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Gen. B. F. Buffers Appetite.

Ben Butler is one of the biggest eaters that
visit the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He devOurs an
enormous quantity of meat, vegetables, milk,
coffee, salads and sweets. A chicken disappears
before him as though he was a Methodist
preacher and it was a partridge. He doesn't
affect wines. At his home he has several varie-
ties upon his table, but he drinks only about a
tumblerful Of sherry. If he wants drink he
takes glass of Jamaica rum, or the statesman's
drink, brandy. He eats four meals day, and
Is never troubled with indigestion. He smokes
cigars that are strong enough to knock ma
rlne over. Yet he prides himself upon his tenn
perate life. to which he traces much of his pros
perity. At table gathering recently, where he
was host, the conversation turned upon good
feeding as a basis for intellectual work. and
pending the brief drawn arguments passing to
and fro curious smile curved over Buffers
lace, his elephantine eyelids trembled with mo-
ton enough to show CLEAN from the enigmati-
Cal eye beneath, and leaning back from a heavy
meal, which seemed to distend his whole BODY.
he recited with most comical effect, in view Of
his astonishing appetite, the following:
cannot eat but little meat
My stomach is not good.
But sure think that can drink
With him that wears a hood:
Though go bare, take We no care
nothing am a-cOld;
] stuff my skin so full within
OF Jolly good ale and old.
-COTTeSpOnde7aCe St. Louis Republican
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Why Begin Dinner with Soup,

The rationale Of the initial soup has often
been discussed. Some regard it as calculated
to diminish digestive power, on the theory that
so much fluid taken at first dilutes the gastric
juices. But there appears to be no foundation
for this belief. A clear soup disappears almost
Immediately after entering the stomach, and in
no way interferes with the gastric juice, which is
stored in its appropriate cells ready for action.
The habit Of commencing dinner with soup has,
without doubt, its origin in the fact that aliment
in this fluid form-in fact, ready digested-soon
enters the blood and rapidly refreshes the hun
cry man, who, after considerable fast and
much activity, sits down with sense Of ex-
haustiOn to commence his principal meal. In
two or three minutes after he has taken plate
OF good warm soup the feeling Of exhaustion
disappears, and irritability gives way to the
gradual rising sense of good fellowship with the
circle. Some persons have the custom Of allay-
ing exhaustion with q glass Of sherry before
f0od-a gastr0nomic no less than physiological
blunder, injuring the stomach and depfaving the
palate. The soup introduces at once into the
system q small installment Of ready digested
food, and saves the short period Of time which
must be spent by the stomach In deriving some
nutriment from solid aliment, as well q indi-
rectly strengthening the organ Of digestion It
self for ito forthcoming duties.-Sr Henry
TAonpson.
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From the Bodie (Cal.) Free Press.
Jim Townsend, of Lundy, has been making
some experiments with an ordinary domestic cat.
1t has been repeatedly stated that cat could not
live at an altitude of 1900 feet above the sea.
Mr.. Townsend has demonstrated that such is the
fact. On Monday last he and another gentleman
made the ascent of Castle Peak, which is a little
over 13, 600 feet high. They took with them a
cat-Thomas-that was year old, and had lived
at an altitude Of 5000 feet with no symptoms of
disease. Mr.. Townsend had the cat in a box, and
as they went up he took observations and noted
very carefully its every movement. When the
summit was reached they pitched their tent
This was about 2 O'Clock in the afternoon. The
cat partook of some food, and after playing for
an hour or so, fell asleep and did not wake up
until near midnight. When it did recover con-
sciOusness it set up bowling and appeared
much distressed. Townsend pitied it and en-
deavored to make it feel at home, but of no USE
1t kept up its constant moaning and displayed
symptoms of having fits. When morning came
the cat was offered food, but it refused to eat
and acted even more strangely than during the
night. Townsend says it would open its mouth
as if gasping for breath; would jump bout, and
then go to sleep and wake up with start. ALI
this while close watch was kept and every move
ment noted. At o'clock in the afternoon the
cat died Of exhaustion.
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Laura,s Little Mistake.

From the Terre Haute Ind.) Express, October IA.
A very laughable occurrence was witnessed
at the Union depot last night. When the train
from the south stopped lady alghted and see
ing a gentleman standing by whom she sup
posed to be her husband she ran toward him
and throwing her arms about his neck showered
kisses upon him. The gentleman made no OBJ
lection, but when she ceased her oscuations q
gentleman standing near by remarked, .WeIl,
Laura, haven't you made a mistaken" Laura
turned toward him in establishment and flying
into his arms buried her blushing face on his
shoulder, saying, Lord bless me, Steve. I
thought it was you! why did you not speak,"
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Variations i'm a Mans He

Variations i'm a Mans Height.
A contributor to the German Mllitdr- Wochen-
bldh, who has been lately employed in mastering
and examining the recruits drafted this year
into the German army, has established, by q
long series Of careful measurements not only
that the height Of man varies very considerably
at different times Of the day, but also that this
variation takes place with great regularity in
alton in height is, however, not the same I'm all
men. but depends upon the size and age Of each
individual; tall man losing more in height
than q shorter one, and q young man more
than an older One-assuming that in all cases
the men are fully grown. In the same man the
amount of variation In height depends mainly
upon the number Of hours he has been standing
or sitting since rising from his bed. While lying
down the height Of q man increases; while stand
ing or sitting it decreases; and therefore under
normal conditions man is taller In the morning
than in the evening, while to some slight ex-
tent extremely fatfguing exercise or work
causes an additional decrease OF stature. The
greatest difference In height In q day hitherto
observed I'm any man is centimetres or trife
more than TX inch; while the contributor of a
paper to the MiltdT- WochenbldH has found q
the result of number Of careful measurements
of himself that while every morning he measures
Immediately on rising exactly 173 centimetres.
or feet inch, his height at night varies III to
1701 centfmetres, or from 5 feet ~ inch to S
feet ~ inch. The spine of q man, in fact, con-
sists Of twenty-fOur separate vertebra, between
every two Of which there is an elastic cartilage:
and these cartilagin0us divisions become com
pressed by the weight pressing upon them
when man Is standing or sitting.
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The Birds i'm Autumn

FOR the more cneerlul SIDE oil autumnal life We
are indebted to the birds. Every day now they
become more familiar and more habitually fire.
Quent in their visits near the house. Two or
three hght-eolOred throstles are often about but
the most regular are avery jolly couple OF black
BIRDS fat and well-to-do, as becomes them after
SO good a fruit season. They have both got
their new plurlage. The female is dark brown,
but the male is black and shining. The robin.
however, pleases me most. The other morning
he was picking up his breakfast Of ''unconsid-
cred trifes" at the farther side of the lawn and,
seeing me at the window, he came boldly
across, without circumlocution. and assumed
his old perch on the rhododendron bush be-
meath, as though he would have said, 81 retain
my rights you see, in all that crumb pasturage
which was mine last winter; and by-and-by
shall claim it again in full" When he turned
up his head, and saw his bright little eve beam
ing upon me for q moment. could not help
longing to break the barrier between us. 40 that
l might have speech with him, and ask him how
he had Jared all through the leafy summer. and
II his wife had been kind or not, and how his
family had prospered, and whether he was look
ing forward as bravely as ever to the rigors Of
that winter which, with its darkness and its
nost, would soon fall upon both of Us to-
gefher.-COunt'y Pleasures.
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The Electric Light i'm A Pullman Car.
From the London Telegraph. October Is.
Yesterday the electric light fairly conquered
a new domain. The Brighton railway company,
which of late years has been a pioneer Of i'm
prOvements on the iron road, ran special train
from Victoria to Brighton and back, with q
saloon carriage lighted by stored electricity.
The event, noteworthy in itself, may come to
possess a historical interest, since there is no
doubt that it was the first time either in the Old
World or the New, that accumulated electrical
energy had been so employed; while the COM
plete success which attended the experiment
must unquestiOnably mark a new departure in
railway management. 1t was only few months
since NJ. Faure sent to Sir William Thomson his
little box OF lead plates coated with red oxide
and fully charged with electricity. The great
British physicist saw at once its capabilities, and
now every day seems to be bringing to light
some new application ofthis the simplest Ofall ap
paratus ever designed by genius. The Pullman car
on which yesterdays experiment was made. car
rfed beneath it on shelf some 80 small metal
boxes. technically cells, each Of which contained
leaden plates coated with the oxide known as
red lead. Nothing less pretentious or more in
ert in outward appearance could well be i'm
agined. Yet there was stored up in those sheets
of lead an amount of force which, if it could be
suddenly liberated, would vastly exceed the
power Of any storm Of tropical lightning. A
steam engine had been at work on the previous
night, producing current Of electricity which,
in some mysterious manner. had hid itself away
in the folds Of the metal and beneath the cloak
of red oxide, but was ready at any instant to
give back in the form of light or of force the
energy that had created it. Twelve of Mr.
Swans little incandescent lamps were fixed to
the roof OF the carriage, and all that was neces-
sary when the train passed through tunnel OF
when darkness came on was to turn a switch,
and instantaneOusly mild, steady and brilliant
light filed the saloon. From the point of view
of the traveller, the experiment was completely
su ccessful; a superior illumination could hardly
bedesired and if it be true, as possibly sanguine
electricians assert, that this storage can be eff
fected at smaller cost than Oil, the pleasant
trip to Brighton yesterday afternoon may have
wide-reaching effects.
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Suit was begun Yesterday by Pussy A. Peer
against Mrs. John Drew for $50, 900 damages for
injuries alleged to have been sustained by he
wife in being illegally elected from the Arch
Street Theater on the night Of April 16, 1874.
The occasion was the policemens benefit for the
centennial fund. Mr.. Peer had bought two or
chestra circle tickets from q police sergeant
When he, with his wife, presented them for ad-
mission they allege that Frederick Trefs, tho
door-keeper, refused to accept them, and called
out to an officer to 'sput them niggers out. !"
The officer, who has since died, Mrs. Peer al
leges, pushed against her with his back. and
forced her out upon the steps. There was
great crowd pressing for admission, and In the
struggle Mrs. Peer lost fur cape and her hus-
band afterward found himself minus his watch
chain. Mrs. Peer also, she says, received severe
bodily injuries, which have rendered her sub.
ject to fits ever since. The defense deny tnas
Mrs. Peer ever reached the door-keepef with
her ticket; that she ever was forcibly elected,
and that II such IN attempt had been maze -
could not have succeeded In the crowd that Wa
present Mr. Peer, in 1873, obtained Q verdict
Of $40 for losses sustained By him on the same
occasion. The defense in the present suit WIN
open to-day.
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LAST WEEK . strapping negro woman was up
before an Austin justice, charged with unmerci-
fully beating her boy, a saddle colored imp. ST
don't understand how you could have the heart
you been q parent Of wufles yaller boy ike
dat ar cub Of miner" 'sNeyeris CALCULATED the
judge with great vehsmence, getting red IN the
face. eDen don't talk. "-TiSas 63jtssa
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years giut Of supernatural beings on either
bank of the Lower Danube That is the Truth
about Ghosts In countries only three days
journey from Charing-cross.
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"Pay q son 60" h good advice, and does
L0speu C5esua
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They Hope to Get Even with MI WAL


From the Liverpool Courier.
A new "plunger" has appeared upon the turf
whose exploits put the feats of Mr.. Whales, the
celebrated hacker Of Archer, quite in the shade.
The largest winner over Iroquois in the Leger
wasa New York hotel keeper, Mr.. Walton, andnot
com with that he has gone on and
business at the post at Doncaster was to put
q, GOO on the avorite, and at the meeting he
altogether won something like $4,000. He
bets IN way that recalls tho good old days Of
the Marquis Of Hastings. His smallest COM
mission Is 81 900, and he has made It practically
impossible for the smaller betters to get their
money invested at anything like reasonable
price. The bookmakefa, however, feel quite
confident that they win get ell their money back,
colossal gueca@. % far, this spirited ptunger
win g baek - ~ stat6s . viag aAd poorer
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before some of us were born, and is rather in
clined to be surly. He was promenading a few
days ago, in front of the Brooklyn City Hail.
Though it was warm day, he was well muff1ed
up and wore a great astrachan cap, with the
front pulled far down over his face, to conceal
the tattooing. He seemed to be trying to es-
cape observations; but he has come to show the
signs of age. and the magnifcence Of his form
has departed.
Probably the most intelligent man in all this
group OF giants dwarfs and others, is Chang.
the Chinese giant. He could certainly stand on
the sidewalk and lay his hand on the second
story window-sill of an Old-fashiOned dwelling
house. He is better proportional than any of
the other giants, (and this assertion may give
mortal Offense to Captain Goshen. who con-
sidered himself an enlarged Adonis.) Chang
was the only giant on exhibition one could sit
down and talk intelligently with. He spoke
English fueEtly, as well as French, German and
Chinese. He had Travelled all over the world,
had seen everything, and was weil-read in Chi
nese and English literature. He would pick
out passages in standard English works, and
compare them with like sentences from the
Chinese that were written and published CEN
turtles ago. On more than one occasion have
sat in the museum in the evening, after
people gone, talking with Chang
and with two or three dwarfs standing on neigh
boring chairs, listening. George Starr, who
knows more giants and dwarfs than any other
man in the world, was nearly always present,
and queer enough party we made-a Chinese
giant, generally about three dwarfs, q Snowman
and a reporter. Chang told some wonderful
tales Of his adventures in many lands. He had
lived in England number Of years, and had
been presented at Court. Next to Chang, per-
haps, in intelligence. comes little Chez Nah. the
Chinese dwarf. This very small specimen of
humanity, certainly not SO inches high, Is IS
years old, and is well proportioned for dwarf
HIS Little body contains quite a. much dignity a.
could be crowded into any Of the giants. He
always insists upon having his name properly
pronounced. and 10 gratihed BY the addition Of
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the human eye and by no means inGisposed
to hold commune with ordinary mortals. for
good or evil to these latter as the case NAV be.
Sometimes these spirits make themselves mani
fest in the form of 'Zmeu,' or giant; sometimes
In that Oft 'drac,' who may be dragon or a
nend, for the noun Is indiscriminately utilized
to describe either Of these dread visitants. An
0tner supernatural institution of Roumania is
baDa Cioantsa-the seeming of an old tooth
less, ever-spinning bag, reprehensibly prone to
become enamOred Of any uncOmmOniy hand
some youth who happens to be at once the
pr1de OF his village and affianced to it's leading
1eauty Bahia Cloantsa is credited with being a
distant family connection of Satan himself. the
cnei or all the 'draculi, who gives her power
at intervals, to abstract the temporary object OK
her affections from the scene Of his mundane
trlumphs and to convey him to one of her resi-
Dental caves in the Carpathians. She can. How.
ever, change herself at will into maiden Of snr.
passing loneliness, so her victims are nerhana
not SO much to bepitied after all.
BESIDES the above and other standing snee-
Tres Oh renoWn, In whose existence nine-tenths
OF King Carofs subjects believe good deal more
implicitly than in the legionary saints of the
Greek Orthodox church, Roumania owns innn-
merable apparitiOns of minor moment eoma IF
them belonging to the fairy. pixie, gnome. and
%oodotevii categorleG others of strictly local
Pickering light, visible at a certain spot on the
banks OF the Bistritza, which phenomenon no
true Moldavian 'terrann' doubts to be the sad
spirit OF the fair but hapless Maghiara, who
drowned herselffor love in that river. Were
wolves and willis ghouls and Lamie. are also ct
home in Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, and
the Bukoyina, whittier, however, I suspect
them-notably, the werewolf and the willi-of
having been imported at a comparatively recent
date from Poland. Lithuania, and the forest
lands Of Southern Russia Ina word, there il
still, despite railways, telegraphs, and all the
other encroachments of civilization that have
penetrated Eastern Europe within the last 20
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-12-02
iowa Free Trade League.

Des Moines, Dec. "a number of gen.
tlemcn of both political parties from va
rious parts OF the state met in this city
last evening and took the preliminary
steps toward the organization of an
Iowa state free trade league. They con-
cluded their labors to-day and organized
a bipartisan league with o. Mosher,
president; C. L. Russell, vice president;
II. j. Philpot, secretary, and L. w.
Goode, treasurer. The organization pro-
yides for three classes oil members: First,
q central league of limited membership:
second, an unlimited cooperation OF
membership, empowered to organize a
branch league, and third. an unlimited
reading membership lasting one year ant
emitting its members to all the literature
OF the society. The headquarters of thu
league are at Des Moines, Iowa. Their
was great unanimity of sentiment end :
firm purpose was manifested to make /:
vigorous prosecution OF the contest fo
| free trade.
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LATEST RY MAIL.

LhbIob WtHbLs
New Haven, Nov. 3O.-Yale accepts
Harvard's challenge to an Scared race,
provided it is rowed June %, 1882,
New York, Nov. 30.-The second Sec
tion of the New York express ran into
the first section near Lawrence station
this morning, badly wrecking the engine
of the second section and the two rear
cars of the first section. The engineer
and firemen were slightly hurt. No
passengers injured.
Des Moines, Nov. 3O.-The departure
of Judge Cole has given rise to much
speculation as to whether he was sum-
moned officially or not. Inquiry of
parties closely allied with him in the
practice OF the law elected the response
that his mission was Of purely business
character, and that it had no political
significance whatever; but the ghost of
candidacy will not down.
Caldwell. Kan, Nov. 3O.-Nothing has
been done with Danfordy yet. The action
of the committee sent to Wichita this
morning is awaited. Everything is quiet,
but the feeling is determined to have
money or life. A crowd has arrived here
from Hnnnewell to take Danford as soon
as the Caldwell people are through with
him. The creditors NAV take a notion
to wipe out the entire party.
Des Moines, Nov. 3O.-Last evening,
about four miles north of Bevington, in
Madison county, James McCabe mur-
dered child named Stephen Connors.
McCabe, who is about Is years old, and
one of the New York waits, was left with
the little boy while the family were alb.
sent. On their return they found Their
boy lying dead upstairs, having been
shot with revolver. McCabe has fed
Chicago, Nov. 30.-The railroad com.
panies OF this city hold meeting next
Saturday for the purpose of forming an
association to prevent the shipment ol
goods at lower than their proper classi
tication of value. The idea is to employ
experts at freight handling who shall
determine the classes OF goods shipped
1t is es timated that it the organization
is effected the result will be saving O
least 100000 to the roads in Chicago
alone.
| Chicago, Nov. 30.-A postal card, datet
Capt. l. Everetts, states that schoone,
supposed to be the Kate Gillett, 2GO ton
burden, owned by I. w. Harvey, lade,
with 100000 feet OF lumber, is ashore a
Plum island and all hands are suppose
to be lost. Her crew consisted of Johl
Sims, captain, and nine men. The owner
discredit the report, at least that part Q
it regarding the loss of life. The vesse
was considered seaworthy.
T: London, Nov. 30.-Three tenants O
{ Lord Kenmore's estate, Millstreet.
county Cork, were fred at last evenin
! and wounded in the legs. The tenant
! had paid their rents. Three COWS b
4 longing to rent.paying farmer, ne
e Flains, county Cork, were found rippe
open. This class Of outrages is aga
increasing. Lord Donerade has ju
e discharged all the laborers on his esta
a because he was unable to discover wi
a battered an entire flock of sheep to deaf
Opposition to rent-paying is especial
u marked in county Limerick.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-12-02
Mexican Murderels.

st. Louis, Dec. 2.-Rio Grande City,
Texas, special: The body of Mexican
was found three miles south of town
piere ed by four bullets and his throat
cut from ear to ear. The horrible mur.
der is said to have been committed by
Mexicans who live this side of the river
No clue. 1t is also said by Mexican off.
cials from Camargo, Mexico, that an en-,
tire family was murdered in cold blood
several nights ago near that city. Sup
posed purpose robbery and revenge.