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VOL. I.
The people of thi» earth, or the civil
zed portion of it, consume three tone of
rhubarb per week.
No more little Moslems will go to
Christian schools in Palestine, for the
Turkish Government has forbidden it.
The price of elephants, without any
good and sufficient reason for such
action, has jumped twenty-five per cent,
in the last three months.
The wart on the face of General Grant,
which is faithfully reproduced in his
portraits on the genuine $5 silver cer
tificates, is lacking in the counterfeit,
and its omission furnishes a ready means
of detection.
Princeton’s class of 1879 was the
wealthiest ever at the institution. Its
members are now considering the pro
ject of presenting the college with an
elegant bronze statue of Dr. McCosh,
to be made by II. Gaudens. The cost
will be about $25,000.
In 18S0 there were in the United
States, in round numbers, 10,000,000
voters. Of this number, 2,000,000, or
one-fifth of the whole number, were il
literate. One in every group of five
could not write bis name; one in everj
six could not read his ballot.
The chief localities that had assumed
any prominence as gas centres at the
close of 1836 were in Southwestern New
York, Western Pennsylvania, North
western Ohio and Central Eastern Indi
ana. To these may now be added a
locality in Michigan and one in Eastern
Kansas.
Of the five million- farms in the United
States, at least 1,300,000, or over twenty
five percent., are occupied.*.-'}’ lessees.
Then there are, besides, at fhast a million
owners of the rented farms. These two
classes and their families are dependent
upon, or at least interested in, the proper
renting of the farms—in all, probably
over ten million persons.
A gentleman in Atlanta., G* la .-*w
cui>tirly ’afflicted,
dark blue in color and the other is a
light gray. In the daytime—from sun
rise to sunset—he cannot see anything
out of the blue eye, but sees distinctly
and well with the gray eye; and from
sunset to sunrise he cannot see anything
with the gray one. His hearing is
similiarly affected. He rau hear only
on the blind side; thus he can hear with,
one ear during the daytime and with one
ear during the night. He never dis
covered this until recently.
Mr. W. P. Trent, of Johns Hopkins
University, in a lecture to the working
men of South Baltimore, showed that
many of the features of modern indus
trial and social life were in full vigor in
ancient Greece and Home. There were
tenement houses in Athens, with several
families in one house. There were cor
ners in the iron market and in the olive
oil industry, brought about just as cor
ners are managed now. There was a
slave insurance office, by which an owner,
on the payment of one dollar and thirty
cents a year, could he insured against
his slaves running away.
Reports from Guanajuato, Mexico, say
that George Fay, an Englishman, worth
nine million dollars, is building a most
tremendous palace, quite worthy, ac
cording to the Argonaut, of the pro
nounced crank that he appears to be. It
will be nine stories high, have hanging
gardens, after the traditional Babylonic
style, have telephone, telegraph instru
ments, and electric lights in every room,
and a broad terrace leading from every
window. The walls are to be of asbestos,
brick and paper, and the whole absurd
structure will be supported by iron col
umns of immense girth and height.
The Cincinnati Price Current gives
the following as wheat surplus of the
United States at the beginning of the
years named, after making deductions
for seeding requirements;
Yeir. Bvs'iel&JYear.
1838 253,000,00;) j 1885 744 000 m
1887.. 295,000,00011884 274 'ooo’ofiO
1886 277,000,000! 1883 279;OOUOOO
Allowing 50.000,000 bushels as una
vailable rp f „„ rT7 „ ’ 1 kCly t0 leave
hand is ot . farmers unless on an occasion .
of great scarcity, the preceding figures
give only rnnmrrmt™' 208,000 000 bushels for do
nestis or,;t Q pot u g
*
st , aix . months of the present
calendar year. The home wants may
stated at nearly 150,000,000, so that
what is left for is mnr-Ti’vLnn
the 79 non 00,0 nnn 1 bushels , , , sent . out of . the ,,
country in the first half of the current
crop year. About 10,000,000 bushels
per month is arinarentlv T the limit of ex- >1
Portable P of w ^ eat a»d flour be
. en thla and
the beginning of our
next harvest.
GRAY GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 1888.
kabla's harvest.
A TURKISII TALE.
All day upon the sedgy wave-washed strand
Old Kabla searched with eager peering
sight,
With hopes of seizing from the barren land
pride— send with
A gift the gods would not with
sneers
But uselessly he traced the long banks o’er,
Ungemmed, his casket stood upon the
Though beach;
alUhe day from off the stretching
He’d brought each brilliant pebble in his
reach.
seaIed the casket, hurled it far
J 3 n ' the evening breakers and the bar.
Back to his hut the down-cast hermit strayed,
And thought with bitter tears of labor vain
Long hours m deepest earnestness he prayed
that \ islmu in his realms across the
W ° Uld b J® S the Sift,-the main
l best that ho could
Then slept, the casket’s fate in dreams to view.
Waves tossed, and tempest drove the tiny
Then bark;
soft winds gently sped it on, and
Now, through the whirlwind’s on
dark, fury, wild and
T * h ° ljrightness of a radiant
It Tt floated o er the sea, till safe sun,
It touches Vishnu’s at last
wondrous kingdom vast.
Eternal brightness shines upon the
The covering drops from case,
off the pebbled
A Twl *!? " nvnlucd worthless
v place
And ICabia’s offering _ every stone
decks great Vishnu’s
* throne.
* *
We seal a casket as each twilight dies;
Each pebble is anjict of wrong right;
Upon Time’s or
se 1 s °ul-filled burden lies,
Tossed, T ... driven, Vafted, through hours dark
and bright,
’ °" e ! ld!ess shores the pebbles rest,
And if with heart wo searched, they
monarch’s gem the
crest.
~ a M Harger, in the Current.
NAHWA.
by WILL N. harbejt.
Lost in the mountains! It was nie-ht
There was not a habitation, to mv knowll
edge, within miles of me. The son bre
monocromatic tint of the night, and the
^maawlkp^^ Hfewws a
ears he t forward as if he had intuitively
presaged he the proximity of danger.
1.0011 northerii sky y ceived its
fuliginous girdle of wmd-m’,. ed clouds,
and the breeze stiffened palp" ly around
me. 1 he awe-inspiring flash of elec
tricity split the density of the y gloom
iu
the vast canyon, whose verge the path
lay along, and showed the weird valley
yawning barkless trees, at my leet, jagged with gray,
I had calculated and ghoul-like bowlders,
to reach my destina
tion . that day, but had missed the road.
I knew not which ay to turn, How
could I escape tN^uerceness of the com
ing , , storm?
lhe menacingly . dark clouds sank,
as
from sheer weight, nearer to the earth,
auo became veined with intermittent,
zigzag Hashes. The great space-canopy,
arching higher up, was unobscured, and
the stars shone mildly down at the
funated tempest.
blare, In deafening sounded discord to the thunder’s
the defiant roar of the
winds.
Mammoth rocks jerked from their
places crashing, on the precipitous cliff sides went
wmddriven, into the fray of
struggling trees, wind and water. The
stars above seemed to dart hither and
thither through the dense fog of debris
hurled from the surcharged chasm.
Jly horse stumbled, almost fell, and
then arose to his hind feet. .Merciful
God! In the vivid blaze of lightning _ I
saw a frightful pit beneath our very feet.
For a horrible instant the animal held
himself, with knotted muscles, like an
equestrian statue—his hind feet on the
edge of the cliff and downward his fore ones 1 at
tling in air with his impetus,
As with supernatural strength, he
scrambled backward until he had re
gained firm footing on the rock. whirled But,
as if terrified to madness, he
and dashed up the steep mountain side
in blind fright. I clung to his neck as
he bounded like a leaping roc/cet over
rocks and fallen trees, expecting every
second t° be dashetl to
I felt my leg crushed against a tree,
and the broken bones, grating together,
made me sick front pain. My fingers
were relaxing insensible their when hold and horse 1 was stopped be
coming the
so abruptly that I feii to the ground.
I was at the door of a long, low
ing and saw a light gleaming opened through and a
window. The door was a
man and a boy stood ovel me ' As rny
senses fled I thought I heard the man
protesting against taking me into the
house, while the boy seemed to be ear
nestly pleading in my behalf.
When I came to myself I was in a
warm, comfortable bed. My leg had
been set in splints and pained me inex
pressibly. The room was large, a carpet
on the floor and a cheerful fire
burned in the wide chimney. Before it
Bu tanoldman. Seeing that I was awake,
he got up and drew aside the heavy cur
tains from one of the windows until the
sunlight fell 011 the carpet. He then
approached me. Ilis gray eyes held a
B ijght suggestion of kindly solicitude,
intermingled with evident uneasiness of
mind as he, hesitatingly, inquired of how the
I felt. I thought, involuntarily, overheard before I
conversation I had
fa j nte( j outside the door, and could
hardly answer him calmly in my paiD
and agitation.
However, I was somewhat reassured,
as he encouraged me with hopeful words.
He explained briefly that he lived alone,
save for the companionship of an Indian
toy. the boy, he added, would nurse
me until I was able to resume my iour
ney. J J
j E t^U“’\ «*<r »»»»»*»»««i kri ”V« »mm >»«*
last on a waiter. An indescribable sen
sation of wonder came over me as be
]"* ;tood wondrous glancing dark shyly down after at lie me had from
eyes, put
an
bed ueu s etc. My curiosity , - - was so aroused,
liim'for his afre’nU at 1 ^ g0t t0 thank
was
llis pronunciatiim was soft and ett
fcTwho'hTa^Sd't r a,lr “
asked 5^fCi!“^r , , 0UI i1,llne . my ladf I
rar,, " Wl,, ‘*^
“Nahwii ’
could^In d not take » i i ln my eyes answered from , his curtly. dark, I
adminS abShed ti e the r fi; P al ^ ^ tUrDed my Stafe + t0
h m '
hadTeft the Ule a ro?m roo “\ 1 ^Thaff^ Ibat I was, to some h ®
doubt’ ll '\„d ndeS r< A gue / t >- 1 did uot
t T 1Dg aS WeU
as I could ^" Id exncct’ ?M 30ct ; Th There was a mys
th/sli.,htosVcon , 1 C ° Uld n ° fc fona
..dm^XTa^r^aSS - •-*
kindest" 06 P ' ers ™ lfied and b°wever, almost was
st tfr ly - con
' at nf 'and to grant , my every wish,
Gradually r . , I ingratiated myself,
what, into his some
the strange wall confidence, of broke. MPP
pleasure reserve, and found
in conversing with him that
coula not comprehend.
However much I essayed to learn
something tailed in regard to Air. Barclay, I
moment totally I introduced in every attempt. The
lace his natne the boy’s
would take on a more serious look,
W0uld receive a11 my questions in
silence
One afternoon.’Nahwa was standing at
my window. Suddenly the door of my
roon } was opened and Mr. Barclay en
‘ 0l ' ed . bis face as white as death could
havemade it- His lips trembled as he
? tood > speechless, looking into the boy’s
faC ?b pointed to one of the windows
sssfarfes girted the curtains. When hk
“Go to your room! 1 will meet them!”
he said, quickly. “Don’t be frightened;
remember that you ar-”
He stopped abruptly, as he glanced
around at me, and they left the room to
gether.
it j s beyond my capability to describe
mv that feelings as I lay, unable to The move, in
lonely mountain house. hours
passed, not a sound disturbed the awful
stillness. It grew dusky without, and
dark within. I did not experience fear
on my own account, I was only con
cerned about the boy; who, it seemed to
me, had gone forth to face danger of
some sort. I was wildly excited, and as
the time passed without bringing any
explanation I could hardly restrain my
self from springing out of bed and
going bodily in search of the boy, regardless of
my injuries,
At last the direful monotony was
broken. I heard a door close, and foot
steps became audible in the adjacent
hall,
A form glided into my room and drew
near me in the darkness. It was Nahwa.
j; e jit the lamp on the table and brought
, T)e a ] 10 t lemonade,
“ I did not wish to leave you alone so
long—I could avoid it,” he said gently,
with averted eyes. “I will stay now and
you must drink this; yon are excited; it
will quiet you,” lie added.
“But what was it? What was the
matter? ” I asked anxiously.
“ Nothing—don’t drink ask me—I—I lemonade,” can't he
explain—now the
replied hurriedly.
The hot potion seemed to fire my
already throbbing brain. I forgot all
else save my sympathy for the troubled
boy. I caught his hand and drew him
toward me until he was seated on the
edge of the bed. My eyes seemed to
cling to his. 1 felt my blood bound
madly in my every vein in as mine. his baud lay
for an imtaut
As if in a dream I drew his slight form
tome. In that instant 1 felt that I loved
him with all the force of my nature.
He struggled from my relaxing cm
brace and ran comprehend blushing from the room,
j could not it. The more
1 attempted mind, to drive the thoughts did of I the realize boy
from my all more
that 1 loved him with the most incongru
ous, devouring instant passion. fell trembling;
The next I to
the most horrible of ideas had taken
,lold o{ my t,rain ' I was * beyond doubt,
mad! How can I convey any idea of
what my feelings were ? Insane! It
struck me that it might have been the
effect of the electricity of the storm on
my brain.
I slept little that night. In the morn
j n g m y break! mt was brought by Mr.
Barclay. I longed with to myself see Nahwa again, He
and was angry for ir.
did not come. I thought 1 understood
why. the third day after I bad dis
It w-as
covered my incorrigibility. which frequently I was gliding fob
into that state so
lows mental suicide. derangement— horror contempla- the
tion of The of
thought and yet the fascination of it.
Oblivion—death—was ten thousand
times more desirable than facing my own
se lf.
Perhaps , the , reader , will be more
charitable in His estimation of my char
acter, if he will duly consider the situv
tion m winch I was placed. Surrounded
with mystery, alone, suffering from in
tense pain of body, and possessed by
the most eccentric, inexplicable desire
that ever chained a mortal heart
I had managed to get to a window.
broken ch«“™oT2 c was
all at once i tT - 1 ’ °i ,
sounds, as of the t» Solwc J Uned
strings the iat’Uaway fell on mLic my ear alHmo^tT,'; ,
rimt ' '
out soerae(l to be listening to it
Where did it conic from moment ? it tS
to be iu ,he housc iu °nc in
tSSra theTittloinir'befaa'cn'my «
moved across SltK
;">»»"'i*»otlior. The
self 3a a ’““-I sumptuous apartment. It was Tasty a
W paintings of mountain views; hang books
were on the tables, and a P piano stood
open against the wall.
a wiu dow - ic the sunlight, sat the
beautiful . gir 1 my eyes had ever l.e
were dark unspeakably bewitching. S o”ioiw'wmJXoi
* he S uitar - which she held in her lap,
fei i*° the l]ooras ^he sprang to her feet
and ran to me screaming. In an instant
hei &rm Wds around my waist and she
rrrMMrs & «—*
- *“” d - -r
I understood it all in an instant I
knew that I '
loved her, and that I was
loved in return. Seated on the sofa I
threw my arms around her, and tender]v
kissed her red lips.
“ho you are Nahwa?” I said finally.
“Yes,”she answered softly withnihot
I “My father.”
heard her story then. Her father’s
partner had been murdered. Suspicion
pointed to Mr. Barclay as the guilty one.
He was tried for the crime,and, although
innocent, the circumstances we such
that he had been adjudged guilty, and
sentenced to death. On the night pre
ceding the day appointed for his
execution, friends, he, aided by some faithful
made his escape.
She left with him. They had lived in
the house in the mountains for the past
typ...FMtfie r from fKg:«--u 7 r‘^.,tbe dis
°. '^ Ir ,9 s mu ton. i r. arc ay a
.
6 ”
Nahwa Nihwa rkriiUv rightly, Ethel Ethel Brown—had Brown baa rid- no
t tsjsi. U road W S&TSfar thev S muUakT an Had re
into mv room. In my saddlebags I
found a newspaper, which I had read
“y” I was°right. It contained an ac
count of the djing conf.eaion of a man
who had killed Mr. Brown’s partner.
Ethel’s face was lit with a holy joy as
she rushed away to find her father.
We all went to D--the next day;
Air. Brown was exculpated from the
charge in full, and “Nahwa” Constitution and I were
happily married.— Atlanta »
A Remarkable Column.
Carter Harrison says, in a letter from
Delhi, India, to the Chicago Mail: Cities
lie here in strata, asthenbsof the earth
do, in its mighty rocks—sandstone, shale,
limestone, and marble. will Can overlie we hope all that
under British rule a
stratum of rich loam, to be yet watered
by the sweat of a happy and prosperous
people, till it waves like a field of grain
and blossoms as the rose. Close to the
iron pillar stands, to me, one of the
most and beautiful monu-
ments I have ever seen, the “Kutab
Minar.” This is a species of column
with a diameter at its base of nearly fifty
feet, and rising to a height of two liun
dred and forty odd feet, with a diameter
at its apex of nine feet. Atone time it
continued to a still greater height of ten
to twenty feet; the upper within part was the
thrown off by an earthquake
present century. It is divided into five
stories, graduated in perfect symmetry.
Each story is surmounted hy a balcony
supported by an exquisite bracketed
cornice. But, as a still further relief,
each story is divided into what appears
to be other stories by broad bands of
Arabic inscriptions, extracts from the
koran. Thecolumn is fluted for most
of its height, and built of red, buff,
and pink sandstone and white marble,
p or what purpose it was built no one
knows. It is as beautiful in its form and
construction as it is unique in itsconcep
tion. The Kutah Minar is eleven miles
from the present city. The space be
tween is a mass of ruins of older cities.
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A c ar p e t j{ a g j 0 r a Cradle. ’
One of the queer performances of the
band of gypsies in Bridgeport, onn.,
the carrying o. an infant on.y 've
days old in a carpet bag. The mother
opened she the begged valise in several public and showed resorts
where pennies,
to the astonished bystanders her infant
snugly ensconsed within as if
it had been a kitten. I he youngsterdid
n °t cry or show sign; of being dis
tressed, but several persons who wit
nessed the strange spectacle became so
3ndi «" aDt ^° v f what they regarded as an
exhibition of cruelty that they threat
ened to report the case to the authort
ti e».—Grap/u% ___
WORDS OF WISDOM.
All genuine truth is orthodox.
vice. Agreeable advice is seldom useful ad
The best armour is to keep out of gun
shot.
It is double pleasure to deceive the
deceiver.
willingly. Nothing is troublesome that we do
He is a wise man who can preach a
short sermon.
As long as temptations exist, man will
hunt for them.
Censure is the tax a man paycth to the
public for being eminent.
Man may not reach perfection, but he
can reach for it; this is all that is re
quired of him.
polite Vanity, perhaps, has made more people
and even cudurablo than has any
one of the virtues.
Gentleman 13 a term which does not
and apply to any station, but to the heart
feelings in every station.
is Mentally, morally and physically man
indifferent. composed of all things good, bad anti
He is a kind of a human
rag-bag.
From the thoughts roused in Newton’s
mind by the apple falling to the ground
sprang the discovery of the law of nature
called “gravitation.”
No statue that the rich man places
ostentatiously compared in his windows is to be
to the little expectant face
pressed against the window pane,
watching for his father when his day’s
work is done.
A great mind observes great laws,
5 road hy in ^ llxod ard a Principles, ? d determinate guides methods; its con
W ° a g F eat n ? lnd sats ordcr at defiance
gj i “Jgj" ltself to be *
When self .. interest . A inclines . . to
a man
also . that it is possible to publish a book
» f no value, which is too frequently the
habit of mercenary people.
If right means will not compass a de
. ed end, then the
S" desired end is not a
right end. However attractive or desir
able an object of attainment may seem,it
cannot Unless the justify the use of wron" It means
way itself is right, cannot
rightly be taken as a means to any J end.
. _
Rich Naval Prlraa '
Naval .
, men, especially in the
“casts'a sSfe
Jon and cargo to the value of $2,000,000
and, before the Commodore returned to
England, vesfels his squadron Xre worth' captured other
which $9,000,009,
sra,"s 5 °s
d ° llar ®- T !?° treasures and plate alone
,
“*0^5 " J ,m' 'Fast Tho Indiliman fcS'o ’^worth cap
^ ] a French >
0 ()f)0 ()ther captures in 1745 were
oharmante ($1,000,000), the Heron
($ 750 , 000 ), the Notre Dame de la Deliv
' and the Conception.
ranee ($700,000), consisted of large
The latter’s a
quantity of cocoa, eight chests of
silver, gold and silver coin to the
a......... 7.1 o. f *1,W0,000, much ic
a two-wliee 0(1 chaise, tlie wheels and
axle-tr«‘e^ete., of wlii -h were of silver
se t with diamonds and other precious
gtones, and a quantity of gold for sale, in bars. the
“When the ship was put the up promise of
French captain, upon Frankland, the a
reward from -Captain him 30,000 pistoles,
captor which’were discovered to
concealed in a place where
no one would have ever dreamed of find-
;,ig anything.” This ship taken: was but one its
Eie richest exceeded prizes by ever that of the Her
value was which
m ione, a Hpanisli treasure-ship, Captain Bownall of
was taken in 1762 by three lieutenants of
the'Favourite. The shares j
the British vessel received as their
*(55000 apiece, and the captain oh
tain’ed $ 325 , 000 , while $310,000 went to
the flag officers on the Mediterranean sta
tion, where the capture was made. The
admiral was at the time miles away from
( b c scene of action, and had very little
t 0 ff 0 with the capture.— Cassell's Jour
'
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Romantic Discovery 01 a icnor.
Since the days of George Sand the
operatic tenor has invariably been re
regarded as a romantic personage. The
career of M. Bernard, the new tenor of ,
the 1 'arts opera, hears out the romantic j
tradition to the full. Two years ago he
W as a working carpenter in Toulou,
France; now he struts upon the stage of ,
the grand opera, lie fashion was discovered also. M. in j
a properly romantic
Hartmann,the music publisher,was of Toulon pass- and
j nt r along the streets
beard Bernard carolling gleefully as he !
worked at his bench. Struck with the j
singular beauty of the singer’s voice, M. :
n artma nn made inquiries newly-found 6n the spot, to
an( t engaged his “Hcrodiade,” which tenor
, the at
( | iat t j )ne was ; n rehearsal at Toulon. !
gj nce then M. Bernard lias studied a1
^ a pi, jS and Milan, and knowledge. has made When good |
bis lack of musical
g fst eD g a ged by M. Hartmann single he note con- j
f ( . g ged that he did not know a
0 f music.- ■ Commercial Advertiser.
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^ An experienced ^ Adirondack in^ guide Adi- es
, therc tt:e n0 w the
ron( ] ac kg 60,000 deer, 2000 bears and 100
,
’
NO.
HIS MARIA.
I dearly love my Maria’s face,
In modest beauty unassuming,
With all the tender witching grace
Of dewy musk-rose sweetly bloomings
Her silken bang of auburn hue,
And oh her eyes of sparkling blue
Outshines the heaven’s sunny brightness.
My own dear love,
My gentle dove,
My pretty, blushing, blue-eyed, true love;
And well I know
Where’er i go
I meet with none to equal yon, love.
When with Maria dear I rove
The tint her peaohen cheeks are showing
TMls of the warm, undying love
That in her soul for me is glowing, I
Ob, then 1 sigh in softest tone,'
My darling, may thy love ne’er vary.
But ever £ low for me alone,
My soul’s enchantress, blue-eyed Mario,
My heart’s delight
By day and night,
My own, my winsome, darling true love;
And oh I know
Where’er I go '
I ne’er shall meet with one like you, love
—New York Sun.
PITH AND POINT.
Out on first— bill collectors.
The best thing in baby carriages—
twins —Vansville Breeze. ,
“What does Leman do?” “Something
E? law.” “What?” “Father 1”
A small boy reaching for a high closed
& makes an excellent strainer for
j e %.
“Woman feels where man thinks,”
says a writer. Yes, that’s why the man
is bald.— Penman's Gazette.
Now is the time to put your lawn In
order—and to form a lawn order league,
as it were .—Lincoln Journal
a combination that i« L ' ” ° U
New ‘
York News
Philadelphia^ w ... 1 Fve^thnV , , rfnp? . rS I ° ,, d * .
of the E 1 “Chestnut. mu I 1 ? f +
u _, l he consonants better than the
are
vo ’ said a » English father to his
? on; , / me »n that L S D are always to
be preferred to IO U.”
Gubbins says that if his wife insists
on hanging tligtfe his hair, she might at least
l ,nom ething besides the fire'
%ST ~* “ n °““
A bow-legged man was standing be
fore watched the stove'warming him intently himself. while A small and
bov £ -“Say,lister, a
he broke out: you’re
■“** to ,?“" r,te1 *”• ’•**•
gluff for a living may not be very re
**
dete.t hLI neve, conld mart,
hi”h" <•!« » jounp girl. “Why, do you
know what 1 call him? I call him ‘the
little tin mogul.; Oh, dear no, not to
his face but m my diary That a
where I take all my revenges, a
everything out with everybody-m N my
d ‘ ary- 1 hnd it a great relief.
York News. v .
She feh upon the crowded walk,
&ggi8SSS&. Ami sealskin arrayed.
bent sacque low her,
Her (laughter over
“What Her heart mamma?—tell almost dismayed; quick!”
is it me
The pate couldn’t—couldn’tmatchtheshade!” Dm moved, tbs wiak voice spoke-,
“1
: —Harper's Bazar.,
Cranberry Culture. f
Years ago, when the entire cranberry.
crop of the country was obtained from
the wild “ cranberry bogS,” scoops and
rakes of a peculiar construction were,
U scd in gathering .this fruit. In using
these implements the vines were usually
broken off or pulled out by the roots,*
and large quantities of weeds, grass, and,
mud got mixed with the berries, all of
which had to he picked and washed out*
before the fruit was ready for use or
market. The cranberry rake is still used
on muchofthefruitgathercdwiththisim- gome of the wild plantations, but
plement is badly bruised, causing picked. it to
decay much sooner than the hand
Gathering by hand is now considered
preferable to any other mode, not only
a8 being the least injurious to the vines,
but also to secure clean, sound berries,
^s the hand-picked fruit commands a
better price in market thau the that gathered
-with scoops and rakes, extra expense
0 f gathering it is more than made good
to the cultivator .—New York Bun.
A Case of Hard Luck.
Manager Brown, of the Witlierald <&
Brown Bolling Mill, at Findlay, Ohio,
thinks that luck is dead against him.
He was the victim of a most peculiar ac-•
cident the other day. He drew $500 in
hills from bank, and placing the pack
a „ e j n an outside pocket of his coat
started on the railroad track to walk to
his mill. smokestack A train of passed the engine him, and spark from of
the a
fire was thrown into his pocket, alight
ing upon the package of money, discovered causing
it to burn. When Brown ana
quenched the fire it had eaten clear
through the centre each of the bills, leaving
only two ends of bill unconsumed.
It is the opinion of bank officials that
enough of the money remains to be re-.
deemed in bills.— Was\inuUm8tar.