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The Covington Star
J. W. ANDERSON, Editor and Propretor.
Kissing the Rod.
Oil, heart of mine, we shouldn’t
Worry sol
What we’ve missed of calm we couldn’t
Have, you know 1
What we’ve met of stormy pain,
And of sorrow’s driving rain,
We can better meet again
If it blow.
We have erred in that dark hour
We have known,
When our tears fell with the shower,
All alone—
Were not shine and shadow blent
As the gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With Ilia own.
For, we know, not every morrow
Can be sad;
So, forgetting all the so-row
We have had,
Lotus fold away our fears
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming years
Just be glad.
—[James Whitcomb Riley.
THE DOCTOR’S BOY.
“Mother, it’s awful cold to-night!
Can 1 put a little more wood on the
lire—only one more log?”
Mrs. Netloy glanced grudgingly to
the wood- box in the corner—a
receptacle which, by the way, was not
too well filled.
“I suppose so,” said she. “But he
careful John; wood gets away so fast,
ami the price always goes up toward
inter. tt
.4 --- J 1 -- -- on the braided rug in
of the fire, John Netley ainusua
with building up the founda¬
tions of a cheery sheet of flame, while
on one side of the table his mother
buttonholes on vests, and on the
(her Aunt Eunice stitched busily away
t shirt finishing for a factory near
by.
Mrs. Netley was a pale, hollow-eyed
little w idow. Eunice Whilo was ten
or tw elve years younger, and although
not in the first bloom of youth, might
have been pretty if her cheeks had
been a little rounder and her eyes less
mournful iu their expression.
The room, although furnished with
pitiful plainness, was neat and clean.
very old blackbird gave an occa
spasmodic chirp in its cage near
ceiling, and a lean cat avatched in
at an infinitesimal mouse-lioie
the bureau.
“Well, mother,” said John, who
the only real young creature in
room, “why don’t you ask what
I had?”
“Because,” sighed Mrs. Netley, bit¬
oil'the thread to save the trouble
reaching for her scissors, “you
do have any luck. Folks don’t
to avant a boy. n
“The new doctor does, though,” said
chuckling, as lie reviewed the
of his architectural dealings
the fire. “And he’s engaged me
look after his horses and coav.
I”
Mra .Voitov noiiiuul. with her psudk*
in irm-air.
“Well, that is luck,” said she. “The
doctor 1 1 suppose lie’s a a r ery
gentleman, eh?”
“He’s very nice and pleasant,” said
“that’s all I know, And he’s
to give me two dollars a week.
lie says I mustn’t be discouraged,
he was a poor boy once, witli
pockets and never a shoe to his
“And now,” said Mrs. Netley, ‘•‘he’s
that big stone house and
It’s avell to be lucky. 11
“But,” cried John, “he says it isn’t
He says it’s nothing but hard
and push. And I mean to work
too, and buy a nice house, some
for you aud Aunt Eunice to live
“What’s his name, Johnny?” list¬
asked Miss White.
“Dexter, (he boy ansavered—
“Doctor David Dexter. If
“Mercy on us, Eunice!” cried Mrs.
Netley, “what possessed you to give
such a start?”
tt I—I pricked my finger! v> mur
mured Eunice, “ Can’t we have
another lamp, Mary? This sort of
thing is ruinous to the eyesight.”
Mrs. Netley rose to bring another
starved-look'ng little lamp.
John sat and stared at the fire, with
speculative eyes.
“I'm only to feed the hotses, and
carry avood and water to the kitchen,
and look after the fancy Brahmas and
Leghorn foavls, said he. “Doctor
Dexter lias a man to drive around
with him. So you see I can study at
home evenings, just the same as if I
avent to school; and I’m sure Aunt
Eunice is as good as any school-teacher
going, to keep me up with my
geography and arithmetic. 11
“Two dollars a aveck will be a
great help to us,” said Mrs. Netley.
And then she coughed that dry,hard,
rattling little cough that John disliked
to hoar so much,
“It seems strange, don’t it.” said
she, after John had gone to bod, and
Uio two sisters wsro putting away
their wearisome work preparatory to
seeking their own pillows, “the idea
of a new doctor settling here, after old
Doctor Plympton had resigned for
forty years? How times do change,
to-be-sure I”
4 < Yes," said Eunice, almost inatidi
bly.
Mrs. Netley looked sharply at her.
“Eunice,” said she, “what does ail
you tonight? Yon ain’t sick, are
you?”
“Yes,” said Eunice. “Sick of liv¬
ing-sick of drudging—sick of this
endless fight for daily bread! Oh,
Mary, Mary! what a fool I have been!
If I could only undo the past! 11
“Eunice, what do you mean?”
“Do you remember when I taught
school at Milford, Mary, when John
was a baby, and you were living over
at Dawson's Point, before Albert
died? Well, I had a lover then,
a lover that really loved me—
for I was tolerably good looking in
those days. But he was plain and
quiet and not very well-to-do. I
thought I could do better, and I found
it great fun to tease the poor fellow as
I’ve seen boys play a trout in that lit¬
tle crooked stream up the hills. And
I ended by refusing him, and he went
away.”
“I’ve heard all this before, haven’t
I ?” said Mrs. Netley, with a puzzled
countenance.
4 ‘Yes; but you never heard hi 8
imuiB. TL »t t*o
“Goodness ine!” ejaculated Mrs.
Netley.
“Hush!” said Eunice. “Don’t
wake John. Oh, yes, I know I’m
rightly served; but it don’t make the
dose any the less bitter to swallow.
Doctor Dexter is a rich man now, and
I hope—yes, I do really hope—that he
has a good wife, one worthy of him,
by fliis time. But I can’t help think¬
ing what a dreadful mistake 1 made in
those old days. He was so good and
true. •i
“Well, said Mrs. Netley, slowly,
“it’s done and it can’t be undone. So
far as I can see._ folks are always
making mistakes in this world. Don’t
fret, Eunice. It’s small good crying
after spilt milk. And it’s past ten,
and the fire’s clean burned out, and
we’d better go to bed, I guess. »
John Netley went to his new place
the next day, and any boy who has
been thrown on his own resources can
easily imagine the delight lie felt when
Doctor Dexter placed two big, round
silver dollars in his little brown
palm at the end of the first week, with
the pleasant avords:
“You have well earned them, my
boy.” -
It avas a dreary November evening,
with the windy air full of flying dead
leaves, 3 vhen Alison, the old cook,
came to the office door in Doctor
Dexter’s fine stone house.
“Please, doctor, said she himself to her
masiei, )> 'ui/ ItuU i seated
with a book before the red light of the
fire, “do you know what’s come of
little John? I’ve called and called,
and he isn't there. 19
4 . Not there?” repeated Doctor Dex
ter. 4 4 And I let Collins go home to
spend Sunday. Call again; the boy
must be there. 11
“lie isn’t, doctor. It’s the first
night he has failed us since you hired
him. And now I come to think of it,
he had an awful hoarse cold this morn¬
ing, when he came in for the chicken
feed. Perhaps lie’s sick. 11
Doctor Dexter laid down his book.
“I’ll go down and take the horse
out of the traces myself,” said he.
4 4 Where does Johnny live?”
Alison did not know; neither did
the doctor.
But as Dexter opened the stable
door, outside of which the patient
horse stood aa’aiting, his mane and tail
drooping before the knifelike wind,
the flash of a lantern greeted his eyes
avith unexpected light.
“So you are there, after all, John? • 1
said he.
But it was not John Netley. It was
tho tail, slight figure of a woman
shrank back from its task of throwing
hay into the manager of General, the
big iron-gray horse.
“Whv, cried Doctor Dexter,
amazement, “who are you: V’
“I am John's aunt 11 faltered a low
voice. 44 He’s sick, and he fretted so
much about the horses’ supper that I
told him I would come and put hay
into their mangers and water them.
am not timid with cattle,” she
.4 aud I did not suppose any one
knoav.
“John’s auut!” repeated
Dexter. “Let me take that lantern
minute, please! Why do you turn
your face away from me? Is it true?
Y r ou arc Eunice White, then!
“Y'es, 11 she cried out, passionately,
“I am Eunice White, But I never in
tended you to know it, David Dexter,
Fortune has dealt very diflerently with
me from what it has with you. OpeD
COVINGTON , G EORGIA, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 1890.
,
[ the door; let me go back home, I’m
sorry I ever came here."
“You are cold,Eunice,” said he gent
ly; you shiver. Como to the house
and let me give you a cup of tea. tf
it No," she said, resolutely, “I will
go homo!”
(4 Then I will go with you, Eunice.
I must see Johnny, Do you know.
even without being aware that he was
any kin' to you, I have got fond of that
boy? I shall be fonder still now. ]
have wondered this ir any a day, Eu¬
nice, whore you were and what had
become of you?”
“Have you?” Eunice’s heart had
begun to beat straugely now; her
cheeks glowed deeper than arty dam¬
ask rose. U Well, that is a question
easily answered, I am living here
with my Avidowed sister—John’s
mother—and I am sewing for a liv¬
ing.
It cost her something to make that
confession, for Eunice White was a
proud avoman yet. But she scorned
to dissemble.
“Eunice,” he said, looking wist¬
fully down upon her, as he 3valkcd by
her side, “I could have done better
than that by you. I’ll do it still, Eu¬
nice, if you will let me. I’m not one
of those that vary and shift avitli every
change of the moon. I loved you
then, and I love you now. And as
for these twelve years that have sepa¬
rated us, I’ve loved you steadily all
the time. I’ve remained single for
your sake. Now you can decide. Is
it yes, or is it no?”
Was not loyalty like this worthy of
a return ? Eunice White thought so.
She put out her cold hand and let if
rest in David Dexter’s warm grasp.
“It is yes,” said she.
Old Alison was quite out of patience
that night when the doctor did not re¬
turn to the dinner of clear soup,
salmon-steak and roast grouse which
she had cooked avith so much care,
until it was all spoiled with standing.
But when at last ho came in 3 vith a
bright face, aud told her the. cause of
his delay, she did not so much blame
him.
4 . I’ve always said,” declared she, in
her quaint Scotch way, “that the one
ruing J ““ -----1---—
wife to rule the house. Aud if she’s
ns douce and as braw as you tell me,
why, I’ll be contented to call her
missus. ' ’
“I’m sure you will like her, Ali
son, said the doctor, rubbing his
hands.
“Isn’t it nice, mother?” said John.
“I told you how good Doctor Dexter
was. And no 3 v lie’s to bo my real
uncle, and I can go out and hold his
horse every day; and you are to live
there, mother, and rest from all this
dreadful sewing that’s wearing your
heart and eyes out. Oh, Aunt Eunice,
I’m so glad you found your old lover
again 1 ”
“~y r° “ - a
Eunice.
But she laughed and blushed as she
spoke the words, and John knew very
avell that she avas not angry with him.
Vegetable Immigrants.
Naturalists familiar with the habits
of the English sparrow seem to doubt
the possibility of preventing its enor¬
mous iucrease at the expense of our
indigenous birds, and a similar result
may follow the introduction of a tree
which in the course of the lasttaventy
years has effected at least a thousand¬
fold extension of its North American
habitat. It is the ailantus tree, ini*
ported originally from the Moluccas,
but now found in almost every shel¬
tered river-valley from Pittsburg to
Southern Alabama. Its fecundity and
rapidity of groavth exceed that of the
Canada thistle.
In less than five years a small plan¬
tation of the vegetable colonists avill
cover a dozen square miles of river
bottoms with their pale green sprouts,
and in five years more any one of
those sprouts is capable, upon the
slightest encouragement, to develop
into a tall and really beautiful tree.
None of our native arboreal plants
seem capable of competing with the
vegetative energy of the hardy stran¬
ger, which prospers in the poorest cal¬
careous soils, and appears to flourish
equally well in Southern China and
Northern Ohio. Along ihe line of the
Miami Canal, north and east of Cin¬
cinnati, it has superseded sumachs and
willow 0 ; near Huntsville, Ala.,
thickets are smothering both aveeds
and forest trees, and avithin the last
five years it has extended its conquests
even to the rocky uplands of Western
North Carolina.—[New York Voice.
A Seven-Pound Gem.
The largest cat’s-eye of which there
is any record was recently found by a
digger of Galle, Ceylon. It weighed
nearly sever, pound 0 . The finder wa 3
j a Moor man who had been very poor.
j Re has been offered $100,000 by a syu
j djeate of local dealer*.
VtJN WORSHIPERS.
A Wonderful Relic of
Handiwork in Mexico.
A Stone Roadway Up a
1200 Feet High.
Charles J. Wimple, one of
wealthiest miners of Mexico, is a
cent arrival in the city, To a
sentative of the Call he told the
lowing wonderful store:
tt 1 ou have asked nl to give an
count of the interesting mountain
friend, Jesse 13. Grant, and
saw during our trip through
en route to this city, Well,
mountain is at once one of the
gigantic exhibitions of man’s
work, and something almost
credence were we not already
willi the works of the Aztecs.
“Just imagino a valley forty
thirty miles in area, and from
centre rising a mound over 1,200
feet in height. Then you can realize
the first effect created upou our minds
when we came before the hill I am to
describe. My foreman was with us,
and had partly prepare! us for the
surprise, hut we had treated his story
with incredulous remarks, and had by
no means suspected he lad but given a
modest description of tie mound.
tC We gazed to the toy and allowed
o«t eyes to follow th?v windings of a
road down to the base. We went
around the base anfl conjectured it
was about one and a half miles in cir¬
cumference. Then we'started for the
summit. The roadway was built of
solid rock clear to the pinnacle, and
was from thirty to forty feet in width.
A wall of solid rock formed a founda¬
tion and an inside wall at the same
time. The outer edge of the road was
unguarded. These 6 tones weigh all
the way up to a ton each, and are not
cemented. The roadway is as level
as a floor, and is covered with broken
pieces of earthenware water vessels.
“Half way up the mountain is an
altar cat in solid rock; in the niche is
a boulder which must weigh at least
stone from that usedmtlie waflisT^The
rocks in the walls are dressed by skilled
workmen, but are not polished. We
saw no inscriptions; iu fact we had
no time to spare in making a searching
investigation. We did look for arrow
heads or other warlike instruments to
satisfy ourselves that the mound had
not been used for defensive or offen¬
sive purposes. Nor was there any
evidence to prove that the roadway
had been built for the purpose of wit¬
nessing hull fights and other sports in
the vailey.
. . I could only conclude the Aztec
sun worshipers expended years of
labor on the hill in order “ "*
t ___. 4 , 4 ? iate place to
celebrate their imposing festivals, in¬
asmuch as the roadway was strewn
with broken earthenware, and those
scions of a bygone and notable race
were known to carry at sunrise large
quantities of water in earthenware
jars to an eminence, and there pour
out- the liquid and smash the vessels.
<4 When we descended we brought
with ns a number of small sea shells
which had petrified, and if you look
at these on my table you will see how
they have been perforated by the In¬
dians. We again took a long look at
the mountain and saw it was oblong in
shape, and that the upward road com¬
menced on the eastern side. I have
traveled on both sides of the moun¬
tains from British Columbia to Central
America, and on either side of
Sierra Madres where the
have left such remarkable
of their skill and customs, hut I
never witnessed anything so
and magnificent as the mound which
have been telling you about.
44 The x-alley is about six
feet above the sea level, and is
seventy miles from the coast, It
situated in Sonora, between the
of Altar and Magdalena and near
Magdalena River. Wo called
curiosity Palisade Mountain, and it
well named.— [San Francisco Call.
A Novel Fog Horn.
A fog horn operated entirely
steam and compressed air has
established at the light station at
Bird point, which is the eastern
tremity of Discovery Island.
horn will sound blasts of eight
duration, with intervals of one
between blasts. The fog-alarm
ing is situated about 300 feet
westerly from the lighthouse aud is
wood, painted avhite, with
roofing. The horn is elevated
forty-live feet above high water
— [San Francisco California.
The stenographer doesn’t live
hand to mouth, although L/s
is from mouth to hand.
Au Arab Foundling's Career.
The public has been reading lately a
great many dispatches from France
and Africa, giving the progress of
the war which the French government
has been waging in Dahomey. Lieu¬
tenant Colonel Archinard was the
officer mentioned as being in command
of the French troops, who, although
merely a handful of some four or live
hundred cavalry, have inflicted great
slaughter on their opponents, killing
as many a 3 a thousand iu one engage¬
ment.
There recently arrived in this city a
young French officer who is an inti¬
mate friend of Colonel Archinard, and
who relates the following strange
history of the dashing young colonel’s
life:
44 About twenty-six years ago, at the
time France was engaged in a series
of petty Avars against the noma l tribes
in Algeria, and after one of these en¬
gagements a certain Gaston Archinard,
then a captain in a cavalry regiment,
was attending to the removal of the
wounded, when one of his men dis¬
covered a little Arab child, who had
evidently been abandoned by its par¬
ents iu their flight.
Being a bachelor, and, liking the
bright, intelligent look in the little fel¬
low’s face, the captain determined to
adopt him and give him his name. He,
therefore,sent him to a lycec or Freuch
school in Bordeaux, 3 vherc the lad was
educated, and later, in 1875, the cap
tain having risen to the l ank of briga¬
dier general, he caused him tu Ojc C11 -
listed as a private in tho Seventh Hus¬
sars,under his osvn name of Archinard.
Gaining rapid promotion ho was soon
sent to the Cavalry School at Saumar,
from whence he graduated in 1880,
only ten years ago, as a sub-lieutenant
of calvary.
He was then sent to Tunis, and
fought through the campaign of 1882,
and the following year saw him com¬
manding a battalion in Tonquin. In
1887 he was sent to Senegal as a major
in the famous regiment of Spahis Sen
egalais, which he commanded, ns lieu¬
tenant colonel, in his late successful
campaign in Dahomey. Although a
pure-blooded Arab, with a thorough
Archinard, it is avhispered in promi¬
nent Parisian military circles, is next
on the list for promotion to the covet¬
ed rank of general of a division of tho
French army.—[New York Star.
What a Prison Association is Doing.
The convict’s career is no longer
blighted forever by his term of im¬
prisonment, avers the New York
Press. Provided that he sincerely re¬
grets his period of crime and shows
evidence of his intention to lead a bet¬
ter life, he can now get a job and start
afresh. There are several thousand
ex-convicts who are now employed in
reputable business Houses iu
and who can, in case of change, get
mighty good recommendations both as
to conduct and ability from their
employers, This condition of affairs
is brought about by the Prison Asso¬
ciation of New York.
The association is a branch of tho
National Prison Association, which
has its branches in nearly all the lead¬
ing Slates of the Union. The New
York association, however, has done
more good and accomplished more no¬
ticeable and far-reaching results than
any of the other branches in the coun¬
try. It secured positions for no less
than 1300 men last year, all of whom
had at some time occupied a cell iu one
of the prisons of this Empire State.
Missionary Boats.
A novel craft is in course of con¬
struction at the Benicia shipyards. It
is no less than a missionary packet,
which is built to the order of the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions. Her dimensions
are as follows: Length over all, 56
feet; on the avater line, 52 feet;
breadth, 16 feet 11 inches; depth of
hold, 8 feet; draught, 8 feet 3 inches.
When completed she will take on
board a missionary outfit consisting of
Bibles and devotional tracts, and avill
take an evangelical cruise to the south¬
ern seas. The Seventh Day Adventists
are also having a craft built, to be de¬
voted to a similar purpose. She will
be of about 120 tons register and will
be completed by August of the present
year.—[San Francisco Chronicle.
Mild Camels in California.
As proof that the camels brought to
Arizona a number of years ago are
not extinct and are breeding rapidly,
the following from the Yuma (Cal.)
Sentinel is reproduced: A large band
of camels, numbering 35, were seen
within a few miles of Harrisburg last
week. Jim Doten caught one with a
lariat, and after bringing it into the
camp was forced to shoot it, as all tho
horses around became badly fright
ened at the sight of the ungainly beast.
VOL. XVI. NO. II.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
There have been seven teenpvhite washes t
the Players’ League.
There have been thirty-seven shut-outs
the National League.
Crane and Connor now lead the New
York Players In batting.
Tub Omaha Club has relased Pitcher Sow
dersof last year’s Bostons.
The New York Players’ Club has more
than paid expenses up to date.
The Boston League team has been a good
drawing card only in Chicago.
It cost the Cincinnati Club *1533 to secure
Latham’s release from St. Louis.
Getzein, of the Boston League, has an
unlucky pitches. inning in about every game he
The Pittsburg Club, of the National
_ Li:.tgu:\ but nine
«-nt men upon the recent
trip to Chicago.
Louisville is so baseball crazy that ever,
the one-legged boys scale the fence and fall
into the grounds.
With another strong pitcher Brooklyn
would stand a splendid chance for the Play¬
ers’ League championship.
The Cuban Giants, the famous New Jer¬
sey colored club, are going to California, and
they may keep on to Australia.
Pitcher Gumbert's contract with the
shall Pittsburg League Club stipulates that J l0
only pitch in home games.
As th3 season draws to a close the -a seems
to be a noticeable iucrease iu the atteu lance
at both the National League and the Broth¬
erhood games.
There is quite a frier ily dispute in tin
Players’ League Cleveland, over the bsautv of its vari
ous lyn parks. Chicago an 1 Brook¬
all claim their ow.i as the prettiest
The total attendance for the first 333
Players' League games played this year, ac¬
cording the to turnstile 339 National count, is 733,218, au 1 for
first League games
531,471
MoPhke, of Cincinnati, has probably
made more two-base hits than any other
League plajer. He has knocked out twenty
seven. He also made thirteen trinles and
two home runs.
has Philadelphia, in the National League,
had the largest total attendance, 203,013,
same financial basis as the others.
Denny, Glasscock and Bassett have fallen
off woefully in batting. The men who are
doing the best work for the Now York Leagut
Club are the youngsters who have no three
year contracts and princ.ly salaries.
Captain Raymond, of Louisville, would
rank high as a batter if he did not work sc
much for the interest of the club. He nevei
fails to make a sacrifice, or at least attempt
it, when it is needed. .That is what wins
games.
In the pitcher’s box John Ewing, of the
New York Plavers' team, is without a rival
in exemplifying the poetry of motion. Noth¬
ing could he more graceful than John’s evo¬
lutions iu the act of pitching the ball to the
batsman.
The Boston team is the best home attrac¬
tion, leading the Players’ League In total
attendance, but Ward’s Wonders, of Brook¬
lyn, are the best road attraction, having
drawn a larger total attendance than any
visiting team.
Manager Hecker, of finding tho Pittsburg uniform
Inches, and had trouble a
weighs iw players pwotftnn will examine
ever strikes him, the
the ball to see if it cut.
Glasscock, of the New York League
team, has a trick of running toward the
home plate when a man is on third and a
ball is hit to the field. The idea is to confuse
the fielder and make him throw home with
the idea of retiring what he supposes is the
base runner. Then the man on first can
Basily get to ’second on the throw in.
Club, Tim has Keefe, met with of the unfortunate Now York Players' accident
an
which will necessitate his retirement from
the diamond for at least a month, which is a
pretty serious thing for the Giants with the
race so close and the end of the season so
near at hand. During practice he attempted
to catch a fly bill batted by Slattery, of the fore¬ but
the ball caught him on the top
finger of tho pitching hand, breaking the
bone at the first joint aud tearing a big rent
iu the flesh.
mT TT 1 T A TUYR WORT T3
^Mediation has averted the labor crisis in
Wales.
The Australian labor market is over¬
stocked.
Over 11,000 miners are on a strike in the
Borinage district in Belgium.
Labor troubles continue to disturb busi¬
ness in Australia and Europe.
The American Upholsterers’ Union has
been organized in New York city.
At a recent meeting of the boiler-makers
of Boston, Mass., it was voted to formaunion.
The shipping strike in Melbourne, Aus¬
tralia, has caused a general paralysis of busi¬
ness.
Martin Irons, the once great labor dicta¬
tor, now sells peanuts in a St. Louis (Wo.)
depot.
The Italian Masons’ .Protective Union, of
New York city, reports that it has now over
8000 members.
Jay Gould and the Vanderbilts are said
to be working in harmony for the protection
of mutual interests.
A national organization of Paper Hang¬ held
ers was formed at the recent con vention
at Kansas City, Mo.
The lace industry on tho Isle of Wight,
long neglected, has been revived through the
efforts of Princess Beatrice.
Miss Annie A. de Barr has received a li¬
cense as a mechanical engineer from the Chi¬
cago (111.) Board of Engineers.
The congress of German miners was called
to meet at Halle on September 15. Tho see
sion was to last until September 20.
There are sixteen locomotive engineers
who have each served the Erie Railroad at
the throttle for twenty-five years or more.
At last accounts there were 370 local
nuionsin the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and its total membership was 27,
ooo.
At a conference of British shipowners,
representing a capital iu fight of $4(XI.000,000, against the it
decided to unite a
unions.
All employes of the New Jersey Central
Railroad have been notified that they
abstain from the use of intoxicating
while on or off duty.
The proprietors of the South Jersey glass
factories have agreed to reduce the hours of
labor to nine for five days in the week
eight on Saturdays.
Grand Master Workman Powderly,
the K. of L., dresses neatly in black and his
linen is always clean and spotless. His bead
is bald and be wears gold-rimmed spectacles.
William T. Field, nominee of the Mon¬
tana Labor party for Congressman, is a
locomotive engineer and under thirty-five
years of age. He was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention last year.
The weavers of the Eulengebirge have
petitioned the German Emperor to for
them. By working fourteen hours
days out of seven they say they can
only $1.25 each weekly. Their wives
about sixty-five cents each weekly at
looms.
The Secretary of the United
of Carpenters "and Joiners reports that
four years carpenters’s wages in 413
have been advanced from twenty-five
seventy-five cents a day. Besides, the
penters have scored a general eight
victory.
PEOMINENT PEOPLE.
Emil Zola, the French novelist, has made
1500,000 from his books.
The estate of the late John Boyle O’Reilly
will amount to 1150,000.
Edwin Arnold, according to rumor, Is
going to take a Japanese bride and settle In
Japan.
William Walter Phelps, United States
Minister to Germany, no longer wears his
hair banged.
Hon. W. L. Scott has declined the Demo¬
cratic nomination for Congress from his old
district in Pennsylvania.
George W. Childs, the Philadelphia edi¬
tor give and philanthropist, $250,000 is said to spend and
away a year.
General Ezeta, who has led San Salva¬
dor’s forces so successfully against Guate¬
mala, is only twenty-seven years old.
head Senator George, flowing of hair Mississippi, that has a
of long, about when is excited. waves
picturesquely he
Young John Jacob Astor is stoop-shoul¬
dered, probably he in will anticipation have of thegreat in later
responsibility to carry
years.
Prince Alexander of Battenburg has
shot adopted for conspiring the children against of Panitza, the existing who Bul¬ was
garian regime.
The Duke of Edinburgh is a clever violin¬
ist and also an enthusiastic postage stamp
gatherer, his collection being one of the most
complete in the «orld.
Commissioner of Pensions It a u si is a
short man of medium weight, keen-looking
and bald on the top of his head. His chin is
covered with whiskers.
President Roberts, of tho Pennsylvania
Railroad, started life as a track hand thirty
years ago. The combined salaries he receives
now amount to $100,000 a year.
Robert P. Porter, the Superintendent of
the Census, has the iqueof au athlete.
He is an active, clean-shaven man, dark
complexioned, with black eyes and black
hair.
The Marquis of Salisbury, the Premier of
Great Britain, owns 20,1X10 acres of land in
England. As much of it lies within the
corporate limits of London, he is enormous¬
ly rich.
Justice Bradley, of the United States
calendars just to keep bis mind in good work¬
ing order.
The Queen of Italy has maintained her
reputation for pluck and endurance by climb
ing the Mountain of Monza, turned 10,000 into feet high,
during a rainstorm, which snow
before the top was reached
Dr. Norvin Green, the head of the West
ern Union 'Telegraph Company, is a Ken¬
tuckian of giant frame, nearly seventy-three physician
years of age. He was a practising
in the early days of his career
John M. Steadman, of Brockport, N. Y.,
who has accepted an appointment as biolo
gist in the Agricultural Department at Wash¬
ington, graduated from Cornell University
two years ago, and is only twenty-four years
old.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has a
very lucrative law practice, and is continu¬
ally obliged to decline business that is
brought to him. It is alleged that tho Sena¬
tor is not so old as he looks, and that ho may
be good for a decade more of Senatorial
life.
Probably the smallest millionaire in the
__11u-uujji of New York
Hecamefrom Germany when a boy and
went to Michigan twenty years ago without
a dollar. His fortune is now estimated at
$15, (XX),000.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Spain’s wheat crop is short.
The Irish potato crop is ruined.
London is having a cholera scare.
Ice is $50 a ton at Aspinwall, Panama.
Chicago is the eighth city in the world.
The population of Missouri is 2,788,000.
Crops of all kinds are uuusually good
ihroughout Louisiana.
In the United States there is a doctor to
tvery 600 of population.
No fewer than 600,000 children are insured
in Great Britain every year.
The British naval manoeuvres just con
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Steubenville, Ohio, a few days ago.
The Soq^hern Methodists will build s
$100,000 temple in Birmingham, Ala.
The cholera is spreading along the Mediter
ranean shore north of Valencia, Spain.
During four hours of a recent morning
there were four murders in Cincinnati.
The Grant monument committee, of New
York city, has now iu its hands $150,000.
The aggregate membership of the Baptist
churches in the United States is 3,070,047.
This year’s production of coal in th«
United States will bo about 140,003,000 tons.
There are six farmer.s in the United States
Senate and thirty-five of them in the House.
More thau 5000 men in New York city do
business under protection of their wive3
names. _. Italians ,. Mid
Two hundred thousand are
to be living in Buenos Ayres, Argentine Re¬
public. August
The total immigration this yeav to
1 was 298,534, against 289,145 in the same
time last year.
The authorities of Finland have forbidden
the Salvation Army to carry on propaganda
work in that country.
It is claimed that the potato crop of the
United States will be short bush¬
els and the European crop short 3 4(3, U(J 3,1*33
bushels.
The frozen meat trade of New Zealand
has developed remarkably. Mora thar
1,000,000 carcases are now sent yearly tc
England. colored people in
It is estimated that the
this country own $263,000,000 of property,
more than one-half of wnich is in the South¬
ern States.
Snow is being shoveled out of the Atpins
Tunnel, on the Union Pacific Road, for the
purpose of getting out about fifty cars that
were snowed in last winter.
From the forests of white and Norway
pines in the Rainy River country, of Minne¬
sota, 18,000,000 feet of lumber have been
stolen during the past year.
Glanders broke out in a band of horses
owned by Colonel Waters, of Males City,
Montana, and sixteen animals were killed to
prevent the disease spreading.
The Russian Government has decided to
take energetic measures to restrain emigra¬
tion agents from persuading peasants to ven¬
ture abroad and especially to Brazil. Montichiari,
Thk military manoeuvres at
Italv. with smokeless powder wei-e a gr»t half
success. The batteries of artillery bred
an hour without their presence being discov
ered.
a reflection.
Mr. Yamacraw—Miss Priscilla, you art
a first-class mirror.
Miss Priscilla Pulaski (blushing)—La'
Mr. Yamacraw, why? Because I am sc
truthful?
Mr. Yamacraw—No; because you ar«
such a good looking lass.
Miss Priscilla—Oh, Mr. Yamacraw!
and am I then to regard you as au ad
mirror?.—I Savannah Neves.
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