Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1887, Page 10

10 mar LITT). E SAVAGES, ‘The Tors that Littic Uedskine Have to Pinay With. Yors, TOrLS AND TOY CRADLES AMONG ESQUIMACK AND IXSTANS—GAMES POR THE BOYS AND OIRIS— FROLICS I THE ARCTIC SNOWS—THE JAPANESE ears clack Hotel 8.28 jolly 8 looking fellow tn his way as ‘Kris Kringle himself. A ttle image of himstands Yo acase at the National Museum. He is repre- sented as having a great frolic with alittle Japanese youngster Whom he is tossing ina bag. Hotet is ‘he Japanese Kris Kringle. He tsone of the del- ties tha figure in the picturesque Japanese folk lore, He tsa prodigious favorite with the chil- dren, to Whom he brings gifts and tells pleasant stories, and for whom he performs all manner of ‘tricks, being ever ready for a frolic. He Is de- Seribed as 2 drawling, yawning, obese vagabond, the god of contentment. He Is a squat, stout fig- ‘ure, and, ke our own good St. Nick, bas S— around face and a rvand littic belly, = ‘That shakes when be laaahs like a bow! full of Jelly.’ His raiment 1s very scanty and he Is supposed to be poor, to represent contentment in poverty. He 1s figured sometimes as riding a buffalo, as he has noreindeer todraw his siewh lke Kris Kringle, Mometimes he is seen carrying a sack, fan and lamp, or sitting on a sack of hemp. He is repre- sented at other Umes, asin the earthenware Image at the Nationa Museum, as tumbling a child about inasack. He sitsdown’ among the children and has the grandest kind of romps with them and jays the wost amusing pranks, a great innocent, fun-loving, laughtug, happy goou-for-nothing. “In Japan,” remarked the sage ethnologist, wbo with Tae Stan reporter paid is is wo the jolly little Japanese god, “the children rule. The ‘country is described, you know, as the paradise of entidren. Their happiness 15 the first considera- tom Atthe play, when the curtain fails, they Fm on the sage and take possession of every thing. On, yes, they are spotied in a certain way, they are niost respectful to their parents. regarded there a blessings ‘Yes, all nations have their toys, They have thetr dois and tops and. guiues of all kinds. ‘The itttle Japanese have battledore and shuttie- ex ainese boys fly their kites, the Koreans have their sliding kim or Jumping Jack. Every- where In the world, among civilized people or ‘Savages, you will find toys for the children.” ‘THE TOYS OF SAVAGES. ‘The professor stopped before a case filled with tittie Indian cradles made of bent strips of wood and thougs, as playtaings for Indians of the South- west. up ii beaded buckskin, sit and pi ppuly as any little misses in Washington, with their flaxen-haired and elegant- 1y-costuumeci dolls One elaborate Navajo cradie is trimmest with many streamers of Duck. skim and ornamented with little silver discs like vattons. The doils, in uearly every case, repre sent not children, but grown people, and are dressed, Bot as pay Dut as adults "The Zunt and Mok! dulls represent gods that fure in the sav- age mythology. The toys of savage children, ike those that Mili tae toy shops of Washington, repeat tu miniature the articles used tn the real, earnest, serious employments of thetr elders. Diminuttve Lows and arrows, boats, axes, houses, are fashioned for the amusement of the Indian enild. ‘THE FUN OF RSQUIMAUX YOUNGSTERS. ‘The Esquimaux boys have little sledges and go wnton sledging parties. One putting a couple of Sucks over lis head runs about playing that he 1s & walrus, and the other boys with their sledges go ous to hunt him. In the National Museum tsa tie Kayak or Esquimaux boat, made by some ‘ather for his ittie son. It is about two feet lo end bas alittle man, dressed in seal skin amet cout, sitting im the center with a paddie in his hand. Attached to the figure are strings. Puil ege of the strings and the fittle man works his paddie with regular motion; pull another and he stops paddilag and gravely ‘turus bis head from side to side, as if loosiug out fora seal. Another Esquina toy is a sortof a jack-in-the-box. It is * fox skin that can be flattened down and then fing up into lifelike proportions by nS Of Whaicbone springs inside. A roguish toy used by some Peck’s bad boy among the ES qulmaux and brought to the National Museum by mber of the Point Barrow expedition Is a Whaiebone bean-shooter. It 1s fashioned with a small depression at one end, in which the rogue patsapebdie. ‘Then he springs the whaleoone back andlets ft fy. When he hits any one, so sald the learned professor, be thrusts his hand, with the bean-she some Other direction as unconcernediy as though ue never heard of such a thing asa Deab-shooter. Jn one end of the Wialebone the boy had carved & row of Iiite teeth, with Which he also did mis- filet. When some young Esjuimaux puck put oa bis new deer-skin coat and strutted abor youngster very Lik ‘ius a Uittie dig lack with the whalebone, giving a twist tothe so that it would puil out a Luft of hair and Uhe stmooth surface of the ca AMONG THE NORTHWEST INDIANS. An od¢-iooking toy frou among tne Northwest resentation of a huge jam shell very skillfully carved. Inside 18 the clam, made Of buckskin. and having 4 feeder that will spring oat suddenly Whew the shell Is opened, Tue spring inside the feeds a piec Lent whalebone, ‘This feeder. or the end of It, ts covered with a red oes about with bis clam shell, we expresses curiosity tO see WHat nes At, ane, Ub T springing out, covers the eves and face of the curious one with the red powder. Then the owner of the mls. citevous clam takes fo lis heels and tries his game sounewher’ «ist, (On the northwest coast of Amertea an interest- ane like the gauue of syualis Is played with tthe dises of wood about the size of & sliver dol- A mat Is spread and some object 1s placad in center. F ige of the mat ce dises wt at the object by Miliping them with the rs The one that hearest, or who sbocks his adversary's dise aWay, $0 a3 tO leave his Op nearest the central object, counts, They have, tov, a game of odd and even, with Yery sumple lmpietuents. ‘These are two bits of Ory. One with a siting around it and the other without. Thegeare held, each in oue band, Dy one youngster, end the other one guesses in which hand is the ivory with tue string around It, AN ARIZONA BEAN-SHOOTER, From Ariroaa ts a bean-shooter taken from some tadiaa boy, made Ingentously out of the hollow stem Of a sun-flower plant. A little bit of plant Wood is bent and fastened through the hollow stem $0450 make a spring that will shoot & bean OF a pebble out of te stem or reed. Among t tiou are Loy darts, spinning tops, walp- Ping tops, and toy bows and arrows from the Puebio Indiaus. The darts are made by running harp stiex lengthwise thi acorn-cob. The heel of the cart is feathered like au arrow. ‘The Setaiuele indians ple ¥ marbles with the spherical ~ ed of the nicker pi int. A Woy from Alaska is What many a Washington boy has mace for bimself. The professor calied It ier. it consivied of a Mat piece of wood, thrvagh Which two leather thongs were passed. Fhe ends of these thongs are held i the hands, and The piece of wood Is made to revolve until the thongs are twisted ght. Tuen by alternately Ughtening and loosening Lie tension on the thongs the piece Of wood is iade to revuive # fast tha t it Wavem and Wums The Washington boy usu ally Uses 8 circular piece of tin for Lis whizzer. TAR GAME OF CHUNG-EER. Chung-kee ts played quite universally among American Indians. A lange ring of stone or wood Wound with strips of rawhide ts made somewhat ccentric in shape, so that when one of the players roils it it has ap irregular motiog. The players are rovided With poles, the lengua being twice the yt Of the player. The poles are made in two estlous and laced together. At the ‘middie of the pule, ton, are a nuinber of long strings of deer- With these poies and rings the Indian lads play sever. games. In one gaiue the ring Is seat Fulling at sciie distance from the player, Wao tries pole so as to pass it through the ring Knight Of the sorrowful mien tries to the ring va his wouden Lance at the tourney. Kate the pole Is thrown at the ring, 30 The man who throws so a¢ to bring the ground, with the greatest wumiber SU Mtings Wind seroes the ring. scores tue most in wpt of the game. Villages valnst and! there, Sre many petty ia the eau hose Mentioned, just as Ukere are inan: Sang to foot Dal, Toesides Kicking a ball about? Iu the North there Is = game of polo with rack- 2 the game Known as lacrosse. In Northwestern Meuieo ‘and’ Southern. California the wiris and young women play a game of skittles Each has & Wand, with which they shove ‘around two litle bits of wood connected by means cord wo oF three inches long. It is a game bockey for Women. Iustead of striking, as With a Dandy, they catch the cord connecting the bits of Wood'with their wands and poke the bits of ‘woud along. CURIOUS RSQUIMAUX GAMES. ‘Tue Rsquimaux have a form of the cup and ball, and make Ue game very difficult. Que toy of this kind im the National Museum is in the form of an ivory Dear that has on ove side many little holes ud another hole on the end of its nose. With It eet @ sender stick or plece of ivory. The game is w keep Ussing the bear and catching it on the Hck, taking each hole in succession, and Noally triumphantly eaiching the bear by uieans of the ote im the ond of ite nose. The caleu- fated that t would take ten years, practice betore The feat could be accomplished. There are other Of this Woy. One of them ts the skull of a mai perforated with holes. Another slini- wuinAUX game requiring manual skill is With eight little couical cups made from ‘They Ut nicely one over other. ‘The aie is to toss oue up after an- other, catching them as tuey come down, letting “be second fall wto the first, the third into te second, and 50 on, 30 When the last is caught they Will be’ ais fitted together. ‘“{ think we might call this the game of goosey,” remarked the protessor, as he showed tb? Teporter another Esqutuaux gaive. The implements were @ handful of littie Ivory Rigures of geese or other ‘1, all dat on the under side. They are thrown gto the air and a tally is kept of the number that § 4 i &R . Fight side up. Among the Esquimalt toys is @ rudely carved and painted checker-board, with checkers. This idea they got from white men. ‘They have also home-made dominoes, With a most Wouderful stray of spots on them. ' One of them ‘Bad forty spots on one half. For the boys, woo, Were are od:J-ccoking little nets, which are used as. Largets for haryoous, (be game being Wo make the stay in the bet. “They have toy bows aud arrows, toy drums and miniatures of everything wed by their elders A collection of Esquimaux ‘hing contaiNs coats, hoods and the long- AN INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION. One Box of Wys that have noi beea sorted con- ‘aim ah odd mixture. ‘There ts a Stamese foot- Lop frou Zuni land, littie héllow Mgures Of Dit With 4 Whistle Ia each; whizeers Into Ris pocket and Looks In | Baas: | we THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1887-TWELVE PAGES. puzzles of different kinds, for all people have thelr puzzies, anda great variety of playthings that even Kits Kringie never herd of, Every race has its tops. Souns‘of thowe, made of vory by Alaska Indians to be spun wit are Dalanced and will spin on a smooth surtace lor & long time. These Indians also make a top that fits into a hollow eylinder and spins in the cylin- der, there being an aperture on one side for the passage of the string. perience Thirty Yeary Azo. LOCKED 1% 4 ROOM WITH A MAD SENATOR AND A MCRDEROUS KNIPE—THE STORY OP A DURL—HOW THE SENATOR WHO HAD KILLED HIS MAN WAS HAUNTED BY THE MEMORY OF IT, ETC. “Do you know, sab,” sald the hotel-corridor colonel as he helped bimseif to-the crackers and cheese on the bar, “I was thinking, as I chanced to meet you, of a strange experience that I had before the wah. Let’s sit down hean,” said he, pointing toa round table near the window, within ‘sight and sound of the bar. “Let's sit down heab, Sah, and enjoy a quiet chat. IV's tooearly to go anywhere, if you will pardon the liberty 1 take, sah, in presuming that you were not engaged when I had the pleasure of meeting you, sah?” ‘THE STAR reporter reassuringly replied that his time was at their mutual disposal, and then be called “same” to the “something” the colonel had already ordered. A pleased smile stole as far as the colonel’s aida ving to It new color. He deprecatingly lifted his fuss the air ana p3 It dro the tabie, where it toyed with the toothpick holder. ‘There was a short pause followed by two gurgles. “Will you permit me, sah? No? Then, allow me to thank you, sah. You are a true gentleman, sah. Howev-r, when we sat down I was about to tell ou of a strange experience that occurred to me shortly before the late unpleasantness, in Which, if You will pardon the digression, sah, I lost over one hundred of the finest ni; 7s in the State of Jo-gia.” After an outburst aguinst the re- Suits of tie war the colonel paused for several minutes and toyed suggestively with the glasses near him. He seemed to have forgotten all about the strange experience he-had started to relate until hfs companion reminded him of it. Then he ee ee for his ormg Lt courtesy, declaring in a. sympathetic “tine and hard work were fast reducing him to the condition of an aptmal.” THE COLONEL'S STORY. “Before the wah,” he resumed, “I represented ‘the biankth district of the State of Jo-gia, sab, in the national legisiatah, and in my time I have been the friend—you will pardon me tf 1 say— | tutlmate friend of the greatest and noblest men in the nation's history. Among them were Senator Keeb, of Missooral, and Gen. Bill Bankson, of ‘Texas Both are dead, and [am all that ts left of & circle that sparkled with wit and learning. Sen- or Reb Was a perfect gentleman and a scholar. He could make one of the finest speeches that It has ever been my pleasah to hearin the halls of Congress, and his honah as a gentleman was never questionéd—pardon tne, say Lam in error. It ‘Was questioned once and he washed away the Stain In the blood of his defamer. Well, 1m. those days the Senator occupied a suite of handsomely furnished apartments’ In Blagden's Row, which Was tn the fushionable part of the city. His Particular lends were Gen. ‘Bill’ Banksoa and inyselt. A DECEMBER NIGHT. “The night on which I had my strange experl- ence was, if my memory serves me right, In the latter part of December, 1858, Early in the even- ing, with my wite and another lady, I went to pay social call upon my friend, Gen. Bankson, Who had a handsome nouse in the upper part of the city. There we met, among a nuwber of delight- ful gentiemen and" ladies, my friend Recb. We Spent the evening very pleasantly in a light game of cards, In which several of the ladies joined, and along Wward 11 o'clock my wife suggested tbat we had better return home. But our host would not hear Of our leaving them, and after persistent urging DY him and our tautual friend, Reeb, we consented to remain till later. After we had concluded our small fais, We had some fine music by several of the dies, Who, by the Way, had delightful volces, fol- lowed’ by light refreshmenis, Io a joking ‘way Senator Ree suggested that I go home with him and spend the night. My wife joined her entreaty with that of the Senator, and finally, as it was not the frst Ume that I had been absént from home over night, on legisiative duttes, however, Ico sented Upot the promise of my host that he would escort my ladies home, AT THE SENATOR'S HOUSE. | “About 12 o'clock the party broke up, and together, the Senator and I set out on foot, as It was a lovely night, for the Senator's apartments tn Mlagden’s How. We walked very, slowly, en. Joying the calm ‘nizht, discussing the aifferent bilis that were pending in which we were inter- ested. Arriving at Blagden’s Row he ushered me into lis apartments with the greatest courtesy, and there we sai for some Um" enjoying a quiet smoke. The sound of the clock striking two Te | mainded me that Thad better go to bed, and I | beged his permission to retire. He showed me | a luxurious sleeping chamber and bade me get | into bea without ceremony, as he desired to ad- | dress a few letters that he tad written during the | day, but had not had tine to complete. | as quickly as possibie and was soon in bed, For a time I lay there expecting every moment that he Would enter the room, as I could distinctly hear him writing in the frout room, but, growing very sieepy, I” turned over in’ the bed and re solved’ to go to sleep. 1 don't know how long “I slept, but soon 1 ex. | perienced “im my sitep an _ uncomfortable ‘and half-unconscious feeling that something was Wrong. ‘The feeling oppressed me mightily, and frou 4 pleasant drea.a I wandered into onein which it seemed to me that I was pursued by a yelling | maniac, Who Was making frantic efforts to Kill me. Just a3 it seemed to me tuat the maniac was about to plunge lis knife into my heart 1 awoke wita a start. By Gad, sah! if 1 live a hundred Years I shall hever foocet the sight that met my eyes when I awoke sufliclently to remember where Twas. Since that awful night I have been in many patties, Nghdng for tay hoine and possessions, and in those dreadful day’ of war I never felt hait the fright that took possession of my senses when I awoke In that strange bed and in that strange use. WHAT THE COLONEL 84W. “Ugh!” shuddered the colonel, hastily swallow- Ing some more of the “same” that had been de- posited, unobserved by him, at his elbow. “There, in the middie of the room, with a knife in his right hand, stood the Senator. His face was the col of white cloth, and the iauscies were working In & manner that’ made me sick with fear. crouching, as if about to spriu and bis eyes gilttered and rolled about in th Sockets like those of a maniac. Suddenly, with a snarl like an enraged aniinal, he sprang into the air, cutting and cleaving it witb his knife, and screaming in hoarse accents, ‘Keep off! Keep off 1 say!” Tp tearful alarm I rose up in bed’ an ‘shouted tomhim to know what Was the matter. But he paid no arreerion to me, aud when he was not scrvaining and cutting at some unseen object, he erouched ‘upon the floor, with his eyes fastened first upon one side and then on another, as if to Ward off attack from enemies that were attackin, hhitn from all sides. His boly swayed back and forth like a panther at bay, and every few mo- ments he would writhe and le like an epileptic in convulsions. cam imagine my feelings at that time. I felt that] was caged with a mantac, and ex: pected that the next moment he would turn ‘upon tne and kill me, ‘The moments were ke SUfl and rigid with terror, I lay there as etpless as a babe. “For ten minutes I must have lain there watch- ing Lim. | Meanwhile he had sprung, eat-iike,trom one side to the another, shrieking and cutting the air, OnIY pausing as a Wave of convulsions over bin. Then I heard the rush of nd voices in the house below, and putting all my strength into one scream for ‘Help’ I Jumped. over the back of the bed and ran into the front room. I couid not uulock the door leading into. the ‘hall, and spurred on by the yells and screams of the maniac, I shouted and kicked and beat at the door until it seemed asif I too would go mad if someone did not come, and then the door’ was burst. open from the outside and I fell unconscious among the Reople who had come in response to my calla, 1 nt remember anything that occurred between ‘that time and the middle of the next day, when T opened my eyes for the first ‘time to find myself at home and in my own room with my dear wife at my bedside. I lay there for several days, weak and helpless from my night of horror. Whenever I thought of it my brain reeled. Welt, sah, it was a week before I was able to re- Fame my Place in Congress, and then the first man I met in the Capitol that day was Senator Reed. I inust have betrayed some terror at sight of him, for he turned deadly pale and me without speaking. I met him several after that, and Wnouming hat occurred I bogs tS thnk eed at occu: in tO think that it Was all a delusion or tat it had beens hightmare, THE STORY OF 4 DUEL. “Idid not see Gen. Bill Bankson for nearly a month after that,” the colonel went on, “as he had gone to Texas to look up some matter for his con- from my mind in the pressure of important Business. One day when wel were aloue ne to tell me about some of the famous duels bad happened down his way, and from them he led on wo speak generally of duels and duellists. He toid me that several years before Senator Keeb had been provoked into “a quarrel with man, and’ they had fought’ a duel’ witht ven, and ihe Senator nally, killed bis man. This Very gravely until I had finished my story, then he said that ever stnce the time Keel Kilied bis wan, at regular intervals, and at ume only, the’ specter of the man Keep and they went through the duel had cht ap to to the tragic to pick up acopy of a dally paper, and the that I saw was an account of Reeb’s sul- his farm. The paper stated that while in- specting his tari on the moraing of the im Company with hisoverseer, Reeb, in frou one field to another, suddenly drew before Lue overseer co JackSon--Why, Johnson —Weil, the rest of them, if ‘wants vefore now. I disrobed | While I was sitting in the counting-room of a ‘merchant friend of mine the other day, I observed Thad bee me head sinking lower and lower within the toned dickey that he wore, before It dawned me that he must be that almost character, the superannuated clerk. On inquiry Teerees Sane be nes weeny the employ of a Calcutta merchant, a sort of Yankee ‘whom ee a eee years as chief ee per. days were spent, He ts at it akind of tenant by sufferance in the office where I saw him, having certain Tights of use and occupation in a'rickety chair and ooua, and enjoying also, believe, a sali, weekly enjoy z ‘a smal a eee eer ae economy, m: rmant a so wodded to the foutine ‘of ‘trade Sty Sie tee Sse ome to the desk, it is ut I- for him to strike out anew. path. Two I was told, he formally gave established himself as a gentie- sees ee oa bard recerae > Es ngs as the wretched youn, of Squeers came k wo the Dotheboys Hal P50 the superannuated was driven by the instinct within him iife Which he understands. aare 18 present position even the office pg Se 1e Was NO a sleel p a ‘under him inferior clerks, and hob- nobbing with tellers and cashiers. Iwondered at first that so experienced and re- ‘table aman should not now be filling a post of some importance. But alas! nothing is more common in city life than to meet with an unfortu- nate who has been shunted to a side track, a8 It were, who is no longer “in the swim” and cannot, for some obscure reason, get back to it, eas he may to do so, whereas other men, Rot & whit more clever, industrious orsteady than he, have sitions ani 3 facets, SP supposes unat 80" many apple cants stand waiting for every vacancy that If a man once lets go he cannot regain bis, hold unless he bas somet Special to recommend him. In the case Inquestion there are, it seems, SumMclent Feasons for failure to achieve’ @ second success, “What 18 aman good for,”sald my practical in- formant, “who can’t even use the telephone, who Says ‘please'in a telegram, who writes letters with a quill and blots them with sand!” ‘These, alas! are enormities that no employer of the pres- ent day could overlook. ee Water Nixtes. From the Gentleman's Magazine. ‘The Russians believe that the Rusalkas, or Water spirits, are beautiful maidens who allure passers-by, and if they catch them tickle them to death in thetr crystal halls below the waves. During one week in the year they come to men for clothes, and rags and threads are accordingly hung on the trees for their benefit, During that Week, for fear of offending the Rusalkas and being Punished by the loss of poultry of eattle, no one inust Work or sew or wash inch. When girls are drowned they become Kusalkas and the Wives of the watery Vodyany, and whe snow melts into fl or mill-dams are carried away by swollen vorrents,_ men Know that it 1s due to the matrimonial revelry that always attends the celebration of marriage be- tween @ mortal and a spirit of the waters ‘This idea of possible relation between water spirits and human beings seems to be a very obvious corollary Of the idea Of human-like beings resident in the water. The idea of their mafrying mortal ts at least as reasonable as the idea of thelr drowning them or Uckling them to death, And with the the idea of such marriage tt would be natural to connect the idea of some benefit to accrue therefrom to the water spirit, as well as of curious conditions involved inthe mar- riage contract. Thus would arise such stories as those of the Undine or Melusina, Undine, for Instance, the daughter of the stream, by virtue of her marriage with the Knight Huldbrand, acquires @ Luman, aod, therefore, an immortal oul He promises, among other things, never to bring er near a Tiver, afd when he accidentally does so loses her forever, to be by her tickled to death on the eve of his second marriage. gREEE Postal Facilities in Texas, COMPLICATED TROUBLES WITH THE MAIL AT PURVIS’ STATION. Opie P. Reid in Texag Siftines, ‘Mornin’ stranger,” saluted a grizzly-bearded Arkansaw man dressed in a red shirt, pantaloons held in place by a trunk strap, and leaning on a doubie-barrelled shot gun. The party addressed was a land-hunter, his particular mission locating Dlack-walnut timber, and bis office, headquarters and business agency were in the saddle. “Good morning to you,” answered the timber Speculator. “Game plenty “Well, not so Very; som'at scattered, What's news?” “The czar has returned toSt. Petersburg without ing assassinated.” ‘I don’t know the fellow you speak of, but I was in Petersburg during the war,when the crater Was jown up.” “Thats not the place 1 was talking about. What's the news about here?” “Iheerd a rumor about Bill Givens and Sandy Patchin agoin’ to war about Givens’ alster, Lize, up in Dorsey Kaounty, and hit "; eared Iikely’ when Yo’ {ust spoke about bit as {ffen sum of ther friends mout have jined in an’ clinched, What else, stran- ‘Well, they have hanged Parsons and Spies and the rest of them.” “Good! Lynched the eritters, mebber’ “Ob, no; they were legally executed.” “Did enay of ‘em git them hams back?” jains?” es, an’ side meat. ‘The also stole two gallons of Hi Stebbinses fo'-year-ole whisky.” “J ain talking about the Chicago anarchists.” “Anna Who?’ “anarchists, man—Anarchists! Don’t you people ever read the hewspapers?” “Onct in a while we does, But you see, stranger, our post-offus facil'ties are limited, mighty un- sartin an’ crude-like. Yo’ have no idee what a monkey-an'-parrot time we has on hit gettin’ our qmail, “Hit don’t cum ina darn sight offener than hit ought to.” “Whats the dimculty2” “An’ when sne does cuin, ole Pulvis, the post- master, has tue chilis so he shakes all their s:amps offen their ietters, an’ we has ter russel an’ sell a coon skin or a hunk of venison for small change ter pay the postage.” “Is that the only reason you don’t get your mail regularly?” io, Stranger; hits this way.” explained the Arkansaw Nimrod, spitting a red shaft of tobacco juice into the good'eye of a mangy hound, which immediately rolled in agony av his feet. Ole man Trabb’s son got the Government contract, an’ he sub-let 1U to Tommy MeGlory, an’ Tommy he sub-let her to Wyncoop’s father-In-law, an’ Wyn- coop’s father-1n-law sub-let her to Powell's uncle, an’ Powell's uncle sub-let her to Braxton’s mother, an’ she could'nt ride, an’ so she sub-let her to Job Pressier, an’ Job Pressler lost her in a game of seven-up to Lishe Potter's cousin, Lishe's cousin ‘sub-let her to Rat Hackett, an’ Rat—” “Yes; Dut What is the ‘trouble now with the mal “Well, to cometo ther pint, Skinny Wilkins 1s rtendin’ to carry her, but He's ole, an’ his hose 13 an’sweented, an’ has ther glinders, an'ther folks in Pikeville Whar he gits ther mail ‘won't let him drive inter town, nor ther folks at Pulvises’ Won't let him come nigh them with his glandered crow-balt, an’ so Skinny has ter walk about two Iniles at Pikeville an’ about two miles at Pulvises’, an’ when ther branch 1 up an’ ther roads boggy Skinny won't do hit, an’ that’s the gist of It, 90 yer see We air done up inos’ of ther time.” Men and Women at the Dentist’s, From the Chicago Tribune. A young man with a swollen face hesitatingly entered a dentist's office in a down-town block “I feel deeply for my patients,” said he. “So I judge from the way you Jabbed those for- ceps down.” “Thave a pathy for them in the pain they suffer int deni ghatr.” continued "the Teal tal’ to the dentist, “There! ase" sorte ot it 2, ‘who become callous in pulling teeth, ‘majority diaiixe the operation. “fc ‘tet oe ‘of physical stre! ‘A pumver i i i Ht & H | its § i 5 i a? & Ba & ‘The Servant of the Future. & BRIEF, SAD GLIMPSE AT A TWENTIETH CENTURY HOUSEHOLD. ©. N. Hood in Puck. ‘The hired girl had arisen from her luxurious couch and was standing before the dressing-table im her boudoir arrangiug her long, badly beaten gold-hued tresses in a fashion which would tend to keep them fromy failing too numerously into the succulent preparations of the culsine department: over which she reigned supreme. Upon the marble- before @ program of Coach Gentle- Inen and ‘Hostlers" ‘all. which se bad at- ended the evening berore. She picked it up and ‘Over the names of her James E. Quine, C. A. B. Driver, Samuel Hansom, Peter ¢ (nis X mark), and & dozen others Wno had t her hand in the mazy the evening be- fore. did she care for (he most? Su Up, and there vas s surange ineauctag igat in Ber up, was a eye. Again the words came distinctiy .to her ears from the unseen speaker below, but she answered ‘not. Rising from the luxurious divan upon which she had thrown herself she waited, but the voice did not come again, Ten minutes later there was a knock at her door. She rose and received from & liveried. ‘a deticately scented note. It read: “srs. Wealthy'’s compliments to Miss De Cook, and asks if she may expect a few moments’ assist- ‘spo tm the preparation of the eae at 62” 7 langut ‘an elegantly carved escri- eau a Off the following and handed @ waiting boy, wi wed and vanished: “Miss de Cook's compliments To Mrs Wealthy Thincks she ‘is tu freehand asia more thad cals for. give Mrs. Wealthy audiense At 5:38 and Consult and advize ind ‘The repast though Miss de Cook is much To ongweed to assist tn preparin It.” eee Value of First Impress! From the Chicago Journal. “How do you come to be such a good judge of human nature?” I said recently to one of the old- est and most successful detectives in the city. “By the observance of one simple rule,” he replied. “I cling to my first impressions of a man, and gov- ern myself by them tothe end. Perhaps I might add another rule, and it is this—if a man’s per- sonal appearance reminds me, at first sight, of another man, I conclude that the resemblance ex- ‘tends to character, also. Ifyou will adopt these two rules, and act‘on them for a few years, you Will be just as good a judge of men as Tam. ‘I re- member that, twenty years ago, a rather vener- able-looking man called on me, said he was a min- isver and ask me to subserihe a dollar to some be- nevolent object. I declined, and when he had gone, got to thinking how much he reminded me Of @ hoted horse-thief at the East that we used to call Cheeky Joe. Well, about ten years afterward, Twas looking for a stolen horse. I did a good deai of hard work on the and atiast_got on the trail of the thief. He ‘around from place to place, but I kept close up behind him all the time, and at last b: him: ‘Why, I have seen you ery likely; I've been there,’ he re- plied. SaldI: ‘Ain't you a minister?’ ‘No,’ he said, ‘I ain't no minister, I was working ‘that racket, though, when you saw me last.’ It was the very man Whose resemblance to another horse- Uhlef I had noticed ten years before.” soe How China Painters are Discouraged. From the China Decorator. “You say the price of this beautiful hand-painted dinner set 1s $1757” “Yes, madam.” “And the price of this plain set of the same ware is $171. Only $4 difference?” ‘es, madam.” “Then, how can that be real hand-painting? Surely 1€ must cost more than $4. to decorate a set Uke that, ‘The figures are exqulstte.” Both dinner sets were of Limoges ware. They Were displayed in a Broadway crockery house. The decorated set had delicate figures traced on each of the hundred or more pieces, “I assure you, madam, that it is genuine hand- Painting,” he repliea. “The slight difference ip price does not arise from the cheapness of the ee It comes from the highness of the “Well, I thought $0,” sald the lady. “I've done some paluting on china, and I know stich beautiful Work a8 that could never be had for 4 a set.” “Just as I thought, too,” sald the dealer, when the lady had goue, “She's one of them.” “One of what? “The women with the china-decorating crafe. told a little fib about the tariff, or rather stretched the meaning. It 1s our tariff on customers and ni the customs tariff that makes the sinall differen in price. We charge within a trifiing amount of as much for plain Limoges and other high-grade chinas as we do for the richly-decorated. sets, stunply to keep the plain sets out of tue reach of persons, principally women, by the way, who otherwise would buy them’and make their own hand-painted decorations. Few persons can tell real art Work from daubs on china any more than they can on canvas. If we gave the china-deco- rating cranks a chance we'd soon have the market flooded with real Limoges ware hand-painted by home talent. By inaking the plain sets almost as expensive as the imporced hand-painted sets we shut out these amateurs. ‘This course is pursued by the trade generally.” Adi From the New York Tribune. WHAT TO AVOID. A loud, weak, affected, whining, harsh, or shrill tone of voice. Extravagances in conversation—such phrases as “Awfully this,” “beastly that,” “Loads of time,” “Don’t you know,” “hate,” for “dislike,” &. ‘Sudden exclamations of annoyance, surprise and Joy—often dangerously approaching to “female Swearing”—as “Bothet #racious!” “How Jolly!” Yawning when listening to any one, Talking on family matters, even to bosom friends, Attempting any vocal or instrumentsl piece of music that you cannot execute with ease, Crossing your levers. Making a short, sharp nod with the head, in- tended to do duty’ as a bow. WHAT TO CULTIVATE. AD unaffected, low, distinct, silver-toned voice. ‘The art of pleasing those around you, and seem- ing pleased with them and all they may do for yo1. ‘Tae charm of making little sacrifices quite nat- urilly, as if of no accountto yourself. The habit of making allowances for the opin- lons, feelings, or prejudices of others, An erect carriage—that ts, a sound body. A good memory for faces, and facts connected with np tog evening vine —, helt by not recognizing or bowing to people, or to them what had best been left unsaid. rls ‘The art of listening without impatience to prosy talkers, and smiling at the twice-toid tale or joke. She Launched at Her Ease. INTERESTING BEHAVIOR OP A LADY PROM THE COUN- TRY IN A FIPTH AVENUE STORE. From the New York Sun. “Now and then a strange character drops in upon us,” said the owner of a bric-a-brac store in sth avenue. “Only yesterday I was standing near the door when an old lady, evidently from the country, came slowly and timidly tn. She was ‘stout and amiable looking, and had been shopping, as she carried a paper bug. I stepped forward as ale oa and she said: ‘I just came in too look around.” “ ‘Certainly, madam,’I said, and she passed alons in the store, stopping’ her and there wo admire the goods. From the rear of the store one of my young clerks came forward, thinking he had acustomer; but I motioned to ‘nim that the old lady only came to look, and he retired, as we never like to have a person Teel that he or she is being followed and watched. “Presently she came to a comfortable leather and cherry Tocker. After examining it carefully she seat herself in it, and began rocking back and forth. Then she untied her bonnet and turew astring over each shoulder. Stull rocking compla- cently, she opened the paper bag and took out—a. sandwich, From her pocket she produced @ hand- kerchief, which she spread upon her lap, The sandwich eaten, she produced a large bun, “This was a new departure for a swell store on Sth avenue, but both the retiring clerk and I were ‘Yoo surprised to do anything but stare at the old lady, so complacent, as she rocked back and forth and ate her bua. Having finished, she carefully Bar ie into tue paper bag. folded the bag carcralt it it ant 1@ p: , fol carefully, End put that into her pocket. Then, triia the HOOF Ee a whic! peel , ane over, the put the peel back upon the flodr, ae it seoued tome. Wiping her mouth and tying her bonnet strings, she then rose and came toward the door, and said tome: ‘I'm very grateful to you, sir, for {he rest 1 have had in your nice chair.“ was ¥ery jungry, and now I feel better, Good day, "iy ald ny clerk, ‘she has a neck. you "said my cl a Dia she carried tle banana?” ured H tire ‘The Woman He Married. From The London Queen. The pivot on which man’s destiny turns, either for good or for evil, for happiness or for misery, 1s marriage. If you live to see the end of his life, he ‘Will perhaps confess to you—or perhaps he will ‘not, but he will know it all the same—he will tell You that the magnet which first attracted him, ‘and thei him with a master hand either to ‘the one of the other, was the woman ue married. ay et uae ‘a very distinguisd a general military carger had- been so briltiant and so inva- Tiably fortunate taat the world looked bim asa ‘vectly happy man. He had earned hon- ors, he had served his country well, and he knew on his death-bed that he had ‘done bis duty. His jueen had rewarded him, and his honors bad fal- m thick and fast upon him, Yet what were his last words? ae ere the ad Who was With ‘him the last clasp of his hand, and the last look of bis dying eyes, to that friend’s intense as- conishment ne said, “I thank God that my mis- erable life 18 ened.” ‘There was one in his Tegiment who had known him from boyhood, had been educated with him, had served un- der him, and was supposed to’ know everything about bis st life; to this man the friend who bad heard the aying words appealed. “How could newer, “he appeared all you say, Dut there was That ite was Uiiguved aod is Seppitese wneceh fe was blighted and Its wi his affections ¢ and his temper soured by the woman le married. She was cold, unsym- pat ‘and selfish. Twoyears after she had ac- companied him to India she declared the climate didn’t agree with her, and she came home. She professed openly that she should xo her own way, and he might go his, She spent bis money, she kept him @ poor man ail his life, and she broke his heart. This is his story, but he never told it, and Af the near approach of Yeath had not wreichea it from him, you would never have known the state of mind in which he went to his well-earned eee. Never Gives Up Its Dead. WHEN A MAN FALLS OVERBOARD INTO LAKE SUPR- RIOR NO ATTEMPT 18 MADE TO SAVE HIM. Frank Wilkeson in the New York Times. How cold the dark water of Lake Superior ist One evening when we were steaming across that lake I asked the mate what was done when aman fell overboard. He coolly repiled, “Nothing.” “Why?” I asked, astonished at his heartless- ness. “The water of Lake Superior 1s so cold that a ‘Man Cannot live in it during the time it takes to Stop a rapidly-moving vessel and lower a boat,” he replied. ‘Then he added: “I have satled on this jake for twenty years. During that Ume I have known many men to fall off vessels, 1 know of one man only who escaped death. He was saved by ascratch. The others were ‘apparently killed by the shock produced by falling into such cold Water.” He picked 3 an empty can to which a Jong string was attached and cast it overboard. ‘The cai the crest of one wave to ‘that of another for an instant, then at and filled. The hoary-headed mate drew the full can up and handed it to me, saying: “Take a drink of that, and then you say what you think of your chances of swimming in Lake Superior for ten or fifteen minutes.” Tdrank deeply, and it was as ‘though liquid ice owed aown my throat. “Ivis alleged,” the mate sald, “that this lake never gives up its dead, that to be drowned in Lake ‘Superior 1s to be buried for all ume. I do not know: whether this is true or not, but I do know that I have never seen a corpse floating on the lake.” I ‘Wonder if that ts true?’ I doubted it, but I could no 9 tine who had ever seen a dead body float ing on the lake. wean ES caeeee Changes of Plum: HOW THE WINTER AFFECTS THE COLORS OF THE BIRDS’ FEATHRES. The Boston Herald says the cold haud of winter not only cuts down the late lingering flowers, and Scatters the few last leaves upon the woodland Path, but leaves the white print of icy fingers on the very plumage of the birds, The feathers of some, sch as the snow bunting, he touches lightly here and there swith a few flakesof snow. Oth like the ptarmigan, whose sober coloring has all through the summer matched so well the browns and grays of the heather and the lichen of her home among the mountains, he clothes with a dress as white as the very snow-drift which enraps ner winter home. The ptarmizan is with us a High- laud bird. “In other countries, not strictly Arctic fa its range, 1t frequents mountat ous dis {rlcts, generally at a great height above the sea- evel. ALWAYS A TIME FOR GOOD DEEDS AND GOOD WILL EVERYWHERE, From the London Queen. In the Middle Ages, in England, the obligations of Christmas were strongly marked. The old rhymster, Tusser, born in 1515, after living a courtly life under the shadow of the throne for Many years, became a Suffolk farmer. In his doggerel verses, which are still qupted under their old title of “Five Hundred Points of Good Hus- bandry,” he said: ? ‘Let Christuas be merry and thankfal withall, Aud feast the poor neighbours the great and the small. In Poor Robin's Almanac for 1684, more than a century after Thos. Tusser had been merry and thanktul for his last Christmas, the same ore ot hospitality Was enforced. Writing of C! Poor Robin says: Now trees theirdeafy hats do bare, ‘To rever nce Winter's silver halt; Abondsome hostexs, merry host, A pot of ale, and now tomst, T co and @ woud coal fire, Are thingy this season doth require, But before “Poor Robin” had issued the lines we have extracted there had been writton a poem which Leigh Hunt rightly calls “the finest Christ- mis carol ever Written by an Exgitsiman,” “The Ode or Hymn to the Nativity,” which, althougn composed by Milton when he was but a youth, Contains within it as fine lines as any he ever pro” duced. The universal peace that reigned through: out the worla at the date of the Nauvity ts des- scribed In language that Milton only couid have employed: “Nor war nor battle's sound Wavheard the word aruda, he idle spear aud shield were ; ‘The hooked chariot st od sap et Cnmgined with howe bloods a trumpet spake not to the a rong; And Kings sat stil with awful ever 4 Asif they surely knew their sovran Lord was nigh.” Analysis of a Tear. ‘THINGS WHICH MAKE A DRWDKOP UPON A WoMAN's CHEEK. From the London Queen. ‘The princip1l element in the composition of a tear, a8 may readily be supposed, is water. The other elements are salt, soda, phosphate of lime, Phosphate of soda and mucus, each in smail pro- portions. A dried tear seen through a microscope of good average power presents a peculiar appear- ance, The water, after evaj tion, leaves behind it the saline ingredients, which amaigamate and form themselves into lengthened cross lines, and look Uke a number of minute fish bones.” The ‘tears are secreted in what are called the “lachry- mal gla ” situated over the eyeball and under- neath the lid. The contents of these glands are carried atong and under the foner surface of the eyelids by means of six or seven very fine chan- nels, and are discharged a little above the carti- lage supporting the lid. he discharge of tears from the lachrymal glands 1s not occasional and accidental, as 1s com- Thonly supposed, but continuous. Tt goes on both day and night—though less abuudantiy at night— through the “conduits,” and spreads equally over the surface of the pupil, in virtue of the incessant movement of the lids. After serving its purpose, the flow is carried away by two little drains, situ. ated in that corner of each eye nearest the nose— into which they run—and called the “lachrymal points.” ‘The usefulness of this quiet flow of tears, to both men and beasts, is manifest. There 1s such an immense quantity of fne dust floating In the air and constantly getting Into the eyes, that, Dut for it, they would soon become choked.” Very little is requisite to keep the ball free, and when some obnoxious substance—smoke, or an Insect of the Iike that affeets the nerves-—does make its Way in, an’ increased flow 18 poured out to sweep it away. ————cee______ An Original After-Di ‘Speech, ‘From Longman’s. The entertafment was given by an earl, de. servedly popular. It was extremely handsome, and champagne flowed in an almost excessive flood, It is the custom nowadays to use candies, either ‘with or without shades, for decorating and illumi. nating at balls, receptions, dinner parties, étter ‘noon teas, wedding feasts, Christmas revels, and Such like festivities, because of the subdued @elicate sight obtained. Another reason that they. lend themertven, move readily to novel ideas i Young Girls in London. SOME OF THE SAFEGUARDS THAT ARE THROWN AROUND THEM. Whole dimicuity. It was not enough to give a girl Such a place alone, for, unless sne could be and fed at within her fro be unde noo temptation fo cre ving by {mmorauty. ‘And thus the lodging-howse, Wien its tidy, clean ‘cubicle and its Uright club: otiacet "eecee faces and the lange o zed ay fe intaney; clubs in and more bein: to realize the lat tale bu tiring energy of those t for the unt of ‘who founded tt, andat. whose heart the weltare and well-doing "of these girls lay very near, {t Would never have attained the position of proml- hence and tnfluence It now =; in this Insp: work, above all others, the ‘has been the strong, personal influence brought to bear on each inmate, the result ot which has been the presorvation and’ rescue of many a triendiess git m the snares and vemptations which crowd round the path of every uaprotect young woman in London’ pp The Matter of Marrying. From the St. Paul Globe. Young men, the large majority of you are hov- ering around the verge of matrimony, shivering like a mouse-colored terrier, and afrald to step off. The great majority of you know just where you can put your finger ona girl who would marry you at a second’s notice, but you are afraid that You couldn't satisty the landlords, coal-dealers, nd miliiners that @ man always weds when h6 Marries a woman. You are not men! You are simply cowards, who see a prize hanging above your heads and have not. the moral courage to as certain if your arm ts rh and strong ar és wo ey m Ly —"E two pot you ve a you earning “talr' wakes, “to vet “manved. and £0 to housekeeping, If you” have to. degin ‘With an oll stove, a candle, and a bed lounge. may seem to you to be a small are and so it. 4; but, once married, the money taat you now throw away in your endeavors to quiet your rest- less soul will go Into furniture and little nick- hacks, and you will soon wake up to the fact that you are the owner of a home, and that word means a great déal to a young feilow who has been swimming around in the ooean of life ever since he was big enough to shave himself, with his chin Just above the water, Just a8 Sool as @ man cal ‘Stand up before the world, point to a pleasant home presided over by a wife, who makes a har- ese of sil with which her”“husbaud draws bis urden 01 cares, and say: 'y are mine,” he Jerks hls head up tn the Air about six inches, and goes prancing about like a yearling colt in a new pasture. Get married, young mab, and if you use common sense in picking out a wife you are sure to make a success of the venture. ‘The word owes you a living, but it Isn't. going to press it upon you. You will find that it ts just as easy to feed two mouths as One, providing tLe extra mouth is owned by your wife. * * * There is noting this side of Heaven that can smooth out the wrinkles ina man’s ion, or knock down the obstructions that get in his path as be tramps along through this brief probation of lite ‘80 perfectly as the sympathy aud affection of a true, noble, seltsacrificiug w ‘and I'am ec- centric enough to believe that the majority of ‘Women are built that way, rand anxte ibility, such en. +e Brides who Perch in Trees, From Blackwood's Magazine. Among the Lolos of Western China it is custom- ary for the bride on the wedding morning to perch herself on the highest branch of a large tree, ‘while the elder female members of her family clus» ter on the lower limbs, armed with sticks. When all are duly stationed the bridegroom clambers up ‘the tree, assailed on all sides by blows, pushes and pinches from the dowagers, and 1¢ 13 not until he has broken through their fence and captured the bride that he is allowed to carry her off Sim lar difficulties assall the bride; among the Mongolian Koraks, who are in the habit of celevrat- ing their marriages in lange vents, divided into numerous separate but communicating compart- ments. AUa given signal, as soon us the guests are assembled, the bridé starts off through the comparunents, followed by her wooer, while the Women of the encampment throw every possible impediment in bis Way, tripping up his unwary feet, holding down the’ curtalus to prevent his passage, and applying willow and alder switcnes Unmercifully as he stoops to raise them, As with the maiden on the horse, and the virgin on the tree-top, the Korak brid? 1s invariavly capuured, however much the possibilities of escape may be im her ravor. oe He Liked Her Demure Eye. From the New York Sun. ‘They are telling in one circle of fashionable so ciety a story of a jolly young millionaire widow, An admirer at a ball, after puzzling himself over the twinkle of one of her eyes, walle its mate was demurely expressionless, asked for an explanation of the phenomenon, ‘And which eye do you admire?” she said. ‘H-l-bard to tell,” he stammered, “The one W-w-with the demureness sort of mashes a fellow; d-d-don't you know, and the one with the twinkle sets h-h-hitu ablaze With its flashes, 108 choice betwixt two—two—m-mighty g-good things, you now.” “On the whole which one do you prefer?” ‘Wa-wa-Wweil, I think the demure one.” “I am so giid, Dolphy. to hear you say that,” and the widow beamed rapturously into his face, “because the eye 13 a giass one, and I am some: Umes afraid it disfigures ine.” Tals revelation lost ber a lover. But she will hardly miss bim from the gang, and she certainly had fun with bi le he lasted, ‘Taking @ Mean Advantage of Him, From the Boston Transcript. “And how would you likea book for a Christmas present?” asked Aunt Lucy. “I should like It above all things,” replied George, ‘who !s passionately fond of reading. “And would you rather have something with Which you are familiar, or a book you never have read?” “Oh, something I haven't read, by all means.” When George finds that the book Aunt Lucy is going. to give him—something be never read—is the Bible, he will uaderstand what Shakespeare meant when he spoke of keeping the word of promise to our ear and breaking It to our hope, ‘Testing the Lad’s Honesty. From London Tidbits, ‘A lawyer engaged a new boy recently, and, ashe had suffered to some extent from the depredations of his former lad, he determined to try the new boy's honesty at once. He therefore placed a five- pound note under a welgutt on hisaesk, and walked Out without a word. Upon his return, half an hour later, the note was gone and haif acrown in silver had taken its place. “Boy. when I Went out I left five pounds under this weight.” “Yes, sir; but, you see, you hadn’t been gone five minutes when a taan caine in with a bill against ou for four pounds seventeea and sixpence, I eve the change is correct?” “Yes hire there Its, all regetpted x ir; ere said it had slipped ‘your tina tor che Past four *epnat boy got the sack on the on ripaitican cat wir ma Dispensing With Male Escort. From the New Orlenns Times-Democrat. ‘The custom of Women attending the theater in groups of three or more without an escort is even more general this winter than ever before. It is a very sensible and proper sort of independence, for thas always seemed rather hard to debar the sex from visiting either opera or play simply because no man happened to be avatiable at the moment, Ivis still a bit awkward and embarrassing, tor on. entering a public place every one present has a’ way of staring over one's, shoulder, as bunting uy tnissing man, courageous: Individual be full of pluck. thw 1s soon oversome ‘Then, there is strength in numbers, No one thinks of venturing out with less than two com. Panions, which sets at rest any scruples: ‘score of personal a, To many there is no ne, ‘The man Keeping in the Swim Anyhow. Fred H. Carruth in the Chicago Tribune. “This copy of our paper,” writes a Dakota editor, “ig not issued from Scrip City, our new county seat, a8 we hoped it would be, but about four miles from there, near Hank Potter's place. This is owing to the fact that in moving our office Job-press were Off some posters, Feered'up, and tell and broke fis" meex, thas com: pelling us to stop in the road. We expect to re- See cetammehaee ans Seamer back, when we shail hitch our wagon to the boys Giving Reanty to the Walls. RAILROADS. SILKS, GATING, AND DEVICES IN PLASTER USED Ty im GREAT a SIA ROUTE: oe ee ce Buble (iar Papers are considerably in advance of the Ruro- | Trains leave Wi intone, from swtion. commer of Oty Pean ones in some respects. Every year Mew Pal- | por mreney tet betes te Solon ‘terns must be introduced by the former, while ‘the latter run a pattern for six or seven years, A designer of wallpaper has a very good busi ness.calling. It approaches the region of fine ar. ‘The need not hecessarily have an e¥e fr Color, In most of the large es. lishaments whic make wall-papers two. are employed, one te make the plan or form of the and the other to a In What colors it shail be put. The Salary of a good man tn elther branch Is lange. ‘Silks and Satins mounted on paper are also used extensively to hang «room with. The effect is very Deawtiful. Of course only millionaires can afford to uave their houses papered (to risk a Dull) With satin. In the drawing-room of a house oa Upper Sth avenue the walls are done in a daintily figured salmon-colored satin. The sculptured frieve is tinted a corresponding olor. The plush por- Ue: es, the carpet, and the window drapery are ail in ing shades. The marble of the large fireplace is of a deeper, richer tone, and ts th focus of the whole rooin; but the Soft, lustrow sheen of the sattn-hung Walls ts very pleasing to eye, Fresco painting has been in vogue since the days. of early Rowan civilization. They frescoed betver ‘than the moderns. Nowadays artists do not really fresco at all. In the right process the color Painted on the wet piaster of the wall and Is ab- Sorded into tt. Hippolyte Flandrin’s frescoes in the Church of St. Vincent of Paul in Paris are done An this Way, but the so-called fresco work 1s usu- ally nothing but painting With thin colors on the hard, dry wall. Lincrusta-Walton work ts one of the late styles of mural decoration which las been in vogue now for some years, It has a good deal of the effect ot Ulea. A die is’ stamped on the wet plaster or com- Position, and leaves a pattern in low relief. The Work is done in various colors, and 1s finished so as to leave brilliant sheen. Hence it has very much the effect of Ules, and 1s particularly sulted But this process necessarily repeats the same form or pattern. The latest method of treating Walls eseapes this, A plaster is formed of whit- ing, lime, and one or two other components, ‘This Teulains Soft and impressionable for two or three days after it Js ladon the wall. Then Ube artist's action begins. He shapes and moulds a design in this sot, piaster material, He tung makers Dand of cupids chasing one another merrily. OF he makes a pond covered with lily pads, and with long slender rushes rising from it; or sprays, laden with Diossoms or fruit, may interlace. -C Courve his fancy is the only llinit to the possibili- Ues o' This is art Work. ‘The workman has a few tools, Such as steel combs and brushes, but the greater Partis manipulated with bis hind, This makes the work unique. Itis not only a compositio With its varlous parts embroidered to oue effeci, Dut it 1s the owner's only. Tuts, to certain minds Which like tobe the only possessor of a certain thing, 1s a strong point in its favor. ‘Souietimes the material is shaped so as to depend from a border in the celling like stalactites. Other hovel arrangetents are introduced, and often with Very good effect. “When the design Is finished 1t is colored. The only objection to this style of work 45 that it looks too much lke cheap art. For the Wall papers very geod erusts are often employed to furnish the design. But this repoussé plastic Mork does not exhibit so much art. "In the hands @ really good scuiptor something very aduir; ble could be worked out in this material. sos — Ing English Jockeys of the Year. From the London Tines. The late F. Arcuer, beginning to ride about fifteen years ago, soon took the first place tn the list and kept it until his decth last autumn. Dur. ing that period Constable, a jockey who rode a 00d deal for the earl of Rosebery; Fordham, who hhad for many seasons before occupied Archer's place, and C. Wood, were, one after the other, second to him, and the last-named jockey had Occupied that'position for six seasons consecu- Uvely, When Archer died, a twelvemonth ago, he had ridden 170 winners, and Wood did neariy as Well, his total belng 167 at the close of Ue season. ‘This year Wood has ridden only 151 winners out of 510 mounts, but, with Archer removed from his path, he 18 still a long Way in advance of any ‘other Jockey, ls tWo near st rivals being Watts, With 120 Wins out of 451 mounts, and G. Barrett, With 106 wins out of S81 mounts. Wood's view Tes inciude the one thousand guineas: the Oks, in Witch he ode Ube Duke of Beaufort’s Reve @Or; the Great Metropolitan stakes, which be won on the Duke of Beauiort’s TheCob; the Moyal Hun. cup at Ascot, in which he rode the Dowager Duchess of Montrose’s Gay Hermit. He also rode Ayrshire for the Chesteriield stakes at Newmarket and the Champagne siakes at Doneasier, in Ue | colors ot the Duke of Portland, while a large num- ber of his vietories were achieved for Sir George ‘Chetwynd and Gen. Owen Willtams’ stabi Watts won the Derby on Mr. Abington’s Merry Hamptos, and he also rode Mr. Barclay’s Benalzo for the Jubilee stakes at Kempton Park and te Champion siakes at Newmarket and Exmoor for the Northumveriand. Geo. Barrett rode much oftener than any other jockey, but his, OB victories, though considerably low “is totals of the last two Years, comprise | Soe very important races; for, besises riding Sir Frderick Johnstone's Friar’s Balsam iu We Mid- die Park plate and the duke of Westminster's Saville 1n the Goodwood cup, he had the mount on | Lord Edward Somerset's Carlton im most of is Taces, and hls cule victories uave included the Chester, Manchester, Doncaster, and Jockey Club cups, the Goodwood stakes, aid the Manchester November Handicap. His younger brother, F. Barrett, who has won ‘only 72 races out of 403, Is divided from him by 8. Loates, who has this year done remarkably well, having won 81 races out of 406, among the viclo- ries being those which Merry ‘Duchess achieved ‘over Carlton in the Clty and Suburban Handicap, and which Exmoor Won in the Koyal Stakes, also at Epsom. Sixth on the list comes W. Robinson, who was apprenticed to Cannon, the Danebury Jockey and tfainer, but who is now In the service of Lord Kod- ney,for whom he rode Kilwariin in the St. Leger and Humewood in the Cesarewiteh, He bas won 63 Tace8 OUL Of 397, and if le does not aliow is head ‘to be turned by’ this early success he will become one of the leading Jockeys of Ube day. T. Cannon, who Seetus Lo have the ‘gift of form. ing lads to riue as Well a8 he does himself, has won 57 races out of 23%, While he has brougut out {Wo Of iis sons, bot of Wliom have Won about 10 Faces €ach and have suown so much ability in the saddle that thelr services are already in great re- quest. Ove of them wou tho Stewards’ and the other the Chesterfield cup at Goodwood, while Cannon bimseif rose Enterprise for Mr. D. Baird in the two thousand guiueas, Bird of Freedom for the sameown-r in the Ascot cup, Ormonde in the Rous Memorial and Hardwicke stakes at Ascot ‘Ossory an Uae Criteria stakes at Newmorket,-and St, Minin in the Liverpool Aucuinn cup, all these later victories having been won for the duke of Wesuniuster. Canuou bas ridden only thre fewer Winners than last year, but Fagan, a north coun- try Jockey of some repute, has seen’ is total drop from 72 (o 52, and the ouly race of importance in Which he Was successful was the kpscin grand prize, won by the Dowager Duchess of Mouttose's ridspord, ‘Among the middie-weight Jockeys Rickaby and J. Woodburn have done vest, with 45 and 42 win- hing mounts (o their ‘and the latter, it may De added, also wou the Grand Prix de Parison M, Aumonts' 7énévreuse, F. Webb's services were at ‘one time in great. request. out he can ow only Tide Very heavy Weights, while lliness as Uhis sea- son deprived hitn of a good deal of riding. He hiss, nevertheless, Won 31 races, as against only 19 last Year, and it Is satistactory to find Uiat Ube senior of ail tne jockeys now riding, Jno. Osborne, of Asb- 1, has Made au advance’ Upon his last year’s Total. He has ridden 29 winners this season, his chier victories having been gained in the colors of Mr. KC. Vyner, for whom he rode Gloriation in Most Of iiis races, and Minting in the Jubilee cup at Ascot. He alsu rode MinUug for the Hardwicke stakes at Ascot, when Ormonde, ridden by Cannon, defeated him after so interesting a finish, and be was again second on Bendigo in the Cambridge- shire, the vitterness of defeat was for bum on Chat Occasion by Ube fact Lhat Gioria- ton, to Whom Bendigo succumbed, was in his own stable. Ivis but rarely that gentlemen riders compete With professional jockeys upon the flat, but Mr. Abington is very foud of riding, and, beltig able to 1. down toabout mive stone’ seven pounds, he taken part in no gewer than 114 races, ‘and has been successful thirty-seven Umes, While upon twenty-nine occasions he has been placed and upon seventeen tuird. ie stands far in ad- Vance of all the other gentlemen riders, Mr. ‘Thiriwell, who has ridden four winners out of ni. and'Mr. E. M. Owen, who has won tne same , following him at a long iuterval. Demanding Husbands. ‘From the Fortuightly Review. ‘Chaste and modest as the ideal woman of chiv- ree Chie Looted Fs gi Paine: Siceping Care et 50 eon ally Peat cen Lhe © 50" Xo Cincinmedl and st Louta Sib scout Gary fro Nariabuny to Ceca ae yemarursiay, {e'Cineaen, ith Sieying Oar Al eas Wontar Exyrens ar 10 pan. dally. with Sleeping Care Wahimtar to Chicane Siute, and ex Soh Setuniays Harris. Galiy' ee Marries wil Loutarthie and Meanie apres 10 00. By dally, to: Fattsbure andthe West, with teres Bieoper to Pithsbay and Ps Sochieaem BALTIMORE. AN pave, Comat ary Washinton Mare Washington Por Williameyort, Ls my. dai hore AILNOAD. Rochester, ut ala, Sisewre, acest Saturday, with Palace Haven sod Kinira at 9.508 neept Sanday mg ™ York and the bast. 7.20, 9.09, 11.00,end OM 10. 1000, and 11 20 pan o 00, 11-40 'em..2 00, 4.10. 16.00, Limited Vdtinan Parlor mn dail ‘Sundays rant tean a, eee for Boston without change, 2-00 p.m. every day. For Brookign, NV, sil thromch tune tommect & Sersey City with busts of breoklyn, Armen: € trauster to aay Bba's "1. 1090, For Pope's Creek Lint, 7 20 an. aid 440 pun daily, except Sui For Anuapolin, 7 20 and 9.00 am. 1205, 4.20, and COG Tm auly. except Sunday. Nandan 9 00m hu Pm. ALEXANDKIA AND FREDERIOKSNURG RATIe WASHING WAY, AND ALEXANDKIA ANI TON'RAILKOAD examina 6-00 6 2:04 noon, 2:95, 10 03 and ty ae 10 57am. 2 Accommodaticn for Quantice For Kichmond and the Routh, ‘and 6-01 p.m. daily, exonpt Trius ieave Mexandria for Washi 3-00, 9 . 510, 7 Sunday 7 05, 9:32 and 10-42 p.m. Tickets aud informatica at the office, northeast cor. Vth street and Pennaylvania avenue, and att ‘There orderscan be, left for the hock uation frou botese aiid remidencen GES E Poon. 3 Boob, General Manaser. [019] Gen, Passouger Avent. IEDMONT AIR LINE, ehedule tn if : ae . Kuoxville, Koma, Sprtice Allggbeny Springs Hristo Calera, “Montgomery, aud’ ew Orleaua Pullass Sleeper Washington’ to New Orleata AOS." Fast Maal Daily'for Warrenton, Chane avilie. Stations Shes & hie Kouta, y Mount, (ant Danville, espeeunbur. Ka Shetty” Auaetae Berea” Bonner) Re Gricans, tetas and Calvvornte Pullinau sleeper New ¥ Atlanta, iu coubection with Pullinau Sleepers Atlanta to New Urieaus, abd Mann Boudoir Sleehors for Birmingham, Vicksbure and Shreveport. Sold tratus Washington to Atl ‘Does vot conuect for Cand 0. route points Sune to P.M. exe ‘Cont arriving 8 10 p.m, u kapress Daily tor Warrenton, teeville, Louisville, Chociumatl, awer Fesorts on and’ near line of « vouks Sedghto route, Pullman Rleepers and Sol ouieville, also for L Little Roc h Pullman Sleeyere Washing- fernphis without chanuwee 1:00 P. M.—Southern ks burs, | Danville," Kaleuch “uarltte, Coluinbia, Aiken, Augusta, Atlanta, ry. New Oricane “ Texe’ and California.” Pullinan. Sleeper Washington to New Orlatin, Texes, via AUatita, ain Montgomery.” Pullman Sleeper Washinton te Aikety 8..C., without chause. ‘Trans on Wash and Ome divi: gpeton #12 ACM "Daily exept Sunday M’ Daily arrive Hound Hill M.; Meturnine leave Round 1: Daily. and, iP fy except Sunday, arriviix Wastinitom 0 AM and S33 moors 3PM. past Tenneson, Bris 10-45 A.M. aud 9:40 PML: vi and Ohio route and Charlottesville a Strasburg Local at 9:47 A.M. Te sleeping car reservation snd information A bagwate checked at office, 1300 Penme nme. and at Station, Pennayie road, Gthand Bet JAR 1. TAYLOR, General Passer Awetity ALTAMORE AND OHTO KAILROAD SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOVEMBPR 20, 1887, LEAV Fh S, CORNER ASHINGTON PROM STAT! OF NEW JERSEY AVENUE AND © STK oF gr Chicaeo and Northwest, Exp. daily 10-55 am, Pa. oi, Limciunati and St Louis, Exp. daily 2.30and Rm a eel Ltsbune and Cleveland, Exp. daily 10.55 amy 2m. For Lexington and Local Stations, +8 40 a.m, For Fuladeiphiy Swath, aud Wilmington, 7-308 daily) Exper, Baltiaiore and Pile Pan. On Sunday, 830m. $40 pin. Leave Anuape ohigyt 40. 8 30am 12-05, 3.50, 60 pan Sundays, 30 a, tween Washington and Balti. am. 1210.39, 440,045 m. Om stindays, 630 aan, 1-30, 3, 1d 11:30 pan, on “Metropolitan Branch, +6 25 14-40 pm, wand 15:30 pam. $Us For Gaithersburg and intermediate pointe, 19.30 mm, 112 30 pam. 2.55. 411-20 pan eA fe sid intermediate stations, 17-00 p.m, 4 ‘Churd) trains Jeave Washington cn. Sunday only 98 J20 hm. stopping at all ‘etatious ‘on Metropolitam For FREDERICK, 18:40 am, 12:30 p.m. 15 30m mm, Sundays 110 pm For HAGERSTOWN, +8 40am. and Trains arrive fran’ Chicweo, daily, 5-45 p.m. from Cinciunati and a, Chester apd Wiruington. 10.45 2:20, 7-10 and) 407 em “daily. ad tl 30 a Bungee ain ttorivedinte juin meri iy ia leave Baltimore for Washington st 5.3% 8°30, 7-20, 0-0. 8 0% 10-00 a1 ne On Suman’, 650. ; m wands &, 6-30, T'35, 4.10, 5-00-0380, 7 + Except Sunday. Bagwage called for and checked at hotels aud dences on orders left at Tigket Office, G19 and Peunsyivauia avenue, WM. CLEMPNTS, Mans, K. LOK, General POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. Dp EXE zo NORFOLK Pour ness Mom ‘KOE, AND Tit SUUTa. Steamers GEORGE LEARY and LADY OF THE LAKE, oue of wuich leaves Washitatton unily at 3 pt, ‘Close Ponuection with bosiou and Providence Steam erm, iso with ali other rail aud Steambout lines. Steanuer Leary laude at ixiey Potut gob audrotarae Monday, W: and . "“foamet Late andes Corubala’ Harbor guing and returuiig, Tuesday. Thursday and Saturdayn, Kuox and Lioyds express will call aid check at hotels and private residences, “'eieythoue- ry, 74-3 3, Passengers rates will be on and after the 15th €2 fue straight ticket and @:5 round trip. _ ‘T. VERNON! MT. VEKNQN! STEAMER W. W. conconax Leaves 7th-sirect wharf daily (excep: sun lay) for Mt, Vernon aud hiver Landin a tar down an Glysout a 10" o'clon Returning, reaches Wasiiuctoa AL. BEAK, Captain, JOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS iy NEW IKON STEAMER “WAKEFIELD” HUISDAYS, ure TUESDALS ouctuing at River Laud: Ce tel sf ‘Connects with B. See schedule. JOHN B. OETT, (OW. RIDLEY, Mannsor, ams OCEAN STEAMERS. — TLANTIC & WEST INDIA LINE NEW AND CHARMING WINTER TOURS. ‘British, Daust anu Freuch West Louis Islauis £4 ss. BARRACOUTA, ‘Sailing 25th Jan, dd March, and thereafter ons f af Lg ro ag tua, Superb