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CHEROKEE A DVANCE.
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VOLUME V.
CANTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 17, 1883.
NUMBER U.
THE CHEROKEE HOV4HCE
PUBUauei) Lvritv sah'kuay
By 5. N. EDGE, I Hilor ami Hnm-i"'.
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Ufllrlnl Organ oTCherokee ( amity.
terms:
Single copy, one year $1 25
Single copy, six months 66
Single copy, th &e months 35
I*ro(cssional anti Business ranis.
C D. MADDOX,
I.OCIL AGENT
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Offij* in store of J. M. Met FEE,
J. W. JARVIS.
JEWELER AN1) PHOTOGRAPHER,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Can ho found at htn O itle y, at any
time where lie is always rt n y to th> mod
work at a lew price. | Ju'ylti.l
W. A. & G. I. TEftSLY,
ATTORNEYS at LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will g'vt) primpt attention to all bus-
Hess intiuited to ihfrr. Wi 1 predict
In aM the courts m the ct unty, n din
the Superior courts ol the Bhie Ridgt
circuit. [jn,7 ly
B. K. PAYNE, P, P. DUPREE!
PAYNE & DuPREE
Attorneys at Law,
CANTON, : GEORGIA.
L. J. UARTRELL,
Attorney at Law,
3} Whitehall St., Atlauta, G;orgia.
Will practice in the U. S. Circuit am
District O.mrts of Ai'anta, and the Su
premo and Superior C >urt of the State.
II. W. NEWMAN. .MO. T A'h'IW4Y.
NEWMAN & ATTAWAY,
Attorneys at Law,
CANTON, : : GEORGIA.
WIT practice in (lie Superior C >nrt of
Cherrkee and adjoining counties. Prompt
t'Mention x’.ren to nil hin-ine-s plaor.l in
hmir hands. Office in the Ccu-t ilous*.
H. H. McENTYRE,
IlrlcJc, Plnstoring'.
AND STONE WORKMAN,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Tam fnllv prepared to do any kind of
Musoaty or P ast> ring at the lowest possilile
rate*, and *olieitthe patronage of tiio ,» «|e>
siring work in my I'm. H. II. McEntyrr
JOHN H. BELL
Carpenter,
Having permanently located In Car-
t>r—He i' now prepared to do all kinds
of carpenter’s woik. Building and re
pairing nromply done at satisfactory
prices. Parties contemplating building
will find it to tbeir interest to get my
prices before closing contacts with oth
er workmen. J. H. HELL.
TIN SHOP.
J. Id. STEADMAN.
Manufacturer ol all Tinware, rcofing,
guttering, stove pips, gas pipes, steam
pipes and anything mado of tin, etc.
Repairiko.—-Will repair any and ev
erything Irom a tin cup to a forty horse
ermine at short notice. All charges low
and work warranted. Marietta street,
C-nton Ga. [mar25 ’82 ly
MEDICAL CARD
DR. N. SEWELL returns thanks to the
citizens of Canton amt viciunyyfor their lib
er.) I patronage.
B ling permanently located, wit * 1 continue
to nineties medicine, surgery and midwifery.
Hopirg by industiy, energy and strict ap-
pi cat’on to business, to merit an increased
patronage ard confidence.
Office in Dr. W. A. Green’s Drugstore.
Residence adjoining W. II, Wariiok.[n >vJ
*LM JIURTZ,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Office in the Court House. [®ni25 ly
COME
AND
SEE ME.
I HAVE just opened a Complete Stock
direct from the manufactory of Fancy
Candies, M xed Candies, ['lain Gaudies,
Crackers ot all cor s .'.ho Fresh Raisins,
Nuts, Oysters, Canned Goods, and every
thing r.autcd in this Jilts. I respectful
ly ask patronrgioi my friends, Doth in
the store and job work. Blanks, Djeds,
& \ always on hand.
CLUJDE F. EDGE.
Nrv 18, 1882.
G. W. EVANS,
Qvnesiilli Street, : CAN ON, GA.
Near the Railroad D.pot.
Horses and Buggies at res inabh
prices.
Ouiiap.es and Hors?a always ready.
Will send t > any pan of the country
with careful drivers and gentle trains,
All kinds of s* jk fed rod well caret!
'or.
I1AUL.1NU AND DRAYINO
done at low rates,
Custonurs will le politely waited on
at all hours, dav or night.
G. W. EVANS,
nnv26’81 til Propriety.
THE
CONSTITUTION’
FOR 1882- (I.
Is better equipped in every senso than
ever before t> maintain its position
IN TIIE FRONT RAMOS OF B UTHERN
J U.IN A l, ISM
It calls the attention of the rerdinc
public to the fdloving points tl at can
be claimed. N.smely, that it is
1. The largest md bast paper in Geor-
iis, A ii’umi, the O.irolinas, Florida and
M ssi«.-ippt.
2. More reading matter than any pa
per iu the Sjutli Atlantic States.
3. Toe fullest telegraphic service and
latest news.
4 Tne b Ightest. best and fullest cr r
r ’«j Junenc".
5. The completest election returns.
6. Verbatim Legislature reports.
7. Official Supremo Court reports.
Tte Great Georgia Paper—Bitter than
Beer. No Intelligent Georgian
can do without it.
Every G lorgiao should take a ns per from
the Capital during the neat 3 matfths.
The Daily C institution fit) per ar-
num j $2 5T 3 months; $] 00 1 month.
Weekly $1 51 a yesr; Club of 10, $1 23,
vtth free copv to getter up of club;
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Address The Constitution.
Atlanta, O t.
Till-: WANDFRRIUS SOXIJ.
11V MRS. 1. V. II. KOON*.
When through tho rough iind wintry world
In wrrtoh<vlnon* I roam,
With childish love I brunt lie tho names
Of father, mother, Ivmio.
They l>enr one hack in fancy nweet
To l*oyh-od n ninlcsa days.
Err thorn* had pierced my weary foot
In desolated way*;
Rack to the dear old orchard tree i,
Bet out by father’s hand,
Rcnenth whoso shade the perfumed breeze
IX) bo) tali brow bun fanned;
While I in «ilent wonder lay
Upon the velvet ftrai**,
And watched in joy lifu’a fancied play
In pauoruma paea.
Ah. me I ’tin well Ulnae dreama were gold.
Their memory gilds the lead
Of real life, when hearts grow cold
And dreamless ns tho dead.
If there ia aught in na Hiirvtvea
The fearful wreck of death)
The mother-lore that wariuM our lives
Unto the latent breath
Must In the part, tie deathless link
That bind* tho soul to God:
That sing* to it of heaven mid home
And Hits it from the clod,
C. D, M ADDOX,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
CANTON. GEORGIA.
J. M. HARDIN,"”
House, Sign, Carriage
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Ornanental Fainter.
FRESCO & SCENIC ARTIST.
C \NTON. GEORGIA,
NcymIii’h First Nugget.
Nevada’s first nugget was mint'd with
a butcher’s knife. John Orr started
across the plains hi 18411. Tho toads
were had, tho weather was worse, and ho
w as obliged to remain through tho winter
at Salt Lake. In April he resumed his
journey. He had a partner named Nick
Kelly, after \Vholi\ lvelly's ravine is
named, and in the company was William
Prouse, now living in Nurb City, about
forty miles southeast of Halt Lake.
Prouse had worked hi mines before gold
was discovered at Column, and was a good
prospector. One day the train stopped
on the crilge of what is now known ns
Gold Canon, near the Carson River, to
let the animals feed oil Home hunch grass
found growing lienr the sage brush.
Prouse, at noontime, took a milk pan,
and going down to the gulch he^an W ash*
ing dirt, in a few minutes getting color
to the valuo of a few cents. Orr then
named tho place Gold Canon. The train
soon after resumed travel, going to tho
head of Carson Valley. There they met
a party of seven, who had left the train
nt the sink of the Humboldt, intending
to go in advance to California and select
good locations for the remainder of tho
party. They had been unable to cross
the country, anil had been lost 111 tho
snow in the mountains for four or ilvo
days, tumble to find tho divide iu Huger-
town. A stay in (’arson for three weeks
followed, when Orr. Kelly and several
others returned to Gold Canon and re*
slimed prospecting. Kelly and Orr went
up the canon until a little fork was
reached, when work was begun. Tho
party had few tools, and Orrhad nothing
hut a knife. While Kelly was working
lie noticed a very narrow place at the
fork, where the water barely covered a
slab of slate rook. Idly he examined it,
and noticed a small crevice near tho
edge, drove tho knife into it, breaking
out a piece. The water running over it
washed away tho underlaying dirt, andiu
a few minutes ho discovered a gold nug
get whore tho rock had covered it. It
was quickly removed, and afterward
found to weigh #8.25. This was the
1st of Juno, 1850, just thirty years ago.
Prospecting was continued, and though
dust was found in several places through
out the canon, Orr’s was tho only nug
get. Ho still has it in his ]losscssion,
the first over found in Nevada.
The Speed and Sizo of Atlantic Waves.
Tho London Nan,Heal Maqaxine con
tains an article by Captain Kiddle, the
Atlantic steamship commander, on the
height and velocity of Atlantic waves.a
subject which, as ho says, is to seamen
one of the most important of the day.
It has been assorted that the average
velocity of great Atlantic waves is about
nine m les an hour. But Captain Kid
dle stales that he has frequently meas
ured the speed in Atlantic gules and
found it “twonty-flvo miles per hour,
plus the rate at which the ship was
steam ng through the water when nearly
or quite head to wind (say four knots
an hour.” This estimate is no doubt
much nearer the truth than the former.
I r. Scoresby gave the rate of travel for
waves of the largest size at about thirty-
two miles an hour, and Lieutenant
Maury pave it as rarely exceeding
thirty miles while other observers men
tion still higher ligurcs as occasionally at
tained by waves of excessive length. It
is known that some of the great Atlan
tic gales which assail tho British coasts
move progressively, as tho English
meteorologist l.cy recently recorded, at
a rate of more than sixty miles an hour,
and it is, therefore, highly probable
that in the severest hurricanes the ocean
wave may be driven with greater force
than even the most observant naviga
tors suppose. Admiral Fitzroy men
tions that Scoresby was skeptical as to
the reports of seamen who recorded
waves thirty feet high until his last voy
age, when he made measurements of
some exceeding tnis height. According
to Captain Kiddle the height from the
trough to crest occasionally exceeds
forty feet. The question is one of groat
interest to safe navigation in the heavy
Atlantic winter gales, and the able otli-
cers of Atlantic steamships would do
well to make careful observations on
the height, length and velocity of the
“mountainous seas” they encounter.
“You can’t bring decency out of dirt,”
j says a modern philosopher. Can’t eh?
; Then you never looked at the water in
} the laundry tubs after the clean white
f clothes were taken out of it, did you?
Then lie Continued.
Several men wero seated in a Detroit
drug-store the other day with their
feet on the stove and a cigar in oach
mouth, when a boy looked in and yelled
out: •
“ Some of you had a horso hitched
out hero!”
“I believe 1 did,” quietly replied ono
of the sitters.
“ Well, lie’s gone.”
“ Did ho walk off?”
“ No; a runaway horse camo nlono
and upset tho cutter and frightened
him.”
“ And did ho kick himself clear of tho
cutter P”
“ Yos.”
“ I supposed ho would. IIow did he
start off?”
“On a dead run.”
“Which way?”
“Up Woodward avenue.”
“ Did he turn in atMontoalm streot?”
“I guess he did.”
“ Well, he’s probably gono home and
will be around there somewhere when I
go up. Bub, you might draw tho cutter
to some shop and tell’em to fix it, and
here’s a quarter for you."
The lioy went out to pick up the kind
ling and invent a way to draw a cutter
haft a mile on one runner, and the sit
ter relighted his cigar, got a new brace
for his feet, and said:
“As I was saying, every sign indi
cates that this is to be a year of great
conflagrations. It sometimes seems as
if great calamities moved in waves
through the world.”—Detroit Free
Press.
—‘‘Are you not pretty much out ol
sooiety since you have taken to acting?”
was the somewhat impertinent inquiry
of an interviewer, addressed to Mrs.
Langtry. But the lady was equal to the
occasion. “One doesn’t have much
time for society,” she said, “when one
i4 always hard at work.”—N. Y. Granhio.
Denmark exports more butter than
the United States, although sho has not
more than one-twentieth as many cows
as we, and it costs twice os much to pro
duce butter there as here.
Teacher—•‘What is an abbreviation?”
Scholar—“A shortening.” Teacher—
“Yes; give me an example.” Scholar—
“Some folks use butter, but mother says
hog’s lurd is good enough for anybody.”
Coals (o Let.
“Swjjllow-tud coats to rent, for Now
Yoar’s’Calls,” was the somewhat novel
advertisement of an enterprising firm
in yosttrday's Globe- Democrat. Indeed,
tho idrtk of renting dross suits to he worn
on swifll occasions seemed so singular
and so Tlovel a feature of social economy
that nsGlobe-Democrat reporter thought
it worth investigating. “Bless you, It
is not & new idea,” said the enterpris
ing dekler. “True, It. is rather now in
St. Ixifcis, but in Now York it has long
boon £bc custom. The establishment
there, ion Crosby street, has matto a
specialty of it,‘and built up o, big busi
ness.^
“ D* you find much call for your
clothe# on such times?" asked tho ro-
porteft
“Dear, yos. Wo have on hand now
about, fifty dress coats and vests, and
fully half of them are spoken for al
ready lor Monday. Wo don't lot any
thing but, coats and vosts, and of course
wo liayo all sizes and can fit any figure.
Those who conic first, get the first
uholco. By to-morrow night wo don’t
oxpeotto have a single garment loft,
and on Monday they’ll all bo doing duty
in fssliionnhlo .society.’’
“What kind of peoplo hire these gar
ments?"
“AU kinds that don’t happen to own
a dress suit, need one, ami don’t want
to or can’t afford to buy ono. It Is
really a very sensible custom, odd as It
may eeoni. There are lots of people
who go in society who can't afford to
pay sevonty-fivo dollars for a dross suit
to be worn only occasionally. Why
shouldn't they hire one if thoy can P Our
customers aro mostly young mon of
moderate means. Thoy come bore, put
up twenty-fire dollars deposit, we let
them have a suit, and when thoy return
It in as good order as when they got it,
we return it less tho rental, which is
threo dollars a day."
“When do you find most demand for
tho clothes?"
“Well, of course, Now Year’s is tho
most active time, hut our garments aro
on the go pretty much all tho time. Wo
are constantly fitting out penide for
dinner-parties, halls,weddings, theaters,
and all that. Wo’vo already got ordors
for Nilsson's concerts, which are going
to be very swell. Then wo lit out young
mon who liavo to appear on tho stago in
full dress at private theatricals. Nearly
all entertainments at tho Pickwick
theater by amateurs create a demand
for oar garments.”
“?£> yfcn supply other clothes faesUss-
swivllow-tailsP” asked tho roportor.
“Oh, yes. Wo havo walking-suits,
Prince Albert coals, light trousers, and
othor clothes that wo hire out. They
? o mostly, liowevor, to stago people.
ou don’t know how many actors thero
are here who depend upon us to fit
them out in society dramas. You know
sometimes an actor in a society play
has to appear in half a dozen fashion-
ablo suits of a i evening. They aro
nearly always hired for tho occasion.
But lew actors ran afford to buy so ex
tensive a wardrobe as thoy roqtilre for
tho stage, and by renting they can got
a greater variety. So tney rent and
think nothing of it. Oli, this renting
clothes is gotting to he quite a business,
and a profitable ono.”
“Do you have much trouble fitting
peoplo with swallow tails?”
“ No, wo havo a groat many regular
customers’and wo try and give them tho
same coat ovory time. Sometimes their
garment is out and wo havo to shin
around to lit t horn, but as a rule thoy got
tho same coat. The coals are all first-
class, as you perceive," and tho dealer
led the way to a largo wardrobe where
tho swallow-tails hung in rows, witli!
their sizes on cards pinnod to them.
They woro mostly of tine cloth, silk-
lined and faced, and none of thorn
showed muoh sign of wear. “Those
will lie out Now Yoar’s,” said the deal-
or, “every one of them, and they will
all come back in good order. Do wo
rent to everybody? No; nono but ro-
spectahle and genteel people can hire
these garments. Wo havo a fow half-
worn coats, a little out of style, that wo
sometimes lot to common peoplo for
balls and weddings, and we have also a
dozen or so of I’rinco Albert coats that
we keep on hand for funerals, but tho
most of our trade in this line is with tho
best of people.” Just then a boy handed
the gentleman three letters. “Yes, I
thought so,” said he, glancing over
them, “orders for three more for Mon
day-three old customers,” and ho
turned away to registor tho ordors and
lay away tho garments.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Journalism Abroad,
One of tho curious illfforenecs between
English and French journalism Is that
the British press gives to sport and
stocks about the samo space that tho
Gallic journals accord to art and litera
ture. A week or two in l-ondon makes
an American who levs boon living in
Paris wonder why tho English do not
take ns much Interest in their groat
men’s daily doings as In the movements
on tho race-course. Tho othor day,
when James lllco, the popular novelist,
died, tho Stamlaril gavo him two liuos,
hut bestowed a column and a half n(
solid print on tho fodivitios attending
the awarding of sorno “cup” after a
horse race. Mr. Anthony Trollopo re-
oived a half column in most of the
leading journals tho other day, but ho
had to die before ho oould achieve this
listinction. A blackguard who strikes
somebody in the nyo anil then kicks the
policeman who arrests him has Ids ex-
doits chronicled In a lengthy narrative.
I is remarks before the “learnod Judge,”
tvs the English reporters invariably call
the magistrate, arc set. down with Bos
wellian fidelity, and the appearanco of
tho person is described as minutely as
if ho IihiI done a good rather than a bad
deed. But of the charming, and, on tho
whole, quite permissible personalities
about contemporary novelists, editors,
painters, etchers, engravers, publishers,
musicians and poets which ono finds in
such n profusion in tho Parisian press,
there Is little, or nothing, in the I/mdon
papers. Tho British celebrity protends
that ho would ho horrified at tho free
and easy discussion of Ids muntal at
tributes and Ids personal appearance
which is Considered allowable in Franco
and Amerioa. But 1 will venture to say 1
that there is a very large portion of the
reading public In the British islands
which would bo delighted to know
more about tho human and loss of the
equine celebrities of thoir country.
When a now comedy is brought out
In l<ondon, tho panors indulgo in ono
article of very moderate length about
tho piece and its nuthur, and then they
drop both, as if the editors had said ; in
concort, “Thank heaven! that’s over;
now wo can return to horse and cricket
or, wo can dish up a beautiful stew of
Irish or Afghan politics—just the thing
for these gloomy winter mornings!”
For a good old-fashioned, ghastly mur
der, aeComnanlod by the utmost bru
tality, tho editors are ready to give up
several oolumns, and to havo “ono ac
count,” “another account,” “account
from a r»Utiyy>f the deceased.” etc. B
does not soenHo occur to the editorial
mind that by bringing before the public
all tho picturesque and interesting mem
bers of tho liberal guilds, plqunncv and
graco are added to journalism, and poo
ploare taught to think about something
besides the most grim and unpleasant
roaltios of life. But no! tho World,
TnilUf and other weekly papors of that
ilk, wliloh wero started for tlm express
purpose of supplying tho deficiency nl
ready remarked in tho daily press, aro
looked askance at by English society.
1’erhaps this is because tho pioneers in
this kind of journalism, heretofore un
used in England, have not yet learned
exactly whore to “draw the lino.” In
Franco it is understood and tho law
backs up the understanding—that to
enlor into details of the private life of a
celebrated man or woman is forbidden,
unloss the person becomes outrageously
conspicuous. But everything about
a public career is considered fit
subject for public gossip. Thu result is
that—given two persons of equal talent
—both merit ing distinction ono an Eng
lishman in England—tho othor a French
man in Franco—and the Frenchman at
forty will havo a national reputation,
and will bo a familiar and celebrated
figure whorevor ho goos, while tho Eng
lishman will bo known only to his read
ers and to the niornhor.s of tho social
circle in which ho moves.
When ono reflects how mighty tho
intellectual movement of London
WAIFS A SB WHIMS.
In the Street.
A gentleman interested in prisoners
visited a man in jail, wciting to bo tried
for a crime.
“Sir,” Haul (ho prisoner, tears running
down bis checks, “I had a good homo
education. My street education ruined
me. I used to slip out of the house, and
go off with tho boys in the street.
■“In the street I learned to lounge; in
the street I learned to swear; in the street
I learned to smoke; in the street I learned
tu gamble; in the street I learned to pil
fer, mid to do all evil. O sir, it is in tho
street the devil lurks to work tho ruin of
the young!”
—Mr. James Payn, the novelist, once
corresponded with the editor of an
American magazine, and told some gen
tlemanly “club stories.” One day ho
received a letter from the proprietors of
the magazine delicately hinting that he
was corresponding with a lady.
A glass iKdtle so focused the sun’s -r a *p aU po ri in England
PR ’ * ‘ ’oneU>Uuai'-livt. T
with its hundreds of publishing houses,; falling out."
Tiif, shades of uight go about dewing
good.
Very few buns lay nt tho point of
death.
The baby is musical because ho lias
arrived at the bandage.
They dress cxi>otisively who go to tho
lawyer for their suits.
Sparking across a garden fenco nd-
mits of a good deal Vicing said on liotf
sides.
Am eii nil, it wns n girl, and not nV*y
who “stood ou tho burning deck”—it wW
Ciissie B. Alien.
A mechanic wants to know if the com
pilin' for the making of artificial limbs is
a joint stock ono.
The Boston Transcript has discovered
that wo nice, a great many warm friends
during tlio heated term.
One man was threatening to whip
another. “Well,” said tlm other, “a
bull can whip a philosopher."
An Illinois girl’s toast—"The young
non of America Thoir arms our sup
port, our arms their reward; fall in, mou,
full in."
An elderly maiden Indy, hearing it re
marked tliat matches art' mado in
heaven, remarked that site didn't, enro a
cent how stxm sho went there.
“An experienced cutter” is advertised
for in tin' Nt'w York World. Thoy
doubtless want him to bobtail paragraph*
for their humorous column.
McFlanneiiy hoard a gentleman say
of another that he had a too la'iiign
countenance, and remarked: “A 2 be it
countenance! l’hwnt a face, to bo
sure 1 ”
An old lady says sho never eonlil im
agine where all the Smiths came from
until site saw, in a New England town, a
large sign, “Smith Manufacturing Ckun-
pany.”
A gentleman advertises that his i>or-
trait tin oils) luvs been stolen. There is
nothing remarkable iilaiut this, though,
for every one is having his likeness taken
nowadays.
The word “dear" is one of the greatest
inventions in tho English language.
Every married man can Hiiy "my dear
wife’ 1 and no one eau toll just exactly
wiiat he means.
“In tho scntcuoo, ‘John strikes Wil
liam/ ” remarked a school teacher,
“wluit is tlnvobjeet of strikes?" “Higher
wages and Iws work," promptly replied
tlm intelligent youth.
A FhenciimAn' cannot pronounce
"ship." The word sounds “sheep” in
his month. Hoeing an iron-clad, he said
to a boy. "Is ilis a war sheep?” “No,”
answered tho boy, “it’s a nun.”
If you get in a passion,-my dear
frit ml don’t fly around and swear, and
make all manner of foolish assertions,
Jirnt steal away, and lie down iu tho suu
a while. A soft tan, sir, turueth away
wrath.
A Mother noticing lair little daughter
wq o her month with her dress hIccvo,
naked her what her handkerchief was for.
Said the little one: “It is to shake at tho
ladies in tho street. That is what papa
does with his.”
When a Missouri grocer got up in n
revival meeting anil owned up that lie
had sold dollar ten out of the ttfty-cent
cliest for ovor ten years, t he brethren wero
eery backward about telling him that ho
voiild hope for forgiveness.
“Dashaway is a great reader, isn’t
lie?” asked Jones, the unsophisticated.
“ Never heard that ho was. Why do
you ask?" Smith replied. " Why, at tho
races, the other day, while the rest of us
wero enjoying the sport, ho talked of
nothing but his books.” " Oh 1 ’
“Mamma,” said a little girl, “ns peo
ple get old does their hair grow quarrel
some?" “Why no, my child! What
ever put such a notion in your hoad?”
“J thought it must lie so, ma, lieeauso I
heard that old people's hair is constantly
its dozens of theaters, its oiieras, its
salons crowded with wiltj ami brilliant
folk from all tho ends of the earth, its
academies and museums and studios,
ono can not help considering it phenom
enal that so little reflection of this
higher life is seen in the daily press. It
would seem as if the newspaper pub
lishers had voluntarily closed the most
attractive of all the fields against their
readers. I will venture to say that a
foreigner who roads Labouchcrc's Truth.
in weekly installments for ono year will
get a clear and more comprehensive
idea ot lifo in London and tlio British
islands than ho will by perusing the
daily issues of the Times during the
same period. But Labouchere, in his
clever weekly, perpetually offends up
per-class Brilisn prejudice against pub
licity.—Boston Journal.
a rurgimen Duel.
The tearing down of an antiquated
house at St. Augustine, Fla., brought to
light a rusty sword. To it is attached a
story. Eighty years ago, at a grand
ball given by the Spanish gentleman
who li ved in the house, two officers came
to high words over the attentions paid
by them to a beautiful lady present.
They repaired to the street and fought a
duel with swords. One man fell dead.
The other threw away his weapon and
fled. A little child that had been a wit
ness to the encounter picked up the
sword and carried it into the house. It
was hidden that at least one evidence of
the bloody deed might be concealed.
Ixing after the .story of tho crime had
been forgotten the finding of the blood
stained blade calls it anew to mind.—
St. Anyuxtinc llerald.
—in thelimtert States^ohe person in
The New York Times asks: “Can
women enjoy a heaven deprived of wed
dings?” That dejKinds. If new styles
bonnets make thoir appearance every
.her week, women will manage to feel
l appy without a marriage to their bock.
—Norristown Herald.
Knurr, tho cannon maker, says he
never had the least success in his busi
ness until ho began to drink beer and
smoke.—Detroit Free Press. Betrmay
not hurt him, if lie indulges moderately;
but we should think that to drink smoke
would be pretty hard on tho constitution.
A five-year-old son of a family tho
other day stood watching his baby
brother, who was making a great noise
over having his face washed. Tho little
fellow at length lost his patience, and
stamping his tiny foot, said, “You think
you have lots of trouble, lmt you don’t
know anything about it. Wait till you’re
iiig enough to get a lickin’ and then
you’ll see, won’t lie, mamma?”
—A sewin'* girl employed in a New
York shirt factory has found out now
why the wearing of hoop-skirts was
prohibited by the proprietors. Sho dis
obeyed it the other day, and had not
long been at work when she felt herself
seized by tho shafting and wound
around it, escaping with her life and
two broken legs. She will try and not
be so fashionable hereafter.
—The southern p< ot, Paul H. Hay no.
Is a nephew of Colonel Hayne, who
many think had tho better of Mr. Wob-
iter iu the celebrated argument. lie is
a man of polished manners and natural
aloquenco.
—Some one employed in undoing old
cartridges at Mount Valerien, Paris,
disregarded the rule never to use metal
in tlio process; result, thirty women
frightfully hurt, . ...j
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