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A letter from Baltimore says: There
is now pending in a court of equity iu
tiiis city a divorce suit which lias
brought to light particulars of a most
revolting character, illustrating in a
startling and distressing manner the
blighting effects of the opium habit.
Owing to the high social standing of tho
parties involved the greatest secrecy
has been observed and the names are
withheld from publication. It is known,
however, that the unfortunate victim of
the deadly drug was until her marriage
in 1869 a noted society belle, living on
the Eastern Shore. She graduated with
high honors and upon entering society
was recognized as the belle of the
county, which boasted many beautiful
women. She hail scores of admirers,
bnt gave her hand to a gentleman living
iu tho same county, of equal social rank
and wealth. The wedding was solemn
ized with great eclat and was one of the
most prominent social events of tho
Eastern Shore. For several years the
married life of the couple was ono of
great happiness. Three children blessed
the union. Soon after the birth of the
last child it was observed that the lady
became subject to fits of melancholy, at
times taking no interest in anything
around her and again being bouyant
and cheerful. An old and trnsted ser
vant finally discovered that the wifo
was a confirmed opium eater. Every
effort was made by the distracted
husband to break her of tlio habit, but
without success. Two years ago she
disappeared—still young and pretty—
and though detectives were employed,
no trace of her could bo found. Re
cently a policeman of this city observed
among the names of persons sent to the
House of Correction that of the missing
woman, whom he had known in youth.
Upon her discharge he traced her to one
of the vilest dens in this city, kept by a
colored woman. The officer notified tlio
husband, and a few days ago they went
together to the place, and the husband
found the long-lost wife—his beautiiul
bride of a few years before—in the com
pany of a coarse, brutal-looking negro.
The wretched man sprang forward to
destroy her, but was restrained by the
policeman. All traces of the woman’s
former beauty had disappeared and she
was almost nnreeogniziblo even to her
husband. Evidence for the divorce
suit was obtained and the opium victim
left to her fate. In conversation she
appeared to be wholly depraved and did
not manifest the slightest regret for
what she had done. She was unmoved,
except when allusion was made to her
children, when she betrayed some little
emotion.
A whiter in the East says of a camel:
“It travels at a slow, lounging pace, be
yond which it is dangerous, with nine
camels out of ten, to urge them, or else,
as Asiatics say, they ‘break their hearts’
and die ‘literally’ on the spot.” The
district messenger boy seems to have
much the same nature.— Boston Post,
sr.M.MLKYII.LR GEORGIA, V EDNESDA\ LVEN ING. SEN'EMIIER 10, 1881.
MY IA) YE AND /.
We loved ouch other, my love anti I;
And the wind sighed low through the toweled
corn.
! The bobolink Bang in the dewy morn,
And the brook ran merrily by.
We loved each other, my love and I;
And the quail piped low mid the yellow corn,
Wo heard in the distance the h tint Hman'n horn,
And the leave* wore brown and dry.
We looked to the future, my love and TANARUS,
The future so crowded with hopes and fears,
That turns our smiles so often to tears,
As the days pass wearily ly.
He spoko of tlio time when wo two should
dwell
Together beneath fair Southern skies,
Where the rose in its fragrance never dies,
And love hears no parting knell.
The corn was garnered long years ago,
The bobolink’s song is heard no moru;
Only a shadow falls through tho door
Whcro lie used to conic and go.
Tho sea Is wide, and it lies between
My love and TANARUS, my love ami I;
Where tho flowers bloomed dead leaves now lie,
Ami tho grass o’er his gravo is green.
ItEHECCA ItUTKK SPRIN(IKR.
A SPECIAL CONSTABLE.
BY CHAItIiKS KRADK.
Two women, sisters, kept tho toll bar
at a village in Yorkshire. It stood apart
from the village and they often felt un
easy at night, being lone women.
One (lay they received a considerable
sum of money, bequeathed them by n
relation, and that set Iho simple souls
all in a flutter.
They had a friend in tho village, the
blacksmith’s wife; so they went and
told their fears. She admitted that
theirs was a lonesome place, and sho
would not livo there, for one, without a
man. Her diseonr.se sent them home
downright miserable.
The blacksmith’s wifo told her hus
band all about it when he came in for
his dinner.
“The fools !” said he; “how is anybody
to know they have got brass iu the
house ?”
"Well,” said the wife, “they make no
secret of it to me; but yon need not go
for to tell it to all the town.—poor
souls I”
“Not I,” said the man; “hut they
will publish it, never fear; leave women
folk alone for making their own trouble
with their tongues. ”
There the subject dropped, as man
and wife have filings to talk about be
side their neighbors.
The old women at the toll-bar, what
with their own fears and their Job’s
comforter, began to shiver with appre
hension as night came on. However,
at sunset tho carrier passed through tho
gate, and at sight of his friendly face
they brightened up. They told him
their care, and begged him to sleep in
tho house that night.
“Why, how can I?” said he; “I’m
dne at ; bnt I will leave yon my
dog.”
Tho dog was a powerful mastiff.
The women looked at each othor ex
pressively.
“Ho won’t hurt us, will he?” sighed
one of them, faintly.
“Not he,” said the carrier, cheerfully.
Then he called the dog into the house
and told them to lock the door, and
went away whistling.
The women were left contemplating
the dog with that tender interest appre
hension Is sure to excite. At first he
seemed staggered at this off-hand pro
ceeding of his master ; it confused him ;
then he snuffed at the door; then, as
the wheels retreated, he began to see
plainly he was an abandoned dog; he
delivered a fearful howl and flew at the
door, scratching and barking furiously.
The old women fled the apartment,
and were next seen at an upper window,
screaming at the carrier:
“Come hack ! come back, John 1 He
is tearing the house dowm 1”
“Drat the varmint 1” said John, and
came back.
On the road lie thought what was
best to be done. The good-natured fel
low took his great-coat out of tho eart
and laid it down on the floor. The
mastiff instantly laid bimrelf on it.
“Now,” said John, sternly, “let us
have no more nonsense. Yon take
charge of that till I come back, and
don’t ye let nobody steal that there, nor
t’ wives’ brass. There, now,” said he,
kindly, to the women. “X shall ho hack
this way breakfast time, and ho won’t
budge till then.”
“Aud he won’t hurt us, John ?”
“Lord, no! Bless your heart, he is
as sensible as any Christian —only, liord
sake, woman, don’t ye go to take the
coat from him, or you’ll be wanting a
new gown yonrself, arid maybe a petti
coat and all.”
XTe retired, and the old women kept at
a respectful distance from their pro
tector. He never molested them; and,
indeed, when they spoke cnjolinglv to
him he even wagged his tail in a dubious
way. But still, as they moved about,
he squinted at them out of his bloodshot
eye in a way that checked all desire
on their part to try on the carrier’s coat.
Thus protected, they went to bed
earlier than nsual, but they did not un
dress; they were too much afraid of
everything, especially their protector.
The night wore on, and presently their
sharpened BeDses let them know that the
dog was getting restless, he snuffed, and
then lie growled, and then lie got up,
and pattered about, muttering to him
self. Straightway, with furniture, they
barricaded the door through which their
protector must pass to <h vour them.
Hut bye-and-hye, listening acutely,
they heard a scraping and a grating out
side tho window of the room whore tho
dog was, and he continued growling low.
This was enough; they slipped out at
tho back door, to save their lives; they
got into tho village. It was pitch dark,
and all the houses black but two, ono
was tho public house, casting a tri
angular gleam across tho road a long
way off, and tho other was the black
smith's house. Here was a piece of for
tune for the terrified women. They
burst into their friend’s house. “Oh,
Jane ! tho thieves are come !” and they
told her in a few words all that had hap
pened.
“La !” said she; "how timorous you
are 1 ten to ono he was only growling at
same our that passed by.”
“Nay, Jane, we heard tho scraping
outside the window. Oh, woman, call
your man and let him go with us.”
“My man—ho is net, hero.”
“Where is lie, then V"
“I suppose ho is whore other working
women’s husbands are, at tho public
house,” said sho, rather bitterly, for sho
had her own experience.
Tho old women wanted to go to tho
public house for him; but the black
smith’s wife was a courageous woman,
and beside, sho thought it was most
likely a false alarm.
“Nay, nay,” said she, “last, time I
went for him there I got a ilno affront,
i’ll come with yon,”sho said. “I’ll take
the poker, and wo have got otu - tongues
to raise tho town with, I suppose.”
80 they marched to tho (oil-bar.
When they goi near it they Taw some
thing that staggered this heroine.
There was actually a man half in and
half out of the window. This brought
the blacksmith's wife foa standstill, and
the timid pair implored her to go back
to village.
“Nay,” said sho. “Whatfor? I seo
hut one -and hark 1 it is my belief the
dog is holding of him. ’
However, she thought i! Hnfcst to bo
on the same side with tho dog, lest the
man might turn on her. So she made
her way into the kitchen, followed by
the other two, ami ihcro a sight met
her eves that ehangod all their feelings,
both toward flic robber and toward each
other. The great mastiff had pinned a
man by the throat, and was pulling at
him to draw him through tho window,
with fierce hut muffled snarls. Tho
man’s weight alone prevented it. The
window was like a picture frame, and in
that frame there glared, with lolling
tongue and staring eyes, the white face
of the blacksmith, their courageous
friend’s villainous husband. Sho uttered
an appalling scream, and llew upon the
dog and choked him with her two hands.
Ho held and growled, and tore till lie
was all bnt throttled himself; then he
let go, and the man fell. Hut what
struck the ground outside like a lump of
lead was in truth a lump of clay ! The
man was quite dead and fearfully torn
about the throat.
So did a comedy end in an appalling
and most piteous tragedy; not that tlio
scoundrel himself deserved any pity,
bnt his poor, brave, honest wife, to
whom ho had not dared confide the vil
lainy ho meditated.
■ ~o- ■
Hoiv Dogs Get Rubles
A correspondent writes to the Lancet:
“In sequence to your just observations
on tho annoyance caused by tho barking
and howling ot dogs, allow me to make
some remarks on tho creation of rabies
in dogs. You most justly assert that it
is neglect and misery which aro the!
origin of the cries which make ‘night
hideous.’ Such, also, is tho fact rela
tive to canine madness. Noglect, mis
ery, unwholesome food, unnatural treat
ment, are often the root from which
that dire disease springs. When a mad
dog bites many people ho sometimes
quits scores for a long arrear of brutali
ties, insults, and oppression inflicted
upon him by the baser or more ignorant
portion of the human race. The hard
blow, the savage kick, the loud curse,
the vile annoyance, the insulting word,
the starving meal, the carrion food, tho
shortened chain, tho rotten straw, the
dirty kennel (appropriate name!), the
bitter winter’s night, the parching heat
of summer, tho dull and dreary years of
of hopeless imprisonment—culminate
there; and tho cup man has poisoned
man is forced to drink. In addition to
the above, tho confining of dogs, and
thereby preventing them from having
access to their natural medicine, is cer
tainly calculated to seriously derange
their health. Professor David Dow, I<\
K.S.E., in his able work on ‘The Do
mesticated Animals of the British Isles,’
makes some sagacious observations on
unnatural and ignorant treatment of the
canine race. The idea of preventing
rabies by tying together the jawß of
dogs, or by chaining or incarcerating
the animals, is as senseless as issuing a
‘bull’ against a comet.''
At Toulon, Franco, two foolish
youths made a bet as to which one
could drink the more seltzer water. One
drank pine syphons and the other
eight. Both died shortly after of chol
era.
SECIUIINH THE RECORDS.
\ SWeii’li ol Texas In Its Fiirlv liny* under
Sum 11 oiinl nil•
About two yours after tlio revolution
General Houston lmd his tlrst difficulty
with the people. Under the Constitu
tion the Capital had been fixed at Aus
tin, hut power was given to the Presi
dent to order the temporary romoval of
the archives in ease of dauger. The
Cmnanehes wore committing ravages
within sight of Austin, and General
Houston ordered the State records to he
forwarded to him at Washington, Texas.
This caused much excitement in Austin,
and fonrlmndrod mou planed themselves
about the Slate House to prevent the re
moval. Colonel Morton, a leading
spirit of tho revolution, was at their
head, and wrote to General Houston,
who well know his character as a fight
ing man, that, if the archives were re
moved, ho (Morton) would hunt him
down like a wolf. (louoral Houston re
plied in a note of characteristic brevity:
"If the people of Austin do not send
them, I shall come and get them, and if
Colonel Morton can kill me, ho is wel
lin'to my oar-cap.” The guard war.
at. once doubled, patrolmen wore placed
on tho roads, and a select committee
went into permanent session in tho City
Hall, During a sitting of that body
ono who was unannounced suddenly
stood in their midst, having gained en
trance by means of a tall live oak which
grow against the window; his garb and
arms were those of a hunter, and, being
: polum to by Colonel Morton, ho placed
his linger oh his lips and remained silent.
Colonel Morton flew into a rage and
i i/.ed him, when the stranger drew his
bow in knife at fho same instant that
Mortiill’s friends hold him back. An
ollier member of the body spoke to the
(ranger, saying that tho meeting was a
private one, and that, ho presumed that
the gentleman had mistaken the house.
At this ho walked to tho table and wrote
oue line, “1 am deaf.” Judge Webb
then wrote, “Toll us your business,”
when a letter was handed to him, ad
dr. .ssisi to tho citizens of Austin, which
: iic .fudge read aloud as follows:
'T'l r.i.ow Cn i'/.KNS: Though in error,
old deceived by the arts of traitors, i
will give you three more days to decide
whether or not yon will forward to me
tlio arohivvs. At tlio oiul of that time
you will please lot me know your deci
sion. Haiu Houston.”
Tho deaf man waited a few minutes
for a reply and was about to leave, when
Colonel Morton handed him a note say
ing: “You were bravo enough to insult
me; are you bravo enough to give mo
satisfaction ?" Tho mute wrote; “lam
at your service,” and after fixing terms
ho left by tho window. Morton was
fold lie would bo killed, as he was to
light Deaf Smith, who never missed his
man; hut ho could not be shaken in his
resolve. The weapons used were rifles,
t he distance was ono hundred paces and
tho time sunset. A vast crowd saw tho
duel. Morton was dressed in broad
cloth, his antagonist iu smoke-tinted
buckskin. Both were cool and stern.
At tho given signal both fired at the
same instant; Morton sprang into tho
air and fell dead, a ball in his heart.
Deaf Smith quietly reloaded his rifle
and walked into tho forest. Three days
alterward he came with general Houston
and ten others to Austin, and the ar
chives were removed without further
opposition.
A Few Yet Left.
“Heavens! but I’m melting 1” ho
gasped, as ho entered an ice cream par
lor.
“Yes, sir,” replied tho girl at the so
da fountain, as sho reached for a glass.
“Dear, me 1 but such thirst I noverdiod
before. Have you ginger ale ?”
“Ych, sir.”
“Ah, yes; but they say it is heating.
Any root beer ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Exactly; but roots are not always
good for the health. Depends upon the
kind of roots. Yon have soda water ?”
“Yes.”
“ Doctors say it produces a gas in tho
stomach. How's ice cream?”
“Very nice, sir.”
“Yes, but lowering tho temperature
of fho stomach so suddenly is apt to
produce spasms. No lemonade, eh ?”
“I can make you some.”
“Never mind. My wifo died sudden
ly after drinking a quart of it. Young
lady 1”
“Yes, sir.”
“You may hand rno a glass of water.
It is probably tho safest and best thing
for the system at this stage of the game.”
He got it, but he only took one sip.
It. was blood-warm. The girl bad soen
two or three like him before.— Detroit
Dree Drcus.
WiTOHiss. —The descendants of Re
becca Nourse, who was hanged as a
witch at Salem, Mass, on July 19, 1092,
held an anniversary reunion at Danvers,
a few days ago, at which about 200 of
her representatives were present. Ben
jamin F. Nourse, of Boston, presided,
and arrangements were mnde for tho
erection of a monument to bo dedicated
a year lienee. An interesting feature of
the occasion was a letter from the poet
Whittier expressing the opiinion that,
in the execution of Rebecca Nourse, the
people of Salem hanged the best Ghris
ian woman among them,
NO. 31.
Sheep on the Farm.
Wool is so low in price, with no cer
tain prospect of any material ineroase,
that tho keeping*of sheep, except under
favorable circumstances, will require
very close and economical calculations if
any profit is to be realized. I have not
mnoli faith in securing an increase of
the duties on foreign wools by a revision
of tho tariff laws ; and if an increase ol
tho dutiuH should be obtained, it is
eminently proper to consider sheep
husbandry upon the basis of small pro
tection and small returns. Sheep fit in
so nicely upon the farm that they can
hardly ho dispensed with. They have
an advantage over other stock, inas
much as they may ho made to furnish
an income twice iu tho year -first tho
wool, and then the lambs.
They may bo made to do more than
this, and really to afford another in
come in tho autumn or winter by tho
fattening and sale of the old sheep or
tho surplus stock. After trying all
kinds of stock, 1 have returned to sheep,
believing them to he indispensable for a
a complete development of all tho re
sources of the farm. There is no stock
so well calculated for rugged hillsides
or rough pastures, and to prevent the
growth of weeds and bushes. Where
sheep have the range of a field very few
weeds will ever go to seed, and bushes
will be so thoroughly cropped that they
will either die or be kept from making
much of a growth. When a farmer can
thus easily turn tho weeds and hushes
of a farm into excellent manure, and at
the same time liavo them converted into
mutton and wool, it is certainly a good
thing.
Sheep will always do this. 'L'lioy will
thrive in pastures and get fat where cut
tle would almost starve. They also
scatter their droppings over the field,
and never fail to enrich lands where they
are kept. On poor farms thoy are most
emphatically tlio best factors for in
creasing fertility. On rich lands the
same rule holds good, ns thoy will make
them richer. By the simple menus of
a portable shod, which can lio moved
about tho field and under which the
sheep will readily congregate, tho poor
est spots may he made fertile, and the
whole field, by frequent and regular
changes of tho flock, may bo thorough
ly enriched.
When T was it small boy, my father
purchased a large farm, which has been
devoted to sheep husbandry for years.
Ho went heavily into debt in the pur
chase, and I recollect to liavo heard him
say a number of times that the sheep
which had belonged to the former owner
paid for the farm. What ho meant was
that they made the farm so productive
and caused it to yield such bountiful
crops, after he became its owner, that
he was thus enabled to make his pay
ments. This productiveness lasted for
years, and made the farm famous for
large crops. There are in tho older
States a great many farms, now run
down with continuous grain culture,
which hardly pay tho cost of the labor
bestowed upon the crops.
In the keeping of sheep, although the
direct returns from them may not be as
great as they have been in former years,
tlio advantage to ho derived from them
in tho improvement of the soil should
ho takon into account. If, by these
means, bettor crops can bo grown, there
is additional inducement for stocking
the farm with sheep. There cannot bo
any doubt about this result, A number
of years ago, when a large flock of sheep
was kept on Kirby Homestead, a strip
of land the most exposed of any in the
field was well dressed with sheep ma
nure. The entire field was sown with
rye and seeded with clover. The por
tion where tho sheep manure was put
produced three times as much rye to
the acre as tlio rest of the field. The
clover grew so rank that its very nature
was changoil, and instead of dying out
the second year, as it is likely to do, it
lived for years and made an excellent
growth.
From the facts sot forth in this arti
cle, and others, I have been led to add
a flock of sheep to tho stock on tlm
farm, with the intention that tlio farm,
under my plan, must bo made to keep
them, and tlio certainty that they will
he aids iu its improvement and most
useful factors iu increasing the manure.
When others go out, it is a good time to
go into slock. Certainly this is a better
policy than to rush with the crowd and
make the extremes which unsettle ma*
kets, by overproduction at one time ami
scarcity at another. Tlio whole section
of country around me is now a loser on
account of selling tho sheep, and some
of tho best farmers have resolved to be
gin sheep raising again—this time to
stick.—Con. F. D. Curtis, in Rural
Now Yorker.
Much has been said os to woman phy
sicians in Russia, but according to n
competent authority there are only some
250, and whatever their acquirements
and abilities they are only allowed to
treat the diseases of women and chil
dren. Even in oountry districts, where
there is, perhaps, no male physician
within fifty miles, apothecaries liavo
been forbidden to put up a prescription
emanating from a woman.
An illiterate soldier contrived to spell
the word “usage” without using a letter
properly belonging to it. He wrote it
“yowziteh,"
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
M MAT W|? FIND IN TIIKVI TO HBIILB
OVKIt Til IIS WRICK.
■* TIIR INCLINATION,
Mr. Walcott is a gentleman who has
boon in bad health for somo time, so ho
consulted with a prominent Austin phy
sician, who told him ho must travel for
his health.
“1 have neither tho money nor the
inclination to travel,” replied Walcott.
“Well, I’ll tell yon what to do,” sug
gested tlio medical adviser. "You aro
employed in a bank. All in the world
you will have to do will ho to steal about
A 10,000, and you will have both the in
clination and the nionoy to travel.”
AN EXCEPTION TO THE IHT.It.
“No, my children,” said an uptown
physician, “never waste anything, never
throw anything away. Homo day you
may find use for it.”
“Hmv about banana skins, papa?”
“H-m—banana skins. Yes,” replied
the doctor, thoughtfully, stroking his
chin, “banana skins are a
caption. You may throw
away.”
Tin: MOST DIFFICULT TIIINQ.
“How glorious it is to be engaged in a
purely intellectual occupation,” said a
L 'rtton maiden, gazing rapturously into
tho admiring eyes of a country editor;
your own mental faculties for tools and
Hie whole universe for a workshop. Now
tell me," she milled, “what do you find
the most difficult tiling connected with
your noble profession ?"
“Payiug the hands," said the editor. .
— Vhita. Call.
HOARD AT THE fWARHORR.
“What is your price a week for this
room ?” asked a gentloman of a seaside
landlord.
Tlio price was named.
“Does that includo the ocean air, or
do you charge extra for that?”
“Well,” replied the landlord
tatingly, ns though he wasn’t tho Yuan
to charge for anything that he could
possibly afford to giveaway, "that de
pends. Of course, if you keep your
window open all night I should expect
to add a little something to the bill.”
.MALAPROPOS.
“I see by tlio paper,” said Mrs.
Brown to her husband, “that your
friend Jones lias Rail a handsome bull
dog presented to him by his admiring
friends.”
“Good gracious, is it possible 1” ox-,
claimed Mr. Brown, “llow injudicious 1
Wiiy, that will min him.” M
“Ruin him? Why so?”
“Why, the man has foui* marriage
able daughters that he is trying to get
off his hands.”
WHAT TIE OKTS.
Little Jack—“Fa, why is a receiver
so called ?”
Fa—" What hind of a receiver do you
mean ?”
Little Jack—“ Why, I moan Uj^nniL
lli.f i. ii'i’oinli’ii a lan :i
'll :i It- 111 place. iVnat docs a r^HHB|
'•e'T'.ive ?” IBlli
Mll • I
■ -IX'
■g§l
v . •Ig
.-■■ii
I Im.iilil like
I-Bill'd.” /fo-.'/oW
A WISE Bj
' "fa '
'""I ing uianJHHH
'I and an importuul-l(M)kfl^H|
man are tho dramatis persomo.
Ho (trying the bar-room doorp^
Hr- 1-v er-doesn't appear tH|
open. -■
She (appearing in a doorwayF-ljp;
the bartender has just locked it np for a
minute to go across the street ami get a
decent drink. —Boston Globe.
SITE WAS A PIONIO OIUL.
“Carrie,” said ono Somerville girl tfli
another yesterday, “are you goi^ng
the picnio to-morrow?”
“I am. Aro you?”
“Of course ” A
“What do you intend|fl
“My white
. 1-. -in : nti-' ito
“I '.vlll wear u -mgm
i,< ' ;,t ; :
/ ••it not.
A lady rdfcidiny in
part of the tot* n -recently
services of an Indian to ]i
Sin- approached Jho lirsfl
with
would you
I'iri i goose f">- Hie ■§§
e
o •- I -I i- a
•uni ii digimtioii
“You know ?"
“No, I don’t know you," responded
tlio lady, somewhat surprised. .
“Ugh I” grunted the Indian, os if
pitying her ignorance, “me Captaiu
Sum. Mo no pick-goose. Mo send my
wife.” —Virginia City (Nov.) Chron
icle.
Hu had his speech by heart, but th)
multitude frightened him. "Twenty
years ago tho plaoe upon bioh you now
stand was a howling wjlderness I” he
began. Not remembering the next sen.-
teuce, he repeated that one. There was
immense applause. Still he forgot.
Attempt No. 3 was as follows: “Twenty
years ago the ql aco on whioh now
stand wos a howlfag wilderness—and-uJ
and—Lang me if wish it was
now.”
Tin-; Frontier— Buffali
said to an audience at the.
his exhibition: “YonhavJ
life on tlio frontier this *
you mid in ten joanuj
frimtieV '*■