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A paragraph iu a Cleveland paper not j
long since told the sad story of a hoax |
practiced by three women upon a friend,
(t seemed harmless to them. It proved
dmost fatal to the friend, aud illustrates
a fact that should not be forgotten, that i
frights may kill, or may craze the brain
permanently. Such jokes are criminal, I
tnd deserve a serious penalty. The vic- I
rim of this hoax—Mrs. Burns—had '
gone away for a short time, leaving her
husband and little ones at home.
The husband went to work, and tlio
three women thought it would lie ex
tremely funny to scare Mrs. Burns. The
chairs ard tables were upset, and every
bing was put “topsey-turvey.” A figure
was made and clotheel in a suit of Burns’s
clothes, and was laid on the floor, its
head, tied with a white bandage, rest
ing against the sewing-machine.
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Mrs. Burns, who is of a nervous tem
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tering to the house of a neighbor, she ;
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and fainted away.
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from one spasm into another. When
she finally revived sufficiently to talk, it
was found that her reason had left her.
For days she hovered between life and
death. Although she is now considered
out of danger, the shock has left its im
pression upon her mind, and she may
never fully recover.
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A Sensational Case. 1—
M. Ciaretie, in the Paris Tetaps, men
tions a rather sensational case of re
covery from cholera during one of the i
earlier visits of the epidemic, due to the 1
skill of Dr. Lorain, a well known physi- I
cian of the time. The patient had sunk <
into the iast stage of collapse, and the I
hospital physicians had etopijed the I
treatment as useless. Dr. Lorain, hap- 1
pening to enter the ward, deternjiued I
p htwew Um-.
restoring the circulation, whica fuel
practically ceased. He first performed
the operation he contemplated on a rab
bit, into whose crural vein he injected a
certain quantity of warm water. He then '
repeated it on the dying man, into whose
circulatory system he pumped 400
grammes—nearly a pint—-of the same
fluid. The heart began to beat at once,
though so faintly as to be hardly per- |
ceptible. The operation was repeated >
with still happier effects. The pulse '
could now be felt at the wrist; the pa- i
tient recovered his sensibility and his I
voice. In ten days he left the hospital j
perfectly well.
No American Vessel-.—As 1 looked 1
away to the river, says Kenuebrckcr,
writing from Calcutta, I could see a
lc.ng line of English ship —not an
American ame.ng tnem. In 1853, I re
member of seeing forty at one time of
I our very beat veseela.
SUMMERVILLE. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 1, 1884.
THE WA Y IT IS SAID.
The Sultan awoke with a stifled scream;
His nerves were shocked by a fearful dream
. An omen of terrible import and doubt
His teeth in one moment all fell out
His wisemen assembled at break of day,
And stood by the throne in solemn array.
And when the terrible dream was told,
Each felt a ehndder, his blood ran cold ,
And all stood silent in fear and dread,
And wondering what was best to be said.
it length an old soothsayer, wrinkled and gray,
Cried, “Pardon, my lord, what I have to say
I " 'Tis an omen of sorrow sent from on high—
j Thou shall see all thy kindred dio.”
Wroth was the Sul! an ; he gnashed his teeth,
And bis very words seemed to hiss and seethe.
As he ordered the wiseman bound with chains,
And gave him a hundred stripes for liis pains.
The wisemen,shook as the Sultan's eye
Swept round to see who next would try
But one of them stepping before the tiironu,
i Exclaimed in a loud and joyous tone:
l “Exult, Oh head of a happy State I
Rejoice, Oh heir of a glorious late !
“For this Is the favor thou shall win,
Oh, Sultan—to outlive all thy kin 1”
Haesed was the Sultan, and called a slave,
And a hundred crowns to the wiseman gave.
But tile courtiers, they nod witli grave, sly
winks,
| And each one whispers what each one thinks,
■‘Well can hie Sultan reward and blame;
Didn't both the wieemen foretell the same ?”
Quoth the crafty old Vizier, shaking his head,
“So much may depend on the way a thing’s
said I"
A CORNER IN NICKELS.
,A TRCR HTORT.
Not long ago the Government of the
United States began to coin nickel five
eent pieces of a new pattern. But after
a few thousand had been struck off it
was decided that they were unsuitable,
and the coinage was stopped.
The fact that so few were sent out
made these five-cent pieces very valu
able to persons forming collections of
coins, because they were so scarce that
by and bye none could be picked up
among the change handed about in
trading.
Many a wide-awake boy got a hint of
this and profited by it. How it caused
one of the schools tn a certain Connec
ticut town to become a sort of Bourse or
Wall street, and two youngsters in par
ticular to resemble speculators, is the
little story I have to tell.
One of the boys we will call Wyx and
the other Jordan. The former was a
“bull,” the latter a “bear,” in the
money market which sprang up in this
emergency as quickly as, during the
late war, a trade in gold was organized
in New York, where profits were gained
or lost according as the value of the
gold dollar in greenbacks rose or fell.
Wyx's father was a banker, and,
therefore, he became “posted” on the
value the coins would probably take a
little ahead of others, and, in addition
to a supply procured at his father’s
bank, he went about for several days
buying up nickels of bis school-fellows
and everybody else he could meet, pay
ing six and seven cerds apiece for them,
until he thought he had secured all
there were in that neighborhood.
He also felt pretty sure that none of
his schoolmates could get many, if any
more, while he had a chance to do so,
on account of his father’s position. As
the men who deal in money and railway
stocks in the city would say, he tried to
make a “corner” iu these coins. If he
succeeded, of course he could ask what
he pleased for them (for he would have
no opposition), provided anybody
wanted to buy badly enough to pay a
high price.
There ia a /treat risk iu making a cor
ner in some t.rticle which is not neces
sary. If n.ore than a moderate figure
is asked people will refuse to purchase,
and the wrong-doing of a man wbc.
seeks to charge too much will thus cor
rect itself, even where he has a monopo
ly. It therefore happens that men who
attempt to make comers usually choose
something which people must have id
any price—such as wheat, or lard, or
pig-iron; yet they rarely succeed, be
cause when a man takes that position
he arrays the whole country against
him, and no matter how rich and power
ful he may be, it is all but impossible to
gather into one comer, as you would
r””' •• <■-’ 1 of sheep, all there is of ono
u/g iu a great region like the
uiuod U nited States.
But I have been lead into a long di
gression. Let ub go back to the attempt
at a comer in new nickels which oc
curred in that Connecticut school dis
trict.
Thinking that he had bought in all
there were afloat in the neighborhood,
and that now was the time to sell at a
profit, or to “realize,” as the brokers
eall it, Wyx announced one day that he
was coming to school next morning with
tienps or nicxels, wmen ne would r.eti . ■
ten cents apiece.
The boys began to be sorry that they
had been »o hasty during the previous
ten days in letting Wyx have their half
dozen or so each, at only a cent or two
advance, and having grown excited over
'he way the value had risen, were now
quite willing to buy their coins all back
at the advanced rate, and a lot mere bo
rides, believing they would go still
higher. It therefore looked sure that
Master Wyx was to make a great deal of
money. Certainly that is the way he
regarded it, and he strutted about with
his hat tipped on the back of his head in
the most approved Stock Exchange
swagger.
Iu these operations, let me say, both
the seller and the buyers were taking
the right course. Acting on his belief
that the coins would become worth
more a few days hence than they then
w’ere, Wyx had shown good sense in se
, curing all he could honestly get and pay
for. Now, as a matter of fact, and as
Wyx foresaw would happen, they had
risen, and were really saleable to collec
tors down town at ten cents, and some
times for more. The other boys were
quite right, therefore, in buying them
back at that higher rate, and might
charge the difference which they had
lost to the account of acquiring knowl
edge—which is only bought by experi
ence, and that is usually paid for in
cash I
Now, among the boys at that school
was Jordan. Morning and evening be
peddled newspapers, and had grown
sharp. He learned when he went home
that afternoon that his father was just
going to a bank to receive some money.
Seeing his opportunity, the lad begged
his father to take five dollars of the pay
ment in the new nickels. These he could
get by asking for them (provided the
bank had so many) at their “face value”
—that is, five cents.
This fact was what Wyx had depended
upon nobody’s knowing; but it happened
that Jordan did know it, and sometimes
a very simple bit of knowledge, speedily
acted upon, is worth ft groat deal, as it :
proved in this case, for Mr. Jordan sue- I
oeeded in obtaining the five dollars ;
worth which ha lent to his enterprising I
son.
Well, Wyx appeared at school next
morning, his pockets just bulging with
nickels. He had no less than two hun
dred and seventy-five of them for sale at
it dime apiece. Before he had disposed
of a dozeu, however, Jordan came on the
play-ground, and, showing a handful of !
the coveted coins, immediately offered i
them at nine cents.
The nickel market up to this time had
been a one-sided affair; but now it was
divided between the “bulls” and the
“bears.”
You know it is the habit of a bull to
toss everything into the air which he i
attacks—to raise it; while, on the other |
hand, a bear pulls things down and gets I
under foot whatever he wishes to obtain I
or destroy. From this has arisen the I
habit among dealers in money, and what
are called “securities” (documents sup
posed to secure a certain amount of
wealth to their possessors), of calling a
man who would like to have the price
of an article increase, in order that he
may sell to better advantage, a “bull”;
and of calling him a “bear” who tries
to lower prices, in order that he may
buy more cheap ly.
Now, Wyx. of course, was a “bull” i
on the nickels in this school market, for I
naturally he’wantcd to keep the price I
as high as possible. Jordan, on the i
contrary, was a “bear,” polling the |
price down with all his might to favor a i
scheme of his own, as we shall see.
Thus he offered bis coins at nine cents,
and Wvx found his corner “busted.”
“I can’t stand this,” he exclaimed, in
dismay, “I’ll sell at eight.”
“Seven !” shouted Jordan, dropping
his price another notch as quick as a
flash.
“Six I” cried the bulk
Wyx was out of al) patience, that a
fellow should turn up in this way to ruin
his business. To be really like the
great railway and telegraph managers,
what the rival speculators should have
done at this point was to go off into a
corner and agree between themselves
that both would stick to the ten-cent
price. Then, if not enough buyers ap
peared to take all the nickels held by
both, they would, at the end of the
sale, divide what they had made.
This would be a “combination,” and
“pooling the profits.” But they didn’t
do it.
Jordan thought he knew a trick worth
two of that, aud showed himself a true
financier.
When we left them, you will remem
ber, in order to undersell the pestiferous
Jordan, Wyx had offered his coins at six
cents each. Quick as a wink Jordan
spun round and shouted: “I’ll take all
you’ve got I”
Imagine the astonishment and disguqA i
; of the outwitted Wyx, who as city men
i would say, had been caught out in a
i s hower without an umbrella!
But there was no way out of it. He
had made a public offer and it had been
taken up. He had to stand by it and
sell out, however much he disliked the
' bargain.
By borrowing and scraping Jordan got
together the 816.50 needed to pay for
his 275 nickels, which he then proceed
; ed to sell in small lots at ten cents, clear
ing four cents on each one by his quick
I wit, while the first speculator got little
| or no profit out of his supposed ‘ ‘corner. ”
j Tho boys bought, but it was with wry
faces, for they remembered they had
I not been sharp enough to take Wyx’s
offer of six before Jordan captured the
whole lot. They aptly represented the
i outsiders who speculate in Wall street,
aud whom the brokers laughingly cab (
i “lambs,” because it is their fate to ; > o 11
“fleeced.”—-New Ywk How. I;
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
English opinion on the Groely ex
pedition sympathizes with the American
idea that no more Arctic expeditions
should be sent out, but hints that it
will not prevent other Arctic expeditions
auy more than the latest accident on the
Mont Blanc will prevent Alpine ascents.
An artificial flower maker rejoices in
the extravagance of the time. Bouquets
of artificial flowers are carried by many
ladies at balls. A wreath of artificial
flowers is a pretty trimming for a
dress. One made for a lady at Saratoga
was of pinks and droopiug grass, aud
cost S9O.
A Chinese physician in this country
says that a very small proportion of Chi
namen die of consumption, because,
three hundred years ago, T'sang Loo, a
learned doctor, discovered that people
become afllicted with the disease by
breathing through tho mouth instead of
the nose.
There are more than a quarter of a
million women iu London who work with
their needle for a bare subsistence.
Their lot since the introduction of the
sewing machine is even worse than the
condition depicted in the “Song of the
Shirt.” Then they might live, now they
barely exist.
Mil Thomas Conroy is a hardworking
shoemaker in Tanner’s Falls, Pa., who,
in fulfillment of a vow, for twenty-six
years has refused to touch a fortune of
£5,000 and accumulated interest await
ing him in Dublin, Ireland, until his re
latives should apologize for having er
roneously accused him of sympathy
with the Molly Maguire organization.
From a paper contributed by the
veteran scholar, Dr. Edkins, to a recent
number of the Chinese Tte,corde,r, it ap
pears that about B. C. 2200 the Chinese
possessed a knowledge of the art of
writing, a year of 366 days with an in
tercalary month, the astrolabe, the
zodiac, the cycle of sixty, of twelve
musical reeds forming a gamut, whie,h
also constituted the basis of a denary
metrology for measures of length,
weight, and capacity, divination, and a
feudal system.
It is said that the following anecdote,
which has been told of a number of peo
ple, originated with Lord Cowley, who
nt one of his own parties in Paris, was
leaning against the mantlepieoe when
an unknown gentleman said to him,
“Do yon mean to say that Lord Cowley's
parties are never livelier than this'?”
“Never.” “Well," said the stranger,
“then I shall take myself off at once.”
“You’re a lucky man,” said Lord Cow
ley, with a sigh; “I’m obliged to stop.”
The manufacture of “buffalo-horn”
furniture has become an industry in
New York City. The horns are not
those of the bison, as is commonly be
lieved, but are from the cattle killed in
the abattoirs. They are sold at the
slaughter houses for a little more than
what the button manufacturers give, are
cleaned, dried, scrap d and polished.
The cost of making these horn goods is
less than that of carved wood, but they
bring two or three times more than the
latter. The new industry is almost mo
nopolized by Germaru from Saxony.
On the 21st of July, 1809, died Daniel
Lambert, at the early age of 39. What
his actual weight was at the time of his
death is not exactly known; but three
years before that melancholy event
when he exhibited himself at his house,
53 Picadily, he weighed, according to
one of his exhibition bills, 1,222 pounds,
London weight. The coffin enclosing
bis remains, which was with some diffi
culty deposited in St. Mark’s Church
yard, contained no less than 112 super
ficial feet of elm, was 6 feet 4 inches
long, 4 feet 4 inches wide, aud 2 feet 4
inches deep.
Her Embarrassing Mistake,
As a lady opened the door of a Second
street residence to a ring Monday, a
neatly dressed individual bowed politely
and inserted one foot in fbe doorway far
enough to guarantee that proceedings
would not be brought to too summary a
close. The lady concluded he was an
agent and remarked in vigorous tones:
'I don’t want anything !” at the same
time giving undeniable indications that
she desired to shut the door.
“I beg your pardon, madam, I am
not offering you anything,” said he with
an injured and dignified air.
“Pray excuse me,” she answered,
“my mistake arose from the fact that I
have been greatly annoyed by agents.
Whom did you wish to aee ?”
Without noticing her inquiry he said:
“Madam, it is difficult to reconcile your
reception of me with what a genfl'mm,
would naturally expect at the hand of a
lady. Such brusquenesu is chilling to
refined and sensitive natures accustomed
to the usages of polite society.”
Again apologizing, she was about to
ask him in, when be drew from his cord
pocket a little box and opening it, ex
plained: “Madam, I have for sale her
an invaluable ”
The feat of extracting his foot from
that doorway liefore the door siammed
with a noise that could be heard two
blocks so distracted his attention that
he left toe sentence uncompleted.
M. Qvak.
It is a wise young man who early
makes up his mind that gamblers know
more about gambling than be does.
NO. 37.
ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
A Few of the Kxpeditlono that Have At
tempted to Find nn Open Polar Mca.
It is but eight years less than three
cftituries since the first Arctic expedi
tion reached the region of polar ice and
spent a dreary winter locked in by the
icebergs and shut up in their huts by
wolves, snow storms and white bears.
Two lives were sacrificed in this expedi
tion, which reached a latitude of 80 de
grees and 11 minutes.
Three hundred years have passed and
j the latest, the Greely expedition,touched
83 degrees 24 minutes, fbe highest lati
tude reached since the Dutch navigators
spent ten months in the ice off the island
of Nova Zembla. In all these three
centuries only three degrees of the jour
ney to the pole have been overcome—a
distance something less than the dis
tance between New York and Boston, a
little more than between New York and
Albany.
This fact alone is a significant com
ment upon the value of these expedi
tions which have cost a prince’s revenue
and as many lives as have been lost in
some noted battles.
The Dutch were the great navigators
of the sixteenth century, and soon after
achieving their nation’s independence
began to speculate upon a passage to
China and India byway of the North
Pole, Their ideas of that region were
fanciful indeed. Somo believed that
' those seas inclosed a polar continent of
perpetual summer and unbroken day
light, whose inhabitants had attained
perfection in virtue and intelligence.
Others thought it peopled with monsters
having horses’ hoofs, dogs’ heads and
ears so long that they coiled them
around their bodies in lieu of clothing.
' Other tribes were headless with eyes in
I their breasts, living in incessant fogs
; and tempests during the summer, but
; dying every winter and, like plants, re
■ vived to life by the advent of a brief
I spring. It was believed that the voya-
I gera would have to encounter mountains
i of ice and volcanoes of fire, together
j with monsters on land and sea more fe
rocious than the eye of man ever saw.
j But in spite of these terrors, on the
j sth of June, 1594, the first expedition
I to navigate these frozen seas set out
from Amsterdam. Their ships and ap
pliances were of the rudest description. I
In place of the stanch modern steam- I
boats built for the purpose they sailed I
iu small, unwieldy vessels built like a
tower at stern aud stem, scooped in the
middle and scarcely able to plow their i
way through the water, to say nothing 1
of the ice. Instead of the delicate and j
ingenious scientific instruments consti
tuting an exploring outfit of the present
day they had a clumsy astronomical
ring three feet in circumference on
which they depended for ascertaining
the latitude. They had no food, no rifles,
no compact ammunition, no heavy
clothing of fur, no rubber garments, no
logarithm, log or nautical almanacs, no
tea, coffee, or tho hundreds of luxuries,
stimulants, medicines, and other stores
which now abound in such profusion.
1 The first expedition was turned back |
by the ice aud polar bears, but the ?
problem of a northeast passage to China '
was considered solved, and the next year j
a second ship was sent with a cargo ol |
broadcloth, lines and tapestries for the l
Chinese market which the explorers j
were expected to reach. Again the ice
aud the bears frightened them back.
But an offer of 25,000 florins to the
discoverer of a northeast passage to the
east led to a third expedition, the first
that outlived a polar winter amidst
perils and sufferings, whose story reads j
as much like the narratives of Kane and '
Di-Long, of Hayes and Gret-ly, as the |
stories of shipwreck and rescue in the !
days of Robinson Crusoe read like those !
of the days of Enoch Arden.
Notwithstanding all the discoveries ;
-- - • ■ - . , -?»1
Showers on Tup.
is generally believed that the dis- I
charge of artillery tends to dispel clouds I
and mists in the immediate neighbor- !
hood. A French electrician combats ■
this theory, and maintains that the
effect of a series of sufficiently violent
detonations would be to compel the
clouds to discharge their moisture. He
even goes so far as to say that it would
be perfectly possible to produce a fall of
rain iu this way. He suggests a method
by which he believes this often highly
desirable result might be brought about.
His plan is to send up one or more bal
loons freighted with panclastite or some
other equally explosive compound, i
They are to be connected with a battery '
on the ground by means of a fine wire,
and when they attain the necessary alti
tude—that is, when they enter the
; cloud-zone—the spark is to be trans
mitted. The detonation will follow, and
a refreshing shower will be the result.
Farmers and others wAo suffer heavily
from the effects of a prolonged drought
will probably be anxious that the French
savant system should be given a trial, •
no method hitherto devised for obtain- •
ing rain having proved quite efficacious,
I — St. JarMssf Budget.
Hereditary.—A West Somerset, Eng
land, jury is said to have returned the j
verdict: “Died by the hereditary visits- i
tiou of God,” in the case of a man whu
had broken his neok when drunk, aud
whose grutlfather had met with a like
mishap.
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WK FIND IN THEM TO HMILJI
OVEK THIS WEEK.
HB HAD BEEN TO SCHOOL.
"Where have yon been, yon young
rascal ?” angrily demanded Fitzgoober,
as Pinder came sneaking in at the back
door, late in the afternoon.
“Been to school,” slowly answered
Pinder, dropping his books and anx
iously eyeing the strap his father dan
gled so tantalizingly.
“Been to school ? Oh, you little liar,
do you think I'm to be fooled that easy ?
I went over to the academy and you
hadn't been there to-day; one of the
boys said you had gone fishing. Now,
what have you to say to that
Gradually edging toward the door and
keeping a chair between him and his
father, Pinder raised his soulful eyes
and innocently asked:
“Well, pa, don't fishes have schools f”
—Atlanta Constitution.
A COMPLETE DISGUISE.
Jones, before starting for the country
for a Sunday’s shooting, wrapped his
new gun up into the smallest possible
compass.
“I wouldn't have anyone know I had
a gun with me for anything,” he re
marked.
“Why, my dear?” asked Mrs. Jones.
“The parson has moved over on this
street and you know I haven’t been to
church for six weeks.”
“Well, he would nover guess you have
a gun. It looks more like a fishing
rod.”— Graphic.
EXPECTING TOO MUCH.
Little Billy Simpton is aged about 10.
Not long since the Simpton family was
increased by still another little boy, and
a friend of the family, meeting Billy,
said to him:
“So you have got another baby at
at your house. He is a right smart little
fellow, ain’t he ?”
“Humph 1” sneered Billy, turning up
his nose: “bow many smart boys do you
expect us to have in our family ?”
Texas Siftings.
LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE.
Mrs. Slimdiet—"Yes, I knowhelooka
like a nice young man, but I told him I
had no vacancies.”
Miss S.—“ But yon have, ma, and he
said he would pay his board in advance.
Why didn’t you take him ?”
“Because he is a market clerk.”
“But what of that ?”
“Everything. He will always be talk
ing at table about the early vegetables
and other high-priced things just arrived
in market. ’’—l’Mla Call.
BATHER SEVERE ON A BABE BALL MUFFER.
One of the mnffers of the Cincinnati
Club was attractilfg great attention in
the hotel dining-room by ordering
around the servants. Just as the head
waiter walked up he suddenly rapped on
his glass with a vigor aud a four-tined
fork.
“Waiter,” he cried, “there is a fly in
my cabbage.”
“That’s all right,” said the head
waiter, “don’t mind it. There is no
danger of your catching it.”
The remainder of the meal was fin
ished in silence.
A LITTLE HELP.
Maud—lsn’t this a queer title for a
book, mother—“ Not Like Other Girls?”
1 wonder what can she be if she is not
like other girls ?
Mother—l don’t know, unless she
goes into the kitchen and helps her
mother instead of staying in the parlor
to read novels.— Life.
THE DUTTES OF A SERVANT.
“Mamma," complained a little girl,
running into the house, “me and Willie
wanted nurse to sit down and let us
pour sand in her back, and she
wouldn’t.”
“Certainly not. She did quite right”
“Well, that's what you told her she
was to do when she first came.”
“I told her that she was to let you
and Willie pour sand down her back ?”
“Not exactly that, mamma, but yon
told her she was to mind the children.”
SHE GOT HER SEAT.
“Is this seat engaged?” asked a email,
thin woman of a fat man in the New
Huven train the other day.
No reply.
“Will you please take your feet down
and let me sit on this seat?” she re
peated in a louder tone of voice.
Again no reply.
“I read to-day,” she continued still
louder, “that a Chicago man has cor
nered all the pork in ths world. How
did you manage to escape ?”
At the next station she had the whole
seat to herself.— Graphic.
NEW USB FOB BABIES.
“They say if you put a baby in the
water it will not sink,” eaid William to
his wife Susan the other day. "Don’t
you want to go down to the lake this
afternoon ?”
"But, my dear, you’ve always ob
jected to our going on the » afar, purely
on baby’s account, for you’ve said the
trip was dangerous, and that .here were
no life-preservers on the Itoat."
"But don’t you see that all the diffi
culty is obviated ?”
“No, I can’t say that I do.”
“Why, the baby can’t sink."
“Well, suppose there is some acci
dent. What is to become of ns ?”
“We’ll hang on to the baby.”—De
troit Free Press.
Some of the Tichborne claimants'
friends visited him in Portsea convi t
prison the other day, aud told him of
the proceedings jn the colony of New
South Wales for the release of “Arthur
Orton’’ from the Paramatta lunatic
asylum. The claimant said ho did not
mean to slumber when he eame out of
prison. He will be released on the 24th
of October next from Pentonville
prison, to which place he will lie re
moved about a week previously. Eleven
members of Parliament have signed the
memorial to tho Home Secretary for
“Arthur Orton” to be brought to Lon
don at the country's expense,