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Georgian,
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
—AT—
BELLTON, GfoY.
Bv MYERS & Bl 1< 'E.
DK. D. M. BREAKER Editor
Office in the Snith building, east of the
depot.
$1 CO per muii, i-f) cents for six
months, in advance.
Fiftv numoera Io ’he vr.bift-e
N WS CLEANINGS.
Ex-Governor Warmoth is now one of
Louisiana’s largest sugar planters, and
he says the sugar crop will fall otF fully
one-half.
The Mobile press indignantly howl at
the published reports that the city i< on
the decay. They assert that the city of
Mobile is fast improving.
The cotton crop of South Carolina
will unquestionably be short as com
pared with last year's crop, but there is
some reason to hope that the loss will
not be as great as generally supposed.
It is sai l the Pensacola railroad lias
the largest pair of track scales in Amer
ica, which are 106 feet long, and can
weigh three cars at once loaded with
spar timber.
Marion (Ala.) Standard: A Perry
county woman, whose arms are cut off
just below the elbow, threads her needle
by sticking it in her dress and tak
ing the thread between her two stumps
of arms and forcing it through the eye
of the needle. She, does neat sewing,
hoes corn well andean pick fifty or sixty
pounds of cotton per day.
Arkansas Democrat: The cotton
crop of Arkansas is much smaller than
it was last year. But it must be remem
bered that we lost a large portion of last
year’s crop by bad weather, and much
of what was gathered was of a very in
ferior quality and sold for a small price.
If the weather continues favorable for
picking there will be only a small dif
ference in the amount saved as com
pared with last year.
Mobile Register: There seems to lie
a fatal disease among horses and mules
in this neighborhood. Within the
forty-eight hours ending at dark last
night eight horses and five mule- have
died. We also understand from Capt.
I’. !■’. Albi that, he has several hoises
under treatment for the sam< disease,
which is an aflection of tin throat.
Some apprehension among the owners of
valuable animals exists for fear that the
disease may become epidemic.
The State Virginian : The rains that
have fallen in the past few days in
nearly every, portion of Virginia and
North Carolina will benefit the grass
and set the streams to running once
more, but they come too late to help the
tobacco crop. Indeed,some ol the most
experienced tobacco planters are of the
opinion that the rain, coming so late at
it did, will do the crop more harm than
good. But the tobacco raisers will have
the consolation of knowing that the de
ficiency in quantity will be made up in
a measure.
ITie Madisonian : There is a negro in
Morgan county. Lewis Jordon, who it
thoroughly conversant with the rudi
ments of the Latin language, knows a
smattering of French, and is fa-t learn
ing to read and parse Greek. He is a
capital scholar in English grammar, and
is ready in mathematics. He hat ac
quired this extraordinary amount of
learning without the assistance of a pre
ceptor, and seems charmed when under
some great mental task. He hasn’t an
intelligent face, but rather the reverse,
appearing at times silly in the extreme.
He is about thirty-five years old, and
feels confident that he can master sev
eral languages before his death. He
laughs at you when you ask if he could
not progress faster if placed under a
competent teacher. He is humble, po
lite and strictly reliable.
Knoxville Tribune : One of the most
wonderful phenomena that have come
under our observation in a long time is
a natural flow’ of gas from the earth,
that burns with a brilliant flame when
ignited. The spot where this gas es
capes is about one mile from Oliver’s
Springs, in Anderson county, and im
pregnates the atmosphere for yards
around with the odor The gas eeems
to come from a spring on Coal creek,
near the water, but for yaids up the
mountain side there runs a vein about a
foot wide, which has been fired and at
time' burns brilliantly. At the end of
the vein, on the bank of the creek, the
gas burns with a bright yellow flame
and emit’ considerable he it, A pipe is
sometimes introduced in the spring and
at a distance of several yards burns
readily. A traveler passing a few days
ago stuck in a small pipe in the vein,
put two rocks, one <>n opposite sides of
the pipe, and boiled tea from the flame
that was produced on igniting. The gas
evidently come’ from a coal formation
si Ii- a natural curiosity I’ersoei go
j.O 6- » * 0 F I ' ’
The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
f Chables J. Gviteau will plead in-
I sanity.
Tub Jews in Russia are organizing for
self-protection.
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Rowell has retired from the track
, with $50,000 tr> his credit.
American horses are carrying off all
the honors in England this year.
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The country is responding liberally to
, the suffering people of Michigan.
A Parisian clothing house is running
its sewing- machines by electricity.
One of Detroit's tough citizens uses
nitro-glycerine to blow his nose with.
Private board, as a rule, has advanced
one dollar a week in nearly all the cities.
A St. Lot is negro committed suicide
through grief at the death of the Presi
de nt.
The public debt was reduced ov-t
twelve millions of dollars during Sep
tember.
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Sixty-eight miles of black cloth were
used to drape the department buildings
in Washington.
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Traveling by balloon would bo the
better and more profitable way in Mis
souri and Arkansas.
The rice crop of the United States
this year is estimated at 1,500,000 bush
els, an abundant crop.
Reports of the, nut crop say hickory
nuts nre more plentiful than ever, but
ternuts a failure and acorns short.
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<o rii.av was pleased to hear of the
President's death because it put him out
■f pain. This is magmuniuity, indeed.
o •
\\ eston, of pedestrian fame, is in the
employ of the Church of England Tent
p rance Society. How men do drift
about,
.. .
Queen Christine, of Sweden, said
that she loved men, “not bocause they
arc men, but because they are not wo
men
Owing to the change of administration
William Wnlter Phelps, United States
Minister to Austria, has asked to be re
called at once.
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Thebe is little doubt but that tiro
prosecutions of the Star .Route con
tractors will go right on as if nothing
had occurred.
We announce, with a spasmodic shiver,
that large hoops are being adopted by
the leaders of fashion iu the large cities.
Girls, to your tents I
Unless some terrible penalty is at
tached to attempts on the lives of pub
lic men, we may expect an increase of
crime in that direction.
Harrison, the “boy preacher,’’
charges SIOO a week for his services.
There is no telling what he will charge
when he gets to be a man.
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M ason, who shot at Guiteau, will not
be photographed, and persons writing
for his picture will save themselves time
and i oiK-y by taking notice.
The late rains over the country have
started a rapid growth of grass, and the
consumption of hay, for the time being,
will stop to a great extent.
No man, perhaps, was ever in a more '
trying position than President Arthur,
and all well-meaning citizens can but
hope h.- will be equal to the emergency.
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The Detroit Free Preus states there
are 58,000,000 gallons of whisky stored
in Kentucky. What a high old time
there will be when people find out where
i it is.
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August Belmont, the New York
1 banker, who spends his summers at
I Saratoga, pays SI,OOO a week for board
for himself and family of half a dozen
> persons.
1 The number of days from the time of
Garfield’s election to his death (includ
ing those two days) was “329.” Were
this a superstitious age, the fact might
! not be regarded merely as a coincidence.
>
During the past twelve years it has
; | eOSt $302,345 for “furnishing and re
. i pairing” the Executive Mansion at
Washington, and yet we read that the
pi furniture is old and must be replaced.
The amount does look rather stingy.
1 It seems to be the case that the Mor
-1 j mens supply the White River Utes with
’ atn munition, and it is rumored no ■ that,
having plenty of that article, tiicy v A
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BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA., OCTOBER «. ISSI.
refuse to stay on their new reservation, !
It would, perhaps, be to the interest of I
the Mormons to endeavor to cultivate
Uncle Sum’s good opinion.
Ex-President Hayes seems to have •
nu enterprise on hand about which the
public know very little. He owns a farm |
of 500 acres near Bismarck, D. T., which
cost him from sixty to seventy-five cents j
an acre, worth now sls per acre, and the ,
past year a wheat crop on it yielded him ,
a profit of $15,000.
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Hebe is the new Cabinet as it is or- \
ganized iu some of the New York pa
pers : Secretary of State, U. S. Grant;
Secretary of the Treasury, Levi I’. Mor
ton ; Secretary of the Interior, Senator
Jones; Secretary of the Navy, Judge!
Settle ; Secretary of War, Robert Lin
coln ; Postmaster General, Senator Fre- i
linghuysen ; Attorney General, Geo. S.
Boutwell.
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Young men should take courage. ;
Several years ago Jenny Henry, a young !
girl with scarcely enough to sustain her, ,
settled on a tract of land at Ash Creek,
Kansas, and by economy and hard work, ,
now owns a farm under a good state of |
cultivation upon which there is a com
fortable house, well-furnished, and other
valuable improvements. She will make
a living for some man.
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Farm products, on flic average, are a
third higher than they were a year ago. :
Within a feiv months wheat lias advanced ,
from 87 cents to $1.59, and corn from i
45@47 to 76@80c. Flour has advanced ’
$2 on the barrel. Potatoes that last
March were selling at $2.25 per barrel
are now bringing $3.35. What price !
potatoes will bring by next March we do !
not like to predict. They will be high I
jnough evidently for those who are com I
pelle.l to buy.
Ex Minister Chbistiancy doubtless:
feels somewhat discouraged. First, a !
divorce suit unsettles his nerves, then
comes ti challenge to fight a duel, and
before he recovers from the shock, bur
glars enter his apartments and steal
$3,0111) worth of diamonds that hud been
given him for safe-lv epiiig. This i ,
nliout tin- poiut reached wlu-u
of suicide crowd themselves one upon ,
another.
Tin-: Sexton of Lakeview Cemetery, ;
Cleveland, • where Gem ml Garfield is I
buried, says that one day last full the
President-elect and bis uncle, Thomas |
Garfield, since dead, and buried in the
cemetery, came out to inspect the mon
ument of the Garfield family. The old
uncle was a jolly fellow, and, while
talking, said, laughingly, to the nephew; ;
“Now, James, if you should be so per
verse as to die, with so many honors
thick upon you, here is plenty of room
to bury you, and a place left on the !
stone to inscribe your name. ”
We have another terror now’ iu aulici- <
pation, that of cholera. This disea-e i
seems to recnr at intervals of seventeen l
years. It visited us in 1849, ami again i
in ISflCi. The cable announces tha! it )
has broken out among the /.jolianimi dri’i i
pilgrims in Mecca, and also in the ltii>-i> !
Austrian frontier, two distant points on I
the road from the East. It may be !
that this is ominous of its return lu re, in
1883, and as sanitary laws are its indy ‘
preventive, it is essential that they I"'
strictly heeded.
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Corn is now worth eighty cent.- the '
bushel, and the prospects are, that it |
will be higher, lyiien tn-e.iey was cheap i
and corn brought one dollar the lutshel, :
the fact was accorded asan eventworlli. 1
a place in the history of commerce; bill. '
. what shall we say now, with money at |
f par, of the price which this product i
promises to attain. The difference, lieu •
ever, between then and now is. flint !
then the high price, attained was or. in :
to the cheapness of money and an nn- !
usual demaud in the markets, whereas |
the present status is a result of tin- I
| scarcity of the corn pi’oduct. It is of i
little benefit to the farm r how high j
corn is if he have none to sell.
The Cincinnati Gazefte pays the. fol •
lowing tribute to the integrity of Ja'- ’
Cooke : The example which Jay Cooke I
presents of recovery from bankruptcy t > I
honorable solvency, after having be -n
hounded from wealth to poverty by I
heartless ami undiscriminatirig persecu
tion, is not equaled probably in finan
cial history. Every lover of integrity
and persobal worth will rejoice to know
that the great dispenser of greenbacks
and salesman of Government bonds in ’
the hour of the Nation’s fiery trial is ;
likely to pass the evening of bis days in
! affluence in the elegant home he pro
! vided in days of affluence, which was
cheerfully surrendered to satisfy both
needy and rapacious creditors, but is
. nsw recovered by his recuperated means
: to the use of the worthv owner.
Br.iu Wilkerson, a Colorado outlaw
\ who was kindly assisted “over tin- -
range ” by the vigilauts, was highly con
; uected in Indiana, as well as with the
limb from which he mode his last ap
; pearaiice iu public. His granduncle was
! Josejfli Wright, who was Governor for
i several terms, then United States Sena
' tor, and afterward Minister to Berlin.
His grandfather was lor many years a
member of the Indiana Legislature. His
■ father was a cousin of the Hon. James
i F. Harlin, of lowa. Bert had for sev
i oral years figured as a border bar-room
■ hero, and the murder for which his life
; we- taken was wanton, brutal and cow
ardly. When about to die, however, his
bravado proved trustworthy, lie ad
justed the noose himself, remarking,'
“Boys, I’ll help you all I can,” and
coolly kicked over the chair on which he
' stood.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
When reduced to extremity by hun
ger, the wolf will swallow mud in order
to allay the uneasy sensations of his
stomach.
Thebe is a species of crow in Flor
ida that gives vent to a series of haw 1
haws 1 in exact imitation of the human
voice I
A wild elephant may generally bo
tamed, bo as to bo conducted from
place to place unfettered, in about six
months.
In the Guildford Endowed Grammar \
School, in England, where the school
master is held responsible for every vol
ume, which, if lost, ho is bound to re
place, one master, to decrease his risk,
carefully packed all the books under the
floor, where they proved a banquet for
the rats and mice.
I The curious library of old Samuel
i Bepys, the well-known diarist, is im
i prisoned in its original book-eases at
J Magdalene College, Cambridge. No
! one can gain admission to it except in
the company of two Fellows of the col
i lege, and, if a single book is lost, the
whole collection goes to a neighboring
college.
The Norwegian lemming is an animal
about the size of a mouse. They live,
under the stones in summer, under the
snow in winter. They hiss and bile.
About once iu ten years they migrate in
largo armies. They march in a straight
line. They cross lakes and rivers.
They go straight through bay-stacks
rather than go aror-nd. Nothing stops
i thorn, not fires, cascades nor swamps.
| If a man stands in tlieir way they will
■ jump at him as high as his knee. If
: struck they will turn around and bark
I and bite like a dog. Foxes, lynxes, owls,
i hawks and weasels will follow them and
I destroy large numbers of them, but it
does not check them. They continue
their course until they reach the sea,
into which they plunge, as persistent
and progressive as ever, until the waves
exterminate them.
The microscope shows a variation in
the thickness of human hair from the
l-250th to the 1-fiOOth part of an inch;
but, notwithstanding such fineness, it. is
| a massive cable in comparison with
other fibers. Thus tiie thread of the
silk-worm is many times finer, being
from the 1-1,700th to the 1-2,000th of an
inch. This, however, is nothing to the
’ slenderness of the spider’s thread, which
i has been found in some instances to be
i no more than 1-30,000th of an inch in
I diameter. The fibers yielded by the
! vegetable kingdom are also of astonish
l ing minuteness. Thus, every’ fiber of
flax is found to bo composed of a bundle
!of other fibrils, which are about
! 1-2,500th of an inch in diameter. Simi
lar fibers obtained from the pineapple
I plant have been ascertained to be no
■ more than 1-5,000th or even 1-7,000th of
I an inch in diameter.
In the British House of Lords Lord
Brougham once mentioned two some
what-remarkable facts showing the ne
i cesmty of having a safe place for the
deposit of wills. The first ease is one iu
which one of his noble friends, us heir-
I at-law, lost, and another of his noble
friends, as a devisee, gained, £.30,000 a
year. How the first lost it, and the last
gained it, was by a will being found in
an old rusty box, in an old traveling
carriage, and which, therefore, might
have been very naturally lost by acci
dent or destroyed by ignorance. The
second case was one, also, in which
I some of his noble friends were con
cerned, and the sum in question was no
i less than £160,000. This sum would
have been entirely lost for the purposes
for which it was intended if the inquiries
: relative to the existence of a will with
I respect to it had been instituted in win
, ter instead of in the summer. The will
i was searched for everywhere, but could
nowhere be found, until, at last, it was
I discovered in a grate, and stuffed like a
■ niece cf waste paper through the bars;
if it had been winter instead of summer,
in all probability when the fire Juul been
lighted it would have been destroyed.
“Gath” says that a public man at
Long Branch told him that when Zach
Chandler heard of the nomination of
Lincoln in 1860, he began io curse in a
terrible manner, and said that Lincoln
was a miserable clown, and that Sev.ard
was the only man in the country lit to bo
elected and who could have carried it.
Somebody spoke up at the telegraph
office, where this talk was going on, and
said, “ You underate Mr. Lincoln ; he is
a man of int llect; a fine lawyer ;an ex
cellent debater, and a man of decision of
chnracter and firmness of purpose.” Tn
aboul fifteen mimites of such talk ns
th! . Zach «■:. . indue, dto send a message
• to Lincoln congratulating him.
NO. 40.
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
Whut Ntie Vlore.
She wer.‘ a saire-grepii polonaißo,
Shirred up behind the back.
And several p aite with gURBet loops
Were hemstitched in with black.
The drab ooreage—that fair cowAjje—
Was biased down before;
The skirt was simply flounced in gr*y;
And barely touched the floor.
A coliur-bund of crepe de chine.
Or Satinet ccru,
Just reached unto her dainty waist,
Ami was of mauvish hue.
Her hat—but, no, an angel's pen
Won- needed on the earth
To paint that hat and c xdume 8*
They just arrived from W or fh.
Tin liiflncnleal
We generally picture her as e leader
of fashion, stately and beautiful, the
center of her coterie. Her moral quali
i ties are not considered at all ; and that
is where w e err. When the rich woman
can show to the. world only a life of
fashion mid idleness, she is deserving of
open censure and disgrace, so long as
there are hungry bodies, minds or souls
crying for some of her abundance. To
whom much is given much is required.
Let public opinion mete out its wrath
of censure upon the fasluouable, idle
woman, who is a disgrace to her sex
because of her aimless, useless life. Let
the expression “best society” mean
those who do good deeds, who leave the
i world happier and better for having
! lived, instead of those who have been
most idle and aimless. The “influential
women" of every community are those
I who are doing amt daring, that the world
may bo made purer and better, whether
they are fashionable or unfashionable it
matters not.
A Woman'** A%<-.
A ease was decided not long ago be
fore the appeal court at Metz, in Ger
many, which shows bow a lady’s age is
a matter entirely within her own control.
Fraulein Catherine Maid was engaged,
to a desirable partner, to whom she. had i
imprudently declared her age at six i
years less than it really was. As soon
as the moment arrived for producing the ;
certificate of birth, she was aware that
her little deception would be discovered,
and she feared that4ihe match would lie. I
broken off. She, therefore, took the I
liberty of altering the oflie.ial document
so as to make it correspond with the I
statement already made. The cere- i
moiiv took place, and the husband was
duly united to a lady whom lie believed
to be quite a jeunc infj'iuie. Unfortu
nately, the certificate, in passing through
Sv.me office, happened to lie minutely
examined by one the clerks. The bride
was charged with tin- offense of falsify- i
ing a public document, and condemned
to spend, if not her honeymoon, at least I
three of the first mouths of her married ;
life, in prison. She had the courage to
uppeid from the sentence, and cause the I
ease to be argued out before the court I
of Melz, which reversed the decision of
the inferior tribunal, and acquitted the.
j lady on the gfound that she did not in
tend to commit an illegal act, but had
been actuated only by “female vanity.”
Three ,H;iid<-us u»<l Cenxitn.
The Misses McFarlanes are three i
maiden ladies—sisters. It seems the .
one would not trust the other to see the 1
census paper filled up, so they agreed to
bring it to mo to fill it iu.
“ Would you kindly till in this census i
paper for me?” said Miss McFarlane.
“ My sisters will look over and give you j
their particulars bv and by.”
Now, Miss McFarlane is a very nice i
lady, though Mrs. Cameron tells me she' '
has been calling very often at the manse ■
since the minister lost his wife. Betbat ■
' as it may, I said to her that I would be >
I happy to fill up the paper, anil asked I
her in the meantime to give her own par- :
i ticulars. When it came to the age col- ;
umn, she played with her bobt on the !
carpet, mid drew the black ribbons of j
her silk bag through her fingers, and
whispered: “You can say four-aiid
thirty, Mr. McLauchlin.” “All right,
ma’am,” says I, for I knew she was I'our
and-thirty at any rate. Then Miss
Susan came over—that’s the second sis
ter, really a handsome young creature,
with tine ringlets and curls, though she
is a little tender eyed and wears specta
, cles. Well, when we came to the age
column Miss Susan played with one of
her ringlets, and looked in. my face
sweetly, and said: “ Mr. MeUauchlin,
what did Miss McFarlane say? My
sister, you know, is considerably older
than 1 am—-there was a brother be
tween us.”
“ Quite so, my dear Miss Susan,” said
I; “ but you see the bargain was that
each of you was to state your own age.”
“ Well.” said Miss Susan, still playing
j with her ringlets, “you can say- age,
34 years, Mr. McLauchlin.”
In a little while the youngest sister
i came in.
i " Miss McFarlane,” said she, ‘‘sent
me over for the census paper.”
“Oh, no, my dear,” says I; “I can
not part with the paper.”
“ Well, then,’’said she, “just enter
my name, too, Mr. MeLauchlin.”
“Quite so. But tell me, Miss Kobina,
why did not Miss McFarlane till up the
paper herself?”—for Miss Robina and I
were always on very confidential terms.
“Uh,” she replied, “there was a dis
pute over particnlaiH ; and Mis- McFar
lane would not let mv other sister sec
how old she was ; mid Mis- ffe -iu <•<-
I fused to state her age to .Mi McFar
lane; and so, to eml t ic quarrel, wo
agreed to a-k you to lie so kind mt to till
- in the paper.'’
“Yes, yes, Mi-- Kobina,” said I,
■ “that’s quite satfistactory; and so I’ll
fill iu your name now, if you please."
“Yes." she said, with a sigh. When
we came to the age column—“ Is it -is
solutely necessary,” said she, “ to fill in
the age? Don't you think it in a most
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Trm sient islvertiseuifutu (strictly in ad
vance) 11 per inch for the first insertion; 50
cents per inch for each additional insertion.
Local reading notices 10 cents per line.
Annonuc nieuts $5 each.
Ma-riage noth- sand obituaries exceeding
six lines will be charge i for as advertiaa
me n is.
impertinent question to ask, Mr. Mc-
Lauchlin ? ”
“ Tuts, it may be so to some folk, but
to a sweet young creature like you it can
uot matter a button.”
“Well,” said Miss Robina. “But
now, Mr. McLauehlin, I’m to tell you a
great secret,” and she blushed as she
slowly continued ; “ the minister comes
sometimes to see us."
“ I have noticed him rather more at
tentive in his visitations in your quarter
of late than usual. Missßobina.”
“ Very well, Mr. McLmiehlin; but
you must not tease me just now. You
know Miss McFarlane is of opinion that
he is in love with her, while Miss Susan
thinks her taste for literature and her
knowledge of geology, especially her
uamphlet on the old red sandstone and
its fossils as confirming the Mosaic pe
riod, are all matters of great interest to
Mr. Fraser, and she fancies that he
conies so frequently for the privilege of
conversing with her. But,” exclaims
Miss Robina, with a took of triumph,
look at that 1” and she held in her hand
a beaut iful gold ring. “ I have got that
from the minister this very’ day.”
I congratulated her. She had been a
favorite pupil of mine, mid I was rather
pleased with what had happened. “ But
what,” I asked her, “ has all this to do
with the census?”
, “ Oh, just this,” continued Miss Ro
bina. “ I had uo reason to conceal my
age, as Mr. Fraser knows it exactly,
since he baptized me 1 He was a young
creature then, only three-and-twenty;
so that’s just the difference between us.”
“ Nothing at nil, Miss Robina,” said
I, “ nothing at all; not worth mention
ing. ”
“ In this passing and changeful world,”
said Miss Robiua, “ three-nud-twenty
years are not much, after,all, Mr. Mc-
Lauchlin.”
“Much?" said I. “Tuts, my dear,
it’s nothing—-just indeed what should
i be.”
“ I was just ,31 last birthday, Mr.
McLauchlin,” said Miss Robina, “and
I the minister said the last time ho called
! that no young lady’ should take the
cares and responsibilities ot a household
; upon herself until she wa?»—well, eight-
I and-twenty ; and be added that 3-1 was
late enough.”
“ The minister, my dear,” said I, “is
i a man of sense.”
So thus were the Miss McFarlanes’
schedules tilled up; and if ever some
one in search of the Curiosities of the
Census should come across it ho mav
think it strange, enough, for he will find
that the three sisters McFarlane are all
one year’s bairns. — C/iamln rs’ Journal.
ffnvcstlgatlug Tlis Historical t.-rarning.
i “And ho you ore studying American
I history?” asked a fond father of his
■ hopeful,
“Yes 1” reslionded the lad.
“Good enough!” roared the delighted
parent. “Now tell us Who George Wash
ington was.”
“ He ivns nurse to a lot of old colored
women,” sang the boy.
“ What was ho first in ?”
“ First ashore, first, to leave, and first
in the carte of the hungry man.”
“Look here, you scalawag,” said the
: old man, riling up, “you want to get
this thing straight. What was it Wash
ington couldn’t do? ’
“ He couldn’t lie 1” snorted theyoung
' Bter.
‘•You’ve got the right man. What
fight did he win?’
“Ho licked Hunker Bill on Boston
j Common, in three rounds,”'
“ What was it he cut when he was u
I boy?”
i “He ent his father’s cheese, aud ex
; claimed, ‘Father, spare me; I cannot tell
i u hatchet from a lie 1’ ”
! His father graduated the boy at once,
• M>d he now makes a living selling papers-
a Curious Love Story.
I'here abides in the mind of woman au
overwhelming sense of the importance
of having an ample trousseau. Witness
the ease of a young woman in Dort
mund, Germany, a short time since,who
wins arrested lor stealing a gold watch
and chain from her affianced lover, who
on discovering his loss, had placed the
matter iu the bauds of the police,with
out the faintest notion as to who was the
tbi'-f. The maiden, with many tears,
eonfessed that she hud taken the watch,
so that, by pawning it she might raise
money enough to buy her wedding dress,
which she could get in no other way.
Thereupon tin l despoiled but magnani
mous bridegroom spoke out in court,
declared that, “the pri-oner wasbisouly
love; and that bo would marry her out
of hand if riu judge would consi nt to set
In i at liberty.” Without d. lay the trib
niiiil annulled the arraignment, mid the
eer., i ins l<n-r carried off his liberated
luicciiist iu triumph.
How He Proposed.
A bachelor too poor to get married,
yet too susceptible t< i let the girls alone,
was riding with a lady “all of a sum
mer’s day,” and accidentally—men’s
arms, awkward things, are ever in the
way--dropped an arm round her waist.
No objection was made for a while, and
the arm gradually relieved the side of
the carriage of the pressure upon it.
But of a sudden, whether from a late
recognition of the impropriety of the
thing or the sight of another beau com
ing never was known, the lady started
with volcanic energy, and, with a flash
ing eye, exclaimed: “Mr. 8., I can
support myself 1” “Capital!” was the
instant reply. “ You are just the. girl I
have been looking for these five years
Will you marry me?”
“ Do you expect, to travel tins sum. ?”
“Yes, some,” “It will cost some.”
“ Yes, quite a sum. ’ “Do you possess
th necessary sum ?” “I have some.”