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t were not yet dry,
fiio misty summer morning, or ever the sun
was nitfD,
As I looked along the road whereby I must
presently go, J
And saw how groat was the journey, how
fiercely the noon would glow,
Life felt too heavy a burden, and I so weary
and worn, J
vv cary before I had labored, and longing for
night at morn. ' 11
Wcar L* ef ?f° 1 had lab °red; but labor ha*
brought me rest,
And now lam eager to do my work with
the best. •
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strive with the best:
Now is the tiino lor labor; hereafter remain
ein a rest.
CROCODILES IN FLORIDA.
Tlieir Immense Size—Attacking a Boat—
Hides and Teeth—A JU<le on a Cayman.
“I shot that crocodile in Key Bis
cayne, Florida, last month,” a
dealer in curiosities to a couple of cus
tomers.
"Alligator, you mean,” said a by
stander.
‘‘No; crocodile.”
“ Never heard of one in Florida.”
“Well,” was the reply, “I won’t go
into the particulars of your ignorance,
as you’re perhaps excusable. Crocodiles
in Florida certa nly are a late discovery,
and to-day there is not one man in a
thousand that knows they can be found
there.”
“How is it they have never been
seen?” asked one of the group of listen
ers.
“ In the first place,” said the croco
dile hunter, “they ain’t so common;
and in the second place, when the aver
age sporting man sees an ugly critter
before him ten or lifteen feet long, ho
ain’t apt to examine into specific differ
ences. The first crocodile brought from
Florida is in the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington. Any one can see it,
and (here’s a big difference between
them and alligators. Even the Indians
and ‘Crackers’ know the difference.
They call the crocodiles ‘long-nosed
’gators,’ and that’s just where the
difference comes in. The scientific
name is Crocodilus acutus, from their
sharp nose. Their habits are unlike the
’gators’. These lie around up the riv
ers in fresh water, but the crocodiles
live in the salt marshes. The way we
came across them was all by accident.
\VVd been a sponging on the reef,
ami it coining on to blow from the
north'ard, wo put into Key Biscayne,
and lay in the lee of the key. It blew
for three days, and ♦hen we went ashore
for water, and put the dingy up a creek
or kind of bay that set in. The place
grew narrower as we pulled in, and was
overgrown with bay cedars and man
groves. I was just thinking about jump
mg overboard to haul the dingy ashore
when we ran into something. The
shook knocked me over onto the bows,
and before 1 could get up I heard a
splash, au my ma'e veiled ‘Down
bridge! I —he used to be skipper of a
canal boat—and a 1 hands ducked,
dropping oars and everything, and the
tail of a ’gater came over the boat and
knocked out the row-locks, and would
have knocked a man’s head off. We
lav close, 1 tell you. The boat half
tilled. The creature made three or four
hits at us with its tail, and then made
off. When we looked over the rail
there was the biggest’gator I ever saw.
The boat was eight feet long, and the
creature was longer than the boat- As
soon as we recovered we—”
“Followed him up, eh?”
“No,” replied the story teller, “we
pulled for the shore in short meter. The
gator got off’ into deep water, but the
next day we t ame back and I had a shot
at him. He got off and up the creek
still further, but I put a bullet into this
one I have here. As soon as we picked
him up all hands noticed the difference,
but most of us didn't think it was a
crocodile. It was, however, and there’s
a heap of them right there waiting to be
caugh\ But no more crocodiles tor me;
1 m satistied with ’gators. They ain’t
so ugly, and there’s a savage look about
a crocodile that ain’t pleasant. Now, a
gator will come up, lay her and
walk off, but with a crocodile it’s an
other story. She stays right near the
nest, and pays it a visit four or bve times
a day to see if things are going on all
right. She sort o’ stands by to see fair
play, while the sun does the hard work,
o hen they do come out, the old one
will scratch around in a clumsy way,
and try to help them out, all the time
making a kind of barking sound as if
she was encouraging them to break
through, and it does nave that effect.
“ 1 never heard of the voice of a croc
odile,” broke in the objectionist.
‘‘Well, voice they have,” continued
the speaker. A man that lives on the
Miami River told me that he heard a
yelping and barking one day 7 on the key.
and thinking a pack of fox hounds had
got lost he followed it up, to find it was
a big she crocodile; and that’s the sound
they make, a k’nd of yelping bark.
hen the young come out, she gives the
PtTottd to industrial latent, the Pinion ♦! Truth, the Establishment f Justice, and the Prmrrati fa Peeples’ Gerernmeut.
word and off they go after her like
chickens after a hen. The young croc
oir.les are even fed by the old one by
food disgorged. The males show a
cieat taste tor their own kin, and some
big fights are seen between the male and
emale over the young Anybody to
see one on land wouldn’t think they
could get around, but that’s their strong
hold. They don’t lie around like a
£ator, but stand erect on their leo-sand
jump bodily, and in doing so,° they
crook up their backs in a curious posi-
The crocodile from Florida is similar
to those found in the swamps of
•Jamaica, and should not be confused
with the cayman of Northern South
America. Thu specimen in the Na
tional Museum at Washington is per
fect, and was set up by Prof. Ward, of
Rochester. The upper part is dark
brown, with a yellowish white under
surface: the upper parts of the legs are
ot deep yellowish tints, green and
white. Jhe eyes show a curious mem*
brane analogous to that found in birds,
which are not so far from the reptiles as
is generally supposed. The mouth is
extremely large: the teeth, are sharp,
those iu the middle being the largest
and formed for hartl work. It is said
that though the alligator grows with ex
treme rapidity, the crocodile grows at
the rate of twelve inches in nine months.
The cayman and gavial are relations of
the above, the latter being the largest,
specimens of which having been seen in
the Nile twenty-five and even thirty feet
long, their long, narrow jaws containing
120 sharp teeth. The marsh crocodile
of India is much dreaded, and, judging
from the skull of one in the British
Museum, which is nine feet long, it is
safe to promise for its owner a total
length of thirty three feet. In taking
food the crocodiles are much livelier
than the alligators, and" those of the
West Indies have been seen to toss
their food in the air, catching it skill
fully. They rarely attack people out of
v ater. but there is a case on record in
which a priest was followed, the reptile
gaining on him by taking the most sur
prising leaps, bending its back after the
fashion of a cat, and making such good
tone that the bewildered clergyman,
after rushing round in a circle in vain
attempts to avoid it, was obliged to take
to a tree, where he was watched for
some time.
Waterton, the naturalist, has prob
ably the unenviable distinction of being
the only person who ever rode a cay
man barebacked. In his “Wanderings”
he says:
“ 1 placed all the people at the end
cf the rope and ordered them to pull
until the cayman appeared at the sur
face of the water. He plunged furi
ously as soon as he arrived at these up
per regions, and immediately went be
low again upon their slacking of the
rope. I saw enough not to fall in love
at first sight, and now told them we
would have him on shore immediately
at all risks. They pulled again and out
he came— 4 Monstrum horrendum in
formed By this time he was within
two yards of me. I saw he was in a
state of fear and perturbation, and I
instantly' dropped tlie mast, sprang up,
and leaped upon his back, turning half
around as I vaulted, so that I gained
my seat with my face in a right por
tion. I immediately seized his fore
legs, and by main force twisted them
on his back; thus they' served me as a
bridle. He now seemed recovered
from his surprise, and, probably fancy
ing himself in hostile company, he
lashed the sand with his long tail. I
was out of reach of the strokes by be
ing near his head, but he continued to
strike and plunge, making my seat very
uncomfortable. It must have been a
fine sight for an unoccupied spectator.
The people roared out in triumph, and
were so vociferous that it was some
time before they heard me tell them to
pull me and my boast of burden fur
ther inland. I was apprehensive the
rope might break, and then there would
have been every chance of going down
to the regions under the water with the
cayman. The people now dragged us
abo e forty yards on the sand; it was
the hist and'last time I was ever on a
cavman’s back.”
By a decree of fashion the crocodile
and alligator have become familiar, and
the demand for the'r hhles exceeds the
supply. Boots, shoes, bags, trunks,
belts and innumerable articles are made
from it. It is d\ ed in many tints, but
the natural shade is the most desirable,
assuming with age a rich chestnut tint.
Not only are the hides valuable, but the
teeth are made into jewelry, and it is a
common sight to see, awaiting the
Northern express at Baldwin, Fla., a
youth with shirt studs, neck-tie pin,
sleeve-buttons and caue head of croco
dile teeth, while his grip-sack is per
haps from the same unfortunate rep
tile. Certain African tribes also affect
the teeth, only they are worn in the
nose and around the neo.k. — N. Y Sun.
—A soldier confined in an English
prison for desertion h..s written a plea
for pardon based wholly on the ground
that his absence from duty was much
lengthened by inability to surrender
hiinself, as nobody would take him back.
He says he walked from London to the
headquarters of his regiment, and pre
sented himself to the guard, who growled
that he “knew nothing about deserters. ’
At the main guard room he was told
that he could not be taken in; he must
g.ve himself up to the police. So he
started toward London again, meeting
a constable in Lewisham road, who tola
him: “You’re no use to me, anyway,
now.” Finally he gave 1 imself up at a
police court.— Chicago Herald .
—When necessity ends, curiosity be
gins, and no sooner are we supplied
with everything that nature can demand
than wo sit down and contrive artiticial
appetites.
Lathrop’s Disgrace.
Dwight S. Lathrop entered the em
ploy of the Central Railroad or New
Jersey two years and a half ago. Judge
Francis S. Lathrop, recently deoeased,
was at that time managing the company
under his powers as Receiver. The
young man was his nephew, and he gave
him a comfortable position at about
$1,500 a year,making him nominally an
assistant to the Treasurer of the compa
ny, having, however, duties of his own
and not liable to orders or supervision
from any superior officer. He had en
tire charge of the sale of commutation
tickets. This is a source of especially
great revenue to the Jersey Central, and
the moneys handled by the young
nephew of the Receiver aggregated
enormous sums. But he was implicitly
trusted and there was no one to demand
of him any official accounting. Neither
was he under any bonds. His manners
were pleasant and he quickly became a
favorite with everybody in the office.
Since his disgraceful departure various
stories have been publicly circulated
picturing his manner of life in wretched
colors. The fact is that he was always
rated as an exemplary young man. So
far as known, his habits were all to his
credit. He did not swear, he never
drank, and only smoked when it was
necessary to oblige some generous
friend. He was held up to the other
clerks as an ideal, a virtuous, reliable,
moral young man. No extravagances
were charged to him. lie lived modest
ly in a Staten Island boarding-hou-e,
and seemed to care absolutely nothing
for the small vices which are so easily
acquired in a great city. Now that he
has turned out as he has, the opinion is
held by those best informed as to his
conduct that he was a cool, calculating
thief, and that the greater part of the
$20,000 he stole is safely stored away
and at his command. His thefts, so far
as they can be traced, extend back near
ly a year. He had a very simple plan
of operation. From day to day he kept
out a certain sum from all commutation
ticket receipts and certified to the com
pany that the amount of income received
by him was the reduced sum. If the
receipts for a certain day aggregated
SI,OOO, he turned over to the company
say SBOO, and the other two gravitated
into his own pocket. The company’s
books would show sales of commutation
tickets amounting to SBOO. So he car
ried things at the dictates of his own
sweet will, and so about $5,000 was
stolen.
When Receiver Little was recently
elected President of the company he
decided upon a change of routine man
agement at the main office. He appoint
ed an auditor and the clerks were noti
fied that their books were to be officially
examined. A little more than a month
ago this intelligence reached young
Lathrop. He was at that time doing
special vrork for a sick clerk, whose duty
it is each afternoon to deposit in bank
tbe funds of the company. Three days
he did this duty, and then suddenly lie
announced his desire to make a little
visit to his parents at Northampton. He
left the city for this avowed purpose four
weeks ago yesterday, promising to re
turn to work on the following Tuesday.
This promise he broke, and a week
passed bv with no word., from him. By
accident almost a casual examination
was made of his books. There were
found the evidences of crime,and a little
later it was discovered that the deports
he made at the bank had been for much
less sums than had been given him. He
had simply changed the face of deposit
tickets and added $15,000 or so to his
personal fortune. His father had been
informed of the sad facts so far as they
were known before the final revelations
as to the manipulations of the deposits.
When he learned of the further crime
he was obliged to confess that he could
not make the deficit good his own
fortune except by impoverishing him
self and family, but the old man did
not give up all hope. He did all he could
to prevent publicity, and secured the
consent of the railroad officers to allow
him to try to find his missing son, be
lieving that on his person would be found
the greater part of the stolen $20,000.
Two weeks have gone by, however, and
no trace has been secured of the embez
zler. — N. Y. Time*.
A Judicious Wife.
A judicious wife, says Raskin, is al
ways nipping off from her husband’s
moral nature little twigs that are grow
ing in wrong directions. She keeps him
in shape by continued pruning. If you
say anything silly she will affectionately
tell you so. If you declare that you will
do some absurd thing, she will find some
means of preventing yon from doing it.
And by far the chief part of all the com
mon sense there is in this world belongs
unquestionably to women. The wisest
things a man commonly does are those
which his wife counsels him to do. A
wife is a grand wielder of the moral
pruning kntfe. If Johnson’s wife had
lived, there would have been no hoard
ing up of orange peel, no touching all
the posts in walking along the streets,
no eating and drinkiDg with disgusting
voracity. If Oliver Goldsmith had been
married he never would have worn that
memorable and ridiculous coat. When
ever you find a man whom you know
but little about oddly dressed, or talking
absurdly, or exhibiting eccentricity of
manner, you may be sure that he is not
a married man, for the corners are
r unded off, the little shoots pared
away, in married men. Wives have
generallv much more sense than their
husbands, even though they may be
clover men. The wife’s advice is like
the ballast that keeps the ship steady
Kural New Yorker.
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
Failures at School.
A boy named William Elnei died not
long since in New York under circum
stances of terrible significance to every
parent. He had passed into the gram
mar school in the autumn or winter, and
was ambitious to reach a high grade in
the next June examinations, in order
that his portrait might appear in a cer
tain school journal.
He studied out of school late into the
night, giving himself but two hours in
the day for recreation. As the examina
t ons approached, the nervous strain up
bn him became more exhausting, until
one day he sank down at his desk, and
was carried home to die with cerebro
spinal meningitis.
During his delirium he recited his
lessons unceasingly, or scribbled prob
lems on his pillow. The strain must
have been terrible, as he was not a
weak or sickly boy, which was proved
by the fact that he lingered for weeks
in the grasp of a disease which often
proves fata l in a few days.
In the same week in which this boy
died, a young girl in a New York gram
mar school, failing to pass in her exam
inations, and made insane by her
mortification and disappointment,
threw herself into the North River.
Now the dullest observer must see
that a system of education w r hich pro
duces such destructive effects upon the
immature brains of ch ldren, is faulty.
The object of education is to strengthen
the mental faculties, not to cr p-.de
them by loading them with burdens
which they cannot cany.
Instead of this, the purpose too o'ton
seems tc be to a orce n the br efest
time the greatest amount of undigested
facts into the pupil’s mind, that he
make a brill ant show at examinat/ow.
By this course dull boys are urged .nto
a course of study j ossibie o ly to ex
ceptionally (lever boys. Unior.unately,
the majority of boys are not exception
ally clever, and the boys who are dull
at their books should be cons : dered, + or
they may have other ca ■ alii’ite i wh c’>
will be quite as use.ul in the worn! as
those of their more scholarly fellows.
It is the duty of every parent to watch
and control the training of his child. If
he has a quick brain and strong ambi
tion, like this poor boy, Elner.let him
be taught at home that there are higher
and broader aims before him than class
honors, or the publication of his portrait
in a school paper.
Accurate knowledge, sound physical
health, a cheerful temperament, and a
clear, calm, reasonable mind, should b
the real objects of youthful training,
and any feverish competition or petty
prizes which destroy these should be
avoided.
If a boy is naturally slow, and cannot
keep pace with his fellows, let him take
heart; learn what he can; learn that
thoroughly; and go forward toward
the manhood that awaits him. Out in
the big world where he is to play his
part it matters little whether his school
average was two or ten. If he is truth
ful and honest; if what he has learned
he has well digested, and he has shown
that he is not a sluggard if he is slow;
his work is ready and waiting for him
there, And the very qualities of slowness
and thoroughness may help him to a
higher places among men than if he had
been Dux every year at school.— Youth's
Cemvanion.
Waste in Feeding Corn-Fodder.
The amount of corn-fodder annually
wasted on every farm through careless
ness is very large. To throw it loosely
over the fence into the barnyard in
hopes that it may be eaten in place of
other provender is only to place it
where it can be picked over and finally
trampled under foot. It saves time
and labor, of course, to feed it .in that
manner, but it depends on the supply
whether such usage will enable the
faimer to < any his stock over winter
and bring them out in the spring in
good condition. The stalks are never
eaten when the fodder is given direetly
from the shock, but, after the blades
are selected from them, are waste I. It
is the judicious use of corn-fodder that
aids the hay to last till grass, and as
labor in winter is expensive, in a cer
tain sense, owing to the fact that l.ut
little out-door work can be done, the
preparation of the corn-fodder fo. feed
ing should be made an object on every
farm. For this purpose, f he cutters used
should be of a kind that not only cut
stalks into short lengths, but also crush
and tear them to piei es after they are
cut As most cutters do this, the man
ner of doing the work is well known.
As to the important e of so doing, it
can be safely stated that horses and
cattle will eat them when so cut and
crushed, especially if they are moistened
and sprinkled with bran or meal
and seasoned with a little salt. The
crushing tears the outer ha and cove mg
of the stalks in such manner that stock
will not i eject them. In fact, they be
come easily digestible, and when fed
in connection with good hay will take
the i lace of it in proportion to the
quantity used. It is not claimed that
corn-foclder is a complete food, for
neither is hay, if animals are to be win
tered with the expectation of the best
results; but as all stock men make a
practice of feeding concentrated food
in addition to coarse prov nder, corn
fodder answers a good purpose when
it is prepared, and, while the item of
labor is to be considered, it should be
remembered, also, that it is much
cheaper to keep laborers at work on a
farm than to purchase hay, and, as the
whole of a corn-stalk can be made
serviceable, there is no reason why we
should allow any portion to go to waste,
especially at times when the stock of
hay is insufficient for the winter’s de
mand. —lndiana Sentinel,
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Philip Phillips, the “singing pil
grim,” has been giving “song sermons”
in Exeter Hall, London.
—“Sophie May,” whose fresh and ani
mated stories for children have long de
lighted the little readers, is Miss Re
becca S. Clarke, of Norridgewoek,
Maine.— Detroit Post.
—The Treasurer of the Norwich &
Western Railroad, Colonel George N.
Perkins, is ninety-four years of age, and
works daily. For seventy-five years he
has seen active service.
—Mr. William Thomas, the oldest
graduate of Hansard College, died at
Plymouth, recently, aged ninety-three
years and six months, from paralysis.
Mr. Thomas was graduated in the class
of 1807.—JY. Y. Post.
—Alva Noyes is the only survivor of
the war of 1812 soldiers in Brockton,
Mass., and the only soldier now living
who went to the defense of Plymouth at
that time. He was but a lad of fifteen
when he enlisted. —Boston Post.
—Joshua Miller, of Madisou County,
Va., is seventy years old, has had but
one spell of sickness in his life, never
took a drink of whiskey, coffee or tea,
never smoked a pipe nor cigar nor took
a chew of tobacco, and has not eaten
supper for twenty years.
—Peter Cooper, who was born in
New York February 1, 1791, when the
city had a population of 27.000, has
spent the past few months in preparing
liis autobiography. His health is excel
lent, and his mental machinery unim
paired.—N. Y. Graphic.
—The old nurse who rocked Horatio
Sevmour in his cradle lives on the res
ervation near Syracu-e. N. Y., and is
108 years of age. She has just suc
ceeded in getting a pension of eight dol
lars a month, with SIOO back pension.
Aunt Dinah is totally blind. —Buffalo
Express.
Counting Up llis Loss,
The claim for “indirect damages” at
the Geneva Conference made more dis
cussion than anything else, when En
gland was trying to settle with the United
States—and the energy with which the
point was pushed and resisted made the
phrase famous. The principle of “in
direct damages,” which are often more
than one’s direct loss by injury or acci
dent, is amusingly illustrated in tho
following from one of our exchanges:
There was a slight blaze on the roof
of a house on a side street a few days
ago, and when the assurance adjusters
went up to make their survey they found
that about two dollars would cover all
the loss.
“Two tollar!” exclaimed the owner,
when he heard the decision; “I can’t
take no two tollar.”
“But you see for yourself that a few
shingles and an hour’s work will make
good all damages.”
“Gentlemens, you don’t put me off
like dot. Vhen my vhife finds dot der
house vhas on fire she screams boleece
und falls down sthairs. Would you
let your vhife fall down sthairs for dot
sum?”
“We do not insure husbands and
wives, but buildings, ’ was the reply.
“I know, but mine oldestpoy he runs
for der fire-box und falls a picket fence
oafer, und breaks his good clothes all to
pieces. Two tollar! Dot don’t pay me
for goming op here.”
“Yes, but we only pay for actual dam
ages.”
“Dot’s all I vhant. Who stole my
dog vhen my house vhas on lire? Dot
dog ish gone, und he vhas ten tollars
voit.” *
“We didn’t insure the dog.”
“Und may be you don’t insure dem
poys who sat on der feuce und called
out: ‘Dot old Dutchman’s red nose
haf set his house on fire!’ Do you I
expect take such sass like dot for two
tollar!
“Und vhen der firemens come here
dey break my clothes-line down mit ter
ladders, und dey spilt vasser all oafer
my carpets.
“Two tollar! Vhell. vhell, you go
right avhay from here, und I takes dot
old insurance policy und puts him under
der mudt!” Youth?a Companion.
Anaesthetic Ballets.
A German chemist has invented a
new kind of ballet which, he urges, will,
if brought into general use, greatly di
minish, if not altogether remove/ the
horrors of war. The bullet is of a brit
tle substance, breaking directly it comes
in contact with the. object at which it is
aimed. It contains a powerful anaes
thetic, producing instantaneously com
plete insensibility, lasting for twelve
hours, which, except that the action of
the heart continues, is not to be distin
guished from death. A battle-field
where these bullets are used will in a
short time be apparently covered with
dead bodies, but in reality merely with
the prostrate forms of soldiers reduced
for the time being to the state of un
consciousness. While in this condition
they may, the German chemist points
out, be carefully packed in ambulance
wagons and carried oft as prisoners.
Whole cities may in like manner be re
duced to hopelessness by means of shells
charged with the compound. The anaes
thetic bullet is also strongly recommend
ed to the burglar and to the household
er, no risk of hanging being involved by
its use.—iSri James' 1 * Gazette
—A new composition lor tne piano Is
called “The Cyclone.” It mast have a
very violent “air,” and should be adapt
ed to the hand organ, to enable the Ital
ian patriot who manipulates the crank
to “raise the wind.” It is said tha f
after a voung lady played the stormy
piece fifteen minutes, she discovered
that it had tornado-or off the hinges.—
Burlington Hawkey e.
SUBSCRIPTION-II.SO.
YOL. X. NO. 11.
HUMOROUS.
—Christine Nilsson wears a tad and
troubled expression, with two rows of
pearl buttons down the center and
shirred around the bottom.— People's
Weekly.
—Late in the day, but better late than
never, it has just been discovered that
the reason why the Siamese twins got
married was because they could not re
main single.
—A dummy engine ran over a deaf
man in California recently. The deaf
man couldn't hear, and " the dummy
couldn’t speak. Hence the catastrophe!
—Detroit Free Press.
—On the Rue St. Lazare the other day
a chair was seen on which lay a hat
with the following notice: “Please don’t
forgot the poor beggar, who is just tak
ing his breakfast.”— Le Figaro.
—lt looked very gloomy Monday
morning. The sky "was heavy overcast
and a mist was falling, the air was chili.
But before noon an organ grinder ap
peared. How much we doubt, how lit
tle we trust.— Danbury News,
—The neighbors of a woman living
on State street, Hackensack, were un
able to ascertain how she sprained her
wrist until her six year-old son saids
“ There was a noise in the house last
night and pap thought it was burglars,
and he kept mam in front of him, and
she fell down stairs.”— Newark (N. J .)
Register.
—The poet wrote that she had a
lovely form, and the German compositor
got hold of it —the poem, not the form
—and informed the world that she had
a lovely farm. And that is why a lot of
young men of an agricultural turn com
menced to woo her for all they—or,
rather, all she was worth. — Puck.
—“I believe you are a foot, John,”
testily exclaimed Mrs. Miggs as her
husband unwittingly presented her the
hot end of a potato dish, which she
Eromptly dropped and broke. “Yes,”
e added, resignedly, “that’s what tho
clerk told me when I went to take
out my marriage license.”— Brooklyn
Eagle.
—A dry-goods clerk with a very af
fected gait nad to go to a distant part of
the store for some goo'ds for a party of
feminine customers. “Walk this wayr,
ladies,” he called, as he swung himself
off. “But we can’t walk that way,”
cried a pert miss; “we never learned
that style, you know.” The clerk is now
drilling on a more common method.—
Chicago Tribune.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
—Amarantus retroflexus, a weed
Which has secured a foothold over wide
areas, is cultivated by Arizona Indians
for its seed, which is quite prolific, and
has been fed to poultry in this State
with, it is thought, good fattening effect.
A recent analysis by Mr. BabcoCk shows
its root to be “particularly rich in pot
ash.”—N. Y. Tribune.
—lt is quite commonly believed that
in running a man descends at each stride
upon the ball of the foot, so that the arch
of the foot may serve as a spring to
break the shock. In his instantaneous
photographs, however, Mr. Muybridge
-l ows that either in walking, running
or jumping, man—like all other ani
mals so far observed—alights upon the
heel.—Sri Louis Olobe.
—Prof. Poafick, of Breslau, has been
clearing up some of the popular doubts
concerning mushrooms. He says that
all the common ones are poisonous, but
cooking deprives them of much of their
poison, though the water in which they
are boiled should be carefully thrown
away, and the esculent washed in two
or three waters. Dried mushrooms are
only safe after four months’ keeping.
—The Staked Plains are fast losing
their reputation for being a barren des
ert. Says the Crosby County (Texas)
Sun: “We learn from a gentleman
just in from that section that the colony
of Quakers who are settled on the
Staked Plains, in Crosby County, have
the finest crops this year that were ever
in Northern Texas. They have sent
word to the stockmen in that country
that t hey will sell corn at ten cents a
bushel less than it can be bought on the
railroad, and they will be prepared to
furnish any reasonable amount.”
—A man in Oregon has invented a
way to easily remove sand out of a river,
lie removed 22,000 cubic yards at a cost
of SI,OOO, while by dredging tbe cost
would have been SIO,OOO. The process
is to load a steamer by the stern, anchor
her head up stream, and then let her
turn her propeller. This loosens the
sand, which is carried away by the cur
rent. A steamer in that way deepened
the channel of the Columbia River
eighteen feet, by a width of seventy-five
feet, in twenty minutes.— Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
—Some scientific journals propose
that men of science should be called
“scientiates, and not “scientists, 1 ” and
that instead of osing the phrase “sci
entific studies/* we should rather em
ploy “sciential studies.” No donbt
these changes would harmonize our
expressions very closely with the Italian
scieoziati and scienziali, but it is ex
ceedingly questionable whether the
adaption of these new words would add
much to precision of statement, when
the words now in use have very definite
meanings attached to them.—Philadel
phia Press.
—The St l/ouls Republican says that
the wheat crop of Missouri this year
will be about 40,000,000 bushels, raised
on 2,000,000 acres of land. In the best
counties farms are held at from $25 to
*35 per acre, but in others from sl2 to
$lB per acre. By this it will be seen
that the wheat crop of the State is
worth as much as the land it is grown
on.