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CARNESVILLE, GA.
A Western Maid’s Dream.
Jf I could ketch onto the wins* of a bird,
1 would llvbt in the loftiest tree,
And twitter a twit that could plainly be
heard
From J imtown clear out to the sea.
I would wurhlo a note of such terrible force
That the element* wildly would fall crack. from hia
And the Indian chieftain would
And split bis shirt clear up the backl
Jf X were outfitted with would elephant's resound feet.
My terrible tread retreat
Till all animal life would in terror
Ten thousand leagues under lion the I'd ground.
And if I had the voice of a roar
Till the wide universe lost its wits,
And the birds would fold up their fleet wings
and keel o'er,
And die in hysterical fits.
^
tt I were a dweller beneath the deep sea,
With the figure and power of a whale, would
Jgverjr creature around me in terror
1 flee of tail.
At the fantastic flirt my
J would swamp a great vessel or two every
day. in the blue.
And down ocean so in the usual
O'er tho feast I'd say grace way,
And make a square modi of the crew.
But since I am only a modest young maid—
A wild, tender flower of the West—
These longing desires I am really afraid
filnee Must I be cannot downed, raise as Hades It were, by and such suppressed, rank
a
My play, flag of desire I must furl,
And A* dream the timid, delectable gentle hours away girl.
a sweet, Louisville young Courier Journal.
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ONLY A PIMPLE.
Lord Bertie Ellesmere walked into
his wife's sitting-room one afternoon,
with an unusually Lord serious Bertie expression
on his face. For was a
young man of a cheerful disposition,
not given to serious thoughts. engrossed He found in
Lady Bertie In her room,
the absorbing tuio occupation of looking when he in
the glass, did not turn
entered, but continued to study the
dimples in her chin. She had boon a
recognized beauty when she married,
and still held that position; therefore
she must be forgiven glass for without continuing to
look In the husband apology, else
whether her or any one
entered the room. Actresses do not
apologize for settling thoir ruffles and
Studying in the tho effect mirror of their all “make-up” the while
green-room conversation; why,
they should carry on a society beauty watch
then, not a talks?
her own face while she It is
but a mailer of business in both cases.
Lord and Lady Bertie had been mar¬
ried two years, and they jealousy wore still ex¬
cellent friends. No or mis¬
understanding with had, each so other. far, marred
their coutunt
Lord Be rtie sat down and looked at¬
tentively for a moment did at his wife’s
back, but its prettinoss not occupy
his mind at this moment.
“May,” voice, he “is said there suddenly, and in a
grave want?” anything you
“Anything I wantl” exclaimed Lady
Bertie. "Well, I should think sol I
want a now idea for a ball dress; I
wnnt an Esquimaux I dog; I want my
diamonds resot; want to go to St.
Petersburg this winter; I want—I can’t
think of them all now, but I want a
hundred “Do things.” money?”
you want
“Money! if Not particularly at the
moment; but you are overburdened
with bank notes I feel sure I can use
them.”
“Don’t talk nonsense, May; I’m in
earnest. And 1 do wish you’d turn
Mount..”
“I’m busy,” replied Lady Bertie.
And so, indeed she was. She was ap¬
plying minute with patch tho of greatest sticking care and skill
a tiny defect which she had plaster to a
discovered
on her chin. “Fancy you being in earn¬
est!” she went on. “What can it be
about?”
“May, Lard have Bertie you been gambling?”
asked abruptly.
“Certainly “Gambling!” cried Why, I Lady should Bertie. have
not-.
hollows under my eyes in a fortnight!
What can have put such an idea in
your head?”
“I’ll tell you,” said Lord Bertie.
“Just now, for the second time, I have
seeh a dreadful looking Jow, with any
quantity of watch chain over an im
menso waistcoat, going out of this
house. Now, what on earth can you
want with a Jew, if it isn’t to borrow
money?" “Dear mo!” Bortie,
said Lady with
scorn, “what a poverty-stricken im¬
agination yours must be! One Jow, might
want should a great think. many Jews things of a clever I
are very
people.” “Don’t tell what
you mean to mo
that man comes to see you for?” asked
Lord Bertie in a gloomy tone.
“No!” said Lady Be rtie airily, but
with much decision; “no, I don’t.
“Now,” she added, turning around at
last, “am I looking well to-day?”
“You arc getting handsomer, I be
lieve,” said Lord Bertie, but in the
same “I gloomy tone. think so!”
claimed am very Lady glad Bertie, you with ex¬
fervor.
“That’s ail right then.” And she left
tho mirror and came to a low chair
near her husband. Sho was exceeding¬
ly graceful and could sit down in an
artistic manner worthy of the great
Sarah. in her white Sho formed a that lovely picture, little
more than a cloud wrapper of Valenciennes, was
as
she posed herself in her favorite lounge
and crossed her pretty pinfc slippered
feet. Lord Bertie had thrown himself
into an easy, but hardly graceful atti
tudo—his legs outstretched and his
heels on the ground, his hands in his
trousers his beautiful pocket. wife all Sitting thus, with he eyed de¬
jected and perplexed over, a
air.
“It’s not all right," he said, after a
moment. “1 hate mysteries. We’ve
won’t kept clear clear of them so far, May. if you
by telling this one up. I'll eut It siiort
the servants that Jew is not
to enter this house.”
“Oh, do!" said Lady Bertie; “that
wli! make such a nice little scaudal for
the servants' hail! town/ And by to-momiw
U will be hall over
“Well, I don’t want to make a fool
of myself, and I’m sure I’ve no desire
that you should be talked about; but I
can’t stand this state of things.” curiosi
“In fact, you arc dying of
ty?” “Not all. But if in diffi¬
at you are
culties, I’m ready to get you out of
them. There’s my hand on it, May;
and all I ask is, don’t go to anybody
else.”
“What a dear boy you are,” said
Lady Bertie. “But there’s nothing to
be so serious about, I assure you. I’m
not going to tell you why my friend
comes here, or what my business is
with him; because that would be coun¬
tenancing I don’t absurd tyranny do.” on your part
which mean to .
“Don’t answer me like that, May, I
can’t stand it. The light comedy man¬
ner isn’t always appropriate. I’m in
earnest, and you’ve done nothing but
chaff me since I came in.”
“Very well, I’ll drop into melo¬
drama. Wild horses won’t drag my
secret from me; you may take my life,
but I will not speak! Now I must dress
to She go out; so good-by.” her dressing
rose, went away to
room, and rang the bell for her maid.
So tho conversation ended of neces
sltv.
t’or three weeks Lord Bertie lived in
a state of gloom and uneasiness, play¬
ing the amateur detective, and playing
it with no results. He saw no more of
the Jew; and as the conviction forced
itself upon him that tho man had been
told not to come, be grew more gloomy
and more uneasy. For three whole
weeks he said no word to Lady Bertie
except in public; and even then he
sometimes fixed bis eyes upon her in a
truly melodramatic manner. For a
young man of a cheerful disposition
this seemed strange; but he was haunted
by a conviction that Lady Bertie was
much cleverer than himself, and he
was resolved not to be deceived by her
apparently his displeasure. light-hearted indifference
to
Tho breach gradually widened until
it became evident to their intimate
friends that Lord and Lady Bertie were
no domestic longer life, on good terms. As to thoir
it was shipwrecked, and
through that very her easily. accustomed Lady Bertie of went
round so
cial duties, and was just as gay and
just as bright husband as ever; but she never offer¬
saw her except when he
ed her his arm as a matter of business.
For a little while this amused her rath¬
er; it was like playing in a French com- *
edy and to be have consoled a sulky, by jealous hundred husband, charm¬
to a
of ing tho creatures, various approved all admirable specimens of lady
killers. For consolation types this kind
of
was offered on the instant Lady Bertie
recognized, with a half-angry and half
triumphant amusement, that the ad¬
miration offered her to-day was of a
different order from that which had
been hers throe woeks ago. Perhaps
this sense of power, the consciousness
that there was abundant mockery of
love ready to hand, helped her to un¬
derstand the value of the real love
which tho world already believed her
to have lost.
One morning she sent a message to
her husband, asking him to come to
her room. Ho came, and stood silent¬
looking ly at attention. As before, she was
at herself in the glass.
“Good morning, Bertie,” she said,
gayly, look and turned from the mirror to
at him. “Don’t you think that
this nonsense has gone far enough? I
expect in the next twenty-four hours to
have at least half a dozen projects of
elopement tion. submitted for my considera¬
Now the Duke wouldn't like a
scandal of that sort, would lieP”
dryly. “Perhaps not,” answered Lord Bertie
“Well, I don’t propose to run away
just able. now—that The is, if you’ll be reason¬
things has present dated, I agreeable believe, from state the of
day friend when I Jew wouldn’t tell you who my
the was. Now I am going
to proposo torms. If I take you into
my confidence will you keep what I tell
you from every living soul?”
“That depends,” said Lord Bertie,
“Then I will not take you into my
confidence. Consider that nothing has
been said. We will go on as we were,
and things shall take their course.”
“But I’m awfully tired of it, May.
Come, say what you have to say, and
I’ll swear myself to secrecy.”
“Absolute.”
“Tho subject must never be mention¬
ed when my maid is in the room; I
know she talks."
“I won’t forget.”
“No member of the family is to ever
hear of it; I’ll kill you if you tell your
sister.”
“I have sworn.”
“Yes, I know, but you must swear
also not to tease me or drop hints.”
"I swear."
“Well, the Jew is coming this morn¬
ing, and you shall assist at the inter¬
view, if you like. Do you see this spot,
pimple—call like?” it by anv bad name you
“I see it"
“Well, he is going to take it off.”
“Good Leavens! May, you don’t
mean to say you’d let that man touch
you?” “I’d be touched by—by
rather than have pimple anything,
a on mv face..
But he and only does stuff" it with that a camel’s hair
brush somo stiugs.”
“But this is ridiculous nonsense, mv
dear “Not May.”
at all. He is supposed to un¬
derstand all about the skin, and he has
invented all sorts of lotions for clear¬
ing the complexion. Half the women
vou know employ him, I assure you,
Bertie; but I don't want anybody to
know I’ve come to it yet.”
“But what’s the good of this absurd
secrecy ? He’ll go and tell all these
women.”
“Not he; he’s too wise to risk his
fees”.
“There’s something in that. I’ve no
doubt. But 1 can hardly believe any
man calling himself a uian can have
such a trade.”
“Well, he’ll be here in two minutes;
vou can stay and see for yourself that
1 have spoken the truth. *
Are you go¬
ing lately?” to apologize for the life you've led
me
“Not exactly; but I’ll tell you what.
May, 1 eloct myself your complexion
clearer for the future. We’ll go yacht¬
ing to the Mediterranean this year;
that’ll take away tho sputa, and you
Burvw mif Iff uis <m?C____
“Agreed P cried Liuy Certie, just as
a knock came at the door.
L'>rd Bertie did not wish to assist at
the ceremony’, and he hurried out of
«J710 twtfr rtS uio Jew came in at the
other. But he came back later in the
morning, and went out with Lady
Bertie in her carriage in the afternoon.
They seemed absurdly contented with
each other’s society; and the many ad¬
mirers of the beautiful Lady Bertie saw
very soon that what they had taken for
a very "a serious affair was nothing more
than lover’s quarrel.
Lord Bertie kept iiis word; he never
“told” and he took Lady Bertie to the
Mediterranean, where they spent a sort
of second honeymoon. And at present
Lady Bertie is independent of her Jew¬
ish friend’s assistance .—London World.
Horse Swapping in Georgia.
Gentle reader, did you ever visit the
riding horse swapping of the Superior grounds Court at the of Spring North
Georgia? Early Monday morning, and
long behold before them the court convenes in you
kind may coming $10 on every horse
of an animal—from a
dow to a $2 mule—and about 10 o’clock
the fun commences. The last one we
visited and the was in an adjoining ground county,
first man on the was a
gentleman named Uncle Dick Statham,
who business has been he in left the the horse cradle. swapping He
since
rode on the ground about 8 o'clock,
with a horse worth just $6, and the
others came up to ask after his health
and to see what kind of stock Uncle
Dick had to swap on.
“Well, boys, your Uncle Richard has
been under the weather for a few days,
but he thought he would come up and
see if you all had any stock that I
♦ared about. You needn’t look at that
mare. She belongs to the old lady. I
gave her to Bessy to ride to could meeting.
She is not for trade unless I get
a right smart to boot”
About this time George H., the
prince of tho brigade, came careering
over the hill on a $3 nag, and rode
him like he had been born in the sad¬
dle. He sported a wide brimmed hat,
with a pair of spurs six inches long.
Green looked something like Napoleon (that is,
at some of the great victories
we imagine so, never having seen Na¬
poleon), and at once joined the crowd
and wanted to know who was on the
hill that day swapping stock. Uncle
Dick at once bantered Green and they
toon exchanged by Uncle Dick giving
a pocket knife and a drink to boot.
This was the first blood, but not the
last by a long shot.
A young fellow from Walton county,
who had his moustache dyed for the
occasion, came in, lending a mule that
looked like he had done nothing but
peel still the bark . off sapplings around months. a
house for the last three
This young man had heard that it was
a shrewd dodge among the educated
swappers to play drunk, and he was
playing it to the queen’s taste. It was
not long before he had changed his
mule for a horse worth $7.25 and gave
fifty cents *difference.
Franklin county, at this juncture,
sent in her delegato in the shape of
/ohnnie Love, the oldest trader on the
ground, toriety, and as whose such claimed word about soma no¬ the
and
qualities than of a anybody’s. $5 horse was He considered Uncle
better and
Dick Statham met, and after exchang¬
ing a few commonplace Uncle remarks, Dick’s Mr.
Love inquired after stock,
and before long they traded by Uncle
Dick getting $3 anu the saddle blank¬
et, the which bargain. was a piece of an old quilt,
in
By 11 o’clock everybody was swap¬
ping, and, once in a while, drinking.
All seemed to be in a good humor, and
crowd. there was They no fuss traded or fighting until night in the
end it, the put
an to and swappers retired
to their houses and to camp outside of
the town. They for got something to eat
and were Next ready business next morn
•ng. day they had trimmed up
thejr mules and curried their horses,
and the same scenes were enacted over.
Up to Thursday night Unele $25 Dick had
made three eighteen pocket swaps, knives, had in bridles, mon¬
ey, two
two quarts of whisky and a horse worth
just about as much as the one he
brought .—’Atlanta Constitution.
Lime Kiln Club Domestic Economy
by The brother following Blackberry resolution, Davis, forwarded of Mobile
11a., was then introduced:
Resolved, Dat it am de dooty of de Lime
Kiln Club to encourage de orjranizusliutiof a
euU'eti society for de discushon an' dispensa
*bnn of domestic economy.
The resolution being open to debate,
Bullrnsh Jinks took the fioor, and
hoped it would prevail. Shiftlessness
in domestic matters was the bane of
the colored race. He had known a
family to heave a bushel of frozen po
tatoes into the alley, when the same
would have made a score of rich pud
dings, lenS or could have been saved to
to neighbors ° in the place of sound »
oneg
Uncle Luther Perkins hoped to see
such a society formed without delay.
Domestic economy was the last thing
thought household. of He in knew the plenty average of families colored
which lived on fried oysters one day
and bean soup the next.
Several other members spoke in the
same vein, and the resolution was put
to vote and adopted. Brother Gard
ner then appointed Nelson Slabs, Czar
Anderson and Transparent Smith as a
committee to organize such a society,
be and considered, suggested the investigated following and points to
mulgated: pro-
1. Is it better to go without table
butter than to be without two big yal
ler dogs?
2. Isn’t it possible to invent a mince
pio foundation? with cabbage and carrots for a
8. Can’t potato skins and apple par
ings the children? be worked over into a pudding for •
4. Do we eat more than is really
necessary? the Isn’t the variety Don’t greater j
than health demands? the j
man who fills up on pudding and milk '
feel just as good hadf an hour after
eating as the man who has feasted at a
first-class hotel? Detroit tree Press.
A Fall River, Mass., boy who fell
upon has an just open had pooket-kuite six years
ago a rusty blade, one and
one-half inches long, dug out of his
doing right lung better. by a surgeon, and is now
GLEANINGS.
Hereafter the postal notes will be
printed on blue paper.
The libraries at Yale College college con¬ li¬
tain 161.000 volumes. The
brary proper has 115,000 volumes.
The Supreme Court of British Coir
umbia holds that a Chinaman’s mar¬
riage under the Methodist form is void.
Children employed in the lace-mak
ing schools in Belgium work twelve
hours, and sometimes earn six cents
per day.
The bullet that killed General War¬
ren at the battle of Bunker Hill, is in
the possession of William H. Montague,
of Boston.
Archibald Forbes, the war corres¬
pondent, has made his numerous for¬
eign orders into a necklace for his
daughter.
A quartette of baggagemen who run
through Manchester, N. H., bear the
names of Loveland, Lovering, Lovejoy
and Lovely.
Abram Fisher, of Knox county, Indi¬
ana, has been married five times. He
is now ninety-six years of age, and his
present wife is sixteen.
Joaquin Miller's mother has begun
suit against him in Lane county, Ore¬
gon, for the partition of certain real
estate held jointly by them.
France offers $10,000 reward, open
to all competitors, to any one who suc¬
cessfully and the economically heating and lighting applies
electricity to
of dwellings.
An apple tree in Mercer county,
Kentucky, without has borne failing. fruit Five for sixty
seasons feet
from the ground its trunk is ten feet
and nine inches in circumference.
Deacon Mayberry, of Windham, Me.
recently had been sold a quantity of hay that He
cut twenty-two years.
has been holding it all that time for
$22 a ton, and finally got his price.
One of Davy Crockett’s old hunting
knives, with a four-inch wooden handle
and a six-inch blade, with a silver
band around the handle, has been pre¬
sented to the Tennesse Historical So¬
ciety.
Mrs. A. R. Allen heads the list of
millionaires in St. Louis, paying tax on
$1,197,300. Henry Shaw is put down
as worth $1,176,130; the heirs of Jesse
G. Lindell $1,115,4 60 and Miss Bernice
Morrison $964,990.
A young lady in Hartford objected
to the mutilation of a tree in her front
yard by didn’t a party heed! of telephone linemen.
They her protest until she
covered them with a revolver, and
then they decided to stop.
“I was a soldier for two years,” said
London Sig. Salvini recently, to a newspaper reporter in
“and fought under
Garibaldi at the siege of Rome, in 1849.
Mv campaigns on the stage have hap¬
pily been more fortunate.!’
their Classing complexion, women who never marry by
it is said there are
more blondes than brunettes among
them. This is supposed to be due to
the preference of marrying men for
brunettes. But perhaps the women
who do not marry fade out
The Psychological Journal gives the
increase of the number of insane per¬
sons in the United States at, from 1850
to 1860, 8,332; 1860 to 1870, 13,390;
1870 to 1880, 54,565. The whole num¬
ber of our insane is given at 91,987;
idiots, 76,865. More than one-half are
not under hospital treatment
The influence of Japan is beginning
to be felt very considerably in archi¬
tecture. Some things in Japanese
architecture we shall, of course, says a
prominent introduce—the architect, heavy probably never
roof, for instance.
But for verandas of country houses,
for screens, and for interior decoration
ly Japanese art and architecture is rapid¬
into use.
At the recent annual meeting in
Scotland of the Northern Accident In¬
surance they Company, had abandoned the chairman stated
that all risks in
connection with foot-ball and bicycling.
The risk was so great that the ordi«
The nary premium policies would not cover it
present of the kind were
nearly run out, and they had deter¬
mined not to renew them.
Alice Stone Blackwell, now in Bos¬
ton, is good enough to admit that men
mean well enough by women, and
make such laws as they consider for
their good, but she wants to know who
gave is good men for the women? sole right She to decide reasonably what
concludes that if women had .absolute
legal they might power over them, men, however well
treat the men would
rebel.
General ,, N. P. Banks daughter, .
Mana is an accomplished elocutionist,
inheriting the gift from her father, who
jeaisagowasa member of atheatn
f a * company m Boston. Before at
tempting to be an actor he was a danc
mg master, but his most famous ex
ploit in the terpsichorean art was
wi ! en Stonewall Jackson led him such
fearful dance down the Shenandoah
Valley.
Last year 220,922,650 lottery tickets
were sold by the lottery offices in Italy,
on which 71,826.683 francs were staked,
being age for 2 each francs of 44 the centimes 29,000,000 on an inhabi- aver
tants. The winnings on these ven
tores amounted to 44,411,528 francs,
leaving the a net profit Only of 27,415,154 winnings francs
to state. forty-foor the
were above 10,000 francs each,
made highest in two being and one of 78,000 francs 50,000
Turin, the other of
francs in Naples.
Are English girls trying to become
too muscular? Is the physical develop
ment the produced horizontarbars, by excessive indulgence
in the trapeze, and
other graceful forms of exereise, good
for them? This is a question asked by
a medical man in the columns of a
London newspaper. If we are to be
lieve this doctor, the ideal of some
British mammas would seem to be
that of the people of the the ancient
Lacedsemou, among whom the women
mueh were specially muscle instructed little to put on as
and as clothing as
possible.
Edison, the inventor, indulges in the
changes following which predictions: will As to the
be effected by elec¬
tricity within fifty years in the city of
Now York, I would say that I believe
electricity street aud elevated will propel railroads, the cars light of the the
city within and without its buildings,
furnish power fof an pfftposes, woft
telephones and burgular alarms, de¬
liver the opera, convey parcels, detect
and signal fires, operate fire engines, locomo¬
and possibly displace ^animal
tion for vehicles.
EJyvard King tells one of the most
delightful anecdotes of Carlyle pseudo-philos¬ yet put
forth. That portentous
opher, MaHock, called on the old
Scotchman and let himself loose, talk¬
ing Carlyle almost to death. Carlyle
listened imperturably, invited him to
tea, and had him to smoke in the li¬
brary afterward. When at last the
youthful sage thought proper to take
his leave, Carlyle accompanied him to
the door and said: “Well, good by,
I’ve received ye kindly, because 1
knew your mother; but I never want
to set eyes on ye again!”
The City of Mexico correspondent of
the San Francisco Alta says: “The
wife of President Gonzales, and mother
of his ten children, affirms that he has
neglected her, in these days of his
prosperity. In her pique and jealousy
at her fancied and actual wrongs, she
injudiciously abandoned her husband
and children, fashionable rented promenade a shop upon of the
most the
capital, not three blocks from the pal¬
ace, and there scandalized the entire
country by opening a milliner’s shop.
The sign was large and striking, in¬
forming Manuel Gonzales, the public President that “The wife of
of Mexico,
was ready to serve her patrons with
latest Parisian importations, etc.’
She continued in business for several
last months, cessation and criticism of hotilities ran high, occurred, but at
a
and she crossed the border into the
United States.”
h the Englishman Superior to the
American?
An English United baronet who traveled re¬
cently article in the for the States has written
i.n Nineteenth Century
Review, in which he compares English
n en and women with American men
and women to the disadvantage of the
latter. Our women, according to him,
are not as handsome or as well devel¬
oped as those of England, while our
men are inferior in physique. This he
says is due to the greater attention
"iven in England to outdoor sports.
The Englishman plays cricket and
lawn tennis, practices in boats and in
yachts far more than the American.
The latter is absorbed in business. He
goes to see a baseball match by pro¬
fessionals, but rarely plays himself.
Then, the average English man and
woman do far more walking than do
our educated people Englishmen in the United States. All
hold to the view
that the practice of athletics is very de¬
sirable.
At a recent rural dinner. Sir Charles
Dilke, the well known cabinet minister
gave it as his view that “England owed
to the practice of physical exercise not
onlva great deal of its muscle and
po\^r, but also a great deal of its suc¬
cess, and, under Providence, much of
its glory in the world.” Had Mr.
Gladstone been called upon he would
doubtless have given the same testi¬
mony. For, although in his seventies,
he spends hours every week in felling
trees and in taking long and rapid
walks. A New York writer who was
at the Carnival in Montreal thus des¬
cribes the type of girl he saw: “The
English She walks girl with is tall and strongly built.
her figure rigidly erect
and her head held up, from conscious¬
ness of strength rather than from
pride. Her cheeks are like the sides of
a peach that has just begun to ripen.
The rose blush blends with tho pink,
that is in turn lost in the general
creamy tint of the whole face. Waves
of flaxen or light brown hair curtain
the forehead, or perhaps her hair is
puffed into a cloud that projects be¬
yond her sealskin cap. Sue has big,
of health
touch and • good of excitement. nature, and Being blazing athlete at a
an
she is a model of good health, and the
equal of her brothers at the dinner
table. Her nose and mouth are not too
fashionably small. They match her
fine stature, and the healthy, graceful
carriage that tells of stout limbs and
developed What muscles. Montreal
a lesson the girl
teaches to the New York mothers who
hot-house bring their plants, daughters up they in-doors like
for fear will not
be lady-like and womanly! These ro¬
bust girls, in modesty, in grace, in
.softness of speech and femininity gen¬
erally, are the peers of the daughters
of Murray Hill, and yet there is hardly
one that cannot stand*by her brother’s
side in whatever sport he is enjoying.
These girls can climb a mountain like
deer, they can skate like the women of
Holland, they are at home on snow
shoes, the mad sport of the toboggan
hills is every-day fun to them.”
There has, however, been a reform
in this country during the last quarter
of a century. Gymnasiums are more
common, especially in colleges. Out¬
door sports are far more popular than
they were, plenty and the educated young
man has of chance to improve
his physique by good muscular exer¬
cises. Our girls, however, are not so
well off as their English sisters. Long
country walks are not popular with
our young for women, these shortcomings, Uit making allow¬ few
ance
Americans will admit that our girls
are not in every respect equal to their
Engli-di sisters.
A New Way to Get an Appetite.
This morning a dyspeptic-looking
man entered a blacksmith shop at Rond
out He waited until the blacksmith
put a hot shoe to the foot of the horse
that was being shod, when he bent
down and drew in with his nostrils sev¬
eral draughts of smoke that rose from
the burning hoof. After the man left
the shop a reporter of the Freeman ask¬
ed the blacksmith if the man who had
just taken his departure was erazv. “O,
no,” responded the blacksmith, '“he is
only working up an appetite. Strange
as it may appear to you, yet the fact is
true that inhalation into the lungs of
smoke from a Horse's hoof when it is
being shod is the best appetizer in the
world. That man you saw here will
now go home and eat a good square
meal. He came into the shop for an
appetite and went away hungry. I have
on an a rerage five patients a day who
visit my shop for an appetizer. — Kings -
ton {N. }’.) Freeman.
WIT AND HUMOR.
A mis is & Jtip&ncsc ni6jisur6 of
length that 1,500 is yards long. This is l
miss very near as good as a mile
These new-fashioned neck-ties can
be laundried without taking them
apart. Thus we may have the”vashi ^
of the tied right in the house. n g
Dutch “Guilty, or not guilty?” asked a
guilty.” justice of a prisoner. *.v nf
“Den what do you Want
here? Go apout your pizness.”
A German paper offers a Limbur»er
cheese to each new subscriber.
could hold out no stronger inducement
certainly.
The editor of the Pierre Recorder ad
vocates kotaians, the theory to be of with two her wives for D ; J
the other to one visit friends in the husbana ’
East.
No, nobody likes a liar; but even-, says'
body “How feels kindlier to the liar who
well you are looking!” than the
honest truth-teller who exclaims
“Why! how awfully you’re looking!”
The word “dollar” is of German or¬
igin, thinks but of this an American when she is woman teasing never
husband for the cash buy her
to a new boa
net
The Egyptians drank beer 2,000 years
before the Christian era. But because
they started it so early is no reason
why the American people should keep
it up till 3 o’clock in the morning. ~
Burlington Hawkeye.
The New York Commercial Adverti
ser before says Spring “johnny-cake will be a luxury
bec&use the corn crop is
40,000,000 bushtls short” But short¬
cake ought to be plenty .—Lowell Cour
ter.
Until the preachers make it fashion¬
able to wear the kitchen oil-cloth over
the head in wet weather, the churches
will not attract many fashionable-bon¬
net Hotel wearers Mail. during a rainy Sunday.—
delphia A Chicago man stopping at a Phila¬
hotel placed his snoes outside
the door to be “shined.” A few min¬
utes after he had retired he was shock¬
ed to hear one of the hall boys calling
for a porter to come and take a couple
of trunks downstairs.
“No,” said the tramp, “I never
meant to come here again. I was
here, heading but for I shaped a town forty miles north of
road I my the course depot.” by a rail¬
map got at They
concluded his excuse was a good one
and let him go.
“A popular writer laments the fact
that American poets are declining.”
It is different with the American poets
themselves. They lament the fact that
the editors of magazines and newspa¬
pers aid. are declining.— Norristown Eer
Why is emigrants, it that the train that carries
the most and goes the slow¬
est, and never notifies the people of the
names of the stations, and has the
warmest ice-water you ever tasted, is
always called the accommodation
train?
“Please, sir, giv.e a poor blind man
a nickel?” said a tramping beggar to a
gentleman. remarked the “But gentleman. you are not blind,”
“No, but
my partner is. He is standing down
there on the corner to see if the police¬
men are coming.”
Little Andree, 4 years old, was
shown by her mother some featherless
and shapeless young Canary birds,
crowded together in the depths of the.
nest where they had just been hatched.
“See how nice they are,” said the
mother. “Yes; but tell me, mamma,”
said the little girl, “have they been un¬
dressed to take a bath?”
A jackal is an animal that holds its
nose offal. very Sometimes high, and is extremely fond
of a jackal becomes
an editor, and calls himself “we.”
You can always identify him by the
crescendo nose, and his appetite for
carrion, in the shape of private scan¬
dals and unsavory paragraphs of all
kinds .—Boston Traveler.
Saved liy an Albatross.
A singular story has been related to
us by the master of the bark Gladstone,
which arrived here from London.
While the vessel was in latitude 42 de¬
grees south, and longitude 90 degrees
east, a seaman fell overboard from the
starboard gangway. The bark was
scudding along with a rough sea and a
moderate wind, but, on the alarm of
“man overboard” beinggiven, she was
rounded to, and the starboard lifeboat
was lowered, manned by the chief offi¬
cer and four men. A search for the
unfortunate man was made, but owing could
to the roughness of the sea, he
not be discovered; but the boat steered
to the spot where he was last seen.
Here they found him floating, but al¬
most exhausted, clinging for dear life to
the legs and wings of a huge albatross.
The bird had swooped down on the
man while the latter was struggling peek
him with with the waves its powerful and attempted beak. Twice to the
bird attracted its prey unsuccessfully,
being beaten off by the desperate sailor,
and battling the albatross—both with two enemies—the greedy and water in¬
satiable. For the third time the huge
white form of the bird hovered final over
the seaman, preparatory to a
swoop. The bird, eager for its meal,
fanned its victim with its wide-spread
wings. Suddenly him
a thought occurred to
that the huge form so close to his face
might Quick become thought his he involuntary reached rescuer. up and
as
strangle seized the bird, which he proceeded The huge to
with all his with might. its wings and
paddles creature struggled free itself. In the contest
to
the sailor was beaten black and blue
and cruelly lacerated, but he held his
own, and slowly the bird quivered and
died. the The carcass floated forming lightly on
waves, its feathers a com¬
fortable support for the exhausted man
who had so narrowly escaped a awaited linger¬
ing him. death. He But another much danger of swimmefr,
was not a
and the excitement of the extraordi¬
nary conflict began to tell on him. He
was faint and grew giddy. But with
one arm over the albatross’ body, un¬
der the wing, and one band clutching
the bird's feet, the sailor awaited his
chance for a rescue. Presently he
heard his comrades shout from the
boat, and in a few minutes more he was
safe on board the barque, though -syd- a
good deal shaken and exhausted.—
tuy (Audratia) Telegraph.