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CatTY V 0 m t rm 8 « • If MAIL yy “Onr Ambition is to mate a Veracioas Work, Reliable in Its | Statements, Candid in its Conclusions, and Just in its Views. VOL. I. It is estimated that during the first three months of 1888 the Southern people will receive about $275,000,000 inpay ment for their cotton crop, of which amount $150,000,000 will be surplus available for re-investment. Newspaper enterprise in Paris is not nurtured by the authorities, who rce'eiilly fined the proprietors of seven local jour nals each $00 for “prematurely" publish ing certain legal documents pertaining to the Opera Comique fire while the case was on. trial. A Kansas City oculist says that nearly two thirds of the spectacles and eye glasses which near-sighted people pay good prices for are merely bits of com mon glass treated with a coating of chemicals, which gives them the appear ance of being genuine pebbles. There are said to be more millionaires in Buenos Ayres than in any other city of its size in the world. Many of (he private houses in the city have been built at a cost of over $1,000,000, and one of the banks has a paid-up capital of $7, 000,099, with deposits and a line of dis counts aggregating $05,000,000. In the Colorado desert, near Idaho, there is a large bed of rock salt, and the Southern Pacific Railroad, in laying Die track to the salt bed, has been obliged to grade the road for 1,200 feet with blocks of these crystals. This is the only in stance where the roadbed is laid and ballasted on salt. The sea, which once rolled over this place, dried up and left a vast bed of salt nearly fifty miles long. The supply is inexhaustible and ttll! qual excellent. A recent phenomenon in Central Illi nois puzzles scientific and other people. After weeks of drought, the streams and wells becoming exhausted, abundant water suddenly appeared, without rain or other visible source of supply, Water flowed freely in the streams, and even the shallowest wells were replenished. Where this water came from and the cause of this suddnu appearance arc mys teries wtuen inf timn (tim him mu. >c ... probable that the effect was produced by a subterranean disturbance similar to that of an earthquake shock. The following interesting figures wore fournished by the dairy editor of the Chicago Prairie Farmer to the late Con vention of the National B., C. & E. Asso ciation, at Manchester, Iowa; Annual increase in cows .....$11,033,190 Butter and cheese......... ..... 277,477,429 Milk sold and condensed. ..... 300,000,000 Condensed milk.......... ..... 1,547,588 Cow manure............. ..... 100,125,110 Product of family cows. ..... 30,000,000 Skimmed milk.......... ..... 50,417,054 Cow beef................ ..... 39,477,375 Bull beef................ . ... 1,221,400 Bull manure............ ..... 1,001,241) t Total net receipts............$825,020,393 The exhibit is of the annual receipts of the dairy, of course. A visitor to the Osage Reservation, In dian Territory, if he has a mind to study the human race under varying conditions, finds much of interest, lie is intci pnmos among the aristocrats. The Osage Indians arc about the only example now left in the United Slates of a real aristocracy. They do not depend upon Government rations, as do the Cheyennes and others, at all, but have (nough of their own undisputed property to make them the wealthiest community in the country. Besides the land of the reser vation, which belongs to them by a title hard to assail, they have about $7,000,000 bearing five per cent interest in the hands of the Government. They are paid about $250,000 a year in cash. The entire tribe numbers only 1,600, so that they are actually the richest body of people we have. A recent remark of the Czar of Russia shows that he is not ignorant of the Chinese question, not merely a ; it relates to his own dominions, but to,the world at large. The Russians were in the track of the Mongol invasions under two great chieftains, who desolated Furore, anil it took hundreds of years fo: the Slav race to recover the territory then taken from them. He has carefully read this portion of his country’s history. His remark was to the effect that the greatest danger to the western world existed in the Chinese empire. It only needed another Tamerlane to set in motion another in vasion comprising, perhaps, 20,000,000 of the hardier ra -es of northern China to overwhelm Europe, not by their mili tary strength or skill, but by mere force of numbers. If 20,000,000 were not moiigh to do the work, then 20,000,000 might follow, drawn fiom a population that is to al 1 : ntents and purposes »nm berless. OKAY’S STATION, OEO&GL4, STUKDAY, JANUARY % 1888. ON HKIOHtS. VTho dwells upon the heights exists alone Unfouncl of Love that seeks a genial air, Not such as permeates cold spaces where The snow possesses mountains for a throne And glaciers hind them with a frozen zone. Love joys tc see bach cascade's silvery hair Wave fioWfilg tresses o'er a rocky stair, Not changed by gorgon-winds to rigid stone. Be not on some lone pinnacle your goal; For though the icy silence is sublime, Coeval with the ancient gray haired Time, It chills the warmer feelings of the soul And eyes, that only o’er such prospects roll, See not the graces of a softer dime. — Mat'H Goodrich , in Current. Our fct Door Neighbor, BV ADELAIDE D. ROI.I.STON. **! declare, it's just too provokin'*!” cried Bess, seating herself by the win her dow, and tanning herself vigorously with straw hat. " “What’s the matter now?” I asked looking from easel. ’ “I infer up my from your tone that there is always something the matter, ” she sai 1 pettishly, aud with something like a tear in her eye. “1 believe there is, dear; at least, there seem- to bo lately,” 1 remarked, making little daubs of paint on tuy palette as J “Bess, don’t you think i I’Ve made my sky a trifle too bliie:” asked, the subject abruptly, for 1 was to clread these sudden out bursts of temper from my usually "ood “ “ ^ “Oh, it’s all very well for you to treat my troubles lightly!” cried Bets, ready to burst into tears. “You didn’t make the flower beds, and you don’t mind if they time are spoiled! You don't waste your and breath these warm mornings chasing “8o chickens out of the y H vd!’” it’s the chickens this time !”I said, ami laughing. the day “Yesterday it was the gae.se, before the pigs. I wonder what it will be to-morrow?” “I wish you’d be sensible, Fan,” and Bess came over and took the brush and palette out of my hand. “There!” and she threw them on the table. “I’ve a good mind lo spoil your picture for treat ing me as if I were a little child.” “I’m sure I am us sorry as you are about , the , flower-beds, but what do? are we to ’ I asked. “\Ve are careful to keep the gates fastened, and We’ve all the cracks in the fence; blit somehow the pigs; thickens and geese to get in. I gyvung is certain; b'lAj’Aj/r'll' in fretting dv., < Wnole about time them.” driving them out, or “My mignouette with was coming sigh. up “And so nicely!” thinking said Bess, I’d a geraniums I was set out my to-day. 1 wish yon eould see them, Fan! I found wilted them lyiug weeds by in the porch, as brown and as autumn. People who live in town have no business with chickens and such things. If (hey want to raise poultry, Why don’t let those ihenl chickens move to the country. scratch around in 51 rs. her Brown's flowers garden, and I wonder? I look at vegetables, growing so nicely, and thenat mine, scattered to the four winds; aud 1 think she is the most She disagreeable throw old woman in the world. saw me a stone at her old rooster this morning, and called out over the fence that I’d better let her property alone.” “I hope you said nothing saucy to her —you are so hasty, Bess!” I said, reprovingly. “I told her to keep her chickens out of my yard, if she didn’t wan t them killed,”" said Bess, looking dcliautly out of the window. “ O Bess, you’lmal ke matters I cried, worse, if you go on at that rate! ” as I thought of our neighbor’s If should sharp face happen and sharper kill tongue. of her chickens, “ you likely to one as not she’d have you arrested. >She’s just the sort of woman to do it,” “/ know something about head the angrily. law! replied Bess, shaking her anything “No one has a right to keep his that her is a source of annoyance to ot neighbor. If those chickens persist in scratching up my flower-beds, and if Mrs. Brown makes no effort to keep them at home, 1 shall certainly kill the them." kind! ” “ You shall do nothing of I said, as I gathered up my brushes and put. my easel away. “Fan, I haven't told you half,” said Bess. “ You know how anxious 1 am to learn to be a good housekeeper, and an economical one. I’m sure Sally might is a good cook, and is very saving. 1 she's put it a little stronger, and say that a stingy cook, for she often makes us go without a dessert when we might as well have one every (lay. But in spite of pinching and saving, our expenses are greater than they were a month ago." “ Well, you can’t blame our neighbor for that, can you.”] asked, wondering what possib'e connection Mrs. Brown and the pigs and geese and chickens could have with our household expenses. Your ignorance or innocence, which ever it is. is certainly .sublime,'' said Bess, with a lofty smile, “ Don't yon know that Mrs. Brown is contoually borrowing, and never paying law - :" “Why. no: I h.id no idea she bad ever borrowed anything'.'’ I said, in/great surprise. everybody / “Because you're blind to and everything except your tnusit class and your painting,” said Bess, iif an in jured t me. “Why, she’s borrow™ (he sugar and coffee and flour and la d ami mop and a flat iron oh. I can’t begiito tell you what she has i or owed, kec|/up ondll'mget mi g tired of it: Wc<*n't two families, “Can't that’s find certain.” to refine j with you a ay a-keil little out offending her;” f a vaguely. had hail experien at amsekeep j no e the/cottage I ing. and since coming to i'r had depended entirely upon (fan mvself. woo. tie ii.;h two years younger was cf a more practical turn of and had gladly taken upon her shoulders the whole responsibilit of “ars-j'f 1 1,1,1 rl llISC • once or twice c*” lit . - Keeps on sending,” said Bcs ■£ with last, for I let her have it just to get 0 esterdav it was a quart ot am he clay j before it little .was a and when I politely informed her sli6 already owed ~ me a pound ___' of she said she d be certain to send bai e very thing she owed me this morning imt she hasn’t, and we can’t go on atthi ['! mt, , and ) !l1 . u .1 I flatly refuse tvoii’t to lend take he i anything mote; she’ll be sure td do a! “ And we were just beginning td ge along the sd nicely!” I said, looking arouiv at cozy room. “It will never do t complain “for to Unde Robert,” I went ot you know lie said if we were dc ,ern> ' ne d ,0 work for a living, that \y sll0l, ld have this cottage free. Wc can) house rent, and live in anv degree (j comfort; P lace uncle and will if we think find fault with comin tlj here, > and will insist w'e regret going on our bau to him.” giving .“I'm sure the I house,” haven’t the least idea t up said Bess. “ Bt 1 don’t see how wo are going to liv 1 vllat '“accftbly i with such a neighbor. Thili ' There g° 0( neighbors we had at uncle')! were the Ureys on one side—suo h friendly llict girls—and the LemansJ sui 1 sllil11 ' ( l wor,c people—on "»y flower-beds the other. We), ,ll<! rest of d, over, mw m Y s * ;e and if they ajc s<,| ' atc hed up again, 1 shall retaliate (y ])iirchasing a dozen fowls and lettife 1,10,11 run in Mrs. Brown's garden.” “ Brit will that be showing the propli' R P lr it ?" I asked. “ You know the Bilie Sit V ? »__ - Don't and “ preach, If you please, begin Far,” Bess stopped up her ears, and humming a lively tune. When Bess 'did tie that, I knew it was useless to argue dropped. matter further, so the subject wis It was renewed, however, the next day, when Bess found her flowei-bods up-rooted by the pigs, and the geese making old gander havoc of her potted plants, one fondness for seeming to have a special ready some lily-buds that were to open. “I shall not try any more,” said Bess, when she had stormed and wept by turns half tin hour. “I’ll in; the flower go and turn riiy attention to cort All sorts of detestable puddings pies for your benefit, Fan. They’ll Now I loved flowers as much as Bij’ss did, but 1 was not difficulties, willing to work totd [in the face of so many and her so. When summer came, and all around us were pretty green lawns, vine-covered and (lower-beds that gave out the hties of the rainbow; our little plat the bf ground was desolate, save for pigs and chickens and geese that roamed there at their own sweet will. Even the grass refused to grow, except in little patches, interspersed with weeds, and the two cedar-trees that stood by the porch took on a dismal air, as if they were ashamed to be seen growing there. Bess kept her word, and turned her attention to pie making, flow she managed to endure the atmosphere of the close kitchen was a mystery to me; but she resented my efforts to keep her m the sitting-room, and treated Sally’s think ex postulations with quiet distain. I she was really in earnest about learning to cook, for she worked hard enough; but. her success was far less than her merit. “Bess, vou must waste a lot though of eggs,” LS’r T remark si helnlau-riunTat one div severelv I l.efore^me the funny said' lool i»o ob’ect which Bess “(>h"amarechean!” was an c"" custard said Bess,gavly, tliouo'h her face ' flushed a little as she ~ , S|K ‘Vreally dimes' be'ievo fo/the you make these pies the and mi< benefit of to. but Oitl I "glnllTearn’to shall learn to he be ■“umoMcoi.k a , i ^before the uTZmiv summer was half gone !'« , 3 a," iitehen 1 1 slow^'ever iathc y’ C at t f‘u yrl ,llvd,t:,inrnf l r m t • t all ohoming at first but giadiallj . deveh ung in to' typhoid tyi'hwt fevirof a severe type, ail "‘'plirtua^tidv^had pelled to gn-e up my inusi: i . ■ ^ asma'll sum'of'money i m , h I’ncle Robert for assistance. In‘fact, I determined not to write to Mm at all, unless Bess desired. I knew his family was at the seaside, and that he was ab sorbed in important bnsmess matters, so Euveniolioe that if he rundown to see us it would him much. The davs that followed were trying ones and to make matters worse mo t of our friends had left town tor the summer, and I had to def end almost entirely upon Sally who. though ready and willing to assist me. w, ■ obliged to he in the krtch en a greater part of the time. I saw the necessity of getting and concluded an ex perienced write nurse Uncle at Robert once, and ask him to to to or “ Bess had been delirious for three davs, ■■■! i ™;........-.....«, r M r“ 'rr seal it. when I became con-cion of the fact that some one had just entered the r Lookin', , - up 1 , saw Vr i. Grown, our neighbor, iior'down by tic iw/l, and at Bcs- who bad I alien into a fitful, troubled sleep. • I've bean a wantin’ to come ever nee your sister was took down,” she ! ud, in a low tone, “but 1 was kinder! raid you wouldn’t want me. We liaiut here ecu very neighborly, cati it’s do, true; but if , do ia it. anything I’m I right I'll be hand glad a smart at 10 7 * this.” I was quite at a loss what to say. I of Bess and her strong dislike or the woman, and wondered if her in the sick room might not ami matters worse. Besswassoimpul- dis frank spoken that if she any one she look no pains to con it; and it was Vefy probable that -tfoiiid resent Mrs. Blown’S codling, “Iam sure you are very kind, and I you ever so much, Mrs. Brown,” faltered; at last. Then seeing her brighten lit b'tice, 1 added, impul “I shall sister, be glad to will.” have Jog help' nurse my if you Whether Bess was conscious of who watched beside her from that day on or I could not tell, but it is certain that Mrs. Brown had a wonderful influ ence over her, and could quiet her when no one else could, and that Bess that clung to her with a childish fondness was very touching. At times, however, it gave me a pang of jealousy to have turn from me to the arms of the withered old woman. It was wonderful how fast the child improved. In fact, I dated Change for the better almost from very day that Mrs. Browii came to ns. She seemed to know just what to' and when, aud how to do it, and about the sick room so noiselessly that often found myself wondering that I ever though her loud-voiced and The doctor declared, with mock nation, that if we persisted in M rs. Brown we would have no need (if his sctvifceS. “I reckon you're just havin’ a little full at my expense,” said Mrs. Brown, laugh ing and shaking her head, “for 1 don’t set myself up fora doctor,by no means." When Bess was aide to sit up a little she was in such a weak stale, both physically and mentally, that live least opposition to her wishes would make her irritable and cross, and 1 was often puzzled to know what to do. Often when my patience was taxed 1o the utmost I would ruu over to Mrs. Brown’s who, when she saw me coming, would drop her knitting and say; “Little Bess wants me, 1 know! You haven’t learned how to manage her yet. You must humor her odd notions, and by-and-by, when she’s strong be again, old sWll forget all about ’em and her it VVJIS hOVCftll tveuve i-ivv. -..... strong and well before either of us al luded to the dislike we had formerly felt for Mrs. Brown. 1 think we were both silent for very shame. Then one evening, as we sat in our accustomed places by the window, I busy with my sewing, Bess trying to figure up how much it would cost to keep a cow, she turned to me andsaid : “Fan, I want to tell you something. I’ve had it on my mind for a long time, and I can’t keep it any longer!” sewing “Well:” and I laid down my and prepared to listen. “I expect you’ll laugh,but, indeed, it’s no laughing matter,” said Bess. “Do you remember these terrible pies and puddings?” “Can I forget them?” I cried. ever “You don’t mean to tell me that you in tend to go to majeing pies and puddings again?” “No, I only want to tell that every detestable you desserts egg wasted in those belonged to Mrs. Brown!” said Bess, lowering her voice and growing very red. “?h, Bess!” and I could get nc further. f “It’s the truth and „ I do , feel , , so mean about it!” said Bess, “ A hen I gave up the ho P e 01 havin 8 dowers, and found that I couldn’t keep the chickens out, 1 made some nests in the old shed back of the coal house and the hens laid there every day. Even Sally didn’t know where the eggs came from, though I from ,ll! ""V she had been rathur had nimhfid for money, and I felt that I been a little too hard with her, but I wasn’t willing to be friendly just then, and so went on taking the eggs just out of for I didn’t want them or need i" ®o least. And now I am did! so an(l so ashamed of what 1 When I got well enough to know who ^very helpTng d?y to her nurse about "me, it, I thought but her 1V1 tell very kindness made me afraid.” puddings didn’t turn outwell!” I said smothering a strong desire to laugh when i saw how troubled be-s was. “I think it was because used a goose egg now and tlien, amt they are always so strong,” said Bess, solemnly. “Fan, 1 knew you would laugh at last!” she added reproachfully. help it, and I think Mrs. “1 can’t it,” Brown would laugh too, if she knew I said. “Suppo-cyou tell her and fee if she don't,” I added. Bess silent; .anil to tins day , I am was not sure that she acted upon mv sugges tion, but I am inclined to think that she did. This much I do know—that the most ustssfrj xczgxz s make excellent pics and puddings; that % u .tsaci xr tx Finally when we goto the seaside next summer," Mr*. Brown will go with us. For as ,* Bess says we shall need a kind, motheuy soul to lo ik k .i „„ . end I though onr fa -<hjo0al>)o i nunc! -» Utu^h nncl shaketiicir head. when we determination speak of out plans, it dm- not alter our .a Die least What “Sand-Blasting* Mentis. “ Wind ?!t sand-blasting ?” asked X Chicago Herald writer of a! man whose «if e had been spent in decorating' dflcdraitiDg glass. glass' with “The grinding or the iiisi-W sand—a secret process, ...... ..... see a sand-blast machine.” The machine suggest? a cider mill in shape." nr » cheese, press. The glass is laid on rubber belt* it (he side and is then fed into the ma chine. As soon as it disappears from, view some rubber Haps come down and prevent the pressure in the interior from escaping. This pressure is exerted by Wind and sand—it 20-horse power “blow” engine being which required drives the to slilitl taise to the (lie glass. Looking through the window Iff the cen tre of the machine a “ gun ” is disclosed. It has a large mouth-shaped 20-horse opening, at which it is loaded with power ammunition of wind and sand. Before the ammunition is allowed to leave the gun, the aperture narrows to' about one six th the width of the loading' point. whert This condenses the sand so that it leaves the gun it strikes the glass with such force as to cat into the surface. When the glass has been exposed rubber it belts passes at out of the machine on the opposite side. This process is called and one machine will grind about IKK) feet in a day. part. Sup Now for the decorative pose the sandblaster wishes to design. present He on i Squab: of glass a certain Simply covers the surface with beeswax (fnd a Certain mixture laid oil over the glass in Ox act duplicate of the design required. The glibs passes into the ma chine. The sand is fired from the gun, but this time it grinds only the exposed parts. The portion covered with bees wax and the secret mixture is not touched by the sand, and when the plate emerges from (he machine and the wax, etc., are washed oil, behold the design standing out in sharp contrast to the ground sur face which the sand has scarified. This is the A B C of sand-blasting. The process is susceptible of much elaboration, and one improvement which was patented last flic year ammograpli.” by a Chicago gen- The tleman is called “ pictures are first drawn on the back of the glass by the artist with a color which will resist the action of the sand blast. It is then subjected to the stream of sand, which cuts the glass in alt parts which are not covered more or less then by the resistant. The resistant is Washed of! clean, leaving They the pictures sil cut into the glass. are next vered over, if desired, to give greater yrilliancjr. The effect is that of a multi obtained by the differentfsifade? (Vf'ltti: glass itself. Facts About Deaf-Mute Marriages. Professor Bell infers from the frequent recurrence of peculiar sirnames in the catalogues of asylums for the deaf and dumb, that certain families are prone to that calamity. In the American Asylum, at Hartford, among 1,171 names, 407, than or more than one-third, occur more twice, once. Of this 407, 214 occur ;il three times, 45 four times and a few from five to thirteen times. A similar show ing is made by statistics of the Illinois Institution forthoDeuf and Dumb. The hereditary tendency is supposed pupils to be at herein indicated. Of 2,10*1 Hartford, 003 had deaf mute relatives and twenty-nine had one or more children who were so afflicted. Statistics from six other institutions for deaf-mutes show an average percentage of 29.5 pupils who have deaf-mute relatives, 13.8 per cent, of these pupils being estimated non-congcnitully deaf-mutes. Of an 21,743 sporadic cases of deafness in the l nited htate s 8.339 arc said liy Professor Bell to be congenital, and ol Die 12,l-,.» who haV( . ,| C al'-mute relatives 9,989 possessing arc con „ cmt ai. The total number ,] Ba f. mH te relatives is estimated at 20,474. , t ifi stated, furthermore, that 78.9 per Ren) „f the deaf-mutes who marry choose consorts who are also deaf mules, Bn( ) 10.1 per cent ofllie eniidren born ot suc h marriages are deaf-mutes. -Plain- Hundreds of salmon were in sigh", nb solutely touching one another, and as wc crossed the river our horses nearly iteppc d upon them. their back tins wcre visible as far as we could see the stream, and aground deader and gasping dying in the fallow*. , iml „ inK up on Uw l.anks were hundreds more. the l)( \ (>r f rom these decaying distance fish of was distinctly ” of'hundred jierceptible yards at a In a weigl.t pi. these salmon varied or from more. seven were blotchy, i< ,r will . ^ e r .dr.h<« " 'XlJ,7 f e< e land white and ot I* u"t , as the «..irimsu b(it o hers it s in *" air con «'»• ditum w - lo t tic trouble I was able to pull out three „ good tempound hsh m as many miuutes with would a gaff. have Any been other useless methodofhsh- It would have ing been nearly ^ to n.ake fast without foul-hooking ^^■ a fish, and a nine-tenths or more of them were in an uneatable condition.-- The Lru,»*. oj the Marrheeo. A Descendant of Washington. Speaking of Washington, writes F. G. in this Congress in the person of Joseph bZtsgxfssx? wK J *tout and light-tiaire J. lie <l e nit show much evidence of the Washington features m his countenance, but he is, I understand, worth a million dollars, and tn - rr , . . nronertv 1 I > comes J bv in .. . hcritanee. It w a curious imng mat a dcs'cmlant of Washington should repre sent the district of Andrew Jackson. NO. 12. A P ' OV OK1N ( ' baby. 1 sang him ail the songs I knew— o hrlla-lulla-lolllaby! | hummed the hymn-book through and through bluel # 6VV bright his wakeful eyes-how {grssMCS O hush-O' Otfctaaby! I rummaged memory's? dusty slu'lf - O luffa-lulla-lullabyl— Foi' Stories strange of fay and elf. And spurt kmg tales about himself; He laughed and «oood in soft delight. And round us sank the summer night— O hush— O hushaby! Through Mother (loose's ancient rhymes O lnlla-Iulla-luUaby!—• i plodded glow adozen times; Mi» laugh fang sweet ns silver chimes. To me the' sound was out <>t tuna. Between the shatters looked the moon— O hush—O hushaby. My memory failed; my fancy died— O hillalulla-luUaby! The slrtuvr sweet 1 could not chide. “Oh, sleep, l»y baby—sleep!” 1 cried, And in my eyes' tho <ftnd was strown That should have fallen to. his own— Ohush—O hushaby!' I felt his wandering finger-tips— O lulla-lulla-lullaby!-— The song still trembling on my lips; His face was lost, in soft eclipse; And in my dreams I heard him weep, And murmured still, though fast asleep, Ohush—O hushaby!” —Margaret Johnson, in Young People. PITH AND POINT. Bride goes before a fall—so does sttnr mer. The bent pin generally carries its point. Can lend Smith—“Hello, Jones! you me li firs?” Jones— “Thank heaven,no! I’m in luck to-day .”—Jlurlinrjtou Fret Press. De Lcsseps says that “the Panama Canal will be opened on February 3, 189C.” At both ends, Count ,?—Macon Telegraph. With grief is tiffed life’s cup" Misfortunes on us frown, When coal is going coming up down. Ami snow is — Boston ('onrirr. Edison says only one-fourth of a ton of coal is used. The rest goes up th« t Smith—“Miss v./likum is TraViw, wrouir. The vest ifi I)e J * — to present you to my friend, Mr. Roscy boy.” Miss Travis—“Perhaps you lie would; but I’m not quite ready Prepress. to given away yet Burlington “It is a woman’s sphere to elevate man," says a philosopher. And she real izes it when she lias to drag her husband up three flights of stairs to his bed-rootxf by thehai. of his head.— Boston Courier. “ A rooster that strums on the piano is exciting the people of Salem, 111." There is one thing to be said in favor oi sucli a piano player. The rooster goes to bed at sundown. —Norristown Herald. Young Mother (displaying Die baby)— “Do you think l.e looks like his father, Mr. Olilboy"? Mr.Oldboy—'“Well, but yc’es, it there is a family re emblancc: isn’t striking enough to worry about.”— A woman's hand—how beautifully molded t iioiv faultless in symmetry 1 how softandyielding, and oh! how much of gentle memory its pressure conveys! Yet wc don’t like it in our hair .—Shoe and Leather Reporter. “ Bobby,” whispered young Feutherly, “ what, did your sister Clara say when the servant presented my card last even ing ?" Bobby considered for a moment in order to get the exact words. Finally, he got the matter straight. “She said, ‘ Oh, well, show it in. 7 11 -A'/ v> York Sun. Lightly fall the feathery flakes. And they give a man the shakes. As he thinks of the winter weather lie 11 be enlled on to endure, block, And remembers down the Ttie fine overcoat in hock, is hound to Which Iris uncle, as collateral, hold secure. —Boston Budget. Young man (holding out this, a pocket- sir.” book)—“ You just content*)—“Oh. dropped Owner obliged.” (scanning Voung man—“ Much yes; in much $30 ” Young it, sit ?" Owner —“About man—“Well, isn’t for ‘much only $30 obliged) ? First a good deal to pay thing you know you’ll be in the pool house. ’ ” — N<xn York Sun. The Great Salt Lake. In spring, when the mountain snows arc melting, the lake sometimes border spreads shores. over the plains that its But it is a large lake at any time; about ninety miles in length, I believe, and forty miles wide. An immense sheet of water! And no living thing can exist in it. Not a fish in all that silent sea! It is the heaviest sort, of lirime, charged with salt and other mineral substances. Leave a stick in it a f< w hours, and when you take it out it will appear covered with crystals, i'ut a live trout in it, and it will turn over on its back A 3 in about three or four gasps, It is fi» wonderful lake.— S', isi hoht*. He was the seediest of seedy scamps, etas wstssasn-r. That he “was scouring the world around.” Said she: “You will excuse me, sir, I hope If I suggest you should get some soap, And add some water, near the road ’tis found, Instead of scouring better, the whole world round, It would and muchmore in place, Jf should scour Irolh your hands and —(iomlaWs Ann