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Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They Wlay.”
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
XIL NO. 44
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
About fifty gamblers commit bui-
®ide at Monjg Carlo, every year.
English football players are debat
ing changing the rules with a view to
fewer killings.
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Nearly every workingman in Italy
wears a beard, on account of the cost
of shaving. Now it is proposed to
aid the barbers by putting a tax od
beards.
According to the New York World
in eleven principal Western States the
building of 26,600 miles of railroad
line caused the settlement of 90,500,-
D00 acres of farming land.
GEORGIA IX RRIEF. ft eac hers’ institute this summer. The ! MODERN CRUSADERS.
• monthly, or Saturday institutes have
been abolished, there having been a j
law passed by the last general assem
bly changing the system of holding
these institutes for the improvement
of teachers so as to have only annnal
sessions. The time for holding the
annual institutes in the counties this
year as fixed by the law is within the
period of June, July and August. The
state commissioner says he will
The Comte de Paris has greatly re
duced the number of his “agents,"
and stopped his subsidies to the news
papers. He has given up the hope ol
ever being the King of France.
President Eliot, of Harvard, to
gether with ten other prominent edu
cators, has in preparation an exhaus
tive work on the relation between col
leges and preparatory schools.
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The railroad companies of Great
Britain pay an average every day of
§7000 in compensation, about sixty
per cent, being for damages to passen
gers and the remainder for lost or in
jured freight.
President Eliot, of Harvard, saio
the other day that the Greeks, who
know more about athletics than we
shall learn in a hundred years, held
their Olympian games once in four
years, while to-day the college stu
dents want at least four contests every
year.
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It is curious, but nevertheless true,
muses the Chicago Herald, that wher
Congressman-at-Large Galusha A.
Grow entered politics Lincoln and
Sherman were country lawyers, Grant
an obscure captain on the Pacific coast
and Garfield a mule driver on the
Ohio Canal.
Although the court of Austria ie
commonly known as the most aristo
cratic in Europe, no monarch is easier
to reach than the Emperor Francis
Josoph. He has certain audience
days, when any of his subjects, high
as well as low, are permitted to call to
discuss with him any affair which they
choose.
It is said that the leading magazine
publishers are using manuscripts now
which have been on hand and paid for,
some of them for years. This saves
paying out money now, of course.
Some of these magazine offices have
manuscripts on hand which they ac
cepted and paid for five, ten and even
fifteen years ago.
Two London florists, becoming des
perate because of the dullness, made
an effort to revive the interest in tu
lips and create an artificial demand
for the bulbs. They spent all the
money they could procure in bribin
penny-a-liners to assist them. Their
failure was complete. One of them
became insane. The other was forced
to accept the humble position of an
under gardener at a merchant’s coun
try sent.
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED HERE
AND THERE OVER THE STATE
And Condensed Into Pithy and Inter
esting Paragraphs.
The board of trade of Jacksonville,
Fla., has endorsed the Cotton States
and International exposition at At
lanta, and the board of county com
missioners in Orange county has rec-
omended it to the favorable considera
tion of the people of that county.
Similar action is likely to be taken by
the Commercial, trade and industrial
organizations in other parts of the
state.
* * *
The Georgia railroad is greatly im
proving itsroadbed. Hundreds of cars
loaded with heavy new steel rails are
to be seen along the roadside ready to
be put down and the work is already
going on with a vim. The Georgia has
as good a roadbed as any in the South,
and with new- rails it will indeed he
handsomely equipped. It is said that
it is the intention of the management
to put on a very quick schedule be
tween Atlanta and Augusta as soon as
the heavy rails are put in place.
It seems as if Darien is about to
have a railroad at last. The Darien
Short Line was incorporated in 1885,
but was put in the hands of a receiver
and sold out befor® it ever reached
Darien. It was bought in by a num
ber of gentlemen from Yonkers, N.
Y., Mr. W. F. Cochran, Mr. George
D. McKay, and Mr. Waldo G. Morse.
They have associated with them a
number of Darien gentlemen, Judge
James Walker, Mr. Richard W.
Grubb, Mr. H. S. Ravenel, and Mr.
George E. Atwood, and they will begin
at once to build the road. A few days
ago it was reineorporated by Secretary
Cook under the name of the Darien
and Western Railroad company, with
a capital stock of §200,000.
* * *
The Interstate Immigration and in
dustrial convention to be held in Au
gusts on the 30th instant, will be at
tended by the southern governors and
numerous capitalists and men of enter
prise from all over the south. Among
the delegates will be the governors and
commissioners of agriculture of fifteen
southern states with their delegates
at large from each state and one
from each congressional district. The
presidents, general managers, general
passenger agents of the southern roads,
Secretary Morton and various senators
and representatives will attend. The
objects of the convention are to dis
cuss and adopt practical plans to draw
capital and desirable immigrants in
this direction, and to unite the state
governors, legislatures, railroad mana
gers and the press in the work of de
veloping the south. The newspapers
all over the country are encouraging
the new movement.—Ex.
In France cattle and sheep are rarely,
if ever, sold by actual live weights,
declares the American Agriculturist,
and proper appliances for weighing
are practically unknown. A Govern
ment measure is under consideration
for making sales by weight compulsory
at public fairs. The bill provides tbat
stock exposed for sale in any market
or fair must have a ticket showing the
weight, as ascertained on a scale, or,
as it is called in England, a “weigh
bridge.”
A twelve-story office building will
soon be begun in the heart of Chica
go by a man who sold the lot recently
for §480,000 and then secured a lease
for ninety-eight years at §24,000 a
year. Some of the provisions of the
lease are peculiar, remarks the San
Franoisoo Chronicle. He binds him
self to build a twelve-story structure,
costing §200,000, and to permit no
one to sell liquor on the premises un
der penalty of forfeiture of the lease.
This is said to be the second case on
record of a like restriction in Chicago.
Should such clauses become general
the rent of saloons in the business dis
trict of Chicago will be advanced.
Emperor William, in the estimatioi
of the New York Tribune, deserves
considerable credit for the reforms
which he has inaugurated in the Ger
man army in connection with the uni
form and the equipment of the men,
whose comfort and welfare are now
studied to a much greater extent than
ever before. The weight of the equip
ment has been reduced by some fifteen
or twenty pound, and the tight, stiff
collar around the throat has been
superseded by a loose and open one,
allowing the man to move his head
and neck without difficult and to
breathe with greater ease on the
march in hot weather. The Austrian
military authorities are following suit
in the matter, and are taking a leaf
out of the book of their allies at Ber
lin, among other innovations decided
upon being the substitution of a grey
uniform in the place of the blue one
now in use in the army of Empero?
Francis Joseph.
Tifton’s Midsummer Fair.
At a recent meeting at Tifton of rep
resentative citizens from Berrien,
Worth and Irwin counties it was de
cided that the midsummer fair would
be held at Tifton July 10th and 11th.
The meeting was largely attended and
enthusiastic throughout, and the pro
moters of the enterprise are confident
of its success. Colonel C. W. Ful-
wood, of Berrien, Captain D. G. Irby,
of Irwin, and Dr. Wilson, of Worth,
were chosen an executive committee.
These are all progressive and influen
tial citizens, and the affairs of the as
sociation will be well cared for. The
city of Tifton has given the buildings
and grounds for the fair. The chief
object of the fair is to further the ag
ricultural interests of southern Geor
gia. Valuable premiums for county
and individual exhibits will he offered.
Fine Seasons and Fine Crops.
It is ascertained at the office of Com
missioner Nisbett in the agricultural
department that good seasons prevail
in all sections of the state, and that
the crops are growing off nicely since
the rnins. The cold weather in the
earlier spring caused considerable de
lay in planting, and in many sections
of Georgia there are very poor “stands”
of both cotton and corn, due to the
cold snap. Farmers have found it
necessary to do a great deal of re
planting, and it is a common thing,
even at this late season, to see cotton
choppers,with little sacks of seed with
them, dropping here and there, while
they hoe out the furrows, a few of the
seed where the stand is poor. But,
the good effect ef the rains which seem
to have been pretty general lately, will
soon be felt and the crops are already
looking brighter and growing most
rapidly.
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Federal Aid for the Exposition.
AH over the south the chambers of
commerce, hoards of trade, commer
cial clubs and the like are endorsing
the Atlanta exposition and asking con
gress to aid that enterprise. Now,
there can he no possible quibble about
extending all possible encouragement
to the exposition. The southern states
and cities should rally around it and
make it a grand display of southern re
sources and progress. The special
purpose is to bring the states of Cen
tral and South America in touch with
the gulf and south Atlantic states of
the union, with a view of promoting
trade between them and us. In that
matter Birmingham is particularly in
terested, and the district should by all
means have a complete exhibit of its
products.
A committee is to leave Atlanta to
morrow to go before the congressional
committees for the purpose of asking
federal aid for this great enterprise
and the Age-Herald wishes them all
the success thev deserve. Birming
ham is deeply concerned in this great
movement, and it is gratifying to state
that Hon. Frank P. O’Brien, of this
ehy, has been selected as a represen
tative of this section of Alabama be
fore the congressional committee. He
will ably represent this great iron, coal
and agricultural section.—Birmingham
(Ala.) Age-1. lerald.
For Teachers.
Capt. S. D. Bradwell, state school
commissioner, has issued a circular
letter to all the county school com
missioners in the state, instructing
them with reference to holding the
be
glad to co-operate with any of the
county commissioners who may
desire to combine several counties
in holding a united teachers’ insti
tute. The law requires that there shall
be an expert selected to aid in con
ducting the county institutes, and that
he shall be paid §25 for five days 1
work. The commissioner will be glad
to furnish to the county commission
ers who may desire it a full list of ex
perts who are willing to serve in this
capacity. The expert, however, does
not have control of the work. He is un
der the county school commissioner
who is the one to preside at all the
sessions of the institute. The white
and colored institutes are to be con
ducted at the same time and place,
though the law requires that they shall
be in different halls and apartments.
The expert is required to give the same
course of training to the colored teach
ers as to the white.
There will he no Peabody institutes
in Georgia this year, the state legisla
ture having refused to grant any state
aid to the Peabody fund and the man
agers of that fund having decided on
this score not to spend any money in
Georgia in this way until the state is
willing to meet them on half-way
ground. Every teacher in the state is
required by law to attend the insti
tutes. If the time fixed for holding
the one in his own county falls on him,
while his school is still in session, he
must suspend school long enough to
attend it, and then make good the time
lost in teaching after it is over.
State School Commissioner Bradwell
has also called the attention of the
county commissioners to the fact that
the next general examination of
teachers is to be held June 2d. It will
be conducted under the regular rules
and regulations that have governed
heretofore.
The teachers of the state association
will, this year, hold their convention
the first week in July in their new
home at Cumberland island. It is a
delightful place for the teachers to go
for a convention, and it is said that
the approaching convention will, in
many ways, be one of the most pleas
ant and one one of the most profitable
ever known to the Georgia State
Teachers’ association.
WASHINGTON NOTES
AVHAT IS GOING ON AT UNCLE
SAM’S HEADQUARTERS.
Comment Concerning Transactions in
the Various Departments.
The senate committee on territories
have ordered favorably reported (with
amendments) the bill already passed
by the house providing for the admis,
sion of Utah into the union as a state.
The senate Wednesday confirmed
ihe nominations of the following post
masters : Virginia—James M. Neal,
Danville. North Carolina—William
P. Huffman, Hickory. South Caro
lina—William F. Metts, Greenville.
Alabama—William B. Gear, Bessemer.
The state department has received a
cablegram from Minister Baker an
nouncing that the Nicaraguan govern
ment had given satisfactory assurance
of prompt compliance with the per
emptory demands of the United States
in relation to the punishment of the
murderer of Wilson, the American
killed at Rama in March.
Senator Hunton, of Virginia, and
Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, (the
latter through his clerk) admits the
truth of the published statement that
they had been approached and offered
money for their votes against the tariff
hill, although both gentlemen declined
to name the man who made the offer.
The story was published in full in a
New York paper Wednesday morning,
and, with the exception of the matter
of detail, is substantially correct.
Secretary Lamont is making an ex
amination into the record of clerks in
the war department with a view to
making a wholesale cut in his force,
and it is stated on good authority that
the dismissals before the 1st of July,
the beginning of the next fiscal year,
will number fully 300. The record
and pension office will furnish the
greater number of these, and several
chiefs of divisions will be among the
unfortunates. Other heads of depart
ments are preparing for many clerical
changes. A number of reductions in
grade among old clerks has already
been made in the state department.
THE CONFERENCE A FAILURE.
The Miners and Operators Could Reach
no Agreement.
The great conference at Cleveland,
Ohio, between the representatives of
the 200,000 striking miners and oper
ators, representing every coal mining
district in the United States, has ended
in failure. The two interests came
together, presented their demands,
discussed the conditon of the min
ing trade in all its bearings, found
their differences irresoncilable and will
depart for their homes, leaving the
situation at the mines, in apparently
the same condition of suspense that it
was before the conference was called.
Breckinridge’s Bond.
Representative W. C. P. Breckin
ridge Wednesday afternoon gave a
bond of §100 to the clerk of the su
preme court of the District of Colum
bia, his brother, Brigadier General
Joseph C.Breckinridge, inspector gen
eral of the United States army, giving
his surety, for the purpose of securing
an appeal in the case of Pollard vs.
Breckinridge in the district court cf
appeals.
The Exports of Specie.
The exports of specie from the port
of New York for the past week were
§7,353,967, of which §6,585,360 were
gold and §768,607 silver. The actual
exports by Sunday’s steamers were as
follows: Steamship Umbria, $600,000;
steamship La Champagne, §1,075,000;
steamship Elbee, §500.000; total, §2,-
775,000. /
REMARKABLE FEMININE TOUR
AROUND THE WORLD.
One Hundred Women, Headed by
Frances Willard and Lady Som
erset, to Present a Monster Re
form Petition to Ail Rulers.
TORED carefully
away under seal
in the vaults of
the New York
Bible Society are
a number of very
remarkable fac
simile letters from
Kings and Queens
and rulers of every
nation in the
world. A philan
thropic Massachusetts gentleman some
twenty years ago expended §20,000 in
petting up an elaborate gold-clasped
and women of society side by side with J
the leaders of the labor movement and |
the Salvation Army. There will be
delegations present from the Metho
dist Church, the Baptist, the Congre
gational Society of Friends, there will
be canons of the Established Church,
temperance leaders of the Catholio
hierarchy, Jewish rabbis Snd scores
of total abstinence, anti-drug, anti-
tobacco, purity, missions and trade-
union societies and leagues.'
After the London demonstration the
Queen of England will be presented
with th6 petition, and then the Presi
dent of the French Republic. The
crusaders will then take steamer on
Saturday, November 3d, and visit
Spain. The ruler of Spain will be
presented with a petition, and the
steamer will be taken for Naples, where
it is expected to arrive November 15.
There will be a rally at Naples, and
then the crusaders will march on to
Rome, where it is expected Pope Leo
and King Humbert will each receive
the delegation. The next capital to
be visited will be Athens, where the
A Famous Dalrywoman and Her Farm.
mme. nielses's farm buildings.
Dairying, like poultry-keeping, seems to he an occupation in which
women are peculiarly fitted to excel. This is so generally acknowledged that
no one thought of objecting when a woman who had made herself famous as a
butter-maker was appointed judge of dairy products at the Chicago Fair.
There are famous dairy women all the world over. Their reputation is,
of course, generally local, but Professor C. C. Georgeson, in his report on tin
dairy industry of Denmark, describes the farm of a Mme. Nielsen, who has
achieved international fame.
This lady, who is equally well known as a butter and cheese maker,
obtains for her products much more than the ordinary price. She supplies
not merely the Danish royal table, but even sends cheese to the Emperor of
Russia. Naturally with fame has come fortune.
All this success has been achieved with a herd of from twenty-five to
thirty cows, on a farm having an area of 169 acres, while the owner hal orig
inally no advantages in the way of education or resources over the onlimry
woman. But Mme. Nielsen has been a close student of dairying for thirty-
five years, and not content with what was to be learnel at horn - -, has availe l
herself of every opportunity to go to other countries to study the methods iu
vogue there and to adapt any points gained to her own requirements.
Success has not made Mme. Nielsen careless. The utmost cleanliness
prevails throughout the dairy, the floors and utensils being cirefully scoured.
Ventilation is insisted on, and pure water and ice are used iu abundaucc.
Nothing is allowed to go to waste, the whey being made into myse cheese.
In addition to her work as a practical dairy woman, Mme. Nielsen has n
great reputation as a teacher, having given instruction to more thau a thou
sand pupils, who pay a large fee for the privilege) as well as doing the regu
lar dairy work.
JUST AS OF OLD;
f miss you from my side this lonely night.
And feel that nothing new on earth 13 true*
lid sweet pictures in the mellow light
Give to me the happy past—and you,
Just as of old.
I wish that you would steal behind my chair
And press your Angers to my tired eyos.
And when, surprised, I found you laughing
there
You'd lay your dear head down, wher*
now none lies,
Just as ol old.
And as the Are flickered on your hair,
Till each bright tress was like a skein of
gold,
,'d give the world if smiling, restful there.
You’d whisper low, “I love you,” as of old,
Just as of old.
—Chicago Times.
HUMOR OF THE DAY
FRANCES WILLARD AND LADY SOMERSET, LEADERS OF THE CRUSADERS.
copy of the Bible which he caused to
be presented to the heads of nations
by the society. Each and every re
cipient of this beautiful Bible re
turned thanks for the gift. ,
Just now a somewhat similar but by
far more practical plan to interest the
rulers of all nations in goodness and
virtue is being mapped out by the
World’s Women’s Christian Temper
ance Union. This scheme will be no
less than a crusade around the world
of 100 women in the cause of temper
ance and virtue in this country and
Europe. The remarknble tour of the
two hemispheres will take ninety days.
Christian and heathen monarchs will
he presented with a copy of the larg
est petition ever gotten up. This peti
tion against the traffic in alcohol,
opium and vice will hear the signa
tures of 3,000,000 people. After its
presentation the different rulers will
he requested by 100 women to com
mence a great crusade in their king
dom against intemperance and vice.
These women crusaders, expect by
means of this remarkable expedition
to kindle the blaze of reform until,
as one of the promoters of the crusade
puts it, “the angel Gabriel, looking
down on the hosts of temperance and
virtue arrayed in glittering uniforms,
will think the world on fire. ”
Miss Frances E. Willard, the queen
King of Greece will he presented with
the petition. Egypt will be the next
on the programme, and after the
Khedive has been presented with a
petition the crusaders will make a pil
grimage to Jerusalem and the Holy
Land. To visit the Holy Land the
crusaders will proceed from Alexan
dria to Jaffa and ancient Joppa.
After Jaffa has been visited and a
meeting held the crusaders will pro
ceed to Jerasalem, which is about forty
miles southeast from Jaffa.
As Bethlehem, the birthplace of the
Blessed Savior and of King David, is
only about five miles from Jerusalem,
the women crusaders will undoubtedly
make the pilgrimage. The Holy Se
pulcher, the Garden of Gethsemane
and the Mount of Olives will also be
visited.
A petition will he presented to the
Patriarch of Jerusalem, and the cru
saders will then depart for India,
where a petition will be presented to
the Rajah. Several big rallies will be
held in India, and the curse of opium-
raising fully presented by the women
crusaders. The King of Siam will
next be visited, and then the ruler of ,
Japan and the Emperor of China. The . Crinkled
Emperor of China will be asked to
curtail the sale of opium iu his king-
Flower-Trimmeil Summer Hats.
Daring bows of ribbon towards the
front, flowers nodding at the back,
and no crowns anywhere to be seen,
are a few of the marked characteris
tics of the summer hat.
A little French hat suitable for any
occasion is of rough tan-colored
straw. Black moire ribbon is tied in
a flaring bow at the front, the ends of
which rest upon the hair. Three jet
pins, set with rhinestones, appear to
fasten the bow to the hat. The crown
is missing. Iu its place coils of hair
may be seen. The hat is especially
becoming with the Empire knot.
and silk-petalled poppies
1 grow towards the back, their brilliant
Playing lor a Serpent.
It is almost a common thing to find
people who really think more of their
pet animals than their fellow-man.
In some instances this affection has
gone so far that a friend who killed
the pet through anger has lost his life.
But a stranger affinity is that of a man
and a snake. A modern novelist ha;
written of such a weird affection, but
everyday life furnishes us with but
few illustrations. A thing that by a
single bite may cost the life of its
companion is not the most longed for
playmate. But the eccentricities of
human nature in rare cases run in the
most morbid channels. This perhaps
may explain the real affection that a
resident in this city has for his pet
reptile. He is a violinist, and his
chief joy is in playing to “Dick,” for
that is what he calls his snake. As
the how touches the string, the rep
tile raises its head and unfolds its
sinuous coil and during the soft music
sways its head in rhythmic measure.
The owner says that tlie snake is really
in a hypnotic condition during the
playing and afterward any stranger
could pick it up and coil it around hu
neck. For his master the snake has a
great affection. When the door of tho
of American temperance women, and crusaders will be across the Pacific.
Lady Henry Somerset, England’s The other rulers of the Eastern Hemi-
great crusader against alcohol, have sphere will he visited in 1895, and the
been appointed by the Women’s Tern- J sister republics of South America in
perance Unions of the two hemi- the following year,
spheres as a deputation to convey the
monster petition to tho different Gov
ernments. Miss Willard is now in
England, arranging with Lady Somer
set for the organization of the expedi
tion. They will take with them
ninety-eight women who are foremost
the workers in the good cause
coloring lending just the correct touch
dom, and the monster petition will be 1 brightness to this otherwise dainty
presented to him. The return of the but sombre headgear.
Birds Guided by the Stars.
Did you ever venture any conjec
ture as to how migratory birds man
age to keep up their flight in a due-
north direction after night? It has
been proven that oh clear nights they
Miss Willard sent to New York j the rarified atmosphere three miles
women temperance workers, according 1 above the earth’s surface. This being
to the New York Press, an outline of true, it is clear that guidance by the
what the crusaders’ plans are. j topography of the country is out of
They have already chartered one of the question; how, then, are they able
the finest ocean steamers sailing from j to keep their beaks pointing toward
New York, the Kaiser Wilhelm, of the the North Pole? The scientific or-
Mediterranean service. • nithologist comes to the rescue with
President Cleveland will be the first the declaration that they are guided
head of a nation honored with the ' by the stars, and in support of his
petition and a visit from the 100 opinion oltes as evidence the fact that
women crusaders. The crusade will I when the stars are obscured by clondi
The Little German Princes.
The three elder sons of the German
Errperor are not handsome children,
glass cage is open it frequently glides
out and crawls in his lap and carls up
and goes to sleep. —Philadelphia Pres3.
THE SHIT THAT WILL CARET THE CRUSADERS.
really commence at the annual con- I birds become bewildered and at
vention of the Women’s Christian j once seek the ground.—fst. Louis Re-
Temperanee Union to be held in ihe • public.
United States in October next
After
the convention has adjourned the band
of crusaders will charter a special
train and go to Washington, where
President Cleveland will receive them.
The steamer will be in waiting for
the crusaders on their return from the
National Capital, and the date set for
its departure from New York is Octo
ber 24th. The trip across the Atlantic
it is calculated will take seven days.
On their arrival in England there will
be a demonstration at Exeter Hall,
that famous London anditorium that
has been so long the battle ground of
all religious movements and reform in
Great Britain- In this mammoth de
monstration there will he members of
Parliament, dignitaries of the church
Gigantic Statue ol the Angel Moroni
A statue of the angel Moroni sur
mounts the capstone of the tower ot
the great Mormon Temple at Salt Lake
City, Utah. The figure is of gigantio
proportions, being twelve feet 5i
inches in height. It reminds one of
a picture of Gabriel blowing the
trumpet on the- last day, and is sup
posed to represent the Mormon angel
bringing the Gospel to the children of
men. The incandescent lamp above
the angel’s head is 222 feet from ths
pavement below.—St. Louis Repub
lic.
The Palace Hotel, at San Francisco,
Cal., cost about §7,000,000, and ae<
conjijiodates 1200 guests.
but they are clever aud reasonably
good. They are not particularly
strong, for they have been almost
worked to death, the Emperor being
a martinet in forcing serious and con
tinued study upon his youngsters. He
has been forced to relax discipline in
the case of the Crown Prince, who
could no longer endure the unwise
strain.
The second son, Prince Eitel Fritz,
is taller than the Crown Prince, is
mischievous and daring, and his great
est ambition is to become a general.
Prince Adalbert, who stands between
his elder brothers, will soon com
plete his tenth year and will then en
ter the army, as they did at the same
age. The three children here pictured
are in tennis costume ; they play the
game well, their father and mother
also being excellent players.—New
fork Tribune.
A Wave That Traversed the Globe, j
The biggest solitary wave ever knowi I
was that caused by the Peruvian earth- !
quake of August 13, 1868. In no other j
instance, we are assured, has it been !
known that a well-marked wave of |
enormous proportions has been pro- j queer. What is her line?” Witts—
pagated over the largest ocean tract of j “Millinery.”—Buffalo Courier.
The camel probably thinks his hump
a thing of beauty. —Puck.
Nothing succeeds like the man who
has the rewards of success to dis
tribute. -Truth.
An ounce of prevention is not worth
a pound of cure in the pork-packing
business. —Puck.
Some people are too good to gossip
with yon because they don’t trust you.
—Atchison Globe.
We never see a bankrupt at the
charity soup honse. That’s where his
victims go.—Truth.
Mabel—“With what verses are you
themost familiar?” Poet — “Reverses”
—New York World.
If some men were half as big as they
think they are the world would have
to be enlarged.—Texas Siftings.
“Down brakes!” cried the railroad
man’s wife as the dinner platter slipped
from her grasp.—Lowell Courier.
A little choppy weather was natur
ally expected in a month that came in
like a lamb.—Philadelphia Record.
Revenge is sweet sometimes, possi
bly, hut never when the other fellow
gets in his work on you.—Somerville
Journal.
A teakettle can sing when it is
merely filled with water. But man,
proud man, is no teakettle.—TexaE
Siftings.
Though his is largely a robust sort
of life, the average dairyman is pretty
much of a milk-and-water chap.—Buf
falo Courier.
Little Girl (looking at impression
istic landscape)—“Mamma, what mado
him think it looked liked that?”—-
Harlem Life.
“Her hair is just too sweet for any
thing.” Ah, indeed! Perhaps she
: dressess it with a honey comb.—New
( York Mercury.
“Do you think Officer McGobb is
square?” “Surely, he must be ; he is
i never’round when wanted.”—Indian
apolis J ournal.
She—“And what have you been
studying since you left college, law or
medicine?” He—“Neither ; economy.”
—New York Ledger.
Teacher— ‘What have the various
expeditions to the North Pole accom
plished?” Dull Boy—“Made geogra
phy lessons harder.”
Mrs. Captain Smith—“Andyouthink
any soldier can be fearless?” Colonel
Stoton—“Yes; all he has to do is to
keep out o’ daDjab, mam !”
In silence the family are sitting,
Each keeping as still as a mouse,
As they ponder the annual question.
“It it better to move, or clean house?”
•• —New York Mercury.
“Man’s a fool.” He walks out on
the lawn and orders the hilly goat off
his premises, follows a mule and"argues
with his mother-in-law. --Galveston
News.
A telephone girl .recelyes calls, but
she doesn’t pay them. This part of
the business is attended by those hir
ing the instrument.—Philadelphia
Times.
We have great respect for the wis
dom of the ancients. They were born
in time,to say all their smart things
before we had a chance to think of
'em.—Puck.
The Wife—“John, these carpets
must be beat.” The Husband—“Why,
my dear, when I bought them the
dealer told me they couldn’t be beat.”
—New York Press.
It is only guileless boyhood that
vows he “will never do it again. ” Eyen
when caught in the act, thefull-gxpwft
man of sound mind tries to prove that
he didn’t do it at all.—Puck.
Witts—“There goes a woman whose
successes have turned many another
woman’s head.” Watte—“That’s
the globe by an earthquake whose ac
tion has been limited to a relatively
small region, and that region not sit
uated in the center, but ou one side of
the area traversed by the wave. At
Africa it was fifty feet high, and en
veloped the town, carrying two war
ships nearly a mile beyond the railway
to the north of the town. The single
sea traveled northward and westward.
Its hight at Sa£ Pedro, in California,
was sixty feet. It inundated the
smaller members of the Sandwich
group, 6300 miles away, and reached
Yokohama, in Japan, in the early
hours of the morning, after taking in
New Zealand on the way. It spent it
self finally in the South Atlantic, hav
ing traversed nearly the whole globe.
—Detroit Free Press.
An Interesting Rook.
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Lore ol Opera Glasses.
The lore of opera glasses is an inter
esting one. The pretty trifles that lie
on the railing of a box at the opera or
are languidly held to the eyes of a
belle may cost almost anything.
Vienna turns out some of the mo3t
exquisite, and one of these Viennese
beauties, presented to the Duchess oE
York, cost over §690. It was of gold,
studded with turquoises and pearls.
The Princess of Wales owns one of
platinum, set with sapphires, tur
quoises, aud splendid rubies, that is
valuedat §12,090. Many of the glasses
used by American women are of great
worth, a very tidy fortune being fra-
; quently represented iu the dainty lit-
: tie toy of jewels and precious metals,
| —New York Times.
— Worthington’s Magazine,
Lord HanneD, the eminent English
Judge, recently deceased, is said never
to have been fooled but once. He
excused a juror on the plea that the
latter wished to attend a funeral. The
juror proyed to be au undertaker.
“I hear your son has become an ac
tor; how is he getting on?” “Very
well, indeed. He began as a corpse,
and now he has already advanced to
the role of a ghost.”—Fliegende Blaet-
ter.
Fair Visitor—“I should like to see
the editor of the woman’s page.” Of
fice Boy— “Dere he is over dere; de
fat man in his shirt sleeves,, wit de
clay pipe in his inout.”—Brooklyn
Eagle.
Old Physician—“Now, in a case like
this, where the patient is inclined to
hysteria, would you look at her tongue
or—YoungStudent—“No; I would
listen to it, I think.”—Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
“When Bill Walker went to tho
Leadville silver mines in ’72,'” said the
Old Reminiscent, “he hadn’t a rag to
his back, and now—now, by jingo, he’s
covered with em.”—New York Mail
and Express.
. Watts—“Tebson must he awfully
afraid of his wife. He is always tell
ing us how she will giye him fits if I10
don’t hurry home.” Potts—“That’s
the beat sign in the world that he is
not afraid of her at all. The man who
is bossed by his wife never says a word
about it.”—Indianapolis Journal.
A Luna Rainbow.
A lui.a rainbow was seen recently ak
Dunham, N. C. While a slight
shower was falling the moon shone
brightly in the east, and outlined
against a dark western cloud was seen
a silvery bow, very bright aud clear,
for some tiaie. ft gradually faded
with the disappearance of the cloud.—•
Chicago Herald.
In the ninth century most of the
clothes worn in Europe were made in
the monasteries, which kept large
stocks of ready-made clothing.