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McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court o
Georgia, and the United States D.stnct
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McDonough, Ga.
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OMKOU.Tf A WAIA’OTT,
THE COQUETTE'S ALBUM.
Upon tho tabl-* small Letweeu
The window and the painted screen,
You'll find the volume full in view—
'Tin claspod with £okl and bouud in blue.
Come, sit beside me here, I pray,
Aud see mo turn the years away.
With every pictured and call
Them back to me, my lovers s'L
This was a j oudr: divine, whose eyes
Saw nothing lower than the skies,
Whose every toue ami look and pace
Was full of light nml saintly grace.
When at the church I saw the light
From windows stained with colors bright,
In rainbow glory round him fall,
I thought I loved him best of aIL
This was a youth whose eagle glance
Had swept the prairies' wide expanse;
Whose arm hod plied from shore to shore
In waters wild the fearless oar
When first 1 luip|>eued to behold
His bright dark eye aud bearing bold.
His graceful figure straight and tall,
I said- “l loved him best of all !**
Here Is a face In which the pride
Of ancient blood is soon descried;
And yet on Mount Olympus trod
In days of old uo Grecian god
More beautiful, and when above
My chair he leans, and breathes of lovo.
In summer, soft aud musical,
1 knew I loved him best of aIL
The light Is growing very dim.
And we will close the book with him.
Tears on my cheek, you say? Ah, no
'Tis but the fire's 100 ardent glow
One—'tls the young divine —is wed;
And one —the dark eyed youth—is dead;
One, In far lands beyond my call.
And yet I think I loved them all.
—Bert Ford in Brooklyn Eagle.
Asleep In a Country Churchyard.
An old man who sleeps by the road
sido yonder, and upon whose tomb arc
the familiar lines beginning, “Remem
ber me as you pass by.” spent the
greater portion of the last ten years of
bis life by his wife’s grave. lie came
in the early morning, and after remov
ing any microscopic weed that might
have snowed itself since the previous
evening, would light his pipe and sol
emnly contemplate the stones in his
vicinity. He went away regularly to
his meals, and as regularly took his
afternoon nap on the grass by the
graveside. Shortly before his last vis
it to tho cherished spot he requested
me to decipher for bun the dates upon
several of tho gravestones; and wo
conversed about many we had known
in life, and who had passed away. I
remarked that the churchyard was a
very pretty place, and his face lighted
up as he rejoined: “Ah, mester, I’ve
always thought I should like to be
buried here, for,” looking around,
“you see, there’s such a splendid view
from here.” This was uttered 1 11 good
faith, and the old ruan seemed con
vinced that neither coifin lid nor
churchyard clods would obstruct his
view. Perhaps they don't! In a few
weeks he came to his favorite haunt
to stay. “Poor old William,” the
flowers upon your grave have run
wild long ago, and lie one seems tore
member you us they pass by.—Cham
bers’ Journal.
A Prudent Courtier.
Frederick the Great, of Prussia, who
had a violent temper, was in the
habit of playing at dice with one of his
adjutants, using a cup and two thee of
solid silver.
One day Frederick complained that
the game was rather dull when there
was not money at stake, and proposed
that they throw for a penny a throw.
“Not much," replied the adjutant,
who was a plain spoken sort of a man,
“I think we had better not risk any
money. As it is now, without any
moneyed inducements, when your
majesty loses you throw the cup and
dice at me. What will become of me
if there should he money on the game
and your majesty should lose ?” -Texas
Siftings.
“Pour Le Uni Do Prusse.”
In the beginning of the Eighteenth
century the now no powerful Ger
man empire was nothing me-e than
the little kingdom of Prussit. having
just dropped its title of Duchy of
Brandenburg. The country was very
poor and the military discipline very
hard. Frederick Wilhelm 1 was very
harsh, cross and stingy, and did not
even know, perhaps, what it was to
make a present. And his reputation
was so well grounded and so widely
spread that it became a byword to say
that a man hud worked for the king
of Prussia when he hud done some un
profitable job.—Notes and (Queries.
Carpet I'ugfi.
Some Augusta housekeepers think
they have disu*vem. the origin of the
buffalo bug so far as that city is con
cerned. They claim that every carpet
under which u certain kind of patent
carpet paper has been placed has suf
fered. while those spread over old
newspapers, straw or burlap have es
caped. This theory will yet have to
be further tested before it is proved,
but it is worth something to have even
a theory to work on in the effort to
head off these ] tests. —Lewiston Jour
nal.
None of HU Hi.-iness.
1 was sitting with sonic friends tit
sunset among the ruins of Karnak
with a group of Arabs round us. One
of our party said: ‘’Mohammed, why
does tlie sun rise here and set over
there?” The youth looked puzzled a
moment, and then, with acquiescent
content, answered: “That is the busi
ness of my God, and not the business
of me.” —The Spectator.
Journalism in Jitpau.
Journalism in Japan presents many
peculiarities. As it has existed only
a short time as yet. there is no paper
there as important and as widely cir
culated as the principal journals of
Europe and America. There are now
in Japan 570 periodical publications.
Tokio alone possesses seventeen daily
journals, circulating an aggregate of
3,906,000 copies in a month, and 116
periodical publications, circulating
495,000 copies. It may be seen, then
fore, that the circulation <>f each is
very small, the largest Is ing n* t more
than 10,000 copies, half of which are
sold at Tokio and the olht ■ haif in the
provinces. The Japanese newspapers
insert very few advertisements, but
get very good rates for them. They
contain no sensational news or arti
cles. In general apiiearar.ee they re
semble Lite French papers much more
McDonough, ga., Friday. January, 8, ir-ii
cioseiy man ti'.ose of lAjndon or New
York?
In the preparation of the Japanese
newspaper many difllculties are en
countered which are unknown in Eu
rope or America. There are uo loss
I lean 14,000 Japanese characters, 4,000
of which are used constantly, and
lienee the compositor has to have
cases containing 4,000 compartments.
The compositor must be carefully
trained in his art, possess excellent
sight, and oven use magnifying
glasses. Each compositor has several
assistants, who hunt the cases for all
the ideogrannncH that appear in any
given article. The compositors then
set up the article with these characters
and the forty-seven syllabic signs also
used in Japanese writing.
The persons employed in the prepa
ration of a journal—for instance, the
Niclii-Nichi -Shim-boun —are distrib
uted as follows: A political director,
an editor in chief, live assisUmt ed
itors, four proofreaders, one copyist,
twelve reporters, and three or four
compositors? each of whom, as above
stated, has several assistants, besides a
certain number of type distributors —
in all, 150 persons. The reporters are
the most important, yet they can
scarcely hope to earn more than $lO a
month; consequently, ■ much of their
news is invented. The most import
ant sheets have social correspond
ents, who generally belong to tho edi
torial stalls of papers published in
other cities, or else are young persons
who have studied in Europe. Many
journals are subsidised by wealthy
and iifilueutial men. —Transatlantic.
rollle and Untruthful.
It is possible that there is such a
tiling as being too polite; at least, one
may err in tho direction of a too obse
quious courtesy. It is said that a roy
al personage once asked a courtier
what time't was, and the man replied,
with a low rcvereuco, and with hated
breath:
“Whatever time your majesty
pleases.”
Doubtless the king would have been
better pleased with a less flattering
and more definite answer.
There is a tradition in a certain
house that one of its guests was so
polite that none of her preferences
could bo ascertained, and the follow
ing incident is always quoted in illus
tration of her phenomenal courtesy.
“Now, Kitty,” said her hostess one
morning, “we can either row or drive
this morning, which would you pre
fer!”
“Thank you, that will be charm
ing,” was the non-committal reply,
and, as her hostess afterward declared,
“wild horses could not liavo drawn
from her a further avowal.”
Such careful courtesy is often ex
ceedingly amusing, and, when used by
an Irishman, one can fancy that it
would be provocative of smiles. An
Irish sailor once called the captain of
his vessel from a coffee house with the
flatteriug statement:
“An’t pluze yer honor, tho tide is
waiting for ye!”
Surely the captain might have
thought himself more than the equal
of King Canute, who found, by actual
experiment, that he was unequal to
controlling the sea.
Perhaps the advice of a certain dear
old lady applies to etiquette, as well as
to other affairs of life. "Speak the
truth always,” she was wont to say,
"hut speak it gently.”—Youth’s Com
panion.
DMi’t Kill Too Soon.
It is a great mistake, often a fatal
one, to kill a dog that has bitten a per
son, until it is established that the dog
is mad. Imagination causes more
deaths by hydrophobia than neglect
does. Once the dog is dead there is no
chance of proving it had not rabies; the
patient is predisposed to think it did.
llis fears get hold of his nerves and
work on them until they induce the
dread disease, visions of which are be
ing constantly conjured up to the
mind’s eve. A dog after indicting a
wound should bo caged and watched,
and it were even well if some dissiinu
lation were practiced to make the pa
tient believe the dog was all right,
even should it develop symptoms. If
people only knew how powerful caut
erization is as a remedial agent, few
would die of rabies. —Physician in St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Caviare for the Million.
Russian caviare is the title given at
the English embassy to the mottled
mass of printers’ ink which the censors
block on to any passage they dislike in
a hook or paper. Any English paper
you take up in St. Petersburg is sure
to have one or two passages thus
blocked out. Thee, r-vors read through
an entire work like ''.diver's (lonvet-sa
tions Lexikon” or the 1 vitish Kncyclo
nediu. and block vut >u re and there
before they allow the books to be sold.
The National Review.
Some Hop**.
"Now, don’t you think he looks just
like his father?'’ inquired the fond
mother of the honest visitor, as she
held up her year-old baby to admire.
“No,” said the honest visitor, hesi
tatingly. “I cannot really say I do.
But perhaps he may, you know, after
he gets his whiskers grown.”—Somer
ville Journal.
Scientific Information.
Professor—Have any of you expe
rienced an electric shock?
Impressionable Pupil (diffidently)—
Yes, sir; I have. A touching of hands
—you know. And (impulsively) she
felt it, too.
Professor (severely)—Young man,
that was not electricity. That was
ga 1-van ism. Pittsburg Bulletin.
ITow the l»oy Viewed It.
•‘Let’s get some o’ them apples.”
“I don't want any o’ them. They
let ycr take ’em. Come on dowu to
Bankers’ and steal some o’ his.”—
E«jch.
A Sufo Transaction.
!- irst Jeweler—Are you the party
t:.. • advertised an opportunity to in
vert in a safe transaction ?
: .iu! Jeweler—Yes; I'll sell you
ur. oiil safe for that amount.—Jewel
er: Weekly
SHE SAW A BULL FIGHT.
A Girl Tell* How th-j
lm|»riw*ed Her.
A Baltimore girl, who faints at the
sight of a caterpillar, turns green at
the flow of blood, and is in every way
of a most gentle and kindly nature,
thus writes homo about her visit to a
bull tight— the occasion being the
farewell to Paris of the prince of mat
adors, Ixiii is Mazzantini:
“At last 1 have seen my first bull
tight, and I trust, my last. You could
not liuve borne it five minutes, and 1
scarcely know how I did.
“Imagine an immense arena, with
22,001) people packed in circles, while
innocent little white clouds floated
over an intensely blue sky. At times
the tender hearted clouds shut the sky
entirely oil from all view of what was
going 011 beneath in the arena, while
frequent short April like showers of
tcare (!) fell from them, and it is to
be hoped soothed the wonous • J the
six enraged hulls that succeeded each
other to death. The occasion was Max
zautini’s farewell to the Parisian pub
lic, which has made such a hero of
him. Not only had fatted calfs been
j killed in his honor in appreciation of
the fatted hulls which Mazzantini had
killed with such glory, but hats and
handkerchiefs waved, presents of sil
ver, of gold and jewels were thrown
to liim after his little speech of fare
well, and flowers in forms of wreaths,
bouquets and hearts soon covered
the gore stained ground. Of all these
gifts the only ouo tho Spanish grandee
noticed at all was a simple bunch of
violets. This ho stooped to pick up,
and hissed in the direction of the fair
dame who had thrown it. His two
valets raised the more valuable gifts
from the dust, while Mazzantini him
self never deigned to even glance at
the rich jewels scattered at his feet.
“It was a wonderful sight, exciting
past belief. lam glad to have scon it,
for I learned something, but the one
lesson completes the course. I’ll see
no more bull fights. The orches
tra played the music of ‘Carmen’ us
we came out, and I stopped to study
the faces of the audience that but a
few minutes before were in such ex
tremes of excitement, shouting and
hissing when the poor bull, tjerritied
and smarting, tried to save himself in
stead of showing the proper amount of
tight, and I remembered that I, too,
at the moment had arisen to my feet
and rejoiced when a well planted
lance, which I thought was costing
the picador Ins life, as he stood direct
ly in front of the bull’s hurts, pierced
the bull's shoulder just as he lowered
his head to strike. Then the marvel
ous Mazzantini leaped over the head
and stood quietly waiting until the
now maddened creature turned on him
with sufficient ferocity to satisfy the
most exacting hisser.
“Nothing can express to you the in
tense artistic aspect of the perform
ance. One lias to sec it to understand
the science of these superb men. They
! walk with the dignity that princes are
1 supposed to have in and out of tho
| jaws of death —a leap not any higher
or less calm than just enough to keep
•them this side of eternity. The little
scarlet cloak, tlieir only defensive
weapon, and with this alone, they lead
the infuriated animal to the exact spot
where they wish to kill him. and then
kill him, not at any haphazard mo
ment t» suve their own lives, hut only
at the signal given by the president.
In*Paris they do not kill the hull in
the arena, but when the signal to kill
is given, the matador’s personal dan
ger is all the greater for not killing,
as he must touch tho bull in the vital
spot above the head between the
shoulders, just as the bull lowers his
head to gore him, thus going through
the form, after which tho bull is taken
out by oxen and killed out of sight.
Each bull, usbicli is of a very high
breed, belongs to some well known
Spanish senor. ami is wortli a good
many hundred dollars. But they say
it cannot tight twice, as it must be put
an end to; the honor of the family to
whom it belongs isnt stake by the way
it fights.
“A wonderful sight, aud always :
shall it live m my memory how tne
urtistic superseded the human side of ;
it in my eyes. I had to grasp the ,
smelling suits in one hand, for you
know how I turn sick at the sight of
blood, and to see those poor blind fold- 1
3<l horses raised on tho horns of the ;
maddened hulls made me turn faint
for tlie moment, while the next I was
fascinated by a wonderful science that
turned life into a plaything. The cos
tumes and all the raise en scene are
the most picturesque things imagina
ble. In fart, everything is done to
make it endurable. Fierce feelings
that I never imagined I had took pos
session of tne, and I could scarcely
realize my own lack of heart. For once
amj the lust time 1 have seen this relic j
of a past barbarism, and I am glad to
have had tho experience.”—Baltimore
Bub.
THINGS MAN CAN'T DO.
n « Ilan Acromplsheri Wonder*, No Doubt,
Hut llcre’ii Where Ho Stumble*.
There is always something comical
about a man's attempt to do a woman’s
work. And tlie fun of tlie thing is
that a mail never realizes that he can
not do it properly. There isn’t a man
on the footstool who does not pri
vately entertain the opinion that, if he
should only set himself about it, lie
could do anything better than any
woman. But lie can’t, and all the
women know it.
lie means well, no doubt, but some
how he doesn’t seem to have the fac
ulty.
llis wife goes on a visit to her mo
ther, and he keeps house. Now, lie
will teH Brown that he can cook a
meal as well as the best woman that
ever lived; hut if he should see Brown
and some of the boys coming up to his
house to dinner, lie would bolt the
door and lie low till they went away.
lie never can touch a kettle without
getting soiled. lie dan t handle the
fire irons without burning his fingers.
He never thinks to hang up any tow
els; he keens them on tlie floor, where
they will lie handy. A man cannot
do two things at a time. A woman
will broil a steak, and see that the cof
fee does not boil over, and watch the
cat that she does not steal tlie remnant
of meat on the kitchen table, and dress
the youugest boy, and set the tabic
anu seo to tno toast, and stir the oat
meal, and give orders to the butcher,
and witness the way her neighbor
across tho street is Imaging out her
clothes—and she can do it all at once
and not half try.
Is there a man living who can hold
fifteen pins in his tnouth. nml lit a
dress waist, and talk over tho scandal
about tho new minister at the same j
time? Of course there is not, and yet
a woman can do it easily, ami enjoy it,
too.
A man will work diligently half tho
forenoon to find a shirt button, and
when ho has found it, it will be three
sizes too large for the bugonhole, and
then he will begin to thread his noo
dle. And ho will squint, and take
aim, and sweat, and swear, and the
thread will slip right by the needle
every time, and if over lie does get tho
needle threaded it will he such a big
needle that it will split tho button
clean in two, and ho will find himself
exactly where ho started from.
Man has done wonders since ho came
before (Tie public. lie bus navigated
tho ocean, ho has penetrated tho mys
teries of the starry heavens, he has har
nessed the lightning and made it pull
street cars and light the great cities of
the world. Oil, yes, we are willing
to admit that man lias done his part,
but lie couldn’t pour castor oil into a
colicky baby without spilling it all
over the baby’s clothes, to save his
life!
He can’t find i> spool of rod thread in
his wife’s sowing machine drawers—
no, he can’t; and after he searches half
an hour, and manfully keeps his tem
]k.t meanwhile, ho will appear with a
spool of blhe silk, and vow that such a
tiling us red thread has no existence in
thut house.
A man cannot hang out clothes and
get them on the line the right end up.
He cannot hold clothes pins m his
mouth while he is doing it, either.
lie cannot lie polite to somebody ho
hates. He would never think of kiss
ing Ids rival when lie met him, as a
woman will kiss her rival, lie can't
chew gum. lie can’t sit in a rocking
chair without banging the rockers into
the base hoards. Ho can't put tho tidy
on the sofa pillow right side out. ife
can’t wear No. 3 boots on No. 5 feet.
He’d die with corsets on I He'd get
his death of cold with bare arms and
neck.
And yet people who do not know
call women tho weaker sex I—Kate1 —Kate
Thorn in New York Weekly.
Tilt) lutext Feminine I'ihiml.
Two young and pretty women (‘ti
tered a Broadway cur, each carrying
in her arms a little parcel in the must
tender and motherly fashion. So so
licitous were they over their respective
parcels that a lullaby*Beemed almost
bursting from their lips. They were
not nurse girls, so they must bo mo
thers, although it was apparent that
they were young mothers, and very
handsome ones withal. Half a dozen
men jumped up to offer them seats.
The girls giggled as they sat down
and no wonder, for the bundles they
carried in such a motherly fashion had
been deftly improvised, under a sud
den inspiration, to represent babies.
There was little of them except a crook
of tho arm and a lace handkerchief to
cover a supposititious bids:, but enough
to deceive poor, trustful man. The gig
gle was general, for tho girls had ob
tained seats on a now and original
plan.—New Y’ork World.
Florida himl LomoiiN.
Florida will soon bo the greatest
lemon growing country in the world.
Lemons weighing a pound eacli arc
common in Florida, and along tho
banks of Caloosuhatchie there is a sin
gle tree which bears 5,000 lemons,
many of which weigh a pound each.
But, except for show, such large lem
ons are of little vulue, as they are
course grained and pi ay. The best
lemons aro grown on poor soil; and for
that reason they aro a very profitable
crop. This country consumes more
lemons every year than all other coun
tries combined, and the consumption is
constantly increasing.—New York Tri
bune.
Ancient History.
“Ah.” sighed Brown, as ho- gazed
into the face of his tiny son and heir,
“think of tho trouble before himj
But,’’ hecontinued, as he hurriedly re
viewed the world's events, “there will
bt» a powerful lot behind him, how
ever." — Harper’s Bazar.
California** Floral Wealth.
Tho evergreen redwood rises straight
as an arrow to the height of fromzOO
to 800 feet. There aro whole tribes of
the coniform, dozens of specimens of
cypress and cedar, a variety and re
lationship of the oaks that drives the
botanist wild, ravines filled with the
flowering dogwood, sweeps of glisten
ing mnnzanita, spattered patchesof the
red borrii d buckthorn, rifts of tho
pink pctaled rhododendrom, sanguin
ary patches where stands tho Judas
tree. In this favored country also
bloom and bear the pomegranate, fig,
olive, almond, apricot, lemon, orange
and tho nectarine. The camelia is a
tree, the heliotrope a stout shrub; ger
aniums aro used for scarlet hedges; the
callalily is a weed. —Harper’s Maga
zine.
After the Little One*.
“Improve tho golden hours; seize
them as they pass you by,” said the
parson impressively, as ho opened the
conference. “I ain't after ■ such big
game.” said the reporter who had
nailed a chair close to tho recording
secretary, “but you can bet your
tyeavesTll collar tho minutes.” And
he did. Wore they were an hour old.
—Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
Metallic Wall Cover*.
For years the proprietors of a patent
papier inache wall covering have imi
tated repousse work in metal by cover
ing their material with bronze powder
or metallic paints, hut this latest deco
ration shows that the real metal is coin
ing into use. It is rolled almost as thin
as note paper, and then put through
patterned rollers that leave raised fig
ures upon it. By means of grooved
edges, such as are put on me al tiling,
the sheets are perfectly adjusted. Then
! they aro nailed to the wall with small
i brads. —New York Telegram.
HOW IT FctUS TO DROWN.
Oiifl Who * i jim Had Che Experience T#*lla
All About It.
Tho ship was the George Pollock,
Cnpt. Wilbers, bound from London to
Lyttelton, New Zealand. Wo were
about 1,000 miles south of the Cape of
Good Hope, a very co’ J latitude in tho
month of Octolx'r. 1 was a saloon
passenger, and had been fishing for al
batrosses and mollyiocks over tlio
stern with a long hue and hooks
baited.witli salt pork all tho morning.
About midday wo went down to din
ner. but 1, being anxious to catch a
bird, made a hurried meal and has
tened back on deck. The Kir George
Pollock was an old fashioned ship
with a high poop, and, as we had cows
on board, number of trusses of hay
hud been las lied to the stern taffrail,
where they were less liable to bo wet
by the sea than elsewhere.
When 1 got on the poop, no one
else being there but tho man at the
wheel, 1 found my line hud got tan
gled with the rudder. I climbed on to
one of the trusses of hay with the in
tention of casting the line loose, and
was leaning down to do so when the
shin gave a pitch. 1 lost my balance
and tell plump into the sea. From
where I was perched on tho hay to tho
water, as the ship rose on the wavo,
was a clear drop of twenty feet or
more, and ns I fell flat on my chest
the wind was knocked out of me and
I was half stunned for tho moment.
When I came to myself I was floating
pretty comfortably, my thick woolen
clothes supporting me, and my wide
awake hat floating by my side.
There was a heavy swell, and as I
rose to the crest of a wave, I saw the
ship, looking very small, as if she were
already a long way off. I noticed,
however, that she was hove to, and 1
felt sure then that 1 should ho picked
up. My only fear was that the alba
trosses might swoop down upon mo
and kill me with their terrible beaks,
us they had tho carpenter of the same
ship the voyage before. A long time
passed hours it seemed to me and,
my clothes having become soaked, I
floated low in tho water and could no
longer empty my mouth fast enough
to get breatn or keep the ship in
sight. Every wavo that came sank
me deeper and made me swallow more
water. I begun to feel deadly cold,
and 1 thought it was all over with me.
I could not help blaming my friends
on tho ship for their cruelty in letting
me drown, when they might so easily
have sent a Unit for me, but 1 forgave
tie in and said my pruyersto myself.
All 1 could do now I could not keep
rny head above water, and at
last 1 saw it green over my eyes
as I looked up, my head swam
round and I thought I was going
to sleep. I was aroused by some
thing touching me, forcing me down
in tlio water, and then drugging me
out altogether, and tho next thing 1
knew 1 was among men who were
talking, though I could not under
stand them for the rushing and whiz
zing in my ears.
The first words I understood were
something about “handing me up,”
and at the same time I felt myself ue
ing lifted up to the ship’s side and
seized by a number of arms. Then
my clothes seemed to come off all at
once they’ had lteen cut off bv tho
doctor with a shurp knife—and then I
felt warmth all over me. Boon I knew
that I was lying in warm blankets
with hot bottles under luy armpits
and feet. 1 could hear voices round I
me and knew what they said, and I
could feel hands nibbing my limbs
and turning mo about. But I could
not speak or move, or show any signs
of life, and in my inside I still felt so
cold 1 thought I must die.
At length I felt something very hot |
in my mouth, and 1 gulped and it j
went down my throat. It came again j
and again, and warmed tno and made j
me feel better, though fearfully sick, i
Then 1 felt a terrible pricking and }
twitching (like “pins and needles,”
when your foot has gone to sleep) all
over me. After that I got drowsy, and
the next thing I remember I was ly
ing in my own berth with my father
and sister sitting by me. I was still
very weak, and I had a very had
cough, but I was out of danger and
fust recovering. Two days later tho
children in the saloon, who were all
great friends of mine, yvere allowed to
come and see me, und bring me littlo
presents they bad ready forme, and in
a fortnight I wus up und again catch
ing seabirds over the stern. I had ac
tually been half an hour in tho cold
yvaters of the Southern ocean, and it
was two hours liefore they could tell
for certain whether I wus dead or
alive.- Edward Wakefield in New
York World.
% Sioux Surpriae I’urty.
A gool many writers have asserted
that an Indian is a lsirii stoic, and that
the reason he doesn’t laugh or cry or
express surprise or astonishment lies
in the fact that nature did not intend
him to. That’s all nonsense, how
ever. The Indian puts it all on for ef
fect. I’ve heard him laugh as hearty
as any white man, and I’ve seen them
when they were positively thunder
struck with amazement.
In 1800 the hostiles got to attacking
one of the stage routes into Julesburg,
and after they had killed a dozen
people a part of my company was
sent out to give the red man a set
hack. We rode over a section of the
route one day, and toward evening se
en te<l ourselves in a long, dry ra
vine, to bee what would happen dur
ing tlie night. The stage was due
there about 10 o’clock, and soon after
owe got a surprise. A band of twen
ty-three Indians came in from the
west, struck tho trail just above us,
and came down and laid themselves
away almost on top of us. We had
our horses down around a bend, with
guards to look after them, and the In
dians had left their ponies at some
other point. We were back in the
dark, where they could not see us,
while they were at the mouth of the
ravine and every man of them showed
against the starlight sky. We knew
what they were after, and prepared
ourselves accordingly. There were
twentv-eight of us, and we crept up
inch by inch until, when we finally
heard the rattle of the stage coach, we
were not over twenty-live feet from
the hunch of marauders. We could
hear and see them making readv. and
,iust as iney were aooul to dash out on
the trail we gave them a volley.
Talk ulxmt an Indian not feeding
surprised! Why, they yelled out like
so many old women scared by a cow,
and two or three of them shouted to
the Great Spirit to save them as they
ran. We killed nine and wounded
four with that one volley, and only
one of the wounded lived beyond two
days. The survivor was a middle
aged warrior, bearing the scars of
many buttles. I was asked to ques
tion him, and as he saw my purpose
lie shut himself up liko a clam. 1
started off with.
“Has my brother a glass in which to
see his face i*’
“Why should I have?” he queried,
interested at once.
“To see that your hair has turned as
white as the snow.”
“No! It can’t be 1 Get me a glass,
quick 1”
At that the group around him burst
out laughing, uud tlie warrior looked
up with rueful expression and said:
“1 thought it wm true. I was so
scared that my heart stopped boating!”
—New York Sun.
Fuctfl for Travel** ni by Sea.
Ocean voyagers enjoy ono advantage
over their overland brethren—They
never get stained with tho dust of trav
el.
Tailpieces of ocean —Fins.
A vessel under steam—The tea ket
tle.
Tar and feathers Jack and Mother
Cary's chickens.
A practice ship—Courtship.
A water lower —An iceberg.
An old mill or—The letter D; it lias
followed the C a good many years
now.
A down y couch—Tho ocean bed.
A jolly boat—Tho craft of funny
men.
The milky way —To tho cheese fac
tory.
A crazy craft The hark of a mad
dog.
A breaker—The Ci«y of l’aris.
Tho keelson is a model young man
—Always keeps on the right track.
An old tar—Gibraltar.
An earthenware vessel—A continen
tal basin.
A deceased count —A dead reckon
ing.
Seasickness—A yachtijig fever.
A Yankee skipper-The Canadian
refugee.
A had breaker —The careless stew
ard.
A bad business—Keeping u fish mar
ket—it makes a man sell-fish.
Old ocean is a had sleeper— Tosses on
his bed all night.
A trim craft—Tailoring.—Ocean.
Tl»<; ropo’ii Gol<l lUims
The gold rose, of which so much is
erroneously written, is not a rose at
all, but a rose bush or plant, perhaps
eight inches in height, showing leaves,
1 buds and several fall blown roses.
' The design is worked in gold wire
and is as accurate a copy of nature as
the artist could be expected to produce.
It is always planted in a decorated
(lower (>ot filled with Roman soil,
and, being the giftof the pope, a special
messenger delivers it. The gold rose
j is only bestowed upon princesses of
Iho highest rank, which limitation
disqualifies all American ladies.
Right here it may be stated that tho
late wife of Gen. Sherman did not re
ceive the gold rase nor any gift or fa
vor whatever from the sovereign pon
tiff. The queen regent of Spain was
honored with the gold rose for some
very beautiful consideration of her
subjects, and the last recipient of the
precious rose plant was the empress of
Brazil for the part she took in bring
ing about the freedom of slaves in tho
valley of the Alhazon.- New York Sun.
The IJv«il Teoplo.
The Norwegians, it seems, are the
longest lived people under the sun. So
we learn from an elnborato “Livs og
Dodstubeiler for det Norsko Folk," or
tables of life and death among the
Norwegian people, just published by
the Norwegian official statistical bu
reau. Tho average duration of life in
Norway is 48.33 for tho men, 51.30 for
the women and 49.77 for both sexes.
The director of tho bureau also shows,
by comparison with earlier decades,
that the average longevity of the Nor
wegian folk has considerably in
creased. "If the mortality in Norway,”
he writes, “is 17 per cent, more favor
ublo than in central or western Eu
rope, it is greatly due to the compara
tively slight mortality among our
youngest children.” —London Stand
ard.
1
A might Child.
Mrs. A. —Just think, Mrs. 8., my
little Mollie lost a dollar bill on her
way to tho grocery.
Mrs. B. (proudly)—That couldn’t
happen to my little Funuy. She is toe
smart for that; ain’t you, Fanny.
Fanny—Guess 1 couldn't lose my
dollar hill when you never send any
money to the grocer’s. He always
writes It down in a book, and when ne
wants any money from us ho has to
come five or six times. —Texas Siftings.
Tlie Mil® In All Countries.
Hid you ever stop to think that all
countries do not use the same standard
for a mile that we do. end that we do
notu.se those of all other countries,
and that if we did, what a badly
jumbled mess we would have? Not
only the mile of the separate countries
dillers greutly in the number of feet
and yards comprised, but those of the
same countries vary in different pro
vinces. Thus tho English mile diners
from the statute mile, and tho French
have three sorts of leagues.
The English mile consists of 5,280
feet, 1,760 yards, or 8 furlongs.
The Russian “verst” is about three
quarters of an English mile.
The Scotch and Irish mile is about
one and a quarter English.
The Dutch, Spanish and Polish mile
is three and a half English.
The German mile is four times as
long as the English.
The Swedish, Danish and Hungarian
mile is from five to six and a half Eng
lish miles. a
The French common league is three
English miles.
The English marii.o league is throe
English miles.—St. Lotus Keuublic.
NO. 36.