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YOL. I. FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1888. NO. 14. ' The public speaking during a Presi dential campaign costa about a million dollars. The Balloon Society of London have felven Professor Baldwin their approval, stating that his parachute will be useful ■for War balloons. Great Britain fa becoming more of a ' money lending than a shop keeping na tion. They are building fewer shops but are making more money bags. * The fastest train services in the world are in the United States. Next comes England, next France, next Germany. After that it is a scramble, with no choice. The six Kentucky counties of Harlan, Knott, Bell, Leslie, Lucy and Fletcher have no church within their limits, yet the State gives each year many thousand dollars to foreign missions. The South has gained 18,000 miles of railroad track within eight years, at a cost of $750,000,000. The increase of the crops, iron and other products of that section has been in equal propor. tion. Less than fifty years ago there was not a photographic camera in the world; to day there are 15,000 photographic es tablishments, to say nothing of the thousands of amateur outfits, in the United States. The Provincial Bank, of Bqpnos Avres, South America has a capital of $13,- 000,000 and $07,000,000 of deposits. It does more business than any American bank and more, even, than the Imperial Bank of Germany. The average price pa’d the averagt Iowa “schoolmam” by the year is $212.45. Presuming that her board and washing costs her about $3 por week and her clothing and incidentals $50 more, she will then have a surplus of $0.45 to 'build up, a bank account, which in twen years of hard work would amount to s little more than $120. The French police have received in 'Btructions to discovor the authors of an ingenious political trick, which consists coin* , pf Napoleon III. 'and substituting the name of "Boulanger d., Empereur, with the date 1888. So ■far the substitution has been confined to 'ten centime pieces, and has been treated as a political joke. Mormonism is spreading. The tribe at Salt Lake may be disintegrating, but (only for the benefit of other localities. IjFour hundred Mormon fnmiliies have (recently settled in Wyoming. Thou sands of Mormons have settled in Idaho. pThere are large Mormon colonics in Ari zona and Colorado. Nevada is so over run with them that it has been declared (the Mormons could soon secure control Jof the state if they should make a vigor ous effort. That foreign claim of a torpodo vessel (that can run for boursunder water is not 'a sound one, assorts the Cincinnati En- ^jiirer. It is simply a reproduction of a into American Experiment in the boat (called the “Peacemaker.” The sehemo twill never be a complete success until a (motor is discovered that needs no lire land makes no smoko. Compressed air jwas used by the “Peacemaker," but so little of that cau be carried that the campaign^ 1 must be very brief. Perhaps [some day some one will be able to so '“store" electricity as to solve the 'problem. The owner of some homing pigeons at Hamm, in Holland, bet that on a fine day twelve of his bees would beat a like dumber of carrier pigeons in making ’’ the distance (one hour! between Hamm And the town of Rhynern. Twelve pigeons and twelve bees (four drone9 and eight working bees, all powdered __ (with flour) were taken to Rhynern and •imullaneously set freo. A white drone /irrived home four seconds in advance of the first pigeon; the remaining three jdrones and the second pigeon arrived to gether, and the eight working bees pro ceeded the ten pigeons by a length. A letter has been received at the General Land Office in Washington from (Nebraska, whether a Chinaman who has been in this country twelve years, and has declared his intention of becomings (citizen, can make an original homestead (entry. An answer has been prepared stating that under section 21(11) of the ^Revised Statutes, a Chinaman can not (become a citizen, and therefore the [entry in question can not be made. It da atated at the Land Office that an ap plication, as has been published, has received from a Chinaman in to make a timber culture ftvoring THE MASTER AND THE REAPERS. .The master called to hfs reapers: “Make scythe and sickle keen, And bring mo the grain from the uplands, And the grass from the meadows green; And from off the mist-clad marshes. Where the salt waves fret and foam, Te shall gather the rustling sedges To furnish the harvest-home.” Then the laborers cried: “O master, We will bring thee the yellow grain That waves on the windy hillside, And the tender grass from the plain; But that which springs on the marshes Is dry and harsh and thin, Unlike the sweet Held grasses, So we will not gather it in.” But the master said: “O foolish! For many a woary day, ‘ Through storm and drought, ye have labored For the grain and tho fragrant hay. The generous earth is fruitful, And breezes of summer blow Where these, in the sun and the dew.a of heaven, Have ripened soft and slow. •But out on the wide bleak marshland Hath never a plow been set, And with rapine and rage of hungry waves The shivering soil is wet. There flower the pale green sedges, And the tides that ebb and flow, And the biting breath of the sea-wind, Are the only care they know. “They have drunken of bitter waters, Their food hath been sharp sea-sand, And yet they have yielded a harvest Unto the master's hand. So shall ye all, O reapers, Honor them now the more, And garner in gladness, with songs of praise, The grass from the desolate shore.” —Zoe Dana Underhill, in Harper. THE! "CAPTAIN'S PLOT. A STORY OF THE SEA. “God’s ways are full of mystery,” and no one realizes the truth of the quota tion more than the men who go down to sea in ships. My fifteenth birthday found me an orphan and a waif in the streets of New Orleans. I had runaway from a farmer in Illinois to whom I was bound, and by hook and crook had reached tho great town on the Father of Waters. I had been living a precarious life for a mouth when the proprietor of an oyster house gave me a job. It was part of my work to open the oysters con sumed in the place, and this portion was done in a.littlc room just in rear of some private stalls or compartments. The stalls fronted the public room, of course, and were intended for parties who de sired privacy while eating a stew or drinking a glass of wine. I could hear all that vyas said in, two of them, as the partitions were only cloth; but I had been in the place two weeks before any thing of interest was dropped from either. One evening while I was at work two men entered one of the stalls, devoured a stew, and drank some grog, and, after lighting cigars, entered upon a conversation which at once attracted my attention. “Well, have you got it all fixed?” asked one. “Everything ship-shape and under stood,” replied the other. “She is insured?” “Way up.” “And no suspicions?” “Not a one.” “We take machinery to Rio Janeiro?” “Yes. That and other stuff." “And bring back sugar and coffee?" “Yes, if we return.” “What do we get?” “Three thousand apiece." “Well, I don’t like it, but I’m in with you. She’s to go down off the Guinea coast, eh.” “Yes, down that way.” “Spring a leak and founder, and all hands take to tho boats, I suppose?” ' “That’s the plan." “Well, here’s success to it. The Al batross is a good old craft-, and I hate to see her go, but one must look out for himself.” “Aye! mate, that’s Gospel truth. That’s what you and me are going to do now. It’ll come from the rich insurance companies, and no one will bo tho poorer.” “And we can trust Williams to hand over our divvy ?” • “lie’s square. He’s got to be square." I was a green country boy, but I caught on to their talk. They were sail ors, and they were planning the loss of a ship to get the insurance. 1 rose up and found a hole in the cloth through which I could get a look at them. They talked a bit more and then went out, and within twelve hours one of the mysteries oc curred. A boy who had formerly worked for the restaurant, and who had fallen sick, recovered sufficiently to displace me, aud I was cast adrift again with only four bits in my purse. The next day nut one, as I cnteied a tavern on the lovee in hopes to find something to do, the proprietor gave me a cordial welcome, with a dinner, and at last got around to say: ' ‘Now, my boy, I feel like a father to you. I do indeed. You have had a hard time, and you havo been full o’ j pluck. I’m interested in seeing you do ' well, and have got a nice place for you. | My brother, who-is the best man in the i world, is a sea captain, and he wants a ' good boy to sail with him." “But I was never on a ship,” I pro- ■ tested. “Of course not, but that makes no j difference. You will have a nice little ' room to yourself, live like a prince, aud as for work, all you will have to do will ! bo to hand the Captain his spyglass when a ship romes in sight." j I had no dcsiro to go to sea. Indoed, ! I had a dread o.' it; but in half an hour 1 he had won me over, and that afternoon , I was sent off to the ship in company : with several sailors. In two hours after ! coming aboard she started down the 1 river on her trip, and it was only then that I got my eyes opened. There was such a hubbub aboard that I had not paid particular attention to officers or men, but all of a sudden I discovered that the captain and mate were the very two men I had seen and overheard in the oyster booth. Then I asked the name of the ship, and learned that it was the Albatross. I was greatly troubled, or would havo been if left to myself. We were hardly in tow of the tug before the first mate, whose name was McCoy, cams upon me with a rope’s end and a terrible curse, and exclaimed: “Now, then, stir your stumps or I’ll break every bone in your body. Did you come aboard to play young gentle man?” That was the beginning. I had been shipped, not as a cabin boy, for there was no place for one, but as a ship’s tainC'd, on a key or isle to the north ol Trinidad, and up to twelve years ago i< was down on the charts as “Little Coco." It was about three miles long by ons and a half wide, and fairly wooded There were various birds, troops o! monkeys, and numerous snakes, but no wild animals to put one in fear. I hn6 been landed in the little bay on the wes tern side of the island. I found a spring of water a quarter of a mile inland, with plenty of wild fruit all around me. and on the first night of my stay I slept ctn the open beach. It was three days be fore I fully realized my position and saw that I must depend entirely upon myself. When I walked clear around the island and across it, and I decide 1 that my best location was near where I had come ashore. Had I gone to the cast end of the island and raised a signal I should have been taken off in a week, as there HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. dog, a boy who must come and go at every- was a channel between that and the next body’s call, and who could be kicked island north mur-h used, but this I had and cuffed by everybody. According no means of knowing. When I found to tho novelist, ! should have found a myself the sole inhabitant, I made up my stanch friend in the fo’castle, a Jack mind that escape was impossible, anil Bolt or Ben Brace, who would take me that I was to live out my years ri^ht under his wing and offer to fight tho there. The Captain had called m° a whole ship in my behalf, but nothing of leper. I had never heard tho name before, the kind nappeued. Most of the crew j He had sent me ashore because I en- were Dagoes, and no one showed me the ' dangered the safety of the crew. While slightest pity. When we had been out j I suspected that this was a subterfuge, 1 four days I began to feel very anxious was not quite satisfied about it. If 1 about the safety of the ship. The plan was something to be shunned and afraid was, as I overheard it, to take to tho ; of, why should I desire to escape? If boats, and it suddenly occurred to me taken off I had no home to go to, no that they would refuse to take me with j friends to welcome me. I was lonesome them. I suppose I got this idea from and somewhat afraid here, but the men telling me that I was no good, and that I ought to be flung overboard, and other expressions intended to upset me. You can judge how green I was by what followed. I was in McCoy’s watch, and on the night of the fourth day, as he seemed to soften up a bit when giving me an order, I made bold to say: Mr. McCoy, when you get ready to have the ship go down, you won’t leave me to drown, will you? ’ “W—what?” he gasped, as he stag gered back like one shot. In ten minutes he had it all out of me, was, nevertheless, enjoying the novelty of the situation. I built me a rude shelter, wandered over the island, fished, set snares and captured parrots and monkeys, aud after the first week was quite content I had been on the island three weeks be fore the second mystery occurred. A peninsula or neck on the western end oi the island was composed of sand, and bare of tree or bush. It was about 300 feet long. There had bee a heavy blow from the south, with a big sea rolling in, and after this had lasted two days there was an unusually low tide. ’ I Beef for Roasting and Baking. "When roasts are cut large enough for more than six persons there is a portion at the ends of the ribs which always E roves a source of anxiety to the careful osekeeper. It is less tender and moie unevenly mixed with fat than the largs round muscle at the chine end, and is less favorably regarded by consumers; ths truest economy is to cut it off before cooking, to trim away all the superflu ous fat to fry out for drippings, and then corn, spice, or pickle the meat be fore cooking it, or stew it in a thick sauce until it is tender, or boil it—first removing the bones—and press it to use cold: or mike it into a pot-roast or pie. —Housekeeper. Necessities of the Boudoir. Every lady's room should be furnished with a clothes brush, a wisp broom, a hand brush, a sponge, a bottle of am monia, a vial each of alcohol and ben zine, also some cleaning fluid or erasive soap, to aid her in keeping her wardrobe in order. Another very necessary item in the care of clothing is meuding and repairing every article as it may need it. The time spent in so doing is well be stowed, for besides the pleasure it gives to always appear in whole, respectable garments, tho clothes will last twice as long. Every rip and rent in dresses, skirts or underclothes should receive at tention as soon as it occurs. The old- time adage, “A stitch in time saves nine,” is well to remember. Glove3 should be mended as soon as a rip ap pears in the fingers, and, if thin and worn in the hand, may be neatly darned or mended with a piece of an old glova of the same color. —Detroit Free Preu. and he stood before me pale-faced and caught sight of a timber heaved up ou trembling. When he had made sure ! the spit, and went out to inspect it, and that I had not said anything to any of : while surveying the banks which the the crew, he took me aft and locked me tide had uncovered I caught sight of up in a stateroom designed for the super-j some queer little boxes half buried in cargo. Next morning I was taken to the sand. I dug one out, to fiud it so the cabin and questioned by the Cap- ’ heavy that I could hardly drag it away, tain and mate and returned to my prison. . They were of wood, hooped with iron, They were not harsh with me, but on and ten or twelve inches long by eight the contrary, promised that I should go \ or lea inches high. I had little curiosity iu the Captain’s owii boat, and that I as to the contents, aud the idea that need not work any more. I was made they contained treasure never cross-d cabin boy, and was warned, that if I i my mind. I got out four before the tide dropped one single word to any person ‘ turned, and there were several more in 1 should be flung to the sharks at once, j sight. After I had them all together They could trust me. Simple Simon above high water, I began to wonder that I was, I cared only to save myself , whether they contained nails or bullets, when the hour eame. I could not real- j and set about breaking one open. When ize that the scuttling of a ship wa^ any- ' rows upon rows of silver coins greeted thing more than a sharp trick. For all my eyes I came near losing what little I knew, it was practised every day in sense I had. Two others contained silver, the year. y'the fourth one gold. It was English Ono day when we hud been out about money, every piece of it, and as I had two weeks, as near as I can remember, I ; never seen any before I was at a loss to was sent to help the second mate look ’estimate the value, for something wanted from the lazaretto. Before the discovery of that money 1 His name was Elderson, and he was the wanted nothiug but a pair of shoe-!, aud only one aboard who had a friendly look, the sight of a sail would not have affected He had spoken to me kindly two or mo. Now I was wild to get at the other three times, and I felt that he was a boxes, and my eyes were constantly friend. We were scarcely alone when searching the sea for sight of relief. I he took from his pocket a box of sulphur dragged the boxes to my house, and most matches, a fishline aud several hooks, of each day for the next week was spent and a large pocket knife. He handed on the neck in hopes of getting at more them to me and said: treasure. The water continued high, “Ben, take these and stow them away however, and I got nothing more. On in your pocket, and on your life say the eighth day after 1 got the treasure, nothing to any one I Be sure to keep and about thirty days after my landing, them about you.” the third mystery was revealed. At He turned from me as if he did not about 1! o'clock in the moaning, while the want to be questioned, and I pocketed tide was setting in strong, 1 observed a the articles without a word. I was in a ship’s boat dritting in from the south- state of wonder, however, and nothing east. It was not ten minutes after I saw was made plain until the next day. At her before she was cast on the beach, aud 10 o’clock in tho forenoon the ship was as she rolled over two bodies were flung hove to about a mile from a small island, out. To my amazement and horror I a boat ordered lowered, and then all recognized them as the bodies of the hands were called aft. When they had Captain and mate of the Albatross, assembled the Chaptain said: though it was more by the clothing than “Men, I discovered two days ago that by their features. It was plain at a glance this boy was a leper. He has got it bad, that they had died of exposure and and is to be pitied. My duty in tho want. There was neither food nor drink case is plain. He must be marooned." in the boat, and the bodies were little “Aye, aye, sir 1” chorused the crew. better than skeletons. It was the Cap- “I shall fit him out and set him ashore tain’s gig, and it seemed that these two here,” he continued, “and you are my got away alone. They must have drifted witnesses that it is a step necessary for bore and there for days, for there was the safety of all.” neither sail nor oar. There was a ready assent, and before I I was scooping out a grave for the fully understood what was going on I bodies when a turtle sloop rounded tho was in the boat with McCoy and being island and was in the cove before 1 ?aw pulled toward the island by two sailors, her. She had a crew of three men and a Even when I knew that I was to be left boy, and they had come for a stay of a I did not raise an objection. I supposed week ortwo.it being tho season when the island to be inhabited, perhaps there the turtles came ashore to lay their eggs, was a city there, and I was not sorry for They were not from tho mainland, but the change. We ran in so close that I from a larger island to the north, and could wade ashore, and the mate handed were native West Indians. The Captain me several bundles which the men sup- spoke English fairly well, and I gave posed contained food, clothing and con- him a full explanation, even to the fiud- viences. As soon as I had everything iug of the treasure. They could have out of the boat the three gave nie a curt knocked me ou the head and safely good-by, and I sat down on the sand and taken all, but they did not do it. The watched them return. The boat was Captain looked over my money, aud said hoisted up, tho Albatross made sail, aud I had about $23,000, and it was agreed I was marooned upon nn uninhabited that; in repayment for a passage to island This fact was not fully realized l’orto Kico 1 was to suriender all rights until toward night, and I was so simple to the ship’s boat. In four days those that it was several hours before I had poor turtle catchers, uone of whom had figured it out why I had been set a«hore. ever had $50 at once, took $50,000 out of I was in possession of the plot to scuttle the sands. There were more boxes left, the ship, and I must be got rid of. The or it was so believed, but they required captain had called me a leper to justify other outfit, to secure them. 1 was not his action with the crow, and it was only landed in Porto Rico, as agreed,but planned that I should not live long, told how to tako care of my money, ashore. When I came to undo tho bun- most of which was exchanged for paper, dies I found them to bo composed of and my passage ou a sailing vessel bound empty bottles, oakum and bits of can- for New Orleans was secured, vass. There was not a particle of food I did not go near the owners of the —not an at tide of clothiug—nothing Albatross. 8he had been reported lost, but rubbish. It was then I realized the with all ou board, and to this day not kindno s of the second mate. He must one of the crew has been heard of. I have ovorheard them plotting to maroon could have goue to tho authorities with me, and he went as far as it was safe for mv story, but who would have believed him to go. it? Those who had plotted against me When, at about noon, I rose up and had been overcome, aud I had sprung understood mv position, I felt that tho from poverty to wealth at a bound. And first thing to do was to explore my island, so I repeat: “God’s ways are fuller lam writing of the year 1352. At that j mystery.”—Fete York Sun. time many of the islands in the Carib-! bean Sea had not been charted oi j The thief who finds no opportunity to named. I was, ns I afterward aseor-j steal, considers himself an honest man. Purification of Yeast. The Dreicer's Guardian says that a new method of purifying yeast has been sug gested, and that it has already been adopted by some of the Continental manufacturers. The yeast is added to a dilute solution r, f sugar, and ihe result ing mixture is subjected to the action ol a centrifugal separator. By this meant the living cells are effectually divided from the dead cells and the bacteria; the pure yeast leaving the machine in a concentrated condition, while the dead cells and the bacter a remain in the liquid. It is said that the process is sc perfect that nothing but healthy cell* are to be found in the separated yeast, and that the purified article possesses such remarkable germinating power that a glass which is one quarter filled with it will overflow in the course of an hour. —Scientific American. Laundering Table Linen. Table cloths and napkins should be carefully loo ;ed over before being placed in the washtub. and if any fruit or cof fee stains are found, they can be removed by stretching the stained cloth over a pail or basin and pouring boiling watei through it. The stains will quickly dis appear. Make :-ure that your table linen is wed washed and thoroughly rinsed. 11 is nicer without either sta ch or bluing. When preparing for ironing, it should be made quite damp. A hot iron will bring out the pattern nicely, and rendei the linen sufficiently stiff. In tablecloths, but two f< Ids are admissible at present—a crease through the center lengthwise, the other through the center crosswise. Thetlothsarc double! loosely, or, bet ter, rolied so as to allow them to be placed in drawers, and not produce any additional creases. Fringed napkins are quickly, easily, and rery nicely ironed, in the following manner: Alter they have been thorough ly dampened, p ie up. say half a-dozen, evenly, gather up one side of the nap kins in the hand, and strike the fringe on the opposite side against the edge of the ironing table. A few strokes will separate it beautifully. Serve all sides thus. Then place the napkins on the ironing table perfectly stra ; ght, and do not pass the iron over the fringe.—Prai rie Farmer. Recipes. Rice Pudding.—One cup of boiled rice, one half-teaspoon of salt, one cup of sugnr, four eggs, one quart of milk; bake in a moderate oven two hours. Buttermilk Pudding.—Two .giarti buttermilk, one coffee cup sugar, heap ing tablespoon of butter, three table spoons flour, four eggs beaten separately, flavor to taAe; bake until the custard is set- Potatoes with Cream Sauce.—Cut cold boiled potatoes into dice, place them in a baking pan, cover with cream sauce, sprinkle the top lightly with bread crumbs', and bake in a moderate oven about twenty minutes uutil brown. Bread Pancake.—Take the crust of italo bread: mix thoroughly with enough sweet milk to make a thin batter; add two.or three eggs, well beaten, aud a small cup of flour, with a teaspoonful ol baking powder aud a little salt. Bake ou a hot and well-greased griddle. Auui.ePreserves.—Peel and quarter Ihe apples,dry iusun nearly all day, then dtop in boiling weak alum water; let stay in two minutes, not longer. For every pound of fruit use one of sugar. Proceed as you do with fig or peach preserves. Flavor with ginger. Old Fashioned Virginia Corn Pud ding.—Half a dozen ears green corn: split the grains and cut from the cob. Beat up au egg and add to the above; then add one-half pint of milk; on« tablespoonful melted butter; one salt- spoonful salt; a pinch of pepper. Put into a baking dish and bake half an hour. Chicken Broth.—Cut up a chicken into small pieces and break the bones. Cover it with cold water aud put where it will simmer for three hours. If it Bhould boil too fast and the water boil away, add more. Season to taste. A few stalks of calory may be boiled with il If desired and rice added if it is allowed. A FRONTIER SKETCHY Just a cabin in a "clearing," A wild rose clambering o’er, And a woman with a baby Standing in the cabin door. In the field a man is ploughing, And whistling as he goes, While the woman and the baby Are counting all the rows. And the forest stands around them, The sky is spread above, And everywhere is written, The mystery of Leva Tis a Mbme that Love is planting Where strong, young life 3hail grow, Would I had the artist’s power, That simple home to show. 1 would paint the lights and shadow Of that young face so fair; I’d copy aU the poesy , “Baby” bad written there. Fd paint the wondrous symbol* That baby fingers trace Upon the father’s cheek and brow, The love-illumin' d face. The promise BDd the mystery Enfolding baby life, And Love's divine fulfillment, In wedded man and wife. Just a cabin in a "clearing," And a wild rose clambering o’er, And a woman with a baby Standing In the cabin door. But Love is reaching downward To lighten toil and care, And Love, on swift wings mounting. Heavenward those hearts doth near —M. W. Dorsey, in Alercury PITH AiND POLYT. A shipbuilder should know the hull business. A double tenement house is apt to be rent in twain. A broken eyeglass may be called a wofo.1 spectacle. A high old tiige—The ancient clock in a church steeple. Bicyclists are allowed the privilege of pedaling without a license. Convicts are the only persons who do not believe in their convictions. As a rule orchestra leaders are moral heroes.- They all face the music. It seems queer that the “hold” of a shi p is not used to anchor her with. A cordage store would make an ex cellent place in which to learn the rope3. Keep an eye upon the children. Kid napers sometimes go abroad to take the heir. Queer that the base ballist who makes the fewest errors has the rf-o o-o-otiest record. Taken as a whole, the Indians, al though illiterate are the best red race in the world. The Chinese farmers often gain. Arid very rarely lose. Because they never fail to mind Their peas and queues. Do-ar, “Are you engaged to Miss Eeiat?” “No, not exactly. ~ But when I asked for her hand she gave me the refusal of it.” We have it from a reliable source that it has been called tho “pail moon” ever since the cow kicked over it.—State* man. Mrs. Jones—“Don’t trouble to see me to the door, Airs. Smith.” Mrs. Smith— “No trouble; quite a pleasure, I assure you.” “Where have you been for a week back,Braunigan?” “Been to the hospital, sorr. But how did yes know Ui had a weak ba. k, sorr?”—Life. Marc Anthony must have been ter ribly down on umpires when he ex claimed: “Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts.”—Detroit Free Pres*. “Mother may I go out to popi” “Yes, ray darling daughter, Tf you fat IHhis year you must shut up shop, You've kept longer than you’d orter.” Sifting*. Cutting—(Uncle takes Tommy to the barber to have his hair cut). Bar ber— “Well, Tommy, how do you want your hair cut?" Tommy—“Oh, short, please, with a hole in the middle, like uncle's!”—Fun. It is related of a British Museum offi cer, who was tired to death by the ques tions put by the visit' “ ,T Dubtic, that he burst out one ■ ”’er to the query, “Why ia the iiiiut&A' closed?" with the remark: “Because one f the mummies is dead and the officers are at tending the funeral.” The Baby’s Savings. A little girl presented herself at the counter of the Dime Savings llmk and handed a bank book to Mr. Woolfeuden, the geuiel cash’er. She was a little thing, and hardly reached to the wiudow iu stature. Her small face wore a grave look, and tears stood in her wistful blue oyes. “It’s baby’s book,” she said with a tremor iu her voice, “and baby is— dead.” “My dear child,” said Mr. Woolfen- den, gently, “what do you wish me to do with the bookt” “Why, sir,” said the little one, “it’t i no good to baby now—she don’t want it j —aud mamma thought maybe you could ! make it over to me tor little sister.” So a new book was made out, and the : small savings of a baby’s lifetime were i transferred to it, and the Utile maid whose first business transaction was so sad a one went away satisfied that she I had done -the best she could with the baby's savings.—Detroit Ftee Press. ! Tho long drouth in England has been . followed byaseasou of profuse rains, and uow there is too much wetness as i there was before too much dryness.