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the CONYERS WEEKLY
VOLUME IX
forests.
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Science believes that many
»leaves. could be ured of their dyspep
arsons c
affld Of palpitation of the heart by
faontinuiag the use of this favorite
JtWo 8 -
the application of gun cotton,
immense aud cbJmnejB be
| to the Kunheim establishment,
li have been successfully changes to destroyed be made
ea ,ble important largest of these was
tie factory. The
L147 feet high, and ten that feet it diame- should
leratthe base. In order
outward from the city, the charge of
a'l fifty-seven pounds,
about
attached in portions to the side next
ras sides, and
he city and to the adjacent
111 three were exploded simultaneously
rith amagueto-electric apparatus. The
iamney, instead of falling-obliquely,
cllansed vertically, and on inspection
‘
hc f 0 ur walls of the pedestal were
'omul to have been driven outward; the
ids were all detached from each
the, and nearly all entire, and the
ukrts was thrown a very little dis
oce. The two other chimneys, treated
Marly, fell as was expected, that is,
Jliouelyaway from the city, and one
If them, in falling, broke in two at
iff the middle.
kinstrument known as the the Bar
ittEclms telephone, invented by two
Ants of Houston, Texas,has just had
iuccc-s'nl trial at Gaveston. The test
is sled in talking over a wire 830 miles
lag, that being the distance to New Or
fusand return.The articulation was far
(usdistinct and perfect than over the
jriimty short circuits by the Bell tele
pa The new invention differs from
pMl,Edison and all other telephones,
lin'd as it combines the effects of an
iikiioi coil and the helix of a hand
|»,causing ftsil them to act simultaneous
in concert with each other by
iti; the coils in the same direction
pa'osing kina contacts, a carbon diaphragm with three
providing for the use of
[larger amount of battery. The recent
pus made with three cells. For a
tot distance no battery whatever is re¬
td, the automatic dynamo-current
ting sufficient to articulate with great
istinctness and steadiness. The inven¬
ts claim that they can talk from New
to San Franscisco with the same
istinctness as for a distance of 800 or
miles.
[Tie W of Galveston buried treasure; (Texas) News “Some tells this
If! southeast eight
of Kemp, on Twelve
It Prairie, lives a family by the name
Godfrey. In 1875 old man Godfrey
>k sick and died in a short time with
■Session of the lungs. The old man
ism fine circumstances, had consider
ie stock and a good deal of money. He
Bin the kbit of keeping his money
wfi, and had it all buried at the time
w taken sick. His wife being dead,
i| ri no one where he kept it except
priest A md, son, as recent a boy developments seventeen years of
have
L 1 ^* 3 k°y did not know where it
“Bh buried. After the old man’s
P t!w b °y in company with his
I® repaired to the place where he
f* r?several e money thousand was buried, and they
514 dollars. Alany
r "a,have neighbors, aud even his own
al ways believed that there
mote money buried around the
K’ for anc il l time and again have
n? without finding anything.
nome ha s been rented out from
.
°F ar to various individuals. It
u -
Iea ! e f this year to by the
L a man
o Ashton, who moved the fence
r wound the pl um orchard, and in
uid la ea MtSlast 'P°t) which, A P rilMs P low *truck
s ;° V,: to upon investiga
q c °ntain a quantity of
r estimated
° Ue hundred at something
t $10 gold pieces,
* toa kept this
5oan a secret from all except
i g man owning home with him
n to* 3 day
flu oil f whea he was full
0 , nCSS he told the
in J k Aplenty „ a young
of gold and if he
* *»i iVj", 11 ' *°» Id *!>»■»«to
N?, means,
and Past fall rather reck
prooi 0 ^ e H° lhursda d frey family y morning had
S ^--h
3 t the h ’
-
the C1 reumstances,
k am,.. ‘ st of , Ashton,
v.. lea 7 hood, who now is
3 ^ which for the money he
,Sf J old a’ 11 doubt is the
. „„
i:r ^Pamago7 ^
CONYERS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1887.
the hew teak.
With what gifts will you make affiefflls,
ew A ear, for tht' one that has flown?
He and I wh,~e the best of friends,
And he gave me much for my own.
Have you aught in your hoard I
Spirit to strengthen, soul to feed
Heart to lighten, day to illume,
Waste places to coax into bloom?
AVo were sorry to let the Old Year go
Across the old world’s outer rim;
AVe knew his ways, but we do not know
What the New Year brings with him.
Wo remember all of the Old'’ Year’s smiles
His moons that lighted us, miles and miles,
His summer woods, with their cool, sweel
scents
And all of his pleasant blandishments:
TVirtnrrVi Though he brought 1 , 4 . us many a wound , and
pam,
Aet, in spite of his frosty atmosphere;
We long to summon him back again;
AVill tho New Year bring us a rana -ea!
—Mary A. Prescott.
TI&EES AND CATNIP,
A SKiPTEids yau.v
In the days when there was no restric
tion on the trade, Captain Griffith of the
schooner I ropic Bird sailed from Why
dah, coast of Guinea, for Barbados, with
a cargo of slaves, as he had done before;
but he had hardly crossed the Bight of
Benin, when the schooner was Struck by
a white squall and thrown oh her beam
ends. All the white people on hoard
were on deck at the time, except one pas
senger, and with them there were a tew
trusted slaves,^ who were employed in va
rious ways. The rest of the slaves were
confined below. The schooner had but
one small beat, which was taken posses
sion of by the Captain, Mate, and four
hands, who loaded her so deeply that
they were obliged to push off, leaving
seven souls, white and black, clinging to
the vessel’s bottom. They had four oars,
a few gallons of palm oil, but Mo sail,
and no bread and water. A tarpaulin,
found under a seat, was rigged fo- a
sail, and in this unpromising condition
they headed for The the shore they had re
high, cently and left. sea was still running
beat frequently down came on board. The
sun upon them with ter
rible force, and all but one man and
the mate died raving mad before there
was a sight of land. At last the surviv
ors were cheered by the outline of a low
shore which they made a desperate ef
fort to reach, and as night again closed
in they ran under the shadow of oyer
hanging trees, where all was a marsli—
the home of fevers and the abode of ser
pents. On every hand it was a low jun
gle, in which no white man could hope
to live; an impenetrable undergrowth of
ferns, young palms, climbing vines, rat
tans, the thick-leaved ficus, and tall gum
trees, woven together. To penetrate it
was further a hopeless task, and, after pushing
on the next day, and crossing
many arms of what appeared to be the
mouth of a river, they found a place to
land. There they killed a numbir of
snakes, which they devoured On this
spot there was another death, and the
mate was the only survivor. He was re
ducedtoa shadow When some natives
found him and took him, with his boat,
to them a prize, to their village, AVari,
where there was a mission station. Once
there, he could hardly trust his senses,
for he heard ri voice speaking English,
and saw before him.a comely English
woman, the wife—widow, for she had
been bereft a few days before—of a mis
sionary, who had labored in that un
promising held. The missionary had
been earned off by a tiger, and his
widow, half crazed oy her sudden and
terrible loss, was in no condition to do
much for a shipwrecked manner; but
his haggard face, shrunken limbs, and
wo-begone looks aroused her sympa
thies, and she gave him food and gar
ments and the medic.ne he needed.
The vffiage was made up of kraals and
lgwamscovered with a thatchot leaves,
from “bodeTwas Tieat^ancU ^Totttfoi
waUle bv contrast furniture*-a attractive stools'
IDhad but little anfeoarse few
a table, skins mats, and in the
part that might be caffed a kitchen,
was its flower garden—not native flow
ers, but flowers that carried the missiom
ary and his *wife back to where they had
spent their early days, and were grown
from seeds they had brought with them,
or were sent out in letters from time tc
time ^ distant friends-blossoming
beans, tufts of rocket and sweet AV llham
nodding sprays of ragged-sailor, and
spikes of fcx-gl-.ve, bcedarkspur, holly
hocks of many oolprs, and mangolds and
asters, all growing together. Red clover,
beds of roses and balsam shared the
ground with the humbler but no less val
ued catnip, motherwort and golden-rod:
while honeysuckles and woodbines china
to what was intended for a porch, and
which was as like one as the missionary
could make it with the materials at band.
It was these flowers, objects of love and
admiration, that softened the lot of the
missionary and his wife, and made them
forget many of the privations sealed they ha t
to beaT. And it was while on
this low porch, in the cool of the even
ing, enjoying his pipe—-his only mdul
genre—that he was seized by a tiger and
carried off. Traces of tigers had been
seen in the flower garden, and some of
the negroes hud said, with trembling
limbs, that they had seen one there; but
thp ine alarm ajqrm was w'm npvf-r never given p-ivpn intime in for
the mis lonary and his'\ife to catch si 0 ht
of the dreaded creature. The presence
of .such a terrible foe in the immediate
neighborhood sent a chill to every heart
for they were powerless to contend with
him, having only one shotgun. There
was a constant are id that he would sud
denlv burst upon them; and when, with
abound, he carried off the head of the
house, thev were paralyzed.
The make said he would do what he
could to drive off the monster; but al
most before he had time to tgke it all in
the tiger again appeared, as he sat on
the doorstep ruminating. The creature
this time did not come with glaring eyes,
intent oil his prey, but was spiritless and
evidently ill. Whether the missionary
had not agreed with him, or, in satisfy¬
ing his voracious appetite, he had swal
lowed too many brass buttons, or, per
haps, be the ascertained. missionary's false teeth, could
turd not Certainly for the cfea- tittle
was mbping. afid arid a drive lffng him
(n o one lle caring to gd hut
o11 ) la v in a P art °f the garden he had
-
frequented before, apparently munching
£0 “/; tllin g
The next morning . the mate carefully , ,,
f xarai “ e * the spot, and saw that the
tujer had confined bis attention to the
from catDip bed Here was a re relation, draw and
it the mate was quick to a
conclusion. “Cats,” said he to himself,
“love catnip, eat of it freely, aud always
turn “is to it diminutive when ailing. tiger; A cat,” tiger he went is
on, a a small, a
monstrous cat ; whether large or
bat hr tiger, they Have one taste in com¬
mon; a love of catnip.”
Having reasoned thus, he set about
turning his conclusions to account, satis
tied that with the aid of catnip he might
capture this troublesome tiger—perhaps
many tigers, greatly to his profit. Ex¬
actly how it was to be done required him
more reflection. At last it came to
that with the aid of the ttegroes about
the mission, lie could make a corral of
timber, in with sidea so caught, high and Sloping
that a tiger, onbe could not
climb up and over the paling. The work
waS begun, and the corral when com
pletcd nip, especially was to be about planted the thick which with cat- the
expected trap, spring when
tiger was to widow
rolling in the savory bed. The the
entered heartily into the scheme,
negroes were encouraged corral to work, made
aid in time the was
uid planted. It Worked to a charm,
for the first night after it was
Opened the old tiger (who had recdv
Jred his vigor) crime snuffing catnip around, the
and garden, hot, finding a sprig of and in
followed up the scent struck
he trail. But. when he came to the cor
:al he was rather suspicious, for every
thing covered about it with was new, fresh and chips. the ground There
was
was plenty of catnip within; he could
lee that, and he could find it nowhere
else; and after many feints he entered
stealthily, and touched the spring as he
aushed on, in a moment was secured.
But the catching of the tiger was
lothing attending compared to the labor and anx
lety getting him into a cage
which had to be made) and sending him
to market. Meanwhile he had to be fed,
which duty was assigned to one of the
negroes, who scoured the country for
xids, shotes and lack-rabbits; for he
aad no weapon with which to secure
large game. The cage, rude beyond de
icription, was bated with a shote and
oacked up to the trap, which was lifted
just high enough for the tiger (hungry
from fasting) to rush in and pounce on
the porker, when the door, with a slam,
dropped into its place.
Nothing could be finer, and the cap
t a ; n 0 f a canoe manned with forty pad- the
dies, agreed to take the tiger, with
necessary provision, to AVhydah, consigned for a
consideration. There a truder
the tiger to a house in London, the widow
paying freight, for the mate was “broke”
when the Tropic Bird went over. The
consignment reached London safely, the
tiger, an exceptionally fine one, found a
ready market, and the consignee, in re
mitting the proceeds, solicited other like
consignments. To meet the difficulty of
providing cages, he agreed to keep
ca geS, Manchester nude, in stock and at
Why dah. This was pleasant news, and the
when received at Wari, the mate
w i dow , who had become attached to
each other and were only waiting for a
missionary to turn up and splice them,
concluded to push the business and
make regular n shipments J of tigers.
From that til e all W ent well till the
business attracted the attention of Ah
king of Dahomey, who ordered
Kankore. the petty king who ruled in
the W;m strict, to bring the mate to
bi^ ‘IfTa’ffal^Thlsivas staging writlLi
there w T as no heip for it, anil
, Juft , . f- owa rd Abomev as raoidlv as
circu a nces would admit, receiving
man J y attentions on the way, which Kan
, aDnropriatrd to himself till they
^ row --.•j'tiv to their iournev's end when
'
} , y wished that it was over
At Alladdn their first post, they Bullbil, were
me( . b a delegat ion headed by
the ™ e ^nor cb '- e f of that section, who sought to
to the mate and show proper
TCSpect P for Kankore. invited At Why boo, bar- tho
nex t station, thev were to a
b ecue—a dishes roasted under a gum tree,
... s ; de of yams, shark's steak
delicacy at that distance from the
„ gt) ‘ „ nd toasted owls- the toasting
’ maidensdrassed iu parrot
heing d one bv
fibers. At'ltocholla, the last station
h f reaching Abomev, they were
treated t0 a war dance, which was
thou „ bt ominous by the travelers, but
^ey had but little time for reflection,
' they hurried to Abomey,
f or were on
w i- ere tb ev were made to pass in and out
' of the capital, and then
f th gix ates
^ t the three palaces of the King, to
£ poss jbl y their high, red-clav walls,
’ with skulls and
stu c over marrow
, oneg
“
* t they reache d the King’s coun- of
try seat, an anu d" found i him on a throne
his p Minister, . . Mikenno, A ...
gkul)g; nme and the other
, ^ 0 n one side, executioner, on
the public 8 hia shoulder. The
a ° axe ver
f r0 wned and scowled when the par
Jy drew aa ar tmnatientlv mpattenUy waved his
^wigofmalofuhanded f °d Sils to cea=e their tlie noise took
gourd back
to ^ CU p-bearor. and stared at the
mate as though he would look him out
of countenance.
These preliminaries over, ha told the
mate that he had sent for him to build
a corral and put it in working order, for
he, the King, intended to go into the
business of catching and shipping tigers
This was unpleasant news to Mikenuo,
the Prime Minister, who saw that the
catching would of tigers so near the capital less
be attended with more or
trouble that it would to him, and he at once suggested corral,
take time to build a
while the King, by confiscating the one
at Wari, which had beeri fun Without a
license, could have the ad vahfagfe' of
what had already bfeen dorie, and at brief
derive a revenue from the enterprise.
The King saw the point, commended the
wisdom of his servant, ordered the mate
and all who were asssociated with him
to quit the country, and appointed Stan
bi a commissioner to go to AVari and
run the corral on the King’s account.
The mate.accompaned by Kankore and
Stanbi, started at once for the coast; and
when they reached Wari he told the
widow to pack their kit, while he gave
attention to pulling up and rooting out
every vestige of catnip—clearing rip, he
said, which satisfied Stanbi, so long as no
injury was done to the corral. widow It was
with a heavy heart that the at
last turned from the spot that had been
so interwoven with her life, and having
plucked a few sprigs of ragged-sailor, a
bit of rocket, and a primrose or two,
with the mate she stepped on board the
canoe that was to take them engaged to AVhydah,
Where their passage was on
board a vessel up for Barbados, fof they
wanted to be beyond the reach of the
King as soon as possible.
After waiting a reasonable time, King
Ahgrimy asked for returns rrom his tiger
enterprise, and when told that no tiger
had been caught he ordered the head of
Stambito be cutoff, and Baraka, a chief
of equal note, was sent to AVari in his
place. He, too, was beheaded, for not
coming down up to time. results, Other and chiefs still were the
sent with like
London demand for tigers could not be
filled: prices thereupon began to go tip,
and soon they reached the old quota¬
tions.
At Barbados the mate and the widow
were united and opened a sailors’ board
_ Ben Lindsey,
ing-house, where heard Captain tell their adven
the skipper, them narrated .—New
tures in Guinea, as here
York Evening Post.
Rnrmah s Ruby Mines.
„« .n-notcd areunqufstionab" oi ln „t nioLt mileo
f luable/
J va Indeed, they are the only
min as in t h e world where rcallv valuable
rtl bi es are found there are a'few- mines
j n q eT i on - ' but Ceylon £ rub'es | of the true
re(J , ost of hem being of
the pinktopa ' , color In Siam, too, rubies
arj} £ lentifu i ’ithin but the y are of the color of
“ ets w the last twenty years
mall mbiea have flarge gone up abon t fifty per
cent ' itivabie an< ones about *00
f ent The best rubies go to America.
n tbe British crown jewels there are none
of , ^ s j ze and color g 0 dear nre tbo
stone3 tbat f ew can afford to
purchase them. The French Rothschilds
have a fine collection, so have the Or
leans princes, and there are some fine
atones amongst the Russian crown
jewels. Very lately, a fine stone was
sold to one of the Russian Grand Dukes
for about $35,000.
Nothing certain is known about the
Burmah ruby mines. They are rivers supposed that
to consist of the beds of old
have dried up, because the stones always
have a water-worn appearance. The only
Europeans that have ever visited them
are a Frenchman and anltalinn, who were
in the service of King Theebaw. So far
as is known, they are worked by the vil
lagers upon a curious system. All stones
below twenty one “rhitis” in weight
(twenty-one “rhitis" are equivalent to
twenty-two carats-i. e„ about one
seventh of an ounce troy ) belong to the
villagers, all above to tue crown. A per
feet “rbiti/ specimen ruby of twenty-one *50,o6o
would be worth a
moderately good one $5,000, and an in
ferior one about $250.-Y«* York How,
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The That Fought a Horse.
At Malvern, Ark., last month a young
man puthis. Httle brother upon buhone
back running the horse, and said that a
c °°“ c a f le 1 bank of th e branch
while the . v . horse w as drmkmg and jump d
upon the log beside him and bit and
scratched the horse so that it nearly
threw him off in trying to get out of
the mau branch looked and at the up horse and '^ round young the
blood trickling from several rakes and
scratches on one of its forelegs He and
the little boy went to the branch taking
a large dog with them. The dog followed
the track of the coon and soon came up
with it and gave battle, and after a few But
moments succeeded in killing it.
after the coon was dead the dog could
not get rid of it, the coon having seized
him by the under lip and woulo not let
go even after life was extinct. the
young man tried to get the roon s yaws
open but could not, so he cut the head
°ff the dog went to the house with
the coon’s head hanging to its lip. After
going to the house the young man tried
again to pry the jaws open, but finally
was compelled to unyomt the head before
he could succeed in getting it loose.—
Forest and Stream.
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Simple, but True.
Brooklyn Dressmaker (to Servant)—
iiTrt ‘Ms -.r Mrs. Levy r i-jh in?
Servant—“Yes.”
Dressmaker-“Is she engaged?” married. ”-JVe«
Servant-“No, she is
York Pun.
-——
Engli gh church members give l«s than
half a cent a week to foreign missions, cent,
andAmencans not morethau a ac
cording to Dr. Dorchester.
LITTLE SNOWFLAKE tall
The little snowflakes fall
And melt upon the pane,
While all around the russet ground,
Is growing white again.
Fall, fall, fall,
Little snowflafeedlrlglit*
Fall until the russet earth
Is mantled o’er with white.
Across the village street,
A cottage stands aloof,
There’s joy within and children’s di*“»
Snow gathers on the roof.
Fall, fall, fall,
Silver snowflake bright.
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Two little ones are there,
A looking at the snow;
Two liWle girls, in chestnut .coi
With sweet cheeks nil aglow.
Fall, fall, fall,
Tiny snowflakes bright)
Fall until those little eyes
See nothing out but white
With heart o’erbrimmed with joy,
Along the shining street,
A whistling lad, attired in plaid,
Gambols with nimble feet.
Fall, fall, faff,
Little snowflake bright;
Fall until his little shoes
Are covered o’er with white.
The cheery sound of bells
Comes floating through the flakes;,
How sweet the spell, when music’s swell
Upon the daydream breaksl
Fall, fall, fall,
Little snowflake bright;
Fall until the sleigh runs smooth
Upon a bed of white.
O, little snowflake, fall I
And whiten all the earth;
Tbat eyes may beam,that hearts may dream,
Of nothing else but mirth
Fall, fall, fall,
Silver snowflake bright;
Fall until the russet earth
Is mantled o'er with white.
—Caleb Dunn.
PITH AND POINT.
AA’eatluT profits— 1 ’The coal dealers.
Not a windy affair—Meeting a draft.
A cyclone is like three school girls
walking abreast—it doesn’t turn out for
anything .—'Waterloo Observer.
An exchange says the Jersey cow is
making her way into France. That’s
what comes of not having a good fence.
— Goodall's Sun.
Tke enormously large hats worn by
some very little girls make it difficult to
decide which there is more of—hat or
child .—Free Press.
“Which author, Mis Evanston, do you
most love to devour?” Miss Evanston
(Chicago girl)—“Lamb, althoug hi don't
object to Hogg.”— New York Journal.
The ladies—filers’em—it beats all I
When they are young and the squallers. doll—
Their hearts are set up< -n
When grown, upon the dollars.
—Tid-Bits
Two merchants of Bak“rsville, Penn., dried
have purchased 35,000 pounds of
apples this season. Evidently somebody
is going to have a swell dinner .—Boston
Transcript.
Some one wants to know what the
work of a great man is. AVell, we don’t
know, unless it is to have his picture in
an imported soap advertisement .-—New
Haven Newt.
W e always know what to expect when
rmblic sneaker sitvs: “One word more
a hd I am done.” And when a woman
lai et i. “There’s no use talking,” we
understand that she is soing to talk until
. t 0 8 ue j a tired ' —Boston Transcript, P
HeXys anfwrhes ,
ids piecM, a’dozer too.’
A listener, though, is soon
His music is not known to fame,
Yet through it he can fairly claim
The merit of a rare composer.
^
Afte^he After the clerk had pulled down S £g ov
y
his customer, a woman, she asked him it
there was anything else he had not
shown her. “Yes, ma’am,” he said,
|Hhe cella.•; but ff you wishit^willhav.
He was trying to teach the rules
pupil, a very fair maiden.
Now< j vow by the blue sky above you,
i n bis teaching—though they called it
“schooling’’— you^
W |he aus^red: you/fooh
quit
lug .„
-Goodall's Sun.
A IK In. on “Livers" •
Let me give you a pointer before you
eat auv cb jckeu livers at a hotel or res
tsurant. Chicken livers—the real thing
—are scarce articles. Calves’ livers are
plenty and cheap . Do you see nowt
Cut a ca if- s liver up into triangular
p i eceSj something like the shape of it a
cb icken liver, stew it well, season that
well, and a man who isn’t up in
sort Q f tiling- will be fooled into thinking
be is eating chicken livers. Butheisn’t.
He’s devouring pure unadulterated calf’s
liver an d that’s what you do, nine times
.
in ten wben you or der chicken livers as
a s ; de d i s h. I don’t. Chicken livers
can’t be mistaken by a man who knows
’em. They’ve got an edge that curls up
a a bit delicate when sort th f e of 1 ‘ fluting “alonl along that edge.
Look for If tbat, ^ find It, and you know
youve ^ot - rpal thimr £• Calf's liver
can tbe coaxed ^ to cook thrit way forff
n.n’t the nature of the stuff It 8 a good
^ there le to are foll no “ w exceptions ’ to it. tht. atfAn n
the clubs know that and so don t try to
fool men who are posted^ Take my od
vicemid you’ll dine better. Acw tori
It me*.
NUMBER 49.
The Sort of Boys Th y Raise iu Texas.
The Btownville Cosmopolitan says of 11 r
Recently two boys brothers, one
atid the other 10 years of age, were
plaving on the banks of the river at
Urea. They proposed to take some
wood home to their mother, and while
gathering it lifted the dry branch of a
tree and uncovered a rattlesnake, which
bit the eldest boy in the linger. The
youth feeling the venom entering his
veins, called on the younger brother to
cut otT the injured member. The latter
asked, “ With what replied
“With this thm flat stone,”
the intrepid youth, picking up one and
placing his finger on another flat one.
The brother took the stone and ham¬
mered away, and after some time suc¬
ceeded in mashing off the finger, thus
saving the life of the heroic boy, who
stood the horrible torturo with great
fortitude
It AY as Too told.
Principai Poland, of the his Newark pnpils
High School always dismisses
when the thermometer indicates that
the miserable school furnaces are not
raising the temperature above fifty de¬
grees. On Monday morning, when the
boys in his department assembled, they
saw that, though the room was rathei
cool, still the temperature was too high
for practical benefit. Bo the bulb of the
thermometer was packed in snow, aud
each boy turned up his coat collar, and
as the teacher came in stamped his feel
and blew on his fingers. Mr. Poland
looked rather surprised, and then looked
at the thermometer. Tho snoiv had
clone its work, and the mercury maked
forty something. The teacher shivered
and dismissed the boys, who rushed foi
their sleds with three cheers and t
tiger.
llntter and Cheese.
From a report of the New York Mer¬
cantile Exchange it appears that during
the last year the receipts of butter have
been 1,648,220 packages, being 8,620
packages less than for last year, while
cheese has fallen off 178,927 boxes. Irt
exports butter is 58,476 packages and
cheese 86,434 boxes less than last year.
The prices of AVestervv creamery butter
have increased from 29 7-16 and 24 cents
to 25 1-8 and 26 3-4 cents. The price of
cheese and eggs also advanced. For
December there was a large falling off
in the quantity of butter, cheese, and
eggs received in this market. Five
thousand and six packag es of oleomar
garino were reported nyhaving been re¬
ceived during the month, and the oleo¬
margarine and oils exported during the
month show an increase of 6,603 pack¬
ages over the same time last year.
Too Much Economy.
The New York Mail has heard a stoTy
which leads it to remark that economy
in sending cable messages is not always
desirable. Relatives of a hew York
lady in Paris, hearing she was ill, cabled
that if she was not better they would
straightway sail, and asked for instruc¬
tions what to do. The answer came
“no better.” Only this and nothing
more. 'J he relatives sailed on the next
steamer, and their astonishment was
great upon arriving in Paris to find the
supposed stricken lady giving a dinner
party. The explanation, although sim¬
ple, was very annoying. The cable an¬
swer had been “no,” in response to in¬
quiry whether the relatives should sail,
and “better” as to the lady’s health.
Economy and absence of punctuality part”
cost the' “party of the second
nearly a thousand dollars.
Lost it. David Sample, of Boston saved
after working decided hard several years
SoHdays 4f2 - and to pul get married during f
So he tlie moncy in
big pocket pocket-book and tnat in the inside
of his overcoat, and started out
to buy furniture for is new home It
grew too warm for his overcoat and he
took it off first putting the pocketbook
^pocket had no bottom, and when
was not theie. te we ng
P ostpo,led :
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The Effect* of Mental Exhaustion,
Many diseases^especiallythoseofthener- renewed
VOU88y8 tem, are the products of daily
mental exhaustion. Business avocations often
' "feSons arduoSsly L°phys 6 ^ h'lXh.“anV^e lees
if pursued, are It»one no
destructive to brain and nerve tiMua
undSe“o®of tiKue, and that it irn^rte new
^X^ical ‘ invigorating v!taiity is remarkable, properties are and of shows the
that its I
bighost ’exhaustion, °^| r - cou ; e t o this : 1 ac tin potential e the effects, medicuw of
^"•“"^SpArind’coSitkn.kid- ra e nta ;
li ? ’ n “[eri weakness an.i other com
i e ne commend it as a
p ) a i n ts. Phjsicians also
medicatedatimulantandi-j\_
Motto for a corset factory-^We have come
;o»tay. _______
How Women Would vote,
were women allowed to vote, every on«>ln
the land who w be an unfailing
f e “" c d " p , or ’the diseases peculiar to h.r .ex.
By druggisto.__
when love is b!lnd . marr ia* e Is a *ucc e s*fut
><, cu i ist .____
In another column of this issue will le found
a ^ antire i y ne w and novel specimen of attrac
ttva advertising. It is one ol the neatest ever
Placed in <nr paper, and we th nkonr readers
will b* wej repaid for examining the sup-*
Prickly AshBitters.
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