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CIVIL fIOVKiNMB.VT
. Hl]trh ; n « Fndge Snp. Court
' Llerk »U|). Court,
p Oosby, Jsberiff
‘ Brown, Treasurer.
( 'Andrews Tux Receiver.
Vtruer, Tax Collectorr
V jiaffett, Surveyor.
[l Wilton, Coroner.
OOCNTY COMMISSION*!!*.
a V r C e Chairman and Clerk, N.
j k Cloud, J. R Hop Kins, An-
„ ljU <D or EDUCATION.
L W nn School Commissioner J.
r;" ,|. Patillo,. j. Webb,
justices.
Lft.ille, 4u7th diet—W. C
[j [> M. L, Adair, N.E, Ist Fri-
L irt 405 .list—-T, W. Andrews
[Charles M, Kinney, N. F 3rC
5.316 dial—W. I).,Simms
j (j Hawthorn. N. P. 3rd Sat-
L. k !29')dist—W. J. Baggett
n |. McKlvuney, N. P. 7*l Bat-
L 406th diet—J- M, Arnold. J,
|\ V Na-h, X. I’,'2nd Saturday.
L’s s62nd dist— A. Adams, J. T
L S P., 3rd Saturday
Lb 1263 dial.-W.E. Brewer,.)
Lon Huberts, X P., Thnrsday be
ll Saturday. • .
thin’s47B dist— G. L. Rnight
I j. W. Hamilton, N. P.
Lybefore Ist Saturday.
[ Mo intain, 444 dist —A. L
lons, J P, W- L- Andrews,
I 4th Saturday.
[in's, 544 dist—Asa Wright,
[.J U. Nowell, N. P. 4tn
(lay.
[rress 406-W. R. Simpson,
LA. Martin, N. P. Friday
[3rd Saturday.
k Bridge, 671 dist—A. J.
L J. P„ E. J. Mason, N. P.
Iturday.
fenee, 404th dist—T. N.
|J. P., A G. Harris, N P.
■turdiiv.
|rd, 550th dis—T. C. Bur
[p.; J. JI. Posey, N- P. Fri-
Ifore 3rd Saturday.
I MUNICIPAL,.
IC.Smith, Mayor.
| COUNCIL. ,
lloor-, E D Herrin S A Townley
lets
■aland dkfarti'RHOF train
Is from Suwannee, 5 50p. in
■ tor Suwannee, 7 a- in.
Li, and departure of mail*.
kson — Arrives 12 m, depart*
■unday and Tharsd ,iy.
les Store.—Departs 6am ar
tui, Monday and Thursday.
■tills.—Arrives 10 a m, de
ft m.—Daily.
It River.— Arrives 12 m., de-
It m,,\Veiriesday and Saturday
w. ii. harvey, p. m
I CHURCHES
Ist-■ Rev .1 L R Barrett, pastor
livery Sunday
ftnisT—Rev M D Turner Pastor
100 the Ist aud 2nd Sundays.
|l School.— a T Pattillo, Supt
■anday at 3 p m
literian -Rt-v J F McClelland,
services on 2nd and 4th Snodavg
■Booth.
Is School.—T R Powell. Supt.
■anday at 9.3 ) a in*
I FRATERNAL.
Pkcevillb Masonic Lodge.— R
ft-W M., 8 A Hagood, S W„
f J tV. Meets on Tuesday
ftwbefoie full moon in each
Iknon Chapter, No 39, R A
H P, A T Pattillo,
Finlay nigh' before the
Pyiu each month.
P Wt Superior Cuurt.—N. L.
Convenes on the Ist
l ln 'larch and September.
liter, 10.
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TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprietor
VOL XIV.
editorial brevities.
Judge Go.ige J Buffett, of
Macon, is Lead.
There have hecu jail escapes iD
both Quitman aud Dougiassville,
Ga.
The Exposition is $360,000 in
debt and asks Congress for half
a million.
The Floridians are gieatly dis
tut bed about the' low price of
oranges.
Some poisons entered the Stone
Mountain granite work and de
faced SI,OOO worth of work.
Farming operations are consid
erably retarded in Baker county
by the protracted cold weather.
“Never judge a man bv his
sal iry.” This is a safe rule. Nine
times ou/ of len he will lie about
it.
Butts county Las deeded to
have whisky a while longer. The
e/eetiou resulted in giving whisky
150 majority.
The farmers of Quiunan county
are busy hauling guano lt is
thought they will use fully as
much as last year.
A new cave has been discovered
in Mercer county, Ivy., which lias
been explored for three miles
without tLe end being leached.
The murderer of Robt. Purtain,
of Hart county, hus been con
victed in a Texas court and seu
t need to sixty years in die peni
ten liaryj
Tests made in the mineral ranges
of tne Cobutta mountains of
Georgia confirms the previous re
porn of /he existence there of
large gold deposits.
Couyerh has three full-fledged
Lula Hursts. They profess to
duplicate anything Miss Lula
does, and can satisfactorily ex
plain the phenomena.
When Stonewall Jackson’s war
horse “Old Sorrel, passed through
Knoxville the other day, old men
who had seen the animal in battle
fell upon its neck and wept like
children.
Tiie Washington hotel keepers
are said to be earnestly in favor
of an extra session of Congress.
Without an extra session the
hotel business will proDably be
pretty dull iu Washington next
summer.
A bill against the manufacture
and sale of dynatni e, and other
explosives of like cliarae-ar, Las
been introduced iu the New Yoik
Legislature, The Connecticut
Senate has such a bill unuer con
sideration.
The la'o Senator Ben Hill has
two surviving brothers. Mr.
LaFayette Hill is a wealthy farmer
of middle Texas, while the Rev.
Allen //ill is a lawyer and a Bap
tist minister living in Northern
Arkansas.,
The North Carolina Legislature
is considering - a bill to prohibit
the sale or gift of cigarettes to
boys under ten years ot age The
increasing us 9 of cigarettes by
mere infants is general over the
country, and such a law might be
profitably passed in every Sta.e.
With the undoubted spread of
education the American public is
every day becoming more and
more n reading public, and pro
portionately the demand for writ
ten thought in small compass on
political, historical or literary sub
jects by close thinkers and men
ot letters is steadily increasing.
There are hut three statues
raised to Women in this country,
and it is a little remarkable that
all have been raised within the
pas ear. One it Harriet Mar
tiueau, another to Margaret llaugh
ertv, a succe sful New Orleans
baker, anil tlie third to Mrs.
Julia A. Tevis, a Kentucky teacher.
The Washing on monument has
had stiange visitois since i's erec
tion A gaunt and hungry cat
climbed to the top; live ru s have
made the uscont to get the
crumbs fro n the workingmen s
lunchet,; wasps build their nests
and pige ms ro st at night 4J4
feet above the habitation of man-
The Warder.
The eyes of tuy love are dark, com
rode,
As blackest tales of dole;
Put they flamed with a light too joy
ous and blight
For the quiet of my soul.
The voice of iny love is sweet, com
rade,
As dream wrought symphonies:
But the silvery tones hurled do n
from their tliroues
All mind s life-laid harmonies.
The touch of my love is soft, com
rade,
Not rose-lnd effing start;
But her touch on my arm gave great
est alarm
To the sentries of my heart.
The town’s warder was a sad traitor;
He let the drawbridge full :
Aud the enemy’s host, with clamor
and boast.
Sealed the gate and ramparts
tall.
Her spell o’er iny heart was quick
victor.
Her voice subdued my mind,
And her eyes my soul keep iu a dun
geon-oell.deep,
With inflexible fetters twined.
The maid of my heart is now warder;
For aye is the ~orteullis down.
Aud the drawbridge on high; all foes
we defy
To assault the'happy town.
A TERRIFIC ICNCOUN*
TE R
“My (.Icar, said Mrs. Spoopen
dyke, glancing nervously out of
the window and then timidly at
her husband, “my dear, I wonder
how i hat goat got into our yard?’’
“What goat*’’ aske 1 Mr. Spoo[>
endyke, looking up from his break
fast.
“Why, the goat that’s out
there.’’
“Oh!” groaned Mr. Spoopsn-
Jyke, approaching the window
‘You mean that one, do you?
i’he principles that generally reg
ulate your conversation betrayed
me into thinking that your mind
might be fixed on some ocber
goat. As for him, I suppose h<?
broke through the fence Jrom the
back lot—or," continued Mr.
Spoopendyke, hastily, correcting
himself, “perhaps he came to
call on you. Better ask him in."
“I’m afraid of him,” peeped
Mrs. Spoopendyke, drawing closer
to her husband. “ IFhat do you
think wa had b tter do ? If he
stays out there he'd eat up every
thing.'’
“I believe I’ll go and drive him
out,” said Mr. Spoopendyke, eye
ing the brute with no particular
amount of favor. “You come
along to head him off, and you’ll
see a goat begin to wish he had
been born a girl that some might
learn to love him.” And with tht ß
prognostication Mr. Spoopeudy ke
sallied forth, followed by his
wife.
•‘Be careful/’ she whiskered.
“When goats gei angry they bu/t,
and that hurts."
“Shoo!” commenced Mr. Spoop
endyke, waving his hands and fol
lowing the goat to a hole in the
fence, where a couple of boards
hid been knocked ou/. “Shoo
there nowl Ski! Hold on! Head
him, can’t ye! Turn him! Whoop!"
he roared, as /he goat whirled sud
denly and dashed to the other end
of the yard. -'‘Wirat’d ye ccme
out here for?” he demanded of
his wife who had made a littla bet
ter time than the go it, and hud
reached the top of a step Sad
der.
“Don’t let him come up here!’
she squealed, stamping her feet
on the top s'ep, and trying to
climb up the side of the house.
•‘Hold on to him and call a police
man.”
“Great scheme.” growled Mr.
Spoopendyke, looking around for
a stick. “But I haven’t made up
my mind whether to call the po
licemau, or do the holding on
first- What’re ye making stucco
work of yourself up theiefur?
Cume down, and get bthiud that
goa', will ye, while I teach him the
ways and admonition of Spoopen
dyke. If you ain’t mighty care
ful he’ll rub up agaiusi tnat step
ladder, and you’re liable to come
down in sections.”
This prophesy brought Mis.
Spoopendyke to the ground with
out much delay
“Say, dear,” suggested, “sup
pose you should go to the otbei
side of the hole, and call him
Don’t you think he’d come? ’
“Come in a minute, if he hap
pened to nit Ins right name.” re.
(41 I, OW N SECTION-WE LAHOU FOR ITS AI)V\Nc •F, M HINT
LaWRENCEVILLE, o'A. FEBRUARY 24 18 6.
totted Mr. Spoopeudyke, who lmd
found a stick and was preparing
L-r war. “iVow, you edge around
behind him, so as to give him a
starter, aud I’ll put myself in com
muuicatiou with him as ns
be, gets under way. ’
(io along, dear. Run through
■ tiat p.dty little, holepu the fence,
bke a good goat,’’ fa tered Mrs.
>ponpendvke. apostrophizing the
unit); a: in a purely feminine sash -
ion “Shoe, dear, now, and be real
nice.”
The goat looked at he,, there
bv freezing her blood, aud start
ed slowly so; the bottom of the
yard.
4 cs, love! rapped Mr. Bpoopeu
dyke, bringing uis stick down oo
the back of the 1 east with a vtn
dictive grin. “There’s a nice lii
'lo opening lor goats that’s await
ing for thee!’’ and down came the
s ick once more.
‘Who e-e-e!’’ squeal d Mfs
Spoopendyke, ns the goa- whirled
ike a turn-table, and face’ all tho
points of the compass atone* “Hu
must be looking for the p’ace to
get out isn’t he? What do you
suppose makes him act th t way f
Whe -e-e-e!
The list yell was extract rd by
a sudden straightening up )f the
goat, who tore around (he yan,
like a cat in a fit.
“Witn that Headway he 11 Leapt
io go through the 1 ole in the
fence if he ever hits it.” observed
Mr. Spoopendyke, who had joined
his wife in the middle of the circuit
rather precipi/ously. “I tbiuk
I must have stiuck him a little
harder ihan he meant to ba.e me
Now you get him again an 1 we'l
fix him so that the next ii.no he
sees a Lola m our feac e Lc’ll get
a hammer aud board up /no temp
tation”
Mrs. Spoopendyke eele I along
the fence and took her station
wi ll considerable pertu. batiuu,
the goat came down on a /rot, and
finally stopped and looke i a trifle
bewildered. Mr. Spoopenuyke
grasped bis stick with firmer grip
figuratively speaking, waited for
his wife to deliver the ball.
“Now star/ him,” said she.
Mrs. Spoopendyke waved her
apron aud the goa/aiming straight
at the hole in the fenco b re down
upon it with three hundred got!
power. Mr. Spoopeudyke aimed
a lick at him, missed bin, and
went tumultuously through the
hole as Hie goa/ struck iLe fence
and bounded oack.
“Great Gracious !” ej .culated
Mr. Spoopeudyke, swarm.ug up
the step ladder and squatting at
the cop “Are you bur/ dear ?”
//nrt howled Mr. Spoopeudyke,
peeping through the hole and con
temp'ating his wife with a savage
glare. Think I’m a nail to come
through a board fence and be
clinched without feeling it ?
Ctn’t you scare that goat awaj
from this ole so I can come
back and commune with him once
more ? Come down off that dod
gasteti ladder can't ye? Got a
notion that measly goat is coming
up here to be scared? Come
down and throw brick at him will
ye ?”
“I haven’/ got a brick," mur
mured Mrs. Spoopendyke, as
she scuttled down the ladder
“but Ili get a liat-iron,” and hat
ing provided herself with a weap
on the use of which she under
stood, she sallied for/h to effect
an exchange of situation between
the goat, and her husoand.
“Now go long/’she exclaimed,
sternly, holding cut her war ma
terial at arm’s length. “Ain’t you
ashamed of yourself, you nasty
coat! O-w-w-w —I Look out,
dear!”
But Mr. Spoopendyke, constant
to bis want of faith in his wife’o
suggestions, incautiously looked
.11, and he and the poa/ rolled over
eacii other in the vacant lot.
“Did the whole business work
in accordance with the schedule?
he yelled as he picked 'himself up
and shied the remnaut of his slick
at the Hying foe. “Did the whole
measly goat get through,or is tlier,
mote to follow? Da n’t omit a
stanza in this refreshing season
of worship! Let’s have the whole
hymn!” and Mr. Spoopendyke pre
senting himself at the opening in
tho Lace, with mud streaked face
hud mitered habiliments.
‘h ne in, dear,” said Mrs.
•ipoupeadjke soothingly. “Come
in, lto.v He's gone,’’
”1 snow he's gone!" howled Mr.
opoopctulyke, crawling through
the hole. “I saw him when be
went! Oh, you s‘acted him!
When he saw that vigorous mind
of yours hacked up by a dod-gast
ed fi t iron. alFhecould downs
to g- ! At other ,itue you see me
tiring a goit out ol a yard you
let things alone, will yet ’ and Mr.
Spoopeudyke bobb'ed into the
house us change his clothes.
"I don't care,’’ murmured Mis.
"poopeudyke, dragging a burrel
ag inst the hole us protection
against further incur ions, “i
on’t care: Ihe way he was chop
pi“g at that goat with las stick,
ho wouldn’t have had him out iu
it mo th. You want to treat a
goal ike a crease, aud iron it out
or,” Hhe continued, referring t)
s .iiiii prtviou experience, “if you
want to make sure of having it go
out, you might hire it as a servant
girl.”
And with these luminous retiec
t o .s, Mrs. Spoopeudyke tors her
skirt on a nail iu the barrel aud
joined her husband with a bun
dled consolatory caresses.
WISE WORDS
Good luck must come to /hose
who nobly earn.
It is not the clock with tho loud
est tick that "oes the boss.
The beßl backing a young man
can have is a good backbone of his
own.
Fine sense ami exalted . sense
are not half so valuable as common
sense.
A tart temper, like other acids,
is apt to sour whatever it comes in.
coatacl wiib.
Fretting does a great deal of
mischief and never yet accomplish
ed t ny/hing good.
Furi v, sincerity, obedience and
se f surrender are tbe marble s/eps
tl) it lead to the spiritual temples.
Instead of complaining of the
thorns among the roses, we should
be thankful there aru roses among
the thorns.
The hast comforts iu affliction,
are those like Job’s friends who
sar with him three days aud ’spake
never a word.
He who refuses to do jus ice to
the defenseless will always be
found making unreasonable con
cessions to the powerful.
R r i.en life has been well spent,
ago is a loss of what i: can well
sp.ae. But the central wisdom,
which was old in infancy, is young
in four score yeais. and dropping
off obstructions, leaves in happy
subjects the mind purified and
wi e.
Happiness depends not so
■ much on means and opportunities
! as on the capacity of using them.
And this depends so much on ex
perience and self-control that 'he
prob ibility of happiness in old age
j is as great, to say the least, as it,
1 youth.
l.ivu f«>r SoiiM-tliiHg.
l’iiousauds of mer. Lreailie,
move and live—pass off the stage
j of life and are heard of no more,
Why? They did not a particle of
good in the world: and none were
blessed by them, none ccu.d point
to them as the instruments of
their redemption; not a line they
wro e, not a word they spoke
could be recalled, and so they
perished, their lig’ti went out in
darkness, and they were not re
membered more than the insects
of yesterday. Will you thus live
and d'e, O man immortal?—Live
for som«thing. Do good and
leave behind you a monument of
vir ue that the storm of time can
never'destroy. Write your rame
by kindness, love an! tnorcy, on
t ie hearts of the thousands you
co ne in contact w ; th year by
year, and you will never be for
go tin. No, your nume, your
d-eds wi 1 be as legible on the
h ar s you leave behind, as the
stars on the brow of evening.
Go >d deeds will shine as biightly
0 • the earth as the stars of
j heaven.
TIIE HITER IUTTEV
A short man with i round face
the color of a enmpnighn-badge
and a nose which glistened and
shone as if it htuljbeeu varnished
s hvggcted into a Broadway bar
room, one day last wet k, aud
slouched over to tho lunch coun
ter, where’the well Jdrossrd eusto
Biers readily madoja'l tho spue
for him that lie desired After
satisfying an appetite that was
comprehensive enough t > cover an
entire fashionable boarding house
ue sauntered over tl e bar.
"Uinline a little brandy (hie)
and a touch of ginger ale,’ he re
mar net! to the b,r keeper,
“Forty cents please,’’ respond
ed t'iat individual.
“Forty cents," replied ihe vi-i
tor: “is (hie) a sum of money. 1
asked for a drink. If 1 (hie)
called for money, I would (hie)
go to a bank."
“You had belter then go to a
bank to get your drink," respond
ed the bar keeper curtly as he
turned to wait on one of the eusto
t»ers.
After waiting a few minutes in
thirsty silence, the abort mm
again renewed his request.
“I tell you replied tho drink
mixer, annoyed at his pci’sistance
“you can’t have n drink here un
less you pay for it in advance."
“Oil, that's (hie), is it, ? you
won’t trust me for a diink. Wed
will you hike it for collat/eral ?’’
and he laid an old fashioned
watc.ii on the counter whoso col
or was the shade of brass.
“No sir I won’t take that.
This is no junk shop at.d if you
don t get out of here you won’t
want a drink so the next ,ix
months ! ’
“Hold on,” replied the short
man “don't (hie) gel excited. That
wa'ch is a family (hie) keepsake
It was given to my (hie) grand
father by the Emperor Napoleon.
It's pure silver.’’
“Pure brass you ueun. Come
gei oui I’’
“Let go my coat (hie). I’ll
leave it to any gentleman (hie)
present if it ain’t silver."
“What’s the matter," in'irrupt
ed a quiet man » ho had been u si
i nt observer of controversy.”
“Why ibis bum,” responded
the bar-keeper, “says this brass
turnip is silver, and wants me to
stand him a drink on it.”
“Le! mo look at i*.”
The watch was handed over
and the quiet man, after a careful
inspection, returned it with a
smile of contempt.
“I’ll tell you (hie) what I’ll d>,
interposed the tramp : I’ll bet
you a hundred dollars it’s sil
ver.”
Take your bet; put up your
money,” returned the quiet man
quickly.
“The bar keeper by this time
had let go Ins hold on the short
mail's sleeve, and the rest of the
eu,turners Lad gathered alosely
around ilio pair. The tramp
drove into his ragged pocket and
pulled out two fifty dollar no es,
which were promptly placed into
thu bir keeper’s hand’s. The
silent man also laid a hundred
dollar bill on the count-r and
a man WuH sent out for a
jeweler. In a few minutes he
returned wi b a workman, and /lie
watch was handed to him for in
spection. He looked at it and
hen tiled through the surface, aud
applied a drop of acid to the ex
posed metal. In a half a minute
ho returned it to the bar keeper
and remarked that ii was solid sil
ver hiavily plated w /ii linns.
Five minutes la er a short man
with a rod nose slouched into a
cross itroct gin mill and sat down
oelido a t ill ied baited, urn.star
ial appearing , an.
“Well, Jimmy,” inquired the
second mai. “wtniZ luck? ’’
“I worked the watch racket for
a bund. ed.
“WI e’s the bio lie?” laconical
ly imp. .ed the other.
“Here. ’ and he pulled* out the
oil! ue had won.
“Well, remarked the red haired
man, with deep disgus; : You’re
a ime man to belong to the pro
fp ■ 'o*, von are.”
“ tVby,’ waspnd the eh >rt r,,in
‘Wl’i'N toe matter with mo ?’
JOHN T. WILSON, ,Ir , Publisher.
"l’ln re’s nothing the mu a
with you except tlmt you're i
i liot.
“Why?’
“The bill is counterfeit,”
lt was.
C OMPELLED TO DANCE.
A story lias just come to light
at Canton, On., which affords
much nmmoment to (lie natives ai
i he expense of three Boston dudes
whoso connections wnh the open
ing of a Georgia marble quarry
Imd brought them there. Their
in.iuesare John SheHmat, Edward
Amiuen and Henry* Rondeuu
i iiey have hud much amii ennui
with mountain liooziers and do
lighted in showing of! then su
11 crier accomplishments. Whib
on /he way to Tates Weduesduy
i hey met two harmless-looking
country boys who, barefooted and
with but ono suspender over their
shoulders, were trudging to town
I’ho Bos’oniaus stopped to the
front of them and ordered them
io dance to a Massachusetts jubu
W hon the mountaineers became
satisfied that tiie Bostonians were
ill earnest they pulled on 1 two
ugly louking revolvers and turned
their programme by ordering the
dudes to dance. Thinking to
humor tho joke and thus escape
easily they danced awhile, hut (lit
boys would not let th'in halt
For five hours under the cover of
revolvers the Bostonians danced
cuoli a jig as has never before
been seen. When tue time wus
up ono of the mountaineers ex
claimed; "Nov, dang if, run!’’
Th Bostonians were only too
glad to do so, and reached the
towu footsore aud weary. They
are now seekiug legal redress.
HITS OF SOIDNCK.
Sharks have eyelids; whales h ve
none.
et winters have been found
'o result disastrously to insects.
T io grasshopper develops from
the young larva to the winged ad
ult without changing its inode of
life.
it is a .curious fact that the looms
used in the manufacture of silk in
New Jersey are almost sac smiles
jf those employed for the same
putp >se in India and China.
A member of the London Met
eorological Society has invented
an instrument called the anemo
graph, which is operated by elec
tricity and keeps a tecoiV on pa
per of the direction and velocity
of the wind.
Mr. F. Day has discovered in
artificial breeding among the Sal
monidie that, while all the hybrid
ie 1 ween the salmon and the trout
had proved sterile, the crosses be
tween the salmon and chars had
proved fertile.
Discussing the manufacture ol
bone dust, Prof. .J Konig shows
that when bones, previous to
grinding, are freed from fats by j
teal men t with benzol they are!
purified from ingredients which
I ave no agricultial value.
\\ bile our country is supposed
to be neatly free from earthquakes j
no less than 3G4 shocks were re
corded iii the United .Sta es and
Canada in the twelve years ending
with IHB3. This is an average of
about one in every twelve days. j
A French investigator lias
found that chloroform is decom
posed 111 from two to five days by
the combined action of sunlight
and the air. In the dark the air
dvos not affect it, and light pro
duces no alteration when all oxy
gon is excluded. *
bir Henry Bessemer has au
uouuced tint, by Hie use of a very
pure chrrcoal pig-iron and its
treatment by a special method, a
Bessemer steel i» produced whicn
on analysis is found equal in
purity to the highest brands of
steel made from blistered bars.
••Cyanide of potassium” will re
move all indelible ink whose base
is nitrate of silver. Being a dead
ly poison, it will be hard io get
from the druggist in most cities.
Turp*htin- or alcohol, rubbed in
hat, rtm ve. the new inks, usi g
soda and soap freeiy in hot water
afterward.
GWLYjYETT RE HALT),
OUR
JO ft DEC A R Ml: JIT
IS complete.
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rcticevl lie, (Ja,, us second class mall
matter.
NO 49
lIUMO’ OP THE DAY.
Woman’s sphere—Apple dump
<iug
A tl rury composition— A bread
pudding.
Little He louin boys are allowed
i'd the dessert they want.
A near sighted man can be in
ue best of health and yet look bad
Its rather a singular thing that
if yin txpect to find coal you
uni t look for it in v< in.
Easiiionnblt wa king sticks are
very heavy UiP winter. It wil 1
now be iinpo; siblc to tell the dude
from tiie cane.
Victor //ugo, at the age of 83
js building a house and oversee
ing tho work himself, so as to 1)0
certain it will stauj a lifetime
Alcohol can be produced from
mound gas of Western Pennsyl
vania. Alcohol, when misapplied,
is productive of natural oratorical
gas.
Dot t fret if you can’t gei into
society. The oyster is often pres
cut at a supper whin ho would
perhaps prefer to be at home in
i: is bed
Kate Fields says Mormon wives
ute horrible cooks. This is not
s/range. It L a maxim old as the
hills : “Too many cooks spoils
the bruin.’
Alt old maid iu Nashville keeps
u parrot which swears, and a mon
key which chews tobacco. She
says between tho two she doesn’t
miss a husband much
Florence Marryat ui.Rs in a lecture
un bout and a half long : “Vfhat
shull we women do with our
men ?” If Florence would apply
to a widow she would get a cor
rect answer inside ol five mic
“Dou r t talk /o mo about W ug
ner. 1 was un in limine friend
of Rossini, and 1 admire uis mu
sic above all other operus. “1
think that ‘William Tell’ is his
best work,” “Do you know his
‘Baiber !' ” “No I always shave
myself.”
“I’d have you know sir,” Said
tho irate citizen to a man on tho
sWoot, “that rny wife is a high
toned woman, and I won’t allow
you to speak iat her.” ‘High
toned,” replied the other, “1
should say sue is high-toned ; you
can hear her a mile when she is
quarreling with the neighbors.’’
“Ah. yes, tie raid; “/ iuve
you. ’ “1 aui not young John.
There is a it/lie gray in my huir,
and some younger w -man may—”
“Never. Ah, my own darling,
you remember what the poet says
The old is always the best.’ ” The
engagement was suddenly broken
off'.
“What makes you so late coni',
i g tins mom asked Mr Leon
ard, a teacher in one of the New
Yolk public i ciio ns, of a tardy pu
pil, named Mornbrooke.
“They arrested a burg'aron i!8
aired, and ma sent mo to the sta
tion house to sec if it was pa,’’was
lhe reply.
I‘iitle iuil Humility.
Once upon a time two turkeys
went to roost uj on a tree.
“I am the finest bir d that flies,”
remarked one comp'acejjtly, ‘‘anil
nothing is uigo .d for me.’ So
he picked out a 1 ice, sof' springy
'iiub almost at lie 'op of the free,
aud went cont ntedly to sleep.
Tho ot o oue ha 1 teen
brought up to eousi ler mod. sty a
great virtue, and humbly remark
ed: lam content to sleep near
our dear Mother A’arth. ‘Pride
goeth before a full,’ a“d who know
oth but that a storm may come
and bow my ambitious compan
ion to the ground, thus breaking
his vain tieekf’
So be took a seit on the lower
limb.
Astound'd not come, but the
owner o* he turkeys did, and the
pin* on the lower limb was caught
and eaten.
Moral. No. I—A “turkey gob
bei strut 1, is sometimes an ad
tage.
Moral No. 2 —Dinger comes as
often from he ow <8 from above.
There is a obias of men ever
x -eady to pump you te'- any extent,
you only give them a handle.