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HERALD. ' BW '"” SESD,V - • 'rEErIESiVARBUOUGH. TVLEB St rEEIMS, E D ,to, I ritES 0 F SUBSCRIPTION-^ ; K.UES g 2 00 b'xZ’ZJ*'"-- «g| i*!X»««* ° ,c '*« h -« a>,iu ■ saW'.r'F is i onß . * m lßOney °nhtlining five subscribers, ami “liters wishing their papers I| sul> ! rirt nost-office to another, state th h . t chan ged, as well g»^.iSb.hT»M' lt "" t - lUlsi. aia-WOSE.men^ ai” :■:» on ■ortg«e a,i . ~ “ “ ... 5-00 Collector S on 3 0() R l!,,t<,,l !l?mr'an.l creditors... 5 00 to to sell land.... R nft Maid-I*l square ••••• 4 jjjj |» tt f tfSl'T'mneste^: 2 00 | ■nplieaoon toi 3 00 ■H...,. notices IBL Sales of land, by administrators, Hl**. , (Minrdians, are required by Hphaeld'en the first Tuesday in the .° L, wee n the hours of ten in the nl three in the afternoon, at B n... < y in.-.,*., HWI a £*>'■*» !' e wm days previous to the HVi icelo debtors and creditors of an fHtc mast also be published 40 days. H for the sale of personal proper ■ b- manner, 10 days to sale day. ... . j tv that application will be mad • the Court of Ordinary for leave to ■Hi' I ,111-1 lie published for four weeks. HH"- ’ kWT * "[ a<,,n Tf, ra Vo n n •rlic.lip.i-v. must be published 30 §BL Mi from adinmiriratton. . m.mills; tor dismission 'or the foreclosure of mortgages !.•■ published monthly, four months: lost papers, for the full three months; tor compelling ■ f r , lm executors or administrators, bond has been given by the de- IKnj.th'- full space of three months. sales must be published fur weeks. notices, two weeks, ■■ut.lieations will always be continued . l() these, the legal requirements, H) otherwise ordered. IFIOFESSIONAL CARPS. J. WINN. WM. K SIMMONS. HNN Sc SIMMONS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, or.tlM.fi, UKWU.IA. L-r in Gwinnett and the adjoin we llifs. i|«rlb-lv N. L. MUTCH! NS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, . lir.'CEViu.E,.... Ga. lain in the counties of the Western I '.iiiii m Milton and Forsyth of tile ■ Ridge. mar 16-1 y Iler m. peepjllEs, [attorney at law, Kncinui, <; a. ■diets in the counties of Gwinnett, ■Jackson wml Milton. •stun claims promptly attended to ■ R-6b I • nTgu e n nT Ittorney at law* f» C *THL«, GA. promptly attend to all business ' care, and also to Land, • mfißf. fill! T K. &, G. A. MITCHELL, Mjwrexoeville, ga., Iwfujly tender a continuation of services to the citizens ■ Kee P constantly on hand a f rttuetit °* drugs and chemicals, gbuus carefully prepared. I S!! i n.; | CIAN SURGEON, I V ' V RE\(JEVILLE, ga. ■ l ' R 0 Bhr Ts 7 ” ■ Cornet at Law, V !, AUETTa, GEORGIA, li£mi ineßß - entrus,cd 10 iI. ;! ge , clr , cu,t ; “Iso m circuit 4 UllJ <jW ‘ nnett of ■ulwaS 1 ', 11 - IL Walkcr iu B-p v ~ dnt ** t «l Cluiui cases B iul4.-(tm ■^ R 'UNE house, | reet - r *ear the Car Shed, ■ ATl ANT A , ga. VvlilTii B, ' Proprietor, ■ , «• Lodyiny, 50 CtnU. B S2O 'l'M'- Aucnts wanted. Either sev c iWBfcB ol working B‘"- v M M,ork' l you "' ? . or old, make El 0r a " tlle i; US "! t * u; ' r B P are ■ l'artieo ! ne - ll iuu Ut uny- P c »'.pSSi ,, £. ■ wua > Mai me. [eejvl-ly Weekly Gwinnett Herald. T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR.] Vol. 11. Green Fields Just in Sight. At the portals of the morning Stood a child with dainty feet, .All about him golden sunshine, f early dew and blossom sweet ; And with tender, dimpled fingers. Plucked the flowers fresh and fair, And the overhanging branches ’Showed the dew-drops in his hair. Looking forward o’er life’s pathway, Saw he broader fields of green, Skies with snowy clouds so fleecy, Here and there bine shreds between; with swiftly flying footsteps, Started he for fields more blight; I?i:t in vjin fie hurried ouwaiSd They were always just tn sight. Warmer, brighter, grew the, sunshine, Broader, rougher, srrew the wav; Rut with green fields just lfefore him, Nothing could his footsteps stay; So he wandered till manhood Took the place of chiUhood fair, Then he threw aJde his lowers, Wiped the dew-drops from his hair. Onward, onward, tolling^striving, J Helping otherslights might. * Desired htHtfarthe bloortiing fields, S That just in sight f Lay withf™hc cold dark yver; * .11 erf wish and wait Till the Master callsjft over, And upbars the jfl?urly gate. Miscellaneous Items. The mercantile marine of the whole world numbers over G 1,000 vessels. Jeff. Davis got one vote foe President in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. The Rev. GWiigo Ilepworth will have a $75,000 iron church up in New York before Christmas. Last week 1,147,534 pounds of cheese were shipped from New York for Liverpool. The possibility of an union of the English and American Pres byterian bodies is looked forward to. Mun.iiuui', mu., is puzzcci over a queer bird, shot near that plate the other day. It looks like a cross between a duck and a giraffe. A Providence (R. I.) paper re cords the appearance iu that city of a loaded Wagon drawn by four men. One thousand dollars fine or im prisonment tor one year is the penalty lor betting on elections in Illinois. Three generations in one family lately presented themselves to a minist r lor baptism in t akota Territory. A Danbury gebtleman wlio got considerable sand with his sugar, sent it back with a request, to exchange it for spine paved. The jailer of St. Louis has issued an order excluding from the jail young ladies with tracts. * lje says that some of t*lie pnsonere trails. * 'Si Brazil, Egypt, the West - Indies, Turkey, etc., in 18G0-H, produced altogether only 271,000 balesftT cotton. During tlie last cotftmercral year these supplied Europe with 1,499,000 bales. The high prices of coal lias so increased the expenses of running the Lancashire cotton mills, that it has been decided to reduce the number us hours of labor .in thefflf while the present high prices are maintained. Certain Liberal Republicans of Cincinnati have resolved to organ ize the basis of the good old platform, excluding the tariff plank and Substitutfeg^oj*^affirm ing the expediency cffT/Urilfs rtr revenue only. The glare of the flakes from* burning Bostbu .. was7*distinctly seen at Portsmouth, New Hamp shire— a distance of more than* sixty miles, and was supposed, for a time, to proceed from* some Are at a point in the same direc tion, distant ten miles. A new danger threatens soc:e ty. An eminent French chemist announces that many of the new evening silks are covered with picrate of lead, and arc, therefore, liable to a tremendous explosion i at any moment. It would be a terrible thing,while waltzing with a lady, to have ircr suddenly blow up. The iron manufacturing inter ests of the country ill IW7O were represented by 3532 establish ments, employing 120,9;>7 men, turning out yearly manufactures valued at $300,992,1CG This only includes pig iron and blooming furnicce, forges and establ aliments producing bur, rod and railroad iron, nails, plate, etc. Lawrencevillef Ga., Wednesday, November 27, 1872. Paying an Election Bet. On the day after the Democratic Convention which met at Baltimore and nominated Horace Greeley foe the high office of President of the United Slates two gentlemen had a friendly discussion as to the merits of that candidate at- No. 123 Wfcst Houston street, at the House of Mr. Henry lluscli. The names of the two gentlemen were Mr. Lionel Iv/ane, a clerk in the house o£ Wjtlijun 0* Loask & Cwho are tlTb importers (f la#es, next door to the St. Nicholas Hotel, and Air. William H. Van Gieson, proprietor of an oyster saloon at 112 West Houston street. Gen. Grant had been nominated at Phila delphia on the 9th of June, in con vention, and Mr. Greeley’s nomina tion followed in July. Mr. Van Gieson is a Grant man, weighs one hundred and sixty-two pounds, aud is exactly six feet high, his pwn statement, lie 'wears a high blault castor and has a pair qf s* all Dundreary chop vvliis has hug* hones, and all his relations for eighty five years have been in the oyster business. Mr. Van Gieson has a model of an oyster schooner in his place of business. Mr. Lionel Keane is a New Yorker, who weighs 149 pounds, and is five feet eleven and a half inches high. Both of the political antagonists were exactly twenty-six j ears of age The mutton-chop whiskers of Mr. Keane were not so larj>e or so productive as those of Mr. Van Gieson but he had a clear eye, a solid form and a deter mined look.. Mr. Van Gieson backed Grant very enthusiastically, and declared that he would be elected. Mr. Keane be lieved that Greeley would be our next President, and was willing to give odds on his election. “Don’t let us bet money on the election or we will loose our votes,” sun nil. ivealie. “Well, if you are sati.-fied, I am,” replied Mr. Van Gieson. “What will we do ?” “Let us do something: let us wheel the man who loses up Broadway after the election.” “No,” said Keane, “if I lo>e I will carry you on my back from the house of Mr. Uemv lluscli, 123 West Houston street, lo Union square, and 1 will take around the statute of Lincoln three times and then down Broadway to 123 West Houston street again. We must have a band of music and a torchlight procession to accompany us, so that we can have some good fun.” “And if Grant is beaten I will carry a loaded musket in my shirt sleeves up and down before Husch’s door for three hours, with a loaded knapsack full of bricks,” said Van Gieson. The agreement was made, am} last evening tbe bet was paid. Mi. Keane, who fell bad that Horace Greeley had fcjpeen defeated,■•was^ready last evening fto pay his forfeit. A great crowd began to •assemble at 123 Houston street, and Henry lluscli had all he could do to serve lager to the thirsty mass. Keane was the first man to '■make his appearance and he looked cool, quiet and calm, like Billy Ed wards before a iight. Van Gieson soon after, and the Herald re porter interviewed him briefly. He wrote cl to bet every way—'•.hundred to twenfy tiwe” that Keane could not carry hint, or a,*hundred to twenty five that Keane wSuld carry him." The people began to look tor the German band, who had been at the saloon, but could not be found. Van Gieson ate four (rie% early in the morning, and at two Keane \Jj*ied on roast beef, beans and tniisce 'pie. Tbe crowd was swelling all the time*, ami *soon the people in the street saw them coining They had walked all the way from Third street and Third avenue to save the the cents car fare on Houston street car. * A big furniture truck was filled with oaken ebairs, and the crowd "poured in. A man in jlie truck bore a large Ameiican flag. A barouche was ready, with a driver, who never laughed while the journey was being made. Tbe German band got into 1 the truck, and the harofe-he followed | tip Houston street to Smith Fifth avenue, aud through Aiuity street to Broadway, with Keane, Van Gieson, ; Henry Husch and the Herald reporter silling together. A gentleman named Andrews carried a permission from Mr. Superintendent Kelso to “form a procession ten feet iu width inside of the ciub,” which ho showed to every one, at the Lead of a mass of one thousand persons. The truik with the band of music reached Union square, the band playing crazy waltzes all the timo.ro the amuse- “COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!” inent of the people on the sidsw alk* and in tire windows who could not understand it, and who believed it to be a circus just arrived. Arrived at Union Square, some solemn ceremonies were performed. The barouche wss driven around the Lincoln statute twice, and Keano stood, up and took off his coat, which he passed to a man with a romantic goatee to hold Then Van Gieson off his cloak and froekeoat and vest, and as the band plawd, lie ap peared standing up in the barouche with Keane amid the cheers of ihe large crowd, the moving of Chinese lanterns and the blaze of ire works. I Solemnly Van Gieson eriH out, “1 want another drink,” and Keane nn ! swered, as ho descended to shoulder his political antagonist, “No; 1 won’t I let you do that. I’ll he blamed if 1 ; am going to carry a whisky distillery down Broadway. You have got enough already.” (Cheers) !■ Then Keane said, “1 want that sur- I cingle to put around anil over my I'M >s.” Then lie stooped his hack and Van Gieson, with an inehreate shodt, leaped across his back, having divested himself of his shoes a mo ment before. The procession was formed, the band stretched itself across Broad way,the young men with the Chinese lanterns formed also j with a ludicrous gravity, and to one jof Strauss’ wild and demoniacal waltzes, and amid screams, catcalls and yells of laughter, the insane march proceeded down Broadway. It is simply imposible for tin* Her ald reporter who left the barouche and marched aiong side of Koine and Van Gieson down Broadway to even attempt to describe the most uproar ous of uproarious of scenes Its like will probably never be seen again in our greatest street. People came out of stores and buildings to shout and scream, and the excitement was awful. There was the man, in his wmte linen shirt, jumping up and I down on the back of the perspiring Keane, and the band playing the wildest of waltzes all the time A request was made that they should plav either the “Slat Spangled Ban ner,” or the “Wacht and . helm,” hut, strange to say, they could not perform either. At 1 decker street and Broadway, Keane took a lest in (lie middle of the street, according to agieement, the hand played again while lie took a drink of brandy and sat on a chair, carefii ly keeping the legs ot Van Gieson off the pavement while gel ling the drink from a hoi tie, w hich Van Gieson smashed afterwards. The band again played The march down lloiiatoU' street was a scence nl wh: triumph, and when Liie crowd readied 123 Houston street thice rousing cheers were given for a plucky little Gree'ev man, who had struggled so bravely aud had run so well.— N. Y. lleralti. % m* —- 1 lie editor ot me La Crosse Democrat thus describes his ex perienfes the evening alter the election : About 12 o’clock last night a ,solitary horseman might have been seen gently meandering up Main street mounted on a pair of ’firery, untamed, calfskin boots.— The solitary horseman turned up 'Sixth street and booii entered his domicil, where the following con versation ensued; Wife: “Is Greeley elected?” Solitary Horseman : “No.” Wife : ‘Ts Woodward elected?” Solitary Horseman: “No.” Wife: “Is Han elected ?” Solitary? Horseman: “Doubtful.” Wife : “Well, you had better go to bed.” |The solitary horseman alluded toin this'touching dialogue was the writer of this article We took that advice and retired, and soon Morpheus took us in Ins arms, and wc dreamed that we were a F rears tone sidewalk, and that the whole Grant party of tlit> United States were walking over us from head tofootjiu single fife,with spike shoes on. They were a longer time passing a given point than any Grant procession we ever saw. but they a 1! got over at lust, though it took them neatly all night. They are heavy stoppers, and wc know some of thcln acre diuak, they waddled around so. Some Illinois candy pullers placed a two gallon pot of liquid sweet in the yard to cool, and went on with the dance. Tbe discovery of a cat’s corps in the pot alter wards forced them to give the candy to the poor. It is great virtue to take ,jljp trials' oi Tile, led merely V tieiicd*aiiil forfitiidc’.biihpleasantly, as though wo 1 joke-i beyoii-t them- A Lonely ltnnquct. In 1862, ton young gentlemen of eonget ial tastes and tempers boarded at. a fashionable boarding house in New York. They divided up in parties of twos, times and fours, and attended theatres, lectures, and other places of intere-t in the evenings, and when they returned they made it a point to meet in the parlor and talk over the business, pleasures and ad ventures of the day, before they re tired to their rooms. Their close friendship, and this method of each communicating his experience for the benefit of all, proved both instructive, and entertaining, and these daily re unions possessed local attraction, enough to draw them all together at' a regular hour in the evening. This mode of life continued lor many years. At length the time came for them to separate. The country need ed its young men, and called for sev eral of this party of tun. 'They had a farewell dinner at their hoarding house on the 10th o: September, 1862, and a grand time feasting ;iTM talking and singing songs. One remarkable feat Ire of this celebration was that, before they separated at 2 o’clock in the morn ing, each arose in his place and made a solemn vow that, ii living, he would meet the rest of his companions at 8 o’clock in the same place, and dine with them, ten years hence, as they had dined that, night. Each one was to occupy the sa e seat, ami, as I.earl} as possible, they were to have the same kind of a dinner. .So they bade each other good night and sepa rated. Iu the course of years the house changed hands and set up the more pretentious claims ot a hotel. The dining room remained just as it was, and probably the old table and chairs were still on duty. Some days ago Mi Edward Win ship, broker, ‘24 Bond street, called tji I- -j>i i viol *J I lli u Clll'l requested bun to prepare dinner for ten gentlemen in the olu dining-room <>n (lie evening ol September ll). Mr. W llrshlp Iriietly minuted Ltie ell c.uinsl iin-.e- ot tho compact lo explain bis reque-t, and tbal, being llie eldest ol (be pin IV id len, be bad been ap pointed tho'eveumo ol iboii dining in lad 2as chairman At precise.v & o’clock on tiie evening id September 10, Mr. W indup entered the dining room, and tire doors were quickly closed Lielmnl bun. No one ene came, fine table was bounteously spread, three colored waiters were there, and nine empty chairs an I uierled plates and glasses at every cn rir. 1 lie meal was begun, ami Llie military banqueter wusServed wilb the prescribed courses almost in silence. Mr. Winsliip oc casiuitallv pa sed a word vvhli the bead waiter. "Boor boys! fihey’re all gone,” said be. “One went down in'the Monitoi in Mobile bay; an other was drowned in tlfe same was tei‘9. Two were shot in Mobile.— One lost both legs by a l>all, and the other was pierced through the licarl Another died in Philadelphia’, and another died in Mew Voik.” lie said that while in February lie was walking up Broadway oue evening, he I (Jit a tap on the shoulder, and a voice asked him whether lie knew Mr. . “1 do,” repbed Mr. Win ship. “He died at 4 o’clock to-day,” said the voice. Though Mr. V\ iii t hip turned quickly upon feeling the' tap and hearing the voice, he was unable to ascertain who it was tliaf had addresed him. He learned that one of the party of ten 1 had died that day and at the hoifr indicated. Mr. Winsliip oldest of the party, next to hinrayll, was only 29 — St. Loui » Republican?- — - A Comanche Brave Captures the Heart of a Washington Millionaire’s Daughter. Among the red men uow visiting the capital to smoke the pipe of peace is a youthful Comanche hrave, who has attracted no little attention from the ladies of Washington The other day, during the visit’ of several fami lies to the hotel w here lie is stopping, he saw a pretty young lady of about his own age, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men of the city, and tell so violently in love with her at first sight that when the patty left the house he followed her to her rest deuce For two or three days suh sequently lie was observed hanging around the viciuity, occasionally catching a glimpse of her; and, strange to say, the young lady had conceived an equally violent passion for him. Uu Saturday last she went but riding with him in the elegant oarouch* beloiigiug to the paternal mansion, and when those having charge of her strictly, foihade »*y further exhibitions of such bad taste on lor paiLajfu frankly /i eel (trad her iutentioppt wudding the Comanche. On the other side, the voting [s2 A YEAJR, IN ADVANCE. . Itidytn has been supplied with money and declares that be will not roiurrt I to the happy limiting grourtds of the W est unless the object of k his devo tion should go with him. Of course sticli a deplorable state of affairs has necessitated some action on the part of the authorities. The oommis sitMier of Indian affairs has therefore .been notified that the susceptible Comanche must he made to leave tlie city forthwith, and a thousand dollar ‘draft has been tendered by a brother S»f %*e misguided girl, as a bonus for , his departure. But the Comanche is incorrigible, and steadily resists a) I ■ overtures. The detioale circumstatl- Lc.es of the case, and the fear of their baffles being given pnblielv in the (event of a deitoumcnt , (vivo s<> far upon the relative* of the girl; that she wifi be taken hence to New York on the through train •tonight, and notwithstanding the lateness of the season, wilt quietly 'lake passage for Europe by gin early steamer, the distracted millionaire, whose daughter she is perceiving no other way to cure her of Jidr ifn happy 11 red ileo ti o im— Currcspunncc fJos to a 'Traveler. y •' « . Burning of si Balloon. Mr. Denniston, aironaut, who ad vertised that Mr. 1.. Durham would make an ascension at this place this afternoon, was inflating his monster balloon “City of New York,”and had nearly completed the inflating pro cess, when people on the north part of tlm grounds discovered smoke escaping from the top of the balloon. It was scarcely visible at first, but faster and faster emitted the smoke; but hardly had the defection in the air-snip beforo flame's were issuing from the very top of the balloon, Quickly the shout went up, ‘‘Tbs balloon is on fire!” and, as those near 1 iv loli'ont, lilt; liuiftb*S W6l'£ also driven here and there to escape all danger. .The di y cambric, and its envtAing bqgsilMuiruing, first slowlv, then llot fi.lines spPea I, and upward and onward went (lie file, a premoni lion by this time Overtaking the spectators, every one present feeling lbat sortie fearful, if n<Jt fatal, caludly would result. Scail ely b;fti the ll.tmes 'burst out lioffeier, beforo tin apeiumj of two if three feet, was made wjiere the JJuy rope holding the an w ibid w. tbh|( crosse I iJ; and now tope off, and away to the souiliward sl%n>ts the balloon; emnistg with ifiin its course Mr Miehfej McMaini, .Vlaborer assisting in inflation. Being near the basket as iH stalled off; he became entangled, and hanging with one foot inside the basket, his hands holding to the rope's,\h t e thus ascended for peihaps one lihHdred feet, and re gaining a positHm in the basket, which again Hung sideways, and m anfclrW minn#; I*; was hanging to the ulouTJ at a height of proba bly not less jl#m three hundred feet! Nov*\ his . stjAngth gives way, Ins presence of wind deserts him, and in another mlfftie the poor man was seen falling to the earth— an swf#, a pailVful .*igl4i filling with horror and constdfnatiun the four or five hun-„ spec'Jors on the grounds. But the etispeufco w*s only for a moment as lie, who but a little time befoVe w|s in the enjoyment of his ! faculties,oiad ascended to the emtli, uearny inf.a standing position, from three hundred feet in mid air, until, whsir nuSirly terra fi r ma. lie fell back ward, striking the ground with his •.back w*ith suCfi force as to produce a cotuiussion heard'Rome distance away, Mr. MeMatyi, fa mi In ally known as‘‘Big Mike,” was dead utterly ciuslied, the blood streaming from his mouth and nostrils}— leaning a wife and several children who do pe u Ted on the father’s labor for a living. T/ie balloon alighted but a few rodS ouuhle of the Fair Ground* ati<f was soon qonsumed, a lo>s of several hundred dollars to Mr. Qen niston.—lie Kolb (///.) Newt, Oct. ‘25. - - A great composer—Sleep. The first game of life—Bawl. Stakeholders —Butcher*. The He* that connect business men with the public—Advertise Long division—Separation for 1 life. A we!J brerl dog genaruPy bon e to .strangers. i What ia required to make a pair of boots/ i w«> boot*. Wiron i* a man :t scapegrace V W hen li«' is at dinner. Providence, it baa got inaptly said, provides for the provident. • isn’t it queer-. th it contractors Should Are employed tu tndni streets? KATES OF ADVERTISING. sr.vcK 3 mo’s. 6 ino’s. 12 mo’s. Is.; lire -3> 4 1)0 « 000 SU) 00 2 sq'rs COO ft) 00 ].) q 0 3 sqr’s S 00 14 00 20 CO >4 col. i 2 ( 0 20 00 30 00 J* col. *2O 00 3b (ip 60 00 one col. 40 O 0 7u 00 100 00 The money for advertisements is due on the first insertion. A square is the spare of one ir.eh in depth of the column, irrespective of the numlier of lines. Marriages and deaths, not exceeding six lines, published tree. For a man.ad vertising ids wife, and all other personal mailer, double rn'cs will fie charged. Ho. 317. • r “Tricks of the Tradtyi” A lively New York Sun reporter spent last Monday morning among the Now York insurance folks, and makes a very tradable article on what ho saw and heard. From his renort we extract as follows; The insutaiige clerks w re enrlv at their posts yesterday morning. In deed, most of them had been hard at work all night poring over books and preparing exhibits of losses. Three hours earlier than usual the presi dents and officers of the various com panies put in a| pearance and pre pared for a tough day’s work. In another hour the resident stock holders were rolled down Broadway. They dismissed their carriages with orders to their coachmen to call at sundown. They hastily entered the offices and wore noon busily figuring. By nine o’clock small knots of men gathered in front of the companies’ offices. They held slips cut from the morning newspapers, and cards on which they were figuring' In half mi hour these knots were swelled to throngs, and at eleven o’clock the sidewalk was impassable. I»v twelve o’clock nearly every company had posted a bulletin, which told the public that their particular institution was safe. ‘'Bosses much less than surplus,” said one. “Our loss $S?5,O0O; assets $.500,000,” was printed on another. “No Chicago for us,” said a third. “Not a dollar in Boston.” “1 hi*company (.), K.«— ri-ks taken here,” and hundreds of like aiiiiouneeiiicnis attracted mi mens* throngs and provoked all kinds of comment. “Sixty thousand dollar*.” (Excitedly.) “It’s a d d lie. They've lost *2Od,ot)o. More than that, They’ve gone up, you may de pend on it. V\ e’re nil right, but they have lied. You can’t believe a word they sav.” fiiiier excited policy holder, (blink ing papers) —Here, I want my policy cancelled. They say you’re gone up. lam going to transfer. Como, hurry up. Insurance Officer —Who says so ? k li’a a lie. We’re all right. Who says so ? Exci'ed Policy Holder—ln Company, next door ’I li£V suv you're gone sure Pm not going to run the chances. Chorus <>f a lie. We’re all right. They are gone up. Insurance Officer —Como inside, air. * The alarmed individual enters the private office. Ihe officers assure him, and in fivo minutes he lias "changed his mind and has g me. A wife asked her..husband for h gew dress. He replied: “ rimes, are hard, my dear—sy hard I can hardly keep my nose nb>v« water. W her* upon she replied : “You can .keep your nose above water easy euough if you have a mind to, but the trouble is you keep it 100 much hlkivh brandy.” CiidU wears away in the han dling. CoVcrumeut officials stale that ill the Mingle counting and transferring of $1,000,000 from one vault to another the- loos by ahi'anion amounts to six dollars. The country lias found, to its Bt>r ! row, that money wears away from the handling i f a Hadical admin, istrrui.sn. « There are IBS unlicensed liquor Uh .ps in S a L md- u,Counecticut. . i.YiNO nVtxirfiNS. Penlil find note book in band, a Sviii stoo I eying one of those bulletins A hu-iiless man said to him, “Do von tike iLyao down to piint r ‘ Why!” “Because they are tins d st paicel of lies ever pul on paper. Why, that company there (pointing to tlie bulletin) say their loss is #16,()d0, and I know it is s‘2UO,doo. ! know it. There's another (pointing) “No -’loss in Boston.” Why that company lias a hundred thousand dollars in risks in that burnt distiicl. Thev lie when thev print tint.” “flow do you know i' ‘ I am in the business.’’ “Does vour company lose “No Not a doliai - not a lisk. IloruV a card. Want to insure? Oh, I forgot; you ate » reporter. .I fist say, will you that we don't lose a cent.' These fe lows lie like h 1. Ihevo’re g.-me up, sure.” ‘ The rop. rlei entered the office. Crowding his way t<» the desk, ho askod their losses. “Oh, were all right. Surplus more th.-.u loss. — Wu’ij stand. Been into the —; — Compauy’s ofiice next door ?” “Yes.” “What do they sav their loss is ?’’