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EDWARD YOUNG & CO
Editor* and Vreprutor*.
CRAWFORDViLL£ - - GEORGIA.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Alabama’s total indebtedness is f#,*
111,500.
Texas has 4,600,00# shaep, valued a
$13,800,000.
The jailor at Trenton, county, Tenn ,
is paid $100 a year.
It is probable the Virginia legislature
will abolish chain gangs and the whip¬
ping-post.
At a sale in Vieksburg, Miss., recent¬
ly, a plantation containing lj900 acres
brought only $2,225.
Out of ninety convicts hanged in tbe
United States in 1881, Arkansas head
the list with fifteen.
There are nine colored men ns the
Mississippi legislature, eight in the
home and one in the senate.
'Hie cotton mill at Wesson, Miss.,
pays twenty-six per cent, divideud, and
the stock is worth over $300.
A two-inch carp put in a 'pond near
Atlanta, two years’ago, was caught a few
days since, and weighed seven pounds.
The Mississippi jiress alarmed at the
recent heavy sales of land to speculators
in that state, is urging that the state
lands should he withdrawn from the
market until they are explored, classi¬
fied and appraised, and then they should
De sold in such a way as to swell the
school revenues of (he slate.
Augusta, (Ga.) News: A Pennsylva¬
nia firm is manufacturing paper at Sa¬
vannah, from what is called the “saw pal
metto,” a material heretofore regarded
as nearly useless. The paper is said to
be of superior quality, and especially
useful as a transfer paper, which has
bereti fore been imported.
Messrs. Mettz, Finley & Purdy, have
bonded tho Mertz gold mine, situated
two miles northwest of Gainesville, Ga.,
to Eastern capitalists for $10,000. The
ore is quartzite, with liberal showing of
free gold. Both walls are argillite. A /
test ton of , the , ore will be , shipped , . , Last ,, j
tllls week.
Winston, (N. O.) Sentinel. A 1
man
. by the .. name of .... \\ oo.ls . comm.tted ,iii aulcide
at Laural Springs, Ashe county, lie
came in from hunting and asked his
wife to pull his boots off. She refused
irilo Ins body, Mlliiif hiun< It instant^,
Iheywer l«'Ui young and bed been
married only about a year.
Atlanta Constitution Florida letter:
‘'Hie Speer grove, with 600 trees,
would bring perhaps $50,000, and this is
tlie best, in Florida. This is about $ 8 ,
500 per acre, for six acres, it is ihe
best because it is the oldest. The lar
gest yield ever known from one tree
eame from the oldest tree in the state,
at St. Augustine, which bore 14,8000
oranges. This is held to prove that up
to 70 or 100 years the yield of a tree will
improve. There are several trees that
have yielded 7.0i 0 and 8,000 oranges.
Florida Key of the Gulf: A friend
describes to us a remarkable scene wit
.,«wed ' hv liim Ut a religious meeting On
\\ hulDv . .. , isia , i \u • T • A • a memcer
•
t, *
of the church, white praying, c.u ■
upon God to striae I im dead if a certain
statement made bv him in the strongest
exactly true He had hardly utti <
the last word when he fell den'. Com
ing as tb j* ,p,| in the church, and upon |
a leading m< ,.1 r ’ the effect upon the ’
congregatiop can only , be , imagined. | I
“I believe” savs Gov. Bigelow, of
‘ 's„
iik hi ; nn-Hsaim of bis trip
gsuith, that i ti.i ' km ! . 111111 . .
of Connect cut citizens new and truer
idea , f ,1m S .nth in feelings and mo
tives Web. , pc that , . these ,i Southern s;., n ,i 1( , rn
*U«r- »* whom me met, and to *hom w,
»re imlcfid for such a fraternal wel
come gained truer conceptions of the
.
Atlanta t ., onstitution. ... Georna uow i
exports SOP,OWO.t'OO feet of lumlter annu
allv. The lumber goes to every part of '
the world from Brazil t, New Bruns- i
wick, and from Algiers U, Germany.
Tlu- gettiug of this lumber s rijw about
000 acres of land annual! v. ft i>
; , . that Imlf as much more
r «,„U,, \ • ^ t <roved or w i-tcd l>v ;iu>
turpentine men. getting with
fore, that we are away
•ur pine forests very swiftly. There i
a practically exhaustless ro-erve <>f ey
press tiinls that will be touched upon
ns >• 11 a > the pine barrens are d 'ended,
Allan a Constitution
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Another large consolidation of iroii
interests is nearly affected at Birming
ham, which will unite tfee Alice and
Eureka furnace* ooW 1 in operation, the
great HJoss furnaces now building, and
two more yet to be constructed. The
capita! of the company will be $ 10 , 000 ,
0 O(). The leading movers in the scheme
are De Barledeben, who recently sold
the Prat t mines to New Y’ork capitalists
for $ 1,0 0 , 000 , the Hitmans and Col.
Sloss This would practically consoli¬
date all the iron producing interest* of
Central Alabama, except the charcoal
furnaces The six furnaces would have
11 capacity of 150,000 tons annually.
The Bane of ffuhlt.
Habits in little things exercise a petty,
tyranny which is moat degrading. A man
cannot do anything without observing a
lot of preliminary forms ; lie must have
slept just so many hours, have risen at a
regular ti>> 10 , have breakfasted on beef¬
steak and coffee, have read one particu¬
lar newspaper, have walked a certain
number of blocks, before he can make
bis great speech, or write bis brilliant
editorial. He cannot rise to a great oc
eastern. Ffe becomes a machine. His
work may be regular and neat, but it is
sou 11 cold, touched with no charm of
well, individuality. Such a man may serve
but h ; is not fit to mfe.
if, at home. In? is fr qnently respecta¬
ble, abroad I 10 is always insufferable,
lie is madi KO miserable by the disturb
v .' ,f ' iai,ils tiie .«;*igenciea of
4 that ho can enjoy neither scenery,
If k nor people. Yet he prides him
on th “good habits” ,i bv ',11 which he
j t, i I, 1 i”" . n-ibihtu.i , M and limited I 1
c.'ijoyinciit ut every thing intended by
„ nienco to elevate and inspire a fallen
Hut there is a worse danger yet. This _
h»., so loug been misunderstood,
haniis-roJ iu thought and expression
pi'M'bU msnnerismH which it is never
to shake off.
!'‘?P^ I have kia * said <;f«>« “a typi^l man advisedly. habitual
are more rarely subject to this
I do not the put ground their superiority in
matter on of a stronger
sense, I do not wish to exalt my
sex undeservedly. Women are
1 - 8 Svry fle Seu£
doubtless the wdffl«7 '
ot tneir omr lcwtr minpia
wnman'Braitwnrd life becomes as nearly
ike that that of or a a man man as as it it will win soon soon become rieconie,
we should boast of her superior
uature. We' must^ see wluither
(roodou^of soul will stand tue erilCl
of men s unnatural “regular odCU
If a woman would be charming, let
slum habit like pestilence and death.
Euobarbus said of Cleopatra:
<< » e0 oaimot \ntnv* or > nor cuKtom «t*Ie ,
~
Her iufluite rtrioty," of those de- ,1 . j
moan ,juy t that she was one who
btf spontaneous creatures
habits at all. Home days, I
. l , bpi \ homo late in the evening he :
be perfectly sure that the Queen
,, u l,l not tie upset by having her dinner
nine instead of at six and that she
of ,
be pleased to sit up the rest
the night to listen todiis exploits. She
probably rose one dav at noon, mid on
the next viewed the sunrise from her
j bftyo g a U ] 0 u e who has , habits, ,
™ b j servant, but one who
to do more, must g.. rid of them,
a soldier a mother, “ l ’ a frontiersman, a
ft T ono vho has to meet
- k with her
nothing' t() fnoe nnti wor
forc0 « has io do with bftVuts.
Such k «. must leam ^ bear
Translated „ trom , The Otnmbus „ ., . -
The Little Emma Tbe dead must it
5,^“* *«y .^ e^dT--“B eeauL tivs
Sem mobile Lad°y-“Marie, the
not
go aud sec if the butcher calves feet
h«. ” Marie back coming-” M,w am.
£ know not. l have then, n ”f‘«‘>dd.
^, lut , ” J^ Vi" firms'
House Young Laly “Oh. .vs. thmk
J ot it ! Our girl ’ a , mt-c Iv out of the
; service gone, .......................
j i with tue rheumate-m, the whole work
j do.”
j You can’t go amiss of d ath in this
country. A Vermont w.unan got a d.g
from the claw of a tnrkev ue.-h-ctevl
w in three or tour days and tueu died
ct K'A jilW. &a?be the Vuskey is sub-
10 hydrophobia.
tlie f.re a* ehe«r
H. ijj i» flower
to tlie
miles and is being extended rapidly. It
will be ninety miles long when the pres¬
ent contracts are finished, and may be
pushed to Punta Rossa. The Herald
people are doing the work themselves,
and as a Floridan said: They are talk
ing less arid doine more work than any
ot -our developers.’ The road is paying
handsomely and runs two tTains a day.”
The American Cultivator says that
“the scarcity of heavy Texas hides is
getting to be a source of anxiety to
tanners, who want to get out heavy
leather to answer the prevailing demand
The improvement of herds has been
going on sometime on the cattle ranches,
and the long-boraed, serasrgy Texas
steers are getter searoer every year.
There is more system pursued in raising
cattle. Crossing the breeds give finer
stock and 1 tetter meat, at the expense ot
the hide, which in the best bred animals
is finer and does not make such thick
leather.
The shipping north of Florida straw¬
berries will begin in a few days. The
cream and sugar accompaniments are
ripe and ready wheneyer they come.
TnE compulsory education law of
Sonora, Mexico, requiring children be¬
tween six and sixteen years to attend
school six months in the year, is being
enforced.
The jurors in tbe Guiteau case say
that during the trial they talked with no
outsiders and read no newspapers. They
were virtually shut out from the w orld
seventy days.
A rumor, almost too weak to. stand
alone, says Dennis Kearney is about to
start . . an anti-monopoly .. , party , in . -r, Cahfor
uia. So then, Dennis is still in the land
cf the living. ;
There is one person displeased with
the verdict rendered in the case of the
assassin of President Garfield and that j
giant person of is the Charles West.” J. Guiteau, “thelittle j
Congress, who i
as usual, is full of men
«« afraid to follow the ghost of what
conscience conscience thev they hate. have What What is is needed net ded
is a little hard, earnest work, and fewer
grand dinners, receptions, etc. £- ;
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Eutiuisiastio anti-polygamy meetings
we being held in many piufetaif. %
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The people up in the Northeast have
been taking too many icebergs in theix !
weather. Thirty-five degrees below zero
t have )>een nteke disagreeable than
*»y thing ... Mother „ Vennor, in ■ her u palmy i
days, could have given na.
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It is the thing now to be a “boy
of the country has popped to the surface
Baltimore, who, it is said, is saving
,noro soh1h than all the old gospel j
’pounders of that city put r together. ® I (
Ike murderers . Z^T\» of Jennie nn i» Earner th« the ’
how Ha von belle, arc having a delightful
of it iu jail. Blanche Douglass
her time between sewing and
tbo bl i)lc, Jim Malley reads :
, ’ , Walter sketches ‘ and 1 ulavs ;
”
the . i
Baltimore extended a reception to i
Oscar Wilde and Oscar forgot all about
it and wen t on to Washington, and now
rotten-egg he „ 5 •
scorns Ue»t i«uum«»v lorgot- unit ,ur.
Wilde charges $200 to attend n public re
oeptiou . T
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Footpads have become so bold in m
about Indianapolis that the citizens
threaten to organize vigilant committees.
Til..fooV,.Fk.lB ‘ hit their vi.'tiraa witli a bag
sand knocking them .
of iu.
then rob them of their va uablcs. Of a ,
number who have been thus assaulted,
one died of his injuries. ;. j
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, f O hlo State Temperance Convefi
t5oa llie ot ber day adopted a resolution :
also, protesting against tax license, or
T ^ trictiom m rogulationa whatever.
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The stock of flour at tbe principal
points ^ in the United States and Canada,
ual and estimated, is placed at about
2 206 .000barrels. Tim annual mamifae
tur . , of flour in tbe country is about 55.
ooojlfiO to 60.000,tXK»barrels. The stock
of 2.200,000 is no more than about two
r -’ —»“.■
latum.
Tiir BoetonVZcm/d thinks that, if Wil
......r. T ,
wore
because be drank wine The Boston
Hr: PI soena to forget that the longer
41 man lias be-a in the gronud the better
,. 0 ia thought of. If Penn were alive
to-day ho would be no better than the
t“■ JTSL -——r„. *££Z .
TOPICS OF THE DAY. t
What has become of Ben Butler, any
way?
San Francisco granted 364 divorces
last year.
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It seems that the country is about to
devote itself to paying pensions.
It is stated that Mm. Garfield took no
interest whatever in the Guiteau trial.
The Cincinnati Commercial says the
English of Spuy ten Day vil is '“Spitting
Devil.”_______
In Congress are eight Irishmen, tour
Scotchmen, five Englishmen, and three
Germans.
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Gctteau will now await the “ divine
pressure”—irresistible in its very nature
—of the hangman’s rope.
Edward 8. Stokes, Fisk’s murderer,
lives in a bouse in New York for which
he pay* a rental of $4,000 a year.
The Photographers’ Association of
America‘will hold their nAait*' annual
meeting at Indianapolis, August 8 , 1882.
The leading London new spap ers ex¬
press satisfaction over the colmction of
Guiteau, but they all criticise the con¬
duct of the trial.
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The coming Opera Festival at Music
Cincinnati, which occurs on the
14th, loth, 16tli, 17th and 18th of
J will, beyond doubt, be the
. successful, ... both , in point n o e musi mnH ;.
excellence and financially, that has
been held in this country. Patti, J
hom at all other points in the country
^ 85 to 'T’ wiU 8in * Up< ? thi8
and to the entire series of per
orma nces, eight in number, a season
can be had for $14, which is made
transferable, transit iraou and an can be divided up t
SeVeral F ___ d
the price of admission. .
further redll0e
m boso in distant towns desiring choice
.? t tbera by applying in ad
'
val ' C f ? £ . th ‘ , „l,,t of " the
ftudltonum °* . TT ,,
'_
“
Abeudeen, Omo — known aa
Green” of America—is the
G | many romantic marriages. No
., re recm i re d and in consequence 1 '
‘ 1 l bo
f nRa or co or m ,.y
blg the law. An unusually exciting i
eventl j, reported as taking place there a :
, a T he candidates lor matri- i
m , wv 1J ^ r , from Kentucky, four iu n«m
her, named . Mr. „ K. „ bnotl w •; ..„j m, - 9S
,
Alice E. Garrison and Mr. Willard x.
Garrison aud Miss Maggie Neal. They
i» . v.ry great W-!
„;„i,f <.,,.1 „art. of the day to 1
, , , u
ranch ro^h the the plane, rfiac- M^the w the bride bude of ot Mr.
Garrison was being getting • i
who objected to her
married on account of her age, she be- i
ing only thirteen years old. But they
managed to beat the old folks and
hand from her left.
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Thebe are poets and tlierp are ^ poete
-poets honored by a nation, and poete
who, for the sake of humanity, should
be hurried pelbmeU to theneares pOe
, driver and there aumhi.a ei .
an d eternity. From a late copy of a
farm journal, which, in an agricultural
point ^ of riew perhajis is unsurpassed in
, to Sweet Madoliue. As a sample ot
\ the whole we print this one :
-“i""."7,121’
It savors somewhat of richness to pio
t«re in your mind a sweet maiden trip
Llev* a j oug * a alter. There are some
in which we fear sweat Madoliue
wonb i wish she never bad gone. The
>» * “ u »
in Chicago who had been in bis service,
to whom he said that both his sons and
daughters were in good health, “ which,”
he added, “unhappily, lean not always
say of my wife, and not at all of myself,
I bunt no more, and rarely ride, Rinee I
am too weak, and if I do not soon get
rest my vital forces will be worn out.”
The Washington Star refers to the
singular and suggestive fact that Mr.
Webster Wagner, who was burned to
death in one of his own palace cars on
Railroad, in the New York State 8—
which a year ago smothered and sup
pressed a bill introduced in that body
for tbe better protection of life on rail
ways.
Mule. Rhea, a Rassiah actress who
was interviewed by the Cleveland Leader
on Nihilism, said : “ The majority ot
the Nihilists are young e men between
eighteen • , . „ and , , twenty-two. . , ,, Many of . them
are girls of the same age; girls with short
hair and spectacles who think they are
divinely inspired to throw bombs. It’s
queer that women always go to extremes
in everything.” Yes, it is a little queer,
Vmfthevdn Imt they do Poring Perina^tHe *h» actress u went
]nflt a little to the extreme in this state
ment of hers. •
' name of heaven an editor—yes,
an
; >ter —could see in such doggerel to
: its publication is beyond human
Hon. After the author of the
j j qnoted driver, has been crushed under a
it will he high time io visit
i editor’s sanctum and hit him in the
with a stuffed club.
A Wonderful Tree.
■ Why men occasionally see sea
I and other snakes is plain enough;
°'
“ A farmer living near Schooley Moun
tain has greatly excited his neighbors
b y au account of a wonderful tree which
he discovered several years ago, and
which he has been watching ever since,
says for three years it has gone
ding through leaf. the cold weather without shed
a It is a maple tree, and its
"f. £ a kes very good maplesugar
“The farmer noticed it first while fol
lowing the trail of ft fox up over the
mountain early in December, 1878. All
the other trees, even of the same species,
were entirely ab bare, while this tree had
H,°*> There were appearances, no dried leaves lost a underneath single leaf.
lt , and the leaves on the branches were
a!1 greeD . It was with great difficulty
that a leaf could be pulled from the
twig to which it was fastened and a
strong time, breeze, which was blowing at tbe
! liad no effect upon the leaves. So
astonished was the discoverer at the
phenomenon that lie forgot all about the
tbx he was after and the cold character
“LSlneKi’ 1 ’"’*
.. H( , wetlt llome greatly puzzled, and
returned several days later with a clergy
termined man living iu the vicinity. They de
to mark several of the leaves
niK * see how long they remained where
they tha thing were. They also resolved to keep
a secret and watch its progress
until spring. This they did. When
April arrived the leaves which they liad
marked were just as green and fresh as
affected in December, and the tree itself was not
iu the least by the severity of
the weather and the many windy blasts,
“ The bark was tapped every week and
yielded a plentiful supply of sap;
enough to keep both the farmer’s and min
ister’s The families has been in syrup tried all winter long, j
same ever since ; not |
a leaf lias fallen, to the best of their be- j
lief, since the day the tree was first i
noticed, and the sap has flowed with the j
same regularity and profusion. j j
■ ‘As far as can be ascertained, there is
no cause for the mysterious vitality of !
^ 1S ,^ Particular “4 maple. There is nothing i
“ “ e to *® ud er growth :
, .
and wr co!d at hej. !
it rted A?’f the cm lositj, but , each ha , ? latel , one , & comes vis ‘
ent away perfectly another mystified. At the pres- j
time not tree on the whole :
mountam, with the exception of several
evergreens near tbe hotels, has a leaf on !
it, and the trunks and branches stand out
bleak apd bare. This maple is in an ;
g ree n maple t ree.”
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le v a Ine w Stndr *
-^habit'» „ . , ((
[ e OurmoraTand intell^
a virtues v i r tues are are acqifired acquuea habits naons. The iae
power to study is a moral vir
inasmuch as its exercise forces back
the lower propensities and urges forward
the higher faculties. Hence the hard
the^un" ^ man whoT ap^a^
ance Bbow hi to be a rough is never a
hard student. Hence also, generally men eminent eminent j
for great learning are
for moral virtues. :
Self-respect is also a moral virtue; and
it has been said that self-respect is at the
root of all tlie virtues. Hope, which is
the companion of energy and mother of
success, which, springs Carl vie from self-respect, “gives Hope, j
as says, a man a
world of strength wherewith to front a
world of difficulty.” Tbe value of repu
tation springs from self-respect, When
pithagoras [ admonished his pupils, seauton"— “De
tt nUli(a pa (, m anehunco
“ But especially of all things reverence
yourself," aud when tbe apostle reminds
us that our bodies are temples of the
tut)0 j seif-reBjmct that, has determined
yon to cultivate, improve and develop
vonr mental faculties to tbe highest de
gree of which theyju-o capable; expressed to make
of vours Ives, as Kichter it,
“ the most that can be made of the ma
-tcriixis. ” You are accomplishing the end
wben < ngag. d m the business of edueat
i„,»l .. .«L
Senator _ „ Bpair says , he . lias received ,
numerous letters from men prominently
identified with public education iu the
South, indorsing his bill to appropriate
•rs ,ro “ »—L**
an the cause of general education The
bill proposes to appropriate £ 1 . 1 , 000,000
the first year, $14,000,000 the second
year, and so on for ten years, the sum
to be diminished $1,000,000 eaeh year
the money to be distributed to States and
Territories in proportion to the illiterate
■population in each.
A Louisville reporter lias gotten
himself into a nice mess. He tele
graphed over the country that Louisville
had thirteen cases of smallpox, whereas
an investigation proved that there was
no smallpox in that city whatever. For
bis enterprise, according to a city ordin
arcej be wi31 be compelled to pay $50 for
each case, an aggregate of $G50. As
everybody kuows that is somewhat
J^ger than the average reporter’s pile,
t ,e 'V ‘ S sotbmg left for the reporter to
do bni to 4 e^withhis body.
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The imports j?: of German ant! Italian I
rht 1 “j-.-r' “J? * «
’ 00 ° 10 are ’ 000 said are , ln to tl ™ have mt advanced f orei S“ | !
. u f A
° J ‘ g
, bu \ , therc * be 8ufficlent ,
at present cost to encourage im
A largo proportion of these :
have gone West, where they can j
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Walter Scott on the Literary Pvofes
^ ■!
T he following . cl.aractenu.e . . postopt .
to an unpublished letter ot b r W alter
Scott’s Tw^i? lms eeii a f i 0
»
of serious advice? Whatever pleasure of
von nmv find iu literature, beware
{ookil . ‘ t0 it as a profession, but seek
^ iudepeudence to which every one
hop es to.attain item
ofmdusg wlm-h^s -stw your
your jiterarv 1 amusements honorably and
^ ^ , £ ^ v on , to look to
utoiatnre for au absolute aud necessary
sr ,pp 0r t you must be degraded bv the
miaeri^of a precarious and
penden t existence.”
making liU * ! Room
“ ;we e ^ ^
. nt tha
to , J
r Camtian hri«tian mipistrv mi^tr. —A- ■■ ■■mu, U
You can’t make g. oi out of evQ any
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HUMORS OF THE DAY.
‘ ‘ Abundance, like want, ruins mapy
however, let us risk it on the abundance.
“Don’t give me invited a weigh,” pleaded
the fat girl when to step on the
scales.
When a girl rejects an offer of hand mar¬
riage she goes through a sleight of
performance.
The end to be attained in the invest¬
ment of money is the divid end. — Steu¬
benville Herald.
r „
„ pc..,,
ful good in everything but children,
Dey need some other kind of dressing.”
The editor who called Chicago a Ciiris
tian country ought to be better posted
in religious‘geography .—Boston Times.
« Pride goes before a fall ” True
enough, but a pint of corn whisky can
give time.' pride a hundred and beat it every
An editor wrote a personal about a
vouug When it man going to spark his girl.
letter was printed he was horrified to
see tbe “ n ” substituted for the
.< r >> in the word spark.— Whitehall
Times ‘
1<H P‘ , a<:e Ior . everytiung everythin^ on,l and
everything in . its place. Somehow or
otUer thls ' lvon t work > we have a big
P ]ace for our wealth, but we’ll be hanged
' ,' ve C8 .“P°* Jt there 5 we haven't
El ’ amvtUe Ar fJus.
‘'Does our talk disturb you?” said
one a company of talkative ladies to
au ?hl gentleman sitting in a railroad
ma f ^d Times. night on to forty years, ”-JIart
“ When I die let me be buried in Hi*
stove, so that my ashes may miugle with
the grate.” says the paragrapher of the
Boston Star. In the stove the gentle
man’s ashes will scarcely mingle with
the grate; the chances are he will gently
simmer as a base burner,
A miller in Peru, Inch, fell asleep in
his mill and bent forward tilt his Hair
yanked got caught in some machinery and was
out; and, ot course, it awakened
him, and his first bewildering exclama
t ion was: “Dura it, wife, what’s the
matter now ?”—Boston Post.
A very gushing young lady turned to
Mr. Snap and asked him in passionate
tones : “Oh—ah—Mr. Snap, tell me!
What—what—is your idea of real happj
ness?” Mr. Snap—“Never reached the
lull meaning of the word, yet, but I
guess pork and beans would" cover the
ground.”
“You are on the wrong taek,” said the
pilot’s wife, when the hardy son of tho
“ No,” he replied, after a critical exami
nation, “ I’m on the right tack, but shoot
me dead if i ain’t on the wrong end of
V’—Burlington Hawkcye. iu
Mrs ,,n ^fnsed^ oTeT Cin bL^wffioTb * 1 ■ »
stteatolv
tiu-m additm ■ “ If von don’t eat it T’ll
have to throw it away It won’t keep
2SEfitsit« of butter in
two pies and a plate the
other, 'it and a loaf of bread undereach
arm, is exceedingly trying to your yell
Christian fortitude to have a woman
down and Cfl ? tl0n y ° U not f ^ r ? et S
p ^ rese rves on the v swinging - shelf in the
rner o{ the cellari next t0 t be current
j e jiy_ Been there, haven’t you?—)Fif
Harnsport Breakfast Table.
Too Much Talk.
.
There is probably too much talking much
in the world, too much writing, too
printing. There ie much more said than
is well said, much more written than is
well written. As a nation we are too
no isy. We talk and write at raudom
all of us talk and write on all manner of
subjects, them whether not. we We know getting anything to
about or are
be worse than the French. We ought
to act more and talk less—all of us that
are writing and talking ought to. We
multiply words continually. There is
too much sad—too little done. But who
amongst us is going to commence the
1Je eded reform by holding bis tongue
and going to work?
A proposed reform «Is everybody*
become heartily disgusted with the whole
matter. . theory,
Free speech is a line thing in
but Speech a rather poor cheapened thing in ^aeboal bv being use, free
is so
that no value is set u^ou it. iiie Amer
iean people are iier.-isteut talkers, but
impatient listeners Sp.-akers O. »iv more *
».». tl»» »u.
books and papeis m ai sn..pes a m
forms aud upon uli possible questions, need is
simply; iu immense. b.s > man to write now a
wish vain tor enemy make
^ or 1>rint the n ai-jgnst ne v,p, of r er, his or neighbors a
d , # {o
alld °' v »i demolition. It is the »^o
SSffl
1 are
^ d tomr.ic who are better
ada P"f “ the pulling ,^, of wee’s or tlia
American citizm'who A >t ^ V ,rv free
can read am'l write
himself competent te instruct life
feltew^ing. *“‘ ! But ff is l af^comfig
™ u , st t , Ik tttl Z a Sn -^ T i, e oll he wants to, hi
and read if
can.— Seymour Times. .
,
An Unaccepted Invitation.
A man named Lehmaier of Rochester,
* v -, j* making a singular
method is to go vhete the, publicnon*
are offered for sale, deliberately tear
them up and invite the owner ro have
hjm such 8 facts rW sted. would He be thinks < '^ 0 ^ that ‘* in a rnjd
v RE bid baT#