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About The Pickens County herald. (Jasper, Ga.) 1887-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1888)
@k pitkcns Counfa fjcrnRi ♦ W. B. MIHCBT, Editor. VOL. 1. There is a variety of posts and poles in New York streets. There are lamp* posts, jewelers’ posts surmounted by clocks, Fire Department poles. Western Union Telegragh poles, electric light poles, and poles for the electric light wires, barbers’ poles and police signal- box poles. The Trilunc says fa-etiously that “all that is wanting now to tom- plete the equipment, of our streets is the North Pole, and thon the average New Yorker ought to be satisfied.” The German papers announce the death of Louis Harniuth. a mechanic and inventor, who had been wholly blind since his tenth year. He had not been able to reap the benefit of most of his in- ventions, owing to occasional slight de¬ fects, which a person in full enjoyment of his eyesight might easily l ave over- come. Most of his inventions were of a scientific character. The last patent WR8 was taken out by him as late ns June last. He had been brought up in the Royal Blind Asylum, in Berlin, where he began by making fine braidwork. In the latter years of his life he devoted himself principally to intricate machine work. According to T * the cremation movement continues to gain ground steadily here and in Europe. A dozen or more crematories have been opened within .ho ln,t n. leant double that number arc in process of construction. Cremation societies now exist in most of the States and Terri¬ tories. In some European countries, Italy for example, there is scarcely a city without one. When once a society has been formed, the erection of a crematory becomes simply a question of time, two or three years at the outside. To those who recall the perfect storm of opposi¬ tion that the first proposal to revive this ancient custom raised, this progress ap¬ pears remarkable.” The Railroad Gazette gives the follow¬ ing account of the northernmost enter- . - the , world ,, “The Swedish and prise m : Norweigan railroad, which is now build- ing from Lulea, on the Guif of Bothnia toLafoden on the 1 North «o;i \ C Y U Spa unrtlv ?. y situated within the Arctic a circle, and is 3,200 miles further north than any rail- road in Canada. The winter has not, hnwmr however, .men found too sevctc i by the English , employes and their . and wives, the snowfall is less than in some more southern hit it u les, while the darkness of the long winter nights is partly compen¬ sated by the lights of the aurora. The line is being built by an English com- pany in order to tap the enormous de¬ posits of iron ore in the Ge'divara moun¬ tains. .... is feared , thiii , the ore m . tip. Bilbao district is nearly exhaustc I, and as this is the source of supply for many steel works in the I'n t,;d Stn'es and Europe, a non-phosphoric ore su li¬ able for steel rail making is very de¬ sirable. A considerable demand exists already for the Gcllivara ore, an 1 hv- rlraulic machinery capable of d -Lvuring on bo,.id ship 10,000 tons of ore in l wen- ty-four hours is being installed on the company’s wharf at Lulea The engines and cars used have been budt in Eng- land. The former have eight coupled wheels and weigh 127,00) pounds in 7*7 «*«•, -w <7 «» 7 .r* of steel thioughot and are of 08,000 »"** cap " d, - v - The announcement that Hme. lionet cault, the chief proprietor of the unions store in Paris, called Bon Marche, lms left *3,000,000 £3 nno linn tn to be divided among ail employes P y who had been in h-r : servi v ten years, besides , , numerous other chari- , . table bequests,will surprise no one famil- iar with the history of this re nark able fare of his 3,000 era love, ins constant care, and his wife continued that policy after his death. Classes in music, liter- ature and the languages are provided for them during their leisure hours, and English and American visitors hive the pleasure of being shown about by a clerk speaking excellent Englishwh .has never been off of French soil. Employes, when sick, arc attended by physi ians of the establishment. M. Boncicaut. even leased a forest not far from Paris where the men raig-ht hun.hnti.g their Every i employe i • share i tions. receives a of the profits, the co-operative principle being carried so far that the great store is governed by a board made up of those ■who have worked their way, by long ser- vice and ability, up to the highest posi- ' tioa= Ttr One I of ; the features Tit of this 7 unimie establishment, tn and a not the , least interest- \ ing, is that all the persons employed there, from the porters to the partners, ■re tod within its wall* snd that tbev all ! get mu precisely t reriselv the the earn* same fare fare. TW There is probably no busincs house in the world where the paternal principle is carried cut so thorouohiv. and this is evidenced » « met direction, a. c„. With which the young girls are shielded against all demoralising ipSusof-M. JASPER. GEORGIA. FEBRUARY 0, 1888. j 1 BIDE MY TIME l bide my time. Whenever shadows darken Along my path, I do but lift mine eyes, And faitb reveals fair shores beyond the skies, And through earth's harsh, discordant sounds | I hearken And bear divinest music from afar, Sweet sounds from lands where half my loved ones are. t Wdo—I bide my time. | I bide iny time. W hatever assail hie woes I I know the strife is only for a day; A friend waits for into further on the way— A friend too faithful and too true to fail me. I \Vhowill bid all life’s jarring turmoils cease, And lead me on to realms of perfect peace. I bide—I bide my time. ' I bide my time. This conflict and resistance, This drop of rapture in a enp of pain. Tlxis wear and tear of body and of brain, But fits my spirit for the new existence Which waits me in the happy by-and-by, Soeome what may, I'il lift my eyes and cry; ” I bide—I bide my time.” j —Ella Wheeler Wilcox i . ATVRN OF THE WHEEL j i BT KVF.I.TN THORPE. i Flora would have liked to say some- S S h"d , But, Maskelyne after all, what could one say? ! did not seem to expect, or ' wi5 h f ? r * further. He walked , the roughness of the descent rendered mch service necessary, he offered his hand, and always without looking at her. Flora concluded determinedly at last that the silence should not be broken by her. He was taking his refusal as a man might Of be expected to take these dreadfully, things. course it hsn t their pride And not more than one of them out of a thousand really cared enough for a girl to be truly lur friend after she had done his vanity this, to him, unpardonable ill- jury. The camp was in sight now, in the lantly, valley Ik low them. Flora hoped, petit- would that, since her rejected and suitor dis- assume so uncomfortable agreeable an attitude he would at least keop as much us possible out of her way until she should start for the East, in of few days. This Maskelyne scrupulously did. ' An<i - Tot * >°ru was scarcely satisfied. I I There * «««« discomfort inker senses. ; ! Once she brought herself sharply to task. task. Well, after all, what did 'she I ! want? want ? Would Would she she have have liked liked to to accept accept j | Maskelyne, AtocWoi she to t knew ,, marry .n...-,. she him.' beautiful, She was very and young, was now, with all this money that had come to them, ambitions, slumbering before, had sprung into life vivid and insistent. And why hot? Was it not natural, Flora Wade asked herself, defiantly, that a. her girl who felt su -h capacities within as she was conscious of should want to exercise them in a brilliant field, and j wield su h social prestige as they gave? Fora !i tie while, a few years at least, j she her , wauled life! to live—to she married live!—and , to cn- joy It now a poor engineer, m the Western wilds, what would her life lie? Of course, if one shed.dnot ? vef ]. , a ma! J lore ver { Maskelyne, r m ' ,c , h - • she ' assured ' herself, fiercely. Not, at least, enough ! 0 .' 1 18 coonme’^’ ' L 1 - Yes ’ ie wou < U , n h, ° ltr W * S1U ’ woridW He would say she had trifled with him had li d him on. v' slowly’in ^ tall f a ir-hhired fellow had crossed ' front of the open door. He was not conscious of being seen. He was !£» ,ZraTJS!fSf t , “«?, »w> “!■ * She was going East the very next day. Her trunks were packed. A letter from the distant relative, a tnshionable woman who was 8 to rhaueron cn T herdur- ing ■ the next lew years, and who , already , , had Flora's younger 8 ster with her, lay before her. Vis ons and dreams of sue- c « ss , of happtne. s such as the brilliant it had quite faded and the shadows filled the valley. When she finally rose from her chair ’ a s ? ne shaking off sleep, there '“I” . ‘°“* "<*”• '» h » d “ k •y 68 - After all, if Howard Maskelyne had bided his time, if he had not been pre- cipitated, perhaps Flora Wade morning. would not have gone East the next Who knows? Howard Maskelvne 7 remained remamert West West for three jc^is. His resolution to succeed ~ 40 ahe-id had, as some of his Mjere^L perceive wiinouc perceiwn'j tnc cause been remfor ed by a soil °f dogged to "his wprk defiance wtth He that ^himself undivided and up t J ard th^torn^^ecfLnffe^he^he has suffered a sentimental disenchant- ment--if, that is, he does not take the opposite altogether. course and slight that, aspect ” He diet not take a vacation whe he cou id have done so. He geemed to dread even a day’s idleness, He grew older, and the lines other deepened in his face. Some of the fellows »urmised, ^ at times, that there was a womaD the case. But their habitual cast rj f thought did not induce them to dwell upon "suppositions of this nature very abidingly. 2S his longer, slowly but surely xisfog which in be profession, and making monev *WE SEEK THE REWARD OF HOMCST LABOR.” did not seem to care for or know what to do with, if his father hud not suddenly died. Moskelyne, on this event, cnme East. Old Mr. Maskelyne had keen a frugal person, highly had respected been as an held ex- cellent citizen. He not to have laid by much of this world's goods. tation, But it proved con of rary investigation. to expec- in the course behind, that he had left a large fortune Howard Maskelyne was East. He deter- mined to stay. He took up the old existence now, by his long absence be -ome a new one, list- lessly. lie thought the zest would come back, but some how it did not. He looked back at times upon that episode in his life which had made all this difference— this I reak which did over—with not promise almow ever to be wholly bridged galled him to the fury of resentment. acknowledge It that the treachery tjnick to hollow of the world of a mere woman should have laid his life barren m this way. He had gotten to feel that he had lost all reverence for her sex through her. She had lowered his whole standard, There were occasions when lie told him- self that if he despised her less he would hate her for the wrong she had done him. A friend of his who knew the figure of the Maskelyne estate with marriageable approximate accuracy and who had a sister took him to his mother’s house one day and introduced him. Mrs, Mrs, Leth- Leth- bridge’s house was homelike in ail cmi- nent degree, and Maskelyne liked Leth- bridge, even though he was conscious of no special admiration for his sister. He returned there several times, as much as anything from want of other interest. Once he walked uptown with l.cthbridgo, passed and entering on his invitation he in the hall a slight young girl in black, The light was rather dim; it was at the close of the afternoon; the gas was not ____________ _____________ only 0 her her face face yet yet lighted, lighted, and and he he only the the saw saw when when she she was was close close upon upon two two men. men. Then, however, he saw it distinctly and she raised her startled eyes to his. Lethbridge had sprung forward and opened the door for her. She went rap- the idly out with a slight inclination of head. Lethbridge had a heightened color on his face. When they had gone back into the library Maskelyne, standing with his back to the light, said: •* That lady who passe 1 out looks as- tonishingly like a Miss Flora Wade.” ! “ It is Miss Wade.” Lethbridge took „n a book and laid it down again. “She i s a nursery governess to two of m y younger sistcis." " Miss Wade who out West “The was a few years “watan ago, ” said Maskelyne, after a pause, 1 heiress.” “Flora Wade was an heiress until a year ago-ves. I suppose yon have heard the story ^ ?’’ Out on the frontier one hears . nothing," ... „ said Maskelyne, dryly. nothing “No ? Well, it was new. Wade made his money by a lucky stroke, you know, or a series of lucky strokes, and he lost it by one unlucky one. Then he blew his brains out, more than any- thin«• else, 1 suspect, because there were well-founded suspicions that all his transactions had not been perfectly with le¬ gitimate The two girls had were been taken an aunt. Miss Wade abroad, and had refused, it is under- s t O0 d, ,’ a ducal coronet. For two seasons she e(1 evervthing before her here, W hen the change came she left the aunt, whose health had suddenly (in conse- ence of thcso changes) become too delicate for the support and care of two voting girls. Miss Wade had had a brilliant education, but, passed under hl it as coul(1 1)e tlimed t0 there practical count, it appeared that was very j VIiss ' Vad « ‘ ould do to support j lcrsft . ^ " an ^ 1 1CI y oun g sls ^>- Bhe could sl»?°i^nmv S ,<nVt '‘ Ver ’ and JwssHlen ’’ T hp ce between «*•' the two men step toiwaid. '.W ic'„ ‘ 4 w “ ‘ “ "T mp^sh^be ".'”7 1 mvwifo*’^ many The door o.wned, admitting Mrs. i t and Z her olde -t di'n«-hter Uail « hte >- , “Oh, Mr. Maskelyne, ,, I , hope you will stay to dinner with us ” cried the lady hospitably 'J, , h t nmnt proved a loaming of the stieets tin- 11 ar ino iemg . , ,, • .A^™*** f ' I Fk)rfl H w a ; 'inir g ar,d I i l a .I?,. ‘ ami , n.w-nt 1 he had arrayed ^ her. n r: the elements of scorn and resentment he , had been harboring and accumulating : through these four years past in bis soul. ; What if (hat misfortune Lad falicr Would upon her? .hat j j change her? dav of who kf>}( lnlp wmnan j n ., one j bjth ,,,. fo baf] |j vt ,d on ; y f or the flimsy j IT’ . WhjjL f ^ j } j b own . se )f kept urging „i m - lf] , ,, . e > hioominr? ; ™ hA iAlnv LethtJrid-e Ahe i verv~ \s hail chanced W so much in ap misfortune as might be ex- P« cte(i It was proper, of course, that ' R } ie should look a little demure aDf depressed^ Bhe was a good actress her and would be likely to ard play 'Nithm part her wel1 - Was n0, • her rew ' grasp already?*, Allen Lethbridge s ad- miration and intentions were probably perfectly mear to her. That was the way out ot her difficulties by the easy P ath of matrimony. Thus the hurt he had himself received I goaded dowh with him to high brutal voice injustice, the appeal crying of a .“,d ’STSjlf 2VSS bruised and. sore in all his members from the conflict in his soul. He did not return to the Lethbridge* and he kept out from Allen » way. One day, about a week wandered later, in passing There * picture gallery, he in. was one other person only in the gallery; a lady in black with her back to the door, Maskelyne stood still, with a sudden pang In ft moment the lady turned hei head slightly and Maskelyne saw that his heart had not deceived him. Flora was unconscious that she was no longer alone. In the silence and secluded remoteness of this curtained room the burden she carried her In day interval after day dropped blessed away from an of calm. She sat with her hands clasped in her lap. All the worn lines of her dc- Ucafe profile were revealed to Maskc- lyne’s eyes now. Not changed! with his He there devouring ached her in face his throat, gl nieo changrdt and a lump suddenly Not She put up a small hand in a little shabby black glove and brushed a tear hastily from her cheek. At the same moment, as though afraid of her weakness, she started to her feet. Muskelyne, simultaneously, had taken several steps forward. They stood and looked at each other for one instant as people who have parted estranged on this earth may meet again and look at each other in some other world where misunderstandings and mysteries arc made clear. Then Elora, with another glance of het worn Worn eyes, eyes, murmured murmured “Good "uooa bye." oye. bhe Was going toward the door, lie followed her, “ a, May “” I T not "” 4 walk L " home with you f" He had small consciousness of What he was saying, It was a humble place. She made no apology for it. She did not ask him to sit down. She stood as though she ex¬ pccted that every moment he would go. In drawing off her gloves one of them fell to the ground. Masxelyne stooped with and and seized seized . it. it. He lie raised raised . it it and and with a a blind impulse carried the poor bit of shabby kid passionately to his lips. Flora looked at him with startled eyes. She put out her band for her glove, “Flora,” he whispered, “ will both you forgive me?” He had her hand m his own now, tightly locked in a trem- bling clasp. she slowly repeated, ‘‘Forgive you? her with heau- ‘°V’ she raised arm a tiful motion, it is you who ought to “ * 0 uo „ ' > , drew , . herself „ A fter instant . . . she an softly away from him. The youth had come back to her face, l he stood with he |' j* nt hnnd ''f alns ! his brea8t - 1 Would you, she said , scarchingly, there “ the glance and attitude . j was °“ ce m ,°, re the Flora Wade of long a 8°> would you believe me if I told that T cored for you even-even that 1 day in camp, years ago?” Hedrewadcep Maskelyne was silent. , j, rea th. “Yes .”—Nero York Mercury. v Superstitious Lake Marines. In speaking . of the superstitions of mariners, Captain J. W. Hall, one of ihe "West and most, experienced said lake-faring Did men in Detroit, yesterday; “ you ever notice tbat there is no vessel on the lakes named The that George Washing¬ ton? The first vessel ever bore that name wa3 a steamer launched in 1833. She went down during life. the same year with the loss of one Another was built about 1837, and in 1838 foundered with the loss of sixtv-eight lives. The idea that there is bad luck in the name has never been overcome, and I doubt whether you could now induce an un¬ derwriter to take a risk upon a boat bearing that name .”—Detroit Free Press. Intelligent Terriers. u Here is a cute story of terriers,” ga j d a gentleman who had read the ‘ Wayside ’ on these said dogs the the other table day. the “When grace Is at ” 1 would like to see how a little dog would fflSSS# iti”i'S «hf STS?iSuSd! SaSf do If 1 sa y 1 am tempted growl to pull the a little and f’ a it is kept a wicked up until I is say that answer, I be- ij eve I will not.”— Philadelphia, ‘ Call. ___ Turkeys and Hninnts. It has long been known that the flavor game can be given to the flesh of | HI t it has been left to the Ment.ijie Amen- ran how it comes that the Italian farmers, both at home and in the South American -ccccd in ...ding th.f.tto,, kill- turkeys to market. A raon.h before ing, they give each fowl a walnut to oat everyday." J Brutalities in Coomassie. The criminal laws appear to be ex remely , severe, and , the ,, following . ridtcu- lously trivial offences are punishable by. death: Whistling in Coomassie; in suffering' an egg to l e broken the town; looking « the King’, wi™ e, no, hiding «h„ the hiDff's ennu r hs rail to announce their approach, and picking the up gold that has been this dropped it will be in that marketplace, every-day From seen Me diawbacks. in Cooma.^e Lon. ,^Afn« Field. must have its Good Cause for Rejoicing. What though the sky is dull and gray, My heart ts glad. they Let others worry as may. I’ll not be sad. Though * Ilfe ^ dul] and tri9D4e be few, I ll not repine, For me the world is fresh and new, riled, bri igfct and joyous I will be, My care’s allayed smiled For Fortune My bills has just pafd cm me, are - So'C.xwAVa Jr.urr.'f $1.00 Par Annum, In Advasae* j VARIOUS AIDS TO SLEEP, j CURES FOB INSOMNIA FOUND BY , DIFFERENT PEOPLE, ; KvenUigs should be Periods ol' He I j laxatlon—Hntr'Pillows Preferable to Feather—Simple Uemiultos I It will be interesting to collect th I many remedies that have been suggestee I for sleeplessness, A hot shower bath at I bed time cleanses' the skin and predi! poses to sleep, it is claimed. The ont sure and safe way is to take n brisk walk of a mile or two before going to bed, and then after the walk holding the head under a stream of cold water, Tins, however, should be done when the habit of sleeplessness first begins, A business man with a mechanical turn of mind should fit up his attic ns a car- penter shop and spend an hour, therein after supper. A walk of two or three miles a day is sufficient, says one writer, while another maintains that nothing will do li t horseback riding. Again, relief from sleeplessness can be found by wetting a linen handkerchief, folding the il and placing it under the back of neck, with a dry cloth under the kerchief to protect the pillow. Still again, warm the feet by friction, extra wrapper, etc., and cool the head cither in a draught or with cold water or ice. One sufferer has palliated the bed, distress of his vigils and sit¬ by leaving his chimney lighting reading a fire, and eat¬ ting in a corner ing by turns until the demon Intimated n : desire to depart. A physician writes that the evening should be a period of relaxation and recreation, relief from care and anxiety to be found in cheerful conversation, pleasant games and light reading, while persons of sedentary occupation are A fee¬ to take plenty of open air exercises. ble circulation is to be overcome, and cold feet are to be warmed. The stom¬ ach is to be attended to if the digestion is not good. If it is overloaded easy and refreshing sleep is impossible. find Weakly persons and invalids often a cup of hot broth or gruel or some other light and easily digestible food taken on retiring to be the most promotive o( sleep. The l ed should ucither he too hard nor too soft, nor the clothing too abundant nor too scanty. All unpleas¬ ant sights, sounds and smells should be excluded. Regular and early hours ol retiring are essential. No victim of in¬ somnia can with safety burn dissipation. the midnight oil or engage in evening The man who observes these precautions and adds thereto a clear conscience and n sound mind has the promise of unhiding sleep. student troubled with insomnia dis¬ A carded his feather pillow for one of hair with wonderful effect. The hiir pillow does not get warmed up to an nn orn- fortable degree because it rapidly it con¬ by ducts away the heat imparled found to that the head. The same person sleep could be brought on by simply warming the body, especially ihe feet, or by taking a walk or by a cold shower or sponge bath, followed by rubbing with a coarse towel. Getting out of bed for a fow minutes when the air was cool often brought relief. He hud lain awake half the enough night, and mix then and drink after being lemon- up long had fallen to asleep a going ad:;, at once on to bed. This student found that a light lunch just before going to bed relieved his brain by drawing the blood to his stomach. Another victim of sleeplessness found that a continuous low noise favored sleep. The sound of water dropping physician. on a pan has been prescribed by a that The explanation seems to be a sim- pie monotonous impression exclusion quiets the of brain by occupying it to the more varied and interesting, and there¬ fore stimulating, impressions. devices of On the same principle are the count¬ ing backward or forward, imagining sheep jumping one by one through a gate, etc., but they arc open to the ob¬ jection of causing exerted one order portion control of the brain to be in to the rest of it. A man who has “struck upon the light plan at last,” and who opens up to the world something calculated to make mankind rejoice, writes that all you have to do is to imagine yourself going on a long journey. Think over the details of it every night when sleep lags, The plan made him healthy and happy. A physician has one simple remedy, which requires no medicine. Compose the mind as much as possible, confine the the thoughts to one subject, and close in eyes, rolling them continuously one direction. In a short time consciousness will be lost, and you will be in the bliss¬ ful land of dreams. After an experience of two years, another man found that he was always able to go to sleep very shortly after retiring to rest, found by keeping his eyes looking down; he that they turned up when he was sleepless and was cogitating something that kept him awake. An editor finds relief by binding wetting it a cloth with cold watpr and across his forehead. Another plan is to draw a long, slow breath by the mouth and to force the breath out through the nose, imagining that, the current can be '-pen. An attempt may also be made to read an amnsing novel in bed or to re¬ peat a familiar poem, but all study or se¬ rious reading should be stopped read half by an before going to bed. In s paper a physician before the Boston society for medical improvement, he said that sleep¬ lessness is often caused by starvation and that a tumbler of milk if drank in the middle of the night will often would put, people of to sleep when hypnotics foil rheir purpose.— Good Housekeeping. A handsome variegated thing is Fisrus i elastica variegata. shading The marking from palevel is ex- ■ Jow tremelyhandsome. ard the general habit is j Fcbuet to green, in tbs plain -aristy. as as green NO. 16. OLD SAYINGS. As poor os a church mouse, As thin as a rail; As tat as a porpoise, As rough as a gala; As bravo as a Jion, As Bpry as a cat; As bright as a sixpence, As weak as a rat. As proud os a peacock, As sly ns a fox; As mad as a March hare, As strong as an ox; As fair as a lily, As empty as air; As rioh ns Crcesus, As cross as a bear. As pure as an angel, As neat as a pin; As smart as a steel-trap. As ugly as sin, As dead os a door nail, As white as a sheet,; As flat as a pancake, As red as a beet. As round ns an apple, As black as your hat; As brown as a berry, As blind as a bat; As mean as a miser, As full as a tick; As plump as a partridge^ As sharp as a stick. As clean as a penny, As dark as a pall; As hard as a millstone, As bitter as gall; As fine as a fiddle. As clear as a boll; As dry as a herring. As deep as a woll. As light as a feather. As firm as a rock; As stiff a3 a poker, As calm as a clock; As green as a gosling, As brisk as a bee; And now lot me stop, Lest you weary of me. —New Orleans Times-Dstnoerat. HUMOR OF THE DAT. The school question—Please, may I g’wout ?—Lowell Citizen. Men who are a great deal run after- fugitives from justice .—Boston Courier. The fireman of a locomotive generally Rochester has a “tender” disposition.— Post-Express. “Can’t you work?" asked a lady of a tramp. “I don’t know, ma’am. 1 used to, but I’m out of practice.”— Aferchant- Trmeler, of fif¬ Maud B. is said to have a stride teen feet. How a prize fighter must envy her when the police are after him.— New York News. “Why do I live?” is the title of a re- cent poem. A perusal compels us to give up the problem as unanswerable.— Bur- lington Free Press. It would be the most natural thing in the world for the young business man to put the letters of his “dove” in his pigeon holes .—Burlington Free Press. Raspberry jam is now made of slewed tomatoes and liay seed. Give them a lit¬ tle time and they will make white clover honey out of bone phosphate.— DansviUt Breeze. “How are collections to-day?” asked a man of a bill collector yesterday. “Slow, very slow; can’t even collect my thoughts,” was the reply,— Pittsburg Chronicle. A South Carolina paper tells of a farmer in that State who has been at the plow for sixty-eight years. It is time to call the old man to dinner .—San Fran¬ cis o Alta. “Johnny,” said the Sunday-school teacher, “what is your duty to your neighbors?” “To asked them to tea as soon as they get settled,” said Johnny. —Lewistm Journal. Landlord—“Come, Sepp, that is the tenth match I’ve seen you strike. What have you lost?” Sepp—“I’m looking the for a match that I’ve dropped on floor .”—German Joke. The public look upon the college yell as a useless accomplishment, but in later years, when some of the boys get into the itinerant fish business they find it comes in powerful handy.— Statesman. More drummers than ever are out on the road This season, the papers inform us; And we the rise to remark, in a mild sort of way, That chestnut crop is enormous. —Hotel Mail. “Your bill has been running a long time,” insinuatingly reroar tied the butcher to Slopay the other morning. “That’s bad,” remarked Slopay, sympa¬ thetically. “Why don’t you let it walk?” — Washington Critic. Mrs. Youngraater—“Do think baby has inherited you know, his Emily, I Y. (prematurely father’s hair.” Mr. bald)—“I’m glad to hear somebody’s in¬ herited it, my love, for I have often wondered what became of it. — Texas Siftinge. Reckoning an Income. A capable domestic servant in our cities may annually lay by a sum equal to the income upon $3,000 in govern¬ ment bonds; and an industrious mechan¬ ic, in steady employment, earns a sum equal to $20,000 at4 per cent, A team¬ ster in Montana, ora cowboy in Colora¬ do, finds that his strength and skill are worth to him, in money each year, as much as would be $40,000 invested in the same lands,even if he could buy them at par. The lawyer or physician $2,000 in a county t own who earns his annually, if suddenly debarred from practice, would require $66,000 in bonds to yield him the same income: and the editor-in-chief of a great city daily him, has in hard a power cash, in t.h® hig brain worth to capital of $500,000.— Boston Gnwi-e.
