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The A. c. A. camp is at the foot of Grind
stone island on the shore of Eel bay. Canoes
were drawn up on the beach here, tents
dotted all around, and the smoke of little
camp fires ascended all day. 1t was very free
and easy and very jolly. That person is no
man or woman at all who does not enioy
now and then the freedom of the wild woods
There were about 500 canoeists present at the
meet The camp was n place of great inter
est to the people of the surrounding islands
The association chartered Il propeller, which
made four trips day, touching ut the neigh
boring islands She brought large numbers
OF visitors, who inspected the great canoe
camp as cmiously as if it had been Barnum's
circus OF the Wild West show.
A canoe is an unsociable affair, an old
bachelor or old maids boat, for both men
aud women sail therein. 1t only holds one
or, III Il great pinch, two persons. The ap-
proved shape has only the hole in the middle,
as you see i'll the illustration. All the rest is
decaed lightly over and full of air. This adds
to the lightness of the craft. 1t weighs SO
little and Is SO buoyant that it will run i'll six
inches OF water readily, and u foot is ample
depth.
Mr.. Baden Powell is 'the champion canoeist
of Great Britain. Mr.. C. Bowyer Vaux, of
the New York Canoe club, is the champion
of America. His racing canoe is the Lassie
the fastest one known. The Lassie is yery
light. She carries ninety two feet of sail and
less than seventy-tiye pounds ballast. She has
two center boards and deck tiller When
there is very slight wind she carries spin
liiker to give her additional sail Under
heath tue covered deck are packed tent, bed
ding, cooking utensils and all things needed
for camping out The Englishmans canoe,
like everything else English, is heavier and
brouder than the American one. Even it is
not So very wide, however, being only thirty
inches across. 1t carries 15G pounds of shot
bags for ballast. H.
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OFF FOR A PADDLE RACE.

We may expect canoeing to become more
and more popular in the next few years. It
is an exhilarating recreation that can be pur-
sued i'll our shallow, crooked waters through
out all North America. The Indians under
stood this before us, and constructed every-
where the light bark boats that shot in and
out and up and down streams like darting
fish. They had war canoes and peace canoes
The lightest canoes can be carried over rap
ids Or swamps just as the Indians used to
carry theirs. In camping out, canvas
called canoe tent, is stretched above the
cockpit, and beneath it, inside his craft, the
pleasure seeker may unroH his blankets and
sleep like top, with his boat either drawn
upon the shore or anchored out.
Mr.. John uabberton is an enthusiastic ca
noeist. He writes:
The canoe is absolutely the only aall-
around" small boat in the world; that is, the
only boat that can be easily and safely used
with either paddle or sailor oars, IL o man
= depl aved enough to pervert things from
their proper uses
1t is the only boat moved by hand power
ia which the occupant can always look ahead.
A lady can sail q canoe, handling both sail
ai'd rudder without any straining and twist.
ing that threatens to part the shoulder seam
Vt her dress
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at Knoxville, in that state 1t was on this
account that he was unable to attend the con-
veitlon that nominated him, as he received a
dispatch from Washington which read:
In pursuance to the instructions
of the honorable the secretary of the inte-
rior it is better for you not to attend the nonl-
mating. convention bob" is one of six
brothers. He studied law, and has a natural
vein OF humor which he can use to good ad-
vantage either before a jury or on the stump.
In 1876 he made his memorable canvass in
which he beat his able opponent, Pettibone,
for congress with fiddle. In Tennessee it is
customary for the rival candidates to stump
the state together. On this occasion Mai
Pettlbone would first address the audience in
one of his grandiloquent speeches. Taylor,
on rising to reply, would say: Ladies' and
gentlemen, you have heard enough hifautin
speechifying for one occasion. Supposing
give you a tune on the fiddle" And fiddle
away he would until the audience would be
'Jigging" and singing and bowling with ell
thusiasm sufficient to grant him anything. In
this way he "iddled" himself into congress.
Back of Mr.. Taylor's love of humor he DOS
sesses solid requirements that will enable him
to fill any position within the gift of his state
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is.2A Il IS composed of the various canue
clubs all over the country. In August each
year they load their canoes upon baggage
cars and speed to the beautiful Thousand
islands of the St. Lawrence river. They
camp out upon some of the islands. They
remain there two or three weeks, hunting,
. padding, sailing, fishing, loafing aud eating.
There is preliminary skirmishing in the way
Of racing during the whole time, and the
meet breaks up in grand race to see which
club and which man shall be the champion
for next year.
This year some Elglsl.men participated in
the race, bringing their canoes across the
ocean for the purpose. Most prominent among
them was Mr. Warrington Baden Powell, the
father of canoe sailing in this country as well
as England. Be it known that canoe sailing
is now the rage. Paddles there are still, for
times when there Is not capful of wind !;
but whenever there is breath enough to lift a
hair, your canoeist hoists his little sheet and
scorns what boatmen call "white ash
breeze"
The popularity of this kind of travel Is
that the canoe takes two sails. One is for
ward, rather IL large one, and it is called the
mainsail. The smaller is aft, and it is called
the mizzen. 1t is likewise known as the jig
ger, or dandy. Sail may be hoisted also in
padding canoe, but in that case there is only
one, and it is placed astern. The A. C. A
canoes are all saiiers.
Although Mr. Baden Powell started canoe
sailing both i'll England and America, yet the
model of craft has differentiated widely in the
two countries i'll the course of five years.
Stripped Of technical terms, it may be said
that the Englishman lies down in the hole in
the middle of his canoe, with only little OF
his head showing above the deck. The
American, on the contrary, sits upon the up.
per railing of the central hole and hangs out
over the windward rail. Mr.. Baden Powell
was much surprised at this difference but
tried the American plan of sitting on top in
stead of down in the canoe. He liked it after
awhile though at first he declared the canoe
wobbled horribly. .L
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Superstition in New York.

On the upper part of Broadway is hump
backed Italian bootblack, who, although he
dresses poorly, and win give you patent
leather shine for five cents, has accumulated
an ample fortune by his deformity and the
superstition Of his customers. Ii you watch
him at work, you will see the person whose
boots are being polished lean over siyly and
touch the hump with the tips of his fingers.
Light as is the touch, the bootblack feels it,
looks up grimly, and is silenced by a quarter
or half dollar. That touch of the hump is
supposed to bring good luck to gamblers,
stock brokers, business msn and holders of
lottery tickets. Sometimes when the super
stition is verified by coincidence, the Gus
toner gives the bootblack S. or $40 bill out
of the profits, and then the magic touch is re-
peated more openly. know of theatrical
manager who keeps humpback in his EN-
pioy to bring him good fortune by this
touch Many otherwise sensible spectators
never 70 down town with any confidence in
their operations unless they have touched
the old Italian in the morning.-New York
Star
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Suicide Among French Children.

There must be an error in the New York
Suns statement about the French statistics
containing numerous suicides among children
for the first time. Suicides among children
were common after the first French revolu-
tion The criminality among children al
luded to by The Sun as of serious augury for
France simply shows the influence of the
Franco-Prussian war. In children insanity
shows itself in immortality and crime as q
rule. " Children born during the siege of Paris
died of convulsions, became victims of nerv-
Gus diseases, demonstrably insane or criminal,
so that among the French lower classes "child
of the siege" was asynonym for doomed child.
The Suns statistics simply illustrate the infiu-
ence Of serious political convulsion, and do
not show any French decadence French
statistics, being better collected under the re-
public than the empire, seem to show de-
cadence, really the result of accuracy; and,
as the bigoted enemies of the republic have
control of most Of the French news gathering,
erroneous deductions are the result. j. G.
Herman in Chicago News.
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The Place to write Plainly.

Banker-What a very illegible signature
old Moneybags has! l had one of his checks
today, and the name was scarcely decipher-
able.
Baker-I never saw his signature but once.
Then it was almost plain enough for blind
man to read.
Banker-Where did you see it?
Baker-Opposite the sum of ten dollars ON
subscription list.-Harper's Bazaar.
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Darbed Metallic strips for Fence

A Pittsburg mechanic thinks Inc has in
vented device which win revolutioniza the
barb-wire fence business. The invention is
for barling metallic strips about tliree-quar-
ters of an inch wide. Themachine cuts barb
ranging from one e-quarter to one-sixteenth of
an inch in thickness. A machine capable of
producing sixty miles of this barbel metallic
strip per day can be built for $3.50 Machines
for the same purpose now in use eos. ssoa5 ,o09
apiece, and are only capable of producing
thirty miles of wire per diem Chicago
Times
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A Price Upon His Head.

He was noted desperate. He had killed
thirty eight men in open combat to say moth
ing of those he had shot from behind doors.
Yet he was rich, prosperous and respected
and kept his own hearse. There was nothing
in his appearance to indicate his desperate
character except that his coat was unusually
gored at the waist. Yet there was price
set upon his head.
1t was not large price, all things con-
sidered.
1t was printed conspicuously upon ticket
which decorated the band of his slop-shop
sombrero, and which read:
"This style so cents Detroit Free Press
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BATHERs OF THE SOUTH SEA.

Some Women Who Can Swim Like Mer-
maids and Dive Like Frogs.
The women of Samoa are not SO pretty. but
tar more yirtuous, than those of the Society
lslallds, and possess traits peculiarly their
own. Their only clothing is the lava-lava,
frequently made of grass, which covers them
from the hips to the thighs the field for adorn-
ment being the head, arouad which wreaths
OF orange blossoms and Of red flowers are
worn They are naturally endowed with a
profuslon OF black hair, but, being enamored
OF the crushed strawberry color, they coat
the mead with slaked coral lime, few appli-
cations OF which give to the hair the desired
hue
They are very expert in the management
or canoes, and swarm about the ship from
early morn till close of eve, beseeching officers
and men to be their "fiend," and when one
assents to do the friendly act, the object of
his friendship comes on board and showers
upon him gifts of cocoanuts, seashells, fruit.
eggs and an occasional chicken, for which, in
return, he is expected to give money, or.
preferably, such articles as soap, needles and
thread, tobacco and writing paper. This act
OF friendly barter completed, the lady stands,
not upon the manner of her going, but, taking
to impede her flight, dives headlong out of
gunport, swims to her canoe and paddles
off to make another "1iend"
The exhibition wound up with a grand
silva, which is the name for the native dance
This brought into prominence the loveliest of
Sanoa's maids, in the person of Faapio, the
daughter of Asi, Malietoas great war chief.
Wearing tiara of glistening sea shells and
grass of bright colors in her hair, a neck
lace of red berries, and around her hips a
lava-lava of the most expensive character,
her faultless figure was set off to n,iv ,ntage,
and as she danced with her fathr, ..t two
other chiefs, her smiles, gestures all i contor-
tions of body were amusing, and despite the
fact that her body glistened in the sun from
a coating of cocoanut oil, her graceful bear
ing commanded admiration. Other girls and
chiefs danced in turn, but the silva, with its
singing, waving of arms and other varia-
tions beggars description, and must be seen
to be ppreciated.-Samoa Cor Baltimore
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Tho Ferocious Editor.

The Texas editor stabbed his pen into dish
of fresh, warm, lurid blood and wrote: Texas
cries for vengeance! The Lone Star state ds-
ulands blood and she will have 1t! Let us
teach these soulless Mexicans their place, let
us externiinate the damnable race! For our
part we are in favor OF Immediately raising
regiment and marching - Great an
blaukety blankl" he suddenly yelled, as he
jumped over the desk and fell onto q chair,
awliut in dashity dash was THAR Ilat
want nothin' but rat gnawing on the Mnef
side Of the pcrtition, replied the boy. Ill.,
blank dash it, didn't know what IL was
here set this up, I've got to go over anu ge1
something TO steady my nerves before can
tinlst, il. Estelline I'd. T.l Bell.
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a child he was put
to work in a mill,
where he lost his
arm. At the age Of
26 he was arrested
In London as a sus-
pect, tried and SEN
teneed to fifteen
ye aTs imprison-
ment. Not being
able to perform the
hard labor assigned
to him, owing to the
loss of his arm, ne
was often punished
S ev er ely. After
couoys yaur.o ha ,r,n,
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His First Case 81 Home.ienne..

!. A young boy who recently left bis
home to attend preparatory school is
not much taken with the change. lie is
suffering his first case Of homesickness.
and naturally desires to return to his
home. In making known his desire to
his father In a recent letter he said:
Dear father: Life is very short; let us
spend it together. Your affectionate
son. Exchange.
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John Ke1ly.s ideas I'm journalism.


The late John Kelly introduced some
new ideas into journalism when he had
control of The New York Star. His
home was some distance from the city.
and there he had complete little print.
ing Office, including a small job press.
Everything he wrote was set up in this
establishment, and the proofs corrected
and revised until they were entirely free
from error. Then a final impression
was struck off, and this was the shape
in which his copy" arrived at The Star
Office. It absolutely shut the door on
any excuse for errors.
In addition to this his private print
ing Office was used for typographical ex-
periments, the result Of which appeared
from time to time in the columns of The
Star. Any change in the style, as the
heads was always first thoroughly tested
in this way. Mr.. Kelly was very seldom
seen about the Office. worked there
for year and did not even know him
by sight. He knew very few of The
Star people personally, but used to mark
articles he liked in the paper and in
struct the managing editor to give his
compliments to the writers of them.-
JoseDh Dixon in Giohe na,oo>rat
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released on ticket-of-leave, to be again i'm
prisoned in 1880 for urging just the measures
which Gladstone advocated recently. When
be was again released he was taken up by the
people as hero, and his career as an agitator
for land reform began though he had organ
lied the first national land league in 1879. This
is Mr.. Davitt's second visit to America. He
considers the battle for home rule as prac-
tically won. He thinks the policy for Parnell
to follow now is to agitate among the Eng
lish, Scotch and Welsh peasantry the neces-
sity of land reform, and when these people
make a demand the greater injustices to Ire
land win be removed
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Noted BY a Brooklyn Barber.

"What is the prevailing style of combing
The hair at present"
@You would hardly believe it, but the fash.
ion of combing the hair changes constantly
among certain class of young men known
as dudes Bangs are no longer popular with
the gilded youth 1t is the proper 'capah' not
TO part hair By that mean the hair should
be allowed to fall about the head in careless
profusion without the slightest suspicion of a
part Curly hair is better adapted to careless
dressing. Some then prefer to wear their
hair pompadour-that is, brushed back from
their foreheads. Some years ago it was quite
the rage for dressy men to part their hair
directly in the middle. This fashion is now,
however, but little affected. have noticed
q great falling off in the use of hair oil and
cosmetics. A few years ago some of my Gus
toners would insist ON having their hair
plastered down over their foreheads. Plain
vaseline has almost wholly taken the place of
the highly scented cosmetics formerly in use
Brooklyn Eagle.
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The spanish ROYAL Family.

The queen regent of Spain is spending the
season at La Granja. Every morning her
majesty goes out with tie children, very
simply attired, and unattended by any suite.
She may be frequently seen sitting on bench
In the palace grounds with tho infant king in
Der lap and the two little princesses playing
on the grass around her. After dinner her
majesty gives an audience to Sciior aarti-
mex ON affairs OF state. and ut G in the eve
ming she takes an hours drive along the B;.l-
ain road. Chicago Times
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versity in name.
A few years ago Mr. De PAW, the presi-
dent of the board of trustees, came to the
rescue by meeting the nniversitys immedi-
ate wants and providing for its future on a
magnificent scale. Under his patronage the
college was at once reorganized and expanded
into university, the trustees voting that it
sho Id hereafter bear. its benefactor's name
Besides his liberal donations during life Mr.
De Pauw has provided that 45 per cent. of his
vast estate shall go to the university on his
daotb
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Robert L. Taylor,
was chosen by the
Democrats as their
candidate, and it is
now thought that
their father may
accept the nonina-
tion of the Prohi-
bitionists, SO that
the governorship is
not likely to escape
the Taylor family
this Year. "Bob"j
Taylor, as he isl
Familiarity known!
throughout 7 e n
nessee, is at present
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His Side of the STORY.

"What was that great racket heard in
your woodshed after you got home from fish
ing last nightn asked one Estelline small boy
OF another.
"lt was me swingin' the buggy whip for
fun" the other replied.
"But I heard somebody iumpin' around,
toos"
"Oh. that was pa seeing if he could jump
over the wasbboiler and two tubs
@But who was it yelled so like thtlndera"
"Why, every time he made an extra high
jump he would holler kinder in fun, You
know. w.n-EsteIiine 3D. IT, Bell
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am engaged to the Duke of Ireland
Sept. 10.-Opens in New York. Crowded
houses.-Burdette.
One of our exchanges has a ladies' column
to which an afflicted woman thus writeS:
"Please tell me how to scure my corns. |
shall be more grateful for such receipt than
I should be for one for wedding cake with tho
husband and cow thrown in."-Lewiston
(Mc.) Journal
1t is evident from the numerous widows
that have appeared that E. z. c. Judson was
q Buntline which had been frequently
spliced-New York World.
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A lesson In Manners.

Hon. Leopold Morse, in Liverpool hotel
the other day. was advised in an offensive
tone, by an Englishman Of whon be asked a
question. to address such inquiries in future
to the porter. u thought yo. were the i'or
ter" returned Mr.. Morse: "and further
more" added our ex-congressrnan. ''since you
say my addressing you was rtideness. let
me give you lesson in manners. In America
agentlenlan tEinks j, only decent 10 answer.
If he can. decent question. The Tudeness
sas you're, ST., whoever you may be."--Gos-
on TrAns.Tili.
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newspaper DECISIONS

i. ANY one who takes q paper regularly frt m III
recommendation directed 10 his name or another
Tor the payment.
y. II person orders his paper discontinued, he
must pay all arrearages, or the publisher will con-
thue 10 SEND II until payment lie made and collect he
whole amount whether the paper ik taken from the
office not. - = ~
y. The courts have decided that refusing 20 take
The newspapers or periodicals frum the Postoce OF
removing and leaving them uncallsd for is pTisao
f9css evidence OF intentional fraud, - 80 .,
Papers ordered to any address can be changed to
anotner address at the optien of the Subscriber
hemittances by draft, cheek, money order or regis
Iered letter. may &c sent at risk An Postmasterp
are required to register letters ON application
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Exidenea of Deliriu,n.

Doctor-But, honored madam, why did you
not let me before be caIleds Your husband
lies indeed in highest delirium
Madam-Yes, see You, SO long as my hus-
band by his understanding was, would he
nothing to do with doctor hayel-tFlie.
gende Blaetter.
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Ever yieilant Yet Nonchalant chaperone.

Ever VigiIant Yet Nonchalant Chaperone.
The chaperone's exertions during a LON
don season are indeed heroic Vigilant as
Argus, nonchalant as Melpomene, she fits
from the row to the kettledrum, from the
kettletirum to the dinner, from the dinner
party to the large and late small and early"
and thence to succession of musical even
ings and dances. She seldom rests, and even
the ball supper is an exploiting ground for
her fnaneuyres; indefatigable, unconscion-
able, she perseveres, and yet how seldom
does success crown her effortsl Laura is
sure either to miss or mar betrotha. We
have always contemplated the chaperone as
: ene of the truest proofs of the increased phys
ical superiority of the Nineteenth century.
What Lacedemonian mother or Roman mat.
ron could have undergone the straina And
yet every English mother @vith a sense of
luty" survives the conflict San Francisco
ArQnuSIt
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ONLY HER HUSBAND.

ONLY HER HUSBAND.
Mrs. Peterby hired Matilda Snowfall as q
cook, but in about u week she had occasion to
say to her:
"When hired you You said you didn't have
any male friends coming around, and now
find man in the kitchen half the time.n
why, maiani, bress your soul, dat man
amt no male friend OBJ mine. He am only
my busbandl" was the reply.-Texas Siftings.
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HIS year for the
third summer the
A. G. A. holds its
August meet among
the Thousand ISL
ands of the st.
Lawrence. What
does A. C.. A. meant
1t means the Amer
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June Sony jewels! All gonel Stolenl
The diamond necklace presented me by the
car of Russia! Ny bracelets presented me
by the-[Note by manager, "Too thin Won't
wash. Been used too long and too often. Try
something else. Get blessed by the pope or
something."l
July IL have bought the old castle Ihr