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IF you are at all familiar with the current literature of the day—and of course you are— you know that literary ple across the ocean, and not a few of the il who are native-born Americans, are eternally ringing changes upon the everlasting theme of American manners abroad; or, rather, upon Americans’ lack of manners when abroad. And they draw the in- ference at least the foreign-born writers do, and the native-born ones, who bya few years of resi- dence “ abroad,” are confident that they have sloughed off the Offensiveness of being A1neri- cans, do not enter any denial of the inference, that the people of the United States are all alike ill-bred, and uncultured, and absolutely ignorant of how to behave with propriety and polite- ness. _ , , . _ If it is strictly true thiat all lAr'rti’erilpdans alhi'oad are rude uncouth, lou , inso en a vu gar: and it is hot for an instant to be that any of our merciless and irreproac ably well- mannered critics would descend to such depths of vulgarity and infamy as to lie about us—this induction concerning the American people as a whole is certainly not illo ’cal; and yet, despite the soundnem of its logic am fully prepared to deny its truth. It is an indisputable fact that there are cer- tain ople in every civilized nation whose good breedfiig and gentle manners are more a matter of heart than of brains, of inherency than of ac- quirement, of Christian character than of fashion - and that such people are cons1derate, pohte, an refined, wherever they are and under all circum- stances at home or abroad; but that they are not the ma'orit in any nation, nor common to any class, though quite as many of them are to be found among Americans as among Britons, or any other nationality.“ It is an equally indisputable fact, that in all classes of society in every civilized nation, the majority of the ple who can lay claim to polite and re- fin manners are the creatures of custom and compelling influences in the shape of Fashion and the ‘dear five hundred friends,” whose criticism is dreaded in case of a failure to obey any one of the social laws laid down for so- ciety’s guidance. It follows, then, where good taste and quiet manners instead of being in- herent in the individual are the coercions of cus- tom and fashion, and refinement is artificial rather than natural, and courtesy instead of be- ing the outgrowth of conscientiousness is ha- bitual through fear of social critics, that the conservative influences and surroundings being removed, any natural vulgarities, selfishnesses, and evil pass'ons upon which these ordinarily ex- ercise a wholesome restraint will be more than likely to show themselves. Every person of much acumen, and all observ- ant travelers must realize these truths. The eat majority of the travelin public are quite ifferent abroad from what t ey are at home. We have had notable instances of Britons com- ing to this country, who, though pinks of pro- priety at home, here, where they considered themselves among strangers, behaved in the most imprOper and culpable manner, and fia- antly abused the hospitality shown them. These facts are not narrated for the sake of jus- tifying any person’s ill—manners, or for the sake of apologizing for or extenuating ill-manners under any circumstances; but simply to prove that while it may be a logical induction to say: “ The. people of such and such a nation are not well-mannered when traveling, ergo, the people of such or such a nation never are well-man— nered,” it is not the truth. It is the truth that those people with whom good-manners are a matter of conscience and duty—the truly refined and well-bred—will be refined and courteous under every circum— stance of life; and it is the truth that the great majority of the world, standing only in awe of those who know them, are not as well—mannered abroad, where they are not well known, as they are at home. It is the same with people who leave their homes to spend a few weeks’ vaca- tion here or there. At country resorts one constantly sees be— havior on the part of many rsons, that those same persons would never t ink of indulging in their social circle at home. As a young man said who at a certain country hotel made him- self notorious and extinguished the fiction that he was a gentleman in town, “ When we come to the country we forget all about city man— ners.” That is just about what half the people in the world do when they travel or go to places where they are supposed to be unknown; they forget all about their home manners. The re- sult is that observers of them under these par- ticular circumstances set them down as rude, vulgar, loud. and utterly without good manners. Yet. on the contrary, these very people may be- have with great propriety and practice the most rigid etiquette in their own social set, anti be looked upon by persons who have always met them under different circumstances as people of excellent manners and irreproacliable tastes. A lady once observed some very rude be— havior in some fellow-travelers. She was so annoyed and disgusted by it, that she never forgot its perpetrators. Great was her astonish— ment upon moving to a new residence and being 'ntroduced to the “best society” of the place to find this family leadin members of it, and that the were regarded as ing faultless_1n manners an refinement. They were totally ignorant of having ever been in her com ny before and she ever found them ladylike an courteous; but she did not forget the ill-manners they had shown " abroad.” Wklgnmust be plain to every reader_that there should be no difference in one’s behavior at home or “ abroad ;” that the truly well-mannered per- son will behave as well and as courteously 1n Kamtschatka as in New York : at a summer hotel as when entertaining guests in his own_ rlor. And the young man who desires to eit er re- spected or admired will not do one thing abroad that he would consider it ill-mannered to do at home. BELLE BRIGHT. # Happy-Go-lugky Papers. Old Improbabilitie 5. FOR the past week or so I have been trying to keep track of the weather supplied to a long-suf~ fering public by the Government Weather Bu- regllbt being a re ularly—ordained Canadian weather prophet I ave found it a somewhat difficult task. In fact I don’t know that I ever tackled a job that worried me quite as much as this weather business. _ The most of these long-haired, lantern-jawed, weather-wise fossils who spend their spare time in guessin whether it is going snow next Fourth of uly or not, work out their never-fail- ing (to miss it) predictions with the aid of an old signal service chart, a second-hand almanac, a two-shilling barometer, a blind bull-frog in a tub of s ring water, and other equally reliable data of t at sort. But, as I remarked, I am not a Weather prop et, and don’t take my chances on any reckless rognostications. As a weather guide I am a raid I wouldn’t prove much of a success. The bull—frog theory ma all right, but I have got something to do Sides sitting around out in the swamps catching influenza, the seven years’ epizobtic and the whooping- cough, watching the antics of a superannuated bull-frog in order to find out what the weather is goin to be week after next. \V en I want to ascertain the sort of weather we are going to be afflicted with today, or to— morrow, or the day after, I have been in the habit Of goin direct to head uarters for the in- formation. n other words, have heretofore been content to pin my faith to Old Probabilities, Uncle Sam’s bald—headed and versatile old elc— ment-yanker, who furnishes the dail supply of weather for New York. New Jersey, alamazoo, Poduiik, Sioux City and the Lower Lake region. When the United States advertises in the daily papers that the weather for the ensuin twenty- four hours will be “ clear and cold in t e morn— ing on the Atlantic sea—coast, northwest to northeasterly winds, lower barometer with di- minished pressure on the upper gauges, occa- sional showers in the afternoon, probably followed by snow or sleet, winding up with a blizzard in the evening,” and a lot of other me- teorological wisdom of that sort, I always bring in the thermometer and hang it up by the kitchen stove, hunt up my arctics, heavy over- coat and woolen mittens (which I captured at a church fair out in the country two years ago last Christmas. The are four sizes too large for me, and make me ook as if I had on a set of home-made boxing-gloves; but I find them nice and comfortable for handling a blizzard with), and calmly prepare for the worst. Sometimes, in depending on Uncle Sam’s wea— ther predictions, I get fooled; and sometimes I don’t. Lately I have noticed it ’most generally previous] happens that I do. _ r _, don’t know exactly what the trouble is, but I 8113‘“ ct there must be a lot of new bands in the west er bureau at Washington, and they haven’t got used to handliu the ordinary, every-day weather common to t is country yet, hence the fr uent blunders. eather prepared expressly for Alaska and the Northwestern Territories is frequently boxed up and shi ped to New York (presumably by mistake) and distributed over the States border- ing on the Atlantic; While the weather really in- tended for this section of the American eagle’s resting-place is sent kiting up along the Rocky Mountains, through Colorado, Wyoming Terri- to , Montana, and other outlying precincts, an finally winds up by slopping over into the British Possessions. This makes it very sad for people who are un- prepared to wrestle with sudden and entirely unexpected freaks of the climate; and, besides, it is more or less of an imposition on the public, anyway. I have been getting my weather of the United States right along for some years now, doin all my shopping with them ex- clusively; ut unless I notice a marked im- provement in the quality very soon, I shall have to withdraw my patronage. Gradually but surely am I becoming prejudiced and disgusted with the present administration of the weather de artment. Why? Don’t ask me! Come up to m slush- surrounded chateau and look at me! T at will tell you the reason why. Look at my weather- beaten and frost-bitten proboscis! Gaze on my once gaudy but now rain-soaked and mud-be- spattered raimentl Cast your 0 tics over the group of ruined umbrellas and p ayed—out gai- ters and overshoes that adorn the outer rtals of m wind-shakenbungalow on Harlem eights —or ats, just as you prefer—then ask me the reason why! Why, indeed! Just listen a moment—drop your auricular a little lower, please—and I will divulge the whyness of the wherefore: In the first place, firstly, when I got up last Sunday the weather was clear and bright as a June day, and upon hunting up “ Old Prob’s” contribution in the lower left-hand corner of the daily paper, I found that it was likely to re main fair for the entire day. Went to church with Mrs. Nuff, decked out in her most expen— sive tog cry, of course leaving the umbrella at 5 home. eather changed suddenly and it com- ; menced to rain cats and do s or worse before the sermon was half over. W alked home (could- n’t find a cab, of course; never can when it rains) through a driving rain-storm. Result: nine- dollar bonnet, pair of French—heeled gaiters and a lot of other high—priced female fixings com- , pletely ruined—to say nothing of my high hat . and Sunday overcoat, which looked as if they had been dragged through a duck—pond. The next day was Monday. Monday general— ly has a habit of coming along after Sunday. It if trustfulness I donned my Congress gaiters and light overcoat, and taking my Sllk sun-umbrella, (which I carried just for the looks of the thmg,) started joyously down-town. Well, I dont ex- pect to be believed but it actually rallleéh snowed, hailed, poured down, then. hailed, rain and snowed again, twenty-seven times by actual count before ni ht. Then after dark it turned into a re lar b izzard. I had to wait an hour and a ha f for a train on the elevated road, ow- ing to some trouble, and I finally reached home about 10 P. M. with my umbrella turned wrong side out, feet soaked, and my shoes and overcoat frozen so stiff that it took me over half an hour to thaw them out and take them ofi", and half an hour longer to draw the frost out of my ears and other outlying districts of my anatomy. _ The next day I was afflicted with a large-Sized cold and a fierce, yearning dream to .go on to IVashington with a Gatling gun and Six—shooter strapped to my back and throttle Old Probabili- ties in his lair. But I didn’t. I rest-rained my- self. - However, one thing is certain: the Government can no longer have my patronage. so far as weather is concerned. The official U. S. brand of weather is too restless and unreliable to suit me. If any one knows of a good, trustworthy private weather bureau which furnishes reliable predictions, and weather sawed off in len ths to suit its customers, he will confer a favor y ad- dressing the undersigned. Yours, for less weather and more fun, NOAH NUFF. Oddities of Town Names. A YOUNG man who has traveled quite exten- sivel in the W'est states that the names of towns that ave recently come into notice afforan 1n- dication of the nationality or former reSIdence of the inhabitants. He found a flourishing Ger- man settlement at a place called Limerick, a colony of Irish at Ayrshire, a majority of Yankees at Jamestown, while most of the set- tlers at Bergen were natives of the south of Eu- rope. Being struck with the inappropriateness of these names he sought an ex lanation. He learned that a carpenter who had It employed to erect temporary buildings for railway sta- tions had been allowed to put names on them. He had used the names that he had heard or had seen on maps, and returned them to the manage- ment of the new railway company as the one to be employed in connection with the stations. The Coming Comet. IT is nearly sixty years since Encke—one of the most indefatigable of astronomers and star— hunters—announccd the fact that the comet, which now bears his name, travels in a path of short period round the sun. The comet of 1770, found by Lexell to describe an elliptic orbit with a periodic time of only five and a half years, had been up to 1819 the only comet of short riod observed nearly approaching the earth, ut Lexell’s has for more than a centugy been the “lost comet.” The periodicity of ncke’s comet has, however, been fully established, and on each occasion when its return to its perihelion has been repredicted it has, as Herschel says, scrupulously kept to its appointment. Owing to a resistance w ich it encounters from a rare ethereal medium pervading the region through which it moves, Enckes comet, singular y enough, has a slowly but continually diminish— ing period. When it first became an object of reat astronomical interest, its period was 1,211 ays. According to a late calculation of Dr. Backlund, of the Imperial Observatory at Pul- kowa, its present period of revolution is 1,207 .86 days, and its perihelion passage in 1885 takes place on March 7th. The observations of Pro- fessor Brooks prove that the comet is making its revolution without being seriously affected by planetary attraction, and will return to its perihelion on time. Odd Pacts from Mexico. WHEN you hire a servant in Mexico it is ex- pected that his or her entire family will reside with you. The husband of your cook may be a shoemaker, or a hackman, or a saloon-keeper, but when his day’s duty is done he goes to the house where his Wife is living, sleeps there, and takes his meals at your table; and the same rule ap- plies to children. You may hire a chambermaid, and board her husband and eleven children. There is no alternative; no evasion of the cus- toms of the country. This system is not so ex- pensive as it seems however, for a whole family will sleep in a single room, and they don’t need much but corn-bread and beans to eat. The peons, as all Mexican Indians are called, make excellent servants. They are respectful, obedient, perfectly honest, neat, and obey in- structions implicitly. Like the Chinese, they learn by imitation, and seldom need more than one lesson, doing the same thing over and over in the same way until they are told to stop. The Mexican sta e-coac always has two driv— ers—one to hold t e reins, the other to do the whipping. The latter carries a bag of stones to throw at the leaders. The tal—system is very rimitive. After the arriva of every mail a cler writes the names of those persons for whom there are letters on a big sheet, which is posted up outside the deliv- cry-window. It saves the postmaster from an- swering questions. Girls Who Smoke Cigarettes. A NEW HAVEN paper is responsible for this revelation. On a passenger-train passing through that town to New York city, were a considerable number of girls—bound home for the holidays. They evidently were in the Boston cars—two of which they had all to themselves. A crowd of Yale students were at the station and took the same train. Most of them were looking for a smoking-car, and when they saw curls of smoke through the windows of the cars the girls were in they naturally thought they were smoking- cars, \Vhen they tried the doors and found they were locked they wondered, and their wonder was increased to intense curiosity when they saw there was nobody but girls in the car, and that several of them were smoking ci aret-tes. A whole crowd of students stood on t 9 platform and looked longineg into the windows of the cars where they would like to be. It was evident that the girls were from some college, because many of them wore society pins, and the appearance of the crowd was that pe- culiar to college boys—only these were girls. Several were playing cards, but none were drink- ing; at least a reporter who was attracted by the sight and rode on the platform to Bridgeport, saw no bottles or any sign that the girls imitated came along on time as usual, and I went down- , town on business, also as usual. Before starting I consulted the official weather indications, and 1, ascertained that a cold wave was on its way ' from Manitoba, and that the weather on tap for the day was to be blustoring and freezing, with sleet, snow, ice, and the usual trimmings. So I wore my heavy beaver overcoat, fur cap, muf- fler and patent overshoes, and I hope to be froz- ? en to death right in the middle of next August, if the sun didn’t come out before noon, the mer- cury in the thermometer jumped up a yard or so, and I tramped around all day in my arctic out— fit with the perspiration trickling from every one of the six million pores in my body and running down into my boots; and everybody that I met azed at me in a itying sort of way and won— ‘ cred what lunatic asylum I had broken loose * I from. Got home at night, mad, tired and dis— ! gusted clear through, and feeling as if I had been run throu h a steam-laundry with my clothes on. Also elt that it would require a very little 1 more of that sort of thing to bring on a coolness, 3 so to speak, between myself and the United , States Signal Service. I However, I thought I would give the Govern- ment another show before I quit: so I tried it v again the next day, and the next, and the day after that, and so on through the week: and on . whole, I regret to say, I got pretty severely e . But Saturday I caught it the worst of all. was a fine morning; the official weather chart said “ fair and warmer ;” their brothers in anything but the card—playing and smoking. It can hardly be attributed to the whole crowd, as out of fifty or so girls in the car not more than ten, who were in one corner of the car, were smoking and playing cards. Cigarettes were the only things the girls smoked. They had no cigars or pipes. Several l of them had dainty holders, and a couple of them were evidently meerschaunis and had seen use, as the dainty light brown coloring showed. No loud talking was heard. The girls were having a quiet, enjoyable smoke in a lady-like way. None of the non-smokers seemed to think it at all out of the way in the girls who smoked. All were young-looking, and if there were any teach- ers in the crowd they did not look it. From all that could be seen through the car- window the girls were playing whist quietly and methodically. They played just as fellows would, and the whole thing looked so much like a mild caricature of college men on their way home that it was hard to realize that the girls, too, might be having their little pleasures like the other sex. In the forward part of the two cars .’ occupied entirely by the girls there was nothing at all different from the ordinary appearance of girls on their way home from school. Apparent 1y all the livelier and jollier spirits in the school had gathered in the rear end of the, last car to have. an enjoyable trip to the city. College men I f looked on with envious eyes, and the seats in the t regular smoker held many a youth who would far have preferred to be in the rear car la 'in and read in cv r - ' 1 and with confiding r whist with the girls. a p 3 g (I) mme' How the Cattle Sufi'er. THE late severe weather in all the great azing re ions of the West has been terribly ard on t e herds that of necessity have no shelter. When a blizzard is in progress the cat- tle present a most pitiable spectacle, and people unfamiliar with them often suppose that they are dying, when, as a matter of fact, they are only suffering severely. In cold and stormy weather the cattle huddle together wherever the can find a wind-break, and present a very for orn appearance, but except in protracted seasons of cold and deep snow they speedily find relief. It is the “ new crop ”——the “ tenderfoot ” cat- tle just up from Texas which suffer most. These new-comers are wholly unused to the deep snow and prolonged cold. The “ old rangers ”—cattle that have passed one winter in the cold region north of latitude 40", have learned many tricks which late arrivals are ignorant of. They will aw holes in the snow and reach the dry grass Beneath, and when there is a crust of ice they will break that, too, without much difficulty. They satisfy the cravings of thirst by eating snow, while the Texans, unused to such devices, will endure great suffering before following their example. The deep snow rarely lasts long. Followin the blizzard comes the Chinook, a wind as mi] and warm as the blizzard is bitter and cold. The Chinook winds are looked for as patiently and confident] as the balmy breezes of sprin , and they rare y disa point the herders. “'it in a few hours from t e time that they begin to blow, the whole a t of the landscape is changed. The tops of t e hills begin to show, and, after a little, they will be seen covered with cattle, all eagerly devouring the freshly uncovered grass. In a little while the cattle regain all they had lost, and, refreshed by the food, are soon able to return to the range. During the recent cold weather, hundreds of cattle, driven in by the biting blasts and suffer- ing keenly from the pangs of hunger, congre- gated near various towns, as if in expectation of assistance from the people. In some places they took possession of the streets, and stood for hours in the shelter of the buildings. When they be- came so numerous as to cause a blockade, they were driven out; but, as a rule, they were per- mitted to take all the comfort they could get. Such cattle as could not make the towns herded on the railroad tracks in various laces, and in- terfered somewhat with travel. They will make for a track immediately on discovering it, and stand there for hours as if expecting relief. It sometimes happens that herds are run down, and many cattle killed or injured. Deer will do the same thing. Several large herds of these animals have been reported on the tracks in various parts of Montana and Idaho during the pafigd fortnight, and many of them have been 1 . As a comment on this latest news of losses in Montana and Idaho to the cattle and sheep grtoweis, we have this about Northern Minne- so a: “ The disaster in Montana to pilgrim cattle, as stock imported from Minnesota is called, this winter, will attract attention more and more to cattle raising in Minnesota and Dakota. At first thought, the long Winters would seem to be an insurmountable obstacle, but Senator Hill, of Wisconsin has a stock-farm in Northern Minne- sota, and finds no trouble in wintering stock, be- cause the wild hay of the prairie is inexpensive to save. The cattle require only spacious shrds and plenty of yard room and water, and the Sen- ator has a constantly flowing stream from an iron pipe which he sunk to the necessary depth. PreSIdent J. J. Hill, of the Manitoba road, has imported lled Angus bulls from Scotland, and has lac one here and there through the State. Att 6 end of four years each bull becomes the property of the farmer who has cared for it. ‘enator Hill discovered that the fancy Jersey cattle are not desirable for the high latitudes.” “ Focused Pacts. LARGE numbers of colored people, who emi— grated to Kansas a year or two ago, now find the climate too severe, and are reported to be leaving for New Mexico and other points in the Southwest. ONLY four out of the forty-six States and Ter- ritories are now trying to prohibit the sale of stron drink. Five others have made the effort and a ndoned it. Eleven have stringent license laws, and fourteen have never legislated on the subject. ' SKI}; 1fEIi‘es,(s)010011im0n han occurrence at the porto ew reans int epast rare] ha ii there now. The prohibition of smolzing Ihgear cotton on the wharves and on shi board‘and a strict watch kept over it have a most entirely elimi' 'nated this evil. THE remarkably mild weather that has, with some brief exceptions, prevailed throughout Nova Scotia since the beginnin of the winter season, has allowed almost all 0 the chief ports to remain free of ice, an occurrence which has hardly a precedent in the history of the pro- Vince. THE Protestant clergy of Terre Hauto, Ind., have held a meeting and adopted a series of re- solutions advising that hereafter the horses of funeral processions be driven at a trot when go- ing to the cemetery, that funerals be held on Sunday only when absolutely necessary, and that no religious service be held at the grave. ONLY women will be employed by the Clerk of the Georgia Legislature to perform clerical work hereafter, a resolution to that efi’ect having been adopted In the debate on the resolution it was contended that all avenues of employment should be open to women. who had no voice in the Gov- ernment, yet obeyed its laws and paid its taxes. The ,vote was overwhelming. A LIST has been prepared of the members of the last graduating class at Yale and their future occupations. Of these 46 are reading law, 27 are teaching, 19 are in business, 13 are continuing their studies, 12 are reported without occupa- tion, 5 are studying theology, 2 are studying medicine, 2 are engaged in newspaper work, 1 is “ ranching,” and several are traveling. PARTIES who have returned to the Pacific coast from a tour through the Superstition Moun— tains, in Arizona Territory, report the discovery of extensive stone ruins, some of them in almost inaccessible places. The walls look as if they had been battling with the elements for centuries. The rehistoric people of whose existence they are t e only remaining evidence must have been numerous. _ ITALIAN papers are bewailing the extent and intensity of the emigration fever among the peasantry. They say that the ship-loads of emi- rants who are taken from Italy to America are (raining Italy of its mOSt productive factors. The tide of emigration is, they say, assuming proportions that are calamitous to the State, and they instance the fact that one Prefect alone is- sued last year 6,000 passports for emigrants to America. ' THERE are 623. newspapers and periodicals published in foreign languages in the United Next in number come the French publications with 41, the Scandinavians with 33, the Spanish with 25, Bohemians with 12, Hollandish with 11, Italians with 6. the IVelsh with 4, and the Poles and Hebrews with 2 each. There is one paper published in the native Irish, one in Cherokee and one in Chinese. % THE best of the literary papers which come to our table is BEADLE’S \VEEKLY. published by Beadle and Adams, 98 “'illiain street, New York. All of the able and popular writers of the day are its contributors. and it each Week presents an array of high—class literature un- equaled by any journal of its class in the coun— try. Its instructive and interesting serials, bright short stories, and other departments well conducted. make it a paper that should be taken Three dollars per an— num; address as above—W'ellsmn Argus. 1% - . Correspondents' Column. [This column is open to all correspondents. ll- quiries answered as fully and as promptly as cir~ cumstances will permit. Contributions not entered as "declined," may be considered accepted. No MSS. returned unless stamps are lnclosed.} Declined: “His Reward;” “(loue;" "Wedding Hymn ;” “ Not Alone:" " Mame‘s Magic;" " A Jolly Purrz" "Jack and Co. :" “ High Bridge Lodge,“ etc.; "A Fresh Deal;" “Charley‘s Catclr2" "A Recip- rocity Treatz“ "Ten Months of In“ ‘ Mad Mama" " Ha t1" “ Drifting Away :” “A New Apnnopi .Blg, Medecine;" “ A Great Showg“ “ Making the Test;" “ To the Very Heart;" " Joseph‘s Queen ;" “A Case of Electiom” "A Man Overboa.d;“ “ The Agent‘s Prizez" “ A Steamboat Adrift.” ROGER B. We cannot use essays. DEALER. The groom! Niagara suspension bridge was opened to railway traffic in 1872, We think. P. H. S. The SATI'RDAYJOI’RNAL was merged in BEAnLE's WEEKLY with the issue dated November 6th, 1882. TINA D. MS. not taken from carrier; eight cents unpaid postage. MS. has, therefore, gone to Dead Letter Office. JENNIE J. We can hardly ad vise. The pay of wo- man telegraphers is small—less than is paid to men for the exact same service. Women clerks obtain stilllless wages—only about one in ten earns $10 per wee '. HIPPIAS. We return MSS. when stamps are in— closed for such return. Editors or publishers who refuse this act of justice and common courtesy are good people to let alone in every way.—Colonel Mon- stery is in Chicago, we believe. CARL O. V. Emphatically. We do not a prove of secret marriages. There may be. and there have been circumstances under which they Were pardon- able; but it is a thousand times better for lovers to ‘ possess their souls in patience,” than to cnterinto a clandestine union. X. V. You evidently are in fine hysical condi- tion. The locomotive engineer’s ca ring is a good one. Some of our very best engineers were first firemen. It is a proper etc to take, if you can get a chanCe. So try for it. Make application at the shops of some railway. See the master in person. JOHN J. D. “I beg your pardon." or “ Beg par- don." is the proper thing to say when you do not understand a erson’s remark and wish to have it repeated This is equivalent to saying, "I beg your pardon. butl did not hear tor un‘erstand) your re- mark; will you kindly repeat it?" You use the words “ Beg pardon " with a questioning inflection. GUSTAvus. Coasting is nowone of the extremely fashionable amusements among our most fashiona- ble American p~0ple. It is not “ style," tnough, to say “coasting,” as the old-fashioned name is changed for the word “ tobOggauing " “Tam O‘Shanter ” caps are used by both ladies and gen- tlemen at these parties. E. H. G. The only true “sympathetic ink” we know of is made of cobalt. Take zat’fer and dis- Sillve it in nitro-muriatic acid. adding the zaft‘er until the color is blue. 'l‘hen dilute the solution (which is very acrid) with water. Write with this. Heat will bring it out—green in color, but when the heat is withdrawn the ink disappears. CHAS F. K. Monte in the East is played with three cards, which the sport holds up to gaze. and the greev horn then bets he can tell which is the s ectfied card (usually the ace of diamonds is used). he player then manipulates the cards. and the bettor—lo es, of course—See Mr. Badger’s story of “Monte Jim," starring in our WEEva No. 58. That gives full description of the game and its possible rascalities. Enw’n B. There is no more Indian fighting. The savages are now all peaceable or kept quiet by the presence of troops. Even the Apaches and Coman- ches are “turned.” As for hunting and trapping that no longer is profitable as a calling. There is plenty of game (and therefore pelts) in all the ortheru Territories. Any one of a dozen makers‘ rifles are good.—As to “heroes ” we couldn‘t possi- bly give you a catalogue. HAMILTON. You are mistaken about the VVashing- ton reception days. The wives of Justices of the United States Supreme Court always See vi~itors on Mondays; the wives of Cabinet Members and the Speaker‘s Wlfe receive on Wednesdays. The wives o Senators re rcive on Thursdays. and the wives of Representatives usually receive on Tuesdays or Fri- days. Ladies whose. husbands are not officials choose their own reception-days. The visitin - hours are between two and half-past five in the - ternoon. BERRY M00. 1. It is very hard to tell any gentleman exactly how to waltz, since the style of want changes may season. Excessive ‘ swayin "lg "dipping" is. however, always to be avoided. 2. Yes,sitk mufflers are still fashionable torn-title men’s use, but are more worn inside the ovcrcoatto protecta dress-suit than at other times. For this purpose white is used. for ordinary Wear, brown, olive. cardinal.or dark blue is chosen. 3. It is not improper fora gen leman to send a lady a pair of silk stockings for a philopena present, it he has rea— son to believe she would like trwm. 4. There is no law of any kind to prevent the marriage of first cousins. DAVID Caomox. Turn-down collars for gentle- men are quite out of style. amon fashionable men. Standing collars are used entire _v. They are high and straight. with the fronts diagonally tapped, or barely meeting. A few are worn with the corners preSsed flatly back—Cuffs are perfectly st raight, square-cornered bands, that just meet. They are Worn with sleevelinks.——For common use. handker- chiefs may have colored borders of almost any de- scription, or centers cowered with small designs. For more dressy occasions, white handkerchiefs, with tiny hem-stitched hems and fine initials.are used. An all-white handkerchief with full dress suit is imperative. R Y. I. says: “ If I want to correspond with a. nice girl I have lately become acquainted with, how can I propose it and who should write firsr? She lives in a different place from this. Also, if I call on a lady and she is out, what ought I to say when we next meet 7" When you are about to part with the lady say l0 her that your acquaintance with her has been such a pleasure that you greatly desire to con- tinue it; and ask if you may have the honor of writ- ing to her. Of course you must bezin the Cur- respondence.— [f you refer to your call. say that you regretto d not finding her at home. If she re- ers to it. and says she was sorry to miss seeing you. you must reply that you too were sorry to miss such a pleasure, or something to that effect. It is a rude- ness for a person to say, under such Circumstances, “ It made no difference,” or "Oh, it was of no con- sequence." Whether politeness or inclination prompted the call. politeness or frankness demands that you acknowledge that you missed apleasure and regret doing so. JAMES M. M. 1. “ Evening"proper begins at six o’clock. This is the division 0 the day which con- trols the wearing of “ evening dress ” by gentlemen. A gentleman should never dou his “swallow tail" cost before six O'clock, unless to a dinner that is set for five or half-past five o‘clock. 2. The noun prece- denI, meaning "something said or done that may serve as an example to authorize a sub~equent act of the like kind; authoritatiw example.“ is proper- ly pronounced p7-e<.~-e-den( with the accent on press; but the nouns pucer/mce and prec‘rd noy. meaning “ a going before: priority in rank or time,“ are pronounm-d pre eel (11 not and inc-m (then-cu with the accent on reed. You can now see where you were “mixed.” In the following sentence you will see how the words are pronounced in accordance with their different meanings: " Laura pl'e-MF'I-éd (pre~ cededrAlrce into the dining room; and this pro-e6 d- ent-o (precedence; established the prone-ed n/ (prece- dent) that age should take pre seedencytprecedency) over youth and beauty.” HARRY S. TOLLS asks: “What is meant by an ‘Elector-Palatine‘? I read lately that the present rOyal family Of Eng‘and deSCended from a daughter of James I , Elizabeth, who married the 'Elet'tO"- Pala_tine.”’ Germany has always been a confed- eration of numerous states, provin0es, and Fri-e. or “lmpr-rial‘ cities. One of these divisions of Ger- many was the " Palatinate.” consrsting of two parts fates, and of these 483 are published in German. ' —the Upper or Bavarian and the Lower or Rhemsh Palatinate—but under one sovereign who was called “Count-Palatine of the Rhine." JD 919, after the ,death of Conrad 1., the German empire became electiVe. the emperor being chosen by H 9. Dukes of the four powerful provinces of Bavaria. Saxony. Frat conia, and Swabia. About 1257. the number of electors was in<-reaSed toseven — the Archbishons of the Free, or Imperial, cities of lilayence.Treves, and Cologne, the rulers of Saxony. Bohemia. and Bran- denburg. and the C rut.t~Palatine of the Rhine, who thereupon assumed the title of Eire/m -P.Ia:'ine. This title became hereditary and existed until the elective system of Germany was abolished, about 1804, and the empire became hereditary. Elrzabeth Stuart. the ambitious and beautiful daugvter of James 1.. of England. married Frederick V. the Elector—Palatine. because he was a Protestant. Their marriage took place, with alm0>t unpre- cedented pomp. in 1013. In 1619, the crown of B0- hrmia was off red him, and Elizabeth urged Fred! erick to accept it. Her entrance into Prague and her coronation were magnificent pageants. but her I sovereignty as Queen of Bohemia soon ended. NOV 8, 1620. her husband was defeated at the battle : of Prague. and they were obliged to flee to Holland. They remained in exile, andthe Elector-Palatine 4 died in 1632. A I - ‘Ji 'Jl - \‘-’~h’;‘ .. - “ileum...” .I..,._.._.. “Ag—m“... “mm.