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PI’BLISHRB EVERY THURSDAY'
BELLTON, GrA.
<>BY JOHN BL ATS.
? Ikbms—-sl.ou per annum ;50 cents for six
months; 25 cents for three months.
Parties away from Bellton are requested
n to send their names, with such amounts of
z money as they can spare, from 2 je. to sl.
One hundred and eighty-one thousand
emigrants arrived in New York during
the year ending on the first of December,
as compared with one hundred and
7 twenty year, -y -y
7 ~
Printing paper is sharing the fate of
.bther manufactured articles at the pres
ent time in experiencing a very decided
, boom. A continuance of the rise in
price which has been going on for a few
past will seriously contract the
profit of publishers, unless invention
shall come to their rescue in the mean
time with cheaper methods of produc
tion and new fields for capital.
It is to Ik* regretted that American
wine-makers have already begun the
,-j practice of doctoring their wines and
£ make no secret of doing so, saying that
purchasers prefer the doctored wines to
the pure. Spirits, sugar and water are
added largely. Last season 1,500,000
gallons of wine were made on the islands
at the western end of Lake Erie, and of
this only 1,000,000 were pure wine. On
these islands theTe are 1.000 acres planted
with vines, the yield for the year being
10,000,000 pounds of grapes.
A state committee on railroad affair
brought out the following facts: The
average price of box-cars is S4OO to SSOO.
In 1872 they were as high as $1,200.
A milk-car costs about SIOO more than
an ordinary box-car. A baggage-car
truck or a passenger-car varies from $2,-
000 to $2,500. Wagner’s drawing-room
cars cost from s<B,ooo to $12,000 —this in
cludes all furnishing. Mail-cars from
$2,500 to $3,000. New York elevated
cars cost from $2,500 to $3,000. The
last ordinary passenger-OBr on the Hud
■* son River line cost $5,400, including a
heater and some extra fietures
Tin F rst National b:nk of New
Y< rk, did not neg irate stufir an enor
mous amount of t noth
ing. Their pi < veer ex
< cd anything fis*r in the history
of banking. The capital of the bank is
half a million and its stock is I eld pi
about SI,OOO a s' are and none offered fcr
sal a Last year they carried half a mil
lion to the surplus account, making it
three times as much as the capital and
paid out 120 percent in dividends, besides
leaving $267,700 undivided. This shows
.a profit during the year of over 250 per
cent, and much of the credit is due to
the manag ment of President Fahne
stock. who got his experience in funding
while a member pf t’e firm of Jay
Cooke at Co.
Two men of science, SignorTommassi,
of 1 me. and Prof. Kleb, of Prague, af
ter spending three weeks in that fever
stricken region, the Roman Campagna,
experimenting on the soil, its atmosphere
:m<l its stagnant waters, “ have succeed
ed,” it is said, “in discovering a micro
seopic fungus, which, being placed under*
the skins of healthy dogs, caused dis
tinct and regular paroxysims of inter
mittent fever, and produced in the spleens
of these animals that peculiar condition
which is a recognized part of the pathol
ogy of this disease.” Similar results
were obtained by investigation by others,
among them by .Prof. Salisbury, of
Cleveland, Ohio, and Dr. Clements, of
Louisville, who announced in 1878 the
results of the investigations and experi
ments.
DURING his journey to MA ico, Gen
eral Grant will have an opportunity to
vistt the scenes of his first military ex
ploit*. He will land at Vera Cruz, which
be helped capture in 1846, and go over
the ground between the place and the
citv of Mexico, which he traversed with
• the army of General Scott. Grant was
onlv 23 years old, when, as a stripling
officer, just out of West Point, he was
sent to Texas with his regiment. He
fought at Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma
and Monterey, and then went to join
<cott before Vera Cruz. He missed the
battle of Buena Vista by this transfer,
but with the exception of that engage
ment he took part in every battle of the
war. There were few officers who had
the luck to be where the fighting wa
the hardest from the beginning to th
, I of that struggle. Molina del Ray
gave bint his promotion to a first lieu
tenancy, and his behavior at Chepulta
pec earned him a brevet captaincy.
■ =
When a young man gets a cutaway
eoat that buttons from the watch chain
up to the ahirt collar, and can hold an
inch stub of a cigar between his teeth
and look unconcerned, he's entitled to ,
quotation, and it’s an ungrateful public !
that fails to notice him. What incen
tive has a young man to effort in a
world that persistently refuse to recog
nize merit?
The North Georgian.
VOL. 111.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
There are 4,000 colored Masons in
North Carolina.
The Georgia State Lunatic Asylum is
full of patients.
The Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum
has 4000 inmates.
Macon, Ga., used $13,000 worth of
Christmas fire-works.
Senoia, Ga., is to have a Clement at
tachment cotton mill.
The salarv of the Mayor of Savannah,
Ga., ii $2,400 per year.
The Unive'sity of Alabama has a li
brary if 7,000 volumes.
S x per cent, bonds of the City of
August*, Ga., are sold at par.
Os the 2,000 convicts in the Texas
penitentiary only five are women.
White shad are already being caught
in the Roanoke, in North Carolina.
Ninety-three arrests were made on the
streets of Macon, Ga., on Christmas.
Thousands of orange trees are dying
in Florida from some unknown blight.
Sherman, Texas, has appropriated sl,-
000 for the construction of an artesian
well.
Two hundred new buildings were erect
ed in Nashville during 1870 at a cost of
$900,000.
The guava in the near future, will be
one of the most prominent exports from
Florida.
8 Not a white man was seen drunk in
the streets of Baton Rouge, La., on
Christmas.
The tobacco stamp tax paid in Orange
county, N. C., during November, amount
ed to $1,092.76,
A woman named Sallie Patterson was
convicted in Memphis of ''aFlwine con
cealed weapons.
This fall the mercliants of Abbeville
S. C., have had the Ix-sl cash trade ever
known in the town. '
It is reported that two extensive cigar
factories a e to be removed from Havana
to Key West, Fla. •/?
The people of Perry, Ga., impose to
have one of the finest public libraries in
the United States.
Hon. John C. Nicholls is trying to get
a SIOO,OOO appropriation for the harbor
at Brunswick, Ga.
The Nashville American published a
list <>f colored ladies who were “at home”
on New Year’s day.
The negroes in southwestern Georgia
show a disposition to work exclusively
for wages next year.
The annexation of Edgefield will make
Nashville’s population 60,000 by the
next birthday of the city.
Nine hundred maimed ex-Confederate
soldiers have applied to the state of
Georgia for artificial limbs.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South has five conferences in Texas, em
bracing 79,763 members.
They have a colored voting population
in Winston, N. C., of 359, only twenty
six of whom pay any poll-tax.
In Walton county, Ga., a Miss Mcßhea
raised this year seventeen bales of cotton
and a good crop of corn and wheat.
Twenty-three SI,OOO of Madison
county, Ala., were sold to S. P. Reed, of
Memphis, at six per cent, premium.
A stalk of tobacco eight fact high, from
Granville county, N. C., is shown in the
agricultural museum of that State.
It is estimated that Arkansas will pro
duce this year6oo,ooo balescotton, which
at a low figure, will yield $30,000,000.
Thos. S. Miller, a young man in Lan
caster county, N. C., drank a pint and
a half of rum and died in a few hours.
The Good Templars arc flourishing in
Georgia. During the past month eight
new lodges have been organized in the
State.
The Georgia Railroad presented eight
car loads of old ties to the Mayor of
Augusta, for distribution among the
poor for fuel.
Visitors to the cotton factory at At
lanta have become so numerous that or
ders have bean issued prohibiting the
admission of any.
The buildingsnow in courseof erection
in Chattanooga are most elegant in class
and style, and more costly than were
ever before erected in that city.
Hon. A. P. Butler of Aiken county,
has been elected State Commissioner of
Agriculture of South Carolina. He is a
practical agriculturist of large experience.
The fair grounds at Nashville have
been sold for $40,000 to a firm of Nor
thern capitalists, who propose erecting
thereon furnaces and a merchant iron
mill.
About twenty farms and twice as
many gardens in San Saba connty, Texas,
were irrigated last season. In most in
stances the water is obtained from
springs.
Gadsden, Ala., this season will buy
12,000 bales of cotton, sell $1,000,000 of
goods, manufacture 20,000,000 feet of
lumber and thousands of dollars of fur
niture.
The Confederate monument in Wilcox
county, Ala., will be begun at once, and
the contractor promises to have it ready
for the dedication services by the 26th
! of April.
Owing’ to the reduced appropriations
i for the city government of New Orleans
, for the ensuing year, a wholesale reduc
j tion will be made in the number of the
| city employes.
I An association for the manufacture of
wine, with a capital of SIO,OOO, has lieen
.organized in Randolph county, Ga.
Grape culture ha- lieen carried to great
j perfection in that county.
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA., JANUARY 15. 1880.
MKIiTILNO.
BT J ENN IB JONM.
Drifting on life’s pleasant waters,
You and I,
Watching all the prouder ▼easels
Sailing by.
There aro ships with tTeasnre laden
Down the bay;
See their white sails proudly filling
Far away.
They are bearing hopes and promise
From afar;
Some will anchor in the harbor, some ground
. On the bar.
Pirate vessels, cruising ever
In disguise,
With their wiles will capture many
A rich prize.
Wrecks of many a noble teasel
Strew the lea,
Bearing only freight of love;
Natffcht fear we.
Storms are on the ocean wrecking
Many a bark;
Many a gallant ship goes down
In the dark.
When the storm-tossed ocean billows
Madly roar, i
Then our bark so lightly laden K
Keeps near shore. X\
Drifting on when skies are brighter, j
You and I;
We’ll not envy prouder vessels mK
Sailing by.
Cnrions Facts About Memory.
A French scientist has been studving
the faculty of memory as exhibited by
different races, and its relation to the
other mental faculties as shown in indi
viduals of the same race. His state
ments are interesting:
The inferior races of mankind, such
as negroes, the Chinese, etc., have more
memory than those of a higher type of
civilzations.
Primitive races which were unac
quainted with the art of writing had a
wonderful memory, and were for ages in
the habit of handing down, from one
generation toanotfer, hymns as volumin
ous as the Bible.
Prompters and professors of declama
tion know that women have more mem
ory than men. French women will learn
a foreign language quicker than their
husl\pds.
YoutUs\have more nmrfl’ory than
adults. It is well developed in children,
attains its maximum about the four
teenth or fifteenth year, and then de
creases.
Feeble individual of a lymphatic tem
perament have more memory than the
strong. Students who obtain the prize
for memory and recitation chiefly belong
to the former class.
Perisian studentshave also less mem
ory than those who come from the prov
inces. At the Ebole Normale and
other schools the pupils who have the
best memory are not the most intelli
geiit.
The memory is more developed among
the peasantry than among citizens; and
among the clergy than among the laity.
From a physiological point of view,
memory is diminished by over-feeding,
by physical exercise, and by education,
in thissense, that the illiterate have po
tentially more memory than those who
know how to read and write.
We remember, moreover, better in the
morning than in the evening, in the sum
mer than in the winter, and better in
warm than in cold climates.
Stanley, the Explorer.
Stanley, the explorer has been heard
from. In a letter dated at the mouth of
the Congo, September 13, he says that
he has done much work, and proposes
to do much more, for establishing trade
and civilization in Africa. After equip
ping one expedition on the East Coast,
reconstructing another, exploring sev
eral districts, he has come via the Medi
terranean, to the West Coast, intrusted
with an important mission by the Inter
national Society, of which the King of
the Belgians is the head. Ho adds:
“I am charged to open—and keep
open, if possible—all such districts and
countries as I may explore for the com
mercial world. The mission is supported
by a philanthropic society which num
bers noble minded men of several na
tions. It is not a religious society, but
my’ instructions are entirely of that
spirit. No violence must be used, and
wherever rejected the mission must
withdraw to seek another field. We
have abundant means, and, therefore,
we are to purchase the very atmosphere,
if any demands be made upon us, rather
than violently oppose them. A year’s
trial will demonstrate whether progress
can be made and tolerance be granted
under this new system. In some regions
experience tells me the plan may work
wonders. God grant it success every
where! I have fifteen Europeans and
about two hundred natives with me. It
is too early yet to say much of them;
but most of the natives seem not worth
their rations. However, patience! We
shall see what time will make of us all,
and how it will mold us all anew for the
good work.”
With Stanley’s experience and tact,
and the large means at his disposal, there
is every reason to be hoped that civili
zation may soon penetrate some of the
most benighted region of the dark con
tinent
As to Serpents Charming.
In imitation of the historical iconoclast
a scientific disillusionist, writing for the
Popular Science Monthly, says that the
belief in the power of a serpent to charm
small animals had its origin in super
stitious ignorance. The writer contends
that a snake has no such power and that
what appears to be the result of a
“charm” is nothing more or less than the
last act of a well played tragedy. The
snake’s fangs being thin and retractile
he says no effort is made to retain the
prey after it is onced seized. Stealthily
the serpent creeps up to its victim and
inflicts the fatal wound. The sure work
ing of the virus, says the disillusionist,
constitutes the “charm.” Has the cre
dulity of the world been imposed on lor
! centuries, or has the Papula, Srirnce
writer just begun to impose on the
I world.
TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIBERTY.
Welding Cards and Stationery.
In welding cards there is a fancy for
writing the invitation on one of the
three divisions of; a folding card and
placing the names of the bride and
groom ox the other two. Wedding an
nouncements, in cases where there is no
public teremony, are printed on tv.o
cards, one very large, the other veiy
small, she first bears the name of ti e
married couple, the other that of the
bride. The smallest of neat plain script
is used in all these printed forms. In
stationery, a few novelties have ap
peared, ind among them is the butter
cup papc-, which is of a pale green, with
a buttcrcip stamped upon it in outline,
or stamjed and painted on by hard.
Other styles of note paperhavero. es,
four-leaf clover, violets and lillies of the
valley er i bossed upon them, and pietty
little botes containing four kinds are
made vp for those who like varii ty.
The new Christmas cards represent pretty
little gifis clad in Oriental fashion play
ing with gorgeous fans; plucking roses
in waited gardens; coquetting with
bright-winged birds; and they are col
ored so brilliantly that all other cards
look plain beside them. Entirely differ
ent in spirit, but almost as attractive, is
a set of cards representing the rats ser
enading the cat and wooing her with
sweet sound? of the fiddle to come forth
and havener head chopped offby a bad lit
tle rat wlo pitifully lifts a tambourine
for alms and vengefully shakes a hatchet
behind him. In the next picture the
cat is served up on the table, and in the
third even his bones have gone and the
rats are toasting his memory in old port.
The moon brings “compliments of the
season” in another series of cards, its
round, jolly face beaming out of gray
clouds and brigtening up the rooms into
which it shines. A set which ought to
please everybody who has the rage for
pottery represents jars of deep green
and violet and of an iridescent glass
holding bouquets of flowers.
A Brother Marries His Sistei.
A young and respectable looking
couple, brother and sister, named Fred
and Louisa Rauchmann, son and daugh
ter of a quiet, respectable farmer, resid
ing in Lone Grove township, about
twenty miles from Vandalia,. Illinois,
boarded thh train a short time ago, went
to St. Louis and were made husband and
wife. They remained in the city for a
day or two, then returned homeward,
getting ■,;! the train at Browntown, a
station eight miles from Vandalia, and
for fear of being detected, wandered off
in the woods near town, and remained
there till found andvarrested by con
stable Joseph Copeland.
The man is about twenty-one years of
age, and of good appearance, and his
sister nineteen, and rather good looking.
When asked why he was induced to com
mit such an act he said: “My sistei
loved me so well that we thought the
best thing we could do would be to get
married.” He was further asked if he
did not know it was wrong and against
the law to do so, and also why they hid
themselves in the woods and kept away
from their parents. This he answered
by saying: “We did not know it was
wrong, and only hid in the woods for
fear of being discovered by our folks, as
they were very much opposed to our
marrying.”
Their parents are very respectable
people and are sadly grieved over the
unparalleled act of their children. They
were tried, found guilty and bound over,
the man’s bond being fixed at SSOO, and
the woman’s at S3OO, in default of which
they were committed to the county jail.
The affair has created great excitement
in Vandalia.
Turned the Tables on Him.
{lndianapolis News.)
James H. Rice, of the State at large,
has recently been in St. Louis. While
there he stepped into the postoffice to
buy five threc-cent stamps, laying down
a naif dollar therefor and licking the
stamps while waiting for his change. To
him the postoffice clerk said:
“ Can’t take that half-dollar; it’s got a
hole in it.”
“ All right,” said Rice, “ take it out of
this quarter.”
A bystander here asked the clerk why
he wouldn’t take the money with holes
in it. The clerk explained that in set
tling with the Government the silver
was weighed and the office would lose
money by short weight. Here he laid
down two nickels as change for Rice.
One of them had a hole in it. Rice
glared at him.
“ That nickel has a hole in it, sir, and
I shall thank you to give me another. I
lost over $500,000 last year by taking
mutilated nickels.”
“ Wh-wh-what’s your name?”
" James H. Rice, purchasing agent of
the United States Government, post
office address, Mt. Vernon, Posey County
Indiana,” said “Jim,” pocketing the two
sound nickels and moving off' with great
dignity. _
A man whose countenance was homely
enough to scare a Quaker, was lounging
about a public house, when he was ob
served by a Yankee, who asked him if
he had not met with an accident when
he was young. “ What do you mean,
you impertinent scoundrel?” “Why,
1 didn’t mean nothin’, only you’ve got
such and all-fired crooked mouth I
thought as how you might a’ fall’n in
the brook when you was a boy, and your
mother hung you up by the mouth to
dry. ’
The Frankfort JCxpress says “it is
claimed that the Jakes rise and fall regu
larly every seven years, and that they
are now at their lowest stage,” being
eighteen or twenty inches lower than
usually.
NO. 2.
AMERICAN INGENUITY.
(Jliroiiolojjilcnl Account of Some Early In
vention* and Enterprises.
[Manufacturer and Builder.]
1786 The first steam engine built,
after the Newcomen type, for the Schuy
ler copper mines.
1772—Another similar engine, made
for a factory in Philadelphia.
1785 —Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
introduced steam power to drive a flour
mill and a brickyard.
1785—James Rumsey propelled a ves
sel on the Potomac River by the reaction
of the water.
1787 Perkins invented a nail cutting
machine which could make 200,000 nails
per day.
1788— John Fitch navigated the Dela
ware River with the first steamboat.
1794—Whitney’s cotton gin invented.
1796 Benjamin Thompson, otherwise
Count Rumford, discovered that there
is no such thing as a caloric fluid, but
that heat is a peculiar mode of motion
of the material particles of bodies, and
thus laid the foundation of the modern
theory of the conservation of forces.
1797 —Benjamin Thompson invented a
brush-making machine.
1797 Amos Whittemore introduced a
machine for making the cards used in
cotton and woolen manufacture.
1798 Robert McKean patented the
first steam saw-mill.
1799 Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
made the first high-pressure steam en
gine, and built a steam carriage, which,
however, was not a success.
1804—Col. John Cox Stevens invented
the screw propeller, the model of which
is still at the Hoboken (N. J.) Institute
for Engineers.
1804 —Oliver Evans built a paddle
wheel steamer, to ply on the Delaware
and Schuylkill rivers, driven by a
double-acting high-pressure engine; also
adapted for land conveyance.
1806 — Thomas Blanchard, of Massa
chusetts, ’ invented a tack-making ma
chine, Which made 30,000 tacks per
hour.
1807— Thomas Blanchard made an ap
paratus adapted for rifling gun barrels.
1807—Robert Fulton traveled with
bis first steamboat from New York to
Albany.
1807 —Oilcloth for floor carpeting first
made in Philadelphia.
1807 —John Redford invented and
manufactured metal-bound boots and
shoes.
1811—John H. Hall, of Massachusetts,
invented Breech-loading muskets.
1612 (ieorge Shoemaker sold in Phil
adelphia several truck-loads of anthra
cite coal for fuel, and was imprisoned as
an imposter for selling stones for coal.
1813—Francis C. Lowell made impor
tant improvements in the power loom.
1817—George Clymer produced the
first American made printing press.
1818 —Jacob Perkins introduced steel
engravings as a substitute for copper.
1819— The Savannah made the first
passage across the Atlantic Ocean by
steam power driving paddlewheels.
1820 — Henry Burden, of Troy, N. Y.,
invented the cultivator.
1821 — The same inventor improved
rolling mills.
1821— Jordan L. Mott invented utili-
small coal for furnaces.
1822 James McDonald, of New York,
invented machinery for cleaning flax
and hemp.
1823 Jos. Saxon invented a wheel
cutting engine, producing epicycloidal
teeth.
1824 Ladoc Pratt established his cel
ebrated tanneries in the Catskills, New
York State.
1824—Completion of the Erie Canal,
connecting the large lakes with the Hud
son river.
1826—Harrison A. Dyer established
the first telegraph line on Long Island,
making signals with fractional elec
tricity.
1827 —John McClinter, of Pennsyl
vania, invented the slotting and shaping
m ichinc.
1828—First American patent for im
provements in locomotives granted.
1828 hirst locomotive journey made
on the Honesdale and C'aibondale rail
way, Pennsylvania.
1828— Hay and straw used for the first
time to make paper.
1828 - James Bogardus invented the
| ring flyer for spinning cotton.
1829 The same invented mills with
eccentric grinding surfaces.
1832 —James Bogardus invented a dry
gas meter.
1834—Henry Burden invented his nail
making machines.
1836-James Bogardus invented a
pantograph.
1840 —The same invented the molds to
press glass in while blowing.
1841 —The same made improvements
in drilling machinery.
Since the conventions and patents
have succeeded in another at a most
astonishing rate.
To Our Old Grandfather.
A monument having been proposed
for our old friend Adam, the New Haven
Reyister suggests an epitaph:
Erected
to the
Memory of
ADAM,
The Grand Father
of
The Human Race.
He rote on morning anil fell before Era
Ge thou and de Ukewiue.
Anyone who thinks Japan is an il
literate country is sadly mistaken. Dur
ing last year 47,000,000 articles passed
through the Japanese post. Twenty-five
million letters were sent, 100,000,000
post cards and 9,500,000 newspapers. In
1870 there were no less than 1,000 post
offices in Japan; now there are over
5,000.
Published Evbby Thursday at
BELLTON, GEORGIA.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
One year (52 numbers), $1.00; six mont j
(26 numbers). 50 cents; three months h«
numbers), 25 cents.
Office in the Smith building, east of the
depot.
waifs and whims.
It takes a sober man to walk a tight
rope
We welcome cold weather with
warmth. ,
“ By my trough,” as the male pig said
to his sweetheart.
If time is really money any man ought
to be worth his wait in gold.
An American mimed Doyle built ths
first paper mill in Japan in 1874.
In Milwaukee street cars everybody
talks; in Chicngo mum is the word
The wool crop of Texas amounts to
over twenty-two million pounds a year
Acquirements are often mistaken to»
abilities. There is a difference in value
of silver and plated ware.
A glass bracelet, of elegant workman
ship, has been found eighty feet beneath
the surface of the ground, near Castro
ville, Texas.
BKXVTiFCt.? T«, but the blush will fade, ;
The light grow dim which the blue eyes wear;
The gloss will vanish from curl and braid.
And the sunbeam die in the waving hair;
Turn from the mirror and strive to win
Treasures of loveliness still to last;
Gather earth's glories and bloom within,
Thai the soul may be bright when youth Is past.
It is vulgar to tell a man he lies.
Just inform him in your sweetest man
ner that the prodigality of his assertion
is beyond belief.— Hackensack Repub
lican.
Some errors you are allowed to cor
rect, but marriage, is a take “for better
or fox worse,” ami young man and young
woman, you ought to consider this be
fore you allow the orange blossom, to
bloom.
A dentist in Bristol, Vt., recently
received by mail an order for a set of
teeth which readas follows: “ My mouth
is thre’e inches acros’, five-eighth inches
through the jaw. Sum hummocky on
the edge. Shuped like a horse-shoe, toe
forrard? If you want to be more par
tiklar J shall have to come thar.”
“ The prudent man seeth the danger
afar off and hideth himself,” was the
text the village clergyman took before
descending the cellar stairs, after catch
ing a glimpse of a huge donation party
looming up in the distance.
A Jersey man was once thrown one
hundred and fifty feet by an express
train, when he picked himself up, looked
around for his hat and remarked; “Well,
if I don’t find that hat I’ll make the
company pay for it.”
fiCFTLT the Rilrery moon shone down
In the midnight cold and clear,
And the toney of a couple wooing
W ere borne to the listening ear.
Like the whispered words of some dark plot
Ju the stories*to children told,
Her voice floated upward through the air,
“ Oh, Charlie, but your nose is cold.”
~~SleubenvilU Herald.
Young Seward placed a pistol at his
head, iu the presence of the girl who
had rejected his suit, at Houston, Minn.,
and said he was going to commit suicide.
He counted, “ One, two—” and she cov
ered her eyes with her hands. “ Look
at me,” he said. She obeyed—“ three!”
and into his brain went the fatal bullet.
A BOTTLE of wine was <lug out of the
ruins of Pompeii the other day, which
had been buried eighteen hundred years.
It will be opened soon at a banquet, and
sampled. If age increases the flavor of
wine, as is claimed, that bottle will bo
very aromatic, and those who drink
much of it will go home in a hack.—
PecEs Sun.
X has the best kind of a reputation as
an unrivaled liar. “ tie is so much at
home in lying,” said A, speaking of him,
“ that whenever by mistake he tells the
truth, he becomes confused and troub
led.” “ He’s so great a liar,” said an
other of X.’s friends, “ that you can’t
even believe the contrary of what he
tells yc-u.”
“ That passage in your novel doesn’t
seem particularly new, you know.”
“ Well, maybe it isn’t, but then what
does Solomon say? Nothing new under
the sun, you know. Take up any book
you like, and I defy you to find in it a
single word, a single syllable, a single let
ter even, that hasn’t been used over and
over and over again.
A Denver girl, " just for fun,” en
gaged herself to marry two men, but
appointed the same day, hour and place
for a secret wedding with each. The
suitors were somewhat disconcerted by
each others presence, as well as by the
girl’s absence, but tliey finally camo to
an amicable understanding to despise
her.
A Gate Story.
[Burlington Hawkey*.]
“Serena, darling,” he murmnred; an<!t
the old gate scarcely creaked as it swung
to and fro beneath her light weight, and
the silent stars looked down with ten
derer glances, and all South Hill seemed
to hold its breath to listen. “Serena,
sweet,” he said, and the radiant blushes
that kindled over the pearly brow and
cheeks, softened the silent lovelight in
her lustrous eyes. “Serena, my own, if
every glittering star that beams above,
if every passing breeze that stops to kiss
thy glowing cheeks, if every rustling
leaf that whispers to the night were liv
ing, burning, loving thoughts; if every
—Oh-h-ho-ho! Ow-w! Wow-ow! Aw-w
oh, oh, ohl Oh, jimmy peltl Oh, glory!
Oh, murder, murder, murder! Oh, dad
rang the swizzled old gate to the bow
wows!” And she said stiffly, that no
gentleman who could use such language
in the presence of a lady was an ac
quaintance of hers, and she went into
the house. And he pushed the gate
open and pulled his mangled thumb out
of the crack of it, and went down the
street sucking the injured member and
declaring that, however lightly 105
pounds of girl might sit upon the heart
of a man, it wan a little too much pres
sure when appliiyl to an impromptu
thumbscrew. And the match is drawn,
and all side bets declared off.