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islonal Wailings Over Funerals.
he wilds of Kerry Patch, upon the
,y door of a little cabin, is marked
gend;
/ i Oorps
wusli i 11
done here.
if' Town Talker does not often get
fen Hie metes am! bounds of the
|>b»» of Kerry, but of late his busi
lus taken him through the settle
tt, (ach as a short cut, very frequently,
time lie has read and pondered
■announcement. Was it true that
(“wasliin’ lease, ” was done there; and, in
Ving did the friends of the depart
the "corps” around to this
I, and wore these peculiar facilities
the prosecution of the business? that, parties Or
jnga the statement mean
“corps” could here find a pro
live valet do chambre for the dead ?
[c was in the somethingso affair that delightfully day 1 tapped lugu
tas one
*p Imred door, old and entered. who I told was met that by
crone, me
Was “Missus” MeDougal, and in
ld what she could do for me.
|m txdd that you attend to the wash
p the dead.”
■es,” Irk'd said she, “and I do it cheap.”
is your charge?"
Inc dollar, and I furnish all me own
■Ml, Lsponges / and the like.”
don't happen to have any
lin.s just, now,” said I, “but it’s
ys well to be looking around. IIow
Jsinoss with you?”
It’s very poor, sir. Times was when
pril make $10 a week as aisy as
■c settin’ in that chair; now, if I
lies $•! a week ’I'm well satisfied.
Iknow I'm a keener, and kcenors is
l I generally make $1 a week now
lin’”
^ hat is ‘keenin'?”
'Keenin' why, cryin’ for the dead,
r now .’ * here’s some of us as was
| r' (!|s s arou| 1,1 ri the <>uld country, and we
peon, corpse and starts
anu then the others they jine
l-* the keen any different from
|r cry?’’ any
Different! I should sav it was, sir.
.thekeen g 0es right to the heart.
. Li'? )’ing keen,” and she bent
began Mva her body from side
b a most dolorous and de
’3; ,X ,!v lu ' vi er ’ ham v ' hieh ls she i accentuated which I
’ an( can
V si,.r;\ 'kumetimos n ' o * a W .'M , an( it t dropped grief-strick
j,,< len ros « and until to a
j , rose it
),- 0s , a shriek. It was the
life ’ V ' 1,18t t l .' n K * ever heard in
! m an jJ 3 0 3 , Cl; l' arts 11 it turns of and the
lZPTV ran up
a* k ouW]o - Keal, y’
ainiy art p * t a *‘t—savage art—but
ild4 ‘ l, upon the stage, it
■ “w! doe r* ® that 8 ^ P ccialt the house.” V I ever she
L ..,„ H ° Ut at
«rTor mliv 1 g ?„ a P°»" graveyard, d of'tea and
tedmiL’r , and
tU IW0 ’ if [ S etit
_in this ; here , s no good keen
il’P EiiUy South tin," n i ,'- rc v , al : ^> '’i- specially The best are
Vtehfe an in the
To hear U right you
Y’Oij it ' ° /en £ oin ’ at once 1
com *
sopconU ° Ut ^ rand then. But
k U11 < an t *'
but thev't ff0ocl cetl —they try
M keenin’ u° Hen th > hear ! he Y can’t tell
*K certainlv t ’ ,y From
vp ry tii-si ‘ 0 P ° ? ^'oy «,’?hi the old lady on
"ins d()n S iat 1 wished any
' there <<.•’<, p 1 M "hdrew, convinced
p 'deration e v ento,K ^ d ,n,s Egyptians which in we the could
Q Louis art
• Spectator.
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nil tiling "! 0, ; ° r ’JienLr 11 is savs that that
r *' a , necessary
P 1 •> v',,. ,ai : !;" understanding that
’ U :, vs proportionately
-
1 ?l ‘ r ain i; lan snm ii crops; that
i!! *> on i,n !s a P v cn amount of
lli ^ °wn more cheaply on
tn n l ° When
s 'Armi- nin.C 1- this fact
f >0 run ’ Vla, cd the popular craze
""Ifiifn ,‘, wi 1 be abated, and
. ’’place n
’ever acres win take
1 ! *u over ° P rosont system of half
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action lanc «eo School Boa d is
^tvve .
l0tl er , .? r rei hPdving the dis iije
U and ,k 1e Primary teacher's sal
fa cher. i t - Spinning to the gnmima:
!7e< i to be re og
f* x P*rieaee am* r natural ° a ability high degree we'I o'
Squired fr re*
Se fr it teacher who gives
^Mtoward I D tllafc frying vl|$ said of
fh tbe u ^est ^enever he
7 he expwtej
to tip Up
HUT'?** $SS£#f&-'.*. &£(&<& 3 igSgT
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
LiEtrr. Dai B9 ban accepted
« bout twenty C to doliver his
Arctic lectors.
The I/ird Chancellor of England re¬
ceives snlary 3
a equal to that of the
President of the United States.
The story that President Arthur’s son
is engaged to the daughter of Congress¬
man Crowley is officially denied.
The registration in New York City for
the first, day this year exceeds that on
first day last year, by about 20 , 000 .
Miss La Forge, who was betrothed to
Lieutenant Cliipp, of the Jeannette, has
died insane with grief at his unhappy
fate.
Brazil has ratified a treaty with
China permitting Chinese emigration.
The Chinese are needed for coffee plan¬
tations.
The Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon has of
late been suffering severely from the
gout. He is about to leave London for
Mentone.
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
denies the story that he introduced
Prank James to Mrs. Crittenden as liis
“friend.”
The Duke of Athole plants every year
from 600,000 to 1,000,000 trees. He is
said to be the most extensive tree-planter
in the world.
Senator Pendleton’s new house on
•Sixteenth street, Washington, has mas
rive gilded sunflowers at the top of the
lightning-rods.
Senator Hale, of Maine, is in such
poor health that he will be unable to
take any further active part in this fall’s
political contests.
Miss Mary Hill has been admitted to
the Connecticut bar by the Supreme
Court of tliat State, and is the first of
her sex to gain that distinction.
Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, ex
Uremier of the Dominion, has been pre¬
sented with an address and a purse
c attaining $5,500 by his old constituents
of the County of Lambton. Ontario.
A Mississippi gentleman has offered
two prizes for the State Fair— a box of
kid gloves for the handsomest unmar¬
ried lady and a gallon of whisky to the
man who writes the best essay on tem¬
perance.
It is related that when a young man,
in General Robert Toombs’ presence,
objected to Milton’s “Paradise Lost,”
that it was obscure, Toombs said with
pity; “Milton was blind; he couldn’t
see to write for fools.”
One of Arabi’s tents at Tel-el-Kebir
was lined with crimson damask silk;
the other was embroidered with forget
me-nots, pomegranates and other fruits,
in a manner which would put some tine
art needlework associations to the blush.
The colossal statue of Lord Beaeons
field which is to be set up in Parliament
Square, London, this winter, will repre¬
sent the deceased statesman at that
period of his career when he returned
triumphant from the Congress of Berlin.
Mrs. Amanda Smith, who was once a
slave in Delaware, and who is well
known in many churches in this coun¬
try, has reached Monrovia, Liberia, af
•er three years of successful evangelistic
work in Great Britain and the East
Indies.
Milk is said to be growing in favor in
England as a substitute for beer, and
the Northwestern Railway Company has
been buying a large herd of cows, 500 in
one purchase, proposing henceforth to
supply milk to thirsty travelers, who
have no recourse except beer.
The Rothschilds are virtual owners of
one-fifth of the fertile lands in the Delta
of the Nile. Their share in Egyptian
bonds is popularly estimated at £ 12 , 000 ,
000. An envious anti-Semite calculates
ihat the income of Baron Wilhelm
Rothschild is about £28 per hour, or
aiue shillings per minute.
An absurd story going the rounds of
»ho continent is that Arabi surrendered
because he was Buffering from pains in
;he stomach. He is said to have tele¬
graphed to Sir Garnet Wolseley: “As
you have good doctors, will join you
diortly. Prefer captivity with the Eug
iish to cholera in Egypt.”
Nearly nine years have elapsed since,
in October 31, 1873, the Spragues, of
Rhode Island, failed. They had assets
rained at $ 20 000 000 , while their liabil
, ,
ties were $ 6 000,000 less than th,
, the
(mount. The estate was pnt in
hands of an assignee,* and it was hoped
that in two or three years all claims
vould be settled or greatly reduced, hut
me legal complication after another has
followed. The many suits which have
been passed upon by the courts have, not
been adjusted with much consistency,
and to-day the property is in mot£ o f a
;
tangle than ever. *
An Erie, Pennsylvania, phy#oian nnd
hemist, . Lovett, ■ credited with
discovering a process of embaimmg embalming
jrhioh oonsiats of placing m a opffin
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH 15 LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 1882.
•
from which the air has been exhausted,
several ingredient, that being dissolved
bv electricity fill the vacuum with
preservative a
gas. The body of a young
child in the first stages of decomposition
has already been preserved nearly two
months Without change, decay being ar
rested and the Odor of decomposition
destroyed. He also claims it as a pre- 1
servative __, of meat, _ . , his . experiments . . so far .
having been successful. The gas is not
injurious to food nor to water.
Winter Dresses.
There is to be a marked change in the
yintei ike all styles changes, for skirts, will lie which, gradual. however, The
principal die skirts variation to be consists draped. in The the way
are most
fashionable dressmakers’ establishments
have already brought out some of the
new skirts. They are draped in soft,
wavy folds from the belt down, over
every part, and are thus very easily
made. The body of the skirt is cut in
the usual way. The second skirt is
twice und a half as wide as the under
one, and very long. It is gathered or
plaited lower to the belt, and fastened on the
part, where there is a flounce or
puffing of velvet or silk, in a color con¬
trasts ^ with the other part of the dress.
The full, loose piece is then draped in
lengthwise skirt plaits to the center of the
and taken back on either side in
graceful folds. All this fullness termi¬
nates arranged near in the horizontal hips, where plaits. the goods There is
are many other ways of placing these
plaits. Among others, one can have the
front of the skirt from the waist down
trimmed with flat plaits which start
from either side to meet in the middle,
and are fastened half way down the
* n 1 • • • i.» » t 4 1
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up draped. to the hips, Batiste where It is opened and
and cambric dresses
have velvet trimmings. Pink batiste
suits have the skirts bordered with deep
garnet-colored these velvet flounces. One of
has a skirt consisting of two loose
colored puffings ribbon divided by a band of garnet
velvet. On the border
of the waist is a similar velvet, tied in
the center of the point and fastened un¬
der an old silver or strass ornament.
Over the shirred plastron in front of the
waist are pieces of ribbon velvet placed
on in Y shape. Black and white checked
goods with these gathered flounces have on
each of three rows of ribbon velvet
about one inch and a half deep. Black
and white checked goods is much used,
both for full dress and morning wear.
The checks are in all sizes. Handsome
plaid taffetas are again the style. This
fabric is more admirably adapted than
any other to the present fashions, as it
gives a certain roundness to the drap
ings, pullings, and paniers with which
toilets are now covered. A dress suita¬
ble for demi-saison wear is of flue
checked grayish material. It has two
scarfs, draped in a pointed apron, and
trimmed with bands of cream-colored
nainsooks, with English embroidery.
The skirt is of Russian green taffetas,
trimmed with three chicore plaitings.
The waist is of gray goods, with a vest
and ornaments of dark green. This
same model may be made with a skirt of
seal, garnet, or navy blue.
Long “Dorsay” redingotes will serve
for autumn wear. They have very long
skirts, open down the front and back,
and fitting tightly to the figure. The
trimmings consist of brandebonrgs and
passementeries of black silk. The same
garment will also serve for winter use,
in which case it will be of cloth, trim¬
med with deep bands of fur and a
“Brummel” collar. For autumn wear
the redingotes will also be of silk “mate
lasse” goods in such colors as seal and
iron gray. They have a stamp of genu¬
ine elegance, inasmuch and are particularly will de¬
sirable, as they never
become common. A very careful ar¬
rangement of skirt and tournure is nec¬
essary under this garment. Tournures
are rather wider than they have been,
and o msequehtly larger. Petticoats
have full trimmings of lace and flounces.
Skirt tournui es are worn between the.
petticoat and skirt, making the latter
sit out, while the former falls over the
feet. By making would any be otner bad. arrange¬
ment the effect very
Bows are to be among the favorite
winter trimmings. There are a great
variety of rosettes now made. 'They
are generally of woolen goods when t he
dresses are of woolen and silken goods
mixed. The rosettes may also be of
silk to correspond with the bias bands
and trimming on the suit. A number
of costumes are of black-green and Rus¬
sian green India oachemire or veiling.
Many of the velvet waists already al¬
luded to are now worn over light skirts.
Cloth also serves for this purpose. A
suitable style for an autumn suit con¬
sists of a “redingote Brummel” with a
cacbemirc or silk skirt. On the lower
part of the skirt is a rather deep and
very full puffins’, which is placed over
a double p aited balayeuse of the same
goods. 1 he apron is of draped cache
mire, arranged in four plaits, and taken
to form between the ends of the red¬
ingote a double full puffing. The red¬
ingote is of fine cloth, with the long ends
on either side bordered with soutache
embroidery. The short basque is poiftt
? 1 in down. front and the has sides embroidery small all pock¬ th 6
way On are
ets. The back forms four lluted plaits,
itiing up. as it were, against the puff¬
ings of the skirt. The sleeves are very
right-.it,ting. A toilet “imperial* for a young lady
may consist of an polonaise and
of l uii-ine in fine checks of navy
Oriental blue and gold. The Louis polonaise XVI.
opens over a large navy blue
r^st. The skirt has five lengthwise
pi aits divided by flat bands of navy blue
velvet. A deep flounce borders the skirt,
alternating in plaiting and velvet bands,
the velvet sleeves have checked “mous
juetaire” cuffs. This toilet may also
Ito of black and white or 2 rav woolen
voods, with the sleeves, vest, and bands
of wooleu material .—Chcigo Tidies.
—A» “Constant Reader” asks the
meaning of the word “Jehad,” which
frequently dispatches. appears That in the Egyptian war
should be abroad in so the much land is ignorance deplora
^le. A Jehad signifies a—that is, it
means— Well, a Jehad is what we
have declared against l,bat newspaper bores.
Now know it means.-Norris
fi&tmkk,
OUR FIRESIDE EVE NINO HYMN.
Hither, bright angels, gentle wing your flight,
And stay your presence here;
Watch round, and ehlela us through the night,
That every shade may disappear.
rfoWeWeefi when Nature claims roposej
to welcdi^l^at dayh^ht'^clos?' gh ’
Those radiant troops that gem the skjd
To feel that unseen hands we claisp,
While feet unheard are gathering round—
To know that we in faith may grasp
Celestial guards from Heavenly ground!
Oh, ever thus, with silent prayer
For those we love, may night begin—
Reposing safe, released from care,
Till moAning leads the sunlight in.
—James T. Field*, in Boston Transcript.
POPULAR WEATHER SAYINGS.
Upon What the Weatlierwise of New
Hampshire Base Their “Probabilities."
The Chief Signal Officer at Washing¬
ton is seeking material for a collection
of “popular weather sayings, proverbs,
and prognostics used throughout the
country, and by all classes and races,
eigners.” including Indians, The readers negroes, the and Journal all for¬
of
may be interested to see a collection
made in New Hampshire for his use
The writer does not vouch for the cor¬
rectness of the prognostics. He gives
them as they were given to him, and
the reader may judge for himself as to
Chief their value. Signal The divisions made three by the
Officer are twenty in
number.
1. The sun. A halo around the sun
indicates that there will be rain or snow
soon. If the sun rises clear and soon
goes into a cloud it will rain before
night. it will rain If the sun shines day. while it dog, rains,
the next A sun or
mock sun, indicates that there will be
stormy weather very soon.
2 . The moon. “One Saturday change
is enough for seven years,” as there
is always a severe storm after it.
The nearer the time of the moon’s
change to midnight during the the fairer will days fol the
weather be seven •
.owing. phases of The nearer to mid-day the
the moon happen the more
during foul or wet weather may be expected
the next seven days. The space
for these calculations is two hours be¬
fore and two hours after midnight and
noon. A halo around the moon indi¬
cates a coming storm. The number of
stars seen within the circle shows the
number of days before it will occur. If
the new moon stands upright, so that
the crescent will not hold water, there
must be rain, as the water must all de¬
scend. If the new moou is horizontal,
so that the crescent will hold water,
there will be no rain. Grain should al¬
ways be sown in the new of the moon,
that it may grow with the increase of
the moon. The same rule should be ob¬
served bushes in they planting should flower be slips. To full kill
cut after the
of the August moon, when the sign is in
the heart. Pigs and hogs should always
be killed the during pork the will diminish increase of bulk the
moon, or in
while cooking.
3. Stars and meteors. The aurora
borealis always indicates a change of
weather; a,nd if it is very red the weath¬
er will be very cold. If there are no
falling stars to be seen on a bright sum¬
mer evening, you may look for fine
weather; if there be many falling stars
on a line summer eve, you may expect
thunder and heavy rain.
4. Rainbows. “If you go to the foot
of the rainbow, where it touches the
earth, yon will find a pot of gold.”
When there is a rainbow in the morning,
there will be rain soon; when there is a
rainbow at night, it will not raiq the
next day. A rainbow in
“ the morning
Is the sailor’s warning;
A rainbow at night
Is the sailor’s delight.”
5. Mist and fog. A sheet of fog along
the river in the morning indicates that
the day will be a hot one. When the
fog settles on the mountain in the morn¬
ing, When it will certainly rain before night.
“ the fog goes up the mountain,
you down may the go hunting. When it comes
mountain, you may go fish¬
ing.” In the former case there will be
fine weather; in the latter, rain.
6 . When you feel the dew falling
heavily it in the evening, you may be sure
will be fair next day. When in the
with morning webs, you see the ground covered
covered with dew and no dew
on the ground around, it is a sign of rain
before night, for the spiders are putting
xvo umbrellas. But others sav: “When
the spiders put out their sun-shades, il
will be a hot day.”
7. Clouds. If the sky is very red in
the west in the evening, the weather
will be fair next day. It it is red in the
east in the morning, it is a sign of a
storm. If in the evening it is deep red
low down in the west and black above,
it is a sign of wind. If very black a
very the high indicates wind. . A mackerel sky in
west rain. If there be a
sheep sky, or white clouds driving to
the northwest, it will be fine for some
days.
“ Great clouds like an old mare’s tail,
Make great ships carry low sail.”
8 . Frost. White frost on three suc¬
cessive nights indicates a thaw. If the
ice cracks much, you may expect the
frost will continue.
9. Snow. When there are black clouds
in the north, there will be snow. If on
a fair day in winter a white bank ap¬
pears low in the south, it is a sure indi¬
cation of snow very soon. If snow fall
in large flakes and they increase in size,
there will be a thaw.
10. Rain. If rain commences before
daylight o’clock it will hold up before eight
a. m. If it begins about noon
it will sontinue through the afternoon.
If not till five o’clock p. m. it will
rain through the night. If it com¬
mences after nine o’clock p. m. it will
rain the next day. If it clears off in the
a ght it will r un the next day.
“11 4 , rains before seven
It will stop before eleven.”
If the wind is from the northwest or
southeast the storm will be short; if
from the northeast it will be a hard one;
if from the northwest, a cold one; and
from the southwest, a warm one. After
it has been raining some time a blue
m the southeast indicates that there
wU1 be iair weather soon. After it has
been raining some time “if you see
enough blue in the west to make a
| Dutchman a off.” pair of breeches,” it will
§oon clear
11. Thunder and lightning. “If it
thunder in the morning it will be fear¬
ful before night.” “Winter thunder is
to old folks death and to young folks
plunder.” It is said that persons in
consumption have died during a thun*
der-storm.
12. Winds. A south wind brings
rains, a northeast wind a severe storm,
ah l a northwest Wind lair Weather. If
the wind veers round with the sun
there will be fair weather. If the wind
starts up while it is raining it will
blow the rain clouds away and there
will be fair weather.
13. Animals. The following are said
to be signs of rain: If bats fly low and
come into the house; if cattle lie down
in the morning and chew the cud; if
horses toss their heads, sniff, and are
very uneasy; if rats and mice are rest¬
less and squeak; if swine are uneasy,
grunt loudly and squeal; if cats and
dogs eat grass, than usual. and sheep So also spring the
about more
proverbs:
“When the ass begins to bray
We surely shall have rain to-day.”
And
“When the donkey blows his horn,
’Tis time to house your hay and corn.”
When in winter pigs rub against the
side of their pen it is a sure sign of a
thaw.
14. Birds. Before rain cuckoos sing,
ducks and other fowl pick up and oil
their feathers, guinea fowls are noisy,
owls hoot, peacocks squall, quails
whistle, crows caw, swallows fly low,
and water-fowl scream and plunge into
the water. If birds flock together in
storm. September, If it is a sign of going a coming south
crows are seen
in the fall it is a sign of colder
weather; but if they go north, wild there
will be warmer weather. If geese
come from the north early in the fall,
it is the sign of an early winter; if
they sign go north the early in the spring, it is
a that winter is broken. The
Phoebe oird, or pewee, sings before
warm weather.
15. Fish. Fish bite best before rain.
16. Reptiles. Progs and tree toads
peep before rain. If a leech be kept
in a glass lies jar partly filled with water,
while it curled up at the bottom of
tfie jar, there will be fair weather, but,
before rain, wind or snow, it will be
agitated and will rise to the surface,
and if it comes entirely out of the
water, you may expect thunder.
17. Insects. Before rain ants are
bustling and active, and will carry their
eggs from place to place: bees are busy,
but do not go far from their hives;
crickets sing and try to get into the
house; flies are very annoying, and bite
sharper than usual; and spiders spin
gossamer webs in the air. If ants clear
their holes and pile the dust high before
eleven o’clock a. m., it will be fair the
rest of the day.
18. Trees and plants. If the leaves
of maples and other trees turn up so as
to show their under side, it is a sign of
rain. Dandelions, turnips and other
flowers close up before rain.
19. Various objects. When smoke
beats down from the chimney it is a
sign of a storm. When it goes straight
up it is an indication of fair weather.
If bells, steam-whistles and other
scu ids are heard mire d stinc iy tJ an
usual, rain is near. Before rain, tables
may be heard to crack, violin-strings
will break, corns will be more trouble¬
some, rheumatic paius more intense,
and the places where broken limbs have
united will ache.
20. Days of the week. If the sun sets
clear on Friday night,, it will rain before
Monday the night. If the first Sunday in
month be stormy, all the other Sun¬
days But in that month will be stormy also.
others have it that two other Sun¬
days will be stormy. Important busi¬
ness or agricultural operations should
never be commenced on Friday or Sat¬
urday. cold “When there are three days The
expect three days colder.”
first three days of the dog-days rule the
other dog-days, that is, if they be
rainy, the others will be, and if they be
dry so will the others be.
21. The months. A thaw may always
be expected in January.
22. The seasons. If the spring is wet
and cold the autumn will be hot and
dry.
23. Other sayings. “ All signs fail in
a dry time.” — Cor. Boston Journal.
A Banquet on Worms.
Not only has the intellect of the worm
been sadly unappreciated for centuries
till Mr. Darwin rehabilitates that sagac¬
ious reptile, but it appears now that his
value as a viand has also been grossly
misunderstood and underrated. A
group of Prench gourmets, whose object
it is to do for the cookery of the future
what Wagner is doing for its music,
and happily following up the labors of
Darwin in this direction, and hav¬
ing recently tried this tempting morsel,
have communicated to a grateful public
the result of their first researches. Fifty
guests were present at the experiment.
The worms, apparently lob-worms, were
first put into vinegar, by which process
they were made to disgorge the famous
vegetable mould about which we have
recently then heard so much. They were
rolled in butter, and put into an
oven, where they acquired a delightful
golden tint, and we are assured, a
first most appetizing plateful smell. After the
the fifty guests
rose like one man, and asked for
more. Could anything be more con¬
vincing add, ? Those who love snails, they
will abandon them forever in favor
of worms. And yet M. Monselet, the
great authority in Paris, has told us
sadly that no advances have been made
in the great art of cookery since Brillet
Savarin, and that all enthusiasm on the
subject died out with Vatel when he
committed suicide because the fish had
not arrived for the royal dinner !—PaU
MaU Gazette.
—Somebody advertised this morning
for a man “to drive milk.” The adver¬
tiser must have meant to drive a well.
But perhaps there is little difference.—
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
•—If a woman desires to become con¬
in spicuous the at dress the sea-side let her appear
same twice. After this she
will be well enough known to justify a
^ubdsher ^ bring n ig out her poems at
The Money-Order System.
The Superintendent of the Money
Order Division of the Post-office Depart¬
ment hereafter, sent out when on Saturday an order that
mained sixty days a money-order in has re¬
being demanded, a post-office with¬
out payment shall send, the post¬
master his address a private notice to the
payee, if is known, inform¬
ing him of the fact and giving the name
and address of the remitter. "The payee
is requested corresponding bv the circular to present
the order for payment,
if it is in his possession; or, if it has not
been received, to obtain it, if practica¬
ble, from the remitter, and, in the event
of its loss in transit or otherwise, to sug¬
gest to the remitter that he make appli¬
cation for a duplicate.
This circular is a new departure in the
policy that of the Money-Order Divis'on. and
is one ought to have been made
years ago. Had it been adopted on the
there would not now be in the
Treasury to the credit of the money
order system the great sum of over a
million and a quarter of dollars, the ac¬
cretion of money-orders remaining un¬
paid. Not a dollar of this fund belongs
to the Government. It belongs to peo¬
ple through who paid for orders, which, largely
the defects of the postal sys¬
tem, did not reach, the persons to whom
they that were sent. It may safely be said
nine-tenths of. this sum could have
been made to reach the payees, or could
have been relurned to the remitters, had
ed. not a Instead policy of concealment been adopt¬
of seeking earnestly either
to pay the money to the payees or re¬
turn it to the remitters, a rule was
penalty adopted forbidding dismissal, a postmaster, under
of to furnish the very
information now ordered to be given by
the new circular.
If the department is content with the
present step, it will fail to do all that it
should do to stop such a wrongful deten¬
tion of the people’s money. It is evi¬
dent that the payee of an unpaid order
may be out of reach after sixty da> s,
and so may never receive his notice.
In such a case, after the lapse of another
thirty days, the remitter should be no¬
tified that the money he has deposited
remans unpaid. As of course the
payee has the first claim to payment, it
would be necessary to provide that
some ditional—should set time—perhaps six months ad¬
elapse before a repay¬
ment was made to the remitter.
Nor should the effort to be honest stop
here. Every means should be taken by
publication of lists and otherwise failh
lully to disburse the fund now on hand
before passing a law to cover it into the
Treasury. money-order In every other respect the
system is a model of pre¬
cision and effect veness, and even in the
matter of this lapsed order fund it is
probably less at fault than any other sys¬
tem in the world, and the step it has
now taken is one in advance of most
other systems. But nothing can be said
in favor of covering such a fund into
the Treasury until" every means has
been exhausted to find the real owners
cf it. — Washington ’ Cor. N. T. Evening
Post.
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Can’t Make Him Hear.
“ I doan’ know vhat I shall do mit
dat telephone of mine,” observed a citi¬
zen as he entered the headquarters of
the company yesterday and sat down in
a discouraged order, way. is it?”
“Out of
“ Sometimes it vhas, und sometimes
it vhas all right. If I go to Hall, speak mit der
der coal man, or der City or
butcher, it vhas all right, und I can hear
evej y word. If somepody vhants shust to or¬
der my peer I get de name as
plain as daylight.” does fail?”
“And when it
“ Vhell. shust like two hours ago.^ A
saloon man he owes me $18, und I rings
him oop and calls out: ‘Hello! hello!
I likes dot monish to-day!’ und Den he he
vhants to know who I am, says
he can’t catch der name. I tell him
oafer und oafer, und by an’ by he calls
oudt dot he doan’ deal in watermelons,
und dot he goes in to pave Gratiot
street, und dot he is sorry he can’t sign
mv betition to der Council. Den I haf
to go all oafer again, und he tells me to
stand back, und to come closer, und to
speak louder, und at last he gits mad
und tells me dot if I call him a dandy
again he’ll proke my head. It’s no
use—I can’t make one of my customers
hear me. If sometings doan’ au my
telephone it may be ash my voice is giv¬
ing out. I vhish you would examine
me und see if I hail better let my son
Shon do der talking vhile I keep der
pooks .”—Detroit Free Press.
A Growing Youth.
A phenomenon is expected this week
at the Hotel Dieu here. His name is
Jean Coneroist, and he is the son of a
farmer in the department of the Haute
Saone. The poor young fellow took to
growing last spring twelve month, and
since has shot up so fast that he al¬
ready measures two meters, forty-one
c ntimeters, that is to say he overtops
the Chinese giant Cham, and he is but
seventeen vears of age. Until May,
1*81, there was nothing very extraor¬
dinary in his height. lie ninety-six measured centi¬ at
that time one meter,
meters, but as he had apparently ceased
gi-owing, and his health was good, about his
parents were in no way uneasy
him. Toward the end of May, however,
he gained in a week three centimeters,
then five, and so on, until he reached
his present respectable number of
inches. What is remarkable is, that
within the last four months it is only his
legs that have grown, his body remain¬
become ing stationary bad, his in legs size. His health weak and has
are so
thin that he can scarcely walk, he
coughs like that incessantly, and his back is bent
of an old man. He has al¬
ready been examined once by the doc¬
tors, whose opinion was that his life
could not be prolonged more than a
few months. He is to be brought here
by his the parents medical to see what the mag nates
ot him, and whether profession can a o for
any means can be de¬
vised for checking the growth that may,
be without killing any him figure by of inches speech, ,—Paris be said to
Cor.
Q’csnmh Herald
Men fear death as children do to go
into th® dark. L <
$ 1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADV/NCE
NUMBER 41.
PITH AND POINT.
— Ifc .™ rather a pretty idea when \
little girl, recovering from fever, said
•
‘‘I was not sick enough to go to heaven
this time.”
—Tourists are sometimes suo-cestive
‘‘Why. a donkey couldn’t climb that
hill, said one of them; and then he
added, “and I’m not going to trv it.”
—A Georgia editor tells us a story
about a catfish twenty-three feet long
which died from swallowing a calf, the
horns proving indigestible. So does the
ctory .—Lowell Citizen.
—It is all very well to say that a man
was on thinking hanged the on a matter legal technicality, but
over we must
confess that the rope really had some
thing to do with it.— AT. Y. Herald.
and —An loving elerly man in Boston is so polite
that when he is dining with
a young his bald lady head of his to heart he puts" syrup
on attract the flies and
prevent them from annoying her.— Bos¬
ton Herald.
—The Pittsburg man who killed a $25
dog posed to recover a $10 bill which he sup¬
the animal ate, didn’t feel so very
bad over it until he found the bill in his
vest pocket. Then he went to pieces.—
Detroit Free Press.
—Over in New Jersey it is proposed
to dispense with horses as motors for
street cars. It is thought that a pair of
well-trained mosquitoes with their wings
clipped would do equally as well, and
cost less to keep.—Philadelphia Chron¬
icle.
—A fashion item says the belle of the
little period now wears at her waist belt a
music-box, faintly playing a single
tune. The average American girl can
put music-box on enough her airs waist without attaching
a to .—Norristown
Herald.
—The toothpick boot is going out of
fashion, ’tis said. But the broad, easy,
swinging boot worn by vigorous men of
about fifty, with marriageable fashion, daugh¬
ters, will never go out of young
man, never. Keep out of its reach.—
New Haven Register.
—The oldest vessel afloat is a ship of
three hundred tons called the True
Love. She is over one hundred years
old, and is a merchant ship in active
duty, Her sailing under the English flag.
course must have run tolerably
smooth .—Lowell Courier.
—Will the boy who knows of a place
where we can go and catch fish please
rise and answer the question. Every
man that we have asked has told us
“over there,” and we have been “over
there” a great many times and haven’t
caught anything yet. philosophy Subject for the
Concord school of : The
Non-Hereness of the There .—Lowell
Citizen.
—“An American,” says an exchange,
“ may not be so elegant at a dinner
party, but he will not ride a half day in
a railway car without his speaking elbow, to the his
fellow- passenger at as
Englishman' ’fore George will.” he will No, indeed How he will of¬
not; not.
ten, oh, how often, have we wished that
he would. But he won’t. He will pounce
upon a stranger whom he has never
seen before in all his life and talk him
deaf, dumb, and blind in fifty miles.
Catch an American holding his month
shut when he has a chance to talk to
some man who doesn’t want to be talked
to .—Burlington Hawkeye. ? U
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
—A little powdered borax put in the
water in which laces, muslins nnd lawns
are washed will improve their appear¬
ance greatly; use just as little soap as
you possibly can.— N. Y. Post.
—Many people have an idea that rad¬
ishes are vegetables only suitable for
the table in early spring, and they never
sow them at times when they will be in
good condition to eat other seasons of
the year. The fact is, they are desira¬
ble during all the months of the year
and should be sown every two weeks
during the growing season .—Chicago
Times.
—To stop bleeding, if from a cavity
in the jaw after a tooth has been ex¬
tracted, shape a cork into the proper
form and size to cover the bleeding firmly cav¬
ity, and long enough to be closed. kept This,
in place when the mouth is
we believe, is our own invention, and
we have never known it to fail. It has
served us iu desperate cases .—Boston
Transcript
—The age of sheep up to four years
old is readily ascertained from the
mouth. They put up two large teeth
in the center of the lower jaw, casting
two sucking teeth at about twelve
months old. They put up two more
large teeth each of the next three years,
making at four years old a full mouth of
eight large teeth. These soon become
gappy and worn, especially when sheep
're fed on Whole roots.
-—Most of the preventable losses in
farming come from attempting to do
too much, or rather from working with
insufficient capital. The rule that what¬
ever is worth doing at all is worth do¬
ing well is especially applicable _ to the
operations Cf the farm. If the farmer
lacks cash or labor sufficient to culti¬
vate 100 acres in the best manner, let
him limit his operations to fifty, ana it
that still refuses to yield a profit he can
experiment with thirty, or even twen y
aeres. —A merican Cultivator
A Frightful Leap.
The other night a passenger changing
cars at Harper’s Ferry was leamng
against train the railing along, on the and, llV ei fearin siHe^
when a came he sprang hglUG
he might not be safe, mistaken the
over the railing, having stated, for
river, as he afterward
meadow. His stunning described
may be better imagined than
when, after a fall of thirty or foit) 1 - ,
he sank in ten feet of muddy, wit
running water. He, however, ha< sm -
crient presence'of mind to keep hss head
above water, and was carried dow n
the bridge, where he drifted again^ ed
pier, and, climbing to a ledge, cal
for help. When he was rescued he ie
fused to tell anything about lnmseih
Fortunately,.the river '"tehigh, as gen¬
erally the spot where he fell * a ; ” *
and had it been so then he woUid
been killed.