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The Conyers Examiner
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VOLUME VI.
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tJALL AT IHE
RAILROAD RESTAURANT.
•Under the Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, GA.
Where all the delicacies of the season
will be furnished in the best of style and
as cheap as any establishment in the city
H^Meals furnished at aUbours of the
day. BALLARD & DURAND. unei.2
Her Great Mistake.
At an early hour Tuesday forenoon a
any about twelve years of age entered a
Woodward a enue store hugging a b g
'i'i ■ king-horse in his arms, and as lie
daced it on the floor he said to one of
ihe clerks:
"Got that in my Christmas stocking.
I guess it that was bought sold here.” by us.”
“Yes, was
“ An old woman about sixty years old
nought it, didn’t she?”
•• I think so.”
“ Kind looked of a moth if erly-looking didn't know woman
who as she what
i boy wanted no more than pigs can
fly?” "I didn’t notice ^ about that, What’s
the matter with the horse?”
"The horse big is all right; fooling but the around idea
of a boy as as me
with a hobby horse! Grandma must
have t een crazy. I threw out about a
dozen hints, biit she was bent on getting
this horse!
"And what do you want?"
"Want to trade it, of course.”
"For wha ?”
"Well, I want a seven-shooter re¬
volver.”
•• Don’t keep ’em."
"Then I want three or four pistols to
shoot real bullets.”
"Wo have none.”
"Any bowie-knives or slutig-sliots?”
“Not one.”
"An y shot-guns?”
“No
“Got any cannons?”
"None.”
"Haven’t you got nothing •that'll
shoot or stub or blow up or smash
things?” The articles have tin
“ only toy-engines.” we are
swordsand
"Then I’ll take about six swords and
the rest in engines. I guess I know
where I can trade the swords for a toy
pistol, and then I’ll be lixed to make
tilings lively. That’s just like an o d
grandma. 8 he’d go anti pay four dol¬
lars for a thing like this when twenty
shillings would have bought a pistol and
enough powder and bullets to pepper
every pane of glass out of the barn.” —
llclroit Tree Press.
DEFACED COIN'S.
Soiuethi ng About Mutilated <luaricr»,
and Who Arc Responsible.
There is a lot of mutilated coin in eir
wilation just now which most people face
have a vague idea is not worth
value. The people are correct in this,
hut very little attention is paid to it, anil
very few people ever refuse a dime with
a hole in it, or a quarter, the pieces
which suffer the most, probably .he
cause of their small value. Many per- and
keep sons, indeed, dime will eagerly secure bored by
a which has been
t-oiue mischievous party, having heard
somewhere, at some time, that it is
lucky. The quarter-of-a-dollar frequently piece, util
on account of its size, is
ized by ingenious parties for sleeve but
tonsorpins. One side is worn down
■smooth, and an initial engraved on it,
while a shank is affixed to the other side.
It is funny how these relics turn up gen
erally iff bar-rooms. The shank is
knocked side, off the best, or unpolished, and
the placed upward on the unperceived, counter,
relic goes into the till
for a drink. Then, in the course of bus
iness, body it passes into the hands Q. of is some- who
who wonders who O. P.
has his name engraved on it. It is not
felony here to .Mace the coins of the
realm The defacer or the man who
takes the coin simply loses on it if he
takes it to a bank. The result is, he
doesn t take it to a bank, but passes it
on the first citizen he can. When de
faced coins do reach headquarters, the
presenter is “ docked.” A dollar with a
hole in it or otherwise slightly defaced
is worth about 75 cents; oft half
and quarter dollars a discount of 30 per
rent, is taken, and off dimes and half
dimes 40 per cent There is no means
ot estimating with any degree of aecu
Fjey the amount of defaced coin afloat.
Whatever reaches the Government is
remeltedfor cash, but the large of proper- brok
ton which goes into the hands
• rs goe s to jewelers and watch-ease
manufacturers.
carries —A blind man in Newark. business >"■ with- _;L.
on a retail cigar makes
out the aid of a clerk. He
Chance change pe nm-entK- r.'eetl y, keens keeps track track of of the the
various kin nd of stock, and is reckoned
a ctet er euchre player. “I have
Picked he a certain nn mber of pin-holes, the
said, "in certain tain nlar-es places on
cards, 'hem anti and hv by alidimr sliding mv my ting fingers 1 over each
----------— I find out instantly what
card is.”
When some politicians are weighed
they are found wanting every office m
the country,
CONTENTMENT.
THE TALE OF A SHIRT,
.
rent >wn
e or 1 to
■ rw
“ Thou ^tCin f
-° suience ’” Sllid thc unhappy
" Wh Ures s° ia Dorn sordid bits of
OrteUs^each carm
one what future years wiil
By planets' aspect, at h’s dato of birth
" With lame,
my power aud wealth, l
i here something; lacks, so if you can but
Where ^ may buy contentment, peace of
A princely portion shall bo thine this day.”
“ Sire," said the “ the boon
sage, your high¬
ness craves
Is altogether foreign to my loro—
Not one which may be dug from dead m"n's
Nor graves,
wrung ture’s by crucible from Mother Ma¬
store.
“Nineleagues away, however, dwells a wight,
1 cobbler, but an honest man;
a. I no wondrous shirt ho by day
wears and
They say, contains a spell, and he who can
“Se h urr> this garment gains content as well.”
At early morn the King went forth aline,
And, when the mellow shades of evening
Ho 8 tOO a before the cobbler’s door mi
kn 1711
Responsive to a knock, the poor man came.
Ami, brief of speech, tho bantering mon¬
“A arch said;
magic My shirt, they tell me, thou dost claim—
shirt and twenty pounds fortune—is it
His coarser vestment here he drew aside,
A matchless front of linen to display,
'\ hieb, gem-bedecked and well with broid¬
But tilled ery plied. the humble
craftsman with dis¬
may.
The wondering cobbler stared, then blush
Indeed, ing said:
" most gladly would I do so. wer't
l!ui ut possible, kind sir: we can not trade.
eca use—to tell the truth—1 huvo uo
shirt.”
—Texas Sifting.
TWO TRIOLETS.
WHAT HE SAID.
Tilts kiss upon your fan I press
All! Sainte NItoucbe, you (to n’t refuse it?
And may it from its soft recess
This kiss upon your fan [ pr ess—
Be blown to you, a shy caress,
This By this white down, whene’er you it.
kiss upon your fan 1 press—
All, Sainte Nitouche, you don’t rot'us e It I
WHAT SHE TIP I ,111.
To kiss a fan!
The Wlmt stupid a pokv po 5
To man,
kiss a a fan. tan,
When he knows tlia t—1 he—can—
Or ought to know it—
To kiss a Jan l
What a poky poet!
— Harrison Ro bertson , in Tkc Cental!!.
A HERO OF THE FLOODS.
Nowhere throughout the overflowed
river bottoms of the West did the de
vastat'ng vastat ng foods of 188t come upon peo
pie with sueh calamitous swiftness, or
cover the eountr y to such depths, as in
the valley of the far-reaching and snow
fed Missouri. Long and b.tterly remem¬
bered by hundreds, whose homes were
swept away with scarce a moment’s
warning, will be tho icy overflow of that
calamito us season.
From all its nunte erous tributaries,
from the trickling rilis ills of the snow
capped mountains to tho broad aud
slugglish river Flatte. the bands of ice,
suddenly loosed, letforth watery torrents
to swell the mightier river, tillitpou red
down to the Mississippi with a witnessed desti no
live haste that lias never been
before.
Ma ny a tired farmer who went to his
rest after a hard day’s work, and
dreamed for a time, perchance, of
growing crops and abundant harv ests as
the result of his labors, arose to find his
farm a watevv waste, the angry river
already at lfis very door, and his live
stock wading and swimming) distracted
ly about amid floating mass es of ice,
Brushwood and the debris of other
inundated farms above. In vain lie
sought to save Iris horses, his cattle, or
his ""household goods; it was often wife all
] ie could do to save c on his and
little ones, well-cultivated farm
Upon a broad and
on the Nebraska side of Hie Missouri
there lived a family named IV if-on, in a
frame house that stood in a grove of
large but scattered trees near the bank
of the stream. well-fenced stock
Cultivated fields and
pastures extended back across the mtei
tales. The soil was dark and extreme
ly fertile, the land lying but little above
high-water mark, on which account tlio
spring freshets always caused Mi. \y -
son considerable uneasiness, ine oiti
est settlers thereabouts, however, had
never known this tract to be entirely
cwered;and this, with Mr. Wilson s
own experience, had, as i - ■
by, considerably lessened h.s hist mi.
grings. Fherefore the g ,
found Mr. " lls °"■ j, J.t), are( j
• he
■
the tim .
ami at 1 - J? ^ m
anil his w'fo' ff i-oluctant about
leax.n Ihey had ’ 1 ^ ^ riyer was swo llen but
^ss v-iirH-water mark,
t omtteUed them to ride
to rc 0 <t railroad town, some thirty
""‘ef “ ^ which they intended
tore ° the ,i ay following, youngest
carried her
:, n d there remained at home Hen
Ll ’ ' ] a( j 0 f fifteen, anti mu *!“*<= with
’ d ten and six-years,
. v ters
^ ao - e Rudolph,
),; re d man, living two or
iqndolnlv had relatives and
miles back from the river,
, re ) 10 res were done at night lie
e c telling Henry that he
house> “his folks, and
t , lS o-oino- o\er to see o’clock.
4 onhf be^baek at ten sisters had been left
„. , _ an q ],i S l he>
, evening before. were
;in to bed by nme
a f r aid, and went
. ] oc ] {- sleep soundly, as such cm u
0 c
fcw'im morn
foundthe sun peeping m at bis
ir - r 1 ] j ut of bed
, eaD n ~ 0
' nre t o Bndolph, as his father was m
a doing- But Rudolph *ua
^ il3bj{ u „ K!t of
not answer. be up an,l doing the
“Rude must Henry; and then
olio res.” thought he said: »hat a
spea. tkii intr nfous aloud, the 7®F
roaring rl d
treme It sounds as if it was a
this morning,
around dness! us. I b’lieveitis, . . , Be a Id- ,,
"Goo listening moment and then
ed. after a
he r8 n to bis window to look.
error CEASES to BE DANGEROUS while truth is left free TO COMBAT IT,"
CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1883.
' touter hearts than his might have
quailed at the scene which met his c os.
Everywhere tumultuous was water—a turbid, b'ack.
flood— dashing up against
the trunks of the great trees, t’ooding
U 10 stock-yard fences completely out of
looking sight. Logs, boards and gr eat cold
cakes of white ice. , even the
bodies of dead cattle, were swept
furiously on. The heads -only the
heads and horns-of some of their own
cattle could be seen here aud there, as
j the J1 poor creatures swam feebly to and
"
Looki ring down in frightened awe from
the op en window, the lad saw that the
delvin g, guttering current had already
attacked the foundation of the house,
which stood cons derably higher than
the cattle yards, and that the door¬
steps below wore under water.
As the danger of the situation dawned
upon him, the lad’s terror grew.
but Again and again he shouted to Rudolph;
there was no response save the
rush and roar of the river.
Then he ran to the room of little Jen¬
nie and I? ah, who had already been
awakened by his shouts. With fright¬
ened sobs the children clung to their
brother, scarcely daring to look out up¬
on the fearful scene about them.
“Where is Rudolph? Where is Ru¬
dolph?” Henry they sobbed.
soothed them as best lie could,
and leaving them at the head of the
high stairway the lie went below to see how
water had risen.
To lvs increased alarm he found that
the kitchen t’oor was already covered,
and that the muddy water was s pouring
in through the cracks about the door.
It was rsin • fast—had risen even since
he first looked out upon it.
Then tor a few moments the boy’s
courage almost deserted him; he treni
bled violently and the tears came into
hjs eyes. "O father! father! fa why ain’t
j on here?” he cried out.
Then the crash of a tinge ice-cake
against the door amused him.
house Young as he was ho realized that if the the
m ist soon bo swept away
water continued lo r'se, an I t ilmost
fereely wiping away h s tears, lie tr'ed he
to think of some means by which
might save Iris little s’.sters and himself.
Through the kitchen w ndow he saw
Ihe trunk of the great elm beneath
which stood the grindstone, only a few
feet from the broad doorsteps—a lingo
tree, lour or five leet in diameter. The
waters were Ti dashing ag ainst its massive
trunk. at, t. at least. , seemed proof
against their utmost strength.
The old elm! The old elm!” he cried.
“ If we co ttld only get up among the
big limbs !” Anti then he formed his
heroic plan and proceeded to put it into
exec ution.
Tl ine elm had eat largest outstretching which
branch ,ics, one of of
ext cniletl leti ac ross a corner o the kitchen
roo f, which was nearly fiat and easy ot
act ess from a window in the second
story of the house. Henry had often
climbed out the o and mounted tho
b aneli, from which he could ascend
nearly t > the top of the f ree a dizzy
height however, which he seldom at¬
tempted. "Tho fiood can’t dig tho old elm
out,” he thought. "It’s stood there too
long.” But little I-ah and Jennie! ho feared
for them. It was as much as he himself
dared do to climb tlio tree, and ho
feared the little girls would grow tli 'zy
and fall into tho rushing water beneath.
The brave boy thought of all this, and
solved the, problem i in a manner that
speaks well both for his courage and
his invention. the
Wading through tho water on
kitchen foot - , he reached the wo otl
shed and there procured his mother’s
clothes-line, also a coil of larger numb mber rope of
and an old door, besides a
loose boards which stood in a corner,
Carrying these up-s fairs, where the bit¬
tie girls stood cry! ing and calling for
" papa and mamma, a, he put them out
on tiie kitchen roof.
" Stop crying, girls,” ho exclaimed,
cheerily: cheerily; “stop" your crying. Pa and
ma will be here as soon as they can get a
boat, anti I’ll take care of you I’ll they tho
come. We re going to get up in
big elm and bi tild us a house up there
and take up victuals. Victuals, The xne water never
will will take take that old tree away, anti and we vve
can live up there like squirrels.” sped about the
The energetic lad now
house to complete Its prepa ration for
their stranae time change change of" of abode. aboi Even
little Jei ing!, the younger sister, caught
someth ii 30 - Of his courage; anti both the
o-irls ' 3 ran 0,11 be¥Dg i,1WhatCVer W ‘ Hy
thi couM of
Some loaves of bread, a bucket
douorimuts, together with dried bee f a
ltamf ,
smoked and several woolen
blankets were laid out on the kitchen
roof, 'limn Henry bound the clothes
line about his waist and climbed on tiie
great branch, and thence up to the
fartre limbs above, to a height of some
twenty feet above the rushing waters.
"Selecting a spot where two limbs
branched o:f parallel with each other,
he now lowered one end of his rope to
the sisters, for the old door and boards,
Before climbing up he hail instructed
them what to do and how to do it; and
in a very short time the boards, the
door and the coils of rope were hauled
up one after another, and securely
fastened. and boards then , placed . ,
The door were
on the paraBel branches and tied with
the rope- and in this manner a small
foot- or’ platform, six or eight for feet all
s mu are was laid, large enough
three to sit or lie on
It d d not take long now to draw up
the food and blankets; but there still re
mained for the lad the harder and more
perilous task of hoisting up the little
crirls to his aivv platform. and
r |f,. h a d reserved the longest and looping strong
est rope 1 for this purpose,
^"“twoends litldie over a limb and letting de
the two endx tall .. to the roof, he
stended an(1 tie ,( an end firmly beneath
: the arms of both Izah and Jennie in
j bac k to his old position was
work of a moment. Then came
^ work j za h was a plump little
.
^ girl, and Jennie was still heavier,
( ^ not as ol(1 . They were fright- he
) med'and screamed considerably, but other,
^ ^ one after the
j ou to th9 platform.
Meanwhile ihe wild rushing waters
were steadily rising and had now nearly
readied the kitchen window-sills. Stiil
ously larger along cakes of ice were the driving ponder¬
among trees; occasion¬
ally one ground against the elm, giving
it a heavy, jarring bump, or struck t lie
walls o f the house with a force that
made the timbers crack.
The little girls trembled with fear;
and now that the excitement of climb¬
ing into the tree was over, despair
again seized upon them. In vam Henry
tried to quic it their fears. Great sobs
would wc'l up in spite of their childish
efforts to be i brave.
It was in truth an appalling situation,
Faster poured the over-rising Hood; and
now the ice-cakes and great drift-logs
Nothing were smashing left in tho of the lower stock-yards, windows.
was
sheds and barn: hut here and there
some or the vvretched cattle still kept
their heads above water; and’more d s
heartening the than ? everything lowii elso were
P °' or creatures mournful ISIS.
T, 1 hei •e was no help for them, Their
drowning hour was but everything tlio question of an
down beneath or two; tlio black was goiug
And well might children rolling torrent.
tho feel thank¬
ful if even the great elm withstood tli;
battering wh ch of grinding the ponderous ice-cakos
came in among tho
sea attered trees of the grove,
lenry’s red his heart almost failed him. It
re pi best efforts to keep from
breaking completely down and giving
way to Ills fright and grief. But mas¬
tering these terrors at length, he
earnestly th set to work platform to make every¬
ng upon the secure. He
felt, too, that he ought to save the bed¬
ding and tlio most valuable of the
household furniture; for he saw that the
most of it might be hung upon the limbs
of the elm, if only he had dared to de¬
scend after it into the shattered and
rocking But building. creaking and groaning of tlio
the
timbers, commingling with the hoarse
gurglings of ihe water, appalled him.
The house seemed on the point of being
swept away; anti sadly he watched it
heave and sway as each fresh mass of
ice came plunging against it.
Fearing to trust the little sisters upon
them tho trail securely platform limbs unsupported, above, lie tied
the slack to enough allow leaving their
ropes to of
moving he almost about. made Once, for a moment,
them smile by calling
them his tt.c ponies picketed out to
grass.” stories, and He kept even tried in to their tell
courage
hearts bv the assurance that “pa and
ma” would soon com" and take them
away in a big boat.
Thus tiie hours wore ou. The house
still stood, higher, but tho waters crept higher
and till at noon the river ran
dows. nearly even Still with the old the tree tops of the vrin- evi
dence of yielding; anti af ive lengtli no tho
pangs of hunger hearty making themselves )ito of
felt, tii toy ate a meal in sji
their s trange and almost desperat :e situ
ation.
The afternoon passed. <!nee they
the thought they heard distant prevented shouts; them but
tops of tiie trees drew
from and looking still off house clearly. stood, N i. wonder¬ lit
on; tiie
fully, as it seemed to Henry.
As night closed darkly in. the little
g rls cried themselves to sleep, pillow¬
ing their heads in the lad’s lap; aud
thus through all that long anti r tedious
night, never once closing hi s own eyes
in sleep, he sat and bold thorn.
Not long after dark Henry heard a
terrific crash, anti indistinctly saw tlio
house melt away amidst the mail waters
beneath him.
When at last day dawned there was
not a familiar landmark to be seen savo
the tre cs; an I many of the smallest ot
these had been broken down by the
masses of ice. It was a bitL r awaken
ing for little Izah and Jennie; anti it
was long before Henry could a rain an¬
custom them to the terrible dreariness
of their situation.
But help came shortly after daybreak. had
Even before the pangs of hunger
brought to think ot BreRKrasr,
che cry voices were heard shouting from
the river above. The n dghbors hat!
esp ied them on their platform, through
the lea less branches.
It was a strange sight and one that
would have inspired less resolute hearts
to attempt their rescue. The young,
anxious facet expectantly looked out
o' er the dreary waters, and watched
with hope and delight the efforts mak¬
ing to save the n. It was an hour that
they never would forget.
py? 0 the n ilSu ri boy U -and' aboard ; hi" littfj boat
charges trie re taken a
manned by the fat hfttl Rudolph and had
several other young men, wii o
worked wit a cnerg , but in vam, on
account of the floating ice, to reach
them the dav before,
Air. and Mrs. Wilson were delayed
longer than they had expected; ant! not
retnrning till evening of that day, they
learned nothing of the danger to which
the children had been exposed till after
they had seen them safe at tiie house of
a kind neighbor. —Franklin Calkins, in
Youth's Companion.
An Old Contention Bone.
Gibraltar is constantly being strength¬ im
ened, both by new works and by
proved ’ guns in place of tbo old ones. A
100-ton Armstrong strong breech-loader ureecu-ioauer was was
brought here from Woolwich two days
ago, and another is expected before the
end of the month. From 5,000 to 6,000
men are constantly stationed here. At
present the force consists of four regi
merits of infantry and one displayed of artillery,
aud as much vigilance is existed by
the military as if a state of war
with their easy-going neighbors of Spain,
Between the possessions of the twoeoun
tries is a piece of fiat, sandy soil, al__ lout
1,500 yards in length and the same in
width, known as the “neutral ground,” aud
on e ither side of which the English
Spanish sentries have been at their posts
within sight of each other ever since the
year 1704 N. Y. Tribune.
“ WtlEN- von order or, a Hew . nn'; tbr
your paraw ji of ft particular color, you
! 4 i„ m ],t always giv, titt* slnnlt*, it
«ai,I a kdy to ht < 1 an g! ‘ti r, wb«
.-l--r.. ,1 d, "Give the ft <!' ft to. sum
A -w J./ t’;Ui !
Coras.
This very common failing in the
horse is so well known, that any dc
scriplion it would, of however, them is quite absurd unnecessary, that
be to say
they arc of ti reject tle consequence, but just
as absurd to such a horse because
he had them. He ma lay have very ox
tensive corns, and yet bo always sound
on them: or ■ very minute ones to t ho
eye, yet be seriously inconvenienced
and lamed by them. Hundreds of
horses ha e corns without a iny ono sus
pectins it. and as long as ah : orsc ro
mained sound, or nearly so, thc fact
might lame, and never his bo feet known. If ho beeo nos
a"e in conso pience of
it carefully examined, the searehiug
fcni c lets the owner or som body into
the secret. That becoming known, the
foot properly shoe put to rights, and with a
proper sounder put than on, the horse probably
goes ho lias o r months
past. If a horse lias cor •ns, the princi
pal the thing lobe looked at is not so much
soreness o' the n, or how far ho may
even go lame on them, but the kind
food lie lias. l! he has a g od wide, or,
in more stab'o phi ase, < >pen heels and
the wall or cm4 is strong", a > as to af¬
ford good nail hold, we have very little
fear o corns, for such a loot will al¬
low the means o! taking olV pressuer
from them. hold They will often, in such a
case, out ■'jfmsvz? a
not, of such x: f I 1 j- 0
nearly as goc em" fromihem . if , ho"?
no i neon veil i
over, the heels arc narrow, it is aim at
im, ossiblo to prevent the great aggra
vation 1 f the disease, namely, pressure.
IVe may even in such a case put away
sutler pressure, that is, pressure from
the sit e < it the affected parts; but then
there will remain what is termed lateral
pressure, which ivi 1 be between the bars
and the heels cr crust < f the foot. These
bars arc intended by nature to act as
props, keeping the heels at their proper
distance apart, and are usually left, say
an eighth of the an inch, or more, ab vet-lie
sur aco of solo of the foot. IVhcn
wo s a l cut aw ay tho bars, which in corn
case often dm le, it only moans they
are so mueh lowered ns to be on a level
wit h tl 10 sole; but as tlio corn i. rated
below thi-', it will become evident wo
cannot, < rat least daro Hot, cut the bars
away deep enough to prevent pr o sure
between them and the heel, which, if in
close affinity (which is the case in nar¬
row heels) is very great; in fact, the
corn is in a kind of natural vice, who-e
almo t acute angle presses it on either
side. A horse with corns and sttcii
heels should not be bought by any ono
be looking sound for three a good horse; he will rarely wiil
less days together; worko ho
bo more or lan so if lie is not I
at all, and work will lame him further
from tlio soreness aud inliammation it
occasions. But should the foot ho good
anti cool, the horse in work, anil sound,
ho i nay safely the he bought, however ex¬
tensive appearance of the corns
may tie; for should even a little tender¬
ness or soreness he perceived after un¬
usual work on hard roads, keeping the
feci it warm water a few hours for a
day il or two, all right and a again, small dose of physic,
w sot
in uses where soreness comes on
n corns, if the feet are good, we
generally know tho worst, and its vom
edy. Sti h lameness is not, like tail ng
of the end sinews, in helplessnsss. 1 ltely to lie On permanent, the
or con¬
trary, with care there is no su h danger;
but every prospect of that care beii
re. soundness ompensed the by a horse, comparative or ti the
of or, to say
least, his freedom from lameness,
Fort ts. lie they of a better or worse do¬
stu'i | iti on. will be found to atleet a ht >rso
more or less in aooordancc with the pur¬
pose he Is wanted for .—Prairie Farmer.
Milking Money With Money.
He was n sharp-featurred, slirew-cyed
old gentleman, and he Bat in one of tho
Boston police stations recently, listening
attentively to a select assortment of yarns
about counterfeiters, suggested by tho
newspaper mention of the numerous
petty cases of this nature pending “Well, bid ore
tiie United States District Court.
well,” be remarked finally, with a half
sigli for the degeneracy of these times,
“roguery isn t what it used to bo. I can
remember when it took some brains to
make a good rascal. To work off tlio
bogus half-dollars, oi 2 dollars, fives and
so on for tbo genuin o thing is all very
well in its way, but wlint do you think
of a fellow who gave away sqnar vre money
as counterfeit and made a little i fortune
out of tlio business? Impossible? Oh,
no. When I was a detective, and that,
I ■
hot so man iicti y years ago, came l
with jnst su a chap. You’ll fn il t , „
facts of the case in ♦hA court
records . , .. ,
»s.
to supply them with a remarkably aecu
rate counterfeit H bill, inerelj as a
curiosity. This would c
.ISC: 1 .:':?,:
eaMSEtws: had received, showed
aminetl the bill he thecashie
it to his friends, and, ndeveryOTe,ofeouree, perhaps,
of thetownbank a
pronounced it genuine, bo -
rural parties thought tnat 100 of them
would be very handy mbardtimes, an .
tt'S^c^tSloniic^,. Jme of the bait
To be sure, money could was
loet, but not much. The victims
not bring a complaint against tho swim
dler without criminating themselvos,and
so he flourished for some time. But at
length the the United States authorities got
bold of the matter anil arrested the prom¬
ising young scoundrel on an indictment
for counterfeiting. What was his de¬
fense ? Why. he merely called attention
to the fact that he had not counterfeited
at ail; he hail dealt only in genuine bills,
The court could not hold him. .Subse¬
quently, however, I believe that he was
arrested and convicted, but ou an entire¬
ly different indictment. ”
Sbnm ip intended for salad should
—
be smoker 1 l in vinegar and water for an
Hour before being used. ,
Table Cutlery.
In ordin British households the
stool knife still holds its own, excepting which
or the eating of fish or fruit, for
purposes silver or platod knives
sxpressly made and in universal use. In
Germany the inferior quality of the
'.able cutlery is a source of constant
Annoyance, iil\' while in France competition lias long
a English manufactures
keen keen. The cutlery of Groat Brit
rin carried away most of the prizes for
inperior workmanship and finish, and
won yet the “Rodgers" and other
ipceial makes command the highest
prices, but within the last forty years
groat progress lias been made in tho
United States in this industry. And
while the lined, and most expensive Sheffield
jutlery is still imported Knglish from manufac¬
said other centers of
ture an immense trade in domestic
cutlery has sprung up, and American
knives are found upon many European for
tables. There are various reasons
this, foremost among lli m the fact
that in this country machinery manufacture enters
far more largely into the
of cutlery than in blades England, forged, whero
the finest steel are
grou und, and polished by hand,
each blade receiving a share of
minute and individual attention which
Bxsssrtetssns
nipulation enables a workman to de¬
** vary smallest irregularity in Urn
each wa y> se of ' ,arate the .* te l ,,ec0 f’ A" that h U“ ^°,h th 3 ol, * h h
his hands the amount of care that is
necessary to bring it to the very highest the
state of perfection. For this reason
trade in English cutlery the finest still goods shows an
increase as far as are
concerned, and the Shothoid manufac
tnrer stands unrivaled And in again, the highest
branches of his art. in turn
ing out very cheap goods, such, for ex
ample, as are found at tho five-cent
stores, the English factories can still
compete satisfactorily with t hose of this
country, owing to the greater chcapn r; ;
of labor; but it is in tho vast interme
diato field of general supply tiie for results ordinary
use that we must seek of
American Enterprise. themselves And in this field
the British confess out
rivaled. Of the numberless lion vvliich
a- few years nnddle-elass ago were represented cutlery goods, in this
country for
not one in ten remains, and not only is
the home demand supplied by large cutlery
of domestic .make, but very ex¬
ports are made to different parts of tho
world, notably to Africa, Australia,
Germany, aud Spain. In addition to
the e gl¬ groat advantages which tho use of
ume hi nery gives the American manu¬
facturer of middle-class good*, Do de¬
rives still further facility from the va¬
riety of the. materials now used for han¬
dles.
The expense of a knifo depends very
greatly upon the handle, in first-class
goods almost steel entirely invariably so, the same used
quality of being
for the blades, and the price of imported the
cutlery has increased largely within
last, few years upon this account, Tlio
handles of the best English knives aro
invariably made of ivory, ami in this
article there lias been a formidable ad¬
vance of no less than from $31)0 to $100
a ton, and there is a prospect of a still
further rise in price. The value of a
ton of ivory is about $li, 000 , and the,
estimate of material used is ono
to one dozen small knives. In this
country, on the contrary, ivory is now
comparatively little used, other materi¬
als being employed for Of these handles celluloid even
for the finest knives.
is the most remarkable. The English this
claim to have been tho inventors of
or of a precisely similar material, which
is known as xlomito, and a large trade
has been carried on by them in
celluloid-handle knives, but nothing in
comparison to Lite extent to which they
aro manufactured in this country. The
ha^i s of celluloid is tissue paper, ami
camphor enters largely into its compo¬
sition, together with a pigment of white
zinc lead, which gives the impossible necessary
hardness. It is almost to
break it, and there is no celluloid danger of knife the
unsightly cracks in a
handle which are the perpetual torment
of the mistresses of Irish servants.
Besides celluloid various materials aro
pressed into the service by American
ingenuity. Cheap knives have handles
of cocoa bola wood, which is imported
ffom the isthmus, anti in spite of diffi¬
culty of transport is very much cheaper
than bone. Then we have tiie ebony
handles, the material for which is im
ported from Zanzibar, carried from the
interior of Africa upon the backs of
natives and America. shipped Rubber in immense handles quan- again
titiesto
C'fiS>ttSzsL’z:
£ $1 >,000 t^year. Munyj ^ ^
J .’ ^
d<Jim nd for the han(tlc9 0 f carving
knives and forks. An immense trade is
;rs,r n “Sr f “r.........
3 app jearance
~ uch in its
*nvor. *e theapnetm , w „
used in the handles, nndscres both
^nament^nM mete, MR eat atten
<f handl(J
and ™ > blade. Some of the more expensive pearl
plated ‘„ forks have
, ( . urio Iy cut an( | twistetl. The
«“ro ’pearlsiuttLg raffvr ™ distinct a <fity!
forms a
. A# trade V tinelv-finished knife
• • hands.—
I'",, . ’ ” . ^ a:ff er ,. n i
*■ dimes.
—in a town not many miles irom
Bos ton a man stepped into a head neighbor's f the
bouse, where bo saw the o
family lying up >on his back oil the do or,
and bis wile st anding over him, as lie
thought, with a threatening air. Ifo
was about to withdraw l when the pros
irate man sh jouted: “Come along in.
Ste vc: she is only chalking rue out a
x*jr of pants.”
The number of farms in the United
8 tales has increased fifty-one per cent
jn the past ten years.
$'.50 PER ANNUM IN AD/ANCE
NUMBER 1.
nnioRous.
— “Amt what do you call that?”
asked tho inquisitive visitor, pointing to
a mutilated statue "That is a torso.”
replied tered the sculptor. “H’m,” mut¬
the i. v., “ but how did it become
torso?” Ho was tenderly kicked out
—An article entitled "Howto Wash
the Baby” is going the rounds of tho
press, f’ersons who read it will bo sur¬
prised to learn that tho infant is washed
with water, but is not run through a
wringing machine and hung out on tho
line to drv .—Norristown Herald.
— “ 1 am si orry to inform you,” said
a man to an Arkansas gentleman, "that
your son lias been killed in a balloon
ase elision.” “How?” asked tho gen
tlei nan. “Well, yiju see, lio went up
with dropped tlie suddenly professor and and killed tho both balloon of
them ’ “ So it was tlio descension that
kit led him? My friend, when you conw
into information, this neighborhood give it straight.”— with apiece Arkan¬ of
sas 'Traveler.
—Wee Johnnie was riding on the
cars with his mother and dropped on
the floor one of tho. peanuts he was eat¬
ing. After he had finished the oth ers
ho began to climb down to get tho one
on tho lioor, but his mother stopped have
him, knew saying that his he mother could not would not it.
lie Hint
change tier mind, and ho sat still in si¬
lence for several minutes. But lie could
emlu ire it no longer, and soon “Mother, a niti
fill 1 ittlo l \oico down piped the out: fioor and look
can’t get on
at that peanut?"
—Rev. Geo rge T. Rider, in his North
American Re view article on journalism,
says; “Alatter day parvenue.its ephem¬
eral going, flutter, its its irridescence perpetual coming transciency and
very liux its raison
and it ,-trr. unresting * ' * * constitute Its illumination is
cold, auroral, spectral, as of the core
brum.” Of course; lo be sure; cer¬
tainly. We never said it wasn’t—aud
vve shall anxiously look for a solution of
Mr. Rider’s ltcvicir. puzzle We in could tho next number
of tlio never guess
it. —Norristown Herald.
Charley B: Do we need a correspond¬
ent at lies Moines? No, Charley, wo
do not. lies Moines is the only pi Race
whore we do not need a correspondence correspond! ;nt.
Wo joyfully wallow in
from every other place on this broad
continent, but we can not have a eorru
spondent at Des Moines. An early
llamo of ours lives in Des Moines. We
are parted now forever, It was not
that our love cooled, or that she died
young. No, Charles, tho trouble we
had with Hint love affair was not that
site died young, but tiiat her father
didn't. The Dull dog likewise, was not
at a'l tired, You see now with why Des wo Moines have
ha! lowed associations
which makes it painful to us to road
correspondence from that place,—
Puck.
That Abominable I,utiles’ llat.
A groat deal of space, lias been taken
ii)) in the papers denouncing tho stylo
of ladies’ hat that shuts out so much
landscape They aro. indeed, a first
class nuisance, particularly in churches,
theaters, and other places besides of pomilar being
amusement. These hats,
adorned with enough plumes and
feathers to lit out a hearse, aro loaded
down with a large bird. After awhile
vve suppose the latiies will wear tioad
cats, or a second-hand rat, fora ladies’ change. hat,
To tho theater-goer, the big lady, is
or rather, the big hat of the particularly a
perpetual source of rage,
!l the hat is jest in front of perpetrated hint. In
order to set) wiiat is being his neck
on the stage ho must crane to
the right, and just abo ut the time he is
becoming interested site loans over to
whisper something very important ami to
her right-huml neighbor, thinks he once is
more thu unfortunate man
looking at an ostrich, He gets a crick
in his neck trying to see tho stage over
shoulder, so «ho has noo -casion
shut oil his view from that side, for
lie sinks bauk in despair and into his re¬
served scat, for which he mulcted him
self in a dollar and a tiimi •ter. After tho
pit ain in his neck 1 ms tied I, tho applause
of the audience arouses lim to Hie fact
that he is not getting the worth o' his
money, so he assumes an almost erect
position to look over tho aforesaid os¬
trich, anil just, about the time he obta in
a glimpse of the hero taking ft he scalp
of the victim, or pressing the form of
the rescued raaidt on to his shirt-bosom.
a dozen men behind him yell into out; his
“Down in front.” Ho drops
dollar ami a quarter reserved seat, and
Im is more reserved than the seat during There
tin; rest of regulation tho performance. by which all the
should he a placed in
women with leg hats lit; seats,
one behind the other, so they may learn
to appreciate how pleasant it is to pay
a dollar and a quarter of hard-earned
lucre for the privilege of looking at three tho
remains of an ostrich for two or
mortal hours. heard of lint
IVc have never one in¬
stance where a man who was silting be¬
hind one of those abominable latiies’
hats ever got the advantage of the vvear
er of said hat. Site wore a 1 iat that was
almost as large as the national debt,
The unfortunate man might have as
well been down in a cellar, as far as see
ino the performance ou tiie stage was
concerned. The gentleman leaned over
and informed tho lady that her hat pre¬
vented several persons in the rear from
witnessing the performan e, and asked
her to pie :se remove her hat. She told
him snappishly to mind his own affairs.
She was not a very nit e lady, anyhow.
Tim gentleman did not reply, but ho
put on his own hat. At this outrage on
the audience, a dozen gentlemen civile I
out, “ take off that hat.” The weaver
of the vast hat supposed her lint was
meant, so she got up and indignantly
flounced out of the t uildmg. The gen¬
tleman had removed his hat in the mean¬
time, and bad a clear view of the stage
during the entire performance. — Texas
Hiftinos.
—A car factory in Georgia is alleged cash
to have paid twenty-five per cent
dividend and passed twelve per cent, cash
to a reserve fit in,l the first year of its oper
ation. It built sir hundred cars last
year, and has a ca pacity of over twelve
hundred per annum. This year it is
doing even better.