VOL. I.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER
1883.
Ireland's population is increasing at
the rate of 00,000 a year.
the
New Jersey comes to the front with a
water trust. This is a brand-new -kink.
Since the 1st of January twenty-eight
different men in this country have mur
dered girls who refused to marry them.
The census of 1800, preparations foi
which are already being made, promises
4o show in the United States a popula
tion of more than 70,000,000.
! It is estimated that one-half of all tho
drugs imported into the United States
are consumed in (he manufacture of
patent medicine.
The tree from the milk of which tho
india rubber of commerce is made grows
well in Southern California, and exten
sive preparations are being mado for
planting it.
The reports of the Hpdrographic
Bureau at Washington declare that the
sailing tonnage of the world is nearly
double that of steam, and that this re
lative proportion is likely to be main
tained.
The king cruiser of all will be the
last ordered by tho British Admiralty, to
be named the Blenheim, the will be of
€000 tons, with twin screws, engines of
.20,000 horse-power, and a speed ot
twenty-two lino's.
AFTER HARVEST,
The days of harvest are past again;
We have cut the corn and bound
sheaves,
And gathered the apples green and gold,
’Mid the brown and crimson autumn
leaves.
With a flowery promise the springtime
came,
With the building birds and blossoms
sweet;
But oh, the honey, and fruit and wine!
And oh, the joys of the corn and wheat!
What was the bloom to the apple’s gold,
©And what tho flowers to the honeycomb?
What was the song that sped the plow
To the joyful song of Harvest Home?
When the apples are red -on the topmost
bough,
We do not think of their blossoming hour;
When the vino hangs low with its purple
fruit,
We do not long for its pale green flower.
Bo then, when hopes of our spring at last
Are found in fruit of the busy brain,
In tho heart's sweet love, in the hand's bravo
toil,
We shall not wish for our youth again.
An, r.ol We shall say with a glad content:
“After years of our hard unrest,
Thank Go l for our ripened hopes and toil!
Thank God, the Harvest of Life is best!”
BALKED OF HIS BEET.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, cln'ms to be the
healthiest city on the continent, the
•death rato the past year having been
ilower than in any other American city.
Not a single case of diphtheria has been
reported within the last six months.
According to the Jewish Gazette. of the
241 clothing manufacturers in the City
of New York 231 are Hebrew firms. The
Hebrews are also largely engaged in
cigarmaking, employing over eight thou
sand hands and producing over six huu-
k dred million cigars yearly.
The Austrian Consul at Yokohoma,
a, reports great difference in com-
brcial morality between the merchants
China and Japan. The Japanese, ho
are neither ^enterprising nor up-
but the Chinamen are solid and
in every respect.
have just been published on
ought about by avalanches
f Switzerland. Last year
iople were killed. The
ttlo buried by avalanches
•upward of $9000, while
[it of property destroyed
,000.
plified drill of the Ger-
ttalions will in' future
formations, the double
eep column (.four .com-
g each other in company
the broad column. The
ran is the basis of all
movements in war.
famous Hungarian violin
ist, is said to have hopelessly injured
one of his fingers in an endeavor to in
crease his technical skill. He is not the
first man who has done this, as Schu
mann, tho great composer, attempted
the same kind of experiment, in sever
ing some of the chords of his right hand
in order to shorten the time of practice.
He was permanently disabled as a piano-
player.
' A St. Louis doctor has removed the
brains from a dozen different frogs and
healod the wound and let them go.
They went off as if nothing had happened
out of the usual, and it was plain that
they had lost nothing of value. A frog
which depended on his brains in
stead of his legs would stand a mighty
poor show in a puddle near a school
house. _______________
N. J. Colman, Commissioner of Agri
culture, has charge of the arrangements
for tho display of Amcricau agricultural
products at the Peris Exposition next
spring. A large sum of money was ap
propriated by the general Government
to defray the oxpenses of tho entire dis
play, and of the total amount $50,000
was set apart for tho agricultural in
terests.
People who fancy the newspaper re
porter’s life is abed of roses observes the
Now York Telegram, canhavotheir ideas
changed by reading accounts of the
Chicago car riots. Reporters were tho
ouly passengers in the cars run through
howling mobs and showers of brickbats.
Several of them were badly injured,
faced danger and duty, beside the
law, just as they
Phorrors of a scourge,
' aneb blizzards and the
i conflagrations.
If you were certain in your own mind
that a man sought your life, and that he
would not desist until one or the other
of you wero dead, the feeling would be ! keep me in view,
a strange one. No matter how brave you
were, you could not hide your anxiety
and alarm. No matter how strong your
nerve, you would feel broken up. Let
me send you word to-day that I seek
your life and will not rest until I have
seen you dead at my feet, and an hour
after you receive the message you will
be a changed man. You can’t help but
worry, and the more you worry the
sooner your nerve will go. If I was to
in knowing me and my habits, and it was
only fair to offset this by taking some
extra precautions.
I gave the writer of the anonymous
letter thirty days to corao out of prison,
and ten more to get himself in shape to
begin the campaign. I was not far
wrong. On tho thirty-eighth day after
receiving the warning, as I boarded a
State street car to come down town, my
man was a passenger. He was a man
who exactly corresponded to tho picture
I had drawn, and it never occurred to
mo that I could be wrong. While I was
siz ng him up from the corner of my
eye, I saw (hat he was taking my meas
ure. I purposely turned my head to let
him see a scar on my neck, and when I
glanced at him again I was sure that he
was satisfied of my identity. Now, the
chase had begun. He had sworn to have
my life, and I knew by the set of his jaw
and the compression of his lips that he
had still further resolved. Where had
he been in prison, and what for? His
face was strange to me. Had I desired
to take an unfair advantage, I could
have run him in as a suspect, or trumped
up so ue charge to hold him and investi
gate his record, but I wouldn’t do that.
It was to be a fair £ ght. He would ask
for no outside help, and pride would
forbid me to.
When I left the car he followed me to
the office, I stopped at the door to speak
to a messenger, and he asked, the mes
senger who I was. Then he had me
“dead,” as the saying is, and there was
room for no further doubt. It so hap
pened that at that time I was detailed
on a case in the city. But for this I
should have been goiDg and coming,
and he would have had hard work to
I was very regular in
my routine. I had my meals at the same
hour each day, and at the ’ same place.
At a certain hour in the evening I went
to a certain hotel, played three games of my - ga8h was up, but so qu etly did the
sat and | ni!m work that the lightest sleeper v
to my room aod pounce upon me, but I
snuffed the game. He did not show up
again. He may have believed that I sus
pected him, and was determined to keep
out of mv way until heeppeaied tostrike
tho fatal blow. Next door to me, on the
down-town side, was a vacant lot. One
day, a week after last seeing McKnight,
several dry-goods boxe3 were brought
to this lot and piled up in such a way
as to form a good hiding place next to
ray door. 1 scented an idea as I in
vestigated, and that night when within
a square of the place, I met a couple ot
young fellows aud offered them a quarter
to go and d splncethe boxes explaining
that a vagrant had taken up his quarters
there. They went with a whoop, and a
man rushed out of hiding and ran off.
It was McKnight.
The next day I was sent, out of the
city and was gone two weeks. I had not
been back two hours when I discovered
that a boy was dogging mo about. Ife
was no doubt in the pay of McKnight,
who would now be ready for some other
move. I had no sooner reached my
room than I made the discovery that the
windows had been tampered with,
two having been wrenched out
and all loosened so thut a little work
would remove them. That night I
asked a friend to stay with me. While
I sent him to the room before dark I
made my usual rounds and did not turn
in until eleven. If McKnight was look-
ing for me he saw me. We turned out
the gas, placed our revolvers at hand,
and sat down near the window to wait.
At one o’clock Me >. u ght climbed a shed
from the alley, entered the insurance
office by a back window, passed through
two rooms, aud appeared at the window
opposite mine. When he had raised the
sash he pushed a plank across the five feet
of space, and rested tne end on my window
ledge. It was a summer evening, and
pool, drank one glass of beer.
smoked a cigar, and then took the car to
my door and went to bed. The dullest
kind of a ploughboy could have picked
up my trail.
On the evening of the second day my
would-be murderer appeared at the bill-
fight you fair and openly, you would not j iard room of the hotel as I was playing
hesitate. It is the knowledge that I am ' my first game of pool. I was expecting
to strike you at an unexpected moment, ; him, and I so arranged it as to ask him
that I may stab you in the street car, shoot j to play the next two games. He was
you down in the park, cut your throat
while you sleep, that unsettles you and
makes your flesh creep.
AVhile a member of Pinkerton’s de
tective force 1 ! made the arrest of a high
way robber at Madison, Wis. He was
arre-ted for a robbery committed in Illi
nois five months before, and I had been
puzzled and nervous. If he was ner
vous over tne idea of handling a cue
alongside of a man whose life ho was
plotting to take, I was excusable for
feeling a bit queer to find my would-be
assassin offering me a cigar and praising
my skill. I entertained him better than
he did me, because I knew his game aud
on the case tw6 months when I finally he supposed me ignorant of it." When I
ran him down. He was a machinist by was ready to leave for home I invited
trade, and was then working in a shop, j him to meet me at the hotel the next
I proved li.m to be an old crook and ^ evening. lie smilingly assented, but ,
daiigvrrmls one, and w«s aMisfijr/l that he next instant compressed bis lips. This
went into the shop to bn "tie pursuit - but meant: “This detective ?s not the fel-
it seemed to strike others differently, low I supposed he was. He is pleasant
The reporters wrote him up as one anx- and chatty, and wants to bo friendly,
ious to reform, and they wrote me down and I rather like him. But he sent my
as a bloodhound hanging to his trail, and friend to prison,? and I have sworn to
so considerable public sympathy was take his life He shall not escape me.”
aroused for him. I then had proofs of i That night some one broke a skeleton
four other crimes committed by him,any
one of ,which would send him to prison,
but I had to keep silent and take public
criticism. My man got a sentence of five
years, and he had scarcely departed for
prison when I received through the mail
a note reading:
_ 'would
have heard no sound. He waited and
listened, and then came across. We
moved to the right and left, and he could
not see us as he put his face to the bars.
He must have beeu certain that I was
asleep, for he began work, and soon had
an opening by which he could enter.
McKnight had come to kill me, but I
did not thirst for his life. As he bent to
enter the window I fired over his head
and uttered a shout. He straightened
up, lost his balance on the plank, swung
half way round, and tumbled to the
ground. It was only from the second
story, and had he alishted on his feet
he might not have been hurt. But he
turned over and struck head first,
and never knew what hurt him, bis neck
being broken by the collision. When he
was dead he was identified as a New Or
leans crook named Red Pete, aud when
Joligt
prison. His only weapon was a knife,
but one thrust of that would have set
tied me forever.—New York Sun.
An Improvised Air Gnu.
It is generally known that air is an
elastic substance, but few persons have
any idea how extremely sensitive to
pressure. A New York Mail an I Ecpre s
reporter had the fact impressed upon
him by the humorous demonstration of a
professor in physics whom he had called
upon in a college laboratory.
“Where shall I place this emptj
bottle?" asked the professor’s young
from the table a wide-
key in the lock of my street door. How
foolish to suppose I would trust to locks!
It was no doubt my friend, making his
first attempt on my life. It is a curious
trait in criminal nature that two out of
five men will abandon an undertaking if
meeting with disappointment on the first
“You have by money and perjury sent attempt. Those who persevere become
an honest man to prison. You knew ho more dangeious than before. It was a
was honest and hardworking. Ycu question now. of how my enemy would assistant, takin,
wanted to glorify yourself. The poor act, but I was satisfied as soon as I set mout h “° , e - "huh Dad Deeu use “ lu
fellow is a friend of mine, and I have eyes on him tho next evening. At sight some experiment before the cla-s.
sworn to revengo him. Take notico of me he compressed his lips. The fail- “Take care, that bottle is not tmpty.
that I will have your life on the first ure had fired his zeal, and I realized replied the professor, carefully taking
opportunity ! fl j that from this on I must certainly be on j *De bottle from him, ‘ there is something
There was no signature to the letter, my guard every hour in the twenty- j very powerful in it. lie then took a
but I knew at a glance that the writer four small cork from the drawer and hold-
meant business. It was a plain, bold We played three games together sat j
side by side and smoked cigars, and an , & assistant . “Blow that cork into tho
outsider would have supposed us the bottl wo . u see if there is room for it.”
be<t of friends. The man perhaps Th ^ brougllt his momh qu ; tc near to
feared that I would wonder and specu- a - - where the cork \vus loosely
late about him. and lie handed me his , 5 and fe taking a long brcat h gave a
card and explained that he had come on
hand, and after half an hour’s study
made these deductions:
1. It was wri: ten by a crook.
2. It was written in prison.
8. The writer was in dead earnest.
4. He was a large, muscular man. with
light hair, blue eyes and fair complexion.
5. He would wear a silk hat and dark
ish clothe?.
lb He would aim to either throttle me
or strike me down with a club.
How did I reach these conclusions?
Well, the average detective catches on
to a crook’s chiography by instinct. It
, ., _ ■ .. . ... auuuenpuff. To his great surprise the
from the Last expecting to engage in the k in X stead of fallin J int0 the bottle
lumber business. His name was printed ; tremblcd a moment whero it lay and then
as -K K McKnight." Could I be mis- forcibly blown int0 h is facs.
taken in him you ask? I had no doubt .. Y ou se5.” explained the professor,
hat he was the writer oftlm threatening i h Iaugh , ^ bottle is n ‘ ot C!npt y.
letter. If I had doubted, something It , Q fu « o{ a - r that u0 moro C J & 0
occurred as we sat smoking that would blown int0 it The only cfiect 0 f blow-
nave reassured me. A man who was J
° c “H 1 * «/ '*’ • nave reassured me. *»■ imm who " inw 110*511 nst thw cork whs to omnnress the
was written on a half sheet, and the pen ; known to me to be crooked entered the .*> , • ■, ... u «n olastic tb it
and ink were poor. Tho paper was i billiard room for a drink. He started a,r bchlnd jt -’ wh,ch 13 80 claSt,C
the moment the pressure was removed it
addressed by himself. The chiography ; no knowledge of the other. I pretended
of the letter was bold and earnest. Large to sco vacancy, and parted with my
men aro bold and more sympathetic than enemy in the greatest good nature. That
small ones. Largo men who betray this night an attempt was made to bore a
sentiment are of sanguine temperament, 'panel out of my door, but the bit was
They are also vain and dress well and in stopped by the sheet iron,
taste. Large men seldom ambush a, I did not see McKnight the next oven-
victim. They depend on their strength. } ing nor the next, but "lie showed up on
This is about the way I figured it out, ! the third evening and explained that ho
and 1 was so firmly satisfied that I was had been to Milwaukee. 1 knew better.
experiment with y
must see that the neck of the bottle is
perfectly dry, or the cork will adhere to
it and spoil the fun.”
Fecundity of Fish.
It lias been calculated that, as fish
produce so many eggs, if vast numbers
of the latter and ot the fish themselves
and
right that I founded my programme ac-! He had beeu trying to work out some were not continually destroyed
cordingly, and permitted no change to j new plan to get at mo, and had spent a taken, they would soon fid up every
creep in. I further believed that the ; portion of the time at a crook’s resort, available space iu the seas, l or instance,
writer would not be out of prison for a j Ho had bit upon a plan. I knew this from 90,000,000 to 10,000,000 codfish
month, and I had ample time to got j from the cordiality ot his greeting, and are annually caught on the shores of
all through our games I was wondering ! Newfoundland. But even that quantity
what scheme lie had hit upon. It was seems small when it is considered that
revealed to mo at midnignt that very j each cod yields about -1,500,000 eggs
night. I had a bell on my door, and at | every season, and that even 80,000,000
that hour it was vigorously pulled, in have been found in the roe of a single
case of my being wanted at the office tho ! cod. Were tho (50,000,000 of cod taken
messenger was instructed to ring in a , on the coast of Newfoundland left to
certain manner. As this was not his on non non fnmaina «rnrlncim»
ready for him. Had ho been out ho
would not have written. If ho had sev
eral months to serve he would not Lave
written. I was a bachelor then, having
a room on State street and taking my
, meals at a restaurant. My room was
j reached by private stairs, and I alone bad
i the key to the streot door. From a side
window in my room to a sldo window in
a real estate office was a distance of only
five feet. As there wero bars on the oth
er window I had left mine unguarded.
I now had them put on, and there was
no way to reach me in my room ex-
, eept to open the street door and come up
stairs. I had the inside of the door cov
ered with sheet iron, and arranged a
Bpring gun for the stairs.
Was I afraid! JTo, I had plenty of
confidence in myself, and I wanted to
get the drop on the stranger first. He
had pitted his wit, nerve and courage
against mine, and my professional pride
I was aroused. He had a big advantage
j- Cutting a Five-Pointed Star.
'‘Do yon know how to make the stars
on the star-spangled banner?” inquired
a gentleman who sat at liis desk with a
piece of waste note paper and a scissors
in his hand.
“Couldn't cut one that would look
respectable to save myself,” said his
companion.
“Well, there's nothing easier, and I
don’t think there’s anything a patriot
ought to know better. It may seldom
come of use, but it’s highly patriotic.
In Preble's “History of the American
Flag” may be found a statement to the
elle:t that the committee of Congress
appointed to report a design for the na
tional ensign called upon a Mrs. Rose,
dealer in regalia and fancy goods, in
Philadelphia for suggestions in their
work. This lady was possessed of ex
cellent taste in all matters pertaining to
her business, and was withal an ardent
.patriot. The story gce3 that while talk
ing with the members of the committee
she so folded a sheet of paper as that by
a single clip of the scissors she cut out a
five-pointed star. IF is stated by othera
that the committee was as greatly pleased
w : ith the ingenuity displayed as with
the symmetry of the design and readily
adopted it. This was in 1779 and even
since that time the five-pointed
star has appeared in the blue field
of our country’s flag. Neither Preble
nor any other authority tells how Mrs.
Rose folded the paper, and in the
absence of information one will find
it a rather difficult feat to accomplish.
Once known, the process is very simple.
Take a sheet of paper of any si e and fold
it once across. Then make a fold at r ght
angles to this, merely for the purpose
of determining the center of the paper.
Throw the sheet back upon the single
fold and let the center point be the point
of a triangle when all the folding is
completed. It must be understood that
to have a five-pointed star there must be
one single and two double folds, the folds
being made outward from the center
point. This single fold should be made
to a point about four-fifths of the d s-
tarn e to the middle line made when the
center of the paper was determined.
The first double fold is made by folding
the further side of the sheet as it is left
after the single fold, back upon the outer
edge of the latter. The second double-
fold is then made by folding what is now
double upon what is triple. To obtain
the star, now make a cut with scissors og
a straight line diagonally across from a
point some little distance removed from
the apex, to the extreme outer lower
point of the fold. The cut may be made
from either regular side of the triangle.
The eye must be guide as to the acute
ness or obtuseness of the angles of the
star. A very little practice wiil soon
enable you to cut one of these stars with
entire accuracy. Comparison of a star
so grade with a geometric star will show
it to be far more symmetrical and grace
ful than the stiff, mathematical product.
— Chicago Herald.
GOLDEN-ROD.
An idle breeze strayed up and down
l’he rusty fields and meadows brown,
Sighing a grievous sigh, “Ah, me!
Where can tho summer blossoms he?”
When suddenly a glorious face
Shone on him from a weedy space,
And with an airy, plumy nod,
“Good afternoon!” said Golden-Rod.
The breeze received her courtesy
And then came hurrying home to me.
And eagerly this story told:
“I’ve seen a lady dressed in gold,
So shining that the very light
That touches her to cioublv bright-
Shs nodded, too, a royal nod.”
“Why, that,” said I, “to Golden-Rod.”
“Como out and see her where she stands,
Gold on her bead and in her hands,”
He cried: and I without delay
Went after where he led the way;
And there she stood, all light, all grace,
Illumining that weedy place,
And to U3 both, with airy nod,
“Good afternoon I” said Go den-Ro:l.
—Clara Doty B-.’es,'
ring I waited for a few minutes, when
tho boll jangled moro vigorously than
before. I slipped on my pants and went
down and opened the slido in tho door.
McKnight stood there, and when I asked
what was wanted he replied:
“Really, old fellow, I am sorry to
have troubled you, but I come to ask
your advico. I was handod a very queer
lotter after I left you, and I waut you to
read it and tell mo how to act. I’ll go
up stairs with you.”
I told him that one of our men was oc
cupying tho room with mo that night,
ana advised him to see me at the office
next morning. He had planned to get
A Code of Barber’s Elhics.
One of the most interesting things
which the German papers hive been writ
ing about lately is the establishment of
a code of barbers' ethics. It appears
that some time ago a call was issued for
a Congress of Barbers to assc able at
Berlin.'Four hundred of them responded
and there was an interesting meeting
which lasted three days. When they
ad ourned they had formulated a code of
trade ethics, wiiich is well worth the
attention of their American brethren,
ilore are some of the new regulations:
Iu future the operation of shaving must
invariably be begun on the left cheek,
and the old style over there of applying
the lather to the face with the hand
must be stopped and brushes used for
that purpose. No barer will be per
mitted to remain a member of the asso
ciation who persists iu holding a customer
by the uosc while shaving him. To
their everlasting credit be it recorded
that a majority of the Congress decided
that iu so far as talking to customers
was concerned a great reform was tieces-
rary, therefore they decreed that the
barbers should confine ihetn-elves to the
careful shaving or hair cutting of tltefr
patrons and not allow their tongues to
ramble during the operation over the
d nv'in of politics, commerce ai d
philosophy, literature and the arts. Still
the Congress has left a loophole for es
cape, since on motion of a Hamburg
barber it was resolved that an observa
tion on the weather by way of greet ug
Dr farewell would not imperil an art.st’s
standing in the association.—New York
Graphic.
Ft ( historic Fish in Solid Iloek.
A most remarkable discovery has been
made at the Salomonic quarries in Indi
ana. The blasts at this quarry are set
off by a battery, and are eery powerful,
l ecently a blast opened up a tissue
which was filled with clear water,
brackish to tho taste. The hole was
about twelve inches w do, ten feet long
and eight feet deep, the bottom and in
sides being solid rock, and completely
isomted. The water in it was as in a
marble basin. In the water were found
mime: ous I;si: and frogs, which differed
from the ordinary species in that they
had no eyes. From the surroundings
it would' seem that the fish and frogs
had lived there thousands of years,
bevernl plates in these quarries show
traces of volcanic action. — Com inertia
Fnguirer.
PITH AND POINT.
Words of cheer—Hurrah! Tiger!
The rag-gatherer’s business is picking
up a tittle.
A black bear that has been eaten is
a bruin-et.
“I’m considerably worsted,” as tho
stocking said.
Stands to reason—the reasoner when
he is tired of sitting.
Instead of the French in Tunis,
wouldn't it be more grammatical to say:
the French in tune are?—Siftings.
A wealthy old farmer who has seven
good for-nothing sons, says he is satisfied
that there is no money in raising beats.
Funny that a fast young man never
begins to think about settling down un
til it has become utterly impossible for
t<m to settle up.
* Now tho woodses change their color
And the folkses change their clothes—
Boon the head of navigation
Will peep through its robe of snows.
—Duluth Paragraphic.
“Oh, you have come first at last; you
were always behind before,” was the
queer greeting a schoolmaster gave to
the first boy at school.—Detroit Free
Press.
McGurrigan was naturalized yesterday.
He said that the process of making a
fereign-born man a native of the l nited
States was exceedingly pleasing.—New
Yor’c Ncia.
Thera was a young maid, a Miss Howard,
Who was ^most pitifui coward;
For a cu e little mouse
S-. aijfd her out of the brass
And chastii her all over the cowyard.
Tn Russia they tench bears to dance bv
placing them on a hot fioor. In the
C hicago grain exchange they make them
dance by raising the price of wheat,
seventy-five cents a bushel.
“Are you winking at me because you
think I’m a country jake. sir:" demand
ed the new clerk at the drug store,
loudly and beligerently, as he paused in
the act of drawing a glass of soda water
for n customer. antes.,” hurriedly
called out the proprietor, “come and tie
up this licorice for this boy. I’ll wait
on Mr. Rambo myself.’’—Chicago Tri
bune.
A Chance to Get Even.—Office Boy—
“Please, sir, here's a man to see you.”
Impecunious Doctor—“Healthy man?”
Office Boy—“Very mu h healthy. Got
something in his hand looks l.ke a bill.”
Impecunious Doctonstruck with a brill
iant idea:—“Let him come in. I’ll
give him fifty cents on account; he will
faint, and I’ll charge him two dollars
for reviving him.”—Time.
Had;i Husse in Gbooiy Khan,
Most puissant Persian man,
Just arrived from Teheran:
“Good morning, sir. How do you do?
And how is Mrs. Hadji Ghoo?
And how are all the little Ghoos?
Como tel! us, Hadji, all the news.
We're glad to see you. minister,
Oh! Zoroastriau worshiper.
Take off your things, and sit right down;
You are at home in Washington.”
— Washington Critic.
breed, the JO,000,00b females prodneiu
5,000,000 eggs every year, it would
give a yearly addition of 150,000,000,-
000,000 young codfish. Other fish, i — ‘
though not equaling the cod, aro won-; \ Noiseless, Smokeless Locomotive,
derfully prolific. A herring weighing 0
oz. or 7 oz. is provided with about 80,-
000 eggs. After making all reasonable
allowauicos for the destruction of eggs
and tho young it has been estimated that
in three years a single pair of herrings
would produco 154,000,000. Bulion
calculated that, if a pair of herrings
could be left to breed and multiply uu
A novel locomotive engine has boen
on exhibition at Palmyra, Wis. Except
the noise of its wheels moving upon iron
rails it is noiseless and smokeless. The
steam after use in the engine is con
densed in a new manner, aud the water
at the boiling pioint is re-used. All the
wheels of this locomotive aro drive
disturbed for a period of twenty years, wheels, being so arranged as to give them
they would yield an amount of fish equal control of tho car on curves aud on
jn bulk to the globe on which we live r uneven tracks.
Fishing for Fish.
Sir James Crichton-Browne tells, in
an English magazine, the story of an
amateur augler who went to fish, iu a
Scotch stream, provided with the finest
rod aud reel that money could buy, the
most invisible tackle, and the most im
proved S^SuoksIwaswaHo . threshed the
water for hours without getting a nib
ble. and then had the mortification of
seeing an old fisherman near him pull out
the trout by dozens, with nothing but a
bit of stick, a string and a hook baited
with worms. The amateur angler looked
on puzzled and disappointed, aud then
went up to the old man aud asked him:
“What is the meaning of this? llow
comes it that I, with tho many perfect
appliances, can catch nothing, while
you, with only the clumsiest of tools, are
so successful?”
“The meanin’ o’t,” the old man made
answer, “I take to be this, sir: that I’m
Siskin’ for fish, an’ ye’re fishiu’ for
fun.’
A Homeric Fragment.
Tho explorer of the Fayuin, Mr.
Petrie, has discovered “a splendid frag
ment- of the Second Book of tho Iliad,'
written on papyrus iu the finest Greek
hand, before the rounded uncial or cur
sive scripts cams into use. This precious
document was found rolled up under
the head of a mummy which was buried
simply in the sand, without the protee-
tiou of a tomb. It measures apparently
from three and a half to four feet in
length. The date of tho manuscript is
about tho second or third century. It
will be edited by Professor Sayco.”
Kerosene oil is responsible for niue-
teuths of tho fires that tako place in
China.
