Jones County headlight. (Gray's Station, Ga.) 1887-1889, May 05, 1888, Image 1

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“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.
An early rumor -The first guest at the
summer hotel.