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Tie CMMTiUi Dfiidt.
EDWARD YOUNG * CO.,
and Proprietor!.
•BAWFORPVJLLE - - GEORGIA.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
1 ifl anxious to send a regiment
Canada
to Egyp t T ___
The Germans aro mixing somewhat in
the Egyptian troubles.
There are only nine members of the
"Vanderbilt family at Baratoga.
Railway mail employes are to bo
classed as postal clerks h ereafter .
Archbishop Patrick A. Ferhan, of
Chicago, is to be made a Cardinal.
A Nt MBF.it of fatal sunstrokes have
been reported from New York City.
New wheat is being shipped from
Texas directly to Italy and Liverpool.
JIoo cholera is creating alarm among
the farmers of McLean Connty, Illinois.
Tint Sultan of Turkey finally con¬
cluded to regard A rain Bey as a traitor.
Jefferson Davis is spending bis time
attending camp-meetings in Mississippi.
The farmers of Southern Iowa will
try the i-ijierimoiit of raising cotton
next season.
Harvest is now in progress in Central
J)akota, aud the crops are reported to be
above the average,
•Rr.Prrm.in Printer Defuses, who
wau for u long time ill, is now in a fair
way toward recovery.
Mr. Gi.adsionk is very closely guarded
now-a-days. Eveu at church ho has
two police attendants.
The Mormon missionaries in the
South claim that agitation is helping
them to obtain proselyte*.
The weather in Ireland is reported as
having improved, aud there aro now fair
prospects for a good potato crop.
Lawless Turtle Mountain Indians
have crossed the border from Canada
into Dakotu, evidently to amuse the set¬
tlors.
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Emigration for America thus far this
year is less than last your. Btill, about
as rnuuy jumpers aro arriving us con
well bo eared for.
Franklin Simmons, the sculptor, is at
work in his studio iu Home, Italy, on a
colossal statue of tho Into Oliver P.
Morton, of Indiana.
The Detroit Free iVete says that
with tack-hammer. ^
a
The President has approved tho act
ajiprojiriatiug #50,000 for Mrs. Lucretia
U or field, less any amount paid President
Garfield on account of b alary,
Cincinnati announces that she drank
140,000,000 glasses of beer last year,
saying nothing of the chaps who Bent
quart pitchers to the nearest saloon.
The appointment of M. L. Joslyn, of
Illinois, First Assistant Secretary exactly of the
Interior, it si tuns, has not satis¬
fied the jieople of Northern Illinois.
A tarty of Chippewa Indians are
in Washington eudeavoriug to conclude
negotiations for the transfer of 3,200,000
acres of the reservation, uoar Bed Lake,
Minnesota, to the Government.
Otr of twenty New York dootors who
were asked to give an opinion of ice
w liter, seventeen declared it all right in,
a beverage. The other three have all
the practice they can take care of.
A M ins F’ox, iu New Orleans, has
sued Mr. Low for breach of promise,
placing her damages at one dollar. That
is satire sure enough. Low must feel
very low at tho low value placed ujiou
him.
Booton lms pawed a law prohibiting
tle sole of the toy pistol. Baltimore,
where wnere there mere were vu re ao so manv many case* co.su, of oi lock- loea
jaw from the explosion of these weapons
one year ago, passed such a law, and
this year 1 they 1 had no lockjaw to report.
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Thr American Israelite does not np
prove of the scheme of the return of the
Jews to Palestine. It huvs : “We
rather believe it is God's will that the
habitable world ihall bocom© one* Holy
Lund, and the human race one holy peo
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A secret organ! ration in Now Mexico
and Arizona is being formed to wipe out
II the > Apaches. Anudim New Now Mcxit'o Mexico lias has already n n a
over mx hundred. Arizona wi
than this nnmls r. (Helve City and
Gila Valiev already have over three bun
‘
died.
The London Vwm has decided that
it is unpardonable for voting women.
Thi,>«.««.
set me it is perfectly proper for older
ladies—-if there are any such—to go it
arioi.e.
IaE President Iws referred a
mental petition bearing 49,000 signa¬
ture, from the Garfield Clnb of New
York City, asking tbe pardon of Ser¬
geant Mason, to the Secretary of Wai,
together witli several other and similar
petitions.
Mbs. Henry Labouckebe, wife of the
editor of London Truth, who instructed
Mrs. Langtry for her debut, will aceom
fiany her pupil and protege on her tour
in the United States. Mrs. Labouehere
is a charming person, known formerly on
the. stage as Miss Henrietta Hodson, an
actress of great talent and vivacity.
Cadet Whittakeh delivered his first
lecture on “ Color Line in the Nation’s
School,” in Baltimore, where he retold
the story of that ear slitting scrape. He
also told how frightfully he had been
misused throughout his entire term at
West Point, the white bovs refusing to
eat or bunk with him and frequently call¬
ing him “that nigger.” He aaid also
that he was lecturing for money.
Thr Cincinnati Gazette tells this hor¬
rid tale jf two good little Sunday-school
boys:
Two Denver boys, having read about kid¬
napping, stole a wealthy demanding woman’s $i pet dog,
and wrote a letter r >forit« re¬
turn. If. she did not leave the money in a
Specified spot, they declared they would
send her every day an inch of the precious
brute’s tail. Being easily caught, tliev
proved to he Sunday-school pupils of good
standing.
Eoypt is pretty well supplied with al¬
leges! newspapers. Alexandria has three
dailies in French, two in Arabic, two in
Italian, and one in Greek and English,
with circulations running up to 5,000,
besides six weeklies, two in Arabic, one
in Italian, and one in English. Cairo,
with its population of 350,000, 1ms but
two dailies, both in French, and four
weeklies ; Egg pliant Devcnis, a weekly
paper in Arabic, is the government or¬
gan, and has a circulation of 10,000.
I’ort Said has two French weeklies, and
Suez, Ismalin, and other places, have
what are called newspapers.
Port Said.
Port Said- where the European
Powers will probably land their troops
if they resolve to protect tho Suez Canal
against posiblo destruction by the re¬
bellious Egyptian army, twenty-three
years ago was merely a narrow strip of
sand which had been selected us the
starting point of the great canal beileT.&n
tho Mediterranean and the Reddest. M.
De Lesseps then predicted that some
day it would rival Alexandria. His
prediction, it would seem, will bo re¬
alized within a short time. The city
has grown and is growing with mar¬
velous swiftness. It has still the neat
and prim Swiss look Dussiuid. imparted It to is it 1 tv **
its birth by MM. T
according to one chronicler, “a c‘ tv’
dolls’ houses, with a church _Jd a
mosque and chalet-looking booths am*
cafes that might have issued from a
Nuremberg tov-box. But here tho in
noeenci • of Port Said stops. There is
nothing prim about it save its architec¬
ture; being a hot-bed of vice aud crime
ur.stemmed and uncontrolled by the
lug-iy.tian Zaptleh—a sort of Riitclifl’
highw.-y wi>Jiif\A tbit, 'fitarmte'If'sfefe
Court, where a day or night other, rarely
pa without some mariner or
black or white, being openly ‘knifed’ in
the •Grande Rue.’ Port Said never
sleeps. Attached to that uu comfortable,
expensive hostelry, the Hotel des Pays
Bus, are the a orchestra gambling-hell of which and is a furnished concert
room,
from by Gorman Trieste. young " The arrival ladies of imported Indian
an
‘trooper’ a T. and O.,’ ora ‘Messageries’ signal for
from Saigon and Galle is the
a tuning up of fiddles and violmcellos.
But tho fun waxes faster and more
furious when an Australian drops her
anchor in the basin. Then the young
Trieste amazons rub their eyes and tako
to their fiddlesticks and receive the new
comt rs with a sprightly waltz at what¬
ever hour be, utterly of the regardless night or of morning tho it
may unlucky peace
of mind or body courting of the sleep wight of
who may be on one
tho hard beds of the Hotel dos Pays
lias .”—London D 'arid.
Certalnlf H, W„M.
The other.....—U
^r.Tlv »’ho
efi edout h him -
•‘Sir! I appeal 1 1 to you y for protec- 1
tlnn I’’
heal'Sued ,What's the trouble?” he asked as
“There's'a short
mere s a man man in in the tne house nouse, and he e
wouldn’t go h outdoors when I ordered
him “iW to’”
ire wouldn’t wouutu t, eh’ eti. We’ll wen see sec about a
I hereupon the 4 . man gave the woman
| coat l 0 bold and
^ ouse snitting ,, f on hia hands. He
a man down at the supper-table, and he
took him by the neck and remarked:
“Nice style of a brute you are,eh!
Come out o’this, or I’ll break every
| bone unTif aXi/S'b^^roken in your body !”
I ^ and the
bv uu. logs, and given a fling through
j t i ie gate. Then, as the muscular citi
leu placed his boot where it would do
j the most hurt, he remarked : “^ow,
then, you brass-faced old tramp, you
move on or I’ll finish you.”
“Trailin’ .1" trailin'” t shouted " the vio-
1 Property aud^'liveiu , thi!
.; '
ow UiD 1
i house house'”
les a,m that’s that s my mv wife wife holding fiotamg
j •’ ££i ... .. .• ti
hee n ild
re-ifizeii ' that the wife h.d J, o-„t souare 1
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“Sk>-sibti,itt would K' a pixvl portr«-ss
lTshe had but one hand ; witli her right
she op»ns the door to pleasure, but with
her hit W v>aiii.
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Agriculture and National Prosperity.
Never b I ire perhaps in the history
of the c.xuftry hag greater interest been
taken in ill" growing crops than at the
present the time. is small, The'suppiy of ail cereals kinds in
country meat of i*
scarce and high, and almost for the first
time h is there been a necessity for im
portintr vegetaole*. potatoes, roots, and garden
The coming harvest will
cribs, find atn,»le warehouses, room in elevators, the now enipty and bins,
cellars.
It has been remarked that the world is
ordinarily within less than a year of
starvation, and that hunger can not wait,
We are nearer the realization of this
startling statement than we have been
for many years. We have more people
to feed than we ever had before, and
the number is constantly increasing,
plentiful Ordinarily and some articles of food are
is dear. cheap, but at present ev
erj thing Etrea corn meal, salt
pork, potatoes, and cured fish are high,
Persons can not live cheaply if thev de
sire to. Every article that will'help
support life in man or the inferior ani
mals commands a good price. At pres
ent every one takes an interest in the
reports of condition of crops and is de
sirous of obtaining the latest informa-^
tion respecting them. There is anxiety
on every hand in respect to the weather
and the extent of the damage by storms
and by the. attacks of insects. Dealers
in other articles than grain and provi
duction sions are deeply these interested in They the pro
of articles.
careful to gain the fullest information
possible section about the the prospect for before crops in
eve ry of country they
sell large bills of goods on credit,. The
value estimated of every in day of sunshine is care
fully a thousand counting-.
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agriculture than can be found in almost
any country in the world. In
great markets where the commerce
all nations center we exchange grain,
meat, cotton, and tobacco for mauufac
tured articles. If we do no
them in abundance we have nothing with
winch we can carry on foreign trade.
Oui tariff laws, designed to supply build, up do
mestio manufacturers to local
consumption, have an injurious efteetr
on the manufacture of articles for ex
[riufa t?onThe y SoS P wirk
can be
ed UP We fromou^ownHfields.'c^rS- make cotton cloth from lint
produced manufactured home-grown
cu rs are from
^starch anu staren we we W make' maxe & ior nome oon-
8 Z PU .shdrta-eTn £ eTncropT
C A
suits in the decline of the amount of ar
tides produced and it from is difficult it. We never find im
port corn, to a
substitute for it in the artides we are
,K depends ie prSsp?ri^ Indirectly, well directly,
as as
nn the 6 nrosneritv of our airriculture ^lepeud A
large proportion of our people
on the crops manufactured they raise for goods the means of to
purchase everv
kind Thev must restrict their con
si motion 1 to their ability to buv
and make payment with the
liroduot of their fields inanufacte^d If crows
are small, only
articles of necessity can
tnoytire large, conduce tliey can induce in
tides that to comfort or minis
ter to luxury. themselves People their in the country
adapt than people who to live in incomes cities. Ttey bet
ter
are more secluded, and on that account
can get along better with poor furniture
and articles of clothing.
The prosperity of all our great trans
portation rieultural companies prosperity. depends The largest on our ag
"freight pro
portion of our cars arebuiltfor
carrvinv product. e-rain live stock and dairv
!vere constructed Many of our leading railroads
TTanu for the transportation
expenses^if traffic could and not the "^^1^%^? na.v carrying the ordinary of manufactured rnnnimr
roods for ^uport ol When.ro^sLm
good and long. the trams When run them are many thi
crops are poor
WH What e M is ZAt true of h rJ railroad m ^ transportation [&Vi iS , t r Ue -
is also true of steamboat and vessel
SSSSSS,. Aft £
K 7. ZlS&SlJSi depend, »„d
more
more on agriculture. At one time a
portion of our people were en
gaged in the marketing the natural killed produc
bo ns of country. They wild
animals ami sent their skins to market.
rbe y ont down forests that were not
p] ant ed by the hand of man. They :i
washed surface gold „ n i,i out n „. of n , gulches, and „ n
^ame rich chiefly through the opera
turns of nature. Many lived on the
product of the chase. They ate the flesh
of w pd animals and birds, and sold the
skins of the former. In many parts of
the country civilized men % proanoed the
.... .c , , natural
sava^s ffid The
,[ "duets Iheartk-le of the count “inZs rv sunnlied manv
world on? ^ntinu- pamof
the are obtained by
° US *" d l >ersl, j <? " t *«“• Cn this account
[dam^n A to^reed tSSSr#
} order to revn and
ei((l catt i e i„ order to have meat, to till
ground in order to have crops.
ximes are urosoerous or the reverse
ftcoord |ng to the production of cultivat
Ik ud croi>s Uuca ^° d\mc3. -n Ws
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-Beer b.vwing lias, a Japanese branch pa
per J says, become an important The
}{ in dus,rv in that country. two
largest establishments are the Skimid
^ ;u)([ llakko . lla breweries. The
beer brewed there is excellent in taste,
to mow wholesome than imported and it
beer. Its sale is daily i.rsueeessfuilv increasing,
is hoped that it w com
''ith the imported article.--V. 1*.
jacks in Rome* or Boston baked-beans
| n Jerusalem. We expect scacu to hear
lb:l t the Ditch liaco taken to chop-sticks
al!< | lbe Chinese eatsauer-krapt—--Y. J*.
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If«w to Walk.
It n»«.v seem at first ridiculous to pre
tend to teach grown people how to walk
as tk ,ugn ti e, had not learned this in
tttftmev. Hut we are willing to venture
Ifce assertion that not one person in
: twenty knows how to waltc wed. How
lew people there are who <lo not feel
si ghtly embarrassed when obliged to
walk across a large room in which are
manv persons seated so as to observe
well each movement! How many pub
'die speakers there ar§? who appear well
upon the platform so long as they re
main standing still, or nearly so, but
who become almost ridiculous as soon
as they attemptwalk about. Good
walkers are scarce. As we step along
the street, we are often looking out for
good walkers, and we find them very
seldom. What is good natural walking? walking. ” e
answer, easy, graceful, good walkers there
Nearly all the are
will be found among gentlemen, since
fashion insists on so trammeling a worn
an that she cannot walk well, can scarce
lv make a natural njoyement, in fact,
To walk naturally, requires the harmo
nious action of nearly every muscle in
the uody. A good walker walks all
er; not with a universal swing and
swagger, as t hough each bone was a
pendulum with its own separate hang
*ng, hut easy, gracefully. Not only the
muscles of the lower limbs, but those oi
the trunk, even of the neck, as well as
those of the arms, are all called into ae
ion as natural walking. A person who
his trunk and upper extremities
rigid while walking, give3 one the im
pre««<m of an automaton with pedal
extremities set on hinges. the Nothing
Touid be more ungraceful than
w rig^lmg gait which the majority
feSHfiSSsfes?
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U8 varieties of unnatural ”, gaits " ^
‘ “1-jLns m j th( . su |, t vvith ;l fe
b ,,,,' about ‘ correct walking i(b
V t hf> b >l(i e p et . t w lho
gll( u uiers drawn kick and the chin
j Nothin-looks more awkward i
disa „ re eaMe than a person walking I
wilh ,h roW n back and the nose
, y elevated. I
z - li-htlv JW lu .Y yn and 1 with wnu eiaslicity—' e.us.iouy
not wjj* . ^ “he
fling walk gait fn. swinging denotes it shiftless forward. character, A shut
Buf %> a
not goto the other agtmme,
balt^'^A e£io ?efsi'n wi h°T'firm Hghf
walk r
^^ 10Ut weariness than of^measured one who sliuf
A Wrn! tread
or rhythm in the walk also seems to add
Jo the power o endurance, although,
for persons who have long distances to
travel, an occasional change in the time
"“I In wdkblTI not atPunpt ,o keep
P^A of the themselves body rigid, but the leave all
tree to adapt which to vatying change
cireumstances a constant
of position occasions. 1 he arms natur
The a “ v object gently, tins but not violently, the
of is to maintain
balance of the body, as also by the gen
tie swinging motion to aid iu propel!
ing the body aiong.
Correct walking should be cultivated,
o mrh.t to.he taught along milifarv with arts
In our schools
it is taught; but these schools can be at
tended by but few. Invalids, especial
ly* should take great pains to learn to
walk well, double as by so the doing they of will benefit gain
more than amount
thev will otherwise derive from the ex
ercise.-fli»«e Hand-Book.
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An Incident in Chopin’s Travels.
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On one occasion, when < hopin had
^e* 1 traveling several days in the slow ,
fashion of the German surprised diligences, he
was delighted smafl post-house and to discover on stopping s,gran!
at a
piano-forte in one of the rooms, and stid
more surprised to find it in tune - thanks
probably to the musical taste of the . post
master's family. He sat down pecubariy instantly
f nd be S an ,0 inl F™ in h.s
^P^Xacted smin; * b/ Sem the unwonted'
s vern ’ of even his ecstacy” letting
y g beloved ipe ?0 out in
The postmaster, his wife and Sufe twodaugh
Z
& S“mpmC £”HSn i. »pf.J
tent i on . When at last he paused host’s the
servant appeared with wine; the
dau«-hter seiwed the artist first, then the
travelers; ^ then the postmaster proposed all
cheer for the musician, in which
k|i„d j oined . The women in their witlTthe gratitude best
nuea the tni carrhwe-noekets < an i.i„c pm mi. l “ '
ea tables and wine the house contained, .
an d when at last the drtistro.se to go
his gigantic host seized him in his arms
o nt | bore him to the carriage.—“ Bite ol
riwvin Ui<mH ”
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Ail Idea flortli Adopting.
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The I he water water supply , uwlv abroad allro ad is is so so oiten often
f a doubHu character that travelers
wat01 ? Thereupon a large trade
^ and ^ bottle done merchants in , of such ^ mineral ra ?
£^lv ^Sl TOndUioa^Tt Sls^n e^y
Xuitaminated * with nrdinarv *md nossiblv
w-iter iddin®* salt to we
the the taste taste and ana appearance -urne-ir-mee oiineuesireu of the desired
mineral spring. By this train! the con
snmer was not merely robbed but made
to drink the very water he was therefore doing
hlsbest to avoid. We are
pleased to note that in France at least
the Prefect of Police has adopted
getic measures to check this abuse.
Orders have been given to visit all de
pots of mineral waters, analyze to seize hap
hazard a specimen and it on the
spot The tradesmen will also be called
upon to exhibit their invoices to prove
si&xs&SiZ&izsz the cafe, and public
taiiers. restaurant
house keepers will be subjected and to an
equally vigorous supervision, all
venders of such falsifications will be lia
ble to prosecution.— London LanceL
The Glories of the Starlit Heavens.
If the eye could gain gradually in
light-fathering power, until it attained
something like the range of the great
gauging telescopes of the Herschels,
how utterly would what we see now seem
lost in the inconceivable glories thus
gradually unfolded. Even the revela
t ; ons G f the telescope, save would as they ap
p ea | to the mind’s eye, be as
nothing to the splendid scene revealed,
w h en within the spaces which now show
black between the familiar stars of our
constellations, thousands of brilliant
orbs would be revealed. The milky
luminosity of the Galaxy would be seen
aglow with millions of suns, its richer
portions blazing so resplendently that the
n0 e y e could bear to gaze But with long upon in
wondrous display. and every
crease j of power more more inyr
j a( 3 Q f stars would break into view,
un til at last the scene would be unbear
a ble in its splendor. The eye would seek
f or darkness as for rest. The mind
WO uld ask for a scene less oppressive in
the magnificence of its inner meaning;
j or eveu ag g e en, wonderful glorious though the
display would be, the scene
WO uld scarce express the millionth part
0 j p g rea j na ture, as each recognized point of light by a
m j nd conscious that
wa3 a gun ourSi eac h sun the cen
ter 0 j a scb eme of worlds such as that
gj obe on w hich we “live and move and
j lave our beino-.”
„u„n to nicture a scene
If the electric light could
, aoolied. ‘ to illumine fifty million lamps vault
Sose sur f ace 0 f a black domed
Ws J were here in
. , c j uster ; n otouds ’ there strewn
P ^spread r ^ e wa y j n w hich
^ gta g are over the vault of
srr&sars
could be drawn, no matter what their
scale or plan, to present anything even
approaching to a correct picture of the
heavenly host. There i3 no way even
of showing their numerical wealth in a
«nglo picture.
It is not till we have learned to look
on all that the telescope reveals as in its
turn nothing, compared with the real
universe, that we have rightly learned
the lessons which the heavens teach so
powers to study the awful the teaching .of
Me ran-e o puny m
struments man can tasmon is no meas
^f^ofleWp:
ieally ^hole visible ra/ge space, compared "visible with universe which
the of the
of stars seems but a point, can be in
turn but as a point compared with those
S‘ : J® 'j 1 X. 2 w sid^S^STSni "e£* 1 1
ra extTeraestscope-ofThe e ® ions of times
furthe. t tnantfie h a n the extruuest scope ortne !
Z^^iFEE Almighty The finite for aftei alfi
infinite though it seems to us, tne region
o * »P«^ran*h - Y ««i
any prog>r ^ on to the ififiimtertave i that that
of infinite disproportion. All that we
can see is as nothing compared with ^ that
which we can know “ “ n
mg, though our knowieage grow from
in tine, we “° r may ®’ say (as OTr our graduTny giaaua y
Widening vision shows us the nothing
> w ,' 1' Z
fr* ‘ ‘ n ir nown Little"
j™ 1 TlI ^ ir mvN7 ' IS \othinc-” '{ not
lf ‘ el ” l >‘ lou ,f ’ „ b bt «* TH J g
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Young Loverf Dream.
They are young married people and
have just gone to housekeeping, and the
neighbors'‘who ^ assemble at their front
wit ()WK to witness the harrowing declare sight
0 t t h e j r partin-for the dav that
the following conversation- is a verbatim account of
the th ?. i r
Good . bye , Charlie; now be careful
.p P street “\ cars don’t ^ run rhariie!-!^ off the track
a
something Was 1 wanted to tell you
, ec it hair-pins? No, 1
them w-h-a-t could it have been?”
Sd '"l™ <oJ ^aml^naSlv- tlle °?M|nC
j^ 1 mau -’ WaS 8 ° me
th ..Vln of'courm
it was- there isn’t a
- »“!“! ™ ft >!<;“«• »»'
T‘
a s tla ‘vb -rrv short cake,’ dear, ’and -
a! , lla nvthi.m else von think of dear.”
V littlewife ” s-ivs Charlie
look S’Si ; n } wse >* these canclt tlfino-s tlmm!” must
4 l,etowe '
. Mu u thcv V ol , dear and 1 never
] , earne d , to do fancy work! f never
^nt. C1 . 0()lu>t ed a biscuit fit to eat, and 1
nVu-L paint a tomato to save mv life,
(m to the ready-made stores,
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d , °ii "i'-h 'Wl
d f a “l ilov ^^‘ hid sU-awbCies^th a nictur saue
n ‘ , b ipmonsdc
baker’s , , rusk and lemonade, but but Charlie Charlie
once h “ S and make w tlmm them TlS a long vis^The visit, tlicv
alv so delightfully situated they can
piemant for fier now-, he says.
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Qaeer Epitaph.
In tbe churchyard of HomersfieU,
Suffolk England, is the ^avestone of
Bobert Crjtott, who died ^ov. 17,1810,
It bears the foliowmg epitaph :
As i w^xed by myself i talked to mj-seir,
t tbuB mjMii «^a onto me:
“ Look to thywif uid wte ere of tbjs«!f,
For cobody care, for th«.”
^ 1
*> Loot to th>ve’.f or not to tm-wth
ti» aetf-^e tMog a win u.-
of the . Boston
-The overseers poor m
have s52o.s-JS in trust funds, the in
come of which is annually distributed
for specific purpose-, m accordance
with the desires of the donors, or dis
posed of by the overseers for the best
ity,” amounting to $-00,64o. Other
large funds are the Boy 1st on education
fund, amounting to S-120,lsl, and the
Pemberton genera! fund, amounting to
tKH.602- _-___
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Shallow men believe in luck; strong
men believe in cause and effect.
—You can have what you like in this
world, if you will but* like what you
have.
—Said a fond husband to his wife:
“My dear, I think I’ll buy you a little
dog.” “Oh. no!” she replied, “de
not! I prefer giving you all my affec¬
tions!”— Progress.
—Here lies a man whose earthly fowling race is run;
He raised the hammer of a gun.
And blew into the muzzle Just because
He wished to know if it was loaded—and tt
was.
—Som’rville Journal.
—Mr. Editor: Will you please answer -
who was “David’s wite's mother?” and
you will greatly oblige a reader.—Liz
zie. Certainly, with pleasure. David’s,
wife’s mother xvas David's mother-in
law.— Philadelphia News.
—An accordeon factory at Long Isl¬
and, N. Y., xvas destroyed by looking fire a few for
davs ago. The police supposed are the -
the incendiary. It is peo¬
ple want to present him with a valua¬
ble testimonial. —Norristown Herald.
—Gus De Smith called at a very' fash¬
ionable house on Austin avenue a few
days ago and acted so queerly that
when that lady’s husband came home,
she said: “What is the matter with
young De Smith? He acted so strange¬
ly. i think there must be a screw
loose about him somewhere.” “Reck¬
on not. I saw him this morning, and
he was tight all over.” —Texas Siftings.
—A store up-town has a sign which
reads: “This is a tin-store.” An old
inebriate staggered in recently, and aft¬
er a good deal of fumbling in his pock¬
et, put five cents on the counter. “VVhat
do yon want?” asked the proprietor,
indignantly. “Wa-wa-want a-a d-d-d
diink!” “This is not a liquor saloon!”
said the proprietor, with awful empha¬
sis. “Wha-wha-what!” said the drunk¬
en man, astonished. “Why, Jo-Jo
Jones said I could get a horn here!”—
N. Y. Tribune.
love —A good husband, adviser says: nothing “ Next tothe
of her so crowns
a woman’s life with honor as the devo¬
tion of a son to her. We never knew a
boy in to love turn out badly mother. who began by fall¬
ing fall with love his fresh-faced Any man
may iu witli a girl,
and the man who is gallant to the girl
may cruelly neglect the But poor the and weary
wife in after years. big boy
who is a lover of his mother at middle
age is a true knight, who will love his
wife in the sere-leaf autumn as he did
in the daisied spring. There is nothing
so beautifully chivalrous as the love of a
big boy for liis mother. Boys, think of
this.”
Injurious insects.
There aro few ^ the mor 4 humUiat, of man’s
in ? \° than sense
heI P lessness b etore ver Y sma11 msecta -
Ti S.f 8 or w olv , f we T exterminate
easl iy enou gh, , d w-e really setourselves
^
fore the Colorado beetle or the seven
teen-year ' locust we are AnS practicallyal- betc/the
t resource ,es,
phylloxera or the hop-fly we can hardly
do more d hands. than look Yet on regretluUy consoLv with
f 0 ]d e it is some
tion to reflect that what seems at first
sight a useless and purely ornamental
8cien ce can help us infinitesimal to some extent in
dealing with these pests,
xhe only way to conquer them, it way
there be at all, is to learn their whole
We-history; to knmv them in the Ig:
* lllbe in thepupa. m the
1T ? sec ^’ to crusl ^ iemm
s f a ^ e Y lt] . \ wh atever . weapon the subtle
ties of chemistry . or mere and. to ingenious do noth
brute force can suggest, them
ing which can in any way give a
single extra.chance:of life. Nothing, m
1 ‘ ^rMetionof hiVi knowledw^anA stiufv
piuctice than tl , n this t inteies n te r e>tin- ting study. On On
the one hand no “eans can be devised
for getting rid of injurious insects ex
ce !>t by a thorough scientific ac(|uaint
ance with their origin and metamor
tm observations on particular lite-lns
fries been undertaken, proh.
abl > ’ ex ce P t ' v Itb th< ; stimu “ s ot s ome
practical , . advantage to.mankind , iniview. .
^ ^“tmf^niuncti^^Even SO 6 butteffly 11
when tfie butterfy .seberry turns out caterpillar, to be the
parent of the go or
to lay the eggs from which a warm sun
SiT* °“
of the organic .balance; so that if we
want to exterminate a particular by insect,
we must sometimes begin seemingly encourag
ing or repressing bird plant. some For example, un¬
connected or
b(lUlmsts llave long known that wet
seasons are , particularly 1 - favorable to
ch..rloek, , , and that , alter . two . oi three
such seasons the fields unless diligently
weeded, are yellow all over with its
bright blossom. But charlock is ap
W parently the native food-plant of tur¬
«y. from which the bisect spreads
easilv to the cultivated turnip—a elo.se
lv a ii ied artificial form- much as the
Colorado beetle, originally parasitic on a.
8 , " “to • the^richer* . Rockv Mountains took
^ g ad ^ ^Lon food o he extlnZ very
as
ed tillage began to approach its natural
^Wfbil bv annHcSof such careful observation thdreVulta'
w - ith ^
that we for can the hop to widely outwit our particular insect
j oes; more any
C its rop natural is grown, enemies the more spread generally and survive. can
Even tven in m Fnriind i-.tniand, where \vm le hill mu ana and dale aax^
copse ami ua11 hedge lie bieak Tarioas up tfie tilth, les and
s ! ' d ? °. f f a P. ar ®
habitually , , much into mixed, the insecte
can 1 easily; migrate from patch to patch
of t,lelr -P® 01 ‘ d the food-plan,, while in.
America where same crop some
times covers hundreds of square miles
together on the unfenced and unbroken
plain, locusts and arm} worms can
march straight acro-s battalions. country, day
after day m regular -8L
m ■ i St. D Petersburg ?. i r* n has s “awssrs? recentl} b e p
mitted to baptize a convert within e
walls of the city. 1 revtou-iy a p
tisms were of necessity penoniiea oufc
ndc the walla. A. Y. imtptMmt,
