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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. - 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. ----- 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,”