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OHIO RAILROAD
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Chicago Express, l2s4S, S;Soands 1855 a. m. and
Cincinnati spress, ASA. n, and siOp. M,
collnbu. Accommodation, lOAoa. M, daily,
"a Gls9iFs,yills AGcSSnr@odssion ,lOaoa( m. and
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IEAYH WHHKLINV FAhkI |TI7
0loa: N. 7:0oa M, siooA m, $500 a. N, 1000
g. n, il;0Oa. M 1900 mn l;0op !, ms 2;OOp. mn
p. m, 500 p, m, sI6Sp m, i0n6p. m.
su~NDAYs.-Leaye at 7:OOa m. and run every
hour, except church train at Olb p. m. Leave
wheeling Park al $500 q. N. and run every hour
until 1880 p, MI. except church trains, which
Will leaye The Park al, 9:4SA M, and Wheeling
at 1875 and e.l6 p, m,
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Two such blind men as Milton and
Homer rather iidownp the venerable
Ptoys,S that tout Of sight Is out Of
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OHIO RIVER RAILRoAD.-TIME
W Table taking effect May %, 1859. PaASen-
Eet trains will! run as iolloWayCentral Time,
All trains daily except. those marked thutt
which do not run on Sundays
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For Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York,
M, $40 and 1lib0 p. M, daily, and $500 a.
except Monday.
cumberland Accommodation, $40 q. M, Z
cept eunpay
6fAiton Accommodation, s:1Op M, daily.
M~oundsyille ACCOMMODATION, 6:36 q. m, 12:01
and 6;l0 p, M except Sunday.
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WHEELING 4 PITTSBURGH DIVISION.
For Pittsburgh, 5.oOand 7.2S a. IN. daily, and
1!t0 p. M, daily except Sunday.
For plttsbpEshund the East, $40 p. MI daily
WashLagtea Accommodation ,StSOp. m, daily
Rl!sSargh Escutsion Train, 700 p. M, Sun.
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GLEv ELAED. 4 PITTSBURGH
ARAilRoAD-ung6 lohednlq 10 efSpl Nay
ard il4ei fof pltabntght chicago and UiSyo.
NtgS aad New York aitl , h. fOi sbd6Sn.
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on eAtufdeyy p1lyAf0f Hast LlypfD61i. 6iit
+, MI from kall Liverpool, Tiit9p, n,
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RaIlroade.

WHEELING 4 ELM GRoVER r, r.
wv On and after Monday, April %, 1850,
trims on the y Wheeling d Kim Grove Railroad
will run as follows;
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Children Ever Dutiful.

In no country IN the world have mothers
more power than in China, and in no place
is filial affection more shown. How Qua,
though 49 years old, obeys his mother as
we'll as when he was 10, and he would not
think of going out at night without asking
her permission. Not long ago he was in
vited to our consulate for dinner. He re-
piled: 81 would like to come, but I cannot
tell till 1 ask my mamma" Still, How
Qua is nearly so and his mother So.
The Chinese mother selects the bride for
her son, and How Qua during this visit
seemed much prouder of his mother than
his wife. He introduced us to the old
lady. who was sitting in a chair wrapped
up in furs and powdered and painted. Her
seat looked out upon her flower garden, and
she had two maids beside her. Upon her
cloth cap was great button of diamonds as
large as the biggest full-blown rose and of
about the same shape. 1t was made of nu-
merous stones, and the central one was as
large as the egg of a robin.
Pearls hung in her ears and what inter-
ested US most were the golden lilies,
which shone out beneath her embroidered
petticoat. Golden lilies" is the Chinese
expression for the smallest OF ladies' feet,
and Madam How Qua had shoes not more
more than two inches in diameter. Their
soles were round rather than oblong and
their tops were embroidered in silver and
silk. They were so small that she could not
walk alone and this old lady who has for
years, controlled fortune greater than that
possessed bv Miss Mary Garrett, or Mrs.
Mark Hopkins, cannot move from one room
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Fish Cleaned Before killing.

The Chinese, however, have as good mar
kets as you will find anywhere in the world.
have never seen greater variety of fruits
and vegetables anywhere than in Peking,
Shanghai and Canton. The mutton of the
North is finer than that of England, and the
game is OF the choicest. Fish are always
sold alive, and you see tubs of living fish at
every Cantonese market stand. The market
man takes the squirming fish from the water
and cleans it while it gasps. He holds its
wiggling tail and cuts slices of quivering
flesh from its sides to sell, and he is cruel
here as everywhere. All kinds of dried fish
are sold, and among the common articles of
food are dried ducks, pressed and salted.
These hang up everywhere, and / see
smoked sheep's heads, dried oysters strung
on strings, and dried clans.
The Chinese fruits are especially fine, and
they have oranges, bananas, plums, pears
and persimmons which would make your
mouth water. Canton sends thousands of
dollars of sweetmeats to America yearly, and
their preserved ginger is sought by tine gas
tronomes of the world. The Chinese them
selves are great eaters. Cookshops for the
rich and poor are found everywhere, and
big Chinese dinner sometimes has 100
courses. MI DENLY, the American Minis
ter at Peking, when received by the Viceroy
at Canton, was given dinner of 65 courses,
and he smacks his lips when he discourses
upon the delicacy of sharks fins and birds
nest soup.
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GR0S-GRAIN AND GROG.
The Story of Admiral Vernon and His
Famous Gros- Grain Coat.

The Story of Admiral Vernon and His
Famous Gros- Grain Coat.
American Notes and Queries.l
The word gros- grain, as applied to heavy
silks, is a well-known word in commercial
circles, but it is not generally understood
that there is direct connection between
this word and "grog," which is the sailors
name for a mixture of rum and water. The
facts are as follows: Edward Vernon, of the
old Staffordshire house of that name, was
put by his father, who was Secretary of State
to William and Mary, into the British
Navy, and after distinguishing himself
under Sir George Rookie and Sir Charles
Wager, both in the West Indies and the
Mediterranean, and rising to the rank of
Rear Admiral, he was suddenly appointed
Vice Admiral of the Blue, while member
of Parliament from Penryn, near Fal-
mouth, and selected to command the great
expedition which was sent out in 1889 to
break up the power of Spain in the Carib-
bean and the Gulf of Mexico. He attacked
Porto Bello on November 20 in that wear.
and after furious engagement, which
lasted two days. took the place with all
its treasures and munitions of war and
two Spanish UHe-oi-DaIble SHIPS. a num-
ber of American colonial troops served
under him, and the great victory made him
as popular in American colonies as in
Europe.
The seat on the Potomac, afterward owned
and occupied by Washington, was named
Mount Vernon in honor of him. He after
ward quarreled with the Government and
was struck from the list of the navy, as was
alleged, for his too great severity toward
his men, though really because of his too
small respect for the Lords of the Admi-
ralty. In the British Navy he was adored
as the chief who first orderedrum and water
to be regularly served out to the crew of
his squadron. He began this practice on
board of his own ship, the Bedford, his
flagship at the capture of Porto Bello, and
as he had acquired the nickname of "Old
Grog" from this habit of walking the
quarterback in the ''grogram" cloak, this
endearing epithet was bestowed by Jack
Tar on the new beverage. "Grogram" was
the English corruption of "gros-grain,"
the name given in France to a heavy stuff
of silk and wool with rough knotted sur
face, the same name that now is given to
heavy silk.
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poorer relatives and when a man makes a
fortune in China his clan settles down upon
him. In the various courts ell kinds of
work seems TO be going on. Here servants
were cleaning the FISH for the family.
There rice was being ground into -four
and dried in great baskets, and just next
the reception room we heard the buzziHg
of babel. 1t was How Qua's children be-
ing taught BY their tutor, and like all
Chinesechiidren, they studied out loud, sing
ing their lessons out at the tops of their voices
Now and then the sharp clapper of the ruler
could be heard when one OF the boys made
mistake, and The father told me he in
tended to have his BOYS educated at the
Hong Kong foreign college and to finish
them off in America and England. he
talked English himself and he is among the
progressive of the Chinese.
As we sat and chatted the choicest of For
mosa tea was brought in, the leaves of which
were. / Judge, worth about $40 pound, and
VIC seated ourselves in black ebony chairs,
which in couples were ranged on the side-
of small tables, and slipped the tea from cov-
cred China cups without saucers. There are
no easy chairs in the Chinese gentleman's s
house. and this palace in China had uncar-
peted floors of stone, and its walls between
the rooms were of colored glass framed in
ebony. Some of the curious snapped panels
had pictures painted on them by Chinese
artists, and the effect of the whole was the
finish Of fancy store room yet unoccupied
rather than that of a comfortable home.
Some Of the finest rooms looked out upon
little lake ot lotus plants of perhaps
an Asre in extent, and there were
glass-covered corridors which ran around
this Ihe chains sat against the wall and
then unbeneing hacks were straight up and
down: There were no coy hooks such as
you hnd in our American homes and the
soft tiuts Of our family life were not found
IN the picture. Nearly every room contained
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Three Interesting Events.

The foreign colonies in Asia are now dis
cussing the three American weddings of
this winter. Pretty American girls are as
much in demand here as in London, and
Mr.. Seymour's daughter is to be married in
about a month to the manager of the dig
house of Jardine. Mathieson & Co., Mr..
MacHaffn, a young Scotchman, who has
lived some years in China. JardIne, Mathie-
son & Co. is the wealthiest of the foreign
firms in China, and Jardine has buildings
at Shanghai which rent for $1,000 year.
The company have large establishments for
both residence and business, and Miss Sey-
mour will preside over big establishment
at Canton. Colonel Denby's daughter, who
was very popular among the foreign Iega-
tions at Peking, is to be married in March
to the grandson of Admiral Wilkes. The
wedding is to take place in America, and
Miss DENLY is now in the United States.
The other wedding was that of the daugh-
ter of the Consul at Ningpo. 1t was cele-
brated the last of November and the we'd
ding was large one.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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shocked. I have been reared so carefully
that few shocks would be fatal to me-.
Our people were extremely refined and high
strung. Several of my ancestors drove
their own teams and hauled freight from
the depot. We are naughty race, and
when irritated would fight for our honor or
anything else that presented ITSELF
The Nyes extend back into the past for
hundreds of years. They have occupied
every position of trust all over the pages OF
the grocery history of their country. We
will not brook an affront, and the man who
looks askance at US, may be found on the
following day carefully looking over his
vitals, removing sand from them, and trying
to replace them in their former position on
the programme.
And so 1 was pleased as child when I
entered this rough Western town, so far re-
moved from the great thought emporiums
and brain works of the thinkful and tidy
East, and found SO much real merit, so
much that we are fond of in the East, yet
hardly expect to find so far west, where
everything is, oh! SO crude, and oh! so
coarse.
HIS STAFF OF LIFE.
Among other things I brought my pa
iamas with me and finger bowl 1 did not
think 1 would find any finger bowls out
here, and 1 must have my finger bowl or 1
sicken and fade away. There are some real
good stores here, and Eastern people who
may be hesitating about coming here be-
cause there is no good place to trade, need
not hesitate any longer.
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meet, the whoop and the squawk of the imi-
tation Englishmen who chased the fieeting
form of an old coon skin overcoat with
anise seed in the pockets, across his es-
tates.
Added to these amounts he received 81 so
for allowing an artist to paint the remark
'Slinks Mandrake Pills" all over the house
and barn. With this he has gone to Europe
and is now visiting the continent. People
who
have seen him over there say he is having a
great deal better time than Europe is"
RATHER THRIFTY.
He sEhat we call in our country a
thrifty man, yet withal joyous and happy
hearted man. He has a laugh like bird.
Like the jackass bird of Australia, 1 mean.
He experimented for two years on the mat
ter of greasing boots as means of promoting
economy. For two years he creased one
boot every morning and heated it into the
leather, but did not grease the other one at
ALL
"Well, how did it come out?'' asked
dramatically; (which lasted the longer of
the two?"
swell, the one that was creased out
lasted the other one about 15 minutes, be-
lieved. He said he doubted whether it paid
him for the trouble or not"
An old Chicago business man who has
81, ,253, $50 27 more than l have, as I write
these lines, said to me: "You see, with
about ], ,00O, 900 of people here, you must re-
member that the larger number are by birth
Eastern. so we claim. Mr.. Nye, to know as
much as the Eastern people and what we
have learned since we came West, beside. -
THAT may be true" said in tone of
gentle cast irony, shut when you come
West you loose that cool, cultivated look of
refined vacuity which we of the East con-
stantly dote on. We do not like that in
you, 1t is real coarse.
LESSON IN CoYNEss.
"You say .HulloT and treat strangers
politely without knowing who they are.
That is where you fool yourselves in the
West. We Eastern people resent your
easy way of getting acquainted with people
on trains and in public places and treating
them Hospitality. You shouldn't do that
You ought to be more coy until people
a man with the slightest tinge of intellect
can get along first rate socially if he will
preserve an air of hauteur and reserve in
stead Of your off-hand bonhominy, as we say
in dear old France?"
1t is easy for the observer to readily trace
the evolution of culture WITHOUT going out
of the cars. Leaving San Francisco you
are on good terms with everybody, from the
engineer to the rear brakeman, within
"a hours The California Senator divides
his lunch and cigars with the homeward
bound Bostonian, and the San Francisco
millionaire plays whist with the sad-eyed
humorist. Crossing the Missouri river the
air of curiosity manifests itself, followed
east of Chicago by a falling off in the rap
port and persifage business, until between
same air of cordiality that Mr.. Enoch Ar
den did when he got home, late at night,
looked in the window and went away.
BILL NYE.
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Chinese GastronomicaI DeIicacies.


Canton is of about the size of Paris or
New York, and it is one of the best of places
to study Chinese gastronomy. The res
taurants here have birds nest soup at S. a
plate, and bought rat which was salted,
pressed and dried yesterday for cents. I
doubt not the price was five times too high,
for the rat was the smallest on the string
which hung in the butcher shop. 1t lies
before me as I write. 1t measures foot
from nose to tail, and it looks little bit
like a piece of dried pork. 1t has been
skinned even to the tail. Its legs are cut
off and the liver and heart are pressed in
side of it. 1t smells like salt meat, and it
looks as though it would make the center of
a good sandwich. L propose to send it to
the Gridiron or Glover Club as sample of
Chinese gastronomy. In this same shop I
saw cooked cats, and I visited yesterday q
cat and dog meat restaurant. Carcasses of
small dogs, which looked not unlike clean
sucking pigs, hung from hooks about a
low, dark room, and these, in most in
stances, had tuft of hair left on the tip
of the tail. This hair was black, for
black dogs meat is worth more than that of
the yellow dog and black cats flesh costs
here 10 cents plate.
Just below these dogs, and next to the
street, were two clay bowls filled with burn
ing charcoal and upon these was stewing the
flesh of dogs and cats. In little cages on
the floor were a number of live cats ready to
be killed and cooked to order, and saw
this afternoon peddler showing a cat to a
woman in one Of the narrow streets of Can
ton. The woman was examining the cats
teeth in order TO know its age. and she felt
OF its body as though it were rabbit.
There were about dozen Cinnamon dining
in this dog and cat restaurant, and a good
dinner costs on an average 10 cents.
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A Wonderful Tale of an Ignorant Cossack's
Narrow Escape.
London TimesI
When Pezon, the lion tanner, was at Mos
COW with his menagerie, he had occasion to
employ moujik, fine specimen of Cos
sack, to clean out the cages of the wild
beasts. The Cossack did not understand a
word of French, and the terms of the contract
were settled in dumb show. By way of in
structing him in his new duties Pezon went
through sort of pantomime with the broom,
sponge and water bucket. The moujik
watched him closely and appeared fully
to understand the details of the lesson
given.
Next morning, armed with broom, q
bucket and sponge, he opened the first
cage he came to and quietly stepped in, as
he had seen his master step on the previous
day into two cages of harmless brutes, but
this one happened to be tenanted by a
splendid but untamed tiger, that lay
stretched on the foot fast asleep. AT the
noise made by opening and closing the door
the creature raised its head and turned its
green eyes full on the man, who, all uncon-
scious of his danger, stood in the corner dip
ping his big sponge into the bucket.
At that moment Pezon came out of his
caravan and was struck dumb by the terri
BILE sight that met his gaze. What could
he do to warn the man of his danger? A
sound, movement on his part might en-
rage the great beast and hasten its attack
on the defenseless Cossack. So Pezon stood
awaiting developments, ready to rush to
the scene when the crisis came. The mou-
jik, sponge in hand coolly approached the
tiger and made ready TO rub him down with
the stolidity of a military bootblack polish
ing his captains boots. The sudden appli-
cation of cold water to its hide evidently
produced a very agreeable effect on the
tiger, for it began to purr, stretched out its
paws, rolled over on its back, and COM
placentIy offered every part OF its body TO
the vigorous treatment of the moujik, who
went on scrubbing with might and main.
ALI the while Pezon stood there with his
eyes wide open and as if nailed to the spot
When be had finished his job, the Cossack
left the cage as quietly as he had entered it,
and it required the most energetic and ex-
pressive gestures on the part of the lion
tanner to prevent his repeating the expert
ment on a second wild beast.
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EE ELL LYMoEROCHON
A Legend of Bay St. Louis.
MAURICE THOMPSON.

Something compelled Orton to forbear al
this point; it was as if an unpleasant antici-
patton or vague warning had fitted across
his mind.
"Your cat certainly is a fine one" j" he re-
marked, ''and the roses are the most beautl-
full that have ever seem" But when he
put out his hand to stroke the cats head the
animal spit vieiously and struck at him
with it's unsheathed claws.
"That is bad sign," exclaimed Lalie in
stantly, her face growing grave. "It for
tells tnat there Is to be trouble between you
and me-"
''Troubler' he responded, laughing. ooh,
no, not between us. Such thing is quite
impossible. Come, Tabby, we must make
friends Of ourselves"
The cat struck him this time, cutting .
drop of blood from one of his fingers, SIM
ultaneously giving vent to its unreasonable
anger in a mingled growl and howl, its eyes
flashing.
The girl now showed almost CONSERVATION
in her face and she involuntarily took a step
backward as if recoiling from Orton.
"The old fortune teller told me how bad
a sign that is" she exclaimed, trying to re-
cover herself and smile. "But maybe it is
nothing, I hope it doesn't mean anything
very bad"
"Pah! Nothing at all, said Orton, re-
assuringly, "don't think of it. How can
you and 1 ever have any trouble, Ma m 'zells
Garcin?''
She blushed again until her rich Mar
Unique skin glowed like the face Of dark
velvet rose, but she made no answer to his
inquiry. 1t was delicious to hear him call
her Ma'm'zelle Garein with the perfect Gre
ole accent. His bearing was so noble, too
like that of a knight in the romance she
had been reading lately, and he spoke with
such a ring of sincerity and cordial
strength. She looked at him (not boldly,
but admiringly) from head to foot, with
sense of his stalwart beauty creeping very
sweetly into her mind along with some dis
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CHAPTER III.
PIRATES AND THEIR DAUGHTERS.

PIRATES AND THEIR DAUGHTERS.
orton slept lightly, with very sweet
dreams, as we have said, lowering in his
consciousness. The sound of a rather loud
rapping on the outside door of the house
awoke him in the small hours, and he heard
Garcin's voice presently in conversation
with someone who seemed to be in great
hurry.
'She's aground close ashore, the strange
voice said.
whats her cargo?" Garcin inquired in
an undertone.
Orton was not quite sure, but he thought
that coffee" was the answer.
Don't speak so loudly he heard Gar
Gin say, ''there's strange gentleman sleep
ing in that house. How near is she to
Rochon's place?"
ga mile below, off the cedars."
"We can't do anything, then"
"Why?"
''The old man will haye the best claim,
and beside, Lazare, there's going to be
danger"
"How?"
'The stranger in there is Government