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VOL. XXVII. NO 19
A SMALL POTATO.
A man in Tolland, Connecti
cut!;, found a very small potato
in one of his pockets when lie
came in from his work.
“Here,” said he, laughingly,
Uu a hoy twelve years old who
* " ilh "him, "plant that,
avid you shall have all you can
raise from it till you are of
>) •
age."
** The bright little hoy cut the
potato into ns many pieces as
there were “eyes” in it. and
planted it. In tlu» autumn he
ling and laid by the increuse of
it, and planted that in the fid
lowing spring. Next year he
planted t he larger crop gathered
tho previous autumn. The po
tatoes grew healthily and did
well, and his fourth year’s liar
vest amounted to four hundred
bushels. The farmer asked to
bo released from his bargain,
for lie saw the hoy’s planting
would cover nil his land.
And yet it is quite common
to despise “the day of small
things.”—Ex.
CURIOUS FACTS.
Nearly every castle in Eng
land has its underground pas
sages,
A goose with two hearts was
recently killed by a resident of
Rhydope, England.
#
With a single blow of his in
significant tail an elephant can
knock down the strongest Tuan.
The Congress of the United
Ulftles has' met annually i
Washington in.v N’o\i-mber 17,
1800.
The hall of (In- Hogse of Rep
resentatives at Washington is
the largest legislative room in
tlie \\ol id.
It is estimated that the shin
gle mills of Wliatoom County,
Wash., enl'an average’of 2,000,-
000 shingles per day.
The Rhode Island House pas
sed an act to punish trespassing
otj steam railroads, except at
regular crossings.
The popular belief that the
sup of trees goes down into the
roots in winter and rises again
in the spring- is false.
It has been observed that In
dians sneeze very seldom, while
Chinese sneeze ten times as
much, even, as the white race
A pocket book containing
$40,000, which was lost in St.
Louis, was found by a bell-boy
in a hotel and returned to its
owner.
Some Birmingham (England)
tradesman has turned loose in
the streets a pair of herons with
advertisements attached to
them.
Success has attended the ex
periment of some land owners
at Orlando, Fla., who undertook
to raise Kentucky blue grass
and timothy.
‘ The National Museum, in the
City of Mexico, has received a
curious Aztec map, which shows
the boundaries of the canton ol
Ciiicuptopee, in tho State of
Vera Cruz.
' Plate-glass shelves are being
used in French libraries and
are said p> give complete satis
faction. The wear and tear on
tho bindings of the books is
said to be very much less.
An ancient quadrant bearing
the name of Robert Kidd, the
celebrated pirate, is in posses
sion of a family at Rockland,
Mo. It is more than 2(X) years
old, and is mounted with ivory,
which has now turned dark
brmvn'with age.
The river Vangtse, above
Icliang, China, lias been closed
to navigation, not by a decree
of the Emperor of the flowery
land, but by nature. A recent
land slide lias created a danger
ous. cataract. The debris has
Compressed tbe channel to 80
yards wide with a fall of ten
feet.
—
A north Texas darkey went
to a justice of the peace and
desired him to arrest his wife.
When asked what was her of
fence, he said that she ate so
much that he could not stand
it, and must get rid of her.
She weighs two hundred pounds,
he said, and in 7 years had
borne him eleven children, all
with appetites like her own. A
neighbor, who was with him,
asserted that he saw the woman,
unassisted, at one meal dispose
of three pounds of meat, a peck
oJL beans, five pounds of corn
one-half peck of oqiona
(tml two quarts of buttermilk-
When told that the jusiiee
could do nothing for him, the
unlucky darky went away very
much downcast -Ex.
. , I n -a* • tfcr- -
Walton News: A jouig mail
living in Oconee, whose name
•'jEtfailed to learn, went hunt
ing Friday morning which will
doubt k-i bo his last coon hunt.
He climbed a tree np which the
coon had gone, and in the at
tempt to shake ll e eocn out fell
and was attacked by a pack of
hounds. The dogs are said to
have so badly mutilated the
young man’s I ply that no hope
pf hi» recovery Is eutertamed.
The Gwinnett Herald.
ROMEO’S AND JULIET’S
ARE TOO YOrTHFtJI, NOW-A-DAVS.
The dailies recently told of a
marriage in middle Georgia be
tween a 17-yeor-old swain and a
15-year-old damsel.
American youngsters are be
coming indeed precocious—they
begin to dream of love and mat
rimony before they get their
eyes. No sooner have they shed
their bibs than Cupid impales
them with his fiery dart. From
•the cradle to the altar is blit
two whoops and a holler.
Whether the parents of this
particular psir of adolescent
turtle doves consented to their
matrimonial folly we are not
informed; but the probabilities
are that they played “hookey,”
lied about- their age 10 secure a
icense and were “jineil’* by
some hungry parson who would
hitch the Babes in the Wood
for a two-dollar bill. If the
latter he the true status of the
case it is ducats to doughnuts
that the parents deserve no
pity.
Maids are now permitted t<>
“keep company” while toddling
about in short dresses. By the
lime a girl is 14 she. is usually
“flirting desperately” with
j children of the opposite sex
who have just been promoted
from shirt-waists and knicker
bockers to "long pants.” In
stead of laying her across her
lap and the mother listens
placidly to her prattle of “fel
lows,” and how this or the
other unlicked cub is bleeding
to death with a broken heart
because she “cut him cold.”
She is permitted to gallop out
to parties with youths in their
teens, and is soon making eyes
at. grown men. She knows
more at 15 than her grandma
did at 50, while the average
boy has “gal” on the brain so
badly that lie isn’t half worth
killing if somebody would fur
nish the club. While racing
together with the freedom of
four-footed live-stock, they are
permitted to read erotic novels
in which the relations of (he
sexes are discussed with a free
dom that would daze a fashion
able preacher or a convention
of doctors, and their minds be
come so foul that- mi infantile
marriage is often the least of
two evils.
Tolstoi declares that while in
their teens the sexes should be
religiously segregated, but Ainer
ican parents seem to think that
tho sweet innocence of baby
hood will last without nurture
until a boy casts his first, ballot
and a girl makes her social
debut. The uiudnmo of a Chi
cago bagnio stak'd a few years
ago that a majority/ of girls
who go to the bad are polluted
before they don long dresses,
and that their seducers an* al
most invariably boys. All of
- which suggests that the Arneri
| cans are a very enterprising
people, and might, with profit,
1 take a hint ftoui the Freuch,
wliq do not perm if quite so
much freedom t<> “the young
| person. ”
As a rule, the woman of 20
j could not be persuaded to mar
ly the man—or boy—whom she
“ndoredd” at 10; and it’s oven
money that after tour years’
reflection her old sweetheurt
wouldn’t have her. Puppy love
is a very indifferent capital
with which to set up house
keeping. “Hou'j ripe, soon rot
ten,” says the old saw.
Probably four-fifths of the
unhappy marriages are con
traded by people too young to
distingush between affinity of
souls and a ease of milk-siek
liess. Yet in niatlerg material
few become too old to play the
fool.
The boy who is mentally and
physically sopud is not likely,
if given plenty qf healthy em
ploy uieql, to become moon
struck before he is legally his
own master; the girl who is
kept at a sensible mother's
'apron-strings until 18 is quite
j likely to merit the loyalty of a
I sure-enough man.
One greut trouble with the
American people is too much
| artificial pressure. Fathers are
| too busy chasing the nimble
niekle and mothers too much 1
immersed in fashion’s frivol-1
lies to give, their children prop- 1
er attention. They bundle them
ufl to the public school as they
would send raw material of any
LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 20th 1897.
kind to mill, and concern them
selves little with the personali
ty, of their t«achers, the nature
of their surroundings or the
character of their associates.
At home they are often con
signed to the supervision of ser
vants, half of whom would cor
rupt a kenni 1 of puppies, yel
they are expected to grow up
models of probity.—Exchange.
THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
The editor of (lie Fitzgerald
Leader, who is a woman, thinks
the prodigal daughter should be
treated with the same consider
ation as the prodigal son, and
she is right. Here is the way
she views il:
If the prodigal son had been
a prodigal daughter there would
have been n<s fatted calf killed
She would have crawled in al
the back door, and on her knees
begged simply for a crust and a
shelter, knowing that these, if
accorded at all, would lie given
most grudgingly.
She would have known that
jf the parents were willing to
kill the fatted calf the neigh
bors would not come to the
feast. The opinion of centu
ries would have borne upon her
with such crushing weight as to
cause her to hide upon the ap
proach of old time friends had
they desired to approach. The
women of the neighborhood
would have refused to meet her.
And of the meu ? The great
bulk of them would have met
her with the intention of drag
ging her still lower. This is a
truthful statement of woman’s
position compared to man’s.
Men are an important factor
in the household, ill society and
the state. There is much re
joicing when a man child is
born; he is worth rejoicing for,
worth forgiving when ho steps
from the path of rectitude, hut.
his sister is of less importance.
She makes a mistake and is
lost. If she attempts to re
form what lias she to reform
to ?
And this condition will re
main as long as mothers draw
aside with scorn as they pass
by the unfortunate woman and
the same time welcome into her
home, and introduce to her
daughter, the man who is part
ner in the guilt. A double
standard of morals today is not
only a disgrace t>> civilization
but. a crime against society.
Mot hers should teach their hoys
•to be as pure as their girls, and
to conduct themselves towards
every girl as a knight of the
nineteent li century,whose sword
is drawn in defense of her wo
manliness, defending her from
her own foolishness even. And
the daughters should be taught
to demand purity for purity at
the marriage altar; then will
come the age that demands a
“white life for two ” And that
age is coming. Never before
have mothers so fully realized
the falsity of the doctrine that
“every boy must sow his wild
oats. ”
TOLD BY A MOUNTAIN
PREACHER.
A preacher of this a ction,
since deceased, used to tell (lie
following, says the Hazel Glenn
Herald. He said he was in
Letcher county preaching oil
one occasion, when ho stopped
at a farmhouse to gel his din
ner. While eating, the lady of
the house inquired his business,
and he replied: “1 am hunt
ing the lost sheep of Isreal.”
She left the room, and in a
few minutes returned with her
husband, when she said: “This
man is hunting some stray
sheep, amt I’ll bet that old long
wool rum that’s boen around
here is his’u.”
“No, sister, you don’t under
stand me. j sin hunting sin
ners, those (or whom Christ
died.”
“And is he dead !’’ she quer
ied .
“Yes,” replied the man of
God, asicinished at her igno
ranee.
“And buried, too, I reckon."
“Oh, yes; long, long ago.”
“There now, old man, 1 told
you we’d die in ignorance, for
not taking a newspaper.”
Dyspepsia Specialist (irrita
bly ) —But, madam, v m must
chew your food. What were
your teeth given you for ?
Female patient (calmly) —
They wefeu't given to me, 1
bought ’em.
the army shoe.
AX OM> SORRIER HECARRH HIS
experience with Foor
• WEAR.
I In- first pair of shoes 1 had
in the army,” said an old sol
dier in the New York Sun,
“were two sizes too big for me.'*
f wore sixes; my first army
shoes were eights. 1 didn’t
take t hem from choice—l got
the nearest I could to my size.
\\ (' were being fitted out from
head to foot for the first time;
that was when we were mus
tered in; and the required 1111 m
her of pairs of shoes, of assort
ed sizes, had been delivered to
each company. When I got at
them they had been culled over
so much that there was nothing
left smaller than eights.
“I didn’t think it would bo
possible for nit* to wear a shoe
two sizes too big for me, but 1
tried a pair on. They were
brogans, having flaps, with two
eyelets on each side, lacing over
the instep with leather shoe
strings. They tied snugly, so
that the heel and often part of
the shoe, and the sole, did not
shuck on the foot. The for
ward part of my foot felt as
though it were out-doors; but 1
thought they might do; I had
got to have a pair of shoes, and
1 took them.
“I wore those shoes for sever
al months, and with the great
est, comfort. They were enor
mous, or they looked so to me.
As soon as I began to wear them
the t hick leather of the uppers
humped up into big, rounded
edges, with valleys between,
giving to the top of the shoe a
sort <>f fluted or corrugated ef
fect. These corrugations re
mained always jus!, the same as
long as 1 wore the shoes. They
were not what you would call a
handsome shoe, but, as 1 said,
they did not shuck around on
my feet, and they were mighty
comfortable.
“But it doesn’t follow that
after that I always got shoes
two sizes too big for me; as a
matter of fact. I didn’t; but I
always did get shoes plenty
large lor me; plenty; and found
comfort in wearing lliem.
“Sometimes we used to draw
boots; cavalry boots. And it
was kind o’ fun to get boots. 1
remember very well the first
pair of boots J drew. I think
1 felt about as much pleased I
over that pair of boots as I did i
with.my first red-tops when ]!
was a boy.
“To get mi a pair of cavalry j
boots sort of made a man feel a |
little bit less like a plodding
infantryman, and a little more
like a cavalryman; it gave him j
a sort of a horse-aml-subre I
touch. But this was only ns
he walked down the company
street after drawing the boots
from tin* quartermaster; the
limit day, on picket, the boots
were about the same to him as
shoes would have been.
“Still there were men wlioi
preferred boots and always I
drew boots when they could get j
them. But for myself 1 likej
shoes better. A mounted man, |
of course, wants boots; but ac
cording to my notion the meat
emu fort aide tiling for an infan
try soldier to wear is a good,
roomy shoe that can he made
snug enough somewhere so that
it won’t shuck around on the
foot.
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Store.
———— ——
A clever workman in a cut
lery factory ill Sheffield, Eng
land, has recently made a dozen
pairs ot shears, each so mmole
that they all together weigh less
than half a glam. That is about
the weight of a postage stamp.
Each pair wus perfect and would
cut if sufficiently delicate ma
terial could l>e fun ml Lying
on a piece of white paper they
Seemed no larger than fleas.
•*>— -«>«• ■ ■■■-
tin(*u» Tabula* Lsuisli v»m
! t’OLl HI'ICK ANDSI lIDEN
“Northers,” said the oldTcx
-1 as sheep man, “come up mighty
j quick in our state. I’vo seen
tome right sudden changes in
:ln- weather dow.ii in Atascosa
county when I was runnin’
sheep along about ’7l* and ’80.”
“Saw the thermometer in
Boise City,” said the man from
Idaho, “drop 00degrees in eight
hours. I guess you can’t beat
that ir Texas.”
“That’s a good drop. I don’t
know v bother she dropped more
than that or not, for we didn’t
carry thermometers in Atascosa
county. Of course we don’t
have any extrem-lv cold weath
er down’ thore, but w hen a blue
norther dois come up it conies
so quickly that we feel it more
than you felling do. Some
limes, though these whizzers
do the country good. They
blow away malaria and mosqui
toes. I ought to feel kinder
grateful toward ’em, for one of
’em saved my life one day.”
“I’ve heard of northers losing
people’s lives,” said the Idaho
man, “hut never of their ever
saving ’em before. Would you
mind specifying more particu
larly, mid give us the details of
the act performed by this phil
anthropic norther ?”
“None whatever,” said the
sheep man. “It’s a short story,
and there ain’t anything re
markable about it. There was
a big lake about twelve miles
from my ranch that was full of
buffalo fish, and 1 used to go
out tin re a good deal and shoot
’em. I kept a little boat oil the
lake, and I’d paddle along slow
j in the water and drift about un
jtil I saw a big fellow, and I’d
shoot a little under with a Wiu
! Chester, and he’d come to the
top and roll over on his back,
nil ready to he scooped out and
fried.
“One broilin’ hot day in Sep
tember 1 was paddlin’ around
on Charco Largo—which was
the name of tho lake, I think
it. was tho hottest day wo had
all summer. The air was close
and stiilin,’ and I was pretty
sure we was goin’ to have a
norther before night, an it was
about the season they usually
begun.
“The pitch in the #ieams of
the boat was bubblin' like
greasi. in a hot skillet, and my
gun wui so hot that I had to
keep dipping it ill the water to
keep it cool enough to handl-:.
It, was so hot the sun seemed to
go right through my hat ami in
to ihe middle of my head.
“1 guess it must have been
about 1 o'clock when I saw a
tremendous big bufl’alo near the
top of IHe water about ten feet
in front of the boat. 1 rose up
right quick and let hiir. have it,
when everything turned dark,
and I tumbled square full
length out of the boat. I re
member that as I was failin' 1
knew 1 wus suiistruck, and that
the water was at least twenty
feet deep where 1 was, and 1
w as certain I was gone for good.
“It was just about that time
that tlx* norther struck the lake.
It was mighty lucky for me
that it did, otherwise I would
cnrtaiuy have been (bounded.
As it was, when 1 fi ll I got a
l-ig bruise on the side of my
head that didn’t get well for a
week.”
“What did you fall on ?”
asked the Idaho man, with a
look of startled but unflinching
expectancy.
“Ice,” said the old sheep
man, “three inches,thick all
over tlie lake, ami 1 walked
ashore. If lhut norther had
been two minutes late I’d have
I been droumted certain and
I sure.”—Detroit Free Press.
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years standing, caused by Lb
Grippe, by Dr. King’s .New Dis
covery- B. F. Merrill, Bald
wiusville, Mass., says that he
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and never knew it to fail and
wi uld rather have it than any
doctor. Ix-eause it always cures
■Mrs. ljt-mmmg, j'J'J E. 25th St.
Chicago, always kci ps it at baud
and has no dear of Croup, be
cause it instantly relieves. Free
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Sou’s Drug Store,
PI TH AND POINT.
Many a man has overtaken
Success only to find it, traveling
hand in bund with disappoint
ment.
Don tgot the notion that you
are the greatest person in crea
tion. There are plenty of ot h
er people who are just as small
as you are.
Blanche—George, isn’t this a
love of a bonnet ?
George-1 suppose so; it doesn’t
look as if it would last longer
than six weeks.
'How many bicycle riders'do
you suppose there are in the
country V
'I don’t know, hut I meet
them all every time I cross the
street. ’
\\ lien you hear a man talk
ing about a ‘tip’ that he has
received, it is not only always
easy to determine whether he
is a waiter or only a hTcyclist.
Alice-—Why did she refuse
him—because they were of dif
ferent faiths ?
U.ara—Yes.
Alice—And lie refused to
change his religion ?
Clara—Oh, no; his wheel.
‘A man is never safe.’
‘What's the matter now ?’
“I answered an advertisement
offering ‘light home work’ and
ran upon my wife hunting a
man to heat carpet. ’
Me Lubber ty (hearing a sus
picious noise in the kitchen) —
Moikey, pliwot are yez doin out
dlieie ?
Little Mike—Nawthiu’ sor.
McLubberty (sternly)—Well,
stop it at wance!
Little Bess (so much accus
tomed to see bahv creep thnf
she thinks it is his normal mode
of traveling)—Oh, mamma,
come quick! Baby is standing
on his hind legs.
Wife (hysterically)—l am
sure I cannot he mistaken.
Four times in his sleep he lias
cried out that he put it in the
corner pocket. Can it. be that
he lost it afterward, or is he in
tent ionally deceiving me in his
sleep?—Judge.
Smith—Penman is suffering
from writer's cramp.
Perkins —In the hand ?
Smith—Yes; where should it
ue ?
Perkins—l have known if to
affect some writers in the stom
ach .
Flasherly—Such a joke! Kit
ty talked to a wax figure for
half ail hour, thinking it was
Cholly Saphead.
Ikisherly—How on parth did
she discover her mistake 7
Flasherly—Bless you !' she
didn’t
‘You won't be wanted for two
more days yet,’ said the chief
purveyor of Mbwpka to his
prisener. ‘Your mate promises
to last longer than we anticipa
ted.’
‘Bill,’ said the sailor in the
cage, ‘was always a hard man
to down.’
Mrs. Seldom Singed I—Thanks
Jack: but it wouldn’t look well
for me to dance. I lost my
husband today.
Jack—Divorce?
Mrs. Seldom Singell—No; a
real, geniiiiio death That’s
honest. I have the undertak
er’s certificate in my pocket.—
Judge.
Two years ago.a man known
in St. Louis business circles
wen to tho wall, owing to the
bad times, and everything in
his homo was sacrificed to satis*
fy his creditors. The auction
eer was selling out the house*
holdfurniture with rasping voice
that cut deep down into the
heart of the woman who stood
by. says the Republic.
Presently he held np a rock
ing horse, battered, scratched
and paintless. It had been the
favorite plaything of their little
golden-haired boy, who was now
without even the shelter of a
home. The woman turned pale
and the man started forward.
“Not that, not that,” he cried
hoarsely.
Silence fell upon the crowd
of frivolous buyers. Kven the
auctioneer looked quizzically,
and dashed away a tear from
his eyes, lie handed the toy
t > the man who claimed it w ith
quivering lips. He had no soon
er seized it than he hurried with
the pale, trembling woman from
the room.
Not long ago the man was
heard of again in a far western
state. He was doing a thriving
business. “Where did his cap
ital come from V” a friend ask
ed. to whom the story was told.
Th“ woman, as ia her way.'
told the secret to a friend, and
the friend told it in confidence
to someone elee. The ruined
business iquu had hidden in the
in-ck of the battered and bruis
ed rocking horse ten s|,uzi bills
In the hurry of the auction he
forgot to take the horse aside
before the crowd came, and it
took well simulated grief to get
it out of the hands of the auc
tioneer.
Tabidai iUi k*4 UnlA, „
KOOPER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE
MISSIONARY COL
UMN.
| This column is devoted to
the missionary cause, and ised
ited by the W. F. M. Society,
Lawrenceville auxiliary. |
The committee appointed to
arrange lor the public meeting,
. F. M. Society is requested
to meet at the Methodist
church, Friday afternoon, July
28rd.
there are three lessons I would
write,
Three words as with a burn
ing pen,
In tracings of eternal light
1 | >oii the hearts of men.
Have Hope. Though clouds en
viron now,
And glndness hides her face
in scorn,
Put thou the shadows from thy
brow—
No night but hath its morn.
Have Faith. Where’er tliv
bark is driven—
The calm’s disport, the tern
peat’s mirth—
Knows this—God rules th"
hosts of heaven,
The inhabitants of eart^
Have Love. Not love alone for
one,
But man as man, thv brothers
call,
And scatter like the circling
sun,
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave these lessons on thy
soul—
Faith, Hope and Love—and
thou slialt find
Strength when life's madest,
surges roll,
Light when thou else went
blind.
—Schiller.
To make no more sacrifices
for the work of missions than
many of ns are accustomed to
make, is not simply to play
with missions; it is to turn tl e
whole stiqiendous enterprise nf
bringing humanity into loyalty
tixGod into a solemn mockery.
—The Advance.
SICKNESS IN HEATHEN I,ANUS.
What does sickness mean- to
millions of our fellow creatures
in heathen lands? Throughout
the East sickness is believed to
lie the work of demons. The
sick person at once becomes the
object, of loathing and terror, i“
put out of the house, is taken
to an out house, is poorly fed,
and rarely visited, or the astrol
ogers, or priests, or medicine
men, or wizzards usseiulde, j
beating big drums and gongs.'
blowing horns und making t In
most fearful noises. They light
gigantic fires and dance around
them with their unholy incanta
tions. They beat tlihni with i
clubs to driee out the demons, j
They lny him before a roasting
fire 'till his skin is blistered,
and then throw him in cold
water. They stuff the nostrils
of the dying with aromatic mix
tures or mud, mid hi some
regions they carry the cJironic
sufferer to a mountain t<>p,
placing barley balls and water,
beside him and leave him to,
die alone.—Review of Missions, j
'
Did you ever notice how, in!
that wonderful ninety-ninth
Psalm, David in the midst of a
torrent of praise, makes tin
practical suggestion that they
bring an offering as they come
into His courts. How cun we
come into His presence, know
ing the need of His world, and
withhold what we might give? j
—Helping Hand.
A LARGE MITE.
The Morning Star tells this
story to show that it will not
do to jest nbout the widow’s
mite unless you are prepared to
stand by the consequences:
“A gentleman once called
upon a rich friend for. some
charity.
•* ‘Yes, 1 must give you my
mite,' said the rich man,
•‘‘Doyou mean the widow's
mite?’ asked the solicitor.
“ ‘Certainly,’ was the an
swer^-.,
‘{‘l shall tie satisfied with
half as much us she gave,’ said
his friend. 'Huw much aro
you worth?'
“ ‘Seventy thousand dollars.’
“ ‘Give me, then, your check
for thirty-five thousand dollars;
that will l>e half as much as She
save; for she, you know , gave
her alb’”
The rich man was cornered.
Covetous people niton try to I
shelter themselves behind the
widow’s mite.—The Christian
Advocate.
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Medical experts are of the
opinion that shyness is simply
a form of insanity.
The new naval observatory at
Washington is one of the finest
scientific plants in the world.
Aluminum, in plates a quar
ter of an inch thick, has proven
a very durable roofing material
in Berlin.
A German statistician esti
mates that 7, ooo,ooo■human be
ings lost their lives from earth
quakes between the years 11(17
and 1886.
At Berlin tie vAerinary
school has found that out of
17)1 sick parrots fifty-four were
Buffering from tuberculosis.
The disease is hereditary in the
birds.
A late mysterious raplosioMl
in a colliory in South Wales
appears quite certainly to have
resulted from a spark caused
by a heavy fall of the gritty
sandstone roof.
The world’s production of
coal has almost doubled within
the last fifteen years. In 18H0
ti)' aggregate output was .864,-
17U7, 0tX) tons. In 1897) it had
risen to (i‘!B,BGf>,ooo tons.
The dust collected, from the
i smoko of some Liege furnaces,
! burning coal raised from the
j neighboring mines, produces,
when dissolved in hydrochloric
| acid, a so'ution from which
; considerable quantities of arse
nic and several other metallic
salts may ho precipitated.
r
A Danish scientist, Dr. Johan
son, of the Agricultural High
School of Gopenhagen, lias dis
covered that chloroform and
ether hr*vo a wonderful power
in awakening tint vegetable
kingdom,- while they put tile
animal world asleep, a closed
flower can be reopened instant
ly by either of these agents.
A queer sigiil was the ladies’
night of a London microscopi
cal club, where the guests sat
around HU microscopes listen
ing to a lecture. One of the
curiositiis shown was a chapter
otSt. John written on the tw*-
thoußundth part of a square
inch, on which scale the whole
Bible would cover just one
square inch of Space.
A remarkable adulteration of
saffron has been disco’vered by
a German niicroscopist, who
hits found barium sulphate
within the cells, and concludes
tlmt the drug was first soaked
in a solution of barium salt
and then in a sulphate solution.
Barium sulphate was thus pro- •
cipituted within the substance
of (he drug as well as on tho
surface, rendering detection
ditlicult. t
WORDS OF WISDOM..
Reason always walks, but
lovo runs.
The soul fed upon husks, nev
er gets fat. '
The best men are mother
made men.
bear of offending, enslaves us
to other’s evils.
A poor free lunch coats more
than a good dinner.
The cause of our not being es
teemed is in ourselves.
Gml pity the man who mur
ders his own innocence.
The true life is the life we
live wilhiu ourselves.
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The only notes that are not
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birds—and. they are melting
notes.—Constitution.
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