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THE CONYERS WEEKLY
VOL. XL
The cause of the cold weather hang
late last spring is laid to the
tier won so down from
of ice-bergs drifting
tieAKto re g ions -
' shortsightedness in California is at
tributed by some physicians to the ab
of color in that country, the pre¬
seoce being dull brown or drab.
rlkfland tint
of perpetual sunshine white
houses a nd white concrete sidewalks ~~ are
id to be most injurious to the sight.
)a
The deep-sea soundings which have
: recently been made in the Atlantic undei
the Royal Irish , Academy, ,
the auspices of
Dublin, proved that at a depth of over
feet beneath the surface of the
ocean exists animal life possessing both
variety and vigor. The ocean’s bed is
of the most remarkable pieces ol
one
furniture on the globe.
^gentlemen in South Africa has sent
to London the back of the case of the
i OT tch formerly belonging to the Prince
Imperial, of France, who met so tragic a
death in the Dark Continent. It is
slightly battered aud bears the crown
and his monogram. A gentleman bought
ij 0 f a Zulu. The watch was made in
1818 for the Empress Eugenie as a
present for her son.
There is no better soil or climate in
the world for raising coffee'and sugar, as¬
serts the Farm, Field and Steel-,man, than
Ition that of Mexico. With a little importa
of improved machinery, an exten¬
sion of the railway system and improved
transportation in general and a consider¬
able infusion of Yankee enterprise and
energy, Mexico might supply this conti¬
nent with both sugar and coffee.
Explosives more powerful than dy¬
namite are constantly being discovered.
Melanite and bellite are among the latest
)f these, and now it is announced, by the
New York World, that another more
jotent than any heretofore perfected has
>een made by a Russian chemist. Gun
jowder is gradually taking its place as
in old-fashioned and comparatively
larmless agent of destruction.
l Another ocean greyhound has beaten
Ihe record. The big Etruiia arrived at
■New York, having practically sailed from
fcueenstown in six days, her time from
Cueenstown to Sandy Hook being six
Bays, two hours and twenty-six minutes,
phe Pays plunged at the through the fog for three
rate of twenty miles an hour,
put Iceberg fortunately no sailing vessel or stray
hapeaed across her track.
According to the Young Men’s Christ
ian Association “Year Book for 1888,’
which has just been issued, there are
lhO associations in America and 3804in
Ihe world. Tho American associations
have a membership of 175,000, own
buildings \ valued at $5,609,265, and have
total net property of $7,261,658. There
? re 752 men who, acting as Secretaries
M assistants, devote their entire time
pthe F associations. wor k of the different branches of
New 1 ork and Chicago,” says the
H’A of the former city, “can both be
-M up as marvels in their growth of
’t'ulation. According to the thirteenth
1Dual Ie Port of the Chicago Board of
rade ' Chicago contains now about
Jll ,000 souls as against 4853 in 1-810.
8 1840 the population of New York
% was 312,710; at present it is the
phborhood P and Chicago of 1,600,000. Both New
are admirably situ
P * or a steady increase of population
°ur harbor being one of the finest in
"hole world, and as to Chicago,
'Ppincott’s Gazetteer puts it correctly
stating that ‘one of the principal
1Se ’ prosperity and growth o)
e c 'ty (of Chicago) is its position at
le head of the great chain of lakes,
hieh f 0 rm the grandest medium of in
hiational navigation in the world. 5 >f
A comparatively and very’
new pecu-
11 society, which is not recorded the
,tl0D in
al list of associations, known as
Rt In Society, has just been dis
?ered by the Atlanta Constitution.
18 s * n gular organization consists ol
1800 members who are scattered
° u ghout the world, never hold meet¬
ly ^ ted never oal see y by each correspondence other, but are ac
[c and an
|f photographs. It consists
o most part of invalids who have
confined to their rooms for the
er P ar ^ °f their lives, hence the
,
L. Iar uatne The society was
10 ■August - organ
. 1885, bp some charitable
/ ns who love to see the helpless
PPJ- ^bey exchange letters of sym
lt i
. ’and all, confined as they are, work
f ner for the ha ppin ess of the others.
an or § an ization should
k E0 prosper, a*
® i P e 'iseB, and adds infinitely to
ie •
happinew of the
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1888.
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS—THE EXCURSION
FEVER—RAILROAD ACCIDENTS-SUICIDES
DBFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS ETC.
Alabama.
Joel J. Merritt, postal clerk from
Cleveland, Jenn., to Selma, was arrested
in Selma for robbing the mails.
N. F. Thomson, a Birmingham real es¬
tate and insurance agent, and a candidate
on the prohibition ticket for county
treasurer, was arrested for false pretenses
in connection with a land trade during
the late boom. The grand jury returned
an indictment against him. He was re
leased on $2,000 bond.
J. T. Sullivan, an engineer on the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, was ar¬
rested in Birmingham on Saturday
charged with manslaughter in the first
degree. About three weeks ago, while
running a freight train, Sullivan ran into
a switch engine at Warrior, killing a
man named John Beasley.
Florida.
Twenty-four alligators were killed in
one night by a boy at Spring Garden.
The inland lakes in Volusia county are
lower at present than at any time during
ihe past ten years.
The catapillars are seriously injuring
ihe pea and potato vines in certain lo
calities in Pasco county.
The state authorities have ordered that
the entire village of Plant City be burned
to tbe ground, including all buildings,
furniture, bedding, &c., in order to
stamp out the so-called yellow or mala¬
rial fever there.
The growers in and around Orlando
have netted 50 cents per pound for white
grapes. It is not improbable that in a
tew years grape culture in Florida will
become one of tbe leading industries.
Alachua county has a large acreage of
vineyards.
There Is a man in Palatka who imag¬
ines that he is a teapot. He is perfectly
sane on every other subject, but nothing
can convince him that he is not a teapot,
and an earthen one at that. He sticks
out one arm to represent the spout, bends
tbe other to represent the handle, makes
a hissing noise to represent the escaping
steam, and then, if any one comes near
him, is very uneasy lest they hit him and
break off either bis handle or his spout.
The relief measures to be inaugurated
by the Marine Hospital Bureau will in¬
clude a house-to-house inspection of the
infected villages and tbe guarding until of
them for a period of ten days, or
tbe fever shall have entirely disappeared;
and also the disinfection of ail premises fever.
wherein the inmates have had
Guards will be immediately placed other to
prevent the refugees from infecting
places. Persons wishing to leave the in¬
fected villages will have to pass the
usual detention period and have their
clothing fumigated.
Georela.
Speaker Carlisle declined to leave
Washington, D. C., to deliver a speech
in Atlanta.
The 43d Georgia infantry held a re¬
union at Ponce de Leon Springs, near that
Atlanta, and out of the 1,000 men
composed it, in 1861,only 13 were present.
S. P. Shatter & Co’s, rosin oil mill and
chemical works at Savannah were burned
on Sunday. The works were located on
the West Ogeechee canal beyond the city
limits. The origin was spontaneous
combustion.
The Augusta Exposition received an
application for space from one of the
biggest loom manufacturers in Massachu¬
setts. The exhibit alone will cost several
thousand dollars to place, and the six
fancy looms will be operated by six
blooming Yankee girls.
Texq.».
The first bale of cotton of the crop of
1888 was received at Galveston on Wed¬
nesday. It weighed 569 pounds, and was
classed as middling lair staple. It was
sold at auction at 12 cents per pound,
and will be shipped to Liverpool via New
York.
Lieut. Flipper, tbe colored officer in
tbe United States army, who was dis¬
missed some years ago, and afterwards
joined the Mexican army, has turned up
at El Paso, with a story of two old gold
mines which he has found in Mexico,
just bursting with ore.
South Carolina.
The river phosphate miners around
the South Carolina coast have entered
into a pool to put up the price of rock.
This, of course, does not include the
land miners. The production of river
rock amounts to nearly 20,000 tons an¬
nually.
A committee was appointed books in Charles¬ sub¬
ton on Wednesday to open of
scription for the purchase of a steamship
to run between there and Baltimore. The
steamer is to be built outright, with a
capacity of 6,000 to 8,000 bales of cot¬
ton, and to have first-class accommoda¬
tions for 100 saloon passengers#
Virginia.
The coroner’s jury assembled at the
scene of the recent collision on the Nor¬
folk & Western Railway, rendered its
verdict on Wednesday as follows: “We,
the jury, find the Norfolk & Western
Railway Company guilty of neglect in
sending complicated orders not easily
understood by employes of the company,
as shown by the evidence adduced befoie
the jury, and for its failure to designate
engine No. 3, which would have pre¬
vented this collision; and it is the opin¬
ion of this jury that the Norfolk &
Western management should be held
responsible for the results of this disas¬
ter. ”
A special . Louisiana.. Times
to the New Orleans
Democrat from Monroe says: A. Demin
ler, tor a number of years book-keeper
for the Monroe Oil Company committed
suicide by jumping from «, bridge.
Gen. G. T. Beauregard, elected com¬
missioner of public works at New Or¬
leans, finding it impossible to keep the
streets in good condition with the sum
of money allowed by the city, has ten¬
dered his resignation.
While a cargo was discharging from
the Cromwell Line steamer, Knicker
bocker, at New Orleans, a cylinder of
compressed ammonia exploded with great
force. Thomas Russell was killed. An
ottier man, William Somat, and three
Colored men, E. Bowers, Gabriel Bennett
and E. B. Johnson, were injured. The
explosion is attributed to the extreme
heat of the sun.
Missouri.
George Taylor, a prominent St. Louis
cotion factor, is authority for the state¬
ment that jute bagging manufacturers
have formed a pool or trust andadvauced
the price of bagging from seven to eleven
cents per yard, while there has been no
advance in raw material. Mr. Taylor
could not purchase such stock as he
wanted in St. Louis, and telegraphed
orders to Eastern manufacturers and
received the reply that he had better
purchase from the St. Louis makers.
Tennessee.
The steel rail mill of the Roane Iron,
company at Chattanooga, has shut
down until September, on account of
the depressed condition of the steel rail
market.
Sam Watts, a clerk, and Charles Hum¬
phreys, a married miner, fought at Coal
Creek while on a drunken spree. The
latter was shot through the body and
will die.
Policeman W. T. Russell, who a week
ago killed Jesse Bishop while, it is al¬
leged, Bishop was resisting arrest, writ was
taken before Judge Shepherd Chattanooga on a
of habeas corpus at on
Wednesday. As a result of the examin¬
ation, Russell was held to bail in the sum
of $5,000, which he readily gave.
Conductor Frank Cushman was ar¬
rested in Nashville and jailed there of the on
Sunday. Cushman was in charge
extra freight train which collided with
the Louisville & Nashville fast express
at Oxmoor on the morning of the 17th,
killing Engineers Nichols and Austin,
and Fireman Cummings. Cushman was
indicted by the grand jury last week foi
manslaughter in the first degree.
RUSHING FOR LIBERTY.
A plot for the escape of four hundred
convicts at Pratt Mines, Ala., was dis¬
covered several days ago, but the prison
officials kept the matter so Wednesday. quiet that the At
facts only leaked out on
slope No. 1, about four of the seven hun¬
dred convicts are confined, and there is
only one entrance into the mine at that
place. It seems that one of the veins or
leads at this slope has been worked until
it was within a few hundred feet of the
surface on the other side of the mountain.
Some of the older convicts some time ago
conceived a plan to dig out of the mine.
Others were let into the plot, and the
convicts would work turns on their tun¬
nel after completing their day’s task of
mining. The number into the plot was
increased, until nearly all of the four
hundred convicts working in the slope
knew about it, and aided in the work.
Saturday, it is said, was the day set
apart to force the tunnel through the
mountain and escape. After all the con¬
victs bad entered the slope that morning,
the entrance was blocked'on the inside,
and then they began to dig for liberty,
the tunnel lacking only a few feet of
completion, but tbe plot had been be¬
trayed, and the guards were on the look
out. The obstruction at the mouth of
the slope was removed and the convicts
were driven away from their tunnel, and
forced to return to work. The ring¬
leaders were punished, tmked and prevent every pre¬
caution has been to an es¬
cape by the tunnel route. Only three
mouths ago five convicts escaped from
Coalbnrg mines, by the same means, and
only two of them were recaptured.
COTTON.
The New York Financial Chronicle, in
its weekly review of the cotton move¬
ment, says that the total receipts since
the first of September, 1887, 5,488,937
bales, against 5,204,670 bales for the
same period of 1886-7, shows an increase
since September 1, 1887, of 284,258
bales. The exports for the week reached a
total of 27,285 bales, of which 14,819 were
for Great Britain, 7,218 for France and
2,238 to tbe lest of the continent. The
total sales for forward delivery for tbe
week are 330,400 bales. For immediate
delivery the total sales foot up 6,406
bales, including 3,430 for export, 2,976
for consumption. The imports into con¬
tinental ports have been 18,000 bales.
There is a decrease in tbe cotton in sight
of 315,282 bales as compared with the
same date of 1887, a decrease of 239,283
bales as compared with the corresponding
date of 18S6 and a decrease of 278,735
bales as compared with 1885. The old
interior stocks have decreased during the
week 3,286 bales, and are 5,113 bales
more than at the same period have last year. been
The receipts at the same towns
2,037 bales more than tbe same week last
year, and since September 1 the receipts
at all the towns are 111,204 bales more
than for the same time in 1886-7.
Objectionable Features.
Brown—“How do you like your new
bouse?” ob¬
Smith—“Well, there are some
jectionable features about it. ”
Brown- “What landlord’*. are they?” "—/.f/V.
Smith—“The
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB¬
LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS—IMPORTANT
ACTS OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND—AP¬
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC.
Congressional.
The Senate , Thursday sumed
on r con
sideration of the army appropriation bill,
pending question being on the
amendment offered by Air. Hawley sp¬
preprinting $750,000 for an armory gun
factory at’Wartervleit arsenal,New York;
$5,000,000 for the purchase of steel fof
high power coast defence guns; $500,000
for G 16 purchase of stibmufine mines;
and $500,000 for submarine controllable
torpedoes. Mr, Hawley’s amendment
was bill agreed passed. to—yeas 24, nays 10, and the
was The Senate then pro¬
ceeded to the consideration of the fish¬
eries treaty in open executive session, and
was addressed by Mr. Wilson, of Mary¬
land, in favor of its ratification. Two
presidential vetoes were read and refer¬
bill red, and the Senate postoliice adjourned... .The
to provide for buildings in
cities where there are no other govern¬
the ment offices, occupied the attention of
the bill House. The report accompanying
explains its provisions. It pro¬
poses to establish a plan for the con¬
struction exclusively of public buildings for the use
of of the postoffice department, which
uniform character, and
shall be especially adapted for
the purposes of that department,
where the gross receipts amount to three
thousand dollars annually for two succes¬
sive years. The extreme limit of the
cost to the United States for any build¬
ing shall not, in any case, exceed twenty
thousand dollars. Subject to these iimi
itations, it provides for three classes of
buildings, varying in cost according to
the amount of gross receipts.
GOSSIP.
Statesville, N. C., is to have a $75,000
public building.
Mrs. George L. Morgan, of Georgia,
was department, appointed a copyist in $900. the interior
at a salary of
Chief Justice Fuller has received his
commission from President Cleveland,
but will not be sworn in until October.
Mr. Dibble will lead the forces in the
House in support of the French spoilia
tion claims amendment to the general
deficiency bill. Should the bill pass, up¬
wards of $30,000 will go to South Caro¬
lina claimants.
Senator Dawes’ bill to prevent white
men from acquiring title or right to any
tribal property or interest in the Indian
Territory has passed the House, and with
the President’s signature will now become
a law. This bill had its origin with Sec¬
retary Lamar, who recommended it to
Congress while in charge of the Interior
Department.
Senator Palmer reported favorably
from the committee on education aud la
borthe bill appropriating $400,000 for a
Colored Exposition in Atlanta next year,
will call the bill up for action next week,
or earlier if possible. Both he and Sen¬
ator Brown have been talking up the bill
considerably, and expect its passage.
Senator Palmer says be has no doubt but
that it will pass without opposition.
The committee on agriculture reconsid¬
ered its action of last week in referring
to the sub-committee the compound lard
bill and all adulterated food bills before
the committee, with instructions to report
by bill, or otherwise, in December next,
and decided to report to the House the
Lee bill, to prevent the sale, manufacture
or transportation of drugs, adulterated articles
of food, drink and also a substi¬
tute for the Butterworth bill, defining
lard, and imposing a lax upon compound
lard, and regulating its sale, importation
and expo t ition.
The Smithsonian authorities are exper¬
imenting on a specific for N. snake-poison¬
ing, and a man in Buffalo, Y., writes
to Prof. Yarrow: “lam willing to be
inoculated as many times as you think
necessary to make my system proof
against tbe snake poison ; and when you
think I am safe, comparatively speaking,
from the effects of the virus, I will let
the snake bite me, so that it can be es¬
tablished beyond doubt that you have a
genuine specific; also, when it has been
proved that I am could safe against blacksnake the rattle¬
snake bite, you try the
or the moccasin, or any other variety of
poisonous snakes that you may have.
My terms are not very steep. I want
$15 per week as long as the experiments
last and $100 at the finish. In case the
remedy should fail and a fatal result en¬
sue I would want to be buried decently
after my body had been examined by
physicians to see the working of the poi¬
son.”
“WHITE CAPS” SHOT,
“White Caps” in Crawford county,
Ind., whipped two women nearly to
death-—one will probably die—and then
proceeded to the house of a reputable ordered
citizen in the neighborhood of their and doings
him to spread warning. the news The plans of the
as their overheard, and
“White Caps” had been
the citizen had three friends with him.
He accordingly refused to do the bidding
of the “White Caps,” and was threat¬
ened by them. A fight ensued, in which
three of the “White Gaps” were shot, two
of them fatally. One of these is named
Gregory, a country merchant, aged children. fitty
years, with a family of grown
Another is a saloon keeper named Saun¬
ders, a worthless fellow. The wounded
men have been hidden away, and the
country la up in arms on a hunt for them.
THE WORLD OVER.
CONDENSATION OE FACTS BY
’PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, HAIL
ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS,
EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC.
The Pope sent a telegram congratulat¬ birth of
ing Emperor William upon the. in reply,
his fifth sos. The emperor,
thanked the Pope. the
One thousand miners employed in
coal mines at St. Etienne, near Paris,
France, have struck, and it is expected
that the strike will spread.
A fearful storm caused much destruc¬
tion in northwest France. Many fisher¬
men were drowned. The duke of Gra
mont’s yacht foundered off Quetteville.
A volcanic eruption at Bandesnn, fifty
leagues from Yokohama, destroyed sev¬
eral villages, and killed 1,000 persons, llims
including 100 visitors at the
Springs. DeVatrenes,
The paper mill of John at
East Lee, Mass., was destroyed by fife on
Sunday. The mill employed about one
hundred and fifty hands, and the loss
will be about $100,0(30.
Chairman Iloge, arrested in connection
with the Locomotive Engineers’ troubles,
has sued the chief detective ol the Bur¬
lington road and the Lincoln, Neb.,
Daily News for libel.
A gunsmith, named Rudolph Sebic,
was arrested in Chicago, III., on Wednes¬
day, and is now behind prison bars, un¬
der bonds of $7,000. He is furnished charged
with being the individual who
dynamite to the conspirators who intend¬
ed to assassinate the three law officers
most prominent in the Haymarket prose¬
cution.
While prayer-meeting was ini progress
in a church in Indianapolis, Bid., the
people present were alarmed by groans
as of a man in agony, and an investiga¬
tion being made, Eugene Zinzis was
found on the floor in a pew, with an
em pty bottle at hand. The bottie had
_
contained carbolic acid, which Zinzis had
swallowed and died before he could be
removed from the church.
The old armory of the 11th regiment
at Elm and White street, in New York
city, has been used for commercial pur¬
poses for some yeats, although still
owned by the city. The Lovell Manu¬
facturing company, of book printers and
binders occupied a wide gallery around
the ball fifteen feet from the floor. In
this gallery were five heavy folding printed ma
chines and tons upon tons of
matter. The gallery was supported floor by of
wooden uprights resting on the heavy iron
the hall. Under this hung
pipes in stock. On Wednesday the dou¬
ble strain reached its breaking point and 1
the northeast part of the gallery fell.
The five folding machines carried down
the floor of the main hall to the ground
floor. Six girls who had been working the
at the machines went down with
wreck to the ground floor, One was
killed instantly, two were protected arch by
debris which bad formed an over
them and were unhurt; others were more
or less injured, but none fatally. Over
200 women and girls were at work in the
building at the time.
RECOVERED.
Gen. Boulanger drove in the Bois du
Bologne on Sunday for the first time
sineifhe was wounded. His carriage
was followed by sixteen carriages filled
with reporters and admirers, who shout
ed: “A has Flouqueil” “A has Ferry!”
“Vive Boulanger!” A great crowd of
gamins escorted the general back to
Paris.
Halting a Tin Mine.
Among the American schemers now in
London is a Chicago man who has had a
good many ups and downs in life, aud
seems likely to have a good many more.
He is the man who won fame some years
ago by discovering a tin mine on the
northern shore of Lake Superior.
This is the manner in which lie dis¬
covered it:
He started out one summer to go hunt¬
ing in the Lake Superior country. Besides
a gun he had in his outfit a quantity ol
tin and a jeweller’s blowpipe. Selecting
a convenient spot on the rocky shore,
secure from observation by all human
eyes, he melted up his tin, pounded replaced it
into the crevices of the rocks,
the moss, carefully covered his tracks,
gathered up a few specimens of the rocli
and returned to Chicago. Shortly noised aftei
his arrival in the city it became
around that he had discovered a lead
mine.
Now, lead mines are a handy thing tc
have. They beat gold mines aU tc
pieces. Naturally there was much curi
osity concerning this alleged discovery,
and the lucky man’s friends made in¬
quiries concerning the nature of the
find. “ Oh, I guess there’s a little
mineral in that rock,” said he, “but
probably not enough to make it worth
anything.” Still, he had an assay made,
and affected great surprise when they to
found the shining metal from the rock
be 97 and a fraction per cent, tin (it wat
all tin, but, of course, it wouldn’t do for
tbe assayer to find it that way), and there
was a sensation among the men familial
with the matter. They crowded round
the discoverer and asked to be let in. A
party of them went to the Superior
country to investigate and found tin in
every crevice of the rock.
For his ingennitv in seUing and salt¬
ing this mine the Chicagoan got aboul
$15,000 and a few millions of stock, which
he did not stop to negotiate.—CAt'eaf#
Herald,
NO. 28.
IN THE SWING.
Here we go to the branches high!
Here we come to the grasses low!
For the spiders and flowers and birds and
Love to saving when the breezes blow.
Swing, little bird, on the topmost bough;
Swing, little spider, with rope so fine;
Swing, little flower, for the wind blows now;
But none of you have such a swing as min6
Dear little bird, come sit on my toes;
I’m just as careful as I can be;
And oh, I toll you, nobody knows
What fun we’d have if you’d play with me!
Como and swing with me, birdie dear,
Bright little flower, come swing in my hair
But you, little spider, creepy and queer—
You’d better stay and swing over there.
The sweet little bird, ho sings and sings,
But he doesn’t even look in my face;
Tile bright little blossom swing aud swings,
But still it swings in the self-same place.
Let them stay where they like it best;
Let them do what they’d rather do;
My swing is nicer than all the rest,
But maybe it’s rather small for two.
Hera we go to the branches high!
Here we come to the grasses low!
For the spiders and flowers and birds and I
Love to swing when the breezes blow.
Swing, little bird, on the topmost bough;
Swing, little spider, with rope so fine;
Swing, little flower, for the wind blows now;
But none Of you have such a swing as mini*
■—Eudora S. Hii/tnstead. in St. Nicholas.
V PITH AND POINT.
A bad fit—Epileptic.
A bad spell of weather—Wether.
Down in the mouth—The tongue.
The book agent should wear a canvas
suit. paints—Age hold¬
An old woman who
ing up a flag of truce to time.
Kind lady: “How old aro you, my
little fellow?” Youngster: “I ain’t old
at all, ma’am; I’m nearly new.”
The crank appears to be a person who
mows down the mental weeds in a whim
sickle Wfly .—Duluth Paragrapher.
A Milwaukee Judge has decided that
a hen is not a domestic animal. He must
be trying to make a game of her.-—
Picayune. Gov
It seems to be settled that the
ernment cannot hold (he Mississippi
river, no matter how often it levies on
it.— Siftings. ad¬
An “anti-chap toilet cream” is
vertised. It will never become popular.
The girls are too fond of the chaps.-*
Detroit Free Press.
Ah, why did she make him leave her?
Ah, why so cruel, the fair?
When a boy he’d had scarlet fever,
And it settled in his hair.
—.Judge.
The civilized world spent years in try
ing to break into Chiua. Now it is
making strenous efforts to keep the
Chinese from breaking out.— Philasdeh'
phia Enquirer.
Hear the wailing of the ladies,
See their faces worn and thin,
And the cause of all their sorrow I
Is—the bustle is called in!
—Siftings.
The peach crop is in a marketable con¬
dition. The fruit is large and luscious,
but owing to frosts in March dwarfish. and April
the baskets are guarled and
Cincinnati Commercial.
“How do you like your new place, girl’s
Bridget?” asked the servant
best beau. “Not at all. Sure the mis¬
tress wears such small shoes that I can t
get me feet into them .—New York
Journal.
Taking the temperature—She (at the
races)—“What’s the trouble on the
judges’ stand, George!” He—“There
is some dispute over the last heat.
She—“Aren’t their thermometers all
alike, George?”— Siftings.
A sailor for sea,
And a spinster for tea.
A lawyer for talk and a soldier for fighting!
A. baby for noise.
And a circus for boys,
And a typewriter man to do autograph writ¬
ing. for chink,
A banker
And a printer for ink, for stick
A leopard for spots, and a wafer
A crack baseball flinger,
An opera singer, choir for kicking.
A shotgun, a mule and a
A Fearful Death.
A young Portuguese farmer named
Joseph Silva, while cutting hay in »
field near Centerville. Cal., says the San
Francisco Chronicle, encountered a large
rattlesnake, which he struck with his
scythe and stunned. Silva supposed
that he had killed the reptile and picked
it up by the tail to cut off the rattles.
He used a knife that was somewhat dull,
and, holding the snake almost at arm's
leng-ii, hacked at the cartilage several connect¬ times
ing the rattles with the tail
without severing it. To accomplish his
purpose more easily he gripped penetrated the snake
by the body, and, as the knife
at the last effort, the venomous creature
doubled and struck him ou the little
finger, burying its fangs deep in the
flesh. The boy shook the snake off, and
-without an instant’s hesitation cut the
finger off at the middle joint, below the
place where the reptile’s teeth had
entered. Even then his nerve did not
desert him, and be made his way home¬
ward, a considerable distance. Here he
drank a large quantity of whisky and
had his bleeding linger bandaged. of the He
felt no ill-effects from the bite
snake, and on the following Wednesday
his curiosity led him to search for the
piece of his finger which he hal left in
the field beside the dead body of the
snake, which he killed after the amputa¬ and
tion. He found the finger black
rotting with the poison it had absorbed,
and, without consideration of tbe con¬
sequences, handled it. By some means with
the virulent poison came in contact
his wound, and that nigot he died in
horrible agony, decomposition hie bod?. setting is
before tbe breath left