Lucknow Sentinel, 1888-08-03, Page 2,
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THE ,DokinE ONTINForg,
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ilha34031! 'Prave1s and LahoreIn the Cense
Berl_ewed--The idissiorari and Ins
Work -What the Whole Amounts to.
' Piles °obi° gitra the following letter
from Richard I'. Button: I da not despair
of 8tanleY, even if. the Mysterious .white
psalm of the Behr-el-Ghelzek shOuld; terir
out to briErain, whi*isprolrithle. Stanley
• is an artist in the norprisee,', catastrephe
and propertieent auroras, ap`well as mita
denonement sni j inlid, sort.of a
,geogtaphical Barden. andwhen the world boarder' to do she mention° e
ont its oambrio handkerchief he will fterward to her husbena an got him to
Probably opine, up rimilmg and ask" What ,
.thadence is the *Ater?". I am a great
admirer of Stanley. He is simply the
prince -of 'Africatrenolorette Of 'this day or of.
any day. But air on administrator I -.rank
him es, below par; ana 1?est proof
of thie thet .of all the." -new. stations
he had founded op. the • Congo, at -5
cruel expense and waste • of life. and
labor, as.well.- es of gold; there is hardly
. one that ,has not been alrandoned, and left
to fall in un.. On, the ,present ncoasion
kkia Objedts Web the retione of
Brain, Paslia;vhb diStinitly and de-
terminedly declined cto be rescued, but
Stanley's real object vies' totdiaert the 'ivory
;trade from the long and expensive Zanzibar
lineto the cheap and safe waterway of the
,Congo. The idea- is, excellent. By this
means Belgium. reooups the nrillions wasted
• upon -expeditions and stations.. Zanzibar,
oleo; under the unprejudiced annexationist%
Onr cousins -German, can .have the sole
prodt of the slave exportation.; nor Would
• a' Teuton of them all raise a hand against
.wliat Win& grist to their mills. •Stanley
• has thus; by one touch of hie magic wand,
converted the Congo Pree State,,the happy
• hunting ground otTippoo Tib and his merry
Men -absurdly ` named Arabs--
- inteaCCrigo Slave State par exeellence. The
great sieve mines are now ttansferted from
thelJnyamwezi coontry, the old Monntains
a the Moon,'to the upper -Congo. . These
fresh diggings Teruel's .to be ...exploited.
Tipppo Tib is, made Governor (God save
the mark!) of those new slavereserves at a
' salary of Z800 a year, where he con eaeily
• make £30,000 a year, and. where 'his fol.
• lowers are pretty sure to shoot him it he
• .. talks any nonsense' glad the abolition. of
shivery.- You must not expect to hear any
diVi5klittatlifrielnergiongivimPereA9.4.
ustasiogfa.).statvolimmOT,
811X, MEI/ X•olirm.
night Save Demi Savi?d rine Nen. PO
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They Were Afraid to Cot Her Hewn.
A. New York despatoh sari ; TdissAnnie
Stillwell, a boarder at thehense of Cherles
jOhneon, on, Carpenter street, in Camden,
committed suicide yriterday, but be
Might have lived to, .die a. natutal death
d three Men hid &One as they ;ought and
not have. ltad silly ecruples. , Yeeterday
gft.ernoon Mre.,johnson SSW albs
StUlweU
come in and go urhstairs. early in thedny:
As this wad an minimal thing for . her
go to Miss Stillwell's reom .to 808 11 e
was sick. Mr, johnson is an invalid hina-
Belf, and A was may with . great -effort he
climbed the stairs. He knoaked and
knocked but received no. response, and
es• he watt too weak himself to 'break
_the deer, milled over to Joseph
'Butcher; who was at werk ' on the
next honee; to come in and help him.
Mr. Butcher came and buret 'in the door,
and thetvio men were bortified to see Mee
Stillwell hanging by, a rope around her
tdok, Oppirently dead. Neither Of the men
would touolrher,' so- they' calle,d in Isaac
Lovett and stoked him to out het down, but
he wouldn't because,like the other Men, he
believedno one right to tench . a
suicidebut the coroner. • They sent for Dr.
Beale, who cut the 'rope and found the
woman just dying. • He endeavored to re-
vive her, but idle died. soon and then the
three men were sorry they had not out her
down when they discovered her, ati her life
could. have been saved.' Mies Stillwell was
in her nightdresti, and near her was found
a note Flaying :
Dear have no home, May
God have mercy on my soul 1 Dear cousin,
forgive me, for jesna sake! Mother,
brother and sisters forgive 1 ' Oh 1 •I ask
all to forgive nae -that I have ever_wrongede
THE igHHITHIEP HEAP.
Some who Wathed Albout-Two. Thousand
Yvan Aso. _
he dead of ancient Egypt are exhibiting
in. the Egyptian the• Tieuilon
New?, and it is a curious, nieureful ePeeta-
ole.; Mr. Flinders Petrie has, been digging
at 'Revlon, in the •Fayonrol. and 'half
brought his mortaary spoils to Angland.
The most remarkable thing in 'Aliegallery
an assortment of ..Egyptian pettraitel,
Painted. in wax. At a late period, after the
Roman annexation of Egypt, it became
usual to Arc the portrait of the dead on the
outside of the rannimy case. . Some twenty
or more Of these effigies are here, and
visitors will be eurprised by the vivid
deleting, the life -like; Modern ;Mr. Here
are beautiful woinen with large, dark eyes
here are men in the prime a lite, virith the
characteristic hard Roman face. 'Here,
above tiny mummies, are :touching por-
traits of little . girls, dead in their sixth
winter, • like the , child Erotion,
whom Martial, so tenderly. lam'ents.
One portrait of Arternidorus opresents
a liandeeme yeung man with.a gilded
laurel croWn-he may have been, a poet,
and ,may have centributed to .the,' An-
thology."' The -whole etray of vivid dia.
racteristio ' heeds, unburied after. 1600
years!, and in some instances still attached
to their lacquered mummy mina must
impress evoryobserver with a senee of the
fleeting of time.. They might have been
painted yesterday. But Arteraidorue,
within that red case and under • these
gilded figures of the dog -headed god of the
gravei, has been dead nearly 2,000 years.
We cannot rely he has been dust. The
head of a lady, with the long hair pips
yet in her hair,,with the silken lashes
on
her cheeks, is exhibited apart. This has a
ghaptly look; ghastly; too is•the malicious
look of life on the gilt 'face and beaded
eyes of an older mummy:case. These face,
in high relief, ire Stift, find unrietdrid, not
like the pOrtraitsubut certaielY they were
portraits, too, in.their way. 'The slippers;'
the combs, the toys, the glaesware of' the
dead; -are 'gathered -here, end here IL° the
sham copper ' money iv-hioh was
buried. . with them long after Chris-
tianity. ' came' in,. that they might
pay their way in . Arnenti.' or Hades.
Broken Wee coin was good enough:forthd
dead; and the mummies of Haware. carried
with 4kefo,:, no silver or _gold; Iray„ (MOH LI— 4, wee seated in one corner. o ,
zon, itliiiii)n-Cwv.itileftlfirefthaY4xowrztakt.lit:' "z5a-ccOCavIS.tgtsvdtgg'-t4luiS'gv''Pdlik;M.,4V1'' ofntrllrtdfdornvOhsr'ivogellr•hoyerjaana • ...-:•-•-••4.-
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A/L'UHIE OH_THRHH, rcags.
The Professors of Werth/oaten rolait'.
In
• vent something New.
The•Timea publiehed, upward of -a month
ago, an account of the experiments in firing
With.the steel cripola turrets marinfootured
at. the works in St. cheramid, Cliatillon
rind Clommentry. It• wan. explained that
the &ix:every of the; pew explcsives had in -
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Good-bye. -
Mies Stillwell had not been in perfect
health lately, and was•inclined-st-thries.
be erratic and did.rao.ny queer things.'She
was well knewnin-Cicorden.
Temperance Notes.
The vamouslemperance bodies of Tas-
mania have resolved on positive notion
against the liquor traffic. Encouraged by
the snooess of local option in Victoria, Tas-
iltuhia4kgrdc-4(104,4c&ometelthe4frOnt
:'&17:41DVID
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Armed the imlitarY ePeneere to oonstrnot
forte °wive:0: of an enormous; block of
concrete; within which the space was ob-
teined neceseary to receive a small, garri-
eon, etoree, and the turret, or two turrets,
armed with ;cannon, sometimes simply
rotary like those of' St. Chamond, some-
times rotary, descending and. ascending,
•like thee° of Chatillon and • Commentry.
Thellring with ths turrets had given ex-
cellent results,
The iiecond portion of the experiments,
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not less impertant. and intereeting, has just
been conducted. in .the presence of M. de
Preyeinet. The question was whether the
turrets, aftet their great sum:se in firing
on the enemy,- could themselves stand
fire. Had:this been the case, France, by
Meani of a 'series of fotts; conld;have sup-
plied the gap on her frontiers and stopped
the invader long eriough to mObilize be-
hind the protection of these works.
Unfortunately, the experiment does not
seem to have been satisfactory. The tur-
rets were shattered by the first shot, and
became terrible projectiles, for the frag-
ments of steel strnek With the violence of a
cannon ban. The firing, it is true, was at
140 metree, whereas in areal siege the dis-
tance would be 3,000 or 4,000. metres.
There is, howeier, nothing . to slow that
the accuracy and 'force ot the explosive!
would be lessened by distance, so that the
result id very significant,. for the poesibility
of an effective armament of frontiers, if
what ie said be correct, is phieed in doubt.
The coating . of concrete, indeed, heti
'resiited-; but -this itt'an illusory reliiataae0
for a fort, e,iad is no obstacle to an enemy'e
maroh. . The newspapers to -day argue
that the fortress must be coated with con -
tote, but this is :a hazardous inferenbe. If
the fort rends, while -its guns are epeedlly
silenced, it stands for :a little, whether of
conerete or not. Some Way must be found,
a arming the forts for aggressive purposes;
then only oan they supply a substitute for
ts strong frontier and stop the •raaroh of
It would be . better to • have
CA1JONT-1;4 A TWIT PLACIP.
He rarniehed the Rope for a TI•arinit
:genie° Who Desired to Commit suicide.
A. number of. detectives in the Centre,
Bureau were talkingof the peoulier freaks,
of insane pririonere whem they had 'had
in °berg.° In times !Past. when Detective ,
Frank Blakely said: .
"When r was a turnheY at the jail some'. • •
yettra ago, an insane woman was breught
there who was constantly harping. • on, .
enieide. One couldn't teak with her two
minutes but she would make the assertion
. .
that she would kill herself the first chance
. • ,
she got, and once upon that theme she
would talk about nothing oleo. I got so •
tired of her • at last, that to vary the.
monotony andtry to get her mind in a dif..
ferent channel, I paid I would help her
carry out her purpose. f3he seemed pleaeed
at the idea and I asked her how she wanted.
to• go, by poisen, hanging or the pistol., She.
°hate heaving, andI provided her with A .
nice new rape. I went: to the corridor
Where she could -see me, made , the noose, _
gave her f all instractione how to tie it, '
thiow the rope over • the top of th , , cell
door; get up on a chair, -adjust the osa .
and then kick the chair (okay. I W ' aired
her carefully all the 'while I wee. ta 'lig, ,
but she did not weilien. Then Dbade her
good-bye, saying : i
•" I'lr be beck in half an hour, ant you
down and put your tongue haok in your
•mouth. You know, when people -hang, '
their tongue rims. out about a foot.'
" ' Well, it never phased her. It Was the
most horrible thing I could think of; but
she never Bald a word. Then I went Oat.
RUA as I descended the stairs two prisoners
in one of the lower Wards were fighting,
and one was likely to kill the other. After
twenty minutes' hard work I got the
fighters eeparated and looked in their 'cells. '
Then 4 went into the jail office and sat
down. In about five minutes 'remembered
the crazy woman Ema the rope, and my
hair fairly --stood• on end.l.I had, intended
when I left.her te go. only to the foot a -
the stairs, remove my beets, and ti" .toe
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back in My stocking feet and •wato her.
As it was, fully' half an hour had Ole. sed 1 '
'My Goat! 1 thought, tif that lona n has
hanged herself I am her murderer1' I "
mounted. the stairs and; with a sickening
sensation tit the heert„ entered the corridoroi.
There lay the rope On the floor, Mitt:ached
and just where I left: 'it, • and the woman .
•' 11 with
Abariersieleare -11viatteri,te4T,Editaaacitil4 %won\ tbrii vtlimmeo ,mitogesttitegat
• known , administrator was •gent • to e
' Congo, and after a careful' inquiry found
-11bbisiliniedanism'a 'grOnd.. and saving fact,
and set down the Christian missionary as
• an utter humbug in all except being a
• doughty explorer, a laborious and useful
• linguist and an ablenollectOrtf other men's
money. The administrator goes home
fully . peolved. • to • .state • the fade
uncompromei'rtgly before the publio,
of Great Britain ; but, although the
administratbr is • an honest man; the
* a tissobiation of old ideas
the oelebratien of the ." glorious, Fonith "
in the metropolitan district, Ex4ov. St.
,Jcilin..,-„Dr;."Punk and -other notable_ tem-
pprence iidvocatesFere &Meng the speakers
of the day.' • •• o. • ••. ,
• XisaWillard'e sriggestion that the '.white
reit) be adopted tiwtheeniblem of Ilie Pre-
hibition party t� offset:the red rose ' of .the
de:not:racy is . tosiitg reeeivea , with en,
thusituan. If :the Kepidolicane would don
the yellow '' .rese,‘• the tamptsigh- •Of 1$88"
Might Yell properlYbecalled the war of
uifl
, trOciping,badkinto bisbraia. So act upon "Ire". yfi'011:n' .g ,w.--' 4.1.40,1' 'Is :"c- hris: tian -Tein.„.
n . .
him that so far tram stating. the, .faot .he ranee . Ihrion of Poughkeepne :N.Y.,
drown EL placed Wall -pockets in, the binildings
'dated:clean to the contrary. Be stiiiide up
anddOolireStlietrniesionariee Oxalic occupied by the volunteer fire coMpaidee
- :opt:ceding:the ht4a, .While,4, he mentions of,that-city-andexpeatiSOOH,t0 haVe • 'them
elio in Other places,. These ptockets are
' Of creatithinnd thit-the,.gospele_ere crier,'
fie/jib:lea waren mere douriertothefotuider kept liffed'ivith religions Paper's and other
. Islam,,it.is in, a patronizing•tone, as if Mo-
. , of chijoitsnity.' . 1.11 this is ntterly'.unfair. 0%). aliterature'•. . - '.. "
It allowe the unforituiatepublie no Chance ' •
Directors . of the London • and liorth
of learning.thetinth. ; „The.- narrator may western Railviay have ehoern theit'appre-
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. be boned and'hoporable, but he dare . not .ciatien of the inovenumit by establishing
itefeilie fame nor have the courage of histeniperance houses at inanystatione along
their line for the accommodation Of, their
' own opinions.'11 he did' 'society would turn upon him'witli the 011;no,
employees... .Theep taverns have. been sue-
•
, neyeg mention him 11.9,,aud his mole never cessful from a Mat:nail:1 as Well 'as a social
Would be heard
and moral Point avieW. : ., • .. ..
, uenal" .we
. unless: aceompanied by a • A Imminent. liquor dealer': in Parkers-,
• 1.10hroilarinicordiosnesestrig relniiiegiotiitcyt**.l.ii2slitflitr,:n1 brlEg, W. Nrit:, applied to the court for the.
• hypocrisy in the many. : ' . , reneWal• of Ids. lidense. The ..eourt after
, • .. , (Signed) Tuartin. v. gintros7' ., listening tO-iiiiitiens and,FOtests And the
. .:-.1100.ment_rio;parfs,,stilylisth,1888,;, 4 argnmoflt of the counsel grantedthelicense.
' ' ' '''"...-77-----7' , lindealreera, iaa:t' ht.titthifeuldyttoutighngtewreinclaeite'dleigpuntoyr'
, A.,Montrealidespitch says: • A , singular clerkof the county, rushed into the court,
.•.pesperate Attempt at suicide., •
•
•
ease'd attempted seielde ocotirred . on the t_oorit a. n.d.. den:anode& to be herd. The
• • Longman ferr
grented a hearing., For twenty
.11, wou-dressed, middie.ago man was soon mi'niites she. held the judge end andienne.
'y whartyesterday morning. """
corning on the wharf and violentlystriking sPell-boundbYhereloquent pleading ag.aintit,
his' head against one Of the mooring roots granting her father a license to sell drink.
owthe wharf' three Or four time?. The peo. Thejudgereversed. the decision. and re-
' *who were standing at, 1 dietaneehurried Lugthe Awns°. . .
,lying on the grotand, with a la* :gash in acrormiliiiHsli.ed.B4oKineelingt in9n-etheof,sothuteb,mh°4'
to the apt, Where they found the man
his heed and apparently dying; but What eonieout into the.prohibition.partY Move-
.
was their Surprise when they tried to raise mT.anut.tilapeirsawitiisPirhiaTilitsitke°snedisttaartWed'i0o
: and with a bound thrOW ' hiingelf. into the that '13tata• Mr EL Kell° has long been de-
' hira from the ground in see him .timp np
river. : When he Genie npfor the first time VotedlYnttached to the white ribbon Move
be made the sign Of thecroSS and raised -
ment. and although.she hes dens eaeelleet.
his eyes to heaven; bta When he .saw that ,Cerviacf hue 46tluitil eaWliceae it heC 60"
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ono of the Men On the whaff• was inm,Pina cupatiOn fto help in this Work. She 4,4:au
after him, he ducked his head tinder watm accluhdtithi'a which an aaddY: hi 614
and 'hubbies rose , . rapidly. SiinPHa- °apatite to attend the national, convention
.; State or cityrinight be proud. ' hire. tells
•'when the latter rose .a sedond time. "For in New York city.. ..: ' • •
;The National ..Teraperanee Society Will
. eucceeded in holding the wetdd.be suicide
God'S. sake, let ' me go . down," a
l'in°8t. hold its •annual temperance camP-Meoting
reseneri. hoWever, wood& . not :listen and at• Ocean Grove, beginning . Wednesday,
inandiblynttered the half dead man. :, His
Atli:let,. and bontinuing five days. - Ad..
loch wan his name, asked the ' bystanderd, aresna' Vall bp delivered bY- George W.
itutur
Petrie ,has discovered many Other 'thine Chaloraiirrs eoppareuttliot jihe struggle
Mortal eterthoulted•Goikwithreoregetukrin'
is alerra cotta, rePresentingaltoman lady construct- ' and the • artiilerYMen Who gratitude than I did at that time. It broke
the wtoman of her insane desire for suicide.
curious and less melencholy. Among them will continue between' the • engineets who
wheal. is looking. back over hie shoulder: --;-0rie conclusion, however, which was not and you-can-bet-it,hroke Me Of ever trying
anything•so foolish again."-rDetroit Free •
in a sedancheit,-withtwOoliairmen, one of deetroy. ,. ' ,, . - . ,
0 .olose:in front when the weather was cold the last experiment% namely; that an iron Press. ,o ,
, ,
The chair had windowe and folding dciore, looked for at Chalondresulted clearly from
or • wet. Mr: Flinders Petrie has also plate, whatever its thickness, does not offer
brought & papyrus of . the emend book of sufficient resistance to the new explosives,
the Iliad, which he has not yet untolted. and thatiron-clad ships are already practi-
The writing ill extremely beautiful, as easy (silly male*, and are condemned without
to read ea print; and in this very.different ever having had a: chance of showing what
from our -other Homerio papyri. . These theyconld do. How many millions ha,ve
were nianifestly fragment:sat cheapeditions, been spent in vainl What labor hail been
.and their readings are worthless. Mr.'. thrown away, without one experiment being
Petrie's papyrus appears t� °contain an ea- made which. °could be tinned to account 1:-L-
oellent text; though doubtless later than the London Times. „ •
revision of Atistarchus (160 B. C.) •
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The Revival.
• A gentleman writes :to ask if we believe
the John street revival is a healthy kind of
excitenient and likely to acComplish any
permanent good. '• •
wen, from. ottr secular etandpoint we
can look at it in a cold, calm 'and critical
fashion. It is an interesting movement --
a' pOpubir outhiirst, indicative ef an appe,
the on ' the , part .of thonSands for some-
thing they have not had as a regular diet.
It deals m one of your conseriaitive
methods, packed in ice, and GO eminently'
respectable that it is considered indecorous.
to exhibit any emotion ;:but. is one of the
old-fashioned affairs, like a conflagration,
or et fire in a 'Bry-pine loreet *Mrs. -the
molding and roaring of the flames ate
bOth superb and awful. It holds einnets
over the pit, throws them into the brim,
stone lake and then asks 'them how they
like it, and if they want to come ashore.
There ie an element of toner in it, hut a
predominance of earnest and eloquent per-
sUasion and pleading. '
Yea, we like.to bee ninon, like thie young
Harrison, and his fellow workers, Who are
in dead earnest. If they, go a little tooter,
why, the rest of the world 4on1t go far
enough. • If he makes the devil devilish
and warns his: hearers that they are going
to have a warm *spell by and by unless
they hold up -well, we rather think he
'won't do any harm. Most men ire PachY-
de:minibus, and it takes a sledge hemmer to
Make mi•inipreeeion, '
As a rule you needn't be. afraid of any-
body's gettingtoo midi religion. Besides,
this is a free country, and no one need go
to hear the preaching unless he Wants to.
He is not taken . by the, scruff Lof the neck
• and lugged inta church, but does as he
pleases. The crowdethat attend the meet-
bage eeercito be satiefied, and therefore the
hist thing for yen to do is to give them
yortr good wishes,. and then stay. away if
yoridon't like them. --New York °Herald.
ADomestie Dialogue.
"How do you like my new dress ?"
qture rs. De Jerson a her husband.
*" a Di
Isn't it a little "— •• '
• "No, it isn't. Now, Alfred, I think
you're just horrid. • It's the new oolor,.
emerald green." • ,
" Yes dear, but I was only going t
• • brought him to shore, Where Renaud, for •
Rain, Edward Carswell, Xrs. EmSY L.
" Please, let me drosvn, or kill me one rof McLaughlin, Bishop J.1". Nelman, Mies
con. 0'
you." The would -ha- Beil'ide-5ve° "mr- Julia Colman,IRollo Kirk Prrull
' Omer. lie is believed to bar been.suffer• B. Fisk Bev.
and others: Rev. Dr. T. L: Venison; -ReW.
• tained to be 'Alber0 •Renand, -a well-to-do
ing 'with delirium tremens. C. Steel . The Park sicitere, of
• Boston, and 11113. ' Alice J. Osborne,
soprano of Tremont' Temple, • Boston, will
furnish music. The meeting will be under
the nurnatement of j. N. Stearns, Cone -
spending cindery of the society.
New Style of Pride.
, A Dot for' Hard DOnicerS.
A Rued= physician named Vortugaloff
declares that strychnine is an infallible
ours for drunkenness, administered in sub-
• cutaneous injections: The effect a the
, etrychnine. solution itr to change the °ray-
.' ing drink into positive aversion and
•this obange is effected in a 'day. After a
-oightoor-tenjAy t
maybe discharged. The etrychnine is
administered by dissolving. one grain in
•two hundred drops Of wa,ter, and injecting
• five drop of the solution everylWenty•four
hours. . ,•
• Wily. They Rhin% Speak.
He -Why, there'll Johnson and his wife
' walking !WOOS the streirt and they haven't
spoken a word „te. , each „other• in four
months. • '
She (with great ititereet)-.You. don't say
O. Tell me ail about it. Why did they
•quetrel 1
• didn't quarrel.
• I She' (alflappOilitediy).=Th0Y didn't?
•`Why didn't they epeak for four Months;
then? • •
He-...-Beconse they 'couldn't. He was
• awayin Europe for that time.
• Ohe-O tyon brute. •
Tit° Florida Citing° ergot ii,eetimated
, -000,000 boles. ,
• " Oh, I know 1 That it isn't the 'color
I Ought to wear. If it was that horrid
Miss you *gold think it lovely."
:" But I didn't mean "-
41 Yeti, you did, too. You're mean enough
for anything. , And you've: neve' noticed
my new chip hat, either." .
Why,' niy love, I thought "----
-"-You. thoughtl eourse you did-ihet
it makes me look frightful. 1_i -declare
it's to-oo boa -d 1" •,•'
"11 you'd only let me sPeak "
" Speek 1 Why, what' else have you
done for the led half hour -just to find
fault, too, with everything I had on.
What'a that? A diainond for my birth-
day present ? • Oli, you dear, „preohnts
old sweet ' Why didn't you say so, and
not tease me so ? I 'could not imagine
what you wanted to say." -Detroit Free
Fre88.• •
Two little Misses belonging to 'different
householdelont living in the time neighbor-
hood, on the eaet.side,have °elided to spaak
of thorn of it. baby brother. The other
evening she went by the house of a neigh-
b'or while her forts& companion Wae pitting
on the doorstep with a young 1ady." Both
'with a. toile ot the headand a swing of
their skirte expressed their. Mutual con-
tempt, ' • " Why 1" said the young lady to
the one on the doorstep, "don't yon speak
to Maggie any more?" No, I don't,"
was' the responee ; " she thinks she's' awful
smart just becaupe 'their baby died." -
Courier.
,
Said friends ofXseillt,Dnaley, the young
English*Omaii Who shot O'Donovan Besse,
`tab ,Making an effort to metre her release,
frera the asylum for insane trinkinals at
Auburn, There ii, eome question ae to the tei wr
legality of the detentions of a Pereen who fig, How did I come te be ohargedo.With writing „. ,,
not a criblidal ill.,the eyed of the lawin an pftper ? I neer had any, , , fatter during the Revolutionary war. It
inititution. maintained by the State kir the Walter (dositiog, to zeollity him)-Moy is in an eimellent itateuf preservation and
eat° a114 &WRAY of those sentenced to iln- be not, olar. Hit's ae paper de bill wile Mr, . Drake frequentlY wears it on 'State
• • ,
OrlSOEHOlt On 0Onvictien of a (=Line. made out on, ' ' . ' .00dailions.
ol---- ,..• ,
Excrheivenees of ',society."
The number 'of:- people who heye reel
merit and talent for society who are kept
out by' the exclusiv,enese.of self-cOnstituted
tyrenta of society nuait be very largo; but
if they have ' tot and learn to • wait
they will find their way. The
Most Certain way td 'pledge' is to show a
modest indifference ta the emiles' of the
great. (They call it patronage in England.
We have no Such ugly word bora nor
" reat coe le" eocirill
They should. not "Ions ere is; o
eier, always an ideal exclusivenese, a society
which should only adnait the cultivated; the
wise, and the good. EVery hoetesti ahoidd
inquire into the general eharactetistice Of
her guests, their moral, ecicial and politicid
standing. We use the word political in ite
largest sense. In spite Of all' we eart.ati,
objectionable men and Women do get into
the poet' carefully guarded oleo:3'10x ; and
we have as yet no such inviolable insight
that. we can rate Dives .and Laterite be -
iota their deathe as they are said to be
-ratedAftetwarde.--Mrs...M. EA W. Sherwood.
Things to be Avoided.
• An argument in' company."
Fault.finding, though gentle ariticism is
in good taste, " • • '
Avoid beginning a Conversation by an
allusion to the weather.
Avoid talking to any • one person in the
presence of others in a language not under-
stood save by the.twe persons using it un-
less 'addressing a ;foreigner in his own
tongue, and then others shordd he made
aware of the topics Of conversation.
' Avoid 'rising the Word "she" or " he," ac-
companied by a nod of the head or jerk
of the thumb in -the direction of the personL
ePoken,of ,but speak the name Of the lady:
or gentleman. '1
• doAnbvioeidineaallniniegin. ar,lia intended to have
Do.not betray egotism. •.
Do not be satirioil save in defence of
yourself ag*ainst impertinence. •'
• Never show that yon notice any ' error,in
'language, either of .punctuation Or grammar,
on tire part of thoee with whom: you are
conversing: •
Do net' .about, scratch your
head or fidget with any portion ' of your
apparel while in .cOnversation,
Ise *alert to avoid absence of mind. '
Do nos ask to have a_senterice:= repeated
unless yon ectually 'failed to:Aber it. • MOUY
perilous have contracted the careless habit
of saying "Whit 7" Eh ?" and the like. •
, Never interrupt the person who is speak-
.
mg.
Goikg into Partieulaie.
, The -superintendent of schools in a
Plymouth county town, we will call him
Mr. A., weds), visited a sohooLtaught by
Miss B., and in the purse of the morning
esid _ ••
-
"No,vichildren, I wish you to take
nOtice what I do and then writean account,
of it." •' ,
• Then he stepped to the blackboard and
wrote a sentence upon it: • •'
• .A111 the children excePt one .wrote in ef-
fect that Mr. A. came into the %%001 it.na
wrote on the blackboard, " geed
'echool." .
One little fellow, hoWever,, followed in.
more litetallY, and • eompleted
theCtorybyedding„,." and then he went to
the platform; eat deft-, ids:yea-With-his'
watch chain, twirled his mustache and
winked -at Miss It.". -7 -Old Cokmy Memorial.
IntemperateTemperance:i
, Charge for Paper.
Dritinmer (indignent b oha ged
• ' ' t at a Toronto labtel)
Marhing•Gooda at Odd 'Prices.
It-hes-become-a-frequent_c
dealers to mark their good
prices, such as 23, 47 or 98
Broadway dealer the other
,t4
be surprised to see how =mfr.
ment .theee markings. are ,t
• wire. Ada H. Kepley is editing a tem.,
peranee raker in Effingham •county, 111,
and her aggreesiVenees ,has getten her into
tiouble. Her paper iscalled the Friend of
Home. She has published each month a
list of,those seen drunk on the 'streets of
t date of each isto
One man whose name 'appears m t • e ac
list in the last issue chant he was not
drunk and had the editor arrested. Mrs.
Kepleyappeared before the Jtistice of the
Pi
,eace n her own defence, bid.a fine of $5
swig impotaid upon her. She appealed the
case, and the trial promises to be more
exciting in the higher comae than it was
before the Justice ef the Peace.
, bend Martin is the name of a 16,year-old
girl forger, who hai been astonishing com-
mercial and detective circles in 'Detroit.
Her forgerien were of emall &epics, which
she had cashed at various pram. She was
a type.writer for an advertising ageney.
0
\ .m among
,'ome oda
its. Said a
7 : " Med
f an induce- '
• purchasere.
The return of two or three c ts in change
seems a small matter, but long observation
has taught Ole that manyit pereon will buy ,
an article for 23 cents, for eiceitiple, ,which
he would . not buy if it were marked 25
cents." 'Theptinaiple also extendsto com-
paratively. high-priced goods, ' Ir are
wro
often marked .6 certain number o . dollars
and an odd number of cents. he " odd
•price is almost invariably so fii.ed as to be
slightly lees than the value of some coin ili
common use, the idea being to terapt the
purchader by the return of the small
e.nidunt ef ehange.-Neto,Yotk Sun. •
• • •
.11.4. Drake of Palatka, Pla., laS a vest
of hotnespun let WS0 worn by his grand.
„
-The-Tr,amP's--Ex, pediente. a a
• HE TRIED DISSIHULATION;
Tramp -Say, boss, won't yer gives feller
a few cents to liuy a loaf of breed ? •
• Stout party -Look here, young man, you.'
don't want that mbney; to buy bread; you ,
want it for ruin. Now if yon had told me
the truth I might have given you a quarter.
[Tramp resolves to play the truth racket
in the future.]
1111 TEIEA'THE TroJTH. •
. . ,
ibiat2--saevr-=bpthrwoR4-Y4
felkr suthin ? I want to get ag BO of gm.
Solemn party -Ah, Poor fella -v! So de-
graded and yet act honest. It does my:nil
soul good. Here, my friend, itin tract, and
a word of welcome to „our etin 'for
reformed drunkards.,•
• A illeashnt Suri4iiie•
A couple of ,lovers Came together for the
first thne in along while ; •
'
She -Why, George, you haw grown i a
moustache since I sect you last.
He -Yee, ray darling, I have let it. grow
in order to give you a pleasant entpriee on
your birthday.
'Henry V. Perrine, a wealthy and eccen- •
We merchant who died at Dayton O. re.
coldly, had never drawn a cheokin' his life
although engaged in many daily businees
trandeotione. He paid all .of his .bille in
°soh.. '