excited over re-
ports that oomo from the head waters of
Snake River of a band of fifty head of white,
or snow eik. Hitherto there have been
traditions of snow elk, in which they are
described as being as white as the snow,
from which they get their name, and larger
and awifter than the common elk. Now and
then one has been seen, but never a herd.
Moody and Sankey are a revelation to
New Orleans, and the effocttbey are having
fa remarkable, One'Senday they held seven
servioea and addressed 10,000 different
persons, : Over 600 attended their inquiry
meeting°, of vellum, the Tmea-.Democrat
says, " it is carefully estimated over 300
oonfessed Carlin, Such an interest in re
listione exereiees was never before seen in
New Orleans,"
In a slugging lnateh between Jack Mc-
Gee and Tom MoM+xone, in 13 neon, the
other evening, MaGee knocked his man out
by a blow whish is deeorlbed as novel and
surprfeing to all the sporting- men present.
Mot,lee faced hie opponent and "f turned to
the right like a flash, pivoting completely
around, gaining in force as he revolved,'
until he naught McManus on the ,j sw and
dropped hien, McGee says Jack Stewart of
Glasgow taught him the blow.
There having been two or three runaways
of unhitched horses in Chicago recently, the
polka were ordered to " bring in" every rig
found in the ornate where the horse was
leit alone or unhitched, The new order
went into effect the other day, and over fifty
buggies, cabs, wagons, and drays were
driven to a livery stable where their owners
found them and redeemed them by the pay-
ment
ayment of half a dollar each, Lots of.profanity
followed the enforcement of this ordinance,
There Ie now living on the Piedmont
toad, near Charleston, W. Via, an old col-
ored woman named Clara Brown, who is
perhaps the oldest colored woman in West
Virginia, Of course, she well n members
seeing General Washington. It was in
Richmond that she met the Father of his
Country. She says he entered tho kitchen
of the hotel where she was and spnhekindly
to the cooks. She says eke is 122 years of
age.
The population of London now exceeds
every other city, ancient or modern, ;.0 the
world. New York and all its adj scent
cities combined are not equal to two thirds
of it. Scotland, Swi'zerland, and the Aus-
tralian colonies each contains fewer smile,
while Norway, Servile Greece, and Dan -
mask have scarcely half so many. Yet et
the beginning of the present century the
population of all London did not reach one
million.
The German Minister -of War has given
ordera for a number of dogs to be trained
with a view of testing the value of the ser-
vices they might render to sentinels engaged
in keeping guard during the night. .It le
fully believed that by tue help of these sa-
ga:none animals outposts would be far less
liable to snrpriee, and that the dogs would
always give notice of the approach of the
enemy much earlier' than it could be detect-
ed by the sentinels without such asaietance
A year or so ago James Hawkins, a re-
epected colored man of Denver, with his
wife, went to the opera house owned by e
Senator Tabot, and handed the ticket ea
t-wo first-class tickets, He weal told
he could not ecoupy the Beate called tor
the tickets, and the money for the tick
was offered to him. He refused to ace
It, and brought suit tor damages against
ex -Senator. A jury brought in a ver
awarding Hawkins $1 damages and
prion of two tickets, $4 in ail.
The English steamer South Cambria
brought from the bottom of the sea an int
eating rel.o of the American War. • R
Hing short of coal, ebe was compelled to
into the harbor of Newport News. As
crew were hauling up the anchor, they fo
the bowsprit of a war vessel attached to
The spot where the South Cambria v
lying was exactly where the great naval d
took place between the war vessels Congr
and Merrimac, in which the former
sunk. This was in 1862, and the bowsp
brought to the surface as supposed to be t
of the Congress.
Since the death of her husband M
Thomis A. Hendricks has been considers
annoyed by letters and oommunioatio
purporting to be from Mr. ) endricks whl
have been sent to her by Spiritualists. 0
of them pretended to be an autograph lett
written by the dead Vice -President in t
spirit land. Mrs Hendricks is reported
saying that this was a very close imitati
of her husband's handwriting, but that s
could easily detect its spuriousness. I
not believe insuch tthings," she . says, '
donot see that any good can come fro
encouraging them, That they do not con
from Mr. Hendricks is'iclear to my min,
for the sentiments of none of the oemmue
cations are expressed in lenguage'ouch OD 1
would have need. They bear on their tai
the impress of an inferior mind, are inferi,
to bis while alive, and certainly inferior no
if the spirit land, as I believe, elevates a
ennobles the sentiments a and epiratione t
the soul."
TUE IiIJ.]TING LEOPARD,
A SINGULAIt K zzn OE Sr.= WHICH Is
PItALTIQED IDT Tits JUNGLE,
1 thick 1t was hore,writea a correspond-
entt to Our 'Indian Stations that
en , wt• i
nessed the only instance 1 ever saw of the
black buck being run' into and killed by
the cheetah, or, hunting leopard, Mane
consider this a low kind of sport, but 1
think it quite equal to partridge shooting,
besides being a'boautiful sight. I shall,
therefore, describe as well as I can what
I saw. Or arriving with ray friends at the
place of meeting in the jungle we found
a few rough' and-roady looking natives in
charge of three carts, or rather small two•
wheeled platforms drawn by bullooks.
Oar each vehicle sat, in an erect attitude,
a beautiful leopard, strongly chained, and
wibh a hood over bis eyes, steelier to those
uaed for hawks. We were soon under
way and driving toward the herd of ante-
lopes which could ba seen grazing in the
distance and which had been marked down.
beforehand. There was no difficulty in
getting the carts to within 120 yards of
the deer. Then one of the cheetah, a
fine male was unhooded and set free. Its
departure from the gharry and its decision
in choosing the most covered line in the
open plain for ruahing ou hat rey were so
instantaneous and rapid as to be quibe
marvelous. It seemed to vanish from the
carb and appear simultaneonsty half -way
toward tho fine black buck it had aingled
out for attack. When at about thirty
yards from the uusuepicious troop they
suddenly became aware of the deadly
peril they were in. One and all sprang
into the air with galvanic bounds, and no
doubt expected to escape easily by flight
but the hunting cheetah le, I suppose, for
a hundred yards, by far the fleetest of all
wingless things ; and this one wan soon in
the midst of the affrighted throng, which
scattered wildly and panic stricken in all
directions as their leader—a fine black
buck -was struck down in their midst.
There he lay, alone, in his death agony,
in the clutch of hie in
and relent-
lese foe. We ran as hard as we could,
and were soon surrounding the strange
group.
Neither animal moved, for the buck
was paralyzed with fear—his starting eye
balls and dilated nostrils alone gave evi-
dence of life. The cheetah, on the other
hand, with his body agreed out over the
prostrate form of his victim, seemed to
strain every nerve impressing his prey
against the earth aa, with his long, sharp
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how the cheetah had been able so instau- THE Liu KILN QLUB.
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animalimmediately on gobbing Up with ib As the mooting opened Brother Gardner
I at onoe observed a single, long, deep annnunced that the ]dun. Standof# i'i'
bite,
gash n the flank, which was evident of Montgomery, Ala,, was to the auto room.
csueed by the decisive blow. Brit I could
not imagine with what weapon the leopard
had been able to inflict thle very etrange,
looking wound, for the cheetah has a foot
like a dog and his claws are not retractile,
Terning thcch„ to the heaet as it sat on the
cart, 1'inspeotod ib olosely and saw that
the dein-olaw,which in the dog appears,
such a useless; appendage, is represented
in this brute by a terrible looking talon
exactly suited to the infliction of such a
gash. a _
THE (KEEN t3 Ninon&
MEN WHO FOUND FAvoR, IN TETE Ens of
VIoTJxIA.
The P
splendid pageant of the opening of
P
Parliament and the passing of the Qaeen
instate from Beckingham Palace to the
House of Lords, nacelle theday, as men
look on her, in her Mary Stuart mourning,
when she traveled that same route as a
happy young bride. Victoria, like all
other girls, had some lovers before the
lucky one came. Her first was the late
Lord E!phinstone, a tall, singularly
handsome young Seottiah peer, who was
sent to Madras as Governor to gat hint
out of the way. Her next was Lord
Fitzellan, another six-footer, a splendid
young officer of the Firat Life Guards,
grandson of the thou Duke of Norfolk,
and afterwards' Duke of Norfolk himself ;
bub he was a Roman Catholic—a fatal
objection. Fitzallan fell passionately in
love with a pretty bar -maid, who ad-
ministered beer at a tap opposite the
Horne Guards, and wished to marry her.
His family sent him abroad to get ever
his young passion, and, . falling a at
Athens, he married the daughter of
Admiral Lyons, British :Minister there,
and sister of Lord Lyons, :remember -ed' se
Minister ab Washington, who had attend-
ed him through his sickness, and who is
still living as Dowager Duchess. Her
third lover was Lord Alfred Paget, one
of the Marquis of Anglesey's splendid
sons, an officer of "the Blues," standing
about six feet two, who is the father of
Capt. Paget, married to our Minnie
Stevens, and who was then her equerry -
in -chief, and has continued' as equerry
ever since.
:Che diatinguiehed gentleman Was on hie
way to Chicago to see ilia dying sister, and
bad taken advantage of the occasion to stop
over three or four days and make himself
acquainted with members of the Lime -Klin
Club. He had a little address whish he de-
ired to deliver. It was entitled : " Do We
Realize Where We Were and Where We
,ire Now 1' If there were no objections the
addresser would be brought in.
Whalebone Howker arose, not to object
exactly
but to enquire if the Hon. Stand-
off lied 'brought any crodentials with him.
flow did the club know but that he was a
base impeder t
"Bruddor Howker 1" sharply replied the
President, "do you ems ine dot T would take
a pueson into mowu cabinan' loan him a
clean shirt an' purvide him wid a pipe an'
terbaoker, if I did not know dat he was all
right 1"
"N•no, sat."
"D, n yon kerflo -'. erself down into your
speer, an' de less we h'ar of .you far de next
two weeks de better it will be fur all kande
round 1"
This love affair was regarded as EO
dangerous that King Leopold of Belgium,
the Queen's uncle, brother of her mother,
the Daohesa of Kent, was sent for. The
result was that Prince Albert was sent
for next. Albert was at that time a nom -
teens, chaste, quiet, mild, bland, accom-
plished prince, but here and there a keen
obsorvermight have detected on his round,
full face a flash, and in his manner a
flutter which bespoke the agitation that
swelled the heart beneath. Over the
chimney piece, too, of his student chamber,
there hung one of Chalon's exquisite
drawings of Victoria which, thougn too
flatteringly graceful and airy even then,
still when surrounded with the intereat
:which of itself lent beauty to a young girl
placed In such a position, gave a fairer idea
of her than would be imagined in her pre-
sent grosser figure and highly colored face,
as presented in the most correct and de-
lightful pictures of court life, by Adam Ba -
dean Albert. though little noticed, had been
present at Victoria's coronation scene, a
silent but not, we fancy, uninterested
spectator. 'When Victoria was seated on
Prince Edward's throne and the shout
which proclaimed the girl he was educated
to look on as his wife, Queen of that
empire on which the aura never sets, rang
along the roof of the good old Abbey, and
was borne on the boom of guns down to
the City Tower, he must have felt some
emotion ; and when Elie tripped over with
agile grace, to lift up old Lord Rollie, who
had - tumbled, may we not faacy that
emotion grew into some softer feeling.
That evening, too, when, on her return,
the women wept, as Greville tells us, be-
. she feared to be a queen, Albert
may have been near. A woman's tears.
are at all times touching. At such mo-
ments a life of happiness or unhappineae,
as the case may be, is often built. Be
this as it may, queens are not allowed to
possess or at least indulge the feelings of
other folk, and the news men for once
did not, a few days after, convert a yawn
-into a sigh or gild a smile with sentiment.
THE HON. STABBOFr.
The distinguished stranger was then welt-
ered in. He appeared to be a person about
six feet high, lame in the left` leg, of aan-
guine temperament, and to be possessed of
great presence of mind, . ide bowed, right
and left, smiling liko a tickled baby, and
begun
HIS ADDRESS
By saying :
"Nobody knows how good it makes me
feel to elan in de shelter of dis famous ole
Paradise Hall an' look down upon de 200
faooe turned np to de shingles. If my stater
hadn't taken a noehun to die, an' if I hadn't
got a,half fare ticket to come die way, I
might nebber heir sot eyes on dis famous ag-
gregation of wisdom, prudence an'. progre•>
shun, [Cheers.]
"Whir' war de cull'd people of dis kentry
twenty y'ar ago ? Let your memories run
back to de close of de war. We war' men
in stator, but chil'en in intelleok. On de day
dat peace was declar'd had you put ma
down in Cincinnati wid a $20 bill : in my
pocket I should hev bin helpless. Your wise
President here couldn't hev told whether a,„
shotgun loaded` from in front or behind.
Had you asked Sir Isaac Walpole who Shale •
speare was he would heir crawled under de,
bed in oonfashun. Trustee Pullback had de;
' Pilgrim's Progress' all mixed : up wid de
'Pirate's Promenade.' Waydown Bebee
didn't know whether the Onlo Riber empti-
ed into de Mississippi or Salt Creek. [Great
applause. ]
" We war' ohiil'en In feelin' an' ackahune
Da tones of de fiddle war' mo' to us den dar,
de voice of Progress am now. If we had
hoe -cake an' baoonwe war' content to let de
rest of de world hev poetry, science, art an'
wealth. Oar • roligun might hev bin all
right, but de rest of us war' all ;wrong. In
cur ignorance, de sun riz on de plantashun to
de east of us an' sot Inde one to de, west.
De world was composed of about fo' Staita,
an' all de knowledge an' wisdom was sup-
posed to be carried ander de hats of a dozen
white men." [Agitation ]
" Now, fur whar' we are. Take de finest
ile paintin' in de land an' walk into any
barbar shop in de kentry an' you'll find men
to criticise it. Dey'll pint out de fack dal
de foreground has skipped a cog, or dat de
perspective oorkeorews too much. Dey'll
light down on a bad sky like a hawk on a
chicken, an' you kin trust 'em to diekiber
anything wrong wid a waterfall or a side
hill. [Cheers.]
Well, at all events, when Leopold sent
for Albert, quick and with luggage light
as a young Canadian starting for Mani-
toba, the appointed youth booked himselfin the small steamer which staggers be-
tween Ostend and Dover. Tho affair was
very quietly managed by Leopold. In
the Court Circle column the Prince's
name found rather a mean and minioned
place. and as the Prince and Qaeen went
out the evening after his arrival for a
saunter in the woods, their stroll was un-
observed except by the select few who
were in the secret. But Victoria's maid,
Rosalie --a kind, mischievous, merry little
elf from Longenachwalbaoh, and, who was
more excited that evening than Victoria
herself -prattled, for a little gulden, to
the court news man of how Albert's meek
eyes, when they returned, were radiant
with joy, Victoria looked slightly flashed,
and wore in her girdle a small flower -the
flower of a dove which, through all the
darkness of widowhood, has never lost its
freehnees—and her straw cottage hat was
crushed back in front. Perchance she
caught a branch -perchance some sweeter
pressure—about which I think there aro
some : lovely, young brides in Canada
could tell. Be thb as 11 may, the club
man calling, the next morning, for his tea
and toast and 'Pines was startled by the
announcement that "' Her.Majeate was
about to lead to the hymeneal altar his
Royal Highness Prince Albert of Gotha
and Saxe-Coburg—•and thus Victoria was
wooed and won.
Sam Smell,' the converted Chicago jour-
nalist, who is etiring up Chioago prepare.
tory to Sam Jonoa'e advent, is described as a
plainly -droned, tall, elendor young pian.
Behind his gold•bowed eyeglasses are etnall
eyes, and above his heavy sandy moustache
le a rather long thin nose. His forehead,
high and narrow, ie surmounted by very
carefully smoothed dark hail;. He looke
rather commonplace, but when he speaks
ho at ones sheave strength, The Herald
says : "Hie voice possesses that subtle, trem-
ulous quality which makes mon listen. It
ie a voice which invests the merest common,
place with interest."
" White men who come to us an' Iook
wise an' talk about de sciences am astonish-
ed to find dat dey am barktn' up de wrong
tree. We has got dar 1 Sewer gas keeps
jest as fur away from de cabin of de blank
man as from de palace of the white. De
science of government am discussed ober
our dinner -pails as often as in de halls of
legislashun. Neteral philosophy has to .
keep dodgin' to get out o' our way, . [Pro-
longed applause,], De cull'd race was a
long way back when de last gun was fired,
but dey has bin tzabblln' on a run eber
since,
'" I should like to talk to yon fur twig
hours,` (cheers) but de oocashun am not pro-
pitious. If anybody among yon has any
doubts dat our race has not passed de three-
quarter pole let him sot out and ,trabble a
few miles. I shall now pees on to see my
dyin' sister, and I shall , always remember
din event wid de moas' malignant pleasure.
In wishin' yon farewell, permit me to use
de words of Socrates to de Egyptians
` Grum dig Solis.' "
PENSTOCK TRIZS A SHOT.
Giveadam Jonas moved that a vote of
thanks and the freedom of the city be tender-
ed to the orator, and added that he hadn't
herd anything do him so mach good since
water melons went out of market.
"I hope dat moshnn will not prevail,"
said the. Rev. Penstock, as he bobbed up.
"I claim dat de greater part of dat speech
was stolen bodily from one I delivered in
Richmond six y'ars ago 1"
"It doan' seem possible," repliedithe Presi-
dent.
"But I am snail of it, Bala. I worked fur
three weeks on dat speech, an' I 'remember
atmos` ebery word of it."
On motion of Waydown Bebee a com-
mittee of two went out to find the Hon.
Standoff and bring him in to face the music,
but he had gond. Also, Elder Raffle's plug
hat, Samuel Shin's overcoat and a lantern
belonging to Antimony Johnson.
ACQUITTED,
Sir. Steven Bulwark then called np the
case of Prof, Pompadour. Some weeks since
the Professor was charged by a white man
with stealing a wheelbarrow, and the charge
was given to the Interior Department to in-
vestigate, Sir Sieven would like to inquire
why the committee had not reported. The
Chairman replied that he was waiting for an
opportunity to report that the white man
had found his wheelbarrow two days after
making arge,:
"wharhis waechit found Y" asked the Presi-
dent,
''In do alley in rear of his hones. It was
brought back in de night."
"1 see. Purfeseor de charge again' you
am dismissed, an' you titan' fo'th an Innocent
as a lamb, Nobody saw yon return de wheel-
barrow, an' dar am no 'oaahun fur you to
ginyoreelf away."
A TEST,
The Librarian reported that the stove in
the Library was in each condition that ho
dare not keep a fire in it any longer, and he
asked for an appropriation of $6 to purobase
it new one.
"De matter will be laid on de table fur de
present," replied Brother Gardner. "It ane
a good time now to make a test an' diekiber
whether thirty or forty members orowd into
de Library each night Inc de purpose of en
riohiu' doir minds or of toaetlpn' deir shine,
Do Librarian will report any fallin'' off in
numbers, Any unfinished bizneea will now
be packed up an' put what' de rate can t
eat it, an' We. will infringe towards our
homes."