The Republican Citizen from Paola, Kansas • 8

FllirjLTE TJIEL Till A LS. the cjaiLnitEir. THE BIRDIES' BALL. BY CAPITOL.A BLACK. L.

J. PERRY, Eduob. screen by means of a stereopticon and the Dnuumond light. All sections of the city to le represented. Your baby may be there." The portraits have been obtained from the various photographers.

wise ironns. properties of a substance so cheap and universal. When the body is weak, the body fatigued, and the whole system in a state of lassitude, just go into the open air, and take a few vigorous inspirations and expirations, and the effect will be instantly perceived. The individual trying the experiment "will feel PAOIiA- KANSAS. JLS TEIIBSTING DATES.

a more energetic, enterprising man than himself who has drummed up work, and by tricks and arts in vogue with the profession gets hold of the figures given in on the job. Having done this he cuts. It makes but little difference what the figure is; he follows out the one instinct of his small soul and cuts it He takes work at a figure on which honorable men in the trade would not touch. If you are disposed to cut rates, count the cost. Why' not give your real figure first and stick to it.

Once cut to a customer, and you will always have to cut to keep him. CUItliEXT ITEMS. invigorated and stimulated, the blood will course with freshness, the lungs will work with increased activity, the whole frame will feel revivified, and na ture's stimulant will be found the best. THE OTJTCJLSTS. BY PArii M.

BUSSELIi. Back of England opened Jan. 1, 1695. Sir Edward Coke born Feb. 1, 1552.

Jefferson Davis born June 3, 1808. First Methodist Conference held June 25, 1744. Santa Anna banished Jan. 15, 1845. Galvani died Feb.

4, 1790. Frederick the Great born Jan. 24, 1712. Selkirk exiled to Juan Fernandez Oct. 4,1704.

Battle of Ball's Bluff Oct 21, 1861. Humboldt went to Chimborazo Jan. 23, 1802. First overland mail to California Oct. 10, 1858.

Amerigo Vespnciidied Feb. 22, 1512. BY M. QUAD. "By gum!" Mr.

and Mrs. Defoe sat before a cheerful fire in their home. There had been a long period of silence, when Mr. Defoe suddenly exclaimed as above. "What is it, dear?" she responded.

"Say, we've got tired of playing games and what do you say to private theatricals?" "How?" Why, well get three or four of the neighbors to join in, and we'll meet at each other's houses and have regular plays." That will be splendid she gasped. "Hanged if it won't! Wonder we never thought of it before. Twenty dollars will get us all the scenery we want, and each one can furnish his own wardrobe. By gum we've got the idea now What sort of a play could we play she asked, as he marched up and down with tragic step. I have it aha he exclaimed, as he stopped short Don't you remember I started to write a play about five years ago? IU finish it and well bring it out Now let's see how the characters run.

There is the Count Dumdoff, Grandly rolls the Missouri in its head There Is a kind of conscience, khm men keep, la like a member that's benumbed mith sleep; Which, mm it gathers blood, and wakes again. It shoots, and pricks, and feels as big as ten. Qxiarle. A pouxd of care will not pay a pound of debt The key to every man is his thought Casual thoughts are sometimes of great value. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Hazlitt. Exvx is a passion so full of confidence and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it Iloehcsier. The mind of youth cannot remain empty; if you do not put into it that which is good, it will gather elsewhere that which is eviL There is no time in a man's life when he is so great as when he cheerfully bows long course. Along its sloping banks the fragrant flower-buds stoop to kiss its sun-lit waters.

From its swelling bosom to the far-off hills, nature spreads out her verdant carpet, and variegates it with colored petals. On a neighboring grass-clad hill, a tall, tapering spire holds the warning dial, and points to MacMahon resigned being President Charles Reade was born in the year 1814. A hope that has hanged eighteen men is gazed on with awe in a Cleveland museum. Emile ZoLa works from 9 in the morning to 1 o'clock, writing about five printed pages. The exploration of the Sahara desert with a view to the construction of a railway across it has now fairly begun.

The law of New Hampshire provides that when a legal holiday falls upon a Sunday the preceding day shall be heaven. Around it cluster cottages; and modest mansions raise their roofs amid the patriarchal village trees. A range of lofty mountains leaves its pro file on the southern sky, and, gazing up its frosty sides, its wind-swept summits seem to pierce the ethereal blue. who is in love with Geraldine the Fair. Above the dark green leaves of swaying Spring once aaid to the Nightingale, I'm going to give you birds a ball rrty, ma'am, ak the birdies all, The birds and the birdiea, great and amaS.

CHomca Tra, la, la, to, etc Soon they came from bosh and tree. Singing sweet their song of glee Each one draved in its Sunday best, Each one fresh from its cozy neat. The Cuckoo and Wren ther danced for lire. The Raven waltzed with the YeOowbird'a wife. The awkward Owl and the bavhfu Jay Wished each other a very good-day.

The WoodUrd came from bia bole in the tree. And brought his bin to the company For the cherriea ripe and the berries red, Twaa a very long bin, ao the birdiea said. They danced a day, till the son was low, Till the mother bird prepared to go; Then one and an, both great and small. Flew home to their nenta from the birdie' baS. FLEASAXTItlES.

Ships are frequently on speaking terms, and they lie to. "What on earth takes you off to the stable so early every morning lately?" asked a woman of her husband, "Curry hossity." "Soldiers must be fearfully dishonest," said Mrs. Partington. "It seems, to be an occurence every night for a sentry to be relieved of his watch." A householder in Troy, in filling np his census schedule, under the column "where born," described one of his children "born in the parlor" and the other "up stairs." "Appointment" and "interment" is. a rhyme sent in by a poet this "morning.

If he will kindly make the former, we will guarantee that he will get the latter. Xcw Haven licgisier. That was a triumphal appeal of the lover of antiquity, who, in arguing the superiority of old architecture over the new, said: "Where will you find any modern building that has lasted so long-as the ancient?" Detroit Free Irc: Six medical New York experts examined a man as to his sanity and were evenly divided. After they had wrangled about it for a-week it was discovered they had examined the wrong person altogether. Pkofessob VWhich is the more delicate of the senses Sophomore "The touch." Professor "Prove it" Sophomore "When you sit on a tack.

You can't hear it; you can't see it; you can't t-uite it you can't smell it but it's there." I am going to a ball, Baby mine, baby mine! yon dare to np and aquaS, Baby mine, baby mine Dad" will star at home with you. He will rpank you, if you do Spank yon till you Ye black and blue, Baby mine, baby mine A little girl at Chambersburg, was called upon in a. Sunday-school to say a text from the scriptures. When the time came she had forgotten her of France Jan. 30, 1879.

Cervantes born Oct. 9, 1547. Victor Emmanuel crowned King Feb. 26, 1861. Yictor Emmanuel died Jan.

10, 1878. Dickens died June 9, 1870. Maximilian shot June 19, 1867. Humbert declared King of Italy Jan. 6, 1878.

Big Bethel fight June 10, 1861. Harriet Martineau born June 12, 1802. Edward Everett died Jan. 15, 1865. Second war with England began June 18, 1812.

Gen. Muhlenberg born Oct. 1, 1746. Senator O. P.

Morton, ex-Governor of Indiana, died Nov. 1, 1877. Mobile taken Aug. 5, 1864. Burr and Hamilton duel fought July 16, 1804.

Battle of Corunna Jan. 16, 1809. Oliver Goldsmith died April 4, 1774. Mormons reached Utah July 24, 1847. Marco Bozzaris died Aug.

20, 1823. Arndt died Jan. 29, 1860. Handel died April 13, 1759. Talleyrand died May 14, 1838.

Audubon born May 4, 1780. New South "Wales settled Jan. 26, 1789. Crystal Palace opened in New York May 1, 1851. Thaddeus Stevens died Aug.

11, 1868. to the necessity of his position, and makes the best of it How little the all-important art of making our meaning pellucid is studied now! Hardly any popular writer, except myself, thinks of it Many seem to aim at being obscure. Indeed, they may be right enough in one sense; for many readers give credit for profundity to whatever is obscure, and call all that is perspicuous shallow. But Coraggio! and think of A. D.

2850. Where will your Emerson be then? But Herodotus will still be read with delight We must do our best to be read, too. Macaulay. THE XE H'SPA PER AS AX EDUCATOR. In the course of an able letter on the Do ye hear the children weeping, 0 my brothers! Ere the sorrow comes with years They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears.

Elizabeth B. Brmcning. These lines are taken from a very pathetic poem which was written a few years ago, on the factory children of England, and I think they now aptly describe the children of our streets; that is, the poor little waifs who congregate to beg and to steal, in all the main thoroughfares of our large cities. They are an incongruous, unsightly mass, and are passed by, alas! with averted faces! Children whose lives, from babyhood up to their care-aged childhood, have been a fight with bitter poverty and baleful misery, and whose poor, little, pinched faces plead for "the milk of human kindness," and to be fed with "a hand open as day for melting charity." Is it wonderful that the fair pages of our country's annals are stained through their lengthand breadth with crime, when such children as these are passed by with a scoff and a sneer? No, I think not; for it is just at this stage of their lives, when good or bad impressions are easily received and retained, that they turn to the easy, downward paths of sin. "What more can we expect of children who, like B.

L. Farjeon's "blade o' grass," are continually gnawed at by "the tiger," (hunger); and when women, who are supposed to possess hearts, care more for their dogs than for these wretched waifs of the street. Adelaide Proctor writes it thus: It is cold, dark midnight; yet listen To the patter of tiny feet. Is it one of your dogs, fair lady, Who whines in the bleak, sold street? Is it one of your silken spaniels, Shut out in the snow and sleet? My dogs sleep warm in their blankets. Safe from the darkness and snow; Those are only the homeless children Who are wandering to and fro.

I will do humanity the justice to say, I never yet have met anyone as cold and utterly heartless as this; who is so little above the brute or, I should rather say, who fallen so far, even, below the brute nature. Mary Kyle Dallas says: "People who habitually put little children out of their hearts must have very little to live for," and I heartily agree with her; for who can help but love the merry, happy, little ones that cluster around our own firesides, with faces like Raphaels' cherubs, so fair and angelic. And oh! that all would pity those who bear the deep brand of misery, and, alas! are too often touched with the stamp of sin. Remember, even as ye do it unto the least of these ye do it unto Me," and who said it. White Hall, Pa.

HUMOR OF NEWSPAPERS. The American journalist possesses a fund of dry humor which he knows well how to apply. He is famous for insulting by implication few the art better. A Californian editor invested in a mule, and the fact was chronicled under the heading, "Remarkable instance of self-possession." Said one Milwaukee editor of another: He is one of the few journalists who can put anything in his mouth without fear of its stealing' anything;" and when a "Western editor wrote, "We cannot tell forest trees the feathered songster floats on waves of air, and flowers and meadows listen to its soft tones of supernal harmony. And zephyrs, ever restless, whisper legends through every village chimney and vine-clad window-lattice; and the church spire moans at night when listening to their stories.

Chronicled within the annals of the village is a tale, strange but pathetic. Ijong before the cross-crowned spire arose, amid the forest trees, vice ruled supreme in every hamlet. At length, He whose watchful eye observes through endless space sent fragrant zephyrs from above to dispel the tainted atmosphere. And now the glorious orb of night silently reflected sunlight on manor house and hut, where virtue has her home. It had been decreed by the village fathers that those who forsook not the IU be the Count, of course, as he is the hero.

He kills four men, rescues Geraldine from several dangers, and there is a good deal of kissing and love-making and a happy marriage And I'll be Geraldine." "You! Oh, you couldn't play that part. She must be young and vivacious. Let's see I think I'll cast you for Hannah, who keeps a bakery near a park in Paris." "I'd like to see myself playing Hannah in a bakery, I would she defiantly answered. "If you can play Dumdoff I know I can play Geraldine." Oh, no you can't, my love. You are a little stiff in the knees, and how you'd look throwing yourself into my arms as the villains pursue.

I shall cast that little Widow D. for Geraldine." "Then there'll be two Geraldinesof us li you can play Dumdoff with your lame back and catarrh I know I can play Geraldine with this little lameness in my left knee." Now you listen to reason, Mrs. Defoe. You aren't built for a Geraldine; above subject Dr. Gregory, President of the Illinois Industrial University, writes as follows It is peculiarly fitting that our newspapers shall devote some of their columns to the direct advocacy and promotion of popular education.

As the exponents of the national life, the interpreters of national ideas, and the leaders in national enterprise, the great newspapers former avenues of 7 vice should seek the paths of exile. As the sun arose, one morning, tingeing the lingering autumn leaves with brighter hues, a leaf-strewn avenue received upon its flinty bosom the foot-falls of a passing throng. Four among that moving crowd had been con First Bankrupt act Jan. 4, 1800. Dark day in New England, May 19, 1788.

Delaware bay discovered Aug. 28, The new gambling law for Arizona requires each house wherein gaming is carried on to pay a quarterly license of 500, one-half go to the school-fund. A bull-fight without bloodshed or danger would be a queer affair; but this is what an enterprising Spaniard proposes to introduce in New York. A man in Naugatuck, has invented a new India-rubber shoe, called the "Zephyr," which weighs less than two ounces, and can be carried in a lady's pocket. An Ohio woman, before drowning herself iu a shallow trough, strapped her head down in the water, for fear that her courage might fail her when she began to smother.

About fifty weddings have taken place in the Oneida Community since their peculiar marriage doctrines were renounced. There are over 300 adults in the establishment. The water-power of Newton county, Tex.j is said to be sufficient to manufacture the entire cotton crop of the State into cloth, and the cotton-seed crop into oil and oil-cake. The eloquence of a Wisconsin divine on the iniquity of any money dealings on the Sabbath had such a telling effect on his enthralled audience that not a cent appeared in the collection plate. M.

Louis Favre, the engineer-in-chief who built the St Gothard tunnel, fell dead in the tunnel on' the eve of the completion of the boring. His bust in marble is to be placed over the entrance. There is being shipped from a quarry near the Hot Springs, a stone of the finest quality for hones and whetstones. A large shipment has been made direct to Sorgnes, near Marseilles, France. A 7-year-old girl, left alone with her infant sister, in Cincinnati, was found fatally burned when her mother returned.

"Why didn't you call for help?" the mother asked. 'Cause I was afraid of waking baby," was the dying child's reply. Whex the Czarina of Russia alighted from the railway car which took her to you are too fat; your feet are too large; you haven't got the voice for it" "And you'd make a pretty Count Dumdoff, you would!" she fired back. "You want to get that crook out of your back, that bald head shingled over, your mouth repaired and your demned to exile; and, as they spoke their last farewell, they sought the distant mountain path which led to other hearths and homes. They were four; two with strong arms and manly brows, and two whose womanly lineaments surpassed the sculptor's noblest thought.

Though not akin, two souls were stained with guilt; two there were as chaste as lilies that spread their petals on the crystal lake. They reached the mountain side, and the male attendants of the group, still feigning future aid, departed one by one, and left their tender care to night and to the coming storm. 1609. Marshall elected Chief Justice of the United States Jan. 31, 1801.

Earthquake in Hayti May 7, 1842. Malte-Brun born Aug. 12, 1775. Iiueretia Mott born Jan. 3, 1793.

"Washington city incorporated May 3, 1802, Wilberforce born Aug. 24, 1759. Burning of Moscow, Sept. 16, 1812. Battle of Monterey Sept.

24, 1846. Columbus sailed from Spain on his first voyage Aug. 3, 1492. Whitfield died Sept. 30, 1770.

Fight between Constitution and Guer-riere Aug. 18, 1812. Garrison mob' in Boston Oct. 21, 1835. Battle of Eutaw Springs, Sept.

9, 1781. Sherman starts for the sea Nov. 16, 1864. Chicogo Ledger. onght not to ignore, nor to support with mere chance and scanty notice, the educational eys-tem and machinery a system which costs the largest part of our revenues and holds under its fostering care the childhood and youth, constituting nearly one-third of the population.

The special educational papers and periodicals are steadily advancing in character and influence, but their circulation is confined chiefly to teachers. We must look to the newspaper press to bring this always-growing interest home to the masses of the people to lift yet higher the national love of learning, and to rouse a yet wider and juster sense of our need a higher education, for the sake of our great industries and our widening political destinies. Columns of carefully-prepared matter are given to our commercial interests. Let other columns, filled with equal care, be given to our civilization, and especially to those educational agencies which nourish both commerce and civilization. Nor do I forget that the newspapers and periodicals of this country are themselves an important part of our educational system.

Every editor is a teacher a teacher of men as weU as of children. The newspaper is the freshest of books. It is the latest history, the newest science treatise, the current political economy, the manual of the arU, the text-book of a living philosophy. That school-room, other things being equal, will be brightest freshest and most productive in practical learning into which the eyes touched up with a paint-brush! I think I see you killing four villains ha! ha! ha!" Woman, do not anger me!" he said in a deep-toned voice, as he rose up. "And don't you anger your Geraldine, either!" Geraldine! Why, you don't know a sky-border from a flat!" Dumdoff! And you don't know a Skye-terrier from the big fiddle in the orchestra!" 'Tis well! We'll have no playing here!" "Then you needn't When I play Hannah in a bakery to let you hug and kiss the Widow D.

or any other woman all over the stage you'll be three or four Count Dumdoffs." "Ill burn the play, jealous woman!" If you don't I will, vain man!" Then they sat down and resumed their former occupation of looking into the fire, and the disturbed cat went back to her rug and her dreams. verse, but from the general knowledge of Holy Writ she solemnly quoted, Little children should be seen and not heard." A green young man saw for the first time a school-girl going through some of her gymnastic exercises for the amusement of the little ones at home. After gazing at her with looks of interest and commiseration for some time, he asked a boy near by: "Has that gal got fits?" "Xo," replied the lad, contemptuously. "That's gymnastics." "Oh, 'tis, hey?" replied the verdant "How long has she hed 'en?" Lord Beaconsfteld once said of Mr. Gladstone that he was a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance Silently, steadily, fell the flakes of i snow from heaven, and earth put on her robe of white.

Night passed, and night returning brought the stars to heaven and darkness to the earth. Climbing at morning over the snowy crags, two travelers paused before a snow-roofed tent, and, looking in, be a lie; it wo cold yesterday;" his rival. held on a couch of snow two beauteous forms, death-touched and silent. quoted the remark with the addition, The latter statement is incontrovertible; but the former?" Said an Idaho journal: "The wreather has been hot again for the last few days the only re newspaper penetrates. EXTRAORDINARY REQUESTS.

People in high places are sometimes recipients of strange requests. A gentleman once wrote to a celebrated physician, asking him to send him a copy of the prescription which he had given him some years before, when the doctor could hardly recall the man, much less the prescription. Others would ask him to go to a druggist's and get some particular medicine. A very busy clergyman of our acquaintance, while visiting Scotland, and busy with many things, once got a letter from a stranger in the United States, explaining that more than a cent Thus the press and the school need, and may aid, each other. They are the twin agents of an advancing civilization.

Let either be absent in any nation and the other could not exist or would exist with crippled power. United and co-working, nothing can resist their massive energy and influence. It is not sufficient that the paper simply offer its columns to volunteer efforts. Experience proves that to be useless. Not thus are the commercial columns filled.

But let an experienced' and paid writer be employed to give his time to this work! The material is ample, the field is inviting; the good fruit will be abundant lief we could get was to lie down on the Herald and cover ourselves with the Bulletin there is a great coolness between them." This kind of coolness often brings about an amusing interchange of incivilities. A Michigan journalist declared in his paper that a certain editor had seven toes. The slandered man thereupon relieved his mind in a "leader' denouncing the Abisgtox, Maes. A TRAMP'S HOTEL. This morning there were 119 prisoners at the Madison Street Station.

All but a dozen of this number were taken from a 5-cent lodging house on the northeast corner of Washington and Clinton streets. The place was raided by the police a little after 9 o'clock. In a single basement-room were, crowded nearly 200 tramps and loafers, filthy beyond description. They had no bedding of any either feather or straw, and nothing about them but the reeking and steamy atmosphere. The officers were nearly suffocated by the stench.

The bed accommodations consisted of shelving put up on all sides of the room. A stove in the center of ury ago some one of the name of owned a property near Edinburgh which was believed to have been destined by will in a particular way, so that the relatives in America thought they had some claim to it. He was requested to inquire into the matter, find out about the will, communicate with the present owners of the property, and put everything in train for a just settlement of the claim. It would have been reasonable for the writer to inclose a bill for $500, but that, unfortunately, lie omitted to do. Moral never ask unreasonable favors from busy men.

St Petersburg, on her return from her last journey to Italy, she exclaimed "Alas! I have done with traveling. Farewell railroads farewell coaches and locomotives. My next conveyance will be the hearse." A farmer at Rochester, told his wife that 800, which they had saved by many years of industry and economy, had been stolen. He was mistaken, for within an hour he found the treasure where he had mislaid it; but the wife had already died of heart disease, in consequence of the shock. Oliver Doud Byron has made a fortune in personating the heroes of blood-and-thunder melo-dramas.

He attributes his success to the finding of a horseshoe. His luck, which had been uniformly bad, changed from the day that he picked the long-sought treasure out of a muddy street in New York. A Montreal butcher pleaded guilty to having sold a woman meat that ivas unfit for human food, but the court discharged him upon the plea of his counsel that according to the existing law the court had no power to punish a man for selling bad meat, but only for exposing for sale such meat After a telegraph pole had fallen on 4 Savannah negro's head, he threw np his hands and shouted Don't hit me again wid yer club, Mr. Policeman. It wasn't me that stole der chickens.

It was Deacon Henry." Then he looked, statement as unwarranted, and its author as devoid of truth and a scoundrel to boot. The offending gentleman replied that he never wished it to be understood that all the seven toes were upon one foot, and the victim of the sell was thoroughly laughed at. When a Western editor wrote, are living at this moment under a despotism," his opponent kindly explained: "Our contemporary means to say he has lately got married." -A. newspaper writer asserts that his ancestors had been in the habit of living 100 years to which another responds: must have been before the introduction of capital pun of his own verbosity, etc It is now Glad tone's turn to style Lord Beacons-field a meretricious mercator sublimated with the efflorescence of his own medulla oblongata, who has precipitated an avalanche of contumelious obloquy upon the devoted pericrania of his compatriots, and who is now about to be relegated to the Acheron tic oblivion whicli, in the gorgeous imagery of his own Oriental vernacular, fits him like the papers on the wall. Puck: Says the Xew Haven Ucgister: It seems to be no use to try to shut off this sort of thing: When the enterprising poet int writing, Iunt writing.

Some melancholy vereea about love. About love, It to safe to say that be win be inditing. Be inditing, A sonnet on the whiteness of the dove. Of the dove. When the young and tender ecbooj-frfri tent think, tng, Im think Of the time bcn fbe will be allowed to vctr, "Lowed to vote, The chancea are that ahe to coyly bunking.

Coyly bunking, At acme young man in a sebra overcoat. Overcoat. KNOCKING AT THE DOOR. "I tell yer, Mr. Johnson, fortune knocks at every man's luick door once in a lifetime," said an old darky to his neighbor, on hearing him complaining of the hard timeA No fortune neber knocked at dis chile's back door," replied the disconsolate individual, mournfully, "I know dat" "Perhaps he corned round when you wan't dar," said the first But I say he nelwr knocked." An' how do you know Just tell me dat" Well, 'cause I ain't got no back door for him to knock at" responded Mr.

Johnson with an air of triumph. the apartment gave out a stupefying heat, which, with the heavy air, forced an unnatural sleep. On one shelf were three wooden-legged men. Scattered about were the' victims of foul diseases, the maimed, halt and blind a motley group of castaways upon the shoals of misfortune. The work of removing the vagrants to the station was as expeditious as possible, FASHION.

When the vagaries of fashion interfere with health, it is time to check them. Persistent mischief is done by the practice of binding a veil tightly round the face in such a way that not only is the sight obscured, but the eyes are mechanically irritated by the fabric clouding them. Cases of something worse than mental annoyance and "nervousness," distinctly traceable to this cause, are falling under the observation of practitioners, and, when the practice is denounced, fashion is pleaded as its excuse. "We are not disposed to waste words in remonstrance but it is simple duty to point out that if women please, in defiance of common sense, to resort to these practices they must take the consequences. The veils worn by our mothers and sisters of the last generation hung freely at a reasonable distance from the eves, and could be thrown ay back.

Those of to-day are semi-transparent eye-bandages, and must tend to disturb the vision, as well as to set up irritation in the eyelids. Discard them at once, as yon are sensible women. A FIGHT Oy PAPER. Absence of body is often quite as good as presence of mind. In the case of two very angry men it is usually the only safe thing.

An article in a St Petersburg newspaper, the Wiedoniosti, not long ago, created great wrath in Germany, and fierce letters were hurled at the editor from all parts of the empire. One of these, which may serve as a specimen, has been made public by its recipient, as well as the reply which it elicited from him Berlin, 30th October. It is lucky for you, sir, that you reside in a city far distant from Berlin, otherwise I would punish you in a highly exemplary manner for your abominable article upon German women. As, however, the distance separating ns prevents my bo doing, conmder yourself as having been properly tliraahod by me. B.

NocnsTETTER, 135 Oramenstrasse. The Kussian feuilletonist, however deficient he may be in good taste, is certainly a very funny person, as the following answer to the above convincingly demonstrates Petersburg. 4th Xov. Honored Sib At the very moment in which yon raised your cudgel to belabor me. I succeeded in drawing a revolver from my pocket and in shooting you dead on the spot, I therefore request you to consider yourself shot.

My address is Xo. 14 VTadimirseaiaj. AN ITEM FOR THE LADIES. Mrs. Florence, the actress, says that ladies while being fitted by their dressmaker should stand perfectly erect and not permit the shoulders to droop when tired.

This prevents bagging in seams below the waist line. The corset should be good, light, pliable, and well fitting. French modistes, she says, swindle American women, especially those who do not speak French and have no decision. She says that in packing costly clothing one trunk should be used for dresses alone, each dress having its particular tray and having only a slight fold at the top of the skirt; each puff and sleeve being kept out by wads of soft yellow tissue paper, with every button and piece of fringe covered or underlaid, and the top tray covered with fine cotton batting and oil silk. A baby show is to be held in Portland, under the auspices of a Sweden-borgian society, and the advertisement says: "Portraits of the loveliest babies of Portland to be thrown on ft mammoth THE JUDGES OF THE UNITED STATES SUJPttEJHE COURT.

Justice Strong is described by the "Washington correspondent of the Courier-Journal as the "Saint of the Supreme Court. He has," it is added, the spare form and refined face of an ascetic; he is a member of the Presbyterian Church, a rigid observer of his religious duties, a strong temperance man, and a model husband and father. Judge Bradley is of short stature, scholarly and very courteous. He looks very wise and very severe while on the bench. Judge Harlan has a boyish, smooth face, full of good humor and kindness.

He maintains majestic gravity during an argument. Judge (Clifford has a Tosy, benevolent face, and his large white neckcloth sets off the somberness of his silk gown. Mr. Justice Clifford has the most exalted idea of the court, ranking it next to heaven. He would readily pass for a worthy Bishop, and never tolerates anything bordering on liberty.

Judge Swayne is portly, and has an intellectual head and face. Judge Miller has a large, ponderous frame, and is the embodiment of legal lore and the responsibilities of his high office. AIR AS A STIMULANT. The exciting and stimulating properties of oxygen are well known, and every one has felt the invigorating influences of fresh air, yet no practical application has been made of these beneficial ishment." The proprietor of a Western journal announced his intention of spending 50 on "a new head for it. Do not do it," advised a rival sheet "better keep the money, and buy a new head for the editor," which implied a great deal.

CUTTING RATES. This is what the Western Stationer and Printer very sensibly says about it: Did a printer, stationer, or blank-book maker ever build up a sound, successful business by cutting rates "We do not know of a single such instance. We know of firms which were prosperous for a time, but they also came to grief sooner or later. This is the commpn fate of these unfortunates, for such name must we give to that class of men who live by cutting under their fellow-workmen. There is such a thing as honorable competition, and we would not by any means include in the above class any man who competes for work in a straightforward honorable way.

one man can run his office or manufactory cheaper than another, or has an advantage in buying his material, or makes a specialty of a certain class of work giving him special advantages over others, we say that it is all right. But the professional cutter does not put in his low prices on any such grounds. He simply makes a business of following in the footsteps of each officer taking two of them. When searched on arrival the sum of 3 cents was collected from the gang, together with broken-bladed knives and crumbs of free lunch. Many were intoxicated, but too imbecile for resistance.

"When caged they filled the cells to overflowing. Chicago Daily INews. Tuckeb, a lunatic, assailed Wood with a butcher-knife at Sandusky, Ohio. Wood was unarmed, but he threw the madman on the floor and clutched his throat. Tucker struck again, and again with the long blade, and Wood choked with all his might.

The fight -lasted half an hour, and ended in the death of both men one from stabbing, and the other from choking.r A story is told of Gen. Butler's sarcastic retort upon a Massachusetts Judge, whom he was teasing for a ruling favorable to a cause he was defending in court. The Judge got out of patience at last, and somewhat testily exclaimed: Mr. Butler, what do you think I sit here for?" The General quietly shrugged his shoulders and replied: "The court has got me now." Atlanta, is puzzled over a perfect iron wedge that was taken from tie middle of a blue granite rock, found jrty-six feet under ground. ITALIAN DANCERS.

Of the many scores of children of the age of 8 who yearly apply to the Royal Academy of Italy to become dancers for the stage, only forty-four girls and twelve boys are selected, all of them having practiced for two years. They then practice from 7 in the morning until noon, for eight years, during which time they receive salaries from the Government and appear in public at the Scala Theater and the Canabiana at certain times. saw what liit him, and walked off, saying, Golly, I'se in luck dis mornin'. I 'spected dat do policeman had me shuah dat time." A herd of 23,800 cattle is being driven from Oregon to Montana; 120 mounted men do the driving, and the outfit includes provision wagons, arms and ammunition, 800 horses, and forty dogs. The journey is made slowly, a day's travel not exceeding nine miles, and the speed will be lessened when hot weather comes on, in order not to get the beasts into bad condition.

Mathew McKay, of Oswego, N. had been bothered at finding his clock stopped mornings. He had it examined, but the repairer could find nothing wrong. He watched, and discovered the family cat to be the cause of the mischief. Attracted by the ticking of the clock, she climbed up to the shelf, pulled open the door, and pawed the hands around the dial till it stopped.

A MAxrscBiPT supposed to have been written by St. Peter has lately leen discovered among the property of a man named Bore, who died last year at Jerusalem, at the age of 109. The style of the work has led to the conclusion that it is authentic, and it is statod that the London Bible Society, which, has dispatched a committee to the spot has offered Bore's heirs the sum of 100,000 for its possession. The heirs, however, refuse to part with the manuscript, though it seems probable that they will allow the society to reproduce and translate it A SELF-rROPELiasa street car is the latest Boston novelty. Mrs.

Elizabeth Jewett, widow of Peter Saxe, and mother of John G. Saxe, the poet died at St Albans, Vt, recently, in the 91st year of her age. She retained her freshness and vigor to an advanced age, and at the time of her death her hair had not turned gray..