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EDITOKIAL KOI'JSS.
The White House conservatory is one of
the finest in the world. It contains 8,000
plants in the conservatory proper, and
12,000 in the hot houses. The white
house is decorated every day with about
300 plants, flowering, tropical and foli
age. The building and contents are
Valued at $50,000, and eleven men, be¬
sides the head gardener, are kept busy
nil tile time taking care of the plants,
etc. The annual expense of keeping up
the conservatory is $5,500.
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A searcher for truth writes from
Portland, Oregon, that the great north¬
west is not the place for men without
money. He adds that if men who are
down at the heel and are played out
everywhere else continue to push for¬
ward into Oregon the great state will
be a fool’s paradise "by another year,
with more tramps than there were in
New England just after the collapse in
1873. Clerks and merchants may r as
well stay where they rre, and, indeed,
the farmer who has from $609 to $600
will do better to stay at home than to
spend it ail in traveling to an unexplored
country.
-t.i a reitoi io tSiwara 37 Kan if all,
president of the Keely Motor company,
the inventor announces that the mo
chanical portion of his invention is com¬
plete. After the first of next month
“nothing will be left,” he says, “but set¬
ting up the transmitter, when all labors
will terminate preparatory to opening
and showing the specific quali ies of the
perfect vibratory engine.” Mr. Keely asks
thatasn table place fora public exhibi¬
tion, capable of accommodating several
hundred parsons, be secured for an early
day. Mr. Randall has sent out a circu¬
lar to all the stockholders announcing
tlieee facts, and inferentially asking them
to hold themselves in readiness for tho
greatest exhibition the Wor d has ever
seen. The “greatest exhibition” will
*ake place in Philadal^iia.
A number of New York capitalists
nave recently organized a stqhk com¬
pany for the purpose of advancing,the
cause of cremation in New York eh#
and its vicinity. ... It . _
is proposed to con-
struct a crematory in Riverside avenue,
north of One Hundred and Fourteenth
street. The plan of the furnace will dif¬
fer materially from that of Le Moyne’s
crematory at Washington,’ Pa. The
movement has its origin in a belief that
the desire to be cremated is more pop
iilar than is usually supposed, and
steadily growing, and furthermore, that
ultimately cremation will become afr a sani¬
tary necessity in New York and large
cities. It is asserted that by the meth¬
od of cremation the ashes of an ordinary
human body can be reduced by compres¬
sion to the size cf a small apple or
turnip.
Mr. A. M. G. Sebillot proposes to
construct a steamer which wi 1 make the
trip between New York and Europe in
four days. The vessel will have virtu¬
ally two hulls, a lower and upper, the
lower in the center to be deep, long,
narrow, and at the bows very sharp, re¬
ducing the angle forward by tbe line ot
the bows where they cut the water with
the line of the vessel’s motion from one
of fifteen degre s, as now, to even three
degrees. When the vessel is deeply
laden it will barely rest upon the water.
The calculations show that a steamer so
constructed could obtain a speed of pos
sib y thirty-five knots an hour, arid at
that rate four days would be sufficient
for passage in calm water from New
York to Europe in four days. If Mr.
Sebillot makes a success, it is probable
that passenger steamers will be built
after tbe new fashion, while the old style
steamers will be devoted to the freight
traffic.
Boats and vessels run some queer
risks. The common swordfish has
been known to plunge its sword
through the coppjr sheething, a three
inch plank of hard wood, a piece of
white oak twelve inches thick, a two
and a half inch oak eeiling, and finally
into the head i.f a barrel of oil. When
it is recollected that a sword fi-h strikes
with the accumulated force of fifteen
double hammers its vo ocity being equal
to that of a swivel, it will be seen that
this Ls a terrible monster to cope with
Whales also are terrible things to en¬
counter. It is a common thing for a
large wha e to stave in a vessel and sink
her in a few minutes. In southern wa¬
ters mariners stand in gieat dread of a
beautiful bubble with tentacles some¬
times 1 0 feet long, armed with darts oi
v poisonous nature. Cuttlefish some
times attack vessels, and are regarded
as quite dangerous. But these are only
a few of tbe perils of the great deep. It
would require a volume to enumerate
them all.
Ths
GENERAL NEWS.
In the penitentiary of North Carolina
there are 118 whites and 894 blacks.
At Pratt mines, Ala., there are 500
convicts, including state and county
men.
A French lemon tree at Daytona,
Volusia county, Fla., has 1,900 lemons
on it
The sum of $10,866,000 is invested in
manufacturing in the four principal cit¬
ies of Lousiana.
North Carolinians are reckoning
upon a great development of the oyster
trade on the coast.
During the recent cold snap, Charles
ton, South Carolina, has the coldes
weather in 130 years.
The largest vessels ever built ;
and other ship-building towns i.
were built of Georgia pine.
MoNTGo.WF.rY, Alabama, i
excited over the gambling qiie-'h'
She seems determined to root it c
Nearly all Florida hotels ge
meat and poultry from New
Canned vegetables are almost exclur
need.
The Frigate Colorado, which has«.
$1,410,603, has been condemned at the
Brooklyn navy yard, and she will be sold
at auction.
Mississippi loses by death les- than
thirteen jiersona to the thousand annu¬
ally, and this includes the dea h rate
among the negroes.
There are now more than five hun¬
dred strangers pmsjieeting for homes
and arranging for the purchase of prop¬
erty in North Carolina.
Hamilton Journal <r*
VOL, XII. NO. It.
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causes for these rash acts were, insanity,
109 ; sickness, 39 ; business trouble, 46;
family trouble, 54; love trouble, 26;
dissipation, 24; destitution, 24 ; grief, 8.
1 be Southern States had somewhat less
than their propprtion.
Tennessee has four iron belts-~tlie
eastern, dyestone, Cumberland and west¬
ern. The eastern extends through the
state, The dywtono lielt skirts the
southern base of tb,e Cumberland table
land from Virginia to Georgia. It sprea s
into theEist Lnnesseevalley a distance
of from ten to twenty miles. The Cum¬
berland belt extends into Kentucky and
Alabama. The western belt lies west of
the central basin and is for the most
part east of the Tennessee river. Iron
is found in forty-four comities in the
state, and the supply is practically inex
haustible. Heretofore the lack of trans¬
portation aciliriea lias greatly retarded
the development of these ore beds, but
the advantages held out in the shape of
cheap manufact in w ill ere long bring
Tennessee into the front rank o indus¬
trial states.
The second volume of the census on
manufactures is full of interesting fig¬
ure . It shows among other thing that
the steam power of the country far out¬
runs its water power. Out of 3,410,837
horse power in all employed in manu¬
factures, only one-third consists of water
(lower. These figures would be still
more one-sided if the power of grist and
saw mills was excluded. 'I hese kind of
mills are chiefly driven by water power,
an( j they are not considered as strict y
nlanufacturing establishments. In manu¬
factures proper steam power is probably
used four to one. Wherever coal can be
laid down at three dollars a ton, water
(tower is no longer considered preferable,
no matter what the fall or quantity of it
may be. Steam is a better servant at
all times than water, and it is rapidly
supplanting it where the fuel supply is
liot'prohibitory.
In the grist and saw mills of Georgia
there are 36.655 horse power, but all tho
ttower does not add to the wealth of the
tate as much as does the horse power
us.din our manufactures proper. We
use in this way 15,395 horse power.
These are not immense figures when
compared with those of the great manu¬
facturing states of the northeast; but
they show that Georgia leads in manu
factures all the other cotton states. Ten
ne-soe uses 14,379 horsepower, Virginia
13,275, ; North Carolina 7,962, South
Carolina 6,900. Alabama 4,680, Missis¬
sippi 2,613, and Florida 301.
Pennsylvania is the great manufactur¬
ing state of the union, using 354,774
horse power; New York commences
next, using 280,099 ; Massachusetts with
279,114, follow closely after; Ohio has
142,853 horse power, and little Con
nrcticut shows up with 104.552. Con¬
necticut is a marvel of manufacturing
industry. There are only 600,000 peo¬
ple in the little state, but she uses more
horse power than all the south, exc tid¬
ing Missouri, West Virginia, Maryland
and Delaware. Die south has no reason,
however, to be discouraged, for she has
only just entered upon an industria
career, and a few years will be apt to
change tbe relative figures very mate¬
rially. At present the three states,
Pennsylvania, New Yo k and Massa¬
chusetts, use more horsepower in manu
factures than all the other states and the
territories combined .—Atlanta Constitu¬
tion.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1881.
■■
.
The winter thus far is not considered
unfavorable to the wheat crop. Through
much of the winter wheat belt there have
been liberal falls of snow, general y the
harbinger of good crops of all kinds
The best macaroni consumed In this
country is. according to the Philadelphia
Press, made of California wheat. New
York, Philadelphia and Sau Francisco
make more maccnroni than Hs imported.
Sixteen years ago ti law was passed
providing for the gradual manumission
of slaves in Cuba, of whom there were at
the time about 385,355. Bo well has
this law been administered, the planters
in many cases showing a willingness to
act even in anticipation of its provis¬
ions, that 285,000 slaves have already
been set free.
PobTMasI’Er General Gresham says
if the bill providing for a postoffice
building in every town having 2; 500 in¬
habitants is amended So as to limit the
cost of the building in each case to $15.
0C0 and provide that they shall be ereo
ted under the supervision of the post¬
master general lie will aDDrove it Hitt,
the author of the bill, says it Will bb So
amended and passed.
One pound of rice gives 88 per cent
of nutriment, and one pound of beef 25
per cent. And y„t, says the Journal of
Health, countless numbers of the poor
strain at a point daily to purchase beef
at 15 cents per pound when they could
get a pound of rice at one-third of that
amount, the rice, too, hating thfee times
as much nutriment as the beef and three
times easier of digestion.
Saturday was a field day at the Sa¬
vannah (Ga.) custom-house in foreign
clearances, the total value of exports
footing up $038,757,45. The cargoes
cleared consisted of 11,795 bales of Up¬
land cottoh, and 148 bales Sea Island,
856 sacks of cotton seed, 6,703 barrels of
roBin and 1,500 barrels spirits turpentine.
On that day there were seventy-one ves¬
sels in port at Savannah, consisting of
steamships, 3 ships, 34 barke, 4 brigs
and 26 schooners. This Bhows a rapidly
increasing export trade for Savannah,
and would do credit to a city of larger
pretensions.
The region around Charleston, West
Virginia, is now being thoroughly tested
for oil. In boring salt wells in the saline
belt crude petroleum has interfered with
operations to such an extent that in
many instances the wells had to be aban¬
doned. It is the opinion of experienced
geologists that the richest oil belt in the
country is in the neighborhood of tho
head-waters of the little Kanawha. A
Pennsylvania syndicate has secured 300,
000 acres of land in this section and in
the spring operations will begin on an
extensive .scale. It is believed that the
successful issue of this experiment will
build up an oil corporation that will in a
short time eclipse the Standard oil com¬
pany.
How He Worked It
A drummer on his first trip was seated
in the same car with an old experienced
knight of the road, and their conversa¬
tion turned on their relative daily ex¬
penses. iu
“I always manage to include my
expenses,” said the elder, “hats, boots,
overcoats, etc., and every drummer who
has any respect for his noble calling
ought to do the same. Make the firm
stand ’em.”
The younger man thought that a very
good idea, and on his return from his
trip he included among other items of
expense one pair of boots, $12.
His employers expressed themselves
as well pleased with his success as a
salesman, but objected to pay for the
boots.
On bis next trip he was fortnnate
enough to meet his former acquaintance.
“How is it?” he asked, “that your
firm will stand overcoats as legitimate
expense when mine kicked on a pair of
boots ?”
‘ ‘You didn’t pnt boots down in your
expense account, did you ?”
“Certainly,” “Well, said chump. tbe young You man. should
have dovetailed you are the a of boots into
the price sundries.”
postage stamps and
When the young man again submitted
liis account his firm remarked :
“We don’t see any memorar
‘boots,’ anythino- of that '
or pr
So-and so.”
“No,” M
himself,
is a P
sax
U,.
splendor,
canopy, while
him are tiut« and hhimm.-_.ijg nu.
rinding all colors, which are indescrib¬
ably elegant. 'Die floor of the sea rises
like a gold, n carpet, inclining gently to
thesurface. The chaage of familiar ob¬
jects m wonderful. The wreck of a ship
ft studded will; emeralds, glittering
in lines of gold; piles of brick assume
the appearance of crystal; a ladder be¬
comes sLver, every shadow gives the
impression of a bottomless depth.
TENNYSON’S NEW POEM.
Once more tbe Heavenly Power
Makes all things new,
And domes the red-ptow’d hills
With loving blue;
The blackbirds have their wills,
The throstles too.
Open a door in heaven;
From skies of alass
A Jacob’s ladder falls
Oh greening g. aSs, walls
And o’er tho mountain
Young angels pass.
Before them floets the shower,
And burst Imds,
And chine the Cj lands,
And tt»sU the floods;
The stars are from their hands
Flung thro’ the woods;
Tho woods by living airfl
HoW fresbir faiilletl;
bight aii s from where the deep
All down the sand,
Is breathing in his sleep,
Heard by the laud!
Oh, foliow, leaping blood,
The season lure!
Oh, heart, look down and up,
Serene, secure,
Warm as the croous-cnp,
Like the snow-drops, pare.
Past, future, glimpse khd f&d8
Thro’ some Blight Bpull
Some gleam from youder vale
Some far blur fell,
And syu.pai.ntes, how frail,
hi -oirnd aud smell.
Till at thy clmcUod note,
Thou twinkling bird;
Tho fairy fancies range,
Ring Atid, ligbtlj’stirr’d;
little befls of change
From word to word.
For now the Heavenly Power
Makes all things new,
And thaws the cold and fills
The flower With dew;
the blackbirds have their wills,
Tho poets, too.
— Youth's Companion.
MART’S LOVE iiOMANCE.
In the drawing-room at Heathcot, in
the gray September twilight, Mary
Meredith and Felix Trafford sat en¬
gaged in earnest conversation.
“I really cannot see any cause for
your despair, dear Felix. Have I not
told you liow dearly I love you? No
power on earth shall ever force me to
break my plighted troth to you. Have
yon no confidence in. me?”
“All confidence, Mary; I know yon
will be true to me."
“Then what is it you fear?”
“Everything. You are young aud
beautiful, the rich Mr. Meredith’s only
child, while I am a poor clerk In the
house of Meredith Brothers, with noth¬
ing but an unsullied reputation, some
brains and a good right hand to help me
through the world.”
“So much the better, then, that I am
the daughter of the rich Mr. Meredith.
Dear Felix, papa esteems you, and has
implicit confidence in your honor. He
invites you here, and allows our ac¬
quaintance. Why do you annoy your¬
self about imaginary troubles?”
“Your father trusts me and I must be
true to him, you and myself. I will go
to him and frankly confess our attach¬
ment. I should feel miserable other¬
wise.”
“Go now; he is in his study.”
Felix caught the girl in his arms and
kissed her rosy lips.
“Your confidence inspires me with
hope,” he said, and went away on his
mission. Tapping at Mr. Meredith’s
study door, and receiving permission to
enter, Felix approached the old gentle¬
man, who gave him his hand, saying:
“Why, boy, you arc an unexpected
visitor. No bad news I hope ?”
“No, sir; but I want to ask of you a
gift so precious that I have very little
hope of obtaining it.”
“Well, well, name it. I am always
glad to favor you if I earn ”
Felix was greatly agitated, but sum¬
moned up all bis courage and said :
“Mr. Meredith, I love your daughter.
I do not, however, ask you to give her
to me now. Only let me D ‘
when I prove to you
Mr. M red’’ 1 '
ama -
«
rus’
wile...
her a~
self b
Mac
that terrible
was deaf to
lover had disapp.
waa stricken with br
weeks her life huug in the balance. Re
pentence came too late to the unhappy
father, for although sought for far and
near Felix could not be found. At
length youth and a good constitution
brought back health to the heart-broken
girl, But alas 1 the blooming young
Hebe of seventeen summers was no
more. In her place a tall, pale girl ap¬
peared, but with a beauty that even the
most fastidious admired. The golden
brown curls that clustered atound her
temples lay in rippling waives upon a
brow as pure as snow, ana tne sott, lus¬
trous hazel eyes wore au expression of
sadness that told of the heart grief that
would be hers forever.
Mr. Meredith traveled With his daugh¬
ter through all the most attractive parts
of Europe for a year. Then, at her re¬
quest, lie took her home. Mary had be¬
come a woman, a bright, intelligent,
glorious woman, and crowds of admirers
worshiped at her feet; but the image of
Felii Was still as fresh as ever in her
heart, and tlie vow* she had exchanged
with liim were never for a moment for¬
gotten. Therefore, all offers of marriage
were at once declined.
Time rolled on. Mary had now readied
her twenty-eighth year, and still re¬
mained a maiden beneath the paternal
roof.
One cold winter evening Mary sat by
the glowiug Are in her father’s drawing
room. Hcr small white hands were
clasped Upon her bosom, ain't het eyes
were east downward until the long lashes
Jay like gOldeii penciling upon her cbeek.
Near her, in Jiis great-arm chait, sat Mr.
Meredith, with the snows of many win¬
ters on his head and his face deeply
furrowed by the hand of time. There
W as an expression of care upon his coun¬
tenance. He looked troubled afid Un¬
happy.
“Ma ry,” said he, continuing a conver
sation tlikt t had been going on betwoen
them, “all my life T have made your
happiness my constant study aud have
given you a luxurious home. Now you
are advancing in years and I shall ere
long be separated from you by death.
How can i leave yolt alone In this cold
world ? A home is now open to yon and
you must accept it. It is not because I
owe tliis man a very large sum that I in¬
sist upon this marriage, nlthongh if you
refuse him we will be sunk into the most
abject poverty, for i would rather endure
all the misery of the situation than risk
your well-being; but I know you will be
happy with Mr. Ambrose for a husband.
He is good aud kind as well as very
rich.”
“Rich in what, father?”
The old man started at these words
but at length answered;
“In honor and manhood." Mary said
no more. “Tbe crisis is now upon mo,”
continued Mr. Meredith. “In a few
short-days I shall be overwhelmed with
misery if you do not rescue me. Mr.
Ambroso has asked me for your hand.
He lias seen you many times and loves
yon.”
“And Mr. Ambrose makes my hand
the price of your safety ?”
“No, ho has not said so; but lie is
aware of my situation, and, knowing i 1 ,
asks tho liana of my child. It seems to
mo as if God had kept yon free to save
your old father from ruin. What an¬
swer am I to return to Mr.’Amlirose ?’’
“My heart was broken long ago,”
Mary answered, looking into her father’s
face. “I will marry this man for yonr
sake, but he must not expect affection,
for I have none to give. Tell him this
that ho may not be deceived.”
“I will briug him here to-morrow
evening, for ho is anxious that the inter¬
view shall lie over.”
Mr. Meredith was relieved, tho fear o’
disgrace was removed from him, and i
rejoiced in the prospect of a prosperot
marriage for his daughter.
On the following evening Mary
sat by tbe drawing-room
alone now and eu
pale as Parian
or 1 d *.
$1.00 A YEAR.
was my all, my very life, and I had not
a thought of the luture separated from
her. Her father was a wealthy mer¬
chant and 1 his poor clerk. When I
told him I loved his daughter lie
spurned mo from bis door and ordered
me never to enter It again. Oh. wno
beside myself can ever know the utter
midnight of my blasted hopes 1 Crushed
and broken I fled in my despair. In the
whirl and excitement of business I strove
to forget my sorrows. Fortune singled
me out as her especial favorite. My
wildest speculations were successful and
money accumulated as if by magic.
Thus eleven years passed. I returned
to the scene of my unhappiness and saw
you. Need I say that all tho old love
surged up in my heart again? Once
more I asked tho old merchant for his
daughter—” the speaker’s lips trembled;
lie extended bis arms as lie continued—
“aud bo consents at last. Oh, Mary I
will you now be mine ?”
Mary cast herself into her suitor’s out¬
stretched arms. After all these years
of misery Felix was restored to her 1
“Felix Trafforil 1” gasped the old mail
as ho started to his feet, “Felix Traf
ford, my old clerk 1”
“Yes, sir; tin) same. Do you retract
your promise?” and
“No, Felix, no. Take my Mary
forgive her father/'
Tho happy suitor led Mary away to a
seat and sat beside her with Ins arm
still encircling her, as if bo feared be
might lose he# again.
“Let ns,” ho said, “forget all the past
but its joys aud look to tho future lot
what true lute ean give us. I am non
content, and you, my Mary, are yet
happy in the restoration of yottr lover ?'
“Ah I” she replied in n voice full o)
deep emolion, “happiness is too poor i
word to express my great joy —Even
ing Cull.
Lieutenant Ray’s Views.
Lieutenant V. H. Ray, who bad
ohargo of the Point Harrow (Alaska) the
signal station for two years, stated to
Hoard, organized to take steps for the
relief of Greely, tho result of his obsor
vn tions, so far as it had a bearing upon but
the subject In hand. Ho thought Ho would
one course Was practicable. got to tho ico bar¬
send a strong ship to possible date aud
rier at tho earliest
make her way north as she could. D by
U.e last i-l A.itfiwt had or early iu Un^touiber reached
Mr. Greely aud not supplies been should be a
party with house
lauded for the winter, when the resHol
should come south. The winter party
should send expeditions north to find
Greely and relievo him. He should Vie
brought south ill the spring to some ship
point to Lieutenant he agreed upon Ray before described the the
loft. which
methods of the sledge travel, in
he has‘had much experience, and de¬
scribed the whaling vessels aud their
equipments, of the Northern Pacific.
After describing his method of Jifo at
Point Barrow lie said that in his party
of nine men during tho first year atal
eleven during the second there had not
been a moment’s sickness from begin¬
ning to end. The mean annual tempera¬
ture was 7, tho moan winter tempora
ttiro about 20. The lowest extreme
WHS 58. Tho men were required, in
addition to their regular duties, to spend
one hour out of twenty-four iu the open
air. There were seventy-two days with¬
out sunlight. In his travels Lieutenant
Ray nevor used a tent, but constructed
igloos. Ray recommended tho
Lieutenant
employment of some of the voyagetirs
from tho Red River of tho North, as
being experts with dogs and otherwise
qualified for the work of tho relief expedi¬
tion.
A Coal Miner’s Story.
The following may show that gratitude
to ft Higher Power - oer felt tha>'
messed to tho
said
vouch'
v>V
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT WB FIND IN THE HBIWOEOtS
PAPERS TO HMILK OVEIl.
THEY ALL DO IT.
\Vli»n winter’s breeze
Denudes the trees
And neture settles down to freeze;
When round the door
Tlio wild winds roar
Anil colil comes through the cracked old floor f
Our friends forget to shut the door.
—Oil Oily Blizzard.
WHY IT RETURNED.
Astronomer —“The new comet can
now bo seen with tho naked eye."
Uncle Sam— “What new comet?”
Astronomer— “The comet of 1812."
Uncle Sam— “Goodness gracious 1
Ton don’t say so I Even the comets are
coining back for pensions,”
QUITE A DIFFERENCE.
Mrs. Jones— “Do you know, dear,
that you promised to buy me a seal-skin
sack for a Christmas present ?’’
Mb. Jones —“Why, no, dear; I had
forgotten that. When was it?”
Mbs. .1 ones— “About three weeks ago. H
Mb. Jones— “Oh, yes; I remember
now, but that was before the gas bill
came in.”
A HOOD MEMORY.
In an Austin street oar were several
gentlemen who passed away the time in
telling jokes and anecdotes. Among
them was also a cranky_ individual who
positively refused to enjoy the fun, aud
after each yarn he would remark :
“That’s nothing now. I heard that
years ago.” hoar the anecdote about
“Did you ever railroad
George Washington and the
conductor?” asked one of the company.
“Why, certainly,” remarked the
cranky individual, “although I cannot
remember the circumstances. ”
new all
It was not until tbe laugh had gone
around that the crank discovered how
badly he had been sold .-Texan Siftings.
NEEDED A OITAPEL
Not long ago a Chicago editor caught
a Chicago ox-Oongrossmau looking over
a new house the former was building,
and took great delight in showing him
around amt pointing out tho features of
the structure.
“This is tho drawing room,” said he;
“this is the dining room, and this tho
library. Here is the billiard room, and
there is the chapel 1” want .of chapel?”
“What, do you a
was asked.
“I guess I need a chapel ns much as a
billiard room,” quietly observed the
editor. solemnly
“Well, I guess yon do,” re¬
sponded tho politician.
A doubtful assurance.
She—“Yos, Alphonzo; I know you
lovo me now, but I fear you will tire of
me. ”
He—“How ean yon talk so? Nevor
since tbe world began lias devotion been
tlio^stabfiityri*tho You do not doubt
United States Gov¬
ernment, She—“Oh, do yon?” I’m that must bo
no ( sure
safe or my pa would not have put a
million dollars into United States
bonds.”
He—“Did he do that ?”
She—“Yes; lie told mo so.”
He—“Never doubt me again. United My vo
will last os long ns tho b. .le«
Government does."
A TERRIBLE RESOLVE.
“Do you see that dndish looking fol¬
low over there, the one that looks more
like an Organ-grinder’s monkey than any
of the others?”
“Well,J hate him and I am going to
drive him into an insane asylum, whore
he will neve# be beard of again.” first place,
“Oh 1 mane now. Iu tho
you would not do such ft thing, aud iu
the second place, you could not.
“But 1 can, though.” you?”
“How in the world can
“Easily enough. There is to be a
grand party to-night, aud he will be
there. ”
* ‘Yes.** of it for the
“I am to write a notice
society paper, and in less than forty- the
eight hours lie will be so crazy that
doctors will have him locked up.” will
“Goodness gracious I how you
manage it ?”
“I will spell his name wrong.”— Even¬
ing Call,
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