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VOL. IV-NO, 49.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Tennessee hast forty marriage associa
tions.
'Seventy gold mines are being worked
in Georgia.
Abbeville, Ala., has a colored citizen
worth $20,000.
Six negroes sit on tbe grand jury at
Brownsville, Tenn.
Augusta, Ga., has $6,000,000 invested
in manufactories.
Two thousand Choctaw Indians still
live in Mississippi.
A large car factory is to be establish
ed at Danville, Ga.
Chattanooga has the finest union de
depot in the South.
The largest peach orchard in the
world is in Alabama.
Pepper pods weighing a quarter of a
pound grow at Waldo, Fla.
Cedar Key,Fla., shipped 4,000 pounds
of turtles one day last week.
The cotton crop of Florida will be
about the same as that of last year.
Chatham county, Ga., has shipped
$50,000 worth of cabbages this year.
One of the richest mica mines in the
world has been discovered near Athens,
Ga.
Five hundred thousand dollars will
be invested in a new cotton mill at Sel
ma, Ala.
The population of Birmingham, Ala.,
is estimated at from 8,000 to 12,000
Quite a margin.
The authorities of Madison county,
Fla., will abolish the license of SSOO for
trading in cotton seed.
During the ten years from 1870 to
1880 Tennessee increased the number of
her farms forty per cent.
A Chili squash, raised as an experi
ment by a Monticello, Fla., farmer,
weighs nearly 200 pounds.
Senator Brown is the largest individ
ual tax-payer in Atlanta, Ga , and he
pays taxes on $329,500 worth of real
a B d personal property.
A mystsrious rot has made its appear
ance among the Tennessee vineyards, and
it is feared great damage will be done
the heretofore promising fruit.
Within the neighborhood of Talbott’s
station, Jefferson county, Tenn., over
five hundred sheep have been killed 1
and as great a number crippled, by dogs i
in the last twelve months.
A canal to be built at Rome, Ga , on
the Etowah river, will be four and a
half miles long, 262,96 horse power and
have a fall of over twenty-six feet. It
is intended for manufacturing purposes,
and will cost $350,000.
A. M. Page, the hero of the great
Lowndes’bond robber vat Clarksburg, W.
Va,, who succeeded in getting away
with SIOO,OOO in money and bonds, has
just been released from prison after serv.
ing out seven years of an eight year g
sentence.
Au inexhaustable mine of corundum
stone, the next hardest known substance
to the diamond, has been discovered in
Butts county, Ga. It resembles the
sapphire, is susceptible of high polish,
and is valuable in many ways.
Lorentz Rothenback is the modern
Samson, who labors in the iron works
at Cedartown, Tenn., and amuses himself
and delights the natives by carrying a
pair of 500-pound car wheels, attached
to the axle, around the yard with per
feet ease.
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The Art of Mezzotint.
These attempts at revising the art of
mezzotint as employed upon original
work have a special interest besides that
which attaches to them as experiments
so far successful and promising to be
still more so. They show the de
sire to cultivate a very beautiful
and refined style in which English
artists, inspired as they were by
the beautiful pictures of Reynolds and
Gainsborough, more than a hundred
years ago, arrived at the highest perfec
tion. That the method should ever have
been suffered to fall into disuse, and be
supplanted by the more mechanical and
less artistic work produced in various
forms by various tools used to cut into
the plate in a more or less stiff and un
pliant manner, is much to be regretted,
a painter’s method, more
and broader in
.d one, Giro fore, that en
■HtaV ' to give full expression to
..’■''"'l'- the beauties of light and
MMHKl'dl \ ■■harm ~| gradation and
; possible to a niono-
’ nt
®lje Bolton Strong.
"THE NIGHT COMETH ON."
Deep down ’mongst the reedy hollows,
And away thro’ the meadows low.
Swift o’er its shining pebbles,
Pausing not in its ceaseless flow,
The brook that comes down from the mountain
To the ocean must speed its flight,
As the brightness that dawned with the
morning
Must die on the threshold of night.
The ferns by the brooksido growing,
And the reeds as they murmur and sigh,
And the willows and meadow grasses
Keep time as the brook sweeps by,
And the ocean is calmly waiting,
But never a ripple will tell,
When the wavelets the brook is bringing
Shall be merged in its long, low swell.
And there eometh a royal sunset
That lighteth the funeral pyre
Os the day as it glides down the western sky
And dies in its crimson fire;
And night with its swift wing mounting,
The brightness sweepeth away,
And setteth the seal or darkness
On the tomb of the vanished day.
And so it but little recketh
How radiant life’s dawn may be;
It as surely wears on to the gloaming
As the brook tloweth on to the sea.
And however fair be its evening
Its brightness will soon be gone,
And the waning light and the gathering gloom
V ill whisper: “The night cometh on."
—Anna Alexander Cameron, in Our Continent.
AMERICAN MONEY AND ITS USES.
The unit of the American money ta
ble is the mill. It is not coined now.
They tried it once, but it was discov
ered that all the pastors in America
were getting their salaries in that coin.
To save these very estimable people
from starvation, therefore, the coinage
of the mill was stopped.
A cent is used to drop into the out
stretched hand of poverty and the tin
cup of the melodious organ-grinder.
It is also used to run the Sunday
school, support foreign missions and
bribe children of six years old and un
der. It isn't good for anv other pur
poses west of the Mississippi, but fur
ther East, down in the cultured region
round about Boston, in the plane of
high political morality and general
purity of New York, and generally all
through the barbarous orient, it is used
to buy newspapers, many of the news
papers in that land being sold for a
cent. It will, also, in that favored
land, buy bananas and oranges, and as
sist 'in paying street-car fares. It is
also used largely as change. When a
man buys a New Hampshire rock
patch—sometimes called a farm
eleven and one-quarter acres at $l9O
per acre, the buyer will wait in the of
fice three hours and a half while the
real-estate agent shins around and gets
change for a two-cent piece, in order
to make even purchase money. In the
far-West, the cent, save that which is
worn by the guileless Indian, is almost
unknown. It takes ten mills to make
the United States cent. One gin mil!
does the work for the Indian.
The next coin in the ascending scale
is the two-cent piece. It is twice as
Worthless or twice as useful as the cent,
according to the accidental or oriental
locality of its circulation. In any State
it will buy a revenue stamp to put on a
bank check, and this causes it to be in
such constant and heavy demand in the
I newspaper offices that it always com
mands a large premium.
The, nickel is worth five cents, and
stands on the verge of silver money. It
is used to play “crack loo” with, and
is also largely employed in “match
ing.” It is invariably lost when you
match with it. Its principal use in com
merce is the purchase of schooners; like
wise schnits. If tbe coinage of the
nickel should be stopped for two weeks
three-fourths of all the beer saloons in
the United States would go into bank
ruptcy. The nickel will buy a newspa
per anywhere in America, and but for
the strong demand on the part of the
beer garden, it would scarcely be ap
plied to any other use. In some places
it will get a “ shine” with the heels left
1 out. It will pay a street car fare in any
place in the world except Philadelphia.
A dime is the familiar ten-cent piece
of commerce. It is always made of sil
ver, all others being imitations. A dime
will buy a five cent cigar with a red pa
per collar on. It will secure you admis
sion to the side show. It will a! ■ > buy
a drink of whisky that will burn a hole
through the sole of your boots. It is
also largely used for the purchase of
fine-cut tobacco. Efforts have been
made to utilize it as a purchasing power
for ice-cream, but as it will only buy one
small dish, it has been a failure in that
direction. It is the most inconvenient
coin known, and is disliked greatly on
account of its supreme selfishness. It
will not buy two of anything, except
malt liquor and the fatal brand of al
leged cigars known as “tufers.” It is
used to a considerable extent in the pur
chase of cigarettes, by young men who
are not yet able to smoke tobacco.
A quarter is a real coin. It is worth
two dimes and a nickle and has some
style about it. It is the purchasing
equivalent of three domestic or two im
ported cigars. It is an aristocrat at the
cigar-stand but a plebeian at the theater.
Laid in the honest palm of the hotel
porter, it makes him übiquitous: devoted
to the waiter, he becomes a horn of
plenty and fastens himself with a death
like grip to the back of your chair. The
quarter stands in the best silver society
and shrinks not from even the dollar.
He is convivial, social ami friendly, and
is the easist to lend and handiest to
borrow in the whole lot, hence he is
nexer still, and is largely known in
society as “lemmea quarter.” You can
buy something of anything for a
quarter, and hire a boy to run an
errand nine miles away for one. In
general, it is worth thirty cents, because
whatever is sold foi a dime, you can
buy in threes for a quarter. Very often,
! indeed, have efforts been made to enlist
; i, . ,< i cm s an i ito lies,a-in oi the
< w. ter in t ■ e ■ a ise oi foreign missions,
|-u: it isn't that kind of a bird, it feels
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1882.
that it has grown too big for that sort
of thing, but is exactly the correct size
and proper age for the porter of the
sleeping-car.
The half-dollar is a rather more lone
some coin than the quarter. It is a
t ail-brother to the dollar, and it is prin
cipally devoted to sustaining Mr. Bar
num's g eat moral show In some
arts ol America the half-dollar is nev
r s< en and never known to exist, save
■n y on the day the circus comes to
<>nn Sometimes, by exerthnr itself
strongly, it can buy a pound of butter,
and has been known to procure a pint
of strawberries late in the season, but
hu effort is al wavs fatal, and the half
dollar is its own sacrifice, in connec
tion with the quarter, the half-dollar
sometimes goes into a pool and forms a
combination known as “six bits” the
world over, gave only in York State,
where it is called “six shillin’.” In this
State, also, the half-dollar itself is fre
quently designateo by the awful title of
“four shillin’.” After a half-dollar has
once been called “four shillin’,” and you
can prove it, it will only pass for forty
cents out West
In the United States the dollar varies
in value from ninetv-two to one hun
dred cents, the greatest Republic on
earth having experimented with several
kinds of dollars before it learned just
what it wanted, and it hasn’t found out
what it is yet. A dollar will buy any
thing in a 99-cent store, and it is con
sidered the proper plaster for the head
waiter if you are going to stay three or
four days. When made of silver, it is a
splendid thing to throw at a dog, or
carry in your pocket when you want to
drown yourself. It is used to subscribe
for the Washington Monument, and it
will buy enough fire-crackers to go
around one boy on the Fourth of July.
When the dollar is twins, it will take
you a weekly newspaper for a whole
year, or a sleeping-car berth for one
night. W hen we get among the dol
lars. we are in the very aristocracy of
money.
The five-dollar bill is used to bet on
the wrong horse with. It is also popu
lar as a borrowing medium Saturday
afternoon, and it pays for a livery
“hoss” all Sunday. In domestic affairs,
it is generally understood among men
that with five dollars a woman ought to
run a household of eight children and
(wo servan's a whole week. The same
bill will keep up with the man’s per
son tl expens nearly a day and a half
in good weather. It will also buy a
unm a new hat, or a new buckle for his
wife’s old one. When the five dollars
is a gold piece, it is handy to give to a
beggar or street car conductor for a
cent, after dark.
A ten-dollar bill is the alternative of
ten days; you pay the one or get the
other. It will aso buy live red or ten
white chips. The twenty-dollar bill
will buy your wife a new bonnet, and
its brother will enable her to make the
children—if there is only one of them—
look half way decent. The uses of the
twenty-dollar bill are very limited, and
this piece of money itself is very shy
and hard to find, hiding away in banks
and fire-proof safes, and only' capt
ured by long days of hard labor on a
full hand.
It has been said, and is still claimed
by some writers on finance, that there is
a SIOO bill. This is an awful lie; the
extravagant coinage of the wandering
brain of some financial editor, who has
gone mad by the compilation of bank
reports in which sums of one thousand
and even two thousand dollars have
been mentioned. One hundred dollars!
Why, there would be no limit to the pur
chasing power of such a coin. It would
buy a new press and a new dress for the
paper, put up a new building and hire a
funny man at each end. It could put a
new organ in the church and pay the
pastor’s salary with one hand tied be
hind it. It could buy a railroad ticket
that would carry you farther than a
pass. In the hands of wicked and de
signing men it would be a power peril
ous to the safety of the Republic. Why,
it would buy two suits of clothes, and
plank the money right down for them. A
SIOO bill! The very nature of the state
ment, its wild, uncurbed, limitless
exaggeration brands itself with its own
hand, as a measureless lie. $100!
When men allow themselves to be
dragged into such absurdities by the
heat of discussion it is time to close the
debate. A SIOO bill. Why, man alive,
the President of the United States never
had that much money. One hundred
dollars! — Burlington Hawkeye.
It all came about in this wise: The
man with the red nose had been giving
his experience at the prayer meeting.
He said he was the vilest of sinners, and
altogether unworthy of saving grace.
He was followed by a modest little gen
tle man, who remarked that he could
corroborate all the dear brother had
said. Indeed, he would go further, and
say that the brother was the meanest
and most rascally old curmudgeon in
town. Then the first speaker jumped
for the modest little gentleman, clear
ing three settees in transit; two young
fellows in the corner started for the
settee-jumper at the same instant;
Deacon Jones flung the pulpit Bible
at the head of the foremost young fel
low ; Sister Brown pulled at Deacon
Jones’s coat taiis ; the lights went out,
somebody hollered ,‘fire,” the whole de
partment came galloping up to the meet
ing-house, three streams were on before
you could say "Jack Robinson,” and
everybody was drenched to the skin.
You wouldn’t think so much bother
would be raised just because one brother
wished to help another to give a good
experience—now, would you.— Bgftqn 1
JYanscript,
A Steam-Plow at Work.
A Fargo, Dakota, letter to the Boston
Journal says: “ After ail that has been
done with reference to bringing out a
steam-plow in this country, it remains
for an ingenious Englishman to invent
and place in successful working a steam
plow. Mr. J. G. Allen, of Leeds, En
gland. agent for John Fowler & Co.,
the manufacturers of steam-plows at
Leeds, is accomplishing some excellent
work on the Aurora farm, belonging to
Captain Thomas W. Hunt, at Blanchard,
Dakota. It is attracting a great deal of
attention, and farmers are coming long
distances to see the plow at work. Two
enormous traction engines are placed
about 300 to 500 yards apart. Beneath
each engine and belted to the boiler is
a steel drum about five feet in diameter.
To this drum is attached a steel cable
about three-quarters of an inch in
diameter, 500 yards long, and capable
of sustaining a weight of thirty tons,
which drags the plow to and fro across
the field. The plow is a frame-work of
iron resting upon two large wheels; on
each side of this frame are firmly fixed
six plows with colters that cut six fur
rows sixteen inches wide each time the
machine crosses the field. On the ar
rival of the plow at the end of the fur
row the gauge changes position, and the
plows that have been in the air are low
ered and ready to start back. One man
is sufficient to guide the plow, and,
seated over the body of the machine,
directs one of the two large wheels in
the furrow last turned by means of a
hand-wheel. Each engine is of about
forty-horsepporer,w r er, and weighs about
sixteen tons. When the plow reaches
one side of the field the engine on that
sides moves ahead eight feet, the opera
tion taking three and one-half minutes
only, and the plow is started back to
the other side of the field. The plow
will break from twenty-five to thirty-five
acres per day, according to the soil,
location, and lay of the land, etc. It
also does harrowing.”
A Brave Man.
At Brother Barnes’ mee't'ng last
night, there was an episode in which a
colored brother and the highest judicial
officer of the State gave a public exhibi
tion of the fraternal relations existing
between the white and colored races in
Kentucky. While the evangelist stood
with outstretched hands asking: “Who
will trust the Lord?” Judge Thomas
F. Hargis, of the Court of Appeals, was
moved to confession and took Lis seat
on the front row of chairs. Shortly
after thero passed down the aisle a
penitent, blacker than the midnight
eyes of the sable goddess. Then came
others who Brother Barnes observed
were careful to choose seats as far away
as possible from the dusky brother.
Stopping right in the midst of the sing
ing, Brother Barnes said: “My dear
friends, you see that this colored
brother has come forward to confess
Christ, and you are staying away simply
because you don’t want to sit beside
him. Here he sits alone on this front
row, and all that have come for
ward have been careful not to seat
themselves near him. Any man com
ing forward despite the prejudice
against color and taking a seat by the
side of this colored brother will be a
brave, noble man. I know that in the
eyes of society there is a difference be
tween you and him; but, dear friends,
before God the difference does not exist.
He was born this way. He cannot help
his color. Still, he has a soul to save.
If you stay away now it will prove the
success of the devil’s device. The devil
knows Frankfort people and has taken
this advantage of their prejudices. Oh,
my friends, this same devil is a sharp
old fellow, but I’m going to get ahead
of him. He doesn F t think anyone will
have the courage to sit next to this col
ored man, and, friends, will you let the
devil triumph? A brave man, remem
ber, is he who takes a seat, alongside the
colored friend who has come forward to
confess Christ and save his soul from the
peril of eternal damnation.” At this
Judge Hargis arose, and. taking the
sable penitent bv the hand, sat down in
the chair next him, Brother Barnes in
the meanwhile looking on approvingly,
ard, with a quiet smile of happy satis- ■
faction, exclaiming; “The Recording
Angel will note this in the Book of Life,
praise the Lord!”— Frankfort, (Ky.)
Dispatch.
FltU C to £ Chair.
In a fashionably-furnished store, I
didn’t at first know what to make of the
actions of a young woman. She was
elaborately gotten up as to clothes, and
had some advantages in the way of
natural good looks, so that she was
altogether a thing of considerable
beauty. She was in an upholstered
easy chair before a big mirror, and
striking various poses—now lying back
on the soft stuffing, both her arms
spread out negligently; now leaning
against one of tne sides, with elbow
supporting her body; now sitting bolt
upright in the middle. All the while
she regarded her reflection in the glass
with a critical air. What do you sup
pose she was atP Why, getting herself
fitted with a chair. She knew how hard
it is to be graceful in some of the chairs
of novel shape, and was bound to have
one that would help instead of hinder- i
ing her in posing prettily before her !
visitors. When a girl sets out to be a
fascinator, you understand, she must ■
use all the devices available for that
purpose. So this creature was neither
lunatic nor fool, though the appear
ances were a little against her. I hung
about covertly, and saw that she finally / i
bought the . hair, with the >”' n 'l ,
I the sides should be lowered two inches. , &
i Cincinnati Knower.
The Folly of Being Swindled.
There is an entire class of confidence
games that appeals not exactly to our
dishonesty but to our avarice; to our
desire to make money faster than by tbe
ordinary "slow-coach” ways—to make
money by going a little out of our regu
lar line of business, by agencies of some
kind, instead of farming. For example,
about half of the farms in a certain
township in Ohio were sold under mort
gage a few years ago, and society and
the church were Convulsed and almost
disrupted, as follows: A fine, ministerial
looking gentleman came to town and
lectured on temperance, lie was a
good talker, and won the hearts of the
good, religious, temperance people in
that rich and moral farming township.
He staid in the region some time, no one
seemed to know, or at least say, why.
In a strictly confidential way he ap
proached one after another of the solid
farmers, making each think he was the
only one to have a chance at the bonan
za. It was this: He was indirectly in
terested in a patent for the manufacture
of an improved spring bed or mattress,
far superior to any other. County and
State rights were sold for its manufac
ture. A very few Western States were
still unsold. If Mr. A. wanted a certain
county in lowa for SSO, with the refusal
of the State at the same rate per county,
he could have it, and the chance to go
out and prospect on the ground Coun
ties would sell readily at S2OO to $250
each. The thing must be kept strictly
quiet and confidential, or so many would
rush in as to swamp the thing.
So farmer A. buys a county or two at
SSO, payment on his return, provided he
sells. No possible chance for a swindle.
All perfectly plain and clear. He had
best not let it be known why he goes
West, or even that he goes at all, if pos
sible. "The still sow eats the corn,”
you know. So he goes, readily finds a
purchaser for his county at $250, comes
home with S2OO profit, mortgages his
farm and buys the whole State at SSO
per county; one hundred counties at
SSO cost $5,000. One hundred counties
to be sold at $250 will bring $25,000;
profit of the transaction $20,000. 3o
after a few weeks, his arrangements
are all made and he sets forth to sell the
rest of his counties awl finds no buyer!
The man who bought his "trial county”
at $250 was a "pal” of the ministerial
temperance lecturer who sold it to him
for SSO, and didn’t ask his pay until he
had sold. And it developed slowly that
nearly half the farmers in this town had
bought counties. States, or parts of
States, or had discounted notes given
by others in payment of county or State
rights. " The man” had taken teams,
notes, money, mortgages, anything in
payment, and before the final collapse
and expose had turned all into what
ready cash they would bring, and left
the region.
Here the appeal was made to the
avarice of these farmers. They left
their regular business of farming,
which they understood, and went into
a doubtful outside speculation which
they did not understand, in the hopes of
sudden wealth or competence. They
found the scripture true: "They that
make haste to be rich tall into a snare.”
As a rule, it is best to avoid outside
speculation, even agencies of an agri
cultural character; to have nothing to
do with the wonderful, the astonishing,
high-priced seeds, plants, agricultural
or horticultural discoveries, blight
proof pear trees, curculio-proof plum
trees, Russian apple trees that bear all
years or in all climates (and sell at $1
a piece) ; Bohemian oats that will make
us all rich—and the seed sells at $lO
per bushel, under an association which
you are urged to join.
Then there are agencies offered to
you as “tie most influential farmer in
town,” and on which you are sure to
make enormous profits. You are to
sign an order for so many wagon jacks
or patent cultivators —or "Revised New
Testaments,” (for this is one of the
latest and most pious dodges) or "farm
diaries” or what not "to be paid for
when sold.” That "order” turns up in
three months or so as a judgment note
for S3OO, which you have to pay. "To
be paid for when sold” means when you
are sold.”— Cor. Rural New Yorker
I Two-Handed .Swords.
The claymore, once famous in Scot
tish history, was a very long sword,with
a hilt so large that it could be grasped
by both the hands of the warrior who
wielded it, and when this tremendous
weapon was swung around by any of
the brave
“ Scots, wlia ha’ wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has atteu led,”
there was every reason for the opposing
soldiers to want to get as far away as
possible. Long, two-handed swords
were in use in various parts of Europe
during the Middle Ages, but it is from
Scotland that we have heard the most
about them.
Some of the German swords, used by
the mercenary soldiers in the French re
ligious wars, were enormous two-handed
weapons, with sharp points, jagged
edges, and great spikes near the base of
the blade; but these heavy swords were
used only by soldiers who were uncom
monly strong and skillful; for any awk
wardness on the part of a man swinging
such a tremendous blade was apt to in
flict as much injury on his companions
as on the enemy. Some of the long
swords of the Middle Ages wore used
more for show and ceremony than for
actual service. The sword of Edward .
the Third, which is preserved in West- ■
Abbey. I. 1
weighs poo' l ' ■ Kina in :t‘
s.-ud, was
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR.
PITH AND POINT.
-In some parts of South America
the banana skin is converted into a ma
terial of which ladies’ dresses are made
This is probably the kind that the lady
slips on easy.— Yonkers Statesman.
—You can never entirely discourage
a New Jersey man. When he comes
down to his last dollar he picks up a
spade and goes out to dig up some of
Kidd’s buried treasure.—Detroit Free
Press.
—“ Is this my train?” asked a traveler
at the Grand Central Depot of a
lounger. "I don’t know,” was the re
ply. "I see it’s got the name of some
railroad company on the side, and ex
pect it belongs to them. Have you lost
a train anywhere?”— N. Y. Graphic.
—lt is stated that a railroad brake
man has become an operatic tenor, and
has been engaged for next season at
SSOO a week. He won’t have to learn
the Italian language, you see. lie has
merely to speak his lines as he does the
names of stations and everybody will
think he’s speaking Italian.— Boston
Post.
—The peculiar costume of the dwel
lers in Arizona is thus graphically de
scribed by a "tender-foot;” "In ordi
nary weather he wears a belt with pis
tols in it. When it grows chilly he puts
on another belt with pistols in it, and
when it becomes really cold he throws a
Winchester rifle over his shoulders.”
—Seth Green says fish can not shut
their eyes. Fogg says this explains why
they always succeed in keeping off his
hook. Whenever he goes fishing, the
fish are all eyes and no mouth, and
every eye wide open. He thought they
kept their eyes open out of pure cussed
ness ; but, now that he knows that they
can’t help it, ho simply despises where
he hated them before. — N. Y. Inde
pendent.
—Well, my little girl,” said a New
Haven gentleman, to a friend’s
“preciousest,” “aren’t you going to sing
for me?” "No, sir. I’m not a
singer.” Now, I thought you were a
little singer.” "Oh, no! I only sing a
little to my dolly.” "But I’ll be your
dolly.” “You’re too big. I guess
sister Jennie wouldn’t mind if you was
hers. She said you was just splendid.”
Sudden rattling of the dishes in the
back room—where Jennie was busy.—
New Haven Register.
—"The latest agony,” says Jeems, "is
the way I felt this morning. My wife
asked me for a XX bill—a twenty, you
know—and I cut the matter short by
telling her that it could not be did, for
the simple reason that I had only a
matter of a dollar or so in my pocket.
‘I knew you’d tell me that,’ she said,
‘and it’s true, too.’ And, as I looked
up in amazement, she added: ‘I
looked in your pockets last night. I’ve
got the twenty.’ Oh! boys, how I felt!
But what could I do?”
—"Heart-disease,” said Jemmie, as he
assisted Patrick to up-end a barrel of
cement, "heart-disease is one of the
worst diseases. Some people never
know they have it till they dhrop down
dead.” Thrue for von, Jemmie,” re
plied Patrick; “and those people who
Know that thev have it have to be
moighty careful wid themselves. I
knew a man wonst that had it, and he
was always obliged to dhrop work
about five minutes before he felt it
coming on.” — Somerville Journal.
■ 'SJ
A Ludicrous Stage Death-Scene.
Camille died last night at the Chest
nut Street Opera-house, not only
music but to the ’ >
of the audience as welt at Calera
seence was marred by i >a w)th L A
accident. When the cu.m, m. &o,
the last act, with Camuw Orleans
lying on a couch partly tMi
furry robe, and the de, pjv.sup't.
ready gathering on her
was still and expectan —— -
the death-chamber GJ
and the dying woman
greet him. At that
an ominous creak, and <
ports of the couch g;w
actress seemed to grasp poiiS!
instantly, and attempted t<
difficulty by heaving a longMfflW
and throwing herself back, but the ac
tion onlv made matters worse. lhe
death-bed gave way at one corner with
a crash, and the audience began to titter.
Nichette, the maid, enteied at this junc
ture and kneeling in front of her mis
tress began her part, but the couch giv
ing evidence by numerous groans of its
instability, she arose and wheeled a
chair up for the dying Camille’s accom
modation. By this time the audience
had fully appreciated the funniness of
the situation and were laughing yey
audibly, but when Gaston approached,
and he, together with the maid and the
dying woman, could not control th° ic
countenances, the audience _ fairly
roared. Camille, after dying in Ar
mand’s arms was deposited in the easy
chair instead of on the couch, and ap
peared as a very smiling corpse.—Phil
adelphia Press.
Too eager: The cresent shape of the
first quarter of the moon hung like an
electric lamp in the Western sky, casting
a subdued, cool light upon the path
they had chosen. They walked with
slow and measured step and said little.
The scene was raptiire-inspinng.
last she, looking up ixito his face with a
sort of a scared-to-deoth-hke-a-yoimg
fawn look,, "Albert, how .
like this we’ve taken— K*'’
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