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Tts wet!
J^^^Tohn Murray at Mont
p to co'cotton-future
Tilt transactions,
eel L lltlCS.
The mild winter of 1888-9 has not
proved au unalloyed blessing. Eight
sleigh manufacturers in and about New
York State have failed.
In some parts of the West they define
a White Cap as an immoral and good-
for -nothing man who takes upon him¬
self the duty of punishing all other im¬
moral and good-for-nothing men.
Last year fifteen Chinamen were
married in Queensland—one to a native
•of the colony, one to a Victorian native,
two to Scotch womrn, three to Irish
women and eight to English women.
Says the New Orleans Times-Democrat:
“In the present state of our coast de¬
fences a foreign force would find but
little difficulty in entering any of our
great ports or landing on any eligible
part of our coast.”
The Corean Kingdom bachelor is not
spoken of as a man but a “person.” He
becomes a man only when lie marries.
Such a rule in the United States would
promote marriage, declares the N
York Graphic, failure or no failure.
Philadelphia Inquirer believes that it
the plan of instructing pupils in the af¬
fairs of the day with the aid of the daily
newspapers were more generally prac¬
ticed, we should have fewer juvenile
pedagogues and more bright scholars.
A correspondent of the London Time*
says that the word “teetotal” had its
origin through a stuttering temperance
orator, who urged on h s hearers that
nothing less than “te-tc-tc-total” absti-
nence would satisfy temperance reform-
ers. Some one at once adopted “teeto
tal” as a suitable word, and it sprang
into general use.
A singular exhibition has just beet
held at Meningeu, Germany. It consist¬
ed of 250 newspapers containing articles
upon the death of the Emperor William
I., representing no fewer than fifty-four
languages, among which, of course, all
the European, with their dialects, were
represented; while Bengali, Hindi, Guz-
zurati, Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiian
may also be found.
An old fellow in a Wisconsin town
who has been running a private batik for
some years was recently requested to
publish some sort of a statement. So
he posted the following on the door of
his bank: “Notice—This ’ere bank lias
got $50,000 behind her. She don’t owe
nobody a red cent. Good paper dis¬
counted as heretofore, and nobody pro¬
poses to cut sticks for Mexico or Cana¬
da.” There was no run on that bank.
•ding to the report of Adjutmt-
|^nim the organized militia of
States consists
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Huiubci 'I (Ml
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,ting the deeds of
tibia was chosen
■^use it is cen-
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ickcns Counltj I*'' ♦
JASPER, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. APRIL 11, 1889.
THE DRUM.
d | ■l
j is somo
■ '•f Intonation in thy
V ' utterance that slr.kes
j set bugh ' the clear
( • j , ]_f.* ’’id unclouded atmosphere,
••vllables roll in upon the ear!
be sure tA’
come to
at'a thing tit by musk-throbbing that awakens heart,
.nthing in us
For hurt,
in, b'h/ioo
With the chime
And exactitude of time,
Goes marching on to glory of the melody
sublime.
And the guest
Of the breast
That thy rolling robs of rest
Is a patriotic spirit as a Continental dressed;
And he looms
From the glooms
Of „ .wntiirv Of tomhs
And . a t e re .oo AU 0 S P‘ liv-
- °
mg beauty blooms.
And his eyes
\Vear the guise
Of a purpose pure and wise;
As the love of them is lifted to a something
in the skies,
That is bright
Ked and white,
With a blur of starry light,
As it laughs in silken rippies to the breezes
day and night.
There _ are deep .
Hushes creep
O’er the pulses as they leap
And the murmur, fainter growing, on the
silence falls asleep,
While the prayer
Rising there
Wills the sea and earth and air
As a lioritage to freedom’s sons and daugh-
ters everywhere.
Then, with sound
As profound
As the thunderings resound,
Come thy wild reverberations in a tliraa that
shakes the ground,
And a cry
Flung on high,
Like the flag it flutters ...
Wings rapturously upward till it nestles in
the sky.
Ob, the drum!
There is some 'iVi
Intonatioii thy’jjj'/ffm
Monotony of utterance that strikes the
spirit dumb,
As we hear
Through the clear
And unclouded atmosphere
Thy palpitating syllables roll in upon the
ear!
—James Whitcomb Riley.
CATCHING A GORILLA.
I have seen nearly every one of the
gorillas on exhibition in thc zoological
gardens of the world, and in only one
instance have I found au animal in any
way up to the standurd of the beast as
found in the African jungles. That
fellow I helped to capture while in the
employ of the Hamburg house, and the
Sultan of Turkey paid a fabulous price
for him.
If Du Chaillu exaggerated at all in his
stories of the gorilla couutry, it was in
the number of animals he killed. No
writer can exaggerate the temper and
fierceness of the dangerous beast. Meu
who have encountered him in his wild
and savage state have lived to tell of it
more by good luck or accident than by
nerve and judgment. This is so because
the beast is never met with except by ac-
cident. You can hunt for lions, tigers,
and elephants and find them, but thc
gorilla always finds the hunter.
IVe were about seventy miles inland
from the coast, on the Lufigi Biver,
where we had a permanent camp, when
I received word that a lull-grown wanted, speci-
men of the gorilla family was
and was authorized to spend three
months’ time and employ a thousand
natives, if necessary to secure onp. We
had been in camp ten weeks, animals, capturing and
serpents and a variety of
only once had signs of the presence of
a gorilla been detected. Two miles to
the north of us there was a heavy jungle,
and if there were any gorillas in the
neighborhood they were hidden away
there. Ugly as he is, the beast hasn’t
the nerve to attack a camp or a large
body of men. ()ne had come down with¬
in half a mile of us, probably at night, and
and had stood beside a lone tree
had broken off branches and then broken
the branches into fragments to show his
temper and courage, but we neither saw
nor heard him.
When I found what was wanted, I
called some of the oldest and wisest na¬
tives to counsel, but none of them had
ever heard of a full-grown could gorilla being
captured alive, take. and none Therefore, to suggest make
what steps to
I beginning, I sent out se"eral parties to
scout, and on the second day one of these
located three of the beasts, father,
mother and a baby gorilla, in a thicket of
about five miles away. It was a piece
rocky ground covered with a dense
growth, and from a hiding place the men
had seen the gorillas enter the thicket
by a path. The elephant apd buffalo
and the various species of deer ore al¬
ways on the move, and have no fixed
place for even a day. leopards, Lions, tigers,
serpents, and gorillas, bears will make cougars,
ticular panthers home until the one par¬ of
spot at of presence food
danger or the absence water or
forces them away. The gorillas seen by
the black scouts would not run away
jin til disturbed, and I gave orders that
“WE SEEK THE REWARD OF HONE8T LABOR.”
no one should go in that direction with-
out my permission I could think of
only one way to fleet a capture: by
setting one of our largest traps. Wo
had them stout enough to hold a lion, or
bear, and one of them had once held a
buffalo all day long. full-grown male
The strength something of a wonderful. One
gorilla is his hand will knock
swipe down. of open bend barrel double an ox
11c can a gun
with his hands alone. Helius as much
power in his aws as a lion. I was, un-
fortunately an eyewitness to some feats
of strengtii which lost in mo several hurry valua- alter
ble men. We were no
locating the auimals. I sent out other
meu to watch, and after three or four
days it was found that the thicket had
several paths by which the gorrillas left
and returned. It got sight of them my
self, and 1 found the male to stand
about five feet eight inches broad high when
erect. lie was terribly aud heavy,
had muscles like whip cords, and I saw
that he had the strength of any four of
us. In about a week we found that one
path led to a spring where the beasts
quenched their thirst, and another to
several trees loaded with a peculiar which sort
of pea or bean enclosed in pods, of
the gorillas seemed very fond. It
W;l8 while they were eating this
fruit that I saw them, the little fellow
was just learning to go alone, ancl the
mother carried him much of the time,
The old fellow maintained a pretty sharp
watch, though he did not appear to bo
particularly suspicious, and now and
then he unbended his dignity and played
with the little one in a manner to ntako
us lau"h.
Abimt twenty days from the time wo
located the gorillas we set our the path traps, lead- one
on each path. The one on
ing b to the spring J £ was within thirty feet
carefullv con cealed just
below £ the surface.' The beasts, as near
gcouts could determine, visited
, , j j every other day, and it
was on tb« off day we set that trap,
There were seven of us, I being the only
whiternan, and as we returned to camp
i we took a different route from the one
W(J find come. It was a very ffot day,
i and when half way back we stopped to
I rest. It was in a beautiful grove, pretty
clear from underbrush, end most of the
natives at once fell asleep, As is their
custom when making j&xf.'ss a halt, even if only
£r,s?£
thought I^ould^disHnguislf the* figures when
‘•5b” standing out on the tree, but
I reached it I found only a waft or knot,
asttSsfsysarMfc andVsTstarted 0 foAS of the nESS
looking upward and around, when I
heard a shout of alarm, followed almost
instantly by a shriek of pain and terror.
I raw the men spring up, each uttering
a yell, »nd then came the sounds of
blows agd screams and the angry and de¬
fiant roar of a gorijlg, It was all over in
a minute, and before I had timS to ap¬
preciate the situation two of the n»tivda
came running toward me, half dead with
fright, and 1 heard another roar and saw
a dark object moving ascertained swiftly away. big
As well as could be a
gorilla had been passing through the
grove, and he had stumbled upon the
men just as the pne who had spoken to
me rose up. this action was sufficient
to arouse the ire of the beast hirn tjmd he had jepi
seized the native and Lung ten
away. r ifoe second pne received a blow
which knocked him fiat, and the gordla
then let himself out to lull, dimother
four mea were dead when we appicached, second had
Gne bft d bis neck broken, a
half his fac:: torn off and bis breast
crushed in, and the other two had their
skulls crushed as if by blows Horn the
hand. My nfin gnd the muskets of the
natives had not DeeH meddlpd With, fit-/
J’be two natives who escaped w-ppo
tie better than jabbering idiots for the
next hour, UDf} it was only after our le-
turn to camp that l ifinrnpd ad the par-
ticulars. seconds, and Itall the happened a’tack t 4 had inty o? sjxty
eomo so
suddenly that no one thought rattled of de-
fence. The adventure bo the
| camp that lhad gieat difficulty next day
j > n persuading I any got one live to accompany at last, me by
to the trap. men
arguments and threats, but when we
j came to examine tjie path fpayp|ed we found it. that
'he beasts had not “'ey
had cither decided to skip aday, potbp-
ing tliTng thirsty, or else had suspected spine? the
and avoided the path. On
next day, recovered howtiver, their the sfttivps pluck to having
meantime some
extent, a party of ten of us set out, and
when within' a mile of the spring wo
liad reasons to believe that one of them
had put a foot in tho trap. Yells, roars,
and screams reached our ears, and at the
distance of half a mile several small ani¬
mals passed us in affright.
“We have got the big fellow'” whis¬
pered my bead hugter tq me as wo pressed
forward, l, We must bp careful now, fof
the sight of us will make him strong to
break away, and he will want ajl our
lives to pay for the insult.”
The pow-wow grew louder $s we
neared the spot, and the cries and wails
of the mother and offspring mingled
with the snarls, growls, barks and roars
of the father. When we finally crept
forward to a spot whence we could ob-
tain a view, we found the “old man’’
fast in the trap by the right hind leg.
The trap was a toothless one, with the
faces of the jaws covered with felt, but
it was strong enough almost to hold an
elephant. We had to bend down the
springs with levers, and it was a good
weight for two men to carry. Thc chain
attachcd could not have been broken by
a horse, and v/o had securely fastened it
to a tree, It was well we pad, and it
was well that the beast had been caught
by a hind leg.
I do not think he had been in the trap
long when five wo minutes. first heard He him, perhaps doubt-
not over was,
less surprised and frightened for a time.
[ but where by the could time wo had him reached his terrible ft point
we see
j anger was fully arousod. His mate nnd
offspring stood by, wailing and growl-
I j places ing, and the just female ns lifted we got up settled the trap in and our
at it with all her strength.
Then both seized the chain and tugged
and pulled and growled and roared, hut
it was no use. What 1 feared was that
the old fellow might gnaw his legoff, as
Coons cr muskrats or beavers will do
when trapped, but ho showed no inten-
j tion of the sort. Indeed, it would have
I resulted in his death, and he doubtless
so figured. For a long hour he refused
j 'and 'o give another in, biting, such leaping p cture and of tugging, ferocity
; would be hard to find, lie frothed at
I the mouth, exhibited his diamonds. great fangs,
and his eyes glittered like I
should have been willing for the mato
j bused nud her to little leave one the to go, spot, but and as they as the re¬
' natives said that the mother would not
hesitate to attack us in her excitement,
i pushed forward my rifle and gave her a
bullet, which dropped her dead in her
tracks. The young one immediately
sprang to the father’s shoulder, and was
sitting there when we advanced.
] The resemblance of the that big gorilla paused to
a native was so striking had been I made. to
wonder if a mistake not
\ IVhen he saw us he stood upright, arms
hanging down by his sides, and lie
looked far more like a human being
than some of the natives in my camp,
He was so mad that he did not know
what move to make first, and as he stood
thco clots cf foam fell upon his breast
and down to the earth. By and by he
| ^.ed l Ia!f V the lozc young " of thc one and pushed flung it to away, seize
I alld scrambled , back of the
"< , as it one
pursued it too far. The gordla
(‘uttered a terrible roar, made a savage
the a P"nftand hair 1 the native not was twenty caught_ feet by
was over
awa y» flung :lnd down, J saw a11 and t' iat the happened. gorilla stooped He
was
a " d S a ™ h™ a Wow on the chest which
cra *hed it in. He then hit him right
and left on the sides of the head, and the
man was dead. This did not satisfy the
monster He lifted the body up and
'1‘ffraHy tore it to pieces, pulling off the
arras I s Would pul a stick of kind -
>'"« *** a bundlp. It then
™“ >d tte young one by a bind leg, and
allow hunger and thirst to work on his
tmnper. Wo made a temporary romp
j haIf a mde away, and did not go near
, j”
da v he roared a ‘intervals, but on
-
look at him, and reported the capt.vc a*
sitting down oil the trap and crying
with pain. Next forenoon we went out
with nets, ropes, nooses, and chains, and,
after a long, hard fight, tangled him up
and secured him. When we sprang the
trap off his leg we had his hind feet
shackled together, his forefeet, or arms,
Segm-efj wijffj a phaiq, tyyo ropes ground
his body, »nci a muzzle over his jaws.
We then bound him to a littor and car¬
ried him to the main camp, where a cage
lmd been ntado. His leg was badly
swollen and he was pretty well beaten
out, but three days after we got him in¬
to the cage he was all right and as mad
as ever. I sent him down the river and
nround to Zanzibar, and after mouths he
PiqW Ijropght up in Constantinople, Q^t so fero-
<l n (4 dqngurpqs flpi utmost
precaution had t‘> he taken by those
who came near him- Ho was living
(Jiiripg the Htjsso-Turkislj war, and one
who suw him informed me that there
was no hope of sweetening his temper or
subduing his ferocity. — Neic York Urn.
Test for the l’urity of Water.
A simple and convenient test for
water is as follows: Fill a o(' perfectly
plqait and ijutfit sjpikc tyittlp it, hi^lf fpll tlye cork Wft‘@r; and
cork lumovp
see if any odor cat} be detected at tho
mouth of the bottle. Cork the bottle
hours and pla-cg it ju a wtvm place of hot for u few
or set into a pan water
for au hour, blinkc, uncork and again
tost by smell. If un unpleasant or faint
or musty odor is perceptible, the water
requires more minute investigation. The
second simple test is to in evaporate tin a
quart of water to dryness character a new
pan or cup,and note the of tpu
rpsiduo and whqt ^appon# when it is
strongly heated in U metal spoon, Jf the
sediment left after evaporation is small
and on being burnt in ft metal spoon
give? rise only to such odor as comes
from burning vegetable contaminated matter, with the
wuter is not greatly the sediment is in
sowage. But if con¬
siderable quantity and burns, burning giving hair off
the peculiar odor of or
other animal matter, then the wat^i. >&
foul. Either of these tests you can easily
apply, -mBrooklyn Eayie.
Llviiur Cheerfully on Two Cents ft Day.
Dr. T- H- Allison has been Hying thi
experiment of living on meal and \vatfci
for a month. His dajly allowuncp
one pound of wholp rnea|, made into a
Cftke with distilled w«tor. Hia account
of bis condition after a week is cheering.
i In the first few days ho felt disappeared hungry, but
about the fourth day this
and he had no craving for other food,
His brain was clear, his lung capacity
had increased five inches, and both his
sight and heating had improved. lie
had lost seven pounds weight, advantage, but seems
to regard this a3 rather an
Altogether he feels thoroughly satisfied
with his experiment. It is a very ooon-
I oniical one, the wheat for seven days This, hav- he
j ing cost only sixteen cents.
says, is living on almost two cents a day,
and enjoying it. — London Hospital.
“What is a man-of-war?" said a
! teacher to h's c 'jO s - “A cruiser,” was
*^0 prompt J ,e P jr ‘. KL makes 11
ts s , rew > S1T :
1’ ‘ dte crew > Bir ’ '*'■ Ocean,
$1.00 Per Annum, In Advance.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Delicious Mode of Konsting.
Roasting is a very delicious mode of
cooking meats, but it is almost unknown
in these days, unle-s an open fire-place
is convenient; for such tho following
rules may be given; Keep the meat at a
moderate distance from tho fire, bee
that it is kept continually turned and
well basted with butter or meat flavor drip¬
pings, as much of the richness of
depends upon this matter. When
nearly done, put the ronst close to and thc
fire to render the outside brown
crisp; and add salt and pepper to the
gravy .—1 Ruse ic ifc.
Recipe for Cornell Reef
Directions for making corned beef:
First cover tho meat for twenty-four
hours with brine just strong nnd enough wasli to
float, an egg. Take it out it in
cold water so as to take out all the
blood; throw the bloody brine in away,
and for 100 pounds of beef, or the
same proportions for other quantities,
tna e a new pic<le by thoroughly dis¬
solving six pounds of salt, two pounds
of brown sugar and two ounces of salt¬
petre in water sufficient to cover the
meat; sxim it well before pouring it on,
and if scum rises on it afterward before
the meat is used up, scald it, skim it
and pour it ba-jk when cold. Keep the
meat always covered with the brine and
in a cool and well ventilated place. For
summer keeping or for the Southern
States a little more salt should be used.
—New York World.
Blanquctte of Veal.
Cut throe pounds of the breast of veal
in pieces two inches square, put them iii
enough cold water to cover them, with
one sultspoonful of white pepper, one
teaspoonful of salt, a bunch of sweet
herbs, half a carrot scraped, with a turnip three
peeled, and au onion stuc ^
cloves; bring tlowiy to a boil, s imcare¬
fully till no more scum rises, and cook
gently for thirty or forty minutes until
the veal is tender; then drain it, return ¬
ing the broth to thc fire. Meantimema o
a white sauce by stirring together and over
the tire one ounce of butter one
ounce qf llcmr until they are smooth, then
adding H pints of the broth gradually;
season with a little more s^lt and pepper
and a quarter of a sultspoonful of grated
nutmeg: when the sauce has boiled up
well stir into it with an egg; whip the
yolks of two raw eggs, put in the meat
and cook lor five minutes, stirring oc¬
casionally .—Farm and Fires dc.
Id me- Water.
- An experienced housekeeper gave short me
a valuable piece of information a
time ago. -lie said: “Lime-water,when
one uvjii-'fttaiids how to use it, is very
useful in housekeeping. Prepare it Umc for
use by putting a stone of fresh
about the size of a Ipdf-peck and measure it
into slowly a largo tea-ketjtlefql stone iaq ftf hot pour water, over and
a
stir it ^orqugnly. l et it settle, then
stir qgqiq thoroughly, repeating this
three or four times dur.ug the day.
Bottle earefuliy all of it that can be
poured off in a clear state.” It. is useful
in cleansing bottles or iniik vessels. A
cupful mixed in the sponge of bread or
cakes over night will prevent souring.
A little put into milk or cream, utter a
hot night, will prevent its 1 y,rf,iug when
put into tea or coffee. A ibtle put into
milk, that i^ight, v-uydio when heated,
will prevent HUgling, and the milk can
ho piled for puddings or pies .—Bruirie
Fanner.
Household Hints-
The best of tea makes but an in
different concoction unless the water is
fresh.
Paint made with turpentine is abettei
protector for iron work thaw when mixed
with linseed, oil,,
Fgg shells crushed and shaken in a
gifts's clean it bottle quickly. hall filled with water will
Kerosene is unexcelled in starch to
give polish; also to polish glass; it will
make your windows shine like silver.
When ivory handled knives become
yellow they cun be cleansed by rubbing
them briskly with errngy or sand paper.
To clean ornaments o.f alabaster dis¬
solve borqi; ip boiling water and apply
with, a cloth Of soft brush; rinse carefully
ftpd dry in the sun.
A small piece of salt pork boiled wet-
fricasseed chicken will impart a richness
to tho gravy and the flavor will be bith
tor than if nothing but butter is used.
Horseradish cut in thin strips length¬
wise and a dozen or more of these sn ips
placed on the top of each keg o4 pickles
will keep them from becoming stale or
moldy.
Dftfcouioura, says I)r. Seibert, is a
house disease, originating, with diph¬
theria and inflammatory rheumatism, in
dump, flirty, or unventilated rooms and
cellars.
Pigeons arc good when the breasts are
plump and red looking. The flesh of an
old one is dark, and the breast is not so
plunap, Squabs are plump, soft skinned,
with almost pink flesh.
The housekeeper’s test of a good
broom, the green color of the corn, is no
longer trustworthy; old, brittle, and
yellow corn is now dipped in a green so¬
lution and made to look exactly like ihc
superior article.
Now that it is customary to have
fruits, flowers, the vinegar cruets, or salt
and pepper bottles, placed in the centre
of the table in lieu of a large castor,
pretty devices are made of linen to lay
Upon the cloth, Some cvf these are
elaborately embroidered.
Here is a use for old paper which may
he new to some of the ladies, Fold old,
soft newspapers in several thicknesses,
place in a pan of water until thoroughly
wet, then wring out, tear in small bits,
pick up line and throw over your carpet
instead of wet tea leaves, and sec if you
do not liko it better.
NO. 25.
OMNIA VANITA3.
•• What I write shall live forever,” said th*
poet in his pride,
And be wrote with tho blood of his bosom
a song that straightway died.
“ I will make my namo immortal,” said the
artist with a sob.
With his soul for a brush lie paintod what
the critics called a daub.
‘ My words shall startle nations" (the state-
man’s blood wasstirrod),
Then he from the rostrum thundered a
speech that no one heard.
‘ Tho world shall wake with wondor at th
conquests I shall make,"
And tho soldier led his army to a fatal,
black mistake.
'* I’ll overwhelm the scholars when I show
how Nature acts,”
And the scientific doctor rehashed up an-
eiont facts.
Iu time each strong de3ire shall strike upon
some reef,
In time each high ambition shall surely
coino to grief.
—Susie M. Rest.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Handy things—Gloves.
A disagreeable vice—Advice.
Whooping ’em up—The coopers.
Down in the mouth—The palate.
Keeps his spit it level—Tho carpenter.
A stror g attachment—The constables.
Death’s door is locked with a skeleton
key.
A ghost of a show—The living skele-
ton.
Don’t get “short” if you want to get
along.
Buying the piper—Settling the plum¬
ber’s bill.
barbaric Beyond the pale of civilization—Tho
bucket.
Since life is but a span why should a
mau want a four-iu-hand!
A criminal may not court death, but
in New York t?tate he sparks it.
Don’t be an amateur physic an. Don’t
even doctor your accounts .—New York
Sun.
machine, The fellow who beats silently tho weighing
like the Arab, steals a
weigh.
“Fapa, why do they call a beaver hat
a high hat?” “Because,my son, it costs
$8.”— Bazar.
There’s nothing like leather, except-
ing,, off: course, the upper crust of the
young wife’s first pic.
If the 13ecr Trust keeps on growing it
will soon be at lagerheads with th©
public .—New York News.
Wc are told of a chiropodist so expert
that he claims to have extracted corns
from a mistletoe.— Bazar.
Judging from the almost daily defal¬
cations announced in the papers, this is
the shortage .—Boston Times.
The man who discovers a granite
quarry on his vacant building site has
reason to rejoice that his lot is a hard
one. — 'Time.
Tho Bowery tramp remarked, at th©
Tombs recently, that lie never felt so-
mu.h put out as whenhe was taken iu.—
New fork News.
“Be sunny, girls, be sunny,” says Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. We don’t see how
they can, but still they daughter be.—
t.us A n (juke. Tr ibune.
Soarundflop (grandiloquently)—“Yes;:
it pays to do right. Honesty is thc best
policy after all.” Frunkley—“Why
don’t you have it renewed.”— Time.
At the water-color exhibition.—“Who"
is that fellow over there looking so in¬
tently at Hack -Hankinsou’s picture?”
“That’s Hankinsou .”—New York Sun.
Lady—“I don’t think these pictures
do mo justice.” Artist—“Well, madam,
if you insist open their being absolutely
correct, I can put back the wrinkles.”
The ice that we’ vo tasted
May sometime return; wasted—
liut the coal when once
>Suy, how can it burn?
— (joodall's Sun.
She was a modest and timid girl,
Retiring, weak and shy;
But she knew how to talk till your hair
would curl,
On the whenceness of the why.
—Merchant Traveler.
“Gracious me!” said an old lady,
“they’re dis overing new explosives all
tho lime. I see in the paper that an of¬
ficer was killed yesterday while dis¬
charging his duty.”— S/uie and Leather
Jtejioi le>.
A Nihilistic speech.—“I wish it
would stop raining,” remarked a St.
Petersburg gentleman the other day, af¬
ter a week’s storm, and a detective
promptly arrested him for referring to
the C. ar as “it.”— Harper's Bazar.
who A politely gentleman asked: was mot “Would by a stranger be
you so
kind as to lend me $20?” “My dear sir,
I have not the honor of knowing you.”
“That is why I request you to give me
an opportunity to extend my reputation
for honesty.”— Ohicaqo Globe.
A Perfect Model of African Bcanty.
Paradoxical as it may seem, writes the
veracious Joo Howard, the prettiest
model iu New York is a colored girl who
lives in Yonkers. She is a perfect type
of Africa's golden sand, with a low
forehead, jet black eyes, extended nos¬
trils, thick lips, while teeth, but for all
that, thc most attractive in appearance,
with a figure that is statuesquely superb.
She stands straight as an arrow, is
twenty years old, weighs 135 pounds,
and is as full of life and blood as it is
possible for human nature to be. During
the months of October, November and
thence on to May, she readily makes
from $5 to $10 a day five days in the
week, i