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EDWARD YOUNG & CO.,
Editor* and Proprietor*.
CRAWFORDVlLLE - - GEORGI A.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
There are 1,210 convicts in the Geor¬
gia penitentiary.
Key West, Fla., has 12,000 inhabitants
and only two chimneys. .
The first national bank in Mississippi
will be started soon at Columbus.
In Florida there are 17,638 white peo¬
ple over ten year* of age who cannot
write their own names.
More small grain has and will be sown
in Southwestern Georgia the present
season than at any former period.
Tennessee stock traders are bringing
their mules back from Atlanta rather
than sacrifice them at the low price*
prevailing.
There are fifteen prisoners in the Vir¬
ginia penitentiary for life, one for fifty
four years, one for tbirty-e^ht, and two
for thirty-six.
The Uarthage (N. C.) Gazette nays
that twenty pounds of solid pure gold
have been taken from the Cugle mines
in the past two week*.
Citizens of Alabama pay taxes on
$805,000 worth of farming took and me.
ohariical implements, and on guns, pis¬
tols and dirks, valued at #354,000,
The Silver Valley mine in Davidson
county, N. C., employ* about 80 hands,
and produces about five tons of concen¬
trated ore daily, which is valued at $500
per ton.
The Southern fourth of Alabama is
severed with forest* of long leaved pine,
mixed in the northern part with much
hard wood. A comparative narrow belt
of piue run* nearly across the State be¬
tween latitude 32 deg. and 88 deg.
Chattanooga Times: The Roane Iron
Company is now wen ring an order of
steel bloom* from England. They are
arriving in car-load lots every day.
Thi» order will amount to about$58,000,
the duty on which will be $22,000.
During the year just passed 322,0.1-1
ton* of coal were mined in the State of
Alabama. A few years ago the output
could have been expressed in cipher*.
This industry has progressed more rap.
id'y than any other within the borders
of the State.
A Rome, On., man is preparing
unique directory. It will contain the
style, whether brunette or blonde,
addm>s and approximate *agc of every
young lady in Georgia who has in iter
own name, or as heir expectant, pfop
4*1? to the Amount of #5,000 or upward.
Elijah Chnddock, aped 102 yetfr* and
three months, and his wife, aged 102
years and seven months, of Walker
county, Ga,, passed through Chattanooga
Monday en route to Arkansas, where
they will reside in the future with their
*on. They nre hale and hearty, and bid
fair to live several years longer. They
go West, it i* supposed, to grow up with
the country.
On Friday last, about teu miles from
Albany, Ga., a tattered, emaciated, half
starved woman was discovered wander
ing in the woods. She was taken charge
of by kind persons, and it was soon found
that she was a poorJFrencli woman, who
had been abandoned by her husband on
the way from Pensacola to Eulaula.
The woman could not speak a word of
English, and ever since Christmas had
been wandering in the woods, living on
mushrooms and toadstools.
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution: Mr. Al¬
exander H. Stephens keeps microscop¬
ically informed of the details at Liberty
Hall. He knows from day to day how
many ohiekens, ducks, pigs, etc., he has
in his yard, and takes as lively an inter¬
est in these home matters as he does in
national or state aflairs. He recently
lost a mule that had attained the great
age of thirty-seven year*, and he is now
much concerned about another, named
“Old Beck,” that had become moribund.
Traveling in Florida is expensive.
The hotels r«jgC lB price from 13.5) Jo
per day, but kr<* uret-class in every
respect Board may be had in private
houses from $2 to 13 a day. Steamboat
fares are about |6 for a day and night’s
travel, including fare and berths. The
boats are very much crowded now, and
cots are used nightly in the cabins for
the comfort of passengers. It is not a
good idea to buy return tickets on the
steamer*, as the discount is small and
the return tickets are good only on eos>
tun boats.
When several years old and three or
four feet high the palmetto tree has the
precise appearance of a huge growing
pineapple, with its tuft of green, Made¬
line leaves at the top. Until the tree
attains the height of several feet its body
is embraced with successive layers of
regularly inter! of shuck.
which in color and appearance closely
resembles the pineapple. A fter a ecr
tain age they lose this, the trunk assum¬
ing a firm, smooth surface, which fir-t
makes its appearance next the ground,
gradually extending to the top as the
tree matures.
TOPICS OF Til'S DAY.
The price of stoves promises to go
up.
The new Garfield postage stamp will
be issued in a few days.
Nhoatu Fai.t.s is trying to get the
contemplated World's Fair.
Louisville is shortly to make an ef¬
fort to found an art galiery.
Genebal Hancock has purchased a
large tract of land in Minnesota.
It seems Mr. Gladstone is still some¬
what down on the Land League.
Wheat in Southern Illinois is reported
in an unusually fluttering condition.
The organization of a Produce Ex¬
change Is being urged in Cincinnati.
Dio Sullivan ever tackle the fighting
editor of a first-class newspaper ? Well!
Queen Victobia, by the advice of her
physician, goes incognita to Mentone in
March.
The wilderness in which the crew of
Do Long’s boat are held, is eighty miles
in extent.
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Loan Gbanville has taken grounds
in favor of preserving the Clayton-Bul
wer treaty.
An exchange says that Oscar Wilde is
like Biilaam’s ass because he was made
“too utter.”
The Insurgents in Yemen, Arabia,
have proclaimed a descendant of the
Prophet of Caliph.
It seems that the widow of General
Custer has no pension. She paints
plaques for a living.
Judges Cox and Burnet, of Cincin¬
nati, after fifteen years’ service, have re¬
tired from the District Court.
TriE „ Wisconsin _ T . . Legislature T ■ i . i. has adopted t . a
resolutions calling on Congress to
eradicate Mormonism by legis lation.
It is safe to refuse silver dollars bear
ing the dale of 1843. A dangerous ;
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The weeding out of incompetent
clerks in the Treasury Department has
caused another rush of office-seekers to
Washington.
A convict in the Mississippi Feniteu
tiary was killed by one of the guards,
and the Court has awarded his wife $1,-
400 damages.
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A vaccine farm, capable of turning
out 3,000 points daily, has been os
tablished near jChicagw- is
thrifty business.
The fact seems to be just published*
that Cincinnati came out something like
eleven thousand dollars behind with her
Exposition of 1881.
A numbeb of State Legislatures have
passed resolutions calling up Congress
to do something toward the obliteration
of polygamy in Utah.
It is estimated that more than $1,
000,000 is spent annually in New York
for cut flowers. As to how much is spent
on the poor no estimate has yet been
given.
A woman who died in Paris recently,
at the advanced age of one hundred and
two years, had lived a widow eighty j j
years. She had no man to pester the
life out of her.
Recently b pack of wolves entered a
church at Uvarre, Spain, and refused to
quit it until they had killed three
and seriously wounded five of the
congregation.
When s man is sentenced to hang at
St Louis, the man gets in a hurry about
it and hangs himself with his bed
blanket. This saves the Sheriff a great
deal of trouble.
i
The retirement of Gambetta from offi¬
cial life and assumption of the duties of
an editor is looked upon by the Albany
Journal as promotion—increasing the
size of his audience.
Between the 1st of March and the 1st
of July next the oommisaion of over 350
postmasters will expire—many in large
cities. They are appointed for periods
of four and eight years.
Kunx, the m,u with fl;Wn wives,
made an ineffectual attempt to escape
from the Yirginia penitentiary a few
•davs ago. He perhaps had heard of an
other woman who who wonted to ® get
married.
The Dorsey combination—J. W. Dor
set L. W Vail 7 John M. Miner, J. B.
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Sanderson, h. T> Lom , ,, , m
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fraud Brady—dmige the government, with a 5'‘ n have ' 1, ’ r ; c ,* been f iu- n
dieted by the Gran 1 Jury.
A letter from au Alaska missionary
gives particulars of the torture of whole
families families for tor witchcraft witcuiro-t and ijuioiuer other p. particu
lars. winch indicate that toe super
0““ W . tLD, .. h " ISLlZZlJ. The newspapers
of America are perfectly outrage^
Correct. He farther says: “The,
aad women of America are splqjii
Correct again. The men and wo
are not to blame for the newspapers Its
the nasty little type.
At one time Mr. Bradlaugh ref Ared
to take the oath of office in the EaAtih
House of Commons because, be saidithe
oath would be meaningless to !f:m.
Now that he has signified a willingness
to take the oath, in order to retail
s at, the House has refused by a w
majority to permit him todo so. ifj
The assessed value of real and per¬
sonal property in New York City is ajj
00,000,000. This does not include &$ ,
000,000 worth of church property, $5|‘j -
000,000 worth of school and library prop¬
erty, and $15,000,000 worth of real doe# estate
owned by the United States, nor it
include the reputed wealth of miiuy
millionaires. Further, it is only 60 (:tr
cent, of the actual value of the propei^jr
assessed. New York is no one-horse
place.
A San Fbanoisco correspondent writes
to the Baltimore Sun.- “Coal oil is bow
so plenty ‘ 7 from 7: the wells of Los 7 Angeles f
that , the market is overstocked, i , ana qJ* -f
#
want no more from Pennsylvania, 'fj flf
market price in Los Angeles has fallen
from fifty cents to eighteen cents a gal
Ion. It is advertised in five-gallon cans
at at that that price, price The lho oil oil belts belts of of California California,
from present indications alone, may be
counted the richest in the world.” '
U,.aZ^lTtr.rigMT“g’„te" It seems now to be a question whether
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landing bill. Tim Committee W„ ? ,
and Means have referred the proposition^
to a sub-committee. Should the mattery
be decided in the negative, it is said the
Committee on Ways and Means will pro
ceed to frame a new funding bill, and ig
nore npre entirely entirely the the Sherman Sherman bill bill, which which '
has already passed the Senate.
Since the statement has been pub¬
lished that Dr. Mary clerk Walker received
tlio appointment of to the / special
Con ional Coaimittc . e on onian
9uff Senator L h o{ New
y ork) the Chftirman of the committee>
8 havin K th ° lifo out ° f
^mansuffragiste. He avers that he
'ZZS&SL
from the tender sex.
Ip all that is said against the China¬
men is true, they are indeed a filthy
race. A paragraph on tlie rounds con
J a ” 1B ^ ie ioi '' ow ' n ^ information : An
lablt «« * “ d«n m A irgimo
p low 1 ^ he Nevaaa was > discovered was tbe d that ‘“ ad the bo 5 y pil- of
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a man covered by a qmlfc. The Ooronei
foand it to be a Chinese body that had
been dead for two or thr ee days,
,l ^l^ r ® in
ta e railroad, sick. ”
Two men now promiuent candidates
for the possession of several tons of
Government money are Captain Eads
and Mr. Corbin. Captain Eads thinks
that an appropriation of $50,000,000
would bo about right with which to
build the ship railroad across the Isth¬
mus of Panama, the money to be placed
at the disposition of Eads himself, and
Mr. Corbin has got it into his head that
by a similar appropriation, placed at his
disposal, he would be enabled to run
si ips across the ocean in six days. There
seems to be a power in money iu large
quantities about which we know little or
nothing.
The following from Robert Bonner, of
the New York Ledger , will start a new
boom in story writing: “ A man who
looked like a perfect idiot came into my
office one summer afternoon about ten
years ago, end told me he had a story
which he wished to sell to me for publi¬
cation in my paper. At first I thought
it would not be worth while to spend my
time to even look at the story, for it
seemed to me that such an idiotic-look¬
ing fellow could not write anything teat
would be fit to print. He pleaded so
hard, however, to have me just look at
his story that I finally consented to take
the manuscript and submit it to one of
my editors. The editor read it, and it
proved to be one of the best stories ever
brought into my office .’’
W New l ooking j n _ rt l tensib „ nsi j
The ordinary range «ndeook-stovem
wuichthefirebox vs pkcedatthesida proceeds
of the oven, or m which the
of combustion pass over the top, have
the disadvantage of au irregularly heat
ed oven. The sides and top are hotter
than tiie bottom and ends or other side, food
and as a result the bread or other
is improperly cixiked-perhaps burned
appliance lias been devised for causing
the air in the oven to circulate, and thu*
carry the heat obtained by radiation t«
nil porta of the oven. A sheet of metal,
bent into the form of the top and on*
side of the oven, is supported on wire
ptim aards snd placed in the oven. In
the narrow space between the sheet
mptal and the hot side and top of the
ove n the air is heated more than in the
main V>odv of the oven, andexpan
Amoves over toe top of
the oven toward the cooler walls. The
arrangement, simple as it is, appears to
v H > founded on a good idea, and is re
ported to work well in practice. The
^ apimratus ^ examined was portable, and
i ^JXnever ^ to be put iu the oven needk- by the
an even heat is
love, save that within a mother’s
* heswt,— Sirs. Hemaru.
When Women are Most Attractive.
In an interesting paper entitled “When
Women Grow" Old,” Mrs. Blake has
brought facte to show that the fascinat
ing power of the sex is oftentimes re
tained much longer than is generally as
Burned.
She tells ns of Aspasia, who between
the ages of thirty and fifty, was the
strongest intellectual force in Athens; of
Cleopatra, beauty whose golden between decade for
power and was thirty
and forty; Lina, who w-as not far from
thirty when Anne, she gained Russia, the heart who, of Oc
tavius; of of at
thirty-eight, beautiful Queen was thought in Europe; to be of the Gather- most
ine II., of Russia, who, sven at the
siiver decade, was both beautiful and im
posing; of Madamoiselie Mars, the act
ress, whose beauty increased with years,
and culminated between thirty and forty
five; “ween of Madame Reccamier, who, be
twenty-five the reigning and forty, beauty and even Eu
later, was in
■ of Ninon d’EncIos whose own
sou—brought up without knowledge of
his uarentage_fell passionately in love
with her wdien she was at the age of
thirty-seven, and who even at her six
tieth birthday received an adorer young
enough to be her grandson.
These facts, the representatives of
many others, establish that the golden
decade of fascination is the same as the
golden decade of thought; that woman
is most attractive to and most influential
over men and woman are neare8 t the
maximum of their cerebral force. The
voice of our great prima donnas is at its
best between twenty-seven and thirty
toe; but still retain, in a degree, its
strength and sweetness even m the silver
decade The voics is an index o{ the
i,odv a n its functions ’not but the decay
ef other functions is so readily
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W0 want our oott on worked up at
home and that will eire us eheanpr
goods, for we won’t have to pay freight
both ways. They talk a great deal about
* tariff for revenue only, but I have never
seen one yet that didn’t prove £ to be a
tariff for p rotection and j ever w pj
is all a complicated piece of machinery
fixed up by politician?, to get to Con
gress, and they stay there and the poor
consumers don’t know anything about
it. Jesso. In the good old honest days
when the masses of the people made
nearly everything at home it didn’t; mat
torso much, but it does now. I was
.a-thinking of the days when we used to
wear country jeans and home-made
shoes and wool hate and drank water
out of a clean gourd instead of a silver
dipper, and chair sat in split-bottom chairs—
the best in the world—and liyed in
housgs be we were not afraid of, I do hale
to afraid of a house when I go in it.
I was thinking of the times when the
boys went to mill and chopped the fire
wood and wore home-made galluses and
made balls out of old rubber shoes and
played marbles without fudging, mid ;
called up doodle-bugs out of their sand
holes. The boys are now too smart for |
the like of that. They know more than j
we know, and by the time they are j
•yjpwu they still will know it all and quit, j
I am hopeful. There 3^t,
nv
the (Mtv utocK won t run out 1
£Pfre!y .—Bill Arp.
Entertaining Company.
I pray you, oh excellent wife, not to
cumber yourself and me to get a rich
dinnei tor this man or this woman who
has alighted at our gate, nor a bed¬
chamber made ready at too great a
cost. These things, if they are curi¬
ous iu, they can get for a dollar at the
village. But let this stranger see if he
will, iu your looks, in your accent and
bel,avio r , your heart and earnestness,
your thought and will, what he can
not buy aiid at any price, at any village or
city, miles, winch and he may sparingly, well travel
fifty hard, in dine and
sleep the order to behold. Cer¬
tainly let board be spread and the
bed be dressed for the traveler, but
let in these not the things. emphasis Honor of hospitality to the house be
where they are simple to the verge of
hardship, so that the intellect is awake
and sees the laws of the universe, the
soul worship truth and love, honor
and courtesy flow into all deeds. —A\
IF. Emerson.
Taking Advantage of Nature.
An ingenions application of expansion
and contraction in metals was made use
of in France, and has frequently The walls been of
taken advantage of since.
o large building in Paris were observed
to be giving way by bulging outward,
and the'problem vertical position. was to bring For them this back
to their nur
pose a number of bars of iron having
crews and nuts on each end were let
liroiurh tli€ opposite walls and across
he intervening space between them,
be nuts and screwed The portion of the
bars were outside. bars were now
heated by a number of lamps suspended
l^Iow them possible, until they hud the expanded screwed a?
“p ^ and nuts
against the outeidea of the two oppo
The i7i h ffcrt) next re .
; , , th bars ten^h coo p
.* ,, ‘ j, gen tlv but with
s ver no^al
foree ’ iato posi- P
ti 0 n.~Sc v . aWtic / American. j iner ; Mn
Wh al ,b, Th™„
j Have yon notieed that when bit of vou thread, want
j to take hold of anything—a
j w will say—that it is always the thumb
j ; who puts himself forward, and that he
always on one side by himself, wfiile
) ] 1 fyo re-d of the fingers are on the other ?
If the thumb is not helping, nothing
: stops m your hand, and you don t know
pLiment, w hat to do with it. Trv, by way of ex
t i%>uth to cany your spoon to your
without putting your thumb to
! it,, and you will see what a long time it
j «iill fake you to get through with a poor
Uptle plateful of broth. The thumb is
i placed in such a manner on your Hand
Sat it can face each of toe other fingers;
oiie after the other, or all together, as
bL g^p, j.lease, and by this we are enabled
; as with a pair of pincers, all
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newest neighbor,
Mercenary Wars.
: red
I added Capital, already her with bioody crime, It
another sin to list.
is perceived, since the battles have been
fought and made their slaughter, that
the French war in Turn i was caused by
the French money sharks, who desired
to extend their financial operations.
The “Credit Foncier ” of France, which
may answer to our “ Credit Mobilier,” is
responsible for the Tunis war. Govern
ments ought to be above these soulless
corporations and able to resist their
selfish aggressions. The industrious
Italian went into North Africa, and be
S an to construct railroads. The French
capitalists . became possessed with these the
i idea that they would speculate in
shadow representations of wealth. They
invested. They became entangled French in
the net, and hence the war.
capital appealed to French arms for
protection. France answered the appeal
affirmatively and went to war. A more
. waged,
mercenary campaign was never
under the banners of a civilized nation.
Heaven knows that wars, under whatever
auspices, are cruel, barbarous and
brutal to the develop last degree. brute. They repress They
the man and the
smother the good in humanity, and
throw to the surface the evils of the ,
race. Ferocity takes the place of force,
and savagely usurps the place of bravery.
As General Sherman said, “ In whatever
; light we look at it war is hell.” One of
the great works of civilization yet to be
accomplished, is to disarm the world,
To go to work to gratify ambition is a
terrible sin; to take up arms to use in
anger is weak, as well as wicked ; but to
go to war for plunder unspeakably for mercenary depiaved
ends, is to be
The men who sent the army against
Turns were the money sharks of Pans.
Government has the right to follow her
citizens and demand that they be pro
tected, but have they not a right first to
ucerMn lie obaraoter ol the cupital
to gratify canals, the pockets of men who project
Tehuantepec ship rail
wa Y enterprises, nor for those who
speculate in railway stocks in the north
of Africa. The statesmanship of the
world will be larger and wiser when it
refuses to be mfluenced unduly by these
corporations, whose rights should be
settled without involving the country in
war. The money and blood of the peo
pi® should not be put up for the benefit
of the people who organize in corpora- down
tions. What patriot cares to lay
his life for a soulless corporation? The
mercenary wars, and the others too,
should come to an end.— Indianapolis
Herald. ____,___
Every Man (i His . Own Doctor.”
Many a man who, if his horse or cow
jg sick, sends at once for the veterinary
practitioner for ailments of his own that
a re on the face of them quite as serious
and as much in need of professional
treatment.
He will take the advice of an ignorant
neighbor as to what is‘.‘good for” an ill
ness, when he would laugh at the idea of
going to the same person for counsel in
any other business or concern whatever,
In the days of our grandmothers, when
the household materia mrdica consisted
of drtyts “roots like and yarbs,” salts, with Ibis .domestic a, few simple ;
epsqm or
presorPMig was les* when dfengerous
than in these latter days become. concern
trated and powerful and familiar. agents have
so common
The household remedies of the olden
time were rarely liable to do much harm,
even if they did no good. The cure was
generally in reality left to nature, though
the “roots and yarbs” got the credit of
it. But most of the drugs of our day
axe not of this inert or negative charac¬
ter, and the danger in their use by the
ignorant is a real and serious danger.
The most powerful medicines that un¬
professional people ol a former genera¬
tion ventured to fool with bore about the
same relation to those in vogue that gun
power does the nitro-glycerine; yet the
latter are used even more recklessly than
the former ever were. A little knowl¬
edge is not always a dangerous that thing,
but when it leads a man to think he
can “doctor” himself, in ailments of any
serious nature, the old and often-abused
proverb is indisputably true .—Journal
of Chemistry.
The Magnetic Needle.
A condensed explanation northward in regard and to
the needle pointing to the
southward is as follows : The magnetic
poles of the earth do not coincide with
the geographical poles The axis ol
rotation makes en angle of about 230
wlt ^‘ a bDe joining the former. The
northern magnetic pole is at present
near the Arctic circle, on the meridian o
Omaha. Hence the needle does not
everywhere pomt to the astronomical
north, and is constantly variable within
certain limits. At San Francisco it
points about seventeen degrees to the
east of north, and at Calais, Me, as
much to the west. At the northern
magnetic pole, a balanced needle points
^th its north end downward in a plumb
line. At Saa Francisco it dips about
Mxty-three degrees, and at the southern
magnetic pole the south end points
directly down. The attraction of tte
eartn upon a magnetic needle at its sur
face is of about toe same force as that of
a hard steel magnet, forty inches long,
strongly magnetized, at a distance of one
foot. The foregoing is the accepted needle" ex
planation of the fact that the
f - eQ for thia , atnral f . lct> aliy more than
or MT other observed fact in nature.”
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Congratulations.
Peck, of , Peck ,, s Sim, „ ^lped , , . an old
lady off toe cars at some Western stati
three or four years ago, and she died last
month and left him $22,000 m bonds,
Even as homelv a man as Peck never
; loses anytomg by play mg grandpa.
\ Detroit Free Press.
Very likely the edited rf toe
Press thought he tLart was domg us bii a 1^116 iana
ness by startuig stOTy
con d see the priwessi ^
seekers that have filed np onr golden ,
stairs since, he would be myjje
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HUMORS OF THE DAY.
A cottsteb attraction—a pretty girl
clerk.
AnwAYS ready to take a hand in con
vernation—deaf and dumb people. .
“ Thebe is no rest for thewigged” is
what a bald-headed man said when he
chased his false hair up the street in a
gale.
You can always tell the fastidious man
by bis sending twenty-seven accompanied cuffs by and
collars to the laundry, a
single shirt.— Yonkers Gazette.
'“The truth always pays in the end”
j g an 0 j,j sa ying, and that is the reason
p ro bably why there is so little of it told
a t the beginning of anv business trans
action.
A young lady bearing the aristocratic
J nomt>n of Jar(lilie recently deserted
because in an impassioned
made ner name lme rhyme rl ^ me with
(i „ said a cow ooy, as neiooKea belooked
a atSookeywhen weedy stubble-field. sliehad^come Well, through old gal,
you am t got wings, exactly, out you are
a burred of passage, ah the same,
Poverty is the mother of rest. An
editor is proverty. Therefore au editor
is the mother of rest, but he never gets
very well acquainted with his offspring
on this terrestrial sphere.— Lampton.
The gentleman who caught a severe
cold from pressing his lips quite to a maiden’*
snowy brow, recovered rapidly
while* basking in the sunny smiles of an
other fair damsel .—Toledo American*
John toUgwuvf had a “pop v of thunder-tone,
Smith's finger weru oil with it.
A New Yobk Iobk ladv lady who wno was was traveling traveling
. ^tlfd"tl^eTFaihiflried'lt 1
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and cried for more. What they can t
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sociable oyster stew when it is red
with pepper; because at the last it sting
eth like an adder and biteth a hole in
your pocket-book to a considerable
amount. - Williamsport Breakfast
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Said the sailor to his sweetheart: “I
know that ladies care little about nauti-
cal matters, but if you had your choice
of a ship, what kind of a one would you
prefer? She cast down her eyes,
blushed and whispered: “A^ittlo
smack. ’
The latest marvel of science is ins \ir«»
taneons photography. is possible By the aid of t): i
process it to obtain a pictii! >
of yourself and girl in the act of bei
thrown over a stone wall by a runaw. r
horse. This picture can be placed Cl
the frame mantlepiece in a maroon velves
as a warning to young men to
never let go the reins with both hands. —
New Haven Register.
She wanted to test his affection, so,
picking up the revolver and patting her
eye to the muzzle, she said, innocently,
“I wonder if it’s loaded.” “Oh, don’t,”
he exclaimed, with manifest agitation,
It satisfied her that ho loved her and
she asked, indifferently! “Why not?”
“Because,” he answered, “I’ve got
house rent to pay next month and a
funeral would embarrass me. —il ’'—Brooldun
Eagle. ,
A new boarder at the Occidental gazed
aphis, plate, the other morning, and then
said : “Is there a reliable physician
stopping in this house?” “Yes, sir,”
said the water. ‘ Good surgeons, too,
eh?” “Believe so, sir.” “Then just see
if he is in his room before I start in on
this breakfast. I had a brother choked
to death on a steak like that once, and I
am bound to take all the necessary pre¬
cautions. ”—San Francisco Post.
Tender Advice.
All who have seen a French wedding
know of the homely and which frequently officiat¬ af¬
fectionate manner iu the
ing priest delivers a little homily to the
intending husband and wife, in which,
celibate as lie is, lie speaks with the au¬
thority of deep experience on the du¬
ties of bearing and forbearing, on the
happiness and privileges of the married
state. But all were astonished at the
surpassing plainness of speech of the
following priestly address : “ It is from
the bottom of my heart, Joseph, that I
congratulate you upon the first step you
are taking. It was, indeed, sad to see
you wasting your youth in a life of dis¬
gusting drunkenness. However, all is
well that ends well, and it pleases me
to think you have said gooa-bv forever
to that wine-shop. As to you, my poor
Catherine, thank heaven that you have
been able, ugly as you are, to find a hus¬
band ; never forget that you ought, by
au unchangeable sweetness and devotion
without bounds, to try to obtain pardon
for your physical imperfection, blunder of for, I re¬
peat, you are a real nature.
And now, my dear children, I join you
in matrimony.’]______
Charred Bran.
The use of charred bran for preserving*
delicate fruit while on the road to mark¬
et bids fair to solve the problem which
has so long perplexed some millers.
Converted into charcoal, the light and
slippery product of the mills ceases to
be unmanageable; and it is quite likely
that a large local demand for charred
bran will arise in the vicinity of most
mills, for packing not only quickly plums
perishable fruits like apples peaches, and other
and grapes, but also
firmer fruits, for storage as well as trans¬
portation. _
A Boston artist discovered an ancient,
moss-grown, vice-clad ® t0 ?® * ?
to Maine, his own and delight, satdown as to ^etch as to it, that mu ol h
the owner. When night fell he had his
sketch half done, and the next morning
he return ed to finish
the: owner had • tidiedmp the P-aue y
gru bbing up the vines, scraping oft the
j mos8 and giving the stones a fine coat of
j wbitewas h.
, , what’s a sweet, sugar-coatedl
: little ^ an’sel “^Xher pill asked a Williamsport
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