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THE MONROE
VOL XL.
It i« estimated that tho United
Htutofl ha» fully 2,000 separate railway
companies.
The State of Georgia has dovelojtccl
greatly since the war, tho estimate
now reaching tlnj total of $251,963,
121.
London can boast of moro pnrks
nnd commons than any other city In
the world, and the number is being
constantly augmented.
Mux Moyer, a Bavarian writer, es
t i in at that investment in electrical
improvement* pai 1 a profit of from 8
to 15 percent in tho years 1893-91.
“Hunger” says Carroll D. White,
the labor expert, “has caused more
men to commit petty crimes than any¬
thing else. Of 6,958 homicides in
1890, 5,000 had no trades, “
There are half a million Swede** in
the country, and they aru r.aid to bo
richer on the average than tho Ameri¬
cans. Tho Bwedt JH, as a rule, aru
♦sober, industrious and exln m iy eco
nomical.
Francis Willard wants to know why
men are not moro beautiful, and, ac¬
cording to tho New Orleans Picayune,
a good many young men, and old
ones, too, spend hours a day trying to
solve the samo problem.
Tho railroad companies have or
derod 25,000 freight eurs this yt ar at
n coat of $10,000,090. If the crops
turn out well even this ro-enforeement
Avill hardly meet tho demand* of re¬
viving and expanding business.
J. Piorpont Morgan lias given
$2**,DO!) to erect a stone sanitarium at
Liberty, N. for cmnmmptives.
Hoon there Avill bo many hospitals of
this type, where the best way of treat¬
ing tuberculosis can bo juit in prac¬
tice and no doubt many lives saved by
timely use of tho best medicine, food
nnd regimen.
It su far cry from the Montana gold
mines to 1!.^ g(,10 fields_qf Booth
i. but luo latter seem to bo nt
trading much of the attention of min
cih at the former. The railroad and
etenmsliip companies aro extensively
advertising in Montana “excursions”
to tho Capo for goldscekors. Wheth
or or Dot many minors are making this
long prospecting trip is not apparent.
Some of tho sealing schooners that
abandoned scil fishing because of tho
unsatiHl'adory condition of tho busi¬
ness in recent years lmvo engaged,
during this and last season, in hunting
sea otters along the northern Pacific
coast. This is moro uncertain of re¬
sults, perhaps, than scaling, but in tho
event of success it is vastly more
profitable. One schooner Avas very
successful this year, some of tho single
skins it secured selling for from $250 to
$350 each.
Franklin, avIio drew tho lightning,
was a professional politician, not a
lirofessional scientist. Morse, wlio
invented the telegraph, was merely nn
amateur. Watts, who invented tho
steam engine, was not a professional
nmehinost. Nearly all the great dis¬
coveries in photography have befcn
made by amateurs. And so in nearly
all linos, remarks tho New York
World, it is tho man who loves the
work, not tho man who lives by it,
through whom progress comes.
ar in these modern days is not
necessarily very dangerous to human
life, it appears. During tho ten
months’ fighting with China, Japan
lost just 623 men. Tho Elbe went
down with over half that many, and it
was all over in twenty minutes. We
are accustomed to shudder at tho hor¬
rors of war, but a vessel go -s down, a
theatre burns, a mine caves in, kill¬
ing dozens and scores and hundreds
of people, nnd tho whole is soon for¬
gotten. The value of human life de¬
pends largely on tho stress that is laid
on that life.
Hard times seriously depressed the
marriage market in the Northwest
during tho past twelve months nnd the
fact has been attested in a curious
way, relates the Now York Sun. It is
stated by the public school authori¬
ties of the state of M ashington that
fewer vacancies of teachers’ places
occurrred during the year than during
a number of years past, Y.tca.ieies
usually occur through the teachers
getting married, aud very few were
married last year. In a number of
cases it was related that young women
who were engaged to be married dur¬
ing the year had been compelled to
assume unexpected responsibilities
through the hard times, and so lmd
postponed tho event; while the infer¬
ence is that the hard times also influ¬
enced lots of young men to continue
courting another year or so.
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY, GA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1895.
CHICKENS COME HOME TO
ROOST.
V ' ii may take the world as it comes and
Roc*,
And you will be sure to fm l
That hate will suuar»* the account she
owe«,
Whoever come* out behind;
And nil things bad that a man has done>
By whatsoever induced,
Return at hist to Lain, one by one,
As the chickens come home to roost.
Yon may scrape and toil and pinch and
save.
\' tiib-yo'ir hoarded wealth expands.
I ill (he cold, dark shadow of the grave J.
Is nearing your life’s last sands;
You will have your balance struck some
night,
And you’ll find your hoftrd reduced;
if on 1) view y.,ur life in another light
M hen the chickens come home to roost.
Sow as you will, there’s« tln'e tfifeap,
For the good »mt bad as well;
And conscience, whether-we wake or sleep,
Iseiiher a heaven or hell.
And every wrong will find its place,
An 1 every passion loosed
Drifts hack and meets jou face to face—
When the chickens come home to roost.
Whether you’re over or under the sod*
The result "ill be the same;
You cannot escape the hand of God,
You must bear your sin and shame.
No matter what’s carved on a marble
slab,
When Hie items are all pt - odficed,
You’ll find that St Peter was keeping
“tab,”
And that chickens come home to roost.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
THE ADJUTANT'S GRAVE.
j. If was at the taking of Rangoon,
tom (he Irawaddi the crashing
batteries of u dozen steam frigates
had leveled the stoekades on the river
sido. black masses of naked, smoke
stained Burmese, exposed at their
guns, or in shallow trenches, AVhen
tho teak walls fell or were burned
down were mowed down like grass by
a hailstorm of grape. Our artillery
was landing. I he 18th Royal Irish
were already in the breaches and at
the water gate. 1 lie Burmese dropped
their cumbrous shields and lances
and dhars and fled, yelling, back to
ward w aui the tno izronfr. at mumda. pa oda. those «-iM wild
Irish possessed of the same devil
that dashed an 4 slashed and
am hacked and hurrahed in the En
■ isk.lleners at Waterloo, went off in
hot chase Only one regiment !—for
they would not wait, for the slow
boats that were bringing the guns,
and the 80th and the Sepoy Rifles,
of u the n° almost ; e awayinpursu,’, in spite
frantic officers, who,
weak and hoarse with ineffectual ef
forts to check their mad command,
w-ere forced to follow at last, all
chasing the bubble reputation to
t rlvl” 0n 0re ? , m enfc at th ° 1 ! eeld of
in 10tX)0 panic - Stricken - i savages.
()n ®i° f th e 8 Iorio i ls fellows of the
ciack 18th tt ., in . this tempestuous hur
ly-burly was ballon, the adjutant,
He was the equipped model of a gen
t eman and a soldier, according to
the standard of Ins proud regiment;
a jovial boon companion generous
comrade, fast friend, frank and fear
less enemy ; in sport a child in taste
a scholar, impetuous in fight, pitiful
mAic ory.
As his disordered party charged,
shouting up the broad Dagan road,
between the long lines of the inner
blockade,over bamboo bridges thrown
across trenches, and past grim gigan
tic idols and poonghee hounds fantas
tically carved, the adjutant, avIio had
lingered behind the rest, striving to
afe!!!)L discipline, in | to 1 l l L-.™ restrain l |n a fL the <,, men, ’ VO,i T hap- 40
pened to be in the rear of r*U.
Hoav now? jestingly cried ( lark,
*n English ensign of the adjutant’s
mess, who was running just before
him, “our plucky Fallon at the back
of us all! This is bad enough for me,
S, " ,e : buT b ‘‘ t W ^„"rer "! PitlL y ' 1 oT da r ' y0U S 10 '
« .th . ‘hose red rrbbons to .mswer
hovk ... Faii^® Z * i best, I Clark 9 a11 , nry
m, wirh . oh Si , p,6 r ;
h 1a. iou know 1 am good for a short
brush of foot race; fast running is
?oL°e , r/h^'?rT. l ,, 'T ,, 7‘ l, “ nk 5
S ,Z ! -n t dut "‘ ,,on a nd
he nramicc L l fY® US ,
L W 1 .? J T“, '- f
n
i. ikllon ,V,i! T U ’
r ' ikel 1 , ,u 1 ; ,,COr , PS “ '
dozen - musket balls as he sprang up
1 ano/l'aloda’Timt lh8: ".»"v» ^,° KU nd 'h
?. . L n ll,s k
, e »,h' , S ' 8lrS ' , *-'» rd ,n
hand hand, and smiling.
merit ,n^ ,e h,mi"' held the aS post °s Ver of ; ? honor nd hisre on the f
cc U »( 'he Boodh d st,ngaishei they grrve
m< ! ‘
obsequies, o talipot , , » trees, burying behind ■ him in a poonghee grove of
a
bouse of tho most grotesque archi
tecture, and just outside of what
were afterward the Sepoy lines x»f
the Eightieth. His faithful orderly
planted a rude cross at his grave’s
head and set ah English white rose
there. An American missionary
gave it to him.
In Calcutta. Norah Fallon—beau
tiful, accomplished, witty, altogether
rndiant with rare charms of mind
and person-waited with her young
child for news from her soldier hus
band, who bad her heart in his keep
ing within the stockades of Rangoon.
When they told her he was dead, she
fell, uttering only a sharp cry, and
lay as one dead for many days. But
when she awoke to the consciousness
of her profound bereavement, and
her eternal widowhood, she shed not
a tear nor spoke a Avord, but took her
5/ ‘ ‘75“? w,
._
boy and ^ent aboard a troop ship
that sailed nn the morrow for llan
goon.
On the voyage still she spoke not,
nor ever wept; the silettceqf her sor¬
row had something sacred, almost
^ about it, that commended a
delicacy of consideration, which was
a 'sort of worship, from the rudest
about her.
Arrived at Rangoon, no sotjner
had the ship dropped anchor off the
King s wharf than Norah sent her
chaprassey, her Hindoo errand
goer, with a note td General Godwin,
commanding the company’s forces
in Burmah ‘The wife of Maurice
Fallon, adjutant in the Eighteenth
of her Majesty’s Royal Irish, would
be pSFmitted to see her husband’s
grave; she awaits the expression of
(he General’s wishes on board the
Mahanuddy.”
She waited long. At last the hn
BAver enrhe:
“It Avas with unfeigned sorroAV
that Lieut.-Gen. Godwin found him
i*elf constrained, by the exigencies of
his position, to refuse the widow of
one of his best Officers, Avndsd loss
aajs felt by the AA'hole Anglo-Indian
army, the sad pri\’ilege of visiting
spot Where his comrades con¬
signed him to a brave soldier's grave.
But the General’s footing in Ran¬
goon prehensions was precarious, hourly appre
of attack by a strong
body of tho enemy Avere entertained.
“It was kntJWn that a Burmah
Uliief was approaching with a numer¬
ous and well armed force, and had
already arrived in the neighborhood
of Kemmcndine. Therefore, for the
present, the Lieutenant-General
must forbid tho landing of his coun¬
trywoman ft'otn the shipping on any
pretext. He hoped to be forgiven by
tho dear lady, whose grief he humbly
asked to bo permitted to share ; but
in this case he was hot left in the
exercise of the least discretion,
Such were the regulations.”
When Norah Fallon had read these
lines she retired to her cabin in sl
lence, and was not seen ngain that
day. On the> next she Avas observed
ip frequent ajtd eager conference, in
whispered Hindoostanee, Avith an old
nnd raithful beared, gray bearded,
and of grave and dignified demeanor,
who had long been in the confidence
of her husband—indeed, a sort of
humble, but fatherly guardian to the
young, inexperienced, and perhaps
imprudent Pruuonc pair, rmir wn° avIio with AYitn wieir their d-ir- aar
n ling between them were all in all To
each other, and heedless of all be
—
The old Hindoo had formerly lived
several years at Promo, whither he
had gone in the capacity of bearer to
an English commissioner; he there
fore knew tho Burmese character
well, and could speak the language
with tolerable fluency.
There were many “friendly” Bur
mese at Rangoon at this tirne.de
sorters from Dallah, shrewd fellows
who had foreseen safety in British
ascendancy, and, being mostly fish
ermen , had offered themselves for
“Inglee” muskets for the nonce, with
a sharp eye to profitable nets there
after. Indeed, not a few of these
calculating traitors had taken to
their old trade already, and were
busily plying the moles and hooks
from crazy canoes at the mouth of
Kemmendine Creek. It was not long
before some of them, hailed by old
Buxsoo, the bearer, came alongside
with, as he said, fish for the Mem
Sahib, his mistress. On these occa
sions he conversed with them in
Burmese, and whoever watched nar
rowly the astonished and anxious
faces of the fishermen must have
observed that neither the freshness
nor the price of their tinny prizes
formed any part of the discussion,
It was a dark night, no moon and
? below and ‘kf! “turned in some had hours gone
since . The officer of the deck, night |
glass in hand, paced the “bridge,” or
leaned over the rail and watched the
lights ashore, Avhile the quarter
master patrolled the gangways. But
these were not alone on deck; on the
bU V the f tar r *?• «»'•
“r l tearieS " ldo "'. s T, st,ll ”?,“
shadow, , and H peered through 1 the
darkness shoreward to where tho .
L.glrteentlr s hghts gleamed from
lhe !’, olden Ih'agon. Such was her
nig , . ly wont, and officers and men
had become so accustomed to it that
she sometimes sat there till after
mi l night ' unhe 5. del «■>? forgotten |
1 he young officer still chased with
i ,IS ey 7 the re s tiess ,ght S 'r >nd
dreamed , dreams , the , , while , of , home
'idcrtcr..raster ,°' a s T e8 paced V up and gr , u down, ? °' d
““ dtl 'Ougl.t of pr,re money and the
“old woman. Neither had eye nor
lh ° Usl,t '°i .‘'“j 'T l ” dy - U>ey I
". ers 50 us f d ? h ” °, n ? s8m8 r ayS i
d ye see. else they might have found
something unusual .n the anxiety
with which she watched a singular
° bjectin lhe water agtern-only an
empty canoe drifting toward the
eh:pi Not drifting either: for now
u,otI ^ oint ; l ' 8 ™ “ ut t0 yo " ,y° u
can see two black 1 heads, , Avith long
hair twisted in a barbaric knot be- :
hind, peering warily above the water
in front of the boat which seems to
follow them.
The love-lorn youngster, or the
gruff old quartermaster on prize
money intent, did look toward the
bull ring a little later, and saw noth
ing; the lady Avas gone. \N hither?
To her cabin? No; she could not
hare passed them unobserved. But
that was easy to decide; Her light
still burned; her state room Avas
open and unoccupied. Where, then,
was she? Good heavens! It could
n ot be; and yet it must—poor lady!
Poor baby 1 They gave the alarm:
they roused the ship; a gun was
fired; a search was made, in vain,
Alas! it must be so. ‘She has gone
to join her husbanJ.”
True! but not that way, gruff old
quartermaster's mate. Stop think-
ingabout her; have ears and brains
for your duty. What was that shot
on shore? And. hark now! an
other, and another, and arfother! the
alarm Is given in the British lines;
tho sentries have- discharged their
pieces and run in! Seel the place is
all ablaze with lights; every ponghee
house is illuminated; you can dis¬
cern the great porch of the Golden
Dagon, with its griffin warders, from
here. They are beating to arms; the
trumpet sounds the “assembly.”
What could that first and solitary
shot have been?
Ah! my nautical friends; while
your sapient pates were busy guess¬
ing, that pair of barbaric black heads
have drifted under the stern again,
and the same canoe has drifted with
them—nor empty this time; for, look
again, and you will see that her light
; s no longer burning, and her state¬
room door is closed, though Hits win¬
dow is open ; and—yes, you do hear
her breathing. Wait! spare your
heads the guessing; it will nil be
cleared up one day. Wait till you
dare to ask Norah Fallon why she
dares to itiake so much of that with¬
ered white rose.
General Godwin’s next dispatch to
the Governor General contained a
curiotts passage: ‘‘On the flight of
the loth tho cantonments were
thrown into disorder by a false
alarm, caused by the mysterious dis¬
charge of a pistol iii the talipot
grove, which inclosed the grave of the
late Adjutant Fallon, who fell glo¬
riously in the attack on the Dagon
Pagoda; the spot is close to the se¬
poy lines of if. M. Eightieth. My
men maintained good order, answer¬
ing the assembly call tvith remarka¬
ble celerity and in complete equip¬
ment. At daybreak a sepoy of Major
Ainslie's picket found a dead boa of
great size, and evidently just killed,
lying across young Fallon’s grave;
also, suspended to (he cross by a rib¬
bon, a gold locket containing two
locks of hair—a lady’s and a child’s;
and fastened to the cross by a short
Burmese poiniard through the paper
the inclosure, marked “X.”
Inclostire X contained the follow¬
ing: “There are no ‘Regulations’
lor the heart of an Irish soldier’s
wife.”
Origin of Street Lighting.
The T* 6 custom U ', of 0t lMifcino- 1 ” lfc the streefci5 streets
dates i u back to remote antiquity^ . In
th e cities of Grer> ^ Hie
lighted u n* r r
or / et in sockets in prominent posi
* iona . Similar plans were followed
in Rome and in the Egyptian cities,
and relics of these have been found
which date back to the fourth cen
tury before Christ. The lamps used
Avere for the most part primitive in
form . Many of them were made of
skulls of animals or of sea shells of a
convenient Te^ size and shaoe
general principal of these
lamps was copied in the stone cups
* n d boxes used in later years. The
lightg afc best were ver y inadequate,
and it was customary for those who
ventured on the streets at night to
carry blazing torches. Crime of all
sorts flourished under such a svstem.
Jb was nofc uncommon in ancient
Rome to find a number of dead and
mang i e d bodies lying about the
streets ' eA'ery mornin^. in°this
The lamps used period were
exquisitely decorated, but for several
centuries not a single improvement
was made to increase the light. The
j amps W ere ma de usually of bronze
and covered with figures in bas relief
taken from mythology or from sub
i ec tsof daily life,
Corns on Horses’ Feet.
A commo „ cnH3e fot UmenMS
b“^ow}n ^ hl , 1SM “Sr^ u sevelnuontl'l r o-ns and thov beTore , n w
t , evidences of their existence
Horseshoers ) closely watch the feet
, t , sh f e-idences
lifto f these disturbers J th“m and m. often the?
^ronf'n'ohin rid o uir'ltnso'ra before
horse's hoofs usually form just above
the hee l and where the hair joins the
, They then grow down into the
, 0( „ s (he itselt and
„, J0ut , iirst knowledge the horse
h , ias 0( t | ieir existence is when
1,0 , p,uvs U, ° , hoof i, nnf “ „ ni1 ,ul nna ““coter» the
C ,"'
is often the case Umt they have
f „ Wted whll0 th e hoof, and when
an incision is made a largo sired hole
,, foand In some establishments
ointment is used for the cure of
but in others it is considered
be9t t„ protect them from gravel and
, and nermit them to off'with erow out
with the hoof and be cut it.
Tire shoes on Arabian horses, which
are requ ired to go long dismnccs in
the sand; are solid pieces of iron,
V bein<- left onlv for thp
f rog . They are fastened to the hoof
] unsi.ditlv lookin', nails and
cumbersome affairs
yet tlrev serve the purpose of protec- 1
-. j 100 f
1
Fcund a Boulder of Silver.
One of the largest silver nuggets
on record was found about four miles
f rom p ea eh Springs,Arizona,recently,
p w0 prospectors William Tucker
and John Doyle, on their way from
Death Valley to the Colorado River,
d ; SCOV ered a boulder weighing seve
r al hundred pounds and composed
0 f near ly pure silver. The value of
the find is placed at about $10,000.
-—
A watchmaker of Chicago is the
owner of a clock the works of which
are in the inside of an ordinary wine
bottle, and the dial is set obliquely
on the top of the bottle. There is quite
n mystery attached to this curosity.
! Several years ago it floated to the
, shore from Lake Michigan..
ADVERTISER.
“JACKIES” IN DEMAND.
LARGE 1NCPFASE IN THE NUM¬
BER OF SAILORS.
New Warships to be Manned-- Life
of a Sailor on an American Mari
of-War and His Pay.
American irien-fif-war’s men have
no distinctive title. 1 hey are »uri
ously termed blue jackets, Jack
tars and “jitekies. 1 hi last is hy
far the most common liaino given the
men who “plough the raging main ’
on ships other of war. It is a contraction
of the twtt, ttnd it applies alike
to the sailors of all navies.
special . , attention 1 is directed , to tho ,
American naval sailor just at this
time, because of the preparations of
the Navy Department to enlist LOGO
men for that branch of the service.
The recent rapid increase in the
number of vessels of the navy, ns a
\\ ashington , . , 0i Star reporter was ,, Ai
formed, has naturally necessitated
an addition to the force of men to
operate them. Secretary Cdtlgress Herbert
represented to the last that
2,000 additional men were needed to
meet the requirements of the service
during the coming fiscal year, be¬
ginning on the 1st proximo. Con¬
gress found it expedient, however,
to provide only for an increase Of
half that number. The total en
listed strength of the navy at present
is 9,000 inert. The authorized en¬
listments Avill sAvell this total to 10,
000 during the coming year.
Six hundred new men will bo
needed within the next few Aveeks
for the manning of the second class
battle ships Texas afid Mains and
the gunnery practice ship Lancaster.
The three vessels Avill be put llito
commission about the 1st of August,
the Texas at Norfolk and the Maine
and Lancaster at New York, The
complement of these vessels will be
about 125 in excess of the additional
force of 600 men, but for that mat¬
ter nearly all of our warships aro
short of their complement.
There are other vessels that will
soon be ready for active sea service,
including the ram Katahdin and the
torpedo boat Ericsson.
The cruisers Boston and Marion,
which have undergone extensive re¬
pairs at San Francisco, could be put
in commission MenTcfrffmpr today if crews were
of avajhij^, the other
these vessels may be
putting the coast-defense vessel
station, Monterey, o or oi some commission, other ship on that 1
ut uc.u
otherwise.
The first-class battle ships Indiana
and Massachusetts, the finest ships
in the navy, "’ill probably be com¬
pleted this winter.
Officials of the Navy Department
say there will be no difficulty in get¬
ting the additional men, and that it
will not even be necessary to adver¬
tise for them. The classes of men
wanted are seamen, landsmen, fire¬
men and coal passers, and it is ex¬
pected that most of these will be re¬
cruited at NeAV York. Enlistments
will also be made at Philadelphia and
Botton, if necessary. The men are
needed mostly for manning the bat¬
teries and for looking after the fires
and machinery. New York city is
the only place where recruiting goes
on in all ratings.
Men, physically and otherwise
qualified, avIio have served in the
navy, are enlisted in the following
ratings at the monthly pay desig¬
nated: Seamen, $21; ordinary sea¬
men $19; machinists, $70; first-class
firemen, $35; second-class firemen,
$30. When qualified and advanced
to the ratings of petty officers, as
vacancies occur, they receive from
$25 to $65 per month. Men twenty
one years of age or upward, physi¬
cally qualified, who have not served
at sea, are enlisted in limited num¬
bers as landsmen or coal heavers,
and are paid $16 and $22 per month
respectWely, All enlistments are
for a term of three years.
Every enlisted man is allowed a
commutation of rations at the rate
of thirty cents a day . It is a matter
of pride in the navy that there is no
ration given by any foreign nation
that is equal to the ration of the
United States navy, either in weight
or nutritive qualities. Although the
American sailor may be cramped in
his sleeping quarters, he has no cause,
it is asserted to complain of his food,
as it is the best possible under the
circumstances, and A T astly superior
to that of his brethren in other
navies, excepting none.
Living room is x-ery limited on
board modern warships. Everything
below decks is sacrificed to engines,
boilers and coal bunkers. Conse¬
quently “jackies” aro huddled to¬
gether like sheep in a storm. Each
man is allowed , , but , fourteen , , inches ,
room for his hammock, and the ham¬
mocks are dovetailed together from
, beam , to , beam, so that the sleeping , .
tars f° rr n a solid, compact mass,
with hardly room to swing even ina
roliing sea. I ins is the greatest
drawback to service on a modern
man of war and is a source of general
complaint from the veteran who has
experienced greater breathing space
in the more spacious wooden frigates
ofbygone days.
With this exception, the lot of the .
modern tar is muc l easier in e\ery
respect than in the olden days of
sailing ships. He is now better fed
and better cared for. The discipline
is not so severe and exacting, and
he is afforded better protection
against tyranny and oppression on
the part of the officers. Ilieir .
eral nature, however, lias not under
gone any material change since the
days of Cooper and Maryatt. They
are a jolly*, liappy-go-lucky set, al
ways ready for a lark or a fight, with
an abnormal fondness for grog, and
are chronic grumblers over imaginary
ills. Nevertheless, it is said, they
are stanch and true, and patriotic to
l ; ro ,“ th ’ and " m nev 7 s °
back on , their country or a friend r m
distress.
The best ratings open to “jackle* M
ftfe boatswains and gunners. These
places pay from $1,200 to $1,800 a
year. They are open to any sailor
»ho has served more than one en¬
listment in tho navy, and who shows
speefal aptitude for promotion. All
appointments as warrant officers aro
based on the record of the applicants,
There flfc several vacancies in the
u s t 0 f boatswains at present, but
p one j n the list of gunners. Warrant
officers are retired on three-quarters
pay . Petty officers are pensioned on
half pay if physically incapacitated
for re-enlistment,
'There i? a popular impression that
the rank and file of the navy is com
p 0sed 0 f aliens, who have no patri
otic affiliation with this country or
Its institutions. That t his iserrono
ous is demonstrated by the last
of the navy, which shows
that, nearly 70 per cent of the entire
enlisted force is composed of citizens
of the Unites! States, either by birth
or naturalization. The other 30 per
cent is made up of aliens, the ma¬
jority of whom are Scandinavians,
Englishmen and Irishmen. There
are many Chinese and Japanese in
the navy, but they are employed al¬
most exclusively in the mess rooms.
Colored men are numerous, but they
too, afo mostly mess attendants.
EGGS WITHOUT SHELLS.
Thousands Exported from Italy foi
Confectioners’ Use.
The Consular report on the trade
of Genoa iti 1891 contains the follow¬
ing:
A commercial paper of Sept. 5
stated that the exportation of Italian
eggs to England had attained con¬
siderable proportions, the principal
importers being Italians, and the
eggs being used by the largo biscuit
manufacturers and the principal
pastry cooks, the latter including
three Italian firms supplying pastry
to hotels, cafes and restaurants.
One of these firms Avere said to
consume 5,000 eggs weekly, pur¬
chased till recently from the Italian
importers, but uoay from an English
firm which supplies eggs from Russia,
shelled and preserved in hermetri
cally-seaied tins, provided with a
tap by which any required quantity
jirYi^and be drawn off at a time. LoAver
saving of time are men
tioned v as the advantages of this
system, aiso ucauum from damasy
in transport, and long i {ee ping, so
that Italian exDorters of eggs were
recommended to adopt it.
According to information L 0C eived
by tli© Chamber of CommeL ce ab
Cuneo from the Italian Consuls tlLtJ 1 iP
London, the tin or drum, packed
Avith straAv in a wooden case, held
the contents of 1,000 to 1,500 eggs,
the white not separated from the
yoke, but the hole getting mixed up
in the drum, Avliich was protected by
three iron hoops. The circular aper¬
ture through which the eggs were
poured in Avas closed by a bung, and
sealed, and the tap was supplied by
the London pastry cooks.
Great care was necessary in the
selection of the eggs, as a single bad
one would spoil the Avhole lot. The
cases were marked “Russian pro¬
duce,” those from Italy should be
marked “Italian produce.” There
were several marks or brands, and
prices might be calculated at about
121 cents, per dozen, quotations be¬
ing sometimes by the gallon. Prices
went up to 16 or 18 cents, per dozen
in winter.
A later report in the same paper
showed that the Italian adoption of
this Russian system had not been
so far successful, the eggs having
been found spoiled on reaching their
destination.
War Dogs.
The war dogs belonging to the
German army, which were shown at
the Sporting Exhibition at Dresden,
acquitted themselves remarkably
Avell. The trials Avere not by any
means easy ones, and the fact that
the dogs satisfactorily passed them
speaks highly far the system of train¬
ing the animals. On a very compli¬
cated road, with many cross-paths,
and quite strange to them, the dogs,
although maneuvering with troops
who Avere quite unknown to them,
and in spite of the heat being most
intense, did some excellent dispatch
duty. “Tell,” a dog belonging tc
theJager Guard Battalion, brought
dispatches from a soldier to head¬
quarters, a distance of nearly a mile,
in less than two minutes, while the
dogs belonging to the Dresden Rifle
Corps accomplished the journey in
about fcwQ minutes . Tests were next
made Avith the dogs as ammunition
carriers, each animal carrying on its
ba ,. b a weight equal to 250 ball cart
r j dges arranged in a kind of saddle,
and b ] ie y showed that in this direc
ti on they might be thoroughly relied
U p 0n> f or they supplied the line ol
fj r j n „ troops, avIio were also strangers
tQ them> with f re3 h ammunition,
The trials wound up by testing the
power of the dog , in seeking the
Avounded on the field of battle, and
the int elligentcreatureswereequally
as suecessfui in Red. Cross duties as
they were in conveying ammunition,
Preaehed Himself to Death.
An Alabama preacher, Greenleaf Lee
p) ou ble Springs, preached himself tc
d eath the other day. He was delivering
a sermoD on hell, and had worked hirnsel:
up into a great fervor of excitement in hi:
descriptions of its horrors, wdien, sud
denly, he ceased speaking and fell to th<
floor unconscious. Death followed in t
few minutes. The doctors said that b<
| had ruptured a blood vessel. He was i
young man, and of great physical vigor
NO. 32.
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNM
mein of the press.
The Ago of Progress--A Lover’s Ad¬
miration--Went Right Along, Etc.,
Etc.
TUB AUK OK l’ROFUESS.
Dr. Emdee—It is a rare thing for * a
woman to have appendicitis. (enthusiastically)—
Miss Fiudesieelc
Give us lime! We’ll get it.
A EON Kit’S ADMIRATION.
“My dear fellow,” said one foreign
ndbleman to another; “I have just met
ysur fiancee. I want to congratulate you.
You have a prize.”
“Yes,” was the complacent reply; “and
tile beauty of it is that she’s a cash prize.”
— 1 Washington Star.
AYKNT EIGHT Al.ONG.
Customer—Y r ou give light weight. That
pound of evaporated peaches you sold me
did not weigh over three-quarters.
Dealer—-Well, mum, I didn’t warrant
’din not to go on evaporatin’.—New York
Weekly.
riJEASUKE IN ms AVORK.
“That sour old fellow Grampus has a
job that just suits him.”
“What’s that?”
“He’s station master where fifty trains
go out every day, and he sees somebody
miss every one of them.”—Chicago Record.
HELD TO THE HABIT.
“I can’t let you have any money, that’s
flat,” said the new woman.
“Why?” asked the husband, tears gather¬
ing in liis limpid blue eyes.
“Because,” confessed the breadwinner
shamefacedly, “there is a bargain sale
down at Cutlen’s, and they are selling the
loveliest spring trousers ever seen for $2 98.
I thought I liad got over the bargain coun¬
ter habit, but this is something I cannot
resist.”—Indianapolis Journal.
CAME TOO I.ATE.
“It’s a great pity,” said the convicted
burglar to his lawyer, “that you couldn’t
have made that closing speech of yours at
the opening of the ease.”
“1 don’t see that it would have made
any difference.”
“It would, though. Then the jury
would have been asleep when the evidence
came in, and I’d have stood some show.”
—Washington Star.
A COMPROMISE.
It was in an absent-minded sort of way
that she read the sign “Ice Cream.”
“Oh, all; ice cream,” .said lie. “Did
you ever read that there were deadly pto¬
maines in ice cream?”
On reflection lie concluded to vorojm* »•
ise on a basis of present cream and future
kisses.—Indianapolis Journal.
A DIFFERENCE.
fthe_Oil, myl there’s something gone
down myqback. 1
lie—It’s ««ne of U lpiudering bugs,
suppose. - * -
“No; I guess it’s one of those lightning
bugs, George.”—Yonkers Statesman.
LATE IN REALIZING.
Reporter—I suppose you realized a large
sum of money on your last fight, didn’t
you? realize nothing
Pugilist—Naw, I didn’t
until I came to, a week after der scrap.—
Truth.
A CAPTIOUS CKITIO.
“There is one jiart of your romance,
Mr. Hicks, that you will have to change,”
said the editor.
“What is that?” asked Hicks.
“Where the deaf-and-dumb boy rescues
Etliclinda from the ocean. You say that
with one hand lie grasped the fair girl
around the waist, and with the other he
signaled loudly for assistance.”^—Harper’s
Bazar.
THE INEVITABLE HERO.
Billings—Who is that man the crowd is
cheering so vociferously?
Coddington — Why that’s Commodore
Starboard, who is going to rescue Pain’s
arctic expedition.
Billings—And who is the little man at
his side?
Coddington—Why, that’s. Pain; he’s
just about to start.
HER TIMELY DISCOVERY.
Helen—Oh, George, we are saved,
ffeorge—What do you mean, loved
one?
Helen—Why I have found my bicycle
oil-can in my pocket; we’ll pour its con¬
tents on the troubled waters.
And then she swooned.
A YOUNG PURIST.
“Liz,” said Miss Kiljordan’s youngest
brother, “do you say ‘woods is’ or ‘woods
are’ ? ”
“Woods are, of course,” she answered.
“Why?” down iu the
“’Cause Mr. Woods are
parlor waitin' to see you.—Chicago Tri¬
bune.
THE BEST PLACE FOB THEM.
Mother (arranging for the summer)—I
want the girls to go to some place where
the nicest men are, of course.
Father—Then, my dear, you had better
let them stay iu town.—Detroit Free Press.
SPOILED HIM.
“Don’t you think that for an ugly man
Juukette is awfully vain since he came
back from his vacation?”
“Yes: but you know he was at a sum¬
mer resort for three weeks and was the
only man there.”—Chicago Record.
A NATURAL MISTAKE.
“Isn’t Smith a poet?”
“No; can’t borrow a quarter to have his
haircut—that’s all.”—Atlanta Constitution.
THE DOUBLE ALLIANCE.
“I’m glad yon came,” said the mosquito;
“I have been nearly worked to death.”
“Well, you can get a good rest, now,”
answeredethe fly. ‘I’ll take care of him
till he gets ready to get up.”—Indianapolis
Journal.
SEEK SO FURTHER.
“Oh, where can rest be found?’*
A weary poet sighs.
That's easy. Drop i; to a store
That doesn’t advertise.
China, to pay off the indemnity, will
have to pay to Japan money at the average
rate of more than $65 a minute, day and
u'.ght, during the next five years.