L, . x» ackéénxr- . “ v, a..." 9.2 6?) G? s Published every Monday momma a! nine 0.610015. NEIV YORK, NOVEMBER 3, 1883. BEADLE’s WEEKLY is sold by all Newsdealers in the United States and in the Canadian Dominion. Parties unable to obtain it from a Newsdealer, or those preferring to have the paper sent direct, by mail, from the publication office, are supplied at the following rates: Terms to Subscribers, Postage Prepaid: One co y, four months . . . . , . . . . . . . . . .. $1.00. “ one year. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00. Two copies, one year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 5.00. In all orders for subscriptions be careful to give address in full- State, County and Town._ The pa- per is always stopped, promptly, at expiration of subscription. Subscriptions can start With any late number. . . TAKE NOTICE—In sending money for subscription, by mail, never inc-lose the currency except in _a re- istered letter. A Post Office Money Order is the st form of a remittance. Losses by mail Will be almost surely avoided if these directions are fol- lowed. _ WA“ communications, subscriptions, and let- ters on business should be addressed to BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS, 98 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. COMMENCES IN NEXT ISSUE! Gideon Goldlace, The High Horse of the Pacific. A Tale of \Vestcrn Texas. BY ALBERT W. AIKEN, AUTHOR.OF “ OVERLAND KIT." “ RED RICHARD,” “BAT or THE BATTERY,” “DEMON DE- TECTIVE,” ETC., ETC. The popular romance-writer makes a decided hit. The High Horse is as strikingly original as the ce'ebrated Dick Talbot. The story, as such, is full of the most novel dramatic and personal interest. The locality chosen is one never before intro- duced in wild West and border romance. The strangest features of corrbined mining, fort, border and wilderness life are behind it all. The miner, the rough—rider, the reckless ad- venturer, the keen sport, the rowdy and bum- mer—all are the dramatis personaa. And An Odd Girl And A Queer Dutchman serve to give the exciting proceedings 9. very humorous and pleasing semblance. So all in all it is The Story of the Season! The Wide Awake Papers. “ In Care of” You. THII “Paper” is for You and yet not for You. B You I mean all the masculine readers of the VgEEKLY: and the paradox means that this “ Paper” is for you to take charge of but that you are not to read it. Just think what implicit faith I put in your honesty that I con- sign to your care an open article which you are not to read—though I am free to confess that it concerns yourself entirely. But men have no curiosity—so it has been asserted through all ages; though why Adam tasted the apple, if it was not from a curious desire to learn its flavor, I defy any theologian to explain ;—and upon that fact may be founded quite a little faith in their honor and honesty. Accordingly, depend- ing upon your'éntire freedom from curiosity, I give this paper into your hands with the under- standing that you are not to read beyond the point where my instructions cease concerning its disposal; but, if you are married, give it to your wife to read. If you have a sweetheart, tell her this was written for your benefit but for her perusal. If you have not yet “ popped the question,” and there is no girl with whom you are regularly “keeping company,” hand this to the young woman youiare thinking of taking to the circus the next time it comes to town. At all events give it to the woman whom you believe to be the most in love with you, even if she should be that commonplace Indi- vidual—a sister or a mother: and tell her that a friend of yours, who has your interests very much at heart, desired her to give some atten- tion to it for your sake. You need not peep over her shoulder as she reads it, either. That would be both impolite and mean, to say nothing of the familiarity it would imply, which should be promptly rebuked. Now fol this—just here—so that you can carry or send it to your sweethmrt, “com- pany,” or best feminine friend, whoever she may be, without reading further—to where I sayito her: y dear, the next time he accompanies you to any public entertainment, see to it that he takes off his hat the moment he enters the building, or—at the latest—the instant he gets to his seat. If he forgets this important act, do not be afraid to jog his memory. I am con- vinced that one~half or even three-fourths of the rowdyish men one sees could be transformed into well-mannered ones if but the women with whom they associate most, and of whom they are most fond, would exert themselves to protest against the rudenesses shown them; for I do not believe that the majority of ill—be- haved men are so from choice. but from igno- rance, carelessness, and the mistaken silence of friends. It is a. rudeness for a man to keep his head covered when he is indoors and in the pres- ence of women. and when your escort keeps on his hat, when it should be Off, it is a duty you owe both to him and yourself to ask him to re- move it. You owe this duty to him because it is always a woman’s place to be a reformer. Every man with whom you associate should be better, gentler, more refined, more courtly, for his acquaintance with you: and you owe this duty to yourself because your own reputation suffers or gains, in the eyes of all who observe you, by the company you appear to keep. When see a man at the theater sit by his companion’s side with covered head, I immediately set him down as ignorant and rowdyish; and naturally one concludes that the girl who keeps such com- pany, and allows such indignity to be shown herself, is no lady, and has no knowledge of good manners or the proprieties. If the girl is misjudged it is her own fault; she should have insisted upon her escort showing proper defer- ence to herself and the laws of good behavior. Another thing, my dear; if he chews tobacco, insist that he shall not chew while in your com- pan y. It does not matter that you “ object less than some peOple"—people of cleaner habits and finer senses—t0 this dirty practice. You owe it to yourself all the same, and he Owes that much respect to you, that he shall not chew while with you; first because it is dirty, and if he loves or respects you he should not do, in your presence, that which is filthy; secondly, because it renders the breath Offen— sive, and a gen leman should always guard against the vulgarity of appearing before a lady with an ill-smelling mouth; thirdly, it is a breach of good manners, and an indignity to the person addressed, to talk with anything in the mouth; fourthly, it necessitates the vul- garity of spitting— a rudeness your escort should never be guilty Of in your presence. So, whether you approve or disapprove the custom of chewing, you should at least resent as an insult the act of chewing carried on in your presence. You look blank! Perhaps he chews, and you are afraid that if you suggest to him that he cannot roll his quid about his mouth and squirt tobacco-juice in your pres- ence, he will swerve from his allegiance to you and shineu to that horrid red-headed Polly Hopkins. er well, make your protest and let him do it! If he does not respect you more for respecting yourself and insisting that he shall not do, in your company, that Whlch_Wlll expose you to the charge of associating With a vulgar, ignorant, ill bred man, he is a poor cur, not worth your friendship. If he loves his quid of tobacco better than an hour or so of your companionship you can rest assured that he did not waste much affection on you. The other night, at the theater, I saw a well-dressed young woman out with an escort who sat and chewed his cud and spat on the Brussels car et of the aisle throughout the performance. 0 ou think any man who respected the woman e was with would have so disgraced her, or that any woman who respected herself would have permitted her escort to act so vulgarly and disgustingly in her company? I_ have no ri lit to say to any of my male acquaintances, “ ou shall not chew tobacco!” but I havea perfect right to refuse to go out with any man whose mouth is dirty, whose breath 15 nasty, who talks to me with a big wad in his mouth, who chews in my company, who splashes walks, soils floors, ruins carpets, with great pools of filth as he promenades, rides, or sits at my side. And no girl who respects herself would be seen with such a man. And if a girl discovers a man doing these things in her presence it is her right, and her duty to herself, to ask him to refrain until he shall have left her. These are two things, my dear, that you should see to it, both for his improvement in good manners and for the sake of your own reputation, that the man who gives you this to read never does. If he really cares for you he will not love you less, but more, that you gen- tlv but firmly assert your right to his courtesy, his best behavior, and his evidences of respect: and it is because I, as well as you, am interested in him that I ask you to seek to reform his manners in these respects. Kindly remember me to him, but you need not tell him all I have said. This is our little secret, and he must re- spect it. BELLE BRIGHT. The Owl Papers. A Seedy Congressman. COLONEL BILL HICKS was a seedy Con zress- man, in the agricultural sense. and made poetry pay by sendin his verse on every package of seed forwarded to his constituents, though while running for his fourth term a mistake in the packages, made by his secretary, raised such a laugh on him in his district that the opposition used it as a campaign measure against him and he lost the election; literally laughed out. One of the verses sent out to a lukewarm friend was this, on a package labeled “ Cauli- flower”: “ Let me, like this seed, grow to power; ’Tis what the people call—a-fiower, And comes of right good stalk, I ween; You’ll find it tender, soft and green. On heads of it may you be fed And always see that I‘m a-head.” The seed turned out to be cabbages, but G. W. Washington was the only person who succeeded in having his name immortalized by such plants. Another package marked “ Watermelonseed,” sent out, bore this: “ When one of these grows out of bound, The people all shall flock around As I would have them flock round me— With noise and shout, tumultuously. The fruit will the fair prize obtain. Just like me in the next campaign.” These eventually turned out .some pretty good pumpkins, and some pumpkins he did not get to be. . To my uncle was sent some new kind of hay- seed, with “ Hay there, my dear yeoman friend! To the winds these seedlets send! But don’t let it come to pass That I should be sent to grass. Prize it as I do who wear Some of It within my I air. Recollect the cause of mine, And make hay while the sun doth shine." A package of cats had this: “ Oats sweet to be Of some account To friends, as up Fame’s bill you mount. I hope my honor to sustain Will never go against your grain. ’Tis writ some men will catch at straws;— May I get handfuls in my claws! Sow these, and may the future shocks Fill all your barn—and ballot-box." Along with some corn to show it the way was: “ May every grain of corn in here Be fruitful of the election-ear. Like unto me ’twill take the field And (like my opponent) quickly yield. Plant it in hills and then proclaim From every hill my claim and name. I tell you, sure as I am born, — ’Tis you whom I would hope to corn; While everything ahead denotes A cornucopia of votes." You see the old gentleman spoke right out—— until his spoke was left out. He meant busi- n ess. With a select but small sack of beans went: “ Of all stringed instruments, I ween, The greatest yet is the stringed bean. May all my henchmen of the sod Be thick as beans within a , And I would have them tru y know I’ve been soup-erior to my foe; So when around election rolls Like beans they’ll hold me at the polls.” He was a bean eficent man! He forwarded this rhyme, along with some patented onion- sets: “ Strong as an onion do I stand, To scent the welfare of my land, And, like the onion fumes which rise, Let me be strong within your eyes." He strove always to hide his modesty under a bushel with the bottom out, and sent with some tomato—seed: “ It’s very good, you‘ll surely note, To transplant all things—save a vote. Stick these so they will stick to sticks As you would stick to me. Bill Hicks; For it is hard. you will ree, To—matvo Congressman like me." You see he was full of sauce and wanted to ketchup. Another constituent got some potatoes with this epitaph: “ Like these tatoes be all eyes And watch 111 where my interest lies. These here the large potatoes be :— NO small potatoes, sure, are are. Get hel and drop them in a hill As you (1, with help, drop votes for Bill." He was so difiident! He sent a constituent some clover-seed with this trade-mark: “ This clover is the flve-leaved kind For which so many seek to find. Sow it well, and barrow it over: Vote for me. and live in clover.” If he had only had a little more boldness to push his claims! But he seemed to leave him- self in the background—and only came up when the procession had passed. The countersign toa package of rye-seed was: “ This rye is said to be the best That ever yet was sent out West; And well adapted to its use, Because it is more full of juice. I wish I could more voters spy A-coming through this rye." That was all wall enough, but. unfortunately, - Obediently, it was by mistake sent to a preacher, and worked woe from firstly to the doxology—aml later. His post mark on some hemp seed ran: “ Full soon this hemp shall grow most tall, And pods of rope grow ripe and fall. I came of a most glorious line! To friends I‘m bound as by a twine! Willi them I cord; for them I hope To climb to fame on ladder of rope. Your neighbors will not think it sin If they for me can be roped in.“ On a package signed “ Muskmelon,” was this legend: “ Oh, rear these well. and when you see Their fruit then kindly think of me.” He argued in vain that it was the nature of the ground that made them turn out to be squashes. He did not know how to electioneer, and sent one farmer some wheat with this sentiment: “ ’Tis wheat to have a tender friend To whom this wheat I haste to send. I ho e that it may prove to be See sown in best of ground—for me .' To me return an hundred fold When you your next election hold. Sow it as you would sow my praise— Broadcast along your country ways. The bread from it I know wil please When it is eaten — with fran‘c/zeese.” On a paper of beets in the small he auto- graphed these lines: “ Plant to m credit this good seed And may t eir yield be great indeed! In next campaign we’ll not be beet, Nor will we beet a foul retreat. Beet rue to me and guard me close Whatever beetling powers oppose.” On account of the seed business he had to se- seed from the canvass. Yet in his old district they still keep his memory green. SOLOMON SHINGLE. The Woods of Carolina. THE vast forests of North Carolina—just now coming into great prominence as a source of supply to the seaboard States—comprise trees of one hundred and fifty varieties—in which may be mentioned the curly poplar, black oak, water oak, Spanish oak, red hickory, curled maple, hackberry, persimmon, cotton, gum, beech, maple, tupelo gum (a. very white wood.) sycamore, villow oak, red bay, hornbeam, laurel oak, juniper, palmetto, ash, red elm, gum poplar, bitter-nut hickory, holly, black- jack oak, yellow locust, red cedar, sour wood, white holly, swamp chestnut oak, red birch, sweet gum, overcup oak, old-field pine, short- leaf pine, yellow pine, pitch pine, ond pine, white pine, sassafras. white shellbar hickory, black gum, mulberry, hemlock spruce, chin-- quepin, dogwood, white spruce, weeping willow, sumach, balm of Gilead, honey locust, wild red cherry, witch hazel, umbrella,mountain maple, white bay, black mulberry, white walnut, curled pine, black walnut, scrub oak, rough and smooth bark cucumber, laurel, crab-apple, huckleberry, service, chestnut, china tree, black ash, black cypress, hemlock, striped maple, magnolia, ivy, water ash, snowdrop, iron wood. red hickory, wax myrtle, balsam fir, sugar maple, yellow wood, swamp dogwood, wahoo, red elm, yellow poplar, Wst oak, black birch, cypress, linn, etc., etc. but country on the earth can show a like value in variety and com- mercial usefulness? White Scalp Hunters. MR. MAqu REID, the celebrated novelist, in a recent letter to the London Echo, contributes his testimony to show that scalp-hunting has been a feature Of society during the last three- quarters of a century. He says: “In this day’s issue Of the Echo a pears a para- graph, copied from the New York n'bune, under the heading ‘White Scalp Hunters.’ It tells of an inhuman deed, with rejoicin thereat, done in the ‘new and thriving city of C 'huahua.‘ Chihuahua is not a new city, but one of the oldest in Northern Mexico; and I grieve to add that the deed chroni- cled there is neither new, nor of rare occurrence. Any one who has read my novel, ‘ The Scalp Hunt- ers ’——from which the paragraph referred to takes its ending—will find in the penultimate cha ter an account of a similar incident, thus:—-‘ The re urn of the expedition (that of the scalp-hunters) to El Paso was celebrated by a triumphant ovation. Cannons boomed, bells rung, fireworks hissed and sputtered, masses were sung, and music filled the streets. Feasting and memment followed, and the night was turned into a blazing illumination of wax candles with an grandfuncion dc balk—a “ fandan o." * “ Next morning, as we rode out Of El Paso, chanced to look back. There was a 10513?] string of dark ob- 'ects waving over the gates. etc was no mistak- ing what they were, as they were unlike anything else. They were scalps.’ "In another of my novels of later date, I have given an account of a similar ory adornment over the gates of Chihuahua; and t e same may be said of other Mexican frontier towns as inciden s of fre- quent occurrence during the last three—quarters of a century. Why it is now brought before the civilized world as a novelty is a matter of so rise to yours, rm: REED." A City On Wheels. How towns in the West migrate, is thus de- scribed by a letter given in the McGregor, Dakota, Times:—“ I arrived at Bartlett, D. T., about the middle of the afternoon of a beauti- ful day. 1 found some stir and activity among the people of the city, but it seemed to be the excitement incident to the emigration of a city on wheels. The ople generally had aban- doned all hope 0 the city, and were moving their houses bodily to Devil’s Lake and other places. The houses were first lifted onto large timbers of sufficient size and strength to hear the weight of the house. These timbers were then suspended under two monstrous frei ht- wagons on either side of the building; our large horses or oxen were then hitched to the wagon on each side, and, the road to Devil’s Lake being across a smooth prairie, the teams were able to move' along easily with a fair- sized building. Some of them, with the teams attached, presented to my mind sights most magnificent. It was the first time that I had ever seen a city moving on wheels. I had seen people moving on a large scale in their so- called “prairie-schooners,” but the sight was tame compared with this. I thought of a re- mark I once heard to the effect that ‘the ap- proach of a train of cars drawn by a powerful engine was a magnificent sight to behold,’ and I thought to myself a road lined with two- story houses, moving to the music of the steady trend of teams of eight powerful oxen, was a sight equally magnificent. And such was the fate of the once proud city of Bartlett.” The Tornado. A CONTRIBUTOR to the Popular Science Monthly, in a Very admirable paper on our meteorology,tbus describes the terrible tornado, which has made this year so memorable in al- most all parts of our country for the destruction wrought: “ As the tornado now sweeps onward in its course it rises and falls with a series of bounds, and, with a swaying motion, describes a zigzag course, now forming a chain of loops and again shooting off on an obtuse angle, varying in the speed of its forward motion, which may be anywhere from ten to thirty miles an hour. At the same time it is rapidly whirling on its axis in the opposue direction from a screw, or the hands of a clock, the air revolving around the vortex necessarily attaining a speed of several hundred miles an hour. First widening,then con- tracting, now bounding above the tree-tops, and again descending to Sweep the earth bare of every Object within its reach, the aerial mon— ster surges onward. The largest forest trees, were playthings in its gra:—p, are plucked up by the roots or snapped off like pipe stems: sub- stantial buildings are first crushed like egg- shells, then caught up in the vortex and the debris carried sometimes for miles before it is thrown ofi‘ by centrifugal force, and falls by gravitation. any where. everywhere, as soon as released from the monster’s gra's 3. nado‘s appearance and work, even for those who have been eye-witnesses, or who have per- sonally passed through the horrors its coming brings. While accounts differ as to its a pear- ance and behavior, as witnessed from di erent points of observation and under different cir- cumstances, all substantially agree that it is cone-shaped, its mition rotary, that its apex resembles fire and smoke, and that vivid light- ning and heavy rainfall usually accompany it. In rare instances electricity, in the form of St. Elmo’s fire, will produce the vortex, and a white. steamy cloud will follow. It will be ob— served that the form of the tornado cloud is nicely illustrated by the “ proof plane ” used in teaching natural philosophy. The small end of the plane is most heavdy charged with elec- tricity, and the nearer it approaches to a r~ feet point, the greater will be its accumulation; a high tension is caused and the electricity must escape by some conductor. So, in the tornado cloud, the smaller the point or stem, thetglreater the force exerted when it meets the ear . A Blushing Indian Bride. “MINNIE and Cliavo want to mally,” said Chief Charlie, of the Utes while in Denver re- cently. “ He heap big Injun, she heap nice squaw. Injun want no preacher; Injun want to mally in Injun like Ute fathers. Ma lly quick; right away. Come.” And everybody went. Crowded In the tepee were about twenty-five persons. The blushing bride, in a brilliant dress cut en train, stood by the side of the young war- rior who had changed his attire from one of warfare to that of mourning. Ranged on each side of the tent were the braves, sixteen in num- ber, in full paint and feather, each with a plug hat. Chief Charlie directed the ceremonies. In a few words he announced in Ute that the father and mother of the bride had selected Cbavo for a husband, and that Chavo wanted Minnie to darn his socks. sew on his buttons and such other duties incumbent on the squaw of so mighty a warrior. Turning to the bride and groom he asked the usual questions. The bride replied in Ute, whereupon the chief stepped aside. The high-contracting parties then seated themselves in the straw in the mid- dle of the tent, while around them squatted the braves. Mrs. Sow-no-winch, motl er of the in- teresting pappoose, placed around the bride’s neck an amulet tied with deer sinew, and then the ceremony was complete. At another sign from the chief the braves began to chant, rising in the vocal key louder and louder, until the dirge grew wild and weird, breaking forth in a harmony of sounds that defied all musical scor- ing. From grave to gay the group had passed with but little interim. The assemblage by this time was metamorphosed, so that the scene was wild and beyond descri tion. All at once the commotion ceased so su denly as to startle the guests. Exhausted the braves sunk to the ground, and the warrior and his newly-made wife passed out from the group, he disa pear- ing first through the lodge entrance and s e fol- lowing. After the marriage the whole band took their way to the photogra hic gallery, where their pictures were taken. innie accompanied them, but not with her husband. She was nothing but a squaw, and realizing her position she strolled about behind the braves as meek as the tra- ditional lamb that followed Mary. Focused Pacts. KANSAS has raised a fine sorghum crop this season to supply the demand of the recently established sugar factories in that State. TH]: first public experiment with an electric locomotive Is to be had on the Sarato and MountMacGregor Railroad, November 0. AT present cop r mining is sharing the honors about equal y with silver and gold min- ing in Southern Colorado, New Mexico, Ari- zona, and Mexico. SEVEN slaughter - houses are Operatin in Texas exclusively on beeves for shipment sat and North in refrigerator cars, and the business is growing enormously. OUT of a total pulation of about 30 000,000 in this country, t ere were in 1880 a. litt a over 250.000 people insane, idiotic. blind, and deaf and dumb. In every 1,000,000 of population there were 1,834 victims Of insanity, 1,563 idiots, 976 blind and 675 deaf and dumb. THE deposits in the savings banks of Califor- nia on the 1st of July last were $56,507,163, an increase of more than $3,000,000 within a car. The number of depositors, Jan. lst, was 7 ,250, about one in twelve of the population—showing a very prosperous and healthy state of aflairs. THE San Francisco Alta says that shad, which were planted in the waters of California a few years a o, are naturalizin g themselves along the who a Pacific coast. They are now caught in Puget Sound, and, the Alfa believes, will soon frequent every river and harbor between San Francisco and Alaska. THE planets that have been so long strangers to the evening sky are now returning, led oil! by the ring-encircled Saturn. Saturn is now in the constellation Taurus and in proximity to the star Aldebaran. The steady, golden light of the planet exhibits a fine contrast to the fiery scintillation of the star. They rise at half-past nine. A PARTY of Eastern men have late] bought 18,000 acres in Eastern Oregon, not ar from Walla Walla, Washington Territory, the price being $170,000, of which $10,000 was paid down and the remainder is to be paid in three and six months. Why land, in such bodies, should sell for such a. price in remote Washington Terri- tory, we are anxious to know. THERE are only six distilleries of rum in the country and all six are in Massachusetts. Of nearly half a million gallons of rum exported last year the greater part went to Africa. The Germans say of a man who has taken just enough alcohol to be mentally stimulated that he 's “ illuminirt;” but rum IS plainl not the kin of illumination which the Dark ontinent needs. THE intensity of the struggle for a livelihood in England is illustrated by the statement of a magazine writer that there are 300,000 families in London who are in the habit of pawning small articles, and that more than 6,000,000 un- claimed pledges are sold every year in that city, while over 270,000,000 articles are taken In pledge in the course of the year throughout the country. Of course some of these pledges are of stolen goods, but the writer estimates that they do not exceed more than one in 14,000. ACCORDING to their own statements, the Po- lygamists have been doing an immense business during the past six months in winning converts to their so-called Church. More than 23,000 new members, they say. have in that time joined, while less than 1,000 have gone to the bosom of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. The statistics of marriages and births are re- ported to be equally flourishing. The apostles, the patriarchs, the seventies, the high priests, the elders, the bishops and the deacons are there- fore, as may be supposed, in an exceedingly ju- bilant frame of mind. SIR EDWARD REED, M. P., Owns no less than 2,000.000 acres in America: the Duke of Suther- land, 400,000: Lord Dunmore. 100,000, and Lord Dunraven, 60,000 acres. Messrs. Phillips, Mar- shall & Co. own a farm of 1,300.000 ncres; the heirs of Colonel Murphy, 1.100000 acres: H. Diston, 12,000,000 acres, and the Standard Oil Company, 1,000,000 acres. It appears that nine men own a teriitory equal to that of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. Then there are the great railroad corporations, whose free gifts of land from lavish Congresses amount to upward of 200,000,000 acres. Eleven of these co rations have received 120,000,000 acres. The orthern Pacific road had grants amounting to 47,000,000 acres, and other grants made ranged from _ l “ It is difficult to accurately describe the tor- 1,000,000 acres upward. Correspomlepts’ Column. [This column is open to all correspondents. hr quiries answered as fully and as promptly as cir- cumstances Wlll permit. Contributions not entered as‘ "declined" may be considered accepted. No MSS. returned unless stamps are inclosed.| Declined: “ A Doubtful Quest;” “ Dead;" “ Ben’s Solitaryfl’ “The Shogi on l:roadway;" "' Lad Mary:H ‘A )lidower's Oiiiance;" “A Solid Acqul: sition;H ‘N‘i'gh't After Night;" “A Ronstabout at Home; ” \\ ithin the Trapz” “Sowing the Seed;" "Therefore An Encore;” “At His Best;" “Char— ley‘s Riyulf’~ “Not So Fair, So Dear;” " A Preemp— tors Bight; ‘ "A Sin to Covet;" “Memories of’ Three; “Something Sweet to Tell You;" “ Pace!" DANDY JIM. See answer in No. 50 to A. W. B. CONSTANT READER. If you are such, of our paper. you must have seen 1gout: query answered at least a half-dozen times w1t in the year. J OHN D. D. There are 502 acres in Prospect Park, and the value is $9,236,000 (according to the con- troller s report), which would be about $18,898 per acre. ACOLYTE. The shortest chapter in the New Testa- ment is the first of the first Epistle of John.—Obed gaghthe gather of Jesse, the father of David. See u iv. 4. IGNORANCE. Direct inquiries to Commandant Brookl n Navy Yard, stating your wish, and at same time, submitting your parents‘ assent— which will be necessary. MEDIEVan There were fourteen "Presidents" be- fore “ashiiigton—Presidcnts of the “Confedera- t:on" cried—the last being Cyrus Grifiln, of Va, from an, 1788, to April, 1789, when Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the new, or Constitutional Union. E. F. The “central line of motion" must, of course, be determined by the relative position of cylinder to piston—For “horse- ower, ’ see Has- well‘s Tables—As to a copartners ip, it can be spe— cial, silent or individual interest, when it is not de— sirable to make it known. If the other party wishes it kept a secret it can be so arranged—as it Often is. Povs OF SCHOOL No. 10. We cannot supply the early numbers of Our IVEEKLY; nor can we reprint the stories you name in our columns again. Too much pressure of valuable new matter to do that. We can me no other way than to give the novels place in our DIME or HALEDIME Lmnxnv. Will be governed by the number of applications received for the reissue. 'HARRY AND FRANK. Texas is larger in area than either Austria, Germany or France. and California is larger than either Dakota or Montana. Arizona is bigger than Nevada, as Nevada is greater than Colorado or Wyoming.——Since you are both doing well be content to remain at home. The father is entitled 1y law to the money earned by his sons and daughters till they are of age. but not after that. W. A. AND En El. Texas Jack was about thirty- eight when he died—Can‘t say as to Buckskin Sam‘s age; should say he was forty-four.— Dr. Powell has not. we believe, shot with Buffalo Bill or Dr. Carver. All certainly are marvelous marks- men——the best in the world—As to the relative merits of the three scouts you name it is impossible to gage—A Winchester repeating rifle costs from $40 to . G. E. M. It is evident your stomach is all “out of order." The only cure for indigestion is a severe course of diet. Eat nothing but casil assimilated food; avoid all grease; never touchw at has been f/iéd,‘ abjure coffee; drink no spirits or beer; eat with stated regularity three times a day and at no other times. Indigestion, dyspepsia and “ bad gtlood “hare all induced by outrageous misuse of the omac . ORADELL. We have but recently, we think, an- swered the same query, but say again: The three golden balls as a sign for pawnbrokers‘ shops origi- nated With the Lombards, who were the first pawn- brokers in London, England, where their peculiar business was regulated by law. The three balls were a part of the arms of Lombardy, whence they came, and were adopted as a sign of their trade by all who went into the business. Loni W. The “bum " areprobably bunions. Go to some good chiro 1st. If no such “ professor ” is within reach, use this ointment: 'I‘incture iodine, twelve grains; vassaline, one ounce; pure lard, one ounce. Melt Over slight fire and mix. Use this oint- ment until the bunion is softened and uninfiamed. Then appl acetic acid. daily, or a verdi 's oint- ment. In t e mean while, the bunion must wholly relieved of pressure, or any source of irritation, or no treatment will do any good. MATTIE. Nothing is gained in such cases, by in- sisting on having your way. A recognition of the gentleman’s right to retain his relations with the friend who has been so good to him is no " conces- swn ”.on your part. It is but the. tyranny of a petty Jealousy. or s ite, we should say, to assume Iy'all-superiority of Judgment: and by asserting it,to is discredit, you may some day lose your hold on him forever. To irritate and annoy by ceaseless suspicion and remark, is a poor method to conquer aman. Kmm Conan. James Fisk, Jr., was shot by Edward S. Stokes in the Grand Central Hotel, New York, on Saturday. January 6, 1872 at 4 15 r. n. In the first trial of Stokes for murder the jury dis- agreed, June 19, 1872. In the second trial from De~ cember 1872, to January, 1873, Stokes was convicted of m er and sentenced to be hanged February 28. 1873. He obtained a new trial, and on October 13, 1873, was convicted of manslaughter in the third degree and sent to State prison—Black Friday was September 24, 1869. AUGUST. The very least that on could have done for your friend, after the troub e she had taken to serve you, was to write her a warm letter of thanks. You certainly have treated her very shabbily. No one can afford to neglect a faithful friendship, and you have acted most foolishly. Why do you not write the‘lady a note saying that you would like to be permitted t0visit her the next time you are in her town? You might then make right the coldness between yourself and your friend b proving to gar that you are not utterly ungrate nor forget- J. B. W. A lady is not called upon to “give rea- sons,” and no matter how intimate you have been, so long as you made no distinct avowals of your love, we cannot see that she has “ done the cruel thing ‘ in accepting another. On the contrary, seeing how fond you were of her, on “ did the foolish thing " in not formal] asking er hand. Young men often lose admire le wives b their indecision or unrea- sonable confidence in t eir power to control a wo- man‘s love. Take no umbraze. therefore, at the lady but maintain your kindly relations with her, so that if anything should occur to break the en- gagement she has made you will be in a good posi- tion to renew your suit. SCHOOL Box. You are way at sea. The well- known “Esop's Fables ” were written b a Thra- cian,or Phrygian. named Esopus, who liv between five and six hundred years before Christ. [Esopus was a slave but his wit and pleasantrv procured him hisf om. Part of the time be ived as a freedman in the family of his former master; also. he traveled over the greatest part of Greece and Egypt. It is said that Croesus, King of L dia. be- came his patron, and that the latter part 0 his life was spent at the Lydian court. Crtesus . t ZEsopus to Delphi to consult the oracle, and there [Esop be- haved with so much severity, and spoke so sarcas- tically about the Delphians. that the Delphians be- came enraged and accused him of trying to rob Apollo‘s tem 1e of one of the sacred vessels; and 561 B. c. be peris ed at the hands of the Delphians, who threw him from a high rock. His fables Esop dedicated to Croesus; but what now up an under his name is no doubt a compilation of a the fables and apologues of wits before and after his time, con- jointly with his own. The best collection was found in a manuscript at Florence in 1809. In these, two excellent editions of “Esop’s Fables " have been ublished. The original fables were written in reek, but they have been translated into many languages. BENNY S. It is quite “possible” and compara- tively easy for any young boy or irl to ebonize and polish wood. Use pine wood. 0 ebonize it, melt quarter of a pound of the best size in a stone pot with as much water as will cOver it. The pot must be set upon the stove, but the mixture must not boil. Next mix to a smooth to three cents‘ worth of lamp—black and a little lue—black with oil; and over this paste pour the melted size, stirring the two thoroughlv together. While this is yet warm apply it thickly and smoothly to the wood. When the int is quite dry, in a room free from dust and w ere the temperature is 60" or 65°, give the wood two separate coats of oil copal varnish. Use a big brush, and do your varnishing quickly, boldly and evenly. After the second coat your wood will be clxonz'zed. TO polish it, the wood must have been varnished four times. After the fourth coat is dry. mix (in a clean saucer) enough of the finest pulverized pumicestone with water to form a paste, the consistency of cream. Rub this upon the wood, with a linen rag. until the surface of the Woodwork is as smooth as glass. Next, dry the wood with a cloth; then polish again with tripoli and sweet oil. With a soft linen cloth dry the wood a second time, and then rub it with starch-powder; lastly. polish with clean, soft linen until you can see your face in the wood as in a mirror. Kee the pumice-stone, the tripoli. and the starch-pow er in clean and separate saucers, and be careful that everything is free from grit and dust.- Young boys and girls, with a little erseverance and i enuity, can make many beauti ul bits of furniture or their rooms and their homes. wt Nah/n c. isswuti :13!4«"V5~1:’w7r .54.»:“23 \ w}: v r was fibgfiWfl‘f‘ basins-u." u. . r ..,.:.n. 3., a Aw-wtiiwmmerMmMflal-VF ~aam,»....nam‘n... -.......A.u‘«.m. fligfln_~aollil~ “.2. a»... i, «314—» ~ a. w .. 4.... -. mix. .1 a... nos-vs ..