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Mreqjtbe Fa
STiflcattw” issued
[e Chinese government.
Chambers county, A’a., has a brag
eloti of cotton pickers, whioli in one day
lately had a oavy game, scoring iui
average of IKK) pounds to each picker.
Aoukkaulb to fta ordinance passed iu
Montgomery, Ain., the chief of police
has notified newsdealers that no liter*
ture of an obscene character c«u bo sold
in that o ty.
Turer years ago, a dozen bons*s and
amiftl frame depot building constituted
Big Lick stetion, fifty miles south vest of
Lynchburg, Via. To-day tuesame place
has 5,000 inhabitants.
Five hundred ( alholic children at
LereJo, Texas, are about to be deprived
of educational advantage* because tho
Catholic clergy »il notallow thorn to
attend the public schools.
_ Tub fi>ssil , ...... tooth found in Alabama A , ,
rceently is declared by Judge L wrence
Johnson, of the United States Geologi
cal Survey, to l>c the molar of heprima
five elephant ol America.
The sch oner Alfred Wilson gathered
wo hundred and eighty Jf bund cs of
pongc*. R ai t the me mouth iuouui oi the im. Use i-siua 11 a
iver. Florals, hist wciL Her cargo
wrought $700 00.
Henty Fb KICKS, of Pennsylvania, is
looking for a tea farm in the South. Le
Duc has said that tea will flourish in Al
luuna and Georgia, and the experiment
e to be made at an early day.
Tub ship Silvsrtown, from Ijoudon, a
vessel of 3.724 ten* net, and 4,913 tons
gross, whose length is 333 feet, beam 55
feet, aud depth of hold 34* feet, h*a
safelv passed the jetties and laaded at
the dock,at New Oilcans.
The manufacture of starch i* slxvnt
vicitity of Seneca lake, Fla. A starch
factory is to by started them, snd seve •
a! pa. taw are prep* plug for an ex tenure
cuUiratiou of oasesva.
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tots tor or against the proposition to
abolish convict labor in the Stats pri¬
son*. Last year the entire cost of m ua-
tuning the State prisons was paid by the
|Ljk of the convicts. The amount was
660.
New Orleans Picayune says that
| taro has rapidly developed in
^ aloDg the Gulf coast, within
■kghU eii months, and tint the
around ’ll
is now on ex iii
COl'tXJDS
is
if
of
;e coun
veTftHro. tho
birds shipped weighed fn in 150 to
200 pounds, and stood about seven feet
high without any stockings. They aro
natives of Nnbia, in Upper Afriea. and
they were captu ed while van,- yeung by
tho agents of Moesrs Charles Rsiohe &
Brother, of Now York and H ihekon,
who aro proprietors of the projected oe
stricli farm.
Olay spuing, twelve miles from Or¬
lando and throe miles fmm Apopka, Fla.,
is one of the largest mineral springs in
tlie United 8tutus. The spring is sitn
ated at tlie foot of a high bluff or hill.
The pool where tlie water comes up is
sovouty-five to oue min lred feet across,
in tlu , center a f „hieh the water oou
atantly boile and bubbles. Enough water
comes out of tlie ground to form a river,
and steiunteiats have run up from St.
John aud tied up dirKctly over the opeu
ing, where tge water conics from the bow
els of the earth. The water is strong y
impregaatod with sulphur, and probably
with other ‘ minerals “ The nn,,t * ' is ' a ‘ bi
vonto resort for camping parties, who go
mere to bathe in and drirk the waters,
The rejH.rt of the naval advisory
board as to the number , and , class , of , ves
scl* which should lx> commeiu-ed at oneo,
in order t- > carry forward the work of ro
constructing tho unarmorod fleet, rocom
numds one vessel similar to the Chicago,
oauthrized last winter and now under
construction, to cost $1,295,000; one sim
liar; to the Bi*ton and the Atlanta, an
si thonzeil ii last a winter, * to . cost . $936,000; *i one
to cost $482,000; two costing $516,000
each; two light draught gunboats to cost
1269,000 each. The total estimate for
the seven vceeelj, $4 283,000. The board
also recommends the completion of tha
monit "” PnriUu ’ Amphitriie, Terror,
aD|, ‘ Manadnock. at a cost, respectively,
H ^,000, $797,000, $374,000, and Ur
14i noo.
proTO 0 mile sad a qniirter fr.m San
( on j i hae this week teten signed np «d
forfoit deposited. Tlie grove embnv
ee- 650 tree*, coveri’ig six bc-cs. and the
...to.,-i-ri. wrwMp*
dollars and a qnart r {xr 1 h>x, on the
tree*, is the price pud At 150 per box.
600 W-l-STl. 0 0 ormi-e* will aggregate 4,0,W
»!», Win
yield $9,000. We learn that the expense
of the grove this year will not exceed
$500. Gen Joseph Finnegan, who has a
grove near v here and j one down the viver^
has sold the crop cn both groves at $3
per box, delivered at the railroad station
near hishome place, and at the warf at
his ... nver place. . The a ., estimated .• . i yi • 1
lio'h groves i. 1,4000 W. ,*b »*
,.l per to,, Ml to t« 00.
ZBlTtB'D- NOTES. &
Tns loss by fire in tins country^ proportions.
Cauada in rising to startling
Jn the first rix months of this year there
L^re Hpaarlj 6,175 $18,000,000. reported fires, involving a loss
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, t„ UrnS hundred mills for
(k ptop- Suet a
■<f perfection r.etb. t La 5 i been attained
■treatment that oven foe tho the
■ri ; f . s of paper the wood pulp
Wt ; for _ n]n ma do from rags,
m ■f p8 ;iev enW-five per celft. ot
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:■» Stock used throughout , . . u r
his season the rsprosenta
^wyer Brothers’ stable havo
races and $132,300Jn
amount Miss Woodford
TNKne Kinnof,
t L F ,<)tj&ekvifl,610;
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reresulted in the man
ftrticlo called olive , buiter.
Rtitute is a pure vogeuly’a ad. ff
BFas ^7, a 'V pungent, V' but not I unff M i
Pholl '
while cooking, and 1 », this m m
moved by a pinch of salt Egg piiSts,
oysters, pancakes and fritters fried in
olive butter, by a good cook, have not »
particle I ai tiua of of grosainoss eresainoss almut anoui them mem, and auu
no taste whateverof the medium in white
tbey have been friod.
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Iu secluded parts of Mt. Olivet Ceme
*cry, Washiucton, but far apart, are th«
graves of . Msry „ L. o Surratt .. and , Wirz, the
keeper ot the Andersonville prison.
Wire is buried under a tall hickory tree,
in which squirrel* chatter and gambol,
"’all * all, rmk rank weeds we. ds and and unkemnt unkempt grass srrass sur- sur
round the spot, and the simple word
“Wirs,” on a sm»U block of marble al
tho head #f the uravo, is the only thing
to denote his resting place. 1 A small,
plain ... headstone . . , has simply . , the .,
name,
“Mia. Mary E. Surratt.”
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It is claimed that the cotton picker
just .__, invented . , , by „ Mr. Aoftson, of bum^- ,
u»r, South Carolina, differs from all pre
vioua inventions of tho kind in tho very
p anto where thrr wero deficient The
teeth of the new machine an so sonsi
lively set.it i« said, that they wilt not
clutch anything about a stalk of cotton
but the open bolL A stalk with a dozen
^ofis o»ou and tweutv until 'f f - ™ 1
,t,i—i ed of its ready . cotton .. and left umn- .
jniiVt. Experiments have been made
with tho machine, and farmers who saw
it ..<^rlc ®av ifc will do
TnF na Annxw American consul w at Cvefeld, ’___. Mr.
o ottor has busied himself u tracing . out
.
he seK\uel to thirty-o®e marriages be
jweon Amoriesn girls and titled Gcnnans.
Q 0 has oj^rtiunod that with ouo solitary
exception ttoy hsvo resulted m abandon
nieut, separation, divorce, or some other
poiijn^aVdisaster. It would V>e interest
in- to know how th.- other Ameficangiils
who marry sbrosd fiirc. ;« ilifl
.
Graphic suggests that if the consular
Bevvies generally would follow the ex
umplo of onr rcprcscetotive at Crefcld,
a curious and useful chapter on sociology
might result. —
Tct prtigrsao of the raiisma canal
should be a source of oongratwlution to
all whs take on interest in permanent
had 190,009,OCX) eubw mrtree of esTth to
* H. has already taken oat .Kxit
2,500, W0 cubic metn>e, and after ihf&ni
<* tk-c«gh aa
Tht* , would enahlelum to fim.- -os canal ,:
“ 188S - The wcvkmen are frolc
aietions of disease and death among
them have been negatived. The
potion of the canal within five ye?rs is
In well assur ed. i
The growth of the South . continues ,. to .
astonish the people of the sluggish east
era and middle states. lien wealth is
accumulating in the South at the rate of
• „ , wL „ ft, raiIr „d
ile ;,„ ia te ,, lllg , lth tto #*«.
in wealth, and when the number of spin
dVs JL-rf*, has been doubled since the census
.to, read AM »ucl, fact,
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South has a future, and to wonder how
su:h things can be out of their own gee
tion. Then, too, ihe v see that southern
cotton mills arc dividing from fifteen to
twenty per cent, on to© capital
.leu tt* - ■» k «
keep out o! bankruptcy. Altogether, the
southern ., side •, of f th- tho cnnntrv country is is lookin'* loo a
up .—Atlanta Con-ttiiution.
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A\ A ^WF U L Il^DE. _TT\n
j rased by a fkarpiii, aVALANCHS
OF FEA.1IK.
Enrfnrcr Hr,...’. Oa.h Down the
tnln Mrte in Front *t a Biuzina on
Tram,
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[Frora the New York Sun.]
■.«»« rr to .» s
..or.o.h, m ,j
had from Prospect to Brocton in I860.
The speaker was Duff Brown, an old
locomotive engineer, who was ljing .
his home in Portland dying with con- :
sumption. This was some time ago.
On the 7th of September he died.
was nearly sixty years old. His story ol
the awful ride is this; ’, |
mixed . tnu .
“In 18C9 I was running a l ,
on the Buflalo, Corry and Erie Railway, i
The track between Prospect or Mayville
Summit and Brocton Junction is sc
arookerl that, while the distance is only
ten miles, the curves make it, by rail
fourteen. The grade for the whole dis
tance is over seventy feet to the mile.
“Abont nine o’clock on the night of
Aug. 17, 1809, we reached tlie Summit
with a train of two passenger care, six
oil care and a-b^x car. The latter con
tamed two valuable trotting horses, aud
their keepers with them, on their way, I
believe to the Cleveland meeting. Them
I, M e fifty or sixty passengers in the two
care 1 got the signal from the conductoi
to st»rt, and I pulled out. We had got
under considerable headway, when, look
im i . J saw that an oil oar in the
middle of the train was on fire. I re
r@rsed my engine and whistled for
brakes. The conductor and brakemen
jumped off They uncoupled the pas
longer cars and set the brakes on them,
bringing them to ft etop. Supposing
that the brakes on the burning oil care
would al.se be put on, I called tea brake
man on the box car to draw tho coupling
pj n between that oar and the head oil
tank, backing so that he could do it, in
tsliding to caXand kun far locomotive. enough,away,to An I save
tiH, haT tiad ran
after the pin been
()rftW11> m y Horror to see that
the burning oart< were following me at a
-peed that was snec.“ed«*l rapidly increasing. iu putting The
mo® had not on
done'was ^ j Baw the only thing
^ ^ to ran for it to Brocton,
the chances were tiiftt we wouhl
never reach there at the speed around which those we
would be obliged to make where had
sharp reverse curves, we never
run over twenty miles an hour.
..-When I saw tho flaming cars—foi
the w i 10 j e B , x W ere on fire by this time
—plunging after me, aud only a few fret
awav, I pnlled the throttle open. The
oil crtr8 oan g ht me, though, Vfere I got
^ ^ ejmle w ith full force against
^ of i he lK)x car> Bmashiug in one
PU d and knocking the horses and their
keepers flat on the floor. The boat was
almost unbearable, and, do my best, 1
couldn’t place more than thirty feet bo
twpwn thp pursuing column of fire and
ourselves. By tha light from the fur
ntce in UE mv fireman opened the door to
pile the coal, I caught sight of the
f ac « of one of the horsenieu in the box
par ,’niug he having climbed up to the grata!
ppe in the end. It was as pale as
death, and he begged me for 1 God’s sake
to give her move steam. was giving
her then all the steam she conld carry,
and tli« grade itseif was enough to carry
ns down at the rate of fifty miles an
hour. We went so fast that the engine
couldn't pump. Every time we struck
one of those ourvos the old girl would
almost run on one set of wheels, aud
in the world she didn't topple over
is something I never could understand,
She seemed to know that it was a race
of life and death, and worked as if she
were alive
“The night & was dark, and the road
^ thron woodSi at . e ,, nvk r „ t8 , aild
high embankments. There we
wer e, thundering along at lightning
ipiWHt and ouly a few jiace* behiiul us,
that fierv .lemon in full imrsuit. There
. thonmud gillloU8 o( oU ^
^ tiinliis,
at least, and it was all iu
flame, mak’ng ft flying avalanche of fire
five hniuired feet long. The flames
leaped into tha air nenrlr a hundred
Their roar was like that of some
^arset. Now and then a tonk
woukl explode with a noise like a oau
non, when a column of flame and pitchy
smoke would mount high above the holy
af the flames, and showers of burning
,, . ,, , , . . .,
toods. The whole country was lighted
up for mill's aroond.
*’ 1
Broe
was sWt live*!, f<vr Ir. nurnwre
itent ’h
^ we woukl it ^o. 8 was th
switchman at the Junction would tlnuk
^ to open the swttch there.
oonm-cting the cross-cut track with the
Ui. b- to*. -J
^SythtogfSd where we
could S oon get out of the way of the oil
cars. The switch, of course, won] 1 be
closed now for the express, and our last
hope wa3 gone , unless the express was
late, or somebody had sense to fi.,g it.
whfle we were thinking of this wo saw
tbo express tearing along toward the
Junction. Could we reach tho Junction.
get the switch, aud the switch be set
tooktarlh, More Ih, latt»,
SSJuS*Jii probably SSL of others would ™ be
but scores
crushed to death. All this conjecturing “
“
S oi' V«/io », arc»aa,
; wliat ^ we to do now?’
“The fireman promptly replied—and
he was a brave littlet fellow that I
That“Sh££
waa one pro ionged yell of agony. It
w» . rtnek .to. »e e.ed to toll u, .to.
oar and brave had her old fears eng.ne A anew either our the JL fireman c e
^ myseif Bpoke another word.
“Thanks be to God! seeing Tne engineer
on tho express train, us tearing
that mountain with an eighth of a
mile of solid fire in close pursuit of us,
knew in a moment that only one thing
cor’d save us. He whistled for brakes
and got his train to a stand not ten teet
nway from the switch. The switchman
now answered our s.gnal, ant. we shot in
on the Shore track and whizzed on up
by the depot and through the place like
a rocket. The burning cars followed us
in, of coursa, but their race was run.
They bad no propelling mile power they now, and
after chasing us lor a gave up
was
wasssnassasssR^ss ;,j (; t out of th cab. Tlie
we cou n0 g e j
j wo horsemen were unconscious in the
box car. The horses were ruined. And
jj OW j^jg y 0U think we were in mak
mSes Ulftt 8 i st 'een miles? We ran two
up the Lake Shore track. Just
t we j Te minutes from the Summit to the
spot where we stopped ! A plumb eighty
ajj hour, not counting the time
j . ® „ et t|jj g under headway and stopping
d Br o ctou .-
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Death „ of Harwood.
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Marwood, the executioner, died at
Horncastle, England, from congestion
of the lungs and jaundice. He was
sixty-three years of age and had held
his post for twelve years. He leaves a
widow, but no son, as has been stated,
Some incidents of his life arc narrated
by a local correspondent who was per¬
sonaliy acquainted with Marwood, and
who had a long conversation with him
shortly before his death. He says :
“There were many attempts to get a
portrait of Marwood, but he always re
fused. An enterprising photographer
offered him fifty pounds one day lor a
sitting, hut ho dt>cliued, liis explanation
being that one of the things he enjoyed
more than anything else waa to go to a
town by an earlier train than he was ex
pectod, and mix in the crowd that was
waiting lus arrival. If his oomapona
ence has been preserved it will be very
onrious. Quite recently he showed which me a
sword of a Japanese executioner
had been sent to him by a gentleman
.from intrinsic Brightoh, valua and He it had wasf contemplated, certainly of
he said, putting another story on to hip
shop and making a kind of museum,
where he could show his friends and
neighbors the peculiar things he had
collected during bis experiences as an
exocntioner. Once only had ho an inter
view with Calcraft, and that was when
a party of Americans had asked to be
allowed to visit Oalcraft. Marwood
went with some official to ask Calcraft
if he would receive the visitors. He
used to declare that previous to the
execution in Ireland, when a prisoner’s
arm caught in the rope, he had never
liad a single slip in his work. With
regard to tlio Durham execution eon
corning whioh ho was summoned to the
Home Office, immediately after the
question had been put in Parliament,
he stated that the prisoner fainted at
the last moment, and that that was the
cause of the rope catching m Ins arm,
and he was particularly careful to men
ti<» that at the inquest and satisfactorily
cleared himself. His opinion was that
in all future executions a warder should
stand on each side of tlw prisoners on a
plunk extending over the drop, and tha
loose portion of the rope be tied up to
the beam by a slight cord, which should
give way by the weight of the body,
mid he declared that he should never
undertake an execution again without
these precautions being adopted. Many
of his Irish experiences wore a source of
great amusement to nun. An escort
used to meet him at Chester and accom
pony him across the Channel. After
some of th“ early executions connected
with the Phoeuix Burk assassinations,
Marwood bod to proceed to Glasgow,
and he ielated how an escort which
was to accompany him were disappointed
when they found that he declined them
company and intended to move alvont
Etiglaml without any protection while he what
ever. It was at Glasgow, was
preparing the prisoners on the sea® >ld,
tnat a letter was reo-ived by the Gov
enlor of the jail w ni 0 h might have been
a respite. The Governor signaled to
Marwood while lie read the letter, which
proved to be on other business. Mar
wood reooived verv few threatemng;
ters .”—Zxmdon Standard.
Sice Dtelinctloas.
Some of the Western judges draw
rather nice distinctions. An Arkansas
court baa decided that it is not arson for
p trib^2 iTh helTthlt 1 to
constitute the crime of arson the house
h&tlf, and not Bivreiy ita c“'.tents, must
f or perjury on the greund that ths false
u —Vori thl3 ^
fine
Or* Forrsts. —Professor Roth rock,
of Philadelphia, Pa., says that at the
present rate of d«*Uoying American for¬
ests tlie country will b* without wood,
lauds thirty year* hiuos.
TEE JOKER’S BUDGET.
IVBAT WB BIXD IX THE HUMOUOBS
PAPERS.
DIDN -
X WAN - T A T1TLi
.. C ap’m don't put my name in the paper,
If you please. To mo it ia a foolish caper
For a mun to come and drop * hint
“StK KfitThToS &W
*•* ‘ur* “ ">«
On an exchange. “An’ thought I'd ca!l
To give you the con ition of crops this fall.
&«tSfS8££r^"“^
That rg.,., from Muggles who runs the still—
Nothin’ brings ’era out like swill,
uc a j,- ni j ?B > male a note in your sheet
““ *** * U ‘ P ” **
SVes kind enough to furnish the points,”
ifJ,'» SKS®**
j„ \ r V;» !iaaw wav infernal
Of titlin’ even - common man
Maks- a seiuumo fellow sick,
An’, blame it, the title to him will stick
LjRe »* g ame he i,lheriff ‘ at his birth
Aiari, for J, vanity on this earth.
N „ Wf . , when you gpeuk of me,
Cal) mt miatcr, for, don’t you see,
I very much object to t.andcr
To such a taste, but, blame it, yandcr
^' !ier ” I hye- and he leigued to sneose
p ^\Zuu gentlemanly Col. Macks.“
y, glc by the
— A rkansaw Traveler.
THE scnooli TEACHER IN HIS ELEMENT..
They met on the crowded* avenue
yesterday in front of the City Hall. One
was a young man of about twenty-two,
the other, a man about sixty years old.
One lives in the northern part of tha
State, and the other in the southern.
Fate had brought them together. Thera
was nothing cordial in their meeting.
They didn’t cry out “Put it thar I"
and pump-handle each the other like a couple
of old friends. On contrary, the
young man grew red in the face and
brentiled hard and stammered out:
“Ten years ago I went to school to
you 1”
“Yes, you did,” was the calm reply.
“Ami one day you licked mo almost to
death for an offence committed by an¬
other boy !”
“Well, you were always in need of r
licking.” continued
“And I swore,” the that young 5
man, “aye I registered a vow,
I met you after I hail grown up I would
have my revenge 1 Prepare to-be pounded
to a lifeless mass !”
“I’m prepared,” replied tlie oldschool
jmaster, as he spat on his hands, and in a
minute tho fun was raging. The young
man rushed upon him with a war-wlioop,
but his nose struck something and he
fell down. Ho got up and rushed again,
and this time he was flung with down,
rolled over, stepped on and left a
number of loose teeth aud a sjiiitting
headache. The police took torn in, but
when they eamo to hunt for the old man
he was across the street trying to pinup
a rent in his coat and saying to some ei
his friends;
“Ah I it brings back all the memories
of the old red school-house to get my
hands on an unruly pupil in the first
reader class again.”— Detroit Free
Press.
THE MODERN BOX’S SEVERN AGES.
Mr. Shakespeare says that a man half
seven ages, but to my opinion a boy has
about ten of his own. He begins with
his first pair of breeches and a stick
horse, and and firecrackers, climbs up by and degrees slingshot to toy
guns ana
breaking calves and billy goata, aud, sura
enough, guns and pointer dog, and look¬
ing-glass ago when he admires himself
and greases his hair, and feels of his
down beard, aud then he joins a brass
band and toots a horn, and then he
reads novels and falls in love and rides a
prancing horse and writes perfumed love
notes to his girl. When his first
kicks him and begins to run with an¬
other fellow he drops into the age of
den pair, and wants to go to Texas, or
some other remote region, aud sadly
sighs: world is fleeting show.”
“This all a
Boys are mighty smart uow-a-days. used
They know as much and it at is ten right as we hard for
to at twenty, One of thes©
us to keep ahead of ’em.
modern philanthropists was telling my
kinsman the other day how to raise his
boy. “Never whip him,” said he.
“Raise him on love aud kindness and
reason,” and then he appealed that to boy me for is
indorsement. “And whim
about twelve years old,” said L, "do you
go to him and if possible persuade him
not to whip his daddy. Toll him it is
wrong and unfiiial and will injure his
reputation iu the community.”
The modern boy is entirely too bigity.
_Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
A CRUSHED PORTER.
We are happy, The porter of th#
parlor car has been crashed.
“Beg yo’ pawdon, Hah,” he remarked
with impressive grandeur to oue of tho
oconpants of his oar. “Dat was a * rad
doilfth yo’ handed me a minute ago.”
“Ah, was it ?” replied outstretched the plebe, hand as
he took it from the
and examined it. “Take this for your
honesty, my friend,” and pocketing the
dollar the traveler handed tlie astounded
potentate of the road a
The insensible body of the porter physi¬ was
left at the next station, and after
cians had worked at him for two hours,
he recovered sufficiently to murmur in¬
coherently. de what pah'lyzea
“It wa’nt money F
me, boss; but he called me ‘mv fren
Boas, dat done tuk me down offul 1”—
Oil City Blizzard.
QUICK OONSraTTOOK,
Little Mary, who is very much inter¬
ested in studying the “laws of health,*
niece school began, had been ashing Mr.
Rattler all sorts of questions about dis
eases and thair remedies.
“Now, papa,” she continued, * if yon
aegWet a bad cold yon hvy a foundation
for the eonsnmption, don t yenf
“Yes,” answered her father.
“And consumptive# are tki* and palb,
aren’t they t”
“Yes.” ia—welL
“What other signs are there
ir^qmck consumption, papa?” queried
the child. sefresbmeca,
“Five minutes for
posted in railroad stations,” responded
R. Ths examination dosed.— Eostc *t
Courier.