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VEOGS^PUrCAL. ^
%l Now,” in a Chili.tone ehedifefc truJM|t
“ I *siil be Frank; ’tia
Althotighyou ArabshUUiant catch,
I do not Caff re you.”
0, This lady, heart Dane is to bear jnv suit—
Soot by thee.”
“ Nay, sir. I cannot heed your words,
For you Arnaut to rue.”
“ ’Tie Welsh,’’ she mided, Sreezingly,
“ Since Siam pressed ao far,
To Hindoo you no longer here;
And so, good eir, Tarter.”
44 What Ottoman like me to do ?
Bewailed the stricken man;
“I’ll Finnish up my mad care* ;r
And wed the Galicau,” ' *
THE JOIvElTS BUDGET.
iurr«t EliO.U THE HI’MOROIJS
Lai'er-s this week.
THOUGHTS felOUT pottebt.
The 7/mcAeye philosopher says; Verily,
H. potterskath power over the clay,
Tii< ref ore, the clay is the pot, but the
m ' 1 " dl ° makes, it is the potteg. Ergo,
pi test. Eefinea^and scholarly joke,
m. s an explanation 01 mis superlative mko
an. , the Haw -eye or one yeai wdlWe
•sent to any part of the Umted Stoles or
G. .*da. andsmoke\ I ut ttmt ittjoirito}ear f^’ Hffajia
«ror t mdustr^tne >
ottoryisthe oldest
woml Adam^ ,was nRidc oithty. >
ho aefci^ as iliougljrlie was ohly to
Wked. Hie soil Cauwuilt the first kihi
in ThepotterlLrksiathemud.hencewe, the counts ’ S
admire his work. His life is one=long act
of mudder, but he is never hanged for it,
though sometimes ho is broran at the
wheel. V Si’
All his work, however good, goes to the
(file. What he bakes you cannot eat,.ak
-though you eat what the o^h^r h aker se^
The potter is an aristocrat
and always belongs to a sot. 'several
sets, in fact.
He is independent and ums his own
living t ftall\tar, . *
He is a base and rnak^ a bet¬
ter pitcher than the “old Nolan.
He is no deacon, i^id but he passes theplufe
regularly. A temperance man, he
is fond of his bowl. And he always
makes it go round, too. x
There never was but one blind potter,
and he did not stay blind long, for lie
made a cup aud saw, sir.
He is always hopeful, for it is in his
nature to look cup.
He is a generous fellow, and what is his
is ewers.
He behoves in human equality, and
thinks the law should make daymen the
equals of the clergy.
“Who breaks, pays,” must have been
'originated by the potter. Although in
these perilous times, it is more likely to
read, “who pays, breaks.”
A pottery is the place where they make
pots, but not Jack pots, by along chalk.
The potters make all things of clay, but
this does not make clazay of them, by
any means.
Thin thing may seem to be running in¬
to the ground. That’s where it has to
go, to get the raw material.
DENVER TRIBUNE FABLES.
A child Awakening from its Sleep in
the Dead of Night, cried out to his Mam¬
ma in affright: “Oh, mamma,” said the
Child, “I saw a Big Kitty at tho Win¬
dow.” “Be calm, my Dear,” replied the
Mother, “I have been Married too Long
to be Worried at anything Short of
Snakes in your Papa’s Boots. ”
A Dog and his Tail fell into a Dispute
as to which should Wag the Other. An
itinerant Wasp passing that Way casually
Remarked: “Speaking of Tails reminds
me that I Possess one which May possi¬
bly be Influential enough to Wag you
Both.” This fable Teaches that ten
cents’ worth of Dynamite is a bigger man
than a Church Steeple.
A Child who had a Mild type of the
Measles invited a number of her Ac¬
quaintances to a Party. Producing from
the Pantry a Bowl of Sweetmeats, sho
said: “Behold now an Act of Generosity.
I will Take the Sweetmeats, aud you,
Unless you immediately Take your De¬
parture, will Take the Measles.” This
fable illustrates the ingenuousness of
childhood.
A precocious Boy was once afflicted
with a Boil in that Locality of the Anat¬
omy which is seldom mentioned in Polite
society. To him a Playmate addressed
Words of Condolence. “Oh,” replied
the Precocious Boy, “I’m not so Power¬
ful bad off After all. This boil has
taught me, in its Quiet, unobtrusive
way, what Mantel-Pieces were Made for,
as you yourself shall Learn if you will
Stay and See me Eat my Supper.” This
fable Teaches that All created things
have their Spheres to Fill in this Life.
When I saw hei first, I noticed with
great satisfaction that a fall of pretty
lace covered her maimed hand, and that
“Big Charlie” under his rough husk,
held a real reverence and affection for
her. To these feelings he Ixire witness
everywhere, and when his friends woul 1
pl8v upon him, and sav half in jest and
half in earnest: “Ah, Charlie, you’re a
fine fellow ain’t Ton ?” he would answer
with naive conceit aud confidence:
“Yase, I am; for I lief gommanded dere’s a
bark of a dousand duns; but »
better dan me at home. And ev anybody
savs ‘Kalstrom’s a vine yellow,’ you gan
dell him, ‘Yase, but Kalstrom's wife is a
• !•
vm-ji.
A boy will go in swimming and foci
around the water for hours together:
but when told to wash his face he .>ii!
Lavs almost a hydrophobic dread of ha;
» pint of water.
Hamilton Joitrna i jQ. $
} our-i%;u:-oli) joe’s pipe;*
Probably the youngest confirmed
smoker of tobacco in New York is Joseph
Granger, a chubby four-year-old who
lives at No. 9 Mulberry street. His
father, August Granger, is a skilled
Fivnek glass worker, employed in D.
d™* w«* ** *** ti»
Other day a Sun reporter saw the young
ster toddling about the shop with his
lighted pipe iu his mouth. He is a four
.vear-old of full size. His eyes are bright
and clear, and his cheeks were rosy
enough to showed 8ql% ^ despite the ,,
trying effect of a Tarn O Shanter cap of
flaming red. The plumpness which
severely strained the buttons of his com
fortable overcoat was apparently solid
and Jhealtliy tissue. He manifested a
wholesome respect for Mr. Durand, but
sturdily resisted that gentleman’s effort
to take away his pipe. He howlc^l dis
malty when his resistance was overcome
and the pipe was forced from his clenched
^ ^ ™ “
r:OIumoK wooden pipe, soaked and strong.
% ‘phe reporter k consoiei^5roe with a
it ea*c>. It a
ddgong, lfe>by Mil fmareN, skJMi dark and strong.
uponTt, smoker jea&.sly agahiSf fist tightly
hold It Lw .
A&r&f, IJjl© aud clamored-for a match. Hit*,.
teeth w&e scarcely the'U
task he^mlfcsCk of Jfcrinaoff Jdie WBk Ssd'3-Afce Cigar,
W, but ,
Vt8,. drfw-^nd Bavf^ secure^a^ssd .then .light, fie
Smoked a wa-j^wltli every air of satisfac
tier. dMtkeiskange. nJSHtofi n3m‘ftik«d his head
vigorously when asked the
?fS ett T ‘ i>iP ■
holds firmly m his feetHT fed 1 scarcely, r
puts The cigarifcf* }iis hand toot toff big until to lYis^elidd *closi? his teetli^ «ij|
ff)n comforfevbly, kandNev6rletU.ng so he held it between lite hi^
jips with one go
hold upon it for% msta^md very
seldom talviijg^HL out of his m^^h. ^
The father of this four-year-okl is not
gjpit-hont indulgence concern in toliacco^fly ns to^hftjjHfeet is hemp; of bis
.smol dietodvo .iqk himself. the weed B^tle since Joe he has eighteen been
wag
months old. He was weaned at that age.
The fchnily don’Wemeniber bow firs^
e to get hoLDblxa jiipe. It ne-^r
made him sick. When they had got ovrr
gratifying his tjiste for break tg^kake of the
oddity, and tried to him of the
habit, they found that they couldn’t.
The mght of a pipe was the signal for an
outcry that could bo stilled only by al¬
lowing him to smoko. They gave it up.
Joe has since smoked regidarly, and calls
upon his mother to fill his pipe as soon
as he gets up in the mornirg. He
smokes through the day as often as he
can prevail upon her to give him a pipe¬
ful of tobacco. His health seems to be
good, but he is inclined to taciturnity.
When he has liis pipe in his mouth it is
difficult to get a word out of him, and
liis customary attitude is one of medita¬
tion. Whether this is really the outward
and visible sign of deep thought or of the
'.tepe fying effect of the tobacco, Mr.
Granger does not attempt to say. Tho
boy sleeps well, but eats scarcely two
solid ounces of food a day, though he is
plump ns a partridge.
Navy Discipline.
trated' Navy discipline was amusingly illus¬
in Washington by the witness
Wilson, who is before the Jeannette
Board. Wilson had received the stereo¬
typed order to proceed from Siberia to
St. Petersburg, thence to Liverpool, New
York and Washington, and upon his
arrival to report immediately reached to the
Secretary of tlie Navy. He
Washington in the morning at 5 o’clock,
and after getting his bearings, residence. set out
for Secretary Chandler’s At
5:30 o’clock he dt posited his traps on the
Secretary’s front stoop and attacked the
door-bell. The servant looked with gap¬
ing wonder at the <xhl dress and knock¬
about luggage of this weather-beaten
caller and said, in response to his inquiry
for the Secretary, that he had not yet
risen. That made no difference to Wit
son. He was upon official business and
must see the Secretary. The servant
suggested the department and business
hours, but Wilson would not hear of it.
So the Secretary was called and pres¬
ently came trudging down stairs rubbing
his eyes.
“What can I do for you?” he asked
Wilson, who whipped out his orders and
replied: according to orders, Mr.
“I’ve come
Secretary, to report to you immediately.” chide old
The Secretary couldn’t the
sailor, who was evidently honestly trying him
to do his full duty, but lie informed
that the matter would graciously probably giving keep
until office hours, and
him leave until later in the day, the
Secretary returned to his rest.
Generals.
Once a member of the Corps Diploma¬
tique asked Skobeleff, the famous Rus¬
sian General, whether he never felt
afraid. The reply is worthy of quotation.
“You see, my dear sir,” he said, “you
have the right to be a coward; a private
soldier may be a coward; a subordinate
officer even can be excused for possessing
the instinct of self-preservation. But
from the commander of a company up¬
ward no justification for cowardice is
possible. In my opinion - ■ „ a coward
General is a contradiction in terms, and
j the less such contradictions are tolerated
1 -pebtAter.'’ ^
—----
A New Ertose.—T he new suspension
bridge across Niagara River is to be com
pitted September 1, 1883. It will be
located a quarter of a mile south of thv
I present suspeinion bridge, and will be
used exclusively by the Canada Southern
. road, running in connection with tbt
New York Central.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. APRIL 20, 1883.
A VERMONT MASTERY.
Ilow a <Ji*ont Jonrnaltatic War Had it*
Oritffti a Few Years Ako.
the Speak toagray-hairedVermonterabout
“ Masonic times,” and you touch the
Some greatest political excitement of his life.
of the whig campaigns saw more
in hcat nlld bitterness fiothingisineo polit
ical parties existed has equaled the con
tests, following the Morgan abduction.
A actn Iieli«|th%t public tke affairs, gffcijt secret to society was
« in manage govern
ment, protect | forn)ing crimuuils and what not,
cauBcd he of a distinct and » itb
Masonic party, to which members c£ the
order aud outsiders who held a contrary
opinion—these last derisively called ‘ ‘jack
masons Jjccame -were hot that opposed, and the fight
so all other political quea
sonally each individual on the other side,
And at this time there was a local v“mys
^imeufrihak^the ;er y,” only leas renjjlMile onf qn>*'hich in the Tliurlow devel
(The-sterv tWoocumm^es, has neverboefefulJy told since
tog. and^s now worth recall
x ^
JosofSnBumham, ovThrt a midfllo-nged farm-
1)1 plunge Wffidsoi\ The
Lilian a\ m 1 o hadja bad
^IfSM'a-stm^.HtPrtVas ckar^tec ma% l»lieved.t%i made nftnv to^t im<&
^K^lrYork^bi^So tin’s work was^iu progre.^Oetob! 10,
ft r
1826, Burnlumi (bed firpMsoW. is body
was delivered to the son, George, two
davadater, md by limj.hi^n to>Wobd
-ffi SeJ
^dn death there Mq^s^ffh came a rumor oiib«fcv<»<! that a man
^'oadstock Q d Hypian ta^hT ^nrnlmjjphere, in
ffim him a^ul in New York City, alive
seen
[ Attention pJ^U’rg^attStet *ing hie JGtk
until the of excite
meut fykiwiug' yeni^^itei^jSph-i Morgan ’sdjsJv>peariit^co,
two three *h the ohlf
story came up a most
way as. a- Masonic o utrage.
JSf 7
charge and some other officers, as well
(toiir<;e, the som were Masons, and tho
p gainedMgonnfl|hat the prisoner
cr ody his of friends some other person w And r as buji^d intho
zr y
popular excitement of the time this mat
ter assumed a degree of importance
wbich now seems incredible in view of
the slender evidence upon which the
case rested—the reported statement of
Mower, who was known to bo an unreli¬
able man. The story, however, grew
aud grew until in the summer of 1829 it
was taken up by the newspapers and a
journalistic war ensued, in Vermont the like before of
which was never seen
or since. In the midst of this Mower
published an affidavit setting forth that
ho saw Burnham in New York iu tho
fall of 1826, and that in 1828 ho had mot
and talked with him often.
A man named Cutter also made affidav¬
it that he saw Burnham in New York
in July of the current year, and these
statennSits, with whispers of prison, some pend¬ fair¬
ing developments about the
ly created popular fury. In October Iho
Woodstock selectmen ordered the disin¬
terment of Burnham’s remains for identi¬
fication. The body was exhumed, but
could not be identified with certainty,
and a few days later the operation was
repeated in the presence of a large crowd,
but with no Ixsttcr result. But at the
same time the matter was taken to the
Legislature, as the conduct of State offi¬
cers w p s involved, and then the truth
was established. A legislative offered committee Mower
went to New York and
$500 if he would produce Burnham in
Vermont, and guaranteed a pardon for
the latter. Thereupon the whole thing
fell through. found, and it seemed
Patrick Dolan was
that Mower had known him perfectly
well for several years and could not pos¬
sibly have been mistaken as he then said
he was. The most probable explanation
of the whole matter is that some sem¬
blance which Dolan bore to Burnham led
Mower to make a thoughtless remark,
which was magnified in going to ho Ver¬ lied
mont, that as the excitement rose
deliberately from love of mischief and
notoriety, and that Cutter did the same.
The committee’s report was ordered pub¬
lished in the newspapers, and the con¬
troversy died out, but still so many
stories had been circulated and such an
issue made of the matter that to this day
mauy persons believe that Jo Burnham
was let out of prison alive by fellow
Masons.
A PHILADELPHIAN, detained by busi
ness, sp« :iit a recent Sunday in Baltimore.
In the evening he went into a saloon and
took a drink, several men who were pres¬
ent drinking with him. The next morn¬
ing he was astonished by a summons to
appear before the Grand Jury as a wit
ness to prove that the saloon-keeper had
violated the Sunday law. He acknowl
edged that he had drank in the place
named, and when asked if others w. re
sent, promptly pointed out two of the
pr, his chance companions of
jurvmcn the"night as “That will do,” in¬
before.
terrupted the foreman hastily; “that will
do, you can go home,” and the Phiia
delphian was politely escorted to the
door by a bailiff.
Would Have His Way.— The cause
of Julius Goldsmith’s first affi mpt ft
suicide m San Francisco, was thi refusal
of a girl to marry him. His life was
saved, and, impressed by the proof of his
affection, the woman changed h-r min
and became bis wile. But still he as
"*”■ '
Inquirer —No; that mysterious “False
Prophet” of .the Soudan L* not a weather
prophet. —Boston Post
OVER THE WIRES.
Fdisoii’E Expcrieneu* a* a Telegrapher and
Ilow He lleot the Hoys.
“What wore the real facts of that Bos¬
ton experience yon had in fast receiving a
good many years ago?” Mr. Edison was
asked.
“Let me see; that was in 1868. 1 had
been working in Louisville, Kv., a
couple of years, and went from there to
Michigan. A friend named Adams got
me a place here in Boston, and I came
over, arriving here about 4:30 o’clock,
and had to go to w rk at 5:30 o’clock.
Although it was the middle of winter I
conic into the '^ice with a linen duster
on, for I was very poor then. A fellow
named Jack A fright, who knew mo out
West, thought to have some fun, so he
the office and had New York put
on an operator named Bagl y at their
en j c £ jj U0) w itR a special of 800
wovds r, ^he Journal. He had had my
, switched to a table about the middle
near the manager’s desk
Not suspecting anything, I sat down and
WmencSNo commonuud taking it. Soon Bagley
‘whoop ’em up,' and,
ld |R 0I ,yR*r was accustomed to keep six
flJfcrTt words behnul in copying, I
best to ejpse up, especially as
tTiSIluff hmfcfcmimerfqpd to send some awful
-t^^ffismaking l’s of his in’s and
eontnictin S. Ads .immediately,’ words sending ‘imy,’ for
^tiSStin . I having to
full. Happening to look
up, I urnii'd fifteen or twenty operators
griiMug fceKiitd me. Then I saw it was
*a dotenfcicdl ‘pCiip job,’ and my blood got up and
j vvqnld not break. Opera
t..rsj i^Nf w York asked over other wires
jf I was getting it, and would hardly
Relieve the levies.’ When I thought ho
had ^Bhodlbetop iCmnd of ‘Don’t his speed to I opened sleep;
^ mZ go
ke .V'mr«elf hurry through this !’
^ffffifc’Vay I managed it was this: 1
kinds of handwriting,
a nd foimrt^mit by-a kind of print hand I
cn)| iR 1?J .b ( .>{(,y-five words per minute,
those was no man who could
ei.*,.,* k, ;J ,
so,I felt sanl-if I could only read the
ticking. I had no fears as to that either,
*« M r had rc!U i a n ki^ls of ‘clipped’ send
». ">« *•*. «•«
' Vftft 111 ni y hivoi is, tia a (
deaf, so that the hum of an office does
not disturl^pq, aud I gave my whole,
attention to tUo cli«lfi«»9 of an instm
ment. experience I hail out
“There is a little
in Indianapolis that may interest you.
I was very ambitious to receive ‘press
report,’ and used to sit up until tlie 2 a.
m. ‘press report;’ listening beside thore
ceiving operator, until aftor awhile I
could receive it very nicely, and then I
wanted to receive press myself. Natur¬
ally, when I had the real responsibility
of taking it, I ‘bulled’ it bad at first, as
thoy sent at the rate of forty words a
minute. I thought tho matter over, and
worked out a little plan to have tho
‘register’ indent some tin foil ns it came
in, and then had the boy turn it through
another instrument, which ticked it ofl
at tho rate of about twenty-five words
per minute, which I read and wrote ofl
very easily. The only trouble was that
we got, ‘30’ (good night) from the East
about 2:30 a. in., while it was sometimes
an hour or more later when we got tho
last sheet to the newspapers. They com¬
menced to growl after awhile, and our
manager dropped in on u» one morning
and discovered our little game in full
blast. several valu¬
“By tho way, there wore
able inventions wrapped up in that offleo
trick. Talking of the tinfoil reminds me
of another incident. There was a fast
sending tournament gotten up once, in
which the judges were to be at St. Louis,
and tho fast-senders throughout the
State were to send from their respective
offices to the central office in St. Louis.
Now, although I have a reputation as a
receiver, I have just tho opposite reputa¬
tion as a sender, and when I entered my
name iu the list to compete there was
great ‘ha-haing’ over the wires. Wo
were given a chapter *u the Bible to
send, and, while the other mon were prac¬
ticing sending it. I worked out the chap¬
ter on the tinfoil, and fixed everything
already to turn the crank at the rate of
about fifty or fifty-five words per minute,
getting our boys to keep quiet about it.
For some reason the contest never came
off, and I did not have the pleasure of
carrying off the prize.”— Boston Herald.
The Oldest Cow on Record.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says: Tlie
most aged cow in Georgia—perhaps in
the United States—is owned by a citizen
of Hawkinsville. The owner assures is us
that the cow is 100 years old, and now
giving milk. When we mentioned tlie
im nrobability, in fact, the almost iinpos- old,
sibility, of liis cow being 100years that sin; has
the gentleman assured us
lx longed to his grand parents, great
grand parents, and other ancestors, and
that there is no doubt that the cow is
100 years of age. We can say lor the
! owner of the cow—the gentleman who
makes the statement—that he is one of
j our most esteemed citizens, one not ac
customed to exaggerate, and whose word
has never been doubted. and The is gentle
man is fifty years of age a mem
her of one of the old aud noted families
of the Stat e.
_ ___
. . be worse 4
wi-Yifr -
Now is a good time to sacque you
wife.
ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM.
.-Few Tlieorir. a. to Ilow It Conic Into Ex¬
istence.
A matter of absorbing but still unsat¬
isfied curiosity, says a letter from Brad¬
ford, Pa, to the New York Evening
J'ovt, is the origin of this petroleum or
“rock oil,” gushing up from a thousand
or more feet below the surface, and fill¬
ing so large a place in our commerce and
industry. Science, on many points so
precise and positive, gives us here two
divergent theories. By one hypothesis
it is contended that tho pirous saiul
rock which underlies tho oil regions on
an average about a fifth of a mile below
the surface is the original source of the
oil deposit. In these sand-rock strata,
so it is said, formed from beds and
shoals of rivers, there were ages ago
deposited vast masses of vegetation.
These, under certain conditions, pro¬
duced coal which in its chemical con¬
stituents much resembles oil; but under
conditions a little varied they produced
oil which, with gns, is hold suspended
in the spongy stone, aud now and then
gathers in cavernous magazines, where
it is held fast under the immense pres¬
sure which, when relaxed by tlie oil
digger’s drill, drives the fluid to the sur¬
face in a jot of oil and gns. A second
theory asserts that tho oil is not gener¬
ated in the sand-rock measures, hut in
the earlsmiferouH shales far bolow. Hero
there is developed by heat a gas which,
forcing its way upward through rocky
fissures, reaches the colder sand-rock
strata, where it is condensed into oil,
anil this oil is held down under the
harder npper crust of sand-rock until
the. drill gives it exit. This last is, I be¬
lieve, tho hypothesis most generally ac¬
cepted by scientists of present fume.
Whatever tho origin of potroletm, there
can bo no doubt of the magnitude of
those operations of Naturo which—scien¬
tifically rather than commercially speak¬
ing—have been going on over an aroa of
some 4,000 square miles in Pennsylvania
alone, which have led to tho sinking of
some 30,000 wells, costing on an average
at least $2,500 each, or $75,000,000 alto¬
gether, and which have been so wantonly
abused by tho improvidence of man that
the shadows which portend tlie failure
of our coal-oil supply have already bo
gun to fail.
The crude petroleum, as it issues from
the Hi-»vltoivl W«ll., might very readily
bo mistaken for dirty water. It is yel¬
low in tint, takes fire like other oils,
foams easily when ignited, and seems
more viscid and less strong in smell than
tho lower grades of tho refined article.
If the reader will take a small vial, fill
it with water, add a little sweet oil and
yellow dirt, then shako up the compound
vigorously, ho will have—barring the
smell—a protty good likeness of the
crude rock-oil of tho Bradford region.
In refining about one-quarter of the crude
petroleum passes away, largely into more
solid products, which are so far utilized
now that petroleum may bo regarded as
a complex product with every part val¬
uable. Few people apxirecinte its place
in our export trade. In tho fiscal year
ending in 1881 we shipped to foreign
countries petroleum and petroleum pro¬
ducts worth $40,315,000. It ranks third
in our export trade, following bread
stuffs and cotton, and tho ex]«irt« rep¬
resent only a fraction of tho whole pro¬
duct. In this connection I may say
that, according to trustworthy estimates
here in Bradford, the notorious Standard
oil monopoly which controls the trade
can produce refined petroleum at five
cents a gallon. Householders, there¬
fore, can estimate for themselves, from
the local prices they pay to their grocers,
the intermediate costs and profits. Here
in Bradford the best rofinod petroleum
sells at ten cents a gallon.
Raying a Bet.
Tlie Committee on Harmony, of the
Lime-Kiln Club, reported that the Lime
Kiln Club was at peace and harmony
with every government on earth exixfpt
Greece, and with every organization and
association in America except the Con¬
cord School of Philosophy. During the
quarter the committee had taken action
in twenty-four instances where moniljers
of the club had differed in opinion, and
the only cose left was that of Whulelxine
Howker vs. Clay Bank Tyler.
“ Wlmt am dat case?” softly inquired
tho President.
It was explained that Brother Howker
had won an election bet of Brother
Tyler, but that the latter refused to
square up. He was asked to stand up,
and when he was on his feet Brother
Gardner said:
i< jjmdder Tyler, did you bet a new
}mt dat do Republicans would carry New
Y k y millvon J majority?” J
“les, ( sail. ,,
“ Has you paid . dat bet yit ?” „
“No, Bah.”
“Was you waitin’ fur anythin’ in
{ y ; u hap.xte 11 txfo’ you J paid dat
bet ■
“No, sah.”
“ Den you had better settle de matter
befo’ de nex’ meetin’ occurs. A man who
am fool nn ff to bet on leckshun should
^ Miot nu ff to pay what he loses.”—
Detroit Free Press.
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jzzvpz: s?s.*?«£ 2£
sfss&t'Ss eonsideied in good ,sir form
ing. It is not
i by them.”
$1. 00 A YEAR.
After Twenty-five Year*.
General Roger A. I’ryor, now of Now
York City, when asked by a reporter for
his reminiscences of tho challenge to
fight a duel with bowie knives in a locked j
room, sent him by John F. Potter, a
Congressman from Wisconsin, who is
now dying at Milwaukee on the Poor
Farm, as well as the trouble preceding !
the sending of the challenge, spoke ns
follows:
"1 am unaffectedly reluctant to talk
about . . tho matter, and , for , twenty-live . ,
years 1 have silently submitted to an in
aeeurate and injurious statement of the
affair. The version which party feeling
gavo to the affair has gone so long with- i
out question that I doubt if anything ;
from me will now vindicate the truth.
Nevertlieless, in reply to your inquiry, I j
will give you in a word the facts of the
oas<’.
“An angry debate having occurred
between Mr. Potter and myself on the
floor of tho House of Representatives,
I determined to send him a challenge,
I prepared the paper and left it in the
hands of a friend to deliver, while to
esoape arrest or interruption I went im
HI' aliately to Alexandria, Va., in conceal
ment. I hoard nothing more of tho
matter until I received a message from
my friends that the thing was ended and
that I should return to Washington,
Then, for the first time, I was told that
Mr. Potter, who had not left Washing
ton, hail proposed a fight with bowie
knives, and that my friends, for reasons
satisfactory t(f themselves, had perempt
orily rejected the proposition. The
friends who acted on my behalt were
Mr. Muscoo, R. II. Garnett, of Virginia;
Mr. Wm. Porcher, Miles and Air. Law
teuco M. Keitt, of South Carolina.
'These gentlemen rejected the proposi¬
tion without communicating with me
and without my knowledge. Indeed, I
repeat that I did not know of tlie propo¬
sition until it had boon rejected. Upon
consultation with friends whether I
might not yet accept tho proposition,
thoy unanimously advised that I could
not disavow tlie action of tho gentlemen
to whom I had entrusted my interests.
Accordingly, I hail no alternative but
to acquiesce. Do not understand mo to
question the propriety of tho conduct of
these gentlemen.”
“What was tho altercation l,otwo»«
vou and Mr. Potter?”
’ norffotimnber; if I did 1
“I do and
should not care to talk about it. Those
are escapades of my youth, of which I
now see the folly, aud which I prefer to
let drop into oblivion.”
Till! ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.
Tho verdict of tho jury which finds
Carlotta Teresa Sturla, of Chicago,
guilty of manslaughter and the sentence
passed upon her of one year’s imprison
ment end a trial full of romance, start
ling incidents and dramatic situations.
The evidence on the ...... Inal showed , that ,, .
Charles Stiles met tins girl when she
was about fifteen years of ago, and after
she. Imd already—with to nearly develop
ment incidental to lior Italian blood—-en
terod upon a life of degradation. With
If P r ' ,mwe °f marriage to encourage her
nho followed him to Chicago, arid there
entered upon the duties of a wife. Sho
took rooms with him, kept boarders,
washed liis clothes, and worked from
morning till night to keep a home over
her bond, witli an evident desire to lead a
worthy life.
But her brutal lover, not con tint with
a humble home and a faithful slave,
drove her to her old life in order to sup¬
ply him with the means to gratify his
depraved tastes, which seemed to have
Leon unredeemed by one good trail*
Not content with tho depths of moral
torture to which he flung the girl—who
seems to have had a repugnance to tho
life to which want had first driven her—
ho struck her violent blows, kicked her,
throttled her snd covered her with
bruises. Nor did his fiendish cruelty
end there. Knowing her to bo nervously
timid and superstitions, he would take
her to neglected graveyards and to lonely
s|x>is, and after nearly throwing her into
convulsions by working upon her fears,
would abandon her and leave her in the
dark to escape as Ix’st Hke could. One
night, thus abandoned, she crouched
behind a vault for hours, till daylight
relieved her terror.
On another occasion he took her to a
lonely hotel, and utter dining sumptu¬
ously on the last money she hud, drove
away, leaving her to walk home eight
miles through drenching rain and a bit¬
ter wind, on a dark and lonely country
road.
Sinking the Shop,
sink When the shop. theEnglish An Englishman take a vacation travel- they
in 8 in Switzerland met a French
lady with her daughter. They made up
» party and did the lakes together. The
young lady was suddenly attacked with
the toothache, and the party traveled
twelve miles to find a dentist, whoap
plied a little laudanum Sul mequently
it was ascertained that the Englishman
was a dentist. When asked why he had
not relieved the fair patient, he dryly re
plied,_ ‘I am on a vacation. I haven t
practiced for aix weeks,
: A boston poiicemau on being asked
wby he jjq Ut interfere in a fight, re
marked that he was never inclined to lie
pragmaticaL A Chicago policeman said
sr
ss’sslss.' inightygood for staying out,
a reason
WIT AND WISDOM.
It is always “put up or shut up” with
the umbrella .—Boston Bulletin.
It rs the sure badge of a clown not to
mind what pleases those ho is with.
It may be set down ns an axiom that
when a person grows fut he grows waist
ful.
JosH Bru.iNOs says: “Next to a
clear conscience for solid comfort comes
an old ,, shoe, , „
H AVi ' seen « ., ™p
tfU11? , ,lsked ° llul ? 0n a Staten Mand
1,oat - “ Ive 80en a «°°^ flsh -
madam, , if . thats what
women, you
mean,” was the reply.
“When’mi you be back, my dear?” in
quired a wife of an angry husband who
won going off in a hurry. “Whenever I
pleaso, madam 1” “ Do try and not be
any later than that, if you can help it 1"
was her meek reply,
A Youno Inventor. —The youngest
inventor on the records in Washington is
Walter Nevegold, a lad 15 years of age,
of Bristol, Pa., who lias patented im
portent improvements in rolling mill
machinery.
A young man in Des Moines loved a
girl so wildly that he wrote her fifteen
letters a day for fivo weeks, At the end
of that time she eloped with another
fellow as a matter of self-protection.—
Boston 1'ost.
\ Philadelphia man has bought a
schooner and gone in search of seals,
]jig wife wants a sacque for the coming
winter, am' he calculates to save sev
,. ra ] hundred dollars by getting the
material in this way.
We aro willing to take a certain
amount of stock in newspaper accounts
I of Western cyclones, 1 ut when an Arkan
sas pajior tells about a zephyr carrying a
hod quilt sixty-ono mile*, and then going
! back for tho sheet, wo ain’t there.
One sign of prosperous times is tho
activity among dealers in patent medi
, einos. Or is it an indication of hard
times on the theory that tho peoplo have
less time to fuss over their fancied ail¬
ment when they get busy?— Boston
j Transcript.
j Health journals say that to retain a
! sound constitution ft man must lie on the
; ritflifc oido. Yes, but which is the right
side? Every lawyer, preacher and edi
tor ill the country thinks tho sido he is
j lying ings. on is tho right one.—Vxas Sift
Hereafter, when you are in New
York, don’t drink. One of the Central
Park ostriches swallowed a glass df lager
1 beer tho other day, and died almost im
mediately. It doesn’t do to touch New
York liquor unless you were bom in the
j>la.<;o, and weaned on it .—Lowell Oil
i ./ 3rn
_
! is said to have had
| Dean Stanley
great love for children, though he was
( ftt
| dji]ill(m M the Dolul might any
; tjm „ hftve drown on (U1 orphan asylum
^ or tw(>nty 1Me prft ttlers, and
, ^ ^ m (lo it ifl fttir to infer
! ^ ^ J)mn ,tleman of r6
wnf| ft t .
lmir|(llb]a H( . lf _ ( „ ritr(ll , and that he never
^ affcctiou8 to nm away with
him.
Oscar Wilde lost his trunk while on
a lecturing tour last full, and his laps
were iu a state of perturbation painful to
see. “ 'Ere, ’Arry ! ’Arry 1 ’Ere’s a jolly
go, I sayl I ’ave the brawses for the
luggage, and tho blooming conductor ’an
gone and shunted tho luggage van off on
another line, don’t you know! Blawst
the bloody luck of it; I cawn’t see any
think in this howling oountry but trouble,
you know.”- Burlington Ifawkeye.
The mcxlern ASsop: A father had four
sons, who were very naughty, and often
gave the neighbors cause for serious dis¬
satisfaction. For this reason he sum¬
moned them in his presenco and showed
them four twigs of hazel. “ Take notice,
my sous, that if I should strike you with
one of these twigs alone, you would feel
little; whereas, if I should bind them all
together, it would cause you great pain.”
And hereupon ho tied them together Elio- and
gave the boys a sound thrashing.—
gende Blatter.
_
A Lady Who Is “Only Eccentric.”
People seem to think that an insane
person is not dangerous until he or she
commits some deed of actual violence,
says a New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Record. family
I know of a woman whose say
that she is not insane, but who g oes into
the parlor whenever her daughter has
company aud drives the terrified guest
out into the streets. This singular and wo¬
man has taken an aversion to pie,
for a long time there has been none on
the family table ; but one day recently
the son, a young man of two-and-twenty, could
f it a longing for pie that he from not
resist, and he had some sent home
tlie baker’s.
The waiter placed it on the table with
as great unconcern as he could muster
and stepped back to await results. Tha
mother’s eve fell upon the offending dish.
“A pie,” she screamed ; “who ordered a
pie for my table ?”
“I did, mother,” said the young m*a
in u conciliatory did, and voice. know I won’t hava
“You you
a pie in the house I” and with that sh.i
sprang from her chair, and, seizing chased ■*
carving knife from the sideboard, an-1
the young man from room to room,
would have done him an injury if he had
not iscaped to a room where he could
lock himself in. But the family say ah*
is not she is only eooentna ”
crazy,
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