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M. Bertillon, the French savant,
says that the number of suicides in
France i* Rb tho-rate Of 628 per l,OOOj(Mjd
for.widower^, 273 for bachelors and 249
for married men. : It yrill be poted from
these fibres Jhat less married men.com*
mit suicide than either bachelors or wid-
Alexander Jenkins and Ed. Jenkins, I Little Bock Gazette: George Harvey
on examining trial at Bastrop, Texas, for a citizen of Faulkner county, says that
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The efforts of Horn Pedro to increase
the. imjwrialtyevjjpnes have been mgt by
resistance in Bio, the people objecting to
a head tax on street-car passengers.
Besides constructing a new system of
internal taxation, the -Brazilian Finance.
Minister lias recently produced a new
taSH£hf$i prohibitory to a great jJ' e 0 f his church,
extent, and will bear heavily on foreign
commerce, especially articles from the
United States, . -■ ■ . i
the shooting of the McDonald brothers,
were released on a bond of $2,000 each.
Some of this best citizens of the county
volunteered to ga on their bonds.
The ice factory in New Orleans has
introduced a new way of shipping fish,
>articularly red - snappers. They are
dozen in cakes of ice, or rather cake3 of
ice are frozen around the fish, and in
this condition they axe forwarded to all
sections of the 'country.
Wilmington (N. C.) Star: Sheriff
Manning t ransferred the ten dollars al
lowed him by law' for the hanging _of
Allen Mathis to Rev. J. W. FrKrijf St.
Stephen’s - A. M. E. church, one ’ of the
1 spiritual advisers of the doomed niaJi, for
The widow of ex-President Tyler has
asked Congress for a pension, on the
grounds of the immense,depression in
the valued f her real estate, the mortgage
' on her northern property having been
foreclosed; and those on her. southern
property constantly troubling her. She
says: “ I find I have scarcely anything
whatever left to live upon.
The Duke of Argyll, who made
brief visit to this country last summer,
thinks the extravagance of our rich peo
ple exceeds anything known to the na
bobs of the old world. Would the duke
know why ? Well, the most of our rich
people are not used to being rich. Af
ter all, the extravagance of . the rich is
not to be deplored. It is the extrava
gance of the poof people that breeds mis
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„ -.SOUTHERN NEWS.
Charlotte, N. C., has twenty-two
licensed bar rooms and twelve churches.
The coal- fislds of Alabama are estimat
ed to contain 52,000,000,000 bushels of
coal.
The venerable oaks in the court house
yard at Americus, Ga., are filled with
mistietoe.
“At one fell swoop” twenty-five appli
cants have been admitted to the South
Carolina bar.
During the last three months over 1,000
negroes have left the depot at West Point,
Mississippi.
Over 500 mules arrived in Atlanta
Monday night, and all of them were
sold next day.
.Of the 134 members of the two houses
of the Louisiana Legislature, only thir
teen are Republicans.
The Fish Commissioner of.Georgia is
distributing a large shipment of carp in
the streams of that State.
The State Lunatic Asylum of South
Carolina, contains 375 patients, of wh-
252 are white and 123 colored.
There are 100 prisoners in the jail in
Knox county, Tenn., awaiting trial by
the United States Circuit Court.
The monthly income of the Police
Court at Little Bock, Ark., is $700, a
sum sufficient to pay the police force
A great mauy cattle are dying in
Cherokee county, Texas. Their death is
supposed to be caused by eating acorns.
The South Carolina Board of Agricul
ture has permanently employed a chem
ist that a uniform analysis of commercial
fer ilizers may be obtained.
Tue annual report of the Mayor of
Shreveport, La., shows that during the
past year the revenue of the city exceed
ed itft-expenditurcs $139.56.
North Carolina has six newspapers
edited by negroes, Louisiana three, Ten
nessee and Texas two each, and Virginia,
Alabama and Mississippi one eaeh.
Henry S. Noble, of New Jersey, has
purchased 2,100 acres of Lick Mountain
land in Virginia, with a view of devel
oping its great coal and iron deposits.
One t.hoaisand tons of granite has re
cently been sent from quarries near Col
umbia, S. C., to 'Washington City, to be
used in some of the public buildings.
The Emmet Benevolent A sociation of
Galveston, Texas, has appropriated $100
to be sent to the Irish Land League in
Ireland, for distribution among -the po r
in that country.
Terrell county, Ga., is out of debt and
has $2,000 in f-e treasury besides. As
a result, the price of real estate has ad
vanced nearly fity per cent in the last
year.
Baylor Thornton, a subordinate officer
in the Virginia House of Delegates, is
under arrest for abducting and commit
ting an outrage upon a young lady of
Richmond.
The Waring plan of sewerage has been
unanimously adopted by the Legislative
Council of Memphis. Whether the pipes
shall be iron, brick or vitrified is yet to
be determined.
The Savannah and Charleston Rail
road is to be sold on the first Monday in
June next by a decree of Judge Aldrich,
of the Court of Common Pleas, of
Charleston county, S. C.
Two young men in San Saba . county,
Texas, named Harkev and Barbee, en
gaged in a fight with pistols, which
proved fatal to both. Harkev was shot
four times and Barbee once. '
Memphis Avalanche: Off the rotting
Nickolson pavement the streets are prac
tically impassable for vehicles, unless
empty, and even then there is no cer
tainty of pulling through without an ac
cident.
The rapidity with which the new sew
ers of Memphis will be constructed will
depend on the promptness of the tax
payers. The first installment of the
special tax for ‘.his purpose will be due
February 1.
New Orleans Times: Most of the far
mers of Lincoln parish now raise all
their own meat. Unfortunately, all who
had killed thiir cattle in the earlier part
of the win to have had the meat spoil on
their hands.
Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen: The unpre
cedented varrn weather and the late
rains are laving the effect to injure seri
ously thegrowing wheat. Its effects are
apt to tel in the yield, however fortu
nate the changes that may come.
At Bmtsville, Texas, J. J. Elkins, ex
Sheriff of Walker county, Texas, was
shot aid killed by Peter Greer, a farmer.
The hooting was the result of a per
sonal difference which has long existed
between the parties.
jelma Times: Doctor J. H. Henry is
preparing an elaborate anil exhaustive
piiiphlet on the gold fields of Alabama.
AtSan Diego, Tex., a party of masked
men took possession of the county jail
and 1 jailer and released five prisoners.
Two prisoner;- w - ere left in jail—one a
woman charged with perjury and one a
lunatic committed for murder. The
whole affair is enveloped in a gr^at deal,
of mystery.
The New Orleans Times estimates that
at least two-thirds of the available lauds
of Louisiana are lying idle, or rather,
have never been brought into cultiva
tion. The legislature now in session
will be strongly urged to adopt some lib
eral provision for the encouragement of
immigratien..
Judge G. T. Harris, of Georgetown,
Texas, while returning home on horse
back from a neighboring town, was
stopped after nightfall by three men and
robbed of $2,400. The robbers were well
armed, and are supposed to be the men
who have recently committed several
outrages in Bosque county.
Memphis Appeal: The work of sew
erage will be commenced within a week.
Hundreds of poor people will secure la
bor thereby. Ten thousand dollars scat
tered among the laboring people is of
more financial value to our city than
could possibly be derived from* $1,000,-
000 locked up in our banks.
In Dallas, Texas, a merchant abused a
little boy named Etheridge for walking
on stilts in front of his st re, claiming
to be annoyed thereby. Mrs. Etheridge
came to the reseue, and received several
blows from a stick in the hands of the
merchant, when she drew a pistol and
wounded him in the forehead.
It has been estimated by reports re
ceived at the Agricultural Department
of Georgia that eighty per cent, of the
farmers who raise their own supplies
make money by farming. Seventy-five
per cent, of those who give liens and
mortages and pay high rates of interest
on supplies fail to make expenses.
Last week thirty-two families of col
ored exodusters to Kansas, who had gone
from the southern counties of Texas,
passed through Dallas returning home.
Their home passage was paid by the
farmers in the counties, in which they
had left, on the condition that they
would work for them at specified rates
Savannah News: A new way of avoid-
ing tire dntj- of ocr-ring tire country ae a
juror now is to establish a branch house
in some other city, and when summoned,
take an affidavit that you are not a citi
zen of the county. A dealer who has
been doing business in Savannah for
about twelve years adopted this plan.
New Orleans Times: As regularly as
the sun shines, every year the colored la
borers in Terrebonne parish break up and
move from one plantation to another ; in
fact, there is a general changing of hands.
There is apparently no reasonable cause
for this periodical moving, and the col
ored people themselves give no explana
tion of their conduct.
several nights ago two men came to his
house and asked for supper. His wife
had gone to Bed. He informed the men
-of this fact, but they told him that un
less supper was prepared they would
burn his house. Mrs. Harvey prepared
supper, and, after the men had eaten,
they demanded"money. Mr. Harvey had
none. Then they searched the house,
and, finding ho. mitaey, carried away a
brace of silver-mounted deringers. They
were evidently tramps.
Charlotte <N. Q.) Observer: Recent
ly a large number of negroes, probably
200, have passed through Charlotte en
route, to the tupentine fields of Georgia,
which are now being extensively devel
oped, They come from the piny woods
regions of North Carolina,-and are gen
erally an able-bodied set. The last party,
composed of about120, passed down the
road day before yestjrday. It is stated
that quite a number left the State for
the same destination last year. They
are prefered to the Georgia laborers on
account of their experience and knowledge
of the turpentine business.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: A number
of colored people who had gone from
this state to Kansas, returned last night
on the south-bound passenger train over
the Central road. They numbered thirty-
three, men, women and children, and
had gone from Washington county.
They stopped at Parsons, and were
thoroughly disgusted with the country
and the promises that had been held out
to them, and were glad to get back.
Sandy Osborn, who appeared to be the
leader, said that those of his race who
could, were leaving every day, and there
was great suffering among those who re
mained.
Dr. C. M. Vaiden has made a gener
ous offer, either to the legislature of
Mississippi of the various churches
of the state, proposing to
$50,000 towards the erection # of a college
at Vaiden, provided that either the
churches or the lawmakers will give the
other $5,000 required. It is likely the
churches will accept the offer.
Savannah (Ga.) News: H. G. Ev
erett, who was yesterday admitted to
plead and practice in the several courts
in Georgia, has been working at his
trade—that of a carpenter, at the Cen
tral railroad car-shops—up to the 1st
inst. He is a married man, and thirty-
two years of age, and certainly displayed
indomitable perseverance in acquiring
the rudiments of the law while support
ing himself and family.
The .Tewi^i young ladies of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., organized ajleap-year party,
hired a hall, ordered a supper, and went
around in carriages to hunt up the young
men to compel them to come in. Every
thing was lovely until the committee
went to. settle the bills, when they
learned that the young men had already
paid them. The young ladies say now
that it was “ real mean ” in the boys,
and declare that they will never give
another leap-year party.
Lynchburg (Va.) News: A gentle
man brought us a bundle of tobacco
which had been just sold for seventy
dollars per hundred pounds. Intrinsi
cally it did not seem to be worth one,
dollar. It was without body, had but a/
trace of coloring matter and but th*
slightest fragrance, but it was as yellow
as gold and small-fibre. It was cu:Pd
thus bright and solid by some patent-
process r and, although very light," pro
duced considerable money.
Greenville (S. C.) News: A promi
nent citizen of Anderson county lays he
will give a fine hat to any man who will
find a respectable mas in his sect/on who
is opposed to the fence law after a
thorough trial. When the law first
passed the opposition there was of the
most intense kind, and now if a man
should talk of re-establishing the fences,
he wauld be scalped forthwith. It will
be the same in this county in less than
twelve months.
ZEPH PARKER’S STRATAGEM.
Warrenton ( Va.) Index: It is ru
mored and generally believed that the
daughter of a wealthy Rappahannock
farmer absconded the past week with an
unprepossessing black man, taking with
her $1,000 in money. The girl is about
seventeen, the man of unknown age. He
abandoned his wife and children for the
erring girl, who has brought the gray
hairs of an old father in sorrow to the
grave.
The Rev. C. v.. Pinckney, D. D., of
South Carolina, is delivering a lecture
embracing personal reminiscences of the
late John C. Calhoun and an account of
the" great debate between Calhoun and
Webster in the United States Senate.
Dr. Pinckney is the only man living in
South Carolina who was present at the
debate. His father was a neighbor and
associate of Mr. Calhoun, and hence his
knowledge and impressions of the great
statesman are of unusual value.
Drew has left-Savannah, Ga., after .
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
The Senate, January 19.—Bills were in
troduced and referred as follows: By Mr.
Ferry—A join t resolution proposing to amend
the constitution so as to extend franchise to
all citizens, without reference to sex By
Mr. Pratt—To request the president to com
municate with foreign .powers upon the sub
ject of an inter-oCeunic canhl with a view to
a mutual understanding as to route, neutrali
ty, etc By Mr. Morgan—To grant certain
public lands in Alabama in aid of the IV ar-
rior and Tennessee Rivers railroad company.
The morning hour having expired the
senate took the special order for the day,
which was a bill to. prevent cruelty to ani
mals in their transportation. After a some
what extended debate, in which Messrs. Da
vis, (Ills.) McPherson, Davis, (W. Va.) Thnr;
man and others participated, the bill went
over till to-morrow. Adjourned.
House, Jan. 19.—Bills introduced and re
ferred as follows: Mr. Vance (North Caroli
na) to repeal the duty of salt.... Mr. Cobb
(Indiana) for the distribution of unappro
priated monevs of the Geneva award
Mr. Townsend (Illinois) proposing a consti
tutional amendment in regard to the election
of the president and viee president, provi
ding for their election by a majority of the
votes of the people and to the abolition of
the electoral college By Mr. Tucker (Vir
ginia), for the erection of a monument to
General Daniel Morgan. ...By Mr. Bland
(Missouri) repealing the laws restricting the
sale of tobacco by the producers thereof.
Hy Mr. wells (Missouri), incorporating in.
inter-oceanic transit company. It makes J
B. Eads and his associates a body corporate ;
authorizes them to acquire the right of way
bv negotiation or treaty; pledges the co-oper
ation of the United States ; provides for the
detail of two ships of war to assist in making
surveys, and appropriates $200,000 for the
expenses of such surveys After the pas
sage of the bill appropriating $140,000 for
the construction of a bridge across the Poto-
ntnc river at Georgetown, the house adjourn
ed.
Sexate, January 20.—Mr. Jones (Florida)
submitted a resolution calling on the sec e-
tarv of the navy to inform the senate whether
the interest of the country required the resto
ration of the Pensacola narV yard to a state
of efficiencv, and the probable cosy of such
restoration: Adopted .... The morning hour
having expired, the senate resumed the con
sideration of special order, viz: A bill vela-
tive to the transportation of animals. After
extended debate in which Messrs. Thurman,
Eastern, McPherson and Davis (West Vir
ginia) took part, the bill was recommitted
to the committee on commerce. Adjourned.
House.—Among the hills referred was one
introduced bv Mr„ Culberson, of Texas, for
the discontinuance of the national banking
system The following bills were also in
troduced and referred under the call of the
states: Bv Mr. Cravens (Arkansas), for the
settlement of the titles in the town of Hot
Springs, Arkansas By Mr. Lormg (Mas
sachusetts), to amend the constitution so as
to extend the franchise to all citizens with
out distinction By Mr. Warner (Ohio), to
provide for paying the bonds of the united
States maturing in lSSO-^l By Mr. Ellis
(Louisiana), appropriating $500,000 for the
relief of the destitute people of Ireland.....
The house tb*n took up the bill requiring
national banis to keep half their reserve in
coin, and Mr. Crittenden, of New York,
made along argument in its favor and against
legal tendux treasury notes The morning
hour having expired, the bill went over with
out action. Tht house, in a committee of
the wHoiC, then resumed consideration of the
revision of the ? rules. Speeches in opposition
to the various pro’posed rules were made by
Acklcn* of Louisiana, House, of Tennessee,
and Williams, of Wisconsin, and at 4:40 the
houje adjourned.
SENATE, January 21.—The senate took up
th/ Bayard resolution for the withdrawal of
• the legal tender quality of United States
nptes Mr. Beck opposed the resolution.
,L...At 3 pjn. Mr. Coke obtained the floor,
/but yielded to a motion to go into executive
session, and when the doors were reopened
the senate adjourned.
House.—The house resumed the consider
ation of the bill relative to the national bank
reserves, and was addressed by Mr. Louns-
berv, of New York, in favor of the withdraw
al of the legal tender quality of United States
notes. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, followed
in opposition to national banks, and to Mr.
Crittenden’s speech of yesterday Mr. Crit
tenden questioned the accuracy of some of
Mr. Townshend’s quotations and deductions
from his speech .tod an excited personal de
bate followed, which was finally quieted by
the speaker. . Mr. Townshend continuing,
said he was opposed to the bill because it
proposed to strengthen national banks and
make them permanent institutions. He was
in favor of retiring national bank circulation
altogether Mr. Buckner closed the debate
with a speech setting forth the objects of the
pending bill. He said he, too, was opposed
to the national banking system, but so long
as that system was the institution of the
country it should be improved. In conclu
sion he moved the previous question
Pending the vote on ordering the previous
question, the morning hour expired and the
bill went over The house then went into
a committee of the whole on the revision of
the rules, all general debate on which is to
close to-morrow. After an extended discus
sion the committee rose and the house ad
journed.
# says he has the data to clearly estab-
1m that there is more "old m Alabama ! gaining nearly- 2,500 signers toliis tern-
idii there is in California, I peranee pledge,
It is within the memory of “the
oldest inhabitant,” if he chooses to ex
ercise it, that a warehouse in New
York was so loaded down with pennies
that the floors gave way. Now they
have become so scarce that the Phila
delphia mint coined three millions of
them in November, all of which were
SDoken for.
These is a German in Cincinntia
named Hellenkamp, and whenever he
gets full he raises nis own name.—Setu-
benviUe Herald. A hotel keener in
Leavenworth is named Pxzbylowicz.
Tackle that, Mr. Herald.—Toueka (Kan.)
Cbpifefa W<dflatl»T«t9,-y2ar9M
BY LYDIA A. RICHARDS.
The pole! What seek they at the pole?
What prize for such as reach that goal?
Is ivory massed on polar seas,
Or silken seal in “ open seas?”
Is empire sought, or pleasure, gold,
Or paths for trade, with gains untold?
Not these are sought through arctic main;.
There’s good, unknown to vulgar gam.
And Truth, as truth, has champions bray® .
As any Mars or Mammon gave.
The search of:trutb, and truth alone,
Han rViarmSj to sordid minds unknown.
To add one drop to human lore,
To prove one truth unknown before,
This, this is life—ambition, meet,
Atones ior failure, sneers, defeat.
An “ open sea,” they long have said,
Has North Pole centering in ita bed;
And, more, when shipsiar northward go,
They pass the drift and iceberg floe,
And reach a calm and open sea,
From ice formations ever free.
Yet none have passed this brumal line,
Which‘‘open seas” begird, confine
Is this illusion, false, untrue?
Must we reject the olden view ?
Shall youthful idols, one by one,
Still fall, till age, alas, has none?
And northward drift to polar skies;
There sink as snow, to rise no more,
Till earth i tself is toppled o’er.
W hen north pole bows to kiss the sun,
An era’s passed, a cycle’s run.
« What seek they at the pole? What’s then,
Save cold, starvation,- death, despair?”
“ What seeks he there, heroic man? 71
He seeks the key to nature’s plan ‘
“We all grumbled, for we were
—Inter■ Ocean.
“ Sleepy, baby-faced set o’ people?
Air they! Baby-faced enough, you bet;
but I tell you, sirree, that I belieye
they’re ’beout born with all their eye
teeth cut in their celestial jaws; and
yew’ye got to get up airly, sir, if you
want to take in a Chinee 1”
The Bpeaker was a hard-faced, hollow-
jawed gentleman, in a glossy black suit,
which fitted him very badly, and the
remark was made in the smokine-room
of the “Continental.” There he was
to he seen daily, and he was supposed
to have “ given the speckylaters fits in
ile;” in other words, he was believed
to have made a fortune in petroleum.-
At all events, he had plenty of money,
and was very generous in the spending
of it.
The conversation had turned on the
vexed Chinese question, and he struck
into the discussion.
“I reck’lect,” he Baid, “there was
Zeph Parker. He was ’long o’ me and
a few more up to Nevada, jus’ ’beout
the time of the eilver craze. The boys
had been washing for gold; honest-like,
neow gittin’ it out o’ pockets, neow
outer lie stream; and when done they’d
with a hit o’ wash out, and gone off to
another claim, Mister Washee Washee
Chinee would come and go over the dirt
after them and be satisfied with what
he got. Then comes the silver craze.
AU o’ us goes off and loses all we’d made
in gold, gits no silver, and comes back
disappointed to try after the gold again.
“ Guess we might try and try again,
but no gold could we get; and all ’beout
us was them smooth-faced, pig-tailed
Chinamen, gettin’ on prosperous and
contended.
“ ‘ I tell yew,’ said Zeph, ‘ I shall go
and murder one o’ them smilin’ teapots,
I can’t stand it much longer 1’
“ This here was in our hit of a tent,
when we was trying to make ourselves
happy, playin’ poker on credit and
keepin’ no account.
"" " What for?’ I sez.
What for?’ cries Zeph. ‘Dew
yew think that I, an enlightened sitter-
zen of a free country am gwine to set
down and be robbed o’ my mess o’ golden
pottage by a pack o’ smilin’, washer-
women-faced, opium-smokin’ celestial
Jacobs? No, sirree, this dog’s gwine to
bite I’
“ ‘ But I don’t kinder see what this
dog’s gwine to bite fur,’ I sez. ‘ Teapot
ain’t done nuthin’ to you.’
•“ < Mateys,’ sez Zeph,’ gettin’ on the
barrel as had been his seat, ‘ things has
come to a purty pass with ns, haven’t
they?’
“‘Right, old hoss, sez some one.
hammerin’’ the chest lid as had been our
table.
“‘Haz any man here got any to
bacco ?’ sez Zeph.
No!’
Haz any man here got any old
bourbon whisky?*
No!’
Haz any man got any dust? 1
No!’ . , .
‘Any flour, or pork, or boots, or
new blankets?’ .
“‘No, no, no, n.!’
“ ‘ Then them Chinese haz,’ continued
Zeph; ‘ and what I sez is this—as it is a
sin and a shame to let a pack of heath
enish curses like them teapots, as never
goes to churches nor listens to par
sons ’
“ * I say, Zeph,’ sez some one,
did you go to meetin’ last? 1
“ ‘ Never you mind,’ sez Zeph, ‘ and
don’t yon interrupt a man as wants to
give you Buthin’ to eat. A set of cusses,
I sez, as never goes to meetin’, and
b’lieves in nothin’ but joss-houses. I say,
it’s a sin to let ’em be gittin’ fat on oni
land, wnile we're as turn anu starved-
°°“ ‘As*^ Zeph Parker himself,’ sez
T °™ WeSfez thin ez I am, if you like,’
sez Zeph.
“ ‘ This is all very purty,’ I sez, ‘ hut
we can’t ge and take a claim from the
teapots, Zeph; nor we can’t rash ’em
and annex the dust and nuggets they’ve
washed out.’
“ ‘ No,’ said Zeph, ‘ winkin’ one eye,
‘but we kin strategise ’em.’
“ ‘ Sow? I sez. ‘ Don’t kinder see it.
They’re too deep to be done.’
“‘Yah!’ sez Zeph, ‘ they’re’bout ez
deep ez a two-cent plate. Give me the
means and I’ll sell the lot and put a
good poexettui o' dollars or dust in
every man’s pocket—six o’ ns!’
“ ‘ But what means d’yer want ?’ I sez.
“ ‘One handful o’ dust,’ sez Zeph.
“ ‘ And where are we to get it?* sez
Tom Paggins.
“‘This how,’ sez Zeph. ‘’Morrow
mornin’ every man hyars to go ronnd
the camp and cadge. Tell the boys
we’re hard up, but we got a good thing
on. They’ll subscribe a Little all reourd.
Yew see if they don’t.’
“ ‘ Well, we’ll try,’ sez we; and we
went to sleep hungry and got up rav
enous.
“ There was nothin’ for it but to go to
work, and off we went, gittin’ back to
our tent about eleven o’clock, when five
out of the six had got a little good duBt.
I was the unlucky one, bein’ a.bad beg
gar, and had got none.
“‘Now, then!’ sez'.Tom Paggins, as
soon as the dust was all put together—
about a big spoonful of all glitterin’
stuff; ‘ let’s ge up to the store and get a
drink.”
“ ‘ That yew jes’ won’t,’ sez Zeph,
grinnin’. ‘ I’m kinder gwine to throw
all this here dust away—I’m gwine to
1121 ft. boj*. i<>J 8 SLOP ft Cfiffij up,’
twelve o’clock now, So let’s go round
«ndgit a mouthful where we can.
Let’s.go up to Billy Belly’s store and
ask him to give us a square meal, and
stick it up,’ I sez, ‘ he’ll trust us.’
“Think ht( Wofildf'sez Zeph.
'“Sartin, 1 I - sez,-■'-•‘‘if you show him
that gold, and tell him there’s somethin’
good on.’ . . i 1
‘‘And,so it was; Bill, on,seeing that
gold and hearing as we'd,had some
thing good' on, gave us a right square
meal, and taste round of Bourbon,
Hidin' with the cheerful remark; ' I
shall 1 take it out o’ some o’ yon if this
here ain’t squared up.’
- “ That didn’t make a nice dessert, for
Bill was a wonderful clever fellow, and
would think nuthin’ o’ pluggin’ a man;
so we kinder sneeked outer that store,
feelin’ Uncomfortable.
“ ‘ It’s all right,’ sez Zeph, laughing.
‘ Come on boys and get yewr tools.’
“ We took our tools then and went off
up the gulch to where a strong party of
Chinese was at work, and they watched
U3 curiously as we began prospectin’
about, washin’ a bit o’ dirt here and a
bit there, and always goin’ off discon
tented and sour-like, till we came to one
place close up to the rocks, where it ran
sheer up 400 or 500 feet, and, after
working with our picks a bit, we began
to wash the soil in a pan, gatherin,
round it afterward, and knowin’ all the
time that one or the other of the teapots
had an eye on us.
“ Then washed a bit more earth—
gravely, quartzy stuff it was—and col
lected again, and then we grew excited
and began to dig faster, and to wash
more and to examine what we had done
each time after pickin’ over the pan,
throwin’ out the rubbish; and when
this fell yew could see a few specks o’
gold dust in the sun, while what we got
went into a leather bag what Tom Pag
gins held.
“ ‘ We marks out this claim as our’n!’
sez Zeph out loud; and takin’ a shovel
he-chops out a hit of rough trench, just
"to show the extent we meant to hev;
and; as ho did so, first one pigtail and
then another comes up to watch us, and
I saw them to look at the specks o’ gold
in among the refuses we had thrown
over the side beyond our claim.
‘Nogoodee, washee washee, Melican
man!’ sez one round-faced smilin’ cuss.
No golee, no goleel’
“ 1 Oh, no; none at all, Mr. Teapot,’
sez Zeph. ‘ Just yew keep a bit farther
off, or ’
“ He touched his six-Bhooter, and the
Chinaman scurried back a little ways,
while one of ns fetched some water,
and we began to wash another shovelful
of earth.
“ ‘ It pans out fine!’ sez Tom Pag
gins out loud, as we all gathered round
once more, and the top refuse, with
snecks o’ gold in, was thrown away
again.
“ We kept on at that for two hours,
and with Zeph to manage, we washed
out that little lot o’ gold we had bor
rowed about four times: but it was a
good deal less at the last than when we
started, for some on it was sprinkled in
each o’ the holes we made, and half a
teaspoonful o’ dust was lyin to waste in
the refuse.
“All this time the Chinese were corn
in’ up from their bit of a camp, about »
hundred yards away. Zeph was awfully
jealous, an’ kep’ drivin’ ’em away—not
as we were skeered of ’em, for they’re
a quiet, sheepish lot, but to keep up the
play.
“ Then half on us went down below
and got our tents and odds and ends,
and set ’em up as we meant to stay,
while the others went on washin’ and
pickin’ steadily, getting four Chinese
vo fetch water and do a few rough jobs
in movin’ quartz blocks outer the way.
“ Somehow or other there were a few
specks o’ gold under each o’ these blocks
that the Chinese carried oft"; and when
that was done Zeph gave the smilin’
chaps a hit o’ gold each, and sent one
of ’em with some dust to buy tobacco.
“ ‘ It’s a workin’,’ sez Zeph to me.
“‘Think so?’ I sez.
“‘Wait a hit, old hoss, and you’ll
see.’
“ That night, after we’d been a bit
nssty and threat’nin’ to the teapots,
who kep’ leavin’ their work, we could
hear a good deal o’ chatterin’ goin’ on,
and bime-by a kinder deppytation o’ six
of ’em comes up, headed hy a smilin’
cuss who looted like a big, fat boy.
“ Now, then,’ sez Zeph, ‘ tell you what,
ef yew don’t make yerselves scarce
ther’l! be holes threw some on yew!’
‘“Poor Chinaman!’ sez the big, fat
fellow, and he puts his head on one side
and smiles his head half off. Then the
other five sez. in a sort o’ whinin’ sing
song chorus, ‘Poor Chinaman! and all
half smiled their heads off.
“ ‘ Don’t want any to-day,’ sez Zeph.
‘Hook it!'
“ We all sat smokin’ and lookin’ on-
and every man with his hand on re
volver and bowie, as ef we was supic,
ions.
“ ‘ Poor Chinaman!’ whines the big
’un again.
“ ‘Don’t want any, I tell you again!’
roars Zeph, savagely, and the deppv-
tation riily holds their head on one side
and smiles.
“ ‘Will we fall'You TJWTVl _-^_
hundred dollars?’'-fcays-ZeWi'/ • -*‘-*1 '’t*. rrrf4nua.j jr-
“ They all" nodded tlR ' V ^h^'^rMeswrf’Hfdetor. EHtegwf
.thought their beaded oomeiofc • ^tewstitione of the ilUltick ©f Mr** And dainty
“ ‘ Cut!’ sez Zeph, catch(toyRiS^t-Mderpikings dateB bapk fodJ inMientjooU
- *— t-i-t-t-j-i.: 1 I i|r|in>tV-1tirrl r~"Tr( iW<hisl*friure,on
t.^ t^e -pe^gioai pf astronomy ;» s4qrf» rime
fore k was dark and made Ires!
advancin’.a hundred dollafs «acl
and we swore at ’em andtsaidtaejanh!
not sell, and if .they warn.’.tj1Jp ft’ti
in the mornin’ to see about the wat .
they shouldn’t be allowed, tp wash the
dirt.- •
“ Fust thing next mornfn*" theta iiXj
fellers were up again, just vee" had
got a good panful o! stuff in nctahrse b 1 '
$bOT«^HWn|.W)pNi
a ted in opposition tairisthaj'bf Robert
siiuW^pwlo BeBerted'lhat ifris«’Chris-
■tssaas5^ ! aar»-S5t-- -aimsesm^- ■ -
“‘Areyou gwine to ent?’ sez Zeph,
seizir’ number one by the tail, when he
goes down on his knees, and the others
the same, rabbin’ their chests and wag
glin’ their heads from side to side.
“‘Why don’t you speak out?” sea
Zeph.
“ ‘ Mellicanman let poor Chinaman
washee, washee?’ says the fat fellow,
p’intin’ to the heap o’ rubbish.
“‘You want to wash that dirt over
again ? sez Zeph.
“ The whole party began to nod their
heads fast.
“ ‘ Oh, no!’ sez Zeph; ‘ we don’t want
you here—eh, ladsU
* No, no!’ we all growled.
“ ‘ Send ’em off!’ sez Tom Paggins.
“ But they wouldn’t go, only smiled,
ind at last Zeph seemed to be straek
with a notion; and the long and short of
It was that, if we’d allow’em to wash
our refuse over agen, the Chinese’d
make a hit of a stream to lead water up
to our claim.
“ ‘ Well, that’s no good, Zeph,’ I sez,
is soon as they were gone.
“ ‘Wait a hit, lad and yew’ll see,’ sez
Zeph, with a wink; and we sat there,
in the pleasant' evening, smoking, while
there was evidently a mighty commo
tion in the Chinese camp, and before
long the deppytation came back.
“ ‘ Poor Chinaman.!’ sez the fat chap
again.
“ ‘ Oh, yes; we Know all ’beout that 1’
sez Zeph. ‘Now, what is it ? 1
“ ‘Mellcanman seilee claim two hun-
der dollars?’says the fat-headed chap,
and all the others nodded their beads,
we’d shoot’em if they’d coum
come they did, and offerei
the mornin’ went on, seven, ei]
—$1000. "
“ ‘Take it’,-we said, as they came this'
last time.
“ ‘ They’ll give $2,000; I tell yew. I’m
sure they will,’ says Zpph.
“ ‘ But $1,000 is enough to chipel the
beggars out of,’ sez I.
“ ‘ Yes,’ sez Tom Paggins; ,* anti it’ll
take this time to-morrow sure to get up
to the $2,000.
‘“If I warn’t so ’taraal hungry, I'd
hold out,’ sez Zeph, hesitating} ina then
turnin’ to the six Chinese as waitin’'f nr
our answer: ‘ Look hyar, yop eheatip’
cusses,’ he sez, • takin’ up a shovelful of
earth, in which the dust were a-aparklin’
in the sun, ‘ this claim’s worth $20,0001”
“ ‘ No; only worth $1,000,"’ said fatty
shakin’ his head.
“! Shall we let ’em have it, hoyeP sez
Zeph, turnin’ to us.
‘“ Yes, let ’em have it,’ J sez; .‘ We can
find plenty more.’ «
“ * Come on, then,’ sez Zeph.; and he
and two more went back with the dep
pytation to the tent of theirTiead man,
and a thousand dollars worth o’ dust and
nuggets was weighed out into a bag;
Zeph put his mark to a kind of dockv-
ment in Chinese, and half an’ hour
afterward we went back to catnp, leavin’
the smilin’ Chinamen to their; purchase.
“ ‘ It’s a darned shame to cheat the
poor, innercent babie3 like that,’ I
“‘Not it!’ sez Zeph; ‘it’s only like
playin’ poker with ’em and winnin’.
Let’s go and liquor.’
“ We didn’t expeck any row, for
them Chinesese had to keep very quiet
for fear o’ bein’ sent off; and Zeph sed
they’d put up with their loss, clear oat
and go to some other gulch.
“ But they didn’t; for the next day
Tom, who went up to see what they was
a’doin’, said they moved their camp up
round the hole, and were, workin’ away
like a swarm o’bees.
“ That night, as we were sjttin’ smok
in’ at Bill’s store, some chaps strolls in,
and one of ’em says, to a bit of a temper:
“ ‘ Call this here a free country ?
“‘Yes, stranger, I dew,’ sez Zeph,
rattlin’ some nuggets to his pocket;
‘ who sez it ain’t?’
“ ‘ 1 dew,’ sez the new comer. ‘ Here
are we workin’ like slaves for a few dol
lars’ worth o’ dust, and a pack o’ heathen -
cusses "comes and settles down and grabs
all the best on it.’
“ ‘ Dew they ?’ sez Zeph, winkin’ at us.
“‘Yes, he sez, ‘they dew. There’s
that pack of Chinese moved up higher
in the gulch, and they've hit on a big
pocket. They got a two-pound nugget
out on it tiiis very afternoon.’
“ ‘What!’ roared Zeph, with his eyes
starin’ out of his head like a lobster’s. ^
“ ‘A two-pound nugget, and the stufl’p
panning out awful. I ssy it’s a shame,
and the government ought to stop it.’
‘Soldi’groaned Zeph.
Next day it was the talk o’ the
place. The Chinese were pannin’ out
gold at a tremendous rate frpm the
claim, and some were for .driving the
heathens away, hut the party of order
was too strong, and they know’d that if
the rowdies was to get the upper hand
here, they’d be just as likely to seize
anybody else’s claim; so it was decided
to temporize with the heathen and try
to buy the claim.
“They were two hundred strong up
there; and when we went up to see the
place—which we did to a kind O’ des
perate feeling—the fat chap smiled and
clapped his hands and gave Zeph a little
round nugget as big as a pern
“ A meetin’ was held and we cop-
cluded to make a company and buy the
claim. Twenty thousand was the most
as was to he offered.
“ ‘ Twenty thousand dollars 1* groaned
Zeph. ‘ Oh, boys, what fools wa-was!
But I did not want to hold otft for
$2,000.’
“ ‘ It’s no use to growl,’ spz Tom;
How much ha’ we got now?’
“ ‘ Bout $900,1 guess,’ sez Zeph. ,
“‘Wal, then,’ sez Tom, j let’s go in
for shares as far as onr niofifey goes.’
“ ‘ The money was nearly all sub
scribed; hut we got on for $800,. and
could ha’ sold our shares the next hour
for $1,000.
“ Next mornin’ the party settled to do
the business, went up to the Chinese
camp, but they wouldn’t, take the
money. They said they : d begun work,
and meant to have the proceeds of the
day; but the hoys looked dangerous, so
the heathens finally said they’d settle
up that night, take the money, and give
possession.
“This made the gulch worse yiau
'•’ll reuse ton swuiw ■ . n
{cAftan lAiotittOfdosrteA; * Vf*»f8
bi Ch%r» nitell* hair ... , rr
The protoplasmic hUiiiiI iIM^Vi “
Foraw weaTinafr And _
fact AhM, Gol limbus .sailed, on .Friday
' h New World are some, evi-
[t it could, hqt have been
luSdd -among sailors to Ins
_ jftnwhsbly known ai the Spanish
irtj wissked whether ProfessorPrac-
tor'wan. cite au-example from times be-.,
fore Columbus of asy eminent man who
was dominated by it jikq Lord Byron
and, Pripce .Bismarck to onr own
Century)', Moritz Busch, m hismemoirs
Of Bitarrarck, repeatedly alludes to his
hero’s 'superstitions, and examples of
flyrorfs are abundantly recorded hy his
contemporaries. Southey says that “ if
uytbtag .of the slightest importance
in which Lord Byron was concerned
was commenced gn Friday he was seri
ously JisconcerTed.” Now a scholar in
Tennessiee, misconstruing the limit if
our inquiry of Professor Proctor, sends
.us ripassage from Chaucer in proof that
Frid^weather was mentioned in lit
erature before the time of Columbus as
partaking of the inconstancy ascribed
to its. tutelar goddess in classic ages.
In the French Vendredi this dedication
of the day to Venus is still preserved.
Our Friday-:is derived from Frija, a
somewhat similar deity in Scandinavian
mythology. If our correspondent will
taJte the pains he can detect literary
laliiwipBs of; thus kind much further
back than, Chaucer in many other Ian-
griapfhs thajf English. Butthat is not
the-pTOcideipoint at which we are aim
ing. Gur desire is to identify the time
when ,tlie. Friday superstition first began
to dominate’the lives of clear-headed-
and .usually sceptical men of classes of
which Byron and Bismarck are ex
amples. If either Professor Proctor or
the Tennessee scholar will communicate
faction tbatpoin t they will enlighten
‘a very curious and obscure hranch. of,
archaeology. Our suspicion is that this
suporstiMon as mOre potent in its influ
ence upon the practical conduct of the
most intelligent classes of mankjnd at
the present day than to any former era
notwithstanding all the lights of modern
science.
A Monkey Story.
Rather a eood monkey story for little
folks this: There lives in the Boufh qf
Frascs a man of wealth whose chateau
or,country place of residence has around
it Very tall trees. The cook of the cha
teau mss a monkey—a pert fellow, who
kno.ws ever so many tricks. The mon
key often helps the cook to pluck the
feathers -from fowls. On the day that
interosfa us the cook gave the monkey
two partridges to pluck, and the mon
key, seating himself in an open window
wen tto work. He bad picked the leathern
from one of the partridges and placed it
on the Outer ledge of the window with a
satisfied grant, when, lo! all at once a
hawk flew down from one of the tall
trees near by and bore off the plucked
bird. Master Monkey was very angry.
He "shook his fist at the hawk, which
took a seat on one of the limbs not far
off and began to eat the partridge with
great relish. The owner of the chateau
saw the sport, for he was sitting in a
grape arbor, and crept up to watch the
ena of it. The monkey picked the other
partridge, laid it on the ledge in the
same place, and hid behind the window
screen on the inside. The hawk was
caught, in • this trap, for when it flew
down after the ^partridge, out reached
the monkey and caught the thief. In a
a moment the hawk’s neck was wrung,
and the monkey soon had the hawk
plucked. Taking the two birds to the
cotrk.the monkey handed them to him
as if' to say, “ Here are your lwjt>
anjnaoto^TortlMni^. •
■*5£iS!li^^SlSSSSSSSm ;
If -wandering ’mid that *enti* seen*,
, - Be diauaed to ono beneath onx ngM
BV irroepw of Worn*. , j ''
We’ll recognize,- wjtli
A tjjre of bur prospective MM.
rjw i
Oh dearer thon by far to me
In thf BWWl ufifflinly estate
q any. »*Yenty-fifth conld 1%, . T -*v
! aperture however ffrtat! * 1
A man has no more right
uncivil thing thjn to act one’; no more
right to say a rlJe thing to another
than to knock him dMvi.’- ‘ G *
1* is said that the ; Bureau of Engrav
ing has not a single ten dollar bill m.its
reserve" stock. Singular comCMence.
Neither have we.-r-Jtoelda»i Cout&ut
When the bee stung the Professor*of
entomology, he remarked, ,l WelLI like
Entomology/but I can’t say that- Pftd-
mire these end-to- roe-logical jokes,”—
tteal/eurillf Hp-aid.-gv kotak'S?
Some persons are capable of.making
great Sacrifices, but few are- &pabh?of
concealing how much the effort has cost
them; and it fa this concealment that
constitutes their value. .
The powers' of the mind, When they
are .unbound and, expanded, hj the
sunshine of_ felicity, more frequently
luxuriate,fnto follies"Ihan^lossoj^ into
6 Do not'carry on.a iConvematiopuMith
another in company qbotit matfars
which' the general company- kitcfws
nothing of. It is almost as impolite"-5ia
to whisper: Ipw yc ,vr- if
The New .Orleans picayune hotes that
amonf the merit 'cuMbus things to he
seen to the city is an ulster with % .cig
arette,- standing in front of theatres on
matinee days.
A womak-s-newspaper has teen
.started, in Paria JUis- called - Woman,
.and is designed to promote.the interests
■of working' women, particularly in
the direction of moral and phyeidal
The reason why we object to woman
suffrage is because they would vote in
discriminately. They would,, join
neither party; all they would wahfis
plenty of candidates: '*
Women are naturally suspicious. You
mayhave got a, long- hair on your
shoulder from holding -a' six-year-old
girl, but your nmttrer-iir-lnw will back
your. wife in doubting the statement
every time. ■ . 4
The two most important events in the
life of man arc when he examines Bis
upper lip and sees the hair coming,
and when he examines the top of his.
head and sees the hair going.
Mountains never shake hands-
Their roots may touch, they mjy kfeep
together some Way up, hut at length
they part company, and rise fnto iria:-
vidual, isolated peaks. 60 it is with
great men. u‘ V-
The katydid does "all Her singing with
her legs. Now if the young man wno
sits Dehind you at the concert and hums
the fanor softly, were corjjelled to do
all his singing hy rubbing fhe soles of
hH ieet'togtaher, how bappV you wotfld
be. And he? , Oh, he wouldtsing abfmt
partridges, master.” The cook thought ^ ^ h e does now, and ( the musftal
that one of the birds looked.queer,. but wor id wouldn’t miss him Sft all.'
he serVed them on the table. The owner
of the house shook his head when he
saw the dish, and telling the cook of the
trick, laughed heartily.
• Cigarette Smoking in Psrfc.
i'Paria Cor. Nmwark Advertiser.!
Numerous persons go along the bou
levards in the vicinity of the cafes and
restaurants at night, and pick up the
fragments of cigars which are there
thrown away, and sell them tp the Gov-
ertaent officials, who manufacture from
them all these choice (and expensive)
cigarettes.which we smoke. For fifteen'
cents one can buy a pretty fair cigar at
the high toned restaurants—about sOch
a cigar as sells for eight to ten cent* $t
retail in Newark. Boxes of cigars
which have been imported are always
marked. '‘Imported by M. , for his
personal use/’ (?) and when you order
a fine cigar in a restaurant yon will al
ways-find -such an inscription upon the
cover, next to the revenue stamp. Al
most every one in Paris smokes, and it
is'iio uncommon sight to see a lady in
front -of a cafe holding a cigarette be
tween her thumb and index finger, in a j
jaunty fashion, and taking a delicate
pntl in the intervals between her sips of
Chartreuse or cafe r.oir. The cocattes es-
pecially, incline to smoking almost with-
ou| exception. Still there are many
. vwiy resectable women -fib* do thq
ever7*and shares changed hands at a The revenue to the Government
fine’rate, men failin’ theirs' and then from this scource is enormous. Aeon-
fine rate, men
gettin’ so excited that they bought hack
again.
“ ‘ I snail never forgive myself, boyB,
sez Zeph, the next mornin,’ as we sat
over some fried bacon and biscuit. ‘ 1
throwed away a fortune!’
“Hallo! What’s the row?” sez I,
]U “ ! f' 1 he S re was sUthin’ afloat outside, for
there was a heap of excitement, but no
one kinder seemed to know what it
W *“ Arter a while we got to know that
there wasn’t a single 'Chinee in the
gulch; they’d gone off, no one knowed
where, in the meht.
“ 1 They’re darned artful,’ sez Zeph;
and he was right, for we soon knowd
just what had happened.
“ We six had cheated the Chinese by
retail; they’d cheated us by wholesale,
for there wasn’t, and never nad beet, a
grain o’ gold in fhat claim that wasn’t
put there first. It was only a small
show that we had made; bnt the
heathens had clubbed together their
dust and nuggets to make a big show.
That day they had packed it all up
agen, and when they d got the $20,000
they sneaked out from th® camp. I
-■ — 1 ich would ha’ massacred
guess the gulch would ha’ massacred the world looxs more oeauiuu:,
them; but the heathen hadn’t left behind long—oh, how I long to stay. '
ev e, L 80 much as a trail. , J
“Yes, gents, yew’ve got to get Up
airly to take in a Chinee. Waiter!
whisky and seltzer—and ice.”
Emma Abbott’s managers say that hpv
Grand English Opera Company is <
luccess. •'. - j
siflerable number of Russian and Ger
man cigarettes are also sold in Paris,
though, because of the duty en them,
thp price is higher than that of the
French make. “Ma Ferme”' cigarettes
are liked here, bnt are not the great £a-
vrorites that they are among American
smokers. I often hear Americans ask:
“ Where can I buy a good cigar ?” The
r lera! answer is: “ I don’t know; not
Paris.” "
A Sad Scene.
A man falls from a scaffold. Die re
porter hastens to the spot- and pushes
nfa way to the man’s side.
“My life voyage is nearly ended,”
whispered the dying man, as he held the
reporter’s hand. “ My soul, like an un
finished craft, is being swept from from
its earthly mooring, and carried out
into the great pathless ocean of eternity.
Oh, how unprepared I am for this jour
ney ! How my spirit shrinks from em
banking Upon that silent, solemn sea! I
have a wife and beautiful child who
vftll-mourn my absenoe; and now that
I see nofnture, nothing but the dark,
impenetrable shadow of death, which
wiU soon hide me from earthly eyes,
the world looks more beautiful, and I
ay. Good-
0 , prepare for
—.” His head dropped. “ Cour
age, courtage,” -whispered the reporter,
while tears as big as hickory nuts chased
each other down his nose; “ but, busi
ness is business. Courage,” he whis
pered ; “ how—how do you spell your
name?”
world wouldn’t miss 1—
Man Btbakosch says this ms pre
miere. artiste is,“the g^eateat- living
dramatic prima donna,” Jhd that she
>as had “the entinHsway of the dra
matic repertoire in Europe for the last
five vear?,” whatever" that may mean,
arrrf r tfiat “ she is now rh thezenrtlrof
hsr power, aed.unites with the -must
magnificent voice the talent- o£ a. superb
af A^ French lady, who had been a
widow three times, was in the h$bifa-o£
referring to her Irinite de defuncts in a
perfectly nonchdlSct 'aniT numerical
way. Some .on® eomplained of this to
his friend, and remarked that a v-"o;no n
who could do sirth a'thing was-CertiMlv
an euiema. --“ Not-exactly an caigrttt,'
was the roP 1 ?. / “ rati *5 r * ®kang! e,
for she constantly refers to my first, my
second and mV ttara.” 9 ’
Jcet as everybody was settling down
to enioy themselves a* a party the other
eveuimr, Master Jimmie appeared in the
room WitB, “Ain’t yatr -folks hungry?
Guess you haven’t been swing up.s§ur
appetites for two days as I and motii—
The broad and generous hand or his
mother suddenly stopped Bis convema-
tion trap, and he had to save his appe
tite until morning, when it Was satisfied
with broken hit* of jelly cake leftover.
The man who can- devour a dogen
and a halTraw oysters at one sitting,
fa thdniin fiirrightriA ate %e. (W*at
ho, witirodt‘titered ; «wiael»i» and hfcrl
him from the loftjest battiementeof
the donjon deep into the foaming port
cullis that flow* 1®sr the postern gate.)
It is done. Tha iinyhd xippfas of tne
silently flowing current close above v the
eddring salg port, and all is oriSR-
JBurlmgton Bmihyc.
“ Constant dropping will wear the
hardest rock.” A chap who Bad forirot-
ten this was considerably astonisheulhe
other day while -walking up strsefa.to
feel a pound weight strike him on jthe
heel. He had loaded his" coat tail
pocket with it to keep tile blnsleitng
fall winds from, showing a patch con
cealed beneath, and it had finally worn
through. He will carry sand herewWer.
— Wheeling Leader. : V
Prince Napoleon, .the Ggwtori
says," waited on the Emp'ress Enggnie
during her short stay in Paris. On
learning of her arrival, he sent tqnpsk
at wjiat hour he could be receivat to
which the Empress- fapKed:' “ Iimne-
diately!” On being inlrodoceWd he
kissed her Majesty’s hand. Thftjon-
versation turned solely "on the painful
bereavement of the Empress. *iThe
Prince had no timfl to bring his sonjtith
him, and expresfad his regrets. 'Jhe
Empress replied: “If'I return through
France, I shall see your sons:with
f leasure 1!’ The interview was marked
y extreme cordiality; but the Empress,
alter the departure ef the Prineef x%as
greatly affected by; the recollectionssre-
vived, and was in prayer before the
portrait of her sou when the PritfBess
Mathilda arrived. The Princess 're
spected the griei of her cousin and
withdrew without seeinif ber.