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ruddle circuit, and in the countie* snr.
rounding Wellington. Special ,tten.
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Attorney (/t Law,
SA.NDJ»,RS VTLLE, GA.
M AYOR~
O. 'H. ROGERS
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D. E. B, WELLS.
MARSHALL,
J. E. W ELLON.
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Wm. RAWLINGS,
S. G. LANG,
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Aldermen W. T*. Lu V i«, „ ,
Smith, P. ,T. Pii.R^n, T. J. ’Beck
Clerks. H. B.Mftey.
Marshall—J. C. Hamilton.
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General Romill A. Pryor Hays it
would bo unprofessional in a lawyer to
divulge what hi* couiiboI foos wore, but
hoBtntea that his foes in tlio O’Donnoll
caso were considerably less than $15,000,
Tub winnings of Hanlan, tho oarsman,
during the last five yearn amount to $70.-
°00. 0f thi » sum he has managed to
save $40,000, of which $30,000 its invested
in a hotel on Toronto island. He has n
wifo and two children,
W. W. Corcoran honds the list of tax
payers in Washington, tod pays on
nearly a million; next comes John B.
Alley, formerly a representative from
Maroachusetts, but now. a resident, frho
pays on half that nmount, Ms doeB George
W. Riggs, the banker, General Butler is
taxed $llt),000. Senator Sherman on
$80,000. Mr. Phelps on $150,000, and
Governor Morgan’s estnto on $125,000.
Reports from the sugar parishes of
Louisiana announce that the cane crop
of 1883 is mnoh larger than expected,
owing to the ripeness of tb-> cane. The
orop of molassee will be sh M; the wnrm
weather has (ended to make it ferment,
decreasing its value. Great yields are
reported on some plantations, the most
notaHe being that of Belle Alliance, on
which 2,500,000 pounds of sugar w*to
made und 700 hogshoads of Dpen-kottlo
■ugar. Other plantations report a pro
duction of sd^or and molasses exceeding
any crop since I860.
The question of who is the oldest
postmaster in tho service has been dis
cussed voiy frequently of late, and sov-
ora postmasters claim tho honor. An
examination of the records of the post-
office department was mado to-day, at
tho reqjioat of one of the cont stants for
tho honor, and it was found that Mr.
Honry Beardsley, of North Lansing, New
York, is the senior postmaster. He has
hold his office 'since' June, 1828, having
served all of that time under his original
commission. The bondsmen that hegavo
have been dead for nearly forty years.
Tr is not generally known that atnlxw
Is found In this country. It is found in
considerable deposits at Gay Head,
Martha’s Vineyard, and at Camden, New
Jersey. In the place some years ago
sovoral barrels were taken from the green
sand, but burned by mistake or through
tho ignorance of the finders. The best
class of amber goes to Constantinople to
be worked into mouthpieces; tho loWei
grade is made into beads. New York
dealers pay $1.50 a pound for Very small
pieces, aad from $50 to $100 a ponnd
when tho pieces are very large. Amber
bos many colors, but green i* the most
valued by smokers. Yellow brings the
best price. Large pieces are rare tod
costly. In the British museum there is
apieco weighing eighteen pounds, for
which $1,000 was paid, and $5,000 Wits
refusod for a thirteon pound lump found
in Prussia. Tho mines along the Baltic
const yield yearly about 800,000 pounds,
and tho mining industry has been vigor 1
ously pushed for many centuries.
The possibilities of cotton seed and its
products, there is every reason to believe,
go tap beyond anything that is yet done
with them. At the recent annual con
vention of the National Cotton Planters’
association at Vicksburg much attention
was exoited by Professor Myers’s address
on that, subject. He considers the seed,
with proper treatment and in connection
with the use of its products as fuel, food
and fertilizer, to be as valuable as the
lint itself. So valuable that the professor
sees in it a means that will contribute
vastly to the independence of tho South
ern planters who enn derive a profit from
them indexed by ootton and seed mills
ginneries and other interests. An inter
esting portion of the address spoke of
what tho grower oan get fr»m tho seed
at his own home, and Professor Myers
exhibited oil from crude to roflnod, white
toilet soaps and common wnshing soaps,
made by himself, and said tliatif wanted,
lard and butter could be got from the
oil. He also mentioned tho fact that, in
a recent suit at Chicago, testimony was
fiven that 120 barrels of cotton eed oil
ind twenty hogshead of tallow hod pro
duced a “first-class leaf lard.”
Window dressing, as an art, was intro
duced in this country on’y eight years
ago. A fine display of stock in a store
window may be tastefully arranged, and
yet not be artistic. During the Christ
mas holidays sevoral stores in Boston,
New York and Philadelphia, produced
remarkable effects by the elaborate
dressing of their windows. * In the latter
city a Chestnut street window repre
sented Sente Claus coming-*out of tho
chimney in ane room in which a boy lies
asleep in bed. He passes through the
open door, looks at the Christmas tree in
the other room,.and finally disappears in
the open fireplace. The moving figure
of Santa Claus, a result produced by
machinery, the life-like youngster in bed,
the frightened look of the cat under ttye
bed, the dim light in the room and Christ
ina tree, all moke the spectator forget
the stock in the window. This is the
effect of artistic dressing. Any ether, ar
rangement, however skillful, would make
&e stock more prominent than anything
else. Several of tho seenea. represented
in the large show windows of onr great
cities during the holidays cost as much
m $5,000. This style of window dressing
originated in Uftris.
Ammopoh the revised sditfoh of the
Old Testament hits not yet found its wAy
into print, several notable corrections
mode by the revisers have been pub
lished, much to the surpriBe o! the good
people who have been accustomed to re
gard the translators of King James’s ver
sion os showing tho inspiration of the
Hebrew writers Joseph’s coat ol many
colors has been ruthlessly sacrificed, and
the Varigated patchwork affair hro been
replaced by “a tunlo with long sleeves.’’
1 he reader will find other surprises
equally as remarkable and distasteful.
Heretofore the Bible has represented the
hippopotamus aB h thirsty heart th*t
“drinkoth up a river and liOAteth nbt * he
tfnstetk that h'e cAn driw up Jordan into
M» mouth." ‘This exaggerated ncoohnt
bf the ugly brute baa always been im»
plieitly unedited by the readers offlorip-
tures, but It how appears that Job never
Used such extravagant language, What
he did say was simply this ; “though a
river swells, he ik not afraid; fearless,
though Jordah washes to his mouth."
Ih other words the hippopotamus has
sense enough to keep out of the wet, and
is not going to flee to the mountain tops
every time he sees the river at high-
Water mark. The passage in which
Isaiah speaks of “ohartote with flaming
torohes,” appear* in the revised version
as “chariots with flashing steel.’’ In
al*^ ot representing the woods as’ being
filled with “satyrs" and "dragons,” we
ore now informed that "gonta” and
“jackal*" roamed the forests In the old
Isaiah w(4 are told that the “nation scat
tered and peeled whose land the rivers
have spoiled,” but the ruthless revisers
turn tho distressed people into/'* nation,
tell and shaVbh, whoso land the rivers
divide. ” The new version will doubtless
meet with objections from conservative
people, but if it pfovos to be a better
translation it will make its way in time
Cosrrauati vrly few people understand
the uses of asbestos. The Greeks and
Romans mado napkins and towels of it,
as well ns wrappings for tho dead, when
bodleB (veto cremated, frot centuries,
however, the art of spinning or weaving
the material was lost, and it is only re
cently that it has again been discovered.
Asbestos ran be made into clotli, thread,
paper for writing nhd printing, and for
sheathing buildings, and pasteboard. It
has been made into garments for profes
sional firemen, millboard sheathing,
packing for engines, lamp-wicks, gloves
for the use of workmon handling hot sub
stances, fireproof roofing, pnint, cement,
and curtains for theatres. For building
purposes Asbestos may be utilized in
various wr.ys, ami there is nothing equal
to it as a preventive of the spread of
flame. Asbestos is composed of silcinte
of magnesia, silciate of lime and protoxide
Of iron and mdgnese. It is a variety of
hornblende, greasy to the touch, and
having sometimes long fibres, resembling
in their better qualities, fine silk. The
material when taken from the mines is in
every shape, from bundles of loose fibres
to hard blocks wliioh may be broken into
a fibrous state. It is produced by some
unknown process of decomposition and
effectually resists the action of fire and
of acids. Great Britain, Hungary, Italy,
Corsica, Canada, and the United States,
all produce-this material. Jn this coun
try it is chiefly found in Georgia, North
Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Vermont
and New York. The Canadian fibre has
supplanted the Italian in popularity, but
several of the southern states now pro
duce its rival. Jn Georgia asbestos is
found in large deposits, and the fibre can
be easily woven into threads. The Geor
gia article is of very superior quality.
Recent inquiries in New York have de
veloped the fact that the demand for
asbestos is praotically unlimited, and the
prices paid for th% material range from
fifteen dollars to one hundred dollars per
ton.
Geoboia is one of the chief items in
the luxurious expense attendant on the
federal judiciary. During the last fiscal
year there was paid out in the northern
district court of Georgia for marshals’
fees $24,600, for jurors $8,900, for wit
nesses $85,760, for support of prisoners
$11,900, for attorneys $6,247, for clerks
$11,656, for commissioners $7,738, for
miscellaneous items $4,490. These items
make a total of $111,183 as the cost to
the government for running the district
court which meets in Atlanta. There is
only one district oourt in all the states
which cost more ; that was in the Wes
tern Arkansas district where the govern
ment had to foot’a bill of $156,943. The
district court in South Carolina cost
$110,461, but it covers the whole, State,
whereas the Atlanta court is only for the
northern district of Georgia. In the
distriot of Columbia the bills ran up to
$243,300, of which $93,131 w&s for attbr-
neys’ fees in the star route oagas mainly.
The fearful expense of those oases is only
partially .represented in the big figures
given as the expense* of the "district
court It would be difficult to tell what
they did cost the government, while the
defendants are add to have paid out far
more than the amount of their ill gotten
gains. Thb SoUth dbdrgia court at 8a-
Vohhfth is it cheap affair compared to that
in Atlanta. Its total expenses footed up
only $29,817, for the last rise at year. An
examination of the different cases tried,
in each court during the period under
consideration will show The reason of
this groat disparity. In the Northern
district there were 71 cases for violation
of the internal revenue )a\Wi Ot thesfe
there wore twenty-one in which a verdict
for the government wss obtained ; one
where n verdict for the defendant was
given, and forty-nine which were dis
missed or continued. There were not
a half a dozen criminal oases tried in the
Northern distriot oour^ besides these
teVontie easel, in tie SoutWn district
thebe was only one revenue oase, three
postofflee cases and two or three other
criminal cases. So the preefoua internal
revenue system, with i^s hordes oi raiders
and other employes, is responsible for
the enormous drain the Atlanta court
mokes on the treasury. For the earns
reason the Arkansas and Sotith Carolina
courts are suoh heavy loads. The total
expenses of the department of jnstice so
far.as footed up for The past fiscal yaar
amounted to f$,029,867, bttli wiea all the
Items ora in, $8,000,000 will hardly cover
the cost.
geneRAI NUwS.
Ex-Senator Yulis, * of Florida, ia
worth $8,000,000.
Thb artesian well at Amerioua, Geor
gia, had to.be abandoned after boring
900 feet _
Chattanooga Tons: About thirty
endgrants returned from Texas last night
and went South to tieir former homos.
About sixty workmen are employed oh
the army and niVy hospital at Hot
Springs, Ark. 1 , whioh is being pushed
toward completion.
The United States Government has
purchased from the Maveriok estate at
San Antonio the land, 15,000 acres, upon
whioh Fort Clark is situated, forMQ,000^
Savannah News : It is said that emi
grants fiomihg froni Europo to Georgia
are told upon their arrival at Cnstlo Gar
den that they will be sold into slavery in
the south.
Trin colored people of Montgomery,
Alabama, met and passed resolutions ot
thanks to the railroad commission,
Which granted equal accommodations oil
the railroads of the State.
'I wD farmers in Laurens county, Geor
gia, sold to one firm $5,000 worth oi
wool. The sheep from whioh the wool
wns shorn ran out in the woods and were
not a dollar’s expense to the owners.
The superstitious res dents and the
negroes of North Texas are so agitnted
over the red lights in tho west that re
vivals have sprung up all over that part
of the state, and the churches are so, 1
crowded that there is ttot standing-room.
The Fort Worth Continental Beef
Company will begin slaughtering on the
15th of January, and will kill 600 cattle
and 300 sheep every twenty-four hours.
It is feared that there will be some diffi
culty in supplying its demand for these
animals.
An old citizen of Dale county, Ala.,
was fined $80, including o jsts, at the late
session of the United States court in
Montgomery for cutting wood off of gov
ernment land. He had no money with
which to pay the fine, but ratlior than
n ortgage bis land he conoluded to serve
oat the fine in jni 1 .
A bill has been passed appropriating
$10,000 for South Carolina’s State exhibit
at the New Orleans exposition. The cot
ton centennial feature of the Exposition
is especially interesting to South Caro
lina and Charleston, because the eight
bags of cotton constituting the first ship
ment from America were grown near the
capital, and exported from Charleston.
The city of Charleston will probably have
a separate exhibit of her own.
Key West Democrat : The fishermen
in the channel have of late been troubled
by sharks to such an extent as to render
it dangerous to soil for from the land.
They have, however, found a panacea
for all their troubles in this respect—it
*s the root of the dogwood, whioh causes
almost instantaneous death. Whenever
a shark is discovered, a small fish is
killed, this bark inclosed and thrown
overboard, and in a few minutes the car ;
case of the shark floats to the surface.
Looking Through.-r-The American,
of Watorbury, Conn., tello of a horse
that is left unhitched in a shed while
its owner spends some time in a saloon
every evening. If its owner stays longer
than usual, the horse backs out of"the
buggy, and, going to the saloon, mounts
the Hteps and lookain through the glass',
until its master comes out and drives
away. ^
The largest farm in the worlfl is prob- j
ably that of Samuel Mackey of . New
South Wales. His land runs 700 miles
in-one direction, and comprises 5,000,000
Acres; and has been nearly all reclaimed
from the dSaert.
ADYICE TO A YOlINti MAN. « p.»r own*.
YOU MAKE A fOOI, OK VOUHNKI.V
IISINII 1‘HOT'ANB i.ancuiame.
K. J. fiardotie CoiiM-MI* n fir tilling tin*
with One Win I* not Prolntic mill Mliowi
Very Plainly Which I* the Nnpvrler.
My son, dM you evqr think what s
fool you are for swearing V Thnt pro
fanity isn’t an ornament to any speech 1
That the fitdry that has to lie pointed
with a dash lasts only bo long as it il
being told ? That the brigliest gems in
English poetry and the most eloquent
passages in all oratory, live through oen-
tnries of admiration and oritieism, and
thrill the floul bf people to-day, as they
thrilled the now pnlselces hearts, that
eaught their inspiration hundreds ol
Z rears aqo with never a "damn’’ in s
ino? Did you ever atop to think nhy
yon swear in abar-room but never in a
parlor ? YoU can't improve Shakespeare
by mixing in tho lines a little cow-boy
profanity. If Bryan* bad written
“To him wbo in tho ioVt- of imliii'o holds
Communion with her ita*h dashed risibll
form*
She speaks a blank blanked varied Ian-
K'laeei”
the poeih, would have befiti mined, Aad
it rnlus the foroe and beauty of yod#
.conversation, just the same. Moreover,
indulgence in the habit mins the foroe
of your profanity. Nobody cares for
the swearing of a habitual swearer. His
vdwys of prtifanity have no terror id
them. They mean pnthiug. .It is tiie
man who never swears who soaros yon
out of your boots if once in a tifetime he
does swear. So far as WO oan learn,
Washington ohty swath oiioh during all
the eight years of the revolutionary war.
But that one time eon u ted. It turned
baok the tide of retreat, changed a rout
Into f victory and made things ham.
Bat the fellow Who sweat# op all ob'hd-
sions, and swears hot and oold with mil
samO month, the intellectual pauper who
ekes out his barren nupply of bleak with
an addndant crop bf profanity, whose
conversation is a tong obain of mill
privileges aHd Who f'llkB tin k beajte*
works, Mb swearing to weak, vnpid, tire
some, disgusting. Vo, if you want to
swear with any effer*., my boy, be very
seldom about it. Be exclusive in yonr
profanity. If yon on n’t get along with
out it, brifitf'tit on! occasion ally, like
?i» re pm, faibily cijaeiHnds, dpti’t keep it
miming ilk br eigb* hours a day, like the
kitchen hydrant. Audi—yott won’t be
offended, my son— hiji if yon will, ob
serve closely, you will preceive that
young men, boys, fledgelings of about
2 our age, swear more than men. Mon
'eqnently; more awkwardly; with leea
point ana direction. A mao bcoomee
ashamed of it. St belongs to tho o$ar»
ette and tnstinee period of life, my boy,
It is a habit thatWitlVtsfibein the bread-
and-buttef'. dfivn, along sotne whore be
tween the iiigfi-HciumJ and the college
and while the blue ribbon on the
diploma is bright,. It belongs to what
Puck so aptly calls the “unsnltod gen
eration the fresh young men. Bo pat
it away and pat on manly things.
And just one word moro. Suppose
you are given to u habit of profanity.
YoU enter conversation with a man who
never swears; in other words, a gentle
man. By and by you begin to preoeive
that he is the superior ihati. Tour , re
marks have a tame, flat, feeble sound to
S our own ears. Yonr cheeks begin to
urn with a sense of your friend’s excel
lence. Your pert Utile damns sound
rough and coareo and vulgar, ns they
are. They begin to drop out of your
sentences, ashamed to remain in the
company of good, honest English words,
until ns you discover that you are carry
ing on your part of tho conversation
without swearing, you feel easier and
your intellectual stature ia increased by
a foot. Just obsorre this, my boy,
and see if I am not, right. But you will
rip outsome time. Oh, yes, in some way
you will. ■ I kuow some good men, some
of the best in the world, who will con
found it, and in New England even a
deacon hns been known, under a terrible
strain, to “con-demu it.’’ But asarule,
my son, don’t do it. Dou’t swear. It
isn’t an evidence of smartness or world
ly wisdom. Any fool can swear. And a
great many fools do. I, my son ? Ah,
if I could only gather up all tho useless,
uncalled for, ineffective swears I have
dropped along the pntliwny of my life, I
know I would remove stumbling blocks
from many experienced feet, and my own
heart would be lighter by a ten than it
is to-day. But if you nre going to be a
fool just because other men huve been,
oli, my son, my son, wbat an awfnl,
what a colossal, what a hopeless fool
you will be,
Caster Oil for Shoe Leather.
There is one simple article which will
render any deceutly-mode boot thor
oughly impervious, it is nothing more
nor less than cold-drawn castor oil,
“pure and simple.” It is best applied
before a moderate fire. The boots to be
dressed should be quite clean and dry,
and special care should be given to the
welt and tlio tongues aud their stitohing
to the upper leathers. I generally begin -
by pouring tho oil from the bottle all
round the welt, so that the angle be
tween the sole and upper leather is quite
filled with oil, and then proceed all over
the boot, including the edges of the
soles, rubbing it in with the hand.
When one is done, have a turn at the
other, and so alternately till yon have
got in about a tablespoonfnl and a half
to each boot. The tongues, being thin
ner leather, should bo quite saturated.
Subsequent dressings will not require so
much oil. I have never found anything
to touch this os a water-proof dressing;
the gelatinous oil seems to effeotuafiy
stop every pore in the leather. There is
another advantage for those wbo are
natty in suoh matters : The boots will
soon take a good (common blacking)
polish—so much so that a man may if
he likes water-proof his ordinary walk
ing boots for bad weather without spoil
ing their appearance. 'With a common
Walking boot of ordinary thickness, ap
ply the oil over the sole. . Shooting, I
\year boots so treated, over tliiok woolen
socks, from eight to twelve hours a day,,
or more, without feeling the slightest in-
"ttonvenienoe in any ^y’ay^ ( buE they have
the ehitijr feeling inseparable from all
boots that are oiled in that way.—Lon
don Field.
In an anecdotal paper on Petei
Cooper, in Mis Deoember Century (the
rfrontispicoe of whioh is a portrait of the
philanthropist), the writer, Mrs. Susan
N. Carkf, kayst “The highest leaaon
taught by Mr. Coopei kas the lesson^of
his own life. As muoh as, or more than
atayone’lever knew, Mr. Cooper solved
the problem; 'Ia live worth living V
“Observing him carefully for a long
scribe of years, it appeared that certain
parte of his nature were cultivated in
tentionally, as the result of a wisdom
whioh discriminated what waa realty
worth oaring for from what waa not
worthy of punnit. Personal ambitions
o$ selfish aims had no weight with him,
and disappointments and annoyance*
which would have left deep wonnds
with many piiksed off from nitt with
scarcely any observation. He was most
kind and'loving; bnt if he were usefully
employed, no domestic loss' 0* separa
tion from friends seemed to tenon hi*
happiness ieriously. He spoke often of
his preference for plsin living, and hi*
habits were as simple SS thoSe of *
child. Love of pomp or display never
touched him Jn the slightest, and he
hod an innocent openness - Of character
which concealed nothing, Never, under
any circumstance, did he show a parti die
of malignity, revenge, or meanness. If
people disappointed him, he passed over
the wound it made and let his mind
dwell OU something more satisfactory,
Swedenborg s phrase, 'the wisdom of in-
nocenoe,’ often occurred to my mind in
observing Mr. Cooper. He knew what
wns wise, and to that his heart was
given. Sensitive as any young man in
.iK works of sytnpSthy or kindness, the
menu and bad ways of the World fell off
from liis perception.
“So his life passed in New York and
in theOooperUnion, serene, happy, and
contented. With ‘hondr, love, obedi
ence, boats of friends,’ nr Wm an exam
ple and encouragement to those who bad
not gained the quiet height* on whieh
his inner self habitually dwelt.”
fttrffnger then Hones.
AS . • .1 .
Th# Auburn Diapatoh says Merviae
Thompson, tho champion Canadian
wrostter,-gave an outdoor exhibition of
his great strength the-, other evening.'
Heaaid he would pull against any teat
of hoxiel In..the city Or county, si r
would give $100 to tfto tritmt of tm"
if thb bomb's succeeded ill'
from * ladder. Thompson quie
moged hi* coat, vest, and hat.
ness, .resembling a pair of
braces, only a great deal stronger, was
thrown"overills shoulders and around
bis waist, with two large straps left
dangling from the small of his bock.
Thou lying face downward upon the
ladder, fixed in a horizontal position,
Beourely loaned to a telegraph pole, he
gtsflped a round of the ladder with both
hands and placed his feet firmly against
anothor flat rouud at the foot of the lad
der.' A team was hitched to these
straps, and then commenced the tug at
War. The large pair of borses started,
straiqod, and tugged. Bnt in vain. The
man could not lie pulled from his posi
tion. After making three or four frltile at
tempts, this team was removed and a
heavy pair of sorrels attached to the
man. They, like their predecessors,
could mnke no impression, and the man
of muscle did not exhibit the faintest
sign of weakening. Finally one of the
employees of Mr. Webster took the
animals by the head, and they again ex
erted their well-trained muscle. This
time the large evener to whioh the
whiffletrees were attached snapped in
twain like a pipe stem. This settled tho
contest. The crowd in attendance were
well satisfied that the boast of the
stranger had been made good, and
oheered him heartily.
Frigs of the Peerage;
Says the London World:—Comment
is mode of the preposterous airs whioh
some English and Irish men give them
selves on the Atlantio steamers. Lord
H. (the identical Dish peer who was
thrown into a state of irrepressible in
dignation when, by an accident, his wife
was sent down after some lady of lower
rank at a Brighton dinner party, and
exolaimed excitedly, to the consternation
of the oompony, ‘‘Lady H. .must have
her rights l”)asaumed on the Adriatio
airs suoh os all the Queen’s sons put
together never gave themselves in their
lives. “I want a bath by 8," his lord-
ship said imperiously to the barber.
“You can’t have it. air; it ia engaged.”
“But I must have it,” said this magniflo
of the peerage bf Ireland. “Do you
know who I am?” “No, air.” ' “I am
Lord H.” “Ah, indeed,” pleasantly re
joined the barber ; “glad to make your
acquaintance, I’m sure;” and in a trice
the barber gripped the lordly paw and
vigorously shook the same, tojhe ecstasy
of the bystanders and the ineffable dis
gust of the shaken. It it really a bless
ing when suoh men as the Dukes of
Bnokingham and Sutherland, Lords
Dunr&ven, Elphinstone and men of that
stamp visit the United States as a set-off
to the miserable specimens of the Peer
age and sprigs of nobility who bring dia-
oredit on their order there.
Fifty years from now those of us who
may fortunately, or unfortunately, be
living will read something like this:
“The final distribution of the Lick .es
tate took place thin morning, and the
trustees were released from their duties.
The residue of the estate consisted of a
four-bit piece, two oollar-buttons, and a
pair of slippers originally belonging to
the deceased, which the' trustees have
carefully conserved. A glass eye, which
were among the effects, has mysteriously
disappeared, as has also a wig, but the
deficit has been made good through the
generosity of our esteemed fellow-citizen,
Mr. Macfurgerson.” This is about the
way in whioh Mr. Lick’s millions will
pan out—San Francisco News-Letter.
j m -.
Mrs. Ponsonby db Tohkyns (pointing
to her books): “They are not many,
Lord Adolphus, but they are all -friends
—dear old friends.” Noble Poet (taking
down a volume of his own. poems ana
Inding the leaves uncut): “Ah ! bum I
I’m glad to find that yon don’t cut all
your old friends, Mrs. de Tomkynsl”
(Mrs. P. de T. is at a loss for onoe.)
asm*of liis wilisi. mil mmsssill) friyli*
*aUon ( fcutasasuarautasof goo4Mlh»
W are ia ao way responsible Mr tfce vtowa
or opinions of i
Q. W H WHITSUN’ .
DENTIST
■uMmdA;**
am ua . p t »■ - $
.aratsi -
-THE JOREK’S BlllHiKl'-
WHAT Wl FINS IN THB HVMMBVN
PAPBKM WSBII.R «»«*.
ommnMTANoat sum ousa
“How long have yon keen
asked the elerk at tike i
elderly MdegrooA re*
“Two weeks,’’replied the iMppyrean.
‘‘Frontf” cried the olerk, “show the
gentleman to parlor B. Fifteen dollars
a day, sir." \ 4
“Third wile;” wdnlytsidih#g*»t.
"Oh, excuse me. mat, show^th*
gentleman to 824, baok. THkt tM ele
vator. Fov doll Are a WMk. *
and Arran. ,
Stranger—“Hello I How d’ do, oie
paid ? How’s 'is Nihbs this mom f
Officeholder—“Pardou me, sir; kit 1
do not remember you.” ' -
Stranger—“Ob, stuff, stuff I Don't
S on remember Init Week what a Jolly
me we had among the beys; and how
you set 'em rip in all the saloons Jp our
division, and how w« promenaded arm-
in-arm all day, and how meomd-BiUpad
Mike showed you the way home?"
Officeholder—"Ah, indeed I Well,
yon may be right; bnt that was before
etoothmdaj^. I don't sscaULyoa fipw,
^ — -v ■" -
a ram now.
Two Boston go
ing through the .
past summer, cams across a m
among th* hill* from which th* |
was particularly Ane and extend
proprietor ot the establishment ■
Ingin *amUl mden. and the taAfien
er, winking at M-* eotajj3ffl^^WPf»ir
day yon can to.* Almost to Europe ?”
- "Kin see fiuUset than thad^returned
th ?‘^W'*\>iVaii8j|frst
- "Wo den.t rl.htk fioHAF <
fnras the mane r
Th* Boetonianthsd
—Boston Courier.
“Sep hare, its. Druggist, did jxm not
say that the thermometer yon sold me
for $2.60 wm a good one?'' .
“Certainly, it wm one of 'll* bait I
•ver had."
“Then you keep n mighty poor sto*k,
that’s all”
“Why, what is the matter?"
“Matter enough. Neighbor Bpown
got a twenty-five cent one in tljewty
the other day, and this morning, when
I wm blowing about how oold'it Waa,
and told him what my new tteraom-
eter registered, he laughed at m*,*. :
“Well?” yfr
“Then I got mad and we
them, and Ihope to freeze
mometer was not ten degree* I
mine. Now, you’ve got to take? It back
aud give me one that will beat his on
oold mornings or yon lose my trade;
d’y* hear?"—Philadelphia Calk *
FAILXD gar NOT FOUNDKSXD.
“Tee, George, dear, 1 accept
proffered love, and will be your
and a pair of strong arms *1m|
tightly, lovingly.
' You have uehrd, of off
said
from under the lapel of his
fatlierbas failed ?”
“No, I hadn’t heard that,
George, weakening his grip n Jill .
“ Yes,” she continued, nestling more
olosely to him; “he failed lMt. week
and”—
“That puts a different. ,
matters entirely,” said George, St
gling to break loose. But'th* gtri 1
him fast and continued : ‘ ' •#.
“And settled with his er editor* *fr two
cents on the dollar; and”— -T
“Nay, dearaat” interrupted
passionately, “do not epeal
sordid matters. Let us thin]
love and the happineM which
future bM in store.”— 9®
But, gentlwreaderlettu leave throa in
their young love and perfect track 1 ' ‘
BOSTON DOT*.
“Oh t my dear Mre. Shoddy, ■
not mean to say that yon eat I ‘
Mrs. Shoddy, apologetically
it is a very vulgar dish, Mrs.
-at my (able it is made of tende
forty cent* n ponndA* ♦
The explanation prove* quite satisfac
tory, and the social equilibrium to pleas-
antlyrestored. ,
At the window of s toi' ‘
Lounger, looking at aj
ish girl passing *
1 wonder who si
Second lounger, _
tnnity of enlightening h
know her very well. Her brot
worst poker player in town.”* L
She said the other day at a
ranch table, at whioh eke happened un
expectedly, And found several strangers
seated, apropos of a remark
certain lady of uncertain i
“Why, good gracioaBl
the hills,” ana ooald
in the least what hod can
consternation.
She did a little* later i
when it was- explained to ^
maiden sisters at the table, *
she didn’t catch in the introduction,
were named Hill, and were extremely
sensitive on the subject of amt.—Boston
Gazette. N*- •'/
“Abb you tlie boss of thto'estabRsh-
ment?” said.* customer, eu
per ruler’s office, “Well,
the man addressed, oonu
with -his eoat off an$- hia^sli
up to the elbowsiw'I’Hf not
exactly, hut I’m the ruler of the
The customer left the job.
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