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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURBON DEMOCRACY.
VOL. XV.
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never vanes. A marvel ol
purity, yti-uugll'.uuM
ecoHOmreal than Hie ordinnry kinds, and
cannot lie sold in competition with tile mul
titude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
Royal Baking Powbkb Co., 10ti Wall street,
New York. novl3-ly
O HOVEiiHIOJtA l. C'A li l>S.
| |is. *i. l». < AMIMIKM,,
DENTIST,
McDoNornii Ga.
Any one desurin" work done can Ik* ac-
Aonmiodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Ci,. W. Ill:van I W.T. Dicken.
UK VA A A IHCKIIS,
ATTORNEYS AT I,AW,
Mt’DoNoroii, * •a.
Will practice in tke «<>un]ie> composing
he Flint .Indicial Cin nit, the Supreme Court
r i" Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr«7-ljr
j am. mu rnt'HK,
attorney at law,
McDonough, tl*.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. Ill;tr|i; - | - V
j; ' KIAOA^t.
attornewat law.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts ol Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
Mker collect ions. W ill attend all the Court s
it Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
J l\ Wil 1.,
attorney at law,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
givin to collections. octs-’7!»
A. niton V
' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Mi Donoich, Ga.
Will practice, in sill the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. jnnl-ly
Tj - a.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
H amcton, Ga,
• Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ot the
United States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oet 8, 1888
Jno. D. Stkwakt. | R.T. Daniel.
MTiAVAie r x oAAir.i,,
ATTORNEYS AT RAW,
GmsKiN, Ga.
| | IE. IE. .1. unoi.it.
Hampton. Ga.
I hereby 'tender my professional service to
Hie people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all calls night and !
day.
| Oil A 1.. TVK.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta, Ga.
Practices in the Stale and Federal Courts,
GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
announce to the Puhl’c that we are
prepared to manufacture Engine Roll
ers ; will take orders tor all kinds of Roll
ers. Wo are prepared to do all kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery, generally. We keep iu stock Brass
fittings of all kinds; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guagea,
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of every Description.
OSKOU\ cV WAIiCOTT.
Ha i Iro ad Svhedit !<•*.
Georgia Midland Gulf Railroad.
sorTii.
Leave McDonough 7:00 a. in.
Arrive Greenwood 7.27 “ t I
“ Louella 7:25 “
“ Griffin . 8:05 “
XOETII.
Leave Griffin 4:00 p. m.
Arr.ve Lone!la 4:40 **
“ Greenwood 4:48 “
“ McDonough 5:05 “
M. E. GRAY, Sup't.
SOWETP'*3G NICE FREE.
Send your address to b W Wrcnn, Gen. Pass. A
Jena., and be will send you a handsome lithographic
•A?, postage pa d.
THE SACRAMENT OF SUFFERING.
We laughed together, dear, you and I,
Many a time in the days gone by;
There was many a jest betwixt us twain.
But never a thought of grief or j»atn;
And the sun shone bright fn the sky above—
It was not the sunshine taught us loro.
We often lingered ft little while
With a kindly word or a passing smile
(As folks may do who often meet).
Or hand clasped haDd in the crowded street;
But with smiling words we still could part,
It was not yet, dear, heart to heart.
Love grew up In the after time,
When life’s sweet joy baUa ceased th«*ir chime.
My soul was rent with anguish sore,
A kindred sorrow' kept your door;
Twas then, as we knelt and together wept,
That into each other’s hearts we crept—
Friends, firm friends, through the passing
years,
Friends through the sacrament of tears.
—Florence Tylee.
Two of Mr. Allen's War Sturie*.
Congressman Alien, .of Mississippi,
never tires of telling funny titles about
the wilt. Here are two: A Confederate
soldier in a certain regiment had be
come nob'il for running away from
every fight. On one occasion his cap
tain found him in line as an unexpected
attack opened. Standing behind him,
the captain drew his pistol and said:
‘‘Now, John, up to this time you have
run from every tight. You have dis
graced yourself on all occasions. Now,
if you stir from the lino this time I in
tend to shoot you .dead. I shall stand
here, right behind you, and if you
start to run I shall certainly kill you."
John heard the captain through, iuid
drawing himself up to an unusual
height replied: “Wall, captain, you
may shoot me if you like, but I’ll never
give any low lived, low down Yankee
the privilege of doing it." At Mur
freesboro’ a Confederate soldier was
rushing to the rear with all the speed
he could command. An officer hailed
him and sneeringly inquired why lie
was running so fast away from the
Yankees. The soldier, without stop
ping, yelled back, “Because I can’t
fly.”—Galveston News.
The bend Sea.
One of the most interesting lakes or
inland seas in the world is the Dead
sea, which has no visible outlet. It is
not mere fancy which has clothed the
Dead sea in a perpetual gloom. The
desolate shores, with scarcely a green
thing in sight, scattered over with
black stones nnd ragged driftwood,’
forms a fitting frame for the dark,
sluggish waters, overhung with a con
tinual mist, and breaking in slow,
heavy sepulchral toned waves upon the
beach. It almost seems ns if the smoke
from the wicked cities of f3030m and
Gomorrah, which lie at its Ik it tom, was
yet ascending up to heaven, and as if
the moan of their fearful sorrow would
never leave tho death smitten valley.
It is a strange thing to see those
waves, not dancing along and spark
ling in the sun as other waves do, but
moving with measured melancholy and
breaking upon the shore with scarcely
a sound—a fact due to the great heavi
ness of the liquid, which has more salt
and bitumen in it than water. Fish
.cannot live in such a solution. It has
even been said that birds cannot fly
over, an absurdity often disproved.—
St. Louis Republic.
Suro Preventive.
The Spanish wit and philosopher,
Quevedo, who in his time gained a rep
utation for knowing almost everything,
was asked if he knew of a means
whereby a person could avoid growing
old.
“Most certainly,” said Quevedo, “I
know of certain rules which will surely
prevent your growing old."
“What are they ?"
“Keep always in the sun in summer,
and always in tiro wet iu winter. That
is one rule. Never give yourself rest;
that is another. Fret at everything
that happens; that is still another.
And then if you take care always to eat
your meat cold, arid to drink plenty of
cold water alien you are hot, you may
lx- perfectly sure that you will never
grow old I”—Youth’s Companion.
Average Height of the hand.
The average level of tho solid earth
has been calculated by Dr. John Mur
ray to be 1,400 fathoms below mean
sea level; but more recent explorations
show greater ocean depths, according to
Dr. 11. R. Mill, and a mean sphere level
at a depth of 1,700 fathoms. That is,
all the land above the level of 1,700
fathoms beneath the sea would have to
be filled Into the greater depths in
order to give equal height to ull parts
of the solid earth.—Arkansaw Traveler.
Fremont'. Nationality.
It is probable that Fremont was a
German. He seems to have drifted to
Charlestown and to have been taken
care of by a worthy German. When ho
went to school he was received as Fre
mont, though his German name was j
Freimuth, and he was probably the ■
heir of a rich German family of that ;
name.—Atlanta Journal.
He Wasn't Built for a Copper.
Neighbor—What would you like to
be?
Johnny—Policeman.
Neighlxir—You would never do for
that. Whenever there is a fight you j
are always around.—Texas Siftings.
liatl Outlook for Hrongoa.
Smithcr#—Bronson’s humor is very 1
dry.
Editor—lt isn’t half so dry as It will |
be after it has been in my stove a few
minutes.—Harper’s Bazar.
A Warm Attachment.
Dasha way—Travers is so attached to
dress.
Cieverton —Yes; I’ve known hfan to
w ear the same suit for a year.—Clothier
and Furnisher.
McDonough, ga.. friJday. September, h>, lbdo.
I V *
RATTLERS ON BLUE TOP.
A Farmer Who Catches Them ami Keep*
Them in Hollow Log*.
The Susquehanna river rises in cen
tral New York, and flowing southward
enters tho northwestern corner of Penn
sylvania, near Great Bend, Susque
hanna comity, and Hiking a westerly
course follows closely the boundary
line of the two states. Ranges of hills,
rising almost to the dignity of mount
ains, skirt its banks on either side and
present a rough, nigged and rocky sur
face, so that cultivation is almost out
of the question; but. wild and hilly and'
barren as it wiis in many parts, the
pioneers of the country, intent on se
curing homes and farms and a living
somewhere in that region, found here
and there a valley and a running
stream and H flat 'place whore they
could plant a house and clear up a few
acres of land for farming.
Among those streams is one named
Snako creek, which, rising in a beauti
ful lake near Montrose, meanders
through a valley and finds its way into
the Susquehanna about twelve miles
from the lake in which it rises. This
creek was so named by the early settlers
because of tho fact that, wliile bears
and wolves and other ferocious beast#
were very numerous in all that region,
snakes were conspicuously more numer
ous. One of the highest hills, whose
head rises well up into the sky, was
named Blue Top, because tho largo and
luscious blue whortleberries were found
on it iu large quantities. The largo
rattlesnake was found there, as he is
today, nearly as plentiful as the berries,
and in tho season of ripe berries ho is
exceedingly restive and hostile to all
intruders.
On Snake creek, a few miles above
its mouth, an old man of the name of
Chalker lives all alone, who is so familiar
with the snakes that by common con
sent ho is called Snake Chalker. Ilis
large farm lies along the creek, extend
ing up either side to the very Hip of the
hills. On one occasion, while passing
that way, the writer hitched his horse
at his gate and went in to see him.
Hanging up all around the old fash
ioned fireplace I observed what ap
peared to be dressed eels preparing for
the table. They were exceptionally
large of the kind, and I asked whero he
caught such largo cels.
“Eels?’’ said he. “Those are my rat
tlesnakes. ”
“And what ure you going to do with
them?"
“Eat them. They are much finer
than eels.’’
Passing toward his back door he
said:
“Come out and see what I have in
the yard.”
In the yard were snakes by the score
—all kinds, but blacksnakcs and rat
tlesnakes in great numbers. How he
caught them, how he put them whero
they were, ho explained as follows:
“You see these tubs, as I call them,
in which I keep them? These are hol
low logs sawed off about ten feet,
burned out nnd modo smooth Inside, so
the snakes can’t get out. I place one end
of tho log or tub about five feet in tho
ground. I then put the snakes down,
about twenty or thirty in each tub, an<J
keep them, feeding them every day until
I want to use them. Snakes, you know,
come out of their dens on warm, pleas
ant days and lie on the rocks to sun
themselves. 1 cut a small stick with a
short crotch at ono end. I approach
them quietly, and placing tile crotch
ou the snake's neck hold it firmly down
until I put a stout pin through liis lips.
Then twisting it about so he can’t open
his mouth or bite I fill iny pockets or
a basket and take them home and re
plenish my tubs. When I wont a snake
to eat or sell 1 slip a nooso ovor his
head and bring him up.”—New York
Sun.
The World’s Richest Heiress.
The little daughter of the king and
queen of Holland wiH be the richest
heiress in the world. She is a simple
minded, intelligent child, and talks
four languages fluently. Iler chief de
light when she was 5 or 0 was making
mud pies, but this pleasure she was not
often allowed to indulge in. The lit
tle princess has an enormous number
of white frocks, as she is dressed in
nothing but white in the summer and
has a clean dress every day. When
driving out her English governess has
great difficulty in keeping the poor lit
tle princess perpetually acknowledging
the public salute. “Why do all the
people want to look at me?" asked the
little mite one day. “Not for your
own sake, dear, but because you are
your father’s little girl,” was her gov
erness’ wise reply.—New York Tele
gram.
The Woman Who Stay* Too Long.
If the reckless waster of time were
the only sufferer for her thoughtless
ness there would be a certain sense of
satisfaction in contemplating the retri
bution. But when she lingers at her
friend's threshold to make a few closing
remarks on an already exhausted or a
fruitless theme wtdle the busy house
wife sniffs the odor of burning cake, or
hears the clock striking the iiour of a
now impossible engagement, her action
becomes to a degree criminal.—Harper’s
Bazar.
A “Wind Flower.”
A flower lias been discovered hi South
America which is only visible when the
wind blows. The shrub belongs to the
cactus family and is about three feet
high. The stem is covered with dead,
warty looking lumps in calm weather.
These lumps, however, need but a
slight breeze to make them unfold large
flowers of a creamy white, which close
and appear as dead as soon as the wind
subsides —St. Louis Republic.
She Wh I'rt'ilnf - l ami H<, Moved On.
A woman opened a trout door, and
addressing a soiled man who, down on
all fours, was seemingly looking for
something, said:
“What are yort doing there?”
“Madam.” he said, straightening up,
“please lie so generous as to pardon this
apparent intrnskia. My little girl and
I were coming along here just now, and
the child. In hergay frolicsomeness, ran
across your greensward, but Ui her glad
forgetfulness dropped a silver dollar
that had been given her by the hand
somest and noblest of women. Wo
were on our way to get a doll (or my
other little girl, that is sick in bed, iuid
it would have done your heart good to
have seen the happiness of the little
would-be purchaser - but she lost the
tiMwiey, nnd now,*! times? ■heartbroken,'
she has gone homo ;to tell her mother
of the groat calamity."
“That was indeed too had,” said the
woman. <
“Yes, madam; and if I could only
hope —have you any little children,
madam?”
“Yes."
“Thou you know what disappoint
ment means to a child. If 1 only knew
where I could borrow a dollar how in
expressibly happy I should be. Madam,
could you let mo have a dollar?”
“No, not this morning."
“Well, could you let me have 50
cents now and give me the other half
this afternoon?”
“No, I can’t do that either.”
“Well, madam, may I ask what you
are prepared to do?"
“I am prepared to tell you to move
on away or I’ll send fora policeman.”
“You are thoroughly prepared for
tills, are you?”
“I am.”
“All right; 1 shall bid you goixl
morning. It is ono of my business rules
never to tamper with any one that Is
thoroughly prepared.’’—Chicago Iler
aid.
Magnanimity.
The magnanimous man will be a
great man intrinsically—that is, he
will have something within him that
will raise him above what is petty and
trifling. In everything lie will prefer
the greater to the less, the higher to
the lower, the better to the worse. And
this he will do not so much from a
sense of duty and by a self-denying ef
fort as from a simple love and prefer
ence for the good. If, for instance, lie
is called H> choose between a successful
stroke of business iuid a truthful state
ment l»e fcmnot hesltcte; all his im
pulses tend to tli# latter as tho greater
of the two satisfactions. If he must
decide between personal comfort or
ease and the helping of a neighbor in
distress his warm sympathies forbid a
moment's doubt. If lie is Offered some
much prized luxury in exchange for a
little meanness of conduct tie refuses it
with scorn. Such things are no temp
tation to him, because liis mind at once
gauges their comparative tmworthiness
and his heart recoils from them. —Now
York Ledger.
Speed of u Locomotive.
In regard to the much discussed
question as to the rapidity with which
a locomotive can run. some interesting
official figures have been given by Mr.
Stretton, an eminent English engineer,
showing briefly that tho highest sliced
ever accurately taken was witli a Bris
tol and Exeter broad gaugo engine,
having nlno foot wheels, and which
was, as long ago us 1853, officially
timed at a speed of just over eighty
miles an hour for a short distance, this
occurring in the case of a falling grad
ient and with a light load.
He also distinctly asserts that this
speed is tho maximum that can possi
bly be obtained with locomotives of the
present type, the causo of this being,
lie declares, that at such a speed ns
that the resistance of tho air, tho back
pressure in the cylinders and tho fric
tion altogether have become so great
that they absorb the whole power of
tiie engine, while the pressure on the
wrong side of the piston becomes great
ly increased by the fact that the ex
haust steam cannot be got out of the
cylinders fast enough.- Electrical Re
view.
I).utli by Klectricity.
The experiments of Dr. Tatum have
done not a little toward clearing up
the mystery that lias surrounded tig)
physical mechanism of death by elec- j
tricity. He lias made it more than I
probable that there is a real difference
between the effects of continuous and j
alternating currents, in that the former ,
seeing to kill only through u direct
action on the substance of tho heart,
while file latter owe whatever added
danger they may possess to a distinct
action on certain portions of the nerv
ous system. Dr. Tatum has also shown
that the difference in the effects of the
two classes of current is far less than
some foreign investigators would have
us believe.—New Orleans Picayuna
A MftJiori of I'ro<luciTiff Local Anjoatlieitla.
The Moniteur Therapeutique is re
sponsible for the statement that local
anaesthesia can be easily produced by*
causing two or three siphons of seltzer
water to discharge their contents suc
cessively on the surface to be operated
upon. The anaesthesia, which is due
to tho carbonic acid contained in the
seltzer water, lasts for a boat five min
utes and then disappears.
An Kvery Day Occurrence.
Kirst English Tourist (visiting Wash
ington)—Hi say, ’Arry, let’s go hover to
the races tills awfternoon.
Second Do—Naw. Let’s go down to
the 'ouse an’ see the bloomin' liidiots
foiglit! Epoch.
$ 1.00 CASH, $ 1.50 ON SPACE : AND WORTH IT.
A 3ARBER TRIES TO BE AGREEABLE.
k»w HU FtouKunt rlsn Ar.Tak.ii by a Cus
tomer Who In Full or Quod Will to Men.
Tlie customer took his seat in the
barber's chair full of good will to the
world in general, which included, of
course, the barber shop ho hail entered
and the barber who was about H> maul
him.
“Hair cut?" asked that worthy, and
he immediately began digging at the
customer’s collar bone ns only a barber
can dig, while apjiarently adjusting the
towel about his neck.
“Hair getting pretty thin on Hip," he
continued os he snipped Tiis scissors
through the locks.
Tlie man in the chair still retained
his good will, though one of tho most
trying things for the ordinary man H>
hear is that lie is showing one of the
first signs of old age—a bold head.
“And no wonder, either,” continued
tho wielder of the scissors, "since I
never saw a head so chock full of
dandruff as your head is. )t’s awful."
The man talked to winced. But
perhaps tho fact that the shears snlp(>ed
uncomfortably close to his ear had
much to do with his wincing as did tho
barber’s words. That worthy at once
saw another opportunity to make him
self agreeable, for ho laughed pleas
antly and said, “Almost clipped a
piece off then, didn’t 1?" “But," he
added, realizing that he was getting off
a remarkable joke, “it is of such a size
that it can lose quite a largo piece with
out any discomfort.’’
Tlie customci* was conscious that liis
good will could not last long. Tho
burlier, however, lmd started Ills con
vernation with an object, and reverted
H) his original remark: “Yes, all that]
dandruff Is bound to make you bald
headed in loss than bo time. I have
Just the stuff that will cure you of all
that and start the growth of your hair
In its original thickness.”
The customer saw that tlie barber—
who was but human, after all—had an
object In making his personal remarks,
so softened down H> his former good
humor.
“Ah! what do 1 seel” exclaimed the
clipper in inix'k horror; “a gray hair?
Another one, and another one? Oh, it
won’t be long before What’s left on
your head will be as white as snow.
You had better let mo sell you a con
coction that will put a stop to that.”
The man in tho chair didn’t make all
the answer ho was prompted to make.
With a great effort he merely said, “I
guess not today.” The mildness of
that answer by no means showed how
much of tho great gtxxl will he felt to
ward mankind on entering the shop
j hud been exhausted.
"Now for a shave I” cheerfully sidd
! the man of no tact, as he readjusted
j the towel ufter having thrust, under
pretence of brushing them away, sov
era] clumps of cut hair down his vie
tim’s back. “And I tell you you need
it. tix». 1 guess you haven’t cured to
see your liest girl lately, have you?"
And ho chuckled gleefully overliissally
of wit.
"But my," ho went on to say, un
mindful of the clouds that were gather
ing on tho face before him. “What a
condition your skin is ini There's no
excuse for those sjxits all over your
nose and your forehead, tool How it
has been neglected I I’ve got Just the
thing for all that. One bottle will do,
and if you will come in every day for
tho next week I’ll make applications,
and your skin will bo as sunxith and as
fair as a baby's. What? No powder?
Nothing on your hair? Not even brush
it? Well, I declare,” as the door slam
med on tho receding figure, “what a
cross grained cuss it is. I shouldn’t
have thought it. ” —New York Evening
Sun.
llnuipocUxl.
Littlo Edgar Nelson had never been
a day from home without his mother,
and when lie was sent away to the boys’
school slio felt sure ho would bo over
whelmed with homesickness, and would
miss greatly liis littlo sister Dora, who
was his devoted slave and admirer.
No boy companion, she knew, could
take Dora’s place. And then Edgar
had always been such a “mother boy!”
Altogether she had a miserable day af
ter he liad gone off witli liis father in '
the early train, and was not at all re
assured by her husband’s remark when
he returned that he had left Edgar iu j
the best of spirits.
Her feelings can [X- rlinps be imagined
wiien, two days later, she received the ,
following affecting effusion from her 1
son:
Mr Dearest. Dahlinu Mamma My niont paitt
culoj* friend In a boy by Dim name of “dummy.**
Remember me to [lapa and Dora.
Yours respectfully, Kdoab Nelsom
—Youth’s Companion.
Ill); Money In Theatres.
The number of new and j»retty thea
tres wliieh sprang up like mushrooms
in the far west lias fallen ofl, many of
their projectors knowing nothing
about the theatrical business—having
failed; but those that have been built
within a few years are marvels of beauty
and convenience, not alone for the au
dience, but for the actors, who will not
any longer dress hi tilthy and cold
dressing rooms. And why should they
when the total receipts from all kinds
of theatrical performances throughout
the United States during the forty-two
weeks of what is called a theatrical sear
son amounts to over tliirty millions of
good American dollars, worth just one
hundred cents each! —Stage News.
She Ought to Be.
•'That boat can lick anything in crea
tion. ”
“Indeed? What is she, a whaler ?”
Chatter.
Why I.ove<l.
Admiral Nelson disliked stiffness and
formality. WlTen the hour hud oome
for beginning the council of win- lie
bad calk'd on board his ship, instead
of opening It ceremoniously he would
pace the quarter deck with his captains
and coax them inH> a frank expression
of their opinions.
Ono morning as the Victory, Nel
son’s ship, was floating along with a
four knot breeze, the cry rang out,
“Man overboard!”
A midshipman named Flinn sprung 1
H) the nil, anil looking over saw his
own servant iu tho ship's wake. As lie
knew that the man could not. swim tho
lad leaped overboard, and held the
man up until both wore recovered by a
bout from tlx* ship.
Nelson, who had seen the brave deed,
called the lad up to him and made him
a lieutenant on the s[x>t. The other
tuidsliipmcn cheered and tossed up
their hats.
“Stop, young gentlemencried Nel
son, putting up his hand for silence,
and then, with a smile, added: “Mr.
Flinn has done a gallant thing today—
and he has done many gallant tjiings
before—for which lie Ims got his re
ward; but mind, I’ll have no more mak
ing lieutenants for servants falling over
board!"
It was such offhand acts us this which
made the great admiral admired and
loved by Ills officers ami crews. Youth'#
Companion.
Gimmliic** Seldom I'uy*.
A man stood In a doorway on Jeffer
son avenue at 10 o'clock at night puff
ing at a cigar. Along came a second
man with an uulightcd cigar in liis tin
gers, and he halted and asked:
“Give me a light, please?”
“Certainly,” was the reply.
Tho smoker then Hxik from ills vest i
(xx'ket a match, and from Ills coat tail j
pocket a candle wrapped In paper, lie
struck the match, lighted the candle,
and then taking a paper from another
pocket he lighHxl it at the flame of the
candle and held it out with tho re
mark :
“Certainly, sir always willing to
oblige."
The otlior kxikod at the mutch, the
candle and the pajx'r in unfeigned as
tonishment for a moment and then
drew back, [xx'keH'd his cigar and
passed on with the remark:
“Much obliged, but you are too all
tlnsl civil.” —Detroit Free Press.
A Marvelous City of tlio I>«•»*<!.
A limp by I'iuli'tt Marc hi hliu.wh that
out) of the Homan cntacomlis occupies
an area of nine furlongs in greatest
length by seven in greatest width. A
recent calculation from this map places
f the urea of the entiro series of cata
combs at sixty times this amount, and
the total length of the subterranean
streets at not less than (XX) miles. This
agrees very closely with J’adro Marclii’s
estimate by a different method, lie
conjectured that there may liavo been
twenty confraternities of diggers, and
that these might have excavated about
severity feet of road and 100 graves
everyday; and tills, taking two com
plete centuries as the time which the
catacombs continued to Is- used os
Christian cemeteries, gives a total of
720 milesmid 0,000,000 graves figures,
however, that Padre March! considered
much too small Arkansaw Traveler.
No Calf.
A Harvard professor’s study window
overhsiks the lawn of a neighbor, upon I
which is tethered a fine Jersey cow. He j
says that ho was looking out cf the
window one summer evening when his
gentlemanly neighbor came out to milk.
As he sat u|M>n the miikstool and bent
over to his tusk the motherly cow
turned her head and deliberately be
gan to lick the bark of his coat. He
jumjssl to his feet, overturning the pall
of milk, and, grasping the stool, lie
labored the bewildered beast. The
professor suggests, when lie tells the
story, that the [>oor man could not
stand tlie implication. —Portland Tran
script.
A New Kxr.HHf.
"Can’t you settle that account now,
sir!”
"Why, 1 mailed you (tie money long
ago.”
"f never received it."
"Well, I saw in the newspapers that
letters containing @35,000 have gone to
the dead letter office in the lust twelve
moutlis. Yours must bo among them.
See tlie government about it I”—Epoch.
lUmliicMo »<t Ahrtiirdum.
Judge (to prisoner) —You are charged
with entering this man’s store and steal
ing a clock. What have you to say for
yourself?
Prisoner—l am not guilty of theft; I
am guilty only of procrastination.
Judge—Only guilty of procrastina
tion? {low 80?
Prisoner—l am the thief of time.—
Jewelers' Circular.
—“W* —————————
Dlff Town* with No Hospital*.
Tho statement is made, as startling,
that Richmond, Va., a city of almost
100,000 people, lias no city hospital.
Omaha, a city of 135,000, is also hi the
same unfortunate dilemma.—Omaha
Bee.
Very Deferential. ,
“Mr. Doliey is a very deferential |
man,” remarked Amy to her mother.
"Yes," assented tlie old lady, "he’s
diffen>d with everybody ever since he
was a little boy.”—West Shore.
Of Course.
Tommy—Sis, here’s a little fuzzy
baby caterpillar.
Kittle (severely) —Oo mustn't call i
that a caterpillar. It's only a ’ittle kit
tenpillar.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
J"j *' :. ,;i { ' -; —,’"i' l rrv"
WHAT CANDY Ct>STB.
How Small f ortune* Can Ha Spent Very
Easily on Sweetmeats.
Violets and rose leaves, delicately
candied, ore for sale at $0 a pound.
Hold dragees, a plain round candy
dipi>cd in gold, cost @lO a pound. Sil
ver dragees cost @1.50 per pound.
Fruit candies cost 80 cents.
Chocolates and Isuilsms of tlie finest
description are 80 cents. • i
Caramels, enjis and drops are 50
cents.
Time tablets, frequently used on
steamers to prevent se;iaiekness, coot 00
cents a pound and come in botth's.
Cream peppermints are also used for
steamer purjxise* by young uimicn aud
children. These ore the sivnio price.
TaiTv and molasses drops, liesidesold
fasliionod molasses candy, are liere for
sale at 40 cents a pound.
Haiti si almonds are ijfl a pound.
Cream cherries are 80 cents a pound.
Chocolate for eating and cooking pur
pose's can lie liouglit for from 40 cents to
05 ('cuts a cake.
Cocoa is 25 cents a cake. Chocolate
creams, Jelly's and nuts are 80 cents n
pound.
Satin bags for candies are, when filled,
worth @7 each.
Rests for chairs, In lovely designs in
lace and [minting, are filled with bags
of candy and cost @l4.
Cup mottoes, for dinners and ger
inans, cost from 25 cents to @3 a dozen.
Dinner favors, in dainty designs of
guitars, bogs, bouquets arid everything
beautiful, are to bo oidens! at from 50
cents to @2 each.
Satin boxes cost from @5 fr»pso; those
are band painted and embroidered, and
(Hied with choice candies they are lit
presents for a queen.
Royal Worcester, Crown Derby,
Hungarian, Minton, Carlsbad and
Moore, for holding' candies, are very
dainty and elegant. Those cost from
@8 to @25 each, and are painted fre
quently in special designs to order.
Twined baskets cost @3 to @ls each.
Sterling silver honhonrileres, for hold
ing candle*, are of the most charming
designs. These range in price from @5
to @ls.
The choicest of these sterling silver
bonbontiieres contain Italian mint
drrqis, a rare delicacy.
Bonboniiieres for holding lira gees arc
made of handsome enamel. These cost
from @5 to @2O each.
Sterling silver dishes for table use,
for holding choice candies, cost from
@3 to @8 each, and are very elegant.
Boxes of drageos cost 25 cents each
and boxes of pastils coat tho same
price. New York World.
Tin* Common Hoiimi of tlie Court.
One of (he oldest and best practition
ers at (lie Erie county bar was arguing
a motion at. a neighboring county seat,
and was depending more upon his own
sound logic than upon authorities for
success. At a critical Juncture tlie
judge Interrupted tlie s[X'aker with tills
Inquiry, "Yes, 1 understand, but where
are your authorities upon the subject ?"
"If your honor please," retorted lie
briskly, "I will explain tho absence oi
authorities, with your permission, by
telling u little story: A young man
freshly admitted to practice had pro
duc'd in court in sup[>ort of a motion
a wealtli of authorities. After allow
ing tlie young man t<* read page upon
page of dry decisions the judge at
length interrupted wearily: ‘Y’ou are
just iM'gfrming in practice,’ said lie; ‘let
mo give you some advice. It d<*‘s very
well to cite authorities once in a while,
lint you must always trust somewhat
to tlie common sense of tlie court.’ "
It was a Ixdd, almost audacious, posi
tion to take, but it won lux ease.—
Buffalo Courier.
Vo Forgiven*-** There.
A missionary was preaching to an
American frontier audience on the
Prodigal Sou. After he had described
the condition of the son in nigs among
the swine, and had started him on Ids
return, as ho began to sjieak of tlio
fattier coming to meet him and order
ing the fatted calf to be killed in honor
of the prodigal’s return, he noticed a
cowboy looking interested, and he de
termined to make a personal appeal.
Looking directly at his hearer the •
preacher said: “My friend, what would
you liave done if you had laid a son re
turning home in such a plight?” “I’d
have shot the boy and raised the
calf,” was the prompt reply.—San
Francisco Argonaut.
The Thirdly Cate.
A plea for the thirsty cats that haunt
the buck streets in the early morning
may surely come in here. If you can
not afford to give such skeleton visitors
a sip of milk at leust set a saucer of
water before them. To see them in the
back yards of closed houses vainly lap
ping at tlio dry stone under the yard
hydrant is a pathetic sight.—Pliiladel
pliia Ledger.
Family History.
Mrs. De Style (in her bric-a-brac cor
ner)—l cannot imagine how my grand
mother managed to keep this set of
china so long. Since I have had it the
servants liavo broken half a dozen of
the choicest pieces.
Mrs. Levelhead Probably your
grandmother did her own housework.
—Good News. •
It» Other Effect.
Mrs. Fangle—A Berlin physician says
that constant piano practice will almost
certainly ruin the health of any girl.
Mr. Fangle—Yes, and it has the same
effect on the tempers of the people next
door. Don’t you think so, my dear?—
Argosy.
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