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and because Of their nationality. A
more serious charge than any brought
up to that time was made about the be-
ginning of the sixteenth century, a
charge which allied them to witches
and associated them with witch
craft. This was quickly followed
by an accusation that they had
no religion. They may have had
national religion at the beginning OF
their wanderings, but seem TO have lost
it, for in whatever country they were,
they adopted, or pretended to adopt, the
religion of the people twithst anding
the fact that they rendered an apparent
conformity to the re igious rites Of those
by whom they were surrounded, they
mingled with the adopted religion many
secret ceremonies of their own, which
in time, being discovered, added to the
Nervousness Of the offense.
Thus, classed with Migrants, with
heretics. with witches, a general crusade
was begun against them, and whatever
faults they had were far more than pun
ished by the cruelty with which they
were treated During the reign of Hen
ry VIII. they were ordered out of En-
gland, and vessels were provided for
their transportation, but few years
later we read of fines being in
fiicted on shipowners who brought them
back Indeed, it was found impossible
to get rid of them entirely, for the peo-
pie stood in awe of them. The mystery
of their origin, the tales as to whence
they came, their claims to deal Il the
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A STYLISH EQUIPAGE.
generally we'll received.
ThnV were

generally well received. They were
clever people, generally more skillful at
any craft than the native WOrkmen at
that time who practiced it, and what
they did not know they soon learned
Pleasant spoken, courteous, quick at
acquiring the language of the country
they adopted for their own, they easily
insinuated themse elves into good COM
pany. Early in the fifteenth century
they were allowed to dance before the
English king at Windsor, before the
Scottish king at Holyrood. and acted
plays at the French court. Early in
the sixteenth century they became
famous as fiddlers in Italy, as guitar
players in Spain. as harpists in Wales
and Ireland. They became painters,
wood and iron workers, etchers or en-
gravers on copper, soon learned to coun-
terfeit, four of them being hanged for
an attempt to counterfeit the great seal
of England in 1919; they made bows and
arrows. knives and swords. Sometimes
they were even held in distinction, for
more than one royal writ went out al
lowing their leaders to administer justice
in their bands "according to the laws Of
Egypt.
In several countries of Europe this
confidence was soon abused, and then
came retribution. Up to the time of the
general persecution the gypsies had been
at worst merely petty thieves and
swindlers, but finding themselves the
objects of general detestation, they
rapidly developed worse traits of char
acters. They were accused OF many
heinous offenses. 1t was charged that
they were cannibals, that they robbed
graves, that ely stole children for the
purpose of eating them, that they muir
dCred men to drink their blood In
Germany hundreds were arrested and
put to the rack to make them confess.
They did confess, but when asked where
they had concealed the corpses they had
stolen they could not tell and were again
tortured. In France they were put to
death by wholesale simply on suspicion
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Elevated.

Mrs. Snagsby = Full again, Mr..
Snagsbyl And your wife and children
starving! Cornelius, we shall all &C
to the poor-house yet.
Snagsby-Poor (hic) house? Non
shenshe, Mrs. Snagsby. I (hic) feel
like millionaire
Mrs. S.-But you'll never be one.
Don't you know, you wretch, that not
a single self-made millionaire touches
intoxicating liquor?
Snagsby Don't, Ell? Mrs. (hic)
Snagsby, I take it all (hic) back. ]
don't feel like millionaire. I feel a
great deal better'n (hic) millionaire.
Mrs. Snagsby, will you (hic) pleashe to
convey to your millionaires my pro-
foundish pity and my mosh shupreme
contempt? Vince!
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back or ON foot, the women and chi dren
in wagons: the gypsics were noted for
their fast driving, for their love of horses
and dogs. They called themselves the ST.
CAM, and told various stories about their
origin and the country whence they had
come. Some said they were from India,
others claim to be from Egypt, and
endeavored to excite popular sympathy
in their behalf by various tales of their
sufferings In one town they detailed a
pathetic narrative of having been driven
out OF Egypt because they abjured Chris
tianity; in another they claimed that the
Saracens had expelled them from Asia
because they refused to accept MOham-
mechanism. In still another they de-
clared themselves to have been expelled
from Asia by the monster Tamerlane.
At first their stories were received with
some degree of credit, but the gYps;es
themselves soon fell into disfavor. They
were horse traders and horse thieves,
they were thinkers, they were petty pill
ferers of any small goods that could con
veniently be stolen and secreted. Their
women were all fortune tellerS, and in
culcated among the people the belief
that a gypsy woman could deal in the
black art In various countries the peo-
pie soon arose against them, and, as we
are naively informed, divers were slain
for their evil deeds "
This was their first appearance in
Western Europe, but long before this
they were known in the East, though
how long is uncertain Two hundred
years before they appeared in Germany
they were mentioned by an Austrian
monk who saw them in Greece and Asia
Minor. Writing a paraphrase on the
book of Genesis he pauses to incorpo-
rate in the margin bit of his expert
ence concerning the gYpsies. founding
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that if three gypsies be found together
any of his subjects might kill one OF the
three without mourning either reproach
or punishment.
At this time a wide tract of country
across the island, known as the Debata-
BILE Land, separated England from Scot
land. This territory was the home OF
refugees, of out avs, OF desperadoes,
who, in this district of uncertain juris-
diction, found immunity from the Off
GERS of Justice of both England and Scot
land The Scottish gypsies, finding
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4d on one S3ch excursion

jects, and Glanced on one ssch excursion
to come upon a gypsy encampment,
where he became boon companion of
the wanderers in their carousals. Speak
ing with too much familiarity to wo-
man of the tribe, he was assaulted by
one of the men, and forced, to save his
life, to discover himself. The gypsies
kept him prisoner for several days and
finally released him only unaer promise
of immunity from punishment In re-
venge, however, after his escape, he
issued a royal proclamation declaring
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tional identity, the men have forgotten
to what nation they belonged and have
become absorbed into other peoples.
Two or three notable instances, now
ever, have happened, but of the whole
number none is more singular than that
of the gypsies, people who once were a
race. and although now scattered bands
of wanderers, nevertheless preserve
many of those characteristics which are
generally considered to indicate nation
atty Although their national identity
was ages ago completely destroyed, and
.bv some national movement they were
sent from their native land to become
wanderers up and down this earth, still
the families of Migrants retain much OF
their original language, together with
not few peculiarities which completely
separate them from all other peoples.
The first appearance of gypsies in
Western Europe was in 1417, when a
band numbering, according to dl1efenG
accounts, between 400 and 400, APP
peared in Germany. This little host OF
invaders soon found their way into every
part of Germany. The first band was
rapidly succeeded by others, and under
the influence of some unknown agency
the gypsies soon came in SWarms, and
found their way across the Alps into
Italy, across the Rhine into France, over
the Pypenees into Spain, across the
Channel into the British Isles A
few of their leaders were richly
dressed, and assumed all the style of
medieval noblemen; but the great part
were poor, ill-clad and worse fed. A
singular feature of this, the first inva-
sion, lay in the fact that a gypsy band
then seems from all accounts to have
been precisely the same as the gypsy
band to-day. The men were on horse
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Aroused His Suspicious.

Wi1d-eyed stranger Waiter, are
these some of the artificial eggs made
by that Kansas genius?
Waiter - No, sir; certainly not.
Those are hens eggs.
Wild-eyed stranger-Beg pardon.
Their ancient and fsh-like smell led
me astray.
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EVERY frontier fighter says he would
rather have knife than revolver for
a weapon at close range, and North
Carolina woman has proven that an ak
is better than the shotgun in a row.
She was opposed to man thus armed,
and she killed him before he could fire.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES should be kept
with the bristles down, and they will
last twice as long; common sense will
tell you if you stand them the other
way the water will run down and soak
into the back loosening the bristles,
whether they be glued or wired.
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his remarks on the verse mentioning the
birth of Ishmael "ThiS IShmael is the
father of these accursed wanderers, who
go up and down the earth trading horses
and stealing, working in iron and MAX
ing such employment a cover for their
wlckedness. Buy nothing of them, for
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\ the course OF numer-
Gus wars which have
rent the world into
hostile factions, tn e
dispersal of nations
has been of not infre-
,quent occurrence; bat
generally it has hap
.Dened that when a ma
.tion was scattered the
namhnrS lost their M
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THE NOMADIC GYPSIES.
THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE IN
EUROPE

PecuIfarities of the Wandering Race-Per-
secutions They Have Endured-A NATION
without TTo1ne or Habitation.
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action of Fog on Plants.

At a recent meeting of the Royal
Botanic Society the secretary said that
the action of fogs on plants was most
felt by those tropical plants in the So
ciety's houses Of which the natural
habitat was one exposed to sunshine
Plants growing in forests or under tree
shade did not SO directly feel the want
Of light; but then, again, London or
town fog not only shaded the plants,
but contained smoke, sulphur, and
other deleterious agents, which were,
perhaps, as deadly to vegetable vitality
as absence of light Soft, tender
leaved plants, and aquatics, such as
the Victoria regia, suffered more from
fog than any class of plants he knew of.
LAW cannot prevent extravaganza;
and perhat S it is not always an evil to
The public. A shilling spent idly by g
TOOL may be picked up by wiser per-
son, who knows better what to DO with
it: it is. therefore, not lost
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did Franklin say anything about
the cobbler sticking to his last ?"-
Iouth's Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-04

garments. The exceedingly low price
of good, strong surahs, and other
silks, has made it possible for women
of very modest means to indulge in the
genuine luxury of silken undergar-
ments, and while my lady's maid
rustles Importantly in starched muslin
skirts, my maids lady walks noiseless-
ly in elinging, flowing silk, in which
she is attired from her head to her
feet.
Another rage is that for lace as a
garniture for costumes and foilettes of
nearly every description. Leagues of
fancy laces are bestowed and gathered
upon gowns of foulard, surah, batiste,
chiffon, India muslin, yelling, wash
silk, and even plain cotton. The garni-
ture that was once the wear of women
of wealth only, and that was reserved
for the richest dress occasions, has
fallen from its high estate, and is now
| literally "trailed in the dust" Some
of the lace-trimmed garden party
toilets are triumphs of dainty French
art and beauty. So are the picture
hats, made of rushes, oh! and briar
roses, with thorns an stems G. d. Il.
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at would be just perfect IL the boys
were here. am so glad, grandpa, that
we lost the Fourth!'
I'll Will and Jamie spent restless day.
An uneasy conscience is never q COM
Portable companion, and their magnifi-
cent joke looked almost like false
hood to them, and to do anything to
make their little sister shed tears was
not manly, look at it in any light they
might, They had to watch their chance
to replace the almanac, and their laugh
I at the thought of how mystified grand
pa would be when he came to consult
it again was q faint one.
They were at the gate, one on each
post, to watch for old Whiteface, and
when she was seen swinging up the
road they called out:
'Tell us all about it, Beth. Did you
scream at the frecrackers? Where are
the peanuts? DID you see all the cele-
bration?"
The fun of their joke had all re-
turned, and they kicked their heels
with delight.
II didn't see any firecrackers," an
swered Beth, but, boys, the lion was
splendid! l heard him roar, and the
monkeys were so cunning!'
VIII and Jamie looked at each other.
What did she mean? Where was there
any lion?
wasn't it queer? The almanac ,cas
wrong, and we lost the Fourth, so
grandpa took me to Paxton to see the
animals. l wished every minute you
were there, it was so splendid"
The boys climbed slowly down from
the post and went into the house. This
was something they had not expected.
Beth had seen what they had wanted
to see all their lives-a real lion, and
heard it roar! This was the result of
their joke. There was not even ~
smile when grandpa walked straight
to the almanac and took it down, ex-
amining it with puzzled face. Their
punishment seemed greater than they
could bear.
1t was quiet family that evening"
grandpa, deep in thought, trying to
solve the unaccountable behavior of
his faithful almanac; Beth, tired and
happy, and the boys mute with sur
prise at the ending of their magnificent
joke.-Louise Thrush Brooks, in Chica-
90 Standard.
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think that sudden shower had come
dp, and he peeped loudly to tell the
others 20 run in out of the rain.
Meanwhile, jamie and VIII turned
their steps to the creek, half ashamed
Of being so cross with Beth, but they
we're very sore at the idea of their care
tessness having lost them the expected
trip to town on the Fourth and must
vent it on some one, and Beth was the
only one on whom they could. As they
passed the milk house they saw their
grandmother busy among her milk
pans, and ov .rheard few words of her
conversation with grandpa, who had
stopped for glass of milk.
ut is pity, father that the Fourth
aoes not come ON Saturday this year,
then you could take in the butter nj
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-04
THE AMERICAN GIRL.
According to Good Authorities She Is
w. Not What She Was.

According to Good Authorities She Is
Not What She Was.
This charming product of the western
world has come into great prominence
of late years in literature and in for
eign life, and has attained a notoriety
flattering or otherwise to the national
pride. No institution is better known
or more marked on the continent and
in England, not excepting the tramway
and the Pullman cars. Her enterprise,
her daring her freedom from conven-
tionality, have been the theme of the
novelists and the horror of the dow
ayers having marriageable daughters.
Considered as stock" the American
girl has been quoted high, and the ali-
ances that she has formed with families
impecunious but noble have given her
eclat as belonging to a new and con-
quering race in the world. But the
American girl has not simply slender
figure and a fine eye and ready
tongue, she is not simply an engaging
and companionable person, she has eX-
cellent common sense, tact and adapta-
bility. She has at length seen in her
varied European experience that it is
more profitable to have social good
form according to local standards than
a reputation for dash and brilliancy.
Consequently the American girl of a
decade ago has effaced herself. She is
no longer the dazzling courageous fig-
ure. In England, in France, in Ger
many, in Italy, she takes, as one may
say, the color of the land. She has re-
tired behind her mother. She who for
merly marched in the van of the family
procession, leading them-including
the painting motber-a whimsical
dance, is now the timid and retiring
girl, needing the protection of a chap
erone on every occasion. The satirist
will find no more abroad the American
girl of the old type whom he continues
| to describe. The knowing and fasci-
mating creature has changed her tactics
/ altogether. And the change has re-
acted on American society. The
mother has come once more to the
front, and even if she is obliged to own
to forty-five years to the census taker,
she has again the position and the
privileges of the blooming woman Of
thirty. Her daughters walk meekly
and with downcast (if still expectant)
eyes, and wait for a sign.-Charles
Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magazine
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alone jamie" said VIII, with a supe-
rior air, you can't expect much from
girls, anyway. 1 think it is great
fuss to make about calf's leg when it
has three more left to walk on"
'She has spoiled our Fourth"
growled Jamie, ''when grandpa had
promised to take us TO town. l sup
rpose she viii go just the same. What
does girl know about the Fourth,
scared at the least bit of noise? Grand
pa ought not to take her, just in his
busy time, too"
"You would not be so thoughtful
about his busy time if you should have
an invitation" laughed Will. "Come
on, let's go to the creek for minnows." :"
''May go?" begged Beth. 81 want
some minnows for my pond"
mo" said Will, shortly, 'we have
had all we want of girls"
Beth wandered disconsolately to the
end of the porch where Jerry sat dos
ing brood of downy chickens with
cornmeal and cayenne pepper for the
pips, and sitting down by him picked
up one of the chicks, holding it close to
her cheek, aud the great tear that
dropped on him made the little fellow
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-04

walking costume par excellence, and it
stamps the wearer as an intelligent
and cultivated woman. At it's BEST it
is in the beginning somewhat eXpen-
sive dress, but it pays over and
over again in the end. Superior
workmanship and superior material
are put into it, and it never breaks out,
trays nor wears out; it has done more
for the health of women than all the
medicine in existence; it has recon-
structed them, and produced an up
right, vigorous, well-built and healthy
young womanhood out of the shreds
and patches which We're about all that
was left of generation ago. 1t has
never since its beginning lost one de-
gree of its popularity; on the contrary,
its success increases season after sea-
son, and the model, which in the be-
ginning was confined to utility pur-
poses alone, has found it's way into the
drawing-room among the choicest and
most elegant of imported gowns.
Among the elegancies of the season,
are tailor-madc corded silk gowns for
weddings and summer receptions. A
superb gown for matron is in black
and white of rather unique style. The
skirt is of white silk with a border at
the foot wrought in cut jet beads in an
exquisite Byzantine design. There is
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-07-04
THEN AND NOW.

When they first invented gunpowder,
They did most dreadful things with it.
They blew up popes and parliaments,
And emperors and kings with it.
They put on funny hats and boots,
And sliulked about in cellars, oh!
With shaking shoes they laid n fuse,
And blew it with the bellows, OH
They wore great ruffs, the stupid muffsl
(At least that's my opinion), then;
And said: What, hom and ''Sooth, I is soI'
And called each other ''Minionm then.
But now, the world has turned about
Five hundred years and more, you sect
And folks have learned thing or two
They did not know before, you see.
So nowadays the powder serves
TO give the boys jolly day
And try their Aunt Louisa's nerves,
And mako a general holiday
in open day we blaze away
With popguns and with crackers, ohi
With -ockets bright we crown tho night
(And some of them are whackers, ohD.
And ''popl" and ''hzzw and "bangw and
"whizz!"
Sounds louder still and louder, oh!
And that's the way we use to-day
The funny gunny-powder, oh
Laura L. Richards, in st. Nicholas.
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tailor effects are combined with
striped silks that are figured with tiny
flower bouquets or polka-dots. Some
of the dresses are made with very sty-
llsh coat fronts and princess backs,
with sleeves and vests of striped silk.
Gray-blue English cloth is much
used for elegant tailor-made travelling
suits, combined with gray and blue
striped faille. The coat is of the cloth
lined with gray silk, and trimmed with
silver buttons. Nearly all the skirts of
cloth dresses made this season have no
foundation skirt, but are worn over
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cusTER,s VIcToRY.


When Gen. Sheridan made his famous
raid from Winchester to City Point in
the early part of 1865 he had the assist
ance of three verv able officers. OF
these Gen. Wesley Merritt was at that
time probably the best known, but Gen.
Geo. A. Custer, who commanded the Sd
division, subsequently acquired the
greatest renown. In fact it was on /
this very raid that he won one of his
first and most brilliant victories It
happened in this way: Gen. Early, who
perhaps was as often and as soundly
thrashed as any officer in the war, had
been compelled to evaeuate Staunton
March l and fall back towards
Waynesborough, thirteen miles away.
At Fisherville, eight miles from
Staunton, he tried to make stand the
next day, but Gen. Custer and his
men, who were in advance, soon drove
him back the remaining five miles to
Waynes borough. Here Early resolved
to give his tireless pursuer battle, and
took up what he thought was good
position on some ridges along South
river,ys He had five field guns. Custer,
coming up, made careful reconnais-
sance and then prepared to carry the
enemy's position by storm He placed
Gen. Pennington's brigade on the right
and Wells on the left witS that of Cap
hart acting as a reserve The two for
ward regiments were deployed as slsir-
mishers and ordered to fire brisllly AL
most at the first volley the whole line
of the enemy broke and run. Custer's
troops rushed in upon them and cap
tured eighty officers 1, 1853 men,
thirteen flags, more than one hundred
mules, nearly one hundred wagons and
1ambulances and the five cannon. Gen.
Early himself just managed to escape
with the loss of all his baggage. On
this day Gen. Custer and his men
marched thirteen miles in a heavy
downpour of rain and fought two bat
ties, one of tbenY resulting in the com
.plete rous of the enemy 1t was be-
cause he had officers and soldiers of such
energy and bravery under his command
that Gen. Sheridan was able to accom-
4 plish such wond erful things. Chicago
News.
Matrimonial Ad, ertisement, "A
young lady in posscssi IN of ten ticieets
in rhe Cologne lottery wishes to make
the acquaintance of cultured, rich
young gentleman an officer preferred,
with view TO matrimony. Should she
meet with one who answers to her
wishes. she would be willing to buy
more tickets. '.-Fliegende Blatter.