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• LtS.r. -r.. a,_ _. COUNTY m Irr 9 IX <> >51 M I "Our Ambition is to make a Veracious Work, Reliable in its ? rS> cz> B ■3 c/s s <=a- »*—« • 07 § -3 C=3 s cx =— S => VOL. I. The last penny of the $100,000 which Buffalo proposes to give as a prize to the man who invents a feasible method of harnessing the immense water power of Niagara has been subscribed. The total of anthracite coal for the past year is put at 34,400,000 tons in round numbers, exclusive of local sales it the mines and colliery consumption. The total for 1886, with which these figures are to be compared, was 32,130, 362 gross tons. Crediting the present year with an increase of 5 per cent, only, will showupa total of 36,120,900 tons for 1888.”_ Colonel George L. Perkins, Treasurci of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad, is the oldest railroad official in the Uni ted States, and probably in the world. He is ninety-nine years old, is six feet two inches in height and stands as straight as many men of thirty. Colonel Perkins is the only surviver of the pas sengers who steamed down the Hudson in Fulton’s pioneer steamboat, the Cler mont, on her trial trip. Among the many expenses that AVall street brokers have to face every year is the item for flowers with which they brighten and adorn their offices in the Aletropolis. AVinter and summer, spring and fall, huge bunches of expensive po sies are kept on hand in many of tho at tractive offices. It is reckoned that the average expense for an office is $10 a day. At dusk the office boys and lesser clerks divide the flowers, and who knows but some tender heart has had one or two ecstatic 1 e ts at receiving some of them? Late details of the Chinese floods make the story one of the most terrible in history. What was a beautiful, populous district of 10,000 square miles is now a rolling sea. At least 3.000,000 people are homeless and absolutely desti tute of the barest necessaries of life, while it is thought that the loss of life will reach 750,000. Everything in the way of figures is as yet. however, pure speculation, with the chances of a total morta'ity far greater than the present estimate. Court and business circles in Pekin, Canton and other centres, are doing all la human power to cope with the disaster. The new industry in the South, which lias been noted, develops another Use for pine needles besides that of spread ing an aromatic odor from the filling of a pillow. One product of these needles is a remarkably strong oil, claimed to pos sess valuable medicinal properties; an other is pine wool, which is bleached, dyed and woven, this wool being a fleecy brown mass, possessing a pleasant odoj which gives it value as a moth destroyer when employed in tbe form of carpet lining; and to these is to be added an other product made from this wool, viz., a strong, cheap matting, adapted for halls, stairways and offices. Alore than a hundred descendants in Alihvaukee of Martin Kroeger, the oldest man in Wisconsin, received their aged relative at a party reunion recently, lie is 114 years old and a native of Prussia. He was a resident of Milwaukee from 1850 until three years ago. His eldest son is 78 years old, and he has great grandchildren 25 years old who have children. He looks as though he were about 00; goes about without a eane, and is as clear-headed and jolly an old man as there is in AVisconsin. He can see very well without glasses, hear per fectly, and has an unimpaired memory. He was in the wagon train of Napoleon’s army in its invasion of Russia, and tells many a reminiscence of the campaign. rpi American t . ivt, ,, ivator reters to the tact that New Zealand is making a prac tical effort to compete with America in the supplying of cheese to the English nd adds: j. ’Advices from New Zealand 7 state that in the provinces of Otago and Southland alone there are twenty cheese factories operating V, niag out each i season „„ . an of fifty or sixty tons of cheese, capable of doubling the production, the other factor^ wrovinees Tn nneraLn there are also 1. ’ and ’ ,, less extensive scale, the on a yield from both the north and islands for the season ending las* is estimated at nVinnt 1 'itm fnn« ' 1 . cheese. ", I to last market , p year a was for the whole output in New and Australia, but this year the " are lookinc f to Fnoland ® for a arket , for , their surplus cheese. It will be some time before there is an factor in the competition with American cheese, but it will be well for „ oar cheesemakcrs , to bo forewarned, , , that ., , they may endeavor, by superior make and quality, to still command the markets,” GRAY’S STATION, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1888- THE END OF THE STORY. You were standing alone in the silence, When I passsed down the stair that night, Alono with thoughts in the shadow, Away from the fire’s soft light, And never a greeting you gave mo, Not a word your lips lot fall, As 1 came from the light to your side, dear, That night, in the old oak hall! But I know, ah, so well, the secret You fancied you kept unseen, And I hated the pride that was standing Like a shadow our hearts between. &> I told you, that night, a story, And you listened as in a spell, Till 1 saw that you guessed the meaning Of the story I tried to tell! A ou fain would have silenced me then, dear; To leave it untold were best— Too late, for f learned, as you drew To your heart, that you knew the rest? And the shadow passed by from between us Forevor, beyond recall, As you whispered the end of the story That night, in the old oak hall! ~G, Clifton Bingham, PLAIN MARY JANE, liY MAltUAUET E, SANGSTER. T inc , uarterets ,, were conspicuous for tneir pretty names, which they always wrote m lull, even before a revolution in taste imvt put Bessie, Nellie and Madge onto! lasluou everywhere, except as pet names to be used at home. There were Clementina, Gladys, Marguerite and Lilian among the girls, and dore, Reginald, Maximilian and Francis helix among the boys, and then came No. it,with Francis Felix out of kilts,and Clementina beginning to go into society, Airs. Carteret had always had the naming of her brood, but Mr. Carteret, holding the blanketed bundle in his arms and surveying dared the wrinkled, rosy face, do that it was liis turn at last. ‘I shall call this daughter plain Afary Jane, after her Grandmother Jenkins,” he declared, “and, my dear, if ever we have another son, his name shall be John, you may make up your mind to that.” They' never did have another son, how ever, and Airs. Carteret was spared the humiliation of hearing a boy of hers sa luted as Jack on the street or recorded as comrades. Johnny on the baseball score of his Alary Jane was a round, rosy-poly child, sturdy and strong, and as differ ent. from her brothers and sisters as if she were no relation to them. Her mother, lying lanquid on the sofa with a novel in her hand, was distressed at the air of rude health which distinguished her youngest, and wonuered why so great when an alMiotion should have come to her, Afary Jane declared that she preferred making puddings to practicing her scales, and would rather mend the stockings for the than paint cups and saucers decorative art stoic. It had come to teen, pass, that by the time Alary Jane was six the family circumstances were not what they had been when Gladys and Alargueritc were growing up. IIow it had happened Air. Carteret could not explain, * but vear bv uy year voir bk jus law law husi on si Sfadi „ i i ?“ none with of little the outside" farn^y fell the office to" $£ dfl five never' limi’ 01 -’ C XZ*U>’ v CC,>t , somc l ' n F 0< | £ uc : MM ins mi .,uhith would have astonished tfie neighbors, had they dreamed of their possibility. The boys were nice fellows, weii-bred and agreeable, but withuut a particle or push; the girls were elegant am. accomplished, judged by a finishing scnool ftamlard; yet Clementina’s piano, Lilians embroidery, Gladys’s wafer-colors and Aiargueritc’s French and German " were v: - each and all sources of expense, and not one, had either young lady chosen to use her skill, would have brought in enough to pay for decent gowns and decorative gloves.. Lilian art, only in patiently while tried selling the once a a cusniouor hot-house a flowers card-case, on which occasion in profusion always adorned the mother’s table and the family had ice cream for dessert. Meanwhile Mrs. Carteret grew more and more fretful, languid and depressed, and Air. Carteret’s face took on a hunted, anxious look, which if it troubled nobody else distressed the heart of his daughter Alary Jane. lf “Papa’s little girl” | she had called her Be as soon a3 s i0 CO ufil speak plainly, and “papa's little girl” she remained when her brown hair was brushed sm0 °thly back from a compact, sensible forehead, and her gray eyes looked straight on the world with the courage of a young woman who meant to make her way, asking no odds on account of youth “Who or sex. happy-faced is that girl who.so 0 ft en W alks down the street with old Carteret?” said a merchant one day, standing in his door toward and watching Mr. the progress of the two Carter at ’ 8ollice - “That,” said the person addressed, “is . fiis daughter—plain Alary .Jane they call her, 1 believe. Fhe has taken the place of otfiCe boy for the old gentleman just at present, and it’s no doubt a great re lief, for even that expense is a burden when a man's funds are as low as Carter et’s “Whew!” chronically are.” with said the merchant, a ,on £ whistle. “I didn’t know that Carteret ngh had a the daughter who knew 6n0 Had curiosity to play led part the of critic office bov." follow to the pair he would have seen Alary Jane— her stiff dress covered with a brown linen wrap, f ’ her hair enveloped in a hands cap, long , oos e gloves Meeting dusting, her ihings and arms—sweeping, rights, singing setting the while: to a merry tune then later, copying legal documents and looking ing him, up references for her father, serv telligence indeed, with a quickness, in and interest unknown to the tribe of office boys. “I hope no one among our friends will ever find out that papa allows Mary Jane (o Gladys go so deprecatingly, familiarly to the office,” sighed brush daintily into the lemon-yellow as she dipped with her which she was touching a withered leaf. “ft’s not good form!” raid Reginald, posing of before the glass to vry the effect bangs for his patrician countenance. “Papa has always spoiled Mary Jane,” echoed Mrs. Cateret, regarding her son with complacent satisfaction. “There is a manishness about Mary Jane which is singularly unlike the gentility remarked of the women of our family,” Clementine, Marguerite. who had been married for several years, and who had less tolera tion than formerly for the Carteret de ficiency in the exchequer, threw cold water on the general disfavor by saying, in a matter of fact way: “()b! well, girls, and mamma, you know very well that nobody will ever choose 51 ary Jane for her beauty, and if she can help papa, for goodness sake let her do it. Jerome says that papa must have managed dreadfully to let affairs drift as they have, and I agree with him.” The housekeeping had fallen a good deal into the hands of Mary Jane. She had a perfect genius lor contriving ragouts and fncasees out of (he left overs and fragments: slie would buy a delicious “soup-piece” pot-au-feu, for a few and cents for and watching make a as the weekly bills and cutting off a cent here and a sixpence there her talent was marvelous. Plebeian if you choose, but nevertheless a convenient and comfort able talent for the child ol an impe cunious parent. But the day came when not all Alary Jane’s magic could evolve dinners out of nothing. tion beyond Invention she had, but crea was her powers, and not all her willing service, diligent and faithful as it was, could bring business enough to poor Air. Carteret to more than pay his office rent. Airs. Carteret, poor lady, cried till her eyes were red, but good with did that do ? Lilian went to live Clementine. Marguerite thought she would try writing for the press under Hie impression that here was an easy road to fame and iortunc—so Die, H>o, and needing so little outlay— for couldn’t she throw off poems and stories at a sitting if she could only find ari editor to pay for them ? Two of the boys went off on a ranch in the train of an English nobleman they and the others were llUle at work, though tliau were able to do more supjort themselves, Mal 7 Jane determined to improve the situation, . but tho do question which was bring how? AVhat could she would ght mone y? thought, Buy after day, night after n, ®he but could fix upon nothing definite. Alcan while she mended and darned, turned curtains and furni * uro covering, kept the house bright and shining, and found herself repaid by sccln " her father lose the discouraged cheerfulness. expression which had overlaid his-natural faculty,” . "l nu „ *! be avc said .inherited day. the “We Jenkins Car •” one , Je innthei-’s rSS, iwink tin. Truemans, lacking wts in but my mother’s mother Mary Jane Jen ££ P?* 8 ™ a ~ a “ on S a lenkins f-icnUv or Wkwi Carteret 4t» tie mince »"» •'“» to coin She was mounted on a step ladder re hanging a portiere, which she had spent hours visitor in repairing announced. and freshening, when a was It was a certain Airs. Despard, an old find fashionable friend, and Maria, now maid-of-all work, hurried from her tubs to open the door, and ushered her, without ceremony, into the room where the young mistress was busy with her amateur upholstery. rite, “For pity’s sake!” ejaculated Alargue in the chamber above. “Alary Jane is in tire middle of the work niul she’ll never apologize. I will not go down.” “Afary Jane mortifies me every day of my life,” foamed Mis. Carteret, brushing her thin hair and taking her best lace handkerchief from the bureau drawer. “I wish,” site continued, sorrowfully, “that dear Mrs. Despar<1 had called when the drawing room was somewhat in shadow. Alary Jane has no doubt admitted floods of light and every bare line in the carpet and all the shifts will show, and oh! it is hard to let the world know how poor we are 1” Thus tragically the mother and daugli ter above stairs regarded each other, while below Alary Jane having tripped from the step-ladder, shaken out the por tiere and established the caller in a great easy chair with a hassock at her feet and her back to the light, a screen between her and the bit of lire in the grate was finding with herself all at once face to face ber opportunity. “Is it possible, my dear, that you can find such things yourself?” exclaimed Airs. Despard. “Do pardon me, but neither for love nor money do I know wi ieTt! U) ll,ld f ”‘ e "ho can take stitches . when they are needed, arrange my pretty things daintily, drape a Jam brequin daughter and generally done see to what hail my would have if she lived. Yon know I lost Afignori wh <!n she was the only two. You and she were born in same month with the April violets, Alary Jane.” How it came about Alary Jane could not have told, but before Mrs. Carteret entered the parlor a compact was made and the Despard portieres and furniture were all to pass in review before the girl s bright eyes the next day afternoon. ‘ You will let me mv you, my dear child? said the lady, in a soft aside, as she went away. Hut this plain Alary Jane was not sensitive «n_ point. Flic said, in licr usual voice: “Certainly, Mrs. Despard, if I am able to.serve price, but you I will charge yon a fair you must not count upon me until you find out whether or not I can really be of use.” Mrs. Carteret exclained as the door closed: “ 1 hat I should have lived to see this day. Mary Jane! Mary Jane! What will people think of you ?” “Oh, my dear little mother, what mat ters it what they may think if only they will find my work good of its kind and pay me a living price for it.” It was not many weeks before Mary Jane had all she wanted to do. A dozen families were in need of precisely such helpful assistance ss she could render, and she had her regular days and went from one to another, gradually coming to be regarded as a household oracle. For, were there stains on the linen, Mary Jane could remove them; was a bit of lace frayed, it her deft hands could re store to its primitive freshness; did a lady there need a hat for reception or opera and was no time to send for a French miliucr, here was Mary Jane with magic in her finger-tips, and give her a few ends of ribbon, a flower or two and a bit of tinsel, and there you were. File could mend a three-cornered rent so that you would not see the scar of her repairing, and as for table cloths flic and skill napkins,‘she had the patience an d of a medical man in rcstor j U g them when they had begun to go. The Jenkins faculty stood hoi- in stead, in these days, and though Mamma Carteret fumed, she was so environed with new comforts that she grew resigned in spite Carteret,with of aristocratic pro nulire, while openly Papa boasted ever-incrcasin«' pride, of this business like daughter. “Papa’s little girl,” mean while, was s > happy and busy, and sue cessful, that she began to look beautiful, !UK misnomer 1 “plain Alary Jane” seemed like a in earnest, One day she was looking over the morning paper, when her eyes fell upon a paragraph which set her wits to work in earnest. 8 ho drew her father aside, and, hand, smoothing his which dear had old head with ber a baud a good deal of suddenly magnetism said: in its tender touch, she “Papa, dear, wouldn’t you like to take , ne on an excursion?” “Where, my darling,” was the sur prised reu'v. Provident Alary Jane wns seldom acinous that money should he spent on jaunting for pleasure. Was she tired, he go|>rt? wondered,and would an outiug do her But there was no hint, of fatigue in'the wide-open childish gaze, in tradietim' tho lips he with laughing their forceful if set, con eyes,as to pro test titer A#, rlj viftne Was a woman for all her girlish fun and freedom, “j <jo think, papa, ” said Alary Jane, faking his breath away by her audacity, “that you and l ought to do something in about that cranberry sin swamp and a.shame of ours that New Jersey. It’s a jt isn’t paying us something, instead of being a-co -t which we dread whenever it's time to pay the taxes. And so, dear, I propose that we go and sec what is to be done.” 1 U1 . ’® " a f several several years years vro a 0 o. Tliis winter . the Carteret ship, under the of plain Mary Jane, finds itself SsVls"itf ZZuutC^il hSqnaTS. The u»h"£S ft little office, where Miss Carteret takes «*«■«' (™»'wl*I'»l'e >cm|eo»l. men me to fulfill an engagement nor ever breaking her word, “I tell you what, addressing girls,” says wife Cletnen- and tine’s husband, used his her sister, “you all to be ashamed of plain little Mary Jane, but what a brick the child has turned out!” “ft’s the Jenkins faculty!” says Papa Carteret, smiling. doctrine,” “it's Emerson’s says poor Marguerite, whose literary work has not been appreciated. ‘“Get your brick ready for tho wall.’ I begin to see thatl, for one, have been all these years work fag away at the wrong brick.”—P/n’fa dclphin Time-. __________ "' *' s<! .. 1 ‘irpedoes . in . v Naval , Wtiiiaie. Francis Edgar Bhcpperd is said to have been the first man to use the torpedo in naval warfare, lie came of an old North Carolina family, and was a graduate of the Naval Academy. and He entered resigned the when his State seceded, Con federate Navy. Twenty-five years ago federate Shepperd, Navy, then blew a Captain the United in the States Con up old-fashioned gunboat fixed torpedo Cairo fastened with an the bottom of to the Mississippi. Lieutenant-Commander, now Rear Admiral, Thomas O. Selfridge, was in command of the Cairo, lie and his men were badly shaken, but no one was killed or seriously injured. Captain Shepnerd, who was lying on the bank watching the explosion, made up his mind then and there that that was a cowardly way have of fighting, and that lie he would not any more of it. never recently used in Georgetown, another torpedo. and He buried died was near Philadelphia .—Noe York Bun. Weliding CeIelirations. The following list shows the order in which the various wedding celebrations properly At the end come: of the first year—Cotton wed (li ?£ Second y^r/v^tiLredJiin^ year-Paper wedding. Lm Seventh vear—Woolen wedding. Tenth year—Tin wedding. Twelfth year Silk and file linen wedding, Fifteenth year—Crystal wedding. Twentieth year—China wedding. Twenty Thirtieth filth vear—Biher wedding. Fortieth year--Pearl wedding. Fiftieth year— —Golden Ruby wedding. wedding. year Seventy-fifth year— Diamond wedding. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. A Hint, to tlio Housewife. At. this season of flic year stewed apples, ticles pears and plums are favorite ar of diet. For breakfast or luncheon, in the dining-room or in the nursery, there arc few table dishes more whole some and more delicious than well slewed fruit served up with cream or custard. There are many persons, how ever, who cannot cat it, on account citlier of tbe acidity of the fruit or the excess of sugar necessary to make it pain table Sipr does not of course^ conn teract acidity; it only disguises it, and its use in large quantities is calculated to retard digestion. The housewife may, therefore, be grateful for the reminder carbonate that a pinch—a of soda, very sprinkled small pinch—of the over fruit previously to cooking, will save sugar, and will render tho dish at once more palatable (Ural and more wholesome.— British. M< Journal. Mutton Suotasa House hold Homed V It is very vexing and annoying, in deed, to have one’s lips break out with cold sores, but, like the measles, it is far better to strike out than to strike in. A drop the of warm night, mutton suet applied retiring, to sores at just before will soon cause them to disappear. This is lips also and an chapped excellent hands, remedy It for should parched be applied at night in the liquid state, and well rubbed and heated in before a brisk fire, which often cause» a smarting sensation, but the roughest of hands, by this treatment, will often he restored to their natural condition by one applica tion. If every one could but know the healing properties of so simple a tiling as a little mutton suet, no housekeeper would ever be without it.. Get a little from your butcher, try it out yourself, ready run into small cakes and put away for use. For cuts and bruises it is children almost indispcusible, and where the.veare of and bruises. always there are deep plenty gash cuts that Alany a into would have frightmed most women sending for a physician at once, I have healed with no other remedies than a little mutton suet and plenty of good be castilc soap. A wound should always kept clean, and the bandages changed drench everyday, or every other day. A ing of that warm soap lie obtained suds from is the purest only soiqi can not cleansing but healing; then cover tbe surface of the wound with a bit of old white miisliu dipped into melted mutton suet. Renew the drenching and changed, the suet every time the bandages are and you will tic astonished to see how rapidly Herald the Health. ugliest wound will heal.— of “Good Cheer” lteCIpcs. Potato Cakes. —Take cold mashed potatoes,mix if two beaten flour eggs the with hands them, and season into necessary, oblong cakes. Fry in beef make drippings and butter. Turn carefully when browned on the under side. Corn-meat. Muffins.— One cup of meal, one of flour, one and one-half cups of sweet milk, a liltlo salt, a tablespoon fid of white sugar, one egg, a piece of butter the size of a walnut, one scant spoonfuls teaspoonful of of soda, of t wo scant tea cream tartar, or two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Hake in muffin tins. Bean 8oui*. Take one teacup of dry beans, par-boil until the skins will roll up when you blow them. Drain, and add two quarts of boiling water and a little salt. Cook one hour and a half, when there should be about a pint of water on them. To this add one cup of sweet cream about live minutes before serving. Children like this very much I think farmers’ wives are very unwise in is cheaper not using and more cream wholesome in cocking. than It more butter. Chicken Salad Without Oil.— Mince fine tho white meat of cold,boiled chicken, take one and a half times as much celery in bulk, having cut in pieces a quarter of an inch long; pre pare a dressing of three eggs beaten light, one-fourth cup melted butter, one-half cup each of cream and vinegar, a half tablespoon each of made mustard and sugar, with salt and pepper to taste. Mix well and put in a dish over boiling water, stirring constantly till it thickens like custard. Four it over the salad when cold, and oniy a short time before using. New Way to Cook Mutton.— Put the leg of mutton in an uncovered stew pan with a wine-glass of water on a brisk lire. When the water has evaporated and the mutton is a good color pour with over it h onion, wine-glassful of leaves, stock,seasoning three of an two bay sprigs parsley, a little thyme, salt, pepper and other spices to taste. Cover the stew pan and let the contents simmer until the mutton is done. Before serving strain the gravy, mix with it half a pint of cream and set it on tine fire. Let it boil up once and thicken it with two yolks of eggs. Dish the mutton: pour the sauce over it and serve. Beef Fhitticus.—O ne pound of cold roast beef, ten ounces of Hour, one tea cupful of (the water, whites), two ounces of butter, two eggs pepper and salt, beef dripping. Shred the beef as finely is possible, and season to taste with pep per and salt; make a smooth baiter with the flour ami water, blending them well together, fwhich should and stirring in the butter first be melted); whisk the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and add them to the batter, and lastly put in the beef. Stir all well together, ad I’-* -,„e beef dripping boiling hot . fry the fritters this, m a pan. m but do not drop too reduces much of tbe batter ja atone time, as it the tempera ture 111 of the 1 fat lut ’ ' which v ‘“ l in trvino ‘"U *"! should l"* 1 n(!V,:r , •«’ a,i ,, " w ‘- , > to get below the boiling point. drain Fry to a nice brown, and when done well and serve on a folded nankin * NO. 18. UNCERTAINTIES* Pink linen bonftefp • Pink cotton gonu, «■ Boses printed on it. Hands burnt brown. O, blitho were all the piping birds, and th« golden belted boos, And blithe sang she on the doorstep, with her apron full of peas. Bound of scythe and mowing, Where buttorenps grow tall; Bound of red kino lowing, Anil early milkmaid’s call, g ho on tho doorstep, with the young peas in her lap. And he camo whistling up tho lano, with tho iblions in his cap. “ You called mo a bad penny That wouldn’t bo sent away— But here’s a good-bye to you, Jenny, For many and many a day. There’s talk of cannon and killing Nay, never turn so white! And I’ve taken the King’s shilling— I took it last night.” Oh, merry, merry piped tho thrushes up in the cherry tree, But dumb she sat on tho doorstop, and out through the gate went he. Scent of liny and summer; Bed evening sky; Noise of the fife and drummer; Men marching by. Tho hay will bo carrried presently, and tho cherries gathered nil, 4ml the corn stands yellow in tho shocks, and the leaves begin to fall. Berhaps some evening after, With no more song of thrush. The lads will cease their laughter, And tho maids their chatter hush; And word of blood and battle Will mix with the sound of the find. And lowing of the eatttle. And clink of the milking pnii; And one will read half fearful A fist of names aloud; And a few wifi stagger fearful Out of tho little crowd; And she, perhaps, half doubting, Half knowing why she came, Wifi stand among them pouting, And bear, perhaps, his name— Will weep, perhaps, a little, as she wanders up the lano, And wish one summer morning were all to do again. — Macmillan. PlTll AND POINT. Yes girls, this is leap year, lmt it is well lo look before you leap,—- lliwjham ton Jtrpuhliran. Strange as it may apper, it is usually a cold day for a man when he is “fired.” - Boston Courier. I Map till the last armed male expires; Leap for your husbands and for sires; Leap fora chance to build the fires, Fair ones throughout tho land! —Oil City Hlizzaril., A South Carolina paper tells of a farmer in that State who has been at tho plow for sixty-eight years, it is time to call the old man to dinner .—Alta Cali fur n in. The young man who would waste time kissing ngirl’s hand would eat tho brown paper bag and leave the hot house grapes for some one else.— Burner villa Journal, The new Harlem Police Vagrant--“That Magistrate— “What is your name?” show* you are a green hand at the busi ness. All your predecessors Mercury. knew my name.- — Ncm York “What is the most religious portion of the body?” asked Maudie the othe'r day. And no one guessing the answer, she told it: “The head, because it is be tween two temples.”— Jeir.is'i Messenger. Life is re'd, life is earnest, its goal; And the grave is not Dust tlion btiycst, dust of the thou coal. burnest, That was s, oken —Nebraska State Journal. As soon as the German Crown Prince was “given up” by the doctors lie began to grow better. This shows that the doctors can euro a man if they only go about it in tho right way. -Chicago Times. Mr. Taliaforo, of Atlanta, Ga., says that ho has solved the ho; problem tho conceit of per- of petual motion. though Ho, he the only some men. As was man in America with a ten year old boy. Burdette. An advertisement reads: “Wanted, a young man to be partly out of doors and partly behind the counter,’’ and a young lady has written to ask: “What will b* the result when the door slums '?”—Oil City BuzzurJ. Tons of Diamonds. Burely even Bindbad the Bailor never ventured to compute his diamonds by tho ton. Six and a half tons of diamonds, valued at about t’4 0,000,000, are reported Africa* to have been extracted from four mines alone in the course of the last few years. The other great diamond field of the world is India, also a British posses sion. Everybody knows that Amster dam has hitherto been the center of th« diamond-cutting industry of the world, and in former times there was a good reason for tliis, as in London, at least,’ the industry was extinct. But every body probably does not know that of late years efforts have been successfully made to reintroduce diamond cutting in England, and that English several cutters prize have beaten the Dutch in recent competitions. trade—the Considering United the enormous value of the States alone, it is calculated, diamonds requires .1"!, 000,000 worth of cut per annum—care should bo taken that England, English and diamonds should be cut in not bo sent either to Amsterdam or to Antwerp and Paris, which have lately endeavored to secure a portion of the Dutch trade.— Hnglish Paper.