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AMERICANS AT PLAY.

A chowder was given few weeks ago at
the head of our little bay; there was no end
OF carriages, wagons, row boats, sail-boats,
and little steamers that walked the resound
ing echoes Of our usually quiet cliffs. There
were perhaps thousand. people in the
crowd, and not city person among them.
Each conner paid twenty-five cents as his
contribution toward the fish chowder, and
furnished the rest of his provisions himself.
There was no music, no dancing, no beer,
no singing, no May-pole, no gracious lady
OF -the-manor, but there was underwriting
enjoyment for all that. In vain will the
historian Of the future look for any refiec-
ton OF oil this in the novels Of society that
Craze the cuticle of our national life. Our
novelisfs, for the most part, shirk the chow
der and the country fair. II you should
write Of these things frankly, yon are sure
to be snubbed by the refined critic, who
will accuse yousof I" latent sympathy with
vulgarity." In estimating the capacity Of
Americans for amusement, it should be re-
membered that II they have fewer troups Of
strolling players than other peoples, they
'compensate themselves with no end. Of
church entertainments" II we keep few
ancient holidays, we take liberal vacations
If we buy few comic papers, we. exact thai
our sober journals shall keep funny men ,
as testers to King Demos. Edaoard Eggles-
ton, in the Century.
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LIVE YANKEES ABROAD.

The Germans here and everywhere Ihaye
yet been are evidently very fond of Ameri-
cans. They brighten up whenever America
is mentioned and at the interior hotels OF
Southern Germany they say at first to us !;
Englishi" mo" we soy, American"
Zach ja: sehr gut, America sehr schon,"
and then they trot out all the walters or SER
wants who can speak little English and
they want TO hear oil about America. /
suppose we could load vessel with all the
different ones who have asked usif We didn't
want some one 80 willing" to work for MS
in America. The city of Heidelberg is so
delightful we hated to leave it. We met an
American gentleman there whose son Is
student at the university. He said he had
known eighteen American girls who had
married German barons or counts and all
were now divorced or separated but three.
Where we are now, at Rossfelt, tho people
have seldom, many of them never, seen an
American. While we were on tho Burge-
berg mountain, at the house of tho jaeger
master, come OF tho foresters came in and
stared at US with great interest Ono Of
them said it was so strange to see real born
Americana They sang a song for us and
drank our healths and the health Of America
and one who was quite good-looking asked
leave to shake hands" it would be such
an honor.p The honor was graciously ac-
corded. We solemnly shook hands. and we
trust that the friendship between America
and the wild jagers of the Black Forest is
eternally cemented -Rosgsh Letter in the
Baltimore San.
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THE AMAHEIM OSTRICH FARM.

Tho failure and abandonment OF the
Florida ostrich farm, which has just taken
place, led many to predict the ultimate
failure of the Anaheim experiment. and the
long-deferred production of new genera
ton gave some color to the gloomy forebod-
ings But as was predicted in these col
inns some weeks ago, there are at the ostrich
farm strutting proofs of the glorious climate
of California-and, il may be added, of its
superiority over Florida. Tho chicks are
healthy and vigorous and give promise OF
long and profitable career. The eggs
reasonably be expected that from this timo
henceforth tho crackle of the eggs and the
saluiatory cackle of the chicks will DO of al.
most daily occurrence.
One of the female ostriches Is Matching
nest Of eggs in the good old-fashioned way.
In the contest between Nature and Art tho
latter has proven the victor but the natu-
raj process of incubation being slower, il is
too carly yet to predict failure. The
reasons for the failure to bring
forth chicks last year are we'll understood.
The birds were too young to produce fertile
eggs, fact of which the superintendent
and other stockholders were unaware, they
being The victims of n misplaced confidence
in the importer of the birds. They are now
old enough to retrieve themselves, however,
and there is every reason to believe that the
company will soon be able TO fill orders for
young ostriches with promptness and des-
patch" Visitors to the farm will not be
permitted TO SEQ the chicks for several weeks.
-1ndIeida TnzefEs
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BASE BALL.
Explanations of the Game Which n Quiet
Listener Overheard.


No, the man standing behind the man
with the club is called the =" catcher" He
catches the ball sometimes and sometimes
the ball catches him, but most of the time
the fence catches it. Now he has put on his
mask and stands close up behind the man
that has the club. The man who is throw
ing the ball is called the "pitcher." You
notice that sometimes the ball curves to-
wards the mans stom ,ch who has got the
club; then he jumps back. Then it curves
out the other way, and the man with the
club strikes at it with all his might and
comes about three feet from it. Now the
ball curves towards his stomach again. You
notice that he has jumped back and that
the catcher has stopped the ball with his
stomach.
In a few minutes they will begin playing
again. If the catcher does not feel better
some one else will take his place. Tho man
with the club Is just as apt to hit the catcher
with the club as policeman is to strike the
wrong thief. That is the reason the catcher
wears the mask. If his head Is knocked off
it will not tumble on the ground. Now the
man with the club has hit the ball, and one
of the men has tried to stop it, but has not.
You see now he is sucking his fingers. Soon
he will put his finger under his arm and
walk around as If he had chill. When his
finger gets well again it will be curled up
like chip. and he will apply to the govern
ment for pension. The man that called,
"Ous on first base," is the umpire. He de-
cides everything about the game and the
weather. If the man that ran had got to
the base before the ball did he would not be
out. His sliding to the base on his back
and the other man sitting on him has got
nothing to do with II. You will notice that
hand. This is the same ball that the catcher
had in his stomach and the other man had
on the end of his finger. No, the ball is not
as hard as if it was made Of iron, because il
has leather on the outside. When the pitcher
hits the man who has the club with the ball
he is allowed to take his first base. He
generally has substitute to take IL for him,
He would take something else if they would
give 1t to him, but they never do. The
same umpire says that the man who was
running for the third base is tout" Al
though he turned two somersaults to get
there tho umpire always has nine other men
TO back up his decision besides himself, so
that he always has a majority of one.
The best pitchers are those that can throw
the ball SO that the man with the club is not
certain whether he will hit the ball or tina
ball hit him. The only thing he is certain
of is that II the ball hits him he will not
feel like hitting back. The catcher is al.
lowed to wear gloves when he Is catching,
but he never wears gloves when he makes q
call in the evening, because no two of his
fingers point the same way, and he cannot
| find any gloves made to fit.
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The First Visitor to the Yosemite.

In all that has been recorded about the
Yosemite no satisfactory evidence has ever
been produced as to the first white mans
footprints on the level where the beautiful
MERGED seeks egress from the rockbound
chasm. We concede that honor to Louis
Sammann, Mono county man now resid-
ing at Mono Lake. Louis is pioneer, On
old hunter and guide in that portion Of
the Sierra and figured in many escapadei
during the Indian troubles. He has abund-
ant proof of a memorable trip into the val
ley in the fall of 1851. When. hunting for
game he followed the sinuosities Of an In
dian trail from the direction Of Coulterviile
and brought up in the vicinity Of the Bridal
Veil fall. He had killed deer and, being
nearly worn out with fatigue, was seeking
the nearest water when he came unexpected
ly upon large camp Of hostile Indians
which had the effect of settling all desire OF
rest or thirst. As may be supposed, his
visit was OF short duration. II any white
explorer can beat this data we shall be glad
to make q note of it, but will insist upon
proper credentials. --B0dt Free Press
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A soMNAMBuLrsT,s DANGER.

The Cleveland Leader of Monday says
While one of the through expresses was
standing in the Union depot last night an
old gentleman in partial dishabille climbed
down from ono of tho steps of the sleeper,
and started to walk across the tracks. His
eyes were open, but glared yacantly about,
although he apparently picked his way
toward the stairs leading out of the depot.
He had walked about half way across the
track when young man rushed out of the
chr and caught him by the arm. The
younger gentleman was minus his coat and
shoes, and his toilet had evidently been q
hasty one. He led the old gentleman back
to the car, which he entered without word.
Father is n somnambulist," explained the
young man, as he stepped upon the plat
form OF the car, and frequently walks in
his sleep. He requires constant attention
while travelling, and it is never safe to leave
him alone even at home. He had just lain
down in his berth without completely pre-
pairing for the night, and 1 had almost fall
len asleep myself. He is just as likely to
wander ont of the car, and down and of
the steps when the train is in motion as be
10 when it is standing STILL" But few pas
sengers We're in the depot at the time, and the
occurrence was not noticed by more than a
| half dozen.
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NO. 623
A CHINESE BELLE.

Chinese belle is a curiosity to China.
men, as we'll as to Christians. Even her
own countrywomen look upon her with as
much wonder as admiration. One reason OF
this is her rarity. Bellies in China are rare
birds of rare plumage. No ordinary COM
munity can afford the luxury of possessing
more than one or two such dazzling char.
mers. As speech with the male sex is, Of
course, forbidden her, her features, Eyes,
cheeks and silent lips must all be eloquent.
Her skin must have great firmness of texture
to endure the continual coatings of white
paste and vermillion paint which the laws
of her being enioin. Her feet must not ex-
coed three inches in length, or one inch in
breadth. The finger nails of her last three
fingers must be as long as the finger
These last two points are the especial glory
OF Chinese fashion. Her daily life does not
differ much from that of a lady of fashion
In the days of Pepys or the younger Wal
pole. Suspicious of the morning mists, she
never rises before noon. Breakfast is served
in her own room by her servants. This
languid meal over, she begins the serious
business of her life. Hair by hair, support
ed by three or four hairdressers, she attacks
the tangled locks in whose adornment she
finds her chief pride. Both mistress and
maids labor for three or four hours, with
snatches of rest, and, thoroughly exhausted
by their task at six o'clock, sit down to their
dinner. Each province has its separate
method of dressing the hair-oighteen in all
and the fashion of woman's hair betrays
her residence. The handsomest couture is
worn by the women of Khan Lu, that boasts
the beautiful cities of 500 Chow and Shang-
hal. Strangely enough, the belle is the
only woman in China who has a shadow of
freedom. She is allowed to go to theatres,
and even to pay visits, with far less surveil-
Ince than her less favored sisters. There
h something in the black patch that she
wears next her left temple, or by the corner
of her mouth, that checks any attempt at
improperly. A belle, of course, never
walks and rarely waddes, but is almost al
ways borne in q sedan chair. She is an
adept in tho language of the eyes, and
through those silent windows can signal
more persuasive arguments than fame with
her hundred tongues. --Dostoa Globe.
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Old Martin. with his pale wife at his bed.

Old Martin, with his pale wife at his bed
side, was watching for him, with face
winter than the snow, eyes more leaden dull
than the brooding sky.
I've something must tell you, sir, be-
fore CO." said he. You know that check
that was forged upon your firm, ten years
ago?"
"That your son forged ?"
"That forged, sir" said old Martin.
" I was tho criminal. had the money and
spent it. was buying lottery tickets, sir
land, Heaven help me, never got prize.
And when it was missed L was going to
shoot myself, but Harry came between me
and fate. I am young and strong, father, :
he said, I'll take the blame. And my
anq :Goq pooS s6uMIu--6oq pooS . sos
GtIeH 'aseI eql Mou4 noG 'eIdlnd nv
'puy .'emsIq eW e4ua III, s6us GU .'IeWu.
'aqep SuoIleJH IeU e&o 'm!q OF pup
pun pooS ueeq puq CTS 'Iopomsdels STU
GIuo seM GUS Tu 40; 'I!s GIIsep Ieq peAoI
on IoI .'ueEoIq eq a.uoM aIueq s.Ispoul
I've sometimes doubted whether Ibid right
in letting him go out into the Wilderness
like the Scriptures scape-goat! And I'm
only feeble. old man, and I'm glad that
the end has come at last !"
So he turned over and died.
1t was many year before they were able
to communicate with Harry Martin, who
was in Omaha. When he came homo it
seemed as if he had aged thirty years in.
stead of fifteen.
Martin, you are hero" said the pro-
arietor of ihe Steam Mills. I" If you will
accept your old position in our counting
rooms, you are welcome to it. We have un-
Willingly done you great wrong, and We
apologize to you for it."
Harry thanked him in subdued way.
But have cattle farm in OMAHA" he
said. 81 am doing better there than
should here. You were kind TO me in re-
fusing to prosecute the man whom you
thought forger, because he was my fathers
son. And thank you for it, sir"
He married Christine Muller, now o faded
woman of six-and-thirty, with settled look
of sadness in her face, and they went away,
taking the poor widow with them.
And you believe in me oil these years,
en- though You never got that letter 2" he
said to his middle-aged bride.
:" 1 knew you could not but be innocent"
she answered, simply.
And they were happy in quiet, subdued
sort of way, this strangely circumstance
couple-as people always are happy when
they have been purified through fire.
And yet it is an ordeal which the world
does not care to undergo. Amy Randolph
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POETRY.
The Ne,.e. of ,ha N,v.,


1Ae watchdog bowls to greet the moon WIENER
he gets peep.
| hear him as vainly try to snatch wink OF
sleep.
Some reveller without a key is hammerIng at the
door;
really think that slumber now VIII visit me no
more;
And pussies prowl upon the tiles, they caterwaul
and Tight;
Oh, terrible indeed we find the Noises of the
Night
Some roysterers are on spree, and sing horrid
song;
Anewsboy screeches latest news that's certain
to be wrong;
cart goes numbering by the door, It's full Of Iron
rods,
I'm certain, by the noise 1t makes but. hang IT,
what's the odds9
For sleep is quite impossible, although the win
dow's tight,
So utterly distracting are the Noises of the
Night
They're beating carpets, declare, at night,
CHASTITY freak
And now that loose old chimney pot, of course.
begins to creak
A cab stops at my neighbor's house, and loud
they bang the door,
Which wakes me when I'd Just begun my most
harmonious Silore
It's hard upona nervous man to wake I'm in 4,
fright,
But what can one expect with all the Noises or
the Night?
And, ere the morning hight has dawned, the live
ly cocks and hens
Emerge las fresh as paint" know, from out adj
jacent pens;
And then the loud internal crow from that Old
Chanticleer
Comes, banishing all further sleep, upon my tor
tured ear:
] could not slumber until late, I'm reused at
earliest light
Oh, who Will rid the feyered brain OF Noises OF the
Night?
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ROUGH CALAMITY.
rhe Miner md the Cowboys Respect for
the Gender Sex.


In the early days of California the men
who gathered in the mining camps in the
gulches or among the mountains seldom saw
a woman's face. They grew careless of their
own appearance; left hair as well as beard
to grow-hair which never saw brush or
comb-till they came to look like wild men
OF the woods; yet beneath the unkempt
locks, and under the shaggy breast and tat
tered garments, there lay in the heart of
every man memory of some farm house
far away, and of a mother or sister for whose
dear sake he reverenced the very form of
woman as sacred. Her approach command
ed every token of respect Said one who
had lived much among the miners "If
they were driving team on dusty road,
and met o woman, riding the other way,
they would turn to the right or left to give
her the side of the road where the dust
would not blow upon herr And il per-
chance OF long intervals there appeared in
the camp the face of woman, every
mothers son of them stood one side on the
mountain trail to let her pass, and pulled
OH his miners cap, and not seldom the tears
stole into his eyes at thought of the old
folks at home; of the mother who sat in
the chimney-corner, aud who, as the winds
blew and the rains fell, peered out into the
darkness, and sighed as she asked, +" Where
is my wandering boy to-nightf" 1t would
not have been safe for any one to whisper a
disrespectful word as that face passed by.
II some vulgar fellow ventured coarse re-
mark, the eyes of others flashed, but they
bit their lips and were silent till the woman
was out of sight, and then, said our inform
ant, that fellow had got to take licking 7"
1t seemed as if every miner felt that his own
mother or sister was insulted by sheer al
one of her sex, and they answered the in
suit with heavy blows till the coward was
kicked and cuffed out of camp.
When | hear such stories Ms this. NV
heart relents towards class of which I had
judged hastily and unjustly. And for the
samereason that would stand up for the
miners, would say good word for the
cowboys We need not be frightened by a
name. They are not worse than other men.
Why should they be2 They pursue an an
Gent and honorable occupation, one held
in esteem among every rural aud pastoral
people since the time of Abraham. The
sons of Jacob themselves as well as the
men who attended their fathers focks and
herds, We're cowboys.
In our new States and Territories tho in
creasinq Influences of civiliyat;o,, ,,,;II ,s.,.
great changes in the character of the popu-
lation. Time will soften their roughness,
and give them more polished manners but
it is to be hoped that it will not abate their
courage or their ehivalry; for these are ele.
ments of a noble manhood, and may in the
future contribute to form the mighty people
that are 10 constitute and govern our West.
ern and Southern commemorative.
York Mail and Ecprsss.
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HOW CHOLERA SPREADS.


An Eastern pestilence which has made its
way ON foot through Central Asia, which
ilrsp eroasea rllo XVaantlo aay-
sailing ships, and crossed the Rocky Noun
tains to the Pacific when San Francisco was
no more than white-walled Spanish mis-
sion, says the London Standard, may GER
tainly be described as an enterprising and
perseyering traveller. If cholera could thus
travel in the years from 1928 to 1888, what
may it not do in these days of rapid transit
But the fact is that the good old times of
slow stages, of spending weeks and months
on the journey, were so much more suited
to the why's Of cholera that even the thou
sandfold opportunities of the age of steam
do not make it half 80 dangerous. II there
is one thing less doubtful than another in
the natural history of cholera, it is that II
loves the ground, that the breeding place of
the poison is the soil, and that it Is always
most formidable when it drags its slow
length along and leaves q trail behind it.
Cholera came by sea from Alexandria to
Southampton in 1865, but it was quickly
suppressed. 1t came next year with German
emigrants on their way to America, and 1t
became considerable epidemic. We have
always imported it from the opposite shore
of the North Sea. 1t would always seem as
if long journey overland was necessary to
consolidate its power and give vigor to its
constitution. stricken fugitiyes, the
poorest of emigrants, wayside tramps and
oil - In,
the favorite media of cholera diffusion. A
few showers of rain in Toulon at the present
juncture would almost certainly make the
whole town hotbed of pestilence. In a
time Of heat and drought such as the pres
ent what is called the subsoil water stands
Mt low level the wells are low, and when
the rain comes the surface water has to
percolate through n considerable stratum oi
soil, and from a wide radius round about,
in order to reach them These would seem
to be the conditions Gn the temperate zone,
at least, favorable to an increase of cholera,
just as they are known to cause an increase
of typhoid fever. DIR. Cornish, we'll
known official in Madras, says +" Slight
showers of rain at the end of the hot season
may always, think, be regarded rs danger
Gus, as they afford the requisite amount Of
moisture to the surface soil Tin combination
nth its existing high tcmperature) to favor
the development of the germs of the dis
ease" No one can tell where the germs OF
cholera may not have been carried in the
exodus of 40, 900 persons from Toulon, and
some thousands from Marseilles the seed
may have fallen unnoticed on the surface of
the parched ground, where it only awaits
the coming Of the rain to fructify. But much
rain, or heavy floods, have often been known
70 bring an epidemic of cholera to an end,
by flushing tho soil and drowning or carry
ing off the poison.
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HOW TO BE PRETTY.
DIR. Harwood's Advice To Ladies', Young
and Old.


As " how to be pretty " is subject which
more or less excites all womanlind, we re-
prodrce for their benefit DR.. Harwood's
eminently sensible lecture on this interest
ing topic. For those having thick, oily
skins, broken by pimples and comedones,
there is no alternative but careful diet, if
they would have it grow smooth and fine
grained. But little butter must be eaten,
no fat meat, and the food consist for the
most part of vegetables and fruit. A table
spoonful of sulphur taken every other
morning for week, then omitted for three
mornings and taken again, will clear the
complexion in a couple Of months, but will
probably make the black spGcks more nu-
merous for a week or two. A mixture of
powdered birthstone or sulphur in diluted
glycerine, rubbed ON at night in connection
with the other treatment will soon cause
Thorn to disappear. Wash OFF carefully in
the morning with soap and water in which
there is q little ammonia. After this if the
face seems oily, wash it at night with spirits
Of camphor reduced with half as much give.
crime and few drops of ammonia, in the
morning battle the face as before with a
little ammonia in the water, and after wiz
ing it carefully sponge it over with CAM
phor and water and in a short time the fair
ness of your skin will delight yourself aud
surprise your friends. There are many
simple embroentions that may be used in
connection with the foregoing remedy &c
great advantage and which are almost magi
cal in their effects. One highly commended
for whitening and softening the skin is on.
part myrrh four of honey, two of yellow
wax in six of rose water heat the wax, rose
water and honey together by placing the
dish containing them in another OF hot water,
adding the myrrh while the mixture is hot;
rub this over the skin before going to bed.