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HAMILTON GXO&OIA
NEWS GLEAf
For the first time in thirty-one years
the postal service is not a burden to the
Treasury.
A rich tin mine, said to be the only
one in the United States, has been dis¬
covered in Clay county, Ala.
The empress of Russia received by
actual count 6,000 begging letters in one
week in Rome, and they tay Minister
W. W. Astor has received nearly as
many.
The Savannah (Ga.) News predicts
that as much money will lie invested in
cotton factories and cotton-seed oil
mills in the South next year as there
has been this.
Processes have recently been patented
in Paris for making red and white wines
from red and white beets, that are said
to be equal in every respect to many of
the wines of the grape.
Exile for life, instead of imprison¬
ment, is the punishment decreed for
Arabi Pasha. To save trouble no doubt
he pleaded guilty to the charge of re¬
bellion and was sentenced to death, and
the sentence was commuted.
Ihe Board of Audit on the Garfield
claims have made the fowing allowances
to physicians: Dr. Bliss, $6,500; Dr.
Frank Hamilton, $5,000; Dr. Agnew,
$5,000 ; Dr. Reynolds, $4,000; Dr. Boyn¬
ton, $4,000 ; Mrs. Dr. Edson, $3,000.
The German government has resolved
to extend the ordinence of 1880 which
forbids the importation of minced pork
and sausage from America. The new
ordinance forbids “the importation of
pigs, pork, bacon, lard and sausages of
all kinds.”
H. A. P. Carter, the Hawaiian diplo¬
mat, who visted this country to try a
colonization movement among the sur¬
plus negroes at the South, says that the
growing industries of the section made
it evident that there would soon bo am
T>1*» demand for all resident labor.
Dr. 1 .nk Dimikon, one of the con
fe'iltinr. -firrici- • in ! arfield’s case, now
aeterls ij «t unfortunate President
was doe:- 10 u* irit with morphine by
niom iifJr. Ill las after the use of
the drug su been prohibited by a coun¬
cil of t!..‘ medical attendants. It is
probable that Bliss will sue Hamilton
for libel nnd then the evidence will be
produced.
Texas is very liberally supplied with
insane people, there being at present
two thousand such persons under tho
care of the Stute, and a largo number
for whom there are no accommodations.
It is proposed to spend $500,000 next
year putting up more buildings for th
accommodation of the insane. The
ti'iilnm/' 1 ' '-r nion< T> ^ iero ,je * n g
$.,000,000 in the 1 reasury.
A new fashion to signalize is that of
spoon-shaped bonnets. They do not
< .... 1 a,*~i.. t ght above v ,ii the head, . as did
that of a similar form which were in
vogue some fifteen years ago, hut tho
p»int ov„ ih, T ,„.. b „,„.
‘ ° * lir th *y ftre ,n dark velvet, with the
fronts lined with pale colored satin,
Another new fashion is the custom ’
adopted v... by young society men. of , carry
ing canes to the opera—not little deli
rate switches, but good sized, solid, sub
atantial sticks.
Soldiers u .,. ... foreign . lands , easily „
in are ex
cited in battle. It is only the American
warrior who keeps cool. ‘There were
tula f:7‘ at Gettysburg v ick and “* ........* turned into i*.e the
Washington arsenal, of which about
24,000 were loaded. About one-half of
this number contained , • % two . charges t each, ,
and the remainder one charge. The
largest number of cartridges found in
any one • piece was tweuty-three. In
some cases the paper of the cartridges .
was unbroken, and in others the powder
was uppermost.
Atlanta Confltitution: Ton, Nntt.n,
local p. ssenger agent for the Memphis
and Charleston road, passed through the
city yesterday with sixty-seven converts
..... to tho Mormon faith , who , are going , to
Utah. The entire party were residents
of llabertdiAm county, and were con
verted in that countv and joined the
church before leaving Of the sixty
seven only , seventeen were men. ww Many
of the women were mere children. A
woman had with her three babies, trip
leu. which she carried in a basket The
railway ... fare paid ., by
was an association
in Salt Lake, which sent the money to
Georgia some week* ago.
Tb, N.w Ort.mn, Ti—IW*.
has sent an exploring ” party to the ccle
. hrated , Everglade* „ , , of Honda, , . , , famous .
in
poetry and history, yet a mysterious re
gion, of which os little is known as of
“the dark continent.” The expedition *,
will ... not , . be unattended , , with ... dangers,
and the result of it will he of great in
terest to the thousands interested in the
“Land of Flowers” and iU development,
Starting from the source of the Kissi
. the , expedition ... will descend , ,
mee river,
stream iuto the celebrated Lake
‘■ ■ >i m the center of the
f
Peniosuls After thoro It aly investi
gating this lake and the character of the
lsnds sur it, the .pedition will
proceed d u » the ‘ ulf, through
the Caioosa. . a* other rivers and
the canals of ’ ■ a Company,
reaching . a- s 'u' •* Rasa.
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Welsh Choirs
The members composing a choir are
often scattered over a wide extent of
territory—so that regular weekly, or
even monthly, meetings instance, of the choir are
impossible. For one of the
choirs in the late contest has a mem¬
bership spread over a district forty
miles in extent, with no means of com¬
munication but the rough country
wagon or the long tramp learned, afoot. the When
a new chorus is to be vari¬
ous members will procure, if they can
afford it, one copy for each member of
ihe family, or, the if whole the work family. is expensive, Then
one copy for
the neighboring families will meet once
or twice a week at each other’s houses,
the best reader among them is appoint¬
ed leader, and they go to work with no
instrument but a piteh-pipe t or Handel tuning
fork, to master the fugues of or
Haydn. There is something these almost hard- pa¬
thetic in the picture of
worked men and women, and even little
children, meeting thus, surrounded by
the grimy waste of a mining district,’
and setting to work with loving patience
to master, unassisted, the musical
thoughts of the greatest genius. When
all these small parties have mastered
the chorus—which they do so thorough¬
ly that they commit it to memory—a
meeting of the whole choir is held, num¬
bering from 10 to 300, in some church,
or sc ;hool, or railway station, and the
leader of the choir, himself usually a
miner, holds a grand review of the work
done by his lieutenant. The whole work
is gone over carefully and thoroughly, old
and, after the singing of some of the
home songs in the mother tongue, the
various groups separate for the long
walk or ride through the woods and
over the mountains, to repeat the
process with another chorus, The
choirs that live-in»tho neighborhood advan¬ of
towns have, of-course, many to'
tages over those that have conduct
their rehearsals in this fragmentary way,
having the opportunity of frequent meet¬ their
ings and the constant presence of
regular leader, and in some instances
the aid of instruments.
One of the chief characteristics of the
singing of these Welsh* choirs is their
con fidence and vigor in attack, a quality
that is sadly wanting in nearly all our
choruses; this is probably owing choir to the is
fact that every member of the
so confident of his knowledge of his
part that lie never feels it necessary to
lean on his neighbor or wait for him to
show him the way. It is also remarka¬
ble with them that, although the sing¬
ing at their concerts is always unac¬
companied, they rarely vary from the
pitch, even the long and difficult chorus
that concludes Mendelssohn’s “Hymn
of Praise” being, sung by nearly all fall¬ tho
choirs in their late contest without
ing or rising from the pitch. Their
weakest point is the quality ot the tone
—this, probably owing to the laijge
number of boys and girls with unformed
voices, and devoid of knowledge of how
to use them, is inclined to be nasal, on
the higher notes somewhat harsh.
These are blemishes, however, for
which they are not responsible, and
they in no wiso detract from the real ex¬
cellence of their performances.— Phila¬
delphia American.
__
Testing a TrottUv Team.
An Appleton business man wanted a
span of horses, and ho wanted pretty
fast ones, but he didn’t know much
,lmt kind of 8tock ‘ A horso
dealer had team that was reported ,
a
p ro tty f as t, which he would sell cheap.
The merchant took tho team to drive a
little, and got a friend in/with him. and
;adr, t 8 xs»“u* t h, n ^ir
while the merchant stood on the judges’
stand und timed them. Tho team went
around pretty good, and the merchant
looked at his watch and got in tho
waRon . Tho friend askod him *hnt
time they made, but ho said “never
mind.” Ho drove down to the horse
dealer and paid him the money for tho
horses and drove off with his friond.
Bnd when they turned a corner and got
out of sight of the horse dealgr, the
nierehant said to his friend: “That’s
friend looked astonished and asked:
“What time did they make, honestly?”
Tho merchant said: “They trotted in
three minutes without a break. Ihe
fri(>nd i ooked M , ho „ sh he was not
much surprised, bad. and finally said: fast.
“That is not so but it isn't
That ,! 8 a ‘ ,h ® ra,0 ,° f a mile 'J 1 min :
nlos.” The merchant turned pale and
Ka ui : “Why, how’s that?” "Qh.” says
the friend, with a yawn, “it is a half
milo track, von know." Tho friend
St? h. SS&JSi
sorts of chronios if the friend would
never say anything about it, and wo pro¬
? Hn, « he has n'.it The team is deliver
ing * \ groceries now, and hauling slabs
tr m milL -Peek's Sun.
_ A , oke turned out to be a serious
thing a few* days ago, Jirkins costing Brinks, several
thousand dollars. & at
Foplar Head, Ala., have been running
»prosperous ^ { steam cotton gin. Last
w ek ( n0 of tho ^ C amo out of the
lint room covered with tho lint, and in
order to frighten him another boy struck
* 1raat c h ! ou A h, ‘, d il off ' I he " ind
blow* the . , fire in the lint room, the cotton
ignited, and soon tho whole of building
was in fiames. Twenty bale-s cotton*
a quality of cotton seed, the en
—-—-—:- -
—An . excellent shamooo is made . of .
of Urt ar, white castile soap, hay
rum, and lukewarm water. The salts
will remove all dandruff, the wap will
soften the hair and clean it thoroughly,
-and the bav rum will prevent takiug
co i d ._ t >M< m5 e.
_ To prevent choking, break an egg
into a cup and give it to the person
choking to swallow. 1 he white of ihe
e K* s~nu to catch anmnd the-obstacle
and remove it. If one egg does not an
BWW the purp ose, try another. The
white is all that is necessary-
TVttttS UP THE DAY.
Form Presbyterian alergymen in Phil
delphia have lately adopted the custom
of wearing gowns in the pulpit.
Lilian Whiting says that in Boston
theatres “itis almost as usual to seetwc
ladies come in together as it is a gentle
mau and a lady.”
The fact is now recalled that Gover¬
nor-elect Pattison was formerly a base
ball player, having been a member of
the Parry Clay Base Ball Club of Phila¬
delphia in 18G8.
Miss AnnaDickinson denies the report
that she has withdrawn from the stage.
She says she is under engagement to lec¬
ture and read plays, aud to act in the
Western States.
Mr. Thttrlow Weed Barnes says no¬
body knows the exact value of his
grandfather’s estate, bnt that it is about
$1,000,000, and is chiefly in railroad and
Government bonds.
A Baptist minister of Marysville,
Tennessee, recently declared that he had
been restored to life after being dead
three days, his return to the world being
for the purpose of evangelizing it. His
work, however, was stopped, because he
undertook it naked, and he is now in an
insane asylum.
It is said there is living in Cumber¬
land, Maryland, a soldier who was
wounded in the battle of Gettysburg,
and the wound, in healing up, shortened
his right leg so that he became perma¬
nently lame. Recently he had bis left
leg shattered at the thigh, and when he
recovered it was found that his left leg
was also shortened so as to be on a par
with the other, and he now walks with¬
out limping.
Experiments recently made in Ger¬
many promise to overcome the difficulty
heretofore experienced in the use of the
telephone for long distances where the
wires are laid underground. The details
of the new scheme are not made public,
but it was found on the underground
cable that runs from Cologne to Elber
fold that messages were safely conveyed
a distance’of more than thirty miles,
and this in spite of the fact that the rest
of the wires in the cable were used at the
same time for other purposes.
A Paris actress avers that eacli per¬
fume has its special moral and physica 1
qualities, which—so far as her observa¬
tions have gone —she states as follows :
Musk predisposes to sensibility and
amiability; rose, to audacity, avarice
and pride; geranium, to tenderness ;
violet, to mysticism and piety ; benzoin,
to dreams, poetry and inconstancy ; mint
and verbena, to a tasfe for the beautiful
arts; camphor, t.» stupidity aud hru
tulity , Russia leather, to indolence,;
while ylangvlang is tho most dangerous
of all.
The Washington Post relates that a
few evenings ago Col. Emil ’Frey, the
Swiss Minister, was in the House res¬
taurant, Washington, with Gen. R. D.
Mussey when General Longstreet en¬
tered. Col. Frey turned to Gen. Mus¬
sey and asked who that gentleman was,
and npon being told requested an iutro
luotion, saying by way of explanation
that General Longstreet took him pris¬
oner at Gettysburg, sinoe which time he
had not seen him. Thereupon the two
veterans, once enemies, were introduced,
warmly shook hands and spent an hour
or so in pleasant conversation.
Thr Dublin (Ireland) Freeman s Jour¬
nal admits that the spirit of Nihilism
seems to actuates desperate organizatiou
whioh has its headquarters in Dublin.
English newspapers compare the state of
the country to that of Russia. A leading
journal says: “Ireland has outgrown its
existing system of government, and, un¬
able itself to change it, is writhing con
vulsivelv iu the shackles imposed upon
it. Tho servants of the Government live
in terror of their lives, aud are protected
from assassination solely by body-guards
>f police and soldiers. It is exactly the
same state of affairs as exists iu Russia,
and it is marvelous that our statesmen
will not recognize it.”
Owing to the boldness of train robbers
and the uumlier of bad or suspicions
characters infesting the towns and
•ountry in the northern part of Texas,
the railroad companies are taking nnnsual
precautions to protect their trains. In
future all passenger and express trains
on the Texas amt Pacific road will carry
« strong force of State Rangers as a
guard between Fort Worth aud El Paso,
aud other roads will probably pursue
the same course. No capture has yet
been made of the men who attacked
i train ou the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe road a few days ago, but it is pretty
well established that one of them was
mortally wounded in the fight and died
next day near Cleburn, aud was secretly
buried by his comrades.
ATTORNEr-CrRNKRAI. BbEWSTRR has
.•ommuuicated to Congress his views
ipon the inadequacy of compensation to
Uni toil States witnesses in Western
states and Territories, lie believes the
present law causes many suits in behalf
of the Government to fail because of the
witnesses. He recommends the enact¬
ment of a law providing that witnesses
and jurors in California. Oregon, Nevada,
Colorado and the Territories be paid
actual expenses while attending Court,
in lieu of mileage and per diem now
allowed by law. He also suggests as a
remedy to overcome the complaint,
because the Judge who presides in the
District also sits in the Supreme Court
when his decision is reviewed, that either
an additional Judge be appointed in the
Territories, or that a Circuit Judge be
appoined as in the States.
The printing of Thurlow Weed’s death¬
bed statements in the New York papers
recently concerning the disappearance
of William Morgan after the publication
of his pamphlet entitled “Free Masonry
Exposed and Explained,” in 1826, has
created an astonishing revival of all the
incidents connected with that izyste
rious case. Prominent Masons through¬
out the country have been interviewed,
and all emphatically denounce the accu¬
sation of the complicity of their Order in
Morgan’s death, both false and*ridieu
lous. Morgan’s pamphlet was issued
during a heated political canvass in
which Mr. Weed was waging a bitter and
incessant war*against the disappear Masonic
Order,and Morgan’s misterious
ance was immediately seized upon by
Mr. Weed and extensively used in the
anti Masonio campaign, Whatever
may have been the fate of Morgan, it is
doubtful if the deep mystery surround¬
ing his disappearance will ever be satis¬
factorily solved.
The Cincinnati College of Music have
announced the third of their grand op¬
eratic fests to take place in the Music
Hall of that city, on January 29, 30
and 31, and February 1, 2 and 3, 1883—
embracing eight distinct performances.
The orchestra engaged for the occasion
will number one hundred pieces, and
over two hundred persons will partici¬
pate in the mass chorus. The combina¬
tion of musical celebrities will be head¬
ed by the renowned Adelina Patti. The
annual recurrence of these Opera Festi¬
vals is hailed with the greatest interest
by the pe:>ple of Cincinnati and contig¬
uous country, and by such enterprise as
the above has Cincinnati achieved the
reputation of being the Paris of America.
The operas to lie rendered at the ap¬
proaching Festival will embrace the fol¬
lowing: L’Africaine, Semiramide, Don
Giovaui, Mignon, William Tell, Aida,
Romeo and Juliet, LeNozze Di Figaro,
Lucretia Borgia, Le Prophete, La Fa
vorita and Lohengrin.
There is quite a stir in the higher cir-
3les of society at Detroit, Mich gan, on
iccount of anew departure bv the Sketch¬
ing Club, of that oity, an organization
composed of young society people. A
day or two ago an advertisement ap¬
peared in one of the local newspapers,
reading: “Wanted—Models—Male and
female. ” There were numerous responses,
but few being males and about twenty
five females. The person selected as the
first model is described as a young lady
of rare charms, a beautiful face and
splendid physique. She is reported to
dwell in one of the best quarters of tho
town, and said to be highly educated.
The conditions .upon which she consent¬
ed to become a model were that her name
should not be disclosed and that she^
should be allowed to wear a veil at pos
ings. Leading members of the club de¬
fend their action by asserting that there
can be no harm in studying from the
nude as long as the matter is properly
conducted. It remains to be seen whether
the use of a female model will be toler¬
ated in staid old Detroit.
Skating Costumes.
It mav be a trifle unseasonable to
speak ladies of’skating who indulge just in vet, that but pleasant for young pas¬
time, and wish to make costumes es¬
pecially for skating, it may not be out
of place to deserbe one which will
serve as a model from which to fashion
others. The material is dark blue lady’s
eloth, with trimming of deep red velvet.
The skirt is made rather short and quite
full. Six inches from the bottom is a
wide band of bias velvet, and this is the
only ornament on the skirt, The
basque, or rather waist, is made plain
and tight-fitting, and a wide belt of vel¬
vet is worn. The sleeves are very long
and tight, and the buttons are medium
size ot cut steel. The outside a garment garment
is ... made in ... the „„„ form _____ of „. a „ half-fitting quilted
long jacket, warmly lined with
satin of the shade corresponding to tho
velvet, and velvet forms the deep collar side
and cuffs and the lapels of tho
pockets, and the small double breast-pocket of
nigh on the left side, A row
large cut-steel'buttons, ornaments the
front of the jacket, and the cuffs and
pockets are trimmed iu the same way.
A scarf of red silk is worn close around
the throat with the ends tucked’ iu the
jacket in front, forra ng a full puff. The
cap is a Tam O’Shanter of red velvet
with a silk tassel hanging from the top,
and is worn forward and just tipped a
mere trifle to one side, giving a jaunty
and pretty siik appearance. shade Long the mittens vel¬
knit of the same as
vet, with fancy backs, are worn, the
wrists drawn high under the sleeves of
tho jacket and over the sleeves of the
dress. The whole costume is exceed¬
ingly neat and pretty, with no long and
ends flying to impede the progress
get in' other people's way. In these
days of roller-skates the older and
pleasanter pastime of skating on ice _ is
almost lost sight of. in the large cities
at least, and only those who are fortu¬
nate or unfortunate enough to live in
smaller places can indulge in the sport
in the old and most enjoyable manner.
—Chicaao Times.
—In England window curtains of
stained glass, for the lower half of the
window, are becoming usual, and are a
very great improvement upon and the wicker ugly
structures of woven wire
which have done service for so long a
time. “Those who know” assert that
these particularly pretty additions to
the windows will soon be equally usual
in New York residences.
Restlessness of Old Ape.
Those who have been ranch with the
aged here observed in them a chafing
against the infirmities of their years
which expresses itself in restlbssness
and desire for change. which They grow succeeded weary
of the inactivity has
the busier times, when they bore the
heat and burden of the day. And so
, sometimes they wander here or there,
dropping with chance in to visit acquaintance. a friend or talking trying
a
thus to while away ihe tedious hours.
In mistaken kindness and unkind affec
JSfi, tion we often oppress dear, aged pec
1J r p°e U rvfsTon Verj V^Lder
u
fulness which to us seems due to their
physical feebleness, as well as a fit re
turn for their care of us in earlier days.
is by them resented as restraint It
annoys them. Then, too, we try to
take all the work out of their
hands, and that they do not like. No
body, who has been active and useful,
en ;oys the feeling of being laid on the
shelf. Grandfather’s step i3 uncertain,
his arm is less vigorous than of olfl, but
he possesses a rich treasure of ex
pericnce, and he likes to be consulted,
it is his privilege to give advice:'his
privilege, too, at times to go into the
field and work with the youngest, re
newiDg his youth as he keeps bravely
up with hearty men not half his age.
Grandmother does not want to be left
out of the household work. When the
days come for pickling and pressed preserving, into
and the domestic force is
the service, who so eager -and full of
interest as.she? It is cruel to overrule
her decisions, to put her aside because
“she will be tired. Of course she wi
be tired, but she will enjoy the fatigue;
and rest the sooner for the thought world. that
she is still of use in the To
hose whose homes are ' honored- by
the presence of an aged parent we
would say, deal very gently with those
who are on the downhill of life. Your
own tkne is coming to be where they
now are. You, too, are “stepping
westward.” Sooth the restlessness of
age by amusement, by consideration,
by non-interference, and by allowing
plenty of occupation to fail .into the
hands that long for it. Only let it be of
their own choosing, and cease to order
their ways for them ds. though head they the
were children: A hoary at
fireside is a crown of glory to the house
where it dwells. The blessing of the
aged is as dew on the pastures, as the
falling of sunlight in asnadowy place —
(loldc.ji Bute. '
Jones’ Elbow.
There is no stove up in the Jones fam¬
ily sitting room this fall, and there isn’t
likely to be, for Jones says he isn’t go¬
ing to put the dratted thihg up, not if
he knows it, and Mrs. Jones goes round
shivering and inquiring what is good
for rheumatism, and all this discomfort
arose called from what a depravity sharp writer of inani¬ once
“the total
mate It things.” this Jones bought
was way: an
elbow for the stove, a kind of cut bias
and shirred affair, decidedly crooked,
and with a cruel, wicked eye. It wasn’t
very large, but it was an awkward
thing to carry. Then he little stopped at bag the
grocery And got a neat paper
of cranberries, and a dozen of eggs he
forgot when ordering supplies, also put
up in a puffer bag; and next lie boarded
a car for home. There was just one
seat left vacant, and no takers; so Jones
laid the elbow in that while be pakl h's
fare. Then he forgot the elbow* and
sat down gracefully , but noton abed
of roses; there was i about a dozen acute
angles to the elbow, and he got up again
and took it in his lap, but as lie did so
the bottom of the cranberry bag fell
out, and the red berries, slid in a shin¬
ing heap to the floor. Everybody
sm led, because Jones was totally un¬
conscious of the fact that his feet re¬
posed in a temporary cranberry bog of
the best Cape Cod fruit He was try¬
ing to and maintain keep the the stove-pipe equilibrium joint of the in
eggs hand the time; but egghad
at same one
jarred against it and was now busy lu¬
bricating the paper bag, and as the car
jolted along it gently insinuated itself
through the paper. Jones felt that a
catastrophe of some sort was imminent
and lie reached down and slid the cold
elbow under the seat. The moment he
let go of the th ng it began to rock and
clatter as if it were possessed, and one
woman who had not been watching him
creamed out: "That’s a runaway com¬
ing.” Then all the other women in the
car jumped up, pulled the bell strap,
and screamed: “Save me! 6ave me!”
Meanwhile the eggs were slowly escap¬
ing, and Jones’ cream-gray pantaloons
were getting the benefit. In the im¬
mediate confusion he saw a chance to
escape, and beat a hasty retreat, leav¬
ing the cranberries and eggs in an in¬
glorious heap on the floor, and the stove¬
pipe under the seat of car No. 9. There
it clatters yet, and haunted; that is why people Jones
say that ear is but
knows better, only he keeps his own
counsel. — Detroit Post and '1 ribune.
ine inco me.
A Baltimore man who bought him a
farm two or three years a &o was re
cently approached by a friend who had
some money to invest, and who asked:
“Can I buy J a pretty fair farm for
$15 000?”
“Yes, about that fimire.”
“And I’ll want to lav out about $10,
000 in improvements, I'presume?”
“Yes, “And’ fully that.”
I can invest another $10,000 in
blooded stock?”
“I think you can.”
“And $5,000 more in grading, filling
up, creating fish-ponds, and so forth?”
“Well, ’ voa may get through with that
sum.”
“That’s $40,000; and now let’s figure
the income.”
“Oh you don’t need shadow pencil or paper,”
said the victim, as a of sorrow
darkened his face. “The income will
be about $3 for turnips, $2 for potatoes,
$5 or $6 for com, and a bull calf or two
at $3 a head. To save time, call it $ 25 .
I’ll see I’Ve you again in a day or
Ma ybe forgotten something which
will add a dollar more. Morning to
you.”—Wolf Street News.
lx some parts of Kansas fanners have
sown flax and spring wheat in the
same field. The profit either is said to be
greater than when crop is sown
alone.
PITH AND POINT.
—The unfavorable opinion of some
men is a compliment, ol
—One of the sweetest pictures blacking
iomestic economy is a poet *
white stocking so that it won’t show
ohrough the fissures in his boot.— Puck.
_.{’cable dispatch savs: “The False
p rophet ; 3 reported to be within three
march of Khartum This is the
' } i have had that Vennor
ftr t nt ; mat 01 , we
• traveling in E»TPt ° .—Norristown
°
Herald ‘
^ , 1 ,.
KSfiSfr circulated fromaver in the — interest
of those who suffer
their amateur neigh
Citizen. soda* ,
Won’t- you have a elass of ,
Dorothy? „ asked one
Houston s, the other night-. No,thi t
‘you,” was the reply; ‘I haven t any
cuffs on, and dassant raise my arm.
Yonkers Statesman.
—A little boy, showing great reluc
tanee to go to school one mornipg, was
asked the reason. “Because,” he an
swered, "the teacher said he was head.to- going"
to try to put an idea into my
day, and I don’t want him to be cutting
into my head.”
—it is customary to picture a gorilla hand,.
with the limb of a tree in his
which is a gratuitous insult on should the young
man who carries a cane, and no
longer escape the frown of an intelligent,
humane and justice-loving community,
_Boston Transcript.
—«» why do women so often wander
mlessly in the murky solitudes of the
dead past, ’ brooding ” over dsTys' forever is
f a sks a cor reg p 0 ndent. This
nJeed a difflcnlt J question to answer .
There past.-Chicigo are nQ dry oods Tribune. store3 in the
d ead
~~Why do , all ,, you Americans . say
deepo for station P English Tourist,
We don t. Some of'us say deppo, others
say davpo, and a few others depot. Now
tell us why you Englishmen say know “ye
knaw” every six words when you
we don’t know, you know. Philadel
phia . Fews.
—“It were better that you had a
grindstone about your neck—” “You
needn’t go any further with your re
marks,” said the farmer’s son. “I’ve
had that grindstone about my neck un
tH I’m tired of turning'it. Get some t
other boy.” And he footed it to the
city to become a horse-car driver.—
Boston Qlobe.
—Translated from the Omnibus: Pro¬
fessor—“Meier, where is your manu¬
script?” Meier—“I believe you have it
therein When have the hand.’||.Professor—“So?‘ it then written?” Meier
you the breakfast—
—“Sunday directly morning after.” at Professor—
or, rather,
“I see *here but no work. Will you
yourself convince ? The sheet is empty! ”
Meier—“Thunderweather! then have I
out of mistake instead of in the ink-glass
in the milk-glass dipped !”—Louisville
Courier-Journal.
—X. has just finished a volume ot
musical criticisms, in the course of
which lie has had occasion to deal with
the works and talents of his friend Y.
Unhappily, just as the book is going
through the press, the two friends have
a falling out. With great presence of
mind X. inserts a slip of paper in each
volume, thus inscribed: “Erratum: P.
54, 1. 21.—For ‘Y., the eminent com¬
poser and distinguished musician,’ read
‘Y., the idiotic organ-grinder and clum¬
sy and impudent plagiarist.’ ”— o/iicaoo
Tribune.
HUMOROUS.
—“What are “i’m you always thinking thinking
about, Ida?” always
about nothing, auntie. I never think
about anvthing unless I happen to
think of something to think about.”
—It now appears from the statement
of two of the best surgeons of this coun¬
try that tight lacing is not injurious to a
woman’s health. It is the cud of gum
she chews on which warps her out of
shape.— Detroit Free. Press.
—A young lady wrote to the Phila¬
delphia News inquiring: “How can I
avoid being addressed if I walk out at
night without a protector?” tartly' The ex¬
perienced editor of that paper re¬
plied: “ Wear an old shawl aud carry a
clothes-basket.”
—‘‘No, I don’t mind being called a
mastodon and a dodo,” sa : d an Illinois
J uilge; ‘ ‘but when that female said I was
a ‘two legged relic of a remote, barbar¬
ic period,’ I was compelled to tine her
for contempt ot court.—A’. F. Com¬
mercial Advertiser.
—No, we are pretty well satisfied
that there is no companion lo ihe lan¬
guage of flowers known as the lauguage
of food. If 1 here was such a book, it
would contain something like this: Hash
—innocence; 1 oarding-house steak —•
tender thoughts; sausage -kiyi; beans
—ciilehach; fish-balls—forget-me-not;
etc.— Puck.
■—A "society” item in a Philadelphia.
exchange says: “Miss Hattie Wood
has made several conquests during the
gala week.” We didn’t suppose Miss
riattie Wood act that way. And now
that she sees her con Inct repoitetl in tho
papers she will probably wish she hadn’t.
Mr. E lward Fitzsmythe, who parts lus
hair in the center, flirted with forty
seven girls during gala week—which is
considerably more than editor a gal a week—
but the this " society” lailed of intclh- to get
bold of important piece
gence. —A omstown herald.
—Mr. Isaac and Mr. Blumcnthal kept
rival clothing stores on the B.wcry,
within a few doors of each othi r. Mr. ■
Isaacs was always to be found with his
head out of the verda.it door, soliciting custom. Mr. J
from Blumenthal the objected passer-by. shoddy
to this (
that manner the of watchful doing business, Isaac had having captured found
several of his customers: and one day- l
he went up to Isaacs and said: ‘‘Book
here, Mr. Isaacs, vy don’t you keep
your ter get ugly a jackass face inside? to stand You py might de door, bet
He would pe a big improvement. ’
“\y,” said Isaacs, “I did try dot von
und all de people as dey pass p\ say t<
him: ‘Good day. Mr. Blumenthal;
see you’ve moved. —ThcJtulye.
_The London Lancet says that peo¬
ple who sneeze often are the healthiest.
A sneeze sets the blood circulating and
throws off a cold which is trying to seV
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