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YOL. I.
The Baby.
Pray, have yon heard the nows?
Sturdy in lungs and thews
There’s a new baby!
Ring bells of crystal life,
Wave boughs with blossoming tip;
Think what he may be!
Love cannot love enough,
Winter is never rough
All around such sweetness;
One of a mi lion more
Lent to the glad heart's door
In their completeness.
Though in each year 'tis told,
Such news is never old
Of a first birthday;
Welcome thou ray of light,
In joyous wishes dight,
Sail down thy mirth-way.
—Hose It. Lathrnp , in the Jfonstwtfe.
Mrs, Melthorpe’s Mistake.
BY AMY RANDOLPH.
[ “Mark Antony’s widow! ’ said Mrs.
Melthorpe, 'sharply. “Again! Didn’t
I desire you to tell her yesterday, when
she calle 1, that I was particularly en¬
gaged?’
■ Hyacinth Molthorpe hesitated. She
Was a tall, angular giri of fifteen, with
an l hands pitifu ly in her way, and
big, frightened eyes, like those of a
hare disturbo l in its wood:an 1 haunts.
“Mamma,” she vestured, “won’t
you sec her? Sac is very pretty and
young, and she looks so dreadfully •
tired.”
ft “No, I won’t,” said Mrs. Molthorpe,
atanding with a little Die idea statuette
in her hand, and considering whether
it had better lsc packe 1 in a trunk or
b/ hand. “I am going down
to my brother-in-law Harp r’s, svith
Norine, and I have no time to spare for
poor relations.”
j§ “Oh, mamma, hushl She will hear
you! ’
“Let her hear me. The truth never
yet did anybody any harm. Mark
Antony would marry her, in spite of all
us, when he might havo had Put-
Goldiiand with her quarter of a
million, for the asking.”
“Mamma, she is your brother’s
widow.”
1 Mrs. Melthorpe fixed upon her you lg-
est born a Gorgon glance which nearly
froze her to death.
“Be silent, Miss!” said she. “Is it
for a slip of a thing lUo you to contra¬
dict me and lay down the law? Tel 1
Mark Antony’s widow to go about her
business!”
At this moment, however, Il/acin Is
was re inforccd by a slight, fair-haired
little woman in a very plain black
gowD, who valiantly presented herself
on the scene.
“Do not blame Hyacinth, Mrs. Mcl-
thorpe,” said she. “I called to see
you because I have just returned from a
visit to Harper Cast c— ’
ffllrs. Melthorpe stiffened visibly.
Hyacinth looked appalled. Ev;n
Norine, the beauty of the family, wh >
lay like a sultana among her cushion;,
and drank chocolate,rou-e 1 herself into
something liko attention, lifting her
big, deer-like eyes to the blushing f ice
of the newcomer.
PCSlie is pretty, in a xv.i.x doll sort of
fashion, ” thought Norine, who herself
was a sort of Junooian hollo—large,
languid and pink-chi cked.
BpYos,” said M-s. M dtliorpe. “But
if you will a 1 >w ms to mention it, Mrs.
Mark Antony, it was hardly the thing
for you to besiege my poor dear brother-
in-Iaw—even at his own houio.”
“His wife was M.uk Antony’s sis¬
ter. ’’
■“Humph ! ’ sahl Mrs. Melthorpe, If
you ex cc', tnadamc, to be a lopto-1 by
all Mask Antony s relation!, you will
find yourself considerably mistaken.
You aro young and perhaps in_■ xpe:-i-
enc s 1. Allow mo to warn you that too
mjbch pushing svdl not bo tolerated by
th? family.
Mrs. Mark Antony Maywood colored
toihe very roots of her golden fringe
of Blair; she woul 1 have spsken, but
her sister-in-law leapt the fl >or.
|§‘If you will read the newspapers,”
* said she, “you will perceive that there
are plenty of situations as companions,
'stenographers, amanuenses, and so on,
to be had.”
“But ’ »
—
teligain Mrs. 'Melthorpe struck in:
^&‘Or telegraphy, I would recommen purchase 1 you typewriter to study
or a
and,practice diligently upon it. Any¬
thing would bo preferable to becoming
a Burden upon your friends. Good
morning!”
Mi . Mark Antony withdrew silently.
Norine Melthorpe tossed her head; Hya-
burst into tears.
■■Goosey,” cried Norine, “what are
you sobbing about?”
? “Oil, it was too cruel," faltered
Hyacinth. •You might at least have
Sred her a cup of your chocolate,
line?”
(Nonsense,” said Norine. “The
ban has got to be taught to know
[place! kBut Let her go to work!” do
she never was brought up to
thing. She was rich when Uncle
THE ENTERPRISE
Mark Antony married her,” pleaded
Hyacinth.
“Sho might have had a few thousand
dollars—nothing to what Prudentia
Goldiiand would have inherited; but it
is no fault of ours that Mark Antony
gambled them all away. Her mother
should have brought her up dif¬
ferently..”
“Mamma, it’s just the way you have
educate 1 Norine. Sho can’t even sew
on her own shoe-buttonsP protested
truthful Hyacinth.
“How dare you argue with me, you
impertinent rninxl” retorted Mrs.
Melthorpo, putting down tho Dresden
statuette and giving Hyacinth a smart
box on the car. “Go down stairs and
help Bridget, at once; and don’t you
ever darfe again to dictate to me!”
So the packing went on—for although
Mrs. Melthorpe had only written to her
wealthy brother-in-law that she would
spend a few weeks at Harper Cistle,
with his permission, as dear Norine’s
health was doiica'e, an 1 Hyacinth,
sweet child, was growing a great deal
too fast, still she had m ide up her
mind to remain there permanently,
when once she had obtained a footing.
“And I wonder,” thought indignant
Hyacinth, “what mamma calls that but
pushing. ”
The Melthorpos went down by train
the next week but one, leaving the
packing-boxes on storage, and taking
only nine trunks. For Harper Castle
was not many miles from Saratoga, and
Sirs. Molthorpe intended that “dear
Norine" should have the benefit of the
fashionable season.
“Albert Harper is as rich as Croesus,”
thought the manceuvering mother, “and
there’s no reason that some of the
money shouldn't be spent en his
nieces!”
She had not seen much of the Har¬
pers of Hirper Castle, of late years be¬
cause there had been no very particular
warmth of affection between herself and
her sister. “If I had supposed,” rea¬
soned Mrs. Melthorpe, “that Artemis
was going to marry rich, I should have
treated her very differently those years
that she lived at home with me. But
Melthorpe said there was no reason she
shouldn’t earn her living, and save us
the extra expense of a lsdy’s maid—
and, of course, all that is a bygone
now, and if wo play our cards well, we
can have a homo at Ilirper Ca tie lor
the rest of our lives!”
Tho elegant opoa landau with its
deep bay horses glittering with gold-
pl.i’o l harnes 1 , and its two concilium
in black livery, was waiting at the sta¬
tion. Norine entered it, more like
royal Juno than ever. Mrs. Meithorpc
bustled after her, and Hyacinth seated
herself timidly at tdie back of the car-
riage.
• 'This is something like,” said Norine,
languidly exultant. “Mamma, wo’ve
been grubs all our lives, now we are
commencing to be butterfliei. I must
say, I liko to feel my wings.”
And Hyacinth was silent.
Colonel Harper met them at the door
—a superb arched portal beneath a row
of Corinthian coliuns. Ho was a hand¬
some, m;d lie-aged gentleman, his hair
just sprinkled with gray, his keen, dark
eyes sparkling through eye-glasses.
Norine kissed him effulively. Mrs.
M.dihorpe sq icezo his hand, ilyacintji
shrank back, scarcely daring to appro¬
priate any of the welcome to herself.
“Pray walk in," said the Cilonc’. “I
was just considering the propriety of
writing to you, when I received the lot-
let announcing your speedy visit.”
“My dear Albert! Or writing to
us?”
“Yes,” sai 1 Colonel Harper, usher¬
ing them into a stately drawing-room.
“1 do not know that my affairs particu¬
larly affect th3 rest of tho family, but I
had decided to let you know of my
second marriage."
Mrs. Melthorpe gavo a gasp. Norine
looked appalled. No thunderbolt could
have taken them more by surprise.
“Artemis has been deal ayearnow,”
went on the Colonel, in cool business¬
like accents. “The lady who has hon¬
ored me by intrusting her future to my
care is a connection of this family.
Evelyn, my dear” (beckoning to a
slight figure which up to this time had
lingered among the shadows of the
bay-window draperies), “I wish to in¬
troduce to you my late wife's sister and
her daughters. Mrs. Melthorpe—young
ladies—this is Mrs. Harper.
“Why! ’cried out Hyacinth, in her
impulsive fashion, “it’s Uncle Mark
Antony’s widow!’
Mrs. Melthorpo had reddened as if
boiling carmine print had been poured
through all her veins. Norine grasped
at her lace neck-frills as if she foun 1
difficulty in breathing. Mrs. Harper
greeted them with a certain calm gra¬
ciousness, like a queen receiving her
subjects. that day
< .j tried to tell you about it
in the city,” said she, “I should have
liked to ask you to our quiet wel¬
ding; but you declined to hear me out.
You desired me to read the newspaper^.
CARNESVILLE, GA., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24.1890.
or to buy a typewriter, or something of
that kind. I could not get a chance to
explain to you that Colonel Harper was
a friend of mine in tho old days bofore
I married Mark Antony, and before ho
was betrotbod to Miss Artemis May-
wood.”
Mrs. Melthorpo and Miss Norine re
turned to New York in the evening
train. After all that was come and
gone they deemed it best speedily to re¬
tire from the field. But Mrs. Harper
put in a plea for Hyacinth to remain at
tho castlo.
‘ She was the only one who spoke
kindly to nio,” said she. “Withi ut in¬
tending to be an eavesdropper, I heard
her hogging for quarter for me. That
it was cavalierly refused was no fault ol
hers. You will stay with me, dear lit¬
tle Hyacinth? ’
“If mamma does not object,” said
Hyacinth, secretly wondering, if the
world was coming to an end.
“Mamma" did not object in the
least. It was something to have that
tall, awkward school-girl provided for,
she thought.
1 But what Colonel Harper could
have seen to fancy in Mark Antony’s
widow,” as she said afterward to No-
rino, “J can’t imagine.”
Pirhaps all this was a lesson to Mrs.
Melthorpe; perhaps not. There arc
some people who will never learn much
in the school of that grim old peda¬
gogue, Experience! — The Ledger.
Cod Liver Oil.
Cod liver oil is, as its name indicates,
obtained from the liver of codfish. It
is an agent which could scarcely be
dispensed with, being a nourishing
tonic of exceeding value. Many peo¬
ple have an idea that consumption is
one disease for which it is peculiarly
adapted, and they fail to recognizi the
fact that it is equally efficient in many
other affections. Hence, when physi¬
cians proscribe it, patients at once
assume that they have trouble with
their lungs. The accepted list of dis¬
eases in udiich cod liver oil is of special
efficacy is much larger than it was a
score of years ago. Undoubtedly phy¬
sicians in old times, in attempting to
combat disease, often used drugs which
depressed and reduced the vital powers,
doing thereby more harm than good.
All that is changed now; physicians of
tho present may be said to ignore, to a
certain extent, the disease, but nounsh
and keep up—“restore the life that is
being drained, bui d up the tissues
being wasted.” Cod liver oil is practi¬
cally a food, and as such only does it
act. It nouriihes and fattens wasted
and xvasting bodies, and in that way it
often checks the progress even of pul¬
monary consumption. Among tho
many affections in which it is giveD
is nervous debility. In some coughs,
too, even where tho lungs are perfectly
sound, it proves admirable, and often
cures the same. Its taste is so disa¬
greeable that comparatively few patients
can take it, a fact much to be deplored.
Many are the ways devised to make it
less unpleasant, flavoring it with pepper¬
mint, mixing it with coffee, rinsing the
mouth first with brandy or whiskey,
pouring it into the froth of beer, etc.
Some recommend that it be salted and
peppered and then “bolted down,”
afterward the mouth to be rinsed
with tincture of myrrh and water.
Lately it has been suggested that a few
grains of salt bo dropped on tho tongue
before taking cod liver oil, as by that
means it will be rendered palatable. Or
a bite of pickle before and after taking
the oil will render it acceptable.—
Boston llerald.
How He Paid His Lawyer’s Fee.
* My first case in Sin Francisco,”
said Attorney James K. Wilder, “was
the defence of a young fellow charged
with stealing a watch belonging to a
Catholic priest. I was appointed by the
court, because the prisoner said ha had
no money.
• Tne jury returned a verdict of not
guilty, and as the defendant was leav¬
ing the court room I called him back,
and just as a joke handed him my card
and told him to bring me around the
first $50 he got.
“Next day he walked into my office
and planked down two 20s and a 10.
“ ‘Where did you get all that money?’
I demanded, as soon as I got over my
surprise enough to speak.
“‘Sold the prieit’s watch,’ he re¬
plied, as he bowed himself out.”
Mustard Oil as a Lubricant.
Mustard oil has of late been given
some attention as a lubricant, and it is
reported to havo been successfully used
for some time in Germany for lubricat-
ing purposes. It is said not to be sus¬
ceptible to cold, and, besides, does not
easily become rancid or form fatty acids
which would attack metal. Its lubri¬
cating value, moreover, according to
Prof. G. Herman, of Aix-la-Chapelle,
is of a relatively high order. No par¬
ticulars have been yet given as to th8
cost of the nexv lubricant, its specific
gravity, etc.
A BLOOD THIRST.
Abnormal Appetite Developed in
a Texan Girl.
Periodically Afflicted With a
Craving forthe Life Fluid.
A malndy of the most remarkable and
distressing nature has roctftUly attacked
the young daughter of Winthrop Davis
who owns one of the largest saw-mills
in this vicinity, says tho Atlanta (Tox.)
cirrespondont of tho Philadelphia
Times. The young lady is in her 16th
year, and, when in her normal health,
of an amiable, rather shrinking dispo¬
sition, and possessed of no small claim
to beauty, besides being Intelligent and
well ndvancod in her studies. About
three months ago sho fell into a low,
melancholy state, and displayed a sin¬
gular aversion to all society, refusing
entirely to converse at times and exhib¬
iting a sullen, angry disposition when
questioned or remonstrated with.
All food was icjected for several days
until a piece of freshly-killed beef was
accidentally brought into her presence,
when she threw herself upon it with all
the savage greodinejs of a famished ani¬
mal, and began to tear and rend it with
her teeth, sucking tho blood with a
shocking relish for the yet»warm fluid.
Sinco then, at periods ranging from
three to seven days, she is "seized with
the same thirst for blood, and when
brought in sight of it will drink it with
avidity, in spite of all efforts made to
restrain her. Such efforts are attended
with much danger, for during theso at¬
tacks sho fails to recognize even tho
members of tho family, and will snap
and bite savagely at anyone attempting
to moleit her.
Her entire appearance undergoes a
change, her usually gentle expression
becoming inhumanly ferocious, her
eyes bloodshot and glaring, while her
jaws snap furiously and she keeps up a
hideous snarling and growling. Her
face becomes suffused xvith blood and
her hair bristles on her hea l like that of
an angry animal. Once satiated with
blood sho falls into a deep sleep, as if
from intoxication, and in awakening
seems to have no remembrance whatever
of her singular attack and is once mure
her quiet, lady-like self, only complain¬
ing of severe headache, which frequently
lasts until her next seizure.
Physicians who havo seen her aro at
a loss to account for the cause of her
malady and have, up to the present,
failed entirely to relieve her. By the
advice of several, attempts have been
made to keep her from tho sight of
blood, but the result is so distressing
that it is now thought best to allow her
to gratify her unnatural thirst. Unable
to do so otherwise, she attacked her
own flesh, tearing it without any ap¬
parent pain and sucking the blood with
avidity.
On another occasion, when seemingly
at herself, her attention was attracted
to a younger brother, who, having cut
his hand, entered tho house for the pur¬
pose of having the bleeding gash bound
up. She instantly leaped across tho
room and without warning seized the
boy’s hurt hand in her mouth and bit
him to the bone. It was only with tho
greatest difficulty that she could be made
to release him, and when finally forced
to let go gave vent to her rage in hoarse
cries, or rather screams, liko a wild
beast cheated of its prey.
Mr. Davis and his wife arc persons of
education and refinement, and profess
themselves entirely unable to account
for their daughter’s peculiar affliction,
m on both sides for generations there
has never been any intemperance or
mental disease.
A Monkey Does an Heroic Thing.
A large ourangoutang was very much
attached to his master and to the baby
boy, who xvas the pet of the whole
family. O re day a fire suddenly broke
out in the house, and everybody was
running here and there to put it out,
while the little bey in his nursery was
almost forgotten, and when - they
thought of him the staircase xvas all in
flames. What could he done? As they
were looking up and xvondering, a large
hairy hand and arm opened the win¬
dow, and presently the monkey ap¬
peared with the baby in his arms, and
certainly climbed down over the porch
and brought the child safely to his
nurse. Nob dy else could have done it,
for a man cannot climb like a monkey,
and is: not nearly so stroi g. You ina7
imagine hoxx’ the faithful c-oature was
praised and pettel after that, This is
a true story, and the child who was
saved wax the young Marquis of Kildare.
Fragile Steamship Records.
“It’s very strange!” commented Mrs.
Snaggs, as she laid down the paper.
“What is strange? ’ asked her hus¬
band.
“Every day or two I read about c
steamship’s record getting broken. It’s
strange they don’t make them stronger.”
Life in “Mulberry Bend.”
It is upon “The Bend,” in Mulberry
street, New York, that this Italian
blight has fallon chiefly. It is here
the sanitary policeman locates tho bulk
of his Pour Hundred, and the reformer
givos up the task in despair. Where
Mulberry street crooks liko an elbow,
within hail of tho old dopravity of the
Fivo Points, are the miserable homes
of the ragpickers. Tho law of kaleido¬
scopic change that rulos life in the
lower strata of our city long since put
the swarthy, stunted emigrant from
southern Italy in exclusive possession
of this field, just as his black-eyed boy
has monopolized tho boot-black’s trade,
and the Chinaman the laundry. IJero
is tho back alloy in its fou’eit devel¬
opment—-natuially ouough, for there is
scarcely a lot that has not two, throo
or four tenements upon it, swarming
with unwholesome crowds, What
squalor and degradation inhabit
those dens tho health officers know.
Through tho long summer days their
carls palrol The Bend, scattering disin¬
fectants in streets and hincq in sinks
and cellars, and hidden hovels where
tho tramp burrows. From midnight
till far into tho small hours of tho
morning the policeman's thundering rap
on closed doors is heard, with his stern
command, “Apri port’I’ on his rounds
gathering evidouco of illegal over¬
crowding. The doors are opeued un¬
willingly enough—but the order means
business and tho tenant knows it even
if ho understands no word of English.
In a room not thirteen feet either way
slept twelve men and women, two or
three in bunks set in a sort of alcove,
the rest on (he floor. A kerosene lamp
burned dimly in the fearful atmosphere,
probably to gutdo other and later arriv¬
als to their “beds,” for it ivai only just
past midnight. A baby’s fretful wail
came from an adjoining hall-room,
where, in the semi-darkness, three re¬
cumbent figures could bo made out,—
Scribner.
Two Delicate Operations.
There are at present in St. Mary’s
hospital two patients whose enses aro
attracting a great deal of attention
among physicians and surgeons, says
the St. I > aul Pioneer Press. Tne most
remarkable case is that of a gcutleman
connected with one of the loading busi¬
ness houses of tho city, who has lately
been suffering from brain trouble. Ilis
case had bocome so serious that it was
decided an operation was advisable. It
was what is known ns degeneration of
the brain. The only possiblo remedy is
by removing the top of tho skull and
taking out the diseased matter. It is
an exceedingly delicate operation, of
course, and one the success
of which in this case was con-
sidcred exceedingly problematical, but
as it xvas tho only hopo the operation
was performed in the presence of a score
of physicians. Tho patient is doing
well, though tho final result cannot yet
bo determined. Tho flow of blood is
very great, and the operation has proved
much more successful than was thought
probable at the timo. It is said to have
been the first operation of tho kind ever
performed in the state.
The second case, if loss remarkable,
is more curious. A man in some mys¬
terious way swallowed his teeth, not
the molars which nature gavo him, hut
the sot which his dentist provided as a
substitute. They lodged deep down in
his throat, and put a stop to everything
except breathing. A hole had to be
cut in his throatand tho teeth extracted.
The operation was successfully per¬
formed, and tho patient is doing well,
and will keep his eye on his teeth after
this.
Ten Yours Beside n Grave.
A writer in Chambers’ Journal tells
of a man who spent tho greater portion
of the last ten years of his life by his
wife’s grave. “Ho went to the ceme¬
tery in the early morning, and after re¬
moving any microscopic weed that might
have showed itself since tne previous
evening, would light his pipe and sol¬
emnly contemplate tho stones in his
vicinity. Ho went away regularly to
liis meals, and as regularly took his
afternoon nap on the grass by the grave¬
side. Shortly before his last visit to
the cherishe 1 spot ho requested
mo to decipher for him the dates
upon several of the gravestones;
and we conversed about many whom we
bad known in life, and who had passed
away. I remarked that tho churchyard
xvas a very pretty place, and his face
lighted up as he rejoined: ‘Ah, mester,
I’ve always thought I should liko to he
buried here, for,’ looking around, ‘you
see there’s such a splendid view from
here.’ This was uttered in good faith,
and the old man seemed convinced that
neither coffin lid nor church-yard clods
would obstruct his view. Perhaps they
don’t! Ia a few brief weeks he camo
to his favorite haunt to stay. ‘Poor
old William,’ the flowers upon your
grave have run wild long ago, and no
one set ms to remember you as they pass
by."
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A micro-orgauism has recently boon
discovered which posse sos tlv’o power of
conferring luminosity or phosphores¬
cence upon different crustnceans.
It is held that steam jackets are de¬
creasing in utility as engines aro ad¬
vancing toward perfection, and should
thoy over attain this idcnl the jacket
would be wholly useless.
A mortar which, it is claimed, will
stand in all sorts of weather, is made of
one bushel of uuslakcd lime and three
bushels of sharp sand, to which is ndd-
od one pound of alum mix d with one
pint of linsooil oil. Tho alum will
counteract tho action of frost on tho
mortar.
Tho ‘‘lady bug” is being propagated
for dissemination among tho orango
groves infested with what is called the
whito scale. Tho post seems tho most
difficult to copo with and, had no
remedy boon found, the industry in the
sections affected by it would probably
havo been dostroyod.
Tho latest electric device is for de¬
tecting fires. When tho temperature
of a room reachos a dangerous point
tho composition in n littlo button stavti
a boll to ringing and indicates the num¬
ber of tho room. The alarm is kopt up
until tho temperature of the room is re¬
duced below the danger point.
A physiologist in Franco has been ob¬
serving the xvorking of flies in flying,
and somehoxv has arrived at tho conclu¬
sion that the wings of a fly make about
830 beats per second, and that such a fly
can travel at tho rate of a kilomotre
per minute. This is equal (o the veloc¬
ity of an express train (37.3 mile.).
M Mosso, of Turin, has found that
he fresh blood of fishes acts as a pow¬
erful poison when injected into the cir¬
culation of mammals. The venomous
property exists in the serum, is de¬
stroyed by the putrefying process, by
boating to some 1200 degrees Fahion-
heit, by alkalies, and by mineral and
organic acids, except carbonic acid.
The modical journals have been draw¬
ing a moral from tho fact which lus
been lately brought forward that the
native Egyptian is nil extremely good
subject for surgical operation.
Bey, tho founder of modorn medicine
in Egypt, says; “It requires as much
surgery to kill one Egyptian as sovon
Europeans. In tho uativo hos¬
pitals, the mau whose thigh has
been amputated at 2 o’clock is
sitting up and lively at 6 o’clock.”
South American fire-flies havo been
called living diamonds. In tho same
part of tho world is also found a pale
gray or particularly disagroenblo look¬
ing moth which may bo called a living
lantern. Kopt closed in a box for
twenty-four hours it will be found xvhen
tho box is opeued that tho body of tho
moth is giving forth sufficient light to
enable one to read plainly any ordinary
type. A number of glass frontod boxes
containing these moths—Fulgaria can-
ternaria naturalists call them—when
placed around tho room afford nearly a?
much light ns so many wax candles.
Advice Grails.
Don’t tako medicines unless a physi¬
cian prescribes them.
Don’t neglect a little cold. It may
bccomo a great fever of inflammation.
Don’t put on thin clothing became
the weather is a little mild.
Don’t got overheated and don't wor¬
ry -
Don’t let a draught, blow on you.
Don’t drink hot alcoholic drinks or
any other to ward off a cold.
Keep your feet warm and your head
cool.
Don’t tax your stomach with rich cr
improperly cooked food.
Don’t stand on the boxv of a ferry¬
boat or the platform of streot or olo-
vated cars unless your throat is pro¬
tected.
Don’t cut off your sleep at both ends
of the night.
A few “don’ts” now are better than a
dozen “dos" when the cold gets its grip
on you .—Neio York Sun.
A Big Siinkc Captured.
A sensational snake story is told by
«T. K. Matson, who lives in Truro
Town hip, Mxtson was quarrying
stone, and he placed a heavy charge of
blasting-powder above a large hole in
the face of tho rock. After lighting
the fuse ho retired a good safe distance
to await tho explosion. On his return
to the quarry, to his surprise, he iound
an immense serpent lying on the ground
apparently stunned by the explosion.
Ho piled cord wood enough on the
monster to pin it down securely, and
then hurried axvay for help. D. A.
Mackay ventured back with him, and
after somo trouble the snake xvas
driven into a stout box. Matson has
the snake on exhibition at his house.
It is sixteen feet long, as big around as
a man’s leg, is of a reddish cilor spot¬
ted with yellow, and emits a strong
odor. — Chicago Tribune.
NO. 8.
Tho Mist and the Night Wind.
The mist rose from the river,
It sifted through the trees,
And wound about the wooded hill*
A gray and ghostly frieze.
And the wind amid the pine trees hisiod
its lofty scorn of the valley mist.
The mist spread over the valley,
It swept on quiet wings
O’er sedge and marsh and meadow,
O’er rocks and fairy rings. kiss.ll
And the night wind told the trees it
Us hate for the low-born valley mist.
But xvhen the day was dawning,
The pallid mist grew gold,
Ami to the azure o’er tho hills
In clouds of glory rolled.
While amid the pines, am! in its pride,
The scornful night wind sank and died.
—Pittsburg Dispatch.
HUMOROUS.
The coming mau xvill fly xvlion thfl
coming broom Is after him.
The boy who is loft unmolested in
tho pantry is likely to s*rike a pudding.
When a xvoman wants tho eurtli, it is
xvith tho view of giving it to sonxo
man.
No ouo is alloxvo 1 to destroy pavc-
monts, yet it is not unusual to see a
man go tearing up the street.
Canvassor—Yes, it is early; but I’m a
morning-glory—open out early, V.c-
tim—I hope you’ll emulate that fliwer,
too, in shutting up before noon.
In Siam it is death to mention tho
king’s name. In Russia it » destruc¬
tion to tho jaw to pronounce some of
tho names of tho common people.
Scientist—Bring mo a decoction of
burned peas, swcotened xvith glucose
and lightened with chalk and water.
Waiter (vociferously)—Coffee for one.
The Good Friend—So, good-bye,
dear old fellow, and if ever you want
$50 como to me and wo’11 go iogethor
and find somo ono xvfio will lend it to
us.
How inconsistent somo men aro, to be
sure! There’s Bleigh, for example. He
is forever boasting that he never does
anything by halves, and yet everything
that is done at all in his house is done
by his better half.
“Don’t sleep with your mouth open,”
said Fred to his younger brother. “You
should breatho through your nose."
“But I don’t know xvhen my mouth’s
open. What do you do xvhen you wake
up and find your mouth open?’ “What
do 1 do? Why, I get up and shut it.”
The Man With the Coonskin Cap.
One night a year ago there xvero hall
a dozen of us to go up to the village
hole! iu tho rickety old buss, and
among the crowd was a solemn-looking
old chap, dressed in very plain goods
and wearing coon ski.r cap. it was
the typical village hotcl-lanllord in tho
barroom, a very fresh young man be¬
hind the register, mighty little for sup¬
per, and that poorly cooked, and thero
was more or less growling. The man
with the coonskin cap was troatod very
brusquely by the clerk, and the frowsy-
hended waiter girl didn't seem to care
whether he had anything to eat or not.
Ho didn’t say much, but it was evident
that ho was mad.
Ahor supper tho laud lord and “Coon-
skin” had a private confab. When it
was ended the old man came down
stairs, opened the front door, and then
turned to tho clerk aid said;
“You git!”
“What do you mean?”
“I havo rented this hotol. Skip!”
The clerk put on his coat and hat and
xvalked out. Then “Coonskin” sent
word to the cook and waiter girl to be
out in half an hour, for tiro hostler to
bo gono by midnight, and for the bar¬
keeper to vacate by noon the next day-
Ido kindly allowed 111 to stop over
night, hut wn had to get our breakfast
at a baker/. By noon tho doors of tho
hotel xvero nailed up, signs of “Closed”
posted, and as xvo footed it down to the
depot the solemn old man thawed out
sufficiently to observe:
“I'm after seven more of ’em along
this lino of railroad, and if I can shut
'em up tho public will be in my debt. I
havo figured it out to my entire satis¬
faction, and I truly believe that three-
fifths of the crime in this country is in¬
cited by poor hotel keeping.”— N. Y.
Sun.
Epidemics of Influenza.
There xvero altogether about 300 dis¬
tinct epidemic* of influenza in Europe
bolwoen 1510, xvhen tho disease xvax
first noted at Malta, and 1850. sc/crely. In 1729
tho whole of E.trope su(Tired
According to statistics published by the
Novae Vremya, tho disease caused 908
deaths in London in one week, and in
Vienna 60,000 per-on3 were affectod.
In 1737 and 1743 there were further
outbreaks, and the deaths in ono week
in London amounted to 100J. In 1775
domestic animals xvero first attacked by
it. In 1782 40,000 persons fell ill of it
in St. Petersburg in twenty-four hours.
In St. Petersburg quinine is now served
out daily to the troopx, mixed xvith
vodka.