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LINCOLN wonderful Self control.

Mr.. Lincoln was never liable to sudden
excitement or sudden activity. Through all
his life and through all the unexpected and
stirring events of the rebellion, his personal
manner was one of steadiness of word and
act. 1t was this quality which, in the earlier
stages Of the war, conveyed to many Of his
visitors the false impression of his indiffer-
ence. His sagacity gave him marked adj
vantage over other men in enabling him to
forecast probable events; and when they
took place, his great caution restrained his
comments and controlled his outward bear
ing. Oftentimes, when men came to him in
the rage and transport of a first indignation
over some untoward incident, they were sur
prised to find him quiet, even serene-per-
haps with a smile on his face and Jest on
his lips engaged in routine work, and prone
to talk of other and more commonplace
matters
OF all things the strut and STACEY exhibition
of mock heroism were foreign to his nature.
Generally it happened that when others in
this mood sought him, his own spirit had
already been through the fiery trial of resent
ment-but giving no outward sign, except at
times with lowered eyebrow, slight nodding
and shaking of the head, muttering motion
or hard compression of the lips, and, rarely.
an emphatic downward gesture with the
clenched right hand His Judgment, like his
perception, far outran the average mind
While others fumed and fretted at things
that were, all his inner consciousness was
abroad in the wide realm of possibilities
busily searching out the dim and difficult
path toward things TO be. His easy and
natural attention to ordinary occupations
afforded no indication of the double mental
process which was habitlal with him.--The
Centurv
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At the lower end of the esplanade Is the
geological garden. 1t is well kept up and
has the finest collection OF tigers / ever saw.
Two captive man eaters are noble specimens,
as far surprising the beasts OF the menagerie
as big tomcat does sick kitten. One, not
long since captured, is said to have eaten 200
natives. He is as perfect in his glossy skin
as Is possible. shook my stick at him; he
sprang toward me with roar which caused
my heart to pulsate painfully for nearly an
hour after / had often felt DESTROYS of par
ticipating in a tiger hunt, but this fierce ami
NAL has made me contented with what may
read of such things hereafter. Lord Duff
FERN told me yesterday that he would give
me an open letter which might be useful to
us in our tour through the country, provided
would not ask for elephants for tiger
hunt, which was the grand aim of globe
trotters. laughed, and told him OF my
scare, and that would not hunt tigers II the
elephants were twice as high.--Carter Harri-
son ia Chicago Mail.
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Tho Delights of Listsninr.

A listener and observerl How the import
of this attitude comes out in the biographies
of the literary men who have been most skill
full in making their characters talk natur-
ally, and who were themselves, on fit occa-
sions, fine talkersl What prodigious powers
Of sitting silent, and simply absorbing, had
such delineators of human life as Addison
and Moliere. Their own personality was
sunk out OF sight, as they sat watching, and
contemplatiyely taking In the IDEAS humors,
follies, virtues of those about them. The
whole scene was school of instruction.
They did not want TO air themselves, did not
want to drive every other mans ideas out Of
bis head and substitute their own. No won
der, then, that SO often, at the end of an
evening during which they had scarcely
opened their mouths, they were pronounced
the most agreeable and delightful Of men.
They were such.
The man or woman is always delightful
who is a sympathetic listener. Exchange
between mind and mind is not by word Of
mouth only. A nod, smile, a spontaneous
intersection goes farther than many a set
speech In fact, how can the man who Is
ever on the stretch to thrust In his own oar
fail to destroy all capacity of passive recep-
ton in his nature. He inevitably ceases to
feel others, ceases--to use an old word--to
sense" others, their ideas, humors, enthusi-
asms, and becomes not only an egotist and a
nuisance, but-what, II he only knew IL,
would trouble him far more--a man of too
blunt perceptions Of external objects and
personalities ever to make an effective, dis
crimnative, sympathetic talker. - Boston
Herald
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The znln and Els Wives.

The work Of Zulu woman is about twice
as hard as that of an American farm laborer,
and she gets no pay for it, The best thing
she can do is to persuade her husband to buy
another wife. When man takes his first
wife, as long as she behaves herself and is not
divorced, all the cows he possesses are re-
garded as her property, and after the birth
of the first son. they become his property.
and If the husband wishes to take second
wife, he must obtain his first wife's consent
and the necessary cows, The succeeding
wives become her wives, and the work is
divided among them. The second wife may
take third wife, or the third wife fourth,
etc., but the right of veto rests in each case
with the first, or queen wife.
When the other wives daughters are sold
for COWS, the cattle become hers, but the
price of her own daughters belongs to the
husband; naturally very complicated, but
very adequate system of bequeathing prop
erty prevails. Each wife inhabits separate
hut which she builds herself; this is to mini
mize quarrels, and the queen wife's hut is
always at the right hand of the chiefs house.
The fact that she is bought and sold, is no
degradation to the Zulu woman, but is rather
proof of her worth, and the more cattle she
costs the more proud she becomes. p.
Pond in brakes Magazine.
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Athletics are not left to men. Women
and girls go in for them, at least in their own
mild way, and they are as enthusiastic as
the most successful college oarsinen. What
do they dol Well they ride and they fence,
and do the trapeze act in bloomers and short
jackets; they walk, and they go in for dumb
bells and Indian clubs, and indulge in va
riety of other feats that give muscle and
abundant breath. No weather has terrors
for them any more, and II you wish To see
procession Of Philadelphia beauties, bigger
and brighter than you will ever behold it at
any other time, you must take q walk In the
fashionable quarter on wet day.
There You will see them, ones, twos and
threes, in groups and detachments, swing
ing meirily along In their rubber coats and
dainty galoshes, their cheeks aglow, their
eyes shining, and their breath kissing
the moist air. They are all bound-well, no
where in particular. But they must be out
in the wet. 1t is the new caprice. II indi-
Gates that they are up to the days; days in
which the Philadelphia girl who knows
what is the latest, insists on being healthy, on
daring the perils of oil weather, on ignoring
horse cars, and saving the pennies which
erstwhile went TO make the "horse carr fam
lilies of the Quaker city so rich and powerful.
And she Is more than ever lovely creature;
a bright and CHEEKY wet weather daisy.
Philadelphia Letter.
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Mr. Cutler says of his visit to DR.. Franklin.
s'There was no curiosity in Philadelphia
which / felt 80 anxious to see as this great
man, who had been the wonder of Europe as
well as the glory Of America. When entered
his house | felt as if was going to be In
PRODUCED to the presence of an European
monarch. But how were my ideas changed
when | saw short, fat, trunched old man,
in plain Quaker dress, bald pate, and short
white locks, sitting without his hat under
tree lin the gardeu) and, as Mr.. Gerry in
troduced me, rose from his chair, took me
by the hand, expressed his joy to see me,
welcomed me to the city, and begged me to
seat myself close to him. His voice was low,
but his countenance frank and pleasing. He
instantly reminded me of old Capt. Cum
mings, for he is nearly of his pitch, and no
more of the air of superiority about him. -
Magazine Of American History.
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studx d the Abnent nrlndea.

Absent minded people are curious study,
and furnish an unlimited fund Of amusement.
People who hide things so successfully that
they cannot find them are very numerous.
The poetical editor who frisks about the
office frantically demanding his pen when
that useful article is cozily tucked behind his
ear, the woman who Plus her jersey to the
back Of her skirt and forgets it at night, puts
the skirt on In The morning, hunts in vain
for her waist, dons another and hurries
away leaving the recreant jersey hanging
down her back, the man who complacently
irritates the wrong end of match, and then
wonders why in the jumping juniper ii won't
light--all these are familiar. A case never
told, but true to life, was observed at a re-
cent fire.
One Of the foreman was walking leisurely
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A VAST MILITARY CAMP.
Russia's Standing Army the Largest IN
Europe-The Reserves.


Europe-The Reserves.
Russia is vast military camp, and has
been since the war with Turkey; 100000
able bodied men compose the standing army,
the largest in Europe, supported at cost Of
nearly $300,0O0,000 year, while the work In
the wheat fields and the gardens is done by
women and girls | saw women carrying
hods, digging sewers, bitches, and doing all
sorts of manual labor, which in other coun-
tries is done only by the strongest men, and
when l asked why it was so, was told
that all the men were in the army. A few
days after | took trip to Krasnoe Selo,
aboutforty miles from Petersburg, and saw
10000 idle men in camp.
Until the late war with Turkey, IL was the
custom to recruit the army in the agricultural
district, and in the cities, resorting to CON
scription only whenever the ranks needed to
be filed; but the late car reorganized the
military establishment, and issued aukase re-
quiring every mail citizen Of the empire to
serve as a soldier for fifteen years, Ave years
to be spent in actual service, and ten as q
member of the militia or imperial reserves.
At the age OF IS every young man, therefore
must enter the service or furnish substitute
who Gamble obtained, usually, by thepayment
OF a small bounty to some professional SOL
der who has served his own time But who
ever offers substitute must serve in the
militia reserves, and is liable to be called into
the field at any time. The substitute is merely
a hostage, and does not relieve his principal
from service IL the car needs his arms.
After five years of active service, the young
men, well drilled and having a knowledge Of
military duty, are sent home to serve in the
reserves till they are 80 years of age, being
called upon each year to spend few weeks
in camp so as to keep their hands NV. L.
Curtis
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SAVED BY A poRcupINE.
An Entertaining Wolf Story, the Truth O
Which IL vouched for.


An Entertaining Wolf Story, the Truth of
Which Is vouclled for.
One day George Starr and Bert Name
were doing the lumber camps on the north
shore They had been hoofing it on snowshoes
all day, and darkness had settled over the
wilderness A little animal ran across their
track and stopped When they got up to it
1t suddenly increased enormously in size, and
turned out to be porcupine. As it would
not get out of the way Bert shot it, and from
a sudden and providential, it afterward
turned out, instinct, he tied a string to its
tail and attached the other end to his belt
and started off again. The party had not
gone far when they were startled by the yelp-
ing of a dozen wolves on their trail, and as
the wolves were fast gaining on them they
decided that the best way would be to shin
up tree and see IL the wolves would not
leave, and they lost no time In putting the
idea into execution.
In getting up the tree they lost their re-
volvers, and were in pretty fix. They knew
not what to do, as the wolves had squatted
on their launches around the tree, and seemed
bent on making night Of it. Starr, who
has mouth that led the small boys at the
baseball ground last summer to sarcastically
remark; 'This way for the mammoth
cavep' whenever George got enthusiastic over
good play by our club and yelled, tried
his vocal powers on the wolves, but they only
pricked up their ears and did not move Off a
foot. Finally George saw the porcupine and
said: "Pass up that animal and I'll fix em."
Very carefully the hedgehog was passed up
and George would pull out quill, bend it
up In big chew Of tobbaco, and throw it to
the wolves, which seemed to be very hungry
and snapped up the morsels and swallowed
them without tasting, like old land sharks as
they were.
After q few minutes half the wolves had
swallowed huge chews of tobacco, which ap-
parently made them deathly sick, and as
they tried to throw up the stuff the poisonous
quilts were released and caught in their
throat or stomach. Then they got frantic
and pitched into each other, stung to in
credible ferocity by the pains they suffered,
and In half an hour instead Of dozen wolves
there was only ono left and quantity Of fur
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wrist watches In London.

was not surprised to SEQ that nearly all
the fair sex were wearing the wrist watches
which are now so entirely the fashion in
London, but which, believe, are very little
worn as yet In America. Made In every form,
from the plain leather strap to the magnifi-
cent bracelet, where the face Of the watch Is
encircled by precious stones, they are both
ornamental and convenient Novelties are
even being introduced In the shape of purses,
poclxetbooks, sticks and umbrellas, contain
ing diminutive tirneleepers, and one jeweler,
more daring than the rest, has manufactured
some rings resembling signet rings, but hay
ing, instead of a crest, a tiny watch. 1t Is
scarcely likely, however, that these win ever
become fashionable, as they must be ex-
tremely bulky and ponderous for wearing on
the finger London Cor. Philadelphia Tcle-
graph.
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home after the fire had been extingnished car
rying, as he fondly imagined, his speaking
trumpet under his arm. His companion, upon
asking him where his trumpet was, received
the absent minded answer, s'Ive got it all
right" He called the foreman's attention to
the fact that be was afEectionately conduct
ing home hose nozzle, and when he asked
him where his magnificent silver trumpet
was, the foreman said in amazement: ssI'm
blessed If knows A railroad conductor on
the Central Hudson stood on a station plat
form one day and signaled his engineer to
Ego ahead, and then walked complacently
back into the station, and sat down. A girl
recently was in that mythical condition, 'sin
love, put potatoes on to boil in the teapot,
and pumped water into the coal bod. All
these are veritable observed phenomena. ~
Springfield Union.
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Tho Watch Chain in London.

A Partisan Journal says that in London a
long silver watch chain is worn by gentle
Al, and suspended from it is quite an ar
senal of small objects, including latchkey
washed over with layer OF nickel silver, a
silver telescope pencil, box of lights in the
same metal, u penknife shutting into a silver
case, cigar cutter, round sovereign box,
whistle, etc. All these articles repose in the
trousers pocket, where the revolver is usually
carried. 1t is pity that it forgot to add the
riding whip and the cricket bat, but then one
cannot remember everything. Boston Tran
scrint
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Not Exactly sxmnathetic.

shocking accident up town last night
Young man crushed TO jelly while getting
out Of an elevator
"Horriblei Who was the poor felowp
Don't now his name. He made misstep,
somehow. Elevator was full of people. He
was smoking O cigarette, and"----
"Oh, he was. Pleasant afternoon, isn't itl
You mustn't forget to come to the club to-
night, Blobbs is going to sing a comic
song. Chicago Tribune
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Even the clearest water is perfectly opaque
from a certain point of view. This may be
discovered by raising glass Of water little
above the level Of the eye and attempting to
see an object held just over the surface Of
the water. The latter appears just like
FURNISHED mirror, and the eye eau zee moth
ing beyond it. A glass of whisky, If raised
to level Of the mouth an indefinite number
Of times, will prevent the eyes from seeing
an object no matter whore it is held.--Chi-
cago News.
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Electrlcity In Richmond, va.

Richmond, Va, asserts that she is the first
city in the world to run, light, and heat a
car by electricity. It's new patent heaters
have just been put in operation. Four heat
ers were arranged In series under the seats,
having radiating surface Of fourteen square
feet and an electrical resistance Of 1893 ohms.
A current of two amperes, equivalent to
one horse power Of energy, was obtained
from the overhead wire, and though the day
was cold and raw, the car was heated com
fortably New York Hnn.
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and bones. Then George fell out of the tree
laughing, and as he tumbled he uttered
blood curdling yell or series Of yells which
for moment unsettled the VOLTS nerve, and
before he could rally George got his revolver
and put an end to the beast. It was close
shave --Cheboygan (AIich.l Democrat.
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Naphthaline Is now largely used in Scot
land as a preservative OF wood, its action
being tosdestroy all albuminoid compounds
in the wood, leaving 1t dry and clean to
handle, and with only faint aromatic smell.
The naphthaline Is melted in vessel capa-
BILE Of being tightly sealed, and In this the
wood is saturated. Chicago Times.
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BaIIoonIng at $1,000 Feet.

The greatest elevation which has been at
tanned by man is $1,000 feet-about seven
miles--this height having been reached dur
ing balloon ascent made by Glaisher. At
this tremendous distance above the earth's
surface physical exertion Is found to be al
most impossible, owing to the great rarefac-
tion Of the atmosphere. Chicago Herald.
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cheap and sImpIo f,vmna,ium.

The cheapest and simplest gymnasium In
the world-one that will exercise every bono
and muscle In the body-is fiat piece Of
steel notched on one side, fitting tightly into
a wooden frame, and after being creased on
both sides with bacon rind, rubbed into a
stick Of wood laid lengthwise Of a sawbucl.
New York Medical Times.
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Won't Have to Go Far.

Brown-Dumley, want to buy a dog.
Dumley-That's good idea, Brown. !
think every man ought to own a dog.
Brown--Do you know where can get
good onel
Dumley- Yes; III sell you mine : Harper's
Bazaar.
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Lambertville Select School.

Thorough instruction in English and Higher
Branches. Backward pupils receive special atten-
ton. Is years experience,
REV. W. NJ. WELLS, PRIN.
School York st. Residence 10 NJ Main st.
Dec. Ii. lSS7,-1y.
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How to Avoid Danger and Inconvenience
in Getting About the Metropolis--Tho
Clown and the Ignoramus-Crossing tho
Street--Hatchways.
Wichita eagle., 1888-10-13
CURIOUS THINGS OF LIFE.

An eccentric Finlander, recently dead,
willed all his property to the devil.
About the meanest gag that could be de-
vised was one which an Ohio highwayman
used. He filed his victims mouth with sand.
A man pear Washington, Ga, has the coat
he was married in 25 years ago, and says it is
his mascot, as when he puts it on good luck
attends all he sets his hands to.
At a country picnic in Massachusetts an
old gentleman of rs had lively waltz with
an old Indy of 81. Another couple danced to-
gether whose combined ages were 1dl.
A curious fact revealed by the phonograph
is that PEOPLE generally do not know their
own voices. The husband will recognize his
wife's voice in a phonogran, and the wife
viii recognize the husbands, but neither will
recognize their own speech.
English business men who have to send
large quantities of mail matter to distant
parts of the world find that they can save
great deal of money by sending their mail
in bulk to Belgium and posting it there, the
rates being so much cheaper. 1t is said that
the saving of one firm alone by this course
amounts TO So 1000 year, and there Is a loud
demand for reform in British rates.
Mrs Jennie Robinson, wife Of William
Robinson, wagonmaker of Gosport, n. Y,
lost the sight of an eye recently, and the
sight of the other was affected. She had the
best medical aid but without success Her
blindness dates from October, 1887, and came
on suddenly In the same manner she awoke
on Thursday morning and found that every
thing was bright and plain before her. The
sight of both eyes was thus restored Is it
were by miracla
Wichita eagle., 1888-10-13
A Village In Scotland.

1t was picturesque place and we canped
out while under an old cart near the road
side. Perhaps 1t would have been wise if,
like Mr.. Hamerton, We could have seen only
the picturesqueness Of the Highland clachan,
only the color and sublimity of the huts, only
the fine women who live within them But
how could we sit there and not see that the
picturesqueneSs was that of misery, that
whatever color aad sublimity there might be
and to the sublimity l must confess we
were blind-were but outward signs of pow
erty and squslor, and that the huts sheltered
not only strong young women, bus feeble old
men Like that pathetic figure with the clasped
hands and bent headi We have seen the old
age of the poor when we thought it but q
peaceful rest after the work OF years. In
English alrnshouses we have found it in our
hearts to envy the old men and women their
homes. But here despair and sadness seemed
the portion of old age.
A few miles away, men In fortnight
throw away on their filming more than these
people can make in years. Scotch landlords
rent their wild uncultivated acres for fabu-
lous Sums, while villages like this grow desc
late. If when you are In the Highlands you
would still see them as they are in the ro-
nance OF Scott or in the sickly sentiment Of
Lardseer or as mere pleasure ground for
tourists and sportsmen. you must get the
people out of your mind, just as the laird
gets them OFF his estate Go everywhere, by
stage and steamboat, and when you come
to clachan or to a lonely cottage, shut your
eyes and pass on. Else you must realize as
We did-and moro strongly as we went fur
ther-that this land, which holiday makers
have come to look upon as their own, is tho
saddest on Gods earth.-Elizabeth Robins
Pennell in Harper's Magazine
Wichita eagle., 1888-10-13
Wounded Professional Pride.

A seedy looking maj came into the Office
Of one Of the largest soap manufacturers in
Philadelphia tie other day and said: Mr..
Dreydoppel, I'm needy man and would ike
twenty -ivo cents"
"Well now" remarked the man addressed,
81 consider that cool. You might have
Jared better if you had asked for few pen
Mes"
With a look of real indignation and n
voice almost angry the applicant said: Now,
see here, Mr. Dreydoppei, you know your
business and l know mine; but if you think
you can give me any points on begging just
start out and try it.
Mr. Dreydoppel handed over the quarter
-Pniladelphia Times