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COUNTY if. t m o I *» i IS MM.] •r n / V V S <> "Oar Ambition is to make a Veracious Work, fieiiabie in its \ f Statements, Candid in its Conclusions, and Just in its Views." VOL. J. It i 3 now an imperial regulation in Brazil that persons who die fiom yellow 'ever shall be cremated, the state bear ng the expense. There are about 300,000 people en in keeping bees in Nortli America, ~ 100,000,000 m l the honey product is oouncls, valued at $15,000,000. Humane owners of old dogs and horses in New York City, fit spectacles to ; he eyes of the animals. An old dog, re inveiiated by a pair of spectacles, will show pleasure by unmistakable signs, ,„<! nH sometimes, when lie loses his glasses, '“ * . ha - will pick them , up and , carry „ them to master to be readjusted. Prominent women in Washington so ciety employ private secreturies in the Jifiicult task of meeting many social duties. Widows in reduced circum stances, lady clerks who a»e posted on matters of etiquette and newspapet writers act in this capacity, and initiate new comers into the social life of Wash ington. _________ They have exhausted about every notable in Europe in the way of cen tennial anniversaries, aud now they have raked up Beakels. What! never heard 3 { Beakels! Well, Beakels lived five hun dred years ago, and it was he who intro duced into Holland the art of salting and packing herriDgs. He died in 1387, but he is going to have an anniversary fete just the same. Another man who is “the image ol President Cleveland” exists in the per son of Colonel Lovering, who recently run for Governor of Massachusetts igainst Oliver Ames, remarks the Graphic, and his picture has been talysn to be placed beside that of the President. A resident of Washington has a photo graphic group of half a dozen men who closely resemble the Executive. More than $10,000,000 worth of oys ters were shipped from Maryland to all parts of the world this season. Over 50,000 persons are employed in the in dustry in the State, and it supports be sides 1,500 schooners and sloops. To enforce the law for the regulation of these vessels the Slate maintains an “oyster navy,” consisting of five steam ers, six schooners and eight sloops. An Englishman named Hughes, ren dered splenetic by unrequited love, committed suicide at Bologna in the most determined manner, He drank a small bottle of whisky mixed with strychnine, then locked the doors and windows, made a fire of charcoal, anu finally cut the artery of his left wrist. A loaded revolver which had been lying on the table became superfluous after t hat. A Washington correspondent who re and sat in apew directly iu front of the Hresident’s says: “I sat near Mrs. “’i Clevpland and during tiie sin-in'- I could hear her pure, fresh 1 voice joining m every hymn that was sung. She has a trained soprano, which she uses with urn out affectation anecrauon, and anu apparently appaieuuj with wi real enjoyment,uttering each word distinctly, sothatthesong becomes a recital.” Aa the Boston Herald notices, tiie value , of , the . insured , property . destroyed - | m the recent fire on Broadway, New York, represents a sum "nearly equal to what is paid by all of the property owner, of Yew ’ Yuri- ' ,-irv .f for six months’ insur ancepiotection, so that, as the , Herald „ ,. aclds, “the outlook for profits in the in suraace business duirng the J vear ‘ V in Yew York and “ in “ the ?! other 9r cities oi the country • no p, is ly encouraging.” The Baldwin locomotive work-, in Phiio/ioini P1W ■ i S j , e,,r f.svrxzxri /Mxf ’ { M ....> , locomotives, f . the greatest num her ever turned out by any shop in the same time. Three thousand*men worked sr--t lts »i."» r m , v ,mcmo T iou„ time. If stretched in a straight line the Sr*? - mce they weie established T'-- h ,“‘ir- m 13-B the works have turned out 3,955 loco motives. ----- According Ts to a Massachusetts paper, Cane Cod -Y t slowlv washing ®. g awav J and ‘ drifting -Irift- into the sea. It is believed . , to be only a question of time, and not so remarkably far distant, when the whole of Cane p Corl hiimv jeiow WoUAppi will ill drift uri into the sea and lose itself. Less than one hundred years have passed since a lighthouse was placed there hv the Gov eminent ' h original «v 5 u-i purchase in tn uded , a plot , of land ten acres in extent. me present time this inclosure em braces barely six acres. GRAYS STATION, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1888. GREATNESS. jj ema y q e g rea t w ho proudly rears For coming years strong pyramid; But greater he who hourly builds A character by noble deeds. g e ma y q e W j a9 whose mind is filled With all the wisdom time bus gi> Who sees and does his duty well Is wiser in th ® si 2 ht of Heaven. It may be grand to deck the walls With pictures by rare genius wrough Greater it is to line the soul With tiuls a " <1 S el) “ «* ‘‘.ought, He may be great who can indite Songs that shall every bosom tin-ill; He who kn6w * to ,nakt ’ J*j' !i£e A poem grand is greater still, ,, SVl((V , .. ..... .... -------«*._____ TROTTY’S JOURNEY, V.V BACHF.J, CAUKW. Subdued joy pervaded the Hotel l.om bardia, at 1- lorence. beeause it was rii niore.f abroad that Miss Hoseicaf’s pug Trotty was in extremis. lie was not an attractive animal mentally or physically, and had endeared himself to no oue save his lovely young mistress. His figure was ruined through overfeeding; he had lost one eye in a bygone tussel with a butch er’s cat, and the other optic glared at the world with a sinister expression from out the black patch upon his countenance, Had lie not mouthed Ma or Winkham’s Tired slipper under into-an unpleasant pulp, and Miss Hileherton’s lied, there to snore lie and had frighten that Indv into spasms? also snatched a biscuit out of tiie hand of infant innocence—-the mother of said innocence passing a sleep less night wondering if it were not well to send for Pasteur, to be quite sure that the bite was no more than biscuit. For all these misdemeanors, Miss Hose leaf apologized with a grace so charming, that the malcontents were seen to stop on the stairs to stroke Trotty, and tell him he was a dear little fellow, so he was— the same quadruped which they had erst while apostrophized as a hideous, squab legged, But how overfed, could vicious-ternpered brute. with Doris they do else than melt, Roseleaf'g sweet eyes caress iug them from under the shade of her big tossing-pluiued hat, and the pink on her cheeks deepening to a warm sunset rose at praise * of her ill-favored pet ! * * * * * * * “Yes, Doris is so foolishly fond of the dog. I’m obliged to put up with him; but lie is a great nuisance, to be sure, particularly for the Tyrol in traveling. When Wli start next week there will be the usual harrowing scene—the rail the way people refusing to let Trotty go in carriage with us, Doris iu tears, and at last a fee to par, or a bribe, that really breaks my heart. We cannot M ford sueli foolish outlay. I wish some thing animal; would he happen to the wretched Iu the above has words, lived quite long enough." Mrs. Roseleaf had bc-en wont to express her chief grievance to a mixed audience for years. Now tliat stiff destiny, seemed in the shape of cramps the heels and a neck, close upon of Trottv. Mrs. Roseleaf inwardly re joiced, but maintained a hypocritical at titude of unconcern in the presence of her daughter. “J believe it would be well to send for a veterinary doctor; lie could give poor Trotty some chloroform, or something Doris, to end his sufferings ” she said to and. in an aside to a friend, added: “I surelv done for once and for ail ” A few hours la:er, as Mrs. Roseleaf re turned from a walk, Doris met her with a radiant face, crying: “Oh, im.miiui, Tr<mv ,,.- - s ch fitter! Going to re C0V( !tnd be bet ter and stronger than eve; before, the doctor savs.” ' “What doctor?” ( the } vet ' vou said we oueht to lm<1 ilhn come wll ik you were awav and he must be a wonder- Vaved ft,IK clever man-he has certainly Trot tv’s life. He asked tif teen francs, but I had to u'ive ^'Vour him twenty ,mr*?and a* you had ? I couldn ( a „ k jiim fur’five francs change. Mamma, 1 don’t believe that vou are one bit glad that poor Trottv is better!” and tears welk-d over in the lovely violet eyes * which worked so much havoc in the . ,- u “Yes—-yes, eliiid. I'm very glad,” but her the mendacious old lady auswered, looks bob d her words. “Twenty franc. more paid for making the dog's life surer than before, and I believed he would he dead to-night. Ah, me! and that dreadful journey thoughts. impending.” was the burden of her “Mamma,” sfl-id Doris one morning, breaking in upon her parent’s perusal mak- of a briHeu.t idea lor j n „ the journey easy for ns all. Miss Willis to':d me she gave her cat an qu “ aAUis ’ thought he was luncheon. ( . an sc . a ,. ce 'iy q e induced to mistake him for luncheon.” deceived. “No, they will be otherwise Trottv is l0 be given a big powder be to keep him quiet, and he is then to dicsscd as a baby, laid on a pillow, and with a vail over his face is to cross the fronlier _ H el - k shall carry him.” "Doris, do you think I would ever consent to tuch a preposterous idea? It isn’t respectable. What would people 6av au( j think! Put such uonsen-.e out o£ - hea j a t once, I beg of you.” the “Not a bit of it, mamma dear; idea is too excellent a one to let slip, You will be of mv opinion quite, when a! | on . e< j nmrself time to reflect, r fhe 8twint0II ,« uurse is going to lend 1Ee a p ve tty pillow with lace and em broidery, and one of their baby’s dresses, and a cap. Your ehuddah will do to wrap around his body. Tina will dress him and tie him on the pillow in quite the orthodox wav. It will be great ftm; Perk's face will be a treat when she hears she has got to carry Trotty masquerading as a baby.” Poor Mrs. lloseleal's face was clouded and sad. She knew perfectly well that Doris would carry her point—she al dreadful ways yielded results to might the child: follow and what this not last thousands escapade! of others, Hut in this instance, lady as in the weak old decided there was nothing to do but to make the best of a bad bargain, and she look a limp interest in the preparations for what seemed to be a uio-t novel un dertaking. * * “There is another blessed infant to make soliloquized the night hideous for somebody,” lishman. peering- a good-looking forth young window Eng from the of a carriage at the Florence Station. “The train seems very full; I’m afraid we can’t have a coupe to ourselves,” said Mrs. Roselief, regretfully. “There is oue compartment with only a vouug man in it; shall we go there?” “Yes,” said Doris, promptly. man will not notice- anything odd in the conduct of my baby, and will not wish to kiss it, as soma silly woman might.” —-I “By Jupiter! they are coming and'no in here take!” am exclaimed an unlucky dog, mis Air. Harold Lyman, the young man alnvidy mentioned.’ Jlis dismay was pardonable. He was escorting sister's from Floneace to Verona his Montefiore, baby, the very lier juvenile Contessa as well as stolid Abruzzi nurse; the woman to return at once to her mountains so soon as she should have laid her young charge in the arms of her successor at Verona. The baby’s mother was ill of measles ait Floremce, and to escape infection, the little isontessa was hastily under dispatched to its grandfather’s brained the guidance of its railier scatter young uncle. The baby was a sleeping brazen-lunged like young fiend of laced six months; that an angel on a pillow at moment, but. anon she would awake and rend the air with her yells, To escape this, Mr. Lyman had feed a perfidious left guard for him, for and the adjoining coup "his vacant now behold privacy invaded by another squallfiug torment. lie fumed and fretted, in wavdly for a time, and then found some solace in watching the movements of lamp. Doris, in She the light of the half-vailed took the baby from the grian Abigail, hugged him to her breast, kissed bun through his white gauze vrail, and hushed him to sleep on her soft arm sweetest rest in the world, mother, “Impossible mused that Mr. that girt is the himyelf; baby’s ’ Lyman to “end yet, why not? She is very young, 4)114 that kind ot exquisitely pr-st^y girl generally marries young. Lucky chap, her husband! It must be her baby— gj I )e r | s s don oilsppng t coddle in that and pet wav. other 'ihe peo- old dame has grandmother plainly" written ou K;r countenance and in Her fussy manner, ami 1 heard the young lady ^ -saged party °? e then-maid, “mmita-. Tb*e ot -course.” vinegar vl is lhus Mr. Lyman mused on in a way ‘ caused him an anoyance he could 11< ? t understand, why should he care “whether his pretty traveling companion was married a dozen times or not at all? would never see her again after that J,l e£ journey. What an extraordinary . et 11 54 d ul , not stirred^or T as ’j lifted WO 10fa its .'' s now . though had been laid up vo«:e, it by itself on the nut I rotty, a long and sign slight from figeting the of somnolent his a eor E u e ." t kj ody, removed the young h-eghf , man s dawning doubts and c “ used Koseleaf to redouble her . . disguised attentions to Her pet. Presently everybody a v iolent jerk of -he train threw into everybody; else’* arms - Mr. Lynrnu found hirnselt closbly clasping both of Miss Roseleaf’* hands, aud “ ssunn S h er tllnt 4llere «»t the ‘f^t danger though , he know no more tban d, ^ w liat the was length the ol trouble. tne A g uar running train, orjim <3deu out some restored trifling cause for the « u through stop, soon sm-omty. All this commotSon the re markable lutant uttered not a sound nor moved as much as a huger. Lyman ic fo-vod to hazard»remark that would con vtnee him whetbm- or not his fair com l ,anlou W!IS 11 e -mother ol tliis stolid ' ’ “The-ib-your ., baby , , is unusual ,, y good; docs ,t never cry? ” he managed to en ” I ? cla1( * His charming Lynun nttghbor , . , s race broke . mtosini.c-. s face lei I--yes, only °° 80 ,ad,ant :it P rmo of herdardn-- with 8 °° ’ 10 > oun k lad , .. y said, , with a blush blush a Mr. Lyman somehow did not seem to < i ! tr'in had-tortl'd 11 wl k h t hemidi ^^- ipio the 1 a * Trot tv’s fit lnck “ i' 8 & Vl< li w,H;,nb,H'iinnilmii!« , would like u l- , ,F' llra a n ' o;‘ ( B , , b( p'.u f t j 1( . envious ' ir me* s 2t the I.nft- “ .uch inw „ nd “ ori °" fl ' 1L ee ti ’ n g * J iournevs 1 ’.w,! where one ° ° lost 4 . f Ll, ^ « rst t t kr ' t m 5.,- ev( . r „; r , , j f hja phawe } or f life was really , very hR1 ' Larly dawn at had veroua; here the silly boy and girl took who leave traveled ten hours together of each other for ever, they supposed, of all and both looked urieved out proportion to the oc casion. Mr. Lyman saw his little niece aud her nurse installed by- the door of the waiting-roomi. and then went.out on the platform to lume and fret because the Montefiore carriage had not come. ours, “ 1 hat said baby Doris looks to her about mother, the age dt-sig- of j tinting istence the she littleeontessa, of whose ex-| had heard nothing from its | Unde. “Pern gauze vails are evidently the i proper thing, too. Pork, tve will put 1 rot tv 'in ihe bench on the- other side of ■ the door.beside that very safe-looking old dame who is half asleep, and then I want you to come with me to the toilet-room to mend the flounce I tore getting out of the train. Mamma will keep an eye on Trotty.” Alas! “mamma’s* eyes saw only the land of dreams while her daughter and miiid were absent. Tbe baby eontessa becoming parti culurly fretful, the nurse bethought her self ol apossible pin. or too tight string, and carried the baby off to Toilet-room No. •>, to investigate. At this juncture the Montefiore There liage drove up in a tremendous hurry. was not. a moment, to lose. The Signor Conte hud been telegraphed to go to his son, who was very ill, and it was only bv u miracle that they had wrong out the time to come for the tessina. The Signor Conte must have the carriage iu twenty minutes, without fail, ' “Go,” said Mr. Lyman to the foot man. “and take the baby from the nurse; she is waiting nt the door. You need have no words withher, as she has been don’t paid and dismissed. Make haste, and wake the child.” To the great disgust of the affectionate uncle, the new nurse lmd not been able to come in the carriage for the baby, and he must have a tete-a-tete drive with it. Fortunately, it. was not far. While the man was gone for the babv, he busied himself arranging a bed of shawls in the grandfather carriage, big ‘to enough for the infant’s “There, Ihope she repose will comfortably sleep,” said, on lie giving Ids work a final pat. The footman dashed into the waiting room, cast a hasty, comprehensive glance about, and then gathered up the unconscious Trottv as the milv infant in the room. He quietly withdrew him from the partially overhanging draperies of the snoring old woman at Ids side, •whom he took for the nurse. “Madonna mia! what a fright the old girl will have when she finds the baby gone! It serves her right, though; she ought, not to go to sleep at her post, and l have no time for Mrs. Hose-leaf, on the bench opposite, continued to sleep the sleep of the just, and Trottv was borne awav. her “Asleep, down gingerly, Carlinoi That is lucky. Hut All my boy, on these shawls. right. Avmti!” and the Count’s Porri.igo dsudted’fuf Word. Before the rattle of its wheels died awby the there began nu animated scene iu toilet waiting-room adjusted, at Verona. Doris, her where she had sought left her out the but cozy nest her pet, to horror the bird was flown. Then arose tears and lamentations which would have melted granite. Where was he, her darling, if the whole her world beauty ? She did riot cure only let knew he him, was a and dog— he some one return should have any reward he asked for. Somebody testified to having anti seen a foot man, in livery, come iu take away the baby, or" dog, or whatever it was. hopeless “A case than of abduction, then, aud more ever!” wailed Doris. The imperturbable baby sleeping: Abruzzi nurse, with her blinked stupidly sweetly as an angel, at the excited people around her, understanding or caring nothing about their evident distress. She only wondered vaguely why Signor Conte’s carnage was so slow in coming Presently Harold Lyman, with a face as white as a ghost, dashed into the room. He carried a lace handkerchief in his hand, and went straight up to the weeping Doris, saving: I*believe “Madam, is this vour property ? it is, for I no ticed the same name on vour portman the train.” “ teau in ( l Yes, it is mine. It was round iny darlingTrottv’s neck. Is he still alive? p r3 y, pray don’t tell me he is dead!” •-Very much alive, mv dear voung j.uty, and ! an. here to beg you to come and claim hirn. He is nuite too for any of us to manage.” Then turning hi! to the nurse and a baby on whom eves had rested for a moment with j n . tense relief as he entered the room, he said to the woman, with flashing eyes: “How dared you disobey me and go wandering important off and losing yourself at the most moment? Your stupid ity has nearly been the death of us ail. The other nurse has gone into fits, and if *he dies, her blood will be on your soul!” “It was a pin, Kcocllenz,” the woman unmoved. , |.q vi . , n - !lluLeM later, Mrs. Roseleaf, Dorris, Mr Lyman and the real baby were packed into a carriage and were spinning aloug to the Palazzo to which 'frotty had been conveyed. Never in all her life will Doris aspect ?,f rliin-s as she was ushered ss extreme ..*/%/, barking furiously at a than touch him. If is cap was rakishly careened to one side, lie hud torn his lacc dreis for « and alt, and his shawl traded sideways oo Hi-carpet. rushing ‘| r otty, forward. dear Trotty!” cried Doris, Benignity sinister and pleasure softened Trot t y’s eye: slowly his tattered beatific draperies swayed to and fro with the wagging of his tail. He started toward his mistress, bill tripped ignobly in his petticoat and rolled over. “You darling, you shall not Ire a baby any more!” aud she tore oft the garments so much the worm for wear, und allowed Trotty to appear iu the dignity of his own coat. This interview, very painful for all persons concerned, tave one, was ended as soon as possible, and the Roseleaf* were driven back to the station, there to guards begin their usual their pleading wills the to allow dog to accompany them. Before bidding them adieu, Mr. I.yman managed w ith considerable rine.nu- to find out where Mrs. Roseleaf and her daughter were Oddly going to spend the next six weeks, chance enough, lie appealed, quite by of course, at the same place a fortnight later, and somehow found it necessary and expedient to go to there sort next selected by them. It so turned out that when Doris re turned in the autumn to the “Loin bardia ” she did have a handsome ad mirer to flaunt in the faces of the other girls. wonderfully *■ lie is devoted. When is the wedding to be?” •• ] u May, Mrs. Host-leaf told me. She is heart-broken at the idea of losing Doris, but it is the only way she can be rid of Trottv—and this thought consoles her.” Trank Ledie's. ----- i ■«., The Punctilious M.xit-an. clad l J oor, iu Imlf-slaiveu, lllllt dirty, m serably r *t5» sc » reel y cover their nakedness, the poor Mexicans still prae tii e al1 unfailing courtesy that 1 have too often found lacking among our parvenu aristocrats, sitting aloft on their money bags. This is practically demonstrated wherever in Mexico Americans do eon gregate. A little group will be gathered 011 will, a und corner, public American carrier*, what rushing you an comes i>» st - A block away can be read in his eye the intention to rush through that group of low-born mortals. Does he scatter them in catapult fashion really t Ah. no! A heavy leathern cushion, on which the carrier supports his burden, strikes him somehow carelessly, but with almost force enough to knock him breathless. The nguador slops sumo water out of a brimming chococol over his shoulder worship’s will be natty black garments, and blue and for his a fortnight from lire force of his collision with the sturdy mozo. he By into lhe gutter to pass raging. They look at each other eom plamitty. grin silently, and fall into place agaig as another gringo approaches, Hut this one did not come to Mexico the J ny before yesterday. He slacken? his pace slightly as he comes near them, perhaps hand touches his hat, perhaps and waves Ids in loken of greeting, says cheerily: "(’mi su lie ncla"—“By hat your leave.” The ranks fall open, a or two is snatched off, with "Base listed, »**»<> miu>“—“Pa-s, my masler” -and perhaps a sandaled foot is thrust out mb away a splotch of mud on the puve merit that might soil the shoes ot tlii* courteous foreigner, traits the When such exist among superlative lower classes, it cun readily be seen what polish the higher. of manner must pre vail among It cost, me no little mental self-flage yourself” lntion to learn tn say “Pray should cover to a gentle- and man who pause to greet me, I remember more than one pung 1 have felt at having left this to he said by iny escort to men whose silver locks streamed in a bleak wind or were moistened by a soft rain, yet who would not replace the hat without instigation.-- .Sun Tm/icixt C/truniete. A Telephone Millionaire. Alexander Graham Hell is a very rich mail, and so are all his relatives. While , r,ch «’ ^. a nnot W he h “ derived f "‘ u » ,“ of his ie present vw ? much doubt. . Should the decision of in ,tle I nited Stales Supreme Court be ad- 40 Btdl 4, *e people of tlie country 'T' 11 8« 4 cheaper , telephone service, and 1 de < w els ” ’ l great monopoly will be no longer , stuffed full to overflowing, Bel1 » ", llaadso ' nc ‘ ?" lld,, » n - " nd «'* ‘'.'xury <> f ‘lie , handsomest house in nashin^ton, He is lor well-built which man, lie with paid a 4, licdt 4ialr " ,ld 4,0, " d ’ i ufl4 beginning to turn gray, and lias a young-looking face. J ...... ot las home superb ,» ) ,lt ? r (, oluis, laic pamlmgs and soft simound you on every side, The furniture ol the house, a^marvel of taste and richness. Ihe library, which adjoinsrihe ul main enhance, is a model ol J|; s k, | < ;"' ,s t -n' ,Nl n -‘*n f "‘I’? Jderary pioduetions. I lie biiidin i r ‘hebooksis otthelughest perfection, you almost fear to touch (lie covers. Many ol the cliairs are of carved candle 'Y 00 ®’ ls ' Jeil 18 il deal mute al though she , ; can who converse understands with her bus hand readily, every m oveinciR of j lips. She wits rich before she married the magnate, , 11 he lia mge y ’X to her ofiarge ^ bkeks of teLhone * f f «* Bell s hou«^ j '1.1° U a litBe Ule cotla- cottage' e where he “ eac !? es * ( / ®“ e f-, 'wonderful’discoveries „ il. tho n- m ' _ i., ......... ............'•• 8 i r*»*• ’1 he membership Ihe the L'uion ( bib of New York City, says Sun, is limited to LOW. It is full, and there are over 500 applicants waiting; for some of the old men to die, to resign, or to be ex pelled • I he yearly average ol vacancies now is tksty-live. fourteen If it keeps at that figure for the next years it will be that long before some of tho present candidates will g«-t in. But the aspirants realize ilos, auu heruicallly wml. Fathers who want thesr sons to have 1 hern proposed here almost directly after they arc born. 'I are many young sters of leu arid twelve years put uji whose names will be leached, at the present ate. just about when they be come of aae.. and whim they will bo eligible. the English 1 Ins nomination cu-tom. of babies i after NO. 23. MIRAGE. Clear -liming t hrough the swimming air, Across a stretch of summer seas. Far. lofty peaks glearu white and fair. The heights of the Hesperides. O far-off peaks! O happy isles! 1 sail ami sail and long for you. And still th’ enticing vision smiles To lure me o’er the waters blue. Below those fair and gleaming heights, Ne’er shrouded o'er by drifting snows, Lie gal-item lilted with rare delights, And there the golden apple grows. J sail and sail and long lor you. But never come to those fair isles; Still stretches wide the bounless blue, Forever still ihe scene beguiles. l ie-limbed iho-e lofty mountain heights. I'm- utt beyond the smiling sens, L’nreached that garden of delights, i’ntroddeu the Hesperides. —KJitlt Sessions Tupper. PITH AND POINT. A hard ( use—Scliweizer base. '1’he path of duty Through the Cus tom-house. The poet who itches for fame should use a pen that scratches. “You are chokin’ my lingers,” com plained a little tot, to its mother, wiio was holding its hand too tightly. A New Yorker can go to the Hockv mountains and tackle bears cheaper than he tan ou Wall street .—LauimiUe Demo crat. It, is said that the iiinn who invented Yolapuk got the his Wild idea from hearing Red fSliiit, of West, show, try to speak French.-— TUI-HU*. The perforations nt the stub end of a check, my dear boy, indicate precisely where the cheek won’t tear when you pull on it. — /V, U-iilelhhitt Call. A Texas woman has invented a pie safe, hut that is not what this country is aching for. hour. A safe Miniieapotii pie is the howling Tribune. need of the — Arknnsnw swain (calling on his girl) —“What makes the house shake so, darling?” Girl — “It’s pop, up stairs. He’s got, the fever ’n ague agin.”— Jtjpocli. Ulobson, who never goes out or comes in without falling over an in antique calling jar his or piec e of bronze, persists wife’s collection “break-your-back.”-- Tn e Trent. Minister .dining nice Rule .with the family)— church “You were u noticed boy iu this morning, Bobby. I you kept sir; very quiet and still. ” Bobby “Yes, I was afraid of waking pa up.” “Does your mother wear felt slippers?” Hskcd an old of a little boy where she was visiting. “Yes, ma’am, she do. I’ve felt ’em,” answered the small hoy, significantly .—Detroit Tree /‘rear. “What part of the fowl:” said Adolphus lie Vera, you.” “Whatever you like—that suits He'd been very attentive to her for a year, Ho slit- gurehim u w iug-mid he Tid-BUo. flew. ~ A suicide who killed himself with a revolver said iu his note: “I know it is foolish fo commit credit suicide, but please public rco for that I get witli the knowing that it was loaded .”—lioston Gazette. (t la all very well For people to tell Of the land of tliu lotus and Hazard, But it shrivels us all When down from Bl. Haul CoineH tho blast of iis blustering blizzard. —Buffalo Teprenr. A prominent institution of learning sent out circulars asking what honors its graduates had attained in life. A bright lady graduate responded: degree “At gradua- Since tion I received the A. M. graduation I have transposed the let ters.” The Maimfnetlire of Imitation Gems. A New York jeweler tells a Mail and Depietr reporter that imitation gems “come from Obcratein, in Germany. ^hc entire town is supported by the niauufacture j,'" 'fixed of such gems. How are upf In various ways. This Station diamond is only quartz, audit ], a8 keen boiled in some chemical tlrnt, will make it. look brilliant for awhile, but it soon wears off. If you bundle it m , u; h it will not look so lustrous. Dia mond , ft|e „ J( . hardl , Ht atoll( , s t0 bucC es8 f tl tiy imitate.” “What other gems are manufactured ch , p. liskcd , he reporter. H (>f the easicst ig the emcraW . Many stones you think rubies are only re d spinal, and lazuli is only dyed chal cedony. Chaleedonv is the usual base of false onyxes ami agates, which arc most counterfeited. Ihe stones are boiled in some coloring matter and then .ubjeotrf to inlenao whole heat. The Some color of permeates the stone. the familios at Oherstelu have one secret ssjss into the Zircons, srrs which same gems. are hornet ma laid o.ar a topaz, so that the whole appears to be one gem.” An Agricultural Plaint. on. j 9 t me drink from the moss grown pump That was hewn from the pumpkin tree, Eat mush and milk from a rural stump, From form and fashionifree; Nfc»-gutho"-<l mu-sh fiatu the mushroom And rnilic from the milk-weed sweet, with lueioas pineapple from the pine— Buch food os the gods might oat! All , tlMm thud,-dry-maid Uj lbtt whitewashed dairy i’ll turn when hastening hies, Ue.<- ruddy an 1 golden red butter to chum From the milk of her l.ut'erllies; And 111 rise at morn with [he early bird, of grasshoppers —.3. out IF. to Post, gram, t'a Tid-Bilt,