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W MISTAKES OF^ NOVELISTS.
- Writer* of Thrilling I<ore Stories Often
Oat Mixed lUxThelr Details.
The' average render who skims
•over the last railroad Dovel is not
likely to notice the many faults in
<he flimsy construction of the plot.
But 1 ofteu smile at the maidens
•that wander in “lonely woods” at
•unearthly hours of night, always
-clad in "a soft, white, clinging
igowu.” Now every girl knows that
the average maiden is too much
afraid of trnmps and snakes to wan
der in. “lonely woods." And then
«he is not "pale, Imt unspeakably
lovely.” after such a trump. No; an
ordinary girl who spends half a
night in a “mossy” but damp couch
will wander home in the morning
full of mud and cockle burs, her
•bangs ns straight ns u cable on nn
•avenue car line and herself ns cross
••as a Seventh street policeman on
•Saturday evening.
Another odd thing is the way
it -some pen pushers get mixed in their
weather reports. Some begin a
chapter at dawn, there are a few
(moments' conversation, and,then the
“buu sets in lurid banks behind tho
•distant, empurpled mountains."
Thero is one novel, by The Duch-
•ess, l think, in which tho chapter
opens with “n thick, drizzling mist
•sifting down and enfolding the land
scape," and in a few moments the
hero is springing out of a window
into the "soft, mellow moonlight.”
Evidently tho weather possessed as
many phases as Marshall Wilder’s
'transformation tableaux.
There is one song—and it is a
sweet one. too—that furnishes a
brilliant example. In “Alice, Where
•Art Thou?" one verse speaks of the
"silver rain falling," while the first
■oneannounces that the “moonshines
(bright,” and that “its rays tinge tho
forest." These seem, on ordinaryoc-
•casions, slightly contradictory state
ments.
1 have often wondered how long
•some girls could go sans meals, Baps
bead, sans everything, for, judging
by some of the writers, neither the
•hero nor the heroine is subject to
any necessity of nature. Love is an
•excellent thing, a “pearl of great
price." But a man in a dirty collar
•and no breakfast in his stomach
•doesn’t feel like courting the girl
who looks as limp as the man who
bet bis last dollar on Sullivan and
went home to find his wife sick and
fhe grocer's boy sitting on the stoop
with a six months' bill.
The old fashioned novelist is played
out; the old fashioned hero has been
cremated, and the old fashioned her
oine sits in lonely solitude, forgot
ten by the busy throng. The wasp
waist, the lily flower that fainted at
every breath has passed slowly away.
May she rest in peucel And in her
place is the strong, healthy, rosy
cheeked, independent girl, who can
•drive her horse and check her trunks
with equal ease and fascinating grace.
Blood and bounding health speak
from every rounding curve, and
The dainty, simpering, lackadaisical
maiden of blushcH, tremors and sighs
dwells in innocuous desuetude, let
•us hope, forever.
There let her rest, by the side of
the hero with the "short sword and
•dark, gloomy eyes," who rode about
•on a borrowed horse and whose only
•object was to disturb the pence of the
commonwealth. Gone are the per
fect heroes, the faultless heroines,
•and in their place reign men and
women—flesh and blood—with the
passions that sink them to tho brute
and elevate them to tlio divinity.—
Washington Post.
Many Klml* of Monkeys.
The ordinary reader hardly real
izes how many varieties of monkeys
■exist. We hear of monkeys in the
Indies with reddish brown bodies,
black heads and faces of a sky blue.
There are monkeys with white eye
lids, and green monkeys to be found
on the African continent and Cape
de Verde islands. The howlers,
which inhabit South America, are
largo and fierce, and travelers de
scribe their yells as absolutely
appalling. So dreadful is tho sound
of their growlings and roarings that
•one would imagine that all tho beasts
•of the forests had gathered together
for a battle. These creatures are so
fierce that even the most skillful and
■adventurous trainer is unwilling to
teach them tricks. —Harper's Young
People.
Consecrating Church Dell*.
The custom of consecrating church
bells was once common to nearly all
•denominations, but it iB now con
fined principally to the Roman Cath
olics. Tho old form was to wash the
bell with holy water, anoint it with
oil and mark it with the sign of the
•cross, and to some extent this form
is still used. At the time of the Ref
ormation in England the prejudice
against Roman Catholic ceremonies
was so strong that instead of being
blessed new bells were occasionally
turned up and filled with punch,
which then was drunk by the par
ticipants in the occasion. -*New York
Sun. '
Both Were Nervou*.
At a duel the combatants dis
charged their pistols without effect,
whereupon one of the seconds inter
fered and proposed that the duelists
should Siake hands. To this the
other second objected os unnecessary.
•Then'hands," said he, “have been
shaking this half hour.”—Exchange.
Whittier** Ited Necktie..
The poet Whittier, strange as such
a defect appears in one who made
such effective use of color in his
poetry, was color blind. He was
able to describe with as much ac
curacy as beauty the tints of the
evening sky at sunsot, the hues of
cloud and forest upon the side of a
mountain, or tho changing purple,
blue and violet of the twilight sen.
His peculiarity of visiou betrayed
him into un error, although an error
not discoverable by his readors.
The Quaker poet shared in all re
spects tho quiet tastes of tho sect
into which ho was horn, and shared
them no less by temperament than by
breeding, being naturally one of tho
simplest, sedntest, most retiring and
lenst showy of men.
His friends were therefore natu
rally astonished when lie made his
appearance ono day with his usually
somber garb enlivened liy a flowing
necktie of a flaming scarlet hue.
They wondered for a time in silence;
thon a very old friend ventured to
inquire;
•Theo’s never worn a necktie like
that before, Greenleaf; does thee
think it is bocoming?"
A little surprised, Mr. Whittier ap
pealed to the company for their ver
dict, when, tho color of tho offending
decoration being mentioned, ho ex
pressed both amusement and dis
may and volunteered n promise to
discard it at onco and forever. He
had purchased it, he assurod them,
under the impression that it was of
a dull and decorous greon I
As in many other cases of persons
similarly afflicted, Mr. Whittier's
color blindness was only partial, and
was limited to an inability to distin
guish gi'oeu from its complimentary
color, red.—Youth’s Companion.
Using Horne* Without Shoe*.
For two years I liavo been using
in old mare, 17 years old, without
shoes. She had always been shod
before. And for the last ton mouths
I have used a 0-year-old horse of
rathor heavy build without shoes.
My hroughnfn is ten nnd a half hun
dredweight, and they draw it singly
in turns. I had them shod three
times with “Charlier” shoes. Each
time the shoe was made shorter, and
1 allowed the shoes to he worn until
they were thinner than a sixponce.
At the end of that time the middle
of the hoof had grown level with the
wall. Then the animal went with
out shoes altogether.
There was a little lameness once or
twice, which passed off with a day's
rest each time. I use the rasp about
once a month to remove the jagged
edges of the hoofs and to keep the
hoofs in shape. Tho wall of tho
hoofs becomes more thnn an inch in
thickness and wonderfully hard, and
not brittle as might have been
thought, though I U3e no means to
keep them soft.
My horses go quite as well as with
shoes, and are much safer when the
sots are greasy nnd slippery. They
are not os safe on ice as a sharpened
horse, but much safer than an un
sharpened horse.' If a horse is used
unshod before the middle of the hoof
is filled up, the wall breaks away in
large pieces up to the nail holes, and
he goes lame and must have rest un
til what the furrier has cut away
has been replaced by nature. ■ Noth
ing could induce me to go hack to
shoes, and any horse is able to do
without shoos if treated as above.—
Dr. Wharton in London Lancet.
Superstition* of Children.
As might he expected supersti
tious fancies take a peculiarly firm
hold of the minds of children. In
the pockets of plenty of scholars at
our public schools will ho found a
smooth white pebble, canted for
luck; around tlio necks of plenty
more will he found a red string tied
to keep off throat diseases, while a
largo proportion could not comfort
ably pass by a pin ora horseshoe
without picking it up lest ill luck
should ensue.
At a certain school, the yard to
which has no gate, hut instead an
open space divided by a row of three
posts, the gii'ls believe that whoever
passes between the middle post and
one of those next it will fail in her
lessons that day, and a girl whb has
unthinkingly done so will turn back
and enter a second time, going care
fully between an outer post and the
end of the fence. This superstition is
handed from class to class and bids
fair to flourish for many years as
part of tho information acquired at
the school.
No one knows how tho idoa start
ed; no one takes pains to obsorve if
it holds true; but what has either of
these matters to do with believing in
it?—Exchange.
THE TOAD AND ITS JEWEL.
Interesting Superstition. About n Very
Harmless Little Anlmnt.
Many remarkable legends nnd folklore
stories cluster around the natural his
tory of the common garden toad. All
early writers on tho characteristic hab
its of this harmless little creature make
it a point to never allndo to it without
interjecting a few cautionary notes on
its “extremely venomous bite," or the
awful effects of “inhaling the direful
creature’s breath." The facts in the case
are that it cannot bite at all, and if it
should it has no “venom" with which to
inject the wound. When irritated tho
toad may exhale an* offensive secretion
by moans of follicles on the neck and
other parts of the body, but to suppose
that this secretion is poisonous is the
height of folly.
Anothor toad belief—ono that was rife
U00 years ago—was that tho ugly litt'o
batrachian's head was set with a price
less jewel. Shakespeare nllndes to this
curious beliof where lie says:
“Sweet ore tho uses of adversity,
which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
wears yet a precious jewel hi its head."
Tho belief in the "toadstono" was not
only current in England -and the other
countries of Great Britain, but was
known to loarued men us ono of tho
popular fallacies of. all Europe. In
Hungary it was believed that tho toad
ate dust and drank dew us his only food
and drink. The action of tho do\y on
tho dust nnd tho dust on the dew was
supposed to cause a secretion to form in
the animal's stomach which was vomited
up each spring during molting time.
The Jaques de Maheti collection of
oddities at Rouen has a tray containing
A dozen or fifteen of these so called “toad-
stones.” But, us hinted uhove, the Brit
ish belief was that the "toadstone" wns
to be found only in tho head of the warty
little animal. Fenton, who lived and
wrote in the Sixteenth century, say».
“There is to bo found in the heads of old
and great toads a stone they call borax
or steton, which, being UBed as rings,
gives a forewarning of venom." •
Lupton, writing about tho year 1088,
says: "The crepandin or toadstone Ib very
valuable. Touching any partenvenomed
by the bite of a rat, wasp, spider or other
poisonous beast ceases the pain and
swelling thereof." During that uncer
tain period of time classed as the Mid
dle Ages people in general believed that
the toad had the power of charming its
prey, as well os men and larger crea
tures. In classical times it was thought
that no man could live whp had the mis
fortune to bo looked squarely in the eyes
by a toadl In some respects this latter
belief partakes of the nature of the In
gend of the basilisk,—St. Louis Repub
lic.
The India Bobber Worm.
The latest triumph of Yankee invent
ive genius is an India rubber flshworm.
it is said to be a remarkably good imita
tion of the common earth worm, is inde
structible And in actnal use proves as al
luring to the fishes os tho genuine arti
cle. The old fisherman will be qnick to
perceive tie advantages. One can equip
himself for a day’s sport without dig.
ging over a whole garden in his search
for bait. A handful of India rubber
worms will last him a whole season,
and there will be no necessity for pulling
up the line every few minutes to see if
tho Bmall try nibblersliavo left the hook
bare.
Possibly the greatest admirers of the
new bait will be the feminine fishers
who, however expert with the hook and
line, have never reached the point where
they can impale an angle worm without
a series of shudders. The only one who
will find it a drawback will bo the girl
whose chief delight in fishing come
from the excuse it gives for keeping
some young man at her side to handle
tho horrid worms. The invention of tin
rubber worm turns angling into nn exact
science, with no room for flirting ac
cessories.—Troy (N. Y.) Times.
PetrlOod-Forest. or Arlsona.
One of the greatest of natural' •
curiosities is “the petrified forest of
Arizona, which covers hundreds of
square miles. Unless you are more
hardened to wondorful sights than
the writer you will almost fancy
yourself in some enchanted spot.
You seem to stand on tho glasB of a
gigantic kaleidoscope, over whoso
sparkling surface tho sun breuks in
infinite rainbows.
You ore ankle deep in such chips
as never come from any other wood
pits, ehips from trees that uro red
tnoss agate, and amethyst, uud smoky
toi>s, and agnte of overy hue. Such
are tho marvelous splinters that
cover tho ground for miles here,
around tho httgo prostrate trunks—
some of them fivo feet through—
from which time’s patent ax has
hewn them.
I broke a specimen from the henrt
of a tree thero throe years ago, which
had around the stone pith a remarka
ble array of large and exquisite crys
tals. On ono side of tho specimen—
which is not so largo as tny hand—is
a beautiful mass of crystals of pur
ple amethyst, and on tho other an
equally beuutiful array of smoky
topaz.
One can get also mngnificout cross
sections of a whole trunk, so thin os
to be portable nnd showing evory
vein and oven tho bark. Thero is
not a chip in all those tnilos which is
not worthy u place, just as it is, in tho
proudest cabinet, nnd when polished
I know no other rock so splondid.
This petrified agate is one of tho
hardest stones in tho world, nnd
takes and keeps nn incomparable
polish.—Pearson’s Weekly.
TELEGRAPH LINES IN THE TROPICS.
What Love I*.
I cannot tell you what love is. I
used to believe it the power that
made the world go round—an ema
nation from heaven—a portion of
that bright essence increate, infused
into the human heart; but, after
watching its vagaries for half a cen
tury, I am inclined to believe it a
disease of the blood, the mad work
of some yet undiscovered microbe,
which therapeutics may yet provide
a panacea for.—Exchange.
Bo*toii** Climate.
Traveler—Boston is so far north
that I presume you do not have very
hot weather there.
Honest Bostonian—Um—er—only
in summer.—New York Weekly.
£1*»1 Gras*.
Sisal grass is likely to prove a very
important source of wealth for Mexico.
It grows in long, narrow blades, often
to tho length of four or five feet, and
these, when dry, curl up from side to
sido, forming a flexible string stronger
than any cotton cord of the same size
ever manufactured. It is in great de
mand among florists nnd among mnnu
facturers of various kinds of grass goods,
and it is said to be capable of being up-
plied to many new uses. Ropes, cords,
lincR of any description and size, may
be manufactured of it, and a ship’s
cable of sisal grass is one of the possi
bilities of the future. It is almost im
pervious to tlio action of salt water, and
is not readily decayed or disintegrated
by moisture and heat, it takes its name
from the port of Sisal, in Yucatan
through which it was formerly exported,
—Board of Trade Journal.
Traveling Stone* In Nevada. •
The curious “traveling stones” of
Australia are paralleled in Nevada.
They are described as being perfectly
round, about as large as a walnut and
of an ivory nature. When distributed
about on the floor, table, or any smooth
surface within two or three feet of each
other they immediately commence trav
eling toward each other and meet at a
common center, and there lie huddled in
a bunch like eggs in a nest. A single
stone removed to a distance of four feet,
upon being released returns to the. heap,
but if takeu away as much as fivo feej
remains motionless. It is needless to
say that they are largely composed of
magnetic iron ore.—Grass Valley Union.
Malteve Wit.
The poorer Maltese have a ready wit.
An English officer, failing to make n
Maltese understand what he meant,
called the poor man “a fool." Under-
standing this much the man, who had
traveled abfent a good deal, though he
did not nnderstand English, replied by
asking, “Do you speak Maltese?" “No/
“Do you speak Arabic?” “No.” “Do,
you speak Greek?” _ “No.” “Do you
spekk Italian?” “flfo.” “Then if I bn
one fool yot be four fools.”—London
Natits
The Groat Rtrengtli of it Beetle.
Mr. Gooso in his “World of Won
ders” relates a retnarkablo story of
tho strength of the beetle, nnd gives
some ingenious comparisons. A
three horned beetle was brought to
him, and having no box immediately
at hand he was at a loss whore to put
tho specimen until ho could find time
to kill nnd preserve it:
At last a happy thought struck
mo. Thero wns a quart bottle of
milk standing on the table, the bot
tom of the bottle having a hollow in
it large enough to cover my prize.
I set the bottle over the creature and
returned to my work.
Presently, to my great surprise,
the bottle began to move slowly, and
then gradually Bottled down 'to a
smooth gliding motion across the
table.
It was being propelled by tho mus
cular power of tho imprisoned insect.
The weight of the bottle and its cou
tents could not haye been less than
8 1-8 pounds, while the weight of the
beetle was not near!a half ounco.
Thus I was watching the strange
sight of a creature moving 112 times
its own weight under the most dis
advantageous circumstances.
A better idea than figures can con
vey of this feat may he obtained by
supposing a lad of twelve years to be
imprisoned under the great bell of
St. Paul’s cathedral, London. The
bell weighs six tons. If a boy of tho
age mentioned could push within and
•cause the bell to glide along the pave
meut his strength would not be equal
in proportion to that of the beetle
under the bottle.
They Am Interfered with by Monkeys,
Spider*, riant* and Other Thing*.
The business of telegraphing has
its difficulties and is prolific of exas
perations in this towu and country,
with dead wires and live wires,
crosses and tangles, cyclones and
blizzards, and aurorus nnd “bugs."
Telegraphic communication any
where is subject to interruption from
a hundred mid one causes, and few
people who kick about the servico
are aware of tho difficulties to be
overcome in maintaining a perfect
electrical circuit. But in the tropics
the maintenance of a* telegraph lino
in good working order is n constant
u]> hill fight nguinstnll manner of in
terrupting enemies that linemen and
operators in this latitude uover
dreiun of.
In Brazil the wires get tangled up
with the eableliko web of an im
mense spider, which, dripping with
dew or rain, makes cross connections,
short circuits and 1 grounds almost
dnily. Ants often destroy tho polos
in a few weeks. Monkoys swing on
tho wires nnd break them, and in the
forests creepors and ropelike withes
overgrow the poles and wires every
few weeks. All this Ib more or loss
true of all Central and South Amer
ica.
In Cuba thero is an orchid that in-
crusts tho wire nnd causes leakage.
Iu tlio West Indian islunds tho joint
crows, or turkey buzznrds, make life
miserable for tho telegraph and tele
phono jtooplo. These big, heuvy birds,
the scavengers, are ui;ound in great
uumlters. They roost on the wiroB
or fly up against them nud invuriu
bly break them short off.
In one largo towu the telephone
lines that ran by tlio public market
had to be put underground because
tlio buzzards congregated there ii
great nun bora, rested on tho wires
nnd broke them almost nightly. On
the pampus of Argentina the herds
tf practically wild cattle rub and butt
against the poles and frequently
break them down.
For some years it was altogether
impossible to maintain a line of telo-
gruph through Persia for more than
a few days at a time. The natives
regularly destroyed it us a device of
the evil one. Finally tho shah issued
an edict making the Iobs of an ear
the penalty for a first offense of de
stroying the telegraph line; the loss
of n hand for the second, and doatb
by being buried to the nock in the
sand beside tho telegraph line tho
penalty ' for a tliigd offense. One
oared men were common in Persia
for several years, for the shah was
determined to introduce civilizing in
fluences.—New York Bun.
ABRANUIiMKNTN ill AIM
M’KCIAI, NKBVlC’li
All Hi. <’.nsr.aall.il. of ih<i
ttnllo iu Mrrrle.ii I. u. Hold I
'j 111. M.thodlpit Church— Haw
alullan. Adopted.
HI. Nuine a UoiiN.liold Word.
“Years and years ago," said the
loquuciouB traveling man ns ho rested
his feet on ono of tho best chairs in
tlio lobby, “there came to this coun
try a man who had not a dollar hi
his pocket. Today his name is hoard
in every hamlet in the country, qnd
it is familiar to every schoolboy and
girl in tho United States. Tho queer
thing about it is that lie novor did
anything of a seiisutional character.”
“It must have been Carnegie,” suid
tlio shoe drummer.
“No; it was Jay Gould.” said the
Clothing salesman.
“You’re both wrong. It was Chris
topher Columbus,’’ said another.
"You are all wrong." said tlio first
speaker.
“Well, then, who was it?" asked
the clothing salesman.
“Joliu Smith."—St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
People Don't Like Ocean Itucer*.
The fast trips of tho ocean steum-
II aw Vulturu. Wot. Pooled.
Some sports took place at a station
in upper Burmoh, one of the events
being wbat is popularly known as a
“Victoria Cross race;" that Is, the
competitors have to ride some dis
tance, taking two or three hurdles
on their way, to a point where there
ore arranged a number of figures in
stuffed cases, shaped like human
bodies; they then dismount, fire a
round of blank cartridge, pick up a
dummy each, and race back. In
this ouso. after the sports were over
tho dummies wore left on tho
ground, uml hi about half an hour
after the ground was deserted 1 no
ticed u vulture settle on tho ground
close to the dummies; in about an
other five minutes, more than thirty
hud collected.
Tho birds seemed much puzzled ns
they carefully inspected each lay
figure, walking from olio to tho next
nil along the lino, mid eventually
after Bitting in a circle for u "short
time, ilew away. Tbesu birds must
have discovered the dummies by
sight, though I have often heard
that vultures rely on their sense of
smell os well. —Cor, London Specta
tor.
Oil<lltl«* About Memory.
Tlio memory remains intact nnd in
perfect working order in cases whore
tho loft side of the brain is badly dis
eased, from which it may be inferred
that tho right sido of the brain is
the seut of this remarkable faculty.
From tlio physiologist’s point of view
tho power of memory is badly dimin
ished by too much food, by an excess
of physical exercise and by educa-
1*1-0m Untidily*. Evening Humid.
The congregations or the Alb
ohitrclicH have made arrangements f
a spcclul Thanksgiving service.
Tile committees on arranges
from the different churches met j
terday afternoon at 4 o’clock
Baptist, church. Following is a fu
report of tin* meeting and the rcsolu
lions adopted:
Tlio Committee appointed by
several congregations in the oil;
make suitable arrangements for t
observance of Thanksgiving day me
nttliu Baptist church and after co
saltation beg leave to report tin*
lowing;
That, as members of the clvtlizatl
of the present day, we cannot but f
grateful to the Lord of Lords, who, I
tlio pleutitude of Ilfs mercy, sent ]
son, co-equal with niinfself, to rede
the peoples of tills earth from
hands of darkness, of barbarism an
heathen vice. We are thankful that
human mind, under the divine
ence of our Qod, is shaping the en
nud life of man into ways of pie
ness nnd peace; nnd to-dny our 1
well out in their very fullness
lovo and gratitude; for Hint tile oil
of discord which hung over u
Iron bonds of oppressive-login
nnd the direful sway of soitlless <
atlons, nnd grasping monopoliats.li
vanished like the mists of the mo
and our whole land, from the 1
to tile West, from the frozen No
the uttermost parts of the Sunny t
dispeoples of which linve, wltl
nccord, stretched forth their'
across tin* chasm which dlvl ‘
and clasped each tile other
grasp of brotherhood nnd love. 1
rare it is meet and becoming
that, witli one acoord, we should
In the house of our God nnd r
thanks to Him, without whom
neither live nor move, or have ou
ing. Then be It'
Resolved, That tills Christian
mumty assemble next Tliur
Ing, Nov. 24th, at 7 p. m., and t
several choirs of the several
be requested til Join togethe
glad chorus—in songs Hint
sing—In rendering praise urn
the Lord of Hosts for His u
gracious blessings. Be it I
Reached, Thai W. T.
pointed a committee of one t
several oholrs, and arrange the
service. Re It further
Resolved, That 0. H. Cnmfh'h
Weston,]). F, Manning,
Sam Weldon, Charles 1
nnd R. Hobbs are nppolnh
mlttee to confer with Clio sc
tors of the several elihrche
range n programme, and i
ers for the evening nnd o
Hint tlio press of the city lie
to publish tne proceeding
meeting. C. If. Oa
W. T. Cox, Seo’ty. Ch
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toll’s Porous Plasters. Sold b
Lamar & Sons.
ers across the Atlantic are working a tion \ If this if)truei tbe illiterate has
curious reaction. People used to take j a mR than the educated
the voyage long ago for the tome ef- j man of tha ri 4 lt haB also ^
fects of the sea air, the long rest it oved tbat ‘ tho memory ^ better in
nfVL , ie n,LmfA ^L^ n n°^,fe en AH ! ** ®Oming than in zoning, in
of the complete change or life. AU ( summer than in winter, and much
this is done away with on the “six
day boats. ” The trip is so short that
the passengers barely get used to the
wave motion or cured of its first up-
heavings when the dock is sighted*
on the other side. Then the great
crowd on board, the rush for meals
and continued excitement use up
many of the other beneficial advan
tages. Long trip voyages have there
fore become fashionable.—Baltimore
Sun.
Nothing New to Lesru.
Mrs. Bingo—You ought to have
heard the sermon this morning. It
was about vanity in woman’s dress.
Bingo (musingly)—I don’t think,
my deur, that the minister couldgitfe
mo any information on that subject.
—Detroit Free Press.
better iu warm than in cold coun
tries.—Chicago Tribune.
A Rare Thing.
A witty individual one morning
wagered tjiat he would ask the same
question of fifty different persons and
receive tho same answer from each.
The wit went to first one and then to
another until he had reached the
number of fifty. And this is how he
won tho l et. He whispered, half
audibly, to each:
“I say. have you heard that Smith
has failed ?"-
“What Smith?" queried the whole
fifty, one after another, and it was
decided that the bet had been fairly
won.—London Tit-Bits.
Her Vocation.
She—I wish I could sketch like
you. Tho only thing I can draw is'a
house. /
He—You ought to go on the stage.
—Kate Field’s Washington.
Minute Parasite*.
It would take three and one-fourth
thousands (3,250) of the little vege
table parasites which grow on the
human hail* to cover the white center
of a nonpareil “o."—SL Louis Re
public. r
MAY 60 UNDER.
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Sjifiohil to the Hkuai.U.
Macon, Nov. 11.—A credit
was tiled in the Superior Gout*
alleging the insolrency~of
Telegraph and praying for I
pointment of n receiver.
Judge A. I*. Miller issued a
appointing E. C. Maclien, pr
the Telegraph Oorajiany,
Coates, general manager, ten
receivers, and fixed the 19th
November as the day for the
ants to show cause whyja
receiver should not bo appo
BY TELEGRAPH,
WHAT'
Ot'B I.COISI.ATIII
DOING.
G.H.ral B.gl.tmllaM 1
Other Telegraphic In
Imermt.
Special I,.the IIBRAMI.
Atlanta, Nov. 12.—Mr.
Chatham, introduced a
House this morning-
registration laws (
make them conform
the State law.
The general i
State came up
morning, but
was defeated. i.