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“ I,ord br*n pj, ninni,
■m. b*h prarrj *o-<U.t,
“Kitty, Bon*uiold brack
Whet cbt •'■!] I mj 7
I ran t Snk ot raffin' mo-h
(Stoopiil work to p’ay!).
•Hart' for whet ltd HVt to know, sow.
You old Mnnrnii On; 7
Ain't I p'ared, ut' p’ajed, and p'ared
Tima 'll time again T
I'm target the way to end it-
Why don’t yon tdl mo venT
For whoea lake, mamma—ear ?
I’m —eo—a'arpy—oh, I ’member—■
For Pity'a sake, Amen "’
Who ridden the child 7 I kina and hath
Silent I Join the group doim-ataira
That rent and linger by the flro
To langh at Baby'e prayers,
“And what did Baby nay to-night 7"
Bwt low I anawer, with grave brow:
“She prayed for Bone, and yon and me—”
I cannot tell them now
How foil the mood the child haa drawn
And pressed upon a musing heart I
Amid the happy household chat
1 Bit like one apart.
My thoughts Ilka prayera move solemnly;
' Oh, Lord," I say, “ tho great, the wine,
Ihe weak, the miserable are
All children In Thine eyes.
“ We take the name of Thy dear Son
Baring, upon a trembling lip;
The enp Thou giveet us, we lift,
And shrink, and taste, and sip,
“ And try to say, ‘ For Jesus’ sake;
Dear Lord, the babe la wisest when,
Feariees and clear, she pleads with Thee
‘ For Pity’s sake, amen.’
“Oh, truer than the sacred phrase
That time from Christian years has spun,
la he who prays, nor questions If
Pity and Christ are one!”
Elisabeth Stuart I'helps. in WOL, Awake.
Hour Ralph Hade the Daintiest Pair o[
Glows Ever Seen.
A reminder quietly spoken by Ralph's
father hath set Ralph’s wits to work.
Ralph’s father had said: “You aro 14
to-day; it’s high time you were thinking
of what to do in the world.” The first
thing that Ralph did was to pick out a
shady spot on the creek hank and begin
to fish. As he held his rod aslant, wait
ing for a bite, many thoughts came to
Mte Thought always made Ralph
■fckoly. .v “ I don’t see that I’m any
■L anyhow,” said Ralph; “what’s
4o d.i anything but fish? I wight
a lawyer or a school teacher or
or a store keeper or a printer
but (hero aro lots and
Mitieinns, printers, store keop
■t teachers and lawyers.
*' * t* Bm>l><hU - s ••! any particular
fif Bvh. If I were a calf J
i vea! and do some
a
§5|S B come al.a.g anq hit,.
'Hrpi’.v ’■ 1 Kitij.il sat in
Klia’in ' W ' I want,”
HPl.’-.o ycs'dic
V’t tifh-lmw 0-1 the sur-
white cloud, “ what I
I -~wat is to do something big,
sometliing tremendous, something aw—;
no, not anything awful, but something
nearly awful. Tor instance, if I could
invent Hy hiri machine ! See how that
hawk flew! Think of it! It was won
derful!”
Just then a humming dragonfly, long,
tapering and graceful, settled npon
Rulph’s rod, that was still aslant. The
machine left Ra f ,’s head instant
■Lhe watched ' insect before him
Hkn infer.ot. The fly was more
flower than a thing of
w.-.s tile color of a blue-
H .■’ t'vei'o like bits of amber
scented to be woven
little boast,” Ralph
S * B'eif. He gave his rod
to ilrown the dragon,
: darted up and away
rj y stone shot from the knuckle
■yGib.
and other similar ones
caused Ralph to think
or not he could put to use any
WT the fine things of the insect world.
He probably would have given over the
disagreeable task had not a spider swung
himself boldly from a high limb to tho
fishing rod. “I’ve got something, any
how,” said Frank, and, though he shiv
ered at touching it, he held the spider
between his thumb and forefinger and
examined it closely. He saw that the
spider’s legs numbered eight, that it
had eight eyes and that there were two
arms, branching above the head, also.
Then he drew his knife, and, with a sharp
blade, split open the spider’s body.
*’ This is what it makes its web from,”
ho reflected; “it looks like glne, and
that’s what it is.” Happening to have
his school microscope with him, Ralph
tested the fineness of some threads
drawn from tho glue with the little
blade of his knife. Suddenly springing
to his feet Ralph exclaimed: “ Now I’ve
got it! Anew hkxt i ITever thought of
before ! Glorious ! I’ll make silk from
spider web! ”
Two or three days passed, but the
spider idea didn’t cool in the glowing
mind of the young philosopher. He
worked himself up to a pitch of enthusi
asm and then began to collect a colony
of spiders. He selected an unused cor
ner of the barn loft, plugged the holes,
stopped the crevices and slipped in the
spiders through a slit in the door. Once
he came npon a web in the weeds that
contained forty young spinners and
again he caught twenty-eight in a morn
ing ramble. At the end of a month
Ralph had stocked his room with about
700 of the insects, and, what is strange,
no one, not even hiR close friend Fnmk,
knew of the soheme. Ralph reasoned
that he would prove his idea by experi
ment and then burst npon the world.
He would send telegrams to the city
newspapers announcing his great dis
covery. He would receive congratula
tions from the President He would lie
made a “Fh. D.” by some university.
“A ‘ Ph. D.’ at 14 I” said Ralph, “that’s
worth working for.”
But his spiders didn’t spin. They
stowed themselves away in the ooroers
and drew themselves up in bails when-
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ever he approached. Then fights be
came frequent Then some of the
smaller ones began to disappear. Then
Ralph discovered that the creatures were
eating one another. “To be sure,’
thought Ralph, blushing, “I’m a ninny
not to have thought of it; they must
have food, of oourse.” So Ralph bar
gained with his mother to empty the
fly-catcher on the kitchen table every
day. When the flies were let into the
spider-room there was immediate change
in the life of the colony. Old brown
backed pirates crept oat from their
hiding places and at once made prepara
tions to sweep the air with their brooms
of ailk. They climbed the walla, gave
long leaps, spun line after line, length
ways and crosswise, and with rapidity
constructed their funnel-like retreats.
In less than a week the room was cur
tained and carpeted with webs, and at
least a thousand flies had been devoured,
Ralph’s success so filled him with joy
that one afternoon he took Frank to the
barn and described his work in detail.
Frank said something with his nose that
-. Minded like “hoogh” and ran down to
play hall. Ralph said: “Poor follow, he
doesn’t know,” and began to gather his
harvest of webs.
Ralph was disappointed in the har
vest. He had calculated that there
would be a basketful, and what he gath
ered he could hold easily in two fingers.
“ But it’s value is in its extreme fine
ness,” ho reflected ; “my microscope
shows me that every thread is six times
finer than the finest silk.” He went
home and astonished his mother with
the request that she help him “ mako a
pair of gloves out of spider web.”
Tho good mother and Aunt Mary
worked with him all day, and, by tho
last light of the sun, Ralph saw that tho
gloves were neatly stitched together.
His little sister took off her ring, held
out her soft hands and Ralph slipped
the gloves over them, fastening the deli
cate, mouse-colored things with gold
clasps.
• “ I’m satisfied,” said Ralph.
*******
“Jim, jes’ look at dem spiders!” said
old Uncle Moses; “nobbersced de likes
—bress my oul ef I done seed de likes
o’ dis—fetch dat broom up liy’ar.”
Uncle Monos swept every spider that,
he could find out at the window, crush
ing dozens at a blow. An hour later
Ralph, who had dreamed all night of the
finished fairy gloves, climbed tho ladder
into the barn-loft. Ho looked once at
his spider-room, now filled from floor to
ceiling with closely-packed hay, and
started as if stnng by a bee. His face
grew pale in anger. Ho leaned against
the joists. Tears ran along to tho end
of hi# nose. A hard choking thing
went np and down in his throat. Then
a queer smile got into the corners of his
mouth.
“ Well,” laughed Ralph, “it was non
sense anyhow, and I guess I’ll go and
be a gold-minor.”
TOO MART LAWYERS AND TOO
HART TEES.
The rock that the legal profession are
in most danger of coming to wreck on is
that of excessive charges. There is a con
tinual low growling in the community
on this subject. The following, in an
English lay newspaper, does not exagge
rate the matter : “ There are certain
well-known firms of solicitors who can
never be got to render a statement; they
are perpetually applying for cheeks on
account, and generally have the faculty
of asking for these at some critical time
in the procedure, when they know that
jhe litigant cannot help paying, in order
that his case may go on. Other solici
tors punish the inquisitiveness of any
who may wish for a detailed hill of costs
by making it out to an extent vastly in
excess of the round sum originally de
manded.” It is notorious that the
charges are altogether out of proportion
to. the time given, tho work given or the
consideration reoauvoJ, aaA *il Kiu<i of
vexatious obstacles are thrown in the
way of any who seek to effect a reform
in this respect. Tho fact is, that the
ranks of tho legal profession are over
crowded, and are being added to year by
year to an extent which the publie inter
ests by no means require. Yet the ex
clusiveness that obtains with regard to
methods of procedure, and the strin
gent rules imposed upon all the mem
bers of the craft, prevent that whole,
some competition which exists in all
; other trades. The consequence is that
the publio are robbed, and that a com
parative few of the members of the legal
profession obtain for themselves the chief
portion of the spoil, while the great
bulk of them straggle on as beat they
can. Our legal exchanges are filled with
discussions on lawyerr? costs. The com
munity are bound to have cheaper jus
tice, if they can.— Albany Law Jour
nal.
Conjugal affection depends largely
upon mutual confidence. “ I make it a
rule,” said a wiseacre to his friend, “ to
tell my wife everything that happens.
In this way we avoid any misunder
standings.” Not to be outdone in gen
erosity, the good friend replied: “ Well,
sir, you are not so open and frank as I
am, for I tell my wife a great many
things that never happen.”
ELLIJAY, GA„ THURSDAY. JUI.Y 28, 18SL
too modest.
The Ameriouu are aa tnartartio people, hot
, Italy wilt one day take art to America. That
: wiu help America to be artistic, ffiyaer O, (e
an Italian journal.
Oh I indeed, yon are only too modest,
Signor. Italy has done it already. Mod
, em Italy is doing her very best for u*
now. Why, were you at this window,
Signor, yon would confess that in all
America we could not get np a family
party like that one on the other side ot
the street. We haven't native talent for
it. It oomet direct from Italy.
There is the Signora, a stoat woman,
with fino breadth of shoulder, a yellow
handkerchief on her handsome black
head, and a calm and happy expression
of oountenanoe, thumbing a tambourine.
Now she pauses, grows in a moment di
vinely sad, and leisurely walks within
throwing distance of tho windows in tho
row; holding the tambonrino like a bas
ket, and waits for the small coin of tho
charitable.
Meanwhile the head of the family, the
Signor, hitches along with an organ,
grinding out popular airs, and casting at
the windows whenoo no pennies drop
glances that make one believu in the
evil eye.
U the Signor were on inartistio Amer
ican, ho might plod behind a wheelbar
row, but behind an organ never. And
the Signors, with her inches and evident
good health, would thumb scrubbing
brush and broom-handle, but not a tam
bourine. It takes srtistie Italy for that.
Up at the comer stands Fahri Ven
turi with a wagon-load of cripples, whom
his poetical soul causes him to represent
as his “afflicted family, the victims of
an eruption of Vesuvius." If Fabri
were John Smith, not only would it
never have occurred to him to dis
play these horrors and make a little
profit on the afflictions of his family,
but if they were actually his relatives,
ho would work for their bread. Ho would
feel it “ kind a mean ” to put them on ;
comer in a wagon, and would not ex
pect publio patronage if he did.
Italy is a great holp to us in the artis
tio way. It brings us charming creat
ures who bestow titles ou themselves on
the voyage, and aro known forever after
as Ooaata and Prinoe*. It also, doubt
less, pends ns brigands enough to ac
count for the mysterious disappearance
of some of our respectable citizens, who
leave homo with money in their pockets
and aro never seen again, it brings ns
poor little boys who scrape small fiddles
upside down, and wrinkled thieves of
padrones who beat and starve them.
Italy is teaching us. In time, it may
be that Americans will psy their passage
across tho ooean, with the intention ot
sitting ever after on Italy’s church steps
to beg. At present they could not poso
gracefully enough. They have honest
stiff backs and honest bony hands that
do not tako carved shape and begging
attitude well.— Mary Kyle Dallas, in
New York Ledger.
A SERIOUS MISTAKE.
The curious mistake which has been
made in tho burial of Rubenstein re
sembles an incident in a French novel,
which, not content with portraying the
misfortunes of its hero during life,
represents him aa panned by adverse
destiny even after Jdeath. M. Rnben
stein died in Paris about the same time
as a Russian Baroness. Their bodies—
so the story goes—were saut to Rossis by
the same train. At Berlin the coffins
were accidentally changed, with the re
sult that, while Rubenstein waa quietly
interred at Riga, tfie body of the un
known Russian Baroness was committed
to the earth with all the pomp end oir
enmstanoe of a publio funeral at Moa
oow. The report may bq the invention
of an unscrupulous French wit, but the
mistake was one which, if the coffins
were nut opened, might easily occur.—
Pall Mall Outfits.
INCRE M “ m **** ssss*s.*ssssissiira
Nearsightedness is increasing in Ger
many at an astonishing rate. Thirty
eye doctors recently examined the vision
of 40,000 pupils in schools of all degrees.
They conclude that nearsightedness
rarely exists at birth or at lees than 5
years of age, and in village schools the
nearsighted form only 1 per oent. of the
attendance. In the city schools they
constitute 5 to 11 per cent; in the
schools next above, 10 t 024 percent.;
in the next grade of schools, 80 to 40 per
cent; and in the highest, 30 to 60. A
physician of Tubingen found in a body
of 700 theological students 73 per oent
myopic, and Prof. Virchow said in the
German Parliament that ninety-five out
of every 100 of the medical students are
unable to see what lies before them. But
the Germans are nearsighted in far
greater proportion than any other nation,
for which they have chiefly their barbar
ous script and print to *>*"rt
A gentleman, who had grown tired of
a suit of alothee, said to his valet, “John,
I have a great mind to give you this suit
of clothes. Suppose you try it on, and
see if it will fit?” John replied, in lan
guage not propitious to the farther ex
hibition of generous impulses, “ I nm
sure it will fit me, sir, far I tried-it on
the ether night and ware it to the ar
cus.”
THE SPIN NEK.
Tsre Ml dowa ta h* naornta* Mn,
On* to niix uni on* to nptn;
All Uw m HntoMd to U* nna n>t fen*,
Bat ao" m SataM* t* Da daßwfc. >l* t
Tb* itager nk* aat In * plrananl soot
And mn* of * Ut* that waa Mr at raw#;
White Um arlnmr art witk*ato*Sf*t look,
Matt? jttiin* bar hand* aad tort
Tb* ninjKW an* oa with • WOO to tor bate.
And all m*n Uetaond to tor tewt. n ;
And tba -pinner -pun oa with a du'Mraptir
lowa la bet brail a* aha artotao-
But to! noth* room* aooo*aalS
AusM f th* bUrw, ef what ab*jkac
Mon wr* lug, “ ltehoM this Um “
And limit th* pntaa of Um Vink
Th* wvvrtit baa forgotten tli*
U*r ne ia faded, bar tonga *r*d.
But far o’er Ut* n*e*o th* iftaiiwhfMM
X*> la muliUtopod In :ta*n of suty
Twm trade a jrvra.
It would surprise many people sot
engaged in trade to know wb>4 a variety
of commodities that appear valueless
art> important articles of oounneres. To
the average boy and girl tholeisaoaiesly
anything of so little wortbyoe§>t to
afford a day's fun -as nnU, aid yet hun
dreds ot thousands of dollar i are annu
ally invested in them.
During the recent year* fbe trade in
foreign and domestic nuts luAuuveloped
wonderfully. New York cfly haa be
come the most important center of the
trade, tho extent of which-indicates that
jvm .pie have either secured stom
achs, or that indigestion has'lost its ter
rors, Wholesale dealers in evts oan now
ns certainly count on a profitable trade
iu tho winter season aa oan rmdy-mak
ere at Christinas times—and all the
boys and girls know how certain that is.
Africa used to supply us with pea
nuts, sending thorn by shij -loads, but
our Southern States have so ssooswfully
cultivated this popular nut .hat we are I
now independent The Bhitr that fUr-
uisli the bnlk ot the suprfy are Vir
ginia, North Carolina andHTenuessoe.
During tho preaent season tie crop of
Virginia was 1,100,000 bushels; of Ten
nessee, 550,000 bushels; am of North
Carolina 120,000 bushels. ,
The nut probably most {popular after
tho peanut ia tho pecan.) The Texas
pecan is especially in deman-1. While a
few yens ago several bane sof pecans
supplied the demand car i
loads and in voices of
net uncommon at this t tu- JHP’', ' t
Of the other nuts the h>rfJ?i the
most popular. While, in Aaiy localities,
especially in tho Eastern BtM, they are
becoming scarce, they
plentiful in the Western Btries to ship
to Now York half a dozen' jamload i a
week when demanded.
That delicious nut, thn rhjstnut, is
l>eooming lesa plentiful nvsnwear, and
there is much difficulty in obkUmng them
sound in large quantities. Their great
popularity will probably pnftvbt their
total disappearance, for they toe already
being successfully aud it ia
expected that in a few yea# thn cul
tivated nnt will ba equal ig quality to
the high-prioed Italian ehestfeuta.
Black waluuta and bntternftU are re
garded as too rioh and oily foi table use,
Tho American hasel nuts arejpot-an im
portant article of commerce, the filbert
largely taking their place. Only a few
English bawl nuts find tbeiriway to the
American market. It is stated that
grower# in California oa*tom|g*t<> intro
ducing a number ot varieties *ef nuts
native to Spain and Italy.
S I EE PROM BODT-SN 1% HUMS.
Twenty miles south of W$ ken burg,
on tho road to Phoenix, theiefc* buried a
l\rtnguese in a grave 150 jlet deep
Eleven years ago the snhjoe* 'f theae
remarks conceived the hleaofjiiigguis a
well and starting a station point
aliove mentioned. When ttwkwelt was
down 150 feet, and while ihgfisi g away
with a vigorous will, bis vesidiiit, VMox
ican, iu lowering some poles wSith which
to lllTiUSr Hie well, let thie <4|eWa fall,
killing him instautly. y/rs V<*>t was
never removed, but allowed tej sl.-ep in
; jv-Moe far beneath the tio
earth, in the sepulcher he bid built.
Time has caused the well to et#w until
the remains are covered to ajjjtapth of
5 over forty yards, and tho Porttgoes* is
proltably the Ivst-buried man t fcArizouM.
i - —ErcsooU Miner.
3xk Wkbstf* and Oabe met
on Galveston avenue. Jim wnijd r v**ed
in the height of style, and upfc cross
examination explained that bo £4 just
been attending his brother’s Wing,
••Who did he'marryf agke^k.Gah*.
| “A ’ooroan,” responded Jim. * Well,
I reckon I knowed dat ar, as an > er at
course.” “ Dar ain’t no matter of xawe
about it in our family,” replies' Jim,
’• for, when my sister MatiWy ge 'Mar
ried, I hope I may bo shot if she In’t
marry a man. Hit’s a fact, tod r w
to it*—Oafseatws News.
Arm useless misery ia certainly Idly,
and he that feels evils before thr£-uie
may be deservedly censured, yet em Jy
to dread the future is more reaseuabie
than to lament the past,
Thu worst education that tawaa self
denial is better than the battintlußiio
everything else and not that.
Riff, is, at best, bat a questioiMßop
j portunity. r
OLD-TIMM OAMDPLATMMS.
fL the early history of LsfayotU card
playing waa more than an amusejnenb—
with a good many it was "business.”
Th* founder of Lafayette, "Old” Dig
•VT. *as for many years the most noted
■ card-player on the Wabash. There are
! many anecdotes ot him that have been
handed down and are worth preserving.
If the old settlers are to be believed,
“ Old Dig ” and the late Judge Pettit
had many a lively tussle at the card
table. On one occasion the two sat
down early in the forenoon at their fa
vorite game of “ old sledge,” *5 a game.
Ahoutio oleck in the afternoon, when
Pettit waa about S7O winner, he an
nounced to Digby that he must quit.
“ What are you going to quit for ? ”
inquired Digby.
“I want to go and take ear* of my
horse,” replied Pettiti
In those days every lawyer kept a
horse to ride the circuit.
“I can go without my dinner,” the
Judge continued, “but Pm not going
to abuse my horse just to accommodate
you at this game.”
Pettit retired with Digby’s S7O in hm
pocket. The next morning, bright mid
early, they were at it again. Digby lind
a liig streak of luck, anil, before 12
o’clock, had lagged $l2O of Pettit’s
money. Raking from tho table tho last
$lO put up, he announced to Pettit that
he was going to quit.
“Whst art' you going to quit for?’*
inquired Pettit.
“ Why, I must go and feed my horse,
John."
“Why, yon,” replied Pettit,
“ you haven’t got any liorso I ” i
“Well, John, if I haven’t got any
horse,” slapping his hand on his breeches
pocket, “I’v* got tho money to buy
one!”
The game was closed. Digby, who
was a bachelor, bad a small, ono-story
frame house put up on Main street,
close to where tho canal now is, ns an
office and sleeping appartmont. After
it was finished, but tho plastering not
enffleiently dry to be oocupicd, Digby
and Pettit sat down to play their favorite
game of old sludge. Digby's money
waa soon exhausted, anil Pettit declared
the game closed. Digl y proposed one
"!■ u stuttng my hijiib.)
ag;d.>t a certain 4um ui rnouey. The
game was played and Pettit was the
winner. The next morning he made a
bargain with a house-mover to remove
the house to a lot he owned on the south
side of Main street, a lit tie east of the 1
publio square. The wooden wheels were 1
put under, and in the afternoon it was
started np Main street with a lung team
of oxen before it, and at dark had just
reached tho publio square. That night ;
Digby and Pettit had another game, !
and in the morning there was a readjust
ment of the wheels, and the house was j
started on ita return toward the river. It
reached ita proper place in the street, ;
and was left to be pnt baok in its old po
sition on the morrow. But the next
morning it was started up town again.
The next day it took the other direction,
and by this time the whole town came to
understand it. Finally it remained in
the public square over Sunday, and on
Monday continued its way up Main
street and was wheeled on Pettit’s lot
He soon moved his books into it and for
many yean ooonpied it as a law office.—
Lafayette (Ind.) Times.
/•ROOF or ANIMAL LINK IN OTUEU
NLA NETS.
Two interesting problems which have
long perplexed the soiontifio world ap
}>ear to have been at last definitely
solved by the eminent geologist, Dr.
Hahn. These questions are, first,
whether or not celestial bodies, other
than the earth, belonging to our solar
system are inhabited by animate beings;
and, secondly, whether the meteoric
stones from time to time cast upon the
'■ sariaos of this globe emanate from in*
candescent comets or from volcanic
; planets. That they at no time formed a
I part of the earth itself, has been oonclu
| aively demonstrated.
Dr. Hahn has recently completed a
j series of investigations upon some of the
I huge meteorio stones that fell from the
j skies in Hungary during the summer of
| 1866. Thin laminae of these mysterious
; l**lies, subjected to examination under
1 a powerful microscope, have been found
1 to contain coralline and spongeons for
| matrons, and to reveal unmistakable
| traces of the lower forma of vegetation.
All the organisms, animal and vegetable,
discovered by Dr. Hahn in the delicate
stone shavings he has thus dealt with
' indicate the condition of their parent
world to be one of what is technically
termed “primary formation.” Bnt the
presence of water in that world is proved
1 by the test that the tiny petrified
creatures revealed by the magic of the
lens one and all belong to the so-called
subaqueous classes of animals. They
• could not have existed in comets, at
iast if the assumption be correct that
tL-se are in state of active combustion.
—1 k/o* Telegraph.
’ was fond of singing revival hymns, !
9 i his wife named their baby Fort, so
U, he would want to hotf it
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Canes of sunstroke become more fre
quent in town and country with eaoh suc
ceeding summer. Prostration from the
effects of tho heat of the sun is not
limited to human beings. During the
past few seasons cases have been com
mon among horses and oxen, and even
among milch cows. There is also a large
inoreose of sickness and mortality, aside
from sunstroke, that are plainly attribut
able to the effects of the heat of the
sun during the hottest portion of the
day. Travelers observe that less out
of-door labor is performed in most other j
countries during this period. In all
tropical and semi-tropical regions it is
ss common to rest for several hoars dar
ing the hottest portions of the day ss it
is at night. Farm laborers generally
sleep after they have eaten the noon
meal. To make np for the time lost,
they commence work earlier in the morn
ing, and continue later at night. Even
in those countries in Europe where the
climate is noarly similar to ours, and
where tho mass of tho people arc in
poorer condition, lees labor is performed
dining tbo.se portions of the day when
the heat ia tho greatest, Tho desire for
gain is less, or tho people are possessed
of a greater degree of prudence. As a'
consequence of avoidance of the rays of
the Bun when they fall nearly directly
on the howl, there nro very few cases of
sunstroke and other injuries produced
from tho same cause. If men work less
hours daring tho day, they are able to
work moro years during a life, and the
like is true of all animals that are
trained to labor. Custom lias much to
do in tho matter, and the custom set in
this country is productive of very injuri
ous results.
During the past few years several ap
pliances linve been introduced for the
purpose of affording protection from the
rays of tho sun. Among them may be
mentioned canopios that extend over the
scats of mowing machines, harvesters,
riding cultivators, sulky-plows and bay
rakes drawn by horses; small shades for
the bonds of draught animals ; linings
for lmts that will bold a considerable
amount of water, and sponges saturated
with water and placed on the top of the
bridles of horses. All of these ltave
been highly for llie
purpose for ' which they were
designed, and thoir subsequent em
ployment should beoomo moro general.
The condition of animals in pasture
could be rendered more comfortable by
providing more shade on farms that ore
situated on open itrairies. Trees afford
the cheapest shade, and every pasture
should contain a sufficient number to af
ford ample protection to all tho stock it
contains. Boss or linden or cottonwood
trees grow very rapidly and have a large
amount of foliago. Elms make a slower
growth, but are long livers and produoe
much shade. A cheap protection against
the rays of the sun may be made by
erecting an open frame of light materi
als and covering it with hardy vines.
The American ivy and wild-grape vines
are admirable for the purpose. The
. branches of trees and the foliage of
vines not only protect the stock from
the rays of the sun, but they render the
ground beneath them cool. Cattle and
sheep that have no protection from the
sun during the hot weather of July and
Angost often suffer and greatly fall off
in condition —Chicago Timet.
Mr. Smuuraby Hunt showed himself
determined to enforce discipline, whom
soever might bo hurt thereby, quite
early in his oareor as Secretary of the
Navy. He has a son in the navy, Hidge
ley Hunt, named for his mother’s father,
Commodoro Hidgeley. The young man
has been on a three yoars’ cruise on the
! Alaska in Asiatic waters. The ship
| reached San Francisco on her homeward
| voyage about the time Judge Hunt was
1 modo Secretary of the Navy, and his
! son, hearing of his father’s appointment,
jnmpod to the conclusion that he would
be so specially favored, telegraphed for
permission to come to Washington by
, rad direct instead of going with his ship,
1 wliioh was ordered to Panama, where
the officers were to be changed, and
! coming home by sea on the ship which
takes the officers who are to relieve
them. Young Hunt was considerably
surprised, probably, when his father,
the Secretary of the Navy, instead of
granting his request, telegraphed him
briefly to stick by his ship and go where
it was ordered until relieved with the
1 other officers.
j Some of the Chinese similes are said to
i boas pointed as they are sarcastic.
' They call a blustering, harmless fellow
|“ a paper tiger.” A man who places too
I high a valuation npon himself they com
pare to " a rat falling into a scale and
'weighing itself.” A hunohbaok making
a bow is what they call overdoing the
thing. A spendthrift they compare to
“a rocket,” which goes off all at once,
and a man who expends his charity on
remote objects, negleoting his own fam
ily, is said to “hang up a lantern on a
pole, which is seen afar, bat gives no
light below.” __
Last year California produced over
10,000,000 gallons of wine, and nearly
100,000 boxes of raisins.
W*x wouldn’t Pbebe a good name fee
a lawyer’s vile?
Anon* the only lores some people have
u the fqroe at habit
It is the wife of a bridge-builder who
should be Bridget
No riim how acidulous a Joke is,
the cream of it skoald‘never be soar.
A wmow mookary—The ooooannt
without the milk inside of It
It is supposed that the skirt of a for
est is a becoming drees for the bare
earth.
A XbSdt, joking about her nose, nidi
“I had nothing to do in shaping it It
waa a birthday present,"
A child, being asked what ware the
three greet feasts of tks Jaws, replied:
“ Breakfast, dinner and supper."
SmuL of a party of tramps insulted
a lady, and one of them took her part
Ha waa the noblest Boam ’on of them
alt
A sOHOoirznaoHXß of a Western town,
who has a habit of pinching her pupils,
ia called a “lusher” because aha takes
so many nips.
Thh meanest giil in the universe livea
I in Philadelphia. “Pa," she said, “X
j <k> wish you would lend me your lovely
rdd nose to paint my cheeks with."
At the of
family (reading)—“ There is e cat %jpin
cinnati that drinks beer.” Daughter
'(.sixteen)—“Fa, aha must be a malteae
oat"
It Is not true that the heavy men of
the opera strengthen their voices tty eat
ing boss. —Bottom Courier. Tenor a
doaen might assist them through the
difficult passages.
A ooBBESFcmDXKT send* us the follow
ing soul-harrowing oonnndrum t Why
do pigs thrive better on sour milk than
they do on sweet? And the answer is,
because they get more of it.
“ Tablb Bear Sold Hear,” was the
sign over the door of an ale-house, and
a wag, on seeing it, said that he
“thoughtthe bear must be the land
lord’s own bruin.”
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Tilt— whit 1m Mold I do T ff
Ton’ll ba angry, I fair, J
But har Ups win ao nr— iSf
Wall, I cant malu It tlma,
Or tipliln It to jrou,
But bar llpa wan ao sear 30
That—vhatalM could I do? 9
“ How things do grow this weather, W
said tho deacon to Brother Ames. “ Yes*
thoy do,” replied the brother.
night I heard you say you ouught fo .
fish, and this morning I heard you tH|§
Mr. Smith it waa ICO.” wM
“Tuekb’s my hand I" he exclaimdfl
in a moment of coorago and
“ and my heart is in it.” She i
at the empty palm extended toward heir,
am* wiokedly-replied, “Just Jwt I sup
posed ; you’ve got no heart’™
and uiqurs Milubk : ** How would a lee
ture by me on Mount Shasta suit the
citizens of Boston t” “ Vary well, sir |
exceedingly well I They would be much
better satisfied to hare yon lecture on
Mount Shasta than in Boston. ” —Boston
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THE CUSTOM ON THE COUNTS!.
An English lady, accustomed to trav
eling abroad, and able to converse fluent
ly in the languages of the countries she
visited, found herself alone in a railway
carriage in Germany, when two foreign
ers entered with pipes in their months,
smoking strong tobacco forionsly. She
quietly told them in their own language
that it was not a smoking-carriage, bnt
they persisted in continuing to smoke,
remarking that “it was the custom el
the country,” upon which the lady took
from her pocket a pair of gloves and
commenced cleaning them with benzo
line. Her fellow-passengers expressed
their disgust at the nauseous effluvium,
when she remarked that “it was theons-/
tom of her country. ” Sho was soon ley
in sole possession of the carriage. /
EBIENOLX ESOTLE. /
The inflacume of genuine irienjßneas
is wonderful We have met who
were so kind ami ooraial in manner, so
responsive in look and greeting, and so
swift in doing and saying c/urteoo* and
gracious things, that that seemed to
diffuse s sweet atmosphere around them.
How beautiful ihey were, tren though
sometimes they had plain fanes and
rough hands 1 No face is ever hopeless
ly plain through wmuh a friendly soul
looks out upon the world.