Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1892, Page 8

‘ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR BY FLOBA HAINES LOUGHEAD. DID NOT NOTICE THEM AT FIRST. footpriats and the ey Were such tiny fo Were places where the wash of the waves had half effaced them. And be was a man traught with trouble, bis brain a maelstrom of @nguish and hot anger against the man who Would turn him out of hishome on the mor- Fow and leave his children without a roof to shelter them. Ab, that was where it hurt. His children. ‘He was a strong man, equal to meeting the Buffets of fortune andable to make his way €p again, if be bad to begin at the very lowest Found of the ladder. Ho could endure priva- tion and overwork. His wife was young and eapable, cheerful and willing. But—tie cbil- dren? He had been watching their play for the last hour—their happy, careless play, so uncon- scious were they of coming ifl—uniil he could | endure the sight no longer and had rushed in’ the gather, night. How little the ased that soon they were toleave their com- | jortable home, the home he had toiled so hard | to make and striven #0 hard to save. He had slipped into this strait so easily. ‘That was always the way. Happiness and com- fort were only to be wrested from fate by herculean effort. Poverty and misery waited on the beck of a finger. In the beginning he had needed a little money to provide the ni plements to cuitiva eary i te his place. whom should he so naturally apply as to his wealthy neighbor. Judge Van Alsieyne, who made a business of loaning money. and who lived on the bluff overlvc the sea? He had ven a mortgage on his place as security, and ow was he to know, what people hinted freely now, that the rich man hai long coveted his own little strip of land, which adjoined the judge's extensive grounds? Then bad come he dreadful siege of scarlet fever, which had attacked bis household, and Little Anme, nar- rowly caved from death, had been left a cripple. There costly surgical appliance that he bad heard woul’ led limb back | into bape then that he had for the second loan, secured by a second gage, that be might take the child down to the famous city surgeon. There was a hope— than a hope—that some time the poor, shrunken little limb would be straight ‘and strong again. His heart softened at the thought of his crippled child, and it was this remembrance of her that stirred im toan interest in the tiny footprints that went on before him. Almost and without p beg: wandering ain mat, a5 to foliow them they wandered, idly noting the places where ‘thi had turned aside and loitered, marked by ing heaps of sells and mounds of sand. ‘They were not like his Annie's, these even Prints of light and nimble feet. His heart ached anew ashe remembered the last time be had borne her in hie arms to the beach and the strange trail the poor little lame foot had made dragging in the sand. ‘this child had a narrow, shapely foot, and in some of the prints there was the distinct mark of a tiny French heel. Why was it that there was nowhere sign of a larger footprint to guide the little. Dabyish feet? Why did the littie fo onand on, never in any place returning? Vbo was the all the town that would trust alittle child to wander alone on the ‘ with the tide at the turn and night coming on? Who was there in the neighborhood with hild the size of his Annic, who mi yped away without the parents’ ki edge strayed to this lonely spot, d byt ie of the waves, the strange magic of the The answer brought = umph. Who bat the house on the ne judge's lit the petted darling of fortune—up had so often looked with ing her position with w littie one. And yet it se: arcfully guarded could es: nd hemmed in by the bluffs, risking his own life, it might be, in @ fruitless search for @ child who bad doubt- less played in the afternoon sunshine, and wio had probably gone back along ihe border of the Lerch, which was now laved by the water? If he sliould turn back at this mo- Ment to the home where sat his sorrowing wife with his hay.ess children, what blame taeh to him if on the 6 Judge Van Alsteyne’s terrible lows should be »him? He did it concern him if bot to deal to this man who had so iiima blow more « persectt vadly than that tat bad been leveled at hr He ioox ‘There w great house. e lig Even at ond the signs of and excitement. The nextinstant he rued the loss of even that moment of waning daylight, and, Lend: ute of the direc- n swiftly on. th bimself < with by another a be imperiled. that of higher principles of laid down by the golden rule humanity in him was more power! interest, and he obeyed it blindly every other thought stim 1 than self- oblivious of innocent life was endangered, which it might be his privi- lege to save. twice, thrice he knelt in the gloom ched for the impressions he was mg, andthe last time he felt cantious! with bis fi on the cold, wet sand to verify the testimony of his eyes in the failing light. At length he seemed to hear a faint ery in the distance, aruund a rocky point. The sound lent him new strength. A few rods beyond the point there was a run of clear water, often health of the household in his wine. They FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND, |ssiseste.ttcoumts tanomsteds ccs sre to be blamed for the mishap that bad befallen the little Indy. But this time it was the judge who was embarrassed, hesitating, almost deprecating, in his manner and speech: “Which of you was it that brought back the child? I was *o troubled—beside myself—that Idid not notice. Which one among you was a ‘There was a momen! the couchman replied: “It wasn't none of us, sir. ‘Twas aman that ‘d been out walking on the eands: He lives close by. Dick Mauefield; him that has the crippled ebild.” ite jucize passed out without a word. Rich- ard Mansficld, the man whose petty debt, 80 long unpaid, had been a vexation to bim, when his mind was engrossed with larger | matters. One mortgage had been renewed. It had become due, with the second one, the middle of December, but the man bad asked for more time and he had given him until w Year. He did not like to use harsh in the holiday season, but he bad at business business, and that the money must be paid at the beginning of | the year or he would be compelied to fore- close. ‘The fellow had seemed so thriftless and down at the heel. ‘The interest had never been promptly paid. And go he had a crippled eh \wkward silence. Then The futge was walking down his garden path, hastening toward the dim light that shone in the window of the cottage. The night was raw, and the wind still biustered and ehrieked, ‘sure indication of » brooding storm on the Pacific shore. He buttoned up his coat and shivered as he thought that bie little daughter might even pow have been at the mercy of wind and wave. A queer freak for a man to be walking on the sands on such a night. He must have been dis- tracted to choose such a place in such weather. Distracted? ‘This was the first day of the new year, and it was tomorrow that he had de- clared the mortgage should be foreclosed. And there was the crippled child. Richard Manstield, sitting beside his sleeping child, his head bowed in hie hands, not now im despair, but in « stout effort to master the situation ‘before bim, heard something that sounded like a mutiled knock at the door. He raised his head, alarmed at the late call, and the judge entered without bidding, in & gust of wind that rocked the frail tenement and disturbed the gentle sleeper, who stirred and muttered brokeniy, then slumbered again. The judge looked down upon the painted THE WORLD'S FAIR. A Loan Expected to Be Asked of i Congress. FORMER EXPOSITIONS. What They Have Cost and How They Have Resulted—The Centennial Experience—Op- Position That Was Developed to the Loan, but It Was Given and Repaid. Written for The Evening Star. HE RETURN OF CONGRESS AFTER THE holiday recess will be signalized by appli- cation to the business of the country, which needs attention, or non-attention, as the solons of the nation may decide in their wisdom. One of the objects to which their attention will be called at an early day by the directors of the Columbian fair will be for » loan of $5,000,000 to aid in the huge exhibition tha has been progressing with commendable specd at Chicago. It will array all against the appli- cation—the strict constructionists, the general objectors and the men whose constituency may be averse to such an expenditure of the public money. The experience of the past, when aid for the centennial exposition was asked, may be of interest, and Tue Stan may in this way instruct tho new legislators by the experience of their predecessors. When the centennial exposition applied to Congress for a loan of $1,500,000 the stumbling block in the way was the qucstion of the con- stitutionality of such a measure, and for sev- eral days that question occupied the attention of the House. The first’action taken by Con- gress on the centennial was as early as 1871, und on the Ist of June, 1872, Congress ap- jointed a finance committee, of which Mr. lewitt of New York was the chairman. On the meeting of the Forty-fourth Congress Mr. Hopkins of Pennsylvania introduced from the committee on the centennial celebration a joint resolution appropriating $1,500,000 as a contri- bution, and in that form it was debated at con- crib, the tiny crutch, whittled out by hand that stood beside it, the patchwork cover and the wan cheek and remembered the rounded check of the little eleeper he had left pillowed on down beneath a canopy of lace. ‘The man who could without emotion pro- Rounce sentence upon a criminal, who was called the most clear-headed and hard-hearted of usurers in the conduct of his private busi- ness, experienced a queer rising in his throat when he essayed to speck. A teur fell on the faded coverlet. He reached out his Land to the man who stood beside him, and Richard Mansfield knew that his days of hopeless poverty and etrife were past. et MANAGING A BABY, A Volunteer Nurse is Made a Complete Wreck. From the Detroit Free Press. As the Michigan Central train was coming to Detroit one day last week there was a baby on board that cried for two straight hours. It was not a ery of teething or colic, but just the whin- ing squall of an infant vixen that wasn’t going to be suited anyhow, The passengers on that car could neither sleep nor read, and at last a red-faced old gen- tleman turned to the mother and said: “Madam, if you would stop trotting the life out of that young ‘un it would let up scream- inj guess I know more about babies than you suapped the mother. Well, all I've got to say ix, I've raised eight and the whole caboodle of them never made as much noise as that one,” he retorted. rhaps you would hike to try your hand on this one. “If you can stop him it’s more than I can do.” ve him to me, madam, and in ten minutes he will be as quiet asalamb. I've seen worse children many a time. He winked ‘at the other passengers as he reached out his hands for the baby. “Tootsey-wootsey tum,” he urged, and the infant opened one eye to look at him, while it stiffened ike a poker and roared louder than ever. “If you will step into the next car so that it won't see you,” said the obliging traveler, “I can hush’ him sooner. He'll’ be all right, ma'am, don't you worry.” “I won't,” said the woman thankfully, as she resigned the squalier and disappeared into the next car. -u-s-h-h, stop now, little fellow; ride a cock horse to Banbury cross; there was an old wornan, sh-sh-sh—let go of my hair, you little wreicl Ihe baby had tangled its fingers in the chin whiskers of its new friend and was puiling them out by the roots. “Stop that noe,” howled the passen; in chorus, “or give that kid back to ite mother He would have been very glad to have a ceded to cither of those requests, but the tmother was gone and the baby was increasing its musie every minute. pet?” he asked in a voice like : “hush—my dear lie still and— murder! Won't somebody go after its mother?” but nobody would stir. ‘They all wanted to see him manage that baby. When the conductor called “Detroit” and the train slowed into the depot, a wild-eyed man, coatless and disheveled, was tearing from one end of the train to the other, while the baby screamed over his shoulder. Ul take iim now,” said a mild voice, and a its mother appeared that child stopped howling; a cherubic smile dimpled its face, and it looked as if it had never shed a tear in its life. Bat its volunteer nurse wasa com- do, mistaken for an inlet of the sea. He and others familiar with the coast knew that it was a stream of fresh water, flowing down from the ountains and sinking in the marshes back of the blaffs in this locality, only to pierce the cliffsat au unknown depth below the water level and to bubble forth afresh where the sea Javed their base. At high water stream and ocean merged into one, but at low water the stream rippled forth to join the sea. And at the place where it welled ap from its ground passage there were dangerous quick- sands. One misstep and the frightened child, roping on in the night, would meet a horri- le doom, swallowed up 1m a moment by the Greedy suction of the sands. There was a utter of a white garment ona Barrow spit of sand, bordered on one side by the advancing tide, on the other by the s with its treacherous bed and ernmbling bank: He shouted to warn the child of her dang and the waves drowned his ery. Confused, ex- hausted, terrified at the great breakers ‘that Tose with a thundering roar and feil again to dah themselves over the sand in foaming shects that lapped her feet, ambled im the direction of the quicksinds; and it was on the ecge of the crambling bazks of sand that Hichard Manstield caught her. He was strangely happy ard light hearted as be raised the little girlin his arms. ‘The sav- ing of this human life had done more for him than any after reward could do. What to him were the angry waves that dashed about his feet and hurrying before him filled up a broad deep channel through which be must plunge before be couid reach thesolid ground beyond? What to him was the shricking wind that bore down upon bim, sounding it shrillest blasts in his ears? He tore off bis coat and wrapped it arourd the shivering little form. What to him were the 1 morrow when life held im such a glad privilege in the elev- nth hour of his despair? = Absorbed in bis children with the narrow ex- elasion that often marks strong parental love which boards all for its own, Richard Mansfield bad never Leen drawn toward otuer children. But as the judge's little daughter, overcome by @bebyish memory of her trials, moaned and sobbed be bent over her with a throb of truest affection, soothed ber with tender words and Mase her tumbled hair. there were lights moving amid tho shrub- bery on the Van Alsteyne place, more lichis oa the narrow aie of beach below, defining tim- erous figures which searched the tide pools and erouched and pecred out upon the foaming waters, fearful ofa burden they might bear upon their breast. Drenched through and through, chilled and stiffened, with his streugth nigh spent, he passed them ali, labored up the bin@ and laid bis burden in the father’s arms. The Judge, distracted by the anguish he had Undergone, silently received, the child and her deliverer, unrecoguized, passed out into the ness. Is was as he would have asked. Strange com- ity of human nature; he could meet the — Fe morrow with new it, sustained by the secreet knowledge of splendid triumph over bis enemy. Of such was the lofty courage of the Christ, upborne by the glad consciousness that He died to save ‘bem that persecuted Hisy But fate, or the overruling power we call Providence, im these days does not always give Bis own way to aman who would suffer in @ileace at the hands of one whom he has Diessed. Late that evening Judge Van Alsteyne, Waiching bis siceying child in silent rejoicing, ewobe to asudden sense of obligation undis- eberged. He went down to the servants’ quar- tesa where be found the men drinking the plete wreck. —+e-—____ ATTENDING FUNERALS. A Taste Which is as Keprehensible as It is Singular. From the New York Leds “Tam often led to wonder,” she returned home from the funeral of friend, “what sentiment of the human heart it is that prompts strange people who haven't the slightest interest in the deceased or the family to go to every funeral within reach. It seems as though there was in many minds a morbid curiosity that leads them to present themselves on such occasions and stand around and look on with eagerness, watching every movement and feeling almost defrauded if any- thing important escapes their notice. Such a tendency should be immediately checked in the young, as the sentiment isnct |y any means aereditable one and often leads to the most absurd exhibition of euriosity. “I remember being present some time since at the funeral of a neighbor. The services were held in the church, and, as is the custom in many places, the casket was opened so that the friends might takea last look at the de- parted if they so desired. The people from one side of the church passed around to the front, where the casket was placed, and down the opposite sideaisie, either resuming their seats or waiting in the vestibule. My attention was attracted to a group of children in the pro- cession, and. tomy surprise, again and again the same children passed around the front and down the side aisle, crossing at therear of the church, again to fall into line and continue the round and round march. No one seemed to observe them or put a stop totheir promenade. I couldn't help but wonder whether that wasn't the sort of sentiment which, permitted im the young, makes inveterate and ‘incorrigi- ble theater-guers in later life. “It is fondly to be hoped that the time will come when ail funerals will be held in private houses, and, as far as possible, at evening. ‘The services are much more impressive at night and an ordinary private house is.or ought to be, amply sufficient to contain those whose legitimate right it is to be present. - ery few persons, except, those in public have a sufficiently large circle of acquant- ance to warrant a church funeral. Of course, as affairs at present stand, custom rules in this as in many other matters, but there scems to bea gradual narrowing of the limits of a fu- nerai congregation. “Where there are many persons at the chureh it is often the case that the announce- ment is made that the interment will be strictly private. This is, or should be, a sufficient bar to the presence of the curious, who often go to seh merely to gratify morbid senti- ment Spiteful. From Judge. She. “Are you going to Amy Burr's coming- out bail?” He. “Coming-out ball?” Sbe. “Yes; her debut.” He “Why, she’s been going around for at least three years" She. “I it; but this is her first ball.” He. “Then why not call it the ‘Opening of a chestnut burr: siderable length. THE MOST VIOLENT OPPOSITION. The most violent opponent of the measure was the late Ben Willis of New York. Ho took the position of its unconstitutionality, and as that was the first and only time that departed statesman posed in that character, the speech was a novelty. Quoting from Tacitus he showed the fatality attending nations which departed from the laws governing them and charged the money would be squandered in follification. Mr. Hewitt replied and_gavo his colleugue a rather eovere lecture. In ridiculing Willis, who was rather given to obesity, Mr. Howitt said he was reminded of the meeting held here to hear Red Cloud, who depicted the wrongs of his people 60 graphically that the audience were saddened and depressed. The medicine man, who, Mr. Hewitt said, was always the funny man, came forward—a huge mass of fiesh—who’ said: “Look et me. I was once slender and as graceful as a gazelle. ‘That was before the Indian agent camo and made me what I am, not with meat and drink, but he filled me up with lies.” Mr. Hewitt vouched for the proper disbursement of every doliar. Mr. Willis replied, and then Judge Kelley took him in hand and told a joke of a sick member of Congress, a strict constructionalist, who called a friend to his bed side and said he had not long to live and he wanted his friend to promise him he should not be buried in the Congressional burial ground, for there was no constitutional authority for it, and he promised Wiilis he would see to it when he died that his constitutional scruples should not be infringed. Willis replied: “You will precede me there, tor the arrangement for my burial will not be needed for fiity years.” “Both these gentlemen have gone the way of all fiesh. Willis died years agoand Judge Kelley outhyed him several years. THE DEBATE IN THE HOUSE. ‘Mr. Hewitt urged the making the appropria- tion, as Philadelphia bad paid £4,700,000 of the amount expended, $5,187 being subscribed elsewhere. The opponents of the bill were Atkins and Caldwell of Tennessee, Stenger and Cochrane of Pennsylvania, Felton and Cook of Georgia, Baker of Illinois, Dunnell, Holman, Soutbard, Sam. Cox and Williams of Wisconsin. Justice Lamar made an eloquent speech in favor of the bill, as did also Cusey Young and Carter Harrison, and after many amcnudments it was recommitted, and when reported again and before the final vote was taken Sam. Kan- dull closed the debate, in which he took the ground that the same authority existed for this appropriation as for the Japan expedition and the North Pole and Dead sea expeditions, the aid to Ireland in 1847, which Mr. Calhoun so eloquently advocated, and the befitting return to England of the Kesolute, which was ably championed by the late John Y. Mason. He said there was no express provision in the Constitution for these expenditures, but the country bad approved them, as it would this appropriation, which would secure a fitting celebration of the centennial. in the Senate the opposition came from the same strict coustructionalists. Mr. McCreery of Kentucky moved to strike out all after the en- acting clause and recommend that on the 4th of July, 1876, prayers and thanksgiving be of- fered in all’ the churches throughout the country. ‘The advocates of the measure in the Senate were the late ex-Senators from New Jersey, Randolph and Frelinghuysen. ‘Ihe lat- ter read @ letter from Mr. heverdy John- son giving his views upon the constitutional question involved. Senator Jones of Florida made one of the ablest speeches delivered on the bill. ‘fhe opponents of the bill confined themselves to constitutional views of the ques- tion as applied to the expenditure of money for the purpose of aiding a corporate body which had been chartered by Congress. ‘The amendment which provided for the repayment of the money out of the gross receipts was bit- terly opposed,as it made the government a pre- ferred creditor. It was accepted, however,and passed by a respectable majority. ‘THE MONEY WAS PAID BACK. When the exposition closed it was found not to be a financial success, and the managers and incorporators came before Congress asking the government to yield the preference given it and take its pro rata with the stockholders, but, hike Shylock, Congress exacted its pound of flesh, and, unlike Shylock, got it by a payment in full of the £1,500,000, and the city of Phila- delphia and the stockholders bad to be con- tent-with the remainder. ‘The most patriotic sentiments were uttered by those who bitterly opposed the grant, and in the action taken by Congress in 1876 a | may be learned by the promoters of the Co- jumbian fair, whose application to Congress for a loan will, it is understood, be laid before Congress. and for two months and morcan army of work- men were engaged in the completion and es- tablishmont of the vast Duildingeand arranging the display. ’ EXHIBITIONS MANY YEARS AGO. In 1798 there was an exhibition at New York, avery meager one it must have been, and in the same year Napoleon began a series of na- tional exhibitions and offered a gold medal for any invention or roduct that would deal the nglish trade. ‘The second French exhibition took place in 1801 and was 80 successful that a third was organized, and r that came a continuance of them from 1806 to 1849. All of these had been exclusively French displays, asp to that period the pro- posal for an exhibition of foreign representa- tives was rejected by the minister of commerce, who deemed the request to have “emanate: from the enemies of French industry.” Vien- na’s previous exhibitions, beginning in 1820 and up to 1845, had been very successful. In all parts of Europe there were exhibitions, more or less national in their character, from 1837 to 1855. THE FIRST WORLD'S FAIR IX LONDON. In 1849.4 royal commission was formed in London to take steps for organizing an inter- national exposition, Prince Albert was placed at the head of the commission and it resulted in the first world’s fair held in London in 1851. With that began the remarkable displays which have been made, each succeeding one being more extensive and more comprehensive than its predecessor, until the whole world has been embraced in a series of expositions, The ex- hibition of 1851, the pioneer of the industrial expositions, was launched upon its career of iecess at the cost of about €1,500.000, and at its close the receipts above all expenditures amounted to something over $1,000,000. The grand building erected by Sir Joseph Paxton covered 1,600,000 square feet. A second international exposition took place in London in 1862. A guaranty fund of $2,250,000 was secured before the beginning, of which sum Prince Albert contributed $50,000 and the queen $5,000. It wasa financial failure. The cost of this exposition was about $4,000,000 and the space occupied something over sixteen acres. In April, 1887, the groat international exposition universelle was opened at Paris and the space occupied in, the Champ de Mars covered thirty-soven acres, aud tho cost was over, $8,000,000. Itwasa financial succers. ? In 1853 the Crystal Palace of New York, copied from that designed by Sir Joseph Pax- ton, was opeued with great “pomp and eircum- stance” by President Pierce. This was not in Any way 4 national affair, as it had no govern- ment recognition, except being designated as @ bonded ware house, where goods sent from abroad could be held in bond, Though the cost was only $640,000 it was a lamentable failure, one of the causes for the failure being its distance from the thickly inhabited part of the city and the dificulty of reaching it It | was located in Bryant Square, 5th and 6th avenues and 42d street, and the amount of re- | ceipts was barely $340,000. The peace Te- mained some years and wis used by the Ameri- can Institute for its exhibitions, and on October 15, 1858, the ill-fated building was burned. The dimensions given of the space occupied by previous exhibitions will enable us to judge of the magnitude of the Columbian fair, which will, it is said, occupy 1,300 acres, ‘& BEMEMBEANCE OF GEN. JA( Kags ‘TRATION. The publication of the death in New York of Buchignani, the man who married Mrs. Gen. Eaton, recalls that remarkable woman's career, which filled a yery considerable space in the social and political annals of the last sixty years. At anadvanced age Mrs. Eaton mar- Tied the Italian, who was but little over age, and after some few years of married life he fled from her, having disposed of some valuable property belonging to her, for the sale of which | she had given him a power of attorney. ‘The | amount she was robbed of was, I understood, very considerable, and Buchignani fled to Can* ada, She succeed d, I think, in regaining some portion of the property, and when I met her in New York some years’ afterward she told me the sad story of her infatuation and its conse- quences. Buchignani was for some time in the Tombs at New York and released by Mrs. Eaton, who hud obtained a divorce, upon his marrying the companion of his flight. He has been keeping a wine store in New York and the notice of liim says: ‘He was intimate with Mr. Lincoln and was sent abroad as con- fidential bearer of dispatches aud that he was assistant librarian of Congress.” ‘This will in- deed be news to the readers of THe Star. I Was shown some time ago avery handsome breastpin, containing a lock of Gen. Jackson's silvery hair, presented to the late Mr. Fearson of Georgetown by Mrs. Eaton for some kind- ness,and it is now in the possession of his niece, Mrs. Foertsch. With the death of this man, Buchagnani, the last evidence of the folly of this very extraordinary woman is gone. Jous £. Corns. ee ALUMINUM FOR BOATS. ADMINIS 4 Naphtha Launch Built of This Light, Glistening Metal. ‘From the Tinstrated American. ‘The one nation that people hear about that is without a single seaport is Switzerland. Yet it is claimed that some novel problems in naviga- tion have been solved within her borders, Her achievements in this respect may be likened to the wonders related of blindinventors. It was on Lake Zurich, we are told, that the first naphtha launch ever constructed made her maiden trip and that the first successful elec- tric boat was launched. What is said to be the first boat ever con- structed entirely of aluminum was tried re- cently on this beautiful sheet of water. In view of the bold predictions that have been made of the uses to which aluminum will bo i ing in the fature the trial of d great interest. The boat was a naphtha launch likeany other. It was only on approaching close to it that one perceived that it was not painted gray, but was constructed of a white, shining metal.” Where- ever a polish was given the surface glistened like silver. The great advantage derived from the use of aluminum was the saving in weight. The boat weighed complete about 970 pounds, while the weight of a similar launch con: structed of wood and iron would Le from 1,400 to 1,700 pounds. This saving in weight enabled a higher speed to be maintained with the same horse power. ‘The trial of this Iaunch is of interest, how- ever, only on account of the future possibil ties of the metal used. It has still to be dem: onstrated that aluminum can ever be substi- tuted advantageously for steel, ironand copper in ship building. | protest. WHAT RLVE EYES MEAN, Sometimes They Signify Danger to an Ad- versary—Lookout for the Wrong Pair. GOW) BAT REMARKABLY BLUE EYES YOU have!” ‘The remark was addressed by @ Stan writer to an ex-officer in the regular army, whose life has contained more than an ordinary share of adventures and vicissitudes. “That is what they call in England the ‘Wimbledon eye,” " was his reply, ‘because %t is meant to shoot with. Scientific riflemen will tell you that there is no such eye for markeman- ship as the blue one of the color which has ex- cited your attention. Black eyes and brown eyes aren't in it with the blue anyway, when it comes to shooting or fighting. That is why the northern people have always wiped the south- ern races out when it came to war. You will see the fact illustrated perhaps when wo come to blows with Chile, “Did you ever look into the eyes of a person who was really enraged? I did once, and they were my own. Their expression was so horri- ble that [have never forgotten it. Iam very slow to anger, but on the occasion I refer to I had cause, as I think you will admit. My ad- versary had not only insultedme in the grossest le manner, but he had fired four shots HOW IT HAPPENED. “Thad a gun myself, but I didn't stop to | draw it, The only thing I thought of was to get at tho man. I jumped upon him like a wild- cat. He was quite my equal in strength, but I was mad with fury and could have thrashed two of him at that moment. Besides, I was a practiced boxer. However, my powers with my fistewere not called into requisition; we Were at too close qxarters for that. “As Leprang u, om him he fell against a mir- ror which was behind him and I caught a glimpse over his shoulder of my own eyes as Wo wentdown together. They actually had a diabolical expression, and, as I said, the recol- lection has haunted me’ ever since. meant kill. In an instant I bad wi smoking revolver out of m; with the first blow of its bite 1smashed in the crown of his hat. Incidentally his head was crushed in also. If he had not carried so very large a pistol the result would not have been #0 disastrous for himself, but it was a heavy cay- alry weapon with a brass ring in the end, and he nearly died in consequence. ANOTHER ROW. _ “Inever got into but one other serious row in my life. After I left the army I was em- ployed for some time as a printer in the gov- ernment printing office. The man who had the caso next to mine was a person who had achieved the reputation of being dangerous. On one occasion in Baltimore he had killed somebody with a wagon spoke. I was told to be on my guard against him, but I thought I could take care of myself. ' However, not a very long time elapsed before thero was trouble. “Tho dispute concerned a piece of copy which he chose to take off my case against my Itold him very mildly that I would not permitit, and he indulged in various re- marks of an See nature. Instead of getting angry I simply laughed at him, which naturally made him very much euraged. After continuing his aspersive taunts for quite 8 while in tho presence of my feliow-workmen he evidently supposed that would not fight, and made a suggestion reflecting upon my genealogy, implying that it was not according to Hoyle, as it were. “I suppose that I struck the man twenty times betore he realized that he had been hit. Having driven him against the wall with one blow of my left hand I gave him a sockdologer with my right fist square in the cheek bone. It would almost have kuocked down a mule. As it was, he fell over a radiator and I proceeded to demolish him. Before we could be separ- ated I had hit him fifty times, Isuppose, and he Was so cut to pieces that Ireally felt sorry for what I had done. His cheek bone was smashed, his jaw was fractured in two places and he was fairly covered with blood. A doctor had to be summoned and he was carried out. “About two weeks later he came back to the office, still looking very decidedly damaged. Evidently he had some liquor in him. At ali events, he approached me and said: ‘If you will come outside in the street I will repeat what I said before. “In response to that, I spoke to him slowly and deliberately, shaking my forefinger within about an inch of bis nose. I said: “ “| have never desired to engage in a fight with you. It is not my intention to leave the office during working hours for your accom- modation. ‘You know, however, that at 5 © clock every afternoon I leave this building. If vou are not anxious to receive an allo- vathic dose of the medicine which I gave you a omeopathic taste of the other day you will not be at the door when I come out tonight.’ “When I left the office that evening he was not there. In fact, 1 saw nothing more of Lim, for he threw up hi» job and disappeared. Not long ago { readin the newspapers that he Lad gone on a bunting trip in Alaska and that his companion, mistaking him for 2 duck, had shot the top of his head off.” Seeger PHILLIPS BROOKS’ FIRST SERMON. He Became a Missionary in a Small Southern Village. “The way in which Phillips Brooks began to preach the Gospel,” says Julius H, Ward in the January New England Magazine, “is so unique that the story must be told in fu Two or three miles from the hill on which the Alexandria Seminary stands is a little hamlet called Sharon, composed of poor whites and negroes, which one of his class- mates undertook to work up. It was » task in which be needed help, and Brooks re- luctantly consented to go. After he had been once, his heart was interested and he was ready to go again. Here he preached his first sermon and began the work of min- istering to human souls. The success of the little mission stirred up opposition, which was headed bya northern man, who had become an infidel and delighted to ex- press his opinions toa few followers. These appeared determined to break up the meet- ings; aud when young Brooks was fally aware of their purpose, one Sunday, he denounced the whole set in terms of scathing rebuke, which his classmate still remembers as the most searching and sarcastic speech that he ever heard. Little as he may have occasion to use it, Phillips Brooke as effective and powerful ® master of invective as ever Theo- ore Parker was, and the effect of his speech upon this little community was to destroy tho ——_—__oo Written for The Evening Star. ‘The Three Smokers. ‘Three smokers in a dream I saw when the day was done, And 80 happy they each did seem, It were hardto tell which one ‘Was the happlest wight of all the three, And which of them I had rather be, opposition and to bring all but one of the hostile persons, and that was not the leader, to baptism aud confirmation, It has always been characteristic of Phillips Brooks that he distrasted himself. He shrank from the responsibility implied in taking holy orders, He was admitted to the diaconate in Tune, 1859, by Bishop Meade of Virginia and proceeded immediately to the Church of the Advent, where he preached his first sermon from the text, ‘Master, what is the great com- BULLFROGS FOR MARKET. WHY POYS LIKE A Norse How They Are Raised by Artifice—Large Profits in the Business. NOW THAT THE PRESERVATION OF THE fur seals has been assured by Mr. Binint’s agreement with England. the humanitarian and the zoologist are inclined to be apprebeusive respecting the fate of the non-pelagic bullfrog. So actively has the hunting of this amiable and defenseless creature been carried on dur- ing the last century that it seems likely to be- come extinct, like so many other animals which were formerly reproseated most numerously in the fauna of North America. So long as attacks upon its tribes were made by no more formid- able foes than small boys armed with fishing lines and red flannel bait there were hopes for itesurvival in the sequestered swamps and meadows wherein it finds its favorite habitat; but of late years ruthless destroyers, with no other object than to supply the pot, have in- vaded these moist precincts with shotgun and scoop net, wiping out this valuable species so thoroughly that myriads of acres which once afforded them a home noware CHILDREN IN ALASKA. Thetr Condition Said to Demand Legisiation by Congress. S6rTUs CONGRESS SHOULD NOT FAIL to make some provision by legislation for the protection of native children in Alaska,” said Commissioner of Education Sheldon Jackson toa Stan reporter. “In that arctic province of Uncle Sam'é a system of infant marriage prevails, babies only a few days or woeks old being engaged to each other by a contract which is considered binding when © marriageable age shall have been reached. Children who are left orphans are relegated to the condition of slaves, and parents commonly sell their little daughters for immoral purposes or as plural wives. Very young children are often given to old people in order that they may eventually take the place of husband or wife to the survivor of the wedded pair. I have known a boy of six- teon to become im this way the husband of old woman, gray-haired, blind and so crippled that she could only crawl about the floor. The boy had been taken as a prospective husbaud little child, and his duties as the head of | It is a Healthy Symptom and Grown People ‘Oughte't to Mind while her two youngest darlings paraded throagh the house with adram and tin horn mm them for replied Dr. Boggs, looking ap from hia newspaper, “you must understand that a boy does not really make anoise because he likes to so much as for the reason that be cannot help it, The cause is simply that there isa greater supply of excitation to bis nervous system than he of im the ordinary way,which grown lopt. Ibe- get rid said Mra. Borge. AN put it more plainly,” responded “You are perhaps acquainted with the fact thatthe human body is made up of celle?” the echo of a single nocturnal croak breaking | the family began ‘at once whenjthe old man be- have hoard you exy #0, my dear.” upon the stillness of the air where batrachian #8. Many boys are forced thus into] “Well, then, you must comprehend that each choruses erstwhile expressed the tuneful mood | the most hateful relations, being called upon to | Of these cells has a nucleus, just as en egg has of nature. Now that a usefulness for frogs’ skins has been discovered as amore dclicate and beautiful substitute for leather in the cov- ering of books and for other purposes the pros- t is that the last survivors of this interest- ing race will before long be wiped out. THR LARGEST IN TRE WORLD. The bullfrogs of the United States are the biggest of their kind in the world. Sometimes yolk in it. The muciei oi the make up a child's b re much the ceils which compose your physical mine. As the infant gets older these cells become steadily smailer and smaller, but during youth the nerve battery thus made up is 80 much more p © Up an ex- eope at take the place of father toa family laft by an old man. In the course of time the young man takes a future wife in a similar fashion to assist the old one. Child girls are continually forced into these situations, often becoming mothers at twelve or thirteen years of age. “A little girl ten years old came to Mrs. Wil- lard at the Presbyterian Mission liome in Juneau pleading to be protected. She was a bright and pretty child, but it was mecessary to which rger than they rench the length of two feet, and a few of that size lately reached the fish commission in this city. They are to be represented by models at the world’s fair in Chicago. The creatures live habitually in quiet ponds and sluggish rivers. They are of solitary habit, not seeking each other's society exeept during the breeding season, when irequently hundreds of tiem will be seen together. At that time they utter the hoarse bellowing note from which they take their name, for the pur- pose of a serenade, as it issuppored. Like other frogs, they are carnivorous, feeding upon insects, mollusks and other small animals found in or near fresh water. THOUSANDS SHIPPED ABROAD. Some notion of the enormous quantities of frogs consumed in Europe may be got from the fact that they are fetched continually to the city of Vienna from the country in batches of 80,000 to 40,000. At the Austrian capital they are sold to great dealers, who have conserva- tories for keeping them. ‘These conservatories are big holes in the ground four or five feet deep, the mouth of each covered with boards, or in stormy weather with straw. In these pits tho frog never becomes quite torpid, even dur- ing the hardest frosts. As if by instinct they Bef together in heaps and thus keep themselves wet by preventing evaporation, no water being ever put with them. New York city consumes 60,000 pounds of frogs’ lege annually, which re- tailat 30 cents a pound. Recently attempts have been made to can the legs for market. BREEDING THEM BY ARTIFICE. To prevent these valuable animals from being altogether exterminated certain persons have recently undertaken the task of breeding and rearing them by artifice. ‘The matter is a very simple one, and any one may succeed in rais- ing frogs who has aproper place to do it in and is willing to take the necessary puin begin with, it is necessary to get the which may be procured from uny bit of water where bullfrog dwell by going thither with a dipper and searching for the glutinous bunches of eggs that can be readily found in the shal- lows. Be careful in dipping them out not to break thesubstance which hoids them together. Put them in a pail or can and convey them to the batching box, which must have been pre- viously prepared. ‘Ihe box should be two feet long, iweive inches deep and eighteen inches wide, covered on the bottom with gas-tarred wire sieving, twelve wires to the inch. Anchor the box in the gentle current of a stream, and a week, or, at most, fifteen days, the angers will hatch out. Ax to time, it all depends upon the temperature of the water. HOW TO LOOK AFTER THE POLLYWoos. After the pollywogs are thus hatched they must be turned loose in a pond which has been prepared with great care for their reception. ‘They have many enemies against which they have to be protected, such as fishes, snakes, birds, lizarts and umerous other ‘animals’ The pond should have plenty of soft muck on tell her that she could not be taken im wi her parents’ consent. Finally she annou that her parents were willing, but, after she had been admitted to the home, ber mother came and demanded her. The mother sa that she was verr poor, that she bad lost all Ler other children by death, and that this one was ‘too precious’ to part with. She and ber husband needed the money which a little girl would bring them, and already they bad kept her tor some time for a white man who had promised to give them $250 if they would keep ber safe for him until she was a little older. Could the child have been taken from her nts and made the ward of an industrial school she would have been saved froma life of misery, and Alaska might have haden additional citizen of intelligence instead of a ‘drunken, bowling squaw. in another similar case agirl of twelve years was taken by her family from the home for the same purpose. A year later they brought her back, saying that she was of no use. ‘She cried too much; white man not like it,’ they said. She wus taken in and was one of the most tractable and sweet-tempered of the children. In the spring the parents wanted to take her again. was not consented to and then began a series of persecutions. The little girl's father had two wives—her own mother, who was old and decrepit, and the daughter of the latter by a former husband. ‘This sounger ife and ber husband brought the helpless old woman repeatedly to the door of the mis- sion, where ho lay for hours upon her face, crying and beseeching the little girl to save her, as she was to be left alone to starve to death unless she would come out and ‘work’ for her. In this way they triumphed finally over the girl's tender heart and she went away with them. They immediately married her to a notorious native, who had ‘already had a number of wives, for $80 and ten blankets. After a few days of terror she fled to the mission and begged to be sent to the training school at Sitka. But the United States commissioner r plied that her parents were her natural guardians and that such a proceeding was itu- possibie without their consent. So they soon ot possession of the little girl again. | “When an Alaskan native woman has given | birth to an infant sue hunts up @ friend who has a baby of the opposite sexand a contract of entered into between them. As | soon as the children have reached the age of thirteen or fourteen years they live together without further formality. The selling of chil- | dren to white men or to others who can afford to pay a fair price for them is usual. Among the Kling-gets orphan children become the y of the mother’s family, being thus in de slaves. No laws exist controlling such matters in Alaska, and humanity would seem to demand that some legisiation be en- acted upon the subject without delay FAVORITE FLOWERS, ‘The Blossoms Preferred by Prominent New They are getting rid rfluous nerve force through the me- a drum andatin born, Iti Ithy and you ought not to object.” tis really the case,” suid Mrs Boggs with a sigh, “I am more resigned.” As T was about to sny ntinwed the doc- ishing in 4 wn person fi itation disagreeable at { beiteve that you w . my dear? are dimit ves are multiplying in old and # certain time of li! cella no longer multiply hh toxupply the p! of thone whic Then arrives ® period of what we cail decrepitude, and eventualiy the individual, if Ro disease supervenes, perishes of mere “de- ality.” q That may all be true,” admitted Mrs oKGe e course of nature does not pines. I would much rather remain in ignorance of what you call plysiology and wot be obiiged to think of myself and my children And our inside works us if we were #0 quany machi “Science seems to have no attractions for women,” muttered the doctor, who became absorbed in his newspaper again. anaeniiGpemam DR, BILLKOTH ON THE NEXT WAR. nduce to hap- He Explains Its Novel Surgical Features to the Austrian Delegation. From the New York Sun. Prof. Billroth spoke atlength in the Austrian delegation on December 2 concerning the needs of the medical service in the next war. Ax the words of the foremost medical and surgical authority on the continent, his address b: been published in full by most German dailies, and has been quoted freely by French and Italian and Swiss newspapers. Biliroth «poke toa question regarding the improvement of the organization of the modical and surgical corps of the Austrian army, and when he was doue the deputios of the delegation passed a vote of thanks to him for his exhaustive exposition of the subject. He began with showing that the progress in the manufacture of small arms, which has been the most remarkuble change im weapons in the last few years, was such as would most aggravate suffering and slaughter in the Lattle of the future. “The experience of the army surgeon shows,” he said, “ihat wounds from cannon balls and grenades are exceedingly rare compared with wounds from rifles. At the battles of Weirsen- burg and Worth I had an opportunity to notice, York Women. th for the frogs to lie m a “th and elsewhere alto 1 made the same observa: wines Aromca tbe. at a tight board fence | Fem the Philadelphia Pross, _ | tion, that artillery wounds are very fow, to say ought to be built to keep out all foes that waik | How flowers do talk! What volamesof senti- of the cavalry, for cuts or injures nothing from blows are seldom to be found. In figures the proportion is 80 per cent of the wounds come from ritle balls, peruapy 15 per cent from heavy guns, and 5 per cent from cavalry wea jons. I speak here of the battieticlds and not sieges. Thave heard the ergument that the cause of this apparently gross disproportion between the deadiiness of large and of small arms is that men injured by cannon balls or grenades die at once or very soon. in the war of 1870-71, however, accurate statistics of thoxe buried in the dead trenches show that compara- tively few were killed by artillery. gical attention must then be devoted rincipally to the new intantgy projectile. W ave not bad illustrations yet of ite working im war, but we may form somie conception of this Sonie people say that the long of the new rifle will lead to mancuvering at a distance, aud crawl, and it should be so close to the water that no bird can stand on the ground in- side and pick up the pollywogs. Otherwise they will rapidly and mysteriously discppear. There is no trouble in feeding the frogs while they are still pollywogs, nature having pro- vided for that by supplying microscopic forms in the sediment for them to browse upon. Their increase, when properly protected, enormous, and many frog farms have already been made exceediugly profitable. In former times frog soup wasa favorite medicine given by physicians in cases of con- sumption and hypochondria. Anciently many preparations wers made from frogs, such as salves, as well 23 oils from the spawn and urine. Frogs’ hearts were recommended to be swal- lowed as pills every morning for certain dis- eases. In the country to this day frogs are ap- ment they breathe out! How vivid and pi turesque are their delincations! Nothing could be more suggestive. They outweigh and distance completely all verbai deseription. The subtle society of woman, charming, pene- trating and perceptive, has inveigied from the flowers their secret. Her sex have agreed to become affinities with them, and so now tho craze is to be known by one individual blos- som. Itis not meant that even a cluster shall embrace the affection of the queens, only one 8 allowable —a perfect full bloom blossom—the pet of the family conservatory. Mra. Chauncey M. Depew, the wife of the famous orator, bas sought out the camelia, freezing, but haughty, which well fite and adorns her stately ce. Mrs. Coleman Plied to the forehead of a patient in cases of and that the shooting will be therefore wide of presen: Drayton, the brilliant daughter of Astor stock, bral conges! the targets. ‘Lo be sure this mancuvering was Tee has choven the rose, and ever blooming freai| the principle of the last war, ut i tune is and fair in the costliest of robes and jewels she | limits. It depends on the contour of the ‘Welton for The Evenine Star. is a fit representative of the regal leader of the | country, and when an army is cornered it A Rondeau of the Golden Age. The Golden Age stili lives, nor e’er can die So long as men breathe air beneath the sky. First, in our childhood to this earthly spuere It welcomes us; its light gilds every tear, And what seem troubles pass like bubbles by. Our hearts beat lightly as the swift years fy; Hope's Juring landscapes bright before us lie, And youth prolongs with all its thoughtless cheer ‘The Golden Age. ‘Then love new dates it, adding to the eye “A precious seeing,” though we learn to sigh, For none last ever its enchantments dear, ‘Yet all inturn they charm. ‘Too sad, too drear, Were life if fate should wholly us deny ‘The Golden Age. —W. L. SHOEMAKER. ——_____+e2___—__ Great Comfort for Smokers. ‘From the Allentown City Item. ‘The fact that most men who reach a great age have used tobacco since boyhood, without any sign of injury, is now explained. A pro- fessor in the University of Pisa has discovered that tobacco is an antiseptic; that is, tobacco smoke has a destructive action upon bacilli, those minute organisms that insist on colonizing the body to their own uses and produce dis- eases of all sorts. ‘Ibe professor found out by actual experiment with bacilli in a glass tube that the tobacco fumes kill cholera and typhus floral kingdom. Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chi- cago, who is in New York now, became «ud- denly seized with this flower fad, and she is identified by the mystic orchid, the favorite flower of the Princess of Wales. ‘Mra, Duncan Elliot, who was famous as Sally Haggous be- fore her marriage a few months ago, the famous beauty, wears the sweet pea, a fascinat- ing, highly painted flower, and oftes blends ber gowns to harmonize with the bouquets she wears. But the jeweler is not forgotten by any means. He holds as prominent and predomi- nating @ position as ever. He is still in touch with the high and low beats of the family urse. As the decollette, arched bodiee grows lower, the wide, blazing, ostentatious necklace becomes more ‘desirable. and, after all, there are very few women who can’ tempt fate ina full, unadorned neck. So the necklace is a thing of absolute necessity. Diamonds, however, are not the only rep- resentatives stones. Brunettes are showing @ decided regard for rubies and while blondes cast lingering glances in the direction of the turquoise and pearis. An Egyptian Romance. From the London Daily News, George Ebers, the learned Egyptologist and popular poet, bas published a two-volume novel, “Per Aspera,” which our Vienna eorre- spondent says will be warmly welcomed in all countries speaking the German tongue. The events of the story take place in Alexandria, must fight. Had the French had enough am- munition to advance from two or turee of their forts the mancuvering would have been atanend. A collision must come some time; and then what will the effect of the new rifle be? Bullets that formerly stopped at the bone will pierce it, and perhaps two or three other bones, the number of severely wounded wall be rapidly increased and the armics will dwindle rapidly. “In consequence of the greater length of Tange the wounded must be treated at « longer distance trom the enemy, say 400 paces further than heretofore. Moreover, with the quicker movements of the troops comes the necessity for the quicker moving of the field bospitais. The number of porters of the wounded; already too smail in the Austrian army, have to be largely increasea. in fact, — ‘wagons must be drawn up iamediately behim ‘the line of battle to carry of the injured.” After dwelling upon the increase of mortality from the use of smokeless powder Prof. Liliroth continued: “Finally, that most terrible of fighting. the man bunt, will be facilitated by smokeless powder. ‘This is the kind of combat in which the advance posts are opposite cach other and neither is ready to begun. They watch keenly, and whenever acap or helmet appears from bush or wall,the enemy, like the beast from its lair, spring forth to kill, In such warfare the best natured men areas wild beasts, and the blood freezes in the veins to bear trom ope of them after shooting bis man: “There! be ivels over like a rabbit. ‘At Gravelotte St. Privat there were 5,000 mandment of the law?’ ’ It was like him that he engaged tobe a minister of the parish for only three months, refusing to engage longer leit he might not come up to expectations. Then ho engaged himself for a year, at a salary of a thousand dollars, and at once set about his work in carnest. His parish was in one of the poorer parts of the city, where it was not easy for g young man to acquiré an outside reputation; but he was at once appre ciated by the plain people who mostly yy his congregation. His sermons were conceiv in such vein that he opened to_people a new life. He inspired everybody. People said to one another as they went out of church, ‘That was the Gospel we had today.’ Others would say, ‘We never heard that here before.’ in the time when that city sheltered the largest number of creeds ever professed in one pice. dead and 15,000 wounded. ‘Two-thirds of the latter were only slightly wounded and wore carried off by railway. For the severely wounded, when we calculate that two porters with one stretcher made the trip of 500, 600 or 700 paces ten times during the battle, we find that for the Germans aloue 500 stretchers and 1,000 porters were necessary. We have left out of ali consideration here the French, for whose severviy wouuded the Ger- mans as victors bad to care. ‘This at least dou- bied the requirements, eo that 2,000 porters and 1,000 rs were necded. This shows how COST OF INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONS, ‘The amount expended by the managers of the centennial fair exceeded that which had been previously expended, with the exception of the Vienna exposition, and amounted to mething over $3,000,000, The cost of the Vienna exposition was over $11,000,000. That wasa sad finarcial failure, the deficit bein, nearly $9,000,000. This gigantic failure Paves | @ panic and serious monetary trouble through- out the Austrian emp: ‘One of the causes which led to this lamentable failure may be studied as @ warning to the managers at Chi- cago. The exorbitant ras of living which were imposed kept many visitors away from Vienna. The Paris exposition universelle of 1878 was more extensive and elaborate than any previous exhibition and was a financial success. Tho cost of this world’s fair was nearly 10,000,000, and its receipts were largely in excess of it cost. The space occupied was 150 acres. ‘The bacteria and retard or prevent the growth of all other kinds. The Lemar tag of the dis- covery is that a man who keeps a i constantly in his mouth will inst any of tho insidious attacks that bacteria are continually making upon the system. Tosome, of course, the preventive would be worse than the disease, eS this has nothing to do with the new. principle discovered “in tobacco ee many people will hear with And it’s oh, to be a Turk, ‘To sit ina harem snug, AN day without any work, On an elegant Persian rag, And smoke a chibouk, with half-shut eyes, And dream of the Houri's in Paradise! And a nabob it’s oh, to be, In the land of Hindoostan, With a long-tubed narghiien And a peacock feather fan, ‘To sinoke, and watch, as the fame upcurls, ‘The graceful movements of d: girlst and the Christians ap} A Novel Mesmeric Trial. Front the London Daily News. Once more the Wolverhampton magistrates have adjourned the hearing of the case against Harry Moores, alias “Dr.” Vint, the mesmerist. Moores, as our readers will remember, gave an exhibition in that town of his alleged powers of hypnotizing; but, according to the charge of the And oh, it's to own afarm— A Maryland farmer free— ‘To sip, when the sun shines warm, In the shade of an apple tree, A Julip, and smoke a corn-cob pipe, While my tall tobacco is waxing ripe! As Inone of these can be, ‘The Day's Sport Spoiled. ‘From Judge. accused and i _- rye a = Jord 4 — 1 will not at Fortune croak, One of the hypnotist’s sul @ most successful of any ye ie! Content if the gods grant went every ni; and mode of procedure might be of ‘interest at this} “Goo eg me Good store of the weed fo smoke, A brier-wood pipe, and, with love of gong, ‘Sound body and mind my whole life long.* Give me health in myself to enjoy the things. granted, © thou son of Latona; sound mind in sound body; Keep mine age free from all that Ang let it not fail of the lyre. srranalation of Lard (RS) Ttion. ae seen “ on the floor who “winked at each other, Sen aneerne se fa ROG time, when the ways aud means are being con- sidered to make the Columbian exposition worthy of its name. In 1885 the French gov- ernment and the commenced pre} tious for the exposition universelle and in Au- gust of that year the minister of commerce was Yoted.a credit of 100,000 francs for the purpose of making the preparatory studies and obtain- ing such designs as would enable him to pre- sgt fo the assembly a project for carrying out the government's intention in regard to the Proposedexhibition. In April, 1886, the minis- ters of commerce, industry and finance sented the project for a system of organization by the goverment, with the concurrence and = Mr. Webster—“Yo' looks kinder d Mistah Calhoun. Didn’ yo" ketch no fukesrs” Mr. Calhoun—“Nope; didn’ hab no charnee t try. Dat Jay ob a dawg done eat up all mah wu'ms when I wuz fizin’ mah line.” “Tour vote in favor of granting us this fram ebise,” said the promoter of the scheme, “would be worth to us”— “Yes,” broke in the listener, becoming instantly attentive, “would be worth to ted of cost estimated and provided for by the gov- ernment, the city of Paris and the society of ranty was about 43,000, 000france( $8,500.000), f this amount the oo furnished $3,500,000, the city of 1,500,000 and the of 000. With this sum svaiable br Spin Percy Smith of this town cut one of his hands ‘recently quite severely,and to avoid taking cold kept his hand incased in one of « pair of new dogskin gloves. His arm and band soon com- at his cigarette, inhales it, takes up a wine skin or wine bottle, pours a half pint down his the bi