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About The democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1881)
m GravMie Burnt. PDWARD YOUBG & CO , FabLUhers and Pro} ieton. BKAWFOBDVLLE : OEOROIA NLWS GLEANINGS. Com is selling in East Tennessee at silty cent* per bushel. Some 400,000 feet of cross ties will be shipped from Kentucky to Mexico. The levee at New Orleans is to lie illu¬ minated with the electric light. Profetss.r Gather, of Alabama, predicts a hard winter. Immigration and capital are steadily flowing into Tennessee. A fine vein of coal has been discovered in Jackson county, Alabama. Albany, Oa., is going to spend *900 for an artesian well. There are 6A4 convicts in the South Carolina penitentiary. The average product of the cotton crop in the Memphis district is fifty-one per cent, less than last year’s yield. Tyler James, colored, was given twenty stripes by a Richmond, Va., court for stealing an overcoat. Three thousand snappers were carried t« lVuaaeola, Florida, in o^e day last weak * At the Florida state fair a premium of six dollars was offered for the best darned stocking. All over the south telegraphic inquiries have been received from New York hankers about Confederate coupon bonds. A few F orida farmers who have plant¬ ed arrow-root make as much as *1,000 on an acre. Accomac and Northampton counties, Virginia, have jiearh trees now living anil I tearing which were planted in 1816. For the year ending September 1 the dtirensof Brownsville, Teim., consumed f>28 barrels of whisky, A Pennsylvanian has leased 10,000 acres of land near Woodbury, Cannon county, Tennessee, and will bore for oil. Colonel K. W. Cole, the “railroad king,’’has purchased the old Hank of Tenncw-ee building at Nashville for #42, 0«0. Rev. Father A. J. Ryan, the sweetest p>el in the Fouth, hits taken charge of the Catholic chunch at Eufausa, Aia bama. East year J. E. Yates, of Rappahan¬ nock county, Virginia, purchased 27ft sheep, for w hich he paid $.'t.5« apiece The lambs aim wool this year brought him $1,700. One firm in Virginia, with 37 acres o landj has produced 8,500 irallon* of wine in a sea-on. Two « unties in that state this season will make 60,000gallons. Messrs, rituart A Mi Dowell, of the Hudhill mine in North Carolina, have sent to till Atlanta expisition n solid piece of geld sulphur" ore weighing 900 pounds, and is assayed at alxiut $80 per to IK The tobacco trade of Richmond, Vir¬ ginia, have decided to appoint an in¬ spector <>f tobacco, who shall have charge of the. ti tire imu kot- This will separate the business of warehousing and of in spection. .billies I’liillips, twelve years old wa left h , at one hv himself in Robeson county, North Carolina During the nigiil some devilish Isiys visited the house and ‘ried to vain an ensrance for Jiepurjvise of frightening the boy. The little fellow was feared so badly that he was thrown into spasms, from which lie died shortly afterw ard. Rome (Oa.) Courier: Two sisters Misses Emma and Susie, daughters of widow Cornwell, of Rocky creek, Gordon county, picki-d out with their own hands, last week, a bah* of cotton, had it ginned and sent it to Rome, Mr. H. 11 Smith bought it at twelve and a half cents and sent it to the Atlanta Exposition - as a - sample of of North Georgia cotton. Til* Hole, of Tnowrazlaw, Prussia, give- tlie following table of wages for workmeu in that city, a place of some 8,000 or 10,1 H>0 population. The wages are for a week's work of six days of four teen hours each. A mark is equal to an English shilling, or about twenty-four cents : Msrks. Brick Brivkfayiws, twit................ Hodcamers..................... layers, common........... . .11 7 ' Jollier*......................... Gahuiet-tuakera (including hoard) LCv..-muI.* (including hoard),.. Tailors (iucluJtng board:........ 4 Miners.. ....................... V Factory '.at..rent................ Gardeners ..................... •£, Field hands..................... Ti Is it any wonder in view of these fig¬ criterion ures, a d to they judge an* to the a certain all extent a Germany, wages ov t*r that the sturdy yeomanry ami artisans of that country are coming to the United States by thousands V Or 60,(W acres devoted to the growth ssv-t cmnty had 7.570 acres. Oueida 6 ,.-H and Madison 6,557, making m •!! 20,712 actvs. TliA-se figures have not materiai ly cliangi'd since that time. The auu’.i.. yah:.- of $700,000. tin* crop in these three count:, »s over TOPICS OP THE DAT. Bostos women gamble in railroad ) stocks. Mare Twaix has written another book. Chinese are becoming plentiful in Chicago. _ Tobacco in Virginia will be only half * a crop this year. Of.op.uk. Bancroft, the historian, is eighty-oiie years old. There «ill he a scarcity ol coal in ti e West the coming winter. Bostox now boasts of one female lawyer, Mias Lelia J. Robinson. A MONintENT to Doan Stanley will be •reefed in Westminster Abbey. The students at Harvard are com¬ pelled to attend prayer meeting. An equestrian statue will be erected U) Gen. Burnside in Rhode Island. Ex-Gov. Shepherd (“Boss”)is about t> return to Washington from Mexico. InUNOts' oldest citizen is dead— Mrs. Margaret Koughton, aged 116 years. Mbs. Gauf;et,d’ 8 income will bo $20, 000 a yesr. Mrs. Lincoln's is $3,000. — — ^ ...... . It ta thought the Indianapolis Journal has an eye ojx n to a Cabinet position. Mb. Winiiom will retire from the Cab¬ inet and return to the United States Senate. President Gabfiedd’s picture is to lie placed upon the fivo cent international postal letter stamp. A recent frost in tho vicinity of Bos¬ ton is said to have dono damage to the extent of $1,000,000, George Francis Train says he has ramie his last speech and written his last letter. Wo knew there was a silver lining somewhere. The Czar of Russia is resigned to any fate that may overtake him. Ho is said to often declare, “lam quite ready to meet death when it comes.” The mummy of tho daughter of King Ramoses is said to be among the discov¬ eries at Thebea—the woman who found Moses in tho bulrushes. Sarah Bernhardt was hissed ot Amiens and stepping to the footlights, remarked: “I am not accustomed to play to geese.” Ready wit. TnR Mormons take groat consolation at tho present political statttA. They feel that their polygamous institution is secure, and that tho Lord is with them. The expense of Garfield's illness is estimated at $100,000, of which the doctors’ hills will he $53,000. Dr. Blisa is accredited with a claim of $25,000. The Pall Mall (,'azette acknowledges the United States to be the most power¬ ful nation on the globe. This confession is a great one, coming from an English •ouroo. Ellen Nelson, a Swedish woman, committed suicide in Philadelphia tho other day because she could not get a husband. She must have been horrid Hfflj-__^___________ The President’s brother, William Ar¬ thur, who is Major and Paymaster iu tno army, wns married a few days ago at Governor’s Island, to Miss Laura Bou vier. Judging from results, tlie Ohio voter is a aoratoher. That comes of getting p'S'r men on the regular ticket—a fact t' l; it the late election lias forciblypr 8uuto '' party managers, Thr Cincinnati Commercial my* the situation in Ireland is quite too utter, w e suppose this means that it Is in a • to W P***®"- Nations, likeindivid Rais, are nothing if not fashionable, Gladstone is held responsible for tho arrest of Parnell, and Gladstone is of the opinion that the arrest, is for tlie vindication of law and order, and “ the first elements of civilization.” I n dek the old French law, being in. toxicated three times deprived men ot their right to vote. Such a law in this j country, it is to be apprehended, would prevent the holding of an election iu some sections. . 0 Sixes *• information ’’ has been filed, i Star ifaute notoriety, is still ?“V ranting I rynmd, demanding early ti iah His an ardor for justice has cooled 4own some¬ what. An agent of the Land League in Ire- ' land has tevu arrested te>- m-nhni uo.*. dlos in ixitatoes to U* fix! to the cattle I . (vtiier .-lil-v of vn-- hi« ron> ~ fiendishness. Guitkau hvms determined to have Ben. Butler to defend him. Inge-sollhe doesn't want. His discrimination is based upon religious principles. Butler, how- « ver . doe* not crave the service, end will endeavor to excuse himself. “ The Mormons are held together,” says the Mormon crpan, “by an in tine urea that in beyond thejfower of men or uations to prevent, destroy or Con¬ troL** That “influence** is a plurality of wivi*s, certainly not divine. The St. Louis QlrJtr.-Democrat sacs that the hog crop of the territory tr.hu tary to St. Louis will be very inferior in quality and less in ouantitv '’ ' mane wars ™ mil P 481 Ti llie hign t ■ price . • • - com is . given as a reason for this Condi tion of things. ; This is a sad comment on the insur ance question • One insurance P-vsi. dent 1 . whose company loses | 812,000 cio rev. bv i the fire in Morrells Building, in New York, himself had $20,000 worth of property stored there and only $3,000 insurance on it. 1 ' Eioht members of the last House of Representativ es are now U nited Slat » Senators : Messrs. Frye and Hale, of j ; Maine ; Aldrich, of Rhode Island ; Haw. I i ter ler' ot Connecticut: Lanham and Afil. ler, of of New New York, York • Mitclw Jlitchell, 11 of t Puuisyl I* i j vauia, and Conger, of Michigan. JomrBATrERSijr, -~—--— for twenty ^Mlhe ^ . | chief of living skeletons in the side shows, has of late been missed from the ranks of the human curiosities. The reason is that, from a weight of fifty tnv mven „_ Tvmntlu pounds he i| A i,oa lias rapidly in,, grow „ n '* to 12o, and he has constderately gone t* blacksmithing. Wka.noi.i5 Land, which Cana la claims under the old boundary treaty, and which claim the United States disputes, is on the north coast of Siberia aud over a thousand miles from tho American coast. There will lie no fighting over its possession. It ain’t worth it. Massachusetts lias a Judge who evi¬ dently enjoys has morning naps. 4J. has rendered a decision that the ringing of a church bell at 5 o’clock in the morn¬ ing is a public nuisance, aud if people must worship at that hour they should do so without disturbing their neigh¬ bors. Since David Davis is President of Uu; Senate, the public generally are anxious to know to which party he belongs. Mr. Davis, we believe, is not much annoyed on the subject. He is where he feels at liiM-rty to take a plum from either party, aud plums he is very fond of. The convicts of the Ohio Penitentiary sent 55100 to the Michigan sufferers. They raised the amount by denying themselves tho luxury of tobacco and the sale of trinkets which they had made. Really, this expression of sym¬ pathy from such a source is touching. The father of Mrs. Oiiristranry fied in Waabingfitn the odber day prevous to accepting the Senator his daughter hail refused twenty-five offors of matrimony. This, we suppose, is an instance of passing by all the straight and taking a crooked stick in the end. About tho meanest thing we aro able to call to mind just now is the action of the steamlxiat companies whose crufts ply between the National Capital and Yorktown. For tho benefit of those at¬ tending the Yorktown celebration they put the fare up to Jive times tlie usual price. What noble patriots those fel¬ lows are. General Garfield wrote in answer to a friend who had congriitnalateil him his election to tlie Senate ' upon : “As 1 to tho hope you express that J shall be | called higher, I can only say that my idea of the highest ambition of a public man ought to bo to discharge fully tho duties of tho position to which he is al¬ ready called. A man is not iu position to discharge Jiis duties fully and without bias if he is aspiring to higher places and laboring to secure them. The post of greatest usefulness ought to be the place of the highest honor. ’* Love was at the bottom of the Arkan sas tram robbery. Tho three’boyish fel- ; lows who committed the crime w.-re monevless and desjieratelv iu love, and reading how easv it was for the James hovs to rob a train, resolved to imitate them to bridge over tho obstacle standing iietweeTi themselves, their girls and mat ri monv. They obtained the money, but thinking they would not ho pursued, they made no effort to escape. Their girls, no doubt, feel bad to think that for their sake they wore led to the com¬ mission of a crime that has culminated in a seventy-years' sentence in the peni¬ tentiary. Mu. Yennor savs in the preface of his almanac for 1882:* “I lav no claim to : tlie discovery of an infallibl * system of -practical '“"r meteorology “ ,to ' is yet in its in fancy, and is !>ei:>g studied by men I whose abilities are far greater than any I could endeavor to lay claim to There 1 1 will be many mistakes before a right understanding prumples is arrived or interpretation at. Based, as of its j i my s - vsu ' m of predictions must be, on records : iff weather as yet incomplete and very 1 ■» >» ^bsfactory, to new ground; more yet espec I b lieve a.y the in res;-ect key to G' lp solution of the problem has been found, and that all errors will but aid in more correctly discovering the secrets of i coming months.” 1 Mock'IUhiUK ill the West. The freedom to pasture cattle <m ex wccesMble client grazing market, laud, together with an are ti.e main reasons Jsrfy w k? »t profitable. present stock-hrming Tine is particn- 1 first of these (•oil¬ | ditiona is pn carious, and it is evident that in ten years there will not la- much good free ra* go . It . f, ft ea-t of ti.-c Missouri When immigration to that extent f shall have shut a m o!! from (re- pastnr MT-, tin- -Pick man can either sell his *““* ut I ,r “b.ib!v f >.u- tines its present va ®' 1< ” * ud mov •- to Dakota or Montana, r “ attention to latteiung r>n . gr un . t< r other parties. ! or liis.aliee, as a jwactic.il ease, there is a cattle man of Council Bluff's who is s lid to own KKf.OOO head of cattle in Idaho. Hi- has a range of sixty square mi.es of land not worth a cent to tue tur "^ncmtitw*. vet affording *-x«*el lent pasture for cartie. He has ten men .-n-ploye i at wages varying from *21 to j j fi'i per month to lp.de after the stock. These men require 200 jionu-s to Imndlc t ; ever, ' four rn.rme.. men r can do all the work ’ i re- ! , (priml, ia the streams which is that mainly the breaking cattle the ice j may have j water. Streams serve as the great checks niurn the cattle straying away, for They | j never will go far trom water. In the h plains l ,r ‘ n S have ot the a veer grand the “ round catUe men of fas the if ) jsca.led), stock np j - tue brand, is picked out by means of the and those cattle that are meant for the Eastern market 1 about are starteil for Omaha. They tmvel tell uiiie-s a day, and gen- | "ally take the whole season in ’^ 1R journey from the winter to T'i Mt8Sonr ‘ b,,tt " m - At ! Omaha the cattle are put on the train i «»Hy aud .shipjs d nominally to Chicago, but | to different points along the road, | to 1« handed over to farmers for fatten- j mg. Mr. Stewart delivered over 1,900 ; nead to farmers last fall, and of these | only eight were lost during the winter. | lhe parties who receive the cattle agree to fatten them at the tate of 5 cents for j every animal. extra pound This of weight they add to I j tho seems small at first sight, but when cattle put on 250 extra | pounds dnring a wmter, and where two | logs are fed from the refuse of each ox, I the farmer finds that the result to him is j equivalent to selling his corn at 100 jx-r j j cent, profit. The large cattle-raisers, of course, from farm have to their farm inspectors, to look after who travel their j j sprmg property, for and shipment gather to it Chicago, together where in the j they are either slaughtered or shipped ; to Europe. The cattle men have a great j j advantage over mere farmers, in that j they railways. are to a If great extent independent of hv they arc badly treated 1 ! remedy one corporation, in driving they have a simple their stock a few miles to the next road .—JIurpefa Magazine. “ Affidavits Are Not 1^)listers.” | i Gen. Janies Grant Wilson furnishes • ! the Cape Ann Advertiser with tho fol- j lowiitir lowing pleasant crossin gossip about about ohl Admiral Ad mi ml < Coffin—one of the Collins, by the way— : and the great variety aliout Cape Cod of | lobsters weighing exactly ninety pounds. ; a member Sir Isaac of Coffin, the family a British which Admiral eld and fa¬ j a mous reunion at Nantucket, August 16, was horn at Boston, and when a ebilil lived for some years on Cnjw Cod. Sir Isaac cum., to this country Siam after the |\ stated war of 1812, and during the flag-ship voyage he to the officers of his that j when they reached Caiie t.'od ho would j ! show ................... them lolist ts .. that ............... weighed ninety pounds! The rule* of a quarter deck do ! not *lol permit l" 1UU1 you ,1 V'U to IU 111111,1 flatly uiliuuuiuv contradict an till i i Admiral, Admiral, but but still still some some doubt and dLs- j trust was visible on the countenances of j | the Captain and Lieutenants who stoixl around. “Well,” said Sir Isaac, “if you doubt it, I will make you a wag' r that when we reach Cape Oixl I will ! ju'odnco a lobster tlmt weigliH ninety pounds.’’ Tue wager was made under the gracious jieimission of the Admiral, and when they arrived there Sir lac j scoured the Capo, but he could not find any lob ter that weighed ninety pounds, so 1m said : *- Well, they don’t li.tpp -n ' to be here just now, hut l will obtain ! ; the afikbivits of the old fishermen to prove that there are such 1> -t rs. ’ , And he produce! a pile of affidavits, j showing that when there werj fish, run ir | in earl, ti nes lobst rs that weighed linekiebeiries ninety pounds the w re ns common as on Cqie. Tin n it wns : left to an umpire t > de i.le, which had , lost a id wbicJU had won, ut.d by him so i couci o a judgment was given that if now living it would entitle him to the 1 vacaut J.'.dgosbip in the M issiu-husetts Supreme Court, if all his decisions were equal!v “affidavits good. His decisions was that are not lobsters.” Thed stiuguislied member of the Cof¬ fin family, Isaac w riting in to his friend Commo¬ dore Hull, 1816, says : “Many thanks for your kind exertions ; send the ninety pound lobster when you can. My reputation gone,” will be and saved, iu another although tny money is lot h' r now lying lhe before lot rae the ,committed Admiral re¬ ma '‘ ks : “ * t r r vou - Tra f nr rlvt>d lu T °° ud ‘ tlon - aud is considered , a marvelous one here, still my friend Sir Joseph Banks longs for Huii one succeeded of ninety pounds.” saving Whether iu Sir Isaac’s reputation by sending him a ninety pound lobster I very much regret Glouces¬ I am unable to state, but a vfinerable ter fisherman whom the writer consulted on the subject said : “Thereain’t been nosich lol sleisseeuon Cape Ann durin’ the last sixty years, an’ I don't believe any rich were ever caught on Cape Coil. ’’ Lady Washington. »e “Memoirs” found in i very old hbraiy we read di that lad Mrs 5W Washington " * lu her ‘-T a T ™ “* tde &ime si'i^srsrjssrs Wales f She does now. was qui-en of faslii i o! her Blue, and the cut ot her sid-s, the flow of her laces, indicated the d'-'fl • method to ail her coterie of bom thence it circled to the ti-erepubltc, dressed ac&udmg in rich fabrics, to tlulauteonty women and ex pensive a-.-cesoories to the toilet were ^“si^cred necessary. & When sr-jz Thomas u> send home to them from P.,m white satin slippers, long gloves, lace slips and other pretty things. In one of liis letters he gives a parental caution extravagance, but urges his keep themselves The Hammock. There is something about a hammock that is inJcscrihaii'ie, and there is no rule that can is* made that will insure safety while '-itting in one of the queer things. There art people who believe that a hammock understands what is gt: joke. ou - oecasjouallj uunigts in It is certain that at old per son with a lnrae hack can swing in a hammock half the tlav and it will never kick up. Seivant i iris and children can get into a hammock as thick as thiee in a bed, and there is no danger, bat let a spoony young couple sit dow n in a ham mock ever so carefullv and it seems aa , and though had the conioundod thin» to°spiil was alive taken a contract them out on tin* ground in ail sons of embar rassiug the shapes. What it is that causes commotion will perhaps never be known, without an investigation bv middle-aged person, vial, if the 1 season was not so m ar over, we w. uld investigate in the the blast, d tl.iug ourself, interest of our young readers , H-mmockhood. Ti I/. Du 16 re fuil cau lie ^ noth- i tng much more annoying to a young couple than to he sitting side bv side or i far ing each other, in a hamnus-fc look- > mg into each other’s eves, ami allowing i the love they dare not speak to show i itself in those ori.s, and just as they are ] feeling minute as thou*,-li they couldn’t live a j unless tln-v clasped each other to • each other’s !c.iriim l.o-onts or at least ! one heaving lss-omand one boiled shirt I I and then have the hammock turn hot U.m hide np and land them on the back i of their necks, on the ground, w,th legs ' pointed toward the crab apples on tho I i trees to which t'ne hauiinocK is hitcii d arms loons flinging leps, and wildly Lmmla to coiivuUivc.\ pull down panfct- xiv\v- j ! i„g gravel, and muslin and delaine, while bins;, t 8 suffuse faces that l,ut a moment before were btu-kgromid for tlie picture of love’s young .Ireum, ami a cr wd of spectators iug <m the hotel veranda laugh and saying, “Set ’em up agaiu,” On- hammock shales itself and turns right side up for other victims, as though and it knew what it had been doing, all enjoyed it. There are Is’en young men over the land who have through such experiences, and hail to vv.dk back¬ ward all tho way to the house, owing to fissure veins being discovered in the while wearing apparel below the suspenders, mortified the number of girls that have been with by having to go to the house tlie.r back hair in one baud, their skirts in the other, while six places be tween the polonaise and the car-rings wt re with aching like tho toothache from cou tact the gravel path, are legion, and we call upon tho authorities to sup press the hammock as a nuisance. More matches have been broken up by ham mocks than by all the Sunday schools in the world, and no girl who is bo.v should legged, or has an herself ankle like a rutabaga, ever trust in a hammock, even though it is held by half a dozen friends, as tho hammock will sliy at a piece of nnri paper utmli ns quick as horse, i,,,vuo and ir. in such o a mnmurf moment as ye think not you are on all fours, your head dizzv, and if there is a hole in your stocking as mail as tlie old miser’s Reurt, it will look to to outsiders outriders as as big as the gate to a fair ground. O, a hammock is worse than a bicycle.— Peck’s Sun. The Use of Pain. The power which rules tlip universe, .. . ^; , t , , P' pain K r ‘ * lu cr ,wer . usee as a signal °' danger. Just, generous, lieau Wul nature never strikes a foul blow ; never attacks ns behind our bucks; nev er ''’-F s pitfalls * ^or lays •* ambuscade*; --—-------. smile .. her never wears a upon face when * , ‘ u rR 18 Jengoance in her heart. 1'iv ticutly she teaches us her laws, plainly ," nte8 her warnings, tenderly she graduates their force. Long liefore tlie fierce, u-d, danger light of pain is Hashed she pk-ads with us—as though for her own sake, not ours—to be merciful to ourselves aud to each other. Hhemakes the overworked brain to wander from the subject of its labors. She turns tho ov.-r indulged , body against the delights of yesturday. This is her caution signal, "Go slow. She stands in the filthy courts and alloys that we pass daily, and beckons us to enter and realize with our ! senses what we allow to exist iu the I midst And < what 1 the do culture wo do of which ourselves? we brag. We J ply whip and spur on the jaded brain as though it were a jibing horse—foi-ce it back into the road which loads to mod ness, and go on full gallop. We drug the rebellious body with stimulants, we hide the original and tlunkwebavees caped the danger, aud are very festive before uiglit. We turn aside, as the Pharisee did of old, aud pass on the oth¬ er side with our handkerchief to our nose. and At disregarded last, having broken nature’s laws her warnings, forth she comes—drums beating, colors flying —right in front 1 to punish us. Then we go down on our knee* and whimper about it having pleased God Almighty to send this affliction upon us, and we pray Him to work a miracle in order to reverse the natural consequences of our disobedience, or save us from tho t2-oubJe of doing our duty. In other words, we put our fingers in the fire and pray it will not hurt. The Bridge of Sighs. Tlie Bridge of Sighs, which has been made famous by Byron in “ Childe Har¬ old,” is in Venice. Criminals were con¬ veyed across ti.e bridge to hear then sentence, and from there led to their ex¬ ecution ; from this it derives its melan¬ choly lie but appropriate name. It may explained that the Ducal Palace is connected on the east side by this bridge with the prisons. Buskin says iio of it, that the bridge is “ a work of merit, and of late period, owing the interest it possesses chiefly to its pretty name and the ignorant sentimentalism of Byron.” Howells speaks of it as “ That pathetic swindle, the Bridge of Sighs; ” and a traveler writing of it says that the sigling company that : crossed it must have been made up of “housebreakeis, cut-purse knaves and murderers,” it and the name was given to of “by compassion* the people from that opulence which enables the Ital ians to pity even rascality in diflieui ties.” Nevertheless, Byron thus sings of it: ' I stood in Venice, on the Bridge sf ?ighe ; A palace and a prison on each hand : i raw from out the waves her etruciures rise, As from the stroke of en enchanter’s wand : A tfaooEiand veers their ©toady wrings expand Around me, and a dying giory khI w O' er the far tunea, when tuany a subject i coked to the winged Jion’s marb'.e piles, Where Venice sate in state, thronged on her hnn. I dredia.ee. Ill'SOKS OF THE DAT. Was Eve’s first dress made of Ixar skin? U naturally 1 <>k P Qliar if U KO D and ^ going to D K .—Pitt Xye. Is ME ,. ats , ile cahtmae leaf must feel peifectlv ’ ' at home .—(Muncy H ’ HoJtrm * , ,.„... 8 . ■ -«i -jo - 11 1 ’ h tlmt of the man who , took . a ,iJ, “ x “ 1,11 a °'° " ;it r -~boston J •* >i y fat .-r * hs Ir-s'q, My uio:lit*r w:i* Irish, Aud i -tui IffdM fit> « — er'* ftfnSrsntOM. It was proliuMy an list misspvaiy who. when a -on: to he masticated *•}' the cannibals, originat.d ihat beautifut 80n 8 : When you lose a needle on the floor, the q i efeest wav t > Had it is to take otf vour slue* and walk sbont. Ilut s mo how people don't do that wav. ‘ “Gko-wi-* is ation • :l< . t<)r •• f.,st in-cuming's lost art fencing f’ Ho m-vvr saw Tal.m.ge with au imaginary b J lobster. — H< raid n / As Albam tel of , - paper s ;a _____ woman m, t * ,, » c,t .V «■ «•<» w..k.«5 her hnsUcid during am aim said: 1 do nidi jou wonhl T’ * uorUlt; ’ I(, ‘ 1 " a,jt lo lt taU " '( it , . s.iot . 4 lie , I , on-focm. : you ve aog I thought you tod me you com.i hold a g'nii.” Pat.—'-auaie, and so X can, yoiir libuo ' lt’» the shot, sur, I couldn't Loald ! '" A bad-temp*".hep max: He lud lost his kui e and tiny asked him the n-ud n'f qnes '“Yes, i n: “Do ” yon he replual. know w here “of yon ’.^at f yes course ^°- 1 in tncrelv t untiiig tu tx-ive t-W tor it t . kill .. are." Not every man can tell from e*i« ieuce how it teds to be struck bv light ning, but he e m get some idea off it iu>il by go.ng s tdden'v around a corner meeting his mother-in-law while ho is walking with a. prettv vitl — Bo$ttm J‘o»l A Keokuk man succeeded in hugging his sweetheart to death. But he has no (rouble in finding others. The girls seem rather anxious to take their chance* on his Lagging them to death. They don’t belive he can do it; would just lik| to see him try it. An Irish lady was so much on her guard against betraying her national ac¬ cent that she is reported to have spoken of the “covaturc ol Vesuvius," tearing that the crater would betray her again. —Albany lel Journal. She finds her paral¬ in the Yankee who speaks of the j>il town of a portico. When a corpulent citizen endeavors ti> jump off the dummy of one of our cab o romis while on tlie down grade and falls on the track in the front, of the wheels isb.lion nothing gives him so much genuine sat as, just when he is about to bo crushed to }.uli>, to wake up and find himself on the floor beside his own bed. —San Francisco Post, How pestering little things will hap¬ pen. A strung, r in a Middlesex County village Oudeck, was looking for a man named and when he went np to a fol¬ low and asked : “Are you Ond< ek?“ the fellow answered, “I reekoni I am,” and the stranger tried to talk business to hint and they got all mixed up in a misunder¬ standing bystanders and had they to lie paried by the before got through. And it was all on account of that confounded name .—Heston Post. English social life presents many points of interests in its slang. We have all probably read the anecdote of » young American lady in England (not n “fair Barbarian,” either) who, while ploy¬ ing crocket, exclaimed at a surprisingly fortunate shot of an opposing player : “Oh J what a horrid scratch 1 ’, w here¬ upon a young Euglisli lady remarked r “ You shouldn’t use such language, it’s slang!” askul Miss “Well, what should : savT' America “Oh! wliut ;» beastly fluke !’’—,Y cw Orb arts Times. Wit., and Whom. A too frequent error is the use of tho objective “ whom” instead of tho nomi¬ native “ who” in such expressions aa “the men whom h - says were or ■sent.”' This sentence should read * “The met* who he says were present.” “ Who ” is not tlie governed by the verb “says, ’ but is subject i f “ were.” and should bn its the nominative. “ Whom” is as iff and clumsy word at tlie best. It it very lit¬ tle used iu conversation, even by highly cultivated people. It has a flavor of pedantry aud affectation. The usual substitute of “whom” is “that,” aa “the man that I saw,” or it may lie omitted altogether in many css s. No bodv of any taste would think of tiring such sentences iu conversing ns “ Ot whom are ?” yon speaking?” “ Whom do you mean These phrases may be grammatically cidedly correct, but they are de¬ deal inelegant. The easiest way to with them is the li st. “ Who is it yon are speaking of ?” or * Who is it you mean?” are equally good English, and far nane graceful forms expression.— X. 1'. Star. Thing* JVe Outgrow. It is both the curse and the blessing of our American life that we are never quite content. We all expect to go somewhere before we jhie, and have a better time when we get there than we can have at home. Tlie bane of our life is discontent. We say we will work so long, and then we will enjoy ourselves. But we find it just as Thackeray has ex¬ pressed it. “ Wheu I was a bov,” it'was he said, “I wanted some taffy; a shilling; I hadn’t one. Wl.cn I was a man, 1 had a shilling, but I didn’t want, anv taffy.” —liobert Collycr. Work is the hw of our being—the living onward. principle that carries men and na tions Tlie greater number of men have to work with their hands as a matter of necessity, in order to live; but all must work in one way or another, if they would La'oor enjoy life as it ought to be enjoyed. may be a bui den and a chastisement, but it is also an honor and complished. a glory. Without that it nothing can be ao All is great in mas comes through work, aud civilization is its product. Were labor abolished, the race of Adam were at once stricken by moral death. A Cincinnati wholesale merchant sayt: the lie-t quality of whisky is ordered by Vermonters and the worst by Boston dealers.
