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ROBINSON cRusoE,s ISLAND.

correspondent of the Rochester Demo
c'ut writes The sun was bathing the beau
tiful island with flood of golden light as
we neared its picturesque harbor. In little
boats we went ashore and landed in the
primitive manner of running the boat
aground and pulling the boat up ON the
shore. 1t was difficult to realize that we
were, indeed, ON this historical, mysterious
island that imagination had pictured from
childhood's early hours in so many fanciful
forms. The books tell you that it was ON
this lovely island that, in 1704, the celebrnt-
ed English navigator, Dampier, landed his
eoxswain, Alexander Selkirk, with whom he
had quarrelled and left him alone on this
nninhabited spot with small quantity OF
provisions and tools. Here he lived foul
years, till he was picked up by passing
ship and brought back to Europe. Ii was
from the notes he made during his solitary
residence that Daniel Defoe composed his
Incompatible work of 9 Robinson Crusoe.''
No book, doubtless, ever held the childish
interest with greater fascination than that
wiIieiI describes ms wanderings on this
mysterious and enchanted island. That
which had always seemed but dreamy
romance was now before you. The scenes
where all the wild and wondrous experiences
were described are Just at hand, and YOU
wonder on, rs it were, but just aroused from
fanciful dream. Perchance it was ON this
sandy beach along which you wander that
Crusoe first discovered the footprints of his
good man Friday.
The island is about seven Spanish leagues
in circumference, or a trife over twenty
English miles. 1t belongs to Chill, and for
number of years the Government used it
as place for transporting convicts, till one
night all the prisoners arose in power, killed
their keepers, and taking the only boats Oh
the island sailed away and were never heard
of more. Of late years the Government has
leased the island to one man who pays
something like 80, 900 year for its USE
This man has small colony of worlsmen
whom he employs in cutting timber, dry.
ing fish and goat skins and sending them
avery few months in large quantities to the
markets at Valparaiso. There are to be
Of peculiar kind and enormous size.
Some of these measure from two to four
feet in length. Every variety of fish in the
greatest abundance seems to swarm about
this lone island. 1t is a great resort for
whalers, who put in here for few days to
supply themselves with fresh water and
with fish, poultry and game, which they
obtain at marvelously low prices from the
sovereign ruler of the island. Many years
ago two lone, lorn goats were brought to
the island and their families and children
have increased so rapidly that to-day thou
sands and tens of thousands of these now
are to be found in every part of the island.
Large numbers of them are shot each year,
and their dried skins sold in Valparaiso are
a source of large income to the lessee of the
land.
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FRUIT IN COLORADO.

The doctors agree that the fruit this
season is unfit to eat-indeed the grayest
consequences are liable to ensue from an in
diligence in the berries, peaches, apricots
and other fruits now in the market. In
nearly all of the fruits are to be found the
tiny white eggs of the pl,ollvz0e antts, a
parasite highly poisonous to the human
system. These eggs defy the acids of the
stomach and passing into the intestines re-
main there, clinging fast to the mucous
membrane. In due time they hatch and
develope into what are commonly called
tape-worms. The constant rains of the past
spring are said to have induced this lament
able condition of affairs. 1t is hard to deny
ones self the tempting fruit exposed TO
view in the market places, but of the alter
natives, abstinence or tapewom, the former
would seem the better.--Denger Tribune.
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CONCERNING CONSERVATIVES.

The question raised by E" Elena" was dis.
cussed in the Atlantic several years ago,
and it was proved that it is dangerous for
well person to inhale air exhaled by persons
with any pulmonary disease. This has
been demonstrated by French chemist,
who recently took four young, healthy rab-
bits from the same litter and kept them for
los days in cages, as follows: Two were
placed into cage where they were obliged
to breathe the air expired from animals with
consumption twice day for two hours in
a short time they became siclsly, and on
killing them they were found TO have tuber-
Giles in the lungs. The other two breathed
twice day the same mir, but disinfected by
being passed through cotton wadding impreg-
mated with carbolic acid these rabbits re-
manned in good health, and were finally
eaten by the experimenter.
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aThis s verr straneer 4, snid uncle pionlr.


This isyery stranges'' said Uncle Diony-
sius, with pertufbed face.
Very strange, indced.n said Aunt Jean,
beginning to cry.
Even the old farmer and his. wife wore
frightened, and Melissa and Priscilla,
the two daughters, looked hlankly al one
another.
She must be--ilrownedn whispered
Aunt Jean sss
More likely kidnapped z, declared
Uncle Dionyaius. WHAT'S the. nsaFess
telegraph station'g Ten miles away Great
heavens! What is a person to do in such.
benighted place as thisT'
But just as be was stamping arcunF the
floor and working himself into o fine
paroxysm of rage, the back door opened,
and in walked Miss Kitty Primrose her.
self. Fr7s
With Mr.. Brian Balmore at her side.
"Oh, uncle, / hope you havn't beer
frightened" said Kitty, laughing au,l cry
ing in the same breath.
She is not in the least hurt" said Mr.,
Balmore. And it is all my fault "
No, ii isn't contradieted Kitty g it's
mine in
''Childreni" said Aunt Jean, " what docs
this mean?"
/" It's Brian that was the ghost,n said
Kitty ~ saw his face at TIE window and
heard his violin, and then, silly goose that
was, with my mind full of Priscillas hob
goblin stories, faintedl And then Brian
came out and picked me up and threw
water over my facet"
But" cried Uncle Dionysius, wildly
rumplingth the hair on the topof his head with
ill his ten fingers, why don't somebody
explain How on earth came Brian Bal
more there, of all places in the world"
The young man laughed.
"To confess the TRUTH said he, /" was
camping out in the old ruin. I've been
there ever since you brought Kitty to Sandy
Point. j could not endure to be separated
from her, SO have been playing Robinson
Crusoe, on a small scale, aud doing what
sletching could"
And he says he loves me-" cried Kitty,
radiantly. 'sAnd we are to be married as
soon we get back to the city. Oh, Lam so
happy, 80 very happy
Uncle Dionysius and Aunt Jean looked
at each other. Verify, true love had been
too much for themi
"well,n said Uncle Dionysius, " we may
as we'll submit"
g Perhaps it is all for the BEST sug-
gested Jean.
the solution to her life problem in. the
Haunted House i--SAirley Bro,ene.
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SAVED BY A HORSE.

Not long since, while the waters Of Buck
Creek were swollen, Miss Mamie Lee and
sister, aged twelve, attempted to cross the
creek both on horse. When they got near
the middle OF the stream the horse became
entangled in some brush and threw them
into the foaming stream and went TO the
bank and shook the saddle of. Miss Nam
ME had sunk twice when her sister caught
her by the hair, and the horse went to them,
turned around, and the younger sister caught
him by the tail with one hand, and holding
Mamie with the other, reached the shore
safely. The horse started home ON gallop,
and Weighed as If in great trouble but get.
ting no one to notice him, he started back
in full speed TO the girls. Finding them
both alive and on their way home, he ran up
to them and rubbed his head on their shout
ders and Weighed as If he was very glad to
see them alive.--S0pserset Ky. Reporter.
-- ~----ses---.~ -
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CASTLE LupLoW.

Gotham has.its iniquities, of course, and
particularly large villainous one is Ludlow
Street Jail. The new revelations about it,
though, which have attracted the attention
of some of Uncle SAINTS virtuous and high.
minded servants in Washington are really
not new at all. Similar disclosures have
been made dozen times and excited great
deal of vigorous indignation chiefly in the
newspapers, which have denounced the
management of Castle ludlow in terms as
eloquent rs any mother-in.law ever used.
But the evil has not been cured, and am
Inclined to think that so long as the jailer-
ship is the reward of some New Yorl, poll
tieian, it won't be cured
If we had q Dickens to show up the insti-
tuition as the only Dickens showed up the
old Fleet in London, something In the
mere spasmodic outbursts of indignation
don't and won't have much effect Tweed
said about one of them that il would soon
blow over, though the boss of the big ring
was wrong in that particular case. A man
who gets into Ludlow Street Jail without
any cash in his pocket might well wish him.
self out of the world at once. His life there
will certainly be the very worst kind of pur-
gttorial experience. The warden will starye
him by day and the yermin will feed on linn
by night and indescribable wretchedness
will be his portion. II he can afford TO pay
Slj Il week for his board, though, the war
den will make him pretty comfortable--an
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a Little Learning II IA Dangerous Thing.
An exchange says that a young China
man in New York spends several hours a
day over his English grammar. Some one
should speak to the young Chinaman upon
the folly of such labor. If he masters the
English according to grammar, it will then
take him some time after that to learn 10
talk SO that his English speaking customers
can understand him. A grammar is of no
account ina h Iniry in this country. -Pech's
SIM
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COMIC COMMENTS.

True dignity In Boston the gnat 70
known as Nathaniel. Louisville Courier
Journal.
a plegiarist's apology; g It is true
steal from the ancient authors, but give it
all back to the public. FRege7ade Beatter.
A luke in debt The ENGLISH creditors
of the Dnke of Teel saw that his name
should be spelled with an "i."-Atlantd
Constitution.
Growth of the gyeat West - es.n said
,he Chicago man he's n dude. Int he
counts in the census don't let him be kill
1.-THE Mosquito.
Not a match "No.n said bride, 81
am not willing Chat orr wedding tour should
include the Yellowstone Park yellow
don't aeree with my complexion. --Aaon
A Sabbath-day's tourney 4 What Il
meant by a sabbath.tl DAYS Journey Pr
lJohrl. The distance between any place and
the nearest good fshinu-around. Btrlj5sq
| an Fase Press Y
go <,,s....t.4.
q We're very proud OF our ancestry, you
KNOW" Tom Paryenu--s Yes, l know;
but how would your ancestry feel about
YOU ?,'--Hareard LamD0oa.
Given to falling Said tbe Girl who had
auarrelea with her lover 9 oh. it,s all
right Harry said he should try to forget
nue., but he always fails in everything he
undertakes. "--Bostoa Post.
M;,oa. ..vo .aa.;.;o, eta a.
Austin school teacher To Johnny Fizzletop.
sis the worst in the lot you begin nv
putting no period at the end of the last
sentence. ~ Teas Sifyfaos.
~. - p : "ires A'''e eo'Ao "
-. rrss, - ee' 30 49,; 5oae
~ p "'''s. " ~ "'"u INV We" -
az 9.' %, e''a 10y
fie''' e'''' ''V'' .''''''0' sf'''
ii'eo lou say your oaugh'er ~ 10
marry una. foreigner l nave seen IN your
iouse 30 oi'en pu' VIVA. 10 you KNOW apous
nun : Wha' mas ne go.s VOW why
''o n'' eoe a o''e' On --oosso's = fe'''-
sest'e'
A linguistic experiment: Digby has been
working hard at italian all winter and re-
solves to try q little on newly-arrived
emigrant "Parlate Italiano, Signor?"--
i.hnisah' Ariah NOW wns' are ye
gym oS
A vexatlous matter Why what's the
matter p asked Fogg. Brown Tin terrible
state of excitement) r." That rascally Snor.
kins called me thief y Fogg-" Did hef
And you can't retaliate by calling him liar
How yexatious ln-B Boston Transcript.
Tba eircna sove3 him, ono sivn ss,a
the physician. who had worked over tha
Texas man t,shad ont ~ tho wotar ,ncon-
scious, !" never could have brought him
back TO life. 1fthnt circus procession hadn't
passed he never would have regained con-
scioilsness. ~ Boston Post.
A s,no,,lar a,,o,,oe,nent 49, vo,, ,vanA
4, obta;r, nv co,,aent 10 vonr marriage with
my yodngcst untigntef, caroifnH ss--s' res,
sir, that is my intention Well, but
have got another daughter, an older one
Emily, aud have made 1t rule that the
man who don't want the oldest can't have
''.'i >s'.~N -N"S N0Je''6S'
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POETRY.
The InaaIslsive FI.herman.

=
The Tnauisifive Fisherman.
Once there was fisherman
Who went to catch some nsh;
He took With him q. basket
Aud little china dish.
q III use one for the fishes,
The other when sup;
For, II they meet my wishes,
I'll COOK and cat them upi"
He fished and flshed the whole day long.
From morn till late at night;
He baited hooks and watched his bob,
But could not get bite.
He then threw down his rod and line,
And vowed he'd go below,
:, To ind out what the reason was
gTae fish had used him so.
The fish all gathered around him,
Each wagglng his own tau,
From the little pollyswoggy
10 the great gigantic whale.
Some fish were looking scaly,
And some exceeding thin,
But all were glad TO see the man,
And offered him fin.
They said: 1--WE have no china di
Nor basket snug and tight;
But we are very prudent fish,
WHO think before we bite.
We do not need to cook our priz
Ere we sit down ane sup"
And so, before his very eyes,
They ate that fisher up
st Weh MS
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Hfrcii mud Fest.

nrcu una Fest.
Some blame the years that fly 50 fast,
And sigh Ger loves and, friendships goAe;
While Others say too long they last,
And wish each dry were earlier done.
But thou art none OF these-to thee
The past Is past past not In vain,
Days lived In life's reality
What need to wish them here again?
Days hallowed each by nozzle use
What need to wish them earlier donef
Who spend their souls In times abuse
Are eager for to-morrow's sun
Thy trust and rest unbroken are
In Gods appointed pathway still
Thy constant spirit, like a star,
Moves on, accomplishing His WIN.
The Ar0osv.
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ME Hn. n t,renr Head.

''You say your Office is great conye-
uience to you. But you're never there.
People have called there hundreds of timer
and never found you in" g Exactly. When
people want to see me they go to my office
to look for me and so avoid their finding
me."--AN Sorts.
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A New England Physician says that If
every family would keep box of mustard
in the house one-half of the doctors would
starve. We suggest that every family
should keep two boxes in the house. the
Judge.
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c,,,.ea His Tame.

Geordie, dancing around, and very mad
80. ma. ma ! every lick you hit me
makes me Bladder and baddern The fog
cling goes on. Geordie-" o ma every
lick You hit me makes me gooder and good
er !"--Boys' Stratagenss.
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A DoubttuI Statement.

Are angels ever sleepy:" IS question
which an English psychological society IL
trying to solve We hardly know whether
our angel is ever sleepy or not. We've
never stayed late enough to find out
IoaeeH Cfhsen.
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Uncle Dionysius Dean walked up, after
awhile, and stretched himself.
Where's Kitty p said he, as he looked
around the low-ceiled room, where the
light of kerosene lamp flung varying
shadows on the wall
Aunt Jean glanced up from her little
bits of silk and velvet.
"Sure enough" said she, where is the
child? She went out just about sunset.
Surely, she ought to be back by this time.
Perhaps Priscilla Hawk is with her."
But Priscilla Hawk, upon investigation,
was found to be darning stockings in the
back kitchen. Uncle Dionysius, seriously
alarmed, jumped to his feet.
We must look for the child at once !"
said he. This is most uncomfortable !"
Kitty, however, was nowhere TO be found.
Not in the little honeysuclle arbor at the
foot of the garden, nor on the ragged rock
below, where one got such a magnificent
view of the ocean, nor under the ounce.
bush, whose boughs dropped, banyan-like,
almost to the ground-not in one of her
favorite hooks
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National Republican., 1883-07-18
A strnnded BrivnntIue,

HALIFAX, N. s., July 1.-THE brigantino
Isabelle from Liverpool with "a general cargo
for Charlottetown, stranded yesterday on
Basque island, near Point Michoux, The ves-
sci is a total wreck. Part of the cargo will be
saved in damaged condition.
National Republican., 1883-07-18
A. Y,,unaniy Assault.

Tho family Of Emanuel Stern live at 22l f
street, and are well to do people of good social
standing. Ono daughter is tall, well de-
veloped young lady OF % years, and is very
pretty. Yesterday morning about 8 So'clock
while all tho other members of the family
were temporarily absent, q rough looking man
called, who said he was II water in
spector, and wished to examine the pipes
He was admitted by the young lady,
who directed him to the part of
the house he wished to examine and then
returned 10 the sitting room. The intruder
after apparently satisfying himself that the
young lady was alone in the house, returned
aud attempted to seize her. She resisted
and the rutlian dealt her u heavy blow ON the
neck which stretched hor insensiblo on the
floor, and she did not recover consciousness
for some hours. When Mrs Stern returned
the rullian rushed past her through the open
door and escaped DIR. Street was summoned
as speedily as possible, aud with some diff
Guilty restored the young lady to conscious
ness. Last evening she was resting easily,
and her injuries are not serious, although she
was considerably bruised in tho struggle,
The affair was not reported to the police.
National Republican., 1883-07-18

was mortally wounded. Russell was shot in
tho shoulder and his condition is critical.
Averett is stated to have said something de-
rogatory to the good name of Russell, who
wont after the former for satisfaction.
National Republican., 1883-07-18
A Contesied VIII.

NEW YORK, July 1L-N0tice of a contest
over the will of tho late Louis c. HammerBly
WAS filed to-day with the surrogate. The de-
cedent died on the third Of last May, leaving
an estate valued at about $7,00000O. 1t was
left In trust to his wife, and ut her death was
to 20 to his issue. If he had no issue the
estate was TO 20 to the male issue of his
cousin, J. Hooker Hammersly, and if the
lattor should die without ISSUE then the
estate was to 90 to such charitable institu'
tiuns in this state rs his wife should name
Tho contestants of the will are his aunt, Mrs
Mary Mason Jones, Henry Mason, the only
surviving brother Of the tostator's mother
aud six children of James Mason deceased
another brother of the testatOr's mother. The
grounds of the contest are not known.
National Republican., 1883-07-18
A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
The Bursting OF Eight Boilers Kills One
Mnn and Fatally Injuries Many Others.

READING, PA, July IA terrible explo-
sion occurred ut Eutztown, this county early
this morning by which one man was killed
and several others seriously injured. Tho
eight boilers of the anthracite furnace, owned
by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway
company, and operated by William NJ Kauf
man & Co., exploded, reducing the furnace to
q mass of ruins. Preparations had been made
for casting and the employees were outside the
building taking rest before tapping the
furnace, when the explosion occurred. Large
pieces of tho bOilors woro hurled II great dis
tancc and the debris Of stone and shattered
timbers were thrown about in great con-
fusion. Tho engine and boiler house was
entirely demolished. Frank Watman, aged
81 years, of Topton, was instantly killed, be-
ing buried under the hotboilor iron aud other
debris. Solomon Waltman, his father, was
injured in the legs and lower part of the body.
Henry Waltman, aged 40 years, was rescued
from under the ruins. He was injured in
ternally, and will die. Morris Good was
severely scaldcd by escaping steam. Engineer
Marstellar was also badly injured, and num-
bor of other employees slightly hurt. The force
of the explosion shook the earth and aroused
the people for miles around. The damage to
the furnace will amount to many thousands
of dollars,
National Republican., 1883-07-18
Tho nlaek nIensie. IN nnltimere.
SDCciu! DiMDdfch.

BALTIMORE, July 1.-THE board of di-
rectors of st. Mary's Industrial school, where
tho black measles has been raging for some
time past, held meeting this morning in the
interest of tho best means to be adopted to
prevent the spread Of the disease. Dr. Z. w.
Chancellor, secretary to the state board of
health, submitted resolution providing that
Thorough ventilation was the most important
thing, and that it would be wise for the matter
to receive the attention of those in charge.
There are ut present thirteen cases at the in
stitution Dr. K. ii. Goldsmith, the attending
physician, states that tho difference between
black measles and the old fashioned kind is
that this is attended by bad blood, which tho
othur is not.
National Republican., 1883-07-18
NEW YORK RAILWAY COMMIS-
SIONE ERS.
An Organized Protest Against the Pro
Rata Freight Bni.

An Organized Protest Against the FRO
Rata Freight Bn.
ALBANY July 1.-THE railway commits
sioncrs gavo o hearing this morning on the
pro rata freight bill. There was large at
tendance. Tho discussion lasted nearly four
hours, the speakers being ox-Sonators T. NJ.
pomcroy, Of Auburn, and s. s. Lowory, Of
U,ra; John S. Perry and JohnaF. Rathbonc,
ui Albany; Ira l.. Otis, of Rochester; G..
". Allen, of Auburn; John l.. Arte, Of the
.Nulm iron works Troy +. s. Stcflns
&C The Johnston Harvester company,
batavia; II. l.. Howe, representing
EH@lurd ~ Son, starch manufacturers,
Oswcgu, and ". II. Hamilton, of Caldonia
.}Il Grununucd the bill in the strongest terms,
declaring that its passage would have the
effect Of driving them out of the business. 1t
was unjust and unCalled for. As the law of
supply and demand must regulate rates,
manufacturers could not afford TO pay for
through freight at tho same rates as local
frcights II was no more than just that bet.
ter rates should bO given to manufacturers
who ship ten carloads day than to those
who ship only one carload a week Every
speaker nindo tho request that manufacturers
bo left alone, as that was all they desired.
To.days hearing was the second, the first
having been hold on July 3, when one person
appeared and spoke in favor of the bill. A
third hearing will probably be called In u few
dnys