davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

The Supreme Court has sat down
upon the case of WAYLAND against
CRANK, yet it is safe TO assume that
wailing against crankS will 90 OH for all
time in spite Of the law.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

Hartford Times. !

Two bushels OF $50 bills came in
from New York at midnight and half
million of currency will be piled up
on the counters at the New Haven
Savings Bank to-day. Said bank Of
ficer last evening: 1--WE shall pile it
upon the counters where the people can
see it and say There it is. Sail in. "
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

- Brother BLAINE makes il point
to weep over his Affections when he
dimes out in Washington" He has
monopoly of the business. No one else
wceps over them.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

had but little snow to protect it. and
I Il prospect for crop Is very gloomy.
Nearly all Of the Democrats in this
section are in favor Of the Blair bill,
and are commenting the Dispatch for
the good work il is doing in its behalf
BEATTIE.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
Virginia ana North Carolina Postal
Notes.

The following postmasters have been
recently commissioned Rudolph Nc.
Laughlin, at Buchanan, Botetouri
county, Va; Sallie l.. Foster, at Pam
pin City, Appomattox county, Va.
Thomas L. Lyons. at Pulaski Station,
Va; John Edward Curlce, at Elkville,
Wilkes county. N. e.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
Pa BROAD-STREET METRO

DIST corner Broad and Tenth streets. -
Rev. \. &. BLBDsOE pastor will preach ~
IL O'Clock \. VI. Reception Of persons into
the church after morning sermon, followed
by the communion service. At night this
congregation will unite with the Clay-Strcet
congregat ton in "A revival service.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
nsy SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH

corner Main and sixth streets Roy. VII
LIAM ". LANDEUH. PastOr.-Morn.ng ser
vice at II O'Clock. Sermon by Rev. GHoEGE
g. NEEDHAM. Evening service and bap-
tism at y o'clock. sermon bv the pastor.
Preaching MoNDAr. rrE,pAl. and WE'D
NIsDAl NIGHTS at : Oc'ocN.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

We shall never cease to endorse the
good qualities Of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup; for without its good effect our
paper would have been short Of reading
matter this week; we had shocking
cough. : Weekly Union.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
asy~ TRINITY CUIRCU 1,or,o,

BSg" TRINITY CHURCH corner of
Broad and Twentieth streets Roy. !. g..
REED. raStor.-Prcaching by pastor at II
\. VI. and al 1870 =. NJ SUNDAY.
The pcw-rent system being ahp' shed. an
seats in the church are free. cordial inyi-
lat.on is extended 10 the pubic.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

Some one in New York has eStab-
lished hospital for cats. fit is a
hospital for insane cats, the Sun should
subscribe literally.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

1fyou throw man out of window
what does he fall against? His in
clination. If he gets spraincd try st.
Jacobs Oil. Ii cures.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
ny LAUREL STREET METUO-

By" LAUREL-STREET METIIO-
DIST CHURCH corner Of Laurel and Albc-
marie streetsl-Rey. ". +. WRIGHT Pastor.
sunday school ato =. VI. Preaching At II
a. VI. and at Z. NJ. At night the congre-
CATION Will take part in the union revival
meetings at Clay-Strcct church.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
BRIEF COMMENT.

"KEIFER is writing his rcminis-
cences." The Mudir Of Dongola will
have TO look to his laurels.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
By UNION-STATIoN METHO-

DIST CHURCH corner Twenty fourth and
y streetsl.-Rev W. Robbins will preach
at II \. NJ and 1870 T. NJ. Special services
every night during the week.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
re,r FIRST BAPTIST cHrRclL.

100 =. NJ. Rev. GEORGE e. NErpHAN.
MONDAY NIGHT ana during the week, Rev.
II. r. AGREE, Of lynchburg VIII preach at
this church.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
Mr. YENABLE-sTREET ZAP.

list CHC RCH.-Preaching by the pastor
Rev. c. p. SCOTr al IL A. NJ. and by Mr..
THOMAS NEEDHAN. the Irish evangelist Al
$3.50 r. NJ. No service at night. Special
meetings every night during the week.
sundsy school at $50 \. VI. All welcome.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

Gs7F' PAKk-PLACE METHODIST
Clil RCll west Franklin ct.-preach-
ing ~ the pastor Rev. WM. f.. EVANS. AZ ;
\. M.-sub Get The History OF Great
Crime '; 7:45 T. NJ. Bible reading and ex-
percrcc meeting conducted by the pastor
Revival services continued an the week.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

Hly' MARSllAlI.-STREET CHRIS
TIAN CHURCH between Graham and
Haucocl, streets -"reachiug hy h. \. CUT
LLRatIIA. VI. and 1880 T. ".
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
a.qy- CENTENARY METHODIST

CIiU RClI.-preaching at II O'Clock \. W.
by Rev. ". f.. EDWARD u. -. Al night
the church viii he closed ana the cou.rc-
CATION Will unite with the Cay.Strcct
chuIch union meeting
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

D>D" THE FIRST AID SECOND
Presbyterian congregations viii worship to-
gether in the Second church at IA A.M.aud
{ Z. VI.
I.rSt-churrh sunday school m the MpNu-
MENrAL CEATEL .corncr OF Grace and Mad
ison streets al $3.50 \. VI.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

~" FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH Grace above Nhafrr Boy PIA-
roN II. IIoGE pastor. services ~ ~ \. w..
and : T.. NJ seats free. PubuccorIaiy iu-
vitcd.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
py CLAY-STREET BAPTIST

CHURCH corner Clay and Graham streets.
Rev. >. c. CLOPTON. Pastor. Worship at II
AN. and 7:30 I. VI.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

By" SECOND PRESBYTERIAN. -
Rev. Mr.. KERR al Ia \. NJ; pr. HOOK t (
=. VI.
Or. HoCE will also preach iu the Old
Market Hall at 1870 T.. NJ
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
~. MONTMENTAL rnLErl

Rev. JoHS h. NEWTON. Roctor-DNipr ser
vice and Holy communion AT n An, and
At , =. W. at chapel >uuday-schopl. 9.3,
A. NJ
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
ny WEST MAIN-STREET BAP-

TIST CHURCH corner Main and Beech
streets. Preaching SUNDAY by the pastor.
Rev. WILLIAM j. sHIPaAN. at / o'clock A.
NJ. and ~ o clock 4. NJ. All are welcome.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

RCH.-Suntay school $3.50 A.I Rev.
Il. K. lIOWG-uS. pastor az Do A. w. AMI
7:4j I. VI. seats free.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

srD" LADIES tNDERWENEs.r,
cheap az LEVY DAVIS.
JAZZ 1919 and 1879 Main >tr-..
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
ADVERTISING RATES.
HAty tSctt an IYSa.

Reading notices In rcading-mattcr type,
Hines or less. 81; in nonpareii loaded. rs
cents.
Card OF rates for more space furnished on
application.
All letters and iclegams must be address,
ed 10 THE DISPATCH COMPANY.
Rejected communications will not be re-
turned.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

Do FIRST ENGLISH LUTHERAN
Clil E'I seventh street between Broad
and Grace. Rev. ". e.. ~CiIAEsrrE Pas
tor.-PrcachIug at ~ y. VI. aud 7.3p p. n
All welcome. seats free.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
HPE<IAL yOrrCrs

NS7t'fff n f'f'f nm ~
@MILLINRRY! MILLINERY
AT so PER CENT. LEss THAN var.
FOR NEXT TEN DAYS.
Ladies' I'm want OF
TRIMMED OR UNTRIMNED BoXyt-r-
OR HATS
VIII do well 10 call and examine my an.
and elegant stock Of
FELVEfs, FELTs. FANCY CROWNS
FEATHERS
CHILDREN'S BONNETS.
and
CREPE BoNNETs AND Wells
csIl early and secure great bargains
Mas. b. ". COSBY',.
formerly Mrs. saunder,'sl
Ja So-3t ago east Broad street
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

II ". BRANCH * CO.,
BANkIE~ AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS
mn NAIN srEttl
DO \ GENERAL BANKING AN' ''H-
MISSION ~ ~lNE~~.
STOCKS AND BONDS BOUGHT Nh
SOLD o. COMMISSION.
Also GRAIN AND CuIruN. CASH OK
FUTURES.
Liberal advances on con>Ignmth's
Correspondence solicited. "a l'-'h
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31

CARRIAGES. BUG@IE>. CARTS. a..

w c. SMITH.
sSia NORTH FIFTH SrREEr -
MANUFACTI RER OF { A RRl.N" =
PHAklONS. BUGGikS. VII A'"
CAtfS. &c.
A number Of SECONp-iIAk 81 ~
RACES. PHAkfONS. ToP-SVY 80" '''
CARTS for sale cheap. y call fh-...t"
Ia COLIN
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-31
TIE RICHMOND DISPATCH,
BIZ THE DISPATCH COMPANY.

The DAILY DESPATCH Ia delivered to
eutwcribernt firrsxs cssrspcr week. pay
able 10 tho carrier weekly. Mailed atsd per
amman; Is for six months; $3.50 for three
months: Soc. fnrone month.
The sEMl-wEEKLyD IsPATcIiat - per
annum. or 81 for ak months.
Ths WEEKLY DISPATCH ut 81 per an
mum.
subscriptions In all eases payable in adj
vance. and no paper continued after the ex-
pisstion 81 the time paid for. Send post
oi1icc moncy-erier check. or registered let
ter. Currency sent by mall will be at the
risk OF these Subscribers wishing their
post-ofiice changed must give their old as
well as their new post-otiice. sample copies
free.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25
A CHINESE PRINTING OFFICE.

INT San Francisco Chinese printing
office the manner of putting newspaper
on the press and printing is very primi-
tive The editor takes American news
papers to friends, from whom he gets
translation of the matter he needs, and
after, getting it written in Chinese in a
manner satisfactory to him he carefully
writes it upon paper chemically pre-
pared. Upon the bed of the press,
which is of the style that went out of use
with the last century, is ithograph
stone. Upon this the paper is laid-until
the impression of the character is left
there. A large roller is linked and passed
over the stone after it has been damp
ened with wet sponge, and nothing re-
mains but to take the impression upon
the newspaper to be. The, Chinese
pressman prints three papers every five
minutes, five papers in the same time
less than Benjamin Franklin h,d
record for. The life of Chinese lo,n -
nalist is a happy ONE. He is free from
care and thought, and allows all the
work in the establishment to be done by
the pressman. The Chinese compost
tor has not arrived. The Chinese editor,
like the rest of his countrymen, is imi-
tative. He does not depend upon his
brain for editorials, but translates them
from all the contemporaneous American
newspapers he can get. There is no
humorous department in tile Chinese
newspaper. The newspaper Office has
no exchanges scattered over the floor.
and in nearly all other things it. differs
from the American establishment. The
editorial room is connected by a ladder
with hunks on the loft above, where the
managing editor sleeps, and next to it
is, invariably, a room where an opium
bunk and layout reside. Evidences OF
domestic life are about the place, pots
kettles, and dishes taking up about as
much room as the press. In all cases,
no disposition is shown to elevate the
position of the printer above his sur
roundings. If an, editor finds that jour
nalism does not pay, he gets a job wash.
ing dishes or ciopping wood, and he
does not think he has descended fan
either.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25
CoEFEE-DHlNK1NG IN nuE4AAY.

The Turks are nation of coffee.
drinkers. They use coffee as the Italians
use wine or the Germans beer. OF
course alcoholic drinks are popular, but
it is illegal to use them IN public.
Cofee-houses are as plentiful as saloons
in mining town, and in addition itin.
Grant vendors of the drink are omni.
present in the streets. These latter
have each sheet-iron stove, such as
thinkers carry, an iron sauce dish with
long wooden handle, bottle OF coffee, a
paper of sugar, a can of water, a spoon
and a few small cups When q cup OF
coffee is ordered from one of these fell
lows, he retires into the nearest doorway
and rakes up the Goals III his stove.
Then out of the bottle is ladled the
coffee, previously ground into impal-
pable powder, q teaspoonful being taken
for each cup to be made. An equal
amount of sugar is ided, and the
whole put in the saucepan and covered
with water. Then the pan goes on to
the GOALS and is allowed to boil up at
once The result looks inviting and
smells good, but you feel more friendly
with it outside than when you have got
it in. If it did not have so many
grounds in it, it would be good syrup,
but there is altogether too much sugar
for it to be good coffee. The coffee
houses are delightfully."- free from cere-
mony. I have seen nothing except
German theatre, that equalled them.
They are generally combination con-
cerns,e the refreshment clerk being also
surgeon, dentist and barber. The
rooms are large, but low, and commonly
very neatly whitewashed. The only
furniture is a set of benches (divans in
poetry, that run round the walls, and.
in the centre, o stool used as operating
chair when the cook is called on to
minister to o diseased body or mind.
Against the wall hangs hand-mirror
and case of instruments, and under
the benches are row Of m,rghiai for the
use of smoking customers. The man
who is to be shaved, bled, or have his
tooth pulled, sits upright on the stool,
with no support for his back or head.
and gets what enjoyment out of it he
can. The smokers ard loungers on the
benches take no notice of him4or any
thing, for that matter. Cofee-drinking
is grave matter with Mohammedan.
and he takes his pleasure sadly. IN -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25
Racetia.


Tho engineer OF the soda-fountain OF
tends strictly to the business of tizz.
Some of the people of Leavenworth,
Kan, are said to be so lazy that they
write the name of the place 11worth.
A large proportion of the models sent
to the patent Office are like lies; they
return to plague the inventor"
He handled his gun carelessly and
put on his angel plumage, is the latest
obituary notice from Arkansas.
Where MI the children are "perfect
little lambs" there is danger of there
beng - goodly proportion of mutton
heads. --~~ --~
Mrs. Sylvan sent to the city the other
day Tor lone of those ruta-baga hats"
The good woman wanted enc of those
that turnip at the side.
A stupid man., in buying book, said
to the bookseller, 81 will take two copies
while am about it, as may wish to
read it twice"
A poet asks .What is warmer than
q woman's love ?" We infer that he
never picked up n newly-coined horse
shoe. fresh from the forge.
"Yaas," said Shocks, II have been
living on an exclusively vegetable diet
down in the country nothing but eggs
and milk, you know"
It was son of Erin who asked the
meeting to excuse him from serving ON
committee because he expected to be
unexpectedly called away.
HE tried to kiss me and I Just told
him to behave" said an irate young
lady after a sleighride last night. "No,
the idiot, he behaved" ~
"How did you begin life ?" the young
man asked the great man. II didn't
begin it,, truthfulIy replied the great
man. 1T was here when I got here
"Mr. Jenkinson's wife must be awful
Jealous" said Miss Smith. "He gave
me his seat in the car, and when I
thanked him he begged Inc not to men
ton it." N
"Oh, to lie in the ripening grass ~
exclalms q newspaper poet. He can lie
there as we'll as III the newspaper, or
can have a tombstone do his lying for
him.
Papa thel, you mustn't saw i
WON'T to papa. It's naughty" Ethel
SWELL but papa, what shall I say
when mean / won't?"
care you bull or bear?" asked an
acquaintance Of o Spectator in Wall
street yesterday. " Neither" he replied
Il think am an ass"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25
POPPY CULTURE in PERSIA.

From time immemorial opium has
been grown in Persia in the neighbor-
hood of Yezd, and enough was always
produced there to supply the demands
of the native market. Nine out of ten
of the aged in Persia take from one to
five grains of the drug daily; it is
largely used by the native physicians,
and considerable export was kept up
via Meshed to Central Asia During
the cotton famine caused by our civil
war, the attention of the Persian riot was
turned to the cultivation of the cotton
bush /; but cotton soon became hardly
worth growing, save the small amount
required for home manufacture and the
villagers throughout the centre and
south gradually turned their attention
to the cultivation of the poppy. Year
by year this crop has become a more
iavorite one and the result has been
that grain-growing has been much neg
lccted, with the effect of raising the
price in some districts.
In the neighOorhood of Ispahan, as
far as the eye can reach, nothing but
fields of peoples are to be seen, with
small patch here and there of wheat or
barley, which the, cultiyatcr produces
for his own use or to give some rest to
his land. The white variety of the
poppy is the one that is grown. 1t is
sown broadcast and very thickly, and
when it first comes up resembles very
abundant crop of dandelions. This re-
dundance is soon reduced by the riot,
sa-,.s
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25

who with n short curved knife hacks
AWAY superhuous plants till those that
are left stand some six inches from each
other. The reducing process has to be
gone through many times, and the
ground kept clear Of weeds until the
plant is six inches high. The fields are
also irrigated once week until the buds
are about to burst into bloom. 1t is this
irrigation, probably, that accounts for
the inferiority i'll the percentage of NOR.
phia i'll Persian opium. And now that
the peoples are in flower and the petals
nre about to fall. the riots, under the
direction of men from the neigborhood
of Yell, who travel all over Persia to
superintend the gathering of the crop
and It's subsequent preparation, begin to
collect the opium from the plant. This
is done by scoring the seed-vessels with
n small three-bladel knife, which makes
three gashes nh eighth of an inch apart
and three-quartcrs Of an inch long. The
The operation is performed in the after
noon. From these gashes the opium
exudes in tears. which are collected at
early dawn by scraping with a piece of
glass or knife. II unfortunately
heavy shower of rain should fall, large
proportion or even all of the opium may
be lost. This gashing and scraping is
repeated second and even third time.
Thepoppies. after the opium is extracted.
are used IS fodder.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25

SERVICE IN MEXICO.

Servants are plentiful in Mexico, and
on are pretty sure to have several
descendants of the Aztec kings about
he house if You hire one, for it is the
cule that tile whole family accompany
he father or mother who goes out to
service. Your cook brings her husband,
ner children, and pretty nearly oil her
elatives, and they are fed from your
table and sleep under your roof. The
husband may be shoemaker, or o
saloon-keeper. or q hickman, but he
lives where his wife works. There are
usually rooms enough in the house for
them all, and the only food they want
is plenty of beans and what is left from
your taD1e.n .v4ag,ntr fssy,gttt tQ
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25
HAD 1T IN A BAG.

One'of the gayly- painted mail wagons
which ply between the post-office and
the various depots was down ct the
Union Depot one day, when stranger
looked it carefully over, and inquired of
a policeman
"Creus in town." ''
-, No. not exactly"
"What sort: OF an animal have they
got i'll there?"
Can't you read2"
II can when I'm to hum, but this
snow kinder blinds me-"
:: 'sWell, it's dodo, l believe"
land where are they going to take
Ion, up town piece If you follow
the wagon you'll be apt to see him
unloaded." !
az believe Twill. I haven't seem one
O. those animals since was boy, and
If there amt no charge for it might as
we'll take squint."
He followed the wagon at trot, and
was absent about half an hour. When
he returned the officer asked
"Well, did you see the dodo?" so
. "Not a hair of him. was the dis
gusted reply. 81 got all ready to, but
III be hanged if they didn't have him i'm
q leather bag" go
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25
. THEY FOUND THE BORE.

A pretty young mamma, with q little
girl by her side nearly as pretty as her.
self, was being entertained by a male
stranger. who had struck up an acquain-
lance through the usual and always con-
venient mediumship OF the little girl
The stranger did all the talking. He
was one of those men who think they
know everything, but only rarely get a
chance to tell it. The lady answered
only in monosyllab.es, The little girl
listened patiently and demurely for a
time, and then commenced to fidget
around in her seat. Finally, as the
stranger stopped for breath, she said:
Mamma. you've found one, amt
you?" .~... 200. .-.... d,
"What, my dear 2" a., ....~ ..,.
F. "Why, don't you remember what You
told papa when he said you'd he lone
some on the cars? You said you'd find
some bore to talk you to sleep"
Mamma looked out of the window,
and the stranger suddenly thought he
had better go into the smoking car to
find his friends g,saas sa1 81 :=.s. "a e..f,.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25
MEXICAN FUNERALS.

It may be interesting to some OF your
many readers to know how funerals are
conducted i'll Mexico. Instead Of
hearses, such as we haze in the States,
regular funeral draped street-cars are.
fitted up for the purpose The driver is
most comical genius, and is only to be
seen to be appreciated. He is gotten up
in the most sombre style, sable coat,
gloved hands, broad band of Grape
! around his hat, which is an immense
stovepipe, and that cooked jauntily to
one side, and to give him tone, "a huge
cigar such as they smoke here's stuck
in his mouth. Instead of o subdued
look, suitable to the occasion, he assumes
rather festive air, as if chaperoning d
picnic party, Or Us one going out on q
lark and bound to have good time. I
have seen couple of poems start with
corpse to the car, and, it not being in
sight, take seat, one on each end, look
ing as comfortable as if they were seated
on red sofa-and, as, they smoked.
deliberately discuss as to which was the
best drink, "tequila," or "pulque." A
game of cards is admissible, and
"pulque is sometimes drunk to the
corpse's health, to relieve the tedious
ness of waiting. Being somewhat of a
stranger in Mexico, 1 shall not vorich for
the two latter facts '-
rNboro n cooo,I al which
having no curtain, exposes the poor I'M
fortunate corpse, not only to the burning
rays of the sun, but to the eager gaze of
the passers-by. No sooner does the
native see this sad sight; than down he
drops on his knees and crosses himself.
but the fresh American gazes rs long as
he can see q trace of it, with eyes as large
as "moons." The coffin lid is. rarely
put on until the cemetery is reached
and in consequence, one often gets
glimpse of sallow face and crossed
hands. .rs...- ya is4 'e
1t is not etiquette for Mexican to;
attend the funeral of his dead. This is
left for hardened men, who are paid for
all such work. This is not the case,
however, with the poorer class, who are
not able to hire the commonest car, or
even to buy coffin. The peon rents a
coffin for twelve-and- a-haf cents, and is
often seen with one containing some
dearly beloved one on his back, vending
his way slowly and sorrowfully to the
cemetery, perhaps with feet bleeding as
they come in contact with the rough
stones When. he reaches the cemetery,
he deposits the body in the grave with
out ceremony, returns the coffin to the
undertaken, and-that is all. No one
aither cares for or pities him. for he is
| 1nly poor unfortunate peon. go
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-25

81, 81 met Mr., Smith in shabby coat q
while ago. He has not failed. has he ?"
z" Oh, no, he only puts on that coat
when he goes to the assessors to give in
his property for the assessment" -, 4