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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 [Is j -Am W m rfliSt f ■; | A § is mi ■ M HI nlain MEMORIAL CHAPEL, FAItNROROUGII. 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. ll/P % mm rfl/H i i 4SQ mlpit Mm -HIM SB 2Z22Iz 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.