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FALL AT THE
RESTAURANT.
' 'Under the Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, G A.
lWh«re all the delicacies of the season
L ill he furnished in the best of style and
oheap Re any establishment in the city
[ttJTJfefil* BALLARD furnished DURAND, at allhours tmej.20 of the
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SEWS GLEAN IKGS.
■ Vk'Dhnrg girls have organized a
K,u<| of “Mveet sweepers.” This is the
latest Southern craze.
I Greater preparations than ever will be
puule this year to develop the gold and
topper mines of Mecklenberg county,
North Carolina.
■ Many fine walnut trees in South Car¬
olina sell for $40 apiece, t.ie rmrehasi
|Jj|rs reserving the right to remove them
llien they choose.
The ltichinond, Va., alms-house con
ains seven men who a few years ago
Vere worth from half a million to a
billion dollars each.
Jacksonville, Fla., has just made its
jrst, conviction under the new law pro
l^ihiting Hft hicks. the The intermarriage culprit fined of whites $50. and
was
i Plenty of illegal votes are cast in
larkc county, Ga. The grand jury of
rat county has just returned indict
lenfs against 121 persons for that of
mse.
hcvcrsl Alabama farmers report Amc
amaire to cotton by cut worms, a means
■hey m 'Linkage heretofore unknown ; and
report that it lias had a very se*
■fions effect on some fields.
I Lite Petersburg, Ga., Index Appeal
the best and largest fruii crop ever
jgnarket jyrownin Georgia will be ready for the
in a few weeks.
In the seven counties around Griffin,
IB' ■>um'iier. 1,1 '’ L’O distilleries will be running this
The peach crop in the same
■• ' lion will be immense.
A hoy-genius of Charlotte, N. 0., has
Me a small lire engine, three feet high
f f tl,un !Kl C0 ™P>ete ’ n a minute m every and way. It raises
throws a tiny
ptream of water nerly twenty feet.
"coanut growing is becoming an im
~
j’" rUnt indu «y in Florida. They
!" and grow
to tl»e promise to add great
• wealth of th c State.
J.uLon, Ga., man has discovered
i.H iiis stock wifi feed readily
as on
^ r.mu a gi ass as on h ay> as is preparing
iar '’ c * t a big crop of the long de-
8 P«ed herbage
r '' e outlook f( r in
a peanut crop vari
S |’ :ll!sof Virginia and North Caroli
, 1 , i / ry d,?COUr
enm «giog. Cotton and
coM. SUffcred 8e ^rely from the
T he Ga., Courier
evidence , says the best
the 6>at the South presents
best field f 0 r cotton manufacture is
in fact doit
Profitably ..... Southern mills run
to ills on full time while Northern
ha b 10 curtail their production.
sports from die overflowed territory
Louisi ana differ widely. In
places bf nefitsare some
jdoing well „ * reported and crops are
M the rom others the reports are
"“'loCdrin g extensive C ‘"' W#rmS damage. in
F’oiith' is Uu 111 od c *tt°n spinning in the
Georgia ,p;it by the statistics of
Ma > Alabama
. Missis w •
J'P . Louisian,,
1 ' N ,
^•uth v ° r! \ 1 Carohna and
Cari i. 1,la ’. hich . shows
of > w an increase
T{.,' ' ^presents H'imlMs during ] 881 and 1SS2
. in «n me ntof . . <.9,< _ _ 68
machine- ,
°f 120 ' • aiK ,, a coimim ption
, 0 . 01 a . ) es
Thef cotton a year.
Chm, ■ viaimochee r ryman Neal’s ferry, on the
boating rivpr t.,™ e ound . i a i box
j n dch
8 littt ream " contained
An ' ° i ba >e a ^ f crowing,
a i), , ’ ve an<
the nt stock of fine clothing for
e w ,Vll , d } , " as in the 8
In Troun hox *
Planted 1 f « mnty, Ga.. , a held
6 n heat was
°ine w this year which for
i'receedintr gtra„!! years L has u OI , rla "' , ed j
stand ° r, , ' ate a splendid
of clove r caii, • with
though e up the wheat
J it . “ince
planted clover ***** it was
* to
rare “<l valuable relic dug
was up
r 1 ■ he Conyers ' • Exa •• , -
g 3
©
in Berlin, La., recently. It is bronze
medal two and three-fourth inches in di¬
ameter, ard weighing five and a half
ounces. It tvas struck to commemorate
the evacuation of Boston by the British
on the 17tlx day of March, 1770, and was
voted to General Washington by Con->
gress. The medal is much rusted, but
the figure of Washington, finely execu
ted on both sides, is very plain.
Near Hixburg, Va., three brothers
n metl Banton were at work in a fieid
when a black snake of enormous size
completely enwrapped, one of them, lick¬
ing the boy’s face until he was uncon
scions. When discovered by the other
brothers the snake was foaming at the
mouth, and maintained bis hold until cut
to pieces. The boy was so frightened
that he became speechless, and it was
several days before he could regain the
use of his tongue.
IIotv to Manage a Kitchen.
* ‘A clean kitchen makes a clean house, ”
is a saying which has a great deal of
truth in it. As all the food of the fami¬
ly has to be prepared in the kitchen, and
as most working people have to take
their meals and sit in the kitchen—in¬
deed, as the one day-room has to be
parlor, kitchen, and all to many honest
families—it ought to be clean and neat,
or it will not be comfortable and healthy.
First of all, the window and the fire
placo must bo clean and bright. No
room is cheerful with a dirty fire-place.
fully Every morning the room must be care¬
piece swept, and any hearth-rug, mat, or
of carpet must be taken out of
doors and beat daily. The hearth must
be cleaned every day, and the stove
leather brushed, the fire-irons rubbed with a
once a week at least, the grate
must be black-headed, and the fender
and irons thoroughly polished, and all
well scoured down twice a week. Cup¬
boards want great care to keep them free
from dust, cool and neat. Supposing
there are two cupboards, one on each
side of the fire-place, it is well to keep
one for stores, as groceries, etc., and one
for crockery. Everything should be
clean that is put in the cupboards, and
there should be a place for every differ¬
ent thing, in so that if you wanted anything,
even hand the dark, you could lay your
upon it. Be sure, whether you
keep the lids bright or not, to keep the
inside of every pan or pot used in cook¬
ing so clean that it is perfectly dry and
sweet. If you neglect his you may be the
household. cause of poisoning yourself and your
poisoned Many families have been
by food being cooked in dirty
pans. Besides, even if food is not made
poisonous, it is spoiled by not being clean¬
ly cooked. Be very particular about
this. It is a good plan to have a jar of
soda in some handy place, where you
can, whenever you wash up, take a bit
and put in the water. It is very cleans¬
ing, and both crockery and tins washed
in hot water, with a bit of soda in, will
be sure to shine and be sweet. All tins
should be polished once a week. Kitch¬
en towels require good management. It
is a very nasty habit to be careless about
towels. Tea things and glass should be
wiped with a thin, coarse towel kept for
that purpose. If you have a plate-rack
over the sink, plates should be washed in
hot water, rinsed in cold, and put to
drain in the rack; but if you have no
rack you must wipe the plates; keep a
good dish-cloth to wash them with, and
a good coarse towel to dry them with,
and use your dish-cloth and your dish
towel for nothing else.
(t Breeding-off ” Horns.
The question of “breeding-off” the
horns of native cattle ife receiving at¬
tention, and there are many who claim
that it “can be done.” Horns on neat
cattle are a relic of barbarism, so to
speak, They are not only a useless ap¬
pendage, but positively objectionable.
Not only do cattle do one another injury
in a yard or stable, but they haye many
a time, by their horns, caused the death
of, or disabled, other animals. Timid
people are mortally afraid of cattle with
horns, but pass by the “mules” with¬
out fear. In their wild state cattle had
undoubted need of their horns, but
domesticated, there are no ferocious ani¬
mals to attack them. Nature appears to
be doing gradually and unaided that
which a little artificial help would accel¬
erate, as comparison between the spread¬
ing and long horns of the Texas steer,
and the short ones of the blooded cow
indicates. It is suggested them that horns when
may be bred-off by searing
the calves are young. Everybody knows
that dogs and cats have been bred with¬
out tails, yet analogy might signify
nothing, as sheep, whose tails are cut
close when they are lambs, continue,
after many generations, to raise lambs
whose tails, in turn, would be long, if
they were not cattle cut. bred But in a family Scotland, of
Ayreshire originally had their clipped from
ears
year to year to donate ownership. In
time the calves began to be born with
tho end of the ear wanting, and now the
peculiarity is fixed.
. T,, Bello of El Paso.
e
Almost every other house was a drink
| ing saloon, and the whole place had an
air of dissipation which was rather more
«»gg<»tive than alluring. The worst
class of Americans come over from the
0 {i aer side, preying upon the vices of the
Mexicans to their own profit, and mak
ing what money they can out of their
Propensities and dancing. for “Le gambling, vin, le jeu, les drinking, belles,
voila nos settles plaisirs,” seemed fitly
to describe their lives and occupation, at
all events during Christmas week. My
fellow-passenger belle,” back in the hack was
an American “ who had been up
to see tho “boys,” as she called them’,
whom I had visited in prison, who were
friends of hers; and during the inter
view a Mexican soldier had taken ad
vantage of a touching pocket-handkerchief, moment to rob
her of $5 and her
so that I was entertained by her opinions
o{ the Mexicans as a race, couched in
strong language, during the half-hour I
enjoyed the pleasure of her society.—
Blackwood's Magaziue.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY JUNE 16, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Within the year the mines of Arizona
Territory have paid nearly $1,000,000 in
dividends.
Dennis Kearney pops up again, but
not as a politician. He has drawn $8,000
in a lottery.
A man who buys a glass of beer in
Iowa on Sunday renders himself liable
to a fine of from $1 to $ 5 .
Livery stable men in the East say
the extension of the telephone from vil¬
lage to village is injuring their business.
Wendell Phillips has declined, and
Governor Long has accepted the invita¬
tion to deliver the oration July 4 at Bos¬
ton.
A monument costing $40,000, and a
fountain $15,000, are to be erected to the
memory of Lincoln, in Lincoln Park,
Chicago.
According to a local paper a man died
in Minnesota from what was “prononeed
to be leprosy by physicians, of the most
hideous appearance.”
--
Charles Reade is writing a series of
short stories which will appear simul¬
taneously in England, the United States,
Canada, and Australia.
The Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
has issued a proclamation warning drug- |
gists to desist from the practice of sell¬
ing liquor “by the drink.”
The Toledo Blade says that the
trouble with Mrs. Christiancy arose
from the fact that she wanted to be a
sister to too many nice young men.
Prices at the prominent summer re¬
sorts will be from twenty-five to fifty per
cent, higher than they were last year.
Second grade people will have to stay at
home.
The Arizona Star declares that by the
aid of artesian wells the desert lands of
Arizona can be made the most produc¬
tive wheat growing districts in the
country.
To show their respect for Darwin, a {
number of students belonging to the
Moscow University have resolved to i
wear a band of crape around their arm
for twelve months.
The Czar of Russia thinks that by in¬
augurating reforms that he can get
things in shape for his coronation in
about a year. In what abject terror
such a ruler must live.
It is thought that cork trees can be
successfully raised in every Southern
State. Of some specimens planted in
Georgia many are now thick enough for
use.
A naptha locomotive is about to be
tested on the New York, Lake Erie and
Western Railroad. It is an immense
saving in fuel, provided it works all
right.
An English surgeon says the time is
coming when a man’s stomach can be
repaired and replaced without difficulty.
It will simply keep him home part of
the time.
The Sultan has refused to permit
Hebrew exiles from Russia to make set
tlement in Palestine. Two hundred
Jewish families are on the verge of star¬
vation in Constantinople.
Henry Villard, the millionaire Prea
ident of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
was once Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune,but later, degener¬
ated and fell in with monied people.
Guiteau starts on his trip to the next
world just four days before the Fourth
of July and 362 days after the commis
sion of the crime that placed the Nation
under a cloud of gloom the last Fourth I
of July. v
_
Nine million acres of the best farming
land in Dakota have just been thrown
open to settlement by a decision of the
Secretary of the Interior. Here is a bet¬
ter field for enterprise and industry than
El Dorado.
The hundreds of saloons that closed
in Ohio in consequence of the Pond
liquor tax bill, now that the bill has been
declared unconstitutional by the Su¬
preme Court, will probably resume busi¬
ness again.
The Syracuse Herald is . m . faxor of .
substituting steam whistles for church
bells. “They can be heard further.
create more disturbance, and it is han¬
dier to drop in and murder the man who
pulls the rope. ”
The contest over the South Carolina
contested case was terminated in the
United States House by the adoption of
the resolutian seating Mackey. The re¬
maining contested seats will now be
rapidly disposed of.
Nilsson’s reason for resuming her
own name is that she is indignant that
the property which she accumulated by
her exertions should pass to her hus¬
band’s relatives on his death. The
whole thing is an outrage.
The penitentiaries are full of murder¬
ers who will agree to be “ good citizens”
if the Governors will pardon them out.
This is merely suggested by the negotia¬
tions pending l>etween the Governor of
Missouri and F rank James.
Captain Howgate is still in seclusion
and everything seems to be all right.
Whether the authorities at Washington
are anxious to capture him does not ap¬
pear, but perhaps they are not or we
should hear more about it than we do.
The period of three years required by
law before a statue can be erected in a
public place in honor of a deceased per¬
son is nearing its end in the case of
William Cullen Bryant, so Central Park,
New York, will soon have a new monu¬
ment.
Charles Hunt died in New York of
apoplexy, at a drinking saloon, a few
days ago. He was well known in Bos
ton, Washington, and New York as the
unacknowledged son of Daniel Webster,
and has held several important Federal
offices,
The London World says: “It is an
open secret in the Irish party that Par¬
nell dare not go to Ireland, and that
in London, when not in the House, he
is in virtual hiding.” Mr. Parnell’s
crime is that he favors a peaceful settle
ment of the troubles in Ireland.
When a lady called upon Mrs. Secre¬
tary Kirkwood the other day she found
that lady ironing. Hence, whole columns
of praise and flattery. Had it been
some woman whose husband had a sal¬
ary of $25 per week, she would have
received the cold cut forever after.
It seems that Walt Whitman has
written a book—“Leaves of Grass”—
that is too dirty to be published. Wo
knew that Walt was old, and thought
also that he was clean, but after all it
don’t do to have too good an opinion of
a man. Walt has erred, and that is hu¬
man.
The Texas Legislature has showered
a public blessing on the morality of that
State by taxing all persons selling the
Poliee Gazette , Police News and simi¬
lar illustrated journals $500 per annum,
in each county where such papers are
sold. That is simply equal to prohibit¬
ing their sale.
{Speaking of the vast strides made in
the railway world, the Railway Age
gives the following interesting statistics :
We believe it is safe to say that there are at
least three hundred and fifty lines, covering, at
1 moderate estimate, a total of twenty-five
thousand miles, upon which work is now in
progress or is proposed to be commenced dur¬
ing the present year.
Missouri is in a truly pitiable condi¬
tion. Rather than hunt Frank James
down and punish him according to law
for the crimes he has committed, a great
deal of red tape and an unconditional
pardon seem to be preferred. What
would be the moral of an unconditional
pardon to Frank James ?
The home for working girls in London,
called Garfield House, at the formal
opening at which a fortnight ago Min¬
ister Lowell presided, contains thirty
nine bed-rooms, a dining-room, a sitting
room, and a library, and each occupant
will pay for her accommodation from
sixty-five cents to one dollar a week.
The press generally is circulating the
report that Chicago girls would rather
kiss a pretty little dog than a man, and
one Chicago girl has taken the trouble
to write a letter for publication acknowl¬
edging the soft impeachment. There
certainly must be something wrong with
the Chicago man’s breath else dogs’
noses are a mighty sight cleaner there
than they are here.
Guiteau’s act one year ago interfered
with the usual Fourth of July celebra¬
tion. His act this year, we are pleased
to say, will have a tendency to add to
the hiliarity of the occasion. We do
not make merry over the prospective
event of the assassin’s untimely death—
far from it—but it is a source of gratifi
cation to know that America is still dis¬
posed to put vicious dogs' to death.
Charles Lochbruner weighs about
100 pounds, his wife 300, and their rela¬
tive strength is fairly represented by
the same figures. He ostensibly keeps
a restaurant in New Orleans, but she is
its real boss, as he complains to a police
justice that three days in succession she
took him across her lap and spanked
him terribly. Being arrested she gave
oail to keep the peace, thougn at tne
same time she avowed her intention to
subject her husband to discipline when
, howe v er she pleased,
The m most . serious • labor strike f ‘l of f the
year began June 1. The proprietors of
the Pittsburg iron mills having .-ages! refused
to sign the new scale of a strike
was ordered. Some thirty-five or thirty
six mills in Pittsburg and vicinity shat
down, and more than eighteen thousand
workmen are thrown out of employment,
In Wheeling upwards of five thousand
men went out, and some seven hundred
or eight hundred quit work on the other
side of the river, m mills whose pro
j prietors refuse to adopt the new scale, at
least until it is accepted by the Pittsburg
mill-owners. The strike is likely to
spread to all the iron mill, west of the
Alleghany Mountains, and will be long
and obstinate. It is impossible to meas
lire the loss to the productive interests
of the country which this strike will
j j entail, or to compute the hardship families and of
coffering it will bring to the
j the workingmen. It can not be regarded
j other than as a public calamity.
Curious History.
sSvfiSSsSaS visited New York, he the guest of
was
Beverly Robinson, a young Virginian,
who had come hither a few years pre
viously and married an heiress. The
latter (Jane Phillipse) owned a manor
on the west side of the Hudson twenty
miles in extent. This, however, was but
half of the paternal estate. On the
east side of the river was a similar tract
belonging to the other sister—Mary
Phillipse. The last mentioned tract
contained the Phillipse manor house,
which is at present the City Hall of
Yonkers. Mary Phillipse was at the
time above mentioned, living with her
sister, and was rendered, by wealth and
personal attractions, one of the leading
toasts of the day. Report says that
Washington offered his hand to the
heiress, but was refused, as she did not
care to bury herself on a Virginia planta
tion. Another suitor, Capt. Morris, of
the British army, was more successful,
and having won an opulent bride, he
immediately able constructed position a mansion suit
to his new as lord of the
manor. Yonkers was too far from the
city, and hence he selected the present
site. Carpenters were brought from
England and the building was erected
in a slow and solid manner, its date of
completion being 1760. The lord of the
manor lived here in grand style until
the revolution, however, broke up their
establishment. When Washington was
expelled from New York he passed
several days in this vicinity, during
which the Morris House was headquar
ters. His old flame had taken refuge
with some Tory families in the vicinity
and her husband (now a Colonel) was in
the British army. After the war both
went died to England, where Mary Morris
in 1820 at the age of four score.
She always felt a deep interest in Wash
ragton, former lover and having lived to see her
become the chief captain of
the age, she survived him twenty years,
but never mentioned his name without
admiration and almost emotion. Perhaps,
like Maud Muller, she sometimes said to
herself, “It Might havo been.”
After the revolution the entire manor
was confiscated and the Morris property
was sold. Before this took place, how
ever, Washington visited the place in
company with some of his Cabinet, and
a grand dinner was served by the tenant.
They were deeply interested in the as
Bociations of that fearful scene where
one disaster after another awaited the
patriotic army. The Morris estate after
ward had several owners, and was at last
purchased in 1810 by Stephen Jumel, a
retired Erench merchant, the price paid
being leaving $10,000. He died in a few years,
his wife s$le owner, and this
woman has given She place a notoriety
far greater than ltu previous record.
Madame J umel was fascinating and
beautiful in early life, but in later years
she displayed many vagaries, and as her
years were prolonged to ninety they
w-ere marked by many of the weakness
of old age. She and her husband had I
lived several years fib Paris, where they
gathered many curiosities which still
adorn the ancient mansion. Visiting the
place recently, I passed through an
ancient gate and followed the road,
which leads from the turnpike, till I
reached the portico which, as has been
remarked, has a grand prospect. On
entrance one is struck with the breadth
and dignity of the hall, which is rich in
relies, both of furnitur e and art. Among
the latter is a fine portrait of Madame
J umel with her family, and also a picture
of Aaron Burr, who became her second
husband. Other works of art adorn its
walls, combining the past and the present
in a very interesting 0 manner ,—New York
‘
A/etlcr. 7-.J. „
Staving Off a Run.
In times of severe panic people have
been known to refuse Bank of England
notes and prefer local notes. In conn
try districts of Scotland the old one
pound notes were greatly preferred to
sovereigns. It is said that when there
was a run upon the Bank of England
in 1765 the device was resorted to of pay
mg the country people in shillings and
sixpences. One acute Manchester firm
painted all their premises profusely, and
many dapper gentlemen were deterred
from approaching the counter. A story
is told of Cunliffe Brook’s Bank. When
there was an impetuous and unreasoning
rush for gold, Mr. Brook obtained a
number of sacks of meal, opened them
at tho top, put a good thick layer of
cloth upon the coutents, then placed
them untied where the glittering coins
would be manfest to all observers. One
bank procured a number of people as
confederates, to whom they paid gold,
then slipped round again thus to a back door
and refunded it, and the effect of a ,
stage army was produced. himself At examined another ;
bank the chief cashier j
every note with the most searching scru- ;
tiny, holding it up to the light, believe testing
the signature, and making that,
on account of alarm as to forgery, there
was need of the most scrupulous care.
When he had completed his pretended
examination he handed the note to one
of his subordinates very deliberately,
with, in slow and measured terms, “ You
may pay it.” Other plans were to pay
the money very languidly, counting it
twice over, so as to be sure the sum was
right, the and to give a sovereign short, so
that customer should complain, and
the eo^tiag hare to be done over again. ,
riSw
after the maner of the fruit exposed for
At gale another at street corners in the summer, j
the coin was heated in shov- |
j gerk
q{ 3QQO Fahrenheit The in
charge> accommodating his phraseology
to the occasion, cried out loudlv every
half hour, “Now, Jim, do be gettin’ on
with them sovereigns; folks is waitin’
for their money.” “Oommg, sir com
^f” is^wavs lk ^Sousht thesiSple-mfnde^ftS th^Innffiv^bn^Tfdle^ 6
i t !
lmim formed who constitute on such oc
casons the chief portion of the throng, I
j just the half-educated as the people who go to extremes are j
ones. The crowd was
e a \ l1 / Persuaded; the proof that all was j
1 right . was burning their fingers.— -Lon- j
don Society.
The New York Reporter.
to-morrow there. On Monday he may
be among thieves and murderers on
Tuesday among politicians and states
men, and on Wednesday among ladies
and gentlemen. He may be l“mbc? even amo-iw
all three on the same day
a cold, raw morning in Febmarv when T
had to get up long before daylight and
make a breakfast out of Oliver Hitcli
cock’s coffee and cakes and run for a
train. That afternoon I found myself on
board of a large Eurou°an dA steamer oT^e
which had stranded high shared and
New Jersey sands. I the cap
tain’s dinner while the waves came dash
ing against the vessel’s side with a force
that threatened to make us food for sea
worms at any moment. I came back
wet and weary that night, but there was
nc rest for me yet. To’Delmonico’s I
must go, as soon as I could change mv
clothing, and partake of a greatbanquet
Sucb is the life of a newspaper reporter
He knows not at any time where lie will
take his next meal. He often is sent
from a wedding to a funeral or from a
ball in the Academy to a murder at the
Five Points. Like an army on the march
he must always have his baggage pre
pared, for at five minutes’ notice he may
be sent several hundred miles where
skirt-collars and handkerchiefs are un¬
known. He may be sent to scorn- the
Island bay for missing Jersey shanties, or Long
woods for mysteriously disappear
ing personages.
Not only must the reporter be able to
tell an interesting stoiy, but he must
also, if he wants to earn his salt, have a
knowledge of the world and possess that
tact and discretion which comes of such
knowledge. Young men fresh from some
inland college, who come to New York
newspaper offices under the impression
that reporting is something that they
can do if they cannot do anything else,
are quickly undeceived. One half of the
news which is printed in the local col
umns every morning is obtained from
people who do not care to furnish it, and
who have to be “run down” very often
with as much skill as the most cunning
of foxes. And for all this the reporter
is paid but little more than the average
mechanic. It may surprise some of you
to learn that he gets even that much,
but he does if he is good for anything,
That good ones get no more is mainly
due to the fact that there are so many
bad ones competing with them,
Yet with all the drawbacks of long
and irregular hours, inadequate remun
eration and “assignments” that are often
uncongenial, there is a charm about a
reporter’s life which all who have ever
been members of the profession must ac
knowledge. There is a romance con
nected wdth it which does not entirely
die out of even the older members who
now keep to it because they have been
spoilt for anything else. The new genera- which
tion of metropolitan reporters,
differ considerably from the old, is kept
to its work probably more by this flavor
of the adventurous than any thing else.
The Bohemian spirit of poetry and beer
lias almost died out and the ranks are
recruited from a class which has less of
the literary and more of the “be up and
doing” spirit about it. They want an
active life and they find it here. As they
grow older, however, they become more
straight in their desires and there are
consequently constant droppings out.
Either they work their way into the edi
torial chairs or they go into some other
profession or business and their places
are filled by new-comers, who, nowadays
are generally graduates of the leading
colleges. So then, here is
To the truthful reporter
wh0 never but what he oughter;
An example , Buhhme
Qf ^jj e men 0 f jjj g time.
—George C. Glement
The Modern Caucus.
An aged citizen who was one of the
ear j y settlers was seen coming out on to
tlie sidewalk ’in front of a place where a
caucus W as being held, a few nights be
fore election on his ear. He seemed to
be prop elled by and some picked unseen his power, hat
and a3 p e got up up
ollfc of the gutter, brushed the mud off
his gleeve and wiped the blood off his
nose a f r i e nd went up to him and
asked w hat was the matter. The old
man gaid “ Well, I hain’t attended a
caucils hi thirty year, but my nephew
waute d me to go to-night, and when I
propose d that the meeting be opened
^ it h praver I think the stove fell over
on fellow said, * O, give us a
rest » an q j don’t know how I got out
her( j ’ but j did. Why, in ’49 with they used
to n political meetings praver,
an d close ’em the same wav. This cau
cug opene d with a knock” down and I
B ’ pose it w fll close with a riot. Hello,
tPere is ano ther man riding down stairs
w j t h ou t any saddle, and I s’pose he pro
pose( J j som e old-fashioned custom. Say,
d ^ ou tkin k my eye will be black? I
tol the old lady \ was go in’ to meetin’
and j wou ldn’t like to have her think I
had lost my temper and struck the sex
ton Well that’s the last politics for
n)e '„ The’ old man, however, while got voted a
po 1 q ceman to go with him he
‘pWion da^ v.—Milwaukee Sun.
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wood Weaving.
This irwWrv in dust y belongs g strictlv to the
.
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fron . *
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toe toVTSSaeto
of chesp hats glued together, Lately, and worn
^v the lower classes however,
owing to the interest taken by the Gov
erni aent, Ehrenberg has been able to
^y < Si^ , S a S B adeS > v^od amS
at very low rates. The aspen is the only
tree whose fibers are tough enoHgu to
? f weaving, and all the timber
havmg been used in the vicinity of the
the material is bro.ugh 10 m
alwfys Md’aTthe
divider must follow the direction
^ reads th ^ fib sl , elr } ould ’ J* b f nece “ a ^ ^ h tha ^and ^ e
The weavlDg ltself , e 1 d g
. loorns
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The most diffusive pleasure trom
public speaking is that in which the
gpeeeh ceases, and the audience can
turn to commenting .—George P lot.
$ 1.50 FER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 24,
HUMORS OF THE DAT.
Can’t a coffin shop properly be called
a bier saloon?
By contracting a disease you help to
spread it. Queer, isn’t it?
“ I can’t account for it!” exclaimed
the defaulting bank cashier.— Philadel¬
phia Item.
Smoking and chewing are two evils,
and ye who select the former chews the
less. — Courier-Journal.
Fogg says he »ever finishes a cigar but
he thinks, “Another temptation removed
from the young men of America.”
It is bad luck for thirteen persons to
sit down together at a table, especially
if there is only dinner enough for ten.
The cat is the great American prima
donna. If bootjacks were bouquets,
her nine lives would be strewn with
roses.
“And pliat wud ye want sich * man as
Pathrich for?” said Mrs. Mctllone. “Ye
niver cud thrust him out yer sight, onliss
ye was wid him. ”
What is called respectability is a great
help to many men. Once they have at¬
tained it, they can put in a lie where it
will do the most good.
An Indian chief in Washington went
to see the Ideal Opera Company. When
M. W. Whitney gave a particularly low
note the chief said: “ Ugh! him heap
dug out. ”
Rest is said to be the solution of many
puzzling perplexities. If that’s so, we’d
like to solute a puzzliug perplexity about
three hundred and sixty-five times it.
year.— Courier-Journal.
An Irish gentleman, hearing of a
friend having a stone coffin made for
himself, exclaimed: “Be me sowl, an’
that’s a good idea! Shure, an’ a stone
coffin ’ud last a man his lifetime.”
A Pennsylvania boy recently swal¬
lowed a horse-shoe nail without experi¬
encing any ill effects. If it had lodged
in his throat it would have made him a
little horse sure.— Norristown Herald.
“Is this the front of the Capitol?”
asked a newly-arrived stranger of an
Austin darkey. “No, sah; dis heahside
in front am de rear. Ef yer wants ter
see the front yer must go around dar
behind on de udder •side.”—Texas Sift¬
ings.
“ My son,” asked a clerical parent of
his hungry boy who was just in the
starvation period, “I wish you would
make a study of ‘Watts on the Mind. » !>
“ I will, pa,” was the quick answer, “as
soon as I have studied what’s on the
stomach.”
Calculated to fill it: “I tell you,”
continued Pingrey, “ Brown isn’t fit for
the place. In fact, I don’t know of a
place that lie is calculated to fill.”
“Don’tbe intemperate in your remarks,
Pingrey,” said Fogg; “you forget his
stomach. ”
“Yes,” said th# injured party to the
owner of the dog, “I know the dog was
only in play when he bit about half a
pound of flesh out of me. Certainly he
was only in play ! And I was only in
play when I took an ax and made hash
of him. Only in play, sir. Nothing to
get mad about!”
“Tell your mother I’m coming to see
her,” said a lady to Mrs. Gibson Bige
love’s little boy, who replied: “ I’m
glad you are coming. Mamma will be
glad, too.” “How do you know your
mother wall be glad to see me?” asked
the lady. “Because I heard her tell
papa, yesterday, that nobody ever bills came
to the house except men with to
collect.”—Austin Siftings.
His exit: There had been a seeming
coolness between the lovers. One day
Emily’s schoolmate ventured to refer to
the subject and asked her: “ When did
you see Charlie last?” “Two weeks
ago to-night.” “What was he doing?”
“Trying to get over the fence.” “Did
he appear to be much agitated?” “So
greatly,” returned Emily, “that it took
all the strength of papa’s new bull-dog
to hold him.”
The Speed of Thought,
Helmholtz showed that a wave of
thought would require about a minute
to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirsch
found that a touch on the face was recog
j nized by the brain, and seventh responded of to by
j a manual signal, in the a sec
j ond. He also found that the speed of
! sense differed for different organs, the
j sense of hearing being responded of sight to in a
i sixth of a'second; while that re
quired only one-fifth second *0 be felt
and signaled. In all these cases the dis
tances traversed was about the same, so
the inference is that images travel more
slowly than sounds or touch. It still re¬
I mained, however, to show the portion of
this interval taken up by the action of
the brain. Professor Donders demonstrated by very this
delicate apparatus has
to be about seventy-five thousands of a
second. Of the whole interval forty
thousandths are occupied in the simple
act of recognition, and thirty-five thous
andths for the act of willing caused a reponse. to
When two irritants were oper
ate on the same sense one twenty-fifth of
a second was required for the person to
recognize which was the first; but a
slightly longer interval was required to
determine the priority in the case of the
other senses. These results were op
tained from a middle-aged man, but in
youths the mental operations adult. aresome- The
what Tveragf quicker “ than in the
"a of anv experiments, proved
that simple thought oocap.es one
fortieth of a second,
Gov. Littlefield, of Rhode Island, is
a man of the people, having in liis early
days worked in a cotton factory at
Natick, one of the villages which have
grown up around the Sprague mills.
While Littlefield was toiling at the spin¬
dle William Sprague was Governor. By
a turn of fortune’s wheel Sprague be¬
came a bankrupt and Littlefield a
Governor. _________
“ How much do you charge for your
peanuts?” asked a lady at the fruit stand
at the Central station. “Ten cents a
quart,” said the clerk. “ Too dear re¬
plied the lady. “ But,” persisted the
young man, “these are hand-picked, consumption and
we warrant them to cure actu¬
and heart disease.” The worn**
ally purchased two quarts .—Rochester
Chronicle.