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Terms— sl.o'j per annum ; 50 cents for six
months; 25 cents for three months. •
Parties aiay froiy Belltr.n are requested
to send their names, with snch amounts of
meney as they esn spare, from 2ce. to sl.
Citizens of Warren, North Carolina
have erected a monument to Annie Cur
tis Lee, the daughter of General Robert
E. Lee, who died whiie her father was
facing McClellan on the Peninsula.
Some popular actors and actresses
have very homely real names. Bessie
Darling’s is Carry Crump, Lotta’s is
Charlotte Crabtree, Lawrence Barrett's
is Larry Brannigan, “ Vente Clancy ” is
Lavina Gardner.
Henry L. Clinton charges William
H. Vanderbilt $250,000 for defending
him against Cornelius and Lord Scott
in the will case, and in order to make it
more binding has furnished a bill of
particulars elaborately itemized.
■
There is a bill before the New Jersey
Legislature providing that hereafter the
officials now receiving fees shall have a
fixed salary and no fees. Th.t is the
tendency all over the country. The fee
abuse is grievous and it should lie abol
ished.
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Next June Mr. James Gordon Ben’
nett will launch a new steam yacht,
which, with two boilers, three engines,
two smoke-stacks, instead of one,
and cut away at the ends to a
sharp point, is expected to outsail any
thing on the high seas.
Edison’s luminous horseshoe will
probably lie first put into practical use
eu shiplHiard. the new steamship now
being constructed in Cheater, Pennsyl
vania, for the Oregon navigation com
pany is to be fitted out with a three can
dle electric light in each stateroom.
An ingenious manager in Burlington,
the Hawkey says, has made a drop cur
tain representing an cnOrmous bonnet,
with sprays of flowers and drooping
plumes. This is let down on tire play
early in the first scene, and is kept down
all the evening, and the audience, see
ing about as much of the play as it is
accustomed to seeing, goes away de
lighted.
The gold-bearipg belt in Colorado is
now producing more gold than any area
of similar dimensions the world over
This belt extends from the northern part
of Boulder county, southerly through the
little county of Gilpin, and the north
eastern part of Clear Creek county—a
distance of thirty or thirty-five miles,
with a width of several miles.
Three or four bills have been intro
duced in the California Legislature to
regulate the operations of gas companies,
as to the quality and price of their pro
duct and requiring the greatest publici
to Ire given, at brief intervals, to the
financial affairs. There is much feelin
against the gas company in San Fran
cisco, and the people are determined to
have light at a reasonable rate.
Among all the cities of Italy suffering
from famine and misery this winter Rome
bears the heaviest burden. The trade of
the city has declined sine; the overthrow
of the Pope’s Government, and the taxes
are a hundred fold what they were;'
they were almost nominal under the
Popes, as the whole world contributed
to enrich the city. Large capitalists
from Turin and Milan have monopolized
what has been left of the trade once po -
sensed by Rqman merchants.
A district has been selected in Cin
cinnati for a test of the Holly system of
supplying heat by steam. Ordinances
granting permission to a company to lay
pipes have been approved by the Mayor,
but it is required that heat shall be sup
plied the public buildings at SO j>er cent,
less than the cost for heating them dur
ing 1878. The company also agrees to
furnish steam power where want d at
reduced cost. If this system comes into
general use the old-fashioned “ fireside,”
about which so much poetry has been
written, and which makes home in win
ter look so cheerful, will be numbered
among the things that were.
SOME interesting experiments of
ploughing by electricity took place the
other day at Noisiel, in France, in the
park of the well-known Deputy and
chocolate maker, M. Menier. The mo
tive power was supplied to the plough by
a Gramme machine, itself set in motion
by water power, which is abundant on
M. Menier’s estate The plough did
about the same work as if it were drawn
by four oxen. It was a Fowler plough,
with six shares. The motive power was
supplied by a wire at a distance of nearly
half ami e. To a profane looker-on it
was amazing to see a plough propelled by
an unseen agency without teams or
The North Georgian.
VOL. 111.
steam. The Gramme machine employed
was the same that supplied M. Menier’s
manufactory with electric light.
attention of Edison having been
called o the doubts of some Parisian
critics concerning the stability of the
carborn horseshoe, and the claim that it
gradually wastes awav by decomposition,
he said: “A complete answer to that
is the actual result. I can state that the
oldest lamp in my laboratory, after
burning 505 hours, had its electrical re
sistance measured, and there was not a
difference of one-tenth of a hair from
the time when it was originally put in
circuit. The surface of this carbon which
burned 505 hours is as bright to-dsy as
it was the day when first put in, where
as oxidization makes carbon blank.”
Edison says he has not sold a share of
his stock.
Save the Rags.—The price of pape
has advanced from 6.J to 10 cents all ove
the country. If this price is maintained,
the public will be compelled to pay more
for their newspapers. Many daily pa
pers have already increased their price
from 20 to 30 cents per week, and weekly
papers from $1 50 $2 50 per year.
The advance in paper can be stopped
if the people will save and sell their old
paper and rags. Three months’ saving
of rags and old paper by the entire pop
ulation, and selling them in the markets,
would check the advance in paper. Rags
arc worth from 3 to 3!j cents per pound.
Every newspaper in the land should
appeal to the people in this mutter. And
they should also economize in the con
sumption ns much as jKissible.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana’s sugar crop will amount to
185,000 hogsheads.
Chattanooga is awakening to the im
portance of good sewerage.
Negroes are flocking in gangs to Tus
caloosa Ala.,, to see a faith doctor.
Wilmington, N. C., has one church
building for every 650 inhabitants.
The State Agricultural collegeof South
Carolina w 11 be opened next July.
Seventeen car-loads of mules were
sold in Atlanta, Ga„ Wednesday.
The losses by fire nt Charlotte, N. C.,
during 1879, did not exceed $2,000.
Robert P. Button, Grand Master of
the Odd Fellows of Virginia, is dead
Seventy thousand bales of cotton have
been received at Rome, Ga., this season.
Newbern, N. C., has a hat factory
and Hillsboro is to have a plow factory
Vessels drawing seventeen feet of wa
ter pass over the bar nt Wilmington
N. C.
A party from New Orleans is about
to start a glass sac ory at Bay St. Louis,
Miss.
The city of New Orleans has appro
priated $200,000 for police purposes this
year.
Very large walnut logs are being ship
red from Southern Virginia to Phila
delphia.
One orange tree at Bay St Louis, Miss.,
produced a crop of oranges which brought
the owner S3O.
It is probable that there will boa re
organization of the Memphis Water
works company.
The school population of Tennessee is
514|f>43; the value of public school prop
erty in the State is $1,162,684 76.
The water-works of Knoxville Tenn.,
are involved in legal difficulties. The
contractors are financially embarrassed.
The citizens of Macon, Ga., have sent
S7OO to the Irish sufferers. It was most
ly sent to Tuarn, one of the most afflicted
districts.
Miss Lizzie Hammond, a pretty white
girl of eighteen years, has been sentenced
to the Virginia Penitentiary for horse
stea ing.
In selecting a jury for a trial at Clin
ton, Tenn. . last week, 491 men were ex
amined before twelve suitable persons
could be found.
One hundred shares of the Langley
Manufacturing Company’s stock, of Au
gusta, Gi., sold recently in Charleston at
$130.50 per share.
One hundred telephones have been or
dered by citizens of Memphis, and the
system may be considered as thoroughly
organized there now.
A large number of the convicts sen
tenced to the Tennessee penitentiary are
employed in the Sewanee coal mines on
the Cumberland mountains.
The net earnings of the woolen mills
company at Charlottesville, Va., for the
past year, shows a return of over four
teen per cent, upon the capital stock.
A b 11 before the Senate of Mississippi
: provides for the severe punishment of
I railroad employes or officials and legisla
j tors for giving or receiving free passes.
Vicksburg Herald: We heard a far-
I mer remark yesterday that the loss sus
j tained by the spoiling of meat would al-
I most offset the benefit from the big pri
| ces of cotton.
Donald McQueen, D.D., forty-three
I years a minister of the Presbyterian
■ church at Sumter, S. €'., is dead, after
an illness of many months.“He was sev
enty years old.
i Alex. H. Stevens is a puzzle to the
I medical fraternity. He is stronger now
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA., FEBRUARY 12. 1880.
than at any time these fifteen years, and,
it is said, will shortly discard his rolling
chair and crutches.
The State Immigration society of Ar
kansas has decided to publish, for dis
tribution abroad, 106,000 copies of a
pamphlet of 200 pages descriptive of the
resources of the state.
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: Almost
every farmer who conics to the city re
ports that his wheat crop is being badly
injured by the fly. Cold weather and
snow are being very badly needed.
Nashville American: An immense
amount of freight is now passing over
ihe railroads centering here. Both the
Chattanooga depots are crammed with
all sorts of merchandise and produce.
Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: Train
loads of guano are passing through the
city daily to southern points. It is be
lieved tliat the shipments will be higher
this year than they have ever been be
fore.
The first locomotive crossed the new
and magnificent iron bridge of the Louis
iana Western railroad, over the Sabine
river, near Orange, Tex., Tuesday. The
bridge is 400 feet long, with a draw of
20C feet.
Constitution : There is a
movement on foot to organize two good
base ball nines the comingsummer. It is
the intention of those, interested to take
these nines and go campaigning through
the South.
The Stille Superintendent of Educa
tion, of South Carolina, is endeavoring
to put in operation a plan by which the
public s hools can be kept open for a
longer period each year than they have
been heretofore. ,
The city council of Richmond, Va.
has deposed William L. Smith, keeper of
Oakwood cemetery, as it is believed that
without his knowledge »nd permission
the recent work of the body snatchers
there would have been impossible.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun : Sex
ton Odom exhumed the body of a young
white woman yesterday that had been
buried twenty-seven years. She was
buried in a metallic case. The body was
well preserved and looked quite natural.
Selina ( Ala.) Times: We are afraid
that the planting community is going
wild on cotton. There is danger that
food crops may be neglected and every
thing devoted to cotton. If, in such an
event, the cotton crops should fail, our
people woujd be in a deplorable condi
tion.
Memphis Avalanche: It is a settled
fact that the East Tennessee and Vir
ginia road has secured the control of the
Memphis and Little Rock road. It is
stated that the new bosses intend to ex
tend the line from Fort Smith to Texar
kana, and then connect with the South
ern Pacific.
Shreveport ( La.) Times: One if the
notaries yesterday informed us that he
passed sales of five hill farms, ranging
from 160 to 200 acres each, at an average,
of about $3 50 per acre. These same
lands could have been bought six months
go at fully twenty per cent, below the
figures paid yesterday.
Memphis'Appeal: According to Sholes’
directory census, the population of the
city is now 40,927, ns against 43,497 last
year, a loss of 3,000. But against this
we arc able, to put the fact of a greatly
increased trade, our receipts of cotton
being 50,000 bales more than last year
and 6,000 more than in 1878.
Columbia (S. C.) Register: The very
first thing the plantation “ nigger ” did
after ‘‘freedom come in,” was to get an
old army musket and try to kill of! every
little bird about the pl-ce, and he has
kept up the practice. Is it, then, sur
prising that our insectivorous birds
should have so deplorably decreased?
Charleston (S. C.): Hon. A. I’. But
ler, Commissioner of A riculture, gives
notice that he is ready to receive the
privilege tax of twenty-five cents on
every ton of fertilizer sold or offered for
sale in this state, and warns those con
cerned that failure to comply with this
law will subject them to immediate pen
alties.
Nashville American : The blue suit
for all the employes in the passenger de
partment of the Louisville, Nashville
and Great Southern railroad arrived
herr and will be donned on the 2d of
February. The next thing will be the
uniforming of men in the same depart
ment on the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis.
Atlanta Constitution : Plans arc now
being drawn for a new court-house, to be
erected at the corner of East Hunter
and Pryor streets. The work of build
ing will, we hear, be commenced the
coming summer. The new court-house
will be arranged in the most complete
style, and will be one of the handsomest
in the south.
T Little Rock is to be a distributing
depot for coal oil. In other words, an
enterprising firm has arranged to have
coal oil shippod to that point in special
iron tank cars and emptied into a mas
sive tank with a capacity of 30,000 gal
lons. Here, it will be barreled and dis
tributed, the saving effected being in the
transportation of the oil.
Cartersville (Ga.) Express: Middle
Tennessee s rapidly regaining her old
time prestige as a mule market. Maury
county is in tile lead of all others in this
respect, and her county seat, Columbia,
is one of the largest markets in the
world. Over SIOO,OOO worth of mules
alone have been shipped from that point
South within the past ten days or two
weeks, not counting many droves that
have been driven South on foot.
TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIBERTY
EVARTS’ SENTENCES.
He PnrnffrnphM n Well Known Poem In
Pointed Manner.
Few poems have been more generally
admired or paraphrased in the various
tongues of earth than that commencing
with the lines:
Mary had a lit tie lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
_ Well, the story is now current at the
National Capital that the distinguished
Secretary of State, when recently in a
jocular crowd of his friend's; was desired
to condense into prose these immortal
verses. Urgently solicited, Mr. Evarts
yielded and wrote as follows:
“ Mary, a female judged to be of the
race of man, whose family name is un
known, whether of native or foreign
birth, of lofty or lowly lineage, and
whose appearance, manners and mental
cultivation are involved in the most
profound mystery, which probably
never will be fully ascertained, unless
tlirough the most profound researches
of a historian admirably trained in his
profession, who shall devote the ablest
efforts of his life to the investigation of
the subject, uninfluenced by either pas
sion or prejudice, and having only in
view the sacred truth, at the same time
being utterly regardless of the plaudits
or censures of the world, we are in
formed by one who, it has been stated,
at one time while living in that part of
the United States known as Massachu
setts, whose flshermei? have frequently
been involved in difficulties with the
authorities of her majesty Queen Vic
toria, Queen of Great Britain and Em
press of Indies, whose domains extend
over a large share of the habitable globe
thereby endangering the peace which
should so happily exist between nations
of the same blood and language, had an
infant sheep, of which there are many
millions, of various stocks and qualities,
now in our country, constantly adding
wealth and prosperity to our Republic,
and enabling us to be entirely inde
pendent of all other nations for our sup
ply of wool, now ample for the use of
factories already busily employed, and
for those which ere long will be con
structed in all parts of our land, work
ing both by water and steam power, and
in whatever direction the said Mary
traveled, this anima), whose fleece was
snow white, even as the lofty mountain
regions in the silent solitudes of eternal
winter, as the ethereal vapors which oft
float over ab autumnal sky, ‘darkly,
deeply, beautifully blue,’ or as the
lac eal fluid, covered with masses of
de’icate froth, found in the buckets of
the fairy dairy maid, whether meander
ing through the meadows in midsum,
mer, gathering the luscious strawberry
strolling in the woodland paths in search
of wild flowers, visiting the church
with her uncles, cousins and aunts, to
listen to the inspired words which come
from the lips of the minister of the
sanctuary, or when retiring to her bliss
ful couch, to seek rest and enjoy sweet
repose after the cares of the day, in
fact, ‘ everywhere that Mary went’ this
youthful sheep, influenced, doubtless,
by that affection which is oft so con
spicuously manifested by the lower ani
mals in their association with human
beings, was ever observed to accompany
her.”
It is stated that when the pause in the
sentence came, the Secretary, who had
read it without an inspiration, resumed
his stolid diplomatic countenance, and
all mirthfulness had departed from the
faces of that once happy company.
Beautiful Venice.
[Worcester Spy.]
Another favorite place of resort is the
Giardino Reale, a little garden of the
Grand Canal, where a small orchestra of
stringed instruments play dance music
and operatic airs every evening. There
was a fair during our stay for the bene
fit of a certain orphan asylum, and this
garden was very prettily decorated with
(iifferent colored banners, while the
booths under the trees were brilliantly
illuminated and hung with white, red
and green flags. Two bands alternated
with each other in playing for several
hours, and every one who did not enter
lße garden took a gondola and floated
on the canal listening to the music.
There is nothing so luxurious as the
cushions of a gondola, and nothing so
delightful as its motion. There is such
a softening, quieting influence about
this mode of navigation that every one
speaks in a half whisper—
And half auleep they seem, tho’ all awake,
And music in their ears their beating hearts do make.
The loveliest part of Venice is where
the Grand Canal broadens out towards
the lagoons. Here is the beautiful
Church of Santa Maria della Salute,
built in accordance with a vow to the
Virgin, who was supposed to have
caused the inroads of the plague to
cease; the neighboring Church of San
Giorgio Maggiore, with a graceful, slen
der campanile at its side; on the oppo
site side of the canal is the ducal palace,
and a glimpse into the piazzi beyond;
the wider waters, the sailing ships lying
at anchor, and the steamers that ply be
tween Venice, Trieste and Alexandria;
here and there a black silent gondola
moving noiselessly about with a single
light in the prow; all along the shore,
rows of gas lamps, and every where so
many lights that it seems as if the city
were in a perpetual state of festal
illumination. Such is the aspect of
Venice on a summer night. When you
have left all this, what wonder that you
find youself repeating: Could it, in
deed, have been other than a dream 1
An old bachelor, who particularly
hated literary women, asked an au
thoress if she could throw any lighten
kissing. “I could,” said she, looking
archly at him; “ but I think it’s better
in the dark.”
Social Fallacies.
We commit the still great error of
plunging into ice-water every morning,
then scrub all the skin off with a horse
hair brush or a coarse board towel; sit
down to breakfast of oatmeal sawdust;
dine off a tablespoonful of wheat and
two berries, and make a supper on cat
nip tea, and then be put through a Rus
sian bath of five hundred degrees; sleep
under an open window when the ther
mometer is at zero; wear long hair;
dress the women in pantaloons; make
all the property over to them, then sit
down in tho kitchen corner and nurse
the baby, and when it is asleep, wash
up the tea-things, and go to bed at 9
o’clock, to be “out of the way.” What
will become of us men 7 Surely we have
fallen on evil time. A better and truer
mode of life is to have everything that
is good to eat and to drink, which im
parts nourishment and strength, and as
much of it as you want. The idea of
getting up from the table hungry is un
natural and absurd and hurtful—quite
as much so as getting up in the morn
ing before your sleep is out, on the mis
chievous principle that “early to rise
makes a man healthy, wealthy and
wise.”
Early rising, in civilized society, al
ways tends to shorten life. Early ris
ing of itself never did any good. Many
a fanner’s boy has been made an in
valid for life by being made to get up at
daylight before his sleep was out.
Many a young girl has been stunted
in body and mind aud constitution by
being made to net up before the system
had had its full rest. All who are grow
ing, all who work hard, and all weakly
persons, should not get up until they
f.-el as if they would be more comfort
able to get up than to remain in bed;
that is the only true measure of suffi
ciency of rest and sleep. But one who
gels up in the morning feeling as if he
“ would give anything in the world” to
remain in bed a while longer, does vio
lence to his own nature, and will al
ways suftbr from it—not immediately,
it may be, but certainly in later years,
by the cumulative ill effects of the most
unwise practice. In any given case,
the person who gets up in the morning
before ho is fully rested will lack just
that much of the energy requisite tor
the day’s pursuit.
As a people, we do not get enough
sleep, we do not get enough rest, we
will not take time for these things;
hence our nervousness, our instability,
our hasty temuer, and the premature
giving out of the stamina of life. Half
of us are old at three-score, the very
time man ought to.be in his mental,
moral aud physical prime. Half of our
wives, especially in the farming dis
tricts, die long before their time, be
cause they do not get rest and sleep pro
portioned to their labor. Nine times
out of ten it would be better for all
parties if the farmer should get up and
light the fires and prepare breakfast fol
his wife, she coming directly from her
toilet to the breakfast table, because it
almost always happens that she has to
remain up to see tilings right long after
the husband has gone to bed. This is a
monstrously cruel imposition on wives
aud mothers.
How She Served Two Masters.
[Camp Meeting Correspondence.]
The sweetest oratory that I have lis
tened to on cliff O' - in forest was when I
awoke from a twilight dream which had
overtaken me as I sat leaning against
the base of a monster tree. They weie
upon the opposite side, and I could uot
run. She said: “Since we were chil
dren I have felt a deep interest and
friendliness in your welfare, and since
I came to know the blessedness of hope,
I have longed to share my joy with you.
Will vou give your heart to your
maker? ’ He said: “ I can’t do that,
Molly. I would if I could, because you
wish it. 1 gave it to you last winter
during our meetings of the ‘Jew
’d esprit,’ and if you really don’t want to
keep it yourself, and really don’t in the
least care for it, you may give it to
whoever you like, for I shall never have
any use for it. 1 would like, you know,
to share a blessedness of hope, very
likely much the same as yours if you
would only arrange things so that I
might have you all the. time to divide
the joy with which I hope you mean;
can’t you, Molly?” She said: “O
John I” and then there was a fumbing,
and if he didn’t kisiherand she didn’t
kiss him, why “ Katydid ” and the
woods are fail of them. Then she
said: “You must tell pa how you
feel; ” and he said: “ Isn’t it too soon ,
after getting a new heart to tell a fel- >
low’s experience?’and she said: “Not
at all. It is proper and lam very
happy.” He said: “Not as happy,
Mdly, as if 1 had given my heart to the
Lord, arc you?” He asked his ques
tion in a pathetic and apprehensive
tone, and she replied: “It is all the
same, John. I’ll see that the good
Lord gets it at last.” Then they went
off' to inform pa and get an earthly
blessing from him, for John is in tho
leather business and very prosperous.
‘•Conundrum! Guess 1t If you can,
And tell me, John, the answer—
Wherein a clumsy printer man
Is like an honest dancer!”
“ I have It, Jane’” “ You haven’t though?”
“ I'd make a dozen bets—
One of them sets the forms, you know,
The other forms the sets!”
“ Sharp answer, dear, but not the one
Wrought by my mental caper—
One of them pay the piper, John,
The other pies tho paper!”
Patent presses, mailers and feeders
' are all right, but what newspaper pub
lishers are most in need of is a machine
that will take hold of a delinquent sub
scriber and make him nay up. The
man who will get up such an invention
will get up some morning and find a
million dollars waiting for him
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EVERY-DAY SPICERIES.
Honesty is the best police, seel
A matter of course—the lecture.
Cannibals don’t like to eat a coward,
because the bravest are the tenderest.—
Cincinnati Saturday Night.
“ This is a high-handed outrage,” as
the boy remarked when he found that
his mother had put the cookies on the
upper shelf.
“MY darling,” said he “ what a de
licious taste your lips have.” Then she
sprang up and yelled, “Goodness, John,
have you been eating my lip salve?”
There is a county in Texas in which
there is no saloon, aud in which a
murder was never committed. Its only
existence is ou the map.— Chicago Timet.
Young men, if your girl keeps look,
ing at your feet every time she meets
you, don’t let it embarrass you in the
least; she is simply taking your measure
for a pair of slippers.
It has been demonstrated in Paris
that when a man pounds his thumb
with a hammer he is twice as mad as
when he strikes his elbow on the doo*
frame.— Detroit Free Brest.
The effect' of jet on satin is very
elegant.— Bangor Commercial. This does
not refer to a jet of water. — Boston Poet.
Why not? Watered silk is considered
very handsome, and when made into a
dress, is frequently sat in.
“ Bully ” is not an Americanism.
Some of the streets of Paris have been
called Boulevards for a long time. — Seth
Spicer. And yet any New York politician
cun post you on the bully wardu.—
New York Newt.
Some wise man remarked, “Nomw
is hurt but by himself.” Did that
man ever visit a dentist? Did he ever
play shinny with ‘a mule? Finally, did
he ever “sass” his Wife?— Oil City
Derrick.
John Bright’s son is hunting out
West. His aged father is hunting in
England—for office. — Free Press. A
good many people down this way are
sufferinE from Bright’s disease.—Rich
mond ( Va.) Baton.
A woman who was called as a witness
in an assault case tried in the Edinburgh
police court recently, on being asked
by the magistrate what was the profes
sion of her husband, answered, prompt
ly, “My husband is a bankrupt,
Hr looked as wise as an owl, -
His tricks were well adjusted
He declined to advertise, you see,
And in a year he busted.
—N. Y Hotel Mail.
Ebenezeb Stone and his wife Flora,
out West, were divorced not long age,
but afterwards they came to an under
standing, were remarried, and are happg
together as far as we know. It was «)
case of Eb and Flo, it would seem; at
any rate, they are tide now.
One of our Boston preachers said
Sunday afternoon: “Ths little good
any of us can do must be done with our
hearts thumping against the hearts of
sur fellow man.” And every young
woman in church looked at every other
young woman and smiled approvingly.
“Maria,” observed Mr. Holcomb, as
he was putting on his clothes, “there
ain’t no patch on my breeches yet.” “I
can't fix it now, no way. I’m too busy.**
“Well, give me the patch then, an’ I’ll
carry it around with me. I don’t want
people to think I can’t afford the cloth.”
Matron, to her boy, screaming:
“Willie, how long are you going to keep
my toothbrush?” “I’m through with
it. mammy; Sallio’s using it now.*'’
“Tell Sallie to bring it here immedi
ately; that girl won’t have any teeth
left if alio keeps on scrubbing them.’’-8-
Tjouisville Courier-Journal.
Professor—“ What does that expres
sion represent?” Student—“ That is khf,
sum of the moments of the elements.'’’
Professor—“ Say it again.” Student re
peats. Professor—“ That’s it. I’m
going to have you say that over
until I impress it on your mind as they
brand U. S. on a mule. — Acta Columbian.
They met, ’twas on the street—
“Oh! such a bonnet!” thought the one—
The other thought; “ Whgt feet!”
Yet they did talk-
Togcther walk—
And kissed each other’s ebooks, and chalk.
—Detroit Free Prut.
A very beautiful young lady was
hurrying through the streets of Balti
more, turned, and in pathetic accents,
asked a gentleman walking beside her
to knock a pickpocket down who was
following her. The gentleman oblig
ingly complied. As soon as she saw the
fight fairly begun, she chuckled gayly
I and skipped away. The man knocked
i down was her husband.
They met, ’twee In a crowded atreet,
Their hearts were in a flutter;
He glanced into her eyes and thought,
There was no fair rebutter.
She sent back a responsive smile,
He knew at once he’d found her,
A mutual recognition came,
Aud forthwith surrejoinder.
They stroll along tha shady walk,
Their beings with fond love elate,
Until they reach the fair one’s home,
And halt beside the garden gate.
“ Try not to pass,” the maiden said,
“ An ancient writ won’t calm us,
Should you essay to enter there,
You’d hear the old mandamus.”
—Keokuk Gale Oity.
The Toronto corset makers are on a
strike, their employers have pulled the
strings too tight for them, and the girls
won’t be solaced, but have instituted a
stay of proceedings, declaring they
won’t waist their time; and of corsets
too much to expect that they will bona
down to work without proper pay.
Hip! Hip! hurrah! for the girls.
Ministers are paid to work, and
' originality in sermon writing is the
1 leading part of their work. If a con-
I gregation merely wished to listen to an
old sermon there are thousands of ad
mirable ones in print which could be
read by any good elocutionist in the
congregation, and the minister’s salary
be entirely saved for distribution among
the poor or other uses. — N. Y, Com. Adv.