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in walked slowly o’er the yellow grass
ath "
the sunset dry; .
lea he climbed the stile I did not pass,
there we said Good-bye.
tsed one moment; I leaned on the stile,
faced the hazy lane;
tet neither of us spoke until we both
Just said Good-bye again.
bS T went homeward to oar quaint oid farm.
- And he went on his way;
uA he has never crossed that field again,
-From f rat time to this day.
wonder if he fever gives a thought
'To what he left behind;
a I start sometimes dreaming that I hear
A footstep in the wind.
IE he had said but one regretful word,
Or I had shed a tear,
He would not go alone about tho world,
Nor I sit lonely here.
Alas! onr hearts were full of angry pride,
Aud love was choked in strife;
“vAftd bo the stile, beyond the yellow grass,
Stands straight across onr life.
Jjj fi— —Every | other ■HUH Saturday.
s .. ‘Bring .
Myrtle.”
A number of letters were awaiting
Ool. Haldane, Commandant of Newlv,
on his return from parade. He was un
married, rich and rather distinguisbed
. looking. It will therefore surprise no
one that he was accustomed to receive a
’ great many sweetly-scented, delicately
monogramed, from prettily-worded letters
the various members of the fair
sex with whom he was acquainted.
fore Amongst him the little heap which lay be¬
careless handwriting was one conspicuous for its
aud rough envel¬
he ope. selected Oddly enough, this was the one
first for perusal. Scrawled
on the lip of the envelope were these
words : “Bring Myrtle.”
Cel. Haldane put up his gentlemanly
eye-glass, side; and ho held his head a little on
one twisted his iron-gray
1 e into a yet, more poignant
he ex
r- as inspected those curious
words. ‘ ring Myrtle.” Who was
Myrtle? 1 :at was Myrtle ? How many
times he read and re-read that message
he was perhaps unaware. But it was
useless. “Bring Myrtle” remained on
the lip of the envelope, an unsolved
enigma.
Slowl iy he opened the letter. It was
an invitation to afternoon tea at tho
Whites—people he knew slightly, as ho
knew 8Q many in the heavily-garrisoned
naval and military town close to the bar¬
racks at Newly.
The letter was from Miss Florence
White, who wrote in her mother’s
name.
He called np a vision of Florence
"White. Tall and stately, a girl with a
mass of golden brown hair, rolled off
her forehead; a girl he had greatly ad¬
mired, as one admires a serene and
fed lovely landscape; a girl who made him
provokingly ladies rattled “fogieish,” Other
young he sub, asked away at him, as if
were a him to play tennis
with them, and treated him like a mere
youngster. But this young lady had
placed complexion, him, with due regard to his
in a shadowy corner of the
drawing-room when had on one or two occasions
he taken “tea” there, and
had introduced him to some deep
toned matron, as if in that direction lay
his natural bias; and now this stately
yonng script bidding lady sends him a jocular post¬
him “Bring Myrtle 1”
Col. Haldane sat down in the com¬
fortable red velvet chair which faced
the parade-ground, and commanded a
fine view of The ever-companiouable sea.
The little rippling waves had an ex
pression of infant smiles to-day, and the
other buoyant like clouds were chasing one an¬
How innocent schoolboys and on a common.
fair was the world
of nature! He sat dreaming over his
problem A knook “Bring Myrtle” quite happily.
with the knob of a stick on
the door breaks into his reflections, and
Oaptaih Hilton enters with his customary
off-parade familiarity.
“Well, old fellow, what’s np? Sea
ana sentiment, eh ? It’s fatal to sit in
that altitude, looking at the sea. What
is np, I ask you?”
Col. Haldane roused himself from his
reverie with an effort; he gently tapped
his left hand with the letter which yet
remained idly between his finger and
thumb.
“Jane 1” he said, addressing Captain
Hilton by his nickname; “Jane 1 what
on earth does it mean when you receive
a message from a young lady to ‘Bring
Myrtle ?’ ” and he handed the envelope
to Capt. Hilton.
Jane, who had a rolling eye and a
rollicking smile, took the envelope dain¬
tily, heart, and, after and said reading with it, pressed it to
his a strong brogne:
“Why, man, it’s a proposal! What do
the ladies wear on .L-eir festal brows and
twist in the flowing satin of their bridal
gowns but myrtle? ‘Bring myrtle,’ I
tell yon it’s a proposal—a bona fide pro¬
' posal. I wish you every joy! She is a
sweet girl, if a bold one. ”
Without a word, Col. Haldane sprang,
in a melodramatic manner, at the throat
of Capt. Hilton, and held him with a
grip of iron,
“How dare yon speak of Miss White
like that? She is the most distinguished
girl of my acquaintance. Apologize!”
Captain Hilton rolled his eye with a
ghastly appeal suddenly on Col. Haldane, when
the latter as relaxed his grasr
and said:
“Forgive me, Hilton; but really I—I
—objeot to auoh an unseemly idea.”
“I beg_yonr pardon, Colonel,” said
id. stiffly; Allow “I object equailv
me to wish
SPRING PLACE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 1885
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confusedly; “Stop, my friend.” said Col. Haldane,
“I don’t know what is the
matter with me ! I’m hall asleep, I
think. Sea and sentiment, as yon said
just now. Como, my friend! Do tell,
me what on earth Miss White means.”
“Means ? something green,” said Hil¬
ton, viciously; “but whether sprouting
in the tub, after the fashion of the blos¬
soming alter shrub, or done np in a glass case
the artificial mode, I know not I
wish you good morning, Colonel.”
And with that he retreated to the
messroom.
“Blossoming shrub,” murmured Col.
Haldane. “Bless his Hibernian wit!
Eureka 1 Now I have it 1” And with
that he sat down at his writing-table and
penned the following letter:
“An M.vosotis, 10 Avenue Victor Emmanuel,
“Send a the Menton, finest Aipea Maritime*.
the following flowering myrtle you
possess to address: Miss
Florence White, The Grange, Porter
down, Sussex. The myrtle must arrive
on the afternoon of September the 7th,
one week from this date.”
Then Colonel Haldane rang the bell
hastily, and told his man to post the let¬
ter. This done, be plaeed the note from
Miss Fioronce Wbito in the pocket of
his read frogged the coat, his and then proceeded to
rest of correspondence,
* * * * * * *
The afternoon of the 7th duly arrived,
and with a strange palpitation at his
heart (a sensation whioh ought to have
aroused his suspicions as to the exact
/ fate of his susceptibilities), Col. Hal¬
dane drove up in his little hooded ear
ringe, with the tiger jumping np and
down behind, to the gates of the Grange.
“Here comes the pig in the-poke,” said
Felicity used White, brains a younger daughter, who
her in off-hand crit¬
icisms. “If a man will drive a carriage
with a. hood, what is one to eall him but
a pig in a poke, you know ? Ho is fid¬
geting at the gate most awfully, Florence;
do come and look.”
“I like that hooded carriage,” said
Florence. “Le style e'est i'homme
uieme.” Aud then she turned with
ready grace to meet Col. Haldane, who
had just entered the room.
“Felicity and I were drawn to the
window by the magnetical influence of
your “I charming little carriage," she said.
so admire your ‘poke.’ ”
“Do yon?” said Col. Haldane, grate¬
fully. “It is very kiud of yon !” and
then he looked steadfastly at Florence,
absolutely Fioronce, blushing as he did so.
rogative, oatohing the glance inter¬
was arrested in her amiable in¬
tention of transporting him to the other
md of (lie long lone drawing-room, and
introducing Rector's him to Mrs. Harlington,
the wife. This agitated gentle¬
man did not loqk exactly in a state to be
discoursed to about winter blanket clubs
and working men’s clubs aud friendly
societies.
It is very fine to talk about loading an
tmpuzzled existence, like Jane Austen;
but why on earth did Col. Haldane look
at her with this unfathomable glance
from'his undeniably fine gray eyes?
What did it mean? She fell away from
him, mosing, and turned the outward
machinery of trite commonplaces on her
greeting of the numerous guests, whe
were The rapidly arriving.
Whites had just started a page,
who answered to the ubiquitous name of
“Tommy;” one of those specimens
much adapted by ambitious matrons as
an improvement on parlor maids; a
creaturo raw of the fields, with the ex¬
pression of au animated turnip and
brains to match. In the midst of a
buzz of voices intermingling with the
frou-frou of rioh dresses, Tommysud
denly darted into the room and made
straight for Miss Florence White, carry¬
ing in his lobster-colored hands a book
suggestive of the P. D. Company.
Colonel Haldane, from his solitary
seat window in the deep recess of the bay
facing the entrance to “The
Grange,” felt an awful sensation come
ove’- him. Was this the myrtle arriv¬
ing? and had tho Menton folk abso¬
White? lutely charged the carriage to Miss
What should he do I He
shrunk behind the deep amber of the
curtains, then Myrtle!” as suddenly emerged.
words, “Bring these were her own
and he made a violent rush
across the room to her side.
“It’s the myrtle!” he said breath¬
lessly. have made “Allow mistake,” me! The stupid people
a he continued,
incoherently. the “The idea of charging
sovereign carriage to Tommy’s you p And he threw a
into bashful fingers.
Miss White looked at Col. Haldane
with ever-enlarging pupils. He I had re
tamed lately from Egypt, had been in
defatigable andria, at had the bombardment of Alex¬
had an illness on his return,
and she remembered hearing that he
had been obliged to have his head
shaved. She continued to loon at him
quite tenderly, as these thoughts flitted
phantom-like about her.
“Thank yon, Col. Haldane,” she
said. “You have saved me the trouble
of fetohing my purse. This is a new
boy—country wants instruction manners, I” you smiling know; he
antly, moved and pleas¬
she out of the room after
the vanishing figure of Tommy.
In the round, roomy hall stood a huge
tnbe matted np and bearing the name,
“Au “It’s Myosotis, flowering a Menton,” etc.
Tommy; a “the biggest myrtle, Miss,” said
the carrier says it
ever “Feioh fell his duty to deliver.”
Tommy," a said pair Miss of gardening scissors,
time White; “and anoth¬
er never venture to |bring P. D. 0.
books housekeeper into the with drawing that room. kind Go thing.” to the
of
in Tommy took hues the color natural foi to him
yet deeper Miss White and ran the scis¬
sors. soon ssinned the 4a
taimiig strings and
natural delight as the starry blossoming
myrtle was exposed to view. ad¬
dressed “Very unmistakably odd,” she thought; “it’s
to me. Poor Col.
Haldane ! What does it mean ?”
and Thinking bombardment ogam of the shaven head
the of Alexandria she
sighed a little pensively and a little com¬
passionately, and returned to the draw¬
ing room just in time to escape the en
try of Mrs. Danvers, whose forest cart,
drawn by a lovely pair of Welsh ponies,
she saw turning in at the gate. That
lady now oompanion, entered, followed by her insep¬
arable a perfect Dandy Din
mont, pedigreed a long-bodied, low-legged, which flap
eared, creature, rejoioej
in the possession of seven prizes.
Florence immediately made a rush at
the dog. “Ah ! you have brought Myr¬
tle ! I was afraid, when I saw yon this
morning, that you would forget, though
I mentioned it in my note 1” Both ladies
had moved in the direction where still
sat Col. Haldane, plunged in startled re¬
flections, Was in the recess of the window.
this long-baoked, low-legged, flap
eared dog the honored objeot of the
message ?
“Of course, I brought dear old Myr¬
tle. ” retorted Mrs. Danvers. “I should
Buffooate at au afternoon tea if I hadn’t
a Hit of natural life like that trusty
Scotchman about me.”
‘ Now it’s explained!” said a deep
voice from behind the amber curtains,
and Col. Haldane came forward once
more.
The hesitation of his manner had van¬
ished; l:e was smiling serenely, and his
eyes were fixed with au expression of
perfect understanding Miss White. on the counte¬
nance of
“Bring Myrtle 1” he Continued,
laughingly. “This is Myrtle 1 Rival
Myrtles can’t there may bo; but this form of
Myrtle bo improved upon !”
Again Miss White’s pupils enlarged
sympathetically. Col. Haldane Worse and worse I
Poor 1 She trembled for
his reason. Not so Mrs. Danvers. Fix¬
ing him with her bright eyes, she said:
‘‘ Wlmt is explained ? Confusion of cir¬
cumstances?”
'Confusion of en*plopes. Bring Myr¬
tle was scribbled on the wrong back—
that’s all,” said Col. Haldane.
With a sudden illumination, Miss
Wlii'e sank down beside OoL Haldane in
the recess, with a deep blush of morti¬
fied confusion.
“Does that account for the presence
of the flowering mvrtle in the hall?” she
asked, after a moment of horrified si¬
lence.
“Yes. Charming mistake for me,”
muttered Ool. Haldane. “Gave mean
opportunity at Mrs. Danvers, that I ” and he looked
who, with a finesse
worthy of her, dashed away to the other
end of the room to meet the extended
hand of an apropos acquaintance. He
went opportunity on smoothly that enough wanted. now. “An
I Will you
tle one day wear a sprig of that other myr¬
for me, Florence ?”
Miss White didn’t say “No;” so she
evidently intended to sav “Yes.”—27ie
Argosy.
Mistakes in Telegrams.
Cases companies involving the liability of tele¬
graph for errors iu messages
are of frequent occurrence in the courts.
The Philadelphia Court of Common
Pleas has just given its opinion in one of
4he latest.
A dealer in furs made an agreement for
the sale of a lot of muskrat skins to a
firm. The latter agreed to pay a named
price, which was to be raised in ease
London rates at an approaching sale
should advance beyond ten per cent.
The firm was to telegraph the dealer af¬
ter the sale. It sent this message: “Obey
instructions given Sunday. Rats ten
higher. Everything else lower.” The
telegram instructions received by the dealer read:
“Ober gjven Sunday. Rates
supposed ten higher. “ober” Everything else lower.” He
was a mistake for
“over,” interpreted the message to mean
that muskrat skins were ten cents high¬
er than anticipated and bought accord¬
ingly. He Buffered a loss of five hun¬
dred dollars, for which he sued the
Western Union.
The Conrt holds that the company is
not liable. received Jndge Thayer says: “The
message insensible by the plaintiff had was an
message. He no right to
guess that the insensible word ‘ober’
meant ‘over,’ and then to interpret the
message had advanced as meaning that muskrat skins
ten per cent, beyond the
autieipated based. price It on which his contract
was was his duty to telegraph
back for the correct message or ask his
correspondent the meaning of it. He
was himself guilty of negligence. It was
certainly ‘obey’ as easy to guess that ‘ober’
meant as to guess that it meant
‘over.’ He took the risk of his own false
interpretation. ”
Lost Its Place.
Chatting with General W. T. Sher¬
man the other day, says a newspaper
correspondent, he said a few pretty hard
things of newspaper men, though he ad¬
mitted that there were exceptions. To
il trate "how his kindness had been
a raised at times, he said : “When the
dispatch came called to me about the Custer
massacre I the newspaper boys all
in dispatch. together. I ‘Now,’I says, ‘herein the
put yon all on your honor
to copy and return it to me.’ Then I
gave it out two pages to this one, two
pages to that one, so they could all work
at once. I turned my back, and whisk
—Jack Robinson—the dispat oh was
gpne. It never turned up, either, and
ft is in consequence absent from the
jffgce it ought to occupy in the official ’
LOUISE MICHEL. .
a communist joan op arc dying,
To b« Grnntcd r Pan!on-The Htory of tho
Ixifc of the Schoolmistress of Noumea*
Paris dispatches say that it is the in¬
tention of the Government soon to re¬
lease Louise Michel, the Communist,
from prison and to grant her a free par¬
don. She is in a dying condition. She
has been in prison inis time nearly*
year. Her life has been thus admirably
summed np: Louise is a sort of repre¬
sentative child of the revolution and she
lias a strange history. Fifty years ago
Bhe was born in an aristooratio French
chateau without being an aristocrat. Her
mother was a scullion who worked in the
chateau and her father was master of tho
house. She was brought np in the place
and she received an education suited to
her father’s rather than to her mother’s
rank. In time, when tho father’s own
son was sent adrift for disobedience, she
took his place in the family circle, still
acknowledging tending on her own part and
the peasant mother who had
brought her into the world. Then, as
She came to be a woman, she caught the
Victor Hugo fever of the revolution and
in a most, perilous way, not as a mere
outpouring series for the relief of the soul, but
as a of precepts for action. She
began to write—somewhat in imitation
of the master, as shown in tho titles
of some of the things she gave to the
vprld: “Our Lady of Vroncourt,” “Oc¬
cidentals,” “Spring Leaves,” “Summer
Storms,” “Winter Winds,” “Dawn
Songs” and “Voices,” both from heaven
and tho other place, with now and then
something in the grotesquely cornio veiu,
iike the “Memoirs of a Frog.” She sent
some of theso things to the poet and he
sent her back an edition of his works
with a priceless autograph. She was
evidently smitten with the disease of lit¬
erature, but events wore to determine
her career otherwise. Tho aristooratio
father died, tho protecting lady of the
house followed him and Louise was
turned out with her mother on her hands
to earn bread for two ere she learned to
earn it for one. That was bad, but a
proposition made to her to alleviato her
lot was worse. They actually wanted to
marry her to some local shopman—she,
the inspired feminine Isaiah of tho new
time 1 That decided her; she rushed
away to Paris with all speed and set np
a‘ school for little boys and girls at
Montmartre. Here the Commnne found
her.. This is, in brief, the history of
Louise.
To the Communists the strange
schoolmistress of Noumea is looked
upon as a kind of modern Joan of Arc.
A caricature represented her as a red Sis¬
ter of Mercy, armed with a musket instead
of a cross, and the symbol of Masonic
fraternity instead of a rosary. She was
born in 1835, in the Haute-Marne. She
studied history, and discovered that at
eaoh evil epoch it would have sufficed to
suppress one man iu order to save tho
country. Charlotte Corday in assassi¬
nating Marat hoped to save France.
With the same objeot in view Louisa
Michel, while a schoolmistress at Mont¬
martre, wished to kill Napoleon HI.
The idea was deeply fixed in her mind.
She had her photograph taken, standing
at a table, with one hand resting on a
death’s head and the other hand raised
and pointing upward Miohel in a tragic attitude.
At that time Lonise wore mourn¬
ing for Liberty; she dressed entirely in
black, with the exception of a red rose
in her dress or in her bonnet. In 1870
Lonise Michel became an ambulanciere.
During the siege of Paris by the Ver¬
sailles troops she fought picked dressed as a
national guard and np the
wounded with the bullets whistling
around excited her by the ears. fever During of the the first Commune, siege,
she offered the insurrectional govern¬
ment to go and shoot Thiers at Ver¬
sailles. The government refused at first,
telling her that she could not go to Ver¬
sailles. To show that it was possible.
Louise Miohel went there and returned.
§he had not attempted to see Thiers, Then
having given her word this time.
Ferre disarmed her, saying that the
Revolution must not be established on a
crime. At the time of the repression of
the Commnne Louise Miohel denounced
herself. She was tried before a council
of war and sent to New Caledonia,
where she taught the children of the
exiles and looked after their sick. She
returned to Paris amnestied, and re¬
mained quiet until the petty bread riot
of 1883. Louise Miohel demands for
women the right of voting and eligibil¬
ity. She believes in the equal division
of goods and in a future when tho wicked
shall have disappeared. In short, she
is a victim of Victor Hugo. Her head
has been turned by “Lea Chatimeuts,”
and for want of an opportunity she has
remained a platonic Charlotte Corday.
Bueeon’s Monsters.—T he unworthy
wife of the celebrated Bnffon early in
her married life, conceived a hatred for
her husband, who loved her with fond
idolatry. His danghter-in-law said to
him at table one day. “M, Buffon,
you have made such a study of onr
nature, and of that of animals—explain
why it is that the people who love us
most are those for whom we care the
least.” “I have not yet reached the
chapter on monsters,” M. Buffon coldly
replied.
A gentleman was one day relating to
a concluded Quaker a by tale of deep distress, and
feel for him.” saying, "Verily, “I could not but
the Quaker, “thou didst friend,” replied
thou didst feel right in that but
for thy neighbor;
didst thou feel in the right place—didst
thou feel in thy pocket ?>’
VOL. V. New Series. No. 3 .
HANGING DESERTERS
How l General Winfield Scott Treated
the Skulkers From His Army.
At the battle of Oherubusco, in the
valley of Mexioo, those writes a correspond¬
ent, one of series of battles
which took place before the capital was
captured, oocurred the one of tho most I im¬
pressive acts o! entire war, mean
as to its effect upon the men of the
army. It was one of those events which
carried instant conviction to the minds
of the soldiers that discipline and alle¬
giance to the flag were of paramount im¬
portance. After a desperate struggle
the works were oarried, and among the
captured were found a number of de¬
serters, men who joined the Mexicans
aud served the gnus against their own
comrades, the and the full force of their aid
to enemy is apparent when it is
known that they were nearly all trained
artillerists.
On the discovery being made, intense
indignation prevailed, aud nothing but
the strictest discipline and prompt obe¬
dience to orders prevented the men from
dealing out au instant vengeance upon
the deserters. But a drum head court
martial decided, with duo formality,
their fate, which was to bo banged igno
minionsly in tho presence of all the army
then at that point assembled. It must
be undersood that a portion of the forces
were then engaged with the enemy, at,
Cbepultepeo, that almost inaccessible
fortress and stronghold of the enemy,
holding farther advances upon the city,
and that most desperate engagement
was then nndeoided. Tho men were
drawn up in due order, eaoh with a rope
around his neck, thirty deluded victims
about to receivo merited punishment
for basely deserting the flag and turning
the enemy's guns against (heir own com¬
rades.
Tho officer in charge, upon whom
devolved the duty, cast a quick glance
in tho direction of Ohepultepec. Sud¬
denly a thought seemed to impress him,
and ho said: “Let them stand till
they see the American flag upon the
bights of Chepnltepeo. ” With breath¬
less fought anxiety battle, they waited. It was a hai d
the final result being
doubtful. Many brave men went down
to rise no ore and many a mnu carried
the wounds there received through life
to his grave. The gallant Colonel
Rinsom of the Now England regiment
yielded whom- his life; Captain Mayno Reid,
” knew, aud others wound¬
were
ed, and \re among the first to enter
the works.
Suddenly a shout went up that car¬
ried relief to some of those anxious
watchers, and dismay to tho hearts of
tho men who stood awaiting their
doom. The bights had been carried,
aud the starry banner floated to tho
breeze. All eyes then turned to the Bad
spectacle before them. The deserters
stood motionless as statues, awuiting
the doom they eonld not shnn. They
had taken their last look of the flag
they had sworn to protect, and were
sent “unanointed and unannealed” tc
answer to the last great roll-oall.
The Fuel of the Future,
A Pittsburgh letter to the Philadelphia
Press says:—That the gas for heating
purposes will eventually drive all other
combustibles out of the field in Pitts¬
burg is inevitable. Already the con¬
sumption of It gas, instead of coal, is
enormous. is estimated that from
15,000,000 to 20,000,000 cubio feet of
gas is burned eaoh day in Pittsburg as
fuel. Already ten iron and steel mills
in the city, and six in other parts of
Western Pennsylvania, are using it iu
their puddling furnaces and under their
boilers. Within three months a dozen
more mills will have it in operation, and
every other manufacturing firm is
eagerly awaiting lines. the Six completion of the
various pipe glass factories
in the city, and seven in near towns are
using it.” Every brewery in tho city
uses it instead of ooal. There has not
yet been enough gas to spare for domes
tic purposes, and speaking, only a few dwellings,
comparatively have been able
to get it for their stoves and grates.
Two of tho largest hotels use it entirely
in their kitchens. Safety inventions
have been made and much of its danger¬
ous possibilities averted. As a result,
householders are anxiously awaiting
more gas.
Within an area of fifty miles about
Pittsburgh at least a dozen small towns
have discarded coal entirely, and every
dwelling house has gas in its cook stove,
parlor grate and bedroom fireplace.
Among these places are Butler, Free¬
port, Clarion, Tarentnm, Kittanning,
Oil City, Wellsbnrg, Apollo and Marys¬
ville. There are no ashes to remove, no
sooty fireplaces to kindle in the morn¬
ing. A thumb valve regulates the flame,
brick bats in the grate distribute it and
retain the heat aud it may be kept burn¬
ing low in the all night to have the house
warm morning.
Too Early.
The late Lady Lytton happening friend to call
at the hduse of an artist the day
before the funeral of the Duke of Welling¬ turned
ton, the conversation naturally day,
upon the event of the following and
the crowds which were expecting “You to
throng the London streets. wiil
have to be up very early, Lady Lytton,’4- “if
said the painter in question, yon
mean to look on at the procession. 5 o’clock Are
you prepared to get np * at man’s for
the sake of ■ seeing indeed,” the great
i funeral?” “Not I, answered
the lady with an unpleasantly significant in
smile; “there is only one man the
early * that see,” get up as
a
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ODDS AND ENDS.
Anna Dickinson is again lecturing,
China has taken np with postal oards
Capt. Howoatb is said to be in New
Mexico.
It takes five men a year to make a
looom olive.
The Standard Oil Company employs
93,000 men.
The latest novelty is chicken batch¬
ing by electricity.
The Jeannette Monument fund now
amounts to $2,052.
Mb. David Dudley Field will be
eighty in February.
The colored population of California
is estimated at 7,500.
The peppermint farmers of Pennsyl¬
vania are getting rich.
The American nettle can be used to
make seersucker cloth.
State Thebe Pennsylvania. are 3,530 postoffloes in the
of
John Bbight was seventy-three years
of age on November 16.
Venison is not ’dear in Idaho, where
it sells for 2 cents a pound.
The dividends payable in Boston in
January aggregate $9,710,478.
Mme. Ristobi receives 40 per cent, of
the gross receipts of her tour.
Tnr. conductors on street cars in
Mexico always carry revolvers.
Observing travolcrs say the Japanese
arc more polite than the French.
Thebe are at present sixteen locomo¬
tive works in the United States.
The figures grow. Washington now
expects 200,000 visitors March 4.
Mrs. William IT. Vanderbilt always
dresses in black for church-going.
TnE Redistribution bill gives the next
House of Commons 670 members.
Thei:e is now $13,986,134 deposited in
the post office savings bauk of Canada.
Liverpool has a larger fleet of mer¬
chant ships thau any port in the world.
The increasing number of Jewish un¬
dergraduates is much remarked at Ox
ford..
Nearly all the winter resort hotels in
Florida aro conducted by Northern
men.
Seventy-five nev 1 papers have started
and died in New York city k thirty
years.
TnE New Orleans Exhibition will not
be in full running order before Feb^
ruary.
The total number of cigars ^produced
in the United Stales is 3,000, f .F , ,000 an¬
nually.
Troy ice- harvesters expect to take
from the Hudson this winter about 135,
000 tons.
In Ohio the standard weight of a bush¬
el of ear corn is 68 instead of 70ponndsas
formerly.
The Maryland Bepresentatives in
Congress reside at home, going in and
out daily.
The Maine rivers have frozen up in
unusually good shape, very smooth and
very clean.
Seven churches were destroyed in the
city of Antiquera, Spain, by the recent
earthquake.
It is estimated that about fifteen thou¬
sand persons are out of employment in
St. Louis alone.
On a trip that around the San globe Franoisco the oost
liest link is from to
Yokohama, $250.
The Spanish treaty will be greatly
modified interests. and chiefly in behalf of our
tobacco
Twenty years ago the Danes im¬
ported nearly all their sugar. Now they
raise it from beets.
Thebe are twenty-two retired rear
admirals living in Washington and only
two commodores.
A monument made of cement, has just
been buiit oa the spot in Hawaii where
Captain Cook fell.
A society for the eradication of pro¬
fanity is tho latest moral reform move¬
ment in New York.
It is said that no town having a poo
nlation of 5,000 or more is now without
a rollerskating rink.
Harper’s Magazine is sold for eight¬
een cents and the Century at twenty
five cents in London.
About 2,000 Scotch people oolony are making
arrangements to form a in Los
Angeles county, Cal.
Among the curiosities collected by ihe
Alaska Fur Company is a salmon whioh
in life weighed 130 pounds.
Policemen who serve on the New
York force for twenty years are retired
on a pension of $600 a year,
A man with $100,000 in cash, if at all
smart, can go into Wall street and lose
the last dollar in four weeks.
Too Bright
finds A bright but forward boy frequently
that his brightness does not save
him from punishment for indulging in
f oi ward ness, of whioh distressing fact
to illustration: forward boys we give the following
At one of Sheridan’s din¬
ner-parties, the conversation turned
upon the difficulty of satisfactorily de
fiaiig Forgetting “wit.”
that he was expected to
hear, Sheridan see, but say nothing, Master Tom
informed the company—
“Wit is that which sparkles aud cuts.”
"Then, “Very good, Tom,” said his father.
cut!’ and as yon have Tom sparkled, yon can
poor had to leave his
dinner unfinished, and retire to private
apartments.