Jones County headlight. (Gray's Station, Ga.) 1887-1889, May 05, 1888, Image 1
OOOWTY on % ❖ *» 9 I 1 Hi \ ❖ “Onr Ambition is to make a Veracious Work, Reliable in its 1 Statements, Candid in its Conclnsions, and Just In its Views." VOL. 1. If ten of the richest, men in this coun sars the New York World, should y, itbdraw their capital from railroads joes and factories more than 300,000 eB would be thrown out of work, aud ore than one million people would suffer [y it. The Richmond Religious Herald has nisei] the inquiry as to what proportion f the beneficiaries in our Southern Bap Ist colleges use tobacco, and what the hdulgencc costs. Ono estimate places he number at fully one-half, and $15 p the annual expense to each devotee of pe weed. _____ ! The immigration into the United fates in the seven months to January 81 Ls L 236,845 persons, against 206,968 in same time last year. Here is an ad Ktion to the population in seven months hffieient to make a city as large as uflalo and twice as largo as eithe r L Paul, Minneapolis, or Kansas City. New Y'ork city educates about three andred thousand children annually, in le huncired and thirty-four school uildings, covering an area of thirty-five tres. These buildings placed side by fie would extend more than two miles, fiere are about four thousand teachers, hd the annual expense of these schools about four million dollars. [The barb wire industry is in a fair py of being overdone. According to |e Iron Age there aro forty-four mauu uturersin this country who own 2,191 pcltincs. It is estimated that in 200 prking days, running single turns, they ill make 300,000 tons of barb wire, pile |o the consumption ranges from 180, to 150,000 tons a year. It seems, remarks the New York Sun, at tho State prisons of Ohio, Indiana, inois and New York undersold each Dior iu what is known as hollow ware, imely, pots, pans and kettles, which R made in the prisons, and at last they hv that they were cutting out profits so [at the work was no longei self-support It. Then they formed a combine, aud I went pot and kettle prices. A novel idea is to be carried out at n •esbyterian Church at Bethany, Penn., a date set for celebrating the lifting ot i mortgage. A mock funeral service is to i held, and the mortgage is to be sol pnly cremated, amid the thanksgiving [the congregation, after which tho pesarc to be deposited in an urn pic ked for that purpose. A funeral ora nn "ill be delivered, and the pastor tii recite a memorial poem. It would be almost impossible, says snkhn S. Pope in Scribner's Magazine, [catalogue Irpo-es the number and variety of for which the electric motor is ! w in daily use. Some of the most . applications are for printing I pesos, sewing machines, elevators, ven j P 8 dn present g fans, time and machinist's lathes. A1 I every indication un ptakably points to the probability that i n a very few years nearly all j phanied in work in large cities, e.special■ ?n cases which the power required J’ P''C n °I performed exceed say 50 liorse-powcr, by the agency of the prie motor. It is an ideal motor, ab F-oly free from vibration or nois-, I pectly fh manageable, entirely safe, and the most ordinary care seldom ii gets out of order. Indeed there is j®t®a$on ^■' to suppose that the limit of f>0 e -power will not be very largely ex within a comparatively short when it is remembered that iB^riy five years ago the production of ■ Ic< - ess f!il 10 horse-power motor was ^■siferr-d quite a noteworthy achieve • ^ ar Department has prepared at ^^presting ■ “umber tabular of statement showing army officers born in each Territory, and foreign country. H H, 447, 'Aates, New Y'ork takes the lead 1 Pennsylvania takes second M’iniacom,, with 870, and Texas and YVest T J f o ftCeiS m CaCh , 1D , hC Ww, and Nevada has but one. Of ■ territories, the Indian Territory has ■ ■hin.ton '.New Mexico Utah 8' and ■ebori I J atsea. J w. Of foreign a 4 ‘ . v l ° W countries, ° m ffiCerS ■“U ■ nd has the largest representation, ■ 83 officers in the army “L,, who were withi „ , h boandar , , y- The follow- „ is a IV of the foreign countries rep fed in the American Army and the lb «r accredited to each- rSoiTli Asia 1 ^ 1: Belgium 1 lta -Nag poor, 1; Corfu, 1; E«t In Ml England, 23; France, 9; ^ 32: Hungary, 1; Belaud, 83; v, Italy, 3; Netherlands. 3: New ^'ova Scotia, 5; Poland, ■ “flee Edward Island 1: Prussia ■\nd B^&adwich Tain i 1 1 c saxony, o' ■ i- u SonU* America, 3; Swe | ' , Switzerland ’ 3, and Wales, 1. GRAY. GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1888. DESTINY. Like a shadow that flies from the eitn god. we slip out of life and are goiv>. The place where we Were is vacant, for who will remember till noon. The drop of dew like a diamond which pleased at the glimmer of dawuf And when the singer has left us, who cares to rememeber the tunet In the leaves’ deep drift in the forest what bird is seeking the one Beneath whose shelter she Luilded her tedi ous love cradling nest! It has lived, it was used, has perished; now lieth, its use being done; Forgotten of sunshine and songster in the dust whence it came, it is best. But we, we shrink from the leaf’s fate, and we murmur: “Soon they forget; These friends whom we loved,who loved us and shared in our pleasures and mirth. Our names are last in the silence death bring eth, an ! no regret Endureth for us, low lying in the green gemmed bosom of earth.” Oh, mortal, accept the omen; we live, we are nsed, and we fall As the leaf before us has fallen. We pass from our place and aro not. The living have grief sufficient, content thee to fold in thy pall Remembrance and sorrowful grieving, and be of the living forgot. —Clare St, George, in Inter-Ocean. ONE TOUCH OF NATURE, BV L. D. I.EECE, ranch C Jv ru .? nl nt 11 catt le located ri ’ nn . loathe nortl.*!.! “f ’'IT'.?*' V dn 'If i8 the j rai!loads buiraI ° prettv well onr ° 16 sollt J le ™ country, and riie ,« in tls of <■ acres of rich grasses which lei.i pa ? tare ^ countless thousands of these niT 1 3 f01 ' r'? !da S es P ast riv ■\vi th , her , > now onet, , , ° .1 S °i th<; Ci,tt| emen. we i “ rlon § tke krst ranchers who entered rhe hcw held, but at the time of whirl, L T I‘V° near, y ° n f hundred earn™ cow riflius nf fff <! y r CG mi m 5 est s <d *klished ours within a fine nf - nehrhhmV 0St recen ‘ arrlv;i, s iii the s " as a ^ CW Englander n itned ij ey a 1 ulet lather delicate nnk-imrf ’ > 1 11 l0W 0l about Ulll t V five who reor rtf. , f St - had ’ > ™ Jo®; T bou y S'ht ? ry a 0 P couple ens ’ of cowe bun , , , and ti,„ v located a ranch el, °™' '' 0| E’> about twenty miics ' . ,:i.° f Ur caiT1 P t> J w as a shy, reservod sort of a - a tbough hospitable enough , Bed, cMnced but little of that , ..V) 0U t < Eaternal sociability which charat i ™‘: izes the lordly riders hf ' tbo laD • e f ids made him popular, ni and '’ ’, with the exception very un of an ? trie /, 0vI<llu herdsman, who served him in capacity of cowboy, he had few irienas and no intimates. >v e are all entirely too ready to believe e worst of any one whom we dislike, and cowboys are no exception to the *uic. So when, one autumn afternoon, big i ™ :,!!!' t b ’ * he bos * ll0rder of thf! circle du'-o',it | LatT foundering up to the ealTino- inn ! vf P 0 ^ a, l afoam. and, r ° a; ?. d u ?° tbat was ninnte tii,,,/’ ° d bunch of steers which cl',/ 0 WCIC » ot °f strays belong inn- tn 01 rau<dlc , *' s a:id that the hoys h i?1n id £ oil,-. 'Y lnd ot u .> and > \vcre organ himlhrc. f/'i’r- 1 y cat P hand bang man’sS r “ 0t d ° Ubt the accused minutriate^I Ten itad belted on my rt d ^i ed ray P°?y> and was WIndfor . tll<! appointed vr, - zvo «s, all ,, too ready to take part „ “hanging-bee.” my mA incr *w inat 6a evening ". '’ at foffsh-lookingsetwho the 2-X ranch, and tell (he f°, Ut ,i° n 1,03r Eaiiey’s trail. To ana •iml rough r j’“b, as we wc looked. were most of usas wild incie were fifteen in the company altogether, for the most part owners, or pai owners, of ranches, and the rest cow o } s ri e were ail well mounted, “Ac voivcr. While " asa Irom ™ ed every with knife saddle-horn and re hung tne over-present lariat, the all-im por ant item, next to h:s pony, of a cow hoy s equipment. v om Anderson,astrapping the 2-X brand, Missourian, io :an and who was the acknowledged ten naturally master-spirit into the lead of upon the range, this occasion, as he did upon all others where in ,epir daring and unyielding firmness < r?,A < dUlred ' Tom was what, , , the cowboys c.to , cm call co ,, a o b0l Z ,v/ 4c D 0t -»• ■ “ < , b.it, out, though tnougn relentlessly retenuessiy . nerce fierce and *. cruel '-ben when enraged, enraged, he he had had a a heart hear, that was as tender tender as as a a child's ctnld s iu m some some pf of its moods. Ife was was a a lion llon in )n both both looks lool{ ® and and f/ l? nature, ni.h.m ’; and 1 "'- 1 w V' dl a / m red h:m ar,d generally , - his his leadership. leadership submitted, d,W without h ° U question, q i° D ’ to * r P art i rode over sixty miles that • d began light next “’Sf’ morning a » .justas we it came up to with grow Bailey. h ! S old he / der were engaged m - n f? breakfast over their camp-tire 7 e I‘. !'' c appeared upon the scene, and wa,t fo r thc '?u ? Sh lhe,r mcal * ,c ‘ ore explaining , . their business. , Fierce and haggard from our hard night-ride,_ S, and we were little wonder an ugly-lookmg that le .Y’ ”? as poor HS'^^n'” !' allty ' ooked feared as he 'a^nS rose and and dre^ around^^ the fire I ride out to the cattle and see that there is no mistake about the strays. We want to be certain he’s guilty before go ing any further,” said our leader; and, as he spoke he and several others of the party started toward a bunch of t attle that were grazing upon the prairie not far off, while the rest of U3 kept guard over death, Bailey, who had now grown pale as and was trembling in every limbi In a moment Tom and the others re turned, and, as they approached, Tom said: “It's true boys. There’s a dozen strays in the lot, and no mistake,” and •turning, without more ado, to the cowering abruptness culprit, he added, with a harsh that was simply terrible: “You, Bailey, are a cattle-thief, and we have come after you to hang you. You kuew the law of the range when you broke it, so you must abide by it. You shall have an hour, and an hour only, to prepare for death.” As his doom was thus spoken, Bailey, poor wretch, was completely overcome with terror and dismay. “O boys, boys, doa’t hang me! A"on mustn’t hang me!” he cried piteously, falling suppliantly on his knees. “1 swear I am innocent 1 I call on my Maker to witness that 1 intended to pay you for your cattle. Oh, have mercy, and don’t Jiang me!” and he broke completely down, and wept like a child. But it was no use. There was no re lenting in the harsh, stern faces of his captors, no softening of their grim de termination; and not a syllable of dis tent was uttered when our leader spoke ag iin, and said sternly: “Mercy from us you will not receive. You had best pray for it from your Maker. In an hour's time yon will bo in his As Tom spoke, the poor wretch gave one faces despairing of the look at the unrelenting about him, aud, men grouped on their ponies meeting with not a sign of downward pity, fell, with a hopeless groan, face upon the grass. prayin’ to do, I allow he kin do it better <i,~ on P ™s 'most opportune end delicate suggestion came from old .Take Lape, and it was acted upon with alacrity. Wo immediately hundred moved off for a distance of a doomed yard3 or so, and left the man alone to make his final preparations fully intended for death. Although we that it to hang him, we all felt was no more than right to show him all the politeness and courtesy ad missible under the circumstances. dejectedly shortly after we rode off, Bailev 'hand rose to his feel, thrust his into his bosom, and drawing forth what looked, from a distance, like a letter, dropped upon his knees and pressed it a »' aia and again to his lips with im passioned fervor. Afterward ho re placed it in his bosom, and, bowing his head, spent the remainder of his last hour seemingly in silent prayer. When the time had finally expired, aud wo drew near the kneeling culprit to finish our dread work, he arose to meet us with an air so calm and gentle, so utterly clianged, that it astounded us, for we had expected to meet with tears and supplications and struggles. Jle ottered not the slightest resistance when we bound his hands securely be hind him, and, lifting him upon his horse, drove with him down to the creek bottom, where a scraggy cottonwood had already been selected to serve as a. gal lows. Bailey was driven under the tree; the noose of a lariat was quickly placed about his neck, aud the other end thrown across fast an the overhanging limb, nod made to trunk. Old Lape lmd his down “quint” raised in readiness to bring it across the flank of the doomed man’s pony at the word of command; alt wa s ready for the final act. when Bailey raised Iris head aud spoke, Toni Anderson to his side ho dyfng “What maTr^ is it?” . ^ d ° * ^ f " ‘ was the gruff reply, “I want you to promise to see that my family gets what little property need'it I leave, They are poor, and will badly, Tom; so, please promise. I know you’ll d 0 it if you say you will.” “Well, Bailey, I’ll do it, if that’s all you want. You may rest easy on that score; I promise,” answered Tom, in a soficned tone. “Thank you, Tom ; and now, just, one thing raoit, please,” continued the prisoner and the cagerlv, “reach into ray bosom have get picture that’s there, and let me another look at my wife and children before I ilie. We all of us sat grouped about on our ponies under the cottonwood during this scene, and, as Tom Anderson complied with Bailey’s request, and taking a pic ture from the prisoner’s bosom held it before him so that he could look at it, the surrounding group of rough cow boys became utterly absorbed in the scene. noise of a ivhisper the’restive was uttered, and the ,.j,,mined champed thpir their ponies, * as they l.ita Wt8 nr or gt;im at»mn«rl ped in,pa tiently solemn upon the greensward, alone broke the stillness. With a look of unspeakable tender photograph ness, Bailey glued his eyes upon the and held them there for fully a minute. Then his head dropped suddenly upon h is breast, and, with a groan, he cried out . in despairing ' S accents: ’ Jiird „ 0 boys boya it - 8 to aie and ] eaV e them all alone; and to die in such aW ay, too! It will kill poor Mary, if ^es not dead already; I know it will.” ]I( , Anderson no Jonger himself looks a t the gazing picture, Tora was at it ingtea(1 . l ong and earnestly he looked at bl]t d j,j uot 3 , icilk a word. Then he handed it to old man Lape, tUl and it ^ hand to hand every ^ m the party had taken a long look A sweet, fourth gentle woman's face looked smilingly from the midst of the card, while over each of her shoulders peeped a chubby face filled with childish glee and innocence. On the border of the card was written, in a clear, delicate hand: “Come home soon, papa; we’re so lonely without you.” When the picture had gone the rounds, and Tom Anderson returned it reverently to Bailey's bosom, the culprit raised his head and said: “It was for their sake, boys, I drove the cattle off in such a hurry. I got word yesterday that my wife was dying, aud I took the first steers I coual find iu order to get the money to see her. It was wrong, I suppose, but I would have paid you for every head I took when I came back.” Like a flash Tom Anderson's knife was out of its sheath. A quick stroke, and the rope about the prisoner’s neck was bore severed. him aside, Instantly and Bailey’s pony in his place, facing the crowd, on his mustang sat Tom, with uplifted hand and his eyes fairly blaring with fierce excitement, while we were too much amazed to either speak or move. “That man speaks the truth!” he shouted. “He never intended to steal them cattle. But whether lie did or not, it’s all the same to me; the man that lays finger on him must do it over my dead body. If I had a wife like that lady in the pictur’ critter an’ she was sick, I’d steal every on the range to git to her; an’the man’s a-dog that wouldn’t. If any man here thinks different I’m ready to light it out with him right here and now.” For a moment there was no response, then old man Lape spoko up: “Well, Tom,” said he, “ye needn’t talk to mighty i fierce, as no one’s goin’ to fight ye, guess. Not that we’re skeered of ye, Tom. You mustn’t flatter your self by tliinkin’ that at all. but wc ail feel about the same as you do In the matter. Leastwise I do, and to show Bailey that I believe he’s innocent, I hereby make him a present of them three steers o’ mine ghat’s in his bunch. “Bully for you, old man! them’s my and I’ll chip iu the steers that belong to ms, too!” shouted Bill Smith. “Same here!” yelled Dutch Fra. 1 ' rubbing two big tears off his checks with his list. “I’m you,hoys!” shouted another. “Me, too!”said another, and a minute later every one of the “strays” that had caused all the trouble belonged as much to Bailey as if the flank of each of them bore his brand and no other. The revulsion of feeling was simply tremendous, The very men who ten r imites before hud been ruthlessly ihteu /uppn hanging Bailey now crowded eroun:? him, begging forgiveness, and vying with one another as—to which could do the most for him. Such of us as owned none of the “strays” actually felt mean, and jealous of those who did until Tom Anderson suggested give a way in which we impulses. too, might vent to our generous “Boys,” said he, “there’s none o’my critters in Bailey’s bunch, but next spring I’m a goin’ to brand twenty calves for that little gill in the pictur’, and it’s my intention to take care of them and their increase for her until she’s growed up.” “Now you're shoutin’, Tom! I’ll do the same, chimed in another. “I’ll go twenty for the little boy!” shouted another; and so it went until each man of us had made a liberal con tribution. Poor Bailey was entirely overcome, and no wonder. To escape hanging so narrowly, and five minutes later to have those who hud been bent upon executing him eagerly competing with one another as to which could show him the greatest kindness was enough to upset any man. Ho tried to express his feelings co herently, but could not; aud we left him in tho midst of his tears and protesta tions of gratitude, and rode off to the nearest ranch to procure food and rest for ourselves and our ponies before start ing on our homeward journey. Bailey is at present one of the weaith lest and most popular cattle men in the Southwest. His wife did not die, but recovered, and now resides with him at his ranch on the North Fork. YVc cowboys kept our word; and the spring after the lynching affair saw sev eral hundred calves hranded with the turned initials loose of Bailey’s son and daughter and on the range, With his share of them and their the hoy has stocked a big ranch of Iris own; while the share of the little girl, who is, by the way, one the loveliest prairie flowers that ever graced the plains, makes her ono of the richest heiresses in tac State.— Youth's Companion. ------— Fatal Feast of Saiisajos. Trichiniasis is making a terrible on slaught on the population of Gunewalde, near I.oeban, fcaxony. The fire brigade of the city gave a ball, at which little sausages were served, and every one who partook nartook of of them them was was tirostrated prostrated with with trichiniasis. Tho butcher who supplied them maintained that every hog he slaughtered was duly examined, and he paid the penalty for the mishap by suf his fering a severe attack of the disease upon own person. In some houses ten persons were laid up, and altogether two hundred were stricken, ten of whom have already died. The government has delegated a commission of doctors to assist the sick and find out the canseof the visitation .—Chicago Herald. The Busiest Soul. When you see your liest porcelain piled on the rug. And the catsup spilled into your hat, And your stock of molasses poured out of the jug In the eyes of the tortoise-shell eat; When you doze on the lounge in postprandial , Am! are awakened to teelllke a wreck, guffmedieme bottles pded up on your And a handful of salt down your nock; Wh(m you thfi gas , obe 0 , cr thfi floor swiftly bail—there’s rolled iLike a abundance of proof That a baby some eighteen or twenty months j H the ' busit-st ^ r —Barper'sBazar, CURIOUS FACTS. There aro 2,750 languages. A storm moves thirty-six miles per hour. The death penalty was abolished in Michigan previous to 1850. A Maryland fathorcan “bind out” his son; a Maryland mother cannot. Book-keeping was first introdued into England from Italy by Peele in 1569. Tho Japanese have only one sweat word and that is no more expressive than our “by-gosh.” Julius Hildebrand, who for sixteen years was the body servant of Bismarck, is living in Chicago. Signals to be used at sea were first contrived by James II., when ho was Duke of York, in 1665. Charles Breck, of Milton, Mass., owns, and sometimes wears, a pair of shoes made by his father 58 years ago. Over 1,000 skunk skins went out of Scranton, Penn., for Germany the other day, where they will be mado into grena dier caps. Warren, Penn., claims tho member of the G. A. R. in the country, llis name is I). T. Van Vcchteu, and was born in 1701). Tho City of London, England, proper, covers an area of 123 square miles. spreading Philadelphia covers more territory, over 129 miles. Notaries the Fathers Public were first appointed Church by of the Christian of to make a collection of the acts memoirs of martyrs in the first century. Recently an elk was shot in Galicia. It is now 130 years since the last of these animals was killed in Austria. It is be lieved that the one referred to had come from Lithuania. Three men, over six hundred miles apart, invented an egg-beater on the i”“io day arrived and in tlicir Washington applications within for a pateni two hours of each other. An Englishman Hyde lias given up his home facing lady used Park in London because a strange to walk in the park at 10 o’clock every morning wearing green gloves on her hands. There is in the vicinity of \ 'uighns villc, 8. C., an infant » few months old whose mother is seventeen, grandmother thirty-two, grandfather thirty-seven and great grandmother fiftv-ono. A New York merchant estimates that 3,000.000 bushels of peanuts were con sumed in this country last year. The cost to the consumers was $10,000,000, fully half ol which was profit. An railway old man telegraph living near Waliash, tho Ind., line cut a wire, run into his house, and was utilizing the electricity as discovered a cure for rheumatism when the linemen where the break was. Martin P. Bogan, cashier of tho Plant ers’ House, in St. Louis, picked out a handsome pearl from the the shell of a clam cafe lie was eating in Planters’ House the other day. It is about tlio size of a small pea, and a jeweler says it is worth $30. There is a woman at Port Jarvis, New York, who goes into convuls’ons every time she hears any one sing (lie air of “Old Lang Syne,” and a neighbor woman lias just been mulcted in the tune of $400 for singing it with inalite afore thought. At the trial of a Wooster, Ohio, man for murder, it was brought out in the course of the testimony had that himself at the out break of the war he con victed of stealing sheep iu order that ho might penitentiary. avoid military service by going to Ihe Raw silk is said to have been first made in China about 150 B. C. It was first brought, from India in 274, and a pound of it that time was worth a pound of gold. introduced The manufacture of raw India silk was into Europe from by some Monks in 550. Silk dresses were first worn in 1455. Another edition of the Siamese twins has just seen the light of the world. The wife of a poor workman at Misslitz, in Moravia, was delivered of triplets, two of the babies grown together by the ribs and having a common breastbone, The rest of the two little bodies is perfectly developed in every pari. Desperate Fight With a Gaged Bear Pezon, the wild beast tamer, was, says a Paris correspondent, black near The being menagerie killed recently by a bear. was at Chalons-sur-.Vlarne, and lie had it just entered the bear’s cage to put through ils usual exercise, when the ani mal pulled him down on the floor. The spectators were seized menagerie with panic. and Home fled out of the others screamed; but Pezon's son at once en tered the cage to rescue his father, though the young man was without any weapon. He attacked the hear with furious kicks, which had but little or no effect, and he would, probably, have failed to save his father and perhaps have himself fallen a victim to the bear if a soldier, who was one of the spectators, had not drawn his saber and handed it to young Pezon through the bars of the cage. With this he stabbed the bear. At the first thrust the infuriated animal left the elder Pezon, and, the standing on The its hind legs, tried to hug son. latter, how ever, plunged bear’s stomach. his weapon The several animal times jn the was no t then, however, killed, and continued pursuing his adversary. father In the mean while the young man’s had got up and left the cage. The contest was at length put an end to by one of the men employed at the menagerie fetching a gun loaded with big shot. Firing in the bear’s face, both its eyes were blinded, and young Pezon was able to make his escape out of the cage. His father was not dangerously injured, though two of his ribs were broken. NO. 2fi. SHE MARRIED A SCIENTIST. Oh, she said she’ never marry any Tom, Dick and Harry, She’d wed some famous scientist of learn ing and renown: But her Tom was quite commercial, and of Agassiz and Herschel Ho was ignorant, she said, as any circus clown. Bo she gave poor Tom the mitten, and as meek as any kitten He went to making money aud forgot his wild despair; Forgot, I say; at any rate he hastened tode generate Into a sordid business man, a trifling mill ionaire. But she wed a scientific, and his tastes were quite terrific For various kinds of insects and for toads and other game; And instead of plaques aud pictures, rattle snakes and lioa constrictors He’d take into his sitting room to ornament ttio same. As a zealous decorator ho preferred nn alli gator To a statue of Minerva, or a bust of Henry Clay; And you ought to hear him talk awhile ot his bouncing baby crocodile That he played with in his parlor just to whilo the time away; And his eobra di capello, a very charming fellow. Through dressing room and bedroom used to nonchalantly drift; And an elephant’s proboscis and two young rhinoceroses He presented to his children as a fitting Christmas gift. But he sold his wife’s piano to buy ipocacu anha To feed Ids hippopotamus to oose his stom ach aches, And a shark ate up his baby, for you know how hungry they lie, And lie went and pawned Ilia overcoat to feed his rattlesnakes. — Yankee Blade. riTII AND POINT. Ill-fitting garments—Law suits. When a man is attacked by a bull dog which he turns to stone, does order* tho dog become a rietrifaeriou'f— 1 Omette. 'The woman suffrage movement in this country is forty years old, and there .■in some women who have courage to ad mit that they helped start it. “What a picturesque little cottage! A veritable Swiss chalet.” “A Swiss shall ho, do you call it? To my mind it’s more like an Irish shan’t he.” “ He’s The a perfect silliest kiml stick— of catch.” , “ And she’s all brimstone— Both will make a match.” — Ilar/ier'a Bazar. “There is no virtue in vinegar,” does says what a scientist. None e, ell? It many so-called men do not do—supports Repub its aged mother .—Binghamton lican. The bagpipes were invented by the Romans, says a recent writer, and not by tho Scotch, if this is true, itrolieves the Scotch of a serious responsibility.— Radon Courier. Father (Sunday morning)—“Wake church!” up, John. It’s time to go to Voice from up stairs—“Yes, father, but whats the use? 1 can sleep just as well here.”— Siftings. Robinson—“How about that notft 1 hold of yours, Brown? I’ve got itrso long that whiskers “Why are beginning don’t to get grow it on it.” Brown- you shaved, then?”— Harper's Bazar. Once cooking was the proper thing, mad; | Then Browning drove the women Poor Buddha's gone to fold his fad. wing lint whistling is tho coming ■ —Boston Courier. “Rob, you say that you believe most diseases are contagious. 1 low long have you entertained such notions?” “Ever since I sat alongside of a Idue-cyed girl the and caught the palpitation of heart.” Utah is knocking loudly for admission into the Union. Nothing should avail except a ticket inscribed as was Artemus Ward's free passe< to his lecture on the Mormons: “Admit bearerand one wife.' - Siftings. TIIK NKW GIRL. “ You may wake us,” tho mistress saiil, “ When the coffee's on, and the table spread.” The new girl answered: “If I lie late in Kettle’ up, ye needn’t ate.” wait; I ain’t, pertikeler whin —Detroit I Free Press. A young man in a railway carriage elderly was making fun of a lady’s the hat to witli an him. gentleman ori seat “Yes,” said the elderly gentlcma she e “that’s my wife, and I told her if wore that bonnet some fool would mak fun of it.” Extraordinary Old Age. The most extraordinary British ex amples of longevity tire those of Thomas Parr, who died in 1635, at tho age of 352; Henry Jenkins, of Yorkshire, who died in 3 670, aged 309; Mr. Fairbrother, who died at Wigan, May, 1770, aged who 133; James Sheilic, an Irish farmer, and died in Hannah, June, 1750, of Cullybackey, aged 180; Ire Martha land, who died in ISO- 1 , aged 120. But Great Britain and Ireland are not the only countries that breed cente narians. Iu died 1809, in Elizabeth Haywood, a free negro, Jamaica, aged 130: in 1712, a Portuguese gentleman, Joe ilomcm da Cunha Deca. died, aged 120: and in 1790 a Portuguese lady, Joanna Frnncisca de Piedade, was still living at the age of 120. — Cassell's Journal. 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