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8 GULLEY'S THEORY. ( ,How Ho Proposes to Restore the Worn-Out Land. •A WONDERFULLY SUCCESSFUL FARM t , Stahkyilt-K, MiM., November 26. —[Staff Correspondence of Tur. Constitl’TJOX.]—The forming operations of the Mississippi ngricul (ttttßl college here are very extensive, and the swult of those operations are sotnew hat un '.RjUal. The farm, and it is a large one, is not [duly self-sustaining, hut is actually a source of ilitenuo to the college. '1 JThis fact, more titan any olher, perhaps, is ITO* main reason why the institution has grown hp the confidence and favor of the public. The I farmers, as a rule, have but little respect for theoretical agriculture, but when they behold With their own eyes the theory in successful [practice, it challenges their admiration, and, jftough at first unwillingly, nevertheless gains 'their confidence and respect. The agricultural feature of the college is un der thopersonal supervision of Professor !■'. A. Gulley, w ho in addition to tho chair of agri 'ftUturo holds the place of superintendent of fflriu work. Professor Gulley is a young man, ■and has been with the college since its organi ■#gtlon; a graduate of the I diversity of Mich igan, a practical and expcrieinl agriculturist, lit is difficult to imagine a man better qualified Ito fill the onerous position he occupies. I 'Spent one whole day with him, together v.e 'tfent over the two thousand acres comprising the place, ca< h field was visited, and the tnet.h odsautl system employed in the production of tlm crops were carefully explain ed. Combined with great intelli gence, rare judgment, Professor Gulley has al) of tho energy and progress of the groat northwest, and in eight years lie has con verted an old, worn out place in north Missis sippi into as fine and productivo a plantation as any in that section. ft is interesting to know the means he cm ployed.’t ■> follow him in hit work, and as Pres ident Ise remarked the other day,if the college )>as succeeded in doing nothing besides teaching Him people, how to restore worn out land, the .hem fits to be. derived from that knowl edge will more than compensate for any outlay that has been made in tho establishment of the in- Btitutiou. Tho late lamented Furman in Geor gia popularized a system of farming known as the inti nsive system, and his memory is held in sacred recollci lion almost by his agricul tural brethren all over the country. Fnr ymin's work was a great one, and he well de served the npplrtfisc and fame he received, but how mm li greater the service to the state and to tho former is the work of a man who has taught them how to rest ore to set I ility land that fm yi nr ; had been abandoned as practically worth less and unproductive. And that has been Prof, t,alley's work in Mississippi. Ile cal! hie ‘y-teui tlie extensive one in con tradiction to tho intensive system; he has written niuch about it that has attracted atten tion among agriculturalists all over the coun try, hut Im has done better than that; he placed it in operation on the college farm, and I the results as shown in the incieascd value of Ltho laud, in its increased productive power, lias more than justified the expectations of the professor, and Ids college associates, in tho Bucci -of the. theory and the system. ' 'When Prof. Gulley took charge of the farm, lit contained F.IJ4 acron, 1750 of which wore in Cultivation. The place originally had been a cotton plantation, planted year after year in that Maple, and consequently had gotten so poor that the very negro tenants upon it had Jpft it to keep from starving. It was in thi ■ condition when the state purchased it for tho college. <lencral Lee told me tho other day that when he saw the character of tho land upon Which ho had to work, and upon which the in Btitution was to make its record, that his heart failed him, and ho could not see a way out of the difficulty. Prof. Gulley said today that when ho first looked over the place ho thought tho outlook for success was very poor. But both men went to work, andjwitli energy and skill made out of what they be lieved at first was their ruin as conspicuous a buccoss a i was over displayed to tho public eye. Horn and there upon the place were strips of gwd bottom land, end upon that it was easy enough to succeed. Wherever the land wa good enough for cultivation the intensive sys tem was followed, but for a number of years the work of Prose .sor Gulley was to build up and rehabilitate Ids worn-out land. Let us see how he did it. Ho saw that cot ton could nevcT be slicci’s fully raised upon tho ,-Jaad for a long period, and he at once dismiss ed all id: aof planting it. Ho saw that the hope of tho farm consisted in restoring tho .land to f< rtility, and to do that it wnsmeessa ’ ''c cattle All the money ho could Command he invested in common cattle, at the Same time buying a fine Jersey bull. Ho jjeitct d oil the hillsides into different fields Jluid tuned Ids herd upon it, at the same time ,-feeding tin in upon cotton seed. After nastur i||tg for a year or longer, lie endeavored to got a stand of Japan clover, which grows wild in borne sections, and which is a popular food With stock This clever or ,-ecd will not grow upon poor land, and w henever u shows lip in a good stand you may bo certain that . the land is getting in good condition. Now. nio result of this pasturing was two fold: first, the cattle were daily cnvhrhing the land, and the < attic were also daily getting fatter. Boiled cotton seed na a food produced the fol- I Jewing results with Prof. Gulley: Two very ' ( ordinary sts -rs, inn poor, unthrifty condition, | wore fed upon boiled cotton seed, besides re ceiving ordinary food. Steer No. 1. four years old. weighing 708 pounds, was fed 56 day s and rained ‘-To pounds, or 4.61 pounds per day ; Btecr No. ”, twenty months old. welghim' :W pounds, fed Iff days, gained '.’lo pounds, or l.Sff pounds per day. Prof. Gulley estimates tho ■ gam in weight to have cost not exceed- I ing I'l cents per pound. The value ei ' the nmnnro arising from cotton seed food is largely in excess of tho ordinary | manure in jmiut of fertilizing properties, 'l i e I past nra■;<» of the land in this manner produced the two fold results lucres h, fertility and in the value of thocattle When tlm eattle Would e msume everything upon the hind, the dapau clover would bo allowed to get a mod Stand, when that too would be pastured. Tiiis 'l* fattening to cattle and very appetizing, and nt the same time its roots contain largo fortil iring pr qs'rtii* that assisted in enriching the land. Hie clover was allowed to stand say two year . when the cattit were taken off. and tho land broken up. but the enriching pro. ess pursued by an intelligent system of plant in:.. I For instance, tho first year ho would planj com. followed by peas, which were turned un det. The second year elox erw mild Im> plant.-.1. and it win allowe<l to remain tho third vear. Zach y. ’.r two crops were gathered from the Vlovcr for whiter ft edit ... and the laud then Was b< nnb.g to y i,-ld. ’ib. f. ttrth year 1;<- Would plant oats. win. It v - ■ (. |. v , , ts It tain, which wire turn, d >.t ... r. Now. f. r Bix y, arc ;1,. land | liU i p, n tl , Ul .,] t 0 ~ |(rt< t’.ut 1 >:n planted h.ul contributed. tn t F" at t .. . „re, to it. fertility. and if. at the L-gim .it was toop -m to make a pnv in ; toe i'. .. .. ,| upon .- w. ■ j u q Attlu Vt st ealet.lat.on. t'.c land had b. ."I impt. , -txty per .s nt in its fertility. and. of coi rs. nd iner. et d cot re-pondmgly in its valu. in at! lition. it had given support n .’."i'er t.f cattle ;n the wuv Os piec.mgo. ie,l Ju supplying p-..<. •udt x v. *ntvru>.. *' 4th uxvt.Hsof the « jujcnt o f thi> j NteiH. tUv cuttle hu.l increased in value. The breeding had been going on, and the grade had constantly grown nearer to that of the full Jersey. Each year the beef cattle had supplied the college with all the frosh meat it desired, while the mar ketable cattle had been sold and the proceeds reinvested in others that were treated to pre cisely the same procc.'-.s, and which ii turn yielded an annual profit. Now a herd started in just the way I have described, and for the purposes 1 have named, has increased tremendously. This year the college has 380 head in ail, divided into 45 head of pure Jerseys, Devons, Durhams and Holsteins, 175 head of graded cattle, and fifty-five head of common breed. The cattle rep resent the profit of the farmer; the high grade cows supply milk for a creamery whose daily product is 150 pounds of as fincfbutter as a man ever saw upon his table. This butter is shipped to New Orleans where it is sold to hotels and restaurants. A practical butter maker is at the head of the dairy, but the stu dents perform the greater part of the work. They soon become expert dairymen and makers, and every year numerous applications are received by General from the pro prietors of large stock farms asking for some intelligent student to take charge of the work there. General Lee called to mind a dozen or more boys who had secured positions in just this manner, and without a single exception every one hud done well and given perfect sat isfaction. Professor Gulley, of course, in pursuing this system of reclaiming land, does not undertake to reclaim all at once, He confines his oj ‘ ra tions to a limited number of acres each year, in order that it may be thoroughly done. The rest of the farm is cultivated with intelligence and feed crops arc grown entirely. Nothing else is cultivated, for tiie reason that tho ob ject is to raise food for the cattle, for by the eattic the profit is made. Ho does not plant eotton, for the reason that he has not yet got ten the land, to that point where he believes cotton could be raised with profit. Whenever he :-u<-coeds in accomplishing that, his pur pose is to raise some cotton, but bis theory is that no one can afford to plant cotton on poor land. A largo amount of worn-out, worthless land has been reclaimed in eight years; once gotten up to the standaid, or even to the point where its product is paying, the land is never allowed to go backwards, but by a system of rotation of crops and by putting on it the profit over and al>ov(; the expense of cultivating it each year, in the shape of permanent fertiliza tion. the land is yearly growing richer and ri< her. Tho cost of working the college farm, in cluding the wages of the foreman, is about V2,(XX) per year. This expense is met by the sale of cattle, butter, milk, etc. Take, for in stance, one year, and I choose 18X5, for the reason that I have the figures before me: >'Mis worth of cattle were sold, 5J.217.71 worth of beef on foot wore sold, 52,293.:»7 worth of milk was sold, $581.96 worth of butter, while the products ct field crops, over and above what was necessary for the place, amounted to $811.50. Here from five items was realized $6,902.57, and at the same time the college supplied 276 student h with everything they desired, that could be raised or supplied from the farm. Professor Gulley admits that he could not make this showing without the aid of cattle, but you will observe that ho could not inaugurate the system of improving his land without tho cattle. Evtrything that is made over and above the co tof production goes right back upon the land in the way in permanent im provements. Mile after milo of fencing has been erected, this is necessary because of the system of pasturing, ditches have been cut, terraces have been built, old hillsides that for years held up to heaven tho barrest of faces have been sodded with grass, fields whose lo cations and whose soils prevent them from be ing planted in cereals have been sown and sodded in different grasses. Bermuda, the Georgia farmers pest and salvation has been imported by the barrel full and its long roots bedded in the ground; orchards of apple, peach, pear, and vineyards have been started, and bid fair to be wondrously successful. The agricultural college last year shipped nearly a thousand dollars’ worth of strawberries to Chicago, and also placed on market other articles like grapes, fruit, etc. Ju a few years, when the orchards get older, the revenue from this source will be something amazing. At this place everything is worked to ad vantage. Nothing is wasted. More care is taken than there is bestowed upon the places of a thousand farmers combined. Students arc taught habits that alone will do much to make them successful farmer’' ; tools and im plements do not remain in the fields, but are brought to tho yard and phu’ed under shelter, •ami when the year’s work is completed, they are painted and repaired and stored away for the next y(*ar's use. The people about Starkville who know this place eight years ago tell me a t runs form ati<n sutuie has been wrought here, and in another letter 1 ill gi\e a comparison of figures and facts that will, in a measure, show tho degree and nature of the “wondrous transformation. n 11. h. r. ——■■■■■ ■■ • - There is more experience, time, and brain work r» pr<*amted in the preparation of Hood’s Sai tparilla than in any otber medicine. It is tl - whioh makes llomi’s Sarsaparilla peculiar in its curative power, ami in the remarkable cures it effects. Give it a trial. The Killing of a ! 'lothvr-in-l.aw I’lKMixt.Ham. Ala., November 23. [Spec ial.) Two negn t'x. named \\ iley Lewis ami ; Sun Koan. wert‘ arrested here today on the rha :<• of murder. Last Saturday night a no:.10 woman named Alice Williams. H\ingat Selma, was called to her do >r and shot dead. She was the mother-in-law of Lewis, and it is charged that he hired Koan to kill her in or- : der to get p< ssessivn of some property she owned in this rity. An otiivvv from Selma | < nine for the prisoners, but their friends got a | writ of habeas corpus, and they were placed in jail here until the writ is argued tomorrow morning. Carter's Little Lixvr Pills are free from all crude and irritating matter. Concent rated medicine only; very small: very easy to take; no 1 ain; no griping. m» purging. An f'ronomist. J'nnn tho Arkansaw Traveler. ‘ How much yer charge ter go or mile." an eV! negro asked ot usttovt car conductor. “I wantor wo out ter roe I‘rc.dder l.ie< Xmlf. Ain't er flesh an’ Not'd bruddev, yet, vivlvrstan’, jes or I rudder in de faith.” ‘•Five cents.” • .h s fur er mile* 1 tel’, yer (tat de man ain’ mor sho uufl bvudder—jes a bruddvr in de faith.” ‘ The faro is five cents.” ‘■.les hirer mik’'” •Acs.” “llvw much Is U fUr two miles. ••Just the same.” ”Lo k yerv, V. »w far y.r k me fur tV cents?” | ‘ Ink© me Ul de way out dar fur ff cents.” • ku won’t take 1 c n > mo n er m '.e w ar Itr id •1 ain’t jot nabhin Mon.t d '. at yr- Hmits but yer may take me on out dar nn’ I Hm luckier Warivudder Maif Y.r.. > vet v'-: - • 1 ’1 4 >:’ity tool man dal would |-a> er del nr hirer ja r ('ontumptl -n "in 1 ly < urrd. To the F liter: 1 • eof info’m x • . * ‘.' at Ihvc n p.' the . I.'? thoUMim*© of hop *■- . have t«ee.i f«crma mv emvdv rari to m vol xour rcaifeutwhu have ■ ■ 1 p'lottav addrv k K* 0.-tht.h . I T. A. SIAK IM. MS~WI oa st \ . \ HIE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1887, BILL_ARP. He Says the Negro is Still a Cu riosity. ABOUT THE OLD TOWNS OF ALABAMA Alabama is mighty close kin to u< She is our sister and our daughter, too. She is a lit tle stuck up around Birmingham and Annis ton and Decatur, and carries tier nose in the air just like some children lord it over the old folks and make them take a back seat. But I found the old settlers down in the canebrake region very filial and affectionate. Tho peo ple have changed less by emigration and im migration Girin any region I have visited. Tho old standard towns of Selma and Demopolis and Uniontown and Greensboro and Marion and Eutaw and Livingston are still solid and sure, for they have health and climate and a vast area of black land to back them. They are proud of tho new cities that, are develop ing their mineral wealth, but there is a siiadow of regret that these new towns are enticing their host men away. Many of the most progressive citizens in all these towns have moved to Birmingham and Anniston, and have carried their money and their brains with them. Tho best law yers ami doctors and merchants and tho best preachers have gone. Where the carcass is there will the eagles be gathered together, and tho eagle you know is the great American bird that is stamped upon money and follows it about. The country 'is tho nursery of the towns, and the towns are tho nurseries of our cities, it is just so everywhere. When a farmer gets ricli enough to go to town he goes, for tho town has good schools and churches and society. When a town merchant gets a little ahead lie gets ambitious, and wants to get rich with more alacrity. Ile becomes a little uppity and bigity, and so moves to the city. Just so witli lawyers and doctors, and oven tlio preachers are not proof against high salaries and beautiful churches. We needn't talk about the negroes going to town. White folks love to go to town too. Sonic of them go to educate their children, but a good many go like the father goes to the circus just to please the children. The town is a fair compromise between tho city and the country. It is not so good as the country, but a good deal better than the city. I wouldent live in a city. I wouldcnt live in Atlanta or Birmingham if I could help it. Why, my folks can’t keep up with tiinxisiting right lure in Cartersville. They are away behind in their calls. They have toki-ep.-i list just like keeping a muster roll, tt keeps them trotting half the time. They talk about calls just like we talk about debtsand attach about Hie same importance to them. They delight to lune folks come to see them, for it flatters their consequence. I love to sit by and hear them talk over their calls and tell wiiat Mrs. A said and Mrs. B .said, and the mother-in-law and tho old grandmother, and how the children behaved, and they can tell more innocent news than I thought was in the town. That is all right. That is social pleasure, and we are all social beings. But in a city it is impossible for folks to keep up with so many visitors, and so they (have to classify into sets, and these sets try to draw the lines of de marcation, but they can't do it exactly, and so tlicy dovetail into one another in spite of all they can do. Women are very peculiar about this set business—these social distinctions. Money is generally at the bottom of it—a big pile of money—but money is frequently set-otf by culture and style. A rich family without culture ranks pretty well witli a pcxir family with culture. The trouble is that this keeps the poor family on a strain to keep into line, and Ido think that the rich folks ought to give boot and help these poor folks out, for a rich scrub is not equal to a poor thoroughbred. Folks wbo have nothing else to think about are veiy jealous of this ostracism of the set i. Kven pool folks with no culture at all are affected by it. Once upon a time Dr. Felton s. ; nt some garden seed from Washington to my poor nabor Mis. Williams but didn't send any to Mrs. Jones, and it made Mrs. Jones mad With .Mrs. Williams and the doctor too, and she said to my wife, “Dr. Felton tuk and sant a passel of guiding scedjto Betsy Ann Williams, hut he never sent mo any and I'm jest as good as Betsy Ann Williams. Dick siiant vote for him miry uother time—that he sliaiit.” And Dick didn’t. A candidate must always send seed to succeed. These Alabama towns ate prospering and have good schools and churches, and good .so ciety. Nobody lives in the country except the negroes. The black land region is black with them all the week except Saturday, and then they go to town and paint tlie town black. 1 arrived in Eutaw one Saturday evening and could hardly get through for tho negroes, and was told it wasn’t a very good Saturday for them either. They were all in a good humor and as happy as possible. If they brought any money they spent it. If they had any credit they used it. If they had neither they came anyhow just to have a good time. They have got a new kind of religion down there now, am! it is spreading f ist. It is called “Sheep-calling.” and is taken from the. scripture that says, “feed my sheep.” An old preacher darky takes a basket ot shelled corn on his arm ami goes out behind a big tree in the woods ami begins to cali his sheep. You can hear him half a mile away saying, “Co iieep. co-sliecp, co-sheep,” ami by and by tho durki >s begin to come from the neighboring woods, where they have been hiding, and they come hinting mid crying, “baa- baa—baa,” and some comes on their all-fours, and they cut up ail sorts of capers, and the young rani's fall over one another and butt their hcails to gether, and still they come and cry “baa -baa.” and each one goes up io tho old darky and gets a grain of corn and goes away witii another b.ia and takes rou idanee, aid alter a while, comes back again tor another grain of corn, and so on, and so on all the day. They are all bhiek sheep, and remind one of tho old song, "Ba-a, ba-a, black sheep, got any’ wool.” The negro is still a curiosity-an unsolved problem. Judge AV ebb, of Eutaw, an elegant old gi ntlenuui of leisure and observation, told mo that a negro was tried in their court for “iareeny after trust.” Two boxes of tobacco were entrusted to him to be hauled some dis tance and bo delivered to the purchaser. He arrived at bix destination witli only one box, mid could not account for the other except by saying that another negro rodo w ith liim on tlio wagon a part of tho way, and he didn’t know when he got off. lie seemed greatly troubled about it, and offered to work it out, but. nevertheless, he was indicted and ar raigned for trial. The case was fully proved against him. and there seemed no escape from conviction, but a kind hearted lawyer volunteered to defend him. and said in substance: "Gentlemen of the jury, this negro did not steal that tobacco, nor was he knowing or willing to its disap pearance. 1 have been raised with negroes. My first cry was in my black maiiniiy's arms, and from my early youth until now 1 have been an observer of the negro's character, and Ilutxe yet to learn of a single case where the m-gio xg-.s guilty of a broach of trust. lie will lie mi 1 be will steal, but 1 put it to you uow in all seriousm >s. did you ex er entrust anything to him and lie tailed lo take care of it mid deliver it it ho could'.' Never. I put this question to his honor on the bench, and to this bar, and to these bystanders, did yon over know of a case where a nogro betravid a trust'.'” Then ho rehears;il hi. faithfulness during the war—ami how when hi-; master was far away on tho tented field, ho stood by the wife mid the children, and was their friend aud protector. Ue said tho negro had some lad traits and bad passions, but he mvor vas known to be guilty of abroach of trust 'i ' e jury was profoundly impressul, mid so was the court Judge AV ebb remarked to a !■ ■ ml. “tl. it jury mill ac,,,iit that m gro," and they did. Tin-other darky stole the tobacco, for lie was under no judiciary obligation. It is suite trawl oGii.ind through this spl< n i'.d I i.nklan.l region mid see the' stately m i.-cns i.cserted ami tumbling into ruin. I'! e o I i iti-ician families who lived there, -at ro.uide,l by their slaves, h ive passed away, or m<0,,1 away, and their descendents i.re struggling in the towns or on the railreads for a living: many ot them are the best bkxxl of the south, ami they show it still in their pluck i ami energy under misfortune. Gieen-'boro is a l>emiti(ul t -wn. There is wealth there aad refinement. It is the home o Governor s, av. the most ]>opnlar man in the state, excepting, perhaps. Si nator Slorcan. I nioiitow n boasts of her annual fairs, w hich haxa boon a sncocss for niaux sears Livinston has the Normal Female college, a state institution that is the pride of her people, and well deserves the praise. In the public square there is a mineral artesian weli that is last becoming celebrated lor its healing w aters. “AVhat have you got at Eutaw?” said 1 to a friend. "AVhat constitutes a state?” said he proud ly, "Men who their duties know, but know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain.” “AA’e have a good people, sir. Look at that grand old gentleman, Mr. Dunlap, now past four score years aud is the accepted leader of the Sabbath school and the best singer in the town, and exemplary in all the virtues that belong to a Ciiristian gentleman. He is a pie of our people. He leads and they follow. Then we have the site of the old Mesopotamia church, the oldest church in this region, and near it is the old grave yard. "AVhere the rude fore-fathers of the hamlet sleep.” There is history buried there —history those people did not worship Mammon. No, sir; they worshipped God.” Bill Arp. SNAPPY AND SCRAPPY. .” >'■ 0. ’muff Pieayiinr; The waves of oi l ocean are by no means ready to sleep when they put their white caps on. Doelon Courier: Has a pig any use for a tail? asks an inquisitive agricultural contemporary. AVe don't know, but we should say the mini who wants to cat h a pig has. Chicago Tribune: A father in Duquesna. Pa., has named his first-born Thomas Benton Schnatterly Boyle Cleveland Genius of Liberty Flemming, If the boy lives he will be an anarchist, and no right minded person can blame him for it. Somerville Journal: People who have studied into the origin of phrases al! agree that the saying, “I acknow ledge the corn” was invented by a man. A woman never acknowledges a corn, no matter in what condition a busband may find his pet razor. Yonkers Statr.onan: Millions of eggs are imported to this country every year. But they are not for table purposes so much as for platform uses. Some thing stronger than the American egg is needed for lecturers nowadays. Pittsburg Chronicle: "AVhat decoration scandal is this that the son-in-law of the French'.president is involved in?” asked Mrs. Snaggs, “Decoration?” replied Snaggs. “Oh, I suppose he has been p-shtting the-lown red.” ~jjloston Courier: "Mith Thmith,” he asked, as he drew up his collar and adjusted his single eyeglass, “do you believe in the Darwinian theory, believe that man is dethended from a monkey?” “No," she replied, surveying him from head to foot, “I believe the very reverse*” Drake’s Magazine: Even at 87,0.0 a year a judge's life is full of trials. Binghamton Leader: The best waiter at a board inghouse is, not infrequently, the boarder. Boston Gazette: A man in this city culls his wife Ann Archy, because she is always blowing him up. Pittsburg Chronicle: The president of a knitting company has defaulted and disappeared. As for the stockholders he socked it to them. Louisville Courier-Journal: There lias been an in crease of desertion from the army, but the commis sioned officers appear to be all there, A'eio Orleans Picayune: A man cannot remember a tiling by pasting it in his hat. The pasting does not prevent the mau from forgetting his hat, paste aud all. Horristown Herald: Some one says that a pocket book is an awkward thing for a lady to handle. AU the same, if the pocketbook is tull she handles it so vigorously and successfully that it feels mighty weak when she gets through with it. Charlestown Enterprise: AV’ants the earth—a corpse. Exchange: You can smell some men's "smiles” even w hen you can't see them. Mornin.o Jottnial.- “Good sport, Tommy?” “Oh, fair. Shot a cow and an old woman. Both doing well.” Ctartrsfomi Enterprise: AVhy is a small boy like a drum? Because the Larder you beat it the more noise it makes. Life: Considering the price of fashionable bon nets, we begin to think the word “millionaire” is but a corruption of milliner. Somerville Journal: A’olapuk, the new world lan guage, has but one swear word. Some inventors d< n't seem to have any common sense. LouM Courier: Princess Beatrice has a daughter. The list of dependents upon the British tax payers grows large by degrees and beautifully more. Boston Transcript: Scientists say that the savage has a more acute sense of smell than civilized peo ple. When two savages get together how they must suiter! Philadelphia Call: It is said that Queen A’ictoria never accepts poetry unless it is enclosed in a rare casket or vase. That is a capital idea for some ot our country newspapers. Chicago Tribune: A Kentucky jury has acquitted a man named Pendulumof murder, and so he won’t have to swing Picaitune: The man who complains of a free lunch should go buy the board. Erw Haven Xcws: It is said that the pet dogs of Fifth avenue are soon to have a club. I.et it be a heavy one. Arw Orleans Times-Democrat: The Coagregatlon alist recently published a satirical article on the evils of smoking entitled: "Ought Not AVomon to Smoke?” The satire, however, was not perceived by a number of “constant readers” and “old sub scribers,” who wrote to the editor expostulating with him for advocating the use of tobacco by women. Exchange: A little curly-headed girl was walking about one Sunday afternoon in her garden. A little neighbor culled to her to come over and play. She refused, but upon being urged to come looked up with a quite sad and indignant face and exclaimed: “What! I p'ay on Sunday? Don't you know this is God’s day, audit's the only day he's got?” Cincinnati Telegram: A few mornings since, at breakfast, in a rich Clifton home, a little tot paral yzed his matermil progenitor by exclaiming: “Mam ma, I love you better than I love oatmeal.” •■Do you love that much, dear?” was the tender rejoinder. “Well, I ain't stuck on it.” Exchange: An Ohio pireacher visiting in Boston asked a bright woman there about her religious be lief. He was shocked to tiud that she didn't:seem to have any. "How can you be happy without iaith?” he asked. “Doesn't your womnuly nature demand a belief in something." ’ “Oh, yes," she answered, -and 1 give absolute belief to each Boston craze as long as it lasts, and that uot only satisfies the de mands of my womanly nature for faith, but also for variety." Exchange: "Clarence,” exclaimed his’ mother, "come to me quickly, dear. How pale you are. How stnngcly you look. A'ouareill. I smell tobac co. Ob, Clarence, you have a tobacco heart.” Clarence shook his head and gasped feebly. “Nome," he said, moving away in the direction of the lonely cow barn: “nome 'tain't my heart." And with white, compressed li; she was gone behind the barn; not lost, but gone behind: though lost to sight, to memory and other faculties quite alto gether perfectly audible. Durifrttr.* His yankee feet are on out shore, Nool o'vhau. our Sool o'vhan! He's come to tap the British gore, Sool o'vhan, our Soo! o'vhau! Let Bison,AVilliam hunt his hole: His fame i« now a broken bowl— One man alone charms Englund's soul, Sool o'vhau, our Sool o'vhan! Baltimore American.- Said an aged matron to me once: “AVhcn my cousin AVilliam came home from his three years' cruise his blue cloth suit with brass buttons looked very old-fashioned, aud I said: ‘Cousin AVilliam, you should buy yourself some new clothes; you can afford it.’ But he answered: Tdo not worry about my clothes. Cousin Mary; I have brought home four sliotl ans full of gold pieces, and the girls will marry me now. ” And to my, “Did any one marry him?'’ she replied, while a faint tinge mantled her aged cheeks. “Yes, 1 married him.” ♦ .ANGOSTUUA BITTERS, the world ro now ued appetizer and invigorator- I sed now over tire «holo civilized world. Try it. but beware of iiiiitations. Ask your grocer or druggist for the genuine article, manuf.i-.-tured by Dr. J. G ■ B. Seigert <N Sons. Twice Surprise,!. From the Chicago Tribune. Young AVife (at dinner table sobbing)—l think you—y -. u—are Just r - menu as—as—you can le. I in# te that apple dumpling as apk-;.s.iin sur prise fa you, and—and now—you—want me to bring a handsaw to cut it in two with, Young Husband - Good heavens, Maria' 1- t’.at a dumpling 1 took it for a cocoanut. (AVith d raper ale ui': ®ss.) I’2 cat it now. 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