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BARNUMs WHITE ELEPHANT.
The Wonderful Adventures of His Agent in
Securing the Animal.
New York Times.

New York Times.
At last the great and only Barnum has Sc
cured the prize ne has coveted for half "a CEN
fury, in the shape of a sacred white elephant
and it is expected that Jumbo will turn pale
with envy a transformation which will have
its advantages. For years Barnum's agents
have been running fearful risks in Indian
junsles and Siamese courts in order to obtain
one of these sacred beasts; and the tale of
their adventures-as told by themselves-is
as Wonderful as any of Verne's romances
Mr.. J. B. Gaylord, the chief agent of Bar
nun, Bailey & Hutchinson, went into the
very presence of royalty itself, and actually
had the audacity to offer the King
of Siam, in person, seated upon his
imperial throne with his regal crown upon
his sovereign head, 100000 for one of the
white elephants that his court and people
worshiped. When the King recovered
from his establishment he sent Mr.. Gaylord
to his uncles, who were in charge of the
sacred elephants lit should be understood
that the word 'uncle" does not imply finan-
cial relationships Saml and to them Mr..
Gaylord repeated his proposition. These
worthy gentlemen were so shocked and hor-
rifed that they iInplored Mr.. Gaylord to flee
from Bangkok, lest the vengeance of the
court and the Siamese people oyertake him
for his blasphemous proposition. Mr.. Gay
lord took the hint and never stopped in his
flight until he reached the British colony
The facts got abroad in the Eastern world,
and Mr.. Gaylord finally obtained white ele-
plant from a Siamese nobleman, which was
poisoned by Buddhist fanatics the morning
before it was to be taken on board the
steamer for England. But on the 26th of
last November Mr. Gaylord finally succeeded
in purchasing for 440, 000 white elephant
from bloody King Theebau, of Burman, the
gentleman who recently murdered his wives,
and the beast is now en- route for America,
with all the royal documents attesting its
genuineness.
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mentalism should devote so large a sum to
the building up of an unnecessary edihce,
when it might be better spent in the con-
struction of industrial dwellings devoted to
the elevation and comfort of the working
classes.
Another French priest is jealous to re-
form Rome, He is the A bbe Roca, honor
airy canon OF one of the French cathedrals.
Becoming convinced by travel of the abuses
and supeTstitions in the Catholic Church, he
has openly attacked them and presented
memorial to the Pope, appealing to him to
Initiate thorough reform, and especially to
abolish the enforced celibacy Of the clergy.
His memorial was returned to him without
word. He is now in America, and will
lecture.
Those persons who have supposed that the
Quaker bonnet was as interchangeable as the
laws of the Modes and Persians, will be sur
prised to hear that an important modihca-
ton has been quietly introduced and firmly
established. This reform bonnet is made of
olive or nut-brown silk, with a soft crown
raised little in the Normandy style and
pleated into the front, which is composed of
narrow castings, with tiny finish OF pleats
around the face. The strings are set high up
on the sides so as to give the cottage bonnet
effect, and there may or may not be plain
quilting of white on the inside according to
the fancy of the wearer."
DuIlng the recent missionary conferences
OF the Reformed Church. in Philadelphia,
one of the speakers said: 1T is not the aspect
of missions abroad, but the interest in for
eign missions at home which casts the shadow
on the picture. The gifts of the United
States to this cause are barely $3,000 900 a
year; but there are 100000 in American
Protestant churches. The Moravians aver
age 5000 annually from each member The
Congregationalists, if we include legacies,
averaged last year 81 20 from each communi-
can't The Presbyterians of the North. ST.
and we of the Reformed Church but eighty
two cents from each communicate for the
whole year" The average per member in
the Methodist Church for 1882 was about
thirty-nlne cents.
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The Largest Living Animal.


What monster of contradictions
An animal which looks like fish, but
which is not fish; which lives always in the
water, but which cannot live long under
water and which nevertheless will die on
land; which has mouth large enough to en-
golf at once a dozen persons, but whose
throat is SO small that your fathers fist can
fill it.
A whalel Yes, a veritable giant among
giants, the largest of all living creatures.
10 one who does not know the reason for
It, it must seem odd to say that the whale is
not fish. But in fact, it is no more fish
than you are. A fish has cold blood, and
takes the little oxygen it needs from the
water by means of glls; while the whale
must take its oxygen from the atmospheric
air just as you do
You need 10 take oxygen in your lungs to
give to your blood at very short intervals,
so that you cannot exist for more than two
breathing. OF course, it would not do for
the whale to have to breathe so often, for IN
that case he could never stay under water
long enough to secure his food, and would
consequently starve.
To provide against this catastrophe the
whale is enabled to charge a reservoir of
blood with oxygen, and thus with an hours
supply OF erated blood, it can dive down
and remain under water until the supply is
exhausted. Should it be detained after the
supply is gone 1t will drown as surely as
your own self.
The tail is set transversely to the body,
and its motion, unlike that of the same
member in fish, is up and down; and with
such vigor does it move that the surrounding
water is forced into a series of whirling ed
dies.
This tail is moreover the whales chief
weapon, though occasionally it does make
use of its head or of its teeth, if it have the
to H. Ar,,
sometimes lash about with its tail to such
purpose as to dash the stout whale-boat to
pieces and hurl the inmates into the sea. As
a rule however, the whale prefers to run.
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PRAYER SAMPLES.
Extending an Old Business Custom Into a
New Field.
Milwaukee Sentinel.

New Field.
Milwaukee Sentinel
A Methodist preacher who is a candidate
for the position of chaplain of the New York
Senate has distributed circulars among the
members, con tanning samples of his prayers.
The sample business was first introduced
into this country by dealers in cloths, and
now almost every dealer of every kind sends
out samples among his customers. Then
''sample-rooms" were started, and it is pre-
sumed that they are very successful-at all
events the customers seem to like the sam
pies The use OF samples of prayers for po-
litical positions is quite a new thing how
ever. Ministers who are roaming about the
country to see if the Lord
has called them into new
vineyard being hard of hearing and
a little uncertain as to whether the call has
been made-always carry along samples of
their work, and it may have occurred to the
brother who wants to pray for the New York
Senate that it is as legitimate to exhibit
pieces of his prayers as of sermons.
1t is certainly very good thing in these
civil service-reform days to insist upon merit
in the appointment of Senate chaplain.
Not that it is of much consequence whether
the Senate is well prayed for, since it may be
regarded as beyond the region of hope, but
because the appointment of praying man,
without any regard for the quality of his
prayers is contrary to the principles
of the Pendleton bill. The chap
lain gets So prayer, and that
amount ought certainly to secure
first-class article. That the Methodist appli-
cant believes his article is frst-class and
worth the money is evident from his putting
it in print and using it as an electioneering
argument But there is still better way
than this, If the salary is to be fixed one OF
course, if economy were in question, it
would be well to invite proposals for prayers
with samples appropriately labeled-as, for
instance This style quiet and gentlemanly.
two for ST." Or, This fervid appeal, s.. so
EACH" etc. However, as the generous State
has fixed the salary, a competitive examina-
ton ought to be held. We are not
sure that it is not made imperative
under the New York civil-service
law. Even if it were not important to
have the most effective preacher for the Sen
ate itself, the fact that all other non-elective
positions are filed after competitive examin-
alton should enforce the rule in this case. A
set of rules might be easily drawn up to test
the powers of the applicants. For instance,
in prayer for rain, there should be a rule
to determine how much of a sprinkle consti-
tutes rain. This question is still undeci6-
ed, although it is before the Supreme Court
OF Massachusetts. An unbelieving man told
a believing woman that he would give her
$50 if she would bring a rain by prayer
within twenty-four hours She did it, but
he declared it was only sprinkle and re-
fused to pay, whereupon she brought suit to
recover the amount With distinct under
standing as to what is to be prayed for, the
applicants may be submitted to fair test of
their respective talents.
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Foot Notes,

Now that long evenings are with us, we trust
our friends will lind convenient opportunity 10
compose liberal supply of matter for this de-
parIment. What furnishes better evenings
pastme to young people than the constructing
of puzzles? Furthermore, much benefit is de-
rived from preparing matter for puzzle depart
Lient. The dictionary, geography, history, etc.
are brought into requlsltiOn, by means
of which considerable instruction is OBJ
tanned. Past experience teaches us that
the time spent IN composing and solving
puzzles is not wholly lost. At the present day
puzzles have place in the majority of publca-
tiOns, and the art of solving and propOunding
them has reached high standard. The work
of writing and solving puzzles 10 not confined to
young people wholly, Tor all meteorological de-
partments are patrOnized by many persons ad-
vanced in years-lawyers, doctors, minister's
teachers, clerks, etc., who occupy some of their
spare moments in untangIng some of
the knOtty problems OF puzzledom With
the view to keeping our department up TO
a high standard of excellence, we urge upon
puZzlers rywhere to lend n helping hand
We need the very best puzzle literature that can
be obtained, as the journal in which II appears
from week to week Is truly worthy of good
things. We hope not person, who takes the
least interest i'll puzzle matters, will fail TO send
us some contributions We know there is much
puzzle talent among our readers, aud we desire
TO have it brought to light. W. II. G.
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ITSELF Give me time" he said to his credit
ors, 'and will pay you every penny" He
sat himself down to the desk to write off
5000, 900 of debts. Within ten years he had
written books enough to amelorate his
affairs and bring peace to his mind.
Rheumatism stiffened his fingers He
wrote in spite of it. He began to hope that
he would soon be free from debt, when par
alysis struck him. He insisted on being
helped to his desk. When he found his pen
rolled out of his nerveless fingers, he fell
back in his chair and wept. He was laid in
his bed and never rose from it till his body
was lifted into it's coffin.
One lesson of this life, that which peeps
out from the boys habit of desultory read
ing and neglecting his studies. we have al
ready limited at. He bitterly deplored it.
But the old romancer, dying at the top and
yet working to pay his debts while a graphic
lesson in honesty, is pathetic warning
against the foolish vanity which tempts to
extravagant living.
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HENRY NJ. TELLER.
How He Came Into the CabInet-An Inter
esting Piece of Political History.

How He Came Into the CabInet-An Inter
esting Piece of Political History.
Story told by Teller's ecretary.
When President Arthur was forming his
cabinet strong pressure was brought to bear
on him in behalf of ex-senator Chaffee, of
Colorado. Mr.. Teller enlisted himself warm
ly in behalf of Chaffee. He called on Presi-
dent Arthur and urged Mr.. Chaffee's APP
pointment, as a personal favor to himself, as
a matter of political wisdom and policy, and
as deserved recognition to the people of the
Western States. President Arthur requested
a few days to consider the matter. In due
time he sent for Mr. Teller, requesting that
he call at the White House at II clcck that
evening. Senator Teller, accompanied by
Mr.. Burnett, called as requested, and was
met by the President
II would prefer to see you alone" said the
President.
This gentleman" replied Mr.. Teller, ZEN
Joys my fullest confidence, and anything
which can be said to me can with equal
safety be said to him."
President Arthur replied that he had no
objection, and abruptly added
well, Senator, want to say that under
no circumstances can l invite Mr.. Chafee
into my cabinet"
Senator Teller flushed slightly, and, rising
from his seat, replied that il the President
had come to that conclusion definitely he
had no further occasion to intrude upon his
time.
But" continued the President, without
needing the evident displeasure his decision
had caused. II have come to the conclusion
that unless Henry NJ. Teller accepts my APP
pointment as Secretary of the Interior, that
office will ramain vacant during my emit re
residential term"
Mr.. Teller Immediately replied that under
the circumstances he could not possibly ac-
cept the appointment. you know" he
added, "that have been prominent in urg-
ing upon you the appointment of my friend
Chaffee, and certainly could not accept the
office with propriety."
Senator" continued the President
warmly, ''it is my turn to ask favor of you,
and l want you to think of this matter.
understand both my position and your own,
which ] readily realize is delicate one |
have already consulted with your friends"
"Mr President" continued Senator Teller,
IT am heartily opposed to you on the silver
question, on the Indian question, and on the
land question"
THAT is one reason why ! insist upon hav-
ing you in my cabinet" was the reply, "for l
am we'll aware that you know more on each
of these questions in one minute than could
ever learn" and with this President Arthur
again urged the Senator to accept his invita-
ton.
"Well, you know the result" continued
Mr. Burnett. "Mr. Chaffee and his friends
understood that he could not be appointed,
and Senator Tellers appointment wasin con-
sequence exceedingly gratifying to them 30
he entered the cabinet, and is the best Sec
rotary of the Interior that the country ever
had"
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Walter SCOTS Regret.

Youths Companion,
We can learn something even from an
enemy, aud a friends failures may instruct
us. That is the sort of education which
biography should give. Sir Walter Scott's,
especially the portion which narrates his
boyhood, gives it. Sir Walter was sckly
lad. The fact partly accounts for his low
standing at school. His master called him
"a stupid boy" but lived to reverse this
Judgment, aud the pupil to regret that he
had not given more attention to his studies
II would at this moment" he wrote, in the
days of his fame, give half the reputation l
have the good fortune to acquire, if could
rest the remaining part upon solid founda-
ton of learning and science" That sem
tence should be pasted in everybody's text
book.
Though poor scholar, young Scott was
an Unsuitable reader, and often surprised his
elders by the miscellaneous knowledge he
possessed.
He read with delight books of history,
travels. poetry, fairy tales, romances and
Eastern stories. He and a congenial friend
would choose some nook on the face of an
almost inaccessible HILL and, climbing up to
it, sit for hours reading or telling each other
Stories which were always ito be con-
tinued."
The boys memory was tickle ally-it re-
tanned only what pleased him, but that it
never forgot. He left school with a great
quantity of general butill-arranged informa-
ton. Later in life he lamented that his
reading had been so desultory in his youth
MY appetite Tor books" he wrote, was as
ample and indiscriminating as it was indie
fatigabe; and since, l have had too fire.
quently reason to repent that few ever read
so much, and to so little purpose"
Though Scotts reading was unreguiated
his mother looked after the education of his
heart She was gifted with good taste and
with a natural sonsitiveness to noble ideas.
The boy used to read aloud to her Pope's
translation of Homer. AS in common with
boys enthusiasm was aroused by descriptions
of battles. But when he came to passage
which expressed generous sentiments she
made him pause, and by questions drew his
attention to them.
The mothers training bore fruit The
novelist awoke one morning TO find himself,
not famous-he had been that for years-but
a ruined man. His folly in living as a noble
man, and his blind trust in his publishers,
had bankrupted him.
Then the mothers training in the noble
ideas of justice, right and conscience asserted
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Low-Necked Dresses.

New York Evening Post
Low-necked bodiees are more generally
worn at receptions and the opera this season
than they have been for years back. These
are great mistake in point of art, and how
ever they may set off pair of wellrounded
and snowy shoulders, they invariably affect
prejudicially even the loveliest face. At the
opera the other evening, young lady in a
the sleeves short The dimpled throat and
creamy shoulders with diamond necklace
glttering thereon, took away very largely
from the effect of her pretty face, which
against the whiteness of the neck, looked
heated and bit too rosy for delicate beauty.
Against the black velvet, with no white
shoulders between, the face would have
looked fresh and charming.
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Detroit Free Press.
In this lazy mans century the delightful
occupation of carving is almost forgotten
art. 1t used to be such pleasure for gang
of hungry children to sit and watch 'Pa''
sharpen the carvng-knife, giving it that pre-
liminary flourish, and then insert its delicate
point under the wing of the brown and odor-
Gus turkey. To see pinions and second joints,
slices of white meat, crown drumsticks, the
portions from the noble bird, and to won
der why turkeys didn't have four legs and a
double row of wings A good carver seems
to give away all the turkey and go without
any himself. But, when everybody is helped,
he picks out bits of tenderoin, morsels
of brown and juicy meat, odds and
ends, that, as everyone knows, are the
tid-bits OF the feast 1t would be
as dangerous an experiment to ask
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WASHINGTON AND CROMWELL.
Two Historic Inaugurations-Their Contrasts
and SimiIarities,


George A. Townsend, in New York Tribune.
The Inauguration of General Washington
was the vindication of Cromwell after the
lapse OF 1876 years. The ceremony was almost
IDENTICAL like Cromwell, Washington was
twice inaugurated; the former desired to be
called the Chief Magistrate, but the word
Protector was adhered to because it had been
used by former English regents. The Long
Parliament of which our Continental Con-
gress was nearly copy. had usurped the ex-
ecutive powers of the sovereign after depos-
ing him, and corruptly exercised his patron
age, and would not terminate their existence.
Cromwell, after waiting thirteen years for
them to order new election, and after they
had repeatedly broken faith with the army
and the nation, turned them out. Their COM
mittees had exercised the executive func-
tons as our Continental Congress did,
and it is clear from the promptness with
which Blake and the navy forsook Sir Henry
Vane the leader of the naval committee,
that the victorious element of the nation de-
manded President The same second
thought led the people here to turn ont their
Congress, then fourteen years old, and raise
a Protector, with an instrument" or con-
stitution, to regulate him. They chose the
Cromwell of the day, the man who had
driven the king out of the country
On Sept. 4, 1854, Cromwell was first in
augurated at Westminster Abbey, escorted
by procession, he in coach. He heard a
sermon, as Washington did, Immediately
after the ceremony. Then he went to the
Painted Chamber close by, took a seat on
platform above Parliament, and then rising,
uncovered, made an inaugural address, be-
ginnins Gentlemen, you are here
upon the greatest occasion that be-
lieve England ever saw. Many,
o Lord my GodI are Thy wonderful
works y The natural magistracy of
the nation was almost trampled under foot
= Other states improved their own
and spoiled our manufacture of cloth, which
is the greet staple commodity of this nation.
A free Parliament desire above
my life. | speak these things not
as one who assumes to himself dominion
over you, but as one who doth resolve to be a
fellow servant with you" Hence comes the
word public servant" Says Charles Knight
in his History of England: I'm its wide
range and careful explanations, it has con-
siderable resemblance to the speeches of the
American Presidents" Says L. A. Gardiner,
in 1.-The Puritan Revolution" 1.-The instru-
meut of Cromwells government was the
first of hundreds of written constitutions
which have since spread over the world, of
which the American is the most conspicuous
example,
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Gossip About Artists.
New York Letter.

A piece of art news which will interest
plcture-lovers is that the first Of living paint
ers, Munkacsy, has, it is feared, done his last
work. Excessive industry has brought on
has left Paris to travel but his intimate
friends fear the worst. l also heard the
other day that Van Marck, the famous cattle
painter has the painters cramp so badly as
to be unable to WELD the brush with his
right hand. He has been idle for the last
few months, and will begin to work with his
other hand if he does not soon recover
Some of our Americans-Wynant and f. e.
Church among them-paint entirely with
their left hands
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No GREASE for Him.

"When Greece her knees-Greece her knees
schOobOY. forgetting the next line of his recil a
tiOn. There Is no occasion to grease anybOdy's
knees" shouted his teacher. "GO and study
your piece" Neither is there occasion to grease
yonr hair. Parkers Hair Balsam Is all the
dressing yon want, Restores the original gloss
and color TO grey or faded hair. Does not soil
the linen; not dye; good for the sealpI prevents
falling ont.
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A Wall from Texas.


A pickpocket and thief is educated in
Northern cities, comes down this way to
practice his profession, and being arrested
for his crimes his home journals head the
occurrence "Crime in Texas" This is the
way the thing works,
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young man of the present time to carve
turkey as it would be to require him to ask
a blessing on the food He would either
sprain his wrist or fire the turkey through
the window in an attempt to cut it in two.
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Our Prizes.

/. Best charade, fifty cards.
2. Best six puzzles, twenty.tiv cards.
3. Largest lot of puzzles. book.
A. The shortest puzzle, twenty five cards.
Competitors must get their favOrs to the puz
zle editor inside of Two weeks.