Elkhart Weekly Review (Newspaper) - December 13, 1883, Elkhart, Indiana 24. ELKHART, DECEMBER 13, 1883. 43 THE And after George had told us how he had been married at 22 by his the Baroness de said I was by the hoi I was in my and I found myself so peacefully anchored in the ways of oli I with the utmost Hinci rit y on all occasions I vowed by all the I would never risk by running the hazard of But I counted without the It was iu the part of I had just come from and it was my intention to pass hours in I had four or five of my and down to my place in for the They were to arrive the first of and there was only a week in which to put things in order at A note from my head huntsman reached in and this note the dogs were all but out of a dozen I had down five during my sojourn iu Baden had become ill or and I found myself in the of stocking up my I made a round of the dealers in the Champs who me for hunters a fine of old worn-out price 3,000 I had had bad luck at trente et I was not in the humor to spend in this manner 700 or SUO louis in one was a and Cheri having his autumn I went to Ponthieu street in the course of the an din the catalogue I jump have hunted under a etc. 1 bought eight and they only cost me 5,00'J the I said to will be four or five that will go and be good enough to send as these there was one I must I bad bought on account of his which was The catalogue did not attribute any aptitude for humting to It simply over very well ti He a large dapple-gray but I don't think I had ever seen a better The black and white of his coat were so well The black was well distributed over the I left the next day for and the day after early in tiie moi uing a servant informed me that the had I immediately went down to seo of I looked at I had been thinking of him continually for forty-eight devil of a gray now I had an odd desire to know what kind of a horse he and for what he was J I had him brought out of the stable A groom led him out The horse deep Uio iu all the signs of a respectable but he had a a broad high wit a fine a well-set an and his head And it was not all this which especially attracted my I admired above all was the air with which Brutus regarded and with what an curious eye he followed my movements and my My very words seemed to interest him He bent his head toward as if to and before I finished speaking neighed as if to answer me. They showed me tlie other seven I examined them rapidly and wit h an inattentive These were horses like all other Brutus had something odd about and I was to take a little ride around the country in his He allowed himself to be and mounted like a horse who knew his and then wa two went together in the most peaceful held him at first by the and Brutus went at a small his neck a little stiff and his head a little but as soon as I made him feel the curb he up with kable ease and tossing his head and champing his bit. He then took a slower light ami raising his feet high iu the and beating the ground with the regularity of a catalogue had not This was a in he was rather too well I had him trot and then He had a nicu little trot and galloped but he always threw his head down and nearly pulled my arms out of their sockets when I tried to raise I; I have bought an old from the Saint Cyr or Saumur riding and it is not on this beast that I to I had just to turn back and go fully enlightened as to when a gun was shot in the about twenty yards It was one of keepers shooting a who on account of this shot received a handsome present from my wife some months I was at that moment on the centre of where half a dozen forming a perfect hearing this shot Brutus stopped planted himself firmly on his his ears up and his head in the was to find the horse so I should have supposed after having received such a as certainly he have been a horse of indifferent to a gun or I pressed his sides with my knees to make him go Brutus did riot I gave an energetic kick with my Brutus did not I whipped him Brutus did not I tried to back the to jerk him to the to the find I could not move hihi an Brutus stood as if glued to the and in the meanwhile every time I made M effort to move the horse he turned his and looked at me with an eye you could positively an impatience and surprise then be would resume bis first and become a was evidently a misunderstanding between the horse and I saw that in his and Brutus said to me as clearly as he could with a do what I ought to and it is who do not do what you ought was more puzzled than I was troubled by all a ridiculous horse have I bought of said I to why does he look at me in such a queer I was getting leady to a decided step and give Bratus a regular when a second shot was The horse gavo a I thought I had gained my and when he 3umped I tried to carry him forward by the reins and with my But no - He stopped short after the forwaid and again stood aa if planted in the I then became furious and the whip entered into I whipp him as hard as I hitting him across his shoulders and his But lost his and instead of the cold and impassive resistance with which he had before opposed I was met with a furious He reared himself on his hind and in ohe most fantastic and in the middle of this while the enraged pawed and to my saw that I had broken my whip in pieces by catching it on the found time to throw glances al not only of surprise and but also of anger and WhOe I demanded of the horse the obedience which he refused it was certain that he expected of me something which 1 did not did this all To ray to my great I was I that he could not get the best of me by and judged it necessary to use after standing still for a while he the horse raised himself up on his front his head with the the and the perfect equilibrium of a clown who walks on his 1 fell on the in this place was tried to get I gave a and on my At the least movement I felt as if my left leg was being cut by a It was a little a ruptured but although the wound was it was horribly I to turn over and seat but at the while busily engaged in getting the sand out of I asked what could have become of my miserable I saw over my head a large horse's then this large foot rested with a certain gentleness on my and softly laid me flat but this time on my became and feeling incapable of any new efforts I remained in that to ask of myself 1-----1---J shut niy eyes and ' waited for I a remarkable stamping of feet around me. Lots of hard little particles hit my I opened my eyes and saw with his front and hind feet moving with incredible was trying to bury me under the He was doing his the poor and from time to time he stopped to look at his lifting up his he have a little neigh and This lasted at least three or four after which judging me well enough got down with his respect on his knees before my on his completely on his I suppose he was saying a little I looked at This interested me Brutus jumped went off a few then to he went around the in the centre of which he had buried about twenty I followed him with my but me feel ill to see him go around and I managed to cry The horse stopped and seemed embarrassed he probably asked himself what there was still left for him to but on j seeing my which when I was thrown i had fallen he took a new and seizing it between his teeth started off on a this time by one of the six roads which lead to my Brutus I was left was I got out of my and by the aid of my arms and my right (I could not use the left I managed to drag myself to a little knoll covered with grass in the corner of one of the Once having reached I managed to seat and commenced to cry with all the force of my No The perfectly deserted and stilL I should simply have to wait until some one passing that way could help had been in that unpleasant position for a long half hour when I saw Brutus in the iu fact at the very end of the road by which he had Brutus was coming and was galloping in the same manner as when he had The horse was accompanied by a cloud of Gradually 1 perceived in this cloud a little then in the a who was driving it and behind the woman a little few moments afterward covered with stopped in front of and dropping my hat at my feet gave a little certainly have my There is some one to succor But I paid very little attention to Brutus or his had eyes for up one but the fairy who had come to my and after having lightly from her came toward at first examined me when suddenly there were two cries at the game moment of de de la told us a short time since his aunt when he was very young had married him off without Mm time to i too nave an aunt and for many yeans there was a perpetual and delightful battle between don't wish to you want young B. don't wisl to you want I Mme. Mme. don't wisl to de always in the first rank of the and I noticed that my auni dwelt with evident pleasure upon the advantages and happiness which I would find in She did not need to tell me Mme. de was not help seeing and that she was knew that But she to de had been a that he had managed to keep his thoroughly and consequently it be very easy for a second husband to make himself really when she extolled at length the merits of Mme. de my who was a clever woman and knew would take a typographical chart from her desk and carefully spread it upon the it was the map of the district oi Chatel a map which was very exact in all the details and which my aunt had bought at the war depot for the i sole purpose of convincing me that I ought to marry Mme. de The chateaux of and only by a distance of three figured on this My aunt had maliciously the two estates together by a little of red and making me look at her little red would has an estate of and so have yom Join and and ycu will have something worthy of a great I always shut my so great was the and commenced my old don't wish to But I was really that when I met Mme. de I should always see her tis if by a by ray aunt's little red and I said to charming and good and and her husband was a and this and and her estate is 1,500 Make your wretched make your since you don't wish to I but this by what means could I save I was wretchedly on the covered with with my hair in my clothes and my unfortunate leg perfectly And de approached graceful and surrounded by the halo of red said to Monsieur de la is it you? What are you doing mon I told her honestly about my at least are not I am I have something the matter with this but I am quite sure it is nothing the that played you one I showed Brutus to Mme. de who stood there near us eating grass iu the most peaceful that is a good he has atoned for his I assure I wiU tell you you must go and I can't take a I will take even at the risk of compromising called the little and took me by one arm while Bob took me by the and so they got me into her Five minutes later we two were rolling iu the direction of and I looking at had been ordered to ride who was going along very you said Mme. de your leg out straight and I will drive very carefully so as not to hurt To be she said any number of nice little when she saw me comfortably me said you happened to be and then I will tell you how I happened to come to your It seems to me as if the story of that horse must be very commenced my but when I told how to throw me the two she I you have brought the trumpet trumpet horse that's the so everything is You have seen at least twenty times at the Cirque de the act of the trumpet the African who enters the ring on a gray that the Arabs come and shoot at ths African the African and and as you did not the horse was indignant at your neglecting this part of your so he threw and after you were on the ground what did he told her how Brutus had tried to The trumpet always the trumpet He saw that his master was wounded the Arabs could come back and kill What did he do the He buried the African Then he started off on Is it not on a fast carried off the flag of his master so it won't fall into the hands of the off my took what he could And where did be go on a the trumpet I I cried I; went to find the He went to find the if you it was de Your gray horse entered my courtyard at a I was on the putting on my and just ready to get into my There were the stablemen running about on this horse saddled and but without a and a hat in his They tried to catch but he escaped came straight up to the and nis Knees m tront of me. The men and tried to catch but he got up and but stopped near the railing of the turning looked at me. He called assure you that he called me. I cried to the men to leave the horse jumping into my the horse went ahead into the and I followed I arrived and found the moment when Mme. de said these last words the back part of the carriage received a violent then we the head of Brutus us in the and it seemed to stay there as if by a It was Brutus Mounted by had followed the carriage for a few and perceiving that the was he like a veritable seized that moment to give us a new specimen of his merit by executing the most brilliant of his old-time one bound he had placed his two front feet in the having done he con tinned tranquilly on his trotting on his hind his body bent forward and his face was making mad efforts to get the horse on his four legs As for Mme. de she was so frightened dropping the reins on her she threw herself into my Her adorable little bead had upon my shoulder and my lips her With my left hand anu iDe movements ot HOUB OF When the ot noon arrives there is a whirr of machinery set in and a bell begins to strike the four of the At each stroke of the bell the figure of an angel raises a hammer held in his right hand and strikes a bell held in his At first glance one would suppose that the sounds came from the beb the angel but this turns out to be an for one soon notices that the angel's hammer does not quite touch his bell when he makes his stroke and that the sound and the stroke do not quite correspond in In the angel's bell is a dummy bell and a wooden dummy bell at This discovery sort of rouses one's suspicions and he notices that the angel's movements are and so to and do not at all represent the movements of a human unless it be a human being badly stiffened by One comes to the conclusion that the angel is badly in need of the side of the angel is the figure of a Genius as soon as the fourth stroke comes from the bell stiffly and jerkily turns over an hour glass and resumes his former immovable position beside it. Higher up is the figure of Death represented by a tried to catch the with my right ann I i around the skeleton are grouped figures held Mme. de Mv leg was hurting ' representing and me and I felt myself attacked old four quarters of the was in this manner that Mme. de made firat entry into Then she came back one evening at six weeks having during the day become Mme. de la seems as if the things in this world were ordained by said my we should never have been married if you had not bought the trumpet in New York I met of who has returned to Washington City and rebuilt his celebrated yellow mansion which went by the name of Stewart's His wife once told me that her husband had founded nine different residences during his married and she added that he was best man in the and took failure aud misfortune just as buoyantly as I said to Mr. Stewart that there was now a good deal of activity in Mexican railroad coffee etc. Said think there will be the of a big bubble down there at no distant friend do you make that I have very little faith in Mexican Wherever the American meets them they are cleaned The Meacan race cannot increase because as the take to the dauce the collisions that arise the Greasers are sooner or later cleared off. Our destiny is to have that and the two races has a thigh bone iu his right and with this head of is supposed to strike the hours bell at his but he really doesn't do anything of the His bell is also a wooden one and his bono does not reach the bell by an eighth of an inch when he aims those ' jerky blows of his at it. he gets a I little premature once in a and strikes I his bell before the real one goes at other j times he is a little behind hand and brings his bone down an instant after the real bell has It would be superfluous to say that the skeleton not only needs but also SAVIOR ANB HIS the skeleton is going through his dumb show and pretending to strike the twelve strokes of noon a door at the of the clock suddenly pops open and a figure of the Savior appears and moves stiffly and jerkily forward a few Then at the left hand of this figure another door opens with a snap and a figure of one of the apostles He springs forward a few stops as if surprised to find himself in the presence of so many profane hesitates a single as if debating whether to retreat or put a bold face on the matter and go finally resolves on the latter makes another jerk and advances unsteadily until opposite the Here he makes a full turns which would which might pass for an obeisance if one did not know any receives the stiffly given jerks himself around to the resumes his together side by In the southern of California where we have encountered Rheumatic journey toward an open left and Mexicans they seem to melt They have no genius for raising revenue and paying their O A large part of the expense of maintaining the public squares and promenades iu Paris is met by the duties paid to the municipality by proprietors of establishments situated in such as open-air and and Judy as well as by the contractors who provide chairs for the and even the owners of the little for An official return shows that the Champs Elysees alone produce in this way 171,485 francs a and the Bois de Boulogne 313,100 The total receipts of this kind for the whole oi the public lands in are 1,343,831 francs per The cost of on the other is set down at 1,600,000 without the services of the police Description of tha Evolutions of Its at the Jerky Movements of the aud Kaeg in San Francisco i The little wooden images connected with the clock and going through their performance in illustration a Biblical the flight of have really given the clock its Every and observer has followed the fashion set by the firet one who about them in all they did appear praises their evolutions without So that when one or thinks of the he has a mental of a splendid pageant of automatons which are so deftly and whose every motion is so natural as to almost deceive even the most But there is nothing very wonderful about the outside of the clock and one feels a little at the twelve or fifteen feet high and eight or ten broad its adorned with rather dim decorations cut up with various and galleries and with several Wooden figures five six inches high stuck over it. At one stands a tower by the figure of a the book calls the weights which give motive to the whole On front the main some three or four feet the dials which of the the mean time another figure of { apostle has followed that of the goes through with the same pantomime and takes his exit in the rheumatic So it goes on until all of the twelve apostles have passed in the door having slammed behind the last the figure of the Savior mises its j wooden in a very wooden bestows ' a blessing on the assembled of whom are sadly in need of a real is whisked jerkily I hope no one will ine of irreverence or blasphemy if suggest that it would be a fine idea to extend the of the figures on the clock so as to take in at least the twelve the figure of the Apostle Peter appeared the chanticleer on the summit of the begins to bestir He raises his ruffles the feathers on his nock in a very natural claps his wings over his face until the whole cathedral the claps them three distinct and and proceeds to His head goes far his breast his beak opens to its widest his whole tongue shows plainly and he delivers his crow from out lofty and with that peculiar forward duck of the head one sees in the living barnyard Twice does he repeat his crow with all the accessories and a pretty fair sort of a crow it ia even if it does sound a little like the first untutored attempts of the aspiring cockereL But there is a peculiarity about him which strikes the observer as being rather He goes through all the but the crow does not sound until he is and it continues an instant after he has resumed his position of In the chanticleer is a and his crow not out of his an arrangement somewhere within the He does not need but a little regulating would not hurt I know that it is rank heresy to talk of the famous in such a plain matter-of-fact but Californians are generally matter-of-fact and if there ever waa a Californian and one proud of the fact that B. Smith in St. did you buy Ned of As he leaned o'er the dainty cradle His little to angel brought 9lid Then softly bent his curly ' And the sleeping a change over he Td been WhUe I was about rd have caught Operations and rapid growth of this city may be 3udg,d from the fact that one man Mr. M. has given out for the erection of 800 houses in the These houses are in favorite Philadelphia The first batch of seventy-eight has just been and the contractor has begun the next lot of 100. These houses are valued at from to 65,500 Building is active in all parts of the but especially so in the which a rock or a gravel surface formation and a greater elevation make more for residences than older and the southern portions of the Builders predict that this boom will not and that a couple of years more will see it but the supply does not seem likely to outrun the demand for some as ia shown by the fact that rents are going however rents may go they will take some time to equal those of They are now nearly 50 per cent. Laist year a firm of Cincinnati capitalists threatened or were said to threaten to remove their building operations to Chicago because Cincinnati rents were too They would comfort in this A house of six rooms and range in the hot and cold water on both and may be bad for or a Without going into it may be said that houses may be rentad at figures below those of any large western aud that all but those of the cheapest sort are provided with the conveniences Houses which now rent for a and which but two years ago would only bring provided with hot and cold The better class of houses are also provided with which remove the dust and annoyance attendant on household except that in the to the The poorer classes are here able to command that sanitary luxury of a and the housewife in other cities would be content to have a fo half out of in her furnished is able to command tho use of a range with the boon o f a constant supply of hot water at the I prefer to speak especially of the because it shows to what an extant ideas of comfort prevail among the poorer people of this There are many other points in which this but the theme ia and comfort is Seed Oil for Orleans best known vegetable oils that country produces are cotton seed oil and peanut both of which are understood to have been for years exported to back to us in as fomia is too small a as to much in the home The manufacturers of the new olive is not butter at but a clear greenish agreed to give us a home warranted the ocean to conciliate our ridiculous American they do not label it cotton seed or peanut the former of which it probably who tries it will agree that it cooks as well as salad and as all vegetable oils heat at lower temperature tham the solid animal it does not bum away or waste as rapidly as It comes in convenient a mouthpiece like tha kerosene oil so that you can pour off just the desired quantity for after this can be carefully strained and returned to the except if it has been used for when it must be put into a separate bottle and kept apart for It has a slightly pungent smell when which is said to be entirely removed by the use of a pinch of but which is no worse than other frying through the The egg clam or com that are turned out of olive butter by a good have not a particle of about nor any taste whatever the medium in which they aie of the local papers quotes a Chicago tailor as saying that Sheridan has the finest figure of any man he ever The Sheridan standard of a figure can hardly become a fashionable Sheridan is barely five feet six inches in while he is nearly broad as he is long. He haS a round bullet head set down between hia without the slightest sign of a His body is long enough for a man six feet in This naturally leaves his legs a trifle He does not however physical beauty to sustain hia It was a strange chance that gave Sheridan his A frie Ohio boy of Scotch-Irish be had no influence and secured an appointment to West through the chance favor of member of congress from In the early part of the war Sheridan was a quartermaster in Missouri Early in 1863 he was in buying for the United But soon after he got under range of Grant's and he him his and opportunity was all Sheridan wanted He did not marry until some time after the His wilfe is a daughter of the recently retired General Nast is talking about an illustrated vineyards are rivaling her as a source of One of the first thoughts concerning any new acquaintance is how he makes his how much he how much he is uid is always oa to
