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(Tin 1 (line (Citizen. CafUvan Brothers, Publishers. scriptiou States : ()|]c Copy oue year - - 82 00 '• “ : ix mouths - 1 00 “ “ throe months - 00 - . . .. . i I» () 8 IT I V E L Y C A 8 11. | Volume 2. Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, August 10th, 1888. Number 18. r: nKsurvurj n \aan .v. * lnmnun®/* • a^narnKiuaKnmaB (The (Thit (Citizen. Advertising; Itates : Transient tiilvu. pn.vnlile In advance. ('on tract ad vs. pa.valile f|Unrtorl,v. t'oinnuinleal Inns Cor personal lienellt will 1)0 eliawd tor as advs., payalile In advance. Ad' s. oceun.\ Inn special position elmrged ‘.’j per cent, additional. Notices anion*; reading matter 1(1 rents per line, each Insertion. Not ices In I .ora 1 A I ills i ness coin in.il, next to reailinn, a cents per line eaeli Insertion. All notices "ill he placed amonn vendlns matter 1C not specially ordered otherwise. For terms apply at thlsnftlce. (Ini. Toombs, says. tin exchange,! voted ‘'no fence,” in the Wilkes ei inly ('lection the other tiny. The ml i- considered good iiuthority on econoinii' questions. If you want to see the far fly like a r at on a coon-kin, just put a Ytm- lo-c editor on a big .Southern daily, 'i'lir editor acts cat, while his Yan kee kinfolk plays the part of (la 1 coonsl: in. The Mexicans complain that (leant has carried Yankee eorrup- lioti into their country with his railroads, and that profligacy runs ,-iot in the government. Mexico is almost Yankeoized. .judge Blundford, who was lately elected to tin 1 Supreme Hench by ti;e Legislature, to fill the vacancy occasioned hy the death of Judge Crawford, received his commission I'ticsday, and will soon remove to Atlanta to assume the duties of his utticc. A Northeast Georgia paper says: A man lives a few miles above Athens who eats in one county, deeps in another, smokes when sit ting iu his piazza in a third, and lias built his barn in a fourth. He lives where four counties corner, anti is as independent of legal offi cers us a wood-sawyer. That man, in our opinion, is too unanimous. mzi-:.'.. It) MV MOTlin:. Sail, s:el was We mill or, Sail, we.l uns We luineil We 1:UU In r, Aimin'; tin A ml t here is tomb, Uni tails of in T tlioiln r ilarl I lie it ■ In euUl.lilealc Nov, isinvuy to rest, y tony to rcmemliei is true, where Ilowi rs 1 alu' loved best oil ei lot a breeze 1 led yoe do Mootu, ■all, lover her i;oodni s.s and wort mn<;es!ie old oak, nnd ibe evcrjsreon pine, Seem cv‘ r to llod and to wave; '1 hey sei'in llko tlley say, “slie is mine—she Is mine,” As they bend o'er my poor mother's grave. The cedars then, too, grow lug ever so high, The same I wish placed over me, Villa the emblem—and pointing up to the sky— “I live, I live only for 1 hoe.” The dear lit.)In violet that grows bill so high, Peeps out at the Cl ret blush ol* morn, And with dew moistened eye, looks up to tile sky, I lien lolds llsell up, and looks torn, Its days are but few, like ours on earl li, II springs from the ground, and sighs, its petals are full, from the I line nt its birth, Sheds Its fragrance—turns over and dies, Sueli is life, ns told by those (hat arc old, Sueli is life, from beginning to end. I [.sieves and its J riendstiips are, too, ,r ro\vln pr cold, As into the grave now descend Slowly, but surely, are we drawing near To the time to bid lids world good bye, And to be too with those to us ever so dear in Hull home beyond I lie blue sk.r. The lllly looked up, the whitest of nil, And^feemed for a moment amazed, It thinks of the time il was placed on t lie pall, As the friends stood around it and gazed— i laz’d for t lie last lime on the face of the dead— Our dead—the dearest of all. Some stood at the side—I stood at the head The sad picture I love to recall. The row,- till.’ ambitions, tries thus to conceal Its feelings- I SCO through It all— The emblem of beauty lies crushed by the heel— cat man cannot face without in stantly feeling his muscles mist rung his skin parcheil and feverish, and his whole hotly limp and nerveless iis a wet rag, is of itself u sufficient agent of evil. The fevers engend ered by the malaria of the Kile Delta are as virulent as ever those of 1'hiropean Turkey, while the de vastating visits of the plague itself are neither few nor far between. A less fatal hut equally formidable enemy to natives and foreigners alike is the terrible “Egyptian oph thalmia,” which, although often brought on hy the unclean habits of the natives, is at times generat ed iu another and very singular fashion. A small green Hy persist ently settles upon the sores of the diseased eyelids, and when driven oir carries the infection along with it wherever it alights. So common is this disease among the Arabs that Mehemit Ali is said to have formed two battalions of one-eyed men, the one wanting the right eye and the other the left, in 1 TDK this complaint made great ravages in the army of Bonaparte, one of whose best officers becoming blind in the desert, was forced to cling to the tail of his comrade’s horse in order to make his way hack to the camp. II is a common saying in Alexandria that an “Egyptian Arab with two eyes is as rare as a snow ball iu June.” The prevalence of | Asiatic cholera is such that a land of plagues is a distressing accumula tion of horrors. A !>i;ATIi-i.ltlS ('ONFF.KSION. In Ohio MiinliTOf 'Ju Years Airo .lust llcvoalri She Tim’ e ‘■ill never appear at my eat usiied to Hie earth, its fn Its perfume it does not conceal— 1 " ill be walleil above liljjh up to (bo skies, To my mother whom I now kneel. —< tONIlAT). OAJllHTTA. A Uriel' Iliiscrlptlon of Hie I,ami ol' I’Urmii's. rail Mall Gazette. The eyes of the civilized world are drawn to Egypt now, as they were a year ago, but the interest, in this country at least, is of a more anxious character now than when and his followers were lay- Miss Johnnie Morgn Louisville Commercial. Miss Johnnie Morgan, the Gen- eral’s daughter, was the heroine at the Morgan reunion in Lexington. It did not require a practiced eye to detect tiie warm admiration en tertained for her hy her father’s j j,q lu |i 110 . p; s faithful followers, and considerable Tlie prospect is that the cotton mark t will open low this season, innl probably settle. It is evident Hint prices will rule low throughout, the average ranging somewhere between S and 10 cents. The high est prices will he paid in the early part of the season and very late. The crop, generally, will not compare with last year's crop thoughout the (•niton raising region, and the year's crop will not equal last year. The telegraph strikers still hold bravely out. The sympathies of Hie public all over the country are with the strikers. In the Northern cities the striking operators are re-j Arabi eeiving substantial aid. Suds ing Alexandria in ashes. Damietta, J pressed her great joy at meetin are being commenced against the where the cholera is making such them, stirred their hearts and sc- felegrnph company, and Mr. fearful ravages, is a city on one of (ioulil seems likely to have a use j outlets of the Kilo, eight miles lor every dollar ol the j->,1)00,1 Kill ! f r()]n (] u , Mediterranean. The which lie boasted he had laid aside Now York !lunik). The little town of Matamoras, Ohio, thirty mile's below this city, has just experienced a singular and j unparalleled sensation. In 18(51 a New York syndicate sent a man, whose name cannot now be rccalleel, to Matamoras to prospect for oil land. lie came with ! a tine team, and had about him $50,- I 000 in greenbacks. He went from Matamoras to Archer’s Ford, a short I distance nbovp, and stopped with a ! man named Ward, whom he took into his employ. lie and Ward prospected about the country for a time, when suddenly he disappear ed. His team remained at Ward’s, hut that individual said he had ab sconded with his employer’s funds and had left him the team in pay ment for his services. The story was scouted, but there was no evi dence of other facts and it therefore had to he accepted. Soon after wards Ward’s circumstances under went a great change. He was a poor man and owned a small and sterile farm, which he disposed of and moved to Matamoras, where he purchased a hotel property and branched out amazingly. About three years ago Ward, while walk ing into the yard from the house, threw his hands up nnd exclaimed, “Oh, my Goil!” dropped dead.— With his death all talk of the dis appearance of the New Yorker end ed, until it was brought hack in a thrilling way recently. James West, a good-for-na-ught about Matamoras, who had sudden ly come into possession of money a long time ago, was taken down with an illness which proved to he fatal. end approaching, he time was spent in presenting them j | () ma ], to her. Her close resemblance to I minister her father awakened in them many of the memories of the eventful past and her sweet face, lady-like grace, calm and gentle voice, as she ex- said: “I have a terrible disclosure to sustain the monopoly. Our patbies are entirely with the s t v lo st ri- The Macon 7We//rttph says: “The j main count in the expensiveness of j our Legislature is due to the local j legislation mania. A change in the Constitution properly restricting •sueli legislation, Would save to the •date in a few years, money enough i to more than meet the expenses of j a Constitutional Convention.” Y\’c admit that local legislation is | a prolific source of the waste of time ; and money, hut we cannot conceive how any change in the Constitution can remedy the evil, or how much i greater the restrictions could he) made, unless the door is closed and ; locked against alt local legislation. The season for big stalks of cot- ' ton and first blooms and bolls has ! passed, and the time for first new bales has arrived. A dispatch from i Selina, Ala., dated the (ith inst., ap proach to the place is by rail from Mansurah through Hhirbin. The line runs along the left bank of the Nile, across a plain remarkable for the growth of melons. Damietta is 10 miles from Mansura, 92 miles from ('airo, :!() miles from Port Said, about 120 from Alexandria and 09 fromTuntah. The town is old and decaying, its present population of 29,000 souls living in the midst of the ruins of its former greatness.— A trip by boat to the Nile mouth with a fair wind takes about an hour and a half. The neighborhood abounds with extensive rice fields, which are in tersected in every direction hy can als. The ancient Damietta, captur ed hy King John of Jerusalem, 1210, and occupied by St. Louis of France in J2t0, is supposed to have stood near the sea further to the north than the modern town. A Held near the town, which is of dark red color, is known as the “Sea of Flood,” and ns local tradi- says: The first hale of new cotton i tion has it, owes its hue to the blood M ils received here yesterday. 11 1 of 80,000 martyrs of Islam who were was raised in Dallas county, on the ! massacred there. The hills to the plantation of Woodrull' A North, I northeast are known as the “Hills where there are 900 acres in cotton, of Skeletons” from the immense It said for 11cents per pound, a i number of human remains found low price, owing to the absence of there, relics of the old crusade wars, nearly all the brokers from the city. | Hack of the town Is Lake Menzaleh, ’flic first bale was received last 1 an almost interminable expanse of year on the 11th of August. The sand, swamp and water, which earliaess of this receipt is not a re-1 stretches as far castas Port Said, liable index of the comparative mu- The narrow strip of land lying bc- tmiiy of the crops, because July tween this so-called lake and the was this year very dry, causing the j sea is as desolate a region as can he bells'ti) crack open, A dispatch I found iu ail Egypt. The harbor of from Montgomery, Ala., reports the j Damietta is frequented in times of first new bale received in that city) peace hy about olid vessels annually an tin 1 (itli inst. It was sold for HI but it is very poor, as no vessel of cent- per pound. j more than Hi* tons can cross the I dangerous and shifting bar of the cured for her all the love and ven eration they once had for her father. After paying a glowing tribute to General Morgan, orator Black turn ed to Miss Johnnie, who rose grace fully at his greeting. He told her that his comrades, who had loved her illustrious father while living send for a minister.” The came, and West poured out the long-hidden mystery con cerning the stranger. Ward had come to West, and told him of the prospector’s money and how easily they might obtain it. The two men decided to murder him, and took into their confidence a man named lvirkbride, a butcher in Matamoras. The three waylaid the stranger one night at Archer’s Forks, and while Ward and West held him, Kirk- bride cut his throat with a butcher knife. They then robbed him of his jewelry and about $30,000 in money, and lexeicd him while dead, had j < >„ ono finger was a gold ring which fitted so tightly thev could not re- accorded him the pleasing task of conveying to her from them a gen tle token of the faithful allegiance which her father enjoyed and the warm admiration they felt for her. He became eloquent as he proceed ed with the theme, and closed by saying that, “never since the days of ancient chivalry did gallant knight crown a fairer queen,” and handed her a velvet ease containing a handsome gold watch and chain. She stood up bravely under the trying ordeal, during which old sol diers’ eyes were blinded by unre strained tears, and turning to the sea of faces she said, with beautiful composure: “Dear friends, I can’t begin to tell you how happy you have made me, and how grate ful 1 feel to you for it. 1 assure you that 1 love you as dearly as my fath er did, and I sincerely hope that you may always he as happy as you have made mo to-day.” As she bowed her acknowledgments the giant oaks trembled under the deaf ening shouts that went up from a thousand throats and the boom of the artillery. Y smart man is lien Butler, says die Bavunnah News. Tlu» South Wa delighted at his victory over die swells of Beacon 11 ill, but when squints at the Presidency, he deesn’t excite mirth. One (Jreeley ia a general ion is enough.” Hie 1 >eim>erntic party seems bont “ i I'nimnitliiig some egregious blun- diT, by which they may destroy da ir present fair prospects for suc- ‘ 1 in I'v I. mid is just as likely to the old spoon thiefiis the In'-1 1 lenioeral in the laud. Should die Beast he nominated, and any d'lnoerat however true, or any °dior man except Joo Brown, •Imiikl refuse to support him, tho Ei'in da Senate would taboo him Evenly years nlterwnrd—Greeley "i' lie (I replay. The idea that the iiuiae u|' m.,, liutlcr, the Beast, '"'iilil lie mentioned In eunneetion "dli die nomination for President “VJiie Bemoeratic party is utterly Edii'iiloiis, The Democrats of the N, utli can never be bimught to snp- l’"i't him. Damietta arm ofthe Nile, theehun- nel of Which, under the most favor able circumstances, varies from <i to 1(1 feet in depth. Yet the place, in spite of these drawbacks, has a oon- ' sldcrnhlc trade in dates, hones, rags elded fish and grain. As mlgut be interred from this brief deseri pi ion of da surroundings, 'Damietta is about as miliotilthy a town as is to be found in the land ofthe Pharaohs.' When St. Louis 1 marched his army to the place in tin* thirteenth century, it was al most destroyed hy the epidemics which prevailed, Just as the armies of Napoleon, Kleher and Monon wore decimated hy disease lUUU'ly ! six centuries later. 'The whole re- 1 glon of the lower Nile, in fact, is a vast hot-bed of disease, and the wonder is, not that so many should succumb to the climate during the unhealthy season, hut that any one should escape. The dreadful ‘kham sin,’ or hot wind, which the strong- The I’l'i'MVnlill) Tragedy, Eastman, Ga., August 3,—Joal Peel and A. ('. Perdue, relatives of each other hy marriage, were em ployes ofthe turpentine works of J. M. Woodward, several miles from Eastman. It is said that for some time past there has been had blood existing between the parties. In order to separate them Mr, Wood ward discharged Mr. Pardne. Yes terday, however, he came to whore Mr. Peel was working and sought a difficulty with him. Peel, it is stat ed, tried to avoid any trouble, hut Perdue was persistent, and Peel went to hbi house and got his shot gun, which he kept hy his side.— Perdue insisted upon a fair light, which was refused, lie came up w ith an ax in Ids hand and, cursing Peel, told him lie had to light.— Whereupon Peel took lip his gun and discharged the load of ono bar rel into Perdue’s breast, who, reel ing, cursed Peel again. Peel then tired the other load at him mid he fell, exclaiming, “Farewell world!” Idle was soon extinct, A Coroner’s Jury was summoned and hold an Inquest, rpon hearing the evi dence, they rendered a verdict of Jlistiliable homicide. Peel quietly remained on the premises nfler the deed was done, making no attempt whatever to leave, move it, and they therefore decid ed to allow it to remain. They buried the body'undder a manure pile for a few days, then dragged it up and threw it in a well on Ward’s place and filled up the wc Ward gave out that the well caved in in order to cover the crime. The three divided the money equally and kept their mouths shut. West said, in conclusion, they might find the skeleton in the well, and could identify it by the gold ring. Shortly after making His con fession West gave up the ghost. The disclosure created the most intense consternation and excite ment in Matamoras, though no prompt measures were taken to in stitute the search suggested. Kirk- bridge was there, and denied and ridiculed the story, hut after some little time had passed the fillcd-up well was looked for, found and searched, and the e x c a v a t i o n brought to light a skeleton, with a gold ring clinging to the bony fin ger. A t this tho town went wild, and Kirkbride was placed under arrest to answer the charge, After Tucnty-Kitflit Yours. I'liilmlclphiii Record. The arrival at this port yesterday morning of tho American Line steamship British Crown brought to a climax a truly unique love affair, which has been developing since the year 1855. The lirst act of the romance was enacted in England thirty years ago, when the hero, Henry Ball, aged 111, fell in love with Miss Beuedictu Price, then with the bloom of 33 years upon her cheeks. The course of trim love did not run smoothly. Trusting thal he eould soon return and claim his belle. Henry left England in I s '">•"> and came to this country to make h|s fortune, Emm that time until yesterday the lovers never met, hut although three decades have slipped away their love has never I'a'tered. Bushels of tender missives have kept alive the Hume kindled in their hearts hy Cupid during his campaign of IH53. Mr, Ball, who Is now 79years of age, is tall and spare, with white hair, moustache and heard, rpon the arrival of the British Crown the happy pair left for South Jer sey, with the intention of getting married at once, liuiv li Feels to be Struck by l.izblnlmr. Hartford (Cimii.l I'mirant. Curtis B. Wells, of Ibis city, has received a letter from Henry M. Burt, detailing the editor’s experi ence with lightning. Mr. Bert cer tainly had a narrow escape, lie writes: “A little before 9 o’clock Saturday night I was in my office, (in the old Summit House on Mount Washing ton) and had just given directions to Darby about making up a form, when all at once I felt a tremend ous blow in the hack. I eould not imagine at first what caused it, but instantly thereafter I saw a ball of tire as large as a man’s head direct ly in front of me, not three feet off. It exploded with a tremendous noise, seemingly as loud as a can non, and then I knew what must have happened. My left leg seem ed to 1)0 completely paralyzed, and I fell to the floor. Three of my printers were in the room at the time, two sitting at the table near me and one standing' up a little fur ther off. The hitter had the skin on one hand torn up, another was hit in the hack, and the third escaped without injury. At first I felt as though a hall had gone through my body, and that all below had heeni shot away. I was startled and con founded, hut did not lose conscious ness. The young man who eould get out of the office ran to the hotel tHe .Summit House, and told wlnit had happened. Help came immed iately, and I was removed to my room in the hotel and undressed.— Dr. Strong, a medical student of Harvard, took my ease in charge, and treated me with great skill. In the course of two or three hours T eould begin to move my log a very little. This (Monday) morning I find myself quite comfortable, though I cannot walk without a cane, and my leg pains me consid erably. I can assure you that it was a narrow escape from instant death and for one I do not care to go through another experience like it. As the storms are all, or most of them, below the summit, we have very little fear of being struck hy lightning. In fact, for forty years no one has been hurt or had sueli a narrow escape from death. Itisan old saying that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, and I am sure I do not care to have it \Ye were all the more surprised from the fact that until the holt came in we had no idea of the pres ence of an electric storm, it had begun to rain a little, hut there had been no flashes of lightning. It was as startling as it would have been to get a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. You have probably heard of tlu 1 impression of a tree being found upon the bodies of those killed by lightning. The same thing was noticed upon my hack, and, as there are no trees upon Mount Washing ton, it seems to me that the pecul iar appearance must he the result of the blood settling in the smaller veins.” Five Days In n Fri'lglit Car. Philadelphia Heeoril. Workmen employed nt Washing ton avenue wharf yesterday, ob served a small stick protruding from a hole in a freight ear stand ing on the trucks. The stick kept moving around, and the men deci ded to open the ear. The door was thrown open, and there to their (rent surprise, was a lmif-starved lad. The hoy’s countenanco was haggard, and he was too weak to walk. lie was taken to the second district police station. Dr. Nebln- yer gave the hoysomo restoratives, mil prescribed light but strengthen ing food. The hoy told the following story; “My name is Frank Harris. I live in Chicago, when 1 both my parents were buried some time ago. 1 am 13 years old. Iliad no one to take care of me, and I earned a few pen nies wherever 1 eould. On last Wednesday 1 saw the men loading the ears in tho depot at Chicago.— At dinner tiino when the men left, the car was only partly loaded. I crept in and .hid in the corner be hind a big box. I thought I would take a short ride, and when 1 got out into the country J would get olF the ear and find work. They came hack tilled, the ear and locked the door. Thai evening we started off, and I have been in tin* ear ever since. We often stopped, and 1 hallooed, hut I eould make no one hear me. Then we would rumble olf again, and I would throw myself hack and cry. I don’t know how long I was in there or how far we went.” After tho hoy had sufficiently re covered to walk, ho was taken hy Policeman Adams to the latter’s home. ITKHF.Vr Gl.KAMMIS. A Social list CciiglOSM I>Is|U‘l-8Ctl. Bayknna, Itai.v, Aug. (J.—A con gress of Socialists met here yester day. The police being refused ad mittance to the hall broke down the doors and dispersed the meeting. IUIIh ills Wife iiii.l lllmsi'ir. Noufoi.k, Va, August (i.—John Simmons, a merchant of Deep Creek, near Norfolk, shot and kill ed his wife and himself Saturday night. No cause for the act is as signed. A Rose 1 toady to Hand. Roston Star. The Hartford Courant says that taking gall is a sure cure lor mala ria. In that case we would advise somebody to swallow Bill (’handler —it would dispose of both Bill and tho malaria. » Had Woman. A Louisville woman has forced her daughter, thirteen years old, to marry a Chinamen, with whom she carried on a laundry. The little girl ran away from home after the ceremony anil the police refuse to make her return. Internal Revenuet hanues. Savannah Recorder To-morrow goes into effect the combination of the Savannah and Atlanta Internal Revenue districts, with Col. Johnson as chief, and (lap- tain L. M. Pleasants as deputy.— A. A. Knight, Esq., special agent,is in town completing the consolida tion. i’olnon In Ice (’ream. Cl r a r r.KSTON, August fi.—At Cam den, S. C., Friday night, many per sons ate some ice cream at a Bap tist church festival, and on Satur day fifty-nine persons were taken seriously ill. One child lias since died, and only about two-thirds of the sufferers have yet been pro nounced out of danger. Washington Humor. There is a story current in Wash ington that a syndicate has been formed to buy Cuba from Spain.— General Grant, Cyrus W. Field, W. If. Vanderbilt, C. J. Osborn, Augus tus Schell and Addison Caminack are named as tho leaders in the movement. The plan has progress ed so far that Gen. Sickles will shortly go to Spain to open negotia tions. The syndicate is willing, ac cording to this writer, to give $100,- 000,()00for Cuba. The Hullet Found. Fort Gaines Tribune*. While the workmen at J. W. Sut ton’s mill were sawing up a large tree some days ago the saw struck something hard, and on examina tion it was found that it was a large hullet occupying a position nearly in the centre of the tree. It is of course reasonable to suppose that ihe hullet has been in the tree a long time, as the track where it en tered had entirely healed up and not a sign of it was visible. An Old (Ji'iitlamun Killed lij liouirlis. Muxtci.aki:, Ii.i„, August fi.—A party of roughs returning from a resort known as Turner’s Park, near this city yesterday afternoon, entered the grounds of Mr. Lovette, an old and respected resident, and proceeded to dispoil Ids fruit trees. He warned them to leave when some of the party assaulted him with missiles, one of which struck him at the base of the brain, instant ly killing him. Citizens have or ganized for pursuit of tho gang, but no arrests have yet been made. A Prolific Family. Sumtorville Florida Times. Eliza Baggswas a native ofSerivcn county, Ga. Sho came to Florida at fi years of age, married at 13, her first child was born when she was only 11. Sho is now 31, and has had IS children, (twins twice), 15 of whom are now living. She is now hale and hearty, and has the repu tation of being one of tho hardest working women in Florida. There were 1 sisters, the3 living have IS children each, and the one dead had 14, and died at 2fi years of age.— Eliza lives near Sumtorvlllc. Subscriptions arc positively cash A MIhkIId Tliroivn at On> I'rcsldi'iit. A Washington special to tho New Orleans Timcs-Demoerat says that last Saturday night the Pennsyl vania railroad train on which the President was a passenger had Just left the Gunpowder Bridge, sixteen miles north of Baltimore, on its wn,\ South, when (hero name crushing through the plate-glass window of the President’s ear a stone nearly as large as an egg, which struck the flagman, Charles Sparks, on Ids left cheek. The President nt the time was about midway the car, some ten feet behind whore Sparks was sitting, Perhaps this will ho claim (>d as the fu I ill Intent of tho predie tion'of Zuidki'l, the London ustrolo gist, for July, which roads: “The President of the United States will he in personal danger at the latter part ofthe month, and he should take precautions accordingly.” HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS. A SAXON I'HOVKl!!!. Tliciv Isa Jolly Saxon l’rovoi'li, Thai Is very much like this, That a man is hall'In Heaven, When he has n woman’s kiss; lllit them’s danger In delaying, And Ihe sweet ness may forsake il, Sol (ell you, bashful lover, If you want a kiss, why lake It. Never let another fellow Steal a mar eh on you In this; Never let a laughing maiden See you spoiling for a kiss; There’s a royal way to kissing, And the jolly ones who make it Have a motto that is winning— if you want a kiss, why take It, Any fool may face a cannon, Anybody wcur a crown; lint a man must win a woman. If he’d have her for his own; Would you have the golden apple, You must 11ml the tree and shake It, If tho thing is worth (lie having, And you want a ldss, why take It. Who would burn upon a desert With a forest smiling hy? Who would give his sunny summer For a bleak and wintry sky? lib! I tell you there Is magic, And you cannot, cannot break il, For tho sweetest part of loving, Is to want a kiss and take it. Light reading—the feather mark et. Expounders—retired preachers and pugilists. In youth buy a bicycle, in age try a trycyele. A foul lip—Giving the waiter a had half dollar. Why do men never wish to he in and yet labor hard to possess? Bonds. Is it any wonder that a man who imbibes corn juice freely should have a “husky” voice? \ 'Washington paper says Dorsey is a kind man. If so, some other kind of a man is preferable.—Texas Siftings. Woman is naturally a timid, shrinking creature, but it is tlio bathing-suit that reveals her shrink age the most. “The Hidden Hand”—Three aces and a pair of kings the poker play er slips up his sleeve when he gath ers up the cards to deal. Paterfamilias (reading doctor’s hill): “Well, Doctor, I have no ob jection to paying you for the medi cine, but I will return the visits.” “No, my daughter didn’t do noth ing at tho exhibition; she ain’t much of a scholar you know; but everybody says sho was the best dressed girl in her class.” Do very man dat tells yer dat clothes doan make the man is do one what looks to see how yer’s dressed. I’se done dis myself.— Ar/cansaw Traveler. A Beading (Pa.) man died a few days ago, after drinking fifteen quarts of water. Tho Coroner’s jury rendered the verdict: “Sui cide hy drowning.”—Philadelphia Press. Lightning recently struck a tele graph polo and ran into tho offico at Coatesvillo, Hid., when tho opera tor seated at the instrument excit edly telegraphed hack: “Don’t send so fast!” Twenty-live new comic operas are being written in Boston for tho coming season. People who desire to visit Boston should go now before tho rioting commences.—Philadel phia News. Some men unpleasantly comb their mustache at the table, re marks a writer. This is cruel, and tho society for the prevention of striking mustaches when then are down should suppress such an ex hibition.—A r . V. Advertiser. When a fellow gets a letter for his wife out of the post office and he forgets to give to her for a week or so, the safest way to lot her have it is to tie it on tho end of a ’ long fishing pole and poke it through the window to her. “Settled with a hullet,” says ono of our exchanges in giving an ac count of a murder. It does not state tlie cause of the trouble be tween them, hut it is high time that the present generation should learn to have no dealings whatever with a hullet.—C/iieagn Times. An unscrupulous person contri butes this: “A gentleman went down to Mississippi from Tennes see to prospect, with a view to im migrating. lie happened to he In that part of the country which the tornado struck and was completely carried away with iV’—Latiisrille Paurier-Juiirnal, The other day on an Arkansaw railroad, an old gentleman sat, half asleep, with a hook entitled “Tho Train Bobbers” lying on Ids lap.— The window sash fell with a loud report and the old man springing to his feet and throwing up his hands, exclaimed: “Gentlemen, 1 haven’t got a coni,”