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ELLAY1LLE PUBLISl UG CO.
There nro about 40,000 moro men than
trorneu in Chicago.
'piio wool interest in Australia has
jnfTercd severely from droughts. The
llieep have died by m llions. Never-
t j, e ; e s8, the supply of wuolshowsastuuly
increase. ____________
The largest market in tiro world for
p,e pur huso and sale of mules is St.
Louis, where the trade reaches $0,000,000
a year. Atlanta comes next with a
trade of $2,000,000.
It is stated by the Commercial Adr.tr-
i; ftr that the fourth centenary of the
dscoverv of America will bo celebrated
at Genoa by the revival of an opera by
jjo 1 icchi, entitled “Ohristofore Colom¬
bo," composed in 1828.
]?v the naval rnaneeuvers just now Pm.
jshed in the Ir sh Bea, it appe ars that
“theavprage speed of even the best ships
sra< much below the figure given in any
an h»t tative naval work.” A Cunard
steamer ran by them as though they were
authored.
The jrexicans are hard at work on the
banks of the Kio Grande ’opposite j;i
Pam, Texas, building Ming dara3 and
willow matti e-sos to prevent their tcr-
ritoiy from being washed awsy by the
turbulent river. They have lost much
in past years in this manner.
Fomcbody delving in the history ol
Ni wburyport, Va«s., has found, assert'
the . ew Y ork Sun, that lumber was
on esent across the Atlantic Ocean in the
form of a lai't similar to that which re
cently arrived in the i ort of New York
from Jog ins, Nova Scotia.
There arc 800,0 ! 0 freight cars on the
va i nis railroad lines in tuis country, of
whch OO.tiCO are the property of the
Penn ylvauia Central r mil. They range
in value from ~ 300, the eo-t of construct
iuga fiat ear, to $1500, the amount ev
pend d in building tbe average refngera
tor car.
The Mikado of Japan has almost fin¬
ished IDs new palace, which Las taken
s x years for its construction. There are
400 rooms in tiie building, and the din¬
ing hull will scat 127 guests. Tee furni¬
ture of the Flute i epartment cams from
Germ my. Not, the least interesting ob
jeei in the palace is au American piano.
It is not ffcnera’ly known, but it is
nrvertlie'e-s true, tlmt the average length
of human lif ■ is iiie;ea-ing. Fifty year-
ago the !ivc!;ige duration sf Dfe iu
( rent Britain v. a - thirty ycirs, and now
it B forty-nine. T his is an me:case of
over 10 ) er cent, in the average lengih
of life in liity year'. The change is in-
cri id to yi ater knowieiigo of the laws
ofhe.tiih ;.n,I impro.ed s.«uitation.
Daniel A. Decld, n young colored news-
pap r man w o spo e at tiie ( iccinnat,
Duel ing of tho c a holic Young Men's
Naiio.inl L n on, s.i d, according to tiu-
I\ew i i.-rk Sa that tho number 0
co oied people in lies eon itry who are
‘ pr.ietiesR , omnn Ca holies" is ‘200,00
at iea't. Feveral of them have been or-
rta tied, un 1 several bright young colored
men are now studying for the priest
hoed.
Tiie open executive sessions of the
United fetales : enute on th • i i'heric'
quest on w e e begun on tho 28;h ol
May last, nnd the question ociupiel
the attiniio i of the Feuale to the almost
tojal exclusion of other business through
tw nty-two sittings. No sim.lar topic,
declares the New ovk Tribune, in re¬
cent times has consumed so much time
and t..It d so many columns of the offici.il
"i.ecoid.”
The ( olurrvh is (Gn.Y Fn it ire"-Sun
says: “J ou.s’ana has one | arish which
ought to contain a lot of ery happy 11 s
'veil as prosperous farmers. The:o is
not a sin je inongug t on farm property
of record in the parish, l ew, if any,
counties in Georgi 1 can make such n
showing, and probably every county in
the western states has any number of
farm mortgages. Sabine parish, La., is
1 model for tiie whole country.”
The great Lick telescope in California
promises wonderful discoveries in the
6 ■ ios. Professor Holden is very enthn-
einotic over its revelations, and says tint
be has hud views of the planets, the
dies, the milky way* an l tho nebulee
hi it no other astronomer ever before
bid. 'J he telescope resolves the nebul e
in I yra into wreaths of “sun stuff"
which are in the process of develop ng
into solid bod ;es and thc observation of
Jupiter promises to solve some of the
turious questions about that planet.
The Indian school at Carlisle, Penn.,
lms the oldest pupil of any educational
institution in the United fetate'. Ko is
tnore than sixty years of age. Crazy
Head is his name, nnd he was once Chief
of the Crow Nation. Ue was a bold
warrior and an able ruler. Ue is anxious
learn the wny 3 of white men and is
bow receiving instruction iu blacksmith-
it'T. During the winter he will attend
•chool. He s a man of vigorous health
Mid lias a more refined face than is often
found in his race. He is docile and
ft"lent and there is something almost
D'lhctic about his longing to learn the
customs of civilization before he dies.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN— BAIL-
ltOAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CHOP
-FLOODS— ACCIDENTS -CHOP HETUUN8.
ALABAMA.
Two thousand miners, employed by
ihe Cahuba Coal Mining company at
Blocton, went out on a strike araicst a
reduct on. f be Cahuba Company has
been paying 50 cts per ton for mining
since the siding scale was adopted by
the mini s in this district lii't Bummer,
I hey atm mice a reduction of five cents
per ton and ail the miners stopped work.
FLORIDA.
Jacksonville has spent $127,000 to
(late, and the relief restauranthasclosed.
The orange crop, it is estimated, will
be an immense one—not less than 300,-
OuO boxes.
VValter Hea'hers and Frank King had
a difficulty at Brooksville. Heathers
stubbed Kin/, killing him instantly.
Tney were both colored.
N. It. Carter, grand master of the
ficial Masonic dice fraternity of Flor.da, gives of¬
n that further aid for the
lodges in his jurisdiction is nut needed.
GEORGIA.
John YV. Nevitt, of A'liens, 73 yean
old nod a termer resident of Savannah,
died at Athens.
Bill Johns' n, a sort of trtmp negro
employed by O. O. Newman, near C ,ch¬
um. was lynched by about 500 citizens on
8 t unlay.
Five prisoners attempted to rsc'pt
from the city pr son in Atlanta on Sun-
il iy, an I were only discovered by acci¬
dent. T ey bad easily enlarged a hole
in the planking, which had been started
by a rat.
Col. J. G. Hi er, of Rome, has beer,
granted a pens on ns a Mex can veteran,
lie was surgeon in the 21 Kentucky in-
t iritry in tiie Mexican War, and com
mauled the Cherokee troops during tin
1 st Y\ r ar.
Thursday The “Spelling night Bee” the heir) benefit in Atlanta oi
for of Jack¬
sonville, Fin., vviis attended by one of the
most refined and enthusiastic a sembliet
-if the season. A largo sum of mone;
was realized.
Bill Lewis, the colored bill poster ol
Albany, was burned to death on Sunday.
The neighi-ors smelled burning flesn, and
broke into his room, the doors of which
were locked. They found him lying
dead with his head in the fire. He was
in epileptic, and fell in the lire while ir
a fit.
Angus .T. Morrison, a Scotchman em¬
ployed as a granite miner sit the Liiliouie
quarries bored three holes and filled
t iem with b asting powder. while Twoof the ihe
ii a-ts went • ff, and examining
third, to aseir aiu whit the trouble wa*,
ihe blast suddenly exploded, taking
Morrison's head completely off.
The steamship Naconchee arrn; 1, at
Sivannah on Sunday, h iving on hoard
tiie captain, bis daugli er, and a Indy
mssenger and seve i in n, composing the
crew ,f the schooner Nava l ay, iibnn-
1 ne I off Cape Ilemy, wa'er logged.
Hie schooner was on a voyage to Pliila-
lelphia from Patalrco Sound, with a
argo or lumber.
• The Gospel Army,” is a split from the
Salvati-'D Army in Allan's. A. J. YY r Ison
i speci il policeman is •he leader and his
mrpose is to be some clay the general-in-
cliief of some vast army, to lead a move¬
ment t > which not only sin and evil shr.ll
succumb, but the churches and preachers
ns well. He and his wife quit the Salva-
Pjnis s for wha,; he calhd their “low
mor 1 tone.”
M ij. Ker B->yce, Augusta’s postmaster,
laid the fiist stone of the government
building on Thursday. It was a solid
dock of granite, two feet long and a
foot thick, Horn tl equarries 01 Newber-
ry. S. C. This stone is pronounced by
lie government contractor to be the fiu-
rst gianite he ever used in government
buildings. Contractor Corbett says the
1 irst st- ry of the building w ill be up bv
the opening of the Expo ition, and thc
building ready for occupancy in sixteen
months.
NORTH CAROLINA.
As a passenger train was moving slow¬
ly into the dep. t at Fremont, Stephen
Davis, a white man got crushed directly in front
of tbe engine, and was to di ath.
No one saw him until the wheels had cut
him to pieces. It is alleged that he was
drunk at the time of the accident.
II. D. Robinson, who, for nearly two
years, had been man <g< r of the YVestern
Union telegraph office, , at Helms Ra'e-gh, insti¬ was
displaci d some days * ago. telegraph
tuted suit against the compa¬
ny for about six thousand dollars for
diimi'ges and services.
Police Detective B. F. Turlington, of
YVilmington, was shot, probably fatally,
by :i negro burglar whom he was attinip-
ting to hi rest ou the street. The ball en-
tel ed his jaw and tanged would up, bare lodging Id led in
his head. The negr--
another man had his pistol not failed to
fiie.
Raleigh was thrown into a 6tato of
meat excitement on Wednesday when it
n announced that tholes E. 0-ss,
WHS - National bank,
ex-president of the State
iust sentenced to convict labor for five
yea'* hud sworn out warrants belore T.
R. Burnett, United Status commissioner,
against E. R. Stamps nnd YV. S. Prim¬
rose thc former at one time president and
tho latter director in the bunk. 'Jhe
warrant charges Stamps with making
false entries on the bock of certain (In-
counted paper. It further charges that
said Stumps did, from time to time, dur¬
ing the years 1880, ’87 and ’88, make
false statements of the condition of said
bunk knowing them to be false. The
warrant charges Primrose with making
false st atements from time to time of the-
condition of the bank during tbe years
1884. ’85, ’86, T 87, ’88, ho knowing said
statements to be false.
TEXAS. for
Lewis McDade (colored), candidate
cotton weigher, was shot and killed from
ambush in tho streets of Hempstead the on
Sunday night. Everybody condemns
Iced.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18 . 1888 .
Missouri.
Fire broke out in the Vunddia railway
f eight depot in E<st St. Louis, ami he-
loi(j the fire depar-ment
could reach the scene, the depot was
doomed, and tnefire had spread to adja-
cent buildings, including a hotel fi lei
with piopie. Too Vundnlia ficigi t
house was a total loss; fif.een freight
c -rs and 300 balls of cotton being de¬
stroyed.
TENNES9EE.
Tho Brunswick Hotel, located in the
'■us ue s center of Chattanooga on a writ
of attacl meat isoU' d by the chance <y
court on 1 ho application ot TV. P. Crow
<& Son, the owmr 01 ihe b nlding. J. I),
Curlisd & Co., are the leasees of the
property.
The Broad Street Amusement Hall iu
Nashville, the largest hull in the city, i<
to be purchased lor au undenominational
g'ispri tabernacle. The pripe agreed on
was $21,000, uud under Bam Junes’lead,
seat , W«r 3,000 people. Bi T CU SuUll “ y ' TllC Lulf
John Atkins, while crossing Smoky
Mountain lroni his North Carolina home
to Tennessee, was attacked by a wild
)oar A litf ‘t of twenty minutes re-
suited in a victory for the boar, he h*v-
tug killed Ins antagonist A kins was
terribly mut.luted by tiie furious ammu.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Dolnga of Congress and the United
States Officials.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate chamber presented on
Hi iisduy, af er the L ading of the jour¬
being nal, a dt pressindy deserted aspect there
but five seuutors, pre-eut ou the
D mocratic s-de, and but fiiteeu on the
Republican side. Subsequently, liowev-
3f, half a dozen m ire Democrats put in
iu appeara n-e. Toe House b 11 appro-
priati g $50 0 0 for tbe enforcement of
ib- Chines exclusion act was reported
by Mr. Allison and piss -d. Mr. Mitch-
-’ll hen proceeded t- address the beuate
iu advocacy of the bill h«reiofo e intro¬
duced by him to reduce letter postage to
one cent. At the conclusion of Mr.
Mitchell’s speech the bill was referred to
the po*toflice committee. The Senate
then resu ncd consideration of ihe tar.ff
bill, ami was addressed by Mr. Cullom in
advocacy of the Senate bill.
GOSSIP.
The President has approved S-pelo the river act
to include Si-pelo sound,
and trapelo Lhmd in the Brunswick col-
lectiou distr et of Georgia.
James Longstreet, Jr., of Georgis, has
been promoted $000 ns-istam Loin typographic topographer assist¬ at
ant at to
$720 iu the interior department.
The T eascry Department lies denied
the petition of Duckworth & Co., Wilder
& C -., and others, of Savai nab, Ga., for
allowance of drawback on jute coverings
of cotton expoi ted from tuat part altut
M -y l'jth, 1887, without preliminary en-
trie-=.
Reports received in YVashington on
Mon-niy show that a track lias been con¬
structed i.round Jacksonville, Fla., mak¬
ing connec ion between theJ ekso-ivilie,
Tampa A Key West Road with the Sa¬
vannah, Florida & Western Railroad,
thus allowing through iran-poita ion to
the South without entering Jacksonville.
THE LIST GOES DOWN.
The visiting corps of volunteer physi¬
cians ot Jacksonville, F a., met in sol-
?mu conclave on Sunday to take action
upon the publicat.ou of a ci m nuuicntiou
in the Metropolis, wnich advoo-ted doing
away with the services of these physi¬
cians as a u e’ess anti nckless piece of
expense. Dr. B. F. Snelt-dl, of Bavan-
n- h w as chosen chairman, and Dr. L.
C. Carr, of Cinc-nna i, secret ry. There
were fourteen nnmbes of the sock 7
pr sent, Dr. Josep 1 Y. Porter, the pres-
i cut being the only absen ee. The doc¬
tors cut the article up alive. They were
indignant at the spirit signed of “Jacksonvi the communi¬ le,”
cation, whic.i was
a tact which may account f >r tbe general
impression among these physicians senti¬ that
it was a reflection of the dom nant
ment of th.it Community. Below is the
closing portion of it: “It is un leistood
that the re ident phyricians, besides their
customary expenses, have incurred unu¬
sual pec uniaiy obligations in
several ways, in the hire of ex-
tra < quip ige, will not receive hi y bene
fit from the magnificent contributions of
the charitable pc-pie of the United
States n< twi hstanUlng they have done
1 eir full snare of whit is kuow as char¬
ity practice. All pay Irom that source,
it is said, will be reserve I by the auth >r-
ities for the ‘visiting phjsci.ins’ and who the
have done faithiul service, selected
favored few whom tney have to
peiloim hospital dudes, wh ; cY aru is com-
purutively light. This expense enor¬
mous, as < ach visiti-r receives at
he rate of about $500 per month as
follows: 8ilary per month ut $10 per
dny, $300; hire of lior-e, buggy and
driver at $5 per day, $150; board, etc.,
es im.ited per m mth, $50. Total $500.
To lhese items are t> be added rent of
hotel, appurtenance , salary.’, of manag¬
es of restaurants, clerks, attaches, Sul v-
int', etc. Possibly a leak might ba
stopped just hue.” Ou motiou, the
whole coipsresigned to a mm with the
, xc. pt 011 of Dr. Porter from any 1 urther
S IVIC • to the city or tie people of
Jacksonville. They wilt not mike an¬
other new call; the patien s alrtaly un¬
der th ir charge will be turned over to
the reside-1 physicians, and then the
doctors will tender their servic s free of
charge made t) Dr. Porter, of by the_ him same
to be use in
any w'uy which be may wsh.
Public sentiment is rapidly cnstahzing
in favor <<f issuing an address to the
country at large, c filing a check upon
the contributions of money stffl coming
in s i bountifully. The auxiliary execu¬
tive committee has the matter under con¬
sideration. but tue difficulty sufficientfud- seems to be
n getting h report made of
ness un i furnishing requisite data upon
which to have an estimate for our needs
until the end of thc epidemi". Dr. Neal
Mitchell, Pr sid at of the Board of
Health io ucs the following official
letin f r Sunday: New, 18; deutns, 3;
total cases to date, 3,544; total deaths,
813 ,
THU WORLD OYER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE,
till. FIELD OF LAIlOIt—SEETIIINO CAUL-
DltON OF EUliOPKAN INUtlGOE— FIHES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
The Farmers’ ami Merchants’ bank of
8 a 0u “»«*«, 1 . i*a., .. iie..r Pittsburg, ,, . . closed , its
Jool8 ‘
decrees The grand vitier of Turkey publication has issued of
a forbid ing the
morning papeis.
Noted “Long J- lin’’ Wentworth, at one
time mayor of Chicago. III., is dying
from sof.cning of the brain,
Emperor Wiliam presented to the
Pope a gold t-nttll box, set with middle. jewels,
with his ow n portrait mtiie
1{ v the fall of a platform erected for a
display of fireworks in Quincy, III., on
Weiims lay, 150 persons weie hurt. Some
of them will die.
Tbe irredentists of Italy have scattered
infl.mnmtorv biU, hea Ivti 4 D >wn with
the Tliple A'liaticc,” and simdar expres-
61oas the stree.s.
T e committee . in . London, x , England,
having ehaige of the fund to pay the ex¬
penses < f Mr. Parnell, in his litigation in
with tiie Times, have issued a circular
which they state that $35,000 has thus
iar been sub.-cribed.
The failure of A. M. LeCont waq an¬
nounced i n the Cotton Exchange in New
York on Thursday. The su-pension is
sai l to be due to losses incurred iu tiie
failure of J. W. Hart & Co., last spring
and has had no effect i n the market.
Twenty thousand British colliers in
Yorkshire have given notice to tluir
employers, that they will go on rtiike
unless they are conceded ten per cent
advance in wage*. Filty thousand col-
liirs will give notice to the s -me effect.
George Francis Train is going to lec¬
ture in New York for the ben-fit of the
yellow fever sufferers. He lost his
father, mother and three sisters in an
epidemic of the fever in New Or cans iu
1833. Although rather “queer” with some¬ big
times, he is a man of brain a
heait, and lms done many a kind deed.
A fire at the oil refining docks at
Or- enpoint, (Long Bland), N. Y., on
Thursday, burned iliree barges, one
steamer, seveial buildings wbaives, etc.,
and 177 b-irrtls of oil belonging to the
Stand r-1 Oil Company. The lossamounts
to $300,000. An exploding oil tank
scatter- d burning oil inn -nRhe firemen,
and tix were ba -ly wounded.
Emperor William arrived at Rome,
Italy, on Thursday, and he wns met at
the railway station by King Humbert
uud the greeting between the two man¬
ure is was most cnnffifc ' Large crowds
lined the streets le -ding fr< in the station
to the Quirinnl. i nd an entliusia-tic wel¬
come was extended to tbe German em-
peror. Th- re was a crowd of 50,000
persons mi-s-ed in iront of the palace.
A north bound passenger train on thc
Cleveland, Canton & Wheeling Rnlroad
came into coll siou wi h a freight train
near Mi-ssbou. Ouio, i-n Tl ursduy. and Both
•cigims, freight two posenger werecomph concnes tely wrecked. 'ev-
erui cars
O e freight and oin- |) -ss ng r brakemnn
were fata-ly injmed and two passengers
veie seriou ly hurt; one pro obly la¬
ta ly. The accident was caused by a
change of schedule.
The rail Mull Ornette states that Dr.
Birgman, one of die | liysicinns who
were in attendants upon ti e late Emperor
Frederick, will bring an action for lihel
in English couris against Dr. Mackenzie,
for statement' made by the latter in his
b nk on the case of Emperor Frederick,
reflecting on Dr. Berummi’s ability as a
physician. The Gazette >ays that Dr.
Geirarat will probably insti ute proceed¬
ings against Dr. Mackenzie.
UNBIDDEN GUEST.
YV. R. Boss, acompositor, wits married
to Miss Jis-e C. Lovett, in Jacksonville,
Fla., on Thursday, under peculiarly sad
circumstances. The bride-elect at 3
o’clock in the afternoon, began feeling
sick, and when 8 o'clock nr ived hud 11
very high fever, her temperature being
103 deg ees, but nothing daunted the
plucky and pretty bride insi.-ted that tbe
weduiug should take place, uud Bishop
Weed, of the Episcopal Church, tied the
nuptial knot. Immediately after the
ctreinony, the bride broke completely
down, und so nami ng became her
symptoms that, a doctor was called in,
and she was ordered to bed. Next
morning it was dis; overed that she had
a verv i-erious case of ye low fever. Tho
bridegroom is wild with grief.
SOLUTION PROMISED.
The late«t theory of the London police
■in the subject of the Whitechapel mur-
i er8 —and one in fiver of winch they
have abandoned all other'—is a most
stmtlii-g one. It is an iill> g d ca'e in
real hie of Dr. Jekyil aud Mr. Hyde.
The police claim to h.ve a particular corrob¬ in-
divulud iu view, and to possess
orative evidence in support of their the¬
ory. He has been repeatedly tracked
and traced, and is a web-known and
weabhv re id- nt of Giusven-x Square,
tbe most fashionable quarter of London.
A sensation of immense magnitule is
expected in connection with the matter.
NEW STEAMERS.
A resolution wa' off red and nnnni-
mou ly adopted at a meeting of the East
Tennessee R. R. directors he’d iD Savan¬
nah, Ga., ins ructing President Thomas
to put engim ers in tne fie d at once to
locate a line fiom Etstrnan to Savannah,
(la., and also authorizing Pre-ident
Thomas to negotiate for view the purchase establish¬ oi
four steamships, wiih a to
ing a line <1 steamers between bavannub
and New York.
he was remembered.
A statue of Shakespeare was unveiled
in Paris, France, with great cer-mony.
The municipal authouties and a number
of distinguished |e-s -us were pretent.
M. Knighton, donor of the statue, M.
Clare-bic and others made addresses,
Passages from Shakespeare’s works were
recited by Mounet Sully.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOltora SKETCHES FROM
Various sources.
The Summer After-Tlio One Thing
Needful—Only a lirlef lies-
gite—A Wile's Fours,
Ktc., Etc. f-
I stood once more on the dear old l>eneh <
VV here we'd parted the year before,
And silt lig there in the se t-same spot
I saw my love once more.
The dress she wore was the one I loved,
A s.mple gown of white,
And 1 asked mvself. “When she put it on,
Did she. know 1 would come to-n ght!”
The moon shone bright as I closer drew,
And knelt at her feet on the sand.
Where I told her how I had loved her long,
An I ventured to take her hand.
With a silvery laugh she raised her head,
And then, oh, horrible sho.-kl
I saw tmit 'twas only Rosalie's maid
1„
_
The One Thl.ijr Needful.
Mr. C. de Burst—“Ah, wnitaw, wlmt
h CO ° k U8ei “ CUttiU8 theaemUtt0n
chons "
A n stole—“A cleaver, sir, of course!”
Air. (’. de Hurst—“Aw, good I Bring
me one!”
Only a Brief Respite.
Infatuated Y outh (after a three hours
visit)—“Miss Ma d, I must go.”
li fatuated Mu den—“Well, Charlie;
but you will ca.la^aiu soon, i hope.”
infatuated Y outh—“I will be back in
fifteen minutes .”—Detroit free Trea.
A Wile's Fears. .
Wife Ho country editor) — “Aren’tyou
feeling well Ed,tor—“Not to-night, John?”
Country \ ery, my dear.
i flmiX in fil?, n !e, r “ l r: b !i r m0PI CumM i ,,t0 U1 ' f: ,h e ‘ !
ith in » ”
w;e l L an.- ,4 J mr aVCnS r r. i
V,a hope he didn f t stop f h.s ].aj.er, too.”- ,
Life.
Something Else
Diner (to slow waiteri—“Pome roast
beef, well done, potatoes and a glass of
milk.”
Waiter—“Y'essir; anything else, sir?"
D.ner—“Yes; I'd like it this after¬
noon.”— Judge.
Baseball's Vlerims.
Miss nr- Ethel t-.c , (of . „ Boston)-“I ... under- x
stand, Clara, that young Mr. Ma-on.who
was very attentive to you last mouth, is
engaged to Miss hacket, of Tliila-
delphia. ^
Mess Clara (of New Y ork)— 1 “Yes;
released Mr. Ma-on on a Thursday, and
and do you know it wasn’t two days he-
fore he had signed with that Fffila-
delphia girl.”— Time.
That Undiscovered „ . Conn try.
Little Mabel—“Oh, mamma!” Where’s
Protest?”
heard Mamma—“My dear child; I never
of such a place. Why do
ask ”
Little Mabel—“Because, 1 heard papa
*ay this morning he’d have to go llitsre
this afternoon, sure's shooting.”— idea.
Home. Kwe t Home.
Featherly—“Are you pretty full up
at youi boarding-house, Iminley?"
liumley—“Yes, theie are two brides,
three dowagers, a grass widow, a retire i
army officer witli one leg, and myself. ’
Featberly—“That is a mil household,
for a fact. YVhat kind ot fare do you
get:” Dumlev—“Warfare.”—
Epoch.
A Slight Misunderstanding.
“Stranger, I heard you iav that you
had u^t returned from a tour of the
State?’’ „ *
“ies, sir.” *
“How is the corn crop?”
“Immense.”
“How m my bu-hels do you tliink it
will average to the acre?”
“I scarcely understand you. I am a
( hiiopodist, and bushels have noth ugto
do with my business .”—Nebraska State
Journal.
What WIB He Do With It?
“I have nothing for yon to eat, my
good mao,” said the young wife, "but
if you need any clothes here is a gar¬
ment of my husband’s that you may
have. He has se-eral others like it and
doesn’t need this.”
The ^ tramp looked , at . the ,, elaborate . . „ .
yellow and gieen dressing and gown em-
bro dered with blue rose, red hum-
m.ng birds, a id walked off slow ly,
scratching h;> head in adazed manner.
— C nicago irioune.
TVantecl.
A spark . of - the lire of e that , * a. kin* i •
genius
ales enthusiasm.
leathers Irom the of the .
wings lin-
agnation. from the wheel of fortune.
Bpokes drop of the distil.ed of the
A atlar
flower* of rhetoric.
A cheese made out of the milky whey.
A bucket of pure water from the wells
of despair.
Cement for sp it sides after reading
thc above jokes. Lije.
Fa'hor Had an O'ensive Weapon.
“YVillie,” sorrowful y observed the
little gi . , 1 to her juvenile adorer, , 4 . papa
says I’m too young to have a sweetheart,
and I must quit running out and playing
with you. He says you mustn t come
heie so much.”
“I'm not afraid of your papa, Katie,
raid YV iliie, ttout’y. “He needn i think
he can scare me because he’s a big dealer
in lumber.”
“Yes, but be deals in shingles, Willie,
big, flat shingles ”
“That so?” said Willie, turning awsy
sadly. — Chicago Tribune.
Precise.
Alfonso de Beriot— “You say you are
superstitious, Miss Gushington, but
wou d you dare to be married on
Friday?” Gushington “What! Next
Itli 83 —
Friday? YY hy, dear Alfonse, you are so
sudden and so unconventional.”
“You quite mi'understand me. I pro¬
test—I didn’t propose—” didn’t
“That’s all right, usually Alfonse, do, hut you I like
propose as they dear, shall be
iust the tame. Yes, it
Friday.” ,—Springfield Union'
ivlfosse swoons
Mr. Baohfeller’a SuggMtlveneas.
“Oh. look at that pretty bird, Mr.
Bach feller I” said Miss Nevershy, point¬
ing to a big gull swooping in broad cir-
cks over the non. Bachfeller, with
“Y'eV’sahl Mr. jocular, “and it’s not an
nwful effort to be
the only pretty gull 1 can ere, Miss
Nevershy. Jloth of them are as grace-
ful as can be, and-”
“Isn’t that bird fishing for sorne-
thingl" “Acs-hut- but I didn’t mean to sug¬
gest that you were---’’ .
“That will do, Mr. Bachfeller-I see
mamma is beckoning to me.”
posite And sides they have of the occupied vessel seats since.— on Pitts¬ op-
burg Dispatch.
Y oung Mr. Banks weighs and a trine somewhat over
two bundled pounds He is calling
sensitive about it. was on
his g rl the other evening when she said
naively : Mr. Banks, would just
•■(,), you as
sit in Ibis e-J, cb.i, I. Ih.t
rocker?” replied
‘Certainly, certainly," Rinks
K«1 «ntly. as he changed f.om one chair
60 0
“Oh, thank^” she murmured, “you
kind. I have an atlas full of
such lovely terns under the cushion of
that easy chair, and you-” Ranks stiffly,
"Good night,” said as
he walked away, never, never, never to
return. — Time.
Par. Ansr- tiie Great Inventor.
"One of the m-ist comical things I’ve
ever bend was told me in the Caucasus,”
sad Dudley Winston, the young man
who accompanied his father on the
m.ssion to Persia. “It wn in T ftos.
the capital of the Principality of
Georg a. 1 ou know there's an American
store there - a big place of business
where all sorts of ‘Yankee notions’ are
dealt out at enormous profits to the na-
fives. 1 dropped in .here. 0*e of the
ob cets of interest to which the Russian
salesman directed mv special attention
WM a patent poUtc peeler he . said. ‘ Ves
‘“Dees instrument,’ of Fat. Aug.’
medd by ze fay moos ’ouse
“J was astonished.
“ ‘What house did you say!’
“Vefaytnoos ouse of Pat. Aug.’
“Never heard of it,’I said; ‘I guess
you are mistaken.’
“ ‘Meestec <en; No, sare. I have often
heard of ze 'ouse, and I have often seen
ze name of ze ’ou ! e‘ I vill show him to
you now. Oh, it is a firm which cd joys
’ here.’
° etttfame
,. An(1 with that jj e joo^s f or n 8pe ci-
men p0 at0 ,, celer au ,i bring g 0 ne out.
*•‘Zere, sarc,’ he siys ‘ees ze name co-
graved s in xe metal 1.
..j burMt <)Ilt lai ,ghing until my sides
acbe( , There was the legend: ‘Pat.
Au - 17< W73 .» And the ‘1 at. Aug.’
part of it he had taken to be the firm’s
name. 1 found that this potato peeler
w»( famous under the name of ‘Bat.
Al .g.’n|l over the Caucasus.”— Chicago
Herald.
A Cnre for Sleeplessness,
The terrible evil of insomnia has so
many ililleient sources that the utmost
we tan bo pe from any single artifice is to
ailord relief from it under one special
form. 1 venture to think 1 have bit upon
a plan which thus remedies a very com¬
mon (not an aguravaied) with permission, kind of sleep¬ will
lessness; and, your
endeavor to m ike your readers who may
he fellow sufferers sharers in my little
di-( overy.
]t isimw, I belie e, generally accepted
ihat our conscious, daylight thinking
processes are carried on iu the sinister
half of our brains—i. e., in the lobe
which controls the Action of the right
arm and leg. Pondering on the use of
the dexter half of the brain—possibly and what- in
all unconscious cerebration, in
soe\er may be genuine of the mysteries
of ptanchette and sprite (sha rapping—I came by
to the conclusion edno doubt
many ot.ier better qualified in .uirersi
that we dream with this lobe, and that
tbe fantiist.c, unmoral, sprite-like char¬
acter of dreams is. in someway, trace-
ubie to that fact. The practical inference
then struck me: to bring back sleep when
lost, we must quiet de the conscious, think¬
ing, sinister s of ournrains, und bring
into activity only the dieam side, the
dexter lobe. To do this, the only plan
1 could devise was to compel myself to
put aside every waking thought, even
soothing and pleasant ones, and every
effort of daylight memory, such as co int-
ing numbers or the the repetition of easy-
flowing wholly verses, unsuccessful latter having been my
not practice for
n Instead of all This, I saw I
mus hink of a dream, the more recent
th0 b and over and over the
tcene it pre8ent ed. Armed with this idea,
, ll(J lime , found m y self ttwak ening
at ^ wr ;5 G ' cioc \ c j n t ^ e morning, in-tead
of merely and trying to banish painful
thoughts repeating, as was my habit,
recommend able soporific, “h'arad.se
and the Peri,” 1 1 everted at once to the
ureHm (i 0m which 1 had awakened, and
tried to go ou wiih it. In a moment I
was asleep! And from that moment the
exper raent, often repeated, has scarcely
ever failed. Tsot seldom the result is
fiU( i deD a3 thc fa!1 Q f a curtain, aud seems
llke 8 charm . A fr cnd to whom I have
confided my litt.e discovery te la me that
w |thout any preliminary the theorizing about
the lobes of brain *ke had hit upon
ihe same wonderfully plan to produce sleep, and had
found it efficacious.
1 should be very glad to hear if other
8U i’; ererg can obtain the precious boon in
tbe same way. The evils of prolorged
W akcfulness and of the diug-taking to
which ils victims are too often driven are
alike so terrible that I make no apology
j or 0 f >er j„jj nl y humble contribution of
j one moru harmless remedy to obviate
them .—London Spectator.
j Shavings for Deadening Noise.
A variety of materials—such as saw-
| dust, dry ashes, under cork-chippings, deadening etc.,
lirive been used tloor9 lor
noi e. A late French suggisti wutd-shaviugs in is the
use for this purpose of
which have been claimed dipped that in thick Bubstance white¬
wash. It is this
has the advantages of be ng quite in¬
combustible, an excellent non-conductor
of sound, inexpensive, and of light
weight. When desirable to disinfect the
space between floor and ceiling, as in
hospitals, chloride of zinc may be used
to saturate the shav,ngs or added to the
whitewash.
London now , has several ,. lines or , half- ,,
“buses,” which connect with tha
various horse-car iines.
VOL. IV. NO. 4.
LAST TIM* AND NEXT. J
Wbsn la*t w* met the wood* w*re gram.
The *ky wa» azure, clear and g*y,
Thegiail* waa dvcked in lustrous ihtta-
—'Twas in the early b oom of May;
The throttle left betimea hi* bed .
To chant hit lay above thy head, ■ ''
When last we met ,
When next we meet a leaden *ky
8hall frown with mournful port above*
The bird* shall- chant no lullaby,
Nor ting the fairness of my lore;
All mournful shall the bare trees stand,
Btriptof their leaves by winter’* bond.
When next we meat.
But thou, who by thy queenly grac%
When nil around was fairtoiee,
Could nature’s bravest hue* effaco, ,
Despite such noble rivalry,
Shalt shine a thousand times more fair.
When all around be blaolc and hare.
—iVsui York Tribune.
PITH AND POINT. ?
Irony—The wit of the laundrr.
The Quirk and the l ead—The tele¬
graph and the messenger boy.
In going up the ladder of fame, w*
meet many coining down.— Life.
It often happens in politics that a fact
that has “leaked out” Lad never leaked
in.
Pay heed to the idle rumor. Pome day
the idle roomer may fail to pay his room
rent.
An early settler—The Bowery lodge*
who has to pay for his lodging before
going to bed. t
A physician usually treat h : * patient*,
but he docs not treat them well.— Dsng-
han ton HejiuWcan.
"Sarah,” said the small boy at th*
lawn-mower to his nurse, “eoiueout and
help me peel the grass.”
He—“I wonder what makes the flies
so Micky today?” t-he—“1 suppose if
must BarUn'/ton he that new fly Pres*. paper you bought.”
— fret
Mrs. Maginnit—“Luk at the sthrut oo
the youngster, Moike!” Mr. Maginuia—-
“Begobs. ef he kap s on loikethat O.’ll
make u park polaceman of ’em.— Judge.
skill “Baseball is a game requiring great it
and courage, is it not!” "les,
is. the scorer need# the skill and tha
umpite the courage .”—Neve Fort N<ve*J
St' anger in haste asks native of the
place whole he arrived the night before
after dark: “What’a the quickest way P
to get to the depot?” "Run, you fool
—bo ton Times.
Robinson—“Hello, Jones! Been away
shooting you!” tor a couple “Yes.” of weeks, obin-on— haven’t
Jones— l
“Well, whnt did you bag?” Jones—
“My trousers . - ’—Ncxc Fork Neva.
I’rofessor—“Gretchen! Please tak*
the i at out of the room. I caunot hav#
it making such a noise while I am at
work. YVhcrcisit:” Gretchen—"Why,
Professor! You are sitting on it, sir f”
- Theyeude Blue tier.
How swart is the voice of the festive lawn
mower,
As it sing* nmi converses at morn;
How blituely it stutters, now 1 aster now
slower.
While shaving tbe beard off the lawn.
—Judo/i.
lady—“This lobster, I «ce, is marked
two fiancs higher than theolhers; how
is that?" “Well, you see, ma'am, it
happen-to be fresh !” had replied ihe tbe vendor,
smil ng, as if he said most
natural th,ug in the world —Le Taroeur.
A Prairie 11 imo. t
A pra’rie homo is like an oasis. rTd'na
across the level lands towards one of
these peaceful spots is like ridmgtowards
a hang ng gaiilen. The gray Mof, and
red chimney oat ng its blue ling, gleam
cheerily under the deep shade of the
grove of umbrella ( hina trees that rhe
settler has planted as shade for himself
and cattle and for his fuel in the future.
His crops of cotton, corn, rice and cane
st etch away in a wondrous mo-tax of
luxuriant color. The oranges hung heavy
on the trees about the h -use, nnd pigeon*
me pluming themselves by the gray rim
of the well. About ihe front door are
banana trees stand and belly pink-nlumed myrtles.
3 he cattle detp in the lakes
that are scattered here and there in
opulent profusion, with as if riotous hand nature
had flung down generous so
many huge silver coins. 'I hey are linked
overthe tawnv breast of this pr.drie like
a necklace of silver coins strung over the
bosom of an Ind an princess, tanking he*
beautiful and picturesque. The dreamy
croonirg of the the bees pigeons, the the bushes, sleepy
bu zing of in alder
theiaintlow of the cattle or neghof a
young filly in her field, the sweet smell <>i
the bay fields, the the burnished wondrous gold on the
hesvv corn, bottomless
deptimff the heard blue and sky felt - who all theve that has
seen and can
forget how sweet is I ouisuuaasitis?—!
Picayune, i
' -
Turbans of Departed Sultans.
The middle rooms of the Turkish
Treasury contain ihe state rubes of the
Fultnns, from 145:ff to jwol). These ure
displayed on head ess lay fgures, tbs
turbaos being which placed produces diiectly on ths
shoulders, a very
grotesque effect. :
Inch turban is surmounted by ahands
some aigrette, held in place by a jewel,
and in each belt is a magnificent dagger.
Most of these arms are veritable master¬
pieces of ait. One of theiarved cold
guards is worthy of < ellini, and tbs
handle of another The dagger is formed of s
single emerald. p ofusion of st«nei
on the dagger and on the aigrettes of th*
turbaus is really wonderful. One of tbs
latter is held in place by a clasp com¬
posed of two emeralds and a ruby, each
14 inch in diameter. All the robes ars
of magnificent they brocade, would so richly em¬
broidered that 6: and alona
The Healthy Bengalese.
It is said of a Bengalese tribe, the Oa-
wals of Marwar, India, that whilechoiers
rages on ail sides of them not one hoe
ever taken the disease, much less suc¬
cumbed to it, and they attribute their
immunity to their sanitory rules. Ac-
cor ding to the precepts of their reliaios
they never touch animal food norspiritu
ous liquors; they dine early, and sun on
milk and fruit. Wherever an Oswal
goss he never breaks these rules. It i*
notadded.bat it is quite safe of to cleanlinesl presume,
that a measure, at least,
goes with th-se other religio-ianitarj
ordinance*.