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THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE >
rHAWFORDVTLLE. GA.
Thr small town* lurm-'ii mor* murders
than the large otic 5 , in proportion to
population.
It is estimated tiia* at least fifty per
• ent. ot the barn- burned are fired from
tinokers' pipes, cigar-, and ■ igarette*.
Then ire now well equipped canning
fad ones in itino-t every Mate in the
1 .-non w hose j.ro lui ts of land am*
me preserved in nr tight ."i ..,.
in Canada they cal! th> comitiy “lln
State*.” Then why, a-k* the N f \ \ til K
ItidejM-rhlent, may o*>! the nddle •*! i
ui.me for our people be -oived by calling
ii- “Stamen
The opcritiou <>1 the English «y*teo»
i,; tithes for the support of ii State
On. ' Ii is iil'i-itrated 1% tin- «.»•• -it
iw .v. or,' f , iruH- 1 - m the p.m , *,f .
lendrin/, wuo have had to rai-e > . > i'»
a year among them for tithe*.
fn commenting <>» a recent novel ol
N'i'W England life by Mi** Mary E Wil¬
kins, the London Academy Miy>: “The
dialect ban evidently been taken direct
from the life; it is singular how nearly
it resembles that commonly heard m tiie
Weald of Kent and Sussex.”
Say* thc Minneapolis Time- Defalca¬
tion is altogether too « omuioii A long
established good name and uubleniisheil
character, a lifetime of fair dealing, all
the reputation which l»ii*ine** men would
once have spent years of self-denial to
obtain, begin* to lose its cumuli-rcia!
vatue. We look askance at everybody.
We go about asking whom we ran uu t.
Flying foxes are ilistrc'Siug the agri
"ulturints in some parts of Australia, and
« local paper nays that at the present
rato of increase it is greatly feared they
will soon become almost* a* great a men
see ns the rabbit pest. A r imp of the
foxes, about four miles from Krittn, New
South Wales, eontain* fully 100,00** of
thc jicsts, “and wheu disturbed they rise
like a cloud obscuring the sun.’*
Iu the lad fifty year* four Vicc-Prosi
dent* have succeeded to the Presidential
chair. John Tyler wa» the first; he sue
. ceeded{William Henry llarfison. Mill¬
ard Filmoro was the second, and lit
served out Genaral Zachary Taylor’s
term. Andrew Johnson and Chester A.
Arthur complete the list. Only twt
Presidents have died jn office from natu¬
ral causes- Two have been assassinated.
The doom of another educational fad
is sealed. The French association **f
Volapukists has dissolved, 'I'iie inert
energetic apostle of the language which
was expected to set right the confusion
caused by the affair at Babel has recent
jy taken the post of Professor of German
tti a provincial college. There have
liecn other setbacks and the great object
ot reforming the linguistic evils of t hr
world ha* been abandoned as far as
Paris is concerned.
The silk hat, that most characteriseu
article of London attire, is said to be a
sure indicator l»f prosperous or hare
times in that city. The denizens of
Chancery lane and Gracechureh street,
those who are found about the Teniph
and the exchange*, if briefs are plenty
and business blooming, flaunt it in lh>
glossiest of new tile* But if busittew
is slow the old ones arc ironed ami dc
longer service. Just uow. notes tlu
New York 8un, business i* bad, am
those of the hatter* of the English me
tropolis who are not going bankrupt arc
growling and grumbling with all theii
might.
_
Tb, N.w York A.lveitiwt m>.
Itibnms-ilb itau-i
tion in 1873. a period of twenty year-,
during which six President* hare been
.ftoJ, U». «h ... M..C.
pleasant day* only twice. The 4th of
1873, was a bitter cold anu bluslenua
TUen* was nether mow nor rata,
but the temperature was *o low that
death reaped a Urge harvest among
those who panic,,«ud to the parade.
The 4li, of Marcli, l^T*. wheu Hayi
was inaugurated. «m»a mtscrablr damp,
pneumonia-breeding day. The 4th of
March. ISM. when Garfield ws* :it
augurated. and the 4th ot Marc.:. l8-*.'>.
when Cleveland was first uau-gurattv*,
were both iileasant dav*. M Ham
*on'» Inaugura. ai lr**- «»> .u uvoroo
in the midst of a pouring ram. and Mr.
Cleveland** -ecou-i oath of otfi.o w
taken while the snow beat upon
ban*f Lead. Ihere is no sort of ; justiti
cation for thc retention of tfc;* late for
this important cerement It w*.! ,'»*»*
®* he made n etHvtnci*. * Soreiv it is not
aecMsary u> »•■*- 1
the change in the aim *
Kopttbiirac Government !.<*• lit.
he * hanged in thr islcroli of uuwait-ty.
A BLUteiHU’SSOkO.
To simple souls, ofttimes in simplest ways.
Com® sweet surprises 'hat—ws scarcely
know why—
Made glad with sudd*® brightness dreary
days.
Or set a rainbow in a stormy sky.
A -mile, perhaps from sow dear r a -.*• -
er-bv.
A word, unsought, of sympathy <,r praise,
A way-side flower, a flower-like butterfly-—
The veriest trifle has its spell to raise
Home drooping heart to whom God bids
it sprak:
And 1—who heard but now all unaware
That bluebird's rapture thrilling on the air-
1 know its meaning is not far to «*k.
To me faint-hearte<|, fearful. ..nee .gain
The Father sends a message—aot in vatu.
Mary Bradley, in Harper's Bazar.
STILTS MORGAN'S BUZZARD
s TILTS MORGAN had
lived three winters
hi Dakota without
once having seen a
blizzard. He had
come to have his
doubts about the ex
f 1 istence of such a
^ thin g. To be sure,
T? he often read in the
- ■ Eastcin papers that a
blizzard had swept over his State anil
had done all sui t- of dreadful thing*.
But it had never come his way, and he
firmly believed tlmt these stones were
the malicious inventions ol dishonest ,
newspaper correspondents in the pay of j
railroads and town-site companies J
anxious to divert immigration from Da
I kota. Stilts used to inveigh 1
there cruel stories bitterly, l o niAtion
the word “blizzard” in his presence was •
the signal for such a storm id protest as
suggested that ir lie had never actually
encountered one he kept the possibility .
of it always with him. ’
Stilts was “proving up on a claim
not far from the city .if Watertown. I!.- j
kept a grocery store in the city, but left
it early every afternoon m charge of hi*
brother so as to lie able to sleep on Ins
claim. He had to walk lour miles across
the prairie, but be argued that the
walking did him good, and :t became at
last a very simple mailer. He left town
one afternoon in lelmwry, a little later
than usual, but still in ample time to
read, hi* shack before dark. t had
iK-cn a warm, oeuutiful day. The sun
had blazed out ol a perfectly clear sky, >
.■md, although the air wa* sharp every- I
»„«ly had gone around with his top-coat,
on hi. arm, if indeed, he had bothered
with it at all. Stilt* knew that the
went her changed qutckly acmtimoa. !
and lie never ventured on his long walk
without plenty of ^protection. 8o hc,
took hi» coat with him -—a heavy, old*
time buffalo—with his arm looped over >
it aud Nothing hi* bauds momentous iu hi* trousers is apt to pockets. occur |
nowadays m a walk aero-s a Dakcto
Hhrm. The India..* wolves, buffalo I
and everything else o former .aterm ,
havegoae forever. Gopher* .hoot around
through the gra-s, hut gopher* are «
small of account as sparrows .., New
York or turkey buzzards hi rnuhlad. |
Now and then a jick rabbit would tear
himielf on lii* hind leg*, point his loug
cars toward you anil l/ound fleetly away. ,
*......*.....- * >»a
lar beyond in the distance, and it might
be possible to catch a glimpse of him,
and once in a great while you might
stumble on a colony of dogs. But when
alt these incidents had occurred the pos¬
sibilities of the prairies weie exhausted,
and you were left lo your own resources
for entertainment. In thi* aspect of his
case t*fills was fortunate. He had little
to think . . , of, , , but , he possess.-, i ,i the rare
faculty at will of not .liinkinga all, iimli
would move on, mile after mile, without
Uing conscious of anything. ,
On the February afternoon l men
noued Stilts was thus Occupied that is,
he was nloihlin^ aioni; tiicvtiuUicalty
with his uu ml in a condition of simple
;*•““; t......i-“ .. .......
......... ........
before lie perceived it, tor now that he
did perceive it, he seemed to recollect
in a dim sort ot way that he had be* n
for some time muasv He reavsun.cd i
control , o. , Ins , mental orations , and, .
lookeil around urn. {something queer i
^
warm. Nowrt. v , wa* very cod and the .
ins'iaut* 1,1 ’me norlhern ind ‘Sen,
era ami western wore a ‘ dljreJ >
i, a m<"|>.nn w.i- * *-m_< y -
Z i .
^ still. o,..
pressed, lie seetne.1 to feel that some
thing dreadful was about to happeu.
b»» ... ta. Li.
^ ^ msUut ht . ,„ uM ,
, uakt , lt out plainly, aud yet, even a* he
iookid, mvoiovI become indistinct. ‘
it to
Halt wav between him and the house
there ran a deep «*!.-where coulee', and he SxihI the
-pot with hi. he wanted to
y , rik<f j rherf observation*, from the
mrticuUr second <»t turn when he first
hought h felt cold. h ».l certainly con
no more than three minutes, but
no*, tin entire dome above him was
leaden i»i the thack was lost to view, and
«’, i uu he ha 1 **ot hi* l»- c x»t on
.id buttoned up lie wa* sensible of a
. 1 ^» motion of tto air and a distant
but raoi ilv ::■*• * r.'tchtn • n Tho
*
«rtion o,r *-.«thi flu tiuo-pboru* cone
which hi- and* s ht was Umitetl. him'
M wnw*.l to duken k-o i on
At . .. ust - vet Lis right shoulder
ai d aiuarentiv iliei* a -:oi<*\ .' thn»w distant
a ! w , b.wk knot about
tkjf , /t ? » I a!' it looked a»
-rT.- .-..ui and «..ir'.mg
darku--* a. *ai in .»’! direr
,
,
ti-r"lh- .. tltl1 . | , 1 ,.,.•
think i ar- r-t‘ - f * but it
doesn't signify, anyhow. Every holy
call'd aim stilt* on account of his tb
normally long and thin legs. He
tail, but his body was aot well propor
noced. The most of it was legs, sight
long as tbey were they lacked w
and «iu,cle. ft nm' like a flart into
Stilt V mind that if lie ever le that
twirling black knot strike him it would
t arry him so far and turn him over so
often that even if he got away L- y it
alive lie wo od have lo»t i.i> bte
completely and would have nolh in
whatever as to the direction in v,*r
,vilk. All the stories he had hf»
read about people getting lost * P
.
’»«* «««* «£“ lum ' \ of
memheuA one case where a man s\ no
out in a blizzard to close his barn
and perished in a vain effort to iir:A
Another, where a man and his yof
daughter left a church building
which, with others, tbe blizzard
them, thinking they could surely reach
their home on the other side of
street and only a few doors below the
chin- b. They were found dead in the
sno-v not ten feet from the fence
inclosed their house. Stitts threw him
^ | f OIJ stomach, flattened out and
( j !1D d toes into the ground
|j f . fc( .;y_ ilifj and did it
|i e the right thiug not
a moment too soon. The noise which
had directed hi* attention to the black
knot had become a startling thunder,
wild {lurries of sno w darted and spread,
ami in another instant tlie blizzard
broke! Ten million demons surcharged,
f „ ot ha?c ma j e « wilder
( 1)M or produced a more fearful force.
T , ( . i U ckie,t thing jf that ever happened to
StiJtv in ;ll , hj . fe wai ) lls thinness at ,
Unl lilo((je|jl j| e } ic i,i himself down in
llle ., r:ws an j trembled. Stiff
)J( . wus with r0 ui the perspiration ol
fear wet bis fnee. How loot.' be lay he
.q.j kHOW hut he knew the snow 1
^ h ,,, iv „„ ] lim ;lnt j i, e begau to be!
oJ )o!!j||; . 0onsc iousnc 9 s. The
wildest passion * of the storm had passed. *Ull1
__ (jf , ha he fclt t( . r . uil) . But it
aI|) , r0(lre(J . The snow fell in lit
tll Tthat struck his face like whip
g|i llc ( ou | ( i nol seu a f O0 t iu front
cvt> , ]|e , va , afral d, indeed, to
', ami ventured to do so only
f( r a Met .„ n( , now aud then. He rose
, wl tt!slin „ his strength against the
torw wU)| movement until at last*
sU)> , ( , llpri ght with his face set, he
,| ir ccfciy towards his little
, olle .third of a mile away.
sti|tg , lcarJ ,bout the tendency
tuau } n walking, without visible
m lfk . u , hitu , to move iu a circle,
, lb . lt ther e was danger of
ilttill ^ thc » Uack while being very
^ Uu , th , n ha(l , )een ( . x _
| , aincd to , lim thp .uuscie* of the right
” he - * stron , 4{ . r a .ul more vigor
o| rally than these of the
^ ^ ’ ^ -wan a circular move*
me| t lowar ,i u ie left. He concluded,
t j im ,f rtrc t0 strike out for a point to the
of norlh ot hi# , b ,, c k. The wind
^ (0 , )C tak cn into acoouot. "*
^ ^ wouW u , l0 io
wurd tho left . considering these facts,
J u> m „ Te a3 #wiflly as he dared,
h „ to ^ , lue ^direction reRard to the necessity
C(mtr u 0 f every step.
. not ri .ailv a W «t. The wind
, Vvcrf’mu«de. , , , |]n ,,„ t ,, lri)1 , t i him and sti u.
The cold was uu
t , ,£■.*& <rhe l.itin«? whii-Diuir poZ snow
»
<>f MH .. ar(; jt 9truck . 1Ic could not turn
|roiu |t , c9t , R . cha0 „ ctl i, is ra „ t c. Ho
wont forward a dozen steps, paused beating
ugaiust the wind, and then iu ex
hmstioii—a doz.‘t» more and paused
again, Ho asked himself a thousand
times. Would he never reach the coulee,
Again and again he was sure he
lost it, sure h« was going any other
^ ^ ,iie right way. But as last lie
„ ^ , fel( . k ; s f 00t j;o ps descend
;uiJ mnv )w . was suro o! it . Down,
j ’ down he went, slowly but firmly,
fo m . of the * tonu giving less of with the
„ u . 1 Uc was at thl bottom
.* f !
... .. kin] . a[
boyhood in Kentucky, of hi* mother,
win* was as good a woman as evsyr
'“oaiv.-l a h(e into tlu* world, and as he
-topped J «, for breath in t.ie coulee, witii
t j/4 i r> , howling above him, he tried
u tho ,, r aycrs she had taught him,
memberctl the long " meter D;>xoloiry, but
„„ vlili it ov cr softly to himself,
^, Jj®, ^’"apJrepriLto-S
bring i»ck were the lines:
\y tl fr.» L tho little boy mind ing h is «heep?
" T.Z&ZSZli *"^Su. b.o. i.
lt„i h, 1...1 »c«.t thrcu s b
the operation of making a prayer lor
himself, and. indeed, he had a vape
... L. dUc^iy., bri
Ul . , ai<1 to hmMclf that if ever he got
„jt ot this alive, he would go to some
bjjv who knew one and get it and com
mit it to memory. But what to do now
distressed hitn. He thought and thought
u -.d thought, but only to find himself
icpcatiag again -md again;
r.lY^^h'av-mow’" , ,
‘ ,h " ! *' "* * 1
-Wed,” -aid StnU, gathering huMell
together to begin the ascent, and to facn
the -:*>nn anew. “1 vxn't help it; it’* all
l kn-.w; if* the bert 1 can do, and if it
won t go. why. so much the worse tor
me.’ It w .at comforted him,
bowever, and iu* to t '. otter for saying it.
I’ue *-ctn; t,» the top of the couiee
wn* performed with the expnnditurn of
almost all hi* remaining strength,
when Stilts Sett himself oa the iesel
prxint he mov. I *!>wlr aid feebly, lie
ws* COuh iou* that Ins bmJv was stiffen
mg. that h« to longer feit keenly, and
f.« it wa* a .. .o»ti •. h »w far he could
> a : f*. ing T; * h* attributed
the fear;u! co!d rather thaa to fatigue,
and he began tossing Us aMM,tojaafb
• p mi..- a I to do everything
tfu» i aid the c reuiation ot tie
blood. lie kept on and <>n until he felt
sure be must he very near ins {hack. and
then hope began to fall him He could
see nothing, bear nothing, but the wind,
feel nothing bat the savage snow Still
walked, bolding \f- hv d« out
stretched before him. and uttering >*•*,
low mom., of despair. Suddenly it' '• ...
He had stumb.cd. He moved his •; i.nb
hands about in the 'now • * * tw in:
wood-pile’ ’cried wood Stilt*: d am the;.:
It was his pile, but *
lu iny possible directions iu wiii .i.i
shack might lie from the wood-pi! • i
were, punt* of the He
figured the thing out, though, with no
little judgment. If he h-i-1 came in a
reasonably straight line front the coulee
to the wood-pile the shack wa- about
thirty feet to the right. He turned and
paced off the thirty feet, thirty-.ive,
forty—but he did not strike the »h>:c';.
Then he faced directly about uud paced
his way back to the wood-pile. off Having second
got it agaiu, he started a
j time, somewhat more to the right,
.Again he failed and again he returned.
lie made five journeys back and forth
from the wood-pile, not daring to move
save iu straight lines from and to it, in¬
) courage running higher at each start and
falling deeper at each return. But the
sixth trip gave him his life. He fell di
rectly on tbe squared log tha' served
him for a door step,
Stilts opened his coat, ami louche 1
his stiff hand into its inside pocket for
the key of the padlock that fastened las
door. It took him an age to liud it,aud
a weary, weary tune to get it in the lock,
Butwheu.atlast.heturneditandre
moved the hasp, leaned against the
heavy door, staggered into warmth and
safety, and fell upon his bed iu the
be said, faintly, “i’ll say over
them tines again before i drop off io
sleep. It’s a wheat farm to a whisp o’
straw that they was what saved me!”—
New York Tribune,
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WISE WOltIIS.
Prejudice L bias independent of the
facts.
He who cares not to return any go
anywhere.
The fop finds his beautified vision in a
lookiag-glus*.
The body may be clean but the soul
alone cau be pure.
The concensus of the science iu a cen¬
tral aud superior whole is philosophy.
Inspiration is the supplementation of
the original act which created the man.
Tbe apt use of symbols is the great
art for ruling the operations of human
brains.
.Symbolism is thc translation of the
language of one kingdom of being into
that of another.
In the recoil of our own spirit aud the
returns of our owu deeds, Nemesis is
perpetually boro.
Thc mcrdj surprising surprise* but is a
• the intrinsically admired, admirable
cver mo ,e and more
.i“ke ... forout „,, o^u rilcircum .
s ITl your The thought
tl»e mold ’ 5 vour own will the stamp tamp of of
‘ ;
Would you make . conquests , of . a man.
Whi his heart and you wil wiu lus
,ulnl, • Would you make a conquest of
; •........... hl;r hwrt .»
-
Human life is a play, consisting o
many different scenes; and those who
; are iu the world as spectators often
( understand the plot and the characters
I better than those who are there as
j actors.
Philosophy enriched by history and
j animated by poetry aud appliedbyhu
inanity to the inner life is religious. The
cold forms of science and philosophy, and
illuminated with duly aud warmed
filled with love, bloom into religion.
j Eel-Bunting Hog.
An
j An _ Irish . . setter ^ dog, owned in No,mk, .
- hu ‘ n “ dc "’ w -
the suspicion that he had taken aa cel
{ r0 ai the pile of some fishermen and notice along
t jjc shore of the pond, no
W a* taken of it. Pretty sooa he ap
, ' ^ i,^* it red with auotber good-si/.-sJ ce. in
outU , and the way in which he
j a by thjs cel i.ecame a cause of iu
\^\he would follow Znl ^stealing. the deir uud see whose
The dog swmed
! haV ‘ tbU “ Wc “ tioB wf h ‘ S ?"J"
which large ouantities ot dried leaves
were ,i packed in tho water. He rau aloug
.h, 3 ,-(.h.- i„ . ..onn,,,
or t«. n>.J« » «"•!> « n
them and brought forth another large
12 • bSwXd ZX Zwl'Tov-oi 'hyt the ‘ Tels
teaUon o. an acquaintance to ^ the fact
al * e propo^t* o see it $ny l
eel-s^ar " < -‘ r * 'eoxa he u t '-xi -* rd piu S_ u
rrocurx a an . narv
fork aud proceeded to thro* tlu. ecis
oat. The numter aitoundrol him and
when counts! they were found to he
nineteen dozen or .. eel—Norwuh
< CoaD ' ’ U ■ Uetin '_
*
t.rafentl . ttomai 1 .ami. wan
j Observant and far-sighted persons dis
tingui*b at great distances a man from a
woman, not by dre-s, lace, or figure,
but by movements. TIk motiou; of tuc
most graceful of men are ungainly when
compared with tbe sinuous lines that
most w<«en instinctively assume. It
often happens tunt and a sm 8 ,e motion
of a distant figure, especially •
motion of the arms above the head, will
instantly determine for a trained eb
server the sex of thc person. If anyone
sloobtt thri. let him note tbe awkward.
wmduti. -Lae pertorinaacx o. a mvi ar
! tanging hi* hair, and the graceful curves
ani « « 3| h 3 *hich a woman
accsmpnnu-s :U *w< thing.
Five Press.
QUEER CITY OCCUPATIONS.
UKIQTTE METEODS OP EABNiyo
a E.rPET.IHOOJJ IN NEt* 7 TORE.
T.a»> N «« n d Spicing Sonpssnrt Me***
—Mow Pampered Do C * Arc Savrrt
Freni t'ntirnely Death Eir.
GREAT of t -
A number persons in
N. w York City t^e their
wa vs § ‘ 'V- / ft 1, !" Z
* -
- !
ot me most refreshing and original, - 4S
weii a- remunerative of the outlying
professions is that of a young trencu
ill. Only a lew years ago he was a
rook m a famous restaurant in Pans.
One of his compositions, ‘-a symphony
in eggs and mushrooma probably, hap
pened to tickle the jaded palate of a
£S£Tur^SS 5 T
to Fifth avenue, He received a salary *
equal to that of a bank cashier, and had
very much less work to do; but his ar¬
tistic soul aspired to something higher.
Finally his opportunity came. There
was a great exhibition in tbe Madison
Square Garden of the possibilities and im¬
possibilities of the science of gastronomy,
and the masterpiece of the young
Frenchman easily carried off the prize.
Immediately his services were in demand
by a score of millionaires, but he de¬
clined all of the offers made to linn of a
position. do so,” he
“Much as I would like to
said, “I cannot devote all my time to
your affairs, owing to my numerous eu
gagemeuts; but whenever you have a
dinner ou hand of a special nature, I
shall be glad to offer iuy services in ,u
perintendiug its preparation.”
Dinncr giving had become a popular
form of entertaining in New York, and
soon this favorite disciple of Epicurus
had more engagements than he could
fill, light was the work , , he was ex
as
pectcd to do. His duties simply con
gist in the preparation of a menu, and
then when thc dinner is almost ready to
be served he goes into the kitchen and
sisini£. , ££?£r^ z
the table, •To the uninitiated the
change that takes place in these during
those few moments seems simply tnarvel
uus. It very often happens that this
bright Frenchman has two or eveu
three engagements in a single evening,
and as lie receives any sum fnm *20 up
for each dinner it will be seen that he
is iu a fair way of becoming rich.
Another man whose dealings with the
Four Hundred aru a source of considera¬
ble revenue to him occupies au unpre¬ side
tentious establishment on one of the
streets, near Broadway, m the vicinity
of Central Park. A neatly (Minted sign
announces that ha is u specialist iu the
diseases of the dog. llis patron* are
ladiek for the most part, aud he will
receive no dog of whose noble birth
there can be any questi u. But wuat
is chiefly remarkable auaut^this he individ¬ adopts
ual is the mode of treatment
and, it may be said, it is seldom unsuc¬
cessful. It is a bit wintcrish when a
day passes that half a dozen or more
fashionable equipages do uot draw up
at liis door and that an assortment of
Fidos, Nitouchcs aud Snowballs are not
reluctantly committed to him by their
tearful owners.
The look of pity aud commiseration
which shines all over his face as he
listens to the dotiug owner’s recital of
the miseries of “poor Fido”is seemingly
as deep aud stroug as the affection of i
godfather. But what a change takes
place wheu the unfortunate canine’s
mistress is driven away. “Come here,
my pretty, pampered animal,” he sottly
mutters; “we know what ails you, don’t
we! You've been gorging vea! your skin
with porterhouse steak, and cutlets,
and chicken, aud truffles, aud cream,
and cake, and lollypops, aud other
vanities, haven’t you .’ And instead of
taking your exercise like a sensible dog
you’ve been riding around the park in
soft, rolling carriages; and wheu you go
to sleep you are wrapped iu warm
blankets and furs, ain't you? Well,
you belong to a nice Christian lamily
and we will see what a little sack-cloth
and ashes, and a strict observance of
Lent for a short time will do for you.”
Then he catches the poor, betrayed
animal by tbe loose skiu on the back of
the neck and throws him into a back
room where a number of other dyspeptic
looking ammais are doing penance for
previou* indiscretions.
When the dog’s owner returns iu thc
course of a few days Fido is brought out
and the professor proceeds to give a
demonstration. Thc dog has nothing
more palatable or sustaining than ca?tor
oil since hi* incarceration, and when a
saucer of milk is placed before men the
now famished animat makes a mad dash
3 or it, and in his haste puts Ins head and
both feet into it. F ,<3 ° * mistress
lighted, of course, and cheerful y settles
the bill, which would keep a full-grown
man at the best hotel m town for a
week.
It is a fact that some women pay more
} n the course of n year for the treatment
of the ir pets, their sickness being <**used
bj ove rfeeding. than wouhl buy a dozen
heal thy dogs. But then it woulU not be
Fi do, you know.
About every other day there passes
along Park Row a short, thickset, phleg
matk-looking tJerman woman, with a
bundle balanced on her head of the pro
portions of an inflated balloon or two or
three feather beds rolleo into one Mtc
trudges manfully along, past the cu
trance Vo the big bridge, through Chat
ham Square, until finally she is lost to
view in the maze of streets on the east
side . Wonder as to what the enormou
bag cor. tains is only equalled by the cam
migration felt for the woman and he
seemingly hard lot. A veteran Park How
rounder cleared up the mystery the other
, *fter a number of penuns ba*l made
k -ucs*e* as to wha! was m the bug. tbest
gnoesr* ranging all the way from fexther
to lead.
-That there sack. m 3
corns into it, and you dun t need to be
S,, p iS to S^S"
clear profit of from -Sid to $20 ^to her,
^ica is pretty good for a dey 3 work.
there sre champagne cork*, -wiisfey
ro f ks. beet corks, 'pollicaris corks and
every kind of corks used in
liquors. She is taking them a now
and will set her children at work sorting
! them into different sizes. She buys them
f ^, a pailful from the
and when they are aborted she
sell* them over again lor from twenty
live to forty cents a gross.
{here are those who make a reg
^ business of calling people who have
Jg their work a . a!1 unusually early
^ morDlo „_ Tbey are to be
1 . everv ,, art of the city now,
the Batterv to Harlem. “This
^ ^ one of them- “has its
. w -,-ei! as its dangers.
= -jet:
J*»t. and often take me to the .station
house as a suspicicus character. Of
course, the Sergeant knows me and lets
ine go at once.
“Now. do you see that?" continued
he, pointing to a knob on his forehead’
about the size of a bird’s egg- “Well,
I got that from one ot my oldest custom¬
er* for persisting iu waking him up.
He was tired and sleepy, and ire threw a
heavy boot at my head. He would have
chucked au alarm clock out of the win¬
dow.”—New York News.
SF.LECT SIFTINGS.
A great many line English gloves are
n,auc , ° , ,, 1 _ a
'
A bald-headed .... religion* sect . in I!u=s,a
holds that hair i* -iitlul.
In Finland and East iurkestan thun
derstorins are wholly unknown,
'j' arw thousand marriages are per
f orlll; .d every day all over the world,
Tartars of 2000 rears ago preserved
. ;lu . Bmmb and to * nail* of their
^ ' 'j
M ,. a A , it;ai j Houghton, of Scranton,
Peun k( . t .„ s a | lolU -.*00 pet sparrows iu
*
^ bftu ^
“ ni) ^ ‘'* u, ,l v * ,th ,arrot -’ turn, P 5 a,K *
-
mangclwurtzel.
Mauganiu is composed of eighty-tiirec
per cent, copper four per cent, nickel
and thirteen per cent, manganese.
Ifobiuson Crusoe’s island, Juan Fernan¬
dez, i> inhabited by about sixty persons,
who attend to the herd* of cattle that
graze there.
it is averred that the coldest winter
on record was that of 1435, wheu in
Germany people skated a* late a* the
middle of May.
A brass band in New London, Conn.,
announces that it has received two new
dirges and is prepared to play at funerals
at the lowest figures.
Elongated ear lobes are considered a
mark of beauty in Borneo. Girl* with
this feature Teaching down to. their
elbows are not uncommon.
Perhaps the greatest of all nuggets of
gold was taken from the Monumental
Mine, near Sierra Buttes, in 186*5. It
was estimated to tie worth 5 v’>0,000.
One of the largest forest* in the world
stands on ice. It is situated between
Ural and the Okhotsk Sea, Siberia. A
welt was rev-ntly dug in Pais region, 340
when it was found that a depth of
feet tbe ground was still frozen.
No wonder the fish crop ss never
“short.” The fioundor lays 7,000,000
egg** annually; several others from
I, 000,000 to 3.090,000, while the tur¬
bot is credited with depositing from
II, 000,000 to 12,000,000 during each
breediug season.
Iu England naval courts-martial can¬
not sit after sunset. Ueeently in order
to finish a trial without an adjournment
thc presiding admiral, it is said, issued
au order sflieialty postponing sunset,and'
the ships in thc harbor kept their flags
flying after dark.
The oldest ornaments among tho
household goads of the White House:
arc the two bronzs candelabra that stood
oa thc ends of the mantel in rhe red
parlor. They are six feet tail, aud wera
presented to President Jackson during;
his occupancy of the White House by
General Patterson,
\ peasant plowiug near the village of
Porcuna, in Spain, recently, turned up
a a amphora filled with gold aud silver
coins, all iu a good state of proserva
tion. The gold coins are somewhkt
larger than a twenty-five cent piece, and
one side is the inscription: “Sabina Au
^usta fladriaua, G. H. A.” 'The figure
of a Homan soldier is on the other side.
Although the summits of the Hima
laya _ reoeiTe far more than the amount
beat necessary to melt the snow that
.- a jj s on Hu-m, yet in spite of this the
suow is noc lue U<-J. This is because tho
b ca t received from thc sun is thrown off
5nto space s0 ^nidi* by radiation and
reflection that tbe sun fails to raise tbe
u mp:rature of the snow above the melt*
ing point.
A Keiuarkable fa-t*.
Tne seutiment expressed in the lines;
. "« ten we lkin to live.
«e ah begin to die.
wm almost liwrally verified in the c*s«
of 8imon M. Elder, who died at Port
laud lately. He was a man ot remark
ably robust health until his final illness
of only a few month?, and yet a surgical
examination showed that death was
caused by a kick f rom a horse sixty year*
ago, wueu Mr. E.uer was a small boy.
The inimal s loot crushed the skull two
laches above his right eye, aud the oper
ation above refem-d to disclosed a large
orifice iu the skull, through which it was
-eao thst the right frontal lobe of the
brain wa- entirely gone. How life ami
reason were sustained for years uadee
such condition* is a subject o*t interest to
medical science. “Tunt he should have
-urvivedtha accident was in itselt a
marvel,” said Lis attending physician;
.xt he retained lus faculties and
- ife ol useful industry, makes it %
truly wonderful erne.’ Journal