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A Wasp in an Old Man’s Slipper.
There are times in the life of the small
boy when he feels very sad from tho nso
of a slipper or switch upon him. If any¬
thing thus happens to the person is who has
afflicted him, his joy great, as
will bo seen from returned the following home incident; his
A gentleman from
daily toil and had pulled off his boots
and was going to put on his slippers,
when a howl of intense agony resounded
through toe hall. The affrighted family
rushed to tho door, and beheld their
papa heaving and the shadows with wild ges¬
tures frantic gyrations. “ Take it
off," he shouted, and made a grab at his
foot, but, missing it, went on with tho
war dance. ’Walter!” he shrieked,
and started, up stairs, three at a step,
and, turning, came back in a single
stride. “ Oil, I’m stabbed ! ” he cried,
and sank to the floor and held his right
leg high above his head ; then he rose
to his feet with a bound, screaming
for the bootjack, and held his foot out
toward lffs terrified fainily. 1 ‘ Oh, bring
the arnica,” he yelled, and with one des¬
pairing it effort he reached his slipper and
got off, and, with a groan as deep as a
well and as hollow as a drum, sank into
a chair and clasped his foot in both
hands. “Look out for the scorpion,”
be wlnspered hoarsely, “I’m a dead
man.”
The small hoy was by this time out in
the wood-sited, rolling in the kindling in
ally an ecstasy of glee, and pausing occasion¬
to explain to the son of a neighbor,
who had dropped in to see if there Was
any innocent sport going on in which
he could share, “Oh, Bill! Bill,” he
said, “you wouldn’t believe ; sometime
to-day, somehow or other, a big blue
wasp got into the old man’s slipper, and
when lie came home and put them on—
oh ! Bill, you don’t know what fun I’ve
had .”—Dallas CTcxas) Herald.
“She Retaliated Immejitly.”
It was a suit for divorco. Tlie ltus
band—a surly, mean-faced, ferret-eyed,
beetle-browed man—wanted a divorce
from liis wife. They were both in court.
Tlie woman was sickly-looking, and,
very terics likely, by had been driven into hys¬
tlie brute who called himself
hcr husband. The principal witness for
the plaintiff was another beetle-browed,
ferret-eyed, shop-keeper meiui-visaged fellow, who
was for the latter and board¬
ed n» his family.
And this witness had been “ cooked ”
—had been “done up brown”—by both
his employer and his employer’s lawyer.
It was plainly to he seen that lie an¬
swered by rote—that tho words he spoke
bad been put into lffs mouth by another.
When the counsel for the wife came tc
question this witness, after his own law¬
yer had done with him, he said to him,
with a smile, tlie whole meant for tho
jury, of course:
“ You’ve got your lesson pretty well,
haven’t you, sir?”
“ I haven’t got no lesson. ”
“All right. But let us see. You
say, if I understand you, that Airs.
B- has a very retaliating disposi¬
tion ?”
“ Yes, sir; that’s what I said.”
Give “Well, and how did she retaliate?
us an instance.”
stupid “ Why,” grunted tho witness, with a
Yes, look, “I’ve told lots of ’em.”
“ and now I want you to tell mo
one. Tell me and tlie jury, if you
please, ing.” a marked case of her retaliat¬
always “My! I’ve told you once she was
Exactly retaliating.”
“ ; but we want a particular
instance, so that we can judge of its real
merits. Now, look. Did you ever see
tlie plaintiff in this case—your employer
—kiss his wife ?”
“Yes, sir !” the man answered, quick
ly
“ And what did the wife do on that
occasion?”
“ She retaliated immejitly.”
“ That will do. You may stand
down. ”
The counsel for the plaintiff would
have called the witness back, but toe
which Judge nobody whispered to him something
else heard, but whioh
caused him to let the witness go.
The divorce was not decreed.
The Elephant Myth.
The elephant of our childhood no
longer exists. Like behemoth and levi¬
athan and other mythical creatures in
whom we once implicity believed, he
has been proved to bo a figment of toe
Oriental imagination. The authority
upon which we make this unwelcome
announcement is no other than Mr.
Sanderson, who has for many years
tilled the post of Superintendent of Ele¬
phants stands to toe in Government of India, and
who the same relation to these
animals toat Sir Joseph Fayrer occupies
toward tigers and venomous snakes. In
a lecture recently delivered to the Unit¬
ed Service Institution at Simla he
roundly calls the elephant “positively
idiotic iu its attempts to escape when
eaptured,” and talks of “ its want of or¬
iginality and its positive stupidity in
many of things.” In is short, “ in the facul¬
ty and reasoning it animals.” far below Nor will the dog
many other Mr.
Sanderson allow the estimates of its
great height. Out of many hundreds
he has measured in Southern India and
Bengal, he has not found one reaching
ten feet at the shoulder. Yet one disil¬
lusion more. The elephant-hunters in
lioth Ceylon and India corroborate Sin
bad’s story that elephants, when they
feel the approach of death, retire to a
solitary in and inaccessible valley and there
die peace. But Mr. Sanderson,
though he admits that no living man
has come across the corpse of a wild ele¬
phant toat has died a natural death, at¬
tributes this rather to their extreme
longevity, which he is ilisposed to place
as high as 200 years. This explanation,
however, seems to us to violate that
rule of scientific hypothesis which re¬
quires tiiat the cause should be udeqnatc
to account for the result .—PaU Mall
Gazette.
Too High.
At a oamp-meeting l»egan the last hymn summer a
venerable sister :
My tool, to on thy *u«-l;
Ten tboaAfc&d foe* trim.
Bit* 1 mgati tew high. “ Ten thousand I”
* 1, aud stopped, “Hunt
hi -1 at five thousand 1” cned a converted
stock-broker proseut
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
THE SCnOOtMASTfiR'S SLEEP.
Tbe §c bool master was weary,
Waa weary, old, and gray?
Aba heaviness came o’er Into
V jxm that summer day.
A heaviness of spirit,
And nameless sense of pain,
He struggled hard to banish,
But struggled all in vain.
The drowsy school-room murmur
He He knew heardj ms and, school in his trance, watching
Ills were
face with stealthy glan'oev
He knew, and, for a moment,
He roused himself again,
To battle off the stupor
That crushed his weary brain.
In vain, for, with the effort.
His His breath head dropped faint on and his breast. fainter,
came
And soon he sank to rest.
And Ai:d then boundless arose ah upVoatl
was the glee
Airtong The those little scholars
schoolmaster to see.
And all the Jittlo urchins,
And maidens shouts with joy;
And, Cry with a tear of laughter, [the dunce].
what a funny boy
An hour now was passing
And And still the master the tumuk slept.
These greater little grew scholars
kep<
Until a little maiden,
Who watched the haggard face,
With grave concern and wonder,
Stole softly from her place,—
Stole softly to the master,
And gently touched his head,
And started back in terror—
The schoolmast er was dead I
’SQUIRE BLAKE’S LOSS.
Mrs. Blake was house cleaning. With
Oie assistance of Deborah, a colored
woman, she had been hard at work for
nearly a week; to-day they had comeito
being*cleaned w:is to°be Jivly papered’
dared that he “didn’t see tho need of
Sr£to l *‘ te ''"“ r
sr zzfzs ,»
Mrs.’ Blake had a plot in her mind re
garding them, and that was to fill them
with some old books which wore now
view “only though lumbering if up Squire tho house,” in her
tho bad been told
quiftilferait foT'heseenmd to°lu!vo a
mania for second-band books, and bought
all ho came across
the In tho’Squire’s family lived a boy by
name of Archie Turner, who was a
child olftneighborot t,„Bli«. Atat
ar °hira TOdT'H'iXt’idti'ic'cit
dicd i('Bvh 1B
relatives or money; the ’Squire, seeing
that ho was a smart, intelligent boy, and
wanting some one to help about the
“chores,” had taken him to live with
them, where ho was considered as one of
the family; his sister found a homo with
sss?
somebodv” SHSt ^o lL'„
A robin
here, for 'tho ’Squire and his wife had
often spoken of adopting a boy, their
only child being the little Amy, a girl of
alf thonght ^chto^nbt' adopt’ be ' tlilTb^ ho boy
whom they would
progressed Rut JaSbSiKS?32S£: Avliiln finely; Mrs. Blake i has called *1
Archic to go with her to the attic to help
Archie come yolumcs, to do the and takin and B nu’crmfiil, loft
same, went down
stairs. As she entered the sitting-room
she was met by Mr. Stevens, a wealthy
farmer.
‘‘clemiS cleaning honse House, M frockS i reckon, e 4ell wen, Sa i 1 I wonq wont
’Squire anywhore’s leave ronndfso I jnstrlrop
lied in to that money you hoard
him tell of, very likely; if he hain’t to
home no matter. Guess I can trust it to
you;” and with a good-natured “ha, ha,”
itTZScSoSS
wanted, and handed it to Mrs. Blake.
“The ’Squire understands; there is no
need of a receipt," he said; then, with a
“good day,” he was gone.
Mrs. Blake stood a moment with the
money n her hands—one hundred dol
^s»asssstS3 ovvfrorn^o 8 ! o/r I n ’ “
her swaying mournfully back aiul forth.
“It’s done gone’n broke my arm now
o’ sure,” she wailed. Mrs. Blake helped
kitohenX^ W ^d rta a^& t toe&
that she had fallen down some steps,
The broken arm proved to be nothing
more serious than a sprained in wrist; that
was bad enough, however, Deborah’s
opinion, though it “ might ha’ bon wuss
er,” she confessed.
Mrs. Blake bathed her wrist, and at
length she was in a condition to go home.
Meanwhile, Archie had packed the books
away in the closets and had busied him
self out of doors.
It had taken some time to “straighten
things out,” as Mrs. Blake expressed it,
was not thought of again until after tea
when suddenly Mrs. Blake exclaimed,
“ T and sakes Iteuben left’that Mr. Stevens wits
, to dav and Sit monev S’ bless rv"
me I i Wt itied thought
h ”
'
The ’Squire turned a few leaves of
h .3 1 >ook. “Well, where is it now, I
wonder?” but his wife had gone to the
“Bring ti light Beuben- I’m sure I
left it here.” Alight was carried in. but
no money carefully was to lie found. They
searched around U.at and the
other rooms; Amv ami Archie joinerl
them, hut without siieeess.
“Delsirah wouldn t tako it, of course,”
said the’Bcptire, doubtfully.
No, indeed, his wife answered,'turn
ing her jss-ket wrong side ont. “No;
imsides it was when I heard her cry that
1 left it here and wont to her,
“And was no one else bore after that?”
“ No one, except —Mrs. Blake heel
tsted—“no one but Archie,
WATK1NSVILLE, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 2,
Neither of them spoke for n moment,
btat the same thought was in the minds
of both, and later, when the children had
gone to bed, they talked the matter over
and made a search, which proved as
fruitless as tlie first.
“ I can’t think Archie would take it,”
said “I the ’Squire,
don’t want to think So, but where
has it gone? And you know, Kueben,
how anxious he was to go to Chelton.”
It was agreed, however, not to say
it anything to Archie yet,” for they a few said. days, “for
may come out
But the days passed, and the monev
did not come out, so it was thought that
Arcliie must looked know something it about it.
Both very sober ; was hard
to believe that the boy they had known
so long and who seemed to thorn almost
like their own, should bo guilty of what
they feared.
“Well,” said the ’Squire, “ J suppose I
may as well speak to him about itso
after breakfast, which Amy and Archie
alone enjoyed, ho called the latter back
after the others had left the room. The
boy before came him, back while and stood expectantly
he looked uneasily
about him as if for some way to escape,
At last he broke the silence by saying,
“Archie, I can’t tell how sotty I am to
say fol-get this-to tliink it; but we can not
that you wore the only ono in the
room where the money was left, so we
think—that is—no doubt it was a great
temptation, but tell us the truth, that
will be the best for as all.”
Archie stood silent a moment ; the
color left his face, as lie stood looking up,
“ O, you don’t think I—I stole it!”
“ We ho P° not if i4 is t ™ e - toU
.
rAJ.VteikoTt/^Jied ^^evo mvi’ tho bov •
.. ^/ mo » lookto X
loo .
MrB - Blakc entered tho room just
then - ;;0, it isn’t hkoly it would be
3“=’ih^STS «l,lfl.h „»io™othO,..W„V*W ’
B c U
tll ;S i S,r ss "i‘ h h <
F°““- ' nothu £ « could mako the . lum V°^ confess his
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was f oun q J r ^my" ^
£ , fK lftd f f nl tie roac
¥ f ^ 08 of h ls / orll ? er frlw ! ,lH > for Aul ^
alone believed r . nun innocent.
‘‘I just know you didnt tako tho old
,iere *
JgSC; wIk fcilhis aImcdcc KSfito'SSl x . .
' meat Ac lorliia
' vif e hardened her heart against him,
tho T wuro weU n<1 of 0i e httle
rm T lie ro was no more talk , „ of _ adopting , , a
, b ^ F Wd ° f “ e
Ud ttie I>°rt ^always -
n ? re was a good one.
and left the money which so soon dis
t ; sev f al room f, to
. ^ ^ among them tho
'
^ II1V j s U( )w esentlhe a voun£? i,.,] v ; lls t 0 t
9cLooi; at P r is standing iu tho
doorway be of the room, watching the man
as tears off the paper, as it was
•»*>
J i “whft „ * 11^^?°° •
k tiffs a
O,or W"
C ,“^? 81 f y r ^ ard r “& thora „ was not 4
S ?T? i on^ . 8ho dlfllCUlty climbed pned some 0pcn steps tf ‘°
dwrs /Why.Tt’s of
full of books !” she ox
c ; alme( T
thev° g °° d f—’i r “ ber
?hen th «y were P^t m; it was at t the time
. tbllt
mu‘ 1 »!"^ r0 money of you
4 ie r s, said ner mother.
L lcx> V/^ over tho books
25 went , after WMa»*ss m her , . 5 , J
mower, who had left the
ro ^“’
.f , ave tound . it. she exclaimed, ,
T.
“Si
tfnr f answer „„„ disclosing . . , .
he d it blJ fore’hw mother toe
i 08t moul . y lliw ] y j ai(1 aw ay whew it
had been undisturbed zsttAsr*** since tfie day Mrs.
as±* wL fho imm
n | * ^ ^ « / <J fi
it< . iThKe t f hi i^mmt j wtoto^
marked, bis spades,’then “Bless the puttW boy f them on!re
?> never could
qT3 ffi b * dl ^ 6 h8 t ? ok xt ',
l i f ,ur B<) Arc . 1 bm must , be accpiaintod
with •*, the , discovery, 1 ana the Sqture sud
? ea V remembered that he hail business
in Chelton the next day. Accordingly
8aw 1,ua 0,1 hlB way; the
youn ? law stndeiff was much surpnserl
“T mis call from i.ie^ rtquiro.
Tou don t know how hard xt has lieen
all this time te> tinnk tiiat you believed
lttt j ha “ taken the money, he said
al .T. , '■ RU,r tolrl
V was
l h, "“° l
-
lle y e was the reply.
.Archieglmliy * the Biakes accepted where he an invitation to
y '’X 1 * 1 ,tb aad tbe fnendslup wasi welcomed
’ between him
tban 11
in tbeir childhood But it esmetopass
ca riTbv ^e to 01 mi gl
adwtiou
A coKHKHt-oNtiUNTsaystliat the “crop”
£ ",£,7^^ goSfth^sS ,TanteT 8 ^’“afoilur^"“iV ^ 1 s'
n hU tmrlm Zw‘,7 ,
ano a wm.] weens a w,, were t» s-nrfftudto rra,uea to grow up
UIJ ,] choke ’em. It is a crop tost newb
V erv careful attention and much coax
ing! is-st iu Thu the top-dressing market, and should the be the
should 1 plowed deep and thoroughly ground
m<
irrigated. If tlnsm directions are thor
otighly obs, rved, we predict that Ute
crop wtll Is- so large la-xt ststson that a
young lady own g " out at id pick two
or three off one bus ET . Norristown f/er
o.!it.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
,, t-en. J ,, Akers ,, l.ns , , -ecu re-appomtedtish
Commissioner tor Middle Tennessee*
Koine, <3a., had but five bar-rooins three
year! note ‘ while it now has twentt-biie.
A seventy-acre field a .. -near „ Norerois, Ga.,
yielded seventy bales of cotton this ye -r.
A nugget of gold weighing two and a halt
pounds lias been taken out of the Christian
minc , in North Carolina.
Port y thousand dollars have been snbserib
ed for a gi-aiti needed elevator in IUchmond) Va,
The amount is $f>h,0t)d.
-The last grand jury impaneled in Claren
d , “" « „ ow " ty , ’ h ,, '®-; ,, ,ncl . , ? ded , ,, f< T coIorcd , , me ”’
all of whom could read and write.
The cotton oil works of Kufaula have been
completed. They have 7,000 bushels of cot
toll seed on iilitnl with which td Start opera,
g ons .
There are in Georgia 88,522 colored men
who own, by the tax receiver's returns for
their respective counties, 551,199 acres of
land.
t In 1 ’ od . * e eonnty, . U., .• a Mrs. Wright .... .. , has
twenty yards of silk, having herself
raise<1 the trees, attended the worms mid
woven the silk into cloth,
J"' ,,,, . . of ... ,e XT ,, * T. 1 , ,
hM ° K " r ’ .. .....- v "* wen ‘
something over $2,000. The expenses of all
kinds, including premiums, will fail rather
s,1ort of $1 ' 500 '
Edward L. Strohecker, aged thirty years,
*"» »■ I'™,nil,out physician In Macon, (lx,
was found itneonseiotis on the sidewalk, on
Broadway, New York, suffering from poison
i„g from using opium cigarettes.
Mrs. Annie Perkins, the oldest inhabiiant
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rcn ; of whom mdy 4,031 are white. The de
partments of modern languages and onI, s
tbenics have been abolished in the schools
o{ Savannah.
Vicksburg is making a movement toward
ip'™™* Niebolsoi. hcr pavement., , ; Wt re being laid on the
same planks that have rested Under the old
pavement, for ten year, ami the improv*-
m^ut will bardly be peruianenb
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A. Tii.klcwiciNhntd.ccl l.y u nesro Icy die
had been in bis employ several years. Mr
Tinkle lmd just sold bis cotton for $400, and
the negro secured this money and escaped
before bis crime was discovered,
Two bales of cotton from Harris coiinly,
trsrjs: z
brought nine cents per pound for one and
Vicksburg Herald: What this town and
county wants just now is labor-good, indns
trious labor and plenty of it. Negroes have
become *° tri,li »f? th,lt the T »«
anymore. Just think of a common rooster
demanding a salary of $100 per month and
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A correspondent writes from Ameliaeonn
'>> Va - "> at hveulylive cents is the usual
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this county charged fifty cents a head for
baptising; but, of late, one of tfiem bus
agreed to do it for twenty-five cents cash,
a "<« now all have come down to that.”
^ E. Hidden, the inemlogist, who was
. North Carolina last in
m year se»reh of
«’>*««»m, to.supply Kdison's eleetrie light,
is again m the western part of the State. Ifc
is now looking principally for chromate of
iron, which is being used in the manufacture
„ fthe flIler kil(igof paintg ail( , in i(
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A hornel snake .s kept as a cmiosity by
H- C. Gregory, at Ida residence in Mansboro,
Va. • It is about three feet long and has a
hor " on the end of the tail, about one and a
half inches in length, a litt'e bent and resern
bIin K vcry ™ uch " ,e K '"' r ,,f :l The
“»*« th « horn as a weapon, which is
* ai( ] “» be very deadly. Even trees are said
Tarboro, ""•«...... North 1 Carolina, *r iim* a colored
w,,ma “ "' l “> wasraia e' 1 a « a boy;docs„„t rec
ollcc ' whcn sh,! acUe clothi 1 g;
I'VTiTZiat an 1 bears a n an '!-*“ s name. Hbe has an
ereiou < ng with women or doing their
k.nd of work, and says she would go to the
penitentiary before she would wear a bonnet,
She is :» mother, but not at all motherly, and
her child calls her papa.
In (.eorgia the mm.berof children enrolled
in the pnlilic schools of the Htnte has risen
from 19,755 Vi 1S73 to tS2,m in \m, (he last
year covered by the Klatc School ('ommis
sioncr’s report. The nuuiher of colored
children in attendance at the nub ic schools
y
I be Htoto r «kcs the same appropriation tor
tb« colored Htate Hit,verity that it do«» f. r
th.-whin-. Georgia leipures a poll-tax front
all voters, and returns show that in 1879 tb,
number of e,dor .1 men who paid this tax
was 8 ,522, and ,hese fx-payers owned r,H r
VM I • "(her words, from one-lnilf p,
of the adult male negroes are tax
p up* r y-m .. is.
^ B’.mg nmn mom dNoftsinger — bang,, I
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*e murder of a man named Klise. The
. videnee-howed ' that th muol. „, 1 .„i,., r sas u „ com
00 “ v “ r, “ "'kl'b while Kline
* bis wife were sleeping out <,n the porch.
his head being blown t«, atoms with a shot.
gun. The widow of l lie murdered mail was
ri-c iill> riiiifincij witli f win*, Hi ,*
tillin'Ie die, and I-I,ii(r*f . <i
tie ,„,ll. t„„ Km enri-b tor tfi, deed t„ |„
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believed, but bud ann u while her budixiel
was asleep that the assassins might do their
work. She says the shot was lired by one
Gardner, but he was seconded by Noftsinger.
Tlie latter was her lover before her marriage
to Kline. The woman is recovering and
will probably get Well.
Tbs iliomituent erection in coinifiemntora
tion of the bailie of king's Mo,Pit,-tin is a gran¬
ite shaft measuring twenty-six feet iu height
and eighteen feet at (lie base, a shapely fig¬
ure whose smoot h outlines contrast pleasant¬
ly with the jagged edges of the surrounding
rooks. The design was gotten up by a com
mi tec appointed especially for the purpose,
aud eon isfs of a shaft, resting on ft broad
pedestal coup oned of five steps, and slopes
to (lie top which is about two and a fluff feet
square. It was originally intended to mr
mount the whole with a bronze figure of a
soldier in an attitude of expectancy, loading
a rifle of the flint and steel variety in use
during the Colonial period, but the present
conditioh of the assrtciatioids funds would
not permit, of t lie purchase of file sialiit/-,
and in lieu of this, the monument has been
surmounted by a pyramid shaped stone.
The inscriptions are written oa marble slabs
imbedded two inches in the granite masonry.
Seven Troys.
The famous archaeologist, Schliomaim,
wrote from Athens to a Bussiau paper,
as follows : “ I have just returned from
Asia Minor, where 1 ImVoat last finished
that digging out of Troy which I began
in 1870. During ton years I havo strug¬
gled with great difficulties, among which
the most troublesome has been the largo
amount of debris under which toe an¬
cient city was buried. It has been neces¬
sary to dig down and dig up the ground
for more than sixteen yards below the
surface. But I am fully recompensed
for all my trouble. I foun/l the remaine
of soven diffbront cities ; tho last of thorn
was tho Uiott of llonior. That city was
built by the JKolians, banished from
Greece by the Dorians in tho eleventh
century before our era. In one of t.lio
buried cities I found many statues of
Minerva with the owl’s head, whence
her name of Glaucopis. In another city
were found many images of tho di¬
vinities. But tho most interesting
and important *of all tlie discov¬
eries Priam. is, Every of course, tho city of King
article found m tho ruins
of that city bears unmistakable signs of
having time of been destroyed by fire and in
war. There were discovered
many remains of human bodies in full
armor. I dug out aud cloarnl away the
debris from the entire waif that sur
rounded the city, and also from all the
principal large buildings. Now I am finishing
a volume in English describing
with full details all my discoveries, and
containing important 200 illustrations of the
most of the discoveries.
My Troian collection is now in London,
hut at toe end of this year I shall take
it to my villa in Athens, which is fire¬
proof, built oidy of marble and iron. I
nave received large offers for nay collec¬
tion from toe United States, England,
France and Germany, but I cannot part
with it for any money in toe world.
Trlbutes of Audiences to Actors.
Fruits, as well as flowers, now figure
among the tributes proffered by London
audiences to favorite actresses. To most
of thorn, this is, no doubt, an agreeable
innovation. A basket of luscious J tartlets
or Oldmixons, if less poetical, is certain¬
ly too a rarest much bunch more of practical camellias present jacque¬ than
or
minots.
These theatrical offerings vary curious¬
ly Spain iu different favorite parts matador of the is ovowhelmed world. In
a
with showers of tlie men’s cigars and tlie
ladies’ gloves and fans. On our Western
light coast in the hardy miner testifies Ids de¬
flinging gold a popular actor or actress by
still pieces on tlie stago.
A more singlar or much loss agree¬
able to Tom sort Playside of compliment Now Orleans. was once paid
iu At toe
end of a much applauded scone, when
“bravos" rent toe air aud flowers wore
falling thick around him, a carpenter’s
broad chisel sped whizzing from the
“flut” a few inches from his head. The
offender was speedily discovered and
brought before the indignant actor.
“What have I ever done to you,” he
said, life?” “that you should attempt my
side !” cried “Attempt the honest your life, Mr. Play
fell,e-v, with tears
in his eyes, “I never dream; .-f such a
thing. But they was all tin.,win’ you
things, Mr. Playside, and I hadn’t noth¬
in’ but my old chisel to sltow how I
liked ye, Mr. Playside, and so I tlirowed
yerthat.” “All right,” said too actor,
laughing, let “here’s your chisel, hut next
time me tako your liking for
granted. ”—New York Hour.
Preserving Timber In Ground.
f u speaking cA tho well-known methods
of preserving post» and wood which are
partly imbedded in the earth, by cliar
ring and coating only with tar, it is saw these
methods are effective when both
applied. without Bhonld the miles only lie cl.ar
r ,.<l the subsequent treatment
with tar, the charcoal formation on tho
surface would only act as an alisorber of
the moisture, and, if anything, only
hasten the decay. proviousfy By applying a coat
of tar without charring,
the tar would only form aja-s-?*.»*. a casing alamt
depth whicit tlie alstorlnng woithf properties of
the c | iar( ,, ft l 8tirfa<!e insure.
Woo<l toat is exposed to the should action of
water or let into the ground first
lie charred, and then, before it torn en
tirdy cooled, Im treated with tetr till the
w<8«l is thoroughly impregnatci. Tim
^tic acid and offs contained in the tor
Rr,, ,lv yB’ rab '' * lea t, and only the
. left tmhind, . winch peuetrate-s the
resin
pttros of the wootl and forms an air-tight
and waterproof envoi,tpe. nota. little It is importetnt
^ hue impregnate the tor here a it almve the
of exptwnre, ts that the
itelton of decay * affects the wissl first, '
, , , . , ,
w j a;)| r(<II1( , V0< j { roBl the earth or strained
j,, testing,
Aeeoaoiwo to London Truth, the life
“I tic- I'ruii'*-of Wales M insured by a
"Iiiuis-r of speculative idle persons, a* are
lb" lives of many r prominent per
HrftHiif/1**, li.tlut MIIUjH W#?r« |H*H| Jo IIV Mtf"
.ml olllee* alte r the death Pit Al
hurt,
number ;;r>.
THE FAMILY MCTORr
A VKitv simple and expeditious way of
cooking sick a little bit of chicken or thickly, fish for
a person is to butter a paper
and place the food to bo cooked within
the paper, and place it on a gridiron
over a clear fire. A very short time
suffices to oook It tiioroughly; and I
have often found that to be eaten when
ttll other modes of invalid eookery havo
boon tried iu vain,— Chambers’ Journal.
Tbp.tii arc destroyed either by tho
action of acids or the development of
vegetal >le parasites. The former is the
much nio.'o frequent cause of decay. It
has been demonstrated by actual experi¬
ment that oven very weak acids may
suffice to decompose the tcetli the juice sub¬
stances; In forty-eight hours
of grapes trill render the enamel of a
chalky stances consistence. inert until Most fermentation Vegetable takes sub¬
are
jilaeo tuid acetic acid is formed. Animal
sillistances exert no deleterious influences
until putrefaction is far advanced.
Wittes cold affects tlie head and eyes
nnd impedes relief is breathing gained through by tho napkin nose,
great a wet
spread over too upper part of the face,
covering tho nose, except an opening for
breath. This is to be covered by folds
of flannel fastened over the napkin with
a handkerchief. So also a wet towel
over the throat aud whole chest,, covered
with folds of flannel, often relieves op¬
pressed lungs. So Hays Miss Bucher,
and truly. In addition, nso a hot foot¬
bath anti take a glass of Ixot lemonade on
retiring at night,. Tiffs is the best time
also for tho hot foot-bath, which should
bo followed by the lemonade.
Invalids should keep tho refresh¬
ments covered in their sick-room. Tho
jollies, uids used 1 dano-monges, cooling drinks, anil various liq¬
as arc more or
less absorbent, whicit and float easily toko up the
impurities about a sick-room.
A glass of milk loft uncovered will warn
become tainted with any prevailing
odor, as freshly can lie painted. proven by How leaving important, it in a
room
thou, carefully that toe poisons from of all sickness should
lie kept that is to lie
oaten.
If a person swallows any poison what¬
ever, or has fallen into convulsions from
having overloaded the stomach, an iu
stnnttuieous remedy, most efficient and
applicable in a largo number of cases, is
a heaping much teaspoonful ground of mustard, common suit,
and as stirred
rapidly in a teacupful of water, warm or
cold, and swallowed instantly. It is
scarcely down before it begins to come
up, bringing with it the remaining con¬
tents of the stomach ; anil lest there ho
any remnant tliq white of the poison, however
small, let of an egg or a teo
Bpoonfui of strong coffee he swtdlowed
as soon as tlie stomach is quiet, as these
articles nullify a large number of viru¬
lent poisons.
_
Dueling in Florida.
The bowie-knife was a favorite woapon
with the Floridians. Only “doad
game ” men could stand before this ter¬
rible weapon. Tho usual method of
left fighting hands with knives was to clasp too
of tho combatants together
and put very keen, brood knives in their
lianas; tho seconds then stood within
reach of tho men, to interfere with a
pistol ball if either combatant violated
the rules of tin, fight. There were
many affairs with bowie-knives in the
ante-bellum days of Florida, One of
the most noted was a meeting between
Maj. Frenchman, Jim Jones and Col. Grinard, a
Tho bowie in this caao
seems to have been a compromise be¬
tween the sword of the Frenchman and
tlie pistol of the Floridian. Tlie duel
both was fought in 1852. It was fearfully, verv bloody,
Jones men finally being gashed auu
was out into slices across
his breast nnd killed outright. It is
said that this duel was remarkable for
having been fought iu utter siloiico.
Though tho knives slipped in anil out
of the bodies of each man neither said a
word. With their lips clenched aud
their teeth set like a vise they fought hi
(Hence. Not a sound came from the
mouth of cither, and when at last Jones
fell in death Grinard turned, and, wip¬
ing the blood irom his face, spoke foi
the first time, addressing his soooigL
Afghan Etiquette.
An Afghan never receives unceremoni¬
ous calls. The visitor must send a few
hours’ notice of his intention. He is
then received at the door by some confi¬
dential retainer or retainers, aud con¬
ducted through an open courtyard which to the
foot of a rude, winding staircase, landing, aud
leads first to an uncovered
thence to the ordinary reception Hero room he or is
received bale/my of by the the proprietor. host in and
person, oon
dnetod with every mark of courtesy aud
respect to a small row of chairs, tho use
of which article of furniture seems to
be general in good society in Gabul, and
to have quite) superseded the older carpets anti
felts which satisfied an gen¬
eration. After a few words of welcome
and inqniries in a set formula after
al health ly on both and sides, is a placed tray of fruits usu¬ the
apjiears, feet of the visitors. upon The
carpet at the
fruits are followed by tho tea-tray, and
a without cup of highly-sweetened is placed before green the tea,
milk, vis¬
itor. Tlie conversation is then oarried
on with more or less spirit on tlie ordi¬
nary topics of the day, and here, if toe
visit is » merely formal end one, the inter¬ is
view comes to tut and the visitor
conducted to the door with the same
formality received. aud courtesy If, however, with whioh confiden¬ he
was a
tial interview is desired, toe attendants
are requested to withdraw.
Big Thing in Mules.
A Galveston man met u gentleman
from Northern Texas, and asked how a
certain inutua. friend was coming on.
“ He is doing very well, ” was the re
ply. “What business is lie at?” “He
lias got lie tiie softest thing in the world of
it. bought, a lot of Mexican don¬
keys at Kan Antonio for ft) apiece, and,
having taken them up to his rancho, 1m
clears 827 a head on them.” “ Do they
bring such high prices?” “ No, hut he
lets the railroad trains run over them,
-uid the company hue to pay him $80
apiece tor them .”—Galveston News.
\ Huhum'/tadv lawyer charged $7 for
collecting a bill of but ah it was
ouuinst another lawyer tho court held
that tho services worn worth the money.
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MUER.4L TRBJIS FOR .WORK BPAUK
PITH AND POINT.
Tub most popular cure among poli¬
ticians—Tho sine-cure.
Tiib first American inscription put up¬
on the obelisk will bo, “Post no Bills.”
“ He sleeps whore ho fell,” says a late
ballad, which suggests tiiat he must
havo been drunk.
Wit at a beautiful thing is a rosy
cheek ! How great tho contrast when
the blush settles on tho nose.
Husband —“Mary, my love, this ap
plo-dttmpling “ Well, finish is it,-then, not half done. dear.” ” Wife—
my
It was a young housekeeper who sot
tho cako she hail baked for a picnic out
of door one cold night to bo frosted.
“Biudoet, tho dust upon the furni
tnre is intolerable. What shall I do? ”
“ Do as Ido, inarm—pay no attention to
it.
It’s a poor rulo that won’t work both
ways. A Milwaukee girl marriod a bar¬
ber, and bo turned out to bo a rich Baron
in disguise.
A modern novel has this thrilling pas¬
sage: “Witluonehand ho held her beau¬
tiful golden hood above tho chilling wave,
and with tho other called loudly for as¬
sistance."
A young lady wrote) somo verses for a
paper about her birthday, and headed
them “ May 30tli.” it It almost modo her
hair turn gray when appeared in print
“ My 30th.”
The average lifo of a farmer is sixty
six years. At sixty-flvo ho may safely
begin to return borrowed tools, pay old
debts and ask forgiveness for cheating in
horse trades.
“Is your cough any easier?” said
one of poor Hood’s acquaintances, on
oalling bo,” to tho see wit how ho was. “It should
said from lffs pillow, “ I’ve
been practicing all night.”
The negro’s definition of bigotry is as
good and iuelusivo as that of Webster’s
Dictionary. who “A knows bigot 1” said he; “why
he’s a man too much for one,
and not quite enough for two,”
At a celebration back in too country
a female arose and began; “This is
our 104th anniversary.” in crowd A wicked young
man back the yelled out:
“ Good gracious 1 You dou't look that
old."
Hon— “Father, the lecturer at the
hall to-night said that lunar rays were
only concentrated luminosity of the
earth’s satellite. What do you think
alxnit it?” Intelligent parent—“All
moonshine, my son, all moonshine.”
Miss Flibtinoton-— “ Yes, I like the
place very much, Major; hero.” you have such
a jolly setof awfully men down jolly. You’d Tho Ma¬
jor—“Yes, heart, Flirtington, hotter
steel your Miss in
case of accidents.” Miss F.—“Well,
while I’m about it, Major, don’t I’d rather
steal somebody else’s, you know ?”
A Sat TKKr>KH winding young potato vine, bug
h on a
And dighud unto a maiden bug:
44 1 pray you will be mine.”
Then aoftty upake the maiden bng:
44 1 love you fond and true,
But O, my crucMioarkd Par
Won’t let m« marry you.”
With acorn upon hi* buggy brow.
With glances cold and keen,
Thutha nighty ink lover answered hor:
“I Ul your Par-is-green.”
“ An I” said Gilhooly, yesterday
morning, “I’ve done one good aot.”
“Sent a barrel of flour to too poor
house?” “Better than that. I’ve just
told De Smith, who don’t stand a ghost
of a show, that ho will be nominated by
acclamation.” “Well, that is one of
those kindnesses that do a great deal of
good mischief and it don’t don’t cost anything.” anything I “The
cost 1 bor¬
rowed $2 from him on the strength of
it .”—Galveston News.
A noOTOB, being out for a day’s shoot¬
ing, took an Entering errand boy field to carry the
game-bag. a of turnips,
the dog pointed, and the boy, over¬
joyed at the exclaimed: prospect of “Lor, his master’s
there's success, if master,
a covey ; you get near 'em
won’t yon physio ’em I” “ Physio ’em,
you said young doctor. rascal, what do kill you menu ?”
the “ Why, ’em, to be
sure," replied the lad.
Shall We Meet Again 1
'The following is one of the most brill¬
iant mented paragraphs George D, over Prentice written by the la¬
; “ The flat
of death is inexorable. There is no ap¬
peal for relief dust. from Wo tho flourish great law and which
dooms us to fado
as the loaves of tho forest, and the flow¬
ers that bloom, wither and fado in a day
have no frailer hold upon life than the
mightiest monarch that over shook the
earth with his footetops. Generations of
men will appear and disappear as tlie
grass, and toe multitude that throng
the world the to-day Bhoro. will Men disappear seldom as foot¬
steps on think
of the great event of death until the
shadow fulls aero is their own pathway,
hiding from their eyes the faces of loved
ones whose living smile was is the sunlight
of their existence. Death the antag¬
onist of life, and the thought of the
tomb is tlie skeleton of all feasts. We
do not want to go through the dark val¬
ley, although the dark passage may
lead to paradise; we do not want to go
down into damp graves, even with Prin¬
ces for bed-fellows. In the twautiful
drama of ‘Ion’ the hope of immortality,
so eloquently uttered by the death-de¬
voted Greek, finds deep response iu ev¬
ery though tful soul. When about to
yield his life a sacrifice to fate, his
Cleumnthe asks if they should meet
again, to which he responds ; I have
asked that dreadful question of the hills
tiiat look eternal—of the clear streams
tiiat flow forever—of stars among whose
fields of azure my raised spirits have
walked in glory. All are dumb. But,
as I gaze upon thy living face, I feel
that there is something in love that
mantles through its beauty shall that cannot
wholly perish. We meet again,
Clumantoe. ”
The scales of the red fish, famous iu
New Orleaus and sold markets, about are carefully pre¬
served at $8 per bushel,
being iu great demand by the fabricat¬
or* of ornaments for wreaths and arti¬
ficial flowers for ladies’ bonnets, and for
vnrious other purposes of iashiuuahlu
use and ornament. From a fish of six
or eight pound* the scales are os large
as a quarter of a dollar. They are so
hard and firmly planted thut the scaling
process lias to bo performed with au ax
or hatchet.