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OOOItTY « I s» 71 <5=*4 i <>• “Our Ambition is to make a Yeracions Work, Reliable in its : Statements, Candid in its Conclusions, and Just in its Yieis." 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. no: u. 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,