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Citizen Readers.
The largest hog m Coweta county
WaB killed lne* ..... -r, .
killed
nds.
last week. It netted
810
The Odd Fellow lodges in Savannah
have contributed 52,000 to the pro
posed orphans’ home.
At Americus the snow has destroyed
many English sparrows. They cottid
find nothing to eat and succumbed to
starvation.
Woodcocks arc plentiful down on
the Ogeechee nowadays; so are ducks
turkeys and partridges, and so are deer
in some neighborhoods.
Last week Mr. N. J. Boaz, of Cal
houn, killed two hogs which, together
weighed 762 pounds. The hogs
but 16 months old, each,
beat this on hogs ?
A part of the assets of the Ordi
nary’s office in Houston county is a
small cabinet containing a deck of cards
and a lot of poker chips, which each
incoming official is requested to receipt
for.
were
Who can
Stanford Turner (colored) has en
tered suit against R. G. Hackney of
Rome for 5192.50, which he claims is
due him for services rendered as an
election heeler in working for Mr.
Hackney in his race for sheriff.
Col. Bill Smith,” of Gwinnett,
seems to be under the impression that
the duty will dcvolye on him to elect
the next United States Senator from
Georgia. He is the statesman who
tried to kill the appropriation for the
Georgia military in the present Legisla
ture. William is a small potato.
An enterprising citizen of Rome,
'■Mr. J. L. Camp, has made up his mind
that Rome ought to have a cotton fac
tory. He says he intends to raise the
money to build a factory with 10,000
spiudles before the year is out. It
may requires 5500,000, but Mr. Camp
believes the money can be raised.
An Italian artist, named Piantini,
living in Atlanta, madly loved his step
sister, and because he had *a young
wife and could uol wed her, they both
concluded to die in each other’s arms.
He shot her first and then with her in
Sound English.
From the Chester (Pa.) News (Ind.)
The versatility of the English^ lan
guage dazes the foreigner, and no won
der. Take the word “sound” for in
stance.— We hear a sound and can see
and sail upon a sound. We can ride
upon a sound steamer that is sound
and a deck hand of sound mind sounds
and finds the bottom sound in twenty
feet of water.
Hayes ami Harrison.
From the Ohio State Journal (Rep.)
As Grover Cleveland is now the
president-elect rather than an ex-presi-
dent, there is no ex-president. Presi
dent Harrison will, in a few weeks,
fill the highest position among the pri-
vate citizens of liis country, as ex-
President Hayes filled it alone for many
years. And there is a great similarity
between Hayes and Harrison, both as
presidents and as men.
The Chinese Exclusion Act.
From the Pittsburg; Post (Dem.)
The Chinese exclusion law has been
declared unconstitutional aud void by
United 8tates Judge Nelson of Miine-
sota, who i3 accepted as a strong
authority. This will be good news to
John Chiuaman, and illustrates that it
is pretty hard to put up effective bars
iu the United States against the admis
sion of foreigners, even of so unde
sirable a class as the heathen .Chinee.
The Hay Han Revolution.
From the Chicago Hetald (Dem.)
Rebellion has broken out in Hayti,
and Hippolyte has dispatched to the
seat of war an army consisting of 300
men and twenty commanding officers.
The make-up of this body of troops
indicates that the trouble must be of a
very serious nature. Under ordinary
circumstances a Haytiau army of that
size would have consisted'of twenty
men and 300 commanding officers.
The Pension Incubus.
From the Detroit News (Dem.)
At what point does increasing gener
osity pass into something else ? There
were enlisted into the union armies
,/80,176 men. If all these men were
still a standing army and cost the gov
ernment 559 apiece annually, the total
amount would be on y 5164,030,384.
Yet Commissioner Raum says that con
gress will have to appropriate 51,000,-
000 more than this to the pensioners
next year.
How-® Pretty Patlileniie Got Bren ^
Faithless Dover.
A young lady in Paris had been jilted
by her lover, though she tried all she-
could to retain her place in his affec
tions, says Le Temps. After she had
wept in solitude for several days she
determined to have her revenge.. The
viscount was preparing to dine at the
club and was waiting for the return of
his valet, whom he had sent out for
paper, when there was a loud ring and
he had to open the door himself. Be
fore him stood a tall female figure
dressed in black, her face ghastly pale
with suppressed emotion. The vis
count started back—“Jeanne!”
The young lady advanced a few steps
into the passage, hissed out the word
“Wretch!” and produced from behind
her back a small Venetian phial, the
gift of a former lover. Quick as light
ning she lifted it in the air and dashed
its contents in the face of the gay de
ceiver. With a loud yell he dropped
to the ground and shouted for help.
The neighbors, the cocierge and the
police hasted to the spot. The un-
happy man could nut be persuaded to
get up from the ground, on which he
rolled about in apparent agony, crying,
“Vitrol! vitriol! I am a dead man!”
Meantime Jeanne stood there like
marble statue gazing at her victim.
Are you the perpetrator of the
deed?” gasped the commissary of po
lice, out of breath with running up the
stairs.
Jeanne gave a silent nod.
“You have thrown a corrosive fluid
in his face?”
Another nod.
“I am dying—dying!”
“What kind of fluid was it ?”
Jeanne hesitated to reply. A gleam
of fierce satisfaction illumined her
features. Then came the answer, clear
and steady from her lips: .7:
“A very weak infusion of mustard!”
Jeanne was avenged. Paris had not
jaughed so much for a long time.
viscount has made himself scarce.
Build Factories.
From the Montgomery Advertiser.
Henry Grady on Infidels.
The question of Col. Bob Ingersoll’s
coming to Atlanta has recalled what
Henry Grady once said about those
men who got about as Ingersoll, knock
ing the crutches from under poor,
struggling human beings find giving
them nothing in return to lean upon for
comfort and support. Here is what
Mr. Grady thought of it: .
A French Astronomer’s Strange Memento
of a Bead Woman.
From the New York Herald.
M. Cammile Flammarion, the well
known French astronomical correspon
dent, was some years ago the guest at
the country seat of a certain count and
countess whose name he requests the
Herald’s correspondent to suppress,
The countess was of foreign birth
Her husband’s seat was in the depart
ment of Jura.
She was dying with consumption and
became deeply impressed with M
Flammarion’s accounts of his scientific
flights to siderial regions. She became
imbued with his theory of plurality of
inhabitable worlds, aud this enabled
her to await the inevitably fatal ternii-
nation of her disease with calm resigna
tion, perhaps with the hope that-death
might only prove a translation to Mars
or some other planet or celestial world
In the dne course of time, M. Flam
marion’s visit came to an end. He re
turned to his observatory at Juvisy and
forgot in the absorption of astronom
ical studies all about his hostess at
the chateau amid the mountains of the
Jura. Some time ago a package ar
rived at the observatory accompanied
by a letter in a black-edged envelope.
The packet and letter were received by
Mme. Flammarion, who, on examining
the contents, found that the package
contained a large piece of white'skin,
very thick and most cold to the touch.
The letter read as follows:
‘Dear Sir: 1 hereby carry out the
dying wish of a woman who strangely
liked you. She made me swear to
send you the day following her death
the skin from those beautiful shoulders,
which you so much admired the even
ing you were bidding her farewell.
Her desire is that you have bound in
this skin the first copy of the first work
that you shall have published after her
death. I forward you, my dear sir,
this legacy as 1 had vowed to do.”
The letter was. signed by a well
known medical practitioner. “As a
matter of fact,” said M. Flammarion,
1 had admired- the beautiful should
ers of the countess on the evening I
last saw ^er and when she was in a
dinner decolette toilet. What was 1
to do with the strange legacy! Was 1
to. send it back ? Accordingly, I sent
it to a tanner, who worked on it for
three months, and he sent it back beau
tifully prepared. I have just had my
last work Terre et Ciel, bound with it.
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Montezuma Record: Old farmers
who were in town yesterday’ say that
the oat crop of Macm county is gone
by the board, even oats sown in Octo
ber having succumbed to the late
freeze. This will prove a serious loss
to our farmers, as many depend on this
crop to carry them through summer,
and until the corn crop is gathered.
We have just found out why block
ade liquor is called wild cat juice. Not
long since when the revenue officers
upset a distillery iu the mountains, out
fell a well cooked wild cat. together
with a peck of luckeye roots and to
bacco stems. 1 he cat fell in one of
the still tubs and when the - still was
filled up in darkness the cat was not
discovered. The wild cat ingredients
make a man fight, the tobacco makes
him sick and the buckeye roots give
him fits.
There is a man in Butts county who
says that he has carried a gallon of
whiskey to the field with him every
day for three years aud drank the
whole amount himself during the day,
and then called at the bar, near by, at
muht for another drink before taking
supper. This man still lives, is 51
years old, and is apparently in good
health. He also says that he would
not thank a man for less than a quart
of raw liquor for an ordinary drink.
Is there another such a'man living?
There is said to be a well in Clinch
county that is noted for its queer ac
tion. It is situated iu an old field, and
has been abandoned for many years.
The well used to contain excellent
water, but some years ago the water
became unfit for use. It was always
warm, and no one could drink it with-
out wetting sick immediately. In the
time°of a long drouth the water rises
almost to the surface, while during a
rainy season it becomes very low. The
action of the seasons iu the rise and
fall of the water is not understood.
Strange as”it may seem, this Isa
fact. Some time ago a resident of
Pineora bought a cow, and in changing
owners she was separated from her
calf She was turned into a lot which
was’also inhabited by a pig, and the
two animals at once became fast friends,
exhibiting much affection for each
other. Suddenly the quantity at first
wiven by the cow began to diminish,
and so rapidly as to mystify every one
familiar with the habits oL nulkers.
She seemed to go dry in a day. No
one could account for it. But at last
the mystery lay revealed. Upon ap
proaching the lot one afternoon the
milkman discovered the two animals m
waTSaFsTnU? yielding to the jaws
If the pig the rich treasures of her
udder.
turned into “cloth andLhence shipped lo
all quarters of the globe and dividends
be earned by the null owners, it stands
to reason that still greater dividends
can be earned by mills in sight of the
fields. Our people ought to have cot
ton factories in every good sized com
munity in the State. By proper man
agement they can he made to pay.
Nearly every one in Alabama has been
making money the past two years. At
Fall River, Massachusetts, 59 mills,
operated, however, by only 36 compa
nies, with an aggregate capital of 519,-
519,000 paid out in dividends in 1892,
§2,155,000, making an average of 11
per cent. Besides, it may be taken
that these mills laid aside quite a sum
for new machinery. New mills, it is
said, are being erected with the profits
of the old ones. Six per cent, is, how
ever, deemed a fair return for mill
property. What is being done in old
and New England can be done in Ala
bama.
Help Nature.
Nature is the great curative, if you
give her but half a chance. But in many
instances nature must be assisted. Very
many valuable lives have been sacrificed
by expecting too much of nature. A lit
tle medicine taken iu time, will do nine
times the good than if administered af
ter the disease has got a strong hold on
the system. Therefore, as the season ad
vances when our people should rid their
systems of the accumulated secretions of
poisonous humor in the blood incidental
to winter life, nature should be assisted
by using Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla. It gives
strength to every part aud wonderfully
aids nature in her work of renovation.
It fortifies the system and renders one
less susceptible to cold, pneumonia, etc.
It works out every particle of blood im
purity that otherwise might lurk in the
system and cause a severe spell of sick
ness. Take a few bottles of this excel
lent remedy now, and nature will carry
you healthfully through the changeable
season. Large bottle (192 teaspoon-fuls)
$1.00. Sold by all druggists.
E£lf=*An old lady of "Covington, Ky.,
writes: “I use a dozen or more bottles
of Dr. John Bull’s Sarsaparilla each year
before Spring sets in aud that is about all
the medicine I have to take the whole
year through. It always puls me in fine
health.”
Horace Smith, aged eighty four, one
of the inventors of the original type
writing machine, inventor of the me
tallic cartridge, whale gun, and part
inventor of the Smith & Wesson re
volver, died at his home in Springfield,
Mass., of heart failure and congestion
of the lungs. He was horn in Ches
hire, Mass,, in 1808.
they have nothing to replace it with ?
Why should they shatter a faith that
.colors life only to leave it colorless?
Why should they try and rob life of all
that makes life worth living ? Why
should they take away the consolation
that lifts men and women from the de
spair of bereavement and desolation,
of the light that guides the steps of
struggling humanity, or the hope that
robs the grave even of its terrors?
Why should they do all this and then
stand empty-handed and unresponsive
before the yearning and supplicating
people they have stripped of all that is
precious, is more than I can nnder-
staud.”
We clip the following pointer from
an exchange: What shall it profit the
country editor if he shall gain the ap
plause of the whole world and lose
that dollar you owe him for subscrip
tion ? For all is vanity save that dol
lar. Yea, verily, man shall not live by
bread alone, but it is very essential that
he have a little bread, and wherewithal
shall a young man buy bread if the
dollar is withholden ? Brethren, think
on these things.
Destiny of Earthly Thing*.
Sooner or later, decay follows in both
animate and inanimate life, but-man of
ten dies too early from neglect. Tay
lor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum
and j M ullein checks a cough or cold,
which might result in consumption.
It is stated that ex-Secretary of
State Thomas F. Bayard will be ap
pointed secretary of State in the next
cabinet.
IT. E, Randolph, Brunswick, Ga., writes
“I was under the care of nine different
doctors, but not one did me the good
that Botanio Blood Balm has done. L
Three ex-treasurers of Wisconsin
are in trouble. While in charge of the
State’s funds they loaned out the pub
lic money'at usury and. pocketed the
increment. Now the courts adjudge
these gentlemea debtors to the com
mon wealth in a sum exceeding have a
million; and as the Supreme Court of
the State has passed upon the case
there is nothing for it but to “shell
out.”
In 1893 Philadelphia had 5,051 cases
of diphtheria, from which there were
1,484 deaths, and 6,245 cases of scar
let fever, from which 393 died. There
were 60 cases of diphtheria in the
Municipal Hospital of the city last
week.
Dr. John Bull’s Worm Destroyers taste
good and quickly remove worms from
children or grown people, restoring the
weak and puny to robust health. Try
them. No other worm medicine is so
safe and sure. Price 20 cents at drug
stores, or sent by mail by John D. Park
A Sons Co., 175 and 177 Sycamore, Str.,
Cincinnati, O. ly.
That proposition to kill out ex-presi
dents has been withdrawn. There is
but oue ex-president, and he is soon to
become the next president. Mr. Har
rison should be carefully reserved,.lest
the species become extinct.
“Onr baby was sick and wo bought ope
bottle of Dr. Bnlt’s Cough Syrnp, and
were Well pleased with it. It 4id the
baby a great deal of good. Wm. Thomp
son, McKeesport,. Pa.”
It developed that 1,000 lives were
lost and 280 ' houses burned by the
great temple fire in Canton* Deo. 30.
Dancing la Healthful.
Have you "ever noticed that every
once in awhile there comes a perfect
storm of protests about that much
abused and long suffering pastime,
HER SOUL.
A Mother and Daughter Who Had Few
/Esthetic Tastes In Common.
There was a big crush, as usual, to
dancing? It is something like the see the picture “Niagara in Winter.'
yellow fever or cholera scare; it A steady stream of art critics climbed
comes without warning and almost ~ “^
overwhelms one, and then in a little
while some other topic is absorbing
public interest, and the harmless
waltzer, who never meant a bit of
evil to anybody and is really too
good natured to wish any one other
wise than well, is left in the enjoy
ment, of his favorite pleasure until,
for file lack of something else, the
poets, the preachers and the reform
ers inveigh against it, and in denun
ciations file most awful predict ter
rible catastrophes to overtake the
idle minded who spend so much of
their time in an “insanely mad gyra
tion.”
But it is some comfort to know
that an eminent English physician
regarded dancing a very healthful
exercise, and recommended it' with
out fail to his languid lady pa
tients. He considered that after a
long dinner the body needs exercise,
and he* commended dancing as the
very best form in which that exer
cise could be taken, affording relaxa
tion to the mind and inciting activ
ity of the body.—New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
Fabulous Prices for Boobs.
The most costly book in the world
is the missal sent by Pope Leo X to
Henry VTH of England at the time
when the title Defender of the Faith
was conferred on that much married
monarch. For a number of years
the book remained crown property,
but Charles H, who had little use for
missals, gave it to the ancestor of the
Duke of Hamilton, in whose family
it remained until a few years ago,
chased by the German government;
which paid for it in cash the enor
mous sum of £10,000. A much higher
price than this, however, was once
offered for a single volume.
In 1512 Pope Julius II was in need
of money and endeavored to borrow.
He was at that time the possessor of
Hebrew Bible, which for some
cause the Jewish people of Venice
desL^d to purchase. They offered
to pay weight in gold for the book,
which was so heavy that the united
strength of two men could barely
lift it. The book was weighed and
the estimate made of its weight in
gold was £20,000. Julius deemed
this sum inadequate and^declined to
sell, so that the Vatican Hebrew Bi
ble is justly entitled to the distinc
tion of being the most valuable book
in the world. —Million.
to the third story of the great empo
rium where it is exhibited, and al
though it was yet early in the day
7,000 persons had made the turnstile
revolve. Bags, the newsboy, had
managed to elude the man at the
door, and Dives,- of the avenue, was
also there, but he had not been
obliged to sneak in behind a female
of ample proportions for fear of the
Argus eyed janitor.
A man stood in the throng enjoy
ing the great work of art, and his
attention was attracted by a woman
and a child at his elbow. The mother
was fair and forty, the child thin and
sickly, but with large, lustrous eyes
that sparkled with an admiration too.
deep for words as she gazed spell- ~
bound upon the jigrk green-blue wa
ters hurrying over the falls..
They had not been there more
than a minute when the woman ex
claimed:
“My, isn’t it pretty? Ain’t you
glad, ’Liza, that we came?”
“Yes, mother, very,” was the little
girl's quiet answer.
Another thirty seconds, and the
mother, evidently fidgety, said:
“Now, ’Liza, I guess well go. I
want to see some of those pongee
silks, and then perhaps those bargain
handkerchiefs ain’t all gone.”
“Couldn’t you leave me here,
mother, and I'll meet you down
stairs in a few minutes?” and the lit
tle girl looked longingly at the pic
ture.
“Nonsense, child* you’ve seen
enough of that. Why, I do declare,
you’re as bad as .your father. He’s
always foolin round some junk shop
lookin for an old master instead of
when the library of the duke was
sold at auction. The missal was pur- attendin to his business. Leave you? -
Well, I guess not!”
And these two, with so little in
common save their humanity, went
their way, but the child turned her
head for one more look as she crossed
the threshold.—Boston Herald.
Brooklyn a City of Cats.
“You can tall Brooklyn a city of
churches if you like, but if I had the
naming of it I should call it a city of
cats.” This remark was made by a
western woman who was recently
visiting friends in this city. She is
a resident of Kansas City, and during
her stay here was more impressed by
the fact above stated -than anything
else. “I never saw anything like it,”
she said. * ‘Why, there are ihore cats,
I believe, to the square foot in Brook
lyn than in any other five cities in
fixe United States. They seem to be
everywhere. There
stamped in gold' letters the words:
“Souyenire D’Une Morte.”
A SNAKE STORY,
That Certainly Beats the Record on Reptile
Fiction.
The other evening I dropped in at
Chester’s local grocery store, where a
number of the natives were congregated
talking politics, from which subject
they suddenly switched off to rattle
snakes, says R. S. Munkittrick in the
New York Advertiser.
•‘Why,” remarked one old man,
taking a clay pipe from bis mouth, “I
can remember the time, when I was a
boy, that the rattlesnakes were so thick
that we didn’t have to raise corn.
“What’s corn got to do with rattle
snakes?” asked the grocer with a puz
zled look.
“A good deal,” replied the ancient
tiller of the soil, “because they are bet
ter for pigs than corn is. Why, we
used to let the pigs run wild, and the
way they’d swallow those rattlers is a
caution. I have known some of them
to swallow them alive, and one day I
put my ear against the side of one of
my porkers and I heard the snakes a
rattling away inside like a 17-year
locust, and the hog was'grinning like all
possessed.
“How did the pigs catch them”?
asked the grocer.
“I found a plan all by accident,” re
plied the farmer. “One day my boy
put an old hat of his sister’s on one of
the pigs for fun. It was awful funny
to see the big ribbons tied under the
hog’s chin. But he soon learned that
the hat had a stuffed bird on it, aDd he
would pretend he was asleep, and as
soon as the snake would venture close
enough to charm the stuffed bird the
pig would grab him. I soon had hats
with stuffed blue-birds on all the pigs,
and then they caught the snakes so fast
that when they had eaten their fill
there were enough dead ones lying
around to fertilize the farm, and ”
When he looked up we had all fled.
Mount Zion’s Voice.
Mr. T. S. Wilkinson, of the above
place, in Virginia, testifies in the use of
Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Gum and Mullein for coughs, colds and
cronp. A speedy cure always resulting.
The greatest scandal of the present
administration is the looting of the
treasury by pension agents who were
aided by the servants of the people.
The first duty of Mr. Cleveland’s com
missioner of pensions will be to ex
pose the corruption, profligacy and
crime of the Raum administration.—
St. Louie Republic.
The New York Herald thinks that
the worst of the winter is not over.
The Herald predicted the recent cold
wave.
man has a prominence in the affairs
of life. He is the executive aim in
war, as, figuring as policeman, he is
in civil processes. And perhaps it
was inevitable that, having this re
sponsibility, he should make the laws
regulating national life, and gradual
ly all sorts of laws.
If we could get rid of the tremen
dous war and governmental ma
chinery life would be a sort of pic
nic, and then women would come to
the front again, for they manage a
picnic much better than men can..
This is the highest sort of compli
ment, for woman has a head for or
ganization and details and economy,
as is sufficiently evident in the most
highly civilized nation, France,
where she is pre-eminent in business
matters.—Charles Dudley Warner in
Harper’s.
Most Horrible of All Dreams.
No words are strong enough to
point out the danger of slow poison
ing by drugs which are often taken
to procure sleep, whether it be an al
coholic nightcap, morphine, opium,
chloral or any other. The medical
man has recourse with reluctance to
these as a last and temporary resort,
and only he can tell how many lives
are wrecked by the iUtimed use of
them and their subsequent abuse.
Of all horrtble dreams none is so
awful as those which assail people
who habitually use these false com
forters. Better than all the drugs in
the world for procuring sleep are
simple food, a regular life and a calm
mind.—Cassell’s.
So Called BeU Boys.
Many of the hotel bell boys, so
called, through the country are fa
thers and some are grandfathers.
San Francisco has three over fifty
years old, one of whom recently re
tired from business rich. These vet
erans of the corridor are, as a rale,
as lively as the more youthful mem
bers of the fraternity, and as readily
respond to the frequent call, “Front I”
—Boston Budget.
Don’t forget that the patient little
woman you call your wife was once
your sweetheart. A caress now and
then or a tender word costs so little
and means so much to the woman of
your choice.
Signal’s Lily Flag, a Jersey cow
belonging to General Moore, of Hunts
ville, Ala., has the greatest butter
record of any cow now living—1,040
pounds in four days less than a year.
The colored janitor of a Sedalia
(Mo.) public school manages by strict
economy to save forty dollars every
month out of his monthly stipend of
forty-two dollars, so if is said.
The Bible seems to he full of
strangely pat local allusions, and so
pointed are they that even the truly
reverent person cannot always avoid
calling attention to them.
Captain of Police, Phillip J. Barher, of
Baltimore, says: “Salvation Oil has been
nsed at onr station the past winter for
rbenma i-m, neuralgia, pain in the back,
etc., and I have yet to meet with its
equal. It is the best.”
something of a pet. Here they are
simply regarded as nuisances, and the
average treatment they get consists
of kicks and hard words whenever
they get in anybody’s way. I am
not greatly interested in cats, but
since I have come to Brooklyn my
curiosity has been aroused purely
on numerical grounds. As near as 1
can ascertain there is no special
breed known as the Brooklyn cat.
The ones here are just plain, half
starved, everyday house cats, but
there are lots of them.”—Brooklyn
Eagle.
A Wealth of Novelists.
According to Mr. Andrew Lang
there are about 100,000 novelists in
Great Britain. This statement is
somewhat shorn of its terrors by the
fact that out of this huge army of
story tellers only 900 have succeeded
in getting their works published.
The remainder are still in the “de
clined with thanks” stage of their
literary careers, and will in all prob
ability remain there.
Mr. Andrew Lang takes a very dis
couraging view of the prospects of
fered by novel writing to those who
propose to adopt it as a profession,
the special gifts and training required
being such as to render failure inev
itable in the case of the great ma
jority of these candidates for literal
fame. The reflections suggested by
this condition of things are not pleas
ant, for they all point to a world of
human suffering of the bitterest kind
—a world of blighted hopes, of dili
gence defeated, of despair and rain.
Strange it is to find so many people
facing this fate for the sake of see
ing themselves in print.—London
Telegraph.
Disturbing tbe Balance of Natnre.
Sable island, near Nova Scotia, was
overrun with rats, and the lone is
landers, whose chief duty is the re
lief of shipwrecked mariners, im
ported a cargo of cats from the Cana
dian mainland. The cats did their
work of slaughter so well that they
soon had to fall upon the rabbits for
food, and themselves became so plen
tiful that an importation of foxes had
to he made to keep them in check.
The foxes, like the cats, did their
work too welL They not only ex
terminated the cats, but killed all the
young birds and destroyed thousands
of eggs. Tired of the warfare, the is
landers are now appealing to file gov
ernment to exterminate fixe foxes.—
London Tit-Bits.
Dost Treasure of the Ancients.
What treasures of the ancient
world may still lie hidden among the
debiis of the past l Where are the
riches' of Babylon and Nineveh;
where are the secret treasure cham
bers of Egypt; where is the gold of
the Phoenicians? Where is the tomb
of Alaric, the Goth, that was
crammed with all the richest spoils
of Rome? Who has discovered the
secret places of Mexico and Pern,
where the untold wealth of mighty
dynasties was stored?—All the Year
Round.
A simple remedy for hiccough is a
lump of sugar saturated with vinegar.
A
M S
