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TEX I.ITTK.K OR VXSHOPPERS.
Ten little grasshoppers,
Sitting on a vine,
One ate too much green corn—
Then there were nine.
Nine little grasshoppers
.1 list the size of bait,
A little boy went fishing—
Then there were eight.
Eight little grasshoppers
Stayed out after ’leven,
A white frost nipped one—
Then there were seven.
Seven little grasshoppers
Lives! between two bricks,
There came a hurricane—
Then there were six.
Six little grasshoppers
Found an old bee-hive ;
One found a bumble-bee—
Then there were five.
Five little grasshoppers
Hopping on the door;
Pussy took one for a mouse—
Then there were four.
Four little grasshoppers
Found a green pea,
Had a fight about it —
Then there were three.
Three little grasshoppers
Sighed for pastures new,
Tried to cross the river—
Then there were two.
Two little grasshoppers
Sitting on a stone,
A turkey gobbler passed that way—
Then there was one.
One little grasshopper
Chirped good-bye at the door,
Said she’d come next summer,
With nine millions more.
—.—
TWO THIEVES.
One stole of gold a rich man’s mite ;
The good name, one, a poor girl hore.
One stole in fear, at dead of night;
One spoke a word—the deed was o’er.
One took part; and one took all,
One left enough for life and joy ;
One left hut weeping and the pall
Of more than death o’er all employ.
One expiates in chains his sin,
And stolen gold for him has bought
Thick prison walls to close him in,
And scorn of many and hitter thought;
And one who stole so much, a name
Beyond the worth of life or gold,
Is free and courted, and the fame
Of his dark deed is never told.
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“ROUGHING IT.”
TU'Mif. I'Mi ./ 1 >’ .IJirMY; THMi .#/,V-
T.n.\ > /.’ UMioittJMjM.
Nearing Nncooehe Valley, we found the
usually clear mountain streams exceedingly
muddy. This, however, was explained by
the mining operations we soon after passed.
This industry hereabouts has of late received
renewed impetus,but is not attracting the same
attention it does farther north, where the
veins are more abundant and richer. All the
work of this class being carried on here is
what is known as
SURFACE .MININii.
The gold is found in mud and sand near the
top of the ground, and by turning a stream of
water by which to separate the particles from
rocks and earth, business can be carried on
at but little expense. Several companies are
mining around here, who are making some
money. They pay hands from fifty to eighty
cents a day, in trade from the stores often.
Some men prospect on land not their own,
who very often do better than were they to
hire for wages, but their plan of operation is
uncertain —sometimes weeks having passed
without a pennyweight of the precious metal
to show for time and labor expended. Again,
a few miners will band together and pay the
owner of a tract of land one-eighth of all gold
found thereon fur rent. We inspected such
an undertaking near the valley, and found
the men half-leg deep in mud and water. In
reply to our inquiries they stilted that their
lrnrtv (six in number) averaged about live dol
lars per day, which paid about wages. Occa
sionally they did much better, hut then again
after a hard day’s work not a particle of gold
would be found in the trough. A gentleman
ofterwurds told us that not much reliance
could he put in the estimates given by renters,
as all the large nuggets were secretly appro
priated by the finders, and no returns made
of them to the land-owner.
All of our life the
BEAUTY OK X.UOOCIIK
has l*een sounded in our ears, but we were not
prepared for the lovely picture that burst
upon the view when our little party made its
entree. Earth does not contain a fairer spot,
nor artist painted a scene more beautiful
than that now presented to our admiring gaze.
.Here Paine Nature lias showered her every
gift, which the cultured and artistic hand of
man has beautified by every charm known to
art. \\ ith its large fields of waving grain, its
handsome residences, sparkling fountains,
clear, rippling streams, and uiountaiu-girdled
sides, the Vale ot Naeoochee to-day is as
near a Paradise as our mundane sphere con
tains.
The yield of grain in this valley is surpri
sing. Corn will average 35 bushels’to tile acre;
riee 40 ; wheat 20 ; oats 40, etc., etc. An im
mense amount of hay is annually raised here,
the superiority of which finds it ready sale in
market.
We called on (.'apt. N ioholls, who received
our party with that open-handed hospitality
for which he is noted. This gentleman owns
the handsomest of the several tine residences
in the valley. 1 lis place is one of the best
improved private residences we have ever
seen, all his surroundings proclaiming the
good taste and enterprise of the owner. A
beautiful stream flows through his premises,
spanned by a tasty bridge which leads to his
billiard-hall on the bank, opposite his house.
A cool spring, cut from the solid rock, is but
a step from his door, while just below a well
arranged dairy has been built, through which
the branch flows. A water-wheel in his lot
shells and grinds corn, threshes grain, packs
hay, cuts up stock food, and does every man
ner of farm work for which such power can
be used. A stone basin in his lot is kept ever
full of water, brought from the mountain side
in pipes, at which fount the stock can slake
their thirst at will, llis stables are excavated
from a hill side, which renders them warm in
winter amt cool in summer, ilis dogs, even,
of which he keeps a number of the finest
breeds, are nightly housed in a tastilv-built
kennel, which one of our party took fora sum
mer house, (.’apt. Nieholls keeps nothing but
imported stock, from his stables, where a
s>l,ooo Canadian jniny stands, to his pig-sty.
Ilis residence, which rests on a foundation
blasted from solid rock, is a marvel of taste
and architectural skill. From an observatory
one can obtain a lovely view of the valley.
In a field immediately opposite the house an
Indian mound stands, the summit of which
has been leveled and a handsome summer
house erected thereon. The mound is covered
with flowers, which at the time of our visit
were in full bloom.
So courteously were we received and kindly
entertained by ('apt. Nieholls, that had our
party been appointed a Returning Board,
they would have unanimously “counted him
in” to any ofliee within their gift.
Next week we will complete our sketch of
Naeooohec, which our limited space prevents
this week, aud also tell of the mining opera
t ous around Dahlonega.
BY T. L. GANTT.
Mi Mi I'M I. Tit I US.
—Why is a negro like a bar of toilet
soap? Because be is colored and highly
scented.
—Why are your eyes like friends sep
arated by distant climes?—They corres
pond but never meet.
—The foreman of a jury in Texas,
which lately granted a divorce to a wo
man, married her the same day.
—The.man who treads on a peach skin
is apt to be thrown on his own resources.
— Ex. Resources, did you say ?
—Sitting Bull is said to be writing an
American drama, full of her Lair-lifting
scenes, and don’t wish to be disturbed.
—A small boquet is worn in the hair
for full dress.— Ex. Well, it would
seem to us to be anything else but “ full
dress.”
—A little boy went to his father cry
ing the other day and told him that he
had kicked a bee that had a splinter in
his tail.
—An old negro cook says : “ Sass is
powerful good in everything but chil
dren. Dey needs some oder kind of
dressin’.”
—Three good-looking young ladies the
other day stood beside a grocer’s sign
which read: “Don’t squeeze these
peaches.”
When a dog feels like expressing
irony he puts his tail between bis legs
like an exclamation mark between pa
rentheses.
—A publisher announces, “ A treatise
on the nose with fifty cuts.” We should
think a nose with fifty cuts had had
about all the treating it could stand.
—Speaking of dancing, a clergyman
hit the nail on ihe (read with the re
mark that “ people usually do more evil
with their tongues than with their toes.”
—A Cincinnati widow advertised for
“ every Christian in the city” to send
her ten cents. She realized twenty cents,
indicating an unexpectedly large num
ber of Christians in that city.
—A four-year-old miss adds another
to the list of remarkable juvenile
speeches. She was asked where she ex
pected to go when her mamma died, and
replied : “ To the funeral, I s’pose.”
—The man who comes to the depot
-two minutes behind time, and sees the
railroad train scudding out the other end,
derives no satisfaction or comfort from
the proverb, “ Better too late than
never.”
—General Howard got near enough to
Joseph the other day to shake a tract at
him, but that agile warrior immediately
shook about five hundred tracts in the
face of his pursuer, and once he is as sel
dom seen as ever.
—Au applicant for naturalization pa
pers was interrogated in a district court
the other day, and among the questions
propounded was the following: “ Do you
believe in a republican form of govern
ment?” “No, Sir,” replied the appli
cant. “ I believe in a Democratic form
of government.”
—“ Why don’t you wheel the barrow
of coal along more lively, Ned?” asked
a coal dealer of his hired man. “it’s
not a very hard job; there is an inclined
plane to relieve you.” “Ay, master.”
quoth the man, who had more relish for
wit than work, “ the plane may be in
clined, but I am not.
—A Chicago paper tells us that. “ Dar
win says that a woman’s feet may blush
instead of her face.” Certainly they
may. Why,one night last winter the
feet of a Chicago woman, standing bare
footed on a six-story verandah, suddenly
took it into their heads to blush at their
own size, and hanged if people forty
miles south of there didn’t mistake it for
an aurora borealis.
—“ If you ever think of mrrrying a
widow,” said an anxious parent to his
heir, “select one whose first husband was
hung ; for that is the only way to prevent
her from throwing his memory into your
face,and making annoying comparisons.”
“ Even that won’t prevent it,” exclaimed
a crusty old bachelor, “ she’ll praise him
by saying that hanging would be too
good for you.”
—Rcently, a San Francisco hotel pro
prietor announced that no bills would be
presented to army officers stopping at
ids house, until congress should make an
appropriation lor their pay. Before
night, some twenty “generals,” ninety
odd “ colonels,” three hundred “ majors,”
and no end of “captains” and “ lieuten
ants” had registered and applied for
rooms for the season.
—A young French wife lost her aged
husband, two months ago, after he had
lain helpless with paralysis for eight
months. Soon after she appeared at the
Mairie to announce her intention
of marrying her cousin. “ Beg your par
don, madame,” says the clerk, “ but the
law is peremptory in forbidding a wid
ow to remarry till ten months after, her
husband’s death.” “ But those ■eight
months of paralysis—don't you take them
into consideration?”
—He was praising her beatiful hair,
and begging for one tiny curl, when her
little brother said: “Oh my! ’taint
nothing now. You just ought to have
seen how long it hangs down when she
hangs it on the side of the table to comb
it.” Then they laughed, and she called
her brother acute little angel, and when
the young man was going and heard that
boy yelling, he thought the lad was ta
ken suddenly ill.
—A contemporary says in a recent ar
ticle: “Ifyouwishto know whether a
man is’superior to the prejudices of the
world, ask him to carry a parcel for you.”
.V fellow tried this plan a few days since,
upon a well-dressed man he met at a
railway station. The well-dressed man
took the parcel, and the other was satis
fied that be was superior to the prejudices
of society, but he has not seen the parcel
si nee.
—Mr. Lester, of Providence, R. 1., says
that when he was a boy ten or twelve
years of age, he was one day standing in
Market square with his grandfather when
four Irishmen came up, one of whom
asked the distance to Pawtucket. He
was told by the old gentleman that it was
about four miles, “ Well, faith,” said
Pat, in a mock tone of encouragement
to his three tired companions, “ that’s
not bad at all—only a mile apiece for
us.” “ Whom do you want to see iu
Pawtucket?” inquired Mr. Lester, sen
ior. “ Bejabers,” was the quick-reply,
“ I want to see meself there the most ©f
anybody 1”
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1877.
AWFOiEOA’.
The Emperor Napoleon spent his youth
in the military school at Brienne; and
how? To become acquainted with that,
we must read of the wars which he car
ried on so successfully ; and of his bril
liant military deeds. While at Brienne,
he ate fruit like the rest of the young
men ; and the fruit woman received
many dollars from him. If he, some
times had no money, begot credit from
her ; when he received a remittance he
paid her. But as he was leaving the
military school, in order to practice as a
soldier what he had learned, he was ow
ing several dollars, and she was bringing
him for the last time, a plate full of juicy
peaches ora few bnnehes of sweet grapes,
he said:
“ Madame, I must leave school now,
and cannot pay you ; but you shall not
be forgotten.”
The fruit woman replied : “ You can
rest at ease on that matter noble young
man. God keep you safe, and may you
become a successful man.”
But upon such a career as the young
corporal now entered upon, the best of
memories go for nothing, and the inci
dent was recalled to mind a few times,
only to be forgotten.
Napoleon became in a short time,
General; and conquered Italy. He went
to Egypt, where the children of Isreal
once lived ; and fought a buttle at Pales
tine, near Nazareth, where, eighteen
hundred years ago, the Saviour lived.
Napaleon returned to France through
a fleet of hostile ships, and was made
first consul. He restored to his unhap
py country, peace and order, and was
crowned Emperor.
And the good fruit woman at Brienne
had nothing but the credit’s words;
“ You shall not be forgotten !” But his
promise was as good as ready money, if
not better.
The emperor was expected at Brienne,
he was secretly already there—and was
much moved when he though on the
former times, and then on the present;
and how God had brought him in so short
a time and through so many dangers un
hurt to the new imperial throne. Sud
denly he remained standing still on the
street, laid his finger upon his forehead
like one who strives to recollect some
thing, and soon recalled the name of the
fruit woman. He enquired after her
residence, which was now decaying, and
entered it with a single faithful attend
ant. A narrow door led into a small
but clean room, where the mistress, with
two children seated near the fire, pre
pared a scanty meal.
“ Can I have some refreshments here?”
asked the emperor.
“ Certainly,” returned the woman,
“ the melons are ripe.” She then went
and got some. While the two strange
gentlemen were eating their melons, and
the woman putting two faggots on the
fire, one of them asked, “Did you ever see
the emperor, who is here to-day ?”
“ He is not here,” teplied the lady, “he
is expected soon. Why should I not
know him? Many plates and many
baskets of fruit he has bought of me
when he was at school.”
“ Has lie paid everything carefully ?”
asked the incognito emperor. “Certain
ly, he has paid everything,” said the
lady.
Then the strange gentleman said to
her : “ Woman, you do not speak the
truth, or you must have a bad memory.
In the first place you do not know the
emperor. lam he. In the second place,
I owe you ten francs.” In a moment
the attendant counted twelve hundred
francs upon the table as principal and
interest.
Then the fruit woman recognized the
emperor, and hoard the clinking of the
gold pieces, she fell at his feet and was
quite beside herself with joy, fright and
gratitude. The children looked at one
another and knew not what to say.
The emperor had the old house pulled
down and another built in its place.
“In this house,” said he, “ I will stop
as often as I come to Brienne, and it
shall bear my name.”
He promised to care for her two chil
dren. He provided for the daughter a
position full of honor, and the son was
educated in the same school from which
the great hero himself came forth.
JlttOUT .1 i OFFIJW
Dallas, Texas, is alarmed and excited
over a curious circumstance, one which
will probably determine the rights, priv
ileges duties of an undertaker. A Mr.
Curtis, of that town, died a few weeks
ago. Ilis brother desired to have a hand
some funeral and ordered everything in
the finest style, hearse, carriages, etc.,
and a gorgeous metallic, silver mounted
coffin. The funeral canre and went all
in good style. The day after the under
taker, a Mr. Linskie, who evidently is a
party man and one who did not care to
wait long for his money, presented his
bill for funeral expenses. Ofiended Mr.
Curtis put him off. For several success
ive days Linskie dunned Curtis for that
silver mounted coffin with poor show 7 of
success, and finding that he could not
get the money, he resolved to visit the
corpse and get some sort of satisfaction
out of it.
Taking a pauper’s pine coffin therefrom
he proceeded to the cemetery, disinterred
Curtis’ body, took it out of the silver
mounted coffin, returned triumphant to
the shop, where he advertised it as a sec
ond hand aud cheap for cash.
The people of Dallas are thoroughly
aroused at this outrage and threatened
vengeance on this so called ghoul. The
undertaker, however, seems a spunky
man ; swears he will not be swindled out
of his coffins; claims, the right to take
back bis property if he is not paid for it,
and will test the entire matter in the
courts, where it will be at least a novel
case.
Growth of Unman Hair After Heath.
Dr. Caldwell, of lowa, states that in
1862 he was present at the exhumation
of a bodj r which had been buried two
years before. The coffin had sprung open
at the joints, and the hair protruded
through the openings. On opening* the
coffin the hair of the bead was found to
measure eighteen inches, the whiskers
eight or ten inches, and the hair on the
breast five or six inches. The man had
been shaved before being buried. In
1874 a similar circumstance occurred in
Mercer county. Pa. In digging a grave
the workmen came upon the skeleton of
a man that had been buried ten years.
The hair was as firm as during life, and
had grown to the length of eleven or
twelve inches.
.1 OOOMi /.VW/./.V STOJM*.
A party of five amateur huntsmen left
the city yesterday for the mountains, to
be gone about a month, and another
party of four returned home day before
yesterday. The hitter had intended to
stay out longer, but the Indians in their
vicinity began to grow exceedingly sau
cy, and to make demands for small things
in a tone which, it was thought, indica
ted that they might, if provoked, help
themselves, and the hunters therefore
broke camp, intending to stop awhile at
a point near home, but after they got on
the back track they came through with
out much delay. Speaking of the In
dians,the party tell a funny story of their
main camp. One hot day one of them
went to a creek not far distant to have
a bath, taking with him his red flannel
underclothing on the bank of the stream,
when he heard the brush cracking, and
thinking perhaps the noise was made by
a deer or other large animal, he deployed
himself as a skirmisher and cautiously
began investigating. He had not long
to wait, for a moment later lie observed
a figure dodging from tree to tree, rifle
in hand, and evidently watching him.
It flashed through his mind that he
was being followed by an Indian bent
on mischief, and his heart rose to his
throat so that he could almost taste it as
thoughts of home forcedMietnselves upon
him. He determined that he would
fight to the last, however, and, braced by
this determination, advanced upon the
enemy. The latter was evidently not
prepared for such tactics, for he retreated,
faster and faster, and finally threw down
his gun and ran. The Sacramentan,
fearing that this was only a piece ot
strategy to lead him into an ambush,
returned to the creek, donned his gar
ments and hurried to camp. There
he found a member of the party who had
just come in from hunting relating to
the other two members how he also had
experienced some trouble with Indians,
one of whom he said followed him two
or three miles, and he had only escaped
from him by striking him over the head
with his gun. This, he went on to say,
broke the stock in two, the barrel flew
into the chapparal, and he did not deem
it worth while to wait and search for it,
when the Indians might attack the camp
at any moment. The man who had been
to the creek began to feel a suspicion
that two members of that hunting party
had been making fools of themselves,
and he quietly inquired : “ What did he
look like?” Look like! You’ve heard
of them being called red devils; well,
this fellow was one of them! He was
stripped right to the skin, and was bare
headed, and had painted himself just as
red as blood. You needn’t laugh;
’twasu’t anything about the red flannel
underclothes and the throwing of the gun
away ; but it had to be told, and the boys
have had a good thing on drinks ever
since.— iSacrame/ito lie-cord- Union
7VJAV..VG THU CEJS'SUS.
A census taker, going his rounds, stop
ped at an elegant brick dwelling house,
the exact locality of which is no business
of ours, lie was received by a stiff, well
dressed lady, who could be well recog
nized as a widow of some years standing.
On learning the mission of her visitor
the lady invited him to take a scat in the
hall. Having arranged himself into
working position he inquired for the
number of persons in the family of the
lady.
“Eight,” replied the lady, “including
myself.”
“ Very well—your age, madame?”
“ My age, sir,” replied the lady, with a
piercing dignified look. “I conceive it
to be none of your business what my age
might be. You are inquisitive, sir.”
“The law compels me, madam, to take
the age of every person in the ward; it is
my duty to make the inquiry.”
“ Well, if the law compels you to ask,
I presume it compels me to answer. I
am between thirty and near forty.”
“I presume that means 35?”
“No, sir; it means no such thing—l
am only thirty-three years of age.”
“Very well, madam, (putting down
the figures), just as you say. Now the
ages of the children commencing with
the youngest if you please?”
“ Josephene, my youngest, is in her
tenth year.”
“Josephene—pretty name—lo.”
“ Minerva is in her twelfth year.”
“ Minerva—captivity—l 2.”
“Cleopatra Elvira has just turned fif
teen.”
“ Cleopatra Elvira—charming—ls.”
“ Angelineis just 18, sir; just 18.”
“ Angeline—favorite name—lß.”
“ My oldest and only married daughter,
Anna Sophia, is a little over twenty
five.”
“Twenty-five did you say?”
“ Yes, sir. Is there anything remark
able in being of that age?”
“ Well, no, I can’t say that there is ;
but is it not remarkable that you should
be her mother when you were only eight
years of age ?”
About this time the census-taker was
seen running out of the house—why, we
do not know—it was the last time he ever
pressed a lady to give her exact age.
HO 14’ HUEJS'CH H 'OHKJIEJ\' I.II'eT
The French laborer probably gets
more for his wages than any other. His
food is cheaper and more nourishing.
His bouillon is the liquid escence of beef
at a penny per bowl. His bread at the
restaurant is thrown in without any
charge,and is the best bread in the world.
His hot coffee and milk Mdled about
the streets in the morning a sou per cup.
It is coffee, not slops. His half bottle of
claret is thrown in at a meal costing
twelve cents. For a few cents he may
enjoy an evening’s amusement at one of
the many minor theatres, with his coffee
free. Sixpence pays for a nicely cush
ioned seat at the theatre. No gallery
gods, no peauuts, pipe smoke, drunken
ness, yelling or howiing. The Jardin des
Plantes, the vast galleries and museums
of the Louvre, Hotel Cluuy, Palace of
the Luxembourg and Vensailes are free
for him to enter. Art and science
hold out to him their choicest treasures,
at small cost, or no cost at all. French
economy and frugility do not mean that
constant retrenchment and self-denial
which would deprive life of everything
which makes it worth living for.
Economy iu France, more than in any
other country, means a utilizing of what
America throws away, but it does not
mean a pinching process of reducing life
to a barren existence of work and bread
and water.
I< VTA'W TO tiMiT O.V Til Mi JIRW
Presently the stillness of the court room
was interrupted by the entrance of a man,
who came in with a shuffling, uneasy
step, and with his hat in his hand. He
halted, leaned against the railing. No
body took the slightess notice of him,
however. At last he took courage and
spoke:
“ Is the Judge in ?”
The clerk immediately awoke his
Honor.
“ Well, what do you want ?”
“ I’m looking for a job, your Honor.
I’ve been 100 l .ng for work for over a
month.”
“ There’s nothing for you here.”
“ I thought you occasionally gave jury
men ajob. I don’t read newspapers any,
and being a stranger in town I haven’t
got any prejudice agin anybody. A paid
of mine wrote down to me at Reno, last
week, and said that the jury business up
here was brisk and it would pay to come
up. As I’m a stranger to you, and a lit
tle hard up, I’ll start in and serve for a
case or two for half price, and you kin
sec what I kin do.”
“ What are your main qualifications?”
“My strong suit is making a jilry
agree. No jury ever’ll get hung if I’m on
’em. I just lay low till they take the
first ballot, then jine the majority and
argue the rest into it. I can discount
any lawyer talking. I can show
them points they never tumbled to be
fore. Sometimes I have to use force,
but seldom. Once down at Truekee,
in a murder case, there was
a couple of fellows standin’ out agin
bangin’ and after arguing with ’em as
smooth and gentlemanly as I could for
over a quarter of an hour, I went in for
’em with chairs, and by the time I had
busted a half dozen pieces of furniture
over ’em they were glad enough to come
in with a verdict of ‘ Murder in the first
degree,’and the fellow was hung not
long afterward. In these Justice Courts
I can get on a jury, and if you’ll just
give me a wink as to how you want the
case to go, I’ll guarantee to fetch in
the verdict you want, or not take a cent.”
The man was told to drop around again
in a day or so and they would try and
make a vacancy for him. In order to do
it, however, some regular juryman will
probably have to be discharged.— Vir~
(/inia City Chronicle.
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hide boot located in the be
ov more value to a young malljSßjan the
legacy of a rich unkle.
The man who expekts, in his' old age,
to be taken care of bi the world bekase
his life haz been spent in their amuse
ment, or instruktion reasons like a phool,
and will starve like one too.
.1 notiss that when a man runs hiz lied
against a post, he cusses the post first, all
kreashun next, and something else last,
and never thinks of cussing himself.
One quart of cheap whisky (the cheap
er the better) judishiously applied, will
do more business for the devil than the
smartest deakon he has got.
Be mersiphull to all dum animals—no
man can ride into heaven on sore back
horse.
Young man, learn to wait; if you un
dertake to set a hen before she is redy,
vu will loze yure time and confuse the
hen besides.
There is two men prowling around
who wont eluss watching, the one that iz
allwuz praizing, and the one who iz all
waz condemning himself.
Those people who are trieing to git to
heaven on their creed will find out at last
they didn’t have a thru ticket.
It takes a live man to do bizzinessnow
days. I don’t care if you hav got a copy
ov the Bible tu sell yu have got to talk it
up strong.
I am willing to admit that man iz mi
brother, but I contend at the same time
that I hav got a lot of kussed skaly rela
sh uns.
I hav never known a second wife but
what waz boss of the situation.
Whisky iz a hard thing to convince,
therefore I never argy with a drunken
man.
Experience iz a good teacher, but she
iz a dreadful slow one ; before we git
haff thru her lessons the bell rings and
we are summoned to judgement.
The Mail that Fraud Made.
This is the man that Fraud made.
This is the Sehurz that clings to the man
that Fraud made.
This is the Gould that bought the Sehurz
that clings to the man that Fraud
made.
This is the Noyes that started the Gould
that bought the Sehurz that clings to
the man that Fraud made.
This is the Count that followed the Noyes
that started the Gould that bought the
Sehurz that clings to the man that
Fraud made.
This is the Key that closed the Count
that followed the Noyes that started
the Gould that bought the Sehurz that
clings to the man that Fraud made.
This is the Matthews, shaven and shorn,
that fathered the Policy, all forlorn,
that forged the Key that closed the
Count that followed the Noyes that
started the Gould that bought the
Sehurz that clings to the man that
Fraud made.
This is the Country, cheated an torn,
that spuns Stanley Matthews, shaven
and shorn, that fathered the Policy,
all forlorn, that forged the Key that
closed the Count that followed the
Noyes that started the Gould that
bought the Sehurz that clings' to the
man that Fraud made.
Klnrtilnfc Effect of 111 tie Gliiks.
Is there yet one disbeliever in the po
tency of “blue glass?” If so, let him read
and tremble at the discoveries of an acute
j observer, recorded i" the Burlington
| Hawk-Eye :
The other day we watched a sickly
looking housefly crawling across a pane
| ofJblue glass in a south window. It crawl
ed very slowly, and by the time it had
[ gone two inches it was as big as a blue
| bottle. It developed into a bumblebee
' in less time than it takes to li—to write
! about it ; when it got to the middle of
of the pane it was as big as a robin, and
when it reached the sash it flew on the
; center table and laid a big doublt-yolk
! egg, cackled wildly for a second, and
then with a wild scream dashed through
1 the window seized a Brahma rooster in
terribe talons, and soaring aloft, a disap
pearing mote in the grand di!c of the
1 sun, it was soon iost to view’.’'
VOL, III—NO. 50.
-.v I‘I.ITT y.V ./ BJ/,/, HOOM.
Wo never atteuded the graduating ex
ercises at \\ est Point, but we did years
ago run down to a ball at Annapolis..
We happened, on the cars, to sit by a
stout old party, possessed of a rudy,
motherly countenance. She was quite
communicative, and soon told us that she
was on her way to Annapolis to see her
son “ grad-a-ate,” to use her own ex
pression. We took charge of that old
lady—she was so good, kind, sensible and
motherly. We were present at the meet
ing between the mother and boy—a hand
some, manly youth, one any mother could
be proud of.
After supper we asked the old lady if
she intended to visiting the ball and she
said the would like to look in, but her
son said it was “ udpossible,” as all the
“ tickuts” were gone. We volunteered,
procuring the magic pastboard, and in
due time we made a grand entree, created
some sensation, for the old lady got heV
selt up regardless of expense or appear
ances. Ihe son was revolving with a
beautiful girl—one of our Washington
belles—and in one of the pauses of the
dance we saw his fair partner looking at
us and laughing. The eyes of the voung
man sought the object of her evident
meriment, and when he saw us the ex
pression of his face was that of first dis
may and then wrath.
The dear old lady asked us to get her
a glass of water. As we returned, we
passed the son and saw two red spots on
liis cheeks, and his brow corrugated in
wrath. Our aged friend, stout as she
was, appeared ready to sink, and asked
to be taken back to the hotel. Wc
at once hastened to comply, although as
sured that she was not ill. But while
waiting for themne available hack of An
napolis, we saw two huge tears well out
from hes dear old eyes and course their
way down her then rather pale face, and
noting our anxious look she said :
Don’t mind me ; I’m a foolish old
woman and ought to have stayed at
home, for my son is ashamed of his old
mother.”
We are j ustly proud of our navy. Her
gallant sons have swung the eagles of the
republic too often in triumph through
the smoke of the battle not to have en
deared them to the patriotic heart ofthe
nation. But would it not fie well to cor-'
rect the one defect? It is not well to begin
life in that way.
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o.ui:TH/.y'ti ion b o i s to uemijm.
huh.
A gentleman advertised for a boy to
assist him in his office and nearly fifty ap
plicants presented themselves, to him.
Out of the whole number he, in a short
time, selected one and dismissed the
rest.
I would like to know, said a friend, on
what ground you selected that boy, who
had not a single recommendation ?
You are mistaken, said the gentleman,
he had a great many. He wiped his
feet when he came in and closed the
door after him showing that he is careful.
He gave up his seat instantly to a lame,
old man, showing that he is kind and
and thoughtful, took olf his cap when he
came in, and answered my questions
promptly and respectfully, showing that
lie is polite and gentlemanly. He picked
lip the book which I had purposely laid
upon the lloor, and replaced it on the ta
ble, while all the rest stepped over it or
shoved it aside; and he waited for his
turn, instead of pushing and crowding,
showing lie is honest and orderly. When
1 talked with him I noticed his clothes
were carefully brushed, his hair in nice
order, his teeth as white as milk; and
when he wrote his name, 1 noticed that
his finger-nails.were clean, instead of be
ing tipped with jet, like that handsome
little fellow in the blue jacket. Don’t
you call these letters of recommendation ?
1 do, and I would give more for what I
can tell about a boy by using my eyes
ten minutes tbau all the fine letters you
can bring me.
An liuliaii JliiHltauri'A Veaig'cuiif*.
About three weeks ago an Indian
known as Sam lost his squaw Mary,
through the blandishments of another
Indian named Jim, for whom she left
Sam, taking some of liis household goods.
The loss ot these goods added much to
the wrath of the victimized Sam, who
raised such a commotion among the
Piute braves about it that they deter
mined to teach the frail Mary, and by
her example the rest of the female part
of the tribe-a lasting lesson. Jim tried
to screen her from the gathering storm
by hiding her, but they soon found her,
and about fifty of the tribe, including
Jim and several squaws, escorted her to
the hills just back of Washoe Lake last
Saturday evening, where, safe from Cir
casian intrusion, they made ahmrg pile
of sagebrush, and, after tying' her firmly
in the middle of it, set it on fire. Then
they commenced a war dance around the
scene of cremation in which all joined
except Jiin —Sam being very fierce in his
leaps and yells. The screams of Mary
added to the zest of the dance. Jim
meantime sat quietly by and seemed an
indifferent spectator to what was going
on. When the body of the unfortunate
Mary had been reduced to ashes Sam ex
pressed himself as satisfied, and they
dispersed. The warriors threatened their
squaws with a similar fate if they are
not more discreet in their conduct.—
Reno (Xev.) Journal , Any. 30.
A iluoil Temperance Story, anil a
Short Otic.
In a large city, a laboring man leaving
a large saloon saw a cosily carriage and
pair of horses standing in front, occupied
by two ladies elegantly attired, jpnver
sing with the proprietor. As it rolled
away he said to the dealer, “ Whose es
tablishment is that ?” “It’s mine” re
plied the dealer, complacently. “It cost
$5,000, hut my wire and daughter cannot
do without it.” The mechanic bowed his
head a moment in deep thought, and
looked sad ; then with the energy of a
man suddenly aroused by a startling
flash, said, “ I see it! I see it!” “See
what?” queried the dealer. “ See where
for years my wages have gone. I helped
pay for that carriage, for those horses
and that gold-mounted harness, for the
silk and lace and jewelry for your fam
ily. The money I earned that should
have given my wife and family a home
of their own and good clothing, I have
spent at your bar. My wages and the
wages of others like me have supported'
you and your family in luxury. Here
after my wife and children shall have
the benefit of my wages, and by the help
of God [ will never spent another dime
for drink. I see the mistake aed a cure
for it.”
GEORGIA ECHOES.
—Caterpillars are getting ripe ixi
Southern. Georgia.
—The sign of a firm in TaJbotton :
Cm- in: we are glad. t9*ee Efow
.
of lowest contract rates eit aw ppli
cation to :he Proprietor, v--- * n
Local Notices I.h*. jkt Inic first, insertion
and Uk*. per lino thereafter. ' • ’ ■ ‘
Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, eft., 50<;,
per inch—half price. *■ *" \ ,
Announcements, £5 in ulvanct. ' **
.1 TOIHIST.
“ Yon have a fine city here,” renyrfc
ed Oscar Doak, as lie stood .Before' the
desk and rubbed his hands. *
flie court looked down on him in si
lence.
Such broad streets, such big dogs.'
such beautiful alleys, such ni.qe- hand-;
organs I never saw in a town before,
continued the man.
That same cold, mode tons look front
the Court.
“ I’m almost tempted to sfpend the re
mainder of my days here,” said the pris
oner. “ The water agrees with me, the
air seems very pure, and I find that the
Detroit quart of peanuts is bigger than'
any other in the land.”
Still no word from liis Honor. His
eyes glistened like the tines of a pitch
fork in the hayfield, but he was biding
his time.
“ l’tn much obliged to the boys for
helping me in here last night,” coolly
continued the man. “I am subject to
those attacks of vertigo, and Providence
seems to raise up friends for me at the
perilous moment. I’ll leave a quarter
for the man who lifted me up and begged
of me not to die.”
While he was feeling for the clinker
the Court was calling to mind how tire’
tourist broke two chairs in a saloon, had
a fight witli a hackman, and had hid
himself in a lumber-pile, and he wrote’
out on a piece of paper at full length that
familiar old saying: “Twenty dollars or
three months,” and held it up to view.
The tourist looked at the words;
then he looked at the clock. Then lie
glanced out upon the green grass in the
alley and saw the lambs galloping up
and down in playful mood.
“ Yes —ahem—I’ll lend you $20,” lie
finally sighed.
“ And don’t have any more vertigo in’
this town,” said the Court. “ Vertigo*
makes the money go. you observe.”
“ I believe you think I was drunk,”
complained the tourist.
“ And you don’t make any difference?
between vertigo and drunkenness?”
“ Not a bit.”
The man walked out doors and head
ed for the nearest saloon. He was going
in on the real thing, with vertigo count
ed out. — Detroit Free Pres*.
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Th<; Idito Kai'.way Accident.
Miss Jennie Frost, of Council Bluffs,-
lowa, who had a marvelous escape front
the train that was wrecked on the Rock
Island railroad last week, relates that one
woman heroically rescued her six chil
dren and then went to the aid of otliet
sufferers, while another lady was terribly
excited over the loss of her satchel, ami 1
could think of nothing else. One lady,
who was in agony from a broken wrist
and a compound fracture of one of her
legs, would not consent to have morphino*
injected into her arm because she feared
it might hurt her. Another lady who*
was severely injured was offereded a glass*
of brandy, but refused to swallow it, sta*-*
ing that she was a strict temperance wo
man and meant to stand by her princi
ples, even if she died in the attempt. A
little child clung to a window-sill and
kept her head above the surging waters
until she was saved. A little girl lay',
for four hours with only her face out ot
water, the corps of a dead man being"
streehed aross her little body. It was
supposed that she too was dead, but a
man who was “ chopping out” the’
wounded thought he saw the little one's*
lips tremple. She was taken out, cover
ed with blood, her little stockings as red 1
as if they had been dyed, and in a few
hours she was as lively as a cricket, ask-'
ing if anybody had seen her doll.
A Warning to Profane .Swearers.
The New York Herald devotes, half al
column to a sensational account of a re
markable case of lockjaw of which it
negro cook o:i a ship recently arrived at
that port is the victim. The following is>
the statement of the Captain of the ship*
as made to the reporter: “Well, youf
see,” said the Captain, “ Bleumaii is it
very profane man. I never knew a man 1
to swear such terrible oaths as lie wouhH
swear tfcien he was angry. By talking
he meant that he was swearing at the'
time. He was making a fire in liis cook
stove, you see, and he could not get the'
fire to burn. This angered him, and, the'
boy says, he ripped out some fearful'
oaths in consequence, cursing Almighty
God as the cause of his trouble with thcr
fire, and ca ling upon his Maker witlt
terrible imprecations to let the lire burn.-
It was in the midst of this profanity that
his jaws became locked, and this is real
ly the whole truth of the matter.”
After this visitation, says the Herald,.
Blenman was unable to do anything du
ring the rest of the voyage, and even now'
it would be impossible for him to indulge'
in profanity except at the cost of mucl#
suffering.
A Hairy Child.
We must say that the child, Grade’
Gilbert, the little daughter of Mr. am?
Mrs*Giles Gilbert, who resides sixteen
miles east of Angola, in Northwest town
ship, Williams county, Ohio, is the great
est living curiosity we have ever seen.
The child is about eighteen months of
age, finely formed, bright, sprightly and*
healthy, and almost entirely covered
with hair. The hair on its head is some'
twelve or fifteen inches in length, and is
very heavy. Its whiskers are three or'
four inches in length. On its back, hod/
arms and legs, is a thick, heavy, biitfim- y
silky growth of hair, covering almost it*
entire body, and some two or three inches;
in length. And, strange to say, there is
no repul.-iveness in the sight, no deform
ity, and, moreover, no hiiinlwfg. Bar
mini, with all his grand splurges and big*
blowing as to the curiosities and hum
bugs he exhibits, never has had a real,
genuine actuality, a living curiosity,
human or otherwise, that surpasses this
pretty little child, Grade Gilbert.—-
iSfe u ben Rep übliea n.
A Pis Willi a Human Head.
Dyershurg, Tenn., is excited over the'
birth of a pig with a human head. The
pig was born orr the 7th inst. It lias a
perfect human face am] bead, the rest of
its formation being that of any other pig.
It has red hair on its head; its teeth,
mouth and eyes are strangely human;
while one ear is that oj'a hog, the other
is that of a little child. This new and
strange.production is the wander of the
neighborhood. Dr. Duflie, the druggi*|
-at Friendship, has preserved it in alcohol
and hundreds are flocking to see*it daily.
—Memphis Ledger . c <
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