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“Our Ambition is to make a Yeracious Work, Reliable in its Candid in its Conclusions, and Just in its Views.
VOL. ].
It is estimated that pension attorneys
and pension claim agents have absorbe j
about one hundred million dollars of the
money paid as pensions since the Civil
War.
Now that Daniel Pratt is dead, Air.
Frank Vincent, Jr., the author of “The
i.Snd of the White Elephant,” may very
ptdperiy bh balled the last great American
traveler. Within the eleven years
lie lias traveled 205,000 miles, and the
records of his outings are contained in a
dozen books of adventure and dis-
The latest London novelty is the utili
zation of the drop-a-n'ckel-iu the-slot
machine to tho purposes of insurance.
A company has been organized, to be
known as the Automatic Accident In
surance Box Company, and its object is
stated to be “to provide the public witli
n ready means of obtaining an insurance
for twenty-four hours against death aris
ing from Occidents of every description
by simply placing a penny in tiie slot of
a box.
Some idea of the scaic of the tunnel
operations under the bed of the Harlem
lliver, in connection with the new Cro
ton aequeduct, may be formed from the
fact that the shaft which has been sunk
on the northerly bank of the river to
meet the mouth of the tunnel is 426 feet
in depth—more than the length of two
city’hlocks. Itis 80x17 feet in length and
breadth, with two elevators running day
and night, each capable of accommodat
ing twenty men. Excavation is going
on at tho rate of nine feet per day. So
far the tunnel has progressed 550 feet
into the bed of the river. The distance
to be completed is 1,300 feet. The tun
nel is lighted by electricity from s
dynamo above ground.
The savage King of the Metabele, in
South Africa, has probably never heard
of the game laws of civilized nations’,
but it has occurred to him that some
* 7 “ ”• d “ •” -™"»
elephants from utter extermination, and
he has set about the task, He has
issued an order that white men be no
longer allowed to hunt the elephant in
his large territory. He says the Dutch
and English hunters have left very few
elephants alive, and that he ™iii
permit the noble animals to be hunted
again until they have largely increased
in number. The ivory trade South of
Zambesi'is no longer profitable, hccause
so few elephants fall in the way of
huntera. No part of Africa is now rich
in ivory except the unhunted region of
the Congo basin.
In 1870 the census returns showed that
the residence and business real estate
in the Unite! States was valued at $ 0
,
881,000,000, and it is reasonably certain
from the jirogress made since that date
it has increased fully one-fifth, amount
ing in 1887 to $12,000,000,000. Tire
railroads of the country in 1880 were
valued at $5,500,000,000, and taking
$50,000 as the average per mile of build
ing and equipping, there have been con
structed since then enough miles of rail
way to cost *2,700,000,000. That is in
seven years half as much has been ex
pended in railroad building as in all the
previous years, from the time when
Stephenson’s invention wa 3 first utilized.
The out-put of coal has been increased
from 70,000,000 tons in 1880 to 100,000,
000 tons in 1886, an advance of 50 per
cent. The production of copper has
more than doubled, and that of iron ore
and its products, iron and steel, has
been largely increased.
The New York Times thus editorially
summarizes . recent ...... results of the use of ,
the deadly car stove: Reports of rail
road accidents show that the car stove
is still used and still finds victims A
west-bound . , , passenger tram . outlie . r Lmon .
Pacific Road was struck by a following
freight and two of its cars were tele
scoped etopca. Both isotii were were burned uurnca bv by fire me from irom
be coal stoves which they carried. ‘A1
tee injured were removed before tbe
Games could reach them, except a boy
three ivrly years TL old ’,! who was Tv held in the
a reck and burned to death. , A A passen-
4e r tram on the Chester and Lenoir
Road fell through a trestle at Hickory,
N. C. “The cars took fire and were con-
3 umed ’ ” No * one was ‘ burned to death ’
. several seriously . .
* persons were in
jured. . A car containing immigrants
became detached frem a train on the
Southern Pacific, ’ near Sumner, ’ Cal.,
. . alterwarcl , rolled down embank
nu an
ment. “The stove was overturned,”
says the report, “and the car caught fire.
Instantly everythino T “ was in a blaze The
e rtl.ed passengers tried • to e-scape, but ,
several were fatally hurt and others
severely burned.” The cars of the train
whieh were wrecked at Bradford, Mass..
heated by steam. . Tf If the, a, la con
-
tained the old coal stoves the list of the
ne*d would have been longer.
OKAYS STATION, GEORGIA, SATlAY, MARCH I f 1888
.
,
IN EMBRYO.
The egg in the shallow brown nest—
How lifeless, how pale to the eye!
How long it is pressed to tho mother’s
breast, warm
And kept from the shafts of the sky]
\ et listen, my sweet,
O listen, my sweet,
And think on tho changes that fall,
I or a. heart is beginning to tremble and beat
Close under tho delicate wall!
A bird is astir ill the nest—
The creature of sunshine and day;
How little and weak, with its wide yellow
beak,
Its body all naked and gray!
listen, my dear,
Oil listen, my dear,
And think on the chances that fall,
For tho carois of summer are joyful to hear
And Hope is the ruler of all!
As magic is wrought in the nest,
r lhe night is
And pursued by the mom,
surely at last from the walls of tho past
a he life of the fut ure is born.
Then listen, my sweet,
Oh listen, my sweet,
Ami think on the changes that fall,
For the heart of the morrow will quicken and
beat,
And burst into being for all!
—Dora Head Gooda!c,in Young People.
LAUNCE.
Tint last ray from the sett,,,.
fa-cot l.aunce, the boat-house keeper,
as he sat on the edge of the long plat’
foim, withhtsfishmg-lme dropped in the
wa The tf- sad , look in Ids smouldering
eyes did not bespeak dark
his much enjoyment of
occupation. As ho jerked his line
IT- - * sirt '‘ ,is "* «*
“ What success, Launce?
enough yet ? You Have von
once, for the supper must bring them at
must not be de
£aK a SWeet b,,t imperative
voice
t!le consequence be so terri
^ e ! Count Von Bruner should not
.
£ s , su W' r as , 80011 as lie should want
the basket of fish.
get »i a jE5h!r“a». nsliTxme m riisUIroat,” jsxwK.mil said Launce,
with a half cynical laugh, as he held the
basket toward her. When she reached
to take it he caught her small hand in
his, and pressed a kiss upon it.
The girl’s face grew crimson with
anger. She snatched her hand away,
uttering with vehemence:
“IIow dare you, presumptuous fel
“A our words are true, Gretchen. It
is presemptuous for me to love you; jet
I cannot help doing so. I will not again
offend you.” lie put tho basket down
at her feet and looked regretfully at the
beautiful face, transformed with anger
and wounded pride.
“If 1 tell Aunt Wilmine of this she
will calling send you away and immediately. has She
is me now. no doubt
witnessed your bold a-.t. How can I
ever forgive you?” she said with increas
ing anger. forgive
“ You will _ me sometime,
Gretchen. 'Tell your aunt I am going
away to save her the trouble of sending
me. Dutch Jans can take my place. lie
can fill it better than I.”
He watched her with his dark sad
eyes, as she went silently away, her step
less light than when she had come a mo
ment before; then lie went into his little
room, which was a part of the boathouse,
his and prepared his simple meal, us was
custom.
Au hour later, seated at his small win
dow, he watched Gretchen and the
wealthy Count Yon of iiowers. Bruner strolling With
through parterres jealousy, he the a
feeling akin the to saw
Count pluck rarest ruse to place in
her golden hair, as if he were already
master of “land and lady. ’ which lie
fondly ,j iioped * to be, it the fair ladv
wou t t j le 8uit he came to plead
-with her ambitious aunt.
Launce sat looking at the great man
sion long alter Gretchen and the Count
had f gone in. The lights £- from the arched
wia( ows shone t ough the ]a(;e cur .
tains, and Gretclien’s pure, rich voice
floated across the distance in that, pas
sionnte song: ,,° “Thou art so near and
y bictclien’s song ceased. Suddenly,
Launce aroused himself. lie went into
a small inner-room, and took from a peg
°n the wall an old leathern bag, then—
having |j. lighted a candle-sat <lown to
exam c q tg coutent8 . There was but
Rttie to look at: an old, worn violin, that
had been his father’s, and a large wallet
filled with old letters written in Italian,
Launce looked eagerly among them
until he came to one not quite had so yellow passed
qjje others. Five years
gince he placed this letter in the old wal
lot. The remembrance of it had faded
year by year,until it seemed like a vague
dream.
Something rccallecfmore within his henit to-night
had vividly the memory of
the time when his father lay dying, and
had given him this letter, telling him
when I.eshould be ail alone in the world
[)o , )g t j le i etfur directed him.
Launce was too young at that time to
do more than earn a scant livelihood;
but he was now seventeen, and lie re
nroachert himself that the command of
' father that him might family be and
IIieins 0 f restoring father had to lost
title, which his
''a‘;'i!'r S-had 80 lou ” been disrc ‘
timeVbf Up Qtnriirt/i l! 4.1 th ° i 1 ® ax tter olosoly , fora long
a«'“£
'*• “ u, °
t .inc. it. rtrbg.
1 hiS f ; l,h, '.V l0 in hissad
When almn they hev were together.
111
siri: room irjsrsirtc
gibbous moon hung high above the
.H.e;r,arisi,s:,SKs hat .seemed to from
come some strange
a»£rsL&* And vi ” t, “'
oX'Xh.” what n l' , 3 ih T' ® Ue i st,tm,s ;r ,a dj lllore i ” i - i
’
Now I A «, those strains! , '
filled witli love, again with passion
moonn'T;'’ r ! lt Vi th( 0y ? n fl01lt wafted r\ < ' through ,livor in the the
° ’ >
"*"*** in a 8UbHmC
The swaying vines touch her soft cheek
wh,«! k “* ***
She kept thinking of Launce, who had
area to say lie loved he,-who had
-IXS^lnaS
w ® she not already lorgiven!
r f !‘ tclle 0 , " strilM w » s 1 )osllI tal g herself died away, in wild, and
improbable a
ed b fancy, in which she was
' °,°, X one whom she loved, who was
o b] e and high-born, but who had eyes
J‘he Launce s, in whose passionase depths
Launce? ami SS35 JS2J&
mm-? She forgot all her sympathy for
felt him, and, her old pride returning, she
angry as siie realized that he was
cotntng feared directly under her window. She
to ask why lie was there lest
somebody back should hear her. She drew
in the shadow of the room.
“ Farewell, Carissima, until we meet
again! came in low, sad tones to her
^
sstessft iHUSISSli
isiswew breakfast,
the usual basket of fish for
and forthwith installed Dutch Jans in
ids place ; but she was more angry at
Gretclien’s refusal that day of the Count’s
offer of marriage.
Stic had cherished the fond hope of
seeing her niece a countess. Her grand
scheme had been successful; the prize
was within her grasp. Thus rudely to
have the enchanting dream dispelled was
more than her ambitious heart could
bear witli fortitude. She stormed and
threatened, to no purpose. Gretchen
was firm in her decision,
“Marry the Count yourself, Aunt
Wilmine,” she said. “I am sure you arc
quite young enough for him. married.” As for
myself, 1 do not wisli to be
“I shall send you back to the convent,
Gretchen, until you can act with reason
and give a favorable answer to the
Count,” declared her irate aunt, with
tears of vexation filling her eyes. Wilmine’s
This decision of Aunt
seemed to allay the anger and mortifica
tion of the Couut, who went away with
the understanding that he should be
notified of any change in Gretclien’s
sentiments towards him.
The prospect of returning to the eon
vent which had been a sweet, peaceful
home to Greehten for so many years,was
not very appalling as a punishment. She
looked forward to the event with much
greater calmness than to the thought
of becoming the bride of Count Von
Bruner.
'l’lie decree of banishment being nn
alterable, Gretchen went back to St.
Ursula's, there to remain a prisoner un
til her acquiesoncc in her aunt’s plans
should set her free.
When, a week later, she wrote that
she had entered on a course of music
that would require five acknowledged years to com- her
plete, Aunt Wilmine
self checkmated.
- - * * *
The summer guests at Wiesbaden
were 1(i astflte of delightful expectation
over the announcement that the wonder
fulyoung violinist, that Count Cellini,would
give a concert had been at place of
There a number new ar
rivals at 1 he spacious Hotel dc I’Europe,
and the younger ladies were on the qui
vive to discover which was the famous
musician who, rumor said, belonged to
one of the first families of Italy,and had
inherited immense wealth from a de
ceased relative.
The guests were assembled for supper
at the grand the table farther d'hote. A portly
matron at end is no less a
personage than Aunt Wilmine. and bc
side her the fair Gretchen, somewhat
older than when last we saw her, but
with a matured loveliness that far ex
ceeds her girlish beauty They have
spent a year in travel since Gretchen was
released from the convent. Count Von
Bruner, seated ou Aunt Wilmine’s right,
with a surviving them hope still in his heart,
has A joined at seated Weisbaden. almost opposite
young man
to Gretchen, and who was unmistakably
Italian, was the target for many bright
arid furtive glances. His gaze was re
petitedly fixed upon Gretchen, who
seemed entirely oblivious of his presence,
As he rose to leave the table their
met.
| At the concert that night their
mot againe was in reality the
§rt}afc music vi.jlift hen lie plajctl strains the
seerecall those sad
herself, . < 3S&&&33£ "hat is older and
she
wiser, husband.fre mushe propriety of choosing
a should she find one
srsD-*"* ~
They home in the afternoon,
sight ȣ2g*tztzx of henaunts and clamber , sr* up
a
* ta
T1 'e Counnving ingeitieet at hot
view. “?«l.p~.»t;o,e,,,a.t,.«m.e,. Noting her in her room,
Aunt Wihmnriied from the servants
th:U hadefor a walk.
Thinking iropitious time to follow
EffiS Ldlo’.S ^’‘th^Oount took
her
spoken thinkingofLceandhis'last “Farewell, low words,
uudem- windows:
iiStS,
mountain in s«h of her favorite wild
fiower-the imtaiu pink.
Presentlv tljere shspied a bunch, but un
fortunately in a spot amost in
accessible-,>a teep slope directly over
the lake, wheia false step would pre
eipitate her ir its deep waters. Her
foothokl, biok^oJe and fell regaining into the
Jake, leaving ° Jr no hope ‘ of
her safety.
.lust at tin, moment she saw the
Count, who wa til; seekin^ her to lav Ids
love and a at her feet. Calling
loudly to him 1 save her, she clung to
her fniil supom with reviving hope. love
The Couut, Wio seemed born for
making instead distance, of heroic <lecds, ran to
the house for leaving Gretch
en, with fast falling strength, hanging in
extreme peril.
“Courage! brave girl; I will save you.
1 vvitlr rbldJiuiijj-V saw,;- » e rrm, . ,,A. -ii-../cvt
.ceent.
In a moment the owner of the voice
had (lie boat from the boat house, and
with swift strokes was soon near the
spot where Gretchen hung.
“Now jump into the lake; do not
fear. It is your only way of escape.”
Gretchen obeyed the voice that, corn
mandbd her. and sank into the dark
water. The next moment she came tc
the surface, and was lifted into tlie boat
by her brave rescuer. .She was uncon
scious, and Launce was excusable if lie
kissed the face of the woman he loved.
The Count, having by this time re
turned with Dutch .Inn-:, took in the
situation at once, and, feeling that lie
would ho out of place in the presence oi
tiie man who had saved Gretchen from a
death to whielr his cowardice had left
her, he hastened to the house, took his
portmanteau, and, without a word to
anyone, left the place.
When Gretchen recovered conscious
ness and looked upon her preserver, she
said:
“You are Count Cellini, the great
musician whom 1 met at Weisbaden?”
“I'am,” he replied, “blit I have another
title by which you may better remember
me; Launce! and I have come back for
your forgiveness for the offence I gave
you six years ago.” forgive
“Oh, l.aunce! yon had my nest
the night you went away.”
“Now I want something more, Gret
clien—I want your love.”
“I think I gave you that with the for.
giveness, Launce.”— N<-.w Yo-k C’lyper.
The Color of Hie Sen.
Artists , , always , seem at , a loss , to , deal ,
^ who'please the ; public. •/ Frofessor
Tyndall ,,, , ,,, has come to their aid. He u re
cognizes three principal hues in the sea
particles waves - blue, held green m the water and^ye act ow. as minute » o- n
murors rejecting the liglit which pene
“ ,be h 'l uld ; ! 1,0 wb,ch ar,i
out, filler having traversed °nly , a
“ ll11 stratum of water, preserve then
yellow attenuated parts; but if the reflections and are
tbe water appears green;
if they do not exist at all the sea being
‘-Tear and free irom muddy miitteis, tne
color is deep blue, in an indigo sea the
crest the waves will appear green on
a«- 01lnt of la< * of thicknc*. Sea
’weed, unimalcuhe and other local .or itc
eidcntai causes may have much influence
011 the color ol the water. Court
Journal.
Needless Raisins.
“What is a ‘seedless’ raisin, and how
is it producedwas asked of an im
porter of fruits. “The next time you
eat a piece of mince pie,” ho replied,
“you will find the seedless raisin in it,
if the ‘meat’ lias been properly made. It
is a smallish, cream-colored fruit, about
the an unbroken size of a gooseberry, skin. It comes and from is used Smyrna, with
and is called the ‘Sultana.’ It is grown
seedless, simjily by arrest ng one of tin
laws of nature. When the grape is about
half ripe the end of the vine is bent and
buried in the ground. This prevents
the formation of seld and the full de
the velopment and of the fruit, but it flavor.”— ripens all
same, lias al delicious
Philadelphia Timet,
Interesting Facts About the Ocean.
.. .. louf iuectin tf of tho Roy*il
f vdinb U r<»h J)r John Murray
o“ >;»““•>a*
w.
^ rr ; “ ‘depth ?b
TDumltliiit t I*e momn cpt n oj o area
ba 'ing' s $&■ ’ ssk • s i8 fathoms or nearly
r s , almveg. •* In * it
heightof the liry hind ^
area
or n '**5^? V°M imv the ‘Hnnstiomd
- ^J*»gSS^S5SL* : ' tl 11,0 .'(I’lj.ulfti mtiyVhreu uii’les'be.
mw me average n -,,, or
occupies 1 ’ ’ ‘ 1 ' f the
in c tr . mluional . area 0 condi- of the
“ ... u r varied
hi .raped to light, heat, currents
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33. »•.■> n;»f.
vaiuous paits deposits o tieRg 1 " 11 mow - icspect^ VCS pects
.The nr. n
K}-«
teinperatue l r. d
jmmt, w.thann."•‘‘.’nhero not cxee
mg 7 degrees v . 11 bei.,« f no
sunlight. 01 l’; '- 1 ^'^ . kl
aiiundauce of annual 1 thoforms
M 01 !' ’.hi ^ ^
smulai, „ m i I those of shallowei
.icnosits which accumu
B8»3gjf " rf
»*•■»' >'» “
remoml to and pOedl up
waters of tho e• .j.jles
about 80 ,000,000 square ^ in l ,
ami would tlie be rest covered o the■ by » an lact oetan “ extum “f" ,
to should the whole oi the sSlanA re
'luced thesurtaceofUiec.it to one level umlei be - c«veVt-rl
by an ocean with a f
ihout two milos.-W. -hum s hautU.
A Dish Fit for a King.
knows _ j,i| his Y,uuyTi^i. aul ?KlB8Efy' in
anything about mutton tiiai
days, for tile very uurtioiont rOdSOn
there is no mutton worth knowing any
thing about. Scientific breeding has im
proved it off the face of the earth. The
immature meat is killed at two years
old, and only we few survivors of a
former generation know how days. little The like
it is to the mutton of former
Monmouthshire farmers told me tin; other
•day that they could not keep Welsh
sheep of pure breed, because nothing
under an eight-foot park puling would
confine them. .Just as if they did not
jump in the days when I jumped too!
Believe me. my young friends, that
George the Third knew what he was
talking about ins upon certain other oc
casions) when he said that very little
venison was equal to And a haunch gravy!— of four
year-old mutton. Colored, pink, the inno
chocolate not my
cent young friends. Ichabod! Icliabodi
married “illy uncle, father’s too, Mr. s’ster, Partington—who and lived
iny sessions
many years chairman of quarter
ntoffham, among the Southdowns, near
Lewes—was a man who understood mut
ton. A little silver saucepan was placed
by his side when the leg of mutton, or
sometimes two, about as big as line
fowls, were placed in one dish before
linn. Then, after the mutton had been
cut, the abundantly flowing and gravy was
transferred t> the saucepan, a quan
tum suit of currant jelly and cayenne
were added, tho whole was warmed in
the diningroom, and then—we ate mut
ton, as I shall never cat it again in this
world.”
Bismarck's Narrow Escape.
According to private correspondence
from Berlin, Prince Bismarck lias been
considerably troubled of late by the
effect of the bullet wound he received so
many years ago from the revolver of a
would-be assassin. Many people have
forgotten even the circumstance that tho
great German ( hancellor was so murder
ously attacked by tho youth Blind, but
as a matter of fact five shots were dis
charged at him, and it was simply owing
to the sturdy way in which he grasped
his assailant’s arm that only one of them
took effect. The bullet glanced off and one
of the Chancellor’s lower rihs, a
bony'excrescence which developed in con
sequence, still marks the place. As it
turned out, too, Bismarck’s risk was no
means at an end when lie grappled with
and seized his assailant. hearing A military
guard hurried up on the Chan
cellor's shouts, and the impulse of tlie
foremost of these stalwart Prussian gren
adiers on seeing a comparatively feeble
stripling being held and seemingly mal
treated liv Bismarck’s a ponderous man had with a bald
head—for hat fallen off
—was to club his rifle and bring it down
or the hitter’s bare pate. Luckily for
Germany, however, the Chancellor
warded off his impending fate by shout
ing out: “Hold on; I am Bismarck!” on
which, as the latter himself tells Hie
story, tbe soldier dropped his weapon in
a much greater fright than that of his
escaped victim .—London Figaro.
The Chicago then burglar who drugged a
doctor and ransacked his houso
should be arrested for practising medi
cine without a license .—Chicago Nem,
NO. 19.
OLD SAWS IN RHYME.
Turn over a new leaf; forgive ami forget;
Ev’rything’s tisli that comes into his net.
Strike while the iron is hot: live and haw
In some people’s pockets their money wSii
burn.
What’s one person’s loss is another one’s gam
llo don’t know enough to come in from tb<
rain.
Whom the gods would destroy they first ren
der mad; he's to tht
Temper justice with mercy; gone
bad.
With leaden heels justice doth travel about:
Cheating don’t prosper; wine in and wit out
A cat e'en may look at a King; splitting
What’s everyone’s business is no one’s affairs.
Nimble sixpence is better than shilling that’i
slow
Fools learn by experience: pay as you go.
Receiver is worse than tho thief; hard tc
beat; with the
l'lie bitter in life yon must take
sweet.
Devil take tho bimliiiost;compnrisonsare
Odious always; so near and so fur.
Man’s house is his castle; ahoy never sand
Upon a man’s errand; never too late to mend.
Never too old to learn:order’s Heaven’s first
law; tickled with straw.
Pleased with a rattlo, a
Murder will out and dead men tell no tales:
justice is blind, but at last she prevails.
The fly on tho wheel thinks ho turns it
around; falls onto the
’Tween two stools one often
ground.
You can’t ride two horses at once; a cat’s
truly necessity knowetli no
will be l«jys; keep a stiff upper lip 1 -
All sound no sense; of tho old block a ehip.
Cleanliness is unto godliness next;
He’s not disappointed who nothing expects.
Don’t jump at conclusions; look well ere you
leap; must first learn to
Before one can walk he
creep.
Variety’s spice of life; bear and forbear;
’Tis an ill wind that blows no one good any
where,
Kisses by favor go; best friends must part;
In front of the horse never fasten tho cart.
—11. V. Dodge, in Detroit. Pree Press.
lT'l’H AND l’OINT.
Tobogganing is tire latest method of
teaching the young idea how to shute.
If sealskin sacqucs could be plucked
from a fir tree the average husband would
be happy .—Huton Qaxetie.
The English turist who recently visited
Leadville, and brought a tin bath tub
witli him, found it very useful. They
buried him in it.— Puck.
“Too much absorbed in his business,”
was the comment of it newspaper on the
death of a brewer who was found
drowned in a tank ol his own beer.
There is one thing to he said for the
brass band. It never hangs back and
blushes and protests incompetency when
it is asked to play .—Burlington Free
Press.
“A sea-green glass vase, nine inches
high, supposed to he thirteen hundred
years old, him been found in Bologna.”
That settles it. We shall cat no moro
Bologna. Norristown ller/tld.
Drear are the winter’s hoiiiuIh anil sights,
And cruel is the north winds’ ire,
But lovers on these biting nights
Hit closer-—to tho lire.
—Detroit Free I'ress.
Physician serious (to patient)—“Your sir, and I think case is
a very one, a con
saltation had better be held." i Pationt
(too sick to care for anything)—“Very
well, doctor, have Epoch. ns many accomplices
as you like."—
Miss Prude (aged forty, going to bed)
—“.-‘omebody’s under my bed! My
goodness! Can it be Fido? Fido! Fido!
(She holds out her hand under the bed,
and the wise burglar licks it.) Oh! all
right! It is Fido.” Retires, reassured,
and sleeps through the burglary .—French
Joke.
A. (writing)— “ How many g’s in ag
gregate:” refers to the B. first (supposing syllable only)—“Two.” tiie query
computation)—“ C. (who is no tiling if not accurate in
No ; three.” B. (see
ing tiie point)—“Yes, altogether.” together.” O’,
(still particular)—“No, not all
—Huston Transcript.
Died H i Hi Horns Locked
K. J. (Shipman came across two largo
deer in tiie woods north of Thorp, with
their horns locked together,in which con
dition they had evidently been for several
days. One of the animals was dead and
frozen still when found, but tiie other
wits alive and evidently dragged in a dead starving
condition, having tiie and deer
a distance of about forty rods ripped
the brush and ground up generally in his
efforts to get loose. Air. Shipman de
spatched the live deer and to get their
heads apart had to break the horns of
each.— Wausau ( Wis.) Central.
A Lost Paragon.
The A fair, proud frankness taro, serene of and child; mild;
winsome a
Eyes of that deep cerulean Mae,
That brings a glimpse of Heaven reads, to vou.
Hhe lives thought in books, uud while she
Los“s nil of human needs;
< if gross materialism knows
As little as a budding rose.
While I was worshiping afar,
This lovely, intellectual star,
From Holland a new coachman came.
And ip throe weeks she boro tils name.
T-Si/tinu%