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A canal across Italy is being planned,
lo connect the Adriatic and the Mediter¬
ranean. __________________
Ventura, Cal., evidently wishes to at¬
tract Boston emigrants. Thoro are just
OOOO acres in ouc bean field out there.
The Medical Record gives this: Dr.
Noisin relates tbo case of a girl, 14 years
of age, who was a most inveterate and
persistent liar, and whom he cured com¬
pletely of this reprehensible habit by
means of hypnotism.
The scarcity of halibut in the Atlantic
fishing grounds liavo compelled fisher-
mm to go to the Pacific Ocean, where
these fish can be taken in immense num¬
bers. They are now being shipped East
in refrigerator cars over tho Northern
Pacific, and the business promises to be¬
come a great industry.
Senator Sonza (iueiroz, of Brazil, lias
not appeared in the Senate for forty
rears, and his salary, which he has not
Irawn, now amounts to $923,11)9.53,
including interest at seven per cent.
The salary is calculaled at $3000 pei
aunum from 1848 to 1873, and $9000 pet
annum since the last named dato.
The discovery of the pool of Bethes-
da, as described in the Bible, is an¬
nounced. Nothing was known of thc
pool until quite recently, when certain
works carried on by the Algerian monks
laid bare a large tank or cistern cut in
the r ick to a depth of thirty feet. Thc
cistern is fifty-five feet long from cast tc
west, twelve and one half feet in breadth,
and lies under a church. A sister pool
lying sixty feet long adjoins the first.
A correspondent reports that Hamdi
Rev, director of tho Museum at Con¬
stantinople, intends to visit Smyrna,
Asis Minor, and order a careful search
to be made for the remaining portions
of the statue of Apollo, of which th?
head and arms were recently unearthed
by a peasant. It, is sa d that for thc
head alone the sum of 150,000 francs has
been offered by tlie Turkish Government.
The statue was uot in one piece, the
head and arms having been attached to
the body in a most skillful manner.
President Willits, of the Agricultural
College of Michigan, while he disputes
the exercise of a direct influence of forests
in promoting trfe moisture—saying that all
the in the world will not put it
where it is not—believes that the mois¬
ture on the continent is advancing to
ward the west, nnd that the planting ol
forests and increased cultivation will
cause the rainfall to advance farther west
every Year, Seveu hundred thousand
acres of forest have already been planted
in Nebraska; the cotton-wood and the
wiilow first, and then the soft maple and
the hard woods.
The operations of the New Orleans
Mint last year proved to be the greatest
since the establishment has b.en built
the records show that $2,000,000 more
we e coined than ever before in one year.
The following are the figures:
Amonnt of silver operated upon
during fiscal year ended June
30,18S8, standard ounces....... 19 , 875,911
Amount of gold operated upon.... 33,796
S. S. dollars, coined............... $ 11 , 800,000
Gold eagles, coined ($10).......... 135,000
Total expenses during the year. .. 389 , 151 )
Number of males employed, 116; num¬
ber of females employed, 47; average
cost of silver bullion per standard ounce
$0.8640.
Tho rural letter-carriers in Germany
are an mduatrious class of public serv¬
ants. According to the statistical ac¬
count of the Postal Department the
aggregate number of pieces of postal
matter distributed in the rural districts
was, in round figures, 333,000,000. Ol
these, about 34,030,000 pieces were
called for at the respective post-offices,
and the remaining 289,000,000 pieces
delivered by 23,500 carriers, who, to ac¬
complish tlie work, had to travel an ag
gregate distance of 170,294,624 kil<>-
meteis. This makes a daily travel of
■183,000 kilometers, equal to 05,004 geo¬
graphical miles—in other words, daily
more than twelve times, and annually
4000 times the circumference of the
earth.
Every once in a while wo discover,
asserts the New Y'ork Sun, that some
mountain peak must give up the unde¬
served distinction conferred upon it of
bolding its head higher titan all other
summits. For a long time Mount Chim¬
borazo was supposed to be the highest
mountain in the world until in tlie prog-
gress of the IFmalayan surveys Mount
Everest was found to overtop it. Four
years ago W. W. Graham, who lias been
higher above the sea than any other
mountain climber, asserted that Everest
must yield the palm of supremacy to an
unnamed peak about seventy miles from
'L We long supposed that Mount St.
Elias was the loftiest mountain of North
America, but we now know that that
honor belongs to Mount Wrangel, which
is about 500 feet higher than St. Elias.
H was also supposed that Mount Kili ua-
^jaro levation 18,700 in Africa,but fecthigh, now was comes thegreatest Count
Teleki, the Hungarian traveler, with the
as sertion that this mountain must play
second fiddle to Mount Kena, about 200
me, nor th- lie is the only man who ,
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yet ascended Kenia. *.
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THE SOUTH.
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
lightning plays havoc everywhere_
COTTON STATISTICS -SUICIDES —RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
Alabama.
F rank Barker, a colored laborer re¬
cently from Birmingham, was knocked
off a freight car on Thursday by tele¬
phone wires in Huntsville and was run
over by the dummy cars and killed. He
about was standing the danger. up aud had been cautioned
Had he been sitting
down he would have been in no danger.
Several days ago three horses were
placed in a car o« thc Georgia Pacific
road at Birmingham for shipment to At¬
lanta, Ga. The car wus sealed on the
out-ide in the usual style, but when the
train reached Henry Ellen, fifteen miles
out, the conductor discovered that the
car door was open and one of the horses
musing. The officials of the road have
had a thorough s arch made, but so far
The they have found no trace of the horse.
train made no stops except at cross¬
ings between Birmingham and Henry
Ellen, and the disappearance of the horse
is a mystery.
Arkfingfig.
The vault in the county clerk’s office,
at Little Bock was broken open on
Thursday night and poll books showing
the returns of the election in uine town¬
ships were tiken out. Entrance to the
vault was gained by chiseling and prying
open with a crowbar the iron door oi
thc vault heretofore considered secure.
Other returns have been removed to one
of the banks, to guard against furthei
depredations. the Fear of detection in
“doctoring” returns, caused thc
robbery.
Delaware.
The tug Argus, reported at Delaware
Breakwater, that the schooner Adele
Thackat ay is off the Cape with yellow
fever on board and two men dead.
Florida,
It is claimed that the sewers of Jack¬
sonville are in a very poor condition.
Thc Knights of Labor in St. Augus¬
tine have tendered the services of one
hundred men for quarantine duty, sub¬
ject to thc rules of the Board, the of¬
fer was received with thanks, and will be
accepted in the event of its being
needed.
(.'oorta.
Brunswick has lifted the quarantine
against Atlanta.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire¬
men met in Atlanta, on Monday, and
'ere welcomed to the city by Mayor
Cooper, and Gov. Gt rdon. Grand Mas-
s Arthur, of the Engineers, and Wilk-
ii-oii, of the Brakcm u, attended the
onveiition. A gia id neeption was ten
lend Mr. Arthur In the evening.
Maryland.
Wiunie Johnson, the largest colored
.voman in this coumry, weighing 849
rounds, died at Baltimore. 'ihe door-
vays hacl been especially enlarged
or iter benefit. She was called “Big
.Vinnie” and she had been exhibited as
•the fattest woman” in the world for the
ast ten years. Fatty degeneration of
one he ait caused her death, She was
K) n in Kentucky. The coffin was five
i’cet eleven inches in length, three feet
eight inches in width and three feet two
uches deep. Fourteen men acted as pall
beat ers and they had all they could do to
hove the dead giantess into her final
resting place.
Missouri.
The bagejing trust at St. Louis has ad¬
3 of Jute bagging anothei
vanced the price pound, making the
, ar cr of ft ce nt per
rice range from 11J to 13J. It is asserted
hat a si ill further advance is to be made
oon.
North Carolina.
At Kingston, a meeting of members of
the Lenoir county Farmers’ Alliance was
held on Thursday, It represents nine
hundred farmers, A resolution was
adopted indoising the action of the
state alliance in regard to the cotton
bagging trust, and instructing their
agent to order at once six thousand stand yards
,,f burlaps. They are also urged the to fight
by tl e action of tlie alliance iu
against the jute trust.
William G. Upchurch, president of the
State Agricultural Society, says that
rain is rotting the cotton. It is such a
long spell of weather that the damage
must .....be extinsive. Developments of
ihe new young belt is entirely shedding stopped,
ind the effect of the rain is the
.f both bolls and squares. Anotlur re¬
sult will be thct much cotton ni 1 lie
stained. Bol s just opening will, of
course, all be affected in this way. Mr.
Upchurch say s the damage to the fodder
3 rop will be heavy and widespread. All
fodder not in stacks is ruined. Corn
will also be hurt. Seven days without
sunshine will test any crop severely,
particularly at this season.
Month Carolina.
An experiment was made at Charles-
ton, on Thursday, with the new pme
straw bagging which is offered as a sub¬
stitute for jute bagging for cotton bales.
The pine straw material seems to have
stood the test of compressing, and the
experiment was made to test it# inflam-
mability. A piece of the pme straw
cloth and one of the jute were fired sim¬
ultaneously. The jute was extinguished
in two seconds, while the pine fifteen straw
burned and smouldered some or
twenty seconds before it could be exiin-
guished. Notwithstanding this, how¬
ever attention has been directed to the
pine’ straw manufactories industry and have the already plants been for
several portions of the state.
offered in different fac¬
At present there is but one known
tory engaged in this work. It is situated
near Wilmington, manufacturing N. C., and has article here¬ of
tofore been an
matting which is claimed to be valuable
in cases of tubcrcolosis owing to the odor
of the pine leaves.
virginln.
, r ^\.“^"'inspected the view James of rclect- River
i (! | ow Richmond with a
j n , r an anchorage place for the O' et now
nU^ty Point. Ho will present a report
to the Secretary ” f !. h " Nav * rt .?
mendin'? Itindolph Flats, talc.; p , im.cs dks
f Richmond us suitable anchoinge
grounds.
ELLAYILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13,1888.
Kentucky.
The great Fall celebration at Louisville
miles opened with an industrial parade five
long. Twenty thousand strangers
were present.
Tanneiit#**
There was filed with thc county court
clerk of llamiltou county, on Thursday,
an application for a charter incorporating
a new railroad to be built to Murphy, N.
C., and thence to Augusta, Ga. The
name of tho road is to be the Chatta¬
nooga, Cleveland & Murphy Railroad,
and is to be run by a practicable route al¬
ready surveyed from Chattanooga
through the city of Cleveland to Mur
pliy, Augusta, N. C., and thence, if desired, to
Ga.
West Virginia.
A flood in New River carried away the
big iron Railroad bridge of the View, Chesapeake &
Ohio at Grand involving
a loss of $50,000. A great deal of damage
in other quarters is reported.
FEVER SCOURGE.
MANY NEW CASES DEVELOPING
IN POOR JACKSONVILLE.
A GALE COOLS THE ATMOSPHERE—DIF¬
FERENCE OF OPINION AMONG EXPERTS.
THE QUESTION OF REFUGEEING.
For throe days, the new cases in Jack¬
sonville, F’la., were reported at follows:
aud Friday, 77; Saturday, 44; Su iday, 40,
about 20 deaths.
On Sunday the wind blew a gale for
several hours, and the weather was posi¬
tively cold, there seems to be no settled
line of action among those in charge of
afi-iirs, and tho opinions of doctors and
expert nurses differ widely. For in¬
stance : A newspaper correspondent ask¬
ed a leading practitioner if the sun com¬
ing out bright aud hot after a heavy
rain and gale would tend to develop new
cases, and his reply was: “Yes, the we may
expect a big crop Another as soon ns next
warm day comes.” question, physician,
asked the same answered:
“No, this rain and cold wind has cleared
and changed the atmosphere. This is
favorable to both the sick aud the well.’'
Doctors are working heroically and
self sacrificing with the sick, aud the
wonder is that more of them have not
already fallen victims to the disease.
Dr. W. N. Lnfatd died Sunday, and
several drug clerks are reported as sick,
and some with symptoms of yellow fever,
but more from overwork and loss of sleep.
While up to the present time all of the
drug stores in the city have kept open
aud have served the public well, it be¬
gins to look as if the establishment of a
government dispensary would ere long
be indispensable. The question of de¬
population is far from a settlement; in
fact, it grows more complicated daily.
It is a popular notion that the reason for
the colored people’s desire maintained to reiua’n, is
the fact that they will be at
the public expense. This is to a large
degree eironeous. The colored people
of Jacksonville are for tho most part n
hard-working, thrifty, independent class.
Many of th m own little lots of land and
frame houses, and naturally the idea of
leaving their possessions behind in care
of no one, strikes them unfavorably.
There are perhaps one thousand colored
draymen in Jacksonville, whose chief in¬
come is carting metchandise. All traffic
and business is stopped ; these men find
themselves with mules on their hands to
keep as well as families to provide for,
and they naturally ask: “Shall we
leave our animals to die, our homes to be
pillaged, and take up our residence at a
distance, where the chances of earning a
living among strangers is perhaps no bet¬
ter than here at present?” colored It is a rank
injustice to charge these peop’e
wuth selfishness. Fourteen nurses came
from New Orleans, and some of them
struck for $4 a day before they left the
depot; they had been engaged for $3 a
day and were promptly discharged.
The following telegram was sent to
Washington on Saturday: ‘ ‘To Surgeon-
General Llamiltou, Washington: Your
explanation of the stopping of the train
at Live Oak and returned to Jackson¬
ville because the authorities of Tennes
see refused admittance to refugees from
this city into the state is satisfactory.
Our people, not knowing the reason that
existed for such action, naturally blamed
you. This association is always desirous
to be just, and will co-operate with you
in such reasonable regulation as may be
considere 1 necessary to piotect the pub¬
lic health aud conform to regulations
governing transportation in force by the
health authorities of other states. We
aro : : aware that state laws govern, and
that we cannot send refugees to points in
states that will not receive them and
have been communicating with authori¬
ties both local and state, of North Caro¬
lina, and have just received information
that Hendersonville can take 500, Saluda,
Hickory and other pin’s, will take
smaller numbers. Impossible Hendersonville to state
how many can go to or
other points around there, but think if
two days’ notice were given, that a special
train for refugees would leave hero for
Hendersonville, that at least two hundred
would go. Have just received your tcl-
ecrrain 1 of this morning that special will
be provided for Hendersonville, Please
allow two days’ notice. Hope you can
make arrangements with Tennessee board
of health. May want togo in that dirtc
tion Pleased to hear improvements to
be made at Camp Perry and that you
will make your headquarters there. We
desire to work in harmony with you.
(signed) P. McQuaid, Acting Presi¬
dent ” The following Washington: was set to
Surgeon-Gen. Hamilton, at
“At the request of citizens and physi¬
cians I desire a physician of experience
in yellow fever to visit and describe the
growth of tbe epidemic at this place.
Citizens are demoralized. (Signed) D.
T Water and Mayor, and President
Board of Heal h, McClenny, Fla.” The
surgeon general immediately telegraphed
Dr Pusy, at Waycross, to go to McClen-
D v and in vestigate.
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Profitless Remembrance.
Bishop (on his semi-annual round)—
“Soyou don’t remember me, Bobby?”
Bobby—“N-no sir.”
Bishop—“I remember you very well
indeed.” so? Bell, why , don , t
Bobby—“That something?”— New York
you bring me
Sun.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA¬
TIONAL CAPITOL.
JONOIIKSS IN SESSION YET— MOVEMENTS
OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND—
WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES.
CtlMllt EMSIONAIi.
On Thursday, the dibatn on the Chi¬
nese immigration bill was continued in
the Senate, but nothing was done, a
vote showing there was no retaliation quorum pres¬ l i 1
ent. ... In the House, tltc
sylvania was considered, and Mr. Scott, President of Penn¬
defended the i.ction of
Cleveland.
LOSS IP.
President Cleveland has sent a letter to
llie Democratic National Executive Com¬
mittee formally accepting the nomina¬
tion for the Presidency. On the subject
of “trusts” he says: “Juiged by Dem¬
ocratic principles the interests of the
people are betrayed when unnecessary
taxation, trusts and combinations are
permitted and fostered Which, while combine, un
duly enriching the few that
them, rob the body of our citizens by benefits depriving of
as purchasers, of thc
natural competition.”
Surgeon-General Hamilton was sum¬
moned to thc White House on Thursday
for conference with President Cleveland
and Secretary Fairchild, in regard to thc
measures taken to aid the yellow fevet
suffereis in Florida, and to prevent the
spread of the epidemic. lie made a
statement of all that hid been done so
far nnd defended his action in detaining
refugees from Jacksonville at Camp Per¬
ry, as essential to the safety of the sui-
rounding country. The President ex-
preasid great sympathy for the people of
Florida, and instructed the surgeon-gen¬
eral to do all that is possible for their
relief. As a result of he President’s
conference with L)r. Hamilton, it is prob¬
able that another refugee camp will be
established near Jack-onville, and this,
it is thought, will remove one source of
complaint.
OVER THE GLOBE.
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
LABOR NOTES—ACCIDENTS ON SEA AND
LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE
RAILROADS—NOTED P»OPLE DEAD.
Lester Wallack, the famous actor and
manager, died on Thursday at Stamford,
Conn., where he has been for his health.
Dispatches report a killing frost over
New England, Northern New York, and
Michigan. Ice as thick as window glass
formed in many places.
News from Pesth, Hungary, states
that six villages in the valley of Poprad fled
are submerged. The villagers have
to the mountains, and crops and grana¬
ries have been swept away.
Judge Liuthan, at Waterloo, Iowa, de¬
nied tlie application of a Chinese laun-
dryman, Fong Wing, to be made a citi¬
zen. The judge took the ground that
the Chinese are not eligible to citizen
ship under the laws and Constitution of
ihe United States.
An express train from Dijon, France,
left the rails while on its way to Paris,
blocking the road. The Italian night
mail train ran into the disabled train
and was wrecked. Twelve persons were
killed and forty injured. The collision
occurred between Malain and Velars-sur-
Ouchc.
For the fourth time, Cutter. Iud., was
the scene of a terrific explosion. postofliee, Dyna¬ and
mite was placed under the
that structure literally blown to atoms.
A large quantity of dynamite was found
tinder the hotel, with matches half
burned. A strong gale undoubtedly
extinguished the matches.
WILL TEST IT.
The prospects of the exclusion bill le-
eoming a law is causing great excitement
among tbe Chinese in San Francisco,
Gal., particularly among the 5,000 or
8,000 “prior residents” who are roaming
,he streets pending their examination in
the federal courts as to their right to re-
ma'n there. The “prior residents” have
no- been legally landed, yet though they
,re at present enjoying the sameftcedom
of the country that any native born
American does, Should tl e exclusion
bill become an absolute law', however,
this great army will have to be gathered
up, if possible, nnd returned to China,
or else forfeit their bail money. Should
the Chinese refuse to give themselves up,
there will be a very heavy loss to the
bondsmen; that is, if the bondsmen cau
be f und. It is understood that as soon
as the announcement of the exelusii n
hill’s final adoption is made, the Chinese
will at once test its constitutionality be¬
fore the United States Supreme Court,
in the meantime, the Chinese “prior
residents - ’and those who purchased rt-
turn certificates in China are being
dumped off the fa‘t arriving steamers by
the wholesale
GOT WHIPPED,
The lalor paraders, on Labor Day, in
Cleveland, Ohio, adjourned who harl to a garden, slipped
when a few anarchists,
in, displayed their red flags. They were
immediately attacked by hundreds of
workingmen, whose indignation was be¬
yond control. The flag anarchist was trampled
under their feet, and one after
another went to the ground in the fight
■ hat continued for at least ten minutes.
A Restaurant Highly Recommended.
Waiter (excitedly)—“Have you eaten
the meal I bought you?” I have.”
Patron—“Certainly, lost!”
“Good heavens' You are
“What do you mean:”
“I gave you toadstools, thinking they
mushrooms. ”
were thing like that
“Don’t let a little
worry you. I’ve been boarding at this
restaurant a year, and toadstools soaked
in arsenic would have no effect on my
stomach. ”— Nebraska Stejte Journal,
BUDGET OF FUN.
HlfMonoim SKETCHES FROM
various souitcisa
\ Dignified Courtship — Another
Day Began—A Chock was
What He Wanted—HU
First Trip, Etc.
A pretty Boston school ma'am
Anil a youth of mien sedate
Were parting in the evening
Beside the garden gate.
His hand and heart he’d ifiterol
In a grave and sober way,
And she with quiet dignity
Had named the happy day.
He lingered at the gate with ho
And said in accents low:
‘‘There is a little favor
I would ask before I go.
‘‘A favor never asked before.
Sweet maiden, it is this:
A lover’s privilege, that is all,
A sweet betrothal kiss."
‘‘If you wait," the maiden whispered,
W ith her color rising high,
‘‘Till I remove my spectacles
I’ll willingly comply.”
—Boston Courier.
Another Day Begun.
“Hush!” he whispered, with a warn¬
ing gesture. “Isn’t that tho night
watchman’s rattle?”
suppressing “No, Mr. Sampson,’’ “that replied is the girl,
a yawn, the cook
grinding the coffee for breakfast,”—
Time.
A Check Was What He Wanted.
Irate Father (to his wild son)—“Your
extravagance, sir, must be checked!
Son (smiling his gratitude and satis¬
faction)— “Thank you, father. Sit right
down and write the check now. — Sitt¬
ings.
His First Trip.
At a hotel hop-Young lady this to dude
—“Have you danced much eveu-
ing?”
“SoN D 0 h rema“k y r tr P
s eo,” ed the yo ung lady
1 ££.-£$ S
The Sign Was Right.
Long Island Farmer—“Don’t you see
that sign, and what it says?”
Pat Chogue “How can I, when it’s
out ov me soight?” Fishing
Farmer—“It says; ‘No on
These Grounds. 11)
Pat—“Be gobbs, it’s roight! Nary a
wan have I caught at all.”
She Got One.
Angelica—“Tell little me, boats Augustus, what
are those funny the fisher¬
men have?”
Augustus—“They they are smacks.” should
“How cute are! How I
like to have a little smack.”
Lower Augustus—“Your sunshade wishes trifle are my law.
your a and you
shall have a dozen.”
A Shattered Idol.
Gus—“Only a day or two ago, Jack,
you were in raptures over Miss Gushing-
ton ; you spoke of her ethereal style of
beauty, her sylph-like and figure, her trans¬
cendent eyes; now you say that all
is over between you, and that you are
going to Australia to begin life anew.”
Jack (sadly)—“Ah, yes, Gus, dear
boy; I saw her sucking an orange."—
New York Dispatch.
Above Suspicion.
Officer—“Look ’r here, you! What
are ye doin’ ’round here this time o’
M ‘stranger
(boldly) -“I’m tendin’ to me
bisness! Wat ver s’pose?”
Officer—“Oh, ye are! Where did that
chicken come from?”
Stranger (with more under his coat,
savagely)—“It come from a neg, av
corse! What’n blazes did yer tink it
come from? A sody-fountin’?”
A Daily Horror.
„ Ilussband , . (hurriedly „ . swallowing „ , his .
breakfast)- -'Anything dear? new in the paper
this rooming, my
Wife—“les. Tnere was a terrible not
on the nolo grounds (choking yesterday.
Husband with excitement)
8a y. 80 ' What was it? ’
knocked Wife— ‘During the pitcher a ball out game of the they box
and pounded film player all over he the died field,
finally injuring a so on
third.— Time.
The Age We Dive In.
American Citizen (fifty years ago)—
“My wagon’s broke down and ain’t
worth mendin’. How long will it take
you to build another?”
Wheelwright—“Wail, lemme see,
’bout six weeks, I guess. I ain’t got much
to do to-morrow ; come around and we’ll
talk it over "
A I). 1888.—American citizen (rush-
in" in)—“Got any locomotives in
stock?”
Builder “Notone.”
“We must have another as quick as
possible. How soon will it be done?”
“In sixteen hours.” —Omaha World.
A Wife’s Little Joke.
She— “I’m so glad you can stay to tea.
Such a joke as I’m going to have on my
husband. He always growling .. about . ...
s „ „
my cooking, and to-day his mother hap-
pened to drop in and I got her feel to make
some biscuit. W on t he: cheap
when he begins to criticise and then
finds, out his mother made them her-
se “
HALF AN HOUR LATER.
He—“My dear, you’re becoming an
angel of a cook. These biscuits are as
fine as my mother makes ."—Detroit Free
Press.
An Inverse Courtship.
He Loved Ilis Brother.—“Mabel,”
said Henry, and in spite of hii efforts to
control himself his voice was tremulous,
and no spoke with the air of timid des-
peration which marks the elocution of a
man about to ask for the loan of $15.
“.Mabel, I do not kneel at your feet (and
he wasn’t, he plead was sitting myself. bolt upright on
thc sofa) to for 1 come
here only to think of my brother George.
]>e—he loves you dearly, Mabel, and
should yon refuse his plea, I tremble for
the consequences. He is all ale ne in the
world and he wants a si**'”'. ■’ o •*. Will
you not be one to him !”—Burlington
Hawkeys.
A Neat Housewife.
She (before marriage)—“Fes, John
dear, I think that cleanliness is certainly
next to godliness. Neatness is a untidy- passion
with me. A speck of dust or an
looking room utlects iue very unpleas¬
antly. (rapturously)—“Ah, darling, what
lie
a wife you will make!”
Slto (after marriage)—“Now, John
Smith, I’ve just got the parlor to rights
and the hall swept and the stairs dusted
down, and if you expect to come into
this house with those muddy boots .”—New on,
you’ll find yourself mistaken
York DUyntteh.
Too Orenl a Bisk.
“Well you seem to be in first rate
physical condition,” said the insurance
medical examiner to an applicant. “I
think you will do. Mr. Smith (turning
to the agent) I think I can report this
risk a good one—oh, by the way (to the
applicant) do you know how to play
baseball?”
“Why cerlainly.” know enough
“l)o you think you
about it to umpire a game?” but —”
“Yes, I could umpire him a game; Company
Mr. Smith, take do away. with him."—
can’t Lave anything to
Merchant l'raechr.
An Indian’s Contempt for Soldiers
At the club the other night, anecdotes a group
of Western men were telling is which
of frontier life. Here one
struck me as being particularly good.
Those who have been in the “far West”
and have lived among frontier men will
appreciate it, I dare say. In the course
of the Indian war of 188”, it seems,
General Sherman paid a visit to Camp
Apache, in Arizona. While there, a huge
red‘skin, who was captain of the scouts,
followed the General wherever he went,
and frequently begged as a preseut one
of the small cannons standing on the
parade ground Finally the General im-
patently turned to tho Indian, exclaim
log: “What do want with the
you cannon,
anyway? Do you want to kill my sol-
tural , 7*'Vr>‘ed voice; “want a. I.d.» to kill m cow-boys. hi. gut.
Kill soldiers with a club .”—New York
'Tribune.
Force of Haliifc.
“Does the razor hurt you?’
No reply. draft too strong?”
“Is the
No “Shall reply. 1 shut the door?”
No reply. Cleveland will be re-elected?”
“Think
No reply.
“Awful fire in New York last night!”
No reply.
Shave you pretty close?”
No reply. now?”
“Getting very warm
No reply.
‘ ‘That was a heavy thunder storm last
night 1”
No “Shampoo?” reply.
No reply. _
“Trim your hair Tip a little?”
No reply.
“lirilliantine on the moustache?”
No reply.
“Bay rum?”
No reply. barber, who
Then the country was ail
alone in the breezy shop, sat clown
greatly refreshed. He had been
himself.— Puck.
A Romantic Story.
A remarkable incident, the particulars
of which are vouched for, is reported in
5 u } , ‘j n - J U8t ei 8 ht Jf 18 > r ° J 0U n S
Dublin . and , the daughter of ,
engineer largely a
wealthy farmer who was also en-
; gaged in the Dublin orovision trade
were married, lhebr.de had managed
the provision business for her family,
and wan daunted as an amiable and
\°. ding vel y party S lT } went Af * to r ‘he Glendalough, marriage the and wed¬ a
most enjoyable day almost up to the hour
of returning was spent, the company
)j tdu g a large one, when some misunder-
1 Qj occurred between the newly
s j an n g
wedded pair. The bridegroom left the
' c0ln p an y j n anger and waiked the eight
I miles back to the city in time to take an
evening steamer to Liverpool, and from
that j period uutil heard Thursday The in last week
)e was neve r of. latter felt
] ler desertion keenly, but she stuck to
her business. Her father meantime died,
and 8 }j e wag left in charge of great re-
sponsibilities. believed The have wanderer died and was for¬
gotten or to some
time since another succeeded iu obtaln-
in g lier attentions. The wedding was
arranged for an early when day, and invitations
had been issued, the long-missing
husband put in an appearance m the
city. He had been all these years in
New Zealand, and he had made money
^ come home to share with
his wife, who, “strangelyenough,” adds
the correspondent, “felt all her old love
fer him revive. He was very nearly be-
ing late, but ins timely arrival saved a
vast amount of after misery to all cou-
cerned.” London Globe.
Coffee With the Arabs.
The great event of the visit to an
Arab family m Palestine is the coffee.
The host has a kind of brazen shovel
brought, ^ in which he roasts the beans; ^
; the u takes a F stle and mortar of th
oak of Bashan a Bd with hL , own hands
h(j ' d8 lt to l d ’ making b thc hard
oak ring forth a welco me to t hu * t .
M , these p a and morta s are
; ’
llcirl 00mS) aud are richiy ornameu ted
and beautifully black and polbbed by
age and use. Such was the one in ques-
tion. Having drunk coffee (for tho
honored guest the cup is filled three
\ times), you are quite safe in the hands
\ of the most murderous. So far do they
carry this superstition that a man who
had murdered another fled to the dead
man’s father, and before he knew what
had friends happened in, drank and, coffee. they Presently relat-
came as were
ing the news to the bereaved father,
recognized the murderer crouched by
the fire. They instantly demanded venge-
ance. No, said the father, it cannot
be; he has drunk coffee, and has thus
become to me as my son. Had he not
drunk coffee the father would never
have rested until he had dyed his hands
in his blood. As it was, it is said
he 'further Commercial gave him Advertiser his daughter to
wife.— . ... ^
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VOL. IU. NO. 51 .
THAT LAST, LAST NIGHT, j
The moon hung glorlou* In the »ky,
A» heart to heart, and eye to eye,
Unheeding all the hours flew by
That last, last night
The trees were brilliant red and gold;
How jmssing sweet the story told—
Ah! never loug and never old—
That last, last night
We pledged each other to attain
To I’isgah bights of heart and brain,
And each to earh should true remain,
That lost, last night
Your hand, electric to my own,
Your lips more precious than a throne.
Were mine, oh, joy! and mine alone,
That last, last night.
I wonder, if in years to be,
You will rememlier glade and tree,
And whispered vows of constancy,
That last, last night?
—Sarah K. Bolton, in Detroit Free Frees.
PITH AND POINT.
Light minded—The gas man.
Still life—In a whisky factory.
The fortune teller is apt to find in her
old age some of her palmiest days.
The King of the Dudes has been mar¬
ried about sis months and is now sub¬
dude.
Now is the timeto conciliate the girl't
father or make friends with tho dog.—
Merchant Traveler.
Why is a doctor like a broken windlass ?
Because he can draw nothing from the
well.— Washington Critic.
The reason that birds clean out a fruit
tree so quickly is that they take the fruit
away a peck at a time .—Boston Bulletin
"I will now disguise myself so that
even my most intimate acquaintance the
would not recognize me,’’said tramp
as he entered the free bath .—Hotel Mail.
The roses smell sweet
And the groc eries cheesy 1
The ladies look neat
And the buttor spreads easy.
—Oil City B izzarcL
underthe A phrenologist denotes says language.” that “fullness When
eyes caused another man’s
the fullness is by
fist it denotes very bad language, gen¬
erally.
It is stated on reliable authority thar
Alias Mathilda Sheckels will marry
the Duke of Bangkrupsie.in the autumn.
Mr. Sheckels came to this country forty
years ago and is worth $10,000,000 to¬
day. lie lias given an order to a florist
to make a grand floral emblem for tho
wedding, bearing the words: 1 “From ----
the steerage to the peerage .”—New York
Sun.
The bridegroom keeps his secrets, for his
secrets are his own;
Few jieople know how large a crop of wild
oats he has sown.
The bride, less fortunate than he, upon the
wedding day relative, she is
Finds, by some friend or that
given away. —Boston Courier.
Some carpenters the yard were putting a lived. fence
around where little M.
Night coming on before they finished,
they roughly nailed some long strips of
timber across the posts to protect the
shrubs. M., looking at it, said : “That
fence is just basted! And, my! what
long stitches, mamma 1 "—Christian lleg-
ister.
Preparing Potter’s Clay.
It is well known that the pots used by
the glassmakers must necessarily be of
the best material, but what that material
is, or where it is found, is not connected so gener¬
ally known. A gentleman
with one of the largest houses in New
York city dealing in glassware, who is
also interested in the manufacture, said
to a Mail and Express reporter:
“For a long time no clay was found
that equaled that found in Stourbridge,
England, but now no glassinaker ia
this country need import any, for in the
immediate vicinity of St. Louis a clay
company produces from its mines the an
article fully equal in every respect general to
English clay, und this United is now in The
use throughout the States,
process of preparing it for use is most
interesting.
“The clay is taken in carts from the
mines to the works, and there shoveled
through an opening in the wall directly
into huge vats that when it is dissolved cleansing ia
weter. From moment the
process begins. This is the most im¬
portant thing in the whole proceeding
and for this reason the carts arc not al¬
lowed to enter.
“Not only are the carts kept out, but
strangers are rigidly excluded, and some
influence is necessary to secure permis¬
sion to visit the building. When one
enters he is requested to clean his shoes
very carefully, as the introduction of the
most minute particles of dirt will injure
the clay. shoes Employes while are required to wear sake
wooden at work,for the
of cleanliness, and they willingly com¬ de¬
ply, because leather shoes are soon
stroyed, the nails being quickly destroyed
by coming in contact with the clay. Iron
will not stand (he contact and b ass is
consequently used instead of iron in all
the ma hinery which is touched by the
clay while it is in a state of solution.
“Clay, when it is stirred up in water,
will remain in solutionJor a long time,
and the particles of sand, gravel or iron
which may be in it will fettle to the bot¬
tom of the liquid as it is carried from the
large vats through sluices to the tanks
where it is allowed to settle. As it
passes through this sluice it is screened
or run through a fine wire netting, and
at this point it is constantly and care¬
fully watched by two workmen.
“In the tanks it remains for about a
week until the clay has settled to tho
bottom and the clear water is drawn off
to be used again. The clay is then taken
to the evaporating room and placed of in
shallow pans, the sides and bottoms
•which are covered with coils of steam
pipes. A uniform temperature of seveuty
degrees is maintained as nearly force as work- possi¬
ble in the room. A large of
men turn the clay over and over with
shovels until it is of the consistency of
putty ready for is the glazier’s another use.
“Thence it taken to room
where is a powerful block molding
machine which presses it into a slab
which is cut into blocks by a boy. He
uses a sort of a bow with a wire string.
and as ho cuts he stamps each block with
the factory mark. Then in the drying-
room they are baked slowly for live days,
when they are ready for sale in that
shape, or for barrels.” reduction to powder, which
is sold in