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TO ONE WHO BIOj ME SING. Non eadem eat setas, non n:ens.—-Horace. You ask a “many winter'd bard” Where hides his old vocation? Accept—the answer in not hard— A classic explanation. “Immortal” though he be, he still, Tithonous-like, grows older, While she, his muse of Hindus hill, Still bares a youthful shoulder. Could that too sprightly nymph but leave Her ageless grace and beauty, They might, betwixt them both, achieve A hymn de senectute. But she—she can’t grow gray, and so Her slave, whose hairs are falling, Must e’en his Doric flute forego And seek some graver calling— Not ill content to stand aside, To yield to minstrels fitter His singing robes, his singing pride, His fancies sweet and bitter. —Austin Dobson in Temple Bar. HE MET HIS MATCH. Expert Testimony Comes High, but We Have to Have It. The scene was the private laboratory of the greatest chemical analyst known to science, J. Bigleg Bighead, M. D., F. R. S., P. D. Q., etc. There was a timid rap on the door, and a dark fea tured man entered, saluting with obse quious grace and handing the great ex pert a card, on which was the firm name of “Baggem & Fleecem, Private Detectives. ’ ’ The celebrated toxicologist glanced at the card and motioned the visitor to a seat. “Happy to make your acquaint ance, sir. What can Ido for you?” The swarthy browed visitor glanced around to make sure that they were alone, then drew forth from the folds of his cloak a small bottle containing some mysterious fluid. “Sir,” he began in undertones, “this bottle contains part of the contents of a man’s stomach. The deceased died two days ago under the most suspicious cir cumstances, after having dined with a very beautiful woman. I want expert sworn testimony—an ironclad, all wool, yard wide, no rebate, expert analysis. What’s your price, sir?” The great man held the bottle up to the light, then pulled a string disclos ing a scale of prices on the wall, which the visitor read, as follows: To find poison and swear to itsl,ooo Not to find poison and swear to it 2,000 To find poison and swear I didn’t 4,000 Not to find poison and swear I dids,ooo To “ball up” the jury with learned tech nicalities, so that it won’t matter whether I did or didn’t 1,500 To boomerang 400 yards of Latin at the judge.‘ 1,000 To bring ten other great men to swear for our side, each 1,000 To cite eminent authorities whichever way you wish, per cite 250 To throw up enough scientific dust to be- fog and muddle the judge, jury, prose- ■ cuting attorney and myself, per shovel ful 250 Consultation, beginning with this one, per minute 200 “Now, sir,” continued the great tox icological expert, “on which side of the fence are you? Are you employed in the interest of the poisoner or the poisonee?’ ’ But the detective had finished the last line of the scale of prices, and his hair stood on end. Slowly he arose, looked at his watch, saw that he had been there 30 seconds, drew forth a roll and counted out SIOO, pressing it into the hand of the great expert. Then, with a look of envy and admiration, he fled just in time to save another hundred.— San Francisco Argonaut. She Didn't Notice. Mr. Minks—Who is that pretty young lady in the blue— Mrs. Minks—Huh I Do you call her pretty? Never saw such a— Mr. Minks—Well, who is that young lady in the blue— \ Mrs. Minks—Perhaps she’s a lady and perhaps she isn’t. You men seem to think every— Mr. Minks—Who is that—er—chit in the blue dress? Mrs. Minks—l don’t know. I didn’t notice.—New York Weekly. ATHENS EVENING NEWS JUNE 19.1895 t.• : i ’ •* . 4 A 1 , 4 Robert Collyer’s ratner. And now about my father, writes the Rev. Robert Collyer, D. D., in The La dies’ Home Journal. I think still he was as good a smith as I have ever known, a man who would forge no lie in iron or steel, with soft, steadfast brown eyes, strong and sinewy arms to labor and never sick a day I can re member, always at his work until he fell dead that day with the hammer in his hand. Blacksmiths, I think, are usu ally silent men. The old Beechers were, as I have heard, who were of this craft, silent men who left the pent up speech to their sons and grandsons. This Was my father also. He was a silent man, while both father and mother were as free from contagions and infections as the sound oaks are and the stars, so that the microbes, when they came in the dread ful form of fevers, found nothing in them for prey. Not Quite Right. No man is a hero to his valet, and perhaps no poet to his baker. He lives in Putney, and almost every day he walks a few miles to Wimbledon and goes to a cakeshop there, where he buys cakes to give to a little group of poor children, who have learned to look for ward to this frequent treat. Some one who knew the poet by sight said to the shopkeeper, “Do you know who this gentleman who buys so many cakes of you is?” “Oh, he’s a poor gentleman who isn’t quite right in his head. He’s always buying cakes for the children.”—Chap Book. Agujardi’s Voice. Agujari, better known as La Bas tardella, had an incredibly high range of voice. Mozart heard her in 1770 and expressed the greatest delight. She sang B in altissimo with perfect ease and performed cadenzas deemed impossible for the human voice. During a great part of her professional career she re ceived about SSOO a night, a sum then equal to about $2,500 in the money of our time. Cinnamon. Cinnamon is the bark of a tree which is native to Ceylon, south India and many of the East India islands. During the middle ages it was highly esteemed as a medicine, and one instance is on record of a pound of it being sold in Spain A. D. 856 for a sum nearly equiv alent to sl3 6of our money. It was be lieved to have the property of keeping away devils. Heathen and Heathen. > Home Heathen—Tell me, now, what is the greatest difficulty that your for eign missionaries have to contend with? Foreign Missionary—Keeping our con verts from learning that we have so many heathen in the home churches.— New York Tribune. The highest temperature ever known in London was recorded July 15, 1881, 95.5 degrees; at Paris, 104, on Aug. 26, 1765; at Adelaide, Australia, January, 1841, 114; at Mourzuk, India, July 10, 1872, 133. The Housatonic in Connecticut was called by the Indians Wussiadenex, the “stream beyond the mountains. ” r Bulgaria was formerly Volgaria, so called from the Volsci who inhabited it. Castle* In the Air. f “Castles in the air,” to indicate dreaming projects, is an expression which first occurs in the writings of Sidney. It is believed, however, to be much older than his time. In the form “cattles in Spain” it is found in the French literature, while the Latins had an expression “castles in Asia, ” and the Hindoos rendered it as “castles in the moon.” The cold of Canada seems to diminish with an increase of population. Between 1828 and 1837 Hudson’s bay was closed an average of 184 days every year; now its ice lasts 179 days. What Ailed Him. A gentleman of Berwyn, Pa., who is employed with an electrical light com pany, has two boys aged 3 and 5 years respectively. The older one, through; frequent conversations with his father,! is familiar with electrical terms, appli- i ances and probabilities. Litt-e 3 year-old one cold morning; was fumbling with a half frozen waspi that had lodged on the window sill. The I wasp thawed out, and recovered much! of his usual animation, a fact proved by I a succession of yells on the part of the! boy. “What’s the matter with Dawson?” cried the father as he rushed from an adjoining room. “I ’spect he touched a live wire,” re plied the brother, with a scarcely per ceotible grin.—Youth’s Companion. Citric Acid. Citric acid, the active principle of limes and lemons, was first extracted by Scheele. It is found in considerable quantities in many other fruits besides these, the acid of commerce being, it is said, extracted from almost any fruit, the cheapness being the main factor in seclusion Algiers is so called from the Arabic words Al-Jezair. meaning “a peninsu la ” When you want first class Tin Roofing and Gutters done, don’t fail to call on Win. Tiller 17 Jackson street, Farr Bros, old stand. Repairing done in first class style. All kind of Tinware Roofing and Gutter '•one on short notice Wm. Tiller, 17 Jackson St. I WOOD MRD. 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