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VOLUME XL' XUMEER 11
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THE SAD FATE OF ANNABEL LEE.
5^l^tSSia;S Jnffi in db,1d0 th ° tiJe
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1 hat was °»r so I'lWslrafiroailVide, disastrous to
mo.
$he wns fair, amt I was youm 1 *—
1 awl my Annabel 1 .eo; '
6ay ™s?rsar"« that the see
^ ith the tatty very she car roof r rung
gave to mo*
S ie rich T naro ° 1 '- of that hectic noon
\vxM never lose terrors for
Vic stopped for grab, but mo,
>or the beautiful not too soon
For she faint Annabel Lee;
was as a hungry bear,
fcrom her ivory feet to her cardinal hair,
n as my beautiful Annabel Lee,
^ th8r °>
The pork and doughnuts, and pickles and
Audi -Disannul ttUahi in. UiAy'^Tdlnmio „ f • ,, . „
Had been it means
invested in mo,
Phe *^ e S!iTnnaUii e w Ot<lue0ns ’
looked no love, sho spake no speech
M.thhw-twaa a matter ol silence and reach,
My A little afraki ''aw loo mpdied to beseech
darting, my darling, my sweetheart ’ my
To let l on u,n thogi-u-b. <r 1 ,
Am; iliat is the reason that years gone by
WontIS’i^Le""rati vnd slid lip of,Lie ’
■r?,L , s 1 Ii;' vas !’" thof-i-uru-ey and her
:nan ! gastric force,
, horle? 1 *■’"»““«*■*<* “thoroughbred
Or a steam c-n-g-i-n-c.
Mvdfw.!L;T^i^w,m'tuplg Hy beautiful Annabel i.c<>. 1 1 t,, oaky !KJ|
And oft si<le, in the night tide liura on my right
fcUJJ wiestiiiKg that tough p-i-o.
— Drake's Travelers* Magazine,
Important Agriculture Statistics,
A writer in the International Review,
Xvlio seems to have drawn bis facts and
•figures from official sources, furnishes
some tion in interesting and important informa¬
regard to the increase of various
crops in this country. He says that in
the last fifteen years the production of
wheat and barley has trebled; com, cot¬
ton and tobacco more than doubled; hay
increased more than one-tiiird, and oats
almost 110,000,009 bushels. Here are
the statistics: In 18i!5 the wheat crop
756,000; was 148,553,000 bushels; in 3 4179, 448,
corn, in 1865, 704,427,000 bush¬
els, and in 1879, 1,544,899,000; oats, in
1869, 235,252,000, and in 1879, 384,253,
000, ley, rye, 19,544,009—22,646.000; bar¬
101,632,000—181,369,000; 11,391,000—40,184,000; potatoes,
000 tons—35,048,000; hay, 23,538,
009 pounds—to tobacco, 183,327,-
29.9,000 boles—5,020,000. 384,059,000; cotton 2,
Tlio writer attributes the increase in
cereals to the increased population and
development of the Western and North¬
western States. He says that during the
generation the corn has been
transferred from tlio South to the West,
and the -wheat centre from the Middle
States to the far West. In 1842, 59 pet
cent, and in 1859, 52 per oe.nl. of our
corn was grown in tho Southern States.
In 1877, 850,000,000 bushels came fix •m
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska. The product of
all the rest of the Union was only 494,-
658,000 bushels. The tobacco increase—
liias 100,000,000 been, jioumls from 1870 to 1878—
of course, mainly in the South,
the same section and same period
cotton has increased from 3,042,093 to
5,216,009 bales, Arkansas and Texes
being tho leading States in this ad¬
vance. In the former, 111,000,000 pounds
were raised in 1870, anil 318.000,000 in
1878; in tho latter, in 1870, 157,000,000
pounds, and in 1878, 500,000,000.
Only national about grain 9 per cent., it is said, of
tho crop is exported, in¬
cluding 24.76 par cent, bf the wheat, and
0.49 of tho corn. The total exports of
all grains were 39,000,000 bushels in
1868; ill 1878 they had risen to 189,039,
The exports are likely to increase
the production, though in a far
distant proportion; and the time is not
when the United States will
the dornio'ant power in the grain mar¬
of the, world.
The Perils of Pearl Diving. !
Tho number of shells is not any guide
the number of pearls, and even the
average which the diver may
of the value of the season’s collec¬
is, therefore, liable to be utterly
The shells themselves are, how
ever, of great commercial value, and often
yield a larger revenue than the season’s
find of gains, so that the diver really
never goes down in vain. The diver has
always encouragement in perilous labor;
and to the last, even when lie takes ^ lus
fatal dive to the waiting shark, he has
etill Hie fascination before him of a pos¬
prize that shall send him home to I
live at ease for the rest of his life. So
he calls out to the shark-charmer to
charm^liisbest, and, witli the delusne
speU ringing mills ears, 1
to death But themonster of the deep
that has been iymg wmtnig UtUe
under the shadow of the boat, cares
for exorcism or enehantm.ut a
aiver in the is boat never feel seen the again. rope sudden,.— J™
en and as suddenly raised, t e > hen
striiin tells its grim story at once, andt
the empty bucket comes gating up to
the surface, a message that
dead. In the vast majority of cases,
however, the divers grow oid a -
toil, neither meeting ;
King s ransoms m their gr)pm o: . .^
shell-strewn banks, and i-3 :
.
speak of it » “
ious means of UvelUi°oa, auu on „ - ia
which they seldom earn a competence
I jThe surrouncungs of their ^
squalid, almost revolting, for tb -
is heaped with decavung perpetually massM blows O tee
tors. a sea breeze ,
smell of them across the
,
the fishers, which ho st, . ern g ^'
a terrible sun, and but make !
with even the few tilings that go to
the Oriental comfortable, tobeylon
matters are but little better, and _
the divers are personally the c^oernea, mAi
in China and Japan lower orders. From
that attracts only the
these sources most df tne .gems of m r
markets are denved, but tee pern o,
ter is of such extensive doUnouUon, ad
creature of every shore, that nearly
countries contribute peans totne g-nersu
siock .—London Telegraph.
A wo*vc who haf four sous, all safl
ore compares rti herself with a vear, be
££ “,’se ~- has four seasons.—Kokomo
un
Stale Dinners,
Tiie customs of State dinners at the
White IIwisc Wo somewhat chanw-d tin
tier President Arthur, formerly the
threat East Room was not run h used oil
these occasions, the guests beinw re
ceived Parlor, by the President in the llluo
and thence escorted to the State
Dining-Room. Sow. however, the
i nests are receive 1 in the Past Room
and spend some time there before o-o
mg to the State Dining-Room, women
ailing slowly down the broad 'hall as
they pa-s from the reception-room * to
the tables.
The details of those State events are
quite interesting. The table in (lie
State Dining-Room in the \Vii liurty-six l" 1'olise
wi!1 seat, by etere ctowdinv,
people. Th 8. theb, is the limit of the
mi n, ber h* vilCi !« usually there are
not ( less . than thirty on these o eashms
Where it ia. convenient to do so. as
ra,w v hldies as gentlemen are in
.
v:ted. tliomdi at diulonniti • diuii-r-,
ll the 1 foreign
“ Min
,s oi 's hero , cm to be present
it is found imposs bio to woUhi seat as many at
the table as this plan require" so
that the rule it> not always followed.
The table is usually very handsomely
ornamented de w-th flowers, a huge flor.ii
cer-nWo, ign of some sort ai.pearino- one.-T a con
and smaller near the
ends. Two largo golden candelabra ,'er- or
bi'aHch'nw can'lllostieks, holding
haps a dozen candles hpioee, o u npv
places the oil t!:o table, one at cither end of
llorftl center-piece. These conta'n
the finest of wax candles, which arc
lighted just before the table dinner 1 egins.
Kear the ends of the are smaller
candelabra, With perhaps a half-dozen
cunillcs apiece, each having a Idle
pink-lined shade at the top supported
by a silver rod, which clasps the candle
near the bot tom.
The plates are place i “right side up
with care” about thirty inches apart
nround the table. < In each plate t! e nap
kin is laid, and on 1 he napkin the bouquet
—for the ladies a fiat corsage bouquet of
rosebuds, and .voinct’mcs lilies of the
gie valley; for the opened gentlemen rose-bud. usually a s'n
half Res ile
these is laid a card, one on each plate,
and on it the name of the person who ,s
to sit at this place.
The head of the table on these oo
casions is not at the cud, but in ti e
middle. The scat occupied by the Fees'
table, im A at the side • i ay next X, the door , S ° at , 0t which , ■ f
Iho guests enter. ho lady whom be
escorts to dinner sits at Ins right, and
t».o honored giiest on Ike occasion -sds
ilireelly.opposite ady his right the Those Presulenl, who with I. s
on arrnngo
the table and the order in winch lie
gues s s. , of course arrange so that
gentleman side under and wile do not sit side by
/'/ ariy ]' cn- an i’ um-tances...... 1 11 11 ° l I'.', 1 'V” . 1S
non-idem ]) • pr^plred
assigned to his place, a card placid is
for each gentleman lieaving and .u an
side cnvelopc this card his plan ram -. the On one
of is a of tub e,
with each seat numbered. On theothcr
side is the name of the lady whom lie is
to escort to the table, and .he numbers
of the seals Ihov are to occupy. The.-o
envelopes are banded to the gentlemen
as they enter, “shed and ’’ a soon as the gentle
man has his outer garment - ho
examines his card, curses or blesses the
fates which have consiguo 1 him to an
mi congenial ora congenial hie' partner lor
the evening, and 1. m to the Fast
Room, where, alter r ay in ; his respects
totlio President, lie limits up his lady,
and prepares for the evening. Mean
time, the famous Marine Band has taken
its })lace in half-hour the vestibule. in
After a sj)ent convorsa
tion in the East Room, the l res*dent
gives the signal to an attendant, wiio
passes it on to the baud, which .'trikes
up some appropriate selection, and the
President, giv ng his right arm dinner, to the
lady whom lie is to dining-room. escort, to The
leads the way to the
others follow, the ladv each designated gentleman bv giving h
his arm to s
card. The President usually takes to the
table the wife of the Secretary of State,
The promenade down the long and hall is
to the dining-room is very slow,
a striking and beautiful spectacle. The
ladies, of course, handsomest are in evening that cos
tunic—the money
and ingenuity can provide—and the lights the
gcntlemen in dress suits;
brilliant, the hall lined with (lowersand
tropical plants, and the music entnino
ing. Arriving at the table the guc-ts
are seated in their order, and the din
ner, which is usually in twelve or four
teen courses, with a half-dozen diiler
ent wines, occupies added, fully good. three hours, IVa*
aud, it may be is — .
inotou Cor. Chicaoo Journal.
Ask For It Like a Man.
Young man, when you see anytliing
you £ want, ’ ask for it like a man. If you
ant to b orrow ^ G f a man, or if you
want to marry his daughter, don’t slip up
^ ^ ^ ^ o;) to hat and talk .
politics £d and religion and wc-ather, and tell j
stale jokes whereof you can’t r, mem
ber tiie point, until you worry the old
ma u into a nervous irritation. Go to him
Ml head of steam on and pulling your
^ ^ opeu like an iron-clad
for a shore battery. ^ Snort and paw and
^ ^ ^ feeJ like it> no
matter if it docs make him astonished,
Better astonish him than bore him. Go
iuto bis heartj or l the us pocket-tiook, thing, like or
both, it amounts to same
a brindle bull with a curl on his forehead
charging a red merino dress, eyes on fire,
tail up. and the dust a-flying he Then
you'ii fetch him. Or, possibly you’ll may
f etc h VO u. But nevermind; ac
comptoh ^ something, and show you aren’t
^ to 8peak wbat - g on your mm-L
And that’s a great deal more than you
WO uld accomplish by the other method.
You need not Ire cheeky, but yon ought
t<> ^ ^ghtforwareL
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correspondent writing ,rom
j^ in= , gtOBj xj. Ah. says: “Here
, woman of some thirty-five She or ;or- has
^ ... „ ho is a wonder.
^ a )o? cabin . and d ,j ai!
^ WQrk horsel{ excep t putting up .he
^ She cut the log?, ha "‘ *
&d made the sh :ngie recently, S to cover it.
. ;riR . her ride in lot0 wn on a
hors-. In front of her « a deer she
hvl lust killed. You will probably
think she is a lovely widow, wuch
not the case- 8he has a husband, and
he takes care of the children.
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HAMILTON, GEORGIA, MARCH 16, M83.
Athericaiis in Europe.
A correspondent writes to the Spring
. hepubl The majority of
can
loans tvlien they come to Europe
! < >r ^ 10 ^ rs ^ a *° ai ' va ys amazed at
“0 1 exponse of foreign traveling. They
had always harbored tils llnpressiou that
Atlantic—railway **'•? co ? t of everything tickets; on this hotel side of bills, the
they etc -> wcro in nt America; le ast billy thie-half what
were but, on the con•
travel trar y> they here find than it it costs does much home. more to
at In
the best American hotels the price of
three and four dollars a day seems ex
travagnnt, V that but lii they, firsWiasa cannot comprehend foreign lio-'
W J S a
tel, three where the price day, of a room is only
or four franca a and the other
charges seem so moderate, their lulls
foot up to such high figure*.
VV bile tftkuig my break taet one toorn
ing At the Hotel Chatham ih Paris, five
Americans entered the dining-room and
Bitated themselves at a table near mo.
There was the father and mother, a son
°‘ about 14, and two daughters about
10 and 12. From their conversation I
learned it was their first trip to Europe,
and landing that they had come directly to Paris
dn had at Liverpool, meal” and had no
a “square since they left
home. After canvassing among them
selves as to what tlieir appetites craved
and demanded oil the bill of fare, the
head of the family gave the
waiter the lollowmg order ; Five plates
of melon, which were then very ex
pensive, five fried soles, five pots of cof
fee, five ham and eggs, fried hominy,
five beefsteaks, hot rolls, five fried pota
toes, butter, radishes, etc. If they had
ordered two dishes of a kind, so genor
ous was tlio supply, it would have been
more than they enough to “Americans,” satisfy their appo
t-ites ; but were and
evidently in thought the the reputation of their
country, eyes of other strangers'
in the dining-room, demanded nothing
less than a full complement to each per
son. As near as 1 could figure up their
account that, breakfast cost in the neigh •
borhood of $10. The table d’hote din
tier at night was at a fixed price, and, if
their luncli, at 1 o’clock, corresponded
with their breakfast, no wonder surprise
is manifested at the high rates of living
in foreign hotels.
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The Courteous Lawyer,
T ou recogni20 the courteous gracefully lawyer at
once. He Aether places a chair for
his clicI q the client is an ele
diamonds (J n ttired clumsy lady bumpkin in sealskins in home- and
or a f
^ Mld li(1U0r ^ . H 0 smi es swee tly at
*, and bows to the jury in a
defer ltiall f familiar way. ,L lie pays U the
f to th( clcrk bef( he the
trollblo to ask (or them, 'book and draws the
b q isoutof Ms pock , ;t slowly, one
by one, as gently as he would lead a
belle from her carnage to the ball-room,
p ™ 8 l«vmg . 1,0iv to come the vourt mto is the almost profession an apolo^r c^
tempora~]y ^ith hoa Honor Ho
L'u trai1 i? ^ttaugand his J testimony !?, X the !
K cm he tr vll f ’ re ,nov ®; H,s ton f
- and he , appeals
carotuliy modulated, .
b,r a to h kmdly o£
! Ie ^ ltness - Be o so “ the .fif
tivatll '8 exordium, v and thank you the
F alJliltn ;? peroration If he wounds with
11 T'eshon, he binds up the sore the
next moment with the liniment of pohte
•“«?• Io lus “PR'*nciit lie overflows
generous waivers and admissions,
mid lt vhanec he interpolates a re
> am ' k , > } 10 does it ns though he was put
jmg a boquet m his a/tv-'i^iry s button
^ lo ^ e * thinks no uii^. r.staiH.s the
™uvt. He Iiopes he does not muayv™
hend Ins L amed friend. He trusts the
fitness knows what he means. Inad
dressing the jury, he unbosoms Ins ap
precaution of their intejligence and
ability. He lays bis arguments almost before to
them with respect amounting
reverence, as though they deity were whom pro¬ lie
pitiatory offerings to To a the court Ins
wished to placate.
whole demeanor is redolent of respect,
most The court distinguished. is most honorable; He is, in the short, judge
so
filled with human consideration for every
thing and everybody around bim, that lie
finds excuses for the jury that beats him
and for the court that nonsuits him. It
is true, he lias been know to revile an
adversary in private, to curse surr q.ii
tiously, and to sneer at the judiciary that ho in
the social circle. It. is also true
can wrench •> f from a client in a rutli
less nunicut and take a snap judgment little
\vhen he thinks it safe. But these
trifles only show that he is human, and
lie knows that men are not apt to believe
that a head with such a halo of polite
ness around it cun have for its pedestal a
cloven foot.
j, 0 „. j, a ,ji CS Dress in Persia,
sbe wore a bright red satin skirt,
iJehlv “full embroidered with gold lace; it was
7knees; and short, barely reaching velvet, to
be a loose jacket of blue
tri mrned-this time with sil
^ererfiawl j the sleeves were made of cash
buttoned by about twenty
Bna!1 bnt tons. Bhe wore several neck
^f;Xfine j most of turquoise/ them verymassive.stuil- On her head
“white chawl, with a band of
1™ - els rourld be r forehead, ’ and at ono
Last pearI gtar . 8he had on both
at a dozen bracelets—some
bands ome ones, some only bands of col
orcd , da£S Her feet were covered with
. shoes
white socks; her green
leather ,dth scarlet heels. Some of the
] Ii s wore bright red trousers, reaching
this was quite tbeex
CPptiolu L They wear a long veil, reaching
f r head to foot, generally made of some
rt ^ print of muslin. I ought to leather men¬
every !adv wore a small
ca „. aro11Ild be r neck, containing some the
ear th from Mecca and verses from
S xbe face8 of m y hostess and
were much decorateil, the eyc
I W* broadened and carried quite across
j tke n0 se Some hwl small designs tat
the Me. The hair is very
, j woLrlaited d tb ick, generally died red; it is
j ^ThreaT in mar.v thin tails, twisted
The hands are well
gh0 s fent uall8 aa fi palms ore stamed
; j - * dark red.—7’noitev’ Z Ji MaQazinr.
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; o Why,” asked a governess of her lit
! | t j 3 char-4. “do we prav don’t God to give msk for us
our daily br . ;ad , Why we week
| onr d^ya, or five days, fres*, or replied a the .
..Because we want it
togemoas child.
Catastrophes.
The year has Opened with a series of
terrible warninsrs "aining>oi of the'riwmeutariness tno lu^mcntariuess
ot .■ human i life. The old year isumlorm
lv di-iniisei! disappoUitingrif Wltliotlt rOirret as Weari
some and 1 Lie not down
right urtlubkv. new year is be bailed
)'.. !Ll i e Ǥ ei haste its one flirt, (inij dcs
ened to stand out in huniaii memory
as a brighter and happier l cnod, in
which the depressing influences of un
foreseen calamities and economic uis
r mr !»■ ,»vo«. hurl.
bf evil. lii France the greatest Repub
licni, has been stricken down, and h s
dixatl. ha-been followed, by many; s-gns
o pekteat incapacity, social agitation
and national despomleney. On Urn
onfine.it the lb ods have borne (levas
tat.on every all quarter i fitisbry there Hi tluSiH/aih. .are tidings of I rent d.s
asfer. J he hotel firein Milwaukee the
circus accident catastrophe ichiclnpa in Russia, Pass, there the lway loss
near
of two Staunch ocean steamships, and
humerous other disasters on sea
lafid. are Mot only appalling horrors, but
omens ot depress,on and gloom. Men
are Will already disagreeable shying in their hearts: if nothing "It
ill! a year,
tv use.
Be ore the agotie.es . . o. seam, elec- .
trunty and the public press were mu.ti
plied, the ell’oct of sudden catastrophes
was con lined to tiie localit es in winch.
they dcCiuTeu. When tlio tower ill
Silcam Ml, there was no lack of talk in
the neighboring villages, and the rumor
of the disaster was carried beyond Jcru
salem into the hill-cduntry, but the
Wor.d outside did not know what had
Chnnney-sfcack happendd. I lie in collapse Bradford of few the weeks great
a
ends ago was tlio telegraphed earth, that, instantly Known to the
o so it was
simultaneously m Calcutta, the Eu
ropean ork that capita's, oan Erancisco and and -New elm
i sixty men, women
dren had suddenly ceased to exist m tho
worsaday world, but outside Eradtord
tliere Was scarcely a s.n<pe point o. Jju
man interest in the calamity . Aiehi
tects may nave been warned a p :l,n ^
sacrificing the principles of soeunty to
hapely proportions, and Ine insurances
c mvassers may have obtained a new
fact the hiinian to lay be!ore sllllenng working which people: ha,l been but
caused left no impression upon the
mm, so readers at a distance. I hreo
hundred people death are trampled under
foot or burned to in a circus n
emotion hi .ho° heart Tm American
reader than the footings of a table of
mortality statistics. Four lmndred
emigrants and sailors are suddenly
swallowed up by the sea. There is a
short controversy respecting and comparfi
ments in a ship’s hull a momentary
curios'ty to learn what excuse the com
mamler of attempting tho otherstaamsliip can but ofler tho
for not a rescue;
agony which was caused in a single in
slant, when hundreds of these quiet and
simple | oasants and working people
were broimlit face to face with their
doom, is only a vague generalization. by general
in a week it is forgotten tiie
publit*.
It s only in exceptional instance - that
these tragic occurrences leave any per¬
manent impression immediate upon tho localities public
mind outside the
where they occur. The facts are known,
hut sullering is nut sympathies. brought close to day the
emotions and A
pas es, and men and arc thinking of month some¬
thing goes" newer and 1883 pleasanter. is not considered A
by, unlucky, but only
especially with startling an average
year, o currencies now
and then, but with 1 lie 1 seal out oino
of peace, prosperity and security. A
year sappoiniment rolls by, and there is a vague feeling and
of d and depression
an eager hope that another year will bo
cheerier and brighter. There is in¬
variably a speedy reaction from the dis
couragement and sense of insecurity
caused by tho vicissitudes of human
destiny.
It may bo that the world as it grows
older is becoming more and more ac¬
customed to the conditions of its holplcs being.
Certa nly the impressions of -
ness caused by catastrophes like those
which have been recently recorded are
only vague and transitory. The thrill
of horror excited by such recitals is felt
only momentarily; the sense of insecur¬
ity anil the feeling learn of to unrest expect soon catastro¬ pass
away. Men
phes and to make allowance for them
in tiie Providential scheme of the uni
verse. Yet they can not explain and them. hotel
That seventy weary travelers
servants should suddenly be death, exposed that to
the horrors hundred of an agonizing and chil¬
three men, women
dren should he wrenched out of life
with tortures unspeakable while en ey¬
ing a town show iri Roland, or tha 1 four
hundred emigrants seeking tlieir fort
unes in a new land shoul I he drowned
before they have fairly lost sight of the
old country, is as inexplicable to-day the as
the death of the thirty victims of
Tower of Siloam was to the Jews of
Did. The question is no longer asken smned
as it was then: “Have these men
or their fathers, that they should perish
so miserably:-”’ But it is no easier now
than it was then to reconcile the vius
si u.les and mysteries of human fate
with for the an universe.—A. orderly scheme Y. of lnbJ.ru.. government
-The colored population of Tappa- if,*
bannock, Va.. are excited .over the
ness and the teacher adopted the fol
S iris.”";;! i“™hi. sstuzffJt** “un, MfW a..
Ume:< -
Nkw Cabbots with Cbeam.—T rim a
quantity of the smallest new carrots that
cu lie obtained and boil them in salted
water. When done, drain off the water.
Melt one ounce of butter in a saucepan,
add to it a desert-spoonful of flour, J-' k
per, salt, gTated nutmeg, a pinch quantity of * ■ of -
dered sugar, and a small
cream. Put in the carrots, simmei . •->
tiy a few zuiu+tes, aad 6er>e,
i Joking on High Olympus.
’ It was a bright afternoon, and the im
mortals were sitting on high Olympus,
: watenmg , • tb me cremation cremation of oisojne some insane insane
i American, who thought there wasn’t
; enough land on this continent to bury
I ™ when the blue-eyed maul re
'rjV ino 0 Colonel uoionei hastilv nastily folded tomea u» up his ms man map
cif th a l llV a beds and slipped it into lus
pocaer.
“fc-fc do
..........
: tory or retort, or whatever they call it.
| what you off figure of expression does it remind
j | The Colonel scratched .. ... his grieved . . slim ,.
(now don t ask us what it was grieved
I about, or wo will fell you it was grieved
! about to the knee, for we arc in no bn
j lie mor for nonsense) much and scholar presently lie said
, wusut of a oa rawgram
mar, but ho believed it was a kind ot
; erysipelas, know” “something left out, you
j “Well,’ said the goddess, “but wind
- is left mit?”
| said The he Colonel hndn t hesitated considered a moment regards and of
; in
' that, and Hermes remarked that it was
j probably an interpolation, because tlio
man Vulcan, was put who in. happened along with
| ] 3e w liinge for the front gate, asked if rite
■ wasn’t lmtology. didn’t it tnutolo^y,
Juno t li ink could be
because it wasn’t always the same man;
indeed, it nover was the same nmu.
“It’s the same man this time, isn’t
it?” asked her husband, cautiously
throwing up liis elbow to the level with
his head.
Ganymede, the barkeeper, said ho
thought it was a hyperbole, because it
tlio W as Washington awfully extravagant; (Pa.) Crematory ^35 per man tlio nt
was
regular charge for every bnrbecue.
Halurn, who came up this afternoon,
ft being Friday, with a string of fish,
Ba id he thought it was synedoclie, but on
]y being confessed asked what synedoclie lie wasf frank
that didn’t know, and
m »nt down throe.
Apollo thought it was a bit of troelmio
nic | () r because the man was put in his
Jfc ^ the immortals a long time to
c(dcb on to this, anil thou Jupiter re
roarkod t)mt tt , A oy weren’t running a col
leg0 *5. inllrmavy -> f h there. miablo married sister,
No> sai( is n
^ „ phamooy’a What do sake, think don’t it talk in, doctor- Miner
you
va ;.
Th n .. W'?o-^d . goddess -. turned . , down ,
. her place ? Emerson, adjusted her
glassesandHaiilwith in eye
great precision: Does
‘ Why, the retort scorches. not
tt stnko you that way l
B«t after a moment of silence the Col
onel «iud he wasu t up to this now
fangled pronunciation very well, and the
immortal Jove called to Ganymede to
lxriijpr him ft “bght ono, at the same
time holding np all the fingers on one
hand behind Ins wife s head.
La u ghed,»Il ib« boJ,; tho hmvens with Janduer
And ivi-eMI imtvh thouBht 'two, nt. ht-r j.ikr.
—Burlington Hawke ye.
Mtdhinotli Trees in California.
A correspondent who has been visiting
the grove of big tre, s in Calaveras
County, Cal., writes as follows:
It lias always been so difficult forme
to form any conception of the size, of t he
mammoth trees from given figures, but,
when I went into the grove and mi\v them
standing, and climbed twenty-six of fallen steep
steps to roach the upper side a
sequoya and became dizzy on looking
down te the ground I realized tlieir im
mouse proportions ; one of the gentle
men of the party reached his arms at
full length and it took eight measures to
sjian one of tho smaller trees.
Visitors have the jirivilogo of naming
any of the big trees, inscription and placing thereon. a rnar
bio slab with the
Ono noble great tree wan called the
Mother,” another tlio “Father,” Ward the
Three Graces,” “Henry
Beecher,” “General Grant,” ninety-nine etc., etc.
In this grove there are
trees within eighty acres. We look
horses and rode six miles to tlm “Son”
where wo saw the largest tree in the
world, “Old Goliah.” In this gr■
there are thirteen hundred and eighty
trees, none measuring less than six feet
in diameter. the side
Wc rode onr eight horses into
of one tree that had been burned out;
the guide said there was room for ten
more, and we could well believe it, for
V,<’ did not take up one-third of the
room; anil yet the fire hail not affected
the life of the tree; there was enough
vitality to grow on unconcerned. In
this grove many of tlio big seemed trees were
named for States, which more
appropriate.
Changes In Jerusalem,
. wonderful change has taken place jn
T crngn ] Pm ,,f bite years, and it is probn
V ' comfortable residence
U j{ )liH u,ry. Mr.
d( k who hohls the appointment of
.
^telv ”3 f TOjiUlinfm in the instructive Holy Citv, ’
a very n
•- i,„ d houses
. t]ia p
>ort. Ho tills us tnas :ruii^ rll
Uta ia<|j .
‘ jg',,, a)ld luiil.lings on
th P( , ribodv j, aV e been erected by
associations. Tiie streets are now
lighted ker* to: an
^'^Con hasXn re
a ■»»»"“ S5::;,S
m
„hvsician. jp-thle
jl"; f
! ti.at this may in a measure increase the
I already considerable number now returu
j ing the to German Palestine, Jews more airt especially y * “» 1 ''*•
j Jerusalem. The improvements^,^ - _
j further, i n likely to lead to many Luropeans
;
j i wintering there,
■ lli
| i thrv a little of yw.v-lf, kerosene. “ You
Rriltoft.,aid tottie said Bridget
bio wedl’ as the kerosene to
j Vigilance Necessary in Building.
The i ni ddlhwllv ii.in ui\at of gelt ovlt'ivr n a a nouse house built built
,0 llMU s satislact < n is well illiislrated in
>n,. i\p. , l ■ a in i. ox f a , i i.....nl’cnvin tiK,q V ) guii.un.in,
b ^‘- bi^BdlectC)-t “ £{“d 6 "c('m'orHl%'hon iteAE: a
j struct ions, but he soon found that hard¬
^ ““-V 1 h‘ n g ■ was being done d as lie had
. . , x- , b , ,, .,i ,->■.< * Im
bui’ding seemed ., «I^ii U.manifo-t ,.i. tvifi the i.. sligl,test ,,i
KA™ 5 . ..., “ It n
s I E tar?? L i 'ban.
J n for the
b T!lu ,eUenian innio totl.ccon
elision that it would be advisable to
8 ,. lv a i,out Hie premises, nmi !,e .1 .1 so
of (imCi walehing <mlii ns many of
............ .. , ; The result
„,. u (!av j, usually opened with
^i. dou „ work
of , ll0 VN previous. For example, ho
j„7v dt , biF.saw something O wrong in the
i. lv "lie „■ ,] u . to'the ,| r .,; n jo ..,| )0SU wer
age. A to bo repo,•toil held .’c :ircl.ite«-t. for dofee’s. who
s responsi
The wor men insisted II,a everything
l v;l d been done ’j,., just exactly as it should
b . lv( , bj , 1M1 q di-.piis "wore duo- up
noverlho’ess, anil T was found that no
connection had been made with the
street sewer at all. 'Mm last, section of
pj,, 0 |, ad |, t w. n bjo sliou-l hr sovoral
inches, an 1 to the crafty drain layer,
who was ink,rested in saving time and
mutcriiil, it w.'isnottfousido! ctl nocossury
\ 0 lengthen i . The fresh air duet loud
in»^ to the furnace had been ordered
built of unusual eaua ity, for the reason
that Iho owner wauled none of Die
common dilhcully about getting suf
tieient air to venti'ato a< well as warm
his house. Ho watched the work on this
a : r duet very closely and was congratu
lating himself that it was well made,
but, at last, discovered that the, work
man narrowed tho inlet bv bri drawing hs In; in
each succeeding course of as
neared tho top. When remonstrated
w ith, he said he thought lie was doing
the proper tiling, ns the duct w* uldn’t
let in so much cold air if smaller. So
in everything done about the house
the workmen had no more conception
of the purpose which a healthy, coin
fort able, and (convenient house was U>
serve than the to la which they used,
llv hiring an architect to watch them,
and I hen walehing the architect himself,
he suecopded at. he length takes in getting pride; a
house in which some
but it, was at the expense,>f extra kind',
reiuh val.ialfie limean lpa< amt wa,tmg.
I r-, 1 'paring the t.ionn t tor a Lnnn.
•J lio sucocm ; of a lawn depends upon a
vast deal of work that is quite out
of sight. We expect more Of
the soil devoted to the lawn
than wo do of any other part
oft he grounds, for we are lontinually
cropping it, arid it can only give a con
slant. succession of g ass when the roots
have a deep soil and sulliciont nourish¬
ment. As il is desirable) to have tho
gr.es well established be ore hot
weather comes, the seed must be
sown early, and to this end the soil
must he prepared as early small as Iho
season will allow. yards, Only croquet areas, and
such as fruit
tennis grounds, should he undulating perfect¬
ly love!. A slightly
surface is more pleasing to the oyo than
a dead level, and it may lie made logivo
the impression of a greater extent if tlio
surface is laid out in gentle swells, and
will give a lietteroffbet if slightly higher
as it approaches tho houso. Of Cl MU'S, 1
there must be nothing liko abrupt hills
and hollows,and if a iy such occur whore
the lawn is to lie, they in st, he either
out down or till,.'■! in. li ihe lawn is
sueli that it would require draining
to lit it, for eanion crops, then it will
need drainm r ior a lawn, indeed, all
i ut very light sandy soils will ho im¬
proved Ir draining with tiles. Tho
depth and distanc ■> apart <> tho drains
should ho such as are found best in tho
fields o the vicinity. The next ro
quis t,* is a deep'y worked soil, in ICn
■ land /he soil is thoroughly trim.died
two spades d op, but we can hardly ex¬
pect our | conic, who avoid the use of
1 he spado where er possible, to trench
the ground for a lawn. The. most, we
i an hope for is the deep) st prn Finable
p o« the :i '-.with oil is the use of the subsoil coating plow, of
li - | o n', a generous
in-.mu-! should he hi: ued under, but
it in tair 1 oil,llion, top-dr -ssin ;» After may
bo depended upon for fertilizing. tho trrounil
Hi’s preliminary work, be¬
should remain as lung ns pos-iblo
fore sowing, in order that it may proper¬
ly nettle. If in anyplace the ground
settles unevenly, then fresh soil must be
aided, where needed, to bring the low
spots Up to tho proper level. Whether
the la ! ii is to t e laid down with seed, or
as is sometimes pro crable, if the area
is small, with turf, tho pro thorough, I minary
preparation must be equally turf is desired.
if a tine arid permanent
Aorieullurist.
Elopement Fashions.
The fashions for girls who ,slopes just
now are very plain. Home white ladder, drapery,
a convenient window, a long a
dark night, a coach, a minister and the
house of a friend, and tho elopement is
over. If the irate fattier, anned with a
double-barreled coal shovel and a town
constable, does not pursue, tho affair is,
although picturesque, not exactly ft of HllC
co fill elojiement. If tlio father t..e
bride relents within two days the foolish
couple are not happy. L it leaks out
that tho mother of the bride is m tho
ii-oret much of th- pleasure of the trip
is spoiled. If both the father and mother
of the bride are in the secret of her going
away, and have actually left the ladder
nC ar the window, and that faet is found
out the elopement is a failure. In the
olden time the eloping bride packed all
h-r jKirtable poods on lierself and went
away heavily laden. Now, as she is
about to return in a day or two m her
lady friend’s dress, Bhe goes away quite
light
A young girl wno has tried it says
the story that kissing wool I cure freck¬
les lacks the important element of truth;
but there is one thing, she atmits,
greatly Sisagreeatle in favor of the remedy--it however. is not
to lake. Hers,
may be a deep-rooted, stubborn case,
and she shouldn’t feet discouraged be¬
cause fifteen or sixteen hundred appli
cations failed to envet a cure. It won t
cost much to give the medicine a cou
pie of year’3 trial— Bur.ingtonLavkeye.
$1. 00 A YEAR.
WAIFS AND TVillMS.
A wobd with business men—settle.
Ikon affected by fog is mist rusted.
A mule is tame enough in front, but
awfully wild behind.
A little cider now and then is re¬
lished by the best of men.
The man who can’t remember tlmt he
was ever a boy is entirely rips for tho
harvest.
Stakcu is said to lio oxplosive. tho It
causes explosion in tho family when
old man finds it has been left out of lii3
collars.
A Boston paper says the conductor of
a street-car in that city took 900 fares
last Sunday, but is entirely silent as to
how many tlio company got.
Tiie Crown Frineo of Germany gets
more puffing over giving a $3 fidillo to a
blind boy than an American does over
leaving $40,000 to an orphan asylum.
Tiiuke is a fortune in store for tho mil¬
liner who shall devise a bonnet that can
bo worn in any part of a church and al¬
ways present its trimmed side to the con¬
gregation.
A poultry authority says that “chick¬
ens should have an ample range.” chickens. It
depends upon tho number of
A littlo chicken will broil pretty well
over a very small stovo.
Mawt persona who rako through nn
othcr’s character with a fine-tooth comb,
to discover a fault, could find one with
less trouble by going over tlieir own
character with a liorse-rake.
It costs more than a hundred millions
of dollars annually to keep tho fences of
this country in repair. Now, gentlemen,
get off tho fence anil slay oft till after
election, and savo your country a few
millions of this outlay.
Grown-up sister — “Oil, Charley, introduce if
you must go away can’t you
mo to one of your school-follows, to link
after mo till you come back?” Charley -
“Oh, no, it wouldn’t do! It would bo
too rough on a fellow to fag him out liko
that."— I’unch.
Somf.uody who appeal's to know how
fashionable schools nro managed, let them says:
“Tb educate young ladies is to
know all about tlio ogies, omenies, the
IISes, the tics and tho nusticsj but darning, nothing
about tho ings, such ns sewing, ,T
washing, baking and making pudding.
“I say, mister, this is a double seat,
and you can’t lay over it in that wav,”
said' n stand-up passenger in a crowded
car to another passenger who was making
himself too much at homo. “Can’t lay
over the seat?” echoed the loafer. “Bet
your life I can. Boo hero, I have a lay
over check from tlio conductor, and it is
good.”
A youn a lady received tho following
noto, accompanied I by send a bouquet bi this of
(lowers: Dear-, you
boy a bucket of flours. This is like my
love for n. Tho fenil nito sliailo menes I kopo
dark. The liosis ilog and posis menes pail, nm your love
slave, red my
for you sho! never fule. ”
The flowing reporter who wroto, with
refer,meo to a well-known encased in belle, “ Her that
dainty feet wore shoes
might be taken for handkerchief fairy boots,” tied left his
wardrobe up in ft anil
for parts unknown when it appeared the
next morning: “Her dirty feet foot were
encased in shoes that might bo taken for
ferry boats. ”
lately A YotiNit wrote lady to her who parents is studying that she French was
invited to a dejeuner tho day before, and
was going to a fete champetrc tho next
day. Tint professor of tho college was tho
surprised “old to receive a dispatch from saying:
man” don’t a day or two daughter after
“ If you keep my and side shows, away I
from these menageries and wliat ails her.”
will come down seo
It is amusing to watch a slim man
weigh himself. He steps on to tho plat¬
form as an elephant steps upon a bridge, tiling
with an awful fear of breaking the
down, and then jails the threo-hundred
pound weight on the end of the beam.
Of course ho takes it off again, but he
docs this unostentatiously. hundred Having found and
that ho weighs, watch say, liiin one carefully
twenty, if you you
will see him slide tho weight along “By to
ono hundred and seventy-five.
George!” he will exclaim us ho goes out,
“I’ve lost ten pounds since last week.”
Ho doesn’t say how much he weighs
now; if you wish to know, there is the
scale. lie knows you will look.
In the Wrong Boom.
Shortly after 12 o’clock a few night*
ago a Philadelphia guest at one of the
largo Atlantic City hotels was awakened
bv a nudgo from the sharpest of In*
wife’s sharp knuckles. As he opened
liia eyes ho saw by means of the ex
tromoly hull faint hxht tlmt penetrated the figure from of
the into the room a
man, who stood silently by the bureau
and who, as it appeared, might was { fall "® b mto ? n *
for whatever valuables dung to her
his clutches. The wife violently
husband’s arm and trembled so burglar
that tte. latter feared lest the
sbouliTTiear and escape. Releasing ms
arm, tho guest aliped noiselessly from
the bed and holding lus inflow bound. as a
shield, he reached the burglar at chair a and
In tho midst of crushed went
broken bric-a-brac the robber
down, with his assailant on top. iho
robber struggled hard to nse, but, being
stronger, the occupant of the room le.igth soon
had the thief spread out at fnU
with the pillow on his head. The con
queror’s wife struck a light as quickly aD
as possible anil rang sharply for an
tendant. When the night clerk reached
the room he saw a thrilling tableaux, the
chief figure of which was pesdemona a powerful
Othello strangling a male m
the middle of the floor. But the %cene
set in comedy after all, for when tha
was removed the thief a face
showed pillow was him to be the highly respectablo
occupant of the adjoining swim, a uear
friend above reproach. “f his assailant He simply and ^together had mis¬
taken tlw wrong room for the ngbt fumbling one
and when knocked match.—Philadelphia down was
about for a
Timei.
—A certain caravan orator at a fair,
after a long yarn descriptive of what
was to be seen inside, wound up bv say¬
ing: "Ftep in, gent emen. step in. Take
my word for it, you will out.” be highly de¬
lighted when you get