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T<> one and all v. <• say that the Shield gives a r.at ural aid in a natural way WITHOUT DRAGGING TIIK STOMACH. WnrriHited One Year, and tl*** lie appliance' made. Illustrated Pamph'.c t, THREE TYPES OF MEN also Pamphlet for Ladies only, sent on receipt c tK. m ..uu; unseated, FREE. American Galvanic Cta prrtftf: t t i MOll ( licstmil M Phlla. Kz&sgk 'SJBsasammmmmmmmmtmsm THE I.IMF KILN Cl l B. '1 be Trouble lliwl 11 **• W 1 1 li llic Orece 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. <£► alette. 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,