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NEWS GLEANINGS.
<GoId has lxi«i discovered is Alachua
county, Fla.
JSicbmond, Va., now claims to have a
population of 71/400.
“Blighted Hope* is the sui^estive
name of a saloon at Malvern, Ark.
A large mine ot Plumbago has been
oiaesvered on the farm of Jame-s Htoue,
in Ktaflord county, Va.
An artesian well four hundred feet
deep, at Parna-us, Va , has been finished
and affords excellent water.
The Atkansai Legislature has paseed
a bill prohibiting the sale of liquor
within two miles of any church.
Arkansas has doubled her population
within the last ten years, and is ranked
*r the fourth cotton State in the Union.
The Florida coast is to have three
new light houses—at Mosquito Inlet, at
Caj»e Sun Bias and one further down
the coast.
Over 40,000 acres of timber land will
be sold in Randolph county, Ark., this
month under the provisions of the over¬
due tax law.
A sweet potato put to boil on the
atove of a lady in Natchez, Mj-w, ex¬
ploded with (erriffic force, nearly killing
the lady.
Florida fruit growers intend cultiva¬
ting the Grape on an extensive scale.
They claim that they can be as success¬
fully grown as in California,
A gold vein lias been struck at Gains
ville, Fla., by men digging an artesian
well. It is believed that it will assay
$500 to #1,000 i>er ton of ore.
The grange co-operative store at Me¬
ridian, Miss., which q^rted business in
187ft with a capital of $50, sold last
month $5,800 worth of goods.
A capitalist contemplates the estab¬
lishment of n larger bucket snd broom
factory 011 the Island near the railroad
-bridge at Chattanoochee, Fla.
It is said that the Jacksonville Fla.,
liquor dealer* have raised a fund of $ 2 ,-
1)00 with which to pay lawyers to contest
the validity of the new liquor law.
After a protracted suspension, it is
said the Roan iron-works, at Chuttrnoo
ga will resume operations this week,
furnishing employment to many people.
OTsLiviToT in Florida, which will
before long be brought to public atten¬
tion and fully developed by Georgia
capitalists.
The University of Georgia has at last
accepted the f50,000 given 1 ! on certain
conditions. The Trustees voted thin,
teen to one on the proposition, Boh
Toombs voting in the negative.
The peach farm of Mr. Burnell, broth
rr of Charles Stewart Baratll, the liidt
agitator, six miles below West l’oiiit,
Ga., contains 700 acres, and lias 125,000
peach and a number of other trees.
There is a determined effort on the
part of some of tho pzople of Florida to
divide the State into two parts, to lie
kuown os North and South Florida. It
is said the interests of the different parts
arc not identical.
A movement is on foot iu Havanna'i
meeting with great encouragement to
organize a company to commence man
iifacturing rice ibis season. It is Ge¬
lieved that it will prove a profitable
business here as elsewhere.
An aged gentleman at Gridin, Gu
,
has buried five wives, and by the side ot
each w ife is buried a little child, the
ofiepring of the mother by which it rests.
Home women never learn anything, even
with the aid of a diagram.
I he dredge Alabama, which has been
at work in Tanfpa harbor, has cut a
channel nine feet deep, seventy-five feet
wide and 80J feet long, a portion of
which was solid rock. The channel
must be extended 1,000 feet further to
makes nine foot channel to the town.
The application of the Favannah Mu
teal Gat Light Company, ts new eon
oem, to lay their pipes through the
streets, was denied by the Sanitary
Board on the ground* that it is injudL
emus to tear up the streets this season.
They will have to wait till cold weather.
There are fifteen out of eighty ebil
dreu in the rhate Rlind Asylum at Ma
eou, Ga , who* sight can be partially
«>r fully reston d by an operation. Dr.
C'alhoun, of Atlanta, generously offers
to operate on these children free of
charge, and they will be sent to Atlanta
for that purpose.
A movement is on foot to hoi ad
grand reunion of the army of Northern
Virginia, on the field of the second bat¬
tle «l Manassas, during the coming sum¬
mer. AU the survive!* of that army
wili hetnvited, and it is proposed to ask
Oeu Fita. L-e to order the Virginia
volunteer fore » to Lav* their scanner
-«itc*jupm«ut there.
Mr. Matt. Hunt, of the Mobile and
Montgomery railroad, says that the-ooal
boom -has passed away Leyond figuses,
and that shipments from Warrior,Pratt
' and New Castle and other mines along
the-Ssuth and North road to gulf ports
is absolutely stupendous, Arrange^
merits are being made hv which Ale
ham a coal will he sbippeu from New
Orleans, Mobile and Pensaeola to all
ports of (Europe. Mr Hunt, who has
studied this question, believes there is
enough coal,.n Alabama to sappiy IV
00,000 of people for 100 year* to e->ine.
Albany, (Gc.) special: Capt. Jol#n P.
Fort, of Macon, the pioneer o( artesian
welisin Southwest Georgia, is experi•
mendng in his (taky Woods plantatirm,
draining off the ptods and slushe 3 there¬
on by boring dowvx through them and
Jetting the surface water off through the
underground streams known to exist all
through this sectioo. This will give
hundreds or acres of the most fer
tile lands for cultivation, and of its sue
cess there can be no doubt. Several
large, sickness-breeding ponds have thus
been drained off within the corporate
limits of Albany within a few years
In Prison.
Ex-Warden Huynes, in bis “Picture*
of Prison Life," gives the following inci¬
dent in connection with the work on the
enlargement of the old Massachusetts
Penitentiary. ample It affords tender a strange aud the ex¬
of the way the
terrible aro sometimes associated in a
criminal’s jiersonal history. employ <4
It was necessary to some
the prisoners outside the walls, and who I se¬
lected a man for that purpose had
always behaved well, and who had hut a
short time to remain. Very much to my
stir prise, ho objected to going outside to
wor rTt.
This was so unusual that I inquired hut the fi¬
cause. He hesitated 'a moment,
nally told me. Ho had a wife and two
who were ignorant of his being
in prison. In the opposite small yellow his cell-window house, he
said, directly
and near where he would have to work,
should ho go outside, they were then
living. children ail through
He hail watched his
tho summer, playing in ft vacant lot of
land belonging to tho prison, directly that
under liis window, and so near him
he could hear the voices; and he could
see liis wife passing in and out of the
house, or sitting at her window, little
dreaming that he had liecn so near them
for almost two years.
This man’s crime was theft. He had
left his family in Boston and gone to the
western part of the State to obtain work,
but failing in that, and without money
to return, he took a watch whose owner
had left it hanging in liis office, into
which this convict had stepped for
a moment to make inquiries.
In the meantime, his wife, not hear¬
ing from him, had come to Charlestown
to live, and taking Uiis tenement in plain
sight, and within a few rpds of liis cell.
was allowed to serve out liis sentence
without being discovered.
This story of mortified affection is
simply gestions told, but its situations and sug¬
of suppressed feeling might
tempt a dramatic writer. A man chained
in his own disgrace and continually tan¬
talized with the sight of his bettor days
is ft subject worthy of Greek tragedy.
An American Lord,
Mr. William L. M inims, who was de¬
feated the other day in London in his
great lawsuit against his landlord, Mac¬
kenzie, is a member of the Baltimore
family of that name, but he has long
lived in the British capital and will his prob¬
ably spend the remainder of life
there, us he luis a horror of crossing the
Ocean, and has been heard to sav that
ho would not do so again for a million
dollars. He has rented a deer-liunting
range sixty miles long, extending elear
across Scotland. Jt was all to other compel one
of tlie owners to evict tenants
of the property that he brought tlie suit
which he has just lost. Air. Minima's
enormous wealth is principally lives invested in
in London real estate, and he one
of the finest private houses in that city.
One of his great passions is to attend
tin 1 circus. It is related that once a
certain circus manager tried to play
upon this fondness by charging Air.
Wtnans and his companion extortionate
prices for seats. The millionaire indig¬
nantly asked if tlie other wanted him to
pay for every seat in the tent. “That's
just what I do want you to do,” replied
the knight of the sawdust. “Very well,”
said Mr. Wimuis, “I'll lake every seat,
but uolnxly except myself and a friend t
am going to bring shall enter, and you
are to give us everything on tho bill. I
have bought the whole performance, and
1 mean to have it.” True to his word
on the appointed night Mr. Wiuans and
a solitary friend appeared and had tha
whole circus to themselves, Mr. M'iuan*
carefully studying up the hand-bills t*
see that nothing was left out.
“Talk about memory,” said an
Ai kansaw man. * ‘ I’ve got tho most iw
Unlive memory of any man in the
country. I eatt remember things that
occurred when 1 was child.” "I
tliink that Tour memory is so very good,”
said au acquaintance. “ You borrowed
310 from mo sometime ago and yon have
forgotten the circumstance." “No, sir,
you are wrong. You have doubtless
noticed that 1 keep out of your way.
Well, that is on account of my memoiy.
— finrekr.
On Dim.—The fireman detail 'd for
duty hi the stage of a San Fianei-w o
theatre had not l«s n told that a ootids
gratiun was otic of the acvtu flash s of a new
play. When he saw th, of the
dame he concluded Uiat the house w : ,s
on tire. Seeing an ax, he ebopj-'d d,-wu
a big piece of the se n\*r\ bef>> ;»#
vs'oUl be st.-p>\'l
TOPICS OF THE OAT.
Mcbderebc tin France, if theyfo^e
money, are compelled under the uevr
law to pay a large cum to the family <i
their victim.
General Ta zbvgu Lee is making ar¬
rangements to hold a reunion of the sur¬
vivors of the Army ot Northern Vir¬
ginia at Manaseas ne^t -summer.
^ ^ cremaUon ^ makjn(?
0Kch progrefl8 in Japan that it is said
ako pt q.ooo bodies are annttaliy disposed
manner.
Elder W. P. Stratton, <*ne of the
liest known pioneers of Cincinnati, who
died a few days ago, married in that city
more than two thousand couples.
French policemen in Park we paid
rewards of from one to five dollars for
making urrests and capturing.offenders,
and the Minister of Justice has decided
to increase these by one-third
A couple of ostriches in a California
zoo got into a fight recently fene^aown, during and
which they knocked the
ran over a crowd of school children, in¬
juring several of them severely.
Frederick Douglass is soon to marry
a young woman, who is described as
“nearly white.” Mr. Douglass is sixty
years old, and receives large fees as
Recorder of the District of Columbia.
General Lee’s monument at Jjexing
ton, Va., will be unveiled on June 5.
Jefferson Davis will preside, General
Joseph E. Johnson will be chief marshal
and Major John W. Daniel orator.
Malaria affects by preference low and
moist localities. As Buch localities are
the natural abode of mosquitoes, a sci¬
entific gentleman asserts that malarial
diseases are produced by the bites of
tliese insects.
Mr. Tabor, the one-monUu Senator,
said to a reporter the otherffay; “I
never saw the like of some of these
newspaper meu—telling how much a
man pays for his night-shirts aud all
that sort of thing.”
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Judge David Davib proposes to turn
“Dlirley Hall,” the principal house of
amusement at Bloomington, Ill,, into a
business place and to build in the same
town a theatre that shall surpass any¬
thing of the kind in Illinois. A
Over 12,000 persons wai 1 in the
drizzling rain to have a last Ik at the
face of l’eter Cooper as he dead in
his coffiu. Among tho pi sion was
an old gentleman who had » ed with
Mr. Cooper at the funeral og ruehing
toa.
Persons in this ' Hjpble
iat as
many as 20,000 deaths occur annually in
India from snake bites, and since 1870
from 150,000 to 200,000 perilous iiave
perished in this way.
Matthew Arnold insists that in re¬
vising the Old Testament, beauty and
power shall not he destroyed, even to
obtain a more correct rendering, aud
that even where tho meaning is not at
all clear, tho charm and music of the old
words shall remain.
Racing iu Paris has become a species
of fashionable madness. With the mul¬
tiplication ot suburban race courses,
horse racing has become a colossal
swindle, like thimble-rigging and card
sharping, carried on by associations of
thieves and blacklegs of all categories.
A new way of stopping horse cars has
been introduced on the Sixth Avenue
Railroad iu New York. Straps hang
igniust each window -ash, and when the
passenger who wishes to alight pulls
one of these, a whistle is blown. The
conductor then nulls the strap, which
runs along the roof of the car, and ti c
hell sounds to slop the ear.
The Society f->r the Prescrvalio i f
the Irish Language has made a report
which shows that at the beginning * 1
the present century there were not m >tv
than UK) persons who could read *nd
write Irish, while at present 050.000
spmk tlie old language. This marly
equals the number of Welsh speaking
people.
A new enterprise in illustrated jour¬
nalism has been undertaken by the
/*Mortal World of London, for whose
proprietors Cap’. Morton, the aeronaut,
has just built a balloon. They intend to
send experienced artists iuto the upper
air iu charge of experienced aeronauts,
and the result* of their work aud a de¬
tailed account of each voyage willappear
in the Pict- iia f 11 Id. They have also
urrangi d for a series of experiments in
balloon photography.
Dr. rjeHAriffthinks that trees in streets
do more harm than good, because they
impede the circulation of the aix,* while
p ro f. D 0 vet says tliat the evaporation
from their leaves keej»s the surrounding
air moist and cool, and that thev arc a
protection against dust; they absorb the
carbonic acid and send out oxygen.
w hile their roots draw up stagnant water,
and al>sorh tlie organic matter in the
fliltli from which the streets of a town
are never free, acting as a disinfectant,
Tuts year’s Hood on the Mississippi has
been followed by swarms ot gnats u the
river t>ar«he«» ■ 'f 1 . *’ is,,ms and Mississip
pi. in the suite m ■jut r as tho overflow of
last v ar. and cattle, horses, and assies
• -«ar
are falling 'before their deadly attacks.
The Vicksburg Herald reports that in
the neighborhood of Monnd Landing, in
Bolivar County, Miss., forty-seven fine
mules fell victims to these dreadful peste
■on Thursday and Friday of the first week
in April. Several counties above Vicks¬
burg have been invaded by the gnats.
, L/HJUor ■ _ p llf i
sec i
strange devices *aa order to conceal their
contraband wares. On a recent police
raid in that stab', in one house the
t>otties , f . , - .. .• - *i
were un , „ y
corked and with etrmgs round their
necks for convenience in raising. Iu
another the bottles wcs-e under the cook
imr range in the ashpit. One liquor '
seller, ii a __,______, v„, ( ( i„
’
hooked belt winch the under .
to a wore
her overskirt, and another dealer con
cealed his under a trap-doer beneath a
pile of hay in a cock loft.
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Catt. ’ Holstein, of the Danish army,
, invented, , for , the ,, . lnfautr . . .
has use or J -
diers, a shield, which, though weighing
only seven pounds, is bullet proof and
handy. It is of steel, twenty inches long
by 3 eighteen broad. ' Two spikes at the
bottom enable the soldier t# fix it firmly
in the ground, and a hollow at the top
can he used as a rest for his rifle. The
experiments that were made with the
*
shield . ., at . Copenhagen ~ i a short i , time ago
were deemed highly satisfactory, but
will be repeated on a larger scale before
th%I)ft!iirih Government decides as to its
adoption for the army.
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Tue reports from the great cattle
ranches of the West and Southwest in
dicate .. .... that the ,, cattle have wintered j well ii
and are in fine condition. Already large
numbers of them aro being gathered for
ihipment and driving in Louisiana
Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and Indian
Territory. Prices are good and the
ranchmen are jubilant over the prospec.
of a prosperous year. The business is
likely to be very largely extended in
Indian Territory, through a system of
leasing large tracts from the various
•HU, «ho occ» ra scclioB. Th.
public aie waiting anxiously lor the
business to increase sufficiently to in
dnee lower prices for loef.
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Chart.es F. Freeman the religious
fanatic of Pocassat, Mass., who, in 187ft,
slew his little daughter as a sacrifice to
God, has been pronounced aud , -ii
sane,
now have to he tried on the pending in
rlictment for murder. He now says that,
he was instigated by the devil, aud his
religious belief is io ent.rely ,.„i„ nvwtnmwl overturned.
Mrs.,1 roemau, too,hasrenounced the . c
oud Advent delusion, and leels more keen
ly than does her husband the terrible man
ner of her child’s death. Tho Attorney
General will bring the case to some set
.1 Ik meat . before , , the Supreme Court at at
Ba rest able m May. I reemanwnl proL i.V
t,e aWMto* on gnmnu «i
sanity, or be allowed to go on his own
recognizance.
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A new remedy for the headache has
Incn found by Dr. Haley, an Australian
physician, who says that for some yearn
past he has found minimum doses o.
iodide of potassium of great service in
frontal hoailache; that is, a lienvv, c!nli
headache, situated over tl- brow, and.
V hv 1 l-nnnior -i liners ard
a : nl ° 11 1
” ''
ditaste tor food, which sometimes nj>
I’' or,dies to nausea, can be completely
removed bv a two-grain dose dissolved
r ,‘u half *i sinned'’thewho..n-mtiSbeii” wineHasshil of water and this
quietly m V sipped, the wnote quantity otm_
taken in about ten minutes. In many
cases he adds, the effect of these ^ -m ut
doses has been simply wonderful, as. for
instance, a person who a quarter c.-f an
hour before was feeling most m rabic
aud refused all food, wishing „:dv fer
ouiotneas quutnes., world a a Dir now t t..u.e ike a .. «,ooJ 1 me me- d
and resume his wonted clieci uilness. L
tins v .ire of Dr. Hueys is in reality a
practical one, ho will merit for the dw
covery / the gratitude of Milkriug mil
Pine Forests.
A coiTx spoiul'.M ot the Scientific;
Ai>u ri‘ ( 0 ) writing' from Johnson
ville s \ (’., incidental! v mu.tions
'
f nrums “- journals ■ , m . contiol- , . ,
ling “ r preventing i«<i«-st grow ths, it
appears that the fondness of hogs tor
the juiev roots of voting pirn s leads them
to seek’them assidiouslv, so that-where
hogs arc allowed t<> roam in that region
one can hardly find a young long
leafed pine iu a thousand acres ot pine
forest. There being no young trees to
take the place of the old ones used up
by the lmnliermeu and turpentine gatli
erers. that species of pine timber is
rapidly being exterminated.
On* of the mottoes posted up at the
dairr fair in Milwaukee this week, rays:
“A little rancid butter in some unseen
nook will soon leaven the whole lump."
That’s probably the trouble with a good
deal of this boarding house and rcstan- in
rant butter, a rancid chunk has crept
»nd was overlooked by the proof reader,
and when the edition was run off it was
found that the whole batch had become
leavened.
to» go» me,,™,-!. »»-, *»
poned to a Peoria distiller. It has lieeu
discovered that liis whisky barrels hold
two gallons more than the standard bar
n Is and he is to be prosecuted that by the he
government The explanation is
forgot to pay the tax on the extra two
gallons, and the government hw been
losing $1(H1 ft day iu that distillery.
OEMS WITH A HISTORY.
Tlie Kennion of Twin Diamonds that Once
Belonged to Warren Hastings.
“There are the §100,000 twins—
■brought together by chance, separation, after more
than a quarter of a century' of
and never to leave this country, now
we’ve got them.”
The } speaker j f wholesale was a German diamond gentleman, import
ICS/ 0 a
ing house in Maiden Lane. As he spoke
he took a packet of silken tissue paper
ff«ot a big safe behind him and dropped
it ujaon a counter covered with green
j )a j ze ^ at which the reporter seated liim
self. \ wire gate slammed to and locked
the prisoner in without seeming to have
imprisoned him, and the German gentle
mau 1 ,e g an to °1 ,MI the tissue paper
packet. Two lustrous gems, which
blazed with a pure bluish-white fire
gleamed big around side by side. three-cent Each was piece, about but
as as a
what was more striking than their size
was their identity of appearance and
beauty. They are cut alike, weigh alike
(eight and mineral one-half carats each), and are
veritable twins.
“I could create a sensation and make
a fortune with them in Paris,” said the
diamond merchant. “They are old In
dian mine diamonds, and have a history
that puts them in tlie catalogue of the
famous gems of the world. I have proofs
that establish their identity. They must
have been in the possession of Warren
eral Hastings India when Previously he was Govemor-Gen- they had been
of
the J jewels of a rajali, i and alter they left
cured H ings - s Russian iewe l ca ket they were during se
by a nobleman a
mutiny sterdam, in where India. skillecWDutch He took them lapidary to Am
a
reeut them, thereby only greatly enhancing
their beauty while slightly decreas
ing their weight. The nobleman lost
possession of one of them at Re cede
brated erammg ^ table of M. Blanc, ’ at Mon
aco _ it is sllpposed h lost it
gaming, sale for it was only recovered of Mme Blanc, at the
auction of the effects
the widow of the famous gambler in
Paris, a year ago. I secured it through
an , ^ nude!” "continued the jeweler,
«*lia<l a no less eventful career. It found
-way to a French jeweler, who sold it
to the Duke of Brunswick, lavished who, with
eccentric prodigality, which money city on
precious stones, he left to the
pought it, but search made afterward for
f] l( > mate, which the Duke of Brunswick
had bought, revealed the fact that it lia /1
disappeared. found months ago—and
“We it two
how, do you think? Why, my partner
»» !t s P«rklmg merchant. “ He could hardly rol \\ 0 be- a
Chicago he secured
Jieve it. But hv a stratagem
j]ie means of comparing the gems, and
proved their identity to his satisfaction.
The merchant said he had bought the
stone in England from a Jewish diamond illdnced
mcrehant Lolldon> He wa8
P) pa rt with it at a handsome figure.
“Thus they came together,” said the
owner, as he rewrapped the “and sparks thus of
mineral fire with tender care,
they stay. They’ll never be separated
ogam b if we can help it.
T«- ***** --
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A Western Congressman tells , „ the . .
. ]owmg Lincoln anecdote concerning Secretary Clove
to a correspondent ot the
£'’ mv district had .enlisted in
the Regular Army and wanted a dts
charge. The circumstances of Ins en
listment were peculiar. He had been
gom^-to si'.igoI at J olaw-aio College, m
Ohm, and had rcc--iv<- i a not. - from homo
his mtl w had lmt-d a,.d that he
«« ;;r 3t ]w c,mk1 >
at once. Ly ruts o<., <>t t money. His
family could send Inn*none. He knew and
the lamily liod nothing at home,
sioi’t at ion andtrouolo were staring mm
V 1 [ ! u % ‘ !‘ h lce ° ^ * ot ??■ V An ?* h’ m
'
mg officer mot lmn and in a fit of do
Xv, and'hmll’iu iu'theArmyn..wthivc
years, and liis conduct liad been so favor
able that lie was now granted a forty
days’ furlongn. I told the story io Ihe
War Secretary. He said; •!_ would like
to discharge hil l, and I will if lean, but
1 d,W 1 tIuuk thm ' w :in >'
, Uoas iire s0 numerous that we cannot
grant any more discharges, it- is against
the principles of tho department.
“i then reminded him that these do
sertions were largely dm to the in.iints
' which the West Point graduates delight-
1 ed in putting on the soldiers, and that
their insulting manner was such that
few Americans would stand it. Most of
th ' common soldiers are foreigners.
j ‘But. said h< v . 4 I can t iu ip that. I
have nothing to do wifn M e.-ff IVant.
“‘Yes,’replied 1 ‘but this man you
can discharge. He has done his duty
for three years. A highstrung, h sensitive, the
cultured young man. lias borne
cuffs and abuse and has acted so well
under them that he is granted afttrlough
for good conduct. If you want to keep
lnm in the army you can do so. He will
staud it or die. He is too honorable to
desert, and he will go back to suffer and
to work.’
“The Secretary looked up and said
emphatically, ‘No, I will discharge him,’
and ho did. Wh- u he made the remark
he looked like liis father, and the act re¬
minded me of old Abe.”
4 “corker:” “What’s your occtipa
tion?” asked a judge of a drunk, that
came up for inspection in the morning,
“I’m a calker, sir,” was the reply. “A
c alker !” exclaimed the judge; “what an
inaptitude of language; I should sav
you were au uncorker. Give him sixty
days.” “That’s a‘corker,’surely, Sentinel. was
the victim's retort .—Rome
ats
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slafs 01 tne su p; J ec t y.—-
^ heeler u Britton a poem
" A ba. Are _stars ' Sav
mg They ue p - J? wdnR that
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■ Ifl cloudy weaker give, 1 no
chance to shine. 1
One of Forrest’s Good Deeds.
Alxrat twenty years ago Edwin Forrest,
the actor, did a very kind act; to-day the
daughter One of his friend relates it here.
afternoon, as Edwin Forrest and
my father and mother sat chatting
together, Madame M.-, who had bat
a short time before buried her husband,
a celebrated magician, entered the room.
The necessary introduction having been
performed, the conversation soon drifted
around to Madame M-’s own affairs;
wherenpon my hither remarked:—
“I have been thinking that Madams
M--might footsteps. follow m her husband®
She has been his confederate
for years, and is quite capable of doing
so.”
“ Hum ! not a bad idea, George,”
answered Forrest. Then, turning to
Madame M-, he observed: “Why
don't you adopt the plan, madarne ?”
Madame M-hesitated a moment,
colored slightly, and then replied
frankly:—
“I would lie glad to do so; lmt un
is fortunately, all of Mr. M — ’s apparatus
held for debt, and I have not the
money to redeem it.”
“How much would it take?” came
the question, in Forrest’s rather abrupt
way.
“About a thousand dollars,” replied
Madame M—-, looking rather surprised
at the interrogation,
“ Hum ! a thousand dollars. I’ll let
you have it. ”
The offer was so wholly unexpected,
and being rolled out in Forrest’s gruffest
tones, that Madame M-, whose nerves
were very much unstrung from all she
had at that time gone through, burst
into tears, aud hurried out of the room.
“ Go alter her, George,” cried Forrest
to my father. “I was too rough with
the little woman. Tell her it’s all right.
I will give you the check for the money
to-morrow. ”
Edwin The Forrest following handed day, true father to his word,
my a check
for the thousand dollars. Madame
M-redeemed her husband’s parapher¬
nalia, and as a magician, earned a very
good living for herself and two children.
I know not if Madame M-still do; if lives,
but probably they her children heard the story so, of
doubtless have
this kindly act done to their mother in
the hour of her great need; and the name
of Edwin Forrest must have a warm
place iu their hearts.
Going to School.
•1 _
“Class in geography, come forward,
and j n case any of you drop a pencil, cough,
look out of the window, or school utter in a at
I will keep the whole re¬
C ess. Now, then,where is Green Cheese
Creek?”
They _ it
“Wiiat! give up. able to
None of you answer
that question ? Here are twenty hoys and
who expect to become business men,
seven gills who will become wives and
mothers, (jheese and not one of you know that
Green Creek rises in the sonth
eastern part of Hindostan, and flows in a
northwesterly course for seventeen miles
and twenty-two rods, and empties into
Ham River! You hoys would look nice
starting out- as lawyers, doctors and
bookkeepers, ’ woman t you l Go to your
6eat * as a punishment each one of
; writs! fifty words and give
!he\amo must urn
of every President in tlie Unf
ted States.
„ claSfS in arithmetic, step this way,
nU(1 , )e carpflll ll0W y011 steporyou won’t
g( 1 j. any d i nnel . to-day. Now, James,
‘4o„ ”
doff t ?’You are expecting to
gi-cw up and become a clerk in a clothing
gtor au d von don’t, know whatarliom
], (tI \|j s o A rlioinboid, sir, is a paralklo
griun whose opposite sides only right are angles. equal,
und whose angh s are not
Take your seat, and don’t you dare to
look lip until yon have committed seven
j teen pages of history to memory. tho'amount
“X u w, Thomas, what is
; due on a note for $167.19 -J, given nine-tenths for one
year, impute, one- dav, one hour and
■ '* » and hearing seven and three
; eleventil3 pev C8Ut . interest? Come,
j ?’
; can’t Only vesterdav you told
j j me that- you intended to run a grist-mill
I when you grew up, and here you can't
j answer a simple question in mathematics l
You’ll never be able to run one end of a
1 ^ru-shellcr. and I might as well tell you
j s0 now . Go to vom-seat and cipher out
| one hundred and sixty examples in vulgar
\ fractions
j “Class in ancient history, now advance,
! When was the first rebellion against tho
j Assyrian King Sardauapalus ?”
? No answer.
“James, Henry, Charles, Samuel—
what! None of you able to answer this
question ! You are prepares no go out
into the world as insurance canvassers,
j telegraph operators, bank clerks and
j Board of Trade s^-cidaiors, and behold
j v(mi . ignorance! What would any of
j Von do in case you were walking through
; au alley on a dark night twenty years
hence,* and some one this should question suddenly ? Tho
s f op V0)I dismissed." and ask vou
class‘is How the next-genera
tion will manage to run stores and fac
Tories alld keep the wheels of commerce
and progress moving, I don’t know.”—
Detroit Free Press.
There is a dignity in all poverty which
makes itself entirely independent oi the
wealth of others, aud which is unwilling,
even though pressed, to share it, a
dignity which consists partly in the
characteristic consequences simplicity of orderly
self-restraint, partly in the of
feeling and taste which results from con¬
stant and straightforward life. Indeed, contact there with is
the realities of fastidious and
real strength lost in all
hyper-sensitive lives, real strength gained
by habitual contact with toil and want
and good and evil in their least disguised
and most naked forms.
rmwo iisiiy
j tremens, and assured him that he saw
nothing. After that he became more
{ frantic, aud in the morning was found
dead. The monkey was no the c.-U delusion,
however, but had got into liter
' escaping from its owner, an mearcemted
’ grind,-r.
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