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Tho Same Forever,
The Cross stands firm; no blast of time,
No hurricane of earth’s rude clime,
Can shake its heavenly steadfastness,
Or lessen its high power to bless.
I look and live l
The tidings from that tree of lore
Aro still God’s message from above,
Telling, each hour, of cleansing blood
)
And pointing to the Upward road.
I hear and live l
Still does the Christ His face reveal,
H.s well of living joy unseal,
Still telling of His love and light,
His meekness, majesty and might.
I come and livel
Still waves life's tree its glorious wealth,
Laden with everlasting health;
With fruit and leaf D.vineiy fair,
And immortality still there.
I eat and livel
Still from the rock the waters burst
To quench the weary spir.t’s thirst;
Who drinketh once will drink again,
Who drinketh shall not drink in vain.
I drink and livel
—[Bonar.
THE CHANGED HEABT,
“But how can I help being neglected
nnd miserable, Ned? You scarcely look
at me when Miss Lovel is near, and sho
is your preferred partner in all things
now. You walk with her, you sing
with her, you drive with her, you dance
with her, and it makes mn very
wretched 1”
“Now, Mollie, if you'ro going to be
jealous 1 ’
“I’m not jealous, Ned. If I thought
you didn’t care most for me; if I fancied
you cared at all for any ono else, I
don’t think I’d remonstrata with you at
all. I would just take off this,” touch¬
ing the diamond on her hind, “and
hand it back to you. I’m not jealous,
but you arc not very kind to mo, Ned.’’
4 i My little pet, you do not soo things
as 1 see them. One owes something to
society, especially when one is at the
seaside. If you would only remember
that I love you too well to find fsult
with any thing you can do, and if you
would beoomo a little more of a society
character yourself, I should be perfectly
happy Why, you scarcely take tho
least attention from any one but me,
and so many are willing to offer attea
tions to you. Now, dear, kiss me ondSj
t must do olf; 1 am to drive on tho
beach with Miss Lovel; not jealous, my
pet? and she
tl Not jealous, No I, no;’’
turned from him, but without giving
the kiss he had asked for.
< i She is jealous, thought” tho young
fellow thought, smiling as he watched
the pretty, straight figure going away
from the nook in which he had found
her, out to the stretch of sand, against
which the waveB were rolling, receding,
leaving now a mass of seaweed on it,
now re turning and bearing it away—
a very coquette of an ocean, now kind
and cow cold, and always fair in the
srlnlight hurried ths
Ned Tre mains over
beach, whistling as he went, and he
presently caught up with his affianced,
who, in her pretty drew of cream and
black, with the wido sun hat uahad a
little back on her blonde hesd, was
looking very beautiful and animated—
and smiling in tho face of Lee Btone,
the most incorrigible male flirt at the
beach. the latter
“Where now, Tremaine?”
called out, a* with a nod he pursued
hi3 way. beach; will see
“For a drive on the
you later,” and Ned had gono by, re¬
suming his whistle.
Mr. Stone smiled a little and spoke a
few word* to Mollio. She colored
slightly, followed ths tall form of her
moment with hsr eyes, on
lover a and half an
gave a’ gracious answer, Lovel
hour later, when Ned and Mis*
pretty light carriage oa the
met the took h
beach in which Lee Stone
daily drive, th.y received a peasant
pretty Mollie. who was his
nod from looked a. though
companion, and who
she thoroughly enjoying his » !•
was
i ‘ She certain!,’lost «
ly found the society of Stone anyth g
put boring.” handsome couple they
“What a with a -tarn
make/’ Miss Lovel said,
!KU-—a eleam in her steady, gray *7* -
why. didn’t know that Miss
“Perhaps you „ omised wife,” he said, a
Annes is my P r
a trifle coldly. engagement*
brol’inasummeratthe, “Oh but so many se^; ae
never minds that vary much,
guid belle said indifferently.
M. b * d at
...
ua
A number of old fnenu
custom. were at dinner, snd
arrived while they and rhile she
about her, "
they were (Nedl smile from the dis
gave a
tance
near her Then ~ a Love! was ask
informed him preoccupied,
him why he ^ ^
ing Molli* 6t0 “ e eirciwg
aad, a.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, JULY
by, joining the waltzers,he followed them
with Mi& Lovel.
“A rather pronounced flirtation,"
Lee laughed, later, when he and M.ollie
stood on the hotel terrace, watching the
moonlight on the sea and strand, and
one solitary coupl# pacing slowly along
beside the waters. Both knew who
they were, for a few minutes before
they had seen Ned Tremaine place that
pale pink scarf about the shoulders o,f
Miss Laura Lovel as he led her across
the terrace, too much engrossed in his
task, it would seem, to notice Mollio or
her companion.
“Ob, everybody flirts more or less at
a seaside hole!; one has nothing else to
do, you know,’’ Mollio answered Lee
with a little ripple of laughter, and hs
looked on the pretty face to which tho
moonlight was so tender, his voice sink¬
ing almost to a whisper as ho spoke to
her.
“It is a cowardly pastime for a man,”
ho said softly, “and for a woman it is a
cruel one.”
Again she laughed, while arranging
tho bracelet oa her arm; a touch of
mockery was in the rippling voice.
“And you—is it pleasant to know
that you are cruel and cowardly?’’ she
questioned. “One is tempted to be¬
come personal when such remarks come
from one who is said to count his con¬
quests with cruel pride, and to whom
the world gives no higher aim than to
fascinate—and remain careless. Am I
too plain? Forgive me.”
“I forgive you freely—as I would
forgive you all things, Miss Anness: but
neither you nor the world fully under¬
stands me. I may seem a trifle r; but
were the woman I love to love me in
return no smile would be to so sweet as
hers, no presence half so dear.”
Mollie had been watching the couple
on the sands going slowly back and
forth, back and forth in the moonlight;
now sho lifted her sweet young face
and looked at him with a sort of won¬
dering pity. tlicn?” she
“Do we all wrong you,
asked, gently. “Have you failed in
your wooing? Can you not win where
you love?’’
His face flushed a little at her words,
and she, watching it, was struck by its
strength and beauty. How did it
banco that she had never noticed it
before?
“I am not left the chance to woo or
win her,’ he said, slowly; “she is
another’s promised wife.”
“Ah,” she said, pityingly; and sho
gave him her hand in a sweet, womanly
sympathy, never for an instant connect¬
ing his words with herself. He lifted
tho small hand reverently to hts lips,
and drawing it through his arm turned
towards the beach, As he did so ho
found himself facing Ned Tremaine and
Laura Lovel, who were coming m from
tho moonlight, and he noticed that the
young man’s face was quite white, while
there was a half scornful smiio on the
lips of the fair belle of th# seaside. But
the two couples passed each other in
silence, tho ono going down to the
stretch of the glittering sand, the other
going in to the dancers.
A week later, and Mollie had just
come in from a long hour, peaceful and
calm, spent with Lee in a quiet nook
among the rocks that overhung the
ocean. He had been reading to her
thero some of tho sweetest poems givoa
to the world by genius, Her heart had
thrilled as he read, aud new, strange
feelings had stirred it. When he closed
the book ho had looked up and found
her eyes filled with tears, And now in
her own room she was asking herself
how it was that what sho had com
menced but for the purpose of annoy¬
ing Ned had in one brief week slain all
her old resentment against Mis3 Lovel
and made her thoughts turn constantly,
not to Ned Tremaine, who was her affi¬
anced husband, but to Lee Stone, who
was termed the greatest flirt at the
beach. What was changing in her life?
When she now met Ned and Laura it
did not pain her as it used. Was it be
cause a handsomer face, a stronger and
a nobler face than Ned’s was constantly
near, ready to turn to her with devo
tion, ready to light if she smiled?
A servant broke her pondering* by
bringing her two messages — one a
boquet of white flowe rs with a few
feathery sprays of fern among their
w hitcncss and one crimson rose gleam¬
ing red from their centre, and in it was
a note from Lee asking her to go for a
drivo with him by moonlight; the other
was a few angry lines from Ned, asking
if she remembered that she was be¬
trothed to him white she allowed every
ossip at the hotel to chatter of her
flirtation with Leo Stone.
I have been patient, waiting an op¬
portunity of speaking to you,” he wrote,
“but you will not givo me one, so I
write to ask you if you wish our en¬
gagement broken; to all it would seem
so.”
She trembled a little as she read, and
her sweet face changed color; but sho
went to her desk, drew from it every
lettcr he had ever sent her, formed
th-m and his ring is a package, and
wrote him the following note:
It was I who first taught patience while
my existence was forgotten for one who was
what vou de mi bicomi—“a sty ebar
aeter." Why should I fancy that you wish
an interview with me of Intel It is not so
long since you could not spare a moment for
me from Miss Lovel. Do I wish our engage¬
ment broken! Perhaps we both wish it.
Ned: at least let us brea% it, since I so
displease yon. I send you your letters and
ring.
Then, although a choking sensation
was in her throat, she penned a brief
note to Lee:
“I shall be pleased to go with you, M
that was all; and in the starlight—the
moon rose late—sh# wont with him out
over the beach and far along the coun
try.
Was it strange that ho noticed sho
no longer wore Nod’s' ring? Was it
strange that he told her of Ilia lov», and
that she listened silently, bolievingly,
with a strange flutter at her hoart? Was
it strange that when they trove back,
lingering beside tho sobbing ocean,
another ring should deck her finger and
another bond should lie upon her life ?
Well, two others walked upon tho
strand, two whom the gossips called
lovers; and yet when it was told that
Mollie Annes was to place her happi¬
ness in the keeping of the ''flirt of tho
beach,” one man who heard it turned
as white as death and shrank from tho
sight of tho beautiful woman beside
him, although men called her fair, and
many said she had won bins from his
faith; yet Mollia was too happy to re¬
gret, although she sometimes remem¬
bers.—[Toledo Blade.
Pet Problems to Hie Ancients.
Among the problems with which it
pleased the ancients to perplex them¬
selves was one which bears in an in¬
structive manner on tho doctrine of
limits. It may be thus stated: The
swift footed Achilles started in pursuit
of a tortoiso which was l( y 000 yards
,
from him, Achilles running 100 times
faster than tho tortoise. Now, when
Achilles had traversed the 10,000 yards,
tho tortoise had traveled 100 yards;
when Achilles had traveled these 100
yards the tortoise had traveled one yard ;
when Achilles had traversed this yard
the tortoise was still 100th part of ajyard
in advance; when Achilles had
traversed this 100th part of a
yard the tortoise was the 10.000th
part of a yard in advance, and so on
forever—tho to.-owe being at each
stage in advance of Achi', ,is by ono
hundredth part et annr'p r Achilles
had traversed in the preceding stage.
The tortoise then remains always in ad
van co of Achilles by some distance
however minute; and therefore Achilles
can never overtake the tortoise. But
we know that Achilles traveling faster
than tho tortoise will overtako it.
Therefore, Achilles will nnd will not
overtake tho tortoise; which is absurd.
Tho ancients wero strangely fond of
problems of this sort. Thus there was
the famous problem about tho ass be¬
tween two exactly equal bundles of hay,
at exactly equal distance, This ass
says the sophist, “will attempt to eat
neither bundle; for, by whatever line of
reasoning it could be shown that
he would turn first to ono bundle,
by a line of reason precisely similar it
may be shown that he would turn first
to tho other, But he cannot turn first
to both. Therefore, ho will turn to
neither. Another of these problems
was thus worded: “Epimenides, the
Cretan, says that the Cretans ars liars.
Now Epimenidos is himself a Cretaa,
there lore Epimenides is a liar, There
fore the Cretans are not liars. There
fore Epimenides is not a liar, There
fore the Cretans are liars. Therefore
Epimenides is a liar, Therefore," etc.,
ad infinitum, Others stated tho prob
lem in a more simple form, thus: “When
a man says I lie, does he lio or doe* ha
not lie? If he lies ho speaks the truth,
if he speaks tha truth he lies.”- -[Com¬
mercial Advertiser.
Good and Bad News.
Bad news weakens the action of tha
heart, oppresses the lungs, destroys the
•appetite, stops the digestion, and par¬
tially suspends the functions of the sys
tem. An emotion of shame flushes the
face; fear blanches, joy illuminates it,
and an instant thrill electrifies a mil¬
lion of nerves. Surprise spurs tho
pulse into a gallop. Delirium infuses
great energy, Volition commands, and
hundreds of muicles spring to excite.
Powerful emotions often kill the body
at a stroke. Chilo, Liagoras aad Bo¬
phoctes died of joy at the Grecian
games. Tho news of defeat killed
Philip V. Ono of the popes died of ;n
emotion of the ludicrous on seeing his
net L monkev robed in pontificals, occu
keener n „ the chair of state. The door
of Congress expired on heari g
of the surrender of Cornwallis. Em
inent public speakers have often di d
in the midst of an impassioned burst of
eloquence, or when the deep emoticn
that produced it had subsided. L -
crave the young Parisian, died when
he heard that the musical prize for
which he had competed wa, adjudged
i to another,
j In an Old Boston House.
Phla tterly (trying to make him
i self so id) — - nat a remarkably strong,
manly face your grandfather had, Miss
S Phillips.
Miss Phillips--Pardon me, Mr.
Phlatterly, but that’s grandma,—
, [Judge.
MAIL ODDITIES.
Some Curiosities That Lodge in
the Postal Pouch.
Animate Objects That Come
Under Postoffice Ban.
Many queer things pass through the
mails. Some of thpm afford amuse¬
ment for tho clerks, and others for a
time cause them to forget their roligious
training. Every conceivable thing that
comes under the rules of mailable mat¬
ter, and many others besides, is daily
received at every large postoffice ia
the land. Many packages are stopped
because of violation of tho law and
are confiscated, while occasionally an
tnmsilable articlo slips through under
the guise of something else. Speaking
of the matter to a Herald reporter,
a Baltimore postoffice official said:
mailing of merchandise, samples
and other things has reached such an
extent that I wouldn’t be surprised at
any time to see a man como in and
ask if ho can mail a ton of coal to San
Francisco. A great many things aro
sent by would- bo jokers. A short time
ago a fashionable up-town lady received
a neatly- done- up and perfumed
package from a point in
Virginia. On opening it a garter
snako jumped out and ran across the
floor. Tho lady screamed, and when
some of tho other members of tho fam¬
ily went to her rescue she was standing
on a centre table and tho snako was
coiled up on a sofa. A few days ago
when a mail pouch was opened a small
diamond-back terrapin crawled out.
Tho little reptile was carried to Mr.
Gus Warfield, who placed it on his
desk. It crawled about quito actively
for a while, and then pulled in its head
nnd feet and went to sloop. Mr. War
field placed it oa the desk of ono of the
clerks who had gono “‘it for lunch.
When the clerk returned he noticed the
terrapin and thought it was a paper
weight, nnd went on working. In a
few minutes the terrapin awoko,
stretched out its head and crawled over
on tha clerk’s paper as if to see whit ho
was writing. The young man had never
seen a 1>«> teerupin before, awt, still
thinking that it was a new-fangled pa¬
per weight, he picked it up to make a
closer inspection. Somehow his right
thumb got caught in the terrapin’s
mouth, and a part of it stayed thero.
He now knows what a terrapin is, but
is very careful about inspecting new de¬
signs in paper weights. On a recent
occasion a box full of lizards was found
in ono of the pouches. They were
thrown out.
Very frequently commission men re¬
ceive samples of all kinds of grain and
other farm products, with inquiries con¬
cerning their value. Often in the spring
samples of strawberries are seat this
way, but on their arrival they are gen¬
erally smashed into pulp. Handsome
bouquets frequently make their way
through the mails, but on arriving at
their destination, they are usually
crushed and worthless. A watermelon
came from Florida a few days ago ad¬
dressed to a man on Pratt street. Tho
carrier who took it down had the mis¬
fortune to drop it just as he entered the
owner’s door, but it made no difference,
as it was green anyway. Small orders
of all kinds of goods are sent in every
direction all over the country. The
meanest tricks ever played ia this direc¬
tion was when the envelopes for hospital
day wero collected. Many of them
were not stamped, and as the depart¬
ment had been requested not to stamp
worthless ones, they were opened and
found to contain peanut hulls, bugs,
sand, pieces of matches, potato parings,
scraps of paper, pieces of bacon rind,
horn buttons, tin, etc.
One of the most annoying things to
the officials was candy, and recently a
line was drawn there. That is, a rule
was adopted that candy should be put
up in such a manner that it could not
get loose among tho other matter. For¬
merly, nearly every pouch contained a
broken box of candy and a lot of sticky
letters.
A Few Statistics.
Interesting facts concerning ancient
cities: Nineveh was 15 miles long, 8
wide and 40 miles around, with a wall
100 feet high, and thick enough for
three chariots abreast. Babylon was
50 miles within the walls, which were
87 feet thxck and 350 high, with 100
brazcn S atcs * The Tcm P le of Diana - *
Ephesus, was 420 feet to the support of
* was 100 year* m bufldiug.
The largest of the pyramids is 461 feet
; hl h d 6 3 ‘ he ba8
« * *“ > 00 «
c ™ n 11 acrw - Tho stonos * b ° u t
30 {eet in lin S th - «»d the layers are
390 - It employed 33,000 men in build
The labyrinth in Egypt contain.
300 chambers and 253 halls. Thebes,
j In Egypt, presents ruins 27 miles
j around. Athens was 25 miles around,
and contained 250,000 citizens and 400,
; 000 slaves. The Temple of Delpho3
was so rich in donations that it was
plundered of $500,000, and Nero car¬
ried away from it 2 00 statues. The
walls of Rome were 13 mile, around. —
[Commercial Advertiser.
VOL. XIV. NO, :i6.
Mighty Ruins in Mexico.
Surveyors who afe examining the
proposod for a railroad from Darn¬
in New Mexico, to Janos, in the
of Chihuahua, and from there to
point on the Pacific coast, have
already as far as tho old Spanish
of Janos, which is in the midst
tho wild Sierra Madre of Mexico, one
the least known districts of North
but evidently tho seat of an
civilization of which no authen¬
record has com'o down to the present
In a canyon which was passed
by the surveying party a suc¬
of dwellings were encountered
along for miles, and
built up in terrace form,
above the othir, with solid
unlike the cru le and pigmy
clifl-d Wellers of Arizona and
Mexico, These dwellings had
tho appearance of regular streets,
built above each other on the
declivity of the canyon, and
difficult of acc -si, as if it had
done for purposes of defense
powerful enemies. The bui’.d
have their front walls constructed
hewn stones carefully cemented,
the rear portions are built into
sides of the canyon, All of these
aro in a remarkable state of pre
so much so that they deserve
the name of abau loaed dwellings
of ruins.
After this canyon is passed and tho
country roached an isolated mount¬
of symmetrical proportions is
on tho summit of which tho
of a gigantic stone structure are
tho appearance of which
that it was either a temple or
palace of a king. A portion of
ruins consist of a very hard con¬
At the foot of this mountain are
constructed torracod
plainly showing the existence
former times of an extonsive
of irrigation and storage of
Tho country for many miles in
directions contains some relic*, such
melates or stone tables, with appro¬
pestles for tha grinding of maize,
hammers, variou4 household uten¬
and ia soma instances, bronzo tools
such extraordinary hardness aud tem¬
per that they arc equal to* modern at cl
tools. YVherevcr the ground is turned
up these :%Ucs at* .at ... • d in untaiUiig
abundance. T’jY neighboring Indians
know of these evidences of a former
civilization. The belief is that the king
of all the Montezumas lived on the top
of that mountain, but at what time and
what his name was they did not know.
—[Globe-Democrat.
From Loft to Right.
Dr. Delaunay, a French scientist, as¬
serts that centrifugal movements of the
hands—that is, from left to right—aro
characteristic of intelligence and higher
development; centripetal, or the reverse,
are indicative of incomplete evolution.
He suggests this a3 a scientific test in
employing servants and others. To as¬
certain the qualities of au applicant
cook give her a place to clean or s
sauce to make, and watch how sho
moves her hand in either act. If shi
moves it from left to right, or in the
direction of thi hands of a watch, you
miy trust her; if in the other way,
she is certain to be stupid and incapa¬
ble. The intelligence of people may
also be gauged by asking them to make
a circle on paper with a pencil, and
noting in which direction the hand is
moved. The good students in a mate
matical class draw circles from left to
right. “Down East” a similar test of
“faculty" has existed from the earliest
day. No Yankee farmer would hiro a
1 ‘hand or H storekeeper” employ a
clerk who should whittle to him instead
of from him.
Eighteen Years Over the Century.
There is living six miles northwsst
of Flandreau County, Dakota, an Indian
woman by namo Hannah Weston (Cat
anwinna). At present sho is living with
her sixty-five-year-old grandson. Sho
claims to have been about six years old
■when the Ri volutionary war broke out,
which would make her about 118 years
of age. She tells that her father was a
chief, and fought with the English at
that time. She wears a silver medal,
which is three inches in diameter, and
nearly one-fourth of an inch in thick
ness; on one sido of the modal is a por
trait of King George III. The medal
was presented to her father by the
King’s agents at that time, and she
prizes it very highly; money cannot buy
it. She is totally blind, and has been
so for a number of years, is considerably
emaciated, and the wrinkles on her
face are finger deep. OiheTwise she en
joys good health, and is a hearty eater.
The Champion Butterfly Story.
One of the young lady clerk, of Ra
cine, Wis., has a rare curiosity in the
shape of a live butterfly, and she be
came possessed of it ia a singular man
ner. She was walking upon the lake
shore drive last Sue day. Returning
home the butterfly was found upon her
uaw Close inspection of the fly re
vealed upon if wings in various colors
the figures 1889. It is indeed a singu
lar freak of nature, and probably the
only curiosity of the kind in existence,
— [Northwestern.
Batynshkn.
From yonder gilded minaret
Beside the steel bhie Neva set,
I faintly catoh from time to time,
The sweet, aerial midnight chime—
“God save the Tsarl”
Above the ravelings and the moats
Of the grim citadel it floats;
And men in dungeons far beneath
Listen, and pray, and gnash their teeth—
“God save the Tsar 1”
The soft reiterations sweep
Across tho horror of their sleep,
As if some demon in his glee
Were mocking at his misery—
“God save the Tsarl”
In his red palace over there,
Wakeful, he needs must hear the prayer.
How can it down the broken cries
Wrung from his children’s agonies!—
“Gcd save the Tsarl"
Father they called him from of old—
Batyushka t____How his heart iscoldl
Wait till a million scourged men
Rise In their awful might, and then—
“God save the Tsar!”
—IT. Bailey Aldrich in Harper.
HUMOROUS.
Gencral training—Railroading.
Suited to a tea—The cup and saucer.
Tae book agent should wear a canvas
suit.
Is it all day with a chess-player when
both knighti aro gone?
A fountain head may very naturally
have water on the brain.
Tho girl who uses violet ink, wants
her correspondence to bo inviolet.
A counter-irritant—A woman who
prices everything nnd buy3 nothing.
u I passed some queer' ’ and here I am
in prison all on accountcrfeit, ”ho sighed.
If you’re to scril ble what you hear,
Then keep your pen behind your ear;
If you write what you know of men,
Then keep your ear behind your pen.
“I will now take do sense ob do
mcetin’,’’ sail the “free lecturer;” but
his audience had wild visions of a ponny
collection and bolted for tho door.
Other countries may spend more
money fer guns than the United States,
but they fall behind tho American
nation in the high prices paid for bat
torics of the base ball sort.
Judge—Tho witness swears you stole
his coat, and have it on. I must, there¬
fore, find you guuty. Tramp~OL>, wen,'
your honor, if you’ro going to judge a
man by tho clothes ho wears I s’pose I’ll
have to give in.
A Useful Piece of Furniture. —Lady
(looking at a city flit): And this is the
ice box? Agent: Yes, ma’am. Lady
(putting her hand in xt): It seems very
warm. Agent: That's becausa it is
set agaiisl tho range in tho adjoining
flit. You will find it very useful,
ma’am, for drying kindling wood and
that sort of thing.
“I think, said tho minister, who
was visiting a parishioner, “that it j»
easier to coax children than to drive
them, Gentle words are more effective
than harsh ones. a I think so too,
Baid the lady, tenderly, Then she
raised her window and suddenly
shouted to her boy: “Johnnie, if you
don't come in out of that mudpuddle
I'll break your back.
A (Jnecr Mode of Catching Fish.
A lazy but unlawful method of ob¬
taining fish from the ponds was once
quite common. This was stupefying or
drugging the fish by means of some nar¬
cotic plants. The favorite growth for
this purposo was the devil’s shoe-string,
a smalt plant with extremely long*
tough, and slender roots. This queer
plant, with its uncanny name, was much
used by the Indians as a medicine, and
is said to be the basis for several blood
purifiers with long and alliterative
names. A plentiful supply of the plant
being obtained the individual finds a
log which projects well out into the
water, and getting astride of it dips it
in and alternately heats it with a stick
or paddle. After every good beating it
is shaken about in the water and the
supply replenished, and this continued
until the pond is thoroughly impreg¬
nated with the singular properties ol
tha weed. The fish soon commence
rising to tho surface and gasping as if
for breath. A few faint struggles fol¬
low and then the fish lie helpless and
inert upon the surface only to be gathered
in and serve as a meal, It is said that
the meat is not at all affected by the
treatment the fish have undergone, but
it is with considerable squeamishness
and trepidation that a person for the
first time dines upon poisoned or nar
cotized fish.—[Atlanta Constitution.
The Tuft of White Hair.
The Duke of Simonetta, an Italian
nobleman, who is making a name as a
musical composer, is the descendant oi
a long line of dukes who have a strange
peculiarity. They have jet-black hair,
and just above the forehead a white
tuft. This they had for a long sene, of
years, until the father of the present
duke was bora some 60 years ago. He
had a thick, curly head of brown hair,
without a particle of white, and with
him it wa, supposed thero was an end
of the special mark. But his son is a
tall, handsome man, with a head ot
black hair, and he has exactly the samq
white Wt.—prioei-Dettoeret