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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1886-12-18
Nolina Drug and Chemical COMPANY
BALTIMORE, ND, .. q.
Sic glimar THE, trpifem.

Mirgenos, NO es Drp @oobs Stores
giebt, fino 10 uniibertreffi9e n8ars
gains" gu finben, als in benz bebeuten.
oer Waarenlager, bas bel 8. Wolffon
ausgeltelt 1T. Ollie mooernen Waaren
finb oaielbit gu finben unb bic Na6=
frage nod benfelben lit ungebeuer
fart, iowobl fir 3euee gu promenas
bens 2leibern, nie aa6 fir Carriage.
Stride, Sper unb gum &eiien. Ni9ts
feblt uno bic Nuswabl 1T pDn aueerorz
bentli6em umfange. Cine Snfpeetion
Der Waaren mirb Bel ben 2eierinnerl
bas gr6Bte @rfaunen berborrufen unb
ibre 9er3en in Mufregung nerieben.
Do6 Der 9r6Bte 8or3ug Der Waaren
muB mod angefibrt weroen, UNI ibren
Wertb bolHfdnbig i6dben gu f6nnen.
Niemanb bat big iebt ben preis oeriels
ben gu bod gefunDen, Denn bic Oarb
berielben tbeilmeile su $1.75 angeboten
tpurbe. Molfion bat bic 3euge aber
nohmals beruntersefebt. UNI ale Gons
furren3 aus3nfblieBen. Seine i'm Often
mobnenben Rdufer baben einer polen
Support aaer m6sli9en Rleiberfofe au
einem 10 niebrigen Breiie erlan9t, baB
Wolffon fal ale 5orten nidt mebr dig
IS Gents perlangt. Da man nod nies
maTs BON 10 iiberaus giinitiaen Gerfdus
fen geb6rt bot, uno ba mir mitten in
Der Opern=, Ball uno Gefttaess@ Salon
Ieben, 10 lit es 1ni6t n6tbig. biefe Nn.
ftnbigung gu berldngern. Die Dannen
merben Don ielbft ousfinben, tpel1e
rei6e Muspabl bel Wolffon 3u finten
lit our 9dlfte bes preifes, Der friiber
perlangt murbe. Dies if teiue @opbis
fit, foabern cine 9batfa1e unb bic
Maaren ipre6en fiir fi6 ielbft.
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6lads als BrennmateriaI. Cine Sons
ne 6la9s mirb elmer Sonne pei9er
Goblen porge5ogen.
: profehor Steipart empfielt Z BIB.
feines @al3 uno i gfunb DeiBen 3uder
gum 5alsen Der Butter. 8eibes wirb
6urGeinanbergemii6t unb eire un3e
oapott 3u einem Bfunb Butter genOms
men. Sic Qualitdt b%efielben foa fi6
babur6 bebeutenb berbefern.
= Sn 3opfins @ountp bat etn Garz
mer rpeanuts" geplanat uno 200
8ufbel BON 2 Ndern geerntet.
= Cine 1nteriudung bat ergeben,
baB fi1 unter 10 erfolgreiden Mdnnern
in gbicagp 9 beinben, Die @0bne bon
Garmern finb.
Sn galomea COUNTY babeu fi6
in Iebter 3eit biele oeuti9e GARNER
ntebergelafen.
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Muerlet.

- Gin Meritaner Namens @affelano
tuuroe geitern in eit1em BOrbea libel gu
geri6tst. Somos Shores fdlug ibn
nit einem Stuble gu Boben uno
Barbara gano bra1te ibm berf9iebene
Wunbeu nit einen1 Mefer bel. Ser
8ermunbete liegt i'm 6ospital unb Die
beiben uebeltbdter befinben fi9 i'm Sc
fdngniB.
Die Dithcommiifoners flagen
bariber, oaB oas Wafer i'm GIuie abs
nimmt unb nieoriger 1T als- felt Sabren.
= Die Beeroiguug BON Sobn 2raub
fanb geitern Na6mittas fat. Gin
longer 3ug BON Sheilnebmern folete
benz De~rftorbener. aud NOT bas Jeuers
bepartement nit Muit erf1ienen.
- Gin Manr bon Borne perlor ges
tern Sod unb Wefte bon feinem Was
gen. Sn Der Saf1e bes &odes ftedt
EN- Raufbrief fir elm pfero, oefen Mb
li%eferung In Der Office Der rJreien
prefe" Der Mann nit So belobnt.
- Die Grind 5 obnon BrDs.
III QDuNUHFIube, 3iuet &guten uutt uet
Bride, liefert ausgeseidnete 9rudars
beiten, tpie mir uns aus elmer uns 5ir
g~efanbten Yrpbe tiber3eugen f0nnten.
Die 0erru babeu iebr rei6baItiges
MateriaI unb cine 9roBe Nuswabl
BON 2arten unb beri1leoenen pas
pieriorten. Nae Nrbeiten meroen
fdnell, duBerit fauber unb gei6maduD0
augefertiet. Mlr empfeblen bic Ncci-
bsn3>D ruderei gang b%eionoers.
- Grdulein 3uIema Garcia,
6efannte GlapieripieIetiu unb begabte
Romponiftin, %tiberfanbte uns ibre aeus
ete Competition, ben nNranias paB
Walaer", pslher ben 8eamten bet
Babnlinie beoicirt 1T. Die COMPETITION
erfdeint i'm 8erlage bon 5. j.. Sones
unb 60. Wir fa9en Der iungen Dame
fur ibre Nufmerfiamfeit beiteu Dant!
= Ser Geft : Gbor belt geitern eine
iebr sablrei9 beiu6te probe ab unb
pertagte li1 bann Der Geiertage megen
bis SSreitag ben Z. Sanuar 1887.
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=Npti5em

= 9as 6taats : Department fit
Ngrieultur in @eorgia ber6fentli@t ei.
men gerl9t, aus benz berborgebt, -bab
Der INTERRUPTED 5mii9en Cab unb Gre
oitpreifen bel Nlem, nas bic Garmer
faufen, so pro3ent betrdgt. Db Der
CREDIT auf 3 Monate Dber elm Sabr ges
nommen mirb, bleibt fi9 glei9.
= Sn Meria brannte cine @heune
ab, in Der fi6 so 8uibel Corn, 2 Sons
men 9eu, 1000 Bunoel Gutter unb 1000
8ulbel Dafer b%efanben. 9as unglid
ereignete fld bur4 cine tueggeworfene
@igarre.
Sn etonetpal @ountp 1T nod
Regen gefalen, Der benz @ras gortbeil
gebradt bdtte. Dafelbe lit fur3 unb
Die Musii6ten iinb ni6t 9initig. gtmas
Weiaen it.geldet worben, Der ben Notb=
leibenben geianbt murbe, bod reibt ct
BEL Meitem nl9t aus.
= Na1 benz Beri1t beg @omptrolz
Ie,s @main eiebt es in Seras 1885,
918 pfaoes. unb Maultbiere, bic gu
$33, 2Oi,479 abgefhdbt tpurbeu. @inb.
uieb giebt es. 5.545,2 84 Ropf gum
Werth $50. 1852 938. 2anb mutben
Ia, 763, 582 ader abgeiddbt. berWertb
beGelben betrdst $282. 073, 097.
- 9as n8renbam Banner" fagt:
rDie erfolgreiden Garmer in Waiblngz
ton @ountp aieben ibr @etreibe fir
8rob unb ihr 6leii6 ielbf. Sic faus
fen meber &orn nod Sped, 10 oaB bic
BaummoQernte gum grOben Sbeile Elm
Netto- profit it,"
- Sn Colorado befin6en fi9 $780,,
900 Mfer 2ano unter B%em6heruns unb
gerealien, @ras, Semitic uno Obt
weroen quf oemfelben se3ogen.
= Sic Garmer in N~euen9lanb pens
ben puIueriii,ten Sdmefel gegen 9ibs
neriduie OH. sic f~trsusn btnlelben UNI
bic Welter berum unb In cen Sotaub, in
benz lid ole 9iibner babeH.
Sn Albanp. SbadeIforb @ountp,
tamen Z @d,lpabs Saatmeiaen on.
Derielbe lit aefdet tporosn uno bat els
men gutsn Stano.
BURNER in Hafota cultipirsu
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9as meue Opermbaus.

Das neue 0pernbaus bebeutet ben
Beginn elmer nelen Mera it ben 2unifs
uno Sbeaterberbdltnifen unierer@ tabt.
8isber BADEN mir uns in gum She'll
febr bef6rdntten, gum Sbeile fogar pris
mltipen Gdumen bewegen miRen, unl
bic prDbufte ber Bhbnenliteratur tens
men gu lernen, Muiif unb au9 geles
gentli6 Spern gu bDren. Ser Der
Bibnenfunft, tDp Aaes auf @feft 5uges
i6nitten uab berebnet 1T, tbut bic
glan5ople umgebung, Der &abmen, in
tpeldem fi6 bas lebenbe Bib bemegt,
bas @eientlt9ite aur unteritiibung ber
&tnftler unb in bieier 8ea,ebung baben
mir bisber aub beinabe NIes entbebren
mtn1en. Jreill1 fann bieriiber Niemano
anbers dig Der Beb6lferun9 ielbif elm
8ormurf gema9t merben, benn ob
nun bas 8ebirfniB nod einem mober@
men Runttempel nod ni6t Dorbanben
mat, ooer oh es am @eloe feblte, einen
fol9en gu fhaHen,-man mubte ii9 be-
belfeu nit Dem, mas borbanoen mar.
Die peri9iebenen Mnldufe, tpel9e gum
Bau zines 9beatersebdubes gema9t
nuroen, fpnnten ni6t gum 3iele fnbs
rem, big enoli9 Der San Mntonio Club
bic @a9e in bic 0anb nabm unb elm
O%pernbaus in 8%erbinbung NIT benz Ell
genen Glubbauie ui9t nur plante, fons
bern aud ausfhbrte. 6eute ftebt oas
3beater fertig ba un6 es 1T cine 3ierbe
fit bic @tabt. Bonn Mlamo ploaa
aug fibrt elm breiter, bibs6 beforirter
gingang ing Snnere, uno oiefes Snnere
tit nit elmer nabrbaft Derf9menbertz
fden prabt ausgeftattet. Das Sbeater
bat neben benz eigentli9en uno fi6 BIZ
rett anf9IieBenben erb6bten parquet.
ben fogenannten 9rebctrfel unb einen
| 6amiliencirfel, tpofeIbit Sibe fir 1890
! Perfonen porbanben inb. Sieie Stiblt
limb bequem, auf ben tbeureren pldBen
sepolftert unb oben nit 6olaiben Der:
leben. 8on iberal ber bat mott etnt
pole Nusi9t auf bic Bibne, 10 BAT
faftif1 ieoer SiB i'm 9aufe DertbpOl
1T. 9ie Deforationen unb Malereier
inb ~funfDoQ gebalten; bic Beleu9tune
1T blenbenb; be Ganbelaber fi1tb mabre
59mudia9en unb mas nun bic 8dbnt
ielbt anbelanet, 10 1T bieielbe febr ge'
rdumig unb init ben mobernfen Gin
rtdtungen perfeben. Borbang unb @ou.
li6enmalerei lafen ii6 benz 8eifen an
Die Settle itelen, mas mon bi~er5ulanbe
iiebtl Dos Or9eiter befinbet fid in &c.
bDriger Siefe unter Der 8iibne, 10 baf
Der Bid auf lebtere fret bleibi. Bon
oct 8ibne aus geieben reibt f4-Denn
bas 6aus nol befebt, bon oer 8~riifunQ
binter benz Or9eifer aus Ropf an Ropl
binauf Big gum Sa9e; in iol9er @tei=
eun5 erbeben fid parquet, DreBs unh
6amiliencirfel. Sur Nusgdnge 1T rei6=
lid Gorge getra9en, es giebt bere1 I'M
parquet na1 ieber Settle bin brei neben
benz groBen allgemeinen Nusgang unb
ole Sbireu 6ffnen nod auben. Die
@arberobe5immer Der primobonnea be-
finben fi1 auf Der Bibns bidt binter
Den 2ogen; bic iibrigen @arberobe5ims
mer finb gu beiben Seiten unte1balb
Der Babne eingeridtet. Das Gan5e
ma9t einen treffiden ginbrud unb es
mirb mpbl ni1t 3upiel gefagt iein, mos
Man1e bebaupten, bob bas neue
S%pernbaus San Nntunio's in ben Ser.
Staaten menige ieines @leiden bat.
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gteae aeim@t.

Gin iunger, berbeiratbeter Mann
fu1t Stenung. Derfelbe beriebt ale
Garmdrbeiten unh bic MiIbpirtbihaft
u. ebeniogut nit pferben &C. u~m5ugehen.
Seine Grau 1T cine iebr CUTE 361in.
@ef. Nntrdge bite bel Fer Expedition
b. 81. inter Ser SO. 100 gu binter=
laKen. 2mtu1mm
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2S1 Weft . Commensurate,
3&5 Meft Commensurate,
@pihnnhts !6mhtntntipr.

Meerf9aum : pfeifen, Yfelfenf6pfe,
gigarrenbalter, 1Gigarren In pddden
BON Is g., so gs. unb 10 gs. fpeaiea
fur bic Gefitase, Sabad in fei1en |
pfunb 2ifen, pou9es, Mat9sS afes
uno Gaften.
v2ei1 proft fir partners ober
Drummer. Mar berfu6e mei1e Waa
rem urb preile. 1elepbon 131, POI
unb 131. Sim 9art,
Der leitenbe Sabadbdnbler.
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gars. Sobn &rauB ipriGt ben
Mitgliebern Der Geuercompagnien uno
oes Rranfenpereins ibren ber3li9en
Darf fir oeren Sbeilnabme an benz
2ei9enbegdngniB ibres @atten aus.
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Ser Menoelsiobn un5 Der @ala.
matlber. 0erein in @alpeiton baben ibr
erffes 2on3ert geseben. Sod NOR Der
Befu6 niht 10 fart, als man ibn erz
tpartet hatte,
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3:

G&u5s fGr Madnaer, bsrf9iebsner grSbe, Sdubs
cir GrQueu, berf@ieoener Gr6be, GtriiInpfe fiji
Hronen, berf9iebener Gr6be, Goden fnr Mdn,
aer, berfdiebener @r6ee. Beiufteioer berIGieDe.
uer Gl56e, M0de berfdieberer gr0be. roQene
2fdeu bexfMiebeusr @r6be, battmpoIlene I'm.
ffrtafen berf6iebsuer @roee, uei6en Doinetif,
XItiber5euges geip6bnlider AuaIitdt.
Ole Eommi(fioners Court bebdIt f1 baS
8cdt1Dr1 EN- obtr ale 2ln9ebofe 5u berwerfen
g. 8. Wur5bad,
f8,l1.30m gounthriAter.
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mfmnnl

Sic feinifen Meibno9tsfollen, Iotpie
aaes @ebdd fur ben Weihna6tsbaum
bel 2ouis Diesel,
Scr. 6, 5ub Mlamos9 traBe.
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STR 1dbtif4er @oIIeftor.
Ser 1lnterseidnete empfieblt fid ben Birsern
a6tunssooa ais 8anbibat aur Bieoererpdb<
lung iIr bas almt bes @itb Solicitors BET Der
am Ia. Tebruar 1887 ifattinDenoen @abl.
s. s. 6aueien.
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@abl. Mnsei9en.

Der Undergraduate aeist fid hermit BEN
Rnblifum ais elm unabbdnsiser @anoioat fiji,
bas amt beS etrabentommifdrs in Der i'm
nadfen Gebruar fattinoenoen fldbtifdeu
Wahl an. Mdiungsbou:
&. 5. Amirt.
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Nromn's
9rolt 8itterS
miro eurirett

miro Rnrlren
9upfidnler5
ger6aiunssbeidt uerbet
@~aneitbeidmer6en
Dbspepfie
NerDersG ri4lafung
MaIarin
Jieber
Mbseipanttheit
Magetlteir.e aorperf4tpd4e
Mideu< un6 SeitenfA n1er5ets
nrrreiiles 8lut
6nrtIeibtgfeit
Beblide Gdudden
Mfe,irlntisrtils
NeilraIgie
Gieres,s rs6 2ebers8 ef4wer6eu
,ts Sertanitn IN alien @bot5efen.
&ds Me6ts Sat G~dubelsmarte a1b eesreuste Sotfe
ainisn anf ben timi&Ias.
Mam ue5ute ni9ts an6eres.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06

Recently the pilot at Eadsport on the
Mississippi river, noticed a singular
looking craft, with two sails and jib,
making its way down the jetties to sea,
but paid no particular attention to it..
There was a Ii avy sea on at the time,
and when she hal got about five miles
out into the gulf the pilot boat Under
writer caught sight of her, and, seeing
that she was in danger, went to her as.
sistance.
On reaching the strange craft it was
found that her ruddcr was broken and
she was unmanageable-in fact, that she
was an old fashioned scow or fatboat,
with two short masts and jib. The
calking was coming out Of the seams,
she had no bulkhcads or Strengthening
braces, or any similar device of marine
architecture. The only living things
aboard were one man, his wife, two chill.
drcn, and dog.
These Adventures were all the way
from some interior point in Arkansas, on
their way to Florida, without knowledge
or even chart, chronometcr, or other
maritime appliances. There was nc
water aboard, and but little provisions.
The captain of this nondescript must
have been reading some dime novel, and
probably thought he could hitch up at
night, set water and provisions, and 60
ahead whenever he desired He had, he
said, been six years building this craft.
The people aboard were rescued from
death, and brought to the city.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06
Sleeping Positions.

A facetious exchange says: A medical
PAPER has a new health-prescrving racket
that of sleeping with the face down
ward. Those plans and specifications for
sleeping are getting little too numerous.
We always try to live up to them. When
some old medical authority who has got
his cemetery full and retired from active
slaughter shouts that a person should
sleep with his head toward the north so
that the electric currents will pass
through the body on the proper route we
sleep that way. If another moss grown
practitioner, with as good a record for
fatality, solcmnly asserts that the only
authorized and fully-guarantecd way to
slumber is with the head towards the
south, and gives the same reason as the
other, We just move the pillow aft and
turn in. When still another rival of the
pale rider, with his back broken by lift
ing on the rate of mortality, announces
that the only way to get along peacefully
with the electric currents is to sleep with
the head to the east or west, so that they
will slide over the body and butt against
the hcadboard Of the bedstcad, we
promptly, even gladly, comply. Every
time the word comes along the line for a
change it finds us arcady and willing vic
tim. They are coming rather too fast
however. 1t begins to look as if we
could not get through whole night
without vecring around to some new di-
rection OF position. 1t will soon be nee
rssary to get up three or four times a
night and go down and get the mail and
sec what the latest chart on sleeping is.
Some genius will have to bring bed
stead with clock work attached that will
keep it continually moving around and
make it occasionally get up on its hind
castors and turn a couple of handsprings.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06
HUMOROUS.

An ulster covers amultitudc of patches.
The telephone operator has perpetual
holler day.
A young lady wrapped up in herself is
a delicate parcel.
LEND me your ears" as the farmer
said to the corn stalk.
A policeman, like man climbing
ladder, goes the rounds.
Two heads are better than one on
freak in dime museum.
The nick of time-The piece broken
out of the ancient crockery.
When the heart is full the lips nrc ST.
lent; when the man is full it is different.
John Ruskin wants tho sewing ma
chine to 90. Let him put his feet on the
treadle and work it, then.
The man who never gets mad is sup
posed to be half-brother to the woman
who never looks behind her.
The man who never does any harm
might crawl into cave and stay there
ten years without being missed.
A girl with her hair down over her
forehead does not look as if she could
have bang up time at any party.
A patent medicine advertisement says:
"The human body is much like good
clock" This sounds reasonable. A good
many men spend large part of their
time in striking.
care you pretty well acquainted with
your mother tongue, my boy3" asked tho
school teacher of the new scholar. eyes,
SIR" answered the lad timidly, ''ma jaws
me q good deal, sir"
One thousand dollars in gold weighs
forty pounds. 1t is the necessity of carry
ing home from their offices the daily in
come of specie that makes so many news
paper men round shouldered.
A small child being asked by a Sunday
school teacher: "What did the Israelites
do after they had crossed the Red Scar
answered: 81 don't know, ma'am, but
1 guess they dried themselves"
Literary man Qaughingly)-Yes, Itook
to literature naturally. was vaccinated
from a quill, you know. Friend (grimly)
The world would have been the gamer
if you had been vaccinated from pick
or shovel.
Sunday school scholar Ito teacheD-
"Did you say that the hairs of my head
were all numberedl" Teacher-'Yes,
my dear" Sunday school scholar
"Wel, then, quilting out a hair and pre-
senting it), what's the number of this
one?"
''How do you do, Mary' I've been
trying to catch up with you for half an
hour. knew you just as soon as set
eyes on that bonnet. I've known it as
long as can remember" 1t is such re-
marks as this that fill the female heart
with bitterness.
A Chicago boy of fourteen years re-
Gently ran away from home to become a
pirate king. He was captured by
policeman and returned to his parents.
He didn't become that kind of king,
but after a brief interview with his father
he was aching.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06
Useful Hints.

When a setting hen is too indisposed
to stay on the nest continuously, let hel
rest alternate days and tie the rooster on
the nest while she's resting.
The SCOT can be thoroughly swept out
of a chimney by dropping goose in it at
the top. The goose, in vainly striving to
fly upward, thoroughly cleans the chin
ncy with its wings
By immersing the entire body in soft
tar before taking a bee tree, one can ren.
der himself invulnerablc to the assaults
of the bees.
You can smoke rabbit out of hol
low by smoking cigarette close enough
to let the stencil enter the hole.
The scent of whisky on the breath
can be subducd by smearing asaf9tida
on the moustachc.
When your bcdfellow snorcs and re-.
fuses to hush, trump up a counterfeit
nightmare and straddle his neck. If
this docs MT stop him, kick him out of
bed in such way that his head will
strike the floor first. The resulting ccre-
bral agitation will keep him awake for
the rest of the night and give you a
chance to dozc little.
If you make a habit Of keeping live
mice in your pockets, your loose change
will be comparatively safe from your en-
tcrprsing wife.
If you take a small stcp-laddcr with
you into the theatre it will be very SER
viccablc when the stage is barricadcd
from view by big hat.
Frecklcs can be removed from the face
with sand-papcr.--LVe.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06
Making it Binding.

II am lawyers daughter, you know,
George DEAR" she said, after George had
proposed and had been accepted, "and
you wouldn't think it strange if wero
to ask you to sign little paper to the
effect that we are engaged, would you'"
George was too happy to think any
thing strange just then, and he signed
the paper with trembling hand and a
bursting heart.
Then she laid her car against his mid
die vest button and they were very hap
py.
"Tell me, darling" said George after
q long delicious silence, "why did you
want me to sign that paper9 Do you not
repose implicit confidence in my love for
you2'
"Ah yes" she sighed with infinite
content, "indeed do; but George, dear,
I have been fooled so many times. ~
Life.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06
Won by an Accident.

When we say that something happened
from chance we really mean only that it
occurred, without or in spite of previous
planning by the men who wished to con-
troll events. History knows of empires
which have been lost or saved 'by acci-
dent" that is, as the result of acts which
were not within the control of sovereigns
and generals.
One such casc-the story is narrated
in the second part of the Greville Me-
moirs-was the victory, in 1s45, of the
English over the Sikhs Ferozeshah.
At a critical point in the battle, the
encouragement of India, Lord Hardinge,
who commanded in person, thought the
battle was lost. Believing that his army
would be destroyed, and not expecting
to survive the defeat, he gave his watch
and some other things to one of his
officers, asking that they might be con-
veyed to his wife with the assurance that
his last thoughts were about her.
Just at this time, one of Lord Hard
inge's staff, also in despair, having lost
his head, through nervousness or fear,
rode up to the commander of the Eng.
lish Cavalry, and communicated an or.
der which he declared he had received,
that the cavalry should retreat. The
commander asked for a written order
the staff officer admitted he had none,
but spoke so positively as to the instrnc-
tion which he was charged to deliver,
that the commander gave the order that
his men should retire.
The Sikhs, seeing the cavalry drawing
off, supposed the movement to be for the
purpose of attacking them on their flank,
and cutting off their communications. A
panic seized them and they began to re.
treat. The English commander-n- chief
noticed the disorder in the Sikh ranks,
and ordered a charge along his whole
line which resulted in the rout of the
enemy.
Thus a victory which saved India to
England was due to nervous officer
who invented an order he had never re-
ccivcd If the British troops had been
defeated, the whole of India would
doubtless have risen to throw off the
yoke Of those whom the Sikhs had beaten
in BATTLE Youths Companion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-05-06
SO. LONDONDERRY, w. THURSDAY MAY g. 1886
Turkish Public Amusemcnts.

ThepubHc amusements of the Turks
consist of meydn-oyOonOo, kard-g'eor, and
the meddah. Meydan.oyoonoo is a sort
of low burlcsque, acted by men only and
without stage, the changing of cos
TUNES being effected behind Temporal
ry screen. The kara-geoz is the Turk
ish "Punch and judy" rendered in
shadows, white sheet being stretched
across one of the angles of the room di-
agonally, forming the base of triangle,
behind which tho performer takes his
stand, and by the forcc of strong light
casts the Shadows of coming events" on
the sheet, And the meddah is the fa-
nous story-teller of the East. The alb
sence Of works of fiction, and the general
ignorance of the people, who do not
even know how to read, make the narra-
tives of the mcddahs quite acceptable to
the public, who flock to hear them for
pastime, for the love of the marvellous is
too powerful in the warm and imagina-
tive nature of the people of that sunny
cline to remain without some develop
ment. Hence their popularity. Then,
again, these meddahs are not destitute Of
dramatic power, enhancing their atten-
tive audiences by the magnetism of high
ly wrought fiction, exaggerated descrip.
ton, and effective mimicry. Indeed,
some of them have acquired renown for
their speciality. Kiz-Ahmed, or Lady
Ahmed, is so named on account of his
successful ability in "taking off, the Ia
dies, and Pidjemin is noted for the "pa-
thctic." They exercise certain coup de
theatre OF their own, and are by the ex-
cited fancies of the people invested with
genii-like power, as they condense into
passing hour the scenes Of an eventful
life, or detail the entertainments of fairy
dom. In fact, these meddahs occupy
the Oriental lecture field, and on festive
occasions provide a most welcome part of
the entertainment. Their tales, general
ly vulgar, to suit public taste, are often
not devoid of some good moral, and
their comicalitias hold up some popular
vice to public derision. n.-Harper's Bazar.