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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1883)
Tfie CrawforflTille Democrat. CBAWI-MKDVILLB - - GEORGIA. ammim A HOUND MH.I.ION WASTED A I.ovi: I‘OH U lMBUNO fohaikd at ‘Tlir Career ot a Npe ml thrift on Two t on* linent*. The Le.adville Democrat says: Borne few months ago there arrived in Lead ville a young man named Julius Haas, who was only recently from abroad. Neither his actions nor demeanor deno¬ ted that iie bad any money, present oi prospective. He took up his residence ut the La Plata Mine with Dr. Otto An drear. Lately he went to Denver to prepare for his native home, where an inheritance ot 17,500,000 marks, or SO 375,000 now awaits his claim. ’ file life of the a di¬ romance and much of the practical prodi¬ versity which usually befalls the gal son. Dissipation at home and in this country, a continual draining from in¬ father’s riches, finally left him, to all tents and purposes, a pauper in a strange land. His father was a heavy banker, the partner of the Rothschilds, and a land-owner at CarJsruhc, the capital of Baden, one of the German States. In bis early college days young Haas began to exhibit a disposition of extravagance and recklessness. There he, commenced a gambling career which only ended in his destitution in Leudville. The wine cup, beautiful women and song had their fascinations for him. One who knows him savs that Haas spent 100,000 fraivs in Marseilles and 100,000 at Budon, which extravagance induced his father to send him to Amer¬ ica. Tie dissipated large sums in New York, Philadelphia and <Cincinnati, and sunk $10,000 in a Louisville have sporting house. His father refused to any¬ thing more to do with him, and lately he has boon in prison in Ht. Louis. Not long ago Mr. wrote Ilass’s father, stating the son's circum¬ stances, and in response was instructed to take good cure of him, but not to give him any Slad money. A si,, rt time ago the lilhlois ZcUan,,, containing a notice Of the father’s death and the esli mate of the immense fortune which he left to Ins children, was received by ? j|...... A few days ago Air. Andrear gave him snflieieut money for his entertainment at Denver until' such time as lie could establish bis credit with a bank or ),y cablegram advices make n loan to return to Germany. It is estimated that Haas iu ,,u ”“ '«"*■ A Minneapolis Land Agent. While riding out across the unfenoeil ’ prairies three miles beyond the city l came across two men. One had his pocket full of signs nud tho other carried an axe and a bundle of stakes. After pacing around for a time in tho tall grass, tho man with the hatchet drove n stake and the other man pulled aiul jot forth for and tacked to it “This house aalftjo* rent on easy b' Ws. ,T •Accosting him, f excWimed : a |>uUiug I'.M a.u-aiJjw. such Jfajgsswfsl^ sigir you mean unknown by prairie up isn't a house on an ? There a or a street within a mile of here.” roll Looking up from pityingly, his pocket, and drawing a of paper the agent replied: the “Here is plan for a seven-room house. This afternoon twenty-four men will begin its its construction. lease already Here is a contract for signed at $25 dollars a mouth, aud a week from next Sunday the tenant will move in. My name is Herrick. I’ll sell you a lot fronting this double-track street-ear line on this oriMul avenue for 83,001). Cheap ns dirt. Next week you can refuse $6,000 for Cntekiug your property.” breath, I my protested : 4 ‘ Broad avenue ! 1 )onble-track street ear lino ! Great King, this is on open prairie. But from It the lias never other oven pocket b.s>n jumped plowed. ” an¬ other roll of papers. “nere is the plan of n street 1 had re corded this morning, and here is a peti turn for a street-ear lino. In six days you wu have both Hero 1 have adeed „ll filled out except signing, and I can make this lot right over to you now. Me 11 get witnesses down town. lour lot, iiniidljr ventured, is small, only sixteen feet. “.Small ! yelled Hernek m a tragie and injured loice. “Do you call sixteen fee front small i \\ hy, yon can build a three-story house on hat lot, and that iB large enough for nnvbouv. At this 1 cut the horse and galloped :i xx av tlirough tho grass, lost 1 should fall a vietiiu to Herrick's blandishments and schemes. The Postal Notes. A Chicago letter says : — From the action of the local banks, and the number of complaints at the jkist-office, it appears that the postal nobs issued to the public are already deemed a failure iu Chicago, Ill. A great many began to arrive there within a day or two after their first issue, sent iu li.m of drafts of small amounts, and were at once deposited the same as cheeks or drafts. The numberless mis¬ takes that were made by the postmasters sending th. m eans.d the banks to re fuse , . to accept them ., and ...... tins action was deemed tantamount to destroying their usefulness, i'ho [tost-office officials also declare that the handling of the pv-tal notes and the work of rectifying errors have entailed an unusual amount of ad ditiomti labor on the working force. Nor will notice that almost every I* •ardsng-liouse is broken out all over with mottoes worked with perforated pajk r. Tbe one most appreciated by the luckless wight compelled to live in tins way. however, is that which declares, ••There is no place like home, THE BAD BOY AND HIS PA. HTIUi ON THE OLD FAUf. Tlif* Ilfflunn Will ’.Not Accept llcnncry’* ion* mo He Play* a Joke umi <;ci» the “ A aer.” [From the Milwaukee Sun.] “Well I b wow, bore comes a walking hospital said the grow'ry man ns the bad boy’s shadow came looked in the store, sick, and fob lowed by the boy, who yellow and tired and he had lost half his flesh “What’s the matter with you?” “Got the ager ” said the 'bov, as he wiped the perspiration off his upper lip, mid looked around the store to see if there was anything in sight that would take the taste of quinine out of his mouth. “Had too much dreamy life of ease on the farm and been shaking ever since. Dam a farm, anyway.” with “You see I went out to the farm mv chum and I took the fish [Kites and remained in the woods while lie drove the horse to the deacon’s, and he gave the deacon my resignation, and the deacon wouldn’t accept it. Ho said lie would hold mv resignation until after harvest, and then act on it. He said he could put me in jail for breach of prom ise if I quit work and left him without giving proper notice, and my chum and told and so I concluded to work rather than have trouble, and the deacon said my chum could work a few days for his hoard if he wanted to. It was pretty poor board for a boy to work for, but. rny chum wanted to be with me, ho he atayed. Pa and ma came out tc the farm to stay a day or two to help, I'a was going to help harvest, and ma was going to help the deacon’s wife, but pa ; wanted to curry the jug to the field, in d i lt y umler a tree while the rest of 11 s worked, and ma just talked the arm off the deacon’s wife. The deacon and pa laid in the shade and see my chum and me work and ma and the deacon’s wife gossiped so they forgot to get dinner, and my clmm and me organized a strike but, we were beaten by monopoly. Pa took mo by the nock and thrashed out a Bhock of wheat with my heels, and the deacon took my chum and sat down on him, and we begged and they gave us our old situations back. Hut wo got even with them that and night. had got all “After my chum me the chores done that night, wc sat out on a fence back of the house in tho or elmrd, eating green apples in the nmofl i !>«''♦, and frynig to hmk of a plan back of revenge, dust then 1 saw a skunk of tho house ngh jby the outoih) cofia door, and I told my chum that it wo d servo thorn right to drive the skunk down cellar and shut the tor lmt mv chum said that would he too mean. asked him if it would be any meaner than for the deacon to thrash us because we couldn t mow hay away fast enough for two men to pitch it m, and he said it Sta£k“ ir;!™;! cellar, and them we crept up softly and closed the cellar doors. Then wo went in the house and I whispered to ma and asked if sho didn’t think the deacon had some cider, and nm she began to hint that sho hadn’t had a good drink of cider since last winter, and tho deacon’s wife said us boys could take a pitcher and go down cellar and draw some. That was too much. I didn’t want any belonged cider, any way, so ] told them that I to a temperance society, and T should break my jiledgo ii I dratfed cider, and she said I was a good bof, and for mo t i^ver hihlBd LW'.'i uhiui. F.ieri sue low my elm were the cider barrel was, lown eJ | but he said ho was afraid to go down cellar in tho dark, and so pa said lie and the deacon would go down and draw tho cider, and tho deacon’s wifo asked ma to go down too and look at the fruit and lierrieH she had canned for winter, and they all went down cellar l’a carried an old tin lantern with holes in it to light the deacon to the eider bar¬ rel, and t ho deacon’s wife had a taller candle to show ma the canned fruit. I tried to get ma not to go, ’cause ma is a friend of mine, but she said sho guessed sho know her they business. they When know anybody their says that guess own business, that settles it with me, aiul I don't try to Rrguo with them. Well, my chum and me sat there iu the kitchen, and I stuffed a pioeo of red table-cloth in my mouth to keep from laughing, and my chum hold his nose with his linger and thumb so he wouldn’t snort right " out. We could hear the eider in tho ^ it< , ber> aud then it stopped , (1 de on drank out of the pitcher, , th £ did> aud then they drawed ’ 80 , uu ( . u , aml ma and tbe d ea , wifo we re talking about how much ”, it tooU to can f ra i t , mid the deacon , o! „a to help himself out of a crock of f 1 .i od \, ako s, and I heard the cover on the Prock vattle, and just then I heard the , d Un luctern rat(le ou the brick floor f , he eellar , the deacon said. ‘Merciful ^ llU( , ss •,,,, Sllid •[ lim stabbed.’ and * , led . g(XM | lk , S8 S akes alive,’ and then there was a lot of dish-pans all tried on t oe stairs begun to fall and they to Set up the cellar stairs at once, amt they fell over each other, and O, my, what a frowy smell came up to the kitchen from the cellar. It was enough to kill ivnv head body. Pu was the first to got to head fli of tho stairs, aud he stuck his in the kitchen, and took a long breath and said, 'whoosh / Hennery, your pa is a mighty siek man.’ The deacon came up next, aud he had run his head into a hanging shelf and broke a glass jar of hueklebexries, and they were all over him, and he said ‘give me air. Earth's but a desert drear.’ Then ma and the deacon’s w ife came np ou a gallop, and they his looked tired. Pa began to pool off cos*, and vest and said he was going out to bury them, and ma said he condl bury her, too, and I asked the deacon if he didn’t notice a faiut odor of sewer gas from the cellar, and mv chum said it smelled more to him as though and something had crawled in the cellar died. Well, you never saw a sicker crowd, and 1 felt sorry for ma. But you'd a dide to see pa. He was mad. They finally got the house aired, and my chum and me slept on the hay iu tlie born, alter we had opened the outside cellar door so the animal could get out. md the next morning I had the fever VU 1 ague, and pa and ma brought me home, and I have been firing quinine j owu mv luv k ever since. Pa says it is malaria, but it is getting up before day- Jo chores, I don’t want an* more farm.’' THE PLAGUE A'lU SEA. n ^iftrtlinfl Incident shat tolik Place on a Merchant Steamer In Dclep Water. Id the gray light of a .T fiiy morning we made a sail dead ahead , close upen the outskirts of retreatinj ; night. In twenty minutes wc heard t he report her of firearms from her deck and saw that flag was at half-mast in tok' ti of distress. A murmur of excited sy mpatby ran through the great th ron g u wn the deck of the steamer. There wa i another of disappointment, when the p urser told us it was a Spanish brig. It was impulse as if we had wasted our compassion -an natural to the Saxon breast, born of the fierce blood of those who pet red through the stormy passes of tlic Alps into the Elysian fields of Latin fc es. The steady ceased throbbing of closed the screws slackened and as we upon the quarter of the helpless brig. In a light western air, she lay w ith topsails backed and and her jibs and Fourf s panker idly swaying to fro. men were on her deck, and as haiWfcd we {approached, slowly lowered a boat astern, it alongside, and entering it L* the ship, she was apparently dcsefited. They rowed painfully toward our ; Iteamer, and we gathered on the port Bid* where the rope ladder had been hung, Up catch the first glimpse of their face*. This we could not do; the tour work wide som breros and bent to tlieir fears feebly but persistently, never l«*>kmg up. Our eaptmn haded them harhjs impatiently— they only waved their between dippings of the oars. They, were now alongside, and the bow oarsmin clutched the ladder and began to climb to the deck. Two others folio we I lum, all three hanging like spiders onfthe narrow way, resting at every round.D'Tbe most intense excitement was fronrthe visilQ) m steam- every face that watched them, er’s deck. Our captain htfiid them from the bridge, ;»>ud oa bet JIfeach man waved a hand in a meclfflical way. Then awaiting the their captain coming. came The to'^ie fourth ladder man sat still in the boat but those who noticed saw him bending forward as he sat until the broad brim of his hat touched the gunwale, and the blocs locks of his hair showed froli behind. He seemed helpless or asledA ijio but at¬ tracted little attention as others climbed closer to the deck. I At last the uppermost hafflhis lore hand upon the steamer’s rail; a few steps and ranis he would be on deck. him! Ai hundred 1 were ready beyond to aid his in what But seemed a task all power. tho captain thrust them away, and reaching forward lifted his hau,from his I lead. A general exclamation of horror broke from our eager group. There, not two feet from the rail, locked Shrivelled up the visage of Death-a yellow, burned Vitli face, and eyes that the weak and cruel fire of waking life. Long and matted hair and mustache sweeping down made the pictue beyond fault. It was the look of the laser man, after the divine and human etorents of his nature die away in hungerlhirst, M or bodily distress, leaving in h useless frame the reptile only, iwuL whose depths the strict Darwinians Mim as cent. An impulse of tarrMHi dread seized all wli looked into sftilow faoe, askant till iu ill the fcaiuJ^ tumbled* lad sp '^for the first time: “Piedad Cielos 1” “Qne quiere Y. 9” And the answer came iu oonee. al¬ most from the three: “Of “We what are dying, 1” senor.’’ ) “We do not know.” But, tho oaptain knew, and we shrank as if from flames at the words: “They are dying of yellow fever.” If we had doubted this, the next mo¬ ment would have proved his judgment right. The man remaining in the boat rose suddenly from his sent with a quick, sharp cry, “Santo Dios !” and fell upon his buck dead. The captain ordered the others back, promising aid on board their brig. They swore they never would return, and be¬ gan climbing will with the haste the of despera¬ tion. Never I forget struggle that ensued. The leading Spaniard, rail, clinging witli both hands to the held back by the broad hands of the captain, seemed the active personifica¬ tion of tbe plague, doing battle with the lives of all on board. lie was like one mad; he cursed and snapped his teeth, tilling the air with bitter oaths, drawing his feet under him to tho highest round ho could reach, ami thro .ving all his strength into a final effort. He made it, nud was thrust down again by the same strong hands. But liis feet lia|d been drawn as close to his body so that they slipped from beneath him—and for a single instant he hung above the others. Then he fell, striking the next mau and the third, and carrying them with him into the sen. They sank like plummets; iliree in a moment more there were but broad hats floating upon the place of their descent. The captain consulted with his first officer, a well-thrown pig of iron crashed through the bottom of tlio boat, aud the bell rang out, “full speed ahead.” When the siui came up the Spanish brig stood for an instant against its disk and disappeared in the dazzliug radiance of its later rays. Doubling Up. A very alight error ot foot or praetict will sometimes result iu a serious mis¬ take. This was recently illustrated iu a SCI- uoi in New York eitv, where a pupil who had been impressed with the force rud value of double letters, such as “double o” iu “fool,” “double e” in “heel,” etc., was called upon to read that touching poem exhortatory to early rising, beginning: *‘Cp. up, Lucy ! tlie sun is iu the »ky !” Surprise, which soon gave away to hilarity, was occasioned when the pupil read the line: “Double np, Lucy ! the sun is in the sky !” thus giving it a significance by no means ccutemplated by the poet THE POTATO HOT. A McleLfifif View of Whnt Cnn«*c* if* With a ft-w Hints n« to \\ hat >bouid be Done. [From the Scientific American.] At the time of writing,the daily papers contain telegraphic accounts of the great destruction of the potato crop in van ous sections of the country. The dis c-ase. judging from the descriptions, is doubtless the one known as the “potato rot.” rot. This This is is rot not a a new nun trouble, and most of the older inhabitants can re member the ravages of this pest in 1842 and „„„ Sreiir again ______________ in 1844, when it spread x United over over Britain, Ireland, and the States causing much distress to who make the potato tho leading article of food. caused The rotting of the potatoes is bv a microscopic fungus, Pcronospora intent ana, which infests tho potato r ,i' an t ' is understood plant of Bv fungus a a very low order, the more familiar mem bers of which are the toadstools, mush roomsfmildews and moulds. Some of th- fungi live on) v on decaving organic matter and are comparatively harmless; in fact are often helpful in hastening decay and preparing substance > for fu fare usefulness. Other species of fungi are parasitic, growing upon living tilings, The bread mould is a familiar illustra tion of a small fungus which feeds upon dead matter, while the potato rot fungus is an equally striking example of one thriving of upon a living plant. The mil dew the grape, which lias caused great damage in many vineyards, They is a close relative of the potato rot. both belong to the same genus {peron ospora), a genus which contains . a, large number of species, and all are destruc tivc to the host plants. consists of long The potato rot fungus filaments or threads, which grow through tl.e substance of the potato plant, and rob it of juices and induce a rapid decay, The fungus usual y makes its first ap pearanee upon the under side of the leaves as frost-hko p-tches, brown. soon causing This the foliage to curl and turn frost-like appearance is due to a multi tude of spores winch have formed upon the ends of fungus threads protruding from the breathing pores of the leaf. There are many thousand stomata or breathing pores to the square inch, and a dozen or more threads may come out at each opening. Each of these threads forms branches, and each branch bears a spore. This helps to give an idea of the vast number of spores formed upon a single affected leaf. These spores ger¬ minate quickly and in a peculiar man ner—each spore giving rise to hair-like several smaller spores provided with appendages {cilia) by means of which they move quickly around. This is a most admirable provision for the rapid and perfect spreading of the disease when it has once “struck” a potato field. After the foliage has become affected the disease passes into the stems and down to the tnbers, when the most de¬ structive work is done. The farmer should be on the watch for this fatal pest of his potato field. Like most fungi this Pcronospora thrives best in warm, rainy or “muggy” weather. In one of the recent press reports it was stated that the decay was caused by the wet weather which has prevailed The weather in many parts only of the country, condition for the growth was the a favoring much of rot plant, as so as •ains t-*? that are m Id crops. dieted, and with a great degree tainty, that potatoes would rot in many sections. This came from a knowledge of tho nature of the rot and the conditions which favor its development. It has been shown tiiat the disease is first seen upon tho leaves. When the foliage begins to curl and turn brown, tho potatoes should bo dug at once, and in this prevent the fungus from reaching tho tubers. The potatoes should then be placed in a cool and dry place—the conditions least favorable for the further growth of the fungus should it be pres cut. All affected tubers should be thrown out and gathered with the vines and burned. This destroys multitudes of spores which might otherwise live through the winter and be ready to pro¬ pagate tbe rot the following season. There has been a great deal said about “ rot proof ” varieties of potatoes, but they probably susceptible do not than exist. others, Some prob¬ sorts »re more ably from constitutional weakness. Many prizes have beeu offered in England for the finding of the best sorts to withstand the attacks of the rot fungus, but with¬ out any satisfactory results. by Knowing that the disease is caused a parasitic fungus, the rapid development of which is favored by moist, warm weather, there is little hope of finding a variety of po¬ tatoes so abnormal as to be “ rot pi /of.” WANTS TO HEAR. “Why do you mutter that way when you read?” asked a man of an old negro who sat mumbling over a newspaper. “How ought 1 to read, sah ?” “Why, read without moving your ’ips.” “What good would dat sorter readin’ do me, fur I couldn’t heah it ? When I reads I wauster read so I kin lieah what Fee readin’ ’bout.” FIVE CENTS’ WORTH OF AMBITION. A sleepy-looking boy of fifteen entered a drug store tho other day and looked around in a dreamy manner. him, “Well, sir,” said the clerk to gazing at him inquiringly. “Hey?” I do for ?” “What can you “Oh !” drawled the boy, as if recol¬ lecting his errand, “a mau sent me to have this perscription filled,” and he drew from his pocket a piece of paper, which he handed to the clerk. • > Give this boy five cents’ worth of am¬ bition,” was the request contained in the note. The druggist thought the boy needed something to stir him up and adminis¬ tered a dose of salts. An Irish lawver having addressed tlie Court as “gentlemen,” instead of “yer honors,” after he had concluded a brother of the bar reminded him of his error. ogized He immediately it'plase arose and apol¬ thus : “May the Court, in the hate of debate I called yer honors gentlemen. I made a mistake,yer hon¬ or*. ’’ The speaker then sat down. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. WHAT WE FIND IN THE HUMOXIGI'H PAPERS. AS bad as an _ extra session. _ “M hat makes you look so sonons . .w morning? asked Gus DeSmith ot Col. Gilhooly. enough , • make , three , , ‘‘1 ve got to sucn men as me look serious, -*on know rent hue pointer . dog , I paid seventy-fare uoi l ar s for ■ He sp-endid ... Yes,, I’ve seen .urn. s a animal.” “Well, I am going to lose him. He has all the symptoms of hydrophobia, ^ thmk Id taite him out and shoot him as soon as I go home. ” “What does he do. “He don t do anything. He lies around in a listless sort ot a way; am, the worst of it is, he won’t touch water You can’t make him urmk a drop of water.” “Is that all? Why, Colonel, some of , the leading citizens of Austin have go, those very symptoms. Before you de stroy better a wait seyenty-hve-dollar and see bow some dog, you of these had prominent gentlemen, who cant be made to drink water, turn out. If everybody who prefers beer and whisky work, to water, and who don’t want to is going to have hydrophobia, old we ot are about to have a lively time i, here in Austin. By Jove, it will be equal to an extra session of the Logisla hire .”—Texan liftings. he got married. A capitalist ‘ of this citv, who does bnsine s on Woodward avenue, was sit ting g iu bis oflice tho other day, when the d 1 d aud an unkemp t poverty gtriobe I1 man 4d, who bad once been in his . entel * liat in hand. do do Michael ? G iad to « 8a id bi s former employer, worid ' “ E ow docs the use - » , adlv J’ 60rr . bad!y. I’m that poor J ’ s orr. I haven’t a dacent suit f othe nor a ruff to cover mv head, „ «T hat ’s hard luck, Michael,” said the gent ge i e man; ’ “have J you no friends?” <lSorra ° a wal; ’ B I; but r m going to ^ . ’ „ ans wered t lie man 'to “I’ve “u tou up my mo ind and I kum con about it Oi’m ° «oin’ to be mar ” ‘ “Mamed, < i man ! i Why -TT-i i .. anythmg to get marned with, have y °“\To more why,lot lies slip wit sorr” ,,„i„ -The,, yon * lot waitm , -r soi . iT'yoii. g -g Tstiz g | rie«l on purpose so 111 have something of ,, me own, sorr, -Detroit Post. BLIGHTED ANTICIPATIONS. A colored mau o’er whose head about seventy summers had passed, was quietly but earnestly wrestling with a water¬ melon near the market, when he was disturbed by the appearance of a small boy of his color. The boy sat down on a box aud looked grudgingly at the melon, and the old man looked up at him and queried: I reckons I could give “Young man, mellyou an’ hab plenty you half dis left.” “Thanks, ancle.” ighti w a 1 l /nebsi- en'de temt’dat what I leave behind goes to my naternl ^ ti/inastom be^reffX wi bout t ontunpashunnnu mus’ be drefluUy 2S intTc!pate W dat a ^3f ^ vere mellyou will staff me full an’ I’ll have to leave all de rest. You antici pate dat 111 git^choked^ on de iseedi3, oi A* Lds am left As lwreqi de seeds up to tny ^ a ^kerchief you 11 ieck^ on lickin tie bo d a ; “'afISn' , , * “i&S _ better dan to crowd in wbar ye ain’t wanted. Now you skip !”—M Quad. CARRIED IT THROUGH. “ Talk about my war record,” said an Arkansaw orator at a political meeting. “ My war record is a part of the State’s history. Why, gentlemen, I carried the last confederate flag through this town.” “ Yes, ” replied a bystander, ‘ 4 for I was here at the time.” “ Thank you for your fortunate recol¬ lection,” gratefully exclaimed the ora tor. “It is pleasant to kuow that there still lives some men who move aside envy and testify to the courage of their fellow beings. As I say, gentle men, my war record is part of the State’s history, for the gentleman here will tell you that I carried the last confederate flag through fact,” the town. said the who had “That’s a man witnessed the performance. “ He car tied the last confederate flag tlirough this town, and he carried it so blamed fast you couldn’t have told whether it was a union Jack or a small-pox warn ing .”—Arkansaw Traveler. So Much. One of our local merchants was in New York the other day, and in the pri vate office of a big house that also runs a retail branch. A bill came in. The merchant glanced at it carelessly, laid it down and said to a clerk : “Make a check for this branch.” advertising and charge it to the retail The Fulton man saw the figures $500, and said : “What’s that, $5 ? Do von give checks for so small amounts as that ?” “ No,” said the merchant, “that’s 8500.” the Fulton “Gracious!” exclaimed man, “how many years has that bill been running!” merchant, “that is “Years 1” said the for an ad. for one day, and very reason able, too .’’—Fulton Patriot. In the Far West a man advertises for a woman “to wash, iron and milk one oi two cows. What does he want his cows washed and ironed for? A LIST Of SURPRISES. What Volcanoes Hare Dojic to Startle Uft— A C urious l.ist. For a volcano once supposed to be in¬ active, Vesuvius has prepared some lively surprises for the dwellers in its neighborhood. Its latest surprise has becri to shake up a railroad and destroy several houses. The jieople of Hercu ianeum and Pompeii tlionght Vesuvius extinc: until one day it proved in a very thorough *--------*****^«* manner that “““ it -**• could ^mi still be roused to activity. Since then no one has been deceived by its quietude. Other volcanoes besides Vesuvius have from time to time indulged in what Bec -ms to be the general volcanic pro pensity of ;,j creating surprises. Thus no oue T ,- ou ( xpeet to have a mass of rock of some 3,000 cubic feet suddenly de scenn upon them from the sky. But people living nine miles from Cotopaxi were on one occasion treated to such a surprise. The Carthaginians, when they set ont against the Syracuse, were which, not pre pared to cross fiery river to their surprise, intercepted their march a [ j,j; 0 unt ,33 to a. They had no boats witli which to cross it. The great eruption of Toruboro sur prised people for some 970 miles around, the distance at which the force of the explosion the was heard. They wondered what was matter until ihev learned 0 f the eruption from one of the twenty six persons who were saved out of a popu tation of 12,000. Surprises of another kind, fearful del nges, are the first indications in many South American districts that volcanoes whose peaks r,re in the region of perpet ual snow have suddenly become active, the deluges being caused by the melting of great masses of snow. ^ must also be a surprise _ of a beautl , t h ? ug ^ fearful kind to see a fiery fountain , play fro to the a height of seven hun ieei m oi * mo lm a “ Such a folmt t , aiu . ^.? Ia un f. Loa . 18 » 2 was a magnificent fl illustration . of f volcanic figure, the pressure of lava at the crater being relieved at this new outlet, The omcks often seen on volcanoes, which form are crea ^ ted m radiating th J s mallller from the S “ centre, a11 ex ‘ - tra craters, . volcanoes on volcanoes,, whi « h gradually these become fissures, cone shaped, are found along All othe r Tllel '° « ^ ln . Tolcaulc . . eruptions, as is generally rep Rented most graphically m chromes, The supposititious flames are simply a reflection of the lava on the cloud of ashes and cinders. How great a volume oi the latter is ejected J can be well undei gtood whcn it is stated that enougll ashcs and cilldels were ejected during %*^gC£** the Mediterranean bv •ffisrs appearing coast of suddenl under their action/ very e yes are the results of volcanic But probably the greatest surprise connected with this subject is the formation of volcanoes. A volcano is originally nothing but a hole in the ground, formed often at no eleva¬ tion by the swelling and breaking of an earth bubble. The mountain which springs up around this opening is formed by accumulations of successive eruptions. The great age of volcanoes which, like MaunaLoa and Mount .Etna, are 14,000 and 11,000 feet high, can be readily ap¬ preciated from this fact, and from the further fact that iEtna had attained al¬ most its present j^reek height when it writer; ^ rved by . j °A volcano is a furnace on a magnifi/ ^edb^me Ss^kVsolhoSralSf the lafa is volcanoes that as bon 7 aud llows w itb a ve Jocity of fifteen miles an hour. Some ! me VV S iT™ 5“* glaSSy threads by the action of bursting gas \\q’ d i e there are two kinds of eruptions, theories r^m-dhig^e^eat^hich Erne's ]akeg But lhe theorists agree that the proximate 5..oonto.trf.»tet*itli cause of voieanic eruption is« »ol,«u ,oot. A Chinese Visitor. The United States steamer Richmond when at Shanghai, China, was visited by Li Hung Chang, an official of great power. The visit was in return for one paid the official by tbe officers of tho steamer. An officer, iu writing of the visit, says: landing with body¬ ‘He came to the a guard of about 200 men, a large number of whom were horsemen; they lined eacb s -; do n f the street for about two j,j ocks _ 'h yy e finally gave him a drill, at wb } c h e was delighted, and when he the vessel on the way ashore he said that he should be very much pleased (() gend [ 0 the Admiral, for the use of the men, a slight token of his esteem and of bis appreciation of the efforts to en ter tain him on board that day. Iu a sbor t time orders upon the grocers and marke t-men began to come off, and when they had finished we found that his < slight tok$n’ consisted of—12 live sheep; 2 bullocks; 200 fowl; 1,000 pounds of bananas; 1,000 pounds of fruit; 8 eases of English beer, in pints (8 dozen each case); 8 cases of English beer, in claret quarts dozen each case); 8 cases of (1 dozen quarts iu each case), “The men of the Richmond said that they would be very glad to have a Chinaman like that ccme onboard every day .” “Did I ever tell you about Pinch, the shoemaker?” askedFo,'g. “No? Well, he got shut into a littl 3, dark closet in his shop—spring-lock, you know'—no¬ air—couldn’t live long, vou know. The boys heard of it, rushe: 1 in, pried open the door; but, alas ! poo man—” “Was he dead ?” cried a half-d >zen men. “Not dead, but he was brea'iiing his last— that is to say, he had it ’Tith him.” The fellows felt like booting Fogg; but as he is a strapping fellow, they awl kept stilL He'll get a welt one of these days. Feb [j.ws don’t like to be soled that way.
