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II Trains Carry.

The railway reporter of III Laramie
Boomerang was in Il reflective mood
the other day and in default Of Incl
dents threw off the following interest
ing bit of ~nothingness: There is
nothing curious Wthe close OBJ
server than to watch the trains as they
cross the continent over the big roads
and see the curiosites in the way of
freight as well as the variety and
character of the passengers they carry.
Especially is this noticeable on the
fast freights nov running. and which
pass through Laramie in the evening.
There are to be seen whole train-loads
cf oysters from Baltimore, consigned
to San Francisco firms, one of those
trains going out last night. A second
section took more oysters and several
carloads of eggs from Omaha for the
west; a steam fire engine for San Fran
cisco, a after car of wagons, and
several coach-loads of emigrants.
These are but specimens of what is
carried west. and going east there are
seen trains of wire. tea, honey, and
silk, cars of fine horses and cattle,
now and then Il car of sea-lions. and
all such things. There is not a train
goes by that does not interest one who
reads the labels on the doors as it
lies on the platform resting for its long
journey east or west. The passenger
trains, too. have among their loads
noticeable features, and now and then
an especially distinguished party,
whom none but those living on the
Pacific lines eve have an opportunity
to see. Generals, governors, senators,
now and then a president, and one
king travels through here every year
or two
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A Remarkable Accident,

A pacific coast paper records the
following remarkable accident, son
Saturday, the 18th inst, a $50 pound
fragmentof a stump that was blown
out of the ground with giant powder,
near Tacoma. w. T., flew past Mr..
+. Frazier, who was witnessing the
process from a standpoint 420 feet
away. 1t struck the ground close by
him, just grazing him, yet so graet
was its force that it tore his clothes
from his body. rent his boots SO that
his feet were left bare, crushing the
bones of both feet. Mr.. Frazier, who
is go years of age, was completely par
alyzed by the blow, and was insensible
for twenty minutes. With the exeep-
ton of being partially crippled in his
feet, he will suffef<Ao serious incon-
venience from the accident"
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Ecceutricities OF Bees.

Very recently we moved a couple of
bee-hives that We're sitting on a box
about six inches above the ground and
feet from the ground. The bees. on
returning loaded, would light on the
box about the height of the former
box. VIZ noticed, also, they would,
on returning, go to the old place about
forty yards distant. and seemed per-
fectiy lost. 1t took them over a week
to learn their new place and sur.
roundings. The habit eve of a bee
controls them when once formed
Quitnan (Ga.J Neic South.
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4 TITLE LEAR

-8ttA atMFsNlEv
Maybe was the Sunday fare;
Maybe the SUNDAY sermon;
Perhaps 'twas but q plain aightmafe-
I never can determine.
I dreamed was an Grant shade,
With other shadows hieing
Along aroad whose downward grade
Was simply terrifying.
Before then, eli, With naughty head,
One held the chief post on,
Whose lofty mien and stately tread
Proclaimed his high condition.
While In the eyes Of all the rest
Sat trouble aud detection,
His gold.rimmed orbs alone expressed
Approving introspection.
We reached i river and embarked
Upon q galley gloomy;
The seat the stranger took, / marked.
Was elegant and roomy.
When Charon came to punch his fare,
The awe-inspirtng spectcr
Transtixed him with q stony stare,
And seemed 10 say, director"
We reached at length the heavenly gate
press had free admissions
fhe conimon herd was forced to wait
a loaded with conditions.
The stranger handed in his card,
While round the door we lowered
And TO the high celestial guard
His shapely head uncovered.
saw st. Peter smile and bow,
Urbane and deferential;
The strangers greeting was somehow
A shade more consequential.
ELw NC jill
angel" the sanity tyler cried,
page straightway appearing.
III dUn't remember that / tried
To wholly keep from heartng.)
I caught the words s.Orchestra chair
De sure you get the right one
Sec the harp5tuner; and take care
The halo is a bright one.p
Look lively, too" st. Peter said,
The gentleman is waiting.o
Please regtster,'i-he bent his head,
The great book Indicating.
The stranger. wrote. l read the scrawl
The sacred page engrossed on;
The nsine was nsnght, the place was all
.. Winthrop Virgins, Boston,
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VIII Make the Old Bulldog do.

An eighty-ton gun costs E1O.0.5.
That settles it. If they won Knock
off the odd e75 on Il purchase like
that we are going to worry along this
summe with the old bulldog revol-
Yer. that's all. Still we would have
liked to try the effect of a dose OF
e~ighty-ton gun on the 1880 of
spring poets. Thus are the editorial
yearnings left unsatisiied by the cold
limitations of ~unrelenting poverty
SonncyUlNe Journal.
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Grant and the Kentucky Ladies'.

The Kentucky women are as en-
thusiastic about horses as the men.
They unhesitatingly place the horses
before themselves as the great attrac-
tons of the State. | remember hear
ing a conversation between General
Grant and a Kentucky girl at the st.
Louis Merchants Exchange in 1875.
when President Grant was visiting the
St. Louis Far. A number OF ladies
We're introduced to the President.
whereupon he spoke in very high
terms of St. Louis, the fair. &c. You
are mistaken, Mr.. President-we are
not from st. Louis laughingly said
one of the girls, 1--WE are from Ken
lucky, Il very fine State, You know,
which possesses three things all men
of tast must appreciate Smilingiy,
the President asked her what they
were. She answered: I'VE have the
fastest horses, the PROTEST women
ard the finest whisky in the world"
The President replied: Your horses
are certainly justly renowned; l have
some on my farm near here; yourself
and party prove the correctness of
your second observation, but whisky
is one Of the things that require age.
and your men consume it SO fast that
it rarely has a fair chance TO become
good" The girls thought that if
General Grant could not make = long
speech he was apt at repartee.-St.
| Louis Gi0be-DeDi0cfat.
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a skeleton seven feet long. supposed
20 be that Of an indian, and to have
been buried manysears ago. was nm.
.earlhed near New Castle, Ohio, re.
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larly every afternoon he crosses the river ALE
and chats with the Baroness Won Meyendorf for
half an hour. Then he returns for dinner, and,
after it is over. again lies down until $3.50 p. NJ.
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday he has the
lessons from $50 to o'clock, after which some
of his favorte pupils remain and play whist, for
which he has a passion. On the days between
the lessons List plays whist every afternoon
About 7:30 or o'clock he again crosses to the
baroness, where he takes supper and spends the
evening. At 1890 he returns and goes to bed.
New York Dramatic News John T. Ray
mond. John A. McCau and Theodore Moss were
standing in front of Wallack's Theater the other
evening discussing General Grants physical con
dition. AS usual, Mr.. Raymond monopolized
the conversation, and after eulogizing the sick
warrior and extolling the fortitude displayed by
the old hero in his recent removal to Mount
McGreeor, Mr.. Raymond exclaimed:
well, can say what no other man can am
the actor that General Grant last went to see.
Just before he was taken Ill he came over to
Brooklyn to see me play in For Congress, and
Mr.. Raymond thrust one hand into his bosom
and assumed Colonel Sellerss attitude. His
companions were silent a moment. and then Mr..
Moss said very quietly
Perhaps that was what made him sick!"
Theodore" replied Raymond, growing very
red in the face you are dead wrong, but I'll
treatn
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A New Broom at the White House.

washington Correspondence Philadelphia Press.
No one who witnessed scene which took
place on the grounds of the White House day
or two since can gansay the statement
that Miss Cleveland is courageous woman.
With the instinct of the practical housewife, al
though, strictly speaking she is the Presidents
maiden sister, Miss Cleveland made up her mind
that the White House ought to undergo thor
ough spring cleaning
When Mr. Arthur was President he merely
gave the orders and corps Of men and women
were put to work, and for day or two the man
sion was completely turned up side down. Not
SO with Miss Cleveland. The orders were given
as usual, but it was not a great while before the
servants discovered that the annual spring
cleaning meant something more than is custom
airy.
Beginning with the carpets. Miss Cleveland
saw that they were taken up properly and spread
upon the lawn. Then she went out in poke
bonnet, and the ''frst lady of the land" stood
quietly by and had them thoroughly beaten
while she bossed the job. Visitors at the White
House were thunder struck.
The lady clerks in the Treasury Department
looked with all their eyes, for they never ex-
pected to see the sight again, but Miss Cleveland
calmly stood her ground until the last carpet
had been renovated. and then she marched
back to the White House to see that the servants
there were cleaning the paint properly.
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on the Hussenyeh. Ihave ordered the Krupp
OF Mogrim to play on the Arab guns, and shall
wait till night to take off the Husseinyeh. She
is nearer to the left bank than to the right bank
it it not clear if she is aground or half sunk
tequally troubled $3.50 p. M. The Arabs are
bringing their guns nearer to the aground or
hall sunken Husseinyeh. The Ismailia reports
that the two last shells have done her no ma
terial damage. 430 p. NJ. The Arabs have now
three guns bearing on the Husseinyeh p NJ.
The firing has ceased. hope to get the Husse
inyeh off at night. Up. NJ The Arabs keep up
dropping fire on the Husseinyeh, who / hear,
has two shell-holes in her, and has six men, in
the Arabs to-day showed the greatest
of pluck; over and over again
they returned to the attack though
overwhelmed with she musketry fire of the cas-
tellated Isnaiiia. think they must have lost
heavily, for at times they were in dense groups.
| believe that by the Arabs we may understand
our own regulars captured in Kordofan and OAR
fur, etc. We are going to get the Husseinyeh
off to night if we can. No royal naval vessels
would have behaved better than the Ismailia to-
day; she passed and repassed the Arab guns up
wards of twenty times, when any one well placed
she'll would have sunk her. Whether the crew
knew it or not does not matter. did. and felt
comfortable accordingly. The Arab guns were
not ], 200 yards distant from her. and even less
at times. She was struck five times with shell.
Remember that the Ismailia is only superior
penny boat and that the Egyptian mountain
gun is as superior to our wretched seven pound
as three FOUNDER is to twelve FOUNDER
howitzer, both for range and effect. You want
a gun to make hole, not gimlet-hole, which
these seven FOUNDERS do and what wearisome
work to carry them!
All this worry is (humanly speaking) due to
that chocolate-colored clerk of the telegraph not
warning me.
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The Law of the Perverse.

Where did the custom come from, any ways
Sending the boys to play" at dinner-time.
When we have company? WHAT'S there, pray.
About the starched, unmaleable guest
That in the hosts most genial interest,
Finds him first favor Thanksgiving Day,
Beside the steaming turkey. with its wings
Akimbo over all the savory things
1t has been stuffed with. yet may never thus
Make one poor boys face glad and glorious!
Fancy the exiled boy in the backyard,
Anhungered so that any kind Of grub
Were welcome. yet with set face, stern and hard.
Hearing the feasters' laugh and mild hubbub.
And wanting to kill something with club!
Intuitively arguing the unjust
Distinction, as he naturally must,
The guest with all the opportunity.
And he with all the appetite. All, me
So is it that when i, luckless guest.
Am thus arraigned at banquet, sit grim
And sullen, eating nothing with zest.
With smirking feature, yet soul distressed
Missing the banshed boy and envying him
Aye, longing for spatter my vest
From his DETECTING spoon. and yearning for
The wild swoop of his lips nsatiate. or
The burning corruscations of his eyes
80 Bullying like adripe stars in paradise.
james Whitcomb Riley.
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RICHMOND. June 20.

Old Highways in China.
We adjourned to the apartments of the
younger ladies and had luncheon Of CONNECTIONS.
fruit, pastry, salad and tea. Only the old tai
tai Tor LADY, ate with me. The young wives and
daughters ate afterward. The divan on which
we sat- and on which was placed small dining
table, was covered with magnificent wadded
quilt. The center piece was yellow silk, with
crimson brocade pattern, richly mixed with gold
The opposite divan was covered with a
quilt of greater beauty. white satin embroid-
cred in pink aud gold and green. While
at luncheon the whole household of
women came in and partook of melon-seeds and
sweetmeats. Some of the neices of the old tai
tai came in with the children. There are many
fne-looking women among them just at sunset
dinner was served. None but the old tai tai and
l dined. although there was ample provision for
the thirty or forty women and girls who sat
around about the room talking and amusing the
little ones. The viands were deliciously cooked,
and as course after course was sent in, became
quite bewildered. The decorations on the var
ions dishes were highly artistic When dinner
was ended two beautifully lacGuered basins were
brought in, with hot water and small napkin,
which the lady wrung out and handed to me.
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Even if the club should sit in judgment on
social questions, become a recognized center Of
influence to the sex, and contribute its quota 70
public opinion. it will find itself of no small I'M
portance. OF course amusement and gossip
could by no means be excluded. and the spec
tacle of a number of cultivated ladies meeting
informally and discussing men and things amid
all the solacsng luxuries of their own homes
does not present a revolutionary aspect, even TO
the weakest-nerved alarmist on the woman
question.
The editor of this paper is man of affairs,
many and various and not supposed to include
the management of the provincial female COM
plexion. His last received guileless communal
cation upon that subject he has therefore turned
to me for sympathetic consideration
'W you please give recipe for freckles on
the face, and oblige A SUBSCRIBER"
Why certainly, if my very modest culinary re-
sources can compass it. If it were pickles, nov
but freckles, and the face, too. don't bellows
I've got anything reliable. But it becomes clear
to my kindred consciousness that your desire Is
rather unto the Punishment of your present
supply than TO the putting down" of indehnits
quarts for next winters use, my subscribing
sister. Well, I've heard that vinegar is good
OR is it lemon and the whites of two eggss
but they come worse the next day, and
they do say they're sign of disorganization
of the spleen. Have you any reliable grounds
for believing that you're not splenicl I'm afraid
| can't give you sure cure for freckles on my
own responsibility, but can tell you how many
I've got-exactiy twenty three. If that will be
any comfort to you. I'm sure hope so; but do
you know my dear, unknown, co-freckled.
rustic friend don't see why you want to get rid
of these marks of the suns admiring regard
Don't you know that Cleopatra was freckleda
don't know, it myself but she's nnivers-
ally accused OF everything else, and
RED hair beside ana then she's been sucn an ua-
considerably long time dead that one can make
the assertion with perfect safety You live in
the country, know, and it is your father who 10
the subscriber and not you, my maiden in
genue. And every evening, when the shadows
lengthen across the yellow corn fields, you stand
at the gate bars in your print dress and your
broad hat, and call the cows home, while ths
wind blows back your hair and your hat strings.
and dushes the pink cheeks where the freckcs
are. And it is "Cusha," you should be calling.
but grieve to reflect that it is probably Co
bossy" But l like to think of you there against
the sunset, with your bare arms akimbo on the
gate, freckles and all. Don't spoil nv vision.
GARTH GRAFTON
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An O0liging Piece of Furniture.

Cleveland (O.) Plain Dealer.
In family residing on Woodlawn avenue a
little girl was playing not long ago with play
mate from a neighbours family. They were
playing at small center table. and the little
girls noticed presently that when one Of them
put her hand on the table it would lift up and
down, and they finally called others of the fam
lily to witness the strange behavior of the table.
After experimenting some time, the little
girl climbed upon the table, saying:
Now let's see if you can move. "
To their establishment, the table began
to move along the floor with the little girl
on it. She jumped off. saying Nov, move
yourself if you can" The table started off,
moving across the floor, no one touching it. IF
you can move so WE'LL" said the little girls
mother, move into the next room and kiss the
baby in the crib there" To their amazement
the table started off, moved across the floor,
through the door into the room where the babe
was sleeping in the crib, and tipped up with its
edge as close to the babes face as it could get.
Now, upon what philosophy can this behavior of
the table be explained Without going any fur
Their into the phenomena of spiritualism, or dis
cussing what are put forward as higher mani
festatons. how these elementary raps and
movements to be satisfactorily accounted for?
At all events, there is field here for honest in
veStigation.
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ment in the minds Of Milford and Burr that
brought them to an understanding of their own
feelings. They knew they were in love, and the
fight was on, and the pursuit became fast and
furious.
The three former friends became estranged in
feeling, but not in manner. They assumed to
all the world their oId-time ways, but in each
heart there was ranking; each possessed his
own secret, and read the others like an open
book What fools we mortals be-" Milford
and Burr were especially incensed against May
field in the unde0leath of their minds. as his
presence in the pursuit was sacrilege. He dared
to look upon their vestal virgin and the gaze was
pollution Why? He was married. Owing
duty elsewhere his presence here was rnin to
their hopes, to her virtue. Men of weak charac-
ter in worldly affairs frequently exhibit strength
and untiring energy in the pursuit of an evil
idea. So with him. Disregarding everything
his fealty to his family, the friendship OF his
friends the future of the peerless creature to
whom had gone out his unholy love, he aban-
doned himself to the swine, and laid at the feet
of his inexperienced girl all the adulation and
devotion that a facile mind could conceive. She
responded to this intense devotion and endeavor,
| and in moral blindness, knowing all, she re-
sponded to his fierce love.
She was in the swirl of pursuit, besieged at all
| hands. Swayed by emotions beyond her COM
| prehensien, she reviewed her life, her grlhood,
| the feeling that enswaved her when she thought
her love had gone out to the man she had mar
ried; her bitter struggle with poverty; the pur-
| suit of two men who offered her honorable mar
| riage; the enthralling feeling that her pre-
| eminent love-a love so intense that it came to
! her as revelation--had gone to a man whom it
was sin to even think of. Her mind went back
to the past phases of her life, and the most re-
pusive of its stages would have been bliss COM
pared to the conflict of emotion that now reigned
| in her mind.
Her Mephistopheles was persistent. Borne on
by his headIong passion, he kept her in his tolls,
as the serpent charms the bird governed by
| only one idea, '.Al. for love- and the world
well lost" Environed on the other hand
| by her suitors, who pursued her at every
step, she hestated; she faltered. A feather s
weight would have turned the scale. The devil
was at her elbow, but a sudden twitch of the
kaleidoscope of the past brought back a glimpse
of baby face, in its little white coffin, and the
| woman was saved. She fed, no one knows
where. The saving impulse was the mothers
love. May God bless her, wherever she may be-
She has earned her crown, and, in the theory
OF evolution. let us hope that in the next phase
her travel will be free from travail
Results Five people made unhappy in an
| episodistic way. that time will cure, and out of
| 1t comes to each spark of thought an emo
bling idea, that will make them each better. But
it still remains that the sentient feature of life is
love- JASPER NEWTON.
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A Grave oversight.
Baltimore Herald

Minister Phelps appeared in the House of
Lords on Thursday, to testify as to certain law
points. According to the dispatches, ali the
noble lords rose as he was leaving the house and
bowed deferentially. So far as we can discover,
Mr.. Phelps failed to do the proper thing by their
highnesses 1t is quite clear to us that the lords
rose in expectation that Mr.. Phelps, being an
American, was about to ask the house out to
take drink That he didn't do it was a great
mistake. and blow to Americas generosity that
will not be repaired in this generation. How
ever, we hope some one will explain to the lords
that Mr. Phelps means well; but. he isn't well
enough known in London yet to tell the bar
keeper to charge it. And when a man invites
the House of Lords out to drink he must have
credit or take the cash along in a furniture
wagon It's very expensive.
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.ag Unparalleled.
.ISt,,


Dublin Letter Indon Paper.
An extraordinary case OF. boycotting unparal-
leled in the history of the Land League agita~
ton, took place at st. Michaels College, Lis
towel, within the last few days. The father OF
one of the students, a man named Brown, re-
Gently took an eyicted farm near Lixnaw. A
private meeting of the students was, IL
is believed, held last Thursday, and, an
an outcome of that meeting. nearly all the
students rose from their seats on Friday
morning, when young Brown entered the
school room, taking their books, ETC., with
them. Only few Of the students remained in
their places. A notice was che posted on the
doors of the college calling on the students NOT
to enter until Brown was removed. When the
latter again presented himself on the following
day, similar hostile demonstration took place,
and the college had to be closed for the day. Sub
sequently the Rev. DIR. Harrington the president
of the college, conferred with Brown, with the
result that it was decided that he lBrown) should
leave the college for the present The reverend
gentleman disclaimed any sympathy with tho
conduct of the students