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CRAWFORDVILLE - - GEORGIA.
NEWS GLEANINGS,
Mississippi will have a tale female
college. 4Jid 779,1 M
Georgia ha* 7021*81 males
email*.
Birmingham has hopes of t large car
manufactory.
Mississippi ha- four time - as x, ,uch tim
her as Minnesota.
Marion county. FI a., has 23,400 acres
of land in ora nee groves.
Russian Jews ai“ constantly w illing
in all parts of Mississippi.
Fifty-five cotton nulls in Georgia, and
others in process of erection.
Beal estate at MilleJgeville, Ga., b«*
doubled in value in the last two years,
Birmingham, A in., hs»* raised the li¬
cense of whisky dealers to $850 a coun
ter.
A hill has been introduced in the Vir¬
ginia Senate to pbolish vtw* whipping
poet.
The salary of the Mayor of Savannah
has been increased from $1,500 to $1,000
a year.
It is said that twenty seven of the ex¬
hibitors at / ifant» are going to establish
ffictoricH ttiere.
There are eleven men in the Clarks*
i lie, Ark., jail charged with murder in
the first degieto
Three Butler county, .4la., Iki.vs in one
day’s hunt killed fourteen foxes ami
tweBty-two cat squirrels.
forty *honsan l dollars have been sub¬
scribed toward a proposed ear manufac¬
tory in Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. Nancy E. Pearce, who cut off her
child’s head in Howard county, Ark.,
has been adjudged insane.
The street letter boxes in 8an Artto
nio, Texas, have been rot oed * > frequent¬
ly that the postmaster ha- urdcred them
taken down.
Many Georgia fanner* believe there
, , j next
spring, and are h blmg back a-muchVi
,, their . crops as possible.
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Since 1800 Tenncsste lias acquired
nearly 400,000 additional population,
and has made crops every year of an
jiverage animal net profit of $27,500,000.
In tlie four State* of Georgia, Alabama,
South Carolina and Tennessee the num¬
ber of persons employed in the manufac¬
ture of cotton is 11,788, against 5,890 in
1870.
The Mayor of Birmingham, Ala., has
given orders to the police loree of that
city to requin* all merchants to discon¬
tinue tho sale of cigars and tobacco on
Sunday.
Tho father of Rev. Richard Jordan of
Rhea county, Tenn., is still living, at the
ago of 10G. His son is seventy-five. His
wife is eighty-seven, hut looks older than
her husband.
'flie Cincinnati Southern railroad has
contracted w ith the Glen Mary (Tenn.)
mines for twenty car loads of coal per
day for their engines, at seven cents per
bushel unscreened
The new capitol building at Austin,
Texas, is to la* 366 feet high, 566 feet
long, ami 285 feet in depth, the seventh
highest building in the world, and the
second in the United States.
The Trustees of tho Georgia Academy
for the Blind have purchased ground at
kiuoon fur the erection of an academy
for the colored blind. The ritute appro¬
priated $10,000 for the purp
In North Carolina there are fifty-three
cotton mills in operation, and six others
arc in progress and nearly completed.
There are also four or five woolen mills
in operation in “ the old North ritate.
A mulatto woman named Fannie
Crawford has just returned to her farm
in Mississippi, wW* cfl f negroes from
bumnter county, Ala. This year, about
closing time, she worked 300 hands on
her farm, which she manages herself.
With increased capital pouring into
New Orleans, with the jetties opened for
the largest vessels, with four railroads
running tliere, and at least three more
e„ the way, the Times-Democrat wirfies . .
jfie whole world ’ a happy - ew 5 ear.
The 5 ii k-burc and bhip 1 bind and
the Memphis and ' icksburg railroads
have lea«**d 600 penitentiary convict*.
from the Mate I>oa r d of 1 u?>
lie Works which ar* to be divided be
twocr. the tw* roads and put to wor k
near Vicksburg.
A g od t ea o r svrnp made in Alaba
ma th.s . on is found to W unfit for
use because 1 -ugar cane from w inch
it was in cow-pens. Tlu
stalks of the me were
but the :(V syriif i- said to 1
absolutely n ieou«.
Men is 4 X*3i : Mrs. Erwin. who»is
® wtw? ^ ^ the “Somhern Floivnee
Nipbtinga.c. died at Huntsville. Ala..
recently. During the war she had
f pitatft wherever‘be army of the feEBes
see could be readied, and after the var
she established m: asylum forthe orpfe»n*
•of Confederate w filters..
It i» reported that the Wood wart a 4
the great nail maiufacturers of Wheel
itg, We-t Virginia, are arranging to
e:>me to 15irminghi.ni, Ala., where inco
partnership with M . DeBardelcben. they
f*T>pO M‘ to enter lar'-ely into the matu
fa lure of nails and other irons.
Lwj k here ?ladcs of f 1 lorhk. Lay ' -p(.i * j” n lu ,r
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oar language, but by frequent inter
couw c- with the whitogieopleat (he trad
in% pofit*, on f/ake <ibeechohee, have be
com#' 1 ■ivilized. Tiny .. re friendly and
bon* * in their dealings with the whiten.
The ex tent of the manufacture of
“ pure olive oil” from cotton seed is in¬
dicated ...v export statiat.es from New
(if r,,009,0(10 gallons shipped
thence during 1870 80, eigfcty-eight per
cent was sent to the Mediteranean and
French [Hints, and one hrirf of this
amount to Italy.
Phillips, Marshall A Co. of London,
have purchased 1,300,0^0 acres of land
from the stateMississippi. Tie lands
lie mostly in the- Yazoo delta, ant' c<,In¬
prise some of the richest cotton and
timber land in the South. It is tin? in
tntfion to improve, .cultivate and ozo¬
nize these lands.
Him. J. I 1 ’. Cunningham of Fulton,
Ark., has invented a cotton-picking ina
t hine that pulls oil' the cotton bolls,
limlwand leaf, ami then separates them.
The horse and wagon pass over the rows
that have been picked arid the machine
gathers on the side. He says that by
attaching the separator to thegip power
he can pick two rows as fast as the team
can move.
Atlanta Constitution: The cost of the
Exposition was£260,000, of which $150,
000 in round figures were put in build¬
ings and improvements and the balance
paid out for running expenses, printing,
etc. The receipts were from $220,000 to
$250,000, of which $115,000 came from
stock, $15,000 from privileges, $15,000
fr m entry fees, $91,000 from gate re¬
ceipts, and $5,003 from miscellaneous
resources.
Eastman (Ga ,) Times: E. L. Burch,
of Telfair county, killed a bald eagle
1®*t. week which measured eight feet
ita " in P- One of the
feet was sent to tui* iTV ,>t*j *K<>_ 1 ,.|. M l SS
from „ poiut , to point . , measured , eight . and
one-third inches. This monstrous bird
had a grown sheep down when Mr, Burch
discovered it, and forced him to relax
his hold by sending a rifle hall through
his engleshi'p,
Durham Recorder: The farmers in
Easton! Carolina seem toW tardy in fin¬
ishing up tho year’s crop, hence it is al.
most impossible to employ a man to drive
deer. Sport in this line, however, is
fine. Deer are abundant, so tncch so
that migratory sportsmen believe them
to be more numerous in the everglade
counties of Bender, Jones, Onslow, Cra¬
ven, Pamlico and Carteret than in any
part of the South,
The Dempsey family and tho Norri,
family, of Cherokee county, Ala., have
long been enemies. The older members
have spent a life time in continued bick¬
ering!;, and have wearied of it. But the
boys have taken up the cudgel, and here
is the result: List week two of the
Dempsey b >ya and two of the Norris
met to fight it out. Both of the Norris
boys were stabbed, the younger mortally.
The families stand high in the commu¬
nity, and great excitement has grown
out of the difficulty.
Jaeksomville (Fla.,) Union: During
the month of December there were 6,-
200,000 feet of yellow fine lumber
shipped from this port, against3,318,060
feet for same month last year, an increase
last month of 2,882,0(H) foot over the
amonnt shipped during the same month
in 1880. The above docs not include
lumber shipped north via Fernandina,
over the Fernandina and Jacksonville
railroad. During the year just close
there were, not including that shipped
via Fernandina, 68,837,451 feet of lum¬
ber shipped from this port, agaiust 41,-
719,255 feet shipped during 1880, and
83,978,938 shipped in 1879, an increase
in 1881 over 1880 of 17,118,1183 feet, and
over 1ST9 of 24,858,513 feet.
rxir the aGSDOLA.
. Yew little ha* vet been said or writ
^ ^ ^ ^ ftUii nu ^ t andlH , ous
^ ^ vtvn daUsm wluoh a long suffering
u , vr ;j called to endure. This
j „ (itluug i-ss atrocious that the intro
fi tI ,,fi ou 0 { stcamlxsats on the Grand
callA ] ^ Vamv. The trinmphs of « pmo
fi aTe j^ft few spots iuvest.'d
j jfi e pxvuliar beauty and fascination
which belonged to tho world when it
was vounger, and one ot thesi' few sjx'ts
is, or assuredly was. Venice. Tho pres
steamboats tends to the
r T i of the . 1 ,, m.udol gondolas, i- and and
" ,en tiu ' gondolas h.i\e disappeared
from the canals of Venice very little of
(ho poetry of motion will ht* loft ou earth.
ti in the Adriatic The period of
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gro w . t!j g,. licr .aiy averages seven years.
. TOPICS OF THE HAT.
Francis Micbel Pascal, the Bsench
sculptor, is dead.
A Foicnr-THitRK-DAY female faster;has
died in Washington.
Ho.v. .Tons’ (j. Nf.w, of Indian^, is
studying the map of Russia.
The Mississippi Democracy rctasas
Lamar to the United States Senate,
Montreal ice ocn are preparing to
p_ r<3t . ze llH ou t at a lidgli price next t 4 U.mrja.Mr.
One hundred and eighty-seven vea
i #;* were lost at sea during the past year,
Troubles on tho boundary between
Russia aud China are becoming serious.
In ffVissiA theaters are now required
to be closed both on Sum dry and Satur¬
day night.
A ix,mao.v of Tammany Hall, New
York, have organized an anti-Kelly
movement,
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Thebe are wery few localitiee ithrough
out tire Statesthat have not beet reached
by smallpox.
M% Orth, of Indiana, protested
against playing second fiddle it the
Committee on Buies.
A ballot-box staffer, in Philadelphia,
received on New Year’s day, six months
in the Penitentiary.
Mr. Frederick J. Pim.v.n's has as¬
sumed tho duties of Private Secretary
to President Arthur. •
Judge Cox believes that a great crim¬
inal is a great thing—and to be treated
with consideration, too.
Tub provisions of the naturalization
treaty with America have finally been
extended all over Germany.
Mrs. Langtry, whose eyes are said to
be very delicious and eloquent, ia earn
ing‘ $500 a week on the stage.
Governor Long, of Massachusetts,
is in favor of women suffrage and the
abolition of capital punishment.
Tirana were 12,479 more deaths than
births in New York City the past year.
The difference in 1880 was 4,401.
Emperor William, of Germany, oy
New Year, received ov^r 1,000 congratu
lntory telegrams, some of them from
1C. ^ Mo^ , ■ - K - m ______
-HE
are having a hard time of it
stSfiw ftn >bed two 4
Hon. Thomas L. James, ex-Postmaster
General, has assumed the duties of tha
Presidency of tlie Lincoln National
Bank, New Y’ork.
An Ohio Senator says tliere is little
difference between the two leading
jviiitioal [>arties and the fight is now
chiefly for patronage.
Sixteen out of twenty-one Massa¬
chusetts towns reports smaller debts
than one year ago. That is at least on*
good feature about 1881.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol¬
lars were expended to make the Atlanta
Exposition a success, and the receipts
came very nearly up to that amount,
Dviuxa 1881 Judge Lynch disposed
of twenty-five lives, nineteen being
negroes, and one, in Colorado, being an
inuoceut ruati, mistaken for the crirn
hud,
Ladi dressmakers who go to Wash¬
ington to supply the upper crust with
material made outside of the District,
are required hereafter to take out a
license.
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It is pretty well remembered that
there was nothing funny about the trial
of the assassin of President Lincoln, but
it seems that Americau humor is now in
the ascendency.
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The Albany (N. Y.) Journal goes tor
Vennor with its gloves off. He deserves
it ei’ery bit. We predict that tho Yen
nor almanac, hereafter, will be a dead
weight ou the market.
Hon. Andrew Williams, of Burling¬
ton, Vh. made his wife a Christmas gift
of $50,000. The point about this is, the
mouty was kept in the family ana is
safe out of the reach of creditors.
The crop failures of 1S81 are equally
borne by the producer and oonsumer.
NNhile tlie one lias little or nothing to
sell, Urn other is compelled to pay an
advanced price for everything he gets.
y Nrw York Judge ha* decided that
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to ff eisar9mo ke in a man’s face is as
s iu p alu \ Pat ter y. We presume it is
woundiug with intent to kill (at some
other time) to do the same thing to a
woman.
Oscar Wilde is ft blonde young man,
with flowing locks, little blue eyes and a
oron.inent ‘ 3w and stands six-feet two.
■ \ ,;»t ) is more, V te , >; ;ii ■ i. <- .hir. - »■ for «doq “ a ‘
nLH «nd consul. i-s that you are gc n^.
otf p^ eheap at that.
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„ The Cardinal i •* Archlu.bop oi Ttoiien tu eu,
•who has recently retarned to Paris from
Rome, urges the Italians to choose
another capital and have Rome to the
Pope to to ,.bo »ooo».ty ct
.
his departure from tliatjnt.'.
The cable announces that J. E.
Keene’s Foxh*ll, and Lori Hard’s Iro¬
quois, Gerald and Aranza are among the
entries for thecifev and suburban handi¬
cap. Foxhftil and Iroquois are also en¬
tered foi the Epsom and Ascot gold
cups.
Mapjos L. Dow ia the name of a fe¬
male stock WVjker an Philadelphia, and
Harriet S. j DanEtcg is the name of
another female who is prosecuting her
ou the change of swindling. We say,
give woman her rights, and she will do
the thing np for all the world just like
men do. <
I’/iESTDRir Arthur ir down on tho
interminalfie invasions of Maryland
rieiegatioA^nd says the thing must be
stopped. furtlier persecuted by the
friends of those seeking office he will
make a iublic announcement refusing
to recei ’* importunate visiters at the
White Htfuse.
T*r Tl perance Colonization Society
of Canai|flpntends to establish a colony
of total, ainers on a large scale. A
miilifii£'|j & of government land have
been ae> ted for the purpose, aud people
hat] alcohol are invited to settle on
the if mz Istahlished being sold at slightly less
till price.
P, k ind Theodore Thomas and Cary
r ulleton altogether, and succeeded the Cincinnati in getting news
T/Ut r/.ili, J.j #irst-clfts8 asked Patti row. to and all because
. take a drink of
irn,' i,/t out ol a bottle, and Patti felt in
suite,T and wouldn’t hold to his hand
who?] f he went on the stage, and Cary,
wh. i%n’t been stopped by the bottle
arra.-JJement, had flopjied herself into
Pattis seat. We trace the whole matter
to t! a bottle of brandy.
. his New Year’s sermon, Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher , stated x i that iv * any man who ,
perverted one dollar intended for the
education of children should be gibbeted
as acriminal, and he concluded by ask
ing, what would he said of a man who
mi.de the loss of virtue a condition of
giving place, and what punishment
could be found for such a miscreant? At
* ®~«»g of
Education, a few days later, the remarks
were read, and a motion was npide that a
committee of three he appointed to visit
Beecher, aud ask lnm for the informa
tion on which he based his remarks. The
Hwtion, being out of order, was over
ruled but but will will nrohahlv probably come come m up airain again.
Oscar < >scar Ij iSalpm Batdwin in, late late cashier casiuer of 01 the tne
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>■ SR^ , the R eceiver for . a permanent
of h ; s pro]) erti'on
^ T tn tr
vwn use, in which he denies that any
part of the bonks money.was ever im
(properly diverted to his own use, and
in detail how the several funds
with which he is • charged with transfer
yriig to his own use came into his posses
He tells, in a long \ narrative, the
true story i of * i his • k# life, i how he i began work u
in the hank as messenger, rose to he
cashier, and finally, in 1872, was induced
by the representations of Christopher
Nugent of Nugent & Co., morocco
manufacturers, ’ to extend his line of
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credit ... to . the amount , of . $14 ,000. He „
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says he, concealed this fact from tho
Directors, and that Nugent, on learning
this, used it to force him to continue the
loans until the time of the failure, when
they amounted to $2,400,000.
Snecess of High Farming in Belgium.
The magnificent farming of Belgium
on poor soil is due to, first, the per¬
fection of both plow aud spade work ;
second, each field has a perfection cultivation of
shape given to it to facilitate
mid drainage ; third, most Cardiff bus
banding of the manure • fourth, the
great variety of crops, especially flax, of in- to
dustrial plants, snob as colza,
bacco, hops, chicory, etc., fifth, second
or “stolen ” crops, such as turnips and
carrots, English clover, sparry, etc.,
whereby the cultivated area is m effect
increased one-third; sixth, abundance
of food for cattle -Although the soil is
not favorable to meadows, yet, taking
t^e second crop into account, one halt'
of the available superficies is devoted to
the kcepiug of live stock. Seventh,
house-feeding of cattle, by which the
cows give both move milk anil more
manure. Eighth, minute weeding. The
Belgian laborer goes with his wheelbar
row to the village to buy a sack or two
of guano, undertaking to pay far it after
the harvest. The dealer tensts him,
gives him credit, having a lien on the
crop produced by tlie aid of his his manure. manure.
r_ In ‘November v----- 1 — i... he -..*•= gets (.ia his and money the ; land the the
produce has l*een doubled
Improved. The small farmer does just
•IS the laborer does. es. iXapure-deafer, Each Each opens an ac
count with the who is
tlie best of all bankers. Flemish Small
farmers invest from$3,000,000 to$f,008,-
300 in guano kind’s every year, and quite as
much in other of manure. M. De
Lsveh-v says : “ The Flemish farmer
icrupuWsly pulously collects collects every every he guards atom atom his of ot sew- sew
*ge from the towns ; man
are like a treasure, puts a roof over it to
prevent the rain aud sunshine from
spoiling it; he gathers mud from rivers
And canals, the excretions of animals
Along the highroads and the ways, for
conversion into phosphates.”—( Torres
pondowe Chicago Tribune.
When a Connecticut newspaper an
noun cos that “the barn and contents of
j yj r . otes Potter were burned on Thurs
. ] aY night,” one is naturally concerned
j t to'know drinking, what Mr. to Potter make him had been in
! eating flammable. or so
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I f> 0M pR-EssED gnu powder, cut in short
lengt i is to fit the drill-hole*, is found by
eslvr iment to have many a*lvautage8,
j™, rttok to . u** <* «
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tJtTIED THE »OG.
The rwain pat on the front door-step, *
The hour of twelve had fled,
Tbt dog vra« chained up iu the bam,
Her father was in bed.
The heiress, in hie mind, he'd won,
So to himself he said :
1 Oh, at res and bosdK that 111 call mine
When her dear pa is dead ’ ”
rhe scene was changed on that front step;
Seductive visions i!ed;
The dog was tearing from the barn,
Her pa was out of bed.
j The old man shouted, “ Sick him, Buil; ”
The swain whizzed t’ward the gate;
So did a club the old man threw—
It struck him on the pate.
IHc- fell hediiong upon the walk,
He felt the canine take
A piece from off his hinder part—
A large mouthful of steak.
He dreamed of golden pounds no more,
But pound upon the head;
And when that swain would fain sit down
He wished her pa was dead.
V SOUND PHENOMENON.
Why Eafine ItolU and WhiatlH Appear
Konctiiuea to Vary in Pitch.
[From the Providence Journal.]
“When two trains, going in an op¬
posite direction at a rapid rate, meet
each other, with the engine hells ring¬
ing, or whistles blowing, marked a passenger of
the one train notices a variation
in the pitch of the bell or whistle of the
other train. When the sound first
strikes Gradually the ear, it the pitch down is at its the highest. train
goes ns
dashes past, and the lowest pitch is
reached when the last notes fall on the
cai. Why is this?”
This question was propounded to an
engineer by an individual thirsting for
information.
“The question is simple with, enough,”
was the reply. “To start it is an
axiom which needs no proving that number the
pitch of a sound depends on its
of vibrations. Thus, while forty vibra¬
tions a second produce the lowest sound,
40,000 a second produce the highest.
Pitch rises with an increase of the num¬
ber of vibrations.
“./} certain number of vibrations are
omitted by the bell or whistle during
j,j le time the train is running a certain
distance—say a quarter of a mile. Sup
pose each train runs this distance in half
a minute. Then, as the one train ap¬
Proaches that in which the listening
^tef’'during ffiehahminute than half ^11
gtrike the ear in less a minute
(supposing, of course, that they can be
h,„.l over for this jo ~.t that . the *.»«,) will The
j' eas ° n is hrst not
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will have to travel half a mile, while the
last will be heard the instant it is emit
ted, because the engine will then be
within a few feet of the ear Thus
thirty seconds’ vibrations will be heard
iu twenty-eight seconds. When the
trains are receding from each other, the
^ emitted durintr the half-minute
seconds to reach the ear, as that emitted
wheo the twin is half a mile off will
cSt^vou iUustrate'this to make it
tk ^ b capacity B Sle^S _
frQ a tu The . of hie hose
enables him to squirt a pint of water per
se cond into that tub. But if, during,
say, five seconds, he walks up to the
toffi all the while allowing his hose to
P° nr water into it, there will be more
than live pints ” of water as the result of
that fiye con(l8 . work- Xtlere wlU [ H ,
tj ve pints, plus the quantity contained in
the stream which would Lave fallen to
the ground if he had 6tood still aud at
the end of the five seconds turned the
cock - si \ u<t l n ? off th ® stTe a “t the
approach of the whistle , or liell . of an en
g[ ne a g ren ter number of vibrations
meet the ear in tvgiven time, just ai a
greater quantity of by water reaches the
tub from the hose the approach of
the nozzle. And, accepting as correct
the axiom that the greater number of
vibrations the higher the pitch, it will
be seen that when the trains approach
the ear gets more than its due share of
vibrations per second, aud when tln*y
recede it gets less than its share.
Attacked by a Ferocious Lion,
underkeeper in a menagerie Eng- was
j Rttacke<1 hy a H on [„ Birmingham,
au(l y le entered the cage in order to
c ] ean jj q' 0 separate the animals from
t j jat p arj . 0 f t > 10 ca g e was to l>e
c [ eaue ,j a WO oden panel was used. It
reac jj tH t f rom the top to the floor of the
on » e ftlu i wa8 about two inches in thick
, by
nfss q*; lu underkeeper, Harris
naB1 e. j does not appear to have absolutely The
e j ose( t j ie p alje l as he entered.
j ar g es t ]j ou ___a powerful animal named
.*\Vallace”_sprang toward Harris, the
B jj d j n g p ane [ g uve way from the pressure,
an q tll(? man s to<xl unprotected in front
of { j, 0 ]j ollj w i i0 v i*h jte mouth seized
the poor fellow by the shoulder. Harris,
w j U) a [, r00m j n his baud, pluckily
j e *I himself for a few moments the by
Anting the lion with the handle of
hroom. But tlie lion, clutching him with
one fl { its paws, dashed him to the
gjQund aud began gnauing at his laxly,
itom w hich the blood was freely flowing.
The lion tamer, Alieansousa, who was at
the opposite side of the hall, hearing the
commotion, ran to the cage. W ith the
utmost courage and coolness he entered
the den, and twice fired his pistol, which
was loaded with blank cartridges. All
the time Harris was still beneath the
lion, who was tearing his flesh. The
pistol firing had no effect whatever on
the animal; and seeing this, tlie lion
began’ ^ mier w )io had with him a loaded whip,
ekriking the animal with the butt
en ^ o{ it on q ie fi ea< j > H e dealt last, the hitting lion
{onr or f lv0 blows, and the
f j }t , g , v .it\i terrific force between
] t{ie pyes _ appeared to stun instantly it. The dragged lion
loosel j Harm, who was
outofthe cage. He was bleeding pro
fuselv. but was not unite unconscious,
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In of the o! .; he. . play, , The „
one scenes
! Doctor oj Lima, Mme. Jananschek
• i»lays the part of a corps and, naturally
enough, some of the Eastern cnU« are
: abusing her because she does not h o
i more life into the character. New lo
I critics always were hard to please.
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< : Richmond, _ la., gener
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HUMORS OF THE DAT.
A fbcit of the battle-field—grape.
A Louisville belle has in her parlor a
beautiful embroidered motto, “ E Plurl
! bus, yum, yum.”
Last words of the balloonist: “I t's all
up with me.” Last words of the gosling:
“It's all down with me.”
There are some days when you can’t
lay up a cent, aud other days when you
can’t get hold of a cent to lay up.
It is*more blessed to give than to re¬
ceive, when a kick from a No. 10 boot is
■lie question at issue. — StevbenvHle
Herald.
Customer —“You say that those fig¬
ures are life size? Mv dear sir, they
seem very small.” Artist—“Perfectly
correct, sir; you know ’life is short'”
Why doth the festive Injun squaw
Improve each shining minute
And scratch her head from morn to night?
because there’s millions in it.
—Fan Francisco Wasp.
“Yes,” exclaimed Brown, “youal
! ways find me with a pen in my hand.
I’m a regular penholder, my boy.” “Let’s
see,” usually said Fogg, musingly, “a penholder
is a stick, isn’t it ?”—Boston
Transcript.
Twin-elk, twinkle, diminutive type of nebular
cond ensation:
How I meditate upon vour compos ition,
Situated above this oblate spheroid at such an alti
In similitude tude,
an infinitesimal crystallization of car¬
bon in the blue empyreal*.— Oil City Derrick.
“ No,” said the charming actress to
her devoted lover, “No, Charlie, I won’t
marry yon; but you can have the privi¬
lege of paying for all my little suppers
and carriages after the theater, and
you’ll ought be envied by all the boys. That
to satisfy you.”
“ But, your lionor,” says the accused,
“this is a ease of suicide.” His
honor—“ ?” The accused—“ He always
said lie wanted to commit suicide, but
that he hadn’t the courage. So then I
helped him!” His honor—“But why,
afterwards,'did you take his watch ?” The
accused (with a shrug)—“Why, because
he didn’t need it any more !”—French
paper.
There was a little company at Mr.
Brown’s and the youngest daughter, a
bright girl of seven, was iff. talking to her
sister’s beau. “Why, Sydney,” she
said, loud enough for everybody to hear,
“you cau talk real plain, can’t you?”
“Of course I can, Fanny. Did you
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“’X „ 'S“.“T other , niehf ’.fag? a^d lou 5? kept To
' 0 v e \- dovev, turn tiss oor own tweet
so much, that I wasn’t sure
but “W®™ 1 “ ‘M?
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said . a neighbor last evening. . “Hes
very troublesome about my house He
has been throwing falling rotten m/wife apples into ’Old my
Molly S-nt yard Grubs. and And I
was going
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shed all over with a pietime of my wife
^Hhe«fcr ” “Is that so? Then I go
« own for families.’ civil servfepr$fe«a^Rhin The hop neVerTtoew* our
w hat they were licked for that night,
—New Haven Register.
Brother Gardners’* Philosophy.
“Doan’ seek to make angels of yer
selves,” quietly began Brother Gardner
as the meeting opened. “In de fust
place dis am no sort o’ kentry fur angels,
an’ in de next place you would be
mighty lonesome. De man or woman
■who becomes so sweet an’ soft, an’ good
dat dey expect ebery rninit to rise up an,
fly doan’ take so much eomfort as folks
who feel dat it will be a elus shave to
git inter heaven. A leetle wickedness
pickles a man an’ makes him keep all de
better. 4V hen I trade mules wid a man
I prefer dat he should suspect ine wid
an intenshun to make an eben $25 by de
operashun. When I deal wid a butcher
I like to feel dat he will work iu fo’ ounces
of bone fur ebery eight ounces of meat
if I doan’ watch him. I like to have de
bootmaker tell me dat American cowskin
am French calf, an’ I am pleased when
de sto’ clerk warrants fo’ cen t oaliker to
wash like sheet-iron. De man who am
not a leetle wicked has no chance to feel
sorry ; no use for prayer ; no need of
churches. He cannot say to a fellow
man : ‘ I wronged you—I’m sorry—
shake.’ makes
4 ■ De man who neber skis a
poor nex’ doah neighbor. De woman
who keeps feelin’ of her shoulders to see
if wings have started makes a poor
mother an’ a wuss housewife. If you
have neber injured a man an’ gone to
him an’ axed his pardon an’ made up
you doan’ know what real happiness drib
am If your conscience has neber
. de good¬
en you to prayer you can’t feel
ness of de Lawd. My advice to you am
to be a leetle wicked—not ’nuff to make
men fear or hate you, but just nuff to
keep you convinced dat. you must help
to support churches an’ pay clus atten
shun to what de preachers say or you 11
be left bellin’ when depuroeshnn starts.
Hnnilred Tictims _ of MhiSKy. .
Six
Tlie Corwin during her voyage to
Alaska landed on St. Lawrence island,
having orders to investigate the whole
ga ) e starvation of the natives. At the
first village at which they landed all were
g ea q ; BO also at the second, where fiftv
four dead bodies were counted, nearly
full-grown males. At another plaoe
iSOpersons-—men, women and children—
were At the next settlement,
twelve dead bodies, and at the following
t bi r t Y were found. Al) the inhabitants
on the north side of the island, where
v.iiiskv h-aders sold liquor, are dead—
a@ t one escaping. The general winter, starva
tion occurred two years ago last
Since then the presence of the Corwin
ffi the Arctic has broken up this inhu
man whisky trading. The empty whisky
kegs are seen strewn all about. Tho
number of dead bodies found ou
Lawrence island was over 600. Tho
8Urv i vors sav that white traders from
HonoWhl sofd whisky, which the nattal
bQQgjjt and got drunk, remaining their so
the season for laying in
supply of walrus and seal.-San
Francisco Alta.
The greatest object in life should b*
do good.