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About Schley County enterprise. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1886-1??? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1886)
SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE. A J. HARP, Publisher. A BOLD ROBBER. In Agent Frlghteaed by a (inn Which IVas ..... One of the boldest robberies that has ;omc to the notice of the police for some time was perpetrated at Macomb, Ills. E. V. Kinsey, night agent of thc Bur¬ lington road, at that point, was sitting in tlic station reading, when lie suddenly became aware that the cold muzzle of a shotgun was resting against his cheek, while the voice of a masked man, who stood just outside the ticket window, demanded: Hint i»r. .ml a. ... ( kill von ’’ hmsey, who , was ,, brave , and , a man, a TJS“’’™,X‘1 mlddl I ., ] nd till safc,took r“f ou a sack containing about $50 in silver and handed to the fellow That ain’t all, growled the robber; ‘•give me the box or you are a dead ma n : At . the same time .. an ominous . click of , the hammer warned the agent there was no time for delay He handed out the box with its contents—$58o in silver- and the robber grasping it, whirled it around and disappeared m the darkness. King at once gave the alarm. The local police were set ou the trail and telegrams i sent out in all directions, but the thief bar-j made good his escape. A double relied shotgun, unloaded, was found it w supposed it i, the one used to inttm. ’date the agent. CYCLONE IN INDIANA. I I At 11:30 o’clock on Wednesday s cyclone struck Terre Ilaute, Ind., com ing from the southwest. For fifteer minutes thc wind blew a hurricane, fill ing the air with missiles. The storm was confined to thc central portion ol tlio city. Numerous large buildings were unroofed and the rain which fol¬ lowed did great damage. A careful es¬ timate places the loss at $-15,000. Thi roof on the Masonic hall was blown oil and the water ruined thc fine frescoing in (lie lodge rooms. Thc canvas of a circus was blown dow n and a large audience left in the storm Many of the actors were in the dressing room, half nude, and they made a brisk movement up the street for the nearest hotel. Several thousand people were at the fair grounds. An eating house was blown down and tlie wreck caught fire fevercly burning a woman and boy. N. fatalities occurred, A special from Newport, Vcrmillio. county, reports six or eight building destroyed, but no lives were lost. Tin damage reported along the Wabash val lev i.s great, and will aggregate ovei $ 10 , 000 . About 11 o'clock this morning a vio ’cut wind storm struck Montezuma l ark county, this state, but did no dam age beyond unroofing a number of house and uprooting shade trees. HARRY HILL’S RAIl.ROAD. The Union Point and White Plain 1 - .ilvoad lias suspended operations for a nort time because of some disagreement jetween President Harry Hill and the stockholders. The stockholders, who rubscribed $10,000 to the road, claimed e bond for this amount, which bond President Hill has given. It seems that the White Plains stockholders think the b ind for $10,000 is insufficient to cover the rolling stock and otaer equipments nt the time the road is ready to be turned over to the company. One hun¬ dred and seventy-five hands are suspend¬ ed until the trouble is adjusted. Four miles of the road have been graded, and Mr. Burkhalter, the con- t ractor, ient one of the most energetic and ef- l'u railroad men in the south, says he "'*11 have the remainin g eight miles graded and equipped, ready for penning, ■a aud forty days after the trouble is ncijtateu work is resumed. knights templar. At the Knights Templar grand en¬ campment day, meet ing in St. Louis on Thurs¬ the proceedings of which were not made known until last night, the report °f the committee on credentials was re¬ ferred back to the committee for correc- tion. I he'regrets of Charleston, S. C., com mtindery, No. 1, were read, and the at- •cntion of the committee on finance was •ailed to the deplorable condition of inrir brethren in that city. miles .} * lc long. Rrand procession was at least three The grand encampment, at its after- mum session, appropriated $2,000 in aid the knights who suffered by the earth l u,| ke in Charleston. caught between the railb. •his. Eldridge, aged fourteen years, who lives with his parents near Oxmoor, •*a the Louisville and Nashville railroad, caught "as walking between on the track and his foot the tie and the rail. He "'■aril the north-bound passenger train, and ns he could not extricate his foot lie deliberately and tried pulled out his pocket knife to sever his foot from his an kle to save himself. He fainted. The engineer saw him, stopped the engine and rescued him. His father carried him :? lon “""'ingham, He Ala., for medical at ten - ' will not lose his foot, although several leaders and muscles are severed. SPANNING THE MISSISSIPPI. A contract for a $1,000,000 bridge over •he Missouri river at Kansas City for the "V- Iniflge will Paul be 1,200 line, has feet been long let. with The pleaches of ap 200 feet. It will be of the ‘"""lever pattern, eighty feet above low ""tei-. and when completed will be one (,f the hnest structures of the kind in the “"•ntry. *’• W. ALEXANDER DEAD. one/p f w ”■ 1 Alexander ?? g !lnd P ainful breathed illnesfl his - Co1 last -pi., * nursflay at eleven remains >vere IP o’clock. ____ His fo| !P, f er 611 ® * en ^ rotD t. They Marietta to Columbui ol a uff ka, went bv way TO achin S Cohwffius in the after ZI"l' funeral services we rr ' ^on n 'he Episcopal c,;. u c h in Col s ^turday morning at ten o'clock, A MYSTERIOUS MURDER discovery of a mysterioug tragedy m a compartment car was made on Friday '' ve,lln K- ^hen the (1 o clock train from on ’ ,rrlve<1 “*“£• Quecnsford thc underground "* wa * ! at station lust evening, a newsboy noticed blood class dripping carriage. from a compartment of the first- lie raised the alarm, and n gentleman was found dying on the floor of the compartment. He was uncoil- scimia nnd Mon.) u, Ewing freely fmm .- , ’, 1 Jt , found that his fore 11 T w « on , bead there was a deep wound four inches ln length. This had evidently been made with an instrument sharp and lieavy. The scalp was not only 'crushed cut clean through but the skull was i„ *m**£!££**% & , hi ; r > “1 — been disturbed. He had but very little money . The man wag at once t0 j a liospital. condition He is still unconscious, “"alt his A*. Fischer is orccarious T is lul.d n,. Moritz of the house of M. A. Fischer & Co.. foreign %Hce agC nts, No. 35 Carter Lane, E.C. Thf . have as ' vet been unable to in clue to the ca se of the murder ous attack on Mr . Fischer or t0 tho identity of his assailant . knocked off the TlMCK. New A shocking accident occurred on tin York, Providence and Boston rail- road, at the village of Poquonnock. wife, and the wife „f their son -tames, while riding home from church in a one horse wagon, were struck by the west bound express train, going fifty miles an hour. Air. Gardiner was hurled a dis¬ tance of forty feet from the crossing, re¬ ceiving outright fatal injuries. Ilis wife was killed and Mrs. James Gardiner died before she could be removed. The horse was killed and the wagon broken into splinters. The accident happened at the crossing just west of the culvert, a short distance from Noank, and as thc railroad is banked up at that place, the engineer on the express did not see thc party until within twenty yards of the cro- sing. SCHOONERS IN COLLISION. The Mary Ann Cut in Two by the Summerset —liossof Life. Friday a disaster occurred in the Bay of St. Johns. The British schooner Summerset collided with the schooner Mary Ann, cutting her in two. There were twenty-seven persons on board the ill-fated craft, two of whom were drowned. The others saved themselves by cling- ing to the main rail of the Summer- set, or were rrv' picked out of the water bv , her boats. , The 1 Mary , Ann .______. sank within two minutes after the collision. I wo passengers were lost, one of them a lady. A LUNATIC'S WORK. Near Stabtown, AnderSon county, South Carolina, a white man named Jap Davis, who was released from the lunatic asylum two years ago, went with his wife and daughter to spend the night with a neighbor. In the morning he left the house in advance of his wife and hid in the woods by the road. As she drove by in a wagon on her way home, with the girl by her side, Davis fired on her from the ambush with a shotgun, inflicting wounds which caused her death in fifteen minutes. Miss Davis almost miraculously escaped injury. Davis fled, but a party of citizens is in hot pursuit of him. WIGGINS AND THE PRESS. Wiggins is now claiming that he has been misrepresented by thc American press. He denies that he ever related to correspondents the chapter of horrors which has been given as incidents to thc fulfillment of his prediction of an earth¬ quake for the 29th of September. said “I simply stated,” Wiggins earthquake to a reporter yesterday, “that the forces would be south of the thirtieth parallel of latitude. I never ventured any prediction regarding its destructive nature on that parallel at all.” ROBBERY of the mails. Two rifled United States mail bags were discovered under the platforms Ala. of a cotton press at Montgomery, One was unlocked, but both were cut open as with a dull knife, and both were empty. Their appearance indicated that they had been very recently put. thffre No letter or sign of the contents think was found, but there is reasen to they were rifled Saturday night after be¬ ing snached from the incoming train from Nashville. Inspector Booth, at Atlanta, has been telegraphed to send ; detective. UtAlS WRECKERS. Early Thursday morning a freight train was thrown from the track about a hall mile from South Lyons, Mich., by a rail having been removed from the track, Fireman Ed Newman was killed, brakeman Campbell was fatally and en- neer Thos. Davis seriously injured. The engine and fifteen cars were com¬ pletely wrecked. There is no clue to the train wreckers. The people are greatly excited and lynching will un¬ doubtedly follow the -apture of the wreckers. HE THINKS HE LIED. The controversy between Major Luther Ransom and Captain Benjamin Tillman, «t Columbia, S. C., has reached that in teresting stage where the lie is passed in polite form. Major RaMom says that ,n his opinion, Captain Tillman lied when hf made a certain statement relative to the analysis of fertilizers. The agnail tural Moses has not yet published his rc joinder, which it is expected will be lively. known what course lilt- It is not yet man will pursue. THE CHOLERA SCOURGE. In all Italy during September cholera, twenty five personR have died from an t twenty-eight new cases been reported. Trieste. Austrian cholera returns are: four new cases, one death: Pe*th, tin it > six cases, nineteen deaths; other districts, j beven case?, two deaths. ELLAVILLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1886. MUSICAL AMD DRAMATIC. Ar .„o*i, pounds” t ne operatic star, now we.gtu nearly too Mlijc k hr a is acting in New England to large and fashionable audiences. Lord Be \cokhkikui wrote a comedy that i 3 to be produced at a London theatre, Mme. Javauschek is going to saygood- a „'L V J ,;V J. ni a ' r !?,', j a on Ala y *> I 887 ' at thu Boston 1 he 1 ,. he ) will be more „ ‘‘Uncle rT , m Tom’s , Cabin’ ., companies months on the road in the course of a few than ever before, Miss Mahik Waimwright played Portia in a street dress in Milwaukee recently. costuLes. She >»* the baggage containing her A Venetian composer has turned out the opera of “ John Huss," an 1 shows among other ”*** 01 “ ,ta Her winSWJji’^“r. long illness has seriously impairef u Si her voice. M AK ' K H os f; * he " in K er . ba » j™* nursed her . husband, . . Colonel Henry Maple-on, the ^ Mrs. Ciianfrau has purchase! a play by Deshler Welsh, which is founded on the story of the lives of Napoleon and the Em¬ press Josephine. Joachim, the famous violinist, requires all pupils si applying to him for instruction to be over xteen years of age and they must pass a severe examination. It is said that Miss Maud Banks, daughter of General Banks, is very well satisfied with her professional success thus far, and is con- of winning future laurels, M. Gounod, the composer, has been giving In the ball ring, which will mat some £,000 persons. Mas. Mo.ntieth, a Brooklyn singer, has been engaged to sing the principal soprano part “Messiah,"’ in the by Christinas Handel performance and Hadyn of the the So¬ ciety of Boston. Richard Mansfield’s change of charac¬ ter in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” it is said, will be made on the open stage, but it is be¬ lieved that the audience will be completely mys.ified as to how it is done. Miss Jennie Dickerson, the American contralto siuger, who has made such a suc¬ cess in opera in England, has studied two new roles in which she will make her debut with the Cal l Rosa Company next season. Several years ago Miss Julia Thomas, a young colored in Uncle woman, Tom’s went Cabin to Europe as the She Topsy has remained au in Berlin since, Company. with white and ever has played acting Topsy a company, in German. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Nine pupils in the Allegan, (Mieh.) public schools are married women Hundreds of baby alligators are sold as pets in New York yearly, There are twonty-one murderders in the United States jail at Fort Smith,Ark. .await trial " < 'j Li r f ORNIA f f ui * 3 l !? ve taken the place f Southern fruits in the markets of Rich- j \a. The estate left by the late Miss Henrietta of New York City, is estimated at *10,000,000. Of the 137 counties in Georgia, 108 have prohibition. prohibition and twelve others have Reports from Louisiana indicate that the yield of that State will fall about fif¬ per cent, below that of 1885. Every day at one o’clock *300,000,090 sit to lunch in au upper room in the West¬ Union Building, in New York. It will cost *T,0tt) ami take ii,000 books of leaf to gild the great dome at Notre Univei-sity, Indiana. The work is go- on now. The principal contributors to the London for the Charletton sufferers are ttie Rothschilds and Barings. Ench house con¬ #3,500. A shoe-i.asting ma-hine has just heen in Ma sachusetts. By it one man with a hel| er can turn out 250 to 300 pairs of shoes per day. The greatest balloon in the world has been constructed at San Francisco by a Mr. Van Tassel. It will hold 150,000 cubic feet of gas and has been made for the purpose of travers¬ ing the American continent from ocean to ocean. A Dakota farmer, grumbliug at the poor outlook for w heat in the early summer, of¬ fered to give to his wife all the wheat he would have over 1,500 bushels, He has threshed a trifle over 2,500 bushels, and the Wtfe is going to have a new black silk dress. hi; uni:it ed for money. At Florence, 8. C., Tuesday morning, the body of James Douglass, Jr., a prominent with young man, wounds was found in his on head, the sidewalk three either of which would have been fatal. A 38-calibre pistol ball was found in the back of liis head, and there were two other wounds, evidently inflicted by blows. The object of the have murder win robbery. The murderers not yet been identified. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE VETERAN-*. A number of citizens of Winchester, Va., headed by the Union cornet band, seventeen peices, left on Friday, vfa Har¬ risburg and New York, to attend the cel¬ ebration of the New Hampshire Veteran Association on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, at Winchester, association, N. H. All are guests of the and left in anticipation of a royal good that time. The Virginia invited, militia rifle team had also bceti were obliged to decline the invitation. ORDERED TO LEAVE THE KM PI H Two American citizens of German birth, namer Schmidt and Stuhr, wb< have been spending several weeks on a visit to their old home, in Kiel, Holstein, have been ordered by the German gov¬ ernment to leave the empire by the 8tli of October. THE ARlieHURBS MURDER. Governor Ireland received notice Tues¬ day that the attorney for thc Arresures iWnih had forwarded for his approval > ciainiino $100,090 indemnity from : i fit ■ eminent for the brutal 1 A iiesiires. BARTHOLDI’S STATUE OF LIBERTY. Richard Butler, secretary of the Ameri¬ can committee on the Statue of Liberty, announces that the 28th of October has been decided upon by the government the inaugu and American committee for ration of the statue. MINE DISASTER- fire damp , occu^ed - An explosion of in a roal pit near Scbalke, m Germany, and forty -five persons were killed and fifteen injured. Tho Last Your. Tender lights on sky and sea; Milk white blossoms on the tree; Lull of storms anil tempest bleak; Faint bloom on a wan young cheek. “Spring, tho blessed Spring is night” ttuid my darling, hopefully. Violets’ breath and primrose lays; Sunshine trea ling loafy ways; Gentle s teps, that, weak and slow, Through the woodland pathways go. “It were sad in Spring to die!” Said my darling, wistfully. Glorious Summer, crowned with flowers Dreamy days of golden hours; Sunsot-critnsoued hills afar. Dewy eve, and silver star. “Strength may como witn oy and bye!” Said my during, patiently. Growing fruits and riponing grain; Languid days and nightsof pain; Fields so golden, earth so glad And a young life doomed! “ ’Tis sad Through the bright days here to lie," Said my darling, wearily. Sighing winds and falling leaves; Yearning love, that vainly grieves! Patient eyes, with farewell gaze, Greeting tho nan Autumn days. “Happy world, fair world good bye,” Said my darling, tenderly. Wailing storms and weeping skies; Soft wings spread for Paradise; Solemn whispering accents thrilled With the nwo of hopo fulfilled. ‘"Life! O blissful life on high!”! Breathed my darling, rapturously. Wreathing snowdrifts, far and wide, Mantling o’er the lone hillside, Purer than that stainless veil— Like a folded lily pale, While tho moaning blast goes by, Sleeps my darling, pc icefully. — Chambers’s Journal. LOVE AND SCIENCE, Thc last day at school! Examination was over; exhibition was at au end, and Eifie Parker knew that she was about to enter on the threshold of a new life. Most girls rejoice when this last day school dawns upon them; but Effie unlike other girls in more respects than one. Effie Parker was an orphan, under rather reluctant guardianship of a elor uncle, and his house was all the she looked forward to. Other graduates were talking of their parents and brothers and sisters; even of their pet birds and plants; but Eifie was all alone. “I wouldn’t cry,” said Lucy Brown, bouncing upon her solitude, and throw¬ ing both plump arms about her neck. “Tell me, Etfie, what-makes you cry?” “Because I am so—so lone—some I” sobbed poor Etfie. “O, nonsense?” cried Luey Brown. “Why should you cry? You might, in¬ deed, with some show of reason, if you were like me, booked to go out as a gov¬ erness, and earn your bread by the sweat of your brow! For I haven’t even an uucle to go to 1” Lucy was a short, plump, dumpling of a girl, with brown hair, big blue eyes and just enough of an upward curve to her nose to give her an indescribable air of sauciness. And she wore gingham dresses because they were cheap, and washed her ribbons in gum-arabic water and darned her gloves until they were more “mend” than material. And withal, she was the most piquant and stylish looking little girl in all Madame Metour’s establishment. “But I’m afraid of Uncle Gerald,” fal¬ tered Effie—“to be there all alone with him.” “Does he scold?” asked Lucj sympa¬ thetically. “N—no, but-” “I’ll go home with you,” said Lucy. “Come! My engagement to teach the nine little boys of Mrs. McManahan does not begin until next month, and I’d as soon go home with you as to stay here among the lexicons and French gram¬ mars.” “Darling Lucy, if you only would!” •xclaimed Effie, giving her schoolmate such a hug as nearly choked her. “Two of ’em!” ejaculated Mr. Gerald Vane, dropping his niece’s letter in des¬ pair. “Mrs. Caldwell.” “Sir?” said the trim housekeeper. “There’s two of ’em coming.” “Dear me, sir! is there, indeed?” said Mrs. Caldwell. “All the better, I should say. Tlio old house needs brightening up a little; it’s as dull as a convent.” “And wha’ is to become of my scien¬ tific experiments and natural history in¬ vestigations, I should like to know?” demanded Mr. Vane, indignantly. “Well, sir,” coughed Mrs. Caldwell, “if it ain’t making too bold, I think you’re too much wrapped up in them heathenish doings. And two nice little girls to educate and-” “Two nice little girls? Are you mad, Mrs. Caldwell? Why, my niece is 18 at least, and thc other one—Lucy Brown she calls her—must be as old, if not older.” “Dear heart, sir, you’re forty-six, and I’m ten good years more,” said Mrs. Caldwell, “and if these ain’t little girls compared to us, I should respectfully like to know what you would call them.” “Hump!” said Mr. Vane. “Dinnerat six, Mrs. Caldwell.” Mrs. Caldwell courtesied and retired, cogitating within herself what she should prepare to tempt toe apjjptites of the expoctod uew-comert. “Oh, isn’t this nice,” said Lucy Brown, dancing about tho broad mosaic- paved hall in a sort of impromptu valsc- step. “Oh, I should like to live here always. I—dear me, what have I done?” For her flying skirts had caught in tho top of a large glass jar, and crash itcaine down on the marble floor. “Dear me,” said Mrs. Caldwell, “it’s one of the master’s chemicals, as lie fusses over, like they was liquid gold.” “Will he be very nngry?” whispered Luey, with her eyes like blue marbles— while Effie began to cry. “Let’s run to our room as fast as we can,” she faltered, “before Uncle Gerald finds it out.” “No,” said Lucy, valiantly. “Where is Mr, Vane? I’ll go and tell him at once.” Mr. Vane, as a tall figure was seen entering through a side door, “I broke the jar!” “Did you, indeed? Miss Brown, I presume,” with a formal bow, as Eifie came timidly forward to kiss him. “Isn’t he handsome,” Lucy whispered to her schoolmate, as they went up stairs together. “But he’s so stern-looking,” sighed Effie. “Never mind; let’s get dressed for dinner as quick as we can, for uncle can’t bear to be kept waiting.” Lucy Brown, whose one-dyed silk dress required no long and painful adjustment, was soon attired and down in the gar¬ den. “Dear me!” said Lucy. “Here’s a whole box of frogs. Some cruel boy has shut them up. I’ll just run down to the brook and give them their liberty. She was proceeding, when Airs. Cald¬ well called to her from the window. “Miss Lucy! Miss Lucy!” “Off you go, froggies! Don’t they jump charmingly!” Lucy cried, clapping her hands as one by one the reptiles plashed into their nativo element. “What did you say, Mrs. Caldwell?” The housekeeper uttered a groan of despair. “Mr. Gerald’s frogs that he’s been try¬ ing some scientific experiment with,these three days!’’ she uttered. “Oh, dear,” said Lucy, with a comical gesture of terror, “I’ve been and gone and done it again. I really do think I was born under an unlucky star!’” Three weeks Lucy Brown remained a guest at Vane Hall—three weeks of un¬ mitigated disaster, tribulation and devas¬ tation. She broke the sash of Mr. Vane’s camellia-house; she lost his pet Italian greyhound. She tipped a bottle of ink over an es«ay he had just completed for the “Savant’s Monthly," and ruined h s collection of dried butterflies by accidentally sitting down on them when they were airing in the window- scat. Literally, she “did what she ought not to have done, and left undone those things which she ought to havo done.” “How is it,” said Lucy, dubiously, “that I am always getting into scrapes and Effie here isn’t? What is it, Mrs. Caldwell? Mr. Vane wishes to speak to me? There! I knew it was coming.” “Knew that what was coming?” asked Effie, “He’s going to turn me out of doors! He can|t endure me any longer, and I’m sure I cau’t blame him much. Well, I shall have to go back to Madame Me tour’s, I suppose.” “Miss Lucy, do go to your room first,” pleaded Mrs.Caldwell. “Your curls are all in a tangle, and your mouth is red¬ dened with raspberry juice, and there’s a rent in your gown a quarter of a yard long, where you’ve caught it on the sweetbriar bush, and-” “Fiddlesticks!” said tho irreverent Lucy. “I’m as bad as I can be already in Mr. Vane’s eyes, so there’s no use in prinking. And I’m sorry, too,” with a little quiver of the lip, “for I wanted him to like me just a little.” She went boldly into the study to face her doom, while Effie Parker sat down on the doorstep and began to cry. “If Lucy goes off to leave me, I shall die of homesickness and loneliness 1” she sobbed. It was fully three-quarters of an hour before Lucy Brown came out of tho au¬ dience chamber. It must have been an awful long lec¬ ture.” thou gilt Effie with a shudder. “How flushed she looks! I wonder if she has been crying. Come here, Lucy, darling, and tell me all about it.” Lucy nestled down beside her friend without a word. “Was he very cross?” asked sympa¬ thetic Effie. “No—no, not so very.” “Did he scold you?” “No,” Lucy made answer, in a voice so low as to be scarely audible. “Did he tell you you couldn’t stay?” “No. ” “No, no, no?” mimicked Effie, begin¬ ning to be little nettled. “Then do tell me what he did say 1” “He asked me to marry him,” said Lucy, with a hysterical mingling of laugh and so b. Effie started to her fret. ‘Asked you to marry him I And what did you say.'” “I said yes.” “I never was so glad of anything in all my life!” cried Effie, exultingly; now you can live here always. But you needn’t expect me call you ‘Auntie,’ for I shant. We’ve been in too many seaooj girl scrapes together for that.” So Lucy Brown was “settled in life," much to tho satisfaction of everybody, Mrs. Caldwell included. “To be sure, sho ain’t the style I evci should ha’ supposed master would have taken a fancy to,’’ said tlie housekeeper; “but there’s no accounting for the whim* a scientific man picks up!” Coral. The value of coral depends on its color and its size. The white or rose-tinted variety stands highest in popular esteem, perhaps, chiefly, because it is the rarc- est. It is mostly found in the Straits of Messina and on some parts of the Afri¬ can and Sardinian coasts. Tho bright red coral, in which the polyps are still living when it is fished up, stands next in value. Dead coral has a duller tint, and is consequently sold at a lower price. Two entirely different substances bear thc name of black coral. One of them is not, properly speaking, coral at all, and it is commercially worthless, as it breaks into flakes instead of yielding to the knife, though it is often sold as a costly curiosity to foreigners. The other is the common red coral which has un¬ dergone a 66.1 change, probably through tho decomposition of thc living beings that once built and inhabited it. It is not much admired in Europe, but in In¬ dia it commands high prices, so that large quantities of it are exported every year. These arc the four important dis¬ tinctions of color, though they,of course, include immediate tints which rank ac¬ cording to their clearness and brilliancy. Thc size is a still more important matter; the thickness of tlio stem of tho coral plant—wo use thc commercial and en¬ tirely unscientific expression—determines its price, and many a branch of red coral is valued more highly on account of its thickness than a smaller piece of tlio choicer rose color; the reason of this is clear; a large, straight piece of material affords an opportunity to the artificer; a crooked one, if it is only bulky enough, can, at least, be turned into large beads; mere points and fragments can only be used for smaller ones, or made into those horns which are said to be invaluable aga nst the evil eye, but which do not command a high price in the market, perhaps, because it is overstocked. A Pine Wood. A pine wood is oue of tho loneliest scenes in nature, not merely as regards the intrusion of any other living thing. Nothing breaks up Us uniformity and mo¬ notony. It has none of tho rich variety of life that characterizes other woods. The seasons themselves make no impres¬ sion upon it, for it is dressed in peren¬ nial green, and it retains its shade alike in summer’s heat and winter’s desolation. It prevents alt undergrowth; no brambles dare to stretch thcr long, trailing, thorny arms—like the feelers of some creature of prey—within its guarded inclo-urc. No wild roses can open their trembling pet¬ als, white with fear or crimson with blushes, in its solemn sanctuary. No hazel bush will drop there its ringlets of smoking catkins in spring or its ruddy clusters of nuts in autumn. No mimic sunshine of primrose tufts, no pale star- beams of anemone or sorrel will light up its gloom. No glimpse of blue sky arc let into it by hyacinths, or bluebells, or violets. To all the lowly plants that find refuge in other woods, and in turn adorn and beautify their hosts, the pine trees in their dignified independence re¬ fuse admission. No song of bird orhum of insect is heard beneath their boughs. And on the ground below, strewn deep with a carpet of brown need'es and emp¬ tied cones that have silently dropped in course of long years from overhead, and are slow to decay, only a few yellow toadstools and one or two splendid scar¬ let mushrooms make up for the painful dearth of vegetation. It seems as if the bals trnic breath of the pines which is so wholesome to human life—preventing all fevers and infectious diseases—were as deadly as thc upas shade to other forms of life. — Dr. Hugh Macmillan. An “Epicure.” Speaking about New York restaurants, a correspondent tells the following story: Pedro’s best customers are politi¬ cians, who are trying to perfect them¬ selves in tho art of epicurean apprecia¬ tion. The average New York politician is always attracted to a restaurant pat ronized by brokers, and lie will nevet knock under to nny man in praise of any¬ thing that can be eaten. The Hon. James Oliver, better known as Paradise Park Oliver, once told Jerry H irtigan that none but epicures utc at Pedro’s, and invited Mr. Hartigan there to din¬ ner. Two hours afterward Jerry met the Hon. Fattie Walsh. “What’s an epicure, Tom?” asked Hartigan. “An epicure is one of these duffers that eat anything,” Mr. Walsh replied. “I thought so,” Jerry remarked. “I’ve just ate a meal at Pedro’s, and it makes me sick to pick my teeth." Beyond the Reach of Drug-'. “Are you feeling better, Mr. Feather- ly?” asked Bobby at the dinner table. “Feeling better? I haven’t been sick, Bobby.” “I didn’t know,” said Bobby indiffer- ently. “Ma an’ pa were talking about your genealogy last night and ma said it couldn’t be much worse, “supposed you were sick.”— New York Tones. VOL. II. NO. 1. Life’s Bitterness. This is the bitterness of life, to knov That lore lies not In front, but far behind; That not for violent searching shall we find A sweet-faced rose of hope beneath tune's snow, Nor any flower of new Joy below The furrows swept bv the autumnal wind, Nor any corn-stalk where the maidens bind The golden tars in a long, laughing row. This Is the hi 1 terness of life, to feel The slow-limbed noisome minutes crawl away, But not to mirk by any happy peal Of silver he is the passing of a day, Tarrying till our now consciousness doth steal Into death's pine wood, damp, obscure and rey. —George Barlow. HUMOROUS. A genuine hum-bug—the locust. No man would hang • juaure frame because of its gilt. A friend in need is a friend—who gen¬ erally strikes you for a quarter. An over-due steamer— the tea-kettle that failed to boil with its usual rapidity. Why are good resolutions like fainting Indies? Because they want “carrying out” Speaking of wages, it is when the har¬ vest comes that the farmers go for a general cut down. “Pa," said a 6-year old son, “can a rope walk?” “I think not my son,” answered the father, “but it might if it were taut." “Man," said Adam Smith, “is an ani¬ mal that makes bargains. No other ani¬ mal does this—no dog exchanges bones with another.” “I aim to tell the truth,” said a New York Fisherman. “Yes,"interrupted an acquaintance, “and you are probably the worst shot in America.” “All,” said Jebokus, taking his friend’s baby, “ho has got his mother’s eyes— and my hair,” he added, as the youthful prodigy grabbed him by the foretop. Fond mother (to bachelor uncle)— “Why, John, don’t lot the baby play with that gold toothpick. He’ll swallow it.” Bachelor uncle—“Oh, that won’t do any harm. 1 have a string tied to it, so I can’t lose it. Policeman—Have you a permit to play here ? Organ-grinder—No, but it amuses the little ones so much. Policeman— Then you will have the goodness to ac¬ company me. Organ-grinder — Very well, sir; what do you wish to sing t Rather an O ld Game lor Fast Riders “We don’t havo much time for play out on the road,” said a railway mail clerk, “but we are a little stuck on base ball, and we manage to carry a whole nine with us. There’s tho catcher there —the iron thing that catches the bags from the crane as we go by at the rate of fifty miles an hour—and it has to stop some hot ones, too. The man that throws the bags off we call the pitcher, and lie is up on all of the curves, drops and twists. The mail carriers who pick up the bags on the fly and hustle them to the postoffice are our fielders, The man who takes care of the bags and gets them ready for the local station is called the short stop in every railway mail car in this country. Our letter case clerks are called the basemen, because they are continually passing letters from one to the other. Whenever one h lps another decipher a bad address ho is given credit for" an ‘assist,’and if a man 1 ails to handle one of the tough ones and some¬ body else can do it for him wo give the second man credit for a ‘put out.’ Our basemen are deadly throwers, let me tell you. On our line are nine important postoffices, and we call each one an in¬ ning. We are always in dread of our ‘error’ column, for ah of our ‘errors’ are carefully scored against us in the super¬ intendent’s office. If we make too many errors we go into the captain’ office some fine day and find that our names have been ‘struck out’ from the pay roll. That’s a part of the game that isn’t fun¬ ny.”— Chicago Herald. Beantlfal Ans ralian Caves. A number of large and beautiful Sta¬ lactite caverns have b en discovered near Queensland, Australia. In one, the wails, according to an exploring party, were beautifully white while the stalac¬ tites and stalagmites joined in exquisito tracery, reminding them of Chinese carved ivory. Another, fifty feet by thirty feet, with plain walls broken only by niches, and meeting in a vaulted roof of immense height, they called the ca¬ thedral. In some of the dark passages their candles were extinguished by the host of bats. From others they de- sc nded sixty feet into lower caverns, but everywere the ground sounded hollow beneath their feet, so that the whole mountain appears to be travered by sub¬ terranean passages and caves in every di¬ rection excavated in the limestone rock by the action of hot springs. A Touching Tale, Said Fogg, “Ijustm.ta poor fellow who told an awful tale of distress, and woundup by asking me for aquarter.” Brown—“And of course you gave it to him?” Fogg—“No; I wanted to; but his tale was so pitiful that I burst into tears, and in my emotion I quite forgot ho poor fellow and hastened away to hide my grief.”— Boston. Trantoript,
