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COUNTY 0 * IS ■ it v: f % M •n ISMAIL 9 ; v A -.1 7 /) ❖ U;i ; :V-:V. AM H “ Our Ambition is to make a Yeracions Work, Reliable in its jgS statements, Candid in its Conclnstons, and Jnst in its Yiews. ” VOL. I. We av* told that the wolves devour twenty thousand Russians a year. The Japanese students at Cornell Uni versity have a way of cooking English sparrows so that they make a very palat able dish, and the Japs like them so much that they make a standirg offer of three cents apiece for all the sparrows brought to them. ’ The Portland Statesman speaks of Oregon as the land of “tlie big red ap pies.” The San Francisco Alta suggests adopting the name in place of “Web foot.” “The Red Apple State” sounds appetizing, and is full of the sentimen tal memories dear to people who love the king of fruits. It is said that one effect of the Em peror William’s death is that fully 30,000 Germans who tlc-d to England to escape conscription during the Franco-Prussian war will now be at liberty to visit the fatherland without being arrested for de sertion, as their offense was only coeval with the Emperor’s reign. Says a Washington correspondent; “There is no reason for the absurd re ports that Chief Justice Fuller will have to shave off his big, beautiful white mustache in order to meet the traditional wishes of the Supreme Court. Mr. Jus tice Matthews, Mr. Justice Field and Mr. Justice Lamar, of the present Court, all wear mustaches.” A great prodigy of memory was Daniel McCartney, who died in an Iowa poor house last winter. He could repeat 200 hymns verbatim, and remembered what he had eaten for breakfast, dinner and supper for forty years back. He could raise any number under 40 to its sixth power instantly. And even if given a number above 40, as for instance 89, he would give it its sixth power, 496,981,- 290,901, in a very few minutes. i Flowers are making gardens of the pavements in New York, announces the i raphi Women seem to be wearing them more than ever. At four o’clock in the afternoon on Broadway the pink, yellow and white blossoms will lend to tbe promenaders a festival air. There are torms of extravagance which every body tolerates, and buying flowers isono of them. A florist asserts that he did a business of $47,000 last year in bouquets and boxes of loose flowers. When to this trade is added the dinner and call orders the business of this one man must be easily over $100,000 per annum. It may be safely assumed that more than a million dollars are annually expended for flowers in New York City alone. S=! The United States Treasury pays $52, 000 a year >for reporting the debates, whether Congress sits for one month or for twelve, as the official reporters, like most of the clerks, are paid by the year, though they seldom do more than twelve months’ work in tlie twenty-four months “(it make up a Congressional term. Over $!■>«. 000 are appropriated for clerks to committees who have about the snugest places in Washington. One’s day’s time each week would in all fairness suffice for the performance of their duties, nnd that only when Congress is in session. ^ ben Hie adjournment takes place the good clerks go home, and on the first of every month the Sergeant.-at-Arms for wards a check for the salary due him, just tlie same as if lie were engaged in the Government service every working da v ia the year. It requires $681,000 - to keep up (Be annual pay roll of the o fleers, clerks and messengers that stand about under tlie dome of the Capitol to do the bidding of our 401 working Con gressmen. Another idol is shattered in the person °f Miss Minnie Freeman, the Nebraska school teacher, who was reported at the time of the great blizzard in January last to have saved her pupils after a difficult and heroic struggle. It appears that the story was an entire fabrication, and Wa ’ telegraphed by.her lover, a telegraph operator, to an Omaha paper. The facts m the case are that, instead of tying her pupils together and accompanying them wine, two of the large boys escorted her ° me , aQ d say she would have perished . f tbe ! y ba d not done so. Notwithstand ing the situation, she continues to re c ‘-i'e money which the stories of her heroism had prompted kind-hearted in G'iduals to send her. The Nebraska * " ' Journal suggests that she would do —Uemely graceful thing by turning er the contributions she has received to tne unfortunate teachers, Miss Royce, Miss fihattuck and Miss Lena Weffalse. really performed heroic deeds on inis occasion, Such an act would be aH the more appropriate because Miss Free aan i s T icB and well, while the other •eachers named are p<- and suffering from their injuries. GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1888. A STREAM THAT FLOWS FOREVEH. In W illow Brook I cast my hook, And long I stood and waited; But not a trout could I fling out Though well my liook was baited; Nor did complain, while yot no gain Repaid my slack endeavor; I only sought to take a thought From the stream that flows fore But I was told by one not old (I wondered he should know it), The hook must skip, and bob, and dip And so, and so, you throw it, And many a trout was hurried out To pay his deft endeavor— I only sought to lake a thought From the stream that flows forever. His trout now dead, had others bred, For life is ever flowing: This willow spray, unfurled to-day, Six thousand years was growing. The ripples glanced, and tripped, and danced, M itn steps that lingered never; While yet I sought to take a thought From the stream that flows forever. The brooklet drains the hoarded gains The mountain-hand secureth; Each drop is dead that fills its bed, The stream alone endureth. Be world on world to darkness hurled, Succession endeth never; Jehovah’s thought hath all things caught In the stream that flows forever. —.4. E. Allabcn, in Overland. A “TERRIBLE MISTAKE.” ' salary, and for re^ons , with , LTeh ta... W S ^ >OU kS ’ are acquainted, seek another l" vIknIckee, position President Drovers’ Dank. Phtadelphia, Dec. IS, 1887. How many times John Jones had read this note he could hardly have told, Reasons with which I trust you are ac quainted.” lie, the cashier of the Dro vers'Bank, dismissed for reasons with which he was acquainted. What did lie mean ? What were the reasons, and why was he supposed to be acquainted with them? These were some of the ques tions which he was putting to himself as he sat in his l oom almost stupefied. He did not fear inability to procure another situation. John Jones was too well known and had been too faithful in Ins services at his bank to fear that; but why was lie dismissed? Well, he couldn’t find out until the next day, unless, to be sure, he called upon Mr. Knicker at his home, and that John couldn’t do in the state of mind he was in just then. The feeling of injured innocense is not John altogether finally unpleasant after all, and curring dispersed the constantly re. out. I-Ie questions, would and prepared to go go and see Beth nis Beth, and together they would talk over the matter, and he would decide what. to do. John Jones had been sick all day A blind headache had begun to bother him before he had left the' bank the day be fore, aud had grown constantly worse all that night until when morning came he was unable to go to his business The headache was forgotten now occasion a throb of pain would make him wince physically, thoroughly but his thoughts were too occupied with that unac countable note to'realize the min He soon left the house and decided to walk up Chestnut street and thence to see Beth. He saw no one, did not even feel the exertion of walking until lie brought who up with a bang against a gentle man lection, lie was mechanically going in the opposite di and started but did apologized on, soon the same thing again, and saw he was unable to think about the present, even enough to dodge his fellow pedestrians. He called a cab and gave the driver orders to take that thejUtiad Parted hfw" Jroused'bv the sudden pulling up of the vehicle and the opened man, clambering down irom his’seat, the door and stood waitin'*- for him to get out. He did the'driver so and started up to ring the bell when called after him. He had forgotten the man’s fee. He paid him, and then pulled the bell. The door opened and lie passed in, not speaking him. to the servants who admitted lie seated himself and didn’t move for three or four minutes. This time it was the servant who aroused him. “ Who do you wish to see. sir !” John then noticed for the first time that he had never seen the man before. He turned to him, and the man started back and asked him if he were ill. John paid told no attention to his question, but him to teii Miss Hughes that Mr. Jones was in the parlor. Then he set tied into his former position aDU did not move again until Mr. Hughes en tered and said : “ Well, sir ?” John looked up and asked for Beth. “ My daughter is engaged at present,” said Mr. Hughes. ’ Beth engaged when he, her betrothed husband, was waiting to see her ? That was very strange; he couldn’t gtand it. Bnt he said; “Very well, I ; will wait.”, “Miss this Hughes evening will and be requested unable to see you me to give you this package. I am sorry, Mr. Jones, but I must beg you to discon tinue your calls.” Great God 1 What did it mean ? John was thoroughly, painfully wide awake now, and sprang to his feet. “ Bertha can’t see me, and you ask me to discontinue my visits ? Please tell me why ?” He was now standing perfectly straight and gazing composedly but intently at Mr. Hughes. understand the “I trust that you reasons, Mr. Jones, as well as I do,” said Mr. Hughes, with a peculiar look. Almost the identical words Knicker had used in his note. John turned with out a word and left the house. He did not night put on cold. bis overcoat, kUhoilglt liis the liis was and walked. He tipped hat realized over eyes He now how sick he was. His head throbbed until lie thought it would burst. What did lie care? It oven made liitn smile a little to think of it. He pulled liis liftt down hurt hard, so hard that its tightness would him. He wondered if that make his head ache any harder. He wondered if liis head could ache any harder. If it could he should like to have it. He didn’t notice where he was going, by but. suddenly surprised hituself ing unlocking the and door of liis house, Ah! go up stairs sitting down. there was the afternoon paper. He would read the accounts of the misery of others and smile to think how much more miserable lie was than any of them. He picked it up, glanced it over, and was about to lay it down again when his attention was arrested by this headline: “A BANK IN A HOLE.” DROVERS DEFRAUDED BY AN OLD EM PLOYE. M hat , was that. . , . I lie Drovers , Bank _ , defrauded. B hy, he used to be cashier at the Drovers Bank. tV hat a long time it seemed since he had stood at the cashier s desk, and yet it was only yes teiday. He didnt care now about Mr. K nicker s note Beth s message had in flic ted a so much deeper sting that he had almost forgotten the note, but he would read the article, and he thought he should feel pleased to learn that K ” had h ? ctt ch eate i ‘ I Ins morning when , 1 . \ . Knicker, . , the 1 resident of the Drovers Bank, reached the office, he found a note tell ln S b,m that Ins cashier, John Jones, andwouldbeunable to be at desk to-day Mr. Knicker is a very careful man in business matters, and he decided to take the duties of cashier upon himself until Mr. Jones was in a condition to relieve him. He, accord jngly, * or vv01 unlocked ’h- Soon the Adam, vaults Mealie and prepared & John S0I l presented a check lor a large amount and > ll P ou referring to the record of yesterday’s business, Mr. Knicker found that a package of ten $1000 bills had .® n deposited. He those immediately bills cash- de ? K C< ; t° use one of in ing the check, and. going to t he vault, removed the package supposed to con blln them. In counting the money, he found nine $1000 .bills and a $100 bill. Hn investigation it transpired that the last person who had handled the bills xvas.John into Jones, the hands the cashier. of the cashier, Before passing bad , f’ 10 > however, been handled that by )Ul subordinates, who reported there were ten of the $1000 notes m the P ac ket when they saw it. It then went to ’* one ; s > an d one of the clerks hap P enei , ’ to be standing near by, when J° u cstookit. The clerk noticed par ticularl y that Mr. Jones seemed to find it; ail ri 8 ht - but that instead of pinning the ,ltt;e sl .‘P of .P a P er with the am0,mt marked on it, which it is customary to P laco arond packages of money, he with drew one of the bills a,ld laid the others loose 011 hls desk - Thc c!erk was then oalled to some olh " r P art of tlle room at ' d coin ,* ive 110 f ! lrtbcr information 0lhcr evidence . conclusively , shows that notwithstanding Mr. Jones’s previous and lnt ”g nt y bc the has y“Med to temptation gone way of many others. It is mentioned incidentally that that very morning Mr. Jones had said he was in « reat ne cd of * 000 i the exact amount extracted , from the package Mr. fn, ' ke ''- in consideration of Jones s for ' ncr uprightness and stnc t discharge of W ‘ ,r0se " ut c Joh n rCad m is ° nce * twice, . hree times, .. He T7 only . uttered , two words: “My God’’ i ’ i * lhn « b f k h ‘ s chair f dh wld ®' T' n P’f be sa stann S a the wal1 '. lb ® cl " ck tlcked , awa y on lll , « “ ntc ^ the fi fire grew lower and almost f tai-ini ied ’JJl e stariwall. T s P uttered and 'Vinallyrt smoked, s gr ‘ ldua J became light, and the noise of tramc , began m tlie street. John moved uneas, *y> lo°Kctl around the room and got ,!1> ’ 11 is head, he thought, was aching somewhat harder than on the night be for ?>. and be bathed, it. I here was a ycs 1U » hT 110 was sure hl,lc Ms head was'aching was . harder. What that Why,of was noise? course, some one was knocking at his uoor. lie would open it and see who it was a messenger boy. He took the message, opened it, and forgot to read e was stan ding still and wondering ll it was foggy outside or if his eyes were , im ' R - ,, T ^ . ' , ^ - "‘m, sald • to wait ... for an answer ’ „ * , . , ^ _ ah ™ WOul<1 rend rca<i it lb “Bear John— Como and see me today. I cannot believe it. Beth .” Who was Beth? Oh! he remembered now she was the girl who had prmised to marry him, the thief. The word, he thought, and sounded well, so he said it over over again. Thief! Thief! Thief! The boy asked for the answer. “Well.” he laughed wildly, “tell her I will be there.” John sat down again, and again began glaring o’clock at the and wall. John It was nearly 10 now, got up and put on brushed liis overcoat them and and hat, scrupulously took cub and went out. Beth’s He again a went to house. This time he paid the cabman, and as he went in was about to speak to the serv ant when he saw that it was Beth her self who had opened the door. He, however, was not at all surpiised, but said would good have morning done the to her much as he to servant, “Oh, John. I am so glad you have come—why, John, are you ill?” He laughed and again said good morn ing- He down preceded in the her into the parlor and sat same chair he occu pie 1 the night before. He was laughing quietly to himself all the time. His head was aching terribly now, and that was very funny. “John, dear >ohn, tell me it . isn . t true. 1 kiicfw it is hot. I was tasty last night, jOliii; Wolff you forgive me!” John looked at her, brushed a speck from his knee, and laughed a little louder. “Jdliu, John, Why don’t you answer me? Why don’t you tell me it isn’t true? But nd, I won’t ask that, I know it isn’t.” She throw her arms around him and sank at his side. He did not move, but stopped laugh ing. Oh! how his head did aehe. bio, it had stopped aching. Where was lie ? sobblilg. Oh, yes. Beth was with him and was didn’t Why was but she thought crying? He remember, that he was connected with it some way, he didn’t know how. He lifted her head from his knee, bent down, and kissed her. Kissed her many times, and drew hei' up, folding his arms about her aud telling her he was sorry. Wliat he was sorry for he couldn’t, have said. He got up and drawing her to him, kissed her again aud said: “Good-by, Beth.” Ho could see her lips move but he did n’t hear anything. He went to the doo * opened it, and went down io the street and wondered why the horses and wagons ijf.itfy didn’t make any noise. How s everything they went along; how quiet was. He couldn’t even bear Bis | 0 wn footsteps. Lie looked at his Wi ,tch and saw that it was nearly 12 o'clock. The bank had been opened n e.ifly two hours. He would be late for Buafuess. ,f{,Bn Well, he would hurry, had forgotten that lie was no longer cashier of the Drovers’ Bank, he only ,1:, remembered that he would be late i flask Ho reached the bank wa X ed in took oil his coat and liat, and st fd t0 g0 behind liis desk. Mr. Kilter ^ confronted him, and he suddenly g it all again . The note, the news p rpjjjg a p er aac | the night before at Beth's. ieman’, mim benevolent-looking at"him old „, tot who was frowning bad branded him as a thief. ^‘It’s a lie! it’s a lie I” he shouted, Great God, how his head ached. Well, bn bad told Mr. Knicker that it was a he; ^ c0lll(1 now He took down his coat and hat, put them on, and went out into the street, jj ow . was this? This wasn’t the city street he had just left; this was the old grass-grown lane running before his old borne. How the sun shone! IIow tlie birds sang! There was the yard with the old farm wagons and haystacks standing at one side, and yes—ves— there was the old tortoise-shell cat sun ning himself on the fence. silver, There stand- were the old milk pans, bright as j n a row on the grass by the kitchen door . But best—far best of all—there wag Bis mother who had lain in the churchyard up on the lull for ten years, Bolding out her arms to him. old mother!” »<o mother! O, my dear All was black, there When John regained around consciousness him, but were many faces the light was so dim that he couldn’t see whether he knew them or not. He heard some one say, in a soft voice: “He has opened his eyes. Then one of the faces leaned forward and kissed him. It was Beth. “John, John, don’t you know me?” John lifted his arms and pressed the sweet face to his breast. “John, here is Mr. Knicker come to tell you it is all a terrible mistake.” John didn’t look at Mr. Knicker, but kept his eyes on the sweet face close to him. His hand gently smoothed her hair, and he kissed her lips. “Beth, my darling Beth, how I love you. Of course I forgive you, and we will go-His voice sounded strange and weak. IIow hard it was to talk, “We will go and get married, won’t we, dear? Why, there is mother. Mother, this is Beth. We are going to bc mar--” John Jones was dead.— Inter-Ocean. Grant’s Luck in Selling His Book, Leonard Swctt told an interesting story tlie other traditional day, illustrative of Gen oral Grant's is good called luck, shrewd- as W ell as his lack of wliat ness in commercial dealings. When o ra! ,t was engaged in writing his had me ! n ° irS Company, which been publishing some of his war articles in thc CerUun/ Magazine , offered him | 10 ,000 for the publisher, manuscript of had his his book, "Webster, the also eye on ^Be alert for the forthcoming work, and one dil y ca iied on the general to m ( , n j re about it. Grant was seated at his desk, about to attach his signature to the Century Company's contract, which lay before him. It had apparently never occurred to him to ask more for his lite rary production. Webster intimated that he would like to make an offer. “If it would not be impertinent,” he said, Century “I would like to inquire how much the Company agrees to pay you “Ten thousand dollars,” General Grant said. “Then I wouldn’t sign the contract just yet,” said Webster. “Why not?” $50,000. “Because I will pay you General Grant opened his eyes with amazement. It had not occurred to him to set so high a value on his work; he had not thought of dickering beyond the first offer. But he did not sign the contract. Afterward Mark Twain, Webster’s relative aud business partner, called and told thc offered general that none of the manuscript publish ers had him what his was worth. “I will give you $100,0 10 and a royalty,” he said. So Webster <fe Co. became Grant’s publishers. The firm has grown rich out of Grant’s book, and Grant’s familv has been paid over $500,000. in “And Grant’s book,” said Mr. Swett, conclusion, “will become a classic more valuable than Ctesar’s Commenta ries. I consider it the greatest achieve ment of General Grant’s wonderful life to have written such a work with death locking Times. over his shoulders. — Chicago WORDS OF WISDOM. Be ehccrful. A light heart lives long. The most profound joy has more of gravity than gaiety in it. Shame comes to no man unless ho himself helps it on the way. Kemember, every moment of resist ance to temptation is a victory. The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest. Work and play are necessary to each other, but they should not be mixed. lie who buys hath need of a hundred eyes, and he who sells hath enough of one. . One may live like a conqueror, die a king, a magistrate, but he must as a man. Nothing is so contagions as example; much evil we are without never cither much good or imitators. Wickedness may prosper for a while; but, in the long run, he who sets all knaves at work will pay them. A man of strong character always make enemies, but because a man has many enemies you cannot be quite sure that he is a man of strong character. Teach self-denial, and make its prac tice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. Those who, in confidence disregard of superior the capacities or attainments, common maxims of life, should remem ber prudence; that nothing that can atone for and the irregu- want of negligence knowl larity long coptinued will make edge useless, wit ridiculous aud genius contemptible. A Clown’s Expensive Fnn. The Russian clown, Turoff, of tlie Petcraberg Ciniselli Circus, trotted a well-trained and knowing-looking liog out into the arena, and caused it to carry and fetch sundry objects in obedience to his orders in the most approved canine insisted style. The audience was delighted, and thc on an encore, whereupon into clown threw a paper rouble note the arena and ordered tlie pig to fetch it to him. Piggy trotted up to tho note, sniffed at it disdainfully, and finally, notwithstanding the vituperations and objurgations of the clown, deliberately turned its back upon the note and trotted away. On seeing this, the clown shrugged the exclaimed: his shoulders, “Well, and addressing all, pig, after you are not to be blamed 1 If a man like Wishnegradski (the Minister of Fnanee) is unable to raise the rouble note, surely one cannot expect a poor ignorant pig, like yourself, to do so!” The Minister of Finance was indignant, and on the following day the clown was summoned into the presence of General Gressei, chief of the city police, and ordered by him to jail for a period of three days, waited On emerging until from night, prison, when the General clown one Grosser, with his family, was present at tlie performance in one of the boxes. As soon as he saw the chief of police, tho clown drove a whole troupe of trained pigs into the arena, and made them squat down all in a row on chairs. Thereupon he explained imprisonment, to tho he public had attempted that, during liis to pass away tlie time by learning German, and then, with the object of showing tiie audience what progress he had made, lie turned to the pigs, and addressed them in that language. Commencing with tho smallest pig, lie exclaimed, as he ten dcrly patted its snout: “You are only a little pig, but you,” he added, to the next bigger), one, “aregresser and you,” (thc German patois the for turning to third, “are also grosser, while you,” big turning to the fourth, “are a very pig.” The audience fairly roared with laughter, but General Gresser considered that he had been grossly and publicly in sulted, The and immediately the left the build ing. same night heard clown was arrested, and when last of, poor Turoff was on his way to Siberia, where, at hard labor in the salt-mines, he will have time to reflect on the folly of pok ing Agonaut. fun at the chief of the Czar’s police. -— The .Making of Glass Tubes. “IIow is glass tubing made?” said a Mail and Express reporter to a large New York dealer. t - Well, it will not take very long to tell you all I know about it, but its manufacture is surprisingly simple. The glass blower takes a small quantity of melted glass from the pot with his blowing tube, rolls it cylindrical slightly on a marble slab to give it. a form, he then adds a small quantity of glass from the same pot, and blows the en larged mass while the rolling cylindrical. it, taking great pains to keep calibre shape required, If the tubes of large are the inside diameter of tho cylinder is enlarged and the glass is allowed to cool slightly before drawing. For tubes of very small calibre, such as thermometer tubes, the internal diameter is decreased atid the glass is used very warm. In making a piece of glass tubing the assistant places a ball ot glass agamst the end of the glass cylinder by aid of his blowing tube. Now the men, each holding an end of the glass cylinder by means of their blowing tubes, begin to separate, walking backward. The cylinder is thus lengthened, and at the same time made smaller in diameter, When the tube has attained the right size it is generally too warm aud soft to admit of laying it down without destroy ing its shape; When it is it then sufficiently cooled by cooled, means of a fan. is it is laid upon a series of equidistant parallel blocks of uniform length, where it remains until cool. It is then cut into lengths with a diamond or file. If the tubes are changes required to resist great pressure or of temperature, they are annealed, linseed by plungin them into boiling oil, and then cooled. NO. 37. THE LITTLE SCHOOL HOUSE. In the little white school house just under the hill Half hid by the maples, and close to the mill Whose wide spreading branches affords sweet shade As we listened to the music the old mill wheel mado With its buzz and whirr, its clatter and din, It marshaled us out, and ushered us in. A pleasanter resting place could ne’er have been fouud, Than this roomy and airy old pleasure ground, The swallows were nesting under the eaves. And glimpses of sky shining blue through the leaves, Making picture so pleasing on memory’s wall. That tlie stoutest heart softens as those days they recall. The signal for entering now falls on the ear, 'Tis the old school bell ringing, in tones loud and clear. To hasten the loiterer that lags by the way. And bids the busy ones cease from their play. Refrain from their mischief, laughter and fun, Be earnest and studious, for school has begun, On through the entrance that leads to the • room, With never a sunbeam to lighten the gloom, We enter tho school room so narrow and low. Through the wide open windows the summer winds blow; And tne murmur of voices floats out on tho air, As they answer tho roll call or join in the prayer. On tho rough wooden benches, narrow and low, Are bright faces shining, with health’s ruddy glow, Over exercise poring some are earnest intent, While an occasional urchin on mischief is bent; Fearing tho penalty of being detained after school, Or committing to memory some unpleasant rule. We gaze at the old desks, grimy and black, And a host of foiul memories carry us back To the bright days of childhood so happy and g»y. E’er sorrow or trouble could drive them away; Reluctant to leave it, I pause on the sill, Breathe a prayer for the school house just under the hill. —Good Housekeeping. PITH AN1J POINT. i Military measures—Right foot, left foot. A headlong man is. not a man with a long head. Only a question of time—A fast trot ters record. A n ‘ ‘okl stamping-ground”—The Post-office. The crow very rarely leaves a place without caws. Half a loaf would never satisfy a thorough loafer. There is no such word as “fail” among tho fruit preservers. Their motto is: “I can.” Shakespeare was not a broker; but who else has furnished so many stocK quotations. Real estate owners don’t like children, but they Have no objection to pay rents. —Boston Courier. Station Cry: “Will you have a han som, gentleman?” Pretty girl—-sotto homely voce: “1 wonder who’d want a one?”— J‘hiluddphia Call. In the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail, but later on, when the youth gets into business for himself, then the word shows up in good shape. She (at the races)—“What’s the trouble at the judge’s stand, George?” the He—“There is some dispute over last heat.” She—“Aren’t their thermo meters all alike, George?”— Siftings. There was a young mail this in Japan, i Who wrote verses after plan; But tho populace rose, I As you may suppose, Ami they willed out tiiat wretched man. — Courier-Journal. A grandma with a small boy boarded a car the other day. aud the collector rang the indicator twice. “What s that for?” she asked. “That’s two o’clock,” answered the boy. In a minute or two another passenger got on, and again tho register rung. “Three o’clock!” ex claimed tho old lady as she bobbed around on her seat. “My stars! but bow time does fly in the city!”— New York News. Wandering Celestial Bodies. Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, at the distance of about 250,009,000 miles from the suri, there revolve some 265 little bodies whose diameters vary from eight or ten miles to 200. Whether they are, as Professor Young once de scribed them, parts of a planet spoiled in the making or not is unknown and, perhaps, may never be solved. But cer min it is that there are almost number ] CS s little celestial bodies of this char acter, whose revolutions around the sun are Hie performed planets. as unerringly They as those of larger are called which planetoids, resembling from two Greek words, derer. mean a planet or wan Mis-mated. Wife—“I hear that young Mr. Sissy and Miss Gushington are to be married.” Husband—“Is that so?” Wife—“Yes, but the union will never be a happy one?” Husband — “Why not?” Wife—“Because he parts his hair in the middle and she parts hers on ths side.”— Epoch.