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[FALL at the
Iboad RESTAURANT.
IuwTt tlie Car Shed,)
it ! ATLANTA, GA.
■all the delicacies of th£
Irnisqed [as establishment in the Lest ei style and
any in the city
Lis [lIiARD furnished at allhours of the
A DURAND, uuej.20
Fires in Coul-Ships.
ability Kgws to eoal-laden spontaneous Sgtht’ion and
of vessels
fc'itinns that tend to lessen the
IrJ worm a question the full impor
RfntbjJ fuliicli one would expect every
If i;ch vessels to recognize, The
I Trade has, however, consid
lecessary Lrents, to once more place
owners and others a
pdftlion Irlio considered of the this Royal subject, Ooinmis- and
ilvboi the periodical and fre
L'iiig of the temperature of
portions lonned, this of the would cargo. greatly If prop- de¬
mlilc fii» bt: chances of ignition occurring,
) ■ it you Id never completely avert
Filmost all cases of spontaneous
are )n—generally directly due to some chem
confined oxidation—which,
n a space, gradually
j s sufficient heat to set fire to the
ho oxidizing °f (he impurities
ml *.s almost invariably tin: cause
hontaneons ignition; and of the
K ''-on unites arc found tho
ingevous. [oioriotisly “brassy,” When, therefore, a
as many
ipg'nli coals are, (he vigilance
■master should he increased and
attention paid to the variation
■mprrature of the cargo than
pc coal is comparatively pure.
■course, often an extremely dif
nice to ascertain the actual tem
* ( »f tho almost inaccessible inte
[F great bulk of coal, and this dif
[teme, very frequently only imperfect
‘1 I or not overcome at all.
(electrical the voyage of the Challenger was”used a"
h'l‘fining contrivance
the temperature of the
m T'i’dis inaccessible to the ther
F' r > w > ( '* perfect success. The
[ n -oggests itself whether a some
Kmilar method could not be cm
| Thvirieal on shipboard. With a few of
hynghout thermometers distrib
the mass of coal, a ship
Would at any time, and with un
Ture • rtaimy, ascertain whether the
of the interior of his cargo
iul ''yifiing be early too high enabled for to safety, take and the
; ir - v Liverpool f e l ,s to prevent Mercury. fire and ex-
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of the Cholera Year.
•tain Timothy Stannard of West
> who was born liot-slo<,’pT,.mm 17Q6 i A., . ru
ll!) pa< L
fork made trips from this m.,, mL!
ami Albany The
varied in duration from one to two
hree weeks < ” „f
made the run m tm, v ,11 an ‘
f ll !‘‘ f kfdera P a mc at New
5 i o' i iv ,., ? ^ ^
N ew aTCn on a
) ) , ko was sail
in tii. \ 1 i When eight
v ;niV !? v >iV X 0rk h noticed
r luimi e a
' n | partially-loaded
s .,:ij n ves
to'tin II \ ‘" !l n tlle j trouble,” ”• ( did not remarked take me
old mariner.
doon about
' and loadimr
fo(ml othwsrowl f vnn Ml nf
ill ’reTs, ]’ hoy lo;l ded mo so hurriedly
! Ull an
" h 'P!>'“r> on my next trio I
1 1 >vd Saturd'iv ® a 'j
4ke Haven Siind nurUt ^ arnv .. . .®?
' v .f! ’
bala iv
nee c Ilf 1
you they were \i t0
•' «'< e ff uino- S6e m
l tho 7 would be
K 1 l-vlel", •? d panlc !” !Suw
XL 2, '”'1 , A i° PV' 1 A to “°“- '
wi-hoil i
n to
): ' di for i believed that God
j n \ e - I never believed that I
! bo cholera, and I did not.
> ! Vt! te IVestbrook men. They
ng .,.Y Uul left tlle sloop. But I got
v '' v and cleared.
(ia „ N they The mer
‘d would me% give me lots of
a! offered 25 per cent,
i v. ‘‘'('finieg
i St his narrative, Cap
, Ud aid he made five round
mo “ f v vot’k during the
,, u , t ' cholera. With preva
i, i, q e tears
( , t . i °teran told of meeting
il)i plt* j: v
, 1 , ' VV * l Cr ^ e years fo° m B whom 10 eity. he Once h id
b id n D i ? ard tifty-five
1 ■ r , Q passengers
’ ’ u >ng at this port, went to
, i towns .—New Harm (Cb?m.)
'Hertford (Conn.) man has in¬
fo a ,UUl -'hioe which is to revolution
u ;. Panting business. It sets the
eVerv»Ki« ri tttes tkem aQ fi (n fact does
m thing u but »
furnish the “oopv.” ' *
THE WHEEL 0\ THE
I’ii-Vjnx, Faster, faster, it cries, and, leaping
The vvheel dashing, and the river speeding away?’
work night and day.
Over llltlldes and on hitber, the self-same It .101,:, on' hiih'" “ roe;
over course
\V ith never an outlet and never a so’uree!
And, lashm# Itself to the heat of bassum ’
It whirls the heart in mill wheel fashion ’
And a conscious pride in its sense of mig-hL
As it hurries and worries my heart forever!
And I wonder oft, as I lie awake
wT.°u n iL ei ’ ott if th e wheel will break urges—
\\ ith the mighty pressure it boars, some day.
Or slowly and wearily wear away.
o goe
Land * tS form unto unknown oceans, ’
V ith cargoe9 of fierce emotions,
never a pause, or an hour for rest.
~-Llla Wheeler, in Chicago Tribune.
BRINKS DOG.
Mm. Blinks declared she wouldn’t
have another one of those little nui¬
sances in the house again; “for what
good are they anyway ?” Mrs. Blinks
asked in an indiscriminate way, as she
gazed in succession at the rocking chair,
the French clock and the “Got! Bless
Our Home” motto over the hall door.
As no reply was vouchsafed from any¬
one of these, she went on: “If you’re
that going to dog, have a dog, you want a do4 ”
is a and not a plaything.”
Mrs. Blinks had read of the watch¬
dog’s honest bark, and numberless nar¬
ratives wherein the watch-dog aforesaid
was the hero, and the thief and murder¬
er the victim, and by consequence if
(here was one thing more than another
that Mrs. Blinks had set her mind upon
having she it happily Was “a dog that was a dog,”
as so and lucidly expressed it.
So much had she said about this thing
that Blinks, one of the most devoted o!
husbands, could not find it in his heart to
discourage, dent longing. much less to thwart her ar¬
It was some time, how¬
ever, ere he could find just the dog that
came up to the ideal of what a doo -
should be. Finally he heard through a
friend of a dog up country somewhere
which seemed to fill the bill to a nicety,
and negot ations were at once entered
into which resulted in the animal’s be¬
ing forwarded by express.
The day for the canine’s arrival was
looked forward to with joy and impa¬
tience, U''“.“G and coming, when did the day,'which seemed
hurried down To the come at last, Blinks
many to his express office- wi,h
a promise eager spouse that
he would be back just as quicklv as he
possibly could.
When Blinks T>1 . got within quarter
a
°I destination, a noise reached
bls cars su °h as had never reached t hem
before. It sounded like the croaking of
a ^ e ot° n trogs, each with a very bad
was ,lot untiI he got a glimpse
a d r y-g°°ds box and a vicious-looking
nose that he protruding could through the slatted s'de
so much as guess what
was the cause of it all.
It was the dog. Blinks looked at his
property in the dry--goods box. He
didn't go very near it. Possibly he felt
R would be rude to gaze at short range
upon Tlie animal an imprisoned fellow creature.
was a cross between the bull
awd the mastiff, and cross as both put
together. amiable To say that he was possessed
of an countenance would be the
grossest uttered flattery. shreds His prison-house was
with of coat-tails, trous
of ers, B etc., formerly part of the raiment
ie trainmen, which he had sampled
from time to time during his trip, as
opportunity afforded, and lie looked as
though he would like very much to add
to the collection.
off Blinks and eoaxingly was in a remarked quandary. He the stood
tbat he nice fellow; but to the dog
was a ani
did nol a pi>ear to take the compli
ment in the sprit that was intended,
but repeatedly knocked the muzzle
Ue bar8 of his ca S e ia a ™ st
ferocious manner, awakening , the Iivliest
fears in Blink’s breast least one of those
order and set about bribing somebody
to take his treasure home. He finally
found an expressman whose needs were
greater than his fears, and after much
labor and the loss of some skin and
much blood, the man succeeded in
getting the ideal dog into his wagon.
Excepting tlie frog ojiora which the c i
mal induiged in, with an occasional in
('‘(’mission which was devoted to testing the
^ strength of his prison bars,
U urn< '- V to Blink ' s house was devold ot
"^rhe^vagoner unloaded ^links’, his and living with and the
liTel v frei » ht at
- inches of cuti
loss of a few moi-e square
cle and a few '**s pints more of blood, the
^ «»•»«>« were safely landed on
Blinks’ piazza.
Mrs. Blinks was, of course, gentle^ook- delighted
attho uoUe bcast . ..go
ing,” she remarked, extending her hand
top at his head through the Bars. She
did not carry out her intention, howev
There was something in the glare
of (d that glistening “gentle-looking” teeth that dog's made eyes her
a,
change several her mind. and So admired she stepped him from back
paces,
a safer distance.
TheBlinksescongratulated the acquisition each other
several times upon of
such a treasure. Of course, he was a
little frightened now—it did not occur
to them that anybody else was fright
ened, or if it did neither said anything
about it—but he would grow accus
tomed to them in a little while, and
would be as docile as a kitteu. In the
meantime it was concluded not to wor
rv him just at present, but allow him
to remain on the piazza in his dry-goods
box.
So Blinks lowered some meat amt
dr nk through the hole shut in down the top the of the
box. taking care possible to having cover done
as quicklv Blinks as said alter time afterward
so. some
that the animal ale a whole quarter o:
beef that first night; but this was, ot
error ceases to BE DANGEROUS WHILE truth IS LEFT FREE TO
COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 1082.
poimed a ^ geratl ° n born of
hop
stufijn 2 : and U starving, ff-, r f; f T, the eek dog , of began alternate
to
recogmze the Blinkses as his friemR at „i
pioteetbhs, ahd Showing Ss utinvsH^i S Ip
^gns pnteful of conduct-, contrition and
mte, he Was a desire to eon oil '
ranee vile finally rele-i^.t 'L, f 1 du
the Blinks domain and a owe t Lr,? , ;
But hehadpZlTw' it w
cial although r so
(for compact with ib ^ T°T r
such was his tithA
Position lliems
The first momino. -
milkman Was t 1 ? 6
seen L 1 f m ? tlCally ,
away and horrified'visa! from the ho *5™ clotlli »g
nne d^ visage, while v PoWser was
a t- him 6vet the high fence*
h f fro S opera as well as h
mouthful of coat-tail would permit him.
he nulkmaii did not coine again, and
he had apparently told his rnisalvemurc
to all the milk-dealing fraternity;
not one of them could be induced to
come within twenty rods of the Blinks
residence. But this was not all The
butcher, the baker the candlestick
maker, and even the grocer one and
all, suddenly ceased their calls for or
ders, and as it was a good mile to the
nearest store, the Blinkses were in dan
ger of starvation in the midst of plenty
for Blinks was in the city all day and
Mrs, B. Was a ITl very poor walker’ 4 a,
Blinlw '' Y f 1 T” ^ !e village of .
evnnimr ” 1
an lua laden Witk tanl!l Y
stmnUe* t’hni 110re than once halt
wished nTtdl/dn 1 t i0 f7 S f Wasnt quile sueb
i,' ’ / 1 1 ^ a these a ,, ‘j- discouragements,
, 1 . , the Bbnkses
a coggeve a topic for
Conversation that was never dull nor
uninteresting. On the contrary, it was
quite thrilling and always possessed
sometliino- novel. One evening Mrs. B,
had to. tell how Towser broke through
the fence and killed neighbor Jones’s
pet pussy; the next day his exploit con
sisted in making mutton of a stray
sheep, and the day following was'mnrked
with the death of a goat or the maim
ing And of a cow.
so it Went on, until not a resi
dent of the town was on speaking terms
with the Blnikses. Visiting them was,
of course, long ago out of the question.
Suits at law began to dow in, and be
fore a month had passed, bankruptcy
^° or B,tok * a,m08t out
of countenance
It was clear that this state of things
could not go on much longer. Blinks
began ideal to figure up the cost of keeping
an what dog. In the first place there
was the animal ate, at the current
rates about five dollars a week; then
there was the work of doing one’s own
.1. marketing l>/» and being ''Vgain^Blm^s one’s own truck
♦
finally the kiwsults.
wished, this time quite 1 heartily, that
Towser wasn’t quite such an ideal dog.
The climax came at last, the turning
point in Towser’s career. Not content
with cats and goats and such small
game, he liavl the hardihood to attack
the good minister, who essayed to call
on the Blinkses in the. performance of
his pastoral duties. Parson Brown lifted
the the latch and when got there nearly half-way inside
The gate, ground covered was with a cataclysm. dust
was and
clergyman shreds and dog and blood and
in the of clothing, inextricable all mixed together
most confusion.
It took Blinks and Mrs. Blinks and
three pounds of beefsteak to withdraw
Towser from tlie combination, and
much time and nursing and a good bit
of Blinks’ money to bring the parson
and his raiment into anything near tlie
condition they were before his interview
with that ideal dog.
T his was the Straw which broke the
camel’s back, or rather the event which
drove Towser from his new home.
Blinks started off the very next morn¬
ing after Towser’s ministerial exploit,
and did not rest until he found a man
who could be hired to take the dog
away. He did not ask the man to buy
the animal ideal dog. but He he did paid not hand give the
away; a some
bonus for the accommodation. And he
made no conditions as to what should
become of his ideal dog. Ho merely
said: “Take him away—anywhere, any¬
where; only take him away!”
The Blinkses have never kept a dog
since, and not even “a dog that is a dog;’
if you want to make Blinks tearing
mad, all you have got to do is to ask him
if he has bought another dog yet.— Bos¬
ton Transcript.
The Art of Mezzotint.
These attempts at revising the art of
mezzotint as employed upon original
•work have a special interest besides tbat
which attaches to them as experiments
so far successful and promising to be
still more so. They show the de¬
sire to cultivate a very beautiful
and refined style in which English
artists, inspired as they were by
the beautiful pictures of Reynolds and
Gainsborough, more the than highest a hundred perfec¬
years ago, arrived at
tion. That the method should ever have
been suffered to fall into disuse, and be
supplanted by the more mechanical and
less artistic work produced in -various
forms by various tools used to cut into
the plate in a more or less stiff and un
pliant manner, is much to be regretted.
It is essentially a painter’s method, more
pictorial than any other, and broader in
treatment, and one, therefore, that en¬
ables the artist to give full expression to
his feeling for the beauties of light and
shade and every oh arm of gradation and
suggested color possible to a mono¬
chrome.
—Ribbon Cake: Two and a half cups
of sugar, one of butter, one of sweet
milk, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar.
half a tea spoonful of soda, four cups
flour, four eggs. Reserve a third of
this mixture and bake the remainder in
two loaves of the same size. Add to
third reserved, one cup of raisins, a
’ 1 kffids^of
teaspoonful each ?m of all ^
^ Bake in ' a the «ame size
the r loaves. Put the three loaves to
f ther with a little icin or currant jel _
placing andsi^es.-T/ie the fruit loaf in center, frost
top Household.
A Cute Yankee.
A Yankee peddler while traveling embayed in the
West became somewhat
for wan ^ of funds, and resolved to era
bark in his dceuatdnled dcciipaiiotl. St Hfi
Cached a small city in one the fron
! tler States. After taking a survey of the
surroundings oods and he received his stock of
^ proceeded to dispose of his
knives Wares ’ consisting of scissors, pocket
‘ razors, .spoons, etc. He had
not ^sted journeyed hint aftd far Galled before an officer ac*
for a license. He
and so informed the official
who, familiar finding the peddler a desired strahger and
not with the law, to be
rected ns lenient him as possible, and Hall simply kheiv* di
to the City to
the necessary document. The Yankee
proceeded to the find the proper official
and inquired price of a license to
run for a Week, and found it tnore.than
his surplus capital. Therefore he se
cured Yankee me footed for only his a day. At amf night the
that up profits, found
he had lost money, and resolved
to continue without renewing his li
cense. Several days passed, and he
was in nowise molested, but one warm
he day about approached ten o’clock in the morning.
was by a corpulent Ger
man » fc be inquiry; “You got li
cense.” The l r aukee said; “Oh, yes,
certainly,” and moved on. But the
£% lied< ilant and Tfn *°Uowed wa f him 80 up, easily saying; sat5s ‘
“Meester, you got license, I look at
him.” The Yankee again informedthe
officer that he had a license, but the fit
tie Dutchman said; “Yeel, veel, you got
license all right, but I look at' him.”
Tim Yankee, seeing he must get out of
his difficulty eitherlegally or by his wits,
said; “Areyoti an officer?” The Teuton
ic official said; “Yes, I vas an ofeecer.”
“Well,” said the Yankee, “whefeis youi 4
sleeves, badge, sir?” and looked The officer was in his shirt
as if he might have
been a grocer or some other tradesman,
Hi* did not say. a word, but jumped into
his wagon and drove rapidly away. The
Yankee concluded the Western people
had learned the game of bluff but
thoil gbt they would have to rise early to
§ et ahead of a down-easter. The ped
dlervisited the nexthou.se and offered
k ’ s wares as before, making a sale, and
the bidding the when lady good day started for
street, to his horror and sur
pnse,. he saw the persistent official
standing S&Tft. at the gate accompanied by
a:ct Yon portlymt^Gw® Jicense
nlan ? \ ‘‘ S ot no * ek ;
X? The u Yankee mx looked } 1 "°’ l you somewhat my prisoner tiight- ”
ened, and m a low voice said: “Yi our
bad f e ’ S1 ^ r he °* c,al J vas " ow robe d
w it!l coat and . vest, and pulling away
d ! C °4, 118 < ? < >at f!l d patting his
p'!ua , . V1 !51 , n V said: i 4 Gere ^ ere be s
* '
°® c el. sai The ^ the official Yankee, said; you “That’s are a a
shust what I vas,” and straightened up
in the usual official style and expanded
his lungs as if to pounce upon his prey,
when the Yankee slowly placed his
fingers in his vest pocket signed and nulled
out a document branded, and
sealed, License. The official seeing the
headline license, wilted without exam¬
ination, and turned and with one leap
landed in his wagon and drove out of
sight. The writer
was an eye witness to the
scene, and, being amused by the circus,
strolled down the sti*eet to where the
Yankee was, and accosted him, saying:
“That was well played.” “Ah, ” said
the Yankee, with a wink of his eye,
“you don’t see the point. My license
expired a week ago .”—New Haven Reg¬
ister.
Persons Who Lived in Three Centuries.
Three lives, all spent near Boston, and
lit erally overlapping each other, spanned
tho period from the landing of the
Pilgrims in Massachusetts, in 1620, to
our own day. Ebenezer Cobb was born
in Plymouth, March 22, 1694, and died
in Kingston, December 8, 1803, aged
nearly 110 years. For the first ten years
of his life he was a contemporary of
Peregrine White, the first white person
born in New England, and for the last
thirteen years of his life he was the con¬
temporary of Charles Sprague, the
banker-poet of Boston, who died in
1875. Mr. Cobb had the rare felicity of
living in three centuries. The same is
true of Francis Hafazoli, who was born
in Sardinia in ’ 1587, and died in 1702,
and of Thomas Parr commonly called
“Old Parr,” and who very properly
might have been called “Grand Parr.”
He was born in Shropshire, in 1483, and
died in 1635, at the mature age of 152
years and nine months. His death was
hastened by his being taken by the Earl
of Arundel to the Court of Charles I.,
for exhibition. He married at the age
of 120 years, when he seemed to be in
perfect heal th, and cultivated the soil
until he was 130. There is no well au¬
thenticated case of any one having got
above Parr in the matter of age, though
Mrs. Lititia Cox, who died in Jamaica,
in 1838, claimed to have been a young
woman when Port Royal was destroyed
by would an earthquake, June 9, 1692, which
have made her over 160.
The Natural Result.
An Austrian family was recently
blessed with a baby boy, the first one
in the family. Next door was a family
in which there were half a dozen chil¬
dren. When the arrival of the boy next
door was announced, little Johnny, aged
six years, asked:
“"Have they dot a boy, sure enough?”
“Yes, there is a boy over there at
last.”
“Then they will have a whole lot
more. That's the way we did.”—Texas
Siftings.
_ ^
from —A the petroleum pipe line constructed
Couban oil territory over the
Caucasus Mountains to Novoroszisk
Harbor, on the Black Sea coast, was
opened recently. This line of pipe,
which is 105 miles long, can deliver
of every petroleum day not less than 1,000,000 pounds
.—San Francisco Chronicle.
-It is maintained by Dr. E. S. Wood,
of Medical College, that lead
P OISOn i n £r presents this interesting fea
* ^“ ure .’ “° f two members of the^ame
d ^ Xp ° 9 ff d “P 083151 ®
Sort one may be affect
short^ime and the °/J other ead not P° ls< for ? mn g ln a
many
Old Hotel Registers.
“What becomes of the old hotel reg
lsters inquired . . a Sun c reporter f of . Je- T
Tome Lelaiid, T of the Stmtevant Ho s .
G <* ’e* all hud m a big look, down sail
stairs. , Conte take a
^ r * Le land. Then lie led the why
through a subterranean laundries, labyrinth and of
cooks ’ raagea, stores
wiae cellars to a vault undertheside
walk next to a room where the ther
niometer would have registered 200do-
1 be hot f lf room tlie contained re f i fL !w the stove P ™I“w \ tie
irons were heated for the ftundry.
“ You see I had this vault built on pur
?™Z to JW t iese books. mildewed ^o danger of
their getting damp 01 here.
‘‘Do you ever have to refer to them?
e f “\eiy ablisb th oiten fact it tbat becomes a man necessary wasbere to
at a cm tain q time. It■)» . a common oc
currence to fix the dates of business
transactions by these registei's, and they
are “But frequently that must used be 111 a com trouble , to you.
“ Yes, of course; but we don’t mind
taking a little trouble for a friend.”
“ Are you bothered by getting your
? lerks sunpoenaed to produce the books
in court?”
“Sometimes; but it is very difficult to
be certain that any of us was here at
the any particular and time, testify.” if we can’t spare
time to go
You must have a great many valuable
autographs in these registers.”
“Lots of ’em; but we never allow
them to be cut out. There are all the
registers eleven just as we have had them for
years.”
Charles Stetson, of the Astor House,
has preserved all the old registers of
that famed resort. He has in them a
guished series of autographs of the the most distin¬
These public men of last half cen¬
tury. books he has kept relig¬
iously, never permitting them to tie
mutilated by autograph-hunters. They
were taken away by him when he left
the Astor House. On their pages may
be found the names of Clay, Webster,
Calhoun, and a long line of Presidents
who visited the Astor House during tlie
many years that it was the chief hostelry
of the city. The Leland family have
generally preserved their registers in
the various hotels they have kept
throughout the. country.
At the Brevoort House the old regis¬
ters contain many of the names of dis¬
this tinguished foreigners who have Brevoort visited
country and made the
their headquarters. The late Mr. Hawk,
of the Windsor, one of the oldest hotel
keepers in New York, had many old
registers whose names comprise some
of the most noted professional men in
the United States, as well as leading
wealthy lule citizens. It is generally the
t.Hat wlion a hotel changes hands
the old proprietor takes away the reo--.
ister. When the Hoffman iiuuse re¬
disappeared. cently changed There hands the old registers
old registers the New are a York great Hotei. many
at
Here, during the many years that it was
kept by Hiram Cranston, the leading
men of the South gathered and left their
names. Mr. Cranston always kept his
registers. does His son, Hiram Cranston, Jr.,
the same. There was a very inter
estingset Hotel of registers in the Metropolitan
when it was kept by Tweed
and Garvey, but they have disappeared.
Mr. Henry Clair, the present manager,
keeps the registers at this house as well
as at the other hotels owned by the
Stewart estate. The Metropolitan uses
about two registers in a month. The
St. Denis and the Albemarle have pre¬
served all the old registers. The St.
Nicholas, now one of the oldest hotels
in town, has a big pile of registers > con
taining a generation of distinguished
names. At the Everett House the old
registers ferred are old kept, and frequently re¬
to by customers.
But there is one hotel where the old
registers are That not regarded with much
reverence. is the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, now under the same proprietor¬
ship that it was when started more than
twenty-one & years ago, that of Hotchkiss
registers Darling. For many years the old
were kept, and often. referred
to. Time and again they have been
lugged into court and clerks with them
under subpoenas, Daces Tecum. Final¬
ly the proprietors got tired of furnish¬
ing so adequate much testimony to courts with¬
out found that compensation. It was
by keeping the registers
often a couple who stayed but one night
and paid ten dollars" into the hotel
treasury of bother might by legal entail fifty dollars worth
ing the register. Therefore, proceedings about in prov¬ six
months ago, orders were given to burn
the registers as fast as they are filled.
As the urbane light-haired clerk ex¬
pressed it: “ We don't let ’em get cold,
but get 'em out of the way at the earli¬
est possible moment. People can now
look elsewhere for testimony. We can’t
afford to keep one clerk limiting for
books and another on the witness stand
all the time.”— N. V. Sun.
The Press of Business.
An Oil City young man was reading
about recent doings in the Arctic re¬
gions, and his best girl was sitting near
by, watching the wagging of his mus¬
tache as the words rolled out. She was
evidently more absorbed in the mus¬
tache than in the story. He continued ;
* ‘ She arrived at the mouth of the
River Lena about three months ago.
The Jeannette was crushed—”
“What?” asked the girl quickly,
standing up.
“Jeannette was crushed by—”
“ Oh! but wasn’t that just too lovely.
Only think, to be completely crushed !”
“What are you talking about, dear¬
est ?” asked the young man in surprise.
“ I was saying how grand it was to be
crushed. Did you say it "was Lena or
Jeannette that was crashed?”
“Jeannette, of course.”
“ Oh ! how I wish I had been in Jean¬
nette’s place.”
Then the press of business necessi¬
tated turning down the gas .—Oil City
Derrick .
Wonderful Ink,
wormK” worms, said said the tne TdSr-°“th visitor, they he destroy f a f Cer
easny, said air. xfr iuneioon, VoZT*' in “ °b his raild ve yT
Pare the Toes of Colts.
much It is harm not generally to horses recognized from how
comes the
simple overgrowth of the toes; and yet,
in the case of young and unshod horses
especially, hardly anything is more dc
structive to their soundness and perma¬
nent colts utility. turned Judging from the number
of out everywhere with the
whole winter growth on their toes, there
seems to be a surprising amount of ig¬
norance on this matter; and it becomes
the more necessary to draw special at¬
tention to the need of paring.
healthy A good hoof average slope for the front of
a is one forming an angle
of which forty-five it rests. degrees In with other the words, ground^ on
if a
perpendicular the line were drawn upward
from the toe, line of the front of the
hoof would be midway between such
vertical line and the flat surface of the
sole or ground. But the average foot
grows far more rapidly at the toe than
the heel, and wears off much more slow¬
ly. The heel, too, as it grows, turns in¬
ward, so that even with an equal growth
it never projects as does the overgrown
too. As the foot increases in length,
therefore, the effect is shown and °felt
especially at the the toe, and with addition
to the length of toe, the front of the
foot and of the pastern recedes further
from the vertical position, and ap¬
proaches nearer to the horizontal. So
much is this the case, that an increase
of one and a half to two inches at the
toe will often diminish the angle formed
by the front of tlie hoof and the ground
by one-third. In other words, the an¬
gle formed by the front of the hoof and
the ground beoomes about thirty degrees
instead of
This increasing obliquity of the foot
and pastern throws a greatly increased
strain on the cords supporting the fet¬
lock and pastern joints, and gives them
an sprain enormously and injury. increased predisposure
to But this evil of
increased obliquity in the pastern is
seriously aggravated increased by the length of
inches, the toe. An suggested, together length of two
as with the
greater vertically obliquity, throws a line rising
from the point of the toe at
least three inches further forward from
the shank, and increases the leverage
exerted by the toe to an equivalent
amount. If we now consider that this
lever is acted on by the weight of the
body, and that the fulcrum is at the fet¬
lock and pastern joints, we can see
plainly enough how overgrown toes so
constantly determine ruinous ringbones
in young animals. The extra strain
consequent on the increased length and
obliquity must be borne by the posterior
and lateral ligaments of the fetlock and
pasterns; and as these latter come from
the sides of the pastern bones, the con¬
sequent injury determines inflammation
and bony deposits on the sides of the
which pasterns. Similarly, the back sinews,
act as supports to the joints be¬
and hind, shortened, become sprained, * inducing thickened, knuck¬
ling over at the knee, and general un¬
steadiness of the limbs.
In paring, remove the whole project¬
ing lower border of the hoof wall down
to the junction with the sole. The great¬
est danger is from the toes; but the
overgrown heels curled in on the sole
imprison masses of hard, flaky horn,
bruise the sole and determine corns and
a train of evil consequences. The pi*o
cess should be attended to in winter as
well; but it is especially in summer,
when the colt is running at liberty in
the fields, that the effects of undue
length are to be feared.— Chicago Herald.
Wolves on a Railroad.
A Toledo man, formerly of the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad,
left a good position with a good salary
on the Northern Pacific, and returned to
Toledo to take the chances of getting
smashed up on one of the railroads here,
for less money. When pressed for liis
reasons for coming back, lie rather re¬
luctantly told the following tale :
“He said that as soon as he got his train
he started out on his run, and one night
at a certain station was side-tracked for
a train that was following him. He
ordered a brakeman to go to the rear
and flag the expected train. The brake
man turned pale and refused, but de¬
clined to give a reason. He tried to in¬
duce other train men to go, but all re¬
fused. He took a lantern and torpedoes
himself and went back some hundred
paces. He soon heard a pattering and of
leet around him in all directions,
thought he had got into a sheep pen, until
suddenly his ears were assailed with a
cliorous of snarles and howls, and he
concluded he must be near a farm house
well supplied with dogs, but on raising
his; lantern, he saw the snow almost black
with savage forms whose eyes glared at
him like balls of fire. For the first time
he realized that he was surrounded by
wolves. His hair stood erect and his
tongue cleaved to the roof of his mouth.
He hastily placed the torpedoes on the
track and began to beat a retreat. The
howling pack circled round him and he
yelled to the engineer to back the train
down to him, but his voice was drowned
amid the demoniac howling of the gaunt
savages which were snapping at his coat
tails. He kept them off with his lan
tern, whirling round like a Dervish, till
he reached the train. In a few minutes
he heard the torpedoes explode and the
howls grew more furious. He said the
whole prairie seemed alive with the
brutes. He conceived a brilliant idea,
He began to toss torpedoes to them, and
could hear them explode, and by the
sounds judged they were doing good
execution. He said he threw out about
2,000 torpedoes, when he got orders to
run to the next station When No. 5,
the tram following, got to the station he
had left, she was thrown off the track by
an obstruction. VV hen daylight had ar¬
rived about 1,000 dead wolves were found
in the cut, all frozen stiff, and it was
this tbat throwed No. 5 from the track.
“So,” said he, “I made my run back,
and told the Superintendent I guessed
I'd have to get him toexoise me.”
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—Kingston, license Canada, refused a mar
riage to a old. man because Come he is
ninety-two side, old years over to
this man. Age is never ob
°* V ' a,Md — ^- DetnU
$150 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 36.
HUMOROUS.
-A real stylish house on a good street
.11 New York costs $100,000: just fyp
999 than .
more we’ve got. — New Haven
Register.
--Brooklyn, her lawyers, N. Y.. has been counting
up and is rejoiced to find
that Free she Press. has only about lAOQ.—bctroU
—Ladies when being courted ought not
to object to the moderate °
use ot tobac¬
co. there They is should recollect that where
a “llame” there must be reme
smoke.
—“Great Pains Taken” is the head¬
dailies. ing of an advertisement in one of tlio
Probably whole some gentleman has
eaten a Watermelon.— Boston
Commercial ‘Bulletin.
—Definition of loot; Student wants to
know what is meant by the word “loot”
in the war dispatches. Why, a lute is
a thing with strings that you strum with
your fingers. Hence, anything that you
can —Burlington get your 1 fingers on to, that’s loot.
hockey e.
—Water privileges: “You advertise
that there is a fine stream of water on
the place, but 1 don’t see it,” remarked
a stranger who wanted to rent the place.
The landlord said: “Just work that
pump-handle a little, and you w 11 sec a
fine stream of water. You don't expect
to haye tlie Niagara Falls on the place
for fifteen shillings a month, do you?”—
Texas Siftings.
—“They err who tell us politeness
has fled,” says a French paper, and
calls to witness the following postscript
X—from to a letter the lately steward received by tlie Due do
of one of his es¬
tates; “I beg that your grace will ex¬
cuse for having taken the liberty of
writing this letter in my shirt slcovos,
but the excessive heat has compelled
me spect.” to be guilty of this apparent disre¬
. .
—The Masher;
“ What is that mother?”
A'ou 'always " A raashJr, clear;
will ttml it shiiKfing hero,
Posed on the corn w of the street.
Proudly displiivins? its tiny feet,
Twit-Inis’- it-i litt.lo tmi-ccnt eano.
And stn ; el'yin;>- its tender Drain
With tli' smoTte of tv paper eisritrot. ^
Don’t touch it, dear—it was raised a po»
” Will it bite, motherl”
It will bitea free “ Well, lunch T should shout; (
for all that’s _,c.”
— Washington Republican.
—Making the pictures in the clouds just
as edges with sun was gold going and down, gilding sihj th,<
turning tie
lining almost inside out; “Oh, then- J
ponies, a great and big chariot wif all horses a
and oh, it’s gone now,”
said little curly hair. “Hull!’’ said
little shavey head. “ 1 see a little angel
now. “Where, is it?” “Oh, it’s
gone now. You are the only little
angel be left.” Needn’t tell us children
can’t gallant. New Haven Register.
Deatfl to Flics hi Ono-ltnlf Ilnur.
Heretofore one of the greatest of our
trials in summer has been in the keep¬
ing of our dining-room is rule and kitchen that free
from flies. It a with us nets
shall be in all opened windows and that
the not doors must be kept closed, and
there is no deviation from this. But
careful as we might be the pests would
get in. We have brushed until shoul¬
ders and arm were lame and hands blis¬
tered; have used and various poison fly-catchers, fly
sticky fly paper times paper,
discarding the latter several on
account of its poisonous properties and
disgusting effects,but returning to it be
cause we did not know what else to do.
We will say that our house is very
sunny, light and airy—we have no
blinds, and can not darken the rooms
and so keep the flies out. A short time
ago we became alive to the necessity of
throwing away once for all the fly pa¬
per, having been convinced that it was
impregnated with a solution of arsenic.
Knowing the efficacy of Persian insect
po wder—Pyre thru m roseum or cinenc
folium—in destroying insect life, we
closed the windows and doors of the
dining-room, sprinkled a large handful
of this powder upon a few live coals and
retired to await results. The smoke was
quite dense for two hours, yet at the
end of that time not one fly was dead,
they were somewhat weak in the legs,
but soon revived.
After this failure we next purchased
a small insect powder bellows for one
dollar, half filled the receptacle with
powder and blew it all around the room,
making a fine dust. Soon a buzzing
was heard, as when a fly is caught in a
spider’s web, only louder, and in one
half hour every fly in the room was
dead. The fly season is now robbed of
its terrors for us, for a few puffs of the
bellows each morning before sweeping
keeps our rooms free from flies. I he
.powder costs 60 cents per pound at
wholesale, but with care will last some
time, for gentle puffs of the powder
answer every purpose, as it is only nec¬ flies
essary to blow it once where the
can breath it.— Cor. Rural New Yorker.
Won the Wager.
__ Florentia
p re( j Flasher and Miss
Flounce were discussihg the mentis
p 0wer 0 f controlling thought. Sa$b
Flasher: of gloves hi
w ;p g* ive y 0U a pair nothing for
y 0U can think of positively still be awake.”
five minutes and
“Done,” she responded, passed,
Five minutes ’’she exclaimed.
“I’ve won the gloves! to think of
«*How did you manage minutes?” be
nothing for the whole five
as k e d, eagerly. mind firmly on your
“I fastened my there,” she
an d kept it re
r lied ’ triumphantly, 4 awarded her the gloves,
Th e re f ei e
__ Detroit Free Press.
A German locksmith invented a re
visUa
• k and caught in the trap
compiled, under fear of death, to sign
checks. After this extortion of money
machin^and^heir^bodies accomplices thrown in
a canal The locksmiths
“confessed ” or made known the scheme
to the notice and the ingenious criminal
~ promoted from making even ono
riotim.