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Bells.
The word is suggestive of a variety of
sounds, some harsh, others sweet, and a
few fair (fare), the last-named class be¬
ing confined strictly to car conductors.
One rarely hears more exquisite music
than a harmonious chime of sweet-toned
bells, or one discordant more jarring and disagr eea
hie cracked than the jingling of poor j
or ones.
Bells have their peculiarities, many of
which we fail to appreciate from lack of
observation.
The numerous advantages of a call
bell on the table, over the caster or salt
ocllar, as an . rticle to throw at the serv¬
ant to hurry her, or at the children to
quiet them, cannot be overestimated.
It has all the in urious qualities of the
others, and the desirable characteristic
of always remaining a sound article.
Then the door-bell presents itself, a
medium, by the way. to inform observ¬
ing people thfe number of the house
they want is next door. It usually rings
in such a manner as to he disttnenj.
Hearn by ever body in the house, except
the girl whose duty it is to answer it.
and, if by any chance she does hear it,
it is die well-regulated bell s limit, not bell Ihe girl’s, will and
if tt is a it ring
twice as often when she is out than it
do, s am other time.
Bells sometimes e.ercise a “fare”
amount of intluence over men. This is
especially bells noticeable on street cars,
where are used to prevent passen¬
gers pay ng (heir fare twice, and to
compel the conductor to keep his eves
his “peeled” bell-punch and chime thus enable him the to jingling make
w.th
amount of money turned in.
Then the ra man’s bell which tinkles
Mournfully the in the early morning, he and
him causes average man, as his passes
on the street, to button coat
tighter und wish lie might wear all his
clothes at once and tie them on with a
clothes lino, to proven' a sacrifice of
them to the addition of a new vase on
the mantel or a plaster cast ot Vc-mis
ridinir on a lizard.
And last the wedding bells, which
usually end announce a man has reached the
of his ha ppiness, but neglect to say
which end. a nd it is a sub.ect for de
hat : ng clubs to decide, whether the
be l e who goes on or stays in the tour
(toner> ; s the most cracked .—Detroit
i'ree Dress.
Did Him a Favor.
A few days since a prominent mem¬
ber of the Board of Trade was sum¬
moned to sit as a juryman in one of the
courts of record. Now, however much
business men may regret that our jury
system is such that incompetent and un¬
fit men may get upon juries, they do
not eare to improve the system at per¬
sonal loss, and each term of court sees
tltem urging their claims to be excused.
The gentleman in question made an ap¬
plication to be excused, and, after being
sworn, stated that he could not serve
except at considerable pecuniary loss to
bimself.
“What is the nature of your busi¬
ness?” inquired the Court.
“ i am a grain merchant.”
“ Where do you transact your busi¬
ness “On principally?” Board of Trade.
the
“ Well, I think I shall, under the cir
eumsiances, do you a favor.”
“Thank your Honor,” said the mer¬
chant, bowing gratefully and starting
fur the door.
“Hold on! Hold on!” exclaimed
the Court. “The favor I refer to is this:
If you were to go down to the Board of
Trade you would likely get cornered on
wheat (is that the correct term?) and
lo e your money. I’ll save you from
loss bv keening you here. Swear the
jury, Mr. Clerk !”—Detroit Free Press.
—htTlYTm.—'W hat is the exactly ' est
baking-powder? We don’t
know, n a am. The “ Rise-Dp Mm
iam-Rley” is a good one, and the
‘ Gabriel 1 s Trump ” isn t half bad.
There’s mere s the tfi “Git-Up-and-Git” how
vz 1 ! that do for rou? Or, would yo i
Hke (he “Grain' , . Elevator?” TT7.3 vaf-wr •*' 1 _ To To tell
yo ihe truth Mrs. L. F. M., plain old
.
fashioned \east is good unnatural enough tor us.
B t f you must use m eans
to io make mane your your bre ore d a rise, rise, we we ll u send a...-. ml you
fome of the poe • s we get. They are
baht enough, in all conscience.— Puck.
—Tbe Bo- ton Post is authority farlfi
statement that a New Jersey druggist,
wishing to close out his stock, pin
prices so low that all the people m he
vicinity took medicine, because it was
chfiajp.
Conyers Exa
CANDOR.
t0 8iy ’
.
ow area t you, honestly?" “Ves,” I said.
- 1 0,1 —ti hnve r C W>‘h «$L r gV tended nce lell to ran «*» to rhvm”, her
trrew ' > ch,ek
IXOW aren't KWrite honestly?" " 8 l!Ueer '
you, "l'cs,” I said.
'an
vo?d'~ 0rt of tact -5 r ° u win say, ‘do
I’m cium msy and awkward; and call ire
And 1 bear abuse like a dear old Iamb:
—Haro **''s Maaazine.
THE BROKEN ENGAGEMENT.
When Mary Clarimont’s engagement
was proclaimed to the world there en¬
sued a general expression of surprise.
People generally are suiprised at mat¬
rimonial engagements. There is always
soma have cogent been reason why things should
John adjusted otherwise — whv
should have married Joan, and
Peter should prefer Betsey. Nobody
was ever yet married to suit everybody.
But in Mary Clarimont’s case it did
really seem as if the course of true love
had interfered seriously with the current
of common sense and prudence.
Miss Clarimont was only one-and
twenty, dewy a tall, imperial beautv, with
black eyes, a skin as fresh as
damask roses, and dark-brown hair,
coiled in shining bands at the back of
her head. Moreover, Miss Clarimont
had a “career” before her. She had
just graduated from Medfield Medical
University and taken out her diploma
as an
“And only to think of it,” said Aunt
Jo, bursting into tears of vexation and
disappointment, “that she must needs
go and ruin all her prospects by getting
engaged to Harry Marlow, down iu New
York 1”
“It doe s seem strange, Aunt Jo, when
I sit down and think of it,” said Doctor
Ma ■ry, laughing and blushing. “ Bix
mo world ntlis ago my I profession neither was all the
to me. wished nor
cared Ihe tutm for anything outside its limits.
e was an mapp«, out bef
me, without let or hindrance; am,
now— ”
“Humph!” growled Aunt Jo. “Any
brainless i iiot can get married and keep
a man's 1 ouse and mend his shirts for
him, but y o u were made for Mary.” something
higher anil more liiguiiied, sparkled.
Mary’s Higher, ne*'-bright Au Ju .-..cs ’ s.ud she. “ More
“ t t
dignified ? There you are mistaken,
Tiiere is no higher or more dignified lot
iu life than that of the true wife of a no¬
ble husbands.”
“ Fiddlesticks!” said Aunt Jo. “ As
if every poor fool who was dazzled by
the gutter of a wedding-ring didn’t say
the same thing! You've disappointed
me, Mary Clarimont, and I’m ashamed
of you, and that is the long and the
short of it.”
Mary smiled.
“ Dear Aunt Jo,” said she, “ I shall
not let my sword and shield rust, Leiieve
Harry has only his own talents to
advance him in the world, and it will be
at least a year before we shall be ready
to marry. Iu the meantime I shall ac¬
cept the post of visiting physician to the
Aldenbnry almshouse and pr. dice my
profession in Aidenlmry, just the same
as if there were no engagement.” there wasn’t,”
•I wish to goodne.'.s what, Mary,
said Aunt Jo. “ I tell you
1 don’t fancy that smiling, smooth¬
tongued young man of yours, and I
never shall.”
Still Doctor Mary Clarimont kept her
temper. Aunt . Jo, she , said,
“I am sorry, that you,will
pleasantly. “ But I hope
eventually change your mind.”
“I used to keep a thread-and-needle
Btore when I was a young woman,” re¬
marked Aunt Jo, dryly, “and I always
could tell the ring of a counterfeit half
dollar when a customer laid it on the
counter. I could then, and I can now—
and I tell you what, Mary, there’s base
metal about Harry Marlow!”
Doctor Mary bit her lip. discuss the
“ Perhaps;' We will not
subject further, Aunt Jo, she said, with
quiet dignity, and the old lady said no
“Aunt Jo is wrong!” persisted the
“
herself!”
thought Aunt Jo.
Aldenbury was a pretty manufactur¬
ing village, with a main street shaded by
umbrageous maples, a “westend, where
people” who had made their fortunes
lived comfortably in rcomy old houses
surrounded gardens, and by an velvet “east lawns end Md wh ‘ tem^d r ® p ‘|®
pie fouglit desperately and not
successful!:' to keep soul and body to¬
gether on the merest pittance.
ground to the landscape.
Doctor Mary Ciairmont made some
thin" of a sensation at Aldenbury. ?
-
isfr ^osrA* 5 »vss
L no means a (liRagre-ableonePeople they h^lcon
rather Iked the idea, once the lady doctor
vinced themelves that
thoroughly understood herself and her
pitenfa. And the poor old people at the alms
to love Doctor Mar;- and
house grew for to* K>und of
listen with eager ears
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY JANUARY 2 «, 1883 .
het carriage wheels over the bine gravel
drive which led up to the portico.
' ‘ n as a brilliant December day when
tae young physician stood in the neatly
carpeted reception-room, drawing on
aer fur gloves previous to entering her
neat phaeton once again, while she re¬
iterated to the white-capped maid some
directions concerning old Ann Mudgett’s
rheumatism, ried w f hon the matron hur¬
in.
“ Ob, I beg your pardon, Doctor
C’airmont,” the said sho, “but I clean forgot
new old woman !”
“The new old woman,” repeated
Doctor Mary, with a smile.
“That is,’ explained Mrs. Cunning¬
old ham, “ she only came last night—a quiet
the soul, half blind and quite bad with
asthma. Perhaps you’d better just
her before ’
see yon go. She brought a
card of admission from Doctor Merton,
the New York clergyman, who is one of
our decent directors, yon know. And she seems
8 body onotigh.”
So Doctor Mary went cheerfully into
the little brick-paved room, with its
white pallet-bed, cushioned rocking
chair and neatly-draped casement, where
sat a poor, little shrivoled-up woman,
wrapped in a faded shawl.
Site looked timidly up, as Doctor
Mary came in, from under the borders
of her cap.
“Pin a poor body, miss,” said she,
“and I’m sensible I'm making a deal of
trouble in tho world. Bat the Lord
don't always take us, miss, when we’d
like to go.”
“This is the doctor,” said Mrs, Cun¬
ningham.
The little woman would have risen up
to make a feeble courtesy, but Doctor
Mary motioned her to koep her seat.
“What is your name?” said she,
pleasantly. “Louise Marlow,
miss.”
“Marlow? That is an unusual name,
isn’t it?” said Mary Ciairmont, coloring
in spite of herself.
“We're Euglish, miss,” said the old
woman, asthma. struggling “There bravety with her
ain’t many of us in
this country. I’ve a son, miss, in the
law business, as any mother might be
proud of.”
“A son!” echoed Mrs. Cunningham;
“ and you in the almshouse!”
“Not that it’s his fault, ma’am,” the
old creature made haste to explain. “M u.v
son is to be married to a flue, pro ud
young land, lady, as is fit for any prince in all
the and of course he can’t he ex¬
pected to burden himself with a helpless
SliteP^feu^ e m^ e FP^Jfe,"'rite
if I’m sick or anything ho'Il try to see
me. I sewed oarpiets until the asthma
got hold of me, and supported mvs If
comfortably. Butof course I couldu’t lay
up anything for a rainy day—who could ?
And Henry couldn’t help me, for he’s
getting ready to be married, poor lad!
Bo I went to Dr. Merton and asked him
did he know of any decent place where
an old woman like me could end her
days in peace. And he gave me a card
to come here and some money to pay my
traveling expenses -God bless him!—
and here I am!”
Mary Clarimont had listened quietly had
to the garrulous tale, but the color
varied in her cheek more than once as
she stood there.
“ Is your son’s name Harry Marlow iuar ?”
she said, slowly and thoughtfully. service.’ ,” said
“Yes, miss, at your
the old woman, with a duck of her
white-capped head, which was meant to
do duty in place of the impossible
courtesy. Mary,
“Is he like this?” said Doctor
taking a pliotagraph from her pocket. trembling
“l'he old woman, with
hands, fitted on her iron-bowed spec¬
tacles, and looked at the picture, utter
iug a little cry of recognition. seif,” she
Sure, miss, it is his own
cried, d, “You are acquainted with him,
then ?” Mary,
“Somewhat,” said Doctor eom
posedly, as she returned the photograph will leave
to it’s place. “And now 1
you something to relieve this difficulty
inbreathing.” eyed her wistfully.
But the old crone lady
“ Perhaps you know the young
my son is to marrv ?” writing
Yes,” said Doctor Mary, , “I
something in her proscription b i iok.
have seen her.” old
“Perhaps, miss,” faltered the
woman, “you would give her my humble
duty, and tell her I would just like to
look at her tor once and see what she is
like. There's no fear of my troubling
her, miss, for I me iu to end my days
here But I would like to see her just
once And if it wouldn’t be asking too
much, miss, would you please write to
my son, and tell where I am ?—for 1 m
no scholar myself, and I’m his mother,
aft “Ywill him,” said Doctor
write to
Mary, quietly ; and so she went away.
“ 1 never see a lady doctor afore, sigh. satu
old Mrs. Marlow, with a long
“But she’s a pretty creetur, and it
see ms good to have her around. I hope
she’ll i’ll come aga------- ain soon.”
“You may be very sure of that, saia
the matron, brusquely. “ Doctor Cian
mont ain't one to neglect poor people
because they are Aunt poor. Jo, frying enillers
That evening fire, surprised by a
over the kitchen was alt
visit from her niece, who came in,
wrapped in furs, with her cheeks crim¬
soned with the frosty, winter air.
“Biess me! this amt never yon?
said Aunt Jo, peering over the runs o.
her spectacles. to see yon, Aunt , Jo, T „ »
“ I drove over tell that you were
said Mary, “ to you
right. The metai was counterfeit.
<■ Eh said Aunt Jo, mechanically
ladling out the brown, curly crullers,
wnat v t she .
althonch she did not look at
l,®' ” written to Harry said Marlow, Doctor
canceling our engagement." voice faltered a
Mary, c f, ! albeit her heartlessly
- ’ , wi n
iold mother go into an almshouse,
than take the trouble to maintain
her, can be no fit husband for any
woman!
And then she sat down by the fire and
told Aunt Jo everything; for crabbed,
mother crusty old Aunt Joe had been like a
to her, and the girl’s heart was
full to ovei flowing.
When she had ceased speaking Aunt
Jo nodded her head.
“You have done well and wisely.”
said she.
Old Mrs. Marlow died that winter, in
Aldenbnry almshouse, with her head on
Doctor Mary Clarimont’s arm, and never
knew that her g irrulous confessions had
deprived her sou of his promised wife.
And Mary says quietly and resolutely
that her profession must be husband
and home to her henceforward.
“Just what it ought to be,” says Aunt
Jo. “No woman every yet succeeded
in doing two tilings at once.”
And ever thereaftei . Mary wore
bloomers, fought tot rights of her
sex and entertained an unquenchable
dislike for the male sex.
A Long. Felt Want.
I have had occasion to travel consid¬
erably during the past year, and at half
the houses 1 stopped the b scuds were
raw at the bottom, and either as hei ivy
as lead or yellow as a pumpk n w ith
sod a, while the meat was swimming in
grease. razor-back Why, hog, it is sheep-killing enough to give a
Bengal tiger dyspeps a And then dog, 111 or
a a. ■
coffee—how detestable! What it is
made of 1 have not the slightest idea; but
what(■■. er it is, it has not the re notest
ly-tlavored kinship to ge inline Kio or the delieious
J; ava. Horace Greeley vis
ited the South so on after ilie war, ami
the onl ritieism his kind heart made
was in ese memorab e words: “The
South needs twenty thousand cooks!”
It would not liaycbeen prudent for Mr.
Greeley to have made a visit to the
South before the war, but if lie had.
and been i nterta ned by 20,000 (armors
ami planters, lie would have said; “The
South has 20,000 of the best cooks in the
world!” Southerners always educated
their daughters, cd and made when these daugh¬
ters marr they the r home at¬
tractive in various wavs, and especially
in the cooking do; ai lment. They edu¬
cated negro women in the art o' look¬
else, ing, and consequently allowed them to do nothing
the cooking was ex¬
cellent. But the abolition of slavery
also abolished good cooking, except as
to the negro W i . en nho were educated
by their mistresses in the culinary art,
and the mistre ses themselves. I heard
a gen ltleman make a very sensible ro¬
mark recent ly. “Vanderbilt, Peabody
and Sla'cr have given millions of
dollars to the cause of cdiicv
tion in the South, and I honor them
as great beoofartqjs.iyLtftovo'gYvtl'tidwt tlio Smith
I would establish all over
schools in which the art of cooking
would be taught, In doing this I
would be subserving the causo of mor¬
ality and religion, as well as of civiliza¬
tion and humanity. Properly-i ookod
food causes health, and perfect health
is condu ivc to good tenq er, cheerful¬
ness, kind feeling, efficien t and ea'la¬
b e work, mental and physical, while
badly-cooked food produces indiges¬
tion: indigestion causes lad Dealt li in
every part of tho human system, fret
fulness, liatefulness, disc' ntent, poor
mental and physical labor, ami rend ers
life a curse to himself and all those
around him. A mi n cannot be a true
Christian, in all that it means, if he is
fed upon badly cooked food all Ids days.
The great need of the country is Young good
eoo ks and plenty instructed of them. the
ladies sho uld be in art.
both at school and at, home. It is time
the countr,' was awakening to this
? great need. A well-to-do parent musical spends ed¬
5()0 to give his another daughter ifi-idO a buy her
ucation, and to a
piano, ant! nine chances to one she nov
er plays on it a ye ar after her mar
riage. her if the $ 1,000 ctieal were and • pent t eorot, in giv- ,al
ing knowledge a pra cooking, it would be far
o;
better for her and infinitely bettor for
her future husband anil children.”
The man who made these remarks is
married, and has three beautiful daugh¬ Nash¬
ters. —“hence thesetears.”— Cor.
ville (Tenn .) American.
Taking Tilings for Grante.T.
Half rr it ,1 the fadnres f •! m ■, i life i,f, result from from
the habit s^My people have of ta^^g
things for gran ed T ■
assumes that his credits are g ,
takes it for granted *
what addition sub
rant ; until the Imp if <into
traction and
nan J, to’' The^Toung nrofcsstorml
man takes it for granted that veneering
instead of solid acquirements will ena
hie him to succeed, because there are so
many notorious examples of men’s public rising
and maintaining themselves in
life throngh pure audacity, native wit,
•ind an utter lack of conscience. Ho will
find too late that it won’t do to plan and
risk a career by the exceptions rather
than the rule. The farmer keeps no the ac
count—crops his farm according to his
season, or last year’s markets, or
neighbor’s success—takes it for granted will
that the laws of nature and of trade
accommodate themselves to Iqs and necessi
ties—sinks deeper into debt, And won
ders why farming doesn’t pay. so
on to the end ; men everywhere want
success without paying its price in tho.
ough preparation, honest hard work, in
telligent calculation and foresight, pa- for
tient attention to details. They take
granted things which it is their business
to know, and trust that to fortune winch
common sense and experience should
teach them is controlled by law
—A practical ___________„ joke with a B ,
ployed was TOXESSiteSMZ in girl girl employed employed _ in in the ttrasame same
sor, Vt. Vt A A and left
room i had removed her shoes
them i lying on the floor near one of the
spinners sera. In her absence the boy nailed
the shoes to the floor. Subsequently
the girl, in attempting to pull them up
thrust her left hand into the geanng of
the spinner, crushing all her fingers
ne arly to the knuckles. Her whole
hand had to be amputated. Long Branco
—The ocean front at nas
> x -en washing away so fast that property
jW ners there are bmldmg bulkheads
*nd jetties to save their property.
Areas of Rain and Drouth.
_
From observations made by Prof,
Loomis and recorded, it aopoars that
on one-fifth part of the land of ace of
tiie globe the average annual . onfall is
loss than ten inches, and that on ovon a
larger render surface the land the fall is so for slight as to
valueless agricul¬
tural purposes, except in the limited
district which permits of irrigation.
There is an extensive rain-belt along
the Atlantic coast from thirty-five de¬
grees north to thirty-three degrees
south, with the exception of districts in
Mexico and Texas, where the average
rainfall is fifty inches. There are belts
of country across South America and
Africa and the islands of the East Iu
dian Archipelago which form an equa¬
torial rain-belt of about 1,000 miles in
breadth where the rainfall ave erages
fifty inches. There are also similar
belts across Africa, Asia, and in sections
of Australia, North and South America,
where the rainfall averages only ten
inches and even less, but the only por¬
tion rainless of Europe district which is properly termed of
a is a small portion
Spain, inches where the fall is less remarka¬ tl inn ten
per annum. The most
ble rainbelt extends from the Atlantic
coast across Northern Africa and east¬
ward to the Indus, its length being 4,500
miles and its breadth 1,000 miles, in
which the rainfall is about seventy-ti ive
inches. Prof. Loomis drew no deduc¬
tions from his observations, but Prof,
Guyot, the geographer of Prin ceton Col¬
lege, has published a paper on tho ex
istence terrestrial in both iiemispher dry res of rainless a dry
zone. These or
zones, whoso locations were vaguely
designated distinctly in Prof. Loomis’ paper, wore
more marked out on a map
exhibited by Prof. Guyot. These zones
he denominated as semi-tropical zones,
and are situated both north ami south
ot defined the equator, extending across The a well
belt of country. southern
semi-tropical zone is nearer to the
equator than fact the which northern the Professor semi-tropical hold
zone, a
was due in part to tho fact that the
amount of land in the Northern Hemis¬
phere overweighted thatinthe Southern,
and so lifted further to the North the
Southern whole meteorological Hemisphere, Tli syi stem of which tho
e cause
leads to the existence of these two rain¬
less zones is the construction of tho
country bounding them. The eoun ! r v
about draw the partial the deserts atmosphere existing is all si icn the
as to from
moisture it has before the winds reach
the dry country. This is generally the
c.u tse, the most notable exception being
in the dry lands of Peru, where, though
the ?re is no rain, there is much moisture
in the atmosphere, which is precipitated
and serves its purpose without con
sle r, ft?Aifin. .Jjo.tbaeonr.sp. of rl rji
would be, by reason of the construction
of the country on either side, a vast
desert wore it not for the existence of
the Gulf of Mexico, the warmest body and
of water on tho surface of the earth,
one that helps very materially in supply¬ the
ing the rainfall for that part of
country .—Chicago Tribune.
Prcdicting Storms.
Prof. E. Stone Wiggins, LL. D., the
Canadian astronomer who recently
warned the President that that “preeminent¬ visited
ly the greatest storm has
this continent” since the days of Wash¬
ington will sweep over the United States
on certain days of next March, remarkable appears
to be responsible for Ottawa some
statements in au newspaper.
The Dree Press of that city soberly de¬
clares that “The leading scientists of
Europe have endorsed the prediction,” doubt
and adds: “There can be no
that if tho Toronto Meteorological Bu¬
reau had aeled upon his warning in
September the Asia, with a hundred
souls on board, would not have been
lost. The United States Signal Office,
however, so tho American Register teiis
us, had implicit faith in his predictions,
owing in that to country, his standing having as an ranked astronomer second
in tiie race for the Warner prize last
year, for which 125 of the leading tvs
tronomers competed. Accordingly three
days before the time named by Wiggins and the
uiev hoisted the storm signals, prediction
same journal tells us that his
in that one instance saved the United
$8>000)000 ,„
This is a pretty story to tell to Dr.
Wiggins’ doubting countrymen, but it
has no value on this side of the border.
The Signal Service Office does not in
an Y way sanction the prediction for
wo think it is entirely safe
10 sa >' that, instead of having had “im
pUcit faith” in any forecast from Cana
<la last September, the r ®°® ntl ® t ' er 3’
the bureau Iresid^t had w^ that the 1 first r. wa.nmg V gg ^he
abroad. The t s ® s
» lon ^ l ^® f
Septembei 5 and 12. Do, of Sentmnber Sentem
Id, were warnings of the approach of a
fr " ra ' !?„ ‘Smfmm
connecoon with . h the storm I the Ba
otfic Coast in which the Asia was lost.
l h ® cyclone was of sue i grea e gy
| hat "f na iaia 3 .^f were also ® s ": raised a‘
lakes for northerly m n nheny hpri winds; w nds n ,| 1PS0
were lowered red September September It, 1 and n
»<>w were again agai* d.splayed displayed until unt,1 the the
morning of the the 14th, 14th, the the day the Asia ■
was lost, m Georgian Ge >r mn Bay. Bay. In other
words, the lake signals were lowered jv
before*he before the Asia A,.a storm storm reached reached hP( i the lilP t .^1 l’a- a
cihc eitic Coast, Coast, and and they they were were not ordered -
up up again again until until that that storm storm suddenly suden yd de¬
veloped v rior ‘d°P ^d e 'l greatvioienMOVerL.ikesSitpe- great Huron, Huron, violence whtch which over Lakes after t Supe¬ lip.
nor and WM was a p.
m. of September 13. The warnings for
^Ui^dictbm cyclone-made without knowledge knowdedse
“fS^n of nv prediction of of Dr. Hr tViggins—saved VViwwins-saved enough
tVXt ODO to nroDertv
vice for ten years. N. Y. i nbune.
« 3 S,««;«»..,»
“ C ha r lie Howard,” whose murder m a
L< a dville gambling house has been re
cor ded, was one of the depraved frater
ri jty w fio make the worst jioesiblense of
conspicuous gifts and graces. U® was a
memb er of a good Virginia family, was
wel] fducated, had acquired scyera Ian
by foreign travel, and
a winning and genial nature, all of ivliic
advantages he delInberaltely uevo^ J
t h e profession of gambling, old, m he lw ' 1 t- >
though only thirty years Ch'-W
, tainc ,j great proficiency. -
3'«
Cold First, Then Diphtheria.
I want to s av right bore that no
healthy child can possibly catch diph¬
theria—the chib! it attacks must first
have what is commonly called a cold or
a catarrah. A small placed ’piece of diphthe¬ man’s
ric poison may be on a
eye, and unless there is an. abrasion of
the epidermis lie will not bo affected. I
am promulgating very advanced ideas,
I am aware, but I insist that neither
diphtheria, measles or scarlet fever can,
bo acquired unless the conditions I have
named exist, I believe that cholera
might bo traced in its infection to im¬
proper diet. In the Sixth Ward, where
threo I live, diphtheria have is very terminated prevalent, fatally and
eases
within 100 yards of my residence, and
just before coming here 1 read t lie sta¬
tistics of a physician whose ability for
observation can not be questioned that
out of 568 cases of diphtheria,
50S had ended fatally; these 568
cases wore taken from epidem¬
ics of various severities. In the
northern part of the city some of the
children died within twenty-four disease. hours
of the development of tlio
There is one thing which it is due to
rselves and friends that we make un¬
derstood ; many physicians call diphthe¬
ria what is simply some other throat
disease, and having cured the throat
disease they claim to having cured
diphtheria, and the result is that Mrs.
llrown says to l)r. Blank; “l)r. Dash
cured Smith’s child of diphtheria, but
my child died on your hands.” It’s an
advanced idea, but it should be known
that a throat disease which was cured
was no diphtheria.— Dr. Cole, o/ St.
Louis.
Nettling a Witness.
Tho Troy Dress says: Witnesses in
court cases after having posh red almost
to death by counsel on the other side are
extremely "apt to become questions. obstinat Buell e in an
swering subsequent is of judg¬ ac¬
tion, although natural, lawyer poor seeing
ment, for the inquisitive will
that he has nettled tho witness re¬
double his exertions to completely of con¬
fuse him, and thus benefit the ease tlio
cross-examining diseilpe.s of Blackstoue.
In tho Circut Court, yesterday, a witness
after having been interrogatories expressibiy wearied eminent by
the persistent of
counsel, apparently made up his miml to
become obstinate and possibly witty, point so
when asked the distance from oi o
to another l>y street blocks, he answered,
“I never measured.”
“Hinv long would it tako you to walk
the distance ?”
‘• I never counted.”
“How long would it tako yon to ride
the distance?”
“I never rode.”
“Yes, if I wanted to.”
Answers were given in this unsatisfac¬
tory manner until finally the information
desired was obtained. But after that tho
witness was doubly persecuted, and upon
leaving tho stand his feelings must have
been identical with those of the fellow
who dreamed he stepped from hell into
heaven in a second of time. Witnesses
who , adopt tho obstinate-witty They fashi on
must expect rough handling.
wavs « ret it.
In France.
Tlio French laborer probably other. gets Hit- lie;
more for Iris wages than any
food is cheaper and more nourishing.
His bouillon is the liquid essence of beef
at a penny per bowl. His bread at tiie
restaurant is thrown in without i tny
charge, and is the best bread in the
world. His hot coffee and milk is
peddled about thostreetsin the morning
nt a soil per eup. It is coffee, not slops,
His half I bottle of elarertis thrown in at a
meal costing 12 oents. For a few cents
he may enjoy an evening’s amusement
at one of the many minor theaters, with
his coffee free. Sixpence pays for a
nicely cushioned scat at the tlicat er. No
gallery gods, no peanuts, pijic, smoke,
drunkenness, yelling or howling. The
j ar( ii n des Plantes, the vast galleries Hotel
al)( j museums of the Louvre,
Oh, ny, Palace of the Luxembourg and
y er sallies, , arc free for him to enter,
Art and science hold out to him their
choicest treasures at small cost, or no
( , 0H t at all. French economy and fm
Kn/hmmt ,, a iity do not mean that constant re
and self-denial which would
deprive life of everything which makes
it worth living for. Economy in France,
more than in any other country, means
a utilization of what Americans throw
awny but it does not mean a pinching
Unco c f reducing anS life bread to and a Darren water.- ex
of work
Exc hangc.
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T)lfi A _„ e#
« Speaking of chills,” said tho gentle- match
man from Arkansas, borrowing a home
Ure- fm m the train boy. “I had one at
that, was away up in G. Stopped
a train, that cltiB did.”
They crowded around to hoar tho par
(l y (m ncP> t-lmy turned me out of the
town and run me off the turnpike, so I
took to the railroad, and I shook it up
^ through *o expre* had to wait until
L ov „ it that,
Rigll t smart of a chill, as
sen “Had ted ’em a gentleman myself; but from I only Louisiana. delayed a
^ a , iu , e whl , P .» eyed
phe gentleman from Arkansas
Jif ..Veil b)b declined to ask any chorus. questions.
us!” aborted the
Well,” said the gentleman from
Louisiana, with a glance at the gentle
man from Arkansas, “thev ran up to
where I was shaking, and found they
•« All hands turned out and tunneled
do i fiA ' J l^odot that chill m thick
n ^ . t «, e _ kad to blast
_ be re they could transact any
'
,
l - climbing
Buttto Arkansas ^ansasman man was
^ (ab _
- in the
®^ chorus j OH t interest rest
e j eta i u.-Drake's Magazine.
—
A Virginia negro lav down on a
, . ■ recently - to sec if the hinJup. passenger
U J”. Tho
Gi.fn’t-
$ 1.50 PER ANNUM IN AD/ANCE
NUMBER. 42.
PITH AND POINT.
—Fannie: You are right. It is better
to return a kiss for a blow; and a great
deal sweeter.— Christian at Work.
—There are some people so eaten up
with curiosity that they would turn a
rainbow to seo what color its back is.—
N, Y. Herald.
—One reason wl ■by the girls won’t
kiss the cigarette-si linker is because his
faco is so pale and sallow. He doesn’t
look healthy.— Trenton (AT. J.) Times.
—Whoever doubts that the newspa¬
pers have a mission should enter a car
and see how useful they are to the
men when a fat woman with a big bas¬
ket is looking around for a seat.— Low¬
ell Ciliten.
—A lunatic in charge of his keeper,
while stepping aboard a train the other
day, stepped on a banana-peel and slid
under the car. “Ah!” exclaimed
keeper, “I am like a disabled locomo¬
tive, for I’ve slipped my eccentric.”
—“Detrain” is a now word in use in
England. When a body of soldiers
alight from railway the cars they “detrain.” with
Pretty “dehorsecar,”“daomnibus,” soon papers will teem
“dehack,”
“deeanalboat,” and so forth .—Chicago
Herald.
—Minister Hannibal Hamlin is homo.
Minister John Russell Young is coming
home, and Minister Sargent wants to
come. Somehow the glitter of foreign
courts never can take the place of
American buckwheat cakes and pump¬
kin pies News. in the winter season. —Philadel
p/tia
—Little Willie, son of Mrs. Jennie
Jones Cunningham, and has been and quite ill
for some time, sleepless suffer¬
ing. The other night., “in the still,
small hours,” he suddenly repeated his
prayer, and then said, “Grandmamma,
ask God nott) lot tho night be so long I"
—jMitisnille Courier-Journal.
—A rare pleasure—
lie cp on tire country the marts tlio snow
White, is sparkling decked with to foam, moon, tho swift stoods
Spurning Ami, huddled tlio streets of soft, fee below, fur,
up in warm
Quite bidden from tlio travoler,
The lovers softly spoon,
O, what is so rare
As a ride in auloitfii
An With d ft maiden fair,
none to say nay?
—“Morning! eil business Cold as blazos’s morn
ing,” gr oot cold, a man yeslorday.
“Pretty absurdity certainly; hut why utter
such an as ‘cold as blazosP’
Blazes are hot, you know.” “What
would you say?” “Oh, say it's
cold enough to freozo two dry rags
togothor, or something of that sort. ”
The lesson in etymology being over,
both passed on .—lloston Globe.
7i, lU.' ^ottUJ^I'HlJUTION.
more males than females.
Tun first mills in England for turning
grindstones were set up at Sheffield.
On 612 death sentences in England
and Wales, for a periixl of twenty years
ending with 1880, but 270 were exe¬
cuted.
London has 5,803 Iianso in caiis and
3,847 fonr-whoiders. The former have
increased 2,510 since 1871, while the
latter have decreased 676. About half
tho cabbies havo been grooms or coach
mon, and the rest clerks, shopmen,
tradesmen, artisans and broken-down
parsons of various conditions.
Taken by States the PoBtofiico De¬
partment is self-sustaining only in
Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Now
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wis¬
consin. In the other thirty-live States
anil Territories the expenditures are
greatly in excess of tho receipts.
Thb amounts derived from tlio liquor
tax and licenses in 1880 in the great
cities of the United Htatos are ns fol¬
lows :
Liquor Tax. License.
Now York.................$4. r »:t.4P 1 '2.4<l $ 8U,!MW.T8
Pltfadolphta............... 168,740.00 80,«WttiW 82,42fi.o7 4J,»43.M
Chicago.................... 187,253. SI W,241.20
Ht. Louie........ ........... 9,451.00
Boston........... ............258,324.00
Han Francisco.... .. 188,91*0.00 108,009.00
Baltimore........ ........... 109,919.36
Cincinnati........ ........... 18,276.75
The Hpaniauls visiting Canada pro
vious US to tho French, and finding no gold
or silver, nil which they wore in scare * of .’,
often said among themselves, “Aea ada ,
‘there is nothi ng here." The Indi
learned this sentence and its meaning.
When tho French arrived, the Indians,
supposing they had como for treasures,
repeated to them tho Bjianish inoessatitly- sentence.
Tho French sound supposed the this of tho
recurring and was it tho name of “ Cftti
country, which gave it has name since borne.
aila, ” name
Tire seven wise men generally given
are Solon, Chile, Pittacus, Bias, Icn
amler (in place of whom somogivoLpi- Thales. They
menideg), Cleobulus and
were the authors of the celebrated mot
toes inscribed in later daysmtheDel
phian Temple. These mottoes were as
follows : Know thyself .—,Solon Con
aider the end.— Unto. Know tny op
porMfiity.-Fifteen*, Most men aro
ba it.—Bias. Nothing is impose ible to
industry.— Pertander. Avoid excesses,
-Cleobulus. Suretyship is the nre
curse-ref rum.—Thales.
The “ Mississippi babble ” was thu
..,s out h sea scheme” of France, projected
by j ohn JL aw , a Scotchman. It was so
1)od because the projector was to have
tl „. exclusive trade of Louisiana, on tho
Mississippi, on condition of lus taking
bjmself tho national debt (incorpo
rated 1717, failed 1720). The debt was
jroi,8,000,000 sterling. Lawmadolum
B ,.|f bo 1o creditor of this debt and was
a n owe d to issue ten times the amount
in , )ape r money, and to open the “ Roy
paper 5 money *£<*—•-— was at a discount, a run on
” Y —
3urtt
-
| —A Washington darkness, the reporter Director went of the to
Professor
Naval Observatory at Washington, observati and
^ ^ ^ hig cr.s
of the transit of Venus. “In about hve
years,” said the Professor with a smile,
-f will be able to answer that is question,
providing a sufficient force put to
work at computing the observation.”
There is nothing like being prompt in
these little matters.