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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, JANUARY 6, 1881.
VOL. I.-NO. 8.
MEWS SUMMARY.
Important Intelligence from AllParts
iKomestic.
A Washistgtos-telegram of the 29th says
the excess of exports over imports for the
month ended November 30, 1SS0, was 535,-
894,340; same month in 1S79, §28,S36,794;
eleven months ended November 30, 1880,
$141,361,003; same time in 1S79, §230,279,987;
twelve months ended November 30, 18Si>,
§16-2,638,044; same time in 1879, $266,245,038.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has been for several weeks successfully
using, between New York and Boston, an invention by which five messages are simultaneously sent from, each end of a wire.
Heavt snow-storms were reported throughout Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas on the 29th, and
the mercury had in many localities dropped
down several degress below freezing point.
No such weather had been known in those
legions for twenty years, and business had
been generally suspended to allow the people
to enjoy the novelty of sleigh-rides and snowball battles. At Sberman, Texas, the thermometer registered five  degrees below zero.
Masked burglars entered the residence of
John E. Kirby, a Deputy Sheriff in St. Louis,
on the night of the 29th, chloroformed that
officer and held his wife prisoner "while they
deliberately ransacked the rooms.
At New Albany, Ind., a few days ago the
twin babes of William and Fannie Johnson
were frozen to death. The father went away
to obtain employment, leaving his family
without fuel.
Judge Fkeemas, the legal adviser of the
Post-office Department, declares that printed
commercial papers rilled out in writing are
legally subject to letter postage.
Bishop Elder, the coadjutor of Archbishop Purcell, at Cincinnati, has issued a
lengthy address to the pastors and people of
his Diocesj, urging a division of parishes,
forbidding round dances, and prescribing
rules for the marriage ceremony.
Abe Eothschild, who was generally believed to have murdered Bessie Moore and
cut her into chunks convenient for packing,
has been acquitted by a Texas jury.
De. Smixjcy, of Platufield, N. J., went out
to visit a patient on the evening of the 29th
ult., and was frozen to death almost in sight
of his home.
It is asserted at Albany, N. Y., that the
costly State Capitol in that city, which was
built upon quicksand, is likely to slide into
the Hudson River.
A brokex rail threw a train off the track
near Ehinebeck, N. Y., on the 30th ult., injuring two persons and causing the destruction of several maii-bags by fire.
J. W. Milxb, an employe of the Pocasset
National Bank at Eall Elver, Mass., has fled
to Canada, and a shortase of §7,500 in his
T   accounts has been developed.
A few days ago a Eond du Lac (Wis.)
physician ordered that a- warm flat-iron
be applied to "the chest of a woman
who was suffering from pneumonia. Her
drunken husband used an eight-pound
iron so hot that it burned its way into the
cavity of the chest, and she died of the injury.
Os the 30th ult. a Detroit book-keeper,
named H. D. Wright, poisoned himself because a Canadian lady to whom he was engaged had changed her mind and refused to
many him.
Ax" emigrant train on the Union Pacific
Eoad parted near Lodge Pole station on the
30th ult., wrecking eight cars aud injuring five
passengers.
A fire occurred in New Orleans on the 1st
which caused a loss of §254,000. A dispatch
of the 2d says that Isadore Levy, a well-
knowD merchant, in whose store the fire
originated, had become an. object of suspicion, this being the third time he had been
burned out.
The roadhouse on Mount St. Vincent and
the Central Park Art Gallery, adjoining, in
New York, were destroyed by fire on the 2d,
causing a loss of §125,000.
The wife and infant child of M. B. Muller
were suffocated by the burning of the Thompson Hotel at Madison, Wis., on the 1st.
There were distributed from the United
States mints 310,993 standard silver dollars
forthe week ended December 31, against
207,988'for the corresponding week of 1879.
B. D, BtrroiiD-'s great plow works at Rock
Island, 111., were burned on the night of the
31st ult., causing a loss of §200,000.
The receipts of grain and flour at Chicago
during the year 1880 amounted to a total of
165,594.6-52 bushels, against 137,624,833 bush-
' els in 1879- The shipments were 155,070,460
bushels. The receipts of lumber amounted
to 1,555,487,000 feet. The number of hogs received was 7,055, i29.
ErFTY-xrxE National Binks with an aggregate ca-itai of *7,2?1,170, were organized during*the psstyear. Eleven banks, with
an aggregate capital of $1,046,000, went out
of business, and three bank?, with a capital
of 3700,000, went into bankruptcy. The net
increase of National Bank note circulation
during the year was §2,'458,7i7.
A La^d-League meeting at Boston on the
2d wjjs addressed by James Redpath. Over
3,000 Irishmen participated.
Dr. Lvhax, of Massachusetts, who is thor-
ougly informed upon the cattle disease, fears
no harm from the recent large shipment of
calves to the West.
The Superintendent of the Census has
made an approximate statement of the population of th» States and Territories. It makes
the total, exclusive of Alaska, 50,152,559.
New York leads off, with a population of 5,-
083,173; Pennsylvania follows, with 4,282.738;
Ohio next, w.th 8,197,794, and Illinois takes
the fourth place, with 3,078,636.
TniJ $100,000 residence of Mr. James A.
Keene, at Newport, R. L, was destroyed by
fire on the morning of the 31st ult.
The Windsor Hotel and Dullmore House at
Atlantic City, N. J., v/ere destroyed by fire a
few days ago.
The verdict of the Coroner's jury i n the
case of the victims of the Alpena disaster has been rendered. It finds that the
st«amerwas unseaworthy, her life-preservers
unfit for use, her life-boats rotten, her crew
^experienced, and that the holding-down
bolts of the engine pulled through the bottom, la the opinion of the jury the Goodrich Transportation Company is responsible
for all damages.
Personal and. Political.
William Wait, the eminent legal author,
died at Johnstown, N. Y,. on the 29th, of consumption.
A. S, Logan, a lineal descendant of the
celebrated Chief of the Mingos,   has been
appointed to a position ih the Interior ])e-
♦partrnent.
The names of General K. B. Marcy and
Colonel John B. Barnard have been placed, on
the retired list.
V The case of Wblttaker, the colored cadet,
was considered In the Cabinet on the 80th
uit.   Secretaries Eyarts and Schurz  urged
his dismissal, but the President thought he
should be given a chance to establish his innocence of the charges made against him. A
court-martial was ordered to convene at West
Point on the 18th of January, under the Presidency of General Miles.
The New Year reception at the White
House in Washington is said to have been a
very brilliant affair. The Marine Band was
present, and the parlors were perfumed by
flowers. Mrs. Hayes had several fair aids in
receiving guests.
David H. Jerome was on the 1st inaugurated Governor of Michigan, the oath being
administered by Chief-Justice Marston.
Epes Sargent, the well-known journalist
and text-book author, died recently in Boston.
.Foreign.
Advices of the 29th state that the foot and
mouth disease was spreading among cattle
in all parts of England.
The Albanian League has summoned to
arms all males of military age in Northern
Albania.
The remains of George Eliot were interred
at Highgate Cemefaary, London, on the 29th.
The Pall Mall Gazette charges the Eritish
Government with responsibility for the
trouble in Transvaal, and says the war now
beginning is a war of conquest against people whose injuries are admitted.
The French iron-clad frigate Richelieu
took fire and sank at Toulon on the 29th.
The Dutch Government has issued an appeal to tbe people of Great Britain in behalf
of the independence of the Transvaal Republic.
Os the 30th ult. news was received of the
wreck of the British steamer Garnet in the
North Sea. Loss of life, seventeen. The En-
glisfe steamer" Montgomeryshire was also recently wrecked off the coast of Portugal. In
this last disaster thirty persons lost their
lives.
A dispatch -from Rome on the 30th ult.
asserts that the Pope had peremptorily oi-
dered the Irish Episcopacy to abstain from
creating the impression that the Vatican approved of the operations of the Land League.
Spain has contracted for the construction
in England of several war vessels, and is
building gunboats and other fast craft for
service in Cuban waters.
Br the breaking of dykes in the Province
of North Brabant, Holland, eighteen villages
have been flooded and an immense amount
of damage caused.
An anti-Jewish meeting in Berlin on the
30th ult. was attended by such crowds aud
accompanied with such disorder that the police had to close the doors.
Mangas, the. Apache Chief, successor to
Victoria, is said to have put up a flag at the
place where Victoria was killed, on which is
inscribed a pronunciamento to the Governor
of Chihuahua, saying that no traveler will be
harmed, but armed men are forbidden to
march across the country. The remnant of
the band comprises fifty-three warriors and
six squaws.
Tewfik Pasha has been appointed Turkish
Minister of Finance.
Negotiations between the Chinese Ambassador and the Russian Government have
been concluded. It is stated that China is
ready to open the Empire to the commerce of
Russia.
Rev. John Westrup, who was appointed
by the Houston Conference as Baptist missionary to Mexico, was murdered and horribly mutilated by twenty Indians, near Monterey, a few days ago. The Mexican authorities gave chase, and captured three of their
race who were concerned in the slaughter,
and it was said they would be tortured until they were willing to tell what they knew.
Louis Atjguste Blanqui, the noted French
Communist, died on the 31sb ult., in his 70th'
year.
On the 2d eight thousand Irish peasants
attended a land meeting near Killarney. The
meeting which was forbidden to be held at
Drogheda on the 2d took place on the previous day, but two magistrates read the Riot
act and the ten thousand farmers dispersed.
Monster gatherings were held at Bally Castle
and Killaly.
^	
LATER  5TEWS.
Five members of the family, of Samuel
Krump, of Montclair, N. J., died of diphtheria in one week recently. It was found that
fetid gases permeated the sleeping apartments.
The South generally was enjoying a touch
of genuine winter on the 3d. At Fredericksburg, Va., the municipal authorities had
taken possession of all the wood in the city,
to insure its sale at reasonable rates. At
Atlanta, Ga., there was fine sleiglrng, for the
first time in a quarter of a century. A severe frost had ruined the ungathered orange
crop of Florida, and many of the young
plants had been destroyed. For the first time
since its occupation by a civilized race, the
ponds and creeks of Southwestern Texas
afforded good skating.
The Tennessee Legislature met on the 3d.
The House organized by electing William B.
Ramsey- (Republican) to the Speakership,
The Senate balloted twenty-five times for
Speaker, without result.
Major Ilges had a fight Of an hour's duration on New Year's da}' with a band of
Dncapapa Sioux, when the latter displayed
a flag of truce and formally surrendered.
A farmer, named John Gamagher, was
recently choked to death by a piece of roast
beef in a restaurant at Oxford, Iowa.
The German colonists on the Volga in Russia are reported to be suffering for the necessaries of life.
Ihe Berlin students celebrated New Year's
day by invading cafes frequented by Jews,
smashing the windows and mobbing representatives of the proscribed race.
A Dublin dispatch of the 3d says that one
thousand guns were each week surreptitiously sent to Ireland from Birmingham, and that
within three weeks five thousand Enfield rifles
had also been forwarned.
Cyphnan, the Italian communist, has
been ordered to leave France.
Both branches of the California Legislature
were organized by the'Republicans on the 3d,
The public-debt statement issued on the 3d
makes the following exhibit: Total debt (including interest of ?21,596,379) $3.131,481,-
475. Cash in Treasury, $223,299,739. Debt,
less amount in Treasury, Si,899,181,730. Decrease during December, 15,699,480. Decrease
since June 30,1880, $42,5)90,559.
Colonel Israel Vodges, of the First Artillery, has been retired, at his own request,
after forty years' service.
IN Brooklyn, N. Y., On the night of the 3d
James Walsh murdered Barbara Groenthal
because she refused to marry him.
Mks. Theresa Re wast scirXEu>En, when recently   arraigned  in a New  Jersey   Court,
pleaded  guilty  to the charge  of marrying
.twelve men within atxyears, only fine of whom
; Is dead.
„ A Cokk (Ireland) cablegram of the Sd says
that a party of Land Lc-aguers had visited the
house of a man named Daniels, and inflicted
dangerous wounds upon him, but that the
victim icfused to disclose their names or
state the cause ol the attack.
OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST.
The Population of Our Cities.
The following is a list of 108 cities of the
United States, with their population in 1880,
oompared with ten years before:
1880. 1870.
Albany, N. Y  76,216 69,422
Allentown, Pa  18,193 13,883
Altoona,.Pa....  19,987 10,610
Allegheny, Pa  78,473 53.180
Atlanta, Ga...  45,000 31,978
Attleborough, Mass   11,105 6,769
Athens, Ohio  16,100 10,006
Austin, Texas  11,000 4,428
Auburn, N, Y   33,937 17,335
Aurora. HI.-. ,  13,007 11,163
Baltimore, Md.  331,000 266,304
Bay City, Michigan  30,650 13,690
Belleville, 111  10,713 8,146
BiUghamton, N. Y.  17,110 13,693
Blooming ton, 111  17,380 14,590
Boston, Mass    36B,565 250,uo6
Brooklyn, N. Y  551,465 £06,099
B rocton, Mass  13,598 8,007
Buffalo, N.Y  149,500 117,714
Burlington, Iowa  18,975 14,930
Cambridge, Mass   51,693 S9,631
Camden, i\\ J  41,714 20,045
Cedar liapids, Iowa  10,176 5,041
Charleston, S. C   49,027 48,965
Chester, Pa  15,038 9,485
Chicopee, Mass  11,337 9,607
Chicago, 111   503,053 298,907
Chillicothe, Ohio  10,793 8,920
Cincinnati, Ohio  255.804 216,389
Chattanooga, Tenn...  13,580 6,193
Cleveland, Ohio  159,404 93,839
Cohoes, N.Y...  20,123 15,357
Columbus, Ga    10,133 7,101
Columbus, Ohio  51,337 31,374
Concord, N. H  13,841 13,241
Council Bluffs, lo\va... ... 18,509 10,02Q
Dallas, Texas  33,466 4,500
Danbury, Conn.  11,810 8,754
Dayton, Ohio  39,000 30,473
Davenport, Iowa -.  21,885 20,078
Des Moines, Iowa  23,290 13,035
Denver, Col  35,719 ■   4,759
Detroit, Mich    119,700 79,577
Dover, N. H  17,693 9,204
Dubuque, Iowa.....   33,376 18,434
East Saginaw, Mich  19,065 11,350
Erie, Pa  37,333 19,645
Elgin, 111  "10,040 7,000
Elizabeth, N. J.  28,241 20,S30
Elmira, JST. Y.   20,578 15,863
Fond du Lac, Wis   13,564 12,764
Fall River, Mass   47,883 26,766
Fort Wayne, lud .-  26,018 17,718
Galesburg, i 11.  11,451 10,158
Grand ItapIds, Mich  33,037 16,507
Galveston, Texas  12,350 13,818
Hamilton, Ohio '.  22,300 11,081
Harrisburg, Pa....  30,413 23,105
Hartford, Conn    42,024 37,180
Houston, Texas  16,664 9,383
Indianapolis. Ind '.  75,031 48,374
Jackson, Mich   16,500 11,447
Jacksonville, III.  11,009 9,203
Jersey City, N. J  105,000 82,546
Kalamazoo, Mich  12,07S 11,750
Kansas City, Mo  56,946 32,260
Keokuk, Iowa  13,176 " 12,766
Kingston, N. Y  1S,376 20,474
Knoxville, Tenn  13,938 8,683
LaCrosse, Wis  16,051 11,013
Lawrence, Mass   39,400 28,931
Lancaster, Pa  25,846 20,233
Lafayette, Ind  14,791 13,506
Little Rock, Ark  15,000 12,380
Lincoln, Neb..  12,771 3,975
Logansporf, Ind    11,172 8,950
Louisville, Ky  126,566 100,000
Lowell, Mass  61,300 40,928
Los Angeles, Cal  11,050 5,723
Lynn, Mass -.. 38,387 28,233
Lynchburg, Va  16,300 0,826
Madison, Wis  10.437 9,176
Manchester, N. H.  3:3^473 23,536
Maiden, Mass  13,004 7,367
Macon, Ga.  13.G95 10,810
Marlborough, Mass  10,141 8,474
Memphis, Tenn  33,200 40,226
Meriden, Conn  18,108 15,595
Milwaukee, Wis  130,000 71,440
Minneapolis, Minn  48,^25 12,066
Mobile, Ala  35.0?" 32.031
Muskegon, Mich   11,300 8,505
Nashville, Tenn.......  43,377 -25,K65
Nashua, N. H    13.453 10,553
Newark, N. J  135,9S'l 105,0:>9
Newburg, N. Y  18,075 17,014
New Albany, Ind.  17,500 15,393
New Haven, Conn  63,000 50,84)
New Orleans, La  215,123 191,418
New York, N, Y. 1,206,577 942,292
Norwalk, Conn   14,000 12.120
Norristown, Pa  13,200 10,753
NewCastle,Pa  10.293 7,5W)
New Brunswick, N. J.   17,311 15,055
Oakland, Cal  35,000 10.503
Omaha, Neb.   S'0.605 16.0S3
Oswego, N.. Y •-...  20,732 20,910
Ogdensburg, N. Y   16,277 10,176
Oshkosh, Wis  15,753 12,643
Paterson. N. J  58,000 38,579
Pawtucket, K. I: ........ 19.531 12,G0O
Peoria, HI  31,703 22,859
Philadelphia, Pa  817,513 674,633
Pittsburgh, Pa  131,977 86,076
Pottsville. Pa  13,346 12,384
Portland, Me - 33,765 31,413
Poughkcepsie, N.Y.....  20,203 20,080
Providence, R. 1  101,500 68,901
Quincy, Mass   10,571 7,442
Qulncy, 111   27.42S 31,052
Racine, Wis...   10,042 9,S,-0
Reading, Pa    43,230 33,930
Richmond, Va  62,500 51,038
Rock Island, III  H,S14 7,893
Rockford. Ill  13,0:8 11,043
Rochester, N. Y  89,498 62,3S9
RomcN. Y...  12,045 11,000
Rutland. Vt  12,323 6,000
San Jose, Cal   12,6^5 9,089
Sacramento, Cal  21,'dSZ 16,283
San Francisco, Cal  233,036 149,478
San Antonio, Texas.  20,594 12.556
Sandusky, Ohio  15,003 13;000
Stamford, Conn  . 11,319 9,731
Springfield, 111...  ... 19,683 17,364
Springfield, Ohio.....  20,500 12,653
Saginaw City, Mich...  10,430 10,004
Salt Lake, Utah.!  11,000 13,000
Savannah, Ga.  30,767 28215
Scranton, Pa  45,755 35,072
South Bend, Ind  13,493 7,196
Springfield, Mass  33,139 26,701
St. Louis. Mo   350,915 310,864
St. Paul, Minn  41,619 20,030
St. Joseph, Mo  85,900 17,565
St. Augustine, Fla  20,350 11,750
Syracuse, N. Y  52,210 43,051
Stockton, Cal   10,066 30,000
Torre Haute, Ind  26,516 16,103
Toledo, Ohio...  53,635 31,584
Trenton, N. J  30,503 23,874
Troy, N. Y  56,594 46,465
TJlica. N. Y. .'. 38,923 28,801
Vicksburg, Miss...  11,660 13,443
Waltham, Mass..  11,800 9,065
. Washington. D.C......  160,000 109,199
Wheeling. W. Va  31,600 19,280
Weymouth, Mas3   10,560 9,010
Watertown, N. Y.  10,615 9,336
Woonsocket, R. I  16,000 11,527
Waterbury, Conn  22,0C0 10,826
Wilkcsbarre. Pa...7  23,340 17,234
Wilmington, Del  43,000 30,841
Wilmington, N. C   17,605 13,410
Winona, Minn  10,187 7,300
Worcester, Mass  58,233 40,105
Woburn, Mass   10.7S3 8,560
Yonkers, N. Y  18,934 17,269
A. IJruve JSnglBeer.
The bravery of locomotive engineers haa
often been dwelt upon, and many heroic acts
by the brave fellows have heretofore been
chronicled. One of the most heroic deeds on
the part of an engineer yet recorded was performed recently by Engineer Bond, of Wabash
Engine 327. His engine left Toledo Sunday at
5:55 p. m., pulling the No. 3 west-bound passenger-train. When nine miles west of Defiance,
Ohio, one of the driving-rods broke in twain
on the engineer's side, The fragments tore
up through the cab, and threw Bond, stunned
and bruised, back, on top of the coal in the
tender. There was great danger of tho broken
driving-rod throwing the engine from the
track and wrecking the train. The broken
rod kept chopping up through the very
spot where the whistle-cord huug, so that
' brakes-down" could not be called. The momentum of the train gradually increased, and
the danger of ditching the whole train was
paramount in the engineer's mind. As he recovered himself a happy thought struck him.
The train was supplied with automatic airbrakes. If he could but cut the pipe and allow
the wind to escape the brakes would set themselves. He put his ideas into action by putting
his penknife between his teeth and climbing
down the rear end of the tender, and getting
between that and the first coach; he reached
down while tho train thundered along at fifty
miles an hour, and at the risk of his life succeeded in cutting a slit in the brake-hose. The
brakes, faithful to their duty, set themselves
and brought the train to a halt, without any
further damage. Of course the passengers,
when they heard of their narrow escape, were
loud In their praises of Bond's bravery.—Chicago Tribune.
... .«».«.**.  .... - * -
A California young uiati of twenty-
six .Years has recently married a widow
of seventy-two.
TEH SISTUBS.
[The speaker,  after winning the love of
Edith, weds her twin sister, Evelyn.]
Whom I woo'd and won,
For Evelyn knew not of my former suit,
Because the simple mother work'd upon
By Edith pray'd me not to whisper of it,
And Edith would be bridesmaid on the day,
But on that day, not being all at ease,
I from the altar glancing back upon her,
Before the first "I will" was utter'd saw
Thebridesmaid pale, statuelike, passionless—
"No harm,  no harm," I turn'd again, and
placed
My ring npon the finger of my bride.
So, when we parted. Edith spoke no word,
She wept no tear, but round my Evelyn clung
In utter silence for so long, I thought
" What will she never set her sister free?"
We left her, happy each In each, and then,
As tho' the happiness of each in each
Were not enough, must fain have torrents,
lakes,
Hills, the great things of Nature and the fair,
To lift us as it were from commonplace,
Andhelp us to our joy.   Better have sent
Our Edith thro' the glories of the earth,
To change with her horizon, if true Love
Were not his own imperial all-in-all.
Ear oil we went.  My God, I would riot live
Save that I think this gross hard-seeming
world
Is our misshaping vision of the Powers
Behind the world, that make our griefs our
gains.
For on the dark night of our marriage-day
The great Tragedian, that had quench'd herself
In that assumption of the bridesmaid—she
That loved me—our true  Edith—her brain
broke
With over-acting, till she rose and tied
Beneath a pitiless rush of autumn rain
To the deaf church—to be let in—to pray
Before that altar—so I think; and there
Thej1-found her beating the hard Protestant
doors.
She died and she was buried ere we knew.
—From Tennyson's New Poems.
IN THE PALACE OF TRUTH.
The ISemarltable Experience of Mr. Richard Turner at Mrs? Grey's Ball.
Richard Turner, Esq., a lawj'er, let
ns hope of future fame, returning home
tlie other night in an iinenviably bad
humor, found a certain dainty little note
awaiting him on his mantelpiece. It
had just come, his landlady said,* and
slowly tearing open the envelope, Dick
read as follows:
My Deak Mk. Tukkeu : Mauy thanks for
your lovely flowers, which have been greatly
admired. Itwas like your thousrhtfulness to
remember my birth-day when I had almost
forgotten it myself. I was so sorry to have
missed you this afternoon.
Sincerely yours, •
Plokexce Bedifek.
A very gracious little note, but for
some reason it appeared to afford its
reader but small satisfaction. Dick read
it twice with a curling lip, then tossing
it into the scrap-basket, he lit a cigar,
stretched himself in an easy chair and
thoughtfully observed through the
smoke wreaths that began to float around
his head: "What a precious little liar
she is! As if I didn't see her, ten minutes after she was ' not at home' to me
this afternoon, start out driving with
Tom Baker in that confoundedly jerky
dog cart of his. Shouldn't •wonder if
he had jerked her out before they got
home; and serve her right, too! Why,
Snip, what is the matter with you, sir?"
Snip was the slope terrier, who failing
to understand why he had been slighted,
was seeking to secure his master's notice by sitting upright and waving his
front paws to and fro in a gentle and
deprecating fashion.
" Did I hurt your feelings, poor little
boy?"'said Dick, tenderly. "Well, I
wouldn't, I assure you,- for a dozen little flirts like Florence Eedifer, but I do
think, Snip, and I expect you to agree
with me, that we would all be much
better off if wonienandnien, too, would
say out truthfully what was in their
minds instead of this eternal beating
around the bush. Why can't people be
a little more candid with their fellow-
creatures instead of fooling them to the
top of their bent and then laughing behind their backs? Doyouknow, Snip?"
Snip didn't know, but he was the last
dog in the world to confess his ignorance, so assuming a look of wisdom
which Solomon might have envied, he
gave a mysterious little bark that could
mean anything and composed himself
again to listen.
"Just eight o'clock," saidDick, consulting Ins watch. " In two ljours I've
got to dress and go to Mrs. Grey's ball,
the biggist bore of the season 1 haven't
a doubt; but there is no escaping it.
Aren't you glad, Snip, you don't have
to go to balls?"
Snip barked again, this time in an affirmative manner. He always accom-
modated himself to his master's moods
and was well accustomed to being
questioned. Alert and vigilant he
watched the • cigar dwindle down by
slow degrees, while he waited in well-
bred silence for a renewal of the conversation. But Dick was drowsy and
cross, and when the cigar was smoked
out he turned his head aside and fell
fast asleep, while his little dog, curled
contentedly around his feet, looked up
into his master's face with a world of
patient love in his honest brown eyes.
Seven, eight, nine, ten! Was it j>os-
sible that he had slept nearly two hours
and the clock was really striking ten?
Dick jumped up, glanced at his watch
to make sure and with a stifled groan
prepared to induct himself into his
suit. This was never a very rapid process with him and by the time he entered Mrs. Grey's brilliantly lit-up
house the great clock in the hall was
pointing to quarter past eleven.
The rooms were crowded and stifling-
ly hot. The very flowers appeared to
droop under the glare and the heat, all
except some deep red roses which had
been arranged in a sentence over the
doorway and whose glowing hearts
presented the most sumptuous and intense bit of coloring, even in that many
lined apartment. It was strange, but
Dick found himself unable to read that
sentence, although composed of only
three shore words. The language, even
the letters, wero unknown to him and
for half a minute he stood puzzling over
the mystery. Then the incoming crowd
gently shoved him aside, and abandoning the effort he made the best of his
way towards his hostess. A pretty little woman, magnificently dressed, but
seemingly already much fatigued with
the work in hand, she half smiled as
Dick edged up to her.
"Have you just come, Mr. Turner?"
she said. "I thought you were to be
one of my early birds."
"So 1 would have been," he explained, "only, unfortunately* I fell
asleep and did not; wake up in time."
"O! that was the case, was it? Well,
such a lengthy nap ought to brighten
you up beautifully for the rest of the
evening. Sometimes, you know, you
are rather stupid."
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Dick looked at her to see if she meant
a joke but her pretty face was gravely
raised to his. "You are flattering me,"
he said, shortly.
"1 don't mean to, indeed," she answered, quite earnestly. "But there
are plenty of men who are always stupid, while you can be rather entertaining when you are at your best," and
she turned gently from him to greet a
new batch of guests.
" Was I ever damned with such faint
praise before?" thought Dick. "Iwdn-
der if I am ' at my best' to-night?"
For a minute he stood taking a survey of the scene before him. The musicians were playing a Avaltz, and playing it well; only strange to say there
was a ilute among them, which came
piping in with its shrill persistent little
treble in a manner distracting to Dick's
over sensitive ear. He thought of Mozart's saying that the only thing in the
world worse than a flute in an orchestra, was two flutes, and wondered at
Mrs. Grey's choice in music. Nevertheless, as long as he was there he
might as well dance and looking around
for familiar faces, his first glance fell
upon a brown-eyed maiden Avhom he
had met at a party only the week before and whom he had admired with
the guarded and half-supercilious admiration of a veteran society man. In
another minute they were on the floor
contending with their fellow-creatures
for a little room to whirl around in, and
seemingly successful in their struggle,
until a slight lurch sent them rather
suddenly against another pair of dancers.
"That was stupid, wasn't it?" said
Dick, as they stopped to take breath
after the concussion.
"Yes," replied she of the brown
eyes, raising them frankly to his face.
"You are rather a poor dancer. Perhaps you are out of practice?"
" Indeed I ought not to he," protested Dick, in unutterable indignation at
the charge. " I never danced more in
my life than I have this winter."
"Is that so? It must be awkwardness then," said his companion, gently.
" Some people never can thoroughly
learn.   I think it is a natural gift.''
Dick wondered if he could have heard
aright or if that wretched little ilute,
still piping away so complacently, had
absolutely bewildered him. If there
was one thing he prided himself on more
than another—one gift, natural or otherwise, which he felt sure of possessing
—it was his dancing. Was the brown-
eyed damsel out of her mind or was she
simply an ill-bred little thing, who did
not know a good dancer from a. bad
one? Whichever was the case he lost
no time iu getting rid of her, and still
mute with amazement and disgust took
refuge among a group of men at the
door.
"You here, Turner?" said one of
them. " I hardly recognized you at
first, you look so yellow and thin."
" Do I, indeed?" said Dick, shortly,
and wondering what he was doomed to
hear next.
" I should rather think you did," was
the friendly answer. " I just said to
Smith here as you came up that between
your sallow slan and that bald spot on
your head you Avere beginning to look
like an old man before your time. Why
don't you take to country life and early
hours and freshen up a bit."
"Why don't you mind your own affairs and kindly leave me to attend to
mine?" retorted Dick, now thoroughly
aroused, and without waiting for anoth-*
er word he veered around and left the
group, who one and all seemed profoundly astonished at his ill-temper.
By this time he began to feel a little
uncertain who to approach next. Having been told already that he was stupid,
ugly and a bad dancer, what was there
left for him to hear. He certainly had
never met so many disagreeable people
in his life and he had serious thoughts
of beating a permanent retreat, when
he caught sight of a blonde head half
hidden behind the azaleas in the conservatory. It was Florence lledifer,
whom he had never expected to meet
to-night and whom two hours ago he
would have indignantly avoided. But
for some reason his contempt for her
flattery andfalseness had been strangely
modified in so short a time, and he felt
a positive yearning to listen again to
her pretty nothings and to see her blue
eyes uplifted with that tender glance of
admiring trustfulness to his. It must
have cost her a great deal of time and
patience to cultivate that glance up to
its present perfection, and it was unkind, after all, to sneer at the result of
such honest and enduring toil.
The next minute he was by her side.
She did look very pretty; her fair hair
tumbled in some mysterious fashion on
the top of her shapely little head; her
bright face lit up with smiles and her
white silk gleaming under the colored
lamps with a soft and shifting radiance'
that pleased Dick's cultivated eye. He
was not one of those to whom a woman's gown is a matter of indifference.
"1 came in here for a little air," she
said; "the rooms are so terribly hot
and the whole affair is very stupid.
Don't you think so?"
" It has been worse than stupid for
me," he answered, laughing. "I have
.been insulted wherever I went. First,
Mrs. Grey told me I was often very
stupid; then Miss Vincent, do you know
her? She is dancing now with Tom
Stern."
"1 don't know her; but never mmd!
What did she say to you?"
"She told me that I was awkward
and a bad dancer and intimated that I
could never thoroughly learn."
Florence Kedifer burst into a laugh
as clear and merry as silver bells. "But
you know, Mr. "Turner," she said,
" your best friends do not claim for you
that you dance well."
Dick gasped and then recovered; he
was getting hardened now. "I always
llatlered myself I did," he said boldly.
She looked at him in some surprise.
"Of course I don't mean to say,", she
explained, " that one cannot get around
with you at all, but only that you are
not very gracefid' or sure"-footed. There
are plenty of men here who dance worse
—Mr. Simpson, for instance,"
" I should hope so," said Dick, as
e. mpson, a little weak-eyed man, who
held his fair partner as if he feared she
was packed with dynamite and was m
danger every minute of exploding,
moved laboriously past the door. "If
that is the best you can say for me,
Miss Florence, I shall never have the
audacity to ask you to dance again,"
and with a heavy heart he left the conservatory, now fully satisfied he had
had enough of Mrs. Grey's ball.
He took a glass of champagne in the
supper room, where its quality was being freely discussed by the young men
who lingered there and went back to
pay his parting respects to his hostess."
There were still plenty of people about,
but a chill seemed to have fallen on
them, the dancers were few and everybody looked bored or discontented.
Mrs. Gre}^ was saying the last words to
a party of guests who were about taking
their departure.
" Such a pity it should have been a
failure," he heard one of them whisper
in a tone of sympathy. " And after all
the expense you have gone to!"
"I am sure, then, it must have been
the fault of my guests," returned Mrs.
Grey, "for I did my part as well as 1
could. Why, Mr. Turner, are you going so soon? I wonder if you, too,
found my party a stupid one?"
She looked so harassed that Dick forgot the grudge he owed her, and would
gladly have declared her ball both
brilliant aud delightful, but the words
he wished to say stuck in his throat—he
absolutely could not give them utterance.' An awful impulse was upon him
and to his own secret horror and dismay he heard himself assuring her the
paiuful truth that itwas the most dismal
affair he had ever witnessed in his life.
Then overwhelmed with shame at his
involuntary rudeness he turned away
and his eyes fell upon the crimson roses
still blooming freshly over the doorway.
What an idiot he must have been!
There in plain English letters were
the three words, " Palace of Truth."
As he looked and read the magic flute,
pealed forth so loudly and so shrill a
triumph in its tone that Dick fairly
jumped and in the violence of his start
kicked the sleeping Snip, who leaped
out of his master's way and gazed at
him withreproaehable, wondering eyes.
"Eleven o'clock, as 1 am a living
man!" said Dick, yawning. "Three
hours asleep and no ball for me tonight. Snip," you little villain, why
didn't you awaken me?"
. Snip*was silent. He felt the arrant
injustice of this remark and bore it with
the equanimity of a stoic.
"Well," said his master, slowly as
he lit his candle, " since you did not,
and as I have had all the dissipation
and all the candor I need for one night,
I think, little dog,  that you and I will
fo peaceably and gratefully to bed."—
'hiiadelphia Times.
The Growth of CMIdreu.
Dr. Percy Boulton, of the Samaritan
Hospital, London, has made interesting
studies of the health and growth oi
children. Instead of taking the average of alarge number of children measured once, he has found it more profitable to measure a number of children
of normal growth, brought up under average circumstances, many times;
thus ascertaining their rate of increase.
The annual rate of growth was found
to vary between two and three inches
for each child per year. The following
working table, though not exact, is an
approximation to the statement of a
law. The weight, it will be observed,,
normally corresponds with the height,
rising by steps one inch:
Feet. Inches.   Pounds. [Feet. Inches. Pounds.
3 0 36J4 1  63^
3 1 38,4 3 65
3 8....... ...404 3  67}4
3 3 .:...43'4 4 70
3 4...."  ..44'4 5.. 73J4
3 5 40,14 6 ....75
3   ■      6.. .484 7. Ti%
3 7  ,.504 8  SO
3 8 .534 9.. 83%
3 9  544 10. 85
3 10....... ..564 11 ....88Vi
3 11 58.5 0 .90
4 0........ .60j
Dr. Boulton believes that when a
child varies more than a quarter of an
inch annually, or when his weight does
not correspond with his height within
a margin of safety, put at seven pounds
the danger signal should be put out.
Then it is safe to conclude the child's
diet is not good, or possibly some disease is lurking in his system. It is a
curious fact that loss of weight always
precedes the development of consumption.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
tt «
Summer Horse."
The blacksmith shops at the head of
Griswold Street had scarcely opened
their doors yesterday morning when a
colored man appeared .at one of them
leading an equine which slid and walked
and hobbled by turns on the slippery
snow. If horses ever live over 100 years,
this one had passed that figure. His
hair was long, one eye was closed, and
he had so many limps that it seemed
useless to look for a sound leg.
"What I want to know," began the
owner, after he had taken four turns
around ahitehing post with the inch
rope used as a halter, " am about what
it will cost to shoe dis hoss."
"Two dollars," was the prompt re-
piy-
"For de land's sake! but has iron riz
up to dat pitch? I'll have to dwell on
dat for a few minits."
He dwelt. He walked around his
steed, looked him over carefully, and
then said to the smith:
"Sow, see hyar." If you war' me
wouldn't you sort o' keep dis beast fur
a summer hoss, an' do your winter
haulm' on a hand-sled?"
"I would."
"Dat's what I war' finkin' 'bout, an1
I guess I'll save him over till April and
call myself a hoss f rew de win ter. Seems
like 'stravagance to get butes fur me
aud shoes fur him all to once. Hold n..p
dar1, Philander-—none o' your pullin
up heetcliin'-posts 'round yere!"—Detroit Free Press-
—A sea-leopard was killed in Great
Bay, New Hampshire, recently, by
two men. One of them saw it on
a piece of floating ice, nearly a mile distant. He took a small sculling boat and
gave chase, emptying the contents of a
double-barrel shot gun into its body
near the neck. With open, jaws it made
for tlie boat, tearing pieces from it with
j its teeth, trying to overturn it. Their
: gnu was empty and they had no chanee
i to retaliate. The water was crimson
with gore. Smite and his companion,
with an oar and club, managed to keep
it clear of tlie boat for about twenty
minutes, when it died through loss of
blood and was towed ashore.
--A finished performer—the dead
actor.
—Lies go by telegraph; truth comes
by mail, three hours late.
—" Blue in the mussel" was the short
but concise verdict of a jury in Northern Wisconsin.
—The river runs down and keeps going all of the time. It is different with
a clock.—N. 0. Picayune.
—It costs the average American five
dollars for patent medicine to digest
one dollar's worth of food.—Boston
Transcript.
—Most babies have a hue distinct from
adults-.—Cincinnati Gazette. Yes, and
they have a cry distinct from adults,
too, which makes a distinct hue-and-
cry; now, doesn't it?
—Thousands of women can appreciate
a compliment to their clothing, the
work of the dressmaker, who would
scorn to be complimented on their mental qualifications, the work of the schoolmaster.—Boston Transcript.
—Wishing to pay his friend a compliment, a gentleman remarked: "I hear
you have a very industrious wife."
" Yes," replied the friend, with a melancholy smile, "she is never idle. She
always finds something for me to do."
—" Did you see Ann Marie Boardman
in black?" said one Galveston lady to another. " Yes, I saw her the day after
her father died." " Well, don't she look
like a fright in black? If 1 look like
that inmourninglhope nobody will ever
die in our family."—Galveston News.
—" Old Grimes is dead—that good old man—
We ne'er shall see him more,
He used to wear a long-tailed coat,
All buttoned down before."
Why mourn for old Grimes—his daughters
live;
On Fashion's streets we find 'em,
And they wear " Old Grimes' coat"
All buttoned down behind 'em.
Negro Belief in Conjuring.
This belief of the negroes has always
been of peculiar interest to me and I
never lose an opportunity of talking to
them and making inquiries upon the
subject, and although they are rather
reticent upon such a mysterious and
awe-inspiring topic, Ihave never found
more than one out of fifty who did not
firmly believe in conjuring. About half
the disasters and earthly ills of the race
seem to be imputed to " tricking." The
ever ready and final solution to every
unaccountable sickness or accident is in
that awful word "cunjered." It is
generally believed that no one hut a
genuine "cunjer doctor" can relieve
patients of this kind, but sometimes
shrewd physicians do much toward effecting cures by humoring the whims,
of the victims and giving them the necessary medicine with an air of mystery,
and under names suited to the case.
Calomel, quinine and other common
remedies sometimes work wonders if
the patient is told in strict confidence,
that they are " trick powders" to "un-
cunjer" him with. Once, in the absence of a physician, I experimented a
little myself in a simple .case. Almost
every planter is a good doctor and keeps
on hand a supply of medicine most
frequently used; and nearly all ladies
living on a plantation learn, in nursing
the sick, to treat common cases.
"Mistis" is generally considered an
authority in sickness, from a case of
"hives" among the black babies up to
the "rheumatiz" of the old. One day
a young fellow in our employ came up
from the " quarter," complaining of being " pow'fle bad off" and feeling
"mightypoly." His feet were somewhat
swollen and after a few questions we
found that his case was not beyond the
reach of the usual plantation remedies;
continued chills had left himina slightly dropsical condition, which would
readily yield to tonies. But there was an
air of utter hopelessness and an expression of woe-begoneness on his countenance in almost comical contrast to his
usual broad grins. Jake had something
on his mind, that was very evident,
and he soon proved that we
would have to minister to a mind
diseased as well as a body. And at
last the secret came out; he was
"■ cunjered!" He shook his head solemnly, and groaned. " 'Tain'tnouse
to takenuthin', 'cus nuttin' ain't agwine
to kyore me. Gabe put cunjer powders
in my shoes, an' that's how come my
laigs an' foots all swelled up so; I'm
tricked!"
"Tricked! Is that all? Then I can
cure you in a twinkling!"
" You! You kyore cunjer? I thought
I'd hatter go to a cunjer doctor to take
off the spell."
" No, I will kill the spell and make a
well man of you quick enough; there's
nobody can beat me uncunjering folks."
Jake opened his eyes in astonishment, but expressed confidence in my
doing exactly what I promised. After
some mysterious incantations I solemnly muttered a long string of high-sound- '
ing sentences, without rhyme or reason,"
a most absurd medley of Shakespeare^
Mother Goose and botanical terms, and.
in tragic tones concluded with the old-
time play-ground jingle improved:
One saw, two saw, little zigzag zan;
Bob-tail,  dominiek, tory tan;
Haylum, scaylam, jinglum, janglum;
Go, cunjer, go !   I've killed the spell!
Now you're well, Jake.   Ding dongbell!" •
My awe-struck patient stood gazing
at me with as much reverence as if I
had been a priestess of the Delphic oracle. I can never forget the look of
mingled awe and wonder on his face.
The necessary medicine—under a mysterious name invented for the occasion
—was prepared, and after making him
promise not to " break the charm" by
repeating what I had told him—a needless injunction, as he couldn't have remembered a word of it—and requiring
him to walk backward three steps as an
imposing conclusion to the ceremony,
Jake was solemnly dismissed. In a short
time he was strong and well. So much
for faith! (and tincture of iron). And
to this day he firmly believes I can
"kyore cunjer."—Pleasant BiderJiood.
in Detroit Free Press.
—The time that a boy begins to think
his mother doesn't know enough to select his clothing for him is a dangerous
period in his history.
— The first complete translation of the
Bible, in English was printed in l«i?>2.
A period i-opy of it. was sold in 1S3S
for® 1,730.
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