filENTAI•

LACES!

NARCOTIC. 1 i n^ t o n a v e n u e ' The room is in the third'.?favy of a tumble-down tenement. Low

TOBK DEVOTEDSMOKERS.

*' that is not so Haupfnl &uftm,*Altlioug]i theSurroandin^M{Equally as Demoralizing*: -e is not much hasheesh importedV, not more than $5,000 worth a

'.. ten times the quantity is con-a Custom House broker asserted,does it go to? I can't say of mywledge, but there is always anmnd for it. I hare passed ithe customs for doctors, actors,

, and even ladies. In pointty I think the Eastern races

ie more largely. That is, theylid Nowadays it is pretty even

. been selling hasheesh for more'ears now," a Bowery druggistThen I began I sold about twojttth; I now sell a hundred. I

^orts of customers, Chinamen,|rench, Italians, and Americans,

^leldom call for it. One of myers is a well-known actress;

ly buys two pots a month,does it look like"? Here's somen stuff," displaying a small chinai h ontained a blackish-brown

4?iiUe> "This is worth a dollar a pot.£0 is first-class," showing a pot of

g n i s h - b r o w n resin, with a slight half-/pleasant odor, and of about the consist-/ency of opium. This is worth $3 a pot,

and is five times as strong as the\>ther."

ceiling, dirty floor and walls, windowscovered and plastered over with wrappingpaper and rags, greasy bunks and grimyChinese couches, a foul atmosphere, andall the other indications of Chinese viceand squalor were there. The room, notlarger than 20x25, contained thirty-oneinmates. Seven were Mongols, eightwomen, and the rest a variegated assort-ment of loafers, tramps and drunkards.As the reporter entered a haschaschinwas received from the proprietor, hisration of the drug. It was the cheapkind shown by the druggist and was aslarge as a hickory nut.— New York Sun.

The Kitchen of the Past.In very old times the kitchen was a

rudely constructed affair. The Gaulsand Germans built their kitchen near thehouse, never within it, just as in Indiato-day the kitchen is a separate build-ing, under charge of the butler. All oldNorman castles included a round build-ing, completely roofed in, which was thekitchen, and which we find upon thesame plan in all old monasteries. Theform of this kitchen was at first merelythat of a round mound, having no win-dows and being entirely dependent forlight upon the wood fire" but it had, evenin the earliest times, chimneys or aper-tures for the escape of smoke, often asmany as five or six. As time went onthese kitchens grew in importance, andwere often marvels of architecture fin-ished off with windows and doors, everypossible facility being sought for lettingin fresh air and sunshine. At first thefire was built in the corner of the room,but soon it became the central point, the

' How is hasheesh used?V "The same as opium. Some smoke it,others eat it in small pills, while othersdissolve it in strono- wine and drink it ! smoke ascending to the roof in circleslike a punch. The use of it in liquid i a n d thence finding an outlet through theform is, however, very rare. Orientals inaQY chimneys. Then came the intro-prefer smoking it, while the Western duction of tables for the reception ofusers of the drug take it solid. Hasheesh ! ioo&> stools and other furniture. Theis gathered from the Indian hemp, and it ™de spit, let down from the ceiling, wascontains almost always a very small per-, turned by a boy, and the cook sat in dig-centage of cannabin, the alkaloid of the ! n i t ? watching the proceedings. Soonplant I don't believe that cannabin is ! t h e chimney was builtover the hearth, andthe sole essential principle of hasheesh. j t h e n t h e mantelpiece appeared. In anIt acts similarly, but it has unpleasant old cook book of the sixteenth centuryconsequences, which hasheesh never has. ther? ™ a w o °d cut representing anIt is used a good deal by some as a sub- ! Italian kitchen interior. A four-leggedstitute. Here is a prescription which I I b r a z i e r s tands in the center of the apart-have filled a dozen times in the past three m,ent and near it bend two men cooks,

SELECT SIFTINGS.

The ancient Egyptian name for the catwas "maow."

The greatest known depth of the At-lantic ocean is five miles.

The ancient Britons used to inflictdeath by drowning in a quagmire.

Near Salt Lake lias been discovered alimestone that produces a flash of light—blue light—with every stroke of the ham-mer. It is called hell-fire rock.

Ewing Isbell, of Warren county, Ken-tucky, was born on Washington's birth-day, his wife was born on the Fourth oiJuly, and their only child was born onChristmas. '.

In Gautemala one species of pine treeis grown with needles'fifteen inches long,and another that furnishes fat pine foithe candles of half the republic. Treeseight feet in diameter are not uncommon.

The battering-ram, with other militaryimplements, is said to have been inventedby Artemon, a Lacadaemonian, and em-ployed by Pericles, about 441 B. C. SiiChristopher Wren used a battering-ramin demolishing the walls of old St. Paul'sCathedral, 1675.

Deer'and moose antlers are just nowvery fashionable for decoration. Prop-erly Mounted they range in price at fash-ionable retail stores ail the way from $3for a very small pair of deer horns, to $40for a magnificent set of moose antlers.Mounted head and all the latter will costabout $75.

Among the records of the town of Wor-cester, Mass., is an account of a six-year-old boy who in 1779 had his ear bitten of!by a horse. The manner in which theinjury was received was carefully re-corded by the selectmen, so that the lossof the ear should not be prejudiced tothe boy when he grew to man's estate.

The introduction of the modern slangword *'dandy," as applied, half in admir-ation and half in derision, to a fop, datesfrom 1816. John Bee ("S^ang Diction-ary" 1823) says that Lord Petersham wa9the founder of the sect, and gives thepeculiarities as "French gait, lispings,wrinkled foreheads, killing king's Eng-lish, wearing immense plaited pantaloons,

IN A SLAUGHTER'HOUSE.BOW] BBF XS PBEPAHED FOB MAR-

KET IK raw YORK.

months. The chief ingredient is canna-bis, and the purchaser is in reality no pa-

while on- the floor squats a man blowingthe bellows, and two lads, one on either

tient, but only a confirmed hasheesh i «de of the fare, sit ont chairs, turning witheater, what's called in the East a has- l o n S r o d s the iron bars on which birds

l f l l i i i h are roasting Above the stove is a strongchaschin. She is a lady living in thet neighborhood."

"Are there any hasheesh houseshere?"

"Only two that I know of—one inLexington avenue kept by an American, j e r a t i o i f o f k i t c h e n 9 i n o u r o w n d a yand one in Pell street, kept by a China- j d o n o t find y e r v m u c n m > Q n w h i ( £ t Q

have

are roasting. Above the stove is a strongbeam, from which depend bunches ofvegetables, birds of various kinds, herbs,etc. A frying pan is ready to hand, andupon the gridiron two fish are laid for

ki If d t idcooking. If we come down to a consid-- ^ ., .. ^ , , ^ , eration of kitchens in our ov

and one m Pell street kept by a CMna- j d o n Q t find m u c h

man Both do a good business, and they c o n g r a t u l a t e Ou«elves. Ifenjoy the advantage of being safe fromthe police, which the opium joints donot.". The reporter experienced no difficulty

in entering both places referred to by the^druggist. At the Lexington avenuehouse a colored waiter answered the belland ushered the caller into a small butneat reception room. The proprietor, atell, slender and emaciated man, was themanager of an opium den some yearsago. He led the way to the second story,where the windows were thoroughlyclosed and the daylight excluded. Sixsmall colored lamps diffused a faint lightthrough a thick smoke that filled the two

gained some knowledge or refinement incooking (and that is an open question),we have gained nothing in the situationor appointments of our kitchens. Incountry homes we have the old-fashionedchimney, the wide hearth, the annoyanceof dirt and soot, to counterbalance thefresh air and sunshine which gain an en-trancepwhile in cities we have the ad-vantages of improved stoves, of self-act-ing boilers, of pantries and closets, ofsteam heat and pneumatic tubes, withthe decided disadvantage of darknessand foul air. Of course, there are ex-ceptional cases wher<9%he kitchen Is aspleasant as any room in the house, but in

rooms. The carpets, walls, and furni- | * t c i t i e a t£ese e x c e p t iOns are rare in-ture were subdued, but warm and pleas-; g e e d i n t h e c a s e o f t h o s e w i s e h e a d s o f— *- color. Engravmgs and simple k establishments who have had thebut pretty chromos, a few articles of bric-a-brac, and a bust or two gave the in-terior a cosey and attractive appearance.A dozen large easy chairs and fifteen low

sense to run counter to public opinion,and have the kitchen at the top insteadof the bottom of the hou'fee! In the landof elevators how easy this might be done,

o f t h e household.and roomy lounges were the chief articles j a n d how m u c h i t w o u i d conduce to theof furniture, easily accommodating the |twenty haschaschins present. Of these,six were women; all were well dressedand seemingly of good social position.Half were asleep, or dozing, a few werebeginning to come under the influence,while the rest were beginning the dissi-while the e ggpation. The proprietor asked in whatstyle the reporter would take the drug,and, on being appealed to, recommendedthe nargile.

Bohemians in Literature.G. M. Grummond says in the St. Louis

Magazine: Literature is rich with thework of Bohemians, some of whom arefamous.. But it was not until literaturebecame a profession that Bohemianismbecame a guild. Sir Richard Steele was aperfect specimen of the literary Bohemian.

This turned out to be a simple modifi- Oliver Goldsmith was of the fair frater-•cation of the Turkish article. A hand- nity, but Samuel Johnson, Alexandersome glass vase filled with water, a longlight tube with an amber mouthpiece,and a brazier—a metalic cup of the sizeand shape of an egg—were furnished. Inthe interior of the brazier were two brassgrates, and from the bottom ran a

Pope and icy Joseph Addison, were de-cidedly not. They were literary, buthad not the divine contempt ior themorrow that marks the Bohemian.Charles Lamb was perhaps not a Bo-hemian m the extreme meaning of the

tube down into the water of the vase, word, but by all sympathy he was justlyA piece of hasheesh as large as an acorn so. Then we have Alfred de Musset,was placed on the upper grate, and on it | Gerard de Nerval, Privat d' Anglemont,was laid a small mass of glowing char- Leopold Robert and Gavarni; Steele,•coal. The brazier was then closed with Fielding, Thackery and Ben Jonson—a perforated cap, and the reporter invited all, all were Bohemians. So was oldto begin. The first inhalation filled the j Chaucer, also, and Marlowe, Suckling,Upp e r p a r t of the nargile with a thick Herrick, Gay and the divine Shake-blue vapor; the second filled the mouth spcare.and lungs with a cool, aromatic smoke j Of the latter day Bohemians, there aret h t i i B d h l f way between those whose history would fill volumes

The Jewish TOetbod* of Killing: Cattle—Ererrtfe'nfr a*©tU a SlaughteredAnlntal Utilized la Variouw Way*.

New York, Brooklyn and Jersey Cityconsume in round numbers 9,000 beevesevery week, beside great numbers ofcalves^ sfieep and hogs. The supplycomes mostly from Illinois and Kentucky,Chicago being the distributing point inthe cattle trade of the West. Few Statecattle Ire slaughtered here, says the NewYork Tribune. These beeves will averagein price from $75 to $100 per head, fineChristmas animals ranging from $100 to$150. They will weigh from 800 to 1,-500 pounds gross, and will generally netfrom sixty-four to sixty-eight per cent,of then* live weight.

A bullock is useful from the tips of hishorns to the end of his tail. No partof him is wasted, but all is put to someuse and given a commercial value. Mostof the slaughtering is done along the Eastriver, between Forty-third and Forty-seventh streets, and it is interesting toobserve the i s of an animal from the,time it reaches the slaughter-house untilit is ready for the cook. In the localitynamed the week's killing amounts to 6,-000 head, beside about 15,000 calves andsheep. The slaughtering is done by theJewish method—all the slaughterers areJews, who follow the business for life,and who" perform their duties under aspecial license from the synagogue. NoJew can kill without a license. The oldMosaic law is carried out to the letter,its principles being the avoidance of tor-ture and the freeing the carcass of allblood. The method is as follows: Theanimal is driven into a small pen or en-closure, into which opens a door fromthe gallows or windlass. A rope fromthe gallows is dexterously fastened aboutthe left hind leg, above the hock-joint,and passed in front of the right leg. Aturn of the windlass tightens the ropeand draws the animal backward into theopen door, -^gradually raising its hindfeet from the ground, until in its strug-

coat cut away, small waistcoat, cravat I g\es to get its right foot over Hie rope,and chitterlings immense, hat small, hair " ' ' ' A ' " j-t-- 1Jt

frizzled and protruding."The old Britons wore, according to

Meyrick, shoes made of raw cowhide,with the hair turned outwards, and com-ing up to the ankles. They much re-sembled the brog, which is still used inremote parts of Ireland. In Roman timesthe chiefs and nobles of Britain adopted,in addition to the sandals, the costlyside-laced shoes of their conquerors. TheAnglo Saxon shoes were open at theinstep, and secured by a thong. Princesand high ecclesiastical dignitaries worethem of gold stuff, with lattice-patternembroidery and pointed toes. This fash-ion of pointed shoes lasted from the timeof Rufus to that of Henry VII.

A Man Wltlt a Purpose.When General Charles Gordon—' Chi-

nese " Gordon—was installed governor-general of the Soudan, whither he hasnow gone again to rescue the countryfrom the False Propet, in 1877, he wasexpected to make a speech at the end ofthe imposing ceremony. He simplv said:

" With the beip of God I will hold thebalance level." /

This speech delighted the people morethan if he had spoken for half an hour.Gordon kept his word. During the yearsthat he governed in the Soudan,and kepthis eye on Abyssinia, he "held thebalance level" so well that at the end ofhis administration he could sum up theresults of his labors in this brief and jtruthful sentence \

anything else. Bones and of al undergoa similar process. When they come fromthe boilers, where they require to besteamed for fourteen houTs and sowfc-times longer, they look like sand with asprinkling of white gravel. The whitegravel is bone, which may easily becrushed between the tnumb and fore-finger. - The whole mass is sent throughcrushers and screens, which reduce it topowder, when it is ready for market. •*

A large number of women and childrenfind support in peddling bones. Theygo about the streets and retail shops andgather them up and sell them to the fer-tilizer manufacturers.

The Bed 6am Chewers of Anuam.The Annamese, about whom so much

is being said nowadays, are not an at-tractive people, but they do not wearpigtails, and I can tolerate any other vice,writes a correspondent of the New Or-leans Tim?*-Democrat. They are muchlike the Chinese in appearance and inmany of their habits, following the samereligion and living in much the same way.The most striking thing about them istheir chewing habit. Instead of chew-ing tobacco, the men and the womenalike universally chew a quid about thesize of a filbert, made up of Syri leaf,betel nut, gambier and chunam. Thispreparation is of a deep red color, andimparts an exceedingly nasty appearanceto the teeth, lips and gums. The peopleseem never to have discovered that thisdisgusting juice does not contribute totheir personal appearance. Some daythe revelation will burst upon them withstunning effect. At least, I hope so.Judging from the reddened groundwhere Anamites have been expector-ating one would think that this is a col-only of consumptives. Like all the otherOrientals, the Anamese wear their hair

TH JE VOYAOBR.High o'er dark Eaxthj red in tt» mam*

glow,Hangs a bright bubble, strangely pofged in

air— .And now its silken balk with motion slow

Through the broad west tin solemn night-winds bear.

Hie dusk draws on. I strain nrjr <$ret tomeet

On purple skies that fragile ship afloat;Brief guestl that gliding steers, ghosOfeeand

fleet,Fast the great mountain's upheaved rim re-

mote.

Who, silent, far, sails the high seas above!What lore seeks earth-born man in either

vast!Unpiloted, through baseless night to rore

With life upon the empty spaces casttAh! vagrant sailor of the upper air,

I, too, my little all have set adrift!We know our guest; but how our barks iball

fareWho knows! or on what skies our moraine

lift! «—Mr$. D. H. R. Goodale, in Good Cheer.

HUMOR OF THE BAY.

op-knot,panese in

,nd unable longer to resist the sidewayspressure, it falls over on its leftside, itshind parts suspended in the air, and onlyits head and shoulders remaining on thefloor. The butcher then comes with amurderous blade of the finest steel, twoinches wide and two feet long, squarepointed, and as sharp and keen as arazor. He grasps the now passive ani-malby the nose, and by a sudden move-ment turns the head over till the tips ofboth horns rest on the floor. The po-sition is such that the throat is stretchedand the animal cannot turn back itskhead. With a single stroke of theknife the head is nearly severed fromthe body. Another turn is given

ig, but keep it bound up in a t;rhaps I should except the Jaj

this sweeping statement, for the revolu-tion in the matter of toilet which the lastdecade has wrought in Japan almostplaces the people there on a plane withOccidentals in this as well as many otherrespects. The appareling of the peopleis, in keeping with the climate, quitesimple. The Anamese whom I have^eenin full dress, wore cloths around theirheads after a semi-turban fashion, andusually an elaborate high comb. Thesecloths were dyed some brilliant hue,usually blue or red, but I noticed inevery casa that one corner was left un-stained by the dying liquid, so as toshow to best advantage the originalcolor-*nd the texture of the fabric. Theshoes worn are heelless wooden affairs,that turn up in front and terminate ina long curved and pointed toe. Thepeople are slender, have high cheekbones, homely features and are of acoppery color.

The old proverb says that "ill a cat." If that is corredkill

The Bight to Commit SuicideIn the ancient world it was held to be

to the windlass and the dying animal : t h e r i o . h t oi individuals, under certainhangs there till life is extinct and every , ci rcumstances, to kill themselves, if theydrop of blood is drained from the body. ; c o u l d ren(ier their country thereby a ser-It is skinned in the usual way, and once , v i c 6 j o r e v e a j t t h e y wished to rid them-more the Jewish slaughterer assumes con- 8 e i v e s of c a r e i n this world. It was quitetrol. I t ishjsduty to "open" the car- c o m m o n ) i n Roman history, for generalscassand test its quality. When an aper- j t o 8acrifice themselves in order to winture isnnade,iie inserts his hand and arm ; viCtOfles or to-accomplish a great patri-to feel if the lungs, liver and heart are in j o t i c o r fa m i iy c n a . The Stoics heldtheir proper plitiotu, The lun«bs, theliver

^ laces and in good condi-lungs may be grown to the

that man was his own master, and if hewished "to shuffle off this mortal coil"

d

the "aniSal i B u t th<3t h e a n i m a l i

tliete was no divine* Ja-wrtmd should De| no human enactment, to say him nay.

° f <?"™tianity taught athi i t Thithe aniSal i B u t th<3 a d V < m t ° f <?"™tianity taught at h e a n i m a l i new doctrine on this point. This was

n seal upon; h i i l b i l i t f h lif M did^ l ^ A P i new doctrine onaC o s her" and places, a leaden seal upon; the inviolabilityit; if otherwise, he calls it "Trafer,"and j n o t b e l o n g t o himself, but to his Maker,it goes into the sale as second or third j a n d k i m n g one»8 sejf w a s as unjustifiableclass. No strict Jew will buy beef that, a g s l a y i n g a feiiOw-man. But several

pof human life. Man did

mself, but to his Maker,jf jtifibl

" I have cut off the slave-dealers in I ™°flan ^ S J J ™

their strongholds, and have made the n o t s 0 Pa r t l c u l a r«people love me. '

In all Gordon's wonderful career thereis nothing more striking than his deepand earnest piety. His religion is of themost practical kind. It has sustained himin diiticulties that would have appalledother men. When treachery has been allabout him, when his own officers were

has not the leaden seal on it, and henever eats the forequarters lest someblood may remain there. Gentiles are

modern writers have advocated the oldview. The most recent convert is theeccentric Elmira clergyman, the Rev.

! Thomas K. Beecher. Writing to a news-W e n the intestines are removed the \ paper, on this subject, he says "that when

fat. lower joints and head are cut off and ; it is determined by an individual, withthe carcass is sawed in half, down the j the approval of his friends,backbone, and hung in the salesroom, j that it is 'no longer worth while toThese halves are then carefully trimmed, j drift about on this sinful planet,the coating of fat, called the "rail," j he is then justified 'in sailing into theis stretched over as much as possible j hereafter by his own act.'" It is aand held by wooden pins driven j question with some physicians, whether

plotting against him, when he has been ' ^ ° t n e "e8,a- The thm tissue of tle?h j i n some phases of human suffering, occa-left with but a handful of soldiers to ! o v e r t i i e ril?st outside, is carved with j sioned by terrible and mortal diseases, itcope with immense armies as well dis- j far jcy %ures> leaves, flowers, or latticed, should not be permissable to deprive the

• " . - - i and the natural contraction, caused by j sufferer of life that is so intolerable toi h d Th

ciplined as his own, he never faltered orfeared what the result would be.

Possessed of rare personal courage, he

and the natu c o , y j sufferer of life that is so i n bcooling, eurls up the cut edges. The part I him. A German actress named Galhneyer

f th h e t * o e ? t 0 *}* TC'taii d e f l ? i h f c r t h f sh<g,

w a s i n 6UCh f r o m C i i n c u r. v , * , ^ . „ „ p , , . , ™ ^ w u i a s * , - o f t 3t . * ? . } i f l ? w a s i n 6UC a « o ? f ;

las always gone into the thickest of I T h e l i e a ( i l s skinned and boned, the begged her physicians to relieve her ofevery fight, armed with nothing but a ! tongue is cut out and sold, and all the | life. But, of course, the doctors, whilesmall cane, which his soldiers in China | flc8tt t n a t c a Q b e £ o t off i s u s e d f o r s a u " j t n e v sympathized with her, could not

d t ll G d ' " i d f; s a e T n e bony part goes into the man- comply with her wishes Death is noused to call Gordon'svictory."

in China | £ j y p ,wand of; s a»e- T n e bony part goes into the man- ; comply with her wishes. Death is no

yFor six years after his great achieve-

ments in China he was commanding-engineer for the construction of the de-

ufacture of fertilizers, and is turned into ! great terror to some people. In Chinaground bone. The horns are converted : men have been known to offer them-into combs, umbrella-tips, horn jewelry, selves candidates for capita! punishment,whistles and toys. The "slug," cr inner j as substitutes for noted criminals, forsurface of the horn, is uged for making small sums of money, to add to the comglue and fertilizers. The feet are also forts iind prused for making giuc and neats-foot oil. ; their familii

Two for scent—The nostrils.A trim person—The milliner.Walking illustrates two solea with b^t

a single trot.—New York News. k <The best hand to hold in the gamer of *

life is that of your best girl.— WaterlooObserver. ^ * *j ,

Ella Wheeler asks: "Have you heard1

of the Valley of Babyland?" No, butwe have heard *'from"" it late at night.—Hartford Post. i

A new book is entitled "What Can aWoman Do? An answer to the questioncan be found by asking most any bald*headed man.—Marathon Independent.

A Queen City girl eating souse.Caught a glimpse of a beautiful mouse,

When the note that she reached,As she stood up and screeched,

Would have drawn a $10,000 house.Care will

correct, a largeconsignment of care can find employmentfor some time in our back yard.—Der-rick.

Young Man to Druggist—"Can yoagive me anything to remove superfluoushair?" Druggist, (thoughtfully scratch-\ing his bald head)—"Hem 1 why don'tyou get married?"—SomerviUe Journal* •

"Is your wife acquainted with the deadlanguages?" asked the professor oC aNew-man man. * 'Maybe she is," was the reply,"but the language she uses is entirely toowarm to have been dead very long."—*Milwaukee Sentinel.

1' What do you learn from the parableof the wise and foolish virgins?" wasasked in a Texas Sunday-school. "Thatwe must watch every hour for the bride-groom," a blushing Galveston girl re-plied.—Galvetton News.

''Cooked potatoes," says the- AmericanFarmer, "are eaten greedily by hog«kw

Right you are. We have seen & hog at &hotel take the last one out of the dish be*fore any human being at the table had a.bite.—BwrUrqjion Hawkeye. -

Elephant trainers say that animal ex-hibits great terror at the sight oi a mouse.This isn't the only respect in which, theanimal resembles a woman. It can't goany distance without taking a trunk withit.—Philadelphia Chronicle.

"You see this passage is marked %* n

said the teacher: " *f' means forte, andit means to smg it louder." "Fortymeans louder, does it ?" asked the pupil.1 'Yes." ' 'Then when its marked forty itshould be sung like sixty."—Derrick.

"1 belong to one of the first families otthe city," said a boasting youth. *'Yea,n

was the reply of his tailor. "Your family, Ihave been informed, is always the first inasking credit when a new storekeeperstarts in your neighborhood."—ChicagoSun.

Some French scientist announces that abee can pull thirty times as much as ahorse in proportion to its size. A bee,no doubt, ca*n«pull a good deal when itfeels like pulling, but it is probably moreat home and less embarrassed when push-ing.—Philadelphia Call. _

The ladies who live on Capitol hill,Washington, have chosen Monday for re-ception day. It is not stated, but theyprobably do their washing oae day late:in the week. Some society ladies mustresort to strange expedients to keep upappearances.—NorrUstown Herald.

Aspiring Artist—I must say it is veryinconsiderate of your father. (Sarcasti-cally) I suppose if I were a pork-packer

irovide for the necessities of j like himself he would not object to oures. Death, in all nations, is | marriage. Dutiful Daughter—Very likely

and l u g ,that iniBavor seemed half way betweenopium and Latakia tobacco. The smokelasted about six minutes. The only sen-sation it produced was about the same asthat an old smoker experiences -Hath aReina Vic&ria—a feeling of mild satis-faction and content. There was none ofthe grotesque or beautiful visions thatDe Musset and Gautier have described.

those whose history would fill volumes jand whose names are legion. Poor, dead~~and gone, Harry Clapp, in his day wasthe '^King of Bohemians." He died inNew York, when he was counted amongthe foremost journalists of his period.He handled one of the moat saucy andfearless pens of any of the old school ofBohemians that used to congregate at

fences of the River Thames, at Graves-end. There his piety took the form ofthe most liberal charity and benevolence, i "•* . . , , > , - , i , « , - , •It is written of him that "his house was ' Every one knows what becomes of the often a relief to the suffering aud af- j not. He says he preier* good pork tuschool, hospital and almshouse in turn." i b i ( i e- The J)CSt o f t n e kair» w M c n comes flk-ted. —DemoreiVs Monthly. bad pictures.— New York Life.

• ' ' ' ' ~* "~ ^~ *""'' "" in "— f " 1 1 - i Isn't it curious to think that the samecitizen who may be heard on club nights

'olumesjjBoys without number were rescued fromir, deadfthe streets and the gutter, fed, cleaned,lay was i t h d d i t t e d til G dclothed and instructed, until

could get them employment.

tanning process, is carefully Iwashed and dried"andi»4€fk and is sold j The Elephant Executioner.

lanufactuftHnshodoty blankets.leaned, IGordon • f o r t n e m ng the numerous dignities con-

th l h t i th f E j. r w j . ™ . . , The poorer quality of hair is worked into f e r r e ( 1 UJ)ori t a e elephant in the far EasjHe called these boys his "kings." He ' mortar for brick-masons and plasterers. j s o n e which, although certainly an honor

followed their wandering, and stuck pins ; T a e "switch" or long tuft of hair at the few w o u id be inclined to covet, lias out-g, pin a map of the world that hung over his

t l i t i d i t h thp g o e s , g

mantel - piece, to indicate where they j mattresses. The heart and liver arewere, and moved the pins from point to ' eaten by those who are fond of them.

i t D i l t h d f th T f it l i

g few w o u i bee n ( i oi t n e t a i l i s u s e d f o r making hair ;-^ve(j o t h e r and more creditable distinc

Th h d li tions, surviving till within the memoryof m a n v m(ia now living:. Under the

A second pipe produced a headache and j Pfaafs, on Broadway. Harry made j pOjnt. Daily, too, he prayed for these) T . n c faC g 0 6 8 : i n t o oleomargarine or into n a t j v e j,rinces of Hindustan criminalsthe scribe professed himself more than j Pfaaff wealthy, although he himself died j youngsters as they went over the world. ! oil» th* manufacture of which has grow" , . - . . , . n.. -.-_satisfied " ! poor. Clapp used to lunch there, and

"I like the business," the proprietor | one day the coffee and eggs so impressedsaid, as he handed the reporter the ! the famous Bohemian, that he theuandchange for a bill ~and I like hasheesh. I there, wrote about a column putt of the j s a m m a r y in his methods. He had greatI d t a joint and for ei<?ht vears i caravansary, but, although a puff, it was *^«KI« ;« *i,» s™,rU« *w« <\*» ^ . ^ ochage like hasheesh. I t e , pI used to run a joint, and for ei<?ht vears i caravansary, but, although a puff, it waswas an opium fiend mvself. I struck I in Clapp's best style, and lie could makehasheesh bv accident, like it, and soon | tne rankest kind of a puff so witty andfound, to my surprise, that it be-an to j interesting, that i; wou d be acceptablegive me a distasteP for opium To-day to any journal. Harry's dessertation on

But Gordon is a soldier and devoted to ! to a wonderful extent,his profession. With all his piety and i Every drop of the blood is saved andlove of man; he can be stern and even ! converted into fertilizers with the intes-

• •• • - — - - tines and offal. Large factories are builttrouble in the Soudan from the wizards, i for the purpose, and at Forty-fourthManv times he was in great peril from : s t r e e t a u d Ea«fc river» 1S o a e establishment

give me a distaste for opium. To-dayI'd rather have one pipe of the formerthan three of the latter. You see, it's•cheaper, a little goes further, and theirsless trouble and no risk. Nearly all myold customers were formerly 'fiends;' nowthey never'hit the pipe.' My new cus-tomers have been brought here by the oldones, and they're just as inveterate. Howmany have I? About seventy—lawyers,politicians, actors, and nxe^about town.My lady customers vary";' some areactte3ses~ and singers, and some are out-of-town folks, who run in now and thenfor a little excitement. Does hasheeshhurt a man ? I suppose it does if you use jtoo much of it. I use five pipes a day,and have been doing it for years, and Idon't think it injures me. The man yousaw in the back room is different. It'skilling him. He tak^es ten and twelvepipes a day. It depends on the manaltogether."

The Pell street place is a vivid contrastto the luxurious establishment in Lex-

coffee, and the articles that some of theother Bohemian journalists wrote, madePfaff famous, and he became rich. Andnow nothing is too good for a genuinemember of the guild there.

The Reign of Three Sovereigns.Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil, has

reigned longer than Emperor William, al-thougn he will be only fifty-nine years oldin April. But he ascended the thronewhen he was six years old, while EmperorWilliam did not get his crown until hewas fifty-two. The good Dom Pedro hasreiune4 fifty-three years, or longer thanany other living sovereign. Queen Vic-toria will complete the forty-seventh yearof her reign on June 20.

y g pthe natives, led by these religious fanatics.On one occasion he was left with butthirty men against a great horde of bar-barians.

He determined to make a strategic

soiiteneed to death were usually executed by one of the rajah's elephants,which was specially trained for the pur-pose. The victim, bound hand and foot,was lai<3 at full length upon the ground,face upward, whil; the monster, at a !

signal from his driver, planted one of hih f f hsignal from his drier, plan

which uses the blood and refuse from huge fore feet upon the prostrate man's6000 beeves every week The offal is b t d ith h ounded6,000 beeves every week. The offal isused fresh every day. It is not allowed\o lie over lonir enough tobecome tainted; thus the" usual

breast, and with one crunch poundedhim into a shapeless mass. The beast's !

o'xidience was, as a rale, perfectly prompt :and effectual, but tradition records one i

- a . . , - - - ---• t^" daughter Stance in which the tragedy took a;he was not molested. Only "one old house are avoided. The blood is very unexpected turn, bearing out to1

wizard stood on a rock "and grinned caught in barrels and hauled into this ; s o m e extent the stories told of tho elc-|•and jeered and vaticinated" as Gordon \ factory, where it is poured into a large plant's superior powers of memory and |was ffivinjr orders. Borrowing a rifle tank on the ground floor, from which it instinct. The enormous foot was just!

He determined to make a strategic ;move to the rear, and strangely enough ' fearful odors ofh t l t d O l ld house are avoided

Congressman Kelley says that theamount of corn consumed for the manu-facture of glucose is e.qual to the amountused for the distillation of whiaky.

and pointing it at the wizard, he fired. ! is paujpeu iiito immense vertical boilers"I don't think that's a healthy spot ' situated on the second floor, their lower

from which to deliver an address,11 he ! ends reaching down through the floorquietly remarked. The wizard hadTfallen i into the "drying" room. When filled,dead. | these boilers are hermetically sealed and

Like many other men who are guided ! subjected to a straining process under a; - their acts by religious fervor and ! pressure of eighty pounds to'the square

- - - - - -• >=--•»-• it requires but a few minutes t<"* blood, there being so much albu-

their act by e g o u s fervor andsimple trust in God, Gordon regards him

lf t f th d i i ill dself as an agent of the divine will, and jhe does not fear that any harm will come |to him until his work is done.— Youth's jCompanion. |

The United States raises double thenumber of sheep annually that it didtwenty years ago.

jrai<ec\ to inflict the death, blow, when it jw a^ suddenly withdrawn, and the ele- ,phant, snorting excitedly, began to caress ;

t a e } a ! i c n mAn with his trunk. On in-!qUirv it appeared that the latter had .once" | , e e n t n c beast's favorite keeper,

p gy p q a r ^ t ] i a t it had recognized him just in'inch. It requires but a few minutes to . t i m e T h c rajan, -who hud witnessed the-cook" blood, there being so much albu- whole s-ene. listened to the storv with

men in it that it soon coagulates when g r e a t interest, and ordering his attend-d I i th d il th n t s t 0 I0]ease the prisoner, placed him

f h l h

c y gbeliowing forth the bacchanalian ditty."Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl," cansoftly croon his youngest to sleep withthe seductive melody, "Hush, My Babe.Lie Still ana Slumber {"—Burlington FretPress.

A young Alexandria missWas asked by her beau for a kiss,

Itenmrely contentedShe gweetly assented,

And their lips looked exactly like this:oo

—Washington Hatchet.

But her pa interrupted the bliss.And said: " Who's this young felier, missP

And without more adoThe young fellow flew,

And his eyes looked exactly this:

00—KtansvilU Argus.

'Way do-wn in despair's Wack abyss,Bank the heart of the youth, wfaen a hiss

From the pamit so tprim,Sent thi? d(̂ g after him.

And the vlace the brute bit was like this:z viace the brute bit was i.\ | | I |

\ J-Cari Pretzel.

Work anil RestM. Bouchard at. professor of hygiene at

the Paris faculty of medicine, protestsagainst the oft-repeated adage tlxat oldage is the age of rest, and say* that theregular general exercise of thd organs ofnutrition and locomotion is ,neccs>ary in

1 all ages. The fact that mental activity ii>: conducive to longevity ia illustrated byI the long list of members of the French! academy of science of men vrho are over

and leaves the blood a"dry, dusty sub- j In the room of a kleptomaniac in Lon- j eighty years of age.— J}r, Foote's Health.stance, more resembling brick-dust than 1 don were found over 900 umbrellas. 1 Monthly.

heated. It is then drawn oil at thbottom of the boilers in the "drying'' j onf.,, m o r e j n charge of the elephantroom, when it is put into huge* sacks of I w h k a h a ( i s p a r c d his life.— New Yorkcocoa-matting and subjected to hydro- | j'imes.static" pressure, which expels all moisture j