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VdL. I.
Grass nuil Roses.
I looked where the roses were blowing;
They stood among grasses and reeds;
I said, “Where such beauties arc growing,
Why suffer these paltry weeds f”
Weeping the poor things faltered,'
“Wo have neither beauty nor bloom,
We are but grass in the roses’ garden—
llut our Master gives us this room.
“The slaves of a generous Master,
Horne from a world above,
We came to this place in Uis wisdom—
We stay to this hour from His love.
“We have feed His bumbles' creatures,
We have served Him truly and long;
lie gave no grace to our features—
We have neither color nor song—
“Yet He who has made the roses
I’laccd us on the seif same sod;
He knows our reason for being—
We arc grass in the garden of Rod.”
—Rev. James Freeman Clarke.
A CAPE H0KN INCIDENT.
llY 4V, CLARK tttlSSF.LL.
(in a December morning, in the year
1888, it mail steamer, homeward bound
front it New Zealand port, was ap¬
proaching the itleridiart of the Horn,
bitt oil a parallel rhore southerly than
it is tiow the custom df steamships to
take iii rdunding that stdrmy, ice-girt,
desolate and lffost inhospitable df all
headlands;
December in those distant legions is
iifidsmnmcr, and the tveather of that
liioruidg was as fair and still as A
brec&iess April day in this country;
but the swell of the vast track of ocean
rail ceaselessly, reminiscent Fespira¬
tion 3 df a gian'ess whose conflict with
the heavens is eternal, and whose
breaking-pan es are very few and far
between indeed; Over this long,
dark blue, westerly swell the long
iiietal fabric went sweeping in long,
filiating, launching curtsies, whitening
the Water astern of her with a mile of
milk-white Wake. The frosty sun,
whose beams in that sea have some¬
thing of the silvery brilliance of the
electric light, flashed a score of con¬
stellations out of the gilt and glass
and brass about the steamer’s bows and
quarters and decks. A number of
passengers were pacing the long hur¬
ricane platform. Far away on the
starboard beam, poised, star-like,
upon the keen blue rim of the ocean,
was an iceberg—a dash of crystalline
light against the airy sky that out
there, low down, wore the deucite hue
of the opal. Otherwise the ocean
swept naked to its confines, a plain of
rich, deep blue, with the heave of
the swell shouldering the morning
glory under the sun as it ran, and
making that part of the deep niagnif-
icent with flowing liglP.
The chief officer was on the bridge;
the flrst breakfast-bell had rung, and
the captain, smart as a naval ofii er,
in buttons and lace trimmings, quilted
tiie chart-room and joined the mate to
take a look around before going be¬
low. The skipper was a man of eagle
sight, and instantly on directing his
eyes over the ship’s bows lie ex¬
claimed:
“What is that black object yonder?”
The chief mate peered, and the cap¬
tain leveled a telescope.
“A ship’s boat,” said he, “and seem¬
ingly full of people.”
The boat, when sighted, was some
three or four miles distant, and the
speed of the steamer was about thir¬
teen knots, in a few minutes the
alarm in the engine-room rang its re¬
verberatory warning, sending a little
thrill of wonder throughout the ship,
so rarely D that telegraph handled on
the high seas.
“I count eight men, sir,” cried the
chief mate, with a binocular glass at
Ins eye.
Again the engine-room alarm rang
out; the pulsing that for days had
been ceaselessly throbbing through the
long fabric, languished, and in a few
minutes, to another summons of tho
metal tongue below, ceased, and the
great steamer floated along to her own
impetus, slowly, and yet m re slowly,
till the boat was within the toss of a
biscuit off' the bow, with the passen¬
gers crowding to the side to look, and
sailors and waiters and steerage folk
blackening the rail forward.
The occupants of the boat consisted
af eiglu wild, hairy, veritable scare¬
crows of man, dressed in divers
fashions—Scotch caps, yellow sou’-
westers, se\-boots, toil-worn monkey-
jackets, and the like.
“Boat ahoy!” bailed the captain, as
she slowly washed alongside. “What
is wrong with you?”
A fellow, standing up in the stern
sheets, cried back.
“For God’s sake, sir, take us
aboard! Our water’s almost given
out, apd there’s nothing left to eat."
“Look out for the end of a line,”
bawled the captain. “Are yon strong
enough to get aboard without help
“Ay, sir, we’ll manage it.”
A rope was thrown, and one after
another the fellows came swinging and
scraping and scrambling up the clean
THE ENTERPRISE f
side of the steamer. The passengers
crowded rpund and gazed at them with
curiosity and pity. Their sympathetic
eyes seemed to find famine painfully
expressed in the leathern countenances
that slated back through mats of hair.
“We must let your boat go,” said
the captain.
“Can’t help it, sir, thankful enough
to be here, I reckon,” answered the
fellow who had called from the stern-
sheets, and who acted as spokesman.
“Anything belongingto you to come
out after?”
“Nothing. Let her go, sir. If
sailors’ sea-blessings can freight a
craft she ain’t going (p float long.”
The boat was sent adrift, the engine
bell rang out, once more (ho great
mail steamer was thrashing over the
long - , tall heave of the Cape Horn
swell.
“How camo>ou into Ibis mess?”
inquired the captain.
The man who had before spoken
gave answer!
“We’re all that’s ieft of the crew of
the Boston bark “George Washing¬
ton.” She Was a Whaler, a hundred
and forty days out. It wore four days
agOi 1 was the flrst to smell fire some
while artel - two o’clock in the middle
watch;’’
“It wanted ten minutes to six bells,”
exclaimed a ltlan, and a general, em¬
phatic, hairy nod followed the inter¬
ruption.
“I was the first to smell tire,” con¬
tinued the other, “call it What hotlr ye
like; I gave the tllarm, and all hands
tnrned to with hoses and buckets; But
there was a deal of oil in the hold; and
the ship’s planks was thick With grease
besides, and that gave us no chailce.
By ten o’clock in -the morning the
flames had bursted through amt was
shooting Up mast-high, and thou we
calculated it was time to look to the
boats.”
The others stood listening with hard,
stolid, leathery faces, generally gazing
with steadfast eyes at the speaker, but
sometimes glancing askance at the cap¬
tain and the crowd of others which
stood round.
“There was an ugly sea running,”
the man went on, “and the wheel
being desarted, the ship had fallen off
and ran in the trough, and the lower¬
ing of the stern boats, whalemen
though they was who had the handling
of ’em, cost our company of twenty-
eight souls the loss of all hands saving
them as stand afore ye.”
“A bad job! a measly, cruel, bad
job!” here broke in a long-jawed man
whose brow and eyes were almost con¬
cealed by a quantity of coarse red
hair.
“Well, . eight men got away in
the boat,” proceeded the spokesman,
“bringing along with us nothin’ but a
small hag of bread and about six gal¬
lons of fresh water. We’re been a-
washing about since Tuesday, and
now, the Lord be praised, here we
be with a chance of getting
something to eat, and What’s more
pleasurable still to our feelings, the
opportunity of comfortably taming
in.”
A murmer of pity rang among the
passengers, several of whom were
ladies, and there was more than one
somewhat loud whisper to the effect
that the captain ought really to send
the poor creatures forward at once to
get some breakfast, instead of holding
them, starving and dry with thirst, in
talk. The eagle-eyed skipper, how-
ever, asked several questions before
dismissing them.
“Since by their own confession the
tire gave them plenty of time to escape
from the bark, how was it they left
her so ill-provisioned as they repre¬
sented?”
This was most satisfactorily account¬
ed for. Other inquiries of a like na-
ture were responded to with alacrity
and intelligence.
Every sentence that one or an-
other of them let fall was corrobor¬
ated by the rest. Their talc of suffer¬
ing, indeed, in the open boat was al¬
most harrowing; and the captain with
the first note of sympathy tint his
voice had taken, ordered them to go
forward, adding, that after a good hot
meal hail been served them they might
turn in and sleep for the rest of the
day wherever they could make a bed.
At the breakfast in the saloon no¬
thing was talked about but the whaler
that had been consumed by lire, the
dreadful drowning of some two-thirds
of her crew, and the miraculous de¬
liverance of the survivors from the in¬
expressible perils and horrors of an
open boat in the solitudeof thestormi-
est part of the ocean the wide world
over. A benevolent gentleman pro¬
posed a subscription. Before the lunch-
eon-bell was rung a sum of thirty
pounds bad been collected. The incident
was a break in the monotony; and when
the eight men re-appeared on deck dur¬
ing the afternoon they weve promptly
approached by the passengers, who
CARNESVILLE, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 20 . 1 S 90 .
obliged them to’ recite again and yet
again their melancholy story Of mar-'
time disaster.
On the morning of the third day;
following the date of this rescue, a
ship was sighted almost directly in a
line with the vessel’s course. As she
was neared she was soen to be rigged
with stump, or Cape Horn top-gatiant
masts; she was also under very easy
canvas which gave her a short-handed
look in that quiet sea. Great wooden
davits overhung tier sides, from which
dangled a number of boats. She pre¬
sented a very grimy, worn aspect, and
had manifestly kept the sea for some
months. It was observed by the chief
officer, standing on the bridge of the
steamer, that the eight rescued men,
who were look'ng at the sail ahead
along with some of the crew and
steerage passengers, exhibited several
symptoms of uneasiness and
even of agitation. Suddenly the
stripes and stars, with the stars invert¬
ed, were run aloft to the peak-end—a
signal of distress! The engines were
“slowed,” and the steamer’s head put
so as to pass the vessel within easy
hailing distauce. A man aboard the
bark stood in the mizzen rigging.
“Steamer ahoy!” he roared through
his nose.
“Hallo 1”
“I have lost a boat and eight of my
men. Have you seen anything of
her?”
The captain, who had gained the
bridge, lifted his hand,
“Bark ahoy!”he cried; “what bark
is that?”
“The ‘George Washington,’ whaler,
of Boston, a hmulred-and-eighty-four
days out.”
The captain of the steamer con¬
trolled a sour grin.
‘ I low came you to lose your boat
and the men?”
“They stole her one middle watch
and sneaked away from the ship.”
The captain of the steamer uttered
a laugh.
“We have your men safe here,” he
shouted. “Glad to learn that you are
not burnt down to the water’s edge,
and that tin rest of your crew look
brisk considering that they are
drowned men. Send a boat and you
shall have your sailors.”
Twenty minutes later the eight
whalemen were being conveyed
to their bark in one of their
own boats, most of them
grinning as they looked Up at the line
of heads which decorated the steam¬
er’s sides; and, indeed, there was
some excuse for the smiles, for among
them they were carrying away the
thirty pounds which had been sub¬
scribed for them. It Would be inter¬
esting to know what their skipper said
when he learned that they had lost a
line boat for him; but ocean mail liners
have to keep time, and the steamer
conld not wait to send a representative
on board the whaler to report the
many elegancies of sea-dialect which
we may reasonably assume embellished
her skipper's rhetoric.—New York
Independent.
Coffee as a Disinfectant.
An old colored man living in a dis¬
trict where the disease often prevailed
once told the writer that one of the
best preventive measures against yel¬
low’ fever was infusion of coffee.
Some years ago lie passed through an
epidemic of that g rave malady under
the worst possible conditions. For at
least a month he occupied the quarters
of a large number of sufferers, pass¬
ing night and day among them, eating
and sleeping in their midst.
Recalling the homely advice given
him he faithfully tried coffeo as an an¬
tiseptic and drank freely of a very
strong infusion five or six limes a day,
and continued the practice all the time
he was under exposure, lie was for¬
tunate enough to escape contagion,
but never attached much importance
to the use of tiie coffee. Considering
the results of recent developments, it
would seem that the old negro was
right in attributing antiseptic proper¬
ties to it.
A series of experiments conducted
by a German professor has proved that
they are quite marked. Several differ¬
ent forms of intestinal bacteria were
experimented upon, and their develop¬
ment and growth were found in all
cases to he interfered with by the ad¬
dition of a small quantity of coffee in¬
fusion to nutrient gelatine. In pure
infusion the bacteria were rapidly de¬
stroyed.
The question as to what constituents
exercise tho antiseptic effect cannot yet
be fully determined. The caffeine is
certainly active in only a slight degree;
tiie tannin to a somewhat greater ex¬
tent; hut, presumably, of greatest im¬
portance are the substances that are
developed by roasting. It is interest¬
ing to note that a cup of coffee, left in
a room tor a week or more, remain*
almost free from micro-organisms.
A DARING FEAT.
A lad's Adventure while
ROBBINU AN EARLE’S NEST.
Battling With Infuriated Birds off a
Lofty Orag.
Leo Hemingway, an orphan hoy of
sixteen years of age of New Braun¬
fels, Tex., hud an adventure a few
days ago with two American eagles, in
which he barely e caped with his life.
Professor Mclnery, the well-known
naturalist, who has been located in
that neighborhood for the last few
weeks in the interest of his ornitholog¬
ical collection, offered Lee $60 for a
nest with living eaglets or eggs in it.
Although rather early for these birds
to hatch their young, Lee was soon
able, by watching the movements of a
pair, to find where a nest had been
made. But as it was on the summit
of the Big Injun,an almost nnsunnount-
ablc bowlder rising nearly 125 feet
in the valley of the Guadaloupe, there
was no way of securing it except by
scaling the sides of the rock, which,
however, has iu the course of time be¬
come coated by several feet of earth,
and arc covered with a of
vines, &c.
It was a daring feat, but
Hemingway is a plucky lad of a „.al-
wart build, and who, dependent on
his own exertions for a livelihood,
found the money offered a big consid¬
eration, and agreed to attempt the
feat on condition that the Professor
would keep watch with a gun for the
return of the parent birds, With a
basket furnished with a lid slung to
his back in which to secure tho eggs or
young eagles, lie managed, by climb¬
ing, scrambling anil pulling himself
tip hand over hand, to reach the top of
the Big Injun, where he found the
nest, as lie had expected, with young
birds a day or two old, Wearied out
with his exertions, ho rested for some
little time, then placing the nest with
its contents in his basket and strap¬
ping it to him, he began to descend.
He had scarcely accomplished fifty
feet of this when he heard the report of
tho Professor’s gun, and saw the two
eagles returning. Unhurt, they paid
no attention to the shot, hut after
alighting and finding the nest gone,
made at the boy with outs retched
wings and hoarse cries of fury.
Ducking his head to keep their power-
ful beaks and claws out of his eyes,
Lee attempted to beat them off with
one arm While he Clung to the Vines
with the other, but they s ruck at him
repeatedly on the head with their
beaks, each time bringing the Wood,
which flowed into the boy's erfis anti
nearly blinded him, while they buffet-
led him Unmercifully with their great
wings.
Professor Mclnery waited until one
of the birds was far enough from Lee
for him to take aim without danger of
hitting him, t! en tired, and succeeded
in killing the eagle. She—for, as was
afterward ascertained, lie linci shot the
female—fell into a small tree, or what
was scarcely more than a large sapling,
which had sprouted from a good-sized
crevice in the rock, about eight feet
above where Lee hung, and seeing her
suspended just above him gave the hoy
an idea to which lie owes his life.
With t e strength of despair he d ew
himself up to the tree by the sense of
touch alone, for Ids eyes were full of
blood; Once thet'O liti braced himself
with his feet, and, wiping his face,
bound his handkerchief about his brow
in order that it might absorb the blood.
He then caught the dead bird by the
feet, and, with this weapon, lie turned
on the living eagle, which had never
ceased to beat and strike bin’. At the
n xt sweep Lee struck it as hard as he
c nild dare, not to endanger his posi¬
tion, and continued to meet its attacks
in the same Way until, rendered furi¬
ous and incautious by its enemy’s re¬
sistance, it flew directly in his face-,
with claws distended and beak striking
right and left. The boy caught it
with both hands about its throat, and
with all his strength held it, in spite of
tho furious beatings of its wings'
until, choked to death by his grip, the
groat bird hung lifeless, when he
dropped it at the Professor’s feet.
This gentleman had watched the
desperate struggle, unable to help the
hoy, except by random shots, hoping
Ihus to frighten the bird away, which,
however, as has been said, he failed to
do. Young Hemingway hung in the
slender branches of the little tree for
nearly an hour, battling exhausted na¬
ture now with the same courage he had
displayed toward the eagles.
Speaking of h's adventure, lie says:
“I fcJt as if 1 was going to faint, and
1 knew if I did I would be killed hy
(he fall, and I hadn't fought those
plagued birds so hard to give up to
any kept supji women doings ns that, so f
just fightipg against that awful
sinking, and pretty soon I got over it'
so when I rested I climbed down.”
But just ns ho reached the foot of
the rock the strength born of despera*
lion gave way, and the brave boy fc*l
sc eyeless into the Professor's arms.
He was fearfully torn in the head and
face, but the former wounds are for-
tnnalely otily skin deep, and, with the
exception of one tong, deep gash in
the cheek, just below the eye, which is
healing slowly, his face is nearly well.
He is obliged, however, to keep his
bed yet, so bruised and sore is lie from
the buffeting lie received. Remarkable
as it may seem, the young birds in
Lee’s basket wero living and uninjured
by the fearful journey they linci made.
The Professor, in consideration of the
danger lie underwent, and for the two
birds not bargained for, lias presented
Lee with $100, and the boy is the hero
of the hour.—[Globe Democrat.
A Horse’s Sense of Smell.
The horse will leavo musty hay un¬
touched in his bin, however hungry,
lie will not drink of water objection¬
able to his questioning sniff, or from a
bucket which some odor makes of¬
fensive, however thirsty. His intelli¬
gent nostril will widen, quiver and
query over the daintiest hit offered by
tho fairest of hands, with coaxings
that would make a mortal shut his
eyes and swallow a nauseous mouth-
ful at a gulp.
A mare is never satisfied by either
sight or whinny that a colt is really
her own, until she has a certified nasal
certificate to the fact. A blind horse,
now living, will not allow the ap¬
proach of any stranger without show¬
ing signs of anger not safely to he dis¬
regarded. ’1 he distinction is evident¬
ly made hy his sense of smell, and at
a considerable distance. Blind horses,
as a rule, will gallop wildly about a
pasture without striking the surround¬
ing fence. The sense of smell informs
them of its proximity. Others will,
when loosened from the stable, go di¬
rectly to the gate or bars opened to
their accustomed feeding grounds, and
when desiring to return, after hours
of careless wandering, will distinguish
one outlet and patiently await its open¬
ing. Tho odor of that particular part
of the fence is their pilot to it.
The horse in browsing, or while
ffathenmr herbage With its bps, is
guided m it, choice of proper food en-
Urely by ,u nostrils. hnd horses do
| ,lot make ,nl8,akcs in tl,0 ' V diet ' In
the temple of Olympus a bronze horse
was exhibited, at the sight of which
si * ho,ses experienced t he most
viole,it emotions, Aelwiu Judicious y
observes that the most perfect art could
not imitate nature sufficiently wel to
l ,rodUco stroll » *“ illu810 "‘ L,kc
P1 '"W I’ausanius, he consequently
affirms timt “ill easting the statue a
magician bad thrown Hipponianes tip-
on it;’’ which by tile odor of the plant
deceived the horses, and therein we
have the secret of the miracle. The
scent alone of a buffalo robe will cause
many horses to evince lively terror,
and the floating scent of a railroad
train will frighten some long after the
locomotive is out of sight and lie Ting.
— [Horse and Stable.
([ii'iiinc Intoxication.
Dr. Lewis A. Sayre of New Ork
sftvg t(lat there liro nmliy cases on
record where a use of quinine has
caused a disarrangement of (lie mental
povicr*, and to such all extent that the
Bll ti,,rer did not know what he or she
i about. Instances not few where
was are
patients who were given large doses
of the drug became delirious. These
symptoms, however, passed away
when the use of quinine was discon¬
tinued. It is possible while under its
influence for one to act as irresponsi¬
bly as when in liquor. That quinine
affects the brain is evident, from the
fact that an overdose Will cause severe
bu.rzing in the ears and often tempo¬
rary deafness.
Physicians caniiol be too careful in
prescribing quinine, for what is one
man’s meat is another man's poison.
I have known one grain to have more
effect on some patients than fifteen
grains on ethers. The same can be
said of morphine. Two grains of this
drug will cause many intense itching
sensations, with parched tongue and
throat. On the other hand, 1 have
known patients, even those used to
morphine, to take much larger doses
without showing any evil effects.
There is a little doubt but there are
quinine habitues as well as slaves to
chloral, morphine and other narcotics
and drugs, yet its use as a stimulant
has not become general.
Logical Reasoning.
Teacher—Who was the richest man
of ancient times?
Freddy Fangle—Methuselah,Ma’am.
What?
Yes; he bad more time than anyone
else, and time is money, you know
—[Epoch.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAKS.
The rate of increase of population in
the United States is a little more than
three per cent.
Philosophers of our own time assert
n connection between the spots on the
face of the sun and terrestrial weather.
Boston scientists have discovered
why trees do not tloarish near electric
lights. They need the repose of dark¬
ness.
The heliograph is used to flash sig¬
nals between stations in New Mexico
and Arizona that are seventy-five miles
apart.
A man with u penchant for statis¬
tics has computed that more than
4,000,000 miles of blood pass through
the veins of an ordinary human being
during tho lifetime of 70 years.
A Russian inventor seems to ques¬
tion tho vaunted perfection of the
human body, and lias patented an ar¬
rangement of springs and harness to
bo worn to facilitate walking, running
and jumping.
A prominent English electrician af¬
firms the value of lightning conductors
although they are not always reliable.
Ho said that, there is almost as much
danger of being hanged for murder as
being struck by lightning.
In Northern Africa lias lately been
discovered a river that has worn a bed
through the rock .‘>00 foot deep, and
then makes a perpendicular leap 660
feet, while all around are deep, yaw¬
ning chasms and gigantic peaks.
It lias been proved that fish that live
n"ar the surface of water can only de¬
scend to a comparatively slight depth:
under :m increased pressure they die,
and—this is very remarkable—tho
water being forced into their tissues,
their bodies become rigid and brittle
a i glass.
Lake Chelan, in Eastern Washing¬
ton, never freezes, although in latitude
48 degrees north. The reason given
is that it is so deep and the warm wa¬
ter always rises from the bottom to
supplant the cold, which goes down to
warm itself. The Indians fish in tho
lake at all seasons and use salmon eggs
for bait.
A professor in the University of
Klausenburg claims to have com¬
pounded a solution which completely
neutralizes the poison introduced into
the system by the bite of a mad dog.
This solution consists of chlorine
water, salt brine, sulphurous acid,
permanganate of potassium, and eu¬
calyptus oil.
Mr. Stejnegor of the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington in 3882
found on the northwestern extremity
of Behring Island the bones of Pallas's
cormorant, the extinction of which in
the North Pacific corresponds to that
of the great auk in tho North Atlan¬
tic. The eggs are unknown ami only
four specimens of tho skin are to be
found in museums.
Massacre (if Chinese In Formosa.
The lust mail from China brings
news of the massacre of a force of
Chinese troops in Fouthern Formosa
hy the aborigines now in revolt there.
'J lie natives, or savage* as they are
called, aided, it is said, by a number
of half castes, planned an ambuscade.
Putting on their sandals reversed, they
made a number of tracks connected
with a particular spot. Messengers
were then dispatched to the nearest
Chinese post with news of anoutbi'eak
anil nil appeal for assistance. The
troops wefit out, the commanding offi¬
cers, it, is said, being considerably in
the rear. Pretended sufferer a hy tho
raid appeared from time to timo. On
reaching Hie tracks tho soldiers fol¬
lowed them tip and fell into the trap,
when all but a very few were killed.
Cut of 200 which left, the po>t only
ten escaped. ,t is reported that, for
the first time in the history of For¬
mosa, all the aboriginal tribes are
banded together and act on an organ-
izod system.
Thus tiie eighteen tribes of Bhotans
in the South, numbering about 5000
warriors, were concerned in this am¬
bush. Shortly after the disaster the
Chinese issued proclamations offering
$10 reward for the return of each of
the guns lo.t on the occasion, and sub¬
sequently tiie Chinese general began
negotiations, in which he was greatly
hampered by tiie bad faith shown on
many previous occasions to the na¬
tives. At last, ami with many pre¬
cautions on the part of the latter, a
meeting was arranged,and a peace was
patched up for the time by means of
large presents and larger promises to
!he chiefs. The past is to be forgot¬
ten, and the savages are to live on
forms of friendship with their Chiuess
neighbors. From subsequent infor¬
mation, however, it appears that the
disturbances in tho south of the island
have broken out with more violence
than beforo. —
NO. 24 .
No Show.
Joe Hen I ’ud set upon a keg,
Down to the groo’ry store, an’ throw
One leg right over ’tother leg,
An’ BWcar lie’ll never had no show;
“Oh, no,” snid Joe,
“Haln’t hud no show”—
Then shift his quid to 'tother jaw.
An’ chaw, an’ chaw, an’ chaw, nil' chaw.
He said lie got no start in life,
Didn’t git no money from his dad,
The washln’ took In hy lit- wife
IVtrued all the funds lie ever had'
“Oh, no,” sntd Joe,
‘llain’t lied no show”—
Air Lien he’d look up at the dock,
An’ talk, an’ talk, an' talk, an' talk.
“I’ve waited twenty year—le’s see—
Yes, twenty-four, an' never struck,
Altho’ I've sot rouu’ patiently,
The fust tarnnsliion streak er luck,
<>h, no,” said Joe,
“Haln’t lied no show"—
Then stuck like mucilage to the spot,
An’ sot, an' sot, an' sot, an’ sot.
“I’ve come down regrrter ever’ day
For twenty years to Piper's store;
I’ve sot here in a patient, way,
Hay, haln’t I, Viper V” Viper swore,
“I tell ye, Joe.
Yerhaln’t no show;
Yer too blame patient,” thor hull raft
Jest laffod.nn’ Iatl'ed.an’ luffed,an’ lotted.
—,S. W. Foss, in Yankee lllade.
11 UMOROUS.
Fatal fall—unhealthy autumn.
Every man has a lot in life and a
gait to it.
Extraordinary phenomenon in na-
ture—a feat of arms.
“Gas is going up,” as the aeronaut
said when lie cut the balloon rope.
There arc some men (o whom a loss
of their reputation means mighty good
luck.
A city police sergeant is to be tried
for being drunk. He should have ar¬
rested his appetite.
Sqnimps—- How’s tho new baby?
Jenkins—How is lie?—He’s a howling
success, and don’t you forget it!
Evangeline—How pale the moon is,
Lonis. “Yes, love; it bus been up
until quite late for several nights.”
There is something annoying about
a glass eye. The man wearing it- may
know it’s a fraud and still be can’t see
through the fraud.
Squiggs: “I never see yon and
Miss Mary Ann out together anymore.
Have you quarreled?” Biggs:“No,
not exactly. We’re married.”
“Why, Mr. French, you talk to me
half the time as if l were only eight
years old.” “Well, Miss Newall, you
must remember you never told me just
how old you are, so I hope you’ll par¬
don me.”
Mrs. Artless—Good morning, Mr.
Palette. I’ve but a moment to spare;
can you tell mo briefly the secret of
your art? Artist Palette—Certainly,
Madam. You have only to select (ho
right colors and put them on the right
spot. Mrs. Artless—Oh, I see. Thank
you very much.
How Cablegrams Are Transmitted.
With the first long submarine cables
great difficulties wire encountered in
sending through them a current of
electricity of sufficient power to record
the messages rapidly. The methods
for overcoming these difficulties and
in use at present are described us foi-
lows:
Keys, which, when depressed, trans¬
mit positive and nega’ivo currents, are
employed at the sending station in
connection with the regulation battery.
The ament of the battery does not
pass directly into the cable, but into a
condenser, which passes it into the
submarine line. This greatly incrcas-
es the force of the current used and
serves to cut oft' interfering ground
currents. Tho instrument first em¬
ployed in receiving cablegrams was a
reflecting galvanometer. Upon the
magnet of this instrument is carried a
small curved mirror. A lamp*.is
placed before the minor anil behind a
screen in which there is a vertical slit.
Flasir* of light moving across this
slit as tho needles moved from left to
right, indicated to tho trained eves of
the operator the letters in the message
being transmitted. But this method of
recording messages was found to tax
the eyesight of the operator severely, a
few years' work often rendering (hern
almost if not totally blind. Recogniz¬
ing the fact that there must be some¬
thing wrong with such a system, in-
ventors.sct about repairing the defect,
which resulted in perfecting the syphon
galvanometer, which has all but super¬
seded all other receiving devices.
In the syphon receiver the move¬
ments of the needle are recorded by
means of ink spurted from a line tube.
This tube is attached to a coil suspend¬
ed between two fixed magnets, which
swings to the right or left as the pulsa¬
tions pass through it. TheTyphon
galvanometer is a great improvement;
is not hard on the eyes and enables the
operator to receive much more rapidly
than with the old flash receiver.—[St.
Lqtjis Republic.