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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-08-01
MYSTERY OF LAST CHANCE.
Two Men Who MysteriousIy Fiji Their
Bucsssin Bays With Gold.

correspondent of the Miner writing
from Last Chance, in Missoula county, says;
Two Frenchmen came into Last Chance
yesterday who have been recognized az
Augustine Rafello and Antoine, the Trap.
per-" both OF whom have been known for
years in the mining camps of Oregon and
Idaho. They have created sensation by
the display of half dozen long buckskin
bags filed with gold dust and glistening
nuggets, from the size of bird shot to that
Of q walnut. The story runs that for years
past these two men have been in the habit
of spending most of their time in the frontier
camps, but now and then they would disap-
pear for month or six weeks and suddenly
make their temperance, always with theil
pouches well filled with dust. OF course
they are supposed to visit some placer
country of fabulous richness, where by
few days work they are able to extract the
two or three thousand dollars which they
spend with lavish hand during their soiourn
in the camp.
Attempts have been made to follow them
ON their excursions which usually resulted
in their hiding in the mountains aud eluding
pursuit, but one man claims 10 have follow
ed them into the Kontcnai country to n point
near the British line, where narrow pass
was reached, and that while one went on,
the other mounted guard with u Winchester
rifle. He attempted to approach the senti-
mel, but WAS ordered to halt, accompanied
by discharge of the rife The companion
Immediately appeared, as if the shot was
mutually understood signal, and the intruder
was warned to leave the vicinity on pain Of
DEATH The romantic setting of the story
makes it extremely interesting aud many Of
the old frontiersmen place implicit faith in
its entire TRUTH citing as basis of their
confidence the fact tina. the men do disap-
pear and invariably return with plenty of
gold; but / have heard no satisfactory
reason given for the failure to find that mar
row pass and penetrate the mysteries be-
y0nd during some of the long intervals that
the heroes of the yarn spend in the camps
Montana Miner
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WHERE oYps,Es ORIGINATED.

In "Nasbys" account of his visit to tht
little village of Notwithstanding, Hungary,
he says We came TO a country where
young women are ravishingly beautiful, and
the middle-aged and old ones exceedingly
homely, a country the people of which are
perfectly Ore.tal in face, feature, and figure
where everything has semi-barbarous
;ook. You fluid yourself among a people
who delight in high colors and startling
contrasts--a restless. 1.-THE, and quick-eyed
people. You need no Murray or Baodeck
er to assure you that they are Oriental in
origin and that this is the fountain head o.
Gipsydom. Yon begin to SOC men in tight
breeehes, with boots that fit the calf tightly
ard come to the Knee the farmer with aD
immense overcoat made of the skins Of sheep
hnned with wool on the dwellerin the vii.
lages in tight brooches, with curious patches
out into fanciful figures sewed on the leg,
always button OF another color in the cen
ire of the patch, aud invariably velvet vest
or waistcoat of some brilliant hue. You see
everybody with peculiar hats, with all sorts
of feathers in them, and women, dressed in
rs many colors MS is possible to crowd into
dress, the handkerchief about the throat and
the half-iurbau about the head, of the
brightest colors the dyers skill makes posi-
bla -
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RUNNING CATTLE IN A STORM.

One evening a military camp had been
made just ahead of the cattle, and on the
sale side of tho creek with them, up which
the herd was being driven. A storm was
coming up, and the cattle exhibited some
uneasiness. Mr.. De Hass sent word to the
military officer that he had better get his
men, wagons and animals on the opposite
side of the creek and out of the way, as he
feared there was going to be might run"
The herders were instructed to keep their
horses saddled and be ready to mount at
moments notice. The cattle were very I'm.
easy, getting up, lying. down again and shift.
ing about as IL uncomfortable. At last,
ebout midnight, there came sharp flash of
lighting followed by heavy peal of thunder
and in an instant the whole herd were upon
their feet. "Mount and whip out" cried
De Has, and the herder who was at the head
of the column drove off q few of the leading
steers in the direction they were TO CO. All
the others followed. and the herd was soon
in full fight. The herders made no effort
to check or control them further than to keep
them going straight; they rode at the bead
Of the column, one on each side Of them
swung to the right or the left.s and keeping
the trail, bluffs and precipices were avoided
aud the open fiat ground courted. The run
lasted about two hours, when a gorge was
neared, in which the cattle would crowd and
break their limbs. They we're now quite
tired, and the herders determined to exert
their authority and stop the run. The head
of the column was bent out on the prairie,
and circled round and round until the cattle
became tied up in huge ball and could not
move at all. In this way they were obliged
to stand until morning, and the herders rid
ing round and round them and keeping them
completely tied up. At daylight they were
to "open out" First the outer edge scat
tered, then layer after layer until the huge
pile Of beef was once more n herd, grazing as
quietly as if nothing had happened - Gen.
I james b. BrisDda.
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A pRiMA poMnNs TRAINING.

Referring to Mrs. kellogg's devotion 10
her daughters career, the correspondent of
the Philadelphia Record says that he doesn't
believe that there is another such instance
on record. There are stage mothers by the
hundred, but as general thing they are only
that and nothing more Mrs. Kellogg is .
woman of varied accomplishments, and there
is no doubt in my mind but that she would
have maze career for herself il her dauQh-
ters talents had not been of SO extraordinary
nature as to divert her mind from herself
The Development of singers voice and the
care attending its culture and preservation
can only be realized by one who has had or.
perience in the art. A prima donna requires
good deal the sort of treatment awarded
The race-horse. She must only eat certain
food at certain times; she must be kept out
Of draughts: she must sleep nine good solid
hours she must have little or no worry o,
that delicate organ by which she wins fame
aud fortune will give way. 1t is no fun to
lead the life of prima DONNA When she Is
singing her nerves are strung up to the
highest pitch, and she works as hard az any
| class of workers in the world. The public
who only sec her wreathed in smiles and
sparkling with diamonds think that her
work ends when the footlights are turned
mt 1t only begins then.
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FISHING FOR spoNGEs.

With good wind the fisheries are reached
In eight or ten hours from the port. Then
the real toll begins. Lying on his ches.
along the boats deck, the fisher with HE
water-g lass-a pane set is box fitted with
handles-looks down forty feet into the
clear depths. With one hand he grasps
and sinks slender pole, sometimes fifty feet
IN length, fitted at the end with q double
hook. The sponge once discovered the
hook is deity inserted at the rocky base,
and by sudden jerk the spongeis detached
10 be brought up ON deck. This curt do
scription of what seems the simple work of
ge-lishing gives no idea of the real skill
aud exertion needed. The eye of the fisher
has to be trained by long experience to detect
the good from those that are worthless.
He must have def hand to manage the
swaying hook forty feet down 80 MS to de-
tach the sponge without tear Above all
while doing this with one hand, he must
manipulate with the other the water-gass
as the waves sway il sideways and up or
down. The strain on eye or body is most
Intense, TO say nothing of the cramped
position and exposure 10 wind and wet,
which first and las. make almost every
sponge-fsher victim of acute rheumatism.
Yet with all his arduous toll, faithful
sponge-isher earns not more than $15 a
month besides his keep on the boat,
which barely deserves the name of exis.
kanna
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CRAzED n. JEALoUs=.

ULtil recently it was always considered
bat vitriol was the weapon solely used by won.
en- the for punishment of their wrohgs and
rs q means of yengence, but itappears that
this summary aggravated. method of redress
II not confined to the gentler sex alone
Louis Dubois, young fanmaker, became
absurdly jealous of his young wife, against
whom he conld only produce the accusation
founded upon an anonymous letter, and in q
moment of passion he purchaseda bottle OF
srlphuric acid. which he threw in the face
of his better half, burning the face severely
but without injurying the woman's eyes.
Arrested at once he was committed for trial
and brought before the Ninth Correctional
Chamber in France. During bis trial he was
aiken ssith syncope aud had to be taken
into The room reserved for witnesses. On
coming TO, he stared around and seeing his
attorney, whom he did not recognize, he rush.
ed upon him aud attempted to choke
him. It was with the greatest diff
Guilty that he was dragged from
his lawyer. His case was referred to Drs.
Legrand, DuSoule, Blanche and Lasegue,
who declared him to be hopelessly insane,
upon which he was acquitted by the Court
and taken to an asylum.
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wHsRE IVORY COMES From.
How Tasks ana Bohes of Large Animal.
Are Obtained.

The best ivory is obtained from two yar-
cites of animal-the Asiatie and the African
They are considered by Psychologists to be
Instinct species, and TO be different from the
extinct animal whence the Russians are said
70 obtain there ivory, which, though called
fossil ivory, does not seem to have under
gone the conversion commonly implied by
the word fossil, but seems as suitable for
ordinary use as the substance procured from
living species. AIammoths or elephants
bones and tusks are found throughout
Russia, especially in Eastern Siberia aad the
Arctic marshes; and as they are found in
great quantities they are collected and sold
instead of the living ivory of Africa and
Asia, to which it is not considered inferior.
Indeed. all the ivory work finished in RUSSIA
is from the Siberian fossil ivory. The 81;
berian mammoth is better known than most
other extinct animals by reason of the dis
covery of an entire specimen. wonderfully
preserved, in the frozen soil of cliff at the
mouth of the river Lena, In siperia. Tue
skin of this curious relic of the preadamite
world, covered with a reddish wool, is now
preserved in the Museum of st. Petersburg,
together with an eyeball, the strong neck
hgament, the entire skeleton and the hoofs.
The ivory of the hippopotamus, or river
horse, from the East Indies and Africa,
formerly supplied the demands of the den
fist. The animal has twenty grinders, which
agree in substance with the ivory of the
elephant, though it is harder, winter, with
blue cast, almost free from grain, and of
double the value. The parts rejected by
dentists were used for small carved and
turned works. The teeth of the walrus,
sometimes called the seacow, were also OF
value in dentistry. The long, straight tusks
of the sea unicorn, or narwhal, yield ivory,
aud the masticatiug teeth Of many other
large animals are sometimes similarly em-
ployed, but the tusks of the elephant far
outstrip in Importance all other kinds of
ivory, which was extensively used by the
Greeks and Romans, and carved by Phdias
into statues, thrones and other works Of
Establishment. What pity that SO few Of
the beautiful ivory carvings remain to MS
Pausanias, who travelled through Greece in
the second century, describes the magnih-
cenee of the ivory decorations in those days,
AMI the few pieces that have come down to
as from the best periods of Greek art are
small, but their wonderful finish of execu-
ton shows that they perhaps have never
been equahed in these later times. We
must especially regret the destruction of the
statues, and the more SO as we know we
owe this loss to the wilful and mad violence
of religious fanatics. Philadelphia Pro
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CRY SHARES Foa couNTRymgN,


correspondent of the Boston He,atd
has ascertained that the country merchant
visiting New York is always anxious to see
the sights. He is unaware that there ia
large class of mon in this City whose regular
occupation it is to keep lookout for stran-
gers like himself They hsAns the hotels
and public places. Well dressed, insinuating
and devilish in their cunning, tk1y play the
familiar counterfeit money. Isttery, conf.
fence and bunco games upon those green
enough to be duped by such threadbare
lodges, while for shrewder customers they
employ more plausible devices. They hire
regular Offices and are ostsnsibly engaged in
some regular business They secure quasi
Endorsements and glibly refer to prominent
men. All is fair and smooth on the outside,
and the stranger who plumes himself most
on his knowledge of the world Is often the
first to invest in worthless projects or to ad-
vance money on rotten securities. Less
elaborate but almost equally profitable are
the ways Of the sharpers who work the
Bowery. For the countrymen the Bowerv
nus .atai fascfnation. He surely drifts
there sooner Or later, and is as surely spotted
by the confidence men who lounge along the
sidewalks, carrying on q business as regular
and systematic as the grocer or the butcher.
Only the other day friend saw confidence
man escorting his victim to his room, and,
by private signal, warning his brethren In
crime against interference with his own
private property.
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COST OF LiVfNGIN NEW YORK

The expenses of living here are continually
increasing, and already the number OF men
who are able to support fair daughter Of
fashion in anything like the style to which
she has been accustomed is Comparatively
small, says the scribe Of the Washington
Star. BY able ! mean that man must be
the possessor of an assured income or at
least $1,000 year in order to make his
wife mistress of an establishment such as
will enable her to at all keep up her social
position. ] ought to have said double that
sum, for with house rent, to begin with, at
helowest 81 000 and there are few houses in
good neighborhoods which can be got for
that SUN, 5000 will be but gentcel poverty.
Even with m income of $4,000 year a
reception ut Delmonico's costing $1,000
md perhaps ~, 900, in addition to expensive
dinner parties, $1,000 yearly for cab hire,
Worth gowns, &C.. cannot be given more
han once in life time. Out-of-town PEG.
pile who continue to be happy on as many
hundreds year cannot perhaps understand
why it should cost ten times that amount to
render life endurable in New York and may
maintain that "going into society" is not an
essential to happiness.
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KNIVES DURING THE WAR.
How They Were TO be Used by the soath-
ern Soldier.


A few days ago we went into the store of
an elderly gentleman and saw a handsome
pistol in his desk. Expressing astonish-
ment at this belligerent sign, he opened q
drawer and exposed to our view long, two
edged knife with wooden handle. 1t was
sharp pointed, about ten inches long, and
would make man shudder to look at it.
He told us il was one left from number
sold to the first soldiers OF the late war.
This brought to our mind the days of 1861,
when the knife was esteemed the best
weapon to make an end of the Yankees.
The cannon, sword, gun and bayonet were
not enough for the intense enthusiasm OF
the patriots of that time They meant to
go into close quarters and despatch the
enemy with the bloody knife. 1t would not
snap, and its work was quick and sure. So
the blacksmith shops of the country were
kept busy in tuning out the fatal and MUIR
derous weapons. 1t was said that Yankees
would stand fire at long range" but when
the "cold steel" was put 10 them they
would turn and flee. One idea suggested
another, and we call to memory the fancies
that controlled our youthful mind. Reach
ing Richmond on the sth of June, 1861, our
FIRST idea was to get knife that would deci-
mate the invaders OF onr sacred soil. In
Rockets we found one that answered orr
purpose, and planked down $3.50 for n
beauty, weighing about three pounds (our
own weight was ninety-two pounds, sharp
encd on both edges, with a handsome leath.
er case and belt, polished like mirror, aud
twelve inches long and of pure metal.
Stripping it on, we landed at Manassas, re-
solved to use 1t on the first Yankee we met,
"cut his heart out, and show il TO him be-
fore he died." as Terry Shannon expressed
il. We were ordered to Centreville, ard on
the short march the luscious cherries on the
roadside tempted us, and we ate them and
drank so much limestone water that the
knife was too much ~" rs when we halted.
We gave It to tie butcher, aud instead Of
slaughtering Yankees i played its part in
cutting up tough beef, and this was the last
of our knife. --A66eoiHs Is. e. Medium.
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PRIDE THAT HAD A FALL.

Those persons who enjoy seeing haugh.
y spirit suffer fall should have been on
board one of the sleeping cars attached to a
through train from Chicago to Boston ashort
time ago. Among its passengers were q
middle-agea man and woman from the re-
mote West, who Ind evidently come upon
sudden riches and were devoting all their
energies to advertising the fact. They were
gorgeonsly dressed the woman sported any
quantity of diamonds and no occasion for
informing the other passengers of the wealth
andposition of their family was suffered to
pass uninproyed. They had with them a
plug of boy about fourteen years old
One morning after the parents had dressed
themselves they discovered that their hope
full son was still slumbering and the mother
set to work to arouse him. Repeating calls
failing TO have any effect, she finally had
recourse to thumps and dig in his ribs, where
npon the boy, evidently dreaming that he
was at home and being stirred upto perform
some accustomed duty, bawled out; "You
let me alone and go feed the hogs yourself?'
A joyous smile enlivened the features Of the
rest Of the travellers. Boston Journal
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ROMANCE OF THE ARooNAurs.

As the winter OF CO.'S" waned the com
panies, one after another, set sail for the
land of gold. The Sunday preceding they
listened to farewell sermons at the church.
l recollect seeing score or two of young
| Argonauts thus preached TO- They wore
admonished from the pulpit TO behave tenn
perately, yirtuously, wisely and piously.
How seriously they listened. How soberly
were their narrow brimmed straight-up. and
down little plug hats of that period piled
one on top of the other in front of them.
How glisiened their hair with the village
BARRIERS hair oil How pronounced the
sreak of their tight boots ms they marched
ap the aisle. How brilliant the hue of their
necktiea. How patiently and resignedly
they listened to the sad discourse of the
minister, knowing ii would be the last they
would hear for many months. How enger
the glanees they cast up to the church choir,
where sat the girls they were to marry on
their return How few returned. How
few married the girl of that periods choice.
How little weighed the words of the minis
ter, year afterwnrd, in the hurry-scurry of
San Francisco life of 40 and so
What an innocent, unsophisticated, mex
perienced lot were those forty odd young
Argonants who sat in those pews. Not one
of them then could bake his own bread, turn
a flap jack, reseat his trousers or wash his
shirt. Not one of them had dug even
posthole. All had vague sort Of impress.
ion that California was a nutshell OF coun-
try, and that they would see each other
there frequently and eventually all return
home at or about the same time. How little
they realized that one was to go to the
Northern and one to the Southern mines,
and one to remain in San Francisco, and
the three never to meet again What gilt.
tering gold mines existed in their brains,
even during the preaching of that sermon.
Holes whore the gold was thrown out by the
shovelful, from which an occasional bowlder
Or pebble was picked out and flung away
The young Argonaut-church being dis.
missed--took his little stiff shiny plug and
went home to the last Sundays tea. And
that Sunday night, on seeing her home from
church, for the last time he was allowed to
sit up with her almost as long as he pleased.
The light glimmered long from the old
homestead front parlor window The cold
north wind without roared among the leaf
less sycamores, and FLASHED the branches to.
gether. 1t was sad, sad picture. The ole
sofa they sat upon would be sat upon by
them no more for years. For years For.
ever in many cases. To-day, old and gray,
gaunt and bent, somewhere in the gulches,
cup North" somewhere hidden away in an
obscure mining camp of the Tuolumne,
Stanislaus or Mokalumne, up in Cariboo, or
down in Arizona, still he recollects that
night as dream. And she? Oh, she
dried her eyes and married the stay-at-home
five years after. A girl can't wait forever.
And, besides, bad reports, after a time,
reached home about him. He drank. He
gambled. He found fair friends among the
senoritas, and, worse than all, he made no
fortune. Mulford in tie San
Francisco CAronick
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henry CLAY QUOTING sHaxsprar,


Henry Clay, who left seat in the Senate
'or one in the House, but after many years.
eryice at the other end of the Capitol re.
mrned to the Senate chamber exercised q
powerful control over the politics of the re.
public idolized by the Wing party, his
wonderful powers of personal magnetism,
and his rich, manly voice would enable him
to hold an audience for hours. He made
but little preparation. and used but Few
notes in speaking but when he wrote ont
his remarks for the press, his manuscript
was remarkably neat, without interlineations
or blots. He seldom INDUCED in classical
illusions, and his occasional attempts to
make quotations of English poetry were
generally failures. On enc occasion, he
ssed the well-known phrase from Hamlet,
Let the CALLED Jade vince our withers are
unwrung, but misqnoted the last syllable,
calling II !" un-stmng.r The gentlemen
who sat on either side Of him noticed the
error, and simultaneously whispered eun.
wrun9.n This double prompting confused
Young Harry Of the West who straight.
anad hinsels, ~ss, -wsttn- stronger urn,,afssis
repeated unhun.f" This raised general
laugh, at the close of which Clay, who Ind
meanwhile ascertained his mistake, shook
his head, and said with one of his inimitable
smiles: "Ah murder will out Un
wrung's the word" The fascination which
he exercised over all with whom he had
personal Intercourse, even his political
adyersaries, was remarkable but he was
lmperious and domineering, exaeting uucon-
ditional and unqualified support as the price
of his friendship. Ben Periey Poorc, in
Century