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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
WHAT BECOMES OF sHOwMEN.

The circus business has decided y
waned from what it was twenty years
ago, and Tor the coming season the trav-
cling concerns will be very few compar-
ed with former times. Many OF the
names once familiar on the flaming bills
are not seen now in connection with cir
cuses DR.. Spaulding is living on his
money in Saugerties. N. Y. Yankee
Robinson is an actor in western theatres.
Ben Maginiey. Toney Pastor. and Frank
Pastor. formerly clowns. are a SO on the
theatrical stage. Andrew Haight, once
owner OF the Great Eastern Circus. il
Keeping IL hotel in Chicago. OF other
proprietors. Joseph Cushing is farming
in New Hampshire. j. M. Nixon is man
aging theatre in Chicago, Montgomery
Queen is interested in Brooklyn street
railroads, Levi North is also living in
Brooklyn. w. j. Metchear keeps hotel
in Providence, George K. Goodwin runs
two theatres and dollar store In Phila-
delphia. Eaton and Daniel Stone are
farming In New Jersey, r. E. j. Miles
owns Cincinnati theatre, Burr Robbins
is iecturing in the west on temperance.
and the Coopers. OF Cooper & Bailey
keeps horse mart in Philadelphia; Dan
Rice, after many ups and downs, is build
ing floating theatre to run on the Mis-
sissippl. Burnum, Forepaugh, Robin.
son and Lent are about the only old pro.
prietors still in the business.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
FACTS WORTH KNOWING.

Milk. which has changed. may be
sweetened or rendered tit for use again,
by stirring in a lit le soda.
Salt will curdle new milk; hence. in
preparing milk porrldge. gravies, &c.
tae salt should not be added until the
dish is prepared.
Fresh meat. beginning 10 sour, will
sweeten II placed out OF doors in the
cool air over night.
Clear boiling water will remove tea
stains. Pour the water through the
stain and thus prevent it spreading over
the fabric.
A teaspoonful OF turpentine, boiled
with your white clothes, will greatly aid
the whitening process.
Boiling starch is much improved by
the addition of sperm or salt, or both,
or little gum arabic dissolved.
| BeeswaN and salt will make Your rnsty
fiat irons as clean and smooth as glass
Tie lump OF wax in a rag and keep i,
tor that purpose. When the irons are
hot. rub them first with the wax rag
then scour with q paper OF cloth sprin
kled with salt.
Blue ointment and kerosene, mixed il
equal proportions. and applied to bed
steads, is an unfailing bug remedy; an,
coat of whitewash is the same for III,
walls of log house.
Kerosene will soften boots and shoe
that have been hardened by water, an,
will render them pllable as new.
Kerosene will make your tea kettle a
bright as new. Saturate a wooden RAG
and rub with it. 1t will also remoy
stains from the clean Vanished fnrn
, ture.
Cold rain water and soap will remoy
> machine grease from washable fabric
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
"LET THE MUD DRY FIRST"

Here is a capital lesson that may well
be impressed upon the memory OF both
young and old. Mr.. Spurgeon, in walk
ing little way out of London to preach
chanced to get his pantaloons quite mud
dy. A deacon met him at the door, and
desired to get a brush and take off some
of the mud.
"Oh. no." said Mr.. Spurgeon, "don't t
you see 1t is wet, and it you try to brush
it now, you will rub the stain into the
cloth? Let it dry. when it will come of
easily enough, and leave no mark"
So. when men speak evil OF us falsely
throw mud at us-don't be IN a hurry
to brush it off. Let it dry. BY and by.
II need De. lite effort will remove it.
Don't foster scandal about yourself and
others. or trouble in a society or church,
by haste to do something. Let it alone
let it dry; it will be more easily eradi
Gated than you think IN the first heat ol
Excitement. Time has wonderful power
in such matters. Very many things In
this world will be easily gotten over by
judiciously ''ietting them dry"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
BIG DIAMONDS.
New York TImes.1

A story comes from Parteall, India,
where diamonds are usually found
Golconda being the place where they
are merely cut and polished-that the
largest diamond in the world has lately
been discovered there. 1t is said to
weigh 400 carats. thirty-two carats more
than the famous stone belonging to the
Rajah of Mattau. The story is, in all
probability, much bigger than the dia-
mond. and both will likely diminish
under careful examination. Great dia-
monds are interesting, because they
nearly always have curious and roman
tic histories. The regent or Pitt dia-
mond. one hundred and thirty-slx and
threc-fourths carats. .cut. found in Hyde
rabad, WAS taken to England by Pitt,
the grandfather of the first Earl of
Chatham. and sold by him to the Due
d'Orleans for a sum equivalent to
$3.50. 900. 1t or'iamented the sword hit
of Napoleon; was taken by the Prus-
slams at Waterloo, and is now among
the crown Jewels of the Emperor OF
Germany. The Sanci, another CO e.
brated stone, once belonged to Charles
the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, who wore
~ III dlo 0RI oG Cuo OdlGA0 vi ANduCy '
where he tell. 1t then passed 10 the
hands OF Anton, king OF Portugal, and
he, being embarrassed, disposed OF it
for $4,000. Then it was purchased, ai-
ter divers changes. by q Frenchman
named Sancl, w;:ence its designation.
One of his descendants having been sen,
as ambassador to Henry ILL.,, at Soleure,
the king demanded the jewel as pledge
The servant carrying it to the monarch
was wayiaid by r,bbers and murdered
but not before he had swallowed the
diamond. His master. confident of hit
fidelity, had the body opened, and foune
the precious stone. After whi it wa.
secured by the government OF Grea
Britain, and James II. carried it tc
France in 1888. After varied fortune
Louis XIV. got hold Of it and wore it a
his corona ion. Then it passed from hi
hand, and was bought. tiity-odd year
since. by Russian noble for S4OO. 600
aud is said to belong now to one of hi
heirs. AS it is too valuable for almo.
anybody to keep. it will continue, n
; doubt, as the years 60 on, to add to 1t
memorable history. Diamonds suppl
most OF the romance Of precious stone
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
TIRE CITY Of REST.
BY ELDER A. n. , GRAHAM.

To-day have been to the City OF Rest,
Where my loved aud once loving ones sleep;
Went there alone. an unbliden guest,
-O'er the graves of my treasures 10 weep.
No person l saw, heard not II sound,
Save the low solemn rustiing OF trees
As they thOughtlessly waved over many mound
In the soft, gentle sumIuer-tlme breeze.
Bestrewn wilh the rarest OF flowers
10 ansa er to many dying rcquest-
And there, there are beautiful bowers. .-'
The inhabitants walk not those dnwer-bedecked
They are motionless, silent and still;
Each one has hume Of his own where he stays,
And they tread not the city at will.
They are narrow, and short, bur deep;
They are large enou4n though for the heart that.
distress'd,
Wants room enough only to sleep.
Here the earth wesried one finds u rest that is
SWEET,
Undisturbed By the dwellers there,
In their silence profound. in their dark retreat.
They are tree from all sorrow and care.
My mother sleeps in the City of Rest.
And my father is sleeping there, too.
Oh, how tondly they loved me ere over their
breast
The greenswsrd and now'r grew.
They see not the form. they hear not the voice
OF their wandering. sorrowing boy;
But with them hereafter hope to rejoice
when grief shall be turned to joy.
The time will soon come when the city Of rest
Must yield up its treasures and trust,
And ready to enter the home of the blest,
shall spring forth the forms of the just,
And then, in that City which hands hath not
made,
In all ages to come they shall dwell.
Ne er again In the cOld narrow tomb to be laid
Ne'er again to breathe out u ''larewell.'
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
Gen. Fremont's scheme for flooding

Gen. Fremont's scheme tor flooding
that part OF Colorado desert lying In
southern California. is attracting a great
deal OF attention 1t is argued that ages
ago the basin. of which Dry lake is the
lowest point. was part OF the gulf OF
California. The sediment carried down
by the Colorado river finally collected at
what was then the mouth of the river, in
such quantities as to dam off The north
ern arm of the guilt AS the waters in
this isolated sea slowly evaporated, and
as there was no inflow, the result was
the desert OF sand now seen Dry lake
is about 800 feet below the level OF the
sea. The basin is about $50 miles long
and 30 wide. Between this and the head
OF the gulf is thirty miles OF territory
just above the sea level. Gov. FIRE.
mont's scheme is to cut canal across
this strip of land and allow the waters
of the guilt to ill up the BASIN. He be-
lieves this is better plan than the one
proposed years ago to turn the Colorado
riv er into the desert. In this scheme
Arizona and Mexico are as much inter.
ested as California. The estimated cost
of cutting the canal is S1.OOO,OOO. A
gentleman who has travelled on horse.
back across the desert says he is of the
opinion that all the waters Ut the Pa
cific ocean will hardly saturate the sand
with moisture. He thinks it is dry anc
hot all the way through TO the othe,
! side.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
WHAT GEN. TAYLOR DID FOR MIR.
TILDEN.

About week ago Mr.. Samuel j. Til
den called ut MIR. Barlow's residence to
inquire after the health of the general.
whom he had known intimately tor the
past ten nr twelve years. On hearing
that the ex-governor was below, General
Taylor asked to have him shown up at
once. His attendants tried to dissuade
him on the ground that in his critical
condition the excitement OF an interview
would prove dangerous. The general
insisted on seeing and cOnversing with
his visitor, however. and MIR. Tilden was
summoned to his bedside. The inter-
view which followed was an affecting
one. Mr. Tilden took the hand OF the
dying man and expressed his deep re-
gret ut seeing HIM in such condition.
General Taylor pressed the governor
hand in return, and thanked him for his
sympathy.
MIR. Tilden gazed for moment at the
dying mans face and then, bending
over kissed him upon the forehead.
mo man." he said to general Taylor.
''has ever had q wiser, truer or moro
unselfsh friend than you have been to
me-"
Mr.. Tilden first met General Taylor
at the Philadelphlaconvention. in 1866.
He was struck with his candor. wit and
other engaging qualities. and the tive
speedily became friends. During his
subsequent visits to the north the gen.
eral called frequently upon Mr.. Tilden
and the friendship begun In 1866 ripened
into close intimacy. In the campaign
OF 1876 the general took very active
interest in Mr.. Tilden's canvass and was
one OF the most efficient workers in the
contest that ended in his election. Mr..
TiIden entertained the highest opinion
cularly esteemed him for his moderate
and statesmanlike views upon the Ques-
lions growing out OF the late war.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
THE NEGRO EXODUS AND THE CHI
NEsE QUESTION. @

There is another effect it will have
beyond any sort of doubt. 1t will re-
open the Chinese immigration question
with tenfold force. California may not
want the Chinese If the south is robbed
OF her labor, she will, and what is more.
she will have them. Those who imagine
that section OF the union that produces
five million bales of cotton, and rice.
sugar, tobacco, etc, in proportion. will
submit to being deprived of any materi-
al part OF Its labor, are poor judges of
the spirit OF our people. There is al
ready a movement on loot to call con-
vention of leading men of the states
bordering the Mississippi valley to take
into consideration this matter. The
largest cotton producers, merchants, bus
mess men OF all sorts and men who
count their wealth by hundreds OF thou
sands of dollars. are fully in favor of at
once starting a line of steamers between
New Orleans and China that will brin 20
millions ct laborers here if necessary
One individual OF those who have inau-
gurated this counter movement produces
10000 bales of cotton, and declares he
will start Il line of vessels himself rather
than want for labor to carry on his p an
tations. Another one declares he will
60 to China himself rather than want
for labor. Hundreds and thousands will
60 into it. Southern congressman viii.
he requested to change front on the
Chinese immigration qustion. and in
stead of circumscribing the Burlingame
Treaty, will be requested to use all the
means in their power to secure terms
more liberal and pleasing to the Chi
nese. Ii Que northern friends, who con-
sider it their lifelong business to inter-
fere in our affairs, will let us alone, all
will be well. The negroes will be Sc
cured in all their rights, and we viii
solve the race problem by an exercise
of patience. honesty and justice. But
if they do not leave US alone. and per
sist in entlcing the labor OF the soutt
away. and furnishing it the means to go
they may rest assured the south will
prove herself equal to her seli-preserva
ton.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26

Mr.. McAffee, superintendent of the
university of Wisconsin experiment
tai farm, Informs us that for three
years past lie has grown lima beans
without poles or stakes, by persistent
pinching back. after they reach the
height-about that of common bunch
beans. He is confident the crop is
very perceptibly earlier, and thinks
1T is increased in quantl,y-the plant
being checked In its growth of vine,
expending its energy in fruit produc-
ton. On the farm we saw some So
created and they were we'll load ed
with fruit.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26

when tine Court is at the capital. By 8
p. m. the Emperor has retired to his
room, or if he is at Livadia has made q
fourth at Count Adlerberg's whist. Liva-
dia, especially since the Vera Sassulitch
affair, has become the diplomatic capital
OF Russia; most of the archives are there
and almost hourly courlers carry thither
their dispatches The Gear never loved
St. Petersburg socially or physically;
its keen, bracing atmosphere was un.
grateful 10 the confirmed asthmatic and
the acquittal of the would-be murderess
of General Trepof made the city of
Peter as odious politically. But for his
courtiers the life of the Emperor would
be that OF misanthropic recluse. The
palaces OF Nicholas [. were always open
to the people, but no sovereign in Europe
is more closely hedged about and guard
ed than bis son. Not even to an outer
room of the palace of Livadia could a
stranger gain access. Of late years the
Emperor has been subject to what might
be called accesses OF Sebastopolomania.
and has found melancholy pleasure IN
visiting the ruined fortress, now to raise
monument over the dead, now to cele-
brate a grand mass tor the departed now
to receive a transport loaded with wound
ed from Turkey. His ''Sebatopol days"
are his gloomIest. and vainly did Count
Adlerberg and his intimates endeavor
to shake this growing habit in the days
when their efforts were tolerated. Al
| exander II. has also manifested a morbid
aversion to all public festivities; the
holidays and national anniversaries OF
| which the Russian calendar Is SO prolific
| have for him no existence. ~
Never-not even 'hardiy ever"-have
the political assassins OF Europe been 80
fruitlessly occupied as during the pas,
twelvemonth. In May and June last
Hoedel and Noblling potted the Emperor
William, with whom decidedly the
honors rested, tor the stout old octogena
rian will shortly celebrate his COLDER
wedding. whereas Hoedel lost his head
and Nobiling would certainly have beer
executed had he not perished in prison
of his selt-inf1icted wounds. Moncasi
who tried to shoot Alfonso XII, wal
duly garroted at Madrid, and Passanante
the cook who attempted to slay King
Humbert of Italy, would unquestionabl,
have been guillotined had not His Maj
esty exercised his prerogative OF mercy
and banished him to Elba. The attach
upon the Gear makes five attempt!
within eleven months (not counting th'
silly performance of the lunatic Maddel
in London); in but two cases has th'
intended victim suffered any physica
injury. Indeed, judging by the histor.
OF the last year or 80. diphtheria i
rather to be more dreaded by European
kings and princes than Socialism, Nihil
ism or the International.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
A TAILLESS KITE.

This is the time of kite flying, and the
boys are ready tor any novelty that will
add zest to the sport. A number OF years
ago some gentlemen discovered In a
book OF designs drawing OF kite that
should float in the air without the neces
sity OF tail balance. One of the gen.
tletnen constructed one, and when he
displayed 1t to his incredulous friends,
they derided his assurance that there
was go in it. The first attempt was a
failure. Indeed. if the kite doesn't rise
on the first sufficient gust of wind, it
should be discarded and second kite
made. The second attempt was deci-
ded success, so much so that as the er-
ratio thing cavorted beneath the empyr-
can. every body wondered what strange
creature of the air it might be. Recent
ly another one of the flyers was put up,
and it would have done one good to have
seen how delighted the boys of twenty
or thirty years ago were as the tailless
kite scared away into the blue depths,
now plunging eccentrically toward con-
tiguous dwellings,, aud again gracefully
swimming up toward the zenith. 1t is
intimated that tailless kite flying will be
the popular amusement for the ladies
who have not yet laid aside the joys of
childhood. For those who desire to try
hand at the novelty, we give brief direc-
tlons as to construction. The shape of
the kite IS what the boys call diamond
The cross-bar, which. in tail kites OF
the diamond pattern, is straight. should
be made OF hickory, and bowed by con-
Meeting the ends with taut string. 1t
should then be placed at right angles
with the perpendicular stick, and fast
ened securely. the bend Of the bow be-
ing backward from the intersection of
the sticks. Run string around over
the end of each stick, and cover the
frame with light tissue paper. For a
iour foot kite the perpendicular stick
should extend three feet below the point
of intersection with the bow, and one
foot above it. The bow should be one
and one-half feet long on each side OF
the point OF intersection with the perpcn-
dlcular stick. The belly cord should be
united at the point of intersection, and
at the same distance down the perpen-
dicular stick as the arms of the bow ex-
tend on each side OF the perpendicular
stick. The band is attached at only two
points, the point of intersection and a
point below, in the four foot kite men,
toned, one and one.half feet below the
intersection. Tie these two strings to-
gether, and attach the captive cord, bal.
ancing it so that the captive cord shall
be exactly opposite the point OF intersec'
ton. or at right angles with the perpen'
dicular stick frame. The face Of the
kite is then convex, and the back, o
course. corcave Ii at first you dom,
succeed, try again. This form of kit.
IS sometimes very eccentric, and u!
game rs willy fish.
Ex-Gov. Hubbard went to the cup
board to get his sweet daughter beau
but when he got there the cupboard wa
bare. and she off with the coachman die
90.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26

Some people, ignorant OF what good
editing is, imagine the getting up of Sc
lected matter to be the easiest work in
the world, whereas it is the incest work
that is done on paper. If they see the
editor with scissors in his hand they are
sure to say: tEh. that's the way you get
up original matter!' accompanying their
witty questions with an idiotic wink or
smile. The facts are, that the Interest.
the variety and usefulness OF q paper de-
pend in no small degree upon its selec-
ted matter, and lew men are capable of
the position who would not themselves
be able to write many Of the articles
they select. A sensible editor desires
considerable selected matter, because
he knows that one mind cannot make so
good paper as five or six.-[Printers'
Union.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
The empress of Austria was filled

The empress of Austria was filled
with wonder on meeting Mr.. Kavan-
augh, member OF parliament for the
county of Carlow, with the Kildare
hounds. He was born without legs or
arms. In place of legs he has six inches
OF muscular thigh stumps, one being
about an inch shorter than its fellow
while his arms are dwarted to perhaps
four inches OF the upper portion of these
members. and are uniurnlshed with any
termination approaching to hands Yet
he is beautiful callgraphist, dashing
huntsman. an artistic draughtsman, an
unerring shot. an expert yachtsman, and
drives iour-in-hand. In writing he holds
the pen or pencil in his mouth. and
guides its course by the arm stumps,
which are sufficiently long to meet across
the chest. When hunting he sits in a
kind of saddle basket, and his reins
are managed with surprising expert
ness and ease.
Isaac Flnberg and Frank Basset were
held for the grand jury In default OF
$4,000 bail by the police judge on a
charge OF burglary in the second degree.
They broke into room in the Rock
House. on Broadway street, a few days
ago, and stole. among other things. q
quantity of gamblers implements
Among the latter was an exceedingly
igenious apparatus which was exhibited
in court as evidence against the men
and is designed to facilitate cheating Al
cards. The contrivance consists Of al
arrangement oi springs in frame
which passes around the players arm
beneath his coat-sleeve, and coDtain
the cards designed to be used IN cheat
ing. Attached to the apparatus is
string which passes around the player
body to his LETT hand. BY means OF th
string the player can throw out the card
so as to "stock" his hand. and Withdraw
those that he does not consider stron,
enough to play against his opponent
The machine bore evidence of lon
service. and has doubtless emptled th
pockets Of many . grssnhorn.-lSa
Erauelsso bullsua.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26
Many of the existing customs of the

Many of the existing customs of the
Russian peasants are relics of the old
times Of paganism. Thus, in the prov
ince of Saratov, in a season of drought.
the peasants still resort TO the ancient
fashion OF attempting to draw down the
rain. In each Of the villages every resi-
dent. old ana young. tries to throw a
pailfull of water, perhaps around a
corner. upon some unguarded or un-
thinking pedestrian. Men. women and
chiltiren, drenched to the skin, and
armed with buckets or scoops. pursue
each other through the streets, amid up
roar and laughter. Thus, according to
tradition, the gods of the clouds are pro-
pltiated. and send rain.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26

The Oldest known pieces of wrought
iron in the world are the sickles found
by Belzoni under the pedestal of the
Sphynx, the blades of which Wyse found
imbedded In the wall OF the great pyra-
mid, aud the piece of a saw which Lyard
dug up at Nimrod. They are treasured
in the British museum. -'
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26

Nevada is the only state In the union
that licenses gambling. No person can
carry on the trade OF gambling in that
state without paying license OF $75
month. Any cheating at the game Is
deemed a misdemeanor and punished
accordingly. Boys under 15 years of
age are not to be allowed admission to
the gambling rooms.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-26

A keg OF gold amounting to $4,000
was lately recovered from mill pond,
where it had been hidden tor fourteen
years. A guide who was with JEFF Da-
Wis, when he was making his flight
through Georgia. deserted the party up
on arriving in Wilkes county. stole the
keg of money and rolled it into the
pond. On his deathbed in the peniten-
tiary. where he was soon afterward
sent. he disclosed the locality of the
treasure