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VOL. XI.
ELLIJAY COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVEBT THURSDAY
—BY—
COLEMAN ft KIRBY.
MB' Office in tbe Court Rouse
generaFpirectory.
Superior Court meets 3d Monday in
May and 2d Monday in October.
Hou. James B Brown, Judge.
George F. Gober, Solicitor General.
COUNTY COURT.
Hon. Thomas F. Greer, judge.
Moultrie M. Sessions,County Solicitor.
Meets 3d Monday in each menth
Court of Crdiuary meets first Monday
in each month.
TOWN COUNCIL.
J. P. Perry, lutendent.
M. McKinney, i. H. Tabor, I n
J. Huunicutt, J.R. Johnson, J Oom ‘
W. H, Fo3ter, Town Marshal.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. C. Alien, Ordinary,
T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court,
H. M. Bramlett, Sheriff,
J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver,
G. W. (iatrs, Tax I'ollector,
Jas. M. Wept, Surveyor,
G W. Rice, Coroner,
i> r . F. Hill, School C< mmissioner.
The County Board of Education meets
ft Kilijay ihe Ist Tuesday in January.
April, July and October.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES. '
Methodist Episcopal Church, South—
every 4th Sunday, and Saturday before,
Kev. C. M. Ledbetter.
Baptist Church—Every 2nd Saturday
and Sunday, by Rev. E. B. Shope.
Methodist Ep'scopal Church—Ever
Ist Sa'unlay aud Sunday, by Rev. R
11. Robb.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Oak Bowery Lodge, No 81, F. A. M,,
meets first Friday in each month.
W. A. Cox, W. M.
1 . B. Greer, S. \V.
AV. F. Hipp, J. W.
R. A Roberts, Tress.
T. W. Oraigo, Sec.
W AV. Roberts, Tyler.
T. B. Kirby, S. D.
i). 41. Bramleit, J. D.
J. W. HENLEY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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Wi 1 practice in ihe Superior Court of the Blue
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At the Branch: Ctthleigh has drivsa
from the depot in a hack
“Cubleigh—“Aw—what’s the—aw—
damage:"
Cabby—“Doll’r’n'half, sir."
Cubleigh—“Dollaw, dollawt and •
hawlf? What—aw—is a dollaw and *
hawlf, my good fellaw?”
t abby—“l believe Englishmen calls it
six shillings, sir.”
Cubleigh--“Aw—six bob, to be shush.
How fawgetful of me. Heah you aw.
to lawn to tawlk English, my
Cabby - “I couldn’t if I tried, sir. My
brother night, though."
Cublei-.'h—“Y'ouah b wot haw. And
why you*h bwothaw?”
Cabby— “Because he's such a natural
born fool we have t • keep him in ths
asylum for fear he'll disgr uce the family. 9 '
—J'vif'i J'cpirs.
To mnro at vou please is your pnri
lege; but to avoid ths rough corner* ol
Ufa guard your actions.
bummkrtimk.
Us summertime. 1U summertime,
The year is agirg fast,
Ike erst young chf and has rosohed it* prime
It* prattling da)* are past
The mailing babe, vith promise born,
I* now a babe aaauore ;
Now manhood’s look* mature adorn
Where childhood* graced before.
Tis summertime, tis summertime,
And earth is gaysmd bright,
All nature dons a garb sublime
To ravish sense and sight.
And warmth and glow o'er all abide
To lord it while#*? stay;
The days pass on, ’homes wintertide.
And then, oh, where are they t
’Tis summertime, <tis summertime,
The years are rolling fast,
With man and menth alike speeds tbs
Till old age comes at last;
Hence of the summertime of life,
Whoso may be possest,
While it is theirs jrith pleasures rife,
Should make of it the best.
—Hal Bert?, in PYee Press,
CROSS PURPOSES.
“Well, if you can’t get your own con
sent, Airs, Deery, I suppose you can’t,”
said Mr. Perrin, his reproachful gaze
fixed upon the fly promenading the
widow’* plump wrist. “I had hoped on
reflection, you'd come to consider my
proposal favorably, but it seems you think
you couldn’t he happy with me.”
“I couldn’t be happy with Roxanna,”
responded the lady, impetuously; then,
checking herself, she flushed like the
woodbine at the window, and in her turn
gazed down upon the itinerating fly.
“Oh, if you refuse me on account of
sister, Mrs. Deery, I really can’t take‘No’
for an answer,” cried her suitor, looking
up with an encouraged air.
The widow’s gaze never swerved from
the insect, now chafing its stiffened little
legs upon her thumb.
“You’d have no trouble in getting on
with sister, Til wager,” pursued the
eager wooer. “You rarely see an evener
tempered woman.”
“Yes, that’s just it, Air. Perrin. Rox
anna’s too perfect,” broke forth the lady,
brushing away the fly with startling en
ergy. “It would fidget me to death to
live with her. She's a chosen vessel, and
I’m only common clay.”
The widow Deery common clay, in
deed! Air. Perrin would have divined
the contrary unaided by the officious sun
beam which darted in at that instant to
point out her manifold attractions. Be
ing deeply iu love, he took advantage of
his opportunity to pay a handsome com
pliment and to renew his suit.
■‘Hush, please, Air. Perrin! Don’t say
anymore about it!” cried she, with a
wilful toss of her bewitchingbrown curls.
“I might care for you”—the tremor in
her voice was very marly his undoing—
“l might care for you, but I couldn’t
breathe with Roxanna. Think how my
little boy would worry her! She wouldn’t
speak an unkind word, but every time he
left sticky finger-prints on a door I should
feel that she was wishing that he and
his mother had staid away. ”
“I might—■” Air. Perrin paused,
shocked at his base impulse. Had he
actually been about to remark that he
might provide sister with another home?
Sister, who, feut tor devotion to his inter
ests, might now be matroni/.ing a house
hold of her wn! Dear, faithful Rox
aunal Could he ever requite her for
those weary years of watching beside the
couch of his helpless, dying wifel The
full measure of her self-sacrifice he had
not known at the time, but he now had
no doubt that for Cli menu's sake and his
she had discarded Joel Kirby. No, no ;
sister should never be requested to vacate
the dwelling aver which she had ruled so
long and so well! And to Mr. Perrin’s
credit be it stated, that in the ardor of
his passion for Ihe little widow he closed
his lips upon the disloyal words that per
chance might have won her, and strode
forth from her cottage a rejee ed lover.
“If Kirby should want Roxanna now
as much as, according to accounts, hej
wanted her before he went to California,
why, it might straighten things,” mused
he, plodding despondently along the path
through the fields; “but they say he has
his eye on his cousin Alartha. Naturally
he would be looking for somebody
younger than sister: she has faded.
There’s an odds iq women.” And the
lover's thoughts reverted to the buxom
widow, little younger than Roxanna, yet
no more faded than a morning-glory at
sunrise.
Mr. Perrin’s feet had traversed the
meadow and ascended the slope of the
pasture adjoining the highway ere his
mind caught up with them. Then he
murmured, half audibly: “I wonder
whether Kirby did call this afternoon?
When I saw his team coming over the
ridge, it struck me I might as well steal
off through the orchard. Considering
he’s in the neighborhood looking up his
old friends, he can’t civilly pass by Rox
anna; and I wouldn’t be a hinderance in
case—”
His soliloquy iserged in a low whistle
of satisfaction. He had reached the bars
opposite his own gate, and at the gate,
his fore-feet deep in a hollow pawed by
their impatienceietood Air. Kirby’s gay
•orrel. \
At the spectsfte Mr. Perrin’s heart
bounded within him, and he clutched
the topmost rail for support. Should
he lead the forgotten horse away to the
stable, or should he by so doing appear
to take too much for granted? He de
sired to be h Ispitable, he desired to be
exceedingly hospitable, but he must not
convey the impre-sion that he was over
zealous for a brother-in-law, and thus
annoy Roxanna. Sister wa< so fastid
ious!
In unprecedented excitement the
habitually easy-going man debated with
in himself regarding the course of con
duct befitting this exceptional occasion,
and finally judged it best to interfere
with the probable wooing in no particu
lar. Accordingly he crept quietly around
to the porch door, with a surreptitious
g : ance at the sittini'-room in passing. A
brisk fire of chips reveileS to him his
rather prim blonde eister seated in a low
rocker Wore the hearth, end Joel Kirby
leaning against the mantel near her,
volubly discoursing.
"They've opened the bail without rye,
I guest," mused the skulking hou, l*ce
For her turned op nose,
Her sweet little toes.
Her pretty pink hose.
And all her clothes
tloasly, m he hitched his chair along to
the kitchen stove to warm his feet in
the oven. “Seeing that it’s the first
visit, I must say Joel stays it out well.
Unquestionably he means business.
What's to prevent? He’s a first-rate fel
low, and ’ll make a kind husband. If I
wasn't sure of that I wouldn't consent to
his having Roxanna. I should hato to
have him take her out to California. I
hope it's true that he has bought back
the old homestead. Well, well, wouldn't
I like to be a little raousr in the sitting
room wall about this time?”
Could he have had his wish, a most
astounded little mouso would the worthy
man have personated.
“You are the most morbidly conscien
tious person, Roxy, that I know of,”
Mr. Kirby was saying, with a frown that
scored his forehead with horizontal
wrinkles like the staff in written music.
“If I could only convince you that it
was your duty to be my wife, I should
stand some chance of getting you; but,
uuluckily for me, you’ve cherished this
notion that you ought to keep house for
your brother tilt you—”
“Brother needs me,” murmured Miss
Roxanna, tears swelling in her eves of
“baby blue.”
“And don’t I need you? Haven’t I
some rights? During your stricken sis
ter’s illness I consented to waive these,
but now she is gone, and I want you.”
“Don’t Joel, don’t 1”
“I tell you I do, and I can’t help it,”
cried Air. Kirby, with grim humor.
“When I couldn't move you by letter, I
resolved I’d come and speak for myself.
You used to say you loved me, Roxy.
Can't you—”
“You know plenty #f other ladies,
Joel, younger and more pleasing,” fal
tered Alias Roxanna, nervously smooth
ing the pale gilding of hair that framed
her temples in a Gothic arch.
“They are nothing to me, replied the
gentleman, curtly, almost as if he es
teemed the fact a matter of regret.
Assured of the favor of more than one
pretty girl of his acquaintance, was it
not a lit ,1c hard that the full current of
his being must needs set toward this un
responsive woman of thirty ? It had
been ever thus with Joel Kirby from his
perverse childhood, when, if he wanted
cake, no human power could induce him
to nibble gingerbread.
“No, Roxy, there’s only one woman
in the world for me,” he continued, in a
softer tone. "Your brother is of a dif
ferent temperament, lias it nevet oc
curred to you that he may marry
time ?”
“Brother marry! Oh, no, indeed, he’ll
never marry— never!" cried Miss Rox
anna, rooted and grounded iu the belief
that her brother’s heart was entombed
■with the dead Climcna. “No, he could
not take another wife, Joel, and you see
he has only me. I couldn’t be so cruel
as to leave him.”
To all Mr. Kirby!* subsequant nlead-
TllgS sue Tnwmr-EhU same roplv,~WTH
soothed his chafing spirit not a little that
she made it with faltering and that she
parted from himself with tears.
As. the sound of his rapid wheels died
in the distance she hastily dried her eyes
and hurried ihto the kitchen to see about
the belated supper. Mr. Perrin, still
gloating over castle* in Spain, looked up
with the roguish purpose of greeting her
as “Mrs. Kirby," but, dismayed at her
troubled countenance, remarked instead
that “the days were getting shorter”—a
fact that Bhe had observed before.
He felt as if he had received a blow.
For him there was, there could be, but
one interpretation of his sister’s unwonted
emotion. She loved Kirby, nnd Kirby
no longer cared for her, Poor girl, Bhe
had driamed that a man’s affections were
like granite boulders,incapableof change,
and she wag awakening with a shock.
Hapless Roxanna! She too had her trials.
Keenly sympathetic, the magnanimous
brother, concealed his own disappoint
ment as best he could, and lavished
upon his sorrowful sister an excess of ten
derness.
“You have the knack of spoiling me
for other folks’ cooking, little woman,
that’s the truth,” said he at tea-time, os
tentatiously heaping his plate with cream
toast. “How should I ever get along
without you?”
_ “That'll make her feel that I appre
ciate her, if Joel doesn't,” he mused,
benevolently; while she, on her side of
the table, was thinking: “It’s just as I
suspected; it would kill brother to lose
tne.”
“Oh, you’d manage somehow. Maybe
you’d marry,” she ventured, timidly, al
most hearing the fluttering of the lost
Climena’s wings.
“Poh! poh! sister, nothing seems less
likely,” answered her brother, in a voice
so sad that Aliss Roxanna chided herself
for having opened his old wound afresh.
But she had done it for Joel’s sake. Bhe
owe 1 it to Joel to make sure that there
could be no misunderstanding.
The October days with their noonday
patches of sunshiue and their heavy bor
ders of twilight came and went. In a
spasm of hope that the charming widow
might yet consent to share the domestic
sceptre with his sister, Mr. Perrin made
a second proposal, only to receive a sec
ond decided, though flattering, refusal.
Mr. Kil by repeated his call upon Miss
Roxanna, and departed cursing fate, and
by no means loving Mr. Perrin, whom he
supposed perfectly acquainted with the
relations between himself and Roxanna.
Overtaking Mr. Perrin one day walking
home from the postoffice, Mr. Kirby with
inward reluctance asked him to ride.
AVith equal reluctance Mr. Perrin ac
cepted the invitation, reflecting: “If I
ain’t civil, he’ll take it that I’m mad be
cause he doesn’t renew his offer to Rox
anna, and I won’t humor him.”
“Heavy frost last night,’’growled Mr.
Kirby.
•‘Very," assented the other, conscious
of an inward chill. “Winter isupon us.
Shall you spend it in Maine?”
“My plans are uncertain,” snarled Mr.
Kirby; adding, mentally: “Thanks to
you, sir.”
“Of course you can choose your own
climate. There's the advantage of hav
ing plenty of money, and no family ties.”
“No family tics! Whose fault was It
that he bad no family ties?” mused the
irate bachelor, making rapid passes over
his long beard as if he would mesmerise
the pain in bit breast. “Might not Rox
anna have been hie wife years ago
but for the necessities of this telliish
brother?”
“Though I've lately beard It hinted,
Jool, that you are thinking of mai Tying,”
Mr Perrin bUiadared ou. in bis tuibsr
>am*i nt raying the very ik-ng ha had
resolved not to say.
Mr. Kirby Stopped bis whip, and traae
fixed his companion with a glance so
frigid that poor Mr. Perrin shivered as
if he was impaled on an icicle.
‘‘Your cousin is a fine girl, Joel—an
uncommonly fine girl. I—l congratulate
you,” he stammered, wishing it would
do to get out and walk.
“You are too kind, Perrin—too kind
by half,” sneered Mr. Kirby, letting go
tjie reins of his “You’ve robbed
me of one bride, sir, and now you want
to make amends, do you, by choosing me
another?”
"Why, Kirby, what are you raving
about? When have I ever interfered with
your concerns—matrimonial or other
wise?” cried Mr. Perrin, in a tono of in
jured innocence. “You are laboring
under some strange delusion.”
“Do you pretend it’s a delusion of
mine that but for you Roxanna would be
my wife?”
“Oh, he’s twitting me on old scores,”
mused Mr. Perrin, aggrieved. He blames
me for letting sister give np her prospects
in life for Climena’s sake. Sister would
do it, and she never told me there was
anythingjoetween herand Joel. “When
a man is in a tight place, Joel, he's apt
to realize his own neods better than ths
needs of his brethren,l suppose,” he said,
aloud, after a momeut’s pause. “But I'm
sorry if you bear me a grudge.”
“Tight place 1 Do you call yourself
in a tight pluce, Perrin—a strong, hearty
fellow like you? You ought tone mde-
Eendent of your sister. You ought to
iro a house-keepsr, and let Roxanna
go.”
“Let Hosanna go! Where?" interro
gated the befogged Mr. Perrin.
“Wherever the prefers to live. I
should let her dec:de that after we were
married,” replied Mr. Kirby, impatient
ly. “The main point is to get her away
from you. She says you say you couldn’t
live without her.”
“Yes, I did say it—l did say it; but I
take it all back,” cried Mr. Perrin, fairly
blinking in the light that suddenly illu
minated his darkened mind. “I see
things clearer than I did, Joel. I won’t
stand any longer between you and Rox
anna.”
“Your hand on it?”
“My hand on it, Joel. I shall be glad
—proud that is—to give sister to you;
and if you are going on up to the house,
you can tell her I said so.”
“Thank you, Perrin—thank you. And
if I’ve spoken sharply, I beg your par
don," cried Mr. Kirby, smiling like a
Santa Claus.
“Oh, it’s all right. Everything is all
right,” replied Mr. Perrin, too happy to
keep it to himself. “Drop me nere,
Kirby, please; I have an engagement to
mnke. And make it to-d y I snail and I
will, God willing,” he added, besenth
his breath, as he dismounted before the
door of the widow Deery.— Earner's
Bazar.
PlgUttng xra a Fast Train.
Western newspapers tell of a fight on
the Sunset Railway, recently, before day
light. The train was a fast one, and the
road rough. In the smoking car were
two blanketed Mexicans, who, beyond
getting up a few times to light ciga
rettes, did not move. Just before day
light the train pulled up at the little
way side station of Cline, twenty mile*
west of Ifvalve, Texas. The train
stopped just a minute, but long enough
to allow Deputy Sheriffs Baylor and
Nimmo to spring aboard. As their feet
touched the top steps they threw open
the door, and, aiming a couple of revolv
ers at the Mexicans, ordered them to
throw up their hands. There was only a
single lamp swinging in the car. The
sleepy passengers heard thecurt demand,
and looking forward in the dim light
saw the shrouded forms spring hastily
up; the blankets fell from their should
ers, and the ball began.
There was an incessant explosion that
in the cramped and confine 1 space of
the coach sounded terrific. The officers
stood with their tacks to the door and
worked their revolvers for life. Tb#
desperadoes—one standing full in tho
middle of the aisle, the other with ono
hand resting carelessly on the back of a
seat and swearing shrilly in Spanish—
were enveloped in the smoke of their
own revolvers. Amid the ripping of plusb
and tinkle of shivering glass, the scream
ing ar.d cowering men saw the tall form
in the aisle plunge backward to the floor
a dead man. The other desperado,
wounded, ono hand pressing his side,
the other holding his empty revolver over
his head, with a yell burst by the officers
through the door and leaped to th*
ground. Day had broken, and the slow
ing train came to a stop. One of tho
officers sprang after the fleeing, stagger
ing figure, and called on it to halt. It
turned and snapped tho empty weapon
at its pursuer. Th nit went down with
a bullet in the breast.
The officers took an inventory of them
selves. Though bleeding slightly in
several places, they were unhurt, but
their clothes hung in tatters. Baylor,
who stood nearest the Mexicans, had his
clothes literally ribboned; his hands and
the side of his neck were powder burned.
Nimmo had not suffered so severely. The
Mexicans were horse thieves, for whom
the officers had warrants.
A Hairy Family.
Mr. Farini has made us acquainted
with strange personages; but, assuredly,
none more strange than those whom he is
now exhibiting in one of the chambers of
the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. This party
consists of “The Burmese Royal Sacred
Hairy Family.” On the abdication or
expulsion of King Theebaw his depend
ents were scattered far and wide; and
among the deposed favorites were a
mother and son, who are held to be
sacred simply from the fact that they are
covered with hair from head to foot.
There is no possible imposture about
this fact, for uny visitor is permitted the
closest inspection. From the forehead
to the feet the hair is in thick profusiou,
especially over the face (which resembles
that of the Skye terrier), where. it has to
be divided in order to allow the human
eyes —for human they are— to see or bo
seen. On the man's face the hair is enor
mously thick, and measures in length
ever seven inches. The woman, hie
mother, who is slxty-thres year* of ago,
is also completely oovered with hair,
which is now growing gray. —JwnJen
Standard.
Hie four wart important towns rt
Australasia, are now Math ss*a, popular |
ttoa £B*.#47; BAdaey at.lll; Ade
bide, 108, Mi, tmd tbrnmi, *O,OOO. I
on DOLLU Par A mamma, la Aftraaa*.
a BONO OF THU OASOX
Swest ar* the signs at the summer Mat,
With snow white clouds is ths asm* sklss,
When sparkling morning-gloria* climb
In their wsalth of delicate dyes;
But, alael for this earth’s fairest joy,
It never comes to brighten our way,
But comes the fiend with hie maodHa sry—
“l* it hot enough for yon to-day P
We aft by "the stream and wait resigned
For touch of the “bite” that never
Drowsy and half adesp in our mind.
While we listen as the wild bee home;
But harsh is our awaking—alas,
Behind ns we hear tbs old time brer
Of the half-witted, consummate am—
“ls it hot enough for yea to-day P
Then we fly to the city afar,
And headlong plunge right into tie tortfe,
To dro.ro in the rush of its wild war,
The giant woe of a weary life; •
In vain, in vain, in the steaming -duaate,
Even in sight of the fountain's play,
The same demon howl our racked brain greeto,
“Is it hot enough tor you to-day r
Speak not of fetters and prison cells
To punish the poor wretch who goes wrong,
Sing Sing is Eden—where comfort dwells—
Compared to the plan I'd bring along:
Chain the slave down in some meadow clear
'Till beads of sweat o’er hi* forehead play,
i some ghoul to yell in hie ear—
X enough for you to-day P
—IV in. Lyle, in Free Press.
i ITH POINT.
All head work—The phrenologist’s.
A promising writer—The man who
draws up a note.—Bottom Courier.
We hear a great deal about the con
sumption of fish. We wonder they don’t
take cod liver oil.— Puck.
A lawyer is frequently embarrassed by
Asets; but rarely is ha embarrassed by
the absence of facts.— Picayune.
“Mischief, thou art afoot,” as the
beau said when hit girl’s father booted
him through the doorway.— Stylings.
“The rambling old farm-house" is not
confined to the east since the West began
to enjoy a monopoly of cyclone*.— Bur
lington Free Pret*.
The men of Oleomargarine
All claim their men is lawful.
But on a nearer view ’tis seen
That this is simply “offal.”
—Sifting*.
A Burlington youth obtained a young
lady’s hand in rather an unfair manner.
She was trying to climb up a ledge at a
Sicnic when he asked her for it.—Bur
ngton Free Prett.
Little Johnnie, inquisitively—“ Say,
pa, what did Mr. Merritt mean fast night
when he spoke to Cora about the ‘fabric
o( a dream?’ ” Brown, impatiently—
'•Mince Pi*, my boy—mines pie.”—
Judge.
A book on etiquette tells “how to tell
a man larger than yourself that he is a
liar. ” The best way is to tell him through
the telephone, and then go out into tne
oountry for a few days.— EvanniU* Tri
bune.
“I understand, Clara,” he aaid, as they
sat in the twilight, “that there ia a cool
ness Misting between Birdio Simpson and
George Hendricks.” “Is that so?” replied
Clara, as she fanned herself languidly.
“Do you know what ice cream saloon
they’re at?”— New Tori Bun.
“That is anew patent lemon squeoxor,”
said the young hardware clerk', in an
swers to a queetion put to him by a
young lady customer. “Well, I declare t
I thought I had seen every kind of a
squeezer aver invented, but that beats
anything I ever saw.” And tha young
man blushed a lovely peach-blow blush.
— Statesman.
“Who Is that lady? tell, mo pray,”
A dry good* -lerk inquired,
“She comee to shop so frequently.
I’d think that thVd be tired.
“I call her mustard plaster,"
The other clerk replies,
“For she’s a counter-irritant—
She shops but never bays.”
—Bottom Courier.
A Deaf Lawyer’s Devoted Wife.
A Columbia, Ohio, correspondent of the
New York Sun says in a recent commu
nication : In a minor case in the Ohio
Supreme Court to-day Mr. N. R. Lotos,
of Toledo, the attorney for the plaintiff
—a handsome man and a fluent speaker
—is totally deaf. The curiosity of all
present, not excepting the grave Judges,
was, therefore, exciting when h:s wife
appeared in front of the bar and said
that she would interpret the words of
others to her husband. This she did
simply by the movements of her lips.
The words of the court and the argu
ments of the counsel for the defendant
were thus translated to her husband,
whose attentive brown eyes were never
taken off his wife's expressive face.
There was but little sign language used,
except in cases where a particularly for
cible remark was made, and then Mrs.
Lutes would advance and make slight
gestures. She received the unbounded
admiration of every one in the court
room, not only for her skill as an inter
preter, bat for her devotion to her hns-
Mr. Arthur as a Match-Maker.
During President Arthur’s administra
tion, writes a Boston Traveller corres
pondent, a reception was given at the
White House, which Mile. Christine Nils
son attended. Justice Gray was also
£ resent. The President in chatting with
er, called attention to the almost gigan
tic figure of the Justice as he towered
head and shoulders above everybody in
the room, and insinuatingly suggests3
that he would be an excellent catch.
Later on the President introduced the
songstress to the learned Justice, and she
took his arm end promenaded around the
East Room. They chatted together for
e few minutes, end then she returned to
the President's side. With an amused
■mile upon his fare, Mr. Arthur asked
Mademoiselle how she liked Mr. Gray.
Bhe shrugged her shoulders, end replied
that he was altogether tot dry end deep
rttsapt atmotch Arti>UT '
A Chicago jeweler has invented e self
winding watch. By an arrangement
something like the carefully balanced
lever of s pedometer,the watch is wound
by the mnUoa of th wv*r when v ajfc>
Sr A w#!k of seven minutes will wind
a watch to go for forty-two hour*.
NO. 27.