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THE CONYERS WEEKLY VOL. XI. One can now go from London, almost the boundary of the Chinese Empire the great Russian Railway. rhe traveler can now go to the top of okout Mountain, the scene of the ebrated battle above the clouds, by L Jfe is dow proposed to enact a law in >uisiana prohibiting under penalty, the Lnufacture, sale, or use of dangerous «mons. The natives of Venezuela recently [lowed a wagon for nearly a week to e if the hind wheels would catch \ip Ith the front ones. As this did not cur, the vehicle was pronounced a iud. L~» The Grand Vizier of Turkey has had jpawn some of the silver ware bclong r to the Sultan to raise the Sultan’s atribution toward the expenses for the aual pilgrimage of poor Mussulman to cca. Seventeen hundred bales of buffalo bes arrived in New York recently from b West. These are said to be the last bes that will ever be sent East, such ing the scarcity of the buffalo at pres- 1, At one tirrie skins were sold at $4 iece. Now they bring upward of $25, r being obtainable even at that price. la 1848 Lieutenant Tree-how was dUs Issed from the German army fbr sur fcdering the Berlin armory, in the in Irrection, to the Civic Guard, and was Indemned to fifteen years’ imprison pt in a fortress. He escaped to Aus alia, and now, at the aga of seventy, tee, he has returned, hoping that lie ks included in the amnesty proclaimed r the new Emperor. The Minister of ar decides that his offense was ttnpar kntblV:, and he will be reimprisoned, bbe.oly for life. jin Denmark, it is becoming customary, jserts pd the Tinns-Demoera ,for friends tc to the relatives of a person who has led what is called a “Good Works It’d,” in place of the usual floral trib les. These cards are of white paste lard, printed in silver, and are, issued ■ various charitable organizations. On fch card is the name of the society pich path issues which It; in the the centre is an ivy on name of the de lased ntay be Written: and at the foot a space fru- the name of the sender, hecaid^are sold in bookstores fora Ddera.te sum. s ■Europe has an abundance of widowed - Hmpresses just now, says the Cincinnati ■ Germany has two, the wives William I. and Frederick III.: Eng B n d’ s Queen and Empress of India has Bugenie, long widowed; the once beautiful of France, still lingers at Chis Bhurst dreaming of her lost son; and Relieve C'arlotta, the unfortunate of Maximill an, once Emperor of I still lives in an asylum. There ®l s o several widowed Queens, those • Baong Spain, Pottugal and Italy being j the list. And ail of them, save B ai 'lotta, were bereft of their husbands Hf a natural death. I Every one has noticed while driving low rarely a horse steps on a stone, even Ihen going very rapidly, An old fcvalrymansays that aliorse never steps pa pder man intentionally. It is a standing with cavalry that should a man pcorne fcd be dismounted he must lie down ptire perfectly still. If he does so, the company will pass over him aud p fhere will he not be injured. A horse notices is going, and is on the look jut for It a is firm foundation to put his foot P- an instinct with him, there F®. to step over a prostrate man. The Pjuries caused by a runaway horse are. [early always inflicted by the animal mocking down men, not by stepping on lem. I The New York Observer says: “An F em has appeared among the cable dis¬ patches been to the effect that a proposition fas made in the English Parliament, [° utilize the the latest British acquisition f Q Zanzibar coast as a dumping pound for paupers of London. As a pmedy for over-population, and espe jialiv loubt for pauperism, there can be no that emigration possesses some ^vantages. fitherto, The trouble has been that no country has been found pilling to sacrifice its own interests for f“ e sake of England, so far as to become f re e ptacle for the refuge of London poms. Australia and all the other Eng ph •So, colonies and the revolted at this idea long United States and other ; ivilized nations are in no mood to allow °ch a use to be made of their territories. L therefore, the newly acquired African Gantry may be converted into a vast ^y’utin for the London poor, some ad ance may be made toward the solution 11 & very perplexing problem.” CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. AUGUST IT, 1888. “GRIM JACK” OP YELLOW TINGE, INVADES FLORIDA, CAUSING A PANIC, people stampede E»,oM Jacksonville— MACON,OA., INVITES THE REFUGEES AND THEN QUARANTINES AGAINST THEM. Surgeon General Hamilton,, Dr, Sim “ on *> of Charleston,^jyrKVor Lester, of Savannah- and Cab* it. G. Fleming, to . getoer. with * number of health officers ana f&i.road officials, met in confere ce at VVaycross, Ga., on Sunday, to discuss the situation in reference to the present scourge and at Jacksonville, for ana t > devise' ways means succoring the peoplel and otherwise aiding them. It. w'hS de¬ cided that it Was m'Ccessarjf to speedily deplete the city of Jacksonville that stamped the disease might be more quickly out. ID order to do this k place of ref uge was necessary. It Whs decided that a camp of ref ages s be established, and that Bourogofe, Florida on the line of tbe Savannah, & Western Rail rend, thirty-six miles from Jacksonville,in Nassau county, be selected. TO this end Surgeon-Gen oral Hamilton will have government tents shipped immediately to the ground, and the camp ground will be inaugurated at once. No sick person Will be Detained, but sent back to the city. The mails Will be fumigated (it Way Weil crog-tj DupOnt Gainesville, and Chattahoochee, as as Tire transfer of pas-engers &hd baggage takes place at the mile post, three miles south of Waycto-s. AH passengers net properly certificated are placed in the rough cars, and not allowed to leave the coaches at tip the by station, the The strictest patrol is kept Savannah inspectors from Brunswick, and Thomasville. The trains are passing there crowded and it is pit¬ eous to see the wo-be-gohe fexpres ions of the faces of Women and tne wonder¬ ing gaze of the children flying to escape thu terrors that are pictured behind them; caring nothing for baggage or worldly belongings—going—goiug any¬ where only to be going. As the traiusi with locked do-irs slow up at the depot the heads are poked out at the windows as if in mute appeal, only to be directed to a place of safety. There is no fear at Way cross. Being asked if he would express an fever opinion on the probability of the H yellow amil¬ sweeping Ja.ksonviile, Dr. ton nep ied indiiectiy, saving, however, that he would advise everybody to leave the city, “Just now the disease appeals to be of a mild type,” he continued. “Until we have further data it is unsafe to express a positive opinion one way or another. All who can possibly leave should do so. Fugtives not only save their own lives in nine ca-es out of ten, but save the lives of others by robbing the pestilence of so much material which it would feed upon. No disease is so su.-ccptible by quarantine than yellow fever. In 1876 when Savannah had it so bad, Charleston, which is but little moie than one hundred miles off, kept it out effectually by a strict quarautine. There is no reason why any of Jacksonville’s neighbors should contract the fever if they keep the refugees out. It did not originate in Jacksonville this Summer, but was imported. Plant City was not free from fever at any time during the past Winter.” Quarantine Officeis Webb and Baughn were at work on all the north¬ bound trains on the East Tennessee, Vir¬ ginia and Georgia and Central railway trains coming into Macon, Ga., Officer Baughn being stationed at Fort Valley and Webb at Chauncy. As each train arrives, they board it and come on to Macon, en route finding out all parties from the infected distriefs and informs them they will not be allowed to stop, but continue on their journey. Most of them go on through. One or two have raised a protest, but when they learned that they were liable to be arrested if they stopped, they continued on their way. The officers accompany each train some distance beyond the city to see that no one jumps off and comes back. A special to Jacksonville, received Sunday, reports three new cases and one death as the day’s record in that city one suspicious case has developed at Pablo Beach, where Capt. Tuttle, of the Louis¬ ville and Nashville Railroad, died. Three suspicious cases have developed at St. Augustine, and a stampede from that city has begun. The quarantine lines below Brunswick and all points in Florida is now fully established and thoroughly guarded at all points. Inspectors are stationed at Jesup, Waycross, St. Mary’s, Owens Ferry and Burnt Fort, while the steamer Mis chief, is patrollng the mouth of the harbor, off Jekyl river. The Brusnwick Ga. board of health has taken every precaution confidence neces¬ and sary to establish perfect city. All is a feeling of security in is the feel¬ quiet now, and there no longer a ing of uneasiness as to tue continued good health of Brunswick. An authority on yellow fever in At¬ lanta on being questioned about the ad¬ visability of permitting refugees from Florida to enter Atlanta said: “I think it gives a change for the spread it is of good the disease and I do not believe policy to take any chances with such a dreadful disease as yellow fever. Take the experience of Huntsville, Ala., and other towns along the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, in the epidemic of 1878. Huntsville is every bit s health¬ fully situated as Atlanta. A resort for delicate persons and young children from all parts of the South; in a high rolling country, with good water and air. The idea of yellow fever coming hobby there of was few ridiculed and treated as a a medical cranks. The local physicians and others said yellow fever germs Sm of the population &tfi|&, died 2fT from the ft? cji^-f.se. ,S The governor of Georgia should establish a Strict quarantine along the Florida border, aHd eVerJf jieison burning from Florida should be detained in quarantine eight or ten days, if necessary, before be¬ ing allowed to proceed, or until all dan¬ ger such, from contagion is had parsed. If some actiop not taken Sot the, allow people of Atlanta at least should them Scives to remain inactive, but should take stringent measures to prevent this disease from gaining a foothold in the til?.” While numbers of cities in the state are quar«ntined against Jacksonville GainesViiie, and Other points in Florida, da., the p ifadise of the health and pleasure sleeker, opens wide heir gates and intites The unfortuiiatc citizens t'd coffi.e and partake refreshing of her sparkling water, cool and breezes and wholesome diet. The atmo ph re is too pure there for any epidemic to take up its abode, and the city extends a cordial welcome to all those who are fleeing from the awful scourge. Chattanooga on Sunday established a quarantine against J cksonville carload and all yellow fever infected paints. who A of Jacksonville refugees were en rout to C,.at a ooga nere met at tffe depot by the mayor and hoard of health, and were not permitted to remain over. They w< nt North. A penalty of $1,000 flue or imprisonment twelve months on ttie cliaingang, will be imposed sleeping On from any conductor who allows a car a yellow fever infected district to stop within the city limits of Macon, Ga. GEN. SHERIDAN'S FUNERAL, The special train bearing the body of Gen. Sheri isn and the funeral patty ar¬ rived at Washiitgidn bn Thursday. It was met by Gen. Schofield, and a guard of honor from the District of Columbia military order of Loyal Legion and Tr mp D, of the 4th cavalry. As the train slowed into the nation, eight ser¬ geants of the 8d artille y, under com mand of Lieut, uane^, marched up tne platform and stopped, formed a line. Soon after the train Mrs. Sheridan stepped out; leaning on the arm of CoL Sheridan. They were met by Gen. Rucker, Mrs. S teridan’s father aud sister. As they left the station the artillery sergeants took the ca-lcet from the car in which it had made ttie journey from Nonquitt tnd bore it to a c dsson belonging to the 3rd artillery, which was draped with flags festooned with crape. As the cais¬ son bearing the b<>dy left the station, Troop D, of the 4th cavalry, fell into one in lront and escorted the process on up Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth street and St. Matthew’s church. Fol¬ lowing the caisson in carriages were Gen. Schofield and staff, Dr. O’Reilly, Col. Blunt and the guard of honor from the local comma id ry of the Loyal Legion. As the body re iched the church door, it was met by a p ocession of clergy and sanctuary boys singing the “Miserere.” After the casxet had been placed burial upon he catafalque, the prelimin -ry service was recited, the choir singing the uneral hymn. The interior of the church was eff etively draped, a feature of the decora i >ns being the American colors olended with the somber sttade of heavy folds. The ceraph fronts of both galle¬ ries were served with .arge flags caught up at intervals with broad bands of Jack. Above the entrance on the front of the organ loft were grouped regiment¬ al and cavalry flags, fastened together by a knot of black. The altar was heavily draped. The candelabra and marble black. figures on either side were draped with Two silk American flags hung trom the wall above the aliar. The car¬ dinal’s throne on the left of the altar was appropriately covered, and the front of the pulpit was concealed by heavy black velvet, with deep silver fringe Space had been made in front of the altar by the removal of four pews on either side of the main aisle, in the cen¬ ter of which stood the eatafa que, the same that was used in the funeral obse¬ quies of King Alfonso, held in this church on the death of the king high sever and 1 years ago. It is about four feet rests upon a broad base which is covered with national colors bordered with a band of black velvet. The upper portion is covered with an American flag, on which the casket was placed. At the head of the casket flag. was planted a gen¬ eral’s headquarters Tbe service concluded, the little company immedi¬ ately lelt the church. On Friday morn¬ ing the requiem mass was celebrated by Father Kervick. This service was for the convenience of the family and friends of the illusrious dead. The executive departments were closed on Saturday as a mark of respect to the memory of Gen. Sheridan, and all public business was su-petided on that day. These invited to the funeral were tbe President and Mrs. Cleveland, members of the cabinet and the ladies of their families, judges of the supreme court. judges of the local courts, members of the diplomatic corps, members of tbe Sen ate and Hou-e of Representatives and elective officers of both houses, all mem Oers of the Catholic clergy in Washing ton, all-officers of the army, navy and marine corps stationed in Washington, twenty-five of the Grand Army of Re public, twenty-five of the Loyal Legion, eighty members of the press and a large number of personal friends of the family, The total number of invitations is-uud was 1,500. and no person was admitted to the church without a card of admislon. The funeral was strictly in accordance \ ith armv regulation-, and the impres sive services of the Church were under the direction of the local clergymen, ab -o.ution being given by Cardinal Gib¬ bons. ___ Hr,. »»»• »“'lj W50.M0 worth of real estate. . SOUTHLAND ITEMS, PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT And terrible. INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS—THE EXCURSION FEVER—RAILROAD accidents-suicides DEFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS, ETC. Alabama. Samuel Noble, of Anniston, is danger¬ ously ill. The Pullman Oar Company will locate branch shops at Ensley City. James O’Kelly, a journalist and M. P., was sentenced in Ireland to four months irnpf aonment, on charge of making Speebhfes inciting to intimidatidh. A west-hound passenger ttaih, Pacific frbm Birmingham, on the Georgia Road, was derailed on Thursday at Cook’s Springs, twenty-five miles of Bir¬ mingham. Every car led the track and turned over on their sides down a slight embankment. M. J. Carlisle, of Eden, Ala., a p issenger, was severely cut about the shoulders and head. The other pas¬ sengers and train men escaped with few slight bruises. A defective switch frog caused the rails to spread. A terrific thunder storm parsed consid¬ over Birmingham on Thursday, doing telephone erable damage. A number of wires were cut, breaking some of the large circuits. The residence of Dr. Brewster, on Fourth avenue, was struck and badly damaged. His daughter, Miss Fanny, and a colored servant were badly shocked, the colored woman being ren¬ The dered unconscious lor several hours. handsome residence of Dr. A. Godder was struck and badly damaged. At East Lake, six miles from the city,the elegant residence of Mr. H. M. Horton was torn to pieces and the furniture bioken into kindling wood by a bolt of lightning. mtuonri. Another large advance has been made in jute bags in St. Louis, the mills hav¬ ing received instructions fr> m the East to increase their prices. The rates now are; On H pound bagging, j lOf cents per yard; 1J pounds, 11 cents; 2 pounds, Ilf cents; 2J pounds, 18J. On this basis, (500,000 yards of bagging have been sold by the Southern M.lls of St. Louis. A hold mail robbery was committed on the Missouri Pacific Road, between Jef fersou City and St. Louis, in which over $17,000 was stolen, of which $5,000 was from tbo state treasury. The discovery of the crime was accidental. Two farmers near suspicious-looking Washington, were ap¬ proaching highway, a when he b frightened, man on a came and, in attempting to flee, dropped it, a large package. The farmers seemed and at once discovered that it was plun¬ der from a mail robbery. Tennessee* After digging in the ruins of the recent fire at Chattanooga, nearly a dozen bod¬ ies were recovered. Mbs Daisy Judd, of Nashville, com¬ mit; ed suicide at New Middleton by blowing out her brains with a pistol. Unrequited love was the cause. The Oiluce Manufacturing Co., en¬ gaged in the production of wire cloth at v\est Nashville, a new manufacturing suburb of this city, made an assignment on Saturday. The assets are placed at about $180,000, while liabilities are $ 120 , 000 . A fire broke out on Thursday in the Griffith- Caldwell building on Market street in Chattanooga, and a loss of $400,000 was sustained before the fire was extinguished. The he aviest losers were: Bradt Printing Co.; Gibson, Lee & Co., china dealers; N. Deitzer & Bro ; Block Drug Co.; L. Rosenheim, cloth ingdealer; "A. Tsehopik, confectioneries; Baltimore Clothing Co. Three men, among them J. P. McMillan, a promi¬ nent citizen, were buried in the falling walls. Two men had made ready a very heavy blast in the face of the high bluff at the mouth of Smith’s forks, near Lan¬ caster. It was composed of quite a num¬ and ber of holes about twenty feet deep, with nine or ten kegs of powder made to ready the hole. Everything had been to touch the" blast with electricity by means of a wire conn, cted with the bat tery. A clou-1 came up in the meantime, and as it was lightning, the men con¬ cluded to wait until the cloud pas-ed over. A flash of lightning, however, came running along the wire from the battery exploding the blasts with a tre¬ mendous noise. The whole side of the bluff was blown off and it tumbled with a tremendous crash down below. At the time the blast occurred, two laboring men were seen coming along down under the bluff. They were vigilantly searched for after the explosion, found. but no Lace of them could be ■'onth Carolina, j Charleston bas instituted a close q u ar ; antine against ihe Honda infected p rts i on account of yellow fever. Tbe quar i aut ’ ue ‘ s no * oa Y sea ’ nlt on an< " 1 [ Reports from 262 correspondents of the state agricultural depaitment, show that cotton has greatly improved during the last month, and p-artieulaily The in the upper and middle sections. crop, however, is still late. The staple cotton on the sea island is very fine, the condi tion being reported from one hundred to a hundred and ten. Corn is reported at 79 for the stale against 99 last year; the average of rice for the state is 85 is agairis 97 last year. The area in rice about the same as last year. Labor is satis , factory. AN TrcriEm woman m AlaSXa "has ~oeen tor t u r ed to death with red-bot stones, which . i jfATIONAL CAPITAL WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB¬ LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING. PROCEEOlNCe OF CONGRESS—IMPORTANT ACTS OF PKiSSUbENT CLEVELAND—AP¬ POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC. CONGRESSIONAL. of On Thursday, after the passage several bids on the calendar, tbe Senate proceeded to tkO consideration 6'f the fisheries treaty in open executive session, and Mr. Evarts resumed his He speech bad against its ratification. After spoken for two h.uvs, Mr. Evarts yielded the floor temporarily to allow Mr. Haw¬ ley to introduce a concurrent re-olution that mferribets of both houses shall attend the funeral of Gen. Sheridan on Satur¬ day next at ten a. m., and that, as a fur¬ ther mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the two houses, when they adjourn on Friday, shall adjourn to meet on Monday next, Resolutions were agreed to, and Mr. Evarts resumed his argument again-t the fisheries treaty.... In the House, the message from the Sen¬ ate announcing the passage by that body of a concurrent resolution declaring that members of both houses would attend the funeral of Gen. Sheridan on Saturday next, and that as a mark of respect the to the memory of the deceased, when two houses adjourn on Friday, it will be to meet on Monday next, It was con enrred in. GOSH IP. The grave in which Gen. Sheridan’s body lies in Arlington is a few rods dis¬ tant from the Lee mansion, the front and south of it, and just beyond the brow of si grassy slope that pitches somewhat steeply. It is a rare picture of forest and city, of river, giave and garden diversi¬ fied, glorified with such a panorama of stately public architecture as no other spot on the continent commands. A mile of level separates the bluff from the river which stretches in a broad, gray belt across the landscape. Back of the grave, and vtpon the most commanding spot on the Virginia side, stands the old Lee mansion, now tbe office and head¬ quarters of the National cemetery. No other grave than that of Sheridan is _ in front of the mausion. THE WORLD OVER. CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY 'PHONE AND TELEGRAPH. SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL¬ ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS, EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC. Lawrence R. Jerome, a not d rich man of New York, died at Sharon, Conn., on Sunday. A light frost occurred in northwestern Minnesota aud in Michigan on Saturday, but no damage was reported. Miss Fanny Milliken, of New Orleans, La., accomptnied by J. Harman Reed,of Alb my, N. Y., attempted to pad-lie around Bar Harbor, Me., in a canoe, which upset and both were drowned. Two iron mills of Graff, Bennett & Co., at Pittsburg, Pa., were sold at auc¬ tion on Thursday for $729,000 to satisfy two mortgages, oDe of $625,000, held by tbe New Y r ork Life Insurance Company, and the other for $100,000, held by local parlies. An attempt was made on Sunday to blow up the residence of William Col¬ lier, of Pitiston, Pa., while he and his wife were asleep in an upper room. A charge of giant powder was place l in a hole bored in a pitch pine log. A bomb was placed on the front porch, leaning against the house, and fired with a fuse. Beyond a severe shock, the occupants of the house were uninjured. The duties of his position make Mr. Collier unpop¬ ular with the miners, and it is be-ieved some of them i bought to get revenge by killing him in this way. A DEADLY ENEMY While Gen. „ Boulanger TJ . was out .... driving in an open carriage at t-t. Dean Dangely on Sunday, Prof. Perrin, of the Lycee, fired five shots at him from a revolver. M. Ratapan, a friend of the general, rushed forward and managed to .urn the weapon aside. The result was that Rat apan himself received a bullet m the back of the head, but the wound is not seuous. Two peasants were also wound ed. G< n._ Boulanger was not touched, Prof. Perrin is a friend of Mayor Lair, a candidate nominated by opportunists in opposition to Boulanger. The affair oc curred at height of a pitched battle be tween the rival political parties, when gendarmes charging, head Count Dillon re¬ ceived a blow on the from a stick and other Boulangerists were roughly handled. Trxnn. John Lovejoy, a killed prominent attorney, William shot and instantly Aaron dif son at Galveston on Saturday. The ficulty originated over a debt of $20 owed Wiiham-on by Lovejoy since the Fall of 1884, when the latter ran and was deteated for district attorney. On Thursday morning, six miles from Waco, on the Texas Central road, apiece of timber was fastened to the track and the night express was derailed, the loco motive demolished and several cars badly damaged. Engineer Moses was killed outrigfft. His fireman was terribly scalded and half a dozen passengers in jured. The sheriff's posse is scouring the country for the criminals. NO. 25. A GREAT INVENTOR. He had a startling genius but somehow It didn’t emerge. Always on the evolution of things that wouldn’t evolve; Always verginr toward some climax, but he never reached the verge; Always nearing the solution of some them* he could not solve. And he found perpetual motion, but a tog wheel set awry Burst his complex apparatus and he oouldf not get it fixed; And he made a life elixir—if you drank you’d never die— But the druggist spoiled the compound when the medicine was mixed. And he made a flying vessel that would navi gate the air, A gofgsous steamer of the heavens, a grand aerial boat. A matchless paragon of skill, a thing beyond compare, And the only trouble with it—he could never make it float. And fie found a potent aeid that would change red dirt to gold; But the tube from which he poured it had some trouble with It’s squirt, So the gold held in solution and would not let go its Isold, And the dirt in dogged stubbornness it still continued dirt. And lie made a great catholicon to cure all disease, A general panacea for every acho and pain. But first he tried it on himself his stomach ache to ease. And it killed him very quickly—and he did not try again. —X IF. Foss, in Yankee Blade. PITH AND POINT. ; A country seat—The top fence rail. A patient man—One in a doctor’s office. A doctor must understand all tongues. When a thin man visits you, lougehim in the spare room, of course, A sick burglar is very loth to call a doctor for fear that he may give him up. “Mine, miner, minus?” This is the upshot of speculations in mining stock. 1 What are ministers good for? They’re good because it is part of their b tsincs3. The exact quantity of the lion’s share is »ot stated, but it is all the lion can g«t. When a woman is tryiug to write a letter on a half she t of paper much may be said on both sides.— ifnto IJuoen Mews. “Talking That’s is cheap,” clour. they say: not so Just hire a lawyer tiiid And you’ll it dear. — Judye. A correspondent wants to know the difference between a dog-watch and a watch-dog. Well, not much; they are both kept on the bark .—The Ocean. Tb.s v'orld is but o fleeting show, And no wise man regrets it, * For man wants little here below, And generally be gets it. ~Som rville Journal. Ingenious thing, this English lan gua.e. When you hear a citi en say: “ h, lie’s a good man.” you can’t tell whether he is talking ol a pugilist or of a deacon. A criminal lately executed in England scaffold, protested his innocence on the and his last words were that he was a good a d faithful subject of the Queen. The subject then dropped.— Sij'tinys. •‘.Nothing is over lost,” Walt Whitman sings; But po. ts have peculiar views of things: Few will agree vvi-h h in who’vo had ill luck, When they the frisky t.ger tried to buck. —Boston Courier. Brown made a bet with Wagerly that he could cause nine out of every ten men who passed a certa n building that day to touch thu structure. Wagerly, accepted the bet. Brown simply hunjfi oat the sign “Faint.”— JuJ/je. A lover called upon a Miss, bewitchtng, And thought she loosed Hj longed so much her lips kitchen, to i.iss, He chased her round the But foil against the red hot stove As soon as he had kis.se-l her, Arid though he thought the kiss was blis* Ho louriil the burn a blister. — Siftings. | Overtaxing his brain. Okl Mrs. theyoungj Bentlyi —“ Did you hear, Jo.siah, that Hendrickses’ student who is has been sick?” boardin’ Lid at Mrs.j the| very heard what’s the: Bently—“Yes, I so; trollb i e w j t h him?” Old Mrs. Bently—! .. stlK | y n > too hard I s’pose. The doc tor sa „ 8 he’s got information of thei br aii) ‘ ”__ The Epod. Mr iIoa r-“I would like to ask the, Benator f|0m l lorida what is the mean-| . ,^ f , h provWon that .he Academy nothing for,' of, Dtal ^ence shall charge coverumeut j | ^ gurvice rendered t0 Mr.Call—“That the is! j 3 he United State s?” [ ft literal COJ)y ot the law Sciences.” in regard to Mr. tho, Nati0 nal Academv of cut' ; [Ioar . ... [)0(;s it ^eau that they shall . he eye-teeth of mv honorable friend; I ? rom \ 0 \v& oralis‘."-Congressional Record.] j A Famous Pear Tree Dead. The world-famous End'cott pear tree,] onj planted by Governor Jonn Endicott the ancient orchard farm at Danvers NeW ( Mills in 1630 or 1633, is dead. Tradi tion bag jt tbat lego was planted, the date but when, then* tiie venerable tree was Endicott j g , dso evidence that Governor did not break up the ground for hia, orchard until 1633. There is no doubt,! however, of the great antiquity ol tha ; p ear tree, old and when that it its was last from vital 350 spark; toj 260 years the north, went out. The tree stood on bank of the river, about half waybetwasu had the Mills and the railroad track It but one rival—an aac !* nt P, the sands of Cape ,p < j- tea Truro, on prior to ItiU.—B oston Jounce Redhead is the name of the richest man in Hutchinson, Kan. He made hia money in baking powder. I