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THE CONYERS WEEKLY.
VOL. XI.
One of the most difficult problems to
lve in Great Britain at present is what
D of ladies
3 do with the vast army young
f good family who are looking for era
loyment. ________
pi, e p r ench Council has taken off the
,egion of Honor list 157 persons who se¬
wed their crosses fraudulently, and has
uspended sixty-six others pending a
[ore thorough examination.
Confederate money and bonds find a
ady sale at good prices in Nashville
,d some other Southern cities, records
New York World. Many of the
urchasers urenase are curiosity seekers, who
lU y the bills for relief but there are
ian y other buyers who invest in the
jotes in the fond hope that they may
brae day be redeemed.
f — — -
I The last Chinese “census” was in
887 , and the population was 319,383,
[OOfor China proper, or 200 to the
quaremile. For the Empire, 382,429,-
72, or an average, of 85 to the square
bile. Rhode Island has 255, Massachu
etts 221, New Jersey 161, Connecticut
28, New York 106 to the square mile.
England has nearly 500. China is a very
parsely settled country by comparison.
According to the St. James Gazette ,
he British Viceroy of India rules more
lubjects [he than the Emperor of Russia,
President of the United States, and
[he taken President of the French republic,
[unities together; he has more real oppor
of usefulness than President
barnot or President Cleveland, and his
butward state and dignity in his domin¬
ions are scarcely less than that of the
Czar himself.
I One case of advertising for a wife has
lurned out well, moralizes the New York
Wail and Express, and it was an interna¬
tional match at that. Miss Gold, of Sus¬
sex, in England, agreed in that way to
parry a Mississippi farmer l amed
Mitchell, and started for this country on
the ship Scholten. In the wreck of that
steamer Miss Gold behaved so bravely
at Mitchell thought she was worth
oing to England for, and so they were
tarried at the bride’s home.
I Prof. Blaisdell, of Beloit College,
Wisconsin, has given to the Regents of
ilount Vernon a small volume entitled!
F‘A View of the War,” which once be¬
longed to George Washington. One of
Ihe fly leaves bears the following inscrip¬
tion in Lord Erskine’s handwriting,
addressed to Washington: “It has been
[ny good fortune through life to be asso¬
ciated with the most talented and dis¬
tinguished men of Europe; but you,
bir, are the only human being for whom
f ever felt a reverential awe, totally un¬
like bf anything I ever felt for any other
the human race.”
David Dudley Field has been impress
vhat ng upon he a Congressional committee
believes to he the unwisdom of
;oing to Europe for our State names
when we are so rich in the musical words
)f the Indian, New York, he said, was
tust about the worst name that could
lave been selected for an American
State. President Lincoln, he thought,
bught to have insisted that AVest Vir¬
ginia was too poor a name with which
P a dmit a new State, when Cumberland
Ind Kanawha were so available; and in
Itead of New Mexico we should have had
Montezuma. AYhereforc he hopes that
ereafter we will have no such misnam
'3 s when Territories apply for State
ood.
In 1887 the South made a larger corn
pop than ever before. Fortunate as this
rould be under any circumstances,” ob
pes Baltimnro the Manufacturer's Pe:ord of
Baltimore it was ... exceedingly v , fortunate , , +
“ of the extremely short crop in
he 1\ est and the consequent high prices.
Ihe increase in the South’s 1887 corn
:rop over that of 1886 will keep at leaat
130,000.000 in that section that would
would otherwise have gone AVest. As
Ihe planting season returns it becomes of
= reat importance that Southern farmers
should be urged to plant more largely
than ever of corn. Before another crop
is raised the AVest will be almost bare of
Porn, and stocks will be at such a low
point than an unusually heavy crop for
the whole country would be so greatly
peeded to supply the deficiency of 1387
and to meet current wants that prices
ould still continue high, even if the
j eld be very large. It is very im
onant, therefore, not only for the good
^f the South in general, but especially
or the prosperity of the farmers that
'hey would again raise a large crop.
le South ought to do even better in
15 fine than last year, and Southern
armers will make a serious mistake if
do not plant for a large crop of
®in and also of oats. AVe believe that
7e D Paper in the South would do well
0 urge this matter upon it readers.”
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
boiled down facts and fan¬
cies INTERESTINGLY STATED.
4cc1dents on Laud and on Sea—New Enter¬
prises—Suicides—Religious, Temperance
and Social Matters.
William Porter, a young farmer of Co¬
lumbia, Tenn., committed suicide, by
taking morphine.
Fifteen persons have left Oconee
County, S. C., for Utah, and Mormon
“missionaries” are making many converts.
Daniel Sayre, for over thirty years
g^d of Alabama secretary died of in Masonic Montgomery, grand bodies aged
83 years _
Out of 1,200 applications for Confed
crate soldier pensions in North Carolina,
nearly one-third were rejected for irregu
larities or fraud.
The steamer, Gen. II. D. Rucker,
which left Memphis, Tenn., for St. Louis,
burned near Mount Pleasant, Mo. She
was valued at $10,000.
John Hawkins, assistant postmaster at
Newberry, S. C., and $500 disappeared,
end Mrs. Herbert, the postmistress is on
his trail, which leads to Florida.
Jesse Hall, agent of the Comanche and
Wichita Indians, in Indian Territory, has
been indicted by the grand jury of the
northern Texas district, on the charge of
embezzling $14,000 belonging to the
United States government.
Clay Shown, an eminent lawyer of
Rheatown, Greene county, Tenn., com¬
mitted suicide by shooting himself. He
had been in poor health for several
weeks, and ended his life by his own
act. He leaves a wife and four small
children.
The “Leyden,” a large boarding house
in Atlanta, Ga., which was used by Gen.
Thomas, of the Federal army, for head¬
quarters during the War, was nearly de¬
stroyed by fire. The executive mansion,
which adjoins it, was only saved by he¬
roic efforts on the part of the firemen.
Henry Rosenburg, a millionaire banker
of Galveston, Texas, in a communication
to the board of school trustees, donated
$40,000 for the immediate erection of a
substantial public school building, for
the education of white children exclus¬
ively. Mr. Rosenburg is a native of
Switzerland.
The libel suit of J. W. Hearn, edi
Ror of the Waynesboro,N.C. Intelligencer,
come to an end. The case was given the jury
which in twenty minutes returned a ver¬
dict of not guilty. It is a great triumph
for Hearn, to whose attack upon Stone’s
methods of selling zephyr cotton seed
Las attracted such wideipr. a 1 attention,
and caused this suit.
Julius Wilson of Newton, N. C.,
Joseph Murphy of Hickory, and another
man who hails from Gustania, were ar¬
rested upon the charge of receiving and
selling stolen goods to the amount of
several thousand dollars. Robert Best,
formerly of Nowton, who has been in
the employ of G. E. Graham & Co., of
Atliville for some tim" past, it is alleged,
furnished them with goods from Graham
& Co. ’s store.
Three weeks ago, at William Washington,
Beaufort county, N. C., A. Par¬
ker was lynched for the murder of Gen.
Bryan Grimes. He committed the crime
eight years ago, having been hired to
commit it by an enemy of Gen. Grimes.
It was known that Parker was married.
He left some property. A day or two
ago the coroner received a latter from
Barker’s wife. She had never seen nor
heard from him since he left uutil she
heard he wa3 hanged.
Dr. J. T. B. Fowl, ex-superintend¬
ent of education id Escambia county,
Ala., was sentenced to five years in the
State penitentiary for embezzlement.
11c was formerly one of the rno-,t promi¬
nent and highly respected citizens in in the
state, but he became a defaulter 1880.
He was captured last year in Florida,
and a few days ago his trial came off.
He pleaded guilty to one of the indict¬
ments, charging him with embezzlement,
and made a pathetic appeal in throwing
himself upon the mercy of- the court.
The board of trustees of the University
i f Tennessee, by unanimous vote elected
Prof. Lannon Scribner, at present chief
0 f the bureau of mycology in the Depart
nn nt of Agriculture at Washington, D.
(1. to the chair of botany and horticul
ture in the University of lennessee; also,
, )otauist t0 the agricultural Prof. experiment Henry E.
st . ltloa of Tennessee.
Summers, i-f Uornell University, N. Y.,
was elected professor of zoology and en¬
tomology, and Prof. Wm. E. Stern, for¬
merly of Massachusetts experiment station, who sta¬ is
tion and Houghton farm
now at the University of Goetting, Ger¬
many, was elected chemist.
COTTON.
The total receipts from the plantations
since September 1, 1887, 5,154,351 are 5,359,306 bales; in
bales, in 1886-7 were
1885-6 were 5,195,883 bales. the Although
the receipts at the outports past week
were 89,563 bales, the actual movement
from plantations being was taken only from 26,362 the bales,
the balance stocks
at the interior towns. Last year the re¬
ceipts from the plantations for the same
week were 18,360 bales, and for 1886
they were 25,473 bales.
EUROPEAN FLOODS.
Reports from the flooded districts in
Germany, state that the Rhine and
AVarthe are subsiding somewhat, but that
the Vistula has broken out again and now
covers from 300 to 400 square miles with
its waters. Seventy-nine villages have
been submerged and 30,000 inhabitants
homeless.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1888.
NATIONAL CAPITA],
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES> OFFICIALS.
Gossip About the White House—Army and
Navy Matters—Our Relations With Other
Countries mid Nations.
CONGRESSIONAL.
lu the Senate, House bills to remove
the political disabilities of William W.
Mackall, of Virginia, and in regard to
terms of United States courts at Vicks¬
burg, Miss., were reported from the Ju¬
diciary committee and passed. Mr. Wil¬
son, of Iowa, addressed the Senate on
the subject of the president’s annual mes¬
sage. The Senate then proceeded to the
consideration of the bill to provide the
establishment of a bureau of animal in¬
dustry to facilitate the exportation of line
stock and their products and extirpate
contagious diseases plcuro-pneumonia and other
among domestic animals. After
a the couple bill of hours spent in the reading of
and report, and of various com¬
munications (one of them from the com¬
missioner of agriculture, criticising the
bill adversely,) and after some discussion,
the bill was laid aside without action....
A dead lock lias occurred in the House
on the direct tax bill, and the day was
spent in roll calls.
In the Senate, the bill for the with¬
drawal of public lands in Mississippi
from sale at ordinary private entry, and
to re-district them for homestead set¬
tlers, was reported front the committco
on public lauds and placed on the calen¬
dar. The Senate took up the bill to re¬
imburse depositors of the Freedman’s
Savings and Trust Company, for losses
incurred by the failure of that company.
When the bill was last before the Senate,
Mr. Vest had objected to the provision
to pay “legal representatives” of depos¬
itors, and Mr. Evarts had suggested the
amendment of “personal representa¬
tives.” Mr. Platt insisted on taking up
the unfinished business—the bond pur¬
chase bill—and so the Freedman’s bank
bill went over without action on any of
the amendments... .After the reading of
the journal in the House, an effort was
made by friends of the special order—the
direct tax bill—to make an arrangement
by which the final vote upon the measure
would be insured, but Mr. Breckinridge,
of Arkansas, objected to the proposition.
Mr. E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, thereupon
moved to limit the general debate to one
hour. Opponents of the bill then re¬
sorted to filibustering tactics. The en¬
tire day was consumed in voting upon
dilatory motions submitted by opponents
of the bills, Messrs. Oates, of Alabama,
and Beckenridge, of Arkansas, being
most active in this respect.
GOSSIP.
Attorney-General Earle, of South Car¬
olina, argued a case before the United
States Supreme Court, Louis D. DeSaus
sure against Peter C. Gaillard, involving
the validity of $600,000 of South Caro¬
lina bonds.
TENNESSEE BRIEFLETS.
Thomas Meechan, of Chattanooga,
foolishly buying exhibited a roll of $1,000 while
a drink in the Brunswick saloon.
A man of shady reputation named Sillier,
jailed...,A grabbed the money, but was captured and
serious collision took place
on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad near
smashed Spring City, and several cars were
up, but no lives were lost....
M. F. House, chief clerk in the treas¬
urer’s office, has completed the quarterly
report of the condition of the treasury.
The total receipts amount to $714,781.71.
The total disbursements amount to $919,
181.25... .James B. Pickens, for several
years chief of police of Knoxville, but
at present engaged as engineer at Jones’
brickyard, across the river, met with a
serious accident. He lost his footing
and fell among the wheels of the brick
machine.... Neariy all of the poker
rooms at Knoxville have closed up....Miss
Rebecca Bates, a beautiful young lady,
about eighteen years of age, is confined
in the Cleveland jail, a raving maniac.
The unfortunate young lady’s home is
near Charleston, and until a short
time ago she was a bright intel¬
ligent society belle of that place....
Every large wagon factory in Ihe South
was represented at Nashville at a meeting
at the Maxwell house. The meeting was
secret, but committees were appointed on
systematizing the prices and on guaran¬ is
tee funds. It is denied that a trust
the object or that any substantial advance
in price is contempla ed, but that is the
view entertained by outsiders.... A very
heavy shower of rain fell at South Pitts¬
burg, accompanied by sharp flashes of
lightning, one of which struck the South
Pittsburg Pipe Works. That portion of
the works known as the testing and
weighing department destoyed, was soon involving in flames
and was totally a
loss of less than $1,000.
A KING S PUZZLE.
The King of Dahomey has considerably
embarrassed the invalid King of of Portugal
by sending him a present a conscript
of half a dozen negro girls, with the mes¬
sage that they had been selected from
the prettiest and plumpest damsels in his
dominions. On reaching Lisbon these
nvmphs were attired much after the fash
:. ion of the Garden of Eden, but they have
since been decorously dressed by order of
King Louis. They were first sent to the
Marine barracks, where they were kept
for a few days in a carefully caused guarded both
wing, but this arrangement they
scandal and inconvenience, so wetc
relegated to a house in the botanical gar¬
dens, where they still remain.
1Y0RLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
What is Hoififf on North, East and West
and Across m* Water—The Coming Eu¬
ropean Storm.
Benjamin Harrison Brewster, ex-United
States attorney-general, died recently in
Philadelphia, Pa.
Two railroad watchmen were murdered
in Chicago, Ill. A report that Inkers
did it proved groundless.
A movement is being made by lawyers
of the country to raise a fund for the
benefit of Mrs. Waite, widow of the late
chief justice.
All the foreign Jews in Odessa, Rus
sia, numbering 10,000 families, chiefly
natives of Austria and Roumania, will be
expelled shortly.
A union of the interests of the Knights
of Labor and Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers is being agitated with every
prospect of success.
One of the largest fires ever known in
the town of Amesbury, Mass., where a
large proportion of the carriages of the
country are manufactured, took place re¬
cently. Loss nearly $500,000.
The la'dies, whose election to the offices
of mayor and council at Oskaloosa, Kan¬
sas, caused some excitement, took the
oath of office and assumed their official
duties. They declare for law and order
and public improvements.
A train on the St. Paul Railroad was
derailed near New Hampton, Iowa, and
plunged into a creek. The engineer and
fireman were instantly killed along with
ten passengers and three times that num¬
ber more were injured.
Ilansley Stockried and his wife Fanny,
a handsome, woman of twenty-one years,
took a dose of poison, and died within
an hour of each other in St. Vincent
hospital New York. Extreme poverty
impelled them to the act.
A tumultuous meeting, attended by
2,500 electors, was held at Valenciennes,
France. The meeting terminated in dis¬
order. The crowd followed one candi¬
date to his hotel, shouting, “Vive Bou¬
langer!” Boulanger’s return for Dor¬
dogne is assured.
Consul Lewis has been notified that the
Moorish government will not accede to
the demands of the United States with
regard to the Moor under American Rabat, pro¬
tection, who is still imprisoned at board
and with his family he has gone on
the United Sta'es man of war Enterprise.
It is believed, however, that he feels un¬
safe at the consulate, and that he will
not return there until matters assume a
different phase. The American residents
are in a state of panic, and their lives
will be sacrificed if the commander of tho
Enterprise proceeds to hostilities.
SHARP DIED.
Jacob Sharp, tho railroad briber, died
at his late residence in New York. His
two daughters and grandson, George
Sharp, were present. Mr. Sharp’s doc¬
tors said, “His recent sickness, as is pret¬
ty well known, was brought about by
cold contracted during the blizzard in
Rome, N. Y. He had been a very sick
man for several years. I was convinced
in my own mind that his term of life
was short. He had been unconscious for
several days before his death, and died
without recognizing his relatives around
his bed. When we were alone in his
room, he looked up aud abruptly said:
“Doctor, I don’t think I shall ever live
to be tried.” He spoke earnestly, and
without saying another word, lay back
on the pillow and closed his eyes. But
for the cold, which indirectly caused
his death, Mr. Sharp might have lived
for several years, despite the other
troubles. The immediate cause of death
was heart disease, though he had been
troubled with heart and kidney troubles,
and diabetes, for several years.”
TERRIBLE SCENE.
On Easter Sunday afternoon about 5
o’clock, the bul ring at Celaya, Mexico,
while crowded with spectators, was set
on fire by several prisoners, who were
witnessing panic seized the fight under guard. and A
frightful the vast assemblage, Eighteen a
loss of life resulted.
lives were lost by persons being burned
to death, while ten others were so badly
burned that they will probably die. Two
hundred others were more or less burned,
bruised, tosied trampled upon by the crowd,
and by the maddened bulls, which
escaped from the pens into the crowd. In
the confusion the prisoners who had set
the ring on fire made their escape, The
best society of Celaya was in attendance.
HIGH LICENSE.
A St. Paul paper publishes interviews
with about 200 prominent representatives
of Minnesota, regarding the workings of
high license in that state, where the law
has been in effect for about eight
months. It is agreed that the law has
worked well in all cities, and that the
effect has been good not only in the sense
of an increased revenue, but in lessening
the number of saloons and in bettering
the character of those that are in opera¬
tion under the law.
USED BLONDINE.
A sad case of insanity was developed
in Louisville, Ky., from using “blondine”
for bleaching the hah. Six months ago
Louise Starr, a girl about twenty years
old, commenced to blondine her raven
hair. The poison of the dye affected her
brain and finally dethroned her mind.
Tomb of the Napoleons.
The accompanying illustrations give a
very correct idea of the tomb of Napo¬
leon III. and son. The widow aird
mother desired that the mausoleum
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should be erected at Chiselliurst, but an
Englishman who owned the only suitable
ground, treasuring a hereditary hate for
Frenchmen* and especially for Roman
Catholics, despite the intercession of the
Queen and the Prince of Wales, refused
to sell, and it was necessary to select
another site.
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TIIE MAUSOLEUM.
Tlio church is cruciform in plan, with
a dome over the crossing, is vaulted in
stone throughout and has a crypt under
the chancel. It is described by an, Eng¬
lish paper as being a favorable specimen
of the transition between the flamboyant
and Renaissance styles, which is so popu¬
lar in rural France. It is built of white
Portland, and Bath stone, lias neither
spiro nor tower, and is very richin detari.
Behind the altar there is a semi-circular
passage, to be used as a sacristy, with an
entrance to the vaulted chamber under
the church, in which the bodies have
been placed.— Chicago Herald.
BAD BUSINESS.
Secretary Bayard-a Pacific, Uf terancen
Cnunc the Moors to Defy Uncle Sum.
The situation remains unchanged at
Hie Tangiers. The correspondents say that
United States war ship Enterprise,
which in appearance is not imposing, is
;he laughing stock of the Mediterranean.
A few days of firm, dignified action after
lie arrival of the Enterprise would have
settled the difficulty. Two days after¬
wards, however, the local French and
Spanish papers there republished a cable
gn m which had appeared in llie Madrid
Epoca under a Washington date, st.iting
that Secretary Bayard, on bring inter¬
viewed, had said that Cant. McCalla, of
the Enterprise, had orders under uo pos¬
sible contingency to use his guns. llad
this naive remark, with which Secretary
Bayard is credited, not been uttered
there would never have been the slightest
danger ference. or necessity for armed inter¬
Now, however, some show of
earnestness will have to lie made. The
Moors are intriguing to get rid of Consul
Lewis, hoping to secure his recall and
the return there of the lormer consul,
Matthews. The latter’s real name was
Matheo, and lie was a Spani ir.l bv birth.
American Consul Lewis has received a
reply from the Moorish government de¬
clining to accede to the demands of the
United States with reference to persons
under consular protection imprisoned at
Rabat. Fears are. intertained that the
American government wdl adopt vigor¬
ous measures against the Moors.
LOCOMOTIVE EXPLOSION
Engineer John Bodine,Conductor John
Clarke and Fireman Boyce were standing
on the ground beside a large mogul en
gine on the Erie railroad,at Craigville,N. exploded,
Y., when the engine’s boiler hundred feet
hurling the boiler several
over the stream and into an adjoining high into
tie pi. The fire box was thrown
the air and down into the stream. A
heavy iron rod was thrown a quarter of a
mile, and other parts of the machine
scattered in all directions. Only the
heavy driving wheels were left on the
track. The engineer and fireman were
thrown on either side of Ihe track, and
when assistance came they were dead,ai:cl
the conductor died soon after.
BISMARCK’S OBJECTIONS.
The proposed marriage of Prince
Alexander, of Battenberg, and Princess
Victoria, of Prussia, for reasons of state,
meets with great opposition from Prince
Bismarck, and the people generally side
with Bismarck. The affair is a love
match, and Queen Victoria will go to
Germany to endeavor to bring the mar¬
riage about. Bismarck threatens to re¬
sign if the marriage is sanctioned.
FIVE DYNAMITE SHELLS.
Five miners brought from South Pitts¬
burg, Tenn.. were locked up at Chatta
nooga on a charge of larceny. They
were examined by the jailer, and five
dynamite cartridges were found on them.
.NO. 7.
'FOT WOULD YOU TAKE FOR ME."
She was ready for bod and lay on my arm,
In hi*' little frilled cap so fine,
With her golden hair falling out at the edge.
Like a circle of noon sunshine.
And 1 hummed the old tune of “ Banbury
Cross,”
And “ Three Men who put out to Sea,”
When she speedily said, as sheclosed horblue
eyes,
“ Papa, fot would you take for ma 1”
And I answered: “A dollar, dear little
heart,”
And she slept, baby weary with play,
But I hold her warm in my love-strong arms.
And I rocked her and rocked away.
Oh, the dollar meant all the world to me
The land and the sea and sky,
The lowest depths of the lowest place
The highest of all that’s high.
The cities, with streets and palaces,
Their pictures and stores of art,
I would not take for one low, soft th
Of my little one’s loving heart.
Nor all the gold that was ever found
In the busy, wealth-finding past
Would I take for one smile of my
face,
Did I know it must be the last.
So I rocked my baby and rocked away,
And I felt such a sweet content,
For the words of the song expressed tome
more
Than they over before had meant.
And the night crept on, and I slept and
dreamed
Of things far too glad to be,
And I wakened with lips saying close to my
ear,
“Papa, fot would you take for me ?”
PITH AND POINT.
A cola dealer—The ice man.
A stable character—The groom
One of the teachers recently asked a
pupil what lbs. stood for. ‘Elbows, I
guess,” was the unexpected reply.
Minister—“Well, Bob}’, what do you
want to be when you grow up?” Bobby
(suffering from parental discipline)—
“An orphan .”—New York Sun.
Whatever pleases people’s take; tastes
Is said the bun to ,
The baking pan, however, seems
To always take the cake.
—Siftings.
Customer (to boy in cigar store)— look
“Your five and ten cents cigars the dif¬ a
good deal alike, sonny. What’s
ference between them?” Boy—“Fi’
cents.”— Epoch.
“ Your husband is a self-made man, I
believe,” remarked a gentleman to a
Congressman’s wife. “Yes,” she replied, pride;
her plumage puffing up with
“yes, he is the anarchist of his own
fortune.”— Washington Critic.
“I was completely carried away with
your sermon this morning, Brother
Brighton,” said a leading somnambulist
to his pastor. “Ah, yes,” replied the shep¬
herd; “so I observed. Into dreamland,
too, wasn’t it ?”—Detroit Free Press.
St. Louis Swain (returning from the
opera)—“ Well, Miss Sliawsgarden, did
you enjoy the opera?” Miss Sliaws
"■arden—“Oh, very much, indeed; but
I think, Mr. Swain, that charging sim¬ you
fifteen cents a pint for peanuts York Suit. was
ply outrageous 1 "—New
A lecturer on optics, at the University
of Texas, in explaining the mechanism
of the organ of vision, remarked : “Let
any man gaze closely into his wife’s eye
and he will see himself so lecturei’s exceedingly
small that—” Here the voice
was drowned in shouts of laughter.—
Siftings. opened
When Dublin Cathedral was
after restoration at the expense of a Mr.
Wise, the Archbishop took for his text:
“Go thou and do like Wise.” Not to
be outdone a clergyman in his diocese,
when opening a church built by a brewer,
said that his text was to bo found Ho
brews xxx .—New York News.
When we look on lovely women, she’s dres;
And the style in which
We think of far Arabia.
Of “Araby the Blest.”
And That for fashion the simple bids her reason wear
A dromedary bustle
And a suit of camel’s hair
—Boston Courier.
One of our bishops when pastor at
Stamford, Connecticut, asked a little boy
inflicted with an impediment of speech
how he would like to be a preachci. w-w-w-would Ihe
little fellow replied: “I-I
l-l-l-like the p-p-pounding and the
h-h-hollcring, b-b-but the s-speaking Chris¬
w-would b-h-b-b-bother m-me!”-
tian Advocate.
Sagacity of Animals.
A St. Bernard dog at Muscatine, la.,
rescued a two-year-old from two angry
fighting boars toward which the
youngster was unsuspectingly toddling.
A half-grown deer at Oroville, Cal.,
attacked two young ladies, butting
savagely with its horns. They suc¬
ceeded in tying it to a tree with a halter,
but their bustles were in a badly de¬
moralized condition.
The female of a pair of affectionate
marmosets died, It was some time be
fore her mate could convince himself that
she was dead, but when he did he re¬
fused all food, and in three days died of
sorrow.
A sick cat in a Missouri town walked
into a drug store, and after snuffing
around among the jars and and packages gnawed
picket out a paper of catnip returned for
it open. Every day she
some of it until cured.
A frog in a New Haven aquarium has
been trained to lie on his back bis in the
water, feigning death until master
approaches with a piece of meat in his
hand. The frog makes a jump, secures
the meat and swims off with it.
Australia now exports oranges to Eng¬
land.