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VOL XII.
ELLIJAY COURIER.
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COCNTT OFFICERS.
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T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court.
M. L. Cox, Sheriff.
J. R. Kinciad, Tax Collector.
Locke Langley, Tax Receiver.
Jas. M. West, Surveyor.
G. W. Rice, Coroner.
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R. T. PICKENS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
E ELI JAY, GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the conrts of Gil
nu-r mid adjoining counties. Estates
*ud interest in land a specialty. Prompt
attention given'to all collections.
DS. J. R. JOHNSON,
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• ELLIJAY, GEORGIA.
Tenders his professional services to the
people of Gilmer and surrounding coun
ties and asks the support of his friends S9
heretofore. All calls promptly filled.
E. W. COLEMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELLIJAY, GA.
Will practice in B’u Ridge Cijonit, County
Justice Court of Gilmer County. Legal
bbaim s* solicited. “Promptness” is our motto.
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Physician and Surgeon,
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sens of Ellijay, Gilmer and surrounding conn
lies. All calls promptly attended to. Office
upstairs over the firm of Cobb A Son.
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DENTIST,
Calhoun, Ga.
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THI FIRST SNOWSTORM.
0t! the coming snow it whirling—
Softly twirling:
Hidden are my sombre moon taint;
White, the bare, brown hilit art growing.
And the mowing
Chills the life blood of the fountains.
Hearer are the snowflakes dancing-
Still advancing: •
•Gainst the windows gayly peltir
Little ones with smiling faces
Watch their mazes,
Sighing soft to see them melting
O f how white the world is growing—
How ’tis snowing!
And the twilight gray and tender,
Finds me, with the children, keeping
Watch ere sleeping,
On this fairy world of splendor.
—/one L. Jones, in Good Housekeeping.
FROM ATTIC TO MANSION.
“Say, Jimmy!—limmy, are you
awake!”
This inquiry came from a little girl who
poked her head out from under a faded
#oat on an old mattress bed on the floor
•f an attic room in an east side tene
ment. 11 was a sweet face, with big blue
eyes shining from underamass of golden
tangled hair that fell over her face in
sleepy confusion. Jimmy turned over
and pulled the coat over his bare legs,
red with cold.
“Yes,” he replied, “I’m ’wake, sissy,
fs it time to get up?”
“I dunno, .limmy. I hear the baker
wagons loadin’ up. But, oh, Jimmy, I
had such a beautiful dream. It was that
beautiful it woke me up.”
“What was it, sissy'f”
“Oh, I/dreamt that we went away in
a beautiful carriage, with the magnificent
horses and a coachman with shiny but
tons all over him—you aud I and ma and
pa—and we went to an elegant house,and
we had the magnifieentest dinner you
ever heard of. There was turkey—oh,
tuch a big one, a good deal bigger than
them what we saw in Swartz’s meat
market last night—and there was pies and
cakes and oysters and ice cream. Just
think, Jimmy, nice pink ice cream, and
big bouquets of flowers all over the
table. I’m I Uml”
Wilte us for Illustrated Catalogue, Free.
“Gosh!” ejaculated Jimmy, as he sat
up. “You quit talkin’. You make me
more hungrier’n I am now; but say, sissy,
guess* what I heard pa say to ma last
night?”
“What was it?”
“They was talkin’ ’bout us, and ma
she said, ‘There ain’t but a little tea and
half a loaf of bread, ’ and then pa said,
'Give it to the children,’ an’ then ma
said, ‘tg u’t a very happy New Year’s, ia
it?’ Ah' pa he went out an’ said he’d
try an’ borrer a dollar of Flannigan; but
when he came back I seed him snake his
head af a. tay, .sissy, it’s awful to be
poor, ain’t it:”
“les, it is, Jimmy. But we won’t eat
that bread. We’ll make ma eat it, cos I
guess she gives us more than she eats,
and then you know children don't need
so much as grown folks. I forgot all
about this being New Year’s, but we must
be thankful that we have got a month’s
rent paid—that’s what pa said yesterday
—cos we might be turned out in the
street.' 1
“ Now. let’s get up, sissy. It’s day
light. I et’s climb up in the window an’
watch the street cars go by an’ count
white horses, maybe we will see a-red
headed girl. I’ii boost you up. Here’s
your o, utches.’’
Little Elsie Henthcote was a cripple.
When’she was two years old she fell and
injured ner spine. She threw her'dress
about her, and with the aid of her
crutches hobbled over to the attic win
dow and was shortly ensconced alongside
of Jimmy. It was beautiful view. The'
lights had not been put out on the big
bridge yet. The morning was clear and
frosty, and the big span shone out white
and distinct against a sky turning rosy
from its leaden sleep. White rolls of
smoke were curling upward from the
chimney pots, and the two children sat
there shivering with cold, yet lost in ad
miration as they watched the shadows
chase each othe.' into daylight. The
lights on the bridge, went out with a
suddenness that made little Elsie wink.
Then the busy traffic began and they
turned their at tention to the street below.
“There's a copper goin’ into the side
door of big Mike’s saloon. ’Sped he’s
goin’ in to get a drink, ain’t he. Elsie?”
Elsie did ndt answer as her eyes were
riveted on an object near the street car
track.
“Say Jimmy!” she exclaimed excited
ly, “see there—right down there by that
1 piece of wood and newspaper, ain’t that
a silver dollar:”
Jimmy paid no attention to her. His
eyes were fixed vacantly on the roof of
the opposite house.
Elsie shook his arm. “Say, what are
you thinkiug off”
“Jewhizl I was thinkin’ ’bout that
turkey an’ pies an’ cakes. Golly! if that
dream was only true. It makes me gnaw
inside when I think of it.”
“Well, maybe it will be. There’s a big
silver dollar right down there. Hurry
before someone else gets it.”
Jimmy looked,and his eyes bulged out
of his head. “Cracky, that’s so. You
bet we’ll have a turkey yet. Don’t say
nuffi n’ to pa and ma. ” And Jimmy scur
ried off and pattered down four flights of
stairs and inshed out and picked up the
dollar.
Elsie watched him with her heart in
her mouth/ and almost shouted in her
joy. But her joy was turned to conster
nation when she saw Jimmy look up to
the attic window, rnnke a hideous grim
mace. and stay the dollar up on the awn
ing of the corner grocery. Elsie cried
softly,and the hoy flicked up a stave and
an eld newspaper and slowly climbed the
stairs.
“Wasn't it a dollar, Jimmyf” asked
Elsie, tearfully.
“Naw, twan’t nofin but a ping to
backer tin tag.”
“Oh, dear, aud 1 thought my dream
might come true.”
“Bully dream, wan’t it, siasyt But
never mind I found n barrel stave in
the street that will burn all d V , and
some paper kindlin.’ Let’ewake pa an’
ma up.”
Mr. and Mr*. Heatheote slept on the
floor also Their beds had been pawned
to purchase the necaesarle* of Ilia.
Their rtic home was one of abject |>ov>
erty. Thr father had been out of work
for tliier month* Hay after day MM
looked for a iob, aad ooeastoaally would
ELLIJAY.. GA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 26. 188s.
C* * ork ' tl *® P*J toT which, by
strictest economy, kept the wolf
from the door.
Stephen Heathcotc came with his
young femiiy from England six yean be
fore and had lived a Doorman’s life since
he landed. His wife with sweet resig
nation accepted the inevitable, but often
sighed for her flower-covered cottage in
Manchester.
Jitnmy called his father and mother,
who shortly came out from their little
room. Mr. Heathcotc greeted the chil
dren cheerily and kissed crippled Elsie
heartily. “Here's hoping that luck will
strike us before dinner time,” he said, as
he swallowed a lump in his throat.
“Never you mind, pa,” said Jimmv.
‘I got some wood an’ we’ll have a firs
anyway.”
Ifr. Heathcote broke the barrel stave
into simtil pieces. Mrs. Heathcote
brought’out a handful of tea and then
tore thaiuew pnper. She stopped and
looke i mine piece and then at the other.
There was a startled look in her eyes.
With trembling hands she joined the
pieces together again and gave a gasp as
she did so.
“What is it, lass!” said Mr.Heathcote,
who had been watching her curiously.
“Read it, Steve,” she replied, huskily.
Elsie hobbled over to her side and
Jimmy looked on with wondering eyes.
Mr. Heathcote took the pajier and read:
PERSONAL.— Any information of the
whereabouts of Stephen John Heath
cot* of Manchester, England, will be liber
ally paid for. Address
J. F. H., Hoffman House.
“Oh, pa, that’s you,” shouted Elsie,
gleefully. “Who is it!”
“It’s my brother Jimmy, thank God!
The paper is dated November 16. That’s
over a month ago, but I’ll go and see if
I can find him. Maybe it’s not too late.
Get your ten, dan s. This news has filled
my stomach and I’m not a hit hungry.”
The children raised their faces for a
kiss and then his wife threw her arms
about his neck aud with her head ou his
broad bosom i rayed that he might find
his brother. It was 7.80 o’clock when
the father went out. The tea was steeped
and the three thade their frugal break
fast and were thankful for it. Elsie and
Jimmy climbed into the window scat
again to watch for their father. The
time went ou until it was 12 o’clock by
the clock in the church steeple two blocks
awAy. The children were straining their
eyes up the street watching for their
father.
“iSny, Elsie, see that fly turnout. Gosh,
but ain’t that slick !” said Jimmy, as a
magnificent pair of ehestnuts, with glit
tering harness, shining carriage, and liv
eried coachman and footman drove slowly
down the street.
“That’s just- like my dream, Jimmy.
Oh, my, ain’t them nice!” Then her
voice dropped to an irwed whisper as she
continued* “lay, Jimmy, they’re stop
ping here in front of this house.”
: “ Sirs. Heathcote looked from the win
dow and said: “They have probably
come for Mrs. Clark, the nurse, who
lives en the first, floor.”
A moment more and the three watcher*
heard footsleps on tlßiStairs, then along
the hall and then an*pjrthcdoor. Mrs.
Heathcote opened it and saw a gorgeous
footman.
“Does Mrs. Heathcote live'ere, mum?”
“That is my name, sir.”
“The master said as ’ow we was to
come and fetch you and two children,
an’ as ’ow your ’usband was that busy
that he couldn’t como. So if you please,
we will ’urry hup, as the master said to
ua to ’urry hup, you know, mum. You
was tolocKthe ’ousehup.”
Elsie pinched herself to see if she wasn’t
dreaming again, and Jimmy danced a
breakdown that Mickey Finn taught
him. At last they were dressed. Elsie’s
patched plaid dress and Mrs. Heathcote’s
faded black shawl were in striking con
trast to the olive-green broadcloth and
shining silk hat of the footman. When
lie saw that Elsie was lame he picked
her up in his arms, carried her down
stairs and placed her in the carriage as
tenderly as if she were a Princess. Mrs.
Heathcote locked up her home and fol
lowed. Jimmy executed his breakdown
and shouted to his playmates. They
were all there, gazing in wonder at the
carriage and the grim coachman, for such
a turnout was never seen in Sheriff street.
Mickey l r inn was there and was generous
to Jimmy, for, instead of being envious,
he shouted as Jimmy got into the car
riage: “Ki, but you’re in luck, Jimmy.
Bn My fur you!”
The carriage door was slammed, the
coachman ciimed to his seat and the
horses wheeled and went up Grnmi
street at a rattling pace.
The coachman drove over to Sixth
avenue and stopped before a dry goods
palace. The footman climbed down,
opened the door, arid then Mrs. Heath
cote saw her husband in company with
another gentleman,bronzed and bearded,
whom she recognized as James, the
brother, who went ten years before to
Brazil. There were kisses and hand
shakings, and the party went into the
store.
“You see, Mary, you are going to live
with me now,” said the brother. “I have
tired of hotel life and have bought a
house. It’s more like English living,
you know, aud then I drove over and
persuaded Mr. Smith to come down and
open the store for me, for you need some
dresses and clothing for the children.
You’ve had hard lines, dear, but I don’t
want my servants to see your rags. You
are not dressed for a ball room now, are
you, sister-in-law?”
Mrs. Heatheote smiled through her
tears. Elsie sat on a stool with Jimmy’s
hand in hers, every little while squeezing
it and saying: “My dream is coming
true, Jimmy,”
After half an honr Jimmy was fitted
out with a suit of Knickerbockers, red
stockings and shoes, a warm overcoat
and a cap with flaps for his pars. Elsie
had three dresses, a plush bonnet, and a
sealskin sscque ana other accessories.
Mrs. Heatheote had two warm eider
down wrappers and a rich silk dress cov
ered with jet ornaments, that cost more
than their living expenses had been for
a year past. All the time the two
brothers were shaking hands and slap
ping each othaun the back, once la a
while brusbingTeera from their eye*.
Finally the purchases were finished
and they all packed themselves into the
carriage. Mr*. Heatheote sat in a corner
and cried, while James told of how ha
went to Kio aad made a fortune, how he
visited his home sad found that his
brother Move had gene to America, aad
that be naare lo Xevf York aad advec
tl*iil estaasively Thee Jimmy said:
“That waa a bally good thing that you
taw—that to backer tin tag—wasn’t it,
sissy?"
Then L'.lsie told her ancle how they
came to find his ad vertiaement, whereupon
the brothers shook hands again. Stephen
told his wife how he went to the Hoff
man House, and how his heart sank
when the clerk told him that Mr. Heath
cote had gone away three weeks ago.
Then another clerk told him where hri
brother lived. He told how he found
him, and how they started out to make
New Year’s joyous. Jimmy interrupted
his father by saying: “You can’t fool
• slssv on dreamin’ ’bout New Year’s din
, nbrs. She's the boss.”
The carriage stopped before au elegant
house on Lexington avenue. A maid
servant rushed down the steps ail atteu
! tion to her master’s orders. She lifted
i Elsie out and carried her into the house.
Jimmy stood with open mouth gazing at
the grand house until his unde playfully
1 tweaked his ear and said: “Come on id,
1 Jimmy; it’s nearly dinnertime!”
They were all taken upstairs and their
wraps removed. Then they all assembled
in the parlor. Jimmy whispered to Elsie:
I “Say, sissy; must we sit down on these
chairs?”
The dining rooms were thrown open,
and Elsie gave a cry of delight. There
was the table that she saw in her dream.
; The bright silver urns, the flowers, the
big frosted cakes, and at the other end
a great big steaming turkey, whosa
browned coat was something the chil
dren had never seen before. The dinner
was eaten amid smiles and tears, and
Jimmy ate so much that he had no room
for his ico cream. Uncle James at the
conclusion said: “I hope you will be
happy in my home, which is now your
home. lam going into business liere,
and, Stephen, you shall be my nartner.
Jimmy shall go to school, and for Elsie
I will see that she has the advice of the
most eminent physicians. As to you,
Mary, alt yon will have to do is to super
l intend a bachelor’s home, and wear good
clothes, which you so richly deserve.
And, now, God bless ua all, say I.”
To which they answered “Amen.”
Then Jimmy spoke his piece: “Unci#
; James, you’re a brick, but ain’t sissy a
dandy for dreams?”— New York Sun.
American Sapphires.
Of the corundum or sapphire gems
more than fifty have been fouud at tha
Jencks mine, Franklin, North Carolina,
where corundum mining was carried on
some years ago, and has recently been
resumed to supply mineral fora grinding
or polishing substnnee. Fully one hall
of these were really gems in every sense
of the word. Some ruby-red ones were
of a fair color. Thu blue sapphire and
some fine violet-blue, light-red, pink and
yellow sapphires we re also found. None ol
these gems had a higher value than a hun
| dred dollars. Au emerald-green sapphire
(Oriental emerald) measuring 4 by 3 by 1-J'
i incheß, that would furnish from eighty
to one hundred carat weight of gems,
i the largest being about twenty carats in
weight, is now in the cabinet of Mr.
Clarence'S. Bemen, with the choicest
crystals found at this time. The gem is
■ one of the rarest known. It will not be
cut, however, since its owner prizes it
much more highly in its natural state.
This locality has also furnished some
fair cabochon rubies weighing over one
. carat. Yernon, New Jersey, has fur
, nished some crystals of Sapphire and
| ruby which are brilliant though opaque,
thus possessing little commercial value
The largest known crystal of sapphire
came from the Jencks Mine about 1873.
It weighed 812 pounds, and was both
red and blue, ruby aud sapphire in color.
It is now in the Shepard collection at
Amherst College, and was considerably
injured in the disastrous fire of 1682.
: Rubies and sapphires, always more oi
less opaque, have been found at many
localities in North Carolina aftd Georgia.
The finest sapphires tor gems arc col
lected by the miners from the sluice
boves of the placer mines near Helena,
Montana. The gems are usually light
green, blue, red and ail the intermediate
shades. Often they are blue as viewed
in one direction, and would assume a ted
hue by artificial liglft. Avery interest
ing piece of jewelry was recently made
; from these stones in the form of a
crescent. At one end, as seen by day
light, the stones were red, shading to n
bluish-red in the centre, and finally info
blue at the other end, but by artificial
light the color of all turned red. A few
small gems less than one carat in weight
! have come from the same place that were
: truly ruby red and sapphire blue. 01
the latter color, perfect gems have been
found here up to nine carats in weight.
By artificial light these are intensely
brilliant.— Harper' Magazine.
A Human Gas Factory.
Willliam Jackson, photographer, liv
ing .in Fayetteville, about thirty-five
years old, was preparing to retire one
evening about ten o'clock. He struck a
common friction match, lit a lamp and
then held the lighted match near his
mouth to extinguish it by blowing. As
he blew his breath took tire, exactly aa
though the match had been applied to a
gas jet. It burned with a vivid blue
color. The flame curled about his face,
singeing his mustache, eyelashes and the
hajron his forehead, and burned his lips,
tongue and the interior of his nostrils.
The flame soon burned out. Mr. Jack
son’s wife was the only witness of the af
fair. The next morning Mr. Jackson
cansulted Dr. T. E. Quinby, of Fayette
ville, who has made a thorough investi-
Sation of the case. As the patient is a
yspeptic, the physician arrived at the
conclusion that Mr. Jackson is possessed
of a stomach which is a veritable gas
factory. He is a total abstainer from all
intoxicating drinks as well as from to
bacco, and is a church member. The
only liquor he has # been accustomed to
take waa the small amount prepared lot
dyspepsia. —Philadelphia Noun.
A Novel Chestnut Tree.
A chestnnt tree on Jesse Crist’s farm,
near Somerset, Penn., presents a phe
nomenon in vegetable growth. There
are two separate trunks, three feet upirt,
ten feet high, and two feet in diameter.
At the height of ten feet, however, ths
two trunks join, each one having at somt
•tag* of it* existence curved suddenly
toward the other until the union *
formed. From that point the trunk b
single,and grows to the height of thirty
Ive feet before elimbap|ie*r. Aeothei
curious thing shout the tree is that tb
ants it bear* nave double tua*t* wit bout
es sioeytieifc —ibste* uUJ*.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOKOUB SKETCH K 8 FROM
VARIOUS 80CRCR&
A Terrible Affliction-The Attack
to be Renewed—Twice* Sur
prised—Cruahed Again—
Took His Ijeg Off!
Mendicant—“ Will you please help the
blind, sir?”
Gentleman—“ You can aee as well as
I. You’re not blind.”
Mendicant—“No, air, but my wife is.
She takes in washin’ an’ I have to fetch
all the water for her. It’s an awful thing
to be blind, air.”— Drake'e Magazine.
The Attack to be Renewed.
Young Man—“ I love your daughter,
sir, devotedly. May I hope for a Bless
ing from youp. "
i < >ld Man—(“Have van spokjn to, my
daughter upon the subject?'' T-**
Y’oung Man—“ Yes, and she 7 refused
me.”
Old Man—“ Well, doesn’t that settle
it?”
Young Man—“No, sir. You forget
that I am a life insurance agent, and
never take no for an answer.” —New York
Sun.
Twice Surprised.
Young Wife (at dinner table, sobbing)
—“1 think you—you—are just as mean
as- ns—you cau bo. I made that—that
apple dumpling as a pleasant surprise for
you, and—and now—you—want me to
bring a handsaw to cut it in two with.”
Young Husband— “Good heavens,
Maria! Is that a dumpling? I took it
for a cocoanut. (With desperate firm
ness.) I’ll eat it now, Maria, if it kills
me." —Chicago Tribune.
Crushed Again.
(Midnight.) Poor wife to husband
whose loud snoring keeps her awake—
“ Charlie 1 Charlie! do stop snoring!
Turn over on your side!” (Nudges him.)
Husband, only half awake, grunts,
turns on his side, and continues to snore.
Wife has a happy idea. Remembers a
line from an article called “ How to Pre
vent Snoring.” Gives her husband a
second nudge, which elicits another
grunt. “Oh, Charlie! If you’d keep
your mouth shut, you’d be all right.”
Charlie (still semi-conscious) —“ So
Would you I " — Harjier'i Bazar.
Took His Leg Off.
“Did you hear about Jake Gubbins’s
leg being taken off? ”
• “ No, when was that? ”
“Thismorning, on the railroad.”
“Jove, that’s hard luck. How did it
happen?”
“ Why, you see he bought a ticket,
and boarded the train and the locomotive
whistled and away went poor Gubbina’s
leg.”
* ’Writ how? IH4 ha fall off? ”
“ No. He sat there in a rent, and when
the tram went it had to take his leg off,
didn’t it? Of course it took the rest of
him off too, you know. He’ll be home
on the night train probably—l’ll take a
cigar for mine.” —Danmlle Breeze.
Ho Understood.
On a Wabash and Cottage Grove grip:
Firet Person—“l got the worst of it
to-day.”
Second Ditto—“So?”
First—“Y es. I went home last night
and that duck of a wife said to me:
‘Dearie, tt/e hats this fall are much
lower.’ 1 was overcome with joy, and
told her to go and get one or two’ if she
liked, becuuso you know how uncertain
the market is.”
Second Ditto—“ Well!”
First—“ Well, she did; got two. To
day I paid the bill. Holy Joseph, but it
was a stunner. More than 1 ever paid
before. So I spoils to my wife shout it,
and her reply was that she meant, the
style was lower—not the prioc. See?
That wife of mine ought to be a lawyer
or an e<Utor or something where her
genius could spread itself.
The speaker turned to see the effect of
his narrative upon his friend,’ but the
latter had fallen off his seat about a half
block distant, — Chicago Mail.
11 Could Not Be.
Ife put on his hat, started slowly for
the door, hesi fated, came back, sighed
deeply and took the lily white hand in
his own and pressed it to his lips.
‘ *li atie, ” he m urmured, I ‘l have waited
long—oh, how Jong!—for this oppor
tunity. Will "you, Katie, will you,
darling be mine?”
“Henry,” she replied, with a look half
of sorrow and half of determination, “it
can never be.”
“Never be! Ohy why have you per
mitted me to hope? Why have you en
couraged me, only to stamp upon my
bleeding heart at last?”
“I am sorry, Henry; but I can never
be yours. I have other objects in view.”
“Other objects?”
“Yes, Henry; I cannot consent to be
long to any mail. I intend that you
shall be mine.”— Boston Transcript.
Bnll Times West.
Eastern Man—“ How is business in
Prairie City?”
Western Man—“Everything's dead:
don’t know whafl the country is coming
to.” M
E. M.—“ Why, I heard ten new factor
ries were going up Mere.”
W. M.—“ Yes, 4 Iso.”
E. M.—“And anew board of trade
had started in opposition to the old one.”
W. M.-“Yw, I believe so.”
E. M.— f ‘Atid I was told 400 new
houses were in course of construction.”
W. M.—“Yss, I s’pose that’s about the
number.”
E. M.—“But you say things are dull.”
W. M.—“Dull's no name for it; dead,
absolutely dead. Why, sir, I staked out
a suburb, only fifty miles away, into
twenty-foot lots at $10,00(1 a lot. an’ I
ain't sold a danged one of ’em.”— Tui-
Bit*.
Ingenuity on Both side*.
A gentleman about to close bis sum
mer house at Nahant conceived what be
considered a brilliant idea lo insure tlit*
daily personal inspection of every room
in bia villa during the winter by tlm old
mau in whose charge die establishment
was to be left. Accordingly, lie said lo
the old uiau that be should lease all Ids
clocks, one In each room si Naliaot,dur
ing the wittier, and b limbed dial every
on* should be wound up at a regular
hour each day. The old man concurred
in the plan with all his heart, and ptoot
miu be would not fail. The house waa
closed. The owner bragged a good deal
about his scheme fpr having every room
guarded against leaks,-eta, during the
winter, and came to Boeton. A week or
two afterward this gentleman thought
he would take a run down to Nahant.and
see how things were going. When ha
arrived there he found hie man, who was
very glad to see him, and told him that
lie had wound each clock faithfully aahe
had directed. On entering the house the
two proceeded to the rear drawingroom,
and the astonishment of the owner may
be better imagined than described when
he saw ranged along in a row his thirteen,
clocks, which the old man had brongh
down to save himself the trouble of go
ing all over the houae every day.— Boeton
Gazette.
Bub Talks of the Goat.
The gote iz wot botinists wood call a
forgit me not—no boy that is suddenly
overtakin by a gote will be apt to forge*
im. This is a settled fak in my mind,
altho’ wen ma looked at mi trowsers af
ter the las’ engagement she thort it wax
a open kweschin. The gote gives milker
pervided you don’t make a mistake an
tap the rong kind ova gote; in thi* case
you donf git any milk but vu do git
lgsasperated. Gotes wares thare hare
pompydore wen thare in a peaceful mood
but wen thay aint thay wares it bang, an
its a kin ov bang yu dont fergit in a
hurry nether. Ole gentlemen gotes wares
wiskers wich is decevin cause thay looks
like Sunday skool superintendens, but if
yu see his tale wink yu want to ajura
relts yool think yoove sot down on a
frate kar that wux in a hurry. Gotes ii
eters. Wen thar hungry rrido tomb
stones iz jest ns good to them ez enny
thing ony ef thares imymoryam verses
on it thayl spittem out. Ive been tryin
to say something nice bout the way gotes
looks in ths face but I cant an yu mu*-
ent apeckt me ter say anything mean
'bout a friend that gives me so many
boosts ttr the wurld.— Tonkert Gazette.
Blowing Up Camels.
Moorish traders in camels seem to b*
no more honest than traders in horses
have the reputation of being. Ths
author of “Among the Arabs" describes
one of their tricks, which, according to
his account, only an expert is likely
to detect. The story was told to the
author of a Frenchman who had traveled
for some time in Algiers.
| On one occasion, while in an Arab
j village, he declared his intention of buy
ing a young cameL No sooner had Us
desire become known than at least
twenty camels were brought for hi* in
spection. They were all fine-looking
animals, in excellent condition, appar
ently. In fact, the only fault our
Frenchman could perceive was that they
wore too fat. After a proper amount of
| deliberation and bargaining heaelectod
the one which appeared to he tbeleanest
J and paid the price agreed upon.
The next morning whon he - went to
look at bis fat camel he found m living
skeleton, on whose almost lifeless bones
the flesh hung in large folds, and’Whoa*
best development was about the-joints.
The method by which the caroqls are
suddenly “fattened” for the market is
thus described:
An incision nbout an inch in length is
made in each ear between the skin snd
the flesh, hito this a small tribe is
fitted and secured by a silk cord. Thera
it remains, hidden from the observation
of all but the initiated, and ready for use
at any moment. When a merchant who
is not acquainted with the blowing up
trick comps to buy a camel, the dealer
takes two tubes, each a yard long, and.
inserting one end of each in the smalt
tubes, just described, through the mother
ends two Arabs blow with all their
might until the animal has attained ths
requisite degree of plumpness. The in
flating tube* are then withdrawn, and
the air M prevented from escaping by
means of a cork smeared with pitch.
The poor camel now becomes, apparently,
quite liveiy aud frisky, trying to throw
itself on the ground, or to press against
the wall ,or a tree, or whatever object
may be at hand, so ns to get rid of the
wind. It is generally too well watched '
by the rascally Arab to suCce'ed in
accomplishing its purpose. Sometime*,
however, it manages to elude his vigil
ance; and then, if the cork is not veiy
securely fastened, the wind escapes with
a whistle like that of a steam engine,and
the fine-looking beast suddenly collapses
into the miserable object it really is.—
Youth't Com/ anion.
wliost-Hannted Ships.
Ghost-haunted ships were of ail’things
those which the sailor regarded with
most terror, and it is not many year*
since that an account was published of
some sailors who refused to serve on
board a British man-of-war bec%use, a*
they Raid, there was a ghost aboard* .
When pressed to give a reason fo’r the 41 '
belief they said they smelled him. : f
night, however, in a state of *>
terror, they said they had r
smelled but seen the ghostA-' *
heard it; too, behind some beer ■
and they would rather swim tha.
aboard. The captain, however,
them to be put in irons until they- #
well out at sea and then I’ogged. A„
that he heard nothing more of the ghos.
Ships thus haunted were not only,
doomed to perish, in the belief of
sailors, but their very presence brought
danger to all who looked upon them.
The decayed hulls of vessels reputed to
be haunted would drive the fisher folk
on some of the Scotch and Irish coasts
from the most promising bays, rnd
no one would venture even to bathe near
them, such wild unreasonable terror did
they provoke. —London Telo^mp/t.
A Curious Deformity.
A seven-year-old child of Herman
Myers, a few miles southeast' of Wait*,
burg, Washington Territory, died a few
days ago. The child had frojni Its in
fancy, doubtless, been dead to an the rive
senses hearing, smelling, tasting, feel
ing aud seeing. It never weUmd, stood
nor sat ~uor even attempted to-yet it
grew physically all the time, and *t th*
period of its death was us U>l as ordinary
children of its age It never in any way
helped lUolf, nor attempted to. It would
eat what was put in Us mouth,sin) when
evei foo l waa put there. It. *)'** "try
a* bright a* ever seen. but they seemed
to be uu It showed u<> 'i :t -f Ilf*
stall* time, estwpl that U briailod, **•.,
Mll I Hoisted Its food
NO. 45.