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I If 3 THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1887 EIGHT PAGES. QUEER OCEAN FOLK-LORE HEAVEN-KISSING ROOFS. MAINE'S TRUE KNIGHT. I book is necessary to ladies who use their I leisure time in making tidies, lambreiuins, cushions, covers, edgings and embroideries firilliant Work of Harvard How Shetland Witches Take Beetles' Shapes. Characteristics of Editor A.

A. Beaton. Some of New York's Big Buildings, and Yale Men. of any kind or designs. "Springhaven," bv R.

I). Elackmore. which has been one of the most successfii) fecials of Harper's Magazine, is published, with ali of its li illustrations, in tne Franklin Square Library for twenty-live cents. A daring volume of Btprarv criticism is the new book by Bo' ert Buchanan, entitled "A liok Bound Literature Which has ngt been announced in I ondou, and is to ho brought oat in this country by Messrs. Bcribnet Ol Werford.

Miss Sophie Ma', tho eminent authoress, has written reeentlv a full-sized novel. Ifiiist some of the Yale men are thinking of attempting, and there are some onto famous boating men in and near New oi who sat in the boats of their respective colleges with their backs bared, their arms outstretched, every nerve strained, waiting for the pistol shot mat would hurl thorn plunging into twenty minutes of desperation for the glory of the college. There is Arthur Bissell. who stroked in ti7, and whom President Cleveland has put into oth in Buffalo; and there is William A. Copp, who stroked iu '08 and 'mi.

and who now takes bis lunch daily with Ins brother lawyers at the Astor House; and then there is Rev. Roderia Terry, for whose broad back, as he rouod at bow, the Yale men used to strain their eves on the home stretch at Uuinsiga-moud to see if it was ahead of tho Harvard boat. The' Terry, as ho stands in his pulpit on Fifth avenue now, shows the same massive shoulders mi well-built form that made him couspicuous as a strong man among the Yale oarsmen twenty years ago. The herculean brew, who stroked almost to victory in 1S70, could not join his fellow-oarsmen in this gathering. He has ijpne over the river, one of the very few Yale Tanld Irea" as Charm Occult Influences.

For Strni'tnrris That Contain Pciple Eongh for a lim Village. His Flnenry. and Pis Unshaken Belief il Arbitratioi. Bacon, BM Terry. Sinnns aid otbers- Old New Haven The Awe with Which English Sailors Regard All Cats.

Reminiscences of an which her publishers, Meter a lee Ife Sheo-I ard. will socn bring out. The story, it is said, will be one of great nower. and take high rank as a work of fiction. The nniar Knrien of rf Modern Facts and Figures About a Remarkable Street Why He was Elected to the Control of District Assembly 86.

Graduate. t. -Oarsmen and ath-KkW Yobk. MhedbT tl letes wen. bain? di UD.town who died invert niuicios 01 lecoav nwnnoni snot of sport love ofthero a graduate of i eariy but there is George Adee athletes of recent generations leoive Adoe.

a dapper yala wh- us toww th th. reffiftrk tat Xuier medium-sued that he douWed wMW athlotM. men made the best oarsmen au jie continue-. ftt compete with their neightr-rs. Temple court was put up on the site of Clinton Hall, a lamous old meeting hall and bailrom, and if I mistake not a library, in our grandfathers' day.

It and the Nassau hank building were i ought and torn down, and the present palatial structure was put up by Eugene Kelly. Hon. 0. B. Potter, who owns tho Potter building, also owned the old World build-In destroyed by a famous and fatal tire on January Mr.

Potter is a Capo Cod Yankee, who, as a lawyer, became interested in the Grover Baker sewing machine speculation, and founded end developed a fortune now said to amount to 10.000,000, Sttd therefore, probably, about half that size. He boasts tint he never gam Med with cards or stocks in his life. He and a man named Ritchie built the old World building, where Manton Marble raised the mt scholarly paper In America, and W. H. Mini afterward used it as a private tdavtbing.

In alter years. Potter bought Ritchie ouu At Twenty BtOCstsl qnnri to the mile, which is the rule going north and south in this city, the average city block must be 204 foet long from street centre to street centre, or about 240 feet long between streets. The Yauderbiit building occupies just half a block frontage, and is deeper than most houses, so that it has or rental the grand area of just, four city blocks. The Potter building gives office room which, if the stories we -e separated and set down side by side, wouid cover seven ulo ks. The urea of the Morse building is equal to one story on three and a half city blocks, and that of Temple court, to lour and one-sixth blocks.

That is what tall buildings do for a city and especially for their landlords. These b' ildiugs altogether take up the ground room, roughly speaking, of two-thirds ot a block 240 feet square, and yet they provide a capacity equal to the ground room of eighteen and two-thirds full city blocks. New York has twenty-five or thirty just such buiidimrs. mainly below the ity Hall, Noue are taller, but several are larger the Equitablo, for instance, sheltering 2600 persons and attracting in the neighborhood of .50,000 persons in and through us streetlike passageways every day. From the sidewalk to the topmost stone of the Equitable is a (fight Oi 1 72 feet The Field.

Bnre 1. Post. Evening Post. Mar juand and Tribune buildings are among tho most notable of these inant honey-comb structure. Of course it is not all income to their landlords.

The four buildings at Nas-au and Beekman streets cost their owners almost five million dollars for the, land and houses. Tho expense of running them is also very great. Every hall and room in thorn is scrubbed every night i.n i du6ted every morning. A force of fourteen men mid women is kept, busy In the Morse building, and ono of the proprietors lells me that it costs more to maintain that building each year than tho annual income of the old Park Hotel used to mount to. Julian Ralph.

'Iwitcned poo hl 1 nen wbhh the ate ft wWh of a dress suit lianlau. Inthe ver be little business man of Clift street, who pulled bow oar ovor twenty years ago, and who keeps young by keeping with the young. "And if with the Yale men there could also meet the irvaru riva in the boats. Blaikle and Loring, and the massive bim-mous und lana, and their plucky associates, these men would give the lie. with their broad chests and clear eyes and ruddy cheeks, to the calumny that college boating makes old youug men and wears tho heart out." "FROM BELLEVILLE TO JOPPA." Interesting Scenes in a Quaint Part of Newburyport The Clam-Diysers, Who Have Followed the Bnainess for Generations Engine 8.

NKVBt kyvort. March Belleville to Joppa" is a local expression sigui-fyincr the general extent of the city, and often used in a metaphorical manner, as. for instance, one sometimes hear a woman who has been on an unsuccessful shopping 'mVrdKeaVhof them when ISmI met I met Cook in to hist alter he had rowed him- ud Vide unexpected fame tBpita 'h Vrinizin -the boat that, of the ten rdd.b ormvin.in betting first he Con oectic ut, four miles south Wk want, to know friend el both, and I have told him "alti M'nn the train We were between and PnUadelohifc I suppose CxTk had hearu of me an oar in one of ine aleboats toel was not so successful as Bui tbere is a sort of freemasonry an old OJJege I was eager to nleet Cook, but whan my friend brooch us in r'n-a imminent i thought he was no idea of his strength jOKinr medium ing that thes i people have brought with thoni the of Their Wntlve I.nn.l. Thus, on one vessel, perhaps, may bo found an accumulation of superstitions brought together by seamen from all parts of the globe, who come here to find employment In gathering the harvest of the sea In the western I an tic. For this reason it is somewhat difficult to define tho folk-lore of American fishermen, as distinguished from that of other countries.

But tho following superstitions mav be mentioned as some of tho "beliefs" of New England To carry a black valise on board of a vessel is unlucky, whllo a man wearing blue mittens ov white woollen stockings might find it difficult to secure a berth on a Gloucester schooner. Some believe that good fishing will not be obtained if mackerel aro put to soak in a bucket instead of a barrel, and it is Iittlo less unlucky. In the opiuion of many, to leave a bucket sitting on deck half tilled with water. I am half inclined to think that some shrewd skipper stnrtod these bueket superstitions to correct the untidy habits of his men. knowtuB that he could easily obtain implicit obedience by ploying on their superstitious fears.

Another unlucky omen, which probably became a "Jonah" for a similar reason, is to let a splice stop in the hawse pine when paying out cable on the bank. hen this happens, some one will exclaim: "We shan't get any flsh hero!" It is believed mat ill success-per-haos the loss of a vessel- may follow the accident of breaking a looking-glass, dropping a hatch into the hold, or turning a hatch bottom up. A hawk, owl or crow lighting on the rigging oi a vessel is supposed to bring ill fortune, while good luck will follow the appearance on board of a bee or small land bird. Men or vessels that are unfortunate are stigmatized as "Jonahs." and shunned accordingly. It may be difficult for a man to secure a berth on board a fishing vessel if be has obtained this uncanny title, while fishermen shun any vessel which has earned the appellation.

It matters little how many excellent qualities man or boat may have. Tu ho la il which overshadows all virtues that may otherwise be possessed. But a single "streak o' luck" changes all this, for it is believed that the enchantment is broken in some way, and that fortune will make amends lor its previous niggardliness. On the coast of Maine can still be found believers in ghosts, supernatural lights and admonitory premonitions. In my boyhood days 1 treuueutly listened with open-mouthed wonder to the tales related by old Hsbermen of the regular appearance of lights, "as big as a barrel," hovering over ledges and reels where, on some dark, stormy night, a brave ship had been dashed to pieces and her hapless crew beaten out of existence by the cruel breakers.

Of course there, as elsewhere, may be met those who talK of Kidd's buried treasure and of the enchan nient which prevented it from being obtained. I remember seeing a large exoavation on an island off the Maine coast here some searchers for Kidd's had been digging during the previous night. The story got out that their success was toiled because one member of the party, at the supreme and critical moment tho treasure was almost within grasp, spoke aloud, thus breaking the enchantment and causing tho disappearance of the "chist" containing the pirate's hoard of gold. Iu Penobscot bay is a small island, which the lishermen named "Brimstone." a name suggestive of the infernal regions, for these hardy- toilers of the sea. who gave to it i his appellation, have believed lor nearly a century that this little islet was a favorite tdace for the burial of piratical gains, and that it ia infested with hobgoblins and evil spifits.whose si ecial mission it is to protect these buried treasures from heinu distitibetl.

Descendants oi the tench settlers of Nova Scotia are, many of them, believers iu fairies, as well a-- iu witches. Some twenty years ago 1 was much entertained, on more than one occasion, by stories of the doings of fairies that were told me by fisherman of French descent natives of a little village in eastern Nova Scotia. Space does not admit of giving these stories. Suffice to say that horses were ridden nearly to death, cows were milked, fishing boats were taken possession of by fairy crews and driven ttirough the sea under an unusual crowd of canvas, skimming over the waves like a veritable Fly ng Dutchman. Indeed, according to these mplc-minded people, those iutle elves were specially addicted to play ing pranks which the most mischievous boys could scarcely equal.

J. W. Collins. to iocs ai run. ht has rather tlrooning shoulders, and i-Tota striking man physically in any way.

i saw hiui afterward strlDped, and a more nlnnad man 1 never saw. 1 Jc wa WP- hav wau I7i paoeu, wt.o Miy p'i uic vvuw.ui bur of '85 to victory in nine o.j "WW I rt r.o.l History" has now reached a sale of over copies. The publishers, Mes-rs. iiaries Scrlbner'i Sons, announce the ear ly issuance of a new volume the seaos. to be entitle.

Early Tudors." ea ir.g with tho reigns of Henry ii. and Henry by Rev. C. E. Moberly, late of Rugby School.

England Messrs. Lee Shepard are about to pO.lv lish a new edition of "A Veer Worth l-iv-im." by Wi liaui M. Baker, "i I.vrie-," by Mis, Julia rd Howe, which will C' n-tmn her much-admired "Battle Hymn of the Republic' "Dialogues lrom first, series, and "Lramas and Dialogues fom Dickens." second series, arranged by W.Eliot Fefte, A. M. und 'Buds for the Bridal Wreath." prepared by Rev.

William P. Til den. The study of agriculture as a science is destined to receive a fresh stimulus bv the work by Pro essor F. H. Stores ol Harvard University, to be shortly published in two volumes by the Scribnera "Agricultural in Some of Its with Chemistry" tie ifs of agriculture from the standpoint of tho highest s.

boiarship, but is not at all te bnlcal. and Will interest any intelligent reader ho desires a better and wider knowledge of the cience of agricultuie. In "Syrian Stono Lore." 'it being imported by Scunner Wolfoid, Capt tender has given a resume of tho late researches in Syria and adjoining cotiPtrb'S. These ave afforded an amount of nevv material which is es, ecially useful in tho light it throws on the an ient condition oi' Palestine. Th is volume is really a record of manners ahd customs, and being found simply on ibe slnoy of monument.

1 extremely valuable in its illustration of the Bible narrative. The March Atlantic contains: "Fancv Fact a poem by James Russell Lowell "Tbeonhiie Gaatier." James Breck Perkins: "The from Maiue," Lave, rence Sae; "Low Tide on Grand-Pre." Bbss Carman: "Ctiriosit'es of Criticism," Agnes Repxller: "The Second on," O. Olipbant and T. P. Aldricli; "Blindfold." Andrew Hedbrooke: 'Our Hundred Days in Knrope," L.

Oliver Wen dell Holmes; "The HinpolytOS of Euripides," William Cranston Lawton: "Come Back. Dear avs!" Louise Chandler Moul-ton; "Paul latoff." F. Marion Crawford; "Lonleilow's H. E. Sou rider, The March Popular Science Monthly contains: "Are Railroads Public Enemies," by Appleton Morgan "a Mount Washington handwork," by iraut Allen "Birds and Their Daily Bread," by William Marshall; "Higher Education of Women and the Family." by Dr.

L. M. Hall; "The Habits and Family History of Centenarians," bv Professor Humphry "How a Naturalist is Trained." I 3. S. King-ley.

Sc. D. "I i -It -I rated Clocks," by Frederick G. Mather 'illustrated); "Comparative Psychology: Its Objects and Problems." by T. Wesley Mills.

M. D. "The Giant Birds of New by' Horatio Hle; "Genius and Mental Disease," by William G. Stevenson, D. "Animal Piants and Plant Is." by Dr.

Pfnhl; Sketch of Ed war Youmans," by his sifter (with portrait). New York: D. Appleton Co. LucyC. Lillie contributes the complete novel to Liopincott's Monthly Maga ine for March.

It is enritled "Kenyon's Wife aud the scene is laid partlv in "Little Fenp," an island olf the coast of and partly in Boston and its vicinity. The hero is a newspaper correspondent and the heroine is a native of the island. Kobert J. Burdette contributes the "Confessions of a Reformed Humorist." Another personal article is Rev. W.

H. Milburn's "Autobiographical Notes of a Congressional Chaplain." Henry C. Lea attaccs "The Policy of Insurance." Fred Perry Powers discusses "Rent and Taxes" from iho of view of Henrv George, There is a short story, "Was it Worth While?" by Barnet Phillips Ap em by Eila heeler ileo'x Is entitled "olase. The most important article is "General John A. Logan," by One who Knew inm," which was written under the personal supervision of John A.

Logan, and with the advice ami assistance of Generals Sherman, Fremontj Clark and others. NEW BOOKS. tour declare that she "has scoureu tuii from Belleville to Joppa" without finding what she wanted, when, In fact, she had not literally been within a mile of either ol these localities. As the elevated and extreme north end of the city is caded elle-ville," so. in eomuion panance, the extreme, south and along the water sme is alv.

ays spoken ol as "Joppa" When it was thus Xlawned no one knows, but the 'application of the name is obvious, as it has always been the abode ot csher men and a place for the spreaoiug of nets. Bromt eld formerly South; street to "Mit Iron toint are the northern and southern limits ot the district, but from the river on the east up the ridge the line of demarcation Is lost obscurity, to this direction nobody would uare to say just where "Joppa le ives Off. Vonx this territory probably were built the urst houses of the riveiside settlers, who camoup from tiie parent village of Newbury, on the banks of the iaiker, about 1B38. The iuoentive then was tho ti-h with which the river swarmed, and to this day their descendants hae remained fishermen, gunners, pilots, the generations ol Aauila Chase (the first pnot. and sup-peed heir oi English millions still living, Aovtila, poor fellow, returning lromavoy-a-e one Sunday morning, and hungry lor fresh vegetables, innocently went into his garden to pi a mess oi pease, for which heinous otlence tie was arrested and pretty thoroughly disciplined by the sturdy men of The Clm-Ilsser of Joppa.

No drive or walk about the city of Newburyport is not complete without taking in Joppa. Tiie most favorable time is on the ii. od tide, alter the riais are ali well covered. Then one will see a hundred dories headed lor toe landings, each iader witU freshly-dug clams, the gunning floats, with their strings of ivater fowl or small game, or perhaps minus a feather, as it is a most uncertain calling, with here and there a small boatload ol cod or haddock. Two hours earlier a good glass would nave shown the fiats, the "Humplands" and Black Bodies, covered with the clam-mer.

perfect tac-similes of tiie familiar picture in Buny an's Pilgrim's i'roKress" of the man with the muck rake Returning, it makes but little dirference whether the tide is high enoueh for them to pull the boats up to the landing or not. All earing bin rubber boots, aa soon as thev get into shoal water, overboard New York, March 2, The corner of Beekman and Nassau s'reets is the most remarkable street-crossing in tho world. At no other junction or city streets in Christendom or heathendom are there so many persons leathered toitether. so many occupations plied. Nowhere else are four such Kreat buildintts to be found tosether; no where else are so many business establishments perched at such a dizzy height; no where else except in the case of a tew notable monuments has man piled such a weight on earth's crust.

Four of the bisnrost office builditiRS in the world face one another here. The one on the northwest corner, tho Potter building, is the tallest Btraiifht-wall building in the world. Opposite to it the Morse building ranks only second. The Potter buildimr rises above the site ot the old World odice, and the structures on the southern corners are the great Kellv bui ding, or Temple court, as it is cull6d, and the anderbilt building, which is forty feet shorter than the others, but is a pile that would be monstrous in any other neighborhood. The anderbilt.

building is about 125 feet hiRh, ha- eight -tones, provides 84 offices and covers 1 20 foot by 75 feet of ground, it is a plain, brown stone building, constructed on the amnio but not ornate style of architecture best represented by tbe dry goods box. It is probably not worth above and it is simply an old structure rebuilt. It is owned oy the aiiuerbilts. who, their grander neighbors say, are not rich enough to build houses like theirs. Temple court, or the Kelly building, has walls that measure loo feet on all sides: and at least 160 feet from foundation to cap-stone.

Tho elevator shaft in it is 15u feet long. It is ten stories high above ground. Its first two stories are of granite and the rest of pressed brick, carried to towers at the corners, with a mansard between. This building must have cost $750,000. The land it stands on sold for $407,500.

It is owned by Eugene Kelly, the famous Irish banker. The Potter building, running through the whole block, from Nassau street to Park row, and facing the post othce and City Hall Park, is the tallest Straight Vnlld ltnlldlng in the world. It rises 185 feet above its foundations, and this is dividid into eleven stories above the street. It cost about and with its ground is worth about half a million more. Its first two stories are of iron, and above that it is made ot brick, highly ornamented.

It has a small court or opening on the Beekman street side, admitting light and air to its inner rooms, it has a frontage of J00 feet and a depth of loo feet. It is owned by Hon. O. B. Potter, ex-congressman and manv-million-naire.

Finally ttie Morse building next to i otter's rises 165 feet in sheer facing of pressed brick, ornamented with black brick. It could not be built for It has ten stories above the sidewalk, and occupies a site feet. It is owned iy the sun and nephew of Professor Morse, the projc tor of the Atlantic cable. It is an important neighborhood that these giant cuties of masonary distinguish. ithin a block are the lxsst otlico, city hall, Bennett building, the offices of the Sun, World, Times.

Star, Herald and Tribune and the main station of the Third Avenue elevated. Within two blocks are the Evening Post, Astor House, the Chemical, Park, Nassau, Broadway and Emigrant banks, the Sixth Avenue Elevated road, St. Paul's Church, the American News Company's headquarters, the Stewart building, the Commercial Advertiser, Mou'iuin's restaurant, and hotels, eating houses, drug stores, clothingstores, railroad offices a spcr.ting goods establishment, all of which are known all over America; an i linaliy the Federal, city and State courts. Not. so much can be said for any other buildings in America.

But think they do for the neighborhood. The Yauderbiit building contains 84 offices, with about 500 occupants: the Potter, 351, occupied by about 1800 persons; the Morse, loo offices and 500 inhabitants, and Temple court, 214 rooms and lico tenants. In the Potter building are the Observer and Judge, periodicals of Xatiunal Repartition; across the street in the Kelly building an ambitious magazine, the Manhattan, was bom and died. In the Morse buildiug long flourislb that pyrotechnic daily paner called Truth, which figured so famously in the Garfield campaign. Far up on tho top lioor of the Morse building are otber rournalistic institutions the agency of S.

S. McClure, whose business extends all over the world, and of Grebavedoff. the newspaper picture maker, a Russian with an Oxford education, who entertains his friends with steaming cups of a pound Caravan ten. mining companies, lawyers whose incomes exceed the President's, and well-known professional men of every calling, are hero perched above the trees. Th.s has almost alwavs beeu a famous street-crossing during New York history.

Where ttio Morse building stands was formerly the old Bark Hotel, a six-story brick box. sixtv or seventy feet high. It was the third tallest building in the city in its timo. and the people constantly expected it to fall on account of its height. Here tor ten years after its foundation the 1 sen -cuiieu.

uut, io rev emeu Hi MrkM)T Btld thioiichhistlothing. I recollect savins: to fc h. i h- been in college in my time he would hardly have attracted the eye oi the captain of the university crew antes he caught him stripted. He said that be sot-nosed not. but that rowing was BOW done with the head and body, while -e lOllows, who had followed Harvard's ftrn mi for seven successive years, had done it all with our ba-'ks and anus.

yoo di In't even ue your legs much, either. he ec. itii a smile. He told mo that ho dWn't favor giants for the i oat, though 1m ifh: ma; had Bacon's great crew of ia known how to row the new itroko their performance v.ould have heeu marvel lous. A sixteenthof-aQ-incB wue.

he r.id. stronger than an inch-and-a-half rope, meaning that the texture and not me oi inasole did the business in a bot. 'i an made the same miviression on mc ihai CooK 'id when 1 first saw him. as in a luirn iu ProviUeuce, just after Hanlan hon defatted, through liok-tmi, V.jaio itoss. I went into tiie barn and saw a voung man in his shirt eaves rub ir.

the bottom of a shell, and 1 BnWed him if he Knew where Icould tind The young smiled, and tbeu 'ef. I'm on eoulc! hare knocked me O'er with a feather. I really tl. n't beltere him. h.

I liail the luipiession that Hanlan was dark-haired and black-eved, due, I suppose, to the m-H CCU rate uiiouigraphs I iiave seen. This yooitK man a a i ionde. Kut lie auu I Iwked at him, and told him something of myself, lsaid buildhe reminded me of Cook, Vale's famous oarsman Hanlan said that he hau been told that by others. They are about alike iu bniid though I should say that Cook thoalde: were lit lo the t.roader, and the eauecially aliie the fact that neither gives any suggestion of his ability v. lb the sculis when seen ia every-ciay Those persons who to being told how a book is going to "come out" will rind abundant mystiiication in Edward Bellamy's latest work.

"Dr. Heidenhoff's Process." The scene of the story is laid in a country village and Is intensely realistic, notably the weekly prayer meeting: no one who has ever taken part in such a gathering could repress a smile at this description. It is submitted that the hero of the story is too good: such god-like fidelity, amounting almost to servility, is un-American and inconsistent with so manly a char-actor as Henry Purr is represented to be. There is nothing remarkable about the plot of the story until the reader is instructed regarding "Dr. HeidenhotT's Process" for destroying memory.

Tne young heroine o' the book has strayed from the path of virtue and been deserted by the man she loves. The man who loves and rescues her is Henry Burr, who desires to marry her, hut she remembers how unworthy she is and refuses. Then both she and her lover think if she could forget the past all would be well, and they try "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process," which is minutely depcribed with its results. There the storv ends, or lather there is no end ii is all a dream.

The book is charming in its simplicity, and the ta so beautifully told as almost to veil its rather heretical sentiments. "Dr. Heicieuliott's Process." Edward Bellamy. Boston I) Appleton it Co. OnoccKSTBR, March In tho simple mind of the Shetlander witches may disguise themselves in various ways.

It is be. lieved that old women, in the shape of beetles, have worked much evil. Apiodos of this the following story Is told: "At Littler, which is a solltarv spot on a wild coast about two miles northwest of Vaiia.there dwelt a crofter fisherman a few years ago who happened, when engaged in land work, to notice a curious clock or beetle crawl over the harrow he was dragging. Suspeotlhg that all was uot right, he hau the presence of mind to seize the clo.ik and to put it in his snuff-box. She (the witch) firmly re 'used to tell where she had been but when the crop grew up it was observed that there was a barren natch in the midst of it.

and no one doubted that the old woman in the form or a beetle had devoured the seed-corn. It was a mercy that she was detected In time, or tho whole field might have been left bare. cry much like this is the tradition which still exists at. Peel, in the Isle of Man, which is as follows tin one occasion an old witch, having first had some "flummery" over a basin of water, foretold that the herring fleet, thon at sea, would not return. '1 he fulfilment of this prediction so embittered the people against her that they confined her In a barrel lined with stda.es.

which was set rolling down a steep hill. It is needless to say that the unhappy woman was destroyed, but, strange as it may seem, "to this day no gras has grown upon iie path made by tho barrel in its descent," although the hillside was remarkable for its verdure previous to this event. In the absence of looks, which are rare, the Shetlanders look upon the row, a common resident, as uncanny. Several years ago a crow alighted on tho foretop-gallant mast ot the whaler Intrepid, which had visited Lerwick to complete her crew. Although the captain laughed at what he cons'dored the superstition of the sailor who told him that no success would be met with that trip, it is gravely stated that "the Intrepid came back from Davis straits without a tun of oil." It is remarkable that in this highly civilized age there should be those who still have faith in The Mairlcal Virtuen nt Iron, a belief that no doubt originated in the stono and bronze ages.

But it has been seen how absolute is tho doi endance of the Scotch and English fishermen on "cauld iron" to guard them against the evils of enchantment. For tho same purpose, a knife, with the edge turned backward, is carriea in tho hand ot the fisherman of Foula when he is going to sea, since ha firmly believes this will ward oil' evil spirits. And it is also commou for a spade to be laid across a grave previous to the interment, for the same purpose. The devices resorted to for the purpose of obtaining wind, and particularly a favorable wind, are very numerous. Who that has been be.

aimed at sea in a sailing vessel has not heard the sailors whist-line for a The New Entrland fisherman will stick his Knife in the after side of the mainmast to bring a fair wind, while he believes that a "crack in the water' is a "forerunner" of an easterly wind, and that the breeze will come from the direction in which a shooting star falls. Among the Finns and Norsemen it was common to make a magical charm for controlling the wind by tying three knots in a piece of cloth. If a breeze was "anted the captain untied one knot; tho loosing of a second brought a gale, while the opening of the third woula surely b9 followed bv a furious tempest. When the Normandv fishermen are detained at sea by contrary winds, their wives burned a new broom as a charm to change the wind. In Britanny.

where the women sweep out the churches after service, tne dust is collected by them, and. when deemed necessary, this is tossed in the air in the direction of the sea. to bring their husbands a favorable wind. When the weather is stormy, and lishing boats are exposed at sea. it is said that both the Bretons and Neapolitans sometimes lake the images of saints from tbe churches and feast them.

Among ttie Malays, throwing water on the masts is believe i to be ettica' ious in bringing a good wind. These people also sometimes fill a httio tov boat full of rice or perfume and throw it in the sea for the same purpose. The coolies in the Madras presidency in India have a somewhat similar superstition, and sometimes throw things into the sea as an ottering to the sea gods. More commonly, oerhaus, they colle; coins in a bag and hoist them to the masthead to Secure a Voynif. Many things are beiioved to have an occult influence on t'ales and storms, either to prevent or produce them.

Tho fishermen of the West coast of Ireland, when in peculiarly dangerous places, sometimes dip their sails the sea, believing this will prevent disaster. The wives of old sailors in Spain are careful not to place a brush behind a door with the brush part uppermost while their husbanas are at sea. A brush so placed would, it is thought, bring a tempest. Allusion has already been ma tie to the fact that quadrupeds are hel dread by British fishermen. 1 here is much amusing iolk-loro in relation to the influence which eats are supposed to have on the sea and storms.

The follow ing is a translation of a Breton ballad, which has been preserved by M. Sauve, and which contains a summary of the feline portents of a storm: 1 'When the cat on tho lloorof the house rubs its paws over its nose, tho sailor had better stay home, for there will a (tale. 2 When the cat washes his face, it will not be fine weather to cross the channel, jf he rubs his paw over his ear. tho captain will not be able to steer hi- ship. When tho cat turns bis back to the lire he is almost safe.

If the cat burns his fur the sai.ors are no longer alive la terrible portenU cat besins to purr had weather is breaking up. Then the bark, with the sailors, has a chance of reaching Behold the cat goes in and out; she plays with everything. When her master return she jumps on his At this day a belief some vbat similar to the above is prevalent on tho New England coast At least 1 have often heard the remark made that "there is going to ue a storm, because the cat rubbed her paw be- New England fishermen believe that a cat on board of a vessel brines bad luck I know oi an instance in which a beautiful kitten was slyly thrown overboard ono stormy night by a sailor who believed the innocent fohne bad brought ban iuek to the vessel. Some twenty-live years ago a well-known Gloucester skipper, v. ho was cruising lor mackerel in the of St.

Lawrence, met with unusually liar, fortune Try as he would, tho fish evaded his hooks. Fiu.lly ne oi the crew sug. gosted that the iil-luck was due to having a cat on board. goes the KiliiCK, aim men uie men themselves drop over the sides of their dories and wade to shore, bringing their baskets of fresh, sweet clan s. And.

speaking of rubber boots, recalls to minu an election or years ago. "it tu iii the minds of some of the old beating en ol Yale, the night of the Cook dinner. it would tea tine thing to get together Vale's iirst ami in some respects its ureatf st suei esslul crew, and the young fellows who led Harvard in the mauniticeiit wc lasi summer with the Cook stroke. The older crew are imdile-age i men now. Heme them sliowmanr gray -treaks above the lem les.

and some liave Bhiuy ihaces bare oi ii iir upo.i tiie.r heads. Some have AMIABLE RtJSKIN. The March Wide Awake has a strong array ot entertaining writers and pleasing artists. Rev. Samuel Longfellow contributes "Longfellow and the Children," Harriett Psescott Sooilord writes of "Blind Miltou," Mrs.

A. D. T. Whitney of "The Song Sparrow." Grant Allen of "A New Flower," and many others of equally good and Interesting subjects'. There are nearly lifty elegant engravings.

This magazine has the unique and pec teature of a department to give you in; people useful practical information. This month tbe de-oartment contains: "A oung Prince of Commerce," a business. Selden R. Hopkins, serial "Some Successful Women:" "Mrs. G.

K. Aiden." Sarah K. Bolton; Illustration, portrait; "Ways to Do lhirigs:" "A Home-made Hobby Horse." B. T. Newman, three illustrations by author; "Wonder-Wins.

Mullingongs, Colossi and Others:" "In the (oral Country." F. holder, three illustrations by J. Carter Bear. I "Search-Ouesiions in Greek History Oscar Fay Adams "Wide Awake Post Orhce." ttotftou: D. Lotlirop A Co.

Oxi'onn, March 6. "Oxford." re cently remarked a member of the executive board of the Knitrhts or lAbor to your coriespondent, "contains more Knights of 1 in proportion to its population than any other town in Maine or, indeed, New England." The recent district assembly in' in of the K. of in Augusta was the beginning of a new era in the history of the order in this At that meeting the old iMstrict officers were sent to the rear, and new men. new principles, new methods brought to the front. There has been a complete change iu the policy of the Knights of Labor in this State.

A few days ago I had the pleasure of shaking hands with A. A. Beaton ot Rockland, the newly-elected master workman of District 8C As bis strong personality will make him tho mind of the Maine knighte during the coming year, a snort description ot his appearance and character will be of interest He is a man of from 35 to to years of age. His strong, rather square, muscular body is about 0 feet iu in'-bes iu height, giving an idea of great powers of endurance. His head has the same peculiar look oi' iKjuarene-s which hara terizes his body.

It.s most noticeable leature is a very projecting, full, square, but not high forehead, showing large perceptive and reasoning facilities. A short, thicA, vvell-trtmmed. black beard and moustache surrounds his round and rather fleshy face. He is darK-COinrpfftxiOMd, with a large, full, intelligent eye. His straight nose is small compared with his otner features.

A few years ago he was severly injured by a premature explosion in the stone quarry where he was at work, Lo.lnz Ills I. oft Bje and badlv discoloring the left side of his face. His whole appearance suggests a worker and a fighter a man who would throw himself into a project with an untiring rigor, an unfaltering enthusiasm, that would seem wonderful to more lymphatic men. In ieed, hardly had he been elected to his present position efore he took off his coat und rolled up his sleeves, metaphorically speaking, and started out on a tourot the for as leading politicians in a close campaign eo from town to town rousing tne voters, so Mr. Beaton is yoing from assembly to assembly arousing them by his stirring appeals, educating and instructing them in the principles, aims and work of the order, and breathing into them everywhere a portion of his own unfaltering enthusiasm.

The fact that the one month he has held ihe othce of district master workman he has visited more assemblies and delivered more eneeches than did his preuecessor during his entire official year is enough to show what an indefatigable worker he is. and is a poor augury of the earl decease ot the order in this State, so predicted by a Portland paper. Aa a public speaker. Mr. Beaton is a very Ofiiiieut though not an elomient orator.

He has in an unusual decree the hanpy faculty of 'irniising the attention and interest of his audience by a few well-chosen words at the stari, and of holding their interest to the end of bis remarks. His speaking is rich in aot anecdotes and illustrations, and he presents hi ideas iu a clear and convincing manner. He never resorts to tha specious art of rhetoric. As he has earned his bread by the sweat of his brow from early childhood, he is not learned in the lore ot the colleges, and yet he has served acceptably as tbe editor of a leading Maine paper. He is a conservative man, or as he expresses it does not believe in putting his foot down Until SSe Tooked Over the ground and found out whether the spot ou which he is about to place his foot is solid.

Mr. Beaton is out-spoken in his op-ponTing to stri'ces and boycott. He beliavoa tin time is rapidly approaching when ail differences between the employer and the employed, yes, and most civil cases now brought before tiie law courts, and even tha differences between great nations will be settled not by ruinous strikes, costly lawsuits and bloody wars, but by the mora peaceful and Christian methods of arbitration. In short, he is a very earnest advocate ot arbitration in all possible esvsea. He claims, ami 1 think with renson.

that tha Knights of Labor have done more to tiring the ureat question of peaceful arbitration before the people than has ever been done by any or. indeed, by ail other organisations or parties. On the other hand, tbe necu liar appearance oi Mi. Beaton's head and bo ly p- euliaritv noticeable in Grant, Sheridan, and, to use a more bumole metaphor, in the buil dog shows, unless physiognomy is utterly at tauit, that if he once becomes engaged iu a contest in which be believes himself clearly in the rigbt he will pursue it with a persistency which will not recognize de.eat. Among his neighbors Air.

Beaton's character for abilitv. integrity and honor stands vary high. He now holds the office of regi-tar of probate, and has iu the past been elected by his neighbors to many other public offices of trust. I'ntil promoted to district master workman he held the othco of master workman of the Kocklaud as-semblv. 1'nder his skilful m.inageuemen tins asseniblv has become very prosperous, and the past six month has none as much effective work as any other assembly in the State.

Mr. Beaton has entered heart and soul inio the work ot advancing tho interests of tbe Knights of Labor iu this State. For this work he has sacrificed the most flattering prospects of political preferment in Ibe Republican party. He also refused, iu the interests ot the Knights of Labor, Off er J'rom Hon. ,1 oeyli It.

BoSwcll, Governor of this State, to act in the ca pacify of private secretary lor that wealthy government contractor at a salary larger than lye can ever hone to get from the K. of During tbe last State c.tmpMgn no paper slruck more telling oiows the Kepublic-n monopolists than the Rockland Opinion. The fact that Mr. Beaton acted as editor of the Opinion during tke most heated part of the campaign shows tiat he iius left the Republicans and bun -d his ships behind him. The story of how Mr.

Beaton came to be elected oistriet master workman res. 9 very much like a romance. At the district assembly meeting at Bath last duly, Mr. Beaton, then a stranger to most of the delegates, was appointed chairman of a committee to revise the district by-laws. Hia appointment was a lu.

kv accident more than anything else. The Knights oi I.alior by-laws -ve to I printed and submitted to the local assemblies for aDproval or disapproval before being acted on by the district assembly. When Chairman distributed his by-laws by mail tbe locals, tbe word astonishment is hardly strong enough to express the feeiibg ot the knights. Instead of three or four formal by-laws on a sheet of paper, as is usual in such cases, this code was a largo pamphlet of nearly fourteen closely-printed, pages, comprising hat is now acknowledged to le the most elaborate and sagacious code of bv -laws ever submitted to an assembly of the Knights of Labor. Thev provided efn-cient remedies for many evils hitherto considered almost insurmountable, iu such clear and simple manner that the only wonder was that no one had never thought ot it ce'ore.

As these by-laws were read and the thought arose the leading minds in tbe AHfnlilln All Over the Stute that the man who had the ability to pre pare such a code of bv-laws was the right man to take charge of the district affairs. As a result, when th district assembly met at Augusta A. A. Beaton of Rockland was unanimously elected master workman of District so. The knights are over their new master workman.

It seems more than iiiobuple that under Mr. Beaton's intelligent and energetic management an era ot prosperity is before the order ol th Knights oi 1-abor in and that much will be done during the year to improve the condition 01 the poor and the lowly in Maine. The onlv boycott against vine linns are gainst the Cobb Lime Company of Rckland. aud B. Frank plnuey 1 Co.

of Norway and Lynn. The latter has not been enforced as vet. J. K- Chask. v.

strong-limbed boim getting readvto take i heir fathers' placts in the colleire ho.it, il they can yet theie. among the BEDFORD'S EXPENSES. Apprnprinttnns ISccommt-nded for the ZiixiIdc Year. MRnronn, March At the annual town rneoting. to be held tomorrow, the committee appointed last fall to consider and report on the estimates of the appropriations necessary for the ensuing year will recommend an api ropriation of $128,882 56.

The principal items are as follows: Almshouse, S2200; outside relief, $1000; highways. $7500; sidewalks and edgestoues, $1000; street lights, including an unpaid bill of 6467, 6000; police department, Ss'OOO; fire department, public schools. :ifi.f;i waterworks, $10,500 public library. $1 6O0 and amount received lrom dog tax; Oak rove cemetery, $2100; town debts, salaries, IN COOD CONDITION. older men of i'ale ami Harvard, no! even TIM of upon the day ot which the clammers ot "Joppa." as with one mind appeared In tins necessary article of wear.

and. strange to say, every pair seen along the water front was clean, shiny and bran new. Whether a shower of rubber boots struck "Joppa" on that particular day, or whether some loot-laden craft was tolled to destruction, ruled and sunk, no one knows, or, ai least, says to tins day. The dories unladen, the baskets are carried to the little shanties built on the extreme edire of ttie sea-wall, each occupied by a squad in commou, where for the next two hours inside ami out. on doorstep and boxes, the process oi shucking out goes on.

The clams are then carefully washed. This is an important step, for clams, freed from the restricted influences of their shells, seem to develop an abnormal thirst, and, like the lean actor behind the scenes speedily develops into the massive Falstaif on the stage with rotund nnd can dim th glory of the Wilbur Bacon crew of 186fii a powerful crew Harvard sent to meet thorn, too, at Worcester. In their phvsi their manner of training, which was severe enough to have killed some men, and in their style of rowing, they differed radically from the crews that ok brought brst over the liuisn so many times. I'a on. stripped, would have matte tffls Kind ExpivMiiin of Opinion ou FlnuliKb A ft Sstsisj KsJsus, A controversy as to the valnoof the South Ken dnsrton methods of instruction In art.

which are applied at Manchester, as well as at other art schools in England, having arisen, a student of the Manchester school wrote to half a dozen of the most prominent painters and authorities, and received amiable replies from some of them. John Ruskin wrote a characteristic scrawl, de- lining to Kive unfeed advii and offering these sreneral axioms, which may prove of interest to Boston, seeina that it draws its vv ater supply lrom out of town. "impossible for Manchester or any towns the least like Manchester to have art schools in them at all. Art cannot oe taught by fouling the skies over their heads and stealing their drink from other land-." And he adds: "You have, of course, my entirely com i lacent permission to publish Biv reply iu the Guard an." In contrast to this is Mi Mais' letter, nnich declares that loreineis aro now rilled with admiration lor the British school of art, and ar uuolins it as an example and extoilins: the work of tiie meii who have received that art education which some gentlemen at uome think wrong and inadequate. This argument for art education at home wr.s too courteously worded lohol.i its own ncainst Buskin's authoritative and i everenee-i ompell.nir snail, however, and it is to bo hoped that the Manchester students are as uneom t'ortabio and dissatisfied as the Grand Art Panjandrum himself.

frilLLBURY'S STRIKING WEAVERS. Flnam-lnl Siniuiluii of the Jackson Onardi Bald tm te All night. Active, past and honorary members of Company Guards, Ninth Regiment, to the number of aboufrliO, assembled in tho company armory, Charlestown, yesterday afternoon to hear reports of committees, which had been appointed to wait on the adjutant-general and to examine into the bnancial condition of the command. Ex-Captain James White presided. The sergeant informed a reporter that among tho prominent honorary members in attendance at the meeting were Boyle O'Kellly, Fire ommissioncr K.

Murphy, United States Assistant District Attorney Owen A. Calvin. Alderman I'. J. Donovan and James O'Connell.

Commissioner Murphy, District Attorney Gal in and Alderman Donovan reported that they had waited on the adjutant-general with reler-ence to the ouestion of disbandment, who said that the great trouble was with the officer of the command rather than with the men. The reporter was told that the finance commit teo, wh'ch comprised Past Commanders t.uiirk, Donovan and Past Lieutenants Green and Mitchell, reported that the finances of the company wore in good condition. The "Story of the Nations" is a series of illustrated octavo volumes intended to present the important facts in the rise and progress of nations, in the most entertaining, as well as the most instructive manner, with the purpose of interesting yor.ng people in tbe study of history. Sixteen volumes, by writers selected because of peculiar fitness for the work, have been published. The latest issued is "The Story of Persia," and was written by 8.

G. W. Benjamin, lately United States minister to Bers'a. and the author of "Persia and the Persians," a record of personal observation and experience, and an entirely different book. The history is very carefully written and exceis iu the fulness of the legenoary perioo and in its criticisms of the character and career of tbe great Persi ia leaders, and of the national character.

No Amerioan could have written more competently aud pleasingly. lioiton: W. B. Clarke Carruth. 5150.

English stories of French life are always more fascinating thon those which lollou the French style, the average American not being educated to that sort of literature. Of the former class is "Tbe Darling of an Empire." It is the story of a woman who is the paid spy of the third Napoleon. Her wonderful neauty is systematically used to entrap men to their political ruin. Atlast she is entrapped herself; she falls desperately in lovewitli a ni-in whose downfall she has planned. Her fortune she throws into a balance which shall save his lrom loss.

To save his life ho loses his love, and in a duel fought because If not lor ner, throws herself neon trie man she loves and receives the fatal shot her ov. breast. It is a tragic tarn, v. hioh could not be told ot a woman oi any other nation with a shadow of probability. The lio ling of mi ISmulre." F.

U. New York: G. W. Uililncbam. "The Common Chord," by Henry R.

Elliot, author of "Tbe Bassett Claim." is a story of the ninth ward. New York, and depends a imon its reproduction of ehsMA. Times was published, and the great vault built beneath Beekman street for its presses is still as it was. Here, too, the Ob-server fought its way to eminence and wealth, under the Morse management, ami here Professor Morse, the electrician, took the first photographs ever taken in America. Professor Draper used to dispute this, and claimed tho honor for himself, but tbe weight of evidence favors Morse's claim.

The process was the original ono invented by Daguerre of Paris, from whom Morse bought the devices and right to use the process. At first he experimented on his nieces, inveigling them to the top of the building nnd urging; them to sit quietly while he covered his head with the mysterious hood then in use and caught their features with his lenses. The professor used also to coax subscribers and visitors from the Observer office into hisdaguer-rian den, an 1 when they saw their portraits alterward. they whispered to the clerks in tbe office that he was in league with Beelzebub. Think how new picture-takiug is, after all The old Park Hotel had become the lowest building in the neighborhood.

Where the Potter building stands was ihe old World office, almost as plain as a sugar house -a succession of four or five wooden floors each half a block In Size, Across Beekman street Wfis the old Clinton Hall and the Nassau Bank bull dug, where the Kelly buildniir. Temple court, now stands. On tiie fourth corner was the Viiiideebilt BulMIng, a story shortor and somewhat shallower than now. 1 he MetSTF. Morse conceived the idea of putting up a handsome fireproof building, principally to attract law 4 CLEVELAND AND THE SENATE.

a model for a Hercules. His biceps mea-ured almost eighteen inches, and not an ounce of fat on them. His back was ridEed with muscles that were hard as iron. iliiain lllaikie. who was Harvard's great boating man at thai time, used to say that Bacou was the finest man that ever sat iu a boat.

The rest the crew were giants, and the average height was 6 leet 11 inches. The fame of this crew of giants was widespread. The New York papers oe-roted columns to descriptions of them, and whole vaes to reports of the race, and it wa in the wonderful time of 17.42 that ef. six men brought the Yale oat to tiie home hacr, uoing three miles and a turn In that time. The time was so phenomenal tiiHt it was disputed, some Harvard men claiming that it was one minute slower, but there was no serious doubt as to its accuracy.

Bacon ofiored to row the ra over thene day against time to show that the figure were rignt, and tiie private tests that the crew had made before the race were ali under eighteen The tamest Ward brothers, who were at Wor. ester, rowed over the course after-waid iu heat the record, if possible, and they came very close to it. There never was a better record In still water, at least by amateurs, and probably not ov proies-ionals. It is proportionately better time than the best made by either Oxford or Cambridge on the Thames, and is better, prop, rf.onately, than any time ever male in water by any college crew. Cook, however, thinks tbt had Bacon's crew rowed his stroke they wouid have cut down their record fully a minute, or would have rowed a four-mile straight away in not from nineteen minutes, time that never has reen made by any college crew, or without a current, though Amherst Ol ma' three miles without a turn in a rai id "rrent sixteen minutes and some seconds.

"Baron's crew pulled the old back and shoulder stroke, which Cook atterwaril severely condemned as faulty. Certain it is that, with Vale rowing that same stroke for seve.i successive yeais after Bacon's victory. Harvard showed the stem of her boat sometimes a long ways oft. too. "What has iecoineof these Yale oarsmen, famous now in college tradition of both collages', Wilbur Bacon is a very sedate New York lawyer, who sometimes runs across his old-tim! rival in tiie Harvard bo.it.

Biaikie. in the practice of his profession. Bacon, even in maiurer years, preserves his magtiififent physical development, so that men who see -him say: 'Wbat a splendid ti cimeu of Physical manhood he Ed Bennett, who Culled Miii-hoard Slroku is a dignified judge in Hartford, and, as he sits beiiind the bench, hardly suggests the great physical power that once him wot thy of a seat behind the only Bacon. Bennett has dabbled some iu politics, and with success, and when men eo into politics they are apt to forget the dumb-bell and Indian i lubs. In the port waist sat Louis rtroskotl, who uidn't dare pull with all his power for of breaking an oar.

hen ho graduated lrom the Ya.e boat he began to iearn how to make other people ftrong and well, and settled down as a countrv physician in there were two men who alternated at the starboard waist. One was i-i-viB, with shoulders a vard oruad, 'th "iiysh iau in Hartford. The atner was Isaae I lerson. a handsome, rosy--heekeft with great strapping frame shaking paunch. Formerly this washing-out process was done at the marfcets, but after the clammtrs themselves learned oi it.

with lhat open-handed tor which the are noted, they took this extra labor on themselves, and now see to it lhat their clams do not suffer from thirst. This process completed, the clams are placed in buckets, staled, and held to await the arrival of the expressman, and are then shipped to Boston, and in fact all over the country. Tiie industrious ciammer, or a smart couple, can earn a better living at their calling than their brother mechanics, with the extra advantage of pursuing a healthy and vigor-ating calling. he gunners are fewer in number, but when aa amateur sportsman seeks a favoi ea spot in the harbor he i convinced that their name is legion. When birds are plenty their gains are large, but for ono good day's shooting they get a dozen poor ones.

The Boston market absorbs the greater part oi their skill. Dory fishing for cod, haddock, is practically a dead industry now. The days of hand lines have departed, and seines and pirates take and Steal all the fish in Ipswich bay. If one wishes to see a Joppa fisherman thoroughly excited, he has only to mention tne word "seine." As a ace for the snread-mg of nets, only the memory remains. nce it was not unusual to see the mouth of the lower harbor crowded with Georgesmen.

waiting for bait -menhaden, bluebacks, spurling. which was taken by hundreds of barrels by means of sweep nets, loday the fish laws of Massachusetts are so stringent in regard to nets that this branch ol the fishing industry has died out Mo argument can convince a "Joppa" fisherman that such laws are anything les than a tyrannical blow at their inherited rights, and they are never tired of execrating the hsn commission. How They The women of "Joppa." daughters and descendants of fishermen for eight generations, are robust, healthy ana active Their reputation for kindness and open-heartedness is proverbial, and it is said that a Joppa woman will run a mile to help a sister in distress neglecting everything that pertaius to herself or her family while on her errands of me cv They are intensely neighborly, making their iittlo calls at ali hours, in season mid out, and are on intimate terms with earn other In fact, it is said that during those neighborly calls, rather than iu mlge un neces ary questioning, they will go to the stove and tut the lid of the dinner-pot to see what the family is going to oujoy for its mid-day meal. Perhaps, though, this was the custom in former years more than now! JVi-ptiiiii', 8. One of the old institutions of "Joppa" has for many vears ben Neptune Hand Engine Company, No.

8. Any one who has ever enjoyed one of their iuimitable lam chowders at their hall, flanked by the innumerable dainties contributed by tho ladies 'lor they are all good cooks needs no lurther introduction to this organization One such experience always make'-the ouu shier hun-: for a sei-ond invitation. As i political factor 'Moppa 8's boys," as thev are familiarly called, is a power. With some sixty votes in a ward of about iOu to say nothing ol their connections, frit ndi and sv inj.alhiers, a poll lcian is always v. ary In making move before ascertaining what tiie company thinks of it.

Ma. Very ew of the President's Rejected. Washington, March President Cleveland has had pretty good luck with his nominations after all. Only four out of ihe hundreds sent to the Senate this session have been rejected. These were: J.

C. Ma'thews of Albany, N. to be recorder of deeds. District of Columbia; Charles WT. Irish of Indiana, to be surveyor-general of Nevada Charles EL Dailey.

to be register of of land office, Tucson. Arizona, and Oliver Shannon, to be receiver of public moneys at North Platte, Neb. The Senate, however, failed to take any action upon unite a large number of nominations, and they therefore died with the Statement of the trom the I'sn-ployer's Mtnlpoiut. 7 ffr of" 77k' fi'nh- In reference to the weavers' strike at Millbury.Mas., reported in Friday's OB Mr. Laphaui it to be stated that the number of looms in his mill is forty tvve, and they are operated by nineteen men, who work eleven, and by twenty-three women, who work ten hours per day.

Of this numl er six have only learned weaving within the last few mouths. If any dissatisfaction existed it was not known to Mr. Lapham. His first intimation of any trouble was on Tuesday, when ihe weavers' deputies demanded an immediate advance of 10 tier cent, and ten hours per iv and because this was not nt onco granted Cnotime being given lor consideration) the weavers quit work. Weaving is paid for nt the rateof somuch per yard, and the prices raid today ape exactly toe -aine as the prices oaid in 1870, no reduction whatever having been made since that time, notwithstanding the ict that durins the past four or live years reductions in wanes from 10 to 1 per cent, have been general, not only in Millbury but throughout the country.

Of the present wea ers there is only one who was employed iu im7'. The rest have not been cut down one inizle cent, but havo each been the prices accepted at the time of tiieir engagement down to the present. or the live months ending January 31 tbe average earnings of worm have e.en SH," BO. and of the men $40 per month. This induces tbe learners and the incompetent ones, of which there aro some iu all mills.

The average earnings of Whatlev. Riley and Ma honey (the epntatii in. have been $. CO per month each; and at the interview these men udmilteu they were satisfied. I his strike Is strictly confined to the weavers, but thiouuh tlp ir actii tho rest ot the mill cannot be operated, thaa involuntarily throwing out of employim nt about 100 hands.

Mr. i.apham Ordered the main belt to be thrown otf, to save an ex i so of per day for fuel and w.ttchtacu. tnd has been willing to grant the ten inrs par day lor the past three months, if it bad beeu aslved for. w. Mil.

bury. Match 6, 1387. IWortc svtnc si Whnls Tow. It nviy not he generally known, says a cxpiiut'oii of Congress last i ruiay. inotign the nominees will continue to hold nilice, uniess removed by the t'resident, until unfavorable action is taken by the Senate, so that thev are safe for nearly a year yet.

The. following is a comi loie list of such nominations, postmasters excepted: James Curiae, to be supervising Inspector of ve lets for the third umtrl 't; P. K. Coghitl, to ha i ollectoi of customs, Petersburg. Vaj J.

M. Brooks, United Stxteis attorney, southern district ot California; Israel lircen, liullan agent Sissoton, J. M. Wagner, pan. sion iiKent.

KnoxrlU. J. 1. Mel. lain, to bo fust llcu-tenant Ninth Cavalrv: H.

A. Ehrtnger, to be concnl at CtssfuettOii l.ouis tiehhant iteea. to be consul at Jiarbadoe James M. Aitams. rKiler lam! ofllco, Snoknno Kalis, W.

M. lliatie, regUtei of laud office, lilsek-feot. 1 i.dii. Saniu. 1 llomers.

register land office, Concordia. K. Whiteside register Iieadwood. link. A largo number of nominations for postmasters were also left unacted upon, raalnlV for Southern and Western ollices.

Ihe only New England ones in this list are I-W. Dower. Kaathamptcn, and F. Gorman. Whltlnsvllle, Mass.

English Rnilwav Tr; v-limit. Travelling in ihird-claBS carriages it too much the fashion on ihe Great Western railway. I'ligland, to suit the directors. First-class passengers decreased In the first half uf last, year so did second-class passengers. Third-class passengers, however, increased in number to the extent of three- The Xenrly Frantic who had been trying to conjure up some reason for lailing to catch tih, instantly accepted this hint that the cat was a The unfortunate object of a silly superstition was killed, and to make the act doubly potent, in appeasing Cie demon Of ill fortune, it was ground up for bait- the same day, as tbe story goes, tne list, orked about the vessel great abun-dan and an unusual number was caught, which, of course, stiengti.ened the super- StiVrcely need said that "luck" in tho nshVrman's vocabulary whatever may be his n.itionality-is a magical word But it is a somewhat remarkable fact that what is believed by some to bring ill luck Is either regarded w.tu or thought to be a "good sign by other.

Thus while most tishei men are certainly not averse to boasting of "big takes, and in mKtunees might not unjustly bo ac-rVyS 'U M.rie; to uphold their reputation as experts the mauag -ii i hook or net. toe Ushers of i'omer-an. be ieve it will bring bad luck in catoh-fmi iisn they toll how man? hey have liken Instead, therefore, of boasting of MSood tSwni. they are care.ul to say that they have caught less fish than have TbeHv.l.'anlans riiink it lucky SO H.h Ka- ght and Whit Sunday night, while British hsbermen believe misfor-tune would (ollow such a practice. In part" of Hiialn the fishermen believe it UnTncky to PUt the left loot forward when t.

yers and neoplo doing business with tho courts. They prophesied that whoever was the first to build there would get the cream of the trade. They also believed that people would ureter an oliico building owned by an individual to any of already up which were in the possession of soulless corporations. Thu Morses were derided as misguided men. Thev put up the building, handsome, thick as a fort, all iron and and brick, and having put it up ordered a barrel of kerosene, knocked in the head in one of the Unest offices and tbe oil ignited.

It made a sue ke and charred the floor, but the coiner walls were plaster on Iron lath, the outer walls nero brick laid In cement, and noxt to the floor was a foot of cement on iron arches. This Is equally true of the other buildings-excepting the W.ndor-bllt, which is of an older fashion. Floors ol marble tiling, wainscottlng Of marble, plate glass windows, bard wood trimming, elevators and attendants in uniform, make glad the hearts ol tho tenants in them all. Some buildings in the neighborhood rented at so much a square foot ($2 a year in tne best), and on such a plan the Murses began their business. But It proved a talve.and now thev rent ae ordim; to location charging according to Sight, si.eaud convenience.

The higher a room is tne more it brings. A room that would bring odOO on the first floor letohes $700 or 8ou on the seventh and eighth noort, because there is more light, up there. Think of it! An office the size ol a hall I ed-ioom brintts 8400 in these buil ings, and one like an Ordinary back parlor in an average dwelling is worth jf ooo a year. A few years after the Morse experiment two or three vears ago Temple court, tho new anderbilt build iug and the extension to the Tribune building were ali put upon the market for rental ihe sune season. Mow e's Inemis told him there would not bo business for all or them.

But supply in this ass bred demand. All the BttildlOBi Blind up an i have been full ever since. i he anderbilt building is an old landmark most famous us ihe sl'e of an ancient she called Beekman's grocery. The bought the building many years ago, and after putting up what was then a tremendous building, were obliged to add to it, lengthwise and skywards, la order to teristic people and features for its measure of success. A newspaper editor is the leading cbarai ter, and, unlike most newsi ai er editors in such a situation, is mai.e to point a moial; he even goes to the ad to show how necessary love, duty, and faith are to success in liia Its action generally is a good reflection of city lile, although liberties aro tauten in the construction of the plot, and it will bo enjoyed by most readers.

Sew York: Casselt A Co. Ponton: W. B. Clarke Carruth. "A Zealot in Thule." Mrs.

Wi'di iek. rets particular intoros: from the action growing out of the deposit of treasure in Fort Han Carlos do Bariaucasin Florida, by Governor. General just before his surrender to General Jackson. This furnishes the motives lr iv-li brings its people together, g.vcs local legendary influence, auu develops tne mystery which is to govern the iovo scenes, 't has the advantage of the strong colors of out doer tropical life. It is very well written, und entertains in many ways.

Boston: Apptotou on Pranklta iret. i-iternry Nrton. Gum Co. announces that they win nub- lish April 1 the "Adelidii of Terence" text, with stage directions, by Henry Preblo. instructor In atin, llarvaid College, about i ages; paper.

26 cents. Harper Brothers have just published in the Franklin Library "ihe Merrv Men and i Ither Tales and rah'es" of hobcrt Lovis Stevenson. It is a remarkably successful work, and this is a desirable edition. Messrs. 3.

K. I.ecson Co. ol Boston have just issued a pamphlet of about pages en "Crochet and Stnbrotuery Work." His ol particular iuierest to the ladies, as addition to tiie designs and directions aiven for tbe use of the bea titui "Linen I los, "there are included many original tie-signs, with appropriate directions for working tne same in netting und also in drawn work, otherwise known as Mexican work. It is highly illustrated throughout. The uiiiiuoju manner, aihi recently a tt be Mioiant bare come to grief through heir umu wrote Home lrom China onoria, and many hers ive waked up with surprise to see hi, loaud Bierson preach.

n- the gospel to Be with aB the energy that he expectediy popular they are. As a company uiswayed with the oar at starboard wa.st. Jhe port bow was hdniund Coffin. it is a Dower. "iiunewas the llehtMt man in ilix rrnw no pigmy either.

You can see him and no ami men. a lira a and hesne. Newburyport contains no more interesting locality than Joppa, ami no clas of peopie among whom an hour can moie pleasantly be spent. They are gl id to re reive omnany. and ever ready to give ono a trip in their dories.

jawye mtbe New iok City courts. Billy 'iiHin, me wiry, plucky Billy, who wiry Dyspepsia. Mak.is many 'lvoa inlssrablf. and often lead to i soll-uesiru' Ueu. lllstrets after eating, atak head- Germs paper, that the so i town of Wtsmar, on the Baltic, is in the same portion, virtu.

illv, us Mr. Montague Tlk'u's Shirt namely, at the pawnbroker's. In 1803 Sweden mortgaged it 'otbeDtichv of Mecklenburg lor a coed round sum. Tbe Stipulation va as that the tow should be restored to Sweden at die end of a century, provided ibat the sum ient. together With interest, hould btj paid back to Mecklenburg.

That stun now amounts to several hundred millions of marks, and there ai-pe ill to be but little chance ol the mar authorities I emu able tu raise it ut the date fixed. This singula treatv has lain dot mant in the municipal archives ever since It was executed up to the other day. when, apropos of some concessions to tbe customs, it was exhumed for legal purposes. quarters of a million. Tiiis phenomenon is attributed to the soft seats provided for I c.irtiiiges on this road, "which are much better than they deserve and ui the prices, which are ridiculously In the "ig leet of New England every- thing that inay bring Ill-luck Is called a Sh." a actions, whether voluntary nun i acUu.

hoariburi). kour stomach, mental Opies-'pii, ranted hy this vr loromou and tutivasliir tsMas, Mood's tones tbe stomach, creates an appetite, promotes hictthy uiKfttioii. relieve u-i. u. Au-t-.

the tntnd, and cures obstinate ot of dyspepsia, flood's ar.aprllU Is sold by druggists. 51 1 "wo, a mob of strikers a few years ago and witrwi them single-handed, was the bow ru 5 uil and slender, but his inus-Sr llkw bipcorda Hcranton is now head and ears iu business in the town bis fatuer founded in "Y.chsylv aula. etlr 1 a would m1e these "'rans of tradition could be brought to- successors in the inlug boat of last year, illustraie the be-tStSS. college boating and "latstdevoiomentolttl Thu is what I Carpet buyers, attention! Onlv ten days remaining ot the greatest bargain sale of carpets and rugs ever held in this city 847.000 worth of desirable perleoL goods to be sold for 26.0O0. or at out hftr oent on the uollar to settle a copartnership.

Such a co to obtain almost auy grade or quality of carpet at barely a nominal price will doubtless never occur again. Don't tor- et the number. 181 Washington street, nt Hay hen. agent. or no: may come unoer niio as new vessels and many ob.ects ordinary uie Many natives ot the British Aorth American Provinces, as well as ru.iresonta fri0? i ti European countries.

disproportions to the cmiioit proviueu the differont aorta The remedy to cure passengers of th.s conomica freak is to reduce the hrst-class fares one-half and to abolish second-class carriage- altogether, as has been successfully tried on the Midland road. six for as. Prepared by I. HUCI) a Ua mav i i u.ed I among the crews of our 0B ZThmg twoaetld it Is not surprts-1 umeu..