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EDWARD YOUNG & CO.
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CRAWFORDV1LBE - * GEORGIA
news gleanings.
One tomato farm at Key West, Fla.,
has 12,000 plants.
Four hundred inmates in the Alaba¬
ma insane asylum.
New Year’s day Georgia had $9‘!>-
488 24, in her treasury.
Voluntary donations to the IJniversi
y of Virgins since 1865 foot up t4-40,
000 .
This year’s hay crop in Augusta
county, Va., is estimated v> be worth
over $100,000.
Maury county, Tenn., is out of debt,
and her warrants are worth ninety-five
cents on the dollar.
The license to sell inloxicatiing spir¬
its within the town of Jasper, Ua., ha*
been raised to $1,000.
One hundred thousand young Cali¬
fornia salmon have recently been placed
in the waters of Georgia.
Bets of $500 have been made at Au¬
gusta, Ua., that t.ii» year’s cotton crop
will be at least 6,000,(fOO bales.
The residence of Hon. Ben. Hill, at
Athens, *Ga., has been sold to Prof.
Hpeer, of the University. It originally
cost $80,000.
'ihere are seventeen tobacco factories
at Pe ersburg, Va., employing about
S.6C00 hand*. The gross annual pro¬
ducts amount to about $8,200,000.
The 8t. louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern railway company pay $300,
©00 yearly for ties to the wood-choppers
between Little Rock ahd Texarkana.
The Porter Guards, of Memphis, will
wear swallow-tailed scarlet coats, trim¬
med with buff and gold, buff pants with
scarlet strips, bordered by gold cord and
buff helmets to correspond.
At New Orleans all the cotton pretses
are glutted, owing to the fact that great
quantities of cotton is being held for
future delivery and no large shipments
are being made to Europe.
The city of Fayetteville, N. C., fol¬
lowing the example of Memphis, has
had its municipal existence Ruminated
by a state law in order to escape from
Hie dutches of the mandamus movers.
Chattanooga Times: As tilings are
going, the south w ill in .the year
IfWl) Aupjxirt 'her own . iket* wirth
every grade of cotton goods, and with
every form of iron aud steel, fine cut¬
lery Included.
Dr. Barksdale, of the Virginia lunatic
asylum, reports the case of a negro lu¬
natic whose brain weighed seventy
(Ktuces - This is believed to be the lar
post brain on lecord, except that of Oli¬
ver Cromwell.
In Misaissippi there are 108,640horses,
145,600 mules, 278,250 oxen, 226,330
cows, 220,330 sheep and 1,739,600 hogs,
with the following average virtue:
Hor*es, 57 78; mules, $70 89; oxen, $7 69;
cows, $lz 00; sheep, $2 57; hogs, $2 70
The black confluent small-pox is ra
ging at a great many jaiints in Texas,
ft is said to have lieen first introduced
by exiled Russian Jews. Be that as it
ms^ it is very obstinate and fata 1 , re¬
quiring the greatest care to keep it from
spreading.
A gentleman largely interested in the
proposed canal, near Macon, Ua., state
that the project is not abandoned by
any means. At the proper time the
whole project will Ih> brought promi¬
nently to the front. He is of the opin¬
ion that the enterprise will only cost
about $450,000.
It is generally conceded, says a Flori
da exchange, that the brown or rusty
orange, is much the sweetest, and can
be kept longer than the bright fruit, but
by not a unusal perversity of taste,
tliti brown fruit is depreciated in North¬
ern markets, and sold at half the price
of fair fruit.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: There
are $2,250,000 acres of government land
in Alabama, subject to entry under the
homestead and pre-emption laws, and
the entering of land was never brisker
than at present. Hundreds of acres are
being sold on the cash basis system ot
$1.25 per acre, particularly in some of
the counties of the state.
The total receipts of the city of At¬
lanta from all sources during 1881, was
$480,518 97. The city debt is $2,196.-
800, and the expenditures on account
of interest aud sinking fund, $193,573,
leaving a balance $286,945,97 for ordi¬
nary expenditures. The city hae no
floating debt, and can uot. as the state
law staads, increase its bonded debt.
The Baptists ministers of Richmond,
Va., have resoluted against the bill be¬
fore the legislature of that state, to re¬
move the political disabilities of per
sons who have, in recent years, violated
the law against dueling. Tliey say:
•MY look upon the proposed action as a
violation of the soirit of the coostitu-
tion and the laws of the state, aa sn in
I i-ult to heaven and an affront to the
j moral and Chri-'ian sentiment ■ 1 hr*
i Virginia people.”
! Fernand ina, (Fla.) Mirror; A few
davs since we were on the ’north shore
of Orange lake, in what is known a- the
island, once designated as Tow used Ter¬
ritory, from its isolation. Five year
fu!”, no public road passed through it,
no rail or water communication came
within twenty miles of it. While we
were there within twenty minuter.' time,
we heard the puffing of trains on the
railways, the whistle of a steamer and
of three steam saw mills, and realized
the change which has been made and
which is going on all over Florida.
An amusing incident oc:urred at F in
castle, Va., during the last term of the
Botetourt county court. A jury was
empannelled to try one Bolen, charged
with an assault on .1- 0. Sfierry, the
latter testifying in the case. After two
days deliberation the jury returned into
court with a verdict of manslaugher.
It would be hard to picture the scene
that followed. The bar was convulsed,
the ‘‘dead man” smiled audibly, Judge
Palmer looked on for a moment in mute
astonishment and then bid behind his
newspaper.
Richmond, (Va.) State: It is impos¬
sible for the south unaided to educate
all within her borders. While she asks
no exe mption from all just obligations.
this duty of f ee education does not rest
on her exclusively. Dr. Bears in 1879,
said there were 2,000,000 of children
in the Southern States, without the
means of instruction. Increasing clfi
eiency of school system is daily furn
inking additional means, but the latest
reports of state superintendents show a
wide difference between the number of
edueatable children and those in actual
attendance at schools.
A writer describes a Christmas din¬
ner at a country house near Richmond,
Va., during the war: '1 he four gentle
men were in uniform, and the three
ladies were in homespun. They had for
dinner a $800 ham, and the last turkey
on the plantation, value $175, with $100
worth of cabbage, potatoes and hominy.
Corn bread wrs served, made of meal at
$.*,0 per bushel and salt at $1 a pound
The dessert was black molasses at $00 a
gallon, and after one cup of tea—real
tea, worth $100 a pound, treasured for
the occasion as a surprise, and not sas
safrus—there was coffee at discretion,
made from sweet potatoes out into 1 ittle_
squares toasted and ground down.
Memohia Appeal: Mr. May, a young
Shelby county farmer, has been sucecss
ful in t manufacture jj railage, a
specie* offfaod for cattle, that in winter
lakes the place of the clover of summer
and is more nutritious. The method
adopted by Mr. May was simply to cut
the taxi-vine down, chop it and pre.-s it
into a pit forty feet long, ten feet broad,
and ton feet deep. In this pit he made
fifty tens of ensilage, with which he
proposes to fatten fifteen head of cattle
for three months. Mr. May’s example
should stimulate every farmer in this
section of the country. Immense quan¬
tities of hay and corn arc sold in this
market every winter, the money paid
for which might be put, to some o'her
u hi', if only ensilage were made for cat¬
tle. The best stock raisers recommend
it, and tho practical farmers at, the
west are lou 1 in its praise.
Face Difficulties
Have the courage to face the difficulty,
lest it kick you harder than you bar¬
gained for. Difficulties, like tbit" oh,
often disappear at a g a ice. Have the
C'OUTHgM to leave a convivial party at the
proper hour for doing so, however re d
tho sacrifice ; and to stay away Hem one
upon the slightest groan Is for obj vtion,
however great the temptation to go.
Have the courage to do wit bout that
which you do not need, how ever much
you admire it. Have tho courage to
speak vour mind when it i* necessary
that you should do no, and hold your
tongue when it is better that you aliou d
1 h> silent. Have tho courage to speak
to a poor friend in a seedy co,.t, even m
the stre d, aud when a rich otto is nigh. •oplo
The effort is less than many p
think it to be, nud the act is worth v of a
king. Have the courage to admit yon
have lxv>n in the wrong, mid von will
remove the fact iu tho mind of others,
putting a desirable impre-sion in place
of an unfavorable one. llavo the ’oar¬
age to adhere to the first resolution
when you can not change it for a bet-or,
and to abandon it even at the eleventh
hour upon conviction.
An old darkey who was asked if in
liis experience prayer was answc red. re¬
plied : “ Well, sal), wan pra’er-i is au
snd an'some ain’t—’pends o.i w’at yon
axes fo’. Jest urter do watt, w'eu it was
mighty hard seratehin’ fo’ de culled
breddem, I ’bsarveddat w’enbberl pray
de Ijortl to sen’ one o Marse Peyton’s
fat turkeys fo* de ole man, dere was no
notice took of do partition ; but xv’en I
pray dat he eould sen' de ole man fo’
do turkey, de matter was ’tended to i>e
fo‘ sun-up ueU mornin’, dead sartin.”
“ I didn’t call, because when I passed
the bouse 1 noticed there waa no light j
m the parlor and J thought you wore
out,” ftp-oiogetic Jly oliserved the simple
minded Chicago man who had an ap¬
pointment with a Cincinnati merchant.
“ Never be such a fool disappvanted as that again.'’
angnh responded the pork
pu ker, “xou ougnt to have known it
was only one of my gals receiving com¬ I
pany.”
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Oscar Wilde writes for a guinea a
line for Our Continent,
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The “boy oreacher,” Thomas Harri
son, is saving souls in Cincinnati.
The jails are full of convicted mur
derers, and hangings are a rarity.
classed 4
Vennor does not like to be
with Mother Shipton, but it can’t be
helped.
To settle the Cannon-Caroplteir con
test, Utah will probably hold anothei
’
election.
Gciteau says public opinion is cflbug
ing. He puts it wrong. It waJits a
change. __
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The iron-producing interest* of. the
South are shaping themselves into a
monopoly.
A oreat boom has struck RiiAufoiid,
Indiana. She is to have a $ 200,000
opera-house.
The author of “ Fool's Errand'” has
started a paper in Philadelphwugdled
Our Continent.
The census shows Paris to have a
population of 2,225,900, an increase of
237,000 since 1876.
A nkw law in Kansas forbids any'per¬
son to marry within six moutlia| 58 tter
procuring a divorce.
Now that smallpox is rife, it is but
reasonably precautionary on the part of
every one to l>e vaccinated.
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The report of finding a boat of the
Jeannette containing corpses is dis¬
credited in official quarters at St. Peters¬
burg.
Judge Porter lias been a power iu
the Guiteau trial, and for that will be
deservedly remembered by a grateful
republic.
The National Temperance Society is
advocating the appointment of a com¬
mission to inquire into the liquor traffic
of the United States.
Of the population of London, 3,620,
000 are vaccinated and 190,000 are not.
There were 1,532 deaths from smallpox
in that city the past year.
Mil Lawes, a prominent English
agriculturist, has set aside $500,000, the
interest of which is to be used in carry¬
ing out agricultural experiments.
Amono members of the Lower House
of the Tennessee Legislature are a white
man and a negro who held jthaAi%latioit
Ji mastered sla volte-fore
Something is always being Mid at
Beecher’s door. Lust week it was an
infant only two days’ old, and he very
properly aud promptly had it sent to
’
the City Nursery.
Mant»*oturino paper from palmetto
is one of the new enterprises in Florida.
Twenty mills in all are shortly to be
erected by a company iu sections of the
State where palmetto is abundant.
rROF. Williams, of Yale College, re¬
cently received a dispatch from the in¬
terior of China which had been sent the
day Indore, traveling within twenty-four
hours tho distance of 19,000 miles.
Tire rage iu oircus circles the coming
season is to be “ the handsomest woman
in the world. ” Every circus will have
her. Barnum has already published his
offer of $20,000 for a famous beauty.
The members of the new Chinese
Legation at Washington wear their na
five costumes on all occasions, and at
tract considerable attention ou the streets
son! elsewhere, by their startling com
biuutiou of colors.
John _ _ 7 aTLob, President . o. r ,, the Mor- ,r
mou Church, has taken up his abode iu
the Gardo House, at Salt Lake City, the
magnificent structure which Briglusm
Young built for hie favorite. Amelia. It
has been luxuriously furnished through
out.
The two heaviest taxpayers of Boston
are Moses Williams and Joshua M.
Sisirs, the first name being assessed for
$11,300,000, and the other for $1,244,000.
Aud yet we never hoard of these men
before. Riches and fame don’t always
go hand in hand.
Attornet General Brf.wstf.r is said
to put on more style than any other
Cabinet Minister who ever courted the
smiles of fashionable society. His
“turn out” is as gorgeous as that of
any English lord, and his personal ward¬
robe corresponds with it.
Prohtpition has moved on Congress
in a body. On the 11th inst. every mem
l>er of the Senate had a memorial to
present from his constituency, asking
for a law to prohibit the manufacture,
sale or importation of alcoholio liquors
throughout the nm ons! domain,
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Justice is alwsvs expensive where
there is a high state of civilization. On
th > frontier, where churches and courts
are unknown, murder trials are of short
duration and to the point, and crime less
frequent, to the population, than where
the country is dotted with courts of law.
Germany has 3,250 co-operative asso
ciationa, of which 1,895 are loan or credit
societies, people’s banks, etc., 674 in
dnstrial societies, 645 stores for the sale
of goods, and 36 building societies.
And yet Germany is reputed to be about
the hardest country on the poor there is
in the world.
When the weather in the Middle and
Western States is very moderate, mer
cury in Dakota Territory is generally
inflow zero, but up to the middle of Jan
.
U ary the present season it seems that
I they have had nothing up there but
“ continuously warm weather”—not even
an ordinary snow.
Oscar Wilde seems to he the boom
for the present, and it is singular how
the aesthetic crowns his every move. His
arrival in this country was January 2,
or 1882-2. He talks in rhythmic chant,
accenting every fourth syllable, thus :
‘ I came from En gland because I thought
America was the best place to see.”
A correspondent of the New York
Post says that the removal of the duty
ou quinine has cheapened the drag
seventy-eight cents an ounce, and that
more of it iB manufactured in this coun¬
try now than when it was “protected.”
We are getting to be almost as inveterate
users of quinine as wo are of tobacco.
Dr. Mary Walker, who has a singu
lar wav of dressing, narrowly escaped
arrest a few days ago in Washington.
She walked through the President’s
grounds, pursued by a newly appointed
colored policeman, who had been told
“ it was a woman,” and would have been
taken to the station-house had not those
at the White House identified her.
Business seems to be pushing in
Nevada. Says a Nevada paper: Not¬
withstanding the abseneo of bonanzas,
nearly 1,800 miners are at work on the
Comstock at present, representing a
monthly payment of nearly a quarter of
a million dollars. The miners in turn
give employment to many in the mills
on the Carson River, in Gold Hill and
Silver City.
The Cincinnati Gazette states the case
briefly as follows : If Congress will ad¬
mit to seat in that body a delegate from
Utah who admits that he has several
wives and believes in and practices the
doctrines of the Mormon Church, it
might as well stop talking and legislat¬
ing against polygamy. A man who de¬
fies law should not have a seat among
law-makers.
YoiK ..
Miss Ida T t.lman, a New e e
»»!<>. » da T rt *f°' recovered damftgeS
promise suit $1,750,-tas againat
Mr. Henry H. Meyer* for
married Air. Cohen, one of the witnesses
* u D'e case. Ida is charged with daring
everybody to kiss her on New rear s
day, and that was one of Mr. Meyers
reasons for not wanting her for a bride.
Her kisses were too abundant.
Idaho contains 35,000 inhabitants.
Its gentiles or anti-Mormon residents are
frontiersmen of the better class. Un¬
fortunately the Territory lies immediately
north of Salt Lake City, and the Mor
mous, findiug themselves rather cramped
iu Utah, have marked out Idaho for
their own. This is an imperative reason
used by the Denver 'Tribune why Con
gross should not delay ihe Mormon
question.
lh?> Bli83 thinks $50,000 would be
about right for his services as physician
i to President Garfield. The services of
Drs. Agnew aud Hamilton he reckons at
; $25,000 each, and Reyburu, he thinks,
ought to be satisfied with $8,000. Dr.
1 Boynton and Mrs. l)v. Edson he consid
irately allows $1,000 each, although per¬
i lopg Edson did more real service
and suffered more anxiety than the whole
lot. Yes, Dr. Bliss is a great - man.
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The printers in the Government Print
( being meanly treated.
ing Office are
j Notwithstanding they get a higher price
i for their labor than is paid for similar
j work in any office in the civilized world,
they still ask for more, bo long as they
arc so modest about it, we do not see
why the Government should not be
willing to divide the profits with them—
or it might turn the institution over to
them and make it a stock concern for
that matter, and then allow them an
annual appropriation besides. The boys
should be treated on the square.
Human nature ia hard to understand.
The wife of Henry Kirk, of Madison,
Indiana, a virtuous and handsome wo¬
man of thirty years, was reoently called
upon by a young Pennsylvania jewelry
mender, of good address and oily tongue.
Mr. Kirk was absent at the time. The
young man was so excessively po¬
lite and irresistibly fascinating that
Mrs. Kirk was completely captivated.
A few days after the event she became
wildly deranged, constantly repeating
the substance of the conversation, and
her husband has been compelled to send
j her to the Insane Asylum.
There are incidents which, when we
j read them, that seem almost really to becomes be so exhiler- intoxi
, a ting one
cated with die spirit of approval,
« *h»t were posaible. A young lady in
1 , -^ ew York City, who was accosted by a
well-dressed man in an insulting man¬
ner, accepted the offer of an old woman,
who was grabbing in an ash barrel close
by, to “ cover him with ashes for ten
cents.” The man was pelted with hand¬
fuls of ashes, covering him from head to
foot, before he could escape. The old
dame was rewarded with a quarter.
She should have had, at least, a dollar
for such appropriate services.
GLASS HOUSES.
rh« Brittle SnbMnne p Better for Betid
ion PnrpWM tti.tu Stone.
[Pittsburg Dispatch.]
Perhaps not on builder or contractor
in ten, it told that the common grades in
of glass made at the glass factories
this city have a crushing strength nearlv
four times as great as that credited by
experienced engineers to the strongest
quality of granite, would accept the
statement as true. Yet it is a fact, and
being so, the query as to why glass has
not received more attention from archi¬
tects as a structural material naturally
suggests itself. A reporter had a talk
with several prominent glass manufac¬
turers on the subject, and in answer to
an interrogatory as to whether blocks of
glass could be made in suitable lengths util¬
and sizes and so annealed as to be
ized in the construction ot a building in
place of stone, they raid it cogld be
done. Said one of these considered gentlemen by :
“ This question has been
nAyee.lt' a number of times, and, although
I do not want to advocate the absolute
abolition of brick and stone, yet iu the
erection of art galleries, memorial build¬
ings, etc., a structure composed would of
blocks of glass in prismatic colors
be a unique, beautiful and lasting
structure. With the numerous inven¬
tions which have come into use of late
years in connection with the production gradually
of glass, the cost lias been
going down, while the quality of the
fabric is steadily becoming better.
“ One objection which would Vie raised
to the durability of a glass house, in the
literal sense of the words, might be that
the blocks would not take a bind, or ad¬
here together with common mortar.
This objection can be readily set aside
by the use of a good cement, and when
completed the Structure will stand lor
ages, barring extraordinary accidents.
As to the cost of a glass house, it can be
kept down to a small percentage above
the price of our cut granite. In build¬
ing with stone you have to pay the stone
masons, and when it comes to elaborate
examples of carving in Corinthian pil¬
lars, collars, capitals, etc., why the work
is rather costly as compared with glass,
when the latter can be molded into any
shape or form, and the work accom
plished in much less time. I am con
vinced that the time will come when wo
will see such a building erected. Scarcely
a day passes but what the sphere of glass
as an article of use becomes widened.
In parts of Germany and on one line in
England glass ties are being used on
railroads, and thus far have given satis¬
faction, combining all of the requisites
of wooden ties with the virtue of being
susceptible to usage at least twenty-five
per cent, longer than wood. Then by
the Bastra process glass articles are now
being made for common use which can
be thrown on the floor and will rebound
like a rubbte ball. Progress is also
being fcadoWowtudA rend^winghglass, the
which has ever been ebaraeterizedus
brittle fabric, ductile, and to-day threads
of glass can be made that can be tied in
knots and woven into cloth. Were one
disposed to give play to fancy and fuse
it into fact, a house entirely composed
of glass could be built with walls and
roof and floors fashioned from melted
sand. Carpets of glass could cover the
floors. The most ultra wstbete, sitting
on glass chairs or reclining on glass
couches, arrayed in glass garments, eat
ing and drinking from glass dishes, such
a one could realize that the age of glass fifty
had come. Yet nearly all of this
years ago would have been classed with
the then impossible telephone and elec
trio light, and this statement would have
likely found its place in the ‘Catalogue
Expurgatoros. ’ ”
Know Tour Business Thoroughly.
A young man in a leather store used to
feel keeping very impatient him, year w alter ith his year, employer handling for
> j hides. But he the after
saw use years
when in an establishment, of his own ho
was able to tell by the touch the exact
quality of the goods. It was only by
those thousands of repetitions that the
lesson was learned; and so it is with
everything in which we acquire skill.
The half-informed, the half-skilled, in
every business outnumber the others,
I dozens to one. Daniel Webster once
replied to a young man who asked him
j j if there i was “There anv room is always iu the legal at pro- the
f eBS on . room
top. ” The better your business, the
better your chance to rise. You can
gather much information i>y making a
^ u “ ^’"o surJrLTyour’employer
j n an emergency by stepping into the
•« next man’s ” place, and discharging ins
ditties satisfactorily ; so, learn your busi
ness.
We would guard the young against
the use of every word that is expression, not strictly
proper. Use no profane
allude to no sentence that will put to
blush the most sensitive. You know not
the tendency of habitually using inde¬
cent or profane language. It may never
be obliterated from your heart. When
you grow up, you may find at vour
tongue’s end some expression w„ich
you would not use for any money. It
was used when quite young. Good men
have been taken sick and become deliri¬
ous. In these moments they use the most
vile, indecent language imaginable.
When informed of it after their restora¬
tion to health, they had no idea of the
pain thev had caused. They had learned
and repeated the expressions in child¬
hood; and, though years had stamped passed
since, thev had been indelibly who
upon the heart. Think of this, you
are tempted to use improper language,
and never disgrace yourself or your
friends.
There seems to be no occupation so
dangerous as that of brakeman on freight
refuse’to trains, and many insurance companies
take the risk of insuring their
lives. It is said that only twenty-five
per cent of freight brskemen die except
by accident
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
“ Julius, seize her !” said Sambe, M
Tubus was contemplating a fat pullet in
| he moonlight.
Domestic troubles come bunched, like
seiery.
The only thing in this country that is
lot injured by bursting, is applause.
When you see an act committed are
rou not necessarily an nigh witness ?
“Husband and wife,” says some sage
>ersois, “should no more struggle to get
-he last word than they should struggle
'or the possession of a lighted bomb.”
They don't. The wife gets it without a
struggle .—The Judge.
“ Save One Little Kiss for Papa,” i»
he title of the latest song. If this re
nark is aimed at a Chicago girl with
'our steady beaux the old man’s ehancee
ire pretty slim .—Chicago Tribune.
“What a contradiction a watch is 1”
laid Timmins. “ How so?” asked Mra.
Timmins. ‘ 1 Why, because it always
seeps perfectly dry, although inside.” it con¬
stantly has a running spring
Winn the “coming man” shut the
door after him ?” He will in this office,
ar the going mini will go out of the
window .—Lowell Citizen.
Blonde —“They say Carrie is en¬
gaged.” Brunette—“Engaged! has why, just
she married a month ago and
sued for a divorce.” Blonde—“How
romantic! Isn’t it splendid ?"—Boston
Transcript.
“Yes,” said the Denver editor, “I
think I must have got out a very reada¬
ble paper this morning. I’ve been licked
by three prominent citizens to-day, an¬
other chased me with dogs and a gun
! and the police had hard work to keep ft
mob from wrecking my office.”— Chi¬
cago Tribune.
Dr. D— has a bright little girl about
four years of age, who is very fond of
dolls and he buys a uew one for her
nearly every day. He brought her a
new one the other evening, but it did
not appear to take her fancy at all.
“What, don’t you like the new doll?”
he asked, after watching her a few mo¬
ments. “ No ; I’s tired of stufl dolls.
I want a real meat baby,” she replied,
earnestly .—The Judge.
“I can well remember the time,” said
Mrs. Marrowfat, leaning over the fence
rail, in confidential conversation with
her neighbor next door, “when Simp¬
son’s wife was glad enough to get a pla n
woolen shawl to wear. Now she always
appears in a sealskin sacque.” “Ah,
you forget,” was the reply, “that Mi
Simpson’s brother has become a bank
cashier.”
A Detroit man calls his wife Vesu¬
vius, becausesheis a holy terror.— Chaff.
A Burlington man calls his wife Coto¬
paxi, because she spits fire and won’t
lava the neighbors alone. —Burlington
N. J. Enterprise. A Jamestown man
calls his wife a fool because she has not
.Etna thing siuce the winter bonnets
have made their appearance.— Leader.
A Stubenville man calls his wife after
he gets up and builds a fire, for she
won’t get up in the cold .—Stubenville
Herald.
Darwin acknowledged himself match¬
ed when his little niece asked him,
seriously, what a cat has that no other
animal has. He gave it tip after mature
deliberation, and ther the sly puse
answered ‘ ‘ kittens. ”
Sausage He .Fritz, of this an tv, is aft
aesthete. says he now 1 pn a “ good der
quality collars of home all picked mate sossiches, owid. Doy with vasht
dog utterly gosh goople of dimes,
doo py a
ant you pet my life if I dold you so I
bite mine het off .”—Larmic Bill Eye.
Covering Boilers with Silk.
p j g we ][ known that silk is an excel
j eB j. uon-conductor of heat, and some
recent experiments in Germany would
fo indicate that it might pay to
incase boilers in this costly material,
j n 0I3e three boilers of the same
> and make were ranged in order, another one
covered with the ordinary felt, five-eighths
wl t], a coating of silk only
0 f the thickness of the felt, while the
third was left altogether uncovered.
They were all filled with water having a
temperature of 100 degrees Centigrade, the
and examined at intervals? After
lapse of three hours it was found that
the unprotected boiler had lost twelve
degrees of heat, and tho other two each
two degrees. After a further lapse of
thirty-three hours, the felt-covered boiler
had lost thirteen and a half degrees, and
that covered with silk only fourteen, so
that there was no appreciable difference
between the protective powers of the silk
and those of a casing of felt nearly twice
its thickness. With regard to the cost
of the material, it is said that in ail silk
manufactories there are waste scrape
which it would be difficult or impossible it is
to utilize iu the trade. These can,
asserted, be made up into bands and
rolls, costing comparatively little, and
sold at a profit to the makers and users
of boilers. As to the lasting and wear¬
ing powers of silk as compared with felt,
nothing is said, and there has not, per- ^
haps, been time to apply an adequate
test; but it is, at the least, possible that
in this respect the finer substance may
possess great advantages over the coarser
and cheaper.
Leave-taking.
Not all have learned the art of Daw
taking in an appropriate depart, manner. Wliea*
you are about to do so at ono^
gracefully and politely, and with no
dallying. Don’t say “ It's abont time I
was going,” and then settle back and
talk on aimlessly people for another ten
minutes. Some have just such a
tiresome habit. They wifi even rise
snd stand about the room in various at¬
titudes, keeping their hosts also stand¬
ing, and then by an effort succeed in
getting as far as the hall, when a new
thought strikes them. They brighten
up visibly and stand for some miriutee
longer, saying nothing of importance,
but keeping ever: body in a restless,
nervous state. After the door is opened
the prolonged leave-taking begins, and
everybody in general and particular m
invited to call. Very likely a last
thought strikes the departing visitor,
which his friend mu>t risk a cold to
hear to the end. What a relit-f whe® •
the door is finally closed 1 There is no
need of being offensively abrupt, but
when you are ready to go—go.