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ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1892.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE.
PUIMONBB8 IN TUB COUNTY JAIL
UNDERTAKE TO TEAR DOWN
THEIR PRISON WALLS.
But They Are Foiled nnd the T.cndcra
Are Now in Chnin*.
The Hkuald stumbled on to a piece
of news to-day that was ripe enough
to have been pulled yesterday, but It
has been so well preserved that It is
not at all stale.
A very bold but unsuccessful at
tempt was made by prisoners in the
county jail to make their escape on
Thursday night.
In cell No. 5, on the upper floor, nine
prisoners, nil Negroes, were confined,
and there a conspiracy was formed nnd
an effort made to break through the
prison walls that deprived lliem of
their liberty. '
The scheme was well plnnned, but
the usual vigilance that is kept over
our county jail discovered what was
going on in lime to nip it in the bud.
The cell is ceiled with heavy 1x12
plank, and the prisoners commenced
their operations by tearing these pieces
oft en either side ol‘ a window. Their
plan seems to have been to expose the
window casing nnd tear out the whole
window, and the heavy planks that
they succeeded in pulling off gave
them something to work with.
The weather being very warm, Mr.
Frank Godwin went to the jail about
lialf-past S o’clock to give the prison
ers a supply of fresli water for the
night, and it was then that the mis
chief that was going on in cell No. 6
was discovered. Five of the ceiling
planks had been torn away when the
discovery was made, .but no other
serious damage had been done.
Of course the timely appearance of
Mr. Godwin at the door of cell No. 5
put a sudden stop to the work that
was going on within, and when they
saw that they had been caught the
prisoners straightway began to tell on
each other, and each to protest his own
Innocence.
After careful investigation Deputy
Sheriff Godwin satisfied himself ns to
who the leaders of the plot were, nnd
four of the occupants of cell No. 5 were
removed to another cell and put in
chains.
RUNNING GIRLS.
HEMMED IN BY A PRAIRIE FIRE.
THEV HAVE RETIIHNED.
DeugheHp. Delrsnlei to Iho Courcll-
xlou Cnmc Hack V.nsl Nlghl.
Messrs. IV. T'l. Wooten, S. J. Jones,
JnoD. Pope and Judge W. T. Jones,
Dougherty’s delegates to the State
Democratic convention, returned to Al
bany last night.
They all report thnt it was a gala
day for Georgia Democracy, and that
the proceedings of Wednesday portend
well for the party throughout, the
State.
The recommendation of lion. J. W.
Walters ns Presidential elector from
the Second Congressional district was
received with unanimity by the Dis
trict delegation, when they met in
caucus 011 the night before the conven
tion for the purposeof namingan elec
tor. They felt that they honored the
district In presenting his name as elec
tor.
They report that everything passed
off quietly and harmoniously, and that
the work of the convention was well
done.
They visited the Hall of the House
during the Republican convention held
on Thursday, where the day before,
Georgia’s loyal Democrats had held
sway, and everybody reports that it
was a regular pow-wow. They heard
Locke snort, and Pledger rant, and
oaine away thoroughly disgusted with
sucli desecration and denunciations of
Democracy in its own hails; Over
three fourths of the convention was
composed of Negroes^ which made it a
regular pandemonium.
Wash Bibd, a Negro who has fig
ured in two or three scrapes lately,
With Some Observations Thnt Apply to
the Malden. of Washington.
It U8ed to be said that 'there were
two things which a woman could not
do. One was to run, the other to
throw a stone. Up to the lost cen
sus sho had not learned to do the
latter feat, but at the former she
was an adept. Those who doubt may
be convinced if some wet morning
they will take n street car and ob
serve the young ladies come down tho
cross streets Just a second or two
later than they intended to be. On
these occasions they will bo tolovably
sure to sco some of tho prettiest
sprinting imaginable—straight, cloan
stepping, with head well up, shoul-
ders well back and never a trace of
waddle.
The observer feels that tile fail’
creature is dressed in ehoes nnd gar
ments that do not pinch, nnd when
she takes her seat in tlio car, breath
ing ns gently as a baby, I10 is apt, if
hia years mimlior a couplo of score
or more, to sigli inwardly for tho
time vl.t/i I10 could hnvorau a block,
or a dozuu of thorn, and have breath
enough left to keep him from gasp
ing. Tho last generation of gills
could not run. Tlioy were told it
yvas hoydonish and tbmhoyish and
everything else to do so. Tlioy were
forbidden by all tho canons of good
behavior mid propriety to go faster
than a walk, liko n team crossing a
country bridge.
If by uuy mischance it becamo nb
Bolutely necessary for them to ran,
tho way they wont at it was calcu
lated to make a man weep. They
wriggled, they waddled, tlioy stepped
011 tlio Hide of their feot, they hold
their heads down to hide their
blushes; and tlioy puffed liko por
poises when they had gono half a
dozen yards. There wero a fow ex
ceptions, of course, but now tho ex
ceptions are tho other way. Croquet
was tho first step toward emancipa
tion, and tennis was tlio coiisumiim-
tion of it.
Fenimoro Cooper tolls us in his
charming way of tho grace and beauty
of motion exhibited by tho fleet footed
Indian girl. Mayno Reid jaunts vivid
word pictures of tho impossible fe
male aborigines of northern Mexico
as they scorned to fly, so swift wero
their footsteps, but it would bo safe
bacidng a Seattle girl pn a wet morn
ing when sho wants to catcli a street
car against any dusky maiden of
fact or fiction for speed, and as for
grace, beauty, the je ne sais quoi, tho
tout ensemble, so to speak, of tho
fair Seattelito, until some poet has
been born and bred on this coast we
need not hope to eee justice done
them by words of description.
Until then wo lay this tribute at
the feet, tho very pretty feet, indeed,
of the Seattle girl who runs to catch
a street car, and let it be added that
sho is usually a girl who is one of the
army of workers—God bless her and
may her pathway over lie smooth.
May sho ran and never grow weary.
—Seattle Telegraph.
An Experience That In Burned Into a
Westsrnor'a Memory.
"I had an experience in Nebraska
in 1856 that I can see yet whenever I
shut my eyes,” said Major Tom
Stephens. "I piloted a party of emi
grants across the plains and was re
turning alone to tho Missouri. It
was a trifle risky, but my business
was urgent, nnd I was so well mount
ed that I had little fear of Indians.
It was in tho latter part of Septem
ber, and ns there had been no ram
for two months tho tall grass was
liko so much tinder.
“One night I camped on a small
tributary of tlio Middle Loup. It
was a small, spring fed rivulet, des
titute of timber and ’almost hidden
by tlio rank grass. I had not slept
long when I wus awakened by tlio
neighing of my liorso, and was hor
rified to find tlio prairio to tho south
of 1110 afire and a strong wind swoop
ing it down upon me. I mounted*
nnd started for tho Loup, some fivo
miles north, but beforo half tho dis
tance wns covered my liorso put his
foot in a hole, foil and liroko a leg.
“Tlio firo hemmed 1110 in by nsemi-
circlo and was coming on with terri
ble rapidity. Tlio wliolo heavens
seemed to bo a sheet of roaring
flame. I thought sure I wns done for.
I have heard thnt men brought face
to face with death remember every
ovil deed of their lives, but I simply
stood llicro in tho dry grass nnd
watched tlio sublime spectacle. I felt
that my doom was sealed nnd delib
erately waited for it. Suddenly a
now dnngor confronted mo. A vast
herd of buffalo flying beforo tlio firo
was bearing down upon mo. I was
to ho trampled to death and cre
mated afterward I As tho vast mass
came thundering on I instinctively
started and ran. Several deer wont
scurrying by mo, and I fancied I
could feel tlio hot breath of the herd
of buffalo on tho back of my neck. I
wns suddenly thrown into the ah'
and landed lengthwise across tho
hack of a big bull.
1 ‘I fastened my Augers in his shaggy
coat and managed to bestride him,
and thus mounted I was carried to
tho Loup river, whore I wns thrown
off by tho branch of a tree. I man
aged to swing to it, however, and
thus saved myself from being
trampled to death. Tho herd plunged
across the shallow river, nnd I took
rofuge from the approaching flames
in its muddy waters. Three days
later I was picked up, more dead
than alive, by an emigrant train. I
spent', first and last, more than fif
teen years on tho plains and had
many close calls, but that midnight
rido on a buffalo’s back, with the
Loup river in front and the fires of
Gehenna roaring in the rear, was, I
think, as remarkable as any of the
inventions of the yellow back lit
erati.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff God
win and lodged in jail to-day, on a se
rious charge preferred by the father
of a Negro girl named Caroline Brown,
who lives on the J. W; Walters place.
Wash was already under bond in two
other cases, and, now that he is in
trouble again, his bondsmen have
given him up and it will probably be
sometime before he is a free man
again.
Theiie is a big future in store for
Southern and especially Southwest
Georgia, in the fruit industry. Up to
Tliu Scriptures us it Book of Fnte.
Tho practico of consulting Scripture
as a hook of fate was generally con
demned by the church. A council at
Vnnnos pronounced against it in 401
A. D. So did one at Agdo in 500 and
one at Auxerre in 585. Charles the
Great forbade it in his capitularies,
and so did Pope Gregory II. Never
theless, curiosity as to the future
was bo strong in men’s minds that
tho custom continued.
An' odd circumstance is that the
cathedral chapter at Orloans in 1148
appealed to a prognostic of this sort
in a supplication addressed by them
to Pope Alexander HI against their
bishop. At his consecration, when
the Gospel wns opened above his
head, tho finger of tho deacon rested
upon tho words, "And I10 left the
linen cloth and fled from them
naked." Thi3 was a token that the
bishop, Elias, was to he turned out
of his see.
The practice of observing the hook,
when opened over the head of a prel
ate at his consecration, was very
common. It was thought that a sure
augury could thence he drawn us to
what sort of a bishop I10 would
prove.—Chambers’ Journal.
WASHINGTON'S CLOTHES.
A Latter to HI* Tollor Glvm Homo of HU
Measurements.
The gentleman who brought for
ward the following communication
had not only the original letter in his
possession, but was also the owner of
the “measure," compos oil of stiff pa-
por carefuliy sewn together, and
with the marks written upon it in
the general’s handwriting. It was
sent to tho tailor through Washing
ton’s agent, presumably “Cary & Co.,
merchants." It is notable for the
Bame exactitude and precision ns the
more important matters which tho
general had connection with, nnd it
is incalculable ns giving the absoluto
condition of his physique in tlio year
of its date:
Vikginia, LMth April, 1703.—Mr. Lawrence;
Bo pleased to send me a gontcelo sut? of
clout hs, nmdo uf superfine brand cloth, hand
somely chosen. 1 should have Inclosed you my
measure, but In a general way they are so bad
ly taken hero that I am convinced it would be
of littlo Horvlce; 1 would have you, therefore,
take measure of a gout Ionian who woara well
mado cloathh of tho following sl/.o, to wit: Six
feet high and proportionately made; If any
thing, rather slender than thick lor a person
of that highth, with pretty long arms nnd
thighs. You will lako care to muko the
breeches longer than these you sunt mu last,
and I would have you keep tho measure of - tho
cluathu you now tiuvl.i by you, and If auy al
teration is required In my next it slmll be
pointed out. Mr. Cary will pay your bill. I
uuf, sir, your very obedient bumble servant.
Gicohuk Washington.
Note—For your further government and
knowledge of my td/.u l have sent the Inclosed,
and you must observe yt from ye coat end to
No. 1 and No. 3 Is ye size over yo breast autl ye
hips. No.‘J, over tho holly, and No. 4'round
yo arm and from yo breeches end. To No. a,
Is for walstbi^jd: b, thick of tho hip; c, upper
button hole; U, knee band; e, for length of
breeches.
Therefore, If you take measure of a porson
about 0 feet high of this bigness, I think you
can’t go amiss; you must tnku notice that tho
Inclosed hi tho exact BlKo, without any allow
ance for seams, &o.
Guo hob Washington.
To Mr. Charles Lawrence, Taylor, tu old
Fish street, London.
A WOMAN.
Ah. the is of our thought and tlraa.
And wo aro vaguely loath to traoa
Through nights of variant age nud cllm#
Her birthright to a servile raee.
Amid tho tumult of our days,
Thrlllod with tho fire of hope and dream.
She treads In fearless wise tho ways
That muu had sought and trod supreme.
With gladdened eyes sho fares, and nono
Shall chock her warm, uplifting soul
That suos afar some shining goal
Like tho new glory of a sun.
She fools tho exultant sense or life.
And battles in tho blood of strifo;
Where muu havo climbed, her hands shall
reach;
Whnt men havo taught, hor tonguo shall
teach;
Sexless in struggle, bold lu mind,
Forttlo in fresh expedient, strong
To hold her right against the wrong,
To seek wlmt others daro to find.
She stands uncowcd, unbowed, uubout,
TUo mistress of her high intent.
Yet she Is but a woman still,
Who weeps as only women weep,
Who loves ns only women will,
And reaps her joys ns women reap;
Whoso mystery. In its suered stir,
Is tho inviolnto part of her;
Whose clmrin Is not of man, but blown
Like tlio wild roses, all her own.
Sweetheart and (lower of fruitful years,
Time cannot clmugo hor smiles and tears.
Time cannot roh hor of the grace
Which burns like love light In her face.
-UeOrgo Edgar Montgomery lu Frank Leslie’s.
IVe All Km
The man who does n
of nights.
The man who ben is ri
starves a cow.
Tho man who wants to ai
thing.
The man who loves the
own sweet vice.
The man who boasts of his
travaganoe and vices.
The man who thjnks It smi
brusque to strangers.
The man who keeps his
Indies are standing.
The mnn who nt 40 thinks lie
some nnd charming.
The man whose alphabet alwi
gins nt tlio third vowel.
The mnn who would fetoh tl
brelln back in ten minutes.
The mnn who borrows books
pers and never returns them.
Tho man who intorrupts you 1
you are trying to talk to him.
Tlie mnn.who tells ono story
same man a dozen times.
and
Serving a Subpnona.
An amusing tittle incident once oc
curred to me wlien calling upon a
veterinary surgeon well known in
sthe northeast district of London. I
hod to serve him with a subpoena,
summoning him to give evidence as a
witness, and being reluctant to waste
perhaps a whole day or even more
upon the case, he refused to take it
unless more “conduct money" wero
added. Of course I received my in
structions, and . merely laying the
paper upon his person being "good
service,” round nnd round the table
in his front sitting room we went, I
endeavoring to place it upon him, bo
dodging backward to keep out of tho
way.
However, after a lengthy go-as-
you-please race on a track that was,
goodnefe only knows, how many
laps to tho mile, ho suddenly burst
out laughing at tho oddity of the sit
uation, and breathless with oxertion
accepted the subpoena.—London Tit-
Bits.
As Washington was thirty-ono in
1763, liis height, as ho states it, viz.,
six feot, is apparently at variance
with tho popular bolief that he wns
6 feet 2 inches; but it may ho that
3omo peculiarity, cither of liis length
of limb or his body, caused him to
toll his tailor to measure a gentlo-
man of only six feet, assured that by
some slight difference on liis part
from other men ho may have ex
actly the corrected difference. He
was so correct in all liis directions
that this seems the only elucidation
of the discrepancy.—Sartorial Art-
Journal. ,
a few years ago, nobody ever paid any
attention to fruit growing, and such
as .grew was merely that borne by
trees that had been grown from the
seed, or that had come up of their own
accord. Recently, however, a few en
terprising parties have procured from
the nurseries, young fruit trees, es
pecially peaches, and as a result, there
are some as fine young orchards in the
country as one could wish to see.
will sup-
The Savannah Negroes
port Col. Lester for Congress,
It is said that the new cotton which
came in Saturday brought only 6%
cents. This is nearly market price,
however, and the grade was perhaps a
Jittle below the standard. Every
thing now indicates a prosperous cot
ton season for Albany,
Wild Burses In Russia.
In tho steppes of Russia, where wolves
abound and tho horses lead a wild life
and havo to shift for themselves, it is
said that a young colt will sometimes be
made so furious by the persecutions of
his enemies that ho will lush wildly
among a drove of wolves and bite and
strike until he has slaughtered a large
number of them. These horses are ex
ceptionally fierce, rendered so, it is sup
posed, by the extreme variations in the
climate. At ono time of tho year they
suffer from the intense heat of a tropical
sun and at another they live among
raging snowstorms and extreme cold.—
Washington Star.
A Ready Reply.
Foote's ready reply to tho caution,
“Your handkerchief, sir, is hanging out
of your pocket,” wa3 of high merit, both
from the sprprise and for the cordial
way in which tho caution was accepted,
“Thank you, sir; you know the company
better than I do,”—Gentleman's Maga
zine.
First Cigar. In Prune.
It is curious that only 100 years
ago scarcely any European in the
countries north of Spain had smoked
a cigar. It first hocamo a fashion in
Hamburg, where tho first cigar shop
was opened by Schlottmon, in 1788.
It is a popular belief among the Ger
mans that cigar smoking was origi
nally introduced among them some
years later, when their fatherland
was Invaded by the soldiers of tho
French republic. According to the
inedited autobiography of the French
actor, Hippolyte Anger, the French
soldiers smoked no cigars until tho
second decade of our century, when
they acquired the habit in Spain.
"We traveled back to Paris through
Orleans,” said the actor. "Wo fre
quently met officers on the road who
were returning from the campaign
in Spain. They mostly had cigars in
their mouths- it was then a new
custom - ,'though it has now become
universal.” The restored king, Louis
XVHI, had sent an army of 100,000
men to invade Spain. If the cam
paign did no other good, observes
Hippolyte Anger, it “certainly had a
valuable financial effect, for it cre
ated a voluntary tax.”—ICleine Zei-
tung.
A Vonti-llmiulNt Alumni,
"Tlici'o was a very mini conductor on
tho onstbotmd train tho other night,"
said John D. Paterson, a Kansas City
inun. “Tho ear was Crowded, and 1
shared iny seat with a St. Louis drum
mer, who was bent on hivviug a good
tinio nt tlio oxponse of ills fellow pus-
sougers. As tlio conductor came along
a dog under our seut began to snarl
viciously. Tlio conductor looked hard
at tho drummer. 'No dogs allowed in
tlie coaclies; take him into tlio baggngo
car,' lie suld. 'Not my dog,' ropliod tlio
drummer, ns lie nuulo a vicious kick.
Tho cur wont howling under tho soats
tlio full length of tlio car. Tho passen
gers became interested. Tlio conductor,
porter and brnkeman mado search for
him, Ho continued to ran and howl.
Tho passengers joinod in tlio search, but
no dog could bo found, and tlio quest
was finally given up.
‘Just as tlio passengers had sottled
into a dozo tho dog sot up a heart
breaking, ear piercing howl. Tlio
soaroh was renewed, but without suo-
is. As wo pulled into Buuker Hill tlio
dog got under tho wheols, and his death
song was something appalling. Tho
conductor was ovorjoyed. Ho got off
and looked for fragments of the dog,
Tho drummer hnd alighted, and as the
conductor called all aboard, ho pnt
down his grips and filled that train from
engine to sleeper with dog fights. Ho
was a ventriloquist. The conduotor was
10 mod that ho forgot to toko up tickets
for forty miles.”—St. Loais Globe-Dem
ocrat.
The man that calls, cveryb
does not believe ns ho does a -
The man who thinks tho ,wprl
fail to move on when he la gone.
—The prodigal hail to oome t
self before he could cbino to his
Id
It Is said that another plot
Frick has been discovered nnd c
vented.
One Kind of Praise.
“Do you know bow ono profes
sional will express himself when ho
wants to say that another is a very
poor artist!” said “a actor” to the Man
About Town. “Say that a manager
was to come to me and ask me about
So-and-so's ability. He’s a rattling
good fellow, you know, and I
wouldn’t do him harm for the world,
but he’s a very hum actor. I'd say to
the manager, ‘He’s a fine fellow and
he's good to his mother.’ That would
fix him forever. Among our people
no slur or deprecating language is
half as expressive us that phrase,
‘He’s good to his mother.’ Only thing
that can bo said in his favor, don’t
you see, and a little bit like, ‘Yes,
but he’s a good hearted fellow,’ex
cept that usage has made it infinitely
more expressive.”—St. Louis Re
public.
—It mny be an ill wind I
nobody good, but It would take i
ing toranndo to blow some people
or make them good jn any otlie
—A woman with a rheumatlok
band has an advantage—alio
knows In advance when It is
storm nnd doesn’t endanger lie
bonnet.
s ourlou
heard
-Woman may bo more
men, hut we have never
woman who soiled either her
her gloves in trying to find wl
was dry or not on seeing tl
“Paint.” '
A Pirrmnit Hinchnrc I
Mr. W. 11. Hloks, driver in
ant engineer, of 1’liron
gino has been discharged b;
PnttiBon.
Mr. Hicks' servlaes at
wero unsatisfactory to .10
tison, so Ills plaoo lms be
Mr. 11. F. Man, who, from
fill tho position of driver i
engineer.
Doctored It* Own Toll.
A small hoy gave a lesson in natural
history the other day. He brought into
the office a species of lizard popularly
known ns the "swift." Holding the lit
tle reptile above his head ho let It fall
to tho floor, with tho result that a sec
tion of its tail was broken off. Noticing
that it was minus a part of its prehen
sile organ, tho swift, after discovering
tho pioce of tail lost, hacked slowly up
to it, and placing the stub against tho
piece, held it in contact for a few sec
onds, and then ran swiftly away with
his tail glued together, apparently os
sound as over.
The experiment was repeated several
times, with the Bame result. Swift gluo
could doubtless be used successfully in
stioklng dismembered limbs, fingers,
etc., together, and we throw out this
suggestion to local surgeons for what it
is worth.—Ontario Observer.
A Heller Cure.
From tlie llnnuwlck Time*.
“I tell you (hlo),” said ii
drunknrd ns bo dropped into I
nnd fell Into ail easy clinii- l:i
“the best (hlo) cure for dru
“ Wlmt is It?” I asked.
“Tho copper cure. Hit 1
gold euro all to h+*l. I was ]
other day (hlo) and given ten
$20, and It kept i ’
t kept mo sober it \
, There are a largo number
widowers in Albnny just id i
The waterworks reservoir ;
be finished, and will bo a
basin.
Ik the Court IIouso lawn
thoroughly mown, nnd the u
grass all pulled up, It n
ty spot, hut It needs
now.
Dlofc’i View of It.
“There was a time when I taught
my ebildren tho doctrine of bell,"
said a mother, “but I was led to
doubt tho wisdom of it. One day I
found my two sons, aged respective
ly ten and twelve, in a fierce hand
to hand combat. Tho younger, bad
ly whipped and livid with rage,
shrieked, ’Never mind, Tom, I’ll get
even with you some day—see if I
don’t.’ ‘Hush, hush,’ I cried after
administering a severe reproof to
Tom. ‘What an expression, Dick.
Get even with Tom; I’m ashamed of
you.’ When Dick’s wrath had some
what cooled, I said to him, ‘Never
let me hear you say such a thing
again. Is that showing Christ’s
spirit? Did he over say to any one
who had injured him, "I’ll get even
with you?"
“ ‘No!’ said Dick humbly. A mo
ment later his face lit up with a sud
den gleam of thought os ho added,
‘No, he never said he would, hut he’s
going to!”’—Kate Field’s Washing-;
ton.
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A Haw Element In a Mineral.
It is reported that a new element has
been recognized in a mineral found in
Egypt by Johnson Pasha in I860. This
mineral, first called “Johnsonite,” but
afterward masrite, consists mainly of
aluminium, manganese, cobalt and iron,
in combination with'snlpburic acid. It
dissolves in water and yields on treat
ment with sulphnrio hydrogen in an
acetio acid solution a, white precipitate,
from which a pure hydroxide was pre
pared.—New York Journal.
“Jess” 'VVai.teiis,
him, will wake up tl
ns the Cleveland Electi
brainy and brilliant,
the fur fly. He strll
from tho shoulder,
hitting below the belt, 1
stands before him will
on the first round,
fill the position with or
and to the satisfaction i
crats of this district.—Th
Tlines-Enterprlse.
She Ulil and She Didn't
When yon save a lady from being
killed in a runaway and eho sayB
"Thanks,” she really means, "Tho next
time you do anything of that sort please
don’t muss the lace on my dress,” If
she really felt any sense of gratitude
sho wonld exclaim, "Call around and
I’ll introduce you to my youngest sis
ter.”—Detroit Tribune.
It Did Seem Strange.
Excited Lady (on the beach)—Why isn’t
something done for that ship in distress?
Why don’t some of yon
Coast Guard (hurriedly)—We have
sent the crew a tine to come ashore,
mum.
Excited Lady—Good gracious! Were
they waiting for a formal invitation?—
New York Observer.
Rosa Dennis and Dave 1
groes who live down a
came to the city this morn
of Will Dennis and ag
arlne Colwell, who skip
Will Dennis is the lawful
Rosa Dennis,'and It seoms t
Catharine, between then
working for Barlow, f
Jars from him nnd elo
ills wants her husband 1
low would like to 1
lars. The officers 1
a lookout for the runav
of. I
Ninety-nine per cent, of the Alba
ny boys over five or six years of age
are expert swimmers.
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—People in this neck o’woods who
have not yet taken a vacation should
mark it down that September is usual
ly a hot and trying month.
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Duststorxiis on tho Atlantic.
Ships crossing the Atlantic in the lati
tude of the Cape Verde islands often en
counter duststorms of longer or shorter
duration. One of tho most remarkable
of these paradoxical storms swept down
on the German steamer Argentino in
the snmmor of 1889. It lasted for four
days, during which time the air was so
full of dust particles as to make high
noonday almost as dark as the darkest
midnight. When the ‘ ‘storm” was at its
height the sailors wero kept busy shov
eling the dust from the steamer’s decks.
The machinery was made to work with
great difficulty, and at one time the cap
tain, J. G. Scheon, had grave apprehen-
sionatbat they would be dashed upon
the Cape Verde reefs.—St. Louis Re
public.
Not His Fault.
A doctor was summoned to attend
the miller's little boy. Ho wrote out
a prescription, which was promptly
made up and administered in due
form. The next day he called again
to see his patient and found the
whole family in tears.
“Alas!” said the mother, “I
shouldn’t have thought that my
poor child would have died of the
measles.”
’ ‘What I" exclaimed the doctor, ‘ ‘he
had the measles and you never told
me?”—L’Observatour.
If the Earth Was Frozen.
If this globe were cooled down to 200
idegs. below the zero of centigrade it
would be covered with a sea of liquefied
gas thirty-five feet deep, of which about
seven feet-would be liquid oxygen.—
London Spectator.
Judge Wakefield, of Waco,* Tex.,
has a son of whom he is very proud.
He thinks the boy has a judicial
mind and will grow up to be a great
jurist The boy is, however, very
Lots of the boys
built themselves boats, an
on the river, where they
sailing nearly every day
pastime is to catch the
south, coil up to the cri
down with.the current.
Thebe is a good
being indulged in as I
will arrange the fire
the waterworks arc u
that the different con
separate neighborho
will De no trout
bership for each one, ns t
boys will bo glad to 1
company to proteot
immediate neighborb
Buildino goes steadily on in Alba
ny, winter and summer, and doesn’t
seem to have any Idea of holding up.
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The sun has been so hot lately, that
aotually it has drawn the paint off of
rorne of the 8, F. & TV. road’s coaches.
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A few days ago the judge said:
“Mydcarboy, why don’t you study
more industriously? I want you to
become a groat jurist. You havo
not touched your books to-day.”
•Tam not going to study any to
day,” responded the indolent youth.
“I don’t see that it makes much dif
ference, pa, whether I become a fa
mous jurist a few * ''
later.
Albany boys
for raising ch!
ago this was tl
almost died
it took fresl
juveniles
to the
agaii
eir
ohlokens
eggs an
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