eta II m VOLUME V.—NO, 16. N E W ULM, MINN., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 191882. WHOLE NUMBER 221

PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY

J O S . B O B L E T E I L

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Oflicc ovci City Drug Store.

T E R M S : One Dollar and a halfpev > ear m ance.

R a t a * o f t d v o r t i i i s i g ; FITUNISHKD UPON APPLICATIOIN.

ArlT»rtisementmn double column, Jouble the snide column r ite>*

Business C ir li ot H.\ o hues, on" year §o 00 each • I liliomil line 7o cH

Ml transient ailveitisements to be piia for in atlYince

\<Hertisement* inserted in thelocal n o t i c col smii* ten i t s v line lor the flist u sertion and 5 cenM i IIHO loi f\< li subsequent 1 l^oilion, but no aoMie nsLited for loss tliau 50 cts

A mo iniemonts ot m images and deaths mneit-e 1 tree, but o l i tuuy notices, except in special casts will he ( h ii go I st a Ivei tiMnt; r Ues

I A -i il notices will bech u-ied 7J cts pti folio ror the tlrst in-e tion, an t 2"'cts per folio for each subsequent ni-eition All leg il notices must be ttpo i the ie«po l-ibility ol the attoruev oiderinj? them published an 1 no ifti 1 iMt of oubncntion will be «ivcn until the publu ation tees ue p nd.

In cmnectiou with the paptr w e h u s i splen-di 1 issortment of jot)biiu m tten il and we sio piep ned to txeiuto all kinds ot printing inn st>le uns u > i>-.£ I and it mo lei ite intes

J U. FOSTER,

D E INT T I S T , NEWCTLV, MINN.

A full not of tenth foi ten tloHais.

G is adininisteied by Di. Beiiy, and teoth e\ti acted without.pain

OfTict o-er Kiesling &. Keller's Stoie.

H K i M \ k l » F ^ ,

RESIDENi DENTIST,

Oihcc, corner Miuu and F » » t ^ SU.

<J* A I LM, - . MINNESOTA

T V ! C uThKY, ~

J i l t 1CHN *. SLKuEO^f.

OiiiCK AT i) F CITY IJVJG STOKE

J r U ULM", - - - M U N N F ^ O I *

!)U. B C\UL,

Physician and Surgeon. M \\ U M MIM\.

Oilue m l UMUVMI eon 3d N o i t h S t

])U. .5 W, B WELLCOME, I'M MCI.1, & 3UKGK0X,

51e( in f^e, Minn.

IMl H A niTCHCOCK, Physician *C- Surf/con,

vVill attend to calls ni^ht or da}'. OFricr VT

"!* X% . J1 il< I s t o o K ' s I>sii{> l o r .

pimiifield, Hi own Co., Minn.

Ml <* C WELLNEK.

Deutcliei' Si^t, foi mils V men \i7t /m "Noitb

St u dispens u \ '' Clnci»o, li.it sich cjpitvuncnr, in Bums nucleicjtlassen IInd eniptcldt Mfh li mulct stinen L indsleutc n

B-F WEBBER,

Attorney and Counselor A T L \ W .

Moneyto Loan-01hcoo\ei Citizen's Nat'l Bank.

NEW ULM , - - MINN.

JOS A. ECKSTEIN,

Attorney and Counse lor •A.t, L s f w .

T i t l e s (\anuncd a n d p e i f e c t e d . P a i t i ^ u U i a t t e n t i o n g i \ o n t o c o l l e c -t i o n s .

MONEY TO LOAN. E #°Ofhco ovei Brown Co. Bank ^Pj

NEW LliM, - , - - - MINN.

L1M) & RANDALL,

Attorneys at Law, NEW ULM, MINN.

H \ \ IVG formed a copartnership « ith Mr t i n n k L ll\Ni)AiT who to,jt*hpr v\ ith Mr

llAuiiMto my former < It tk may be found at our olhcb at ill tinua, I take plcasuie in announcing to m> clients and to the public that we are now )>eui.r piepared than ever betore to give prompt ittention to business pi iced in our hands

The undirsiijni 1 *will continue to devote hm at-tention to the (ondiw t and tn il of civil and ciim-nial cases in the btat-> and Fcdc I il Courts

.Ml J O H N L 1 N D .

J J RAY,

Mary Public, Conveyancer, uicl aj^ent foi bt. Paul

TIRE JLMM11M] INSURANCE CO.

Spiin^fic Id, Btown Co., Minn.

BROWN CO. BANK,

DAKOTA HOUSE. OPP, PO>I OF?ICE— X L W ULM, MINN

ADOLPH &E1TER, Prop'r , rhis house is the most centrally lo-

c ited house in the ltj and af-foids firooil Sample Rr oms.

Northwestern Hotel Opposite Depot, X?w Ulm, Minn.

in tnkini; possession of the above named hotel 1 Wimldiesptcttullj nifoim the public tli it the house h is been thoroughly icnovated and newlj furuish e 1 an i the we iry traveler w til alw ays And a good tab'e and elean bed Tae bar will alwaj s be sap p ed witli the bust liquors and cigars

Good stabling attached to the premises

\VM. SCHMIDT.

H. Rudolphi, MANLFACTLRER OF <L DEALER IN

Boots and Shoes! Cor. Minn. & 3d N. New Ulm Minn

^ A ^ O

C H CH^DBOURN, President

C H ROSS, Cashier.

Cor. Minn, and Centre Str. NEW ULM, - - - MINN.

Collection-and all business pertaining to banking prompth attended to.

Individual Responsibility-$500,000

J. Ptenniugei. "W.isoescli. tr. Doalme

Eagle Mill Co. NEAV ULM, MINN.

Manufacturers of

ROLLER FLOUR, BY THE

Gradual Reduction Roller System.

Frank Burg, Manufacturer of and Dealer in

CIGARS; TOBACCOS, &

PIPES. |Minnesota stieet, next door to C*

Sommer,!s Store.

NEW ULM, - MINN-

CENTRE STREET

Sample Room — A N D —

IN BASEMENT OF I K I i e s i n k ' s IBlocls:.

The best of Wines. Liqours and Cigars constantly kept ou hand.

Louis Felkel, PrepY,

Meat Market. CIAS. STIPE, Prop'r.

A large supply of fresh meats, sau-sagfe, hams, lard, etc , constantly on hand. All oideis from the country promptly attended to.

CASH PAID EOR HIDES. Minn Str., -- New Ulm. Minn.

J

Meat Market, M EPPLE, PROF'S

K iar^e supply *f vresh meats, sausage, Uiiin», lud , e t c etc., constantly on

viand All or<wre >rom the coun-t>y promptly ijttt-naul to

CA.bII P A I D F u R HIDKfl.

V I S S hTRE'OT - NT£W ULM. HINA

CASH PURCHASES AND CHEAP SALES !

J O H N N E U M A N N Dealer in

D R Y G O O D S , Mats, Caps, Notions,

Groceries, Provisions, Crockery and Glassware, Green, dried and Canned

Fruits, etc., etc. M nncota Street, New Ulm, Minn

Alaige assortment of men's and boys' boots and shoes, and ladies' and childrens' shoes constantly kept on hand Custom woik and repauing promptly attended to.

I will alwijs take farm produce in exchange for poods, and pay the highe«t market price for all kincls of paper rag«

In connection with my store I have a first claps saloon furnished with a splendid billiard table, and mv customers will always find goon liquors and cigars, and e'scry forenoon a splendid lunch

All goods purchased of me will be delivered in anj part of the city free of co«t

0. F. HELD, Undertaker and Dealoi in

All KINDS OF FDRSIME Piopnetoi and Manufactmcr of

THE FAIU1ERS FRIEftD

Fanning; Mill. The bes- tanning mill in the mdiket.

Store indFactoiyon Centie Stieet near the City Mill NEW ULM. -MINN.

Miss t . WestpM, Keeps on hand a laige and well

asorted stock of MILLINERY, FANCY GOODS and ZEPHR WOOJ, opposite the Union Hotel, between second and Third North streets. VEWULM, . . . MINN.

— A N D —

DRESS MAKING.

Mrs. Anton Olding, NEXT DOOR TO

SOMMER'S STORE, NEW ULM His on hand a good stock of Millnery Goods con.

alstin!? in p irt of Hats, Bonnets, Velvets, Silks Ribbons, Feather, Human Hair, Flowers, fee.

Also "stterns for stamping monograms. Stamp, ins of all kinds embroidery Work and Fashion, fcble Dress making dene to order.

Farm Produce taken in exchange for goods

• &u£ &hell, BREWERJHALSTER, £ BOTTLER,

X«iw t/i<M, WiKK-This brewery is one of the largest, establishments

of the kind in the Minnesota Valley and is fitted np with all the modern improvements Keg and bottle beer furnished to any part of the city on short notice My bottle beer is especially adapted for family use

Country brewers and others that buy malt will find it to their intercut to place their orders with me. All ordere by mail will receive my prompt at* tention.

AUG. SCHELL.

HARNLSS SHOP.

If. fi. Beu#fetkqii & Co. Coiner Minn. & 1st North stis.,

NEW ULM, MINN. This business is established and will be conduct,

ed as heretofore in the rear end of Mr. II. Beuss manns hardware store. It shall be our MB to constantly keep ou hand a well assorted suck of Hirnese Saddles, Collars, Whips, Blank°n,etc. which well be sold at bottom pricos, Uph< fiery and allkmdsof custom work promptly a (Sa­tisfactorily attended to.

I I . I I . BErStilVIA'VlV

M. JUENEMANN M A N U F A C T U R E R A N » D E A L E R IN

HARNESSES,: COLLARS,

SADDLES, WHIPS,

SADLERY, BLANKETS.

Upholstery, and all custom work pei Uing to my business promptly at­tended to. Minnesota street, next door to Schnobrich's saloon. New Ulm.

CHEAP CASH STORE.

GEORGE JAOBS. DEALER IN

DItr GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS, CAB , GROCERIES,

CROCKERY, AND OILS etc. etc. etc. etc &STA11 goods sold at bottom price Store on Minnesota St. between 2d and 3d North streets, Ne wUlm.

R. PFEFFERLE, Dealer in

JanneJ, Dried and Green Fruit FJ.QTJR AND FEED

T O N E , WOODEN AND W I L L 3 W "WAT K

Mnn. Str. New Ulm, Minn.

WM. PFAENDER'S

P L ESTJITE CENGY for Southwestern Minnesota,

A N D

O F F I C E , NEW UL31, - MINN.

All orders for the pin chase or sale of city lots, impioved farms and wild lands, in this and adjoining counties, for insurance in the most reliable com­panies, for ocean passage to and fiom all Euiope.m poits, promtly and satis factonly attended to.

t3T County Agency for the German Amei ican Hail Ins. Co. of St. Pr \

H. H. Beussmann, Dealer in

Shelf Heavy Hardware, Iron Steel, Carpenters and Farming Tools, FARMING MACHINERY, &c.

Cor, Minn. & 1st N . Strs., NEW ULM. - MINN.

J. B. Arnold, Dealer in

C00KIN6 & HEATING STOVES HARDWARE,

Tin-ware & Farming Implements* The shop is in charge ol an experienced hand

who gives the mending and repairing of tin-ware his special attention A l l w o r k i r a r r a n d

Corner of Minn, and 2d North Streets. N E W ULM, MINN.

H. Laudenschlager, Dealerfin

ST O V E S,

HA RL> n A RE, TIN WA RE A ND LIGHTNING RODS.

The Celebrated White. Howe, New American & Singer

SEWING MACHINES. Cor Minn & Is S SU., NewUl^i. Min

NEW MACHINE SHOP. Centre Street, Opposite Mueller &

Scherer's Lumber Yard, NEW ULM, • - - MINN

¥l\eo. Kobki^, fVo$>¥-i am now prepared to execute all

orders with dispatch. Repairing of Threshers and Reapers a specialty. My machinery is all new and of the most improved pattern. All work war­ranted a<* represented. All those in -want of anything in my line are cordi­ally invited to give me a call.

THEO. KOBARSCH.

Folks should send a three jcent stamp for a free book of1

neirly 100 large octavo pag­es, fullof valuable notesof Dr.E B Footethe anthor

The Captive Bee.

MY JULIA A. TBATBR.

Whatever possessed you, you sober old bee. To lodge In this tulip last night?

A common plebeian liko you, I must say, Preseuls tbo most ignoble plight

I n a grand, golden palace, its walls frescoed o'er

With columns and figures ao gay. Surrounded by magical splendors befitting

The royal estate of a fay.

Did you linger too long o'er your honey wine cup.

Unconscious of fast fleeing hours, Till the janitor shadows agoing their rounds,

Were looking the doors of the flowers? And while you were stupidly sipping away,

Of their soft, stealthy tread unaware, Did they silently close every portal fast,

And hold you a prisoner there?

Perhaps you were weary from toiling all day. And thought you would just take a nap

Before setting out on your pilgrimage h o m e -Never dreaming at all the mishap.

Or were you afraid, if you \entured out late, On the dangerous highways of air,

Some old robber bee would assault you and seize

The purses you hide with such care?

It may be you foolishly longed and aspired The sweetness of grandeur to test.

And scorning the lowly condition of bees, Deserted your snug, homely nest.

If such is the case, you are paid like us all Who struggle with station and fate—

For bitter and eold were the winds that pierced Your gilded mansion of state.

You're chilled and benumbed, and hardly can move;

But the sunbeams that freed you, I know, Will soon warm you through^and go I'll not

wait To further conjectures bestow.

Nor ask you to answer the questions I've put, Nor counsel you, poor, simple thing 1

For I see you are nervous, and if I persist, You'll only retort with a sting.

NEEDLE AND THREAD.

B E A T T Y ' S O B O A N S 07 Stops lOSet Reeds On-£ 5 1 1 1 L l £ ly $90. PIANOS %YS> np. Rare Holiday inducements Ready. Write or call on BAATTTY, WASHINGTON, N J. May 1181

"An old bachelor?" inquired Honor* Maywood. "Are you very sure that he is an old bachelor?"

"That's what he told me, just in so many words," said Mrs. Fennypacker, who stood on the threshold of her best room, with her head tied up in a pocket-handkerchief, and a hair-broom in her hand, wherewith she gesticulated, after a tragic fashion, as she talked, while Miss Maywood, tall and slender as a wild lily, stood in the hall, with a roll of music under her arm, and her slight figure wrapped in a shabby black shawl. "And he's willing to pay my price, cash, every Sunday night. Never attempted to beat me down a penny, if you'll be­lieve it, my dear. He drinks only En­glish breakfast tea, and he wants his pie crust made with the best Alderney butter, instead of lard, as is good enough for other people; and he must have ven­tilators to all the windows, and an open grate, instead of the base-burning stove; and—I hope you'll not be offended, my dear—but he particularly dislikes a piano."

"Dislikes a piano?" said the littlo music teacher, reddening in spite of her­self.

"And he says, says he, 'I hope Mrs. Pennypacker, that there is no piano in the house. A piano,' 3ays he, 'plays the deuce with my nervous system, with its everlasting turn, turn!' These were his words, my dear. So, my dear, I'd be grateful if you wouldn't mind doing your practicing until he's out for his daily walk—from one to three, just as regular as the clock."

Miss Maywood looked piteously up in the landlady's face.

"I will do anything to oblige you, Mrs. Pennypacker," she said earnestly. "I have not forgotten how very much I am indebted to you, both in actual money, and in kindness, which money can nev­er repay."

"My dear, don't say a word," said Mrs. Pennypacker, hastily. "You've been sick, and you've got a little behind­hand, and it's quite natural you should be a little low spirited now and then. But you must not get discouraged. And you're quite welcome to stay on here until you're able to settle up your little account."

Honora Maywood sighed as she thought how often her little advertisement had been inserted in the daily newspapers without attracting the least notice from the world of patrons and pupils. There were so many "capable music teachers, willing to give lessons at moderate prices," nowadays, and how was any one to know how very much she needed the money?

And, as time crept on and no pupils came, Honora began to ask herself seri­ously whether she should go out in some menial capacity, or stay genteelly at home and starve.

"Clothes, ma'am." Honora started from her revery as the

washerwoman's stumpy little girl bang­ed herself, like a human battering-ram, up against the door, with a preposter­ously large basket on her arm.

"Yes," said Honora, coloring. "Put them down, Sally. But I—I'm afraid it isn't convenient for me to pay your mother to-day."

"Mother didn't say nothing 'bout the pay," said Sally, "she said I was to leave the clothes, with her 'umble duty, and she 'oped they'd suit; but it was that damp on Monday and Tuesday as starch wouldn't stick. And she 'opes you'll excuse all mistakes, as they'll be done better next time."

"I dare say they are quite right," said Honora, as she marvelled at this un­expected access of courtesy on the part of her Milesian laundress.

But when Sail)' had stumped off down stairs, her flapping slippers beating a sort of tattoo as she went, Miss May­wood took off the fringed towel that covered that basket of clothes, and gave a little start.

"Shirts," said Honora, "and socks, and turn-over collars No. 16, and great big pocket handkerchiefs, like the sails of a ship, and while vests, and good­ness me, what does it all mean? Mrs. Mulvey has sent me some gentleman's wardrobe by mistake. I must send these things back at once."

But then Miss Maywood looked down at the articles thoughtfully.

"I never had a brother," mused Miss Maywood, "and I can't remember my father; but of this I am quite certain—if I had either one or the other, I should thank any girl to mend their dilapidated wardrobes, if they looked like this. And Mrs Mulvey can't send before night, and unfortunately I've nothing to do, so I'll just mend this poor fellow's clothes, whoever he may be. A half starved theological student, perhaps, training for the Polynesian Islands; or, perhaps a newspaper reporter, or a pale clerk, under the skylight of some dry goods house. At all events he is worse off than I am. for he cannot mend his own clothes, and I can."

And the smiles dimpled around Ho­nora Maywood's little rosebud of a mouth, as she sat down to darn holes, sew on tapes, and insert patches.

"He'll never know who did it," said Honora to herself, "but I dare say he'll be thankful; and if one can get a chance to do a little good in this world, he ought not to grudge one's time and trouble."

And as Honora stitched away, she mused sadly whether or not she ought to accept a position which had offered itself of assistant matron in an orphan

novium, wnero tuo wum would De al­most unendurable, and the pay next to nothing, with no Sundays or holidays, and a ladies' committee, consisting ol three starched old maids, to "sit' upon her the first Friday of every month.

"I almost think I'd starve," said Ho­nora. "But dear me! starving is a seri­ous business, when one comes to consid­er it face to face."

Sally Mulvey came back, puffing and blowing like a human whale, in about two hours.

"Mother said she sent the wrong basket," said she breathlessly.

•"I thought it very probable, Sally," said Miss Maywood.

"And mother's compliments," added Sally "and she can't undertake your things no longer, because she does a cash business, and there hain't nothing been

Said on your account ever since last une." Honora felt herself growing scarlet. "I am very sorry, Sally," said she.

"Please tell your mother I will settle my bill as soon as I possibly can."

Sally flounced out of the room, red and indignant, like an over-charged thunder-cloud, and poor little Honora, dropping her head on her hands, burst into tears.

"Pretty girl that—very pretty in­deed," remarked Mr. Broderick, an old bachelor, to Mrs. Pennypacker, the land­lady.

"Do you mean—" "I mean the young lady boarder of

yours that I see on the stairs now and then," explained Mr. Broderick. "Nice figure—big, soft eyes, like a gazelle. I believe some one told me she was a mu­sic-teacher. Is she?"

"That's her profession," answered Mrs. Pennypacker. "But there ain't many

Supils as wants tuition, and poor little ear, she has had a hard time of it!" "Humph!" grunted Mr. Broderick.

"What fools women are not to have a regular profession! If I had a daughter, I'd bring her up a self supporting insti­tution!"

And Mr. Broderick disappeared into his room, in the midst whereof stood a girl with flapping slippers, a pretentious shawl and a bonnet which had original­ly been manufactured for a woman twice her size.

"Who are you, my good girl?" de­manded Mr. Broderick.

"Please, sir, I'm Sally, the washerwo­man's Sally," was the response.

"And what do you want here?" "Please, sir, I've come to bring your

things," said Sally, chattering off her lesson like a parrot. "And, please, sir, her 'umble duty, and she hopes they'll suit, but it was that damp and muggy Monday and Tuesday as starch wouldn't stick; and she hopes you'll excuse all mistakes, as they shall be done better next time, sir."

"Who mended them?" demanded Mr. Broderick, whose hawk eyes had caught sight of the dainty needlework upon nis garments.

"Nobody mended 'em," said Sally. "And mother she says it's easy to see as the new gent is a bachelor, on account of the holes in his heels and toes, and strings off his dickeys."

"I can tell you who mended'em," said Mrs. Pennypacker, "for I see her at it, the pretty dear!—Miss Maywood. And says she, 'I don't know whose they are, Mrs. Pennypacker; but they need mend­ing, and a kind action never comes amiss.' No more it does, bless her'"

"Humph!" said Mr. Broderick; "she's right—no more it does. And she's a regular scientist at the needle, is Miss Maywood. Just look at that patch, Mrs. Pennypacker! 'Euclid's Geometry' couldn't produce a straighter line or truer angles. See the toe of that stock­ing! It's like a piece of Gobelin tapestry. That's the way I like to see things dqpe!"

And Mr. Broderick never rested until he had been formally introduced to Honora Maywood, and thanked her with equal formality for the good offices she had rendered him.

* * * • It was a golden October evening that

Honora came down into the kitchen where Mrs. Pennypacker was baking pies for her eccentric boarder, with the crust made of the best Alderney butter instead of lard.

"Oh, dear! oh, dear!" sighed Mrs. Pen­nypacker; "what an awful thing it is to be an old bachelor, to be sure!"

"He won't be a bachelor much long­er," said Honora, laughing and color­ing as she laid her cheek on {he land­lady's shoulder.

"What do you mean?'' "He has asked me to marry him after

only a fortnight's acquaintance. He says that a girl who can mend stockings as I do needs no other test. And he says he loves me; and—and—"

"Well?" "I almost think I love him!" whisper­

ed Miss Maywood. And so the problem of Honora's soli­

tary life was solved, all through the magic influence of needle and thread.

An official announcement has been made to the effect that the Grand Duke Valdimir has subscribed $75,000, and the Grand Dukes Alexis, Sergius, and Paul $37,500 each, toward the fund for constructing a cathedral over the grave the late Czar Alexander H. The money is said to come, however, from the sav­ings made by the economical adminis­tration of the army.

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A Monster Oyster. The Mining Bureau is again indebted

to J. Z. Davis for a valuable donation to the State Museum. Prof. Ward, of Rochester, N. Y., arrived lately by the China steamer Rio Janeiro from Japan. During a visit to the Mining Bureau he met Mr. Davis, and in the mention of some of his Oriental experiences, told of an immense bivalve shell weighing 528 pounds, which he had secured as a great prize at Singapore. Mr. Davis expressed a wish to present such a specimen to the State, and asked the Professor to name a price at which he would dispose of it. This was done and instantly accepted. It is now due at tfew York. It will be reshipped for California without unpack­ing as Prof. Ward will have it transferred to a California-bound ship immediately on its arrival at New York. By this prompt action on the part of Mr. Davis, the collectors at the East will not have the satisfaction of bidding for it, which they certainly would have done. The name of this monster shell is the tridac-na gigas. In Cook's "Voyages" cockles are mentioned as being found in the Pacific, which two men were not able to carry. Cant Cook also states that the animal of this species sometimes weighs twenty pounds and is good eating. Dar­win also mentions gigantic bivalves seen in the lagoon at Keeling, or Cocos Island, but he classes the shell as the chama. A pair of the valves of the tridacna are used in the Church of S t Sulpfce, Paris, as benitiers, or holy water fonts. They weigh upward of 500 pounds, and are two feet across—probably ajiputthe else of Mr. Davis' donation. „ :. _

Styles in (Janes. The New York World interviewed a

cane merchant, who said: "Styles in canes? Why, they change almost as often as the cut of women's dresses does. I have been in this business since it was established by my father in 1841, and since that time I have learned that new shapes in sticks must be invented every year. A good cane is an old man's friend, and a handsome one is a young man's pride. One might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion, and the young man nowadays who doesn't carry a 'crook* may as well" go to the nearest dock and throw himsefi into the river. When I say crook, I mean the latest thing out in canes. It is in simi­lar shape to the curved-handle stick, which has always been in vogue, but

Generally carried by old gentlemen.— 'here are two styles, the shepherd's

crook, shaped like a fish hook, and the Zulu crook, a plain curved handle.— Both styles originated on the other side, as do most of the fashions in canes.— The Zulu is from Paris, and the shep­herd from London. They were intro­duced there last spring, and took the {>lace of the crutch, which, was so popu-ar last year. These new styles are

made from natural wood, with handles, and yet there are a great many made with chamois and buffalo horn handles. When I was a young man a whalebone cane was the proper thing, and since then there have been the agate-topped Malacca, the bamboo and barked sticks of different shapes. The makers here get woods from all over the world, the most expensive being the Malacca, which comes from the swamps in the Straits of Malacca, and the leopard wood, olive and snake wood, from Africa.— America can supply the wants of the world for pretty barked wood. For canes, the ash plant, very popular among Englishmen, comes from Great Britain, where it is cultivated for cane use alone. When used as a walking stick it is never varnished, but used just as it was pulled. The fancy woods, such as Malacca, Penang and Waukee bamboos, are generally mounted in gold or silver, with hammered heads, and of­ten cost as much as $30."

Scarcity of Money. Pete Freer is always hard up for mon­

ey, and is everlastingly trying to borrow from his friends. Colonel Andrews lias got plenty of money, but he does not like to lend it to Pete, for fear he would forget all about it.

On the first of the month Pete met Colonel Andrews and said to him:

"Can you lend me half a dollar for a few minutes? I want to pay my land­lady."

"I'm sorry, Pete, but yesterday I let George Horner have the last half-dollar I had about me, otherwise I would be proud to lend it to you."

Next day Pete made another attempt to borrow half a dollar from Andrews, who said he had, on the day before, paid out his last cent for taxes; but for that he would let Pete have the money in a minute.

On the next day Pete made another attempt to get that half-dollar, but Col. Andrews said he had on the day previ­ous been paying his pew-rent, and it took the last cent he had, otherwise he would take pleasure in lending Pete as much money as he needed; that there was no man in Austin- whom he res­pected as much as he did Pete Freer.

On the_ succeeding day Pete once more tackled Andrews, who remember­ed that he had, on the day before, con­tributed the only half-dollar he had to the erection of an Alamo monument, otherwise he would be proud to advance Pete the cash.

Pete began to lose hope, and yester­day, when he met Andrews on Austin Avenue, instead of asking him for the half-dollar, he merely inquired:

"I say, Colonel, what did you do yes­terday with that half-dollar you can't lend me to-day?"—Texas Siftmgs.

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We see by the San Antonio papers that the butchers have raised a club.— If their tenderloin steaks are as tough as they used to be, they might use the club to advantage on them.

A Thoughtless Photographer. While at Cheyenne a short time ago

Mr. C. D. Kirkland, the photographic artist of that thriving city, made some experiments in still hie, and the results are very satisfactory.

Knowing that our hair was very light and seldom, he didn't try to photograph it, but made us put our cap on, so as to partially shade the glistening wealth of brow. „ The picture is a very satisfactory one, and would impress even a stranger with the ponderous strength of purpose, the indomitable will, the logical power and inflexible appetite of the subject Mr. Kirkland is an artist of great accuracy of touch, and shows a genius and apti­tude for catching the true expression in a way that is bound to succeed.

The only thing about the picture, how­ever, which is in any way objectionable is the expression on the face, of a settled melancholy, and which of course, the artist is not to blame for. This tempo­rary sadness was the result of our being compelled to look at a large printed card while the camera rotunda was get­ting in its work, and on which was the ghastly motto:

"Pictures must be paid for when the negatives are taken."

Some would not be affected by this cruel blow, but a sensitive nature like ours is crushed by such things as that and it is a wonder that we did not burst into tears and leave Mr. Kirkland look­ing through hisGatiinggun atour empty chair.

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Webster and Hayne. The following anecdote is vouched for

by Mr. Webster: When he had finished his speech a Southern member approach­ed him cordially, and said, "Mr. Web­ster, I think you had better die now, and rest your fame on that speech."

Mr. Hayne was standing near, and heard the remark, and said, "You ought not to die. A man who can make such a speech ought never to die." Webster and Hayne met at the President's re­ception that same evening, and as they shook hands Mr. Webster asked pleas­antly, "How are you to-night?" "None the better for you, sir," was the general's humorous reply.

m i » "Mamma, when I noticed all the peo­

ple after they came into church this morning lean their heads down against the back of the pew in front of them, I did just as they did and leaned mine down too." "That was right my dear; and you uttered a prayer like a good little boy?" "No, mamma, I counted ten."

It is a little singular that a "crank? Cannot be turned in the right direction.

The largest and oldest chain-bridge in the world is said to be that at King Tune, China, where it forms a perfect road from the top of one mountain to another.

Domestic Eecipes. Bakewell Pudding.—Line a tart dish

with puff paste, place over it some pre­served fruit and strips of candied peel; then fill the dish three parts full of the following mixture: A quarter of a pound of clarified butter, the same of granulat­ed sugar, the yolks of four eggs, and the whites of two, all to be well mixed together. To be well baked. When cold grate fine sugar over it.

G i n g e r C o o k i e s . — T a k e a c u p e a c h of sugar, molasses, shortening and boiling water, one teaspoonful saleratus, one tablespoonful ginger. Stir these in­gredients well together; add flour enough to roll nicely. Bake in a mod­erate oven.

Boiled Rice.—The rice should be washed thoroughly, changing the water four or five times, to remove all the glutinous matter; then it must be put into a large quantity of boiling water and boiled seventeen minutes; then strain through a cullender, and set in the oven a few minutes to dry, leaving the door opened to prevent the heat from discoloring i t

Tea Cake.—One quart of flour, one heaping cup of sugar, four eggs, butter the size of a hen's egg, one tablespoonful of yeast powder. Season to taste. The proportions can, of course, be doubled.

Oyster Kromeskys.—Parboil a dozen oysters in their own liquor, remove their beards, strain the liquor, and cut np the oysters into small dice; melt a piece of butter in a saucepan, stir in a pinch of flour, add the oyster liquor and the minced oysters, salt and pepper to taste, a little grated nutmeg and a pinch or two of chopped parsley; take the sauce­pan off the fire, and stir in the yolk of one egg with the juice of half a lemon. When the mixture is quite cold, divide it into twelve portions, cut some slices of parboiled fat bacon as thin as possi­ble, and wrap each portion tightly in a piece of bacon. When they are all done, dip them in hot butter, and fry them in plenty of hot lard to a light brown color. Drain well from fsi in front of the fire, and serve with fine parsley.

Breast of Yeal Stuffed.—Have a fresh breast of veal boned by the butcher; season it inside with salt and pepper, and stuff it with the following force­meat: Steep half a pound of bread in cold water for five minutes, and wring it in a dry, clean towel; fry half an on­ion, chopped fine, in one ounce of but­ter; put in the bread, season it with a saltspoonful of powdered thyme, and pep­per and salt to taste; stir it over the fire until scalding hot, when it will cleave from the pan; stuff the veal, sew it up, shape it into a cushion, lay it in a drip-pin-pan on a carrot a turnip, and an onion, all sliced, four sprigs of parsley, two bay leaves, and a quarter of a pound of salt pork, sliced. Put it into a hot oven five minutes to carbonize the surface and confine the juices; then moderate the heat; and roast, or, rather, bake, it twenty minutes for each pound, basting At occasionally with the juice which flows from it, and seasoning when half done with salt and pepper. If you salt the outside of the meat before you put it into the oven or on the fire you simply aid in the escape of its juices. And the same result follows the placing of water in the dripping-pan, for its temperature never rises as high as that of the fat surface of the meat, and it on­ly serves to aid the salt in drawing out the juices. When the meat is done, lay it on a hot platter, and keep it warm while you make the gravy, but putting a pint of boiling water or soup stock in the dripping-pan with the vegetables and pork. Boil it quickly until it be­gins to thicken; strain it, and serve in a gravy-boat. A few watercresses or let­tuce leaves laid around the meat im­prove the looks of the dish, and are a palatable addition to i t

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Somewhat unusual was the result of seven years of litigation over a dead man's estate in Aurora, 111. If the property had been sold when the suits began there would scarcely have been enough to pay the debts and the costs, but now the rise in the value of the farm properties will give some $12,000 to the legal heirs after paying all the debts, with interest on the same and all the costs of litigation for seven years.

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An Historic Love-Affair. Says the Easton (Md.) Ledger: A val­

entine seen by a Ledger reporter, which was sent to a girl in Easton by a youth in Washington, brings to mind the*story of a name, and a name of note in Ameri­can history. The name of the sender of the missive is Return J. Meigs, and the same Christian name has been in the Meigs family for several generations. Many years ago, in ante-revolutionary days, Jonathan Meigs courted a young lady, who rejected his addresses. Meigs continued to love the girl, and, though too proud and sensitive to try a second time to win her, he determined never to marry any one else, and to live and die a bachelor, unless she, of her own voli­tion, relented.

After a few years the lady did relent, or perhaps got to know her own heart better, and sent a letter to her former suitor. Meigs got the letter, and found in in it only the two words, "Return, Jonathan." It was enough. Jonathan did return, and made hernis wife. Their first child was baptized "Return Jona­than." to commemorate the brief letter that saved the Meigs family from extinc­tion; and from that day to this there has been a Return J. Meigs in every genera­tion. The sender of the valentine re­ferred to is the grandson of Gen. M. C. Meigs, late quartermaster-general, now retired.

A Clever Sheep-Dog. In the Martinmas snow-fall of 1807,

the heaviest of the present century, a flock of four hundred sheep was buried. Most of them were covered up beneath walls, or in hollows where they had tried to find shelter when overtaken by the storm and darkness. The drifts were probed with poles in vain. No success attended the efforts of the shepherds, until a young sheep-dog took part in the proceedings. He began to take a seri­ous interest in what was going on, smell­ing the ends of the probing poles, and sniffing at the holes made in the snow. The final result of this patient puzzling was that the light broke suddenly upon him, and he commenced scratching eag­erly in the snow. While the older dogs stood indolently by, this young animal continued to point out the spots beneath which the sheep were buried, barking and howling with delight at every release of the endangered sheep. At the end of the first day, two hundred had been ex­tricated alive. On the following day, many others, some living, many dead were found. But the last sheep did not come to light until New Year's Day. It had remained since November 18 in a hollow beneath a furze bush, supporting life on the scanty herbage of this shrub.

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When Rev. Dr. Cox lived in Brooklyn ho once kept a dog. Over his kennel he wrote. "Cave Canem,—teeth inserted here."

Gave His Consent A few days since a gentleman, says

the Detroit Free Press, who has more corns and bunions to the square foot on his feet than he desires (though he cares for and protects them, and is very ten­der with them, and they are very tender with him), entered a shoe shop and said to his boot-maker, laconically:

"That was a good pair of boots you made me the last time. Make me an­other pair like them. Call for them Thursday at 4 o'clock. Have 'em done. Good morning."

Yesterday afternoon he came in punc­tually at the hour, and pulling out a healthy-looking pocketbook, ejaculated.

"Give me my boots! How much?" "Fourteen dollars, sir," replied the

smiling shopkeeper as he skipped around behind the counter and placed in front of his customer a pair of tooth-pick-toed boots, with narrow soles and patent heels.

Without touching them the customer looked at the fashionable instruments of torture for a moment, and then, with a grimace as if the sight had set every corn a-twinging, blurted out the inquiry:

"Whose are those?" "Yours, sir," replied the man of lasts,

with just a slight accent of uncertainty in his tones. "Made out of the very best stock I have in the store, and in the latest fashion."

"Latest fashion!" exploded old Gouty, getting red in the face, "altogether, too late! Tools all dead except stupid shoe­makers ! Now you just take those things, put them back in the show-case, and if there ever comes in an idiot who has had the front part of his feet hewed off on both sides until they look like flat-irons, you have my entire consent to sell him that pair of leather gondolas for whatever the confounded fool will give for them. Bah! I'd as soon wear a pair of tin molasses funnels."

Cochineal Culture. In the Town of Zimatlan, several

leagues south of Oaxaca, N. M., is the advance post of cochineal cultivation. It is an Indian village, where little huts of mud and canes are inclosed by palisades of other canes and living hedges of cacti, a species of organo, or organ cactus, that grow straight up in fluted, hexagon­al columns. Within these hedges are the gardens of cochineal cactus, which is a species of nopai, or prickly pear, grow­ing in rows to a height of three feet, near together, and very carefully tended. Since the discovery of aniline dyes, coch­ineal has steadily fallen away in value, until now it hardly pays for the Indian to raise it. Though worth now but $10 the arroba—twenty-five pounds—it has been lower, but formerly brought as high as $100 the arroba, and immense fortunes were made in it. The Indians affirm that Oaxaca was the original home of the cochineal, whence it was taken to Guatemala and the Canaries. It was formerly the leading culture, but now sugarcane holds that honor, though from various causes hardly enough is produced for home consumption.

Taking the Starch Out of a Temperance Lecturer.

The temperance lecturer went on to say: "Look at the beneficent change which has taken place in your own town. Five years ago a distillery and three breweries were in full operation, and the broken windows of hundreds of dwel­lings were stuffed with old hats. Now that distillery has ceased to pollute the air with its sour breath, those three breweries are falling into decay, and—"

"And the people," broke in an old man near the door, "are too blamed

Eoor to get even an old hat to stop up a ole in the winder." The lecturer stopped here to drink a

glass of water, and didn't again refer to the town's industries.

A boy who had been watching through a keyhole the antics of a couple of lovers, ran down into the kitchen to announce his discovery to his mother. "O, it's such fun!" he exclaimed. "What's such fun?" asked the old lady. "Why, to see sister Mollie and Mr. Fipps play lunatic asylum."

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New Year's Day in Japan* A sleepy village it was as it lav by the

sea that beautiful sunny day. We saw some bronzed girls out upon the beach lazily looking for clams. There were a few men spreading their nets to-day. A number of children, with smaller children fastened upon their backs, quietly nestled upon the sandy shore. The dogs lay with their noses between their paws, looking sleepily out of their half-opened eyes as we passed by. The fowl, squaddling in the warm hollows they had fashioned for themselves, and there were to be seen women at work picking cotton from the seed in a languid way that suggested that there was time enough and to spare. The sea caressed the sand as gently as the touch of an in­fant. The air was hushed and the foli­age of the trees rested. No bird gave forth a note, the cats slept in the sun, and" we thought if there was comfort in the world it was to be looked for ^ust here. But appearances are not reality. The quiet village of that day must have its storms and commotions, and be, like other human habitations, full of all the evil that flesh is heir to, though for that one day of the new year it was at peace and at rest There was a calm and quiet about it that was like the hush of a shrew's tongue—something to be won­dered atas a phenomenon. After leaving Singeta to its sleep in the sun, we enter­ed upon a narrow road leading over the range of high hills, which boldly push themselves down to the sea in seeming defiance, for their bases show many a rent and seam that tell of fierce combats with the waves when they have rushed against their foundations in the wild fury of the storm. The hills of Japan are very unlike any that I have seen elsewhere. They are all narrow spurs, with rapid ascent cleaving into and di­viding the valleys in all directions. The hand and industry of man through the long centuries have doubtless contracted the natural slopes, as plateau is terraced and utilized by the husbandman. As we wound through the leafy maze of the way charming vistas were on either hand, and wherever there was a level •pot large enough to swing a hoe on it was cultivated. There were many patch­es, detached and away from any habita­tion, that were certainly not of the area of 100 square feet, under the highest state of cultivation. Not a weed or blade of grass was to be seen trespassing upon the spots. Yet we did not see a single man at work in the fields during our en­tire trip, covering the entire day.

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