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The
Cleveland
By IT. B. WOODWARD.
DEVOTED TO
the Njnino, agricultural and educational interest* of Cleveland, white county and north^ht aBondri
TEEMRi—One Dollar Per Year.
VOL. I.
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1892.
NUMBER 30
The miners of the world produce
twonty-five tons of gold every week. Hut
the precious metal remains as rare ai
ever.
“Whet the farmers become bley
cltata,” predicts the New York Mail and
Express, “it won't be long before the
country has good roads."
A London journal estimates that a
dentist who is busy six hours a day cau
make $5000 a year by extracting teeth
at twenty-five cents each and filling them
for $1 each.
More than one-third or the total num
ber of sailing vessels building in the
United Kingdom are in course of con
atruction on the banks of the River
Clyde, Scotlaud.
The new debt of the city of New
York is $98,000,000. Philadelphia and
Brooklyn combined hav« the same
amount of debt, nnd substantially the
same population aa New York.
Spaniards are now said to be the most
predominant among the criminals an
rested for stealing in large shops o»
pocket picking on racecourses or at great
public gatherings.
President Elliot, of Harvard Culver
sity, says that “the immigrants who
come to our shores from abroad will be
found to have received a better common
school training than the average rural
copulation in this country.”
For sportsmen New Zealand seems to
possess decided advantages. It offers,
wo aro told, seine of the best trout fish
ing in the world. Moreover, deer are in.
creasing bo fast iu some of the open
mountainous country that wo shall soon
add deer stalking. Wild pigs abound
but they frequent such rough ground
that they must be hunted on foot, whioh
aooms to dampen the ardor of most Eng
lish sportsmen. Quail shooting is-good
and plentiful, and duck and pheasant
shooting Is good in certain parte. There
are many districts with their pac cs of
harriers, and in some of the better settled
districts hunting Is indulged in with
much zest. Horseflesh and horaekeep
being cheap, whatever eport there ie «wt
NEW EVERY MORNING.
Avery il«y is a fresh beginning;
Every morn im the world made new;
You who nre weary of sorrow and sinning,
Here is a beautiful hope for you;
A hope for me aud a hope for you.
All the past things are past and over:
The tasks are done and the tears are shed.
Yesterday s errors let yesterday rover;
Yesterday's wounds, which smarted nn<]
bled.
Are healed with the healing which night
has shed.
Yesterday now is a part of forever,
Bound up.in a sheaf, which God holdt
tight.
With glad days, and sad days, and bad days
which never
Bhall visit us more with their bloom and
their blight,
Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful
night.
Let them go, since we cannot relieve them,
Cannot uudo and cannot atone;
God iu His mercy receive, forgive them;
Only the new days aro our own;
To-day is our*, aud to-day aloue.
Here are the skies all burnished brightly;
Here is the spent earth all reborn;
Here are the tired limbs springing lightly
To face the sun aud to roam iii the morn
In thecllrismof dewand the cool of morn.
Every day is a fresh beginning.
Listen my soul to the glad refraiu,
And iu spite of old sorrow and old sinuiug,
Aud puizlea forecasted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day and begin again.
—Busan Coolidge, iu New York Weekly.
JOSHUA’S “FOURTH.”
1IY HELEN FORREST GRAVES,
KARS to me," said
Uncle Joshua, “I’d
like to see the pro
cession this Fourth
o’ July I”
“Well, that’s
easy euough," ob-
rved Aunt Persia.
“It goes right past
the corner store,an* I guess there’s room
enough on the steps for all of us to
set.”
“Oh, pshaw, 1 don’t ir.eau that!” de-
elared the old mau. “I mean the city
procession I"
“Joshua Crickett,” said Auut Persia,
“be ye gone cracyt”
“Well, I dutmu why not,’’.said the
He tuctcea Auntrorsis s arm uuaer nil
aud started off at as brisk a trot ns was
comfortuhlo with his years aud weight.
“I’ve no idea o’ speudiu’ rnouey oil
them horse cats,” said lie, “nor of
leakin’ my life up ou top o’ them iron
pillars that they call an elevated road.”
But he had no very definite idea of
instances, uor (mil lie dreamed how high
the thermometer ivus ranging as the suu
ascended in the lieaveus.
Presently ho stopped to wipe his fore-
neaa wini an expansive red silk pocket
handkerchief.
“Young mau,” he said to a tall per
sonage who was mailing a letter in a
lamp-post closo by, “whore's tills num
ber on Sixth avenue, ami where does N.
Smith live!"
•me youug man looked at the couple;
his face brightened.
"Why,” cried he, “I am N. Smith,
aud this is Sixth uvoutie; and this num
ber”—glancing at the bit of paper—“is
close by. You must be my cousin from
the country.”
“Your wife’s uncle," said the old man,
beaming ail over—“Mr. Joshua Orick,
ett. And hero’s your wife’s Aunt Persia.
And how’s Luella and your darter, and
the youug man that she keeps company
with?”
"All well, smiled the stranger, “and
expecting you."
“How’s that!" said Uncle Joshua.
“Me aud your nuut hain't writ, bccatisii
wo calculated to surprise you."
“Oh, well, we rather thought you’d
come to town ou tuts great aud glorious
day I” said }tr. N. Smith. “This way I
—this way I Oh, by-the-way, I’m just
short of a postage stamp I Could you
lend rac two cents!”
Uncle Joshua at once produced a
crumpled ODe-dollar bill.
“Here, Nathaniel,” said he. “And
now take us to Luella’a as soon as you
can, for me and yom aunt is fairly tuck
ered out a-walkin’ in this boat.”
It was after dark when the old couple
once more trudged up tlio grassy slope
from Kewatchet Station toward the old
farmhouse.
Unde Joshua was very tired, and
limped as he Walked. Auut Pcrsis
drugged behind in a spiritless sort of
way. »
“And we didn’t see the procession,
ttagiacreitoJ
wonderfully in popularity lit France,
states the Boston Transcript. At Paris,
the first horse butchery was opened on
July 9, 1868, and in that year 903 horses
wore slaughtered. Through seventeen
years the business steadily increased, and
the count shows that 203,537 sollpedi
were consumed in the city. On January
1, 1889, the horse butcheries numbored
132. In other cities of Franca the out
put of the horse butcheries ii enormous.
Hippophagy is also in great favor at Rot
terdam. Horso meat is used there at
human food to an extent that is unknown
In Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland,
as welt as in parts of Italy. It is exten
sively used in Milan, whllo it is scorned
in Turin. In the Inttor city only fifty-
f.vo horses were slaughtered in 1888,
and the flesh was used exclusively for
feeding the animals of a ineuagery. A
Spanish writter regrets that hippophagy
is not adopted in Spain, where it would
benefit numerous poor laborers, to whom
ordinary meat is an article of luxury on
account of its high price. In Paris, the
price of horse meat is about half that of
beef for corresponding outs.
The official summary of the accidents
and casualties which occurred in 1891
upon the railroads of the United King
dom has just been issued. From this it
appears that of 800,000,000 passengers
carried during the year only live were
killed in accidents, the smallest actual
number and proportion recorded sines
1873, when six were kitlei. The num
ber of passengers injured in necidunta
during the year was 875.
Of men employed by the railway com
panies twelve were killed and 159 in
jured in accidents, a much hizher pro
portion. The list of passengers killed
and injured by trains (otherwise thau in
accidents) is much heavier, including
ninety-eight dead, 737 injured. Of
these sixteen were killed by falling be
tween carriages and platforms, fourteen
by falling on the Dlatforms or the line,
and fifteen by falling out of carriages
•during the traveling of trains. Crossing
the line at stations was fatal to twenty-
three, and ninety-eight were injured by
the closing ot carriage doors. Causes
other than train accidents killed no fewer
than 537 of the servants ot companies
or contractors, whils more than 3000
were injured. The greatest lo3s of lift
occurred among the men who wero
walking, crossing or standing on the
line of duty. The deaths from these
causes were 146, while 115 were killed
while walking on the permanent way or
in sidiDgs. Shunting operations killed
ninety-four. Forty-two lost their lives
while miking on the line.
can see, we can afford the taro to New
York.”
“Yes,” bitterly acceded Mrs. Crickett,
who was possessed of rather n minor
temperament, “and nice figures wa
should cut, staudiu’ on the curbstone,
with Tom, Dick and Harry all a-elberin’
us an’ crowdin' us!”
“I don’t calculate to stand ou no
pavement," said Unole Joshua Crickett.
“Ain't there our niece Luella, that mar
ried Nathaniel Smith, alivin' as genteel
os you please on Sixth aveuue! Can't we
go there und set by the window!"
“They hain’t asked us,” curtly uttered
Aunt Persia.
“Then we’ll surprise ’em.”
“1 ain't lure it’ll be an agreeable sur
prise,” said Mrs. Crickett. “Luella’a
darter Jane is growed up now, and ”
“She always was the sweetest little
creetur goin'," said Uncle Joshua, "and
I mean to leave her the farm wheu we’re
done with it. I’m told she's keepiu’
company with a smart youug feller, ;,d(£
if wo'd had a sou, Persia,just think what
he'd 'u done for Lire farm 1”
“Hemight,und then ag’iu he mightn’t, ”
said Mrs. Cricket, mournfully.
“Well,” observed Unole Joshua, who
was ijuite accustomed to this sort of
figurative wet blanketing, “anyhow, I
mean to go ana see the procession in New
York, this year, if there don’t nothin’
happen. You jest hake a chicken,
Persia, and some cinnamon cookies, and
pack u basket with them early apples und
a few of the late cherries, an’ we’ll go to
Luellu’s.”
“But you don’t know jest where she
lives."
*'I css look in the directory, can’t I!”
Aunt Persia shrugged Uer suouiuers.
“You'll do us you've a mind to, I
a’pose,” said she. “You alwaysdid.”
So ou the sunshiny morning of the
Fourth of July, Uncle Joshua and Aunt
Persia, dressed in all their best, took the
train to New York, with the wicker
basket, the two umbrellas and Aunt
Persia’ best gray and white blanket shawl
to bear them company.
“I feel exactly as though wo was goiu’
to hev a good time,” said Uncle Joshua,
cheerily.
“I don’t," said Aunt Persis. “I’m
most sarnn we ougoc to nev writ nnd
told ’em we was a cornin’.”
“What time does the procession start?”
said Uncle Joshua.
“Right away arter breakfast, I sup
pose," said his wife,
“Weil, then, we hain’t no time to
lose,” said Uncle Joshua, taking out a
bit of paper, ou which, after long con
sultation of a drug store directory, he
hail written the address of his niece
Luella aud her husband, Nathaniel Smith,
os soon as the train ran into the Grand
Central P*Mt>
‘I wouldn’t ha’ minded thqt so much,”
said Auut Porsis. “But Luella has
changed so I Site used to bo such u trim,
trig little body. Aud then her house -
keepiu’t Did ye sen tliorn blnck beetles
la thu bread closet und the dirt in the
corners of the room and tho nose-marks
on tho winder glass? Aud she hadn't a
sign of a collar on, and I don't b’lieve
her hair had been combed since she got
up. I didn’t bring her up no sueli way,
an’ 1 wouldn’t hev believed five years
COUld tt-eh (luffed nnvluulir Mini:
“It's Nathaniel's influence," said
Uncle Joshua. “I always supposed ho
was a church member; but I must lie
mistook, for lie wunted mo to play cards
with him aud auotlier feller; but I wasn't
to be took iu like that, if there was hay
seed in iny hair. And I didn't like the
looks of Jnnie and iier young man. I
know the young feller drinks; I smelt it
In his breath. Persis, I’m going homo
to change my will. I'd rather leave my
farm to Abial’s sou, out in Michigan,
thau trust it with Jume aud that young
man. Aud, Persis—”
"Well,.Joshua?”
“I wasn’t goiu’ to tell ye of it till wo
got home, but I've ha 1 my pocket
picked. My watch is gone uud the roll
of bills iu my breast pocket, I hadn’t
only jest eaougli money left to get home
with."
“Oh, Joshua!”
“Yes, an’ I b’lieve Janie's young man
did it wheu lie was so officious about
helpin’ me down that last flight o’stairs,
for fear 1 should fall an L/ealc my neck,
as he said."
“Oh, Joshua?” wailed the old woman.
“All the chicken and hatter money I”
“Yes, I was blamed fool enough to
take it with me!” sighed Uncle Joshua.
“I’d sort of a notion to give Janie eoougli
for a weddiu' dress. But when I see
the cut of these folks’ jib, I changed iny
mind.”
“Can’t we go back and tell the
police I”
Joshua Crickett shook his head.
“No,” said he, “we can’t. I’ve made
myself redidicklous enough already. I’ll
jeBt swatler the loss, an’ set it down to
profit and loss. Arter all, it ain’t the
money so much, though we’re hard
workin’ folks, and can't afford to lose it;
but it goes to my heart to think Luella’a
folks is run down so low as that!”
And a big tear rolled over the old
man’s cheek bone and lost itself in his
grizzled beard.
“Hullo!” he suddenly exclaimed,
“what’s that! A light in tho settin’-
room i Persis, I hops to goodness the
old place ain't a-flre with powder-
crackers and rockets from the store and
rich?”
“No," said Aunt Persis, straining her
spectauieu eyes mto me tlarKiiesSi "it's a
lamp on the table. But 1 Can't think
who can have got iu, I'm sute I locked
the door nnd put the key under the flat
stone by the well curb."
Of course you.did, aunty, durUng,iii
tho old place where I knew exactly
whero to find it,” interrupted a sweet,
cheery voice, as a pair of arms was flung
around Aunt Persia's neck. “We camo
down from New York this morning to
surprise you aud spend tho day here,
picnic fashion, Nat nnd Janie and Will
Harnett and I, and when we got hero
we found the birds had flown, uo one
know whither."
“Luella 1” gasped Auut Persis.
Luella Smith it was, true und trig as
ever, in a pretty gray gown, with her
shining dark hair waved away from her
still girlish forehead, and a white luce
frill enciroliug her plump throat, And
Nathaniel, a tall, broad-shouldered mau,
witli clear,brown ojes aud the pleasantest
of smiles, was close behind her.
“Come right, iu, Aunt Persis,” said
Luella, “tea is all yeady. Will has
milked the cows and Janie is down
cellar skimming tho cream, and I've got
a chicken, fried in the pan, as we used
to like it, wheu I lived here, aud Janie
bus baked biscuits. Aud Will has
mended tho burs of thu orchard fence,
and fixed the well-chain and put n now
padlock ou the barn door, and we’vo
wandered ail over the old place I”
“And « splendid old place It is," said
Nathaulol Smith, cheerily. "When Will
ana 1 are aoie to ieav& our out grin i m
the printing offices in tho city wo mean
to buy a farm like this und begin to en
joy ourselves.”
Like two people walklug in a dream,
Uncle Joshua and Aunt Persis followed
their uopliew and niece iuto,the bright
keeping room, - ’ and were introduced
to blushing Janie and stalwart Will
Harnett.
“Persis,” whispered the old mau,
“we’ve beeu swindled by them smooth,
spoke folks in New York City, Sarves
tne right for tollin' my business to every
body in the public streets. But don’t
let Luella’s husband . know what fools
we’ve been. Don’t let’s give ourselves
away. I dou’t care for the money—(
don’t cave for uothin’—so long as Luella
is the same Luella, and Janie’s d'ouug
wno simplfj' marked, when ques
tioned by ilia ifoicft and nephew-lu-law,
•that “York wills a big city, an’ his old
logs were pretty itired walkin’ nbout f an’
he lost his wuy, inn’ didn't ses thu pro
cession arter all.y
“Luella’s folkii ” had intended to re
turn by the midnight train, but they
wero easily induced to lemain all night;
nnd when Uncle Joshua had wound up
tho old clock, the last tliiug before he
went to bed, he turned to his wife
“Persis," said he, “I’ve made up my
mind. Luella and Nathaniel, and Janie
aud Mr, Harnett like the couutry. Why
shouldn’t they stay here?’’
“Altogether, Joshua?”
“Yes, altogether. I’m gettlu*’most
too old to run the farm, uud you need
some one to spare your old bones. Let’s
keep the young folks here. Janic’ll
make a first-class dairy woman, and 1
jest wish you’d see the way Harnett has
mended thu burs and the well chain I I
tell you he's got tho real grit in him.
And I know, tho way they talk, they
wouldn't Uko nothin’ better than to come
here. I mean to speak to 'em about it.”
“But, Joshua—’’
“Well, Persia!’'
“We won’t never go excurssiuzing
into i ora city ag in on tne fourth of
July!” said Mrs. Orickett.
“No," said Uncle Joshua, with rather
a crest-fallen air, “we won't!”—Satur
day Night.
FARM AMO HOUSEHOLD.
FIlOTRCTtNO RHBB1' FROM BOGS.
A mode of protecting sheep froni
dogs, as successfully practised by. somd
oi Massachusett's farmers and reported to
that State's Board of Agricultural, con
sists of entrenchments of barbed wiro.
As barbed wire larely does any harm td
sheep, it may be successfully used foi
their protection. Six wires high will nol
only hold sheep, but. will turn dogs; the
dogs do not tike its short points, and q
six-wire feuce will not allow them pas
skge botween the wires, and no othel
feuce will do this. In a two-year ex
periment, tho fence tout feet high and
the posts a rod apart, never allowod a
dog to pass. The cost of the fence was
forty-four couts a rod.—New York
World.
CUBE FOll SCALY I,EOS.
The disease known ns scabby or scaly
legs in poultry is due to the presence of
a small mita somewhat Uko the one
which causes scab or itch in sheep. By
placiug one of the scabs from tho legs
of the fowls under a good microscopo,
tlio mites may he readily seen, and in
form they are rouudish, oval, and soml
transparent. To cure tills disease take
equal parts of lard uud kerosoue, and ap
ply with u soft, brush to tho nffeotod
parts. Apply this freely, for it will do
uo harm while softening the scabs and
destroying the mites. Another excellent
remedy is au ointment mudo by rnlxiug
ouo ounce of carbolic add witli twenty
ounces of common iard. The disease is
a very unsightly one among fowls,hut so
readily mired that there is really uo ex
case for leaving It to run its course iu
poultry yard or elsewhere.—Now York
Bun,
A Hen “Set*” *n • Snake.
Since lie visited the last poultry
bIiow iu New York, Andrew Meredith, of
O’ornwall-on-the-Hudsoii, has been im
pressed with the idea that his hens have
been wasting their time iu hatchiug out
ordinary farmyard eggs. Ho wanted to
improve his breed of fowl; so, about a
month ago, he purchased a setting ot
Lnugshnns lor $4 from u Buffalo dealer,
and placed them under au “old relia
ble” Plymouth Rock hen. He set her
iu a room over his barn aud allowed no
body to disturb her. After the lieu had
set for nearly a month with tho dogged
perseverance of her kind, without any
results, Mr. Meredith began to cute-tain
dark suspicions about the probity of the
Buffalo man, and yesterday lie lifted tlio
hen from her nest to examine tlio eggs.
He was shocked to find n large black
snake coiled among a lot ot broken
shells. The reptile was half torpid, it
had eaten all the eggs and the lien had
sat upon it, probably for at least n fort
night, and kept it warm aud comforta
ble while it digested its food. After
Mr. Meredidth had killed if she wunted
to sit upon its dead body.—New York
Tribune
It is calculated that sirice the begin
ning of time the world has had sixty-six
quadrillions of inhabitants
LATE TURKEYS.
“Iii tuo lust fifteen years,” writes Jen
nie Watson, of Illinois, “I have owned
several turkey beet that have, while
taking cure of the first early brood, laid
eggs, and than hatched a second brood
toward the lattor part of summer. I
think vigorous licus will often do so if
allowed to sit early. It makes tho youug
turkey* rather late, but with good quar
ters aud good care, they oau bf sold in
■FAbBMs'feiuLthey wiU then he,
six" ”
tho higher prices to be obtained at that
season, will generally bring more than
than early ones marketed before the
Ohristmas holidays. If from lack of
proper care they aro not salable in Feb
ruary, they oau he kept over, and make
plump, heavy birds for thu early winter
market. Borne of tho heaviest and most
aalablo larkoys that I have ever sent to
market havo been such very late broods,
wintered over without extra cure. Suoh
hens will always be in domnud by overy
buyer who wants a Thanksgiving or a
Christmas roast, you may he sure; aud
the gobblers will not he overlooked.’’—
American Agriculturist.
FARM AND OARDEN NOTES.
Professor L. II. Bailey says that the
Lunretia is by far the most prominent of
tlio dewberries.
A wise breeder selects his breed and
then atioke to it, not changing witli any
passing wliim or fashion.
The old double feverfew is easily
grown and the flowers are valuable in
the cut state, being very onduriug.
If you give quinces a good soil, rich
cultivation, and careful pruning, tho
fruit will almost always ire grown at
profit.
Qeneiatly speaking, the easiest and
cheapest way to increase crops is to
deopen the soil in which they are
grown.
The cow that is about to drop a call
should imvu hone nnd muscle-forming
food instead of high feeding to prornoto
milk secretion.
Trees should always he set about aa
deep us they stood in the nursery, or two
or three inches deeper, to allow for the
settling of the earth.
Btock that is fed lightly and notgiven
much water for a day or two before
shipping will shrink less than if stuffed
to their full capacity.
The Americau apple appears to be
gaining great popularity across the ocean.
Htatistici show that 1,300,000 barrels of
this fruit were sent to England during
this season.
When you see little veins of butter
milk cropping out of the butter that
means a low price for your butter aud a
big price for groceries when you go to
“swap it off.”
If a merchant should sell his goods
without first knowing their cost, he
would soon go into bankruptcy. Farmers
are selling goods every day without
knowing their cost.
A good many industrious people make'
more than a living from ton acres of
land. Yet somo fail to do well Irons a
hundred. The difference must be the
man and his methods.
Bgirs ti)qt are keot On clover throuzt)
the summer will put on flesh very fast
whon thoy get new corn. Begin gradu
ally, and as sqpu as they are used to it
feed *11 they will eat.
the best way to determine Just what
crops are the most profitable is to ascer
tain exactly the cost of producing each.
This can be done by keeping a daily ac
count of labor and expenses.
RECIPE*.
Iced Cherries—Beloct large fresh cher
ries with tho stems'onraud dip them into
the whites of two eggs well beaton and
then Into powdered sugar. Lav tnem on
oiled paper until they ire dry, thou pile
them high iu a glass or silver dish.
Cheese Fritters— Bqat the white of an
egK only partly, then grate Into it as
much dry cheese as the egg will hold.
Make iuto round balls about thu size of
a good-sized butterball and roll in egg
and bread crumbs twice. Fry iu very
hot lard by putting your wire baskot in
and taking it out again as quickly as
possible.
Apple Pies—Mi* the crust with sour
croam lu each cup!ill of which a pinch
of pcarlash lias beon dissolved. Sprinklt
a little suit iu the flour, mix soft, nnd
roll of medium thickness. ^JEiU-wlth
good tart apples, sliced; add two table-
spoousfnl of molasses, a tiny pluch each
nf salt and nutmeg. Cover after cutting
holes in the top crust for the oscapo ol
steam.
Fish Cakes—Cold f'uh ot any kind;
stale bread well crumbled; oue otiioB;
sweet herbs, dried or fresli; cold pota
toes ; one or two eggs accor.Ung to (plan,
tlty of llsli aud potatoes used ; a little
good stock or milk; one-fourth of a
pound of drippiug. Procoas: Flake the
fish; or in other words, puli it to pieces
with a couple of forks, aud remove tlio
honest mash the potatoos, ii they lit
cold bailed potatoos aud not already
mashed; moisten them with the milk or
slock; add the fish, the herbs and tho
onions chopped very flue aud mixed weU
together. Beat up the egg nr eggs, and 1
udd it to tho mixture already made, form-
lng tlie mass into small cakes or balls.
Set tlio dripping over the fire in n frying
pan, and when baling put hi the eakqj
i ■■
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CHILDREN'S COLUMN*
A lUtNY WAV,
Rain, rain, go away; * •
I'liuibo's in despair.
■ knee a^alii another day .
When tho trees arc bare;
When tlie skies aro gloomy.
When the birds Lave flown,
When tliere’s not a blossmii
Tlie bee can call ills own;
When tlio leaves are flying
All about the lawn,
When tlie wind is sigblug
For tlie summer gone,—
That's the time for raining,
No matter how It pours.
And Phoebe then is quite content
To play all day Indoors.
—[10. L. Sylvestor, in St, Nicholas.
A LITTLE CHINESE GIRL.
Men, tlio daughter of tho (Jhlnoao
minister in 'Washington, Is a person
of much interest nt tlio national enpi.
tal. .She is only a your old and oaq
scarcely toddle. Chinose otiquettq
forbids tlio attaches of tho legation tg
reooguizo tho mlnisior’s wife und bUi
tor-in-law, even though thoy pita*)
thoso lndios on the stairs. But they
cxohnnge salutations with tho Infant.
Men’s name means “Beautiful Amori-
ca.” As yot her tiny foot aro nntrami
melloil, but whon she roachos tho agq
of throo years, tho bandaging which
[8 to restrict tholr size will bogill.—
[Boston Transcript.
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The Largest Bites Stake.
The largest glass globe ever made was;
that erected in the grand machinery
palace at the Paris Exhibition in 1889,
which at a height of forty feet contained
20,000 incandescent lights. The ma
chinery palace or hall was 1890 feet in
length 150 feet high, covered aa area of
60,000 square yards, and its roof had a
span of 870 feet clear. Another large
glass globe is the electric moon at thoj
Lick Observatory, on the top of Mount
Hamilton, twolve miles from San Jose,
the original capital of California. The
electric light which it contains is of 24,-
000 candle power. Glass can now be
manufactured iu pieces of very largo
size. Tbe Kokomo (Ind.) Glass Works
recently turned out a monster sheet of
perfectly transparent window-glas3 be
lieved to be tbo largest ever manufac
tured. It measured 145 feet by 195
inches and weighed 2000 pounds. If
this wero flint or crown glaBS tlio globe
into which tho glass was first blown
would have a diameter of fifty feet or
seventeen yards. But sheet glass is
blown into a cylindrical form and thoa
slit longitudinally and plate gloss Is
poured out in a molted state ou a table.
—Yankee Blade.
A QUEER I’ET.
Nod is just six, aud is nil authority
on pots, lie lias hnd auy number of
dogs, cals, a pot pony, and a family
of turtles have holpcd to destroy tlio
domostio peaco at Nod’s homo, but
now lie is very iudlireront to.all his
pets but one—and such a onol lie is,
a companion and confidant for hlqi
small mastor, and such a very digui-j
fled companion—so different from'
romping Carlo or frisky Fldo. TTjis
new pet is a toll and stataly roostor,
witli tlie most “boo’ful rod chlu." !
Did you over hoar of the pride of
tlie barnyard us a pet? Well, llmt L
exactly
witli his
door of the
, wheu the door is
j-ii*' with a troubled
, aikt''iiome>- [Now
Advertiser. - —
— SPARROWS.
Two kinds of uativo sparrows aro
to be mot with ovory day in tho gar
den—the song-sparrow and tlio chippy.;
Tho former is nearly as largo as thej
English sparrow, aud wears tho
spotted brown dress of his race; his
distinguishing mark being a splash of
biuck on the centre of his broast. His
cheery, distinct and ofl-repeatod song
is easily learned and one is quite like
ly to come upon his nost in May/filled i
with greenish spotted eggs and sunk
into a tuft of grass in tho orchard.
Tho chippy, however, is far moro
sociable. It comes long before the 1
buds havo fairly opeued, and waits,
about tlie doory ard until tho leaves are
out sufiicienlly to conceal its small,
hair-lined nest and spotted green
treasures hidden in tho lilao or rpo-
hush. Tlio chippy Is smaller than a
canary, 1ms a brown back, an ashen,.
unspotted breast, and a cap of chest
nut red. Ilis only song is a fiuo, flut
tering thrill.—[Detroit Free l’ross.
What I* Known About Fish.
Pliny, the great naturalist, who lived
•t about the time of Christ, reckoned
the whole number of known speoios of
fish at ninety-four. Linnaeus, tho great
Swedish investigator of tlio eighteenth
century, could classify 4S7, and lie is
known to have been the greatest ichfchy-
ologist of the ago in which ho lived.
The progress made in that particular
branch since the time of Linmeus scorns
all the more wonderful, for now, since
the expedition* of the Challengor ami
others, 13,000 species show up iu the
catalogues of the fish specialists I—St.
Louis Republic.
Valuahljs Holes.
A hole is it hard thiug to put into a
collection of minerals, but there are a
few holes in certain cabinets that ure
among the most prized of their contents.
It rajst be added, however, thut they
have enough surrounding material to
prove that they are Holes. They are
called fulgurites, and t Hey are made by
ligHtning. A thunderbolt striking into
a sand lieup or sandy soil is sometimes
hot euough to vitrify, or turn iuto glasa
the silicious matter that it penetrates,so
that you have a glass tube jus: as big
around as a lightning flash. The largest
of these, tubes known is about three feot
in diameter, but commonly they aro less
than au inch iu thickness. They have
been known to penetrate sand for a dis-
tans* ot thirty feet,—Minerals.
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STRANGE CREATURES.
Ono of tlio most unfortunate ani
mals in tho world is tho babakoto, or,
as grown-up people with lots of timo
lo sparo like to call him, Iudris
brovicandntuB. 1 call him unfortunate,
because he labors under tho disadvan
tage of rosembling n monkey without
tho chief joy of tlio monkey's life—
the ono that compensates tlio monkey
for Ids lack ol bounty—whioh is, in,
brief, tho ability to swing about ou
troos with liia tall. The reason why'
the babakoto cannot swing by his tail
is dial lie lias uo tail worth mentioning,
and it is no doubt due to this fact that
all tlio babakoto can do is to sit on a treo
and whimper and wail. If you wish to
see the babakoto ill tho full luxury of
liis woo, you must go to Madagascar,
whither he lias gone to live, to bo rid,;
no doubt, of tlio saucy upos of Central
Africa, who aro said to havo made
cutting and uncomplimentary remarks
about liis caudal shortcomings.
A letter from one of my correspond-,
outs tells mo of a kitten up in Maine,
that chews milk. It is a very singular,
tiling for a kitten to do, but, after all.
bow does it exceed in quoernoss tho.
habit of somo little girls I know wlio(
masticate their ioe oreara before swal
lowing it, instead of prolonging tho,
delight by letting it molt in their,
mouths, and trickle slowly and softly
down iuto their throats? —[Harper’S
Young Pooplc.
The great cathedral in tho City ot
Mexico is the largest in America and
cost nearly $a.QO0,QDO,