Georgia Historic Newspapers

    THE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOL. XI.
A. wealthy Frenchman who has a hat red
of sharks has been cruising in a steam
vessel for a year passed and killed over
3,000 of the monsters. When he began
work in the harbor of Havana the au¬
thorities warned him off.
The Sioux Reservation, one-half of
which it is proposed to open up to set¬
tlers, contains an area of 37,000 square
miles. That is to say, it is larger than
the State of Kentucky, and only a few
square miles smaller than the State of
Indiana.
During the last famine in. China it re¬
quired fifteen days to transport relief to
the people over a distance of 200 miles.
Contrast with that the fact tuat at tho
time of the big C hicago fire in 1871, a
relief train from New York traveled
1,500 miles in 21 hours.
There is a considerable increase in the
force of Protestant missionaries in Mex¬
ico. The results thus far are anything
but discouraging. With only about a
hundred ordained missionaries upward
of 350 congregations have been organ¬
ized, with 18,000 church members and
35,000 adherents.
A little girl of Metz, Alsace, 14 years
old, named Louise Fuchs, has been con¬
demned to eight days’ imprisonment for
having insulted the Emperor of Ger¬
many. The insult consisted in writing a
private letter to one of her little friends,
in which there was something disrespect¬
ful to his majesty. Such sentences are
said to be quite common in Alsace-Lor¬
raine.
It has been calculated that the quan¬
tity of beer brewed yearly in the under¬
mentioned countries is about as follows:
Great Britain, 1,050,000,000- gallons;
Germany, 900,000,000; Austria, 270,000,
000; Belgium, 180,000,000; France, 150,
000,000; Bussia, 50,000,000; Hotline,
33,000,000; Denmark, 30,000,000; Swe¬
den, 30,000,000; Switzerland, 17,000,
000; Norway, 1G, 500,000.
Frederick Ellison, who was appointed
I Consul to the Island of St. Helena by
■ President Cleveland, has handed in his
I resignation of the position, and returned
I to his home in Indianapolis, Ind. He
I says that St. Helena is so dismal that he
I wonders that Napoleon survived so long
I as he did his exile on that dreary rock.
I Mr. Ellison lauded on the island at night.
I Had he reached it in the daytime he
I says I 13 would never have gone ashore.
A Government agent traveling in
Alaska says that the American citizens
in some portions of that country still
[pray [town for tl e Emperor of Russia. In one
only one man was found who
[knew [that the name of an American city, and
was San Francisco. The rcpoit
Isays: “After laboring with them one
Imau was found who had somehow heard
|°f Iclelphia Ghicago, and Washington Boston, New York, Phila
were unknown
■regions.
I At the close of the war there were
Irmly forty-eight miles of railroad in the
fctate of Arkansas. In 1874 there were
Jmly about 700 miles. Now, there are
lear 2,000 miles, and as many more miles
'rejected on the different lines, which
fill be built ere long, some of
dnch are in course of construction.
ioon our State, says the Arkansas
raveler , will be checkered by these
ioneers and indispensable adjuncts of
ivilization.
This is a great country, remarks the
ew York Sun. A photograph taken in
[os American Angeles, lady Cal., living of the servants shows of six an
there
ersons. On a wheelbarrow, trying hard
’ keep from giggliDg, are two pretty
laids, one Welsh, the other Scotch,
ehind them stand the colored cook, in
ip and apron; the Mexican gardener,
ie English groom, and the Chinese
aiter man. The mistress calls the
athering a “Congress of Nations.”
I The efficiency of oil, when dropped
pon the water to calm boisterous waves
[ay I astonishing now be regarded how as established. It
small a quantity of
|1 will answer the purpose. Admiral
‘One gives the amount as from two to
free quarts an hour dropped from per
'rated bags hanging over the sides of
; e in positions varying with the
ind. The oil, then, by its own out
'reading, extending over the waves,
jnns [Hionth a film part of of less than a two and a half
H an inch in thickness;
this is enough to reduce breaking
lVf;s a nd dangerous “rollers” to un
eken undulations that are practically
rmless. The oils that have been found
)St e ffective are seal, porpoise, and fish
s - Mineral oils, such as are used for
Ruination, are too light; but the lu
icatiag oils are denser, and may be
md sufficient
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES’ OFFICIALS
Gossip About tiie White House—Army and
Navy Matters—Our Relations With Other
Countries unci Nations.
CONGRESSIONAL.
from In the Senate, among the bills reported cal¬
committees and placed on the
endar was the following: Senate bill for
a public building at Norfolk, Va.; $250,
000. Mr. Berry addressed the Senate on
the subject of the president’s message.
The Senate then proceeded to the con
sidcration of bills on the calendar, only
those being taken up to which there was
no objection. The total number of bills
passed is 611, nearly all of a local char¬
acter, and only two of interest in the
South. These were bills appropriating
$20,000 for the completion of the monu¬
ment Fredericksburg, to Mary, the mother of Washington, authorize
at the Va., and to
construction of bridges over St
Mary’s, rivers Satilla, LittloSatilla and Crooked
in Georgia snd Florida.....
In the House Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee,
reported adversely the resolution calling
upon the postmaster-general for the fol¬
lowing information relative to sending
seeds through the mail. A report ac¬
companying the resolutions states that
t he resolution partakes more of a criticism
of the standing law, a protest against its
enforcement, an arraignment of the post¬
master-general for enforcing the law,
than of a proper resolution of inquiry.
In the Senate, Mr. Blair called up the
question of the second reading of the
bill introduced by him some time since
to give preference to disabled Confede¬
rate soldiers as between rr.en who had
been disloyal, in appointments to civil
( dice. Mr. Riddleberger said that he
could not see the force of the objections
made to the bill. Mr. Edmunds opposed
the second reading of the bill, and re¬
bodies marked that in most parl®mentary the
in civilized countries,
chief discussion on the broad merits
of a bill takes place on the question:
“Shall the bill be read the second time?”
Nobody objected to Confederate soldiers either
or Confederate citizens sitting in
house of Congress. They did not occu¬
py such seats not because they had been
Confederates, but because (the period stood of
hostility having passed away) they better,
just like every other citizen—no
no worse. Without disposing of the
question, the Senate took up the House
bill to provide for the purchase of Uni¬
ted States bonds by the secretary of the
treasury, the pending question being an
amendment offered by Mr. Stewart, au¬
thorizing the deposit of gold or silver
bullion and the issuance of coin certifb
cats therefor... .In the House, Mr.
O’Farrall, of Virginia, called up and the
House adopted a resolution of the com¬
mittee on elections in the contested elec¬
tion case of Wrothington vs. Post, from
the tenth Illinois district. The resolu¬
tion confirms the right of Post, the sit¬
ting member. A bill was reported calendar from
the committee and placed on Staunton, the Va.
for a Ipublic of building Illinois, at from the
Mr. Plumb, reported com¬
mittee on railways and canalss
a bill to provide for ascertaining tne pro¬
priety "and and feasibility of constructing Committee a
gulf whole. lakes water way.
of the
GOSSIP.
The survivors of the 1st Georgia volunteer only
regiment, Col. Jas H. Brown, (the
organization raised for the Federal cause
in Georgia), has applied to Congress for
back pay. There was some informality
about their muster-in.
Dr. Norvin Green, president of the
Western Union Telegraph company, ad¬
dressed the Senate committee on inter¬
state commerce on the Spooner interstate
telegraph bill. He said be did not ap¬
pear to oppose a fair and reasonable en¬
actment for the regulation of the tele¬
graph. Incidently he referred to the fact
that the property of his company was
worth $80,000,000.
A conspiracy had been formed by
eighteen of”the or twenty of the more desperate
prisoners in the district jail, peniten¬ who
are under sentence to Albany
tiary, to murder the guards, if necessary,
release their fellow prisoners and make
their escape. In some unknown way the
prisoners had come into possession of a
wire rope, by means of which they were
to reach the" corridor, thence making a
desperate break for liberty; but it was
found that the rope was too short for
their purpose, and so the plot was for
changed. This time they were to ask
a bath, and when taken to the bathroom
were to make an onslaught on the guards
with pistols and knives, or whatever else
they could lay their hands on.
The river and harbor bill has been
completed. It aggregates $19,432,783,
and is the largest bill of the kind ever
introduced. Georgia is fairly well pro¬
vided for in the bill, and the amount
given her is divided as follows: Har
bors—Brunswick, $35,000, Savannah,
$90,000; Cumberland Sound, $112,500.
Rivers—Altamaha, $10,000; Chattahoo¬
chee, $15,000; Coosa, to complete, $00,
00 ; Flint, $20,000; Ocmulgee, $10,00:1;
Oconee, to complete, $10,500: Savannah,
below Augusta, $21,000. In connection
with the Savannah, the bill says $21,000
is appropriated for completing the
project recommended in the engineer’s
report for the year ending June 30,1887, $80,000,
which is estimated to cost
thus committing the government
to the new project and prac¬
tically giving the Savannah $106,000.
The Alabama rivers are provided for as
follows: Alabama, $20,000; Black War¬
rior, $100,000; Tallapoosa, $75,000;
Warrior, below Tuscaloosa, Florida $18,000;
Tombigbee, $1 2, 900. In none of
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. APRIL 6, 1888.
the rivers gets over $10,000, except the
St. Johns, which gets $150,000. Pen¬
sacola harbor $35,-000.
DOTS FOR FARMERS.
HOG FOOD.
If hogs are fed liberally with Georgia
CQllards throughout the season, cholera
will be a very rare complaint. Among
the later improved hog crops, the partic
ular variety of peanut, known as the
“.Spanish” peanut, has met with almost
universal and favor. It is early, productive harvested.
very easily cultivated and
SWEET POTATOES.
ing Nothing of is gained by very early insure plant¬
larger sweet potatoes, given-sized except to a
area from a bed by
drawing and setting the first slips that
appear and getting them out of the way
of the next crop. Slips planted out in
April require more cultivation and rarely
produce so well as those planted in May
and June. The ground for the first and
each successive planting should be kept
in mellow condition by occasional should plow¬
ing and re-bedding. By no means beds
slips be set out after a rain until the
have been freshened by vcbedding, or bed at
least listing. Slips set in a sodden
rarely do well. But more next month on
this subject.
COTTON.
This is a work that many farmers think
should be done “in a hurry,” and with
the smallest expenditure of labor. It is
all very well to perform a given job in
good style with the least labor, but it is
well to consider that by taking a little
more time and expending a little more
labor and care at planting, first much requisite future
work may be saved. The
to securing a good stand sound, and subsequent
good yield is good, improved carefully kind se¬
lected planting seed of an
of cotton. There is no great difference
in the productiveness of the different
varieties offered for sale. Their chief
general merit consists in and depends
upon the fact that the seed have been
selected with more or less care for a
number of years. Farmers often plant “all
seed that appear to be sound and
right,” but on account of imperfect de¬
velopment or partial heating, it is found
that the vitality of many of the germs is
either originally defective or it has been
impaired. The result is a poor stand of
feeble, dying plants. Secure seed of
good selection, even if no more than
enough to plant a small field from which
to save seed next fall, and test the vital¬
ity of any that may be doubtful by
planting early a few handsful in a warm,
sunny exposure in the garden or in a
hot-bed.
FARM STOCK.
On many Southern plantations enough
peas, potatoes and small grain is wasted
to produce, if consumed by swine, enough
bacon for the family of the proprietor, fields, if
and enough hay dries in the
harvested and fed in connection with
cotton seed, to produce more value in
beef and milk than the cotton crop upon
the plantation will bring after paying fail
cost of production of the latter. We
to utilize the very forces of nature which
do our bidding most willingly and profit¬
ably. So true is this that the measure of
success of the tillers of the soil in the
South may be very accurately stock-breeding. engaged
by the attention given often to utilize with
Stock on the farm
profit vegetable growths which would,
unconsumed, not only remain without
profit, but prove a positive injury. The
most prosperous farmers are those who
avail themselves of the animal factory
to the fullest extent, and while the “cot
tontott” is wearing out his land, the
stock farmer is annually and rapidly im¬
proving his. The introduction of thor¬
oughbred mules all over the South would
in ’two years double the value of live
stock in the section. A Merino buck
introduced to a flock of “native” ewes
will raise the wool product in the off¬
spring from two and a half to five Shorthorn pounds
per annum and capita. A
bull will add 200 pounds to the two
year-old bullocks.— Atlanta, Go ., South¬
ern Cultivator.
GEORGIA GOLD MINE.
A newspaper man at Clarksville, Ga.,
knowing the character of the LaPrade
mine, and knowing that gold must ex¬
ist outside of that lone spot, has kept
watch over that locality until a report
came to him that on the opposite side of
the mountain from the LaPrade, a dis¬
tance of three and a half miles, there was
gold in large quantities. The informant,
Coot Evans, told such a wonderful story
that no attention was paid to the had report, said.
only to remember what he
Later, a story of similar character was
circulated which was accompanied by
quartz that actually showed up the yel¬
low metal. Without delay, W. F. Law¬
rence was soon in Rabun county, where
he found the gold existing in considera¬
ble quantities, contained in what might
be termed inexhaustible masses of fine
colored quartz, laying in regular stratified
form. Nino veins were discovered parallel lying
close together and running with
>ach other.
FOR A NICKEL.
Nathan Pinckney and Jack Green, Ifwo
colored roustabouts of Charleston, S. C.,
became involved in a quarrel sailors’ over boarding a game
of cards, in the low
house of Thomas Douglass, corner of
Elliott street and Gadsden alley. Green
won a nickel from Pinckney and they
drew knives; the quarrel ending by
Pinckney killing the other by stabbing
him through the heart....In Atlanta,
Ga., Neil Starks, a colored boy, blew out
his little brothers brains, and wounded
his cousin. Tom Crowley, because they
won a nickel from him at a game b of
cards.
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
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Wliat is Going on North, East nnd West
Across the Wuter-The Coming: Eu
ro i ,ean stor,,u
. The French steamer Britannia appeared board.
ln New York with small-pox on
Things look squally in France, time, and a
revolution may break out at any
The high license bill passed the New
York Assembly by sixty-six against sixty
one.
The pilot boats Phantom and Enchant¬
ress are believed to have been lost in the
recent blizzard.
The steamer Canonburg, loaded with
sugar, was wrecked off Nantucket, Mass.
No lives were lost.
Major General Alfred Terry, U. S. A.,
will soon make application for retirement,
on the ground of ill health.
Abner Ingalls Bergen, late president of
the Pacific National Bank of Boston,Mass.,
a noted defaulter, has died in Canada.
Prince Bismarck has just celebrated
his 73d birthday, and received many
presents, a large proportion coming from
the royal family.
The employes of Spang, Chalfant &
Co.’s, tube works, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
j truck. The plant has been in operation
about half the time and the employes
wanted the work divided equally among
them.
tion At a meeting held of the Bar resolutions Associa¬
of Detroit, Mich., to pass Chief
with reference to the demise of
Justice Waite, Ex-Senator Jones, of which Flor¬
ida, attended, and made a speech
electrified his hearers.
The bark British was wrecked off
Camingha, drowned. Portgual. Twenty-three per¬
sons were The Spanish cus¬
toms officers prevented the saving of a
number of lives by firing upon the
Portuguese lifeboat, which had gone to
the rescue.
Father J. C. Drumgool, pastor of the
mission of the Immaculate Virgin, died
at the mission home in New York. He
was known all over the world through
the paper '•'The Homeless Childf whose
subscription built a $300,000 building in
LaFayette place and supported it after¬
ward.
A fire broke out in the offices of the
Homer Lee Bank Note company, on the
eighth floor of the Tribune building, and
despite the supposed fire proof floors,
eat its way to the floor above. On this
floor are located the rooms of the report¬
ers and city editor of the New York Trib¬
une. The firemen were promptly sum¬
moned, but before their arrival the fire
had destroyed the files, manuscripts office, and
valuable papers in the Tribune
which cannot well be replaced.
The Duke de Cazes, of Paris, is to
marry Isabelle Blanche Singer, one of the
children of the late Isaac M. Singer, the
sewing machine manufacturer. He left a
fortune of about $13,000,000. The
mother of Isabelle Blanche (one of
Singer’s four widows), is now a duchess
and lives in Paris. Isabelle is 19 years
old, pretty and accomplished. In a let¬
ter to Mr. Hawley, executor of the Singer
estate, she asks for $00,000 to cover in¬
cidental expenses connected with the
wedding. She has to furnish a house for
the duke and buy him horses and car¬
riages.
VETERAN8’ REUNION.
The arrangements for the reunion of
the survivors of the army of the Potomac
with the survivors of the army of
northern Virginia are progressing Curtis very
satisfactorily. Hon. Geo. Win.
will deliver the oration, Geo. Parsons
Lathrop the poem, and Bishop Horatio
Potter, of New York, the address of wel¬
come. Some distinguished Confederate
general will be selected to make the rc
ply to the address of welcome, The re
union will be on the 1st, 2d and 3d of
July next at Gettysburg and will con¬
clude with a grand banquet. The presi¬
dent of the United States, Gen. Sher¬
man, Gen. Sheridan, and many other dis¬
tinguished officers on both sides of the
contest will be present. The following
is the committee from the Army of the
Potomac and Confederates can address
any of them for further information:
Gen. John C. Robinson, U. S. A.; Gen.
Abner Doubleday, U. S. A.; Capt. James
Beale; Gen. Francis C. Barlow; Maj. C.
A. Rice; Col. W. L. Tidball; Gen. Dan¬
iel F. Sickles; Gen. Joseph B. Carr: Church; Gen.
Chas. K. Graham; Col. W. C.
Gen. E. I>. Keyes; Gen. D. W. Couch;
Gen. Daniel Butterfield; Gen. F. J. Por¬
ter; Gen. S. W. Crawford; Gen. C. A.
Whittier; Gen. M. T. McMahon; Gen. T.
W. Hyde;. Gen. J. F. Hartranft; Gen.
John G. Parke; Gen. C. G. Howard,
Gen.•Charles Devins; Gen. Carl Schurz;
Gen. H. W. Slocum, “Gen. H. A. Bar
num, Gen. Geo. S. Greene, Gen. A.
Pleasant, Gen. J. B. McIntosh. Gen.
John Hammond, U. S A., Gen. H. J.
Hunt, U. S. A., Col. Andrew Cowan,
Maj James E. Smith, Gen. Nathaniel P.
Banks, Gen. H. A. Williams, Gen. N.
W. Day, Col. R. B. Erwin, Maj. Chas.
Appleby, Gen. E. L. Mollineaux, Gen.
Benjamin F. Butler, Gen. N. M. Curtis,
Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, Gen. George H.
Sharpe, Gen. E. Tremaine, Gen. Maj. J.
B. Fassitt. Officers Army of the Poto
mac Society; Gen. Horatio C. King,
Secretary, 38 Park Row, N. Y.; Col.
Samuel Truesdell, Treasurer, 18 Broad
way, N. Y.
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The census of tenement-house completed population by the
in New York City has been
health officers, who have inspected 31,534
tenements, and find that they contain 250,
io> families, including 1,016,325 persons.
RIOTOUS SWITCHMEN.
The first encounter between sympathiz¬ and
ers of the striking switchmen, men
who have replaced them, took place and at
Chicago, Ill., when a switch engine freight
its crew attempted the Northwestern to transfer some tracks. A
cars to
crowd of switchmen of other roads were
about the place, and began to jeer at the
new men on the “Q” engine. When the
train reached Kezsic street and Western
avenue it ran off; a number of cars were
ditched. The mob then set upon tire
crew of the engine and the train, and the
fireman and engineer took to their heels,
getting numerous cuffs as they escaped. and
The new switchmen followed suit,
were pursued and roughly used by the
crowd, which was made up of the tough¬
est kind of men. Six or eight Pinkerton and Di¬
men were disarmed and beaten,
vision Superintendent John Bester, of
the Burlington road, who was on the
freight train, was also badly used up.
a Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul
switchman was arrested, and this precipi¬
tated a strike of 174 switchmen, twenty
eight engineers and twenty firemen on
the St. Paul road, when it was known
that lie had been arrested. The crowd
followed him to the station house and
endeavored to get him released. When
the crowd realized that their comrade
had to remain in the police station, the
St. Paul men decided to strike, and im¬
mediately deserted their switchmen, engines. The
whole yard’s force of engin
eers and firemen, 227 in all, quit work,
leaving 28 engines standing officials on the track.
In an hour or two, two of the
St. Paul succeeded in having Quirk re¬
leased on hail. He went at once to where
the strikers were in session, and hispres
ence put them in good humor, and it was
speedily resolved that a resumption of
work was the proper course to pursue.
WON’T HANDLE THEN.
The switch engineers and firemen of nil
the roads entering Kansas City, Mo.,
with the exception of the Burlington, resolved
had a meeting at which they
that they would refuse to handle any
Burlington cars or freight. The switch¬
men employed in the yards of the Chi¬
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul company,
in Milwaukee, Wis., held a largely at¬
tended meeting and formulated a demand
to be presented to the general manager
that no “Q” freight shall bo handled by
the road under any circumstances. There
is a prospect that the engineers, firemen,
brakemen nndswitelimeu of the Ohio,In¬
diana* Western railroad will strike atln
dianapolis, Ind. The hauled ground ‘Q” of com¬
plaint is the company ‘ stop¬
pers. So far as known at present the
strike will he confined to Oliio, Indiana
and the Western men at that point, but
there are indications of a general tie-up
of all tlic roads leading west. All the
freight brakemen on the Kansas City, St.
Joseph & Council Bluffs roads struck.
They assign as a reason danger t» tlieii
lives in working with “scab” engineers.
TEXAS ALLIANCE.
The farmers of Texas have got up a
combine worthy of note all over the Un¬
ion. They have unlimited organized capital—that a stock com¬ is,
pany with
more money is offered than can be at
present used—to erect exchanges, ware¬
houses and manufactories for the sale of
cotton and its manufacture, and the man¬
ufacture of all kinds of agricultural hundred im¬
plements. The several acres
north of known as o Cole fair
grounds, have order been purcht the £ ed reception and arc
being put in for of
machinery for making plows, hoes,rakes,
buckets, harness and many other articles,
as well as a cotton factory with 20,000
spindles. A cotton exchange and ware¬
house is being ereeted in the heart of the
city, where, perhaps, half of the crop of
the state will be sold by sample.
mine explosion.
An explosion occurred at Rich Hill,
Mo., that entirely wrecked the mine and
buried in the debris over one hundred
miners, who were cut off from all means
of escape. Rich Hill is located in Bates
county, one hundred miles south of Kan¬
sas City, on the Missouri Pacific. Tt is
the center of the coal mining disiiret.
Superintendent Sweeney and his assis¬
tants immediately began the work of
rescuring imprisoned miners and had
taken out fifteen men when a second ex¬
plosion took place, and Superintendent imprisoned.
Sweeney and his aides were
It is thought that the loss of life will
foot up fully one hundred.
Stormier When She Came.
One stormy night about four months
ago a little girl came into already a family 3 up¬
town where there was a this boy week or
4 years old. One bad evening
the father and mother were going out
and the boy wanted to go along and
take the baby. To this the mother ob¬
jected strenuously, and for a final argu¬
ment she said :
“But, inv son, don’t yon know we
can’t take little sister out such a stormy
night as this ?”
“Well, I don’t care,” he replied. “It
was a good deal stormier than this the
night she come here.”— Washington
Critic.
ATTEMPTEO BRIBERY.
Lawyer Andrews, of New York City,
who is pressing the indictments against
Jay Gould and Russell Sage, says that
George Gould, the son of Jav Gould, of¬
fered him a bribe of $30,000 to betray
his clients, and not press the charge in a
criminal court.
NO. fi.
READING THE MILESTONE.
I stopped to read the Milestone here,
A laggard school-boy, long ago;
I came not far—my heme was near
But oh, how far I longed to go!
Behold a number and a name—
A finger, Westward, cut in stone; ^
The vision of a city came,
Across the dust and distance shown.
Around me lay the farms asleep
In hazes of autumnal air,
And sounds that quiet loves to keep
Were heard, and heard not, everywhere,
I read the Milestone, day by day;
I yearned to cross the barren hound,
To know the golden Far-away,
To walk the now Enchanted Ground!
—Don. Piatt
PITH AND POINT.
“Preciousgreen”—the emerald.
An object of charity—to do good, of
Qourse.
Cupid is always shooting and forever
making Mrs.
This cold snap is accounted for. A
quicksilver trust has been formed, and
of course mercury went up. — Pittsburg
Chronicle.
If Dakota cannot get into <he Union
she can enjoy the satisfaction of making
it decidedly chilly for the States that
are in,— Graphic.
A house painter who carrying slipped his from paint- a
staging the other day, is stated, with
pots with him, came off, it
flying colors.— Life. 1
A collecting agency in New' A ork is
run by women exclusively, which seems
to disprove the adage, a woman’s work
is never dun.— Siftings.
Some of our contempories are remark¬
ing that in Kansas there is a postoffice it! That
named “Zero.” Well, what of
is nothing .—Loir ell Courier. ■
Lady of the house —“Jane, who is that
girl that just left the kitchen? Jane —
“Oh, ma’am! that’s the lady what works
for the woman across the street.
Pater Familias—“I can’t imagine what
is the matter with my wavtch. It must
need cleaning.” Bobby—“Oh, no, it
don’t papa. Baby and me had it in the
wash basin all the morning and got it
quite clean.”
Everybody in the church,, except the
new pastor himself, seemed to enjoy it
when lie lost the place in his manuscript,
and while hunting for it spok of “Esau,
who sold his message for a birth of pot
right .—Burlington JJawhnje.
Rome tobacconists once dwelt in town,
To modesty they’d gained pipes, renown; ’tis dear,
‘■We do not puff our sold hero.”
We do not puff cigars brace of jokers
You see they the' “pulling’’ were u to the smokers.
And left —New York Sun.
“There’s a great difference between an
egg and a riding horse," remarked tho
Snake Editor. “I suppose so,” replied
the Horse Editor; but what difference
do you refer to when in particular?” it’s addled.”— “An Pitts¬ egg
is of no use
burg Chronicle.
There is nothing that goes further
toward breaking the heart of ft post¬
mistress who doesn’t understand anything
but English than to have the mail contain
a postal card written in a feminine hand
in German and addressed to a young man
whom she knows.
Gue.-.t at Country Tavern—“Have you
any cheese, landlord?” I.andlord “Aot
a bit in the house, sir.” Guest—“Not
even a little piece?” Landlord—“By
gum, there is, come to thiuk! Pete,
run down cellar and fetch up that rat
trap. ”—Detroit Free Press.
There are shrewd, careful men in this
country who are hound lo crowd the
weak to the wall. One of them bought the
Horace Greeley’s autograph at a sale
other day. and within half an hour bull¬
dozed a Chinese laundryman into deliver
ing six shirts and a dozen collars for it.
The licit tie swung is silent now,
His emery wheels revolve no more;
The seal of Vest is on that brow
That tong care’s deep-cut fuirows wore;
Henceforth our scissors and our knives
No more in him a friend we’ll find,
His was one of those toilsome lives
That proved in fact a “horrid grind.” Budget.
—Boston
Perkins—“And so you're going to tho
fancy-dress ball? What costume are you
going to wear.'” Smart Alec—“I think
I’ll borrow your summer suit r.nd go as
a tramp. What arc you going to wear?”
Perkins—“I guess I’ll put on your di¬
agonal Prince Albert and go as a looking
glass.
Scared Grizzles.
J. II. Inman, a former fur contracting
agent of the Hudson’s Bay Company,
said to a New York Sun reporter:
“While I believe that a grizzly bear
will in a majority of cases wait for a
fight with a man and take pains to get
in the way of one, there are times when
it will seem to think better of it and
back out A remarkable instance of this
kind I heard of once, where a famous
Manitoba guide courageously advanced
upon three grizzlies, an old she one and
two half-grown young bears, and by a
serie.s of ridiculous monkey-shines and
acrobatic maneuvers on the ground with¬
in a rod or two of the bears filled them
with such astonishment and apparent
fear shat the three retreated into the
woods with all rapidity. The guide’s
gun had snapped in botii barrels, he hav¬
ing drawn on the old bear before the
young ones appeared. He-afterward said
that it was in a fit of desperation that he
tried the turning of a handspring and
'umping up and down, flopping unhunter¬ his
hands, and resorting to other
like measures. He had been told once
that a hunter had frightened a mountain
lion away by similar absurd movements,
and he found that it worked to perfection
in the case of the bears, although he did
not encourage anyone to go hunting
grizalies armed with nothing more than
a capacity to turn somersaults,”