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of the ('apitol yesterday,
near drowning the Greenback
i insisted npon
upon the s.-k
m I iill’v. 1 ••'•. :t
ror .f Au-:ri:,
the la 'iUjigr ~f ever
e duy haw to rule ove*
‘• I' tkh H- ;
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|Sk-. t:." 'i'.;; .r:-
Ny* ■ 1Y > k.i ,• t\.- umv’.o
"attack on tho hftllot.' 1
on the ballot thieves.
Hit is the matter with the or
tng and little
The Pop# has sent SI,OOO in aid of
the sufferers from the inuudation at
Szegedin. It is especially notewor
thy that in almost every case of public
disaster since the begining of his reign
Leo XIII. has been aoaoug the first to
give material aid to the sufferers.
Au r utbreak of all the native tribes
in the British South Africau possession?,
is feared. Cetewayo’s agents are busy
among tbe blacks iu all pi>rts of the
country, and something not less terrible
than the Sepoy rebellion is among the
possibilities of the next few weeks.
Luke Edmondson, a hardware mer
chant in Sherman, Texas, was joked on
a tender subject by J. P. Loggias#,
postmaster. When the joker saw Ed
mondson got mad he apologized, telling
him it was only a joke, 4 However Ed
inou son procured a shotgun aiul de
liberately blew Douglass’ brains out.
The Virginia House of Delegates by a
vote of 70 to 50, nine more votes than
were uecepsary for a constitutional
majority, passed tbe bill for the settle
ment of the State debt, . It now goes to
the Senate for concurrence .with the
amendments, which, however, do not
materially affect the main proposition
of the bill.
The lower House of the Connecticut
Legislature bus passed tbe bell punch
liquor bill, providing a tax of j cents
on each glass of liquor and a half cent
on each glass of beer sold. This is
‘equivalent a is* of 25 p; -ent. on
liquor and 10 per cent, on beer, and tbe
revenue from the tax is variously esti
mated at from $1:10,000 to $1,100,000
annually.
A Nevad i surgeon is in trouble through
trying to improve a woman’s nose. She
had broken it when a child, and the
mishap had left it in a slightly crooked
condition. The surgeon bargained to
straighten it, and attempted to do so by
breaking it anew. Tire operation left
tbe nose in a worse shape than it was
before. The woman sues for' $T 6,0(10
damages.
The Hamilton (la., Vi itor is respon
sible for tiie following :
In sawing off tbe horns of a mischiev
ous cow, on the place of Mr. ii. Hod, a
singular phenomenon was discovered
One of the horns wag sawed 1 too low
down into what is known as the pith,
when the blod gushed oat with a puff of
wind, and the cow bein'- held by the
nose, had evt rv indication of breathing
through one of her horns.
For every dollar paid to Deputy Mar
shals in the South at the last’ election
more than nine dollars were paid for
the same purpose in the Nortb. This
clearly shows why the Itepuhlicans are
ao reluctant to part with that important
feature of their election machinery.
The employment of a few hundred spec
ial Deputies in large Northern cities
enables them to carry close States that,
with a fairelection. would go Democratic.
A man in St. Paul took out a lifd in-
Kurance policy for $5,000, one of the
printed couditiunn being that the coru
pauy need p&y nothfog if lid committed
suicide. He became insane, aud kill
ed himself. His widow sued for the
$5,000 on the ground that, being driven
to self-slaughter by insanity, u disease,
does not constitute a violation of the
suicide clause, which can be applied to
criminal self-destruction only. The
Minnesota Supreme Court decided for
the widow
A curious specimen of the tramp fam
ily turned up at Danbury, Conn., Ust
week. When arrested and seaerhed nine
pairs of trduerß, a dozen waistcoats,
and an equal number of coats were re
moved before the searchers came upon
the framework of the man himself.
These articles of clothing, with the con
tents of their pockets, weighed some
200 pounds, and the officers tamed oat
of them rubbish of all sorts in quantity
sufficient to fill an ordinary flour bar
rel. Amid the various' bits of old iron,
rusty scissors, knives, Ac , were found
$147 in greenbacks
The Bridgeport, Conn., Standard
that successful experiments are being
made with the locomotive smoke con
sumer now uj use on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Head.' One
engineer *.ays it one thousand six
hundred and fifty pounds of coal daily,
and almost entirely romovcß the smoke
nuisance. It 2i?w 'used bn three loco
motives. and will soon bf put on three
mote. The ednsumer con i**t of two
straight five inch tubes, two feet long,
opening into the cab through both
sheets, oil each aud abova the fur
nace door, the interior ends being cl°sd
and bolted against the side she*’* B of
the fire box. The jiart of the next
to the fire is thickly perforated, to let
ic the air, which causes* a cojabjnbtjpft
of tho coeLgases.
THOMSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16.1879.
I WONDER.
A child ran laughing on the beach.
The sun shone warm and right
Upon her waving, golden hair,
Her tiny form so light. .>
“I wonder why the world’s so fair.
So full of sun and soit£ !
I wonder why big folks dpn't laugh
And play the whole day long."
V maid was walking on the strand,
she gaze 1. far out to sea
Where.ioar the sunlit waters rode
Aha** fto gallantly.
aJj, love is coming o’er the waves,
Is coming soon to me,
I wonder low, in this sweet world,
Old folks such shadows see. ’
A wopjan stood upon the shore,
Her byes with weeping red,
Looked sadly, ou the cnuel sea:
That ne’er gives up its dead
“I wonder why the world was made
So dark and full of care:
No wonder that life’s burden seems
Too great for one to bear."
Near Uy the wiudow's ledge there sat
A grand-dame old and gray—
The window 1 joking out to sea
Where ship- at anchor.lay;. :
*‘l wonder when mine eyes shall see
Life’s thip at anchor lie
Within God’s harbor peacefully
For all eteufcityvb--
ARTIFICIAL DEATH.
Tlio Bathurst (New South
Wales, Australia) Courier gives
publication to a discovery which,
jf it is as ivpresenjed, is certain
ly most wonderful, and will
prove of the highest importance
to certain industries, particularly
that of meat .exportation. But
listen to the Courier:
Xhe gentlemen engaged in this
enterprise are signor Rotura
whose researches into the botany
and natural history of South
America have rendered his name
eminent, and Mr. James Grant, a
pupil cf the late Mr. Nicholle, so
long associated will. Mr. Thomas
Mprl in his freezing process.—
It'appears five months ago Sig
nor Rotura called upon Mr.
Grant to invoke his a-sistance in
a scheme for tbo transmission of
live stock to Europe. Signor
Rotura averred hat ho had dis
covered a So.tth America vegta
bio poison, allied to the well
known woorara. that had the
power of perfectly suspending
animation, an 1 ih-.it ilie^ rhre
Minis produced continued till the
application of another vegoble
essence caused the blood t.> re
sume its circulation and the heart
ils functions. So perfect was
tins suspension of life, that
Signor Return had fontid in a
tvarm climate deeonip- sition set
in at the extremities uflcr u week
of this living den li, and lie im
agined'il the body in this in rl
staid were reduced to a temper*
utu re iilfteieotly lb tv to air st
itecofriposil ib'ti, the iin nee might
bo kept up for months, po -il.ly
for years Before he lef Mr
Grant he had turned ihilt gen
llemari’s doubts into wonder.ng
curiosity by experimenting on
his dog. lie injected two dr ps
of tlii- liqhid mixed with a little
glycerine into a small puncture
made in the d<.g’s ear, and in
three or four m'ih'iiie* the atiirrinl
was perfectly rigid, the four legs
stretched backward, eyes wide
open, pupils very touch” dilated,
and exhibiting symptoms very
similar to those of death y
strychnine. except *bat' liiere
sad been no prevlbiia st'rbggio or
pain- Begging- his owner to
have 'nb apprehension for the
1-fe < f tb/s favorite atiimuf.' Sig
nor Rotura lifted the dog care
fully and plaCe tim on a shelf
in the cupb'-aM, where ho bog'
ged bo migiit be left till the fol
lowing day, when be promised
to call at ten o’clock and revive
the apparently dead brute. Mr.
Grant continually during that
day and night visited the cap
board, and so perfectly was life
suspended in Ik is favorite—no
motion of tbe pulse of the heart
giving a 1 y indication of the pus
si llity of revival, the frame
being perfectly rigid—that he
felt the sharpest reproaches of
remorse at having sacrificed a
faithful friend to a doubtful a fid
dangerous experiment. Tbe
temperaluro of the body, too, in
the first four hours, gradually
lowered t twenty-five degrees
Fahrenheit bcl -w ordinary blo.d
temperature, 1 which increased his
fears as to the result, and by
morning tht> body was as cold as
iff actual death. At ten o’clock
next morning according to prom
ise, Signor Rotura presented
himself and laughing at Ah.
Grant s fears, requested a tub of
waiter to be brought. He tes
ted this with the tbei mometer to
Dinety-two degrees Fahreuheit,
and in this laid the dog, head
under. To Mr. Graut’s objec
tions Signor Rotura assured him
that, as animation must reu aiu
entirely suspended till the ad
ministration of tho antidote, no
water could be drawn inter-the
lungs, and that the immersion
of the body was simply *o bring
it again to a blood-heat. After
about ten minutes of this bath
the body was taken put and
another liquid injected in a punc
ture made in the neck. Mr.
Grant tells me the revival of
“Turk" was the most startling
thing he ever witnessed, and
having since seen the same ex
periment made upon a sheep, I
can fully confirm his statement.
The dog first showed the return
of life in the eye, and w'tcrHfv’
and a half minutes drew a first
long breath and the rigidity left
his limbs. .In a few minutes
mo e he commenced gently wag
ging his toil, and then slowly got
up, stretched himself, and trot
ted off as though nothing had
happened. From that moment
Mr. Grant became aware of the
extraordinary issues opened ljy
his visitor's discovery, and prom
toed him all the assistance in. his
power. They next determined
to try freezing the body, and the
first two experiments wore dis
couraging. A .log (not Turk,
his master declining to exp ri
meiit any further on hie favqrile)
was put in the feezing chamber
at Mr. Grant’s works, after being
previously ‘ suspended” by Sig- ;
nor Rolura; aid although the
animal Revived so far as lo draw
a long broulb, tho vital enetgies
appeared 100 exhausted for a
complete rally, and tlie animal
died. Tho two next animals—a
dog and a cat—died in a iike
manner. In the meantime Dr
Barker had been taken into their
counsels, and at his suggostii n
resperation was encouraged, as
in the case f persons drowned,
by artificial compression of tho
lungs. Dr. Barker was of opin
ion that, as the heart in every
case commenced to boat, it was
a want of vital force to sot the
lungs in motion th <t caused
ilcalli. Tho result showed his
surmises to be 1 entirely' correct.j
A
has boon sealed up in this arli
fivial death, have boon kept in
the freezing chain boa. irom one
to five weeks, and it is found
that though tho shock to the
system from the freezing is very
great, it is not increased by du
ration of time. Messrs. Grant
and Rotura then determined
upon tho erection of the works
j.ist finished al Middle Harbor,
ao ente -pri ing capitalists find
ing the necessary funds.
On Saturday lasi I' was in vi
ted to o,i down to see what bail
been effected. A'niving al tin
works inMidiib Harbor, I was
taken into t lie building tljat con
tains Mr'. Grust’s apparatus for
generating cold. Attached to
tli is is the freezing chamber, a
miiu’l k ark room about eight
feet by ten. Here were fourteen
sheep, four' lamb* and throe pigs,
stacked on’ tlr ir sides in a heap,
alive which Mr. Grant told me
had been in their present posi
tion for nineteen days', and were
to remain there for three months
longer! Sole ting one of the
lambs, Signor Rotru put it on
Ids shoulder and carried it out
side into the other balding,
where were a number of shallow
cemented tanks in the floor,
having hot and cold wat r laps
to eaeli ta k, and a thermome
ter banging alu.gsido. Quo of
these tanks were quickly filled,
and its temperature te.-ted by
tlio Signor, 1 meanwhile exam
ining with the greatest curiosity*
and wonder the nineteen day*
dead latnb. There was the lamb,
to all appearances dead, and as
hard almost as a atone, die only
difference purceplublo lo me be
tween bis condition and actual
death being the absence of dull
glassinoss about the eym, which
Htill retained its brilliant trans
parency. The lainc was drop
ped gently into tbe warm bath,
and was allowed to remain in it
about twenty-three minutes, its
head being raised above wqtor
twice for the introduction of a
thermometer into the mouth,
and then it was taken ' out atid
placed on its side on the floor,
Signor Rotura quickly dividing
the wool on the neck and insett
ing the sliurp point of a sma*ll
•ilver syringe und r tho skin
and injecting the abTidote. This
was a nale green liquid and is, I
belive, a decoction from the root
of tbe astraciiarlis, ' found in
South Amorica. The lamb wa(
tiien turned on its back, Signor
Rotura standing aero-s jt, gently
eompressmg its riW with his
knees and bauds in' such a man
ner as to imitate nafural breath
ing,'" Id ten minutes the animal
waif st ruggling to free itself, and
when released skipped out
•through the door and went garn
ooting and bleating over the lit
tle green in front. Nothing has
ever impressed mo so entirely
with a senso of tho marvel ms.
One is almost temple,d to. ask in
the presence of such a dissovery
whether death itscif may not
ultimately be baffled by scien
tific investigation.
lIY-AND-BY.
In ijg: street of By-tuid-by
of Never—
Dream from deed be must dissever
Who bis fortune here would try!
There's a pathos in the cry
As of impotent endeavor;
In tire street of By-and by
Stands the obarutd-house of Never!
Grave or gallant, low or high.
Dull or dainty, cross or clever.
You must loso your chance forever
If you let it forth to fly
In the 3treet of By-and-by I
REMINISCENCES OF COLUMBIA
COUNTY.
bt as oui urrizax.
S. A. Gibson is the son of Dex
ter Gibson, who immigrated from
Newbern, N C , in 1800, and
bought some 700 acres of land
about throe miles south of Ap
pling, and built up for himsolf
the name of an honest, industri
ous and successful luvmer. By
these habits, and tho maxim that
I ‘‘a penny saved is a penny made,”
lie was rapidly accumulating from
! the virgin soil a handsome pro
porty, when death cut short his
career. Dexter Gibson died in
-5515. I did not know him, but
his brother, who bore the sou
orequet, of “Undo Shade,” an
abreviation, I presume, of Sliad
raeli, ’ho name of ono of those
Ilcbrow characters, who walked
through the fiery furnace, and
emerged therefrom without even
the smell of fire upon his gar
ments. But this happened in the
days of miracles, and I lather
| think Shad# Gibson would not
i have riiadu the venture.
J I lea4-n that, in early life, Shade
Kvao mn as was
*)exrer lie preferred 'to enjoy
life in those ways in w hick money
is required to curry ono along
Ilia motto -.'as “ Dttm vivimus
vivamvs," arid he was ‘•hale fel
low, well mot.” with all Iris
friends. I did not know him un
til lie w as well advanced in years,
and i only knew him as a stay
at-home, good, kind and clever
gent eman. i knew only two of
his ehildr n -Mrs. If lines, now
dead, mother of Mrs. Henry
Merry, of Borzelia, and Mrs.
■Smith Briscoe, who still lives in
this county I knew Mrs. Dex
ter Gibson, being her family phy
sician for several years previous
to her death. ISlio wus one ol
the . ood ones of the earth—the
milt that dio not lose its savor
through life Siio wiis beloved
by all who know her, and well
did she deserve that love. She
was an exemplary member of tbe
Methodist Church lor forty or
filly- years. She died in 1855, at
the advanced age of 70, having
spent a long life of usef loess to
herself, her family and hoi friends.
Having made that preparation
which would secure a home in
the great hereafter, she quietly
and serenely yielded and an
swered to life last call, and her
spirit passi a from earth to its re
ward in Heaven.
She raised five children —Ed-
ward, who I think died in ea ly
muubood; Mrs. Ballard, who by
bnr first marriage '■ us Mrs.
-fVar-sc. - toy 4hrf~ wod hck sli e
bad ibreo sous, of whom Ben has
always lived iu Columbia, except
a few years pissed iu Thomson.
By her second marriage the
raised two sous--Wave utid Ik
Ballard, both living in Columbia
—aod one daughter, who married
and died in early life. Ida Bal
iard was, indeed, an ornatn tit id
her sex, beloved by all, both
whilo and black. I know of no
mother who rained tiro cloveror,
more industrious s ns than did
i!r#. Pearrc. The other sons of
Mts. Dexter Gibson were Job,
Isaac und 8. A. Gibson. Job and
Isaac left Columbia in early man
hood and Bottled in Decatur
county, on the Chattahoochee
river. 8. A. Gibson,tir “Al,” as
ho is called, was the darling of
his mother in hor declining years,
to whom ho was as k'hd and at
tentive as he could bo, and on
her death inherited the old home
stead, whore he now lives ith
bis nice little wife und six chil
dren. And thougi tho frosts of
(12 wintess have silvered his locks
and taken Irbm him the appear
aucc ot youth," it is “Al" Gibson
}6t. He retnained siugle until
about 46, "ami was a guy bachelor
when I came "to the county, near
26 years sg<y. My first acquaint
ance with him ,wa? madoat Madi
son Springs, sometime about 1837
or 1838. , Uo- wps there in com
panyiwith Peter Wright, who
was also a bachelor. And just
hero, friend Jordan, I am tempted
to toll a good joke on Al, that
happened on this trip. I’ll tell
it to you, and if he does eot ob
ject you mqy publish it. Now,
Al is a royal good fellow, full of
jokes, apd, even at this tirno of
life b# never ,comes to Appling
but , one or more of his many
fiends ore obliged to Rtart some
tale just to get him started, when
he comes, back with Ui,s superla
tives, looking as mad as blue
blazes, but .moaning no harm
whatever. But ho don’t scare
worth 8j ccut, and yvhoevcip picks
him up for one that won't fight is
a b!fd judge.pf.hpman nature I
lcno\y, you are fond of a joke. Air.
Editor, and here it is :
As Al and Peter Wright wore
returning home they stopped at
a spring by the roadside,and had
just taken “a smile" from a flask
of good old Bourbon, when a
countryman with an apple' cart
drove up. Al and the stranger
soon got into conversation, and
Al was drawing largely on his
imagination to appear a “big
bug." “1 am just returning from
the springs," said Al," whither I
went for a disease with which 1
suffer.”
“What, kind of disease had
y-ou?" asked the apple man.
“Tbe swelled legs," said Al.
Now, it so happened that
“tights” were tho fashion hen,
end ho was in tho tip of the fash
ion. his i ants so light that a bed
bug or u flea crawling between
them and the skin would have
been in danger of death. Al,
we all know, is not much trou
bled with fat legs, but belongs
rather to tho “lean kitie,” and iu
“tights” would show a scant
pattern of a pair of longs.
“You suy y-ou had tho swelled
legs, Mister f ’’
1 Yes," rep’iod Aj.
“Well, sir, ail 1 have to say is
that you arc the best cured man
I ever saw. 1 think you have
mistaken the locality. Wasn’t it
the SU'ull head, ?"
‘ >ly friend,” said Al, “J think,
by gracious alive (a favorito ex
pression of his), that you’ve got
mo. Come and take a drink.”
In tho good old antebellum
times Al was one of our best-to
do planters. The possessor of
two large I. tided estates, with
slaves, mules, and all kinds of
stock, Al could sit in bis veranda
with his friends—and bo bad
many—and looking over bis
broad acres, luxuriant,with crops,
could say iu truth, “1 am mon
arch of ail 1 survey; my right
there is none to dispute.”
But, alas! in common with
many of his frien is, a great
change lias como over him. The
late war, and its long train of
evils, the loss of his slave pro
perly, depreciation of lands,
scarcity of rhoney and heavy per
cent, lor advances, have told
heavily on his surroundings, and
to-day the labor on ilia farm of
only a few acres is done by him
self and his throe sons. Free) is
about grown,' Roger and John
but lads.
I learn that Al lakes bis hoe
und continues at work, day in
und day out, auriug the erop sea
son! For this 1 think be de
serves praise, for with jfist such
bad fortune as bis many have
bvon driven to desperation. It
is not common for men, after
reaching 62 years, not being" ae
eostomed to lubor, to take the
summer suns and winter freezes,
and become a daily laborer.
ob, for a .bettor day for Al,
and all of us I
A New Theory Regarding Mum
mies.
Havtrg observod that Egyp
tian mummies could be divided
iiito two classes, one embracing
those bodies which had been em
balmed iiit’a t, and the other in
cluding those bodies which had
been oviscora ed, D. Gauselback,
a Swedish chemist of to pile and
Professor of tlis of
Upsal. has f ruled the opinion
thaCthe mummies of the first
oiasi, arc not really dead, but are
only in”a condition of suspended
animation,‘‘though,’ uufortuuato
ly for historians, the secret of
bringing them again to life has
boon lost. V n support of this
the ay be adduces the result ot'
hi* own i - e*euiy:heH and experi
ment , ono'iif d|liicb consists in
submitting a S|^Hte|^KoeesH,
1 *|S ' ’ B'
In this condition it has been
laid aside for u year or two at a
time, and is then restored to life
by some equally mysterious viv
ifying process. This has now
been going on about fifteen
years, and the snake does not
seem to dislike it. D. Gausol
back is said to have applied to
tho Swedish government for
leave to experiment on a con
demned criminal, the under
standing being that if tho experi
ment is successful the criminal
Hhull receive pardon, because of
the service thus rendered to
scicneo and poss.bly to humani
ty-
That Checker-Board.
Up to three evenings ago such
a thing as a checker-board was
never known in Mr. Grattan’s
house. He and bis good part
ner have managed to pass tho
long evenings very pleasantly,
and be supposed they- wero hap
py- enough until a friend from
tho East payed them a flying
visit and asserted over and over
again that the game of chockers
was not only all the rage there,
but that it served to qtrekon tho
perceptive fucult es, enlarge tho
mind and render tHe brairi more
active. After giving the subject,
due thought, Mr. Grattan walk
ed down town and purchased a
checker-board, and when oveu
ing came he surprised his good
wife by bringing it from tho
woodshed and saying:
“Well, Martha, we'll have u
game or two before wo go over
to the social. I expect to boat
you ul 1 to flinders, you won’t
care.”
“Of course not, and if I beat
you, why you won’t care,” she
replied.
They sat down, and ho claimed
the first move. She at once ob
joct, but when he began to grow
red in the face she yielded and
he led off. At the fouiljh move
who jumpod a man, chuckjing as
she raked him in.
“I don't see anything to grin
at,” ho sneered as he moved a
man backwards.
“Here, you can’t move that
way!" she called out.
“I can’ eh? Perhaps I never
played checkers before you wore
born I”
She saw a chance to jump two
more men and gave in the point,
but a- she a ovod he cried out:
“Put them men right back
there! I havo concluded, not to
movo backwards, oven if Hoyle
does permit ill”
She gave in again, hut when
ho jumped a man her nose grew
red and she cried out:
“I didn't moan to move tjiorcj
I was thinking of tho social I"
“Cari’L hqlp tho social, Martha
—wo must go by Hoyle."
In. about two minutes she
jumped two men and went into
the king row shouting:
“Crowu him! crown him! I’ve
got a king!"
“Ono would think by your
! childish actions that you hud
never playod a game before!” he
growled oiit.
“Iknow enough to beat yon!”
“You do, oh? Some folks are
awful smart!”
“And some folks ain’t!" she
snapped, as her king captured
another man.
“What in tho thunder nro yon
jiimpii g that way for?”
“A king can jump any way I”
‘:JSo he can’t!”
“Yes he can!”
“Don't talk back to me, Mar.
tha Grattan! I was playing
checkers when you wore in your
cradle!”
“I don't care! I can Jump two
men whichever way you move!"
Ho looked down on tbe board,
saw that such was tho cuso, and
roared out:
“You've moved twice to my
oncel”
“I haven’t!”
“I’ll take my oath you bavel
I can't play against any such
blaek-leg practice*!"
“Wlio’s a blaeU-lcg. You not
only cheated, but tried to lio out
of it.!’
Board and checkers foil be
tween them. He could get on
his hut quicker than she could
find her bonnet, and that was
the only reuseq why ho got out
of the house,first. A Woodward
avenue grocer toiin-l Urn sitting
or a basket ot cranberries at the
door as hp was closin up fir,
the night, and asked him if„h.
was waiting for bis wife to come
along
“We’ll not exactly; T stopped
bore to feel in my' pocket for the
key of,the barn. I shall sleep
on tlpp hay to night and se if it
won’t euro this uold in my head.”
y - Detriot Ftt* Pres*.
No. 16.
An Enraged Female.
“Household Departments," are
very good adjuncts to a newspa
per in -heir way, when edited by
a woman, but tbo muto journal
ist who dabbles with the heuvenk
inspirod mysteries of cooking
runs a frightful risk. Tho editor
of the Weekly Petaluma Peaviuo
started a column Of that kind re
cently, and a few dayq after
wards a fiereo-looking female
came into the office, carefully
concealing somo object behind
her apron.
“Are you the man that pub;
lished that new and improved
way to make currant cake?”
He said he was.
“\ou said to mix washiug
soda w-ilh tbe Hour, and stir in %
little corn meal and sweet oil to
give it consistency 7"
“I —l—believe so." ,
“And to add fifteen egge and
somo molasses, and two ounce*
of gum arabio, and sot it iu a
cool place to bake?”
“I think that was it.”
“Well, take tflat then!”
the indignant hou-ewife knocked
him down with a weapon that
felt like a sand club, but which,
ho felt in his heart must have
boen a half baked hunk of cake,
constructed on the Pea vine pat
tern.
Dansror of Disturbing a Sleeping
Beauty.
An exchange relates that a
lady was sloopiug in a berth on a
Hudson River Railroad train a
few evenings since, with oqq
hand , hanging peacefully out
over a |oop in the curtain. Aj
Troy drummer thought he would;
have some i tin, and poiz and hold
of the (land nnd shook it most
cordially, “Good-bye, old boy,
good-bye; can’t bo with you a| r
ways, you know; givo my love
to the folks, and don’t fail to call'
and see us whon you come to
town.” Hero tho facetious,,
drummer was kuockotl plear
acro s tho car by a
blow from tho disongagod hand
of tho occupant of tho berth.
After picking himself tip and
pulling bis nose around to its
proper place, he offered to bet
a week’s siilury Hint the fellow
in that berth,was a price fighter.
This excited some curiosity on
ijhat pointj aiu) the berth wss
Closely watched. .Susan B. An
thony turned out of it in tho
morning.
Two hundred and fifty cow*,
have lately died of pneumonia ia
Washington city and Alexandria.
Tho corner stone of a Confed
erate monument was recently
laid in Capitol Square. Columbia,
S.O.
Andrew p* White, president of,
Cornell university, N. Y., has
been appointed minister to Ger
many by Hayes,
Col. Robert G. Ingcrsoll saye
he is tlio only man in the coun
try who lias read tho biblo
through in the past year.
It was a tough gardener of 70
wh“ fell from a New Haven tree
and.smashed an iron fohee, but
was not much Imrt himself.
Miller of Baltimere, .beat Mc-
I.ougblin of Detroit at Baltimore
2jjtb ult., in aw; catling match
lor the championship’ of the
world. :., r -Ak.. -
Contributions tq.ward erecting
a school.houso somewhere in tho
South have ceased in Brattle
boro, Vt. f spice tlie eloquent leo
turor got drunk with the money
that he had obtained.
Toledo has a wealthy and
fashionable shoplifter. An argu.
mont in her defense as a klepto
maniac is that she had a prayer
.book in one hand when caught,
with a stoleu piece of silk in tho
other.
A telegraph operator sent a mon
sage from Boston to Springfield
for accommodation* for twenty
“prisoners” instead of “persons,”
und the consequence was that a
travelling drumatiu con pauy
wus received at the railroad by a
party of deputy sheriffs.
A Bridgeport woman declared
tb >t she would whip tbe girl
with whom she caught her hus
band walking in tbe street, and
did it. She also said she would
scratch the husband’s eyes ont,
and tried to do it. Then she
started for the water, declaring
she would drown hohself, but.
didn’t do it.