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Mark Twain Now and Then.

Coming out of the Erie railway build
ing, I yesterday saw Mark Twain,
whom we used to know in the old Frisco
DAYS as Sam Clemens. He wears the
same old brigand hat, and cloak, and
one is always sure when looking at him
that he would rather look shabby than
wear a pink overcoat with yellow but
tons. 1t is now just ten years since |
sat one day on the steps of the Ameri-
can house, in Honolulu, Sandwich Isl
ands, with Clemens, and happened to
mention that I was writing letters to
the New York Herald. He was then
unknown, except as an odd character in
San Francisco, and as the writer of let
ters to the Sacramento Union, and he
very timidly said he had received an
offer from a musical monthly to write a
page for it for six dollars. He wanted
to know whether it would pay him to
go on to New York. I had never read
anything of his, and / told him if he
went on to New York he couldn't earn
his salt. Yet there he stood yesterday,
with his saucy musSache and eimlet
eyes, as unconcerned as if he hadn't
made a hundred thousand dollars, and
hadn't married girl with more salt
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How a Woman Buys Meat.

When a woman enters q butcher-shop
to select a piece of meat for dinner, che
has her mind made u to take mutton
roast. Therefore, when the butcher
rubs bis hands and asks her what she
will have, she promptly replies
"I'll take some of that NUT"
She stops there. Her eye has caught
sight of a ham, and she suddenly de-
cides to take ham.
"Is that nice ham ?" she inquiries.
"Best ham l ever cav, madame.
How much p
"Well, you may give me three p
Well, I don't know either. My hus-
band was saying he'd like some sausage.
Have you any real nice sausage p
"P1enty, madame. Now, then, how
much sausage will you have?'
"It's pork sausage, is it ?"
eyes, ma'am."
"Well, I suppose a pound would be
enough for our small family, but t.
but"
"Shall 1 weigh pound, madame p
"I was Just wondering if veal pot
pie wouldn't suit him BETTER" she an
swered. "You have veal, suppose?"
ooh, yes, madame. Here's splen-
did bit of veal-as good a piece as
ever saw"
Yes, that does look like nice veal, "
she says, lifting it up.
"And you'll take it ?"
"Let's see p she muses.. "Y-no, l
guess not. I guess I'd better take pork
chops"
"Nice chops-how much ?" he asks.
"One of those slices will weigh a
pound, suppose ?"
"About pound, madame"
"And it was young hog?"
"Quite young, madame"
"And you'll cut the rind Off"
eyes, madame"
"Well," she says, heaving a deep
sigh, 81 guess you may give me some
beefsteak-some that's nice, and be
sure to cut all the bone out -
And she's only been half an hour
coming to the point.
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Ablaze With Diamonds.

The Boston Transcript tells this gilt.
tering story: "a lady blazed all over
with diamonds at Fifth avenue party
recently. On each shoulder she had
four stars, the size of dollar, made of
diamonds, her hair was set thickly with
diamonds there was diamond bande-
let on her brow she bad diamond ear
rings, and a diamond necklace; upon
the sides of her chest were two circles
of diamonds, from which depended
lines and curves of diamonds reaching
to her waist, upon which she wore a
diamond girdle; on her skirt in front
were large peacocks wrought IN lines OF
diamonds; there were rosettes of dia-
monds on. her slippers. and diamonds,
large and small, all over her dress and
person, wherever they could be placed.
The lady's grandfather was eartman,
her father was pawnbroker, and her
husband-well, he lives upon her father.
The old gentleman is worth his mil
lions, and still follows his business and
tends to his store. He is never present
at these parties although"
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lying around loose than would pickle
all Honolulu.-N. Y. Letter.
Traees Of Prehistoric Man.

| A paper was recently communicated
to the geological society of London on
| the bone. caves in the neighborhood OF
Castleton, Derbyshire, by Rookie PEN
niDgton, LIB. The author described
as a prehistoric cave the Gave Dale
Cave, situated in Cave Dale, just below
the keep of Peveril Castle. The upper
earth in this cave contained fragments
of late pottery mixed up (by rabbits)
with bits of rude prehistoric pottery,
fooled piece of stag's horn, an iron
spike, two worked dints, piece of jet,
part of bone comb, and bronze celt
of peculiar form, many bones of Bos
losagitroS1S and goat, broken to get out
the marrow, and remains of hogs;
charcoal and human teeth also attested
the occupation of the cave by man.
There were also remains of fox, badger,
cat, water rat, dog, red deer, duck,
fowl, and hare. Lower down were re-
mains of Bos longifrons, hog, red deer,
wolf, and horse +; and lower still, next
the rock, more human teeth, remains
of animals, and good flint. The cave
seemed to have been occupied from
time to time during q heightened
period, probably from the Neolithic
age into those of bronze aud iron. A |
cave in Gelly or Hartle Dale contained, |
in blackish mould, bones (some brcken) |
of goat, pig, fog, and rabbit, and pieces
of very rude prehistoric pottery. OF |
Ple1stocene caves and assures he /
author described several. One in Hartle
Dale furnished remains of rhinoceros,
aurochs Bison aoriscus), and mammoth,
lying in yellow earth. The bones were
probably carried in by water. A fssure
near the village of Warehouses;. in
S5affordshire, is six feet wide, and filed
with the ordinary loan. Bones of
and the skeleton of young
bison have been obtained from it, and
the author supposes the animals to have
fallen into the fissure while making for
the river to drink. The Windy Knoll
fssure is situated near Castleton, in
quarry near the top of the Winnetts,
and close to the most northern bounda-
ry of the mountain limestone of Derby
shire. The author described particu
larly the situation of this fissure and
drainage of the district in which it is
situated. The fssure itself is filled
with the ordinary loan, containing
fragments of limestone, and inclosing
an astonishing quantity of bones of
animals confusedly mixed together,
those lowest down near the rocks being
coated with and sometimes united by
The author suppOses that
this was a swampy place into which
animals fell from time to time, and in
rainy seasons their remains might be
washed into it from the neighboring
slopes.
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of Indifferent docility in which his fu-
ture sovereign pursued his round, and
at last wrote begging l'Empereur Nicho-
Las to indicate a preference which would
help to turn the balance and decide the
important question. Before the an
swer was received fate conducted the
wanderers to the theatre, where the
first person upon whom the young
grand dues eyes alighted attentively
was the Princess Maria Maximilianne of
Hesse modestly seated in the second
row of her fathers box. who is that
young person p asked his imperial high
ness and when Prince Orlof replied,
he added decidedly, 'and the future
empress of Russia But her name is
not even on tie list cried the poor
Prince Orloff. No matter, we will
make it first.' replied the head-strong
youth, and he proved as good as his
word, the unconscious Princess Marie
was in due form demanded In marriage,
and has ever since been the faithful and
beloved of a good and great monarch. "
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The Empress of Russla's Betrethal.

A correspondent of the Boston Ad-
vertiser writes 81 must tell you the
circumstances of the empress of Rus
sia's betrothal, as / learned them from
one who is very near and dear to her.
Like the princess of Wales, she was one
of numerous and poor family: but,
unlike that charming princess, she was
not beautiful, and no hopes were
founded upon her making a marriage
which would add glory to the modest
princess of Hesse Darmstadt. Such,
however, was destined to be the case,
and the projects of wise men were over
turned by the simple caprice ot the
human heart. Alexander Nicolajevitche,
grand due heriteer, was, in the year
1S41, acharming young prince of thirty
three, who, having reached the age
when it was thought necessary that he
should take a wife and perpetuate the
imperial line of Russian monarchs, went
forth on a voyage of discovery amongst
manageable princesses, great and
small, armed with list of the most
eligible names, and quite decided to
choose one from among them. Princl
Orloff, who accompanied his imperiae
highness as mentor and guide, affirmed
and confirmed by each courier the state
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Mortality Of Races.

The De1ttsche VerSicher1s7aos-Z -ZeStslslo
of New Orleans, contains the following
interesting notes on the mortality of
the two races there, taken from statis-
tics of DIR. Chile. The mortality of
the colored population has always been
decidedly in excess of that of the white
population, excepting during yellow
fever epidemics, this disease chiefly
affecting the whites. There is no
doubt that the great mortality existed
before the war in New Orleans and
other cities-certalnly in Charleston,
Washington, Baltimore, and New York.
In comparing the, five years of
freedom from 1866-7O with the four
years of slavery from 1856-6O we find
the aggregate death-rate has remained
about the same. But when comparison
is drawn between the whites and blacks
in these periods it appears that the
mortality of The blacks has greatly in
creased. Thus, during the four years
1S56-6O (l858, a yellow fever year, be-
ing excluded) the colored death-rate
was about A to the thousand, and the
white 80 per thousand; while in the
four years 1865-70 Excluding the yell
low fever, 1860 the colored death-ra#e
amounted to 43 and the white to only
33 per thousand. What are the causes
to which we shall ascribe this larger
mortality of the colOred race? The
official sanitary records afford scarcely
any data bearing upon this point, and
therefore are of no assistance in de-
termining the question. Some of these
causes doubtless lie in the greater ig-
norance in determining the question.
Some of these causes doubtless lie in
the greater ignorance and improvidence
of this race, and in the fact that its
mortality from smallpox, cholera,
consumption, still births, and diseases
of children is greater. The future of
this race will depend upon the degree
of its natural increase by propagation.
The only reports of the health board
which throw any light upon this matter
are those for the years 1872 and 1873,
since these alone give the number of
deaths among children under two years
of age With the two races separated,
Regarding the population in 1928 as
the same as that in 1870, we find that
in the year 1872, in every thousand
children, 154 white children died under
two years of age to 298 colored, and in
the year 1873 181 white and 335 colored
per thousand died under that same sge.
This proves conclusively that in New
Orleans the mortality among the col
Ored children as compared with the
mortality of white children is enor-
nous.
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The Rage for Speculation in Paris


A Paris letter to the New York Times
thus notes the revival of an extraordi-
nary mania for speculation
Everybody is rushsng to the Bourse,
and wonderful stories of millions gained
in few days's time are told in every
circle. One day the editor of an even
ing journal wins 1,40O, 900 francs in
Spanish Tentes; the next his assistant
editor gains 100000 in Spanish Mo-
bilier. This stock has gone mp from
400 and something to l 400, and at the
rate of 80 or 100 francs a day. There
is every reason to believe that it will
reach 1900. Stocks of all kinds are
rising, and every man, woman and
child who has o few hundred francs to
spare, rushes off to the Bourse and
buys on a margin. This wonderful
movement has been caused by M. Phil
hppart, Belgian, who has had the
honor of having a law presented in the
chamber especially for him. Since his
arrival money has been plenty, and
Pactolus seems to have been turned
into the cutters of Paris. All that he
touches turns to gold. If NJ. Phillip
part says that ceatain stock, anguish
ing at 80, shall go up to 1000, it goes
up with the greatest rapidity, and when
Phillippart invests everybody is crazy
to get the same kind of stock.
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my LOVE ANDL

We never spoke word Of love,
We never named its name,
as through the leafy wood, and down
The shadowed path we came;
And yet-and yeti almost think,
Although can't tell why,
His love IL mine, and mine is his
We're ours-my Love and /.
Here let me sit, and live in thought
Those blfssful hours again,
And ere heard them in my heart
Their sap and sweetness drain.
The bluebells hung their fair young heads
Beneath the bluer sky,
We talked at trivial, common things,
We talked-my Love and l.
And once-bow wei know the spot
We stopped beside the brook.
And saw the gurgling waters, as
Their tunlit " ay they took.
Nv eyes met his, the soul of love
In that brief glance did lie,
Nv eyelids drooped-we watched the stream
Flow past-nY Love andI.
And now, I've nothing more to say,
My heart won't let me tell
The silent talk our spirits had,
The charm that DER us fell.
am not sure, but still think,
Although I can't tell why.
LIS love is mine, and mine is his
We're Ours-my Love and I.
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THE GENERAL CHORUS.

We all keep step to the marching chorus,
Rising from millions of men around.
Millions have marched to the same before us,
Millions come on with sea-Iike sound.
Life, Death; Life, Death;
Such is the song of human breath.
What is this multitudinous chorus,
Wild, monotonous, low, and loud? +?
Earth we tread on, heaven that DER us
in the midst of the moving crowd?
Life, Death; Life, Death;
What is this burden of human breath?
On with the rest, your footsteps timingl
Mystical music flows in the song,
(Blent with it?-Born from it ?)-loftily Ginning,
Tenderly soothing, it bears you along.
Life, Death; Life, Death;
Strange is the chant of human breathi
-FrdseTs Mdgdzine.
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HumOr and Sarcasm.

It is not everybody who knows where
to joke, or when, or how; and whose
ever is ignorant of these conditions had
better not joke at all. A gentleman
never attempts to be humorous at the
expense of people with whom he is but
slightly acquainted. In fact. it is
neither good manners nor wise policy
to joke at any body's expense; that is
to say, to make any body uncomfortable
merely to raise laugh. Old Hsop,
who was doubtless the subject CT many
a jibe on account of his bumped back,
tells the whole story in bis fable OF
''The Boys and the Frogs What wa
fun to the youngsters was death to the
croakers. A jest may cut deeper than
a curse. Some men are so constituted
that they cannot take friendly joke IN
the same light coin, and will requIte 1t
with contumely and insult. Never ban
ter one of this class, or he Will brood
over your badinage long after you have
forgotten it, and it is not prudent to
incur any ones enmity for the sake OF
uttering a smart double e7lterdTe or a
tart repartee. Ridicule, at best, is a
perilous weapon. Satire, however,
when leveled at social foibles and po-
litica1 evils, is not only Legitimate. but
commendable. 1t has shamed down
more abuses than we're ever abolished
by force of logic.
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A Mexican Annexation Scheme.

The New York Sunday Mercury has
a Washington dispatch alleging that
the excursion of Senator Cameron and
others to Mexico has for its object the
annexation by purchase by the United
States of the northern States of that
republic. The Mexican authorities are
understood to have already acquiesced
to the transfer, the terms of which are
vet to be settled. The territory pro-
posed to be annexed is all that part of
Mexico lying north of the Rapido river
and the Rio Grande de Santiago, COM
prising the states of Sonora, Chihua
hua, Coahuela, Nueva Leon, Cinaloa,
Durango and Zacatecas, one half of
Tamaulipas, one-third of Jalisco, a
small portion of San Luis Potosi, and
the territory of Lower California, alto
gether about 438, 600 square miles of
territory, and over !, 500, 600 population
of whom less than 100000 are whites,
the rest being Indians and mixed races.
The boundary line will commence at
the mouth of the Rapido, following
that river to its source toward the town
of Penos in latitude 25-35, longitude
101-70, thence to the source of the river
Santiago, and along that stream to its
mouth. The movement is understood
to have originated with the Mexican
authorities, who desire to see this
sparsely settled country placed under a
power possessing the means of enforcing
order among its population and of in
viting emigration thither.
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How TO BRING Down A CONGRESSMAN.
Sam Ward {" Vestibuli Rex'' on con-
gressional dinners ga senatorial
dirner must be more stately than a
dinner of M. C's. The first are always
more recherche, and I believe look
myself more dignifed upon such occa-
sions. With the members of the
house, on the other hand, free and
easy way is admissible, and the dinner
contains, as a rule, one great dish spe-
cially prepared for the occasion, the
rest of the bill of fare being of the
usual character. For instance, will
sometimes serve them ham. soak
it for four day in water, changing
it four times a day, then boil it five
hours in cider with a wisp of new hay (;
then bake it with brandy, sherry, or
claret, according to the weather, and
when they have tasted slice of that
ham, why, they will pass any thing
/ want in congress"
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Supt. United States Coast Survey.

SOLID MEN OF ANTIoUITY.-The
were the great scripture giants, Goliath
and Og. The former was six cubits
and a span q. Samuel, XVII. ~, va
riously estimated to be from nine feet
six to twelve feet. Og is supposed to
have been even taller, from the fact
that his bedstead is mentioned in Deu-
teronomy Ill.,, 2, as being nine cubits
long. During the reign of Augustus
Caesar we read of two giants, Idusto
and Secundilla, who were each ten feet
high, and after their death their bodies
were kept for long time as a wonder.
During the reign of Vitellius, he sent
Darius as a hostage to Rome with pres
ents, and among these was a Jew by
the name of Eleazar, who was ten feet
two inches high. Gabara, the Arabian
giant, was nine feet nine inches high.
The EmpeI or Maximus was eight feet
and six inches high. Sacobus Damiun
was eight feet. Walter Parsons, seven
feet four. William Evans, seven feet
six inches high.
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THIRST AT SKA.-Thirst on land is
bad enough, but thirst at sea, with
water everywhere, yet not a drop to
drink, is ten times worse. OF the agony
conception when we read, as in the case
which it occasions we may form some
of late shipwreck, OF the survivors of
a boats crew greedily drinking the
blood of their dead comrades. No one
knows what his civil fortune may one
day bring him to endure. For the
benefit of the reader, therefore, we
make a note of the following que,tio
put by the board of trade examiners to
the candidates for certificates of COM
potency as mates in the English mer-
chant service "What would you do in
order to allay thirst, with nothing but
sea water at hand ?" The answer is,
"Keep the clothes, especially the shirt,
soaked with sea water" Drinking salt
water to allay thirst drives the sufferer
mad but an external application of it
gives relief, if it does not satisfy the
demands of craving nature. 1t is a
pity that this simple yet truly scientific
remedy is known to but few of those
who tempt the treacherous main.
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A MAN conyersing in earnest, if be
watch his intellectual processes, will
find that material image, more or less
luminous, arises in his mind, contem-
poraneous with every thought. which
furnishes the vestment of the thought.
Hence, good writing and brilliant dis
course are perpetual allegories, En-
eTSOT
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The following puzzle is again on its
rounds : "To five and FIVE and fifty
five the first of letters add, twill make
a thing that killed the king and drove
wise man mad" It was published first
about twenty years ago, and has never
been correctly answered. But they say
there is an answer.
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The Cry for Cheap Food.

Cheap food, in every age of the world,
| has been at the bottom of all national
| prosperity and development. The
splendid civilization OF ancient Egypt
resulted from the cheap food in the
| prolific agricultural valley of the Nile,
where, according to Diodorus Siculus,
| the expense of rearing a child did not
exceed twenty drachmas, or about five
| dollars. In South America the cheap
food afforded by the early cultivation
of maize enabled the Peruvian lncas to
erect an imposing empire in the Andes,
| the magnificent ruins of which still ex-
cite the admiring wonder of the word.
And it is only by the cheapening of
food, mainly through the development
! of North American agriculture, that we
can look for a pathway leading out of
present enbarrassments into enlarged
and solid prosperity.
Mr.. Buckle, the philosophical histo-
rian of civilization, says the New York
Herald, has shown how the capacity
and disposition for manual labor cut of
| doors has been determined by the eli
mates under which men live. The
deadly polar cold and the enervatir g
| tropical heat equally discourage the
open air laborer. The equatorial re-
| gion, with its spontaneous production,
| destroys every incentive to labor, while
| the Arctic cold necessitates a frightful
| consumption of food. But American
sociologists have been wont to advert
with pride to their favored climates
Offering, as they do, propitious field
for the employment of muscle and
sinew) and to their varied soil, adapted
to every species of agricultural skill.
Never more urgently than now, there
fore, are we called to encourage the re-
turn of labor to its natural and ordained
channels. Let the thousands of the
unemployed and work seekers who now
throng the cities and towns turn their
attention to productive industry and
rural enterprise. Let the industrial
energy of the country be once more Gas
in the earlier part of this century, con-
csntrated on the husbandry and pastur-
age of the soil-so beautifully called
"the two breasts of the stat" e"-and
another year, humanely speaking, would
see the still lingering financial and
commercial clouds dissipated and the
dawn of better and brighter era in all
the industries of the land.
A eooD.NATURED but bothersome old
bore, who loafs about our Office a good
deal, explained his projects the other
day and what he proposed doing with
his sons: "There's Jim, now, he's
idle an lazy and worthless. I think I'll
send him to West Point an make off.
Ger ont of him. Then Ephraim, who's
stupid and good-looking, I'll metamor.
phose into n preacher. John is pious,
religious, well-meaning youth, anil do
first-class for an editor. But Ned,
Ned's my hope, he's a cute, sharp, in
telligent chap, ASH make a name for
himself; I'm goin' to set him up in a
saloon and cigar shop next week i"-
Washington Capitol.