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VOL XV.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
* •
One cattle ranch in Wyoming
embraces a million acres.
There are 13,501,209 milch cows
in the United Stales.
The skating rink fever has
reached Sandwich Islands
Stock/on, Me., boasts of a boy
fifteen years old wbo is six feei
two inches tail.
Indianapolis is the largest city
in the United Sta es not on naviga
ble waters.
Electric lights can be served at
the same cost as gas $2 a tbauss
and feet.
The sum <>f one million dollars
is be exp6rded lor the internation
al exhibition in 1889.
The king of Bavaria has spent
$250,000 for a chandelier from
Meissen manufactory.
Over three thousand breeding
cattle were brought f otn 7/ollaud
to this country last year.
The average value of horses in
Massachusetts is greater than
in any other State in the Union.
Sixty three varities of grapes
are growing on the grounds of a
phisician at Lake City, Fla.
There are in this country at
present, according to estimates
nearly, if not fully 50,000 skating
rinks.
Statistics show that one brake
man iu eight sutlers injury or
deo/h while coupling or uncoup
ling frieght cars.
Cuban planters are some of them
employing molasses as manure, on
on acount of the low prices ruling
of that product
A house an hour is being hud l
in London, and an avtrnge of ten
persons a day —excluding Sundays
are damaged bycabs.
The largest prume orchard in
the world is situated one mile
from Saratogo, Cal., and con
tains IG,OOO trees. It was re
cently sold for $72,0t'0.
Affairs in Panama are improv
ing. The provisionol government
is organizing rapidly, and order
is being mintained. Tie She
nandoah 100 m< n. They are
guarding the wharves, offices, and
rolling stock of the
Panama Railroad Company.
Two colored men were banged
ia South Carolina Friday for mur
/wo other colored men.
According to the government re
porta the whea/ crop of the United
Status has been greatly reduced
in acreage and is of poorer qnali
ty than for three yet rs.
Willie Donovan, ihe roller skat
ing champion, died from acute
pericardities, fo'lowing an attack
pneumonia, iuduced by reckless
exposure after hia six day s race.
Unofficial information has been
received to the ellecfc that Sulvu
dor refuses to agree to at, armis
tice, and in'ends invadinfl Guate
ma'a.
Secretary Whitney lias appoint**
ed a board to examine the Dolphin
Mr. John Roach is annoyed bes
cause he has to pay /he insurance
on the vtsse's for thirty days long
er.
Weak
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Capt. Couch is about to visit
Washington to present /he cast*
of tlio boomors in bahalt of opt n
ing Okalahoma to settlers.
An iron bridge spanning Indian
Creek, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, precipitated a train into
the water, twenty dive feet below,
H H Fuller and Bejamine Ful lev
brofl ers were killed
The Connetiicuo house of rep -
resenatives rejected, by a partisan
vote a proposed constitutional
amendment designed to abolish
the law that by a majority vote
shall be noccessary to elect State
officials.
The strikers in Chicago have
agreed not together in large num
bers around the reapci works on
condition the private detectives
shall not again be brought to the
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mriwteft tg|| yiiTalil
PRINTERS INK IS KINO.
There is a host of men who Ik ast
Of powder, cotton, steam ;
Rut every hour the mighty powtr
Of printers ink is seen.
It moves the world as easily
As does some mighty tiling,
And men proclaim iudospols' cars
That printers ink is king ?
The man of gold, of wealth untold.
Printer' ink may scorn.
Or knit his brow, nor deign to bow
To one so lowly born ;
But printers ink has built its t hrone
Where minds their tributes bring,
And God's most gifted intellect ;
Shout printer’s ink is kilig !
King of tile world t o thought ivliined
No abject slave it claims ;
Where suyerst it ion’s victims pine
It bursts theif servile chains.
In every clime, in eoming years.
Will men proud anthems smg.
And round the world the echoes
lloat
That printer’s ink is king!
A Tale of Rue,
BY PENN SHIRLEY.
Of all the tired passengers of
(he mid-night express hound east
ward over the Old Colony road,
perhaps there was not one more
thorougly used up than John Cole
man Esq., of the law firm of Cole'
man & Riggs, Ashland, Massachu
setts. From the morniDg of No
vember Ist., when he had started
for Nan Francisco, till the evening
of this December the Ist., be
had beeu constantly on the wing.
To aggravate his fatigue, the trip
in a business view had Been highly
unsatisfactory, if not unneceesary
But as he drew nearer home his
scowl vanished and the lines about
his firm mouth softened. Stretch -
ing his long suffering limbs across
the seat, he spread the Evening
Journal between his aching eyes
and the glare of the bobbing lamps
and iudnlged in tender BpeeulU'
tioiit,. How would Rue look when
lie appeared before her next morn
ing, two days earlier than he had
promised ? She might be waiers
ing her plants in the bay window
and he would walk in nonchalant'
ly and as if he had left htr the
evening before and, say, “good
isjrning Rue.” and she would drop
her watering pot and rush toward
Him all smiles and blushes cryiug,
“Oh, John, John ! John I how glad
l an- to see you ! how I have mis-
you !”
Dear warm hearted impulsive
Utile Rue. She certaiuly was fond
of him. He wished that he had
never been such a brute as to re
rouch her about Mr. Lynde. He
was convinced now that sue had
not really cared for the fellow.
She had only been cordial with
him in her free girlish way. W hat
charming, inimitable wavs she had !
The lover’s reverie merged int j a
dream. Mr. Coleman was uncon
scious of the slacking up ot the
train at B , and of the en
trance of two young gentleman
into the seat in front ; but the
name of miss Rue Haywood, spoks
en almost in bis eai, aroused him
like an electric shoek.
“Mr. Lynde is bewitched with
tier, that’s plain,” continued tile
voice. “He's having a fine time
out of Coleman’s absence,”
“Pluperfect,” said an answering
voice. “They say Miss Rue
wouldn’t mind Coleman’s taking
himself off for good.’
“Oh, yes; he’s ‘a dig,‘ and all
that; but he’- a cro/chety fellow
Makes Miss Rue walk Spanish. I
hear, Rj the way, how are she
and Mr. Lynde comiDg on with
the operretta ! I had to cut last
rehearsal.”
“Famously. Alum Rue’s solo will
briDg down the hours. Lynde
thinks the entertainment will foot
up at least one hundred dollars
toward the new orgao. He’s jub
ilant I believe that instrumet t
comes next to Miss Rue in his af
fections. Can’t he get ihe music
out of it though 1 Halloo, here’s
Ashland!”
Wincing beneath his newspaper,
Mr Coleman recognized the voices
those of two college students re
turning from a lecture at B .
Forgetful at last of travel-stain,
weariness, ami headache he wai/ed
till ihe jouths had left the car and
then walked out at opposite end,
Ins whole engergies engrossed in
weighing the evidence so gratui
tosly avoided. How far could he
OUR OWN SECTION \VE LABOR FOR ITS ADVANCEMENT
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. MAY 5 1886.
rely on current gossip? What at
titude should he assume toward
Rue ? Morning found him unde
cided. He must be governed by
Rue’s own manner. As a test of
her f elings toward him he would
ask her to withdraw from the oper
retta. If she loved him she woild
do this cheerfnlly. If she would
not do it—Mr. Coleman had not
provided for the latter ;cntiugen»
cy when Bridget usheted him into
Mr. Haywoods parlor Miss Rue
and Mr. L.vnde were practicing a
duet for tbe operretta, both too
rapt to observe the intruder —a
fact inexplicable on musical
grounds to poor Mr. Coleman
who didnot know the notes apart’
or care to know thtin. According
to his inference, the voting people
were absorbed in each other, and
he was ofliu limbo. Unuer these
circumatanceß it may not be
sti’ang3 that his face, that instant
spied by Miss Rue, was not the
face of an amiable man. It prompt
ly remit) ded Mr. Lynde of a w tit
ing pupil and Laving congratulat
ed Mr. Coleman on his sSfe teturn
he hustled his music under his
arm aud departed in has/e.
Miss Rue wheeled (lie big easy
chair in front of tbe grate, playfuls
ly forced her sultan suitor into i'»
and perched herself on its arm to
hear about bis journey. Had be
beeu ill ? No ? Then he must be
fearfully tired. She knew his head
ached. Shouldn’t she try to mag
netize it, and put him to sleep?
No, he preferred that she should
not. He haJ kept his eyes closed
too already.
A s well might a zephyr have at
tempted to pet ai iceberg. With
a shiver Miss Rue slipped from
her perch, and seated herself with
her work in a neighboring rocker.
What had come over John ? She
had never seen him like this be
fore He did not seem a bit glad
to meet her. He turned away
from the distracting vision, mens
tally preparing his brief—this as
tute lawyer, as ignorant of the
nature of a girl as an elephant of
the structure of a rose. Present'
ly he began about the festival.
He admitted '.bat Rue had once
cor tided to him her irtention of
participating in an operretta, but
he had supposed and openetta to
be something like an oratorion,
not a jumble of silly love songs.
Did she think it becoming in her
self, an engaged young Ldy, to
carol amorous ditties from morn
ning till night with a tuneful
swain.
“They pre burlesques, John
only burlesques. If I had dream
ed of your disapproving l wouldn’t
have promised to sing ; but I can’t
retract now.”
“Not when I particularly re
quest i l , Rue t”
“Irdeed, no. John. I have the
leading part. 1 can’t refuse to act
without o ending Mr. Lynde.’’
“On the other hand you can’t
persist in acting without offending
me,’’ •
“Now, John, do be reasonable.
How should / feel announcing at
the next rehearsal that I must be
excused —Mr. Coleman was not
willing to have me connected with
the operetta ? What would Mr.
Lynde flunk!'
“Oh. if his opinion has mors
weight with you than mine, I will
retire.”
“John, you’re too absurd. Can’t
you see how rediculous it would
look for me to throw up my part
the moment you come home?
People would say you were jealous
of Mr. Lyode.”
“The jackanapes 1”
•And that you were a Blue-beard.
John, I’m not sure but they’d be
right.”
“If I’m a tyrant, Rufelle, you’re
tt n amazingly fearlesi Fatima.”
“I don’t propose to be your Fa
tima.”
What did Rue mean by that ?
The wrinkle in Mr. Coleman’ B
forehead deepened into a trench
his brown face flu lied like an oak
in October.
“Please lay a»ide paradoxes,
Rufelle. Do you mean that you
do not wish to 1110117 me. Rumor
has told me as much.”
Iti truth Mis- Rue had meant
nothing of the kind, but her level's
insulting tone exasperated her in
to silence. Had itacome 10 this
that she could not wink without
first consulting his lordship ?
Her blue eyes Hashed ominously
the steel hook in her lingers dart
ed in and out of crochet ing with a
murder rapidty.
Rumor has told me as much,"
repeated Mr. Coleman, as iwpres-
B ively as if he had been addressing
a jury.
“Aud you Jet people tslk about
me, John and listen to wlmt they
say !”
“1 might have knowc that a girl
who weald not respect my digni
ty could not value my esteem.
Tyrant or not, Rufelle, at least I’ve
no desire to rivet galling fetters,
Henceforth you are free to smile
upon Lynde or any other gentle
man.”
Had he omitted the last sen
tence, kindly little Rue could even
then have “made up” with John
but this was too much for her
temper. Snatching the golden
circlet from her engagement finger
she fluugit at her lover with checks
aflame.
“Take back your ring,” cried
she. The girl who wears it should
be a saint or a simpleton, and I’m
neither. Cood-bye John.
Auburn head erect, chin in the
air, she swept out of the room
with all the stateliness possible
to a slight girl of five feet /wo.
She felt hers to be a righteous in
dignation. John had no reason;
—no earthly reason to treat her
so. She would not personate pa
tien Griselda for the amusement
of the village.
“John wants to bend the whole
wcrld to his will,” mused she
angrily, peeping* hi ough her chain
her blind as he stalked away chew'
ing his black musiaclie ; “he wants
to bend the whole world to his
will, and I won’t be bent. Our
engagement is broken, and I'm
glad of it.”
For full fiftees minutes she was
unequivocally glad
Jobs Coleman thought that he
too was glad. Walkinff fiercely
on he squared his broad shoulders
and iold h'mself that the eugage"
meut had been a mistake—an er
ror of judgement. A grave self
made man of thirty should have
been wiser than to trust his happi
ness to the keeping of a gay,
capricious maiden. Why had he
been so dotingly fond of the child
so hoodwinked oy her coquetries '■
Blind urivvellingidiod that he was
the sooner he wus hurried again
in the luw the better. The man’s
soul was hot within him. He re
viewei his lonely joyous orphan
hood, his sharp tussle with the
world to wring from it his present
competence. Not until the lat'er
bad been seented had he allowed
himself to think of marrying this
bright young beauty, who as a
school-girl bad first crptivated his
immagina/ion, To have asked Rue
Haywood *.o become his wife while
he had no adequate means for her
support would have been in his
opinion dastardly and conempti
b!e. No; he had awaited Mie time
when he could offer her a name
and a position. He had wooed
her honorably, and from that day
to .his had hardly so much as
glanced at any other girl. That
he had not wanted to glance at
any other girl had no bearing
whatever upon the case, yet tbe
lawyer's stern eye moistebed as he
thought of tbe three mouths of
happiness which had beer, bis be
fore this brilliant new erganisf ap
peared upon the scene with the
graces and accomplishments ad
mired by ladies, and scorned by
himself, matter-of-faci John
coleman. From tbe outset he
had distrusted the winsome gals
lam’s influence over Rue, witn
what reason the sequel had proved.
That night Mi'. Coleman had a
chill—no metaphorical heart ague,
but a genuine physical, bone shak
ing rigor that demanded blankets
md hot bricks and a heroic dose
of quinine.
“He’s caught malaria from some
of those confounded bog holes,”
said tte d ctor aside to /he land
lord “Unless we break it up, he's
in for a fever. See that he has a
good nurse, i’ll be round in the
morning.”
Tue land'ord himself sat up
witn the patient, and a busy night
be had till daybreak, when Mr.
j Coleipen sankin/o a drowse. The
weary watcher improved ibis op
portunity to steal away for a nap
and sent his eon to lake his place
by the bedside. After an hour's
sleep the sick man awoke refreshes
the ringing in his ears greater, but
the tlnobhing cf his temples less
the pain iu his limbs no longtr ub
sobriety unbearable.
“//eigho! that you, Horry?” lie
said, catching sight of the boy
munching an apple for entertain-,
ment. “tVhere were you when I
came home las/ ni»ht? I didn’t
see you. ”
“At St. Mark s, sir, blowing the
organ. Mr. Lynde has hired me
for the quarter.”
“Oh, he has. has he?” Mr. Cole
man turned over in bed, and scowl
ed at the smoky lamp chimney,
Soon he flopped back again. “I >o
you like this Lynde fellow, Har
ry?”
“Tip-top; everybody does.”
Mr. Coleman groaned.
“Is the pain coming on again
sir? Can Ido anything for you?”
“Nothing, thank you, my boy;
I’m pretty essentially done for.
I’d like to hear you talk, though
Tell iue what’s happened while I’ve
been away. What’s /his Lynde
oeen up to?”
“Oh, he’s been flying round,
you’d better believe."
“Been doing a stiff business, I
suppose driving out with .lie la
dais?”
“lie’s beeudiiving out with Miss
Haywood some. I haven’t seen
him with anybody else.”
The invalid suppressed another
groan.
“They’ve been looking at dishes
ami curtains and things.”
Mr. Coleman rose savagely upon
his elbow. This was ten thousand
times worse than he had dreamed
“The story I've heard, then, is
true, Harry: Mr. Lynde is going to
be married.”
“Why, how did you know, Mr.
Coleman? He said it was a secret
He let me go all over his house
yesterday—he’s hired Lunt’s co -
tage, corner of Vine street -and
things shine, I tell yoi. You just
ough/ io see those carpets. Miss
Hay wool helped him pick ’em out,
I’he other woman don't suspect a
thing.
“What other woman? ’
“Why, the woman Mr. Lynde is
going to marry. She thinks alter
the wedding on Christmas she’s
coming wi/n Mr. Lynde to his
hoarding house; but instead of ihat
sir, he’s going to felch her right
home to th’s bully cottage. I'll
bet she’ll be surpiised.”
Mr, Coleman dropped back up
on the pillow with an expression
a Raphael might havo despaired of
reproducing. He Jay /here a few
minutes reflectio, then sat boltsup
right, his towel-girt head in bold
relief against the mahogany heud
bord.
“Blow out the lamp, Harry,
please, draw up the curtaiDs, and
hand me nty writing-desk there
on the table. Pile give you a dol
lar if vou’ll CErry a message to
Miss Haygood for. me this morn
ing. •
“Bless my soul, (Jo'eman, you’re
as tough as a pine knot!” exclaim
ed the doctor, bolting in as his
patient sealed ihe no/e. ‘You
bad ague enough last night io
shake a seusi/ive mortal into the
grave, and here you’re up and at
tending to business. Let’s fee
your pulse. Rapid yet, but softer
h you’re prudont you’ll be out in
a few days. ”
Hurry rushed off on his errand
and delivered Mr, Coleman’s billet
into the hands of Miss Rue her
self, who in his private opinion
looked very sober and red-eyed.
“Dear Rus” (thus ran the iais
tive) —“I’ve been having a very
bad chill, one of the bona tide east
anet order. I hope you’ll do me
the favor to believe it was coming
or. at your house. If I raved furi
ously and bcheaved worse than
a savage, as I know 1 did, do for
give me, dear. I’m coming te t>6£
pardon on my knees as soon as
hey are firm enough, /nclosed
leiSß find y >ur riag. Ever thine.
John,
“P. S.— Don't on any aecou nt
withdraw from the operetta.
“Poor dear soul, nowill he must
have been!’* mused loving little
.RUIN T. WILSON, Jn , Publisher
Rue, siippii.g the cherished ring
back upon her finger. “But I
hope he isn't going to oe subject
to these chills,” she added, with a
doleful look. “I do hope he isn’t,
for the sake of both of us.”
WAS AFRAID HE’D STOP
A young woman was suing
her ex-sweetheart for breach of
promise, ami the lawyers were, as
usual, making all sorts of innquis
itive interrogatories.
“You Hay,” remaiked one, "(hat
/he defendant frequently sat dose
to you ?” 4
“Yes, sir," was the reply, with
a hectic blnali.
“How close ?”
Close enough so’s one cheer
was all the si/tin’ room we noed
ed.”
“And yon say lie pu/ hi* ftrm
around you ?”
“No 1 didn’t.”
“What did you say, then ?"
“I said no put both arm j around
me."
“l’hen what ?”
“He hugged me.”
“Very hard ?’’
• lea he did. So hard that 1
came purty near hollerio' lieht
out.”
“Why didn’t you holler ?”
“’Causa."
“That’s no reason. Be exp/ic
it, please. “Cause what ?"
“Cause I (eared he'd stop."
The court fell off the bench
and had to be earned out uml put
under the hydrant for the purpose
of resueiration.
A STINGY MAN.
‘I don t mind u man being eco
nomical,’ said Colonel Bonely, ‘but
1 do despise to see stinginess.
You all know John Nutwing— fel
low that used to sell soda wat«r
and grumble when a costomor in
sisted on taking it with syrup.
Well he was the sting est man I
ever saw. Why, sir, he was so
stingy that he used to let his meat
speii, said that he couldn’t afford
to eat it, it was so valuable. One
day a cart calne along with u barrel!
of water, just as it passed John's
ga/e the thing,broke down. Well
sir, John went, out, caught half
the water and poured it in his
well. Said that ho couldn’t afford
to see anything warned. Oh. yes,
he was close. I was wiiu him
when lie died He wus perfectly
willing though he dreaded the ex
pense of having a grave dug.
Colonel, tuid he, addressing me
that anxious way that had become
one of his characteristics, ‘can’t
you t 'it
them to dig /he grave ns a matter
of accomodation ? I did intend
to be buried uuuer the pear /ree,
but /he land is so valuable I can’t
affoiit't. ‘You don’t seem to be
very sick, said I. ‘Perhaps you
may recover.’ ‘Oh no, I’m gone,’
he rep ied. ‘I took poison just
before seeding for yon. 1 decids
ed that I could not ull'ord to live.
It's too expensive. After a fel
low dies, you know and gets set"
tied down the expenses ceases*
Thai confounded druggist cheated
me. I had io pay five cents for
the poison. He should have given
me too doses for that sum.
He was so stingy chat he died
without struggle. Taking it all
to consideration, John was the
closest man I ever saw.”
The Arabs have three war ban
ners. Oite is white with a red in
scription in Arab c, neatly sewed
on within a broad scarle/ border.
Another is biack with a red and
green border, and without an in
script ion. The third is blue, with
a red circle, within which are the
words: “prom the Mahdt, the
true Prophet of God," in three
lines, and also “Whoeeer shal|
fight under this banner shall ob
tain victory ”
“Talk about your gold and sil
ver mines,” says the Cair 1 (111.)
Jefiersonian, “we have a man liv
ing a short distance nortn of here
who has discovered pure paint : .n
large quanities on his farm in sev
eral uiffeieu colors, red, white, blue
and yellow, and requite* no pre
paring but to mix with oil, and is
then ready for use.
(nrLYJV/S'/T HERALD.
OUR
JO It BE VAItIMUNT
IS COMPLETE.
ALL ORDERS FOR
NEATLY AND
PROMPTLY EXECU-
TED,
Entered in the Post Office at Law
reneevllle, Ua., as second class mall
matter.
NO 7
ODDS AND ENDS.
England built her first steamer
it. 1815.
The rooms in Danish hotels have
no locks.
A Cincicnatti girl drowred her
self rather than marry.
Mr. James Russell Liwell was
born February 22. 1819.
The wa er supply of Loudon is
about 145;000,00() gallous daily.
A Philadelphia paper calls John
L Sullivan “that eminent brute .’’
Cigars were never known until
1815. Before that time pipes were
used only.
There are probably 90,000 arc
lights alight every night in the
United Sta/es.
The best toboggans are made of
birch, and velvet cushioned, cost
from S3O to SSO.
A gentleman of llK'kiugha n
N. C., has a pair of elks that he
drives!, o a buggy
A Charlton county. Mo., farmer’
pays $1.29 in taxes on his horses
and sl2 oh his dogs.
The severity of the winter has
caused a great loss of cattle iu
Western Kai sas and beyond.
A New liapshire woman hasn’t
broken a lump or a lamp chimney
in thirty years.
The avalanche in Utah, which
over-whelmed the villiage of Alta,
killed thirty persons.
7/enry Oeorge reformer, thinks
f standing for Parliament for
Cai hnesashire, Scotland.
Soudan ineAns literally the
Lund of the Blacks in the Arabian
longue—“lk-led • es-Soudan.
Bhysicians say that abo it 14
per cent of all school children suf
fer from headaches.
The most extensiv. linseed oil
mill in this country is said to he
located at Amsterdam, N. Y.
The Board of Health in Aash
vill, Ten#., have determined to cut
down all the mulberry trees.
MrH Apphia Fisher, of Salem,
New Hampshiie reads without
glasses iu her ninety-seventh year.
1/ is a remarkable fact t ha/ not
a single Chinese beggar has ever
been seeu in the Uni’ed States.
This y,jar Lent con/aius forty
seven days. It takes more time
to repent as the world grows old>
The University Press at Oxford
has appliances for printing winks
in 150 languages and dia’ects.
Sarah Bernhardt gels HS.'IOO a
day for acting' Of this her credit
ors take $ 180, leaving her $l2O.
A wafer tank in a passenger car
at Altoona, Pa., was found to con
tain a trout eight inches loug.
The first steam vessel to make a
voyage up the Thames was brougbz
to Glasgow by Mr. Dodd in lgls.
No man can smoke as strong
cigars or as black pipes as a wo
man can when she has once ac
quired the habit.
The late Mrs. James Russel Lo
well was a relative of the distin
guished Senator, Wit lam Pitt
Fessenden.
The greater part es the wealth
of ex Governor Ccburr., of Maine
goes to the cause of education in
the South.
The White House has been so
often painted that the white lead
upon it is nearly a quarter es an
mch thick.
The English sparrows have ena
tirely disappeared from Concord,
M tss., where they had existed in
gveat numbers.
No San Francisco resident ever
thinks of using the word “Frisco.”
Orly strangers use that abbrevia
tion.
Tobacco was first smoked, then
snuffed, and lastly chewed- Pipes
came first, then cigars, and finally
cigarettes-
A Clearfield coauty (Pa.) man
boards at a hotel in order that his
wife can have time to attend a skat
mg rink.
During the Exposition in AW
Orleans forty gambling houses,
where bankiug games arariu, keep
open night and day.
About forty-five per cent of the
present Congress of the United
States have been college educat
ed.