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aasJBSBI &&iton&ntk gems. i, 1 'j, • ' * PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY^ -At- St. REGIS FALLS, IRAN KLIN COUNTY, X. T. fEBMSo.$1.00 PER YEAE, tTIUCTLT Df ADVA1<C1. , AM itllirt sad •es»ranatc*tl*as 'saeala to t*V «XMMd I t I. A. HOWELL, Editor and MMer, •r. Btgit rait; K. r. ^? N ^o^ • V— !Devoted to Local News and Home Interests. VCL. I. ST. REGIS FALLS, N.i Y. v SATURDAY, 1 JANUAKY 7,, 1888. ' It if an intercttitfg fact, and one not gonerally known, thus it costs on an av« crnge more tfian twice as much to get a patent in England as it docs in our coun- try. _• 1 Newfoundland has taken to agriculture. It produced the past year hay and pota- toes to the value of $883,000, and butter to the value of $60,000. The fishing Industry it very precarious, and the re- sort to agriculture seems to bo the only hope for the colony. - Mrs. Elizabeth Carroll, of Warren, Ind., claims to have been born in Penn- sylvania in 1774. Her husband was a soldier in the war of 1812. Thore is good reason to think that Mrs. Can oil is really 113 years old, although she is a>* active as a woman of sixty. A Western jud^e has decided that •tockman occupying the public domain as a cattle ran^ro acquires no right to the s:ime that wilt enable h'm to prevent othrr stockmen from Turning looso (attic on tho range, even though the first oc < u; aut has developed the water on the range and has it fully stocked. The Timet of India 'ays that a' general order is about to bo issued by tho com- manderin-chicf directing that cavalry,' like infantry, shall henceforth cheer when charging. It is 'suggested that when colonels giro out their commands on other matters, soldiers might also be permitted to express their approval by a ••hear! hour 1\ [_ t i The world's coal supply seems to bo In reasing rather than diminlshirg. A vfsin of coal sixteen feot thick has just IN en found at Whitowood, Dakota, t wfclve feot below the surface, and sev- enty feet beneath that anothor vein more than throo timet as thick has beuu dis- covered. The ooal is said to be as good at any In the couutry. A Chicago clothing manufacturer says that he is obliged to pay particular at* tentlon to the hip pockots whloh ho putt in trousers destined for tho Western tride. His Kansas uud Iowa customers demand a pocket capable of holding a nuirt flask, but for thu far West trade the pocket is made deep and narrow, with an uuusually strong lining, so that a pistol will fit snugly in it. Li. . . • • ! Tho English Hoard of Trade has mado a report, in which .it' alleges that tho number of paupers 1 in tho country now are only 24.7 to the 1,000, while in 1870 thero were forty to tho 1,000, and that the total number has fallen from 000,000 to 007,000, whilo tho population has increased by H, 700,000. In London, it is alleged, thero are now only twetfty-ono paupers to 1,000 inhabit tnts. j ..••.••.. •• '. •Justice Jaimasch, of Kalama/oo, Mich., has a parrot that ho wouldn't sell for its weight in silver. On fivo dilTorent occa- s \>is has this intelligent bird savml the house from being burglarized. Tho last time was on a recent night. The burg- lar got tho door un IVtoned, but whon he opened it the parrot uske 1, in astern a'id foirh Tolce: \Hello thore I What's the matter ?\ Tho burglar didn't answer, but fell over him«elf in his doapcrato hurry to get away. \Tho%oneral climate of England is. favorable to tho dovelopmentofcaucer, •ays tho London standard. \Out of every million deaths from all cause*, those from cancer number about HO,000. This proportion is only exceeded by phthisis, old age, convulsion*, brou- r'lltis, pneumonia and 'debility.' JS'cxt to consumption, cancer is tho most fatal of all the constitutional diseasos; and it tun bceu steadily gaining ground for more than twenty years. Tho deaths from cancer per million of persons living were in 1802, 801; in 1872, 401; in 1881, 520; in 1882,5112; in 188:1, 34U; in 1881, 600; in 188.% 600, and are now close upon 000.\ !....»,.• \.' \ J I Madame Patti is not the only singei with a castle to call her homo. Minnie Ifauk owns a castle among the Bwisi mountains, where sho sponds her vaca- tions. It was at one' time used as N fortress, and thu stout walls are six to eight feet thick. The rooms aro large, but are so well tilled with furniture, and the walls so thickly hung with pictures, (hat they seem quite cosy. Here Madam Hunk keeps tho trophies of her career, and here her husband storos his ethno- graphical collection. Three flno dog* are Madamo Hank's especial pet's »\d she is very fond of roaming the moun tains, while they follow at her heels oi bound up the steep paths in front of nor. Michael Cahiil, of Sau I'rancisco, it well known in Washing'on., AM far back as 1870 he sent his application for a patent for his rainHinking invention to tho patent o'llce, and as often as the law required renewed his caveat by paying $10. The drawing which accompanied the application WHS a marvel. It repre- sented the rising moon and the setting sun, a balloon, a man smoking a pipe and a huge rain-storm. When CahiH Anally went to Washington it did not take long for the officials to con linn the.i previous impression that ho was a crank. • At the same time they guard his crazy ideal with great care and treat the whole matter with amusing soriousneas, because he has not legally abandoned his absurd claim. Commissioner Hall is particularly Inclined not to allow Cahill to be mad* •port of by the papers. \You may laugh at me,\ he said, \but I have no doubt that the time will come wheu man will \*i able to briif rata out of tho sky wfeantvi. tofc*»tfi<JtV! MY FRIEND AND L My* friend and I, two souls agreed— His way 1 take as he doth lead, Or in somo path he may not know He follows me, and thu* we go, And mutual honor we concede. My friend hath moods; ah, strong, indeed, As if an autocrat decreed . His purpose; hut we part not, though, My friend and I. Myself as strong my rule to heed, As captives to each other freed We dare to each tho answer Nor friendship ever break, and HO We give to each love's highest meed, My friend and 1.^ 1 —Dwiyht Williams, ia Home Journal. \No Witness for the Plaintiff HY LUKE BIIABP. , The two-masted schooner T. P. Baxter 1 was owned and commanded by Capt. Baxter. The season had locn a good one and the Captain had made money. He needed what cash he made, for the seasons be- fore that one had been very dull, and it was all the Captain could do to keep the vessel inhis possession. But this particu- lar year had been so fortunate that lie pa d off the mortgago on his boat uud had something left over to carry tho family through (he winter. There had been a terrible fctorm in September, ^»ut tho Baxter had weath- eied it, through the skill of the Cuptaiu and the stauu* hness o. the boat; but it had been a close call, and the Captain, who had up to th it time carried no in- surance except what ho had to put on when he mo.tgngcd tho boat to fcccuie tho londcis, haU effected ten thousaud dollars additional, so that if the good bhip went down hit family would not be, left penniless. Tho rcptember Heather had worked greatly on bis mind, and tho ansicty ho fult during tho galo, wheu he would thlpk that if the boat was lost only a small amount would come to his family, mado him roi-olvo never to take such risks. . Tho insurance fan out on November 1, and tho Captain oxpeetod to have tho boat laid up by that time; but freights weut higher ami higher, and additional trip* became muro and moro tempting, and whon tho storm of October 80 bouau it found tho Baxter on tho open lake, but just whoro will perhaps never be known. Part of a ship's boat with the name k 'l!axtor\ came ashore, and that was alt that was let to tell tho story of the wreck. \Weut domi with all hands,\ thu papers said. Thou came the question of Insurance. The companies banded together and re- solved to contest the case. They claimed that tho Baxter was a stanch boat and thaV sho had ridden out tho two day*' storm of Cctober .10 and Hi, and that sho had been 1 st on the 1st or 2d of Novem- ber when the insurance had expired, and it rested with the plaintiff to show that such was not the easel The lawyers for the plaintiff know that they had a nretty poor chance to show this. They had uot much hope of se- curing a verdict. But they knew that their client uas a widow who had lost her huhhund in that gale, and thoy trusted to a strong appoil to tho jury, wh3 aro very apt in such ca»e§ to sympathize with tho unfortunate and pile on tho damages ou a soulless corpor- ation. What the chief counsel for tho plaint itf feared was that tho judge would so plainly direct tho jury to give a verdict for tho com- panies that those twelve gentlemen would have no chance lof lotting thoir sympathies take tho placo of good law. » Mrs. Baxter's lawyers wcro feeling rather blue over the aspects of affairs on the second day of the trial when word came to the fcuuior partner that a man wished to»spcnk to him on important busincM. After a short absence from the court r.»om he returned with a 'per- son who was evidontly a seafaring mau and wtid: . • 'Tour Honor, we desire to place an- other witness ou the stand.\ The other side at onco objected, and \ said it was very unusual at that stage of j the case, and desired to know what his brother intended to prove. i \Wo intend to prove tho date of tho j loss of the Baxter. I wish to call Jacob SwanKon, one of the survivors.\ At this extraordinary announcement ! thore was a sensation, especially among tho reporters, each one of whom wan bo- wailing his bad luck in not getting hold of Mr. Hwanson himself and thus se- curing a sensation for his paper. Tho Judge overruled tho objotions of tho attorneys for the companies and elected to hear what Mr. Hwanson had to *ay. His Honor added that amplo opportunity would bo given tho defense to show that Mr. Hwimspu wan an impostor, a* they had lather plainly iutimitod. Jacob Hwanson sworn, thjat only gardue't fa e. \What took the witness stuud and was Ho wore a heavy beard, but served to emphasize the ha;/- of the uncovered part of his is your name?\ 4 'Jacob 8wanson. M \Aro you a citi/en of the United States?\ \Yes but I was born In Sweden.* \What is your business?\ \I am a sailor.\ \Wore you on board the Baxtor when •he was lost ?\ \I was.\ \Whore did you ship on her?\ \In Detroit.'* \How many voyages did you mako on her!\ \That was irijjr second voyage.* 1 '\When was i he lost if\ \On the nigl tof the .10th of October.\ \Are you surs of that?\ \Yes sir.\ \That is all, rour Honor.\ The lawyers i for the other side took the witness in hand.' \Do you know that a great deyd de- pends on your testimony in this case?\ \Yes sir.\ \Oh you do, eh? You know that my clients will have to pay a large sum of money if what you state is true I\ \V«'f sir.\ \You have some interest In the ver diet then;\ ' \Vc sir.\ \Oh you have. I like a witness that Is frank. You would not tell a lie, I suppose.\ ••I have done so.\ \Have you:\ Did you ever perjure yourself before?\ Plaintiff's lawyer—\That if not a proper sort of question to ask a wit- ness.\ \t propose to examine him my own way.\ ''But I submit that tuch • question if not a proper one.\ liar and I propose to see whether he will confess to perjury as well.\ \I think many of us might confess to telling a lie, if we were only honest enough.\ ''I hope you speak only for yourself, sir; I must protest \ His Honor—\Please to continue the cose. The witness has answered very straightforwardly so fur, I think. Mr. Bounce will not insist on the question.\ \Very well, your Honor. Now, sir, was any inducement offered you to come here and testify as you have done?\ ! \Yes sir.\ \Oh hoi An inducement wrsoffered. I hope the jury will tnko note of that. Now, my man, who offered it to you?\ Opposing cou isel —\I object.\ ~\ Objection overruled. ^ \Who offered you tho'inducement?\ \Captain Baxter.\ , \Oh indeed. Isn't Captain Baxter drowned?\ \No sir.\ Sensation in court. \Where is ho now?\ \At the bottom of tho lake.'* \I thought you said he was not drowned.\ ••He was killed.\ \What inducement was offered you?\ \An oath.\ , \I do not understand you.\ \I swore an oath to Captain Buxtor that if there was a suit I would come here aud tell the truth about what I was asked.\ \Indeed. And this oath, I suppose, was administered during the storm.'\ \Yes sir.\ \Where?\ \Jn the cabin.\ • , \Why were not both you and the Cap- tain attending to the navigation of the vessel r\ \Because the vessel woe beyond help at that time.\ \Had sho gone downi\ \No fir, but sho was on her bcim end* practically. The man at the wheel had been di-ablcd and the captain tnranff into hi* plu e. Tho next moment ana before the Captain was prepared for it, a big sea struck tho rudder and tho Cap- tain was Hung against tho corner of tlio cabin. Tho vessel camjo round aud tho next wavo tore off tho hatches and partly filled hot* with water. Hho heeled over so that wo know at ouce 1n such a sua we could do nothing with nor.'* • \ Was tho Captain killed outright ?\ \No ho staggered or fell down the companion way into the cabin and called for me, aud—\ ( \ btop a moment, you are going too fast. Don't volunteer information until you aro asked for It.\ Hit Honor—\Mr. Bounce, I would suggest that you let tho man toll his story of the wrock aud that you quotttiou him afterwards. I ooufess I would liko to hoar his own story of this tragedy. Now, Mr. Hwanson, tell in your own way what happened.\ \Well sir, tlio Captain called for mo andlioKuid: ' Bwaiwni, I'm killed aud tho boat is lost.* I was going to speak but ho wouldn't let mo. ' Listen to mo, 8wan»on,' ho said. • What day is this f' 1 Thursday,' I said. ' Yes, but what day oi tho mouth ?'\ i \ • I don't know,' I said. 'Thoro's a calendar in on tho wall,' ho laid, 'look at Thursday and And tho date—hurry, for (iod's sake—tho boat is sinking V I had hard work finding tho date, for tho cabin was partly full of water and tho lamp was burning dim, aud everything was sideways on account of her being heeled over, but I got It and saw it was the UOth. 'Now, you remember that,' cried tho Captain, 'aud remember my lamily. Hoe if there is a book on that shelf.' I looked, but thero wasn't. ' Thore mn*t bo,'said tho Captain; 'look again.' Then I saw n ho>k floating in the water. Ms that iU' I said. \Yes said tho Captain; /that is |uy wife's Bible, bless her. Now, Jacob Swanson, you aro the best man on this boat—tho best tailor I ever had—put that book to your lips and swear that wind or wave will not keep yo.i from seeing that my wifo and babies have their rights. Swear it before (iod, Jacob Bwausou,' andlsworo and 1 am here.\ \What did you do then I\ \I wont to help tho Captain out—he had fallen ou his face across the table, but when I turned him over ho was dead. Then wo got into tho boat and-*' \How many of you I\ \Four. One was disabled and ho died before wo got far. Then tho boat was upset wheu we got among the breakors aud tho other two were drfwned. I clung to the bottom of tho boot audjkopt repeating my oath.\ Mr. Bounce--\Now my man, what has kept jou concealed all \this ' inio? Why have wo never heard of you until now?\ \I had no money, fir. I got here as quick as I could.\ \But you seom to huVo told no one of tho wreck <** ' ^ \No sir.\ \Why was that?\ | j « \No one questioned me.** I •That is a rather thin ftory. Do you know any one here?\ \No. sir. I krow the man who shipped me. His name was Brownson.\ HIM Honor—\is there such a man In the cityf* PlalntilPe counsel—\Ho if in „the courtreom, your Honor. Ho waji ageut for Cirpt. Haxter.\ \It might bo well to oall him.\ \^top a momout. Do you rocognise Mr. Brownson here?\ \Yes sir. There he is.\ In tho examination of Mr. Brownson it was shown that ho remembered hiring Hwanson. \Now Mr. Brownson, you ship) a good many men in a season? 1 ' \Y'cs.\ \Then how is it that you remember this particular one?\ \Well ho is not the sort of a man that one is likely to forget. Besides, I 'thought ho asked too much money, and we had a tulk about that; but he seemed a good man and I engaged him.\ The jury found a verdict for the plain- tiff without leaving their sea|s.— Detroit Free VrtM. _^^ m ^_^___^ m \ A nilqne Ncrktle. . Mr. A. Jtidson Cole, who is the man- ager of ono of the large Chicago whole- sale houses in the line of gentlemen's furnishings, shows a novel necktie.which he has just received from Texas. It is a rattlesnake skin made up in tho form of a four in-feand tio. Tho point rattle is Mjt in tho centre of the outer fold, to serve the purpose of a tie-piu. As it glistens and shows all forts of shift- ing colors in the sunlight or gaslight, it raojifrs a very attractive, if not exactly conventional, tjie. Mr. Cole says that it was isent To him at a sample, the sender sayiag that, as the stock of rattlesnakes in his country is inexhaustible, he can supply as many of these strange ties as NO. 44. TXIE ^ttirotnlajcfc %tw* ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING SUCH AM Cards, Letter-Heads, . Sou-Heads, BilUHem&s, \ Statements, Envelopes, Handbills, BmstsrSf s\s* < mUTLT AND PROMPTLY EXK7CTB) AT TEE LOWEST LIVI50 FEICfi POX CASH. m% atikMlM* patroBtf* of ta« puktts mi ft*?*! BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKKTCHES FROM VAltlOUB 80UKCK& A Broken Heart—Only a Cyclone— . Just Ho—Why They Shud- dered — A Domestic Bee no, Ktc, Etc. old man came offcied and I rcftjscd afraid hit '•Papa,\ sho said ns the In late, \young Mr. Bar^ipson himself to me to-night him. And oh, papa, I heart is broken.\ 4 'He told mo about it,\ said the old man. * 4 Then you met himt\ mm tt *n».« , uo „,n n«, \Yes ho is down at the.Eagle playing 1 ovl«ck^of cou^rUsy \ billiards.\—A** York JSu*» l M WUV ' ( \\a n 't vou II Was Only a Cyclone. 'Did you ever sec a cyclone?\ •I should say so. Out in Kansas last summer, while I was eating dinner, a cyi ;lone came along and turned the house completely upside down. Nearly killed all of us. ' \What did you think about it?\ \Think? I think my wife had lost her temper again.\— Afelranka ^ ktale Journal. Just So. Wife (pleadingly) —'«I'm afraid, George, you do not love mo as well as you used to do.\ . i llueband.— u Wh'y? H W.—\Because you always lot me get up to lijjht tho fire.\ II.—\Nonsense my love! Your get- ting up to li#ht the tiro makes me love you alt thc-more.\-r2F'«f0» &ntrier. -4— Why They Shuddered. \No Mamie.\ said tho fair haired girl with an air of tender melancholy, °I shall nover love him again. It is all over.\ \How can you eayfo, Oeitlo? He is young, rich, love* you devotedly, and has such a beautiful, long, silken, hoary mustache—-\ \Ills mustache? O, don't apeak of it, I Implore you. I saw him once, Mamie, just after ho had taken a drink of butter- milk I\ And the two friond* shuddered at they tat close together, looking silently in tho tiro, while their shadows danced fitfully on tho wall and the^wind moaned dis- mal \v tin outfit tho ghostly oreef on the outside.— Cliicago tribune. i A Domestic Scene. The young mother eat in a low, ea<y rocker before the fire, hor babo sleeping quietly on her knee, aud, although all was tierce and blustering without, every- thing was quiet and coiy within. Ocntlo peace reigned in tho household that night. \My dear, 1 * said the lady, turning to her husband, who was calmly enjoying his evening paper, \isn't it a curious thing that swans should sing just before they aro going to die if\ •'No moro so,\ ho replied, gazinff at his infant's faco with anxious foar, \than that babies should smllo just before they are going to raise the roof off with colic.\ And presently all, was fierce and bt ut- tering within.— yeie York tiun. And he rubbed his chin reflectively and walked on.— Traveler *' Magatins. A Great Mistake). \Why didn't you ^ret up and five hei your seat or per mat rae to give hei mine?\ said a woman to her husband. They had just got off a car. The wo- man's face expressed great anxiety of mind. - ' • •'Why should we give her a feat?\ the husband asked. \Just because she was so richly dressed, I suppose,\ he added. \Is it possible, that you did not know her?\ the wife exclaimed.' \Of course. I am not supposed, f«- know every well-dressed woman who comes along.\ \Oh James, she is our cook, and I am afraid she will troasupe up agamst ua 'Why'didn't you tell me?\ the hus- band exclaimed. The woman did not reply, but trem- bling violently, leaned heavily upon his arm.— Arkanaau Traceltr. | A Little OAT. A German professor was remarkably absent-minded. Whenever lie wan busily engaged in his studio solving some ab- struse problem, his wife was in tho habit of bringing him his dinner. His favor- ite dish was pancake and n\olasses. One day his wife brought him a large pancake and a jug of molasKcs, and went down into the kit hen. Pretty soon she heard tho professor ring his hell.i \Why is it, Ciretchen, tpat you bring mo nothing to eat except moloases? Why have you brought rae no panca!tcf\ asked the absent mined professor. T\Ach Hiinmel!\ exclaimod tho wifo '''you have tucked the pancake around your nock, thinking that It was a nap- kin.\— Teuae S\ftin(it. A Change of Tune. ', \William 1\ said the old gentleman at the breakfast table. \Sir!\ \I am not pleased to see you so much in the company of young Jobson. He is a dissipated young man, and ho gambles; I should prefer that you avoid his socie- ty.\ \He gambles, father, I suppose. He can afford to. He has just made $100,- 000 in the wheat corner.\ \Well—still—you had better be caro- ful.\ After a little while William rises from the table. \William!\ ! \Sir!\ \If Mr. Jobson if disenaged this even- ing you con bring him up to dinner. Per- haps a little good example may save him —and, William, you can just tell him something about tho new mining com- pany I am floating.\— Ban fYaneuco Chronicle. A Lake Disaster II oca lied. The I.ady Klgin, a lake steamer, col- lided with a sailing vessel named Augus- ta, and sunk in Lake Michigan, Septem- ber 8, 1H00. There wore 21)7 persons lost, many of whom were from Milwaukee. Only about one-fourth of those on board were saved. A song commemorative of tho accident is given below. It was sung, says the Detroit Frei Pre**, from Maine to'California, aud will still be a fad re- minder to many who lost friends and relatives with that ill-fated steamer: { TUB LADY BLOW. Up from the poor man's cotttajce, Forth from tho maunlon door; Sweeping across tho water And echoing along tbe shore; Caught by the morning bronzes, Homo on the evening gals— Cometh the voice of mourning, A sad and solemn wail. I CHORUS. Loft on the Lady Elgin, Sleeping to wake no more; Numbered with that three hundred Who failed to reach the shore. Oh. 'tis the cry of children Weeping for parents gone: Children who slopt at ovening But. orphans woko at dawn; Bisters for brothers weeping, Husbands for missing wives— Such were the ties dissevered Dy those three hundred lives. i Stanch was aur noble steamer, Precious t te freight she bore; Gaily SIIH lo>»ed her cable A few short hours before; Qrandly *heWept our harbor, Joyfully rang her bell-— I Ah. little we thought e'er morning She would toll so sad a knelL ABOUT DOLLS. THE ORIOIV, 1USK AND PROG- UE 88 OF PUPPET* Dolls In the Day* of thofharoaks- Puppet Shows in the Middle; Ajfos—How and Where DplU are Made Dolls have amused the world for age* and seem to have been well known in the days of tho Pharoahs; for in the tomb) of ancient Egypt figures of painted wood, of terra cotta, of ivory, and of rags have been found whose limbs were made movable for the delight of children. It is quite probable that Pheroah's daughter threw aside the mimic, child fyr the real baby which she\ discovered in the famous bulrush basket. In the torn! a of Etruria—by tho way, where was Etruria?—similar toys have been discovered; they were spread in the East, und in China, as well as in India, movable figures were made to act from time immemorial, by hand and on strings, or as shadows behind a curtain. Tho ancient Creeks were ex- perts in the manufacture of puppets, in- cluding wax dolls, and several of their poets allude to offerings of dolis to Artemis and Aphrodite made by maidens before their marriage. tnelr t»e*w styles or papers to describe tbem an, they made up dells in the latest Fi«cnoh fashions and scut them all over tbe<werid. These poupees, as the French called them, were thought of so much importance in England that they woreul- 'MOLDING TTIK. HEAD. lowed to he imported^wiihout hinder- ance, even in the time, of war. Thcsa dolls were brought into Pennsylvania and Virginia in early times, aud set tiro fashion for our great - grandmptUers' styles in dress. Now fashions ara not only pictured in the newspaper* and magazines without number, but descrip- tions of them are deemed of suf- ficient importance* to send by telegrupu through the cable that lies under the ocean. { 1 he French pou iee still maintaius its superiority in the doll world. Not even the mo*t fashiojiabfc American emporium can display dolis of home manufacture equaling iu piukneas of complexion, in Not to ho Frightened. Tramp—\And you won ? £give me the priceof a supper and bedf\ Hich Man—\If I gave you monev, you would not use it forsupperand bed.\ T.—\You'ro a rich man, ain't you?\ K. M.—\Yos.\ T.—\Well dye know the Scrrpturo says, its easier for a camel to go through tho eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven f\ 11 M. —\Well what of it/\ T.—\What of it? You're a rich man; where do you expect to bo when you're dead f\ H. M.—\Where do you exnect to be?\ T.—\In Heavou,of course I'm poor.\ H. M.—\Well aftor I'm dead I'll be as poor as you are. Good evening.\— Uotton Courier. the Chicago houst top* vvM~*QKbagQ ^^^jsmmahmmsmtm The World or Matter. **• . \Into how many classes is matter divided?\ asked a Detroit teacher of a email boy Friday. •Three.\ i •/What arc they?\ \Animal vegetable and mineral. n \Namean example of animal matter?\ \Beef.\ \Of vegetable f\ \Electric lighta.\ \What do you mean by saying that electric lights are vegetable f That is nonsense.\ \Well heard my father say that the city ought to buy an electric, light plant and generate its own eiectricitv.\ During the progress of the same msson a youngster, after the lines defining tho three kingdoms had been fully ex- plained, hold up his hand. ••What is it, Tom?\ asked the teac'ier. •'Please, what is hash?\— Detroit Free Pro*. to Brooklyn. fellow, with an oil was sitting on' a ^Fulton Ferry house the scat, and ac- in- the The Way A sun-burned old cloth travelling bag, bench in the other day. i Suddenly he arose from his costed a passing gentleman, quired: \Eh—kin you tell me what time boat leaves V* \\Vhy» there's boats leaving every few minutes or so,\ was the reply. \Every few minutes or so, hey? W'l, whut's the reason this boat don't start then?\ \What boat?\ \W'y this 'ere boat.\ \.Man alive! This ainH the .boat; this it the ferry houfe!\ **Yew—don't—fay so P slowly ejacu- lated the sun-burned old fellow. \The ferry house,\ he went on with a foolish smile, \An'bore I've been a-waitin'three hours /or Story of a Swallow. People have awallowed unpleasant creatures whilo incautious!v urinking froin brooks and springs, and it is *aid a mouse onco ran down a dog's throat; but wo never heard of a boy swallowing a bird. The Boston Jle<ord tells of one who narrowly o-cuped doing so. \ I've heard of strange accidents befalling people,\ remarked a turgeon the other evening. \ but tho case I was called upon to attend tho other afternoon beats any- thing for novelty that ever came, under my notice, I \ A little boy was flying a kite!on the house-top. Another lau two or three houses away was engaged in tin samo diversion.. Ono opened his mouth to call to tho other, and ju«t thon a flock of swallows carao Hying by. One of the swallows, evidently confused, flow against tho bov's face, driving his bill clean through his check. In his agony tlio lad closed hie teeth hard and hold the bird fast. Tho swallow was partly stunned by tho shock, and with tho bird sticking out from his check, tho lad ran down stairs to his mother. 8he removed tho bird and summoned me to attend the lad. That bird now occupies a handsome cage in tho houso, and the ownei wouldn't .part with it under any consid- eration.\ I ^ Nationality in Beards.' An observant friend who had ex- amined a'collection of face* rcpnsent- ing a large number of the public men in tho United 8tatos, mado the following general coaclus ons in regard to national types in the cutting of the beard, which contain more than a grain of truth. \The simple mustache, with' the rest of the face clean shaven, is the prevailing American type,\ he said. \Thoold-time Yankee chin-whisker, like that of the traditional I n< le Ham, is no longer the national cut. Iu the^ame way the old French typo of the imperial, or heavy mustache and long goatee, has given way in France to the present type of a < lose- cut full board, trimmed to double points on tho chin. Tho German and Kussian national types are heavy full beards, nnited at the middle of the chin. The English type is a small, short-cropped mustache, with small square side- growths. The general south European typo of Spain o^4taiy is cither an en- tirely clear-shaven face or else a very small mustache and goatee crowded .close about the mouth. —Bo<ton Adar- tia<r. i ———— i i Apples for Erjniues. \Professor did you ever use any drags in the management of your horses?\ \A good many years ago I tried 'oil of rhodium/ and 'oil of cummin, but 1 never could discover that any benefit was derived from either. I would rather have apples twice over than any drug that has ever been advertised. Drugs have as vicious effects upon animals as upon in- dividuals. For instance, I have tried morphine hypodermically on some vicious hcrses with excellent effect, while on others it has acted in precisely an op- posite wsy. You can never tell how it will operate until you have experimented, which make* it dangerous}\— Time+Dem- ocrat. A XVI CKNTUHT DOLL. Pictures of two of these crude efforts at doll making aro given. r ihey show that little girl* have always had tho *ame giri-nuturc they now havo. and that older people lm\e alwavs trhd to please and satisfy it iu tho tame way. Tho puppets, originally iutonded to gratify children, ended in bo'rug a d4ver- sion for adults, and puppet snows at* tractcd a duo amount of at tentlon in thu Middle Ages, arriving at such a perfeo- tior. in. tho sixteenth century that their performances rivaiod in attraction thoto of living netors. Puppet showe be can no exceedingly popular in England in the early part of the last century, but nono more K than those conducted by Robert Powel, whoso ] erforu nuccs weio notjro- strictcci to London,but wire given iuTho geaeou at Bath, at Oxford, and other places. In London Powel's puppet show was M't up under tho piazza at Convent Garden. The latter is a mry ancient .< f§ Dirrrxo TH,TIIE WAX. wealih of lace, ho^ecee, and friUenea. the dolls exlun a 'tlbd i in Par.s. In tho manufacture of small porcelain do'IK, ar- rayed as brides. 1 ibies, •licpherdcsie*, beadles, and geudartiues, the French are also wonderfully skillful. Tho most ex- pensive? dolls, arrayetl in tho latest fa-h- ion*, come, in many instances, from Paris, but there aro professional and amateur doll diessern enough in England who can successfully omp'te with the French. Most of the best dolls in this country* however, do not come from En.land, Uiv wo hardly look to tho Eng- lish for our styles, but from France and Germany. The hitter country if famous for the manufacture of toys and dolls, and tho tmnll town of Sonneborg, in the Thur- iugian Forest, alone produces articles for tho amusement oi children to the value of $ir*0,000 yearly, aud enough to fill the toy shorn of every quarter of tho globe. The uiilercnt processes in the manufacture of wax doll* can there be seen from beginuinjr to end, and is partly illustrated in thisarticle. German ladies aro also expert doll-dressers, and thore is a yearly Christmas exhibition of dolls An Berlin. A great deal if mado of this Berlin doll exhibition, and society turns out in large numbers to patronize it! QUEER DOM- market* but is far moro famous from the opera houna that is over the market, where the tint st j>pcras aro given during the fashionable season. Powel's stage was furnished with a set scene, wings, and tky-borders, and the performances took place by lamplight, when the curtain rose, Powel, wand in hand, took his place, like the chorus of a Greek play, to illustrnto the perform- ance. Steeleliumorousy announced one of these performance by saying that Powel would gratify tho town with tho performance of his drama on the story of the \( hasto Susannah,\ which would be graced by the addition of two new elders.\ and Thomas Burnet, son of the famous Bishop, in bin dedication of a severe sa- tire on the ministry of Itobert llarley. •£arl of Oxford, alludes to the ^rrcat pop- ularity of Towel's show. \\ hot her or not any dolls were brought over by the Puritans who landed at Plymouth Kock, we do not know. There are said to have HOMAM DOLL. been some brought in the Mayflower, and possibly the claim is true, for you know the good ship sailed from a Dutch port, and J-utch chitdrcn have for cetituries had the best dolls the world aTords. Still there r* to betaken into account the prim notionjsof the Puritans. They had no timo for pht^ of any, and they were such thoroughly piactical and work-a* day people that it is doubtful if thoy ever allowed their children to play with dolls. However this may be, it if certain that! generations succeeding the Puritans in this country have not followed in their footsteps. .uii ions of dolls are brought acroso the oi-can every year to American children, not to mention the millions that are manufactured here. There was a time when there wero no fashion ourDal*, _ust as there was a time when there were no new<pa;>eni ormaga zines of any t»ort. The French people then, as now, originated »oit of the la PAIXTTNO TBT5FACR. There aro whole towus in Germany that do little cine tnan make dolls for American children. They are mostly simple country folk. They gel small pay for making even an excellent doll, but it must be rcifecmlwrcd that their wants are few. German people do not stir about ns much an Amerb ans, and it is the trav- eling and the dresses to travel in and nppe.ir in \>tvlo\ before tho world that co*t«. English children buy almost • 1,000,000 worth, of d >lls from French amU.»crman dollmaker.H, whilctho Ameri- can ichildrcn, not quite all in do!K how- eveij, buy doubhu Sfrat worth every yj-ar. VAi^er' out for doll*; ma es msjny amonir tfc^ poor ftftrmanv at Chris many dollars' an money paid h.ppy hora<«s of Franco and e. Hit or Miss. m^ftSa^. fWffiP '*-^>9T ti Taking Aim. S. A Palpable Hit. -, A '£wiss alarm clock produces at the hour for which it is set a rooster who TEMPERANCE.'- The Rumee'ler'ii T*rer. The mmeelfrr alnn.U at h<* eo inter and deal Uut h.» tii.ef of tho Oram, anl through it in •tcu!§ From hn v rtmi the strength of their reasoc and will; And wh lu laay can stagger, ha soils to then still, So long as their money drops into his till. With the coil'uf a serpent hie victims hi h<>!i<, - And tightvranl tighter ho fastens the foldi Of a piul •!« u.isi.o:i tint triuhej tim-bcnas And b... hard n< Irs hci.*t at thu sound oi their ftiOiui.*. Because tuL-i-c * a hint of hard cash ia tin tO-'K«3. He thinks of th*» wife who is %xd and forlorn, lie knows tiaa her gurincnts arc faUud ask won:; He thinks of the children that blush to U •eeu, He knows they aro wretched because bs it m ^aft — But, oh, ho is fatter becduss thov are leau. * • % He thinks of the scalding hot tears thoy havi sh-.'d. He know* tti^y have reason to wi*b thej weredojul; Because, i»y tho devil's most den<Uv device. The hushan land f.ii i%r a b >J 1 i.ia vi.-w. That be may have p„xisaro wane tjey pay t^e price. ite knows that his traffic maTces paupers and thieves. Yet the price of ther ruin he coo'ly re^rrps; Then turns tuoin a inft lor his neighbors U foud. And to c.irry t s e cost of each crimi uU d ,> ed, Cutil all fcoi the gri\} of his ten'ioio £i?ed. A Few First Principle*. 1. Prohibitory law has - relation to the liquor traffic. From time immemorial the right of law to rejrnlato, retrain or forbid a traffic ho* \wen exprcistid Our tariff lawi ar<» bas<Hi (in that ri^jht. All embargoes aro a recognition of the ri.^ht The Inws relating to the traftic in poUons, in cxplo*ivua, ic tainted or adulterated foods, and ail Sunday laws are an exi>rosn dwI:trntio:i that law bei the right to interfere with a traUJc which on dangers Moiety 1 * welt ara. ar/l'to whatever degree is neeaxsary for the puolic safety. M. The eviln of mt.-m^raneo are not con< fined to the drinker. Grant tivat the drunk- ard in responsible for his own degradation any misery: tharhis drinking is a -voluntary art, and h:s punishment the penalty of nature —granting all lhat, there romains the fart that thn traffic in liquor* is a source of m numerable evils and dangers to sojir>ty at largt*, which include* ali innooent member* a# well a* tho guilty ones, and of vast burd'-n* upon all Uximyor*. All law owes a debt ot protection to the wwk—the woTion anl child run— when they aro powerlo« to protect thfni-w-ivH*. Th\ saloon is a monoooto the hnahh and live< of tli»^*o weaker members ol sociotv from win-h they tmtf\iOw~rhm ade quutcly to proto -t thein**»]£fa. T.-ieir right to Ugn' protection is recognieod, therefore, by the lutv that make* drunken MOMS U crltno, aud sales to drun .ards nn I rum »rs a cpim?. Hut ibeso law*, wlnle turn* recognize that rigrit, aro proven wholty made plate to pro tC'Ut >!. ii When pertonul litwrty infringes on per soual right* it mu.t l-o curlailiHj. All law, every trtatuto framed fr.»m the days of fihnal down, is ha«ed on the truth bthind the prop- OMli'in, It i* impossible to riant thu right of pergonal liberty without asnadittg the »erj foundation of law. for all lau- isacurtiilsnenl of somo mim'* pergonal liberty ia U'half oi s>ine other man's ]>er-on d ruh:a Personal lib >rty mean* Hnarehy---the abrogation of all law. No one has ammonal rig it to do what infringe < on another man's p rsonal rights. A man may, with norm* show of reuson, oh*us the right to gratify his private apatite for drink m a way that iniertores with no one e!se. But he cannot cairn ns his right, foi tho Hake of his private gratification, that la* shall legalize and tolernt' a public traffic that inflict* on others ineutimv-le wrong. H< may like tain to I in at. and, if it agroea with him, he may ]<ea*Snablv claim tho rigat tc eat it; but wh< n h • claims, as a ri^-ht. thai the lavr shall legalize and u;>h(»l 1 the n*L* ol taintet meat in a j>ublie mart, for the sake of hiH uppeiite, he is g'wng too far. Yet thi wine drinkers of our day are committing thu absurdity continually. 4. No law forbids uu act for the sake of the man who wants to commit it, but for the sake of the man who would be wiotiged thereby. Th.^ idea that a prohibitory law ii for the pun>o.*of saving tho man wbodrinki IA an entirely wroug idoa, IU purpose is to protect the inno-.'eiit victims of his drinking. The law against theft does not havo in view thu salvation of the would-be thief, but the ptotoetion of oth< r* in their property right*. Bo of all law* agahtftt vice. Their \object ii net to keep men from the coramikMon of sin, but to prot<Hjt others from the consequences that would come from such commission. Here is an important distinction between ths province of Jaw an I the province of tbi Gospel. The (ioxpet'* aim is to prevent ths eo)iMni**ion of vice oriraarily for tho s^ko oi the man who is impelled to its commission. ft. The faloou is not only an effect, but I cause. The very first thing it does is to pre- sent inducements to vlro. It is a continual temptation. H ix not merely a scuvengof (as has been said), removing the weak.viqtuus and corrupt elements from society, but it ii Itself tbe cau*» and creator, in very large degree, of their weakness, vicious* net* and corruption. It takes the boy without a taste for liquor, and by its insidious attract ions plant* the seeds of aa appetite that finally masu-iH bio wi.J, deadem his affection* aud t.title* his conscience. It M more than a conduit of evil: it is a fountain as well, and out of it come vice, crim*, dis- order, |>auperism, insanity, idiocy, disoases, and political corruption that defeats justice, makes law a farce, debauch\* public con- sc.ehce and threatens every institution founded on the intelligence and virtue of tin ma**e« i In view of these considerations, tbe mpral right an well as the i< gal right of prohibitory law seems to us as unu»sailabie and a*obv|oui as that of any law ever put on the staltutc book*. It is iu no proper eense a revolution, but an evolution instead. Kv<ry court in th* nati >n before which the question has come, including the Supreme Court of the Untited States, has decided in favor of tbe tight of tho State to nrote-t iUelf by a prohibitory law. By tbe highest authontv in the land, therefore, it is decided not to r>i' an invasion of the \inalienable right*\ guaranteed by th* Federal Constitution. On the coutrarv. It is an al«aoluU» necessity to the protection of those right.— Ths Voice. - A Good Law. > Tbe Rev. William 11. Williams, of Bt. Louw>, says in the O o ! >*-Denutcrat : \Jn a certain towu in Germany it is against the low to grant a marriage license to an ha Hit- ual drunkard. If such a thn,' were attemp- ted in this country, we would bear an agoni/ed wail about surnptuirv laws,' und yet i <!«-« i-e to ask' wbetiier any la* which protect* our women from bli,:hf»d lives is wrong r \ur only fear, however, of difficulty in the administration ot th* law would hie from woman herself Alts! h>w r many a noble gin, blinded by love, haaijukal her life with that of a drunkard.\ Temperance Notre and If >tes.< Dr. A. T. richofleld, of Ixradou, compares tbe moderate drinking of stimulant* to sail- inc ou the <> iter circle of a w.1iri}>oo:. a some- what excit n^c, but not a wise proceeding, Queen Christina has signed a decree regalat* ing tba manufacture and imputation of alcohols into Spain, and prohibiting tba manufacture and sale of impure alcohols for rtriuLuur ouroow^s Prohibition sentiment is rery strong in Colorado. Peuhl\. tho second city in the State, has an anti-saloon government, and many smaller towns have local option ia full foroa Among tbe inscription at the base of tho drinking fountain at rttratfont-on-Avon,pre- sented by George W. <.ni!.Js. of Fniladelphia, in honor of the gueens Jubilee, is th* follow- ing from Khsk *j>eare: \Jlooest water, which ne'er left man in the mire.\— Txnumof AUun*. A temperance movement has been In- augurated in 1 forr ford. Conn., which promise* to ehect a great re>lnction in the number of drinking places in that city. Ths manufac- turers HJHI wor>mgmen h.»V« united in peti- tioning thj County C ointarasiuueni Jioei
