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The Central Komi Ilna Sigurd the CJou-
tract) nuil Will Go Into the Union
Depot.
CAHP«I«N LITERATURE*
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TRYING A MOTHER'S i.'
CARESSES TO BE t
WHERE A TRAIN WAS WRECKED.
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From Thiifitilar'ii Evening Hernlii.
Mayor Gilbert received a communi
cation this morning from President
Lowe, of the Columbus Southern, In
forming him that President Comer
had signed tile contract for the Union
depot at Albany, and that there now
appeared to be no reason why the con
tractors could not safely begin work.
It will be remembered tbnt the Cen
tral has been holding bnok ever since
the other roads declined to join that
company in the plan to remodel its
old freight depot and convert it into a
passenger depot on its (the Central’s)
land, and It had not been dcllnltely
settled until now whether the Central
Would join the other roads in the
Union depot agreed upon-with the
Railroad Commission, or erect ail in
dependent one. But President Comer
has removed all doubt from the matter
by signing the contract that the other
roads agreed upon for the Union
depot.
Col. Lowe, to whom the officials of
all the roads entrusted the manage
ment of the Union depot matter, hns
been pushing It with qommendable
zeal, and writes Mayor Gilbert that
everything is now in good shape. All
the roads except the B. & W. and the
8., A. & M. had signed the contract
yesterdny, ami these hnd signified
their readiness to do so and it had
been forwarded to Superintendent
Haines with the request that he sign
and forward it to.President Hawkins.
" Col. Lowe writes that he will be here
with the nrohitcot in a few days.
The Democratic Club of Dougherty
County, at its meeting last night, paid
its respects to a campaign oiroular
gotten out by Candidate Stevens, in
which that wily politician repudiates
the resolutions promulgated by the
District Alliance at its meeting In
Thomasvillc on the 21st of January,
and which have been drawn on him ill
the “deadly parallel” column.
In a paper which -was rend before
the club last night, facts anil circum
stances are brought out which leave
Mr. Stevens in a rather unenviable
light with reference to the resolutions
which he now repudiates, whether
they were really adopted at the Tliom-
nsville meeting or not.
Taking Mr. Stevens’s circular ns a
text, the Democratic Club of Dough
erty County contributes n campaign
document, to the cause of Democracy
in the district, and it is first promul
gated in the Herald to-day. Ten
thousand copies of the document are
also being printed for circulation
throughout the district in circular
form. Mr. Stevens’s circular is em
bodied in this paper, ns arc also the
Third Party resolutions einauating
from the District Alliance meeting at
Thomnsville.
Read the club's address to the Dem
ocracy of the district, and you will get
at the bottom of what is now pester
ing Candidate Stevens.
Mra. Flannery Was Sqre Thu! "Tin. Twe
Il'yes I* Aqntl'Mn tier
Mm. Flannery is u very estimable
anil industrious washerwoman, a
widow, who keeps house for her two
grown sons in two neat rooms in a
basement. One son, Peter, is a hard
working young mason: the other,
Joey, is a Jack-of-all-trades and a
yilltor to tke I.lon Lunrus Knn.e
Things He Did Not Know lloforo.
“Yes, he’s a friendly old chap,”
“He was bom
ne'er-do-weel, but 1b popularly sup-
•'■’•;ed to bo his mother’s favorite.
said the lion keeper,
in captivity at Barnum’s headquar
ters in Bridgeport, Conn., and he’ll
lot even a stranger scratch him be
hind the ears.” *.
The stranger tried the experiment
post
This supposition Mrs. Flnnnory indig-
I’t oe that
POND LILIES.
A Few Facts anil Suggestions to Flower
tinrdeuers.
These are times that try men’s souls
—a political campaign and no rain to
speak of for eight weeks.
about
It is figured that up to date
200 delegates have been instructed for
Harrison; anil as it will take 425 to
control the convention, It Is apparent
that a crisis is on for the second term.
It Is true that a number of the unln-
structed are known to be for Harrison,
yet It is apparent that unless the Har
rison sentiment shall assert itself pow
erfully and decisively ill the conven
tions yet to he held, a fine field for
political manipulation will be open at
Minneapolis. Prior to the New York
convention, the sentiment was univer
sal that Blaine’s retirement had made
Harrison inevitable. Sinpe that con
vention four or five candidates have
been freely canvassed, and the ques
tion of availability is still an open one.
A cable dispatch announces that
■“in the next two months there will be
278 fashionable mnrrlages celebrated
In London, and that of these fully one-
third of the brides will be Americans.”
This leads the Philadelphia Record
to remark: “Happily, the Imlanoe of
trado in this respeot cannot long
continue so heavy against us. The
rapidity w.ith which British manufac
turers are being forced to migrate
to this country renders it reason
ably certain that the home mar
ket will ere long be sprouting a suffi
ciency of eligible English husbands to
supply the domestic consumption at
our doors.”
Ono of tlio very prettiest and hardi
est flowers that flourishes in our South
ern clime is the white pond lily, which
grows in great profusion ill South
Georgia and Florida, nnd nowflereare
they more prolific thnn on the ponds
around Albany.
On Rush pond, about- five miles from
the city, these beautiful flora dot the
water in hundreds of places with their
snowy whiteness. A Herald reporter
secured several of yiese recently, and
by actual measurement the circumfer
ence of tile flower measured over two
feet by several inches.
Now, ladies who arc fond of flowers
might easily rear the poml lilies ill
their yards. Tile roots and stems can
be secured out of some pond und
placed in a pool, where they would
tlowor without any attention what
ever. Tile pure white with a deep
yellow center makes a magnificent
bloom. Try this once, nnd you will
have an addition to your collection of
flowers that will furnish you fully ns
much pleasure as the rarest plant in
your liot-liouse. ' . '
Wj: learn from ail exchange that Dr.
Tanner, who a few years ago got more
or less fame (nr notoriety) from his
fasting experiments, has come to the
surface again, this time with a plan
to produce a perfect race of men and
women. He lias purchased a New
Mexican ranch of 1,500 acres, upon
whioh he is to place a hundred poor
orphans, about equally divided between
the sexes, whom he proposes to bring
up in absolute ignorance of the exist
ence of alcohol, tobacco, or narcotics
of any kind, relying upon their inter
marriage to produce a perfect race.—
Macon Telegraph..
He will need to build u sky-higli
board fence around those 1,500 acres,
and padlock the gate on the outside.
At a dinner party recently given In
New York, in reply to a question as to
what was the most, striking develop
ment of the day, Chauncey M. Depew
is credited with the following perti
nent reply:
“The stupendous intellectual activity
and the capacity of the men of to-day
to handle with comparative ease prob
lems and subjects that a generation
ago could no more have entered the
comprehension of men than the idea
of railway traveling or electric com
munication could have been appre
ciated or even vaguely understood by
the men of affairs at the beginning of
the century.”
Cleveland and the New York Mug
wumps nnd gold-bugs nnd Hill nnd
Tnmmnuy und the “Machine” ought to
pair nnd li>t the Democrats nominate
Gorman or Palmer.
Senator Colquitt lias been ap
pointed as one of tile ten Sen
ators to serve on the Democratic cam
paign committee. As an nil-round
politician Senator . Colquitt has few
superiors.
Sam Small is spoken of as the proba
ble candidate of the Third Party in
the Fifth Congressional district.
Now, if Sam does run, won’t the fur
tly when he and Colonel Leonidas
ineot in joint debate.
TnE Democratic Club of Dougherty
County held an interesting meeting at
the Court House last night. It was
not nn occasion of speech-making, but
the meeting took a business turn and
laid out some important work for the
campaign. Some work is needed in
the Second Congressional district, and
the Democrats of old Dougherty are
willing to do their share of it.
uantly resents. “I wouldn
mean," she says. "The two b’yes is
ayquii in me heart, an iver will be.”
Nevertheless, when the probability
of war with Chili was being discussed
in a family where she was attending
to the Mondny’s wmdi, Mrs. Flan
nery was observed to be listening with
a degree of attention which implied
some personal interest in the out
eome; nnd this is her own explain!
tion. in response to n question from
the lady of the house.
“Ye see. ma’am, if there’s war. my
Joey, he says lie'll go. He eome to
breukfnst the ither morning,’ an he
tuk up the pnper—bad luck to it—nil
says he. 'What’s this;' says he. 'Ar
rah. but I’m thiukin it’s a hit of a
war there’s goin to be!'
" 'Jo-ay'' says I, settiu down the
taypot an lookin at him. 'Jo-ay I'
says l, 'ye wouldn’t be afther Invuing
your poor old mother to go to no
war. Now would you?'says 1.
" 'An that’s what 1 would,’ says
be. "An it’s foine I'd look in a uni
form, ns ye know.' Ah faith, uu he
would that. But I couldn’t. bear to
think of him goin to fight haytliens
an savages, an so I told him. with me
aprou to me eye an a bit of u tinder
sniffle like, for the b’ye has n soft
heart, nn I thought best to begin
with him aisy.
" 'Jo-ay P says I, 'don’t ye go an
lave me alone with me gray hairs an
mq aurrer now—don't ye I’
" 'Sure ye wouldn't be alone, moth
er,’ sthruck in Peter; nn 'Peter,'sayB
l, 'hould yer whisht; who's a-talkin
to you? Jo-nyl'saysl.
" ‘I'll take care of you. mother,'
Bays Peter; 'don’t you fret. An its
a foine sodger Joey’ll make. An
maybe he’ll eome back an officer.
Sure, 1 wish it was me was goin I’
“ ‘Go along wid ye, thin,’ says 1.
'It's beautiful ye’d be lookin In
stliriped trousies nn a sodger cap.
ain’t it now? Jo-ay I' says 1. 'will ye
stay nt home fer your old mother, or
will ye break her heart entirely?’
"But Joey he laughs nn he lauglis
an he says he’ll go; an that’s just the
bad luck o’ the Flannerys. There's
Peter as steady as the Rock of Cashel,
an safe to be trusted with a gun if
iver a b’ye was, an it's him will stay
at home when ho might go for ,-a
woid If he wauled. An there’s JooV
has a black eye every month and ai
ways in trouble, an it’s him must run
loose among powder an bullets an
bo kilt as a matther av course. Ar
rail well. I’ve done my part; I've
told 'etii what 1 tliijik.
Peter, says I, 'ye’re a b'ye of
judgment, nil if ye wuut to go an bo
shot ye may go, nnd it’d not your
mother will object, for you've always
deserved well of her. But Joey,'
says 1. ye will stay with me, so yp
will, me darlin, for I’d die widout
ye.
'An Peter an Joey they look nt
each other nn they laugh an they
laugh. Au I says, 'Aint yoashamed,
ye heartless b'yes. to mock mo in me
throuhle?'.
"An Joey, he soys, 'Don’t ye cry.
mother, don’t ye I PU stay—if there
aint any war I’
"An I shook me fist at the InugHin
rascal, an says I. 'Jo-ay I'’’—Youth's
Companion.
All that can be done by the Demo
cratic party to dose the government
for a political disgorgement after the
4th of March next is being done.
Russia contemplates establishing
boards of trades, similar to those In
the United States, which will dissem-
The New York Mail and Express
says of Mr. Joel Chandler Harris,
“Uncle Remus;”
“Mr. Joel Chandler Harris is a wel
come visitor in tile small world of
American letters, nnd whether we
meet him, as we did at first, in the de
lectable company of ‘Uncle Remus,’ or
as in his last story, ‘On the Planta
tion,’ we give him our hand and our
heart. There is a oliarm about him
which we find in no other American
humorist, for he is a humorist, and of
the rarest type—and which is so much
a part of his individuality that we no
more try to analyze it than the happi
ness of a child or the tenderness of a
woman.’ -
right
Candidate Stevens is a
shrewd politician, but the equestrian
feat of riding two horses and driving
another is about to prove too much for
him. His Democratic horse kioks at
the Ocala platform, his Alliance steed
is getting fidgety and restive, while
the Third Party jackass doesn’t want
to do anything but bray.
iiiate information in regard to crops,
weather indications, etc., with a view
of preventing the terrible periodical
famines which have nlways existed in
tlmt country.
cautiously, and ^the lion seemed
pleased.
"Now, he’ll lick your hand for
thanks, if you like,” added -the keep
er. "Don’t be afraid; his teeth are
nearly all gone, anyway.”
The stranger put hie hand through
the hare again, and at the keeper's
word of command tho well trained
lion gave it a gentle lick with IiIh
tongue.
“Wow! Great Scott I” exclaimed
the owner of the hand, ns he jerked
it out und looked at it ruefully. If n
piece of sandpaper had been applied
to it vigorously it would havo looked
and folt about the same. “Lost his
teeth, did you say? His tongue is
covered with them."
“Well,” said tho keeper, with ti
good natured griu nt the succosh of
his practical joko, "you’re just about
right. A lion’s tongue is covered
with strong homy little hooks—imp
pillie is tho scientific name for them
—and they nil point backward.
When he licks hard he can scrape the
meat and cartilage off the bones of
a tough horse quicker than you could
with a sharp knifo."
“I suppose you have to feed a lion
as old ns this one on what the othore
would regal'd as dainties?" said the
visitor.
"No,” answered the keeper, “ns a
general thing a lion won’t oat nt nil
or lie'll eat anything in the fresh
meat line. The whole eat tribe has
a low sense of taste. You have often
seen a cat lick horeelf, haven’t you!
8he gets handfuls of hair in her
mouth without inindiug it at all.
Consider what discomfort one hair
produces in the mouth of a human
being whose sense of taste is deli
cate."
"This old follow's claws are pretty
well worn down,"said the visitor. “I
suppose by constant use on the floor
and walls of his cage.”
“Ke hns one claw not worn down
at all." answered the keeper, “hut
I'll bet you can’t detect it.”
Tlie visitor looked at all tho paws
and could see nothing but well worn
claws. "Where iH it?" he asked.
"At tlie end of the tail,” said the
keeper.
"Oh, now." remarked tho visitor
"no more jokes on me today, thank
you."
The keeper put his hand between
the bare, .caught the patient ex-mon
arch of the forest by the tail and
; Bhowed the visitor a sort of horny
; hook concealed among the long hairs
at the end of it. "What use it serves
there,” he added, •'naturalists don't
know, I believe. Some say he uses
it to lash himself intop rage. Next
time yon look at any books on Nine
veh, notice how tlie old Assyrians
exaggerated this hook on the tails of
lions carved upon their funny old
morales."— New York Tribune.
The Democratic Club of Dougherty
County has gone to work.
The campaign circular is abroad in
the Second Congressional district.
Politicians are growing more and
mdre enthusiastic as the weather
grows warmer and warmer.
And now Harry Brown lias denied
tlie report that he lmd renounced the
Third Party. He says-lie is still in it.
Culneae Importation*.
The report of the maritime cus
toms of tlie Chinese empire for 1890
shows that the importations amount
ed to 127.00.1,481 taels, an increase of
14 per cent, over tlie preceding year.
The exportations, on the contrary,
have fallen from 00,947,832 taels in
1889 to 87,144.-180 in 1890. This dimi
nution is due to-tho active competi
tion of Ceylon and India in the tea
trade. The importation of rice was
considerable; that of opium was. in
creased I per cent., and of cotton 25
per cent.
The exportation of tea amounted
to 1,695.390 piculs, as opposed to
1,877,331 in 1889, and the value of
the silk was 30,255.905 taels, against
30.401,907 taels in 1889. The entire
customs receipts for 1890 were 21,-
996,226 taels. A tael Is Equivalent
to seventy-five cents.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Wandering Apparition* All In White
Visit the Beene nt Midnight*
One day in tho Winter of 1891-2
the dreadful word reached the city
and spread over it like Wildfire that
a Monon passenger had jumped the
rails just north of town nnd left in
its truck death and destruction.
The story of the awful, ghastly
procession, with its blanched faces,
as it came slowly into town on that
memorable afternoon, is well remem
bered and can never bo forgotten.
The sight of those wrecked care,
smoking ruins, crippled people and
dead bodies on tho hillside is fresh
in the memory of all.
Since that fatul day a qutet melan
choly seems to have hovered over
the unfortunate spot. Even liorees
and cows shun it. Birds turn their
flight ns they approach it. Only the
morbidly curious have ventured ueur
it
Ono night a leading physician of
this city, who was present a few mo
ments after the awful catastrophe
and was au oyewitness to the terrible,
heartrending scone, was colled from
his warm bed to see a sick man who
resides not far from whore tlie
wreck ocourred. Ho told of his mid
night trip, which, if it did not turn'
his raven locks white, gave lir i a
scare that ho will never recover^
frbm. He says that just ns ho ap-,
preached tho foot of tho short lull
where the wrack occurred ho heard
tho distant rambling of an approach
ing train.
Checking his horse he waited, and
in a moment the north bound Monon 1
pnssongor dashed by on its way to
Chicago. Bofora tlio bright lights of
tho many windows liod disappeared
and tho distant rambling of the
wheels hnd died away, while the
long line of heavy, black Btnoke still
hovered over tho hill, a sight met his
gaze that almost paralyzed him with
fear.
With the greatest difficulty ho held
his horse, wild with fright nnd
plunging and Bnorting to break away.
Before him, on tho hillside, where
the fatal coaches had rollod down, he
saw two figures clothed in whito.
They would vise from the ground,
walk about and hold up their white
arms in supplication.
“I never," continued the dootor.
‘believed in ghosts. But there were
two right before my eyes. I didn’t
feel that I was exactly seared, but 1
was possessed with a sensation that
is indescribable. It wus an awful
moment. I can yet see those white
robed visions walking nbout on that
hillside. I only remained a moment,
but it seemed to mo I was there an
e. My horse fairly flew upi tho
II, over the track and homeward
bound. I don’t believe I could get
him near that spot again, even in
daylight. If you doubt what I say
iust go out there tonight at 1:30 and
[’ll venture to say that yon will wit
ness the Homo sight that I did."
Since the horrible wreck no less
than three accidents havo occurred
on this spot.—Crawfordsville Cor.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Rev. Mr. Wadsworth preached n
sermon on Ihst Sunday night which
was intended to brine on a fight for
prohibition in Augusta.
The pulse of the political campaign
is getting somewhat rapid. However,
the national conventions will soon lay
a cool hand on its fevered brow.
The meetings at the Methodist
church will be continued the remainder
of thijt week only. As there are so few
services more to be held, let every one
show his appreciation of the efforts
expended for-the good of the cause,
and be in attendance.
.V. v •-•'■ v- . - iO *
Skill In Savins Mahogany.
It has been found that mahogany
should not be sawed thinner than
twenty-six to the inch, though occa
sionally it is sawed thirty to the inch.
The process of sawing twenty-six to
the inch is as nice a one as can well
be imagined. It is a species of sur
gery that requires a keen instru
ment, an experienced hand and on
intelligent mind. A log worth $125
in bulk may bo sawed so that it shall
sell for five times that sum, or so
that it shall be worth not more than
fifty dollars.—New York Sun.
Burglar Proof.
An old maid is so much afraid of
robbers that die strews pepper under
the bed every time she retires for the
night. When questioned on the sub
ject, she said;
Any scamp attempting to hide
there will betray himself through
having to.meeze.-T-Avondppsfc. -
Curing uti Ottor Skin.
A full grown sea otter is from four
to five feet, long and perhaps a foot
or more wide. When a hunter se
cures one he loosens the hide from
the nose and head and, without cut
ting it lengthwise at all, he pulls tho
skin down over the body, the hide
being so elastic that this is not a dif
ficult job. It is thou stretched over
a smooth board 01 feet long, 9 inches
wide at one end and 10 at the other
end. Each end of this hoard is
tapered to a point. Another board
exactly the same Hizo is then inserted,
and the skin is stretched a foot or
eighteen inches longer thnn its orig
inal length.
A third board, half the length of
the oilier, is wedged in and the skin
lightly tacked at the ends to hold it
in ^place. If any flesh adheres to tlio
skin it is then cut off, and the hide
is cured and dried in this condition
In a few days it io taken off of the
boards and turned fur side out, whei.
it is ready for market.—Cor. / San
Francisco Chronicle.
A Way to Ilumllo Many Lines*
A friend of mine has threo desks in
his office and handles threo branchesl
of a good business, his clerks, stem
ographer, etc., boing in an adjoining
room. Ho never allows any work to
1>e placed before him during the day
that does not pertain to tho particu
lar branch on which ho is ut tho time
engaged. Tho desk at which he sits
indicates that. He devotes so much
time to each desk—enough to keep
the work clenr. If you should hap
pen to visit him on business he will
immediately shift seat to tho desk at
which this particular business is
transacted.
By this method he con transact the
business of two clerks. Real estate
and insurance combined, or some
thing else that way, impel men to
maintain a strict division in their
minds, and this artifice greatly aids
the habit of concentration of thought
on the matter in hand.—New York
Herald.
Tbs Fact Tlmt llie Deacon 1
on 1/M,i ll 111. ,1.1ml ut U... ...
Camp Hard Luck was' six i
old, and wo hadn't lost a i
death. Now and then on
with an accident to lay him u
few weeks, but it was a sub
congratulation that no ono 1
ly turned up his toed. AlmtL.
we congratulated ourselves ot
good fortune, Deacon White t
his bed and Decame serio
deacon was a quiet, di(
who never thawed, anti ho 1
acknowledged peacemaker o;
camp.
The chaps just over tho
Cherry Diggins were a qua
brawling lot, and but for the t
of Deacon White there woul'
somotimes been towb in whie
body would have got hurt
Three days after the det
taken down he sent for two a
of us to pay him a special
When we had come togetJ
shanty he said:
“Boys, I’m a very sick
my last sickness. I'm an olt
nnd I realize that I’ve got to g
We know that it was a e
but yet we talked one
tried to brace him up.
“It’s no use," he protested af
had had our say. ‘Tvo got
and tho only question is-hoi
go. If I die in my bed *
won't like it. It would
womanish, nnd the fellows o
hill would have another
brag. They’ve had three
and nil died with their hoots <
As a matter of fact wo wer
tie tender on that point, but v
willing to moke on exception :
case of the deacon. He-was
fighting man, and he couldn't
pectcd to get up off a dying
get in the ,way of a bullot. r
and argued with him, and
lymade him see things as \
and after an hour or so we :
to work, leaving him in i
man whose foot had beon 1
who was just able to limp aren
This was about 8 o’clock in 1
tornoou. At about 4 o’clock i
lings man appeared on
of the hill and began whooq
yelling nnd giving our cr
grand defi. Following oui
of conduct, we paid no a
him, but lie kept on
rel, and by and by s
poned to startle us
ringing war whoop i
soe Deacon White, fa
having a revolver in 1
big up the trail. >
Tlio man loft with 1
asleep, and the i
and armed bin
being the wise
feet tall, but ho looke
more os we saw him
black hair was bio
from under his hat, i
uttered as he swept up tl
chills over every man
Tlie chap from Oh
must have been du
censed his shouting i
still until tho _dea
pistol shot and op
turned to flee, "but a 1
brought him down. The i
tinued to advance, fi
when we suddenly saw I
his arms and fall atfull 1
then did any of us move. 5
come upon us in such a
stood spellbound. Whei
a hundred of us wont
in three minutes we v\
of the hill.
There lay tho deacon, e
the heart, and there 1
Diggings man, hav
him and deadenou
there. As wo
face of the deacon we
it wild and distor
so. There was a smile 1
fading away into
claimed tho victory,
with his boots on ande
Hard Luck from
the eves of Cherry
eyes
troit Free Press.
A High Tunnel.
A remarkable piece of engineering
work is the tunnel of the Parana
Oroya railroad through an Andean
mountain peak at Golem, Peru. It
is at an elevation of 000 feet above
the perpetual snow line, and is 3,847
feet long. It is the highest railroad
tunnejl in the world, and is located
in the highest inhabited region in the
world. The town of Galera is 15,035
feet above the sea level, nearly 1,600
feet higher than the hotel on the top
of Pike's peak.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Why Negroes'Cun lieur Heat.
The function of a negro's black
sltin is supposed to be the conversion
of the sun’s light into heat. The heat
thus generated remains in the skin
and does not penetrate to the deeper
tissues. Being thus provided with a
sun proof armor, the negro can stand
an amount of heat that would be
total to a white man mid run little
or no risk of sunstroke.—St. Louis
Republic.
The Difference.
There are barbers in India whose
touch is so light that they can shave
you while asleep. There are men in
this country who can skin you be
fore, you find it ” J "
outjWhile you are
wideawake.—Bam’* Sara.
lir™ 5 * 8 *
Ilumnr* of Ignorance.
A strange freak of ignoronco was
that recorded of a German fraulcin
who, on being introduced to an
American gentleman, broke forth
in uncontrolled astonishment,
thought * the Americans were all
black I”—the Pompoy and Sambo
proportion of it constituting in her
mind the solo population of the New
World.
This con only be matched hv the
opinion of ihe countryman the Rev.
Baring Gould tells of who pooh-
poohed tho fact that negroes are
block, and considered his theory as
triumphantly proved when, on sur
reptitiously passing a damp sponge
over the sltin of a Christy minstrel
nigger, he found ,the color came off.
—London Tit-Bits.
How to See Under Water.
A Ions for seeing under water is
described os producing an effect
which is both astonishing and de
lightful. It gives distinct vision to
objects from twenty to thirty feet
below the surface, and which are
usually out of ordinary eye range.
The eye’s loss of extended vision
When under water is owing to the
fact that an entirely different,focus
is required. The spectacles which
can adjust this focus are made by
putting two watch crystals hack to
back, or With the concavities
ward. Tty it and be surpi
KHn. - " •
Tho Mnld and tho Mi
A cure of Paris is '
doavored
certain regular
ally instituted for the re
soul of a servant girl wl
hanged for various
subsequently to have
by a magpie. Tbi
the records of the ch
finding any clew to the
found the following
cribed from the pages
versal Museum of May,
Friday, 18 (April?),
and a small one were
pnblic house at
servant girl was
on suspicion of
hut on the third
seen to carry a teaspoon
tom of the ground
laystall, where, i
found all three,t
and halfpence, on
discharged.—Not
How to Bioome
Apropos of the
ing the pulpit
‘ ', the fol
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