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NEWS GLEANINGS.
Selma, Ala., has sixty artesian wells.
' Nashville has a total indehtednes fo
$1,626,277.78.
Six editors will hold seats in the next
Georgia Legislature.
The city tax in Tallahassee, Florada,
s but seven mills on the $100.
^ Gadsden, Altbama, has doubled its
’population in the last twelve months.'*
Georgia’s surplus crop of sweet pota¬
toes will reach 400,000 bushels this year.
Wah Hing and Tin Sing, two China¬
men, have embarked in the grocery bus¬
iness at Nashville.
Florida is making preparations to re¬
ceive an unusually large number of new
settlers this winter. #
fc The Georgia prohibitionists have
nominated legislative candidates in
twenty-nine counties
A meteor fell a few days ago nea r
Orange City, Florida, killing a colored
women, whom it struck.
The waterworks at Hot Springs,
Arkansas, are completed, and are said
to be the best in the State.
Annie Hubbard, who murdered her
child in Colbert county, Ala., goes to
the penitentiary for ten years.
1 The Vicksburg Commercial says la¬
borers were never in such demand in the
valley of the Lower Mississippi as now.
A complaint comes from several por¬
tions of Florida that the orange crop is
turning out bad, and will be short about
one-third.
The ashes of a common weed, known
by some in PTorida as sickle weed, are
almost pure potash, l*eing as strong as
baking soda.
It is believed that the orange crop of
PTorida will this year l>e worth nearly
double that of 1880, which brought over
$672,000.
A West Indian has purchased ten
acres af ground near Tampa, PTa., which
he will plant in mulberries for the pur*
pose of raising silk-worms.
The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers
complain that, with a population of
from 16,000 to 18,000, they can count
upon but one mail per week.
A cow fell into a pit near Cellar Key,
Fla., and remained there forty d wo days
without food or water. When discov¬
ered the animal presented a pi table pict¬
ure of pelt and bones, but was still able
o walk.
Dr. W. II Bennett, an eccentric citi
citizen of Meridian, Miss., died a day
or two ago, and his estate, valued at
$60,000- was left to a negro cook, cut¬
ting ofl his wife and heirs. The will is
to be contested.
Georgia’s corn crop is the largest
since 1869, and will reach 80,000,000
bushels. The oat crop reached 8,000,000
bushels, and tbe wheat crop 5,600,000
bushels. *It is thought 1,000,000 bales^f
cotton will be raised.
Mrs. Ann Talley, of Spottsylvania
county, Va., aped seventy years and in
robust health, became impressed with
the idea that she would die at a certain
houi on a certain day. She prepared
for the anticipated event, and, true to
her premonition, her death camo.
Goldsboro, (N. O.,) Messenger: A pe¬
culiar and frightful disease has appear¬
ed in Northampton and other counties
in the northeastern part of the Stab*.
It is called yellow chills or hemorrhagic
fever, and is generally fatal in its re¬
sults. Persons affected turn yellow and
vomit blood.
New Orleans will experiment with
mesquite wood for paving streets. It
is a native of Texas, p&rtakoe almost of
the hardness of iron, is very durable,
and it is believed will make a better
street than granite. It grows abun¬
dantly in Texas, and can be easily and
cheaply transported.
Mrs. Lizzie Wallev, convicted at
Nashville and sentenced to a term of
three years in the jrju itentiarv for al¬
leged cohabitation with Owen Plenties,
ex-city editor of the World, is said to
bs a neice of the distinguished Oodfcd
©rate General Bragg. It is hinted that
Prentiss will be released on bond, and
the case against him will never come to
a trial.
At Columbus, Tex;is, about twenty
boys, whose ages range from ten to six¬
teen years, about six months ago organ¬
ized a band of robbers, and since tha
time have been engaged in stealing.
They undertook to rob a freight car,
which led to their discovery. They had
a cave abross the river where they de¬
posited their plunder. These boy* are
sons of respected citizeus, and had no
object in tbeiviug other than to gratify
a desite lor adventure, whieh they had
formed from reading dime novels, s
number *>1 which wt-re found in their
headquarters—the cave.
A writer in tie Industrial Review
adviste the introduction ol Uie bamboo
in the Southern States. Though capa¬
ble of growing on the uplands, it is said
to be especially suited to and valuable
for low-lying, marshy regions, such
as fringe the South Atlantic and Gulf
States. Its uses are numerous. As a
timber for building and construction
purposes, for tools, implements, etc., it
is well known. As an article of food
its young shoots serve as substitutes for
vegetables, and are pronounced as deli¬
cious. Bamboo curry and chow-chow
are excellent The growing plant is
invaluable also as a defense against ina
laria, sweeping fires and cyclones.
Fruit Juices.
There is often a decided objection to
tbe use of our eoarsest fruits, especially
in sickness, or when the stomach or
bowels may be in a sensitive state, on
account of seeds, Hie irritation and peel of tbe skin. angular Like
and sharp or
the hull of the wheat—or hulls, as
there are five different layers, which
should be removed, in most if not all
cases, from the flour—these seeds and
rinds are often sources of irritation to
the sensitive coats of the stomach, caus¬
ing many forms of disease, It particularly exceedingly
in the hot weather. is
fortunate that these juices do not re¬
quire digestion like the solids, but, like
water, enter the system unchanged,
there to he assimilated, of coarse afford¬
ing nutrition, with no use of the digest
ive a pparatas, or but slight effort, that
of a ibsorption. prepared (If desirable, this these
juices may be at season,
thoroughly scalded, canned like fruit,
kept from the air and in a cool place,
and used in the following valuable, spring, especially when
such are exceedingly debilitated digestion.)
for those having
It is very plain that if they demand
no digestion, still containing all of tbe
nourishment of the berry, dyspeptic, securing rest
for the stomach, the etc.,
may well use this juice as a substitute
for solids, for such a part of the time
as will allow rest, time for the digestive
organs to recuperate and become suffi¬
ciently strong to perform their usual
amount of labor.
I will hero remark that their use all
the time, instead of at the last meal, or
when the appetite may be debilitate particularly the
imperfect,|would tend to
stomach, sinftc, like all unused organs,
the time would come when it would lose
the power of action, As of a these general for
principle, the substitution
solids for one or two meals at most,
using the simplest form of solids, as the
raw egg, or boiled rice, would be as
much as would be advisable, save in
extreme cases, when such nourishment
for a week or less would be a choice of
evils.
Milk should not be regarded before as of diges¬ this
class, sinoe it is solidified
tion. It is not a proper drink between
meals, since it requires much digestion feverish¬ like
solids. When there is
ness, with some appetite, the more acid
juices, like that of the strawberry or the
currant, may prove of great value with¬
out sugar, for that is a “heater.” These
tend to reduce they feverishness, though, stomach, if
too acid, may irritate the
producing the canker.
The fresh juice of the apple—not fer¬
mented juice, or cider—is very appro¬
priate and useful, the apple containing
more nourishment than the potato.
These juices may bo used with great
propriety when the appetite seems wan¬
ing, or when but little food is indicated,
for nourishment is obtained without
labor.— Golden Rule.
Dominie Stimson’s Wit.
Yesterday’s meeting of the Ba; (’si
ministers was opened with prayer by
Father Stimson, of Kansas. Father
Stimson is eighty years old. and h is
preached for fifty years. Stories are
told of him in which those who expect¬
ed to raise a laugh at tho old Dominie
found the tables turned against them¬
selves in the follows: most unexpected manner.
One runs as
Father Stimson owned a good horse,
but the keeping of the beast was some¬
what of a drain on the Dominie’s pock¬
et. and he was in the habit of drop dug
a hint to his parishioners once in a
while that a little hay would be accept¬
able. One day a church member asked
him to bring Mrs. Stimson to dinner.
11 Certainly,” said Father Stimson.
“and, as it’s haying time, I guess I'll
put some hay on the wagon when 1
back home.”
“All right. Father,” replied the
elmr-h member, “but bring a one
horse wagon.” took his wife
Father Stimson to sup¬
per in a wagon hold with an ample hay-rick
that would a ha. -stack.
“ See here.” said the parishioner, us
he helped Mrs. Stimson out of the huv
ri k. “you said you were going to
bring a one-horse wagon, amt now
you’ve appeared with the most capa¬
cious hav apparatus 1 ever saw. ’
••Oh, l'vo brought the one-horse
wagon.” said Father Stimson. “but the
hav-rick—that’s a two-horse hav-rick.”
He ,lro\ e awav after supper with
twenty-two Fatiier hundred pounds the first <>; !i ty.
S'imsuii was to use
Gospel tents in the Wo-t He put them
up himself- A fellow who passed him
one morn ng ax he was hat'd at work on
I)is tent called to him in a lou I voice:
•• Hu do there! Arc you going to have
a circus?”
• Yes,” said tbe preacher, com and inning j
hi- w ork without looking up, " 1 m
looking for a baboon. Don’t you wan;
to hire yourself for one?”
Tho preacher was Chaplain iu tho ^
Ninth New York Cavalry in the war. :
Tin* Colonel was fond puddles of leading 'he th ■
soldiers drill, through and deep Chaplain at da !
regular tho one
rode around the puddle, an 1 tiic vb,
fell out of tho regular order. The Col¬
onel noticed it, and at the ele-se o th *
drill, when the officers name together,
said, with a sneer:
•• if Capta i Stimson is : ,fr:iid t ride
through muddy water for fear of soil¬
ing his clothing. I will cany him across
the puddle luvself.’’
“Thank vou,” the Chaplain provides said;
••but as the Government
horses. 1 don t see any reason why 1
should ride on a iaekass. ' — A’. 1. wet.
Whfk wo askfd onr girl to marry us
she an id ahe didn't n>ind--and we have
t-inoe found out that she didn’t— Toledo
A marit al*'
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Eight ladies have clerkships in tbe
Oregon Legislature. /
Oscua Wdudk has cleared about $15,
000 oat of his lectures alone.
It ie said that there are sine million
more paupers in England than voters.
A crayon portrait of Garfield has
been, by suggestion of the Queen, placed
in Westminster Abbey.
Gen. Grant has given it out at
Philadelphia again that he has no inter¬
est in politics or in the present cam¬
paign.
It is said that the Rev. Joseph Cook
is to be the editor of the new Congrega
tionalist paper which is to be started in
Boston.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Mabel Bayard, daughter of Senator
Bayard, to Mr. Samuel D. Warren, of
Boston.
Miss Norton, the young American
prima donna, is meeting with a great and
increasing success at the Grand -Opera
house, Paris.
Matthew Arnold has discovered that
the great want of the French is moral¬
ity ; of the Germans civil courage, and
af the English lucidity.
It is said that the invention and sub¬
sequent improvements of the American
plow made s'saving on last year’s crop in
this country of $ 90 , 000 , 000 .
Some one has suggested that Saturday
replace Thursday as Thanksgiving Day.
The idea is not a bad one, as the combi¬
nation of two holidays would be a satis¬
factory combination to most people.
Mr. Henry Villard, President of
Ihe Northern Pacific Railroad, has of¬
fered to endow Oregon University with
$50,000 if the State will increase its an¬
nual legislative allowance from $2,500 to
$5,000.
The steam yacht for Jay Gould, to be
completed by spring, will be constructed
of iron and Bteel, and have steel boilers.
It will be 210 feet long, 27 feet beam,
and 16 feet deep, and will have 1,500 in¬
dicated horse power.
The fastest long run by railway ever
made west of Chicago was that by the
Burlington special train which brought
the Vanderbilt party from Burlington—
207 miies—at the average rate of fifty
nine miles per honr.
By the death of Sir George Gray, Mr.
Gladstone now sits at the Privy Council
as the senior commoner, having “ kissed
hands on his appointment forty-one
years ago last September, when the
queen had been only four years on the
throne.
The late Daniel Cook, of San Fran¬
cisco, left a fortune of about $1,500,000.
He was as poor as poverty itself in 1858,
but between that time and liis death, at
the age of forty-five years, acquired
from books an education, and from mines
piles of gold.
Mr. Tilden is described by the
Yonkers Gazette as greatly enjoying the
newspaper reports of his feebleness,
wldie he takes two carriage drives a day,
usually an hour’s walk, and frequently a
ride of some distance. His eye ic bright,
and his mind clear and quick.
TnE wampum belt which Wra. Penn
gave the Indians in port payment for the
territory now known as Pennsylvania,
afterward reclaimed and held as an heir¬
loom in tho Penn family iu England
until 1856, is iu the museum of the His¬
torical Society of Pennsylvania.
Abdul Kerim Pasha El-Zahab, who
is shortly coming to this country to
make arrangements for the emigration of
oertain of Arabi Bey’s followers, is one
of the most noted Oriental scholars. He
was graduated at Cambridge University,
England, and he has translated Homer
Into Arabic.
An English artist has come over to
make studies for a painting of the battle
iu Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864—Far
ragnt’s great victory. The painting is a
private commission, but, when eom
pleted, an engraving will be published at
London, and the work itself may be ex¬
hibited in America.
Estimates of the damage done at
Alexandria during and after the bombard¬
ment vary widely. Claims made by the
owners foot up to nearly $17,500,000;
but it is saiijl that an eminent authority
h as expressed a willingness to rebuild
and refurnish the entire property de
stroyed for $6,250,000.
A vtt.lun. who claims to be an officer
In the British army that invaded Egypt,
made a cold blooded confession to the
London Vanity Fair. “ After some
Egyptian wounded fired on our men,”
he says, “I ordered every wounded man
to tie bayoneted. No end of officers and
men were killed . in . that ... way.
Alexander H. Stephens declared in
a recent speech at Macon, Ga., that the
rheumatism which has disabled him
from walking for the past twelve years,
was contracted during bis imprisonment
in Fort Warren after the war. “ I was
put in a duugeou low dow n,” he says,
“damp, dripping ... with ... water . ; walls „ fave -
feet thick. I was there three months.
That,” he added, -“is a part of my war
record.” ___
Anv* Dickinson writes to the Phfla
delphia Press to say that she has been
slandered by the report that she had
declared against woman’s suffrage. “No
one bat a fool would believe the story,”
she adds. She may have remarked that
there was too much voting, but if venal
men have the right, venal women should
enjoy the same privilege, The life com
panions ot male brutes “ should have on
protection and defense. ^
band a staff of
A Connecticut thread manufacturing
company had planned to exhibit at the
Boston fair the old fashioned way of
spinning and weaving cotton in the
Sonth, but have struck an unlooked for
snag. Their Georgia agent writes them :
“I had arranged with one negro man
and four negro women to go to the Bos¬
ton fair to spin and weave, and should
have been there now. but some fool
circulated a story that they would lie
sold when I got them to Boston, and all
thunder couldn’t convince them to the
contrary. ”
____
In several provincial districts oi Fin¬
land a religious sect has appeared, based
upon the fundamental principal of “fe
male supremacy and male subjection.”
Husbands and lovers bind themselves
by oath to wear whatever yoke their purt
ners choose to place upon them, and
furthermore to make uursei Veil
confession once a week of ail delinquen¬
cies. A woman who has been chosen by
her sister rulers to exercise unlimited
authority within the community, allots
the penalties, which are promptly in¬
flicted by resolute matrons.
Thrifty Farming.
A great deal of the work in the newer
farming districts of the State is done by
nten of small n ea-ns, who often have
not finished paying for their land.
Sometimes they complain that it is hard
to get ahead, and it is true indeed that
many drawbacks exist which it is hard
to overcome No matter if the crop
fails the family must be supported, and the
ordinary expenses borne the taxes
and interest provided admitted, for. the All agricult¬ this,
however, truth being that failure
ural re i a ins oftenest
comes from want of care and economy,
want of observation, and want of ener¬
gy, or stated as a whole, thriftiness. Of
no industry on earth can it be more
truly said that “a penny saved is a
penny gained” Yet there is no in¬
dustry subject to so much waste as this,
none that needs more care to prevent
leaks, and few that recei.e less. Afarm
r glitly considered is a network of in¬
dustries, a vast combination of ma¬
chines. Nothing must be allowed to go
to waste. Indeed, this seems absolute¬
ly unnecessary with the varied oppor¬
tunities of disposing of all that is use ul
and using all lefuse as a fertilizer. But
this is not half the story. It needs ev¬
ery energy to develop the capacity of
the soil to receive fertilizers, to assimi¬
late them and to give them forth again
in bountiful crops. He must learn how
to cultivate the soil, how to drain it.
IVlien the soil and climate will produce
thirty bu-hels per act e why raise half that
quantity ? When sixty bushels of corn can
l e raised per acre why raise only thirty?
On land that can be made to produce
two one? tons If of it be hay lack why of fertilization be content apply with
that to be obta’ned to half the land. If
it 1 e for lack of labor to give proper
cultivat’on. far better to work half the
land and let the balance grow what it
will, to be fed off by tlie stock. The
new fa 1 ms but may good not farm be titted for high
farming, ng can be every¬
where applied. There is no need of
raising two head that of rattle easily to be produce
t he same n eat can grown
in one, wool nor of feeding two sheep to pro¬
duce that one can easily grow.
Nor is this a complete statement of
the manner in which success is wrought
out by the toiler. The farmer, all other
things being equal, who is most accus¬
tomed to studying crops elsewhere, re¬
ports, statistics, methods of farming and
all that, will gather the greatest profit
from liis investments and labor. When
even body is planting a certain crop he
w 11 not hasten to enlarge his acreage
of that- crop. When any crop is a drug
on the market he will not hasten to ig¬
nore its cultivation the following year.
Farmers more than any other class of
reople may live well at a little expend¬
iture of cash. On a thrifty farm near¬
ly all that is eaten can be produced on
the farm. In consideration of the fact
that a large proportion of the good
i flings of life in the food line can be and
are grown on the soil of our own cli¬
mate, it is lamentable to see how poorly
supplied are many farmer's tables with
these same articles, 't here c; n be an
endless round of fruits and vegetables
for the whole three hundred and sixty
fivo days of the tear. The whole list of
grains and meats can be had, ail of the
best dle-man’s quality and at cost price, no mid¬
commission or retailer’s profit
added.
It is true that the lack of ready mon¬
ey often prevents farm improvements.
Money could be used to good advantage,
if only money could be had. Labor is
costly and on new farms it does not
bring ready returns, while most of it
goes into improvements. capital oniy in the Hand wav of per¬
manent la> or
especially is expensive and slow un i he
farmer must as soon as possible ava 1
himself of all the help attainable in the
way of machines and mechanieal helps.
clnli In newer together neighborhoods purchase arnier’s stock can
for ot or
implements otherwise quite beyond their
reach. seed They drills, can ditchers, buy mowers, dredgers, harvest¬ levee
ers,
builders and many other useful and !a
b. r saving implements; a’ways remcm- when
boring that the oo asions are tew
it will pay to run in debt for anv of
these. Pay day always comes and the
expectations and often tall short — D-^ruit
Post '1 r. bunc.
—Robert Burns once in a while h't
hard at our weaknesses [s he drawing
your picture when he sings:
Hut Human lioilles f.ta> »ie foots.
For h’ their col«ejres an i s -li *>is,
That when mo real ills p rpl Vm
They make enow them&eive* to v«z'e%
Profitable Investments.
Tbe safest and most profitable invest¬
ment that can anywhere be found at
this time for money, the use of which ?
unit needed for a lew selected years, real is estate m
purchase «f well
This general fact probably no uiM.ig.-nt
man would dispute, though some men
deny the application to particular interests cases it
when it dots"not suit their
is well recognized that real .state hills
faster, as* rule, and iurtlier when times
aie good, than any other hind of piop
•ertv < f real and solid value, ihe in¬
trinsic value changes on’} with the
growth of a community or Stab-, or the
improvement of means of communication;
so that for production or use in residence
or m commerce the value may increase
rapidly aad greatly, but cau decrease
slowly and moderately. But the price,
on the contrary, depends upon a murkt t
that is more variable than almost any
other. At times real estate is who 1}
unsaleable, no matter what its rea
value or its price may be. At otiiei
times it i6 the object of the wilde.-u
[■peculation, with a very little reference
to the present legitimat ■ demand. As a
consequence when real estate is not
wanted, it sells for a song or not at all;
hut when it is wanted, tlure is scarce],'
any limit to its p ice. Hence, long¬
headed men are always o:i the alert t
get possession of real estate after ever.'
period of great depression; to such
shrewd purchases the whole or great pm t
of almost every colossal fortune may be
traced. We are just emerging from In- a
period of unexampled prostration. fallen, I it
price of real estate has as
usually does at such times, in greater
ratio than that of almo-t any other class
of property of substantial cliaract er. Now,
if iver, the purchase of real i state may
he considered certain to yield excep¬
tionally large profits, if the property is
judiciously selected.
Another fact, which, as a general that one the
no intelligent man will deny, is
advance iu the price, as a rule, is certain
to be greater in Western than in Eastern
real estate. Western States and cities
i. IV growing rapidly; Eastern slowly.
Every man knows the fact, and immense
volumes of statistics could be given to
prove or illustrate it; and yet there are
some men who refuse to admit the
obvious consequence. New York City is
growing in population at the rate of
seven per cent, in five years, and the
State at the rate of 7.2 per cent,, while
Chicago or St. Louis gains 50 or 60 per
cent., and Kansas 100 per cent., and yet
some persons refuse to see that the
value of property in the Western city or
State is certain to increase iu the long
run, and, as a rule, railroads more rapidly than
the Eastern. New and greater
reduction in the rates of freight are con¬
stantly adding enormously to the value
of Western property, and as yet so potent
are interested motives iu blinding men,
that there are some who still insist that
real estate loans in Western cities and
States as a rule, are less safe than loans
on Eastern property, where multiplication
of roads is slow, and tends mainly to
divert residents and industries trom
cities that are already over-crowded.—-
1Vew York Public.
The Expensiveness of Modern Warfare.
The cost of modern warfare is so
great it probably deters nation s from
getting into ser ous troubles, and for
that reason aids in making arbitration
popular the Some bombardment idea of the Alexandria expensive¬
ness of of
in July last may be gathered from the
co-t O- each round fired by the iron-c'.ad
fleet. Ever, - round fired from the
eighty-ton guns on the In "exible cost
$127.50 per gun. The twenty-five-ton
gun-, of which the Alexandra carries
two. ihe Monarch four and the Teme
raire four, cost. $85 per round per gun.
The Alexandra eighteen-ton guns, of which the
carries ten, the Sultan eight,
the Superb sixteen, and the Temeraire
four, cost $26.25 per round per gun.
The twelve ton gun , of which the In¬
vincible carries ten, the Monarch two,
and the Sultan four, cost 81 8 per roun I
per gun. The Penelope, which alone
carries nine-ton guns, has eight of them,
which were di charged at a cost of
$18.75 per round per gun. The Mon¬
arch and the Bittern each fired one >ix
and one-lialf-ton gun, the co-t being
88.85 | er round per gun. The Beacon
and the Cygnet have two sixty-four
pounders which each, $4.50 the cost round of discharging gun".
was per per
The the Penelope Beacon carries forty-pounders, fiteeforty-pound¬ and
ers, two
the Bittern two forty-pounders, the co-t
of discharging which was $8 per round
per gun. in addition to this there is a
sum to be calculated for the firing of
the smaller armaments of the C\ gnet.
Condor and Decoy. Be-ides the a am
ago done to public and private bombardment, buildings
in Alexandria by the
Egypt will have an enormous bill to pay
for fleet missi in es causing and powder the de.-truction expended by
the on
-1 ore.— Kxcianar.
Mine. Gwelf.
There is nothing in royal rank to de¬
prive its holders and their families of
any advantage derivable from having a
surname. Bourbon, Romanoff, Wittels
bach, Nassau, Braganza, AVasa, llohen
zollern, Jagellon, Habsburg, Valois, Stewart,
and Hohenstauffen are aM
cases in point: and as regards Queen
Victoria’s children, their family name
is their mother’s, not their father’s, as
her rank was so much superior to his,
and she was the neiress of a greater
family. And her family name is Gwelf.
When a late Duke of Brim-wick was
outlawed for debt in this country i
remember that, the proclamation of out¬
lawry was directed against “George
William Frederick Gwelf, Esq., com
moaly cdled Duke of Brunswick.”
There arc, no doubt, sovereign houses
whose members do not use any sur¬
names, but in some of these cases they
possess them. Teat of the Saxon House,
for example, is VVettin, the surname of
that Elector Frederick who was grand¬
father of the Ernest and Albert from
wh m the two main b'&nches of the
family are name 1. And the royal house
of Italy ha- used Savoy as its famly
name for many centuries,from Boniface,
of Savoy, Archbi-hop of Canterbury in
tie ' hirtcentb century down to ‘‘Eugenio
von S ivoi 17k c.” Spectator. i he c dieague of Marlbor
ouga.—
WIT AND WISDOM.
—An exchange asks: “What is Pe¬
troleum?” It is a very easy method of
getting Marathon rid of fire-kindli%g servants—
Independent,
—A Baltimore belle has married a
policeman. His beat was in front of
her house for over a year, and she no¬
ticed that he never snored.— Philadel¬
phia News.
—In 1859 eleven cam Delaware managed to
ship all the peach crop of that
was sent outside of the State by rail.
To-day it takes sixteen engines, 400 cars -
and ninety-six men.
_A correspondent wants to know
“how we pronounce Ras-el-Tin?” We
don’t pronounce it at all; we only write
it. Do you suppose we read the
papers to the -subscribers? —Courier
Journal.
—The Egyptian war will give about a.
hundred paragraphers the opportunity
to say that the Bedouins arc no great
sheiks, and that no matter how they are
treated they will always Be-do-in some¬
thing atrocious and inexcusable. War
is, indeed, a great evil. — Texas Siftings.
—A Chicago lady who had gone into
tbe country at the invitation of some'
relatives, wrote toiler husband: “Dear
Charley—When I left homo Send I forgot ta¬
bring my slippers vvith me. them
at once.” She received a telegram th®
next day to the following effect: “Ex¬
press companies can’t spare the roomi
to transport them. Buy a new pair.”—
Brookltjn Eagle.
—Courage.—“Suffering sisters,” ex¬
claimed the speaker, from energetically her head
shaking the hair pins will ob¬ in
her excitement, “women never
tain their rights until they display more
courage. Let me say to you, in the
words of a famous French orator,
‘Courage! courage! courage!’ ” At this,
stage of the proceedings caterpillars somebody the
threw a box of upon
platform and the meeting broke N. up in
great terror and confusion.— Y. Post.
—A nouveau riche had his house
robbed of several valuable pictures. He
appreciated them because they cost him
a great deal of money, and when lie
made his appearauce in an art-shop he
was in a very excited state. “I want
you to get my do pictures mean?” for me,” replied he
said. “What you
the polite attendant other “Why, night, I was
robbed of them the and I
come to you for satisfaction,” was the
answer. “But, my dear sir, we are not
receivers of officers,” stolen goods, said nor are dealer. we
detective the
“ Then,” shouted the indignant million¬
aire, “you had better take in your
sign, (Courier. ‘Oil-paintingsrestored .’”—Boston
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Prof. Store r, a blind musician of
North Ad Mass ., has been appoint .
ed a teacher n the Royal College for
^ Bliml at London .
^ J Collins ~ is . paying . the ,, pen-
1 cle
. trespassing tbe capacity
upon
ot that most abused organ of the hu¬
man anatomy—the eye. His sight read is
failing, and he can no longer or
write. He is Y. dependent upon an aman¬
uensis.— N. Independent.
—Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of
New York, insists that he is an old man,
and it is true that ho suffers from physi¬
cal weakness in his legs, w'hich disables
him seriously in walking; but he retains
his old simplicity of manner and con¬
versation. as well as vigor of mind.—
Chicago Journal.
—Mr. and Mrs. Squibbs, of Sullivan
Count\ r , Tennessee, were married about
two years ago, and now seven little
Squibbses make it interesting for the
fond parents. Three of them were
born about a year ago, and the quar¬
tets are but a week or two old. This
squib is the eighth.
—William S. Jett, the man who led
the soldiers to the hiding place of
Wilkes Booth after the assassination of
President Lincoln, and who, for his
connection with the capture of Booth
and Harold, has been immortalized in
history, was a few days ago sent to the
M aryland State Insane Asylum a raving
lunatic.— N. Y. Herald.
—One of the most noted women in
New York journalism is Miss Middy
Morgan, who does the cattle reports for
four New York papers, among them the
Tribune and knowledge Times. She has acquired and
a fund of oi cattle
horses, both on the farm and turf, which
may be envied by the most experienced
male sportsmen.
—Mr. Mudford, who controls the Lon¬
don Standard, is sometimes called the
“irresponsible editor.” tho Though the late he
owns no share in paper,
proprietor’s confidence in him was so
great that he provided in his will that
Mr. Mudford should have sole control
of the paper while he lived, or as long
as lie might see fit to retain it.
—It is not generally known, says the
Philadelphia Press, that Mr. Joseph
Sailer, who has recently retired from,
the financial editorship of the Phila¬
delphia Ledger, was not only the oldest
editor in that position in this eouutry,
but the first to write a regular money
article for any daily paper, as the
Ledger was the’first in this country to
print r. money article.
—In a little red cottage on the shore
of a lake called the Bowl, near Lenox,
Mass., Hawthorne wrote “The House
of the Seven Gables.” Mr. J. T. Fields
used to tell of carrying out to him there
one hundred dollars in advance of work,
but after accepting. Hawthorne’s sensi¬
tiveness found the obligation irksome,
and he handed it back. “Take it,
Fields." said he: “the house isn’t big
enough to hold it”
—The bad cow-boy from Bitter Creek
was on the Comstock last night. He
went into the Gem saloon and tiius de
scribed himself: “I’m a race-horse in
•in advance and a tortoi-e in retreat!
When you hear my voice above the
racket you kin begin to measure off
land for a graveyard!” Ab nit this time
the “race-horse” f mud himself doubled
up in a corner, blood and as he sadly wiped and
the dripping from his nose
bulging upper lip he e\e ! aim- j d: “I
d dn’t mean to e ist no -Jurs onto this
place, for here 1 know the land's meas—
urc<1 off and 'he graveyard established.”
— Virginia (Nee.) Enterprise.