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oouiity 9 t M I ■w < I a 71 ❖ mu “Our Ambition is to make Yeracions Work, Reliable Candid in its Conclusions, and Jnst in its Views. ” a in its • : statements, YQL. I. ! Holland reclaims an average of eight acres per day from the sea and 5the salt ■water is no sooner crowded out than cab bage is cr owded in. _ In the ten years, since 1S78, 370 per sons have been killed or maimed or seri ously hurt at crossings of the Reading railway in the city of Philadelphia. At Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., ground has been broken for the first gymnasium and mechanical laboratory for colored people the world has ever seen. __ The merits of newspaper advertising were well estimated by a prominent soap man of Philadelphia when he said that he'confined his advertising to newspa pers “Because the man who does not read the papers docs not use soap. It is reported from Cape May that if the Government cannot be induced to build the proposed channel from Cape May to Atlantic City an eiiort wall be made to raise the money by popular sub scriptions at the two resorts during the summer. The people of the Pacific Coast are taking considerable interest in the Mel bourne Exposition, which will be opened in August, though why it should beheld in winter is not clear. It is expected that there will be a very creditable ex hibit of California products at the Ex position. A prison revolt, which was not quelled without much bloodshed, took place re cently at Damauhour, Egypt, aboul twelve miles from Alexandria. Two prisoners in the jail who were under sentence of death, aided by eighteen other convicts, managed to make their escape from the prison. The police at once started in pursuit, but before they could come up with them the prisoners took refuge in a mosque. Here a des perate fight took place, iu which fifteen of the prisoners wave killed and two were wounded, while the police had four killed. The Taos Valley of Colorado and New Mexico is about to have a boom. A company will soon irrigate the eutirc valley. 8ays a recent visitor: “The beauties of the valleys of Southern Cali fornia are much extolled by foun ts as well as by the inhabitants. 'Laos, how ever, discounts anything in the Golden State. The climate is much more de lightful, and the enemies to vegetation much fewer. None of the destroyers of fruit which are common to California are found in the Taos region, and I can as sure you that watermelmons picked there two years ago are good and fresh, and St for the table at the present time.” A eorrespondent of the Philadeldhia Ledger suggests that the court of the new City Hall in that city should be smbellished with statues of eminent Philadelphians, after the manner of the Lffizi at Florence, He suggests, as ap propriate subjects, William Penn, Ben jamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, Ben jamin West, Bishop White, Stephen Girard, John Fitch, Robert Fulton, Robert Morris, Lindley Murray, Dr. Kaue, Charles Brockden Brown, T1 lomas Buchanan Read, Bayard Taylor, Henry ' • Carey, I)r. Gallaudet, Horace Binney, \ Ice-President Dallas, Dr. Ilayeq John W elsh, and others. Boulanger, the fleeting idol of the tolatile French, is described, by the Boston Transcript as “an off-handed, father open-hearted fellow, who likes to Phase, delights in rendering services to no ma ’ter whom, is charmingly gallant to women of all ages and ranks, has an elegant figure and a handsome face, a winning smile, sits on horseback like a centaur, and took when he was in the ar niy as much enjoyment out of his fine ^clongings unday clothes. as a He child does out of its esque his was really pictur on black prancing horse, sur rounded by his staff. The rank and file a ‘ored him; for why? he them c f an beds, gave P^cs, lavatories, mess tables and meu tumblers, knives and forks. For wko Bad to spend three years at . - a -t in the army this was a good deal. cfore tke time of Le Beau General they . C almost like hogs, each eating out of a tin can, with his fingers or penknife as bes t he could, c The beauty of the thing ^■as °. that k this being change clipped cost off the taxpayers i their contractors n( patrons. Wilson didn’t like it; u oulanger didn’t Boulonger t care. 1 a t care either whether influential politicians took, when he was war minis ter. m bad P art his refusal to tame col Ij for* 0a 8 * ke by r ' sending a military t0 ft - ! eir ^ ack c °uhtry to dragoon them .' ^ keQ tho colliers starving, ■d u were anger telegraphed to the soldiers to ? ^ victuals with them. I don’t hi ® d d this ’ to win popularity, but .. . from e y a kind impulse.” GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1888. WEDDED. Some quick and bitter words we said And then we parted. How the sun Swam through the sullen mist of gray! A chill fell on the summer day, Life’s best and happiest hours were done; Friendship was dead. How proud we went our separate ways. And spake uo word and made no moan! She braided up her flowing hair, That I had always called so fair, Although she scorned my loving tone, My word of praise. And I! I matched her scorn with scorn, I hated her with all my heart, Until—we chanced to meet one day; She turned her pretty head away; I saw two pretty tear-drops start, Lo! love was born. Some fond, repenting word I said, She answered only with a sigh; But when I took her hand in mina A radiant glory, half divine, Flooded the earth and filled tho sky— Now we are wed. — Chambers' Journal. A DRUMMER BOY HERO. On the first day of the battle of Cus toz/.a, the twenty-fourth of July, 1818, about sixty soldiers belonging to one of the Italian infantry regimepts, having been sent to occupy an isolated house on a height, were unexpectedly attacked by two companies of Austrians, who, firing on them from different points, barely gave them them time to take refuge in the house and hastily barricade the doors, leaving fields. several dead and wounded in the After barricading the doors the Italian soldiers hastily ran to the win dows on the first floor and began to pour a steady fire into the assailants, who circle, were gradually advancing in a semi and replying vigorously. The sixty Italians were commanded by two subalterns and a captain, a tall, old fellow, lean and severe, with white hair and moustaches; with them was Sardinian drummer boy, a boy not much more than fourteen years old, aud who scarcely appeared to be twelve; lie was small, with olive brown face and two sparkling captain little directing deep black eyes. The was the defence from a window on the first floor, shouting liis orders of emotion like pistol his shots hard face. and with The no'sign drum on mer his boy, who was a little pale, but firm on stretching legs, got his up on a table and was out neck to see out of the windows and leaning against the wall; through forms the smoke he saw the white uni of the Austrians, who were slowly advancing situated through the fields. The house was on a summit of a steep slope and on the side towards the slope had hut one small window, high up, which looked out from the garret; therefore the Austrians did not threaten the house from that side and the slope was clear; their fire was directed only toward the front and two sides. It was a hail of leaden bullets, which on the outside cracked the walls and crumbled the tiles, and on the inside smashed ceilings, furniture, window frames, and door posts, filling the air with splinters, clouds of plaster and bits of pottery and glass; hissing, re bounding, with crashing into everything a noise fit to drive one-toad. From time to time one of the soldiers who were firiug from the windows fell hack on the floor, and was dragged to one side. Some tottered from room to room, pressing their hands on their wounds. In the kitchen there was al ready one dead mail, with a ball through his forehead. The semi-circle of the enemy kept closing up. All at once the capfain, who until then had been impassible, was seen to show signs of uneasiness and to stride out of the room followed by a sergeant. About three minutes afterwards the ser geant came running back and called the drummer bov, beckoning him to follow. The boy ran after him up a wooden stair-case, and went with him into an empty garret, where he saw the captain, who was writing with a pencil on a sheet of paper, leaning against the win dow, with a well-rope on the floor at his The captain folded the paper and looking with his cold, grayish eyes be fore which all the soldiers trembled, into the eyes of the boy. said abruptly: “Drummer boy!” The drummer boy saluted. The captain said: “You’ve got grit.” The boy’s eves lighted up. “Yes, captain,” he answered. “Look down there,” said the captain, rushing Him to the window, “in the plain, near the houses of Villafranca, where there is a glittering of bayonets, Those arc our friends, standing idle, Take this note, catch hold of the rope, slide down from the window, run down the hill, go through the fields and give the note to the first officer you see. Chuck away your belt and knapsack.” The boy took off bis belt and knap sack and nut the note in his breast pock etr the sergeant threw out the rope and grasped one end of it ivith both hands; the captain helped the boy to pass back wards through the little window. “Take care,” he said to him, “the safety of the detachment depends on your courage and on your legs.” replied “Trust me, swinging captain.'’ himself the drummer boy, out. “8toop as you go down,” said the captain again, helping the sergeant to hold the rope. “Never tear.” “God help you!” In a few minutes the boy was on the ground ; the sergeant drew up the rope and disappeared; and the the captain boy flying sprang down to the window saw the hill. He was already hoping unobserved, that he when had succeeded in escaping clouds five or six little of dust which rose from the ground warned both him before he had and behind the boy that been seen by the Austrians, who were firirg Those at him from the top of the hill. little clouds were earth thrown up by the bullets. But the boy contin ued to run at a breakneck pace. All at once he fell. “Killed!” roared the captain, biting his fist. But he had scarcely said the word when he saw the boy get up. “Ah! only a fall1” he said to himself, and breathed again. In fact, the boy began to run again as fast as lie could, but he limped. the captain. “A sprained ankle,” thought A few more little clouds of dust rose here and there around the boy, but they were always farther oil. The captain gave an exclamation of triumph. But he continued to follow him anxiously with his eyes, because it was a question of minutes; if he did not get down there as quickly as possible with the note, which requested immediate re lief, either all his soldiers would be killed or he would have to surrender and become prisoners with them. The boy ran swiftly for a while and then limped and slackened his pace, and then broke into a run again, but he seemed to become more and more fatigued, and every little while stumbled aud paused for a moment. “Perhaps he has been hit by a glanc shudderingly ing bullet,” thought the captain, and he watched all his move ments, and encouraged him and spoke to him as if the boy could hear him; he measured incessantly with keen eyes the distance interposing between the run ling boy and the glittering of arms which he saw down there in the plain in the midst of the wheat tiehls, gilded by the sun. And meanwhile he heard the whistling and the noise of the bullets in the rooms below, the imperious and an gry cries of tho officers and sargeants, the groans of the wounded and the crashing of the furniture and plaster. his “Up! courage!” distant he cried, following “Forward! with ga/e the hoy. run! be lias stopped, curse him! Ah! 'lie is running again.” An officer came, out of breath, to say that the enemy, without ceasing their fire, were waving a white flag as a sum mens to surrender, “Don’t answer!” he cried, without re moving liis eyes from the boy, who was already in the plain, but appeared who was no longer dragging running, and who difficulty, to be himself along with “But get on! run!” said the captain, grinding his teeth and clenchiug his fists; “kill yourself, die, scoundrel, but »° on Then a horrible oath burst fl ' om him. “Ah! the infamous coward! he has sat down!” I* 1 fact, the boy, whose head till now be had seen projecting above a wheat field, fallen. had disappeared, as liis if head he had But in a moment came hito view again; finally he was lost be bind the hedges, and the captain saw bim no more. He then hew down stairs; it was rain ing bullets; wounded, the rooms were whom encumbered reeled with the some of about like drunken men, catching at the furniture; walls and floors were spat tered witk blood; corpses were lying across the doors; the lieutenant’s arm bad been broken by a ball; everything was 111 a whirl of smoke and dust, “Courage!” jelled the captain. Stick to your posts! Relief is coming! Cour age for a little longer!” The Austrians had drawn nearer yet, th eir contorted faces loomed through 1110 smoke; above the rattle of the firing rose their savage cries, insulting, de sanding surrender, threatening slaugh ter. Occasionally a soldier, terror stricken, retreated from the window; th « sergeant drove him back, but the defenders’ lire was slackening; their f aces s ll0Wed discouragement; it was impossible . to prolong the resistance. Suddenly the firing of the Austrians slackened and a thundering voice shouted, first in German, then in Italian: “Surrender! “No!” howled the captain from . a window. And the firing began again .... steadier and fiercer 011 both sides. More soldiers bdl. Already more than one window was without defenders. I he fatal mo merdl was close at hand, i he captain was muttering between Ins teeth in a broken voice: “I hey re not coming! They’re not coming!” and sabre he ran in furi ousiy about, twisting his his clenched hand, resolving to die, when a Sergeant, coming down from the garret * loud vo ? ce • Tney re corning!” They re coming, „ the captain re peated with a shout of joy. At this all shout, unhurt, wounded, bergeants and oftcer « rush to the windows, and once the resistance . fierce. A. few more grew moments after sort of uncertainty _ and a beginning of disorder were remarked m the enemy. Immediately, formed m grea.. haste, ’be captain a small company d <>" n stairs, with fixed bayonets, ready to make a sally. Then he new up stairs again. He had scaicely got up there when they heard a heavy tread, accom pamed the widows by a “iey formidable advancing hurrah,and through from saw the smoke tiie two-cornered hats of the ^'an carbineers a squadron dashing along at full speed and the flashing of sword blades brandished in the air, de spending on the heads, shoulders and backs of the enemy. Then the little troop rushed out of the door with low ered bayonets; the enemy wavered, be came ._____ disordered and took flight; the ground remained clear, the house was free, and a shorn time after the height was occupied by two battalions of in fantry and two cannons. The captain, With his remaining sol diers,rejoined his regiment,fought again and was slightly wounded in the left hand by a glancing ball, in the last bay onet charge. The day ended in victory for us. But the day after, the fight having begun again, the Italians were over whelmed, m spite numbers of a brave of resistance, by the superior the of the Aus trians, and on morning the 20th they were compelled to retreat sorrow fuby toward the Mi ncio. The captain, although wounded, ] marched tired on foot with his soldiers, who | reached were Goito and silent, the Mincio and toward and sunset 1 j on imme- who! diately sought out his lieutenant, had been picked up, with a broken arm, : by our ambulance, and who had arrived i there first, lie was directed to a church, where a field hospital had hastily been i installed. He went there. The church was full of wounded, reclining on two rows of beds and mattresses stretched on the floor; two doctors and various as . sistants were going and coming, and i stifled cries and groans were heard. On entering, tiie captain stopped and looked about him, in search of his otli cer. Just then he heard a faint voice close “Captain!"' by hailing him: He turned around: it was tho drum merboj; he was stretched on a trestle bed, covered up to tho chest by a coarse window curtain with little red and white squares, with his arms out; ho was pale and thin, but with his eyes still spark ling, 111 two black tlfe gems. ‘‘Arc vou here?” captain asked him in an astonished but stern manner, “Bravo! You did your duty.” “1 did what 1 could,” answered the drummer boy. “Have you been wounded?” said the captain, the beds looking around for his officer in near by “What would you have?” said the boy, who took courage to speak from the proud pleasure of being wounded for the first time, and without which be wouldOiot have dared to open his mouth in the presence of tho captain. “1 had to run like a hunchbac k, they saw me immediately. J should have arrived twenty minutes sooner if they hadn’t hit me. Fortunately I found a stall' captain directly to whom to give the note. But it yvas hard coming down after that lick! 1 was dying of thirst, kept thinking that I shouldn’t get there, and was crying with rage to think that every minute's delay some one was going to the other world up there at the house. Bab! I did what I could, I am con tented. But, allow me, captain. Look at You are In fact, from the captain’s badly bandaged palm a few drops of blood were trickling down his fingers. “Do you want to tighten the bandage, captain? The Hold it out a moment.” captain held out his left hand, and put out his right to help the boy undo and retie the knot; but no sooner had the boy raised himself from the pil low tin n he grew pale, and was com pelledto “Enough, rest his head again. the looking him enough,” and drawing said captain, ill away his band'veu V hand, which the boy wished to keSpj ‘take care of yourself instead of thinking of others, because even slight things neglected.” can become serious when they are his head. The drummer boy shook “But you,” said the captain, looking at him attentively, “you must have lost a good deal of blood, to be as weak as that.” “Lost much blood?” answered tho boy, with a smile. “More than blood. Look!” And with a jerk he pulled off the cov ering. The boy captain had stepped leg; back, his horrified. left The but one leg had been amputated above the knee and the stump was bandaged blood. with rags which were covered with Just then a fat little army surgeon passed “Ah, in captain,” his shirt ho sleeves. said, quickly, nod ding at the drummer boy, which “that could is an unfortunate case; one leg have been saved easily if he had not forced it in that mad way; a cursed in flammation; it had to be cut off at once. Oh, but a brave boy, I assure; he didn’t shed a tear noi utter a cry! On my word of honor. I was proud he was an Italian of boy, while I was operating, II* came good stock.” And he hurried away. The captain frowned and looked in tently at the drummer boy while draw ing the covering over him again; then slowly, almost without him, he knowing raised liis it, hand and still his looking head and at lifted his to cap. “Captain!” exclaimed the boy in sur prise, “what are you doing; captain—to me?” And then the rough soldier, who had never said a gentle word to an inferior, replied in voice: an inexpressibly soft and af fectionate “I am but a captain; you are a hero.” Then he threw himself with open arms on the little drummer boy, and kissed him three times on the heart.— Cosmo politan. The Biggest Geyser at Work. The Excelsior geyser in the Yellow stone Park is in operation. This geysei is in the great middle geyser basin, close to the Fire Hole river, it is in t he form of an immense pit , 820 feet length and in 200 feet wide, and the aperture through which it discharges its volume of water is nearly 200 feet in diameter. Its gene tal appearance is that of a huge boiling spring, and for many years its true character eruption occurred was not suspected. in 1880, Its first when it revealed itself as a stupendous geyser, The power of its eruptions was almost incredible, sending an immense column of water and to hurling heights of from 100 to 300 feet, with it rocks and bowlders of from one to 100 pounds in weight. Its present eruption is said to \ throwing )(: a repetition of that of 1880. It in its volume of water 300 into the air, and Fire Hole river is ported rushing to floods. have risen two is feet from its This now conceded to be the most powerful geyser in existence. —Chkaqo Triinme. —-. ............ The new Hebrides, which are situated a j )0U t midway between Eastern and Western Polynesia, embrace a total area of some !{.-,00 square miles, and have 200, (m native inhabitants, who are noted for their savage barbarity. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS The Care of Lamp*. — , The disagreeable flickering of , a stn , , ent : ; -ra l J 3 s som etimes caused by tiny petioles of the wick dropping into the uiside tube of the cylinder surromvuiig oil flitfv ! hu ' V1C C ' ! hus preventing the ! n S frfro1 ! 1 tho l,arrcl - I 5etor .® luser ‘‘ ^g a new wick remove the , oil barrel, , ! llu ^'pty the lamp entirely of oil, . the opening, down the wick cylin der and wherever fluid will touch inside, boiling water to which has been added a spoonful of spirits of ammonia, Damps are now so universally usee of that , ,llc c,lro of thom has become one the daily and most important of domes tic duties, not only of the country, but ° f , the luxurious city home. If not , at- , ended to every day, ho perforations ol the burners become clogged with carbon a «d dust '» a short time, refuse to move uasl tll “ 18 d,mmud - auA 11 ,, “' t unpleasant odor ensues, 1| occasionally our duties exceed the .. llm, ts of our tl,ne > and the wick weil-nlgb , . , consumed, a strip of old soft cotton may be pinned aml to Um3 the end of the the "!! , k for the llon, 0 > conve y oil to it. At some inauspicious ^ t moment a hole . . the lamp chimney confronts one, no oth, r 13 nearer than the grocer’s: a neat y cut l ,1 « of letter-paper, generous y COTCr l n R il the offending fracture, nicely pasted on, will serve until we can do bettor. " beneycr the lamps are filled, . with ... a f , k;au soft P leco °. f 1,a "“ e P ohsl1 tk ® burners and mountings 4 of the lamps. It f but» moment’s work ami keeps them bright and shining. Smoked chimneys and eyesight, ill-kept lamps are trying alike to and temper, A clear, bright light adds so much to the comfort and enjoyment of the even occupations, that one is well repaid k,r tke dul .y ‘bsagreable task ot keeping the lamps in perfect order. Kerosene oil and lamps are now so cheap that, regarded even in the country, it is no longer as a luxury, but a necessity to have an. abundance of light for home cheer and use. The lamps used for sewing and read ing should be provided with shades, not only for positive the comfort saving they impart, for but for the they are the eyesight. having A chimney frequently tightly breaks from been too screwed on; the glass expands from the heat of the flame. The wick is more evenly snuffed by rubbing the charred edge with a piece of paper or soft rag, then by trimming with a pair of scissors. Before using lamp wicks soak them in vinegar, and dry thoroughly to prevent their smoking. Turning the wicks lightly Into the tube, and removing the chimney before cleanly blow ing out the flame, is a safe and method of putting out a lamp. 'Not only is the odor extremely from a lamp disagreeable, partially turned down unhealthy. but the noxious The gases chimney from it are be quickly equally cleansed may and easily by breathing polishing upon it and into it, and wiping and with newspaper. A piece of red flannel put into the bowl of the lamp, besides giving a dash of color, gathers the im purities of the oil. Burners sometimes get clogged and re fuse to turn up and down. This may bo remedied by putting them of into an and iron kettle containing a quart water a double handful of wood-ashes. After boiling a little while take out, and with a soft rag wash and dry them pcrleetly. Or they may bo put milk into and a bath vinegar, composed and of equal parts of boiled. Jf after putting the wick into the howl of the lamp, and before pouring in any oil, the howl is crammed with sponge, the wick and sponge then satu rated with the oil to the fullest capacity of the bowl, the lamp is converted into a safety lamp, so that there is no danger to life from accidental upsetting or breakage of the lamp, or fear of spots on table-scarf or carpet. Add more sponge as ihe wick burns away; keep the bowl full of it. The lamp will continue to burn until the oil in wick and sponge is exhausted.— Independent. Recipes. Thickening i-oit Hour.—Put into * saucepan half a pound of butter; when hot, stir into it half a pound of very dry ‘flour; stir this over the fire till a delicate brown, taking care that it does not burn. One large tablcspoouful tiff, thickens a quart of This ‘ " will keep soup. , a a long time. Scalloped Parsnips. —A nice way of cooking parsnip is to take it prepared Place as for the balls, except buttered the eggs. pudding in the bottom of a dish, cover with bread or cracker crumbs,, season with pepper and salt, d °t it with bits of butter, and bake it m the oven to a nice brown. Povkktv Pin.—Bare and slice as many potatoes as you think you will need; put them in a baking-pan; pour i„ water so you can just see it. Place B |j ceg 0 f fresh rmrk, bacon, or beefsteak ! here and there over the potatoes, j j Sprinkle with flour, pepper, and salt, j{ oag t in oven for one hour, Ahi'Aragus Salad.— Boil two bunches of . salted .. . water , until quite asparagus in tender. Place on the ice until very cold, 1 Hcrve with the following dressing: lwo tablespoonfulsof olive oil,two saltspoon ’"Is of salt, one ot pepper, and two tablespoonfuls and of sugar. the Mix all to gether pour over asparagus, Rasimiekuv Vinegar.—R ed raspber j ' ries, any quantity, or sufficient to fill a stone iar nearly full, then pour upon them sufficient vinegar to cover them. ( over the jar days, closely then aud strain set it aside through for eight or ten muslin, and add to the clear flannel or liquor one and a half pounds of sugar to each pint, place over a fire and boil for a few minutes. Allow it to cool, and bot tie for use. NO. 38. THE OLD-FASHIONED HAIR. Oh, the old-fashioned hair of the sweet long ago Is tho kind I shall always love best, And the faces it framed with its beautiful grace Of the dear onas long since gone to rest. There were tresses, and ringlets, and long braided looks, Tlfre were beautiful, bonnie bright curls, A<d high combs and side combs, and fair shining coils, That were worn by the old-fashioned girls. I remember the roach that my grandfather wore, brushed back from his broad, honest brow, With an elegant, easy simplicity, which, Though I look for, I never see now. And my grandmother’s hair—snowy white hid away ’Neath a head-dress of dainty white lace, Curving down from her brow in a smooth silver band, Framed a queenly and beautiful face. As tho proud, noble face of my great Uncle George Looks down from the canvas at me. With the ‘‘old timey” stock and the fins powdered wig—■ ’Tis as handsome and grand as can be! But the dearest and loveliest hair in the world Is my mother’s soft, beautiful brown. With a touch of tho gold, and glint of the sun, And away to her knees falling down. And it tells its own story of womanly grace, And the old-fashioned modesty, too, Of that sweet, indescribable beauty of soul. And the mother’s love, tender and true. For the angel that painted the rainbow could find Not a tint so exquisito and rare! Oh the wealth of luxurious, rippling waves, Of my mother’s brown, beautiful hair! Bo I honor tho hair of the sweet long ago, Whether silver, or duslty, or fair. For it brings back dear faces, and good, honest hearts— And I love it—the old-fashioned hair! —Margaret Andrews Oldham. run and point, i Lost at sea—The sight of land. , A game of cards—Formal visits. Unbidden guests are welcomest when they are gone. The choir organ should always be dis tinguished by its high morul tone. Milk has so little to do with the milch cow that a distinction is made in the spelling. —Lincoln Journal. What an immense town must be Parts Unknown, Ontario, Canada. People keep going there .—Rochester Post-Ex press. In the public schools they do not have to keep up the interest of the scholars in order to pay the principal .—Re to York Rat's. That Ethel is an artist, ! All must admit with grace; How could one ever doubt it Who’d ever seen her face I —London Tid-BUs. “Was Rome founded by Romeo?” in quired the pupil of the teacher. “No, my son,’’ replied the wise man; “it was Juliet who was found dead by Romeo." — Once a, Week At a Traveling Agency.—To Clerk: “ Did you ever realize anything in tho German lotteries?” “Yes, sir. “Itried one five times, and realized that I was an idiot 1 ”—New York Observer. There was a young doctor of Bkye, Whose But ho patients left them seemed day, destined to die, ' one To go fishing, they say, And they all got well, just fora Journal. guy. —Somerville “What ft beautiful child! What an extremely handsome fellow!” says tho gushing visitor to the lady of the house. “Yes, he is a handsome hoy, I think.” “Oh, indeed, he is. He is the perfect imago of liis father—the perfect image. Don’t you think so?” “Well, I don’t know, f never saw his father. Wo adopted him.” The charming damsel had no appetite; Her health was delicate, her mother said; But at the table she put out of sight As much as would l>avo two’longshoremen fed. “I eat no more than would a bird,” laughed she; she table But when rose and from the went. The landlord frowned and bit his lips; said he, “I guess an ostrich was the bird she meant.* —Norristown Herald. Lameness in Horses. Horses often suffer from lameness through some foreign substance working its way into the frog and imbedding itself there, causing inflammatory ulcera tion and sometimes lock-jaw. Borne twenty years ago or more, when Captain Moore’s horse Privateer was a two-year old, his owner had just given him a splendid gallop over the Crab Orchard (Ky.) track when he suddenly went lame and for weeks all treatment failed to cure him. Finally, Captain Moore, at the suggestion veterinarian, of a friend, took told I’rivateer to a who was to cut into the frog of the ailing foot. The veterin arian examined the foot and demurred, saying mind, there but was nothing there. whefe “Never you cut away I tell you,” said Moore, in the emphatic style for which he was noted. The “vet.” cut in and a stream of “pus” flowed forth, and on further examination a piece of walnut hull was found imbedded in the frog, which was the cause of the whole trouble. I’rivateer mended rapidly afterward, and his career is a matter o/ turf history.— St. Louis Sayings. English chemists have discovered a fluid that will dissolve metal of any sort, even gold.