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'GLUME XL NUMBER 21.
VtOfil,|> FlSO.n TZ£E
WALK,
D*d yen ever stand in tnc crcwdod street.
in the g sro of the city ];:nr.s
And list to the tread of a 2 .* ’u » feet
In their quaint!} musical t?
.,l Tls a0 a surging pleaeant crowd eight, go t, and f. o
To I ween.
mark the figures that come and ge
In the ever-changing scene.
Fere the publican waits with the Giiuicr proud,
And the priest in his gloomy cow!,
Avd Dives walks in th mot ey crowd
With Lazarus, check by -jowl.
And the daughter of toii, with her fresh young
heart
At; pure us bei* Bootless fauio,
Keeps In step VvirJi the woman who makes her mart
the haunts of tin and shame.
How lightly trip; the cr.HEtrv lass
Ah In the mid-1 of the city's iVe l
That freshly pure as the daisied grass
grown on her native hills.
And t the beggar, too, with his hungry eye
And hi;- lean, \vr.n face and crutch,
Gives ( a blessing the same to the pasBer-by,
.And ho gives him Iittlo or much.
Vi hen time has beaten the world's tattoo,
And his dusky armor (light
It- treading with echolesa footsteps through
The gloom of the silent nigl id
How many of these shall be daintily fed
While .And shill Bing will lo slumbers to sweet,
And many crumb go to a s’eeplesB eat. bed
never a
Ah tne ! when the hours go joyfully by,
Hew L tt c we stop to hec-d
Our brothers! and .-inters’ despairing cry
In their woe and bitter need! *
Yet such a world ns the angels sought
This world * f ours we’d end,
If the brotherly 3o\ e that the 1'athor taught
Was felt by each for all.
Yet a few short years and this motley throng
Will all have passed away,
And the rich and the poor and the old and the
Will young
be undistinguished clay,
And lips that laugh ar.d bps that mean
BhaJl in silence alike be sealed,
And some will lie under a stately stone
And some iu the potter’s field*
But the sun will be shining jnet as bright,
Am! bo will the silver moon,
And just such a crowd will be here to-night.
And just Hitch a crowd ai noon.
And men will be v.ickul and women will sin
With As ever the since old Adam’s world fall,
same to labor in,
And the tamo Go<l over a'?.
GUARDING THE GRAVES.
Ilow the Allegheny Cemeteries are Pro¬
tected by Armed iUen.
[From the Pittsburg Post.]
“Stop there, young man ! What aro
you doing here after night ?”
The challenge was accompanied by a
sharp “click, click,” and the astonished
reporter found himself confronted by a
stalwart fellow wearing a slouch hat,
holding a cocked gun in one hand and a
dark lantern in the other. This un¬
looked-for meeting occurred the other
night within the gloomy walls of Alleg¬
heny Cemetery. The adventure illus¬
trates the excellent way iu which Alleg¬
heny Cemetery is protected against the
vandalism of grave robbers, Within
the past week a spirit of inquiry has
arisen in the minds of Pittsburg and Al¬
legheny people, as to whether graves in
our cemeteries have ever been tampered
with. This feeling was greatly aroused
by the startling developments made in
Philadelphia and Harrisburg, and pub¬
lished in the newspapers all over the
country concerning tho atrocious acts of
the human ghouls. Superintendent
Perry, of the Allegheny Cemetery,
laughed at the idea of grave robbing in
Pittsburg, lie said, that tho people of
this section of the State are fortunate in
that respect, because there is really no
demand for corpses, no medical college
existing in our midst. In the cemetery
of which he has charge, he has opened
hundreds of graves, at various times, and
found the bodies therein all right. At
the time of the excitement over the steal¬
ing of A. T. Stewart’s body in New York,
and the spiriting away of the remains of
a noble in Scotland, an armed night jia
trol was established. He has several
men who are sworn in as special police¬
men. They dress in citizen’s clothes and
are each armed with double-barreled,
breech-loading shot guns, and arc on duty
every night from sunset to sunrise. There
are nearly tliree hundred acres of ground
in the cemetery, and every foot of it is
patrolled, each guard having a regular
beat to cover. The superintendent has
devised a system of clocks by which lie
c-an detect any negligence on the part of
the officers; haring dial-like boxes
placed in different locations, where they
must be pulled at stated intervals
throughout the night. Tho patrol ar¬
rangement is a success, and grave rob¬
bing could not be possible in the place.
At Uniondale Cemetery, in Allegheny,
Superintendent Henry stated that there
had never been any grave robbing there,
and that it would be impossible. He lias
armed men to patrol the grounds at night,
and when suspicions characters are ob¬
served about the place, extra watch is
kept. That young doctors in these two
cities always"have there fresh is empses question. for dis¬ If
secting purposes is correct, no they get most
our informant
of their “subjects from the East, and, no
doubt, some have even come from Phila
delphio. For a moderate sum they can
be purchased in other cities and trans¬
ported in unassuming boxes.
Depots in the “Swear Box.”
in ihe office of tho Pilot Commission
ers in New York is a strong iron box con
strncted on the plan ot a toy savings
bank. It fa known among the pilot» as
the “swear box,’ andeverv-person swear
ing Li m.it r'x m ms to
monev e 0 m o in.om i
not* unusual* to collect SI 09 a week for the
first few months after it was put up, but
of late years the contributions have fal¬
len off heavily. Tlie rule fa rigidly en¬
forced, and no one ever objects to paying
'eeideiitah he nenaltv ’ even if the oath was purely
' Okl Commodore Vanderbilt
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was once a heaw contributor, and so
were other large ship and boat owners.
The nicest book to present to a p<r>:
relative fa a well-filled poeketbook.
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Turnips as a Farm Croj.
Ool. F. D. Curtis, in a letter to the
American Agriculturist, says: Vers
few of the farmers of this country appro
date the value of turnips as a farm crop i
Some chemists estimate thorn to contoia |
ninety-five per cent, of water, leaving |
only live per cent, of flesh-forming ma¬ i
terial ; and out of this small part they
deduct a portion a3 woody fibre, only
good to holp fill up tho stomach of an
animal. I am not prepared to dispute
the correctness of this analysis, but I do
take issue with the conclusions that tur¬
nips have no greater value ns food than
may be indicated by the chemist’s fig¬
ures. Turnips have possibly a mechani¬
cal value, as they may aid in the diges¬
tion of more concentrated food, such as
corn meal, when fed with it, Perhaps
tlie fault is to be found in the fact that j
the ninety-five per cent, of water is put
down as worthless. In the economy of
nature this very water may prove of
more importance than has been ascribed
to it. I have found that raw turnips
will not only sustain life, but cause hogs
to thrive when fed nothing elso. I do
not mean when fed a large quantity, but
an amount, which, according to the
chemist’s tables, would bo such a small
per cent, of tho actual food that starva¬
tion would bo expected. Sheep and
cattle will fatten on them, with very little
hay. The credit cannot bo put down to
the hay, but must be carried over to the
turnips. If I understand the British
system of making mutton, it is mainly,
and sometimes' entirely, by the use of
turnips. The sheep are confined by hur¬
dles on the turnips, where tlioy help
themselves, until the crop within tho in¬
closure is fresh exhausted, Knowing when they ore
moved to a lot. Urn real
value of turnips, and how easily they may
be converted into meat, why should not
the American farmer avail himself of the
opportunity, and not rely so exclusively
on corn ? Every farmer should have a
! uniip patch, the larger the bettor. Tho
crop can always bo made supplementary
to another on the farm, and is so much
clear gain.
Down in the Dark.
The Virginia, Ncv., Enterprise says:
Down in the lower levels of our mines,
hundreds of feet below the surface of the
earth, in the dominions of Erebus, where
darkness ever holds its reign unbroken by
the light of day, ore found some curious
growths.
The Grass Valley Tidings of recent
date makes the following mention of a
specimen of this subterranean vegeta¬
tion:
“On Saturday some miners found a
rather queer specimen in the 700 level in
the Idaho mine. The specimen was
found among the timber is a sort of fun¬
gus (punk, we believe the miners call it),
and is just the shape of a human hand.
The hand has five fingers and a thumb,
and appears to be iu a sort of cramped
position. It is a singular looking speci¬
men, and may be seen at Wisconsin
HoteL”
In the lower levels of the Comstock
mines—particularly those long abandoned
or unused—are seeu many wonderful
growths of different kinds of fungi.
Some of these are great size, almost fill¬
ing up drifts, and seen by tho dim light
of a candle look like sheeted ghosts.
Down below in tho dark these growths
seem to strive to imitate the forms of
things seen on tlie surface. In one of
our mines was once found an imitation
of a fancifully-carved meerschaum pipe,
stem and all, so perfect that it would
easily be mistaken for the genuine article
if not taken in the hand and cloudy ex¬
amined. Some of the fungi resemble
the horns of animals, and are from two
feet to a yard in length, while others
might pass for a petrified devil-fish.
The YVoehawken Tnnnel.
The bore through the Palisades of the
Hudson River, at Weehawken, N. J.,
opposite New York City, fa now com¬
plete, though it will probably take six
months more to finish the tunnel aud its
approaches. The eastern approach has
been cat through solid rock a distance of
15 ? “ t( t 1 ! lt
nel rs KlOO eetm length, 27 , feet wade
and 21 feet high, llie greater part of
the cutting, 3,400 feet has been done
since January, 1882 Ih e estimated cos
of the tunnel was about 81.2u0.000 but
it 11 is thought ° that the actual cost will
amount ; A to much , more rr Tne , tunnel , v ha*
been cut m sections, the inner ontsfrom
five shafts from the upper surface of the
bluff. These shafts which have an av
T^'fervcntiiatine'the tSmeL 'Seventh
compressed air drffis have been con
stately en ployed. A recently invented
and very powerful steam shovel has done
effective service m removing
and loadmgjKus. _____
Of Hie eiglitv-four morocco manufac
i 8iinate d in Philadelphia. These estab
Kshments turn out 2,000 dozen skins a
day in good weather. It fa one of the >
omalies of the trade, just now, tliat
while the demand for morocco fa very j
active, the price fa very low. This fa
owm . g to thf ’ fact tliat 18 impossible . ... to , . !
** an ? advance from the shoe manu
!actu rers. The latter cannot raise the ,
j price of shoes without combining to do •
; bo, and the consequence fa that the j
morocco manufacturer cannot put up
his prices. I
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. MAY 25, 188!!.
THE OLDEST VETERAN OF 1812.
Sir, Thomas Honk, O-!, TYlio DU'fonticd
&t;Ucu isiani! wish ike I^uu , hcra ,
t’oiiiimtiy.
The oldest surviving veteran of the
war of 1812, in New York at least, is
believed to bo Mr. Thomas Mooli, who
is now in his fifth year. Mr. Monk was
a butcher in the old Collect Market,
afterward in the Catharine Street Market,
lie retired from business iu 1850, leaving
his stands to two of his sons, Thomas
and William. When 21 years old bo was
a member of Capt. C. Hartwell’s militia
company, and served in a bloodless
campaign for home protection on Staten
Island. That company was organized
among tho butchers, and it was originally
intended should be composed of them
exclusively, but eventually some of their
friends, anxious to join what was regarded
as a crack company, pleaded for ad¬
mission, and tho organization lost some
of its distinctive character. Mr. Mook’s
eldest brother William, widely known as
Uncle Biliy Mook to the old timers who
flourished about the Bowery and Ohrystio
street, was also a butcher, and served in
Hartwell’s company. IIo was only one
year older than the surviving veteran,
but died several years ago, as did also
the youngest of the four brothers, James
Mook.
The butchers were “ very lively boys ”
when lie was a young man, the veteran
says, but his habits were exceptionally
abstemious and regular, a fact to which
he attributes bis longevity. Not even
tho seductive companionship of his
fellow butchers or the social charms of
the members of Engine Company No.
40, of which he was a member, could
tempt bim to any wilder dissipation than
singing songs, in which he was accom¬
plished. He is by no means clear about
where that old fire company used to lie,
any further than that it was “on the
street beyond Orange, between Broome
and Grand.” But who knows now where
Orange street was ? Tho wiping out of
that ancient landmark is but one of the
least of the myriad of changes ho has
witnessed; for in Lis day New York was
all away down town, the village of
Greenwich was away out of town, and
up at tho head of the Bowery was the
country, yet lie lias Jived to make bis
home in one of a row of handsome
brownstono mansions in a thickly built
up section of the city on 129th street.
Mr. Mook shows great age, it is true,
but less than many a one who liaa not
attained so many years. His hair is
silvery white. The loss of his teeth has
rendered his utterance some what defect¬
ive, the sight of liis left eye has been
impaired by neuralgic pains, and bis his
limbs with difficulty bear him about
room, but Ins mental faculties are still
bright, his memory is excellent, his hear¬
ing is good, and ho Mill relishes liis pipe.
He has had four sons and three
dang’) tors. One of tho sous was
killed by accident, but the others are
living. —New York Sun.
Poverty Among Decayed Gentry.
A New York paper says: Speaking of
the poor, oueof the most pitiable shapes in
which ] loverty appears is found among the
decayed gentry. Almost all tho old fami¬
lies which held distinction half a century
ago in this city are now reduced to des¬
titution. This is ono of tlie laws of so¬
ciety, and cannot be avoided. Many of
this class are people of tone aud refine¬
ment, who, like Milton, have “fallen on
evil days.” Wb know instances where
some of this class are pensioned by kind
relatives who are in better condition, in
order to keep the family up. Often, on
the other hand, we find the decayed gen¬
try filling petty offices in libraries and
public buildings, and earning a pittance
sufficient to keep them from the street.
The revolutions to which wealth and
learning are subject, aro so rapid that it
does not take long to bring tho top to
the bottom. The sad record is not limit¬
ed to America. Walter Scott was glad
to have his youngest son provided for,
by a Government clerkship in London,
which he held till he died, aud which
alone saved him from pauperism.
-l Good Place for Live Men.
“There is a cha7n7teNew York, in the
°. aj(i , tth -; c]l it !lt te.ids to
, ^ . v ltr ,
cbl ti j oriddrees „ “Men of
’ 7’ ’ are quickly
Beiz d np 1 htr( quialy 1 J .pp^iatod,
and , quickly 4 .. advanced. , , It T , has , r.cvr
beenft « for respe ctali]emedi
dullness. M. n know
gc ]i;tJo fhut whon tl , y find
ii(;Ut(UlilntHj tii; ., ,, ,, 1 th- m
at < ■
b
f ol ^ ^ The v„ wring out of tissue
andof h , rc r . , inires 'conriant av
ft ,m youth ;ud ambition. Ex
cept among the old, stupid Dutch fami
marriages are generally made in
cumulation and spirit. The man who
has made som. thing or kept something,
is ciieilly afraid ’ ■ fa going to lose it, and
looks around for that resistance which a
blood connection will bring and hold his
fortune fast.”
One thing, at least, can be said for the
tiny muffs now affected by fashionabh
fadies. They are too small for liand
warmers, but ; hen, you know, they don’t
ifidc one’s f ;er jewels .—Boston Trans
script.
THE JOLLY FIRE LADDIE.
How lie is Strctclied Oiif fo Make Iflm ThII
EttouttU—FUllu# l'j» *ui<i Tblnuing Dunn.
In New York City, applicants have to ■
pass an examination before their names!
are placed on tho list for places. Of every j
thousand so examined, at least eight
htwdrcd are refused for physical ren
sons. Obesity is a good cause for rejec¬
tion, but in regard to deficiency in weight,
if the cause is of a temporary nature, the
applicant is entitled to another examine
tiou. Many aspirants go into training
under direction of physicians before ap
plication is made to tlio board at all, and
tlio points they generally study and
traiu for are, weight, chest measurement,
and height. A physician who is in that
particular lino says ho has had scores of
young men in training for positions tho
past few years. Some of them were per
fectly healthy, and a Iittlo management
and perseverance so altered their phy
siques that they became model firemen,
Others could not qualify with all the
training in tho world. If the man is lean,
ha is fed on oat-meal mush and milk, and
kept at rest, so that no flesh is lost in ex
ercise. He sleeps and laughs much dur
ing the period of training, and avoids
everything that tends to worry his mind,
If he. has a scolding wife, ho induces
liis mother-in-law to take her on a visit,
and pretends that it is for her health, in
stead of his own. The chest can be en
larged by proper exercise and observing
prescribed miles. Tho fat man is re¬
duc’d to regulation weight by exercise,
careful dieting, or starvation, if neces
sary. What little he does eat is of a
kind that runs to muscle rather than fat.
the queerest thing about the trainer’s in¬
genuity is that short men ore made a
trifle longer by certain painful methods
of elongation. His hands and foot arc
secured to movable beams and the screws
put in motion until tlio subject is drawn
out to tho greatest length liis courage
will endure, and lie is kept so until he
begs for mercy. This process is gone
through every day, until nearly an huh
is added to liis length. It is a question
whether lie retains this extra height.
Many hold that he will in time settlo
down to liis old size, while some train¬
ers ciaim that tlie elongation is perma¬
nent. Just before examination the sin¬
ister applicant fills himself with water,
and does before tho board with several
extra pounds of fictitious and deceptive
weight. Sleep will naturally add to
length, breadth and thickness, and will
give a man a vigorous appearance that ho
docs not wear later in the day. An un¬
successful applicant states that lie had
gained eight pounds before tho first ex¬
amination and twenty on tlio second,
much of the latter weight being ficti¬
tiously added by drinking twenty glasses
of water, according to his statement.
Tho department is dead set against any
improper methods of altering the phy¬
sique, and detection bars them from ex¬
amination, while the medical examiners
are so versed in their business that it is
not an easy matter to deceive them, and
tho applicant has disappointment for liis
reward.
Building Up a Business.
An English paper tells us how wlwt
is now tho largest shoe manufactory in
England was started. It says : J-
B-was a respectable citizen of Lon¬
don, who in a venture lost his nil, and
retired to the country to live quietly on
a little independence belonging to his
wife. He did not like this state of
things; but there seemed no opening
for the commencement of any business. «
He had some knowlcdgo of chemistry,
and a taste for making experiments with
it, and thought he would begin tlie tan¬
ning of leather by some process of his
own, and sec if any money could be ac¬
quired iu that way. Ho exhausted all his
small cupital, and there was no sole for
his hides. An old city friend, an alder¬
man, who possessed a country-seat near
the place where J-B-had sot up
his tan-pits, heard liow the leather hung
on hand, and asked: “Why not make
your leather into shoes ? Few persons
care to buy, or know what to do with
hides. Every one must wear shoes.”
The dilliculty was the want of capital;
but J--B-, nothing daunted, with
his two sons, lads just come home from
school, and the assistance of a village
cobbler, set to w ork. The lads soon out¬
stripped their instructor, adding intelli¬
gence to diligence, and the result was
that their shoes sold faster than they
could make them; and, in time, as their
business increased, they not only sold
thousands of piairs throughout England,
but the demand for them in Australia
<
became very great, J-B died a
wealthy man; and his two sons carried
on the business, and in time, having re¬
alized huge fortunes, sold out and retired.
Unfortunately, they had no resources of
amusement or occupation in themselves,
and the loss of an object to take up their
time and give them an interest in the af¬
fairs of life at length so pressed of short upon
! h< rri that they, at the end a
C r : nl of this enforced idleness, repur¬
chased at an enormous cost the factory
but lately sold; and at the present time
they employ at least a thousand pair of
hands in the making of boots and shoes,
Mr.s. Lanotp.y Rays she used to milk
‘ he f unify cow, and would do it again if
.'Cessriry. Bnt let no young wife think
this was what gave her her beauty. It
iv s getting up bright and early on brac
v winter mornings to start the fires.—
(JitrraU Comment,
Inexpensive Dress Goods.
Tlio red nation in prices of dress goods
that usually takes place in January lms
been made this season a month earlier,
and economical purchasers do not have
to wait until the holidays are over and
the winter far spout before securing
good bargains,
At all the large stores there are coun
tors covered with dress lengths of nine
or ten yards of pure wool goods and
fashionable shades at. prices ranging
from $3 to $8. Tho lowest-priced among
these are cashmeres that are not of heavy
quality, but are all wool, evenly twiilf d,
though not very closely, and well col
orod in the olive, garnet, rifle green, seal
brown, and navy blue shades; heavier
mid more finely woven patterns of cash
”
m( >re aro $(?.
Wanner soft woolens, with the twilled
chuddah stripes, are sold for $6.50 or $5
the dress, and th we aro excellent t willed
camel's-hair stuffs for $7 or $8. If it is
desired to have a more showy dress, an
over-dress or polonaise length of cm
broidered cashmere maybe bought for
$5, and the entire dress material for $10.
The black cashmeres with embroidered
selvedges are shown ns low as $10 for
tho dress, but these are not of ns nice
quality as tho colored patterns sold at
that price; those at $12 to $16 are of
better black, finer cashmere, and aro
more effectively embroidered.
There are also handsome patterns of
braided cnslnnere, or of camel's-hair,
with applique disks of velvet wrought on
the edges in India colors for trimming,
sold at $15, while a light quality of lady's
cloth, with trimming of velvet in bands,
on which is braiding done in the knife
edge patterns, for $11; the latter come
in all tho dark cloth colors—terra cotta,
olive, electric blue, and rillo green. Tho
prices of plush are also greatly n diced;
and there arc beautiful rnliy, garnet, gold,
olive, and blue plushes sold for less than $2
a yard for cloak linings, for dress trim¬
mings, for children’s walking coats and
caps, for tho lower skirts of costumes,
and for petticoats. The dark inconspic¬
uous woolen plaid goods ai'o also sold at
less than was asked for them at the lie
ginning of the season, yet they grow in
favor for tho skirls of misses’ and young
ladies’dr. Hses that cloth. are completed by a
Breton jacket of
Tknuhlui; Itcuns.
A. Al. Williams, Syracuse, N. Y,
writes: “I notice an inquiry from ike
West about the best method of threshing
beans. The writer states in his vicinity
it is common to thresh them with u com¬
mon threshing machine and this breaks
them so much as to depreciate their
market value. Of lata years the people
in the western part of this State have
planted this crop <m a largo scale. I
have just returned from a visit to this
section, where 1 learned a few facts that
may interest this writer and others. 1
visited Mr. D. E. Rogers, of Wheatland,
who is tho President of tho Western
New York Farmers’ Club, and probably
ono of tho best farmers of the State on
the subject of threshing beans. Mr.
Rogers tells me they have invented a
threshing-machine on purpose for this
crop, and speaks of it ns a p rfect suc¬
cess. I did not see tlio article which
spoke of the breaking of tlio beans until
my return, but I think if this new
machine had been liable to this objection
lro would have spoken of it. I also saw
several lots of tho threshold beans aud
did not see any broken ones. Tho bean
crop of lust year was injured very much
by tho insect. Mr. Rogers tells mu this
difficulty may ho avoided by very early
or very late planting. Of the two, very
late planting has been most successful.
When tlie crop is planted late it does not
got in shape for tho infceet to attuck it
until its time has gone by. In central
Ncv/ York a field of forty or fifty acres
of beans would bo a curiosity; it is not
so in the western pait of the State. If
the machine alluded to is what wo sup¬
pose it to be we hope it will be advertised
in the World, aud the great West will
have an opportunity to know its merits.”
Alfred Clock, a wealthy retired ri al
estate dealer of New York City was made
the victim of a banco stccrer on lliurs
day. About a year ago he sustained a
stroke of paralysis, and lie has since gone
out alone but s’blom. On that day,
however, he was alone in a Fourth avc
nue car, when accosted by aw. 11 dressed
young man who gave his name as
Stokes, and sod that lie knew Mr.
Clock. The latter was induced to ao
company tbo young man to a gam >hng
house, wher he lost $50 m cash then
$128. for which he drew a check, tel
lowed hy another for $200, another for
*700 } and ' tlio last of all one for $6,000
the ’ Fifth V Avenue . Bank. ,, . t, He left , n the
on
gambling-house, went to the bank, aud
dr. or. w w $1 *i,.jv», 500, with which he, , in company v
with two men, returned to the gambling
house. There he handed over the $1,500,
getting back only the check for $128
When he returned home he related his
experience to bis daughter, Mrs. Mese
role, and her sons. Ihe police were in
formed. and on Monday William Edwards
was arrested as oik; of the uk-u who ac
companies! Mr Clock to the bank, lie
was identified by the
was .... ....... '
Court on a charge of larceny.
Beware! He wbo courts and go's
away may live to co iirtaidtber day ; hut
-
he who weds aud courts girls still may
get in court against Ids with
$1. 00 A YEAR.
Landlord Tim. f
We possessed n landlord once in our
pleasant lit tie Canadian village, and tho
said landlord was witty and harmless,
but mi inveterate “exaggerator.” Stranger
or friend were pleasantly entertained of
an evening by listening to his impos
Bible, though truthfully told, yarns, and
many a guest felt he received liis money’s
worth of combustible chin, besides his
board thrown in. He would tell about
feeding bushels of corn to a wild goose
! that daily visited his father's “lower
farm,” and at last, Bhootiug it with a
rifle, found half of Iho bullet on either
side, split liy the breast-bone. Beaufci
fully would he relate his favorite, a
pigeon yarn. Noticing hundreds of this
game in a tree one day, and having only
» rifle ho was sorely perplexed as to tho
host moans of making a fruitful dis
charge. Brains brought into requisition
so plent ifully his head ached, quickly
sot him clear. Choosing tho fullest
limb, ho fired, splitting it and the bullet
passed through tho limb, their toes
dropped in and held them fast. \\ Idle
sawing oil the limb it suddenly broke
im, l l°t pigeons and all into a stream
below. Aiken ho reached tho slime
again lio had niuely-seven pigeons m liis
hands and a peek of Hmall fish in his
boots,
“Tim,” Haiti Henderson, a now corner,
one night after Tim lmd finished his
imaginative triumph, “Tim, I shot at
some pigeons years ago; 1 had as good a
double-barreled gun ns was ever made,
and I saw clouds of pigeons on the
ground not more than twenty-five yards
away. I lot go both barrels at the same
time and how many do you suppose I
lulled?”
“Did you say you had a shot-gun?”
inquired Tim.
“Yes, sir; double-barreled and a good
ono.”
“Oil, Tdon’t know,” said Tim, thought¬
fully; “say 200.”
“No, sir,” said Henderson, with an
air of satisfied expectancy, “no sir, not
a single one I ”—Detroit Free Press.
I Will in m PaUcrson’s Will.
William Puttersou was a very wealthy
tradesman of Baltimore. In tho early
days of Franklin County, Ga., he bought
up a great many tracts of land iu the
county, and snout a good portion of liis
time in looking after liis interests there.
IIo was said to lie ns strong its a bear
and as brave as a lion ; hut, like all
bravo won, he was n lover of peace, and,
indeed, a good, pious man. Neverthe¬
less, liis wrath could bo excited to a
lighting pitch. occasion lie attended public
On ono a
gathering in tho lower part of Franklin
County, at some district court ground.
During tho day two opposing bullies
awl their friends raised a row and a gen¬
eral fight was the consequence. At tho
beginning of the fray, and before tho
lighting began, Billy Patterson ran into
tho crowd to persuade them not to fight,
but to moke pence and bo friends. But
his efforts for peace were unavailing,
and while making than, Homo of the
crowd in the general melee struck Billy
Patterson a severe blow from behind.
Billy ut once, became lighting mad and
cried out at the top of Ills voice, “ Who
struck Billy Patterson ?”
No one could or would tell him who
was the guilty party, He then proposed
to give any man $100 to tell him “ who
struck Billy Patterson.” From $100 ho
rose to $1,000, but not $1,000 would in¬
duce any man to tell him “ who struck
Biliy Puttersou." Years afterward, in
liis will, he related tho above facts, and
bequeathed $1,000, to be paid by his ex
icu tors, to tlio mull who would toll him
“ who struck Billy Putt rsoli.” liis
will is recorded in the Ordinary’s office and
at Carnesvillc, Franklin County, Ga.,
;uiy one curious about the matter can
there find it and verify the preceding
statements.
SurKitSTJTiooa, —“IF T was an actress,
instead of mi actor,” said a well-known
pr fessionai, “I would not play the part
of Eleanor Vaughn, in ‘Davy Crockett,’
I ra thousand dollars a week. Venie
(Jl.iucy traveled with Frank Mayo sev¬
er: 1 years ago in that role, and she died
of consumption. Tlmn Laura Clancy,
her sister, was engaged, and now she is
dying of the same disease in Southern
California. A third Eleanor was Laura
1>0 „ „ jk1 a f(;W (] ,.ys ago she sailed for
t
France, and h< r last Mimrk to
, j ^ ^ her go( ,14>yo was that she
wwuM not j !vc to come l ack to America.
JJ( ... , i( . jliU }lad pronounced lierdis
; Po0 j )lo nay that we
| dmmutic proff-hsion arc fmpeniti
fJ ,„ lt these are facts that ought to
m ;k ,, ( o ryhody afraid ol acting Eleanor
Vaughn.”
When , ho had . - called n , the meeting of #
”
‘ p m Kllu rtl C ub . to . “f 1 T Lr0the , '
; ’
Oardm r arose and said: , “Gen lem, if it
wasu ’t ( or ,l e wheels on a wagon de
wagon wouldn’t move. When de wheels
j is on, den what ?” “Grease !” solemnly
j exclaimed an old man. “K« rrect!”
| j whispered tho president, “We softly hez ilc rubbing
his 1 lands together. wagon
au’ de wheels. We will now pass de hat
aroun tor de grease^
« X hat batter fa all right,” said a
boarding-house keeper; “it fa firkin bnt
] tastes little of the wor d, that’s 1
tcr au< a
: H.” “If that is the case,” replied a
boarder, who is a contractor, “I should
like to g<t some of th t wood to make
. of. —IJiiiaiklplua . ,,
| jai ioi.d bridges out
Pews.
CLAIMING THE CAPITOL’S SITE.
Till' KtnrtTIujr JTCxprrfntlmio at Forty Hein
Ut ilio AIIckoA Blackmore lisente.
A dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa.,
says:—Papers have been prepared for the
institution of an ejectment suit in the
United States Circuit Court that in¬
terests every citizen of tho United States.
The property involved iu this instance
is the ground upon which stands tho
United States Capitol building, the
White House, Treasury, Naval, and other
Government buildings and hundreds ol
fine dwellings and business houses, as
well ns thousands of acres of land in
Georgetown and iu Maryland and
Washington county, Pa. Besides this
vast amount of real estate, there is Baid
to be considerable money in tho Bank of
England belonging to claimants. The
owner of this vast amount of property
was William Bloekmoro, who settled on
this side of the Atlantic in colonial times.
By some menus not known to the present
generation, he became possessed of the
land described. At bis death the property
passed into other hands, and sub
re piently the States of Maryland and
Virginia donated that portion upon which
is loca ted the Capitol and other Govern¬
ment building to the Federal Govern¬
ment. Many years thereafter claimants
to the property sprung up from different
parts of the country, but it seems that
i gal proceedings were never before in¬
stituted. The late ex-Mnyor Blacktiore
of Pittsburgh was, it is claimed, the
I iundson of tlio original owner of the
1 nid. Shortly after his death, and during
this Blackniorc bankruptcy proceedings
ii tho United States District Court of
this city, an allowance was ordered to be
undo to tlio assignee;, J. G. MacConnell,
Esq., for the purpose of prosecuting tlio
claims of the heirs of the ex-Mayor. In
accordance with this order, Mr.
MacConnell has been looking up the
records, and lias a representative in
Washington. Several months ago two
attorneys from tlio capital called upon
the widow of the ex-Mayor and offered
to institute legal proceedings for her,
provided she would give them a retainer.
This she declined to do. Other Pitts¬
burgh claimants to tho estate aro ex
Slioriff Patterson of East End, Dr.
Samuel Beltzehoovcr of Diamond street,
and one of (he oldest families of Mans
lield on the Fatdnuullo road. Recently
snout forty claimants met at Mansfield,
contributed money toward prosecuting
Hie claim, and sent a representative to
Washington, who is gathering points
upon which t<* proceed. Besides this
concerted action taken by claimants,
they are nearly all individually re
presented by counsel.
The location and extent of the property
claimed is ns follows: Iu the District of
Columbia arc 48 i acres, 100 acres near
Bladcnsburg, Md., 600 acres in Wash¬
ington county, Pennsylvania, taking in
iho Boyer property, and a vast treasure
in the Bank of England. The amount
involved can hardly be estimated, but it
certainly reaches hundreds of millions of
dollars.
Woman Suffrage,
On iho subject of woman suffrage,
Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, in his
inaugural message says: “For myself
I believe that that right is givon them
iiy tho constitution of the United States.
By the decision of tho courts I am over¬
ruled in my action on this subject, but
not in my convictions. It is an experi¬
ment in our government which lias
never been hero practically tried, for al¬
lhough woman arc allowed to vote for a
tingle class of municipal officers, yet
there aro so many restrictions And im¬
pediments thrown around it, that no wo¬
man with a proper spirit of self-respect,
ought to allow herself to pass through
the ordeal to attain a useless privilege.”
He suggests that cleoiion day be mads
a holiday, and that local election*
throughout the Btato he so arranged
that all will fall on the same day as tha
general election. On the subject at
naturalizati >u he advocates that eveiy
judge of a district or municipal court
have the power to issue certificites of
naturalization, and is in favor of con
lining it even to them, for they as neigh¬
bors aro better able to decide from
knowledge whether the facts are true in
ihe application. It will relieve the
dockets i f the higher courts; and in
dosing on tho topic he adds that all the
systematic frauds in naturalization al¬
leged and proved in a neighboring Btate
were done iu the superior courts of that
State.
A Fish Pond.
Into an old pond, sixty feet square, of
urfaoe water, a Pennsylvania corre
spendent placed eleven carp early last
spring. In November tho water was
drawn off aud 3,230 of the fish were
captured, ranging in length from four
and a half to six inches. One lesson of
the experiment was:
“That good, large and well-matured
fish will spawn early and quit, and the
young crop will lie uniform in size,
whilst tho crop from parent fish of
unequal size and age will not be uniform
in size.”
A sick man was advised to go to a
doctor for advice. The doctor happened
to be a very thin, spare man, so when
the invalid saw him, he refused to take
any advice from him, remarking : “Why
you look to be a confounded sight worse
than I am.”