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to lb* mm ah* hnC tn tom-
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IMCnklna And Um ■* Is*.
“ A Suit drink ot War, ittrV
Skurlj tfc vhlU Up. gwp ul Op.
** tarn orar m roc me haw,
UW IWttSaleaac roar tempt* drip."
a look of terror dlatarba bar faaa;
Finn and dial tboaa pala Spa oloaa;
a "ranger ataada la Um norm* plaoa ;
** TaU aa who kart roo, for no oaa kaoaa.’
A glitter of Joy U In her aya;
Faintly aba vturpera: “ Nobody did."
And one tear christens the lorlng lie
From the heart In that vooodad boaom hid.
“ Nobody did It I” aba aaya again ;
“ Nobody hurt me | Her ayaa (row dim;
But in that spasm of mortal pain
Übeaays to herself: u IVe aarad yon, Jim "<*
Bay by day, aa the and draws near.
To gentle question or stem demand,
Duly that one response they hear,
Though the lift to heaven her wasted hand.
"Nobody hurt me l” They aaa her die,
Xhqjmae word atill on her lateetbreath;
With a tranquil anile aha tells her lie,
. And glad goes down to the gates ot death.
Beaten, murdered, but faithful still,
Tarring above all wrong and woe,
If ehe Ima gone to a world of ill.
Where, O saint, shall are others go 7
Even, I think, that evil man
Has hope of a better life In him
When she so loved him liar last words ran:
“Nobody hurt me I I’ve saved you, Jim 1
A. DOUBLE CHIME.
Tlie wholesale produce and commis
sion , store of Mr. Purvis, on Delaware
avenue, Philadelphia, was robbed on the
night of Oct. 17,1866.
The safe had been opened apparently
byfalte Irtsys and upward of S9OO in
greenbacks were abstracted. A package
of b°Wls to the amount of $3,000 more
remained untouched. s
Two clerks, both young men, usually
slqpt in the store. August 'Yerkes had
been in the employ of Mr. Iffanison
Share®,- -the-other clerk, had' only re
cently been takeS, thp manner in
which he took hpld of the business im
press!! Mr Fhrvis so mwsh In His favor
he predicted a successful future for
'the young man as a very able salesman
and ultimate prominent merchant. Un
der this impression he placed implicit
trust in Sharon, and selected him as a
companion of Yerkes in the store at
night.
Both of these young men were in the
store on the night the robbery occurred,
but when the place was opened in the
morning Sharon was missing and Yerkes
lay on the floor near the safe with a
severe gash on the side of his head,
which had been bleeding profusely,
judging by the amount of blood km the
floor. {
Tho unfortunate young man hud evi
> dentjy endeavored to staunch the plood,
for both his hands were stained, as also
were his clothes. By the disorder in the
office, and the numerous blood stains
both on the floor and walls it was evi
dent that a desperate struggle must have
taken place. 1
■lt was conjeoured from this that
Sharon, having provided himself with
false kpys, had opened the safe and been
surprised by his fellow clerk in the
midst of his work, who, in turn, dealt
hinaAmUpm nqpr the temple, and then,
struggle between them,
Yerkes fainted treat loss of blood, and
the robber MMlhlui booty. t
Yamoe, the- detective, and a phyktaian
were at onfnant for, and while Da Ed
son atten<Jfd to bis patient the detective
the premises with his usual
carefulness, particularly the second floor,
and, returning to the lower floor, found
that Yerkes had recovered and sat in an
arm-chair with a bandage around hia
head.
“ Well, Mr. Vamoe, what have you
discovered ?* asked Mr. Purvis. #
“I And that the robber has been to
the second floor,” replied the detective;
•‘possibly he has taken some valuables
from there as well.”
The merchant hastened up stairs, but
presently returned, saying nothing had
been disturbed or removed as far as he
could see.
“ Whatever his object may have beem
1 Ps®jtjye that he visited the second
floor after the bloody struggle had taken
plaoe.
Then Yerkes gave the following ac
count :
Hily and found that
aed, imd fearing that
ertaken hifn he lit a
she small gas-jet in
to search for him.
n the second floor he
st' floor, and found
erf- safe. They saw
Bfne moment, and
ShanUronp spell-bound at being discov
ered in nis criminal act. Then began
the straggle, the evidence of which was
so plainly evident. Sharon being the
stronger of the two soon overpowered his
opponent, and threw him so violently on
the floor that he became insensible.
Vamoe listened with rapt attention
to the end, then made a few notes in his
book, after which he walked oat of the
store with his eyes bent on the floor be
fore him until he reached the street;
then, after casting his eyes searchingly
on the ground, he walked over to the
dock and gazed for a few moments into
the water in a thoughtful manner. When
he returned to the store and rejoined
the others in the office it was with a grave
countenance.
“ Mr. Purvis, the robber has evident
ly escaped by way of the river, as the
blood tracks reach to the dock.
All eyes were now directed toward the
wounded man, who had suddenly grown
very pale. He opened his month as if
to say something, but fell back in his
seat with a grsau and fainted away.
ELLIJAY msm COURIER.
W. in. COMBSI
Editor and Publisher, f
While the doctor was applying restor
atives to his charge the detective drew
Mr. Purvis away to the rear of the store
and remained there for half an hoar in
conversation with hnj, and, judging by
his frequent excfattmtions, he nfast hate
been greatly astonisiied'at wbat the de
tective told him.
Re-entering the office, they found
Yerkes still unconscious, and, at the
suggestion of Varooe, he was conveyed
in that condition to the hospital.
‘‘Now, #rr Purvis,“ said Vamoe,
“ you will please point out to me which
are the clothes usually worn by Mr.
Sharon while on duty at the store.”
“Certainly, sir,” replied the gentle
man; “that is readily done," and he
went to a closet where the clerks kept
their outer garments and opened it. He
took piece after piece from the hooks,
an exclamation as if of surprise escaping
him as he did so.
“ What is it?” asked Vamoe, when
Mr. Purvis laid the garments on the
bed.
“ Why, as I live, Sharon has not only
left his coat and vest behind, but also
■his pants !” said Mr. Purvis, with a look
of bewilderment
“ That is singular,” remarked the de
tective, exchanging significant glances
with the doctor; “ the more so when
CSTjf
found, had on ms coat, vest, pants and
boots, while the robber even left his,
lboots T>e't:T[nd nim,” pointing 4 tq a'pfti*
beneath the bed. tax ISA” s
“You will now please see whether
Mr. ShMtrt has left anything of value
in his ixMe'tsT’ *** ‘ * *
Every pocket was instahtly divested
of its contents. There was ,fougd,a .valu
able gold watch and chain, a wallet con
taining a trifle over $5, a penknife,' pen
cil and memorandum book, etc.
“ Retain the articles, Mr. Purvis, and
restore the clothes to tho closet,” said
Vurnoe. “I have another surprise in
store for you, I think.”
When this was done, Vamoe took off
all tho bed-clothes and threw them on
the floor, leaving the mattress bare. An
exclamation of surprise burst from Mr.
Purvis as he pointed to the mattress
where a number of bloody finger-marks
stained it along a Beam about ten inches
in length.
“ Now I see wliat you aro driving at,”
cried Mr. Purvis, scanning the seam.
“ Yon mean to say that the robber lias
hidden his booty in the mattress ?”
“I think so, at all events,” was liis
reply, as he took out his knife and
opened the seam.
Then inserting his hand into tho open
ing, he presently drew forth the pack
age of greenbacks. They were intact,
so Mr. Purvis announced, after examin
ing the fastenings and seals.
“ What am I to think of this ? ” asked
.■the gentleman, in a helpless tone. “I
declare that my head aches trying to
divine the motive of this most extraordi
nary robbery."
“Think as I do.”
“ What is that? ”
“Why, that Pembroke Sharon, in
stead of being tlie robber, is the victim
of tho robber, which accounts for liis
leaving all his outer garments behind.
He evidently surprised the robber at
his work, and in the encounter that took
place he murdered poor Sharon, dragged
him across the street, as the trail showed
to me, and tossed him into the river.”
“Then you really suspect August
Yerkes as the robber ? ” asked the mer
chant, greatly agitated.
“lam sure he is not only the robber,
but possibly also a murderer,” was the
reply.
“Oh, the wretch 1 ” cried the mer
chant, passionately; " and in my heart
I admired his bravery, while I pitied
him for what ha had endnred for en
deavoring to protect my property.”
“ I am convinced that yon have hit on
the right man,” said Mr. Purvis. “ H
he knew of this he .might give us the
slip. Use Uttrt thing-tofttw.done. is to
: use every means *jn' ofjr jWvff to ifecrivlh 3
the body dl tww 8l£flW” - * 3
t indeed, since ati tbw-.clothes
he has cm his back are not his" own,”
spoke a voice behind- them.
AM looked at ttoe speaker, who wore
an old seaman’s salt, and looked as if
he had just recovered from a severe spell
of sickness.
Something in the tone of the voice
struck a chord in the breast of the mer
chant. He approached the man and
asked, eagerly:
“ Who are you ?”
“ My name is Pembroke Sharon.”
In a moment he was surrounded by
the trio, who congratulated him on his
escape from death. He requested per
mission to resume his proper dress, after
which he would tell exactly what oc
curred during the past night.
His story was very similar to the one
told by Yerkes, with this difference: the
positions were changed. It was Sharon
who surprised the other before the
opened safe just in the act of stowing in
his pocket the package of greenbacks
alluded to. It was Sharon who de
nounced the act, and Yerkes, both angry
and frightened to be thus detected,
picked up a paper-weight and hurled it
at his fellow clerk, striking Sharon on
the bead, inflicting a ghastly wound,
from which he fainted, and knew no more
ELLIJAY, GA., FRIDAY,
until he awoke on board a vessel lying
near the Navy Yard. He was told that
they picked him up in the river.
The Captain and two of Itif men had
licen to tho theater, and were .■etuming
in a boat to the iroesel, when a white
object floating on- the water attracted
their attention, -and they made for it,
and drew the apparently dead man in
tlio boat, and took him on board the
vessel, where his wants were at onoe at
tended to.
When Yerkes’ version of the affair was
related to him he laughed derisively,
and was on the point of making a remark
when familiar footsteps were heard as
cending the stairs.
“By Heaven! I believe it is August
Yerkes 1” whispered Sharon, as he hast
ily entered, the aioset and drew the door
to. He was none too soon, for the next
moment Yerkes walked briskly up to
where the three gentlemen were stand*
ing. Something in their faces told him
that something was amiss—something to
his disadvantage, too.
“ You are probably surprised to see
me here again ?” Remarked he, for want
of anything else to say.
“We are, indeed,” said Mr. Purvis,
regarding him with an ominous frown.
“ You all appear to bo anything but
pleased to sea. me ? ” next remarked’the
rosier and would-be assassin^
Ofrtftc cohtrary, we. are'very glad
™l ,poto v * r ~r'“
’A Glancing at the detoctWe with a skep
tical- air, Yerkes walked to the oloset
and opened the ddor, and the next mo-
he uttered a fearful shriek and
started back with bis hair standing on
end and his face tho color of ashes.
I#e had seen {as his guilty conscience
told him) tho ghost of his victim, for
Sharon remained standing in the closet
perfectly immovable, his eyes fixed re
proachfully on the guilty wretch.
The horrid vision was too much for
his brain to endure. Yerkes became a
raving maniac and behaved so violently
that Varuoe was obliged to manacle him
hand and foot and again return him to
the hospital, frqm whence be was short
ly afterward conveyed to the insane de
partment of the alms house.
Pembroke Sharon was genorously rec
ompensed bj< his employer ft* hi lieroio
attempt to ypremit tho robbery, and
promoted to a responsible position in
the store, which he filled with credit
both to himself and his grateful em
ployer.
Yerkes lived a year or so after his con
finement, and died a raving maniac, a
terrible retribution for his attempt to
fasten a crime on an innocent person
and thus rob him both of his reputation
and life at one fell blow.
WIGS FOB CHILDREN.
Impossible as it may be to understand
the survival or persistence of fashion in
dress, the use of false hair has been
re'egated to the gentler sex of this, the
last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Unless for the absolute protection of a
head utterly bereft of hair, men to-day
rarely wear wigs. The prosperous days
of the barber waned when be no longer
found a supplementary calling in wig
making. H that preponderance of false
hair on women’s heads, in vogue some
few years ago, has been curtailed, small
tags of sham curls, fastened on netting,
Battened on female foreheads, has been
for some time ala mode.
There is, however, one fashion getting
into vogue which common sense an l the
least appreciation of the fitness of things
ought to abolish. If ridicule could kill
it, it deserves to be laughed out of exist
ence. You are passing a house, and a
child is seen as if set in the frame of the
window. You admire the beauty of the,
child, and expatiate on a glory of hair
tumblingdown on the rounded shoulders.
Your wife, who has noticed vonr expan
sireness, will not bo moved, for she re
marks in a dry, matter-of-fact way, “It
■s a .wig. Why, dqn’f you know
' any. auwlberoMiilA-iWavswWfgw? Jfr*
can iwyaYigqf thart HS l * l fol ' P
• uise ongs, assorted to a child’s coaiplex
' ion, made to orderj come .lugher. Yos
look ’Tiorror-stricken, and ,you ask re
proachfully, “Have you been shopping
for children’s 1 wigs ? Is our own little
. innocent to wear a wig ?” “ No,” is the
reply, “ I only asked the price. Where
was the harm? Why, there are thou
sands of little girls in New York wearing
wigs. I should not be surprised if in
time all of them would have to wear them.
Some of the fashionable doctors, it is
said, recommend wigs—they prevent
colds. It is even quite likely that chil
dren will wear wigs tliis summer, be
cause they will be thought to be cool.”
There are, unfortunately, many vulgar
people who think that the earlier they
liegin to make their children humbugs
the better it is. —New York Times.
THAT SNOB, WHITE.
Richard Grant White has coined “edi
torling, ” which moves the Indianapolis
Journal to say that he is a carping, pre
tentions, snobbish fraud. “He assume*
to be the highest living authority in re.
gard to style and the correct use o>
words, and yet his writings abound witl
loose, inexact and ungrammatical ex
pressions.”
At what season did Eve eat the apple?
Early in the fall.
liOUTWELL’B IN TUB
A* Amtting EpUodt of tl*ttrf*lmpeach
ment Trim
A writer in an Eaatompublioation, in
giving aome the im
peachment of PreaidentnKifcaon, says:
I wish to give one otikr description
from this famous trial ao All of interest
—that relating to Gov. Bok well's “ Hole
in the Sky." Having has tho good fort
une to be present, I o*May, with all
truthfulness, that I uev# have, before
or since, witnessed a so
convulsed with laughteT m wtm the
whole Senate and the imSggtte crowd of
spectators on the oocsion of Mr.
Evarts’ reply to Gov. B>ntwell, touch
ine; this astronomical wonler.
In the course of his elaborate and
able argument. Gov. Boutwell said:
“Travelers and aatroiomsrs inform
us that in the southern heavens, near
near tho Southern Oroas, there is a vast
space which the uneducatd call the holo
in tlie sky, where the eye'of man, with
tlie aid of the powers of telescope,
has been nnabie to disooUr nebulte, or
asteroid, or oomet, or planet, star or
sun. In that dreary, cold, dark region
of siiace, which is only It}ownto be less
tli an infinite by of crea
earttfwerjßß^^bfj^ 1 sentimenta.
whief in bpMW mortal beings are the
evidences and the pledge of our divine
origin ami immortal destiny, it would
heave and throe; with the energy of the
elemental forces of naturA, and project
this enemy of rades of men into that
vast region, there forewet to exist in a
solitude as eternal as lifogir as the ab
sence of life, emblematqkd of, if not
really, that • outer darkness ’ of which
the Savior of man spoke |n warning to
those who- are the enemies of them
selves, of their race, and*f their God.
But it is yours to relievo,*><% to punish.
This done and our country is again ad
vanced in the intelligent opinion of
mankind.” j
Here is what Mr. Evaafa, when he
came to moke liis said in re
ply 1 ;
•“ 1 may as eonvcniM, Jbt this-p*>iut
of the argument aa at any othoiWpay
some attention to the astronomical pun
ishment wliich the learned and honora
ble manager, Mr. Boutwell, thinks
should be applied to this novel case of
impcaclimont of the President. Gieero,
I think it is, who says that a lawyer
should know everything, for, sooner or
later, there is no fact in history, in sci
ence, or of human knowledge that will not
come into play in liis argument. Painfully
sensible of my ignorance, being devoted
to a profession which ‘ sharpens and does
not enlargo the mind,’ I yet can admire
without envy the superior knowledge
evinced by the honorable manager. In
deed, upon my soul, I believe he is
aware of an astronomical tact which
many professors oft Kat science aro
wholly ignorant ot But* nevertheless,
while some of his honorable colleagues
were paying attention to ‘an unoccupied
and unappropriated island on the sur
face of the seas, Mr. Manager Boutwell,
more ambitious, had discovered an ua
tenanted and unappropriated region in
the skies, reserved, he would have us
think, in the final councils of the Al
mighty as the place of punishment for
convicted and deposed American Presi
dents.
“At first I thought that his mind had
become so ‘enlarged’ that it was not
‘ sharp enough to discover the constitu
tion had limited the punishment, bnt on
reflection I saw that he was as legal and
logical as he was ambitions and astron
omical, for the constitution has said ‘re
moval from office,’ and has pat no limit
to the distance of the removal, so that it
may lje, without sbeddinflla drop at his
’blood, or taking a penny K
or confining his limbs, iwtant removal
froi* office sal transportation to foe
sides.
“Let it then be provided that, in case
of your sentenoe of deposition and re
moval from office, the honorable and
astronomical manager shall take into his
own hands the execution of the sentence.
With the President made fast to his
broad and strong shoulders, and, -having
already essayed the flight by imagina
tion, better prepared than anybody else
to execute it in form, taking the advan
tage of ladders as far as ladders will go
to the top of this great Capitol, and,
spurning then with his fopt the crest of
liberty, let him set out njbn his flight,
while the two houses (f iongress and
all the people of the Unn)P States shall
shout ‘ Sic itur ad astra.’
“ But here a distressing doubt strikes
me; how will the manager get back ?
He will have got far beyond the reach
of gravitation to restore him, and so am
bitious a wing as his Sbuld never stoop
to a downward flight.”
They are again agitating the use of
very light shoes, with few nails in them,
for horses. An animal which carries
one and one-quarter pounds of iron on
each foot most expend considerable
strength every day in bearing that con
stant clog.
the tTOK AMO THE JACK Air—A Pi,
BLK.
One day a Hyena, who wan out of a
job and had a buzz-saw feeling toward
all the world, met a Jackal on the plain
and began :
“Searching for old bone* and leav
ings, I presume ? ”
“Yes,” was the humble reply. “As
I am not able to kill for myself I must
eat after others have been satisfied. I
am, however, fat, healthy and in good
spirits.”
“ See here,” continued the Hyena as
he sat down in the shade, “ you have as
much right to be a Lion as the Lion has.
I see no reason why he shomld live off
the ft of the land and you off the
bones,”
“I never thought of that before,”
mused the Jackal.
“Well, you are very foolish to be
hunting bones when you might as well
be a Lion. I wouldn't stand it if I were
you.”
The Jackal thought the matter over,
and went to a Lion who dwelt on the
hillside and said:
“I have just as good a right to be a
Lion as you have.”
“ I second the motion,” was tne grave
reply. . ..
;BAmU*m going t| be, too.*
Bully for you 1 ” growled tho king of
3*'* #f
‘*#Oirtfflffiy. Take tkifpath ovo< the
hill, and whenever you meet any-ani
mal you must paw and roar and a#t as
bear like me os yon can.” , > .
The Jackal moved away in high spir
its, and had not gone far before he mot
a troop of his kind. He began to paw
and roar and swell up, and when he
had tired himself out tlie leader of the
troop came forward and said:
“Any fool can see that you are nothing
but a Jackal, but since you aspire to be
a Lion we can have no feelings with
you. Go your way and keep dear of
us.”
The Jackal found himself knocked
about by the Lions as a base impqjtor,
and shunned by his kind as unworthy
2f friendship, and between Hie two fires
e could neither Kill tor liinvelf nor fkt
of what others/ had slain. He Was
brought low with starvation and des
pair, and as the vultures gathered around
him he said:
“Even had I suoceeded in making
myself believe I was a Lion, these birds
would have known by the meat that I’
was a Jackal.”
Moral. —You must be what you are
to have the confidence of friends or re
spect of foes. Store-elothes only de
eeive the eye. —Free Pret.
THE GREAT SUSPENSION RHIHOEM.
In response to the inquiries of a ooc
toSpondent. the Niagara Falls Oazetle
gives the following interesting sketch of
the history of the great suspension
bridges : In 1848 Charles Ellet, a brill
iant rather than a professional engineer,
lmilt the first suspension bridge over
the Niagara, on the site of the present
railroad bridge. The bridge was only
for carriages and foot-passengers. The
towers were of wood, and the roadway
was only about six feet in width, just
wide enough for one team. Mr. Ellet
in the beginning had offered a reward oi
$5 to the first person who should get a
string over the river. The next windy
day a large number of boys assembled
on the bank with kites, and before night
one of them, a former townsman, Ho
man J. Walsh, then a boy of 13 yearn of
age, landed his kite on the Canadian
side and received the promised reward.
By means of this string larger oords,
then ropes, and then iron cables, small
at first, but increasing in size, Were
drawn across, until the large cables were
thus stretched. This structure served
as a most excellent anxiWwyin the con
struction of tha present bridge. This
was built by Americas gi-cat engiiam,,
John S. Roebling, and has always been
considered one of the greatest of his
works. It was commenced in 1862, and
the first locomotive crossed it in 1864.
The iron basket now hanging under the
railroad track near the American end
of the bridge was first used by Mr. Ellet,
and in it the first person who ever crossed
the chasm alive, and of his own will,
was crossed over. There is an old Indian
tradition that a resisting chief was once
carried to the opposite side by a large
bald-headed eagle who swooped down
on the great warrior as he lay in ambush
on the ground and bore him over.
Ladies have also crossed in this basket
The suspension bridge by Brock’s mon
ument was built in 1866 by T. E. Serret
The ice jam in 1&6 tore the guys from
the rocks to which they were fastened,
and before they were replaced a terrifio
gale broke the railway, severed the sus
penders, and left the structure dangling
in the air. The new suspension bridge,
as it is called, was built in 1868, the
cables being carried over in the winter
on the ice-bridge. Its length is over
1,200 feet or a full quarter of a mile from
outside to outside of the towers, and it is
the longest suspension bridge in the
World.
SEJSSSSRE ff-’S VOL. VI.NO. 15.
4 nv mmiw or matiu
A mw faghioa, toting yet to baooaae
popular, is being quietly introduced late
the funerals in Nev York. Pet jm
the preen and pal pit here shown the
folly of expending large maos ol money
on enskete, flower* and proeea
atone. While a considerable outlay may
not affect well-to-do people the poor,
always desirous of following “the style”
as fat as possible, irwi|p*ln the pomp-and
extraraganoe in a degree that is positivo
ly injurious. A S-
In many American cities the Oathjblio
clergy ha-re attempted totheck thq in
cioasing disposition to make a show by
limiting the number of carriages to two,
four or six, according to the circum-
stances of the family; and Funeral Re
form Associations have bean a feature of
social life in London and several other
large cities of England for years.
The fashion of putting after advertised
invitations to funerals the words, “It is
requested that no flowers be sent,” wm
a step in the way of funeral reform; and
the more reoent adopted announcement,
“Interment at the oonvenienoe of the
family,” was another important one.
These innovations have reduced consid
erably the cost of funerals, the last Do
ing particularly appreciated by rich and
l>oor alike, as constituting an effectual
'barrier against the professional mourn-
ers, who attend all passible funerals tor
‘the sole •pbrposo of having i rider to'tha
('crrwtery and back. * , •
While it has been frequently remarked
of our business men that thoy drive
through everything as if they had. not a
single moment to spare, even to die, it
sometimes becomes evident that they
have not the time to attend the funeral
ot a partner, a friend, or an esteemed
publio servant To the men who belong
to secret benevolent societies and trade
organisations a funeral of an associate
in the morning or afternoon involves the
loss of at least a half-day’s work; and,
because there are thousands who cannot
afford this pecuniary sacrifice, the re
mains of men who in life counted their
friends by the hundred are not infre
quently followed to the grave by a dozen
or less comrades.
I The latest innovation gives all the
friends ot a deceased person an oppor
tunity for participating in appropriate
ceremonies. It also does away with the
necessity, whether real or assumed, for
hiring a long string of coaohes to acoom
puny the body to the grave.
The new fashion provides simply for
bolding funeral services in the evening.
Business men, sooiety men, employers
and employes can then attend without
-losing a moment of offios or factory
time. In the morning the remains, ac
companied by the immediate family,
may be taken to the place of interment
and laid at reek— Jiftm York Sun.
FAHHIONABLB AFFBOTION,
1 •There is occasionally a flood deal of
mutuality in people not wanting to aee
each other. Yesterday a handsomely
dressed lady called at a fashionable resi
dence on Galveston avenue. There was
the inevitable small boy playing in the
front yard.
<*Your mother la not fat, ia she?”
asked the visitor.
“ Yes, she is in the parlor.”
“ I thought she always went out about
this time in the afternoon.”
“ I reckon she would hsve gone out if
she had known you wm ooming; she
said so the other day.”
Just then the front door opened and
the lady of the house appeared. They
rushed into each other's anna—smack I
smack 1 yum—yum—yum —how glad I
am to see you! Turn—yon have not
been to see me for an age. I have been
wanting to see you so bad I etc.—Gal
veston Hew*. ,
A MESMERISTS TRICK.
The French courts have allowed
themselves to be humbugged by the
mesmerisen, when they admitted as
probf of somnambulism the ervidenoo of
s nebdle being tyj-nst into the nape of s
man's neck withUtt his feeling it Many
yean ago I went to a public meemerio
seance at Brighton. The mesmerixer
thrust needles in the foreheads and arms
of a number of girls who sat with him
on a platform, and whom be had mes
merized. I thought that I recognized
(he practitioner, and, on speaking to him
after the seance, I found that he had
been a butler in the family of a relation
of min He showed me how to insert a
needle into any one without pain. Noth
ing is more easy. It has only to be done
very slowly. Proceeding from lecture
to practice, he inserted into my fore
head two or three needles without my
feeling anything beyond a alight prick.
—London Truth,
A man who had brutally assaulted his
wife was brought before a Justioe, and
had a good deal to say about getting
justioe. “Justice?” replied the Judge;
“you can’t get it here. The court has no
power to hang yon.”
“Landlord, did yon ever have a
gentleman stop with yon before ?” “ Are
yHi a gentleman ?’’ asked the landlord.
"Yes, I am." “Then I never did.”
Thb richest man in Russia has only
about one-third the wealth of Vander
bilt
A "wof csdsr”—Whoa I
" Load on •talks”—Borghsm.
Warn oats are tks only crop flat
grows by gaslight
inS^SLir
“ A stun ia the hand ia worth two”—
dollars and a half, U it hsppsaa to be a
canary.
Puorui who harbor evil though ta
should apply to Orel gross far harbor im
provements.
Tub sun who thinks the boy who
lives next door to him ia a good boy has
not been found.
“ Lrr it be recorded,” said a buyer
when he suspected that his wood-dealer
was bringing short measurement.
Eiohtkbh hundred and BiooTT-on
does not resemble a pair of lovers qa a
sofa, because there ia one at each end.
Thiu m s r°sng follow of Ovid
Sent nlesUns to hi. bdo-nd,
. Bat kcr tethn sum oat
> With t dab ands about,
fend mt th* feaoe h. aho-mL
Jt ifffsserted that Vennor at one time
was ajjtenbor. Well, he’s not the only
piqflflber that makes a good wsathsr
jMrofit
Tea old lady who mended her hun
band’s trousers with a potato patch is
now smoothing her hair with the oomb
of a rooster.
It may be well to state for the infor
mation of amateur artists that plaster
oasts of royal personages are not made
of oouyt-plaster.
Ida Lewis has saved two brass-band
performers from drowning. She naves
discriminates against a man's nailing
when he is in distress. Vi .. t
Ticam oral * jrooof nun froo Mmaa
Who >io Onaij-tbroa loot of tiinms
Whoa mM towns fog, .H - H
Ho potted bio bolt; ( -r
, •• I would tall you," h* nald, “but boa *SB It" '
Mbs. Stbiooins was boasting of her
new house. Thu widows stop said,
were all stained. “ That’* too bed 1 But
won’t turpentine or benaine washitoff?"
auked the godi Mrs. Oldbody. •; 4 ....
Parents who contemplate making
raitaoad men of their boy* oannot be
too oareful how they being tham up.
W&learn that the Sanaa of many of oar
railroad disasters is defective Miking.
‘JI gentleman WaA complimenting a
pretty young lady in the presence of his
wife. “It’s lucky I did not meet Miss
Hopkins before I married you, my dear,”
“Well, yes, it in extremely—for her,”
wm th* dry rejoinder.
A young lady wm caressing a pretty
spaniel and murmuring, “I do love a
nice dog I” “ Ahl" said a dandy stand
ing near, “I would I were a dog.”
“ Never mind,” retorted the young lady,
, sharply, “you’ll mow.”
► XjAR word’ of V seme with an im
portunate creditor: “ No, air, after the
way you have dunusd me, I solemnly
vow that I will never pay you a penny,
and, whan an honest man pledgee yon
his word about anything, that is the end
of it I”
thk KiTi/renox of lamb ajti-
MAUL
In an interesting article do this sub
ject in a French journal, M. Vignes
shows that those aiieoies which exceed
their fallows in hoight or bulk ana more
than ever at the present day threatened
with extinction. Since the recent geol
ogical epochs the progressive diminu
tion Of their number has become-all the
more rapid that they must now count
man among the numerous competitors
that dispute with them the surface of
UlO earth. Thus the present age may
lie called upon to witness* the aooom
plislimeht of their eetioatiob. In ths
struggle which they have to maintain
against this new competitor, they pre
sent, in comparison with species of
moderate or small sue, two disadvant
ages. The mass of their body bring
more developed, they require more
abundant nourishment, and are thus ha.
bis to b# deprived of sufficient subsist
ence. Beside, their multtphcatka be
ing comparatively alow, they only repair
their losses with great difficulty. Cer
tain email aperies ■eats, mice, insects,
eta—against which there is universal
war, with no hope of exterminating
them, owe their safety to their extraor
dinary fecundity; whereas, the loeses
among the larger animals can be but
partially filled up by reproduction. If
aoienoe does not make hast* to oosn-.
pleto her knowledge of times great ani
mals, eh# will by sad by find herself de
prived of suhjeeta. It is certainly not
rash -to maintain that the whales, laman
tina, dugongs, walrus, certain species of '
seals and otaries, the great white bear of
the Arotio coMta, the common bears,
wolves, the great carnivora (boos
tigers, eta), gorillas, the giant armadil
lo, giraffes, elands, aurochs, bison, ale- '
phant, hippopotamus, rhinoceroe, kan
garoo, elephantine turtle,
birds of the os|pch group, the Ante
penguin, Ac., are all tijreafaped with ,
the same fate which, during reerirt oeat
uriee, has overtaken, among others, the
gigantic epironis of Madagascar, the great
mow of New Zealand, and within the
last two centuries t'j enormous dove
and the gigantiow’.cer-fowl of Mauritius.
Among the animals which have only re
cently become extinct birds are specially
conspicuous. Numerous other victims
of human competition w3l aeon follow
the moss, the dmarnie, theepiorms, eta
All the great animals, in general, tend
after their kind to disappear, in ooo
sequence of human competition. The
only ones which man will allow to survive
will be those from which he can, without
much trouble, drew some profit, either
by a regulated pursuit or by domestica
tion. —London Tima,
The way for a bad boy to go on a
bender is over his mother's knee,
