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VOL. XVII.
The little persimmon-tree.
A little persimmon-tree stood in the road,
Oh fair to see!
tike Topsy it “never was born but it growed,’’
This little persimmon-tree.
By soft winds nurtured, by sweet dews fed, ’
tta bright leaves trembled in constant dread,
Lest some wicked caitiff should cut off its
head,
Poor little persimmon-tree!
“It has corner’ said the little tree, one day,..
Oh fair to see!
“Good-by, oh bonny blue sky, for aye,”
Sad little persimmon-tree!
For a man dug round it with might and
main,
Till it nearly died with the terrible strain,
And feared it should never look up again,
Poor little persimmon-tree!
But it woke next morn in a garden grand,
Oh fair to see!
And it felt the touch of a master's liana,
This little persimmon- tree J
Budding from Japanese seedlings rare,
Cutting skilfully here and there,
Till the little tree marveled how much it
could bear,
Dear little persimmon-tree!
Years passed—it had grown to a goodly
height,
Oh fair to see! •
And the crimson fruit was a woudrous sight,
On this stately persimmon-tree,
And it blushed when tho master its story
told,
And said ’twas to him worth its weight in
gold,
And had paid for his labor a hundred-fold,
This noble persimmon-tree!
I could point a moral, but is there need?
Oh fair to see!
And a moral some people don’t care to read,
Whether of man or tree.
But you understand, if you don’t, I do,
That a little, unlovely child to view,
Can with culture become quite as wise as
you,
And even more fruitful l>e.
•"•Mary .4. Denison , in Youth's Companion.
FORTUNES FAVORITE.
He was a happy-go-lucky fellow, my
Uncle, Colonel Edouard Griffard. He
was ever ready to risk his life, to take
any chance, and chance seemed always to
favor him. Among his comrades he was
known as Fortune's favorite.
At the age of forty he was Colonel of
a regiment of Hussars, and an olHcer ok
tho Legion of Honor. He had an in
come of six to
!i\
P"MI i- Mil
1; MM
l.'yll :•. ' 1 :mi
fine ai-’.l. Hi
, ueci'i
mur the fatigues and pmmions of a cam
paign, and enjoying to their full the
pleasures-nnd advantages of life in garri
-1011. Ho had fought in the Crimea, in
Africa, Italy and Mexico, escaping with
only two insignificant scratches. He had
an iron constitution, that enabled him to
endure suffering that would have killed
an ordinary man.
Such was my uncle Edouard when, in
1869, it was our fortune to be in camp
together at Chalons, where his regiment,
which had been decimated by yellow
fever, had been ordered.
He was not more than six years my
senior, and he loved me as though I was
a younger brother.
One day I was dining at his mess, and
while we were over our coffee the Sergeant
entered and handed him a letter. He
looked at the superscription and knitted
his brow s, and a shadow- seemed to flit
over his handsome face.
“Excuse me,” he said.
He tore open the envelope, from which
fell the photograph of a young woman.
With a quick movement he picked up the
photograph, and gazed at it a moment
with a look of admiration. Then, hand
ing it to me, he said:
“It is Suz.anne. She is right, poor girl.
I ought to have informed her of my ar
rival.”
Then he handed me the letter, sayiug:
“What progress she has made 1”
“.Why, of course!” I replied, “she is
seventeen years old( you forget that.”
I read the letter, which was as follows:
Oka k Guaruian —ls it right for you
to act thus toward a poor little prisoner who
has only you in the world arid who loves you
so much? Only one paltry letter since your
departure for Mexico! And I have had to re*
eeive from one of the Sisters of the Convent
the news of your return to Prance. For the
pset eight days every time I have heard the
bell announcing the arrival of a visitor I have
thought it was you who had come to seo me.
But I was always mistaken. The visit was
always for some of the other girls, sisters of
the officers who have made this campaign
with you—this campaign during which I
have wearied heaven with prayers for your
protection. Fortunately 1 shall pass a part
of my vacation with your Bister. Come and
see me at her house, and sacrifice a little of
your time to your little Susanna.”
From that time my uncle was not the
jovial man he had formerly been.
Whe he received that letter it was
nearly time for the summer vacation, and
his Bister, my aunt, had invited Mile. Su
lanne to spend it with her and her
daughters.
“Ah! yes, they make rapid progress,
these young girls! The little girl who
was lank and awkward in short skirts,
whose complexion was dingy and whose
hands were red, becomes a beautiful se
ductive creature, with golden hair and a
sylph-like form, like that of Psyche, an
incarnation of the spirit of spring time.
We both obtained leave of absence in
order that we might visit my aunt, who
had a beautiful estate in the valley of
Chevreuse.
Soon after our arrival at my aunt’s
home I noticed that whenever my uncle
was in the presence of Suzanne he was
cold and reserved. At times he would
pass his hand over his forehead, as though
his thoughts troubled him. Every morn
ing by 5 o’clock he was on horseback,
and it was often 10 before he returned,
his horse always showing signs of having
been ridden hard.
Suzanne's position was well known in
the family. An old friend of my uncle, a
Captain in the Third Cuirassiers, had, on
his death-bed, named him in his will as
the guardian of his daughter Suzanne,
then a girl of eight years, a pupil in a con
vent.
THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1889.
One morning my uncle aroused me early.
Two saddled horses were waiting for us,
and I accompanied him in his daily ride.
Wc were riding side by side when, sud
denly turning toward me, he said:
“Why do you not marry?”
I laughed and repll :
“Because I have not eared to do so.
And you?
“Ah, I? lam too old. What do you
think of Suzanne?
“She is one of the most beautiful and
fascinating girls I have ever met.”
“Very well, I wish you to marry her.”
I looked him full in the eyes. He was
confused.
“That is not true,” I said. “You
love her.”
Ho laughed with a A>rced laugh as he
replied:
“Nonsense! my srd! Why, lam
twenty-three years older than she! I
would be mad to think of marrying her.”
“I do not know whether or not you
,*re mad, but I know, my dear uncle,that
you are trying to deceive yourself.”
“It is not so,” he, answored. “If I
thought it was generally supposed that I
wished to marry her 1 would leave this
place at once.”
“All, well, let us say no more about
it,” I said.
During breakfast I observed my uncle
and Suzanne, llcr manner toward him
was winsome and attentive, while he was
reserved and severe.
After breakfast, as the morning was
beautiful, we all wont into the garden.
As we were leaving the house I told Su
zanne that I wanted a few words with her,
and wo walked apart from tho others.
She became a litllA pale ns she ex
claimed :
“Ah l already l”
I perceived that my uncle was coating
a dafk lodk toward us. It was Suzanne
who first spoke.
“My guardian,” sin said, “told me of
his plans yesterday. Ido not know'
w hether or not you agree with him: bnt,
before you tell lue, I wish to say that 1
shall only marry a man whom I love, and
I do not love you."
“I thank you for your frankness,” I
replied. “I do not, however, agree with
my uncle, and I approve of your senti
ments. I cannot why he
should be so anxious for us to marry."
“It is uot difficult to understaud,” she
answered. “He wishes to rid himself of
a troublesome ward, as ho himself desires
to marry. He evidently loves some
woman. But why doesn’t he marry und
leave me by myself? I will not trouble
I can remain us a teacher in the
HBklini studying. That
In n 1 t-r oft i In .
|-li 1 1 ■ i . o him
nothing
SiH‘ did mnnltlifh the sentence; a sob
choked her. Thoji, suddenly turning
from me, she ran dbwn into the garden,
leaving me standing alone.
“How she loves him.” I exclaimed.
That evening I went to my uncle’s
chamber and related the scene to him.
He was pale as a spectre,
“You have done a bad thing,” ho said.
“How so, since I have revealed you to
each other and shown you how to be
happy?”
“Happy!" exclaimed my uncle. “I
tell you that I would be a monster if I
should marry Suzanne I”
I was dumbfounded. He made me
promise that Suzanne should never know
what he was about to reveal to me. I
felt tiiat I was growing as' pale as my
uncle.
“Do you know how the father of
Suzanne died?” he asked. “Do you
know that?”
His emotion was terrible to see; he
trembled like a leaf.
“I killed him I Do you hear? He was
killed, and I was his slayer. And I love
his daughter with a passion that is kill
ing me—that is my horrible expiation—
Oh 1 yeß, I know the duel was fair. I
challenged him. lie was an old wran
gler, jealous and envious. Ho was ill
favored, disagreeable and had no chance
of advancement. I was handsome, popu
lar, and rose rapidly in the service; I
was envied; I was Fortune’s favorite.
He insulted me. Fortune’s favorite to
tlie last, I killed him. Fortune’s favorite
to the last, I love his daughter and she
loves me. Hut we cuimot join hands over
the dead body of her father. On his
death-bed he called rot to him and gave
me his written testament in which he
made me the guardian of his daughter,
who was henceforth aluno in the world;
and as lie gave it to mo he said:
“ ‘You havo killed the father; you
will watch over the child.’ ”
In less than n year from the time my
uncle told me of hia duel with Suzanne’s
father, the battle of Wmrth was fought.
Our forces were in retreat, and we were
approaching Niederbronn. I was gallop
ing beside my battery, doing my utmost
to save my guns.
“Make way there! make way I” cried
my guides to a troop of hussars who were
crossing our path.
I recognized the regiment by the color
of their uniform. I put spurs to my
horse and hastened forward. In the
centre of the group I recognized my poor
uncle Edouard; he was pale, bleeding,
dying, supported in his saddle by a few
of his hussars.
On entering Niederbronti I ordered a
a halt before the house of a physician,
who was a distant relative elf our family.
I had my uncle taken injto the house,
where many of the wounded soldiers had
already been received. t
The doctor shook his htad as he ex
amined him. The Colonel had received
a terrible wound from a lance that had
pierced his breast. I wept.' holding my
uncle’s hand, which was already growing
cold. I felt his pulse flutter. I raised
his head. He gave me a glance which I
understood. I put my ear %o his lips.
“If yon escape,” he murmured, “tell
Suzanne that I die loving / her; but tell
her nothing more. Reniember your
promise.”
Then his chest heaved twice—and all
was over. I mounted my Horse and gal
loped away,
Suzanne lias never married. Slie is a
teacher iu the convent in which she was
educated. Slie knows that my uncle
loved her; but she knows not how hei
father died. She is happy in her memo*
Hes. —The Epoch.
Domestication of the Buffalo.
Regarding, then, the buffalo as an
animal well worthy conserving, what are
his good and bad points? First of all,
lie is hardy, not. liable to disease, and on
the plains of the American and Canadian
Northwest he can forage in deep snow
and live in the open air all winter long.
His meat brings nearly as good a price as
beef. ITis robe is worth $25 to S4O; and
his head taxidermized, thanks to the
decorative tastes of sportsmen, fetches
as much as the robe, or even more. So
much for the credit side of the account;
now for the debit. The buffalo is a
strong brute, and of a temper at times so
fierce that bis domestication is a task not
seldom accompanied by decided hazard.
Ordinary fences arc as gossamer to a
buffolo bull, especially during the irritable
years when he is past his prime and finds
himself less attractive than of yore. Still,
the example of well-bcliaved domestic
cattle, with which buffaloes readily
amalgamate, is very effective. It is not,
however, in mere domestication, but in
cross-breeding, that the buffalo’s value
consists. In pairing a buffalo bull and
domestic cow the young are brought forth
without any unusual percentage of loss
being sustained. The offspring combines
good points of sire and dam. It haa
nearly all its sire’s hardiness and strength,
and so much of its dam’s tractibility as
to be well suited for draught purposes.
When killed, the net weight of its car
cass exceeds that of a buffalo’s, while the
meat is better. Such a carcass lias been
knowij f;b Weigh as much af 1100 pounds
net. Its robe is much raorfe valuable that!
the buffalo’s; for its fur, instead of be
ing chiefly bunched at the mane, is evenly
distributed over the hide, and is much
finer in oViality—its present value being
from SSO to $75. A buffalo paired with
a half-breed cow produces an animal quite
as hardy as its sire, but not quite so large.
Experiments of much interest are in
progress with various strains of domestic
cattle, the outcome promising to be per
haps only less important than the original
domestication, and subseqent molding, of
horses and cattle from their primitive
wild forms. Popular Science Monthly .
Trained Nurses.
The service of trained nurses lias now
grown Into an essential part of the more
scientific sue! careful medical practice in
serious cases. The nurses are in constant
demand,especially those who have gained
a little standing. Their salary is S2O a
.week " HI, 1 ~.,1.
t.ion furnishes nti "ftpirTflflffllyTJifliiij
wfiuian of the proper qualifications tc
earn a good living,
Tlie successful nurse, however, musl
combine a number of excellent traits. Slit
must be wi 11 and strong, intelligent, ol
good judgment,expertiu "fixing things,”
agreeable in a sick room, reliable and
conscientious. Her work is often severely
trying to the nerves and temper and to
her powers of resource.
The classes at the Bellevue school turn
out about twenty nurses each year. Then
there are several other schools, from all
of which the graduates amount to about
100. This is, of course, apart from tin
religious nurses in the Catholic system.
The nuns who devqte themselves to the
sick make admirable nurses,and are often
Sought for I>y invalids of all faitlis and ol
no faith at all. There are no sects in
sickness.
Said a physician to a New York Sun
reporter: “The modern professional
nurse has had an important effect on the
practice of medicine. Often we are justi
fied in a treatment where a nurse in em
ployed that is impracticable otherwise.
The nurse is able to carry out orders
which must be intelligently obeyed or the
result will bo tragic. Hence in many
eases the treatment will depend on the
presence of a competent professional
nurse. The ordinary conduct of a ease,
such as stated hypodermic injections,
taking the pulse, temperature, respira
tion, etc., may he intrusted to her, and
her scheduled reports furnish us with a
reliable history.
“The good nurse lends a hard life. TANARUS(
isn’t half as romantic as it reads in story
books op looks on the stage. Hut in
hundreds of homes all over town this
night, she is giving comfort and saving
life. She earns her salary about as
honestly as any one in tlie community.”
Fanners’ Houses in Japan.
Tlie native house of the Japanese
farmers is a shell-like affair, built up off
the ground, with sliding paper screens
for walls, and with no facilities for heat
ing excepting the little charcoal braziers
by which they warm their hands, while
the feet are kept warm by sitting on
them. The only furniture of the house
are the thick rice mats or matting, which
cover the floor, and in the better houses
the cases of drawers for clothrog and the
low tea or writing tables. Chairs and
sofas are unknown, so that sitting on the
floor is the only alternative, and this can
not easily lie done in leather boots and
trousers or in tlie dress of western women.
Nor fcnn the Japanese afford to ruin these
soft mats by walking over them in shod
feet, and so the wooden sandal that can
be slipped off at the door is preferable.
The light walled, airy, unheated houses
necessitate wadded clothing in winter,and
this can only be comfortably secured in
the loose obi and kumflfift bffhe’Japanese
costume. In striking proof of the
superior comfort of the native dress ie
the fact that native men and women who
wear the foreign dress at their businest
during the day exchange it for the Japan
ese dress as soon as they enter theii
homes.
Elaboration in house and dress would
involve extra labor and strength and
a consequent charge of diet.
In addition to the fish and rice, bread
and meat would be necessary. These
would mean greater outlay and unless the
money-making resources of Japan were
correspondingly developed western civili
zation would only increase the wretched
ness of the country. — Mail and Exp, rets.
NO. 22.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
A lion lives twenty years.
Garter snakes are harmless.
Charlie Ross was lost in 1874.
Opal is worth sls to S4O per carat.
Mystic, Conn., boasts of a singing
rat.
Brazil lias a prohibitory tariff on hand
organs and monkeys.
A cat nineteen years old belongs to
N. B. Shaw, Area, N. Y.
Fatjo is the peculiar name of one of
the trustees of San Jose, Cal.
The average weight of a carload of
freight is about 20,000 pounds.
A snake with two distinct heads, both
perfect, was recently killed by John
Dennett, of Santa Cruz, Cal.
Anew industry in Hackettstown, N.
J., is the manufacture of “beef lard.” It
is made from pure beef suet.
A head of cabbage, grown by George
Berry, near Pensacola, Fla., measured
twenty-five inches in diameter.'
The library of the British Museum will
not hereafter supply novels to readers
until five years after publication.
Experiments in France make it appear
that the safest and easiest way to shin
and store milk is in a frozen state.
The so-called antique oak is ordinary
American oak sawed in a peculiar way,
and stained to look like the old English
oak.
A florist at Lancaster, Penn., has so
improved the dandelion that he has pro
duced specimens twenty inches in di
ameter.
Mineral paint of various hues has
been discovered on the borders of Bayou
Chico, in Florida. It has the appearance
of clay.
A white oak tree recently felled near
Baraboo, Wis., measured nearly seven
teen feet in girth, and was more than 100
feet iu height.
A curiously twisted root of an oak tree,
exhibited at Punta Gorda, Fla., is said
to show all the letters of the alphabet in
its convolutions.
Hamilton Disston says that there are
villages of 2000 inhabitants on ol
his Florida lands which two years age
were two feet under water.
Mrs. Nathaniel Noyes, of Stonington,
Conn., found upon the beach near the
Latimer Reef Lighthouse, u diamond
ring that was recognized as lost by C. P.
Noyes just twenty-three years ago.
The eats, dogs and poll-parrots of
England having been properly provided
for, a hospital for fish has now been es
tablished. Fish are much exposed to
dampness, and would
A floating saw mill is iu use at Flor
ence, Wls/ The boat is 40x80 feet in
size, and draws seventeen inches of water.
The mill hands live aboard, and the boat
is moved along the river to where there
is a fine lot of timber near the banks.
The Texas umbrella tree is becoming a
favorite for shade and ornamental pur
poses in California. It is a large and
beautiful tree, resembling an umbrella iu
the spread of its foliage, which is so dense
that it affords perfect protection from
either rain or sun.
James Crumb, of Lyons, Kansas,
dreamed that his brother, who lived in
Western Kansas, was in some terrible
danger. He hastened to his brother’s
home, and not finding him began a
search. He soon found him in a well
nearly dead from exhaustion. had
been there three days, and must soon
have perished.
When an Irish-born workman in the
employ of the city, or of a contractor in
New York city, is killed or disabled,
leaving a dependent family, his friends
get up a ball in his benefit, and it yields
anywhere from SSO to $l5O. The money
to pay the lawyer’s fees for defending a
criminal is often raised in the same way.
Such entertainments are almost entirely
unknown among Germans, nearly all of
whom belong, or have relatives who be
long, to some benevolent social lodge.
Causes of Sudden Death.
Sudden deaths are most frequent, ac
cording to the I.anef t.. when tlie condi
tions of life change suddenly, or are espe
cially liable to change- and this without
necessary reference to whether the change
effected be relatively for tlie better or for
t lie worse; for the change may lie so rap
idly effected, in either direction, as to
throw upon the circulatory and respira
tory functions a strain which the organs
are not able to bear. In this way, per
sons with unsound or weak hearts or
weak arteries die suddenly under rapid
changes, although, if there were no special
strain consequent on the change, it would
in itself prove advantageous to them. It
may be accepted that sudden deaths are
especially likely to occur at periods of
seasonal change, and at times when rapid
variations of temperature are taking
place.
Peking’s Predominant Peculiarity.
Above all other characteristics of Peking
one tiling stands out in horrible promi
nence. Not to mention it would be to
wilfully omit the most striking color of
tlie picture. I mean its filth. It is the
most horribly and indescribably filtiip
place that can be imagined. Indeed im
agination must fall far short of the fact.
There is no sewer or cesspool, public or
private, but the street; the dog, tlie pig
and the fowl are the scavengers; every
now and then you pass a man who goes
along tossing the refuse into an open
work basket on his back; the smells are
simply awful.— Washington Star.
Cunning Seekers for Tips.
"Women in the west end of London go
about armed with small squirt guns filled
with dirty water, with which they slyly
soil the coats or dresses of persons whom
they pass. Then they meet the persons,
md, with elaborate bows, beg pardon for
ailing attention to the fact that the dress
jr coast is splashed, and offer to wipe it
off with a clean white apron. Nine times
out of ten the trick brings a generous
tin.
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THE OLD VANE.
Creak-a-ty-creak! I
Tlio’ skies bo blue orpSMjf 'UN
Hero, from my perch, a
To all who glance my way.
Flushed by the morning’s earliest light,
Before the town’s astir,
Kissed by the starry beams of night
With every wind I whir.
Ever a message true I speak,
Creak-a-ty-creak! Creak-a-ty-creak!
Creak-arty-cr oak 1 Creak-a-ty-crea k I
The farmer heeds me well;
Over the fields, his hay to sftek,
He hies, when rain I tell.
Slave of the breeze; yet tyrant I
To those who watch below;
Joy or regret, a smile or sigh.
Uncaring, I bestow.
Ever a messago true I speak,
Creak-a-ty-creak? Creak-a-ty-creak!
Creak-a-ty-creak I Creak-a-ty-creak 1
I watch tho snow-elves weave;
Keen arrow's of the rain so bleak,
Sim lances I receive.
All’s one to me; my task I do,
Untiring, year by year;
A lesson may this be to you
Whose glances seek we here!
Ever a message true I speak,
Creak-a-ty-creak 1 Creak-a-ty-creak!
—George Cooper , in Independent.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Dressed hens look chic.
Late habits—Night gowns.
A head gardener—The barber.
Court plasters—Awards for damages.
Words of wait—“ Bring that bill next
week.”
Waiter’s epitaph—He couldn’t wait
any longer, so he went.
Better to be a loan than in bad com
pany was not written of our umbrellas.—
Life.
Even the tiger is not without affection.
He is very much attached to his paw and
maw.
Girls who use powder don’t go off any
quicker than those Who don’t. —Boston
Courier.
The homely girl is seldom mentioned,
and the pretty one is also seldom men
shun’d.
The railway sandwich is an instance
where they never succeed in making both
ends meat.
Even the most unemotional man can’t
contain himself when he goes to sea.—
Terre Haute Euprm.
A Stray Thought.—De Few'—“l have
an idea.” Van Riper—“ Can’t you find
the owner.”— Munsey's Weekly.
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The highest office in the gift of the
President is that of Postmaster at Mineral
Point; Col. It is 12,000 feet above the
seaoevci.— Norristown Herald.
The pretty young misses at church fairs
ire continually laying themselves liable
xi arrest on the cliarge of robbing the
males. —Bochcstcr Post-Express.
Though a maiden’s voice be squeaky,
Yet it cannot lie disowned,
That the dollars of her daddy
Make it very stiver toned.
—Detroit Free Press.
A Born Grumbler.—“l am the uu
luckiest man living. Here X find a piece
of money, and it is only a nicklc. If
iny one else had found it, it would have
been a quarter.”
She—“lsn't Miss Ambler a perfect
daisy?" Mr. Jonathan Trump- “Yes,
they are all daisies, but after awhile they
lose their petals in tlie game of ‘love me,
love me not.’ ’’ — lAfe.
“It is tlie partings in this world that
give us pain,” sadly sings a poet. It is
the meetings too. If you don’t believe
this, ask the man who has a note to
meet.— Barton Courier.
The old-time rushlight was even dim
mer than parlor gas. Still, the young
men of those days were very well satisfied
vffth it and didn’t call early to avoid the
rush.— Terra Haute Gazette..
“You say your son is a painter, Mrs.
Browne. Is he a landscape painter?"
“No, I think not. His last job was on
the Galway flat house. He is more of a
fire-escape painter.”— Harper's Bazar.
“You appear to be in good health,”
said a prison visitor to a convict. “It is
only in appearance, sir,” replied the con
vict, “for the fact is I am confined to my
room more than half the time.”— Siftings.
A busy doctor of Scranton, Penn., sent
in a certificate of death to the health
officer, and inadvertently placed his name
in the space for “cause of death.” This
is what might be called accidental exact
ness.—OJUeago Herald.
All Beady.
When war was declared by Fiance
against Germany Von Moltke was seri
ously ill. The king got the news iate
in the evening and went to consult the
Count, whom he found asleep. The
Count was aroused, when the King in
formed bim that war was declared.
“With whom?” asked the General.
“With France.” was the reply. “The
third portfolio on the left,” was nil the
; Count vouchsafed to say, and lie fell
1, asleep immediately.