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UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
BY JENNIE JONES.
All went well in our lodgo that even
ing, until it was announced, “Wo will now
tako up the ordor of unfinished busi
ness. ” Then thore was a notable lack
of intorost, and every one seemed busy
in whispering to his neighbor, and what
ever was the subject of his conversation
it was very evident tnat it did not per
tain to the “ unfinished business" before
tho house. No ono seemed to know
just where tho lodgo had loft off, or
where it designed to begin; tho circum
stances had changed, and that whiefa
iiad once given intorost to tho subject
was past, and in a measure forgotten.
And I am quite certain that a great deal
of the unfinished business will remain
unfinished still, to tho end of tho chap
ter.
In every turn in life it is the same.
How much is begun but never finished !
And it is not that which is begun but
that which is completed that constitutes
our success. No matter how brilliant
the beginning, only the thing in its
completeness will bo accepted by tho
world. Sometimes an unfinished poem
or sketch, or a partially completed
drawing, contains touches of genius not
found elsowhcre, but they never live
and are loved like those which are
rounded and complete.
When wo see a person who is full of
brilliant beginnings but of little perse
verance, we see one that will, in all
probability, pass through life a disap
pointed and unsuccessful man or wom
an. Another, beginning in a smaller
way and apparently with loss prospects,
by steady perseveranoe, will eventually
accomplish that in which the other has
failed.
It is not genius, hardly is it toil; it is
not luck, but a persistent “ stick-to-a
tiveness” that is the surest to win suc
cess in this life.
TALK OVER WHAT YOU READ.
Nearly forty years’ experience as a
teacher has shown mo how little I truly
know of a subject until I began to ex
plain it or tench it. Lot any young per
son try the experiment of giving in con
versation, briefly and connectedly, and
in the simplest language, the chief
points of any book or article he has
read, and he will at once see what I
mean. The gaps that are likely to ap
pear in the knowledge that he felt wits
his own will nc doubt be very surpris
ing. I know of no training superior to
this in utilizing one’s reading, in
strengthening the memory, and in form
ing habits of clear, connected statement.
It will doubtless teach other things than
those I have mentioned, which the per-
Bons who honestly make the experiment
will find out for themselves. Children
who read can be encouraged to give, iu a
family way, the interesting parts of tho
books they have read, with great advan
tage to all concerned. Mora than odo
youth I know has laid the foundation of
intellectual tastes in a New England
family, where hearty encouragement
was given to children and adults in their
attempts to sketch the lectures they
have heard the evening previous. The
same thing was done with books.—
Christian Union.
DRAINS AND DUSINESS.
Men of practical talent are now
sought for in country and city. They
are wanted everywhere and will bo
called for hereafter more than ever.
Where are these men to come from,
these thousands of Major Generals in
commerce. Now is the time to train
young men for business pursuits, for
the great avenues to wealth, and dis
tinction and, power which wealth con
fers.
We are preparing young men for the
army at West Point, for the navy at
Newport, for the learned professions at
various universities. This is well. But
where one is wanted as a graduate ot
these institutions a thousand are
wanted in the great army of busi
ness. Parents, as you value the happi
ness of your sons, give this matter a
careful consideration, a thorough busi
ness education will ever be a blessing to
your children. —Burlington Hawk-Eye.
A young man in Georgia has taught
the public a lesson in respect to the
danger of hasty generalization. AVhen
Tanner triumphantly fasted for forty
flays the conclusion was jumped
to that the limit of life under priva
tion has been very much understated.
Acting upon this assumption, the
Georgia man. Tuck Jackson by name,
refused food, expecting, no doubt,
he would live forty days, at least.
But alas ! for the force of Tanner’s ex
ample. He died on the seventeenth day,
Chas. G. Faikman, editor of the El
mira CN. Y.) Advertiser, recently mar
ried Mrs. Welthy Whittett. Now J.
Lewis W T hittett, step-son of Mr. Pair
man, becomes his son-in-law by marry
ing Miss Hattie B. Fairman, step
daughter of her mother. It will thus
be observed that Mrs. Whittett has no
father-in-law, and Mr. Whittett, who
married his step-sister, has evaded the
complications arising from having
mother-in-law.
We record the fact, on the authority
of the Journal of the Telegraph, that
there are now in working condition 97,-
568 nautioal miles of submarine tele
graph cables. During the past year
11,083 miles were added. The Engineer
ing remarks that the cables still re
quired to complete the telegraphic sys
tem of the world are : One across the
Pacific, two between the United States
and Rio and Valparaiso respectively,
and certain minor cables to connect
Cayenne, Colombia, New Caledonia, the
Philippine islands and Chinese stations
with the world’s telegraphic system.
WILL W. SINGLETON, Editor <fe Proprietor.
VOL, VI.
OUR JUVENILES.
The Lullaby,
1 Littlo 80-Poop ban lout hor ihoop l”
A mother 1b Hinging her baby to ab op,
But the tiny flngorM tipped with pearl
Bound one anotbor vexatloualy twirl,
And foot ho cunning, ho rosy and quick,
Are tossing tho crlb-qullt with punch and kick,
And wide-awake eyes Jußt tut blue na the sky
Are Haying to mamma, “ I'Ll Bleep by-aud-by 1
And you can’t hurt me ono woe bit,
Though, trying your b woo tent, you potlontly alt
And Bing by the hour benldo mot”
“ Little 80-Peop has loat her Bheep I”
“ Hurry up, darling I Do go to Hleept
Maybe you’ll And In the Land of Dreamt
Little 80-Peep by the Rhady Htroaina
Waiting for you, with her to go
After hor lambiea as white oh snow,
Hunting through meadow and glen and doll
To find the dear creatures all Hafo and well
Out where tho lovely harebells grow.
Bleating and feeding to and fro,
A-Bwingin’their Uvllh behind ’em!”
Lower and lower the shadow dips
Over the forehead, the cheek, tho lipa;
Lovolit eyes are closed at last;
Lullaby, liush-a-by song is past;
Baby has gone to the land of dreams,
Hunting 80-Pcep by the shady streams.
Mother, unwearied, her vigil keeps,
Dreaming awake, while her baby sleeps—
Dreams which tho future, perchance, may bring
To her winsome darling and leave no sting—
No waking grief behind them.
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Silently, tenderly enter thero;
God haa answered a mother’s prayer;
Baby, onr baby, to-day has gone
Into a country to us unknown.
There to find, by the shady streams
Which border the city where no one dreams,
Gifts as costly, as rich and rare,
As ever were dreamed in a mother’s prayer I
Oh Joe us, who sung her last, sweet lullaby;
Jesus, the little ones’ friend, bo nigh
To comfort us. left behind her I
The Mangosteen,
During their stay upon the island of
Java, Dr. Bronson and his young trav
eling companions took a trip on a rail
way from Batavia to Buitenzorg, in or
der that they might learn something of
the interior of the island. While on this
trip the boys observed, among other
things, that the trees in some instances
grew quite close to the track. Dr. Bron
son explained to them that in the trop
ics it was no small matter to keep a rail
way line clear of trees and vines, and
sometimes the vines would grow over
the track in a single night. It was nec
essary to keep men at work along the
track to cut away the vegetation where
it threatened to interfere with tho trains,
and in the rainy season the force was
sometimes doubled. “There is one
good effect,” said he, “of this luxuriant
growth. The roots of the vines and
trees become interlaced in the embank
ment on which the road is built, and
prevent its being washed away by heavy
rains. So you see there is, after all, a
saving in keeping the railway in repair.”
At several of the stations the natives
offered fruits of different kinds, and near
ly all new to our young friends. They
had been torn that they would probably
find tho mangosteen for sale along the
road ; they had inquired for it in Singa
pore, but it was not in season there, and
now their thoughts were bent upon dis
covering it between Batavia and Buiten
zorg. Two or three times they wore
disappointed when they asked for it; but
finally, at one of the stations, when Fred
pronounced the word “mangosteen,” a
native held up a bunch of fruit and
nodded. The doctor looked at the
bunoh and nodded likewise, and Fred
6peedily paid for the prize.
Perhaps we had better let Fred tell tho
story of tho mangosteen, which he did
in his first letter from Buitenzorg :
“ We have found tho prinoe of fruits,
and its name is mangosteen. It is about
the size pf a pippin apple, and of a pur
ple color—a very dark purple, too. The
husk, or rind, is about half an inch
thick, and contains a bitter juice, which
is used in the preparation of dye ; it
stains the fingers like aniline ink, and is
not easy to wash off. Nature has wisely
provided this protection for the fruit ; if
it had no more covering than the ordi
nary skin of an apple the birds would
eat it all up as soon as it was ripe. If 1
were a bird, and had a bill that would
open the mangosteen, I would eat not]*
ing else as long as I could get at it.
“ Yon cut this husk with a sharp knife
right across the center, and then yon
open it in two parts. Out comes a lump
or pulp as white as snow, about the size
of a small peach. It is divided into sec
tions, like the interior of an orange, and
there is a sort of star on the outside
that tells you, before you cut the husk,
exactly how many of these sections
there are. Having got to the pulp, you
proceed to take the lump into your
month and eat it; and you will be too
busy for the next quarter of a minute to
say anything.
“Hip! hip! hurrah! It melts away
in your mouth like an overripe peach or
strawberry ; it has a taste that is slightly
acid—very slightly, too—but you can no
more describe all tho flavor of it than
you can describe how a canary sings, or
a violet smells. There is no other fruit
I ever tasted that begins to compare
with it, though I hesitate to admit that
there is anything to surpass our Ameri
can strawberry in its perfection, or the
American peach. H you could get all
the flavors of our best fruits in one, and
then give that one the ‘meltingness ’ of
the mangosteen, perhaps you might
equal it; but, till you can do so, there
is no use denying that the tropics havo
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA„ SATURDAY. JANUARY 15, LSSI.
the prince of fruits.”— “The Boy Travel
ers in the Far East."
Tatty' t Scare,
When Patty was a very, very littlo
girl, she ono day took it into hor curly
head to run nway.
Her mother was busy at work and did
not miss her until she hod boon gone
some minutes. Then she looked out and
saw Patty’s pink dress, like a little flow
er, moving along slowly away down the
dusty road.
There was no one to send for the run
away, so the tired mother had to leave
tho broad burning in the oven, and the
baby crying in tho cradle, and start out
herself in the hot sun.
There was an old man coming along
the road toward Patty, an old man that
she knew very well, but was really afraid
of him.
She need not have been, for he was
kind and ploasant; but ho was a queor,
simple old man, and everybody called
him old Daddy Morse.
Patty was so afraid that she turned
out of the road and went along close by
the fence to get by him.
He saw the littlo girl was running
away, however, and, in the kindness of
his heart, he went and picked Patty up
to carry ner back, and save her mother
the long, warm walk.
How frightened and angry little Patty
was! How she did kick and scream !
The old man hold on all the same,
and tried to soothe her by gentle words;
but he might as well have talked to a
tlj under-shower.
She screamed as loud as she could till
she met her mother and found herself
safe in her arms, and even then she
sobbed and cried for a long time.
Her mother talked to her about run
ning away, told her it was naughty, and
that Daddy Morse was very kind to
bring her back, but Patty still sobbed
and sighed, and could not get over her
fright.
She shut the outside door, and stood
by the window watching in fear that the
old man would come again.
Pretty soon her brother Allie came
whistling across the yard. Patty opened
tho door a little crack. “M’in, Allie,”
she said, in a trembling voice. “ Man
bile ’ee !”
Then her little kitty came around the
corner. “M’in, kitty,” she called. “Man
bite ’ec!”— Youth’s Companion.
DIO FA RHINO.
A correspondent of the Si Louis Re
publican tells of the wonderful farming
operations of Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, of
Colusa county, Cal. The farm consists
of 65,000 acres, 45,000 of which are in
wheat, and has 175 miles of fence. The
acreage yield is 25 bushels in favorable
seasons, and tliis is considered a favora
ble one. Of this year’s crop Dr. Glenn
says, although lie has on hand 350,000
sacks, each holding 140 pounds, he
thinks they will not hold his wheat
He has his own machine and blacksmith
shops; boring, toning and planing
machines; buzz saws, etc. He manu
factures his own wagons, separators,
headers, harrows and nearly all the ma
chinery and implements used. He has
employed 50 men in seeding and 150 in
harvest, 200 head of horses and Holies,
55 grain-headers and other wagons, 150
sets of harness, 12 twelve-foot headers,
5 sulky hay-rakes, 12 eight-mule culti
vators, 4 Gem seed-sowers, 8 Buckeye
drills, 8 mowers, 1 forty-eight-inch sep
arator, 36 feet long and 13J high, with a
capacity of 10 bushels per minute ; 1
forty-inch separator, 36 feet long; 2
forty-feet elevators for self-feeder, 1
steam barley or feed mill, 2 twenty
horse-power engines. The working
force to run the separator is 66 men, 8
headers, 22 header-wagons, 100 horses
and mules. The average run of the
machine is 1,800 sacks, containing 2fc
bushels each, per day. The utmost ca
pacity of the machine is 3,000 sacks or
7,000 bushels per day. The harvesting
force cut and thrash simultaneously,
and in fifteen minutes from the time the
header begins in the grain the wheat is
in the sacks.
Ip you want to keep your boy at
home, make it pleasanter for him than
the street. Chalk a hop-sootch in the
hall, put a hogshead of molasses on tap
in the kitohen, have a dog fight in the
back yard, make a “bully slide” on the
cellar door, have a hand-organ and
monkey in the reception-room and a
German band on the stairs, hire a
“Geevus" to be chaffed, let the boy
chalk callers’ backs on the Ist of Janu
ary, throw his base-ball through the
windows, ring tbs bells, and run away,
and “plug” the cook with fish-balls
Sunday mornings; but even then you
will have to engage a circus to drive
through the premises two or three times
in the season to “make it pleasanter
than the street.”
AN UNEXPECTED COMPETITOR.
Several men swam the Mississippi
river, above New Orleans, on a wager.
A reporter of the race says : “ None of
them seemed to be putting forth much
effort till it was discovered that an alli
gator had struck out from shore as a
competitor, and then—well, every man
did his best to keep the alligator from
carrying off the stakes.
Devoted to the Intereete of Marion Count; and Adjoining Seotions.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
In North Carolina there arc 207 tobacco
factories.
Fine specimens of pure plumbago have
been found in Cherokee county, Ga.
Key West yields aliout $21,500 per
month to the internal revenue fund.
Real estate in Lafayette, Ala., is as
sessed $114,175 and personal property
$112,175.
The revival at the Baptist church at
Durham, N. C., resulted in forty-seven
conversions.
It is proposed to scale the city debt of
New Orleans to the extent of fifty cents
on the dollar.
Lands in Montgomery county, Ala.,
have more than doubled in price within
five or six years.
The building of the Library Associa
tion, at Thomasville, Ga., cost $3,000.
It has 2,000 volumes.
It is against the law in Fort Smith,
Ark., to carry a pistol in any other way
except in the hand.
In Perry county, Miss., John A. Syl
vester planted a poplar tree near an ap
ple tree, and the poplar bore apples.
In some instances in Grayson county,
Va., five and six persons of a family died
of diphtheria, and in one instance an en
tire family.
Some thirty families from Michigan,
New Jersey and Florida, are locating in
North Georgia, on the line of the Atlan
ta and Charlotte road.
William Lockridge, of Highland coun
ty, Va., says that he has killed in his
time as many as 1,500 deer. The old
man’s step is still firm.
The receipts of the State of North Car
olina from all sources during the year
ended September 30, were $546,796.* 4,
and the disbursements were $462,720.34.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi de
clares that eighteen million the dollar,
including three mills for State tax, is the
utmost limit to which taxes can he laid.
About sixty Swiss colonists, the men
being j enerally possessed of means, ar
rived at Mount Airy, Ga., Saturday. A
colony of Armenians are expected iu the
spring.
The entire amoun t bv war of
taxation in North Caoolina is $2,082,7* 0,
of which the counties spend two-thirds,
the schools one-sixth, and the State the
remainder.
Walnut furniture has been" received
rom Chicago and put iu place in the
new post-office at Atlanta, Ga. The
old furniture will be used to furnish the
. post-office at Macon, Ga.
The dueling hill has been passed by the
South Carolina Senate, with an addi
tional section providing that it shall not
effect indictments, pow pend ing or offenses
committed before its passage.
Three men sit in the United States Sen
ate who were Governors of Southern
States when the war broke out, and re
mained in office by re-election at its clos e
Harris, of Tennessee; Vance, of North
Carolina, and Brown, of Georgia.
The flat lands on the Escambia river
in Santa Rosa county, Fla., are alluvial
deposits from the rich lime lands of Ala
bama, and it is thought that they will
make the largest possible crops of rice
for hundreds of yea s without any ma
nure.
Two bells found by a diver between
Fort Sumter and Fort^Moultrie, taken
from the wreck of a vessel of about 350
tons burden, bear the date 1374, and
must have been cast nearly two centu
ries before the discovery of America.
There is an extensive deposit of kaolin,
or porcelain clay, in South Carolina,
near the Georgia city of Augusta, of the
finest quality, equal to the demands of a
hundred years. It is said to have been
used to adulterate flour, being soft, white
and free from gravel.
Old Poldo Lamar, in Alabama, is dead.
He was positively known to be 110 years
old. But according to his statement of
his asre when he came to this country
from Africa and his recollection of war
times long ago, he must have been 125
years old. He was able to go about
where he wished until about a month
ago, when he fell in the fire, since which
time he has been confined to his bed.
The South Louisiana Canal and Navi
gation Company in less than twelve years,
beginning about six miles west of lort
Livingston, near the Southern entrance
toßarataria bay, has cut a fine canal,
westward, nine miles long, forty feet
wide, and six feet deep at low tide, cut
ting into Bayou’Lafourche about twenty
miles above its mouth, and extending
nearly three miles farther west, into the
back waters of Timbolier bay. This
gives safe and easy inland navigation to
Bayou Terrebonne at a point about twen
ty miles from the gulf.
Washington has had a building boom
this year. So far 625 new buildings have
been erected, against 511 for the same
period last year. A large number of
public men are building handsome resi
dences at the capital.
Till! EAST RIVER BRIDGE.
The first consignment of 5tee1—27,460
pounds—for the superstructure of tho
East River bridge has been received,
and rapid deliveries are expected from
this time on, the Edgemoor Iron Com
pany having put its full force upon this
contract. The guys of the superstruct
ure, manufactured by the Roeblings, at
Trenton, of Bossemor steel, have also ar
rived. Tho Cambria Steel Company,
which furnishes tho steel, lias about
1,000 tons ahead of the Edgemoor Com
pany. Col. Paine reports that the steel
has all been tested and is of superior
quality, ths strength of the steel trusses
l>eing six times greater than is likely to
be required.
The last structure to be razed to make
room for the New York approach will
soon be oleared away. Thus far the
bridge has cost $14,000,000 —of which sum
$3,000,000 went under water and $4,-
000,000 went for real estate, to be cov
ered by a mile of costly masonry. In
the profile drawing of the completed
structure the lofty towers sink to com
parative insignificance. The projection
carries in the observer’s mind a sense of
length rather than of height. Tho su
perb arches at Vandewater and Rose and
William and North William streets, the
massive anchorages at Franklin square
in New York and Main street in Brook
lyn, and the airy bridge over Pearl
street become, says a oritical observer,
more conspicuous in the picture than
are the towers, which are so imposing as
seen at midstream on the East river.
It is calculated that with the greatest
possible weight on the bridge and in the
hottest of August days, with the tide at
its highest, there will be 135 feet 6
inches in the clear between the lowest
point in tho bridge, midstream, and the
surface of the East river.— Scientific
American.
FARM SCENES IN NEW ENGLAND.
The cider mill challenged the boy’s
attention in the fall, when apples were
brought by the cart-load and dumped in
huge piles on the ground, then carried in
large baskets to the hopper, to be con
verted into pomace. The steady old
horse turned the creaking mill. When
the pomace was put into form and
pressed the sweet juice ran out into
tubs that invite sampling. Cups and
glasses were a barbarism ; the only
proper instrument for tasting and test
ing was the long, bright straw. No
cherry cobbler was ever so delicious as
that new cider. It was good sport to
hunt hens’ oggs, in obscure manger cor
ners, or high hay-mows, or in the tall,
standing grass ; to see the swarming bees
settle on a limb of the near peach tree,
and watch the process of hiving them ;
to ride on high loads of fragrant hay ; to
trap the sly woodchuck, and see his grit
as a prisoner; to follow the harvesters
afield, and stack the clean oat-sheaves
in “ shocks,” and to see the same oats
fly from under the alternating flails.
About the best fun of all was in the
huskings on the great barn floor. Here
were at once activity and repose, indi
vidual excellence and social enjoyment.
Every man has his stories to tell. The
gray-haired grandfather recounted his
early exploits, and told how his nimble
feet used to trip those of heavier and
stronger wrestlers. ‘ ‘ Stand up a min
ute,” he would say to his best hired
man ; and, taking him by the collar and
elbow, he would illustrate his youthful
“science,” and send his man tottering
across the floor. Hardly less was the
sport of shearing time, when the boys
were allowod to hold the big shears and
trim the sheep’s fleecy legs. The shear
ing was preceded by a general sheep
washing, at the bridge on the nearest
cross-road. It was “high jinks ” for the
boys to stand waist-deep in the water,
pass along the swimming sheep, and give
the larger lambs a useless bath by them
selves.—Martin Kellogg , in September
Californian.
Canada has definitely offered herself
up to the capitalists. She has definitely
agreed to turn over to a syndicate the
new Canada Pacific Company, in per
petuity, that portion of the line which
has already been built and all informa
tion in its possession, and will grant sub
sidies in the form of $200,000,000 of
Canadian Government bonds and several
million acres of land along the line of
road for the sake of its completion to
the Pacific coast.
In Maine they have about as close a
“comer” on doctors as Chicago ever
got on pork. One law forbids a man
practicing medicine without having dis
sected. Another forbids his dissecting
anybody but criminals. A third has
abolished capital punishment. So that
the number of doctors is limited to the
number of persons who happen to die
in prison. Longevity there, it is said,
is becoming absolutely appalling—to
the undertakers.
It is really getting tiresome to hear so
much about “the biggest crop” ever
known or heard of. First it was the
wheat, then it was corn, afterward oats,
apples, potatoes, and almost everything
else, until now we heai from the cran
berries. “Never was there anything
like it.”
AMOUNT OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.25.
A TROUBLESOME BOV.
BY 808 BURDETTE.
“ I hope nothing will happen to that
boy,” tho cross passenger remarked,
anxiously, as we were speeding north
ward from London. Tho boy in ques
tion was about 7 years old. He was en
tertaining the passengers by running up
aud down the aisle, shouting like a
Comanche Indian. He would run to
tho rear door, kick tho panels, and
shout “Ho !” Then ho would run to
tho forward door, kick it, and say
“ Hay !” When this performance be
gan to grow maddening with the mo
notony, tho boy would lond it a variety
by pausing to look into some passen
ger’s face, while at the same time he
would strike at him and shriek, “I’ll
kill you 1” It was very interesting, and
we all loved the infant. Now and then
tho mother would say, “ Sammy, Sam
my, dear, yon mustn’t strike the gen
tleman ; perhaps the gentleman doesn’t
like it.” And then the gentleman
would lie like a Trojan, and say, “Oh,
yes, he didn’t mind it; he liked little
boys. ”
And so we were all nervous and wor
ried for fear the child might get hurt.
We fairly grew wild with anxiety. He
stopped at my seat, snatched the lap
tablets out of my hands and roared,
“Gimmy that pencil!” and when his
mother said, “Why, Sammy, I am
afraid you disturb the gentleman,”
Sammy yelled, “I’ll kill him 1”
I was so anxious about him that I
watched him all the way down the aisle
to see if he wouldn’t fall and break his
neck. So we all sat and watched him,
with concern written all over our
faces. The boy snatched an apple away
from the fat passenger, kicked the cross
passenger’s valise, made faces at the sad
passenger, and hit the man on the wood
box twice with a Btiek. Once, and only
once, he made an offer to slap the woman
who talks bass ; but she glared upon him
with a croak that made his hair stand on
end, and he avoided her during the rest
of the trip.
At last, just as he was rushing up to
the forward door to kick it, the impetu
ous brakeman banged it open to an
nounce a station. It cracked that boy
on the head with the knob, and the boy
acted very much as he would have acted
had he been shot with a catapult, and it
took all the ice-water in the oooler to
cool off his head, and the boy was ef
fectually quieted down. And it was
really pleasant to see the wearied look of
anxious concern pass off the passengers’
faces sifter the brakeman dropped the
boy. The cross passenger’s grim face
relaxed like a May morning ; the fat
passenger winked at the man on the
wood-box, who was still rubbing his
knuckles with an air of tender interest;
the sad passenger hummed a merry little
air, and the woman who talks buss gave
a cheerful croak that was interpreted to
mean laughter. Four passengers whose
names I could not learn gave the aston
ished brakeman 50 cents apiece. The
boy, with Ids head swathed up in wet
handkerchiefs, remained comparatively
quiet
An exchange says that the Key. Mr.
Parsons, of Baldwins ville, N. Y., the
missionary who was recently robbed and
murdered by Turks, was a remarkably
quiet and brave man: The following
incident is told of him. Some years ago
Mr. Parsons, riding alone, unarmed, and
with nothing of value about him save a
small package of Bibles and Testaments,
was stopped by three desperadoes, who
commanded him to disburse in their
favor. “I have no money about me,”
mildly remarked the missionary. ‘ ‘What
are you carrying in your package
there?” roughly demanded one of the
men. “ Only good books,” was the
answer; and, taking one Bible out, by
dint of exhorting and talking, these
hardened criminals were persuaded to
purchase and pay for a Bible apiece,
they leaving money with him who had
intended stripping him of all he had. Mr.
Parsons would have been worth $20,000
a year to any insurance company.
Memphis, in providing for the drain
age of its houses, adopted an entirely
new system. The sewers are not more
than six inches in diameter, until they
have extended snph a distance that the
drainage they are likely to receive will
more than fill one-half the pipe. They
are then increased in size slowdy, but
always with the view of keeping them
as small as possible, while large enough
to do their work. They are used only
for house drainage. Storm water and
soil drainage are otherwise disposed of.
The house drains are uniformly four
inches in diameter, not trapped, and,
starting clear above the roofs of the
houses, arc carried down to the culverts.
Presh-air inlets are provided in the
streets, so that the house drains and
sewers have a constant current of air
passing through them.
Edwin Booth is to act at the new
Princess’ Theater, London. The delay
in his appearance was caused by his re
fusal to play lago to the Othello of
Charles Warner, which would in a meas
ure subordinate him to a popular En
glish star.
CURRENTITEMS.
Humobs of the day—Small-pox, salt
rhourn, etc.
Dammit is a poutoflleo name in Sevier
oonnty, Tenn.
A Newby-wedded husband says it
should bo called “ matrimoney."
Home Philadelphians named their
Colorado silver mine tho * Scooper,"
and the name provod prophetic. They
have been scooped.
No w onder the miser desires to taka
his gold with him beyond the gray",
when even ‘ ‘ doatli loves a Bliining
marc ."—Turners Falls Reporter.
There aro in Philadelplda 434
churches ; in New York city, 354, and
in Brooklyn, 240. In no other Amcri
can city are thero more than 200.
Farmers in Dallas county, Texas, se
cure artesian wells, flowing six fee/
above the ground, by boring to a depth
of between sixty and Beventy feot.
A Cabifornia woman, seven feet tall
and weighing 200 pounds, broke her
heart for love of a little runt of a mar
wearing No. 4 boots and leading a poo
dle by a chain.— Detroit Free Press.
Insane by over-study of tho Bible, i
young man named Pierce, of Theresa,
Jefferson county, N. Y., imagining that
his left hand had offended, deliberately
cut off every finger.
Smabb boy (rushing in front of young
lady wearing large poko bonnet, and
staling her full hi the face) —“ V’ou’vo
lost ycirr bet, Charlie; I told yer it
wam’t an old woman.”
Dogs chased the murderer of their
master, at Navasota, Tex., but only held
him fast when they caught him. The
human pursuers were less merciful,, for
they hanged him to a tree.
The medical student of Maine must
dissect before he can become an M. D.,
hut tho law provides that no bodies shall
be dissected except those of executed
crimimds, and another law abolishes
capital punishment.
At Exeter, England, a young farmer
has been sent to jail for a month for
shooting a rabbit on a farm of his own
occupation, while a man brought before
the same bench for brutally ill-treating
his wife was fined 5 shillings.
The Philadelphia Herald, says that
the women of that city are busily en
gaged in getting up political clubs,
They are about two feet long, and only
appear on parade when the husbands of
the women came home late at night.
An old English miser named Rhodes,
who began making money as a rubbish
gatherer, and lived and died in squalor,
has bequeathed $300,000 between the
Royal Free Hospital, London, and the
National Lifeboat Institution, leaving
his relations penniless.
Some philosophical paragrapher has
been struck with wonder at the persist
ence of mothers in teaching their chil
dren to talk, and the equal persistence
with which they endeavor, a few years
litter, to lxGOp tl irom onoroicing tluiir
talents in that line.
The word “welcome” on the door
mat, or worked in silk floss and framed
to hang on the wall, does not always
mean that the relatives, even unto tho
third or fourth generation, may come in
at all times and make themselves per
fectly at home.— Boston Qlobe.
NO. 19.
The tradition that Cologne Cathedral
would never be finished took its rise as
follows : A young architect in despair
at the refusal of his plans by Archbishop
Conrad went to the bank of the KLino
meditating suicide, when there ap
peared the devil himself, who offered
him, in exchange for his soul, the plan
of the cathedral as it stands to-day.
The young man demanded twenty-four
hours for reflection, and submitted the
matter to his confessor, who suggested
that on the morrow, when Satan
showed him again the design, he should
seize it with his left hand, and, drawing
rapidly a relic of St. Ursula from under
his robe with the right, strike the evil
spirit with it on the brow. This was*
done. Satan said : “ That’s a cunning
trick of the church, but the design
which you seize shall never be finished,
and your name shall remain unknown.’
As he spoke he snatched away the upper
part of the design. Tho young archi
tect died of mortification without recon
structing the plan. For years events
seemed to bear out the old legend.
It is a curious fact that the locomo
tive which, with its train, went down
with the Tay bridge, is now running
regularly between Glasgow and Edin
burgh. For three months it laid in the
bottom of the Tay, but when it was
brought up it was found uninjured, ex
cept the funnel, dome, and weather
board, which had to be renewed. She
ran on her own wheels to Glasgow just
as she came out of her long bath.
Strange feelings might arise in the trav
eler’s breast on learning that his train
was drawn by that engine, but there is
a locomotive engineer, it is said, in this
country running regularly upon a rail
way upon which he was one time the
cause of a most terrible disaster.
A bowlder was recently found on
Mount Washington, showing that the
mountain was completely submerged
during the glacial period, contrary to the
opinion hitherto entertained. The
bowlder corresponds to the character of
the rock on Cherry mountain, ten miles
northwest, and 3,000 feet below the sum
mit of Mount Washington. It was
taken down the mountain, and goes to
the Natural History rooms in Boston.
The Pennsylvania Kailway Company
is adding the artificial decoration to the
grandeur of nature by beautifying tlie
famous Horse-shoe curve, near Altoona,
with flowers and foliage plants.
Nast, the caricaturist, has made a fort
une of $200,000 by his pencil.