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ON Which Side?

A correspondent writes to the Philadel-
phia Times for an answer to that question
which has long puzzled the beau1-On
which side should a gentleman ride when
eseorting a lady on horseback? The edi-
tor says: This is q point on which usage
is not sharply defined. 1t was formerly
the general custom for the gentleman to
ride on the off side of the lady, for the rea-
son that he could thus bring his horse
much closer to hers without inconvenience
10 her, and would avoid the danger of en-
tangling his stirrup or spur in her habit.
The shorter and less voluminous skirts now
worn make this last consideration of less
importance. Though a man riding on q
lady's left must still keep a respectful
distance, there is the very strong argument
in favor Of this position that he has his
right hand toward her, disengaged and
ready to aid her iii case of accident, to
catch her, bride, or herself should she fall,
or her saddle-girth slip. And this is moi
all Its probable that the custom of rid
ing on the lady's right really arose from
the fact that in England you take the left
of the road. and the man should always be
next the passers-by. But with rs the law
of the road is revei sed, and the man should
therefore ride upon the near side, that he
may De between his companion and tnose
whom they may meet. The practical ar
rangements. seem thus to favor the neal
side. and it will be found that custom tends
Increasingly in that direction.
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Danish Butter.

The London Grocer says that Danish
butter commands the highest price IN any
market IN London in the winter months,
because il is the best. The butter is made
on large estates, where are usually kept
from one hundred to two hundred and
eighty COWS. ana=in some eases even more.
tt is satisfactory 70 know that everything
5shippedas butter from Denmark IS pure, 3
q most important fact to dealers. Denmark
exports about ten thousand casks Of but
ter per week, averaging eighty pounds net,
out of which, at present, about four thou
sand are sent to London. Butter is also
packed in tins Of various sizes for export
to hot climates. Danish buffers arrive u
London once or twice weekly u tne
North, and the present dimensions Of tl1is
traffic may be understood by the fact tha1
the goods manager Of the Farrallgto1
street station of the Great n Northern Rail
way receives weekly for distribution i
London about sixty tons Of Danish butte
| in casks,
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Population Statistics.

Alabama is as large as England, and yet
has only 100000 otpeople to EngIand's p, ),
100000. California, with less than 1,0O0,-
900 of people, is very lite smaller than
France with 100000. Nevada is little
smaller, and Oregon is larger than New
York and Pennsylvania combined; so eth
er of these new States could easily hold
two older States combined population of
$500, 900. We do not think Massachusetts
overcrowded with 800, 900. nor Ohio with
less than 1000, 900, nor New York with t.
500, 900. And yetif Texas were settled as
thickly as New York, its 900, 900 of peo-
pie would grow to %, 200, 900; if like Mas
sachusetts, it would bold 81 900, 600, or
more than the whole present population of
the Union.
There are only fifteen States out Of the
thirty-eight which have each more than
l 900, GEO of people, while there are four
teen States which have each a larger area
than England with her p 100000 Settled
like England, these States would have
more than 300, 600, ,000..
The States toward which emigration is
now mainly setting are Minnesota, Nebras-
ka, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado. These
about equal Missouri in population, while
their area is ten times hers. So, to be ey-
emily populated like Missouri, sparsely peo-
Dled as that State is, these five should have
20,000000; and to be settled like Massa-
chusetts, being ninety times as large, they
must have 135, 100000, or three times our
country's present population. If the whole
territory of the Union were settled like
New York, it would contain 270,00O,0O0,
if like MASSACHUSETTS,, 560,0O0,00O, and if
it reached England's ratio of inhabitants to
the square mile, its population would al
most equal the present population of che
globe.
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Ozae or the Other.

She was a woman Of Bloomington, Ind.
Her husband was a mechanical genius
with a hankering after a rpetual-motion
machine, and her son was live boy with
a taste for hunting rats. The son one day
set a steel trap in the cellar, and went
to borrow rat dog. The woman went
into the cellar with requisition for IA
tons, and her searching gaze fell on the
trap. go, DEAR" she sighed, ''John Hen
ly has made another experimentation
and prompted by womanly
curiosity she picked it up by the trigger to
see how the old thing worked. She saw.
With hideous howls she climbed the cellar
stairs like whirlwind, and went wailing
the house and fled into the street,
waking the echoes with disconsolate
shrieks, while the neighbors shouted
"Fire. !" and thronged into her house and
began pitching out the furniture. Order
once more reigns in Bloomington, but
that woman has posted Il placal.d on the
doors, notifying all to whom these presents
may come greeting, that hereafter it is to
be all perpetlal-motion machine On all
rat-trap about that house. she doesn't care
a cent which, but she isn't going TO have
the thing mixed any more.
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dies entered the house, and sill remain
/ ed on my perch, no one paying me. any a
tention. Presently Mile. Rachel turned
round and said TO the coachman in her pc
culiarly resonant voice, ssFaites, done, de-
cendre Get enfant
| shall never forget the tone OF the Wo-
man who uttered it. / can see her now
A very small, snake-1ike, but beautifully
shaped head; features small, but straight
and regular: hair raven black, and simply
bound up behind i'll a knot; eyes peculiar,
one, am sure smaller than the other.
The last popularity was SO remarkable, at
least to me, that I took special note of it
in the room afterward. | cannot recollect
what occurred during The visit, but | do
remember being presented with a hand
kerehief containing a quantity Of marrons
glaces, which. like the contented witch, |
munchcd and munched on my honeward
journey.
On January /, 1858, she became sudden
ly worse, and on the following Friday her
life was despaired of. She rallied again
on the Saturday, but on Sunday, the 9Th,
all hope was again abandoned. Il am dy-
ing, Sarah,' she said, sand will soon be
with my sister Rebeeca, and then God will
show mercy. Rebecca was her favorite
sister, and died, when only twenty of con-
sumption.
Early in the morning of that fatal Sun
day she wrote atfectionate letters to her
parents in Paris. Sarah, seeing her sis
ter's danger, summoned the Rabbi and
Jewish singers from Nice. They ap-
preached the bed, and began 4 mournful
chant in the Hebrew language, Ascend,
o daughter of Israel to God. Behold, O,
Lord God, the agony of thy handmaiden,
Rachel, and pity her sufferings. Shorten
her pains, Good Lord, and break these
bonds which bind her to life, so that she
may be at rest. Lord God, pity Thy SER
want, and take her unto Thee, and let her
agony redeem her sins, so that she may |
find peace" Whilst they were still sing
ing Rachel fell asleep in death. Just as
the soul and body parted she pressed her
devoted sisters hand and opened her eyes,
to fix them on her with an expression of
tender affection. Six hours later, DR..
Maure felt the corpse and found it tlexa-
Bile, even warm, and it was long before he
permitted it to be placed in the coffin.
Tile THEATRE
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s.ya Il sasE4.
aoW A CELEBRATED PIANIST PGE SDtssss &
sHoDDYITE. 0

Henry ketten, the pianist. says the San
Francisco Past, not only left behind him
the goodwill and hearty favor due this
most accomplished artist and courteous gem
tlcman, but as well the memory of SD thor
ough and matchless Z snub to one of those
/ intolerable v,llgarians who form at least
the superstructure of Frisco society that
we could afford to ever hold him III CRATE
! full remembrance for the latter reason
/ alone.
1t appears that Mr.. X. was invited to u
party at the house of one Of our local Plu-
| tocrats, a large importing merchant, and
attended the same with his wife, precisely
as would any other expected guest.
10 his surprise, however, he found the
company sitting solemnly around, as
though in concert-halI, and himself at
once pressed to 'splay something by his
host. The courteous Frencalnan compli-
ed, and, in response to repeated requests,
continued to entertain the company for
nearly two hours. When at last he WAS
thoroughly fatigued, supper was announc-
ell, whereupon the host arose and said:
"You'ye got piano punching down fine,
ketten, old fellow. Now if you'n play
these young folks a few quadrilles and
polkas while the balance of lis go down to-
hash, III send up Martha Louise to relieve
you presently; or, if you like, you can
have something sent up, and eat it right
here on the piano, first kinder calcuIat-
ed to have to engage a couple of tiddlers, |
but the old lady said she thought you
wouldn't mind. I'll make it all right !
when yon go.
The astounded artist gazed at the speak
er-who was we'll known to have been
barkeeper in the s'good old days'-for a
few moments utterly dumfounded: then,
controlling himself, he grayely turned his
back and began playing dance music as re-
quested. When the company had all reas-
semblcd in the parlor, he raised his voice
and said;
'sPray let some whiskey, lemons and SUI
gar be brought in.''
1t was done.
ssNow, then, said Mr.. ketten, fixing
his on eye the h0st-''now, then, mix IL
some cocktails, my good fellow; every
man to his trade.
There was an awful silence and then the
shoddycrat, with a ghastly attempt to car
ry off the joke, prepared the drink and
handed it to the musician.
The latter drank the beverage critically.
"You,re losing practice, my good man;
the fellow at the hotel bar does much bet
ter. There, you may keep the CHANGE
and tossing the almost asphyxfated million
aire a half dollar, he put his wife under his
arm and walked out.
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caught his pen and feigned great assiduit,

once more.
81 see you are busy, . said Rosa, softly
after an instant#of hesitation.
"Yes,a said Mr. Racquet, Il am rathe
busy.
'tThen perhaps [ had better bid yol
good-morning, said Rosa.
SGood-morning, Miss Appleton" sail
the clergyman, with his eyes glued to tn
paper.
/ sWhat!'' he cried, after the fashion 0
the soliloquizing heroes Of the stage
marry that wrinkled, one-eyed has
against my will, just because she wants
some one to provide for her, and tits lear
yeart And worst and cruelcst Of all, tt
think that Rosa should come to propose
ita''
Just then Rosa's voice, soft and plain
tive, talking TO the old housekecper in the
kitchen below, claimed upon his ear. In
voluntarily he listened.
81 know it is very foolish in me to cry,
HRS. Megson,'' faltered Rosa, s.but, in
deed, | can't help it! You see, we heard
you were going away next week, and Lu-
ella was so anxious to obtain the situation
Of housekeeper. She's SO niddle-aged and
steady going, You know, that it would be
the best place for her,
Certainly, certainly, Miss Rosa,'' said
good-natured Mrs. Megson. 'And what
objection did the master possibly have to
it?''
81 don't know" said Rosa, .tbut he was
SO cold and stern and short with me. He
didn't seems a bit like himself. And, o!
Mrs. Megson, please do give me a glass of
water, for feel all in flutter. | didn't
even have chance to tell him that Lucilla
was willing to come without wages for the
first month, for the sake of learning the
household ways, and
But Roderic Racquet heard no more.
Scattering the sermon sheets right and
left, he seized his hat and rushed down the
back garden to certain shadowed walk,
which led out to an angle in the wall,
which commanded the highroad by which
home; and when the light figure came,
moving softly along like shadow, he
stepped out and stood directly in front of
her. She started like frightened fawn.
Rosa" he said, 'do not be afraid. l.
[ do not think we quite understood each
other just now. Your sister wanted to
take the position which Mrs. Megson is
about to vacate of housekeeper at the par
eyes, SIR said Rosa, with downcast
eyes.
ssBut should prefer another housekeep-
er, Rosa," boldly spoke out the parson.
II shall prefer you as my wife, darling
my own beloved life-treasure!
II never thought of such a thing" said
Rosa, beginning to color up and tremble.
''Think Of it now," went on Mr.. Rae
luet, 'Lucilla and your mother can live
with us, if you like; but you must be the
little keeper, Rosa
And after singularly short period of
Elaboration, Rosa Appleton decided to ac-
,ept the situation.
When Mr.. Alton came in from his solita-
y meditations among the pine groves
Roderic met him with radiant counte-
lance.
cold fellow" said he, ''I'm safe. No
more of your leap year intimidation for
ne. I'm engaged!'
$50 she has asked you, eh?" groaned
Mr.. Alton.
'No," said the parson: II asked her."
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Poetry.
THoRNS AnEp ROSES.

From morn till night Johns hammer rang,
The tale OF labor telling;
But ofthe marked, with envious eye,
Squire Hardy's cosey dwelling.
oneday the Squire himself came by:
''My horse has lost shoe, John,
And that's the least Of all my cares,
But cares don't come to you, John.
The lightning struck my barns last night;
Ny child near death islaid, John;
No! life is moi what folks suppose,
'Iis not of roses made, John.f
And then the Squire rode sadly of.
John watched him in amazement;
And as he watched two faces bright
Peepcd from the open easement.
Heheard his wife's voice, sweet and low,
His baby's merry laughter;
John gave his anvil such a blow
1t shook each smoky rafter.
II would not change with Squire SAID he,
For all His land and money;
There's thorns for him as well as me,
But rot such roses bonny!"
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I zss7RaSz a-ss ska a i, w ez.esd. .


4 smart young. s man asked Z geatlenlall
from Cape Cod, What il the difference
between you.aad; j elaln?2. thinking tEat
the Cape 1ailgel. would sly that he didn't
know, and then the Young man would
pity him for not being able. e see any
difference EetWeen himself and . clam,
but tifse thing didn't work. The CodgeI.
took the young: man and brushed 4 path
across the street 9Th him, and then, after
efoWtling lin into HI empty fish barrel
and yanking him out again said 4 clam
Nouldla' be PLAYING wiiliyoll il this NAY.
That's the difference IsNIzft me and 4
clam. The young nan had Nc more
questions e ;a#lss.
Il. EHeeE said to 1 drunken fellow, 81
were i. Eotlr place, ! would 50 QUITO
the woods and Ii;sng myself. 4 The sIl-
Iis,yeF was, s+ooz u my pIaiah, YOU
Couldn't ssst there.
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w Eassa Becomes OF Fiiisam Wild
Oyy-s.

There is 40 uniformity of custom in Fiji,
so that no description Of what is done by
any one tribe can be taken as applicable to
the others. The strangling of widows, how
ever, that they might=be buried with their
dead husbands, seems to have been every
where practiced. The widows brother per-
forms the operation, and is thenceforWard
treated with marked respect By his brother
in-laN S knsfolk, who present him with q
piece of land, over which tie strangling
cord is hung up. Should he, however fail
to strange his sister, he is elespised.
When a Wom1n is about to be strangled,
she is made to kneel down. and the cord
Ga strip Of native eloth1,is put around her
neck. She is then ted to expeI her breath
as long as possible, a1.l, when she can en-
dure n longer, to stretch out her hand as q
signal, Whereupon the cord is tighteIed
and soon all is ever. It is believed that if
this direction befolloWed, inseusibility en-
sues Immediately Oh the tightening Of the
cord; whereas if inhalation has taken place,
there is an interval Of suffering g.-Laise Foo.
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Well Loaded. Lit was one night when 4
neighbor had been Ill and sold burglar
stories, that tie old man and lis two sons,
each, without mentioning the fact, felt
rather seare.y, and ssellt an AM loaded the
gun; and it was tile old man sfllo got more
scared ii the nigiat, and, getting the gun, gun,
fired it 1T i'll imaginary min, and got
kicked clear through the eIaillia-tloset door
and broke up six dozen of table sv;sre, He
says he just wishes the burglar had fred
the gun 1T him, as the ritlain. would have
been killed sure
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1880-06-25
birds ina Gong.

A curious fact i'll natural history IS no
tieetI at the depot at Nilliamsport. Pa.
where two .sparroWs have built their nest
and are rearing their young inside the gong.
which announces the departure of trains.
The gong is about eighteen inches IN di-
aneter, and Wllen struck b. its hammer
has deafenfng sound; bnt, notWitlastand-
ing IFS racket, and the roar and rattle Of
engines and cars, the birds are unnleEaa,
the male, indeed, being frequently observ-
ed sitting upon the iron snoekel itself
whiIeit il striking.
Baltimore paper suggests that, mas
much as the sight Of !; horse-car incites al
pedestrians to tremendous exeItiens, II
mi ight bt. a good ieIs,, to utilize the vehicle
in Walkiin atelles, ilfusing new life IN
to the contestants nov and then BY bring e
ing a ear into It the otIlet. end Of the
track.
Artist 50 yor think The background
is beastly, do yotls Perhaps the cutie are
I8beastlT too though iiattsf myself
Friendly Critic no, NJ sle:ll fellow!
That's Elst syllat tllel..sslf t7t
+
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8 u s,Foers i'm tEsse Smoking Gssl.


Supper is nov ready IN the smoking
eaf,7' shouted the brakeman; and a Young
man from Hartford, who was Oh his way
70 s:in Francisco, went forward 10 see
what the brakeman meant. He went into
the smoking car and found i party Of BIZ
vztritns cooking two kinds Of cheese and
three denominations Of satlsages on the
stove. He zesdne. out very pale, and gave
the brakeman half Il dollar to burn match
es under bis nose, WAS it very bad:''
an cid gentleman asked him. when he re-
turned to the ceaah. Sir said the
young man Of Hartford, you will never
smell anEttlliisg ike il until you have been
dead about six months. =
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a. Esssbooan EeTnazacr Episode.

Bishop Goienso @ives this incident i'll the
early life OF a South African babQon
There is something quantity human about
it
It was :; hot day, and number of bab-
oons were summing themselves along the
bottom Of the Dongo They lay upon
their backs: with Ialt-closed eyes, rubbing
their ston1achs in state Of placid enjoy
meut. Two OF. three young balloons had
wandered 70 little distance down the /
Do1agl searching for scorpions from stone
to stone inst below them. They were not
very successful, and it did not appear that
their movements were of much concern
TO thei citIers. Presently, however, one
Of the young ones, tafning UP & atone, lit
upon 4 fine and particularly fat scorpion,
which, with a fslftfFe glance ut his elders,
he seized and popped into his mouth, hay-
ing first pIneiled OF: the sting. He at once
proceeded to turn ovei the stone with great
assidtiity, as if in fsrthes, unsuccessful
search for scorpions. He had not escaped
notice, however, fer down the gully in a
sluggish roll came a great. baboon, who
seized tile young one by the scruf of the
neck, silaking him vigorously Until the
plump nlol.scl dropped from his pouch.
Having gobb2ed this UP, the elde, Daboon
At ence f:sgained ms lounge, ana all went
on rs before in the sleepy hollow.
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'TFEE PARSONS HEAP YEAR.

BY HELEN FOREST GRAVES.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-07-29
POLITICAL NOTES.

AIR. Childs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, is another Grant man who
has all the symptoms of being for
Hancock.
-Horatio King. ex-postmaster-
general, supported Hayes in 1873
and viii take the stump for Han
cock in 1880.
George X. vending, OF st.
Louis, once leading Republican
congressman. has declared against
Garfield and viii take the stump for
Hancock and English. He will be
remembered rs the gentleman who
replied to Bob IngersolPs lecture.
The New York EceRias Posi-, a
Republican paper which favors a
gold standard for monetary values,
congratulates itself that Garfield
~has more positive views of the
financial question than he cared to
set forth IN his letter of acceptance,.-
and quotes from an article contrib
uted to the 4tflaatic Monthly by Mr..
Garfield in 1876 TO show that he
Ffhen had no doubt as to what areal
money! Is The concluding words
of the article il the 4tlanfic are as
follows: ~Let us stsQd fast in the
resolution TO restore our currency
10 the standard Of gold In his let
ter of acceptance Mr.. Garfield seeks
10 create the impression that he Is m
favor Of the double standard, which
e only another endeavor of that
gentleman to ride different horses
Soinr IN opposite directions NJ the
same time, an acrobatie performance
in which he is equaled by few and
|excelled by none.
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Pious Wrinkles.

Men who quit their proper character TO
assume what does not belong to them are
for the greater part ignorant both OF the
character they leave and of that which
they assume. The shoemaker's advice is
good in other eallings, alsO-''Stiek tn your
last"
( You can't have everything YOU want in
this world. Life is like a blanket that is
too short-if you pull it up over your
shoulders you uncover your feet. and II
you cover YOUR feet Your shoulders must
be bare. However, some people manage
TO draw their feet up little and so pass =
pleasant night. Do you:
Mr.. Spurgeon remarked in speech, At
the anniversary of the London Religious
Tract Society, that he did not draw 4 line
between the secular and the sacred.
Would. he said, that every meal was a
sacrament; every garment vestment :
every breath PRAYER. and the whole of
life 4 hallelujah
You may dress a bad habit in the costli-
est broadclOth, and endow it with all pos
sible graces and destinations. il i only a
bad habit nevertheless. The French have
a proyerb, Wash dog. comb dog. still
a dog is but dog"
Nobody knows better than he who has
tried ii that from saying to doing is long
stretch. If saying good things instead of
doing them were saving grace the worst
of Us would easily get to heaven.
1t is bad rule to blame your fortune
rather than yourself. when matters 20 i'll
with you. IF your sword is too short y
said the wise Roman, ''yOu can make it
long enough by taking u step forward"
The Italians say also. "a good knight Is
never at a loss for lance"
The Bible contains all that is desired in
literature, elevating in sentiment or en-
nobling in thought.
1t should be recognized As fact thai
God rules this world, and rules it for
mans benefit. For man is the child of
God, and is nearer and dearer TO him than
all material forces. God loves man more
than He loves the established order"
of things which infidels would place be-
Tween the Greater and His creature. and
nothing that Almighty power can do for
mans welfare has been or will be left I'M
done. Sad heart, take courage; God
rules,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-07-29

THE census enumerators through
cut the country are becoming ARK
ious about their pay, Ii seems
that there are no funds in the treas
ury immediately available for this
purpose, and some further delay wiz
he experienced before the census
takers win receive what's due them.