Newspaper Page Text
THE MERCURY.
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY
NOTICE.
wrAll wmiIwHohi Intended ter thlr
p.per mate be aoaompanlad with the tell
Hint of the writer, not neoessarily ter pnbU-
u Uan, but as a guarantee or good (01th.
W* u* In no way reeponslb'o ter tho Ttewt
or opinion* of eorraepomlenls
THE MERCURY.
A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor.
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
$1.50 per Annum.
VOLUME VI.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1885.
NUMBER 22.
THE MERCUBY/
tebwt m tewnd-i— matter u th* bn
dU'teUH P—lotel*, April fT, IMA
BMitmffla, Wukington Comtf ( On.
A. J. JERNIGAN,
rnoratmu* Ann PoBumran.
OabMTlpUon (I.W pm taw
municipal
Mayor,
Wh, Gam,Anna.
Aldermen.
Wii. Rawiings,
A, M. Mayo,
W. H. Lawson,
B. T. Walwr,
Morris Hafp,
Clerk and Trcaturer.
G. W. H. Whitaker,
Marshall.
3. E. Wed non.
TOWN OB’ TMNNILLK.
Intendant.
John O, Harman.
Aldermen.
J. F. Mbrkibon.
J. D. Franklin,
J. M. Brown.
J, B. Pritchard,
Clerk.
8. H. B. Mamht.
Marshall,
J. 0. Hamilton,
A. C. WRiafif;
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
105 Bay St., Savannah, Ca.
IWWill pmotloe In nil the Courts.
B. I. IIAIIKIS. JIMMEH AND
Late of Ma
HARRIS A ANDERSON,
Attorneys* At Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in tlio Mlrtdlo Circuit, sml In
the counties surrounding Washington. Special
nttontioii given to Commercial Law. [Jmi2J-ly
£. S. UNGMMlE,
SttofRey kt Ukw
SANDERSVILLE, GAl
p, d. kvasb. n. n. ivAim, it.
EVANS A EVANS,
Attorneys At I-ow,
SANDERSVILLE, OA.
F. H. SAFFOLD,
ATTORNEY AT I AW,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in all tlio Court* of Hie Middle
< . mt m:l In Hie cnunHe* siirrnimilinir
t'lisliiugt ii. Kpcoinl attention lIvou to corn*
lime il luw.
0 C BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
liandftrtvilJ*, Os.
O. 11. Roqbmi
HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
8ANDHHSVJLLK, GA„
5!!iL prnot . ,c * •*' e oountle* of Wnshlngtou,
i JohnMin, Emanuel and Wilkinson,
trlot of OHi‘iiu Coi,rl * for tl,# Houlheru Dis-
r V ui!! e "i{i'!!rK;ii.*;'“ 1,1 b,,ying '“ mn « oi
Ofllcp mi Went aide of i’abllo Square
Ool il-tf
H. N HOLLIFIELD,
Physician and Surgeon,
■wlnnuit, an.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
r«o«n tty-graduated at tlie Dnlvcr-
nfi«.u 11 ftuJ roturned home, now
11 e im! . »"° GsNloiial service* to the citizen*
hr ii ,1 5 e, .1 v ! 1 !® ttntI vicinity. Office with
millinery “« l door ^ Ml “-
oTw. H. W air AKER
DENTIST,
BandersvIUe, (1*.
TIC RMS CA8H.
aw2f??j ,,,,, ^«Hidence, c
A»H1 3d, 1830.
i Barrie •tr«et.
DR. J. H. MAY,
BANDERSVILLE, GA.
»i&n bi ?,“ ervice8 t0 tho <>iUzen« of Sandcre-
lDd »< j »oent country. All call*, day or
at hi®’ . 'i 1 . 1 , 1 '" promptly responded to. Office
I sTwOOD l BRG.,
General Conunissioi Hereto®,
savannah, Q-A.
0 .;^. C . O i mnil8l ? n or otll ® r expenses oWged
l lgnmentB of Wool,
Balp ,KbG8t mar ^t price guaranteed at time o'
— sep2’84-ly
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
F0 1 ini' MACHINES, for sale,
that ,? rd ,? r P“** Machine#
that get broken, for whloh new
pleoea an wanted.
A * JERNIGAN.
TNADg maRir
reoistewcd.
yfoFg
—,p*.
A NEW TREATMENT
For Consumption, Asthma, BronohlHf, Dyt-
pcpsla, Catarrh, Hcadacho, Debility, Rhen-
matiam, Nonralgis, and all Chronlo
and Nervou* Dlsordora.
A. OAED.
w., .
termmv
■ Palnn nP88Eli , i ,l V? "dmlnletarwl by 1).*. Staika*
KSllJV'LMS! !!»‘ !*
ml all that it
lal.»'„H jn raodloai u *oVene« J
- laimed for It, onnahlar It a duty which wn own inthm
an*flilli * V!".’ * rH '“'Uarln* from chronic and
rnakn ita diMiABoa to do all that wo can to
SSTdinif 1 known * nd 10 ,n,piro th ® Pu' Ho with
Pnlan Th..? kno lH»? ,?/ 1)r *’ BUrkof and
Dhva clana . ° l, » ,nfcflll *« n tlt, conaciantiniui
pn.'ait inns wlm wi 1 not. wo am auro. make anv ntatn
BttXlSiUW do V n i now or taSawte b! inTnS
net ainnlllJ. " " r r,p, ‘ rt * ol <««. which am
„ , WII. I\ KKLt.KY,
Memliar ol Cliiiiar«.ii (mm Pliilutalphla. ,
T. It. AURTHUR,
V. I.. CONIUD,
Kililor but Imran Olmarvar," Phllailalphla.
PimaniLniu, l>i„ jon« i, isb.
„',”°.r<l" r I;’ want a natnrnl Inquiry In maarrl loom
pmfnwlonal anil pornoiuU ,l,iilln«, «n,l t * «l,o °n.
rrm.rt, 1 ". onr.u,, ^ t| , Ild .
Kch t‘ia V°.r DmpU .? n * ( ’'‘ Urrh Neuralgia,
ilSSaS.'. ^llfhfSivKi: ccd a wida ran*, of ohronio
Addroaa
HRS* HTAItKKY dc PA1.RN,
Him nml till Girard HI., Phllndalphte, Pm
MUSIC, MUSIC
JERNIGAN
Bows, Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc.
BUY YOUR
SPECTACLES, SPECTACLES,
FROM
JERNIGAN,
Ron* genuine without onr Trad* Huh,
On baud and for aala,
SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES. ETC.
Watches, Clocks
And JEWELRY
B1PAIMB BY
JE3HXTZCA2T.
THE HUMOROUS DRIFT.
Tin: LATEST BONO.
.Ip, mamma, dear mamma, como home with
mo now—
I wonder what papa will think 1
IIo'll moot you to-night with a frown on hla
brow
For staying so long at tlio rink.
No lamp has boon lighted to-night In tbo ball,
Tie dark and tbo baby’a awake,
And—there I I waa suro, dearest ma, you would
faU-
Somo night your poor neck you will break.
Come home, oomo home,
Oh, mamma, dear mamma, come home.
—Boston Courier.
MUTING A RAILROAD.
“Sponkiug of railroad monopolioa,”
said lirowu, “I got tlio host of cme tlio
other day. Did it up in groat ahopo."
"How waa that ?”
"You won’t give mo away ? I wouldn’t
have it get back to the oara ol the com
pany for considerable.”
“Mum’s the word.”
"Well, sir, I bought a round trip
ticket between here and Yyeilanti and
then walked baok. Got the ticket id
my pooket now. When it comes to deal
ing with these grinding railroad monop
olies, I'm n thoroughbred, I nm."—De
troit Dree Press.
NOT ALONE.
MiBsMiggs—“f hope, my dear, that
you don’t go to tho theatre alone.”
Estelle—"No, indeed. I never think
of going uuleas I am okuperonod,”
Miss Miggs—“Unless you aro what ?”
Estelle—“Chaperoned. ”
Miss Miggs—"That’s tho way with
me. I always like to have a ohap
around.”—Drake’s Magazine,
EFFECT OF CULTURE.
Boston girl (to Uncle James, a farmer)
—Do yon like living on a farm, Uncle
James?
Uuole James—Yos, I like it very
much.
Boston Girl—I snpposo it is nice
enough in the glad summer time, but to
go out in tho oold uud snow to gather
winter apples and harvest winter wheut
I imagine might be anything hat pleas
ant
STORY OF THE BEAR,
"Ever hear about the time I was
ohased by a hear out West when I didn’t
have a weapon of any sort about me,
Bluolrer ?”
"I never did. How on earth did you
manage to escape, old follow ?”
"Tried sitting down and staring him
oat of countenance.”
“And did it work ?”
“Admirably.”
“That’s very strange—very strange,
indeed. How on earth do yon account
for it?”
"I’ve sometimes thought that my
choice of a seat may have had a little
something to do with it. I selected the
top of tho highest tree on the entire
tango | "—Detroit Journal,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
INTBHKHTINd I.KTTKIt FRO.ll T1IK UX-
PltKKlDHNTOP T1IK ( ONl'HIM.lMCY,
Denying Certain Statement* In Regard to
111* Capture,
The following letter from Jefferson Davli
to the New York Herald has boon written by
tho ex-presidont of the confederacy in denial
of certain rocont statements regarding hit
capture at the close of tho war:
Bkauvoih, Miss., Sept. 0, 1888.
To tub Ediiob ok the Herald:—On my
return after a protracted absence from home
I received a slip from your journal, which I
enclose for greater convenience in noticing
its contents:
Ixdianapomr, Ind.. August 10,1885.—At
tlio recent reunion of the veterans of the
hourth Indiana cavalry, in this city, Lieuten
ant Isgrigg, of tho command, who wni
provost marshal at Macon. Ua., at
ine time of the capture or Jefferson
Davis, related tho circumstancos of
the capturo. Ho doscribod his par
ticipation in this affair ns follows: “I went
out to the lino of my jurisdictiou to receive
Davis, Two miles and a half from Macon
no became my prisoner and I brought him to
tho city in an old farm wagon. It was a vo-
biele with a gr.'at doal to condotu^ir in tho
way of unsightliness. It had lameness all
ovor it, but sufficient strength to hold Joffur-
soii Davis, myself and Secretary. The rebel
chief sat between us, and ovor his head,
from a pole fixed to the soat, hung the hoop
Bkirt, calico wrapper and an old straw hood,
which formed his disguiso when captured.”
^ .So Jeff was disguised?”
“Yes. It is no uso to question tho fact.
I he articles of his costume hung from that
polo. Davis bore himself with tho fortttudo
of a bravo man in trouble. Ho was courteous
tome and to the guard: lit Iked freely on
every question but that relating to the result
of tho war.
‘‘When we stopped at the International
hotel,and wereabout to get out of the wugon,
Captain 1 homnson, of tho Fourth Indiana
cavalrv. drew Ids revolver to lire at Davis.
I saw Ids moveinont, struck tho weapon with
iny arm. and tho bullet tore mV coat and
shirt. At tho moment Davis, wooing Thoinp-
souh purpose, criod out, ‘For Uod’s sake,
Lieu tenant, ruvo my life!’ I got the prisoner
out of the wagon and into tho hotel with a
good doal of alacrity.
“After that 1 met Davis at tho Louisville
hotel in 1872, when ho recognised ino, and ap*
preaching, suid: ‘I must thank you again,
Lieutenant Isgrigg, for saving my life.’ Wo
h ft d quite a chat about the war then. Before
this I had received a letter of thanks from
him. Ho was my prisoner eight days, to
gether with Ids wifo, duughtor and tho com
missary of his guard. Those three wo took
into Macon in an old family "carriage. Joff
was not sulky as a prisoner, but one could
see that the breukingof tlio Confederacy
boro grievously on his thoughts.”
Though acoustomoil to seo slanderous
publications in regard to myself I have road
tills with no little surprise, because of the
total absence of nny foundation or pretext on
which to blind the fiction. I avail myself of
your courtesy in asking you to publish tills
soriatim refutation of tbo several statements
of tho story.
It is not true, os stated, that I was turnod
over to the custody of one Lieutenant Isgrigg
two ami a half miles (or any other distance)
from Macon. Tho troops by whom I was
captured remained my guard to Macon, and
a detachment of them accompanied mo to
Fortress Monroe in clinic* of their own officers.
Equally untrue is it that I rode with the
said isgrigg and my secretary (or with nuy-
one clso) in ‘‘an old farm wagon.’’ My pri
vate secretary, Burton N. Harrison, Esq,,
now n member of the bar of New York, was
captured with me, and rode on horseback to
Macon. I had for sovorul ilnys occupied an
ambulance with my wifo and children, aud
rode into Macon in it.
There wai no such cowardly attempt to
offer iiiMilt to me as would have been shown
by hanging over my hoad theurticlos of cloth
ing which Isgrigg falsely avers I had worn at
the time of my capture. Nor di l my captors
°btain at the time of my capture tho hoop-
skirt, otc., which Isgrigg describes, unless
they wore found among the apparel taken
when the trunks of my wife and her female
sorvant were pillaged.
On our arrival at the hotel in Macon a
small body of trooi* in front of the entrance
were at open ranks, facing inward. When I
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happening!) from all Points
KANTKItN AND 5111)1)1,1; (STATUS.
Wen* is. a- , iius Dpamsu government has dispatched a
HmnffiSSirLiSlW °f ,h ? Kn,t Mwctei tntesengor to Berlin with a note to
SdlhlnJ uS. n onS? n8roKat °"“ cl ""' cl ! "■"* Germany. The note requests Germany to
iSie flsw Ps raye r ?, n 1 $’ u . n ' ny ’ n ronouuc * “11 Intention of establishing a bus.
oentrf “ n ‘! nli Khtod on tho erninty over the Carolines and l’olow Islands.
Without such guarantee, Spain must decline
givo satis faction for tho recent insults to
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
. „ allglitod on'tlio erninty
centre gallery. IV hen tlio pastor rend VV"
o chapter of John tho clause, ”1 to givo satii (action for tho reei
”f' co " < l , og from heaven like a the Gorman embassy at Madrid,
dovoand It nbodoupon IHm/thodoveiKircliod
on the open Bible. At tho close of Hie eorvlce,
Mr. Clark sahl that this might ho emblematical
or the presence of the Divine Hpiril, Ashe
snid tills tho bird alighted upon Ins bond. Tlio
olorgymnn took tlio winged visitor down
and held it against Ills breast. Many were
moved to tears, and tho wlioio congregation
were visible affected.
Lawrence Drainkrd, the defaulting ex-
president of tlio 8t Albans <Vt-> savings
hunk, was kidnapped at Winnipeg, Manitoba
by detectives, who forcibly convoyed him
into tlie United K la ton.
The annual parade of tho Unitod labor
organizations of New York city mid vicinity
brought out from 12,000 to 15,000 working
men and women. Many banners wore ear
ned with inscriptions reciting tho demands
and grievances of the working peoplo.
A week aftor young Moran, a horse
Jockoy, had lieou killed nt the Brighton Boaeh
(Lonoy island) rauo-courso by being thrown
In n raco and trampled upon, a similar acci
dent ocCTirred at tlio adjacent Hlioeiisliond
buy track. Tlio victim this Mine was a jockey
named Ford; after falling ho was trampled
almost beyond recognition.
Two passenger trains collldod near Mid
dlesex, Penn., and botli locomotives and
sovoral oara wore smashed to plocos. An
onglueer anil flremon wore hilled and seven
ptbormen Injured, one or two with probably
fatal result
An explosion of sulphur gas at the Otto
colliery, ton miles from Pottsvillo, Penn.,
instantly killed onoboy, fatally Injured three
mon and severely burned ten others.
At the New York Prohibition State con
vention, bold in Syracuse, Governor St John
present and made nn address. A full
tickot hoaded by II. C. Dascom for governor
was nominated, and resolutions denouncing
the liquor traffic adopted.
Gkorok O. Jones has been nominated for
governor by the New YorkUroenbnok Lnbor
party at tho convention In Now York city.
There was also a convontlon in tho samo hall,
earlier In tho day, of the National Anti-
Monopoly party, but. no conlltlon was effected.
Reside the candidate for governor n full
tickot was nominated, and a platform in con
formity with the principles of the party
adopted. '
A bronze statue ol Commodore Perry was
unveiled at Newport, U. I., a few days ago,
tea ®PP ro Priato military and civlo coretuo-
Ex-Congressman Soott Lonn, a noted
lawyer, and once partner of Ex-Senator Bos-
coe Conkling at Utica, N. died a fow
days since at Morris Plains, N. J„ aged sixty
live years. *
Massachusetts Frohlhltlonlste at thoir
State convention In Worcester nominated a
ticket beaded by Thomas J. Lathrop for
governor.
SOUTH AND WEST.
P. Mitchell, a street-car driver of
IY. i — ,diver ol
Chattanooga, Tenn., ejected Charles Wil
liams, a colored men, from ids cat- for dl-or-
dorly conduct. Williams ia., m I u re .
vnlvcr. followed Mitchell and shot linn dead.
, •)« murderer wna captured and lodgwl In
mil. At night an iminonso crowd forced its
wry into tlio JalL While tno erowu waa in-
I shlo two companies of colored men, armed
with mu-keth, anucareil boloiu tho ja„ l„
| tout Williams. Shots wore fired and one white
man was killed and a colored man fatally
wounded. Williams was Dually tnkon from
his cell by tbo maddened crowd* and hanged.
The nffalr created tremouduua excitement
throughout the city.
The llev. Charles W, Price, a Presbyter-
Jan clergyman of Cborokeo, Kansas, banged
himself the olhor morning. His mind is
thought to havo been unsettled by thedoath of
a brother and sister.
The safo in the county treasurer’s office at
Linn Creek, Mo., was blown opon by burglars
and robbed of $7,000, *
Perry Whitlock, twenty-eight years old
went to the house ot his father-in-law, E O
Coe, near Danville, 111., and shot Ills wife
Emily, and her sisters (Maggie and Tumble),
and thou killed himself, Tuo throe sisters
wore mortally wounded.
The commissioners ot emigration of the
‘"" nru - "“I n or new York have reported to tho
got out of tlio nmbulanco to enter tlio hotel 1 secretary of Hie treasury that during issi
they presented arms wlillo 1 passod through, I there arrived at tho port of Now York 3.10.
aud I received the salute as an oppression of ' emigrants, all o‘f whom were examinwl
r ^ :l l0 'n., to 11 f " llen fo °- I by tho Dos, <1 ’ «nd of such examinations 1,144
inestoiy of Captain Thompson, of tho persona wore found to bo either convicts
Fourth Indiana cavalry,’ attempting to shoot : lunatics, idiots or iwrsoiis uiiablo to tako caro
me as I entered the .Macon hotel it wholly flo- I of themsolves without becoming pnbilo
— Vie uwnn is » 111 HIV no
titious, and I leave it to that regiment itself
to renol tho imputation tliatouoof its offic.irs
would have been guilty of so dastardly an as
sault on a prisoner.
Upon that falsehood the narrator hangs
another, that I mot him ot tho Ixmisville
hotel, in 1872, recognized him and renewed
thanks to him “for saving my life,” and that I
had previously written a Jotter of
thanks to him. I have not been
*n tho Ixmisville hotel since the
war; I do not remember ever to have soon or
he:i l of this Lieutenant Isgrigg at any time
or lice, and it is not true that, ns ho alleges,
I u s eight days in his custody, or that I
huv ovor written to himalotterof thanks.
I r ; mined in Macon but a fow hours, and
w sent forward to Fortress Monroe the
,i\ ug of the day of mv arrival there
urs respectfully '
Jekkkuhon Davih,
INJURIOUS TO FARMERS.
A Maryland Senator lWakei Charge*
Again*! the Patent Office.
A Washington dispatch states that “a
speech made by ex-Henator Hamilton, of
Maryland, at a farmers’ exhibition at 8hep-
berdstowu, W, Vo., has created something of
a stir in the patent office. Senator Hamilton
charged that there wore more frauds com
mitted against the farmors in tho issuance of
patents for agricultural machinery than
there were in any other department of tho gov
eminent. It is understood that .Senator I lam-
ilton intended his remarks to relate to plows,
threshors, wire fences and driven wells. It
has been contended for a long lime that tho
patent office has been too liberal m granting
patents for everything tlia the fnriuor must
use, and that there is a combination between
certain manufacturers of agricultural imple
ments aud employes of the patent o lice which
operates directly against the funner. The
policy of tho natent office hus been in tho
past, it is claimed, to iucroase the re
ceipts of tho office ns much as pos
sible by issuing as many patents as they can,
regardless of tho question ns to whether limy
are of value or contain now ideas. This
policy ha? operated directly against the
farmer probably more than against any other
doe* or users of patent machinery. Senator
Hamilton when in Congress was a member of
the committee on patents, and agitated un-
■occe«fully for several years a reform of the
patent office and ite practices.”
MARINEUKASTER3.
A an<l an Italian Steamer
with Thirty-one Pervoiia Lo«t.
Information comes from Genoa, Italy, to
the offeefc that the steamer Villa de Malaga,
with sixty passengers and a crew of
twenty-eight, foundered near Savona.
When the vessel, which was supposed
to have struck upon a rock, was
found to be sinking, a torrible panic ensued
among the passengers, and tho crew, it is
said,availed themselves of the confusion thus
created to lower three boats with which tho
vessel was provided, and made good their es
cape from the sinking ship. Forty-four pas
sengers, however, managed to save them
selves, tho remaining sixteen being drowned.
The cowardly action of the crew has aroused
much indignation here.
Despatches from Copenhagen bring news
of a disastrous collision between the German
gunboat Blitz and the British steamer Auck
land. The Auckland woe sunk and fifteen of
her crew ot seventeen were drowned.
, V """ ,uuu MUUUIHIHK 1 MI III IG
charges, and were returned to the coun trios
whence they came.
A HEAVY galo has prevailed on tho groat
lakes, and many marine disasters are report-
ed. Tho schooner Advance, of Chicago, was
capsized on Lake Michigan, and ail on board
except a sailor were drowned,
i i D t A Maxwell, a beautiful young
lady of Atlanta, Go., eloped with John Shel
ton, anil the two wore married. Miss Max
well’s father and brothor, armed with pistols,
presented themselves at Shelton’s house, and
in the affray whicheusued all three men were
fatally wounded.
The Ltfo brothers, two of tho most noted
desperadoes in Texas,havo been hunted down
and killed by three detectives. Rewards ag
gregating |7,00i> had be ju offered for their
capture dead or alive.
Reportm received at tho war department
from the Indian Territory indicate that the
wrms of tho President’s ro.'Out proclamation
in regard to tbo removal of cnttlo aro being
fully complied with, and that the cnttlo mon
aro moving tiioir cattle as rapidly as possible.
President Ci.rvkt.and has returned to
the White House from his trip to tho Adi-
rondacks.
The President has appointed Mr*. Marion
A. Mulligan, of Chicago, III., widow of a
colonol hi tho Union army, to bo pensiou
agent nt Chicago, vice Miss Ada C.*Sweet,
resigned.
Captain Davis, of the Fourth United
States cavalry, under date of Hiinchana,
Mexico, reports to tho war department, that
on tho 7th ult. Lieutenant Dn\ siimn .*1
Geronimo’s camp in tho Hierra ud: « ..i. uii
tains, killed iivo indiuu« nud captured .ill • n
squaws and papoo.-es. Nana, the old Ape ho
chief, was one of the killod Ge«vmimr,
though wounded, escaped.
WASHINGTON.
The President tins appointed Ilonssclser
btono to bo collector of internal revenue for
(ue first district of Illinois, in placo of Joel
D. Harvey, suspended.
September returns to tlio department of
agriculture indicate a large yield in the corn
and cotton crops, a general avorage for all
spring wheat of against 05 in August,
anil a general average in winter wheat of
05.8 against 05 in July.
The Mississippi Republican State commit,
teo at a meeting in Jackson City ndmit^d a
resolution which says: “In view of tin faot
that ail organize l opposition to the D< m >•
cralic party in fjliis Siato this fall is useless,
because of the well known impossibility of
securing at the polls nn honest election, it is
tuo sense of tho Republican State committee
that no convention bo called looking to tho
nomination of a State ticket by the Itopubli-
can party.”
FOREIGN*
The dispute between Germany and Spain
ovor the Caroline Islands is to bo amicably
settled. Bpain lias responded to Germany's
domand for reparation for the insult to the
Germun embassy at Madrid by expressing
regret at tlio occurrence and declaring the of
fenders will be punished. Emporor William
has telegraphed to King Alfonso that he bas
no Intention of trenching upon Spanish
rights, and that Germany will ahundon ail
designs upon the Caroline Islands.
Advices from South Africa state that
Congo cannibals have uttackod several sta
tions of the Africnn association and roasted
and devoured a dumber of whites.
Riel's appeal from hissontenco of doath
has been dismissed, aud the belief is general
in Winnipeg that tho half-breed rebel leader
will he hanged.
Toe fishing schooner Guardian Angel cap-
HzSd oil tho coast of Newfoundland dur
ing a squall, and all on board except one man
wore drowned.
The expulsion of foreigners from Ger*
many anu Austria continuoa Hundreds of
destitute Folos, oxpeiled from Bilesla, are
flocking into Warsaw anil Cracow. Accord-
Tux Hpanlsii government has dispatched a
The Tonquln war cost $241,500,000.
Artificial human ears mode of celluloid
are new.
China has 2,500 miles of telegraph lino,and
only seven miles ot railroad.
Buffaloes are now bred at Goodnight,
Kan., and buffalo calves sell at $50 a beau.
Elizaiieth Hickman, of Xenia, 111, has a
eon sovonty-four yonrs old, who is a great
grandfather.
Thiike-quaiitkrs of tho “Imported” gin
ger nlo used In tills country Is manufactured
u> Rochester, N. Y
It Is estimated that at least 10,000 victims
of gns generated by sowers alone aro slain
every year in this oouutry.
Census returns from various parts ot
Massachusetts show a considerable reduc
tion In |>opulalioa as compared with the cen
sus of 1B70.
Minkdh In Idaho are slaughtering fish by
tho thousands, through mere wantonnoss,
using dynamite cartridges. There Is no flsb
law m the Territory.
It Is said that there are 100,000,000 of acres
of laud on the l'uclflo coast of the Unitod
States especially adapted to the culture of
wheat, which Is practically untouched.
A NUtniEH of Russians are to settle In a
valley north ot Sitka, Alaska, an agont of
theirs who is now journeying across the con
tinent having recently selected tho site.
The first Grant monnment completed is on
the Stnte Fair grouiins, I'enbodv, Kansas.
It uoiuiste of a shaft forty toet btgu, built of
oara of corn, wrought Into elaborate mo
saics.
Dr a singular error of the engraver and
overnight ot tho proof-roador, now ilve-dollar
bills of tho Old Colony Nntional bank, of
1‘lymouth, Mass., have tho word "ot" twice
In the title
A New Hampshire farmer has In a
corner of Ills barn a load of hay
which w as placed there thirty-four years age
The hay is yellow from ago, but lie quality
Is said to be unimpaired.
Hinck last New Yoar's Day 150 Inventions
have been lllod In tbo patent office relating
to rollor skates. Boxwood, of whloh tho
wlioeli are genorally made, lias doublod in
price. Contract* for 10,000 tons of stool for
tlio skates have been given out.
MUSICAL AND DKAMATiG
Rubinstein's now sacred opora, "Mosm*
has eight parte.
The Vienna Grand Opera honso will in
future he supplied with electric lights.
(•AYAiiiiK, the great donnish tenor, will
sing in “L’Afrlealnu" at the Paris Grand
Opora.
A ViKNNXSEcompoeor.IIorrU. Hewberger,
Inis ronuiosed an opora. for which “As You
Like it” lurnislius the text.
Frau Matehna hns returned to Vienna
from her successful American tour, and is
now engaged for tho Vienna Court theatre.
This soason is the worst for the circuses
thnt they have known in ten yearn. It is said
that not ono hns cleared any mouey. and
many havo lost heavily.
Lawrkiice Hahiiktt produced his now
)locecalled “Wonder” in Ht. Paul. It is,
jo waver, not a real now or original play, but
ono that has boon remodeled.
A CABLEGRAM from London states that
Miss \ an Z.indt has boon engaged to appeu
in opora at Moscow during tno coming win
ter. Sbe will rocoivo Allot) for ouch perform
ance.
Madame Raua Bkiiniiardt will receive
•oOO for each performance during tlio coming
American tour, and a percentage on tlio re
ceipts beyond a certain sum. tibe will play
225 times.
The milking of a live cow in Wilson Bar
rett’s new plav of “ Hood man Blind ” at tho
Princess’ will certainly bo an immense at
traction to Idondoners, who do not boo the
roul “tiimon pure” of tho milk article.
Biunoh Luiui Cankpa, a composer whoso
three previous works Uuvo had some success
to Italy, is writing an opera with the title
In Carnovale,” which represents an opisodo
of Florentine history in tho time of Medici.
A genuine Stradlvarlus violin was re
cently sold in Germany for $5,000. The em
peror bought one of these instrument* some
years ago for $1,700, aud gave it to one of
his chamber-musicians to play on—Felix
Moyor.
For the fifteen parts she is to play in this
country Mme. Judic, tho noted French ac
tress, 1ms had snmo fifty new dresses made in
Paris, which aro described, some of them as
of extreme elegance and taste, and otners of
extreme simplicity and tosto.
The celebrated English harp player and
comiKiser, Charles Oborthner, nos composed
a cantata for soli, chorus and orchestra,
which will bo published in Detroit, and w ill
bo given there this coming winter by tiie
Schumann society. Mr. Oborthner bas lately
been in America, visiting friends in Detroit*
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Southern league has a surplus of $1,000
in the league ii aasury.
New York lias inado the feweeC changes
in the team, and the least experiments of any
league club.
New York leads tho batting and the Hold
ing of the longue. Bix of thoir batsmen
are among the first dozen in the country.
The salaries of all the loague players will
bo reduced twenty-live per cent, next soason.
Quite a number now get more than $3,000.
Bamukl Wilson, while umpiring n game
of basohall at Danville, Go., recently, was
run into by a player and probably fatally in
jured lntoriinlly.
Two circuit suggested for tile Eastorn longue
next year comprises Trenton, Newark, I’ater-
«'”i. Jersey City, Dridge|iort, New Haven,
"and Hnrrfiml,
. nun tno lucuity with which minor league
clubs bent tho big clubs of the National
longue and American association it is evident
that all tho host players hove not yet been
gobbled up.
The New York club has Cblcagoed every
league team at least once. They have Chi-
cagued Buffalo and Providence three times
each, and Chicago and St. Louie twice each:
total, thirtoon. Chicago lias Cliteagoed
league clubs twelve times, viz., Philadelphia
four times. Providence throe times, Detroit
ond Buffalo twice each, and Boston once.
The romarkuble games of fuurteen innings
each wore played recently in Znnesville, Ohio,
between the home team and the visiting
Henley club, of Richmond, Ind. The Zauos-
rillee won tlio ilrst game by 8 to 7, the score
standing tied from tho seventh to the four
teenth inning. In thesecoud game the Zanes
ville. led off in tho first inning with four runs
and failed to score afterward. The Honleys
tied tho score in the fourth inning and made
tho winning run in the lust half of the four
teenth.
Tho championship records up to recent date
were as follows:
THE NATIONAL I.KAOUE.
H'on. host. I iron, Dost
Now York 73 n Ronton so j
UffifSKO 75 10 I Hi. Louis ,JS 03
nulndelijlda....*') 40 ; Runfuio .
LATEST NEWS.
HIS WIFE SAVED HIM.
A Mob float on tantffilni Yloid* to s Wo*
man'* I’rny or*.
A mob of oitizons of Chestor. Nob., Btsricd
out late Saturday night to hang Warron Goon,
a blacksmith, who had repeatedly beaten his
wifo and threatened to burn tho towu. For
•everal days ho had boon drunk and had
whipped his wifo several Amos. His threat to
destroy the town excited tho citiflons and cul
minated in a determination to hang him. They
surrounded tho house, oapturod Coon and were
about to lynch him, when his wife pleaded for
him on her knees aud prayed to heaven and the
mob to snare him and givo him one moro
chance to be a man. Coon finally followed suit,
pr^red on his ben do 1 knoos, and promised on
oatn over a bible, never again to mistreat his
wlte and to stop drinking. Upon the undor-
staading that a violation o! his oath would ro-
suit in hanging, the mob oonoludod to let him
beta another chance, and thereupon dispersed.
BIX MEN KILLED.
Mine
Twi) Terrible Accident* on Coni
Switches.
Jchn Ktrakor and Joint Bninbridge, both
voung men, wero killed at Indian ltidgu colliery,
in l'eunsylvauia, on Monday afternoou. They
wero loaning coal from undoincath tliu breaker
when six empty empty oars, which broke looso
from a train above, nodied down the siding and
oollided with tho cars the men were loading,
01 ushing them to death.
Tho pulley at tho top of tho breaker at col-
iierv No. 4, of tho Lehigh Valley Coal company,
broke tho sumo day, precipitating a loaded car
off tho platform below, where twelve men wore
working. Connor, Denory and two rolandors
were severely injured, ono of tho latter, it is
thought, fatally. All tlio men narrowly escaped
death.
THE PUH1TAN WINS.
The Plrat of tbo final Knee* Cempleteds
At last tho renresontativo yaohts of England
and America, the center board sloop Puritan
and tho kool cutter Gcncsta, havo mot and
fought ouo round in tho marine battio which is
to duoido tho future ownership cf America's
cup. In tho race of thii tv-eight miles over the
inside oouino of the Now York yacht club Mon-
day, in vxtrcinoly light weather, the center
board deflated tliecutlor sixteen minutes lorty-
•even second* actual time, or, wrilli twenty-eight
seconds aliened tlio cuiter by the I’urltan.
sixteen minutes nineteen seconds oorreoteil
time.
MTKIICK DY A HTOIIItl.
Oa. Mss Killed and M.reral Others Hcrl.
nuely Wounded.
Sunday afternoon a heavy rain and wind
storm, accompanied by much thunder mid
lightning, visited Canton, Mins., plowing down
trees and feneca anil damaging crops. Al
Wcathorsby's plantation near there, Thoma.
(Yoarliersby and three negroes took refuge In a
R ln house, which soon after was alruck hj
ghtnlng. Ono of tho negroes named Austin
Carson, was killed. Wiathurahy was rendered
senseless and the others stunned,
Dtsie Robbery In Alonlonn.
A stage robbery is reported from near tlio
forty iiillo rancho, In hlontana, Friday night.
Throe masked men stop)ied tho stflgo. anu se
cured Uio Wells, Fargo In azure ten containing
tflOO, on route from Fort Custer to Fori Mc
Kinney, Twelve thousand dollars of govern
ment money for tr 1
only a day or two 1
Oil Hanning Free.
Tlio Tido Water pipo company's plpo, run
ning through Delaware county, Pennsylvania,
was torn apart by tho anchor of a stonc-ladon
sloop in Darhycreuk, and the petroleum is run
ning down the orco. mid ovor tlie adjoining
marshes. Workmen have been sent finni
Chester to repair tlie break, but great trouble
is experienced iu connecting tlio pipes under
water.
Cist the Thrnnls of Her Thro. Children.
Tho wifo of Josopli Alery, a bricklayer of
l'orouto, oil Tuesday out tlio throats of her
ihrcu children, Alfred, Harry aud James, aged
eight, aix and two years resncetlvely, Tho
children aro dangerously wounded. Mrs. Alery
nas been greatly addicted to diink for years.
Her father was a prominent temperance lectur
er in Leeds, Knglaud.
Altnebed by n Blob or Mirlbers.
Foiemail Kcncrson, of tho Olevoisud, O., roll-
ng mills, was attacked l>y about 10U strikers
I uesilay morning, wlieu lie drew a revolver and
tired three shots into the crowd, sovorcly wound
ing ono of his assailants and dispersing the
riot.
Wont Through the Bridge.
Tho locomotivo and cabooso on the Lexing
ton and Buutlinrn tnauoh of tlio Missouri Pa
cific, went through tho bridge into lbs Little
Osage river Monday, near Pleasant Hill, Mo.,
and Engineer Fred Carl and Fireman P. Mo-
Haney wero drowned.
Han Off the Trae h.
Tho passenger train on tlio Kentucky Central
taUroau, when near Lexington, Ky., Tuesday
afternoon, and going forty miles an hour, lolt
tho track and fell down a steep embankment.
Tlio engineer and fireman were buried under
die wreck and killed.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Woathor vlinCS Illuminated by elec
trinity, so as to bo visible at night, havo
been suggosled.
C. P. Im Thurin, tho German explorer
of lb Itlsh Gulnna, In climbing Mount
Ifornimn, foUftd, at it height of 5,000 feet
Aliovo the soa level, 1 garden of orchids.
It has been discovered thnt the famous
tree from the bark of which quinine Is
obtained furnishes no quinino oxcept in
malarial regions. If tho treo is planted
in it malarial region It will produce qui
nine. Ifit is planted in a non-mnlnrinl ro
§ lon it will flourish, but will not pro-
uco quinino. It is therefore claimed
that quinino is simply malarial poison
drawn from tho soil and stored up by
tho treo.
. Tlio antiquity of trado-raftrks lias been
traced by a contemporary to bo almost
coeval with tho industry of tho human
ruco. It hns been found thnt ancient
Babylon had property aymbols, and tho
Chinese declare that thoy had trade
marks 1,000 yoars before Christ. Gutcn-
burg, tho Inventor of printing, won a
lawsuit about n trade-mark, nnd tho uso
of a distinguishing stamp was recognized
by tho English parliament iu 1800.
Mothor-of-pearl, of which ornnuiontnt
buttons, buckles, fan sticks, card cases
and other fancy nrticlos are made, is the
principnl production of Tahiti, nud makes
n commerce variously estimated between
$20,000 and $100,000 a year. The la
goons in whloh the oysters producing
tnis material are found arc growing
poorer overy day, and unless protective
moasuros aro adopted, they will he im
poverished, if not ruined, in a lew yoars.
Tlioro is no record of the distnnee
from shore at which divers have gono
down in tho Atlantic ocean. Thoy can
go down to certain depths nt any part of
the ocean. As long ago ns 18511, 10. P.
Harrington, of Westfield, N. Y., went
down 170 foot and recovered the iron
safo of tho stoamor Atlantic, uuuk in
I.ako Erlo tho yoar before). Ho was
dressed in a common diver’s suit, and
remainod down eleven mlnutos. A re
cent French invention onnbles men to
dcscond over 800 feet.
Tho peculiar acid which oxudes from
tlio pores of tho body acts directly upon
leather, and tnkos the "life” out, render
ing it stiff and hard. In a pair of shoes
recently returned to a prominent manu
facture tho uppers wore moist with
sweat, tho solos dry. Tho kid leather,
when it hardened, wae so brittio that it
could bo torn and cracked like paper.
Tlio destruction was caused by perspirn-
'tion of tlio feet. Now shoos from tho
auuio maker and of tho snmo material
wero perfectly sound and Arm.
Professor Kiloy states that "insects
probably outnumber in species all other
animals combined, and that some threo
hundred and fifty thousand spocios have
already bcon described, and full as many
moro remain to bo characterized.” It
hns often boon assorted by naturalists
that tlio proportion of spoeios of inseots
to plants is about fivo to ouo, and, as
considerably more than one hundred
thousand plants havo been dcscribod, it
is quite probable thnt Professor liiloy's
estimate is not far out of the way. It
must not, however, be supposed tlist
tho insoct onomios of plants are equally
distributed, nnd that each has just fivo
and no more, for Professor Lintner,
State entomologist of New York, records
no less than one hundred nnd sovouty-
six different species of insects affecting
the apple. Cultivated plants useful to
man appear to havo more insect enemies
thnn those of iittlo or nooconomlc value.
A T ew York Sun.
Fatal Fire-Damp Explosion.
On Saturday, white 160 mon wore at work in
the ooal mine at Guffroy's station, Pa., an exi
plosion of fire-damn occurred, killing Wm.
Bradlo.v aud fatally Duniing James Hamilton.
A numbor of others were slightly injured. The
damage to the mine is very great.
Providence..*..*.V.47 45 | Detroit
AMKHICAN ASSOCIATION
St. I-Oiils 70 70 I Athletic...
Pittsbnrg. r>3 45 Rronkiyn
43 I lialtimore
50 | Metropolitan.
KASTKIIN LEAGUE.
Bridgeport 7 9 | Norfolk 33
Jersey City 9 27 j Trenton 42
Lancaster 28 89 | Virginia 03
National 60 24 | Watorbury 4
Newark 35 45 J Wilmington 5
80U7IIEUN I.KAOUE.
Atlanta co 82 I Columbus 48
Augusta. «i 30 Macon 61
Birmingham.... 18 7T Memphis 44
Chattanooga....34 59 j NushvUte cj
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Minister Fendi jiton is studying German
four hours a Uuy .t Berlin.
Sam Jones, the ovengollst, has lost his
voice by incessant loud talking.
Mns. Hattie Green, tho New York stock
speculator, is worth $40,000,000.
Edward Everett Hale eate fivo inoals a
day, and says everybody else should.
General Miles aud Ills wife ere said to
bo the handsomest couple in the army.
Tub three caudidatoR for governor in Ohio
vote in tho samo precinct in Cincinnati.
Mis« St. Pjkiuik, a Tennessee heiress, is
devoting her fortune to tlio elevation of the
poor whites of the tSoutb.
Roscok Conk lino’s easy lifo at Carlsbad,
Gormany, has brought his weight up to two
huudred pounds, less two.
John G. Whittier’s schoolmates at the
Haverhill (Mass.) academy, of whom nbout a
score aro living, at a recent reunion lionized
the poet.
General Loo an now has in press, in New
York, a book dealing with the political move
ments that led to tho great war. Mrs, Logan
has gone to her Western home, to remain un
til December.
Tub North Carolina so in tors have distin
guished themselves in the hunting field this
summer. Senator Vance hav killed a boar
nnd Senator Ransom has exterminated a
fivo-foot rattlesnake.
Cadet Kulm, who graduated at the head
of his class at West Point this year, is tho
son of a poor blacksmith nt Leavenworth.
He got lus appointment to u cadetship by
winning a competitive examination.
CREMATED ALIVE.
A Jail Fired by a Mob—Two llroth-
cr* llurucd to Death*
Despatches from Washington, Ark., state
that great excitement prevailed at Murfreos-
boro over tho burning of tho Polk boys by a
mob in the Pike county jail at the latter
place on Sunday night. Tlio mob, consist
ing of about seventy-fivo mon, broke into
tho jail, and, us on a previous occasion,
tried to shoot tlio Polk brothers, who
are charged with murder, to death. Finding
that the^location of their cell whs such that
tlie two prisoners could keep out of the range
of the bullets, tlio mob hauled a lot of wood
to tho jail, piled it around tho iron cell, satu-
rutod tho wood with coal oil and literally
roasted both tho prisoners alivo.
The Polk brothers, Sylvester and Henrv,
were iu jail for killing a psddler named Wil-
UauM, tuit three previous attempt.* had been
made to lynch th onr.
Butter by Lightning.
Tlio Loudon Sportsman says: "M«k-
ing buttor by lightning is tlio latest craze
of tbo oloctricinus. Tho patent tnkon
out for this process is very simple. A
pair of electrodes are placed in a large
vessel of milk and a current runs through.
Directly tbo milk fools tho force of tho
electricity, and it undergoes u curious
clinngo. Little bills of buttor form up
on tbo olcotrodos and subsequently de
tach thcmsolvos nnd float to tho top. Tho
butter is tlion collected, placed In a
kneading mtickino, aud worked up into
tbo "best Dossit" ns fast ns the operator
can turn tho hnndlo. Tho process is
much quicker than tlio old-fash
ioned method of churning. Tho unly
drawback to tho buttor so mado is that
it will uot stand tho ordoal of a thunder
storm. During tho prevalence of any
sovore atmosphoric disturbance the rolls
of buttor stand on end, give out sparks,
and often lonp about the place. Curi
ously enough, this does not spoil tho
butter, but it is found to be unpleasant
at tlio brcnkfnst or ton table. Cheese
can be made by a similar process. It is
now proposod, in order to save time, to
apply an electric milker to the cow. This
will sort tbo butter and choose as llto
milk loaves the teat. Tlio quail y of
tlio chooso Is determined by the food
given to tho cow and the strength of tho
current. Tho most powerful currents
ore required to produce Gorgonzola or
Limburger chooso, but it is not s.tfo to
make much of tho latter kind, becattso
the cow is always greatly exhausted
afterward.”
Strange Indian Superstition
Tho Columbin Hiver Indians in Oregon
are thrifty ond intelligent iu many ways,
but thoir material progress is sadly ro
tardect by a strange superstition which
thoy have rolativo to land. Several ot
their more energetic members have mado
inonoy, and it wus supposed when tbo
whites offered to soil them land thnt they
would jump at tho chance. A few of
the more advanced appeared to bo willing
to make tho purchase, though evidently
hatrassed by doubts aud fears, bill they
finally backed out. It afterward tran
spired that the tribe has always held as a
religious principle that it was sinful to
traffic in laud, and it amounted to lha
same thing us dealing in human flesh.
Their God had given them the land to
live on, und if they did not like ouo
place would go to another. It was all
theirs, and no one man had any right to
soil it,—New York Sun.
Fivo years ago a remarkably bright
nnd pretty girl of seventeen worked in a
San Francisco laundry. The sou of
wealthy parents fell in love with her,
She returned his pussion, but said that
she would not marry him, as ho wished,
because she wus uneducated and coarse.
Then he offered to send her away to
school, bhc accepted tliisoiler. During
i lie ensuing four years she was in a Mon"
Heal convent, very apt and studious.
Tlio training wrought all tho change
ihat was desirable, und the wedding took
place, with a long tour iu Europe after
ward. Tho couple returned to San Frau
cisco lately. To show that she had nei
ther forgotten nor was ashamed of her
former employment, the bride gave a
grand supper to those of her old eora-
paniuiis who could bo brought together.
MY WIFE AMD I.
Come and drain • cup of Joy,
Now with me, good wife,
And bring the girl end boy
Now with then, good wife.
Let all hearts lie blithe end gay,
It Is fourteen years to-day
Bfnce you spake the little "aye”
That to me was life.
When in wedding white arrayed
I beheld you etand,
Why, I nlmoetfett afraid
E’en to touch your hand.
And when with love intent
Your gaze on me you bent,
Y oil seemed a being sont
From the ‘‘Better land.”
And an angel you have proved
Since that good glad hour,
Ayo, wherovor we have roved
In sunshine and shower.
In all goodness you transcend.
And all excellences blond
In the mother, wife, and friend,
As a sacred dowor.
You have made my life mere pure
Thnn It might havo txwn;
You havo taught mo to endure,
And to strlvo and win.
With your simple song of praise
You sanctify our days,
And our thoughts to heavon -you ratal
From a world of sin.
Come, let's quit the dusty town
With Its noiso and strife,
And seek tho breesy down
That with health Is rife.
Work Is good and so Is play,
Let us keep our wedding-day
O'er tho little and far away,
Happy man and wife.
-John Geo. Watts, fit Cassells Magazine.
IIUMOR OF THE DAT.
A cow’s horn—A milk punch.
No man can carry a feathor lied and
look graceful.
Tho girl who loves William nover asks
her father to foot her bill.—Call.
A cyctono is liko a waiter. It oarvisa
everything before it.—Wsw York Netes.
Foot notes—Tho patter of tho mule’g
hind logs on tho hired man’s ribs.-»
Graphic.
Speech is certainly silver nt tho tele
graph office. Ton words for a quarter.
-Somerville Journal.
When a woman wants to make a oom-
ilote change of front sho leaves off her
angs.—Darlington Dree Dress.
Any man who can umpire a baseball
game and plcaso both sides, has in him
tho main qualifications of a successful
politician.—Dicayuns.
A school journal advises, "Make tho
school Interesting." That’s what the
small boy tries to do to tlio best of hia
ability.—Jiurlington I'\e» Prsss.
Cold contracts. That’s the reason
vour twcnty-tlvo pound chunk of ico is
humped up into such a llttlo feller that
you can play ball with it.—Fres Press. ■<
"What do you suppose I’ll look like
when I get out of this!” snapped •
young lady at a conductor of an over
crowded street car. “A good deal like
crushed sugar, miss,” said tho bell
ringer. And tho young lady hung on
the strap and rode four miles further
with tho smile of an angol.—Buffalo Ex
press.
She was literary, and she wished to
turn tho conversation in that direction,
because tho languid swoll with whom
sho was speaking was uttering all sort*
of nonsense. Ana so sho said, gushingly;
I do hope you liko Lamb?” To which
ho responded: "Ynasl A littlol So
doocod Insipid, though 1” “Whatl
Lamb insipid!" "Well—yaas!—unless
it’s tho real spring article, you know,and
tbo mint souco is perfect.” And now
sho sedulously avoids him.—Boston On-
setts.
A waiter’s bringing dinner
On tho run;
Ho ts a reckless shiner.
Full of fun:
Ho hurried down tho ulela
With a soraphic smile
A booming all tho while
Like the sun.
A footstool is before him,
Does he see!
He trips—the dinner's o’er him.
Where is hsl
Tomato daubs tits hair,
Beof gravy fills tho air,
1 no lies sprawling tliere
Helplessly.
—Philadelphia MetIff
And 1
HEALTH HINTS.
For tootliuche try chewing cinnamon
bark.
A bag of hot sand will often relieve
neuralgia.
Hop pillows are successfully used by
many people who aro otherwise unable
to sleep soundly.
For ringworm of tho scalp try ten
grains of iodine dissolved in an ouncoof
turpentine; apply us a local remedy after
the diseased part has been thoroughly
washed. * ■
To cure felons, mix one ounce of Ven
ice turpentine with ono ounce of water;
stir with a rough stick uutil thick; then
wrap n good coating of it around the
llngor with a elotb. Another method ia
to wrap the part affected with a linen
cloth dipped in a tincture of lobelia.
The Journal of Health says to stoj,
bleeding, if from a cavity in the jaw
after a tooth has been extracted, shape
a cork into tho proper form and size to
cover the bleeding cavity, aud long
enough to be kept firmly iu place when
tho mouth is closod. This, wo believe,
is our own invention, and we have neve,
kuown it to fail. It has served us in
desperate cases.
Many persons seriously damage their
eyes by forcibly rubbing them when
drowsy, especially when awakening iu
tlio morning. To strengthen the eyes,
lo relieve them when swollen or con
gested, and to remove chronic inflam
mation in tho eyos, prurient discharges,
etc., nothing is equal to bathing then
frequently with water, at first tepid, but
afterward lowering in temperature tr
absolute coldness.
A very effective and instantaneous
remedy iu almost all cases of poisoning
is a heaping teaspoouful of common salt
and es much ground mustard, stirred
rapidly in a teacup of tepid water. It
is scarcely down boforo it begins to como
up, bringing with it the remaining con
tents of tho stomach, aud lost there bo
any remnant of poison, liowover small,
let the white of an egg, sweet oil or but
ter or lnrd—sovoral spoonfuls—be swal
lowed immediately after vomiting; '
With 4,575 miles of navigable rivers
and 2,900 of canals, the French railways
must encounter some competition.