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The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
A lawyers Strange Client.

"Sometimes u lawyer has some very queer
clients to deal WITH" casually remarked Il
lawyer who has an office in the Garfield build
ing, Brooklyn, to Il reporter a few days since.
II think the strangest client l ever had"
continued the disciple of Blackstone, twas
ono l met while practicing in New York.
There was q man arrested for burglary, and
l was retained to defend him. The case, I
must say, was strong against him, but l sue
ceeded in getting him off, and ho paid me
just $500 for my services. 1t was about u
year later that l sat in my Office when the
acquitted burglar entered. Irecognizcd him
i'll u moment and greeted him cordially. OF
course | had an idea he was i'll trouble again
and wanted INC to help him out. When l
gave him a chair ho had hardly seated him.
self before no exclaimed that he wanted $50,
ard he wanted 1ne to give it to him. For a
moment thought he was going to rob me in
my own Office, but l mustered courage and
asked him what he wanted it for.
"'Asls me no questions he replied, you'll
be better off if you don't know. If l succeed
1 will pay you back; if don't you will lose
just $780,
81 considered for a little while and finally
concluded to give it to him.. l did SO, andhe
hurried out of my Office.
'1hree mornings a1terWard the morning
papers told of daring bank robbery in
Maine, and the description of one of the sus.
picious characters who had been seen in the
neighborhood of the bank tailed with ny
client. 1t struck me very forcibly at first
but l soon forgot it. Three months later
received a package from Australia by express
and it contained just $500. With it was /,
note which read: Here is your $50 with in
terest.'
II have not seen my client since advanc
ing him tho money, and l doubt whether
would let him havc any more again, although
tho rate of interest is good.n-New Yorl
Evening Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
KEENAN,, the Siberian Traveller.

Mr.. George KEENAN,, who has recently
sprung into such fame rs a Siberian traveller,
is not at all the sort of person one would
fancy from his writings. In appearance he
is slender, pale and shy, and his manners are
retiring and modest. He must have started
with a constitution of iron, and he is much
tougher now than he looks. He is i'll tie
employ of the Associated Press at Washing
ton, where he docs valued but unnoticed
routine work For years he helped out his
salary by lectures in small places Oh his wall
behring's, which were always attractive but not
striking enough to give him Il general rcpu-
tation. But his chance came when The Cen
fury opened its pages to his story.
This may safely he said of it, that KEENAN,,
unlike many travellers both before and after
Mcndez, sticks to the truth. He can afford
to do so, for lie has had some of the toughest
adventures man ever lived through to tell
about. He has told me of one of these cXpe-
ricnccs which | a not seen in print. While
on ono of his Siberian trips he was attacked
by fever, and lay for three weeks delirious
in a squalid hut Oh a shcepskin for u bed,
quite alone and helpless, save for the friendly
care of the native Such all episode as that
would AVE made most men content after
ward to stay nearer home, especially if they
had so charming Il woman for u wife rs Mrs.
KEENAN, is. But off he Went again, OH some
incredible jaunt, as soon as he was able to
to start.-Once Il Week.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15

Tho principal exhibit in evidence in Il re-
cent divorce suit was Il hymn book. Tho
plaintiff and defendant had occupied places
side by side i'll church, and their acquaint-
ance had really begun in the pew with tho
young mans polite attentions over tine hymns.
Ho found tho places i'll tho book, and shared
it with his fair %ncighbor. From that sprang
friendship, which in time merged into a(rec-
ton. The fellows method Of courtship was
neat and original. After finding tho hymn
that the pastor bad given out, he would fol
low it through while 1t was being read from
the pulpit, and deity underscore words and
phrases that conveyed his sentiments to the
girl. OF course. us slo came across these
marked hymns, as they wero being melodi-
ously and impressively sung they impressed
Economically.
Further along III this process of wooing tho
sutton got to interlineations $50 that tho rever-
entail lines of the hymns were gurbleu and
extended to serve his passionate meaning.
Just how far this lymnal courtship was sup
plemented by spoken words is II matter about
which the parties differ radically, but tho
hymn book serves as an indubitable record.
Tho girl doesn't seem to have lost her pres
ence of mind for IL moment, however, on these
occasions Of mingled piety, poetry and pas
sion, for she coolly dated each OF the amended
verses. Thus sho preserved in chronological
order tho chaps pencilings, and She hope,
that the hymn book will be worth $4,000,
that being the sum for which she has made
ready to sue.-Ncw York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15

During Il talk held, n year ortwoago, with
the delightful veteran actor who has just left
lis, William Warren, of Boston, he told mo-
story of himself that seemed to me Il finer
piece of digniiicd humility than anything he
had ever enacted on the boards. After the
death of u well known Bostonian, some years
since. MIR. Warren, who had been one OF his
friends, was invited TO be Il pail bearer at tho
funeral. ION going TO the place appointed"
he said, 81 learned for the first time that my
companion in tho funeral procession was to
lie Mr.. Robert c. Winthrop. went at once
to the gentleman who had charge of the ar
langcmcnts, and said to him decisivclv, This
must not be! Tho thing is utterly inappro-
pirate. MI. Winthrop is an historic chalac-
ter; he bears an historic name, and has added
dignity to it by his W career. l am Il
strolling actor; the Boston public is accus-
toned to sccins ne III all manner Of grotesquc
costumes and ludicrous positions. | should
be wholly out of place beside Mr.. Winthrop
on an occasion like this, and every one who
looked OH us would feel it as | do Accord
inglv, the arrangement was completed"
When | asked "DiL Mr.. Winthrop ever know
about this circumstance he said, thought
fully, 81 cannot say, but | suspect that ho
did. The next time We met in the street, he
raised his hat to me with great courtesy, al
though We wero NOT previously acquainted,
and VIC met, with tho same greeting, several
times nfterward."
am far from thinking that this piece of
generous self humiliation vas needed, but
whether it was or not, how fine the situation,
how almost Sha!iespcarian the recognition of
IL subtle human propriety! Who docs not
like to think of these two men of similar
years and dissimilur lives, both such well
known figures on tho streets of Boston. and
passing each other from day to day with this
silent and dignifled greeting, as expressive rs
the ccrcmonious snuff box of colonial times.
Yet surely there is something curious and
almost undesirable in a profession which can
suggest to ono of its most honorcd ornaments
such self depreciation as this. a blacksmith,
u shoemaker, would have had no such feel
ing, but would have walked side by side with
the most eminent citizen without any thought
Of i%ncongruity, SO strong is the force of re-
publican institutions. Can it be that. as an
actor once pointed out to me, mcn Of his vo-
cation very rarely vote, and so feel them
selves no part OF tho political community
uarper's Bazar.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
A Memory of Babyhood.

In a recent number of The Medical News
appeared a note from a correspondent whose
professional eminence is an unqualified in
of the accuracy of his observation,
in which he writes, ~ nave recently seen in
the medical journals that Dugald Stewart
was once asked what was the earliest thing
he could remember. He said it was being
left alone by his nurse in the cradle, and re-
solving to tell of her as soon as he could
speak. This may have been copied as a joke;
but it brings to my mind the following state
ment that l lave made from time to time for
many years, which has always been received
with d%erision, but which is a perfectly dis
tinct remembrance in my mind: I remember
being jolted over the crossings i'll a baby
wagon by nurse, and resolving to tell OF
her as soon as 1 could speak" threading the
above, it occurred to US that it would not be
amiss to ask the writer how hs knew that
there was such q thing as speech, and that he
would ever be able to exercise that faculty
S1:z
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
Travelling in Gypsy Fashion.

\ young English couple, copying the
fashion of the gypsies, are travelling on the
continent in a built W wagon or n species of
land yacht. From q description of tho
vehicle, the inmates appear to have made
themselves rs comfortable as the circum-
scribed space at their disposal would allow.
In one corner Of tho single room, which is ct
once dining room, drawing room, bed cham
Der and kitchen, lies madame's portfolio Of
sketches, in another monsieur's Photographic
apparatus, while fixed in ingenious fashions
to tho walls, pretty much as on board ship,
are row of cooking u~ntensils, plates, glasses,
fishing rods and Il great variety of odds and
ends. For cooking purposes a petroleum
stove is used. The caravan is drawn by two
robust little Breton horses, which are said to
cover a good deal of ground every day. The
system can be improved upon by the aid
of n sumpter pony, that would add greatly
to the convenience and comfort OF tAy
pleasant nomadic existencc.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
Wall Street a Century Ago.

a walk down Wall street in those days of
lG2 years ago, just ten years after the Declar-
alton of independence and one year before
Washington was sworn in as first president
of the United States, would have been in
structive and amusing to the millionaires
and spectators who now mako it their head
quarters. 1t was not then the great money
center and main factor in. national finance
that it now is, but only al unimportant side
street leading down to fashionable Hanover
square, and inhabited by small shop keepers
and tradesmen, many of whom lived in more
aristocratic portions of the city. Tho build
ings were small and dark, of wood and
Dutch brick, and many had small gardens in
front. Then rs now Trinity church looked
down the street and told the easy going New
Workers the time of day, but it was a very
different building from that which Old Trim
ity now enjoys.-New York Graphic.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
Tho rcoplo in n Crowd.

The number of people whocan estimate the
number of people in a GROVE is very small.
Fill the amphitheatre at the Fair Grounds to
its capacity, and n half dozen men will esti-
mate the number at all the way from $4,000
to 100000. Tho tendency is always to cx-
aggorate. The fact is that, allowing is inches
space for each person, and occupy every
available inch of it, and not to exceed IL, 900
people could be accommodated, while, rs u
matter of fact, not more than 1000 people
could be crowded in with any approach to
comfort.
Old soldiers who have had opportunities to
judge of the amount of ground covered by n
given number of soldiers, are equally at fault.
The same tendency to eXaggcratc is shown in
the estimation of the number of men in q
marching body. You will read that Il pro-
cession was four hours passing Il given point,
and that there were $1,000 men in line. That
is all nonsense. Fifty thousand men could
not pass a given point Oh paved streets in ten
hours. 1t must lie remembered that two and
n half miles an hour is unusually good time
for the movement of Il column. Twenty
miles Il day from sunrise to sunset was con-
sidered Il good days march for Il largo body
of soldiers during the war.-Police Captain
in Globe Democrat.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
HI LONDON BUS.
Space Allowance for Each Passenger-Rcg-
ulations-The Driver.

Space Allowance for Each Passenger-Rcg-
ulations-Tle Driver.
Omnibus service in London is excellent,
and although tho rate of faro is ridiculously
low, the London General Omnibus company,
which controls most of the omnibuscs in
London, last year declared n dividend of II
per cent. Some omnihuses have three horses
abreast, and are licensed to carry forty-two
passengers-twenty inside and twenty-five
outside. 1t is part of n policcman's duty
to watch omnibuses and see that they do not
carry more than the licensed number, and
they perform this duty with considerable
zeal. Each passenger is allowed sixteen
inches of space, and as II rub every Londoner
will insist Oh his sixteen inches.
The rate of omnibus fare is something like
II penny two cents Il mile on some lines and
less than that on others. Tou can ride from
the Albert memorial i'll Hyde Park. east
ward, to Regent Circus. nearly two miles,
for two cents, but there is also Il halfpcnnv
bus. From Charing Cross to and over
Westminster bridge, Won can ride for ono
cent, in fact that sum is the only fare charged
on this line. The vehicle carries just ten
passc, rs, so that the company receives ten
cents ~ each trip. The buses start full
HUN Stlti u aii'i Wv liS ny PCS
scngers on tho way.
Omnibus drivers receive $1,000 II week
excellent wages for men of their class. 1t
has often been said that the best way to SEQ
London-its streets, buildings and its people,
from an outdoor point of view, is to get on
tho top of an omnibus. Omnibus drivers arc
Il good naturcl, jolly set of fellows, and 10y
no means do they lack intelligence. They
SEQ Il very great deal of human nature from
their elevated position i'll life, and they learn
much. If You get on II box seat, next to the
driver, and you desire information or enter
tainment on the way, you will find the driver
very willing to accommodate YOU, hut polite
as lie is you need not fear that you offer nn
insult if you offer q ''tip;' in fact he expects
it. He augmcnts his salary TO Il fair extent
in this way. He saves choice seats for the
regular riders, and they ''rcmember' him
occaSionally.-Cor. Homo journal.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
sabbath breakers" in Scotland,

Breaking the "Sawbath' is still liable to
severe criticism by the Scotch. Lord Fitz-
hardinge and friends, who have been shoot
ing in the neighborhood of Lairg, AVE &C.
casionaly taken q quiet drive or sail on q Sun
day afternoon. In public meeting, under the
Craftsmanship of the Rev. Mr.. Noble, the
local Free Kirk minister, it was resolved
that pleasure sailing and "driving about
in vehicles" were "a proclamation of the Sab
bath, all offense and grief of the religious
population, an annoyance and distraction of
church going people on their way to and
from the sanctuary, and a general lowering
OF the moral tone Of the community" These
resolutions We're forwarded to the parties
concerned.-New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
Whittier and His Poems.

To an Englishman who lately visited him,
MI. Whittier expressed surprise that his
guest should know SO much of his poetry by
heart. II wonder" he said, thou shouldst
burden thy memory with all that rhyme. 1t
is not well to have too much of it; better get
rid of it as soon as possible. Why, can't
remember any of it. once Went to hear q
wonderful orator and lie wound up his speech
with q poetical quotation, and l clapped with
all my might. Some one touched HE on the
shoulder and said: DO you know who wrote
thatf said: No, l don't, but it's good 1t
seems had written it myself. The fault is,
have written far too much. l wish half of
it was in the Red sea.n-The Argonaut.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
Burdettc as a Preacher,

Mr.. Robert j. Burdette, the genial humor-
list, has been licensed to preach by the Bap-
tist church, to which he belongs. He has
hitherto frequently preached and undergone
all the experiences OF u preacher from pas
toral visits to u donation party. He didn't
a the latter, but they forced it upon him
in lieu of n salary, which he positively re-
fused to accept. All he tool ava from the
donation party was one silver dollar, which
he preserves as u Wemento.-New York Tri-
bune.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15

The old trick of French cabinet makers of
pcppering furniture with fine shot to make it
look antique and worm eaten has been sur
passed bya Springfield, o., man. This en-
terprising individual finishes all of his work
in n rough, cheap manner and then slows it
away u%nvarnished and implanted in his back
yard, where it lies exposed to all sorts of
weather. After three months of this kind Of
treatment the furniture is packed and shipped
to New York, where people pay high prices
for it. -Chicago News.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
in Rather Small Business.

l was sitting in q street car when my
neighbo. Judged Inc and said: do you see
that bald headed, sanctimonious looking old
man talking SO coniidentially to the drivera
Do you know what Lie is sayingl Why, he is
telling the driver that the young fellow in the
other end of tho Car has not paid his fare.
How do I know2 l havc seen him do it be-
fore. Rather small business, you say. Oh,
no; not at all. 1t divcrts the drivers atten-
ton from the fact that the old man has not
paid his nickel,"-Omaha Bee,
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
Pletlloric of Cae1,

"I'm taking this boy to the doctor,n said
the father of a chubby 4year-old to a friend
on a Cass avenue car.
''What is the matter with him, he doesn't
look sickT'
"He's plethoric of cash-full of money!
said tho child's father; 'he got a handful Of
change out OF my pocket, and when l ran
after him 1 don't know how many pieces he
swallowed. He's just full Of dimes and nick
els. n-Detroit Free Press.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
BY THE STA.

Grand and resistless IN their sweep
The skirmish line Of the mighty deep,
The breakers of tho Atlantic surge;
Over their rock bound ramparts leap,
DashinG themselves against the shore,
LaShing the coast with q hollow roar,
Destined to baltic forcvcrmore
Facing the raging of the main,
With q naughty aspect of cold disdain,
Licth the grim Atlantic coast,
Bearing the ceaseless shock and strain,
Ready to meet each harsh attack,
And drive the great waves hurrying back,
Torn by tho fearful shock and rack
Thus are the fierce and sharp assaults
OF wrong in u darkcned world,
And thus, when swelling conflict comes
Are its close battalions hurled
Back to the depths by the cliffs of right
That raise their ramparts clear and bright,
With their standards all unfurled.
Daniel Chaunccy Brewer
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
rwo LITTLe c.o LADIES.

Two little old ladies, ope grave, one gay,
In the self same cottage lived day by day
Ono could not be happy. because, she said,
$50 many children were hungry for uread;'
And she really had not the heart to smile
When the world was so wicked all the while.
The other old lady smiled all day long.
AS she knitted, or sewed, or crooned u song
She had not time to be sad, she said,
When hungry children were crying for bread.
So she baked, and knitted, and gave away,
And declared the world grew better each day.
Two little old ladies, one grave, one gay;
Now which do you think chose the wiser way.
st. Nicholas
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
Easy Enough to Do.

''lf a man is q complete wreck after an &C
cident, how can he be said to recoverT'
From the railroad company, you IDIOT
was the answer.-SacramentoB Bee.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15

Man is an enigma from his birth to his
DEATH; one thinks to understand him
by dissection; u child breaks his toy to SEQ
what is inside.-Carnen Sylvia
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15

When a governor pardons q convict lie il
lustrates an important grammatical rule, by
putting a period to a sentence.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
CLOCKS AND WATCHES.
LONG PERIOD OF INVENTION BEGIN
MING WITH THE SUN DIAL.
The 'Clepsydra" of the Ancients-The
Water Clock-Use of n Spring Instead
of Wcights-Tho First Watch-An I'm

The "Clepsydra" of the Ancients-The
Water Clock-Use of n Spring Instead
of Wcights-Tho First Watch-An I'm
portant Improvement.
Between the sun dial and the little, golden
cascd, ticking. pocket time piece is n long
period of invention. Thirty-one years ago
the first American watch vas made. 1t was
n cumbersome affair, constructed under diff
f~iculties, but was n wide development from
the sun dial. Earliest among these was
c%lcIsydra, or water s%tealer,' u transparent,
graduated vase filled with the pure liquid of
nature which slowly stole away through n
little aperture in the bottom. Tho receding
surface marked the going of the hours. The
clcpsydra was used in ancient China aud
Egypt under the Ptolemies. Pompey intro
duccd it into Roman courts, and tho Britons
used it when Caesar went among them. The
mechanical ingenuity and skill of many ma
tions were employed in the construction of
the clepsydra. 1t was devised in statuary,
with tears flowing from the eyes; it was
made in floating forms that arose IL fell
with the water and pointed to tho hours en-
gravcd upon an upright scale.
An Improvement was made in this kind of
timcl,irce by the Introduction of a little
wheel, on which the water fell, thus COM
mullicating motion to the hands upon a dial.
Finally the c~lepsydra grew into an ingenious
and complicated water clock. A thousand
years agoa Persian caliph sent one to the
Emperor Clarlemagnc which had n striking
apparatus. With the completion Of each
twelve hours twelve doors i'll the face opened,
from which issued twelve automaton horse
n!cn, who waited until the striking ceased,
and then rode back again. The timekeeper
of the Puritans was but a modification of the
primitive clcpsydra. Fin sand was substi-
tufal for tIc wafer
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15

The earliest prints that are known are a
set Of the seven planets, in An almanac, by
way Of frontispiece.
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
termination of St. petersburc.

All the capitals of Europe save one are
increasing in population, aud that one, our
readers will be surprised to hear. isSt. Peters
burg. If Co%nstantinople had shown n falling
of one would not nave wondered. but it is
difficult to realize that the Russian capital
has in seven years been reduced from 9s9,W
to 81, 900 souls. So difficult is tho fact on
realization, indeed, that the Russian authori.
ties refuse to realize it, and arrangements OF
the most stringent and comprehensive kind
are now being organized for taking another
census of st. Petersburg in December. Dur
ing the last numbering Of the people many
families stayed out all night to escape enum-
Grafton, SO in December a number of officials
will be told OFF to deal with the people found
in the streets. The latter will be stopped and
enumerated there and then; the chances
being that a good many of the citizens OF tho
Russian capital will get put down twice over:
But the car is determined that his capital
shall show q respectable increase in its num-
bers, and, of course, his wishes must be
carried ont Il ondon Pnhlic OpiniOn,
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED.

To THE ~EpIroR-P!case inform your readers
that l have a positive remedy for the above
named disease. iy Its timely use thousands OF
hopeless cases have been permanently cnreu. l.
shall be glad 10 send two bottles OF my remedy
FREE to any of your readers who have consump;;
ton if they will send me their express ana
post office address. Respectfully; i. "A. sLo-
CUM, NJ. C.. ISL Pearl st., New York.
% 1y
The Dickinson press., 1888-12-15

The question is asked, why women always
with exceedingly rare exceptions button
from right to left, and men from left to
right.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-26

Several years ago Chamberlain & Co.,
of Des Moins, Iowa. commenced the
manufacture Of cough remedy, believ-
ing it to be the most prompt and reliable
preparation yet produced for coughs,
colds, and Group, that the public appre-
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tain to become popular. Their most san,
guine hopes have been more than realized.
Over three hundred thousand bottles OF
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy are now
sold each yehr, and 1t is recognized &c
1.-The best made" wherever it Is known.
It will cure severe cold in less time
than any other treatment. For sale BY
Giles & TrYon.