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VOL. I.
It has been estimated that I’atevson
turns out $100,000,000 worth of finished
silk goods annually, and that Swiss
manufacturers and workmen am being
Li riven out of the business in couse
querice.
According .
to the last report of Statin
ician Dodge, of the Agricultural Dc
lartment, the cotton crop promises to be
Pss than the previous one, but consider
blv larger than were the crops of 1833
Id 1884.
5 uiv in
CD this season. A party of four
ters recently returned from the woods
langor, altera short trip,wit?a twelve
! tatcvv/oi’s ,l; handsomest rte.-r ever se|a by the
reporter.
Aliss Frank Seacoy, a humble woman
in very indifferent circumstances, living
* Nebraska -v- $ village, ...
in a had . . , her well ,,
cleaned out one day last month, and her
chickens busied themselves amid the
gravel and clirt that was heaped not far
irom it, and scratched away after their
kind. A few days later Aim. Seaeoy
killed one of her flock for supper, and in
its crop was a nugget of very good gold,
as big as a lima bean. The astonished
woman at once had the land examined
by an expert, and the result was satisfac
tory enough to authorize her to have a
gold claim duly laid out and cherish the
vision in her breast of cashmere shawls
and diamonds for the rest of her life.
A reporter for the New York Evening
Post has been visiting the new laboratory
an course of construction at Orange,
14- J-, by Thomas A. Edison, the in
ventor. The main buildings consist of
three separate structures, each one about
100 feet long by .10 feet wide, four
stories high, and built of brick in the
most substantial manner. They are sup
. plied with every deviqc for experi
mental work which the Lcient'fie mind
can imagine. The bu Wing will bo
heated by steam and lig! tedby e'ectric
ity. Steam power will be supplied to
all the machinery; a lozen separate
laboratories will be fitted up with every
known apparatus for experimental work,
in physics or chemistry and scores of
experts, brought from all parts of tho
world, wirt qtand ready! to place their
1 .1 !!. r,riV.:i - ,.'p»- ij■ vi,' Tis>;
materials with vrAch the stortrborns are
to be stocked, tjere have been thousands
and thousands of dollars spent, and if
Edison does not have every needful
sirticle used in his science, it will not he
1 he fault of his assistants. He has given
directions to go through half a dozen
works on chemistry, physics and
mechanics, and make a list of every
article specified. He will have every
kind of iron and steel, every kind of
known wood, every kind of glass, every
metal in all their different shapes, every
stone, every variety of clay, chalk, every
vegetable substance that may be of use,
from the firs of the Arctic regions to tho
giant grasses of the Amazon. At any
moment he may require some almost un
heard of material and he aims by this
wonderful collection, the list of which
already reaches 8,000 items, to provide
against annoying delays.
Some startling figures, taken from tlie
nation’s ledger, are thus revealed by the
Washington correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Times-Star' This is a big coun
try. If you don’t believe it, look over
a little volume of sixty pages just issued
by the Treasury Department, entitled :
“Receipts and Disbursements of the
United States foi the Fiscal Year Ended
June 30, 1886.’’ Over $1,000,000 a day,
including SunfLys. That is what -the
statement of receipts shows. The total
gross receiptsfoi the year were $371,403, -
277. That is se-eral millions more than
tlie year before, and, in fact, is more
than in any y«M except war times and in
1882 and 1833. s It brings the total re
ceipts of the Government, since it begun
in 1780, up fj> over 310,000,000,000.
Where does itq*mc from, did you say ?
The customs se, vice paid $218,000,000 of
it, the internal revenue $118,000,000 of
it, public lands $10,000,000, miscellane
ous $23,000,000. As to the other side.
The grand total of expenses is set down
at $267,000,000. That leavct>a net profit
for the year's business of over $100,000,
000. Of the disbursements $45,000,000
were for salaries . $*>8,000 OOj) for ordi
nary purposes, n llT nr, S p« ^14,000,0V! i,(,o nan 1 r for public ,
works, and .,13 >,000.000 for “unusual
and extraordinary expenses,” meaning
pension-, war claims, headstones for
soldiers’ ' f craves maintenan/-,. cc r,r fso.dieis ,, ,
homes, . etc. There are some curious points
among the incidentals of the expendi
tures. It shows for instance the salaries hi
of the much “ro-ined about nm “!, y *“ b
i less than fh $v,o00,000 no -do nor. a year, while those
of the AVar Department are four times as
much, and those of the treasury officials
tei/times terftunes as -ts much much as as the the naw navy salaries.
The salaries and mdeage of members of
Congress are over $3,000,000 a year.”
GRAY’S STATION, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY l , 1888 .
IT makesthe burdens lighter.
“bet me carry your pail, my dear,
Brimming over with water!’’
“No! I’ll take hold and you take tldl
Answered the farmer’s daughter.
And she would 1 save her own sweet way,
As her merry eyes grew brighter
So she took hold and he took hold
And it made the burden lighter.
And now Uiey’re at the eve of life,
While the western skies grow brighter;
F6r she took hold and he took hold,
j And it made tho burdens lighter.
A SHIFTING ROMANCE,
BV It. S-. FLEMING;
Tit the front rboni of a Chicago fiat,
known to the occupants thereof as “The
'Tunnel,” owing to the redundancy of
at either end, and the perpetual
twilight pervadmg all the interior por
tions. tii:ee o*irls were seated—Me"
Alice, painting; Kate, polishing her nails; ami
window, propped speaking, upon the sofa in the bay
•‘I don’t know that I can do better
than to take you, Aleg, foryou seelmust
have a heroine. To be frank, your
nature is really not complex enough for
a first-class analytical study, but 1 shall
have to make the best of you, and keep
your First, beauty well in the foreground.
of course, you must be discovered
and the described, so I will now introduce to
attention of my readers Arargaret
Dillingworth, maiden’s seated at an easel. The
sinuous figure is robed in black,
but over all flows a voluminous apron of
Turkey-red cotton, which envelops her
lonn like a flame. She is young; the
second daughter of a poor but worthy
mother, and the proud possessor of one
accomplishment and two incomparable
J 8, ^ 1 ? * 8 Present engaged in
, by £°Py itt
, e a
Who wishes some d’o'rt forherZaZ
x°r>4cc! a bZL ,m lden h Megr™i fatal a “ibf
chance ! aS !°” le mis ‘
placed i a touch . of Prussian blue
HP 0 ” golden locks of the tea-store
tn flrini' 10SC nmurmurmgly Smi 6 1 ^ U i CeS ^ decoction cus a tome of ^
v 1 a
iZl , Z And for
now my
T n v° U a g iUnst disap
’
t, /o' 1 know you are a poor
fhosVZhi'ri tU , b< ;w 0klng f ? r anyof
b I y f.nc'T’. x? Uths ei SS that V °U a PP mU ear t ln ,t /Oman- rus i t0
lurk 1 will '
trusfc » I lu ck, and j the first
man who passes this window shall be
■your fate,”
0 womcn_ passed the window.
' Atn t a mt^^drim man passed tho
j,,...
“ Brothcr-ia law I salute «,*»>» ‘ Cned e • l
Attr-o U ° 1D ckaU v . ^
® s
b ldlDS ' «wu Why ’ glrs , ’ heis
comino-heie ,wLi ”' '
‘ coml • ng i. here? , AVhere . he. , ,,,
is
nsked niktogrt’a
"The^hero,” declared Artec trvinsr
3uS agent.’J i ’ J
book
“he “Ycs.^fumued is book 1 Alki eri med!tetiTCi e y'
a agent. He bears the wrt
ness in his hand Ah' he summons'
Margaret will ope'the portal”’
“No, I will not ’ ” answered WCred Men Meg ’ with * ltb
decision
“Oh, go on!” cried Kate. “You are
awfully picturesque in that red apron.
Ye°s“ h Z Z d £ e h5 uZed
“ Z ” fakt A,
" Seeing i,Ln,Z’°°: v apron he b " mav m uke
,o, r > )oa von
hall, Meg, rising languidly, went into the
maul opened the front door, and with her
stick in hand, stood like a young
Minerva. From shoulder to foot hung
tlie straight folds of her Mother Hub
bard apron. Confronting this
figure was a very civil young man, with
a shawl-strap package of three large books in
“ I would like to see Mrs. Winslow,”
began the civil young man.
“Airs Winslow does not live here,”
responded Minerva, calmly. “She lives
next door: but the family are away at
present. The house is closed.”
1 he hero of Alice’s story looked some
what disconcerted.
“I did not know they were out of
town,” he remarked, and then added,
hesitatingly: here--” “1 have some books
goddess “Subscription wisdom, copies?”interrupted the
of coolly.
At this the hero smiled so suddenly
and merrily that the goddess’s face took
fire from her apron.
— “Some law-books that I borrowed
from Winslow, ’lie resumed. “I brought
them over on my way to the train,”
fumbling his watchpocket nervously,
“and I scarcely know what to do with
theim”
“You can leave them here—that is, _ if
you would like to, ” faltered Minerva,
with less dignity than became her role.
The young man brightened.
“If I could,” he said, “it would be a
P reat favor - I will try and call fot.thcm
0 n Monday, and relieve you of their
care.”
Meg bowed, and he added:
“May I not know to whom I am so
much indebted; ’
Meg hesitated, held while the girls behind
the portiere their breath.
“I dare say it is best that you should
know with whom you leave the books, ’
! he sald ’ wilh dignity. “My name is
Margaret Dillingworth.”
She fancied he was about to give her
his name in return, when the postman
came "P the * te P s » and as «he turned to
receive some letters, the young man raised
kis hat and , veut ftway .
“Sex, female; color, white: age,
twenty-two,” added Alice, as the door
closed. "Margaret Haines Dillingworth,
come here this instant and tell me what
you think of yourself for giving your
name to a total strangCr, and arranging
for him to come here "on Monddy.”
“Alice, you are positively ridiculous!”
cried Meg. “Bridget, shall go to the
door on Monday. I shall not.”
And she did not. For Monday passed,
and several Mondays passed, and the
young man had not yet called for the
books.
In the meantime the Dillingworths
had moved. Only just across the street
into another flat, which was so exactly
the counterpart of the one they had left,
tion that of the the girls said it was like another sighed sec
Same tube, and they
for pneumatic pressure to shoot their
movables into the new positions.
There was a new sensation in the Dil
Yes, iingwortli family. Alice had an admirer.
Alice! She who aspired to literary
fame, and looked to Boston with such
reverence that her sisters declared that
she would never—no, never—enter that
sacred city without continued and
deprecatory genuflections.
Kate, who had accompanied Alice to
three or four “literary evenings,” was
the one to make the announcement.
just “You devoted should see him, Meg! Of lie is
as as Can be. course,
not in a very open way—that wouldn't
evenings please Alice, you know—but for four
now he has paid her marked at
tention. He comes over to us as soon 11 s
he can make an excuse, and then he stays
until some one else actually crowds him
away. I think He hardly looks at me. I declare,
You’ve I might have an adventure.
books—-or got your young man with the
at least you have the books.
Alice is provided with an admiring
swain, while I—have only Kate Dilling
worth—a young person I am very tired
“You are too young to be thinking of
stitth ittatters,” remarked Meg, very un
sympathetically; “but say, Kate, if I tell
Lrt Artcet”^ ^ ^ P” “ 0t *°
hoaoras a gcnt,em:in ’” af -
lir
“Well,” said Meg confidentially, “I
saw the book agent last week.”
“Where?” cried Kate, eagerly.
“Where do you think? Over across
the street, walking past our deserted
flat. It was Sabbath afternoon. He
stared in the windows until he saw the
age nf s sign 0 n the door, walked on
P ast *and finally turned and came down
the him street through again.' Here I was watching
the curtains, and all the
timehisbooks on om- hall shelf.”
- ltar What , . do , you suppose _ he thinks?
-j wish the Winslows
’
m Meg. •hould-meet “I shif )U ,.-ieet terribly confused
KJ l'ke a thijrsi.” him anywhere.
theny “W&fl, lie ought to have come lor
whsn he said he would,” declared
KeAfe, stoutly. “It serves him right.”
After a pause, Meg asked:
BaSJf >? ls he S oodd °o k ing?” 8d “ im ’
v „
leavC v* *,° ,‘ir call and •? r Ahce Alic said tf he ml *« 2 ht
>
That same evenin ”’ Me S* who had
gone ol ’ e r to * he corner dr f *ore for
some postage . stamps, came home again,
let herself in with the latch-key, and
fllu H r ' n " of I her hat, entered the parlor
where she had left her mother and ICate.
tXrtmson^sTe room was now solely occupied by
“dTs ImZtrsdf ^^^w aJsZ hTrn^ Sd?" but J hi
“ Wel! ‘ 90 you have follnd " s out -
■>«»•!,
“ Y ou didn’t know how much trouble ;
I was willing to take to find you, ’ he an
and at that moment was aware ;
tha \ Alice was in the room.
looked inquiringly at Meg, and
said somewhat stiffly to the visitor:
food evening, Air. Bartley. Veg
stared, and Alice added; “Isee.it »*;
unnecessary to introduce my sister ’
But it isn’t unnecessary! ” cried Meg.
“ 1 “® var mw him but once in
a H d that was the day he left the books. I
su PP”® e h" bad come for them to night.
• The books, echoed Alice. ' 1 M hat j
books! !
«i* Why, the law-books belonged he left the with Win-1 us
weeks ago, that to
slows. Don’t you remember? ”
B ith Alices understanding of the ;
question came the quick suspicion that;
s be had been used to bring about an ac j
quaintance with her sister, whom Mr.
Bartley had seen the day he left the j
books.
“ And I didn’t even know that he was i
Mr. Bartley added until you spoke his name j
just I now,” dure that Meg. Mr. Bartley knew that
-‘ say
he had left bis books with my sister,” re
marked Alice, and that gentleman did
not Alice contradict her. her that night feel- j
went to room
ing a little sore. Not that it amounted I
to much, but no one likes to be used as a !
tool. It had all been very pleasant, too, 1
and she admitted to herself what an
element he had been in the brightness of ;
the literary it had evenings. been Meg, Of and course, from
the first she didn’t
blame Mr. Bartley. Any man with eyes
in his head could see that Meg was sur
passingly that lovely. time there certain i
From were
changes noticeable in the Dillingworth j
household. Meg wore her gray dress;
oftener of evenings, and a certain alert- .
ness pervaded bell the family after group the hour when
ever the door rang of |
8 c. When Afr. Bartley called, a-- h
often did, he usually made himself j
agreeable to the entire family, and if he ;
talked tlie, most, with Alice, he looked !
the radiant most with at Meg-Meg. each day. who Sometimes grew more I
Mr.
Bsrtiev brought with him Air. Spencer, j
a friend and an artist, who likewise
talked with Alice and looked at Meg
One night, as the family were going
down to the Academy Exhibition to set
Mr. with Spencer’s headache, picture, Alicfi was seizet 1
for solitude—so a together with a desire
unattainable with a
large family in a small flat—and decided
to retrain at home.
After they were all gone, she ; made
herself comfortable in a huge
drawn up before the '.rate where an open
fire danced merrily over its own grave
and threw cheery gleams of polish on the
fender And furniture
A ring at the door hell gave her an un
pleasant start from a fertile reverie and
the appearance Of Mr. Bartley did not
tend to Compose lief
“I hear that you arc atone,*’ lie slid,
as he came into the fire-lighted room.
“Pray don’t turn up the lamp. The
room is so pleasant as it is.”
“I fear you are not sincere," responded
Alice, ‘‘for I have heard a married lady
of Wide experience say that as a rule
gentlemen twilights do not enjoy firelights and
that are such a solace to ladies ”
“I declare myself, then, the exception
to the rule,” he remarked, taking a seat
near her. "But you are pale. Are you
not ivcll?”
“Ihave a slight headache,” admitted
Alice, “brought on by unreasoning par
ticipation That in honey and hot biscuit.
is the reason that I did not iic
company my mother and sisters to the
Academy this evening.”
“Tour enemies are my friends,” de
clared Mr. Bartley. “I owe to honey
and hot biscuits the first opportunity in
our icpuaiatance of seeing you alone.”
“But, I was not alone even before you
I but camej itroring in,” said the Alice, implication flushing in a his little,
re
mark. “I was spending the evening in
the Iso defy of my two old friends,
dyspfepeia futu occasion, and headache. I On some
ire when have had more
have disc tjetion private than appetite, interview; we may but possibly
a
we arc four.”
He smiled indulgently at her fancy.
“I believe you would jest at the most
seridus misfortune that could befall you,”
he sdid.
“I ‘ djon’f ‘Perhaps,” <
know. HH wonder what would
be could |he la rail most serious The most misfortune serious thing that
me.
that has befallen me yet is to have my
j stories s. turned. I don’t jest when that
j happens think lj#ft»mid 1 assure the*other you. What do you
markeixnat day? She re
'v-'-iting for the magazines
secmerfU / business with ah
solute;/ surd • returns• thhat was pretty
very goo&looking, .is although, ..a,-bright of girl, and
beauty such Miss course,
not a as Margaret. ’
“There! it’s coming!” groaned Alice,
inwardly. “Brace yourself for some
rhapsodies, is Alice Dillingworth.” “No
one beautiful when compared with
Meg,” she said, aloud. “I have noticed
that all other women in a room become
^n»h« enters it.”
“I had not observed that she produced
And such ... ■ , ?.., said
® h ® has " nusaall v «?« eyes.” ho
d 2; ft -
f ’““Bemuu n t tual S ° ey eyes,^ 9 e “ b^dog’revT'to^sl tmt aog s- eyes—to use
what I fancy to be a most flattering com
I urisor - Lyes that are capable of work
mg awful havoc among the most im
P™*™* takingb^dfeye^offn thou
„ u Sin3 V0II wer£
crfcd /lice “And yet I fancy
y °" Sr “ not beyond the influence of hi
He looked at her inquiringly, ?
wt lna ( be , am ’ h( Raid: u bu ,
;f lt ig no too un „ allan ti j wiU sav tha ,
j am rot suffering from the ravages ol
the eym under discussion.”
Alice glanced quickly at him. and then
looked into the fire. “Men’s hearts are
made of adaraante,” she observed, sen
te.itioadv, f and then added, “what is
tho wmt iei . out this evening, Mr. Bart
[( . v
unfavorable to my going
] 10me before your mother and sisters ar
r j vc un ; ess , olll . t. W o friends here find
p rese nce insupportable,” remarked
Mr. Bartley cooijy.
.*jyiv ; friends* a^oi’ Oh ” laughing “they
left s ime time ° Didn’t you olv
serve!”
“So this, then, is a private interview?”
dclnanded eagerly.
“vVel), ye-, L believe it is,” she ad
, n -tterl, blushing, and feeling that hei
wits were de8ert j n g i, er .
f|z- rose, and leaned over her chair,
“Dear girl,” he said, -‘you must know
that I love you, and that it is no sudden
thing with me. Put a-ide your jesting
for a moment, and tell me if you cau
learn to care for me.”
chair. she sat She nervously upright the in her
surging flood was of really at mercy she would of a
emotion, lmt
not have been Alice if she had not rallied
enough to thought remark, rather wickedly:
“But I you expected me to
jest at the most serious misfortune that
could befall me; and if that misfortune
has arrived_”
worth Whereupon found herself the perverse silenced, Miss if Hilling
not con
vinccd. Mrs. Dillingworth and Kate
coming the in a few moments later, and find
ing situation only too confidence, palpable, were
immediately “Where taken into asked Alice,
few is Meg?” although after de- a
ploring. moments, noting, not
her sister's absence,
“Walking home in the moonlight with
Mr. Jjtkif'i. Spencer,” answered Kate._ Frank
Experiments are being made in Ytma
tan. produced Mexi o, with a new species of silk, i*
bv a wild silk worm that
closely allied to the domestic silk worm.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
A Use fur Grape Leaves.
“t wonder," says a lady who is inter
.esfed in household matters, “if house
wives generally use fresh, green grape
leaves to put on top of t heir pickles to
keep I used them sharp and free from mould,
to cover them with a flannel cloth
and r * nse h out every other day. Two
years ago a friend of mine told me that
”, ra l )C lcaves Wl ' ro much nicer, SO 1 tried
m ’ and sha| ! never tr v < ' 1 °th again,
Gni leaves .
l“ kce P l licklcs thu best ot
anything I change .
ever found. I them
ono c “ week * aud ,ho vinegar keeps sharp
", , ftud lm P»rts a nice flavor to
l>ioklt* . I the leaves in
rinse pure
water,and let them dram quite dry, then
“if them «>«* «?«*. P la< ’'' the jar.
' tay exclude (he air perfectly, and arc
better and cause less we* Han anything
Wse -
Corn Even'd in Rhyme.
Here is a rhymed recipe for corn bread
that, like the rhyme of the mo'fitbs, will
be much more likely to linger in the litlsy
brain of the housewife than any amount
of prose on the subject:
Two eiq>s of Indian, one cup of when
One cup sour milk, one cup sweet,
One good egg that well you beat,
Half a clip molasses, too,
Half a Clip sugar add thereto,
With ono spoon of butter new,
Salt and soda each a spoent!
Mix tip quickly and buke it sooit.
Then ytiu'll have: corn in-tynl complete,
Best of all corn bread you'll meet,
It will make your boy’s eyes shine
If he's like that boy of miiie.
If you have a dozen boys
To increase your household joys,
Double then this rule 1 should,
And you’ll have two corn cakes good.
When you’ve nothing else for tea
This the very tiling will be;
All the men that I have seen
Say Good it is of cakes the queen—
That enough for any king bring;
Warming a husband home can
up tho human stove,
Cheering And Up Tyndall tho h: arts you love;
The links only between can explain
corn bread and brain.
Get a husband what he iikps
And save a hundred household strikes,
Recipes.
Ginger Nitts. —Three pounds of flour,
three-fourths of a pound of butter rub
bed into one-half pound of sugar, one
pint of treacle, two ounces of ginger,
one-half a nutmeg, one-fourth of a lea
spoonful of cinnamon. Make the dough
stiff and knead it hard tor tea minutes;
cut into cakes and hake.
Turku*# in Gravy.—F eel and boil
some turnips in salted water, to. which
a half teaspoonful of sugar has been
added. Slice them half an inch thick
full rd KgWilS---’ of tC t Ur u *1 «U. Set.s^iu' kcth'mSl Jr,' ■ v
ft
penner poSr!»vcr and n trifle gwwHSrown of mace and 'ftrfv<'! sugar;
and when a pint of in rt ‘
unite hot serve them
()s
tefs ’„ liouor L and all in a pan ’ ! set them on
tn ... tl
|,„ji rnm( . verv eenr to it Nowdr iin
all the liquor into the soup kettle, and
u itl a )int of ncw mi iu, half a pound
L. J, - >”»
glUt to ta jugt volI are rcad y to
'ovst'rs' am addJd!
,,h ’ ays b(! tIu ’ last J ,at
j nto any soup,-stew ,J or fr cassce where
milk ’
is ll8 or it is a ,„. .
o ;, ysters should never be boiled, but only
so d ed; boiling makes them tough and
*.inks them up.
Useful Hi ms.
Keep salt in a dry place and cheese ill
a tin box.
Vinegar and salt will often restore tar
nished lire sets and brass work of all
kinds, when even the patent preparations
fail.
remove machine oil from cotton
goods rub the spots with hard soup and
soft water, as soon as they are observed,
and they can he easily taken out.
Boiled potatoes ought to belaid out on
a plate, mid are if then as good for frying If left
or mashing as freshly cooked.
heaped up they will often spoil in one
night.
A it.-mp of soda laid upon the drain
pipe down which waste water passes will
prevent the c ogging of the pipe with
grease, especia ly if the pipe he flooded
every week with boiling water.
For removing stains from oilcloth and
zinc, use kerosene, ft «iil soon evapor
ate and leave no odor. Kerosene may
safely be applied to the for exterminating most delicate
furniture and carpets
moths.
If you wall have pictures them hanging from against
an outer by protect tlie banks any with pos
sildc damp covering
sheet lead, or else keep them fronton
tact with the wall by corks fastened to
the lower ends of the frame.
A clean scrubbing brush is used for
removing the dust from a heavy carpet.
Hub violently across the grain the until dust the
dirt is removed, sweep, let set
tie, and then go over the carpet with a
damp cloth. This is quite as efficacious
ns beating.
Hose blankets should be used witl
ea tion on cribs and cradles. A two
year old child was thrown into convul
sions from eating the colored fuzz on the
Iwrders. A safe method is to haste a
band of white muslin or wash silk across
the top of the blanket.
A Domestic Idyl.
After the IirL.v brightened came how changed tho place!
The old man with u newer grace!
The roses grew more the thickly round the door,
And softer were sunbeam.-, on the floor,
l ull sweeter was the song of every bird
From that arid glad cooing day his in little such voice was delight^- heard
Crowing But there walking doneatnignt queer
was morn
After tb» baby name
-Harper's Bazar.
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MARJORIES.
“Oh, dear,” said Father Brown, one day,
"I never saw such weather!
The rain will spoil my meadow hay
And all my crops together.”
His little daughter climbed his knee,
“I guess the sun will shine,” said she.
“But if the sun,” said Farmer Brown.,.
“Should bring a dry September,
W itli vines and stalks all wilted down,
And fields scorched to an ember”
“Why, then, ’twill rain,” said Marjorie.
The little girl upon his knee.
“Ah, me!” sighed Fathov Brown, that fall,
“Now, what'a the use of living!
No plan of mine succeeds at all”
“Why, next month comes Thanksgiving
And then, of eourse,” said Marjorie,
“Wo’re all as happy as can be.”
“Well, what should I be thankful fort*’'
Asked Farmer Brown. "My trouble -
This summer has grown more and more,
My losses have been double;
I've nothing left”—“Why you’ve got me!”
Said Marjorie, upon his knee.
— Wide Awake.
PITH AND MINT
A piller of the church—A pious apoth
ecary.
The thing that a woman always knows
best, dress .—SomerviUe is how some other Journal. woman ought to
A married man can always pack a
trunk more easily than a bachelor. He
gets his wife to doit for him.
One doesn’t care much for the flattery
of a cannibal when he says: “You’re
good enough to cat. "—New York Dispatch.
An oatmeal trust has this been organized
in Canada. Where will gruel tyranny
of manufacture cud? ich Bulletih.
“A New Jersey man Its invented a
stove to carry in the hat.v Wanted to
utilize a stovepipe probably .—New Ilmen
Netrs.
We do not see what it is that a clock
is ashamed of, that it should be con
stantly striving to cover its face with
its hand .—Lowell Citixen.
“ AVhy can a man walk further on a
cold day than on a hot one? ” asked said the in
quisitive Jack. weather “Because,” makes him limp."
Major, “warm
It always bothers a Frenchman who is
learning English to rend one day that a
murder has been committed and the next
day that the murderer has been com
mitted .—New York Tribune.
Baint fa a monster of such frightful build
' "" ‘
place. ) v * ■* 1
.2 -ItenwftU
A Boon vtllc school teacher had a great
deal of trouble making a boy understand
his '® S80n - Finally, however, ho’ suc
ceeded, J and, drawing a long breath, re
marked: “If it wasn’t for me you would
hmuvllU bcthehigg CStfl onkeyinBoonville.”
Iimes -
He sang it with vigor,
“1 Ho sang it each day,
would not live always,
I ask not to stay,"
But when with a fever
And chills taken down,
He uuickly hud in all
The doctors in town.
—Boston Courier.
Keen Animal Senses.
A writer in Nature, commenting on
the experiments made upon the sense of
smell planation in dogs, suggests remarkable that results sonic ex
of the may
be found in the exclusive direction which
is given to the sense. Ho adds that in
the case of the dog, while there is little
brain-work going on to cause distraction,
the attention may be applied more
closely than in our own case; and thus
the dog may enjoy an apparent advant
age in respect of keenness of scent, In
connection with this topic the writer
makes these observations upon the con
duct of birds:
The sense of hearing in some birds
seemsas wonderful and discriminating watched as
that of smell in dogs, I have
with astonishment a thrush listening for
worms, as their manner is, and very
evidently hearing them, too, within two
yards of a noisy lawn-mower on the other
side of a small hedge of roses, i’robably
the worms came nearer to the; surface in
consequence of the vibration caused b.v
the machine—they arc said to do .so—
but that the thrush heard and did not see
was evident.
Hollins appear to be able to distin
guish the v oices of their own offspring and
and parents from n number of others,
at a great distance. 1 say appear, for in
such a case one cannot be quite sure,
still less can one give all tlie small details
of long-continued evidence in ob?ervation of it. that make
up the favor
All these cases have a common and
mysterious element. It is as if a window
were opened in one direction and all
others closed: or as if all the available
energy were directed along one narrow
path. At any rate Ihere is something
more than mere keenness of sense,
- —
A Lake , Turns Red and Fish Die.
At Castro Giovanni, in the Province
of Caltariisetta, in Sicily, a lake lias lie
come red iri color, and quantities of fish
have come to the surface. The in’rmbi
tants attribute this to the influence of
lightning that struck the lake. In the
early part of the year a similar phenome
non was reported of the Hake earthquake of J.ugano,
which was attributed to an
that occurred some days previously.
—London Times.
Tennessee has an area of 5,100 squara
mile,s of coal, which covers twenty-two
counties. During the past six years the
output of coal in the State has grown
from 404.000 tons to 1,700,000 tons, an
increase of 400 per cent,
