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J. W. ANDEKSON, Editor and Proprietor
LIFE’S SUNNY SIDE.
' What—you are dull to-day?
In a sad mull to-day?
and be social and stirring, I pray,
Why so lugubrious?
Take a salubrious
ilk, and we ll talk, for I’ve something to
say.
Verily, verily,
Things will go.merrily
hen you are morry and brave.
But if not cheerfully
Tempered, but tearfully,
[e is a tyrant, and you are its slava
If you go wilfully,
However skilfully
Irsliing your moods and your delicate
whims,
Life will be dumb to you,
All tilings will come to you
hched by a shadow that saldens and
dims.
Life has two sides to it,
Take the best guides to it,
ik at the best and the brightest, my
friend.
Be n philosopher,
Don’t look so cross over
itters you never can alter or mend.
Look not so dismally
Down the abysmally
irk—hanging over the precipice brink.
Worst of nil bias is
Hypochondriasis—
nsliine is healthier than shadow, I-think.
If you would drive a.vay
Glmm, and would biro away
mey-Iike peace in your innermost coll
Work—liko the humble bee,
Poft let your grumble be:
‘rnyourown smoke, and the world will go ;
-6. I Crunch, „ i ■ -v- 1 outli's .i, Companion. ^ • :
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TOM’S EZPESIMENT.
Tom was in a dilemma.
L He sat on the rocks'overlooking the
in the very spot to which he had
ten attracted two hours before by the
glit of a scarlet jacket, and thought
?er his perplexities, and wondered how
would turn out.
“Plague take the girl,” he said, with
ther more emphasis than politeness,
i he ground a pebble into the earth
ider his heel, “I’d like to know how to
't the s*art of her ”
That- 1
was just it! How* to get the start
Janet Stafford was what puzzled him
io re than anything he had attempted in
longtime, lie had tried, in more wavs
bn n one, (o accomplish Ihe feat, and
very attempt had been a failure. llo
ras getting discouraged.
The way of it all was this: Tom Win
bis had met Janet Stafford a year ago,
Bid had straightway fallen in love with
ler. Now Miss Stafford was something
if a flirt, “a rcgu'ar, born flirt” was
fom’s way of putting it, and she lilted
b tantalize the men, and especially Tom,
I seemed to him. Time and again he
lad opened his mouth to propose, but
po always seemed to know what was
joining, and by adroit tact would
am thc conversation upon
ome other topic, and talk on and on
intil poor Tom would get disgusted,
nd conclude that he would wait for
tome other opportunity to declaro his
eve. In no way could he determine
rhether she cared for him or not. lie
bought she did, however, and that
cept him following her round as faith
ully as her shadow, watching for an
bportunity to put his fate to the test,
nd
“Win or lose it all.”
He had seen her sitting on tho locks
pat afternoon, reading, and of course
te joined her. He wouldn’t have been
aom Winters, if be hadn’t.
[ Janet knew, before he had been five
Biinutes by her side, that she was verg
mg toward a proposal. She could tell
It by his face, and thc awful silence
which seemed to settle down about him,
is he concentrated his courage for the
[momentous crisis which he hoped was at
last at hand.
Suddenly she started up.
“I’m getting absent-minded, I think,”
•he laughed, “1 promised to go boat
tiding with Jack Devere this afternoon,
wd I had forgotten all about it till this
minute. I’m sorry to leave yon, Mr.
Winters, but a promise is a promise you
know, and has to be kept;” poor’ and with
that she was me, and Tom swal
lowed the words that were sticking in
his mouth, and sighed dolefullv, while
he thought unutterable things about Jack
Devere, who was his special aversion.
because he was StailoTd a good deal more atten
tivr to Miss than Tom though,
he ouifht tn \
“I wish Devere xv as , 1 „„. -
growled Torn, getting up anil brushing
the dust off his clothes, preparatory to
going back to (lie hotel. i .
"hat did you say, Mr. Wintersi”
aske i a voice at his side, and there was
Miss Stafford again. “I left my book
here somewhere, and came back aften
it.”
„ IW Don . t , boat , ... ding to-dny. , , „ pie , d- .
go r
kll r f n U f t 7 J
something som particular to say to you.
* 1 must go,” she answered, "though
Id like to stay ever so much. But I’ll
have to keep my promise."
“But one doesn't keep ali the prom
ises one makes.” said Tom. “Do stay
here with me, please.”
"If l had promised to go ' ,0: “
with .on. v and didn't keep my word, 1
Wonder what think of me?”
m * r n^Ji jr
\
f r I-. F Star.
if >
i ¥ I '
asked
appoiiAea Jack would*be if I shouldn’t
come.”
jlf^wferetj
“And as I said, I’ve something particu
lar to say—” _
“It will keep till some other day,’ "un¬
swered Miss Stafford, biting tier lips to
keep back the laugh that always came
when Toiq iace tookem th q fc jug ubrious
-look. you'Thfcwf u*p ire ta. idle i.. mire Am da* comI>’j»,
“I suppose so,” Tom had to admit.
“But—but you never give me a chance
to say what I want to.* I really
you know what I want to say,
won’t let me say it, just to
,nc -”
“There comes Jack,” exclaimed
Stafford, asa whistle was heard
the paiU leading fropp| h.C be&h
cliffs. “Some other time you may
me the ‘something particular’ you
going to to-day—if you get a chance.”
That was it! If he got a chance!
“It’s a downright shame for her 4o
treat me so,” said Tom, watching her
and Jack Devere, as they went down
the bay. “Sometimes I think She does
it to bother me, and sometimes I think
she does it because she likes me and
wants to make rue BfflSt^anHe
sure to propose.
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Poor new|»a*r perpleje<| Ttfu sa| dotn aud'
took a fmt if hi*' pociet, |nd
^ h>
of murders aud accidents and other
cheerful mutters of that sort. Finding
them dull, ho turned to the story de¬
partment. tCAs^vSs a little! sjtqfeh
there called it ‘Ashdre.®’ "’IWm
read it. It was about a man who loved
a woman—as he loved Miss Stafford—
atld singular coincidence, he couldn’t
p, 'd out whether she^loved him or not.
day he was out Towing and lost hia
i’At- 1 he waves washed it ashore, The
Woman he loved fojitnJ it. She thought
hu mus t he dtowmyl, and to the poor,
inanimate tldn ff’ shu confessed the love
shc llad 1)01110 fuB * iu °' vllur - TUe 8U P
^ sed dead lnan ha Pl )eued to be near at
hand, and heard her tardy confession of
love—and then and there alibis troubles
ended—or began.
“Why contdn’t I tiTYttich an experi
m, ' nt on daupt!” fought Tpm. J‘Jf I
could only contrive to make her think I
" as drowned. 1 might jind out*whether
she sffe-As -
cares for me tbr nfofir I don’t
Vm cver lix 9j)' ,0 111111 out in an ? oth « r
way. I’ll try it.”
lie went down to the beach and en¬
gaged a boat. lie saw 'Devere coming
as he went down the bay, and Miss Staf¬
ford waved him a passing greeting with
her sunshade.
“That's lucky.’’ tboeigbt Tom, “She’s
seen me goin^'bftf on alit; water.
leave the boat somewhere along the
shore, and Jt’ii be found, and I’ll be
missing, and .she’ll be sure to think I fell
in, and was drowned, or committed
suicide, and when sbedhinks that, shCMl
bc like1 do , , ^tiling that’ll . .
^ t0 W or
give herself away, and I’ll lieAr of it
after I turn up, and then I’ll know what
to do.”
‘ ‘It looks squally in ,thc wost„” De
vere sun g ofit after Mm. 1 “Y't>n’d better
not go far, Winters.”
“Thank you,” answered Tom; “but
I’ll look out jfor jnyseWy” atrd be w*s
soon out of lielring ofStafford’s
merry laugh arid JAck Dcvcrtfs “Jokes at
his expense.
A peak jutted oi^t-i^to tho bay, and
Tom concluded that, a boat abandoned
there would be pretty sure to float back
to the hotel when the tide cable in. Ac
cordingly he left the boat to tlie mercy
°t the waves, and started back a round
about-way to Ihe hotel, over the rocky
cliffs. *
The sky was overclouded by this _ time.
and the \vjnd bi|p:ui to b|pir loqdd
to Tom s dWormbit/tne rain soonI'cgau
.to pour down in j;reat tonvuts, and W
was drenched to thc skin before hecould
find shelter,
storm The abate# sijjiPtvMgoi^g^ 4 * down btf«^|the
It was quite welUiobgia tHe evemdg
before he He got back thoroughly ty^tUe ^iduiti cjtflep of tljp
hotel. was
wet garments, he Mdt KuflfeJ hc
^ ia afiaid “'at his plan would prove a
bdb - Therefore he was not in a very
l doa «‘ nt fra,ue oi ™ ad wh “ B bess
Mi £1 “1 ‘Ji
beach. Ihe surht ol that jacket, m it
«u. »:>. M tr Storn* lin'Mlp'mnm)' 1 *- *-* T
fii-lit tlie :
straVtial, looking in moonlight like
au aureole about his rival’s head, made
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his impertinent attentions, ,«
“Deuce
growled afswLlicVb! Mkm tofJeli lf!>
! ,osc he
his head for my amusement .
coming « HtiS'tWf. 'Now’s my time ,0
a s ,. n8:ltio n. *
The sere tu^Kng m
Tom tliVew his hat out ampng
theln . k „owingjW theN'OulPco^ng'tofvafl'him w«ldnj ¥ b kj,
aud that
would be quite sure to see it on the sand.
Then he hid behind a rock.
“I haven't seen Winters come bark
yet, " Mbs Staiford was saying, when
they c me within hearing distance.
‘She's thinking about me." sa.d Tom
I “ and shows she’s—she’s—well, it
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JULY 22, 1885.
^hqws f f she's | j thinking ' ) --—-— about ----- T
if 'doesn’t me, arjywayf
it show anything else,'” and
this was some jopgolation to the poor
fellow. “Perhaps tley fWop’t recognize
the hat as mine, Iriit if "t teep^sliad'y fo
nkjht tfink and the boat is, found, then they’d
that, l inust be lost ehdfweffl sea
what she’ll say."
“He may have been cast away on some
island alon g the shore,” laughed Jack
Jifvere. MaylL arVtMbles be'flfTurn tbdifcUJL. hetmit and
days
“I hope not,” said Miss Stafford,”
“for if that should happen I should nev
cr know what ‘something particular
was that he wanted to say to me.” Then
she laughed, and the sound of her mer
riincut made J the listaner’s ears tingle.
. ipoor f Iow# » said Devere> but hia
tone didn - t geem to have as much pity in
ft as his words did. “You’re really too
hard on him. What’s that at your feet,
Janet? A hat, isn’t it?”
“Sure enough,” said Miss Stafford,
stooping to pick it up. “Why, jack,
I do believe it’s Tom Winters’, for
here’s a. bunch of blackberry leaves
st icking in thejpand, and I remember
Trim’ him some I had gathered yester
"him ^ nh 1 Sfdo
8 I waulan t ^-A wonder at all if he v, - as, >
1 J “ k ' »■*»>«
Fiic»tone.* “He ’las a jierfect muff with
f a i,4, wilt t ,an|iievKfj)ughtto1i|vebecn-al- w/rods
0 film shore ili one.”
he isn’t drowned,” said*Miss
frtaffprd, and Tom listened delightfully
to the sigh that accompanied the words.
foakim. It proves MM** that she I must Cl g care I something JM 1
• “.mst \?ail till she-hears of the beat,”
chuckled Tom. “I presume she’d give
way to her feelings now over the hat if
he wasn’t by.”
Poor Tom!
“Oh, Jack!” exelained Miss Stafford,
a moment later, “if he is drowned I
shall never listen to that ‘something
particular,’ shall I,” and then she
laughed.
Tom could hardly credit his senses.
Looking at it from their standpoint, in
all probability he was dead. And yet
she could laugh.
“Heartless creature,” though Tom,dis
gnstrd with all the WOTtd; “T wouldn’t
have believed it, of her. She didn’t care
tiro but tors fur me. vrn»t a. ruoi i ve
.been. 1 wish somebody’d kick mo!” -
“I don’t want gentlemen saying,
‘something particular’ to my promised
wife,” said Jack, aud then he kissed
Miss Stafford, and she kissed him back,
and said she’d “’do just as he thought
best, only it was-such fun to bother the
silly fellow.”
ilis promised wife 1
Tom didn’t want to hear anything
iore. lie didn’t want to Sec Anything
more, He had heard and seen euough
already.
“I don’t know but we’d better go
! back and get some one to turn out and
took for Winters,” he heard Jack say.
“They needn’t bother themselves
about me,” thought Tom, making his
way up the rocks as fast as he could.
•■l’m afraid, Tom IVinters, youv’e made
a great foo( of yourself, and that your
cxpeiiiiuAiG was a failure. And yet,
after all,” he added, as lie stopped to
take breath on the summit of the cliff,
"it wasn’t, for now you’ve found out
what sh« thinks*of yoo'.'J^
It is Hardly necessary to say that
Tom's “something particular” was never
| said; at least, never to Idiss is Stafford.—
A. itirfori, in Oi'jkgjp Herald.
Be(ore PapeP>
Wood was one ot the earliest sub- |
s t ance3 employed on which to inscribe ,
pames and record events. Stone, brass,
j c , ld and CO pper, were also used at an
early period; after which the leaves of
, fees. These were superseded by the j
| )alk the qJ the inner tieei bark but this being soon j !
coarse came
■ ,-^ cr t0 ke 11sed) that of thc lime being |
, >re f arred q'his bark was called by the
. |
Uonuuis thefJ.jpip work for book,
barlf. h'oks.’^lkuit^.they might ;
i« more conveniently cayried sbouUwere
.^:^l uKliftd’eatttffl diir !
1 W1 ,jvq yfiluoie. Tiie skins of sht*p, goats
were thc next tuht^ials used, •'
vud so nicely were they prepared that
, narrati ves were inscribed on them
wfth the greatest accuracy . Some of
hose were fifteen feet long, containing
I and " $ X ' V skinS ’ fa#t “ ncd
ibo^ certain “.e same reptiles material. . also The
j n fc<tincs of were
tA- r' <r-■ Of ** tm I
r ^.,.. ..l Hiierft wdltwi o»ln
, p-jjj tilieS 0 f serpents in letters of gold. J
"__ roll was 120 feet long, and was de
pKetfiYYU _ _______ .
^
it destroyed . by fare „
,,,^ 0 . where was m
Ih9 ,ixlh centurv. The next, material
iSihed pwebment^skins smoothed which and
j i by pumice stone-to :
1icceeded vellum, a finer description of
,*rehment. * made -from the skins of very
L, animals On’ this vellum gold
^ lettore were ^pod with bot
‘,. t s ,, Be 0 f these productions
very beau'iful. requiring much time
a them,
and labor to prepare and complete
and the more carefully they are examined
the more do we admire the taste and in
oenuity dhpU.ed.— Chambers' Journal. \
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There are but sixty-three daily papers
published in the Russian Empire.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Water may bo as clear as crystal and
fet carry typhoid fever from a hamlet on
Qne 81 do of a mountain to dwellers on
v.*; other, as in the celebrated case nt
,-*.v xanne, Switzerland.
The opinion is entertained now |»y
aany men of science that the art of
making artificial stone for structural pur.
poses is prehistoric, and that the Pyra¬
mids were, in fact, built of artificial
blocks manufactured from the surround.
ing plain.
An Atlanta man claims to have dis
covered a new principle in hydraulics
whicb upsets the old theory that water
will not rise in a vacuum more than
thirty-three feet. lie says he can pump
water any disiance required, and par¬
tially proves his assertion by pumping it
COO feet without a valve and on a direct
Vertical rise.
A curious observation has been made
by Dr. Copeland, an English astrono
iner. While watching one of Jupiter’s
satellites he was able to see it pass owr
Jt s own shadow on the pknet. For this
to Iiave happened, thasun, the earth, the
S1 ' tel ' ite a “ d th ® ° f Ju P iter ’ s disk
must have been all in one
Ji ne, and, as seen from Jupiter, the earth
must have J appeared making a transit
„c„„, . ta ,
At a recent German scientific congress,
Dr. S. Hoppe, of Hamburg, endeavored
to prove that the electricity of storms Is
generated by the friction of vapor par
tides. This view was etrengthened by
experiments in which fcompressed cold
air was allowed to rush into a copper
vessel containing warm moist air, a large
amount of electricity being thus pro
duced. He concludes Shat the rise of a
column of warm moist air into the
colder atmosphere above will bo followed
by a thunder storm if/it acquires suffi
cient, velocity to prevent neutralization
of the eleetrieity generated by the fric
tion of the air. Henc?, he regards open
districts as more liable, to thunderstorms
than wooded regions, 'where the trees
prevent the rapid rise of humid air cut
rculs -
A French writer gives a long list ol
apparently well-authenticated instancoi
of the finding of live toads in solid mas
bcs of stone, referring in particular to
such a discovery made in 1851 by three
vx *. r kLifn ,.f Blois on Tjrf"> i '-zr ' !
**• «• -
the evideace thu. pnthted le.d. h™ to
insist that it is unwise to pronounce the
phenomenon absolutely impossible, al
though none of tBo reported cases are
quite beyond the suspicion of fraud. T
explain the occurrence, if genuine, it
seems necessary to suppose that the crea- j
lures have existed in their close prisons
during'the unnumbered years in which
the plastic material has been hardening
into rock. That they may endure a
somewhat prolonged confinement was
shown by Seguiu, who, ir, 1822, enclosed
a toad in a plaster covering, and found
the reptile alive and in good condition
oa breaking the shell ten years later.
Aa 01(1 Battle-Field.
.Tnckamauga, like Plymouth Rock, is
adapted to deceive persons at a distance
who have heard General Thomas called
thc “ Rock of Chickamauga.” They in¬
wardly conceive him to have been like
Roderick Dim, with his back against a
rock, and poetry in his mouth, 'll
rock, however, was nearly level earth ie
the midst.of the woods, with smoke and
tire, and whistling shot and thundering
cannon being both landscape and atmes
pheie. At the Ivcilv Hospital, only •
few rods from Thomas’s position, 000 ®f
those honest, manly, crude Tennesseeans
left his wood'-chopping near by to talk W
us ^ gnd fii s little children gathered
aro und with grape-shot to sell. The
price o f grape-shot seems to be twenty-'
t j ve cents apiece. At several places ii
the woods I found trees recently felled
and curious notches cut in them, which F
supposed to be trees prepared to build
i og cabins with, but Ben said that they
fi ad been cut down to get the bulls out
0 f thous and that it was the proper thing
to cut out the big chip with the ball ex
p0 ^ d and 1*1 tho tourist g. . fir: me
with i oth a shingle ami a relic..-*Ch«ew»
lVUi L.^uirer. “ '_~
’
fZZl^h I ifrnorftnce of
” 8CL ‘ n he
-
a^s L f pL „ in grZi cor .
‘ or ^ ff e & auce a M^e as di££
. W
•“"> I'""™
l- jB — of llC!Al -- *«■
organs rciire s mine the brain, the seat of
concentrate:. Ln mg, " 1 ,JC ner
vousconnections meet. They have, m
steatt, stead a a chain tuain of 01 ganglia g b or bundles of
nerve-substance, front each of which
n-r.os branch out to contiguous parts:
so that the sensations arc not ad carried
to one grand focus ol acute sens.hi.it,
as with us, but bum in fact Separate sys
terns, any one of Min-h m, ff ht be do.
stroyed without .nriurluu : ihe sensation
of the others duping mo,ns may be
tun ed to trees without feeling pain
enough to awaae.. them; and it is related
that a drauon fly whose long abdomen
an entomologist had accidently severed
from the- res th body, suffered *0
incbnv .pi- : or It of appetite
t)lat it at once ■ncedily devoured two
fires.
GUARDING THE VALUABLES;
Wan r Preoaiill«n« Taken by (lie Safe
Itcposit ('oiupnnUN.
The Philadelphia Times says, that with
. the s pproach of summer begins the ae.
cumulation in the vaults of the safe de
' do-.it companies of great piles of family
j savor-plate, jewelry and valuable prop¬
erty and papers, which the householder,
about to depart on his vacation, fears to
leave at home, trusting to the vigilance
of the police.
“We have now in our vaults," said
*' a ’ c Superintendent Clark, of the Fi
dt -lity Insurance, Trust and Safe De
P osit company, to a Times reporter,
“some four thousand packages, tire
value of which I could not begin to cal¬
culate, for I don’t know what they are
leally worth.: People who leave their
property in our charge rarely assess them
at their full value, so thoroughly do
the y fecl convinced of their absolute
td-f^y. Lately we have added a new
precaution in the shape of a shock for
the possible sneak-thief.”
‘‘ Dt > you have visits from sneak
thieves?”
i“ w « h avo_ had some. - For instance,
I to visit property,
•*«■« coming your
As you. enter the gate to the vault you
pass the gate keeppr, whorecognv/.esvou
by the password. With you enters a
wel1 dressed man vvho has J ust accosted
- vou wlth some aim P lc remark about the
to which you have replied in the
' arnc <md the gate keeper,
'hmking he is a' friend, of yours, allows
“id to go by with you. . \\ bile you are
| Gambling, say some coupon bonds, your
1 M1 i”P 0SC 'd friend brushes a document on to
'kefloor apparently accidentally. In your
,;xccss of politeness you pick it up with
out lo °kiDg at it and ask him if it is Jj:s.
replies that it is, thanks’'you, w alks
ol1 as ]f on Gthcr business,■ aud might
csua P c f 10:11 tbe building before you
could S ,ve thc ala W* But the S ate IS
clo8 eJ. and can only bo opened on the
outsldo > and only on receipt of the pass
word - This gWtcis alSti one of our pro
Sections against.mobs.”
^ T es ° 8 '. in ” 11 or 8 an,/0( mo '
’ '
C0U reak ioto the building as fur ,LS
P G - n f- * >ut " " leu l k at door was
? ° Cl can direct a cuilent of cicuric
* ^ 1 r0Uc> 1 ''‘ s Rtce ^ ba s 8ud * c ‘ i ut !o
w rzs ' ag oro^en down '"our saie’wwmf tlU ’ e
c „ 0 for w ,,. t
depoa5t with us? Oh, well, it |
wouid be diflicult t0 say We don - t ask i
_
what are the contents of their trunks.
We do not take furniture. 1 wish we
did. I would like to make arrange
ments abroad so that, out of when town, a they family should arc going j
or give
us notice and we would undertake the
packing and transporting to our vaults
or warerooais of the complete house con
tents. Then when the family are com
ing back they should let us know, and
we would replace everything as we found
it. Of course it would be a great un
dertnking, but it is only a small increase
of duty and responsibility after
all. Perhaps it may be inter. |
esting to you to know thnt the
findings on thc desks, tables aud floor
during nineteen years amount to nearly
*0,000,000, all through the carelessness
of safe-renters. With the exception of j
an inconsiderable amount of bonds i
coupons and money, as well as a diamond
necklace and a few watches, the whole
of this large amount has been restored to j
its rightlul owners.” :
.. “Wo receive for safe keeping,” said
John J. Gilroy, secretary of the Guaran'
tee Company, “ valuables of all dcscrip
tions, such as coupons, registered and
other bonds, deeds, mortgages, coin,
plate bullion, jewelry, clothing and
otiir personal effects, assuming all lia
bilities. And I can assure you that our
■dM*o-its are of the most varied descrip
tion. We have a most perfect system of
all a guarantee delivered to the owner,
aDd a password known only to the owner
or such person or persons as he may
choose to tell it to. Then wc have as
complete a description as possible of the
ITwner, and.we require him to sign his
name.
“Here is an example in point. A short
while ago a lady came here and asked
fdr certain property. She produced the
guarantee and gave the password. I
thoiurbt 1 recognized the face, but still I
did not feel altogether satisfied in my
mind about :t. I got our description
book and then put this singular question
to her:
-“ ‘You arc not so old now as you were
when you deposited this property; can
you explain this?’
“‘Oh, yes,’ -he replied; ‘it was my
mother, but she is sick in bed, so she
gave me the pass word and asked me to
do her business for her.’
“Of course, that accounted for the
strong likcne-s which had struck me at
llo ever. 1 had to tell her that
.
unless she produi dan older, con cell y
and fully Idled out by ner mother, !
| could not give her admission to the
L vault.”
In both of these companies’ buildings
watchmen patrol night and day, fully
armed, and the faithful performance of
their duties is insured by detectors and
electric time-clocks. In a thousand and
one unlooked for and unexpected places
alarms, police-calls and apparatus for
severely punishing those imprudent
enough to lay their hands where they
should not be, are hidden. Fire is com
, bated on the principle that prevention is
better than cure by a method of heating
by steam generated by boilers under the
street and isolated from the main build¬
ings
__
Finding One’s Way on the Prairies,
To find the way for yourself to a new
ranch across the prairies, or to drive
anywhere after dark, is a feat only at¬
tempted by the unwary, “Love will
find out a way” through bolts and bars
and parettal interdiction; but Love it¬
self would' be baffled on the prairie,
where the whole universe stretches in
endless invitation, and where there is
absolutely “nothing to hinder” from go¬
ing in any direction that you please.
“Follor a kind of a blind trail, one mile
east and two miles south,” is the kind of
direction usually given in the vernacular;
and so closely docs one cultivate the
powers of observation in a country where
a bush may be a feature of the landscape
and a tall sunflower a landmark, that I
am tempted to copy verbatim the writ¬
ten directions sent by a friend by which
we were to find our way to her hos¬
pitable home:
“Cross the river at the Howards’; turn
to the right, and follow a dim trail till
you'eome to the plowed ground, which
you follow to the top of the hill. Follow
the road on the west side of a corn field,
and then a dim trail across the prairie to
a wire fence. After you leave the wire
fonc#) up n littlo hill alld down a lit .
q c then up another tjll you reach a
rQad i eUl li n g ; 0 the right, which angles
ucrog8 a soct i ( , n UIld leadsinto a road go
j south to Dr. Read’s frame house
w ith a wa ll of sod about it. Through
hi(j doo ard and then through some
orn Leave the road after driving
through the Com, and angle to the right
t0 ,he;corner of another corn field. Take
the r<id to the west of this corn, and go
south! fli[ up a hill, then turn to the right
and 0w a plain road west; afterward
pag (. jj r Dever’s homestead, a
f rame , house on the right with a
stone house unroofed. South, past a
corn field and plowed land on the right.
‘ z:zr<z
a short distance east, and you reach the
guide-post, which is near a thrifty look
ing farm owned by Mr. Bryant; a frame
house; corn field, wheat stacks, and
melon patch. At ihe guide-post, take
the road going south, with cornfield on
^ rlght) tm you come to two roads.
Folloy> , , ha r *,ght-hand road (a dim trail i
at first) down the hill, past some hay¬
8tack8) to the o stt g e . 0 rauge hedge. Fol
[ow ^ to thc creek cr038ing) then
through thfl gr0ve o{ 8un flowers to a
°
god h uso> Qo through the corn direct
, y wegt) fo n ow i ng the creek to the cross
°
iug near our hol c .>
The distance was sixteen miles, but w«
took the letter with us, and found the
way without the slightest difficulty,
though a little puzzled at first by find
jn „ thftt *< at the Howards’” meant any
wbeTe tilre0 mlles of tko Howards’.-
2 /urpeiV
Tho Upper Air.
Tho greatest difficulty which meets
every thoughtful weather student is■ his
inability to obtain any satisfactory ac
count of the condition and motions of
the upper portion of the atmosphere,
As has been said, “we live at the bot
tom of the atmospheric ocean, of which
the upper layers are practically inacces
Bible to us.” The air is arranged sym
metrically about the globe, and it is
much denser close to the earth than
above it. The actual height to which
air extends is not known exactly, but
at the level of about forty miles it is no
%mism
Glaisher and Coxwcll, in a famous bal
loon ascent from Wolverhampton, Sep
tember 5, 1862, the air was found to be
so rarified that great difficulty was ex
perieneed in breathing. 8uch a height |
as seven miles is quite insignificant
when compared with the diameter of the i
earth. In fact, if the earth were repre- ;
sented by a twenty-four inch globe,
the height of the atmosphere, even sup
posing it to be ten miles, would be re
presented by a shell four-hundredths of
an inch thick, about thc thicKuess of a
shilling.— Longman's Magazine.
Mrs. Helen L. Capel, of Pleasantown,
Kan., has abandoned the newspaper
business, after some years of successful
management. In her valedictory, she
says: “As the editor and business mana
gcr of a newspaper, my business is more
with men than with women, and my
work, to be done successfully, mui( be
done as men do it. If I do not follow
the beaten path, the business must suffer,
If I do my work like a man, I am made
Die subject of such a continual fusillade
^ malicious gossip that I choose to
abandon a profitable business rather than
bear it any longer.”
A Japanese dentist never uses forceps,
When he draws a tooth he has to dig it
out with his fingers. —Haul Hetald.
VOL. XL NO 36.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
, ■ — * *
The weight of an ostrich egg is equal
to twenty-eight hen’s eggs.
Experiments made in Paris show that
the crocodile can bring its jaws together 1
with the force of over 1500 pounds.
It is said that the electric ligittfe at u(>
Sacramento can be seen from the high -
Puad near Jackson, Cal., a distance o
sixty miles. I
The ancient name of Afghanistan was : nt
Bsctria. It was among the conquests,
of A’lexander the Great, and it was
there that he marrried Iloxana, his first ' 1
wife.* a ’{j
The longest word used in Eliot’s-la- -
dian. Bible is “ Weetappesiftukgussug; ^ (
nookwektunkquok.” It is found in St.
Mark’s Gospel, i., 40, andnieans “Kneel'-
ing down to him. ” m
The climate of Iowa is reported to
be changing because farming has re.
moved the tall, dense prairie grass and
dried up the ponds and reservoirs
of water that formerly abounded.
On Primrose Day, as the anniversary
of Lord Beaconstield’s death is now
called, several London eating-houses' ad¬ fcll
vertised that every customer woqld be
presented with a portrait of Lord
Beaconsfield and a bunch of 'if prim
*• *’ ’ ‘/cni
roses.
A large business is done in oid hat*
between England add America and the ,!?(.) 1
Nicobars. The savages there consider it
a mark of affluence to possess aa many
old hats As possible', 1 and ii good tart whife • ?
hat with a broad bl«ik baud will Jetqhgn
from fifty-live.to sixty-five cocoayuts. ^
The blood of Innocent child 1
aij was
believed to euro leprosy in old times; !
that of'Ah executed criminal the failing' 1
sickness. The hearts of animals, her.,,
cause the seat of life, were held to bo
potent drugs. The Rosicrueian physi¬
cians (.rented a case of wounding by ap¬ Id
plying the salve to the weapon instead
of to the would itself.
No English peer or peeress can be ar¬
rested for debt, need serve on juries, or
be called out in the militia, and they do
not swoar on oath, but ou honor, except
when witnesses in any court. They can
sit in any court in England with their
hats on, can wear a sort of uniform a
peers, can carry arms, but not in their
pockets, and, if they commit treason or
felonv. thev must he tried hv their peers.
A wealthy citizen of Rome, according
to Tacitus, had pledged freedom to a
slave and had broken his promise. The
man> enraged and disappointed, assas
ginated his master. By law, in such
cases, all slaves under the same roof
should be executed. The public duty,
j n thus case was discussed in the senate,
aud the ce i e brated stoic Cassius de
f ende a the law and urged its enforce¬
ment. The slaves, all innocent, to the
number of 600 persons- were finally exe¬
cute* >
A New Story ol Artemus Ward.
It was back in tho fifties; we were all
rooming in “old 21,” our bachelor bar¬
racks, in tho upper story of a business
block oh Superior street, in Cleveland.
A gay party we were—Sam and George,
Alf ami Harry—aud our third-story den
became headquarters for lots of witty
aud jovial boys, who made it alraoe* *
club-room.in their nightly visits. Among
the most welcome was Charley Brown,
“Artemus Ward,” as he was then just
easing the sobriquet from his quaint •*
series of humorous articles in tho Plain
dealer, on which he was local editor.
Brown, or 'Artemus, as we already began
caU , him, excessively fond of
to was
practical jokes, and the fun they made
among the circle of his friends will long
be remembcied.
0ne m 8 ht , among the small hours, Ar
temus burst into our room—the door was
always on the latch—rushed to the wm
dow, threw it up and, leaning out,
screamed in the shrillest feminine voice.
“Help! Help! Murder I Help! Mur-
1
for the screams.
Artemus sleepily assured the blue
coated gentry that no woman was se¬ H
creted in premises, and well *
our so
enacted thc sleepy astonishment” of
awakened virtue that, after prowling iu
vain about the room, the guardians of tho
peace withdrew, and we heard them ran- -
saekieg the building for quite a while
seeking for the cause of the alarm.
When all was quiet Artemns explained
the rumpus he had made. Some three
or lour printers, who worked oh the" tl
Tlaiudeater, had been imbibing too freely, -. r
and Charley Brown coming up, found
them in the hands of the police, being *
conducted to the calaboose. Anxious to (
rescue them he conceived and executed
the ruse. The piercing screams of tho
female in distress, and the eager hope of
unearthing a tragedy, drew away the at
tendon of the nighthawk3, and they let
the birds in the hand loose to pursue the
one in the bush.
The liberated printers made their short
est way home, while we denizens of room
21 enjoyed the joke as Artemus last.”—
“Aexfur,” in the Ingles He.
W
England annually imports from Russia
about $60,000,000 worth of giain and
flour, which is one-fifth of all the grain
u d flour that John Bull buys abroad.