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4 lucky Young Man.

One of the lucky young men of Cali
fornia is Mr.. James Y. Coleman, of
Menlo Park, graduate of Georgetown
College, D. O., who was elected last
year to the California Assembly, and it
is said has Congressional aspirations,
though only 80 years old. A few years
ago he was clerk at Nevada mine at
500 a month. He was a nephew of
VIM. I. OBrien. the bachelor bonanza
king. During the last illness of his I'M
Gle, Jimmy nursed him and was re-
warded with a gift of $500,00O, in addi-
ton to 100000 beQueathed in his will.
The uncle also "ade him executor of
his estate, which yielded in fees $464,-
600. The whole value of Uncle Billy's
estate was little over 100000. After
the legacies were paid, the residue, was
turned over to Mr.. O'Briens two sisters
Mrs. COleman-"J immy's" mother
and Mrs. Joseph McDonough. The two
ladies inherited S3,50O,0O0 each.
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The Lost World.

Those who would fancy Atlantis must
picture different world from ours, and
no description is possible. 1t was
great continent lying on both sides of
the equator extending many degrees be-
yond it in either direction, but much
the greater mass being to the south
ward. It stretched through the torrid
zone of both hemispheres, included the
entire south temperate zone and most
of the north. It stretched from the
Central Atlantic to the modern Austria
liza, which is a remnant of it's former
terminus. There were many islands
contiguous to its northern shores. In
that cycle there was no land in the
modern Dominion of Canada, Siberia,
Northern Europe or British Isles; all
were submerged. The spirits of Allan
tans now abide on the planet Mars, and
will pass on from orb to orb with the
end Of each great cycle until rounding
out the experience of the entire solar
system they become angels, no longer
servants but masters of matter. When
Atlantis went down the northern world,
now the center of the highest civiliza-
ton, rose up. Our world is now march
ing on to that perfect civilization it will
have when the cycle ends. This cul-
mination of our civilization in this per-
iod of fruition will be greater than that
of Atlantis. Then when the cycle ends
the spirits of it pass on to progress
through other planets.-W. S. COlUttle.
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The Man Who Spits,

The Man Who Splits is liberal Great
ure but unlovely in his iberality
That which he has to dispense he
sheds around with generous profu-
sion, regardless of time, place or the
presence of company In the physical
economy of most men the liver is the
largest gland in the body. But to OBJ
serve the habits of the Man Who Splits
is to gather the idea that his salivarv
glands must be at least five times as
large as his liver and fifty times as act
i've. The mans life seems to be given
up to splitting. He spits at his home
and whene'er he takes his walk abroad.
On entering a public conveyance,
whether stage, car or steamboat, his
first proceeding is to spit on the floor.
Having made beginning he continues,
splitting at convenient intervals until
the floor in his vicinity assumes the APP
pearance of pool, and sometimes he
stimulates his salivary glands with to-
bacco or other drug in order to make
his splitting more abundant and fouler
nuisance than it otherwise would be-
To look at company of spitters en-
gagged in their favorite pastime one
would suppose they had been fed on
some article of diet which has left dis
agreeable taste behind it. In some in
stances they have not this apology for
splitting, but they spit simply from force
of habit. The pursuit of this habit
bluntS their sensibilities as to the CON-
fort and desires of other human beings
who may be penncd in the Same apart
ment with them. Even in d crowded
street car the Man Who Splits VIII spit,
even though the only visible section of
flooring is no larger than q mans hand.
In thus splitting at a mark he narrowly
escapes deiiling the garments of those
who stand or sit close beside him. But
he is bound to spit, even though he spit
all over his fellow-men. Recent actual
and careful observation of several Of
these beings IN one street car showed
that while the vehicle was going five
squares one man spit eleven times, an
other seventeen, another twenty-three,
and fourth thirty-onc. This may seem
large, but almost anybody with q fair
knowledge of arithmetic may count for
himself on any trip of car and find
nearly the same result.
To the moral perception of the Man
Who Splits, if indeed he have any moral
perception at all, the world is one vast
spittoon. He seems to have taken q
contract to fill it, and diligently he Ia
bors, day after day, with spit, spit, spit,
until his wretched task shall be full
filed. At best, it is an ugly habit. At
the worst, he runs the risk of splitting
out most of his vitality and becomes not
only an unsavory object but a miserable
dyspeptic. -PhiIddelphia Times.
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A Submarine Army of TOrpedOes.

A remarkable means of defense is
known as the "Graydon-Leach system"
and provides for the maneuvering of
fleets Of torpedoes under complete con-
troll, below the surface of the water, and
admitting of entire or partial withdraw
al at pleasure, to permit the passing of
friendly vessels, or enticing hostile yes
sells within the limits and then sur
rounding them with torpedoes that will
insure their destruction. The torpe-
does can be massed, moved in various
directions, and, in fact, Unanswered
similarly to bodies of troops, and, beng
entirely submerged, give no signs of APP
proach to the enemy. The system is
comparatively inexpensive, and the plan
simple. No hostile fleet could enter a
harbor defended by it, and therefore its
novelty, simplicity and practicibility
render it very valuable. Though we
have at present no adequate means of
defense for our coast and seaport cities,
yet by this system of torpedo defense a
hostile feet could be kept beyond she'll
ing distance of New York, Brooklyn,
San Francisco or any of our seaport
cities, and even the mouth Of Chesa-
peake Bay can be easily rendered I'M
passable.-O1tT Continent.
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The Donkey.

L admire his perseverance. Some
people call it obstinacy, but they take
but narrow view of the burros char
acter. They look at him through q
single-barreled cye-gl&ss. [ have sco.i
a bUrro work for hours to get his foot
stuck in IN empty tomato-can. When
he succeeded, have known him TO go
miles out OF the way, III the darkness of
midnight, to wake up some drowsy
prospector with its melancholy tintin-
nabulation. [ have known him to come
back repeatedly with his serenade, al
though he had not been encored, and
no floral offerings had been received.
L have known him to crawl under the
projecting bed of railroad wagon
and strain every nerve to boost
it off the road. True, he did not sue
coed in his main desire, but he did ever
lastlnGly smash two coffee-pots and de-
stroy the continuity of his owners bed
ding.
L have seen him desert a bundle of
hay to so away and MUNICH cactus and
gravel. He couldn't get the same
amount of nourishment from the latter
IN the same space of time, but he
seorned to be influenced by such con-
sidoration
[ respect his digestive apparatus.
One day [ stood ON q mountain side
with dyspeptic from Greeley, who for
years had eaten nothing but graham
bread and cracked wheat We were
watching burro feed. As the animal
SLOWLY and conscientiously chewed up
the flour and gunny sacks, got away
with salt bags and ham covers, gath
cred in brown paper and old socks, and
finally tackleda large-sized sardine- box,
the tears welled up in the eyes OF the
Greeley man, and, in a husky voice, he
said: Gracious! If I could only do
that. "-DenUer NelUs.
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LudicrOuS Stage Incident.

Pat Holland, now of Arizona, once
had a reputation for being dead shot
with pistol, but he las had to to take
q postof1ice for living. He acquired a
reputation for shooting apples from a
young lady's head on the stage. He
announced one night that he would
shoot twelve apples from twelve young
ladies' heads, using his left hand as we'll
as his right. But by the time he had
fired the first six shots all twelve of the
apples had disappeared and his last six
were delivered to the empty air, amid
the roars of the audience. Two apples
got tangled together and remained
dangling from the edge of q scene in
plain sight of the audience. Each ap-
pie had a fine thread attached, and at
the shot was ierked quickly ont of sight.
The supcs who pulled the strings got
confused, and half the apples disap-
peared before the time. This ended his
career and fame
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The YeunG Man and His Uncle.

Once upon time young man start
ed out on his travels. He found q
place where life looked rather easy. and
being Of lazy disposition by Inherit
aDce he concluded to take up his-abode
there permanently. So he rusted in.
Having no longer any use for a gun
that he possessed. he lent it to his I'M
Gle, who kept little shop Of various
commodities, with a juggler tossing
three gold balls in the air for q sign.
And many times afterward the young
man repented, looking wistful as wild
goose tied by the legs at passing
flock, as often as the shooting season
came around; but long abstinence from
active life made him slow to move: the
more he looked, the more his body pro-
tested against being exposed to the
cold and wet and clamored for letting
well enough alone; so his good inten-
tons went for naught.
The young mans uncle kept the gun
in a safe place until he should come
again. But he did not come.
Years passed by, and each year the
same battle was fought between the
young mans soul and his body, the
same VOWS were made and broken, and
the good intentions went to serve as
paving-stones in a certain locality much
in need of firm footing. But each year
the fight was less fierce as the soul
grew weaker, and the body likewise, and
at last one day they agreed to disagree,
and parted.
His uncle's face grew brighter as oft
en- as he looked down the street and
saw him not; and at last one day he be-
held curious black carriage, with
long procession of other carriages fol-
lowing, and he cried out, "Solomoni
Solomon Isaacsl Dake dat leetle gun
and polish him till he shine ike newly
coined shekel!"
But de young man" answered Sol
ONION Isaaes timidly. eff he sees him
bright he may want him back
"Ah, never morel" and tho yoHag
mans uncle rubbed lis hands
1T is too latel lie have gone TO
superintend his own paving Forest
and Stream.
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Origin Of POPULAR Phrases,

"Crochet. This word, with which
the ladies are most familiar, is from the
French crache-a hook-and describes
a kind of thread or worsted work con-
sisting Of loops made with small hook
designed for the purpose. Tt was in
vented in France little over thirty
years ago.
phantom Ship."-The legend of the
Phantom Ship" is that she was origi-
nGlly & vessel loaded with great wealth
bat horrible murder having been com
mitted On board, the plague broke out
among the crew, and no port would al
low the ship to enter, so it was doomed
to float about like ghost as punish
ment for the crimes committed on board
of her. The story is told in an intensely
fascil atilg manner by Walter Scott
Leap in the Dark. In the debates
in the English House of Lords on the
reform bill in 1868, the late Lord Der
by applied this phrase to the proposed
legislation. 1t was, however, not origi-
nal. 1t has been traced to song in
the British Museum collection, where it
occurs in the line:
All YOU tldU IluSJ take q leap IN the UiTk.
Thomas bubbles, on his death-bed in
1879, is reported to have said: 81 am
taking frightful leap in the dark, -
which is not unlike the expression of
Rabelais in his last illness-"I am going
to the Great Perhaps" Motteaux, in
his life Of Rabelais makes the latter
say, at the approach of dissolution, ~
am just going to leap into the dark"
"Ta-ta. "A term of late much used
as one of humorous farewell. It is a
purely Southern expression, and is
given meaning entirely different from
that it started out in life with; and how
it ever came to be applied in its present
tense IS little surprising to any one TO
the Southern manner born" and es-
pecially to any one familiar with the
idioms of the South of ante-bellum
days. No who was ever petted, loved
and spoiled by kind old black imam
my" can ever forget that "ta-ta," in
baby dialect, is thank you," or to give
an exact definition from unwritten
Southern vocabulary, "thanky." They
can never forget mammy's coaxingly
reproving tones, nor her "churchy,"
when, in correcting some childish for
getfulness, the omission of thank for
some slight favor, the gift of an apple,
or, perhaps, stalk of sugar-cane, she
would say: Honey, where's yo' man
ners? Whynt you say 'ta-ta p" OF
course as the children grew larger this
pet way of expressing thanks was laid
away with their baby clothes, and the
"ehurchy" that nanny had taught
them-a funny substitute for a bow,
consisting only in sudden bending of
the knees, which caused comical dip
down and up-vas put away with the
iingling rhymes of early childhood.
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The Mate of the E.Mark Twain. ;,

The first mate of the vessel, he of the
fur cap, was a character It was ap-
propriate to find him in the "NIark
Twain" He was bald and looked very
old, but declared he was thirty.
EFF you had been through what I
hev, my travelin' stranger" quoth he,
you too would look like an example of
the longest kind of longevity. My
name figures prominently in history.
I've been published in four hundred and
thirty-nine newspapers and one alma
nae. I've been blown up by steam
boats in twenty-five States and several
Territories. On most occasions, every
body on board persisted, except myself.
Pieces of my skull is layin' round loose
all up and down this river, and numer-
GUS of its tributaries. Awful? Yes.
Once l was on board the j"Obiona." I
knew we were goin' to bust that ater-
noon, for it was about Dustin time with
me, and bust we did. When [ come
down [ couldn't find nothin'. Every
thing had bowed to dust, or gone so fur
that nothin' was within visible distance.
But, bless you!-that's nothin'. Minor
catasterfies? Oh, yes. Once we
smashed q wheel against q snag. OF
course, when we progressed we went
round and round, and so went round
and round ali the way down to New
Orleans, describin' circles the whole
time. We all got orful headaches OWN
to the centripital tendency of the peri
phery.-MdTk TaUdj7a.
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Our Fire-Trap Dwellings.

Let me show you how q wooden
house is built. The sills and joists OF
the first floor are comparatively safe,
because they are not boxed in with dry
boards, and even with furnace and ash
pits in the cellar there would be little
danger from a fire down below if it were
not for the careful provision made for
carrying it into the upper part of the
structure. This provision, however, is
most effectively made by means of the
upright studs and fulrrings that stand
all around the outside of the building
and reach across it wherever partition
is needed. Accordingly every wooden
house has from 100 to 1000 wooden
fues of highly inflammable character,
arranged expressly to carrw fire from
the bottom to the top, valiantly con-
Stunning themselves In the operation.
Furthermore, they are frequently
charged with shavings and splinters of
wood, which, becoming dry as finder,
Will respond at once to a spark from a
crack in the chimney, an overheated
stove or furnace pipe, or match III the
hands of an inquisitive mouse. They
are likewise so arranged that no water
can be poured inside of them till they
fall apart and the house collapses, for
they reach to the roof, whose sole duty
it is TO keep out water, whether it
comes from the clouds or the hose pipe,
but which, for economical reasons, is
made sufficiently open to allow the air
to pass through it freely, thus inslring
a good draught when the fire begins to
burn. To complete the system and
prevent the possibility of finding where
the fire began, the spaces between the
joists and the upper floors communicate
with the vertical fues, and these
highways and byways for rats and nice,
for fire and smoke, for odors from the
kitchen, noises from the nursery and
dust from the furnace and coal-bin, are
also strewn with builders rubbish,
which carries flame like stubble on q
harvest field.-E. C. Gardner, IN Our
Continent.
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GGWine TO he q Lawsuit. -

We were sitting on the hotel steps at
Franklin, Tenn, when a colored man
came up and asked the time of day. A
gentleman, whom everybody addressed
as Major, gave the hour and added:
"Say, Moses, I want good stout
man to move some fencing for me. I'll
give you dollar to come up and work
for me tomorrow"
Couldn't do it, sab. TIE got to tend
dat Peters lawsuit tomorrow"
Well, next day."
Next day de old man Brown has his
lawsuit"
"Then say Thursday"
Couldn't do it, sab. OATS de day
Mrs. Simpson am to be tried fur frow-
Ia an ak at Elder Barrow"
Well, will you agree to be on hand
Friday?"
NO, sab. On Friday TIE gwine seb-
en- miles out to tend a lawsuit befo'
Squiar' Marshall"
"Can you come Saturday."
Reckon not, Major. More'n likely
de Taylor hog-killin' case will come off
Saturday"
See here, Moses" said the Major as
he dropped his feet and leaned forward
can you spare me any one day next
week?"
Can't promise fur sartin, sab, kase
some Of desc lawsuits may be disjourned
ober, you know"
lie was only fair sample of the race.
Next day, as rode out on the Spring
field pike, met five slashing fellows
walking at rate of six miles an hour.
After dividing a plug of tobacco among
them / asked
Going to town."
eyes, sab"
Circus coming in to-day"
Reckon not, sab, but dar's gwine to
be lawsuit, an ives pushin' right long
fur front seats. IN. Quad.
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A Georgia Editor on Early Marriages.

Nine-tenths of the unhappy marriages
are the result of green human calves
being allowed to run at large in the So
ciety pastures without any yokes on
them. They marry and have children
before they do mustaches; they are
fathers of twins before they are proprie-
tors of two pairs of pants, and the little
girls they marry are old women before
they are 20 years old. Occasionally
one of these gOsling marriages turns out
all right, but it is a clear case of luck
If there was law against young galoots
sparkling and marrying before they have
cut all their teeth, we suppose the little
cUsses would evade it in some way, but
there ought to be a sentiment against
it. 1t is timeenough for these bantams
to think of finding pullet when they
have raised money enough to buy a
bundle Of laths to build a hen-house.
But they see q girl who looks cunning,
and they are afraid there are not going
to be girls enough to go around, and
then they begin to get in their work
real spry; and before they are aware of
the sanctity Of the marriage relation
they are hitched for life. and before
they own q cook-stove or a bedstead,
they have to get up in the night and go
after the doctor, so frightened that they
run themselves out of breath and abuse
the doctor because he doesn't run too,
and when the doctor gets th4re there is
not enough linen in the no Use to wrap
up Il dOlI-baby.
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Wild Goats as a Result of the War.

Is showing the instinct Of the goat,
which is not generally credited with
much intelligence, visitors to Harper's
Ferry, Va, are Informed that, when
the war broke out aud the sound of the
cannonading was heard in the valley,
large numbers of tame animals Of this
description took refuge on the Mary
land heights and have never returned.
Even now they can be seen or the top
of the mountain. Their young lave
been reared on the summit. ami have
never become domesticated. Occasion
ally hunters kill the wild goats, as they
are called, and the tame ones from the
valley frequently go up to visit them,
but they persistently refuse to descend,
and tie sense of danger experienced by
the goats of 1861 and 1862 seems to
have heen transmitted to their pos
terity.
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Floating specks in the Eye.

Many persons are troubled with such
specks, called by the doctors "muscm
volitantes fitting flies. They pass
across the vision while one is reading.
OF rise when the eve is turned quickly
upward, to descend slowly again as the
eye resumes its ordinary position. They
are always in motion.
Notwithstanding their name of "fies, :"
they generally appear as minute beads,
or strings of beads, or bits of thread, or
transparent globules. When one at
tempts to hold them before his direct
vision, they immediately float away.
People who are subject TO them often
suffer from needless fears on their ac-
count. But such may be treasured by
the following from Williams work on
"The Eye" it's author being an eminent
professor in Harvard University:
"The former idea that these appear
ances are to be regarded as premani-
tons of amauroria" loss of vision from
paralysis of the retina-"is still so pre-
served as tradition, that it is often
very difficult to convince those who
have become alarmed from perceiving
ChSh bIAC llIOcb JOOlblNC doSCI
ton, that they have no important sig
nifcance."
Most studious people observe them
when their eyes are fatigued, or they
are suffering from indigestion. They
are frequently quite troublesome to
persons looking through a microscope,
but they are then exceedingly distinct,
and are interesting phenomena to ex-
anime, provided the mind is at rest
about them.
The Opthalmoscope can detect no
cause for them in the eye.
Prof. Williams says: "That they are
not the result of important structural
change is evident from the fact that
they vary from one time to another and
in different circumstances, being seen,
for instance, more numerously and dis
tinctly after congestion from fatiguing
use of the eyes, or when looking at a
light surface, such as the ceiling, a
cloudy sky, the page of book, or the
snow-covered ground. Youths Com
p0njOn.
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A SaIutary Law.

The laws of Denmark contain, among
other wise provisions, one which it would
probably be as difficult to find in the
criminal code of other nations as in our
own common law. or any other statute
amending the same. It provides pun
ishment for that especially revolving
form Of cruelty which consists in allow
ing a fellow-creature to perish without
extending to him helping hand. A
mere act of omission in certain cases is
indictable. Whoever has refused.
says the Danish law, &c to help another
person IN mortal danger, when he could
have done so without peril to his own
life, and that person has persisted in
consequence, is liable to either impris-
onment or fine"