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»WJ t AS. BRECKENRIDtIB, Publisher.; *>,-* .► Ev. > ? $ . v "ONWARD AN ■ ■ 124-. .i/jUJ. .,la\A ... f »,tj“ ' , • . - VOLUME" I. DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1883. SCBSCRIPIIOHi $1.50 Per Anna * NUMBER 40. GENERAL NEWS. Savannah is about to bulbil * 9200,00C hotel by subscription. Mia* ssippi has only twenty-throe pres idential postofflces. * *' 1 There nre 1,808 more women than men in Adame oonnty, Mieeieeippi. A depoeit of rieh phoaphatea haa been discovered near Selma, Alabama. ■ A Chattanooga Arm haa sold 8,000,000 feet of lumber to one Arm in Boeton. The stock shipments from East Ten nessee are increasing. The largest crop of wheat ever sewn in East Tennessee has been seeded this fall Tho Annnciiil condition of New Or leans is said to be better than ever lie- foro. The number of Indiana in the Ever glades of Florida is estimated at eight hundred. The Georgia owners of tho Refugio sil ver mine, in Mexico, refuse to sell-itlaaj fW *500,000. A farmer of Snwanuee county, Flor ida, has gathered two crops of peaches from his trees this year. . fun reduction ^ tho public dobtrtlm-. Calhoun county, Alabama, is ightofi *lng October w is 110,304,789; decrease of and boxing. It is Is eaUmated that tally anohglf of tho crop will g» to the Weak from a quarter to a third of the crop went weat laat year, bat this year the fa cilities are better and shippers era better acquainted with the tnatket Tho Washington monument has re rob ed a height of three hundred and eighty- four foot, and coat, tliua far, aa follows: Expended by the monument association upon the old abaft, 9230,000; expended by Colonel Caaey, 9710,000; leaving a balance on band of 9100,000 from the ap propriation by Congnaa of 9000,000. A reporter who aacended to the top laat week found men chiftiug tho maaaivo ma -hinery and preparing to lay the 888th eourae. The workraon, he .ays, ran aronn-l the edges with the agility of Aiea, and trusted their live* to tho safety netting that surrounds tho top. EltlTORUI. NOTES. Tub total revenue derived from dram shops and wino ami boor licenaos front, flputnm 1 A *w«rnim«frl7^® r (nfl new- high license law at St. Louis, amounts to 9255,128, an increase of 9138,607. no |k |IU|IU1HIIUU UI manshift over tho proposition to move the oourt- house from Jacksonville to Anniston. The grand jury of Craighead county, Arkansas, doclarad their jail a nuisance, and recommended that it be torn down The sum of 95,116 hss been doneted by the trustees of the Peabody school fund to the FI nyp Tennessee has a population of 1,541,- 000, and pays about revenuo to the sT ment. Thirty thousand dollars have htc* subscribed for the Ne(*maa, Op, aottoM factory, and ift. A. IS. Calhoun hns do nated the ground. The South Florida up the timl there will not be enough to furnish boxes for tho shipping of the orange crop. ' Northern capitalists frill lenstW twrf ice factories, each witli a capacity of ten tons dniiy, in Florida. Thore will be one at Tnllahass°e and one at Gaines ville. The Southern Telegraph company will reach Augusta with thoir wires by the middle of next month, and from that point will operate in ovory city of impor tance in tho South. Spanish mackerel and some other Ash only to be found in tbo spring have re cently been abundant in tbo waters about Savannah. Tho Ash dealers say tho causo of their appearance at this time is the late long drouth. The contract to build a pedestal for the Jackson statue, on Capitol Hill, S*?Wtova'Efl?%i Aflft Tfis’foljo of East Tennesseo marble, of a beauti ful piuk color, and fourteen feet in height. The work now going forward on the Panama canal has built up an entire town there, with a collection of work- shopa, warehouses and connecting rail ways for tho reception and distribution of material The working force will be augmented in Deoember to a total of 15,000 men. The lumber business in the swamps of the Yazoo and Tallahatchie rivi is assuming immense iMDjxlrtii sides tho great amount of cypres# lum ber that is being gotten out, thoiuauds of walnut logs are being-cut for northern manufacturer* of furniture and other articles in which walnut ia used. One Boston firm alone has a raft of 8,000 logs, ready for shipment, at the mouth of the Tallahatchie river. The worth of the early vegetables sent north from Mobile county, Alabama, last year, amounted to 9261,000. About the same amount will be realized this season. The principal vegetables used are cab bages, tomatoes, potatoes, beans and peas. Less attention is now given to cauliflower, lettuce, radishes, and cn cumbers, as all except the first are raised in the North, under gloss. Several capi talists have recently pot considerable money in the business of market garden- ing'at Mobile. Florida oranges are Moving slowly on account of their maturing slowly. Job bers are making their contracts for the fruit by the box instead of by the thous and. The crop of one grove near San ford, estimated at four thousand boxen, has been sold at 42 lb per box, the pur chaser bearing the expense of picking the debt, since Juno 30,1883,939,581,470. Cash in the treasury, 9374,347,501; gold certificates, 182,223,940; silver certifi cates, 199,579,141; certificates of deprsit, 912,620,000; refunding certificates, 9325,- 850; legal tenders, 9246,681,016; froc- tioul currency, 96,8pOA03. a country of marvelous ex tent. We consider the United Statee, withTUMW5>0-aaaoi4 nEs of territory, aiv*^ la^in Imiililry * Ahd so it is. But China covers abont 5,800,000 aquare milok in its tbxee parts—the Eighteen ProrMta, the Colonial PSAeaAHla, inolnding Ili, Koko-nor and Thibet. aloirni* givtop Aq name*of “China," and is the only part entire! ysottled by the Chinese. The Cubans, it is .said, nre abont to make a supremo effort to out looee from the dominion of Spain. General Bona- chea has sailed from Now York witli an expedition, and others are to follow. The friends of Cuba in tho United ■States are very active, and the revolu tionists havo groat hopes of success. 1 he negro slaves tin. the sugar planta tions are said to bo ready to join in a revolution. Meanwhile, the Spanish government is in a state of alarm, aid extreme measures are to bo taken to nip the new movement in the bud. Tbo flat of these divisions iat^ ahitto 14 li tom atoms have A New York man has imported a pair of Iudian mangooses, the first that ever came to America. They are a little larger than a'good sized rat; their bodies are covered with brown hair, variegated Ilia sspEMa vermin exterminators. It is claimed that they have no equal in that business. One mangoose will rid the largest honso of rats, and they destroy snakes with wonderful avidity and are the inveterate enemy of every species of vermin. But they are gentle and harmless to human beings. The grape crop of Ohio, representing s great industry, is a dead failure, aud California will have to' be dopeaded on for the main supply of domestic wine. Besides furnishing an immense American • trade, California sends great quantities of wino abroad every year. It is there manipulated, labelled and sent back to the United States, to 1)0 bought at fancy prices and sipped with tho knowing smile of the pretentious American epi cure. It is certain that ocntral Califor nia is now producing the richest quality to be found anywhere. 1 he art of wine making is ■ not properly cnltivated, and the state thus loses much of the possible value of ita fruitful vines. A quabter of a million cases aro now brought each year before the .consular and commercial courth of France, and the number isateadily increasing. Mnch the larger share of this great crop of liti gation arises in ihe commercial centers, Paris, Lyons and Marseilles furnishing forty per cent, of tho whole number. The cases are rapidly disposed of, not over ten per cent being carried beyond a year. Abont twenty-eight per cent, of the cases are settled by actual trials, forty-two per cent, on judgment by de fault and thirty per cent, on compromise. The number of failures is each year about six tliousand, and bankruptcy pro ceedings are rather slow. They do, how ever, generally end ir a dividend. THB ocrnmarion-^nsral the lool AN OLD SHOWMAN’S YARN. office. Hot. N. McFarland, in his annual report, states that Ihe disposals of pub- lie lands duriiy the Jtar embraced 19,• 080,768 acres, end Indian lands 998,999 acre#, an increase ever 1882 of ahon| 8,000,000, end over 1881 of about 8,000,* 000 acres,. The receipts from all sonroee in connection with the disposal of pobWl lands were 911,088,479, and from sales of • Indian lands 9825,404, a total of 911,713,- 883. Public lands were disposed of as follows; Public isles, 278,068 sores; ffet- vate entries, 1,170,995; pre-emption en- _ . mia»uw ifi—jEy S"£ 'SZFSXl nail o - tried. HI ?Q1 flU- timber >r "s-... _ i :_i. i _ i. • homestead o.-.tries, 81,721,914; timber culture entries, 8,110,930; entries with military bounty land warrants, 455,414; entries with land claim scrip, 101,632. Os ■ frail* Ilia Knrly Ksyrrlises wills Clara .Harris aaS Othrr Theatrical Celebrities. A little old man bent nearly double and withered, apparently with age, aat in shook room on tho third floor of a house in Pleeekcr street listening to e naio produced from a violin and piccolo the hinds of two boys of eighteen aud dlfeou respectively. The old man was The national commissioner* appointed to inveetigato and report to Congress the feasibility of establishing s national gun foundry, have returned from their visit to Europe. They inspected the arsenals and a~-~.ro- W xaigisnu and France. Herr Krupp refused to let them visit his foundry unless they would agree to buy some of his big gnna.' They think they dodged tho old German by viriting some government worka in Rus sia, where Krup^V process uj.uaod.. The commissioners say; “ We have nothing at, all in fids country to ootnpare witl( the guns abroad^ B> fact, thetas is not ri' 1 piece of ordnance in oar servioe that * should not Re sold, unless, perhaps, it ia> tho little Hotchkiss steel repeating gun. But that is so $mall that it docs not count. Alt our iron csnnoq ought to be sold. We 1 Wve skilled mechanics, good ore from Lake Superior, e<tua] to' tho Swedish sud Spanish ore used far cannon in Europe^qnd there is no reason why we should no| soon equal the English, French and Prussian in- manufacturing big steel cannon." The steel is made by the Siemens-Msrtja process. Tbo psc- jeetilesuaedpbrM^jpelikeonrsu"- They wilt submit* si elaborate report to Con gress. ^ The postmaster-general hss reoeived the annual report of Joseph Blackfan, superintendent of foreign mails The total woight of mails dispstohod to tho countries in tho poetal union, with the exception of Oanods, was 1,532,990 pounds, an increase of 829,114 pounds over tho weight of last year. Of tho let ter mail dispatched, 41 per cent, was sent to Groat Britain and Ireland, 23 per cent, to Germany, 27 per c«nt. to other countries of Europe, and 9 per cent, to postal union countries and colonies out side of Europe. Of the printed matter and samples sent, 41 per cent was sent seut to Great Britain and Ireland, 17 to Germany, 21 to othor Enroponn conn tries, and 21 to postal union countries outside of Europe. Tho amount of mail dispatched net year increased seventy per cent, over tho amount sent in 1880. g^jsL 5 , j^ i sasrtihff , ^-Ssas paid for sea transportation of mails was 4316,522, an incrcaso over the cost ol 1882 of 136,368, or fifty-nine per cent over 1880. The aggregate omountof the balance credited to this country liy other countries, on account of mail transpor- tation, is *145,777. Tho sum paid by ihe department to other postal union countries on account of mail transporta tion was 186,745. It is estimated that the revenue collected in tho United States from unpaid matter, received from foreign countries, exceeded the amount of unpaid matter sent to other countries *123,333. The estimated amount ot postage collected in tho United 8tatca on foreign mail matter is 42*078,913. A Visit to the Tiehborne Claimant. Mr. Qaartermsine East. Mr. Hay worth, of Southport, and Mr. Grey, ot Southampton, {raid their quarterly visit to the claimant in Portsea convict prison recently. He informed them, in the course of conversation, that ho would rather rot in prison than be liberated as Orton. Though he knew the present Government would do nothing for him, he hoped bis friends would not lose their confidence. He complimented the prison officials on their kindness, and evinced great pleasure in telling his friends that, owing to his having earned a first-class certificate, after their next visit in November be would be entitled to re ceive their visits every two months till his imprisonment expired, which, sup posing he was allowed out on ticket-of- teave, wonld be abont Christmas, 1884. The claimant is at present employed in the carpenter shop.—London Tele graph. Zouave Troupe, which secured such a' world-wide reputation during tho days Of the war. “Yes, I am in splondid health,” said Mr. Carter to a reporter of tho World, and he hobbled to a window as beat ho oould, considering his paralyzed condi tion, as if to refute the statement. “I ahull never he what I woa thirty years ago, though. Oh, those wore good old days. It was in 1818 that I reached where I earned my first dollar in tho capacity of a journey nmu painter. When para ting became slack I began deliver ing lectures on 'Artificial Memory.’ I did Hot suoeeed very well, so I packed ' raps and steered for Now York. On ng there I entered the employ of ■ Porter, the founder of the AWew- itnerican. At the time he was en- gngtd constructing a flyiug machine to Mrffieople tt> California in three days. Weapon found that tho railroads aud ■fesHers would eventually reach there nil qhfokly as wo oould with our inven tion;'and it was accordingly aliandonod. I then turned to tho stage. I sang at the OM liroaday Theatre in 1860 with ths l Bfiguin Opera Company, and also played, with Lester Wallaok iu ‘Monto Christo’ as super. Oh, he was a ‘crack’ actor. Never has an audicnco seen his Bupffkp ou the stage. . . S^ABTINCt OUT FOR HIlfSEt.F. •'ATthen t hought I wonld start out tor myself. I obtained the servioes of a ’Mexican Indian Giant’ With him and a dwarf I. formed .the .’Caster 4)nriertty Shop.’ 'For several years I traveled with them, visiting every Btato iu the country aud making several visits to Europe. In 1857 I cleared in eight months alone in Texas 95,000 with this show. Tho following winter I went to Coha, aa my giant could speak Spanish well, and cleared 93,000 with two ex hibitions. Then I started out with my ’American Eutortainmont.’ I presented tho most magnifloent panorama the world, bad ever seen at that time. I personated the yankee, negro, fireman, waiter, newsboy, and Indian. Tho scenes were laid in Now York, the Sontli and the wildH of tho West. I began tho entertainment in England to ’standing room only.’ It was an immense suo- cess until I was seized with rhenmatism, from which I have not oven now recov ered. "Then tho war broke out here, and from the fame of Colonel Ellsworth and his Zouaves I conceived tho idea of get ting np a Zouave drill, tho principal at tractions being tliat the participants were little girls instead of men. I re turned to America and liegsn selecting my company. In N, Y. city I obtained seven little girls from seven to eleven years of age. I equipped them with <fi8re3*so'muol7slIrlTthat / nt thoir Jebtit at the Green street Theatre in Albany in 1861 they mndo a great hit, I hud letters of congratulation from tho Mayor, ex-Mayor, Ernstus Corning aud oilier promincut citizens, and for one month tho houses woro packed nightly. Then I showed them in the principal cities throughout the country. Tliero was not a greater sensation created during tho war in the stage line. Punk is our authority for the state ment that it doesn’t hurt a man's back half so mncli to bend over at howling, when he rolls twenty pound balls, as it does to bend over to black bis shoes. aud had them tanght to perform npon the instruments with which they tijivo acquired inch a reputation. With this faimily I made a big hit. I havo just been to see Annie Berger myself. But then success had boon too mnch for mo. Financial reverses and ill-health enme, and I am reduced to tho position in whioh you now see me. I wont to n water-oure aud bonomo a victim to mai- S raotioo. I thou tried tho Hot Springs, rk., and tho treatment thefo only ag gravated my malady. I was paralyzed ton years ago while writing a letter in Washington, and I have never recovered from tho shook; still I am well and ready to enter tho riug again. For some lime post I have bcou exhibiting tho magie spy-glass, my own invention. It cu- ables you to seo iu a single drop of wa ter wonderful animals, tho intricate moohaniam of a humming-bird's feather and the elephant inu proportions of an insect. Oh, I’m death on rending, I nm. I have oloared thousands of dollars iu a single night, hut 91 pleases mo as well now. “I shall soon bo in tho field ngnln, however, with nu entirely now and novid entertainment, " nl THE LIME-KILN CLUB. llrMhrr llardnrr Hives Me Ilia View al Charily aa It la and aa II Mhanld be. [From the Detroit Froa Tress. 1 “Do Soeretary will rend do follorin' cotnmunicnahnn,” said the President ns tho meeting opened: Bbo. Gabdnbb—Several of yonrfriends desire to know how you stand on tho n tlon of charity this fall. Does the propose to donate anything to looal oharity this winter? Respectfully, Foun Friends. “As to de fnst query," said tho Presi dent, as lio drew himself up, “de an swers dat I have heretofore given mils' stand fur do answer now. I)» charity of Detroit has bred a race of beggars who wiUjmMter leave ns. It hns added to de loafcrlsm an’ oncournged do Idleness an’ ginernl shiftlossness. It has said to .To heads of families: ‘Idle do summer away an' you shall lio supported (lurin' de winter I Go ask (lo Poo’ Superintend ent if do same persons done’ return y'ar after y’nr? Ask him if men an’ women havo not oomo to look upon a poo’ fund as doir right an' if thoy doun demand doir allowance, instead of ask ing for it? Chnirty filled (le limitry wid tramps. When oharity tried to undo its work (lo tramps began to burn barns an’ murder women an' cliill'en. Charity hns euoonrngod a froveofflvo hundred lieggar cliill’en to march np an’ down ebery resident street, ft hns wasted its tears npon brutes of nen an’ its prayers upon lmrdoncd women, an’ its money lias gono to food people so vilo an’ wicked dat State’s Prison ached to roocivo ’em. " Aa to do second emory, dnr’ nm a poo' ole man liltin’ ilex' (lonh to Sir Isaac Walpole. Wlio lir.s paid his rent for months past? Charity? No, gom'lou; oharity nebor li'orsof anybody but ahold- faced lieggar. Our friend, lieah, Sir rsano, haa not only kept do root obor do elo mall's head, but has furnished him witli many a meal to eat. “ Up on Grove street, near do cabin >/. tvnyriuwu nonce, itm upon ote woman dat has gone blind. Briidder Ilehoc nil’ odder members tins chipped in to take ear' of lior, an’ whntobcr she has had de pas’ summer or lias got now nm due to deir kindness. Town charity hasn't dis- kibercdlier yet. “ Up on Scott street, clna to do cabin of Whalebone nowker, dar was a death do odder day an’ two cbill'en war’ left nlono in do world. Charity left 'em alone iu do houso until do landlord turned ’em into do street; den ohurity walked off an Brudder Howkcr took do orphans home an' will keep ’em frow do winter. “Dp my way dnr’ am a sick man who wants medicine—a lioy wid a broken log who wants nonrisliin’ food—a woman who has had a long run of fever widout her rent failin’ behind or her cbill’en goin’ hungry. Lot do cry of distress como to Pickles Smith, Judge Cadaver, Samuel Bhin,Rov. Penstock or any odder mcmlier who kin spare from his purse or his tablo, an’ it am promptly an swered. Wo know our nay burs an’ wo nre naburly. We found no hospitals, es tablish no beggars’ hcndrjtinrlcrs, an' issue no call for odder cities to send in deir paupers to lie supported, but om naybur finds us at his sick bed, an’ mis fortune finds our purses open. Ho who has oharity in his heart need not go hnntin’ fur do poo’ to relievo an’ fur re porters to puff deir gifts. Charity dat rides aronn’ town on a fo'-hoss wagin will seo a workin’mnn starvo an’ feed a loafer who lias spent half his summer in do Bnloons. Let uh drap de suhjiek an' proceed to bizness. ” A Juke. brass instruments to the combination and organized the first female brass hand in the United States. Tho music t,hey rendered was pronounced some of the best over heard. THE LATEST ATTRACTIONS. “A little later Sol Smith Russell was glad os a greenhorn to ask mo for a situation, and lie was given one as a sort of specialty artist. He thanks me to-day for the start I gave him. At the same time I took the Berger family in baud MEETING CLARA MORRIS. “Right here lot mo tell yon an interest ing opisodo: in 1862, in tho early days of my girl troupe, I brought tho girl Zouaves to Cleveland to open tho old theatre now culled thoComiquo. In the same houso at which wu boarded there wero two girls about fifteen years of age. These girls became quito intimate with those belonging to my company and begged hard to be allowed to go be hind the scenes while Ihe performance progressed. I consented and tho two girls becoming Infatuated expressed u desire to become actresses. One of tue mothers said ‘no,’ but the other said ‘yes.’ The girl whoso mother said ‘yes’ became the eminent and favorite tra- f edieiuie Clara Morris. The other girl, believe, is the wife ot n master black smith and is the mother of ten children nnd resides on the Pacific slope. “It was only a little after, too, that 1 popped tho question to a young lad) from Painsvillo, O., and she said yes. We were accordingly married at once, and the result of that marriage was these hoys whose music yon have juBt listened to. “On the 9th of November, 1863,1 took passage with my troupe for Cuba; from ... ., T . , „ « , ■ Two men m Miles City, Montana, there I took them through New Eng and ., retcnded to have learned by telegraph and their success was immense. I added* 11...f the Government had thrown nm-i that tho Government had thrown open the eastern jiart of tho Fort Keogh reser ration to settlers. They whispered this cautiously to special friends, enjoining strict secrecy. Before night there was a stampede, the supposed publio land claims wero staked off, shanties wer< put up, tents were pitched, nnd tin jokers say that a town was laid out, and a real cstato “boom” was under full headway before nine o’clock iu tho even ing. But by ten o'clock tho joke was- put, and the place was deserted. TUE JOKER!? BUDGET. A riONEIR EXHIBITOR. In tho early days ot Michigan, when a county fair was to bo remembered, one of tlie southern eonntiea in Michi- S un held a fair one fall at whioh ons of 10 exhibitors was a man named Pro- thor. Ho had an entry of poultry, an other of oattln nnd a third of vegetables. When tho judges in poultry oamo around Prothor mot them with: “Gentlemen, hum aro tho biggoat liens, tho futtost geese and the hoariest turkeys iu tho Btute. I want first pre mium.” "Wo’ll see about it," replied one. “I want first premium or I'll liek the three of you half to dentji I” announoed Prut her lit a strict!,- business tone, and it may lio said right hero that he didn’t get the premium nnd that ho taRtuftfr word, Twp.fjy.Vf t)l0 thlrd got away after huving two teeth knocked out. Wlton tho jttilgea on eattlo earns around they tun ed np their none* at Prather's old onw and two halt-starved calves, but he placidly remarked: “Gentlemen, that ’ere cow was driven 480 miles to roach this State, and them onives can't ho hunt for blood. Their grandmother was owned by tho Empress of Franco." Something was said abont Ills careless ness in not entering the atnok for tho bpno-yard instead of the fair and ha an* ■werod with: “Gentlemen, I’m willing to take sec ond premium, and if I don't got it you'd bettor hire sonio one to hold me I" They neglected Ids advice, end in due course of timo had their noses driven hnek or their eyes put in mourning. Prothor was telling tho judges ou veg etables what thoy might expect in oese lie did not get a premium, when be was arrested, Imt only after he hail pounded two constables. Within three weeks after the fair lio had mauled the Pleat- dent, rUD tho Secretory Into the woods, and imlvcrizod the Treasurer, and be fore tlie end of six mouths ho lind Uekcd all the judges hut two, sud was hunting for them with great energy when he got before tho courts and was sont to jail far a yoar. —M. Quad. WANTED TO IIB A FITOIUB. “Who is ibis gentleman that pap* calls a daisy?" “He is a hull player, my dear.” “But papa said lie lind a 'phenomenal curve’ and that they couldn’t hit him.” "Yes, my dear." - "But, mamma, lie stood up straight, and 1 didn’t boo any one try to hit him.” "Papa mount tho hall, my dear." “Yes, mamma, but I didn’t see tho hall." "Noilhcr could tho batters, mydear.” “But what makes every oue talk about him and call him a 'daisy ?’ ” “Because bo's the new pitcher from Chicago, whom tho manager of the olub has just scoured at *3,000 a season.” "Bat is lio ho very smart, mamma?” “Only ns a pi toiler. ” "But can’t he really write his own name, mamma?" “Ho thoy say, my dear.” “And yet they give him *3,000." “Yes, my dear.’’ “When I grow up can’t I be a plttJimr, lirnimnsr* “Perhaps, my dear, but why?” "Could I get *3,000?” “Perhaps.” "And not have to lenrn to road or write ?”—Buhdettk. MISTAKEN IPENTITT, Thoy wore discussing mistaken Iden tity: “ni was 'livin’a turn down Fill Moll one liarftcrnoon,” said Mr. Gordon Gordon, "not doing any think, when an old gyardsman came hup hand lmrsked me liif Hi couldn't ruisa ’is pension. •Bless mo ’art,’ says I, 'Hi'm not hill tho Pension Hufllco, mo boy.’ ’But,’ says '(), ‘m’ iud Juko, eawn't yon givo hie a letter to tho 'Omo Heorotary ? Hi was with your Grace at Waterloo.’ ‘But Mi ’m not tlie Juke hot Wellington,' says Mi. But lilnwst me, the fellow wouldn't believe Lit, don’t ye see?" ‘•iS'acrc hleu," said Monsieur Bieuelevee, “I know zat myselcf. I was once in ze jnrdang of zo Twilleroo, an’ smokeen ■non cigarette, wen I pass ze gar oi 1’Empr-r-rer N-poloong. To mygr-r-reat constarnnayshong zo gar pr-r-reseut arm, an’ givo mo ze suloo. I tol ze offeesaro I was no I'Umpr-r-rer. an’ ho seem vnro mooeli nnr-prise.” “Yes, it was funny,” said Mr. Spriggs. “Why, I was walking the other (lay down Broad way, and a fellow— ought have known me, too—a fellow came np and slapped mo on the hook, and says he, ’Why, suffering Moses 1 when did yon get back I’ ”—I/ifc. , HADN’T CONSULTED HIM. “You should learn some trade, my son,” said an Austin gentleman to his young hopeful. ' ‘Bricklayers are getting S6.50 a day, while lawyers can’t afford to ride on the street cars.” “Pa, why didn’t you learn a trade when you were a hoy ?” “That’s not only a silly, bnt also on impertinent question. I didn’t learn a trade when I was a boy ont of regard for your feelings. I wanted to give yon au opportunity to say that yonr father was a gentleman.” “It can’t be helped now,” replied the hoy, moodily, “liul 1 wish yon had con sulted mo, for if wo had arranged for you to bo tho bricklayer, I could have been the gentleman myself.”— Austin SijtingH.