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28 TTIE DETROIT REE PRESS SUNDAY APRIL 29 1888 i THE SOLAR COMPASS CLAIM The Heirs of the Man Who the Sun Before Congress AS OLD CLAIM REVIVED IS THE THIED GE5 EATIOX Washington April 24 One of the most interesting claims pending before Congress is that of the heirs of William A Burt of Michigan for compensation for the government use of the solar compass It is much older than the celebrated McGarrahan claim and has been pressed fully as steadily being now prosecuted by claimants of the third generation That it is a just claim seems to lie conceded on all hands The equity of the Burt claim was recognized by the Com missioner of the General Land Office Hon Justin Butterfield of Illinois upon its first presentation in 1S30 It was also acknow edged by the Senate Committee on Public Lands in the first report upon the same made March 3 1853 A bill Of relief passed the Sen nate at three successive sessions In the House of Representatives it received a favor able report from three committees the last in made by Judg" Converse of Ohio William A Burt invented the solar compass while acting as Deputy Cui ted States Survey or late in the His mind was directed to the invention by the very annoying discrep ancies of the magnetic needle It i estimated that the Burt solar compass was used in sur veying nearly a billion acres of public land in the United States The compass was converted to government use without compensation to the inventor and was particularly valuable in the mineral portions of the public domain where local attraction is so great that the com mon compass is of little or no use The solar com pass is put in the meridian by the sun whenever it shines it shows approximately the latitude every time it is set and approxi mately the longitude All surveyors know that tho magnetic needle does not give straight lines owing to a daily a general and local fluctuations The solar compass is affected by uum of these causes The claim 1ms now been before Congress with some intermissions forty years In 1S49 the inventor then nearly CO years old and his son Wells Burt came to Washington with the intention of renewing the solar compass patent which had run from fourteen The present claimant states that his grandfather was from renewing his patent by the appeals of the land officials at Washington actuated no doubt by the beet of motives and recommended by them to apply to Congress for compensation and let his valuable invention become public prop erty promising to support their recommenda tions in every consistent Early in 1850 Mr Burt placed his petition for compensation on file in the Senate through Senator elcb In this petition he stated that by his original contract with tho manufactur er he as to receive $10 as a bonus on each in strument made but that itwas from only a very few that this bonus was received as most of the deputies were not able to pay the price for them thus increased and his anx iety to have them brought into induced him to waive his claim to that bonus that this sprang from a desire to have lines of the public lands correctly sur veyed that litigation among neighlxtrs might be prevented and from no other source Burt claimed that without the use of his instru ment the mineral lands in Michigan sin Iowa and Arkansas could not have been Surveyed for the government for less than double and probably three or four fold the amount they actually cost as in most of thoe mineral regions the ordinary coinpass was of no manner of use as the local attraction as so great as frequently to prevent the traverse of the needle and causing variations ranging from ten to ISO degrees The Commissioner of Public Lands wrote an encouraging letter to Senator elch but made no formal recommendation Senator Eeleh was Chairman of the Committee on Public Lands and the petition received a fovorable report but the bill was not reached The claim soon received consideration from President Commissioner of the General Land Office He wrote aletter favoring it and the House made a favorable report on a bill for a larger amount than the Senate bill of tho preceding Congress This House bill was how ever defeated In the next Congress tho in ventor asked a renewal of his patent but before his bill was acted upon he died (1858) and as none of his sons appeared to prosecute the matter it died in the committee Mean while however tho bill for his relief had twice passed the Senate only to die on tho House calendar wenty years claused lefore Mr Burt's heirs resumed the contest in Congress but in No vember lb John Burt began the contest which has now continuer! eleven successive years The petitioners of 1877 were John Solon Austin Yells and William Burt who claimed that for thirty five years very great benefit had leeu derived from the use" of the solar compass by the Government of the Unit ed States and very little had accrued to the inventor or his family that the use of this in vention had saved the government and at tho same time enabled it to secure more accurate and reliable surveys than could have been made by any other means The House committee reported their bill favorably but it died on the calendar John Burt kept up the fight bravely until his generation was succeeded bv the third which in tho person of Hiram A Burt of have renewed tho effort in the iftieth Congress Among the petitions in behalf of the claimants hich Hiram A Burt presents is one from many of the most prominent citizens of Michigan asking Congress to carefully con sider the claim of the heirs of esteemed and orthy benefactor of the United Among these signatures are the names of Don Dickinson Russell A Alger ex Senators elch and Baldwin Judge Henry Brown George Lothrop and Con gressman Chipman There is also a long ti tion from residents of that portion of Michi gan isconsin and Minnesota bordering uj on Lake Superior embracing the great iron and copper mineral districts bo sav that personal knowledge of the great value to the United States of the invention of the solar compass in the prosecution of the survey of public lands during the last fifty years they de ire to put on record an expression their high appreciation of the incalculable benefits hich have accrued from the very extended use of that wonderful instrument in the sur vey and exploration of the public domain William A Burt never received more than SSOO from his great invention It was not surprising that the claim had ardent sup porters in his lifetime so ardent that one of them declared: tvventv veara of anxious thought and stiidv and thousands of dollars bave en spent by "Mr Burt in bring ing this instrument to perfection and some sixty or eighty dollars are all that be has ever reiti ed from it This ij readily accounted for by the fact that the government has always monopolized the surveving of public lands aud as but few are emplowd this service but few compasses are needed and as that invented by him costs rather more than the ordinary kind those onlv purchased them who could not do without them I devoutly Lop? that Mr Burt will not be permitted to share the fate of most of the tcnefactors of mankind that is to undergo the labor cost and privations of producing a matter ben eficial to cience and others reap the reward! Wlnle the genius of ranklin snatched the lightning from the clouds to minister to insatiate thirst for science it remained fur a Burt to seize the sun beams and compel them to point out the true vles of our eartn" Some of heirs are millionaires and all of them are rich They are no In abso lute need of the money but thev believe thev ought to bare it and with the courage their Convictions are going for it Hiram A Burt has become a chronic member of the lob by and means to stay here it takes all Mclennan cos uth annual opening sale I 1 a coods 2 4: 6 slclcL 8 ZbEonzhrooe ezrzL'CLe What the Nevr York fpm says of our Re cent Purchase: Smuggled Lace sale of smuggled lace curtains at the Custom Houses yesterday drew out buyers from all over the country The rapidity with which lot after lot was knocked down to McLen nan A Co of Detroit Mich made the eyes of the old heads bulge out' It was the unanimous opinion that the Detroit firm had been admitted to the ground floor The laces went tor a Herald Yes gentlemen thev did and McLennan Co will proceed to slaughter them here on Monday morning 200 pairs Hanover Lace Curtains in blue ivory pink and colors at $350 per pair worth $8 2ogo pairs Nottingham Curtains at from 70c per pair to $6 45 inch wide Crazy Cloth Curtain goods at I2jc per yard worth 25c 10000 yards Scrim cream and in colors at from 5c to 10c 100 Portieries at 125 $150 $2 fc50 $3 DRESS GOODS Moire Silks in black and colors Black Satin Rhadames at $1 worth Black Armure Silk at $150 worth $2 50 for wraps Line of Satins at 50c all colors for fancy work 46 inch wide Henrietta Clothat Soc is worth $1 anywhere in America Look at our line of Broadcloths at $1 per yard No house in America Sells them at less than $125 Monday we will place on sale 15000 worth of goods from the biggest failure that ever startled the people of Michigan 3000 yards Twinkling Stripes imported Dress Goods at 10c per yard 3000 yards Twinkling Stripe Dress Goods a better quality at 12J jc Monday and this week only 3000 dozen Dress Buttons at 3c per doz or 5c per card LINENS HOUSEKEEP ING GOODS 3000 yards insrs Crash at 5c per yard You never saw the like of this and may never see it again 2000 White Bed Spreads at 75c each 2000 White Bed Spreads at 90c each Great big job in Towels at 10c each all pure linen An oil boiled Turkey Red Table Goods at 40c always 50c in other stores PRINT DEPARTMENT 3000 yards Seersucker Crinkle remnants a clean up of the mill at 5c per yard 3280 yards Satteens soc and 25c goods at ioandnc No such bargains in America to day 2200 yards Ginghams this week only at 5c per yard 3320 yards rench striped lannels at 6c per yard Great Big Handkerchief Bargains Large size white in the roll one edge cut will have to be hemmed two for 5c or 25c per doz Great Big White Goods Bargains this week 2000 yds White lawns at oc per yd 3000 yds White Check Muslin at Sc 3000 yds Seersucker Crinkle remnants at 5c per yd A BLANKET SCHAUBLE 1 2o Blankets will be piled on our carpet floor in the basement and sold at 40c 300 Pieces Art Squares of Carpet in all wool remnants of one yd each at 30c worth ss 500 yds plain all wool Carpet plain colors at 30c per 200 small pieces of carpet at toe each to make crazy rugs each piece is a yard wide but narrow Great Bargains in Lace Bouncings Black Spanish and Chantilly 0000 yds of a great big purchase of smug gled Embroideries Prices on this let will be 15c 20c 2jc all wide goods Nothing Qg it in either North or South America Great Big Bargain in 500 piece lot of Cro Bar Muslins in Ivory Pink and BhieaSc per yd reat Big Bargain tn Embroidered Colored Kid Gloves at 42c per pair Great Big Bargain in 100 doz Embroidered Back Gloves at 1 5c per pair rooo fis White Lwn at 000 yds Checked Muslin at 5c per yd he Hosiery Bargain of the Town Black Stocking called the that you cannot change the color at 50c re pair absolutely pure 1000 pairs Black Hose with white feet this week only at 5c per pair Bargains on Bargains in our ur nishing Goods Department iOuo pairs Seamless Socks at toe pet pAir 2000 boxes Paper Collars atucnet box iouo lamidried Shirts magnificent qualitv at 50c each McLEXNAN buyer has scoured New England mills for bargains and their store is packed full of such bargains as they never secured before rnttnTia Calicos Sheetings Denims Tickings Shirtings Carpets Curtains and eneral Dry Goods A Slaughter Sale is the only means to reduce the stock and it remit tbI terms of this sale are prompt cash or ubtgo ina Mclennan cos cash bargain dry goods house 2 4 8 monroe aye VARIETIES BOOKWORMS Sitting in the cozy shop of an up town book seller recently the writer was treated by the old bookman to a learned discourse on the re lative merits and value of ancient and modern books The as the young clerk irreverently called Lis employer was a shrew book hunter and a keen driver of bargains yet withal full of kindly humor and ancedote In the course of his conversation the old bookman gave expressions to many terms the definitions of which were anything but clear to the writer This terminology became more profuse and varied as the bookman waxed warm on his pot theme and became absorbed in the laudation of certain scarce tomes which he most prays may some day' come into his possession Wishing to gain some enlightenment on an unfamiliar subject the writer took occasion to interrupt the bookman in the midst of an ora torical flight iu praise of a dustcovered volume from famous press anil bluntly asked tho book enthusiast to define some of the terms with which he so lavishly flowered his sjieech It required more than a single request to elicit the desired information but by dint of hard coaxing the old bookman was prevailed upon to explain the terminology of his trade the moot unfamiliar said the old dealer biblioquinneie or the art of restoring damaged Looks Hudier Hie great rench book renovator coined the term Biblioquiancie is too cumbersome a word for every day use by any one but a confirmed bookworm and the less elegant but more convenient or is used by those who are not anxious to pass as erudite book lovcists of the human con tinued the old bibliophile scarce a jx snn he has become One but seldom meets nowadays ith a genuine specimen of tho as delver who is a century behind his time aud lives altogether among the dead books of the past and their (often deservedly enough) forgotten authors look collectors may be divided into many classes lean mention only a few of thee irst there is the prize crank known as the bibliomaniac or as the Ger mans call him the book fool (Buechonarr) The bibliomaniac is a stupid collector of everything in the sha of a Imok He is the victim of an incurable disease from which his only escape lies in bankruptcy or death Bibliomania maj be diagnosed as an all absorbing rage for ossessing any and all nooks believed to be unique rare or curious The greatest sin a bibliomaniac can perpetrate is to read his books The bibliomaniac has been classed under throe bonds by an eminent bibliographer thus: (1) The inordinate col lector (2) The collector of certain authors editions subjects etc and (3) the collector of books for the sake of their bindings only There is literally no limit to the innumerable specialties of the Iwok collector in order (going downward) is that most disreputable of all persons who dwell in bookdom I mean the bibliokli pt or well to do book thief Ho is the terror of public li brary keepers and the materialized demon of the private collector It is ho who pretends trienilsliip towiuxl youi self and admiration for your books and ho after gaining your confidence and the liberty to examine vour treasures steals your most cherished volume hen your back is turnisl Another of his atrocious thefts and one from which he de rives a most unholy pleasure is tho purloining of a single volume from your extra illustrated and not to be duplicated set of Ituskin or your edition de luxe set of Dickens in thirty volumes quarto leaving the odd twentv nine volumes to remind you of vour misplaced con fidcuee one more remove below the biblioklept in point of scoundreliam is the Libliopokotnist or book borrower He it is who earnestly begs you to loan him a few days only vour precious Aldine Horn or your Elzevir Horace aud when alter months of anxious waiting you call upon him aud demand vour valueil tome he pretends not to remember it in fact often denies all knowledge ot the book and declares that he never has seen it but graciously offers to search for it Of course he never finds iL Just as you have given up in desim ir all hope of ever recovering' the lost book the biblioHikomist dies and vou are afforded the quiet satisfaction of buying back (at a great advance on the price you originally paid for it) he long lost volume which turns up at the sole of the book effects the mrst contemptible of all book men however is the bibliotaphe or as he has been justly called undertaker of litera The bibliotaphe gathers Looks as a miser gathers gold hoarding them up and stowing them away in places inaccessible to everyone but himself die buries his book treasures in dusty cupboards and moth ridien truiiks In the stillness of the night he brings forth his purchases of the morning anil gloats over them in secresy and silence Never for a moment does he allow others to see his tiou which he keeps constantly under the ban of lock and key of bookmen as well as books there is literally no end There are bibliognost es bibhopegtsts bibliolatrists aud biblio everv 1 el7e Last but not least is the biblio phile He is the only true lexer and worslii l'v kooks He collects looks for what is in them not however as the professional man uo's The bibliophile will not look upon looks as mere tools but as trustworthy friends He is an earnest student of all good literature which he demands shall lie served to him in the best possible form He will tolerate none but the best books and these must be appropriately and substantially lound It gives him as'much pain to see a worthy tome a begging for suitable covering as it does to see one's best friend iti ragged attire you would be a book con cluded the old booknian as he turned to le surne his work to the bibliophile consider his ways and be York Press II I'aiil the Talking about the high joint commission which recently visited the Chicago post office and turned it over I hoard a good story yes terday on one of the employes of the concern who undertook to make the visit of the a pleasant one Although tbe commission worked diligently and in some respects more effectually than the good of the service calls for the had time it apeurs to go out for pleasure and fun One of the entertainers who holds a position the annual stipend of which is represented by the sum of Jlsoo invited that section of the commission which was appointed to investigate his division to see the parks and take in one or two theaters The Chicago liveryman draws no line between the visiting" Offi cial from the head of the government and the curious visitor from Podunk When the mission had finished its report it appeared that they cut the salary of the official down $500 A few days after he was notified of this reduc tion he received a livery billfor some sixty odd dollars for showing the commission around to which was added theater and dinner bills bringing up the sum to $100 Of course he kicked and made out a for expenses for entertaining the but the big gest dromedary in obi Adam show ill make several trips through tbe eye of a cambric needle long before this will get back from "Washington ith an Mail THE AWAKENING BT CALLIE BONNET is Grief's wnlspcr came: They shrouded waxen form with tender care And laid him Tnong the flowers to sleep A dreaming cherub sweetly pure and fair He dead? No no: In paradise The baby's lids unclose Aud wreathed in smiles the baby moith Like opening damask rose A he awakes to paradise In fond embrace The tears of earth forever dry Upon the baby face weeping mother! when you go To home where he awaits Shall not the baby's dimpled hands ope heaven's pearly gates? Era Tlie Humorist do you think is tbe greatest American I think you are about as good as auy of or a fact I believe I have quite a talent in that doubt of did you first regard me as a humor you made your seventh promise to pay me what you owe me" (Lincoln Journal A Critic I'rom Louis you read any of tbe late poems Miss said he young man brightening up by "Walt Whit man fur the New Y'ork am not in the habit of reading anything written by the person you replied the Boston young lady with freezing dignity to tell you the stammered the young man from St Louis not dead stuck on him myself He can't rhyme for shucks He niakis rhyme with Tribune Tliuukt to St 1'atricU Sympathizing friend you have hail an attack of the Victim (ruefully) have and 1 hope TH never bave advise you to drink nothing but Irish whisky gtxvi would that dof are no snak sin Irish hisky you Courier He (her enitavea late Mr Tawker He would have stayed till now if I hadn't sent him I hope you did it jolit ly yes He was complaining" of having to at the bank so early in tbe morning andl only looked up at the clock and said in sur prise: 'Why! Doyuugotobusinessiiiyour dress Life" 1 erriblv Broken "Anil are you really so badly broke my friend he said be tendered the tramp a penny wns the bitter response as badly broken as tho ten MR CABLE AS A NEIGHBOR THE WORDS WE USE THE 31 EbSEN ER ESCORT There are perhaps few of the greater lit erary artists who bring to bear the intimate personal power in life through social chan nels that Nir Cable does A conversation with him is apt to give a kind of illumination on one's personal problem of perplexities and he says fitly that word in season hich is sug gestive or which stimulates one to true ac tion It was in a discursive breakfast table talk with Mr Cable recently that the ques tion was asked him how it was possible for a good artist to Ihj also a good citizen in the higher sense of tbe term how a man whose life was given to letters as a profession could find time to be the neighbor and the friend to give liberal sympathies and suggestive aid to social affairs or any work hich is ot the creative typo cannot lie relegated to times anil seasons but is apt to invade all hours and hold its worker in more or less introspective absorption There is a selfish tendency in it or one that has the aspect of selfishness and one is apt by a plausi ble sophistry to represent to himself that after all if be give his best vork to the world in the shape of picture statue novel or poem he is thus contributing lifspart to progress and may well le excused from resjxmdiiig in any gen eral way to social demands He may even con vince himself that there are certain conditions so essential to artistic production that ho has a right to control them and to exclude the every day life with its jar and jostle and end less demands This problem must always to a great extent remain the jersonal and tne indi vidual one nnd one which no worker can de termine for another but the life of Mr Cable certainly illustrates that with him literary art is not incompatible with the art of fine and true and unseltish living Like his own cure of Carancro in be is essentially man of the domestic whose in fluence is and and a na ture that makes itself jiersonal friend In his home at Northampton Mr Cable is making his life felt like a benediction or perhaps still more like an inspiration He has devised and brought into action certain social organizat ions that are affecting a great work in individual progress In reply to the question how he could iindit possible with his literary work to give so much time and thought to affairs Mr Cable responded that it could be illustrated by a homelv reference to tlie work of the milk deniers The man who sells cream only makes as much money as the one who sells all his milk the one lets the milk stand till the cream rues and sells the smaller quantity and I etter quality for tbe same mo my So with literary work said Mr Cable produce the cream and sell that in stead of giving one's entire life and strength and time to tho larger production and medi ocre quality I an author first live live truly largely nobly let him live in extended relations with meh and do his part in social progress It is the philosophy which Mr Cable has so finely shown in his novel that est life tor self is to live the best possible for Traveller CouIn lucy'a Itearnkin A Cincinnati lady tolls a good story of an experience she had several years ago with a New Orleans cousin who was visiting her and who with all his freshness as to Northern ways and fashions was exceedingly polite The time was winter when large muffs were the proper caper here and muffs in the Cres cent City were unkuoun The first day out for a walk the New Orleans young gentleman noticing hts fair cousin supporting the large muff mistook it for a burden und raid: Lucy let me tote you' bahskin Cousin Thomas responded his companion the young ladies in Cincin nati curry them yu see it's the I never saw but one of them responded the young Chesterfield that was in New Orleans and a young lady was not it either It was in front" of a brass band and on tho bend of a drum Orleans Picayune Girls Will Wi iir Cunes Beauty's flattering high heeled stejrs are to be supported by a tall ilver topped cane tied around with a green ribbon this summer if she knows what is wbat Two years ago a Boston society woman trotted about with one of these canes Imt she wns not flattered by any imitation aud it looked though Ameri can girls I referred to leave this manly com plement to the dudes Now however tbe tashlon ha broken out in London from whence all fashionable bltings flow and swellesscs must be prepared to adopt it at an instant's notice The Waits walks with a tall cane Mrs Bwrlxjhm Tree the ac 1 ress has introduced a stunning one into where it koks appropriate and! chic and that paragon ot style the Marquise de Gallifet carries one with a jeweled LeaL It will le fun to watch Boston girls creep Into the cane wearing custom (Boston HeraliL Thoughtful tuthnJst Minister to sick man): real in my dear brother that you must Sicknati: and I shall die with vrfvet resignation but pleae dvu't mention that my At an educational meeting held in this State a few years ago the conductor a noted professor made the following statement: lest educated person in this room will not use more than GOO or 700 He also assigned a small number to persons of 1 i 1 1 education stating that an ignprant man would not use more than 200 or 200 words I had before seen statements of similar import in public print and to test their correctness I began an investigation of the matter The subject was brought anew to my mind by observing an article in the Chauthuquan some months ago in which ITof Bancroft re marked: has been estimated that an Eng lish farm hand has a vocabulary limited to300 words An American workingman who reads the newspajers may command from 700 to 1000 words ive thousand is a large nutnlier even for an educated reader or This assertion is much nearer tho troth than that of the institute conduotor mentioned or the benefit of those who mav be interested I oiler the results of my study on the subjezt An intelligent person can make the same examination and will arrive) at substantially tbe same results I took Webster's high school dictionary edition 1878 containing 131 pages of vocabu lary and examined each word in the book I made a note of those words which I supuosod I had used at some time either in speaking or writing 1 counted the primitive words and those derivatives whose meaning is most at variance with tne primitive Thus I count 'fright and fruit but not frighten frightful frightfully nor fruitage fruiterer fruitful fuitfulness fruition and fruit tree I omitted most of tho compound words especially when the couiAHKiit parts directly indicated the moaning as milk pail mceting houso rag man but counted those whose significance was not directly indicated as crowbar quick sand tinfoil As the result of this examina tion I bad 7928 words which 1 think 1 my self have used There were 419 in A 528 in 7WJ in 455 in 285 in 3(Z in 279 in 28G in 330 in I 81 in 49 in in 470 in 141 in 217 in 715 in 55 in 397 in 934 in 454 In 47 in in 202 in IV 23 in and and 10 in Had I counted the various derivatives in common use it is probable the number would be nearly double To make a further test of words at iny com mand 1 spent about two hours in riting frera memory words in A I was able to note dow 537 words that I could use if occasion rqnired This is thirty five cent more than I had counted from the dietionarv Should the same proportion hold good the letters it would follow that I can recall from memory 107ri words all of which are familiar I made another count ami cams to the con clusion that 1 could give a fair definition of at leat 35000 words in that Look and would un derstand their signification in a printed article or spoken address 7 he above estimates are based upon mv own experience and knowledge Ixx ause it was con venient to make the experiment with nivtwlf Every well informed man will be as compe tent or more so Either professor mentioned will have a more extended vocabulary than I Lave I then took at random in tbe same diction ary a page in each letter anil counted the words very common use On tw entv fourages there were 254 such words This would give 3390 words in uw by jci sons of the most ordinary intelligence None of these lists in clude any proper names At the tune of making this study one of mv children was 3 years and 2 months of age 'f noted dow (and still have the lists) 213 words used by her in one day They were words that any intelligent child would use chiefly names of household articles and common things with tbe most ordinary verbs aud participles did not Lear all she said during tue dav nor do 1 think she used all tbe Word she knew I es timated her vocalmlarj' at 400 wrords and she did not know enough to carry on any except childish convratiom rom all of the foregoing observations I drew the following Conclusions: Every well rea man of fair ability will be able to define or understand 2OolA or 2 5AZJ primitives and principal derivative words The same man in bis conversation and writ ing ill use not less than VOO or 7000 rds If he le a literal man ha will command 2 JO or 3(aJ0 more ha ve considerable call for boys to taka ladies said the manager bf one of the largest up town messenger offices noth ing like enough to justify us in keeping young men especially for that duty We always send the neatest looking boy have at har 1 on such calls when we know hat is wanted but hat is all the difference we make Many of such calls come from ladies from other Cities who are visiting New York and are not familiar with tho shops nnd places of amuse ment They a messenger Loy to pilot them a I out among the stores and carry their pack ages during the day and to iwort than to and from the theater at night City ladies have much use for the boys You see they generally have a relative 'or friend to go with them in the evening or if they haven't they'd as lief le seen going alone as with a messenger boy trotting by their side A New York lady who may meet some one whom she knows almost anywhere like to risk being laughed at and it doos look kind of funny you know to see a finely dressed woman going along ith a little shaver in a shabby uniform hitched to her "Do the loys like such it all dejiends on the woman If she's one that will treat a boy well give liia a share of her lunch and a smile and an extra quarter for himself at the end the boys lika to go with her If she is the kind that (colds the boy all the time makes him sit in a chair and watch her eat without getting a Lite him self and finally kicks over having to pay tX the whole of the last Lour when she's only had him fifty five minutes then the boy like the York Sun Hoodoo Professional singers are as a rule almost at suierstitious as gamblers and gamWent have more hoodoos and mascots than the old Grecian sailors ha Among the things which are generally accepted among grand opera people ns hoodoos sure to bring bad luck is tLa snake ring which a few years ago was worn ujon the fingers of so many fashionable per sons tne ot the attaches of the rench Ojiera Company now performing at th Uolumbia Tbeatr though not a singer himself par takes of the superstitions of tboe with whort be comes in doily contact Some yearwo before he became convinced that a snake ring is a hoodoo he purchased a handsome one in Paris for $35 That night his hotel caught £re and he jumped from a third story window in juring himself so severely that he wasccs flnedto his room for several days This pretty nearly convinced him that th snake ring wa an unlucky ornament nearly in fact that ho ceased" to wear it but carried it as a pocket piece Last Saturday he was walking on Dearborn street in this city looking ut at the buildings and musing along with his hands in hi pockets Without any thought of what ha as doing he ran hi finger through tbesnaka ring in his jocket and lo! Homebody Lad left a pit ot coal beside an open coal hole Before ne knew it our rench friend stuck tls into tbe coal and dived headlong over tbe pila down through the hole into the basemcEt bruising and Larking himself in a most laDtcutable way Of course when he hinis it falling' he threw up his hands and there was tlie snake ring gleaming and glitter ing almost hissing and gibbering cn hi finuer rank Perley the associate manager of tha Columbia ho is not yet convinced of th hoodooing projertie of the ring is negotiat ing for the pur hae of it He says the rench man has offvied it to him for $10 and he sure that iv the time seme other accident hap pens to its ow be will sell it for $2 and then rank will Luy it Time You Must Huie DeiUgnc If you are very rich atl want to be very stylish in theeedays you must not go toafurci ture store for very mn besides your ia trewew and kitr 1 en appointments The ba architects aud decorators are now bussed the invention of chairs lounges billiard tables dining tables bullets bu tv1 and nearly every other portable thing t41 goes into a great house Neariv all tbefsi tare in the Vanderbilt houses Law Chib4 many other establishments was esjieriallyde rigned fr them and has no counterpart wuere in tue woruL ine revolution begin with a quaint rlre plaz then tbe fe or Ixl tead or Lu eau ha to match it saA next the chairs und tables follow suit to be keeping! (New York Niui onunim roople use from 200 to 4 ords according tn their general intelligence and conversational power An (cne who cannot read) will use from l5lj to 2 Vo wools who has not at command at least 1000 vnls is an ignoramus and will find dif ficulty expressing Lis thoughts if imtaed he have any to orge leming in Literature It Was Not stated He see that old Mr Br ntly was Luril yesterday Wife is okKMr Bentlv ai adf He (who has just be say whether he is dead or not liojply thnt he was buried (l fs' Yankee Girls Whittier An interesting speyialty was worked fc the programn as ot a literary eutartaintneat a WeaU rn Maine town recently It ws bung whittling contest by the ladies Eachrf tho fair contestant was" given a aquare nf woo 1 from Lich to shaje a Lung large stone jug were given best and poorest stecimetis aud all these iug literary jircductions wens thru auction It is said that some of them tws bled cpnng sOkius that two or three oi were bloouy enough to pa for dime novrf nil that awaa jr I XiiuLwM iu Jbv Bangvr.