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NEWS GLEANINGS.
There wete 26 deaths in Pensacola
during the month of June.
An epidemic in Pulaski county, Ky.,
is sweeping oft' the dogs.
The glass factory at Moss Point, Mis
sissippi, has commenced operations.
The wheat crop of North Carolina is
about twice as large as was expected.
The Springfield coal pits of Henrico
county, Virginia, live been sold for
$286,000.
Three men recently killed in ten days
300 alligators in the Aliska lakes, Flor
ida.'
Judge McGehee has ten century
plants in bloom on his place, thirteen
miles from Madison, Florida.
Tennessee is fast taking foremost rank
as the leading wool growing State of the
South.
From 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of toma
toes are beins shipped daily from Chat
tanooga to Cincinnati.
One man in Tampa. Florida, has five
varieties of the Japan persimmon, ami
also a Chinese prune.
Sam Clay, of Bourbon county, Ky.,
has sold from his farm this season 15,000
bushels of blue-grass seed.
Over $1,0)0,00!) in the Texas state
treasury to the general revenue, and the
total cash balance edges closely to
$1,800,000.
In Hernando county, Fla, the earna
tion pink, the ca.Ha lily, the verbena,
honeysuckle and the woodbine bloom all
the year.
Since the season in Charlotte, North
Carolina, $500,000 worth of steam en
gines and other improved machinery has
been sold.
Andrew Fitzpatrick, of St. Autus
tine, Fla., recently found on the coast
in St. Johns county in one evening
seventy dozen turtle eggs.
Every dollar of taxes paid bv the
colored people of Texas, and every dol
lar of fines asses ed against criminals by
the circuit courts of the State, goes into
the colored school fund.
A marble mine has been discovered on
the farm of Eph. Erwin a few miles
from Columbia, Tenn.
The theory that a negro can m»t he
sun-struck is. overthrown. A plantation
darkey was a victim at Madison, I.a.
Thirteen new babies hare made their
appearance on one street in Warrenton,
Georgia, thu year. The republic still
goes on.
The negro church of Cedar Grove.
Bibb county, Ala., was burned recently
by white incendiaries. The next night
the white church was burned bv black
incendiaries.
An aerolite or meteoric stone fell
with a fearful report near Mr. Jack
Pearson’.-, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
tearing up the ground with a tremen
dous hole. Mr. Pearson is going to dig
for it.
Over 2 0,0 0 feet of lumber was cut
by the St. Simon’s mills, Brunswick,
during the m mth of May. The nine
forests of Georgia would give out in the
course of time with many such mills
running.
There is an Englishman living in Pen
field. Greene county, Ga., who makes
a good support for buns. If and a help
less sister by working a single acre of
land. Os course, he lias it very rich,
using only asp ide in • ultivation. As
soon as one crop c »mes <>:| he plants an
other. This shows what energy can ac
complish under adverse circumstances.
Mr. tV. B Williams caught out of the
Canoochee river two hundred and thirty
fishes, nearly all of v hich were jack.
His mode of catching them is very sim
jje, but reliable. He takes a bateau
and builds fires to it, conducts it near
the bank of the river and strikes the
water with a piece of wood, at which
the fish b”<>nm frightened and jump
out of the water towards the fire when
the boat catches them.
In many parts of Oglethorpe county
are vast bed- of kaolin, only used by
our good ladies to whiten their hearths
with. This is a very valuable mineral,
and when purified sells for S4O a ton
It is largely used to adulterate sugar
candy, floor, etc., besides supplying
other more legitimate needs, ft an
swers the purp >se of lire brick, and will
some day be worth a fortune to lanu
owners lucky enough to have banks of
it on their firm* Large quantities of
it are shipptd fr„m m nr Am u-ta to the
North of l .ir q .
The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
BOWLEGGED JOJC.
In the dark and gloomy shadow
Os a rflff in Colorado
Bat Bowlegged Joe, a chieftain of the Utaa;
Frown as black as French oil blacking
O'er bin features (beauty lacking)
Bomber hung— the buck was mad, you bet your boots 1
For his jointed, howling wh.'opera
Had been scattered by tbs troopers
In a scrimmage on ths range an hour before;
And hie heart was filled with sorrow
When he thought that, on the morrow,
The* might come and wax it to his crowd some more.
Round him stood his warriors savage -
Heroes bold of many a ravage
On the smokehouse of the settler far below—
And their murderous eyeballs glistened
As they silent stood and listened
To the curses of infuriated Joe.
Suddenly the chieftain pointed
Skinny finger, ugly Jointed,
At the homes of tettlers far out on the plain.
“There,” he cried, “the pale face dwelleth,
And my nostril murder-r-r smelleth,
While thoughts of gory vengeance fire my brain !”
With a yell that loud resounded
‘.Mid the mountain peaks, he bounded
Tobis feet, and danced us ne'er he’d danced before.
Waa’t the war-dance he was dancing?
O! what meant that fearful prancing?
" ould he flood that settler's peaceful home with gore ?
Was the dance preliminary
To a swoop down from his eyrie,
Or did the aborigine but jest?
Jest? Ab.no! a thousand swarming
Insects were his bronze hide wanning
He'd been sitting on a yellow-jacket's nest.
Kit Ad an is.
Progress of Christianity.
The Rev. Dr. Dorchester delivered an
address in Wesleyau Hall, Boston, on
the progress of Christianity, Papal and
Protestant, in the a hole world, since
1500. Vutil the present century, said
the lecturer, there were no trustworthy
data of the world’s population. Prior
to 1830 it was variously estimated from
042,000,000 to 737,000,000. In 1850 it
was reckoned nt 1,000,000,000. Prof,
tiehem's estimate makes thi present
population 1,4.37,000,000. The progress
of Christianity from the fourth or fifth
century up to 1500 was confined almost
entirely to Europe. The nominal Chris
tians in the world in the third century
numbered 5,000,000 ; up to the eighth
century they had increased 30,000,000 ;
in the tenth century 50,000,000 ; in the
fifteenth century 100,000,000; in the
last 300 years the increase has been
200,1100,000, or us much as in the pre
vious fifteen centuries. In 1880 there
were 410,000,000 nominal Christians.
In 1500 there were 80,000,000 Catholics,
20,000,000 Greek Christians, and no
Protestants; in 1830,110,000,000 Roman
Catholics, 70,000,000 Greek Christians,
and 42,000,000 Protestants ; in 1880, the
respective numbers were 209,200,000,
88,000,000 and 113,700,000, showing an
increase of 80 per cent, among the Pa
pists, 26 per cent, in the Greek Church,
and 176 per cent, among Protestants. The
probable number of nominal Christian*
m the world in the year 2000 was esti
mated by Dr. Dorchester at from 1,200,-
000,000 to 1,950,000,000. The popula
tions living under Christian govern
ments in 1500 numbered 100,000,000 ;
in 1700, 155,000,000; 1830, 388,000,000;
1876, 685,000,000; divided as follows:
Papal, 80,000,000 in 1500, 90,000,000 in
1700, 134,000,000 in 1830, 181,000,000 in
1876; Greek, 20,000,000 in 1500, 33,-
000,000 in 1700, 60,000,000 in 1830, 96,-
000,000 in 1876; Protestants, none 1500,
32,000,000 in 1700,194,000,000 in 1830,
408,000,000 in 1876. Os the 52,000,009
square miles of the earth’s surface 32,-
I 000,000 are under control of Christian
I governments, and 20,000,000 under Pa
gan and Mohammedan. Os the area un
der Clmstian domination, 14 500,000
square miles are ruled by Protestant
governments, 9,51X1,000by Roman Cath
olic, and 8,500,000 by the Greek Church.
But France, Italy and Mexico are in a
transition state, and the next thirty
years will settle the question as to which
side 75,000,000 people are to lie counted
upon. In 1800 the Bible was print din
one-fifth the languages of the world ; it
is now printed in nine-tenths. Three
million Bibles had been printed in 181X1;
160,000,000 in from 200 to 250 language*
and dialects have since been circulated.
In the Sunday-schools in 1830 there
were 2,000,000 officers, teachers and
schelurs ; there are now over 14,000,000.
In the Protestant foreign missions in
1830 there were 70,289 communicants;
in 1850, 210,957; in 1880, 857,332. Add
ing those at missions not reporting, the
aggregate would probably bo 1,050,000
communicants and 2,51X1,000 hearers and
adherents. Os the 857,332 communi
cants, 663,813 were formerly Pagan, and
193,319 Papal, Jewish, or Rationalistic.
Amusing Blunders.
Blunders on public occasions are often
as mortifying ns they are amusing. For
instance :
At a military dinner in Ireland, the
following was on the toast-list : “May
the man who has lost one eye in the
glorious service of his beloved country
never see distress with the other.” But
the person whose duty it was to read
the toast accidentally omitted the word
“distress,” which completely changed
the sentiment, and caused no end of
merriment by the blunder.
Another instance may be quoted, if
on It to show how careful people should
be in expressing themselves on public
j occasions :
A church in South London had been
I erected, when a dinner was given, at the
conclusion of winch the health of the
builder was proposed, when he rather
enigmatically replied that he was "more
fitted for the scaffold than for public
speaking.”
A healthy city must have a perfect
ttewsge system.
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA.. JULY 14. 1881.
The Pueblo Indians and Their Religions
Beliefs.
The word Pueblo means villages; and
the tribe of Indians that have lived in
this region take their name, Pueblo,
from the fact that they lived in Pueblos,
or villages.
The Pueblos have some peculiar ideas
of the future. They believe that nt
death they will be carried away in some
mysterious manner to a place beneath a
vast underground lake, where melons
and peaches and beautiful maidens and
horses are in never-ending supply for
the good.
The Zuui Indians have a tradition that
they were placed where they arc in order
to be out of the reach of the deluge, of
which they have some account. The
tradition relates how the Great Spirit
set them apart as a chosen people, and
preserved them while all other tribes
and nations wdro drowned. They also
believe that all the people of the earth
are descended from the Zuui thus caved
from the deluge. This tradition has its
parallel with that given us in the Sacred
Scriptures.
They also believe that in Pecos (a vil
lage) Montezuma was bora; that ho grew
up with extraordinary mental powers;
that lie traveled a great deal and taught
the people many gqod things; that ho
usually rode on the back of an eagle and
always went ahead of those who trav
eled with him, and thus was, as was
the star to the wise men of the East, a
guide to them both day mid night, ami,
whenever the eagle stopped at night,
there was planted an Indian Pueblo.
The sign where the great capital should be
built was the alighting of the eagle unnn
a large cactus-bush, and there devour
ing a rattlesnake. This, tradition has
it, was on Montezuma’s journey south,
and was his great and last journey. The
eagle stopped w here the City of Mexico
now stands. The Mexican Government
has adopted the alighting of the eagle
as the design of the national seal, and
thus made memorable the legend. The
same design is also stamped <>u Mexican
coin. Montezuma never returned from
his southern trip, but in some mysteri
ous manner passed away to the hind of
the blessed, and since leads bis people
by his spirit. The City of Mexico was
founded in 1325.— New Mexico Cor.
Chicago Tribune.
Among the Turks.
As to the character of the Turks, it.
has been said by one of the highest con
sular authorities that the pooler and
humbler lie is, the better he is. As ho
gets money and power, ho deteriorates.
In tiio lowest classes you may and do
meet with honesty ; in the middle c,hiss
es, seldom; in the highest, never. Tim
'Turk, above all, is a good host. In
deed, hospitality is enjoined by the Ko
ran. We may well take a lesson from
him, too, in politeness, especially in
conversation. If you are privileged t<>
have an interview with a Turk, yon will
find him a good listener; he never in
terrupts, and never wastes words to
make talk. When he has finished, he
asks permission to go, mid vanishes. He
is not given to the. odious, because!
abused, custom of the “shake-hands.”
Hit salute, the Teinenas, is most grace
ful. He makes the motion us if to
sweep the ground with his right hand,
bringing it t:> his heart, lips and fore
head, thus indicating that all he bus on
earth is yours, as well as showing his
friendliness and constant thoughtfulness
for your welfare.
Listen to a true story illustrating the
Turk in nil his dealings, whether com
mercially, politically, or as a diplomat
ist. A peasant was summoned before
the Cadi for stealing a sack of onions.
“Now wo have then on the hip, mid
thou shalt know wind it is to incur our
displeasure. Bismillah! Choose, slave
i —wilt thou pay 1,000 piasters, receive
100 blows of the bastinado, or wilt thou
ent tho contents of the sack of onions ?
Quick ; choose ! ”
“Gracious Lord, I have no money
wherewith to satisfy thee; I fear the
bastinado, and w ill choose rather to oat
my onions.”
He ate, and was fain to stop, and pre
ferred the bastinado. After Borne fifty
strokes ho repents, and thinks he can
find somewhere in his house 500 pias
ters. But this money was not enough
to release him from his troubles ; ho ate
more onions, thou there was alittle more
bastinado. Eventuallyhe received eighty
strokes, ate nearly ail the onions, and
paid the penalty of 1,000 piasters in full.
A Wicked Man’s Diary of His Wife's
Temper.
Monday—A thick fog; no seeing
thronghit. Tuesday—Gloomy and very
chilly; unseasonable weather. Wednes
day—Frosty; at times sharp. Thurs
day—Bitter cold in the morning ; red
sunset, with flying clouds, portending
hard weather. Friday—-Storm in the
morning, with peals of thunder; air
clear afterward. Saturday—Gleams ot
sunshine,with partial thaw; frost agein at
night. Sunday—Alight southwester in
the morning; calm and pleasant at din
ner-time ; hurricane and earthquake at
night.
Wanted to Find Out.
A burly ruffian, who has already served
five or six sentences, is brought before
the police. Just as they are about t<
begin the examination, “Mr. President,
ho vs he, “my lawyer is indisposed. J
call for a delay of one week.”
“But you have been caught in open
misdemeanor, your hand in the pocket
of the plaintiff. What Could yonr lawyei
say for you?”
“Precisely, Mr. President; I’m quit<
l curious to know.”-*-Paris paper.
■ Ax old lady nays it is remarkable tin
number of people willing to take foreigi
missions, and she fears tho home mis
1 siunary cause will Buffer,
Cobblers Who Went Beyond Their Last.
No one but a shoemaker could have
thought Coleridge serious in his strange
saying that the shoemaker’s bench had
produced more eminent men than any
other handicraft. The Shoe anil Leath
er Reporter has, however, compiled a
“ bill of particulars '’ in the shape of a
list of famous cobblers, which seems to
act ns mi effectual estopel on all jealous
craftsmen. Hans Christian Andersen,
who needs no introduction, may head
the list, and Hans Sachs, of Nuremberg,
w ho, though he made shoos all his life,
yet also made 6,000 poems, plays, farces
mid rhyming fables, may be put next.
Sir Cloudosley Shovel was a shoemaker
until he enlisted in the navy, and sowas
Sir Christopher 'Minns, another English
Admiral. John.Hewson, one of Crom
well's Colonels, and a signor of Charles
l.’s dentil-''arrant; Samuel Bradburn,
the “ Demosthenes of Methodism,” ns
well as a Bishop; James Lackiuton,
whose catalogue of publications reached
the total -enormous for that time—of
30,000 volumes, in 1787—a1l these were
cobblers nt first, if not at the last. Con
tinuing the English list, William Gif
ford, whoso memory is preserved }>y a
complimentary allusion in Byron’s “En
glish Bards and Scotch Reviewers,” and
whoso body is buried in Westminster
Abbey ; George Fox, the arch Quaker;
William Carey, a missionary famous a
century ago, and who read the proofs of
the Bible in twentv-seven Oriental lan
guages; Samuel brew, “the Locke of
the nineteenth century,” whose experi
ence a.s an author led him to formulate
the sad truth that “ the man who makes
shoes is sure of his w ages, but the man
who makes books is never sure of any
thing;” Thomas Holcroft, whoso name
is not nearly so well known ns that of a
single one of his plays, “Tho Road to
Ruin the Bloomfield brothers, whom
Byron thus apostrophized :
Yw tuneful cubblorn, Bull your notes prolong,
< <Hiipu-u at once a nHpper and a Bong;
John Pounds, whom school-children
cried at being turned away from—all
those and )es;icr lights too numerous to
mention were English shoemakers.
Coining to our own country, Roger
Sherman, one of the “signers,” leads
the list in time, but Vice President Hen
ry Wilson in rank. Beside these were
Coiigressmeu Sheffeyand Noah Worces
ter, not the lexicographer, but the
founder of the Massachusetts Peace So
ciety. And ex-GoVs. H. P. Baldwin, of
Ms- in, and William Claflin, of Mas-
. ■ ■'’■i.'if they n made shoes, at
least den.it in them largely enough to bo
iminod here. Altogether, tho list insuffi
cient ly imposing and convincing to justi
fy a verdict in favor of Coleridge’s say
ing.
How to Dross the Children.
The capacity of our ancestors to ac
.■>ommodate fhomselveii to every climate
lependi d not. only on their physiological
facility of adaptation, but also on their
skill in protecting themselves by artifi
cial means from the inclemency of tho
higher latitudes. Houses and clothes
urea files' ing if they answer this pur
pi. e by n close imitation of nature's own
plan in sheltering hor children from nt
nv spheric, vicissitudes, but in degree an
they deviate from that plan their hygi
enic. disadvantages balance, or even out
weigh, the gain in other respects. A
Bwailow’fl nest protects her brood from
cold and rain without debarring them
from the, fresh air; a human domicile,
too, should combine comfort with tho
advantage of perfect ventilation, and our
clothes, like the furtt n squirrel ortho
fea'ln r-niaiitlo of a Jmwk, should keep
us warm mid dry without interfering
with tho cutaneous excretions and the
free movement of our limlis.
Measured by these standards, the win
ter dress of an American schoolboy is
nearly the best, tho summer dress of the
average American, French, and German
nursling about the worst that could be
devised. At an age when the rapid de
velopment of tho whole organism re
quires the utmost freedom of movement,
our children me kept in the fetters of
garments that check the activity of tho
Imly in every way; swaddling-clothes,
in*!' r hirts overshirts, neck-wrappers,
trailing gowns, garnitures, flounces and
shawls reduce the helpless homunculus
to a bundle of dry goods, unable to move
or turn, incapable of relieving or inti
mating its uneasiness in any way save
by tlie use of its squealing apparatus,
aiii.l consequently squealing violently
from morijing till night. Outdoors, in
the baby carriage, “cold draughts”
have to lie guarded against, and a load
of extra •wrappers completely counteract
the benefit, of the fresh air ; faint with
nausea and suffocating heat, the little
dummy lies motionless on its back, re
plendent in its white surplice, a fit
candidate for the honors of a life whose
every movement of a natural impulse
i will lie suppressed as a revival of bar
barism, and an insurrection against the
■ tatutes of an orthodox community.
I Hence, in a great degree, the dispropor
: tionat.e mortality in all northern coiin
i tries of Christendom among infants
I under 2 years. In Spanish America,
wherd infantile diseases are us rare as in
| Iliudoostan, babies of all classes and
sizes toddle about naked, nearly the
year round; and the Indians of the
I Tamaulipas, between Tampico and Mat
amoras, raise uu astonishing number of
brown bantlings who are never troubled
v, ith clothes till they are big enough to
'■any garden-stuff to the city, where the
police enforces the apron regulation.—
/'opnlar Seicnei. Monthly for June,
Wasn’t it rough on Ella, just as she
I was telling Frederick, at lunch, how
ethereal her appetite was, to have tlie
. <>); bawl out, “Say, will ye have yiT
pork and beaus now, or wait till yer fel
ler’s gone ?”
A Welsh Opinion of Royality.
It is, we think, to be regretted that the
Prince of Wales has declined to allow J
liis name to be used in connection with 1
the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The
loyalty of the Welsh people is beyond $
question, but when they ask a little favor t
it ought, if possible, to bo granted. As
there must have been reasons why his ,
Royal Highness declined to have any- j
thing to do with tho Eisteddfod it seems J
a pity they were not stated. We make j
these remarks because the refusal of the
Prince to patronize the Eistoddfod has
not only created a sore feeling in tho
Principality, but it has also exposed him
to vulgar abuse, and has given the en
emies of the Monarchy the opportunity
of attacking not merely tho Prince him
self, but also the Queen and the Royal
family.
Thus, a contributor to a Welsh news
paper elegantly declares that, the inci
dent has “shortened Royalty's life in
this country fifty years.”
“Already,” he continues “the Welsh
press have been heard to grumble, not
only loudly but angrily, at this ungra
cious conduct of him who some day
hopes to be called His Most Gracious
Majesty. In the columns of an English
daily last week appeared an article which,
though not (because of the old absurd
veneration for Royalty so long prevail
ing) so outspoken as it might have been,
may yet be considered tho first mutter
ings of a storm which will one day burst
as surely as it is now brewing. Men,
who, if yon had spoken to them sneer
ingly or slightingly of the principle of
Royalty A few months back, would have
turned away from you in disgust, are
now beginning to se.O through the mists
of prejudice, and to question tho use of
the thing. When not only the utter
uselessness, but the positive evil, of that
which they have to pixy so dearly for
shall become apparent, then will it and
other fiaileries and sins be sent packing.
As a beginning in the right direction,
allow mo to suggest tho dropping from
all toasts lists of the insane custom of
drinking the healths of the Queen, the
Prince of Wales and the rest of the
Royal family. Welshmen have (although
not for the first time) received proof
positive that none of them are of any
use to Wales. Even the musical and
literary members of that family the*
fiddling Duke of Edinburgh and the
studious little Leopold, whom the ir
reverent believe to be in training for the
Arbishopricof Canterbury—have thought
themselves above patronizing Welshmen
of like pursuits with themselves.—Lon
don Fiyaro.
The Daughter of Ethan Allen.
In his reminiscences of Montreal, in
the Star, of that city, Mr. J. H. Dorwin
writes: “I. have one more little event to j
mention, one that is scarcely worth re
cording, only that it interested me very
much nt the time it happened, and re
calls the name of a mini somewhat re
nowned in the Revolutionary War, and
connected with an important event in
Montreal’s history. On the 10th of
December, 1819, there died nt tho Hotel.
Dieu, on St. Paul street, a nun known as
Sister Allen. Her full name was
Murgarct Allen, and she was tho daughter
of the famous Colonel Ethan Allen, who,
it will bo remembered, accompanied
Montgomery in his invasion of Canada
in 1775, and attempted, with a small
detachment, to surprise Montreal, but
was defeated and captured and sent, to
England in irons. She came from her
home in Burlington, Vermont, in 1808, |
when twenty-four years old, and thus |
spent eleven years in the nunnery. I |
never knew of her presence here until i
one afternoon I heard on the street that [
a daughter of the brave but unfortunate
old soldier had just died in the Hotel
Dieu, and I hurried over to see her.
Her body was lying in state in the
chapel, and, it being my first visit to a
Convent, the solemn stillness of the
place, the wax lights burning beside the
coffin, the nuns kneeling there repenting
prayers lor the departed soul, and above
all 'the thoughts called up by the name
and presence of the dead woman, all i
made a strong impression upon me. >
The body lay thus for three days, and |
was visited by a great, many people, i
She was one »f the most beautiful women, ;
even in death, that I ever saw, and be- I
longed to one of the best families in
New England, and why she left the
world to become a nun I never knew.
It was strange, too, that the daughter
should seek refuge in the very city
which the father had invaded, and whore
he met with his worst misfortune.”
Village Tree Planting.
Our enthusiastic young minister, with
an eye and a heart for what is beautiful
and good, devised the plan, and it, was
executed to the letter. The sturdy far
mers, old and young, gathered on an ap
pointed afternoon, and planted a goodly
number of trees, elms, maples and ever
greens, about the church.
At the close of the day, the ladies pro
vided a sumptuous repast, and the even
ing was spent in social enjoyment.
Years have passed away, and so have
many of those whose hands wrought so
worthily and cheerfully on that autumn
day. The youths and maidens of that
time are mature men and matrons now.
Fifteen years of toil and care have sprink
led gray hairs on many a head; but
those trees are growing and increasing
in vigor every year—and now, in their
youthful prime, east a grateful shodow
over man ai d beast. -Connieticut Cour
aril.
The Firmnan's Journal suggests that
the netting which trapeze performers
use to break their fall in case of accident
might furnish a valuable hint to the fire
(jepartußmt officials.
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HUMORS OF THE DAY.
“Bear with me for a while,” is what
Bruin said when ho affectionately em
braced the tramp.
Winn the coming man wear a stove
pipe hat? is asked. Not unless ha
smokes, replies the Elmira Free Frcsn.
He had been telling her stories of him
self, and hud done a great amount of
bragging. When he had finished she
kissed him and murmured, “This is a
kiss for a blow.”
A Connecticut man has invented a
pipe that will light itself. This is an
underhanded attempt to force bouse
painters to find some now way to kill
time. - Coston Post.
“Now I lay me down to sleep,” said
little Toddlepins. Then stopping a min
ute, “hut I ain’t going to pray for mam
ma’s sole to keep, ’cause it hurts. ” He is
regarded as the Bob Ingersoll of tho fam
ily.
“JSsthetio Damsel.” The most
charming decoration for a plate is a good
piece of beefsteak with well cooked po
tatoes and just a sufficiency of gravy.
It’ll lay over trailing vines or a sunflower
any day, -Boston Post.
“Tun ripest peach is on the highest
free,” says James Whitcomb Riley.
James shows his ignorance. - The ripest
peach is in tho bottom layer of the bas
ket every time, nud it is generally about
nine shades too ripe.
New York's latest lah-da-dah: “Do you
play the piano?” “No; I don’t play the
piano, but my sister Hannah, who is in
Savannah, she plays the piano in the
most charming' niannah.” “Haveaban
ana?”—Fete York Star.
Tun difficulty originated in this way.
Said Gallagher t > Ragbag—“l heard a
story just now that was funny enough to
make a jackass laugh. Let me tell it to
you.” “Don’t yon slur me in any sueli
remark ns that;’’roared Ragbag, angrily.
“ How many of you are there?” asked
a voice from ail upper window, of a sere
nading party. “Four,” was tho reply.
“Divide that auioiig you,” said a voice,
ns a bucket of slop fell “like tho gentle
dew of heaven,”'on those beneath.
The Norristown Herald is accounta
bly for the statement that a New- York
“ninetv-nino cent store” was robbed of
eleven'gold bracelets, six watches, throb
diamond pins, fourteen gold brooches
and’fifty-four finger rings. The loss is
estimated at §2.20. — Oil City Derrick.
Said Maguire to Finnegan—“ When
von see dio aclii'ig like a fool, tell me so.”
And Finnegan said he would. And in
about half an hour he called out—“ M
aguire, you’re making a fool of yourself.”
And then Maguire got mad and thumped
Finnegan. It always works that way.—
Boston Post.
Can auy one, tell us why a woman,
emerging from a crowded car, always
makes believe she is going to get out at
one aide of the platform, until two or
three men have jumped oil'in the mud,
and then stops off at the other side. She
always does it, and we want to know the
reason why.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
A conundrum—“ What is the differ
ence between a man going to Plymouth
Church and a lover about to propose?”
asks the Boston Courier. Don’t know,—
Boston Post. Then you had better go
back to school. Ono is going to see
Beecher and the oilier, to beseech her.—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Thkiie is lots of enterprise in this
world. A Chicago saloon-keeper offers
prizes to persons who take the greatest
number of drinks at bis bar in a given
time. And it may not be long before
enterprising undertakers offer premiums
to families in which there are the largest
number of deaths during the. green ap
ple and cucumber season. — Norristown
Herald.
The Influence of Foe.
Poc, like Pope, threw himself into a
war with dunces. He hit and thrust at
them vigorously; he exposed a score of
cheap popularities ; he was merciless to
the inexpensive reputations then readily
acquired by every tootlcr on the whistle
of Miss Eliza Cook. Since the time of
Poe American literature has wonderfully
advanced in the acquisition of force and
polish. American novelists, for exam
ple, almost give us lessons in careful
elaboration of style, in reticence and in
well-calculated effects. American poets
are, perhaps, too numerous. That they
i get a hearing as they do, and appeal to
i a really-large public, says much for the
: interest of the people in contemporary
verse. - In form, in the mere art of versi
i tying, even the minor American poets of
to-day show wonderful versatility and
deftness. Commonplace is much less
successful than it was of old. Jn fiction,
analysis is almost too careful. We can
not but think that this rapid ripening of
the American muse (who was a raw, un-
I informed school girl in the life-time of
j Poe) is due in part to the influence of
that critic. UJs method is as unlike the
method of Mr. Matthew Arnold ns pos
sible. But he exercised the same kind
of influence.- Dike Mr. Arnold, lie in
troduced some tinge of French thought
and of French literature into the work
i mauship of his countryman. Perhaps
| he was not a wide reader, and the ele-
I merit of affectation in his nature may he
i detected in his quotations of obscure
; Latin authors and in his Oriental allu
sions. It, is hard to say how much
knowledge was implied iu these allu
sions—how rich the mine was from which
Poe dug these sparkling fragments.
Still, he judged the writers of his coun
try with some knowledge of other litera
tures. As he was quite ruthless in his
criticisms ho did good, but at his own
cost. — Jrmdon News.
Dahkness, solitude and remorse are
grim and In* telid company.