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OOLBXAI ft KIBBT. MHh sad Pn^rMan. 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, JASPER 'GEORGIA Wi 1 practice in ihe Superior Court of the Blue Itulße Cucnit. Promp'. attention to al buai ne a intiumed to hit c&re. it M. Sessions. E. W. Colmar SESSIONS A COLEMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LA**** ellijay, ga. Will praotice in Bus Rirlge Physician/ * ud Surgeon, Tend- r fl hi r>r t i f , ( ‘ B3ion!l1 . ® erTioefl to the oiti reus of P 'ikr P r‘ mw ® nd surrounding conn f'cs AU eiia pr,M, P tly at,end " d Office opLirs UFE DENTIST, Calho.dk, Ga. w ill visit Ellijay and Morganton at . ‘b the Spring and Fall term of the " -! rerior Court—-and ofteuer by special . initraet. when sufficient work is guar anteed to justify, me in making the visit. Address as above. f.n.oi.i. Young men Who wish a Thorough preparation foi Business, will-findsuperior advantage!al MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY ATLANTA, GA. 1 The largest and beat Practical Business Sehoo: in the South. can enter at an. time. for circularß. GENUAL HOTEL! Ellijay, Georgia. In bo special popular re*ort for c >mnoercia men and tourists of ail kind, and is the general house for prompt attention, elegant rooms and are second to none, in this place. Reasonable rate*. Mrs. M. V. 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"i map or bust urm-m blvotvations abb its vast oobOmbxs." ELLIJAY. GA.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1886. AURANTII Moet erf the dinaasee which Afflict mankind ire origin ally caused by a disordered condition of the LIVER. Far all complaints of this kind, such as Torpidity of the liver, Biliousness, Nervous Dyspepsia, Indiges tion, Irregularity of the Bovrela, Constipation, Flatu lency. Eructations and Burning of the Stomach (sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria, Bloody Flux, Chills and Fever, Breakbone Fever, Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diar rheas, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Foul Breath, Irregularities incidental to Females, Bearing-down ache,*4c., Ac, STAPIGEB’S >URARTU (■lnvaluable. It is not * ptnux. for all dteam. tat OIIDr all disease* of the LIVER, will V YBS STOMACH end BOWELS. It dunces the complexion from . wexy. yellow Unge, to * raddy, tiMlthy color. It entirely remove* low. gloomy spirits. 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Guaranteed to contain no water, benxine, barytes, chemical., rubber, asbestos, rosin, gloss oil, or other similar adulterations. A. ftill guarantee on every package and directions for use, so that any One not a practical painter can use it. _ Handsome sample cards, showing SB beautiful shades, mailed free on application. if not kept by your dealer, write to us. tocmrsfultoasktor “THE LAWRENCE PAINTS” ato to sot take any other said to be “ as good as W. W. LAWRENCE & CO., PITTSBURGH, PA Whj His Brother Could Do It. 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.