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VOL. I.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS
AT WORK.
Daily Routine of Doth Houses Briefly
Outlined.
THE HOUSE.
Friday —After reading and approval
of the journal Friday. Mr. Catching?, of
Mississippi, demanded the regular order
and the house proceeded to the further
consideration of the report of the com
mittee on rules. An amendment was
then offered by Mr. Hemphill, of South
Carolina, withdrawing from the jurisdic
tion of the appropriation commit
tee appropriations for the support
of the District of Columbia. Mr.
Hemphill in advocating his amend
ment, criticised the committee on appro
priations for endeavoring, to hold on
to everything it could get, and
ridiculed the idea of economy entertained
by some people, which consisted in tak
ing from the people and keeping
everything as long as they could.
Mr. Breckeuridge, of Arkansas, and
Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, also spoke in
its favor, but the amendment was re
jected. The debate drifted away from
the ink and'in its course Mr.
DeForest, of Connecticut, brought in the
silver question. He declared that if a
free coinage bill were passed
by this congress it would not
go out with the stamp of endorse
ment of the democratic party upon it.
Mr. Hooper, of Mississippi, moved to
strike from the rules the provision mak
ing it always in order to call up for con
sideration the report from the committee
on rules, and preventing dilatory motions
being made pending such consideration.
This brought on a long and spirited de
bate. Mr. Oates, of Alabama, offered an
amendment providing for the appoint
ment of a committee on the order of
business to consist of fifteen members—
ten democrats and five of the opposition
—which shall have leave to report at any
time, and ot which the speaker snap be
ex-officio chairman.
Saturday. —ln the house, Saturday,
Mr. Oates, of Alabama, from the com
mittee on judiciary, reported a resolution
referring to that committee the report of
the charges and evidence taken by the
committee in the Fifty-first congress rel
ative to Aleck Boarman, judge of the
western district of Louisiana, with in
structions to fully investigate the same
and report its finds and recommendation
at any time. Agree.d to. Mr. Catchings
made a motion 'to postpone con
sideration ■of the rules till Monday.
The point of “no quorum” was raised,
but afterwards withdrawn, and the mo
tion was carried. Mr. Reed asked unani
mous consent that during the day mem
bers desirous of introducing bills might
present them to the speaker to be referred
by him, as was done during the fifty first
congress. Mr. Bland objected, giving as
his reason that the speaker did not regu
larly refer bills during the fifty-first con
gress. Mr. Reed hoped that the gentle
man did not mean to insinuate that the
present speaker would follow the evil ex
ample.
Monday. —There was a lively set to
Monday morning just after the house was
called to order between young Sherman
Hoar and Mr. Morse of Massachu
setts. Sherman Hoar charged the stove
polish statesman with having written in
words in official stenographer’s notes of
a speech which he did not deliver. The
allegation was vehemently denied.
The house spent nearly all day in dis
cussing the new code of rules. The dis
cussion will probably continue several
days. There was no heated debate but
the rule to prevent filibustering, uppn
which the house caucussed on Saturday
night, was adopted. There were but
few votes cast against it. Mr. Arnold, of
Missouri, introduced a resolution request
ing the president to recall Mr. Egan from
Chili because he is obnoxious to the peo
ple of that country.
Tuesday. —The house committee on
postoffices and postroads Tuesday author
ized by a strict party vote a favorable re
port on Representative Enloe’s bill re
pealing the mail subsidy act of the last
congress. Enloe was authorized to
prepare a report embodying the views of
the majority on the subject, which he
will lay before the committee on Tuesday
uext.
the senate.
Monday. —Mr. Butler, who has been
absent from the sessions of the senate for
some weeks, was again in his seat Mon
day. A number of bills were introduced.
At the conclusion of the morning hour
business on the calendar was taken up.
Tuesday. —ln the senate, Tuesday,
Mr. Mitchell, from the committe on priv
ileges and elections, made a report in
the case of the Claggett-Dubois contest
for a seat in the senate from the state of
Idaho. The resolutions declared Dubois
entitled to retain his seat, and t rat Clag
get is not entitled to it. He asked that
the report and rescdutions lie on the ta
ble, and gave notice that he would call
them up at a very early day. Mr. Palmer,
of Illinois, introduced a joint resolution
to ammend the constitution so as to have
'he United States senators elected by a
popular vote, and gave notice he would
on some convenient occasion address the
senate on the subject.
NOTES.
The senate on Wednesday confirmed
the nomination of J. G. Harris, post
master at Barnesville, Ga.
On Monday the senate committee on
privileges and election reported in favor
of Call in the Davidson-Call election con
test. The committee was unanimous.
There was a continuation in the house
Tuesday of the pleasant affair which oc
curred Monday between Mr. Morse, of
Massachusetts, and his Democratic col
league, the young student in politics,
Sherman lloar, who made himself con
spicuous in connection with his refuasl to
vote for Speaker Crisp on the occasion
of his election by the house. Mr. Hoar
rose to a question of privilege, and re
plied to Mr. Morse’s speech of Monday
in extenso, much to the amusement of
the members of both tides of the house
and the galleries. Mr. Morse had
charged the young man with having
made a false and untrue statement, and
that he was lacking in many of the qual
ities of a gentleman, in that he had gone
to tiie government printing office and
filched the manuscript of his (Morse’s)
speech. He also referred again to the
salt tears which Sherman Hoar had shed
over the defeat of his idol for speaker,
and said that the entire speech of his col
league was for home consumption.
MILLIONS STARVING.
Deplorable State of Affairs In Far Off
Russia.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
says: In response to many sympathetic
inquiries and proffers of aid received from
friends in the United States, the depart
ment of state has received from Minister
Smith, at St. Petersburg, an interesting
report of the actual conditions of the
stricken districts of Russia, -prepared
from the evidence of eye witnesses and
most trustworthy sources, of which the
following is an epitome.
THE TERRITORY AFFECTED.
The territory affected by the drought
comprises thirteen provinces of Euro
pean Russia, where the famine is general,
in five other provinces the famine pre
vails in part. The first thirteen provinces
in this area are one-third greater than all
Germany. They cover an area equal to
the states of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Kentucky all together. The population
is about equal, or 27,000,000. The five
other provinces above named, if included
in the comparison, would equal the com
bined area of Indiana, lowa, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, North
and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and
half of Ohio. The total population of
these last five provinces is nearly double
that of the eleven statesjast named. This
vast section is agricultural and the richest
and ordinarily the most fruitful soil of
Russia.
THE DESTITUTION EXISTING.
The destitution not universal, as
there are those whole acoumuiaU jus have
saved them from want, and there are
some spots preserved from blight by irri
gation that bore a good harvest and was
reaped, but at the best estimate the pro
portion of suffering is enormous. An
official estimate of the numbers of those
without food or means of support who
require aid is given at 14,000,000 per
sons, and this is probably below the num
ber.
For three years crops have fallen short
of the average and the deficiency of the
past seasen left the storehouses well nigh
empty, and through the increased failure
of this year it is evident, and Minister
Smith adds positively, that unless ade
quate relief cau be supplied, the great
present destitution and suffering will
grow worse as the season continues.
COLD A8 WELL AS HUNGER.
Cold as well a3 hunger causes terrible
sufferings. In some neighborhoods large
numbers of persons huddle together in
some houses most conducive to warmth.
Barns have been torn down and the
boards used for firewood; even thatched
roofs are tom off and the straw made to
feed the dying embers. Clothing is
given away for bread. Horses and cat
tle are sacrificed at a tithe of their value.
Fodder is as scarce as human food, and
in some cases horse flesh has been sacri
ficed for susteuance.
THE COUNTRY FROZEN UP.
The rivers are frozen. Two or three
railroads run into the famine-stricken
region, but there are no branches of
these roads and all the provisions must
be carried for’long distances on sledges.
The problem is how to carry enough dur
ing the next three months, not only for
immediate use, but also to tide over the
period until the next harvest shall be
realized, which should be in July.
IMMENSE RELIEF FUND.
The imperial government has up to the
present time appropriated eighty-five
million roubles ($42,000,000) from
the public treasury for the work
of relief. But the work , must go
on, and the expenditure must amount to
a much higher sum. Up to the present
time there have been few contributions
from abroad, but the government and
people of Russia are deeply sensible of
the spontaneous offers that have been
made in various parts of the United
States and the emperor’s ministers, as
well as others have manifested such to
Minister Smith, in their expression of ap
preciation.
A SHINGLE COMBINE
Which Announces to Meet Competition
from any Quarter.
A Mobile, Ala., dispatch says: The
Mobile shingle exchange was dissolved
Tuesday night. It included all the
jypress shingle mills in Mobile. The
Iron clad agreement as to prices was too
Inflexible to suit all the members and the
exchange could not meet competition
from the Louisiana mills with success.
Wednesday was formed the Mobile Shin
gle association that will act as selling
agent for all the mills in Mobile whose
joint output is 1,000,000 shingles per
Say. The association will buy of the
manufacturers at a fixed price and will
>e the sole judge of selling prices, and
announces that it will meet competition
from any quarter.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1892.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
The trensury ou Monday purchased
400,000 ounces of silver at 90.90@91.15.
A cablegram of Tuesday siys: The
steamship Eider, ashore on the English
coast, is a total wreck.
On Monday the police of Berlin seized
a quantity of anarchists’ literature, be
sides arresting twenty persons.
A dispatch of Saturday Irom Mentone
says Mr. Spurgeon passed a restless
night and there is no improvement in
his condition.
A dispatch of Sunday, from Brussels
state that fully one-fourth of the build
ings of the town of Chimay have Ugn
destroyed by fire.
Four lives were lost in the burning of
a house at Brainerd, Minn., Saturday.
The wife and three children of George
Crane perished in the flames.
An Odessa correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News, in a dispatch of Sun
day, says hunger and typhus spread
alarmingly in large towns in that region. |
A cablegram of Tuesday says: The <;
minister of w r ar of Brazil has resigned, i
The minister of marine has been appoint- I
ed to succeed him and will hold back the
portfolios ad interim.
A Santiago correspondent of The Lon
don Times, in a dispatch of Sunday, says
that public opinion is satisfied with the
procedure of the government in the dis
pute with the United States.
The whitners in Milwaukee tanneries,
120 in number, went out on a strike Fri
day. The trouble arose over an attempt
on the part of the tanners to equalize
wages iu all the tanneries of the city.
Dispatches of Friday state that small
pox is rapidly spreading among 500
Chinese in quarantine on Angel island,
Cal., landed from the steamer Rio
Janeiro January 20th, when two eases
were aboard.
A Washington dispatch says: Repre
sentative Snodgrass, of Tennessee, intro
duced a bill Monday directing the board
of managers for the homes for disabled
soldiers to establish a branch of the so’*
diers’ home upon Chickamauga military
park in Tennessee.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American branch of the Red Cross So
ciety, has issued an appeal to the Ameri
can people for $75,000 to pay the ex
penses of shipping four cargoes of food
from New York to Libeau, on the Baltic,
for the starving peasants of Russia.
On Monday, Frederick W. Martin, an
electrician the Toronto, Ont., Electric
Light Company, while passing between
two large dynamos, completed the cur
rent between them and was rendered un
conscious and possibly fatally injured by
the shock. When he recovered con
sciousness it was found that he was
blind.
Advices received Tusday from the city
of Pueblo, the capital of the *state of
Pueblo, seventy-six miles southeast of the
City of Mexico, says that a financial and
commercial crisis prevails there, and
many business houses have closedftheir
doors. Much dissatisfaction is expressed
with the local and
and a revolution is *
A of Monday
says: Official notice has been received at
the state department that the tariff
changes agreed upon in the reciprocity
agreement for British West India colo
nies, have already been voted by Jamaica,
Barbadoes and Trinidad, and that from
February Ist the reciprocity arrange
ment will be in full force in these colo
nies.
A Chicago dispatch says: The fact has
just come to light that under date of
January 30 th, Legget & Myers, of St.
Louis, the largest manufacturers of plug
tobacco in the United States, issued a
circular withdrawing the agency system
by which all wholesale dealers were
bound to sell their goods at fixed prices.
They say they have been forced to this
action by a general secret cutting of rates.
A cablegram from Rome says: It is
reported that the government of Italy is
about to resume full diplomatic relations
with the United States. Baron Fava, it
will be remembered, quit his post ou in
definite leave of absence at the time of the
controversy between the two govetn
ments arising from the shooting of the
Italians in the New Orleans jail by a mob.
Signor Cataline will be sent as minister
to Washington.
A New York telegram says: 8. V.
White, the senior member of the firm of
S. V. White & Cos., who failed for sev
eral millions some months ago, has prac
tically settled all debts, and on Thurs
day applied for readmission to the stock
exchange. Ilis New York creditors have
for the time being written off one million
dollars of his indebtedness. Their only
security is his word. No such compli
ment was ever paid to a business man in
the financial district before.
An Indianapolis dispatch says: Bishop
Chatard, Hon. Hugh Hanna and Judge
Howe, constituting the board of arbitra
tion, Monday morning rendered a de
cision in the late street car strike. It was
substantially that the street car company
had the right to recall the free-ride
badges held by the men, but that in this
contingency the company should com
pensate tbe men for extra service in re
porting accidents, \yhat this compen
sation should be the board declared it
had no right to determine. The decision
is satisfactory to both sides. #
SPURGEON IS DEAD.
The Great Preacher Joins tlie Silent
Majority.
of the death of Rev. Charles
tladdon Spurgeon, which took plaek at
iLontone, Italy, at 11 o’clock Saturday
night was Deceived at London Sunday
Worning. A sorrowing group of Mr.
Sturgeon’s followers were at the time
holding night services at the tabcrnacele,
praying for the recovery of their
beloved pastor. The se meetings began
a month ago, and when Mr. Spurgeon
was apprised of them, he sent answer:
“In the lone watches of the night your
prayers have buoyed up my spirits, but
not to things of earth. I feel that my
soul would fain fly to its Creator —the
Lord of all.” It was 1 o’clock when the
message telling of his demise was re
ceived. No announcement was made—
>,he fact seemed to make itself apparent
to all the watchers.
Mr. Spurgeon’s end was painless. He
remained unconscious to the last. His
wife, Dr. # Fitzllenry and Miß9 Thorne
were present when he died. Mr. Spur
geon’s body will be transported to Eng
land for burial.
y HIS LIFE WORK.
Charles Haddou Spurgeon was born
at Kelvedon, Essex, June 19, 1834.
His father intended that he should be
an independent minister, but his inate
U religious belief was in accord with the
f dreed of the Baptists, and he associated
himself with that church in 1850.
j ' His sermons have been published in the
weekly newspapers of England and
America, and many of them have been
translated into various languages.
Besides his great work in the ministry,
he has found time to write some splen
did books, which will live after him.
He is the author of “John Ploughman’s
Talk,” “Morning by Morning,” “Eve
ning by Evening,” “The Treasury of Da
vid,” “Lectures to My Students,” “The
Saint and the Saviour.”
He has been the editor of a magazine
called the “The Sword and Trowel"
since 1865.
Dr. Spurgeon was a power wherever
the Baptist faith was known and preach
ed. He was by long odds the greatest
living exponent of that faith, and his
death removes the greatest expositor it
ever had.
TJie power of his name was felt in
America, an d*l over this country anx
ious hearts have been waiting for the ter
mination of his illness, faring lest the
angel of death might summon him to his
everlasting home.
And when they read of hi j death now
they wiff" think God that the -Ex
ample of so great and good a man has
been left as a beacon light in the reli
gious world.
IMPORTANT DECISIONS
Boyd GoYeruor---Coiistitiniouality of
the Lottery Law Upheld.
A Waslmigton<(Bispatch says: The
United Stat% supreme court on Monday
decided in favor of Boyd in the Nebraska
governor case. All the justices, except
Justice Field, concurred in the conclu
sion of the court, that Boyd was a citi
zen of the Uaited States and entitled to
thesgficeof governor of Nebraska.
Justices Harlan, Gray and Brown con
curred in that part of the opinion which
held that Boyd was a citizen because
froi#tlie record iu the case it must be
considered as established that Boyd’s
father having exercised all the rights of a
citizen, had in fact, in 1884 taken out
his final naturalization papera notwith
atanding he did not have any record of
such final naturalization papers.
The court also held that there was
such a thing as collective natural
ization; that enabling the act of Nebras
ka constituted the neutralization of all
the inhabitants of Nebraska at the time
of its admission, except such as desired
to retain their foreign rights, and that
Boyd’s excuse of various offices showed
his intentions to become a citizen. Opin
ion by chief justice court reversed the
judgment of the supreme court of Ne
braska and ordered it to take further pro
ceedings in conformity with the decision
that Boyd is a citizen.
THE LOTTERY LAW STANDS.
The United States supreme court also
upheld the constitutionality of the recent
anti-lottery act of the last congress, af
firming the decision in the case of Dupre
and Rapier, publishers of the New Or
leans States and Mobile Register, who
were indicted on the chaj-ges of sending
through the mails newspapers contain
ing lottery advertisements. By common
consent the cases were made test suits
as ;o the constitutionality of the law.
Chief Justice Fuller announced that
owing to the death of Justice Bradley,
to whom the writing of the opinion in the
anti-lottery cases had been given, the
court would postpone any elaboration of
its views and confine itself to an expres
sion of the general ground on which the.
decision proceeds.
A FURNITURE TRUST
To Control the Manufacture and Prices
of School Supplies.
The Grand Rapids Furniture Compa
ny at Grand Rapids, Mich,, the largest
manufacturers of school furniture in the
world, has sold out to an organization of
capitalists known as the United States
Furniture Company, with headquarters
in Chicago. This company, which is be
lieved to be in the nature of a trust,already
controls seven-eights of the school fur
niture plants of the United States, and
the captun of the Grand Rapids concern
will practically give it control of the bus
iness. The capital of the United States
company is $2,000,000, but the capital
of the firms now in the combine aggre
gate $15,000,000.
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
Status of Trade as Reported by Dun
& Company.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the week ended Jan.
29, as reported to R. G. Dun & Cos.,
number for United States 253, Canada
44, total 297; against 328 the week be
fore. It is undeniable that there exists
a considerable feeling of disappointment.
More business, but at lower prices, seems
to be the rule. That the volume of trade
is gradually increasing, even in branches
which have been dullest, there seems to
be no doubt. But in an unusual number
of cases, increased sales appear to be the
result of some yielding in prices, so that
the average decline in prices of all com
modities during the past week has been
more than one-half of 1 per cent.
Money continues iu abundant supply,
the movement of products continues
large, and the extraordinary exports in
December, amounting to almost one hun
dred and twenty million dollars, against
not quite ninety-nine million dollars last
year, attract especial attention.
Reports from trade centers generally
indicate a gradual increase in the volume
of trade. At Philadelphia iron is quiet
and coal demoralized, but dry goods are
more active and the grocery trade larger
than last year. Paints, oils, glass and
jewelry are quiet and chemicals steady.
At Baltimore the jobbing trade is quiet
but manufacturing brisk. Pittsburg re
ports finished iron weaker and many flint
glass works closed by dull trade. Ip. dry
there seems to be rather less activ
ity as to cotton goods, and in knit goods
some dullness. -Clothiers are conserva
tive, and waiting for indications of pop
ular fancy, and hence men’s wear and the
woolen trade are perplexing. Stocks on
hand are short, apparently because the
freaks of public fancy last year were such
as to warn manufacturers and clothiers
against overhas'y action.
COTTON AND WOOL.
There is a better feeling in the wool
market, however, at New York as at
Boston, and continuing sales prove that
manufacturing has by no means ceased.
Cotton is i cent lower, at 7J cents, with
enormous recipts for the season, and sales
of 837,000 bales here. While both re
ceipts and exports fall somewhat behind
those of last year for the same week, in
dications still point to a very large crop.
At New York money on call has de
clined from 2 per cent to 1$ per cent, and
the treasury has paid out about two mil
lion seven hundred thousand dollars more
than it has taken in during the week.
A STRANGE CASE.
Two Girls in Love with Each Other*
One is Murdered.
A dispatch of Thursday from Mem
phis, Tenn., says: The developments in
the Mitchell-Ward murder case are of the
most astounding nature. Miss Mitchell’s
lawyers have given the substance of an
interview with her, and it is corroborated
by the correspondence between the two
girls, and which shows that the abnor
mal attachment Miss Mitchell had for
Freda Ward was reciprocated by the
other. The girls had pledged themselves
to marry each other on three different oc
casions. More than .that an elopement
was actually planned. One was to as
sume a man’s dress, a marriage was to
take place under assumed names, and the
queer pair were to go to St. Louis.
The last letter from Miss Mitchell to
Freda unfolded this plan, and was accom
panied by an engagement ring. It was
at this stage that Miss Ward’s married
sister interfered to break up this strange
intimacy, and the ring was returned and
Freda forbidden to speak to Miss Mitch
ell. Rather than endure the separation,
Mis 9 Mitchell then conceived the purpose
of killing the girl she loved, and delib
erately shf crd<d U into execution.
CHILI’S CONCESSIONS
Accepted by Uncle Sam and Every
body Satisfied.
Secretary Blaine sent a cable message
to Minister Egan Saturday morning in
structing him to inform the Chilian gov
ernment that its propositions for a settle
ment of the differences between the two
governments, made in response to the
ultimatum of the 21st instant, are grati
fying to the president of the United
as indicating a good prospect that
the controversy can now be adjusted upon
terms satisfactory to this government by
the usual diplomatic methods.
The telegram makes no request or sug
gestion of any kind whatever for a salute
by Chili to the American flag, and there
is no reason to believe that this govern
ment will require such a salute from
Chili, which may,, of her own accord,
perform this graceful act at the termina
tion of it p diplomatic adjustment of all
difficul vhioh is now in progress.
HILI IS PLEASED.
A telegram of Saturday from Valpa
raiso states that the United States’ ac
ceptance of Chili reply to the ultimatum
has given great satisfaction in that city.
Exchange has risen l^d.
HARD ON BLAINE.
The Washington Post Prints a Scath
ing Article Concerning His Acts.
A Washington dispatch says: Tuesday
morning’s Post publishes, with double
length scare lines, a story that confirms
dispatches relative to the bad feeling be
tween Blaine and Harrison because
of the Chilian embroglio. It ac
cuses Blaine of grossly deceiving
Minister Montt, the authorities in Chili
and the general public. It refers to'him as
an astute and unfathomable artist. It
states that the explanation of Montt which
displeased the president, concerning Mat
ta’s letter was suggested, and, perhaps,
dictated by Blaine, and wonders that
Blaine could remain in the cabinet alter
such conduct.
UNANOINTED.
We know that through the viewless air.
Though not a mote seems floating there.
There may be crossing everywhere—
Beings of an ethereal guise,
Betwixt our earthly-holden eyes
And the far reaches of the skies—
A realm within a realm; yet we
With unanointed vision see
No token of its mystery.
God’s messengers—they come and go
Unfelt, unheeded by us, though
They touch us passing to and fro.
In mystic circles they enwreathe
Us all around, above, beneath,
And fan the very air we breathe.
What respite in our wild despair
The thought would bring us did we dare
Believe our darling dead were there 1
What consolation, heavenly bright,
Would hush our anguish if we might
Still hold their deathless care in sight!
So near they may be—ah, so near 1
And yet we bend no conscious ear
The folding of their wings to hear.
—Margaret J. Preston, in Harper's Bazar.
PITH AND POINT.
A bill of credit—William Shakspere.
La grippe is not a thing to be sneezed
at. '
All the world loves a lover—except
his rival.— Life.
It isn’t safe to bandy words with a
chemist. He is pretty sure to have a re
tort ready.— Lowell courier.
Every man in trouble feels that his
friends are not as indignant as they
should be.— Des Moines Register.
“Come, darling, you have eaten
enough of that cake.” “O, mamma, I
haven’t dot the tummick ache yeti”
The pretty pianist always has a strik
ing manner and more frequently a dis
tracting air.— Binghamton Republican.
She always used to shake my hand
With touch light as a featuar;
Last night I said I loved her, and
She snook me altogether.
— Harper's Bazar.
The short tale may be a success in lit
erature, but the docked horse thinks it’s
a mighty poor thing in fly time.— Boston
Post.
People who have seen two lovers say
good-by never have any trouble after
wards in believing in eternity,— Texas
Siftings.
There is nothing in the world more
aggravating to a man with a secret than
to meet people who have no curiosity.—
Atchison Globe.
I do not care how well she speaks,
Or in how many languages,
If, with a blush upon her cheeks,
She answers my one question “Yes."
—Detroit Free Press.
Nature makes no mistakes, they say,
but when you have bitten by a rat
tlesnake or a mad dog it is hard ior you
to assent to the statement.— Kamos City
Star.
Mr. Slowboy—“The world is very
wide and has something in every part of
it." Maud (yawning)—“Well, why do
you remain so long in one place?”—
Washington Hatchet. , ,
“There’s plenty of room at the top,” he said,
As he stood by the mirror there,
With a brush and a towel in either hand,
And parted his seldom hair.
—Detroit Free Press.
“Are you the minister.” The person
addressed turned up his nose and, cast
ing a contemptuous glance upon his in
terlocutor, replied: “No,l’m the leader
of the choir.”— flew Orleans limes-Demo
crat.
Jacky—“We had a thirteen pound
turkey at our house yesterday.” Jim—
“Oh, that’s nawthin’. We had one that
weigh fifteen pounds.” Jacky—“l
don’t care it your old turkey was bigger.
I’ll bet you didn’t have no doctor come
to see you twice in the night the way I
did.”— Boston Post.
The ether day a journal,hitherto with
out a spot on its character,inquired with
well-feigned innocence: “How can five
persons divide five eggs so that each man
will receive one, and still one remain in
the dish?” After several hundred peo
ple went two-thirds distracted in the
mazes of this proposition, the journal
meanly says: “One takes the dish with
the egg.”— Northwest.
A Wonderful Yase.
In the Cathedral of Genoa, Italy, is
preserved, and has been for six hundred
years, a vase of immense value. It is cut
from a single emerald. Its principal
diameter is 12$ inches. It is kept under
several locks, the keys of which are in
different hands, and it is rarely exhibited
in public, and only by an order of the
Senate. When exhibited it is suspended
around the neck of a priest by a cord,
and no one is allowed to touch it but
him. A decree passed in 1476 forbids
any one going too near the precious relic.
A Genoese antiquarian has written a
book to demonstrate that this vase is
one of the gifts made to Sciomon by the
Queen of Sheba.— Ne<n Orleans Picayune.
Better Than a Pound of Meat.
It has been determined by a noted
scientist that a tablespoonful of milk
contains, two hours after being obtained
from the cow, 9000* germs, and in
twenty-four hours the number is in
creased to over 5,000,000, enormously
increasing if the recepticie containing
the milk is kept in a warm room. These
microbes are harmless and considered to
assist digestion. —Philadelphia Record.
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