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[For the Cherokee Georgian.
YOUNG LIFE.
AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO JOHN HALL
AND WIFE.
Young life is like the budding flower,
Opening with its honey sweetness
In Flora’s pure, delightful bower,
Where all is beauty, love and neatness
In the bright and dewy morning,
As blooming nature fondly smiled,
Death, without a moment’s warning,
Snatched away the darling child.
Like a sweet, untimely flower
That faded on the parent bough,
It is gone: and sad the hour —
For my heart is weeping now.
Jesus tells a pleasing story
Os all children that have died :
“Let them come to me in glory,
Beyond the Jordon’s rolling tide.”
O I may we meet them all in heaven,
Upon that bright and sunny shore,
Where life, joy, and peaqe are given,
And with loved one's pArt no more.
Acworth, Ga , Aug. 5, 1875. P. M.
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Andrew Johnson.
Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh,
North Carolina, December 29, 1808. His
father died while endeavoring to save a
friend from drowning. At that time young
Jwhnson was tour y< ars of age, and at ten
he was apprenticed to a tailor in his native
town, with whom he served seven years.
Owing to reduced circumstances caused by
the death of his father, his mother found
herself unable to afford the lad any regular
schooling and he was thrown entirely upon
his own resources for an education. To
this object he devoted all his leisure hours
while learning his trade; first, with the help
of the journeymen, acquiring a knowledge
of letters, and thus going on step by step
until, at the completion of his apprentice
ship in the autumn of 1824, he was a fair
English scholar. From Rtleigh young
Johnson went to Laurens Court-house, S.
C., where he worked as a journeyman tailor
for about two years, and while there became
engaged to be married, but his poverty ex
cited the opposition of the girl’s friend*, and
the match was broken off. In May, 1826,
he returned to his native city, where he
worked at his trade until September. He
then determined to strike out into a new
field, and with this object in view he in
ttaced his mother, who was entirely depend
ent upon hi n for support, to accompany
him to Greenville, Tenn., where he again
commenced work as a journeyman tailor.
He remained there about one year, marri d
and then went further West, but finding no
place to suit him as a permanent home, he
returned to Greenville and coinmence-'
business for himself. Up to this time fits
education was limited to reading, fi e
now completed his ot the
English branches u ulerthe instruction of
tits wife. His first public °Gi *e was that
of Alderman of the ,o which he was
elected in 1828. H. *’“B re-elected to the
same office in IS*' l again in 1830 In
the latter y»*‘ r lie w,tß elected Mayor,
which portion he held for three years. In
1835 was chosen to the Legislature.
Takin g decided grounds against a popular
sclieme of internal improvement which he
considered would entail upon the Siaie a
large debt, he was defeated at the next
election (1837'. Events proved the wisdom
of his policy and he was at the next sub
sequent chosen by a large majority.
In 1840 he ' vas Presidential Elector-at-
Large f° !n Gie State on the Democratic
ticket. In his canvass through the State
he nv* several of the leading Whig orators.
In he year following he was elected to the
S»te Senate. In 1843 he was sent to Con
.ress, and served in the lower house tor ten
years. Among the prominent measures
which he advocated were the bill refunding
the fine imposed on General Jackson at
New Orleans in 1815, the annexation of
Texas, the tariff of 1846, the war measures
ofMr. Polk’s Administration, and a home
sfcad bill. In 1853 he was elected by the
Ihmocrats Governor of Tennessee; his op
ponent was Gustavus A. Henry. He was
e-clected in 1855 by a large majority over
Meredith P. Gentry. In 1857 he was
fleeted to the United States Senate for a
full term ending Alarch 3,1863.
During his Senatorial career Mr. John
son identified himself with all the leading
Democratic measures before Congress, en
tering into their advocacy with character
istic energy and taking upon himself the
special championship of the Homestead
bill. His position before the country as a i
thinker and speaker had become so promi- ■
nent that he was the favorite candidate of ;
a portion of the Democracy South-west for 1
the party nomination for President, and in
the Charleston convention of 1860, received
the vote ot the Tennessee delegation for
many successive ballots. His fidelity to the
Southern side of the great slavery contro
versy was not then questioned. When,
however, the flames of civil war broke out
Mr. Johnson took an immediate and earn
est stand for the Union. He beaune in the
Soiate the bitterest opponent of the seces-
CANTON, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18, 1875.
sion movement; and at home, in Tennessee,
he took the stump in denunciation of the
secessionists, greatly at the risk of his per
sonal safety. Endowed with a pluck that
never deserted him, he stood up before the
most exasperated audiences and made his
characteristic appeals for the Union cause
Tennessee was nearly unanimous for the
South, and when it was overrun by the
Federal armies in 1862, President Lincoln
felt the need of a strong, vigorous hand to
govern it. He accordingly appointed An
drew Johnson Military Governor of the
State. His confidence was not misplaced.
The Governor ruled the State with a rod of
iron, and very much to his vigor was due
the success of the Union arms in that quar
ter. In-March, 1863, he made his famous
speech from the steps of the Uapitol at
Nashville to the newly liberated negroes,
in which he promised to be their “Moses.”
Qualities like these, together with his.
weight as a Southern War Democrat, in
fluenced the Republican Convention at
Baltimore in 1864 to place Air. Johnson’s
name as second on the Presidential ticket
then nominated. During the campaign
which followed the candidate for Vice-
President spoke for himself and his cause
with his usual spirit. In November he
received a majority of the electoral votes
for the high office, and in the following
March he took the oath prescribed by law
and entered upon his duties as presiding
officer of the United States Senate. The
assassination of Mr. Lincoln suddenly ele
vated him to the head of the nation at the
most critical moment of its history
The events of the administration of Pres
ident Johnson are comparatively fresh in the
public mind, and do not require 'extended
review. He broke with his party a few
months after his inauguration. He de
nounced its leaders just as he had the seces
sionists four years before, and classed them
alike as enemies of the Union and the Con
stitution. May 30, 1865, he issued the
proclamation of amnesty He vetoed in
succession the Civil Rights bill, the Freed
man’s Bureau bill, the Reconstruction bill,
the Tenure of Office bill and other leading
Radical measures. Early in August 1866,
the Philadelphia Convention assembled and
fully introduced his policy. Ho otortcJ wp
on a tour through the Union immediately
afterwards, taking the Cabinet and General
Grant along with him, and addressed the
people at all the large towns and cities on
the way. Notwithstanding the enthusiasm
with which be was at first received the
mission was a failure, and the new Johnson
party proved stillborn at its birth. The
continuation of the President’s administra
tion was a constant battle with Congress.
The >rity in that body became so In
flnn~d against him that, after several abor
tive attempts, they succeded at last, upon
the occasion of Ins removal of Secretaiy
Stanton, in procuring his impeachment for
high crimes and misdemeanors. The trial
began March 13, 1868, and lasted until
Muy 15, ending in the acquittal of the
President. Air. Johnson received a hand
some vote in the New York Democratic
National Convention.
From his retirement to private life at the
conclusion of his Presidential term, Air.
Johnson remained unidentified with any
political movement or aspirations. Last
year, however, he entered the field as a can
didate for the Tennessee Senatorship. The
result of the popular election showed him
to be unmistakably the favorite with the
people, but a stubborn fight took place in the
Legislature, and it was not until the 26th
of January last that he secured his election
for the six years’ term beginning March 4,
1875. In the extra session of the Senate,
March 22, he made a brief, but vigorous
speech, concluding with his prediction that
“an empire—a statocracy—was ahead.”
This was practically his last public political
appearance. Rumor accredited him with
an intdhtion to canvass the West in behalt
of more currency aud a desire to unite the
farmers—Air. Johnson claimed to have been
instrumental in founding the grange—and
the mechanics aud laborers in a political
party, with a view to his own elevation
to the Presidency.
The death of Andrew Johnson leaves the
country without a single ex-Presideut liv
ing This has not happened since the death
of Washington, in the administiationof the
elder Adams. When John Quincy Adams
was inaugurated, fifty years ago, all the
Presidents for the preceding seven teirns,
twenty eight years, were living, namely, the I
elder Adams, Jefferson, Aladison and Alon- i
roe. When Polk was inaugurated, thirty
years ago, the incumbents ot the previous I
twenty years, five terms, were living (ex
cept Harrison, who was in office but one i
month,) namely, the younger Adams, Jack
son. Van Buren and Tyler; and when Lin- .
coin was inaugurated, fourteen years ago, \
no less than five of his “illustrious predeces
sors” survivetl —Van Buren, Tyler, Filmore,
INene and Buchanan. The mortality
among our public men has been very great
Os Lincoln’s Cabinet officers only two,
Montgomery Biair and Gidoen Wells, are
now living.
Farmers and Newspapers.—We have ’
been frequently sniprise’’, to see how many I
formers, well-to-do in worldly riches, neglect;
Virtue and Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty.
or refuse to take some good newspaper for
the benefit of himself and family. They
seem to think that they have no interest in
the affairs of the outside world ; that they
have to deal with nothing except the land
they plow, or the stock they feed, and the
children they are rearing in ignorance.
They forget that they are a part of the great
human family, placed upon this orb to
work out the plans of the good and wise
Creator, and as such have no right to dam
up the great streams of progress.
The laws of progress are as unalterable as
are any others in nature, and th at man who
impedes those laws with an offspring —
children uneducated and besotted with ig
norance—commits a sin which reacts not
only on himself, but on his descendants for
long years in the future.
Newspaper are made to spread intelli
gence and improve the morals of mankind.
To the farmer, above all men, they should
be a necessity, from the very fact that they
afford him in his isolated condition the only
means of mixing in the busy scenes of life.
Man in his hermit state becomes a personi
fication of selfishness—caring for himself.
Development comes alone from associating
with our fellow men, and appropriating to
ourselves the advancement which they
make.
No farmer should do without his social
schooling, both for his own good and that
of his children; and in no way can he ob
tain it so fully and cheaply as through the
newspapers and periodical literature of the
day; and he, who neglects to receive these
advantages deprives himself of light, and
lives out his days in worse than heathen
darkness. —[Louisville Ledger.
Judge Underwood’s Advice-.,
Judge Underwood of Rome, in passing
upon the application of four young men for
admission to the bar, took occasion to give
them the following advice:
“Young gentlemen,” said the Judge-,. “I
want to say a thing or two to you. You
have passed as good an examination as
usual, perhaps belter; but you don’t know
i anything. Like those young fellows just
back from their graduation in college, you
think you know a great deal. It’s a great
ever get account,
you will be surprised at your present ig
norance.
Dou’t be too big for your breeches. Go
round to the justice’s court and try to learn
something. Don’t be afraid—let off upon a
high key. You will no doubt speak a great
deal of nonsense. You will have one con
solation —nobody will know it A great
mass of mankind take sound for sense.
Never mind about your case, Ditch in—you
are about as apt to gain as lose. Don’t be
ashamed at the wise looking justice. He
don’t know a thing. He’s a dead beat on
knowledge. Stand to your rack, fodder or
no fodder, and you will see daylight after a
while.
“The community generally suppose that
yon will be rascals. There is no absolute
necessity that you should. Yoa may be
smart without being tricky. Lawyers
ought to be gentlemen. Some of them don’t
come np to the standard, and are a disgrace
to the fraternity. They know more than
any other race generally and not much in
particular. They don’t know anything
about sandstone, carboniferous periods and
ancient land animals known as fossils. Men
that make out that they know a great deal
on these subject don’t know much. They
are humbugs; superb humbugs. They are
ancient land animals themselves, and will
ultimately be fossils.
“You are dismissed with the sincere hope
of the court that you will not make asses of
yourselves.”
That Load of Wood.
I never in my life knew a cord of wood
to throw out so much heat. It was oak,
maple and pine, mixed; but I suppose no
stronger for that, as mixed liquors are said
to be. The last load I had burned was not
paid for, and it did not warm us much,
though it cooked very well. I had made
only a partial payment on the coal I was
burning, and whenever I looked in the grate
a blue flame flickered over it.
Aly salary was scanty, and I knew it was
nearly one-half less than my people ought
to pay; and they knew it, and they knew
that I knew it I had been trying to write
warm sermons over a credit fire, and failed.
I tried the cheerful strain over the coal,
and it threw its blue tinge on my manu
script. Our people did not seem to warm
up at the evening prayer meeting, and when
they called on me, they and the room too
seemed cold, or else it was my fancy. Some
times I thought I might be colder for wear
ing the same suit of clothes I had worn
through the summer, with a slight addition.
But I bad previously tried to keep warm in
the clothes of my tailor, and the cold chills
would run over me, especially when I saw
him.
So I had passed the shortest day of the
year. When the days began to lengthen,
the cold began to strengthen, as the proverb
goes. One day I came home and found a
load of wood at my door. I had not order
ed it, and could not pay for it if I had
No bill was sent with it, and the boy who
threw it off did it, they said, as if he was
perfectly willing. When I learned the facts
the weather seemed to moderate, the wind
hauled around from the north, by east, and
as once happened to Paul, “the south wind
blew softly.” I felt warm before I put any
of the wood into the stove. When I tried
it in my library, (I burn nothing else there,)
it had a wonderfully genial influence on
both the temperature and light of the room.
It warmed me up from the heart to the ex
tremities, and in the evening, though the
stove is an air-tight, it threw a mellow,
soothing light all through the apartment.
For when in the evening I am thinking out
a sermon, I put out my lamp, as it saves
expense. In that peculiar light I found
better texts, and while I mused the fire
burned. The chill left my fingers, and I
wrote more easily; my lips were touched as
with a live coal, the people said; for my
sermons were so much warmer.
One evening a neighbor called, and in
very good mood; and after sitting a little
while said : “What a cheerful room this
is, but don’t you keep it pretty warm ?” I
told him there were only three sticks in the
stove, one of oak, one maple, and one of
pine. But I had no idea there could be so
much heat in a cord of wood, and I doubt
whether he had. I have already got several
glowing sermons out of it, and it is not half
gone., I keep it specially for the study.
The coal in the grate has not now quite so
blue a blaze, at least so my wife says,
though it is not yet paid for. I wonder
whether some parishioners know how many
warm sermons there are in a cord of wood
that is settled for, also how many cool ones
there are in a cord not settled for. I know
the latter, and. can answer for the former,
when this wonderful cord is gone, if any
one wishes to know.—[Advance.
The Keyser Churning.
They have a new hired girl over at Key
ser’s farm, just outside our town, and on
Tuesday, before starting to spend the day
with a friend, Mrs. Keyser instructed the
girl to whitewash the kitchen during her
absence. Upon returning, Mrs. Keyser
found the job completed in a veiy satis-
1 factory manner. •
On Wednesdays Mrs. Keyser always
!churns, and last Wediaesday when she was
ready she went out, and finding that Mr.
Keyser had already put the milk into the
churn she began to turn the handle. This
was at 8 o’clock in the morning, and she
turned until 10 without any signs of butter
appearing. Then she called in the hired
man and he turned until dinner time, when
he knocked off with some very offensive
language addressed to that butter which
had not yet come. After dinner the hired
girt took hold of the crank and turned it
energetically until 2 o’clock, when she let
go with a remark that she believed the churn
to be haunted. Then Mr. Keyser came out
and said he wanted to know what was the
matter with thatchurn, anyhow. It was a
good enough churn, if people only knew
enough to work it. Air. Keyser then work
ed the crank until half-past 3, when, as the
butter had not come, he surrendered it to
the hired man because he had an engage
ment in the village. The man ground the
machine to an accompaniment of frightful
imprecations; then the Keyser children
each took a turn for half an hour, then
Airs. Keyser tried her hand, and when she
was exhausted she again enlisted the hired
girl, who said her prayers while she turned.
But the butter didn’t come.
When Keyser came home anti found the
churn still In action, lie blasted his eyes and
did some other Innocent swearing, and then
he seized the handle and said that he would
make the butter come if he kicked up an
earthquake in doing it. Mr. Keyser effected
about two hundred revolutions of the crank
a minute, enough to have made any ordi
nary butter come from the ends of the
earth, aud when the perspiration began to
stream from him, and still the butter didn’t
come, he uttered one wild yell of rage and
disappointment and kicked the churn over
the fence. When Mrs. Keyser went to pick
it up she put her nose down close to the
buttermilk and took a sniff. Then she
understood how it was. The girl had
mixed the whitewash in the churn and
left it there.
A good, honest and intelligent servant,
who knows how to churn, can find a
situation at Keyser’s. There is a vacan
cy.—[Max Adder.
’l'he Teeth.—Horace Walpole wrote:
“Use a little bit of alum, twice or thrice a
week, no bigger than half your nail, till it
has all dissolved in your mouth, and then i
spit it out This has so fortified my teeth
that they are as strong as the pen of Jun
ius. I learned it of Mrs. Grosvenor, who ,
had not a speck in her teeth, until her i
death.” 1
<
A Georgia emigrant who has been liv
ing in Kansas for about two years, started 1
to his old home not long since, and painted 1
the follow on his wagon:
“Sunny Kansas! Farewell! i
I bid you an affectionate adieu; i
I may emigrate to hell,
But never hack to you.” |
VOLUME I.—NUMBER 3.
J ALL FOR FUN. ’
i “Did you ever see the Catskill moiirt*
1 tains?” “No, sah; but I’ve seen um kill
1 mice.”
1 It is considered a Safe plan for a young
man never to trifle with the affections of a
woman Who whistles.
I Young women should beware ol martyr
i ing an accountant. If they do so, the/
take an adder to their bosoms.
A boy astonished his parents by Casually
, remarking that the back of that hair-brUstt
seemed to him “almost a sacred thing.’
’ Girls, don’t get Up and get breakfast irt
’ the mornings. A young lady attempted it
recently, and was burned to deata. Bho\V
J this to your mas.
1 A correspondent presents the questiort,
! “Where does all the cotton goI” For
l shame, young man, for shame ! It doesn’t
! go to waste, anyhow.
• It seems bard to see an Indianapolis wo
man of sixty-five seeking a divorce because
her husband wouldn’t let her wear a red
i dress to camp-meeting.
- Henry Godnose Bailey is the name of ;t
i boy in Springfield, Ohio. If we were your
parlent, Henry, Godnose we’d knock your
’ middle name out of you.
[• “You look like death on a pale horse,”
said a gentleman to an old toper. “I don’t
k know anything about that,” said the toper,
- “but lam death on pale brandy.”
1 Love’s language: Young bride—“ Was
f she his own darling duckums ?” “Yes, she
. was his ownty donty darling duckums.”
, ; Exit bld man, enraged and disgusted-
, Lady: “Before I engage you, f should
like to know what your religion is.” Cook:
p “Oh, ma’am, I always feel it my duty to be
I of the same religion as the family I’m in..”
I A ferryman was asked’ by a timid lady,.
’ whether any persons were ever lost in the:
' river over which he- rowed. “Oh, no,’”
, said he; “we always find ’em agin the:
, next morning.”
When a Connecticut deacon nudged a.
somnolent worshiper with the contribution'
bo-x;„ the sleepy individual awoke partially,,
'smiled, murmured, “I don’t smoke!” andi
.dropped off again..
, 1 “What makes you look so glum, Tom?”’
“Oh, I have had to endure a sad trial to my
feelings.” “What on earth was it?” “Why,,
5 I had to tie on a pretty girl’s bonnet with,
r ' her mother looking on.”
' An inquiring man thrust his Angers Into*
-a horse’s mouth to see how many teeth he
had. The horse closed his mouth to see
. how many fingers the man had. The cu-
J riosity of each was fully satisfied’..
’ i A Pennsylvania seven-year-old was re
’ j proved for playing out doors with boys;.
! I she- was too big for that now. But with all
> imaginable innocence she replied ? “Why*
, gramma, the bigger we grow the better we
' like ’em.”
A promising youth of nine summers in
; the East recently relieved his-overburdened
'mincil as follows: “Lord of love, look
> down from above upon us little scholars;
for we have a fool to teach our school, and,
pay her twenty dollars.”
A country paper tells this story of a new
! boy at one of the Sunday schools: “The
i precious youth was asked who made the
beautifiil hills about them, and he replied
that did not know, as his parents only
moved into town the day before.
A young blood dining at a hotel was re
quested by a neighbor to pass him some
article of lood which was near him. “Do
you mistake me for a waiter?” said the
exquisite. “No, sir; I mistook you fora
gentleman,” was the prompt reply.
“See here, Joe,” said a gentleman to a
stupid fellow, “what is the use of your
stealing after that rabbit, when your gun
has no lock ?” “Blast it, you jes keep still,”
snarled Joe, “the rabbit don’t know nothin*
about my gun havin’ no lock onto it.”
Said somebody to a Boston deacon, on
the day that Beecher was to lecture at “Tho
Hub”: “Well, I suppose Music Hall will
be jammed full to-night.” “Don’t know
about that,” said the deacon. “If every'
body felt as I do, it would be jammed
empty.”
A man who had saved the life of a Bos
ton millionaire’s daughter received $2 50
from the grateful parent' He was so over
come with the magnificent bounty, that bo
paid out every cen t of it to seventeen organ-
Kinders to simultaneously serenade his
uefactor.
A lecturer, wishing to explain to a little
girl the manner in which a lobster cas's bis
shell when he has outgrown it, said: “What
do you do when you have outgrown your
clothes? You throw them aside, don’t
you?” “Ob, no,” replied the little one;
“we let out the tucks.”
“Alamma. where do the cows get the
milk ?” asked Willie, looking up from a
foaming pan of milk which he bad been
intently regarding. “Where do you get
your tears r” was the answer. After a
thoughtful silence he again broke out:
“Mamma, do the cows have to be spanked?”
At Lapesville, Ohio, the young gentle*
men wear a satin badge bearing the words,
“Hire a hall,” under the lappels of their
coats, and when bored by inveterate talkers
they just turn up the lappel and display
the badge. The plan is said to work ad
mirably.
“Now, then, Joseph, parse ‘courting’,”
said a teacher to a rather slow boy. “ ‘Court
ing’ is an irregular, active-transitive verb,
indicative mood, present tense, third person
and singular number,’’ and so on, said Jo
seph. “Well, but what does it agree with?”
demanded the teacher. “It agrees with all
the gals in town!” triumphantly exclaim
ed Joseph.
Ed. Cox is a trump. The owls have
been getting after his chickens. Eel deter
mined to be even with them. He ground
a scythe-blade as keen as a razor, and fas
tened it edge up on a pole. He hasn’t
missed any chickens lately, but every
morning gathers up a basket of owl-feet.
The owls must imagine that their roosting
place is sharp set.