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IJv Itrniieh.
“It am my solemn clooty to inform
cluK” said I3ro*li r Onrilncr, “1 >t do
Branch ol*il sit Groen lUy, known ns de
‘Wnite FUvaq Branob, No. 32/has been
disft. ud.-d, I returned from dat i>lnc<*
) s* i:i i<s nrtor an < flidml visit of inspc.ck
shun axed fur By de Mayor, Common
Council an* varionn odder piusona. T)e
results of did inspcckshmi am an 1824
Wfirnin* fur us to slow in de matter of
p .M.fin' charter to branch lodges.
“In m-kin* appltcnshnn fur a ohsvrter
it v,..s undersD od dat do White Swans
i!d start OR will flirep jedg'es, two
elders, six colonels, two trustees, fo’pur
f< ssors an' two co*n doctors. I diskib
cr and dat outer de sixteen charter mem
bers dar* was only one single pusson
wid a title. He claimed to be a pur-
Tees or, an’ ho am now in jail on charge
rf steal in*. Our conatitnehnn says dat
no fee shall be charged for initiatin’
members. Dis branch lodge took in
sixty-four members at a fee of two dol
lars per head, an’ de money was used to
play policy an* buy lottery tickets.
Under pretense ob bein’ a chartered so
•]- tv. orgfti')iz"d fur de good ob mankind
i;i i; ' ra!, it heaped up a debt of ninety
iars in three months; it stole twenty
two hums; it got away wid six hundred
Dickens; it friii cull’d society sich a twist
dat de wife of a man aimin’ seventy-five
cents a day wanted a twenty-two-dollar
bonnet or death.
“When J arrove nt Green Bay an’
called upon de President of de White
Swans he almoo’ convinced me dat all
derogatory reports had bin started by
jealous-minded white pnssoiis. I hap
pened, however, to fall in wid a butcher
who had lest six hams an’ had sot a trap
in his smoke-house to cotch stragglers.
T hi t up wid him till midnight, at which
hour we went out an’ found de Presi
dent of de branch lodge in de trap, wid
de Secretary arid Treasurer disappearin’
i.: de distance.
“f D mien, we Ims rushed too fast. In
de fucbnr. when a branch axes dis club
fur a charter, miffia* of de sort mus’ be
<r ;ut< and until arter a moas’ rigid inwesti
■ ;n has bin made. We mtis’ not be
s.-distied wid weekly' reports, but some
member of dis club mus’ be sent out on
a -erut. Our cause has received a blow
in G'een Bay from which it may be
v’ars in recoverin’, an’ it am all onr own
fuTilf. Let us now pnrceed to rontine
l u-:nes: .”—Detroit Free Frets.
The Philadelphia Call thinks a baby
wi’hoat a head is the kind of one to have
j . Ijous®. That paragrapher has no
i . < ! M know that such a thing is
" j; ' : The baby gets ahead
< • v/n e fa.milv.
Saltt.—The sea holds 60 000,000,-
000.000 tons of salt, Should the sea be
dried up there would lie a deposit of salt
over the entire bottom 420 feet deep,
and if the salt were spread on the land
jt would cover it 000 feet deep.
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VOL XL
THE WAY OF THE WOULD.
There sate a crow on a lofty tree,
Watching the world go by ;
Ilf* saw a throng that swept along
With laughter loud and high.
“In and out through the motley rout,”
Pale ghosts stole on unseen,
Their hearts were longing for one sweet
word
Of the love that once had been.
Jhil never a lip there spoke their names,
Never a tear was shed;
The ormv looked down from his lofty tree.
“ T'is the way of the world,” he said.
A singer stood in the market-place,
Singing a tender lay.
But no one heeded his sorrowful face,
No one had time to slay.
He turned away ; lie sang no more ;
How could he sing in vain?
And theu the world eame to his door
Bidding him sing again.
But he reeked not whether they came or
went
He in his garret lay dead;
The crow looked down from his lofty tree.
“Tis the way of the world,” he said.
There sate a Queen by a cottage boil,
Spoke to the widow there;
Did she not know the same hard Mow
The peasant had to hear?
And she kissed that humble peasant's brow,
And then she bent her knee ;
“God of the widow, help her now,
As Tlion hast helped me.”
“ Now God be thanked,” said the old, old crow,
As lie sped from his lofty bough;
“ The times are ill, but there's much good stil
In the way of the world, I trow.”
Railway I l<-ro<\-
[From the Youth’s Companion.]
Coal-dust, cinders, oil and smoke usu
ally make firemen on duty rather primy
looking personages. Perhaps few among
the thousands who ride in the railroad
cars behind us would care for our ac
quaintance. But we are useful—as use
tul, perhaps, ns any other class of men;
and certainly we have our full share of
the hard, disagreeable things in life, in
cluding frequent peril and much expos
ure to weather.
Working up from fireman to engine
driver—or "engineer" as we are usually
called in this country is often a slow
process. There are men on our line—
the Hudson River railroad—who have
been firing eleven years, with no promo
tion yet; though they are no doubt fully
competent to run an engine. For pro
motion depends almost w holly npon va
cancies occurring, or some special influ
ence at headquarters.
A man ought to become familiar with a
locomotive in eleven years. I thought I
knew every screw in mine after firing
two years. Yet it takes a good deal oi
time to learn to fire well, so as to get the
most Steam out of the least fuel, and
have the highest pressure at the grades
where it is most needed. To do this a
man should know the road, every rod 01
it, as well as the engine.
Then comes the oiling. An engine re
quires a great deal of oil, as well as coal
and water. The fireman has to keep in
mind all those scores of bearings where
oil has to he applied. Between oiling,
shoveling in coal, shaking and stirring
up his fire—to keep it steady and hot—
and looking to his stock of coal and wa
ter, he is kept busy, and must needs
watch sharply. But a man gets these
duties well fixed in his head in time.
Jt is while “firing" that (he practical
knowledge of running an engine is
gained. A fireman is the groom, so to
speak, of the "iron horse." Ho must,
morning and evening, have the engine
polished, "fired up,” and ready for his
superior, the engineer, to stop into the
cab and start off. Usually tho engineer
does not make his app< aranee till the
moment of connecting with the train.
Between the engineer and his fireman
there generally exists an easy-going and
manly sort of friendship, though I have
known cases where the two men detest
ed each other,
When Ila gan to fire under "Doc”
Simmons, I scarcely knew enough to
build a good fire in a cook-stove, and
cauld not have found a quarter of the
oil-caps. I must have been a trial to
him the first week or two. But he never
gave a sharp word, though he often had
to tell me tilings over and over again.
"Doc’’—as the railway men all called
him— was a superior engineer. He knew
every pound of metal in a locomotive;
just where it lay, and how much it was
good for. He was one of those men
who seem to feel just what there is in a
locomotive the moment lie takes hold of
tiie levers and starts up. He was a
good-hearted fellow, and always had a
pleasant word or a joke all along the
line, and it is generally the case that
such men do not fail the company or tho
public at a critical moment.
I went home and cried like a baby the
day "Doc” was killed. If it had been
my own father I could not. have felt half
as badly, I actually wished that I had
gone to the bottom of the river with
him.
It was the night of the 6th of February,
and fearfully cold. We had "No, 117”
then, and took out the Pacific Express,
as it was called, from New York city,
up the line to Albany. It was a bitter
night, and the line was frosty and slip
pery.
The express was always a heavy train.
That night we had three baggage and
express cars end eight passenger
coaches, and we were late out of New
York, to begin with—about fifteen min
utes, T think.
Such cold weather is always demoral
izing to a railroad. It is much harder
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 1-1, 1884.
! to make time; all metal works bad, and
though the fireappeors to burn brighter,
it takes more coal to make steam. The
train seems to hang to the line. Then,
too, the cutting wind is enough to freeze
| the marrow in a man’s bones.
It might have been mostly fancy on
my part, but I thought "Doc” had au
j odd look iu his fnco that night, ns he got
into the cab. He was more serious than
usual, for we both knew wo had a hard
| run before ns, and a cold one. Both of
| us were muffled up in fur caps and old
I overcoats.
"Shove in tho coal, Nick, and shake
her down smnrt. We want every ounce
lof steam to-night," says Poe. "Fifteen
j minutes behind and cloven cars on 1
Those sleoping-ooaehos are as heavy as
! a whole block, too. I’m glad this
is a double-truck line, and all clear
j ahead,”
| We pulled out, and from tho way Doc
i handled her, I knew that ho meant to
j pick up that fifteen minutes, if it was in
j the olil machine to do it, 1 suppose we
made thirty miles an hour—perhaps
j forty—on the level stretches.
On we went, reding oil the dark,
’'leak miles, with the sharp wind cutting
’ iuto tho cab, till near New Hamburg
j station, where the lino then crossed
| Wappinger creek on a trestle bridge
! which had a "draw” in it. It was a
| comfort to think that tho draw would
! certainly lie open on such a night, for
j the creek was frozen up.
Ah, if it were only permitted to train
) men to know just what is ahead on tho
I tracks on these black, bitter nights !
! But we can only sco what the head light
j shows us; and often the signals seem
' strangely obscure in fog, or in the driv
ing rain and snow.
j One of those always possible "breaks, ”
| which may not occur for years, but are
} yet constantly liable to happen, had
| occurred that night. One of the South
bound night freight-trains, running
down (o New York, broke an axle and
got one of its middle cars off the rails, be
fore reaching the bridge.
How far they dragged the car in that
condition, no one knows ; for it was so
! cold that the conductor and all the
| brakemen were huddled in the caboose
i behind. But they found it out after a
time, and slowed down ns the train got
' oil to the bridge.
As they came lo a stand-still, two or
| three other cars jumped the track; and
! one of these, an oil-car, with a long tank
| on it, broke its couplings and was shoved
1 over on to the up-line of track our line
I —where it stood sidewise across the
I rails.
I The accident made great confusion
j with the men on the freight; but they
| claimed that they got out their signal
| lanterns as soon as they could, and that
it was not a minute before we came up.
As we shot along past the dark station
\ and out toward the bridge, 1 saw tho
| white stesm of the freight-train.
"We shall pass No. l!l right by the
bridge,” Doc said.
Both of us were looking, Doc on his
; side and I on mine.
Suddenly, right ahead, we saw a red
i lantern swinging on our track, at tho
head of the bridge,
"Ood save us, Doc 1” I shouted, "tho
j draw's open I”
"Spring tho patent brake ! ’ ho raid to
me -that was what we called the air
brake, then—and in a moment wo had
shut off, reversed and whistled for the
hand-brakes.
But we were going at a great speed.
Tn a moment more we had come along-
I side the freight engine, and out, on the
bridge we saw the oil-car right across
j our rails! It had a look of death in it
1 swung out on tho step.
“Shan't yon jump, Doc?” I cried.
He stow] with his back to me, looking
ahead, but turned when I called out. I
shall never forget that last look he gave
me. He did not speak, but his look
seemed to say, "Yes, you may as well
jump, but I must stick to my post.”
Ho barely looked round to me, but
made no answer, then looked ahead
i again.
Then I jumped—went heels over head
along the side of rhe embankment lead
ing to the bridge, rolled over and over,
and landed down on the ice of the creek,
near the abutment, which I had scarce
touched when I heard the crash, as onr
engine struck the oil-ear.
With the collision came a sudden,
brilliant flash of light! Everything
above me, the whole bridge and the
i cars on it, seemed wrapped in a blaze of
| fire!
j At the. same instant, too, there was a
dull, long, tearing crash 1 The trestle
j had given way beneath the strain.
Down came our engine, the three
baggage cars, a passenger ear, and I
don’t know how many freight cars of
the other train, on to the ice. The
whole wreck, as it fell down, seemed en
i veloped in flames; for the oil had
; splashed over everything, and the blaz
| mg coals from the fire-box exploded it
j on the instant.
When the engine struck the ice, it
; broke through, and with a hiss went to
the bottom of the deep water there; and
; on top of it came tumbling down all the
other cars.
For a moment following the crash
there was an almost complete silence;
then agonizing ecreams, and prayerful
cries for help from the imprisoned pas
| sengers.
We who were not disabled did what
we could. The seven rear cars did not
run into the chasm, but two of them
burned on the track, along with a mini*
her of freight cars. Twenty-one of the
passengers were killed outright, and a
still greater number were injured.
As we worked there iu the noise, heat
and awful confusion of that night. least
many an anxious glance round for
Doc, hoping and half expecting that he
had got dear and would be at work with
hr trying to get out the passengers.
But I saw nothing of him, and by day
break l felt sure that he had gone down
with his engine.
The locomotive was not hauled up out
of the water till the next week. Then
we found his body jammed down under
the engine on tho Vied of the creek, liis
hands, face and clothes hod txvii
scorched; but whether he was drowuid.
or burned to death, we could not tell.
He had met his death at his post of
luty; gone out of the world with his
hand on the lever; giving his own life
that the lives of others might ho saved
a niuu of w hom any people may he
proud.
The (Jreely Expedition.
Besides the Alert, the steamers Thetis,
Bear and Hope will take part in the
Greelv search. Former expeditious
have shown the propriety of sending so
: many vessels and furnishing the expeili-
I lion for two years' absence. It ia pro
! posed to send au advance ship to the
Danish settlements previous to the time
, fixed for the assembling of the expedition
at Uppcruavik. Should a favorable op
portunity present itself, the vessel will
push northward and rescue the (freely
party. The relief ships will arrive at
j Uppcruavik not later than May 15, and
I will push northward as soon ns the ice
permits toward Littleton Island. Tho
natives will be oummnioated with and
all possible information obtained as to
tho whereabouts of the expedition.
When tho ico is reached, one of Iho ves
' sels will push its way through it while
I the other will maintain such a position
in the rear as to rescue the party on No.
1, should that ship come to grief,
Should neither vessel be crashed, and
should neither succeed in communicat
ing with Lady Franklin Sound, one, it
is recommended, should winter in
Franklyn Pierce Bay and the other in
Iho vicinity of Littleton Island, On the
route northward various points are to be
examined and depots of provisions left
at certain specified quarters. The full
est equipment as to boats, sleds, cloth
ing, tents, wooden houses and provisions
lias been recommended, and every pre
caution is to be taken to secure success.
The addition of the Alert to the rescue
fleet will undoubtedly greatly enhance
the chances of accomplishing the ob
jects of the expedition. It is recom
mended that tin- personnel of each ves
sel to be kept down to n minimum, so as
I to give ample space should the expedi.
tion he absent two years and diminish
| the risk of shortness of provisions. It
; is calculated that the total expense will
! be about *120,000
High Life ill England.
The Earl of Euston, the future Duke
1 of Grafton, in about to begin the much
i talked of suit for divorce from his wife,
on the plea that the lady's first hut-band
j was living at tho time of her second mar
riage. The Countess will submit iu de
fence that when she married her first
husband she supposed him a widower,
but he proved to have another wife, and
when she learned (his she abandoned
him. The ease promises to be exceed
ingly interesting.
Thirteen years ago Henry Fitzroy,
eldest son of Lord Augustus Fitzroy,
fell in love with a woman known as
"Kate Cook." Sho was handsome and
stylish in person, and her matured
charms were quite sufficient to captivate
the youth of twenty-three. Unknown
to his father, who was Equerry to the
Queen, ho married her. Most chronicles
of the peerage ignored the marriage.
Others described tho bride as tbedaugh
ter of John Walsh and the widow of
"Mr. Smith.” In 1882 the bridegroom’s
social position changed. Lord Augustus
Fitzroy succeeded his brother as seventh
Duke of Grafton. Henry Fitzroy be
came Earl of Euston. The widow of
"Mr. Smith” became Countess Euston
and the future Duchess of Grafton But
troubles had already come between her
and her husband. They separated by
mutual agreement. No fault being
proved against the Countess since her
marriage, the Earl in vain sought an ex
cuse for divorce. The mysterious “Mr.
Smith" has now appeared and tho ex
cuse is found.
The CanaTj.—There is, says ari ex
change, a likelihood that the Cape Cod
Canal really will be limit. The distance
to be dug is eight miles and the present
estimate of the cost is a million dollars
a mile. Tho company already has ex
pended $450,000. The charter compels
the building of a railroad bridge and
there will he some expensive locks. The
shortest rente from Boston to New York
through Vineyard Sound is miles
ami by the outeide course 380 miles..
Through the canal it will be 240 miles,
-■.aviug 06 miles 'n one ' aseandl tOin
the other. But there is another Buving
to be considered, and that is an occa
sional shipwreck which the shorter and
safer passage by the carnal rpay aynal.
Interesting Temperance Statistics.
Mu riling Fiicm Ifrlullvc lo Conflmnptloti of
Lt|iior In .tlnliip*
Hon. Thomas W. Pittman, of New
York, has created ft great interest in
Maine by his series of/ecturos on intern*
pernnee and crime, and has given some
startling statistics. He shows that there
are 48,000 criminals iu tho prisons of the
United States; in county jails, 134,000;
in tlie houses of refuge, 10,000; floating
criminal population, exclusive of drunk
enness and disorderly conduct, 400,000;
total, 502,000 criminals. From latest re
turns of the Police Department of New
York and Brooklyn there is one arrest,
including drunkenness and disorderly
conduct, to even 18 of the population;
in New York 10,000 liquor saloons,
which, allowing 25 feet front to each,
would make an avenue 25 miles long;
eighteen hundred inmates of the lunatic
asylum on Ward’s Island, two-thirds of
whom are insane drunkards; and fifteen j
| hundred convicts in Sing Sing State 1
Prison, 1,300 of whom became criminals
through intemperance. Thirty per cent,
of the prison population of Massachu
setts is between twenty and twenty-five
years of age. In Pennsylvania the con
victs in the penitentiaries under sixteen
years of age are 17 per cent.; 35 per
cent, under twenty-one, and 20 per cent,
between twenty-one and twenty five
years; 80 per cent, never learned any
trade or occupation; 82 per cent, were
against property and32 percent, were
habitual diunkards. One-fifth of the
criminal population lives in cities, as
follows: One-eighth in cities over 100,000
inhabitants; one-twelfth in cities of over
75,000 and nearly one million in cities
of over 40,000, mostly manufacturing
towns, (’rime and drunkenness are on
the increase in manufacturing towns.
Maine, has a had showing, there being in
Portland last year 2,250 arrests, 1,420 of
which were for drunkenness and drunk
en brawls. The lecturer exposed tho
private clubs of Portland, Bangor and
other large towns in the State, and the
easy manner in which liquor can be pro
cured in Maine, both privately and pub
licly, and emphatically proclaimed that
Prohibition does not prohibit unless in
dorsed and sustained by public senti
ment of the majority, who must compel
the public authorities to enforce tlie law.
He advocated moral methods for the
drunkard and kindness and humanity
for tho reformation of criminals and the i
abolition of prison contract labor and
cruel punishments. His statements rel
ative; to the open violation of the Maine
liquor law ana increased drunkenness in
the State have created a profoiiud sen
sation among all classes, especially
among Prohibitionists
Depopulated Ireland
Tbe Irish papers aro discussing the
ceent census returns in a bitter spiri t.
Hie Dublin Nation has an article en
titled “Bleeding to Death,” in which it
jays: “The life blood of Ireland is being
,trained by vampires. Every one who
has an interest in Die country must, gird
his loins against this murderous union.
The extermination of the Irish people
lias Jong been the traditional aim of the
English rulers. The present [Executive's
will is set on actively promoting the
murderous system which has already
robbed the country of five or six millions
f people.”
Tho United Ireland devotes an
article to the same subject, which P
entitles “Killing a Nation by Inches. "
It says: “For nil practical purposes
Ireland is suffering a more awful drain
r f rani)hood than if engaged in a deadly
col flict with a first class European
(tower, She has lost since the Union
more men than France lost in all the
sanguinary wars of Napoleon. At least
eight millions of people have been im
molated in eighty years to the demon oj
English supremacy. Three millions of
people whose brawny frames supplied
the physical force of the repeal meetings
were missing in 1852 when the census
enumerators came to count them. Two
i million nine hundred and thirteen thou
sand of the population who were spared
by famine have been starved or trans
ported since. The waste goes on fostei
and raorp furiously. Within the last
year alone Ireland lost 108,000 em
igrants, 71,000 of whom were single
adults. She lost in mere thews and
muscles more valued sons than were
slain in any of the greatest battles of the
world.”
- - • •
An ArkiinKfts Jail.
The county jail of Hot Springs, Arkan
sas, is a miserable two stroy 'og hut,
about fourteen feet, square. Tlie upper
story is occupied by the jailer, who will,
for a consideration, yield it to a prisoner
of means. A small, rickety balcony,
with a sofa on it, and a creaking flight
of wooden steps give access to the room.
The pen below, or jail proper, is a regu
lar "black hole;” the floor is covered
with filtb, straw and vermin; lighffilters
through two glass cnbliy holes a few
inches square and admittance is oniy
gained by means of an iron grating in
the floor above, through which the un
happy captives are lowered down the
ladder. As many as a dozen, of all Tges,
sexes and colors, are sometimes confined
here at once. The sickening stench rises
to the reom above and is strong enough
to breed a fever. In caso of lire there
would lie tin possibility of escape,
NO. 17.
FOOD ADULTERATION.
WHAT WE EAT AND DHIS’K, AND HOW IT
18 FIXED UT FOlt US.
it 1s useless to any longer believe that
in order to obtain tlie best food pnxlucts
it is necessary only to pay the highest
prices. Cost once was an unfailing stand
ard ot quality, but this was in the
days when adulteration was so clumsily
performed that any one could detect it.
Ifa dishonest grocer of the olden time put
sand in his sugar, any suspicious house
wife could discover it liy looking nt the
aediment in her teacup, but nowadays
refined sugars arc the rule, and while
they are seldom adulterated with the in
tent to deceive there are refining pro
cesses which leave deleterious matter in
the filial product. Starch, instead of
fruit, is the basis of most jollies. Flour
barrels seldom contain anything but
wheat flour, but somo of this which is
utterly unlit to eat is mixed so skillfully
with higher grades, that the nutritive
value of the mixture is fur less than that
of the commonest brands of sound flour.
Even condiments are adulterated
Bran, finely ground and colored, is
sometimes found in pepper or mustard.
Of itself it is harmless, but some materi
als with which it is colored are unfit to
enter tlie human stomach. As for ground
coffee, chicory may ho quite healthful,
hut it is not coffee, nor a substitute for
it, and it can ho bought separately by
those who like it at half tlie price of or
dinary coffee.
The worst menaces, however, to lienlth
and life are found in tlie butter pail and
the milk can. The recent investigation
of oleomargarine found nothing against
such artificial butter as is properly
made, but it certainly warned the public
against the vine of some of tlie substi
tutes for butter, and it developed the
fact that fully half of the so-called butter
trade is in imitation of the genuine
dairy product. The law requires that
nil imitation butter shall he oonspicu- ,
ously labelled ns such; but there seems
to bo no one whose duty it is to see this
rule is complied with in spirit, for one
dealer declared that when ho labelled a
tub of oleomargarine so that everybody
could see the name, he did not sell a
pound in half a year. It is therefore
quite evident that imitation butter is
purchased through ignorance and not
from choice, and that it is retailed at
higher prices than those who really want
it would have to pay were it offered un
per its proper name
The Texas Terror.
“The Texas Terror” is found in al
most, every town —tlie had, hold man
who spills blood, hot blood, and eats
tenderfeet for breakfast every morning,
but he stays around the bar-room lire
generally, and awaits invitations to
drink from strangers for whose benefit iie
“shoots off his mouth.” He is usually
from Bitter Creek or Rattlesnake Ran,
where they raise bad men; the "farther
up you git the wus they be, and I’m
from the headwaters,” is his autobiog
raphy. Sometimes lie is tlie "Red
headed-Terror- of-Tom-GreenCounty,”
and sometimes “Apache Bill.” He slips
up to the bar when asked to "irrigate,”
and says to the barkeeper: "Give mo
entilin' powerful, pard; Hiithin’ ns will
warm up the cookies of mo heart; I’m
tho toughest man in Tom Green County,
hut I’m sort o’ low down this mornin’,
an’ ain’t smelt blood; I’m a reckless
devil wlion I get started, and I feed on
devastation and turmoil, but I'm kinder
quiet nowand mean no mischief. Times
is changed seuce I came to Texas fust,
and the people is as quiet as kittens—
gimme suthin’ that’ll make me feel ns if
the tornado of tho prairies brought tho
smell o’ blood. They used to call me. the
king of the cow-hoys down on the
Pecos, but they’ve no use for fightin’
men tliar now.” And he will go on in
this strain ns long as anyone will listen
to him, hut while his words are fierce,
his acts arc mild, and lie takes the place
of the yarn-spinner who is generally
found in the village saloon of the North.
V Singular Superstition.
One of the most striking episodes
of the Sharon-Hill divorce case, with
W l,jch the people of San Francisco aro
now being regaled was the production, a
few days since, of a "charm” which had
1 >e(in used by the lady in the case to win
the affections of tho defendant. There
was produced in court a dark silk stock
ing, a shirt collar, and a portion of n
shirt, all of which were unmistakably
taken from a man'e wearing apparel.
These were exhumed from under the
eollin of a newly buried and well-known
citizen of San Francisco in the presence
of nine witnesses. The grave-digger,
under whose eyes these curious articles
were buried, says that Miss Hill put
them there, with his consent, in order
that she might "win a rich man's love.”
Clearly the ignorance and superstition
of the nineteenth century are not con
fined to the poor blacks of the South
who believe in Voodooism, nor to the
fishermen of the const who will not kill
a pig "in the wane of the moon for
fear of ill-luck.
Kissing.—lt is recalled iu Honeoye,
N. Y., where the bride of Frederick
Donglass lived in childhood, that she
ha-1 to he whipped by her father, an ae
: live abolitionist, to make her kiss Doug
j lass when he visited tlie family.
QUAKER CITY HUMOR.
A FEW JOIIRH FHOM TIIE "EVENING
I Al 1..”
nIS UEVENOE.
Jones—" That man Jinks did me a
mean triek, hut I have had my revenge.”
Smith —"In what way?”
Jones—“By fixing tilings so that ho
will he driven crazy in three months."
Smith—" Gracious 1 How did you do
it?”
Jones—"l got a family with twin
babies to move into the house next
door,”
in-'.lt IDENTITY ESTABLISHED
Little Nell—“ We’ve got anew scholar
in onr school.”
Papa.—" What is her name?’
Little Nell—"llcr name’s Minnie.”
Pap—"But her other name?”
Little Nell—“I don’t know. I forgot
to ask her,”
Papa—"ls she a good scholar?”
Little Nell—' No; sho missed the first
question. Iho teacher asked her how
many pounds maitu a ton, and sho said
1,600."
Papa—"Ah ! I see. She is the daugh
ter of Mr. Blank, the coal dealer.”
A OUEAT OOMTT.IMENT
Little .Tuck—" You never was in tho
country much, I guess, Mr. Popinjay ?”
Popinjay (delighted)—“Do you think
so, my little fellow? Well, I have not
been in (lie country form nny years, but
I used to live there when I was a little
boy. You would not believe it, I sup
pose
Little Jack—" Dunno about that, but
I guess sister would not. I know she
thinks you never was iu tho country at
all.”
Popinjay (still more delighted)—"Ah !
Indeed?”
Little Jack—" Yes, she said you did
not even know beans.”
AN AMBTTIOUS BOY.
"No use talking,” said young Tommy,
"I am hound to do something to get rich
when I grow up.”
"I fear that you are learning to love
money too well,” remarked lus father,
sadly.
“No,” said Tommy, "I don’t care for
money for its own sake, hut for the
good it can do.”
“In that case,” answered the father,
brightening, "your ambition is very
commendable.”
"And will you promise to get me a
place where I can become rich, oh !
awfully rich I”
"I will," responded the father.
One week afterward the old mail, trno
to his promise, took the boy and got
him a situation in a newspaper office.
DOCKING FOB A FBIF.ND.
"Do you know a Colonel Smith of
tliis city?” asked a stranger of a Louis
ville man.
“Oh, yes,” was tho reply, “there he
is now, standing on the opposite cor
nor.”
“No, that is not the gentleman I re
fer to. My friend is a taller man.”
"Well, there is Colonel .Smith just
coming out of the post office, tho gentle
man with the slouch hat.”
"No, neither of them is the man that
lam in search of. The man I want is a
smooth-faced, thick-set man, and
achieved some distinction in the lato
war, ”
"The late war?” said the Louisville
citizen. "I guess lam not acquainted
with him. There is no Colonel Smith in
this city that I know of who ever had
anything to do with war.”
EXCITING firOBT.
Edith—“Oh I how glad T am that
summer is coming again. Soon wo can
go to Newport and enjoy somo more
grand old fox hunts just as if wo were
English prineesses.”
Mabel —"Did you go fox hunting at
Newport ?”
Edith—" Yes, indeed, I was in every
hunt. Oh ! it's glorious—the prancing
steeds, the haying hounds, the exhilar
ating air, tho delightful chase over tho
fields and fences, and the rush to ho iu
nt the death and get tho brash. Oh !
how I wist) yon could have been along.”
Mabel—" Well, I don’t. Tlie idea of
a great crowd of horses and hounds and
hunters all dashing after one poor little
fox and keeping up tho terrible clinso
until tho poor thing sinks away from
very weakness.’’
Edith—" Fox ! Fox! Why, I never
saw a fox !’’
Mabel—"But you spoke of getting
"the brush.’ ”
Endora—"Oh ! that is a lovely pea
cock brush given to t lie host lady rider.”
Mabel—"But what is being ‘in at the
death?”’
Endora—"Catching up with the ani
seed bag— Phila. Eve,. Call.
Knew IVhat Was the Matter.
A couple of young elephants which
were recently provided with a home at
the Kt. Petersburg Zoological Gardens
were fed with eake and other good things
to such an extent by visitors to the gar
dens that tlieir health greatly suffered
and it became necessary to interfere.
The public were requested to he less
generous in their offerings, and the re
quest being not generally attended to, a
notice to the same effect was painted on
a metal plate fastened above the entrance
of their house. Tliis failing to attain
the object in view, and visitors continu
ing to feed the elephants with pastry, an
official was stationed at the entrance to
call attention to the notice. The animals
observing that whenever the latter raised
his band to point to the sign, buns and
eakes about to he given were withheld,
drew tlieir- own conclusions and acted in
their own interests. When their keeper
looked in upon them one morning he
found the sign on the ground in such a
damaged condition that anew plate had
to bo procured and placed out of the
animals’ reach,