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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-28

THE RIGHT SORT OF EASY CHsIR.-t recent
number Of London Nature contains IN auic.,an
EASY chairs After noticing the tay0ri T. lttt-
juGe CT different races. SliCh Is the HiudoD Mop
sits on the ground with his knee drawn Un -
BIS chin: the Turk. who SquatS cross EEpd. tie
European, Who poses on a chair: tie american.
who lois with his feet raised above his head
the writer SUNS up the mode IS getting rest
from muscular fatigue as follows: "fUI an EASY
Chalr 10 De perfect II ought NOT CslY 70 provide
Tor complete relaxation az the MUSCLES. Tor ilgN-
ion and consequent llNity oi the loiuts bpt Also
Tor The easy return OF blood aud lvnnh: not
merely by the posture OF tie limbs Themselves
Dul, Dy equahe support aud pressure gIiEst aS
are the theoretical demands, and these are tut
l!led BY the bamboo easy chairs manufaafu
III India, made in the shape ~ a stray Cling ".
which The lanTu0r consequent upon a I5laNinE
Climate las taught the natives OF india To make
aud Mhich The resi- OF Tie Mnrld ann-.-I No. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-28
AUCTION SALES.
THIS AFTERNOON,

DUNcANsoN BROS. Auetionee'sA
IRUSIEES' SALE OF A SMALL BRICK HOUSE
AND LOT ON THE SOUTH SIDE Di RHODE
E.BETWEES FOURTEENTH
a = i l. n u 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-28
MIR. STORY'S Plan FOR THE WASH
INGTON MONUMENT.

In the following letter Mr.. Story, the distin-
guished artist, gives his views upon the proper
manner Of completing the Washington Monu-
ment.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25
THE POOR INDIAN.
Oil City Derrick

Lo the poor Indian, whose untutored mind
ices God in clouds or hears him in the wind!
His soul proud Science never taught to stray
Far as the Solar Walk or Milky Way;
Therefore scientific aborgine
Is something which we never hope to see,
But, seeing, shalt immediately 90
md report the same to MIR Barnum's show,
" hich Will prove bigger attraction than
Jenny Lind and the Woolv horse driven tandem
Or the Cardiff Giant transported
On two freight-cars, with straw intestineS
Sticking OUT of his mouth ana ears.
Yet simpler Nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-tOp hill, humber heaven
Some safer world III depth OF woods embraced,
Some happier island in the Watery waste
As If a SAFER world than this could be,
Where Government is kind and Towards fee
From the shadow OF Indian
As if the very Old Scratch was after them
With a Seyeupronged pltcb-fork,
And, reaching Il teiegraph-s tatOn,
Immed ately sent word 10 the Associated Press
That they have caught up with the red demons,
And killed seven hundred and fifty Sioux,
Eleven hundred and SeYenty-ffye ComancheS,
Four Thousand Piutes and untold numbers
OF Crows. Cherokees, and Black Feet-among
The slain being Sitting Bull, Hoe-in-th Day,
Spotted-1ail, Old Stick-in-the-Mud,
And all Of their braves and papooSeS.
TO be- contents his natural desire:
He asks no angels wing, no Seraph's fire;
But fire water is his hearts delight,
Whether ii comes in the form Of Bourbon,
Robinson County, forty-rod. alcohol, aquatortis
Or nitro-glyCerine with stick in it,.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25
EX-COnfederateS in London.

You meet more exiles in London
than in any other city of the world.
Look at the literary e1iles in London:
why they number thousands and would
make a capital topic for q good book.
But I never knew until recently Of all
the literary, political and financial
exiles that our southern States offered
such a small army Of confederate
exiles, as one can now, find in London.
From generals of low degree to g high
privates" of enormous valor will you
find confederate soldiers here ajt" .s'
Recently there was a social meeting
Of these good souls, and / had an in
vitation. 1t was entirel Y sympathetic
and social. mere reviving of old
stories and sad sounds of spirits passed
away, the burden of which was:
e. Forget not the field where they persisted, % ol,
The truest, the last Of the brave;
All gone-and the bright hope we cherished
Gone with them, and quenched in the grave.
| was amazed to learn the varied en-
lployments these men occupy them
selves with. One, a general, is a curb
stone stock broker; another is a life
insurance agent; a third is brim full of
hope and large expectation, living on q
scanty income derived from "patent
agency" Men Of lesser grades appear
in varied callings. [ know one who
does thriving trade in the hardware
line, another in the "hard up line.
Several are literary and dramatic
agents. letter to Cincinnati Gazette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25
A Sharp Trick by Two Tramps.

Flood and Bruce are peripatetic print
ers, widely known. They have a habit
of turning up here and elsewhere when
least expected, coming without warn
ing, and departing even as the wind.
By a rare chance they have just been
heard from at Danville, ILL.,, tramping
from st. Louis, and headed in this di-
rection. They came within view of
that city last Sunday, weary with travel
and sorely hungered. The road they
came had been overworked. The erst-
while hospitable farmer now sets his
dog on the wayfaring man instead Of
welcoming him to his family. Through
this departure from the customs of the
fathers, they walked and ate not.
Thoroughly discouraged at their re-
peated failures to procure food, they yet
concluded to make one more trial on
this beautiful Sunday morning, and
cautiously entered the yard of a decent
farmhouse, peering about them to see
that Towser did not come suddenly
around a corner. They knocked on the
front door; no response. At the side
door; no answer. They went in. There
was not soul at home. A table spread
and a most substantial meal was before
them. 1t was like dream from the
Arabian nights. The dinner was doubt
less, awaiting the return Of the family
from church. The pedestrians fell to,
and their knives and forks soon smoked
with the friction Of execution. To say
that they Jared sumptuously would con-
vey no idea of the amount they ate nor
the intense satisfaction with which the
vlands were received.
AS they We're finishing the feast a
knock was heard. Bruce, with unparal-
leled cheek went to the door. There
stood two other tramps, who asked for
something to eat. Bruce, in a rare
spirit of mischief, questioned them
closely IN regard to their travels, and
finally asked if they would chop wood
for their dinners. They answered yes.
He then took them to a WoodpiIe that
he had noticed IN the rear Of the house,
and they went to work. Bruce and
Flood, filling their pockets with Wet
uals, stole out the side way from the
house and went to a neighboring hill,
where they had full view of the wood
pile and the toiling tramps. There they
gloatedd over the picture. To make
their measure of enjoyment run over,
the owner of the farmhouse with sew
eral daughters and two stalwart sons ar
rived on the. scene, the devastation of
the dinner was discovered, and the two
sweating tramps at the wood-pile seized
as the depreda tor. All was seen by the
two on the hill, from the arrival of the
family to the ignominous expulsion of
the WOOd-cutters.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25
Distinguished Creditors.

: Among the creditors of Franklin w.
broker, of No, $40 Broadway,
whose voluntary petition in bankruptcy
has just been filed before Register Fitch,
are ex-senator Mat. Carpenter, $1,000;
Senator John Patterson, ofSouth Caro-
lima, (when he is at home) $1,000; Gen.
Philip D. Il Roddy. remembered as the
prosecutor; in the trial for larceny which
strengthened Mrs. Carlotta ShotwelPs
claim to be his wife, $500; and ex-
ostmaster-General J. A. j. Cresswell,
s., 500. Other creditors are Edward
Parkman, $4,000: E. J. Mapes, $4,000;
Charles A. Eldredge, $4,000; and N. l..
Jeffries, $4,000. The total liabilities are
100000; assets, nothing. 80 '.'''
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25
A Hunters Yarn.
Pittsburg Telegraph.

p One day: a long time ago, about the
time when jackson ran for President
the first time, perhaps, [ was one day
hunting upon the ridge between Mead
Ow Run and Cucumber Run, which
tumbles off the rocks just across there.
[ had known for some time by the
signs that there was nest of cub bears
somewhere in the neighborhood, so on
that day | concluded that l would put
in my time finding them, as party up
in Uniontown wanted a pair to send
over to Baltimore to friend who was
fond Of outlandish pets.
You see that it was along about the
list of september, and pretty warm at
that, and after walking up and down
the ravines | began to get pretty tired
[ was not so heavy then as l am now,
and I did not weigh more than a couple
of hundred pounds. AS L said, I was a
little tired, and so on the top of The
ridge sat down by the side of smooth
chestnut stump about twelve or fourteen
feet high. hadn't sat there more than
a minute until I heard something in
side the stump, and soon made out
that 1t was a couple of cub bears play
ing with one another. Eu5 e
looked on all sides of the stump to
find an opening, but none was to be
seen. Then | happened to notice the
marks of claws up the side of the
stump, and / understood it. The hole
went in at the top. set my gun against
bush, appended the branch Of tree,
and was soon at the top of the stump,
looking in at the cubs, which were about
the size of full-grown rat-dogs..
was so excited that l jumped down
into the stump and grabbed the cubs.
They at first began to squeal, and then
turned on me for fight. But they were
small enough to handle, and in min
ute or two | had their mouths tied so
they could not bite, and their feet fast
ened so they could not scratch
/ knew that the old bear would be
along pretty soon and make it hot for
me if she found me in the nest, so
swung the Youngsters into my buckskin
belt preparatory to getting out
Get out? Did l get out? Land Of
love!oit makes me shiver to think of it
yet. | could no more get out of that
stump than | could fly. The hollow
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25

was bell-shaped, larger at the bottom
than at the top-so large, in fact, that /
could not put my back against one
side and my feet and hands against the
other and crawl up, as rabbits and 9th
er animals climb up inside of hollow
trees.
In no way could I get up foot.
There were no sticks inside to nelp me
up, and [ made up my mind [ had to
die certain. About the time came to
this conclusion | heard the old bear
climbing up the outside Of the stump.
With only my hunting knife as means
of defense, and in such close quarters.
you may possibly imagine the state of
my feelings.
The old bear was not more than halls
q minute, at the outside, climbing up
the stump, but it seemed like a month,
at least. [ thought Of all my sins q
dozen times, at least At last she reach
ed the top, but she didn't seem to sus-
pect my presence at all, as she deliber-
ately turned round and began slowly
descending, tail foremost.
/ felt as though my last hour had
come, and began seriously to think
ABOUT lying down and let the bear Kill
me, SO as to get out Of my misery as
quickly as possible. Suddenly an idea
struck me, and despair gave way to
hope. [ drew out my hunting knife
and stood on tip toe. When the bear
was about seven feet from the bottom
| fastened on her tail with my left hand
with vise-like grip, and with my right
drove my hunting knife to the hilt into
her haunch, and at the same time vel
ling like a whole tribe of Indians.
"What did she do?" chorused the
whole crowd who had been holding their
breath.
What did she do? Well, you should
have seen the performance. She didn't
stop to reflect a moment, but shot out
at the top of the stump like bullet out
of a gun. A hairs breadth to the min
ute. | held on until we struck the
ground, some thirty feet from the
stump. Then the old bear went like
lightning into the brush and was out
of sight in half second | was a little
bruised by the fall, but that was all. [
took the cubs to Uniontown the next
day, and on account Of the adventure
[ got So q piece for them, and III those
times S. was as good as $50 now.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25
They Will Meet Again.
Portland Transcript.

Some years since a young man who
had worked his way up from subor-
dinate position to one of some honor in
the patent office committed suicide.
He was, it seems, the chief support of
his aged and infrm parents, with whom
he resided; his cares were heavy, his
means were sm&ll: the battle of life
proved too strong for him. his mind be-
came affected and bloody razor in the
hand of a CHASTITY corpse was the result.
Kind. polite and apparently cheerful,
his terrible death was shock to the en-
tire Office. Since his death his mother,
crazed by grief, visits the department at
Irregular intervals inquiring for her son
and desiring to see him. Newly APP
pointed employees search in vain for
his name on the list Years have pass
ed, but still she comes, eluding the
watchfulness of her friends, seeking him
whom on earth she never more will
see again, and when kindly told of his
absence from the building promising
with a patient smile to come again on
the morrow te- Is -,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25

ITieis 81 estimated that Delaware's
peach export fort helseason will amount
to 200, 900 baskets, netting the shippers
$4,000. They call it a small year for
peaches. 'g@sas }a gap1A3
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25

sI-.l.s@NHI 90 = - - 70 = =
A YOUNG man in Washington has a
morbid mania for kissing everybody
he meets without reference to age.
color, sex, "or previous condition of
servitude dsom i. d9id# air vusnseeta d
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25

LIEUTENANT-GovERNo CAUCHoN, of
Manitoba charged his coachman with
stealing coat, arrested him, bundled
him into coach, and himself mount
ing the box drove the prisoner to the
police station. The prisoner was, how
ever, acquitted. - $3.50 $500
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25

Not butter, but her--The milkmaid,
not made of milk.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-30
Useful and Suggestive.

The following useful and suggestive
brevities are from the pen of the agricul-
tural editor Of the IONA State Register:
Never keep horses shod when working
On the farm.
No farmer can afford to be without
good garden.
In farming, many things can be sown
broadcast, but not money.
Corn is the poor mans crop, taking so
little for seed, for tilling or for harvesting
Sheep will convert more worthless weeds
into money than any other animal or
agency.
It it a glorious provision that extraya-
gance does not pay in any business, and
especially SO in farming.
Working in the garden is Just as good
exercise base ball, and for more useful
and instructing.
Clover is a peculiar plant. 1t improves
and fertilizes the soil, while nearly all
other plants act the reverse.
Too much eating and too little sleeping
are the great curses to American health
and happiness.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-30
fort, clasped the screaming baby in I is
arms and rnap IN his foot

fort, clasped the screaming baby in !, is
arms and rose to his feet.
He was going to go out and throw
himself and the baby under the frsttrain
that came along.
The baby's mother sprang out through
the door like an angel Of mercy.
She took the baby in her arms and with
one slight motion OF her hand, had Its
raiment Strengthened out so exquisltely
smooth there wasn't q wrinkle in it.
The baby lay in her arms as placid,
quiet, flexible, graceful and contented as
dream of Paradise.
The mother thanked Mr.. Thumbledirk
for the agony and torture he had endured
she thanked hun. She did not look at
him. She looked straight out Of The
window with stony glare, and said in
ones that made the thermometer shiver
"Mr. Thumbledirk isn't very good
nurse, is he, baby?" as
All the women smiled, except the
gloomy woman who talked bass. She
nodded approvingly.
The baby looked up into Mr.. Thum-
bledirk's face and laughed aloud.
What Mi. Thum bledirk said when he
dashed in at the sanctum last evening
was this:
'sBy the avenging daughters Of Night,
the everlasting, snake-haired Erynnes,
the terTor-haunted shades never knew
the horrors that haunt the soul OF single
man that tries to take care Of some other
fools bowling, squalling souirming
baby!'
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-30
Goodbye.

Goodbye! All me! The woods are weird,
As bells that toll for spirits fled.
Goodbye forewarns the goal is neared,
And yet good-byes are lightly said.
The farewell falls from laughing lips
On ears that idly catch the sound,
AS though our lives were buoyant ships,
And years werc seas sailed swiftly round.
Good-bye! All me! The words are franght
With vanished hopes and broken ties,
With lessons all too rudely taught,
And angry clouds in summer skies.
From heart to heart the words should pass
When friendly hands clasped closely lie;
For swiftly runs the fatal glass,
And surely comes the last goodbye.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-30
then returning it TO him. It dropped
and rolled under nv feet.

then returning 1t to him. It dropped
and rolled under my feet.
stopped to pick it up, and so did he.
but in that moment, while nv head was
down, he had me tightly by the throat,
and he threw me to the carriage floor.
His confederate was upon me in an in
slant. Icould scarcely breathe, and could
not struggle, for heavy knee was upon
my chest, and two strong, brutal hands
were crushing the life from my throat
Though the horror Of the situation did
not last a minute, it seemed an eternity to
me. | felt the rufians. hands searching
fer the pocket book, and I strained des-
perately for a chance of resistance.
. There work was nearly done. Cramped
in that small space, I was powerless, and
the veins Of my throat and head were
swelling like sinuous bars, when the old
gentlemen in the corner awoke and came
to my assistance.
heard low whirr of some weapon in
its descent. and my first assai.ant reeled
from me stunned. Then the old gentle
man, with strength and rapidity of act
ION wonderful to see in person of his
age. seized the scoundrel, lifted him
away, and dashed him down on seat.
There was brief struggle, and then |
heard sharp click scoundrel the sec
ond had apair of handouts on his wrists.
"They were more prompt than had
expected . said the old gentleman. re-
moyeng his wooden comforter, with
which he fastened my first assailant's
hands behind him, 'sand a railway car
riage does not afford much scope for a
struggle
The pocketbook was safe. Ike ruff
fans were securely bound, and the gen
tleman who. with his spectacles and
mutf1ing stood out, in bold and pleasant
relief as the detective, kept guard over
them.
At the station they were handed over
into the custody of the police. I was
all right at that time. Vixen rode with
me as far as the hotel nearest mere, and
tomorrow he will call to see if am any
the worse for my ride by express.
The contents Of the pocketbook were
Mary's bridal dowry.
The detective speaks of the senior
partner in the firm of Brand g. Lake as
the most hospitable ard generous man
be ever met In the course of bis profess
sional career.
Lake was quite cured of his love for
billiard playing. He had too narrow an
escape, and he did not forget the lesson.
Chambers Journal.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-30
Sandalph0n.
BY II. W. EONGFELLOW

Have you read in the TalmId Of old,
In the Legends the Rabbins have told,
OF the Iimtless realms of the air
Have YOU read 1.-THE marvellous story
OF Sandalphon, the angel of glory,
Sandalphon, the angel of Prayer?
How erect, at the outermost gates
OF the City Lelcstial he waits,
With his feet on his ladder of lig 1T,
That crowded with angels unaumbered, ID
By Jacob was seen, as he slumbered
Alone in the desert at night?
The angels of Wind and Fire
Chant only one hymn, and expire 81
With songs Irresistible stress;
Expire in the rapture and wonder,
AS harp strings are broken assunder
By music they rob to express.
But serene with the raptuous throng,
UnmOved by the rush of the song, =
With eyes unimpassioned and slow,
Among the dead angels, the deathless
Sanualphon stands listening breathless
To sounds that ascend from below.
From the spirits on earth that adore,
From the souls of that entreat and implore
In the feryor and passion of prayer,
From the hearts that are brOken.Wlth losses
And weary with dragging the crosses FL
Too heavy for mortals to bear.
And he gathers the prayers as he stands,
And they change into flowers IN his hands,
Into garlands Of purple aud red;
Aud beneath the great arch Of the portal,
Through the streets Of the City Immortal,
Is wasted the fragrance they shed.
1t is but a legend know
A fable, phantom, show,
OF the ancient Rabbincal lore;
Yet the old medieval tradition,
The beautiful strange superstition,
But haunts me and holds me the more.
When look from my window at night,
And the welkin above is all white,
All throbbing and painting with stars,
Among them majestic is standing,
Sandalphon, the angel, expanding
His pinions in nebulous bars. =
And the legend, I feel, is a part
Of the hunger and thirst Of the heart,
The frenzy and fire of the brain,
That grasps of the foliage forbidden,
The golden pome5ranates of Eden,
TO quiet its fever and pain.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-30
How Whisky Pays.

Some years ago we had in our employ
man, who, several times in the day, ran
out of the Office to buy drink of whisky.
Every time he went out, the cashier was
instructed to drop ten cents into drawer
to our credit At the end of seventeen
months, the man who had gone out SO often
drank himself out of good situation; and
the drawer, when opened, was found to
contain four hundred end nine dollars,
which We loaned to young machanic at
aeven per cent. interest. He used it to
purchase set Of timers tools. On the
18th of FEBRUARY, 1876, he returned it to us
with interest, saying in his letter that he
has now wife, two children and property
worth five thousand dollars. The other
fellow is a hummer, hunting for iood.--
Pomeroy's Dem.
A bride who sends cards to friends in
deep mourning should make the first
call.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1878-07-25

The ancients were familiar with the
elementary principles Of optics. and
Euclid aud Ptolsmy developed them in
formal treaties. They appear also to
have been acquainted with the use OF
eoavex or eoncave glasses. but the
former do not appear to have been APP
phi ed to spectacles till tho thirteenth
century. Roger Bacon. about l2oo'
described telescopes and microscopes
exactly, and yet neither were made till
the beginning OF the seventeenth GEN.
tury, when one Metius. at Alkmaer. and
Jansen. Of Middieburgh. made them
about the same time. Another Dutch.
man Of the nam OF Drevel soon after
made microscopes. Gahlso initiated
their invention by its description, and
made three in succession. one which
magnifed u thousand things and having
with these discovered Jupiter's moons
and the phases Of Venus. telescopes
soon became very popular. and were
improved by Zucchi. Huygens. Gregory
and Hersehel. The famous microscope
OF Lewenhoeck consisted merely Of
small glass drops or spheres. Prisms
were first used in Italy. and their
powers developed by Grimaldi. The
theory Of the rainbow was explained by
Dsscartes; and the solar microscope was
invented by DIR. Hooke.