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SCHNEIDER^
DEALER IN
WlN£S V LI QUORS AMD CIGARS
AUGUSTA, GA.
▲gent for Hr. Schleifer & Co.’s San Francisco
CALIFORNIA BRANDY.
1818081 EUCQUGTT CHftffiPAGHS.
E. R. SCHNEIDER,
Augusta, Georgia.
(Blbnlon gMjmtw ffante.
LSaHTcARRIAGEsT BUGGIES.
J. F. AULD,
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
BEST WORKMEN!
BEST WORK!
LOWEST PRICES!
Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O
Common Buggies - SIOO.
REPAIRING ANf) BLACKSMITIITNG.
Work done in this line in the very best style.
The Best Harness
My22-1y \
H. K. CAIRDNER,
ELBEKTON, GA..
DEALER IN
BEY EOOUS SRDCBHIES,
HARDWAREfCROCKERY, .
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS
&e-
T. M. SWIFT. MACK ARNOLD
3WIFT & ARNOLD,
# (Successors to T. M. Swift,)
dealers in
DRY GOODS,
GRQCERIRS, CROCKERY, BOOTS AND
SHOES, HARDWARE, &c.,
Public Square, B'*' 8 '*' ELnERTON GA.
fllrajlmsY.
P. J. SHANNON,
Saddler & Harness Maker
Is fully prepared to manufacture
HARNESS, TinnuuD
13JiLl)Lrjo, SADDLES,
At tbe shortest notice, in the best manner, and
on reasonable terms.
Shop at John S. Brown's Old Stand.
ORDERS SOLICITED.
S. N. CARPENTER.
AT T 011 NE Y A T LA W,
EUiEHTOiV, GA.
it%S“lYill practice in the Northern Circuit.
Special attention given to the collection ot
claims.
BOOTS * SHOES.
rpilE UNDERSIGNED RESPECTFULLY AN-
X nonnoes to the people of Elberton and
surrounding country that be has opened a first
class
Boot and Shoe
SHOP IN ELBERTON
Where he is prepared to make any style of Boot
or Shoe desired, at short notice and with prompt
ness.
REPAIRING NEATLY EXECUTED,
The patronage of the public is respectfully
solicited.
ap.29-tf CS. W. GARIIECIIT.
ANiiSEW MALE HIGH SCHOOL
ELBERTON, GA-
P. E DATANT, A M.. - - Principal.
Ths next term will commence January 25,
1875.
BATES OF TUITION.
Ist class per term of li months $lO 00
2d “ “ “ “ 22 00
3d “ “ “ “ 31 Ou
One-half payable in Advance.
These rates apply only for the full term. Pu
pils entering for shorter periods will be charged
25 per cent, higher.
No deduction made for absence except for
providential causes
Board in good families at 12.50 per month.
P E. DAVANT, A. M., Principal
ELBERTuN FEMALE
COLLBGIATLJNSTITUTE
rpHE exerc.ses of this institute will be resum-
JL ed on Monday, January 25, 1874.
RATES OF TUITION.
ist term 6 months.
Primary Department sl6 00
2d class, embracing Geography, Arithme
tic, English Grammar 22 00
3d class, Languages, Mathematics or
Higher English Branches 31 00
One-half payable in Advance
These rates apply only for the full term.
Pupils entering for shorter periods will be
charged 25 per cent higher
No deduction made for absence except for
providential causes
Mbs Laura Lofton will assist in the educa
tional department. Mrs. Hester will continue
in charge of the music.
Board in the best families can be obtained at
$12,50 per month.
P. SIMS, Principal-
New Series.
IS IT ANYBODY’S BUSINESS ?
Is it anybody’s business if a gentleman should
choose
To nait upon a lady if the lady don’t refuse?
Or, to speak a little plainer, that the meaning
all may know,
Is it anybody’s business if a lady has a beau?
Is it anybody’s business when the gentleman
does call
Or when lie leaves the lady? or if he leaves at
all?
Or is it necessary that the curtain should_ be
drawn,
To save from further trouble the outside look
ers-on.
Is it anybody’s business but the lady's if her
beau
Rides out with other ladies, and doesn’t let her
know?
Is it anybody’s business but the gentleman’s if
she
Should accept another escort, where he doesn’t
chance to be?
If a person’s on the sidewalk, whether greater,
whether small?
Is it anyboby’s business where that
means to call?
Or if you see a person, as he’s calling any
•■wirere,
Is it anybody’s business what his business
may be there?
The'substance of our query, simply stak'd,
would be this: , . *
Is it business what another's busi
ness is?..'
If it is, or if it isn't, we would really like to
know,\^*
For we are certain if it isn't, there are some
who make it so.
If ’tis, we’ll join the rabble, and act the noble
P a l. „ "V
Of tattlers a%t defnmers who throng the public
mart;
But if not, we’ll act the teacher until everybody
learns
It were better in the future to mind their own
concerns.
JONAS SAMPSON’d MONEY.
‘•What do you think, Mr. Slocomb. is
the uiattfei with Mr. Sampson?” said
Mrs. Grant to me, one evening, as I
entered the parlor set aside for the
general use of Mrs. Smith’s boarders.
I had arrived at my boarding house
later than usual that evening, and, con
seuqently, had dined alone, so I had not
heard the latest boarding-house gossip,
and I may add that my boarding house
—perhaps I should be speaking more
correctly if I said the boarders, especial
ly Mrs. Grant—always had a full and
never failing supply of the commodity
on hand.
Thinking that Mrs. Grant had some
new gossip to impart I smilingly rejoin
ed :
“I roally could not think, Mrs. Grant,
what is the matter with him.”
“He has the diptheria,” she slowly and
solemnly said. “He came home this
evening at live o’clock, and he said he
felt very ill and that his throat pained
him badly, and went to bed after send
ing for a doctor. The latter soon came,
and found that he was suffering from
ditheria. As soon as Mrs. Smith in
formed us of it at dinner, Miss Gardner,
who says she's had the disease herself
and has attended others who have had
it, volunteered to nurse him at least
three nights in the week. Very gener
ous on her part, certainly; but, never
theless decidedly reckless of her to ex
pose herself to the chance of catching
that terrible diphtheria. Poor young
man ! I pity him. So young and almost
sure to die.”
Had I not at this moment left the
room, Mrs. Grant would have poured co
pious comments into my ear, for at least
half an nour, based upon the subject of
Mr. Sampson’s diphtheria, and diphthe
r.a in general; for she assumed to be
an authority upon all subjects, from
cheese to—well, I really cannot say
what.
Jonas Sampson had been boarding at
the house for nearly two months. He
was a nice, genial fellow, and about
twenty eight years old. That he was a
clerk in a large wholesale dry good
house in the city, I and tjie other board
ers knew, but nothing more. I was sor
ry to hear that he was sick with that
fearful life-destroying disease; and, on
leaving Mrs. Grant, I went up to his
room to see if I could be of any service
to him. I, a stranger, had once been
terribly ill in a boarding-housa myself,
and want of proper care and nursing
had aggravated my suffering greatly ;
so I could fully appreciate Jonas Samp
son’s precarious and unfortunate posi
tion. I say precarious and unfoi'tunate,
because comparatively few out of the
many that are attacked with diphtheria
ever recover.
He was breathing heavily and with
difficulty when I entered the room.—
Knowing something about the nature of
the disease, lat once saw, as it had ad
vanced its hold so far upon him already,
that he was suffering from the most rna
lignant type of diphtheria ; and that he
was more liable to die than recover.—
Under the circumstances, I thought that
if he had any relatives, it would he but
X’ight for them to be sent for immediate
ly. After inquiring how he felt, and
asking if I could be of any service to
him, suggested as much. He said lie
would wait till to-morrow noon, and if
he was not better by that time, that he
would have a telegram sent to his moth-
jESTA-IBJAISTTIBD 1Q59.
ELBEKTON GEORGIA. MARCII 10. 1875.
er, who, he informed me, lived in Ohio
As Miss Gardner had already installed
herself as nurse, I told her that I would
*it up with Mr. Sampson the following
night. She told me she had offered her
services because Mrs. Smith, the landla
dy, had said that he must go to the hos
pital unless he had a nurse, for that she
hadn't any time to look after people that
was sick.
She, Miss Gardner, after seeing him,
did not think he was in a fit condition
to be removed, the night being very wet
and damp, so she had offered her serv
ices which Mr. Sampson had thankfully'
accepted.
Just before noon of the following day
Jonas Sampson died. The physician
said that the disease had been deep
seated, before he had been called to pre
scribe for him, and that it was not at all*
surprising that it had so quickly ended
fatally.
Mr. Smith our landlady’s husband, in
my presence searched Sa'mpson’s effects;
but not a letter or paper was found that
gave any clue as to who his relatives
were or where they resided ; neither was
more than five dollars found in his pock
ets,.. and u silver wMAi worth about
afrioum. He* had told me
fiisSuofcher lived in Ohio ; but jn what
town, or county he did not state ; so we
could not apprise any of his relatives of
his death. *.
Mix Smith, as it happened, knew the
firm for whom he clerked ; and the even
ing of Sampson he, accompanied
by myself, called on one k of them, a Mr.
Horton.
Mr. Horton knew nothing of liis late
employee’s relatives, and was greatly
surprised when fold by Mr. Smith not
more than $5 had been discovered among
hffi effects?-^
He said that Sampson, the preceding
afternoon, had drawn part of four'
months salary due him, amounting to
just S3OO Not feeling well, he had ®e
quested of him to be allowed leave of
absence for that afternoon, which had
been granted.
“Now,” said Mr. Horton, “what has
become of all that money he drew yes
terday ?”
“Mr. Smith,” he remarked, it has ei
ther been lost or stolen. The former, of
course, is possible, though unlikely: but
it is more prdbable it has been stolen.—
It is very often the case that thieves are
found in boarding-houses, whose sole
purpose is to plunder their fellow board
ers. Now, among your wife’s flock of
boarders there may be such a thief; and
granting that Sampson was robbed, per
haps we can lay our hands on the cnl
prit. Who entered the room he occupi
ed after he went to bed yesterday after
noon until the time of the searching of
the effects? Do you know? I feel a
great interest in this matter because
Sampson was a favorite of mine, besides
I’ve a detective's nature, and like to
solve mysteries.”
“To my knowledge,” I said, speaking
before Mr. Smith, “Mr. Smith, the phy
sician, myself, and a young lady boarder,
Miss Gardner by name, who staid up
and nursed him last evening. She to
my knowledge, is the only person who
was in the room alone with Jonas before
his death.”
“As far as I know,” said Mr. Smith,
“Mr. Slocomb is correct in what he says.
But I doubt very much whether Miss
Gardner would do bui h a thing; in
fact, I can hardly give such a suspicion a
place in my mind for a seco and. She has
as open, honest a face as I ever saw, and
is very lady-like and refined in her man
ners. ’Tis true, she has been boarding
at our house only a month ; and my wife
and I know r nothing about her beyond
that she is a saleswoman in a Broadway
store.
“She may not be a pi’ofessional thief
—perhaps we are wrong in calling her a
thief of any kind—but probably she
chanced to see the money in his coat
pocket, where I saw Ssrnpson place it
befoi’e leaving the store yesterday, and,
on the spur of the moment was tempted
to purloin it; and did so when he was
unconscious from fever or sleep. I will
tell you what we can no,” said Mr. Hor
ton. “To-morrow, when this Miss Gard
ner is away attending to her business,
you and I Mr. Smith, can search her
room, clothes, and things, and if wo do
not find some confirmation of my suspi
cion, in the shape of the money, we will
let the matter drop. Let poor Samp
son’s remains be decently interred,” add
ed Mr. Horton. “And have the bill for
same sent to me. There is, I know, over
a hundred dollars due him, which he
said, when he took his money yesterday,
he would di’aw next week. So there
will be more than enough money to pay
for the funeral expenses and boarding
house bills.”
Mr. Smith agreed to Mr. Horton’s
proposition about searching Miss Gard
ner’s room to ascertain if she had pur
loined the dead man’s missing money,
and accordiiigly the next day it was
done.
To Mr. Smith’s surprise and regi’et,
two hundi’ed and ninety eight dollars
were found secreted in an old dress in
her trunk.
The money was replaced where it had
been discovered and Mr. Horton, his
suspicions being confirmed, forthwith
procured a warrant for her arrest, and
also a search-warrant. The former was
seiwed on her that evening as soon as
issued.
Mr. Horton, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, an
officer and I; were seated in the private
parlor when Miss Gardner came home
from the Broadway otore where she was
employed.
MA Smith went out to her and told
her same parties in the parlor wished to
see her.
She walked in ahead of Mrs. Smith,
plenty of color iu her cheeks, and a bril
liant smile upon her face, perhaps think
ing some friends had called to see her :
but when she saw that four men, one of
whom wore a policeman’s uniform, were
the sole occupants of the apartment, she
started back in dismay, and a little of the
rosiness fled from her cheeks, as if she
had some chilling presentiment of com
ing denger.
“Do these wish to see me,
Mrs. Smith ?” she asked in a faltering
tone. “What for?”
“Ajbut the three hundred dollars you
stole from Jonas Sampson,” said Mr.
Horton sternly.
Mr..Horton, as I rightly judged was
pitiless to any person who he was con
vinced was a criminal; and I believe
he would nave sent his own flesh and
blood to prison, the circumstances being
the same as they were in the present in
stance.
“The three hundred dollars I stole
from Jonas Sampson ?” she repeated, in
apparent amazement, the color dying out
of her face, and leaving it deadly p ile as
she spoke. “Good Heavens ! what do
you mean by accusing I me of such a
crime ?”
“Jonas Sampson had three hundred
dollars on his person the evening before
he diet I,” said Mr. Horton, as sternly as
before. “Mr Slocomb and Mr. Smith
searched Ins effects, and found but five
dollars, lat once suspected that he had
been rpbbed, though it was possible that
he had lost it, but it wasn’t likely*. Mr.
and Mrs. Smith, Mr. Slocomb, the physi
cian, and yourself were the only persons
who entered the dead man’s room from
the time of his sickness until after his
death. My suspicion fastened itself up
on you, and Mr. Smith and I searched’
your room to-day, and discovered in
your trunk, two hundred and ninety
eight dollars, which I believe you stole.
Mr. Smith tells me you get only a salary
of twelve dollars a week ; and therefore,
Laving to pay board and other living ex
penses how could you have so much mo
ney lioffiestly ? You have either to explain
this mystery to my satisfaction, or go to
' ' "*
for the reply, hfit she made
none. She seemed petrified—turned to
stone. She sat in her chair, dumb—her
face and hands blanched nearly to the
color of marble.
“Her mannjer convinces me that she is
guilty,” said he in the tone of man who
is satisfied that he is right. “Officer, do
your duty.”
The police touched her on the arm,
and said:
“Miss, I’ve a warrant for your arrest.
You must go with me to the station
house.”
He, used to such scenes, spoke more
pityingly and kindly to her than had Mr.
Horton.
The policeman’s touch put, as if by
magic, some life into her; the color re
turned to her cheeks, and she began to
weep.
“Foi the love of God,” she cried, don’t
take me to prison The money is mine
—I got it honestly. You may have the
money—every cent I have got—but
don't take me to prison—oh, don’t, don’t,
don't.”
My heart went out in picy for the
poor creature who now lay stretched
senseless on the floor. To my mind, she
neither looked nor acted like a guilty
person. She was so youug—about 20,
certainly not more—so fair and lovely!
She a thief! impossible! Shameful,
shameful, to accuse her of such a thing,
[ not only thought, but in the excite
ment of my pity and indignation, said
as much.
“ Young man,” said Mr. Horton, with
a tinge of sarcasm in his voice, “don’t
let your pity get the better hand of
your good sense, please. I don’t say
this is not her first crime, perhaps it is ;
but, nevertheless, she should bu punish
ed. My motto is: Fiat justitia, ruat
coeluin.”
In the meantime with remedies which
the landlady supplied, Miss Gardner re
covered her senses, and with eve 13- pass
ing second I became more convinced of
her innocence.
“Gentleman,” I cried, “I repeat that I
think she is innocent. It would be a
burning shame to confine that delicate
A-oung creature in a filthy station house
all night, and if she is allowed to remain
here to-night I will hold myself responsi
ble for her appearance in courc for ex
amination to-morrow morning. May I
not safely pledge my word to that ef
feet, Miss Gardner ?” I asked, turning
to her.
“Thank you, thank you ; God bless
Aou for this,” she sail. “Yes, 3-011 1111*3-.
I am innocent, though it will be difficult,
I know, for me to proTe my innocence;
3-our kind words, Mr. Slocomb, have
cheered me up—chased m3' fears that I
should be unable to show my guiltless
ness away—and they have made me
brave.”
Mr. Horten said he had no special ob
jection, at which I was surprised. He
remarked that I was being taken by an
adventuress, and that I should laugh at
my Quixotic action before a day had
passed. The policeman, after I had put
a five dollar bill into bis hand also con
sented to leave the prisoner in my care.
I he remainder of my story can be told
in a very few words
Scai cely an hour after the departure
of the gentlemen, a young lady, accom
panied by her mother, called at the
house. She said she had been engaged
Vol. lIT.-jSro. 4G.
to marry Jouas, and it was only that ev
ening that she had seen the notice of iiis
death iu a paper. They were to have
been married m two weeks.
I mentioned Miss Gardner's case to
her, and asked her if she knew anything
about Sampson’s money. Oh, yes, he
had given it to her.
On the day he received the money, be
fore returning to his boarding house, he
bad call on her, and given her the mon
ey to prep ire for the wedding.
Thus did my conviction of Miss Gard
ner’s innocence prove true, and Mr. Hor
ton apologised for his part in the affair.
Miss Gardner was an orphan, and the
money found in her trunk was left to her
by her mother; the having no faith in
the safety of banks, preferring to take
care of it herself.
Another conviction soon grew on me
—that I loved Nellie Gardner ; and for
some years she has been Mrs. Slocomb.
HOW I WAS SOLD.
You may remember that I lectured
lately for the young gentlemen of the
Claytouian Society. During the after
noon of the day I was talking with one
of the young mep referred to, and he
said lie had an uncle, who from some
cause or other, seemed to have grown
permanently bereft of all emotion, and
with tears in his eyes, this man said:
“Oh, if I could only see him laugh once
more! Oh, if I could only see him weep!”
I was touched. I never could withstand
distress. I said* “Bring him to my lec
ture. I’ll start him for you.”
“Oh, if you could but do it. If 3*oll
could do it a'l our family would bless
3*ou forevermore; for he.very dear to 11s.
Oh, my benefactor, can you make him
laugh, can you bring soothing tears to
those parched orbs?”
I- w;s profoundly moved. I said:
“Mv son bring the old party around. I
have got some good jokes in my lecture
that will make him langh if there is any
laugh in him; and if they miss fire, I
have got some others that will make him
cry or kill him, one or the other.”
Then the young man wept on my
neck, and presently spread both his
hands on my head and looked up toward
heaven mumbling something reverently;
and then went after his uncle. He
placed hua in view,. in the second rot/ of
benches, that night and I began on him.
I tried him with mild jokes—then with
severe ones. I dosed him with bad
jokes and riddled him with good ones ;
1 fired old, stale jokes into him and pep
pered him fore and aft with red-hot new
ones. I warmed up to my work, and
assaulted him on the right and left, in
front and behind ; 1 fumed, and charged
and frantjc and furions; but I never
moved him once—l never started a smile
or tear! never a ghost of a smile, never
a suspicion of moisture! I was aston
ished. I closed the lecture at last with
one despairing shriek— with cno wild
burst of humor—and hurled a joke of
supernatural atrocity full at him. Then
I sat down bewildered and exhausted.
The president of the society came up
and bathed my head with cold water,
and said:
“What made you carry on so toward
the last 1 ?”
I said, “1 was trying to make that con
founded old idiot laugh, in the second
row.”
And he said: “Well, you were wast
ing your time, because lie is deaf and
dumb, and as blind as a badger.
Now, was that any way for that old
man’s nephew' to impose on a stranger
and an orphan like me?—[Mark Tw'ain.
An Editor’s Confession.
Report. Times.
Been asked to drink 11,392
Drank 11,392
Requested to retract 417
Didn’t retract 417
Invited to parties, receptions,
presentations, etc., etc.,
by people, 3,333
Took the hint 33
Didn’t take the hint 3,300
Threatened to be w'hipped 174
Been whipped 0
Whipped the other fedow 4
Didn't come to time 170
Been promised bottles of cham
pagne, whiskey, gin, bit
ter s, boxes of cigars, etc.,
if he would go after
them 3,075
Been after them 0
Going again 0
Been asko 1 the news 300,000
Told 13
Didn’t know 200,000
Lied about it 99,987
Boon to church 2
Changed politics 82
Expect to change still 31
Gave for charity .$5,000
Gave his devil $0
Gave for a terrier dog §23,000
Cash on hand §O.OO
The other day a seedy looking old
chap entered a wholesale house in the
oifcy. leaving the door open behind him.
A clerk no-'-d his carelessness and called
out: “It s ten degrees below zero!” “I
diil think of buying about §IO,OOO worth
of goods,” said the stranger as ho hal
ted, “but if this is Die way 3-011 treat
the clerk, walking forward, “it’s only fi/e
below-—only—three—it’s way up above,
and we’ve got to keep that door open or
pull our coats off! Right this way, sir. |
Now then, what is it?” 1
In a box—the Beecher jury.
UNINFLAMMABLE WOOD.
The British Admiralty has been eit
gaged recently in testing some wood
prepared by anew process designed to
render it uninflammable. Satisfactory
results were obtained as to the resistance
the wood offered to the action of fire,
but a serious objection to the use of the
prepared wood, for naval purposes, at
least was its greatly increased weight
and the cost of its preparation. In Chica
go public trial was recently made of a
cement or paint which also gave satisfac
tory results, and which were commented
on by the Ledger. As it is only applied
to the surface of the wood it can appa
rently offer only a temporary protection
from fire. Mr. Pelag Werne, a German
chemist of this city, has discovered a
compound for preserving wood from fire,
which is designed to overcome this ob
jection, as it is made to enter and fill lip
all the pores of the wood. Letters pat
ent have been issued for this compound.
Small splinters cut from the heart of
wood prepared by Mr. Werne’s process
failed to burn when put in a flame of
gas, although they were consumed by
the heat to which they were subjected.
The vood, if thrown into a ,hot fire and
withdrawn, will be charred, but will car
ry no spark. It may bo destroyed by
fire, but* cannot be ignited. It is pro
posed that lumber shall be prepared by
thisfprocess and worked up by the car
penter or builder afterward. The pro
cess requires that the wood shall bo irn
mersed in a boiling solution for several
hours, until it is thoroughly impreg
nated, and then dried. The cost of pre
paration where 'only small quantities of
wood are treated Ait a time is estimated
at ‘half a cent a square foot for 1 inch
plank. This frost might be reduced in
practical operations, but, if net, it would
add from ten to twenty per cent, to the
cost of lumber ordinarily used in dwell
ing houses.
HOW TO MAKE FARMING- PAY.
£
If you do not find farming profitable,
the first thing to do is to ascertain why
it is not profitable. There is some cause
for this state of things— perhaps many
causes. It is probable that they are
avoidable or removable. Farming does
pa}* under favorable conditions. Wo
must learn what these conditions are
and try[to secure them. If Mr. Smith
makes money on his farm, why should
not Mr. Brown? Mr. Brown should care
fully inquire wherein Mr. Smith has the
advantage over him. Is it in the kind
of crops he grows, in his system of cul
tivation, in the general management of
his business,“ or what? If Mr. Smith
can teach Mr. Brown anything, Mr.
Brown should not be ashamed to learn.
The great trouble with most farmers is
that they do not know what pays or
what does not, or if they know that a
particular crop is unprofitable with them,
they do not know why. They do not
farm on business principles. They do
not use the slate and pencil enough. A
little ciphering and book keeping—addi
tion, subtraction, multiplication, and di
vision, and the simplest form of accounts
will do—would help them more than an
extra hand and tons of fertilizers. When
we have found out why farming does not
pa}*, we shall be on the right road to
make it pay. Get a “Rural Accountant”
or some other form of accounts, and try
book-keeping and arithmetic as branches
of practical farm education, and ono
remedy for unprofitable farming will bo
found.
PRESENCE OF MIND IN A HOO.
Avery curious incident occurred re
cently in Terra Haute, by which a hog
took a free ride across the river bridge.
It was about half-past three o’clock that
a freight train was approaching the city,
when a hog weighing about one hundred
pounds was seen on the track at the west
end of the bridge. It did net get out o!
the way soon enough, and the pilot of
the engine struck it. Instead of knock*
ing it off, however, the sloping front o '
the pilot caught his porkship and rollon
him right up upon the little platform h
front of the boiler. There he rose anr 1
sat looking around, and was by this tim
out over the bare ties, where if he lia<
jumped off he would have gone down tc
the water. He evidently saw this, fo
he remained on the front of the engin
and rode all the way across the bridge
When the engine arrived on this sid
the hog sprang nimbly off upon the plat
form near Mr. Waddell's watch house
and after grunting its satisfaction at it
narrow escape it moved off. It wa
| slightly hurt in the side and one leg, bu j
will soon recover.
CAUGHT THE REPTILE.
Two gentlemen residing in Sacramen
to, Cal., were startled one night by loud
screams proceeding from a room occu
pied by a lady member of the family.
Inquiry elicited the, information that
“there was a centipede on her bed.”
The gas was at the time turned down
quite low, but the men could see the in
sect on the bed, and doubling a towel
several times, one of them cast it over
the centipede, and clutched it tightly to
prevent its escape. One of the gentle
men was somewhat of an amateur seient
ist and desired ardently to preserve the
centipede as a specimen. Accordingly,
the captured insect was carried in the
towel to the drug store. The druggist
poured chloroform on the towel to stu
pefy the creature and to prevent thepos
sibility of its escape, and one of the
clerks stood by with an uplifted club, to
strike it should it attempt to get off
The towel was opened and the expectant
lookers on were astonished to find tin?
all the fuss had been made over a little
strip of calico.
Scientific and Useful. —A piece of re
pepper the size of 3’our finger nail, put
into meat or vegetables when first be
ginning to cook, will aid greatly in kill
ing the unpleasant odor arising ther >
from. Remember this for boiled cab
bage, green beans, onions, chickens,
mutton, etc.
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A tea set—the Chinese.