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VlFTY-FIRST fc0 CONGRESS.
X^VOUK OK UNCLE SAM’S DOM UN
^ X' —ROUTIN'E DAI’S OF THE
AND SENATE each P&O-
HOUSE told.
cbedi >' 08 tersely
.v Products, and (he carcasses thereof,
are -abject to interstate commerce.
Xr a brief of speech Tex.v, against and for the it by bill Mr. by
Snckbridgc, v Mills Man land, the bill was
of
fernai to the committee on agriculture,
house then went into comm ttee of
-le on bills reported lrom the
ittee on private land claims Mr.
m Minnesota, notice that
of gave
Tur-dav lie would ask the house to
the appo.tionment bill and then
{ he house adjourned. Monday, motion of
la ti e house, on on
u Carter, of Montana, the oath of office
r gtmaster’of the house administered
was
P° Jmnea W. Hathaway, of Montana,
to McKinley, from the ways and
jlr committee, reported uud the house
adopted, a resolution calling on the
secretary of the treasury for the names of
the several banks in which public money
j, deposited, the place where such deposi¬
tories arc situated, the date of such de¬
posits, the reasons therefor an 1 the
mte of interest, if any, which has been or
j, jj 0W paid into the treasury by such
depositories in return for the use of the
public funds. The speaker then stated
that the pending bu-iness was a motion
made o , Septemoer 1st by Mr. Hermann,
of Oregon, to suspend the rules and pass
the bill for the adjustment and payment
of claims arising lrom Indian depreda¬
tions. The bill provides f<-r the appoint¬
ment, constitute by the president, of three judges,
to a court, to be known as the
court of Indian depredation claims, and
toinqu re into, and ad ju iicate all claims
for the pr perty of citizens taken by the
Indians without just cause. After an
advocacy of the measure by Messrs. Her¬
mann, La h im, Townsmd of Colorado,
Savers, Mil s and Perkius, and a criti¬
cism upon it by Messrs. Holman aud Kil¬
gore, the motion was agr< ed to and p ss-
ed Mr. McKinley, fiom the committee
on ways and means, reported the Fiwwer
joint resolution, extending the bonded
period from February 1st to July 1st,
18111. Mr. Enloe raised the point of no
quorum, and the house adjourned. the
The house consumed Tuesday in
apportionment bill. The bill provides has,
for 350 members of the house. It
however, been made to read that it shall
not go into effect until the tif'v-third
congress.
The house, after a long discussion,
passed the reapporti nment bill Wednes¬
day afternoon. Nearly every member of
the Georgia delegation, except Mr.
Blount, voted against it, because the re-
pub icans lefused to graut New York a
recount, which would have given that
city another member. The bill is the
one providing for 356 members. It diffi¬ w II
probably pass the senate without
culty.
The senate, on Saturday, resumed con¬
sideration of the election bill, and Mr.
Jones, of Arkansas, m id" an argument in
opposition to it. He yielded to Mr. Dan¬
iel, who reported back from the commit¬
house tee ou public buildings aud grounds, the
bdl for public buildings at Rome,
Ga., and who off red a resolution, which
the was adopted, callmg on the secretary of
treasury for information as to the
sums of money, with interest to date,
advanced by the states of Virginia and
Maryland to the United States to be ap¬
plied towards erecting public buildings
at the seat of the government ou the
banks of the Potomac.
In the senate, on Monday, Senator Col¬
quitt made a brilliant and telling speech
against the force bill. He ecoupied the
floor for two hours. Mr. Wilson, of
Maryland, also made a legal and consti¬
tutional argument against the bill.
There were only eight senators present
when the speaker’s gavel fell Tuesday
morning, fore the presiding officer laid be¬
the senate Mr. Morgan's resolution
calling for on the secretary of the treasury
information relative to the payment
of the claims of John I. Davenport as
supervisor of elections and as circuit
court commission_r. The resolution was
adopted. Mr. Morgan presented the
credentials of the election of his colleague,
•»r. Pugh, and they were laid upon the
table. The pending business was stated
" K “ the consideration of the Do ph
resolution, providing for an investigation
to whether the right to vote was de¬
nied or abridged in any state, etc., and
", r -Morgan addressed the senate again-t
\v- i’ 1 "' ^ r - I> »lph spoke in favor of it.
II • ph l 11 yielded *. conc l u ding his argument, Mr.
’! for a motion to adjourn.
n the .-cnatc, on Wednesday, Mr
a ’ unanimous consent that Fri-
,i, a cl ck debate the
- ° p. m., ou
;‘: , ectl
“ n Should be considered as
‘"M.“d. j liis was met by a chorus of ob-
jw\.ons from the democrats and the re-
'i 1, b li through. The senate resumed
Dotph He ontinuing i0D ° fthe his speech eIectioa of Tuesday. bill. Mr.
Gi ,vas followed by 1 3Iessrs. Morgan,
• Kenna. Reagan and Butler, who
e str mgspeec ics against the raeas-
, r Hoar again endeavored
/ , •jom ‘ - democratic to ex-
>n of senators the men-
some h specific time—any time, no
U -? u ~ for taking a vote on the
^ , *‘ ^ Gordon
th<. Ul r remarked that
’
dViii» ^ I,ate 0n W .‘ s ^ on| y on 1 ^ the thcshold ijuite of
tiumi ere w< *rc a
Kr r f aenators both sides of the
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KOTES,
Upon motion of Judge Stewart, a bill
passed the house Saturday giving Mrs. E.
J. Baldy, of Griffin, Ga., ape s ono #20 a
month, on account of her husbmd’s ser-
vices in the Indian war.
The acting secretary of the treasury
sent a letter to congress Saturday iu
which he recommended an immediate
appropriation of #2,000 for additional
heating apparatus for the Augusta, Ga.,
postoffice.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Bussey, on Monday, rendered a decision
upon the pension case of a man who,
after serving in the confederate army,
afterwards enlisted in the union army.
In effect, he rules that previous service
in the confederate army does notenter
into the question of a pension. lie is on
exactly the Same footing as all other
union soldiers.
It lias recently developed that there
are three Ailianc men in the present
house. They are Pickier, of South Da¬
kota; Lewis, of Mississippi, and Pierce,
of Tennessee. Mr. Pierce, made himself
solid by introducing on Tuesday, a reso¬
lution call upon the ways »nd means
committee to report the sub-tr usury (fill
to the house on January 5th, and provid¬
ing that consideration. the f Rowing monday be fixed
for its
The Dist rict of Columbia appropriation
bill for the next fiscal year, as reported
to the house, carries', exclusive of the wa¬
ter department, #5,083 appropriation 227, being #477,-
309 h ss than the for the
current year, aud #63,38.1 less than the
estimates. department, The appropriation is for the
water which payable from
the water revenues, is #302,498.
Ti e cabinet meeting Salurday consid¬
ered the financial condition of the coun¬
try, aud as a result, the president, it is
understood, will send a message to con¬
gress in the early part of the week, sug¬
gesting as a measure of relief thc enact¬
ment of legislation for the issue of addi¬
tional currency based on the increased
purchases of silver. Secretary Windom,
who was in New York city conferring
with bankers as to the best method of a--
fording prompt relic;', is s dd to favor the
purchasing of the present stock of silver,
amounting to about 13,0 )0,000 ounces,
and tiie purchase also of an additional
nmjunt equal to annual retireme t of na-
t oual bank notes, estimated at $2 >,0 -0.-
000, thereby adding about $30,000,000 to
the circulation.
HEAVY SNOW STORMS
IMPEDING TRAFFIC AND DOING CONSIDER¬
ABLE DAMAGE.
A New York dispatch says: interfered The storm with
Wednesday seriously
river harbor business. 8 veral canal and
sm tiler boats-u ik at the piers in both
North aud East rivers, aud the high tide
and gale have combined io make it diffi¬
cult for ferry boats to run into their slips
safely. Many of the outgoing passenger
steamers which were- to have sailed dur¬
ing the day are at anchor in the lower har¬
bor.
Reports from Pittsburg, Pa., say: The
sn iwfall Wednesday was the heaviest in
several years. The wires are down ail
over Pittsburgh, Allegheny and Bir¬
mingham. Horses were killed and sev¬
eral men badly injured by. contact with
electric light wires. The situation is so
despirate that the department electric of public
safety has ordered all tae street
car lines to stop running for the present.
There 1ns been a tremendous snowfall in
the Allegheny mountains, and at Bedf r.J
it is one and a half feet deep on a level,
i'.ailroad wires are down, aud there is
much anxiety for fear of accidents. The
Pittsburg and Western is snowed up
completely. No freight trains wha’cver
were running on any roads, and the pas-
icnger trains that straggled through were
late from one to six hours.
IN TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA.
Knoxville, Tenn., dispatches say: The
gnow which began falling in tais section
Wednesday has com in tied to fall with
more or less constancy ever since. Upper
East Tennessee has from four to eight
inches on the ground. Mountains thirty
miles north of here are covered to about
the same depth, and mountains al »ng the
Tennessee and North Carolina border have
from six inches to two feet of snow'.
The snow was one foot deep on a level >>t
Bristol and in places is drifted four feet
Jeep. Tr.dn are having trouble to get
through. In southwe-t Virginia snow
h <s drifted b idly aud is said to
he verv heavy about Marion, \ irginia.
There was a heavy snowstorm at Dan-
vil e, Va. In Patrick county the snow
was eighteen inch's deep and the track
of the'banvill and New River blocked railway
was badly blocked. All trains are
at Staunton, Va.
A dispatch from Roanoke, \a., says:
The roof of the blacksmith shop of the
Roanoke Machine W orks fell in under
the In avv wei lit of snow’, at 2 o clock
a. m Wednesday. One man o; the night
force wa tr. killed and eight seriously in-
jured. r- ® igc to ihe building and
1
inuchi 5* uated at #100,000; un-
—j is heaviest snowstorm tor
insured. It the
y-ar
CiMOLERA IN PANAMA.
rWELVE hundred DEATHS IN SEUEN
WEEKS—AN ICE FAMINE.
The stvamer San Suan, which arrived
at Sin F’raueisco, Saturday, from
Panama, brings news of ravages of cholera
in Gua-emala. More than 12,0l'0 cases
are reportedin the state, ami l,200death«
occurred in the city of Guatemala in
bcvcu weeks. An ice famine is reported
from thc isthmus. A company recently
started ice factory at Colou, but the
an and the
machinery of the broke heated down, term, ice novr^m command*
middle
#70 per ton.
TELEGRAiH AN) CABLE,
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM uncle SAM’s DOMAIN and what
TILE CABLE BRINGS.
The banking house of S. A Kean &
Co., of Chicago suspend, d Wednesday.
The epokaue National bank, of Spo-
kaae lulls, Washington, suspended
Wednesday.
The towns of Dardanelle and Monti-
cello, Ark., were nearly destroyed by
tire Monday.
Brevet Maj r G neinl Alfred H. Terry,
United States aimy, retired, died nt New
ti ven Tuesday morning.
The Li rillard Brick Works Company,
66 South si reet, New York was placed
in the hands of a receiver Monday.
Morris A Smith, bankers and brokers,
No. 20 South i hi d stieet, Philadelphia,
made an assignment Monday.
T he Corning mill of the Ohio Powdei
Company, near Youngsvide, O., blew up
Tuesday. Two workmen were killed.
Chesterfield county, Pa., bank closed
its doo s Tu sday morning. The deposi¬
tors are safe by amoitgage on real estate.
A disastrous fire occurred at Pottstown,
Pa., Saturday morning, which burned out
half a dozen business firms and their
buildings
Fire Monday night destrovci nearly
half of the business portion of Darlington,
S. C. The loss will be #35,000, covered
by insurance.
The Iowa legislature on Wednesday, in
joint session, took two ballots f >r U fi¬
led States senator without result, The
seco id ball t resulted: Dubois 17, Sharp
9 McConnell 9 Ciaggett 8, Mahcw, dem¬
ocrat 3.
Fire, on Monday, destroyed the Illi¬
nois Central machine shop at Water Val¬
ley, Miss. A. Carlson, a merchant, was
instantly k lied by som • falling timber.
H. E. Lewis, wife and six small children
aud others were slightly hurt.
A Chicago dispatch says: Miller’s ob¬
jections have been met and Pr sident
Harrison can issue his world’s fair proc¬
lamation. The directors met Tuesday
night and accepted the $5,000,000 city
ordinance.
A dispatch of Monday from Lausing,
Mich., says: The Michigan grange is in
open revolt against the N itional Grange
on account of the stand taken by the na¬
tional oiganization in endorsing the pro¬
position for government loans on real es¬
tate.
The Paris Figaro, on Wednesday, pub¬
lishes Russian advices stating that anoth i
plot to murder the czar lias be n discov¬
ered. The conspirators are m mbers ot
a noblemen’s club. Several Poles have
been arrested for complicity iu the plot,
and the club house was closed.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Centralia.
Mo., says: J. G. Gillespie, treasurer of
Boone county, is short over #20,060 in
his accounts, The county will lose
nothing as his bondsmen are able to make
g od the amount. Gillespie has a signed
nis property to his bond>men.
A special of Sunday from Atchison,
Ivan., the home of Senator Ingalls, says
the Farmers’ Alliance of Atchison
county, at a recent meeting, adopted a
resolution rccon,mending the retirement
of Ingalls from the senate and the elec¬
tion to his seat of a Farmers’ Alliance
man.
At Philadelphia Geo. F. Work, Louis
Pfeiffer and James S. Dungen, were
given a hearing Wednesday morning at
iho Central police station on theck.rge
of wrecking the Bank of America, and
the American Life Insurance company,
and at its conclusion were held in $2!).-
000 bail each, to answer at court. Being
unable to obtain this amount of bail,
they were r manded to prison.
A box of giant powder exploded in
Sunday Lake mine at Wakefield, Mich..
Tuesday, killing two men instantly and
fatally wounding others. Two men were
engaged in opeoing a can of into powder
with a chisel and a spark got the
can. The exposition set fire to the tim¬
bers of the mine and it burned briskly.
There are some men in the mine, but
particulars cannot be learned.
A terrible accident occurred Wednes¬
day at Escouffiaul colliery, at Hornu.
province of Ila.naut, had Belgium. A shift
of eighteen men entered the cage
and the engine started to lower them into
the pit. Suddenly, and without warning,
the rope cooneciiug the cage with the
drum broke and ihe men were precip¬
itated to the bottom of the shaft. Every
one of the occupants of the cage were
killed.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Paris,
France, says: Seven Alpine chasseurs,
working under command of an officer at
a new h rtre-s on the summit of Sacharal,
between LaBuga and Riviere, were swept,
with their superior, by a sudden blast
Five of ... the men, and , ,
over a precipice. fell distance of 1,500 feet. t
the officer, a I
Their bodies have been recovered id a
frightfully mutilated condition Two of
the men managed to cling to some rocks j
and so managed to espape death. j
I
his shocking mistake. :
|
menu-Thank jou, Mr. Johnson; but I
wouldn’t vou find some younger ° aud
prettier girl?
Johnson-Oh, yes, but I hate to dance ;
with young and pretty girl*.—[The Ax- j
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sos i.
CROP FIGURES.
REPORT OF AVERAGE PRICES OF FARM
PRODUCTS BY COUNTIES.
The .‘■tatistical returns of the agri ul-
tural department f. r December give the
average farm prices of agricultuial pro¬
ducts by counties, ms follows; i he
pres, nt corn crop is worth more than th«
last, and the farmers wiilrece ve more for
it. The average price, by the present re¬
turns, is 50.1 cents per bushel, against
28.3 cen s tor the crop of 1889,
an increase of 77 per cent.
The prices in seven corn surplua states
are: Ohio 51 cents, Indiana 47, Illinois
43, I wa 41, Missouri 44; Kansas 51, Ne¬
braska 48. The average farm value of
the wile t crop, as estimated, is 84 cents
per bushel against 69.8 for 18S9, nn in¬
crease of 20 per cent on the price of last
year. The price of oats has responded
sharply to the pressure of thc small c op,
an i the increased demand because oi the
short corn crop. The average is
42.2 cents agaiust 23 cents last year.
It is the highest reported since 1881.
Rye, like oats, at 62.9 cents is higher
than since 1831, and the same is true of
barley at 64 8. Buckwheat 37.7 marks
an advance over l st year, but is lower
than in 1888. The deficiucy of the po¬
tato crop has caused an advance m value*
ia ail sections of the country. The aver
age is 77.7 cents, an increase of more
tlun 90 percent over the prices of the
past two years. The returns
show slightly higher prices for
tobacco than have prevailed since 1S87.
The pound. average is reported at 7.7 cents per
Hay, alone of all farm products,
records a decline from last year. The
present price is #7.74 per ton, increased ana u
slight falling off is due to the
product. depart¬
Toe December returns to the
ment of agriculture of the value of cot¬
ton on the plantations are ne-vrly the
same as last year, the average beinj;
quite as previous I igh as the average farm value The
of the crop, or 8.6 cents,
state ave rages are as follows: Virginia,
8.7 cents per pound; North Carolina,
8.7; South Carolina, 8.7; Georgia. 8 6;
Florid i, 8.6; Alabama, 8.6; Mississippi,
8.8; Texas, 8.4; Arkansas, 8.5; Tennes¬
see. 8 4. . .
IMMIGRATION CONVENTION
IN SESSION AT ASHEVILLE—ELECTION OF
OFFICERS.
Three hundred and fifty delegates,
representing every section of the south,
were present at the opening convention of the south¬
ern interstate immigration Wednesday. The at
Asheville, N. C.,
body was called to order by N. J. T.
Johnson, of Texas. Hon. It. B. Vance,
i f Asheville, was chos u temporary
chairman and welcomed thc conven¬
tion to the state of North Carolina.
Captain Nat Atkinson delivered an ad¬
dress of welcome on behalf of the city
of Asheville, a d G vernor Fowle
welcomed the convention on behalf of
the state of North Carolina. James
Lyons, of Virginia, delivered a response
on behalf of the convention. The com¬
mittee on permanent organization made
the following report for permanent offi¬
cers of the convention: Mr. Bryant, of
Tennessee, president; D. II. Elliott, of
Florida, secretary; D. C. Garlington, of
South Carolina, and Mr. Wilcox, of
Georgia, assistant secretaries; F. N. Wad¬
dell. of Asheville, sergeant-at-arms; vice
presidents to be electe t by each state in
the convention. The convention adjourn¬
ed at 6 o’clock p. ni. till Thursday morn¬
ing at 10 o’clock.
NO CONVENTION
WILL BE HELD, BUT A CONFERENCE OF
COMMITTEES WILL UK HAD.
At a meeting iu Jacksonville, Fla.,
Tuesday night, attended by General
Master Workman Powderly and John
Davis, raember-elecet of congress, from
Kansas, ou behalf of the Knight* of La¬
bor, President Folk, national lecturer;
Mr. Willetts, member of the exe utive
board; >ir. Wardwe 1, of North Dakota,
an 1 others of the Farmers’A Uhiuce, it
was decided to have no convention at
Cincinnati on February 231, a* had
been arranged. It was decided that the
eall for the Cincinnati convention should
not be formally issued, but that in its
stead, a routerenc; of committees of five
from each of die o g mizati <us app inte 1
should be hell some time in February,
which should uo over the ground care-
lully, and without taking formal, action,
practically decide what course of action
should be pursued. This is a decided
victory for the conservative element
among the third party men.
THE THREE C’S.
A RECEIVER APPOINTED FOR TIIE CHAl I.ES-
TON, CINCINNATI A CHICAGO KAILWAf.
In the United States circuit court
at Charleston, S. C., Friday, Judge*
Bond and Bryan j granted against an the injunction Gharles-
re , traininc , ;U suits
t Cincinnati & Chicago railway, and
- ti * ga!liuel Lord, of that city,
>rar reCeiver w q th notice that a
4 t of
m()t ion thc app ., intmcu a ,>enn
nent receiver would be argued on ihe
first Tues lav in February next. The
sffii z r;
Company, of Pennsylvania $200,000,
Investment Company, of Philadelphia,
#100,000; Barker Bros. & Co., asked
A foreclosure the mortgage built u and
^ rua( * 230 miles
ninety miles more graded.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬
ESTING NATURE.
riTTlY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TIIE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
A 10, OOO-gaHon water tank collapsed
at the Buena Vista paper mills in Augus¬
ta county. Va., Tuesday, resulting in the
killing of one man and injuring two other
employes.
President Ernest Howard, of the Vir¬
ginia stock exchange, at Staunton, Va.,
was arrested Monday on a warrant charg¬
ing him with embezzlement of funds of
the exchange.
About twenty small houses on the
square be mded by Melpomene, Terpsi¬
chore and Franklin streets, New Orleans,
burned Wednesday night Loss estima¬
ted at #80,000, insurance light.
Henry D. McIIenry, member of the
national democratic committee, and dele¬
gate from Ohio county to the Kentucky
constitutional convention, died suddenly
Wednesday morning of heart disease, at
his home in Haitford, Ky.
A Releigh dispatch of Monday says:
The State Allianee Peanut Union has of¬
ficially indorsed ti e National Peanut
Union, and declares that it will hold
stock for 5 cents per pound, and persuade
all farmers to do the same.
Wni. S. Cbelkey, confideltial clerk and
bookkeeper for Peeples Trotter, whole¬
sale grocers at Chattanooga, was arrested
and placed in jail Tuesday, charged with
larceny, embezzlement and false entry of
accounts. Th c inouut stolen willaggre-
gate over $1, o i, covering a period of
about a year.
In a shooting scrape which occurred
Monday afternoon, at Rowen, Miss., Will
Blue, Dave McKee and Bob App ewhite
were mortally wounded. The tight grew
out of the killing of a cousin of McKee
by Blue, at a party in Jetferson county a
short time ago. All parties are young
men.
A Clarksville, Term., dispatch says:
Hancock, Hallams & Co., proprietors city, of
Graccy tobacco warehouse in that
made an assignment at a late hour Satur¬
day evening. It is not known what the
liabilities are, but they are said to be
about #180,000. The ussets ure thought
to greatly exceed the liabilities. The
stringency of the money market caused
the assignment.
The preliminary examination of Attor¬
ney General Pope, at Columbia, S. C.,
charged with violating a section of the
state constitution, in discharging I homas
II. Butler from the engrossing Ilaskell depart¬
ment, because he voted for
against Tillman, w.is heard before Trial
Justice Youmans Tuesday morning and
the case dismissed on the ground that
the section did Dot apply to state officers.
A i hattanooga dispatch Alliance says: circles A sen¬
sation in Farmers’ came
to light Monday. A. McHan, editor of a
paper called the Fanners' Alliance, has
been expelled from in the the local branch campaign on
aeco *it ol huving re eut
tnrown the editorial support of the pa¬
per to the Republicans. Mellan an¬
nounces that he will continue the publi- :
cation as an independent Farmers’ Al-
liauce journal.
A Nashville, Tenn., disp.tch of Sat¬
urday says: The excitement at Clarks¬
ville over quieted the down. recent heavy fai ures h is
a 1 out A bank examiner
is now investigating the condition of the
Farmers’ and Merchants’ National bank.
H. O. Antbugh <fc Co.. doing business
near Clarksville, have been iorced to the
wull by the tightness of the money mar¬
ket. Their liabilities are about #85,000;
assets somewhat larger.
Governor Jones, on Tuesday, reprieved
Ann Patterson, who was sentenced to be
hanged in Seale, Russell county, Ala.,
Friday, for the murder of her husband,
by poisoning. The reprieve the ’
was
result of a petitition signed by uearly
every lady in Seale, asking for the com¬
mutation of the woman’s sentence to im¬
prisonment for life. Governor Jones
granted the reprieve until January 16th,
to gaiu an opportunity to give the case
close investigation.
It is more blessed to give than to re¬
ceive, but this doesn’t apply to tiie littlo
exchanges made on Christmas Eve in the
dimly lighted parlor under the mistletoe
bough.
A number of horseflesh restaurants
have been started in Berlin, Germany.
pROTifltrnoN nr ••buckeyes."
A boy was knocking the horse-chest¬
nuts off a tree on Cass avenue, when a
pedestrian observed:
“I supjxise you think they will act as
a charm to ward off rheumatism, but they
won’t.”
4i l didn't suppose they would,” replied
the lad.
“Then what do you want of them?”
“To act as a cluiroi to ward off lick¬
ings. I know a boy who carried four of
them in his pockets and didn’t get
licked in four straight weeks!”—(.Detroit
Free Press.
SOMETHING TO BRAG OK
Ted—I once wrote a poem.
Ned—That’s nothing. Every fellow
has done that.
Ted—But 1 sold mine.—[Epoch.
THE FINEST FLOWER. *. . t
11 Tee subject of a national Bower is
being discussed a great deal now, Miss
Minnie,” remarked a visitor at Miuneap- ,
olis, to a maiden of that city. “What io
you think about it?”
“Well,” replied Miss Minnie, “I think
papa*8 fancy winter wheat flour rather
tikes the biscuit.”