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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
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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.