The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-24

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"Did he get it?'
HE got it, and he and / the next
day continued on the same train on
our way to Chicago. / met him at the
Grand Pacific about o week after
ward. He and the cane were to-
gether.
Is that thing as valuable as everY'
| asked.
".Not by a blank sight he ex-
claimed, laughing. It's worth $50
though he added, and taking 1t by
the lumpy head he pressed his thumb
on one of the wood warts in q mysteri-
GUS, fumbling way, and the knotty
head fell back. He then handed me
the stick. 1t was hollow about three
inches in depth under the head, and
the hollow was lined with velvet.
Don't you think l was right to
pay $50 for the recovery of a cane like
that?' he remarked.
II respectfully said that l didn't see
where the value came in.
Well, he answered, it will never
be as valuable to me again as it was
when / dropped it off the platform,
for it then contained solitaire dia-
monds worth $25, 000.' D. eW York
Herald.
The Course of Chinese True Love.
Love has it's troubles among all
clans, and even the impossible Mon
golian finds that it's course does not
run smoothly. The anti-Chinese law
is keeping fond hearts in China away
from fond hearts in New York, and
promises to make the Chinese colony
a permanent one and to provide it
with American wives. This is the
way of it:-Five years ago a boy of
fourteen was betrothed to a girl OF
thirteen, and then the little pigtailed
lad set sail for San Francisco with his
father to make his fortune and return
for his bride. In vain the anguish
ing Lo Fee has written to him to re-
turn. All Chung knows that il he
goes back to China he cannot come
back here, and his doodle" is yet too
small to keep a wife in style.
Finally the bride got angry and
wrote to her uncle to make it hot for
All Chung, which he proceeded to do
verbally. But the latter young ma
is not easily scared, and coolly told
her uncle that her betrothed had bet
ter suit herself with a husband at
home, as on the whole he thought
American girls prettier than Mongo-
lians, and intended to marry and set
tie down in the United States.
The fact is that Cinnamon who have
visited their old home and returned
have brought such terrible accounts
of the dizziness of poverty stricken
life in China that the wide awake Ce-
lestials colonized here have mainly
concluded that Tennyson was right
about his "Cycle of Cathay,n and it
will suffice to send their bones home.
An Ornamental Lamp Shade.
The fancy lamp shades, if at all
pretty, are SO expensive to purchase
that we all welcome a new design. A
fourteen-year-old girl of our acquaint-
ance has just made a very cheap and
effective one. Buy a wire frame of
the size to fit your lamp and cover it
with coarse milliner's net. Take a
piece of imitation lace of any pretty
design and measure loosely around
the bottom of the frame the width of
the lace from the bottom. Then allow
about a quarter OF this for fnllness
and gather it slightly on a piece of
ribbon of such length as will fit snugly
around the frame at this point. The
ribbon is then gathered to fit the top
OF the frame, a narrow piece of lace
fulled around to stand up. A bow of
ribbon is placed at the side and
fringe of embroidery silk finishes the
lace at the Decentralization AgrS-
cultuTist.