Denison Daily Herald. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 99, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 22, 1878 Page: 3 of 8
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HOME AND rOBEIGK GOSSIP.
V ViidiHi*A girU)iTth the whooping,
rpfugh drew a- b*aB into her windpipe
LhWWHed in a few moment*.
John Holmes's orchard of 6,000
trtes at Charlotte, Vt., is said to be the
largest but one in the Eastern States.
• "' A Coventry (Vt,) woman has a
dress which she has worn every day for
28 years, and. then is considerable wear
, i“ “ X?$- _ '
A South Carolina boy raised 81
bushels of pinders (peanuts) on an acre
of land, and sold them for 91.26 per
bushel.
When a Bostonian gets drunk and is
arrested hereafter the police are to make
the charge “drunkenness” not “disor-
derly conduct.'*
A doctor at Madrid has been arrest-
ed Ipt compounding a medicine war-
. ranted to preserve human life for 160
years.
A bill has been reported in the Ala-
bama Legislature requiring lightning-
rod agents to pay a State tax of 9100,
and 910 to each county peddled in.
Statistics show that more boys than
girls are born in Great Britain, but that
there are about a million more women
than men in the kingdom.
M. Darblay died lately at Corbell,
France, at the age of 84, and possessed
of 70,000,000 francs. He made his for-
tune as a grain-dealer and miller.
Baroness Mary Itulak Abtymows-
ka, 26 years of age and moving in the
best Russian society, has just been ban-
ished to Siberia for forgery, fraud and
bribery, leaving debts to the amount of
2,000,000 roubles.
Down en the flooded flats of Salem
County, N. the other day, a little
girl found that she would be overtaken
by the rising tide in the Delaware. She
saved herself by catohing hold of a cow’s
tail, the animal piloting the way to dry
land.
One of the most pleasing features
about Japanese progress is the atten-
tion paid to female education. The Em-
press, who is said to bo a very able
woman, spends both time and money in
fostering every thing which looks to-
ward the elevation of her countrywom-
en. Recently she invited a number of
girls to the palace to make an exhibi-
tion of their needlework.
Mrs. McBeath’s son returned to
Cleveland after a season of work' as a
boatman on the lakes, and she was very
happy to see him at homo again. He
told her that he had signed the total ab-
stinence pledge, and had saved money
enough to keep the family comfortably
through the winter. At that her joy be-
came so overpowering that she fell down
dead from heart disease.
Mr. Guy Carlton, a robust farmer
76 years old, living near the village of
Wyoming, X. V., has bought his eollin
and has it ready for use. He also has
ready for erection a solid marble block,
chiseled in the shape of a dwelling,with
doors and windows. The block will be
put over his gravo to symbolize by its
form and solidity the last long dwelling
of man.
Ik you have occasion to write to the
Marquis, address “The Hon. John
George Edward Henry Douglas Suther-
land Campbell, Marquis of Lome, Gov-
ernor-General of Canada,Vice-regal Res-
idence, Ottawa, Province Ontario, Can-
ada.” Re sure and write in the left-
hand cornor of your envelope “God
save the Queen,” otherwise your letter
may go to the Dead-letter Office.
A ghost has appeared at Middletown,
Conn. It is the phantom of Miss Stan-
ton, who hung herself about two years
ago. This spirit last week interviewed
a Miss Barry, and preferred a complaint
that people were wearing her clothes.
Poor Miss Barry had the worst of it, for
so a bright oil was she by the apparition,
that she took to her bed and has remain-
ed there ever since.
Even Edison owm something of his
success as an inventor to happy acci-
dent. He recently made a great im-
provement in his electric light by the
merest chance. While experimenting
with a burner, he dropped his screw-
driver upon it, twisting it quite out of
shapo but immediately doubling the in-
tensity of the light. He restored the
burner to its original shape and the light
was at once diminished. Now ho makes
all his burners of the slope accidentally
given to it by the fall of the screw-
driver.
The crew of a ship-wrecked vessel
were lately killed and eaten by the
blacks on tho ooast of Queensland, Aus-
tralia. The bodies of two of the men
were found in an oven on the main land
opposite the King’s reef, on which the
vessel struck. The features of the men
were unrecognizable, the skulls being
smashed in and parts of the flesh being
removed; but traces of paper, cloth-
ing, etc., in the neighborhood of the
camp left no donbt as to their identity.
One of the Spanish provincial papers
publishes a singular notice in its obitu-
ary. It says: “This morning our
Savior summoned away the jeweler,Sie-
bald Illinaga, from his shop to another
and a better world. The undersigned,
his widow, will weep upon bis tomb, as
will also his two daughters, Hilda and
Emma, the former of whom is married,
and the latter is open to an offer. The
funeral will take {dace to-morrow. Iiis
disconsolate widow, Veronique Illinaga.
P. S.—This bereavement will not inter-
rupt onr business, which will be carried
on as usual, only our placo of business
will bo removed from 3 Tes.si des Tein-
turiers to 4 Rue do Missionaire, as our
grasping landlord has raised our rent.”
Pirates are again becoming numer-
ous in the Persian Gulf, and the device
practiced a quarter of a century ago by
an English navy Captain is suggested.
The English Government had made re-
peated complaints to tho King of Mus-
cat regarding the injury to British com-
merce, but without effect, and the of-
ficer in question gave his vessel the ap-
pearance of an unarmed merchantman,
lie sailed to the waters which the pi-
rates most frequented, and was soon
surrounded by a swarm of their craft.
Ilis portholes then opened, and they
were treated to successive broadsides
of grape, canister, and round shot.
Two-thirds of the vessels were sunk,
and at least 000 pirates were killed or
wounded.
The Post-efflce Department at Wash-
ington received a letter recently from
the Postmaster at Bloomington, la.,
stating that he had received a registered
package of third-class matter, consist-
ing of three pounds of butter, from La-
dora, in the same State, on which the
postago and registry feo had been duly
paid at the sending office, and inquir-
ing if this was legitimate matter for
registry under the new system. He was
s«(vised that it was not, and the Post-
al Ladora reprimanded for re-
ceiving it.
A earner living near Boise City,
Idaho, is doing* heavy b—iemlarab-
bit*. He traps* about 400 look-rabbit*
a day. Trap* fro placed atom; about ,
three miles of brush fence. The rab- ,
bits leap the brash fence and. light on
”^Aiimi.nf8mNC* sehsatiox.
the board-coveting of the/ hole or trap,
whloh board works on, a pivot. The
trap sets itself, and very onto catches
a half dozen at a time. The rabbits an
fed to hogs. Seven men are employed
on the rabbit ftrm. The ears of the
game are savera as there i* a bounty of
two cents per pair, enough to pay all
the expenses of setting the traps.
In 1840 an English gentleman visited
this country and brought back an Amer-
ican ax and helve, which, from the pe-
culiar curve of the handle and shape of
the head, proved infinitely superior—
the expert, Mr. Gladstone, gave similar
testimony not long ago—to any tiling of
English manufacture. His son still has
the ax, which is serviceable, though, of
course, the handle has been renewed
several times, always on the model of
the old one. When it was first used car-
penters and woodmen came from a dis-
tance of 10 miles to inspect it, and many
times the owner was ^offered ten times
its price for it—indeed, one enthusiast
tried to steal it. Nevertheless, so
tenacious is habit, to this day that ven-
erable ax is the only one of its kind in
the neighborhood.
A Darlington (England) paper re-
lates that recently in a railway carriage
compartment, traveling from London,
were a gentleman and his wife going
home to Newcastle. At Retford they
wore joined by a good-looking young
woman with a child in her arms. Af-
ter the train had started the Newcastle
gentleman jokingly inquired the price
of the child, a very pretty boy three
weeks old. The young woman, its
mother, answering that little would buy
it, was offered a live-pound note, which
she at once accepted, ami handed tho
child to the gentleman. The lady then
took the child. Her surprise as well as
that of her husband, appeared tube only
equaled by delight in their bargain.
Thu young woman refused to give her
own name, but mentioned that tho
child had been callod George Henry,
and singularly enough, this happening
to be the Christian name of the buyer,
only served to increase his own and his
wife’s satisfaction. When last seen the
baby was lying in the lap of the lady
°^EwmtSk?w7wk%iS3!j
The officers of the various life buur-
oompaaies of this city were startled
yesterday by the announcement of the
death of Mr. Welton Dwight, of Bing-
hamton, N. Y., that gentleman having
just secured insurance of his life for a
vast tom—exceeding 9260,000. The
cironmstanoes connected with the case
are so peculiar and the sum involved so
large that it bids fair to become the
most oelebrated of many alleged at-
tempts to impose upon life insurance
companies.
Mr. Welton Dwight was one of the
most prominent citizens of Binghamton,
and the “Dwight Block” and the
“Dwight Hotel” are well known all
over the country. Mr. Dwight, it is al-
leged, expended bis fortune in the erec-
tion of these buildings. When the fall
in real estate came Tie suffered heavy
losses, and last summer was bankrupt.
In the latter part of September he ap-
plied for insurance in several life com-
panies, and was willing to take policies
for almost any amount, but insisted that
all the premium payments should be
made duo quarterly. In less than three
months he succeeded in securing poli
cies to the extent of $256,000 in favor of
his wife and son, and he applied to near-
ly every insurance company in the Unit-
ed States. The following companies
were reported yesterday as having is-
sued policies to him:
UST OP INSURANCES.
Name of Company. Amount.
New York Life............................$10,000
Washington, New York.................. 10,000
United states............................. 10,000
Brooklyn Life............................ 5,000
Home Life................................. 5,000
Equitable Life............................ 40,000
Union Mutuul, of Maine.................. 10,000
New England Mutual... ................ 10,000
State Mutual.............................. 10,000
Massachusetts Mutual.................... 10,#00
National, of Vermont................... 10,000
National, of Chicago............... 10,000
Mutual Benefit, of New Jersey.......... 10,000
Travelers’, of Hartlord.................. 10.0 0
Manhattan Life...........................‘20,000
(iermania Lite............................ in,000
Mutual Life................................ 10,000
The United States Life Company of this
city was the first to become alarmed at
tho vast amount of insurance Mr.
Dwight was accumulating. His name
was becoming famous in life insurance
circles, but he seemed to be a hale and
hearty man, and answered all questions
frankly. Tne United States Life exam-
ined his career, and found ho had been
sick and Miff-ring from hemorrhage of
the lungs. An ugent was sent to Ring-
sound asleep. “ A few years ago a child j humton, who saw Mr. Dwight and ask-
i 111tiit v it cri-i-iifTiBtr........
OILY JUST SATED.
Willi* Stansfield was dark in a Lon-
don and Indian bank., Ha was an or-
phan, and had hat one or two distant
relatival. Not very many friends either
oonld be boast of, hat two he had, both
sincere and one powerful. Mr. Manley,
a life-long friend of Ms father, had pro-
oared him his present appointment in
the bank, of which ha. Mr. Manley was
a director; and Mr. ttarner had known
him from boyhood, and' counseled him
on all important matters.
“ Willie,” said the latter, “ what is
this whisper which reaches me that
something more than kind feeling has
risen up between you and Laura Man-
ley?”
A question of this kind pnt to young-
sters of three-and-twenty generally dis-
concerts them a little, but Willie replied
pretty readily:
“ There may be people in the world
so clever that they have penetrated both
into Miss Manley’s heart and my heart,
and there discovered a secret,” he an-
swered ; “ but that one single person
ever saw the smallest outward manifes-
tation of affection between us, I most
positively deny.
“ You will see in a moment, Mr. Tur-
ner, how awkwardly I have been placed.
1 confess it at once, I am strongly at-
tached to Miss Manley, and 1 do not
think I am uncared for by her; but
what an outrageous thing for me to en-
tertain the smallest hope of any useful
result! Here is Mr. Manley, who was
my father’s friend and has been mine,
no doubt. He is a man of great wealth,
and of high position and influence. He
has one only child, Laura. How do you
think he is likely to view any advances
towards her by his humble protege—the
clerk in the bank at £150 a year? You
will yourself say, Mr. Turner—”
“ That you had better speak less ex-
citedly, Willie. That vehement tem-
per of yours does uot show signs of
mending.”
“ It never will, Mr. Turner,” contin-
ued tho young gentleman, “and, what
is more, I do not much care about its
mending; I would always rather speak
out, and to the mark. Well, you are
quite right,” he added, in a softened
tone; “ I have no wish to conceal any
t hing from you 'wt this feeling between
Laura Manley an myself is a thing I
do not venture to think of. The mo-
ment my thoughts turn that way I
wrench them in another direction
Mr. Manley, “ more especially beoause
yon perhaps can throw some light on
the movement* of thet ttnpid boy Stans-
field. Where’s be ran off to?"
“ Run off? Beally, I don’t know. I
haven’t seen him for a couple of day*.
In foot, I quarreled with him over a
threat of his writing you, in what I saw
would be a most unjustifiable strain,
about you not supporting his wish to be
tent to India.”
“Unjustifiable! The letter came,
nun enough, and wne simply abomina-
ble. One would think I hod done him
some deadly injury. Now just see how
vexing this affair is to me. I confided
to you that it hod crossed my mind
there was some feeling between this lad
and my daughter Laura. When Stans-
field’s letter arrived asking me to sup-
port him for the Indian appointment,
Laura and I were at breakfast, and af-
ter reading it 1 said, 1 Laura, you will
be glad to near young Stansfield is just
off to India. He wants to make his for-
tune in a hurry. It is a good berth lie
is going to, and the only drawback is
that both the previous occupants died of
yellow fever, but Willie may be more
lucky.’ Well, after I had witnessed the
effect of my little speech, I had no doubt
how matters stood, and I thought,
• Well, I suppose I ought to be very an-
gry. I ought t* denounce these two
young people, and threaten them with
my bitterest anger if they should for an
instant think of one another again. But
moment. Do yon know, I fancy I em
in a men critical state then yon think.
I may not live, you know, pep*. I may
not. If I should die, you wUl not bary
me here? Yon wifi take me home,
end—"
“ My Laura, my Lours!” exclaimed
her father, drawing her to him and em-
bracing her, “what has come over yon?
What sudden alarm is this?"
They were alone in the carriage, and
the old man’s tear dropped unchecked.
«It will pass away, I dare say, papa;
but a curious presentiment came over
me, and I felt weak. _ I will talk of
other things. I wish this journey were
ended, for I am ratner frightened at
such darkness.”
“There is nothing to fear, my girl.
This line is admirably worked, and all
contingencies are provided for, and—”
No. Not that of a heavy bar lying on
the rails, placed there after the last
train has been signaled “ All right.”
The huge engine reared up as if in
rage, and fell back on the foremost car-
riages, the hind part of the train was
jerked off the line, tho carriages falling
around and upon one another in hide-
ous confusion. Only a few of the cen-
ter carriages escaped injury. How
many passengers were killed I can not
tell you now. In a sense, they were fa-
vored above the cruelly wounded, for
the summons was immediate, and was
immediately obeyed.
Mr. Manley rose from the embank-
for once in my life 1 will taketime tocon- ment on to which, by some eccentricity
eider. The world would speak out fine-! of movement of the falling carriages, he
ly if it knew what is in my mind at this ! had been thrown. For a minute all was
was sold by a drunken mother on board
an ocean steamer for a few bottles of
Guinness’s stout.
ed him if he ever had bleeding of the
lungs. He answered in the affirmative,
but said ho did not think tho matter of
sufficient importance to say any thing
about it when he tilled out his applica-
tion for insurance. Tho agent inform-
ed him that he had not made a truthful
report of his physical condition and that
the company would at once cancel his
policy, but return him the full amount
of the premium he had paid, with inter-
est to uatc.
NOT TO BE BULLDOZED.
Dwight refused the offer, and said ho
Fishing Extraordinary.
I must tell you about white-fishing at
Sault Sainte Marie. While our boat
stopped, I went down to the beach
where a dozen Indians live, who arc the
most wonderful fishermen that I know
of. For 25 cents I was given a special
show. Seating myself in a canoe, one
Indian took bis position in tho stern,
and another stood in the bow. The one
in the stern used a paddle to keep tho
boat’s head up stream, while the other _
used a pole to steady the boat. He had with his gun in the woods on a damp
a dip-uet about four feet in diamotor, ! and foggy day. He looked very sick
with a handle 12 or 15 feet long. This and nervous. Inquiry revealed the fact
was hung over the projection of the cut-1 that Mr. Dwight tho previous day had
water, while tho handle trailed back in ! stripped off his clothing and swam
the water. Thus equipped, we sailed j across the Susquehanna River four
out into tho rapids, which aro half a
mile in length and ono mile wide. At
the foot of the rapids the fishing is done.
The water boils and tumbles like the
swiftest rift on the Delaware, and is
generally half white with breaking , ..................... — .
foam. With his pole, the Indian in the doctors and detectives. Before any
bow holds tho canoe, or lets it float ! other company, however, could tender
steadily sidewise, now up a little, then him his money or cancel his policy, Mr.
down, but always under perfect control, i Dwight died of reported hemorrhage of
and always dancing with tho rush of j the lungs.
moment. What do I care for the world?
But at all events Master Willie must
not go to India, and I will write and
tell him so. Yet I must be cautious I
do not let him see what is in the back-
ground, and which may never get to
the front. I must simply decline to aid
him, and he will well know I have his
interest at heart.’
confusion in his mind. Then memory
returned. Where was Laura? She re-
mained in that shattered compartment
upon which another carriage was partly
resting. He could just hear her voice
now, crying for her father.
The old man shouted for help, but
there were far worse cases, and no help
A cry then arose that the train
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they QftB oe with too lilt AnlQIti Aw
(Mean* Picayune.
Mbs. Mackay, wife of the bosom
king, bos over 9260,000' worth of Jew-
elry, and when ska gets-the toothache
she suffers fust a* much as the woman
whose bracelets and diamonds eame from
the ninety-nine oent store.—Norristown
Herald.
Speaking of dull times, a wicked
Mobile mac says that a few weeks ago a
stranger arrived there and bought a
bale of cotton, and a pleasant rumor
was at onoe started that the cotton buy-
er had arrived, but it only proved to be
a Chicago man with the earache.
Gentlemkn who would be considered
au fait in matters of dress will not roll
up their pants at the heel as formerly,
but all around. The roll should not ex-
tend above the hem, except in severe
cases of mud, when two rolls the width
of the hem is admissible.—Oil City Der‘t
rick.
The question which now agitates the
; mind of the young man of the period is
whether he will buy an amethyst ring
worth 94.76 for a Chrktmas present for
his best girl or put heroff with a 50-cent
diaiy for 1879. The present outlook is
favorable to the diary .—Rome Senti-
nel.
“Pizarro” was the play, a ver-
dant actor was cast for one of the small-
er roles. To him fell the line, “ My
Lord, ’neath yonder palm we have
captured a casique. What is your
pleasure?” The fellow, when his cue
came, rushed upon the stage, exclaim-
color and flashing eyes. “Hehasgone er accident was imminent! A loud wail J P ,• uan(i iPt’s bust in the
his own way, hufown headstrong, fool- of despair issued from the poor father, S bU8t m the
ish way, and he has ruined himself.” as fruitlessly he strove to remove the u - •
“ Did I understand you he is not forth- great mass of fragments in which his
coming?” asked Mr. Turner.
“ Just so. He’s made off like a scamp
—not that he is one, but what will peo-
ple think ? The dreadfully stupid boy,
after writing me as he did, must go and
downright bully our Secretary of the
bank, who gave him a hint that harm
might come of it. Whereupon, it would
daughter wa- entombed.
bung! ”—Courier-Journal.
A lady was the mother of a bright
little boy about 3 years old. The whoop-
doleful cry, approached to render aid?
Mr. Manley did not know at the mo-
ment. Ho simply saw a young and
powerful man, and he clutched him by
the shoulders, and then, even sinking
on his knees before him, the old man
Every feeling of duty towards Mr. I appear, the idiot returned’to his lodg besought him by all he held dear, by
.. r ------ - — — i----- -— vo- *—• n— m. all his hopes, of present and future, to
save his child. “ Save my Laura, my
Laura, sir, and all I have shall be at your
command!”
What a start the young man gave!
One more close look into the suppliant’s
foee, and then to work._ What super-
your long speech, and not suggestive of I lice—advertisements—” human force was this which cast aside
much hope of your carrying out your “Not one so far as I am concerned, this huge bar and that great beam!
good designs. Do you imagine Mr. Turner. That youth might in time have See how the fragments fly, as thouglf
Manley has any suspicion of this mat-; been my son-in-law, rich, blessed with they were hut pieces of a child’s play-
ter?” a dear and loving wife—every kind of thing!
“ N*o. lie can not have the slight-1 happiness at his—but no, we aro parted.
Who was this who, attracted by the ; ing-cough prevailed in the neighbor-
Manley requires me not to see Laura
Manley, not to think of her, not to go
where she is, never to let any associa-
tion recall her; but, oh,Mr. Turner—”
“Well, Willie!”
“ I love her with all my heart.”
“ Rather an unfortunate ending to
ings, paid his few debts (for ho was a
thrifty and honorable young blockhead),
put his trifling possessions together, and
disappeared in a cab.”
“Truly deplorable. But now the
thing is to find this crazed lad. We
must take all necessary steps—tho po-
est.”
“ I fancy he has.”
“ What! Mr. Turner, forgive my be-
was not to be bulldozed by the insur-; gQ warinlv tempered—1 will be as
... TltiMirlit lull! tlwvn ” J . , , 1 l , 11 __
ance companies. Mr. Dwigiit had then
just returned from a protracted tour
timos; that he rambled about the woods
day after day without food, and was en-
deavoring in every possible way to ruin
his health. These facts were made
known to the life insurance companies, J prin(.j,,';li reason why I am doing all
and there was a rush to Binghamton of! t induce the bank to give me t
calm as possible. If any dastardly
creature, it any despicable person, man
or woman—but no, no, I am wrong—do
tell me, my kind, good friend, why do
you surmise—"
“ There, pray let it rest. I quite un-
derstand. You will not, on any ac-
count, seek to deepen the present mis-
chief—for mischief it is, you know,
Willie—but will you do your utmost to
efface it?”
“Mr. Turner, look here, this is the
water. Ho watches the water constantly,
which varies in depth from eight to nine
feet. Suddenly with a quick motion he
shoves the end of the pole under the
bow piece, grasping the net at the same
time with the other hand, and, never
taking his eye from the water, plunges
it in, perhaps ton feet away, and forces
it to the bottom, or, as the canoe sags
back with the current, lets it drop a few
feet, and then with a peculiar twist
LIFE COMPANIES’ THEORIES ABOUT
DEATH.
Tho theories of the life companies is
that Mr. Dwight made up his mind to
terminate his life within three months.
No company received a second pre-
mium, all the payments were quarterly,
and as soon as he obtained all the in-
surance possible he began to destroy his
life; lhat, finding that he was likely to
live until the second premiums became
can to induce the bank to give me an
appointment just vacant in India. Mv
application is to come before the di-
rectors to-morrow. Mr. Manley, as you
know, has been in the country for
months. 1 have written to him,, begging
him to support my request; if he docs
it is sure to be granted, but—”
“ Well, why do you hesitate?”
“Why, though Mr. Manley is my
He may be a fool, he may be a madman
To neither will I trust my Laura. My
decision is irrevocable; pray say no
more. Willie Stansfield must do some-
thing very praiseworthy indeed before
he returns to my favor.”
lie thought of these words in many
an after year.
“ What a hopeless couple of men to
deal with!” soliloquized Mr. Turner, as
lie wended his way home. “ One the
impersonation of violent temper, and
the other of obstinacy. And so this
quarrel, which might so easily be ar-
ranged, is to cause ever so much suffer-
ing and injury, without any prospect of
a termination. It is truly deplorable."
It was; but as to bringing Willie
Stansfield back, that was out of the
question. He had already started for
America,
To the right, to tho left, the masses
roll; the work is more than half done,
when the cry arises that the whistle of
the unstopped train on the other line is
audible. Stand aside. No use working
further. Death must have his additional
victims. On comes the train.
Only at the last moment did Willie
Stansfield succeed in clasping the frame
of Laura Manley, and bearing it away.
Saved! Who could take her from him
now ?— Cassell's Magazine.
A Criminal Romance,
Mr. Peace is an English murderer and
burglar of attainments. His story, as
told”in the Herald yesterday, may be , .
regarded as one of the strangest reve- setting her upon a swift horse places in
lations in the history of crime. About her hands the carcass of a lamb or Kid,
his early youth we are not informed,
hood, and the mother became very much
alarmed lest her boy would take it.
She had talked so much about it, and
worried over it, that she had infected
the.child with her fears to such an ex-
tent that he would scarcely leave her
side. One night, after the little fellow
Had been put to bed and to sleep, a
jackass was driven past tho house, and,
when just opposite, set up his he-haw,
he-haw, he-haw. With a shriek the lit-
tle fellow was out of bed, screaming at
the top of hit voice: “ The whooping-
cough .is coming, mamma; the whoop-
ing-cough is coming." He didn’t catch
it that time.—Cincinnati Commercial.
A Singular Method of Courting.
Among the Turkomans of Central
Asia, who may fitly be styled the
Comanchesof the East, the ancient and
much discussed usage of “marriage by
capture” tabes the form of a very singu-
lar game, which is universally popular
with the tribes of the Lower < >xus. It is
known by the curious appellation of
“kok-buri” (green wolf), a name
which has never been satisfactorily ac-
counted for. The mode of playing is as
follows: When a Turkoman belle finds
herself embarrassed by a crowd of rival
suitors, her father settles the matter by
assembling them all in a convenient
place on the open steppe. He then
brings out his daughter arrayed in the
pomp of Turkoman “full dress,” and
very kind friend, he is such an odd-
tempered, impulsive man, that I never
can rely
manner.
I shall not hesitate to tell him frankly
that it will be a proceedirg, so incon-
siderate, showing such a thorough want
well greased from head to tail, with
There is something doubly alarming ^^been rmtfrfii^ young gentlemen" follow her’at full
and horrible in those instances of wick- un^ ^wo years ago, when he fell in speed, and endeavor to snatch the prize
edness for which no motive can possibly ;ove w;th another man’s wife. The la- from her hands, any one who can suc-
be assigned. As I, in my mind’s eye, jv rejected his suit and he threatened to ceed in doing so being thereby entitled
t re‘ murder her. The husband, Mr.Dyson, «i.l« h.imr mm.
moved his household to another place,
and in about six weeks Mr. Peace wait-
ed for the lady in the back yard of her
house and tired a pistol at her. He
missed her. Mr. Dyson came to the
five years after the conversation just re-
lated, see a human being on whose face
is stamped indelibly cruelty of the vilest
order, crawling about a railway era-
upon him in any particular j bankment in the United States, I have
If he should refuse me in this, j a shudder of conviction that some dia-
eians to hold a post-mortem examina-
tion of the remains, and tho stomach
will be secured for medical analysis. It
appears that Mr. Dwight’s family phy-
sician has been prescribing arsenic for
his patient for the past three weeks;
consequently, if that poison were found,
it would be no indication that lie had
committed suicide bv poisoning.
A BONANZA FOR LAWYERS.
A long legal contest in any event will
ensue. Already Mrs. Dwight is report-
ed to have secured the services of Orlan
W. Chapman, late State Superintendent
of Insurance, to press her claims against
the companies.
- There is some uncertainty in regard
A young man of Rochester relates a to the $10,000 policy in the Mutual Life
story at his owh expense that will be i of this city. That company is said^ to
appreciated by sportsmen.
Yesterday the insurance men held a ! colll.>|ete callousness-
hasty consultation, and sent two physi-; ,, ^[urCy on nuJ) Willie—spare me
another outbreak! Let us wait events.”
raises it to the surface, and, with a toss i due, he hastened his death by poison. (|j rcH[ interest in my welfare—such
like turning a flapjack, drops a 5-pound ' ' 1
whitefish into the canoe. This was re-
peated time and again, right in the
swiftest water, and seldom only one fish
was oaught, but onee six that would
weigh 18 pounds. Often 1 could not
see bottom, and one was caught in 8 or
10 feet of water. I could see no fish un-
til they wero brought to the surface. It
was the only kind of fishing that I ever
saw that I (lid not think l could learn
to do. It is said no white man ever did
learn. The Indian I was with took
300 in one day. We Were out an
hour and took about 30.—Cor. Hew
York 1'iijicr.
A Sport small and a Setter Dog.
He was re
cently in a part of tho country where
game is very abundant, and nearly all
the male inhabitants are devoted admir-
ers of dog and gun. Otir hero was stop-
ping at tne best hotel in the place, and
intimate with the leading citizens. They
thought a stranger should be invited to
a day’s shooting, and proposed to him
that he go out tor partridges with two
of the best shots in town. He neglect-
ed to tell them that ho was no sports-
man, but accepted the invitation with
have made out the policy, and that
Dwight returned it and asked for a
$30,000 policy, and that the Mutual then
refused to issue any. How the matter
was definitely settled could not be ascer-
tained last evening.
In the Germania Life the deceased
had a paid-up policy. A few weeks since
he went to the company's office and
took out an increased amount of in-
surance—all his paid-up policy would
pay for.
Mr. Dwight was 41 years of ago and
apparent glee as if he anticipated a day’s a man of fino personal appearance. 1 lie
sport, suen as genuine sportsmen know amount lie has paid to the various corn-
how to enjoy. A gun and a first-class ! panies for premiums aggregates $2,100.
dog were provided for the guest and , Two or three Hartford Companies, not
in the above list, are said to be
the victims.
one fine day he set out witn the two
friends who were to take him over the
ground. They entered the brush and
had separated from each other but a
short distance, when the dog given to
the Rochester man “made game,” and
in a moment was on a staunch point.
The hunter knew little about guns and
less about setter-dogs, but thought that
a dog that would stand still so early in
the day must be very lazy and deserved malarial origin.
After waiting a short
— A New
among
OPINION OF DWIGHT’S NEIGHBORS . _
Binghamton, N. Y., November 20. i time-
—The rumor about a fraudulent plot
against life insurance companies by the
late Col. Walton Dwight is regarded
here as unfounded. His death was un-
doubtedly caused by gastric fever of
ANsw Soi-ORinc. A 1M. Pfr
inir him rigid as a statue, the gunner ; sician has discovered a soporific which
picked up a stone and gave the poor | he declares to be innocuous, and which
beast a blow that made him hwwl-and has the virtue of being limitable in the
duration of its effects at one’s pleasure.
The timo during which a given dose will
at the same moment up went a brace of
patriges from under the dog’s nose. ------- ___....
The other shooters were not far away operate can be calculated to within ten
minutes of the actual figure. Thus a
traveler with two hours and a half’s
and hoard the birds rise. The explana-
™ eM! i=?
ing no more.
-Rochester Union.
Snowball Cake.—Use 1
safe in taking a two hours’ dose, or
I even a two hours and twenty minutes’,
cupful of i though the last might be ft little danger-
pulverized sugar, 4 cupful of butter, 4 j ous. The inventor, who throughout bis
siiHl'i! pSppf§
add the whites beaten stiff, then the been tried by a numbei’tittaplij.
flour and milk, and soda last. Use the sician’s patients, who allowed them-
yolks with the same quantity of ingre- selves to be experimented on. They
dients as ih the above, and vou will have pronounce it agreeable to the taste hay-
abetter cake. The two kinds look very ! inK something of the flavor of chai-
pretty together in a cake basket. ! treuse.
These soon revealed themselves. The
speakers were in Willie Stansfield’s
lodgings when the aiiove conversation
took place, and Mr. Turner was leaving
when the postman brought a letter.
Sta: slield read it and then flung it into
the corner of the room.
“ I thought as much!” he exclaimed
in a fury. “ Of course he refuses. Read
it, Mr. Turner. Just tell me what you
lliii k of that? Mr. Manley pretends to
bo my friend. lie once told me that he
i«-Hired my father, when he was dying,
that he would never lose sight of me.
And what does he do? He gets me a
trumpery berth in a bank and invites
me now and then to his house; but the
moment I ask him a real favor, which
would cost him nothing, but which
would give me something like r chance
in life, he turns away. Oh, I hate such
hypocrites! I will write and tell him
so."
“ I wish it had been otherwise,” said
Mr. Turner, “ and I own I do not alto-
gether understand it,” he added, as
though some special thought perplexed
him; “ hut, Willie, I can not hear of
your writing to Mr. Manley as you pro-
pose—it would be both foolish and
wrong.”
“ Maybe, but I shall do it.”
“Then you quarrel with me also,
Stansfield.”
“I shall bo very sorry, but my mind
is made up.”
“ So is mine, and if you send this let-
j ter you will not see me again for a long
*’*116."
And Mr. Turner left. Then the let-
ter was written, and a vastly stupid let-
ter it was, of course.
In fact, Willie Stansfield was slightly
demented at this time. His love affair,
his desire to act honorably to his patron,
and even to go abroad as a help to him-
self to do so; then Mr. Manley throw-
ing him back, as it were, into the mc-hes
from which he desired to escape; and,
finally, his general discontent at his
present life and the prospects of his fu-
ture, all these things brought about a
degree of mental effervescence hardly
consistent with perfect sanitv. He did
not stop at writing tho letter to Mr.
Manley. He must needs go head over
heels into mischief, into almost ruin, it
seemed, indeed. He saw the Secretary
of the bank and spoke in such unmeas-
ured terms that the Secretary plainly
told him tho board would not improba-
bly think he had better leave the com-
pany. That afternoon Stansfield went
homo in a worse state of mind than
bolical monstrosity is about to be per-
petrated. And so it is. The wretched
creature is carrying a huge bar of iron
(stolen from some store at hand, l sup-
pose), and with it he slips down the
embankment, at the risk of his life, un-
til he reaches the entrance to a tunnel.
There across the rails he deposits his
burden. He is careful so to place it
that by no possibility shall the engine of
the doomed train now fast approaching
clear its path of the encumbrance. He
chuckles as this assurance strikes him
fully. Then he smites the bar a heavy
blow with tho palm of his hand, and
dreadful madness glistens in his coal-
black eyes as he mutters, “ Fine, fine!”
A minute after, and he is over the em-
1____1_______A . nM J l. . . 1 A' „ m Oltil
to consider himself “the happy man.”
It sometimes happens, of course, that
when the cavalier who is the object of
the young lady’s secret preference
comes within arm’s length, she will
hold the kid in such a way that he can
door to see what was the matter and re- easily wrest it from her; but should a
■* ” ' less favored suitor overtake her, she
grasps it with all her strength, and the
ill-starred lover gets but a good roll in
the sand for his pains. When all is
over the father regales the whole com-
pany with a sumptuous feast of rice and
mutton suet, for which he afterwards
ceived a bullet in his head. He died
The detectives “ scoured the country ”
for Mr. Peace, but he slipped through
their fingers;_ he even managed to have
the idea prevail that he had killed him-
self through remorse. This simple tale
of lust and murder is, however, only
the prelude to a career of crime whicSi “ sends in the bill ” to his future son-in-
inakes all the romance about Claude law, who is often any thing but flatter-
Iluval, Sixteen-string Jack and the
dandy Barrington fade into insig-
nificance. For two years after his
escape, having settled down in
the suburbs of London, he
led the life of a burglar and a gentle-
ed by this extensive compliment.
Home Manners.
Manners arc protective of character.
__________ „ _ They protect the nature from lapse and
man—very much burglar and very much degradation. Asa man leaves off his
horror and suffering, he quietly tells
the story of his deed, and is borne away
with loathing to await the time when
it shall be pronounced whether he shall
be put out of life as a malignant crimi-
nal, or be henceforth well housed and • whole neighborhoods at his ease
cared for as an interesting lunatic of playing violin solos between times,
gentleman
Peckham was the pride of the neigh-
borhood and himself one of its most
honored residents. Now, here was a
murderer with a price on his head rav-
peculiar propensities.
Into that train, now coming on to its
fate, there stopped at the terminal sta-
tion an elderly gentleman and a beauti-
ful girl. They had come to America
from England for the benefit of the
young lady’s not over-strong health.
"What a lot of fog we get here!”
said tho gentloman testily. “ We start-
ed because it was a charming morning,
and now we are in a damp mist, getting
darker every moment. A blessed in-
while the astute detectives of Scotland
Yard declared themselves unable to ac-
count for it. It was a wonderful career,
ay not be easy to define the
precise relation which the spirit holds
to politeness, and the dependence of the
one upon the other; but that the rela-
tion is close, and the dependence pro-
found, can not be denied by those who
have watched the influence of polite cus-
toms upon themselves and others.
What a pity it is that home is made
the place in which we exhibit our rudest
self! What a satire it is on our sincer-
but— and here is the consoling part of i jty that there should be any such phrase
it—it came to grief. In one of his noc- “ “
turnal raids he dropped into the arms
of a common policeman. There was a
struggle and some shooting, but the
burglar went to jail, and bit by bit his
story was unraveled. He will doubt-
less be hanged for the murder. All
there is to be said about this case re
vention, those fog-signals, for I am sure soives itself in the thought that rasoali ^ „„„„ _________________
the engine driver can not see his hand ty is t(,e slirPst guide to its own detec- 1 you fce; ifte scolding, some morn-
liaforn mm ^ I/,1 >•/» 1 r? • * • j _______1-1
current as “company manners.” Some
men treat every other man’s wife well
but their own; some women are polite
to all men but their husbands. Chil-
dren are courteous to visitors, and dis-
respectful to parents. If we must be
cross to any one, why should it not he
to some one we do not know, instead of
to one whom we love or ought to love ?
before him.
" Papa,” said the young lady timidly,
and with the dreamy air which we as-
sociate with the looking back on the
long-past events, “ did you notice a gen-
tleman who entered the train as wc
were just starling?”
“ A young man, with brown hair and
dark gray eyes? Yes, Laura; and I
thought how wonderfully like he was to
that, headstrong lad, Willie Stansfield,
who will turn up again, I suppose, one
of these days."
“ Do you think, papa, it could possi-
ply have been he?"
“There’sno saying. We always as-
sumed he went abroad. He may be
here—mav be in this train. 1 well re-
member the last words I said to Turner
tlon.—New York Herald.
Katydids.—Now that “katydids” are
regularly filling their fall engagements
and keeping up their all-night concert,
it may be interesting t® reprint from
Mr. Wiison Flagg's “Birds and Seasons
of Now England” the result of certain
observations whereby Mr. Flagg claims
that he can tell what is the out-of-door
temperature by listening to the mono-
tonous chirping of these conspicuously
noisv insects. When the thermometer
stands at 80 deg. (Fabr.) the. keynote
of the insect is F natural. At 75 (leg. it
is E flat. (Time and tune perfect in
both cases.) At 70
ing, friend, go over and scold your
neighbor’swife. “ Haven't a right to?”
The privilege of scolding a woman is
one of the perquisites of marriage, is it,
then? A little honest thinking on this
point will be likely to improve your
manners, better your nature and make
your home happier.—Golden Rule.
deg. it is C. (Time and tune imper
, ... feet.) At 60 deg. it is B flat, likewise
about hint, that ha must do something jmperfect. Sometimes some of the in-
— noainniirAvlVir Kaf.vrn in nrtiiM vo. 1
ever.
It was two days after this that Mr.
Turner, hearing Mr. Manley had come
to London, went to see him at his club.
They were well known to each other.
«I am glad to see you, Turner,” said
very praiseworthy before he could rs-
turn to my favor. I dare say, like the
rest of the world, he is striving and
straggling. Laura, this is indeed a
wretched day for traveling.”
Rut Laura's thoughts were upon the
brown hair and the gray eyes.
sects sing as low as G, but when the
cold redtn cs the song to that pitch it
permanently silences all but the most
robust of the singers.
.................. .... >Yo Clean Fkathf.rs.—Make a lather
‘‘This is the"station,' Laura, before we ! of curd soap, boiling water, and pearl-
come to the long tunnel. On we go ash; when it is a little cool, wash the
again. How wc all of ns erv out for feather in it, gently squeezing it; wash
change! Restless creatures we human it again with less lather, and then rinse
beings are 1 Bah 1 The idea of my ; in cold water, shaking it well before the
moralizing!" and the hard-headedbusi- lire, but not too near. Curl it by draw-
ness man laughed at the notion. ing each fiber over the blunt edge of a
“ I don’t see any thing to laugh at, fruit knife. If the color is not good,
papa. I feel a little dull myself, at the I use a little bluo in the rinsing water.
The Lost Israel Identification Socie-
ty is an organization that has been form-
ed in Brooklyn to develop and dissemi-
nate as true the proposition that the
Anglo-Saxon race is descended from the
lost ten tribes of Israel. Its members
■ ™ .Hi claim that the British Islands are the
deg. it is D ; at >o ,, jsje9 afar 0(pn from whence the bible
says the chosen races shall tie called.
The movements in Turkey, in India,and
in the Holy Land all point to their final
possession by the Anglo-Saxon race,
which is becoming the protector of the
heathen nations. The very word “Sax-
on” helps in the identification, being
only “son of Saae,” or “Isaac's son.”
Wedding Cake.—The following is a
very rich wedding cake: 5 pounds of
! finest flour, 3 pounds of gitod butter, 5
pounds of currants, 2 of sifted loaf su-
gar, 2 nutmegs, j ounce of mace, i
ounce of cloves, 16 eggs, 1 pound of
sweet almqnds, 4 pound of candied cit-
ron, 4 pound of orange and lemon peel,
| 1 gill of wine, and 1 ot brandy.
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