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It is Old and of common repute, and as true as it is ancient, and expresses the universal instinct of selfishness that is the lever that moves the world. For, deny it or evade it as we may, self-interest is the passion that rules humanity. The predatory in- stinct is as strong in man as in any of the lower order of animals. The latter look out for num- her one and prey upon their weaker neighbors, so does mankind. 11 both cases the brave, the strong, the audacious, the bullying, the cunning, survive and succeed, and the cowardly, the weak, the unassuming, the meek, the guileless, are pushed to the wall and perish. Philosophers call this the survival of the fittest. Well, that is a euphemism, certainly. It sounds nicer to talk about the survival of the fittest, than to talk about the selfishness of mankind. But the facts remain unchanged that life is a race, a struggle, from the time one enters it to wrestle with swaddling clothes and the colic to the time when minus teeth, and hair, and eyesight, and hearing, one enters the “ undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns;” and that in this race every man is for himself, nor has a thought nor a care for those who go to the devil. Those who would win must run; those who la or fall behind—the Devil take! But id you ever consider—in all seriousness —how large a share the Devil’s share is, or ask yourself Whether you were either positively or negatively interested in it? There are two stand- er s by which the success or failure of one’s life is measured. One is founded upon external evidences, the other upon internal evidences. Upon the external evidences our neighbors measure our success; upon the internal evi- dences, when we stand face to face with death, we ourselves, measure our success. The stand- ar of our neighbors is based upon the amount of wealth, or fame, or competency we gain; upon our standing in the community; but the standard by which our own consciences shall judge us in the hour of death will be based upon the justice, mercy, honesty, and purity, that has pervaded our lives. Judged by either standard, are you peculiarly interested in the Devil’s share? Are you likely to be “ hindmost” in the race? Of course I do not know what your place in the race is, whether you are a farmer, or a mechanic, or a profes- sional man, or a day laborer; but I do know that whatever you are you must depend wholly upon your own efforts to win success, and that you can Win success if you try. A day laborer can be just as successful in life, proportionately, as a doctor or a lawyer. If you are poor, and wretched, and forlorn, you have no one but your- self to thank. If you are brave, and strong, and persistent, and atient, and all your energies are out upon reac ing the goal you have in view, you will Success will be yours. Your neighbors will point to you with pride and with envy, and wil say, “See what he has accom- plis ed; what a nice home he has; what a snug for- tune he has acquired; how comfortably he lives l” Certainly they will not consider that you are a art of the Devil’s share. But you, in your own cart, will know whether ou have loved mercy, and dealt justly, and ren ered to every man the things that are his own, and kept your life pure and free from evil habits. You, yourself, will know whether in things tem ral, or in things spiritual, you have been so beIiindhand as to be— lon to the Devil. I you are “hindmost” in either the struggle after tom ral goods, or the struggle of your spirit to live up to its best capabilities, you are sitively interested in the Devil’s share of umanity. If you are deliberately helping to thrust some fellow-creature into the rear ranks, or are deliberately withholding from him the outstretched hand, the kind word of encourage- ment, the cheering smile, that you might give him, (thus nerving him to greater or more hope- ful efforts). you are negativel interested in the Devil’s share of humanity. 9 will be held just as responsible for his failure as if he had had the help of fyour hand or cheer; but you will have made a allure of your life, too. Selfish as the instincts of man are. there are germs of nobility in his nature, too: and part of the struggle of each life is the struggle between its base and its spiritual impulses. The Devil. seemingly, is going to get a very generous share of the racers—the people who fail to attain any place, or success in life; people who are weak, cowardly, lazy, inefficient, intemperate, dishon- est; but he is going to get no mean share of the people whom the world adjudges winners: and they will be the people who have been dishonest in their dealings, unjust to their brothers. cruel to those who were dependent upon their mercy, Impure in their secret lives, hard-hearted to those whom they might have helped or cheered. In this great race where every man is for him— self, and the Devil gets the hindmost. are you directly or indirectly interested in the Devil‘s share? BELLE BRIGHT. A Romance of the Soudan, \VITH THE Heroin and Now Murdered Gordon A Leading Character, Is the Next Serial in Beadle’s Weekly. Happy-Go-i_uc_ky Papers. Both Pun-run and Painful. ’Tis sad to meet the ancient joke, B0wed down with weight of years; ’Tis sad to see its hoary crown Clipped by a punster's shears! (ADAPTED from the odes of Theocritus, the an— cient Grecian poet, born at Syracuse, N. Y., in the year 2'") B. It seems that bald-headed and venerable jokes were current even then.) Yes, it is sad—inexpressibly and unutterably sad. I have too much respect for the aged to think of laughing at an antique pun of the Silurian e- riod, and whenever I meet one I always feel like stepping aside, removing my chapeau, and stand- ing In res ctful and decorous silence with bared head unti the nioui'nful caravan hobbles by. Nothing is calculated to sudden a man more, and cast a deeper gloom over the community in general than to see an antiquated, toothless and crippled joke, that first saw the light when Me— thuselah was cutting his first set of home-made teeth, limpinlg along on crutches, in the blazing light of the ineteenth Century, grinning pain- fully, and striving in vain to keep up With the rest of the procession. However, some people don’t seem to realize the gloomy mouriifulness—or the mournful gloomi- ness, just as you prefer—of an exhibition of this sort so much as others. Ferguson is one of the kind that doesn‘t. Also Bob Sniflles. The are both jokers of the pImning London Punc va- riety, and terribly funny fellows—in their minds. That is where the fun, such as it is, exists chiefly; and it has plenty of room to slosh around in, so to speak, principally because there isn’t much of anything else there. Ferguson and Sniflles are both good enough fellows, I suppose, so far as their intentions go; but I would rather entertain a visiting commit- tee of Sioux warriors or receive a call from a delegation of hungry rizzlies at any time than to have both of them rop in on me at once. One of them at a time is enough, goodness knows; and when both of them happen in simul- taneously—well, you cannot imagine what I have to endure. If you could, I might be spared this inful recital; as you cannot I have decided to 'vulge the dread cruelties which I have undergone at their hands—or mouths, rather—and present the reader with a war-map, taken on the Spot, of the last delightful eveningwhich I spent in their con— genial society. This is how it looks in cold type: SCENE—The literary car enter-shop of a well- knorcn humorous writer, w ich (he first letter of his name is NOAH NUFF (excuse the egotism, lease; it is seldom I break loose in this way). riter aforesaid very busy planing the rough edges 017' a fen—dollar poem. Enter (without knocking, as usual) the grand combination of comic talent which travels about devastating the country—this section of it, at least—under the trade—mark o FERGUSON and SNIFFLES. After the ofi-han greetings are over the trou- ble, as Backus used to remark, begins as fol— lows .‘ FERGUSON. Here we are again, as the clown said when he fell though the skylight. SNIFFLES. Ha, ha! very good, and that re- minds me: When shall we three meet again? MYSELF. Not very soon I hope, if you are going to get off any more such weary, played- out, ante-diluvian jokes as that. SNIFFLES. Ha, ha! pretty fair for an ama- teur. Yes, you’re coming on nicely, Noah. In the course of time you’ll be able, perhaps, to write jokes that are ’most as good as some that Ferguson and I rattle off im romptu-like when- ever we call in to see you. eep on. Don’t be discouraged. Perseverance is the staff of life— I mean, necessity is the mother-in—law of in- vention. You‘ll fetch it in time. MYSELF (with a sigh of relief). Thank you—for stopping, not for the compliment. FERGUSON. By the way, Noah, what are you bus at? Constructing your will? YSELF. No; I’m writing an ‘ Ode to a Last Year’s Organ-Grinder.’ SNIFFLES. Grinding it out, so to speak, I suppose? Pun, you know; but you needn’t fly off the handle or get cranky about it! BOTH CALLERS. Haw-haw-hawl ha-ha—ha! haw-haw! FERGUSON (continuing the subject). Ode, did you say? Ode—ode—0wed? ode to a last year’s thing—um—bob! Owed to your tailor, more likely. I guess that is about the size of it, but comparisons are ode-orous, you know, so we’ll say no more about it, eh? Ha-ha—ha!” MYSELF (resignedly). Go on! Oh, go on; I can stand almost anything now. SNIFFLES. Ferguson is getting quite coltish, isn’t be? He Often gives a ho(a)rse laugh. Speaking of horses, by the way, I’ve got a 00d one for you: Why is a horse like a small Hwy, who bites a sour apple that is offered him, and then declines it? (Deep silence in which the whole audience, consisting of ERGUSON and MYSELF, unani- mously join.) SNIFFLES (with the patronizing tone of one imparting a taluablc piece of information). Because they both take a bit in their mouth and sa nay! FERGUSON (appreciatit'cly). A bit of iron-y about that, eh? Strap-ping good joke, though. Where did you harness onto it? SNIFFLES. Buckle around for yourself and trace it up if you want to know. FERGUSON. Oh, I don’t care a snap, anyway, Let it go. I’ll ask a coachman when I see one, if his bride’ll let him tell. MYSELF (reflectirely ; making a pencil memo- randum at the same time on the back of (1 Chi— nase wash—bill). “ “Then shall we three” conun- drum, A. D. 1149—“Owed to tailor” un, about 360 P. D. Q.—Horse joke, B. C. 97.— arness hi- larity, discovered by Ptolemy III. in the ruins of an antique Grecian synagogue in the year 239—— FERGUSON (interrupting). that are you do- in now, Noah? Delving into anCIent history? YSELF. Oh, no! I am merely jotting down the date of your jokes—that is, the date they were originally discovered. Go ahead, and if you get off anything later than the seventeenth century, I’ll let you know. There is one old one that you haven’t thought of yet, I guess; but you’ll come to it resently if ou keep on. FERGUSON (du iously). hat is it? MYSELF. I refer to the Year One 'oke about Eve being made for Adams’ Express ompany. SNIFFLES (with a sudden burst of inspiration). Ah! when you get back there I’m right at home. I feel the spell of antiquitfigreeping over me now. FERGUSON (briskly). tter brush it off be— fore it bites you. If I had anything creeping over me I‘d feel anxious about it. SNIFFLES. Oh, keep still. Don’t interrupt the flow of my thoughts. I was about to get off something original about Adam‘s profession. “'hat reason have we for supposing that Adam was a butcher by trade, and that he sometimes neglected his business? FERGUSON. That’s too figaeaflurative for me. Not this Eve ; some other eve I’ll guess it. What is the answer to the blamed conundrum, anyway t SNIFFLES. Because he fell asleep and lost a spare—rib. FERGUSON. That don’t prove he was a butcher. I should say Adam was a farmer, be- cause after he woke up he raised Cain—c-a-n-e, cane. you know—and then he started into the sheep business as soon as he got Abel ,' and»— Just then a fifteen-pound Indian club, pro— pelled with all the force Of which I was capable, struck the wall just above the recklesspuiister‘s head, and with a wild look of terror, Ferguson grasped his hat and plunged through the door- wa , followed by Sniffles. the mate to that Kehoe clu , twr) chairs and an empty coal-scuttle. The Neiiieaii lion within my bosom has been aroused at last. I have stood about all that sort of thing that I propose to at present. The next time Ferguson and Sniflles conic fooling around my sanctum (the walls of which are now adorn- ed with a pleasing assortment of shotguns, Sabers and other warlike weapons), iiionkeying with the United States language and getting off second—hand italic jokes, I am afraid that un— pleasantiiess will result. Yours 011 the defensive, NOAH NUFF. Shooting that Means Business. THE National Rifle Association recently ap- pointed a committee to visit General Sheridan and ascertain why certain important changes had been made in the mode of Title practice in the regular army. Captain E. S. Blount, of General Sheridan‘s staff. said that the chief ob- ject of training a soldier how to shoot was not that he might make big target records, but that he mi ht hit his man and wound him or kill him. 11 the army men were wanted who could make good line shots; a shot that would hit a man somewhere. The question of how best to gain this object was submitted to a large num- ber of officers in active service throughout the United States, particularly in the “'est, and 04 per cent. were In favor of the elliptical target. A soldier who could make a true line shot would be effective, because he would be sure to hit his man somewhere, and to hit him anywhere was to disable him in action. The association de- cided that, the matter being irrevocably settled, nothing was to be gained by discussing it. A vote of thanks was given to General Sheridan for his courtesy. The militia of Maine has de- cided to adopt the new mode of practice. Out-West Theatrical Taste. “ OUR people want only the freshest in the dramatic market,” said the Dakota dramatic critic to the representative of an Eastern trage- dian. “ I know this ‘Merchant Of Venice ’ ou talk about. I saw it in Salt Lake as far bac as ’81. No such wormy chestnut will go down with a cultured community that had ‘ Young Mrs. \Vinthro ’ and the ‘ Bandit King’ three nlfinths after t ey were brought out at Drury ne.” A VIRGINIA CITY (Nev) paper sa *8: “The energetic hissing nightly accorded to t e heavy villain in the melodrama now runniii at the Baldwin reminds old residents of the rst the- atrical performance ever given in Virginia City. Most of the miners had not seen a play for a score of years, and when the Johnstone troupe opened in ‘ Othello’ the house presented a packed mass of red shirts. Edwin Booth was the Iago, and so faithfully did he i'tray the traitorous friend that the audience ost control of itself, and in the second act began shootin at the fell conspirator. One Shot struck Othe 0’s sword-hilt, and all hands had to lie down on the stage and roll into the wings. The indignant miners were finally quieted, and the play r0. ceeded, but the final dénouement was so ta en to heart by the spectators that Booth remained in the theater all night for fear of the Vigilantes. who talked seriously of lynching the ‘ cold- blooded cuss’ off—hand.” See Charles Morris’s Forthcoming Serial, THE WHITE SHEIK! Next to Follow in Our Columns. A vIvID AND WONDERFULLY REALISTIC ROMANCE or Life and Adventure on the Upper Nile. A Paradise for Children. JAPAN has rightly been called “ a paradise for children.” In no other country are the young people treated with such consideration. Two days are national holidays for the children. The third day of the third month is the irls’ festi— val. In every family you will find do 5 in large numbers arranged in one of the rooms reserved for this purpose. These have been handed down from one generation to another. Every mother presents each of her girls with a doll ever ' time this festival comes around, and as the do ls are never destro ed, in time they become quite numerous. be boys’ holiday is the fifth day of the fifth month. On the morning of this festi- val, the boys, after passing under the barber’s hands, with clean-shaven heads, and dressed in their best clothes, go to the temples and offer a prayer, and then start out for a lark. In front of every house in which a boy has been born you will see a paper fish flying in the wind from the end of a long bamboo pole. The girls do up their hair but once a year. They sleep with curved blocks of wood under the neck, which fit the neck so nicely that the coiled hair is not disturb- ed. They are dressed exactly like their mothers as soon as they are able to walk, and are treated like little women. Seeing that the J aps are “ heathen,” to whom we send hundreds Of missionaries for their “ conversion,” wouldn’t it be just as well for some of those missionaries to come home and teach Americans how to treat their children? “ Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven,” said the Savior. The J a s evidently practice Christ’s precepts if they 0 not preach them. No More Happy Hunting-Grounds. THE area of land owned by Indians or set apart as Indian reservations amounts to 136,000,- 000 acres. The magnitude of this area is scarce- ly realized. It can best be understood by com- paring it with some of the States. It is about the same extent of territory as is embraced in the following: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New J er- sey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and In- diana. The Indian Territory alone contains 41,- 000,000 acres, a larger area than is com rised within the States of Massachusetts, hode Island, Connecticut and New York. The soil and climate of this territory are such as to give assurance of its making hereafter as good a State as Kansas or Nebraska. The Sioux reser- vation in Dakota contains 27,000,000 acres an area larger than the great State of Ohio. The reservations of the Blackfeet, Crow and Jocko Indians, in the Northern rt of Montana, cover an area of equal extent. he other reservations are much smaller, but contain in the gregate millions of acres of valuable lands. T ese im- mense areas of the public domain are now set apart for the exclusive use and benefit of 263,000 Indians. And, in addition to the exclusive use of this empire of land, the Government appro- riates about $5,000,000 9. year for the Indian ureau. The time for using Indian reservations for hunting-grounds is past. The game is exhausted or nearly so. It can no longer furnish sup lies for even the limited number of persons for w ose benefit the reservations are set apart. The In— dians must be taught a iculture. mechanical and pastoral pursuits. f the roper policy is pursued toward them it will 0 years’ time to make them all self-supporting, and to merge them into a part of the community in which they reside. y require a few ’ A Man of Fate, General Gordon, IS A CENTRAL FIGURE, AND AN American Boy and American Sailor, ARE CHIEF ACTORS IN Charles Morris’s New Serial, THE WHITE SHEIK; THE scours 0E THE DESERT. T0 FOLLO‘V NEXT IN ORDER. Hunting Wild Horses. \VE already have adverted to the fact that Wild horses have become so numerous on the lains that stockmen in \Vyoming and “lestern Yebraska organize hunting arties to kill them 017‘”. These horse-hunters sa ly out from Chey— enne and other points, provided with long-range rifles, fleet ponies, and sup lies and forage enough to last a month. The WI (1 horses have existed on the plains for many years, but of late the have been increasing very fast. They are quic to scent the approach of foes, fleet as the ante- lope that may often be seen browsing in security at their side, and as unmanageable as the wind. Native animals, when turned loose on the prai— rie, soon become Wild, and if allowed to 11111 without being disturbed, breed very rapidly. Horses continually break away from their own— ers and join the Wild herds, and this is the rea— son why stockmen are aroused over the subject. Men who crossed the plains in 1849 encountered many wild horses, and for years afterward they must have increased rather than diminish . Horses stand the winter much better than cat- tle, and unless the weather is unusually severe will come out fat in the 3 ring. Every year large num rs of domestic horses escape from the settlers. Some of them are found, but when mares escape they are never re- claimed. In wandering over the plains they en- counter the wild bands, and from that time for- ward are as wild as the others. The wild stal- lions are the guardians of the bands. Always on sentinel duty, they give the alarm when any enemy approaches. Ina moment the stragglers are rounded in, a fleet-footed stallion leads the van, and with others at the flanks away they go in a thundering charge. Nobody has yet been able to overtake them. Sometimes they are las— soed or shot, but such a thing as headng them off in a race is out of the question. Women in Texas. THERE are a great many handsome men in Texas, we are assured by a lady who has “ been there ” and knows of what she speaks. The free, outdoor life, with much horseback-ridin , gives them good forms, clear eyes and comp exions. There is a t deal of native intelligence and good thinking. The women among the well-to- 0 classes appear to live mostly indoors. Even in cities very few are seen on the street or in the stores. They are not so often rosy-checked as the men, but much oftener powdered. Living with doors and windows open a large part of the year, and in houses all the year that let in the air on every side, it seems strange that they do not look fresher. At one place, where the railroad missed the town a mile, and all the stores had been taken to the depOt, we asked how they got to the stores through the mud. “ Oh, we never go; the men go on horseback. and they do the buying.” So it is not uncommon to see men buying dress-goods, stockings and other articles for ‘wo- men’s wear. Good hel is scarce, and the women usually do the house eeping in a few rooms, every one of which has one or more s in it. Their timidity is so great that‘they object to two-story houses because the wind blows. For recreation many dip snuff and read stories. Old snuff-dippers look snuff-colored. Among the poorer classes women work in the fields at cot— ton raising. Hoeing and pickin are done by hand, and what one man can p nt and plow several hands are required to hoe and pick. But raising cotton is clean farm work. There are no br'iers to scratch, no juice to stain the hands. The stooping is tiresome, but less so than picking strawberries. Children are. valuable pickers, be- ing nimble and of suitable hight. We have seen little girls who had picked hundreds of pounds, with sunbonnets and mitts on in the hot sun, who were not tanned at all. In the years when the crop is good wages are high, and many well- 0 women go out and pick cotton. They are paid by the hundred pounds. Focused Facts. THE receipts of lumber at St. Paul, during 1884, were 80,886,000 feet against 37,695,000 feet in 1883. Shipments were 202,729, as against 186,739,000 in 1882. THIS winter has been one of destructive se- verity to feathered game in Illinois. Many prairie-chickens have been frozen to death, and quails have been almost exterminated. THE grass in W'illamette Valley, Oregon, ac- cordin to papers from that section, is as green as in ay, while only a few weeks ago the same ground was covered with snow to a depth of two eet. NEARLY three and a half million Imds of oleomargarine were sold in Boston git year, which is equal to over nine r cent. of the total sale of butter in that city uring the same pe- riod. THE Commissioner of Education places the number of medical students in this country in 1873 at 8,681; in 1883 we had 15,151. The medi- cal schools during this period increased from 9-} to 134. COLORADO SPRINGS claims the honor of beating the whole country in the variableness of tem- perature, the thermometer there havin shown a variation of 7 2 degrees in 24 hours uring a recent cold wave. THE Agricultural Bureau reports that Ken- tucky owns 371,878 horses, valued at 325,436,455; 116,064 mules,L value $8,877,506; 304,720 cows, value $10,119. 451; 503,807 oxen and other cattle, value $13,554,200. ONE of the bills in the California Assembly gives to any young man under twenty~six years of age, who learns a trade b serving an ap- prenticeship of three years, an isa moral young man, 3250 out of the treasury. DULUTH, “the zenith city of the unsalted seas,” is looking up again. Last year she gained nearly 5,000,000 bushels, it is figured, both in her wheat receipts and shipments, placing her next to Chicago and Toledo as a wheat market. Some of the Strange and Novel Features OF Morris’s New Story OF Life in Egypt. and the Hoodoo, A Arabs, Bedouins, Caravans, Camels, The Desert, E1 Mahdi, Gordon, Osman Digna, General Graham, and Battle, Murder and Sudden Death. Overflowing with \Vild, Weird Interest. Correspondents’ Column. [This column is open to all correspondents. In- 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 inclosed.) Declined: “Roall-agents' Defeat;" Poems by D. (‘.; “ Digger Dan‘s Doiniciliary;” “A Sheriff‘s Lone Guest;” “The Rip-Rap Tragedvz” “A Snoozer's Bonanza;” “Jackson, Jr.;" “More Dust;" “The Old Driver’s Song:” "Barney O'Blathers.” etc;; “The Preacher’s Fourthly;” “The Romance of a Barrel;” “Sixteen and Sixty;" “Mrs. Frank’s Ini- ressions;" “ The Drunken Deacon ;" “ Five Stars;” ‘The Montana. Rose:" “Bill Blower’s Sign:" “ Scared to Confession.” M G. MC. Actor Detective commenced in No. 103 and ended in No. 111. - Mas. F. L. T. We always supply catalogues free. —A new DIME DIALOGI'ES’ issue is now in press. J. P. Story might find favoriii some paper less crowded than ours. It by no means lacks merit. BEN MORRIS. We know of no dealer who sells roller skates on installments—The WEEKLY is all in print. J. BOWERS. Whatis it you wish to know about the “Dick Talbot " series of stories in the DIME LIBRARY? R. J. S. Blackheads mean impure blood. Diet carefully for a month and tbev wrll disappea To kill them at once touch each with tincture Of iSdine “'. L. Request infeasible for various reasons. The cost of 16 pages of the size named would pre- clude the change it‘ no other reason prevailed, for the amount of matter would be enhanced One-ll: i771. G. A. K. Any bookseller will procure You a Ger- man-English dictionary—The two stories named were serials in the SATURDAY JOURNAL and were not reissued in nOVel or library form, so are not now in print. ED. A gentleman does not offer his hand to a lady on the street nor in her own house. He waits for her to offer her hand—Yes, it is perfectly prOper for a lady to say to a caller that she has an engagement; in which case he should be careful to occasion her no delay. E. A. G. There is no paper published in this coun- try wholly in the native Irish language; but the Irish-American, we believe, gives one or two columns weekly of Irish news in Celtic. There is also a jour- nal- issued b the New York Society—called the Phil!) Coll—4W iich is half English and half Celtic. CRtEsps. All valuable metals are bought and sold per avOirdupois ounce, A great number of metals are more valuable than gold, but platinum is less valuable. so is not feasible as a coin. Thus far there is no “ substitute ” for gold. The new metal alum- inum bids fair to be popular and very useful. but as its extraction from clay becomes less and less ex- pensige its present value will not be long main- aine . CHARLOTTE B. The way to attract attention is to seek society in every reasonable way—to dress with taste—to take interest in fairs, social gatherings, etc.——to visit away from home—to seek new ac- quaintances—and to make yourself generally agree- able and interesting. Ladies who too plainly betray their fondness for gentle-men‘s society do not usu- ally succeed as well as those who are less demon- strative. OLIVER F. L. 1. New York. 2. New York fur- nished 455,568 men to the Union armies during the War of the Rebellion, and Ohio 317.133. 3. If a gen- tleman has no bill small enough for the conductor to change, he may very properly allow the lady he is with to loan him the change. He can show his appreciation by doing her some little favor soon after, or sending hera box of bon-bons or a bouquet of flowers. JNo. L. R. The Homestead Laws of Arizona are the same as for all other Territories or States where there is Government Land. Send to General Land Ofllce, Dep‘t Interior. Wash- ington, D. C.. for copy of Laws and Procedure.— A good hinm-ulur glass is what you require. The power will be in the lenses, not in the shape or length of tube. Go only to a superior maker and get nothing cheap Ask fora field-glass, opera case. Any maker or responsible dealer will explain to you why alensis dear in proportion to its purity and perfectness.—Further answers next week. NEIL B. B. It is as necessary that brothers and sisters should be polite to each other, and parents and children, even more so, if possible, as it is that people should be polite to each other “out in com- pany.” If good manners are not a part of one’s self, they can never be natural and spontaneous. The home-circle is preéminently the place where all races of speech and behavior should be continual- yin practice. If you are a finished gentleman to your grand parents. your parents, your brothers and sisters, your children and your servants, you will be a bright and shining ornament to any society in which you can possibly move. B. C. We cannot afford space here to give a full explanation of a “ Progressive Eucher Party:” but the fun of the evening consists in seeing who can play most games. A prize is given to the person who has played the greatest number of games, and the person who has played the least number. There are five sets of players. duly numbered, but all players give up their games whenever a game is fin- ished at the center table; and all change places.— It is absurd to refuse in vita 'ons because you “ don’t know the game.” Go an learn it. It is easy enough to learn any such game. and you are sure to meet plenty of other “ignoramuses ” DISPUTANTS. Gastritis is a Latin word and is pro- nounced as if spelled gas-(r2 412cc. It means inflamo mation of the stomach. an is not at all the same thing as dySpepsia.—lf you had consulted any good dictionary you would have found that the yOung lady was right, and not “affected” as you de- clared her to be. Adonis is correctly pronounced a-doe-nz‘s-s and not as you think, «demise—The reg- ulation sizs of the American flag, as the standard of the army, is six feet six inches by four feet four in- ches. Of course. civilians, clubs, etc.. do not need to be governed by this size.-—Never sit while your bostgss stands, or while any lady in the room stan 5. MILES O’N. It is customary for married men to wear a plain gold ring. The fashion prevails here largely, though it is borrowed from the Germans.— TO the cards for receptions “Mondays in Febru- ary,” you may either res 0nd with acall or by send- ing yourvisiting-card tot ehostess upon one of those days. If you call in the afternoon, you should wear a dark Prince Albert frock-coat. dark gloves. and dark tie. If you call after six p. M., you dress as you would for a party..—A “martinet ” is a strict disciplinarian. It is said that the term is derived from the general omcer M. De Martiuet, who was celebrated for restoring and improving the disci- pline and tactics of the French army. DAvID GRAVES. If you have visited a lady for three years without asking her to marry you. we cannot see how you have any reason to complain because she has engaged herself to a former lover. A man certainly can make up his mind—or ought to do so—i‘n three years. We can only advise you to accept your deserved punishment with a good grace. Remember the old adage. “There are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught.” But if you court any lady in future we would advise you to only take a year in which to find out whether or no you desire to marry her. You are unreasonable to expect any woman to spend the best of her life waiting for you to make up your mind as to whe- ther you want to marry her. B. S. asks: “ What vines can you recommend me to set out beside a piazza, and to grow over some out- houses, that will cost but little? I have anew house. small but pretty, we think. and my wife keeps at me to start vines to growing.” Vines, nicely trained. are ornamental to any grounds, and will transform ugly buildings and unsightly spots into places of beauty. Nor do you need to spend money on such work; you can furnish your grounds with a variety of beautiful creepers that cost nothing but a little time and trouble. For piazzas, trellis-work. sides of houses, fences. rockeries, tree stum s, out-build- ings, etc., nothing can be more effec ive than the Virginia creeper (or American ivy which gr0ws wild and abundant in almost every h ge and woodland. This is now used extensively in our cities for the outward decoration of churches. In autumn it is a gorgeous mass of coloring It lives easily and grows rapidly. It is easily distinguishable from “ poison oak,” (or as country people call it “ poison ivy,") because its leaves grow in clusters of five, while the leaves of the "poison ivy ” grow in clus- ters of three. Indeed. the Virginia creeper is fre- uently called “five-leafed ivy,” to distinguish it rom the “poison or three-leafed ivy.” Besides this beautiful American ivy. there is clematis, which grows freely everywhere, and bears in August clus- ters of fine white bloom. and is easily transplanted, and grows luxuriantly wherever it is trained. The “ trumpet honeysuckle,” which bears scentless flowers of bright scarlet with yellow linings. is a creeper common in the woodlands of the United States. and the American woodbine (a fragrant honeysuckle) is found in abundance from New York westward, especially in rocky places. These are easily transplanted, and flourish anywhere. “Bit- tersweet.” too, is transplantable, and is a particu- larl pretty vine for stumps, rockeries, and trellises; whi e wild grape vines and hop vines are extremely ornamental when trained against out-houses, and unsightly buildings. Rose cuttings and wistaria cuttings you can probably beg of some kindly neighbor. , ~ .,,'., and, as; .W “i -