YOL. I.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1888.
NO. 16.
5S
Lessops says ton locks of (ho Pana
da Canal will bo completed by 1800.
More and more influential aro becom
ing the representatives of Southern cap
ital at the North, asserts Harper's Weekly,
though this growth has not yet attracted
the attention it challenges.
The horse breeders of Montana want a
a separate fund for the prosecution of
thieves and the stamping out of glanders.
The tax they are now required to pay is
used largely for the protection of the
cattle interests.
The United States Agricultural De
partment is organizing five new experi
mental stations for the study of sorghum
and its manipulation—three in K ansas,
one in New Jersey and one in Louisiana.
The appropriation for this work this
year is one hundred thousand dollars
larger than it has ever been before.
Signor Brin, Italian Minister of Mn-
riue, at a dinner given by his electors,
said that the navy, which in 188(1 was
valued at $30,000,000, is now valued at
$70,000,000. The recent manoeuvres boro
testimony to the fact that a large poition
of the fleet could be manned without
recourse to unusul recruiting measures.
The progress made in naval affairs was
very satisfactory, considering that Italy
did not aim at an aggressive policy.
Kaiser Wilhelm’s hatred of the French
has allected even the kitchen. The -fir
man Emperor has issued commands that
henceforth the menus of the Imperial
table be printed in the German language
instead of that of the detested Gaul.
Nay, he litis even gone so far as to pro
hibit the use of the word “menu,” and
to order that of “Speisekarto” to be
substituted in its stead. The Berlin
press is reported to have expressed the
liveliest satisfaction at this ficsh instance
of the young Emperor’s patriotism.
The last number of the Prison Mirror
contains a strong and well w:itten pro
test against the recent conviction to im
prisonment for life in Kentucky of a
boy eleven years old. The writer takes
the ground that such a child, though a
murderer, is a lit Subject for some sort
of a reformatory or educational institu
tion. The Prism Mirror is a neat and
readable little sheet, edited entirely by
the convicts of the prison in Stillwater,
Minn. It contains nearly altogether
original matter. It has just changed its
chief editor, the former incumbent, a
life prisoner, having been pardoned.
The Berthon cnnva3 folding boat is
likely to be adopted for u-e in the Uniied
States navy. It has been tried and the
reports upon the trial are favorable to
the adoption of the boat. It cousists of
a frame similar to the keel and libs of
a boat, over which is drawn a double
thickness of water-proof canvas. The
frame is hinged along the keel. When
the thwarts are taken out the sides co no
together, and but little additional space
is required for their storage. They can
be readily adjusted and rapidly placed
in the water. It is not a lifeboat, but
besides occupying small space ou board
a vessel, it can bo easily launched, and
when in tho water will carry thirty-seven
men.
“There is one thing observable in St.
I.ouis," says a keen observer, in the
Olobc-Demo rat, “and that is the dispo
sition of citizens born in foreign lands
who understand the English language to
teach that language to their children to.
the-exclusiou of their own language.
There are hundreds of German and
Italian families in St. Louis whose
children are ignorant of the language of
their parents’ country, but who can
speak English fluently. While the old
English stock will be eradicated and ad
sorbed by other nationalities in the
United States in the not distant future,
the English language will, therefore,
forever remain the language of the
country. ”
A new use is announced for strych
nine. The Russian physician and pub
licist, Portugaloff, declares that strych
nine in subcutaneous injections is an
immediate and infailiblo remedy for
drunkenness. The craving of tho ine
briate for drink is said to bo changed
into positive aversion in a day, and that
after a treatment of eight or ten days the
patient may be discharged. Even should
the appetite return months afterward,
the attempt to resume drinking will, it
is claimed, produce such a painful and
nauseating sensation that the person will
turn away from the liquor in disgust.
The strychnine is administered by dis
solving one grain in 5100 drops of water,
sg five drops of the solution
Jty-four hours. Dr. Portugn-
ids tho establishment of
tmsariea in connection with
UNFORGOTTEN. i
Hard Is the truth to comprehend
When life is throbbing in our veins—
Warm life, whoso pleasures and whose pains
Seem equally without an oud—
That soon, perhaps, and certainly
We who are quick the dead shall be.
And that more bitter truths, alas,
How hard it is to realize,
That when we pass from living eyos,
Need nnd desire for us shall pass;
Our place be filled, our memories ser
Only tho echoes of a dream!
Better—the wiso say—while we tread
Life’s busy ways, to find death’s wrong
Less grievous whon the grass is long
Above a once beloved head:
Too short is time for vain regret,
Aud they are happiest that forget.
But oh, my lost one, doubly dear
Since death has claimed you, in my heart
There is a chamber set apart
For you, only. Have no fear. •
Life shrines your precious memory,
And death will give you back to mo.
—Mary Bradley, in Youth's Companion
“I pray it may not ho as you fear, and [ out into the now clear and tranquil night
we must hurry along as rapidly as pos- ' and mounting a horse rode away at a
sible. You know the shortest way ?” dangerous speed. His absence was brief
“Yes,” with painful utterance. ' but even as he again entered the physi-
“Wait yet a moment,” he said aloud cians wore holding the sometimes casing,
and then, mentally “the chance is des-! the now-destined to be fatal anesthetic
perate and dangerous. My life maybe for the stricken girl to breathe,
the forfeit, but I cannot see one so young Hastening to the side of the bed the
and fair die the most fearful of deaths stranger almost rudely pushed the men
without risking it to save—at least re- of medicine aside and exclaimed in a
lieveher.” j voice commanding, though intensely
Trained in tho school ho had been, | permeated with emotion:
familiar with toxicology, especially the “Cease? Why would you commit
venom of serpents, none knew better even professional murder when the poor
than he the dangerous task he waB about child may be saved? Stand back aud
to undertake. A single abrasion of mouth give me room.”
or tongue, a carious tooth through which They looked upon him as a madman
poison could be absorbed, would be as and would have laid violent hands upon
fatal and a more sudden death than bul- and thrust him out, but the distracted
let or knife. Yet there was nothing of mother flung herself upon her knees and
hesitation after the first shuddering nt his feet, and, as one clinging to a
thought. Wiping away the bloody ooze straw when sinking for the last time,
from the almost invisible punctured begged him to save the li fe of her child,
wounds he applied his lips to them one “J w in, ( ; 0 d helping me,” heanswered
after another and sucked out the poison. ! firmly and positively. “Human means,
freeing his mouth from time to time, and seconded by the prayer of faith, can ac-
not desisting uutil as<ur d the work was cemplish great results.”
thoroughly done—that he could do no R e took a little package from his
more. Then, and without giving heed packet. When the wrappings had been
to the faintly whispered th inks, he put removed there was exposed to view a
WORDS OF WISDOM.
THE MADSTONE.
BV WILLIAM H. BU8HNELL.
“Mind how you go pokin’ round ’mong
tlier rocks and bushes, or you’ll come to
yer death,” was the impressive warning
of an old “Cracker” woman from whom
Paul Myratt had obtained sheilor the
previous night, and as he was about to
resume his journey.
An employe of (he Smithsonian, cx-
perienci d and fearless, though still
young, he was exploring the mountain
regions of North Caro.iua in search of
novelties in geology, fauna and flpra, and
smilingly questioned in return:
“In what shape, my kind friend?”
“Waal, ther mountinns, ’speeerly ther
out-of-ther-way spots, am jest erlive with
rattlesnakes and pilots, and ther bite am
always more deadly at this time o’ ther
year than any other.”
“\es, I know that is the popular belief
with regai d to August, though very much
to be qnestioned. Blind? When the
skin they arc shedding is over their eyes,
not otherwise, I fancy. But have no
fears about me. I am accustomed to
them, and shall not be deterred from
adding a few rattles to my collection if
chance oilers for large ones.”
“Thar be plenty on ’em monstr’ns—
jest monstr’ns,” was answered with a
shudder, for a long life in the locality had
not in the least diminished her fear.
Bidding his kind friend farewell,Paul
Yyratt took a little path that led still
deeper into the mountains. But he did
not neglect the warning, and cut a stout
a s li Hta:i, though having much greater
faith iu its weight and toughness than
any power of its peculiar hypnotism as
applied to any-species of the Cratalus
horridus.
Easily killed were the few he chanced
upon, for the stories of numbers found
are much larger than the reality, and he
sauntered carelessly along, knocking oil
a fragment of rock, picking a flower,
watching the birds or listening to their
song until the westerning of the suu
gave warning of the nearness of night.
“Not a very enticing spot to cam]),”
he mused, as lie looked over the rocky
surroundings, the multiplicity of dark,
wide seams and cavernous openings,
most unquestionably the homes of scaly
enemies of mankind. “Ah, a town
within easy truvel. That is favorable
and timely, and—I was not mistaken—
there are mutterings of thunder in the
distance and the wind and clouds indi
cate a storm.”
Caiefully noting the direction, he
gathered up his buudle of traveling con
veniences and started. Soon he reached
a bold bluff, and was compelled to travel
along its brink until he could discover
some path that permitted descent. But
suddenly and fearfully his footsteps were
arrested, first by the sight of an easel, a
girl sketching, witli her long brown
hair, of tho peculiar shade that readily
melts into gold, floating uncovered, aud
then by the fearful vision of an immense
rattlesnake that had crawled from an
oponing undiscovered to near her feet,
aud was coiled for its deadly stroke!
He shouted in warning, but his voice
was lost in the reverberating echoes; he
detached and threw a fragment of rock,
but it fell short of its destined mark and
dropped into a yawning chasm; he ran
with all his swiftness, but the distance
was much too great for him to cover in
time to save the unconscious girl from
the poisonous fangs. For one stroke of
his stout stall he would have giveu all
of his earthly possessions; now it was
as useless to him ns the tree from which
it had been severed.
He saw the snake strike, its efforts to
get loose when the curved teeth became
entangled in the dress, the white hand
fall, as to brush away some unknown
intruder, saw it bitten—that and tho
arm again and again—and then, as the
girl realized the horror of hor situation,
heard the most agonizing screams.
A little later (though it seemed to tho
young naturalist as tho lapsing of hours)
he reached the spot of the terrible com
bat, disabled the loathsome and furious
reptile with a single blow, flung it far
away, and raised the fainting girl in his
arms. Whiter than a lily and as help
less as a crushed one, she lay there, with
her lips tiembling with sobs, bosom
heaving convulsively and eyes fixed
upon him with the most pleading appeal
lor help.
“My God:” he groaned as he inter
preted hor wishes, “I am utterly with
out the means to aid you. Even the
customary antidotes I recklessly flung
away as a useless burden. Now I would
give my life for them. But have cour
age! We can surely reach tho village in
time to save your life, though not you
from suffering. Is it very far?”
“No,” was nnswered with contracted
throat ana husky voice—“no, but death
is much nearer, and I shall never see
father or mother again.”
his aim around tho girl and hurried her
forward.
But not long could she direct the way
to travel, not long could her limbs sus
tain her. Another terror came to break
down the little remaining nerve and
stiengtii, and she faltered, reeled and
small, dark-grayish something, scarcely
more than an inch long and less in width
and thickness.
“The madstonc 1 The madstone 1” burst
from many lips. “Now may heaven be
thanked.”
“Be silent,” sternly commanded the
feil. She had gone through as much of stranger, 4 “and control yourselves, wliat-
mental and physical suflering as nature", ever comes.”
would endure—had gone as far as she
could.
With the rain descending as if the
windows of heaven had been flung wide
open nnd a second flood came to earth,
with the thunder rolling and crashing
above their heads and shaking the solid
rocks beneath their feet, with the light
ning flashing and blinding, she lay
scarcely able to move hand or foot Tor
self preservation. But no fear of rattle
snakes then. Before the terrible ma jesty
of the elemental war even they had tied
terrified to the lowest depths of their
noisome dens and cowered in such fear
as instinct gives—instinct that in many
cases is twin brother of reason.
Though despairing of saving the fleet
ing life, yet driven nearly frantic by be
ing alone with the girl in the now dense
darkness and now blinding glare, Myratt
lifted her again in his strong arms and
dushed forward. Guided by the 1 gilts
of tiie village he proceeded, whispering
hope he did not feel, receiving moaning
whispors for a time and then uo recog
nition.
The girl was beyond speech! lie saw
by the names of lightning that the bit
ten hand and arm had swollen to an itn-
“Aud my child, my darling child, will
live!” exclaimed the almost exhausted
mother.
“. he is in the hands of the Great
Physician,” was answered, reverently.
“By mysterious ways now, as in the olden
time, He can heal and raise the dead, ll
such be His holy will.”
The followers of EEsculapius looked on
wish scor ful eyes and curling lips, and
the young naturalist with nbs 'Thing
interest, as the stone was applied to the
bite of the serpent. Neither had ever
seen one of tee almost fabulous articles
before, and doubted its reputed power.
For a moment it, was held 1 ghtly on the
swollen and discolored flesh, then it
clung firmly and pressed deeply of its
own volition, and screams, prolonged
and of indescribable agony, burst from
the ashy and purple lips of the girl.
‘'It adheres—is sucking out the poison !
Watcii how it change- color, 1 ' said the
stranger, with wonderful self control.
There was no denying the fact. The
dull, blackish gray rapidly gave place to
green that deepened and brightened until
the stone loosened its hold and fell into
the-awaiting hand. It was placed in
warm water to di-gorge and again up -
mense size, that upon the delicate flesh plied, its power evidently less than at
were reproduced the spoti of the serpent,
felt that the beating of the heart was
growing fainter and fainter, that the hot
breath was becoming less and less, knew
that in a little time he would fie carry
ing a corpse, beautiful but an hour be
fore, then loathsome, discolored and
hideous beyond the conception of those
who have never seen such a death.
Straining every nerve, paniing from
speed and worn with his burden, Myratt
still kept on, reached the path that led
down to the village, and was about to
descend when he was met by a party
anxiously searching for the lost girl.
“Bitten by a rattlesnake? Dying or
dead? Stained and spitted with the
horrible leprosy of the serpent poison?
Oh, my God! it is terrible groaned the
poor father as tho insensible form was
placed within his arms and the fearful
tale told.
But the grief was ns nothing to the
wild, agonized sobbing and shrieking of
the loving mother when she saw her dar
ling brought in and laid upon a bed as
hideous nnd repulsive as she had last
seen her bright aud beautiful.
I hysicinns came, but their experience
and wisdom availed little. The poison ’ had pronounced her cured front the virus
had spread rapidly, been strongly inaor- of tho deadly mountain rattle-snake,
j porated with the circulation, the action pronounced fier and lnul My ratt man
| of the heart paralyzed until it had almost; and wife, .-he would have n;> other. As
ceased to beat. Ammonia, iodine, every- they entered the home prepared for
.thing to he thought of as antidote, them and became hidden to tin-eves of
hydratic and palliative medicine were the public, she whispered to him uimn
tried without giving relief. The hideous whoso arm she would can lovinglv for
spots grew larger and more distinct : ]if e:
sinuous, twisting, creeping motionstook j “Paul, deaiest, all honor to the mad-
; the place of natural ones and hand and stone, all glorv to the high power that
limb became more swollen. The suffer- gave its wonderful charm', ali thanks to
ings of the stricken girl beenme so terri- the man that used it, who has given you
hie ns to cause several to bo carried to me; but in my heart 1 know it was to
fainting from the room, others to turn your lips I owe my life most of all. It
ghastly pale, grow sick and eagerly rush was you who sucked the poison from
into ihe outer air. . my veins, and”—
“Can nothing be done? Oh, my poor, j “Your lips, darling, shall ever repay ■
dear child.” sobbed tho heart-broken nio with their sweetness—as they do
mother, still clinging to the writhing now.” Mircury.
form, still clinging to the hope long given
firsr, its green" less pronounced, until it
absolutely refused to attach itself to the
skin—had lo3t all its adhesive power.
From the first touch the screams of the
girl had diminished, grown fainter and
fainter, then entirely ceased, and when
the madstone in its silent way told that
its mission had been accom:dished she
had sunk into a sound and healthy
slumber.
“She will awakecured, will live,” su'd
the stranger, "i eave her now to the
rest she needs, and morning and even
ing praise Him whose mysteries are past
finding out, the God of mercy, pity and
love.”
“And you?" was questioned, amid the
tearful blessings of father aud mother.
“A humble servant of the ( hrist cru-
crified, the Redeemer and Bavioir. lie
guided my wandering footsteps hither;
He caused me to have knowledge of the
whereabouts of this wonderful stone. I
am but a simple instrument iu hi- mighty
hand.”
* * * * * *
A year later a young, blushing, and
happy bride stood at the altar of a
orthern chunlt. The sane iips that
Deal with the fortunate.
Silence is the fence around wisdom.
No man is impatient with his cred
itors.
The amenities of life make tho truo
beauty of living.
Life is a continual routine whatcvei
guise it assumes.
A smile through tears is the soul’s
rainbow of peace.
The simple faith of a little child is the
world’s truest homage.
Good breeding is like affection —one
cannot have too much of it.
Dreams are oGtimes the fulfilment of
a prophecy within ourselves,
The power of forgiveness i3 the no
blest astributein the human character.
To he autocratic is to be unjust to
ourselves. No man is “sufficient unto
himself.”
Despair and happiness are so c’osely
linked that each is riven by the wealth
of the other.
Getting up in the morning is like get
ting up in the world. You < an not do
either without more or less self-denial.
Where a dam is weakened the water
flows more freely—so a great flow of
words may be the result of mental weak
ness.
It is a curious fact that man will
condemn all the faults in others and ex
cuse whatever habits he may possess
himself.
With many, life is like a kettle of sap
in maple sugar time, each bubble trying
to swell up higher than the other, until
it bursts.
Fools may say wise things, but they
do not profit by them—so wise men may
sometimes err. In either case the nature
is not changed.
Theories may be beautiful, they may
contain some truth, but experience
knows all their romance on one side,
and brings them to a test of their real
value.
The Aquatic Spider and Its Diving-
Bell.
While their nearly constant abode is
the water, they are, like most other
spiders, air breataers: consequently they
need some special provision tor provid
ing themselves with air while living
under the water, and for this purpose
they possess the art of constructing a
kind of dving-bell. It is an intere-tiug
sight to witness one of them ma ing h.s
air-cell, v ling.ng to the lower side of a
few leaves, and securing them in posit.on
by spinning a few threads, the spider
rises to the level of the fitter, with its
belly 'uppermost, and, doubling up its
hind-legs, retains a stratum of air
among the hairs with which its body is
covered. Then it plunges nto the water
and appears as in the first stage of the
making of its silvery robe, (.oing im
mediately to the spot it had chosen, it
brushes its body with its paw-, wh n
the air detaches itself and forms a bub
ble under the leaf. The spider sur
rounds this bubble with the impermeable
silky matter furnished with its spinners.
Returning to the surface, it takes in an
other layer of air, which it carries down
aud adds to the first one, also extending
thecnvelopeover it The process is kept
up till the “diving-bell” has reached the
proper size and is finished. The ideal
foim of the construction is that of a
thimble, but it often assumes an ir
regular shape, like an inverted sack.
When the spider has taken possession of
its redoubt it lemains quiet in it, head
down, watching for the appearance of
an insect. Perceiving it, it seizes it and
< returns to its lodge, which ii has secured
against intruders by sp.lining threads
across it, to devour its prey at its leisure.
—Popular Science Montniy.
up by all others,
“Nothing,” came answered back from
the firmly compressed lips of the physi
cian-in-chief. “We have exhausted all
our knowledge, all out skill, but—”
lie motioned to his associates, drew
Explaining A “Shower of Blood.’’
Superstition has in all ages boon the
fertile source of direful misfortunes about
to befall the human race. It often
creates oh e ts of terror out of the most
them aside and a whispered consultation harmless natural phenomena. The so-
was held. “Chloroform” was the only called showers of blood have occurred in
word that reached the strained, ears of many countries aud in all ages of which
1 aul Myratt, but it was enough. lie we have any knowledge, and while the
knew but too well what it portended; ignorant ami superstitious have always
that they were discussing the propriety regarded them as tho precursors cf some
of easing hor terrible sufferings and free- d.refill calamity, naturalists know from
ing her pure soil from the rotting clay whence they come, and that they are
by a long, deep an .sthetic slumber, by really harmless. That in most cases
one that would never be broken in this these showers aro merely the excrement
world. of butterflies when on the wing is now
It was so decided, and while one of well known, and one of the earliest oi
their number was absent procuring tho recorded phenomena of this kind oc-
poworful chemical combination they cured in 1m”, for Sleidau relates that a
again gathered around their patient nnd vast multitude of butterflies swarmed
watched the spasms of pain, the horrible thiough a-great part of Germany, and
writhings and contortions, with profes sprinkled plants, leaves, buildings,
sional interest, though not with tearless clothes, and men with blood drops, as if
eyes. Other than human would they it had rained blood. Another similar
have been could they have done so. shower is described by Keaumoa in the
In the midst of the stillness that was beginning of July 1008, in the suburbs
worse than that of death, a silence to Aix, "'hen ad the country about was
which sound would come as tho falling covered with what appeared to be blood,
of clods upon the coilin lid, a stranger Similar showers are likely to occur wlier-
entered. So wild with excitement was ever butterflies emerge in great numbers
the town that no one could escape hear- ,l tim® from their pupa) state, for this
ing of the accident. In the great sorrow , reddsh t uid ii usually discharged soon
his presence was unnoticed. For a after ihey take to their wiugs in flight,
■ingle instant be remained, then went | — Wcu IV* Sun.
Fopnlarlty of the Spanish Onion.
A few years since .’>000 crates of
Spanish onions were shipped from i-pain
to D. Wegman, of New Fork, says the
Sun, wli .i ;ound it almost impossible to
dispose of them at a profit. The other
afternoon the same gentleman re> eived
10,000 crates of these delicately flavored
onions “that shine tti ail their fatues-i
like Spanish friars,” and about the same
number of packages are on thair way
from Spain to this pott. Each crate
contains about fifty pounds and the job
bing price varies from .Vito 7-> cents
per crate. Gome physicians claim, that
a raw Spanish on.on eaten every morn
ing for a in nth will check if not per
manently cure almost any kidney trouble.
They are said to be very efficacious in
cases of worms in children, and no epi
cure can deny that they are most appe
tizing in a salad. It is a pity they can
not be raised in this country. American
hot-house gardeners have tried to culti
vate them, but they degenerate into a
most insignificant variety of onion. Yet
the very seeds of the degenerated onion
planted in its native country will pro
duce an onion equal to the origiual.
An Arctic Railroad.
An important engineering enterprise
now in progress is a railroad in the Arc
tic circle. The Swedish and Norwegian
railroad now building from l.ulea, on
the Gulf of Bothnia to Lofoten, ou the
North Sea, is partly situated within the
Arctic circle, and is some 1 fluff miles
further north than auy taiiroad in (flan-
ada. An interesting meteorological
fact stated in relation to this work is
that the snowfall is found to he actually
less than in some more southern lati
tudes, while the darkness of the long
winter nights has beeu partly compen
sated by the light of the aurora. Tho
object in view iu constructing this lino
is to tap the enormous deposits of iron
ore in tho Gollivara Mountains, the ap-
E roximate exhaustion of the ore in the
iilboa district rendering very desirable
a new field of non-phosphorio ore suit
able for steel mil making.—Xew Turk
Qtatf
THE PROUDLADYOOMb
Away from the noise and clatter,
The din of the busy street,
Is a cabaret, shaded and silent,
Where at evening we often tneefc
She is a proud, rich lady,
Beautiful, wealthy and grand,
And society’s legions marshal
At the wave of her jeweled hand.
Yet far from tho glamor and glitter,
From revel and rout and ball,
Bhe seeks her old companion.
When the evening shallow* fall
I read in her eyes of aznre
A welcome tender and strong,
And her greeting to me i3 the must#
Of a sweet, old fashioned song.
Bhe sits wher; the fading sunshine
Falls on her pure, sweet face,
About her, draped and twining,
An aura of shimmering laca.
We chat over old excursions
By woodland and stream and shore;
We clink our glasses, the wine flies:
“dome, waiter, and bring us more.”
I open my eyes, the waiter
Is before me, bottle in hand.
But alas! the rich, proud lady
Has gone to the shadowy land.
For although I weave about her
This web of an ancient time,
The lady long since has banished
Her minstrel and his rhyme.
—San Francisco News.
PITH AID POINT.
Grammar students advance by declin
ing.
The first vacant lot has a “common”
place appearance.
A party “hemmed in” by the Indians
is likely to be basted.
“Please, I want to buy a shilling’s
worth of hay.” “is it for your father?’’
“Oh, no; it’s for the horse."
The left bower- -The man who isn’t
recognized by the tady to whom he lifts
his hat.—Burlington Fr.e Press.
“There will be a domestic storm,” ho
murmured, as he heard a crash in tho
kitchen: “The glass is fading.”—Boston
Post.
When a man pays $o.00 for a littlo
piece of quinine, it is hard to convince
him that it is a drug in the market.— Tho
Idea.
Requested to define the word “den
tist,” Saphir said: “He is a man who
pulls out other people's teeth to get
something for his own tr ’ te.”
The hights by great men reached and kept
VVe»\s cot atta ; <-1 by suit'
But they whne their companions slept;
Were out among the boys all night.
—Merchant Traveler.
Mamie—“What are you writing, Min
nie your will?” Minnie—“,\o, I’m
writing my won’t. George proposed
last night aud I told him I’d answer to
day.”
“That’s it "’exclaimed Mrs. Bascomat
the concert, as the singers came out again
in response to an encore. “Make ’em do
it over again until they get the thing
right. ”
Never use a crow-bar to get a railroad
binder out of your eye. A lead pencil
sharpei ed to a fine point will work it
out if you jab hard enough.—Detroit
Free Press.
Old Mr. Bentiy (reading the [taper)—
“I see that the King of Spain is ill.”
Old Mrs. Bentiy—“Goodness, ■ oshu.i, T
hope he ba n t got a cant cer. toot Id
Sir. Eeutl---“No, he’s teething.'—
Pici r ip U. Welch.
There is a yeil that scares them all,
The pagzn and be.iever;
For hear it now :n Florida,
It is the yeii o'fever.
— .Yen- York Mercury.
The distressing news comes from Eng
land that the 1 riuee o; Wales loses h.s
wind too quickly to make a good tennis
player. He wouldn’t make a successful
member of the Lnited Mates Congress,
either.—Xorri.doten iieral t.
There were a lot of Ita’ians sorting
over a waste heap on lower Broadway.
“Why are those people ike women’s
dresses!” asked lTugly: and when hs
frieud couldn’t tell he said they were
gathered at the waist.—bij tings.
“Did you ever sin ot a eress-bowF’
asked an enthusiasti archer of -Miss
Ethalinda. “EveT .\hoot a cross beau
she replied. “1 should Say
George got so cross last ni
tired him right out of the house.
bur/ U’FoiueU.
Bhe (flaring up’’—“What do you
by kissing me, William Henry Sin
AY. H. S. (humbly) — “I-i-I-uieaut no
disrespect, I assure you.” Bhe (angrily)
—“Well, I should like to see you do
it again, that’s'all.” \V. H. B.—“Here
goes, then.” B. (smoothing her ruffled
plumage)—“You’re just awtul.”—Boston
Courier.
To Save Firemen From Asphyxiation.
An Euglish inventor has perfected an
appliance which will be of great value to
firemen. It is a respirator with an India-
rubber mouth-piece, aud s designed to
enable the wearer to breathe aud work in
comfort in dense smoke and poisonous
gases. The devico is fastened securely by
a band around the head and a flange lying
between the teeth aud lips, wh le a small
projecting piece may be grasped by the
teeth. The air inhaled i> drawn through
a series of small filters containing wet
sponges, cotton wool dampened with
glycerine, and animal charcoal. The
filters are provided with valves so that
the breath expired from the lungs is
sent direct to the external atmosphere.
Spectacles, with india-rubber rims fit
ting tightly to the cheek and brow, pro
tect the eyes.
It is announced that Mrs. Cleveland is
getting tired of answering notes from
jieople who name their babies after
