Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1889, Page 15

| | | A CHINESE OPIUM PALACE, |¢ Liannni's Gorgeous Fstablishment, for Blaves of the Pipe. CURSED 8Y THE DEADLY DRUG, The Outrageous Conduct of the Brit- ish Government—In the Paris of America — Superstitions About Medicines. This Den Beats the World. Copyrighted. Snaxemar Feb, 15.—[Special Correapond- once of Tie Bre,]—1 visited, last night, the bigueest opium den of the world. "It is situ- ated on the edge of this great cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in which Chinese row: from all parts of the empire congregate, and where the Chinaman has iearned to play billiards, to drink whiskey and to practice the refinoments of western as well as castern wice. The palatial saloons of New York, vhe bar room of the Hoffman house and the gilded palaces of sin in San Francisco have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. This den of the Chinese has likewise and it is moro like a palace than an opium smoking joint for pig- led celestials. Three stories high and cov- ering what would be nearly half an Ameri- cun block, its entrance is lighted with the + Jectric light and its interior 1s furnished in the most extravagant Chinese fashion. The ceilings are of richly carved wood and the finest of Chinese lamps, each of which cost hundreds of doilurs, throw a soft light over the hazy swoking crowd within, The painted walls are inlaid with curious marble, the grain of which is'such asto give the iden of landscape sketches and'tie finishing of the rooms is in carved teak wood which, oiley and colored, shines like ebony. There were, perhaps, a thousand bmokers in this opium den when [ visited it last night, and T pushed my way into it through a throng rep- resenting every class of Chinese life. There was the pompous mandarin in gorgeous silks boside the half-naked cosley in ragged cotton. -There were loose women and des- narate looking meun, quiet, intellectual sehol- ars and wealthy Chinese merchants. All stopped under the electrie light to buy littie pots of opium as thick as molasses, and each Toldingiabout what could be crowded into the smallest of our American individual salts. The cooley and the mandarin were charged the same for their opium but they paid diffarent prices accord- ing to the rooms which they oc- cupied and the pipes which they used in smoking. The oheapest cost avout ten cents a smoke and the dearest ‘was sold for pot much more than fifteen couts, The pipes, however, were different. Tucy were about two feet long with a big, round bowl set in the bandle. The mandar- ins smoked pipes of ivory,some of which wero elaburately carved, while the coolies w atisfied with plain pipes of wood. The receipts of this opium den are said to be more than one thousand dollars a day, and I am told that it is always full. Pussing the electric fight you enter hall after hall filled with the hazy fumes of sickly sumelling vapor through which tho of gorzeous lamps struggling to find their way an d cast a wierd, ghost like air over the lers resting below. The swoking com- partments are divided into cells open at the front und sepurated from one another by gorgeons carvings of teak-wood which col- ored with the smoke of thousands, has turned from a rich brown into un oiled jet. Each cell accommodates two or move people, uud the most of the men I saw smoking were in {couples. On each side of a lhttle glass lamp the men lay on red cushions, sometimes dropping their feet upon a chair and vesting their heads on blue piliows, cach about a foot square and a foot long. The most ‘expensive of the combartments Lud cushions of fine velvet, and the frames of some couches were inlaid with mother-of- pearl and jade. In some of the private yoows I noted women smoking with the men. They were not, I was told, the wives of the smokers, and it is no more creaitable for w Chmmese women to smoke opium than it is for an American girl to drink whis Opum smokers always lie down while smoking. They bend themseives spoon fashjon us they manipulate the opium, draw itinto their mngs and blow it out of their nostrils. In some cases I noted large rooms Inawhich private purties seemed to have as- vled fora private smoko together, and [ passed through every hall of this large opium Joint and did not see a bit of disorder. Your opinm smoker is different from the drunkard. The opium calms instead of ex- eites. 1 was treated with politeness every \where, and the drowsy, sleepy crowd did not iwecuw to. care that I stopped ana looked at (them, - | CHINA'S OPIUM TRADE: ‘Thisis, however, only one of hundreds of, opibm shopsin Bhanghar. I visited anot her dtn upon leavidg this big one I found it nearly as large, It is said that China uses about §300,000,000 worth of opium every year, and it is rightly called tho curse of the people. Opium is now grown in every prov- inco of China. The seed of the poppy is sown in November and its juice is collected in February- and March. The opum is wotten by cutting the capsule of the poppy tlower with a notched iron instruumient at -\Aume‘ and by the next moruing a drop or 0 of juice hus 00zed out. This is scra) and saved by the grower and after he hias a vessel full of it, It is struined and dried. 1t takes n great many poppies to make u pound of opium, and it £0os through & number of processes before it is ready for the market. n & liquid state it looks like a dark strawberry jam, and when propared - for shipment it is put into chosts, each of which contaias about forty balls of opium, These balls are rolled in .dried poppy leaves aid here in China the duty on opium is so heavy that the customs officers wateh Lhese chests very closely. At Shanghai theve are a number of large ships which look like floating swimming baths or vavai training #hips in which the opium pussed upon hy tho customs is stored, and by which maethod smugeling h somewhat prevonwd ‘The Chi- nese are Rreatest smugglers in the world and it is bnly by the aid of foreigners that tney are able to have a good customs servive. And their receipts from forcign customs aré noe four Limes as groat s thoy woro sevoral dee 8g0. o Chiose are naturally opium Amnknrl but it is due to the forciguer that the aru, national evil. The ofticials u.nl the emperor saw the danger before it cama and they tried to keep the opium out of tho country. The English, however, who were bringing in large quautities from India, were making oo wuch money out of it to let it go, und one of the most (isgrace ful pages of history is the record of how Jonn Bull, phil. arthropic and moral, as ho pretends to be, forced China to take a poison Which its ofticials knew would degrado its people. The ewmperor of China at the start Taxed the consuwers of opium and threatoned them with death, Opium smuggler W seized and tortured, and the native dealers were executed. The Chinese, however, muld do nothing with the foreigners and they be- canie the swuggicrs. The government theu abpeated 1o the foreigners and oue of the im\'vrnmoul commissioners asked the Eu%- ish merchunts to give u) hen- -hun that it might be destroyed, twenty Thousund cheats, whrth eleven million dol. lars. China refused to pay for it on tho ground that it had not suthorized ats com- ml.ulonenndvuund ity and that the oplum was smuggled. For this the British went to war wnn China, and through this war opened most of the ports. They made u mml‘s in ~whioch o lum was oot montioned but at wuking of which the Chu:ou undouhusdly asked them 0 probivit it, and which they refused. At prosent the United Statos is the ouly coun- wy has made @ treaty by which it is unluwful for the citizons to sell opum to the Wlinese, and the powsou is uow brought into THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: China by the millions of pounds a year. The Cl Mneu, fllldhl‘ that they could not prohibit ve begun to raise it thamsolves, and as lmve stated, it 18 now grown in every ona ol the Chinese provinoes. CIVILIZING INPLUENCES, Still in this great work of civilizing the opium war did much for China. It opened this great port of Shanghal, gave Gireat Britain the island of Hong l(ung and showed the Chinese that the foreign devils were stronger and mightier than themselves, They paid twenty-one millions of dollars which represented the demands of the British and thereafter gave the foreigners the right to trade and settie at Llnwn. Amoy Fouchay and Shangh: The United States soon after this made her first treaty with -China which was made by Caleb Cushing in 1844, and since that time foreign trade with China has steadily in- creased. There are now twenty-two open ports in the empire, and the foreign trade amounts to more than £273,000,000 a year. European and American oo are now found in every province of Uhina, and our missionaries have penetrated 1o the wildest regions of the celestial land. The growth of the foreign influence and its effect upon China can nowhere be better seen than right here at Shanghai. Here is the largest for- eign oslony in China, and there are from five to seven thousand Europeans who have their homes here and who are engaged in business with the Chinese. The foreign settlement of this PParis of the Pacific looks more like a slice taken out of one of the rich cities of the United States or of Europe, than a city in Asin. The wide river front is lined with big, three-story buildings, and a beautiful public garden runs between these and the water, T'he strects of this part of the city are well Asia, paved, and you will meet as finely dressed men sund women upon them as will find in \Washington or Paris. crowd is, however, & muca_more cosmopol- itan one, The French and the English are mixed with Americans anda Germans, and the servants of all are the yellow-faced coles- tials. The policemen are East Indians, tall, well-formed dark-faced, black-bearded’ men dressed in the uniform ‘of our police, save that they have red turbans a foot high on their heads instead of helmet caps, and they do not carry tho ebony club. They are used chiefly in arresting the Chinose, and foreig ers have to be arrested by foreigners. They are among the finest men I have ever scen, and they constrast strikingly with the del- cate, siender, aristocratic-limbed Chines T T YANGTSERIANG. Shangnai is about midway on the Pacific coast between the northern and southera boundaries. of China. It 1s near the mouth f, though not on the great river, the Yang- kiang, which divides tho cmpire into two equal portions, and_which forms the central avenue of trade. This is one of the greatrat and one of the longest. rivers in the world, and it vies with-the Nile in_the rich deposits which it carries down from the moun- tains of Thibet and spreads o the rich plains of Chin Its waters where it enters the sea arc as vellow as clay and their_contents are, I am told, as rich us guano. They form a fertilizer which the Chinese use by irrigation, so that it is spread over much of the 548,000 square mil which forms the basin and makes this land produce from two to three crops per year. The Yungtsekinng has a fall uearly double that of the Nile or the Amazon. It is 80 wide at its mouth that when we sailed up it in coming to Shanghai we, for a long WaVs, ‘¢ hardly able to ses the bunks, ana this widti extends up the river for hundreds of miles. It is ng ble for ocean steamers to Hunkow, the city of the size of Chicago, which is situated on its banks 600 miles above Shanghai, and river steamers can go 1,800 miles up ' its ng course. Above this there are gorg, nd rapids which the for- cigners now think can be passed, and v will then be an opening into the interio China by this means for more than two thousand miles. The Yangtsekiang is so that it would reach from San Francisco to York and push itself way into the Atlantic if it could be stretched out upon a plaune of the face of the United States. It is longer than the distance from New York to Liverpool, and it is said to be the best stream in the world us to the arrangement of its branches. Its boat population is numbered by the hundreds of thousands and it is of city hundreds of miles in length made up a junks, ships and barges.. These .Chinese junks'are gorgeously paiuted: mnd carved. They have the same style of sails und masts that were used thousands of years ago, and their sales are immense gheets of cotton patched together and stretched on rods of bamboo which look like fishing poles. The suilors are pig-tailed men in fat ctothes of cotton, who sing i a cracked gibberish as they work, and who understand how to man- age their rude sails so well that they can often pass shaps of moro modern make, All of the Chinese boats have a pair of eyes painted on the sides of their prows, aud tho Chmese sailor wonld no wmore think of navigating without these than he would thinlk of eating without chopsticks. If asked the reason he replics: *No have eyes no can see. can go.” Bishop Fowler, while swiing up the Pio o to Peking, buppened to sit with his legs hanging over the boat so that they covered up one eye. He noticed that the sailors were uneasy and they at last came to him and asked him to move his legs so the ship could see 10 go. BOILING BODIES FOR MEDICINE. ‘The Chinese are full of superstitions and many of thewm firnly believo. that the for- cigners make medicines out of human beings. ‘The massacre ut. Tientsin in 1570 in which tweuty foreigners were killed and amon, then a number of French nuns, was cause by the report that the sisters were killing children to get their hcarts and eyes for med purposes, and the trouble in Korea last spriog was caused by the circulation of the stories thut the missionaries were grind- ing up children’s bones to make medicine, ‘This repor! was started by Chinese, and the latest attempt of the kind I find to-day here at Shavghai. It appears in a tri- monthly illustrated magazine which the Chinese pllhlish and wl"uh sells for five cents a copy. This contains a full descrip- tion of how the forcigners make their medi- cine, with ghastly illustrations of the severed trunks and the cut up limbs.of human beiugs. In one ¢ut men in American clothes ave bend- ing over great furnuces in which the heads and legs of men are boiling,and beside which great baskeus and tubs of cut up humans lie, ‘'he men are stirring the steaming mass and the picture makes one think of the witches’ cauldron in Muacboth. In another cut is shown the machinery for the grinding up of the boues and flesh. A dozen old skeletons lie upon the floor and & man with a shovel puts the ghastly mass upon the scales for weighing. In another room the medicine is ruLkml up to be sent away, and young ladies American dress with \vulcl falls and French heels are busy manager of the magazine whether he be- lie! in suck stuff and he replied that he did net know and asked if it was not really true, No can see, no at it. I asked the CELESTIAL DOCTORS. ‘The Chinese themseives do not believe in dissection und there is no body-snatching herc. They beliove that the heart is the seat of thought, that the soul exists in the liver and that the gall bladder is the seut of courage. For this peason the gall biadders of tigers are caten by soldiers to inspire themn with courage. Tne Chinese doctor ravks no highor shan the ordinary skilled workman. He gets from 15 w 20 ceuts a visit aud he often takes patients on cofdition ihat he will cure them within a certain time orno pay. He nover sees his femule pa- tients except behind a screen and he does uot pay a second visit unless he is invited, His pay is called “golden thanks,” and the orthodox way of sending 1t to hin is wrapped in red paper. The dentists look upon pulled teeth as trophies, and they go about with necklaces of decayed teeth about their cks, or with thow strung upon strings and othache is supposed to i b the tooth und there A set of fe mlu doetors who muke a busing of extracting these worius. When the nervy 15 exposed they Lake this out and call it zhu worm, and when not they use a sleight of hand by which tuey make their putients be- lieve certain worms, which they snow them, e A e T e oy persons tell of Chinairen who claimed to have had ten worms tuken from their mouths in a sin- gle day, wod I saw o woman uctualiy at work upon a patient in the street here, China is as full of superstitions as the West India islands, and tho people like to be hum- bugged quit'e us well here as we do Awmerica, Peaxg G, Canrexten. - An Absolute Cure* The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT ia only put up in Large two ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands. snd all skin erup- twns. Wil positively cure all kinds of piles. Ask for the Ulll IINAL ABIET OINT- MENT. Soid by Goodman Drug Co., at 25 ents porr hox—by D te. MISS ETHEL HAS THE BRAINS An English Girl Who Captures High Academioc Honors. THE ART OF HOUSEKEEPING Mrs. Logan's Mission in Europe— Noted Women's Hands—A Bache- lor's Verdict—Russia's Futare Empress —Afternoon Tea. York World. She never perus'd ‘‘Robert Elsmore," Nor even *The Quick or the Dead " But oh! she makes beautiful biscuits And such lovely batches of bread ! She knows not a step of the “‘german,” She cannot wear No. 1 shoes; Yct she's the boss girl for home comfort, And never complains of the blues, An English Minerva. iy Under the system now in force in the English colleges, says the Philadelphia Times, by which the many important examinations are thrown open to wom- en, remarkable successes have been at- tained by individual ladies, though the average of sholarship and success is.of course still higher among male students than among female. One of the lady ‘‘eracks™ of the present year is Miss Ethel E. M. Montague, of London, a irl of only twenty-one, who has recont- y added to the many distinctions she has earned before. first class honor in English at the University of London, passing the B. A. examination in the fll‘i( division with marks deserv- ing a prize, being the only lady in this class. A pupil of the (‘lrfa Public Day School company (headquarters 21 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, S. W.), she pnssed with honors, the junior and sen- or Cambridge. local examinations, and in 1884, won the company’s sholm‘thp held for two years. After having ma- triculated in 1886 in London Univer- sity with honors, Miss Montague was offered a Girton scholarship for two years and the same year won the Som- erville chemistry prize, as the result. of the Cambridge and Oxford joint board examinations. In 1877 she passed in the London ‘‘Intermediate ;\rls" ox- amination, taking second class honors in English, and was awarded the Reid scholarship at Bedford college. Baker street for one year. These distinctions were followed by the Anglo-Saxon prizo, with a certificate of honor,und a certiti- cate for mental and moral science, which she obtained at the June exami- nations of the University college last year. A School for Housewives. 1t is said that Mrs. General Logan is busyi seself abroad in looking into ascheme which she thinks—if she finds it practicable—of carrying into execu- tion when she returns to this country, says the New York World. In Germany there is a custom which sounds almost as if it were a survival from the middle ages, when boys were sent to the great Tatlicetto (B teainbd 65 pages. and girls learned to spin, sew, embroider, brew and bake under the supervision of a chatelaine of the castle. This custom, in its modern form, is to send girls, after they have finished school, to live a year in the household of some noted wife, who teaches them all the accomplish- ments which it is held fitting a ha us mutter should acquire. This is the system Mrs. Logan is mak- ing a sudy of, and her idea is to found just sueh a home in this country, where givls can take a post-grad course of a year, learning all these im- portant aceomplishments, which would go far towards negativing in many homes the suggestion that marriage is a failure. She thinks, 1t is said of the home here or 2o, and has already some twenty young women promised her to begin with. not propose to_make the vear all work and no play. The home is to be a big, handsome house, fitted with every com- fort, supplied with books and music,and the glrh are to tind that part of the cur- riculum is in learning through practical experiments how to entertain in every fashion. Mrs. Lozan is a woman of great energy and executive ability, and if she undertakes this project she may be trusted to carry it.out with beneficial results. Hands. o! Noted Women Kate Field has the hand of the gypsy. Clara Morris has a hand so soft that it seems to melt away in your clasp. Mrs. Hodgson Burnett has an apgutar hand, not averse to holding the reins. Lotta has a supple tittle hand, which always seems -as ready to cufl- as- to CAress. Maude Harrison hasa flexible hand, which she uses to effuot in the * Widow Brown.” Mvrs. General Logan’s hand lmge!‘u in %ouru asif sceming tosay: “I'm in no urry to go.” Amelie Rives hasa facile hand, more in hnrmuu_y with the *‘quick” than the t‘dead.’ Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has a thin. sivewy hand, expressive of great Dervous energ. Fanny Davenport has a fat, chubby hand, covered with oases of dimples and diamonds. Mrs. Luu%try‘s hand is as delicately veined as a leaf and makes one loth to part with it after clasping it. Murs. James Brown Potter has a slen- der hand, with shapely digits, which are daily manipulated by a manicure. The hand of Ella Wheeler Wilcox looks as if the good, hard shake of a brawny hand would crush 1t, bones and all. She does A Nun’s Noble Action. As two nuns belonging to the convent of St. Joseph, Beauce, in Quebec, were walking down the road there a fow days ago with one of their little girl charges, suys the Boston Pilot, a young man en- raged in consting came down a slide at ull speed and would have run down and probably killed the little girl but for tKe heroic action of oue of the nuns, who threw herself before the child to shield her with her own body. The poor nun wasshockingly injueed, losing one of her eyes. Two Smart Maine Women. ‘Two spinster sisters up in Maine, who run a sixty-five-acre farm, are credited with being the smartest women iu the state, says the Pittsburg Dispatch. One of them chops every winter the yearly supply of fire-woud, going into the woods early in the scason and remain- ing until the work is completed, She works in the hayfleld in summer and digs from seventy to one huundrad bushels of potatoes yearly and puts them in the cellur, The other sister is the carventer of the family und bas added all manver of improvements to the farm, Pauline Lucca's Lost Voice, Very dismal is the account that comes to us from Germuny of the benefit and farewell performance, at Vienua, of Lucea, in “L’Africaine,” suys a Paris letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. One of the eritics described it ubem“ “a series of howls aud death ratties, and declares that it ought never to have been {lven winding up by u\ln* “Away with these whited sepulchres!” It is twenty-five years since I tirst heard Pauline Lucea. It was at the Royal ra houseat Berlin, What a singer she was tidn—and what a rudiantly beautiful s@reature! She was incom- arable as Margaret in “Faust,” and as Echl i 44 Africaine.” She was an excellent Gharubino in ‘‘Le Nozze di PI aro’’ xd a fascinating Zerlina in ra Dia ?. All is ended now—the song and the'sweetnessand the witchery of old, alifsthe renown that won the great Bisnigrek himself to he photo- graphed n fie same picture with the popular 1 prima donna. I still pos- sess one “hom photograp which 1 keep 8 mento of those days of triumph p! "nullna Lucea, a quarter of a centdty hgo. A Bachelor's Verdiot. New York World. Sho can play the scales on the piano, But she can’t scrape them off from a shad, And her notes are not higher soprano Than the bank notes she coaxes from dad. She decorates many a panel, While the poor panels yearn to be seruabbed ; A rubber of whist she can handle, While her clothes by her mother are rubbed. Thay tell me she wants to get married; Such a wife would be really a_joke. There! I'm tired of this taliing 'bout wore: Come along, Ben, lot's both have a smoke. Russia's Future Kmpress. | One of the most widely talked-of of the approacking royal betrothals a cording to a Paris correspondent of the St, Louis ‘Post-Dispaton is probably only delayed. It isthat of the czaro- witz to the Princess Alix, of Hesse- Darmstadt. They are both so very young, the gentieman being twenty and the lady sixteen, thut a postponement of afew years would seom to be a wise and pruaent measure. Meanwhile the grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt is in- vited to visit the Russian court during the coming summer and to bring his young daughter with him,a proceed- ing that will probably do much towards consolidating the projected alliance. For the Princess Alix 1issaid to be the pretticst of the unmarried r of Europe, prom not, indeed, to sur splendid beauty, her elder s grand duchess Sergius. 1 wonder how that superb lady will endure to see a sister exalted over her by be- if indeed the But per- sonal charms are potent elements the marrying off of a princess, and the young heir to the Russian thronc is probably as susceptible to the winning qualities of a very pretty gi most youths of his age. And h having been wooed and wedded for her beauty, and having ‘been an exception- ¢ happy wife, will probably look with r on a union accomplished under similar influences with her own. The Afternocon Tea. savant asserts that wo- , is much smaller than s. Probably woman doesn’t care about that sg that her diamonds are large endugh, Miss Byiteky—Do you like pork chops for breakfast, Mr. Nevergo? Mr. Nev- ergo—Pork chops? O, uh, yes, much indeed. Miss Britely—Then il you'll excuse mp i moment I'll tell mama to get some, Lthink [hear her starting to marketr It was about 11 o’clock and the head was wherb it :should be hat time. "Tell me;iLula,” he said softly, *‘how much youlove me.” *O, George, dar- lig, [ couldn’t dn all that to-night. Ii's getting toodate.’ GeorgeFoiter, a leading young-attor- of Tusealoosa, Flovida, committed suicide thevevedontly by shooting him- self through’the hicad upon the grave of his wife in Evergreen cemetery. When found he was lying prostrate across the grave, with his pistol firmly grasped in his right haud. Mrs. Allen Palmer died after a shos illness at her home ten es south of White Falls, Texas, last week. Muvs. Palmer was a sister of Frank and Jes: James. “She was a good christian wo- man. Magazing Editor—‘‘Really, miss, we have more poems on hand than we huve room forand it is not worth while to examine any more.” Fair Writer--- **Oh, [ know this will suit. It is a poem of passion and has been condemned by Anthony Comstock.” *My gracious! Mr. De Cterk, draw thelady a check for 3500, Jenny Lind found a tramp under her bed recently, . But it was Mvs. Lind, of New York, The veal Jenny is dead. A wag declares ghat the empress of Austria is “Vienhas bred.” Mrs. (levelnuflq pleture still oltsells Muys, H's. A kissing dchool is the very latest ian development. According te Londan’s Court Journal her majesty, the rioa, 18 not ufl'm'~ ing from exeessive nervous prostration,’ but is, on the-contrarvy, as jolly asa sandboy. Mrs. Cashel Hoey, the autloress, is an Irish lady between sixty and seveuty. She is short, round, and to ‘American eyes, plainito the point of dowdiness in dre: She makes upon un average of 82,500 u year by her pon. “Why this melancholy mien?" sad the traveling man as he strolled up to th desls. assistant bookkee; 5 last night.” Prupuscd to my gir Ag d she ring a bell?” “\ng‘ rats?" **No. “Tel] you she would be a sister to “V\’Lll what on em‘\h did she do?” ‘*She accepted me. - KEineidations. New York World. An interview between usable sire and his son who had graduated at a high school, thed following questions and answers weresthe outcome; What aovasblack adder? mathémuticien, Blnck-berwyinl? A niggar funeral. ’Splain why do arth am roun’ ¥ 'Caso if it wasn’t ibeouldn’t turn on its axies, | What aumnsg bulletin? De lead left in de flesi. Lugidate 90 Waanderin' Jow. A paper peddlar, =" Whatam de soevival ob de fittests De 1ns’ one ob a pair of tight shoes. What damvigroun’-hog dav? De when dey miiko suusage. De meanip ob “'an opporiunity?” A davk nlng dead dorg und unlocked chicken W‘x,y :ijuus called *Lo*" dats the vu.y., ey lay for sc: nl|;- Whnat makes dem call 1t *Tr church?” " On “counb de three-ology. Who war de fumn? “T'heodors Word. Waat for you say dat.you fule niggar? Doesn’t de hibil say in “de beginpin’ war the word?” De rvason ob de flood Whoat am whalein’? “spains dat myself. With a stout hickory gad the old man did 50 and the examination wasa very holler one . A niggar one ‘Case ity Htgh water. —Hold on, ——— In the deeline of life, intirmitics be- set us, to which our youth snd maturity were strangers, our kidneys and liver ure subject to derangements, bul noth- ing equats Dr. J. H. McLean’s Kiduey and Liver Balm as a regulator of these organs, SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1880, RO Bl s L, SIXTEEN PAGES, DR AR RODE ON A MAD BULL'S BACK. Some Good Storles of Mon and Other Animals. JiM HUGHES WAS HEARTLESS. He Calmly Watched His Wite Hang Herself-Three Strange Double Deaths—A Dog for a Marriage Fee. The Curious Side of Life. Silas Morton, of Kingsland, N. Y., had an exciting experience with a bull on Washington avenue in Jersoy City recently. Morton was leading the ani- mal home, and when near Grafton ava- nue a dog ran at the bull and bit the latter upon the hind leg. The bull, mad with pain, rushed at Morton, and before he realized what had occurred the amimal caught him upon 1its horns and threw him over its head. Morton alighted upon the bull’s back, and fear- ing asecond attack concluded to stay there until he could receive assistauce. Lying upon his breast and seizing the animal’s horns to hold himself on, Mor- ton hallooed for help. The bull was now thoroughly angered, and made frantic attempts to shake off its rider. Finding its efforts fruitless the animal, with the dog still at its heels, startdd upon & run down Grafton avenue in the direction of the river. When the track of the Erie railrond was reached the buast concluded to take the railroad for acourse and went up the track ata break-neck speed. The animal was now spinuing along at such a gait that Morton was afraid to let go his hold, while visions of approaching trains ap- peared to his mind at every jump of the bull. While running on this course Mor- ton was painfully awave of the numbe of telegraph poles along the line by the th which his limbs struck them ing. "o bridge crossing the Second river appeared in view, and another horror was added to_Morton’s already perilous situation. When within about twenty feet of the bridge, and before Morton hud put his resolution into effect, the beast suddenly left the track, climbed the side of the bank and reached Wash- ington avenue again on & mad run. The animal headed up the avenue and at Mill street turned the corner. It made direct for an opening in the shed of Schaffensburg, which was larger than the size of the bull. Not waiting to examine the aperture the beast rushed through tear- ing the boards off on both sides and leaving the trousers and flesh upon Morton’s limbs in shreds. Reaching Schaffenburg’s yard, the bull stam- ded a flack of ducks and chickens, scattering them in all directions ton, through fear or loss of presenci mind, still held on tenacious] animal ran down the bank of the ec- ond river, in the rear of the yard,’ ana plunged into the water. The noise of the frightenc attracted Mr. Schaffeuburg and when he reached the yard he saw the bull and man disappear under the bridge crossing the river on Washing- ton avenue. He hurried to the other side ‘and saw the bull endeavorjng to climb the steep embankment above the river. Schaffenburg lost no time in getting uuder the bridge in searchof the man whom he had seen upon the animal’s back. He found Morton lying in the shallow water in a faint. He had been knocked from the bull’s back by contact with the archway of the bridge. Morton was carried into the house ai vevived. His clothes were torn to ribhons and the flesh on his legs hung in tong strings. He was thoroughly exhausted from his wild ride, and was unable to explain how he mt\nn,n:c('l to hold on so long. As it was impossible to capture the bull alive it was neces- sary to shoot it. Three double deaths havé occurred under most peculiar rnd distressing ¢ cumstances, says a New York dispitch, A solemn funeral cortege wended its way to Greenwood cemetery this morn- iny. Two bodies weve laid side by side in gue grave, They were the remains titter and his sis Lydia. r died suddeuly in a street car Fridoy lust. When his invalid sister was iuformed of the sad occurrence Saturday she rnshed to the casket, ut~ :‘elmld.pl-:xuug sercam, and fell back d fowis had attention, Daniel Harper, who lived near Cole- man, Ga., was shot and killed by an nn- known ussassin the same day that Mr. Ritter died. He had baen sitting in his house talking to his mother, when the wateh dog uttered a low growl and suddenly began to bark furiously. Hars per went out to investigate and received a bullet in his brain. His old mother heard the shot and oun stumbling over the prostrate form of her son she, too, fell dead. They will find a resting place in a double grave. “Let me see my daughter once more for the last time,"” implored Mrs, Elizn- beth Johuson of an undertaker in Jer- gey City yesterday as he was preparing her daught body for burisl, The request was granted, The sorrow- icken mother was left alone with her dead. She knelt down, kissed the cold lips, and began to pray: 0, God, let me die with my child, I ecannot live without her.”” A pigreing scream star- tled the relatives in another room. They rushed in and found that the mother’s prayer had been answered. She was dead. Jim Hughes and wife of Crawford county, Ind., aftes engaging in many fights and guarrels. u;iruuu 1o separate, the husband taking his bov and fiddle a8 his pavt of-the * lll\hla The ‘wife, loft destitute, concluded to put an end to her existence. She procured a rope, went to the woods, climbed to the top of asapling, tied one vnd of thb repe around her neck und the other to a limb, and. after bidding ber husband goud-by, leapad from the tree, Hughes had followed hes to witness the pro ceoding, and refused to interfare, Some neighbors. however. happened along and suved tho woman’s life, Samuel Jenkins and Miss Maggie Doran appeared before Justice Sykes in Monvoe, Ga., to bes mhrried, The room had no mouey to pay the fee, so e gave the justice i little rabbit dog which he had with him, 7The bride ob- jected to giving up the dog, but it nad to go. et Horsford’s Acid Bhosphate, Usefu in all forms of Dyspepsia. 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