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The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21

the particularly fine stones now sold are
called the .old mine stones The Q Is
no difference in the intrinsic w. Of
the stone. the rich merely delighdng 70
paw a good sum for the name"
The present local fancy in the way Of
diamond jewelry Is the combination OF
diamonds, rubies and sapphirs. set
flush in hammered gold, or In what Is
called k~nife-edge setting. In which the
last setting Is so fine as to be scarcely
~perceptible at q short distance. the gem
alone appearing to view. One d
piece OF this work Is a dragon n.y.. The
head is a ruby. the thorax and abdomen
are diamonds, while twenty-five dia.
monds sparkle in the wings. The drag.
on fly is poised upon a spiral. the slight
est vibration of which makes the costly
little insect emit sparks OF beautiful
white, red and blue light. Rubies are
becoming so scarce that their price ex-
ceeds that of diamonds. Small dia-
mods ranging from six to ten carats in
pairs are the greatest in demand IN this
and other markets. IN. y. GrdphIc.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21

-
IT would be interesting 10 get exact
statistics a TO the number OF men shot
on the French side during the war. to-
pefl.er with details OF their ofenses-
Unfortunately the War Office can not
or will not. give any information On
this head. Possibly no record has been
kept OF these Executions; but this much
Is certain. that every officer who served
through the wal is resdy with stories
of how summary certain Generals went
TO wors to establish order among their
troops. General Ciinchant, the present
Military Governor IL Paris. was terribly
strict, but popular all the same; for he
was known TO be just, and kind, too,
when he could Afford 10 be SO. Having
the command of raw leyies. inclined TO
be insubordinate. he resolved to show
them promptly that he was their mas
ter. Once he issued q stringent order
against robbing fruit and vegetables
from the fields and gardens Of the peas
ants in the Loire Valley. A few days
afterward a couple of Zouaves stole out
Of camp by night and gathered a bas-
ketiul of potatoes. These two soldiers
happened to be veterans who had served
in the Italian war, and they were brave
fellows. much liked by their Colonel;
but this only made their offense worse
in the Generals eyes; ''for," said he.
eff old soldiers set the example OF dis
obedience, how a We expect the
young ones to obey?' So the two
Zouaves were shot.
On another occasion three young
soldiers took it into their heads 70 go
out Of camp without leave on q SUNDAY.
in order 10 dine with some friends who
lived in the neighborhood. They re-
turned in time for tattoo, thinking
probably they had committed only a
venial ofense. They were shot the
next morning. One more example viii
show what stern justice haste be meted
out where logging Is not available.
General Clinchant had issued orders
that on the march nc solder was TO
climb into the ambulance-vans or store
wagons unless certified lame or ill by
the army surgeons. The reason Of this
order was that a number OF law soldiers
used always to swarm on to the wagons
in order to get 4 lift instead of march
ing. One day a youngster who was in
perfect health clambercd inside a van,
and was discovered there by a Sergeant.
who ordered him to get out The
soldier alighted. but. determined to
have his drive. he slit open his boot and
inflicted a slight cut on his foot to make
believe that he had gone lame. A
Corporal saw him. and by-and-by the
lad was reported for the double ofense
of disobedience and malingering. When
he had been concentrated. the Gen
eral gave him a chance of his life by
calling upon him 10 confess that the in
jury to his foot was self-infiicted; but
the foolish fellow, thinking to saw HIM
self by a lie, maintained stoutly that he
had gone lame by stepping on a flint.
He was accordingly handed over TO the
Provost Marshal and shot.-St. James
GHzeHe.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
" there We're Tears on His Cheeks"

"LORD bless you! but / had never
given him a second look. / knew tina:
he was a Norwegian, slow but solid,
hardly able to speak a word of English.
and l never cared whether he had 4 rel
alive on earth. Perhaps it looks a bit
hard-hearted in me, but ] am driven
from morning till night. and l must
drive the men under me. When / want
a hod-carrier l look for muscle. and
when l have found muscle l don't look
further for sentiment"
"How did the accident happen?"
"He stepped off the scalTold."
land is badly hurt?"
eyes, though think he will pull
through. Any man might have blum
dered as he did, but since | have learned
how it was with him I've felt womanish
in my heart"
"How was it?"
swell. he had just got his hod filed
with bricks down there when two or
three of his countrymen came along and
told him that his baby boy was dead.
They had Just come from his house on
Russell street to bring him the news.
He came up on the scaffold with his hOd.
probably intending to notify ME of his
atiliction. His eyes must have been
full of tears, and as he stepped
out he missed his distance and
went to the ground. There were tears
on his cheeks when we picked him up.
and the only word he uttered was to
speak his dead boys name. l had
looked upon him only as an old Norwe-
oian- but I fOund that he was n hus.
band and father, a man with love and
faith, a father who went home at night
to COO with his baby and kiss the wife
who had left all behind to follow him
over the sea, and I tell you l feel like
asking his forgiveness and doing all l
a to soften the grief which has come
upon his humble home. "-Detroit Free
Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
A Portuguese Pompeii.

NJ. MA6Iror. member of the Prehis-
toric Congress which met ut Lisbon last
autumn, report on q Portuguese Pom
neil which he had occasion TO inspect
while on n tour tn the territory Of Ter
tiatry Sick at Otta. The place - called
Santarem and Citania- The latter j.
the general Portuguese name for ruins
O. ancient towns. which cover entire
hills in the ~neighborhood Of Braya The
most important of these very Old town
ruins is the Citania iii Briieiros. which
occupies nearly a kilometer square. and
Is supposed To be of Celtic origin. Cir
cular walls. streets. squares. large arch
iteeturaI monuments. and even a nHm-
Der of houses have retained heir typo
cal forms. For twenty centuries this
C;,anis was buried below debris. sod
and q rich vegetation; only 3 few years
ago = zealons arch1ologist Senor Sar-
mento, succeeded. By costly and ,rou-
blesome efforts, in clearing away the
covering Of centuries and 20 lay open 20
the world IN ancient city in which quite
n primitive state Of civilization il APP
parent. Its architecture and plastic
characterization point TO n somewhat nd
yanced state of art and industry Many
stone monuments are covered with
sculptures and Inscriptions. which IN
their general character recall those Of
India and China. which the well-known
Lyons archeolo2ist, NJ Guimei, de
clares to be OF q symbolic and religious
character, similar TO those found upon
the Oriental monuments IL hpossib!e
tha; this fact might be adduced ~ .
proof tia. the tribes who built these
Citanias had originally emigrated from
Turan-
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
Liked His Prison.

PRISONS are built for the safety OF
society. but the persons who make the
danger to society are not usually so
ready as this poor Chinaman was to 60
to prison for the good OF their fellow
men. The Carson New Appea! says:
A few days ago a Chinaman was re-
leased from the State Prison after serv-
ing a sentence of three years for an
assault to kill. He was given twenty
five dollars and a new suit OF clothes
and directed to shift for himself. Day
before yesterday the same man Knocked
at the gate. and when it was opened he
thrust twenty-five dollars and a half
into the keepers hands for s~afe-keep-
ing. 1t was almostdtrk. and he begged
to be allowed to sleep in his old quar-
ters over night. He was allowed 20
take mp his abode in n woodshed, and
the next morning when the roll was
called. his number, thi~rty-nine. was
skipped for obvious reasons. When
forty was called a man sprang fnom the
line dressed in prison gsrb and called
out, ..You no catchee thirty-niner' IL
was the discharged Chinaman. He had
found his old striped clothes at the
wash-house. and put them on. His
civilian suit he had hidden away. He
wa told that he would have to 90. but
he begged TO be kept. urging that his
conduct had been Sc good thst he ought
not to be turned away. His logic was
pretty strong.
"You send me out, I killee somebody
and come back You sabe. Me stay
no killee, no s~tealee, no chut am
Ratchet"
General Batterman is in . quandary
what 70 do. for he really believes II the
man is turned away he viii commit
some crime TO get back.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
Singular Identification OF q Suryeyorss
Mark.

YESTERDAY a civil engineer was run
ming and locating the lines of a lot Of
land below the city. and used as assist
ance a deed to the property drawn one
hundred and twenty-one years ago. In
one section of the deed it is recorded
that the line touches q certain point
where stands q beech tree, and upon
which a cross mark had been made
with an ak. The engineer ran his line
to an old beech tree. and, concluding
that this was the point in question,
looked for the mark. but of course
could not find it. Taking an ak he cut
into the tree at . point he thought the
mark might be. and to his surprise,
after cutting into the tree, he Clipped
out q block, and there was the Identical
mark referred to in the ancient docu-
ment Of one hundred and twenty-one
years ago. The mark was perfect, but
had been covered up. At that time this
was a British colony, and some years
before the Revolutionary War. The
deed wa drawn in l759.-Angusta (Ga)
MeWs,
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
Personal AND LITERARY.

TH,cKrH.T ad TIA, Carlyle -ss III,
master.
PRESIDENT caHssslp is a xr-a. a.
mirer Of wsaser ssssxr LAsaDs
THs prapAecy q Ceraase.. sAs,
,hsrc uo4ald r,&bss .isxbs Aaxuas- ia
whs~a "pha Qatxosss coait ass ,.
rad. IA. lon ulsned
Miss SsIxsk FersER. The aes a-
matte star. 10 the daughter q = wrAiiAy
p~ork-pAcker AL = niece q lisnu
Waiisrson-
PEoF. MosxsEx has jns; T~vcsivet
fruna hs eo~aniryIa-u \ bsTtkAav ~ -
s~otne;Alag owe . hunIrri iksusszzsi
mark 70 ~lnieaniiy him .or tie ssss us
his harmed EbuY,
Lsso NxASoxAxILLu a al 20 d.
Ike bis "Loshasr' sad - lore 81.
"Eadyuiion-" It's uuyei-xrta-. ., .
reported. i made essv ~ TIN .a-rus
ing estaat-he neTcF rrsts orvT b.
NJ Pagcs ba; dispatches thea 20 >
TREND sor reu.soa
JouS S1rTn<o~. foundes a. The
Sm thsoniaa lnssitutine. ~ wa,hin,
ton was badrd as Genoa. Italy. IL,
tomb having b~coIe somewhat 10
caycd. the regents % che Institution
have authorized IhAt tho necessary 70
pairs be made.
AA SIAnsIoSK Is sd u kaEe cas
faculty in \ supernatural desrcc -tiaf
Of mastering the contents 81 a book %
glancing through - pages. A fren5
says 81 him that be can master any
average book IN = quarter q, an hour.
TnE lock Of hair which Anna IlashA
way il supposed Ia have ssvca b.
Shakespeare shortly will bx sola IL lrn
don. with the library 81 ", Harmon. ot
Lanca,hire-a library noted for 80 Ell.
tioa Of Shakespeare All L. Shsks.-
p~eareana- Ann-uy ere isst~r are the
Ireland iorgercs ~ three volumes. and
the manuscript deed oi the final con.
cord respecting Shakespeare estates AZ
Stratferd on-Avon.
THE eN-Empress of Francn has n.arly
finished a history ~ tire irf- aud death
Of the Prince imperial II j. her pur,
pose 10 publish the volume - soon a.
she becomes settled IA her new resi-
dence ut Marlborough. She alsoin,cads
10 pubu,h The dAiy notes a. i1e bnps'
ror written daring h..- ss.xa IN collect.
ing which she has been assisted by NJ.
ROuher.
BIZ George Eliot's d-aih. sums mp
the LonaVs dcG fcEsy. We are left with
only one living novels; who i absolute
Is OF the first class. Thackersy die.
soon after George Eliot became ia
nous. and Dickens when she bad Yet
much of her hes. work Ia do. DuJiu.
all the years in which she labnrcd. IL Is
perhaps true that only one novelist %,
extraordinary genius had arisen. IL h
perhaps true tina, the position hlled al
one and the same time by Dickens.
Thackeray and George Eliot. AT be-
claimed at the present moment. 10
claimed ut all. only by a single novelist
by Thomas Hardy.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
HUMOROUS.

a COMMENTED MIND. Lady-"Thry
tell me your cow never gives any miik.
Betty" Old Boity-"No. mum. she
don't give hardly any. But. bless 'er
cart. she'll ca, A. much rs two o them
good milkcrsr'-LoHi2n Pm.
AT the telephone. Bel rings. DuL
Get voice over the wire: Are you
ni~nety-six?" No" Dulcet voice
again. What are ,ou2'' I'm sixty
seven" Casual caller. who has heard
but half Of the conversation; You
don't look it.'-BOst0. IraIE crypt.
IT is mighty embarrassing 10 a man
who has some religious friends staying
with him 10 have his dog. which has
been very quiet during week DAYS. be-
gin right after breakfast Sunday To run
To the gun in the cornc and turn to hi.
master aud wag his tail, and then run
back I'd the gun again.
OK Wednesday night. about eight
o'clock. an incbTiatcd man was observed
holding himself up by mean of a lamp
post on 4 prominent street. This lamp
post hai on 1t 4 mail box. and the man
had apparently stood there for some
time. A reporter had occasion TO pass
the man, and remarked: Hello. there.
what's the matter?' We'll" said the
man. "I-hic-put five cen in the box
here half an hour ~ and this car amt
started yet'-Rochcsior Dcm1crak.
.'WHES is a man not 4 man. asked
Jones. OF course he expected every
body to give IL up, and then he was go
ing 10 say. when he Is shaving"
But they didn't give il up; not a Bit OF
it. One said IL was when he was fool
enough tn deal in conundrms; another
answered that it was when be worked
over Jokes n thousand years old. and n
third told Jones 10 look in the glass and
see for himself. Jones said ne didn't
see what in time they were driving n,
bnt somehow he hal lost all interest in
his conunirum and hadn't the heart TO
tell them the true answer.-Bos,on
Trrns-r,pL.
WHAT TIE SEASONS BRuNG.-
When comes the Southern summer breeze.
That softly blows from 'rDptc seas,
Who lives in im~psrunio1s case,
The hummer.
When korean blast blow fierce and free,
And W. inter- rcigns ON land snd ga
VINO ehucklcs ihcn with nendl@h giec7
The plumber.
Or warm nr cold the hreczes blow,
From trop!e sen or arctic snow.
Who comes his sample lot tpshnwf
The drummer.
-DctroI Free Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
Killed by q Shark.

VICTOR AND ALEXEY, sons of Mr.. Al
bert V. Drury, clerk to the Executive
Council, and nephews of Mr.. Justice
Pring. were bathing with three other
lads in the river, close to their fathers
residence. Alexev Drury, a fine, a
" little fellow of about twelve, and, al
though so young, a first-rate swimmer
and diver. was close to the bank, his
companions having landed. when he was
suddenly seized by the foot by 4 shark,
said to be eight feet long. The boy
screamed and made a brave struggle,
not losing his presence of mind tor a
moment, and as the shark appeared to
be dragging him under, he turned and
dived at the brute. and in doing 50 got
free. The shark then made q second
and more determined rush, seizing the
poor lad BY the other leg with q iirmer
hold, Alexey all the time keeping hit
ting at the monster. Victor Drury, .
year or two older than Alexey, on hear
ing the ream gallantly jumped into
the water to his little brothers assist
ance, followed by the other lads. and
after desperate struggles they succeed
ed in dragging the brave little fellow on
to the bank. In the meantime q sec.
ond shark had appeared, but happily
did not Join in the attack. On assist
ance being obtained Alexey' s feet were
found to be SO fearfuliy lacerated that
both had to be amputated- For some
time the symptoms seemed favorable to
the child's life being saved. notwith-
standing the great loss OF blood and
shock to the system, bat, unhappily.
modification set in, and the lad was re-
leased from his terrible sufferings. ciimg-
ing to his poor parents TO the last The
sad occurrence has east 3 severe COON
over the whole city, and a large con-
course of friends and sympathizers fol-
lowed the lad to his last resting-place-
Queensland Ners.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
Happy Little frenehme..


FgEscB scholars gill al rsfows oysr'
the nr~ regulations 81 French pumErF
schools. Corporal paBishmsnl . g. b.
hssesfortb abolished AMI fsprnands
and detention Ia be substituted in.tsad
Aggravated cases are % ba Punished ~
e~xeleson from school tor periods - iap
day. ~ . tsfse. IL the new T~rggisnosS
do MT make yoaaz Frsnehmsn ca
PEemely hsyyy. then their ease . h"f~
less Sandsys sna THURSDAYS are ~ b.
eozsplefs holidays and relizious nsnse-
tasis nat 90 bs inps~s~a unl~s~ d.
ssrsA BY psrrssa In tie ssens ~ par
safs rs.s<stnx rskixssos iassrgefhh 1
= - bs given shes szh0Dl hbgF arss
over. aad rhe tss>hcrs a.. a0s D5ssnd 80
take pupil 20 charra Ths hieaapper-
rsps tsNwse ggv regsla.iyBs 70 SEA
iss ejsoie o. domain u TIE tsacksr
Ahd th@Chnrrh ofthe phes. Knd shz,
nsthe p<zxsststeAieses ts isssrefo
with the others intslisetas'prvserYe-
An<rtlas E<Q1sGsy.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
Enoch Arden Going Home.

He said that being in the city he
would like to take ia the City Hall, o
after he had tired himself out in climb
Ing stairs and walking corridors he came
back to the ground floor and remarked
TO the policeman on duty there:
"It's seventeen years since l saw this
town before"
"Is itg"
"~Seyenteen long years-long years.
Did you ever hear anything in particu-
lar about a man named Philo Brace?"
Cant remember that 1 did"
Ever see anything in the papers
about his mysterious disappearance"
"Guess not"
"Well, you were too young. / am
Philo Brace, and seventeen years ago
this month I disappeared from my hone
in Oakland County in a mysterious man
ner, and I've never been heard OF since.
l am now on my way home, and shall
be there tonight
"Why, that's quite a romance"
RECKON il is. I'm a sort of Enock
Arden, you see. 1 left a wife and two
children, AMI have never sen them
word or line. No doubt they have long
mourned me as dead"
You may find your wife married to
an other, as Enoch did," suggested the
officer.
"Say, I've thought of that"' replied
the stranger, land I know exactly
what I'll do. I'm going TO reach the
Old place soon after dark and peep into
the windows. If the old gal sits there
thinking Of me and wiping away the
tears Of grief it will be all y. X. If l
see a man bossing around in my place
I'll rush in and knock down and drag
out"
"Well, / hope you'll find things all
right"
so do /, and if l ever see you again
I'll tell you how | came out"
The stranger went away, but in the
course Of an hour he returnedin consid-
cradle excitement and said:
"Great snakes! But l a across the
old gal out here on the street. and she's
got a man with her; l knew her in a
minute, but she didn't give me a second
look. They are coming right into the
hallr'
The couple entered and made for the
officer, and after the usual inquiries
passed up stairs.
Married again, by jingo!' whispered
MIR. Brace to the officer.
"Yes."
swell, what do you think? That's
my old Maria Jane, to a dot; and she's
got a new husband. Now what would
you do if you were me?"
"She's fat and squatty," unused the
officer.
Yes"
"She never was good-looking."
Never! She was as homely as a
tamarack swamp the day | married her,
and she's u down hill every year
since"
81 don't see how you could make any
thing by raising a row."
"Nor i, either. Say, | guess I'll let
her slide and go back TO New jersey"
Il would"
Il will, SURF pop! I'd like to knock
that second husband into a cataplasm,
just to let him know that l was on earth,
but I'll hold my muscle. She used TO
fret and whine fromdawn till dark, and
l don't believe she's mended her tenn
per any. He walks lame and looks
glum. and | won't add to his sorrows.
Good-by, old brass buttons. Enoch
Arden sneaked off and died, you know,
but I'm not that kind of a clothes-pin.
Ii | don't marry a widow who owns a
red clay farm of ninety acres before I'm
ten days older. you may borrow my
boots for stone boats!!"-Dctron Free
Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-04-21
The ImperturbabIe MacGahan.

MACGAHAN did not know how to fret
His nature vas of the sunniest serenity.
He accepted the trouble with a genial
heroism that was unique. / never saw
him rutfled, although l once heard him
threaten to shoot a man. He uttered
the threat in a bland drawl; he pulled
out his revolver with a smile, and when
the hulking ruffian backed down, he
resumed the thread Of the interrupted
conversation with a calm d~eliberation
in which there was not so much as a
culver of the voice. He'd get along
all right" he said, '.in spite of the bro
ken bone; he never had cared much for
walking, and now he'd simply ride all
the more" He limped all through the
campaign. and would have been lame
for life. had he lived to be an old man.
But spite of his lameness, the Russians
called him the "Cossack correspon-
dent" SO dashingly alert were his move
ments.
As for his life, SO for his livelihood, he
was true to the motto of his country,
and ''took his chances" When the cam
paign began, he and l together bought
for him. besides saddle-horses a wagon
and team, stored it with supplies and
engaged for him a trusty goodman.
With it he duly travelled down the
Danube, left behind it when he crossed
the great river, and never once saw the
vehicle again until after the fall Of
Plevna, six months later, when he kept
by it for two days, and then finally lost
it for good. His wretched coachman
was a standing joke among the cores
pondents; a forlorn. wandering jew,
ever in vain search after his meteoric
master. At all sorts of places poor Isaac
would turn up. following some phantom
trail, with the melancholy, stereotyped
question, "Have you seen my master?''
followed by a request for a little money
to keep himself and his horses alive.
For aught l know. Isaac and the wagon
may be haunting Bulgaria to this day
Archi6dM Forbes in Gin. Commercial.