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GENERAL DIRECTORY
Superior Court meets 3d Monday i;
May and 2d Monday in November.
Hon. James R Brown, Judge.
George F. Gober, Solicitor General.
COUNTY COUBT.
Hon. Thomas F. Gre6r, Judge.
Moultrie M. Sessions,County Solicitor.
Meets 3d Monday in each month
Court of Ordinary meets first Monday
in each month.
TOWN COUNCIL.
•J. P. Perry, lutendent.
M. McKinney, x. H. Tabor, 1 „
J. Hunnicutt, J.R. Johnson, j (j 0
W. H, Foster, Town Marshal.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Allen, Ordinary,
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court,
H. M. Bramlett, Sheriff,
J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver,
G. W. Gates, Tax Collector,
Jas. M. West, Surveyor,
G. W. Rice, Coroner,
W. F. Hill, School Commissioner.
The County Board of Education meets
at Ellijay the Ist Tuesday in January
April, July and October.
justices’ courts.
Ssolh Dist. G. M., Ellijay. Ist Thurs
day, A. J. Dooley, J. P., G. H. Randell,
N. P.
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Saturday, J. C. Anderson, J. P., J w.
Parker, N. P.
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Saturday, J S. Smith, J. F., W. E
Ciiancey,N. P.
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urday, S. D. Allen, L. M. Simmons, N.
958th G. M., Mountaintown, 4th Sat
urday, J. M. Painter, J. P., J. W. With
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Saturday, Cicero M. Tatum, J. P., ihos.
Pai cliff, N. P.
1035th Dist. G. M., Teacher, Ist Sat
urday. Joseph Watkins, J. P., Jos. F.
Eilis, N. P.
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P. Kvans. N. P.
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Saturday, E. Kusael), J, P., John T.
Eerier, o. P.
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Saturday, John H.Whitner, j, P.. J. M.
Ward, I\. P.
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n. O. Moore, N. P.
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Saturday, M. C. Blankenship, J. P., A
J. Hensley, N. P,
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urday, W. L>. Sparks, J. P., Jesse Hold
en, N. P.
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day, Maxwell Chastain, J. P., B. H. An
derson, N. P.
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THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
The tenth census, “like a wounded
snake, drags its wearied length along.’’
Thirteen large volumes have been pub
lished, and others are going thfoilgh the
press, while a number of Other reports
remain unpublished, including those by
J. it. Dodge, the statistician of the agri
cultural department, on fruits and or
chards, sheep-husbandry and wool-grow
ing and hop culture.
Leprosy is declared by the Lansing
(Iowa) Mirror to exist to a considerable
extent among the colony of Scandinavians
from Northern Norway, now settled near
the village of Spring Grove, in Houston
county, Minn. Doctors who have exam
ined the subjects, who are in three or
four different families (but are related),
are said to have pronounced the malady
undoubtedly leprosy.
Joseph Arch, who commenced a move
ment in favor of elevating the condition
of farm laborers in England some twenty
years ago, has been elected to parliament
from the northwestern district of Norfolk
county. His opponent was Lord Henry
Bentinck. The business of Mr. Arch was
that of setting out and trimming hedges,
but he obtained a national reputation as
founder of the agricultural laborers’ un
ion. Farm laborers in this country are
not elected to Congress, or even to State
legislatures.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Medical <md Surgical Journal tells of a re
markable result of the use of steam as a
disinfectant of ships. The vessel to be
treated was made tight fore and aft, and
the steam turned on for the requisite
time. The hold was found to be in good
condition after the cleansing, and the
disinfectors entered the cabin. But
they discovered that the fine furniture
and cabin work had fallen apart and lay
in a comprehensive heap on the floor. The
steam had melted the glue.
Ex-President Arthur suffers from in
somnia. Until recently he has been in
the habit of trying to read himself to
sleep when in bed. “But not very long
ago,” says Harper's Weekly , “having
placed a pitcher of ice water beside him
on retiring, he awoke to find that he had
unconciously upset the pitcher and emp
tied its chilling contents upon the bed.”
The incident has caused him to break the
habit of reading in bed, lest some time
he should upset an oil lamp in a similar
manner.
It will be remembered that a novel fea
ture of the New Orleans exposition was
the exhibits which the colored people as a
race were invited to offer for the purpose
of showing their progress in industries,
education, art, etc. The experiment
proved only fairly successful in the dis
play then made, but it has borne valua
ble fruit in arousing interest in similar
undertakings. As proof of this the New
Orleans Times-Democrat says: “Excited
by the exposition, Mississippi held a col
ored fair a few months ago, which was a
thorough succeA; Tennessee has just
opened another at Nashville; South Caro
lina will soon follow suit, and it seems
highly probable that every Southern
State will, sooner or later, have its col
ored exposition.” We agree with our
Southern contemporary, says the New
York Herald, that these are encouraging
signs which betoken substantial benefits
to the colored people jand useful results
to the community at large.
It is curious to look over the educa
tional records as given by the Congress
men, says the Washington correspondent
of the Cleveland Leader. Bragg says he
was educated a lawyer; Smalls, of South
Carolina, was self-educated, and Houk,
of Tennessee, educated himself while
working at the cabinet makers’ trade, and
by reading by firelight at night. Judge
Kelley got his education as a printer and
proof-reader, and General Grosvenor was
trained in a country log school-house.
Pulitzer, the New York editor, had a
private tutor; Hepburn, of lowa, was
educated in the common schools and the
printing office; Oates was self-educated,
and Taulbee and Boutelle had pri
vate schools. One hundred and sixty
four of the members of the present House
have had collegiate or academic educa
tions, and eighty put themselves down as
having been trained at the common
schools. The majority of collegiate-bred
men come from small country colleges,
academies and seminaries, and many
of them states that they have grad
uated at some noted law school, such as
Harvard, Ann Arbor or New York. Har
vard has seven college graduates, Prince
ton, four; the University of Virginia,
four; Bowdoin, two; Dartmouth, four;
Union, three; Yale, two; Amherst, two;
Brown, two; Ann Arbor, five; Jefferson,
two; Franklin, two, and numerous other
colleges one.
“A. Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
MOTHER’S MENDING BASKET.
Over and under, an 4 in and out
The swift little needle flies;
For always between her and idleness
The mending basket lies;
And toe patient hands, though weary,
Work lovingly on and en
At tasks that never are finished;
For mending is never done.
She takes up the father’s stocking;
And skillfully knits in toe heel,
And smooths the seam with a tender teuch,
That he may no roughness feel;
And her thoughts to her merry girlhood
And her early wifehood go,
And she smiles at toe first pair of stockings
She knit so long sgo.
Then she speaks to the little maiden
Learning to knit at her side,
And tells her about those stockings
Uneven and shapeless and wide—
“l had to ravel them out, my dear;
Don’t be discouraged, but try,
And after awhile you’ll learn to knit
As swift and even as L”
She takes up a little white apron,
And thinks of the woeful face
Of her darling when she came crying:
“Oh, mamma, I’ve torn my lace.* 1
So she mended the child’s pet apron;
Then took up a tiny shoe,
And fastened a stitch that was broken,
And tied the ribbon of blue.
The maiden has wearied of working
And gone awny to her play;
The sun in the west is sinking
At the close of the quiet day.
Now the mother’s hands are resting
Still holding a stocking of red,
And her thoughts in the twilight shadow
To the far off future have fled.
“Oh, where will the little feet wander
Before they have time to rest?
Where will the bright heads bo pillowed
When the mother’s loving breast
Is under the spring’s blue violets,
And under the summer grass,
When over her fall too autumn leaves,
And the storms of winter pass?”
And a prayer from her heart she utters;
“God bless them, my dear ones all I
Oh, may it be many, many years
’Ere sorrow to them befall!”
To her work from too mendiug basket 1
She turns with a heart at rest;
For she kiiows.that to husbaud and children
She is always the first and best.
—Abbe Kinne, in Ledger.
A FAWN THE PRIZE.
A FIGHT BETWEEN A GRIZZLY AND CALI
FORNIA LIONS.
Undoubtedly the grizzly bear is a grass
feeder. Although his main source of
food is roots, herbs, acorns and such nuts
as are to be met with in the countries
through which he ranges, he neverthe
less greedily devours the carcasses of any
dead animals that fall in his way. No
doubt the so-called “monarch of the
Sierras” is often very meat-hungry. By
stratagem he may sometimes capture
small animals, but he is too slow and
clumsy to overtake deer, elk or antelope,
unless he shall happen to come upon
these animals when they are badly
wounded. Mountain men have often
wondered how the grizzly bear manages
to subsist at that season of the year when
there are no berries, and but few pine or
other nuts to be found. That the “mon
arch” is not above highway, or rather,
high Sierra robbery, will be seen by what
is recorded of him in the following
sketch:
In October last, in company with a
West Virginian named Richards, I went
up into the high Sierras for a two weeks’
hunt. We went to hunt deer, but were
well prepared to encounter a grizzly bear
or anything else shootable that might
come in our way. We had with us
a mule on which to pack our blankets,
provisions and camp utensils, which latter
Richards, for some reason unknown to
me, always called the “herring fixin’s.”
We led a regular camp life, which was a
reminder of our old prospecting days.
Richards declared that this was almost
good enough without hunting, but com
bined with hunting it was the next thing to
being in heaven. As Richards can play on
no instrument except the jewsharp, he was
probably much more at home up in the
mountains than he will be when he
pitches his tent in the New Jerusalem.
After spending a few days in the
neighborhood of Hope Valley, we struck
in West of Lake Tahoe, among the trib
utaries of the American river. This is a
region justly celebrated among hunters.
Along the creeks, about the springs, and
in the great dark canons, are to be found
deer, grizzly and cinnamon bears, Cali
fornia lions, lynxes, and many smaUer
animals.
The day after we made camp in the
new place Richards was unable to go out
with me, he having sprained his ankle
the evening before in leaping across a
small stream,therefore I struck out alone.
I traveled for nearly three hours with
out seeing any game larger than a grouse
or a woodchuck, when I came to a large
and deep canon that led down toward the
American river. Along this eanon were
many lateral ravines and gulches, bor
dering which were numerous small steep
valleys. In one of these dingles I pres
ently saw among some low bushes a he
of four or five deer, all quietly feeding.
By descending the elope of the mountain
a few rods to a line or ledge of roeks
that projected from the side of the canon
I saw that I could get as near to the bend
as I cared to be—even nearer—for I
would not again come out in sight of the
deer until at the edpe of the vale in
which they were feeding.
Moving cautiously along the edge of
the ledge of rocks, which formed a sort
of terrace on the side of the cannon, and
carefully avoiding the starting of lose
atones down the precipitous elope. I at
ELLIJAY, GA.. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1880.
last reached the bank of the little
ravine on which Was situated, some
thirty feet below me, the dell wherein
were the deer. I not only had the shelter
of the ledge of rock several feet in
heighth, but also that of several small
trees that stood on the bank of the
ravine and grew out from among the
lower rocks.
With my Winchester in my hand, I
peered around the corner of my sheltering
rock and saw the deer still feeding, and
only about fifty yards away. Among
them was a noble buck. His antlers
spread like the branches of an aged ce
dar. He stood facing me. I could sec
every wink of- his eyes, I raised mv
rifle, aimed at the centre of his forehead,
and was just pressing my finger to the
trigger, when he suddenly wheeled about,
gave a snort and bounded away, followed
by all the ethers of the herd.
Before I had time to even conjecture
what had frightened the animals—indeed
simultaneously with their first bounds—
a large California lion darted from a
clump of bushes, leaped upon the neck
of a tawn that was in the rear of the
herd and dragged it to tho ground. The
fawn gave one or two piteous bleats,
When the teeth of the lion rent its jugu
lar and silenced it forever.
Being unable to see the animals dis
tinctly when they were on the ground,
on account of a patch of bushes two or
three feet in height, I climbed to the top
of the ledge of rock, which was about
ten feet high.
I was now after the lion. When I
reached the top of the rock he was in
plain sight. He was tearing at tho neck
of the prostrate fawn. I was about to
move a little further up the ledge in order
to get a shot at the lion’s fore parts,
when a large grizzly burst out of a patch
of chaparral on the opposide side of the
little valley. With a snort and a growl
lie made at the iion.
The new arrival rendered the situation
somewhnt complicated, and I lowered my
rifle, concluding to await further develop
ments.
When the bear came up the lion re
treated a few paces, and then stood snarl
ing and lashing its sides with an angry
tail. The bear—which was evidently very
hungry—paid no attention to the lion,
but at once began gnawing at the neck
of the fawn.
I supposed this was the end of the af
fair between the two animals, and was
beginning to thing of putting a bullet or
two into the grizzly. This I might have
safely done from my perch upon the rock,
and with two or three trees at hand which
I.co"Id easily climb should the bear at
tempt#!** scale the lodge. Rut whilel
was sqill considering the chances I ob
served the lion flatten itself to the ground
and swiftly glide round 1 behind the bear.
Suddenly—like a flash of yellow light
ning—the lion bounded through the air
and landed on the back of the bear’s neck,
raking him over the face and eyes with
its sharp claws.
The bear gave a snort of pain and rage,
stopped eating, and for a time stood—
or rather sat up—on the defensive. While
the bear was thus on guard, ready to
strike out with his huge paws, the lion
stood off snarling and lashing its sides
with its tail; but the moment he attempt
ed to resume his meal the lion quickly
circled about and again landed on his
back—bounding away, however, as soon
as tho bear began striking at him. The
fight had now become so interesting that
I determined to await the result. The at
tacks of the lion were evidently far from
painless to tho bear. He bawled lustily
under the sharp claws of his agile enemy.
He soon grew cautions, and, hungry as
he was, endeavored to keep his head con
stantly turned toward the lion. This
the clumsy beast was unable to do, as the
lion circled about him very swiftly, and
crept so low as to be continually ready
for a spring. Beside, while the bear
was turning in one direction his more
nimble antagonist would suddenly whirl
about, circle in the opposite way, and
make his leap; and at each leap he made
the fur fly at a lively rate.
When the bear stopped eating and stood
on his guard the lion stood off and
snarled, but the moment he put his nose
to the fawn his alert foe was upon him.
Finally the bear gave up trying to eat,
and lay down by the carcass, twisting
himself into such a position that he had
the use of both of his paws.
Had the lion then leaped upon the bear
he would have found himself in a death
hug. The battle now seemed to be a
sort of tie or draw. Neither animal could
touch the prize over which they were
contending.
Matters were at this pass for nearly five
minutes, when the lion elevated his head
and gave two or three shrill screams. A
fierce answering cry came from across the
main canon, and soon another lion came
bounding up the ravine into the little
valley. The bear noted this accession to
the force of the enemy, and arose and
seated himself upon his haunches in box
ing attitude. The two lions then began
circling about the bear, by turns dart
ing upon him, raking him with their
claws, and then bounding away. It re
minded me of two cat-birds persecuting
an owl.
Presently, while the bear was wheeling
about to strike at one of the lions, the,
other made a rush and dragged away thei
carcass of the fawn. He was hauling it'
off toward the bottom of the big canon, i
some fifty yards away, before the bear
had recovered from his surprise. Even
when he comprehended what had hap
pened the bear did not dare to at once goi
to recover the carcass, as the lion that re- 1
mained behind still circled around him,
crouching cat-like, and threatening to'
■pri n R- .
In a short time, however, this lion also
left and went down into the canon, the
bottom of whioh I could not see from my
perch on the ledge. The bear looked,
thoroughly beaten, and, as I thought, not
a little ashamed of himself. He sniffed
about the ground where the carcase of
the fawn had lain for a time; then, ele
vating his nose, snuffed the air in the
direction of the CAnon, whither the two 1
lictas had gone with the prize. This prize
he had held Just long euough to fairly
arouse his appetite.
After snumng the air and lieking his
chops for a time the' old fellow moved
slowly toward the canori. He did not
advance as if he were going to awake the
battle anew. Both spirit and flesh seemed
weak. When within about twenty yards
of the bottom of the canon he sauntered
out upon a point of rock, sat upon his
haunches ana looked down toward where
the two lions were feasting.
There on the rock he sat for so long
a time—twisting about on his haunches,
snuffing the air and licking his chops—
that I became satisfied that he would not
renew the Contest. As he sat there,
wrinkling and twisting his nose, the
mark he offered me was too tempting to
be resisted; beside, he was liable at any
moment to drop down upon all fours and
make off. I leveled my rifle for his heart,-
and at its crack the great beast pitched
headlong into the canyon and rolled to
the bottom, causing a great crashing of
chaparral and carrying with him about a
cart-load of loose rocks.
The sudden apparition of the bear
Coming in such a headlong and tumultu
ous manner evidently took the two lions
by surprise, find for the moment demor
alized them. Bo.tli. founded into sight
on the Opposite side of tho canon, and
did not halt Until they Were ten yards
above its bed.
Evidently the animals had not observed
the crack of my rifle, or if they had ob
served it they probably connected the re
port with the impetuous charge of the
bear, for soon one of them leaped upon a
bowlder and began stretching his neck
and peering back into the canon where
the bear had fallen. As he thus stood he
afforded a fine mhrk, and, taking careful
aim, I brought him down.
This time the remaining’ lion undoubt
edly heard the report of my gun, and
comprehended the danger of its position,
fur it bounded away down along the
rocky slope of the canon, and I saw it
no more.
Descending into the canon I found
the bear lying across the carcass of the
fawn.
I built a fire, before which, on sticks,
I placed to roast several venison steaks,
while I employed myself in skinning the
bear, cutting up the meat and hanging it
out of the reach of foxes and coyotes on
some alders, to be packed away the next
day, when I expected that Richards'
would be able to assist me. When I had
taken the skin off the bear I did not much
blame him for giving up the fight with
the two Hons; indeed, I felt not a little
efor tho poor old fellow, whose
ger had made him endure so much.
Their claws had scored him terribly. In
several places, particularly about the
shoulders, the cuts had gone quite
through the skin into the flesh. In fact,
the skin was so cut up that I preferred
to pack home with me the skin of the
lion—which was a large one—and leave
that of the hear to take its chances along
with the meat until the next day.
Richards cursed his luck high and low
when I returned to camp with the saddle
of the fawn and the lion skin and told
him what a spirited and remarkable fight
I had witnessed. He declared that he
would not have missed such a sight for
SSOO in gold coin. Indeed, he became so
excited that he forgot all about his
sprained ankle, and “patroled” in front
of me, when he could have heard my
story quite as well by remaining seated.
—Dan Be Quille, in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Fierce Battle With a Back.
Deer have not been so numerous for
years in the Capon mountains as they are
this season, says a letter from Romney,
W. Va., to the New York Tribune. The
most noted hunter in the State west of
Moorefield is Gabriel Cooper, whose deeds
have caused him to be known by his
neighbors as Dan’l Boone. Dan’l keeps
two dogs and a brown mare, and he
knows every hog path and deer trail in
West Virginia. With his trusty Win
chester rifle he has brought down twenty
eight deer this season. One day about a
month ago Dan’l was visiting his traps
on Lost river. A mile above where this
river disappears in the earth is a bend
where the stream is broad and deep.
Dan’l keeps a little featherweight skiff in
the bend for his private use. While
sloshing up and down the bank of the
river he startled a big buck with six
prongs. The animal sprang from cover
into the water and headed for the oppo
site side. Dan’l leaped into his skiff, and
a few powerful strokes brought him near
ly alongside of the buck. His purpose
was to secure him alive, but when within
ten feet of him the buck turned about
and swam stroight at the boat.
The hunter, recognizing his peril,
drew his sheath-knife and caught the
creature by the horn as he made a vic'/ous
lunge at the boat. Dan’l held on to the
horn and the buck lunged and butted
furiously. The hunter tried to get at its
throat and in the effort the skiff upset
and Dan’l and deer were left to fight
their battle out in the water twelve feet
deep. To escape from the maddened
buck wps impossible, and instead of
swimming from it the experienced woods
man dived under the water and coming
up by the buck’s side stabbed it in the
belly again and again until he was forced
to come to the surface himself for air.
The wild plunges made by the wounded
beast was terrific. The river was dyed
red with blood for twenty feet around
where the combat raged. As the hunter
poked his nose above the surface to get
air, the animal cut with its horn a long
furrow in his side. It was the buck’s
last expiring effort. With a gasp and a
shivering moan it sank out of sight and
the battle was ended.
The proprietor of a 400-acre raisin
vineyard in California employed a force
of 120 men to pick the grapes constitu
ting the Inst crop.
VOL. XI. NO. 1.
The Society Elephant—A Transfor
mation.
i.
nr. rv
Why He Paid in Advance.
A traveler in Shasta county, Cal.,
being belated, stopped at a country hotel
and put up for the night. After eating
his supper he asked the landlord how
much it was:
“What yer have?”
“Liver, ham and eggs, potatoes, bread
and coffee.”
“Three dollars.”
“Here you are. Ahem! Have you any
bolts to your bedroom doors?”
“Yes, bolts and keys, too.”
“I guess I better pay you for my lodg
ing and breakfast now. I always eat a
hearty breakfast, and if you charge for it
like you did my supper I won’t have any
thing left for any one to steal if they get
into my room.
Knights of the Bath.
A few days ago a well-known young
man shocked one of his lady friends by
his ignorance of history. It was fifter a
dinner party ut his house and she was
telling mm what she had learned in her
private history class. One thing led to
another, and all the time he was getting
into deeper water. At last she surprised
him by inquiring: “Now, tell me, Mr.
lie stammered for awhile, and finally
blurted out: “Why, Saturday knights,
I suppose.”— Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Level-Headed Boarder.
‘ ‘Who is that handsome young woman
that sometimes waits on the table?"
asked anew boarder, “Is she the land
lady’s daughter?”
“You mean the lady just coming in
with the syrup jug?”
“Yes; she’s very pretty, ain’t she?—
the daughter of the house, I presum ?”
“Why, no, that’s the boarding-missus,
herself.”
The new hoarder’s inquiry and his
flattering Comments on tier personal ap
pearance soon reached the ears of tho
landlady, and now (hat hoarder eats ten
derloin and has the a riest and sunniest
room in the house.— Boston. Courier.
Of Firm Feeling.
A conversation between a married
man and a confirmed old bachelor.
“Do you know that it is a most, la
mentable thing that you are not mar
ried?”
“Why?”
“Because you are leading such alonely,
selfish life. Suppose someone should be
obliged to break into your room some
morning and find you dead.”
“Well, it might hurt his feelings, but
I’m sure it would not injure mine in the
least.— Boston Budget.
A Matter of Mills.
“How many mills make a cent* papa?”
asked Johnnie Crimsonbeak just as he
finished the feat of seeing how long he
could hold up the family cat by the tail.
“Ten, my son,” replied the affectionate
Crimsonbeak from behind his evening
paper.
“You ni'v-t carry lots of change around
v ith you, then,” said the innocent boy.
“Why so, my son?”
“Because I heard mamma say this
morning that you spent mast of your
money in mills.”
“Oh, but, Johnnie, you make a mis
take!” exclaimed Mrs. Crimsonbeak with
out stopping her knitting; “I didn’t
mean that kind of mills. I meant gin
mills 1” — Statesman.
No Reason for Metempsychosis.
Two philosophers.
“See here. I believe ip. Metempsy
chosis. lam convinced that after my
death my soul will inhabit the body of a
beast. ”
“You needn’t die for that.”
The Key That Fitted.
“Badgely, what curious thing is this?”
“That’s a scalp-lock, old boy.”
“Ugh! What a sharp knife must have
been used!”
“Oh, I don’t know. That one was
lifted by a key.”
“A key! ’ What kind of a key?”
“A Chero-kee.”— Call.
A Wonderful Solvent.
“Mrs. Dusenberry, you remember the
ease of a man who swallowed a silver
dollar last summer?”
“Yes, my dear."
“Well, he’s rid of it. A chemist gave
him a solvent. A month afterward he
threw up the dollur in pieces.’’
“Iu pieces, Mrs..Dusenberry!”
“Yes, my love. In ten-cant pieces. ”-•
Philadelphia Call.