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Love’s Co nlng.
Cove catne to main life »o late
That Time bat! closed the outer gate--
80 late it seemed the door was barred,
Bolts shot, and alt the house rough scarred
flint owned my habiiation gave no sign
( f welcome to the God benign,
For Love with all his power divine
Had eomeso late.
It sccmc -1 that none would ever come
I i answer to his knock, though some
Sweet thought stirred restless in my breast
I’m asy wukeJ from its long rest,
so strange were such lair visitors that when
Love came and cubed, and rated again,
It was at fi stiu vain, for then
It seemed so lute.
No chamber hail my soul prepare!
A i»inst lii-i coming, none had dared
Foretell h s advent; it did seem
More of a sweet, unstable dream—
before his summons, sweet and clear, rang
out
Waking the drowsylidded rout
Of fancies, passion-sweet, hts shout
Seemed all too late.
Xo rich trust had he n spread for him;
AH tlie guest-chamber lights burned dim,
For few had come that way to claim
A resting place—e’en tickle fmic
Had fled long, long before Love came—
And yet the close gate opened wide
At his approach; bolts shot aside;
All the bright soul lights flamed, and loud
Kang out the welcome of the crowd.
My soul's best minstrelsy did welcome him,
Bright grew my dimmest, darkest dream,
For after all it did not seem
Love cams too late.
— [Richard K. Lyon in Indianapolis Journal.
THE STORY OF A DUEL,
“Comrades! have ye heard the
news? A man hath come forward to
answer the challenge of Jaeopo the
Swordsman!”
This announcement, made in one of
1 lie principal streets of Florence on a
flue summer morning in tho latter part
of the sixteenth century, was quite
sufficient to gather an excited crowd
round the speaker the instant he uttered
it; for Jacopo Belloni (popularly
known as “Jacopo the Swordsman,”
from his deadly skill in fencing) was
widilv renowned as tho most formid¬
able prize-figli'.er in all Italy, although
(according to the custom of those
times) he fought, not with his lists,
but with his sword.
The redoubtable Jacopo had already
killed three or four fencers of renown
who had ventured to encounter him,
and then, finding that people seemed
to be getting rather shy of testing his
prowess, lie had lately issued a formal
challenge to all comers, and had offered
to stake a pretty large sum of money
upon the result.
This challenge, however, had al¬
ready been thrice repeated without
any one appearing partial atly anxious
to accept it; and therefore it was no
great wonder that the announcement
quoted above should have been re¬
ceived with looks and exclamations of
doubt, and even of flat disbelief.
“It is impossible, Maso! (Tom).
No man living would be so mad!”
“It must be a jest—and a sorry one,
too.”
“Or else Maso is lying. Confess
that thou art lying, according to thy
custom, brother Maso, and we will
forgive thee!”
“Laugh if ye will, my friends,”
said Maso, slightly affronted, “but I
lie not. It stands writ out iu the Mar¬
ket Place, full fair to see, that there is
a man ready to meet Jacopo on the
seventh morning from today.”
“Then there is one more fool in Die
town than I thought,” grunted a stout
armorer,” “and there will soon be one
less.”
“Who is the man?” lie must be a
stranger here, or he would know bc‘-
ter.”
“I can not tell,” said Maso; “for,
although his challenge is fairly writ,
there is no name signed to it.”
“Then it must needs he a jest,”
growled a sturdy butcher, beside him.
“No jest, i’faith,” cried Maso; “for
ho hath staked one thousand five hun¬
dred pistoles on the event.”
Incred ble as Maso s news ap¬
peared, however, it was speedily and
surely confirmed, and tiie tidings of
the expected combat flow abroad like
wildfire, kindling a universal excite-
ment. When the clay appointed for
tiie fight came, not only all Florence,
but all tho country round sjoined to
have gathered to watch the sport, and
in the ranks of the spectators were to
ba seen young nobles from all the
greatest families in Northern Italy.
The stage upon which the two
champions were to meet was a large
platform of smooth planking (thickly
strewn with sawdust to keep their feet
from slipping), which, being full
thirty feet in letigDt by at least twenty
in breadth, gave ample space for all
their movements, At either eud of
the slttge was a smaller platform, on
which stood a tent of white canvas;
aud upon these tents all eyes were
fixetkin eager expectation, for they bid
from sight tho heroes.
Presently ono of the tents was seen
to open, and forth stepped the famous
tTilcopo Belloni lUwDClf, bowing com
TH K ENTERPRISE *
descendingly in acknowledgment of
the thundering cheers that greeted his
appearance.
Tho renowned swordsman’s toll, ac¬
tive, sinewy figure was a perfect model
of well-trained agility and strength;
but bis dark, lean, wolfish face, with
its hooked nose, sloping forehead,
bristly, black moustache, sharp, white
teeth, and fierce, restless, gray eye
(which was turned hungrily upon the
opposite tent) were unpleasantly sug¬
gest,vo of some ferocious beast of
prey.
And now the other tent opened in
its turn, and a long cry of astonish-
ment broke from every lip. Tho man
who was about to encounter the dread-
ed Bellom was seen to be a slim, hand-
some youth, barely twenty years old,
so slender in frame, and so smooth
and delicate in face, that, but for bis
lofty stature and tho silky moustache
on his upper lip, he might have been
mistaken for a girl.
Tho bravo shrugged Ids broad
shoulders with a disdainful laugh, and
muttered some coarse jest about
“whipping the child back to its
mother;” but the young man took no
heed of him.
Then up rose a line-looking old man
in a richly-embroidered suit of cnin-
son velvet, the Marquess 1 cu Scala,
. ... Place,
who, , as warden of tho Market
had . , charge of t , day , . proceedings. ..
° e s 1
lie announced that this . voting man
staked , , thousand five . hundred _ . .
one , pis-
toics (nearly , , thousand , . three . ,
J one nun-
v ;
, , against . thousand . .
a red 1 pounds') ' ° one
wagered . , by Jacopo, ad , mg . that, , as
° * 1 * ?
there , personal enniitv , between
was no ."
the , two combatants, , the .. first wound ,
_ _ either . . might . , fairly _ . . end .
receive I by ^
tie tight.
But here the young stranger inter-
posed. “Let me entreat your wor-
ship.” said he, with stern emphasis,
defeat , „ „ he sole , winch , . .
“not to purpose
could have made me stoop to et.coun-
ter you cut-throat. It is full time
thathis murderous hand were stayed
fr~m shedding = more blood; and, with
the , help 1 of „ Heaven, ’ mine shall be the
stay , . _ Ere I , leave this , . spot, ,
ann to it.
, lie or I shall lie dead.”
In the dead hush of universal
amazement, those clear, stern, menac¬
ing tones rang out like the summons
of a destroying angel. The specters
stood agast, and looked at each other
in silence; and even the savage Bel¬
loni seemed cowed, for the scornful
smile faded front his lips, and a faint
uneasiness made itself visible for the
first time t.irough the swaggering im¬
pudence of his look. These signs of
wavering did not pass unnoticed by
the watching crowd, some of whom
taunted him with his changed look;
on which, stung to Die quick, the bul¬
ly fiercely shook off his momentary
hesitation, and advanced upon hts foe
with uplifted sword. The latter met
hint with equal readiness, and a deep
and solemn hush settled down upon
that great multitude as Die shining
blades were seen to cross.
Belloni pressed furiously forward,
his sword flickering like lightning as
lie dealt thrust after thrust, with a
quickness which no eye ccukl follow.
He appeared to be bent upon bearing
down Ins young opponent by sheer
strength; but to his own surprise, and
that of every one else, ho seemed to
have met bis match at last. Lunge
after lunge did lie make, with seem-
ingly irresistible force, and again and
again did the bystanders draw in their
breath as they watched to see the
stranger fall; but the thirsty point
was always turned aside jn-t as it
seemed about to pierce him. Nor did
he once break ground, but kept cir¬
cling round and round his foe, watch¬
ing for a chance of attacking in turn.
That chance came at last. Jaeopo,
spent with his own violent exertions,
could no longer maintain this exhaust¬
ing attack, llis breath began to fail
and liis hand to tremble. Then Dio
stranger sprang forward, and attacked
Bel'oni in his turn, with the light of
a sudden and terrible gladness upon
his beautiful face, which made Die
hardiest spectators shudder as they
saw if.
Twice Belloni dashed aside the point
just as it reached him, but the second
(itno an ominous stain of crimson on
bis white vest showed that the parry
had conte all but too late. They clos'd
a third time—there was a quick tramp-
ling of feet, a clash of a steel, a hoarse
choking curse—and the destroyer of
so many lives lay dead at the
feet, pierced through the heart.
The momentary pause of silent
stupefaction was followed by
loug-continnod thunders o( appl.nso,
wliUe j,- the Mai-qne.i dl Scala, teeming-
much pleased, held to the coa-
f «—•*“*
stakes; but the latter, to every ones
“Monev that is sta lled with '7f: blood
shall never bo touched by my hands,”
jig said, ill a tpno of such commanding
CARNESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER U. 181)0.
dignity ns to impress evon the proud
old noble to whom ho spoke. “Give
it to tho widows and the orphan chil¬
dren of the mon whom litis wretch
hath .slain.”
“And who art thou, fair sir, I pray
thee?” asked the marquess, looking at
him wondering!)*.
“I tun from Scotland,” answered
the victorious youth, “and my name
is—.Tames Crichton!”
“The Admirable Crichton l” shouted
the throng, .with one voice, hailing the
renowned Scot by the title which lie
had already made famous throughout
a’.i Europe,
“Av, the Admirable Crichton, in
good sooth,” cried the Marquess di
Simla, “and never moro truly ndmir-
able than when be thus risks ids life
to punish the guilty, and gives up his
well-won gains to relieve the dis¬
tressed.”
„ „ „
Water, steam, sand, air and sun
bal , w wo im , aU famiiiar wllh . lmt
hay , )a , hs (lro a gpecialty Jn tho Tvrol
t , 10UJ , h thov liave „ 0 t vet been adopted
clgewhore# Among baths tliev are so
^ tlwy ^ wor% of moll .
Hon. The peasants are very fond of
(aki )m . bntbg| al)(] tbo , 0 wllIch are
tlie . most . desirable , , , arc of .. the licwlv- ,
short mountam-hav, . which
mown
’
must . , be still ... “baking.” ... „ So popular . .
are they and so simple, that , upon
* ;
many of the . Alpine ... heights , . , there . are
small . huts . belonging . . to 4 the .. mountain- . .
which , . , they , . have . built especially ...
eers,
the The bather . having
tor purpose.
completely , , divested ... .... himself ,, of * Ins , .
clothing, lies down in . a nest . of c the .
hav, and . an attendant 14 , . covers him with ...
*
hay to the neck. , Someone ,, must . be , on
the watch during the hay bath, which
illvalku taUe to vcstorc failure
Qf tho bod „ v £unctionlf uotab ly that
of . the , heart. .
^ t Uag , 0UBly
irod ho js . d r and dried
bv (Ue . <batUill r » attendant: he ldm-
g ;, ( . g 8eldom a condilion to do
tins, .. owing .... to the extreme , lassitude ,
produced ; , , by . his . “bath.” .. „ He IT can gen-
erally ,, manage to , dress , himself, , how-
'
ever. So many patronize ... those , baths
that they often lie in the hay head to
head, as many as the place will hold.
How dirty and crushed the hay is at
the end of the “season,” any one can
imagine. Tho hay-ba'.h cure is not
without its dangers. In August,1886,
two bathers faiuted on emerging from
the steaming hot mountain-hay, which
would indicate a powerful effect on
the vital functions, that is not observ¬
able in ordinary cases of faulting from
the heat of an overcrowded room,
which, as every one knows, is not
The Great Desert.
A trip through Algeria to the Sahara
Desert was recently made by Dr. John
Murray, the learned Scotch geogra¬
pher. His investigations lead to the
conclusion that this vast desert is not,
as is genet ally taught, an old sea-bed,
but that its present features are chiefly
^ (o „ t berlo ccmd it i0 ns. The
existing rock is not far below Die sur¬
face, and where exposed is seen to be
the origin of Die overlying sand.
Rapid and extreme changes in temper¬
ature have piayed an impoi tant part
in the process of disintegration, the
variations sometimes being from 100
degrees during the day to below freez¬
ing at night. Tho sinking of artesian
w lis is being pushed forward with
remarkable success, forming large and
productive oases, for which the supply
of water—believed to come from hills
surrounding the desert and at a great
distance front tiie wells—seems to be
unlimited.
The Mystery of Memory.
“How far back in your life can you
remember?” asked a psychologist yes¬
terday, referring to groat feats of
memory. “Let me see,” said his
friend, reflectively, “I can recall inci¬
dents in my life as far back as my
fourth year.” “That is about the
average, ’ replied the gentleman, “al¬
though many people claim to be able
to recall events in their lives as far b ick
as the age of two. I myself can recall
one or two events that must liave liap-
pelted when I was not more than two
years old. One tiling that I recall is
that I have a vivid impression of sit-
ting on (he floor of tiie nursery play-
ir.g with my blocks. My mother came
in tho room. She wore a hat with an
ornament of a big bird. All this is
clear to me, even today.”—[Detroit
Free Press,
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AN ELECTRIC TREE.
A Remarkable Old Elm in New
York City.
invalids Touch It and Assort
That They are Cured.
Every time it rains tho tall elm tree
in front of Franz Otto’s place, No. 11)
Stuyvcsant street, becomes electrified.
The current is cause 1 by four electric-
light wires which come in contact with j
tlie branches of tho tree, and in wet j
weather tho wood becomes a splendid |
conductor. At times the current is
very mild. Then again it increases
in strength anti those whoso hands
camo in contact with tho tree draw
back in alarm.
It is believed by many people that
Die electricity after filtering through
tho damp wood h’s great healing
qualities. Invalids of ail descriptions
come to the tree for relief after all
other remedies have failed. The
school boys testify that contact with
the tree will remove warts. One boy,
who gave his name as Charles Burton,
said that tho back of his left hand was
covered with them until a week ago,
when they were all removed by hold¬
ing them against the tree for half an
hour. Several old people suffering
from rheumatism visit the tree every
morning about 6 o’clock and lean
against it for an hour or so.
Nil's. Franz Otto said to a World re¬
porter that site was frequently com¬
pelled to call a policeman in order to
disperse the crowd fiom the front of
her door.
“One old lady,” sho said, “walked
here from Cherry street, though she
was very lame and peeled oft' a pint
cup full of the bark. Her son is near¬
ly dead with consumption and in some
way she had become possessed of tho
idea that a dose of tho powdered bark
after each meal would cure him.”
When one suffering from tiro tooth¬
ache wishes relief, some friend places
one hand against tiie tree and a finger
of the other against the affected tooth.
It is said that ilie treatment works an
immediate cure.
Adolphus Johansen, seventy-two
years old, told Die reporter that he had
taken a pint of buttermilk after each
nteal for more than five years, in liopo
of curing a serious heart trouble.
Leaning against tltis tree half an hour
every morning for a week, lie said
helped him more than the whole live
years’ buttermilk treatment.
Hiram J. Colt had tried all the vari¬
ous remedies for catarrh until the car¬
tilage support of his nose was com¬
pletely gone. He then stood patiently
with lus face against the tree for ten
ininu es each , day , for _ three weeks , and _
is , satisfied that 1ns nose has , greallv ,
Miss J* Henrietta ‘ . . M. Truesdale tells
a
remarkable , . , story. bhe . sixty-live ....
is
years old , , and , , has been , afflicted since
'
early , womanhood , . with . , extreme lierv-
ousuess and , melancholia. , , ,. ... Life, she .
’
said, ... for than , „ thirty . , had .
more years
, been one glooinv , waiting ... for .. God to
take , , her . , borne. About , two weeks , ago
she , , heard , her , little nephew talking .
about , . the wonderful „ , elm , tree. She ,,,
dislikes ,. a crowd , amt , would , , not go
during . . the day, . lmt, , , accompanied ... by
her . brother, , she , liai , since . visited the
tree every night . at 12 o’clock. . , , She ,,
remains there about . . , half ,, an hour . with
her , .head , , against . . ,, Die free. .
“The „„ , brain . is . Die ,, seat , of . electricity , . . ..
in . the bodv,” she said, “and . ... the cur-
rent came so gently (hat ,, . it was all ap-
proprialed bv the cells , of ... Dio nervous
:. ’
tissue. Consequently „ .. ,, the power and ,
extravagance of . youth . have
my vc-
turned and Ian a new woman.”
Miss Truesdale was fyr many years
an ardent Christian Scientist, but she
now believes that Die electric Ireo lias
greater power to heal than has the
human mind.
Ralph Spencer of East Eighteenth
street, Chas. Cook of West Fifty-
second street, and Jacob Silberwick of
St. Mark’s place, ail assert that the
tree will restore hair to bald heads.
These gentlemen are not sure whether
their gratitude should be extended to
the electrical currents or to the medi¬
cal properties of the bark. One tiling
they aro certain of, however, is that
after little more than a week’s trcal-
ment, which consisted in rubbing the
bald spots with the fresh bark or
leaves of the tree, a new and abundant
growth of hair appeared, where before
the skin was as white and smooth as
that of a baby.—[Ex.
He Renumbered.
Mamina—I hope in little boy while
dining with f-iends^t';memiipred what
I told him about not taking cake the
second time?
Little boy—Yes, mamma. J remem-
bered and took two pieces the first
time.
A Novel Idle Rout.
A London correspondent, of tho New
PiciiviLo says: In u short
there will l>e stationed at Har¬
for work along this coast, a life
that will have for its motive
neither sail, nor oars, nor
nor paddle wheel, but will bu
by wlmt is called a turbine
A lurbino is a horizontal
wheel, and nothing in (lie way
engines could bo less complex than
of the life boat. They have
to drive water through this
at something like a ton a see-
I he manipulation of the \aho
tho course of this tremendous
ream, and scuds the boat lorn aid,
it to the right or left without as¬
from the rudder, spins it
and round like a teetotum or
stops it dead at pleasure.
it sounds Jules Verucish, but it is a
She—the Duke of Northumber¬
is the name, but all boats arc sites
built of the very best steel and is
immense strength. Being divided
no loss than fifteen water-light
she practically cannot
and may be relied upon to live
tho wildest seas. There is another
cruel old Neptune’s amusements—
amusement which has lasted since
days of Noah—destroyed, and wo
confidentially look for a time
the sea’s powers of destruction
be nil and its terrors reduced, and
wholesome fear of seasickness
keeps many a would-bo traveler
roaming overcome.
A Sliowcr of Winged Ants.
One day recently we witnessed the
phenomenon of a shower of winged
ants, says a letter from Nicaragua in
the Washington Star. We had just
sat down to the evening meal, when
suddenly the air became thick with
thousands of these insects, which im¬
mediately covered the table, getting
into Dio soup and over everything.
We were forced to beat a hasty re¬
treat and seek shelter under our mo¬
squito nets, which in Nicaragua are
made of calico. The ants remained
about half an hour, at the end of
which time Dicy dispersed as myste¬
riously as they had come, leaving as
evidence of tluir visit millions of
wings. The next day we had a repe¬
tition of Die visit, and a few days
since were treated to another of
smaller and different species called
travellers. These marched in at otto
end of out* shacks and out at the other,
though we were compelled to vacate
in their favor for the time being, as
they smarmed over everything. Their
stay, however, was short and great
damage was done by their visit.
But what makes , the , whales . , come on
shore , when , „ they feel ill I T1 It looks , ,
like suicide—and ... : , be. That , beasts ,
may
and birds in the same way go aside
from „ their . . comrades , to suiter ... the ,
ex.
tremc , trial of deatli is a pathetic fact
which .... is well ,, known- , Sometimes, _ no
doubt, , , their . . friends ... desert , . them,
lliev feel , thkt ,, , (he , companionship . .. of
enfeebled individual is a possible ,
an
source of danger; or perhaps, instinct
teaches , them , thus , to avoid . tho . risk , of
infection. Or, again, it may be that
sight n of death is intolerable to them, ,
just . it . , lias , been and „ . to
as is many
human , tribes, , who . leave ,, tlioir . dying , .
. solitude, ... . and . will
to pass away iu not,
.. .. the last infirmity of :
remain to witness
,, Whatever r , the . explanation, ... tho .
man.
fact „ . Di , it , . Die animal . , world ,,
remains in
rule , creatures go away and , die , , by
as a
themselves, , , and , the water-folk , „ corn-
nut . suicide by 1 leaving their own ele-
ment for . winch , . , they not
one iu can
live.— rLondon Telegraph, 1 .
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Average Length of Life Sentences.
Fifteen years is about Dio average
lifetime sentence. Very few convicts,
though sentenced for life, serve more
than that period. They die or are
pardoned.
Iu t ,- e Missouri prison there are five
t o iday pardons every year granted by
Die Governor. One white and ono
negro convict aro pardoned on tho
Fourth of July, and two white and
one negro convict on Christmas. The
long termers get the benefit of this
clemency. This I heartily endorse.
If fifteen years does not reform a in;tn
fifty years will not.— [Giobe Demo¬
crat.
An Expensive Hog.
Mr. IV. If. Vanderbilt lias a mastiff
dog, Wallace by name, which stands
him in $10,700. This valuable animal
cost the odd $700 originally, and in-
creased liis value by biting Charles
Myers, who had been employed by
Mr. Vanderbilt to train bird-dogs,
Mr. Vanderbilt paid the expenses in-
curved by Myers in repairing the dam¬
age inflicted by tho dog, which
amounted to $5000, and has sent
Myers a check for $5000 as compensa¬
tion, He still lias the dog, however.
SCIENTIFIC SCRIPS.
An English astronomer states that
the oldest historical record of a solar
eclipse is in Homer’s Iliad.
Experiments by an Italian physician
indicate that tuberculosis of fowls is
different from that of man, and is not
transmitted to (lie latter.
A new stenographic machine in use
by tho Italian Parliament is capable of
recording 250 words n minute, and
can be readily manipulated by a blind
person.
Some of tho cottonwood telegraph
poles used in Nevada chanced to be
sunk iu marshy places with the bark
on. They have taken root, and display
attractive foliage.
The balloon proposed for polar ex¬
plorations is ninety-nine feet in diam¬
eter and 500,000 cubic feet in volume.
The journey is to be begun from Spits¬
bergen, and with a favorable wind is
expected to last llirco or four days.
It is proposed to have movable wings
to expand almost to tho sides of the
tunnel, on the cars of the Tunnel Rail¬
way up the Jungfrau. These would
act like a parachute in proventing too
rapid descents.
A passenger elevator to the summit
of Mont Blanc—the shaft to have eight
compartments, each six feet square,
and each to carry a triple-decked ele¬
vator for 27 passengers—lias been pro¬
posed by an American mining engi¬
neer.
The heat produced from the light of
a firefly is only one per cent, of an equal
amount of candle light. The bug’s
light is produced by a chemical action,
as it is increased by putting the fly in
oxygen and diminished in an atmos¬
phere of nitrogen.
An interesting fact just ascertained
by government observers is that at (lie
extremities of Long Island Sound tho
title begins to flow inward near the
bottom one and one-half hours before
it begins to flow in (lie same direction
at tho surface of the water.
A year or two ago tho great red spot
on Jupiter, which lias puzzled astrono¬
mers since 1887, was reported to boon
the point of bccomng invisible, but it
8 so well defined as to be a very con¬
spicuous object on a photograph of the
planet lately taken at tho Paris Observ¬
atory.
Ruby light for photographic pur¬
poses, in spite of all that lias been said
in favor of orange green, continues to
hold its own iu tho dark room, ai.
though many who use it complain of
its effect on their eyes. A remedy fo r
this lias been found in tho introduc¬
tion of a pane of ground glass be¬
tween the eyes and the ruby.
Tho eyes of insects arc immovable,
and many of them seem cut into »
multitude of facets, like the facets of
a diamond. Each of those facets ii
supposed to possess flic powers of n
true eye. Lcncnboeek counted :!,)81
of them in the cornea of a beetle, and
over 8,000 iu that of a common horse-
fly*
A Rome correspondent says it is pro¬
posed to convene an international con¬
ference some time next year to deal
with the question of the meridian.
Tho suggestion is to select Jerusalem
instead of Greenwich or Paris as the
meridian line. A proposal will also
he made to fix a universal standard
of time.
Down-draughts in chimneys may bo
obviated by a recent English device.
It consists of a number of grooved
rings placed over each other with
spaces between, and made of metal or
clay. Tho grooves arc so shaped that
when tho wind strikes them it is so de-
(leclcd that it draws air up the chim¬
ney, and in this way elieotually pre¬
vents down-draught.
In Praise of Coffee.
11 is asserted by men of high pro¬
fessional ability that when the system
needs a stimulant nothing equals a cup
of fresh cotlee. Those who desire t<
rescue the dipsomaniac from his cupf
will find no better substitute foi
spirits, than strong, newly rnadt
coflee without milk or sugar. Two
ounces of coffee, or one-eighth of t
pound, to one pint of boiling water,
makes a first-class beverage, but the
water must be boiling, not merely
hot. It is asserted that malaria and
epidemics are avoided by those who
drink a enp of hot coffee before ven¬
turing into the morning air. Burned
on hot coals coffee is a disinfectant for
a sick room, and by some of the best
physicians it is considered a specific iu
typhoid fever.—[Chicago Herald.
One Secret Safe.
Mr. Handsome — Ob, you know,
mother, women can’t keep a secret.
His Mother—Yc* they can, my son.
You have been industriously courting
that Miss Ilighfly for a year, and yon
don’t know her real ago yet,-— [Gootj
Now*.
45.
How llahy Wakes.
Through the drowsy dreamland has*
Peeps two roguish orbs of blue;
Wonderment Is in their gaze
As they chance to rest on you;
Cherry lips begin to work
And you catch a cherub smile,
Dimpled digits twitch and jerk
As you pause to watch awhile.
Then a troubled spirit wakes,
Fears the tender heart assail,
O'er the face a storm cloud breaks
And ensues a plaintive wall;
Then a brief, expectant look,
Struggling through tho depth of woe,
Plainly says: “I will not brook
Any more delay, you know.’’
Now you raise her in your arms,
Pressing close the yielding form,
Captive to the many charms
Of the nurseling soft and warm;
And you own the magic away
Of the despot small nod sweat,
Ousting in a reckless way
All your heart at baby's feet.
— [Frank H. Welch, iu Detroit Press
HUMOROU*.
The fly is a chronic aspirant for tin
crown.
An infant industry—Making papa
walk Die floor nights.
In Die battlo of life it is tho (rami
who is always asking for quarter.
As a rule the watch and cloak maker
even in his busiest times, has plenty oi
time.
“I can’t keep a friend,” remarked
the lemonade, sadly. “1 am alway<
gelling shook.”
“I say, Charley, that man ovet
there must be a millionaire.” “No, I
guess not. He looks too lmppy.”
Van llnsslei—Don’t you find tha
you can write bettor on an cmpl)
stomach? Scnvwler—No, I can write
better on paper.
If you ever doubted that a man
could be sarcastic, yon doubt it iu
longer when you have heard him
praising your enemy.
“New York is a great place,” said
the tourist. “It has an Italian quarter
and a Chinese quarter and a French
quarter, but where is tho American
quarter?” “In tho pocket of the hotel
waiter,” answered his American
cousin.
Footman (at the club): Beg pard’n,
sir. Languid Swell: We-ell, wliat is
it, James? Footman: Beg pard’n,
I’m sure, sir; hut do you know, sir, is
there a gentleman waiting for you in
Die reception room with one eye named
AValker? Languid Swell: Don’t know
him, sure. Say, what’s tho name of
the otlior eye?
Old Rank Rills.
Did ony one ever wonder what be¬
comes of the old bank bills when
too much worn to be kept in circula¬
tion? We know they are redeemed at
the sub-treasuries; but what is done
with them then, or what became oi
tho paper money that was in use seve¬
ral years ago when there was no silver
money in circulation with which to
make change?
During Grant’s administration tills
scrip and the accumulation of worn
out bank bills were gathered together
in the Treasury at Washington in one
huge, ragged, ill-smelling pile, of
which the clerks who counted it were
afraid for fear diseaso lurked in it.
This dirty paper had all been redeemed
with silver money and represented
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The pile was set on lire and burned
in Die presence of several officials, and
afterward the ashes were taken and
mixed with some adhesive substance.
From the composition thus made was
modeled a statuette a foot high of a
broken, tinted column, and also a per¬
fect fac-simile of the old Liberty Rell
in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
The hell lias tho appearance of dark
granite and is six inches high.—^[Jour¬
nal of Finance.
The Groat Tempest of 1703.
Apropos ot recent numerous tem¬
pests and cyclones all over Europe,
tho Boston Transcript gives some in¬
teresting facts about the great tempest
of 1708, which extended over the
whole of Europe, anil continued foi
a week with unparalleled violence—
more especially in England. It
reached its culminating point on Sat¬
urday, November 27th, of that year.
The losses in London were computed
at .(WO,000,000; tho streets were en¬
cumbered with the ruins of houses;
(he number of persons drowned in tho
rivers Severn and Thames and in the
vessels which broke away from their
anchorage, and which were never
heard of afterwards, was by estima¬
tion 8,000, besides which twelve ships
>f war, with 1,800 men ajid 521 can¬
nons, foundered within sight qf land;
1,700 trees in ancf* jyent^wevo torn up by
the roqts. on ono estate in
Gloticestersliip, 600 trees, averaging
60 feet in height, were uprooted iu a
space of live acres. The Eddystone
liglitliouse was destroyed, and a large
number of cattle nwished,