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LUCKY NELLIE CASHMAN. ARISTOCRACY. The bootblack with wooden chair Thinks he Is fortune's fuvored son; Ho views with supercilious air Ills ftillow-orafmmun who has nono. He really does notoure to know him, And tUlnkshe lad Is quite below blm. The man who slaui(hters pigs and steers, Would not demean bimaelf to stop Ami talk, as with his wealthy peers, With htm wbo keeps a butcher shop.

Yet wherefore should it differ any, To sell a fow or slaughter many Advance. he was Identified with tho culprit ana tho remarks that wore made upon him drove him nearly frantic. It was only when the abashod form of Gustavus crept Into the cab, still unconsciously wearing the condemnatory card of "Cheap at 1, that this illusion was dlspoled. By tho next day's post Mr. Nathaniol Blossom received from his friend Gustavus Chuler a lugubrious' epistle, which set forth that the writer's state of health necessitated an immediate trip to tho Highlands of Scotland.

The envelope contained, in addition to this afflicting Information, a Bank of England note for ten pounds, forfeit to Mr. Blossom for a lost wagor. Chamber's Journal. and that at throe o'clock tho samo afternoon the sartorial Tussaud's in Tompkins' window would be augmented by his living presence A postscript further informod Mr. Blossom that tho bet would bo declared "off" If thore were any grimacing through the window.

A trlflo after three o'clock that afternoon a curious proceeding might have boon witnossod in Bond street Never before had so many fashionably-drossed young men been known to take such an absorbing Intorost in tho various samples of "chock" and "diagonals" in Tompkins' window; and never, in tho memory of tho oldest assistant had there boon such a review of iroponitent debtors pass tho open door. The attitudo of Mr. Chulor was decidedly btriking. Placed in the very midst of tho tailor's dummies, and displaying to the utmost advantage tho artistic cut of a suit of twocd "Cheap at 4, 10s.t" his limbs had adopted a painful rigidness, and his countenance a fearful vacancy. Amongst thoso acquainted with th'e subject of the bet tho impression prevailed that it was a marvelous rosora-blance, and that Gustavus would win in a canter.

Ono of the most assiduous of the FULL OF FUN. Johnson says the greatest magfo lans of the age are the paper-makers. They transfer the beggar's rags into sheets for editors to lie on. When a bald-headed man removes his hat to salute a lady, it doos not remind ono of a leafless branch, although it's a naked bow. Salem Standard.

"Our dear sister," said the Nebraska pastor, "has gone to a bettor land that is, if thero le any hotter land than can bo found right here in the Missouri bottoms." Terro Hauto Express. A correspondent who 19 always writing to know what to do in any emergency wants to know what he 6hould do if attacked by footpads in a dark alloy. We should say that tho proper thing would bo to advertise for help. Puck. Is marriage a miss-take? No, not when you marry a widow.

It's not a miss-take, but a miss-fortune, when you court a rich girl and don't get her. American Commercial Traveler. "You may bring me some satanized crustaceans," said Miss Boston to the waiter. "Mam!" gasped the astonished menial. "Don't you understand me? I want deviled crabs." yes'm! Bring 'em right away." A British idea of tho "American Sue Twenty-Six Years Old af Great Mining Expert.

"There goes a mining export," said Colonel John Hull, of Tucson, as ho pointed to a tall, dark-eyed girl, about twenty-six years old, who was walking rapidly down Market street "She Is here buying a restaurant outfit with which she is going to start tomorrow for the Harqua Hala mino3. She will bo the first woman in tho new camp, although there are already 1,500 men thero. "Her name is Nellie Cashman, and she is known throughout all the mining towns of Arizona. She came to Tucson about nine years ago from Dodge City, Kas. She got to examining the ore as it came out of the Tucson mines, and was soon as good a judge of its value as her brother Jim, who worked one of them.

"Pretty soon tho miners got an idea that she was a good guesser, and they began to bet on her judgment. She hit it close every time, and her fame Bpread. Miners are always superstitious, and they began to think that to have her around and get her good opinion would bring good luck. You can just bet she was treated liko a queen wherever sho went. "Miss Cashman gave some good advice about where to dig for ore, too.

Some of tho best in the Contention was found by following her advice about running a drift. Over in Graham County she made a hit one day in copper, and when she went to Tombstone she passed her judgment on some mines there and had more good luck. "Bill Wiggins sold the Excelsior and Grand View mines on hor advice, and the only dividend they ever yielded was the $15,000 he got for them. Other mines that wero bought by her advice after she had examined and reported favorably on them are now good, paying properties. "For years she has followed up all the new camps, and passed judgment on mines, and usually engaged in some kind of business in them, as, well as staked out and developed claims for herself.

In Tucson, Bisbee, Tombstone and several other towns Miss Cashman has conducted general stores and big lodging houses for the miners. She is as adventurous in pushing forward to a new region as any man miner with a fresh stake, and she no sooner hears of a new and promising camp than she starts for it. She buys town lots, places sites, and lode claims for next to nothing, and unloads at a big profit. "At first she didn't get out of tho camps soon enough, and consequently she has been poor about as many times as she has been rich. She has big pluck, though, and if she goes broke in one place she soon makes a turn and' gets up again.

"Down in Harqua Hala, her flannel-shirted employes will set out bacon and beans for the miners at a dollar a plate, and she will make her locations and begin mining as usual. "She reads a good deal and is pretty well informed on most all subjects, and she Is a quick, incisive talker. When she has a reverse she takes it nonchalantly, and is just as level headed, self-contained and serene as if she had made a fortune. San Francisco Cor. N.

Y. Sun. THEY HAD A BET, But Somehow or Other the Wager Was Never Paid. An esteemed citizen who has hi3 office in the third story of a block on Woodward avenue was sitting among his papers the other day when a couple of strangers entered. After he usual greetings one of them inquired: "You are Mr.

Blank, are you "Yes, sir." "My friend and 1 nave a wager on you." "A wager on me?" i'Yes, sir. We were in a saloon over here and your name was brought up. result was a dispute, and tne re sult of that was a wager. We have called to have you decide it" "H'm!" coughed the esteemed, in a dissatisfied way. "Will you answer a plain question? queried the speaker.

"I-I will." "Well. then, my friend bets me a quarter that you dye your nair and have been married three times. Does he win or lose?" The esteemed went back on his promise to answer. There seemed to be four or five of him as he rose up and grabbed books and chairs and let ter-presses and lumps of coal and heaved them at the flying figures, and the second man was almost at the bot tom of the stairs when a city directory bumped his collar-bone. It was only when safely out on the sidewalk that the one who had acted as speaker turned and said: "Jim, the bet is off, isn't it?" "Never mind the bet, but get a mile away as soon as possible! That chap Is a monopolist and there's no knowing how far he will chaso us!" Detroit THE LOST WAGER Tragio Culminatioa of the Carcor of tho Living Dummy.

Fortune has queer methods of distributing her favors, and tho way she ehowod hor partiality for Gustavus Chuler was to give him a rich fathor. Tho hoad of the Chulors was not only en aldorman of tho city of London and a warden of a groat company, but ho was also in the running, as Gustavus eorae what, figuratively put it, for tho mayoralty plato. In attending to his many offlcoa, Chuler, senior, so succeeded In exhaasting tho labor market that nothing was left for Gustavus to Ho but play pool, billiards, stroll down Tall-Mall, and take to himself other soul-stirring and vigorous recreations. In this walk of life ho was ably aided and abottod by a companion in leisure namod Nathaniel Blossom, an ingenious inventor of expedients, not to catch Time by the forelock, but rather to push him along. By a stroke of fato, it happened that Gustavus, one lino morning, came across Mr.

Blossom in Bond street, and after remark- 1 ingon thoir happy conjunction, invited Nathan iol to walk with him. Some way down tho streot tho pair stopped before tho plate-grass front of Tompkins, thoir trusty and trusting tailor. Behind the window, in addition to the "newest in tweods," there had lately beon arranged a miniature Madame Tussaud's of stony-faced waxen figures, i "I say. Gus," said Mr. Blossom, in a thoughtful tone, "what a lot of dummies Tompkins has got in his window! That's tho way our money goes, old follow, to clotho thoso wax beggars." Considering tho many vain overtures Mi.

Tompkins had been making to Nathaniel for tho settlement of his last little account, tho providing of raiment for dummies could only by a etrctch of tho imagination bo said to affect Mr. Blossom's exchequer. "I do boliove," wont on Nathaniel, "that our respected creditor puts them in tho window to Btaro us out of countenance There is one in tho middle whose glassy eye goes through mo. He aeerns to say: 1 'Now, pay up, Nat, or into court you I can't stand it. I must quit the scene.

Come!" "Stop a minuto," cried Gustavus, detaining him. "Ilavo you ever noticed, Nat, what a resemblance even a living man bears to a dummy when he ia standing in a tailor's window? I would bot ton pounds that I could stand thoro all day and never bo takon for any thing but a dummy." "It is possible," answered Mr. Blossom dryly; "but for all that, I'll take you. Ton or twenty?" "By Jovo." oxclaimod Gustavus, didn't think I meant it as a bet, "I certainly did. dear boy; but of Course if you say you didn't why" Mr.

Blossom made a movement with tils hand, and blew in the air, as If he wafted Mr. Chuler's rashness to the clouds. "No," replied Gustavus, firmly; "I not going to slip out of it that way. Having made the bet, I stand by it, and, win or lose, I'm your man. Let it bo ten." "Done!" cried Mr.

Blossom, joyously. "And now, friend of my soul, the goblet sip; let us seal the compact in tho flowing bowl. Let an agile han-eom convey us swiftly through the madding crowd to Italia's son, the dark-browed Tavalio, who is compoled by circumstances over which ho has no control to conduct a restaurant In the Strand. There we will carouse." That night, duo to the recoipt of mysterious raossagos, tho friends of fcoth Mr. Chuler and Nathaniel Bios eom assomblod in unwonted numbers at tho, house of entertainment prosided over by the dark-browed Tavalio, Amidst tho greatest excitement, Mr.

Blossom sot forth the subject of the bet, and placed Gustavus In tho posl tion of a man of mark. A committee was hastily formed to promote the un dortaking; and it was resolved that the time allowed for Mr. Chulor to carry out his impersonation of the Living Dummy be one hour, and the place, the window of tho suffering Tompkins, who, under threat of the loss of the wholo custom of the gathering, was to give his consent Then tho party grew xcoodingly merry, and the bosom's lord of Mr. Chuler sat so lightly on its throno that he insisted upon standing champagne all round. During tho early part of tho neit lay, Nathaniel Blossom received private information that his friend, Mr.

Custavu3 Chuler, had, after much la- A CHEERFUL CALLER. How Mother I'ettlbone IUUed the Spirits or Her Parson's Wife. "Ever live ovor tew Saouth Wind-villoP" asked Mrs. Pettlbono, who had run in to borrow "jest a cup full o' green tea" of the new parson's wifo. "NoP Wa-al, I thought not myself, but there's thorn that says your husband's the same man that got turned aout o' the Baptis' pulpit there 'cause he had four wives.

Same name as your husband, an' jost seen a lookin' man, 'cordin' tow all accounts. I don't pay much 'tontion tow seen reports, for jest as often as not they're made aout o' hull cloth, but there's a good many 't believes this, an' I've hoern tell there's some talk o' gottln' up an investigate' committee. You an' me has been so neighborly-like ever senco you come hero 't I thought I ought tow tell you. Naow, don't you worry, for I dessay he'll stand Investigatin', an' If he don't the church '11 keep the matter quiet. "Indignant! Wa-al, I don't wonder.

It's reel lucky you've a friend like me tew advise with. I notice you don't havo near's much comp'ny's the last minister's wifo did. She was a reel active woman, an' she jest kep' things hummin'. We was all awful sorry when she went away. You alnt a bit liko her.

A good many says you're stuck up, but I tell 'em you're doln' the best you kin, in that they oughter to take tho moke aout o' their own eyes afora they try tow git the bean aout o' yourn. I stand by you, Mis' Smith. "Thore was a good deal o' talk 'baout that silk gownd you wore tew meetin' las' Sunday. A good many thought 'twa'n't suitable for a minis-tor's wife, with all that bead trienmin'. an' lace.

Mis' Skidmore, said she, she'd think your husband would p'int out tew you that a congregation looks for somethin' besides flaounces an' laces in a minister's wife; but I said, says 'Mis Skidmore, she ain't nothin' but a gal, an' you can't 'xpect an old head on young shoulders "That was a paowerful sermon o' your husband's las' Sabbath day. A good many took offense at it, though, an' I understand that 'Squire Parker talks o' goin' over tew the Presbyterians on account of it 'Taint well tew bo pussonal in a sermon. What aour folks likes best is discourses, on 'Faith' an' 'Etarnal Punishment' an' sich sub-j ects. "Tim Higsbee says as haow he heerd that sermon tew years ago in New York, an' that there wa'nt six words difference, an' he's talkln' 'boaut bringin' the matter up afore the elders; but I wouldn't worry myself 'baout that. 'Tain't likely 'it'll come tew any thing.

'Wa-al, I must be goin'. I didn't mean tew stop a minnit when I come, but you looked so kinder daown-hearted 't I thought I'd try tew cheer you up a little. Good mornin'." F. A. Stearns, in N.

Y. World. Exercise by Machinery. Yankee ingenuity has devised ma chinery for giving men exercise. A so-called sanitarium within a mile of the City Hall has the invention.

The patients who go there are mainly busi ness men. They may live a block away, but they must leave their homes and live in the sanitarium with the doctors. This is in order that they may get just the food required for each case, take the medicine at the right timo. and be put under the care of a special man or valet, who bathes them, rcrbs them and even puts them to sleep with gentle manipulation after they are in bed. They get their exercise by putting first one foot and then tho other in a sort of a shoe that is vibrated at the rate of what seems a million times a minute.

A few minutes of that beats a twenty-mile run for exercise To get exercise for the upper part of the body, they must hold an arm that moves up and down inconceivably rapidly. Five minutes of that is better than engaging in a boxing match or a fencing bout for an hour or more. Y. Sun. A party of San Bernardino (Cal.) hunters who went for a day sport had very hard luck until they hired a small bov to play the harmonica for them.

As soon as the music began the canyon swarmed with rabbits, and tho hunters loaded themselves dowa window-gazers was, as might bo expected, Mr. Nathaniel Blossom; and a quarter of an hour short of tho time of winning the wager, this gifted gentleman was admiringly eyolng tho motionless form of his accomplished friend. "It's nearly over," ho said below his breath. "He'll do it now, sure enough. Ho has actod a dummy to tho life.

Why, what the dickens is the matter with him?" Thelast ejaculation of tho astonished Nathaniel was called forth by an ex traordinary transformation which sud denly camo over tho countenance of Gustavus. Tho fuco of tho Living Dummy grow ghastly pale, and his eyes became set in wild and terror-stricken frenzy, while his limbs visibly trembled beneath him. "Ho ia going to have a fit," thought Mr. Blossom. "It has been too much for him.

I had better go in at onco and alarm Tompkins before ho falls through the glass." Turning round with this benevolent intention, Mr. Blossom immediately became aware of a presence which caused him to be come almost as violently agitatod as his unfortunate friend; for, gazing directly over his shoulder, with every feature denoting amazement and fury, stood the portly form of Chuler senior. What the general public had failed to discover, had been quickly dotectedby the patornal eye. For a second or two Chuler senior stood as if petrified, as if disregarding tho evidence of his senses; then, casting a lowering and awful ook upon his unhappy offspring, he bounded into tho shop. Hardly know ing what ho was about, Nathaniel followed.

Tompkins was standing in the middle of the shop rubbing his hands. With a wrathful brow, the scandalized candidate for first citizen ship strode up to him. "Are you the proprietor of that peepshow in tho window?" he asked, in a choky voice. Tho tailor, with a bewildered look, bowed obsequiously; he seemed in doubt as to whether the title of showman was meant as an honor or other wise. Then," thundered Chuler senior, tufning an apoplectic tint, "what inducements have you held out to my son to make an ass of himself amongst your wax monstrosities? What is the meaning of his ridiculous position, sir? Have you no better advertisement of your miserable tweeds and checks? Or is this a doliborate insult to me to me, sir an Alderman of the City of London? Speak! or I'll do you a mischief on your own premises!" Tompkins drew back and turned pale.

"It's only a little bit of a lark, sir," he said, soothingly. "Some young gent's bet. Mr. Gustavus is impersonating the Living Dummy." "Tho Living Dummy!" cried Mr. Chulor, stupolied.

"A son of Mine tho Living Dummy!" He glared at Tompkins as if the tailor had answered him with a parable. lurtner explanation, nowever, was unneeded, for at this moment the glass door which divided the shop from the window slowly opened, and the Living Dummy himself, looking very dazod and forlorn, stepped into view. The spectacle was too much for the author of his being, and the Alderman sank upon a chair. Gustavus followed his example, and, without a word, they sat and gazed at each other. For awhile Chuler senior seemed in danger of suffocation; but at last ho found his spoech.

"Send for a cab!" he gasped, faintly. Gustavus threw an imploring glance in the direction of the sneaking figure of Mr. Blossom, and that friend of his soul Instantly responded to It by going outside and hailing the vehicle re quired. Meanwhile the news had got abroad that a member of the swell-mob had been taken In the act of imper sonating one of the tailor's dummies with the object of a night attack. A Language." Our Last Duke (to the Latest American Beauty) "You.

are fond of art, Miss Ten Brock do you paint?" Miss T. Duke, you're playin' it rather low down. I reckon I don't rouge, but I dew pow der." London Funny Folks. Wife "What would you do If a lady got into a horse-car when all the- seats were occupied?" Husband "Look out of the window, to be sure. Do you think I'd be impolite enough to embarrass a woman by staring her out of countenance." Boston Globe.

The original inventor of the bell punch sold his patent for $300, and the company purchasing it made hundreds of thousands of dollars out of it. It is not known what the original inventor of the whisky-punch sold his patent for, but hundreds of thousands of dollars have been made out of thatr too. Norristown Herald. Not Portable Property. Mrs.

Hob-son (to caller) "Oh! by the way, Mrs. Van Blunt, did you know that my husband left the bank, and is spending a few days in Canada?" Mrs. Van Blunt "Why, no; that is a surprise to me. And so he really left the bank?" Mrs. Hobson "Yes." Mrs.

Van Blunt 'Too heavy, I supposeP" N. Y. Sun. "Mary, suppose you sing some thing." "Oh, it's so late, Charlie. I'm afraid it'll awake every one." "That's too bad," exclaimed Charlie, with, very appearance of distress.

"But why do you want me to sing, dear she tenderly inquired. "Wny, you see," he replied, "a fellow I owe twenty-five dollars has been waiting outside all the evening for me, and I thought maybe if you'd sing a little he'd go away. BEARDS LONG How They Were Worn by the Ancient Saxons, Normans and Greeks. -v ci i i i i. .1 wur oaxon ancestors ueuguwu- ia wearing long, forked beards; the Normans, on the contrary, at the period of the conquest, not only shaved their chins, but also the back part of their heads.

They had not, however, been ong established In England before they permitted their beards to grow to extravagant dimensions. Long beards were also in fashion in the reign of Richard and continued so until the-time of Henry after whose reign they grew fine by degrees and beauti fully less, until a beard was as rare as the dado. But the reformation came to the rescue of the beard, and in this. way: After the separation of the Greek and Latin churches the practice of shaving became a religious duty among; the Roman ecclesiastics, by way of op position to the Greeks, who, to this day. have continued to pay reverence to a well-clad chin, and are greatly shocked by the beardless Images of saints in the Latin churches.

The shaving of the chin by the clergy was imperatively commanded by various statutes in the. Romish church. By the monastic laws the lay monks were commanded to let their beards grow, and only the priests to shave; and a writer, previous to the reformation, complains that the manners of the clergy had become so corrupt that they could not be distinguished from the laity by their actions, but only by their want of beards. Consequently the early reformers suffered their beards to grow, to distinguish them from the adherents to Rome; and the reformation becoming general in England, the beard by this means came into fashion. As io the shapes of the beard worn by our forefathers, they seem to have been of infinite variety.

At a period when almost all the men wore swords. and those weapons were frequently drawn to decide verv trifling nu.irrala. 1 a beard cut to look terrible to an enemy was, probably, no small advantage to the wearer. London Standard. Free Press.

bor, woo. over tho tailor to his cause, the alderman was the first to come out with ganio..