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VOL. I.
A federation of clubs and similar
goeieties in Paris has been formed with
the object of cheapening medical attend
ance. Adult members of the association
pay forty cents a year for medical at
tendance, and children twenty cents.
The contract for the Peter Cooper
monument in New York has been
awarded to St. Gaudens, tbe sculptor,
who began his art work in Cooper Insti
tute. The monument will cost about
$ 113 000 and the money is in t he bank.
, ,
It is a curious fact that while Queen
Victoria speaks German iu her home
circle, the present German Empress dis
regards it in hers and uses English as
much as possible. Engiish is the fire
side tongue of the Greek, Danish and
Russian royal families.
It has been figured out by a statistical
official that there are 31 criminals to
every 1000 bachelors and only 11 crimi
nals to every 1000 married men. From
this showing he argues that matrimony
restrains men from crime, and ought
therefore to be encouraged by legislation
and otherwise.
The hay crop of 1887 was something
like forty-five million tons. For the
past seven years the hay crop has aver
aged a value of about three hundred and
eighty-eight million dollars a year. The
hay crop exceeds the cotton crop in value,
and Southern farmers are now paying
more attention to it than ever before.
Artificial flowers are going out of use
in England and lace coming in at about
unequal ratio. In 1883 the value of
flowers imported reached the enormous
sum of $3,500,000, while in 188G this fell
off to $1,350,000. The increase in the
importation of lace meanwhile has
amounted to more than all these figures
of artificial flowers together.
An old man in Afaysville, Ivy., has
Jriven a coal wagon for thirty-eight
years, and in that time it is estimated
that he has delivered over 4,000,000
bushels of coal. In his declining years
> h* can reflect that he has contributed to
.hs'tiomfoifc, anil eo li sequent!}* to the
happiness, of a vast number of his fellow
beings, and therefore has not lived in
vain.
Some interesting facts and figures re
garding the unfortunate exiles of
Siberia have recently found their way
into print. It appears that on January
1 of this year, the total number of politi
cal and other prisoners of both sexes in
the provinces of IrKutsk, Yeueseisk and
Yakutsk was 110,000. Of these 43,000
were in fixed places of residence, 30,000
were employed on different public
works and 48,000 had escaped confine
ment and were living on “their own
hook.” In Western Siberia the number
of the escaped prisoners was still greater,
a recently taken census of the different
towns and villages showing that the
enormous proportion of 07 per cent, were
missing.
The treatment which Sir Alorell Alac
kenzie is receiving in Berlin greatly ex
asperates the people here, writes the
English correspondent of the New York
Sun, and there is even some wild talk in
society of boycotting certain German
medical experts settled in London. We
learn from Berlin that Alackcnzie is the
recipient daily of many abusive and
threatening letters. Ho is railed at in
the press and iusulted on the bill boards.
Lnly the other day an offensive cartoon
was found posted on the famous Bran
denburg gate, depicting the Empress
1 ictoria and Dr. Alackenzie. with the in
scription beneath: “The murderers of
°wr Emperor.” The placard was imme
diately torn down by the police, but no
attempt was made to discover and
punish its authors.
• he $10,000 cook who is engaged and
wil1 soon hold the position of “gastro
S£frr ehold, n in says 5rr - the New a- v *-r Aork
p. » besides being the inventor of
recipes for producing appetites, and
“Plots” for taking them away again,
knows to a wonderful nicety the anatomy
a rowl or bird. He can carve one
a touch of refinement, and has an
ability to make a little go a great way,
that it wm.iri t difficult + to surpass.
Take take a ^ auck, - for . instance. Off go the
•‘g’and wings in four quick passes
the knife. Next the breast bone is
clean shaven with ? a perpendicular perpendicular stroke strode
ami 1 th men a number of horizontal
eaung ones,
as many slices on the dish as there
has been dashes of the knife. Then the
carcass is divided into so many 1 nice T look
ingtidbits tr! tw h h Wlth the ° ther
in yingto prove itself the most tempt
ln g morsel of all. If “31. Josef ”
tired gets
of his small salarv and limited
ST’ ' euc carving hecau fi or ive turn Lssons surgeon. in the art of
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1888.
AT SUNSET TIME,
The painted shadows fall
From the church windows tall
Its pictured saints look down,
Upon the quaint old town,
At sunset time
No tramp of horses' feet
Disturbs the quiet street;
The distant hill-tops se
IVrapt in a halcyon dream,
At sunset time.
A bird flits to and fro,
Above the branches low.
And sings in monotone
Of joys forever flown,
At sunset time.
Strange shadows, floating, rise,
Across the evening skies
As daylight wanes apace
In this sequestered place,
At sunset time.
Tho glowing tints grow dim,
And faintly, like a hymn
Heard through the half-closed gate,
They fade—and it is late,
At sunset time.
Falo watcher! though the night
Shall quench yon rays of light,
Know that all sorrows cease,
And troubling sinks to peace,
At sunset time.
I Ye seek the fields where bright
Streams run, and lillies white
And fadeless roses grow —
M here deathless summers glow,
At sunset time.
There is the perfect restl
In pilgrim’s garments drest,
AVe march, with staff in hand,
Straight to the Sunset Land,
At sunset time.
—New Orleans-Times Democrat.
TIE HOUSE-CLEANING.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
“Leah—Leah! are you most through
is whitewashing the cellar wall? The baby
down so cross, the and front Johnny has just fallen
steps and knocked out
two of his teeth, and your father and
two hired men are clamoring for' their
supper, and I’m so tired out, I don’t
know which way to turn!”
Leah Falkirk stopped, with the white
wash-brush still elevated in air, and
listened.
“Where’s Jeannie, mother?” said she.
“She won’t leave her book,” returned
the nasal, melancholy voice of Airs.
Falkirk. ‘ ‘She says the children are no
business of hers.”
though,” “Very well, mother; I’ll come. Al
Leah added, in a sort of solil
oquy, “I should have liked to finish
this place to-night. Of course it will all
dry in streaks, and I shall have the whole
thing don’t to do over to-morrow. Oh, dear! I
suppose there was ever any one who
toiled from morning till night as I do!”
She untied the coarse crash apron that
enveloped her from head to foot, loos
ened her curly red-brown hair from the
folds of a red cotton pocket-hander
cliief that she had tied turban wise over
her head, washed her hands in a tin
basin by the aid of a bar of yellow soap,
and ran up the cellar steps to the kitchen,
where a kerosene lamp had just been
lighted to reveal a most uninviting re
past.
Airs. Falkirk had been house-cleaning
all day long. Unfortunately for the
family, housewives she was one of those notable
who cannot clean one room
in a house without throwing all the rest
into hopeless confusion.
The rag carpet was taken up, the pa
per of it stripped hanging half off the walls, and half
in fluttering pennants,
and the “overflow” from the neighbor
ing rooms was piled up in all directions,
with a step-ladder and two or three
stumpy brooms balanced against it.
The table was set for supper in the
least occupied portion of the room; the
fire sulked and smoked as tires will
when an east wind-storm sets in during
the latter part of Alay; the lamp per
sisted in sending up spurts of flame on
one side of ihe wick. The men, who
had just come in from tlie fields,radiated
a sort of misty atmosphere of a disa
greeale damp as they stood around the
stove, looking hopelessly about them,
Iu his mother’s arms, Johnny was be
wailing himself, and the baby kept neglected up a
melancholy cradle, monotone to his furtive
while two other children
ly dipped their fingers in a dish of
apple-sauce, whenever and they stole could. a ginger-cookey
or so
Leah and Jeannie Falkirk were the two
daughters of the farmer by his first wife.
The present Airs. Falkirk was the moth
er of the unruly flock who at present
ssr&?& and prettier of
n j 6j j be y ounger two
step-daughters, absolutely rebelled
against her step-mother’s rules.
! “ 1 ¥» a P aid servant ’
‘appealed , P
j Mrs. Falkhk tehe’r children, for aid and and
; comfort. “I can't endure
| I don’t owe dear any mamma.” duty to a woman who is
not my
Which was, perhaps, very pretty and
sentimenta! of jeannie, but came rather
hard on Leah.
“But,” said Leah, cheerfully, “I’m
not a beauty like Jeannie. Beauties are
always sensitive.”
Sn that ghe was no t surprised . , at .Jean- T
,
; n j e ’s withdrawing herself into the easiest
, chair read in the room, novel, by while an especial^ Airs. Falkirk, lamp,
to a new
i called u pa’e baired, plaintively watery-eyed to. her (Leahj little woman, for as
aistance in this emergency.
j Just then a tall, overgrown lad—the
eldest and probably the most ungainly of
the second flock of Falkirks-rushed
| ^Ntetheu”'^°he shouted, “there's been of
■ - a load o' hay overturned just front
our house, aud the teamsters they say
they can’t get no further to-night, and
—say?” can you keep ’em till to-morrow morning
rather “Sorry to intrude, ma’am,” said a tall,
pleasant-voiced man, whose face
was concealed by his rubber coat aud
cape; “but our horses are dead beat,
and so are we, and the load of hay has set
tled the question by turning itself over
—so I don’t see how we can avoid be
coming Airs. pensioners on your kindness.”
Falkirk looked nervously around.
“Oh, dear! ” said she, “I know what
the Bible says about entertaining angels
unawares, but we’re house-cleanin’,
and”—
“And,” added Jeannie, in sharp, in
cisive accents, “it’s a perfect imposition
for people to come here in this sort of
way. “Folks Exactly is as if pa kept a tavern.”
welcome.” said Abel Fal
kirk, slowly—“kindly welcome, if they
can put up with the sort of fare and ac
commodation my wife can give ’em at
house-cleaning “Is time.”
it far to the next house of enter
tainment?” the smaller of the two
strangers feel that questioned. “Really Jones, I
ably--” we are intruding unwarrant
“No, ye ain’t! no, ye ain’t!” said
Air. Falkirk. “Set down, strangers.
Lewis, put on another dry stick, and see
if ye can’t stop this everlastin’ smokin’.
Leah, my lass, see what you can do for a
bite o’ supper. I know things look sort
o’ straighten discouragin’, but my Leah can
out ’most anything.”
Leah gave a quick, bright smile to her
father as she went past.
“It shall all be right, father,” said
she, “if the gentlemen don’t mind wait
ing a little.”
“Gentlemen!” audibly sneered Jean
uie. “Common teamstei'3! No, John,”
with a vicious push at the forlorn little
brother who was nestling up to her. “go
away and don’t bother me. “You’re a
naughty, right disobedient boy, and it served
you to fall down and cut your lip
open!”
“will “Jeannie,” said Leah, in a low voice,
you take the baby while mother
helps about the supper?”
“No, I’ll do no such thing!” said
Jeannie, contracting her pretty brows
into a most unamiable frown. “And
if you weren’t a fool, you’d keep out of
all this turmoil and confusion!”
to So her saying, and she drew the light nearer
commenced on a new chapter
of her novel.
Leah only sighed and went more ac
tively than ever about her work. She
was used to this sort of thing, and as she
moved here and there she had a pleasan*
word smile for for poor, the little, others, sobbing encouraging Johnny, |
an
whisper for Airs. Falkirk.
“I dunno what we should do without
Leah,” said Airs. Falkirk, as at length
her step-daughter brought in a smoking
dish of ham and eggs, a glistening tin
fles. coffee-pot, and a plate of buttered waf
‘ ‘Leah’s a famous good cook, ” observed
the farmer, complacently. “And she’s
always willin’ to help her mother. Jean
nie’s different now. They’re both rny
darters, but I’m a little afraid Jeannie’s
inclined to be selfish.”
When the supper was over, Leah helped
her mother put the children to bed be
fore she prepared a sort of “camping
down” room for the men, placing mat
tresses before the fire and bringing out
blankets. And almost the last that the
two strangers heard before they fell
asleep was her soft voice, in the adjoin
ing room, singing the fretful baby into
dreamland.
The sun shone brightly the next day,
and Leah came in as sunny as the morn
ing itself.
“We must finish the house-cleaning to
day, mother,” said she, in a low tone, as
she bustled around, helping to prepare
the breakfast. “Oh, don’t look so de
spairing! T here really isn’t so much to
do, and I’ll help you myself with the rag
carpet.”
“Couldn’t I beat them for you, Aliss
Falkirk?” asked the smaller and younger
of the two guests, who just then came
iu, without his heavy wrappings.
Leah started.
“Air. Stafford!” she exclaimed. “How
came you here?”
“Didn’t you see me come,” said he,
“last night? Why, you were here!”
“But—that was a teamster.”
of “Aly hay companion was. It was bis load
that was tipped over opposite
vour barndoor. I chanced to be coming
by, and helped him get the horses up.
And so, of course, I came in also, quite
unaware that I was crossing the thresh
old of your house! When I perceived
that you did not recognize me, with all
my wraps, by the imperfect light, I
made up my mind to continue a—com
mon teamster.”
lie where glanced, with a half-smile, across
to Jennie sat, curl-papered and
untidily shawled, still crouching over
her novel. She looked up scarlet to the
very roots of her pretty, half-brushed
hair.
“Oh, Air. Stafford’.’’faltered she; “if
I had only known—”
“But you didn’t,” said Reginald Staf
ford. “Oh. pray don’t suppose that I
mean to criticise either of you in the
least degree! walk I was only too glad to
escape a long across the dreary
marshes to the hotel. And weather was
so dreadful 1”
Mrs. Falkirk pulled the gown of her
elder stepdaughter. said she,
“Leah,” only half under
standing what was going on—“Leah, if
the young man wants work—”
“Hush!” sharp!}' whispered Jeannie.
“You get Stafford—the everything rich wrong, mother.
It's Mr. Mr. Stafford,
who is down here from the city, trout
lishing, at the Walpole Hotel.”
“What! the same one you met at Clara
Vail’s “Yea—do May-party?” hush .”
Jeannie could have bitten off tbe tips
of her rosy finger-nails and torn her hair
with rage to think of the light she hud
placed herself in before Reginald Staf-
ford’s clear, amused eyes. Of all men,
she would bast have liked to please him,
and somehow she did not think that she
had succeeded.
'< Leah—poor, hard-working, plain,
r it Leah, who never got out of
pafieace and always toiled on, meek and
gentle as a Cinderella—how was it with
her?
She remembered her calico dress, her
coarse Mr.. Stafford gingham apron; she knew that
was a little inclined to be
fastidious. Rut, after all, was it likely
that he would think twice about it?
She knew too well that she, unlike
pretty Jeannie, was not the sort of girl
that men grew wild about.
“But I do wish .leannie had had on her
nice dress,” thought she. “Jeannie can
be so pretty when she fixes herself up!”
Out under the budding apple bough,
however, where Reginald helped her
hang up the breadths of rag carpet, and
a certain jubilant robin darted to and
fro like a brown arrow, he detained her
when she would have gone back to the
house.
“Leah,” said he, gently, “stop a min
ute. I have something that I want to
ask you.”
(“It is about Jeannie,” she said to her
self.)
“To ask you, sweet Leah, if you will
he my wife,” he pursues. “1 have liked
and admired you this long time, but last
night, when I saw how sweet and pa
tient and forebearimr you were, I learned
to love you. Will you trust yourself to
me, dear one, forever and ever?”
*
“And so they’re to be mairicd right
off?” said Mrs. Falkirk. “And what
am I to do without Leah, goodness only
knows.”
“You will have Jeannie left,” sug
gested Airs. a mischievous neighbor.
Falkirk shook her head.
“Jeannie takes the loss of her sister
awful hard,” said she. “She don’t do
nothin’ but cry from mornin’ till night.
The neighbor smiled and shrugged her
shoulders.
“The loss of her sister,” said she, “or
the loss of her own chance in the matri
monial market? ’
“La!” said Airs. Falkirk. “I never
thought of that !”—Saturday Night.
King of Man Raters.
A very large and ancient looking shark
has been swimming about Taboga Bay
recently. It is known to the islanders
and generally down the bay by its marks,
and by those who know it is called the
“Somberera,” owing to it having seized
and eaten a man off Anton some years
>ago under peculiar circumstances. It
along ^11 *5 ntonFointT wlirmffm hat" of
one of the crew was blown overboard.
The man when jumped he into the seized sea to regain
his hat, was by this
shark, which promptly dived with i s
prey. Subsequently, off the Alorro 1st
and, the same animal was seen to seize
the brother of the Lev. Salinas, of
Taboga, him while under. ho was further bathing, and to of
carry No traces
Ins second victim were ever seen.
ne same shark is credi ted by the bay
sailors . with other deaths, but the
in
tances mentioned arc vouched tor by
many. 1 he natives, who claim tto recog
n.ze it as an annual visitor, speak of
these incidents as a matter of island his
tory, dating from the period Navigation when the
iactory of >t he Pacific bteam
Company was at the Mono, and when the
animal first acquired notoriety attempted by eating
from an Englishman vessel thou who anchor thcre to swim
a at to
another.
All the fishermen have a peculiar ana
it appears well-founded terror of this
animal, and none will dive in the vicinity
of its haunt, although the water is not
over with five this feet m depth. In connection the old
carniverous monster, in
habitants of Taboga relate a have legend, and
m which they appear to perfect
faith, which is worth recounting. T hey
believe that below the spot where he so
constantly swims, when on his periodical
visits to Taboga, there lies a valuable
coral bed, and when m that vicinity the
shark believes it to be its peculiar duty to
keep constant and careful guard over
that treasure.
One thing in connection with this pe
culmr legend is, however, certrin, and
hat is that none of the bay divers-and
they are all good men, as they have
proved dive when pearl tashing-will and attempt
to in that vicinity, you cannot
persuade any of the islanders, addicted
as they are to the water, to bathe informed, m that
place. I his animal, we are is
of the shark species, and not a marine
monster of the flat-headed type, such as
was the lust big one caught there some
few years ago by an Italian man-of-war
which was then at anchor off that island.
lanama Star.
A Shrewd Swindle.
What looked like the largest, straight
cst, soundest and longest wulnut log
ever floated down the Cumberland
reached Nashville the other day. It be
longed to a green-looking countryman,
who gave good reasons why he must sell
it immediately. It was such a fine log
that, it fetched despite the owner’s anxiety value. to sell, In
almost its apparent
due course of time it was taken out of
the water and proved to be a sycamore
log with walnut bark tacked all over it
in the most artistic manner. The green
countryman has not been seen since.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
His Laughable Tragedy.
When Sheridan first brought out his
comedy, “The School for Scandal,”
Chesterfield, himself a dramatist, checked be
ing present with his children,
them whenever they laughed. Sheridan,
hearing of this, wrote to Chesterfield
that he thought it mean in him not to
i«c the children laugh, because he (Sheri
dan) was present at his (Chesterfield’s)
tragedy it a lew nights before, and laughed
at all the wayjthrough.— Argoruiut.
WORDS OP WISDOM 1 .
H« that dies pays all debts.
Use both brain and brawn.
Regimen is better than wisdom.
Poverty is bard, but debt is horrible.
Our deeds determine Us, as much as
we determine our deeds.
Youth is in danger until it learns to
look upon debts as furies.
What we call our despair is often only
the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Moderation is the silken string run
ning through the pearl chain of all vir
tue.
The man who minds his own business
and constantly attends to it has all his
time employed.
Throw away idle hopes; come to thine
own aid, if thou carest at all for thyself,
while it is in thy power.
Truth is the most powerful thing in
the world, since fiction can only please
us by its resemblance to it.
spirit Poverty and often deprives is a hard man of all
virtue. It for an
empty bag to stand upright.
ailment Study is the bane of childhood, the
of youth, the indulgence of
manhood, and the restoration of age.
The chief properties of wisdom are to
be mindful of things past, careful of
things present and provident, of things
to come.
With love, the heart becomes a fair
and shine fertile garden, glowing with sun
and warm hues, and exhaling
sweet odors.
The Lasting reputations are a slow growth.
man who wakes up famous some
morning night and is sleep quite it apt all off. to go to bed some
mild, We seldom cautious,Jor regret having been too
too too modest; but
we often repent having proud. been too violent,
too precipitate, or too
As we are bound not to inflict unneces
sary sufferings on animals, so we are
obliged the to avert and all trials that of tends to add to
sorrow our common
community.
That which we require with the most
difficulty, we retain the longest; as those
who have earned a fortune are usually
more careful of it than those who huve
inherited one.
To divert at any time a troublesome
fancy, run to thy books. They presently
fix thee to them, and drive dull care
from thy thoughts. They always meet
thee witli the same kindness.
A Chinese Merchant’s Funeral.
A recent letter from San Franc ' lsco to
- ^a^ChiLe* Chicago I'rijMne funem* describes cw* what s'cm'.’Tn the
America.” The deceased, Chinese says the writer,
-was Loo Muck, a merchant, who,
thirty * . five yea ' Lodg re ag0 | of , founded the Gsee
K fa Ton 6 " Freemasons in this
city The genc al impression among the
thousands of American people who gazed
-wonderingly at the funeral procession *
„, as t])afc it was a pageant of 0 e of tho
powerful societies who of highbinders. witnessed Ameri
cau Frcemasons the cere
, nonies howcver) recognized in the dis
’,. , J a formal funcral of a brothcr Magon .
0O M ui:k founded the order in Kan
Francigc0- Masonry haB spread ‘ among ”
th(J chineg(3 so that thcre a 0 , it
j is, 000 members of tho order in
his 8tate- Delegations Pacific had come from
ad , )ar ( SO f the coast to attend the
fll ftnd „er a l. half The procession 'j band took of an hour
a t0 ' )ass . A Chinese
M asons in lon r bluo gownvw ith long
black swords in their hands and bands of
r(jd whitc and blue ribbon3 tied acrog3
th eir foreheads and streaming down their
back , cJ the way . Then came acorn
< of 3everal hlindrcd Chinese soldiers
n bright ? blue tlI nics and carrying short
broad shjelds< 3Words and highly in ornamented
A band of cavttlry red grecn
and orange uni f orm3) wit h quivers of
lrrow3 and | ong double-edged swords
,, » across their backs, followed. Then
can iu , array gome foot soldiers,
Bpearsmon { and warriors with broad bat
t e . axes< warriors on foot, mounted war
,. ior3 riding w ith short stirrup-leathers,
nu , n e r0 uS bands of Chinese music in
hacks, and finally the hearse, drawn by
four black horse3 . 0 n top of the hearse
was a gorgeous f catafakiue of paper and
tingel itl he Chinese htylc . T h e coffin
bore upon its sides the square and coin
ith theTetter ' “G”iu the centre. The
slandard b( . a r( , r who pre ccded the hearse
carried the Masonic emblem. Prelimi
nar y ceremonies were all Masonic. Pro
cisel ag the bell on gt M , s Ca(he .
dra ] contiguous to Chinatown, had an
nounced middav tbe J) epu ty Grand
Master “ gave die word that the hour of
nigh j? tw lve Jmd arrived. On this the
of cer8 of the ( ; ralld Lodge lifted the
casket. incense, The disjilay with of other corn, oil and the
pot of signs only
known to the craft, were fully under
stood by American Alasons in the great
crowd of spectators. The blowing of
the trumpet by the high certain priest and the
incantations, with signs well
known iu the higher degrees of Free
masonry, showed that the ( hinesc have
a knowledge of the craft that would
gain them admission to an American
lodge if they only understood our
language. display astonished American Ma
The
sons, many of whom followed thebtrange
procession to the cemetery where the
dead Master was interred in the orthodox
Alongolian style, the banners and badges
of the mourners being burned in a great
bonfire at the gates, while a liberal
feast of roast pork, kinds poultry and drinka
bles of many the spirit was of spread departed before
the tomb for the
to entertain his friends. As each car
riage-load the of mourners Chinese stationed passed out from the
cemetery handed at
gates them money, while dimes
and establish nicklcs the were financial flung credit into the the fire to
of de
parted in the other world. Altogether
the pageant was indescribably strange.
NO. 30.
LIFE'S LESSON.
If love be sweet, and youth be love’s young'
bride,
And both be ours, do we but hold them fast;
If pleasure's golden wings earth's sorrow's
hide, |
And at our feet life’s jewels rare be cast;
If hope and faith attend us to the last,
And if her path be strewn with garlands
gay,
And glory link the present with the past—
Why should wo long for future joys to-day.
And fail to pluck the flowers that bloom
along the way?
When love has fled, and youth with rapid
wings
Pursues him fast o’er distant hill and dale,
And pleasure to our feet no longer brings
The joys that now are but an empty tale;
And when we vainly strive to pierce the veil
That separates to-morrow from to-day.
And where wo fondly thought to win vre fail;
Then as we view life's tear-dimmed pag»
say;
“Oh, would that we had plucked the flow,
era along the way!”
—Arthur Edmunds Jsnks.
PITII AND POINT.
The best social tea—Repartee.
A rounder seldom acts on the square.
A sad reflection—A crying girl’s face in
a mirror.
When a woman busies herself with a
hammer and nails it is difficult to toll
what she is driving at .—Sifting '.
It seems absurd to speak of a blind
man’s favorito color, and yet everybody Tid
lias heard of blind man’s bull.-—
Bits.
The reason that the old beau’s hair is
of that greenish black line is that he is
willing to dye for the woman he loves.—
Merchant Traveler.
In Paris there are said to be people
who make a living by waking people up
in the morning. They must uo a rousing
business .—Boston Bulletin..
Young Hopeful—“Papa, what is a
stepson 1” “A son by marriage, Willie.”
“ Then a stepladder is the son of a lad
der by marriage, isn’t he, papa
“You are yawning,” said a wife to her
husband. “Aly deiir,” he replied, and when “the
husband and the wife are one,
I am alone I am bored .—Commercial Ad
vertiser.
IJjoncs—“That fellow Oagley tried to
borrow the— $500 ‘$5001 of He me this be morning.” cracked 1”
8my 1 must cracked.
Bjones—“No, he’s not He’s
broke.”— Life.
Brown—“I say, Dutnley, Robinson
has threatened to knock some horse
sense into you the first tirno he meets
you. You want to look out for your
self.” Dumley (contemptuously)—■
“Pooh! It would take a dozen men like
Robinson to do it.”— Harper's Bazar.
“Have you spoken to my daughter
yet?” asked the old man. “No, sir; I
wanted your consent first.” “Well, I
advise you to give up the idea. I don’t
believe she would marry you, and if she
did, neither of you would be happy.”
“Why do you think so, sir?” “Because
you part your hair in the middle, and
slio parts hers on the side.— Neio York
News.
“Aly beloved brethren,” announced a
preacher from his pulpit, “Sabbath
morning next a collection will be taken
up for our blessed Fiji mission.”
“Amen,” rang fervently through the
congregation. “And I would add,”
wont on the preacher impressively, and sin
“(hat amens, however resonant
cere, make but littlorattlo in tho con
tribution box. Let us unite in prayer.”
—New York Sun.
“ When the weather is wot,
We must not fret;
When tho woat.her is dry,
We must not cry;
When the weather is eold,
Wo must not scold;
When the weather is warm,
We must not storm,
Rut he thankful altogether,
Whatever the weather.”
— Siftings.
Snatched from the Jaws of Death.
An extraordinary case, illustrating
how at times the fact of a doctor being
at hand at tbe critical moment may be
the means death, of rescuing a person from the Cen- im
pending London is reported and from Hospital.
tral Throat Ear
Some time ago a young woman, of the suffering larynx,
from extreme narrowing
was waiting in the oui-patient depart
ment when she was seized with a sudden
attack of dyspn sa, which caused her to
fall perfectly ttncon-cious upon the floor.
The operation of tracheotomy was imme
diately performed by Dr. Orwin, one of
the senior surgeons of the hospital, and
artificial respirat on by Ala, shall Hall's
method was perseveringly resorted to
for over half an hour before the patient's
breathing breathing was restored. She le t the
hospital, quite comfortably,
with the canula in the throat, and able to
talk distinctly. —New York Post.
Why Men Are Halil.
We have noticed an article going the
rounds of the papers which says: “A
Poughkeepsie barber says that eight out
of ten men are bald nowadays, and he
attributes it to food adulteration.” It is
nothing of the kind. It is the wool hat
first worn when Kossuth first came to
the United States and which was never
fit for a man to put on his head. It is
hot and air-tight, causes headache and
loss of hair. The “plug hat” is airy
aud its roof is so high that the action of
the sun is not apt to immediately affect
the brain. It is the most sensible hat
yet invented, unless it be a straw hat for
summer .—Idaho Statesman.
In the international skating contest at
Amsterdam James Smart and George
Lee, British, beat all the Dutchmen.
Two miles in six minutes and fifty-six
seconds.