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THE CONYERS WEEKLY.
VOL. XI.
The village of Haverstraw, on the
Hudson, manufactures more bricks than
other place in the world.
|ny
Spain celebrated the sailing of the in¬
vincible Armada as well as England.
Tte Spanish claim that the fleet was
eimply a fishing excursion.
A punctilious French highway robber
itooped to apologize to his victim, and
the victim noticed the fact that he — was
bow-legged. He gave the police this
pointer and the right man was soon in
limbo.
<‘A native author called Roe,” was
Matthew Arnold’s sneering allusion to
to the novelist who so soon followed the
English litterateur to the grave. E. P.
Roe accepted the designation and wrote
an autobiographical sketch under that
heading, which was completed only a
few days before his death.
' There is in Lake County, Mich., a co¬
operative telegraph line, which beg an
Ry two farmers connecting their houses
with a wire, and which has extended, un¬
til now it has sixty-five miles of wire
and ninety oflices, two-thirds of which
are in farmhouses and the others iu
stores where farmers trade.
I The ex-Confedorate colony in New
York continues to grow, At almost
every social gathering may be seen one
or two men who won the title of general
when they wore the gray. She Southern
society, started a short time ago, noW
has a membership of hundreds, and will
soon have a building of its own.
The Portuguese Government has
bought out the tobacco manufacturing
companies of that country, so that the
production of tobacco will henceforth be
a Government concern, There will
probably be no Cigarmakers’ Union
there now, but the workers will get a
pension when too old to work, as is the
case in the French Government tobacco
system. _ .
It appears that republican simplicity
does not characterize the journeyings of
President Carnot, of France, in the prov¬
inces. What with a considerable ret¬
inue, generous dinners to the digni¬
taries of the towns which tender him
hospitality, and gifts to the poor, he is
said to do full justice to the annual ap¬
propriation of $60,000 for traveling ex
peases. .
_
The mineral output of the country for,
1887, according tc the statement made’
by the Division of Alining Statistics, is
much greater in valu3 than that of 1886,
and is worth $100,000,000 more than
that of 1885. This is a gratifying ex¬
hibit, but is unfortunately coupled with
the statement that there will be a de¬
crease in the metal product this year
owing to the decline in railroad build
ing.
The French census reported 180 per¬
sons who were 100 years old or over, but
M. Levasseur, who has been investigating
the matter, reports to the Academy of
Sciences that sixty-seven of these were
only “believed” to be so by their rela¬
tives, and that there were only sixteen
who e age could be proven to be over
100 years by authentic documents. He
estimates that there are not over fifty
centenarians in the country.
Although the American clipper ships
are growing less in numbers their repu¬
tation as the fastest sailers on the globe
is by no means declining. The famous
clipper ship Henry Hyde, now at anchor
oS. Sandy hook, has really made the
voyage from San Francisco, a distance
°f at least eleven thousand miles, in
eighty-nine days, Fihe weather was
met with most of the passage. It took
hut eighteen days to run from San Fran¬
cisco to the equator, thirty-three days
from there to Cape Horn, and thirty
eight days from the Falkland Islands to
Sandy Hook. The Hyde was built in
1 4 Bath Ale., and hails from New
^ork, Pendleton. where she is owned by Benjamin
V
Russian is diligently studied in Ger
® a ny, and by a large number of people
la England likewise. ... At the Berlin
Military Academy it is obligatory, and it
15 8 9°l ! «n a good deal in military circles
ail over the country. There is Ger
in
rn& ny a constant demand for Russian
speaking journalists, since all the prin¬
cipal -‘ussian newspapers f[ keeps careful eye upon
a a i rs . I n the English army
fecial ejeeu to inducements learn Russian; are held out to
35t Pet and, according
£ “gbsh ' ersburg journal, many young
officers are so eager to learn the
t .? “f^te 8tat 'oned tongue in that when they happen
a town where no in
' nictor , i, t0 be ha1 th Qut
1*"* one. Bible by the aid of a English
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1888.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬
INGS STRUNG TOGETHEE.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES—-THE COTTON CP.OP
—FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
FLORIDA.
On account of the providence of yellow
fever, the local land office at Jackson¬
ville, has been closed temporarily.
A commission of three, representing
the stiiking cigarmakers in Havana ar¬
rived at Ivey West. They te'eg nphed
to all large cities North asking aid for
the strikers. The strikers and their fami
iies number 20,000.
GEORGIA.
The Salvation Army of Atlanta has
organized a colored branch, but the
white contingent is in serious trouble,
on account of charges made by one of its
principal me mb: is against Capt. Jennie
Foos.
A colored boy named Johnson, was
bathing with some comrades in the water
around Ossabaw island, near Savannah,
when alligators seized him and drew him
under. His body was recovered, minus
the legs and arms, which the alligators
had devoured.
Charley Burke, a colored man, aged
63, who drove the wagon of Chief Joy¬
ner of the Fire Department in Atlanta,
died Sunday. His enjoyment of the
chief’s reckless diiving was one of the
features of a fire alarm in Atlanta.
The Chattahoochee Brick Company,
contractors for the building of the Chat¬
tanooga, Rome & Columbus railroad,
have taken the necessary legal steps $250,000 to
secure the payment of about
due them for work in the construction of
the road. For this purpose, they have
made arrangements to file contractors’
liens on the road in the counties through
which it runs.
Judge Milo Olin, a white-haired and
aged justice of the peace iu Augusta,
left for Jacksonville, having volunteered
his services as a nurse for yellow fever
patients. He is sent by the Augusta
Exchange. He has been very successful
as a yellow fever nurse, and has had
much experience in the epidemics in
Memphis, Norfolk, Wilmington, Pensa¬
cola, Savannah and Fernandina.
Owing to the damage by the recent
floods to the sections of the state from
which both the p ople and exhibits were
expected to be drawn, and the excite¬
ment in other sections because of the
yellow fever in Florida, it was decided,
by the joint meeting of the Macon Board
of Trade and a committee from the Ag¬
ricultural Society, to indefinitely post¬
pone the Georgia State Fair,
In answer to the questions sent out tc
the crop correspondents by the Georgis
Department of Agriculture, inquiring into of
the amount of damage to the crops
cotton and corn by reason of the late
unprecedented rains in Georgia, received reports
from sixty counties have been
showing the injury sustained by each
county. Richmond county reports dam¬
age to cotton 50 per cent. Average
damage to cotton crop of other counties
reporting, 19 per cent. Richmond
county reports damage to corn 60 per
cent. Average damage to corn crop of
other counties reporting, 13.5 per cent. ■
KENTUCKY.
Moses Newberger, a Polish Jew, ar¬
rived at Louisville with his family from
Decatur, Ala., on Tuesday and died of
yellow fever on Thursday.
MISSOURI.
The trade between the Wagner Palace
Car company and the Alann Boudoir Car
company, which was talked of several
months ago, was consummated in St.
Louis. The Alann Boudoir Car company
offered to sell out to the Wagner trade, com
p :in y> but there was a hiteh in tho
which was settled only Inst Friday. This
will introduce the Wagner Car company
iuto many Southern Hues.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Isaac Pebles, of Guilford county, died
a few days ago aged 109 years, llis
age is perfectly authenticated.
Dr. Campbell, of Jonesboro, on Thurs¬
day committed suicide. His health and
mind had been failing for a year, and it
was during temporary aberration that 1 e
took his life. .He was visiting his
brother near by, and after eating a hearty
breakfast, went into the yard and delib¬
erately cut his throat with a pocket
knife. He was a prominent citizen physician the
and a highly esteemed of
county.
The Acme Manufacturing Company, solicitation of
Wilmington, at the earnest
of the farmers of that and other states,
have decided to commence the manufac¬
ture of cotton bagging immediately, purchased
new machinery having pine been
for th s object. The fibre bagging
has been tested by fire ar.d compress, and
testimonials of its excellence received
from the exchanges and compress. The
insurance companies it. announce they will
take fire risks on
TENNESSEE.
A fine of $1,000 will be imposed quarantine on
any pei son who violates the
regulations of Chattanooga.
VIRGINIA.
A change of sentiment bas taken place
in Winchester, on local option. Two
vears ago ihe drys carried the city by
169 majority. On Thursday the wets
carried it by 111 majority.
A fire at Bristol totally destroyed the
business houses of Colman, Hyde Bros.,
Dr. Peastor, A. S. McNeil, W. W. Davis,
S. H. Clyde, J. T. Powell & Co ., and
dwellings of J. W. Bondurant and Rob¬
ert Hill. The ladies formed iu line and
pas-ed buckets of water, while a number
of men stood idly by.
ABOUT THE SCOURGE.
More (ban $160,000 have already been
received at Jacksonville, Fla., through
the generosity of the country at large.
The drain upon this amount is, however,
enormous. Over 12,000 people are be¬
ing ing fed daily, and the expense of carry¬
on most of the machinery of the sani¬
tary association necessitates the expendi¬
ture of from $25,000 to $30,000 weekly.
If the epidemic continues six weeks longer
fully the $200,000 more will be needed to
tide city over the epidemic. The
deaths new cases 10. on Early Sunday footed up 133, and
in the epidemic the
question of employment of unacclimated
nurses was brought up, the opinion pre¬
vailing among the authorities that they
would bo likely to take the fever and be¬
come a burden rather than a help to the
community. Still, they were allowed to
enter Jacksonville, and now many of
them are already down with the disease
and requiring the attention of nurses in¬
stead of attending the sick themselves.
President Mitchell for a few days, was
assigned to the care of one of the wards
at the Sandhills hospital, and two days
after was taken down with yellow fever,
doubtless contracted before he entered
the hospital. Dr. F. J. Potts was taken
ill with fever and sent to the Sandhills
hospital. Over 360 nurses are under
the employ of the bureau. Nearly all
local colored nurses, upon receiving a
week’s pay on Saturday did not re¬
doubtless port on Sunday for duty, and
will not till their money
is all gone. It is said that in some
instances they even left their patients.
Capt. Zach Haddock is a local character
of repute, a one-armed Confederate vet¬
eran and a thorough Florida cracker.
Popular opinion has regarded Capt. Zach
as fever proof. Zach thought so himself
until a few days ago when an aching
head, pains in the back, high tempera¬
ture and a burning cuticle sent him to
bed. The fever was on him sure enough,
and the stalwart old political cracker
felt that his time had come. Zach w ilted
immediately. He grew rapidly worse
through the night and at three a. m. he
had no hope of life. Calling his family
about him, Capt. Zach said in the most
solemn tones possible: “See, here, all
of dead you. Your daddy’s going fast. I’ll
be in an hour—mark what I say.
Willie, you take good care of Pinky and
Kate, and all of you mind your mother.
Old Zach will be dead in an hour. Bring
me my cowhide boots. This old cracker
wants to die dead game in ’em, right in
this yere bed.” As a prophet, Zach was
a dead failure, except in election matters.
By daylight he was up and dressed, and
he will be alive to cast his vote in the
next election. Printer J. J. Dawson,
who was obliged to leave off work with
high fever, pains in his head, back and
limbs, was removed to his room and
treated by Mr. Webb with Dr. Sanche’s
electro-libation cure. The treatment was
applied and the patient then left alone
and asleep. When seen the next day, he
was quite free from fever, though rather
weak, his pulse being night about eignty. able He
had slept soundly all and was
to get up and open the door to admit Mr.
Webb. Ho went down town during the
afternoon and wanted to work do at night,
but was advistd not to so. The
question of efficiency of the contrivance
is an open one. The application of it
can do no harm, but its value in gen¬
eral is yet to be demonstrated.
The news from Decatur, Ala., is more
encouraging. Only two new cases were
reported on Sunday and no deaths, though
several of the sick are expected to die.
One of the new cases is Dr. W. C. Buck
ley, one of the leading physicians of the
town. The few people left in the town
have somewhat recovered from their first
alarm, and have organized in a their relief com¬
mittee and are doing all power
for the sick. A correspondent is at malig¬ Deca¬
tur says that the fever there a
nant type of typhoid malarial fever, and
is even more fatal than yellow fever. lie
says that while grading a new crossed street and re¬
cently an old cemetery was
that all kinds of decaying vegetable and
other matter was left exposed in the then sun
for several days. The street was
covered wiih gravel from the bottom of
the Tennessee, which was covered by
decayed matter. He says for days the
stench along that street was almost un¬
bearable. He thinks this caused
the fever. A line of pickets was
formed around Birmingham, Ala., and
refugees will be kept out. Five hundred
citizens have volunteered to assist the
authorities in guarding the city. Owing
to the ironclad quarantine regulations of
some of the smaller towns, ali trains on
the Alabama Great Southe rn division of
the Queen and Crescent route will be dis¬
continued, After Monday no trains will
be run in Alabama except local accommo¬
dation trains. The Board of Health, at
Jacksonville, Miss., issued the following
notice: “This city is now surrounded by
a cordon and every effort will be
made to A. prevent the spread of the yellow
fever. census is now being taken,
which wiil not only show the number of
persons remaining here, but also the
number protected^ and the protected number un- by
protected and the number
a previous attack of the disea c e. The
city is now pretty well depopulated; be but
as soon as a camp for refugees can es¬
tablished an effort will be made to re
move thc unprotected persons remaining.
The public may rest assured that we will
do all in our power to prevent the spread
of the disease. The report for the twen¬
ty-four hours ending at 6 p. m. to-day
is: New cases, 1; deaths, 2; to¬
tal to date, 14; total deaths, 4.
Meridian, Miss., has stopped all railroad
trains from running through it, and the
2d Tennessee bntalion his been
ordered out to guard Memphis, Tenn.
Dr. Deakin3, who attended the man
AVilson, who is supposed to have died of
yellow fever at Wildwood, on Lonkout
Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tenn,, is
sick, visited but him a Chattanooga physician who
returned and reported that
the sick man was suffering from a bilious
attack. AlLfreight and passenger trains
on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad
have been abandoned owing to the rigid
quarantine at Chattanooga, and at other
points on the line. Memphis and
Charleston trains cannot enter that city.
Airangemcnts will probably be effected
whereby delivered mail and express matter can be
between Memphis and Steven¬
son. Trains will pass through Morgan
county in which Decatur is situated at
not less than fifteen miles an hour, and
ali train men are under oath not to take
on a passenger in any county in which
an infected point is located. The Chat¬
tanooga quarantine has been and is so
effective that one person from an infected
point could be discovered even after a
liberal reward was offered for his appre¬
hension. No one is allowed to enter the
city of Chattanooga without giving a
satisfactory account of himself.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE WASHINGTON S0L0NS GET¬
TING IN THEIR WORK.
WHAT IS BEING DONE FOR THE ARMT AND
NAVY—LIVELY DEBATES IN CONGRESS
—NOTES.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on Thursday, among the
bills reported from the committees and
placed on the calendar were the follow¬
ing: The House bill to include Sapelo
sound, Sapelo river and Sapelo island in
the Brunswick, Ga., collection district;
the Senate bill granting the right of way
to the Pensacola & Memphis Railroad
da, Company Alabama, through public lands in Flori¬
and through Mississippi the and reservation Tennessee,
Pensacola... military
near .Immediately after the
reading of the House journal, Mr. Burns
of Missouri, called up the conference re¬
bill port on the sundry civil appropriation
and the House refused—32 to 47—to
agree to it... .Mr. Morrow, of California,
has offered a resolution directing the
committee on enrolled bills to transmit
the Chinese bill to the President forth¬
with and without delay. It caused quite
a debate, but nothing was done.
GOSSIP.
The Secretary of the Navy has tele¬
graphed manding Rear the Pacific Admiral station, Kimberly, who is com¬
now
at San Francisco, Cal., to send one of
the vessels of his squadron to the Sameon
Islands for such service as may be re¬
quired of it in the protection of Am :ri
cans.
Dr. Thomas C. Wood, executive officer
of the state board of health of North
Carolina, has communicated with Sur¬
geon-General Hamilton, notifying him
not to send refugees to any point in
North Carolina, unless they can be sent
into camp and a most rigid sanitary su¬
pervision be observed around the camp.
As was to have been expected, he en¬
countered a variety of micro organisms
in this situation, some of which were ap¬
parently undescribed specific, and, there¬
fore, possibly yellow fever germs. Dr.
Sternberg has himself discovered several
new micro organisms, but it is possible the
that one or the other of these is
deadly microbe, which he has so long
been in search of, but he said he -was not
at present in a position to make a definite
claim with reference to any one of them.
Maj. G. M. Sternberg, surgeon U. S.
army, read an important paper on Thurs¬
day before the Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons upon “Resent
investigations relating to the etiology of
yellow fever.” There have been several
different claimants for the honor of hav¬
ing discovered yellow fever germs, but,
according to Dr. Sternberg, none of these
claims are well founded. He exhibited to
the association the cultivations of germs
of Dr. Domingos Freire of Brazil,
Dr. Carlos Tinlay of Havana, ar.d of Dr.
Paul Gibier of France. Having and proved cul¬
by his microscopical researches
ture experiments fever-breeding pursued in Havana, places,
Cuba and other
that there is no specific germ in the
blood of yellow fever patients, Dr. Stern¬
berg turned his attention to the alimen¬
tary canal, thinking it not disease improbable might
that the specific germ of the
be located there, as is the case in cholera.
A JIM-DANDY THIEF.
A gigantic swindle has come to light
in New York. James Edward Bedell,
real estate clerk for the law firm of Ship
man, Barlow & Choate, one of the most
prominent law- firms in the United States,
and who have charge of some rich es¬
tates, has, by a system of audacious
swindling, robbed clients of his firm of
hundreds of thousands of dollars. The
precise amount of his peculation Bedell as far as
known is about $300,000. was a
trusted employe, in full charge of the
firm’s real estate business. He forged
bonds, mortgages, register’s seal t ad all,
and took the money himself a d paid
the interest on the false mortgages as
they fell due. His swindles cover a pe¬
riod of five years. An accident led to
Hia discovery and he is now under arrest,
at police headquarters. To Inspector the
Byrnes he said that he had spent
money playing policy and at amateui
farming. His salary was $7,500 a year.
In 1880 there were only 5,000 Jews in
Jerusalem, now there are said tobe30,
000. Tho recent persecutions in Rus¬
sia are said to have caused the greater said
part of the increase, and many are
to have come from Germany.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LABOR—SEETHING CAUL¬
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—FIRES,
SUIdDES, ETC.—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
Many military changes are announced
jn Berlin.
Gen. Solomon, ex-president of Hayti,
is dying in Paris, France.
Striking cotton operatives at Bolton,
England, have returned to work on the
masters’ terms.
The French government has ordered
gunboats to the west coast of Africa to
suppress the slave trade.
A dispatch from Madrid announces
that Gen. Bazaine died in that city on
Sunday. The cause of his death was
heart disease.
At a meeting of coal miners held at St.
Etienne, France, a resolution favoring a
general strike of all the employes of all
Loire companies was adopted.
John Dillon, the noted Irish orator
and agitator, has been granted an account uncon
ditional release from prison friends on met him
of hi 3 bad health. Many
in Dublin upon his return there and he
was greeted most enthusiastically.
A man who was sandbagged in Indian¬
apolis, Ind., died, and has been identified
as William Magill, of York county, Ne¬
braska. The circumstances indignation attending
the murder have aroused the
of all classes, as it occurred within fifty
feet of the Central police station, where
half a dozen officers were lounging
around doing nothing.
Dr. B. Bramble, of Cincinnati, auction Ohio,
purchased Libby prison at public It
in Richmond, Va., for $11,000. W. was II.
sold privately some months ago to
Gray, of Chicago, for $23,300. He paid
one-fourth cash, and resold it to a Chi¬
cago syndicate, who failed to make the
second payment, hence Thursday’s sale
on their account.
The United States grand jury of San
Francisco, Cal., reported several indict¬
ments against ex-Judge Terry and his
wife, Mrs. Sarah Terry. The indict¬
ments are based upon the recent outbreak
in the United States circuit court. They
are charged in the indictments with
threatening and assaulting a United
States marshal and several deputies.
Several Greek war ships have been or¬
dered to be ready to be put to sea within
two days. The squadron which has been
absent one month maneuvering, arrived
at the Pimrius on Thursday, under full
steam. The lleet will proceed to the
Turkish waters. The recent seizure of a
Greek vessel at Chiosbeen is the subject
of protests by the Greek government. satisfactory
The Porte refuses to give a will
reply, and serious trouble ensue.
A conflict arose between German resi¬
dents and coast tribes at Bagomoye, Af¬
rica. A German admiral' landed with
forces from the Leipsic to assist the Ger¬
mans, and killed a hundred and fifty men
without suffering a single casualty. Gen.
Matthews, who for fifteen years has been
trusted by tne natives, has fled from Pan
goni, having been nearly murdered. The
rebels are declaring against all Europeans,
and a general rising is feared.
Gen. Robertson has been elected pres¬
ident of the society of the Army of the
Cumberland at the annual meeting just
held at Chicago, Ill., to succeed Gen.
Sheridan. It was decided to hold the
next annual meeting at Chattanooga,
Tenn., on September 18, 19 and 20, 1889.
A committee was appointed to consider
the advisability of recommending to
Congress the purchasing of the old battle
field of Chickamauga, and erecting a
monument there similar to the one at
Gettysburg.
ABOUT COTTON.
The New York Financial Chronicle in
its weekly review of the cotton move¬
ment, says that for the week ending reached last
Friday, the total receipts have
89,677 bales, against 45,691 bales last
week, 89,164 bales the previous week
and 43,639 bales three weeks since,
making the total receipts since the 1st
of September, 1888, 174,532 bales,
against 414,737 bales for the same period
of 1887 showing a decrease since Septem¬
ber 1, 1888, of 140,205 bales. There is
a decrease in the cotton in sight of 584,-
358 bales as compared with the same
date of 1887, a decrease of 28,115 bales
as compared with the corresponding
date of 1886 and a decrease of 383,779
bales as compared with 1885. The total
leceipts from the plantations 195,664 since bales; Sep¬ in
tember 1, 1888, are
1887 were 463,461 bales; in 1886 were
243,534 bales; although the receipts at
the outports the past week were 89,677
bales, the actual movement from plan¬
tations was 104,894 bales, the balance
going to increase the stocks at the inte¬
rior towns. Last year the receipts from
the plantations for the same week were
217,782 bales and for 1886 they were
114,473 bales. The telegraphic advices
from all the South indicate that in Texas
and the western portion of the Gulf
States, the weather has been quite favor¬ excel¬
able, and the picking is making
lent progress. Elsewhere the conditions
have not been so satisfactory. On the
Atlantic, especially in Florida and Geor¬
gia, rains have continued and considera¬
ble damage has been done.
KNOCKED OUT.
John L. Suliivan, the notorious “slug¬ His
” of Boston, Alass., is dying. round of
was brought on by a
NO. 31.
THE CHILDREN HAVE GROVVW
AWAY.
My little children have grown away,
Grown away from the land of play,
Grown to be men and women tall,
With passions and loves and hates and sfll
That comes to us when we grow away
From childish play.
My little children that were so dear,
How can I help but wish them here
With arms round my neck in the old loving
way
1 have not known for many a day,
Not since home was my kingdom, precious
and sweet,
Filled with the music of pattering feet!
Those feet that led them away from ms
Into the world and over the sea,
Leaving me here in my lordly fiflBfef rflora
That evou in sunshine seems glodm,
And so very lonely I needs must cry
For the days gone by.
I thought I should be the first to go,'
And I cannot but wish it might have been
so,
But the Father of love, who dwells in the
light,
Took some of my babies out of ray sight—
Took them away to his Home of Best,
And I know, though I cannot tell why, ’twa*
best.
So I’m trusting our Lord and can clearly see
That in that dehr land our homo shall be.
And though the children have gone away
We shall meet again, oh, blessod day,
When he will call—to heaven we come
And find once more our happy home.
—John A. Clark, in Good Housekeeping.
PITH AND POINT.
• A vacant lot—Dudes.
The age of humor—Badinage.
Food for reflection—Brain food.
A twenty-dollar gold piece and a re¬
liable watch always go for what their
faces indicate.
The widow of a railroad baggage-man
always refers to her deceased husband as
her cx-cliecker.
However extravagant a contortionist
may be he always manages to make both
ends meet.— Life.
The earth is but a shadow crust,
Around u core of heat and flame;
Some people on it don't ask much;
The crust is good —Detroit enough for Free them. Press
The largest umbrella in tho world has
been made in (tlasgow fora King of
East Africa. His Majesty seems to be
making preparations for a long reigu.—
Boston Herald,
“Ilow’re you getting along!” remarked
one moth to another. “Oh, Lmanage
to keep in clothing.” And he disap¬
peared with’n a fur lined overcoat.—
Wi stern Bur at.
’Twixt sail and sailor what may be
The difference? tell mo, l implore:
The sail, you know, gets full at sea,
Tho sailor—he gets full on shore.
— Judge.
Violent rainstorm—crowded street car
—handsome lady and gentleman those inside) on
platform. Gentleman (to there}”
—'Van you squeeze a lady ip
Chorus of Male Voioes—“Yes, cer¬
tain y. —New York Neirs.
Teacher—“Knipke, who reigned the
earlier, Titus or Vespasian <” Scholar—
“Titus.” Teacher—“Mistake.” Scholar
(quickly correcting (sternly)—“Kleemilter himself)—“Vespa¬
sian.” Teacher
has whispered to you again.”— Fliegend*
Bladter.
Customer to barber—“Shave down
please, as it makes ray face sore to shave
against the grain.” “I'd just as soon
shave ‘down’ as not,” replied the loqua¬
cious torturer, “hut I can’t find any on
your grizzly old face. The down on
your jaw turned to bristles years ago.”—
JDanmiUe Ib tez \
Business—“The doctor has ordere4
me to the mountains for my health.”
Romantic—“I envy you. GlofiOus
scenery! Alountains lofty, imposing, _
appalling, tremeu-Business—
(testily)—“Y'es, l know; but how are the
prices?” Romantic (airily“Oh; like
the mountains, like the mountains.”-—
Idea.
“It was a severe punishment,” said
the father, self-reproachfully, “but it an¬
swers the purpose. It kept John from
running on the street.” “You didn’t
cripple the boy, did you?” “No; I had
his mother cut his hair for him. You
ought to see the poor boy.” _ And the
bitterly. Chicago _
proud father wept —
Tribune. I
The Swiss Good Night.
“The Swiss Good Night," refers to the
custom of the Swiss mountaineers of
calling through their speaking Lord God.” trumpets One
at dusk, “Praise the
herdsman starts the call, ana bis neigh¬
bors from every peak, echo it. The
sounds arc prolonged by reverberation
Irora one mountain to another. After a
short period, which is supposed to have
been devoted to prayer, a herdsmen calls
“Good Night.” This, too, is repeated, hia
and as darkness falls, each retires to
hut. These calls may be heard for miles
and are re-echoed from the rocks, for
some minutes after the original call has
died awa j.—Detroit Free Press.
Remarkable Memory of a Savage
Dr. Aloffat, the distinguished of African Dr.
missionary and father-in-law
Livingstone, once preached a long ser- af¬
mon to a crowd of natives. number Shortly of
ter he had finished he saw a minded
Africans gather about a simple and
young savage. He went to them
that the savage was preaching only
sermon over again. Not was
reproducing the precise words, but
the manner and gestures of tira
preacher. — Rehoboth, Sunday
r truhJ. ______
_
The sea cow probably eats from the
rough of the sea.