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Frizses, Bangs and Po,rder.

1t being generally known that no col
lection would be taken up, there was an
unusually large attendance of Lime
Kilners, and when the bell rang the
audience to order, every bench seemed
taken. Brother Gardner looked the
picture of perfect health as he shook the
kinks out OF his spine and said ::
"Gem'len, what am dat objeck on dat
sky-blue stool ober dar ?" "Dat's de
water-pail, was the answer. "Jess so,
gem m'len-jess so. IF that pail war
painted red or blew, what would il be ?"
"Nuffin' but pail "Jess SO, again.
If we shud paint dat pail, an fresco de
hanle, an siver-plate de hoops an call
it de Tower of London, it wouldn't be de
Tower any moar dan it is now. We is all
agreed on dat-all but de women. My
ole woman, who am black as de one-spot
OBJ spades, lame in de left leg, and wild
no noah bewty dan de hind eend of a
butcher-cart, frizzes curl over her left
ear, ties red ribbon round her froat,
puts on hustle, squeezes her corset till
she can't holler, and sails down the street
wild de idea in her ear dat she's turkey
OBJ de fust water. She reckons dat no.
body can gaze on her widout shiver of
admiration, and dat folks will e-magine
dat own all de corner lots on de Brush
fam. But she's muffin but my ole wom-
an after all-nufin' but bundle oh
aches. Walk out on de street, and what
dye see? Ebery female in the Ian rubs
paint on her cheeks and powder on her
face. Dey frizz der ha'r, squeeze up on
DER corsets, nip along on der toes. an
DER hull air is to deceive de men into
believin' dat dey am han'sum and lubly.
De uglier and meaner lookin' de woman
am, de moar she frizzes and de harder
she nips. De less money dey hab to
dress On, de richer de duds are, an de
moar iewelry dey wave aroun'. A man
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formed the nation. He seems to have
had all mems regard, but to have given
none his trust. By his opponents he
was called cunning; by his followers sa-
gacious. More justly than almost any
other politician, he may be said to have
achieved his own successes. Living, he
was the envy of all who would succeed;
dead, he has been the model OF unnum-
bered failures. Few statesmen would
coVet his fame, fewer still do not envy
his success. He is the Sphinx Of our
history the hidden hand in many great
eVents-a man in whom the elements
were SO deftly mixed that no friend
knew his heart and no enemy ever came
within his guard.-Our Continent.
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and framed in heavy black locks. Her
carriage and her manner are full CT dig
nifty.
A WOMAN was committed for contempt
of court by New York Police Justice
because Of her refusal to take an oath OF
testify in case of assault. "Judge, -"
said she. 81 never took an oath in my
life, and I'm not going to take one now.
These people can settle their difficulties
without calling me in.'
A WOMAN who does all her own house
work, attends to seven children and
turns her dresses half dozen times to
make both ends meet, may be a good
Christian, but when lady in a 81, 900
carriage and $500 dress halts at the
door and asks her to subscribe to some
charitable object she can hardly be ex-
perted to act and talk like one.
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HOW THEY Used TO T!eA.+2 g..


1EAUS.
Looking back to the fate Of tlN %;-.i:-,.
Booths aud Guiteaus OF cen~arv a.. q.
one must own that judicial .un-*h;n,n:
has become wonderfully ci,il;zei ,lu ~
the last four generations. The as,s.s>sii..
of the late Czar and of Preai bort .i:..
field were tried and hanged Ike i !,
other murderers. How they would .r {
Jared in. the days of our great grnI:d
fathers may be learned from the st H.
extant sentence ofthe peasant Da Mems,
who attempted the life of Louis XVI,
about the middle of the last century.
The hurt which he inflicted was a mere
flesh wound which speedily healed but
he was nevertheless sentenced TO have
-"his right hand burned from his body
with flaming brimstone, the flesh torn
with red-hot pincers from his breast,
arms and calves, boiling oil poured into
the wounds thus made, and his body
torn limb from limb by four horses,
all Of which humane injunctions were
scrupulously carried out. IF this was
the punishment Of an assassin who failed
in his purpose, what would have been
done to HIM had he succeeded ?-New
York Times.
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TYPE-SErr1NG MACHINES.

A London letter says: Type-s setting
machines have had fair trial in this
city at the Office of the Times, having
been use for several years past. There
is an idea extant that they are labor
saving machines, and this is so far exact
that they can be worked by boys, and
when once filed do their work with con.
siderable rapidity. Concerning this
there is no difference of opinion.
When the tiresome work of filling the
tube has been performed the type-setter
works quickly under The care of boy.
This being granted, even by the work
people themselves, it remains to con-
sider the drawbacks to the type setter in
nse by the Times. It destroys a great
quantity of type, as much, it is said, as
three Or four columns per diem. No
satisfactory method Of 90 Distributing
the type for it has yet been discovered.
and so they have fallen back upon an
automatic type-castlng machine which
daily sends in page after page of abso-
luteIy new type in tubes for the type
setter. A foundry has been established
on the premises and the Times makes its
own type. Every day three or four
columns are sent from the foundry into
the Office. It is also said, on good
authority, that at the Times Office Ghere
is Il marked indisposition to acknowledge
a failure Of any kind; and that as the
type-setter is what may be called "fad'
of Mr.. Mcdonald, the manager, it must
be made success, or at least made to
appear one. There has been endless
trouble with the machine; but, inasmuch
as the manager has made up his mind
that it shall succeed, everybody puts the
best face on the matter and let's it down
as easily as possible. It is hinted that
the accounts are made up so as not to ac-
centuate too sharply the charges against
the type-setter. By these means a
species of spurious success has been
manufactured" for composition by
machinery; while. in fact, it is a gross
failure from an economical or financial
point of view. The machine does its
work, it is true, and 30 . ,"show'' is very
good; but it breaks moce tban it saves.
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The Medical Procession for wonse,,.

This is the only business or profession
that is not overdone, and cannot be for
many years to come. Every town Of
over 5000 inhabitants ought to support
a good woman physician. Every city
ought to support one to each 5000 in
habitants. The demand, too, for able
teachers to lecture upon hygiene and
physiology is on the increase and cannot
be supplied for a century to come. Hun
dreds Of women possessed of talent, edu-
cation and experience, desirous of a
financial independence and dissatisfied
with do-nothing life, ought to enter
the medical profession, and could do so
proftably.-Chtcago Inter Ocean.
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sSss-> wEBsrER,s PRESENCE.

In TIE speaking of Webster this was
very noticeable. His personal presence
was so remarkable, the figure and mien
30 Olympian, the cleaning of the eyes
In the dusk of the swarthy and project
ing brow so weird, and the whole i'm
preston so imperial, that it was impossi-
Die to suppose that what was said would
not be as weighty, majestic and memoir
able as the speech of such a man ought
to be. That it was always so was not the
fact. but the grand aspect and manner
were so overpowerlng that it was i'm
possible not to recall the majestic pres
ence again and again, and to believe
that you have heard great speech. In
the famous Wyman case, when Mr..
Webster was associated with Mr.. Choate,
he was suffering from his annual catarrh,
and his overcoat was buttoned closely
around him, and he constantly used a
huge red bandana handkerchief-one of
the eight, perhaps, which he said
fliend similarly affected ''took" for a
remedy-and his voice was hoarse. and
he seemed to be half surly; but he pro-
duced the same unquestionable effect of
power as when he stood in his blue and
bluff Wing uniform in the Senate on
one OF his great field-days. At another
time be was announced to deliver a
lyceum lecture. The audience was i'm
mense. The expectation was very great.
But his discourse was prolonged COM
mon-place essay, absolutely unrelieved
by any felicity Of phrase or striking
thought, and it seemed as if conscious
ness of the character of his discourse
made him more majestic than ever. His
port twas asmagnifcent. The greatest of ora
tors pleading sublimely for his country
IN the very crisis of her fate could not
have had the air of saying momentous
and solemn truths more completely than
Webster upon this occasion when he
was saying nothing in particular. Prob
ably the great audience felt that they
had never received more fully the worth
OF their money. and describe to their
children and grandchildren the imperial
grandeur of Webster as an orator
Editors Easy Chair, in Harper's Maqa-
zine.
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LAY 4 PAINTING PERSON DOWN.

1t is surprising how everybody rushea
at a fainting person and strives to raise
him up, and especially to keep his head
erect. There must be an instructive ap.
prehension that if person seized with
a fainting or other fit fall into the re.
cumbent position death is more immi-
nent. I must have driven a mile to-day
while lady fainting was held upright.
I found her pulseless, white and appar-
emily dying, and believe that if had
delayed ten minutes longer she would
really have died. I laid her head down
on lower level than her body, and i'm.
mediately color returned to her lips and
cheeks, and she became conscious. To
the excited group of friends 1 said: Al
ways remember this fact-namely, faint
ing is caused by a want Of blood in the
brain; the heart ceases to act with
sufficient force to send the usual amount
of blood to the brain, and hence tha
person loses consciousness because the
function of the brain ceases. Restore
the blood to the brain and instantly the
person recovers. Now, though the
blood is propelled to all parts of the
body by the action of the heart, yet it is
still under the influence of the laws OF
gravitation. In the erect position the
blood ascends to the head against
grayitation, and the supply to the brain
is diminished, as compared with the re-
cumbent position, the hearts pulsation
being equal. If, then, you place per.
son sitting whose heart has nearly
ceased to beat, his brain will fail to re.
ceive blood, while if you lay him down,
with the head lower than the heart,
blood will run into the brain by the
mere force of gravity, and, in fainting,
in sufficient quantity to restore con-
seiousness. Indeed, nature teaches us
how to manage the fainting persons, for
they always fell, and frequently are at
once restored by the recumbent position
into which they are thrown. Medical
Journal.
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/" ONLY THE MANAGER.n -

At station on one of the railroads
leading out of Detroit, the train had ar
rived and departed, when the station
agent, who had been in the place about
three weeks, and was looking for call
every hour to come to Detroit and take
charge of the line, was approached by
quick, well-dressed man, smoking ci-
gar, who asked:
Keep you pretty busy here?"
:'Yum," was the jerky reply.
Business on the increase ?"
"Yum, again.
"Do you run this station ?'' asked
the quiet man, after turn on the plat
form.
"Nobody else runs it, growled the
agent. "Have you got patent car
coupler?"
"Oh, no."
"Want special freight rates, 1 sup
pose?"
"No, SIR"
OOA S1F0 Jou PaooeS' "
"I don't want any,"
Waiting for the next tramp"
"Not particularly"
"Want to charter carp
emo"
The agent left him on the platform
and entered his Office and busted him
self for half an hour, when the quiet
man looked in on him and asked:
"What's the salary of position Ike
this ?"
"That's my business, was the prompt
reply.
"What's the income of this 1tation?'
"Ask the baggageman.
"You- name is -, isn't it?
"Suppose it is?"
"Oh, nothing much-only I'm the
general manager of the line, and I'd
like to exchange cards with you"
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THE OLD MINIS VETO.

An easy-going, honest-minded old
country merchant in Iowa had been in
trade for dozen years when he took in
his son as partner. The boy had lived
in Chicago for three or four years and
was up to snuff. One day, after the
partnership had lasted six months, the
old man came down in the morning and
found the doors of the store closed, and
a sign up to the effect that the firm had
failed. He walked over to his sons
house and asked:
James, did you lock the door?7
"I did"
What's the matter?"
Why's we have failed and can only
pay Is cents on the dollar"
James," continued the old man, as he
pulled down his hat, "Im going down
to open the door with a crow-bar and
resume business at 100 cents on the dol
lar! For thirteen long years I have
given fifteen ounces to the pound, ana
measured both fingers with every yard
of cloth, and the idea of taking any
further advantage of the Lord goes agin
my conscience. Just consider that we
have resumed, and come along and
scrape out them sugar barrels"
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Din,ples Masasgactured to Order.

Some poet it was who said that when
ever man has dimple in his chin then
Venus is his friend, but Aaybe that
rule won't hold good in these days when
dimples are manufactured by art. For
there is place on O'Farrell street in
this city where dimples are made to Or
der. I went there out of curiosity. I
was shown into a parlor somewhat re-
sembling a dentists operating room.
There was a glass case full of bottles,
washes and wigs and a regular dentists
chair that suggested world of comfort.
This sign was displayed over the fire.
place: "M. Alphonse Pondunk, In
proven and Beautifer, from Paris"
A dapper little gent in a velvet cut
away coat and deep purple neckcloth,
whose face wore complacent smirk,
claimed the name as bis.
I bashfully suggested the dimpleques-
ton and asked for some points. real
ly did want dimple in my arm, and
told him SO. But L insinuated my dis
belief in his ability to produce the neces-
sa1y article.
Whereupon he convinced me by prac-
tice. This is how it was done:
My arm being bare and the exact spot
indicated, he placed small glass tube,
the oriice of which was extremely small,
upon the spot. This tube had working
within it piston, and was so small that
when the handle was drawn up the air
was exhausted from the tube and it ad-
hered to the flesh, raising slight pro-
tuberance. Around this raised portion
Monsieur Alphonse daintily tied piece
of scarlet silk, and then took away his
suction machine. The little point of
skin which was thus raised he sliced off
with wicked-looking knife, bringing
the blood.
tried hard not to scream, but it was
so unexpected 1 had to.
Then he bound up the arm, placing
over the wound small silver object like
an inverted cone, the point of which was
rounded and polished. This little point
was adjusted SO as to depress the exact
center of the cut.
Then he told me to go away and not
touch the spot until the next day. When
[ came at that time he dressed my arm
again, and this operation was repeated
for five days, when the wound was
healed. The silver cone was removed,
and there, sure enough, beneath it was
the p1ettiest dimple in the world! And
all John had to pay for it was ten dol
lars.
Now, theoretically considered, dir
pies are most enhancing. Cleopatra
had a dimple directly over her heart.
and Antony said that it was the mark
made by the lips Of Eros, who kissed her
at her birth. Ninon de l'Enclos had
dimpled toes which were renowned for
their sea-shel pinkness and beauty.
Helen of Troy had large dimple OF her
left shoulder, and Anna Dickinson has
one on the end of her nose. A woman
without dimples is never ever even sure
of one proposal with them they cone
in dozens. RoSGnsO'ad, IN San F1'Gls
cisco Truth.
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JOURNALISM IND WoMHN.

Boston correspondence: No work is
more strangely and more curiously mis-
understood than that required by Jour-
nalism. 1t not only requires special
talent of a high order, but the greatest
amount of technical discipline, general
Information. adaptability, quickness OF
dirtion and facility of resources. With
all this it requires, too, what is almost a
sixth sense, the mental habit of keen
analysis and swift combination. While
these qualifications are, in their perfec-
ton, the result of experience, they must
also be natural gifts. The journalist,
even as the poet, is born, not made.
The young woman who aspires to do
"critical literary work" would, upon
trial, probably be found incompetent to
write local paragraph satisfactorily.
If she is earnest in her desire to enter
journalism she must be content to begin
at the beginning. She must realize the
importance Of that sympathetic percep-
ton, graphic delineation and power of
representation that atcharacterize the able
reporter. 1t is department whose dis
cipline is Invaluable and whose scope it
may well be young woman's aspiration
to ably fill, and there is not the slightest
danger OF her work being too good for it
the anxiety should be to have it suf-
ficiently good. If the aspiring young
woman is ready to begin in the simplest
manner, and bring her best abilities to
whatever she is set to do, she may, in
time, grow to other work. That depends
wholly on innate ability and her power
of perseverance.
Again, the professional journalist is as
often amazed as amused over the atti-
tude taken by the young woman whose
contribution he rejects. Now it is an
unwritten law veil understood in the
profession of journalism that the editor
is not under the slightest obligation to
give reason for his acceptance or re-
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AMERICAN COIN.

In all United States gold and silver
coin the percentage of alloy is always
the same, and all our coin contain 900
parts of pure gold or silver to 100 parts
of alloy. They are called 900 fine.
This would make them nine-tenths pure
metal to one-tenth base metal, or
twenty-five and six-tenths carats fine.
What is called the new standard is gold
eighteen earats fine, but from this is
made the finest watch-cases and other
of the very finest jewelry.
Daily globe., 1883-08-28
4 Ne,c Style of Wedding Coke.

At wedding in Chicago, the bride
cake was built in four tiers. Around
the lowest Of these six satin bows were
arranged, each hung on a pearl button,
which formed the handle to diminutive
drawer. Just before the cutting of the
cake each of the half-dozen bridesmaids
laid her hand upon a bow and drew
out the drawer. which, needless to say,
contained a pretty gift.
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WOMAN GOSSIP.
Che 1HiIIes.,s Wooinn,

"Love me little, love me long,"
Sang the dusty miller
To his wheat art, and his song
Did maize and thrill her.
FtBid me barley hope; oh, give
Me one grain of comfort;
Iwould oat on thee and live
Holding on to some fort.
SIN your ryes now love looks shine,
There lies cereal pleasure,
OH hominy joys are mine,
Filling up my measure"
Came the maiden's corn-ful laugh
At the miller's fawning;
"You can't winnow girls with chaff-
Sir! to you good morning."
Daily globe., 1883-08-28

THERE are 10000 square miles of al
most unbroken forests In North Caro-
lima, comprising pine, chestnut, oak,
maple, beech and hickory timber.
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NINE THOUSAND Marshal Neil roses
were picked from one bush in a year at
Newport, which at 10 cents rose, af-
forded fair profit.
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THE ext enditure of revenue forms the
great level from which all heights and
depths of Legislative action are meaE,
ured.-James A. Gdrfeld.
Daily globe., 1883-08-28

You can't eat enough in week to last
you year, and you can't advertise on
that plan either. Sentinel.
Daily globe., 1883-08-28

THERE are 207 chartered railroads in
Texas.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-01-20
NUMBER Is.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are $4,000 people in West
Virginia who cannot write.
The first Bible published in the En-
glish language in the United States
was printed in Philadelphia by "R.
Aitken. at Pope's Head, three doors
above the Coffee House in Market Street.
MDCCLXXXII. Just one hundred
years ago.
The alumni of Trinity College, in a
recent meeting at New York, voted that
man be sent through the country So
letting contributions for Presidents
salary fund.- and that the salary of the
President be fixed at $4,000 year.
Mr.. Walter G.. Jones, who, nine
years ago gave the English Church Mis-
sionary Society SS6o.0o0 for work in
China and Japan, has recently made a
thank-otfering of $500, 900 for the recov-
cry OF his son from sickness. Four years
ago he gave $4,000 to found the India
Native Church Missionary fund,
The Spring Garden Presbyterian
Church of Philadelphia has secured for
its pastor Rev. Mangasar M. Mangasar-
ian. by birth and early education Turk.
He came to this country several years
ago to be educated for the ministry. He
is said to be an eloquent and impressive
preacher.
The Yale catalogue for 1883 names
1,096 students; 900 In the undergradu.
ate department. There are LOG in the
theological seminary, 50 in the medical
and S5 in the law school, 205 In tho
Sheffield Scientific School, and GIL in
the academy department --140 seaiors.
16o juniors, 1879 sophomores and 16a
freshmen.
1T Is complained by the Irish Pres
byteries that no uniform method marks
the observance OF Presbyterian worship
in the Emerald isle. The English and
Scotch have theirs, and the Irish want
theirs, not establishing rigid forms, but
giving liberty of variation. The Chris
ian at Wor5 thinks that ian elastic,
optional liturgy would probably just suit
our Irish friends"
The United States Commissioner OF
Education gives figures to show that In
ten years private benevolence in this
country has given for educational pur-
poses no less than 61,475, 900. and this
does not include tie recent gift of Slater
and others amounting to $S,000,000.
The largest sum in any single year was
Sll, 226,00 in 1873, and the smallest
$3,015,0 900 in 1877.
The luxurious style in which many
Harvard students live is said by cor
respondent OF the Hartford Courlnt to
have become crying evil. Poor young
men require much more fortitude and
self-reliance than used to be the case to
go through the course in open poverty.
The professors, however, have not fallen
into extravagant ways. One dresses
so plainly, and with so little regard to
modern fashion, that he is described Us
positively quaint. Their manners are so
unaffected and simple that the contrast
between them and the airs Of some OF
the students is striking. the freshmen
are the grandest of all.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-01-20
Willing to Sell.

A Detroit commercial traveller fin
lshed his supper at a hotel in the western
part of this State the other night. and
drew up to the stove alongside of
stranger and said:
"Are you acquainted in this town."
Eyes, somewhat"
''Is this the best hotelp''
"They say So"
"Thel | wish / had bought some
crackers and cheese and crawled into a
hay-stack. Did you see how dirty the
table-cloth wasp
II didn't notice in particular
"And such biscuit and slop, and such
napkins! can imagine what the beds
are
yes"
1.-The paper on the room will be
moldy, the wash-stan | on three legs, the
pitcher without handle and the bed
full of bugs. 1t is shame and dis
grace to call such hog-pen hotel
There was moment of silence for the
traveller to light his pipe, and then he
continued:
.'Yes, it's shame. I'd like torun
hotel like this for year"
Well. I'll sell out to vou.''
"Youp What have you got to do with
it?'
10. I'm the owner and landlord'' was
the calm reply.
The traveller didn't try to smooth it
over or laugh it of. He knew that any.
thing he could say would be aiding in
suit to injury. -Detrou Free Press.