The Greensboro patriot [March 27, 1884]

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• Rufua Markham's
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tin1 proprietor of tbe large
''"""" factory talked
tamest l- ".nli a gentlemanly look
uiddle nge, whose Dice
npreasive as a wax mask.
thousand dollars!" said
tin- ii dividual. "it was a
i (.posed."
'•Kxp. — il ;■■ -.ml Mr. Markbam.
11 my private desk, to
i lias access bnt my
phew . Fred Trvnn."'
'•Would ii In- possible (I
—"
: Mr. Markbam, "my
- Uol :i thief. If Ue need-in
In- knows I
give il in him. He
h i ■. mid lir is .is dear
t" i • 11 is siia|i|\ ab-i
el him in an\ way
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creased when Fred, after reading
the note, broke into a furious ex-clamation
of rage.
"Who dares to say that I am a
midnight burglar!" Im shouted.
••<). Fred! what is itt» asked
Hand, turning very white.
"My uncle has been robbed of
live thousand dollars, and he pays
me the compliment of supposing
Die to be tbe thief, because I have a
duplicate key to his private desk.
I great heaven !" he cried, with a
sudden change of voice, "he cannot
mean it. I rob my uncle, I "
'•-Mr. Fred," said the clerk, re
spectfully, "I only waited to see
how you took the note to speak a
few words of advice. Mr. Fred, I
was with your father when he was
killed on a railway train. I was
with your uncle when he brought
you from your mother's funeral to
his home. I took you to boarding
school and liroiight you home tor
i lie holidays, and I've loved you,
boy and man, since you were ten
years old, aud that's twelve loug
years. 1 know you never, never
took the money; but things look
ugly for yon."
'•ilnt," said Fred, grasping the
haud the old eleik held out to him.
"I cannot understand it; listen."
And he read aloud the note from
his uncle:
has givon you before putting any-more
into circulation ; but he has
probably hidden it very securely.
He will watch, lint if you are will-ing
I will take your room while
you are gouc and do a little detec-tive
business on my part
It was not an easy matter to per
suade Fred to consent to Potter
plan, but Maud's persuasions bei
added to the old man's he fm.i
consented to leave the city for
week, and return in time to vindi-cate
his own innocence in case ot
Potter's failure.
Before night Fred was on his
way to visit another city, and his
landlady had agreed to allow Mr.
Potter to occupy his place during
his absence.
Fred had been gone two days
when the old clerk called on Miss
Clarkson to report progress.
|'I am completely baffled,'- he
said in answer to her inquiries
"You see Arnold knows me, and
evidently suspects me. He is so
GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY. MARCH 27, 1884.
selves on his right and left, while
Mr. Markbam, Mr. Potter and Fred
Tryon followed them.
"Now, Mr. Potter," said one ot
the policeman, with the face and
voice of the detective Vodges,
NEW SERIES, XO 900
dUrv"etTi|te USe' bl,t t0 P««erve or I Catching a Buffalo Rill *,e.. „rk.
a desohteyr^tre,i tt?a,,y driven t0 ,ur" °u ' Hl"" ,u ,he s"u,h "«t«-. edSSetBtthtf^"*r,^r- £ I,Imiu« a"ec,lote ''« being
a FMSvesaeHnL£ t f'1", <,H,y ?*l,tb«.«* tue I succeeded in land-I ceutly, of an enlc"™oun tceorluomnns trhee
South Platte which occurred some
years ago between a Texan and a
buflalo. The recital sets forth the
tact that two Texans weut out to
your plan to throw the robbery of
Mr. Markham's private desk upon
his nephew has failed. It means
that five thousand dollars stolen
from that gentleman are now in
your possession, except only one
note given to Mr. Trvon in
merit ot a debt."
It's a lie!" cried ll
pay-
- prisoner;
but his white face, faltering voice,
and shaking limbs, were no proof
innocence. '•Search my trunks;
search everything I have"
"No. gentlemen,"'said Mr. Potter.
Draw out the stove, if you please,
league against them,
the rock was in a few years en-gulfed
by submarine eruption. The
tew remaining great auks assem-bled
and formed a rookery on a
rock called Eldey, where for four-teen
years they lived a precarious
existence. During this time sixty
ot their number were captured, and
Dually the last pair were destroy,
ed. The history of other localities
is very similar. That the birds
were once frequent on the Maine
coast IS shown by their bones, that
are found in the oyster shell beds
ot that region.
"MB. h RED TRYON :—1 could not
believe without proof—undeniable,
positive proof—that you could rob
me of live thousand dollars, taken,
as you know, from my private desk
on Wednesday last. You are my i
sister's son, and I will never be the |
one to imprison or punish you; but j
you are no longer a nephew of
this matter again as mine. Willingly, I will never look
Kosa Bonheur's Career.
{Paris letter in Saraonah News.]
Rosa lionheur is now in her sixty-second
year, and still continues,
when health permits, to give her
services, as she has done for years,
gratuitously to the School of De
sign for Girls, but it is her sister
that practically conducts that school
hunt buffalo, hoping to get enough j now. Mile, Rosalie Bonbenr. t
Ie1f,m!S.VlUnUgU,e*»• T?w»«- h" !<*oolma,cs baptized "Kola
. ' lan, aud allow me to '
II von, Mr. Mark-ham*'
'■< •• it ' ! drew live thousand j
iloii lie bank yesterday to
il was not presented
Itetainiug n until
i i- closed, I eon
cludi Ii il in my desk until
iIn- rtiiug, and did so. Al nine
o'clock Hi » the ex*>ected
utcil and I unlocked
ih<- i im ney was gone.
and with it a small memorandum
book II ibe si roll."
"The lock was no) forced '."
••No, sir; the d.sk was apparent-ly
as I lefl ii."
"And Mr. Tryon has the only
iluplir
nun frowned. He
was displeased at the
turn thedctcctive'ssuspicion seem
ed to be tal
inj nephew certainly has
the only duplicate kej."
'■Humph ! yi s. I lave you tbe
numbers ol all the notes"""
The roll consisted of ten
live hundred dollar notes."
The lisl of numbers being taken
tin ■ made a searching ex-it
of the apartment, and
to lake Ins departure.
' I near tbe door Mr.
Markhaiu suddenly said nervous
ni your face again. Your ill gotten
gains 1 freely give you to start in
some business, trusting that you
will endeavor to live honestly in
the future. Do not try to see mc ; j;
I will not listen to any explana- '
lions I know to be false. Do not
write for I will not open your let
tern. Unas MAKKIIAJI."
■-1 think, Mi. Vodges, if you
disco* cries, you bad bet-ter
report to me privately before
mil lie.Is."
'■i citainly, sir, if you desire it.
V\ ill jou grant me one In* 01 .' Do
not mention the robbery to Mr.
i, yon have not done so al
l.\."'
i I is heard of n but your-
"Verj good. I »ill come again
» hen 1 have MM report to make."
••Fred! l-'rcd!" the old gentle-in
a troubled tone, when
he aa 'Vodges e\ idently
think l-'s ! red. It is impossible
en would rob me. I
rannot believe it. And yet be
the II one* was there. He
was here when I banded Arnold
the rheck, and here n ben he re-turned
w ith the i ley. lie knew
that ■lohuson's note was not pre
Minted, ami Fred alone has a dupli
. ' Hi, ii ii should be. An-
Ii ... thai I have promised to
i son. Have I kept inj
promise I Where have I failed"
should he Bteal from me
H Ins. I cannot,
I asked a pleas
• ' .it the dooi, and pcrmis-r'red
Tryon enter-
'.• ■ ■ is handsome young
1 fi auk, with w ide
ilid curls of mil
was i 1 o conneel
■i aguery, ingrati-theft.
ilis manner to
who had ever tilled
- i he pel feel ion
■ licet ion, and before
i eu .in hour in ilie count
\lr. Mai kham's I'I ars were
Iking i ; .1 ei rtaiu
i.n'l little maiden v\ ho was
- Tryon, and when
! was with a
iild rail in 1 he
. mi to ar
• ddiug ditj.
<> man. a favorite of
Ij . spent I lie at
Ilis betrothed, receiv-evi
ning beside
1 il the old gen
riling house: re
II all'ectionate farewell
. his way to Ii s own
liiiusi . lor a
. nothing of the rob
when the summer
fading that, returning
drive with Maud
I red met his uncli
waiting for him at
• iryou, Mr. Fred,"
you were uol al
_ : I would wail for
liing in the young man's
■'■idi 111 -hill to Maud's
bad inns," she cried.
Mr. Fred had better
» as I he evasive re-h
1 i'i was onlv
Maud Clarkson grew white as
death as she heard the stein edict.
"<) lied!'* she cried, "what can
you do!"
"Starve, 1 suppose," was the bit-ter
answer, "aa I do not happen to
possess the ill gotten gains he so
generously presents me. But 1
will not ask you to starve with me,
Maud. You were betrothed to the
millionaire's nephew and heir; the
disinherited beggar frees you from
your promise."
■lied," she cried, bursting into
tears, "how can you be so cruel."
Then, unheeding" the clerk, who
was discreetly looking from the
window, she came close to Fred's
sale. -Darling," she said, fixing
her huge black eyes upon his face,
"if all the world east you off, 1 will
keepm* promise."
The young lover had been be
wildered, indignant, desperate, but
he folded the gentle comforter in
his aims, and great tears fell on
her upturned face.
"God bless j 011, Maud !'' he cried.
"I can defy the world it you are
true to me. Now, Potter, sit down
and tell me what you know of this
wretched business."
"Well, Mr. Fred, I never heard
of the robbery until this morning,
when Vodges, the detective your
uncle employed to work it up. came
to make his report. They did not ]
notice me at first, and when your
uncle remembered I was iu" the!
room 1 had heard about all that
Vodges knew. You remember there
»as a m.te coming due last Wed
nesday'."
••To Johnson !"
-Yes; well. I thought at the
time it was curious that your uncle
gave him a check, wheu I knew the
! money was drawn out of the bank
the day before to meet that very
note. Bat 1 never knew till this
morning that tbemonev was stolen
from Mr. Markham's desk by
means ol false keys, Mr. Fred,"
said the old man, earnestly, "it
was all in five hundred dollar notes,
aud your uncle had the numbers."
"Well •"
••This morning Vodges brought
back one of the notes which
gave to T yesterday
meiit lor a pearl loeket."
•Slop! Potter, let me think.
W here did I get that note. I have
it. Arnold gave it to me to take
out a hundred dollars I lent him
some time ago. And Arnold—Pot-ter,
Arnold borrowed my kci s last
Wednesday night to" open his
trunk Totter, Huzza! we know
the thief."
"Nni MI fast, Mi. Fred—not so
last. Ii will not be All easy matter
to prove this. Were there anj
witnesses present when Arnold
borrowed the keys'"
"No: I was all alone in my room,
half undressed, when he knocked
ill U1J door and said he had lost
the keys of his trunk. 1 lent him
my bunch of keys, which he return
ed la-fore I was out ol bedtfieucxl
day."
"And you were alone
you the money P
session now, he is so careful about
his room. Nobody gets in there
but the landlady." I did think of
bribing the chambermaid to let me
in when she was at work there but
unfortunately she left to day."
A Hash of light seemed to pass
across Maud's face, but she only
said, demurely :
'•Your landlady is German, is
she not I-'
"Yes; her English is very im-perfect.
Have yon ever seen her V
"No; I have heard Fred speak
of her. My mother, you know, was I
ertnan."
"But what has that to do with j
Fred's case 1"
"I will tell you. Vodges bus
tried to catch the thief and tailed. |
You have tried aud failed. I mean
to try, and succeed."
"You! What can you do t"
'•Uome to-morrow and I will tell
you."
Punctual to the appointed time
Potter made his appearance. With
dancing eyes and flushed cheeks
Maud met him.
"Well!" he asked, certain lrom
her looks that she had good tid-ings.
I told you I would succeed."
. - con-viction,
but before his sentence was
pronounced Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Tryon were crossing the ocean on
a wedding tour to Europe.
I.<I. riiiiH.iitii b> Mam
About 100 years ago, says the
New 1 ork Out, the voyagers to the
Arctic seas were familiar with a
large and powerful animal resem-bling
our manatee; in fact, it was
a northern representative of this
animal, called tbe rbytiua. It was
extremely common, seemingly tak-ing
the place of the cloven footed
creatures among the milk-givers of
the sea. In general appearance
the Arctic sea cow was a stupen-dous
spectacle, attaining when full
grown a length of thirty-five feet
aud a weight of several tons. Tbe
general color was a dark brown;
the skin thick and leathery, cover-ed
with a thick, bristling hair that
, matted together, forming a protec-
| turn from the ice and cold, aud was
compared in appearance to the bark
of a tree. The head of the sea cow-was
small in proportion to the ani-mal's
size, and, instead of possess-ing
teeth, was provided with two
curious masticating plates—one ill
the gum, and the other in the under
"And you did T Huzza! I feel jaw. The tail somewhat resembled
you
pay-as
feel as young as Fred himself.
"To whom I have telegraphed to
return. He will be here this even-ing,
and you must bring Mr. Mark-bam,
Mi. Vodges, and the proper
police authorities to meet in his
room. Then, Mr. Potter, go to
Mr. Arnold's room and remove the
pipe ot the stove at the elbow. In
the joint you will find Mr. Mark
ham's memorandum book and the
missing notes."
"You are BUN*"
"Listen. This morning, in a cali-co
dress, sunboimet. and coarse
shoes for disguise, I applied for the
place of chambermaid at the board
mg house where Mr. Arnold has a
room. I braided my hair in two
plaits, and convinced your laud-lady
that I was a decent importa-tion
from Germany, and unable to
speak a word of English. She
agreed to take me for one week on
trial, and before I had been two
hours in the house I was sent to
tidy Mr. Arnold's room. Never
was a room tidied so quickly ; and
seeing my mistress on her way to
market, I ..hot the bolt and took a
survey of the premises. The trunk
was locked, the bureau drawer wide
open, the closet door ajar. I felt a
reluctance to overhaul any private
depositories, though I should have
done it," she added resolutely, "if I
had been driven to it. 1 ram-nag
ed a little, when on the closet door
I espied a shirt, apparently scarce
ly soiled except one sleeve, aud
that was black with soot. I won-dered
what he would he doing at
the tire place in summer, and went
to examine. A few minutes sul
Hoed to convince me that the stove
had been moved out, aud the elbow
of the pipe removed I repeated
the process to find a roll of five
hundred dollar notes, and a small
note book with the name of kufus
Markhaiu on the first page. I care-fully
replaced everything and came
home. Now, Mr. Potter, he must
be taken by surprise, or be inaj
say Fred put the notes there."
"Yon are a brave girl !"' cried the
Old man, looking with admiration
at the beautiful, animated face,
"and Fred will owe you more than
bis life—bis reputation."
"He can repay me by coming to
tell the good news when he is
clear."
when he
p.ii.l
III- I
"Vis; 1 thought he was very
Hush, for you know as well as I do,
Potter, that a note furtive hundred
dollars is not a daily visitor in
Graham Arnold's pocket."
•■lie is a cunning scoundrel. He
wauls to ascertain if the notes can
be identified before he tries to get
rid of them himself.
will you leave it to m
—and if I do not catch the thiet
J mi may trj ."
••But my ancle P
"Wait till you can prove your
innocence before yon see bim. Duly
a week—give me only a week to
watch Arnold. And, by the way,
you will give me an additional
chance if you will leave the city.
Throw him off his guard by letting
him suppose that you are banished
for bis crime.''
"Bun away, like a coward T"
Hashed Fred.
•Only for a week. You see, the
probability is that Arnold has the
money iu bis possession yet. He
will wait to see the fate of what he
Fight was struck bv the city
clocks when Mr. Graham Arnold,
dressed ill the latest fashion, and
with a fragrant Havana between
his lips, strolled leisurely into his
own room.
He had been iu the parlor of his
boarding house for hours watching
Mr. Potter with some anxiety, but
was wholly unaware of the' little
party of lour who, in Mr. Potter's
temporary apartment, awaited his
return to his own room.
Once inside the door the noncha-that
of a whale, having two flukes.
The lore fins or paddles were blunt
and without nails, having instead
a thick growth of bristling hairs.
Such was the general appearance
of the animals that when first dis
covered were pasturing in vast
herds among the seaweed of the
shore. They showed 110 fear of the
men, even allowing themselves to
be touched by them; but when one
was injured it is said that they dis
played much bravery in its defence.
Such was the state of things in the
year 1742. At this time a vessel
was wrecked in the Arctic sea, the
crew escaping and making their
way to Behring Bland. For some
time they subsisted upon fish and
birds, but finally the game became
scarce, and on the first of June, in
the year mentioned, they began a
Warfare upon the sea cow that has
since been named alter Steller, one Of the parly. The animals were j
killed with harpoons, and each was
so large that forty men could scare- '
ly drag it through the water.
The men were finally rescued
from Behring Island, but iu 1745 '
1 a vessel commanded by a Russian,,
Ivan Krassilnikoff, arrived there, '
and destroyed large numbers of the j
animals. In the succeeding year j
an explorer named Jackooley, see !
ing that they were about to be
come exterminated, laid a petition
before the authorities at Kamchat-ka
atking that the animals be pro-tected
by law. He was not heeded, ,
however, and iu 17.»7 another ex-pedition
landed at the islands, and
others iu 1758 and 1702, and until
178(1, when the last living sea cow
was seen by a native of Vblbyuia.
Thus iu thirty-eight years from the
time these monstrous animals were
discovered they were totally exter-minated,
and today not a single
skin, and only a number of skele-tons,
remain in the possession of
naturalists to tell the story of the
destruction of an entire race of
large and powerful beasts. As late
as 1834, Nuttall, the famous au-thority
on birds, wrote concerning
the great auk :
As a diver lie is unrivalled, hav
ing almost the velocity of birds in
the air. They breed in the Faroe
Islands, and iu Iceland,Greenland,
and Newfoundland, nesting among
the cliffs, and laying but one egg
each. They are so nilprolifio that
if this egg be destroyed, 110 other
is laid during that season. The
auk is known sometimes to breed
in the isle of St. Kihla, and Papa
Westra, according to Mr. Bull, ok,
for several years past no more than ;
a single pair had made their a - j
pearanee.
To day not a single individual of
the sailors who visited the island
ot Mauritius killing them in mere
wantcn amusement, or to obtain
the legs for pipe steins, and the
curious stones found in the gullet
In our own time we have seen the
buflalo crowded to the West Civi-lization
is also advancing' from
there, and before many years the
buffalo, the mountain sheep, the
pping horn, aud all the noble game
animals of the great West will be
represented only by the stuffed
skins and dried bones of our mu-seums.
Alls Put on by Uiiglialiuicu.
[London W'orM.j
To English gentlemen resident
in America nothing is more galling
than the misconduct of loo many
of the "swell" English visitors, A
very prominent member of the com
mittee of the New York Union
Club complained to me bitterly of
the behavior of some of the young
Englishmen,admitted there. "Why
In the world do you let them in f"
I asked. "Well," he said, •' '»
name came up yesterday for an ex-tension
of his honorary member-iship,
and I moved its" rejection."
I Young Lord T. went in a morning
coat to B dinner party in New York,
but his host was equal to the occa
sion. "Ah," he said, "I see you j
don't know our ways. I will wait '
with pleasure until you have I
changed your dress." Lord W. did j
the sauie thing at a very smart '
party at Newport. Lord M. gave
a check for a considerable sum, j
which was returned dishonored.
This \ear matters seem worse than ;
ever. Some of those who went J
West as guests iu the party ot Mr. I
Hatch seem to have outraged all !
decency; and very seven- r.-flec
tions are made, especially on two j
young descendants of our eminent
law lords, which they should sure
ly, for their own credit, refute if
they can. Comment is made, too,
Of the preposterous airs which some
English and Irish men give them
evening they saw two gentlemen
buflalo 011 a neighboring hill near
the Platte, and at ouce pursued
their game, each selecting an ani-mal.
They separated at once, Jack
going one way gollopmg after his
beast, while Sam weut in the other
direction. Jack soon got a shot at
his game, but the bullet onlv tore
a large hole in the fleshv shoulder
ot the bull, and buried itself in the
neck, maddeniug the animal to
such a degree that he turned at
once and charged npon horse and
rider.
The astonished horse, with the
wonderful courage, sagacity and
inn,, jroid peculiar to the bronco,
whirled around two consecutive
times, tangled his feet iu the tall
grass and fell, throwing his rider
about fifty feet. He then rose and
walked away to a quiet place where
he could consider the matter and
give the buffalo an opportunity to
recover.
The infuriated bull then gave
chase to Jack, who kept out of the
way lor a few yards only, when.
for shortness, is rich as she could
ever name her own price for her
painting, and the purchaser, al
most wholly English and Ameri-cans,
bespeak them years in ad
vance, as they did Delaroche's.
Her life was a hard straggle in its
youth time. A native of Bordeaux,
she came to Paris with her father
when nine years of age, but he had
to send her and her two brothers j ,,A oow-on exhibition at
and sister to a boarding school iu • -""titicello. Fla., is reported to be
order to leave him free to gain 11 foilr ,,'ot 'deven inches in length,
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Items of luterrst.
Arkansas is developing valuable
■ coal beds.
San Antonio is the horse market
of the South.
The assessed projiertv valuation
of Texas is *.">L'0,000,0lHi.
The proposed reform bill in En-gland
will enfranchise L'.Ono.ooo
men.
A boy named McCormick was
stoned to death by two sixteen
year old companions in Manchester,
An Iowa dog has killed 287
skunks this season. His owner is
proud of the animal's neoid. but
admits that it has been a terror
round the house.
A cow-horn
livelihood as an artist designer.
A fellow student of Bosa's once
told me that Rosa was one of the
"jolliest girls in the school;" was
unequalled iu romps and ready wit;
that she had the habit of squatting
111 a corner aud designing her class
mates with a rapiditv and surety
ot touch that Cham only could
match. It was this precocious tal-ent
for designing that decided her
fatherto bring her home and edu
and eighteen inches around the
base.
Queen Victoria's well known ob-jection
to making poor men peers
gave way iu the case of Lord
Tennyson. His eldest son is a
clerk in a public office.
California hogs have to be trap
ped in the woods in about the same
manner as bears. On most of the
ranches, the swine are as wild as
cute her himself. She becamYnot- j thcm-scC on" ^•"drfen'sK'nd
only his favorite pupil, but also his! fight like tigers
house-keeper. Put what energ
she had in her teens. She went
getting his legs entangled in the j alone, during several years, to cat
grass, he fell so suddenly that his
pursuer dashed over bim without
doing bim any bodily injury. How
ever, as the animal went over his
prostrate form, Jack felt the buf-talo's
tail brush across his face
and, rising suddenly, he caught it
with a terrific grip and hung to it,
thus keeping out of the reach of
his enemy's horns, till his strength
wasjust giving out, when Sam hove
i" sight and put a large bullet
through the bull's heart.
This tale is told apparently by an tare
old plainsman and scout, who reels
it off as though he might be telling
his own experience.
Now, I do not wish to seem cap
turns aud always sticking my uose
into what is none of my business,
but as a logical and zoological fact
I desire, in my cursory way, to
coolly take up the subject of the
buffalo tail. Those who have been
in the habit ot killing buffaloes, iu-stcLil
of running an account at the
tie markets said central slaughter-houses
to study groups of animals.
In order to avoid the curiosity of
drovers, butchers, and the peculiar
frequenters of the above places she
adopted masculine toilets, and in
later years forgot to reappear iu
her old cloths. This motive was
comprehensible; not a vagarv or
eccentricity, asiu the caseofCeoi-c
Sand.
Bosa was eighteen years of age
when she exhibited her first pic-at
the Salon of 1840. These
A Belgian army officer of high
grade, a skilful swordsman and
crack pigeon shot has been detect
ed cheating at cards. His gams in
one week were verv large. Hja
resignation was refused and an
investigation has been ordered.
An English soldier who surviv-ed
the Sinkat garrison, having been
captured during the sortie by Una
him Daoud, whin he reached the
English camp again said he had
been very badly treated by the reb-els.
They tortured him severely,
and he was ordered to teach them
how to manage their guns.
are two small paintings—rabbits I -v Paris correspondent describes
nibbing carrots and turnips. Her Meissonier as irritable, discourte-sister,
Madame 1'eyrol, is the pos- ■ ""s ;""1 unpopular, though cordial
sossor of the pictures, and treas-1 B,,4 caressing to millionaires, Bis
1 butcher shop, will remember that
I this noble animal has a genuine
: camel's hair tail about eight inches
I long, with a chenille tassel at the
I end, which he throws up into the
ratified atmosphere of the far west
whenever he is surprised or agita-ted.
In passing over a prostrate man
therefore, I apprehend that in or-der
*o brush his face with the
avenge buffalo tail, i: would be
necessary for him to sit down on
the bosom of the prostrate scout
and Ian his features with the mini
ature caudal bud.
The buflalo does not gallop an j
hundred miles a day, dragging his
tail across the bunch grass and j
alkali of the boundless plains.
He snorts a little, turns his j
bloodshot eyes toward the eneinv a
ures them as an heirloom. Bosa's
second grief was the death of her
teacher and father iu 1849. Love
for him and for art closed her heart
for any third affection, save that of
her family. When dying he beg-ged
Bosa to bring him the last pic-ture
she had completed— Labouiagi-
I Mrernais. She did so, sobbingly,
j to bis bed side. He took her two
hands in his, and endeavoring to
smile, expired.
In 1853 appeared her celebrated
"Horse Fair," and in 186S "Hay-making
in Auvergne," aud in the
Duxemboorg Museum. It was the
Empress Eugenie that not only in-sisted
on Bosa being decorated
with the Legion of Honor—rarelv
conferred on the fair sex—but, hav-ing
succeeded, pinned the red rib
bon herself on the artist's breast.
selves on the Atlantic steamers.
: Lord H. (the identical Irish peer
v. ho was thrown into a state of ir
!
repressible indignation when, by
j an accident, his wife was sent down
: alter some lady of lower rank at a
1 Brighton dinner party, and ex
claimed excitedly, to the conster-nation
of the company, "Lady II.
must have her rights!") assumed
on the Adriatic airs such as all thu
Queen's sons put together never
gave themselves in their lives. "I
want a bath by 8," his lordship said
imperiously to the barber. "You
can't have it, sir, it is < ■■gaged."
"But I must have it," said this
magnitic of the peerage of Ireland.
"Do you know who lam?" "No,
sir." "I am Lord 11." "Ah, in
deed," pleasantly rejoined the bar- ,
berj "glad to make your acquaiu- j
tance, I'm sure ;" and in a true the |
barber gripped the lordly paw and
vigorously shook the same, to the
ecstacy of the bystanders and tbe
ineffable disgust Of the shaken. It
is really a blessing when such men
as the Dukes of Buckingham and I
Sutherland, Lords Diiuiaveu, Kl-pliiiistone,
and men of that stamp,
visit the United States as a set off
to the miserable specimens of the
peerage and sprigs of nobilily who
bring discredit on their order
J moment and then, throwing bis
cunning little tailet over the dash
1 boardlet. he wings his way in an
[ opposite direction.
The man who could lie on his
back and grab that vision by the
tail would have to be moderately
active. If he succeeded, however,
it would be a question of the six
teenth part ofasecondonly whether
he had his armsjerked out by roots
and scattered through space or
whether he had strength of will
sufficient to yank OUt the withered
little frizz and hold the quivering
ornament in his hands. Few peo-ple
have had the moral courage to
follow a buflalo around over half a
day holding oil by the tail. It is
said that a Sioux brave one tried
it and they say his tracks were 1
thirteen miles apart. After nierri- '
ly sauntering around with the buf-falo
one hour, during which time j
there.
The Chinese i:niperu:.
[Anu'rii-an sVntry.]
present Chinese emperor is
13 years of ag?. He lives
if semi-seclusion in the
Jan Cliien Tien, where
this species of auk is alive, and the
skin in the muanein of natural his-tory
in Central Park, that is valued
at over one thousand dollars, one
,. S.S th" '""U le" ",e"'Tfi""ri^':f "•'•-n^babt'.lot overTwSX
■•' '' ■ '-' flercelv •'"■' ",al,• i""1 he mnttered I" a"' m ""• "•■* si"'-'"'"'"*
"I must get out o. this. Potter ' ' "° ' " " "* """• **** "^
suspects me and may yet coiumuui
cate his suspicions to Mr. Mark
ham. 1 will be off to night as soon
as the house is quiet."
He opened a small traveling
satchel as be Spoke, aud was rapid
ly filling it with necessaries for a
journey, when he was interrupted
by a knock at the door.
Tossing the satchel into the closet
he cried :
''Come in."
But his face turned livid as his
call was obeyed, and a party of
five entered the room.
Two policemen stationed them
hundred years ago they were ex-tremely
common along "the north
I era coast, coming as far south as
Nahant; bu warfare was begun
i there also, and, though it hardly
seems possible, their exterminatioii
is undoubtedly complete, the last
j living bird having been killed in
1S44 on a group of islands called
I Funglasker.oii the southwest coast
of Iceland. In the last century
these birds, which were large,
handsome, and striking iu appear
auce, were very common at the
Faroe Islands. Tbey were found
to be good eating, and were slaugh-tered
by the boat load, not onlv for
The
' a lad
in a state
Palace of
■ be is waited on by a stall'of picked
retainers, who never approach him
otherwise than on their knees. His
mother visits him once a month.
and she kneels while uttering her
first sentence. Considering the ex
traoidiiiary respect in which par
enls are held in China, no more
complete iccognition of the trans-cedeut
character of the imperial
dignity can be imagined. His
father goes through exactly the
same ceremonial. The emperor de-votes
two hours and a half daily to
the study of Chinese, aud the same
time to Manchu. It is needless to
say thai the professors approach
him on their knees; but to mark
the respect to letters which Chinese
traditions exact even from the em
peror, be invites, or rather com-mands
them to rise when the lea
son begins. He passes two hours
each day iu riding and archery,
and in winter he takes sledging ex-ercise.
Eight eunuchs wait upon
him at the table, and have orders
to prevent his partaking too freely
of any of his favorite dishes, as
boys, even though they be euipi r-ors,
will sometimes do. He sleeps
iu a magnificent Niugpo bed, the
frame of which is of massive gold,
and ivory, and which belonged to
his distinguished ancestors, K'aug j
Ilai and Ch'ieli Lung.
he crossed the territories of Wyom
ing and Dakota twice and sur-rounded
the regular army three
times, he became discouraged and
died lrom tbe injuries he had re-ceived.
Perhaps, however, it may
have been fatigue.
It might be possible lor a man to
catch hold of the meager tail of a
mctcoraud letil snatch him through
the coming years.
It might be that a man with a
si long constitution could eateh a
1 cyclone and ride it bareback across
the United States and then have a
! fresh one ready to ride back again.
but to catch a buflalo bull iu the
full flush of manhood, as it were,
; and retain his tail, crossing three
reservations aud two mountain
' ranges, requires great tenacity of
' purpose and unusual mental eqni-
1 poise.
Remember, I do not regard t hi-story
1 refer to as false, at least I
' do not wish to be so understood. I I
simply say that ii recounts an in 1
cident that is rather out of the or-dinary.
Let the gentle reader lie
down and have a -lack rabbit driv-en
across his face, for instance.
The J. Babbit is as likely to brush .
your face with his brief and erect
tail as the buffalo would be. Then
carefully note how rapidly and
promptly instantaneous you must
be. Then closely attend to the j
manner iu which you abruptly and |
almost Simultaneously have not 1
retained the tail in your memory.
A few people may have success
fully seized the grieved and startled
buffalo by the tail, but they are •
not here to testify to the circiim
stances. They are dead, abnor-mally
and extremely dead.
BILL NYK.
Seeing two hunters approaching,
au Aiibnriidale, Mass., lad bur-rowtd
in the earth and imitated a
woodehuck. The clergyman found
it hard to draw a moral from the
affair thai didn't reflect on the
corpse.
A Letter from C—ay Washington.
(From the Lafaan Hour.)
The following letter is taken
from an old Kdinbiirg Evening
Cournut, dated 8epteinber9, 1780.
It was addressed "to a gentleman
in Dublin," whose name is not giv-en:
"SIB,—I-'or the honor you hate
done me in calling your only child
by my name—and that, too, you
add, when the issue of the Ameri-can
struggle stood suspended—I
pray you to accept my best ac-knowledgments.
My thanks are
also due for your politeness iu
sending me a piece ol linen of your
staple manufacture: and I am par
ticulariy indebted to you tor the j
fav. ruble wishes and flattering ex- I
prcssions of your letter to me of 1
the 4th of August last.
"Your country has my best
I wishes for the fullest fruition of
everything that is interesting to
i the rights of mankind: and you,
sir, that ton may be a principal
sharer of them.
"Ueing your inosl obedient, very
, humble servant, [Signed |
<i WASHINGTON.
"Mount Vermin, March 1". 1786."
In the same old newspaper we
' find the following remarks upon
, American affairs The writer would
be somewhat astonished if he could
; now behold that empire beyond iln-
Atlantic concerning whose pros
pects his anticipations have proved
J as unfounded as his language was
iiiigraininatical:
"The affairs of America are still
involved in obscurity. Little per
maneiiey can be expei ted to their
present divided from the Govern
uienl, and unless 1 ney again be-come
colonial po sessions to some
Power, the establishment ofan em-pire
must be work of ages. The
late edict passed in Virginia u-la
tivc to religion shows that they
have already trespassed in their
Constitution, as originally publish
ed, on the peace; and the publica-tion
of L'uitariau forms of worship
iu Massachusetts intimates tbe pre-valence
of a party in matters of re
ligiou. The remit lances, however,
to this country of money have been
considerable."
A Hull Klin Inrlileii'.
[NawVotk I'oft I
"A singular ev-nt happened at
that battle that has never passed
into history. At the most critical
moment, when the forces of the
enemy that Patterson ami Fitz
John Porter had originally prom
ised to have in their front were be
ing brought up to drive us from
the field. General Tyler sought
Iluriisitle, of Rhode Island, and or-dered
him forward.
" 'General.' responded tin kind
hearted commander, 'I h.ive but
one reginment h-ft: the other two
have been cut to pieces. The last
one is made up of the best families
of Bhode Island: if that is cut up I
dan- not return home."
"'What in b has that to do
with this fight t Move up, sir. at
once,' roared General Tvler. But
the retreat came before the 'first
families' were decimated."
early struggles and sufferings were
beyond belief. In order to earn
his bread he decorated bonbon
boxes and painted copies of the
pictures of the Louvre at one dol-lar
a square yard.
Appropos of the proposition to
erect a memorial to Dickens, a cor
respondent of a London daily pa
per quotes a passage from the
novelist's will which will probably
prove fatal to the project: -I con
jure my friends on no account to
make me the subject ol any inoiui
I meiit, memorial, or testimonial
whatever. I rest my claim to the
remembrance of my country upon
my published works."'
Au officer of tbe United States
Engineer corps, in charge of river
improvement work at Lake Provi-dence,
La., reports that the Missis-sippi
River bottom is shifting bodi-ly—
that in other words, the mini
and sand which make up the de-posit
in (he trough or bed of I he.
river is undergoing bodily transla
lion like au Alpine glacier. In
proof of this statement il is said
, that a pile, maintaining its solid
j hold in the mud and sand and its
: perpendicular position, has moved
I sixty-two feet liom its original
j position. This phenomenon, while
] it is not unknown to science, has
, not heretofore been observed ill
Iconnection with the Mississippi
river.
The oldesl town in Texas, and,
it is believed, in the L'llited Slates.
, situated on the Itio Grande, ami
near Kl Paso, the chief town in the
1 COIinty of thai name. It has .1 pop
j Ilia! inn 01 2,500 souls. It is n Well.
j established historical fail that a
Spanish military explorer, named
Gorando, visited the town iu 1.Y10.
and found it then a popular and
prosperous civilized Indian commu-nity.
It is not a little curious, con
sideling the advance of civilization
from Europe, that the same race ol
people exist in the town to day that
existed 250 years ago. ami that
they arc engaged in the same agri-cultural
and mechanical pursuits
as their forefathers at thai period
and for ages preceding.
The London DOUM Ntwi corres
pomleni writes of the battle ol Teh
in Egypt ou Feb. 2ft "Our line i>|
march coincided with the path of
retreat ol tbe lib of February, Be
ginning near the fort, skeletons
half covered with flesh dotted eith-er
side of the line of advance for
miles, tin thu scene ol the mas-sacre
of (taker's square Ii was
1 strewn literally with hundreds,
, numbers ol them in the mosl ex
traordinary attitudes, ami with
fleshless lingers clutching into
the sand. 1 noticed mo.t of I hem
lay on their faces, and showed
one or more Bpear thrusts iu
the back, head, and neck. It
was a hideous picture —those
, grinning, balf-decom-tosed skele-tons,
iu their position si, signitl
cant of abject despair, ami ,t
would have horrified the most
hardened against such sights."
The diving for the remains ol
the Greek and Persian ships sunk
in the great sea tight at .Salamin.
lias caused a flatter in srcbieologi
■ al circles. Little is known of
tbe great galleys with their
banks ot oars ot the aucient
world. We have des: upturns
presented to us in the delight
ful gossip of Athemeus of two
ships built by Ptolemy Philo-pater,
and one built by III.
tyrant ol Syracuse. But the
script ion j, wholly of tbe interior.
We read of looms in these ship,
with coliim:..- of Milesian CVpress
and capitals of gold and ivory, of
Marble statues of Venus, of purple
hangings nml exquisite carvings
of gardens with trees ami plants]
ami all varieties of bathrooms]
One Of these vessels had forty
banks or oars, but it is difficult to
form an idea of what they looked
like externally from Ihese deserin
lions,—X. ]'. WorM.
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