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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.