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Richard Grant White. Grit; :.

l had intended to say mething about
Richard Grant White, butc got rambling
on to the neglect Of ;nat Accomplished
condemnation lie is ACCOMPLISHED
with all his faults: Mr.. White OUGHT TO
have been millionaire-not "a man who
has to drudge for his living. lie has all
the appearance of man who can write
out check for any amount, and don't
know OF person who could do it with
more OF an air and grace. Mr.. White
no longer looks like his portrait ia
crayon that hangs in the s.booll par
iorS" of Houghton Mifflin & Co., in this
city. He is still US well kept, but older
and less of dandy. Mr.. White is tall
and slim and has rather aristocratic
bearing. lie always wears high hat of
an old-fashioned pattern, with straight
wide rim. An immaculate standino,
collar clasps his long and slender throat.
and he always looks well dressed. Del
monico's would seem the proper place
for Mr.. White to lunch, but | have seen
him eating his roll and drinking his
coffee IN little bake-Shop where each
thing on the bill of fare is five cents. and.
as you may imagine, the customers are
'NtAiOiAs- C'tl NNft4tiiItol bItI-
zens. But it was q treat 10 see the ele-
gance OF his manner when munching a
tpSo-ce roll and drinking a five-cent
cup OF coffee. He would spread the
napkin of the establishment across his
knee, though it looked as a postage
stamp might, stuck on the side of the
obelisk, and glance his eye over the
morning paper with an air that would
become the most luxurious surroundings.
And his manner when depositing his
dime with the ''lady cashier was n
study. There was sort of courtly ban
ter about it without familiarity that
young men who chuck bar-maids under
the chin think they have. but which is
not to be assumed by everybody.
With all his faults and his frequent
Mr.. White is an exceedingly
writer, and while we cali
him a snob and an egotist, we read
everything he writes.-NeU York Cor
resp0Rdence Philadeiphia Record.
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Nature in Biberia,

The history of animal and vegeta-
bic life on the tundra, says our author,
'Is a very curious one. For eight
months out of the twelve, every trace OF
vegetable life is completely hidden I'M
der blanket six feet thick of snow,
which effectually covers every plant
and bush-trees there are none to hide
During six months of the time, at least,
animal life is only traceabIe by the foot
prints of reindeer or a fox on the
snow, or by the occasional appearance
of a raven or snow owl, wandering
above the limits of forest growth, where
1t has retired for the winter. For two
months in midwinter the sun never rises
above the horizon, and the white snow
reflects only the fitful light of the moon,
the stars, or the aurora borealis. Early
in February the sun only just peeps
upon the scene for a few minutes at
noon, and then retires. Day by day he
prol0ngs his visit more and more, until
February, March, April. and May have
passed, and continuous night has become
continuous day. Early in June the sun
only just touches the horizon at mid
night, but does not set any more for
some time.
Then comes the south wind, and
often rain, and the great event of the
year takes place-the ice on the great
rivers breaks up, and the blanket of
snow melts away. The black earth alb
serbs the heat of the never-setting sun;
quietly but swiftly vegetable life awak-
ems from its long sleep, and for three
months hot summer produces brill
liant Alpine flora, like an English
fower-garden run wild, and 2 profusion
of Alpine fruit, diversified only by
storms from the north which sometimes
for day or two bring cold and rain
down from the Arctic Ice.
But wonderful as is the transforma-
ton in the aspect of the vegetable world
in these regions, the change in animal
life is far more sudden and moro strik-
ing. The breaking up of the ice on the
great rivers is, of course, the sensational
event of the season. 1t is probably the
grandest exhibition Of stupendous power
10 be seen in the world. Storms at sea
and hurricanes on land are grand
enough in their way, but the power dis
played seems to be an angry power,
which has to work itself into passion
to display its greatness. The silent up
hesval OF gigantic river, four miles
wide, and the smash-up of the six-feet-
thick ice upon it at the rate of twenty
square miles and hour, is, to my mind,
a more majestic display OF power; but
for all that, the arrival of migratory
birds, so suddenly and in such countless
numbers. appeals more forcibly to the
Imagination, perhaps because it is more
mysterious -Ckay,aber's Journal
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WHOLE NO. 1886.
Didn't Like the Business.

''No SIR decisively exclaimed Pro-
| fessor Moeklstooth, Il do not intend to
| write any more for the Arkansas press.
Some time ago. entered into a con-
| tract with the proprietor of a country
paper TO edit the sheet. | am Il skillful
writer. you know, having for several
months been employed as mailing clerk
| of an agricultural paper Well | went
| to the town where the Cotton Boil was
| published and was installed as its edit
or. My arrival was heralded by run
ners and my reception was encouraging
The proprietor had told me that might
| find the foreman of the office rather pc
culiar, but that in the exercise of that
| ripened and exeeutively-matured iudg-
| ment which l had yielded to while mail
| ing clerk of the agricultural paper, /
| need not pay any attention to him.
| was determined not TO allow him any
| special privileges, and consequently did
| not allow myself to exercise much IN
easiness. Well, assumed control. The
foreman did not attemptt to exercise any
stubborn functions of journalistic gov
ernment, Everything went well until
| the day of going to press. Then every
| thing seemed to be getting nervous. The
foreman came in and said:
81 want column of editorial and
half column OF local.
''All right, l replied.
81 don't want any WIS in the editor
ial and can't stand but two BIS in the
local.
"I don t understand YOU
eve are short of type and must work
to suit the cases.
I can't write an editorial without
w's.
That's not my fault, the foreman
replied. In the remaining editorial
you can not use W, nor must you use
but three is. You may employ four
Ks. but you must steer clear of Is
How canl write under such circum-
stances?'
"'That's not my look out. have told
you what we can do
al cannot comply
'''Then you have got me to whip
We had Jesse James hired once. and
employed his brother Frank for quite
while, but as they at last refused to ac-
commodate the type beat them unmer-
cifully and drove them away. Now, sir,
write according to instructions or I'll
make you feel ashamed OF your physical
incapacity.'
81 saw that the gentleman could pro-
duce points in arguments that could
not, in justice to myself, dispute. Ibid
much writing for the press, for l had
been, as you know a mailing clerk on
an agricultural paper. but when l had
to submit to q Encouragement of the
alphabet, / threw up my head and Oh.
jected. | can throw as away, and
can write comfortably without e ,,pt
Sir, when man attempts 10 ,,~,., mo Of
my 'ws', stubborn hristl-.s stand nm al
over over my patnre. The foreman said
al. ipaFg. "nu 1eft. lie thoughtI was
7'o" - adapting myself to Topographic
cal circumstances and [ hurt him. |
lodged when he kicked at me and very
justly allowed him to strike the door
facing. Arkansas may be a very fine
place for newspapers. but do not in
tend to surrender all of my privileges
merely to have some one say, ''Hello,
old fellow. that half column notice YOU
gave me was great help to me, atd to
show my appreciation Of your kind SER
vices, come over with me and take
nickle cigar. .'"-Arkansal0 IraUeler.
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AnalYsin Pictinn.

The analytic method in fiction is III
teresting, when used by master of dis
section, but it has this fatal defect in
novel,-it destroys illusion We want
to think that the characters in a story
are real persons. We cannot do this Il
we see the author set them UP is if they
were marionettes, and take them 80
pieces every few pages, and show their
interior structure, and the machinery by
which they are moved Not only is the
illusion gone, but the movement of the
story, if there is story, is retarded, till
the reader loses all enjoyment in impa-
tlence and WEAKNESS. You find yourself
saying, perhaps, What very clever fel-
low the author is, What an ingenious
creation this character is! How brightly
the author makes his people talk! This
is high praise, but by no means the
highest, and when we reflect we see
how immeasurably inferior, in fiction,
the analytic method is to the dramatic.
In the dramatic method the characters
appear, and show what they are bywhat
they do and say; the reader studies
their motives, and part of his enjoy
ment IS in analyzing them, and his
vanity is tiattered by the trust reposed
In his perspicacity. We realize how
unnecessary minute analysis of charac-
ter and long descriptions are in reading
drama by Shakespeare. in which the
characters are so vividly presented to us
in action and speech, without the least
interference of the authorin description,
that we regard them as persons with
whom we might have real relations. and
not as bundles of traits and qualities.
True, the conditions of dramatic art and
the art of the novel are different, in that
the drama can dispense with delinea-
tions, for its characters are intended to
be presented to the eye; but all the same,
a good drama viii explain itself without
the aid of actors, and there is no doubt
that it is the higher art in the novel,
when once the characters are introduced,
to treat them dramatically, and let them
work out their own destiny according
to their characters. 1t is a truism to
say that when the reader perceives that
the author can compel his characters to
do what he pleases all interest in them
as real persons is gone. In a novel
of mere action and adventure, lower
order of fiction, where all the interest
centres in the unrayeling OF plot, of
course this does not so much matter
april atlantic.
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How 10 See a Woman's Feet,

Ihe Philadelphia correspondent of the
Plttsburg Dispatch writes to his paper
about certain artfGl fellows, and SAYS of
them: "Ihese young chaps thought they
would sec whether Philadelphia girls
have as pretty feet as they have faces.
dealer in patent novelties, who sup
plies street peddlers with their commoi-
tiles, las recently furnished his salesInen
with toy rat that runs on wheels hid
den in its body. The tail is wrapped
around these wheels, and when the tail
is pulled the rat runs. The longer the
tail the farther runs the rat. Several of
these peddlers, or 'fakirs, as they are
called, conceived the idea ] have re-
ferred to. They stationed themselves
on prominent thoroughfares, and when
they saw q lady approaching they let
loose their little animal. There was O.
scream, invariably accompanied py &
gathering up of the skirts and a rather
reckless retreating movement and I'M
accustomed display. This pleased the
'f2kirs' immensely, and they continued
their amusement day after day. Some
body, however-there are ALWAYS people
lying about ready TO stop innocent1?)
enjoyment, it seems-told the Mavor
about this affair, and his Honor ordered
every fakir' found on the streets to be
pulled in, rats and all. Not only the
guilty suffered. but the poor fellows
who were trying to earn an honest pen
ny selling key rings at ten cents apiece
were also arrested and their wares con-
t;scated. | cannot understand why these
men should not be allowed to earn
livelihood in this way as well as the
vendors who 90 about ali day with red
tin boxes strapped to them selling cough
drops, and all night selling hot sau-
sages.h
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lie Won.

A policeman patroling Hastings street
Sunday afternoon was accosted by a
colored man named Larkins. who stated
that his wife had been missing for three
or four days, and that he was very much
worried over her absence.
''Larkins? Larkins? Why, / arrested
your wife five days ago for disorderly
conduct, replied the officer.
'Am dat possiblel An she went TO de
stashun?"
yes"
"An' befo' de court?''
..4es; it was bad case and she got
thirty days
"You doan say so. Wall, now, but dat
jist tickles ne half to death! Jist six
days ago | bet de ole woman half dol
lar dat she'd be in de Work House in
side of week. an she got dar in FIVE
days-yahl yah! yah! was jist shakin'
fur fear I'd lost de money, but it's all
right and lee half dollar aheadr'-
Detroit Free Press,
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The Oity Without Homes.

The majority of New Workers feel
that they would rather die in NewY ork,
where they can have access to the thea
ters. the boulevards, society, and the
countless other attractions of the
metropolis, than vegetate in suburban
village. They have lost the old idea of
home. All that they ask is place To
sleep and in which to receive their
friends, and If it is a long, narrow suite
OF rooms, where sunlight is luxury,
they fill their apartments with rich fur
nlture, bric-a-brac, portieres and pic
tures, and content themselves with the
brilliant display of wealth in a small
space. Their hG:ne is the world outside
They have the parks, the avenues, and
the places OF amusement, in which to
disport themselves. That children grow
up into premature and unlovely man
hood and womanhood under such inllu-
ences cannot be a waiter of surprise.
A life of supreme seltishness, apart from
the cozy, quiet pleasures in which the
whole family once participated, is not
wholesome in its effects, though it is
fashioned on the Paris ideal. Even rich
people find it convenient to throw eff
the cares OF household, and it is in
obedience to the law of demand thar
many apartment houses are now in
course of construction whose suites of
rooms VIII rent at prices from $500 IN
500 or $500 month. This viii raduce
the family to narrow quarter. hpt the
location will be eligible" and the ca
terer and restaurant will liohten the
troubles OF the head of the household
Gut OF such modernized caricatures of
homes 1t IS not surprising that genera
uon OF llght-headed young folks should
emerge, whose center of happiness is
located at Long Branch. SARATOGA. the
Delmonico ball room, and the fashion
aole reception parlor-anvwhere rather
than where the cold folks are SUD-
posed to be, 1t is only in novels that
tney learn anything about the family
circle at the home tireside, and it can
not be surprising, therefore. that they
wish to leave the household shelter as
soon as possible, and ro out into the
world to seek their fortunes for them
selves. This is the spirit of the chance
tllat / have seen creeping over New
lork IN a generation-sinee the day
hFe and thirty years ago, when ] came
To New York school boy, and found il
thriving city of pleasant homes, where
each family had It's own roof-tree. and
Wnere boarding houses Were the excep-
t'oh, and flats and tenements were nm
Known Perhaps the change has been
unavoidable, but it certainly has not
pettered the social condition of our peo-
ple.-Neeo YORK. Letter.
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No Complaints From the Boarders.

A Detroit milkman some time since
secured customer whom be soon dis
covered meant to pay in promises, but
he realized that if he quit serving her he
stood no chance of collecting the debt
already contracted. He therefore plan
ned to oblige her to dismiss him, and be-
gan by adding one-fourth water to the
milk. No fault being found he put in
fifty per cent. of water. Three DAYS
passed without complaint, and the
amount of water rose to seventy-tive
per cent. In three or four days more
he served her with two quarts of water
colored by a gill of milk Next morning
he expected to hear from it, but as the
servant. girl made no complaints, he
asked:
''How does the family like the milkP''
Pretty well, | guess
"No complaints?''
Not as I've heard. Missus is a
widow, you know, and doesn't drink tea
nor coffee on account of the dyspepsia,
and the boarders have all they can do to
complain of the butterr'
The man gave it up as bad Job
Detroit Free Press.
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a Curious Fact.

1t is a curious fact, says the Virginia
(Nev.) Territorial Enterprise, that the
legs of the women ''born and raised"
down on the Truckee Meadows, and
about Reno, are so short that they can.
not step from the railroad platform tC
the cars to board the trains. Owing TO
this short-leggedness and lack of stride
it has been found necessary at the Reno
depot to rig up and use a plank, such as
is used in steamboat landings. Ovei
this plank the little duck-legged crea
lures are able to waddle aboard the
trains. A scientist of Reno saws that
owing to the fact that all the country Is
dead level, and perfectly smooth. there
are no distractions, over which it is
necessary for the women to lift then
feet. He calculates that in about three
generations more they viii have no legs
at all, and that in about FIVE generations
their feet (now forming such notice
abe part of them) viii also have entirely
disappeared.
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A Wealthy Railroad Corporation.

The Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany is one of the richest corporations
in the world. 1t started out with a
grant of 756 miles OF road built and in
operation; another grant of $4,000, 600
acres of land SAID to be worth on the
average s. per acre, and Government
guarantee of the clear gift of S25, ,000,-
600, to be paid by installment, so much
upon the completion of each section OF
twenty miles. Its charter exempts the
road, equipment and capital stock, from
taxes forever, and it has free right OF
way, with all the materials for con-
struction and equipment free of duty.
The whole mileage to be built by the
company is less than 2,400 miles. The
eastern half of will not cost more than
$l5, 600 a mile, or Sl8, 900, 600. The
western half. including passage through
two ranges of mountains, may cost an
average of S35, 200 a mile. or S45. .00O,-
600; a total probable cost of $50. .OOO.-
600, of which the Government paws
$25, 100000. leaving for the company
but S35. 600, 900, which 10000, 600 acres
OF their land grant from Winnepeg
westward will pay. They viii then
have left their entire capital stock and
10000 acres of land for the con
struction of connections and branches
and equipment, and for the creation OF
connecting lines of steamships from
Montreal to Europe at the East. and
from Port Moody with Australia, China.
and San Francisco at the West. A
company 40 rich in funds and exempt
from all taxes forever, and so large q
surplus, ought to become a regulator Of
all the other transcontinental railways
and force them into reasonable and fail
treatment OF the public.-!San Francis.
co Chronicle,
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4 STARTLING DISCOVERY

Physicians are often startled by
remarkable discoveries. The fact that
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump
ton and all Throat and Lung diseases is
daily curing patients that they have
given up 10 die. is startling them to
realize their sense of duty, and examine
into the merits of this wonderful discoy.
cry: resulting III hundreds of our best
Physicians using it In their practict.
Trial bottles free at Robinson & Hinricbs
Drug Store. Regular size s1.O0. L
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An Old Guitar.

Marred and battered. it lies unused
Music has fled from its tangled strings;
The spirit of melody it diffused
Is gone, ike the hopes that lfes morntime
brings.
close my eyes, as in thought return
To long-1ead Summer, a trOpic night,
A nsoss-grOwn tree, by ripping burn.
And lassie with eyes that are fun of light
j lie at her feet, while her songs glad notes,
Such as an angel mght choose TO sing,
Sweet, and far through the night air floats
Like the scent OF the flowers that the fairies
bring.
The pGllid moonlight is touching her brow,
And silvering the strings that her fingers
touch;
I'd give the whole V orld but TO see her now
As ! saw her then, nor deem it much.
But that voice has been silent for many years.
The iove-iight quenche / in the sweet, starry
eyes;
She sleens where we laid her with binding
tears,
Under the dropping, tropical skies.
And I tendcrly kiss the broken strings
Where her fingers strayed in the long agone
And back from the past fond memory brings
The words Of a half-forgotten song.
e, NJ l.,
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The great bridge over the East River.
to connect the cities of New York and
Brooklyn, will, within the course of a
few months, be finished and thrown
open to the public, and it has been de-
termined 1t shall be free to foot passen-
gers; the fare IN the cars for q ride of
mile and a half being five cents. and
that the tolls for animals and vehicles
shall be so low IS 10 reduce the ferriage
on the river coats as much as possible.
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A Brooklyn clergyman thought that tn,
conductor of the street car in which b.
was riding did not register correctly the
fares which he had collected He re
ported the conductor at the Office of tn,
company and secured lis discharge. AT
ter reinstatement the horse-car man suet
the divine for malicious libel, fixing tn.
damage at high figure.
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VIM. M. SEEGER,

DENTIST. OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN ANDER-
IL sons Block, corner South Eighth aid Quay
Streets, ManItowoc, Was. Prompt attention VIA
be gwen 10 ali wOrk entrusted 20 me. apr~'-ol
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NJ. kETTENHOFFEN,

NORTHWESTERN HOUSE FRANKLIN AND
~ Ninth streets, ManltUwuc. Travellers VIII
ere hnd the best Accommodations, Sample rooms
attached.
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WJNDIATE HOUSE

~ WINDIATE, PROPRIETOR, YORK ST.
Il This hrst-class Housa is in excellent cOndi-
sion, and the Proprietor is confident that he can
give perfect satisfaction To the travelling public.
Bus will always be ready 10 take travellers to sud
from the boats. \ GooD LIVERY srABLE is kept
| n connection with the House.
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WORK STREET, MANITOWOC, WIS, DEAL
4 er in Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Fancy
Goods Glass ware, Boots a-d Shoes, Ready made
Clothing, Paper Hangnzs, Hats, Caps, Toys, Chill
dren Carriages Live Geese Feathers, Biru Cages,
Kerosene oil and Lam :, &C, sc. \ share OF pub
patronage is solicited.
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CHARLES HOVER.

MERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISH
vi ment, on sun street, near south end oi bridge
The tailoring department is complete. and con.
tains large assortment OF fashionable cloths ana
GerGs furnishing goods constantly on hand
Please call and examine before purchasing else
~
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FRED SEEGER.

OFFERS TO HIS FRIENDS AND THE PUB
~ lie generally, choice selection OF Fresh
Meats, Salt Pork and Beef, Smoked Beef anu
Hams, Shoulders, Sausagcs, rallow and Lard ~
the lowest rates. Market on Commercial street.
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RARRER SHOP.

IARL PANGBU3N'S 3@rbersAop, in Ba,nys'
Oblack on North EighLl street. - 0ris done n
good taste. Partlcuiur attention paid u Ladies
and Childrcr's hair cutting anu si.lmpoUiag. By
ali means call and see carl.
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DIR. G. Il. GRIDLEY,

DENTAL PARL0RS, RUDOLFH'S BLOCK,
Ib Corner Eighth and Franklin Streets, Sonih
Side, Manitowoc, Wis. Office hours from a. M
to +. nj. leD-4
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: SANnERSON.

NsANUFACrUk1RAN DEALER IN BOOTS
vi SHOES, Leather, Sc., &C. shop on BuIIaio
Street, near the corner Of Eighth. RepaiIiu@
neatly and promptly executed.