The Fremont Weekly Star from Fremont, Kansas • 3

TJnvfiV Wrftiriir. FACT AND FANCY. A Delinquent Elephant. Plucky Nellie Bly. No young writer has ever leaped in Cleveland was the first ami only president Shortly beforo our arrival one of the to such sudden fame in Now York as to visit the city of Memphis, Tenu.

animals had greatly disgraced himself Miss Nellie Bly, who did that luuatic The hitherto un progressive town of Biith, by refusing to carry a certain weight asylum exposure for the New York is about to have a line of horse-cars. of goods which'. had been piled his World. Sho is a bright, handsomo back, lucre is the regulation weight and tho beasts know to an ounce what young lady, less than twenty years old, hev oiiffht to carrv. and if anv of tho who came to tho metropolis from Pitts mahouts attempt to put a surplus burg a few months ago, and pluckily undertook.to make her living by news amount on his or their backs it is immediately shot onto the ground.

The In writing his novels Scott never seemed to have the slighest idea what was going to happen, or how it was to happen, though, as a matter of fact, it generally did happen, deligtfuily if irregularly Dickens is to have been very careful about his schemes, though if any man can explain to me what the plot of 'Little Dorritt" is; why Mr. Tulkinghorn chose in thaC entirely irrational and unprofitable manner to persecute Lady Ded-lock why anything, no intaler what, as it actually does happen in "Hard Times," happens; and what the sense of Estella's general conduct is in "Great Expectations," he will do more than I have ever been able to do for myself, nr ihnn nnv nno aIsa has hfton ahlp. in animal in question had been duly laden paper work in tho great city. Sho deceived tho expert physicians who ex with a weight which was under tho regulation scale; but although it had amined her, and pronouncing her in sane they cons'gncd her to one of the been twtco weighed, as Mrs. Gamp would say, beforo his own eyes, he still refused to carry it This was too much for oyen his indulgent driver, so ho accordingly reported, and just as wo arrived ho was about to be tried for his extraordinary' and obstinate cnn.

Tcu thousand chrysanthemums adorned lh public grounds at this summer. Samuel Taylor bagged Beventy-two blackbirds in, three shots uear May's Landiu-j, Oregon hunters report ducks, geese, and swans coming in in large numbers which is considered a sign cl approaching stormy weather. Says The ftlot Point (Tex.) Mirror: "Tho editor put on his hard-boiled shirt and scissor-tail coat and split the wind for Dallas lust Tuesday." Mis. E. rarker, of Home, proposes to 60lve the Chinese question by replacing the Chiueso servants with "ueedy gentlewomen" from England.

A retiring editor of a Nevada paper wrote: 'Thanking an overindulgcnt public for not having mebbed me long since, I am sincerely theirs to serve," etc. A brass key, used as a sinker by a Yarmouth, N. citizen, was carried away by a fish, and several day slater was found in a pot one mile away. Bears are killing a great number of sheep iu Franklin county, Maiue, notwithstanding the repeated efforts on the part of the fanners to rid the couutry of ursine marauders. duct.

Several elephants were led out into a largo courtyard, forming a kind Of circlo round tho delinquent, who seemed already to feel his position do for me. Thackeray's sins (if in novel writing it be not bias phemy to say that Thackeray sinned at all) are gross, palpable, and for the matter of that, confessed by the sinner. In particular, if any one will try to arrange tho chronology of the various Pendenuis books, insane wards of Island, where she dwelt among horrors for ton days, noting down in her quick brain all that she saw and heard. The old song says: 'Nellie Bly, shuts her evo Sr When she goes to sleep," but she seems never to have closed a peeper during the whole of that trying ordeal. Her narrative of the horrors of the place tho ind fferenco of doctors, the neglect and cruel tv of nurses and the tortures inflicted upon the unfortunates, is told in a plain, straightforward manner anl attests at once to her humanity and truth.

It will bo strange if the story of Nellie Bly does impel sonic reforms at Blackwell's Inland. Texas Sif tings. acutely, for he glanced anxiously from time to time at his. mahout, who was visibly affoctcd, and who stood by his head. A karen presided over the court-martial and read aloud tho in-dictmont against tho offender, tho ele and if his hair does not turn while in phants which constituted tho jury apparently listening with groat attention.

After tho statement was finished and the process, he may be guaranteed ugiliust any uuuessuv iui jeiuNU ai.a- tho mahout examined, who, by tho An American philanthropist of wealth Is way, gavo his evidence. with great re luctance, tho karen decided that the said to have subscribed recently for the founding, of a university in China. The matter of Its location Is now being considered in that country. In China the rule of the road is to keep to the left, but the cooly bearers can't bo taught to mind it, and there arc frequent collisions, which the women or others Iu the jiurlehsuas or sedan chairs are badly hurt. There is a movement In the commercial and case had been distinctly proved, and the culprit was adjudged the punishment of twenty strokes.

Upon the announcement of tho verdict the jury marched in a most solemn manner to a. distant part of the yard and' returned with a switch about as largo as a fair sized scaffold pole. if In the moantimo tho mahout liad been addressing tho offender, who was now weeping copiously, largo drops of tears falling from his eyes, and occasionally a shrill and peculiar sound issued from his capacious throat. The executioners of tho law were at hand, and stood about twelve to fourteen font, nnort- nnnVi lin In cr wifli nnnn. business circles of San Francisco to form a "public-defense committee" to aid in sup pressing crimes which are now corrupting ingfrom similarly hopeless intellectual labor.

Of course these things are usually very small 'faults, except in cases such as that where, out of sheer" good nature and deference to, old friends, Scott spoil the finale of "St. Kenan's Well" cases in which the carelessness or wilful indifference to keeping the house in order really hurts the story. But, they are faults, and I think that on the whole the tendency in average novel writing during the last twenty years has been to correct them. Again, the average writing of said novels is de-tydedly better, and generally speaking, a distinct advance lias buen made in in the minor details of craftsmanship. There are one pr.

two popular writers could mention one in particular, if the object here were not to be as little personal as may4 be) who still sin flagrantly, in the old direction of taking fair pains over the first and third volume and fline-ino- to the nublic the public'olheers and defeating justice The lovers' promenade around Clarksville How We'll Marry By and By. "Marriage is getting to bo a Arco and divorce a plaything." announced Rabbi Henry lliowizi in his paper before the liberal ivstcrs "It is th's state of things that caused a witty lawyer to proparo a new formula: -Mr. Smith, he would have the officiating party say to a would-be bridegroom, 'is it your linn purpose to make this pleasant lady your wife until you meet one more It 'Miss Jones, you havo made up your mind to bo the wife of Mr. Smith until lose your temper and tire of "Then I pronounco you man and wife until some court shall part Minneapolis Journal has been deserted lately; owlug to the presence of a pet deer which had been in tho habit of making vicious attacks upon the Lliar nicety in his trunk the aforesaid young people who frequeuled the resort Iu London a short time ago two ragpickers were sent to jail for spcuding for neccpsary aitic'es a sovereign they found in a castaway coat. The justice said the poor devils should have reiorted the find to the police.

A New York World reporter figures out that Jay Gould's trip across In the UmbrU will cost him about $2,000. The captain's cabin Is 1500, the six choice staterooms $'203, and then the party are to have private dining-room and other extras. There is a secret agent of the Mormon church In Portlaud, who for years has worked for his cause without detection. It Is said that be has made a number of converts In Maine The Cause of His Triumph. "It seems that young Hurley is quite 9 lion in socitety now?" The adored of all adorers." 'What's the cause of it? I seo nothing particularly attractive about him." He struck a vein of coal on his farm the other day." Nebraska Stale Journal.

0 0 j. slovenliest botch of a second that it is likely to tolerate. But this want of literary conscience and literary self-respect is much rarer than it used to be, and appeari to regarded by younger hands especially, with proper disgust Fortnightly Review. He Had Reasons. Among the vehicles on the market the other day was a one-horse wagon in which was a barrel of cider.

A citi and Massachusetts, and has shown his faith by his works, having taken seven wives. Corea receutly broke down her ancient bar rlera so far as to send an envoy to Japan, but the government was so poor that It could not support him, and, soon coming to tho end of AncHt Served Him Right his resources, he had to ask aid of the Japa ncse goverumcut to avoid being put in desper A lady whose husband had a severe zen who was evidently spying around for something of the sort approached ate straits. cold recommended flaxseed lemonade. "Huh," he said irascibly, "a man can't have a cold without everybody suggesting some fool remedy, I'll the owner of the cider and asked: "Is your cider new "Of course." "Make it out of apples Certainly fdid." "Reduce it with water "No, sir." send for a doctor." switch. The culprit was led up to tho place, and as ho passed number one there was a sound hoard which resembled somewhat a sharp clap of thunder; it was tho first blow delivered by tho dread myrmidons of tho blow was followed by a sharp, shrill scream, although there was evidently an attempt on tho part of the culprit to suppress any exhibition of pain.

This punishment continuod until the whole of the scntenco had been car ried out Although I felt considerable sympathy with the unfortunate, delinquent I was at tho same time intensely amused with tho thorough business like air with which these ministers of justice carried out the sentence. There were no light blows delivered; but. as a matter of fact, each elephant determined to administer a heavier blow than his neighbor, and the sly twinkle in the eyo as the blow was delivered was a sight to see. Primrose Magazine. He Didn't Call Ajcaln.

A Brooklyn young man with modest bank account and bright prospects, but without the remotest desire to become a benedict, at least at present, thinks he met the great crisis of his life last summer. won't mention any names," he said, "as I tell tho story simply as a joke on me. You know I want to have ray fling. I like to take young ladies to tho theatre and opera and to dancing receptions. I am particularly fond of having a brjght young creature bosido me when I take "an afternoon drive.

Well, I met a charming young woman of about 80 at Saratoga. Her folks were there. On my third drive with her we chatted quite affectionately, and as we parted for the evening she tenderly said: Do you care if I tell my mamma of your affection for me? I am 20 years old, and if I live to be 80 I never expect to be floored as I was when that question camo creeping in my ears. She, bless her, knew that a man can only be happy with a 'Charming woman, for his life companion, but I wasn't quite ready to. be convinced.

I stammered that perhaps it would be advisable to defer informing her mamma until I called again. I left the springs tho next morning on the first train, and haveVt seen my fair questioner since." New York Sun'. So the doctor came, charged the sick man $2 for his visit, and advised flax seed lemonade. New York Sun. "Are those straws around the bung real wheat straws from the farm, or Where Ho Fooled Himself.

A man dishonest enough to engage only artificial?" "What do you take me for indig nantly exclaimed the farmer. to do the work, take pay for it, and then not to do it, would be commonly "Keep cool, my friend. Were the supposed to be equal to any kind of apples windfalls or, regular cider an thieving, provided the chances for discovery seemed slight. But such a The military marches accomplished by the ancients were fully equal to those of tho modern soldiers. In the second Punic war Claudius Nero performed the most wonderful feat of the kind on record' by marching a picked body of 1,000 horse and 6,000 foot 225 miles In six days.

Once everybody used to send silver plate for wedding presents, but now cut glass and br'c-a-brac are the rage. A Philadelphia bride received s6 many of the latter that she can hardly find house-room for them. Out of two hundred presents she received not one was In the silver line. The final extinction of the seal otter at the Aleutian Iflunds, on the Pacific coast, seems criaiu. The Russians made such havoc among them that at the time Alaska was sold to the Uulted States only four or five hundred a year were taken, and they arc growing scarcer and scarcer.

A committee citizens from Jacksonville, has recommended that the resignation of a telegraph operator In that city be accepted, and that any pay due for services bo withheld, because he told the female ojwiator at Tiilla-basse that there were 350 cases-of-yellow fever in Jacksonville. The death is announced of "Granny." the sea anemone which was one of the features of Interest to scicut fie men at the Botanic gardens, Edinburgh. "Granny" was taken from a ol In north Berwick in 132-3, and there Is a con tin nous record of Its existence since. It 1 knowu to have lived at least alxty-sevea years. "You go on! I don't believe you fellow missed a rare chance the other day He took a carpet from a house ever saw cider made!" "Ah! old boy, -there's tho pinch! to clean, and brought it back without 1 Cltf 1 1 useu to maiio zw uarieis a year iu.

a ever having opened it. The woman cellar up the street, and the only use who was to put it down, judged by the we made of apples was to keep a peck dirt that this was tho case, but when she found a diamond stud among the in the window up stairs for a bund! Tnir buying now, and that's why I'm so Free Presi. dirt she had the" unanswerable testi mony. A member of the family had lost the stud s'x mouths previous. What could be more delicious than the ex Stick to Coffee.

The consumption of coffee in Eng land is on the decrease. A bad sign pression of the rascal's face when con fronted with such evidence of his 1 Ittoieans more beer. The coffee drink- knaveryand a lost opportunity? hations are temperate. Atlanta Boston Herald. Constitution..