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The Georgia Enterprise VOLUME XXIV. p.; Enterprise. pfliUSlll'.l) WICEKLY AT ;T( )N Georgia. j LV si IN CLUBS OF FIVE. a! tin- Covington Postofßee da.-- matter. Terms, 81,25 r annul". ■" clubs of l* vo or ,nore eDollsr. Six months 75cts. Four ißih#, flOets always in advance. >A Tit ON IZ E le Old Enterprise. t "rides no fences.’' uinpsno nominations 1.25 in advance, a clubs of five sl. Advertising Rates. local Notices 10c ts per line first inser sa-L' in nl- l"'r month, Business Ad : --mi nts $1 per inch first time —50 cts mil subsequent insertion. CONTRACT ADVERTISING: we. | 1 mo. | 3 in. | 6 m | 12 m. inch | jC.'.O i 5.00 I £.OO 12.00 t 4 (10 I 8.00 | 12.00 18.00 6.00 112.00 118.00 27.00 ei’m | 7.00 | 15.00 | 25.00 40.00 12.(10 | 25.00 I 40.00 60.00 i 1-00 I 40.00 160-00 100.00 When any issue of interest to the tople of this county arises it may be ipvaiied upon that The Enterprise ill be ready to discuss in a way and inner which no sensible man can isDiistrae or misunderstand. We ind ever ready to labor Fur the cause that lacks assistance, ortho wrung that needs resistance 1 r the future in the distance, ad the good that we can do.” Keep Methodist I FEMALE Es- I 18888-9. ■ Fall TVrrn begins August 29, and B'ws December 14. I : Term begins January 9, and Boses June 19. I Board 810 to 315 per month. ■ —KATES OF TUITION. I Tu,ti,.n and Incidentals Fall Term, H months, §9 to 317. ■ Fii’l corps of teachers. Apply fur Bitalogue. PJ, I. McLaughlin, A. M., y ring ton, (Ja.] President. El, simms ilo I Real Estate Agents, PVIAGTON, GEORGIA. F e sure to give us the piling and renting of ITour property. ♦ Pates of commission low. valuable property on laand for sale. Try us- traced and per- P° pay unless a sale If ln ade or rents col lated. R L - SIMMS & CO. Willi 8. Wright, -COVINGTON, GA.— fetal Physician & Surgeon. W„ m o,,st -t r io, Gynecology, Diseases ’-i'i'ascL n? 1 ' Children, and all Chronic I have, a l* n Private nature, a specialty! •Jiaablf. tn ilt m y command, which wil f'aindi," !,,,l ' ll| l the calls of the sur tice , 1 ,.' mnlry > * well as my city prac- B. WRIGHT, M. D f arm LOANS, b Y W. SCOTT, [ Ov ' n gton, Georgia. AAwti!n*'\e°!' ,^< ’ Loans on Farms in Btl Five V,’, ■ ll ,7l’ n wxl Rockdale comities r |HlYp Jllno ' a J'oo liko 1 ;?® ? ith Cash, and sec how “ ian Credit ' Bitcrest will cost you less W. SCOTT. PBESIBEITILECT Harrison’s Friends Congratu lating Him. A Semi-Official Opinion of His Views Regarding The South. THE BTATUS OF CONQREBB STILL IN DOUBT. The Democratic plurality in Now Jer sey is now put down at 5,0 •;). The Demo crat* elect to Congress Qeiscnhainer in the fourth, and McAdoo in t io seventh. The legislature will be Democratic by a close vote. The Senate stands, Demo crats, 11; Republicans, 10. This is the first time in ten years that the D mo crats have bud the N. J. senate. The closeness of the legislature will make the contest for United States Senator next Winter unusually exciting. The New York Time* (Cleveland), says: “The 51st Congress, according to returns, will consist of 168 Republicans and 162 Democrats. This Republican majority of one may be wiped out, and it may be increased by later corrections of the list. Indiana has gained three Democrats and Missouri hue lost three, ihe Maryland delega'io* is equally di vided—three and three. New t ~ gains a Democratic member. Virginia appears to have chosen an almost solid delegation of Democrats. The New ork Herald figures: 163 Democratic, 161 Republican ' r Hnr T’hoXr v or k ..t-xt House is so evenly ui videii .hat it will take an official count to deci- e which party has a majoiity. The New York World (D. nu cratic), says: “New Yon. state is 10,000 pluraiuy ret Harrison. U< unecticut is 600 for Cleve land. New Jersey is 8,000 for Cleve land. Indiana is doubtful. The Demo crats have been claiming Illinois as a lorlorn hope. Illinois, with its twenty two votes, would probably elect Clevc and, despite the loss of New York. Missouri has had a peculiar election, St. Louis going Republican. The Democrat ic state and national tickets, how ever, are elected. New Jersey is 6olid for Cleveland Cai fornia is claimed for Cleveland.” Returns throughout California come in slowly, and us there are no complete city or county returns, nothing of a com parison w ith the vote of 1884 is possible. Republican and democratic state central committees both claim the 6tate, the former by 7,000 to 9,000, while the latter claim a majority of 2,000 to 3,000. San Francisco was carried by the democrats. Republican Chairman Cappcller claims Ohio for Harrison by 25,000. The dem ocratic committee makes no claim, but still say the vote on the national ticket is very close. The republicans gain two congressmen—Moore in the 7tlr and Bur ton iu the 21st—and lose one iu the 10th. Mill’s majority in Texas two years ago was over 6,000. This has been reduced between 1,200 and 1,500. lie will have a safe majority of 4,500. The counting is slow owing to the many kinds of tick ets. Ihe fight in Mill’s district was very hot, butno trouble occurred. 'I he tables of the Albany, N. Y., Argue (the oldest Democratic paper in the country), gives New York to Harrison over Cleveland by about 10,000. Pennsylvania is claimed for Harrison by 50,000 majority. Delaware went for Harrison. The At lanta Constitution has thia opinion: “it is doubtiul if President Cleveland l.a? carried any Northern state except New Jersey, though both Indiana and Con necticut arc claimed. It is equally doubt- ful if the Democrats hold the House. The loss of congressmen in the North west, where it was claimed the tariff is sue would make phenomenal gains, can hardly be overcome. It is probable t hat t lit President, the House and the Senate will be in Republican hands for the nest 2 years.” The latest reports show that in 440 out of 1,806 products in Indiana, Hariison has a net gaiu of 2,800. Republicans say confidently “Indiana will give Har rison 5,000 to 8,000. The Demo cratic managers say: “Our reports show that wo have carried the state by from 3,000 to 6,000 unless the returns are tampered with.” The family of Gen. Harrison (Presiden elect), is a most interesting one. It con sists of his wife, a matronly lady of at tractive manners; his son Russell, who has for a wife the daughter of Senator Saunders, and his daughter, who is married to Mr. McKey. They are at tendants upon the Presbyterian church. President Cleveland takes the result calmly and philosophically. He talked quite freely about the returns and in creased Republican vete, but expressed not the slightest regret in the world at any action he had taken during Ins ad ministration. From what lie has heard, however,he concedes that he is defeated. He attributes bis defeat to no one in par ticular, anel says that Governor Hill and Tammauy hall treated him with perfect fairness, and that he has no fault to find stall Pi obnbly Jhe coolest and appa rently the least interested man in Colum bus Ohio, was Judge Thurman, whe spent his time in the way he has done for the past few years, quietly rending in his library. He was free from opinions as to the result, and had not been-pay ing much, if any, attention to the par ticulars of the election. Hong asked for an expression of his opinion, ho laid he had nothing to say. While President-elect narrison is re ceiving the congratulations of his friends at his home in Indianapolis, Ind., the inevitable storm is brewing around him. The hotel corridors are filled, not by distinguished strangers from abroad, but by men bent after the spoils of office. Those men are cheering for now, but in a few months, whcn they And there are not offices enough to go, iround, they will be as loud in their lm irooatlons upon him. In the meantime, those close toqen. Harrison have become iware that their utterances arc l> kel y t 0 be regarded os the echod of their chief, and have become somewhat chary conversation. One of the closest friend, and neighbors of Gen. Harrison, and who worked hard for his nomination is Dr Wilson, formerly of the i urgi Institute la Atlanta, Ga„ who lived twenty years there and was commander of O. M Mitchell Post G. A. B. Said Dr, Wilson; JT want ey frjs.wlaM At lnnta to know what kind of a man Gen. llnrrison is. He is clear handed and free of ull entanglements. When he bo romes President ho will recognize the fuct that Georgia and South Carolina are as much parts of the Union as Indiana aud Illinois, lie will bend to nothing for mete parly purpose. I have had oc casion to talk with him upon the situa tion in the South long before he thought of the nomination, and therefore I can speak for the honest sentiments of liis heart. Gen. Harrison will recognize the intelligence and virtue of cither part of thp country. He is aware of the pecu liar circumstance* in tho South, which render politics there such n problem. If be cannot remedy, he will not irritate. He evidently desires the elevation and full recognition of citizenship and tho hi aliitg of wounds, and the promotion of harmony will bo with him a labor of love. My resideuco in the South and knowledge of the noble character of her people makes it a pleasure for me to lee ablu to convey these assurances to my friends there.” A staff correspondent of a Southern Democratic paper says: “There arc already signs of trouble ahead in tegard to tho cabinet. The notice senti officially conveyed to Mr. Blaine that the memory of liis visit to Indiana was not fragrant, was aggravated by the publication of extracts front the London newspapers in which Gen. Harrison was spoken of contemptuously, and Mr. Blaine was hailed as the real head of the next government. Gen. Harrison feels (here taunts deeply, and though he is a man of cool judgment, there are times when be feels like asserting himself. A near friend of his said: ‘Wherever Gen. Harrison sits, will bo the head of the table.’ This wish to assort his own individuality will force Gen. Harrison to pass over Blaine, and select some other man for the premiership,” In a double leaded editorial headed “Harrison and the South,” John C. New’s paper, the Indianapolis Journal says: “Gen. Har rison is not merely a strong friend of the policy of protection to American indus tries, which the progressive people of the South desire to see maintained, but he is in all other rcspec:* a patriotic American statesman, large enough and broad enough to take the entirfe country in the scope of his vision and his efforts for its welfare. We believe his election marks the dawn of anew era of good feeling between the North and South, and the development of anew national sentiment based on a better understanding of our common interests.” A story is iu circul ition in Covington, Ky., that Speaker Cat lisle is to be de prived of his certificate of election. The ground of this action is an alleged ille gality of the ballots cast for him in Camp bell aud Kenton counties. It is as sumed that if these are thrown out his majority in the district will be over come. The Kentucky law, it is said, re quires that the ballot shall be plain white paper, with no distinguishing features, but the Carlisle ballots were priuted ou large sheets of perforated paper, so that when the tickets were toru apart, the perforations appeared on the edges and made them easily distinguished from other tickets. W. H. Barnum, of the Democratic National Committee, is seri ously ill at bis home at Lime Rock, Conn. In answer to telephone inquiry, it was iianted that he was taken sick a week ago while in New York. He returned to his home Monday aud his illness as sumed a dangerous character. Trouble was caused by overwork, re sulting in nervous pro.-tration. Iu regard to the congressional situa tion the New Y’ork Evening World, of Thursday says: “Is Coogrese, as well as the presidency, lost ?” As the belated returns from the congressional come in the complexion of the House grows more and more doubtful. It is a possi bility that the Republicans tnny have control of the 51st Congress. The Dem ocratic majority of 18 is dwindling away. Estimates made by the Democrats bring the margin down to two votes. The Republicans are claiming that the full returns will give them the House. This is very improbable but a distinct possibility. There have been some sur prising Republican gains. Democratic Bt. Louis has elected three Congressmen. The Republicans make apparently well based claims to three gains in Michigan. But the Democrats have gained in Vir ginia. New Y’ork’s delegation is un changed as to parties. The fact of the situation, is that there are enough dis tricts yet uncertain to turn the House majority either way. Chairman Brice, of the Demociatic National Committee, concedes Harrison’s elec'ion. The Re publicans carry California from 5,000 to 10,000, Indiana by 3,000 to 4,000; West Virginia is still in doubt. It will re quire an official count to decide the re sults. Full unofficial returns from New York state place Harrison’s plurality at 12,000. The New York Evening Poet makes the electoral votes stand: Harri ior 233, Olevelaud 168, giving West Virginia to the Democrats. Tho indica tions are that the Republicans have ma jorities in the legislature of AVest Vir ginia and Delaware which give the party two additional United States Senators. WASHINGTON NEWS. WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF FICIALS ARE DOINO. Dr. Porter, at Jacksonville, Fla., re ports to the Marine Hospital rcrvice that there were forty-seven new cates of yellow fever and one death on Thursday, making a total number of cases to dato 4,355 and deaths 307. Dr. Porter sug gests that arrangements be made for con valescents and other persons who have escaped the fever s > far, ar.d wish ing to go North without stoppage, to points where frost has appeared this year, to and > so without quarantine detention at Camp Perry, with the restriction of disinfec tion and fumigation of baggage and per sonal wearimr aimarcl. PRUSSIAN ELECTIONS. Tho elections for members of the Land tag resulted in favor of the Government, the Extreme Right nnd the Left losing seats which were captured by the Moder ates. On church and school questions there is a majority against the government, consisting of Conservatives, Centrists and Poles, is still possible. The lower House of the Landtag will not meet be fore January. The Reichstag will meet in a short time. NORTH CAROLINA. Governor Scales, on Thursday, issued his death warrant for the execution, on January 25th, of Howard alias Bud An derson, the man who last July, at Golds boro, murdered W. H. Porter. “MY COUNTRY: MAY’ SHE KVKU UK RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /"—Jefferson. COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1888. THE WORLD OVER. INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN READABLE STYLE. THE FIELD OF LXIIOR—BEETIHNO CAUL UUON OF EUROPEAN INTRIOUE—FIRES, SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD. The Spanish government will not pro test against the seizure of tho Spanish schooner Gracio by tho United 8 atef revenue cutter, admitting that the seizure was justified. Seven waiters aud anarchist* have been arrested in connection with the ex plosion of dynamite bombs in the registry offices in the Rue Boucher and Rue Fran caiso, in Paris, Fiance. A report comes from a town in Alsace- Lorraine of a conflict between the Ger man and French sympathizing populace. The people threw stoues at an officer, ami fie was compelled to draw liis sword. In accordance with o decision of the special uuval committee, the English gov ernment announce an admiraliiy scheme to build eight first-class mcn-of-wnr, a score of swift cruisers and many torpedo vessels. The large hotel at Long Beach, on thi boast, about twenty miles from Los An geles, Cal., with nearly all its costly fur niture, was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday night. Loss, $01,000; insur ance, $45,000. There was trouble between the Repub lican and Democratic judges of election, at San Rafael, New Mexico, over an at tempt by the former to secure the poll books. Provenchcr, one of the judges, uud an old citizen, was shot through the heart and instantly killed by the attack ing party. Ou Thursday, tire upper Btorv of the building occupied by the wholesale grocery house of Jacob Wcllancr, iu M.lwaukee, Wis,, was gutted by lire. The loss, which was caused mainly by water, is fully $100,000; fully insured. Three firemen narrowly escaped death by suffocation. The Bishops of the Methodist Episco pal Church began their semi-annual ses sion ou Thursday in Boston, Mass. The Episcopal Board is made up of ten mem bers. Two of these bishops—Taylor and Thoburn—are missionary bishops, and have jurisdiction and authority, one in Africa and the other in India. Mr. Gladstone received an address on Thursday from the Birmingham na tionalists, in reply to which he said that the Irish cause was no longer dependent Upon one life. The liberal party, bo de clared, had taken up home rule, aud they never had yet espoused a great cause without achieving a successful issue. Anna Dickinson, lecturer and actress, has begun suit in the supreme court in New Y'ork, against the Republican National Committee to recover $1,250 for services rendered during the cam paign. She claims she was engaged in September to deliver thirty lectures in the West, and was to receive $125 for each lecture and her expenses. She has received $3,750, but claims it was also agreed that in the event of Harrison’s election she was to receive $5,000. In the French Chamber of Deputies, nn r l liursday, M. Dreyfus moved that the 5,000,000 francs asked for by the gov ernment to fortify the harbors of Brest and Cherbourg be spent in building cruisers aud torpedo vessels. The Ger man aud Italian navies, he said, were supetior to the French navy, and the German government was about to demand 250,000 marks to build more vessels. Admiral Krontz, minister of marine, said that when the Germans demanded that amount he would demand a similar sum. SOUTHERN STRAYS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN INO3 STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL- ROAD CASUALTIES —THE COTTON CROP —FLOODS—ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS. ALABAMA. There have been two new cases of yel low fever at Decatur, both colored nurses, but no deaths. The Birmingham Atre wag on Thurs day bought by the Herald. The p ‘wpaper will be issued from the Herihl ofiire, and will be called the “ Age-Herald .” City Marshal A. 11. Draper, of Oxford, was shot twice in the left arm by Abacr Alexander, a grocery merchant of the town. Alexander and a companion had violated a town ordinance the night be fore by popping fire crackers. Marshal Draper made a case against them, and when he went to summon Alexander before the mayor, he got mad and slap ped the marshal in the face. Draper then struck at him with his stick, and from that both parties commenced fir ing pistols, with the result above. A bystander hold Draper, or it is thought he would have killed Alexander. KENTUCKY. Five men were killed and another mor tally wounded at Lexington. In a po litical discussion Champion Mullins und John Martin pulled their revolvers and commenced firing at each other. The former a prominent Republican, and the latter a government official. Friends of each took up tho quarrel and twenty pistols were pulled and a fusilado of shots fired. Desperate men fought for several squares. The fight was contin ued for a quarter of au hour, when, foi want of ammunition, tho sanguinaiy af fray ceased. It was then found that Samuel Ward, member of the Kentucky Legislature; John Clifford, agent of the Louisville <fc Nashville Road; John Mar tin, government storekeeper; Frank Stewart, an employe of the Kentucky Central Railroad, end C. Mullins, were killed, and J. Sambrook v merchant, bad ly wounded. FLO II IDA. Dr. Neal Mitchell, president of the Board of Health, r<- ports 34 new cases of yellow fever for twenty-four hours. Dr. Martin, at Gainesville reports, that phy sicians will not accept less than sls per diem, and even at that price prefer not to visit cases which are principally ne groes, and very insulting. He will, he added, employ them at that rate until otherwise ordered by the U. S. Govern ment. UEOUIIIA. An Atlanta policeman named Veal was heavily fined and will likely be dis charged from the force, for assaulting a Mrs. Christian, who declined to allow him to court her daughter. UOIBEHOLD MATTERS. • r .Cranberrv Sanee, After removing all imperfect or soft berries, wash"] thoroughly: placo for about two minutes in scalding water skim out or drain, and to overy pound of fruit add three-quarters of a pound granulated sugar, a half pint water, aud tew over a moderate fire, lie careful to cover, but don’t stir the fruit, occasion ally shaking the pan if in darigor o( burning, Tho berries will thus retain their shape and add to tlicir appearance. Boil from live to seven minutes; removo from tire; turn into a doep dish, and set aside to cool. If to be kept, they can be Dt't up in air-tight jars. i Homemade Toilet Soap. careful housewives save even tht small bits of soup that liavo become too little to use. Melt the pieces all together, put in a small bit of Indian uica! and a few drops of I perfumery. Let this harden iu any way desired, stamp on a pattern, or cut with a cake cutter, and the result is a pleasing soap for toilet use. Other bits of soap can be melted in water, aud while the mixture is hot stir in oatmeal until there is a stiff batter. f\*r a hand soap this is uneqtialed when much dirt or deep stains of ink or berries are to be removed. The common yellow soap incited ahd thickened with scouring sand makes an excellent soap for scrub bing aud scouring. Graphic. Availing Hardwood Floors. For waxing a hardwood floor take * pound of the best beeswax, cut it into very small pieces and let it thoroughly dissolve in three pints of turpentine, stirring o c.isionallv if neces-ary. The mixture should be only a trifle thicker than clear turpentine. Apply it with a rug to the surface of the floor, which fhould be smooth and perfectly clean. The right amount varies, less being re quired for close, hard grained wood, and more if the wood is soft aud open grained. Even professional “waxers’ are sometimes obliged to experiment, according to the S'icntitic American, which gives these directions, and novices should always try a square foot or two. When thoroughly dry, rub with a hard brush. If it polishes well repeat the proce s over the whole floor. If not, remove the wax with sand paper and try again. If the mixture is slow in drying add a little of the common “dr.ers” sold by paint dealers. How to Utilize Buttermilk. Buttermilk is used in many ways dowD South. There is uothing more health ful on a warm day thau a glass of fresh buttermilk. In our cooking it is almost indispensable, used with soda in bred making. ( labbci is nice made into cream cheese. If you do not have a press made of tin you can make a bag of coaise cloth, Into which you pour the clabbet till the bag tightens and hang it up to urip. In twelve hoars the curd will be ready for use. Servo for breakfast with cream and sugar (with a little nut meg if you like) or eat with salt and pepper. ; Buttermilk Biscuit: Sift together a quart of flour and a teaspoon of soda. Work into it a teaspoon of salt, and a tablespoon of lard or butter (not melted). Add a pint of buttermilk, a little at a time until ail is used. Do not work tliet dough longer than to collect it smoothlys Roll out one-half inch thick and cut with) a biscuit cutter. Bake immediately in hot oven tor about ten minutes. Buttermilk Egg Bread: One quart of corn meal, one tablespoon of melted lard, one tea-pooa of salt, four eggs beaten until light. Mix these ingredients into one quart of buttermilk, into which has been disolved one teaspoon of soda. Pour batter iuto a pan, which has been heated and well greased, to bake. Compotes of Fruit*. Compotes are fresh fruits boiled with very little sugar. They are much used by the French, and are an excellent mode of preparing inferior or overripe fruits. Compotes of Peaches: Cut ripe peachet in half, thr,.w them into boiling watci for two or three minutes, then take them out and put in ice water; peel them. Put a pint of water in a saucepan, and set over a brisk fire; let boil, and put the peaches in. As soon as tender take them out, placo on a dish, and pour syrup over, t Compote of Oranges: Put a pound of sugar aud half a pint of water on to boil. Boil ten minutes, and skim ; add the juice of one lemon. Peel a dozen oangcs, cut them iu halves, remove the seed, and drop a few pieces at a time in the hot syrup, and lay them out on a flat dish. Pour over them the remaiuisg syrup, and set on ice. Compote of Apples: Peel and quarter large ripe npples. Put in a pan to stew with a little water and sugar to make n syrup. Aid pieces of cinnamon bark and lemon peel cut in strips. Let boil, take up the apples, lay in a dish to cool; boil the syrup thick aud pour over. Compote ot Pears: Quarter, peel and cook some pears in a stewpan with 8 little water and sugar. When tender, take the pears up. Boil the syrup down, add a handful of raisins and a sliced lemon. When thick as jelly pour the syrup over the fruit. Stuffed Compote: Select some large, ripe apples; pare them, and take out the cores, leaving the apples whole. Cook them in syrup, take up, drain, and bake them a few minutes iu a very quick oven. When done, till the middle with peach or quince marmalade. Then roll each apple in the jelly in which it was bo led. Dish them in the form of a pyramid; put whipped cream around the base, and serve, t Syrup of Compotes: Put a pound of sugar in a kettle with a pint of water, the juice of a lemon, a little powdered cinnamon. Set it o.cr a slow fire, let boil, and skim. Continue to boil until clear and thick; let cool and bottle. This syrup will keep for months, and is very convenient to have ready for mak ing compotes. Courier-Journal. To Save Firemen From Asphyxiation. An English inventor has perfected an appliance which will be of great value to firemen. It is a respirator with an India rubber mouth piece, and is designed to enable the wearer to breathe and work in comfort in dense smoke and poisonous gases. The device is fastened securely by a baud around the head and a flange lying between the teeth and lips, while a small projecting piece may be grasped by the teeth. The air inhaled is drawn through a series of small filters containing wet sponges, coltou wool dampened with glycerine, and animal charcoal. Tho filters are provided with valves so that the breath expired from the lung* is sent direct to the external atmosphere. Spectacles, with india-rubber rims fit ting tightly to the cheek and brow, pro tect the eyej. BUDGET OF FUN. HI7MORODB SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Should Bear It In Hind—Nothing But tho Truth—A Rotter Name—Changed Hi* Mind, Etc., Etc. Iluiband “You arc not tho cook my mother used to be, my dear.” Wife—“No, John, fortunately. A'ou mustn’t forget that your father died of dyspepsia. ” — Sifting*. Nothing But the Truth. Judge—"Prisoner,thia ia the thirtieth time thi*year that you have appeared before this tribunal. W’hat brought you here againt" Prisoner—“To tell the truth, Judge, it was the police.” A Rotter Name. Pretty Cousin (to young Siisy)— ‘‘Why, Charley, since I last saw you you have grown quite a beard." Young Sissy—“ Was, Maud; mutton chop whiskers, vou know.” Pretty Cousin—“Oh, are they? Why they look more like lamb-chop whis kers.”—Ntto York Sun. The Progress of Science. Jenkins—“ Did you hear of the won derful operation Dr, Ball performed on Sndthcrs last week?" Bilkins—“No! what was it?” Jenkios—“Five years ago Smithera stepped on a tack, and yesterday the doctor removed a ten-penny nail from the arm of Bmithers’ little bor.” —The Idea. Changed His Mind. Wife—“ Shall we go to the picnic to day, dear?” Husband—“ Just as you say, love.” Wife— ‘ Well, if we go we must take the baby.” Husband—“Oh, by the way, there’s all that cord wood to cut and split. I gueas I’ll atay at home.” —Burlington Tree Trent. In the Same Predicament. Kirby—“ Lend me • fiver, will you, old boy? I’m clean broke.” Moxcy—“That’s a pretty good ring you wear. Why don’t you hock it?” Kirby—“ Couldn’t, you know. It's a (ouvenir of a deceased brother.” Moxey—“Well, my money is a souve nir of a deceased father. Day-day, old fel."— Time. Fan Enough. It was his titst visit to the city. As he stood on tbc curbstone shaking his sides with laughter, he was accosted by one of New Haven’s finest. “What’s the fun, stranger?” “Fun? Can’t you ace it? Just look how that thing (pointing to a watering cart) leaks. Why, the blamed fool won’t have a drop left when he get* home.”— Neut Haven News. Learning English. A Frenchman of this city, having re ceived the photograph of a lady, asked a friend what was customary under the circumstances. “Compliment it,” replied the friend. “Tell her its beauty is very rare.” “I beg to make zee scknowledgmong, madauie,” he said to her at their next meeting. “Zee beauty of madame is very scarce." —Binghamton Republican. Two Brutes. Magistrate “What’s tho charge against this man?” Officer—“He threw a photograph lens at a baby and cut its head. ’’ Magistrate —“Are you a regular pho tographer?" I’risoncr “Yes, your honor. I had been trying for two mortal hour* to take a picture of that little imp—I mean lit tle baby, your honor—and—” Magistrate—“ You are discharged. I used to be a photographer myeelf.”— The Cartoon. The Lost Found. “Well, Mias,” interrogated the irate father of a Chicago girl and a now thou sand dollar piaao; “can you tell me what this is. stuck onto this rosewood like a lump of grafting wax ! Have you decided to marry a farmer, nnd is he giv ing you lessons in tree-planting:” “Oh, no,” answered the maiden, with a glad ring in her spruce-like voice: “that’s my dear old gum. When Harry wanted a song, I put it where it would be safe, and then forgot it and thought I’d lost it.” —The Jdea. A Hullnc Passion With Him. The inquisitive traveler had sat along side his one-legged victim till everybody had turned in, and still plied him with questions till he wished he had died at the amputation. “How did you lose your leg!" he asked, as a clincher. “Well, I’ll tell you if you promise not to ask any more questions.” “All right; I won’t.” “It was bit off.” “Good night; am going to bed; but I’d like mighty well to know what bit it off.”— Chicago Timet. The Expletive that Caught Her. Wife (piously)—“Henry, I wish you wouldn’t swear so." Henry (shocked) —“I don’t swear, my dear.” Wife—“ Yes, you do; or just the same thing. You musn’t say ‘by George,’ or ‘by Jove,’or ‘by Ned’ or bv any thing.” Husband (submissively)—“Not even buy anew bonnet, love?” Then she was very, very sorry for her thoughtless reform movement, and com ing close to him, threw her arms about his neck and asked him to forgive her. — Washington Critic. The Court Reversed Its Decision. “Mr. Brief,” said the judge, grimly, “it seems to me that you are wasting time; you might as well try to make the court believe that two and two do not make four.” Brief settled his eyeglasses a little more firmly on his nose and responded blandly: “May it please your honor I am prepared to do that. Two and two make 22.” The shadow of a smile played around the corner of the iudge’s mouth as he sat back in his chair, and said: “You may go on with your argument, Mr. Brief." —Boston Bulletin. A Bad Habit. “Now, hubby, before wo wero mar ried wo promised to tell each other of our little faults and try to correct them —do you remember, dear?” “I'm-huh,” grunted the husband, who was deep in reading the last scandal. ‘ Well, we’ve been married a week and I notice a had habit you have-do you hear?” “Urn-hub.” “Yes, a had hnbit you have of not paying attention when one is talking are you listening to met” “Pm-huh.” “Of not paying attention, and then when one gets through and asks you •omething you *ay; 4 Do what?' This is not only aggravating, but impolite, and I want you to break yourself of tho disa greeable habit.’’ “Do what?”— St. Louit Ilumoriet. Would Throw That In. “My friend," said a tight-fisted banker to a young man who had pulled him out of the water, “I appreciate the fact that yon have saved my life, and I am pre pared to reward you—to reward you liberally for your services. What can I do for you?" “Well, sir, there was a suit of clothes spoiled. ” said the rescuer who was good natured though not educated, “that would be about seventeen dollars; then I lost my hat, that would be fifty cents; then I took considerable liquor to keep off a cold, which cost me a quarter. I don’t think of anything else, sir.” “But you do not mention the fact that you have saved my life. What can Ido for you on that score?” “Oh, well, call the whole thing eighteen dollars an’ I’ll throw tho life saving in free.” —Merchant Traveler. The Visitor Was Mistaken. Proprietor (showing visitor through the office)—“This is the editorial de partment.” Visitor —“Then I suppose that fat, genial-looking chap across there is the obituary editor, and that the thin, cross looking genius who just threw a paper weight at the office boy, is your funny man?” Proprietor—“No; both guesses are wrong. You probably obtained your ideas from current paragraphs. The fat. good-natured man is the humftriat, and the attenuated gentleman is the writer of the tariff editorials.” Visitor—“ Ah. indeed! But this gentle man with the handsome desk, railed in from the rest of the office, attended by a pretty type-writer and two messenger boys? I suppose ho is editor-in-chief.” Proprietor—“ Wrong again! That i* the baseball reporter I” —The Idea. Artificial Flowers. Artificial flowers, says a writer in the Gartenlaube, were first invented by pious nuns. In the Italian convents the altars and shrines of saints were, up to the end of the eighteenth century, decorated with artificial flowers, laboriously put to gether, of paper, parchment, and other stiff materials. Since then the “Italian flowers,” which are made in Venetian factories of tho imperfect cocoons of silkworms, have become famous for their daintiness, which makes them particular ly suitable for toilet decorations. Beside these silk flowers other artificial flowers are made in Venice, whence nearly all Italy is supplied, and whence whole wagon loads are exported to other coun tries. No sooner has the visitor to Venice taken his early cup of chocolate at Florian’s, near the Marcus place, when the cicerone appears, offering to show him the "famous” factory of the “fa mous Italian flowers.” This factory is situated in one of the gray old houses of the Frezzaria, and several hundred girls are occupied in it. In the warehouse the most wonderful reproductions of natural flowers arc exhibited in glass cases, and it seems in many cases as it not only the richest and most brilliant colors, but the very scent of the flowers, had been stolen from nature, for some of the artificial flowers are steeped in th perfume distilled from the flower which it represents. Any one wishing to take home some souvenir of Venice can have his choice of beautiful and often fantas tic objects at the factory. In the upper stories of the house the girls sit at their work, constructing, with clever hands, the most beautiful works of art, for all the most expensive artificial flowers are nearly exclusively made by hand, and their value depends solely on the manual dexterity and taste of the poorly-clad and mostly delicate-looking girls, sitting at long tables and inhaling the unhealthy dust of the dyed mate rials. No machinery could replace the dexterity and taste. Last century a Swisi invented a machine for cutting out the leaves and petals, but it can only be used for the smallest kinds, such as are want ed for hyacinths, lilies of the valley, and other small flowers. In larger petals the irregularities of manual work are preferred to the stiff and correct forms produced by machinery. The material of which the petals are made is woven in special factories; the scissors and other tools used by the girls, as well nt the presses in which the veins are traced on the leaves, are of a shape specially adapted to the work. Each part of a flower is made by specialists. In one room, for instance, only stalks of flowers and leaves are made; in another fruits and beiries of all kinds are cast, if they are of wax, or blown, if of glass. Ths cleverest workers are employed in mak blo-soms of the single petals, and bou quets, wreaths and garlands of the sin gle blossoms. It is very interesting to watch this process and to see how, first, the centre of a flower is constructed, then the petals put round, next the green leaves, and so forth, till a flower or • branch is complete. Explaining A “Shower of Blood.” Superstition has in all ages been the fertile source of direful misfortunes about to befall the human race. It often i creates objects of terror out of the most ! harmless natural phenomena. The so ’ called showers of blood have occurred in many countries and in all ages of which we have any knowledge, and while the ignoraut and superstitious have alwayf regarded them as the precursors cf some direful calamity, naturalists know from whence they come, and that they are really harmless. That in most cases these showers are merely the excrement of butterflies when on tho wing is now well known, and one of the earliest ol recorded phenomena of this kind oc cured in 1353, fer Sleidan relates that a vast multitude of butterflies swarmed through a great part of Germany, and sprinkled plants, leaves, buildings, clothes, and men with blood drops, ns if it had rained blood. Another similar shower is described by lieaumen in the beginning of July 1008, in the suburbs of Aix, when all the country about was covered with what appeared to be blood. Similar showers arc likely to occur wher ever butterflies emerge in great numbers at a tima from their pupa' state, for this reddish fluid is usually discharged soon after they take to their wings in flight. —New York Sun. It is announced that Mrs. Cleveland is getting tired of answering notes from people who name their babies after her. NUMBER 4. THE PROUD LADY <3OHE. Away from tho noise and clatter, Tho din of the busy street, Is a cabaret, shaded anil silent, Where at evening we often meat She is a proud, rich lady, Reantiful, wealthy and grand, Ami society’s legions marshal At the wave of her jeweled hand. Yet far from the glamor and glitter, From revel and rout and ball, She seeks her old companion. When the evening shadows fall. I read in her eyes of azure A welcome tender and strong. And her greeting to me is the music Of a sweet, old fashioned song. She sits where the fading sunshine Falls on her pure, sweet face, About her, draped and twining, An aura of shimmering laoe. We chat over old excursions By woodland and stream and shore; We clink our glasses, the wine flies; “Come, waiter, and bring us more.” I open my eyes, the waiter Is before me, bottle in hand, But alas! the rich, proud lady Has gone to the shadowy land. For although I weave about her This web of an ancient time. The lady long since has banished Her minstrel and his rhyme. —San Francisco Newt. PITH AND POINT. Grammar students advance by declin ing. The first vacant lot has a “common” place appearance. A party “hemmed in” by the Indians U likely to be basted. • “Please, I want to buy a shilling’s worth of hay." “Is it for your father!’ 1 “Oh, no; it’s for the horse.” The left bower —The man who isn’t recognized by the lady to whom he lifts his hat.— Burlington Free Frets. “There will be a domestic storm," he murmured, as he heard a crash in the kitchen: “The glass is falling."— Hatton Pott. When a man pays 33.00 for a little piece of quinine, it is hard to convince him that it is a drug in the market. — The Idea. Requested to define the word “den tist,” Saphirsaid: “He is a man who pulls out other people’s teeth to get tomething for his own to bite.” The hights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were out among the boys alt night. —Merchant Traceler. Mamie—“ What are you writing, Min nie; your will?” Minnie —“No, I’m writing my won’t George proposed last night and I told him l’u answer to day.” “That’s it!”exclaimed Mrs. Bascomat the concert, as the siDgers came out again in response to an encore. “Make ’em do it over again until they get the thing right.” Never use a crow-bar to get a railroad cinder out of your eye. A lead pencil sharpened to a fine point will work it out if you jab hard enough.— Detroit Free Press. Old Mr. Bently (reading the paper)—* “I see that the King of Spain is ill.” Old Mrs. Bently—“Goodness, Joshua, I hope he hasn’t got a cant cer, too J" Old Mr. Bently—“No, he’s teething.”— Phi'ip H. Welch. There is a yell that scares them all. The pagan and believer; \ j For hear it now in Florida, It is the yell o fever. —New York Mercury. The distressing news comes from Eng land that the Prince of Wales loses his wind too quickly to make a good tennis player. He wouldn’t make a successful member of the Lnited States Congress, either. — Norristown Herald. Thero were a lot of Ita’ians sorting over a waste heap on lower Broadway. “Why are those people like women’s dresses?” asked I’lugly; and when h:s friend couldn’t tell he said they were gathered at the waist.— Siftings. She (Haring up)—“What do you mean by kissing me, William Henry Smith?” W. H. S. (humbly)—“l-I-I-mcant no disrespect, I assure you.” She (angrily) “Well, I should like to see you do it again, that’s all.” W. 11. S.—“ Hers goes, then.” 8. (smoothing her rulfled plumage)—“You’re just awful.” —Boiton Courier. The Aquatic Spider and Its Diving- Bell. While their nearly constant abode is the water, they are, like most other spiders, air breatners; consequently they need some special provision for” provid ing themselves with air while living under the water, and for this purpose they possess the art of constructing a kind of diving-bell. It is au interesting sight to witness one of them making his air ceiL Clinging to the lower side of a few leaves, and securing them in position by spinning a few threads, the spider rises to the level of the water, with its belly uppermost, and, doubling up its bind-legs, retains a stratum of air among the hairs with which its body is covered. Then it plunges into the water and appears as in the first stage of the making of its silvery robe. Going im mediately to the spot it had chosen, it brushes its body with its paws, when the air detaches itself and forms a bub ble under the leaf. The spider sur rounds this bubble with the impermeable silky matter furnished with its spinners. Returning to the surface, it takes in an other layer of air, which it carries down and adds to the first one, also extending the envelope over it The process is kept up till the “diving-bell” has reached the proper size and is finished. The ideal form of the construction is that of a thimble, but it often assumes au ir regular shape, like nn inverted sack. WhiG the spider has taken possession of itetedoubt it remains quiet in it, head down, watching for the appearance of an insect. Perceiving it, it seizes it and! returns to its lodge, which ithassecured against intruders by spinning threads across it, to devour its prey at its leisure. —Popular Scietiee Monthly. Radishes. Radishes were known in E.ngland in the days before this ceutury, or in cer tain portions of the island, by the name* of “radcole” and “radio.” It is gener ally believed that we arc indebted to the Chinese for the radish, and it is said that before the Christian era, this vege table had had the honor of having a hook written about itself. Pliny tells of radishes that were cultivated in Rome, one of the kinds being so transparent that a person could see through the roots 1