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THE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOL. XI.
Pin statistics prove that each inhabit
ant of the United States consumes on*
in per day. This makes necessary the
daily manufacture of sixty millions of
pins.
The tigers were a little behind in India
last year; one thousand four hundred
and sixtv-four of them were killed by
hunters, and they killed only about one
thousand persons.
Statistics of the peanut trade show
that those who are fond of the humble
<mnber paid $ 10 , 000,000 last year to
3 100,000 bags of the nuts were pro
,
duced, of which the greater portion
came from Tennessee.
A report just made by Fertsion Com¬
missioner Black shows that, excluding
the eighty-two counties from which no
(Statistics have been received, the grand
total of Union sold ers supported in
Government and private charitable in¬
stitutions was in October, 1837, 35,953.
Of this number, 15,152 were in soldiers'
homes, while 21,801 were in State and
county institutions or supported by
charitable aid in towns.
i The German Army Commander recent¬
ly attempted a “minor mobilization” ex¬
periment near Metz. The railroad station
master received at 1 o’clock an order to
prepare coffee for 2,800 men at 4, and a
dinner for the same number at 6:30. At
1 o’clock 2,800 men came in, had their
coffee, and took the train for another
station, and at 6:30 the next 2,800
promptly appeared, dined and went to
the next station, where they had coffee,
and both parties returned to their quar¬
ters the next morning. The a ttern p t was
highly successful.
The history of such millionaires as
Cooper, Cornell, Peabody and the late
W. W. Corcoran shows that it is possible
for rich men to bo public-spirited and
generous without impoverishing them¬
selves. Mr. Corcoran gave away $5,000,-
600, and. continued to make money until
i the last. If he had been miserly and
I grasping, says the Commercial Advertiser,
| he might have died a poor man. As it
| I was, everybody ready back loved him him. Good men
were to in any enterprise,
I and furnish him with any amount of
I money, if h e needed it.
Texas is a large State, and it does
things on a large scale, says the New
lork Observer. Its new State Capitol
is a magnificent structure, looming up
four feet above the Capitol at Washing¬
ton. It has not cost the State a cent of
money either, and that is where it differs
from the Capitol at Albany. A syndi¬
cate was given 3,000,000 acres of public
lands to build it, not a very larg
amount, considering that Texas has
about one hundred and seventy millions
of acres left, The State has a balance
in its Treasury, too, of about $9,000,000
in cash and securities.
Commodore Samuel Barron, of the late
Confederate States Navy, who died at
Eis home in Virginia not long ago, may
I>e said to have been born in the United
States Navy, for at the early age of three
years he was appointed a Midshipman by
ffie Secretary of the Navy. This ap¬
pointment is the only one of the kind
ever made in the United States Navy,
•ilt the age of eight years he made his
first cruise, being ordered to the Medi¬
terranean Station; and from that time on
until the breaking out of the late war he
served almost continuously, and rose to
the rank of Post Captain. ”
i The area of dry land in Holland is a
tttllion acres greater now than it was in
the sixteenth century, thanks to the
saeigetic works of reclamation which
St. a 'e long been proceeding,” says the
James's Gazette. “It is computed
that eight acres of land are daily re¬
stored to cultivation in the wonderful
httle country which has fought so sturdy
a “git against the ocean. For forty
years Dutch engineers have been
proposing the reclamation of the Zuyder
ee—-a greater work by far even than the
raining of the lake of Harlem, which
occupied twelve years. The Zuyder Zee
" a “ ^°rmed in 1282 by an invasion of the
which engulfed seventy-two villages.
® tna ^ er is now being taken
energetically up very
throughout the country,
several organizations have been
^enned of to the collect preliminary funds for defraying the
surveys. It is
r °posed to separate the Zee from the
CaQ ° u * s 'de by means of dykes of great
^ogth, and then to pump out the
*ater—obviously °Peration. a long and costly
r That this colossal work of
Wm mati011 5s P^cDcable there can
" lly bea d ™bt. The effort is worth
* or if it be successful, it
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NATIONAL CAPITAL,
interesting ROTS about oUR
UNITED STATES’ OFFlCtALs.
C.osstp Abo ill t|,e White House—Army and
Navy Matters—Onr Relations With Other
Countries aud Naiioas,
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate after spending a day in de¬
bating the bill for the admission of South
Dakota as a state, which was at times
quite excited, and which occasionally
CiUlsed manifestations of laughter or ap
Eautsssss. vote Oh the bill. The sub ti ram were . l0 de¬ re- .
feated—yeas ute was
passed—yeas 23, nays 26—and the bid
26, nays 23—a strictly party
vote. It declares the state of Sou h Da¬
kota a state of the United States of Amer¬
ica, and ratifies and confirms (subject to
ceitain provisions) the constitution which
the people of South Dakota have formed.
It fixes the boundaries of the state and
gives the state concurrent jurisdiction of
the river Missouri, and every river bor¬
dering former on the state-. The port on
of the territory not within the
state of South Dakota is to continue as
a Dakota, teiritory under the name of North
with Bismarck as its capital.
.... Mr. O’Neill, of Pennsylvania, pre¬
sented a petition in the House of the
Maritime Exchange, of Philadelphia,
against the sugar and mola-ses schedule
of the Mills bill. Referred. The House
then went into committee of the whole,
Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in
the chair, for further considera¬
tion of the Indian appropriation bill.
Mr. Payne, of Pennsylvania, offered an
amendment providing that at Indian
training schools, which were church or¬
ganizations, as assisting in educational
work, the Christian Bible may be taught
in the native language of the Indians, if
in the opinion of persons in charge of the
schools it is deemed conducive to the
moral welfare of the pupils. Adopted.
Bills for lighthouses at Newport News,
Middle Ground, Virginia, St. Joseph’s
Point, Florida, Holland Island bar, Ches¬
apeake bay, Maryland; and one for a light
ship at Bu-h’s Bluff Shoals, Elizabeth
river, Virginia, were reported from the
committee and placed on the calendar.
Among the petitions presented in the
Senate and referred, was one by Mr.
Brown Atlanta, signed by seventy-three citizens of
Ga., protesting against legisla¬
tion to brand or tax refined lard, and
stating their belief that cottonseed oil
and beef fat are as wholesome and valu¬
able foods as leaf lard from swine....
In the House, Mr. McCreary, of Ken.
tucky, submitted the conference repoii
upon the bill authorizing the President the United to
arrange a conference between
States and the South and Central Ameri¬
can republics, Hayti, San Domingo and
the empire of Brazil. Mr. Belmont intro¬
duced a bill to prohibit the coni'ng of
Chinese laborers into the United States.
Referred. The floor was then accorded
to the committee on labor, and the House
resumed consideration of the bill to es
tabliih a department of 1 .la 1 or. Passed.
The bill as passed by the House to estab
Ibh a department of labor provides that
there shall be at the seat of government
a department of labor, the general design
and duties of which shall be to acquire
and diffuse among lhe people of the
United States useful information on sub¬
jects connected with labor, in the most
geneial and comprehensive sense of that
word, and especially upon labor, its earnings relation to of
capital, the hours of
laboring men atid women, and the means
to be used in promoting their material,
social, intellectual and moral prosperity.
r I he next bill called up was that to create
boards of arbitration for the settlement
of controversies and difficulties between
interstate common carriers and their em¬
ployes, and it was considered in commit¬
tee of the whole.
GOSSIP.
Mr. Crisp has made a favorable report
from the commerce committee on the
measure allowing the Tennessee bridge and
Coosa Railway company to build a
over tne Tennessee river at Guntersville,
Alabama.
The Senate committee on claims have
reported favorably the measure passed by
the House, to relieve the Agricultural
and Mechanical college at Auburn. Ala¬
bama, from all money responsibilities tor
so much of the advance and advince
stores issued to said college in 1886, as
was destroyed by fire June 24, 1887.
in a letter wn'ten to nrepresentative
Whitthorne, chairman of the naval re¬
serve sub-committee of the House Com¬
mittee on naval affairs, Secretary W hit
ney declares himself enrne-tly in favor
of the proposed legislation for the estab¬
lishment of a naval reserve. If the pro¬
goes through, two Southern cities
will be benefited.
The sub-committee of the House com¬
mittee on education decided to report to
the full committee a substitute for the
Blair educational bill as passed by the
Senate. The substitute provides the for the df
use of money realized from sale
public land not to exceed $ 8 , 000,000 in
any one year for educational purposes.
The money is to be distributed among
the states in proportion to the number of
persons of scholastic age.
The House Committee on agriculture
have prepared a favorable report on the
measure to amend the act to establish
agricultural stations in connection with
the agricultural colleges. Under
the law the grants of money author¬
ized by Congress are subject to the legis¬
lative assent of the states to be affected
thereby, but Col. Blount proposes to di¬
rect that such installments of the appro¬
priation as may be due, and the legis a
ture, not being in session, shall be paid
on the governor of the state making the
assent provided by law.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27. 1888.
STRANGE CASE.
X Soliiti Cnbqliiia Belle Wed, Two Men and
COnfes.es iter Fault to One of Them.
Gaffney, S. C., and the surrounding
country have been gieatly excited over
the marriage ot Miss Florence Little, who
was the belie of all the young ladies, aud
was without a rival iu the beauty of her
features and the splendor of her magnifi
cent form. Mi»s Florence Was a gicat
dirt, and cuild not resist a little pastime
in this way with any dt specimen of the
-turner sex. Augustus Miutz was her
d voted slave. T ie cou se of true love
w is smooth until Dr. D. C. Atkinson, of
Che.tir, S. C , came upon the scene of
Tie u rivalle I belle of Gaffney City, ami
forthwith ihey became engaged. This
was in Novem er last, aud the happy
event was postponed from time to tune
until the lit of February last, Ju.t be¬
fore this day, a friend >f Miss Litrie tel¬
egraphed Atkinson ti.-t Mi*s Tattle was
very ill and condued to her bed, and that
the marriage would have to be post¬
poned. The doctor became suspicious
and came to the place, and when he got
there he found his affianced so well aud
heal'tv that she and her other charmer, to
wit, Augustus driving Mintz, that they hill and were down out
in the country over
dale behind a spanking team of prancing
steeds. He took the next train for
Chester, con ideting the engagement received ar
an end. Iu a day or two he a
letter from Miss Little, sating that he hid had
treated her shamefully, and if he
waited until she returned from the rifle
that she would have complied with her
part of the agreement. Atkinson paid
no attention to this letter, and very soon
he received other letters from the imme¬
diate family of Miss Little saying being that
Miss Florence was greatly and hurt at and
jilted by the doctor, to e me see
her at once. They became engaged again,
and on the 12th of February last they
were married. created Of course the marriage
of tne belle a great stir,
and was heralded far and wide—so
far and so wide that Augustus Mintz
heard. Thereupon Mr. Mintz went out
in the country and brought Rev. Mr.
Carter, and both made the statement that
on the first day of February last, when
Mintz and Miss Little were out riding,
that they had been married by Rev. Car¬
ter, and that the mairiage was to have
been kept a profound Mintz became secret of for two
years, until age.
v\ hile the doctor and bride were regal¬
ing themselves at breakfast at the Char¬
leston hotel the newspaper containing
the statement of Mintz was brought in.
The bridegroom was quick in discover¬
ing that Mintz laid claim to his wife.
The paper was passed to Miss Little, and she
bitterly denied that she had marriedMintz,
and said it was a jealous lie he had told
on her because she would not marry him.
He was settling down to the belief that
Mintz and Carter were liars, when all at
once Miss Little confessed to the doctor
that she had really been married to Mintz
on the day they were out riding. Atkin
has published a card giving these
facts, and “earnesily hopes that a gener
ous publie and a kind providence will
deal lightly with the poor, unfortunate
lady.”
ON THE BRINK.
The Very Lntrst News of tlie Condition of
Emperor Ere.t erick of tier many.
The North German Gazette, of Berlin,
says: The emperor’s fever slightly
abated. His appetite is improved, and
be expressed himself as feeling better.
The discharge of pus was lessened, and
he suffered no respiration piin. He swallowed unim¬
freely and his was
peded. A special edition of the North
German Gazette, says: Although the
emperor’s reit was frequently broken by
fits of coughing and expect iratiou. he
enjoyed intervals of quiet sleep, which,
tiken in conjunction with a slight abate¬
ment of his fever, had a strengthening spirits.
effect and put him in better
Despite his small appetite, he chiefly took a milk. fa r
qumtity of nourishment,
The doctois attending the emp ror de¬
clare that the published with descriptions the of
the emperor’s sufferings, excep¬
tion of the difficu ty in breathing, are
exaggerated, He suffers from no local
pain whatever. Ctiarlottenburg was full
of visitors. An endless stream of car¬
riages moved to and fro between Berlin
and Charlo’.tenburg all day. Prince
Bismarck repotted to the emperor the
arrangements made for the reception of
Queen Victoria, aud discussed the ques¬
tion as to who shall represent the
emperor duiing the queen’s stay.
A number of flower girls appeared Acting at
Charlottenburg, selling violets.
on a sudden impulse, the crowd bought
the whole stock, and sent them as a pres¬
ent to the emperor, who was delighted
with the gift. The emperor recently
summoned his old deaf servant Becker,
who is now a pensioner, and after shak¬
ing h inds with him, wrote on a slip of
paper: “We are both unfortunate. You
cannot hear, and I cannot speak. But I
am much more unfortunate than you.”
The old servant was deeply moved,
and reverently kissed the emperor’s
hands. It is stated that the financial ar¬
rangements witti reference to Emperor
William's estate have been concluded and
that each of Emperor Frederick’s daugh¬
ters wi’l receive 3 , 000,000 marks, and
Prince Henry an estate of the same value.
A Tourist's Cable Code.
Suggustions for a geographical cable
code for American tourists:
Mother has left for home—Marseilles.
Were you acquainted with her?—
Genoa?
Charley is very ill—Carlsbad.
He is no good—Homburg. brother’s daughter—Nice.
She is my
It is impoitant, you should leave at
ance—Moscow.
Mother is not here, but—Par is.—
Pittsburg Chronicle.
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOiVS FACTS AND FAN¬
CIES Interestingly stated.
Accidents on I, a ml and on Sen-New Enter
priscs-Suicides—Religious, Teiuperanse
and Social Manors.
A Baptist Ci invention met at Bruns¬
wick, Ga., represtnting nearly 300,000
white and colored communicants.
The jury returned a verdict of “not
guiLy” iu lhe case of Col. Hamilton
tried lor the murder of Editor Gambrell,
at Jackson, Miss.
Col. J. Quitman Marshall has been ap¬
pointed secretary of si ate of South Caro
linn by Gov. Richardson, vice, W. Z.
Leitner, decea-ed.
The entire force of laborers employed
in construction of a railroad from M inton
to YVilkesboro, N. C., struck for an in¬
crease of 25 per cent in wages.
A bund of counterfeiters has appeared .of
in Chattanooga, Tenn., aud a number
business men have been taken in by
them. The coin is made in imitation of
both gold and silver process.
At Boyce’s Station, La., a locomotive
engine turned over, instantly killing
George Woodward, fireman. 0. F.
Brownell, engineer, was badly scalded,
and died five hours afterwards of his in
juries.
The Savannah, Ga., police on the
strength of a telegram from Augusta, ar¬
rested by mistake, Charles Burton Chad
wiok, the well-known theatrical agent,
and a suit against the authorities has been
started.
On opening the grave of S. O. Gillett,
in the A.ugusta, Ga., cemetery, the body
was found turned to stone, The face
was clean-shaven when the remains were
buried, but it was found a beard several
inches long had grown since.
The Shiloh section of Sumter county,
S. C., is very much excited over the
prevalence of hydrophobia. Fifteen
rabid dogs have been killed already, and
it is believed the disease has extended to
other dogs, and perhaps other animals in
the neighborhood.
Edward Cossar, a colored man of con¬
siderable wealth, of Sardis, Miss., re¬
turned to his home unexpectedly found
Rev. Sidney Hubbler, pastor of the
Methodist church, and principal of a
school, at his home. Not being sat sfied
with the minister’s explanation, he shot
him in the head, killing him instantly.
There was a large fire at Wadcsboro,
N. C., which burned the Grand Central
Hotel, livery stable, two stores and one
dwelling. The fire starte d in the hotel
aud spread so rapidly that the guests had
to run for their lives. The hotel was new,
of brick, three stories high, with new
furniture. Most of the latter was burned.
Union City, Tenn., was thrown into
the wildest excitement by the explosion
of the engine in the bathrooms of Jerry
Johnson, a barber. Three men, Sara
Ford, a wh.te man, who was waiting for
a bath, Jerry Johnson, attended the proprietor, the
and a colored boy who to
bathrooms, were badly but not seriously
hurt.
The amount of Ex-Treasurer Tate’s de¬
falcation, of Kentucky, with all credits
made, is now placed at $150,000. It is
learned that just before having, Tate
sent a negro porter to the bank for a
large sum, saying he wanted to pay a
school claim. As no school claims were
due, this is more evidence that he took
with him $70,000 to $100,000.
A young man named Shoemaker, was
bitten Iasi December by a hound pup in
St. Matthews, S. C. The wound was on
the back of the hand, and appeared Shoe¬ to be
a very sli Jit one. A few days ago
maker began to feel pains running up
his arm, which soon s iffened that, side of
his neck, and then the other. From that
time until h s death he suffered from vio¬
lent convulsions.
'lhe jail at Plymouth, Washington
county, N. C., was burned. A n itorious
negrowbo was in jail endeavored to es¬
cape bv burning hi* way out. The fire
became uncontrollable, the alarm building, was
irivcn, but too late to save the
It requi-ed hard work to save the pns
oners from burning. The jailer was out
of town, and citizens had to break the
jail open to get them out.
It is reported at Birmingham, Ala.,
than various towns and counties in Miss
issippi have voted a total of $180,000 in
subscription to extend the Georgia Pa
cific Railroad from Columbus west to the
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papioop Apnrup) oAiiq ttiooipo oqj, joaii
for the masked highwavmen, and say they
will ham' them to the nearest limb if
they succeed in finding them.
Aromant , . c we ,„* g ‘ *},„
Palace hotel, Coattanooga „ T ,
in • .
F. Sim-', of Conyers, Ga., am c in
Chattanooga, two or three days ago.
Mrs. Berth Briton, of Memphis arrived
—lateron, the two tvere married. I wenty
years-ago they were lovers at Conyers,
Ga., their former home. A strange mis
unders anding arose between them, and
they bee tine c stringed. Bolh married,
and each having lost their companion,
the o!d love flame was renewed, which
terminated in marriage.
m The --—rt——. elds about 450 gal- .
average cow y
Ions of milk ayear, giving a total of <xk
Ihewhokeounlr ? 8 ?
WORLD AT LARGE.
PEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
Wbat U (loin* on Nortli, Knst anil West
nnd Across iDtr Water—Tlf© Coming; Eu¬
ropean Ktoruu
Arknah S. Abell, founder of the Bal¬
timore, Md., Nun, died in his 82d year.
Earthquake tremors were felt at dif¬
ferent points in the province of Quebec.
The chief clerk of the treasury of
Greece has been arrested for embezzling
5,000,000 francs of the public funds.
All the indications are that a revolu¬
tion may be looked for in France nt anj
moment. Gen. Boulauger is the idol of
Paris.
An avalanche has destroyed fifty and me¬
tres of railways between Gosscnsana
Schellonberg, on the queen’s route to
Berlin.
An, explosion occurred in St. Helen
colliery, Workington, England. and several Seven
teen persons were killed
were injured.
Minister Pendleton, Who was stricken
down at his post of duty at the court of
Berlin with apoplexy, is on (he mend.
It will be a long time however, before he
will be able to go on duty.
Rear-Admiral Charles Stewart Boggs,
United States Navy, a brave officer who
was familiarly known as “Vanina Boggs”
because his crew fought so well during
the War, died at Bruuswick, N. J.
Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew died in New
York. He was one of the consulting
physicians in Mr. Conkling’s case when
the trouble in his ear developed. He
died from peritonitis, for which no cause
has been a signed. He was an eminent
specialist on diseases of the eye and ear.
“Acute alcoholism” was the doctor’s
certificate in the case of the death of
little Willie McConnell, the seven-year
old son of a foundrymun of Ban Fran¬
cisco, Cal. Wihie and a playmate found
a quart bottle of strong whisky while
i hey were playing alone in the house.
Willie drauk fully one-linlf the contents.
Fire at Palo Alto, Cal., burned a
portion of the stables of Senator Leland
Stanford. The following horses were
roasted to death : Clifton Bello, Rexford,
Emma Robertson, Troubadour, Lowell
and Howard-Norlaine, which has the
fastest trotting record for a yearling others will in
the world. Two or three
probably die. The loss will reach $200,
000 .
The Egyptian cotton plants are in a
very advanced and healthy condition,
owing to an unusually hot March. In
lower Egypt 15 per cent and la upper
Egypt 60 per cent more land is under
cultivation than in 1887. Large districts
have been sown with Mitafifi seed, which
yields 50 per cent more than Ashmouni.
‘With a fair good season a very large crop
is expected.
At a meeting of the Central labor bu
reau in New York, it was resolved to or¬
ganize a vigilance committee in each of
the twenty-four assembly districts in the
cilv to carry on the boycott against the
pool beer. Upon motion of the building
trades section the secretary was in¬
structed to ask President Cleveland to
dismiss Collector Magone for permitting
eighteen marble worker^, who were im¬
ported under contract from Italy, to lund
at Castle Garden.
The first successful strike of the season
was inaugurated by ffie journeymen bak
at Chicago, Ill. The strikers were
able to show that 150 of 320 union. employes
had signed the terms of the This
means that in addition to recognizing the
men’s organization, which the bos d had
announced their intention of smashing,
the signers give up the project of insti¬
tuting an employment agency of their
own, through which to secure men not
belonging to unions.
A Snowbound Bridal Couple.
A very affectionate couple , with a new
ly married air were among the passen
Ufa on one of the snowbound Central
Hudson trains the other day. when ihey the
Beeped to be rather pleased
^ hours, and they settled down
jg or
for a qu5et ckat on t j le sofa , n one end
jj K , drawing-room. It was all very
we ]j f or a time, but even love is not a
preventative of hunger, and after five or
six hours they began to lose interest in
everything except the problem of food
distribution. They sat in gloomy
silence for two or three hours more,
when a kind-hearted passenger informed
them that they would probably have to
remain where they were two or three
days without prospect of eating. Then
the pretty J bride cried just enongh to
make her eyes and nose red, and said
g ^ e gL© “was home with
mo ther.”
The wedding tour might have ended
with a scene in a divofee court had not
a foraging party just then brought in a
limited supply of edibles. The groom
gave his better half the larger half of a
small piece of cranberry pie which they
obta j ne d ; and she was so overpowered him with by
t j, e generosity that she forgave much first
& i lear ty kiss without so as
„j f anc ing around to see if anybody scrupulous- was
o 0 ijj nf r a practice both had
j observed during the early part of the
*__. bany Journal.
GOT THE KEG
-
sharp Portland, Maine, constable
opened J a cement barrel on suspicion. He
f uBd k cked solidly with W(t
d "as and ia tlje middle of the barrel
a twenty-gallon keg of whi-key.
NO. 9.
GRANDMOTHER S COTTAGE DOOR,
In the fair, fresh mornings years ago,
When the world was good to see,
When earth seemed a little heaven below.
And youth was a joy to me;
When friends were real and love was tru<
And life was sweet to the core,
What beautiful morning glories grew
At grandmother’s cottage door I
I can smell the fragrance of rose3 red,
And of mint as the soft winds pass,
While the dew like a web of jewels is spread
All over the crowding grass.
The pinl: sends love in her fragrant way,
And the robins chirp as of yore,
When the morning glories in rich array
Clnng close to the cottage door.
The cottage was old and sma!! and quaint,
A picture without and within; .
The coating of age was its only paint;
And moss hid its shingles thin;
Its windows twinkled under the eaves,
With the laughter of light they wore,
And the morning glories with dancing leave*
Laughed back from the cottage door.
And grandmother, too, like her house was
old,
But the burdens of love and care
Had changed the dims of her life to gold.
Until she was angel fair;
T.ii-n the glories, her heart, at the morning:
hour,
Unclosed to the sad and the poor,
She was symbol and queen of the daint
,
flower
That grew at her cottage door
Oh! many and many a year, the sod
Has greened over grandmother's grave;
She went like a little child to God—
Her soul was so puro and brave;
But I know though heaven’s gardens be fat
to view
She remembers the days of yore,
And the morning glories she loved that grew
Round the dear old cottage door.
—Mary A. Dennison, in New York Graphic.
PITH AND POINT.
An innovation—A hotel serenade.
A cheap garment—A coat of white¬
wash.
Joe Cook says he would rather live
among Sioux than in Sioux city. Ho
can be easily Siouxted. — Graphic.
A poet wants to know “where the
fleecy clouds are woven.” In the airloom,
of course .—Burlington Free l*ress.
We regret to learn that the Chicago
Anarchists have disbanded, We h ave
always thought they should hang' to¬
gether .—Philadelphia Press.
Many a man goes down under the
slings and arrows of an outrageous for
tune, because if hit by one of the arrows
he fills up with the slings.— Picayune.
The candidate’s boomlet now bulgingly
boometh, buzzeth the beggarly bee;
And bashfullv "his humnieth
In the bulge of bonnet it busily sounding
A tong like the sob of the sad sea.
With microbes iu the drinking water, is
tyrotoxicon in ice cream, malaria
water melons, Bright’s disease in beer
and paralysis in iced tea, wherewithal
may the thirsty soul refresh itself?
After a midnight lunch of mince pie,
a citizen complained of horrid dreams,
in which he was chased by pirates.
“Mince pirates, probably,” calmly sug¬
gested his wife.— Youth’s Companion.
Mr. Waldo—“So you don’t eare for
poetry, Miss Breezy?" Miss Breezy—
“No; I acquired a great distaste for it
in early life." Mr. Waldo—“Indeedl
How so?” Miss Breezy—“Parsing Mil
ton’s ‘Paradise Lost .’”—New York Bun.
Before the wedding day he vows and
protests that his dearest care will be her
happiness, and that there is no sacrifice
too great for him to make to secure her
comfort. Thiee months after they are
married she has to tack the blankets to
the side of the bed to keep him from roll¬
ing himself up in all the clothes.— Neio
York Mo cury.
Teacher (in loud tones)—“What is
your name?” Boy (in a week voice)—
“Johnny Wells, sir.” “How old are yoa,
John Wells.” “Twelve years old, sir.”
“Now, John, tell me who made this
grand and glorious universe?” “Don't
know, sir.” “What, twelve years old
and don’t know who made this noble
sphere! James Smith go and cut me a
whip.” The birch is brouglit and held
over the trembling boy. In thunder
tones the rigid disciplinarian demanded:
“Now, tell me who made this great
world we live in?” In a tearful voice
Johnny answered, “I did, sir, but I
won’t do it again.”
An Abundance of Glasses.
Some forms wh cli human eccentricity
takes arc dectdedly amusing and instroc
tive, too. It is somewhat rare, however,
to find mental eccentricity combined
with and wedded to physical infirmity,
There is an old gentleman in this city,
who, at the age of seventy-five, rejoices
in remarkably good eyesight, which is,
however, subject to the weakness of age.
It is peculiar that, although he can see
clearly enough to read his newspaper
without any kind of artificial aid in the
early morning, as the day wears on he
needs increasingly stronger assistance
from his glasses. Instead, however, of
having a properly graded series of
lenses, he is satisfied at 8 a. in. with
none,, at 10 a. m. with a pair of pin
cenez, at noon a second pair third placed pair in
front of these, at 2 p. m. a are
fi xet j on the nose and held by long arms
over tlje enrs a t 4 p. m . another pair are
added and held in place by a ribbon sur
r0 unding the head, and when the gas is
lighted the old gentlman quietly holds
another pair of “nippers” before the rest
‘ him glance the “latest
t0 eDab] to over
quotations” in the evening papers.—
Y<nk Press.