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J. L. DENNIS, Publisher,
HAMILTON GEOEGU
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NEWS GLEANINGS,
One of the most successful cotton
growers in Alabama is a negro.
Texas will have over 200 new distil¬
leries by the close of the present year.
The colored Baptists in Tennessee
number 60,COO and have 150 churches.
Work on the jetties in harbor at
Charleston, South Carolina, has been
resumed. probably
In spite of the overflow, in
eonsequence of it, the louisiana sugar
crop is the best since the war.
Jack Butler, who burned bis little
child to death at Florance, Ala., has
been sent to the penitentiary for life.
The Nickle church, to be built at Pal¬
estine, Tex., is to be paid for by not less
than 200,000 persons contributing a
nickle a piece.
I’ara grass grows to an enormous
length in Florida. Near Orange City
some is growing that is eighteen feet
and a half long.
A terrapin farm has its existence at
Waveland, Miss., and last week 900 lit¬
tle turtles were hatched. They will be
full grown in three years.
In Heard countv, Georgia, resides a
family of eight persons, nunttd Rav, al
of whom are deaf mutes. Nevertheless,
they are all industrious and happy.
The average corn crop in Tennessee is
67 ^ 000,000 brehels, but it will reach
100 000,000 bushels this year. The
, nearly 000 000
wheat crop will reach 12 , , .
Tlie Farmer’s Co-operative Union, of
Florida, are said to have secured a sim¬
ple but effectual plan for preparing or¬
anges for market in such a manner that
thev will keep for months.
The monument to be erected at Vicks¬
burg, Miss., to the memory of Gari¬
baldi, will be surmounted by a life sized
statue of that persona.*, end will be one
-of the finest in the United States.
A large shot-tower is to lie erected in
New Orleans by a local company who
have abundant means and plenty of ex¬
perience. The tower will lie tho eleventh
in the United States when completed.
The progress of railroad building and
railroad business in the South last year
was unprecedented. Alsiut 1,500 miles
of road were put in operation, and tlie
gross earnings amounted to $ 68 , 000 ,Ot 0
Roberts A Milter, of Bullock county,
Ala., bad twenty-six acres of heavy
timbered bottom land which they want
ed cleared, In ten hours 100 axmen
with 200 leg rollers and brush pilcrs
completed the job. »
The Hot Hprings creek on the Gov
ii nu nt reservation at Hot Springs,
Ark., is to l*e strengthened and protect¬
ed from sewage water and refuse, and
generally to have $127,000 worth of im¬
provements put on it.
Tlie Times-Democrat, in an article on
the health of New Oilcans, claims that
there are no less than 11,900 people in
that city over sixty years of age or otie
eighteenth of the population, while 195
have pawed ninety.
Dallft*, Tex., is said to be built over a
grave yard of mastodons, ami for five or
aix years part excavations for buildingo
have seldom failed to bring up their
bones. A Urge number of these masto¬
don remains were unearthed a few days
ago, and some of the bones were of enor¬
mous size.
The officers of the Pawnee, Stonewall
Jackson, _ , ."bathetic .... and I hud Marriage ,
Associations of Little Rock, Ark., have
been fined $25 each for violating a city
ordinance which prohibits “gift” enter¬
prises being conducted in that city. The
State Gazette dubs them, "Wildcat
schemes to fleece the innocent.”
A colored man. J. R. Ballard, was re
sntly ordained in 8 t. John’a church,
eacksonville, Fla., which is called tbe
most artistic, church in the 8 tatc, by
Bishop Young, in the presence of a dis¬
tinguished audience. It was the first
ase in the State that a colored man has
been oi Gained in a white church.
At Griffin, Gu , a very curious spider
has been captured. Ii has on its back a
hard, thick formation, very much resem¬
bling a soft, shell crab or a turtle, alnnit
a quarter of , an inch , across. .... Hus . shell , „
ha* eight horns, from all of which the
spider spins a web at the same time. 11 c , |
is an active, and, as Artenuis Ward i
would say, an ‘‘amoosiu’ little cuss.” j
Charlotte, (N. C. Observer- ' It li-i- '
only . . fin a , fi " months . since . 1 ref. \\
E. liiddm, an employe of Edison, tbe
distinguished electrician, in search of
olatimun. discovered in Alexander Co.,
and brought to the attention of the
world the now far-famed Uiddenite. He
has now discovered another stone only
a little less valuable, if any. than the
^gem which bears his name. He Is
al to be a new mineral, unknown to sci
entific geologist--, perfectly transparent,
resembling the . diamond, ,. i but . belonging i i
to a different geological! arnily. It is one
degree tofter than quartz, of higher Iu-.
ter, complex . f*nn, , atd , he , propose*
call it Edisonite. It ia found in the
neighborhood of the place in Alexander
county where he discovered the hidden
ite.
The Probable Wheat Yield.
The only statistics which have yet
been given for the yield per aore of the
present crop are those of Illinois,
the otficial report places the yield at 18}
bushels per acre, against 17-7 in 1880.
It is, of course, not assumed that the
yield ner aore the in Illinois is to United be ac¬
cepted as average for the
States. But there are some reasons
why the yield per acre in Illinois may
be accepted as an index to the averago
yield accepting of the United the yield States, in almost preference
to of any
other one State as such an index: First
—Illinois is the largest whoat-rai.s'.ng
State in tho Union, aud in the three
years from 1879 to 1881 inclusive pro¬
duced about twelve per cent, of all the
wheat raised in the United Mates.
Second—Illinois lies nearly in the center
of the group of ten States comprising
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wi.s
cousin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri, which produced
in 1880 about three-fourths of the wheat
crop of the United States. Illinois may
therefore be presumed to rep resent tho
average of tins meteorological experience
and crop conditions of this group ot
States. In 1880 the average yield per
acre in Illinois was 16-7 bushels, while
that of the United States was 13-1
bushels per acre. Illinois was thereto e
22 per cent, above tho general average.
It is an established fact that the average
yield of wheat per acre in different sec¬
tions of tho United States con¬
tinues at about tho same rela¬
tive difference, as, tor instance,
the average iu tho Southern States is
always only about half as much per acre
ns in the group of States above men¬
tioned while in the far Northwest the
yield the is always greater per acre There than in
ten States mentioned. seems
no objection, therefore, to assuming that
oertain States are always above and oth¬
ers always below the"general average of
Ihe United States. Now, if vve may as¬
sume that tho present yield of 18}
bushels in Illinois is also about 22 per
cent, above the average, it would make
the average for t he United States say
14 43-100 bushels per acre, or just about
10 per cent, over 1880, which, upon an
area of 37,000,000 acres, would be 533,
910,000 bush Is, a result which differs
less than tlie half of one per cent, from
our previous estimate, which was made
without any such calculation as produces
the present figures.
Some argument will of course bu made
gainst assuming an increased average
yield per aero of ten per cent, over tho
crop of 1880. But it will be remember¬
ed that there has beeu no year before
this when the crops of spring wheat and
winter wheat when were both good—except of
possibly wheat throughout 1877, the the United average States crop
was
13 86-100 bushols peracre, or only about
four per cent, less than wo have as¬
sumed ns the average yield per acre for
tho present crop to bushels produce an 37,000,- aggre¬
gate of 533,file ,000 ou
000 acres.— N. Y. Hvenino Cost.
“ A Mean Business P
A fow years since I met a gentleman, after
educated for tho ministry, who a
fow years came into good possession, tho through
marriage, of a farm ou Con¬
necticut River, which had been well
managed by the father-in-law and his
brother, who owned and improved it in
common. On the death of one, the
farm and stock were divided; and tho
homestead, a good-sized farm, with
good and convenient buildings, could went to
this heir, who thought lie run it as
well as any other person. lie was
young, strong and healthy, with a very
high estimate of li s ability. He tried
t he experiment Tho first season he did
not succeed to his expectations, al
t hough he had experienced farm help¬
ers; tlie second season satisfied him, and
lie was business,” heard to and say, “Farming only glad is a
mean was too
to part with tho farm.
The observation of this man’s experi¬
ence has led mo to reflect upon what
qualifications are requisite iu a Given, practical
Firmer to insure success. as
above, education a strong, anil healthy good body farm, with with a
good all the appliances a of conduct¬
hecossary
ing order it successfully--this with is not all in
to meet success, or even to
moke Good fanning a living involves and not to much go into thought debt.
as
>s an y other vocation. No doubt had
this his farming same man put be afterward, as much thought well into
as as as
before, found essential in h's pro¬
fession. he would have mot with success,
with time and practice; but courage and
failed him.
The conditions of success in farming
calling. are quite No as complex lazy, as in any other
listless man, who
dreads the drudgery of thinking and
working, can ever become a successful
fanner. Neither will a mere acquaint¬
ance with the ideas and practices of our
best progressive farmers warrant suc¬
cess. There must be practical experi¬
ence on tho farm, some degree of prac¬
tical work, and constant oversight and
attendance by the owner. Many fail¬
ures result from the lack of this, espe¬
cially with men who disdain to learn
the ways of common every-day farmers,
in the assurance that they can do as well
or a great deal berter. This is a great
mistake. If am thing needs improving,
a first requisite is to understand
thoroughly its methods wishes ami manage
ment. A man who to become a
superior farmer must first leant how to
be a good common farmer; until this is
learned, it is best at first to attcsipt no
innovations on the established wavs of
tho neighborhood. Undoubtedly im
j rou meats are possible, but it is better
to l ” 1 then' bo suggested by practical
‘ coni with the T\ ideas ,is ma of Y l “young H,ssib! - v Amrn- " ot
can” progress, but it will be sure, aud
may save a mortifying failure. Having
become a common farmer, t here is more
hope that one u.-iy become a superior
farmer. Thought, economy and work
j vriil usually Work make only success fulfilling pretty of cor¬
tain. i- the tho
j ©rigiual avoid decree passed upon of hard man; try
rag to it is one riause limes
i aiul fa5hm? . when we all work and
j economize to tlie best of otir ability, we
1 -'hall bo a happier and more prosperous
J community.— OmUvmx?}. M". II. White, in Cou itr -
TOPICS OF THE DAI.
A young Boston widow this season
wore a bathing snit of full mourning.
Senator Pendleton’s new home in
Washington has large gdded sunflowers
at the top of the lightning rods.
A French artist has represented Time
as a woman instead of a man. He ar¬
gues that women have more of it than
anybody else.
The centennarv of Bolivar is to be cel¬
ebrated on July 24, 1883, at Caraccas,
Venezuela, by the dedication of a statue
of Washington.
Thk Flathead Indians have agreed to
allow a railroad to be built across their
reservation in Montana, upon the pay¬
ment of 823,000. The price asked was
81,000,000.
The $1,000,000 bequeathed by Mr.
Lewis, of New Jersey, to the govern¬
in'mt, to be applied towards extinguish¬
ing tire national debt, will make its ap¬
pearance in the next monthly statement.
Rorebt T. Lincoln has shipped from
Springfield, Illinois, to Washington
sixty-two trunks belorrging to his
n other, which were filled with dress
goods and trinkets purchased in Europe,
Mr.. Burnham, a scientic Connect!
cut farmer, recently sold one of bis young
cows for $-1,800. This animal, in 372
days, has given in milk ten times i.ei
own weight— 10,000 pounds—and 1,000
pounds of butter.
A Californian has invented a sliet p
counting machine. It counts up to
10 , 000 , registers the number, tin n gives
a snap, jumps back, and begins count¬
ing again. It never misses a sheep, old
or young, fat or lean.
IIon. James G. Blaine lias sent liis
check for $50 toward the monument
proposed to be erected to the memory of
the late Senator It. H. Hill, at Atlanta,
(la. Though differing in politics, Messrs.
Hill and Blaine were warm personal
friends.
Fifty young ladies from six counties
of North Carolina, took part in breaking
ground for the Clinton and Point Cas¬
well Railroad, near Raleigh, recently.
Tlu-y plied their shovels with great
vigor, an.d were applauded by 5,000
spectators.
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Mrs. Langtry, according to the latest
rumor, will lie accompanied to this
country by a band of male admirers,
something after the style of the lovesick
maidens iu "Patience.” An Engii-h
nobleman, it is said, will be the leader
of the party.
President Barrios, of Guatemala, re¬
ceives a salary of $1,000 a month. He
lms beeu in office twelve years, and is
worth $ 8 , 000 , 000 . The debt of iiis
country is $9,000,000 and growing,
which would seem to indicate that lie
docs not allow any one else to take
much.
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Acting on the suggestion that letter
postage be reduced to two cents a half
ounce, a Post office Department official
has figured out that on that basts the
deficit of last year, one of the most pros¬
perous iu tho history of the service,
would be $ 10 , 000 , 000 , instead of a sur¬
plus of $1,500,000.
Kings and Princes are getting down
nowadays to the same prosaic, business¬
like wavs of thinking and doing ns other
mortals. Oscar II., sovereign of Swe¬
den and Norway, beiug about to under¬
take a journey to the latter country, has
had his life insured in favor of liis fam¬
ily for the sum of 0,000 crowns.
A training school for servants has
just beeu established at St. Louis under
the management of leading ladies of
that city. Practical housekeeping in all
its departments will comprise the course
of training, aud a nursery for poor chil¬
dren, where they shall also be taugbt to
“sew aud sweep and spin,” is to be at
t ached.
It is proposed to perform an operation
on the eyes of Thurlow Weed, who lias
been Wind for five years, with the hope
of restoring his sight. It is intended to
cut away the double cataract over his
eyes and fit a double convex lens of glass
accurately in front of the eye, so focussed
as to properly east an image upon the
retina. If the retiua has not lost its
iisitiveness, it is thought that he will
i>c able to see.
Tur, sealskin clothes worn by Engi¬
neer Melville during bis terrible exjnjri
e::cos ill the Arctic regions are obi ct-s of
iuncli interest at tiie Navy Department,
Washington. Among the relic# ia ®
bni lautly n ioreii toxsKiu cap tviongirnr
to Lieut. Bony, which was presented to
him 11 v an Esquimaux damsel. She con
■seated his old cap because it was not
•.rett j v and j) wive him one she hul made
herself m retur n.
A 4 , has T ^ * discovered _ ,. , , for
m w use reeu
potatoes. 1 hey can bo converted into a
substance resembling celluloid by peel
: g tuem. aud, after soaking m water,
impregnated with eight parts of sulph
une acid, drying and pressing between
j dieets Of made blotting of this paper. substance, In France.
j pi.H\s are scarce
!y distinguishable from meerschaum. Bv
i subjecting the mass to great pressure
billiard balls can be made of it rivaling
ivory in hardness.
A new style of ear is about to be in
trod need on tne Southern Pacifio Rail
road, destined to be run from California
to the gulf as wheat cars, and on their
return as emigrant cars. The interior
will be like other freight cars. Along
the sides will be sleeping bunks, lowered
and suspended by an iron rod and hinge,
but capable of being closed up flush
when freight is carried. There are win¬
dows, of course, and it is said the oars
will be as comfortable and warm as tlie
most luxurious Pullman sleeping car.
At thb marriage of Mr. and Mr*,
George Harris, at Mount Meridian. Vir
ginia, the bride refused to say "Yes” to
the question whether she would obey
her husbaud. Sire said that she saw no
reason in such a promise, and he con¬
cluded that no harm would be done by
omitting it, since he intended to "make
her m’nd anyhow. ” Two years elapsed,
and a few days ago the unsettled ques¬
tion arose again. George ordered his
wife to fry a chicken for dinner, and she
insisted on roasting it. He brought in a
horsewhip and declared that he would
I flog her until she obeyed. She shot and
j poled him.
1
j A French savant has called in the aid
j of plain Darwin’s the graceful theory gait of evolution Parisian to ex
! of the
ladies. According to his reasoning the
streets of Par s were for a long time af¬
ter the foundation of the city in a very
poor condition, as is indeed apparent
from its original name—Lute tin, or the
“City of Mud.” The Parisian ladies, in
order not to soil their shoes, were forced
to walk ou tip-toe, which in due time re¬
sulted in high heels, and finally in that
charming gait which is the admiration
and envy of all the women of the civil¬
ized world.
Chines* Infanticide.
Wo have all heard the Ofiinaso
oharged with infanticide. We believe
that crime ro lie less prevalent withthem
than it is with us. If children are ever
exposed, as has been seen on a wayside
a tar near Ilonam, we believe that bitter
want and a hope that, charity would
provide for the child better than the
mother could have been the moving
causes. As a general bar rule, self-interest this
acts as the strongest to vice.
That the life of the male children should
be preserved is most important, as the
Chinese law their will compel and the in the sons to
maintain parents, event
of all the sons dying no one would be
able to offer and that mother worship at which the tomb their of
the father on
happir.esi in another state is supposed
to depend. With the girls preservation
is almost as important, and they are a
marketable commodity either as wives
or as servants. Indeed, it is no very rare
thing to see a basketful of babies sent
down from Canton ranging to Hong Kong $2 $5. for
sale at prices from to
These are all girls, in denying the ex¬
istence of infanticide it is necessary to
make one exception. This is among the
Tan-kia, or boat population. different descent These and are
a race of people of
religion from the Chinese, and governed looked bv
their own magistrates, by the other classes so that
down upon no
child of a boat-woman can compete in
tho literary examinations, or, whatever
his ability office” may be, become an aspirant
for Tins class is excessively su¬
perstitious, and we have heard it stated
by missionaries that when a child be¬
longing to people of this class suffers
from any lingering malady, and recovery
becomes hopeless, they wiil put it to
death with circumstances of groat oruel
ty, believing it not to be their child but
a changeling, and fancy that a demon
has taken the place of their offspring for
the purpose of entailing on them expense
and trouble for which they could never
get any return.— Temple liar.
Reining a Horse.
One of the most senseless, and yet a
very common habit of the American
people, is the reining of driving horses
so tight as to inflict upon them a great
deal of pain, under the mistaken idea
*) la * it mills to the stylish appearance of
the animal. \\ hen people see a horses
head drawn up by the bearing rein, and
see him stepping short and champing
tlie bit, tossing liis head and rattling the
harness, they assume that he is acting
in the pride of liis strength and fullness
of spirit, whereas the animal is really
Buffering agonies of pain, and is trying
to gain by these movements momentary
friele. To our view, a horse looks l»et
ter, and we know he feels 1 letter, when
pursuing a natural, leisurely, swinging
gait. It is as uocessa-y for liis head to
oscillate in response to the motions of
his body as it. is for a man’s hands to do
the same thing. A horse allowed bis
head will work easier and last longer
than oue on which a cheek is used.
Blinds are another popular absurdity
iu the use of horses. They collect dust,
pound tlie eye and are in every way a
nuisance. A horse that cannot be driven
with safety without them should be sold
to . a railroad i j grader a No colt-should i iii bo
i brt ; ken to them.-y.moo 6 . (Arft) Jour -
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A Gltase Cor a Hafir.
There was a funny chase for a baby
at Plainville. Conn., on Wednesday
nioining. A woman stepped the from a
train a moment to qut-tiou suddenly agent, with
and the train pulled out baby. Her
out her. carrying off her
1 frenz - v move 4 Bristol the good and order ticket the agent baby to
: telegraph returned. to The train dropped the infant
;
at Forestville, and a good man footed
it thither and The lugged mother, the baby meantime back to
i plainville.
| grown impatient, bad gone to Forest
vilie on the engine good oi a gravel with train. the baby So
back went the man
to Forestville. there to learn that the
JS^KmL ,tu^?ephled toX
woman to >t still half an hour, which
she did. and got lack her infant
! % -inykld (Mass ) Hepublica*
The nano.
The old idea was that a piano was
bought and brought to the house with
much muffled bruising of its beautiful the legs and of
much profanity on part
the draymen, to bo played on. Wbat and
superlative nonsense! What a stale
preposterous suggestion! What a relic be
of barbaric ignorance! A piano to
played d'hank on! the Go stars to the days of such stu¬
pidity are Over, and the true, sole and
natural use understood. of a piano is piano becoming is
generally house for these A simple put
into a pur¬
poses and none othei. Its top is de¬
signed as a place for a photograph al¬
bum, a brilliant lamp-mat and a vase of
flowers. Its rack is intended as a rest
for an open book—an open book cov¬
ered with pictures of farm, and fences,
upon which are perched innumerable
black birds. Its stool is placed there
for the nervous young man in company
to sit on and whirl, and writhe ami
wriggle. Its richly carve l and legs awk¬ are
sprawled ward people out to for near against, sighted and
run asked upon
being solicitously by the hostess
if they are hurt, to reply, with the their hot
tears "Not of anguish the least: gushing only just into grazed
eyes: in
it.
Such are the legitimate uses of an
able bodied and well-limbed piano in
its various parts and proportions. As a
whole the piano serves two other and
nobler purposes. 'The one is it imparts
character, stateliness and an air of
affluence to a household establishment.
The proud-sp r.ted host points to the
rosewood in>r.n ment and seems to say
Jto his assembled guests: "You behold
that majestic in-trument. It is symbolic grand,
square and upright. Is it not
of its owner—is he not grand, nobody square
and upright?” Uf course can
play on it—not one of his quartet of
daughters—but it is to be remembered
that it was not put there to play on, and
who would ask its owner to put it to per
verse use?
But after all the real mission of a
piano in the house is this—a place for a
young lady to sit and idly turn the
leaves of a blackbird book, and a some
tking for a young gentleman breathe to softly hang
over and now and then
in the young lady’s ear to let her know
that he is growing weak, but he still
lives. It is an hang affecting sight to observe Few
ft > oung man over a piano.
young men know how to bang over a
piano in good form. One must not
bend too low, as if he were nickel, looking for a
lost sleeve button or a nor yet
be soldier too rigid and weather infiexib e, like a A wood
cn on a vane. com
promise of those attitudes with alittle ob
iqne leaning is” toward the stool and its
occupant hanging. about the correct thing in
piano ' Now and then by of e’tv
way no an
attempt is made on a -rand social Jcca
sion to actually plav the piano. A dis
nial young man leads an exhaustive
voung lady to the piano. An awful
silence pervades the drawing slowly lifts room. the
The somber young man
lid. as if ho was about to view the re¬
mains of the last relative he had on :
earth. 1 he young lady wildly runs her j
wail, lingers over vociferatibn the keys—there of violent is a grief, sob, a a j
a
cry of comfortless despair and all ia
over. The young lady sinks upon lowers Ike
nearest sofa. The young man
the lid. nuns away his head and is seen
no more.
Verily, the dav of superstition and
mistaken ideas is over, and piano play¬
ing has passed away with the many fol¬
lies and foibles of our purblind and un¬
bolt ured ancestry .—New London Tclt
oratn.
H Beans as r ootu .
The nutritive value of beans is t ery
great—'rreater than almost any other
article of food in common use. Consul
erinv their richness they* have, are probably
the cheapest food we but some
what difficult of digestion, rarely probably cook
owing to the fact that we
them enough and masticate them in
suflicbnitly. in preparing beans for the
table they should first lie well soaked
in coM water and then thrown into boil
ing v uteT aud cooked until of a medium
consistency between a fluid and a
solid-neither too thick nor too thin.
Tlu'V require some acid on them when
eat?n, and a sufficient amount of salt to
render them palatable. They may be
oa'en with potatoes or other vegetables
which contain morestareh and less allai
men rather than with too much bread
or meat. In Germany there is a process
patented, by which beans and ail legu
ruinous seeds are reduced to a very line
Pour and rendered callable of being
used as food bv the most delicate per
sons We have samples of this flour,
which equal in fineness the best wheat
flour, and it is used extensively for
mu king soup for invalids. These soups
are worth a hundred times as much as
beef tea. There is a fortune awaiting
am one who will prepare' a flour from
beans as perfect as this flour from Ger
\ many. Bean sotm. rightly made, is ex
cecdinglv delicious and wholesome, and
......lit Q. to be used more extensively ' than
it —Sanitarian.
Wanted to Move Slowly.
Last fall, when one of the small towns
out West got the manufacturing fever,
the citizens held a meeting to see what
inducements should lie held out for cap
I italists to come there and invest. One
^ ker aid tJiey f cou!ll af f ord to donate
acre said , ofgroi the ad for could a factory. add 500,000 A n
other town
brick. A third moved that the citizens
turn out and give 100 days’ work on the
building. A fourth said he could prom
j„ e a house for the superintendent to
live in, and a fifth would start a sub
seription paper to buy the machinery
and boilers for the factory. During a
break in the popular enthusiasm an old
tanner arose and solemnly said: "Gen
tlemen, I think the enterprise of our
town will build the chair factory, fur
nish houses, rent free, for all the oper
atives, and bur a year’s supply of lum
ber to work on, slowly. but when We we don’t go beyond
that let’s move want
to promise to buy the foreman any hair
oil or hair dye until we know whether
he is bald-headed or not! ”—I Vail Street
News.
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-Always punish a child for wilfully
dlsobc n - ? ,u bnt P?. n,sh bm *
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J n ac ^ r > auJ never let mm know that
Le Texe# You.-wood "or*.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Ben Hill’s last words were spoken
to his pastor. Rev. C. A Evans, and
were: “ Almost home.”
— sailed Secretary Folger, of the Treasury,
is a perfect picture of Benjamin
Franklin, and with , good reason, to .r
Franklin’s mother was a Folger.
—Says F. J. Furnivall, the Shakesoe
rian critic: "Shakespeare’s own five
form signatures of prove that the most authentic
pere.' ” spelling his name is ‘ Shaks
-—Roza Bonheur is sixty-two years old
and has quit wearing pantaloons and
dresses like any o her woman. This
leaves Mary of W-alker in the full enjoy¬
ment Hawkeye a dangerous monopoly.—
—Hans Von Bulow, the pianist, is go¬
ing to marry a woman named Maria
When Amalia Katharina Josepha Schauzer. will
she adds Von Bulow she
have a real seven-octave name.— Lowell
Court* r.
—Ker.ioz, the compos r, when ha
was in love, said to the adored one:
"Ariel, I adore you, l bless you: iu a
word, 1 love you move than the weak
French tongue can say; give me an or¬
chestra of 100 performers and a chorus
of 150 voices and I can tell you. ”
—The best prose sentence ever writ¬
ten on this side of the Atlantic, accord¬
Emerson’s ing to Mr. E. P. Whipple, Shakespeare: is this from
lecture on
“'Ihe recitation begins; one all golden
word leaps out immortal from this
Panted with pedantry, amt sweetly torments
us invitations to its own inaccessi
ble homes,
- Some Sanscrit manuscripts of parts
of the bible of the Buddhists have been
found in Japan. It is thought that
many relics in Sanscrit of great value
may yet be discovered in China and
Japan, though probably not bearing any that
will have any important upon
the religion eiiher of the Jews or of the
Christians .—Chicayo Journal.
- Antoine Gerin-Lajoie, who recent
] y ( r ie( l at Ottawa, will be long remem
bered by his countrymen in Canada, for
he wrote their national song. “Le < 'a
nadien Errant.” There is hardly a man,
woman or child in Canada who does
n ,,v know the simple song by heart, and
q ( .., n | )e heard almost any evening
among the Canadians of New England,
fact, rv towns and in the French settle
m( . n t.s of the far West.— N Y. San.
~ A , correspondent relates the follow
} . a S ll!e ^' he ov ‘
Arthur, lather of the President:
Ch “White u ™ b in presiding w cst Iroy. over his choir the drawled Bap Lst
out f the , hymn with variations, which did
not P ease him. so he took Ins text and
preached two hours and forty minutes. and
His head deacon grew impatient
consulted Ins watch. Keep your watch
’ n v °" r P ot * et - I)eacon J ones ’ sa,d he *
- and .
;.vou had a long sing, now I r am go
preach till 1 get through.
Chicago Her alt..
Harmony iu Human Life.
o ur surroundings should lie liarmoni
otls w ph our life. It is not necessary
p, sound the same notes to blending, produce
harmony. The word implies
but it-iifrnost forbids repetition. Nat¬
ure is the great teacher. Her means
and ends are consistent with each other.
Nature understands too well the art of
harmony lo attempt the mark, impossibilities. but she does She
is always up to
not overstep herself. Where the soil
will not grow lilies and roses, she con¬
tents herself with daisies, but left to
herself, she will always cover man's
mistakes with a carefully spun shroud.
It is to learn this lesson more drawn perfectly
that in later life we are away
front mankind to live with Xa lire. A
Rdler growth takes place when we feel
ourselves in unison with all we see, and
when intercourse with nature restores m
118 Che balance that human conflict Iras
destroyed. Life in great cities is in
imical to harmony. The clash of interests
is tcu fierce, and those who live much
in great centers of human effort cannot
sus a ^ n the ^ense of narrnonv* unless
they come away lor a time. The 'oi m
ajl, i manner of modern soc.ety increase
the difficulty. Ihe multitude ot ac- >
quaintances, and the little time given
to each, make intercourse necessarily
broken and unharmonious. ( onversa- I
tion takes the lorm ot epigram, and
each sentence must, be cast in o such a
form as not necessarily to demand a
second for its completion. By words, degrees, and
our thoughts follow becomes our rounded aud
each opinion each question that
finished ott to tit into i
may arise. Nothing can 1 e viewed as
a whole—we are too near to its de
tails. So near are v.e in great cities
that it is almost impossible not to take
each detail for the whole, then arises
irritation, from the sense of the un
fitness of each separate opinion ex- j
pressed to bear the structure ot our ,
whole line of thought. W e have
uttered an epigram, but we have not (
stated our judgment as and it really is. To
do that requires time neglectful opportunity, of the - -
which society, in¬
dividual in its care for the whole, can¬
not afford to any one of its members.
The utterance, unfathered and without
offspring, must stajpl or fall by itself,
while we may be thankful if we are not
through it labeled and placed loreign in a
pigeon-hole to which we are as
as a dovo to a hawk’s nest. Ihen it. is
that we fall back for consolation upon
ourselves as a wliol c—Utuom Spccta.
Uir
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—Sage and other herbs which you
wish to keep for use in the winter should
be perfectly gathered drv on when” a dry gathered dav. If they are
yon can,
sift them at once, and with very little
trouble. Put them aw ay in tin cans
(the cans in which prepared cocoamrt
comes are nice for this purpose); which keep
them where it is dry. Herbs you
do not care to sift can be tied in bund’
and hung up after the fashion of o
grandmothers.— N. Y. Tost.
i„J » chi’niiir lover Iearoin* eave°his that deatM
« which’ mark rival af
d Din rauriit the girl
ow tne fellow wants to know "whe
' nD them goldarned Inter-Occan^ things in the
>• Chicago
T om^ _The cS^iSSilS extraordinary vitality of tto "Uncle
publishers th-xt a single orders mail last week brought the
book.-A. for 2,135 copies of that
Y. Christian Union.