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“Oar Ambition is to make a Yeracions Reliable in its I Statements, Candid in its Conclusions, and Just in its Yieis."
VOL. I.
The largest amount of land held in the
United States by an alien corporation is
that owned by the Holland Company in
New Mexico, It embraces 4,500,000
acres.
The hardwood production of tliecoun
try in 1887 was 25 per cent, greater than
in 1886. The hardwood trees of the
United States are being rapidly ex
hausted.
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A soap mine has been discovered neai
Pine Ridge, Wyoming. At all events,
if it isn’t soap it’s something that resem
bles it very closely, being yellow in
color, and capable of making a good
lather and removing grease from hands
and clothing. The supply seems to be
unlimited.
California is proud of her record for
1887. Three hundred miles of new rail
xoad were laid, the assessed value of
property increased $132,000,000, tho
jwine and brandy product was large,
50,500,000 pounds of canned goods and
35,000,000 of green fruit were shipped,
and there never was such a year for
tourists.
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An effort to suppress bull-figlitiug has
been made in Mexico. An attempt to
make the powers of Europe disarm would
be as likely to win success, sarcastically
observes the New York World. Take
bull-fighting from Mexico and there
would be nothing left save a little
pulque, some red pepper and the halls of
the Montezumas.
The number of women in the French
capital who use tobacco is somewhat on
the increase, for there are three or four
establishments in the city of pleasure
devoted exclusively to the manufacture
of ladies’ cigarettes—and they do, it is
said, a roaring trade. An inquisitive
journalist, however, has ascertained that
the cigarettes solely made for the ladies
contain a soupcon of opium, -which is de
cidedly a bad thing for the health and
nerves of those who use them, and
who thus may be said to doubly narco
tize themselves.
The Philadelphia Times says it “lias
been authorized to invite free suggestions
from the multitude as to tlie best public
use that could be made of a gift of $50,
000. The authority comes from a gen
t eman of large fortune and large philan
thropy, and it is his sincere desire to re
ceive intelligent suggestions to guide him
in applying that bum. y line or pub
lic charity or beneficence to produce the
best results to society. The money is
ready, and will be given as soon as it
shall be made clear how it can be made
productive of. the greatest good. It is
not intended that individual or family
suffering should be embraced in the list
of causes presented.”
Speaking of Airs. Cleveland, a Wash
ington correspondent says: “Her resi
dence of a year and a half in Washington
has not taken the edge off the curiosity
of the people living right here at the
capital. When she goes shopping the
clerks and customers at any store she
may visit drop everything to look and
listen. When she takes a seat in a box
at the theater the performers lose half
the attention of the audience, and when
she gives a reception at the White House
the men and women pass in line before
her and then eagerly rush around to the
corridor, where on tiptoe there is some
chance of catching another glimpse of
the fascinating hostess.”
“Australia,” says the New York Times ,
“ has received a set-back by the refusal
of the mother country to join her in the
plan of contributing $25,000 each for an
Antarctic expedition. But the objection
made by the British Government, namely,
that the amount proposed is too small tt>
he of service, is a very easy one to cure,
if Australia wishes. Still, it is not im
probable that any increase in the sum
devoted to such an expedition would be
so much additional money thrown away.
While discoveries within the Arctic circle
have been pushed to a distance of only
a little more than six and a half degrees
from the pole, the furthest advance in
the Antarctic region is still nearly twelve
degrees from the South pole. Practically,
nothingof importance has been discovered
in that direction for nearly half a cen
tury, or Bince the triple successes achieved
between 1840 and 1843 by Sir James
Ross, our American Wilkes, and the
French Dumont d’Urville. Ice and snow
perpetually cover latitudes correspond
ing to those in which at the north flour
ishing vegetation, many quadrupeds,
and even permanent populations are
found. To suppose that any commercial
advantage could come of another at
tempt to peuetrate these prodigious ice
barriers is preposterous, and there :s only
a slender chance of deriving scientific
knowledge of importance from
quest.”
GRAY’S STATION, GEORGk. SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1888-
THE HERMIT KNIOHT.
In a shaggy forest I know a glen '
Where the were wolf made his lair;
’Twas haunted of owls, but’twas shunned of
*
lnen)
For a demon dwelleth there.
When the night was dismal, and wild, ’ a ml
t
And » i yells were on the gale ,
I rode my black steed totbe glen, and met >
Thatdemou weirdly pale.
I sprang from my charger where he stood ^
And I hatipd the specter dire:
The ground was rank with the smell*of
Ulood -
Anri 1ml with a smoulderimr tiro.
T nniL i him i -ir v tiviihl ‘ v \ mum ’
, Unmeet T fora hunvm eai
>
And [ saw his face, by a sudden fla’.no, p
Lurid with hate and ear.
I plucked the fiend bv his dong right hand,
As he sate on a corse, ne\vslain.
My voice was strong with a-, firm commanf 1:
“I have sought thee once a sain.
Show mo to-night, show me to-night,
What thou may’st J not keep f.*om me.”
-
L With . a glare , eyew not f good 1L ' \ to a
a see.
My shivering steed, lie pawed the'moss,
His gasps began to fail:
By a murdered corse,\and a dying hlorse,
I heard that goblin’s t,de;
But never a spirit that skims the sea,
Or a phantom of the airt
Must guess what Uie showtime foul fiend whispeaod me,
Or dream what he there. I
'
I had power, I had power imtliat growsomei
hour,
And I read his spirit through f\
I made him cringe and I bade hiVn cower,
For my heart was brave and tri^e.
I chained him there with a new-for chain,
By the side of the murdered wight,, .
And I loft him howling a wilder strain*
Than an the the howlinz howling of or the the nieht night. V; , •
For ten long year.', on amomitain hare y
I had weptand fa,tel sore;
1 had worn the stones with my knees! jn
prayer
To conquer a grace the more;
And to weave a spell for a fiendish heart
JSSZXZZL*
He may harm no hapless passer by; ■
He may spread nor ban nor bale;
1 had strength and mast’ry from One on
high,
And my courage did not fail.
I won my will, for my soul was pure,
And the secret that I know
Hath given me power great ills to cure
As 1 journey to and fro.
Go not that way. It is haunted still;
The wolf hath left his lair;
The owls have flown to my barren hill;
No living thing is there.
A murdered corse by a blackened stone,
’Neath an old tree, gnarled
Groom or Bridegroom?
BY WILL F. POND.
“Bv Jove I’ll do it! there is
other way of wooin" her; so to
winds with common sense and propriety. ouee^
Recommend me for the post at
dear lack and nut me down “own vour jour
for life
The was Tom Rainforth,
hair-brained young ^was journalist, and the
person addressed Jack Fortescue,
Esq landed proprietor had and been gentleman dining at
large. Tom and he at
the Savage Club Veen and, retiring to the
smoke room, had elaborating a
tle the* plot hatched by the fertile brain of
brilliant vouiig atlssue journalist.
facts of the case were these •
A t the hunt ball recently held in
ouaint old Lincolnshire village the” of
by Tom Rainforth liad misfortune
(or good fortune, according to the
er’s opinion) to meet and fall desperately
in love with Everin»'ham, E dith, the pretty daughter
of Squire who, e’verv bein'*
occcntric manafOTfune urntlwnan deemed
hunter, and
closed his doors in the face of the
merous admirers attracted by his
ter’s prettv face and her ample dot.
Tom had fared no better than thei
others, but on confiding his sorrows to J
his friend and guest they had between,
them matured a scheme of romance and^l
impudence unparalleled in these prosaic :
Nineteenth century days. tlie right hand
Squire Everingham oeneraf was
man Braintreeran and estate manager to Lord
office his family had held
for several generations;. he was, besides,
a landowner of no small extent, * and a
magistrate; hence his popular title of
S^’the 1 'if:
moderately sized village, which consisted j
chmch Ss of Bg a the chapel’, Saxon and and "seme early venerable Norman !
eras The Squire occupied the great i
white house at the corner of this road,
patronized the entire village, and was.of
evefnever^mixed Zi’ “ hTs Nearest witli' them socially,
neighbor, whom he
honored by fived admitting to miles' a questionable the
some a-av, a'some
thi! Souhe saruJed and iris daughter live*
^tervals Sfvfaits life ?rom broken onlv ?rTendfto at rare
l'i ; imVrnevs lady
^ a t i L to tl,e market
RWa™ n iter albench
i.i m the Squire was in the Til
in^he^eyes t hul of°the oT e blot hii'nt°(to on his which'hc escutcheon
sul>
scribed'liberally), and the in neighborhood, those of the
few county families in
and that was, he bad become accustomed
/since the loss of his wife; to drink, “not
w RunDOs’ed selv but too well,” and, as may be
he incurred serious censure
for a habit not tolerated in these davs.
lu other respects tlie Squire was stillle
ohcery, kitchen open-handed man as of yoretjs
door was ever open to the li
The only other change was bectL inis
appearance; the tall lithe figure
slightly bowed, the hair tinged ™
19 1 “ '"o 1,1 Hie field Local
tecs less and irregular, and (great!
crime of all in a hunting country) i
commenced to “crane” at his fences duel a
knock his horses about for faults
himself. He also grew quarrelsome, ad
new-comers, ect not being feeling under 1 the same ftmoual
?. ! lgat, re ?P » or okl inhabitants, the same severi ol!
0l \ as
orawl9 1 hail , taken place, and in
one u
tw “Squire was handled,
1,1 increasing excitement and
toon • of
tented with temperament he grew discom
the slow rate of speed obtain;
able from his horses, and invested
several fast trotters, and went whirling
frora P>ace to place, to the danger
? v ‘‘. r : V °“. e he 'L'bis was endurable
10 sober moments, but when, after a
at the neighboring town
LS .t U| r 8 ',' ' tbeborae l,e " r,bb ]uto T 11
gr.Giifip, going ^ni, over or through , every
th ng in his wav, it became no joking
m itter. ' °
“On one occasiou, retumring home at
spilled night, he drove over a stione heap and
himself and grooo.i into a broad
ind deep drain that ran Uy the roadside;
on another he collided wit h his own gate
Tost, smashing tlie dart to
d breaking his groom’s ribs, being
dragged into. The yard in con
sequence the reins, ot having beocmie entangled in
whilst the/ horse was kicking
and plunging in all directions. °
could soon be foundf grew scarce; finally, no
one to take the place;
then, for some time the Squire drove
himself, and. after having been several
Hines fined for fu Hens driving by his
brother magistrates,, they determined to
daring l )ut a stop to him.tiSeirlintention to thogrowiug scandal bv de
him to prison Lir if he of sending
a (month appeared
before them agism. 'This had the desired
effect, and set-llinilseeking for a steady.
capable groom.
Such was the! state of affairs at the
tinie of the hunt 1 mul the intention
portitnt of all, dot his best to win the
heart! of tlie fair E< Bth, who was already
more than welt-dii (posed towards him.
Aftar some preli uiinary correspondence
an engagement iiAto his dut w: »s contracted, Tom en
tered Sea, and became the
Squire’s-.sliadow. If any one took offense
at the Squire’s unneusonable remarks he
was always on lin ud to smooth matters
down, and noticed, for a ttiinc all went well
Edith Gossips toak however, that Miss
a gre« ter amount of horse
exercise tbun usual, and that the
groom it was wasgsaid inviujiably in atlo»^-'"' (1>
whilst \ghahoteecicancd every
mmubi '* y
atotfto tell.' .1 . Tom «»
came her scruplcB, and ol their mutual
misunderstandings, love-makings, and
its afctendant jil ensures and pains, 1 am
no envious chro aider; suffice to say she
wss pk eas ' ; to to keep his secret, but
' vomai A'toke, del: lyod.her happiness, and,
notwithstanding_wll toedaredi c'ipncioiisly lm had undergone she would to
wm hur ’
nevei ^■ accept him ninless he accompanied
hera8 groom to t he opening meet of the
sca,(,n -
Poor'loin! , , lie‘had , . not ^ counted J upon
a girl’s uijschievftms fancy, and sorely
a^piinst his -will lie: bowed to tlie in
evitable.
Downward AJtepsiare not easily retraced;
so the conduct! ofl tlie Squire proved;
for after a brier pemod of good behavior
lj ” gradually gritw worse and worse, un
til he was nearly,, if not qniu.*, as bad as
ver - Ho all that, he could, Tom could
not keep him sohier. Once after attend
iu g one of the me. kings, ho drank rather
ni0IC heavily than usual, and insisted
011 driving himitelf home, which lie
did at a gallop, escaping This injury resulted, by little
short of a miracle. how
ever, in a brief illnese, which gave Tom a
chalice to think tta. matter over, and
evo * v e a scheme to jstit an end to these
midnight had dangers. brown-tiftmed leather,
He a rug
made for the horse,which extended from
the saddk- to the tail, where it was fast
ened to the crupper ni.G loosely girthed
wnderneath; being nearly the color of
;h e horse, a casual observer at night
would not notice it. H e then took the
ha ™ e 01,1 every night to,exercise, instead
of in the morning, and by tlie tune the
s ‘i ulre recovered lom was ready for
h 'ni.
During these weeks Jack Fortescue
made one or two surreptitious calls, and
&£!* A
jvith a I’have
own hands if but patience. You
shall dance at my wedding in the tliird
week of Octobor.”
“And see you as groom to the
Eilith at the opening meet—eh,
will get no laugh at my expense, 1
he
From this time, strange to say. ; no
further accidents occurred when the
Squire rode home; the horse went iris fori- cpii
etly along, taking no notice of
ous ierkin^ of the reins, or vigorous
thrashing, beyond a slight jump its‘head to left
or neck® right as the- whip the Squire struck railed it for or
When at
not galloping, at’full Tom declared that ltKvus
galloping speed, and and that he
could ‘carcely hold on, the fgure,
in doubt, usually accepted Ins word,
Meanwhile, tlie horse grew more and
more steady, as though hand, it had and tak-fi :ts
master’s character m wis in
league with further Tom to disasters. save thooldgdule
man from
T1 opening meet drew r.igh, and Tom
was wily teased by his fiancee as to what
he wild give to be let off.
Ten laughed, and said:
“Nthing! You keep your promise to
marrme the third week iu October,
and will ride to the meet as your
grooi.” Edh wistfully him, half
looked at re
grett g her bargain, but too high
spirit! uposing to let him off his penance after
once it.
ist the a. m.
Tom,July attired in a green coat with
biassmttous, a broad leathern strap
rounthis waist, cords and boots, and hat
with cockade, was to be seen holding
two trees at (lie front door. The Squire
had a attack of gout and could not go.
Da.tilv attired in a dark blue riding
was lifted to the saddle,
and, 4th Tom riding decorously in the
>assed out of the gate. Once,
howeir, in the green lanes, he ranged
aiongde, but Edith was in a dejected
nmmktri scarcely spoke.
she Said :
M Th dear ! it s no use, I can tdo it.
Go ba aud put on your own clothes; I
will remake a public enough show for of you; ” yon
have dergone me.
“Ni! nay!” laughed Tore. “A bar
§ a ' r ‘' h bargain; you might want to cry
torfeito your own stake; and dear,’
loweri* his voice, “I cannot let you do
iw.”
“' ' indeed, . I will not. I will ...
<uo
k ee P Y ' voll \ liiit il you wiU not
«?• . ‘ k and change that hateful suit I
W1 ^ t,n back myself and forego the
meer
"is mt so?” said Tom; “then here
8 0es -’’-fid taking oil his hat lie drew
ou * R velvet cap, and unbuckling his
belt an throwing off the gieeu coat, he
sat ic\tied in the Melton Hunt coois.
} *« coat and strap after ho lm ,
^ e .nTride vnui d '
^ ^ stl " rl< ^ e us > our groom, nroom?”
“Yes, said she, with . a merry laugh;
as m v ’
toitmeet speculation was rile as to
W ' UI ^ tn wa9 > and owing to .laek
Forteseu the secret leaked out. I he
Squire ofy stipulated that Tom should
still dnvthim and gave Ills consent.
T!? A
oa ton, bather rug lie always wore at
night; aid 1 had two pairs ot reins, one
running rom the bit along the shafts
ro ' n " 110 back of the cart where 1 sat;
thepther pair, which the Squire
us ed,' \ r 0'e burlled to the colhr.
tremendous laugh _
Of cutirse a w as ic
res >jlt < I this disclosure, and a l mug i
against himself, the Squire joined in 1,
lll| to proposing lus son-in-law s health,
as ked: “AVho shall say the days ot
c Wvid*y and are his past? wifestill ” livehappuyto
'1’om
Kailiers, iiav
’ n g been killed in the hunting field, and
a brass tablet records his manifold virtues
>“ '»«
At a meeting of the Professor American Society
0 f <'ivil Engineers, Gustav
Lindentlial read an exhaustive paper on
.*xhe North River Bridge Problem.” It
outlined suspension a gigantic bridge scheme for construct
i n g a across the Hud
son a t a point between Fourteenth and
Twenty-eight the streets, for railroad the purpose lines into of
this bringing * S all The great plan of the bridge
sisted ity wrought iron con
of two towers on
sunken stone piers, at equal distances
from either shore, with three suspension
spans, the middle one being 2,850 feet
long. The largest single span ever de
signed up to the present day is that bo
ed longing Scotland. to a bridge Its now length being construct
in is 1,700 feet,
The professor argued that the great
width of the river has made engineers
rather favor a tunnel than a bridge, ow
ing to the many difiicullies involved in
tlie construction of the latter. Still a
bridge with six tracks, which would ac
commodate all of the railroads desiring
to enter this city, could be constructed
at a much smaller cost than the number
of tunnels that would be required for tlie
same purpose Besides it would be
much safer. A bridge built according to
ids plan, he x a’d, w ould be capable of
transferring of),000 would passengers an hour in
one direction, and thus meet the
demands for at least fifty years. The
cost of construction for the bridge alone,
including anchorages and abutments,
would not exceed $15,000,000. This
estimate did not include the outlay which
would be involved in the purchase of the
necessary amount of land ateitherap
proaeh, nor for the tracks and stations of
the terinini.-Aeio 1 ork Obuveer.
The Wilv fu., Red Mull.
Montour is an Indian reser
^d ’kox trite!TdT home. I.S
lj W ".eir annuity was paid.
mre^nd eacn coaljn, nun jer ,n oi gold tnc trine wan
receiving exactly $.).!.IU as his or her
share. In order to avoid the trouble of
f ‘ ,r thm ‘ t0 [ eturn toie odd penny.
lh ^ lh ';y rcf| .scd to do. Ib.y are ex
need *fnts ngly a:ul susp.cious demanded of_the the exact Government change.
) he suspicion seems to he mutual, for the
agent, instead of paying out the money,
gave each Indian a check after which
n« was escorted to a bank, where the
exact done change was handed to him. This
was to prevent the wily Indian
from getting two annuities-the strong
family resemblance making that trick
gwd “nee before —New i.rrk Graphic.
We must not be content with waiting
for something to turn up. We must turn
something np. We must not only strike
the iron while it is hot, but strike it ua
til it is made hot.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
-
Prof. Vaughan reports a successful at
tempt to produce in a eat a disease simi
lar to typhoid fever, by the use of the
germs found iu the water used by the
300 victims of the scourge at Iron
Mountain, Mich.
Sometimes the pressuro of an artesian
flow of water results from a gas pressure
instead of from a high head of water.
Dakota, for instance, has several artesian
wells 1,000 feet deep, with 250 to 280
pounds pressure, but there are no high
places near by to give this head of water.
The advisability of testing as foggy
weather signals sudden flashes, such ns
those of gunpowder, has been suggested by
to the British lighthouse authorities
Lord Rayleigh and Profossor Stokes,
who think the flashes might attract atten
tion where an equal fixed light
escape notice.
We have heretofore been led to
that ice purified itself. Now we are told
that in good marketable ice, taken from
where the water is polluted with the
sewage of cities, there exists an almost
indefinite number of living disease
germs, and they appear to tlinve under
the condition of being fro/.en for an in
definite period.
Some people doubt several tlie poisonous of
effect of nutmeg, but ca a es
nutmeg-poisoning have been noted in the
British Medical Journal during the past
summer. A whole nutmeg was taken in
four of tho eases, and five whole ones in
the remaining case, lu still another case,
tlie use of half a nutmeg in a hot drink
was nearly fatal.
Dr. John Murray, of a
paper on tho height and volume ot the
dry land and depth aud volume of the
ocean, makes tlie statement, that “should
the w hole of the solid laud he reduced to.
one level under the ocean, thou the sur
face of tlie earth would be covered by an
ocean with a uniform depth of about, two
miles.” From Dr. Murray’s investiga- land
tions it also appears that if the dry
of the globe were reduced to tlie sea
level by being removed to and ocean,then piled up
in the shallower waters of the
its extent would be about 80,000,000
square miles, and the rest of the surface
of the earth would be covered by an
ocean extending to 113,000,000
miles.
The course which an earthquake runs
is usually very rapid. From the moment
when the first shock was felt at Lisbon
to the period when all was over, and
nearly 80,(100 people were killed, not
more than four minutes elapsed. Eartli A few aud
seconds, we learn from “Our
lis Htory,” are usually a more frequent while
time for the shocks to last. Yet,
Caracas iu Venezuela was almost de
stroyed aud 12,000 of its inhabitants
killed by the earthquake of 1812, within
constrTntly months, roaring
shocks lust for we eks, and even
years, as if tlie laboring itself earth was still Its
trying to relieve of some of
superabundant energy.
The climate of the Sandwich Islands
is peculiarly peculiar adapted quality to the and cultivation iu
of rice of a great
quantity, its evenness of temperature
permitling the raising of two crops a
year without any particular strain upon
the soil. The crops are ruised infields
called patches, used by most the natives of which for raising were
formerly
taro, and which arc often not more than
an acre ip extent, The fields are
situated in the lowlands, where abundant
irrigation can be obtained, and some
times on slight elevations where artesian
wells can be successfully established,
and are the highest-priced cultivation lands in the
kingdom. The is almost en
tirely in tho hands of the Chinese.
Eaten Almost Everything.
In a recent interview Colonel Rat Ho
nan, the Dakotan, says- “I have eaten
with the Chinese in China, I have eaten
with the President of the United States
iu the White House. I have eaten with
nearly every nation on earth. In many
cases I don’t know what I have eaten,
for I have always regarded it as a bad
taste to provided ask questions in about honor the by dishes hos
that are your
pitable China people. I have but
“In may eaten rats,
I didn’t know it; and what you don't
know does you no harm. When the
Sioux want to do you honor they will
serve you the up dish roast of dog. lu is Spanish hiked
Honduras honor
monkey, and sweeter meat you could not
imagine. The monkeys live up in the
branches of trees and on the vines; their
feet never touch the eartli beneath them,
and they live on the choicest nuts and
fruit Nocliicken was everso sweet aud
tender as a baked monkey.
“1 do confess, though, that on one of
the last o easions of my dining in Span
ish Honduras 1 did not feel lliut all was
sell when at the end of the meal 1 found
I had stuffed myself with baked lizard.
Of course there is nothing wrong prepidiccs. with
the lizard except our petty
It tasted the big splendid, leg but and the when elaw at of Iasi the I
saw scaly
lizard, 1 didn’t think 1 liked it.”
A Corn Supper.
A novelty is acorn supper, where this
standard cereal enters into the name or
ingredients of every dish The following
menu was served recently ot a Grange
banquet:
Corn-some-way—Maizma maizod. Roast cereallsrn.
Fishes a la corn a la .patron.
Corned beef. Corn Bread. Bread corned.
Hulled com, Kueeotash a la grange.
1'UDDIBOH.
Indian Patron’s pudding baked. pudding- Indian pudding pudding. boiled.
corn Corn starch. Hasty
CAKE.
Com colored rake. Cake corned. Corn rake.
Corn starch rake. K torch corn cake.
Milk from corn colored cow.
Butter from corn-fed cow.
DESERT.
Corn ice cream. Com randy. Balls a la corn
Com de la corn popper. Com coffee.
Pure juice of corn. Corn juice.
NO. 20.
VALENTINES.
mamma’s.
Ba p y came toflclling up to my knee,
Bis t .| iu bby features all aglow—
“Dess I'se doin' to be oor beau
Bee whatoo <lot t'om me!’'
A va i e ,,tiue from my baby ami boy!
A crumpled slieet a homely scrawl
lu a baby hand— that was all,
Yet it tilled my heart with joy.
Broken my heart and white my hair,
And my mother’s oyesara usad to weep—
My little boy is fast asleep
In the church-yard over there.
JVliat shall be mamma’s valentine?
The spirit touch of a baby hand— 1
A baby voice from tlie spirit land
Siugiug a song divine. Field
—Eugene
robin’s.
Little Hubert Robin sat on a leafless vine;
He said: “Dear Ruby Robin, may 1 ho you
valentine!”
y>,. 0 tty Ruby Robin sat on a leafless spray;
‘
she g lli(1 , tel | me hovV| an j then perhaps
you may.’’ would
{JaM ljttle Hobert l{ol)in . “Ob, we
build a nest,
An(lyougUouldHve ^ wltu me , a „,i love ms
^ ^ „
Little Ruby Robin said: “It might lie very
pleasant,”
But she flew off gayly, singing, "Not a
present! 1 Not at present!” Slade
—If. H. C.
THE BABY’S.
Tlie rose is red, the. violets blue,
Finks are. pretty, anil so are yon.
The rose is red, my rosy dear;
But tliut. you hardly j'et can know,
Mince you have only been with us,
E’ourof tlie times when roses blow.
Tlie violet’s blue, my blue-eyed love:
Yet that, perhaps, hardly knew, *
you
Since you have only passed four times
The violets in their hoo.lsof blue.
The pinks are pretty, baby quaen,
Ami so are you; but that, also.
From being here so short a time,
Perhaps you’ve hardly learned to know.
— Mary K. Wilkins
mil AND POINT.
A stronghold—The bull-dog’s.
The people of the Territory of Dakota
believe iu a future Htate.
Mauv a broadcloth husband owes liis
prosperity to the fact that he married a
giugliam girl.—<N in Francisco Bulletin.^
Every time a lady physician calls on a
gentleman patient she .—Danscilh shows plainly
that she's Mr. calling Breeze.
“I presume you are skating for the
first time.” “No,” for the last time,”
rupliixi ibo dias'iiaiod ft-uiale ." —Siftings.
Scientists say that the ravage has a
more acute sense of smell than civilized
people. They have more material to
practice on.
When ice is thick and deep the snow,
And winter days are drear Ol
Man wants little here below
Zero.
—Boston Courier.
If you want to dream that you are a
toboggan slide rushed with business, and
that the electric is right over your stom
ach, just cat a lot of hickory nut cake
for supper.— Dansril/e Breez\
The latest cimpluint of a discontented
generation is that there is not enough
giimstickcm on the postage stamps, llo
people for expect to get ?—Buffalo a whole meal Courier. of mu
cilage two cents
Cashiers, seldom from a medical report,
Are very strong;
Their longest ages are hut short—
Their short ages aru long.
-Tid Bits.
Dick Tinto (pathetically!—“When darling? will
you love me, When will you
smile upon an ambitious but struggling
urtist?” Miss Klip (cheerfully)—“Why,
thing just as soon hung as you the can line produce besides sBine
to on ono
shirt.”— Omaha Uepublimu.
“For your sako I’d slay dragons
Dtd you order me to,
I'd battle with giants
Were it but to please you.”
Hlie said: “I’d not ask you
Kticli vast doeds to do,
But suppose we go muse o’er
An oyster or two.”
—Tid Bits.
“Sugar,” said tlie schoolmaster to his
class, ‘‘is cither made from the beet, as
in Franco, or from the sugar cane, as in
the West Indies. Now, do you think
you can readier that?” “Yen, sir,,’’ re
plied a sharp the hoy, “1 think we can re
member connection between the cane
and the beat.”— Argosy,
Three Kinds of Arrests in Russia.
There are three kinds of arrests in
Russia. The first was intended to in
spire terror and obtain clues to secret
revolutionary tended action; the second was in
confession, by the induce use of torture to compel
or third the prisoner to be
tray his friends; the are the polit
ical suspects, who are kept in solitary
confinement for months or years while
the police scour the empire in search of
criminating evidence against them.
Justice is proverbially slow in Russia.
The Government hac so much police
work in hand, there is so much under
ground service, again that cases have to wait
their turn, and and nguin prison
ers become insane from solitary confine
ment, or die in their dungeons before it
is known whether they are guilty or not.
Tlie subject in Russia has no law on his
side. Innocent or guilty, he is at the
mercy responsible of the police the officers, who are
the to Czar, and who know
that C/ar will never inquire into
their conduct ,—Boston Herald.
That half-breed pretender, Duhlcep
Singh, British has in one way or another done
the Government out of more
than $1,5011,030, mostly in the form of
loins, in addition to receiving a pension
of $175,000 a year up to ’.800 aud $300,.
oQQ a year since.
