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W:„, Judge Sup. Court.
Klerk Sup. Court,
K Ordinary.
Kit, Sheriff.
H,n Treasurer.
K ffj . I'ai Receiver.
K, Tax Collectorr
K, .Surveyor.
Coroner.
Kkouuissionkiu!.
V chairman and Clerk, IS
Kkrad, J. K Hopai.lo, An-
By) or EDUCATION.
sebool Commissioner, J.
K T . Oatillo. J. Webb
■Y k. Winn.
■ atsieiPAi..
■Smith, Mayor.
■ COUNCIL.
■ E I) Herrin 8 1 ownley
IpD departure- or t rain
Kq Suwannee, 5.50 p. m
■ s»*annee, 7 »' na.
■ ,10 DEPARTURE or MAII.S.-
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K, and Thursday.
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■Monday and Thursday.
Arrives 10 a m, de
■.-Daily.
s„j ß ._-Arrives 12 m., de-
B Weinesday and Saturday
W.H. HARVKY, P. M
churches
•Bev L R Barrett, pastor
e( j Sunday.
jT -Rev M I> Turner Pastor
the Ist and 2nd Sundays.
School A T Puttillo, Supt
iday at 3 p in
nus-Rev F McClelland,
wices on 2nd uddtb Sundays
lit,
School. —T‘ R Powell. Supt
,day at 0.30 a
FRATERNAL.
csviu.l Masonic I.OlXlk. —J
V M., S A llagood, S W,
W. Meets on Tuesday
before full moon in each
ion Chapter, No 39, R A
Spence, II P, A T Pattillo
Is Friday night before the
in each mouth.
n Superior Court.—N. L.
iidge. Convenes on the Ist
March and September.
hr M. Johnson
ORNEYAT LAW,
AINEBVILLE, GA.
dice in this and adjoining
ithe Supreme Court of the
lines intrusted to hia care
(prompt attention.
a V. BUI ANT,
rrOBKEY AT LAW,
Logansville, a.
mean eutruated to hia
receive prompt attention.
ii a specially.
lj
AS OF MON-ffY
ited oy improved farm
ett and Dalton Counties
ears time at eight per
rest.
to 1884.
Wm. E. Simmons.
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f hitehal> Street,
ATLANTA, A.
ir, Throat and Nose Disease
• july7-tf
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FORNEY AT LAW,
lORCBOSS, OA.
Ml *-in tlie* Superior Courts
h«I Ordinary of the ooun
nuiuett and Milton, and iu
irs' court of both counties
ud prompt allentiou given
Pf
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BURNHAM'S
IMPROVED
« STAND’D TURBINE
•» the best constri ited
and finished, give? bet
ter percentage, u ore
Power and is so I for
less money per horse
0 power, than ano other
Turbine in the world
phlet sent free by
ii* BROS., York, P
FACIAL NOTICE.
8 toe ub either by note
for Guano or Merchan
8 Oct., 15, re notified
fment must be made by
or else we will be com
-3 8 »e. We have carried
through the dull
®ow immediate payment
E made—we can’t carry
longer.
A. J, Veal & Son.
Stone Mountain, Ga.
ew Firm.
Ber oby given that I have
*®ot‘ate<3 with as partoeis in
Jr business in Lawrenceville
" H Robinson and N S.
•Ju business will here
'-‘odncted under the firm name
A SONS
Jfeep in stock a full line ol
iandise and have added to
j ponfectlons and Fancy
»„ 'i a general barter bus
. (, “ cr our stock clieap for
5* «w us a trial.
" ROBINSON & SONS.
Lawrenceville U»
TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprietor.
VOL XV.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
Atlauta is infested with pick a
pockets.
W W Dunbar baa been elected
Recorder of Augusta.
The Cochran Messenger will sus
pend publication after the issue o f
Nov, 29.
F E Crist, Georgia, won the
fir-it tight in the main between
Georgia and Alabama.
Col. Baum, of Atlunti fame, is
to bore an artesian well for the
chemical works At Augusta.
The Superior Court of Troup
county is in session, Thera are
bu< two criminals in jail for trial.
The Augusta bar paid a memo
rial tribute to Louis A Dtrgos, late
Solicitor of the City Court, Mon
day.
James Snog, a negro convict,
in Smith’s camp, in Ogletbrope
county, was killed by a falling
tree a day or two ago.
a grocer in a certain town of aI
aohua county; Fla. splits a grain
of coffee in order to give accurate
measure and weight.
At Maoon, Monday, Deputy
Clerk L. M. Erwin adjourned the
United States Court until the first
Mondby in December.
J R Carlton, celebrated his 90th
birthday Monday by giving a din
ner to his children and friends.
Mr. Hubbard, the tax collector,
says collections have been shorter
in Polk county than at the same
time for several pre
vious,
Cedartewn merchants say trade
is picking up rather slowly, and
that collections have so far been
very light. All seem to be san
guine, however, of better times
just a little ahead.
Judge Roney is conducting u
quiet term of Superior Court at
Augusta, with no o murder or
manslaughter case on the docket
AugUbta is improving in morals,
.the criminal lawyers are all
idle.
There will be a decrease in the
colored populslion of Dodge coun
ty in the next tax returns. A
great many negroes have lately
gone to Florida to work on the
railroads being built in that stafe,
and others will leave before the
end of the year. '
The barn of T N Lester, a mile
or two out of Granfville, was burn
ed on Saturday night last with 9
bales of seed cotton. 148 bushels
of corn, fodddr and other products
and valuables. The fire is sup
posed to have been the work of an
incendiary.
The store of Capt. J. W. Sey
mour. at Dowdy, was burglarious
ly entered on Nunday night by
some of tie ‘lightfingered gentry’
who stole therefrom » watch worth
30 or S4O, a bolt of flannel and
several other articles’
A coloied woman who went to
the association at Quitman last
Sunday with her child forgot that
she had taken the young one, and
was taken some distance from town
by the train before she remember
ed that her baby had been left be
hind. si
Prof. <i W Cheves, who is new
confined in the Fulton county jail
on a cuarge of muider, committed
at Dawson, is in a very dangerous
condition. For more than two
weeks past he ha- not partaken
food, and his death at any moment
would be no surprise-
O. W. Featherston, of Cedar
town, had a mule so badly injured
Tuesday night that the animal
had to be killed, Kicking a plank
from its stable it got a leg through
the aperture, and in its struggles
to extricate it, the hmb was broben
in three or four places
a< a church in Georgetown net
long ago the congregation sang
the hymn commencing, “Must-
Jesus bear the cross alone 1"
Some of the wicked people in the
congregation paraphiased the line
“The consecrated cross 111 bear’
in the second vers# and sang out
“The consecrated cross eyed bear,’
♦ “PAPA IS DRIVING.”
I arrived at the station at the
appointed hour. I entered or
rather was thrown by ait attendant
into the car nearest to me- The
door was quickly shut. The
whistle was and we were
off.
Curiously enough, the car was
crowded. I formed the fifth pas
senger, Two corners were occu
pied, one by an officer and the
other by a civilian. Facing me
was a woman, about tnirty old,
neatly and modestly dressed, and
beside her sal the most beautiful
little child I ever saw—a little
girl about sir years old, with a
flood of blonde curls waving uni
der her immense straw has. Now
and then the child would look
through /he window in the direc
tion of the engine, and then her
eyes seemed to wander in the in
finite space tlial was unrolling it
self before her. We came to a
station. The train stopped. The
li/tle girl put her face to the win
dow. “I don’t Ree him,” she said
to the lady beside her. “I don’t
see Li oi.” Tnen suddenly her face
brightened and her eyes lit with
golden hues, shining with indes
cribable joy, while her lips came
down upon two hands that came
from the exierior and were placed
upon the frame of the open win
dow. “Ah, papa!” Here is pa>>
pa !” exclaimed my little neighbor
with the exhuberant and innocent
joy of her six years.
It was the ergineer of our train
who had come to speak to his lit •
tie daughter and his wife, who
wete seated in front of me,
•‘We are going very fast said
the womab,
“We must make up for lost
time,” replied the man. • “Were
yoii afraid Jeanne ?”
“No,” said the c did, “because I
kuew you were driving ’
“Well, hy-by,” said the man as
he left.
“Byi by papa,” said tue child
throwing herself into his arms.
The train started and gradually
reached an extraordinary speed.
I worship children, and I began
to examine the little one in front
of me. She was full of life and
good humor. She amused herself
witn everything and nothing, ca
joling with her mother, inquisitive
with the window, severe with her
doll. She was carrying on a tnou
sand different conversations all at
once, aud with a noise that was
almost deafuing; when the gentle
man in the other corner exclaim
ed;
•‘Decidedly, we are going too
fast. The tram will sorely run off
the track.”
“Oh, don’t be afraid,” said the
child seriously, “papa is driving.”
The officer was reading. He
looked out of the window, and then
resumed his reading without ma
king any observation.
The other gentleman again bes
gan to talk,
“This is certainly madness,’
said he. “Yes madam,” he con
tinued. addressing’the lady, your
husband is eitler drunk or crazy.”
“Oh, sir,” said the lady, “my
husband never gets drunk. You
saw him a uttle while ago. Cer
tainly, the train is going at a fu
rious raie. I dou’t quite under
stand it.”
The officer closed his book and
stretched himself along the seat.
‘•I wonld advise you to do the
same,” said he. with the greatest
coolness. “If you keep seated,
your legs will be smashed. Re
member the Versailles accident ’
Certainly the train was running
at a terrifying rate. What in the
world could the engineer mean by
such driving,
“I am afraid!” said the citizen,
white with terror.
Then the officer took me aside.
‘Here is my name and address,’
said he. “If lam killed or mor
tally wounded in the accident to
which we are running, an a you es
cape, promise me now that you
will carry these dispatches without
a moment’s delay te the General
whose name you will find by ope
ning this envelope.”
I promised.
The woman took the child in
her arms and covered her little
faje with tears and kisses. She
seemed to wish to make a rampart
Our Oum Section—We Labor For Its Advancement.
LA WHENCE VILLE, GA. November 10 1885
of herself to protect the little one
against the frightful smash up
{hat was momentaiily expected.
“I am not afraid,” said the cAild,
smiling, “papa is driving.” And
she alone among the passengers of
the car. and doubtless she alone
among all on board the train, had
faith and confidence. We could
hear in the other cars cri sos ter
ror and wailings of despair, and,
in spite of /he mother, the child
leaned out of the window in the
back door and shouted out with
all the force of its lit/le lungs :
“Don’t be afraid ; papa is driving.”
Aa ! that sweet little girl, In the
general terror, was a tower of
BtreDgth wi/h that sacred love of
a child for a father—an affecfion
that nothing can break down.
Gradually the train si owed a td
then came to a standstill. We
were at a station. The engineer
came to t<-e door. “We have Iseen
guing very fast,” said he, “ tut a'
all hazzards we must go to .Reims
before the Prussians. That we
must do at the risk of being
blown up or smashed to pieces on
the way. I’m told that we arc
carrying important dispatches,'
and he looked at his little girl
with tears in his eyes.
“<7ive me your haad,” said the
officer. “You are a brave fellow.
It is I who have the dispatches.”
“Enroule !” then said the man,aDd
be gave a parting glance at the
fair form of his child ks if to bid
her farewell. But Jeanne was not
afraid ; and moreover, nobody in
our compartment was afraid any
longer. We knew that we were
risking our lives for our country,
and that satisfied us. As for the
/rain, it lecommenced its furious
race.
This was the month of Septems
ber, 1870, on the eastern line.—
Courier des Etats Unis.
HOW TO BUILD UP A TOWN.
Talk about it.
Write about it.
Help to improve it.
well about it.
Beautify the streets.
Patronize its merchants.
Advert'se in its newspapers.
Elect good men to all the offi
ces.
Speak well of its public spirted
enterprising citizens.
If you are rich, invest in some
thing, employ somebody, be a
hustler,
If yod don’t think of any good
word to say, dont’t say anything
bad about it
Remember that every dollar
yon invest in permanent improve
ment is that much on interest.
Be courteous to strangers that
come among yon, so that they may
go away with good impressions.
Always cheer on the men who
go in for improvements; .vour por
tion of the cost will be nothing od
ly whal is just.
Don't kick at any proposed nec
essary improvements because it is
not at your own door, or fear that
your taxes will be raised fifteen
cents.
Don't throw stumbling blocks
An tLe way of your town officers;
they are generally public spirited
men and spend lots of time in the
public interest for whioh they re
ceive no remuneration,
Dou’t use rabber stamps on
your letter heads, that is a dead
give away on your own business,
on the town and the newspaper
publiseed in it. Get your letter
heads, envelops, business cards,
etc., printed in the local printing
office.
Never condemn the local paper
unless it has unfaitly used you
If it has dealt with you unjustly
write to it or go ip to the office
and tell the editor about your
case; if he was wrong he will lose
no time in telling the public about
it.
Don’t let politics get mixed op
wi.h your business; if you are a
business man don’t lose the help
that a newspaper can give you be
cause its politics are not your pol
itics, and by all means don’t ad
vertise to help the printer along:
advertise to help business and tn«
town.
A woman may be as true as
steel, but then yen know some
steel is high tempered.
BY AND BY.
He was but a child, when one
night, after he had been ill for
many days, an angel appeared at
his bedside and looked a* kindly
iuto his face that be held up his
thiu hands and whispered ;
“I am r eady—let me go with
you.”
“Some time—not now," whisper
ed the angel, and she soothed him
to gent'e slumber.
Again when manhood had come
he fell asleep one day and in his
dreams the angel returned. It bad
been years since he saw her, but
her face wore the same radiant
smile and age passed her by.
“It is time—l will go with you,
he said as he started up. but the
angel waved him back and said.
“Wait—it is not time."
Years passed away. Tbs gray
hairs were thicker than the black
—the face was furrowed with
many lines—man’s prime had pass
ed and man's decline had come.
The bright dream came once
more, and with it the angel.
“ Surely you will take me now,’’
he said as be felt her soft pres
ence. “I have accomplished my
work on earth and long for rest.”
•‘Wait—l will come once m ore,”
she Answered.
Other years were numbered
with the dead. A f eble old man
had wep/ bitter tears over the loss
oi wife and sons and daughters.
One by one they had been gather
ed to earth while he waited. One
by one the friends of his youth
and of his manhood had passed in
to the dark valley beyond sight
and sound of mortal man.
One night when the summer
sun sank to rest in a sky of purest
gold— when the great world seem
ed almost neiseless—when the rob
in sang softly and flew to his nest
to quiet ‘.he fears of his mate, the
ears of the poor old man heard
the sounds of sweet music afar off
It came nearer and nearer, and the
darkness lighted up with such a
glorious light that his old eyes
saw a procession marching past
him, As he looked and wondered
and doubted, his angel turned
aside and stood before him
“Who are they r ' he asked.
“Friends who have gone before.
Watch closely.”
By and by he saw the faces of
the friends of his youth. Then a
glad shout reached his ears, and
bands were waved from afar off.
People broke away from the pro.
cession and g athered around him
and rejoiced. There was his wife
—there were his sons and daught
ers. He held out bis trembling
hands to the angel and pleaded ;
“You promised me !”
“And the by and by has come 1”
the angel answered.
When the men and women of
earth came tc look npon him in
his coffin they whispered tc eao h
other:
“He must have died as a child
falls asleep. See the glad smile on
his face.”
WISE WORDS
Every path has a puddle.
An idle brain is satan's work-,
stop. i: ‘
The" best friend is an old mir
ror.
Opportunity is the cream of
time.
A man of words, and not of
deeds, is like a garden full of
weeds.
Regret is the water with whioh
we sprinkle the plants of our fol
h-
Virtue is a flower which blooms
only in the garden of righteous
ness.
Bublicity is the barn door upon
which fools love to chalk their
names.
Revelation is the sunshine that
dispels the shadows of mystery
and doubt,
Cvstles without housekeeping
are but bricks and stones—cold
and forbidding.
Hutnor is the clear, sparkling
water that bubbles from the spring
of good nature.
Labor to keep alive in your
breast that little spark of celestial
tire called conscience.
If there be any truer measure
of « man than by what he does, it
must be what he gives
All other knowledge is hurtsu 1
to one who has not the science of
honesty and good nature.
He who has a suspicions that he
has enemies, will do Woll to eon.
aider how it came about that he
has enemies.
A man might as well expect to
grow stronger by always ea/ing as
wiser by always reading. Too
much surcharges nature, and
turns more iu to disease than
nourishment,
Too rose has its thorns, and
beauty is never found without one
or more. They may be blunted at
the end, but cannot be extracted
without killing the tree.
LETTING A CAT »|
The other day a Rcckjojid
hold was made proud and happy
by '.be introduction of a- cabinet
organ. The mother could play a
tittle, and as there was a “popu
lar collection of music” included
in the purchase she loat no lime
in getting every note and stop in
to practice. The organ groaned
and wheezed and complained with
the most astonishing music, night
and day, day and night, for a week
Than oue morning there was u
knock at the door, and a little girl
from the next house shrilly said ;
“Please, maim, mother wants to
know if you won’t lend her your
music book ?”
This was a surprising request,
iu as much ms the woman next
door wa« known to be organises.
After gasping once or twice the
amateur organist asked ,
“What does she want of it 1"
The child hadn’t been loaded for
this question, so she straight for
wardly replied ;
“1 don’t know, m sure, only 1
beard mother tell father that if
she bad hold of /be book for a day
or two mebbe somebody could get
a res/.”
The woman softly shut the door
iu the little girls face and went
and oar*fully locked the cabins
organ with a brass key.—Rocklaud
Courier Gazette.
TIRED OF SASHAYING
AROUND.
Togetner they strolled by tnoon
light—he and she.
They talked of poetry, of pigs
feet and pictures.
They communed with the stars,
and felt that heaven was drawing
nearer to earth day by day.
tier hands were on his arm,
nestling there in fullest confi
dence.
Her carriage was erect, his step
firm hod buoyant.
Happy man ! blissful maiden'
lie told her of his day dreams
in a voice that to her wos.melted
gold.
With a weeping face he tore
away the curtains of reserve and
showed her castles of the bright
est splendor- -in th« air.
Then he talked of Shakespear,
high rents and the price of pork.
Her heart gave a flutter, for she
felt that the turning point of her
destiny was near.
Fixing bis piercing eye full up
on her, he told her of his battles
with the cruel, heartless world.
xihe wondered why he didn’t
pop and be done with it.
Then he dropped into poetry
again, and wandered, oh, so ta r
away from the thoughts that filled
her teeth, and begun tv hum,
“Home, Sweet Hornß.”
Again he made her Leertgu
bounding high in hope, as he re.
marked with a sigh, that carpets
were cotniDg down fearfully in
price, for he toiled daily iu a mart
wherein they were sold.
With a tremor like the flutter of
an eagle’s wug, she softly pressed
his atm, and had a great mind to
faint and drop on the lire plug.
But the divsrson might distract
him, and she withheld.
He wandered to religion, pan
cakes aud sophistry, when she
dropped his arm like a cold pota
to.
He told her he loved—
She turned pale and clinched
hie arm.
JOHN T. WILSON, Ja., Publisher
Hot pancakes aud plenty
syrup.
Bhe felt that her lime was draw
iug near, aud her head began to
seek his shoulder.
Dowu went the head.
The milleuium was coming.
But uot just then.
He spoke of the monsa£tc or-,
dors and the peaceful serouity of
a permit’s life. >'
She marched on alone with both
bauds at her side.
But that sort of an existence
couldn't do for him he said.
With a bound she hau grappled
him wi.h bcth bauds and yearned
for more melody.
What he wanted was a fireside
.of his own,
1 Ohy testacy !
The dear man!, v '
With a nice li/ile wife—and he
looked iuto hfr face with tender*
tp*S/ $\ c> > \
“All tight,! Take me! V’ui
is!” she almost shrieked wW.h
the delirium of joy. “Aud now
let’s go right borne aud tell /he
old folks, and figure up how soon
wo oau gc to housekeeping. Pui
tired of this sashaying around. I
want to Buttle down aud begiu ou
a crazy quilt.”
She was uuru iu Ghiougo aud
business wan bred iu her boue.
INFORMATION.
A fathom is six feet.
A league is three mileH.
A .Sabbath day’s journey is
1,155 yards, ibis is 18 yards less
than two thirds of a mile.
A day’s jouruey is miles.
A cubit is too feet.
A hand (horse measure) is four
inches.
A palm is three inches,
A space is three feet.
A barrel of flour weighs 19C
pounds-
A barrel of pork 900 pounds.
A barrel of rice 600,
A keg of powder 25 pounds.
A firkin of butter 56 pounds.
A tub of butter 84 pounds.
The rollowing are sold by
weight per bußhel.
Wheal, beans and clover seed
50 pounds to the bushel.
Corn, rye and flax seed 57
pounds.
Buckwheat. 58.
Barley, 43 pounds.
Oats, 32 pounds,
Bran, 20 pounds.
Coarse salt 85 pounds.
A comtnerical bale of cotton is
400 pounds.
A pack of wool, 240 pounds
A section of government land is
640 acres, or one mile square.
A liquid ton is 525 gallons.
A box 16 by 104 inches and 8
inches deep, contains a bushel,
A box of lemons will average
about 230 in number; a box of or
uDges from 200 to 250.
A case of preserved ginger cox
tains 9 jars.
A frail of dates weighs from 150
to 200 pounds.
A drum of figs, 2,5, and 8
pounds each.
A cask of primes, 1,309 to 1,»
810 pounds, sverageiuy about 1.
500 pounds.
Currants come in casks of from
275 to 300.
Citrion comes in small boxes of
aoout 25 pounds each; tare, 2to
2£ pounds,
Beanuts are usually sent to mar
ket in sacks, coDtaioiDg about 2
bushels.
Dried apples and peaches come
m barrels, generall j from 150 to
225 pounds.
Blackberries come in barrels,
A quintal of fish is 112 pounds.
Virginia peanuts weigh 22
pounds to the bushel, Wiimings
ton do, 26 to 28 pounds, Africa
do 32 pounds.
< 1 1 0m
“You look sick. tFhat’s the
matter with you, anyhow?” said
Gus ilc Smith, on meeting Oil—
hooly.
“My stomach is in an awfnl fix.
I’ve lost my appetite for w hiekey
—can’t drink a drop.’’
“Lost your appetite for whiskey,
have yen ? Well, I pity the poor
devil who finds it unless he has
credit at the soloons.”
The police jury at Sabiue par
ish, La., limits the amount of whis
key to be | rescrioed by phvsician
to patients to four ounces.
GWINNETT IIEILJLJ).
A WIDK-AWAKK county nkwstatek.
JOB PRINTING
A SPECILFEATU I E
Book work, legal blanks, letter
ads, note heads, bill heads, poe»
s, cards, euvelops—everything
job printing line doae in n«a
d tasty style and on short, no*
e. Pricts low aud work guar- .
anteed: Call on us.
*
Entered ai the Poat Office at Law*
renceville, us second tiituu mail uiat-‘
ter.
NO 36
GEMS OF HUMOR.
A great hardship—an iren steam
ship.
Breeches of contract—those
which shrink, >
Opeuing the season—uncovers
mg a mustard pot.
Beef tough and oxtail BOap mak
mg both ends meet.
A morrally conducted family
should have an ‘upwright’ piano-
A pamting is called a rare work
sometimes because it is not well
done.
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An obediet I farmer a wife is
called a good yacht because she
obeys the tillel.
When a man sees double, it is
evident that his glasses ate too
strong for him. w
“One swallow aoes uot make a
spring*'' That depends upon how
hot the coffee is.
Why is a thief it. the garret like
an honest man ! Becaure he is
above doing wrong.
“Before a man settles down be
should settle up,” and before a
man settles i p lie must settle
dowu.
Some people ere willing to he :
good if they are well paid for it,
Others pref*r to be goou for noth •
tug.
“Time is money,” as the man
remarked when be paid the pawn*
broker the anuual interest on his
watch
A Cynical bachelor says woman
is a good deal like accordion-
You can draw her out, but she
-‘makes music’ if you attempt to
shui her up.
Hungry guest—‘How is this?
1 ordered a steak and a porched
*gg. I see the egg bu/ where is
the steak 1”
Table attendant—‘Date all
right, sah. De steak utn uudah
de egg.” “ ,
John Bright tbiuks that Europe
is “marching towards some great
catastrophe." It eonjeotured that
Mr. Bright haß a presentiment/hat
Oscar Wilde ie goitg to begin an
other series of aesthetic lec/ures
Way is Africa like a greased
poll? Because it isau unhealthy
clime.
The Mohammedans freely ac
kuowled the Koran.
The school ma’am who married
a tanner had evidently a glimmer
ing of the fitness of tnings.
An old citizen, just from a fish
ing tour with two bass, says he
can Bing double bass to any fish
lyre of them all
Mrs. Coyne has sued a man in
Youngtown fur damages for
breach of promise. He didn’t
want Coyne, but she d*es
“You can’/ ride too horses at
once” is an old saying, but it is a
poor pokdr player who cannot
stand on four Jac ks. <
Mamie - How can Lucille marry
that old fossil, Cloaefist T What
if he is rich !
Sadie—/fid you know that he
has heart-disease so bad'y that
the slightest shock is liable to
prove fatal ?
Mamie Ah, that'a ii.
Sadie—l’es, and Luoille thinks
she will be able to shock 1 im.
Mr-. Flatte (who once lived on
the water side of Beacon street)—
By the way, Dr Phlogiston says
sealskin saoques arc real un
healthy. They bring on consunap
tion and also hysterics, like tb6 at
la. k you had last year-
Mrs Beacon—He only meant
the imitation sacques such as I
sow you pricing the other day at
the Closing out sale. Genuine seal
uevi r hut ta anybody,
Mrs Flatte—Were those imita
tion ? What an eye you have for
such things. Do you remember
thoie imitation diamonds you had
after Mr Beacon got his first street
cleaning contract ? Most every
body thought they were genuine
diamonds.
Mrs Beacon—Hows Mr Flatten
deafness now? Does it grow on
him ?
Mrs Flatte—Thanks ; it is a
great deal better since he left that
damp Back Bay bouse.
(Kisses and farewells.) —Boston
Record. “
The Harvard class of ’B9 num
bers 268 men, the largest fresh
man class ever admitted to the
college;