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Wedding. Among the Poor.

At Benares saw a wedding procession
of the poorer classes and had the pleasure
of an introduction to the groom. he was q
sullen boy of Is, who looked as though he
by no means enjoyed the occasion. He
had cap of red cloth with long strings of
flowers hanging from its rim to his neck and
with tawdry red clothes upon his body. He
was riding a white pony, which had gaudy
tyappings, and walking with him was a
crowd of bare-tooted, bare-legged, turbaned
men and boys, one of whom led the horse.
These were his relatives. Just back of
them, and apparently having no connection
with the pony-riding groom, was party OF
men carrying what looked like a store box
shut up on all sides and covered with red
cloth. A cheap cashmere shawl was thrown
over its top and was told that the bride
was inside. asked her age and was told
that she had lived just eight years. Behind
her came q number of women carrying her
dowry upon their heads.
One party bore the brides bed. It was a
rack or frame work of wood about feet
long and 3 feet wide, with rude feet raising
It Is inches from the ground, and instead of
wire springs there was net work of clothes
lines rope stretched within the framework.
Another woman had tray on her head
containing the cooking utensils, consisting
of three or four iron pots and rice jar,
and the whole outfit would have been dear
at 81 80. I talked with the father of the
groom. He told me the bride would come
and stay two days with her mother-in-law
and then 60 back home until she was 10
years of age, when she would come to live
with her husband and be married for good.
In the case of baby marriages the child is
often brought up BY her own parents, and
she only comes to her mother-in-law's house
when she has gotten old enough to learn
housekeeping, which is at the age of 10 or
IL years. In some cases, however, she goes
at once to the house of her mother-in-law
and is brought up by her, often being made
to do the drudgery of the house ana abso-
lutely subject to her husbands mother.
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TIE WORLDS TOBACCO YIELD.
II is increasing More Rapidly Than That o.
Either Wheat or Corn.

II is Increasing More Rapidly Than That OF
Either Wheat or Corn.
Louisville Courier-Journal.l
The worlds annual output of tobacco is
increasing; perhaps more rapidly than that
OF either wheat or corn.
Kentucky is the greatest factor in the to-
bacco market, and her product steadily
grows. That of Virginia does likewise, and
several of the Northern States are cultivat-
ing it successfully. Cuba has long been
famous for her cigar wrappers, and in many
parts of the island the planters are aban.
doning sugar and turning their attention to
tobacco, finding the latter much more prof.
table. Even Germany is endeavoring to
raise it.
But the greatest efforts to extend the cult.
vation of tobacco are being made in the
East Indies. Both the soil and the climate
of the great islands near the Asiatic coast
are admirably adapted to the weed, and 1t
has long been successfully grown there, but
not until recently have attempts been made
to produce it Oh. such a large scale. Both
the Dutch and the English are heavily in
terested. and the industry is not conducted
by small farmers as here in Kentucky, but
BY great companies on immense planta-
tfons, working thousand or more coolies
and Malays.
The most prosperous of the companies are
located in Batavia and Sumatra, and their
tobacco is frequently shipped to American
markets. The last issue of the London
Financial Ne,os quotes the stock of five of
these corporations as follows: 800, 451, 1856
429, and 610. They have advanced about
80 points each in the last three months, and
are among the most highly priced shares
on the London Exchange.
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a . -. A.. kolI,,r;rc
NY refereno ancestor gives sho ioiiom.nS
transcript OF the marriage covenant Whlcn
he used then and throughout the remainder
ofbis life and which indeed was then in pen-
eral nsa snaong the Conoregat;onaI minis
go usS Suonk en1 y seto -. =
ters OF New England. In tnose Gays no
one on American soil had ever questioned
the sanctitv or adyisability of marriage, or
had ever cons;dered tbe nossibilitv Of its
-.s.: rosia' 'Ae
proving iailure.
OLD STYLE MARRIAGE COVENANT.
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A Parsee Marriage.

Notwithstanding all this there is, I doubt
not, some love among the Hindoos, and
there may be some happy homes As far as
can see, much home life is impossible.
Ninety-nine hundredths of the people live
in mud huts or in two or three rooms, the
walls of which are upholstered and unpa-
| pered, where it is dark almost in the day.
| time, and where at night the only light is q
poor lamp or wick burning in a tumbler oi
oil. The furniture is of the rudest descrip-
| tion, and the rooms are SO small that the
beds are put outside the house during the
| daytime. Still In such houses women spend
their whole lives, going out only when 1t is
| necessary 10 draw water. Now and then in
| the country you see the women of the lowest
castes at work, but high-caste women never.
The women do the grinding of the corn for
| the family, and corn is ground here just as
| it was in the days of the Scriptures.
Among the high-caste Hindoos a senti-
ment is now growing up against infant mar
riages and there is one society, the members
of which will not marry their girls before
their fourteenth year. 1t must be remem-
bered, however, that the Hindoo women do
not by any means make up the total female
population of India. India has more Mo-
hammedans than Turkey, and the 1853, 900 900
Of people who make up this Indian popula-
tion are of many classes and religions. The
Parsees who are so noted as merchants are
Persian fire worshipers, and they do not
marry their children under IL.
attended Parsee marriage last night in
which the bride and groom were respect
lively IL and 13. The two were sitting in a
Parsee temple with their hands Joined to-
gether. They had been sitting in this posi-
tion for two hours when I entered. The
Parsees do not lead secluded lives Their
women dress gayly and go about where they
please. This girl was beautifully dressed,
and the groom had on a high hat which
looked for all the world like a stovepipe
hat with the rim cut of, but which was of
red silk literally covered with pearls and
diamonds. As we entered the room richly
dressed boys rushed up to us and put into
our hands bouquets of orange flowers and
roses, while servants sprayed over us, from
silver bottles two feet long, shower of rose
water. After watching the ceremony for
some time we rose to depart, and were then
given each two cocoanuts and little punches
Of betel for chewing as wedding presents,
and noted that such presents were given
to all the guests.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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WESTERN STEAMBOAT ROUTES.

The Prospects for Passenger Traffic on the
Rivers Ear From Discouraging.
The Century.1
1t is perfectly true that the Western
steamboat interest has been seriously i'm
paired by competition with the railroads,
and that the number Of fast boats has great
ly decreased. For the position of steam
boat property in the past was peculiar.
Large numbers of the boats were owned by
the captains or their families, and in case of
hard times or q cut-rate war with the rail-
roads the boats could be seized for debt and
the traffic stopped. The competing railroad,
on the other hand, might be equally in debt,
but in the hands Of receiver it went on do
ing business while the poor boat owner was
tied up with his boat.
This is the common and the darker view
taken of the steamboat interest on our great
rivers. To offset this is the fact that the
larger rivers are now well lighted, and more
lights are added every year. The millions
spent on the rivers have wonderfully i'm
proved navigation, and there are fewer
wrecks than ever before. The slack water
navigation, as on the Kanawha and the Mo-
nongahela, has greatly extended the season
in which boats can run, and has thus ex-
tended the earning time of every boat on
these waters. The ownership of the boats
has also changed, and in place of single
tramp steamers there are now regular in
corporated companies owning large fleets Of
boats and having abundant capital. These
companies are enabled to furnish better,
cheaper and more regular service, with less
danger of ruinous competition with the rail-
roads. Formerly the steamboat service
was extrayagant and costly in manage
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A NEW TYPE SETTER.
Description Of n Mechanical Compositor That
HnsiBeen Patented in England.

Description Of n Mechanical Compositor That
HnsiBcen Patented in England.
The London Globe describing new type
setting machine says; As the operator
works the keys the line of print is formed
before him, so that corrections may be made
at once. At each impress of his finger a
sheet of brass with Its proper letter in the
center slips into its place, and at the same
time exposes character on the edge visible
to the worker. Then as soon as the line is
completed, it is seized and automatically
Justified. Then it is carried to little fur
mace to be stereotyped, the line being finally
thrust out on ledge after being cast. The
types are then automatically distributed. It
seems slow to read, but is not SO in reality,
as the processes proceed simultaneously, the
type-setter's work ON the keys being scarcely
interrupted OF course one wants to see
such an invention at work for length of
time in printing Office before pronouncing
final opinion upon it, as no test is quite
so good as that of practical work, and it
has not yet been introduced into the Office
of any English paper; but If what the in
ventor tells me of its speed be correct, and
If 1t can be made, as he says, for something
between R150 and R2O0, there is no doubt
OF its being very useful as well a. q WON
derful invention,
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sures you that the waters are not nearly so
efficacious as they formerly were. Then he
will ask you down to the cool room below
stairs, and tell you of the hslcyon days
when Morrissey kept the club house, when
the city was packed with Princes, Senators,
Generals, and heaven knows what all, the
streets jammed with tallyho coaches, four
in-hand drags, and Jim Fisk drove his
chariot down Broadway with 20 of the high
est looking women in the country on top.
NOT LIKE IT USED TO BE.
"Now," he says, everything is the Hill
ton family. When you. see q handsome
house it has been bought in from one of the
old-timers by Judge Hilton. When an es-
pecially elegant turnout goes along you can
bet one of the Hilton boys has the ribbons.
You might very we'll rechristen Saratoga
to-day and call it Hiltonville.
On the lawn in Hilton's park, with two
girls watching an Apollo at croquet.
Mildred (who was belle of the hop last
night-'T don't like those new mallets, do
you, Kate?"
Kate champion at croquet)-"Ohl it
takes light-headed thing to make hit at
ball, you know"
I have observed particularly since arriv-
ing here girl of about 20, who is always
being whirled along by the side Of some
young fellow in dog-cart, rustling over
the piazzas in gown of delicious flminess,
dancing around the parlors and occupying
the most prominent place in the dining
room. She is especially beautiful, a fact
thoroughly appreciated by an army of ex-
cited masculine followers, who tumble over
one another endeavoring to catch her smiles
and her tavors. She rules her court like
true princess, and can scarcely blame the
young men Tor becoming infatuated with
her, for she is undoubtedly the sweetest
armful in a season of waltzing at the
Springs I was talking with one of these
old bachelors on the piazza this forenoon
when she hoated by on the arm of young
man, looking more lovely than words can
tell. It is a whim of fashion, by the way,
for Saratoga bellies to take beaux arms by
daylight. She was laughing with the
melody of flute, and declare that her
mouth, with its flashing teeth, was the most
alluring thing in the world.
ga fine creature" I remarked to my old
friend.
He glanced up at her receding form,
laughed quietly to himself and then said:
Eyes, she is quite belle. Do you ever
have your nails treated by manicures in
New York;"
To this seemingly irrelevant question 1
replied in the negative.
''Oh, then probably you never met the
angel" observed my friend. 'That's her
trade. The old gentleman down at the end
of the piazza, with the straight-brimmed
silk hat on, is her benefactor. Used to visit
his sisters house, I believe to operate on his
hands. He wants to marry her. So does
the young fellow she is walking with. He
is clean gone on her-to the point of comics
sion. The other day he said wildly to her,
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of death came upon her and in eight hours
she breathed her last. Everyone praised
her and said she died for the love of her
husband.
"I knew another woman who did not love
her husband, for all their friends knew they
quarreled so much they could not live to-
gether. The husband died, and when the
news was brought the widow threw herself
from the roof and died. She could not bare
the thought of the degradation that must
ollow. She was praised by all. =
The only difference for us since the English
have prevented us from burning ourselves
upon our husbands funeral pyres is that
we then die quickly, if cruelty, but no, we
die all our lives in lingering pain. We are
aghast at the number of widows-how is
it that there are so many2 1t is because
every man who died leaves one and often
more, and though thousands die more live
on.
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old bachelors of any in the country. do
not know whether they come here for the
salutary influence of the waters thst bubble
from the earth at all points. or to feed their
critical eyes upon the young and tender
women that bloom so bountifully in every
section Of the city. But the fact remains
that the windows Of the clubs of several Of
the big cities, especially those Of New York.
are fairly transplanted to the piazzas of the
hotels here. There is a narrow bal
cony on the side of one house
where the old boys love to congregate
and talk of the horses and the women
that jingle by, and to adjourn with regular
frequency to the cool room below stairs,
where the fzz and the julep are manufac-
tured with gratifying skill. If these men
60 to one of the springs before breakfast,
and drink several glasses of the water for
the benefit of their ivers, they fancy they
are entitled to pass the rest Of day with as
happy stomachs as can be procured. There
fore, as you move about here, you are con-
tinually coming in contact with the gentle
man who has been at the springs every
summer for the past Is years, and who as
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sUPERsTITIONs OF THE HINDOos.

II Met by ANY Evil Portent they Return
Homo and Commence the Day Afresh.
sciencel
The Hindoos are early risers. In the
warm accommodating from April to Oc-
tober-they sleep either upon the housetop
or in the courtyard, or in the verandah, if
rain should be threatening. and are usually
up at o'clock or earlier in the morning.
In the cold weather, when they sleep with
in doors, they rise later, but they are out
before Z. Rising in the morning while but
half awake, the Hindoo repeats the name of
Rama several times. Happening to yawn
he Immediately fillips his thumb and mid
die finger, though he does not know why.
He prepares for his morning toilet. He
plucks twig from the bitter Neem tree,
breaks off span length of it. brushes one
end between his teeth, and extemporizes a
toothbrush. He next draws up water from
the well in the yard with an iron bucket,
and prepares to wash his hands and face.
This is quickly done; he then throws on an
extra garment, the thickness and texture
depending on the season and weather, lights
hishooka, takes few pulls with his euphoni-
ous hubble-bubble, and is ready to 60 out.
With passing Rama, Rama" to friend
or acquaintance, and neighborly gossip By
the way, he repairs to his place of business.
While going he will seduously avoid those
signs and sounds which may augur i'll for
the day. Should one sneeze, or should he
hear the cawing of crow, or the cry of q
kite, or should he meet an GILMAN, or one
blind or lame, or see cat cross his path,
he would be greatly distressed as to the
day before him. On the other hand, If a
fox crosses his path, if he hears gong or
shell summoning him to worship, or If he
meets Brah nan with his head uncovered,
he would rejoice. hailing it as auspicious.
Some are 30 superstitious that if any evil
portent occurs oa the way they would return
home, have a smoke, or chew betel Leaf,
and proceed afresh.
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radiant immensity, the dense crowds were
80 luminous and unearthly, the music came
in such volumes from all sides, and the
high arching trees flashed so magnifcently
up against the jeweled sky, that had been
transported to Titania's wood my senses
would not have felt the mystical marvels Of
wonderland more keenly than here among
the fairy palaces and theatrical effects Of
my mortal brothers. And I saw a proof
that it is the wand of wealth and not of
fairy, that makes an old donkey-headed
man get the love, real or counterfeit, of the
prettiest of poor girls. Here was a coarse
grained man Of 30 years grotesquely odd in
dress promenading with neat, dainty girl
of less than half his age. His daughter I
thought her, but found out that they were
on their bridal tour.
1 was not robbed of my sparkling mood of
romance when I went through the parlors
of one of the hotels to the piazzas surround
ing the gardens, where an admirable or
chestra discoursed sweet music. A Spanish
tarantella was ripping from the crowd of
violins, the fountains dancing to the strains
and a multitude Of people in splendid attire
stretched down the piazzas until lost in the
shadows beyond the lights. The lawns
were like emerald seas, and here and there
o girl in flmy white, standing afar off,
looked like Aphrodite shaking the spray
out of her hair. Within and without there
was a steady fash of women. I say flash"
advisedly. When q woman gets to Sara
toga she appears to think she has reached
the orbit Of Venus, and she accordingly
exerts herself to perform her Office of con-
slant scintillation so that there can be no
mistake about her mission. She takes off
her jacket and her collar, hangs crescents
and stars around her throat, sticks others in
her hair, watts feather fan with q hand
frosted with gems, and then pulsates like
great rose laden with hshower-crystals. Asyou
meet heron the piazza, in the corridors,
crossing the great parlors-she drives the
faintest possible suggestion of violet toward
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India. In the museum of the rajah of Jew.
pore was shown collection of /, 500 differ.
ent styles of Indian jewelry, and through
every province have travelled 1 find the
women dress differently. Among the hills
OF India and on the slopes of the Himalayas
woman sometimes wears as high as 90
pounds of jewelry. This is often of brass.
but not infrequently of silver and gold.
saw one woman in turban who had q
nose ring as big around as the top of a COB
let fastened by gold chain to hole in her
ear. She had gold earrings with gold chains
attached to them, so made that they covered
tne ear, and around her neck were strands
of corals Of silver beads and silver COINS A
great silver chain hung from the bottom Of
her earrings down to her waist and she had
bracelets and anklets and rings on toes and
fingers. There are here in Bombay 8. GOO
jewelers., and at Delhi the great business of
ornaments
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home in her wet clothes and she dare mot
change them. It matters not if she be sick
or whether the weather be warm or cold;
She sleeps in these clothes for 13 days and
she is prosecuted by all. 1 found here at
Bombay a statement of one of the Hindoo
widows from this part of India. 1t was
translated by an English lady and appeared
in an Indian newspaper. The following is
an extract from it:
Thousands of US die, but more live. 1
saw a woman die, one of my own cousins.
She had been i'll before her husbands death.
When he died she was too weak and i'll to
be dragged to the river. She was in burn
ing fever. Her mother-in-law called
water carrier and had four large skins of
water poured over her as she laid on the
ground, where she had been thrown from
her bed when her husband died. The chill
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Il love you, and / shall never get over it
till YOU marry me- And now, the more he
thinks of it, the more he wishes he hadn't
put it that way. But she will not marry
him, no matter how correctly he should ask
her, because he is poor. The old widower
is rich, and he will get her. But
THE LITTLE MANICURE
is holding off for a spell Of freedom, and she
rules the roost in considerable circle here
at Saratoga. If she is as clever as think
she is, she will make the biggest
catch of the season. Her old gentle
man was dropped out Of the race the first day
they got here. But he is an easy-going old
fogy, and lets her run around as she chooses,
hoping she will come to him at last. There
is nothing like Saratoga, you see, for mys-
terry that is as plain as the nose on your
face"
As the beautiful manicure swept past me
Just now I heard her remark that she really
must hasten to Newport, where SO many Of
her friends were anxiously awaiting her.
Her escort this time was the son of very
wealthy New York man. He demonstrated
so yehemently with the lovely creature. and
looked so desolate when he heard her words,
that feel positive, should she really start
for Newport or Patagonia, he would not lose
sight of her. There is no doubt about this
young man II the manicure wants him she
can have him; and think she wants him,
because polishing nails can't be an agree
able way Of earning living.
Baseball is rife here at Saratoga and very
fine folks go to see rather poor games BY
neighborhood teams But the girls are not
critical, and here Is bit Of actual d.
alogue:
Reginald-Isn't IL a corking good game,
girls?
Girls Cin ehorus)-Oh, just splendid, and
these are such great teams too. It makes
it 20 exciting.
Belle (asids to Grace)-Was teams the
right word?
Grace (aside to Belle e)-I think so. Wait
till read over his shoulder what teams
they are, anyhow. KAMERA.