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VOL. XXVI. NO 40
Great SlaughterOf
Dry Goods, Hats,
Shoes & Notions
A t Norcross.
Desiring to close out this branch of my
business by December next. I offer my en
tire stock of dry goods, hats, shoes .no
tions, etc., for cash
At Cost
I have a large, well selected stock of
first class goods in this line that will be
closed out at a great bargain.
Come al Once.
I will keep a good supply of family gro
ceries, hardware and stock feed which will
be sold at reduced prices.
Iviverv Huslness:
I also conduct a general iivery business’
Where ample accommodations will be'giv
en the traveling public,
All persons indebted to me by note or
account are notified to make payment by 1
the first of October.
R. S '. Med lock.
.
Norcross, Ga., Sept., 16, 1896.
humorous.
Bob-Wasn’t it pathetic,Jack?
Jack —Rather! Why, the
h ats were in tiers.
Putts —Strange, isn’t it, that
sleep won’t coine to me at
night ?
llotts —Then why don’t you
g.t to sleep ?
They say fi is unwise to let
people know it if you are poor.
Yes, and more unwise to let
it get, out that you are rich.
Willie —Ta, what is a ‘pre
varicating minion of Beelze
bub ?’
Pa —A man who disagrees
with you politically, my sou.
Your wife wears extremely
fetching gowns.
Yes, they fetch a.bill collect
or to my office about twice a
week.
][„—Wlmt are vour views on
matrimony, Miss Scruggs ?
Miss Scraggs—Young man, 1
tike a bird’s eye view. 1 look
d '.vn upon it.
Magistral!—Were you ever
tip before mo ?
Prisoner —Sure 1 don’t know,
your worship. What time does
your worship get up ?
H m—Say, father, why have
all the pictures got frames ?
Father —Why, my son, so
that the artist may know when
to stop paintii g. f course.
Iler Father—You say she Ims
accepted you ?
Ruitor —Yes, sir!
Her Father —Then.l suppose,
this is merely a ratification
meeting ?
Billy —Johnnie Jones and 1
hail a pillow fight yesterday.
Freddie —Who got the worst
of it ?
Billy—The pillow.
Kichard —flow urn you and
Miss Snmrto getting on ? Does
she smile upon your suit ?
Robert —smile upon it ? She
actually laughs at it.
Jennette —Julia, wlieu did
you have your dining-room ceil
ing done over in those lovely
shrdes of red and brown ?
Julia —Ten bottles of my
catchup 1 left on the sideboard
burst last night.
Papa thought he was
smart putting a receipted gas
bill among the presents, didn’t
ho '!
He —Yes; especially’ when you
always turned the gas out when
I called.
Brown —Listen, Mr. Jones;
some otto has invented a ma
chine by which a man can hear
himself wink,
Jones —That’s good, Mr.
Jones; now I h r, pe they will get
up one by which a man can
hear himself snore.
Kitson — A foolish New ork
artist has just married an In*
diari who posed (or several of
her pictures.
Thatcher—Well, 1 suppose
she was looking tor a model
husband.
Highwayman—l 11 just. take
off your boots and see it you
have anything t here.
Frightened Fedest riatt —You
tieedn’t trouble yourself, sir.
There’s nothing in them hut
heart.
The Gwinnett Herald.
(JUAINT ANI> CURIOUS.
Lord Wolaeley’s sword is val-j
tied at 110,000.
The horse, of all animals, is J
the quickest to succumb to cold. |
Six persons lose their lives
through paraffine lamp aeoi- j
dents each week in London.
The original civil engineer
was the mole. He anticipates!
danger by making several exits
and entrances t»> his abode.
The Austrians are great
smokers. The dally consump
tion of matches in that country
is twenty for each inhabitant.
A conscientious registrar of
births and deaths at St. Ives',
England, recent 1 ;' cert itied to j
the death of an infav.t aged one!
minute.
The oldest opp’e tree of Qeor 1
gia is hi (lie farm of John R.
Wilson of Wrightsviiie. It was
planted long before Georgia was
a state.
Princi-s Dhuleep Singh was
lull'd twelve shillings in the
Burton-iipon-Treiit PolicoCourt
for taking her lap-dog to drive
in her carriage without having
it muzzled.
One to every sixty inhabi
tants was tin' proportion of
firearms found bv 1 tie assessors
in San Benito County, Califor
nia, and of watches there \w- e
in the county twenty-two few r
than the whole number of
weapons.
It is said that a large well
! known bunk has un invisible
camera in a gallery behind the
cashiers’ desk, so that at a sig
nal from one of them any sus
pected customer can instantly
have his photograph taken with
out his knowledge.
11 lam Russell, weight 2tkl
pounds, of Plainfield, Ind,, is
the proud papa of a 10-inch
liahy which weighed one pound
and a half at its birth, und at
the end of three weeks weighed
three pounds. Mrs. Russell’s
weight is lot) pounds.
A child, a curiosity in its
way, has been taken to the
home of the United Charities
organization,Wi ke>lmrre,Pcnn
He is thri-e years old and weighs
only 10 1-2 pounds. His head
is the size of a base ball, and »
25-eont piece would cover wne
hand- The little fellow stands
22 inches high.
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' stance tnd to be purely vegeta
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Hoi - in San Diego county,
Cul , offered at $5 apiece, go
I Lugging tor buyers.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUE SDAY, DECEMBER 15th 1896.
MOTHER’S SU MMER SONG
Sleep, my little one, sloop!
Narrow thy bed and deep.
Neither hunger, nor thirst, nor
pain
[Can touch or hurt time ever
again.
i', thy inolher, will bend and
sing
As I watch thee, calmly, slum
bering.
Sleep, my littb* one, sleep!
Sleep, mv little one, ileep!
Narrow thy bed and deep.
Soon in thy augel’s tender arms,
Closely sheltered from earth’s
alarms,
Thou wilt awaken, baby mine,
Where all is mercy and love
divine.
Sleep, my little one, sleep!
Sleep, my little, one, sleep!
Narrow thy bed and deep.
I have wept till my heart is dry,
But now I smile as I see t hee lie
With small hands crossed in
death’s niute prayer,
Never to reach in the wild de- \
spnir
Of hunger’s anguish. All is
o’er!
I wept, but now l can weep no
more.
Sleep, my little one, sleep!
Sleep, ray little one, sleep!
Narrow thy lied and deep.
A little while I, too, shall rest
Close by the side of my baby
blest.
Safe is my babe—earth’s an
guish done—
Safe, at the feet of the Holy
One.
Sleep, my little one, sleep!
Anna B.Bensei,.
FOR BETTER OR WORSE.
SOME OK THE QUAINT OLD MAR- 1
RIAOE CUSTOMS AND HU-
J'ERSTITIO.Ns.
According to an old writer,
! Ihe wedding ring was first de
-1 signed by Prometheus and fash
i ioned out of adamant and iron
!by Tubal Cain. The same
i writer says that it was “given
; by Adam to his son to this end,
! that, therewith he should es
! pouse a wife.” When paradise
had quite receded from view,
men, who are deceivers ever,
got into a fashion of wedding
with a ring made of rushes, to
make their vows the less bind
ing, But in 1217 the bishop of
Salisbury effectually put his
foot down on this practice.
Wedding rings were made as
often of silver as of gold, and
!of fantastic shapes, with “po
nes inside, one of which ran:
Fortune doth send you, Imp it
well or ill,
This plain gold ring to wed you
to your will.
The* wedding cake is the re
mains of u Roman custom. In
ancient Rome a bride hold in
her left hand three w heat pars;
the attendant girls threw corn,
either in grains or iu small bits
of cake, upon the heads of the
newly married pair, and the
[guests picked up the pieces and
ate them.
In the eighteenth century the
wedding cake came into general
use. It was then composed of
solid blocks laid together and
■ iced over with sugar. When it
was served, it was held over tln*
bride’s head, and the outer
crust was broken. Then the
cakes inside fell on the floor
and were distributed to the
company.
Throwing the slipper has an
origin the reverse of the senti
mental and is a reminiscence
of those barbarous times when
the relations of man and wife
weje much akin to those of
master and slave. The shoe
was an Anglo-Saxon emblem of
authority and was given by the
I bride’s father t>> her .husband
iu token of transference of pow
er, which the groom acknowl
edged by tapping his bride light
ly on the head with it as au
earnest of mastership.
The superstitions connected
with entering the married state
are numerous and curious, and
most of them are a purely fern-1
ir.ino possum. As a prelimina
ry there is a little difficulty
■ • ,
| about choosing a'day, if this
i little verse is to be believed:
Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth,
Wednesday the host day of all.
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all.
If a day lias finally been cbo
seu, then Cullies the question of
'season. “Marry iu Lent, and
1 you’ll live to re|M'iit,” takes
| that period out of considera
! tion.
Then each mouth lias certain
unlucky days, on which marry
ing and ghiug iu marriage is
not to be thought of. The
there are other sibylline utter
ances to which the prospective
bride should pay bed. Slu
must know that “to change the
name and not the letter, is to
change for the wori-e and not
the better;’’ also that to marry,
and yet “to keep her own uame
is to keep her condition forever
t he same. ’’
When nil 1 hose lift |e obstacles
are overcome, a bride in array
ing herself for the ce’oniony
must he sure to wear
Something old and something
new,
Something borrowed and some
thing blue.
The suit must shine on her
wedding day, and she must not
trip on the way to the church,
or cross.the threshold with the
I left foot first. The same ap
plies to the bridegroom. No
one must open, an umbrella
while the bridal pair are in the
house. That would bring the
worst of ill luck. A horsi shoe
and a wishbone hidden in the
tlowers under which the pai
I stand to plight their troth have
a most salutary influence on
their future life.
So, if those who are contem
plating matrimony w ish to sc
cure the prize of happiness in
that lottery of lotteries, they
have only to follow’ faithfully
all the directions here given.—
Newark Advertiser.
STRANGEST OF SABOONS.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The queerest saloon evei
known iu Kentucky has 1
discovered in Harlan county.
It is a .huge gourd, w il h a crool
ed handle, hung on n trc".
On a hoard abov e it mi- 'ml.
ly inscribed, “order ollis. "
In the side of the gourd wa>
a hole large enough to admit ;
quart bottle.
There was not a house in -igh
where this gourd was hanging,
and the story of how it came t,
be'used as a saloon is ap ciiliai
one.
For many years “Long .John’'
Ratcliff conducted a moirishin
still on Crummies Creek, aboil
ten miles south of Harlan four:
house.
The revenue officers were un
able to find his still, and l.i
sold hundreds of gallons of
whiskey every year. His ciis
tomers were so well tre.it<»i
by the old man (but none ol
them were inclined to iiUoru
on him.
John Ed Bogie was hii dis
tiller, and lie saved up tin
money the old man paid bin
and all he could make by sell
ing whisky on the outside, und
about two years ago stalled iq
a distillery of his own out 'runk>
creek, which empties into ('run
mies creek, about a mile helov
Rutelilf’s still
Of course, the old mao i rie.
to persuade him not to leave
and actually ottered him dmiM.
the salary lie had been paying
hut Bogie left, and was sooi
making moonshine on his owi
hook
The main road crosses ('ruin
mies creek almost at the fork
and John conceived the idea ot
putting up his silent saloon a.
this point. He according 1 ,? rig
ged it up, and for nearly tw
years ii continued to do Inisi
ness at the old stand.
Finally Bygie hired some ol
his friends one night to fak
the gourd down, which the*
did, und it is now in tie pus
session of Maj. Geo. B. Crock
rell of Cumberland Gap.
The gourd is one of the larg
est of its species, and has a ca
pacity of nearly half a luishel.
It is very thick and strong, utid
shows no evidence of having
been exposed to the elements
for nearly t wo years.
It is said that nobody ever!
complained of having a cent of
money or u bottle of whisky!
stolen from this gourd, but the]
whisky furnished through the!
medium of this strange saloon
was often the cause of bloodv
lights among the mountaineers
Hungry Higgins—l see Chica
go Jerry today wit’ both hi*
lamps blacked an a im-e like* a
! sausage. What happened ’itn
'1 wonder?
Weary Watkins —lie tried to
git too plutocratic. Found a
| empty ho\ car an thought he
I wouldn’t let none of the rest of
| the going in. Said he was goin
to trv traveliu in his own pri
j vute car oust. —Indianapolis
' Journal.
THE TRI E MAN.
1 he place to take the measure
"I a man is not the forum or
the field, not the market place
or the amen corner, but his
own fireside. There he lays
aside his mask and you may
judge whether lie's imp or an
gel, king or cur, hero or hum
bug I care not, w hat the world
-ays about him—whether it
'■rowu him with rays or pelt
him with had eggs; I care not
what his reputation or religion
may be. If his babies dread his
home-coming and his better
hull swallows her heart every
time she has to ask him fora
little money, lie’s a fraud of
die first water, even if lie prays
night and morn till he’s black
ill the face, and howls hallelu
iah till he shakes the eternal
hills. But it his children rush
to the trout gate to meet him,
and love’s own sunshine illu
minates tln> face of his wife
when she hears his foot-fall,
you limy take it for granted
t hat he’s t rue gold, for his home
is a heaven, and the humbug
never gets that near the great
white throne of God.—Ex.
POLITICAL SUPPORT.
An old chronicler tells a pret
ty incident connected w ith Gen.
Washington and the old time
election days. Washington vo*
ted at all the Fairfax elections
tint il the close of his life, uni
formly supporting the Federal
candidates.
Although lie lived at a dis-
t a nee from the conrthouso at
the Alexandria market, he gen
erally voted early iu the day.
flu* polls were reached by a
light of stops outside the build
eg. which in 1799 had become
very shaky from old age.
When General Washington
cached these steps, lie placed
me f oot upon them and shook
the crazy ascent, as if to dis
cover how much strength was
est in it. Instantly 20brawny
inns, one above another, grasp
'd the rickety stairway, and a
1 iizeii men’s shoulders braced it
firmly. Nor did a single man
move from bis position until
the venerable chief had deposi
ted his vote and descended the
stairway.
“I saw the general’s last
how,’’ said one these supporters
half a century after that day,
“and il was more than kingly.”
—Youth’s Companion.
A gentleman who hud an im
ii diuient in his speech was din
ing in a restaurant, and was^ be
ing served —a great favor—by
the proprietor of the establish
ment.. This man was a hust
ling, nervous person, with an
xsggerated opinion of the val
ue of his time.
Soup was served. The guest
waited a moment, and at the
first opportunity began to say
to the restaurant-keeper:
“I c-c c-au’t e-e-e-ea—”
“Well, what is it, sir?” ask
'd the restaurant-keeper, impa
tiently.
“1 c-c-c an’t ent my soup— '*
The man snatched up the
plate of soup and was off after
nother, which in due time lie
brought; hut again the guest
began to murmur:
“I c-c-c-an’t eat my soup—”
“Well, prav,” asked the res
tiurant-keoper, “what may be
the matter with this soup, that
you are unable to oat it ?”
“1 c c-c-can’t ea-ea-eac my
soup, 1 t-t tell you,” answered
the guest, w-w-w-ithou-on-out a
-p-p-p-p-coil to eat it with!”
Then the restaurant-keeper
comprehended that lie would
saved time and temper if had
waited for his stumming guest
to finish his seuteuco, — Ex
change.
jvOl'R BOY WONT LIVE A
MONTH.
So Mr. Oilman Browm, of 84
1 Mill St. Gardner, Mass., was
told by the doctors. His son
had Lung trouble, following
Typhoid Malaria, and he spent
three hundred and seventy-live
dollars with doctors, who final
ly gave him up, saying: “Your
hov wont live a month.” He
tried Dr. King’s New Discovery
and a few bottles restored him
to health and enabled him to go
to work a perfectly well man.
lie says he owes his present
good health to use of Dr. King's
New Discovery, ung knows it to
Ibe the best in the world for
Lung trouble. Trial Bottles
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TV NOTED UY PHYSICIANS
AND SAVANTS.
From the Medical Record.
Every one is interested in the
question of long life as applied
to himself, and all facts hear
ing on it are noted with becom
ing feeling of .self-congratula
tion or otherwise. It is the
staying power that is in de
mand, backed by an inherited
and reserved vitality of resist
ance against the usual evils
to which all flesh ami other
perishable things are subject.
Tiff! law of heredity, which
our life insurance companies
understand so well, is at the
bottom of all calculations us to
whether a particular man or
woman is wound up for seventy
years or w ill run down at twen
ty or forty years.
Aside from this testimony,
there are certain physical qual
ities which have great weight in
determining the result of the
struggle against a conspiring
environment. An oak has one
configuration, and aceder, pine,
or mullein stalk another. It is
tlie proper recognition of such
distinctions that aids physicians
in their prognosis, and turns
the balance against apparently
desperate chances.
At a recent meeting of the
Academy of Science, Mr. F, W.
Warner, in speaking upon the
subject of biometry, offered
some very interesting data,
which are in the main true.
“Every person,” said lie,
“carries about with him the
physical indications of his lon
gevity. A long-lived person
may he distinguished from a
short-lived person at sight. In
many instances a physician may
look at the hand of a patient
and tell whether he will or die
“In ihe vegetable as well as
in the animal kingdom, each
life takes its characteristics
from the life from which it
sprung. Among these inherit
ed characteristics we find the
capacity for continuing its life
for a given length of time
This capacity for living we call
the inherent of potential lon
gevity.
Under favorable conditions
and environment the individu
al should live out the potential
longevity. With unfavorable
conditions, this longevity may
be greatly dec reused, but with
a favorable environment the
longevity of the person, the
family, or the race may be in
creased.”
Herein are presented the two
leading considerations, always
present and always inteidepen
dent—the inherited potentiali
ty and the reactionary influen
ces of environment.
"The primary conditions of
longevity,’' lie continues, “are
that the heart, lungs, and di
gestive organs as well as the
brain, should be large. If
these organs arc large the trunk
will be long and the limbs com
paratively short. The person
will appear tall in sitting and
short in standing. The hand
will have a long and somewhat
heavy palm and short fingers.
The brain will lie deeply seated
as shown by the orifice of tin
ear being low. The blue hazel
or brown hazel eye, as showing
an intermission of temperament
is a favorable indication. The
nostrils being largo, open, and
free indicates large lungs. A
pinched and half-closed nostril
indicates small or weak lungs.”
Those are general points of
distinction from those of short
lived tendencies, but, of course,
subject to the usual individual
exceptions. Still, it is well ac
knowledged that the character
istics noted are expressions of
inherent potentiality, which
have been proven on the basis
of abundant statistical evi
dence.
Again lie says truly:
“In the case of persons who
have short-lived parentage on
one side and long lived on the
other side, the question becomes
more involved. It is shown in
grafting and hybridizing that
nature makes a supreme effort
to pass the period of the short
er longevity -wd extend the life
tfu the greater longevity. Any
j one who understands these weak
and dangerous periods of life is
[ forewarned aud foreunnwd. It
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has been observed that the chil
dren of long-lived parents ma
ture much’later and are usual
ly backward in their studies.”
our’coinsT -
Pursuant to a resolution of
the last Congress, the Philadel
phia mint is tojbegin this month
to make experiments with new
metals and combinations of
metals to. d itermine whether
any improvemotit can be made
in our present copper and nickle
coinage.
It mny give us aluminum
cents in pluce of the copper
pieces now in use, and possibly
a new species of live-cent pieces,
made entirely of nickle, or per
haps half of nickle and half of
copper.
There is so slight a sugges
tion of copper in the present
five-cent piece that it is a sur
prise to rend that 7f> per cent,
of it is copper and only 25 per
cent, nickle.
The present cent contains 05
per cent, of copper, 2 per cent.
<>f tin and 15 per cent..of zinc,
The objection is made to it that,
it is hard to distinguish by feel
ing between a cent and a silver
teu-cent piece.
TIME OCCUPIED BY
DREAMS.
The time occupied by a dream
is one of the marvels of sleep.
In the work entitled “The Phil
osophy of Mystery” we read of
a man who dreamed that he had
enlisted as a soldier; that he
had joined his regiment and
traveled to a foreign country;
that lie finally diserted on ac
count of the harsh treatment
he had'received at the hands of
hjs superior officers; that he
had been apprehended and car
ried buck to his regiment; that
upon arriving there he was
tried by court mbrtial, con
demned to be stmt and was led
out for execution. At tl is mo
ment the guns of the execution
ers exploded, and the sound
awoke awoke the diearner. It
was clear now that a loud noise
in an adjoining hud produced
the dream and awakened the
dreamer almost at the same mo
ment.
SCIENTIFIC* SCRAPS.
The sun is 92.500,000 miles
from the earth. The hitter re
ceives only one two-billionth of
t he solar heat.
Basic slag, or Thomas slag,
is the dross or rif use of smelted
iron ores, and contains about,
twenty per cent, phosphoric
acid,moatof which is generally
very slow iu dissolving in the
soil.
Sulphate of potash, and the
double salt, sulphate of potash
and magnesia, are also used as
fertilizer, a pound of potash iu
these forms generally costing
about one cent more than in
the form os muriatt.
It is certain tliut theelephant,
the rhinoceros, the hear, the
hyena, and other wild animals
were at one time common in
England. Several bones of these
animals have been found iu
Kent’s cavern, about a mile
from Torquay.
Nikola Tesla tells us that it
may be possible to see the face
is well us hear tin- voice of tin
speaker who is a thousand mile*
away. There are difficulties in
the path, but the scientific im
sgination predicts success, and
Tesla declares he lias hope.
Three miles an hour is about
the average speed of the Gull
Stream, At certain places, how
'-ver it ulturns a speed of fifty
one miles nn hour, the extraor
dinary rapidity of the current
giving the surface, when tin
sun is shining, the appearance
of a sheet of fire.
Bone meal, if made of raw
bones, contains considerable
nitrogen, and all bones contain*
twenty to twenty-five p-r cent,
phosphoric acid, but it has’re
eently been ascertained that*un
less bones are dissolved in sul.
phuric acid, their phoq-horic
acid is uot soluble in soil wa
ters.
The atmosphere of Loudon
during the lust twelve mouths
is said to have been singularly
tree from smoke. The change
is attributed to the increased
use of gas for heating, cooking
and inauufactiug purposes. One
gas company lias tlxed during
the last tour years <IB,OOO small
cooking stoves in the homes ol
jworyingmen. The stoves are
on the “penny iu the slot”
style, and have ptoved a great
success.
\ ery old limit tire is much im
proved if washed with lime
water, and a coat of oil tumie-
I diatoly applied.
ALL SORTS.
1 Hormisadas of Persia was the
Noseless, from a natural defect.
Mail from New York city to
the German Kameruti will be
delivered in 14 days,
! There are 700 miles of travel
| before the railroad passenger
i who starts from St. Louis to go
to New Orleans.
Jones—You know Brown by
sight, dontyou?
Smith—l did, but he fell oir
Ins wheel yesterday.—Town
Topics.
The prefect of police of Paris
has decided to allow the petro
leum horseless carriage to com
pete with omnibuses and ply
for hire.
Louis XVIII of France was
ironically styled by his subjects
the Desired, He was forced up-’
oil them l.y the allied armies.
The name “barleycorn,” in
long measure, arose from the
use of this grain as a measure
of distance.
The first insurance company
to begin business in this coun
try opened its doors in Phila
delphia in tho year 1704.
“Sh<‘ is a girl of uncertain
ago, I believe.”
“No. She’s been the same
for the last ten years,”—Pick
Me Up.
In eastern countries cloth is
still measured by using the arm.
the length of tliu forearm, with
the addition of the hreudth o f
the left hand, making the meas
ure.
During the pust 85 years, 805
fire insurance companies have
gone out of business The are
now 248 American and foreign
companies doing business in
this country, and the guarrnn
teed losses amount to over $15,-'
000,000.
The hawthorn blossom is em
blematic of hope. According
to a tradition of the eastern
church, the crown of thorns
was made of a branch of the
hawthorn, and it is also said
that after Christ was buried a
haw thorn miraculously sprang
up above the grave.
Scmebody bus been looking
over the records and discovered
that 2« is Maj. McKinley’s
lucky number. He will lie the
twenty-third man who has held
the office of president; ho w ill
have the electoral vote of twen
ty-three states; iu the war he
served with the Twenty-third
Ohio regiment, iu which Ruth
erford B. Hayes also served.
Moody and Sankey, after a
period of separation, are once
more working together. They
are at present in New York,
conducting u revival meeting in
the Carnegie music hail. Mr.
Moody says there is need of such
a stirring-up in religion as there
lias been reecently in politics.
He regards the recently ended
campaign as u good thing for
the country.
At Freeport, Ills., a new in
dustry is to be started. On a
quarter section of land an en
terprising Kansas farmer will
establish 1,000 black cats and
5,000 rats, on which to feed the
cats, estimating that, the Cats
will increase 15,000 iu two
rears, their skins being worth
M each. Tin rats will multiply
> times as fast as the eats and
will be used to feed the latter,
while the skinned cuts will fur
nish food to the rats. Thus
has perpetual motion been dis
covered at last —Warren Sen
tinel.
“Chaste moon,” sang the
poet.
At that the moon hid her face
behind a cloud.
“Alas, that 1 am unworthy of
his praise 1” she sighed.
Site doubtless had in mind
ihe notorious fact that once a
month she got full and staid
■tit all night.—Detroit Tribune,
He (nervously)—Miss Sweet
mart, I—l wish to speak with
you.
She (knowing what is coin
ing)—Very well, brother Clar
•uce, 1 am listening.
He (rising t<» go) —1 don’t
think I will say it now. It is
nothing, uny wav.—J larlem
Life.
An Irishman working at a
farmhouse near Neweast’e-on
I'vne was making rather tree
with the milk one morning. The ,
farmer caught hiut drinking out
of u (plan measure lull.
“Look here,’’ says the farmer
“1 don’t like that Put.”
“Well,” says Pal, “you don ’t,
know what’s go< d tor you!”
Kipautf Tubulnscurr rtatulsuce.
Kipwus Tabulos cuts coiutipaUSU.