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@te Cornitg feralk W. B. MINCEY, Editor. VOL. I. It has been recently shown by statis ties that the difference between the wages of men and women in this city who do the same work is from $1 to $13 a week in favor of the men. During the last season on the great lakes, it is estimated, more than two hundred lives were lost and $2,500,00C worth of property destroyed. Seventy- six steamers, forty-three schooners, six tow barges, and eight tugboats were lost or damaged. Indiana is proud because she claims to be the first State to adopt a daily weather service. The headquarters are to be at Indianapolis, from which one hundred telegrams will be sent out each morning early, giving the probabilities for twenty- four hours in advance. Saxony and Thuringia are the home and paradise of dolls. The annual pro¬ duction of dolls’ stockings alone in Saxony is 35,000 dozen. Thousands of shoemakers find constant employment in making dolls shoes. The export of dolls to England, France and America is very large, and increasing every year. The Electrical Review says that the uselessness of the lightning-rod is be¬ coming so generally understood that the agents find their vocation a trying one. Fewer and fewer rods are manufactured each year, and “the day will come when a lightning-rod on a house will be re¬ garded in the same light as a horseshoe over a man’s door.’” San Francisco has more representatives in the United States Senate than any two other cities in the country, The Cal i- fornia Senators, Standford and Hearst, have residences in San Francisco, as have also the Nevada Senators, Stewart and Joucs. Stewart practices law at the San Francisco bar, and .Tone? is a mem¬ ber of the San Francisco Exchange. Alabama is going ahead fast, accord¬ ing to the reports of a correspondent, xvho writes that in ten years the State has increased her taxable property from $135,000,000 to $215,000,000; and in the past year Jefferson County, of which Birmingham is the county seat, has in¬ creased $20,000,000 in tax value. Tin total increase in the State for the year xvas $41,091,703. Albert M. Thompson has arrived ir. this country and is going to study medi¬ cine in tlie Medical College of Indiana. The interest of this announcement is in the fact that he is a full-blooded Vey negro, the sou of Dowanna, King of the Upper I'eron Comity, and Sandymanda, Queen of Jarbacca. Ilis African name is Momora. lie is twenty years old and well educated, having studied at Cape Mount, West Africa. Cremation is rapidly pushing to the front in Europe. The new crematory at Stockholm, Svx*eden, burned its first body, that of the late rendant of the Likbraenningsfoereningen (cremation so¬ ciety) Kjellerstedt, ou October 15. From that day to December 0 nineteen corpses were incinerated. A crematory is in course of erection at Zurich, Switzer¬ land. Another is to be built at Basel Ion the same plan. At Hamburg, Ger¬ many, the erection of a crematory xviil 'commence next spring. Tlie cremation society at Berlin has secured the ground Cor a crematory. The Albany Argus says that a crusade against cigarette smoking lias been in¬ augurated along the Hudson River, and what is termed “a moral boycott” is the instrument used to bring about the de¬ sired result Physicians say tlie number of cases of serious illness traceable to tlie pernicious effects of cigarette smoking is very large, and that it is high time to call a halt. Results of the crusade can be seen in Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Nexv- burg, etc., where signs are displayed: “No Cigarettes Sold to Boys Here.” The movement is being warmly indorsed by clergymen, educators and others. Bush Otter, a young Sioux, is the only full-blooded Indian who xvas ever em¬ ployed by an Executive Department of the United States Government. The Geological Survey has for some time past employed Otter, xvho is well educated, to prepare for publication a series of Indian legends which he learned in his father’s xvigwam when a child. Otter repaired to Hedgesville, W. V a., last summer to pursue his literary work in that quiet town. There he met a charming white girl with whom he fell in love. His pay of $40 a month did not seem sufficient to him in the light of contemplated mat¬ rimony and he struck for higher xvages. The Geological Bureau refused to raise his salary and Otter became a man of leisure. GEORGIA, THURSDAY,, MARCH S, 1888. THE LOST EARL. With Ills lariat coiled outlie horn of hit saddle, Face beardod and bronzed,In the broad-shadowed hat; High boot-tops, and stout leather leggings astraddle Ills broncho’s brown sides; pistol belt, and all that; His shout ringing out, a bluff, resonaut basso. Above tlie herd’s bellowing: hand that can lmrl At a gallop tho long-looped and wide-swinging lasso— There rides—can yon fancy?—the son of an carl. With the host and the worst a familiar companion: tVho often in winter, at twenty below, While guarding bis cattle within tnedeep canyon, O.unps down in his blanket, rolled up on the snow; Bold rider and roper, to aid in a round-up, Head off a stampede, run tho ringleadeig down: In him—does lie pause to remember?—are bound up The hopes of a race of old knightly renown. The world’s pampered minion, ho yet, in requital Of all its proud favors, could rlin>» them aside As a swimmer his raiment, shed riches and title, And plunge into life, breast the turbulent tide! t ome caprice, you infer, or a sudden declension Of fortune, the cause? Rather say, the revolt Of a strong native soul against soulless convention, And privilege shared by tlie roue aud dolt. He chafed at the glided constraints of his station, The bright hall-aud-chain of tho nanio that he bore; Crew sick of tlie smiles of discreet adulation. That worshiped, not worth, but tho honors men wore. With falsities stifled, with flatteries sated. He loathed, as some player, Ills wearisome part, The homage of lips whore he righteously listed. The rank that forbade him the choice of his heart. (For that choice, it is told, fell to oue far below him In station, who yet was so loyal and true lu the love which he won, she could love and fore¬ go him. And even his nobleness nobly outdo: Who scorned to climb up t 0 a class that would scorn to Receive her its peer; and refusing to dim The coronet’s brightness her brow was not born to, Lived maidenly faithful to love and to him.) Was it then, in despair at the pitiful wrangle His preference raised, lie resolved to he free, To escape from his toils, break the tyrannous tangle Of custom and caste, of descent aud degree? In this lot which he choose, lias he sometimes re¬ pented The Impulse that urged him? In scenes such as these. Hard lodgment, l ard fare, has he never lamented Tlie days or relinquished enjoyment and ease? Was that impulse a fault? Would he speak, would he tell us Ilis sober conclusion? For good or for iil, There are tides of the spirit which sometimes im¬ pel us, Sub-currents, more potent than spirit and will, That out of our sordid conditions uplift, us, And make our poor,common humanity great. We toy with the helm, but they draw us, they drift They shape the deep courses of life and of fate. But thea comes regret, whea the ebb leaves us stranded In doubt and disaster: was suclidiis reward? How much we might gain would the fellow be eandid, This volunteer rancli.imn w ’uo align; be a lord! Could we think with his thoughts as he rides in the shadow That falls from the foothills when, suddenly chill, Fai over the mesas of lone Colorado The fast creeping twilight spreads solemn and still. From the rose-tinted, snow-covered peaks, the bright sources Of torreuts and rivers, the glow pales away; Through canyons and gulches the wild watercourses ltudi hurried aud hoarse: just the time, you would say, For our exile to fall into sombre reflection — . The scion of carls, from the uppermost branch Of tlie ancestral tree, in its cultured perfection, Set here in the desolate life of tho ranch. Amid wastes of gray sagebrush, of grama and bunch-grass; The comrade of cowboys, with souls scarce above The level of driven dumb creatures that munch grass: Ned-banished from paths of preferment and love, An UDretnmod prodigal, mumbling his husk: At least so your sapient soul lias divined, As he gallops far off and forlorn through the dusk. But little men know of a man's hidden mind. In his jacket ho carries a thumbed pocket Homer, To coil at odd spells as lie watches his herd; And at times, in his cottage (but that’s a misnomer; A hut with one room!) you may hear, on my word, These long summer twilights, (iu moments not taken For washing his dishes or darning his socks,) On strings deftly thrummed a strange music awaken. Mazurka of Cliopiu's, sonata of Bach’s. As over the wide-shouldered Rockies the gleam Of day yet illumines the vastness and distance Of enow-hooded summits, so shines the still beam Of high thoughts, high resolve, on his lonely existence. (And a maiden, they say; of her own sweet accord, Who to-night may be sailing the moonlight sea, To the ranchman brings what r lie denied to the lord. Idle rumor, no doubt. But, however it be)— Onr knight of the lasso, long-lineaged Norman, Now guiding his herd to good pasture and drink, Now buying and Belling, stock-owner and foreman, Feels life fresh and strong: well content, as I think, That the world of traditional leisure and sport Without him should amble its indolent round. Though lost to his title, to kindred and court, f Here first in rude labor his manhood is found. His conclusion is this, or T sadly mistake it: “To each his own part; rude action for me! Be men, and not masks; fill your sphere or forsake it. Use power and wealth; but ’ti* time to be free When the trappings of life prove a burden and fetter. The walls of my forefathers’ castle are stanch, But a cabin, with liberty, shelters me better. Be lord of your realm, be it earldom or ranch!” — J. T, Trowbridge, in Atlantic Monthly. Her Resolution. My lover is a bashful youth, well And though he loves me Hope long delayed makes me afraid His love he'll never tell. Now I’ve resolved that, once for all, This sort of thing must stop. is here, The glad Leap Y ear once more And I am going —Somerville to pop! Journal. "WE SEEK THE REWARD OF HONEST LABOR.” STORY OF THE DOCUMENTS. I1Y EDWIN ATWUI.I.. From Mrs. Philetus Featlierpurso, No. Air. — East Forty-third street, N. Y., to John Walters Scissors, editor the Daily Comet, September 14, Scissors 1883: —We want My Dear Mr. you to come and dine with us to-morrow night—quite eu/amile. There will be a Miss Daisy Moneyplate from Milwaukee, whom I’m going to bring ont- and when both our two solitary rents come Chesterfield, in, two Mr. months overdue! Col. Devilshoof for wit, Mr. Phiuney This for fun is and yourself for everything, please strictly a about family matter, “the papers.” so Yours say sincerely, nothing it Emily in Fkathkrpcrse. P. 8.—I’ve a little romance on hand, and want your help in it.’ Be sure to come. E. F. From the Daily Tocsin, September 30, 188(1. SOCIETY NOTES. Mrs. Philetus Fcatherpurse gave a five o'clock tea yesterday to introduce Miss Daisy Moneyplate of Milwaukee. Miss Moneyplate is not of the direct line of the wealthy Moneyplate family ot Mil¬ waukee, but only distantly related. erbocker From Sheepshead Club, Monmouth, Perk kins Knick¬ Hard¬ N. Yh, to scrabble : Somerset Ci.ub, / Boston, September 30, 1886. ( Dear Perk —Yours of the 13th at band, and I’m sorry I can’t send you a check for that little matter ou the yacht doesn’t run towards heiresses vet. 1 met a certain Miss Moneyplate of Mil- waukee at a recent Delmonico cotillon. You’ve heard of the rich millers of course. Well, her name is Daisy, and it just describes her, and I was pretty hard hit, by Jove! I made the running in good form—and you know me! Well. night before last 1 proposed. She asked time to consider it. The woman xvho hesitates is los,t. 1 wrote some caeky letters to my tradesmen and sent word ol my engagement to the heiress to Rumor 1 and tlie rest ol the society papers. Yes- terday the blow fell. I enclose slip from the Tocsin, it is needless to say I J J 1 off. You will condole with me all the more sincerely when 1 tell you that f must ask your indulgence on that five hundred for an indefinite time. Ah, the world! the world! Heartbrokcnly yours, Sheepshead Monmouth. From Dexter Dean, Esq., of Dean, Dable & Co., bankers, Wall street, to Dexter Dean, Jr., Studio Building, Twenty-third street: October New York, 3, 188(5. Sir —Your communications to me have not been frequent since yo,ti chose to she your Own course and declined to place yourself office. advantageously letter iu life of the by 2d enter- in- ing my Your stant causes me to wish they were even more infrequent. Y’on say you have en- gaged yourself to Milwaukee. marry a penniless This is young woman from so entirely in the line of your conduct since you have reached legal years of dis- cretion that I am not surprised. though I will remind you, however, that mat- ritnony on the txvo thousand a year which your mother ill-oonsideredly left you may not be xvithout its financial draxv- backs, I still hold to my determination to do nothing for you while you pursue your ridiculous painting and continue your disreputable associations. Your affection- ate father, Dexter Dean. From Dexter Dean, Jr., Studio Build¬ ing, Twenty-third street, N. Y., to Miss Daisy Moneyplate,—Milwaukee avenue, Milwaukeee, Wis.: October 14, 1880. My Darling —It is finished! I am j satisfied that if the committee doesn’t accept it and the hanging committee doesn’t give it a good place they deserve all the other chaps say of them. Then j I can come for you, my dear, see that' ) formidable uncle and declare myself with the confidence of a man with a position ; and a luture. I needn’t say how I have missed you. But look for me in Milwaukee in a very short time. The paternal hasn’t softened yet, but what | do we care? Two thousand a year-and my paintings! Magnificent! Dexter. Ever your own. From the Daily Tocsin, November 10, 1830: Deservedly hung on the line is Mr. Dexter Dean’s truly remarkable xvork, “Spring.” This is Mr. Dean’s first Academy exhibition and it . has placed him at once in tlie first rank of the younger school of American artists. Its conception is genuinely poetic and its execution entirely graceful and har¬ monious, exquisite iu its coloring and admirable in its technique, It was sold to Mr. George G. Crocus, at the opening day, for the almost fabulous price of $10,000. Mr. Crocus will have no oc¬ casion to regret his liberal patronage of a rarely promising young man. With the exercise of the spirit, feeling, sin¬ cerity and industry which his xvork be¬ trays, Mr. Dean’s future efforts are sure to be uninterruptedly progressive. From Jediah Moneyplate, Snowflake Mills, Milwaukee, IVis., to Dexter Dean, Jr., Studio Building, Twenty-third street, N. Y.: November 17, 1886. My Dear Sir: —From what I have learned of your character and position, through my New York representatives, it gives me sincere pleasure in acknowl¬ edging vouts that of the 13th instant, why to as¬ sure you f see no reason your marriage xx'ith my nie?e should be de¬ layed. Y’ou are evidently not aware that, as the sole legatee of my late brother's estate, Miss Moneyplate pos fosses in her own right a very tidy lor- tuue, in round numbers $1,300,000. I should be pleased, as her guardian and co-executor of her property, to receive the address of your New York attorney, with a view to maxing settlements which she desires and which have my cordial endorsement. Trusting to have the pleasure of meet¬ ing you in a very short time, 1 am, sir, with much respect, very sincerely yours, Jediau Moneyplate. From Rumor, October 5, 1881. Mr. llcxler Dean, the well-known banker, drives out daily behind his spakiug beside him, bays. His her daughter husband is usually be as cannot indveed to leave bis studio while day- lig* geiW •*%' ;■*«■ The the devotion beautiful of the old cinan to voting woman is delightful to witness, i hear his will leave-; his entire fortune to the infant son of Mrs, Dexter Dean, Jr.-— Noe York Graphi". HEALTH HINTS. Eatttig onions and horseradish is claimed to relieve dropsical swellings. To remove soreness from the feet try bathing them at night in pure alcohol. It is said that smitling powdered catarrhal borax cold. up the nostrils will cure a A good way to take cod liver oil, tc tomato make it palatable, is by putting it into catsup. Do not restrict the boys and girls in the matter of fresh air Dirt is often a beneficial accompaniment. vr tr T ni r * u t , ^ds l rough tire mouth. Always wash the hands on coming out Of aside room, w " en » felon first begins to make its appearance, take a lemon, cut off one | !nd P llt the finger in, and the longer it * s kept there the better, Those who are troubled with sleepless- ness, should, if strong enough to do Kid- so, take in a, the long walk air in also the evening sloe)), ing open promotes For chilblains, take ten pounds of oak bark, put it in a kettle and pour on it six quarts of water. Let it boil down to four quarts. Soak the feet in it and it will effect a'certain cute, „ , . . - , tie honey, one ounce of rock candy and the juice of three lemons; mix and boil well. Drink as hot as possible. The Colton Plant. What a royal plant it is! Tlie world watts in attendance ou its growth. The sklwer that falls whispering on its leaves is heard around tlie earth. The sun that shines ou it is tempered by tlie prayer? of all people. The frost that chills it and the dew that descends from the stars is noted, and the trespass of a little worm on it? green leaf is more to '' “ laud than the advance of the Kits .-Hin army on her Asian outposts. It is gold from the instant it puts forth its tiny shoot. Its fibre is current in every bank, and xvhen loosing its fleeces to the sun it floats a.sunny banner that glorifies the field of the humble farmer, that man is marshalled under a flag that will com- pel the allegiance of the world, and wring a subsidy from every nation on earth. It is the heritage their that God xvhen gave to this people forever as own he arched our skies, established our mountains, girt us about with the ocean, loosed the measured breezes, the tempered rain. the sun- and shine, children’s and princely Out s our forever. As a talent as ever came from Ilis hand to mortal stewardship.— II. W. i, /y ; n Woman's Work. A Sugar ions I»ag. A valuable bird dog belonging to “Jup.” .Tone?, of this killed, city, supposed found to have been stolen or was yesterday in an old caved-in well about sixty feet deep, near a deserted farm- house in the suburbs, into which lie had fallen while in pursuit of a rabbit, lla was first discovered by some neighbor* and' who heard him barking continually The in- formation in a most, distressing reached manner. xvho im- soon Jones, medialy secured a rope and started for the place. On arriving he lowered a lantern down to where the dog lay, and miu ] e a slip knot on another rope, which he tried to throw over the dog’s head, but without avail. Me then went awav to secure . help, , leaving the end , of , the , rope with the noose on in tlie bottom of the well. On returning he xvas amazed to find that the dog had raised the noose up with his nose and placed his head and front paws in it. He was dog immediately lifted to the surface. The is in a pitiable condition, being but a mere shadow. Tlie animal had been in tho well about ten days without food.— Milwaukee Wisconsin. Chinese Advice to Tea Drinkers. A Chinaman gives the following advice to tea drinkers. If followed it would do away xvith some of the injurious effects of this beverage as commonly concocted: the black tea. Green tea when good is kept at home. What goes abroad is bad, very bad and horrible. Besides contain- ing the 303 adulterations the Chinese philanthropist puts up for the outside barbarian, it is always the pervaded curing-pans by cop- of per dust from dirty the growers. Infuse your tea. Don’t boil it! Place one teaspoonful of tea in the pot and pour over it 14 cups of boil- ing water, that is, water really boiling. If your tea is poor, use more. It is cheaper, though, to buy good tea at the outset. Put your pot on the back part of the stove, carefully covered, so that it shall not lose its heat, and the tea its bouquet. Let it remain there five minutes, then drink it. Drink your tea plain. Don’t add milk or sugar. Tea- brokers and tea-tasters never do. do; epicures never do; tbe Chinese never $1*00 Per Annum, In Advance* HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. The Kitchen Tabic. A mong the very necessary things inn kitchen is a good-sized, substantial table of white wood or pine which is needed for ironing and baking days. It should have three drawers; a large one for hold¬ ing the shirt boards, ironing sheets and holders, and two smaller ones for spoons and knives used in crockery. It isalsoa good plan to keep tho cook book in one of these drawers. Above this table can be fastened a hanging rack for ironing the days. wall This can he closed ngainst found when not in use, but will lie a great saving in time and labor, as no one can quite estimate (lie number of step" taken from the table to the clothes rack when one finds it necessary to bang up each article as soon as it is ironed. Ileci pcs. Molasses Bin ri'.it-scoTi'ir. One nq. of New Orlear? molasses, one. flip of brown sugar, one-bull' cup of butter. Boil until it snaps when dropped into cold water. Scalloped Codfish. —Mix togetliei ' wo teacups of mashed tomatoes, 1J-toa- mps of cold boiled codfish, 2) teacupsoi of milk, one-half egg, and one-quarter a teacup of butter; bake a light brown. Kick dry Prnntxo. -Three table,spoouftib of rice, half a cup of sugar, one quart of milk, put in a pan, flavor with onion or vanilla and bake in a slow oven four hours without stirring. Serve either aot or cold. Salmon Salad. -To a can of salmon take eight or ten stalks of celery; cut the celery into small pieces and mix with the salmon, which should also be picked into small bits; sprinkle over a little salt and very little pepper, and pour on some good vinegar. A small onion may be added, if desired. A Noiirisiiinci Dish.— Take one-half pint thick sweet cream, set on the stove to boil. Put into a saucer two table¬ spoons sweet cream, into which stir thoroughly one teaspoon flour. When cream on stove is boil ng add cream in which you have stirred Hour and let come to a boil. Set off. Salt, and pepper a little if preferred. Buckwheat Oakes. Put oue quint of cold water in a jar. add to it a tea spoonful of salt and three and a half cups of buckwheat, beat until perfectly of smooth, then add half a teacup yeast and mix well; cover the top of the jar, let stand in a moderately warm place until morning. .When ready to bake dis- ,‘olvea teaspoon of soda in ten table¬ spoons of boiling water, add this to the hatter, beat and bake on a hot greased griddle. lard Vermicelli. —Put a tablespoonful hot it: ol in a porcelain dish; wiien put the vermicelli, broken in stnnli pieces, with some thinly sliced onion, pepper, salt, a few cnmiuseed pulverized, aud a sprinkle burning, of red pepper. become* Stir to prevent light allowing it little to hot water, a and biown; tlien add a boil until tender. By the time the water is evaporated it will be done. Useful Hints. Kub the hands on a stick of celery xviil after peeling onions and the smell be entirely removed. Let dishes be neatly washed, rinsed ir hot water and drained, and then nu them until they shine. Wiien removed from the person cloth ing, if damp, should be dried before put ting into the clothes basket, to prevenl mildew. Equal parts of ammonia and turpen¬ tine will take paint out of clothing, no matter how dry or hard it may be. Satu¬ rate the spot two or three times, then wash out in soapsuds, To clean bottles, put, into them some kernels of corn ana a tablespoonful of ashes, half fill them with water, and af¬ ter a vigorous slinking and rinsing you xviil find the bottles us good as new. Often after cooking a meal a person will feel tired and have no appetite- foi this beat a raw egg until light, stir in a little milk and sugar, and season wit!: nutmeg. Drink half an hour before eating. A sewing apron, in whose pockets re¬ pose a needle, thimble, small scissors and reels of black silk an I cotton, with one of white cotton as well, if kept handy for emergencies, will save tlie housemother many a step and eonsklera- blestrain upon her.amiability, t,. i 'aeeoMine embroidery wi le .“? a P H! 1 th f S0I,(;( ( <1°™ Wlth *<»ft water and ' U T h 0UM 1,1 sunshine then ! '[£‘ h , , < lear water . pull out each point * ® ,in « e ™ " ^ T" “ 1M|I ° W v ! u l )ou ,h,! carpet to dry. - Leigh screens of iurkey-red calico ot unbleached muslin, scantily frilled on tc nnpainted wooden frames, are most use¬ ful in the sick room either to prevent draughts or should moderate the heat burn of there an open lire, which always if possible, as the most efficient ventilator yet devised. Brain Development, The man who possessed the heaviest brain yet weighed does was an American blacksmith, who not seem to have been otherwise remarkable, even for the excellence ofhis iron xvork. Since that time, however, ascertain though great the brain pains weight have been taken to of celebrated men, not one record exists 0 f the brail -weight of famous women, The brain of George Eliot was specially remarkable. The following passage oe- curs in her life: "Mr. Bray, the enthu- siastic believer in phrenology, xvas so much struck with the grand proportions ;(her head that he took Marian Evans up to London to have a cast taken. He thinks that, after that of Napoleon, her bead showed the largest development, from brow to ear, of any person re- corded. Woman’s Wold. NO. 20. THE ./ESTHETIC OWL. Tho owl sits perched on tho hemlock troe As wide awake as an owl can bo, The sky is clear and tho air is still, And he hoots to the night as long ns h« will. Oil! tlie light of the sun is no light for him, (live him the moon and tho starlight dim, For all the hours of the garish day Deep in tho thicket he blinks away. To wit! to-whoo! there’s another shout, From the midst of the forest the cry breaks out; It comes from the honrt of the doddered oak And he knows full well tho voice that spoke. ‘Tin tho signal shout that, his mate has made. Away! it is time for their nightly raid. Softly and slow through the gloom they go, Winging their way over Held and wood, While their eyoballs' tstaro with a fleudislj glare At the thought of blood. Woe to the mouse that is out of his hole One squeak and the victim is swallowed whole, And struggling and raw in that ravenous maw He lies by the side of the delving mole Tho little songsters are all at rest ■ In leat'v covert or cosy nest, Not a thought or care or dream of fear; Though their deadly foe is hovering near. One blow and the sharp beak drips with gore Ami the hapless minstrel sings no more. Favage of heart with a show of sense, Made up of feathers and sheer pretense, Light-hating creature, moping and dull, Mere glimmerings of thought in his muddy scull; W hat title lias lie to wisdom’s crest? Jut on the own! he’s a fraud at best. lint when at last ho lias met liis fate; I,ike many a spoiler men call great, Aloft and mounted his praise is: heard, And esthetes say: “What a lovely bird!” —Hartford Court nit. IIUMOK OF THE DAY. Some acrobats are fresh, and somer¬ sault. [Circus tickets go with this. ] 'I’lie difference between an epicure and an anarchist is that one’s a mighty diner and the other’s a dynamiter.— Washing - ton Criti •. At the museum—Mrs. N. — “My dear, I wish you to observe this beautiful statue of Apollo; and this is his wife, Apolonaris.— Life, The man who says “ 1 told lieeh you so,” At each mischance,has laid low. We knew that he’d get killed; you know That we have often told you so. -Tid-Bits. There are lots of men in this world who are bora to rule, but the other fel¬ lows are such a pack of ignoramuses that they can’t be made to realize it.— Mer¬ chant Trawler. Ah all-round has placed the following placard over his coal-bin : “ Not to be used except in case of fire.” Tho cook’s relatives art? iu consternation.— Burling¬ ton Free Press. Mrs. Takemeasure. Cliargeitplease—“Good I should like morning, to Mr. see something in the way of a small check.” Mr Tapcmeasure (fervently)— ‘ ‘So should I ."—Detroit Free Press. Very Sick Husband (to weeping right wife) — “ It may come out all yet, my dear; so don’t cry” Weeping Wife—“I can’t help it, John. Y’ou know how easily I am moved to tears .”—New York Hun. A Mud river Indian was mistaken for a deer the other day and shot. As they picked him up he declared that all the pain was assuaged by the evidence that somebody lmd some use for him.— Tid- Bits. Country Minister (to deacon)—“Dea¬ con, you have a reputation of knowing something about horses. I’ve got an animal that’s balKy. What do you do in such a case?” Deacon—“I sell him.”— Accident Newt. There is one thing a woman can do which a man cannot, and that is set a hen. All the softer parts of her nature vanish in tlie contemplation and per¬ formance of the act—she sinks her' sex beyond delphia, Amazonian possibilities.— Phila¬ ledger. “Joseph,” said the merchant to the bright young man with the best of refer¬ ence, “the book-keeper tells me you have lost the key of the safe, and hecan- not get at his books.” “Yes, sir, one of them; you gave me two, you remember.” “Yes, I haiF du¬ plicates made, iu case of accident. And tlie other one?” “Oil, sir, 1 took good care of that. I was afraid I might lose one of them, you know.” “And is the other all right?” “Yes, sir. I put it where there was no danger of its being lost. It' is in the safe, sir .”—Boston 'Transcript. © Treatment of Owls. A rural friend of mine, who enjoys trifling with old superstitious, hgs a pair of owls which he keeps on his piazza Summer and Winter. lie enjoys the strange noices which they make at night; weird and instead of attributing them to influences, assumes that they are due to hunger or indigestion on the part of the birds of wisdom. At all events, he claims.that by supplying tlje owls with raw meat and Jamaica ginger they re¬ lapse into silence for the night .—Boston Pos'. Prairie Dog Tonus. There is a chain of prairie dog towns along tin* Texas and Pacific Railroad for a distance of 100 miles; some of the villages cover five acres of ground. Hunters say it is almost impossible to kill one of the dogs and get his body, so quickly does he dive into his hole at the explosion of a gun. Deluging their holes with water will uot drive them out.