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GoTHAM,s TENEMENTs.

1t is now pretty cid story that the tene-
ments of Gotham are not the most agree
able places to live in, but with all their
faults they certainly are not as bad as they
ore sometimes painted. At meeting the
other day of one Of the societies which take
special interest in the tenement popula.
ton the extraordinary statement was made
that If the collins of oil those who die in
five-story tenement in twenty years were
laid ON each other they would make n pile
higher than the building itself. Showing
this statement to q house agent who had
charge of good many tenements 1 asked
what he thought of it. 81 don't need to
think" he said :" know it is not true. It
is an exaggeration wild enough to come
from the brain of mailman. Some Of the
tenements in my charge are, among the
worst in the city SO far as sanitary condi-
tons are concerned. They are badly built
and badly ventilated, the plumbing ia old
and bad, and in some cases they are over
crowded, whole family of half dozen
persons living in single room. The mar
velous thing is that deaths in these houses
are so few. can safely say that they do
not average more than five or six in year
where there are twenty families on five
Aoors-say 100 persons altogether. have
watched the mortality closely in the worst
tenements in my charge, and have often
wondered that it SO low Another surprise
8 that the occupants, women as well as
men, even were the orowding is greatest
seem to be quite Us vigorous and robust as
where there is no crowding at oil. Their
average health appears to be just as good
as that of people who live in houses of their
own. OF course don't mean to say that
oil tenements are as good in point of health
or any other way as private houses, but
know from experience that the death rate
in many is not high, and l know, too, that
much of the talk about them is gross exag-
geration. New York must have tenements
any way, and all we can do is to try to inn
prove them and make the tenants keep their
places clean. And the last is no easy mat
lar assure you,"
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HE HEARD ENOUGH.

Sam Peterby, merchant from tho inte.
rior, while attending the Mardi Gras festivi.
ties at Galveston, united business with plea
sure by purchasing bill Of goods from q
prominent firm. He was very politely re-
ceiyed, and one Of the proprietors showed
him over the immense store. On reaching
the fourth floor the customer perceived
speaking tube ON the wall, the first thing Of
the kind he had ever seen.
"What is that ?" he asked.
"0h, that is speaking tube; 1t is a
great convenience. We can converse with
the clerks ON the first floor without the trouble
Of going down stairs"
"Can they hear what you soy through
that ?" asked the visitor.
+" Certainly, and they can reply at tn,
same time"
"You don't say SO !" exclaimed the visi.
tor. MAY talk through it ?"
Certainly" was the reply.
The visitor put his mouth to the tube and
asked:
"Are Sam Peterby's goods packed up
yeti"
The people in the Office must have sup
posed it was somebody else speaking, for q
moment later the distinct reply came back
"No We have not packed them yet.
We are waiting for telegram from his
town. We believe he is slippery cuss."--
Texas Siftings.
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DIAMONDS AND POVERTY.

At fakir's" booth the other day saw
Creole lady, moderately, and even shah
billy, dressed give Baxter street Turk 81
for miniature crucifix made of wood from
the Holy Land-or, rather, from the Adj
rondacks. She wore about $4,000 worth
Of jewels, and her dress and general appear.
anee showed her to be lady scarcely in
prosperous circumstances. / afterward
learned that they were family jewels handed
down from very remote ancestry and that
there is 0 great deal Of that kind of wealth
among the impoverished French Creoles.
No matter how great their adversely, they
will not sell their family jewels, which are
thus doubly valuable. A lady may wear a
thousand dollar ring on her shapely finger,
yet take in sewing for livelihood, or her
husband may be q dollar-a-week
clerk. Riches in rags" is almost as sad
a sight as the "shabby genteel young
bloods of the once proud and wealthy Creole
families, whose fortunes were swept away
by the Civil War, and with that their ener-
gy, hope and ambition. The rising genera
ton seems to be imbued with the same de,
spondency, and the visiting stranger reads
In their sad faces the story Of their hearts.
---Neao Orleans Letter.
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NoSEoLoGY.
How Men Are Known by Their Nosc.


How Men Are Known by Their Noses.
The fool may only see in his nose con-
venient thing to smell with but the philos
opher reads there the sure indications Of
sagacity literally, keen sighted), of judg
ment and forco of character, with many
other things not to be dispensed with in the
mental furnishing of either civilized or saw
age. An inch on the end of n mans nose is
a good deal, both as regards the dignity of
expression in that appendage and the quail
ties of mind which It signifies. Roman,
aquiline, Grecian or pug, we are all obliged
to wear it, and 80 it may be well for us to
inquire what this frontispiece of the face
symbolizes, in general and particular.
No person with very short nose ever
made profound impression in the world.
The hard Roman nose, pushing its way de-
spite all personal suffering, has played
conspicuous part in the moral as we'll as the
political advancement of the world. It
dominated the old Roman race as we'll as
the modern aggressive Briton. It carried
Washington on to triumph, stood in the
forefront of Lincoln's unyielding strength,
as it Ind sustained the shocks of Waterloo
in the face of the Iron Duke. Against him
was pitted the Roman nosed Napoleon, but
in the septum of Wellington's nose the sign
of synthesis, Of intellectual combination and
perseverance, was very large, and this
caused him to hold out ON that day, even
when the apparent tide of war had turned
against him, until Butcher came, and oil was
saved.
The face of John Wesley, cousin of
Wellington shows the same aggressive char
acter. In oil the great founders of relig-
ions, or of sects, we see the same aggressive
nose. 1t stands boldly forth in the face of
Zoroaster, in Mahomet, in Calvin, in the
otherwise gentle face Of the Nazarene and
in the hosts of other leaders who have done
fierce battle for opinion. Nature never puts
a great cause upon saddle-backed nose
and expects it will ride into power. 1t was
not Victor Emmanuel, but rather the high
nosed Garibaldi who achieved the indepen-
dence Of Italy.
A low-bridged nose will do for the help
lessness Of childhood or the servility of the
African, but such bridge will never carry
great work safely over The aquiline nose
of tho Jews has large signs of aggression,
defence and protection, while the breadth
OF their noses indicates their money-making
propensities. This form of the nose was
common among the old Assyrians, as shown
by their sculptures
The projection of the tip of the nose in.
dictates observation, the questioning faculty,
and belongs to the inquisitive mind Of the
child. He has everything to learn, and how
can he learn except as he asks questions /?
This faculty takes the lead in our intellec-
tual processes, as its advanceguard position
In the face plainly shows. II we inquire
and observe, some discovery will follow
Inter Ocean.
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RICH MEN AND COLLEGES.

It may interest some to know what few
rich men have done for the cause Of educa-
lion. Johns Hopkins gave SO, 148, 900 to
the university which he founded. His gifts
for benevolent purposes amounted to S.
100000. Judge Packer gave So, 900, 900 to
Lehigh University. Cornelius Vanderbilt
gave 81 200, 900 to the Vanderbilt Univer-
sity. Stephen Girard gave $4,000, 900 to
Girard College. John G. Green and his
residuary legatees gave $1,50o,00o to
Princeton College. Ezra Cornell gave 3d.
900, 600 to Cornell University. Isaac Rich
bequeathed the greater part of his estate,
which was appraised at 81, 700, 900, to Bos-
ton University. On account of the great
fire and shrinkage in value, and other I'M
fortunate circumstances, the University will
realize less than 800, 900 from this mag
niicent bequest. Amasa Stone gave $780,
900 to Adelbert College by direct gift and
by bequest. w. w. Corcoran gave $780,
600 to Columbian University in money and
land. Benjamin Busy gave real estate
worth $4,000 to Harvard University
Samuel Williston, William ]. Walker, and
Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between $780,
900 and $500, 900 each to Amherst College.
Whitmei Phoenix gave the bulk of his prop
erty, amounting to about $640,000 to
Columbia College. ]. b. Trevor gave $179,-
600 to Rochester Theological Seminary.
Matthew vassar gave 100000 to vassar
College. Gardner Colby gave $170, 900 to
Colby University and $780, 900 to Newton
Theological Seminary. J. B. Colgate gave
$500, 900 to Madison University. George /.
Seney gave $450,oO0 to Wesleyan Univer.
sity. The Grocer family gave $500, 900 to
Grocer Theological Seminary. 1t would be
easy to add to this list. There are hundreds
of men and women whose splendid gifts
entitle them to be held in everlasting re-
membrance. Such gifts are so common now
that they are expected. If rich man
should live and die without doing some
thing for the cause of education, he would
1t once become the subject of adverse criti-
cism.-Pennsylvania College Monthly.
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ROUGH ON THE BOSTON olRLs.

The Beantown woman in the aggregate is
about as ugly as it is safe to make them.
On the occasion of the Elks' benefit 4,200
in the big Boston Theatre, the house was
crowded with the culture and fashion of the
city. And at the great Dickens festival,
where nearly eight thousand people were
wedged into the mammoth Mechanics Hall,
I looked them carefully over, and could
have picked out of one poor Wallackian
audience more pretty women than saw in
those three immense gatherings put to-
gether.
Women got to looking too much alike in
tailor-mado suits from New York in thea
tres here they are the exception in Boston
they are the rule. They all wear tailor
made cloth suits. They all carry big, square
velvet or silk bags, drawn up with string
on their arms. During the day these bags
are filed with small parcels, doughnuts,
tickets for 10 Cooks lecture, remedies for
nervous affections, tablets and appointments
for the Adams House. At night they con-
tain opera-glasses, night-keys, smelling-b
ties, folding-fans and night-caps.
Without doubt it's the most encouraging
city for plain woman to strike in the
United States. A lady who could tramp
Fifth avenue month without q soul regard
ing her creates positive sensation on Tre-
mont street sat in the Adams House
dining-room morning after morning and I
saw big, handsome men bring down their
female scarecrows and fill them up with
breakfast as though they were blind as
Bartemeus and knew not what they did.
squeezed through lines of women in the hall
for whom nice men came in due time-wo-
men SO ugly that it was no use to wind the
big clock in the reception-room they stop
ped it every time they looked at it. / rode
up and down in the elevator with geomet.
really constructed females on whose fes-
lures sat the acidity of lemon grove thin,
tripe-like hands adorned with rings, and
thin, scrag-like necks hung with chains,
while their contented proprietors, standing
before them, surveyed their jewelry-racks
with satisfaction. Obi it's Mecca, is Bos-
ton, for the ancient and withered. Proba-
bly, the educated get taste for the exca-
waited. "But am meier loved for antiqui-
TVS sake, such poor virtuoso am H.
Letter in 81. Louis Republican.
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BANK OF ENGLAND.

The economy Of the Bank of England is
controlled by the governor, the deputy gov
ernor and twenty-four directors. The cleri-
cal machinery is divided into the leash
side and the accountants side" The
former, under the practical charge of the
chief cashier, comprises the transaction Of
all business where actual cash is concerned,
together with the necessary bookkeeping
which 1t involves; the latter under the
charge of the chief accountant, takes cog
nizance of oil matters of pure bookkeeping
where no actual cash is concerned, such as
those which relate to the national debt
accounts, the registration of bank notes,
and so on. In olden times these divisions
were kept much more distinct than they are
ut present. There was formerly certain
antagonism between the two "chiefs,"
which, however, has long since disappeared,
and they now live together in a state of re-
markable harmony, without even fighting
over the question Of precedence, which the
chief accountant is supposed to claim
mainly, fancy, on alphabetical grounds,
because A comes before G. The supervision
of each Office on both sides of the bank,
is intrusted to principal and deputy-prin-
cipal, who are accountable in the first place
to the chief cashier or chief accountant. as
the case may be, and afterward to com
mittee of directors. The secretary is sepa-
rate officer OF the bank. He stands midway,
rs it were between the two Sides" having
certain relations with each. He nurses the
charter, and sees that it's forms and cere.
monies are complied with he records the
proceedings Of the courts, summons and
attends all committees, and "picks up their
bits" He waits upon the governors, and
does old literary jobs, stops notes, puts the
candidates for clerkships through their pre-
liminary examination, collects income-tax,
and grants orders to view the bank, etc.
His duties, in short, are as multifarious as
those of the General Post Office, and it ia
satisfactory to think that they are as equally
well performed by the present incumbent
and his staff. The total number of employees
all told in the bank is about LOO, and the
,alary list, including pensions, is about
$500, 900 per anhum. There is an excellent
library and reading room in the bank, to
which the directors have literally contribu-
ted both money and books.-Henry Mar.
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THE ALLloAToR's INGENUITY.

Ez said afore, thar was ninety-six of the
gators, an only one of the bull, so thar
wasn't enough of Their bull ter go round
though each of them gators was tollably
purseyerin' like in tryin' to git his sLar.
There was one tremendous bull gator thar,
an he was sharp one fur keeps. He c'u'd
swim right smart faster nor the luther ones,
an he gathered the deekin's ball by ther
hine quarters an SWIM to a little narrer in.
let he knowed of. When he got thar he
backed in wuth hit an then sorter winked,
as If ter say: This ar the creek liv in,
an there's bitin' dogs about" The uther
gators had followed him fas' ez they c'u'd,
an when they got to that pint they c'u'dnt
get no furder, kase there wasn't room enuff
ter pass. Howsomever they all crowded
around, but they had ter help themselves
ter the horns an neck, whilst the ole bull
gator got his steak often the round. Don't
tell me gators can't reason. tell you they
are heap sight pearter than some men I
know of--F,orida Crackers Story.
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RAILWAY STATION FLOWER PLOTS.

a
Almost agreeable practice is seen in sum-
mer at many of the railroad stations, in
having the approaches decorated with
fower-beds, or rather with beds of orna-
mental foliage plants. This custom has long
existed in England, and it is pleasant to see
it adopted here. One hundred thousand
plants were used by railroad company for
this purpose at their stations last year, and
this amount will be considerably enlarged
the coming season. One very practical feat
ure of this decoration is to plant the name
of the station in large letters, with some
plant whose foliage will contrast conspicu.
ously with the green sod. The red and vel
low Alterndntheras, crimson coleus, and
Golden Feather plant are used satisfactorily
for this purpose. This lettering of plants
was first used by Glasgow newspaper
against the green sward of one of the Scot
fish mountains. The letters were thirty feet
in length. Lettering with living plants has
spread to oil parts of the country. Words
of patriotism and welcome greet the visitor
in the parks of Chicago, H., Allegheny
SltJ, Ih., ruIiuOuub
and that of the National Soldiers Home at
Dayton, Ohio, being outlined in letters of
crimson or gold on the green lawns but in
the great metropolis of New York, Central
Park is barren not only of such forms OF
courtesy, but of nearly everything in the
way of decoration in color to interest the
thousands who use it as breathing spot.
With many natural advantages, Central
Park, by the neglect or incompetency of its
management, is in floral decoration behind
nearly every large public park in any city
in the Union, and is inferior to many of the
private grounds of our New York mer-
chants, who open them to the public that
they may see what should be seen by right,
not by courtesy, in our parks.
Another fine feature in plant decoration
accomplished by railroad companies is the
use of the Ampelopsis QainQuitolia, or Viz
ginia creeper on many of their embank-
ments, which not only greatly assist, from
the clinging nature of the plant, to keep
these embankments from slipping, but pre-.
sent during the summer an ever varying
curtain of green, aud in the fall the most
gorgeous coloring of autumn leaves.
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POETRY.
The Old Song.

The Old Song.
The minstrel OF the classic lay
or love and wine who sings,
sim found the fingers run astray
That touched the rebel strings.
OF Cadmus he would fam have sing,
OF Aureus and his line;
But all the 1ocund echoes rung
With songs OF love and wine.
All, brothers would fain have caught
Some fresher fancy's CLEAN;
My truant accents find, unsought,
The old familiar theme.
Love, Love but not the sportive chrld
With shaft and twanging bow,
Whose random arrows drove US wild
Some threescore years ago;
Not Eros, with his joyous laugh,
The urchin blind and bare,
But Love, with spectacles and stan,
And scanty, silvered hair.
Our heads with frosted locks are white,
Our roofs are matched with snow,
But red, in chilling winters spite,
Our hearts and hearthstones glow.
Our old acquaintance, Time, drops In,
And while the running sands
Their golden thread unheeded spin,
He warns his frozen hands.
Stay, winged hours, too swift, too sweet,
And watt this message DER
To all we miss, from all we meet
On life's fast crumbling shore:
Say that to old affection true
We hug the narrowing chain
That binds our hsarts-alas, how few
The links that yet remain
The fatal touch awaits them all
That turns the rocks to dust;
From year 10 year they break and fall,
They break, but never rust
Say If one note Of happier strain
This worn out harp afford,
One throb that trcmbles, not in vain,
Their memory lent its chord.
Say that when Fancy closed her wings
And Passion quenched his IRE,
Love, Love, still echoed from the strings
AS from Anacreons lyrei
--Olfpe~ Wendell Holmes
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Different diseases seem to sustain each its
own special relation to the season. The
maximum prevalence of smallpox is in
May of scarlet fever, in October; of diph.
liberia, in November and December; Of tys
phoid fever, in November; of cholera, il
September; of dysentery and diarrh@a, in
July and August Of bronchitis and asthma,
in January; whooping-cough, pneumonia
and rheumatism are mainly diseases of win
ter and spring.
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'I'm afraid shall have to be taken to
hospital or to the poorhouse. I've been
sick so long that my husband, good and
patient as he is, can't stand the worry
and expense much longer" No, You
won't dear wife and mother. See what
Parker's Tonic will do for you. Plenty
of women as badly off as you are, have
been rescued almost from the grave by it.
1t will build you up, curing all ailments
of the stomach, liver and kidneys, and is
simple, pleasant and safe. A. saw.
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The use of Iodoform or Mercurials in
the treatment of catarrh-whethei in the
form of suppositories or ointments--should
be avoided, as they are both injurious and
dangerous. Iodoform is easily detected
by its offensive odor. The only reliable
catarrh remedy on the market to-day is
Ely's Cream Balm, being free from all
poisonous drugs. 1t has cured thousands
Of chronic and acute, where all other re-
NEEDLES have failed. A particle is applied
into each nostril; no pain; agreeable to
use. Price'flfty cents of druggists.
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The most beautiful thing in the tropics ia
q young palm tree the old ones are more
graceful than any of our foliage plants, but
they all show signs of the furious winds
which sometimes sweep the islands; but the
young ones, SO supple as to bend before the
hurricanes, are the ideal Of grace and lowell
ness. The long, spreading leaves of vivid
green bend and sway with the breeze and
nod in the sunlight with beauty one can
find no words to describe. As picturesque
in repose as they are graceful in motion
they fascinate the eye OF him who beholds
them.
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Electricity to Remove Tattoo.

Any piece of tattooing on the body can
be entirely removed by electricity, and, If
properly done, no scar need be left The
process is q gradual one, because the eradi-
cation has to be done piecemeal, and care
exercised to prevent the platinum needle
from burning more than half through the
inner cuticle. This caution will render the
soaring of the skin after the wound heals
impossible Ntao York Sun.
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BE SURE you call at A. II. Titus and
see the the latest styles of WALL PAPERS
and WINDOW sHADEs-the largest line
that has ever been offered in this city,
SO Union street. A. 15..3t.
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buy your Carpets at CARVER &
WILLIAMS. Mar. 1S.-tf.
Smyrna times., 1885-04-22
HOW TO CUT AND SLASH.

Sleeves Of lace and muslin frocks
and, in fact, of all summer dresses mad
OF sheer fabrics, are full in the arm
mole, with all the fullness thrown or
t6e top, producing the high shouidered
The new black lace dresses are
made, for the most part, of the new
machine laces, the Masquies and Eevn.
tan (both French productionsl and are
worn over slips or bodices and skirts
OF hengaline or faille Franchise or irish
poplin, black or cOlored.
Inc muslins, sateens, chambrevs
french lawns and better class of wash
materials, will, the coming season be
decorated with lace and ribbons white
cream, ecru, ficelle, or various shades
OF coffee, as edgings to flounces and tn
nlcs while lace tounces, mounted ON
solt SILK or pale.tinted sateen skirts
and accompanied by polonaises or fnIl
apron oVer-skirts and corsage ofligured
or broche satin, will be among Inc fo.
Vorlte afternoon toilets for the Summer
ana found remarkably effective at n
moderate price. Wooden lace Tho
dentelle lima and yak. guipure del
ane, are very fashionable and tbei,
effectiveness and solidity we'll deserva
Their return to favor.