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W* F. SMITH, Publisher,
VOLUME IX.
TPOICS OF THE HAY.
Cetewayo is to visit England in the
spring.
Who will mourn for the plumber—
perhaps not one.
Carl Schurz is lecturing on Civil
Service Reform.
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St. Gothard’s Tunnel was completed
on the 23d of December.
Better to predict and mis# than never
to predict at all.— Vennor.
“Gail Hamilton” will spend the
winter with Mrs. Blaine in Washington.
A newspaper published at Tin Cup,
Kansas, is called the Qarfield Banner.
It seems that the public generally in
England are disgusted with the Guiteau
trial.
Hhuyler Colfax assorts there is noth
ing that would indifHe him to return to
public life.
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Strange as it may seem, the country
is full of people who are seeking for the
autograph of Guite.au.
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Prices are keeping right up, and
the farmer who*happens to have a full
granery, should* be hKppy.
Asa weather prophet, Vennor has
lost his prestige, now and forover more.
We swear by*him no longer.
The Italian Senate has adopted a bill
which confers the right of suffrage on
all who can read 9nd.wri.tet
Queen Victoria requests the London
Standard, to deny the statement that she
will open Parliament in person.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, like
Mr. Whittier, pleads inability to write
poems to order. Growing old, you
know.
The London Times says the Onitean
trial is unprecedented. ,We are pretty
sure it is, so* far as this country is con
cerned. , .
It is not known how near the North
Pole the Jeannette reached. The de
tails of the expedition are awaited with
somo anxiety.
Strangely Guiteau has not yet in
sulted any of the jury on his case, but
his whack at thqm will come when they
bring in their verdict.
United Ireland , a newspaper, is now
printed in London, all the material of
tlio concern having been shipped there
from Ireland the past week.
An eminent physician says high-heeled
shoes cause the calf of the leg to dwin
dle auay to the leanness of decrepit
age and become a thin, shapeless shank.
In a fifty-mile bicycle contest in New
York the past week, George Gideon was
the only person who completed the dis
tance. Time, 3 hours, 13 minutes and
8$ seconds.
A saloon-keeper in Brooklyn has
been sued by a Methodist minister be
cause the minister’s son loafed about the
saloon, and he was thereby deprived of
his services.
The meats in a gallon of oysters
should weigh eight and three-quarter
pounds, and a gallon of oysters that does
not weigh that much* has been stuffed
with water and is a swindle.
Henry Watterson, writing from
Washington, approves the course of
Judge Cox and Mr. Corkhill in giving
Ouiteau all the rope he wants. It wilj
help to hang him.
The Y* shaped hull of the polar vessel
Jeannette did not save her from be in 2
crushed by the ioe; but it is with a feel
ing of joj that we are able to chronicle
the safe return of a greater portion of
her crew,,
Timothy O. Howe, of Wisconsin, the
new Postmaster -General, is sixty-five
years old.* He was at one time a United
States Senator, and at the Chicago Re
publican Convention, was one of the
notable ‘*so6/’ .
Marriageable ladies seeking rank
will please .hear' jp. mine! that President
Arthur defies the story
current ***** abouf-td be married.
There ajjyn jt and his heart
McMmEAwdsas intro
dnoed a btil\ror the assessment and col
lection a three per centum tax from
11l till® lf)®o®j|!ii
Devoted to Induhtrial Intemt, the Diffusion of Troth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government.
each person or corporation doing busi
ness in the United States or Territories
on all net incomes above $3,000.
Lady Land Leaguers in Ireland are
to be arrested, and for their reception, a
special jail is being provided. This
means that, according to all expectations,
there will be, for some time to come,
ladies in jail in Ireland for political
offenses.
Several Cincinnati brewers, disgusted
v\ ith the way the "weather has been act
hig, are putting in ice machines, and
will have ice whether old Boreas wills it
or not. Hypothetically speaking, it does
look as if Satan and science were going
hand in hand.
The memory of Guiteau will be per
petuated by plaster casts, the product of
the sculptor Clark Mills, but who it is
that is anxious to adorn their mantel
pieces with copies of it would be hard to
say. Everyone has had about enough
of him already.
There are two Congressmen now
serving who commenced life as pages in
the National House, and a Senator wlios ■
start in life was as a page in the Senate.
The Congressmen are Townshend of Il
linois and Wise of Virginia. The Sena
tor is Gorman of Maryland.
Dr. H. G. Glenn, of California, has
put 30,000 acres in wheat, and expects
to sow 25,000 acres more. That is the
"ay they farm, where, when a young
married couple start out to milk, they
have so far to go and are gone so long
that their children bring the milk home.
Big farms out there.
The Detroit Free Press, a religious
paper, says: “In the last 100 years
over 4,000 peoplo have been burned up
in theaters, and in the same time over
0,000 have perished in church acci
dents. ” Where is the good of publish
ing such statistics ? It seems that there
is everything to shake one’s faith.
We believe there is a general demand
for a fractional currency for convenience
in mailing purposes. Silver is out of the
question for this purpose, and postage
otn-mps are a nuisance to business houses
receiving small orders by mail. It is oi
little importance what shape this small
currency is in, just so long as it will serve
the purpose in question. Congress
ought to make some provision at once.
The immigrants to this country dur
ing November were distributed among
the various nationalities thus : England
and Wales, 5,823 ; Ireland, 3,284 ; Scot
land, 989 ; Austria, 1,454 ; Belgium,
59 ; Denmark, 314 ; France, 529 ; Ger
many, 16.900 ; Hungary, 593 ; Italy,
2,978 ; Netherlands, 358 ; Norway, 1,-
294; Poland, 223 ; Russia, 1,721 ; Swed
en, 2,870 ; Switzerland, 451 ; Dominion
of Canada, 8,807 ; China, 2,711 ; and
from all other countries, 228.
Senator Call, of Florida, Senator
Jones, of Louisiana, and other Congress
men, have bought the old Whitehall
sold mine, near the Wilderness battle
field, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia.
Gold was first found there in 1809. The
mine was worked by Commodore Stock
ton from 1848 until just before the war.
It has since been owned by Gilbert R.
Fox, of Pennsylvania. Nearly $2,000,-
000 worth of gold has been taken from
the mine.
The report of the United States Rail
road Commissioner says that indications
arc that in a short time there will be five
separate routes to the Pacific coast,
where less than a year ago there was but
one. The tendency is still toward in
creased railroad development, principally
in the South and Southwest. It is be
lieved that operations in railroad con
struction this year will exceed those of
any preceding year. The general con
struction of the Pacific railroads is criti
cised as not up to the standard. Congress
is asked to establish a uniform system of
railroad signals.
An exchange whose editor seems to
have had some experience, says: A
doctor will sit down and write a prescrip
tion ; time, five minutes; paper and ink.
one-fonrth of a cent; and the patient
pays sl, $2, $5, $lO, as the case may be.
A lawyer writes ten or twelve lines of
advice, and gets from $lO to S2O from his
client. An editor writes a half-column
puff for a man, pays a man from fifty
cents to $1 for putting it in type, prints
it on several dollars’ worth of paper,
sends it to several thousand people, and
then surprises the puffed man if he
makes any charge.
Allen G. Thurman is charged by the
Washington Critic with producing a
p.mie in the Senate. It says : “ A
noise like unto a clap of thunder at sea
was heard. Davis, of West Virginia,
sprang to his fi&t in amaromeni; Hoar
trembled, Vest laughed. Beck looked
as though he had heard that noise before,
and turned toward the Democratic cloak
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
room and beheld Ex-Senator Allen G.
Thurman with his old bandana in one
hand and a good snuff box in the other.
Beck told Davis not to be alarmed; it was
nothing but Thurman blowing his nose.
And the Senate proceeded to business. ”
Persons who have unlimited faith in
the predictions of Prof. Vennor, a so
called Canadian weather prognosticator,
will perhaps have that faith somewhat
shaken by the perusal of the following,
published three months ago in his
almanac for 1882 :
“December, 1881.—I hardly like the looks of
this month, viewed from the present stand
point (September 18). It looks ugly, and
smacks of cold — bitter, biting cold, north and
south, east and west. The month bids fair to
be cold and dry rather than otherwise, and
this cold may be somewhat proportionate to
the heat of the past summer, and extend to
extreme Southern and Western points. The
entry of the month is likely to bring in winter
abruptly in most sections where winter is usu
ally expected or experienced. The first week
of the month will probably give the first good
snowfalls of the season in New York.”
It does not seem that he hit it very
well that time. In his almanac for 1881,
for the same month, he said :
“The characteristics of December probably
will be those of the preceding two months.
This I believe will be one of those Decembers
that will cause inquiries of the oldest inhabi
tant as to whether there ever had been such a
December before. In Canada flowers mav bo
discovered in bloom in the open garden, and
plowing will be continued almost up to Christ
mas.”
Now had Vennor transposed the order
of this, the hit would have been capital.
But then—he didn’t
Confederate Bond Text.
As considerable interest has been
aroused in regard to Confederate bonds,
and as the majority of people are un
acquainted with their terms, the follow
ing wording of a SI,OOO bond is given as
a matter of information :
“No. 7,403. First Series.
“CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,
“Loan Authorized by Section 6 of February
17, 1864, Act of Congress.
“On the first day July, 1864, the Con
federate States of America will pay to the
bearer of this boud, at the seat of Government,
or at such place of deposit as may be appointed
by the Secretary of the Treasury, the sum of
one thousand dollars, with interest thereon at
the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable
semi-annually on the first days of January and
July m oaoli year
“The Confederate States have, by an act ap
proved February 1, 1864, enacted that the
principal and interest whereof shall be free
from taxation, and for the payment of the in
terest thereon, the entire net receipts of any
export duty hereafter laid on the value of all
cotton, tobacco, and naval stores, which shall
be exported from the Confederate States,
and the net proceeds of the import duties now
laid on so much thereof as may be necessary to
pay annually the interest, are hereby specially
pledged, provided that the duties now laid upon
imports, and hereby pledged, shall hereafter
be paid in specie or in sterling exchange, or in
the coupons of said bonds.
“In witness whereof the register of the
treasury, in pursuance of the said act of Con
gress, hath hereunto set his hand and affixed
the seal of the treasury, at Richmond, this Ist
day of March, 1864. E. Apperson,
“For register of the treasury.”
“Entered, R. B. S. Recorded, J. J. W.”
On the left of the bond at a right
angle with the body of the bond are the
words, “One thousand dollars,” and on
the right, “Six per cent, per annum.”
Attached to the bond are sixty coupons,
payable every six months, from January
1, 1865, to July 1, 1894. The coupons
are as follows: “Loan under act of
February 17, 1864. The Confederate
States of America will pay to bearer
thirty dollars for six months’ interest,
due January 1, 1865. on bond 7,403, for
SI,OOO. Ro. Tyler, Register,” except
the dates, which, of course, are all dif
ferent, beginning at January 1,1865, and
ending \ith July 1, 1894.
Concerning Authors.
There is an abundance of writers for
the press, and to illustrate this fact, I
may say that the editor of Harper's
Magazine has already a sufficient num
ber of accepted articles on hand to serve
for two years. Hence should he not re
ceive a single fresh contribution his sup
ply would last till 1884. The rejected
matter, often of interest and real value,
which is daily declined by magazines,
newspapers, and booksellers, would fill
a good-sized wagon. Bonner, of the
Ledger , has for some years left orders
with his clerks to allow no contribution
to be left for examination. He has his
regular list of writers, who fill up the
space allotted to them, and thus the pa
per is made up without any new con
tributors. Authorship and writing for
the press is now overdone, and there are
but few, and these are, indeed, lucky
who can make a living at it It is said
that the magazine writers are notan
enviable class. They may receive SIOO
for an article, but it is so difficult to get
an article published that they are not
much better than a mere newspaper
Bohemian. A leading magazinist is said
to rate his income from this source at
$1,200 a year, which certainly is nothing
to boast of. I have read in the newspa
pers that a young man who had fitted
himself .for journalism by a college ed
ucation, had recently engaged to tend
bar in a saloon at $8 per week. This
may be intended as a piece of humor,
but there is a sad truth underlying it.
New York Letter.
** Oh vee,” said Mrs. Brown, as she
surveyed with indent pleasure the little
parlor sideboard, covered with old eh in*
and decorated with highly-colored tiles;
“ Mr. B. remarked last night that I was
becoming quite an atheist,” and the old
lady’s countenance fairly beamed with
delight as her eyes rested on a 16-cent
Japanese tea-pot—Agaric Call.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Pineapples are grown at Walatka,
Florida.
Local option is becoming popular in
Virginia.
Coiinth, Miss., is showing an interest
in silk culture.
A sea-cow was recently seen in the bay
near St. Augustine.
Mississippi is displaying an unusual
interest in railroads.
Virginia now ranks eighth as a pro
ducer of iron ore. In 1870 she was
twelfth.
Twelve thousand barrels of rosin were
disposed of in one sale recently by a Sa
vmnah house.
The Chief Justice of Alabama is a
printer by trade, and formerly worked
at the case at Athens,
The machinery to be used in improv
iig Apalachicola,* (Fla.) harbor has ar
rived there and work will begin at once.
Col. J. S. Mosby, of Virginia, when
he returns from China, will marry a Avell
known society lady of Alexandria.
Stock raising in Texas offers greater
inducements to the capitalist than any
other business carried on in the coun.
Iry.
New Orleans property owners will
have to pay a tax of three per cent, to
meet the necessities of the city govern
ment next year.
Asbury Bush, a ferryman, shot and
killed a negro named Charlie Nixon, at
Warwick, Ga,, for refusing to pay live
cents ferriage across the river.
Lucien Beard has been pardoned out
of the Virginia penitentiary at Rich
mond after having served eight of an
eighteen years’ sentence for horse steal*
ing.
Five hundred inhabitants at Ozark,
Ala., and not a Smith in the directory.
Perhaps the old and well known Jones
family have kept them out with clubs.
o.a Jnffni-mn TIOS bePD Rfrested at
Wilmington, South Carolina, for strik
ing Ben. Franklin with a rock and throw
ing sand into John Adams’ eyes.
A large petition is bnng gotten up in
Alabama, praying for the opening of
Coosa river to navigation, and beseech
ing that no delay be permitted.
The convicts in the Tennessee peniten
tiary will issue an address to the people
of the Stat3, soliciting funds to purchase
an organ for their benefit.
The State of West Virginia has no
indebtedness, the constitution of the
State forbidding the creation of any lia
bility in the nature of a public debt.
In accordance with an act of th ,
Legislature every child who attends the
public schools in Savannah must be vac
cinated, otherwise they will be rejected
at the re-opening of the schools next
month.
A company has been chart3red and
organized at Rome Ga., to make surveys
and estimates with the view of con
structing a canal from a point seven
miles above the city, sd as to give a fall
of thirty feet. With this fall 3,000
horse power will be available for manu
facturing.
Dalhonega (Ga.J Sentinel: The prep
arations for mining by the Loud Gold
Mining Company are simply wonderful.
The canals are spread over a wide extent
of country and mining by the hydraulic
process will soon surpass anything ever
witnessed in the South.
Reports from Hoover Hill gold mine
in Randolph county, North Carolina,
still continue good. Since the rich
strike was made a few weeks ago, it is
estimated that the ore raised is worth
$50,000, and it still holds out with
Splendid promise. This mine is owned
and operated by an English company.
Bibb county, Ala, has a curiosity in
the way of a stalk of ribbon cane. It
divides itself into two prongs near the
ground. Below the fork the stalk has
double eyes. Above the fork, and in
cluding both prongs, it is ten feet long
and has thirty-two joints.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, said in a
recent interview that he received no ed
-1 ucation to speak of until he was of age
At thirty-three he was elected to a
Judgeship, and at thirty-seven became
Governor. He is now, at sixty-eight, a
United States Senator.
Gainesville (Ga.) Southron: Gen.
Longstrtet will ask the Legislature of
Tennessee and North Carolina to give
him charters for the. extension of his
proposed road into their States. Gen.
Longstreet does not pretend that lie can
build the road all by himself, but with
proper encouragement can and will
do so.
Atlanta Constitution: Many farmers
say they will plant more corn next year.
These are 'not the intentions of spring.
When the present crop of cotton is safe
ly out of the hands of the producers,
prices will go up with a venomous
bounce, and then our gifted husband
men will plow up the corn they have
planted and proeeed to scatter their cot
ton seed over the face of nature.
Natchez (Miss.) Democrat: Yester
day Mr. Jerome Converse shot and killed
an immense rattlesnake, which measured
eleven and a half feet in length and fif
teen inches in diameter. This monster
snake had nineteen rattles, and its upper
fangs were one inch long, and when shot
had a large rabbit in its mouth prepara
tory to swallowing it.
Mr. H. B. Evers, of England, repre
senting a Louden syndicate, has recently
bought 676,000 acres of land from the
State of Mississippi, lying principally
in the Yazoo delta, and for which he
has paid the State about $50,000. Mr.
Evers says that if the will give
his syndicate aid they will in th 6 next
four years bring to the State 160,000
English immigrants, 60,000 of whom
will be voters as soon as naturalized.
Orapge county, (Fla,,) Reporter:
Eleven years ago, Dr. J. F. J. Mitchell,
of Lake Jessup, ate some Oranges and
planted the seed. The trees are now ten
years old. This year eighty of the seed
ling trees from those seeds are bearing,
and last week the Doctor sold the fruit
from the eighty trees for $462. These
trees, as they are ordinarily planned,
would cover about one and one-third
acres of land —a yield of about $340 per
acie, which, for young grove, is not a
bad showing by any means. The Doctor
has four young groves, and he reports
his crop this year 290 per cent, larger
than last year’s crop.
Mr. J G. McElroy, of Banks county,
da., relates the following ocmiranc
which happened on his plantation, near
Harmony Grove, a few days ago: While
his three little boys were standing in the
yard a large hawk swooped down and
flew away with a chicken in his talons.
The boys thinking that his majesty might
drop the chicken, followed him some dis
tance, when, to their delight, they saw
him drop his prey. As soon as this hap
pened the hawk commenced circling
arouud where the boys and chicken were
congregated, and finally lighted on the
eldest boy, who was ten years old, and
fastened one] talon in the boys chin.
The second son went to the rescue, when
the hawk caught him in the arm with the
other talon, thus holding both the boys
at his mercy. The third and yougest,
seeing the perilous situation of his broth,
ers, drew his knife, went *to work and
succeeded in cutting the hawk from his
brothers and killing him. both legs were
cut to the bone, just above the claw, be
fore the boys were released from their
dangerous position. After his lordship
was dispatched he was found to be a
large bird, and measured twenty-four
inches from stem to stern.
Didn’t Win the Bet.
Two friends were discussing the mer
its of their acquaintances. Said one
of the gentlemen: “Talk about mean
men; now there’s old Strassberger.
He’s the hardest, driest, meanest old
Shylock that ever lived. That man l
why 1” And there he stopped as if
words couldn’t do justice tc the subject.
“You’re mistaken,” said his friend.
“ He’s not so bad; even the devil isn’t
so black as he is painted. Now I’ll bet
you $lO I can borrow SSO of him before
night”
“ Done !” and the money was put up.
On posted the sanguine book-maker to
bis intended victim.
“ Strassberger, my boy, how are yoti?”
arid he slapped him on the back of a
faded ready-made coat with a capital as
sumption of good-fellowship.
“ Ydl, I was all r-i-g-h-t Vot’s de
madder mit you?”
“ Look here, old fellow, X made a lit
tle bet about you just now, ha, ha! It’s
a capital joke.”
“Urn!” said Strassberger, “ Yelli”
Yes, I bet $lO with Smithy that I
conld borrow SSO of you to-day.*
“ Feefty tollar t”
“Yes, that was the amount.”
“ Und you bet ten ?”
“That’s what I put up.”
“ Yell, now look here, my friend” (in
a low whisper) “you go straight avay
and ‘hedge.*”
Rato the rnan who got left when the
wine nA short at communion: “I
don’t care for the liquor, but I think my
soul is of as much account as anybody* s,
and, if I don’t lick the deacon by whose
negligence I was prevented from carry
ing out my religions duty, I’m a pirate. ”
Rohekt Bonnkb pays his
more than doable that paid any college
professor.
SUBSCRIPTION*’SI.6I,
NUMBER 20
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
Ivory is so valuable that manufactur
ers who use it save even the powder,
which is sold for making jelly.
The average life of an English gold
sovereign is about eighteen years—mat
is, the coin loses three-quarters of a
grain in weight in about that length of
time. It then ceases to be legal tender.
It is said that of the £100,000.000 of
British gold coinage 40 per cent, is worn
down below the legal rate.
Dr. Lewis Baloh, of Albany, in a re
view of the medical evidence in the cele
brated Billings murder case, alludes to
the curious fact that a ball of a given
oaliber fired through glass may a
hole enough smaller than the full size
of the ball before firing to prevent an
unfired ball of like caliber passing. Dr.
Balch notes seen “ q base ball,
thrown with great force and having a
rotary twist, make a round hole through
an ordinary window light, and when the
ball was tried to be again passed through
the same opening the hole was neany
one-third too small.”
The English antiquary, John Aubrey,
who wrote about the middle of the sev
enteenth century, says that in his time
most of the houses in the West End of
London were protected against witehes
and evil spirits by having horse-shoes
fastened to them in various ways. It
was the belief that then, no witch- qivw'U
o vuiua coma cross the threshola which
was protected by the shoe. The fact is
that the superstition has been traced
about so far back, and then we find it
lost in the obscurity of the ages. The
custom of nailing horse-shoes for luck to
all kinds of sailing craft is still in vogue,
and is religiously maintained to be a
wise and lucky measure. The supersti
tion goes further, by making it fortunate
for any one to find a horse-shoe, and the
good luck is increased with the number of
nails that are attached to the shoe when
it is picked up.
It is curious to note that Sootfc’s
earliest poems were published under the
title of William Scott. Still more curi
ous to note that he was not aware of this
until it was mentioned in “ Taylor’s Sur
vey of German Poetry.” Scott wrote to
Taylor, to remonstrate. “As to a na
tive of Scotland,” he writes, “ there are
few things counted more dishonorable
than abandoning his own name.” Tay
lor’s defence was, “If you had. seen tne
title-page of Goetz von Berliohingen,
printed in London in 1779, for Bell, 148
Oxford street, you would not have been
surprised at my blunder. It states the
play to have been translated from the
German, by Wm. Scott, Esq., advocate,
of Edinburgh. ‘The Lay of the Last
Minstrel ’ has the name of Walter Scott,
Esq., advocate of Edinburgh, prefixed.
That there [should be two Scotte, both
advocates, both of Edinburgh, and both
skilled in German, at a time when the'
study of that language was uncommon;
appeared to me improbable, and I there
fore inferred that the historic or bap
tismal name of this individual was
William, and his romantic or Arcadian
name was Walter.”
Earth-Eating Tribes.
M. Grevaux, a French naval surgeon,
has lately been exploring the northern
parts of South America, more especially
m the valley of the Orinoco and its afflu
ents. Among other facts of observation,
he states that the Guaraunos, at the
delta of that river, take refuge in the
trees when the delta is inundated. There
they make a sort of dwelling with
branches and clay. The women light,
on a small piece of floor, the Are needed
for cooking, and the traveler on the
river by night often sees with surprise
long rows of flames at a considerable
height in the air. The Guaraunos dis
pose of their dead by hanging them in
hammocks in the tops of trees. Dr.
Crevaux, in the course of his travels,
met with geophagous or earth-eating
tribes. The clay, which often serves
for their food whole months, seems to
be a mixture of oxide of iron and some
organic substances. They have recourse
to it more especially in times of scarcity;
but, strange to say, there are eager
gourmands for the substance, individ
uals in whom the depraved taste becomes
so pronounced that they may be seen
tearing pieces of ferruginous clay from
huts made of it and putting them in
their mouths.
They WDI Sin No More. ,
An Eighteenth Ward baker, John S.
Sapter, put up a job of exceeding cruelty
on the small boys who make life pleas
ant. for the residents in the vioinity of
Fullerton street and Broadway. Every
afternoon when the baker drew up at a
store, it was the reprehensible custom
of the wicked lads to mount the wagon
in the owner’s absence, and appropriate
whatever samples of pie and ginger
snaps came .in their way. One afternoon
four of the* boys were at there post
when the baker arrived. A half
dozen pieoes'were . suspiciously easy
to gfet at, but the guileful “ kids H had
no thought of wrong in others, and,
with many expressions of satisfaction,
fled to a contiguous ravine with the pro
vendor, and in a remarkably short spaoo
of time had coiled round the indigesti
ble. Their sensation of repletion was
all too brief. The baker had seasoned
bis pastry with tartar emetic, and the
only reason the young bandits retained
their shoes was because they were tied
on. The agony ended at last, and four
woe-begone, pallid-faced small ones,
with stomachs as empty as the promise
of a politician, but their hearts filled
with intentions of future honesty and
uprightness, crept and tottered toward
their respective homes. Cleveland
Leader.