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Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
Cracking the Enamel.

Washington Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.l
At a reception the other evening we saw Q
fair young girl, whose face, throat, shoul-
ders and arms would have sent Phidias into
ecstacies over their perfectly chiseled lines.
Nature had done enough, but that child was
not content, and she was apparently enam.
elsi, for the surface was as hard and SHINING
Is porcelain. and SO unnatural in color, that
she would have been CHASTITY without the
very evident rouge. She is not lyl Isn't il
kDrriblel
Enameling reminds me of q recent chat
with Ben: Perley Poore. Not that the major
enamels! Oh, mol He only embroiders his
conversation with "reminiscences and jokes,
and makes you remember him with smiles
whenever you think Of him. He is the i'm
age Of patriarchal benevolence, but there is
a spice of good-natured wickedness about
him which is delightful
We were talking Of lady whom we had
both known, and whose foibles were as ami.
able as pretty woman's foibles always
should be. When she had passed 80 she dis.
covered some wrinkles, so she fed to Paris,
and came back-enameled in picturesque
style. She was exceedingly fond Of joke
and her merry smiles used to dimple her fac<
at the least excuse, but-enamel forbid,
smiling, and the poor lady found her retribu-
ton for vanity whenever she met the major
Said my friend, laughing over the memory
of his iniquity: 1T was tine greatest fun te
get beside Mrs. - and tell her droll stories.
The contortions Of her glazed countsnance
were something awful, for she wanted te
laugh so badly that she suffered martyrdom,
yet she would have died rather than crack
that enamel" Isn't it queer how We enjoy
the discomfort of othersi We often find
therein that "One touch Of nature makes the
whole world kin.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
IN THE RANKS.

Louise Chandler Moulton in Harper'sl
dis death blow struck him; there in the
There in the RANKS, ~ith his face to the
foe;
Did his dying lips utter curses or thanksi
No one will know
Nill he marchei on, he with the rest
Still he marched on. with his face to tho
foe,
To the days bitter business sternly addrest;
Dead-did they knowi
hen the day was over. the fierce fight done
his cheeks were red with the sunsets glow
And they crowned him there with their lau-
rel's won:
Dead-did he knowl
iAurels or roses, all one TO him now
What To a dead man is glory CT glowf--
Rose wreaths for love, or a crown on his
brow;
Dead-does he knowi
And yet you will see him march on with
the rest
N""'"r Of them all makes goodlier show
- ...s thick Of tho tumult, jostle and prest:
Dead-would YOU knowi
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29

costumed most richly in white colored
satins, splendidly embroidered, it being e.
sential, 1t appears to national fashion that
these adornments should represent the flow
ers, fruit and other accomplishments OF the
current season.
The faces OF these queer little eastern
bellies are painted red and white and their
eyebrows and eyelashes darkened. Their
crowd Of visitors on the opening day, was
a curious study. Some giggled, some hid
and some seemed on the point of crying
The presence of several JapaneSe ladies
Europeanized in tailor-made gowns and
Regent bonnets. was an exemplification Of
the impossibility Of concealing race charac-
teristics; for these pleasant tiny creatures
showed their nationality plainly and unmis-
takably in S ite of their garb. The same
remark may be made concerning the
Japanese men present, who were dressed in
European costume. There was no installing
them for Englishmen.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29

mouesty also promised, was brief and artf
fetal She showed plated ring with q
glass brilliant set in it, and declared 1t to Be-
gold and diamond, constituting . family
heirloom which only the direst necessity
could part from her possession, and then
only for brief period. She would pledge
it for loan of $40, with the solemn under
standing that she S ould be privileged to re-
deem it at any time within q month, for II
was worth 500 intrinsically, and was of in
calculabls value sentimentally. The I'D.
ventures was SO winning that the cellar
gave the $40 to her and took the ring as Q
sort of chrome accompanying the pleasures
Of the visit
1t is thought that not less than 100 Of thoss
81 rings have been thus disposed of by
the clever swindler within a month at ten
times their market price. The roguish feas
ibility { the trick lies in the fact that the
amount of the robbery is 50 small and the
circumstances such that the victim is not
disposed to publicly complain But for Com
stocks meddling the girl might become
wealthy at it
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
A Nerve Hospital.
Brooklyn Ea&le.l

a A most important institution has Just been
started at 4S Debevoiss Place, Brooklyn. Il
is q hospital intended for the charitable
treatment Of all forms Of nervous diseases
and such mild forms Of mental diseases az
can be rescued by medical skill from the
horrors Of an insane asylum Singular to
say, it is the first institution of the kind in
the world.
The study Of nervous and mental diseases
is the latest Of all the specialties. The i'm
portance and frequency Of the diseases have
been overlooked by the public and even by
the physicians. Curious as it may seem, the
most frequent cause, or the second most fire.
quent cause, among persons who have had
their lives insured is from nervous disease
In other words, nervous disease is the most
frequent or second most frequent cause Of
death among the most industrious, provideni
and intelligent of the community, being only
surpassed in fatality by zymotic, tuberculaI
and respiratory diseases.
Nervous diseases vary but little from yeal
to year in frequency, being among the
most constant Of all maladies. As mort
people suffer from any disease than die from
it, it follows that the prevalence Of the
disease must be eminently greater than tn
fatality, and hence it is difficult to tell what
the prevalence Of the nervous disease is in
our community when the death rate i
shown to be 20 per cent
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
George Eliot's Sense Of Possession"
lExchange.l

Mr. Cross writes: During our short maj.
ried life our time was so much divided BE-
tween travelling and illness that George Eliot
wrote very little, so that I have but slight
personal experience Of how the creative Of
fort affected her. But she told me that, In
all that she considered her best writing,
there was not herself which took posses
sion Of her, and that she felt her own per-
sonality to be merely the instrument through
which this spirit, as it were, was acting
Particularly she dwelt on this in regard to
the scene in .Middlemarch' between Dorothes
and Rosamond-saying that, although she
always knew they had sooner or later to
come together, she kept the idea resOlutely
out of her b,ind until Dorothsa was in Rosa
mond's dra wing-room
"Then, abandoning herself to the inspra-
ton of the moment, she wrote the whole
scene exactly as it stands, without alteration
or erasure, In an intense state Of excitement
and agitation. feeling herself entirely pos
sesssd by the feelings Of the two women OF
all the characters she had attempted she
found Rosamond's the most difficult to sus-
tain. With this sense Of possession it b
easy to imagine what the cost to the author
must have been Of writing books, each Of
which has its tragedy. We have seen the
suffering alluded to in the letters on the
Mil ON the Floss Felix Holt and
sRomola's
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
Where Ignorance Was Bliss.

New York Graphic.l
"No," observed Mr.. Simpson, my wife
can't sing or play"
"That's sad," replied Mr.. Wilson. SYou
ought to be pitied-"
-Not at all, y returned Mr.. Simpson -6hs
never triss to do eithsr.s
Arctic PhenomenA
George Kennan, Camping in KamschatkA. ~
A crowd standing upon the snow at
Q distance of 100 yards is exaggerated
and distorted beyond recognition.
Once having fingered little behind the
rest of the party l was startled at see-
ing long line of shadowy dog sledges
moving silently through the air at q
height of eight or ten feet from the
ground. The n.ock sledges were in
verted in position, and the mock dogs
trotted along with their feet upward
in the air, but their outlines were as
clear as those Of the real sledges and
real dogs underneath. This curious
phenomenon lasted only q moment, but
1t was succeeded by others equally
strange, until at last we lost faith in
our eyesight entirely and would not be-
ieve in the existence of anything un-
less We could touch it with our hands.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
BOSTON STREET-CARS.


Bob Burdette.l
DFOalily dawned the heavy day
And the hours crept wearily by,
And the raw east wind from the dismal bay
O'erclouded the dull gray sky.
But the summer of hope shone in his face,
For the boy was brave and young,
And the day crept by at q funeral pace.
And the passing hours were rung.
And the old days went and the new days
came,
And the weeks went limping past;
Old Time was spawned, Eternity lone,
But the end must come at last
Do wrinkled, and blind and white as snow,
When life's long race was run.
He reached the place where hs started to 60
When his half-mile journey begun
Oh, woe Is the man in Boston town
Who climb on the cars to ride,
For he'll think that the town, when he get
teth down.
Il four hundred thousand miles wide
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
II the Birds Should Die.
tPittshury Disnafch


The birds destroy countless millions
of insects, and this well known fact, of
which everybody is so tired, contributes
more toward the production of supplies
than all the work done by farmers. 1t
is known that the birds all over the
world eat more insects in one day than
all the human inhabitants could count
in year, and if they were all to die
the world would come to an end, for 50
fast DO insects multiply that one season
wo 4 pass and the next would not find
leaf, bud, blade of grass, or other liv-
ing thing on the face of the globe. The
change would be as though the sun had
ceased shining and perpetual winter en-
wrapped the earth. This is what is
meant by the remark that birds eat q
great number of bugs.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29

Look at this array or spreads and coIored
towels and white mummy linen on the
counter. The lunch and breakfast cloths
are colored, yet not dark. They are blue
and white, pink and blue, chocolate, blue
and gold damask. with napkins to corrs-
spond. PT white ones Of mummy or
Grape lin~L have beautiful designs in ths
center and fancy colored bordera The I'm
ish is generally a knotty fringe Another
unique white cloth has q crimson border and
moresqus design half yard from the edge,
which shows on top of the table when spread.
The most beautiful designs are roses, leaves,
or lilies"
"What is the popular fabric and style In
tableclothsF
"Satin-damask tableclotha The designs
are Of many kinds to please different tastes.
some with bunches Of grapes and leaves,
while the borders are of acrons and oak
leaves Some have buttercups, and pansies
forming q battlement in the center, with
mimosa and ferns interlaced for bordering,
These are expensive, and five yards will cost
from SIS to $780, The most fantastic de-
signs are put on table-cloths The moro odd
and novel the higher the appreciation of
them. Mummy linen or huckaback is
generally used for towels. Soft, rough
Turkish towels are popular. The white
linen towels have colorsd borders with figure
or flower designs On ono d Bacchus and
his devotees on jamboreaL Another de-
s;Sn represents pastoral scene and sheep
browsing Splashes Of tides have rows Of
hemstitching both crosswise and long. Some
have exquisite borders of flowers of delicate
hue.
"A piano-cover of rich navy blue velours,
having a bright flaming blue fisur do Lis
upon it, outlined by old-gold threads, is styl-
ish and artistic. In bedsteads the immacu-
late white Marseilles are favorites. They
have raised designs on them, generally ara
besque in character. Pillows, holsters, and
shams are richly embroidered to 60 with
them. Regular artists are employed to get
up these designs and prizes are offered fire.
quently to encourage amateurs to venture
and see what new designs they can study
out 1t is q curious thing how the art craze
invades every branch of business.
@Of course 1 like it; because, as the de-
signs are constantly changing and prettier
ones made, new cloths are bought merely
for the style Of the design"
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
VALUE OF COTTON SEED.
Tho Immense Change Which Has Taken
Place Since the War.

Tho Immense Change Which Has Taken
Place Since tho War.
ATLANTA Constitutional
The commercial world is beginning to
wake up to the fact that cotton seed is very
valuable. 1t is wanted at the oil mills; 1t is
wanted in the fields as a fertilizer, and in
the stock yards it is wanted as fattening
agent The Planters Journal shows that it
Is worth as much as commercial fertilizers
which are sold at Si5 a ton. In November,
lSS3 when corn was worth 81. IL hundred
pounds. cotton seed meal was worth g. 81,
and cotton seed itself sos As feed for
stock cotton seed was worth Sal 60 ton; as
a fertilizer it was worth s45. 1t is yearly be-
coming more valuable, and the time is fast
approaching when the cotton plant could be
raised under favorable circumstances at Q
profit on the seed alone.
This is an immense change from the meth
DDS Of treating cotton seed before the war.
Then all of it that was nos needed for re-
planting was a drug. 1t accumulated about
the gin-houses until it became a nuisance,
and when the nuisance became intolerable
in the course Of decomposition, it was GUS
tomary to move the gnhouse rather than
stir the rotting seed All such methods are
past ana gone, ana tne seeu Is consAuereu
only less valuable than the staple itself.
The rising value of cotton seed in the oil
mills and as fattener Of cattle may prove
e curse to the south. If the seed is as a rule
to be carried away from the land that pro-
duced it, the soil must either lose its produc-
tiveness or else the grip of the makers Of
commercial fertilizers will be enlarged and
strengthened. Either contingency is to be
deplored. The seed should go back to the
land. It is worth more to the soil than it
will bring in the market, valuable as it is.
1t is curious fact that cotton seed is better
as a fertilizer. after the oil has been ex-
tracted from it than before, for it then as
similates more readily with the soil. 1t is
better as q stock food, after the oil has been
taken from it than before, for with the oil it
is too rich.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
Ten thousand Dollars for . Drink.
EXCHANGED

sYou may not believe it, but once paid
$4,000 for q drink Of whisky" said . cor.
poral on duty at the arsenal in the mess
room the other day. The talk had turned to
war prices, and some pretty steep figures
were mentioned. No one believed the cor
poral and all laughed. But the corporal
braced up and said:
3Whsn left Petersburg in IS l had $2O,-
900 in Confederate scrip. It was as cold -
blasss and q fsller got warm thinking OF
whisky. was hard up for a drink. and IS
I had bean reading paper on the delicious
liquor, my mind wandered to il. Before I
had gone far met . travelling whisky saloon
on wheels Yes, Q sutler, you know. That's
what we called them I hadn't q cont
excspt the scrip, but I just went up and
says:
s'Sutler, have you any good whiskyf
That have says he. Well, il you viii
give mo q good drink says ], I'll give
you $1,000 Well. you should have
seem him smile. He knew il was gag, but
just to see the thing out he filed me cup
full Of tanglefoot, which drank with .
relish, you bet Then gave him $4,000. ]
offered the other SlO,O00 but he bad been
thera"
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
venezuela's F1eas and Mosquitoes
[South American Cor Inter Ocean.l

tSouth American Cor. Inter Ocean,
have thus far neglected to givedus credit
to the tropical flea, to whose industry, enter
prise, and assiiuous solicitude all travellers
in this country are indebted for a great deal
of diversion. At first his attentions were
somewhat annoying, and there was a general
disposition to conceal acquaintance with him;
but when every man, woman, and child in Q
company is constantly scratching, it becomes
diffic ult to ignore conditions that are COM
mon and conspicuous; and everybody ad-
mits, first with blushes and then with
brazen shamelessness, that he's got 'en.
There's no use of trying to conceal the
fact. They are as common and as plenty a.
flies in the basement-ki kitchen of city board
ing house, and the Venezuela coat-of-arms
would more truly represent the condition O.
the country il it showed a man vainly trying
to scratch in seven places at once. instead of
q wild horse dashing over the Pampa$ They
are little black flies which will get into your
clothing in the most unaccountable manner.
You find them in your shoes, and under your
shirt-collar; you wake up in the night and
think you have somehow wandered into Q
plantation of nettles, or, when you become Q
q little more accustomed to it, dream regu.
larly that you are lying on the prickly side
Of a cactus To rub the flesh with brandy
does some good, but the better way is to grin
and bear it These pests are bad enough in
Mexico; they are worse in the West Indies,
but in Venezuela-tbe less said the better.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
Why Women Arc Not Drummer.
New York Paper.1

Could or would woman drummer, you
think, adopt the methods Of the typical
drummer now on the roadi Let us sec his
programme. He arrives at the town Puts
up at the best hotel and kindly consents to
drink with the landlord and tell him how
glad he was to leave Smiths hash-house at
the next town in order to get to his hotel
Makes arrangeme, IS with him to play . lit
tie draw poker after the merchants have
been visited He goes to see a merchant
Asks him to come around and sec his sam
pies on exhibition at the hotel Merchant
refuses He asks the merchant to drink.
They dc. They smoke cigars Tho drum
mer swears he can discount the figures Of
the other drummer the merchant has boon
buying from. A dispute arises, and several
hours are consumed in drinking, talking and
smoking. The result is, merchant buys .
bill to get the discount promised Would .
woman do that Not much, I think Now,
it is plain why women are not drummarA
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
A Rare Ceremony.


The comparatively rare ceremony Of ths
creation of commanders Of the old Teutonic
Order took place in Vienna the other day by
order of the grand master, the Archduks
William. The church of the order was filed
with the commanders and knights, all wear.
ing coats of mail The three commander
elected approached the altar with their
swords in their right hand- and burning wax
tapers in their left The swords Of the thres
knights were then blessed, and after high
mass they received the sword stroke which
constituted them commanders The cere-
mony endei by the grand master standing
before the altar and waving his sword TO-
ward the "three quarters Of the globe" .
performance supposed to represent vensra.
ton of the Trinity.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
Strange Monument to Washington.
IChica9o Times

Among the many monuments to WASH
ington is one which every visitor to the
Cape Verde isles will remember as one of the
most colossal and marvellous freaks Of natu-
raj sculpture in existence. Along the fur
ther side Of San Vicente tthe principal town.
rises bold riige Of dark gray volcanic
rock, the crest Of which forms an exact like
ness Of Washington, lying face upward, as
il in sleep or death. The hero's large, bold
features, the back ward wave Of his hair,
the sweep Of his massive shoulders, and the
very frill Of his shirt are all reproduced ON
q gigantic scale with q fidelity worthy Of the
stalactite formations Of the Adelsberg
grotto or the Mammoth cave of Kentucky.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29
Over l4,OOO,OOO pounds of dynamite are
made annually in the United Statea
CRAZE FOR ART WORKS.
Latest Novelties In Cloths for the Table
All Sorts Of Designs

Latest Novelties In Cloths for the Table
All Sorts Of Designs.
New York Mail and Express.l
Everything must have art about it to
take" said a dealer on Broadway to a re-
porter. "I thought the line would be drawn
when utility and quality were found incom-
patible with the extreme asthstic taste for
art, but if bedspreads, jute velour coverings,
Tides and splashes haven't soane pretty de-
sign Of flowers, embroidery, or rocco en-
bossing upon them, my customers heave a
sigh and say: isn't it pity such good ma
terial should be wasted for lack Of artistic
design in their finish.'"
"What do you do in such a casef
II sit down Immediately and write to the
factory that if they do not get up artistic
designs and weave them in with their manu-.
facturs Of linens will not buy of them.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-29

n puhIhitt hds Aatoiy O0oh PuohsAcu Az
London advocating the finding of peopls
who have more than three children
The Regents Punch.
New York Sun]
1t is said in Albany that nothing brings
out a mans character like his behavior in
connection with Jackpot; but for confin.
ing its work to the exposure of all the amia
BILE qualities and bringing them out with q
rush, a Jackpot is nothing beside half-a
dozen glasses of regents punch. Liquor
dealers, temperance agitators, and all Others
whose attention has been attracted to the
subject of mixed drinks will perceive the
force Of this description when they see the
following list Of the ingredients of this
famous drink: Cognn., Jamaica rum, Hook.
heimer, Chartreuse, Arrak, rock candy
bloom raisins, lemons, apollinaris, Madeira,
curacao, maraschino. kimmel, green tea,
oranges, spices, pineapple, champagne.
1t is needless to say that its effects next
day arc not SO praiseworthy. Some mem
bers Of the assembly say, however. that the
next day effects are not nearly so bad as
those of the day after that These gentle
men assert that this punch is built on the
multicharge principle, and that all the in
gradients don't get in their best work until
the second day after the drinking is done.