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Men.With Queer Nerves.
In February lust 1 was riding in a
Sleigh from Shirley to Greenville, in
Maine. I was a commercial traveler
and my companion in the cutter, Mr.
Long was an old schoolmate from
j New York, now a sawmill owner of
j Greenville. Riding just behind us
iinavnde pung were two Canadian
i Frenchmen, whom he had hired.: to
work in his mill At the foot of a
long hill I sprang from the sleigh to
warm my feet by walking, and as I
leaped out the board seat, on the ex"
tremeend of which my friend sat tipped
up and befell out into the deep snow lie
jumped up and laughed. Just then I saw
the Frenchmen tumble backward out
of their sleigh exactly as Long had
done. It was a ludicrous mimicry,
and I could not understand it. We
stopped their lazy horse and laughed
at them as they came up, but they
only pointed at Long, muttered some
thing in mongrel French and shook
their heads seriously. One of them
had struck on his head and sprained
his neck.
“Well,’’ said Long, “I’d no idea
those fellows were jumpers.”
“Jumpers!” I asked, “what’s jump
ers?”
“Why, didn’t you ever hear of
jumping Frenchmen?”
“Never in my life ?”
“Those are jumping Frenchmen.
They tumbled out of that seat jus 1
because they saw me tumble, and
they couldn’t have helped‘t to save
their lives. This country is full of
jumpers.”
“Can’t they control their conduct
m any way;
“Oh yes; inmost ways, when they
are not jumped ; but you jump one
of them and over he goes
“Jump one of them! Come ex
plain. You’ll have to make your joke
plainer.”
“No joke, ’pon honor. By jumping
one of them I mean surprising him.
Startle him in any way and you set
him going at once. I’ll show you
a lot of them when we get to Green
ville.”
We are in the upper part of Maine
Greenville is at the lower end of
Moosehead Lake, which is the source
of the Kennebeek river, and the cen
ter of a vast lumber region. It con
tains some fifty houses, among which
are two large hotels which are tilled
with pleasure seekers in summer. More
than half of the lumbermen employed
in the woods in winter, I
learn from L., are Canadian French, or
half-breeds —unkempt, halt clad, and
so ignorant that not more than one in
two hundred can read print or write his
own name. Most of these, he said, ai e
jumpers.
“Now follow me intothe'diningroom,”
lie added, as he hitched the two.horses in
front of a small hotel, through the win
dow of which we could see a dozen red
shirted men at supper. I followed him
in. As he entered the room he raised
his hands suddenly above his head,
pointed his fore-fingers at the ceiling,
and said “Sh-h!” so as to be heard by
all. The men around the table instant
ly sprang up pointed their fore fingers
at the ceiling, and every one said “Sh-h
One knocked over his chair and Some
crockery was broken by the jog the
table received. The two hrenehmen
who had foliowed their employer also
repeated the same gesture and said
“Sh-h!” The men around the table
flushed and then turned pale as theyre
sumed their seats. They recognized
Long as he saluted them in their pecu
liar French-indlan patois: but they
were surly and indisposed to ta! it. AA e
soon withdrew.
“Well” said Long “they're jump
ers.”
“What did they do that for ?” I as-
Iced*
“They couldn’t have helped it if their
lives had been at stake.'’
I wanted to investigate this strange
phenomenon, if, indeed it was genu
ine, but I was to start next morning for
Bangor.
iq hav# never seen any of the queer
creatures down along the coast, I
* Si "“No,” said Long “they are confin
ed to Canada and the frontier—mainly
tn the lumbering region. There are
thousands of jumpers in Maine. By the
way, you are coming back m Apnl,
Just make a stay of a fortnight and 1 11
show you more jumpers than you can
count; and more odd exciting tricks than
you ever dreamed of. Jumpers come
in out of the woods in the spring and
they will he loafing around herein April
drinking whisky and spending their win
ter’s earnings.” , T
1 promised I would do it, and I did
I stayed there nearly a mouth. '> hat
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY., OCTOBER 3, 1878
he told me is a fact. Jumping French
men are as thick as dogs, and they are
not much more iuteligent. ,1 umping or
shouting, or moving suddenly when star
tled is peculiar to most of them. I have
seen as many as twenty-five jumpers all
together. Touch one of them when he
is not expecting it, on the neck, or even
on the hand, and lie would cry out,
tremble, turn pale, mid catch his breath
and his crying out would be pretty cer
tain to start the others.
j There are many different kinds of
i jumpers. Some when startled fiercely
strike out directly in front of them hit—
j ting whatever is in the way. As I make
j it my business to watch these men, I saw
j a good deal of this hitting, most of it
harmless, as they generally struck only
the air. They like to tease one anoth
er, or jump one another, as it is called
there. This is the principle source of
fun, and whenever there is a gathering
of them, thej r warily watch to avoid a
jump. Occasionally a man when laugh- \
ing is jumped either by a sudden noise
or a chip hitting him on the back.—
Then he flings away whatever he has
in his hands. I saw one pouring some
milk into his coffee. I shouted to him,
“fling it!” and he flung the pitcher
across the room, smashing it against the
wall. A gong hung behind a door, but
it had not been used for years on ac
count of its startling effect on jumpers.
One day a stranger tapped it. A man
whom I was trying to talk with struck
aimlessly into the air, and another
knocked a friend into the great fire
place.
Any of these jumpers can be made
to strike anybody that stand near
enough, by shouting to him, “Hit him?”
Long tells me that seven were knocked
down in a second, the general assault
being induced by a clumsy wait-iter
dropping a tray. I saw one follow who
sneezes whenever anybopy else sneezes,
or even when anybody indulges in a
simulated sneeze. His nervous system
seems to be easily imposed on I saw an
other who, although he does not know a
word of English, will repeat any short
sentence spoken to him suddenly.
“(food morning, how, d’ do?” I said
to him.
“Good morning, how d’ do?” he re
peated after me with excellent articula
tion.
A piece of recklessness and careless
ness which on Friday last bid fair to
cause another tragedy in Clayton coun
ty is thus detailed in the Constitution ,
of Atlanta, which says: “It seems up
on the day in question a Depu
ty United States Marshal from this city,
named Patterson, went to Jonesboro
for the purpose of arresting a man ac
cused of a violation of the internal rev
enue laws. The accused party was
charged with illicit distilling, it was
expected that the officer would encoun
ter him in Jonesboro that afternoon.—
While Patterson was standing on the
street talking with Judge Joe AleCon
nell, he saw Colonel W. L. Wattersou
ride out of the livery stable and gallop
off up the road in the direction of -Mor
row’s station. “There goes my man
now,” said Patterson, mistaking Col.
Watterson for the party in search of
whom he had come. Having no
horse at hand, Patterson boarded the
freight train then about to leave the de
pot and bound in the same direction the
horseman had taken. As the train ran
along, Patterson kept a sharp lookout
for his supposed “moonshiner,” but the i
horse Col. Watterson was riding was j
frightened at the approach of the train ;
and he turned into a clump of trees and j
bushes and thereby not only escaped
the vigilant eye of the Marshal, but
perhaps a swift and deadly bullet. The I
train proceeded on its way and the j
Marshal watched for his victim. At a
point nearly midway between Jonesboro
and Morrow’s a man was overtaken.—
He was on horseback and was trying to
manage his rather unruly animal.
Whether Patterson hailed him or not j
we are not advised, but even had ho j
done so the rattle of the train and his j
attention to his horse would have pre- !
vented the rider hearing him. As it j
was Patterson cracked away at the un
suspecting man with his pistol at point
blank range, and the bullet whistled in
very uncomfortable distance of its tar
get. The horse plunged at the sound,
and his rider held him in. Patterson
jumped from the train, and ran in front |
of the horse and presented his revolver j
at the rider, saying, “You are my pris
oner.” The young man upon the horse j
was Mr. Harper, one of the men who j
had been a guard over the escaped mur- j
duress, Julia Johnson. His astonish- :
merit at this novel and dangerous con- :
dition of affairs may well be imagined.
He asked his captor why he had been
taken, and explanations were made
w hieh soon demonstrated to Patterson
that he had made a very violent mis
take, and tried to blow daylight through
the wrong man. He made every excuse
in his power, but Harper was indignant,
as he should have been. That bullet,
had come too near doing its bloody j
work upon his body to suit his ideas.—
We have not heard what Mr. Patterson
has to say about the affair, but at pres
ent there appears to be no justification
for the act. Had Harper been the
right party for whom Patterson was
seeking, the latter had no right to fire
upon him or even to adopt the custom
of ships at sea and fire across his bows
to bring him to a halt. Had the bul
| let killed Harper there can be no ques
tion as to how Mr. Patterson would
have fared in a court. This case will
not rest here. Harper proposes to pros
ecute Patterson to the extent of the
law, upon a charge of assault with in
tent to murder. The matter deserves
1 the attention of the United States Mar
-1 shal as well, for such acts as these will
not be tolerated by the citizens of peac
eable communities in the State.”
Com. 1 ponrtencc.
Editors Dawson Journal:
Gents: Having changed my place of
business, I thought you would not seri
ously object to a few remarks that I
wish to make through the columns of
your paper, and if these remarks prove
uninteresting I trust my kind readers
will forgive this, my first effort at news
paper writing.
1 have been, for the last ten months,
doing business in a little country town
known as S h.,in Alabama, where l
made many kind friends and acquaint
ances. I visited M , from Sh.,
where I spent three or four days very
pleasantly and was hospitably enter
tained by Mrs. J , a lady who is
fully capacitated to entertain visitors in
a charming manner, being not only a
lady of deep intellect and high culture,
but possessing all the other noble traits
of character that tend to make a lady
most admired. I attended the first
Baptist Church, having the honor and |
great pleasure of acting as escort to the I
beautiful and accomplished Miss Luja,
where we heard an eloquent discourse
by the Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, subject:
“Vanity of vanities,” being an able
minister and fine orator, of course
it was well rendered. During my short
but pleasant stay, I met several facinat
ing ladies. It would require too much
time and space to personate all, but
must speak of Miss Sallie, who, having
inherited some of her mother’s disting
uishing characteristics, 1 found doubly
charming. After all this, of course, it
was with great reluctance that I took
my step homeward, but duty, stern and
pressing, called me thence, and to
night I find myself at the old home
stead, in Terrell county, where I have
decided to make my home for the pres
ent.
Fearing I have taxed the patience of
my kind readers, I take the liberty of
subscribing myself,
Yours very truly,
C. M.
Some Interesting Dates.
Dates are generally dry reading: but
there is sometimes a significance in the
mere grouping of dates; and the reader
will find much significance in an attent
ive consideration of the following events,
all occurring, he will observe, within
the limits of a little over a century:
Postoffiees were first established in
14G4; printed musical notes were first used
in 1473; watches were first constructed
in 1476; America was discovered in
1492; the first printing press was set
up at Copenhagen in 1493; Cope.-aliens
announced his discovery of the true
system of the universe in 1517; Albert
Durer gave the world a prophecy of
future wood engraving in 1527 ; Jer
gens set the spinning-wheel in motion
in 1530, the germ of all the busy
wheels and looms-of ten thousand fut
ure factories; modern needles first came
into use in 1545; the first knives were
used in England, and the first wheeled
carriages in France in 1559; the first
newspaper was published in England in
1588; telescopes were invented in
1590; Spencer, Shakespeare, Bacon,
Kepler, Tycho Brahe were contempora
ries in 1590—these are some of the
more important headlands of European
history within a single cenury.
The Apple in the Bottle.
On the mantle-piece of my grand
mother’s best parlor, among other mar
vels, was an apple in a phial. It quite
filled up the body of the bottle ; and my
childish wonderment constantly was.—
“How could it have gotten there ?”
By stealth I climbed a chair to see if
the bottle would not unscrew, or if there
had been a joint in the glass throughout
the length of the phial. I was satisfied,
by careful observation, that neither of
these theories could be supported; and
the apple remained to me an enigma
and a mystery.
One day, walking in the garden, l
saw it all. There, on a tree, was a
pliial tied, and within a tiny apple,
which was growing within the crystal.
The apple was put into the bottle while
it was little, and it grew there.
More than thirty years ago, we tried
this experiment with a cGrcuiuber.—
We laid a large bottle upon the ground
by a hill of cucumbers, and placed a j
tiny cucumber in the bottle to see
what would he the result. It grew
till it filled the bottle, when we cut it
off from the stem, and then filled the
bottle with alcohol and corked it up
tight. We have it now, all as fresh,
with the little prickers on it, as it was
when first corked up.
So sins will grow, if allowed, in the
hearts of children, and cannot be easily
removed when they have their growth.
Fair Notes.
: The people of Dougherty, assisted by
a number of other counties are working
to make the first fall fair of the South
west Georgia Industrial Association a
complete and grand success. The jYaes
asks: “Have you commenced to pre
pare your articles for the Fair? Tf not,
begin now. Bring specimens of home
manufacture, home industry, your big
ears of corn, brag cotton stalks, fine
stock —anything that will help to make
up a good show for our section. Thou
sands of people tire "coming, and they
must not be disappointed in the exhibi
tion. Remember, people of Dougherty,
Worth, Loo, Mitchel, Baker, Calhoun,
Terrell, Early, etc., you are expected
tt> do the work.
If you haven’t a premium list send to
Secretary Carter and he will furnish
you one, postage prepaid.
The exhibition of fine stock will he
one of the best ever seen in Georgia.
The art department will be a special
feature with the ladies, and we doubt
nit it will be a fine exhibition.”
A Novel Suit. —We learn from a
gentleman, who recently returned from
Wayne county, that Mr. John Ingram
was applied to for work by a poor man,
whom he told in jest, to get rid of him,
that ho would give him two thousand
dollars for three thousand lizzard hides.
The man agreed to undertake the job,
provided Ingram would give him his
note payable when the skins were deliv
ered. Ingram complied, the note was
signed and witnessed, and the man with
his wife and children repaired to the
mountains and commenced war on the
reptiles. Ho was so pleased with the
result of his first day’s work that ho con
tinued, and, in a much shorter time
than it seems possible, he had gotton
the three thousand skins, and, taking
them to Mr. Ingrain, demanded the
two thousand dollars promised’. The
joke had now turned, and ingrain ex
plained that he was just in fun about
the affair, but the lizzard hunter was
terribly in earnest, and persisted in be
ing paid the money. Ingram refused,
and a suit will be brought at once—and
the lizzard man will win it without
doubt. —Stanford (Ky.) Journal.
Recently the name of J. AY. P. Park
ier has been before the public, and
from the bottom facts which have been
brought out, he evidently played a
double game upon Greenville Seminary
and upon the people of Georgia. He
evidently did not tell the true story re
garding his separation from his former
wife ; he evidently did not act in good
faith to her in seeking reconciliation—
while he was prosecuting a divorce suit:
ho evidently is not Seripturally married
now, and worse than all, if possible, he
evidently committed adultry in living
with his former wife a whole week, not
two months before be married his pres
ent wife. Faithfulness requires us to
speak out, and the church of which
he is a member, should exclude him.—
Christian Index.
Sandersville Courier: “Dr. G. AV.
Tanner, of Sun Hill, informs us that
about a month since Mr. William Tan
ner, Jr., while picking cotton, accident
ally crippled a ‘thousaudlegs,’ and after
crippling, determined it would be a
mercy to kill the worm, lie accord
ingly struck it with a cob which lay
near. Two drops of something, resem
bling the tincture of iodine, struck him
on the hand. In a short time he suffer
ed nausea and pain, and exhibited eve
ry symptom of poison from a poisonous
serpent. Dr. T. was sent for, and for
some time the poison baffled the force
of the medicines, but finally the reme
dies triumphed, and the patient was
restored to health. Persons, and par
ticularly children, cannot be too par
ticular when coming in contact with
this poisonous insect. The fact of their
being poisonous is not generally known.
Hence the necessity of this caution.”
AVe learn from the Albany Advertiser '
that another sheep ranehe is to be es
tablished in AVorth county. It says
that “Mr. AV’m. Harkan, from Ireland,
was in our city last evening, leaving
this morning for Isabella, AYorth coun
ty. He intends purchasing land in
AVortli county for the purpose of estab
lishing a sheep ranehe and raising win
ter forage for them. He now lias about
two hundred sheep in the eity which he
i has brought down from Atlanta: among
I them some very fine pure bred merinos.
He intends to increase iiis flock to one
I thousand sheep. Further particulars
' of Air. Harkan’,s enterprise will lie giv
en in future issues.”
VOL. 14-NO. 31
l Will It Change It’s Name?
Cincinnati Enquirer: It is predicted
that the ltupublican party will change
its name to that of National, for this
reason: The party so long as it retains
its present name cannot hope to have
an effective organization in the South
ern States. The name is associated
with almost everything repulsive to the
Southern mind. Its association would
not attach to the National party with
out incurring the odium that now at
i taches to those belonging to the Repub
lican party. White and colored Re
publicans would gladly seek the shelter
l of the new name. And what is more,
l the name National is more appropriate,
and suits the principles of the leaders
of the party, better than the name Repub
li can. And it is about time for the par- j
ty to take anew name. We sballl not
be supprised to witness the change.
Death of Mrs. Hattie Green
wood.
We regret to learn from the Albany
News of last week that .Mrs. Hattie
Greenwood, a lady well and favorably
known to many in Dawson, died at the
residence of her sister, Mrs. Joe thnitb,
on Tuesday morning last, of billions
fever. She had been sick for two
weeks, and Tuesday night was taken
with a congestive chill, which proved
fatal. She was buried at Rethesda
church-yard yesterday morning at ten
o’clock. The sincerest condolence of
friends is offered to the many relatives.
A Sad Accident.—The Allison and
Chamblis families are connected by
marriage—Mr. John Allison having
married a Miss Chamblis. During the
prevalence of the high winds this week,
near Welborn, Mrs. Chamblis, the wife
of a brother of Mrs. Allison, with her
children and young woman named La
ton, with her infant, were in an open
double buggy, when a tree fell and
killed Mrs. Chamblis and injured her
infant slightly. Miss Laton was seri
ously injured, and it is reported, has
since died. —Live Oak Expositor.
A well-to DO farmer living in Iron
town, Mo., recently plowed up an un
exploded shell. Hoping it contained
treasure, he secured a hammer and
cold-chisel and proceeded to open it.—
And now his widow, in her grief, is be
seeching persons in the neighboring
counties to return such portions of the
“dear old man,” or of his clothes, watch
or money, as may have fallen in their
vicinity.
“When you choose a wife, young
man, don’t go it blind,” says a religious
exchange, “but proceed prayerfully,
quietly, calmly and considerately to
find out her faults and foibles, likes and
dislikes.” Good, as far it goes: hut
what the young man wants to know is,
how can he manage to stack up all the
aforesaid information unless he marries
the girl beforehand.
Memphis .fluilanche: Callahan, a
widower, who had a good character
here, left his children in Memphis at
the beginning of the epidemic, went to
Louisville, married again, and sent
back ala John Donovan “to take care
of his children.” The children are all
dead or dying, but Callahan took good
care his carcass did not appear.
Grains of Gold.
A hasty man never wants woe.
Words are but the froth of thought.
A man must become wise at bis
expence.
A fine coat may cover a fool, but
never conceals one.
Neither despise or oppose what you
do not understand.
Laziness travels so slowly that pover
ty soon overtakes her.
If thou art too lazy to think, thou
wilt be too poor to know.
lie who laughs at cruelty, sets his
heel on the neck of religion.
He who knows his ignorance is the
possessor (if the rarest knowledge.
The Chinese say there is a well of
wisdom at the root of every gray hair.
Ho good to all, that thou mayst keep
thy friends and gain thine enemies.
Delations always take the greatest
liberties, and render the least assis
tance.
All human virtues increase and
strengthen by the experience of them.
Our hope for self is strongest and
least selfish when it is blended with
hope for the world.
The world is full of sublime truths,
and yet most people spend their time
hunting for vapid curiosities.
It is.well enough for us to see beau
tiful illusions in our dreams, but we
should walk awake with trull. *
If a man’s religion is pretentions on
Sunday and obscure on weekdays, you
had better-slo business with him on a
cash basis.
God: The La Grange Reporter calls
attention to the fact that Junebugs are
greenbaekers. It is also true that
their circulation frequently hangs upon
a thread. —Ji u gust a Chron. A Con.
The elections to be held in Ohio and
Indiana on the Bth of October consti
tute the next important event of the
year.
Our sister State, Alabama, w ill ob
serve to-day as a day of humil.atien
and pray t; to God that the yellow fever j
epidemic may abate in affected locali- |
ties, and that other States may be 1
spared.
Beast Butler is desperate, lie is
going to win or lose—sink or swim,
survive or perish. He is playing a
heavy card for Ben Butler,. Go it,'
Spoony. Massachusetts needs revolu
tion.
A Piqtia girl, who had a quarrel
with a lover, remarked to a friend that
“she wasn’t on squeezing terms with
that fraud anymore.”
I'Ut: Champion Fish Story.
Living at Clear Lake is a family
tvho have a littl 1 girl who takes daily
rides oil the lake in a small skiti
drawn by two pickerel. They art
regular harnessed, and by means ot
lines she is ettab'vd to guide in any
direction desired. Thetish are about
three feet in length weigh between
’ seven or eight pounds each, and are
very powerful The rapidity with
which they skint through the water
with (lie boat and its precious cargo
is said to exceed in swiftness the
tati.ncst sab-boat that has been pla
ced on the lake, and it is proposed to
send for llaulin and lioss, the cham
pion senders, and match the tisli
against them in a four-mile race.—
When the girl has tired of riding
she drives the piekeraltoa boat-lions
whore they are unharnessed, taken
into a commodious glass aquarium,
made expressly for them, and fed.—
When she visits the tank to har
ness them for a ride, the pickerel
jump almost into her arms, so glad
npp arantly, arc they to see her.—
The young Miss has been offered
1.0 if.) for her strange team, but no
money would induce Ler to part with
them.
A New Stove.
A fat citizen, having in view tie
purchase of anew coal stove, was
yesterday standing in Irontof a hard
ware store, when a newsboy halted,
and re Actively said:
“1 s'pose you’ve seen the new
stove—the one that beats ’em all.”
“1 don’t know that I have,” was
the calm reply.
“You orter see it, sir. They are
alius talkin’ ’bout these coal stoves
which saves ten per cent of fuel, and
noyv they’ve got one.”
Have, eh?”
“Ycs’r 1 saw this one goin’ the
other day, hot enough to bake an' ox
on’ it didn’t burn any coal at all—
not even a pound.”
“Is that possible! Why, T never
heard of such a thing! Didn’t burn
any coal at all?”
“Not an ounce, and it was throwing!
out an awful beat.”
Well that beats me I don’t see
how they got the heat.”
“They burn wood sir!” was the
humble je dy.
The man tried to Coax the boy
within reach, but the lad had to go to
the postotlice.
“Wi.i.i. Jedge, I’ll ’splainde wharfo
oh deni remains. Ye see I’ze got a
passed o’ chickens dat’s pow’ful en-
Iciprisin’—deyn’t been no day sense
last Clfris’inas but deni fowls hez bin
ri g lar in dere ’tention to bizness.—
Nuddintly, .ledge, eggs was sense,
and yet" <ley wuz mo’ shells lavin’
l'oun’ do yard dan dis chile could
’c amt far. Well. I sot on de prob
lem a awiiile, ail’ fetched out dat dere
wuz a waezle or so jes started in hi/.*
iuess, so I tuk two or free of deni
eggs ’stmeted de natural pervizions,
an’ furnished ’em wid lnd’mim and
turpentine, an’ a few morsels oh corn
starch puddin’, to kino o’ make ’em
nourisiiin’, an’ in de niOriiin’ when I
kirn out I finin’ dad nigger wailin’
fur de kurriner f tell ye, Judge,
some eggs ain’t hultsome, an’it d< u’t
do fur a m m to go rouu’ suckin’ tun’
peuti’seus.”
The United States postotlice de
partment has issued art order that
after October Ist the Registry system
shall be extended to mail matter of tlm
third class, that is hooks merchandise*
etc, and that the registry fee for
each package of such matter be lix
at the uniform rat j of 10 cents addi
tional to the postage require I by law.
The name and address of the sender
must bo endorsed, either in writing
or in print, Upon each package <0
third class matter offered for reg
istrar >n; and there may be added
to this brief description, in writing
or in print, the number and names
of the article.? enclosed. No aditiou
al writing matter, except the addres?
is promitted by law.
“The Japanese have no cuss words
in their language.” After seventeen
futile attempts to get the joints < t
a stove pipe to lit the indignant Jap
goes out and bumps his bead against
a post, kicks a hairless dog twenty
seven times around the yard and
then—feels better.
Jim—“ Tell me, Laura, why that
sadness' Te 1 me why that look of
care 1 ? Why has tied that look of
gladness that thy face was wont to
wear ?”
Laura—“ Jim, (is useless to dis
semble, \ ell my face may wear a
frown; for I’ve lost my largest hear
pin, and my chignon’s coming
down!”— Ex.
A little boy who was nearly starved
by a stingy mu le, (bis guardian), with
whom be lived, meeting a lank gray-’
hound, one day in the street, was ajkt and
by bis guardian what made the dog s<>
thin. After reflecting, the little fellow -
replied: “1 suppose ho lives with h -
uncle,”
Small hut a -live bootblack to a
wearer of th’r.eens—“Say, boss, lei
me black yer boots; do it for five cents
an acre and warrant it done before sun
-1 5>
Gown.
Brilliant and impulsive people,’ says
an exchange, “have black eyes.” Im
pulsive p- ople are only too apt to get
black eyes.
The English language is inadequate
to express the forlorn feelings of a m v
who think.- be has - .1,-u a dime novel
and finds it to be a e.ok book.
“Fine nainsook,- embroidered, makes
lovely slips for children,” says a ta-h
--ionablc writer, t'vange peel on a side
walk continues to be good enough iW
men.
I A little boy having broken hi> roek
iug-korse the day it was bought, his
mother rebuked (dm. He silenced her
by inquiring, “What’s the good of a
hi rse till it’s broke !’