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VOLUME I.
NEWS GLEANINGS,
Eicbty-fiye thousand tons of fertili
zer 9 were sold in North Carolina for the
year 1881.
Silk culture in Lruidana has of late
become a thriving industry, end to-day
promises an abundant production.
More money is coming into the Texas
State Treasury from the sale of school
lands than from taxes and all other
sources.
In 1865 Florence, S. C., contained only
ten houses. It now has a population of
over 2.0(0, and last year over ICO houses
were built.
A Florida paper says that vast quanti
ties of blind mosquitoes are caught in
the swamps of that State for fertilizing
purposes,
Nearly every day from 100 to 150 per
sons pass through Chattanooga, going
West. Tliero are from Western North
Carolina and Southeast Tennessee.
Owing to the crowded condition of
the Alabama State Asylum, Bulloch
county is at the expense of caring for its
insane’paupers at the County Poor-house.
The poor-house of Choctaw county,
Ala., has but one inmate, the first for
several years past. It is an old negro
woman whose age is stated at “ 122 or
thereabouts.”
Atlanta Constitution: The silver vein
of Magruder mine grows richer with the
continual digging. The ore has assayed
as much as SB6 of silver to the ton, and
the lead in the ore is also in sufficient
quantity to be valuable.
Some hunters near Douglasville, Ga.,
last week, while fox-chasing, ran a
strange animal to its den, which proved
to he a wild dog. They found a mother
and four puppies, all of which got away
but one of the latter.
Within three months ground has been
surveyed or broken for three more blast
furnaces, and steel and iron rolling-mill
a nail factory, and a dozen or more small
er establishments have been started, and
will soon be in full operation in Bir
mingham.
The area of land which will be re
claimed in Florida by the draining of
Lake Okeechobee, work on the canals for
doing which has already been begun, is
larger than the States of New Jersey,
Connecticut, Delewarc and Rhode Is
land.
Mr. W. 1). Graydon, a farmer of But
ler county, Ala., made last season from
one acre of ground 830 gallons of molas
ses, besides putting some of the cane on
the market, saving 3,008 stalks for seed
and reserving about one thousand stalks
for consumption by his family.
Charleston'News and Courier: A Mrs:
Coker, -with her three children, in an ox
cart, was going home from Perry. Ga.
The road they traveled passed through
very rank wire grass, which had been
set on fire. In trying to get out of the
way the cart and oxen became fastened
among pine logs and the fire overtook
them. The cart wa3 consumed with the
two children inside, aml-the’oxen we,re
burned to death. The woman attempted
te escape with her infant, but her cloth
ing caught fire and she and the other
child were so badly burned that they
have since died.
Good Eating and flood Writing.
In old monastic days good eating was
under a ban. It was imagined that the
brain could best be kept clear and’vigor
ons on a low diet.
Romantic young ladies in our time
love to think of their favorite authors as
fed on a divine ambrosia. It brings
them down to a common level to associ
ate them with roast beef and mutton.
Poor Charlotte Bronte was once disen
chanted of her hero-worship. Thackeray
was her favorite author, and in he; lonely
home on the moors, her imagination in
vested him with all ideal graces.
On a visit to London she was lifted to
the summit of happiness by an invitation
to a dinner where Thackeray was to be
one of the guests. She was introduced
to the great mau, and sat next to him.
It was a red-letter day in her life, and '
memory was on the alert to retain all his
bright sayings, and report them to her
sisters.
Thackeray, however, did little talking,
but much eating. He had recently re
covered from a severe attack of typhoid
fever, which left him. with a ravenous ap
petite, while the dinner was exception
ally good. Charlotte looked on in won
der at his feats, and the surprise gradu
ally changed to disgust. One more idol
had turned to clay. If she had known
the modern law of the conservation of
forces, her charity might not have failed
her.
Delays Are Dangerous.
Mrs. Daguerreotype B. Watermelon
called oh Mrs. Americas Vespucius, /a
very fashionable Austin lady. The fol
lowing conversation took place :
“ So your son is going to get married
pretty soon, I hear.” _ .
“Yes, he will get married m a few
months.”
“Heis so young. I should think you
would make him wait until he arrived at
the age of discretion. ”
“Oh, no,” responed the mother, who
has had five or six husbands, “if he
waits until he arrives at the age of dis
cretion, he will never get married at all.’
—Texas Siftings.
Tee Providence Press says there has
been enough written about the Ameri
can ship to sink that forgotten relic cf
bygone glorv if the unfortunate craft
Could be loaded with it.
THE JACKSON NEWS.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Jay Gould owns $53,000,000 in
stocks, f' -
Easter cards, it iifsaid, will
be the rage.
Pittsburg has several colored police
men on the force. ) [
Edison is recuperating in Florida and
giving electricity a rest.
When lunacy is no longer an excuse
for crime, crime will perceptibly diminish.
Tramps may now be expected in the
role of “ Mississippi overflow sufferers.”.
Victor Hugo is of opinion that if the
Czar will not spare the people, God will
not spare the Czar. " ‘
The woman who rode a bicycle COO
miles in six consecutive days, at St.
Louis, is a Canadian.
According to Cardinal Manning, it is
an indictable offense in England for a
man to propagate atheism.
_
The American Express Company has
organized a money order system cheapei
than that of the postoffice.
A Russian traveler says that one
third of Asia and a considerable part of
Europe still remain unexplored . j
A Chicago Grand Jury last week rej
turned an indictment against a dead
man. Live criminals are scarce up
there. _
The report of the Secretary, of War
shows that our Indian wars in the last
ten years have cost $5,055,821 in actual
money.
Just what the Mormons think of their
present prospects we are not prepared to
say, but they evidently are not we|i
pleased.
Mb. Touegee, the novelist, allows
himself to be called, in his own paper,
Our Continent, “Hon.” Albion \V.
Tourgee. _
Congress should make a law especially
adapted to the punishment ot the inspired
crank element. The need of such a law
is daily increasing.
Mason’s sentence to eight years in the
Penitentiary for shooting at Guiteau was
oertainly quite enough. Guiteau doubt
less approves the sentence.
The Mississippi House of Representa
tives has passed a bill preventing tliG
sale of tobacco to minors without an
order from their parents or guardians, j
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A bogus priest named Deßohan, ar
rested in Chicago, and familiar with five
languages, has borne in his brief exist
ence of thirtv-oiio years, twenty-five
aliases.
It is reported that John Ensseil
Young, the newly appointed Minister to
China, will soon marry Miss Julia E.
Coleman, a niece of ox Governor Jewell,
of Connecticut.
Lieutenant ScHwatka, of the Arctic
Expedition of 1879, speaking of the
Jeannette’s orew, says there is no hope
for DeLong and party, and little f<>r
Chip’s boat’s crew.
i 1
Robert Bonner thinks the time will
come when two minutes will be very
ordinary time for a trotter. As Bonner
is opposed to betting, there is no change
here to lay a wager.
The visit of General Sherman to the
West will probably result in the abandon
ment of several military forts in Texas,
and the establishment of posts at Sdn
Antonio and Fort Bliss.
' Hallif. Hutchinson, a little girl nine
yeai's old, is probably the youngest tele
graph operator in the world. She is
stationed at a town in Texas where she
lias entire charge of an office.
The indications are that Mason will
eventually be pardoned. Petitions ask
ing for his pardon are flooding in to the
President from Legislatures, societies
and citizens in great numbers.
This is the question which Mormons
ask our Congressmen:’ “How do you
know it’s bad to have..a dozen wives?
You haven’t tried it. Wo have.” That
may be regarded as a clincher.
Archibald Forbes has discovered’
that an American audience’s estimate on
a lecture is to he discovered, not from
the applause, but from the number of
people who sit till the leoture is ended.
■lt fs stated that Hu? Gr, having re
ceived convincing proofs that the Nihilists
are determined to abandon their po.icv
of assassination, imperial clemency will
consequently be extended to political
prisoners.
The Sunday saloon question, just now,
is the topic of interest in Ohio-whether
it is better hr go in by tlie front door or
by the back door. No saloomst was
ever known to keep both doors locked at
! the same time.
The report that four towns were
destroyed by an earthquake in Costa
Rica later information says, was an
“ exaggeration,” yet how great an exag-
ITevoted to tlie Interest of Jaolcson .ind Butts Oount-V.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2ft, 1882:
geration is not stated. Perhaps it was
all exaggeration.
Four women in the vicinity of Rich
mond, Ind., and a Methodist preacher
and two women at North Lcwisbnrg,
Champaign County, Ohio, have gone
insane over religion tho past two weeks
and been placed in lunatic asylums.
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The beautiful Mrs. Langtry would
like to come to tins country but her
agent wants so much tliat slio will prob
ably lie denied the privilege. Asa rule
managers endeavor to mako contracts
with a view to making something for
themselves.
♦
Dn. Georoe H. Lawson, of London,
tried for the murder of his brother-in
law, Percy Malcolm John, a mere bov.
that LA might Come into possession of
his property, has been found guilty and
sentenced to bo hanged. The evidence
was circumstantial, but conclusive.
Tiie outlook on the Lower Mississippi
is every thing but promising. The whole
country is flooded, without any prospect
of tho water receding at an early day.
In the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, the
country for forty miles around, on either
side of tho river, is like an ocean.
An item to sausage-eaters fropi. the
Louisville Courier-Journal: “ A man
who directed, ft'piece Of bark i)i his'
sausage* tho Imfefu'v shop to]
know what had become of tho rest of
the dog. The butcher was so affected
that he could give him only a part of the
tale.” ■ '
Police Commissioners of Balti
more have dismissed a policeman f.e
not arresting a woman who was assault
ing another witli a horsewhip. As ska
was his wife and the assaulted woman
his sweet-heart, he felt that be cqnld not
interfere without great embarrassment.
The Commissioners relieved him ot all
further embarrassment by relieving him"
Hale the silver dollars eireulateiT in
Montana are alleged to be counterfeit!
madfe by the Chinese in Ban Francisco.
They are described as of exactly tbs
weight of the genuine ones, and omi
thirty-second part of an iuch larger in
diameter. They contain only sixteen
cents’ worth of silver, which is all on
the surface.
Eighty-five houses in South Bothle
hem, Pennsylvania, are quarantined be
cause of smallpox, and the disease is re
ported on the increase. Why this dis
ease has become so alarming there it is
difficult to say. The town is high and
healthy, and is the home of the Mo
ravians, than whom no ono could’ be
cleaner or more particular in neatness.
Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, the defaulting
Boston Bank President, who has been
sentenced to. the House of Correction for.
a term of -three years, may well congrat
ulate hesself. She promised to pay hex
depositors an interest that amounted to
96 per cent., and in consequence failed
to return the principal, .by,jvhiqh tjio de
positors lost something like $175,000.
The Milwaukee Sun suggests a plan
for “ saving the country.” It says: “Let
Northern people go South in the winter,
and Southern people go North in the
summer, and let the young of both sec
tions fall in love with each other and do
a little marrying, and when Northern
and Southern grandmothers go traveling
back and forth to visit the babies that
will naturally come upon the scano, that
will naturally end all sectional feeling.”
The Paris Figaro says of Skobeleff:
“This General has apt changed during
the last four years. Ho is now Ihirty
seven, or thereabouts. He is very tall
—so tall that in a campaigning time
he can not stand upright in his tent. His
face is exceedingly intelligent, his eyes
blue and keen and quick, his forehead
full, and his heard brightly blonde ; at
the very first glance his person reveals
the energetic and loyal soldier, ready to
dare all and sacrifice everything.”
The Galveston News suggestively
says: “ When a President is shot, every
thing in the United Slates can he- turned
topsey turvey, and the occupant of al
most every office, from Secretary of
State to tlie humblest tide waiter,
changed. Had Mac Lean succeeded m
his nefarious attempt on the life of the
Queeil, hardly a particle of difference
would have occurred in the Government
of .England; nqt an bffiqe would have
chnftgbd from Prime Minister down to
letter carrier.” . r ,
-The; most dangerous element in this
ctnnirf- 18 the inij|rcd, trank*. Henry
KeSshaw, life **'emtf<fi-sa<lAr from
heaven sent by Guiteau to, shoot Dr.
Gray ” of the Vale Lunatic Asylum, at
Utica, N. Y., when arrested, lmd upon
his person two navy revolvers, one si ogle
barrel revolver, one repeater, one dirk,
cleaver, one bottle of chloroform and
thirty bundles of cartridges. As an
arsenal he was evidently prepared to do
some killing. Dr. Gray, fortunately,
received only a flesh wound. Dr. Gray
was the chief medical expert of the
Government in the Guiteau trial.
A Boston man claims to be the in
ventor of baloon shades, and a Chicago
woman is said to have first suggested a
tumbler with a thick bottom.
Juvenile Mortality.
One of tho most mysterious phenom
ena of human existence is the large per
centage of mortality among young chil
dren. A fearful proportion of tho deaths
everywhere are those of persons who
have just begun to live. Even when
due allowance is made for faults of nurs
ing and training, it appears lmrdly possi
ble that any improvement can offset
the inherited weakness from which so
many children suffer, and, as yet, scienco
has taught little concerning those epi
demics which find the majority of their
victims among the little ones. Still, in
telligent care and favorable surroundings
can do much. The English statistics,
much more full and accurate than those
of our own country, show that in the
rural counties the mortality of children
under five years of age does not exceed,
and often falls below, forty in the thou
sand. Iu the cities and towns the aver
age is much greater, ranging from about
fifty-nine in the thousand, hi Pnrtsmoath,
to over ninety-five in Birmingham and
Sheffield, and to over one hundred and
three in Liverpool. In nineteen largo
towns, containing an aggregate of a mil
lion and nearly twenty-four thousand
children, the deaths for a yearfrom their
number were 82,250. This is a fearful
number, and no doubt the ligmes
increased through causes which might
have , been avoided.. Still, had every
thing been done, tho little victims must
have ,L>'on counted by myriads. As
things are, it. is Orol lible that, in very
many cases Continued life wnifliTuffi havo
.bee 4 a blessing, but the quaint- old epi
taph,
, . -i‘ap ; fo.OU wpjfpno %, M
i- O i * .won.dtjAvhat I bgij| Jjir,
will nevertheless suggest itselfT—Cincin
nati Gazette.
To Cure Sheep-Killing Dogs.
The question of how to protect sheep
from tlie caresses of destructive dogs,
which lias so long agitated the agricul
tural mind, seems to havo been happily
settled by the farmers of Hunterdon and
Somerset counties, New Jersey. They
tried tlie experiment of mixing in a few
goats with their, sheep, and after the
gouts and skjeirf liad affiliated for a few
days, -they procured some dogs, regular
sheep-killers, and started them for the
folds. Tim dogs, regarding the affair as
a sort of picnic, went for wool and came
back shorn of- their conceit. They
seem to run against goats in the most
unexpected places, and wete struck by
the singular nature of tlie thing and al
most drove into tho ground by the force
of the remarks made by the, goats with
their heads, in tlie heat of tlie debate.
Mutton, which the dogs had always re
garded as a delicacy, suddenly palled
upon the taste and they felt coyea. No
doubt the goats, with customary polite
ness, asked their guef*ts to pass their
plates and liavo some of the mutton,
but the dogs did not care for mutton.
They came out of the field limping on
tlueo legs, and no word of encourage
ment from thefitrmer could induco them
to go back. They had been broke of
sucking eggs. *■-'
Squeaking Shoes,
1 eorrospondent of th<3 fVountrg Gen-
Unnan gives, the following, remedies for
111 ) above nuisance :
Not long ago I went to my slioeatore
and asked if the squeaking could be pre
vented in my shoes. I was told it could
bo very easily,-and it was done by open
ing (lie soles of lily slides at the shank,
pouring in powdered soapstone, taking
care to have the solo well-filled to the
toe, and t hen pegging or sewing them
ill) again. My shoes did not squeak
after" that. A Shoemaker’* receipt to
prevent squeaking is to put a piece of
cloth (sheeting) between every two lay
ers'of leather on the sole. Last sum
mer I purchased a pair of fine boots,
which annoyed me very much by squeak
ing. Ho on very hot days in haying I ,
turned them up to the direct rays of the I
sun and put on grease; as fast ns it
dried up I applied more, until they
would take no more, and they have nev
er troubled mo since. Our own plan is
to stand the shoes in a hollow pan and
thin pour in lukewarm water until t.iie
solos are nearly immersed. Keep the
■■filter no nearly lukewarm as possible
for twenty-four knurs, and put on the
shoes while the soles are still damp.
They should not become wet inside.
Degrees of Consideration.
“I believe you are connected with
the church in Elm street, are you not,
Mr. Dickson?” said the customer.
•‘ No, sail, not nil.”
‘‘What! are you not a member of the
African church?”
‘‘Not dis year, sail!"
“ Why did you leave their oomrannion,
Mr. Dickson,* if I may be permitted to
ask ?”
“Well, I’ll tell you, sah,” said Mr,
Dickson, stropping a concave razor on
the palm of his hand, “it was jes like
dis. I jined de church in good fait’;
I gave ten dollars toward tho stated
gospel de fus’ yeah, and de church people
call me ‘ Brudder Dickson; second yeah,
my business being not ho good, and I
gib Mriy five dollars-. That yeah tho
people call mo ‘ Mr. Dickson.’ Dis razor
hurt you, sah?”
“No, the razor goes tolerably well.”
Weil, sah, do third yeah I fell berry
poor; bad sickness ip zqv faipil.fj I
didn’t give nolliii’ for epreachm’. well,
sah, nrter dat, dey call me ‘ dat old nig
ger Dickson,’ and I lf* ’em!”
An Actress’ Ambition.
Mrs. Bjura Jewett, the"actress, was
asked whether she did not tire of play
ing the same roles. She said : “ Well,
it depends a great deal upon how well
suited they are to me. In ‘ The Bank
er’s Daughter,’ for instance, having
cried 300 times in as many evenings
alswt nothing, I felt a little wearied of
it, but oven after a play has been run
ning a long time,-there is always an in
terest in watching its effect upon the au
dience and in tho effort to preserve
oneself from sinking into mechanical
acting. But I know satisfac
tion than in mastering a role which I do
not like, for if I do succeed I feel as if I
had gained a victory over my prejudices,
and if tho public approve of me in tho
part it really strengthens my power of
acting by doing well What is not to my
tu.Ua”
Force Exerted in Plano Playing.
Tlie celebrated pianist,Gotlschalk, was
highly amused on finding his pci formaces
studied very closely by a scientist who
hail published a treatise dn the num
ber of muscular efforts that may lie mude
in a given time, for this learned
savant found that in ono brilliant piece
Uottschalk cxeoedodfgreatly tlie estimate
ho had made after careful consideration,
Tho number of consecutive percussions
given out wore found to bo quite aston
ishing. Although Gottsohalk protended
to be grately entertained by liis critics
and their widely differing points of view,
yet ho must have already known that his
physical strength was great. ARhqugh
to all appearance delicately constituted,
he wrestled with the muscular giants
who were engaged in moving his heavy
concert pianos, and with a success that
astonished them so greatly as to mako it
a subject of conversation to the presold
day.
When Bulow was on Ids concert tour
through (iermnny and Austria he mot
llubenstein at Vienna They were both
playing on tho Bozoudorfer pianofortes,
but Bulow would not play on ftiiben
steiu’s instrument. He would have an
other one provided for liis usi;., ITqf.,
Schmidt, of flint city, being curious to
learn the real reason of tills’ iMI-rntina
tion, examined the “ touch ” of each in
strument, respecting tho depth the key
sank and the weight required to depress
them to the lowfest point. The piano
forte that Rubensteiu played remqved
ail average weight of eighty-eight grams
(one gram being equal to fifteen and a
half grains), while Bulow’s requirad an
averago of , 105 grama. Therefore the
keys of the lWrbcnstein pianoforte were
easier to put iu action than those of Bu
low’s pianoforte ; but on the other hand
tho keys sank fully twenty-five per
cent, deeper than Billow’s, so that, the
action of both pianos made pretty equal
demands on the physical powers of tlie
respective performers. But, if Bulow
had played on ltubonsteiu’s instrument
he would have found his hands sinking
too deep, for they tire small. To play
on an instrument with a deep touch one
must have long fingers.
Prof. Schmidt counted the number of
notes' played by Rubinstein at one of bis
concerts and found them to be 62,990 iu
number, and therefore equal to a pres
sure of 9881 pounds in woiglit. On the
Bulow instrument they would be equal
to a pressure of 1,190 5-8 pounds.
When it is considered that something
more than prossure is needl'd in a bril
liant fortissimo, and on a .large instru
ment in a large hall, and that a high de
gree of velocity must bo given to the
hummer and not the more motion duo to
some. weight, some estimate of the ex
penditure of force necessary to deliver
such percussive accents from tho fingers,
may be made.*- Home Journal.
Mosaics.
Tho first authentic account to he found
of any mosaic work in ancient Rome is
given us by Pliny, who says that Bylin
caused soino “stone-laid” work to he
made; and from his and other sources ol
evidence wo Are justified in assuming the
time of its introduction here to have been
about eighty years R. C. This date cor re
sponds with tlio destruction of OorilitH,
when precious objects of all kinds were
carried to Home, and naturally created a
wish in tho minds of wealthy Romans to
possess niosiiics as well as other luxurious
embellishments. Avery learned Italian
writer lias divided Roman mosaics into
fbur classes, namely—tesselated and see
tile, applied to pavements generally; tic
tile and vermieulated or pictorial applied
to walls and vaults. Of these, the. tesse
luted is probably the most ancient, and
consisted of small cubes of marble, sel
dom averaging more than three-quarter*
of an inch square, worked by hand into
such geometrical figures us, wheu com
bined, would best compose a larger figure
equally geometrical, but, of course more
intricate, it is probable that the first
colors used were black and wliite. Tin
best samples of this tesselatod work oc
cur at Pompeii and at the baths of
Coracalla; but very fine specimens have
been found in this country. Tho seethe
or sliced work was formed, some suv, of
tho different slices of marble of which
figures and ornaments were made; others
hold that these slices were never em
ployed to imitate figures or any actual
subject, but produced their eflVct solely
through the shape, color and vein of the
marbles which were contrasted. It is
believed that no piece of fragment of
ancient sectjle work imitating a subject
of any kind lias yet been found; and if it
laid been so employed we must lmve had
examples at Pompeii, where the student
may find all varieties of mosaic pavement
known to either Greek or Roman. The
most noble specimen of seethe work now
extant is the splendid pavement of the
Pantheon at Rome, where the principal
marbles are arranged, each of great
superficial extent, of alternate round anil
square slabs. The building of the
Pantheon was finished about thirty years
before the Christian era. This kind ol
work required the employment of costly
marbles, and no remains of it have been
discovered in any Other country than in
Jfidy. —Pattern Gazette.
Commercial Statist lch.
Uncle Nace and Jim Webster got. into
a (lisputo on Austin avenue. Uncle
Nacb is one of tlie wealthiest colored
property owners iIT Austin, and puts on
style accordingly, while Jim Webster is
comparatively poor.
“J kin sell you out forty times befouh
yer kin sell me out one time,” said Nnco
pompously.
“Of course yer kin. Who am gwine
ter make mo an offer for sich a wulHess,
knock-kneed, goggle eyed moke as you
is.."—Texas Siftings.
Stopping or Staying.
Hypercritical folks will have it that
it is not proper to say “stopping” at a
hotel. “Staying” is the right expres
sion. Iri the name of common senso,
why? A person “stops” where he
“stays,” doesn’t he? And, if there is
any choice between the words, “stop”
should be preferred. A majority of the
patrons of hotels remain but a single
night. To stay at a place rather implies
a long period. But either words
ana wera. — Progress.
no Forgot tire Brillet.
It is but seldom that tho comic ele
ment enters into attempts at suicide. A
diverting exception to this general rule
is afforded by the suicidal enter
prise: of u Hungarian engineer, resident
at Temesvjir, who, being a steadfast vo
tary of Bacchus, had drunk himself into
so unsatisfactory a state of mind that- a
few days ago ho determined to put an
end to his existouco. Having provided
himself with a pistol, and locked him
self up in a private room of a hotel in
the town, which apartment ho hud spec
ially' Jlived for tho purpose, lie pressed
tho muzzle of the weapon against liis left
bronstiind jmill'd tlie trigger. The usual
explosion followed, and the would-be sui
cide fell to the ground, where he lav pa
tiently for novel rd minutes, waiting for
death. Dissolution, however failiug to
sot iu as promptly as he had expected,
lie presently arose, left tho hotel and
walked Inane, wi,tli a view to dying corn-'
fiil tnd >ly in liifi eWn apart nuMit. A lit Ho
later on, perplexed by his unaccountable
vitality, he sent for a stiqieou to examine
the wound, Beyond a slight score,lung
ot the skin, no injury could bo detected;
and, while the qiu'gcuu was vainly search
ing for a mortal hurt, liis patient anx
iously lyquirpn “whero the btftWt hud
lodged?' 1 “I fancy,” was the reply,
: “Unit ysiu must have forgotten to put, it
: into the pistol.” ..“Givq me, my jyipst
, coaf/’ Ajnrfdiited tile mfunded self-mtiyftr,
and. sure etnmghp safely ensconced in
tygfwuUh-pofifp-t pi that garment was
found Vho,missile with winch lio bail. de
signed to extinguish bis vital spfiiß.
Since this Jifovery Jio lias quitted-
Temesvar, iu .which town lio found that
Ms in Ah attrmtitto kill himself with a
charge of powder and a wad hail ren
dered him the object of more public
notice, attended Ivy uncontrollable bi-
Inrity. than was altogether agreeable to
him.— Jsnidw f/'vbgruph.
Practical ifi'.slmml Hunting.
It is related of a Connecticut woman,
whose husband died a short time ago,
that instead of, lounging and languish
ing about until soino one asked Tier to
marry again, sho plainly announeod that
she wanted anew husband, and ho
lfamed tho price that she was ivady to
pay for a satisfactory article. Of course
there were plenty of applicants, and at
least quo of them met tlm widow’s
views, for there was a wedding that very
day.
There is nothing romantic about this
sort of match-making, but, on the other
hand, there is no nonsense about it. In-,
stead of listening to a story so tender
and ardent that she coubl not have the
heart to quostion the suitor’s fitness for
tho place to which h aspired, the widow
qdopted n method that enabled her to
talk sense before marriage, and learn
whyt promise there would be of a souti
jnent afterward. Bho did not consume
a number of the best years of her life m
wishing that one or another man would
propose, but she ascertained, like a sen
sible woman, who was really in the mar
ket, and made her choice from those
that wore available. Sentimentalists
may sneeringly say that the limn married
for money, hut will they mention any
other man’who railed to do likewise
when ho had a chance ? The widow and
her new husband began life with a dis
tinct understanding and without, having
had any lovers’quarrels ; lot sentimental
couples shew a better beginning if they
can.— New York Herald.
Chinese Printing.
The blocks are all of the same size,
about eight l>y twelve inches, alul about
hklf an infill thick. Each block (repre
sents two leaves, or four pages of the
book, being engraved on both sides. Tho
blocks for a Complete work can thus bo
stowed away in a very small compass.
Tho post of engraving a page c 1 ’ those
wooden blocks is said to be but little
more than the expense of setting up a
page of Chinese type and preparing it
for the press. An edition of one copy
can bo printed if no more nrc required,
and thus the expense of keeping a largo
stock of printed book* on hand is en
tirely avoided. Any errors or misprints
that may be discovered can, as anile, bo
corrected on the blocks with but very
little trouble. A skillful printer can
print “by hand 5,000 loaves of two pages
each a day, using no press or machinery
whatever, iio supplies ins own tools,
and receives as wages about one shilling
a day. The paper ordinarily used is
white, and of the best quality, although
a yellowish kind is also made use of at a
reduction of twenty pef cent, on the sell
i.ig price. The books are bound in the
usual Chinese style, and fastened with
white silk thread. They present an ap
pearance which satisfies the taste of the
inpst fastidious native. Tho leaves are
printed only on one side.
Lore Led by Lucre.
,l No Oigarot-fJhiii ley,” she said, using
the name by which he was known among
the wild, reckless set with which he as
sociated; “lean never be your bride.”
“Pansy—Miss Perkins,” snid Regin
ald, in those deep, thrilling tones ot his,
“ I cannot—indeed I cannot let you go 1
Btny one moment —only one moment 1”
How that rich voice rang in her oars 1
Despite herself it moved her strangely.
“ Very well,” she said, “ I will stay.!’
Darting hastily to tho hat-rack in tho
front hall, Reginald fumbled for a mo
ment in the upper left-hand pocket of
his overcoat and drew therefrom a piece
of white paper. Returning to tho par
lor lip knolt beside tho fauteuil on which
Pansy had thrown herself in an agony
of grief, and kissed away the bitter tears
of pain and sorrow that, were welling up
into the beautiful brown eyes.
“ Bee, my darling,” ho exclaimed,
eagerly, placing tho paper before her.
“Look at this, my precious one.”
Pansy opened her eyes nnd gazed
languidly at the paper. “What is it,
Tootsie?” she murmured. Drawing
himself Up proudly and holding in ono
hand the paper and in tho other his pan
cake hat, Reginald said in proud tones :
“It is a notice of my promotion to tho
ribbon counter. Iloarafter my salary
will be sl2 per week. Pansy, my
precious one, we are saved.” The girl
looked at him lovingly. “ You bet wo
re,” sho said, anil her arms were
clasped about his thirteen-inch neck in
an ecstacy of passion.
TERM?: $1.50 per Annum.
NUMBER 29.
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
Does a man break into humor when
ho cracks a joke ?
It is no longer a matter of pride to
have a high forehead. A cow has that, ;
uud she is very low-ly.
In union there is strength. “Poor
Toni’s a cold,” but Tom and Jerry’s hot.
—Jloston Commercial Bulletin.
The best description we have ever
heard of a slow man was that ho was too
slow to get out of liis own way. — Bowpll
Courier.
When the washerwoman calls for a
young man’s linen, docs that make her
a shirt caller? Neckst. Steubenville
Herald.
“Money makes my ma go,” said little
Skeesicks when his mother, armed with
a $26 greenback, left for a down-town
shopping tour.
Enquirer: Aro plants in a sleeping
room unhealthy? Not necessarily. We’ve
seem some very healthy plants growing
in sleeping rooms.
“Don’t you think that Miss Brown is
a very sweet girl?” asked Heury. “Oh,
yes, very sweet,” replied Jane; “that is
to say, she is well preserved.'’
“Are you dead, Tim?” said an Irish
father to his son, who had fallen down a
well. “ Not dead,, father, but apache
ices,” came up from the depths.
Nil woman u'er contented la,
JS< iiiaitcr wliat mlio’b got;
Fur wlicii she builds a little houM
She fil ways wants ft lot.
—JJucKpnstick
“It is poor taste to laugh at your oWn
jokes,”, suid Fendcrson; “something I
never do, through Ido say it.” “Does,
anybody else ever laugh at them?”
asked Fogg.
A Brooklyn man has just found his
sister from whom lie has been separated
fifty years. She was the cook in his
boarding house, and lie recognized the
style of her haflli. j
“Rave you any faith in mince pie as
a cure for headache?” asked ono young,
married lady of another. “ Yes,” was
tlie reply, “bring out your mince pie.
1 get mince-pie headaches regularly."
When Brown complained of a rush o£
blood to tlm head Fogg endeavored to,
ease liis mind by reminding him that
nature .abhors a vacuum, and Brown’s
blood rushed to his head worse than
ever.
“Man and wife are all one, are they?”
said she. “Yes; what of it?” said he
suspiciously. “Why, in that case,”
said his wife, “1 came homo awfully
tipsy li-st night and feel terribly ashamed
of myself tins morning.” He nover said
a word.
At a young ladios’ seminary reoently,
during an examiuation in history, ono of
tho pupils was interrogated thus:
“ Mary, did Martin Luther die a natural
death ?” “ No,” was the reply; “ho was
oxeomunmieuted by a bull.’' —Harvard
Lampoon.
Little Edith was terribly sleepy the
other night. Bho began her customary
prayer upon retiring, but when she got
us tar as "Our Father,” her eyes closed
and her head tumbled on to tho pillow.
“ I tau’t tuy it to-night,” she said, “I’m
too s’oopy. Ho knows tho yest of it.”
A lecturer was once in a dilemma
which he will probably never forgot.
While talking about art he ventured the
assertion, “Art can never improve na
ture. ’’ And at that moment someone
in tho audience cried out in a gruff voice,
“Can’t lie? Well, then, how do you
think you would look without your wig?”
“ Memory is a wonderful thing,” said
Jack Miller to his friend Dan Watts.
“Just think of what a fellow’s head can
hold! It’s gigautic, sir gigantic!”
Watts—“ 1 have often heard your friends
say yon have a very lino memory, Jack.”
Miller ('flattered)—“Well, that's very
kind. Yes, I have a pretty good memory. ”i
Watts—“Do you think yon can recall
the teu dollars 1 lent you three years
ago?”
Manitoba.
Tins, than which perhaps ttiere is not
to he found a more inhospitable region
below the latitude of Greenland, is pie
tured as a Northern paradise, uml ren
dered magnificently attractive on paper.
A flat country, almost without timber,
swept during the greater part of tlie
year by high winds surcharged with
snow and sleet, called, in tho expressive
phraso of tlie denizens, “blizzards,”
frozen during the winter hard ns on ice
berg, and to a fearful depth, and deluged
with water in the spring, it possesses
many attractions for an Esquimaux.
Horses and cattle fore poorly in Mani
toba, sinco if they escape tho loss of
their ears by frost, they are subject tc.
gradual starvation (luring the long win
ter. It is doubtless pleasant enough
during the brief summer, and a returned
explorer gives it as his opinion that the
land is propuefcive, although he found it
difficult to reach a correct conclusion iu
regard to it in tho spring, while it was
several inches under water.— Canadian
Letterin Cincinnati Gazette.
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Tamerlane’s Human Pyramid.
Tho great conquoror of Central Asia,
in ten years from the time he struck the
first blow, had risen to absolute authc rity
over a numerous and warlike people.
• Timur (also called Timur-Beg ot Timur-
Leng, for his lameness, and known
among Western writers as Tamerlane)
had successfully warred ugninbt the
Kalmucks and the tribos Kbaurezin, and
turned his attention, between these cam
paigns, to supporting Toktemesh Khan,
of tho claimants to the throne of Kipec
hak, ultimately, in 1376, plaoing him in
undisputed possession. Then, with the
view of restoring its former limits to the
empire of Jagatal, he summoned the
I’rince of Herat and the other chiefs of
Northern Khorassan, Rnd, on their
refusal, immediately attacked and re
duced them to submission, levying a
contr Jmtion as a penalty. But, in 1383,
the people of Herat again rebelled, and
murdered the envoys whom he sent to
remonstrate with them. Timur avenged
this by attacking and captaring the city.
Ho took 2,000 of the garrison and built
them up with alternate layers of brick
and mortar in the form of a pyramid, as
a liorribly singular and effective reminder
of tho consequenoes of rebellion.