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FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS,
TUB OLD TIX HUBEI*.
*Owik!" said the old tin sheep on w , iee ,
.
"I’m growing old, and down my back
rm very sure there’s a dreadful cracK.
There « nobody knows,” said the ohl un
•hceji, “till he’s old how an old toy teels
-1 used to trundle about the floor; and
Ihit t that 1 1 w waa s when w 1 was young ■> b
If ira iMwmething sii b that 1 now I could not do.
^ ”* l y if 0,1 this
shelf behind the door. _
“Creak'" said the sheep “what's gone
amiss?
Some one is taking me out, I know.
They* re pulling rny string, and away J
go cried the old tin sheep;
Slop ' oh, Stop!"
“l never can go like iliis!”
Hut Tommy pulled the sheep around;
About the nursery it went so fast
The floor beneath seemed flying past, wheels
Whilecreukety-creakety-creak '■ the
went round with a doleful sound.
Then Tommy left it there on its side,
The wheels moved slowly and stopped
witii a creak, speak
And the wax doll heard it faintly do,”
"Tliere'g nobody knows what he can
said the sheep, “till be has tried.
- Katharine I’yle.
BOY AND OJJIL STREET-CMC A NEBS.
The a trent-cleaning department of tlie
city of New York bad its annual parade;
mid 2,500 men, each attired in white,
witii a flower in his coat-lapel, marched
in line, and nearly a thousand carts of all
descriptions, with street-sprinklers, sweep¬ in¬
ers and other paraphernalia, were
cluded in the display. But the most
movnl feature was the division composed
of tit* “children's auxiliary/' Uie girls in
wagons and the hoys on foot. There
were hundreds of these boys and girls,
who have done volunteer work iu keep
wig the streets clear of refuse.
m ow-eipKs Foil war.
The hoy who shoots peas from a blow¬
pipe may not know that a blow-pipe of
large make is an implement of warfare iu
Mouth America. It is used , by , the , Indian ,
tribes on tin* west coast, and it varies in
kmglli from ten to fifteen feet, and Is
ma,le from one of the many species of
hollow canes that grow In the forests of
those districts. Its ammunition is of two
kinds First, arrows tipped with poison;
and, aecon lly, pellets of dried clay. But
the greatest range of these overgrown
pen shooters is seldom more than twenty
five yards, and they do not shoot ac
curaudy, owing to the irregularity of fbe
horn
A really terrible blow-pipe is used by
the Dyaks, of the Malay archipelago,
These weapons are made ■pinJlJtt nt hard wood,
«*«MtU l f.ct i ..n«, ,|aa,
fen .. i 'ixi’d f , th«*m, o lh »t they ^^rvc th*
The bore purpose of a spear and blow-pipe.
is about a thin! of an inch, and
is perfectly true throughout, while a thorn
of flu* sago pul in makes a natural arrow
•nth a point almost as hard as iron
Featlk'red with pith and tipped with the
clc*d!y wourali poison, these arrowiots
have an extreme range of eighty yards
and can he aimed accurately at an object
fifty yards away.
ruoeicsaioN ok woums fifty fret i.oso.
in the deep pine forests of Norway
wood-cutters sometimes And a serpent
hke object nearly fifty feet long crawling
fuowly over the ground. If they did not
know that it was made up of millions of
?»ulc worms they might be frighteued by
its pecti iar appearance 1 hese worms,
called the sciara, gather during July ami
August in large numbers, preparatory to
migrating in search of food or for change
of condition When setting out on this
journey they slick themselves together
*n,i form a huge serpeut-Iike mass, often
reaching a length of bet weeu forty and
fifty feet, ami several inches in thickness,
As the sciara is only on an average about
three thirty-seconds of an inch iu length,
and barely wider than a tine needle, the
number required to compose a line of the
aire above mentioned is enormous. Their
P IS very slow, and upon meeting an
obstacle, such as a stick or stone, they
wrfl either writhe over or around it. some
puipo/.' M M%i"rta-MeneriUr TJlc
bra.ed French -latiimlUst, -ays that If the
mar .-onion of tin. wonderful snakelike
[U-occasion he brought into contact with
the front part, and a sort of circle formed,
Uve insects will keep moving round in
that circle for hours without apparently
noth mg that they are uot getting oil in
their journey. If the procession be
broken in two, the portions will re unite
in a short time. The Norwegian peasants.
wrtica they meet one of these trains, will
lay some article of their clothing, such as
a belt or handkerchief, on the ground in
to hi l of it. If the procession passes over
it it is regarded as a good sign but if it
makes a way round the reverse is be¬
lieved.
SCOT’S SAVINUS SANK.
We are all familiar with the habit pe
culiar to dogs of burying and biding
bones for future dinners ami lunches,
making as it were, savings-banks of our
flower tied- and strawberry- patches. 1
once lived iu a farm bouse where there
also resided a dog which was particularly
given to this thrifty practice, ami the
boys used to play practical oke$ on him
on account of ilie miserly habit.
One dav. having watched him bide a
•beep’s hutnerus .or shoulder-of-mutton
bone ! iu this manner, they dug it up, and
buried in it* place one of those toy jaefc
the-boxes, with big furry whiskers and |
targe staring eve*, which fly up with a
•firing as soon as you unfasten the lid.
This they so arranged that the moment
•hpot toiit-h d it w tu h's paw ;t sho'gid go
L 'i’-wK
For several days Spot was as closely
watched as a suspected nihilist would be
by the police of Russia, but he showed
no sign of drawing on his bank account.
^ j m j j t wag gU gg e9 ted by a shrewd little
fe) , ow that tbey cut off hia rations and
so Hlhrvl . him into doing what they wanted.
Thjg soon j, ad tlie desired effect and Spot
waH seon slyly creeping along under the
f ' f fence toward his safe-de
posit vault where, after casting a cautious
glance around to see that he was not
watched, be began a lazy and deliberate
scratching. Ail of a sudden the grim aDd
f grizzly J .Jack flew out of the earth, look
n(? one the Ie99 awful from baving hi3
hair and whiskers filled with particles of
earth and gravel. the
Spot glared with dumb terror at
' apparition for the sixtieth part of a second,
and then gave one great bound backward,
and uttering a howl of agony, wheeled
off, with his tail between his legs, till he
brought up standing in one of those veg¬
etable porcupines known a3 a gooseberry
bush. Then lie pricked up his ears,
tightened his tail more firmly between his
legs, stared wildly to the right, left, be¬
hind, and all round and then raised up
his voice and wailed. * ‘W-o-o-o-ooo I
o-o-ow-wow-o-w-wow!” After this h*e
took two bars rest looked all around again
and once more gave vent to a “Wow
wow-wow I” but this time rather more
defiantly. Receiving no response to this
challenge he ventured to take a few steps
cautiously toward Jack in-the-box, paused
a while, and gave another bark and so,
with barks and pauses he at last reached
the fearful object.
It would take too long to describe all
his maneuvers and his many snaps be¬
fore he ventured to seize the tbief who
had stolen his bone, hut.when he did so
it was very amusing to watch the manner
in which he worried that unlucky toy.
The spiral spring, which we all know
is the backbone of a jack-in-the-box, was end
the only thing which baffled him, the
of it getting in his eyes, up his nose, in
his ears, and everywhere. 1 For weeks
after, when that spiral wire had become
covered with rust, Spot used always to
give it a timid nibble, followed by a con¬
temptuous sniff, as he passed it by.
THE WOODPECKER.
There is an article by Frank M. Chap
. Little Drum
, raan i n s t . Nicholas on “The
mer of t |, e Woods,” giving much curious
; information concerning the woodpecker.
Mr . chapman says:
j j (j we uld i iac ( a woodpecker the beginning, in our that hands its
we S |, 0 see, in
t,j|i j B uot 9 li<rLitJy hooked, with the upper
mandible turned down at its end and
overlapping the under mandible, as in the
cr0 w and other birds that “pick up a liv
j i ng) >> but that both mandibles are of equal
j length, It is therefore nud cut like squarely wedge off at chisel. the tip.
a or
j will Perhaps be the appearing tip of through the bird’s i ts tongue nearly
seen
t ,h.sii:JXtTWwiBrf;X. .j 0 i -..n.Hbles, aud our*P™ a mtJBt aaS
when fully extended reaches almost if not
(jU ite an inch beyond the point of the bill,
h is not flat, like the crow’s, but round
ant j tlesliy, and has a sharp, horny poiut
which, by looking at it very closely, we
8ee j ms tt series of barbs on both sides.
In the meantime our hands have doubt
less been pricked by the bird’s tail-feathers,
j each f ealljer being stiff, bristly, and
j pointed at the end. Some of the larger
woodpeckers —the pHeated and ivorybill,
for instance — have this singular kind of
tail-feather highly developed. The main
stem or shaft of the feather is much larger
|j,an usual, aud each barb growing from
this shaft is curved downward and iu
ward, and is strong and pointed, t om
p ar j n g this feather with the flat tail
featlier of a crow, we see at once how
different it is in form,
't he wings do not impress us as in any
way unusual they are neither very long
nor ver y gbort, but the arrangement of
t | ie j oeg j 8 so peculiar that blind they girl, were at
once commented upon by a to
w b m u 1 hail handed a specimen of one of
tiiese birds . instead of the disposition directed
common to most birds, three toes
forward and one backward, we discover
(wo front toes an j lwo bind ones, and we
will note also that each toe is armed with
a strong curved nail.
Foul Breath and How to Treat It.
breath comes from several
viz .. digestive disturbances,
t ‘‘« th ‘ >r certain f om8 °f catarrh.
lt foul <Ugest»on it comes from the
stomach, and in that case the stomach .
should be washed out or otherwise :
sweetened, and a mild (diet adopted ,
until the stomach clears itself. If from
the teeth, it usually comes from a ;
cavity in which This food is lodges deleterious and de tc j
composes. disagreeable,
health aside from being
au j should be remedied bv consulting
a good dentist. If from catarrh it is
usually the atropic kind, in which
there is usually a good deal of dryness
to the throat; the secretions become
morbid and cling to the mucous mem
brane, decomposing and forming a
crust, usually in the posterior nares
or vault of the pharynx. This is a
' «*ry troublesome form of catarrh and
should lead to n consultation with a
specialist. A spray of peroxide of
hydrogeu mixed w ith w ater, equal
portions, will destroy ail odors. An
application of carbolized vaseline has
also been found to be of great ser
vice,—The Home Doctor,
Saved by a Hat.
It may not be geuerally known that
when a person fails into the water a
common felt hat may be made use ol
as a life preserver, and by placing th«
hat upon the w ater, held down with
the round it pressing it . slightly
arm
to the hreast. it will bear a man up
fur hours,
THROUGH GEORGIA.
An application for a charter to build
' street railroad for Gainesville
i new
ias been filed with the state secretary
jy a stock company. It is proposed
x> build a road twenty miles in length
tud to extend it as far as White Sul¬
phur Springs, seven miles east of the
•ity.
The Georgia Centra! Railway com¬
pany declared its first dividend at Sa¬
vannah last Saturday— 2} per cent—
}n the first series of 34,000,000 of in¬
lome bonds. The condition of the
property is good. There are $15,000,
)00 of income bonds in three series,
tnd it took 300,000 to pay the above
dividend.
The report of Special Master Luther
Z. Rosser in the suit against Judge
lohn 8. Bigby, brought by the re
jeivers of the Eagle and Phcenix
Manufacturing Company, has been
:ompleted and copies of the decision
served, on counsel in the case. The
ipecia^aster du^Wie finds that Judge Bigby
,s tWlecree company 322,820.01, and
;bat should issue in that
»rnouht iu favor of the company.
» * *
Last. Saturday was the date set by
Fudge |Si >eer, of the United States
iourt for the southern district of Geor¬
gia, on which to hear the application
or ttft appointment of receivers for
ileven railroads is. Georgia. The meet¬
ing was held at Mt. Airy, where Judge
5peer is summering. After two hours
if skirmishing between the legal rep¬
resentatives present, the battle was
•all clfoff by Judge Speer, and further
jombat was deferred until October
13th.
The mystery surrounding the burn¬
ing of the graded school building in
Quitman is about to be cleared. The
reward of 3700 attracted detectives
who have been at work for some time,
mil as a result Ed Harrison, a well
iiuiwil npgro. is now in the Thomas
iouutyjail charged with the crime.
rhog6 interea ted claim that the evi
- • * him for burning n“, the
. hoolhouse
here wte reste(1 with .'. him , . . ,, the
are m
actual commission of the crime eight
other negroes, who will lie put in jail
as soon as they are captured.
Postmaster Fox, of Atlanta, has
issued his statement for the registry
business of the fiscal year ending June
10th. This statement shows an iu
**rease of 13,818 pieces handled over
that of last year There were handled
„ • 800,466 jueces of registered 8*. <rri48
piee ^ Jpere wostmaster le hamlled. shows ,.,eu< The that statement lie lias id
twelve! months sent to the sub-treasury
it NewlYork $62,281.05. The increase
In second-class mail matter is 1,000,0110
pounds more than any year since At
lanta has had a postoffice, and al)
other business has increased in pro
portion 1
The warrant against Policeman
Bankston of Atlanta, charging him
with murder, was dismissed and ht
lias lierii allowed to return to duty.
Justice Orr, after he had heard all ol
the evidence, decided that Bankston
was acting in self-defense when he
shot and killed Charley Welch. Ovei
sixty witnesses were heard during the
progress of the case. The physicians
that examined the body of the dead
man were sworn aud said they were o)
the opinion that the shots were lirec
while Welch was advancing upot
Bankston. Justice Orr said there was
no evidence against Bankston am?
allowed him to go.
The motion for a new trial in th<
Flanagan ease was not heard in Deea
tur last Saturday as scheduled. A
the request of the prosecution it wai
delayed for one week. Solicitor Kim
' ise in regard tin
spv ) ea q e q snri , r to
affidavits that have recently beei
brought into the case. He said tha
ns !ie had been very busy with th.
*vand jury and his associate counsel
Colonel Braswell, had been busy r
the superior court and Hon. Hal Lewii
bad been engaged in a murder trial ii
Greensboro, none of the counsel 01
the prosecution had had time to pre
pare their side of the case in answer ti
the affidavits as fully as they desired
John McCullough, thfe Claytor
county alleged wife murderer, wai
transferred from the Clayton count’
jail to Fultou county last Saturday
night for safe keeping. It was feare
that a mob was forming to lynch hiia
aud the negro Henry Sims, who as
sanlted Mrs. Turner. Several hun
dred were said to compose the parts
that wanted vengeance, and they wert
coming from: the adjoining county il
Fayette. The one wanted most wai
the negro Sims. Mrs. Turner, hit
victim, lived! near the line betweer
Favette and Clayton counties, and ha i
a large unml!»er of friends and rela
tives in Fayette, and it was though!
that these wij*re the parties who werz
organizing thte mob.
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