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Ill CMforifl Diiciai.
DE-WARD YOUNG «r CO,
MdHtri tmi Preprufrt.
eraWFORDVJLLE - - GF.OROIY
NEWS GLEANINGS.
The Texas legislature has created a
railroad commission.
The Buckingham gold mine in Vir
ginia is valued at two million dollars.
Weilsburg, W. Va., claims to have
tho biggest gas well in the United States.
The Dunn’s mqpntain gold mine, in
North Carolina, is paying handsomely.
Five Kentucky boys graduated at
West Point this year.
Sessions of Police Court are held on
Sunday at Lynchburg. Va.
One hundred and twenty-five i-aj^rs
arc published in North Carolina.
The wheat crop in East I ennesscc
promises to he as good as that of last
year.
The Texas J-cgisaturc 1 as levied
$500 tax on all dea’ersin such literature
as the Police News, Gazette, etc.
4n effort is lieing made in Alabama to
establish a number of societies for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
Five thousand sheep are said te he the
number in one Hillsboro, Fla., county
flock.
The new cotton mill at Charleston,
South Carolina, will have a capacity of
25,000 spindles, and will cost $500,000.
Rev. Horatio Thompson, for more
than forty years a trustee of Washing¬
ton and Lee University, died Saturday
a t Lexington, Va.
W. C. Bond, a merchant of Wynnton,
near Columbus, Oil., committed suicide
Wednesday by stabbing himself to dea th
while drunk.
Arkansas has 123 newspapers and pe¬
riodicals, consisting of 110 weeklies, 8
dailies, 3 semi-monthlies and 2 month¬
lies.
Orlando'Jackson has brought suit
against the Louisiana Lottery Company
for $178,000, alleging he has spent $80,'
000 within the past four years in the
purchase of tickets.
On the outskirts of Little liock they
have a genuine case of leprosy. TIi
victim i*. a negro named Fdijnli Turner.
vkite, and vrrrr-' hm flesh i» dropping ...... off r m
ipots from his body.
1T5?S325.“(<2 a, )
Reporter ay tin- . , I P roup Co 11 .. ton XT;ll Mill. - f f
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that place, has jiHt closed it, to.t J«-ir
with a profit of twenty-four per cent, on
the capital invested.
*i.« t' tori t . - -- b
ni pi. iwaeounter-ble-Mng .» .•i.nnior h1e««in<' to in Ihe the d'sadef «-•« nr
attendant on it, lias left a heavy do
i.< j -it 01 of * silt tnumuiati mud that planters imitr. n admit has
imparted nqjv nnd rich fertility to the
land, nnd will fully compensate them
for their loss
In . digging .. . a sewer m . Nor,oik v - 11 v a
an oh vault was unearthed, which <on
tamed uovenil colli ns filled with bones
snl rubbish. In one of the c-kets was
.Valid n pair of tough leather slippers of
peculiar make, ami very much resent
....... ............. ofoU.'n'lim. ..
Hr. W. K. .........iter, of T™„, i.
the largest stock-raiser m the ' mted
states. Ho branded 0,000 calves last
■pring, and has already marketed 6,000
beeves this seamn. Helms fl-i.0(K> head
if stock cattle, and owns more than
100.000 acres of land. He owns 1,000
bulls and 300 saddle horses • emnlova
lo ooar.l .j.ln.l hud Whiten. He
100 work hory$s, anil raises grata enough
to feed all stock, saddle and work sto< k.
Besides „ ., his vat lie. , he , has 801 Stock
to-W '««i»t«. »“.l fifty .um-.
The Boy at the Natural Bridge, Ya.
The name of tho boy who climbed the
sidc of the Natural Rridtro Viivmia
and carved his name above all Id's pro
deeessors, and came so near losing his
lite. James '
was Riper.
On the abutmenta of the bridge there
are many names carved iu the rock by
persons who have climbed as high ms i
they dared on the face of the precipice.
Highest of all, for nearly three-quarters
of a century, was that of George Wash
intrtoa fvoint who when a vouth •iscev.de t to
feit a never surpass before iuisis’ reached bt But this
was James
Riper, a student in Wasluugtou College,
who climbed from the foot to the top of
Hue took
Stzcfl F.m Tp.
At a restaurant: Waiter advances
“ Bus’ beef, corn beef *n kale, ve.il pot
nio 1 ^ bos—”
t Gimme s tfleoo 1 o’ pic 1 *u glass
oi -
‘'.Advancing r
to tho next customer:
“Kos* beef, corn beef ’n kale, veal
pot—” Gimme piece o’ pie ’n o’ tea. ”
• • next? a cider, cup pic
To the “Pie and or
end teat” That waiter “sized up his
orowd.—-Vac Harm Register.
A OroMumm terded an old buggy
for COOacresef 1 tin c.tir land^ome i.av iu t..r.. t« . I
d d rr-
TOl’ICS OR TUE DAY. '
j
Hatch is predicting a disas- '
Rufus
trous panic.
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Pb of. IS * as one of the
3i •• '•
Fite of the nominees on the Pennsyl¬
vania States ticket are lawyers.
The" Garfield Memorial Church edi
fice at Washington will cost $38,500.
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Queen Victoria, the dear old soul,
lias just turned her sixty-fourth year.
We hhaIjJj confidently expect at least
a light frost about the Fourth of July.
Tire egg product of France last year
amounted to $300,1X10,000, so says a re¬
port.
The saloons of New York City placed
side by side would reach a distance for
forty-fire miles.
President Arthur’s mail average* GOO
letters a day, and of these not one in
twenty ever reaches him.
a_
Agriculture places tho winter wheat
acreage at one million'and a half acres,
Cincinnati Commercial: “ Mark
Twain served three months in the Con
federate army, under General Stirling
Price.”
Thu Boston Post facetiously remarks
that every farmer should bo able to boast
u„''“f “”' J *‘ i,rin8
Um y ar ’
The Indiana Supremo Court has de
oiiled that tho appropriation of $2,000,
000 for the new Capitol is to be expended
on the building alone.
The English and French Governments
disavow interference in Egyptian affairs.
They only send their fleets to Egyptian
waters to influence (he Khedive to re
storo order.
n It winn wn n bo observed observed that that sinco sinco the the
President s assassin has been sentenced
to death, there has bean a dearth of
cranks with a mission from heaven to
kill somebody
The late James Vick, Rochester seeds
.way 810,000 ft year. Alto
the grasshopper invasion in Kansas, lie
gave $25,000 worth of seeds to tho suffer
era of that State.
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At rnn Delaware Greenback
Hf ate Convention there wore but five del-
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K K r 1
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Tne Stutn s* root. PihlA Pnr firm in
nn<t 1 maim aevon ......rilTT, more during Le tho las.i
t , elvo moutb , H> and tUero m s talk of
i Kl i din g som.ffiody responsive. ‘
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Tnn VmenoaxMHioplojjrekokimr fufc.
t0U /,''•( 8t '* Thni I liat; ;• ! * tin the day l... sol apart i f for the ,i
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luU)Riu „ i.hv.sodtor.mnrlr <)f tho President’s assassin and
ar0 Phased to remark that fi« it is pretty n
cloee , at hand. |
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President Baiuuos, of Guatemala, I
who will soon visit this country, is rc- .
imted » to be worth about $8,000,000.
io has been President since 1874 and
^ B;lid to bo ft wisC( husincss-iike,
aud i P (1 n 1 l «rmagistr«to._ • * *
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Two eases of arsenical poisoning by
steeping 111 anewly-jiaperedroom in Gam
MM «*»-. ~ *» «•
”' k ; Tl». of
the paper 1 w’armlv dispute tho correct* ;
luW f H the cxplanahon „ of of the ll]nA illness. __
Tun Texas Supreme Court has given -
a decision in the long-pending suit of
tho Grigsby heirs, to recover about three j
bis. thousand The decision acres of is land in and of the near heirs, Dal-j |
in favor
'--.--j Captaes Eads Europe,
is going to
Mi an time if the Government refuses to 1
shell , „ out . some $50,000,000 -u for him i • , to * try
>■» » ^ fg ”Uw»r. b a ■
wul bring ..ome bloated Englishmen
here to do it for us, and thou we shall
feel awful bad.
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A man at Rochester, N. Y. , who went
about the news stands tearing up the
rtash newspapers oil, ,ed for sale, has at I
not into iail from tearing down the
■ , f a a niule nlul V w imau in an art f eal- HL
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»«?• ^ are .vsnamed ot f the
works of Nature.
A A conteshh. rnvTKMPORART^avs kart save Jennie J tame Cramer l ram
shonM have mmdea lier mother and she
would not have met with a violent death.
Yes, and the Malloy’s should have been
gentlemen instead of murderous pimps ‘
\, 1 r K . .ni a itlt i ,i U. in- .‘a., lie lies and „ i the H, influence to
if good society.
11 lu 1 ,* P«*«» - , »<> . .
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Duke of Albany and bis bride libs two
‘ 1 Gonu-iu PoH. Btrange
thM Uiis wedding present business can
« -t to a juried so that they will go to
the poor instead of to those who have
no need of them.
Kate Cuaxton, ----^--
the m tress, bad a
lodv visiier at a Cleveland hotel, and the
head waiter, mistaking her for a maid,
jflk-ed her at a servant’s table. After an
, xpanaGea had failed to rectify the
error, toe water was thrashed by Kate
Claxton’s husband, who was fiue*l ?o in
a police ceu: t
A sad young man, arter talteg tier a meal
at a New York coffee house, pro4«M much j
searching in his pockets, a §2 |
greenback from his watch goefe fob, and with ;
a sigh said: “Here she wos^^Amlned, After
jjj^ departure tha note ;
and on the back appeared, yourfrfly; in a
fi"o hand: “Save don’t
gamble; never play ar il kro-bank. ; |
The last of fortune of §10,OCH’. i ».
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Tiif. Jl iie poet pr>et JLiOugi^iiuw Longfellow once once wrote vrow to a
youthful poet as follows : “ No man, I
think, should devote himself to poetry
“T'TfcSSkl ofmakinga living. ‘True
poetry m the ofiuprmg of our Wt iiou.s.
I f you make a trade of it yo4 ina_y ^
sure that it will degenerate itto mere
verse making. Therefore, follUv liv.-li- some
calling or profession for 4
hood, and k ku .„ p „ thp the gilt „ itt ,. at f sotg fia sa ,. r . j
and for its elf alone. ’
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■ ,,T- ¥&££££ \ “ It? v
hack row of this church I and \ invite
r
church.” Mr. Barnurn took t i seat
amid tho smiles of tho conga lectil ation.
!M>, Collyer then began his r
Sensationai, stories are cheap telelfaphed Jicles.
The information has been
over the countr to the effect tbuflplTpoii
tho return 0 f Governor CritteniYn wllcon- to
Missouri from New York he
u »»<
f b-rs rank of Jam the James f> ana gang, P^hly and thus otke.i l 1 eem- Y
an
.■lid to the organization of brigaTJ in
Missouri. Frank James is now sl/fl to
be in Jackson County, and instead of
!iH l 'V. up anxl0 ' a ® to ma,£a tbo best torms
po^Ue h>r himself.
A oibcos is a decidedly important'in
stitut ion—to take money out of a com
nmiiity. Says the Newark (N. J.)
“ Tl:o visit of a circus to a manufactiir
; city liko Newark “ is both cost]v 7 and
dcmoi.dizuig. The actualmoney , loss to
community by the\isit of Bn mum;«
show, last week, approximates $50,000.”
That amount of money devoted to some
needed local public institution would be
.U.tingW M at, bnt 8 iv« n pto..™,
it goes ns a “fleeting show. Circuses
arc decidedly expensive American insti
furious.
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WrjrN tll0 p uko nljd ji nc hc S 8 of
Ali) . UivT , ft Windsor, while they were
r. ; ...... *-t
bridegrooms three brothers and Inn
cese Louiso and Princess Beatrice ran
aero s a p: rt of tlic lawn inclosed within
nuinixr 01 {ia bUOts > ' ViUl wmt n *
. ^ 1 tho “happy pair.” The
Alb s „y returned the fire from
i i: ;o with the ammunition suppl
V "°h duv
’ '' *'■? a
shot , at the Duke of Edinburgh.* f
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l iM r.s Gobden Bbnnbtt —thrdigU Delimg
whose Arctic Expedition project
„„ d Con .Tidesintlio .„ au i olls met their devth-in
V* to 1 New J York r
-V/n on tho subject ■ > of canftg for thy
^lows 10 fatca ami Jeannette, orphans s of ,ys the editorially victims in of
tlio Jfa'txll .*
Th, and 7VJ,«m may rest rattafied that,
l.ui.iic.'c.nv «>'i bZt*kn! 0 t the wfdowamt
erotmns of Debong, and not of them alone,
J. v„.„ ........... ... ,„u r.v.o.,- ..
accept-our acknowledgement of their kmdne.H
i i afft-rdiug Without u Huitubio being‘liable op^oviunity to make th a ! ,
statPmout te the reproach
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The New York Herald says editorially
of that which has been proven in the
Cramer ease:
Jennie Cramer, after a night’s carousal ia I
StetfeflSStZflSu
s.ma Bock, ridieg a “flying-horse,” ana ho
general " 1,a V alteution, 1” 'H - s0 and
attract so annoy one
partioulM' Hartford matron that she requested
J. huhud «.t.hw
,ioad, at an rarlyhour.ou died Saturday thJeffects mornttur: of
aud, fourth, that she of
ursciuc in solutsm
llle theory of the defense is that Jen
nie Cramer killed herself on account of
the treatment she received from her
mother.
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Rev. Henry Ward Beecher the other
dav in Rivmouth ^ Church, J said ^ : L 1
^
when it has been ordered by the Official Bo&rJ.
Bat to-dav I want ptrsoual you to give bat a collection for for
uic ; not ier my oc, my sake.
When I wss alout twenty-three years of agv
> ^ ^ tS
,. l0 »„,7 tittle of life, and having much to
1 -nai, I went forth as a preacher. I went aefose
in.' Ol'.ic to r. I.iyt',:, to a little Prv S byte»iaa
cdinrct> for i was a Pres .yterian then anUiiin
,n.:, all but tnerr eoufe>siou of faith, lheu
ST^iertUkoow-eai^for Horn
,.rm-ebury. Imiian*, which about hag twenty miles iriore
Oi, K -im. S i:. a towu sent out Btefese.
.... other m t taCt
I here J • timtoe.
jVvl'aud thei. They
f!50 the first year, umi with the aid of tho
vvaiK-su Home Missionary B oiety, Qodhless begsb
“ foi *'*?■ 1 10 Cf7- “ere I to
before I came here. There, in thrtUiUechareh. T
«l.;vh v,.uM seat oue hundred pen»n*, and
I»- “th^-xhcrc .^Vr-eutmi SfiKS V.“u‘‘h-A i iood
ton Us d »ijrger
V.H now. md UOW toe hope to bnfld
I ou to L »r; j help them. The Tne
X’Uen vrui C m to rebuild the
ecsbyterian Cbursh ia Lawreneeburg , Indiana,
hero" I began icy ministry.”
DimiN'o the marriage ceremony (that
of the Duke of Albany) says the London
Truth, the Queen happened to look up
at the knight’s banners, and, toiler
amazement and indignation, she discov
cred'half a dozen opera glasses peering
from behind them, all pointed straight at
her own face. An inquiry was speedily
made, when it turned out that a protni
ucm officiai oiiiciai at at Windsor, wuuuur. tAt at the me uwtuiv last mo
merit, had secretly constructed a small
, vivate gallery up behind the carving at
th tl ^ * top o{ ° f the th V Wight’s Ja Tl 8 stalls, r^T from
which, w ] ijc i 1} after after reaqjung reading it it by by the the aid aid of of a a
perpendicular ladder, his friends had an
eX cellent view, ’ perched up like owls in
n ivv p ns h rrj ie Lord Chamberlain
, NG tbc Lord rf m 8teward supported »npportett by ay a a
. f , their subordinates, , summoned
posse e
the erring official before them, and not
content with administering the question,
oriiiuar, - :i,nl pxtruoriiiuary, onl<;i(:<l l.im
fore being again racked, he is under
Ktoc<1 to Lave goae down on his knees to
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The House of Romanoff.
The Romanoffs rather pride them selves
m the antiquity of their family-tree,
Liflmaffilnirteceln the
centurr 'i‘ It is certain however
t „ r did not ma'-e their ap
pearanci. in Russia until the fourteenth
centurv. In the vear 1311, Andrew
, Duke J Shneon the Fierce lihdi Tho
, d t Kobvla held "descent nod
tion8 ftIld the fifth in direct
' from him was Roman Jurievitch, who
died in 1513, leaving a son, Nikita
| SJitoWoO^’hoavas d i,e C t descendant from a brother of St
! aUted to
j the roval race of Rurik- a»d a daughter
j wbo p ocanlQ Czarina by her marriage I
w jth Ivan the Terrible. Nikita was one j
of the regency during the minority of
Feodor I.; and his eldest son, Feodor,
! under the name of Fhilarete, was i
' devated tha rank of Archimandrite
to
a)id Metropolitan during the reign of
; the false Dimitri The Horn an oil’s rut>
. j ported tho party that Polish tendered tho Rus- and j
! 8 i an cr0 wu to the prince,
Phil are te -diad gone with that view to
j “ “ >
, j a im isoned
The national party then pro
j ! oeoded to the election of a native sever
possible ( ton who should be as closely allied as
' by blood to the race of Rurik,
and after much hesitation and many re
. nnd the representative, through liis |
grandmother, of the royal house of j
Rurik. The following if* a list of the ;
, ‘£rfcK52
n 1 ^, 1A first 1 toLSe ruler who Rmp^or: adooted ’' in the J vear
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of i!pma u 0 ff, Ivan III.........1740
to line: A Eifinheth... q..iA711
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/.odor............16<0 Peter III.........1702;
ivan and l’etcr I...1082 Cktharine II......1762
Peter I............i689|Paul..............n Alexander 92
Catharine 1.......1721 1....... 1801 ! ;
Peter II...........1727 Nicholas..........1825
male line. Alcxauderli .....J855
^.............1,80 Alexander Hi.....*881
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Clolhea.
Qeman writer that “one of 1
A A ? savs
mft u principftl dt .f e „si V e weapons in
hia struggle for existence is his clothing,
TIig dIuco it takes in tlid lustorv of civ
flization and its connection witll physiol
enoMroma 0 moraland'ettlfettepomUff
%%£'£.’ ■ ■, • ig i„
&*& IinrHro .,„ S&. I
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U*. Tto .red. of 8 r.™
chrome illness arc of fiequently well-known sown prin- j j
through ‘“ks the neglect !
in mgatoto clothing. As Carivle
-ys, “within the most at u'ched cravat
[wokest^embroidered °Wisteoat there i !
bea t. s a heart,” and all these organs, does’not as :
well as others which Carivle
name, need to be protected by clothing, j
ele thSe.houe eotlueg mole or leee -
than clothes-sereens. Clothes are not,
M some suppose, for the purpose of j
keenin'* 31, the cold from U 3 for !, in ' truth
Stllo. «I . «o»Lud ™a.u,. ot t
onr surfaces. It is not the densest. ■
thickest uead iu cold or weather. heaviest material It is of that we j
compar- ca'l
ifcivt.lv little use in those days to out
for an utter emancipation from fashion
—perhaps be altogether such an emancipation if could rnigut be ; j
not wise u
effected; but where custom is tyrannical has
there the man or woman w ho a care j
for hea5th llui eoal£ort sUo ’ akl abljVe ‘
the custom._____ i
Measure of Thincs
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AYe measure from ourselves, as tilings !
are for our use BringapJarto and purpose, so we ap
P~vo them. the table
that is rotten, we cry it down ; it is
naught. But bring a medlar that is ro.
ten aud ’tis a fine thing : and vet, I’ll ;
war rant vou, the pear thinks as well of ,
jf Se ]f as the medlar does. \Ye measure!
the excellency of other men by some ex- ;
celleuey we conceive to be m ourselves,
Nash, a poet, seeing poor enougn, alderman as with poets bis
an
gold chain, upon his great horse, by wav
.4 scorn said to one of his companions :
“Do toti see yon fellow. How goodly,
how big he looks! Hhy, that fellow
caa uo t make a blank verse N ay, we
measure the goodness of God from onr
selves ; wemeasure His goodness, Hb
justice, His wisdom by something we
count?- ^“Z^rrionkbltto play:
toe fdlow in the whosaid
if he were a King he would tee likes
Lord aud have peas and bacon every
dav dav. nnd and a a whip wlito that that cried cried “stash! —
John Sddcn.
It’s the Way Yon Say It.
There is a man in this city who wants
killing. He has got a way of paralyzing
people that will bring him into trouble,
The man we speak of is sharper than
tacks, and well posted on all topics of
interest, and can converse and entertain
those he may be thrown in contact with
as well as anybody. He can put on a va
cant expression and seem world. to be the He most
ignorant person, in the and introduced was
at a party recently, was
to a young lady from an interior city
who was a guest, and the first thing he
said to her after the compliments of the
season, was :
exactly „
Th^young he driving l _ at, com- and
prebend pardon, wliat was when he remarked
said beg etc., dead, and
toiler that Greeley was and added he
P ut 011 a sorrowful expression
that ( ' 1 ' ee le v ' vas a S 1 *®' man - ih< !
had - known of tne decease of
g r]( who 1 1
great editor for many years, was ps
tonished at the man, and looked at him
as though she thought he was far behind
f^Sout fht H t ., m
his interesting conversatffin
asngasr and might not have
out in the country, girl later
heard of it.” The was seen
m in the the evening, It a ® s ^ ri | al ?°^ 1 ^
death as
matter of news. The other girl said
she didn't know. She saw him at a
picnic last summer, and while they was
opening canned pigs’feet and chicken,
he talked continually; about Stewart s
eat a mouthful. He says lie finds that
in conversation at parties that it gives
a better tone to it to bring in some his
tom subject, instead ot continually something
talking about the weather, or
deal of interest by bringing up thesubject
of the prize fight between Sullivan and
Paddy Ryan, but he said they didn’t
seem to catch on to it at first, though
before he got through he said he could
have sold pools on the fight. Some men
are born paralyzers. We have in mind
now a young board of trade man who
was out to a club house last fall shooting
ducks. He is a dry joker, and his face
never betrays him, always maintaining
a serious expression when he wants it to.
Ha was introduced to a local preacher,
who, when lie heard that the gentleman
»ith on.
Bishop there.”
“ O, yes,” said the roan, as though
he wished he had as many dollars as he
knew the Bishop, and feeling in his coat
pocket among some letters, “I have got
a permit from the Bishop to shoot ducks
solemn as a statue and looked through
his pockets as though anxious to find
the “permit” to show to the local
and went away as though Ins heart was
burdened. -Peck', Sun.
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ThHlIfe'cs ^ ZmtvK'f'
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of
~ aborigines auon 0 ines oi of Ausr Australia alMif *. a a
distinct race from that inhabiting ... flic
Indian Archipelago, and are black, with
some slight variety of shade from brown
Hack to jet. Their iiair is curly, but
not the crisp wool of the negro. Their
are well developed, broad at the
base, their lips less protruding than
those of the negro. Their bodies are
deficient in muscularity endurance and strength
but are capable of readily great adopt Bui It
is said thftt they seldom hmld opean huts
habits. These natives
shelter a strip of'barker ah.rge bough?
They kindle fires 'f‘‘ by rulibing two dry
^ "WO* .«-»,«*».« SSn?
the most primitive suit, conasun 0 o 01
making a hole m the ground, animal, lighting and a
fire in it, putting in the dead
the’wild districts they generally go with
only the covering which Adam and Eve
bad, minus the fig-leaf, settlements although in they the
neighborhood of the
tereouie with tho eettteet They «
expert with the spear, and use club or
waddy, and the boomerang, a peculiar
missile, resembling a double-edged elinse
™l bent to an on
being throws into the ur, it.Into th.
ground and rebounds toward the thrower.
The different tribe? have often been on
gaged in feuds with each other Iho
use ot ardent spirits has made great rav
ages among them. They are polyga- chiefly
mists, aud their mamages consist
with m fe gmorn‘carrying^^away without her the, bride
or
are buried m the eMct places wihere inhabited they
dle 4- those spots are never
agam by tue members of he tribe of the
deceased. The names of tne dead are
never pronounced, and those bearing the
same names are obliged to cuange them.
They believe in a good aud a bad spirit,
In regard to whites, they believe that
white men are tiie reanimated souls of
too blacks; bm wnether or not tins is
co be taken as advancement or retro
gression is not clear; at the same time
it brings to mind the views of some of
the Africans, who believe the evil spirits
are all white, while the good The ones Australian are ot
aborigines their own ebony shade. be rapidly do
are said to
creashig in number, and it is thonght
that it will not te many years before
they are extinct. Cnice go Inter-Ocean.
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Essuish tourist: “Fine day, Donald.”
Donald: “Aye, fine day.” Tourist:
"How is it, Donald, that yon alwavs
^„/ resist 0nr T“ f i“ ds we’^* “ ^ fromSdon!” ^^ts?”
Yes
Donald: “ Weel, the reason why I keep
my hands in my pockets is that here
about* we haven’t learnt ta put oor
hands in liner folks’ pockets.”
THE WORKSHOP.
Foe tempering small pieces of steel
petroleum is recommended. The method
is the same as by other processes. The
pieces retain their polish and are not
tarnished. Care mast be taken not to
approach, the petroleum to the tire. Al¬
ter the pieces nave been treated they can.
be covered with soap, being first slightly
heated.
j T Is no ea8 y matter to plug np a dia
moud ariil hole from which there is a
Btr0 ng flow of water, frequently under
great pressure. When a hole is to 1)0
plugged there are forced into -t small
StlraS*!? toTtn toffill
f ee t m length, is drive* matter these
bags and forces them forward in the drill
hole; also, a hole is sometimes bored
into the end of the plug, which hole is
filled with flaxseed. The flaxseed and
beans are caused to swell to such an ex
tent bv the hot water that the hole is as
compactly filled as though closed with
molten lead.
Bom«» o.»n. .field pl,o th.fr boU
for irequenf anu thorough cleaning out. and
Boilers should not be blown out
tho hard scale in boflers. H they
^ {jSdf bo
washed out, but wMn the boiler is emp
tied while all is still hot, the mud be
comes baked into a hard crust not easily
removed.
Few realize what an enormous amount
of power is stored up in coal, and how
little we really utilize it. I rof Rogers
is equivalent to the work of a man a day,
and three tons are equivalent to twenty
years’ hard work of 300 days to tha
year. The usual estimate of a four-foot
seam is that it mU yield one ton of good
atBEW s
square mile will then contain 3,900,000
tons, winch in their total capacity for
the production of power, are able-uodied equal to
the labor of over 1,000,000
men for twenty years,
Ir belts aro allowed to become cov
ered with grease, dirt and rSin, or to
grow dry and hard they can not work
'more air-tight on the pulleys. Very cent, often of the no
than twenty-five obtained per because of
available power is
these neglects. Many persons think
; they obtain more driving power by plac- this
; ing a tightener against tne belt p but
S
contact by the tightener, and in the case
0 f a horizontal belt this will be nearly
lost by friction, though on an upright
belt the tigntener may be useful. There
is economy in working with slack belts,
keepingthem clean and llexdne. Hard
scraping and oiling,
«n 1( * w aS Kissed Too Much.
*.iucn, aaci less iiequenuy aocs Bort uuy of
^om toomuc of that
; £fng uoning and aM coSa Jf audOT^teni^loj
leek .
and of t(Si much to the neglect-of them.
r. « Ha» i „ c . never seen supposed B1 ,, )r(W ,i that tint any an v
great danger lurked in kissin,,, even
though a great deal of it be done, and if
1 it has sometimes fatigued the very ardent
—h>r sometimes the very best things
| will fatigue one-it has usually aedept. been a
fatigue which all were willing to
It appears however, that there is a
^tnslbh a?£Svtt ^ 2
‘ ^ * & p ' of
r , ,
times in the course of ten hours. That
seems easy enough, and probably there
™
“Se tLoZS £S SS S
^ as th resmr remilt oi of n a amcusoion ion
about T how many kisses corfd be c«,wded
undertoken S’greS rigor? P the
drawback being the presence of spec¬
tftt ors. Within the first _ hour two thou
Baud lasses werei exchanged, ma t e
5 i
»«« Bog > ^'“t'th-'Sd “ tholhMhoS*
, woman
! tau . . i ea - m . lno 7 miast ^ oi £ too t much inuon of tat a a
, T tiling, and tne tips
young man s
“*
J 'i‘. ^ ‘
4“.^ 7 Q ,r * JJ? 1rtu rvnr . c „.- nr , „ n
ab ^ ”h?L
; llke A ?°? 0 VidT own rnotw^onial punish
- £j^•' “ 4 ^f t b ctwec n them was broken
, 0 c - usenuence 0 f the strange fsn't per¬
! there any
wamiin? : in this for American girls. They
, make “ n “| a public Xe- exhibition of their
kiss,ng, ^ “ am e never known to
f d th thM horn-. They
kind of girls also who do not
P‘ ra ] J vzo za * t; ie e voue" J, ‘® melds lips to! and the
, whose ,. lips don q t , 7 „
young man p •• y
dor yt do it in public—it i isn’t worth
much that, , ■ t way. ,_ i philad‘ nnaaupniu , lT>hia Time*. u.i«*
What He Died of.
old lady from this city who w«*
. ' heard a doctor giving
descripa _ nf „ w . m tion-’s lllnes*
wd she asked what disease diarasa he he had Had dWS die«
0l -.. answered the Boston
Eathanasia ,«
, , -nith nrofesssional&ecunicy
“ Youth-in-Asia!” retoried the old lady,
heard tell of it before’ there ain’t
n o sich name in the' mv joggraphy!” politely, “it
"Oil’” ‘that said doctor, physical
means the mental and
force3 have succumbed to the iuviasiou
fromSTfltto^auS thSlves!
" Hnmnh ” said the mvstified visitor,
B i. 0 rriv "we should call it‘Old Age ’ in
Detroit ’'—Detroit Post and Tribune.
