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VOL. V.-NO. 6.
■ TOPICS OF THE DAT.
I \sp Anally tlnT Prince of Wales is
Ka-ted with gout.
H ThE pacific coast is filling up with
H October 5 is the fiftieth anniversary
hie birth of President Arthur.
H The Star Route trial occupied 103
Hays, and cost something like $200,000.
Hlt is stated that a German has in
enk,j a gunpowder that water will not
MfTect. t
|B Benjamin H. Hill expects to publish
father’s speeches and letters, togeth-
Hi'with a biographical sketch, shortly.
H Tin: New Orleans Times-Democrat says
South will pay the West $100,000,-
■y less this year for food than in 1881.
■B An Indiana schoolma’am says it is not
HlJv less trouble to rule the boys by love
H llt .die thus manages to get the best ap-
and nicest bonnets.
Ml a St. Loris paper remarks that the
of Canada must be in good con-
if the royal party can afford to
Niagara Falls and Chicago in close
■
Bl The war in Egypt virtually ended
the British took possession of
England has wanted Egypt for a
and the coveted land has fallen
her hands like a ripe apple.
| George Francis Twain still lives,
(which we learn by the statement that
(seventeen boys were recently arrested in
■New York for tormenting him while sit-
It ing in the park of evenings.
I Lord Dufferin, Admiral Seymour,
[Sir Garnet Wolseley and Lord Beres
ford, who have distinguished themselves
fin the Egyptian campaign, are all Kelts.
Thus England is under renewed obliga
tions to Ireland.,
A gentleman writing from Georgia to
a friend in Washington, says that Gov
ernor Colquitt will probably succeed the
late Senator Hill to the United States
Senate. The election of Senator will
take place at the next session of the
Legislature to be held this fall.
A Massachusetts law makes the owner
of a house liable for treble any loss that
may be sustained by gambling therein
v.itli his consent. A saloon-keeper at
Lowell lias just been compelled to pay
SI,BOO, the money going to a man who
had lost only S6OO in playing poker on
the premises.
There is authority for each of the fol
lowing methods of spelling and pronun
ciation : Mo/iamwt-ed (short a,) Ma-
Jw/i-et (long a ,) Jf ( i-hom-et (short a.)
1 roperly speaking, Mahomet is the name
<>f the prophet, and Mohammed that of
1118 successors, and therefore the faith
should only be known as Mahometanism.
Mr. Lot, who accompanies Herbert
bpencer on his visit to this country, told
a Buffalo Courier reporter that instead of
getting better Mr. Spencer has grown
)'oi. i . His trouble is in the nature of
insoniuia. He is not able to sleep ex
cept by fits and s t a rt s . Night after
gbt he tosses about, and the day
•“Dies only to find him more fatigued
than he retired.
Ji due Hilton, who refused Banker
Meiglman entertainment at the Grand
mon Hotel, Saratoga, because the lat-
ImnnnA 1118 ™ 1116 ’ HOW offors to F ivo
■- ,000 to exiles fund for the benefit of
Rnssian Hebrew refugees. Several gifts
H i offered by Judge
air "? “ 1 lflerent Jewish charities have
he a / y - T refUßed ’ Dr ’
eiS; r thinks thilt th * "o
shoulfl 1 .v ellef ° f Hebrew exil es
snould accept the gift.
lon \ OI ' K H rra ld '■ Cetewayo, says
of takn/' rw’ ° l)jeCtß to the barb arism
BR me plate' of on tbe
v egetablos’ 1 “ 81sts upon having his
•■Sai7“' WUI
’" k ?' noolo-
,K ’r plate ' ’I ilCe w]l ° ilai ' on
;, two M
au 'l juices iii ’ and several sauces
el( (1 tinger’at a T’ P ° inting her i ew ‘
‘“thewaiter “r Wine Baid
livery- ’ Bnng me some of that
the Athv’ta , ( ' AROLI!U correspondent of
Si writes: “ 1 8”P
--tlu‘ world wi'ti tllG °“ ly city iu
“ ot think there’il a whoel - in il - 1d «
horse >» the town T g ° D ° r * buggy
county. J?..... . ’ aud ver y few in the
Jhere i 8 no t ’\ lU ® done * Q boats.
a ' l( ’etor or , ],r/ tlun a mile of. Not
a horse _th fi v' m county owns
P^PlegotS/™? O6 iQ bnats - Tl ‘c
“".'■’'St.;™? in •'■™
m a boat.’' y CMry him to jail
®|jc ulnllon Slrjjiis.
Mrs. Stowb, of San Erancisco, ap
peared in trousers before the Social Sci
ence Sisterhood the other day. The
Cail says : “Her hair was cut short and
bound up with a narrow blue ribbon.
She wore a black velvet coat-tailed basque
and a short black silk plaited skirt. The
‘ line of beauty ’ was concealed by black
cassimere trousers covering the instep.
Hit gaiters were of cloth, and on her
breast was a red silk badge stamped ‘S.
S. S.,’ and fastened with a diamond pin
and two artificial roses. She carried a
fan. ‘I have a double flannel on under
my dress and no corsets,’ she explained.
‘I never wore corsets in my life.’ ”
A war which has probably cost Egypt
the agricultural production of one year,
and hundreds of millions besides, and
has put Great Britain to enormous ex
pense to send 30,000 men to Egypt, and
to gather transportaion from all the
world fortheir campaign, ended at the
first real touch of arms, with a victory
in which the heroic victorious army lost
thirty killed and 120 wounded. Eng
land will make much of it. And poor
Egypt must pay for the destruction of
Alexandria, which was British work, and
for her conquest by the British; all this
out of her destroyed crops, and her poor
agricultural laborers. With the mili
tary prestige gained by this war, will
not Great Britain be looking about for
other countries to conquer? Will she
not be arrogant and dangerous? But
Great Britain has had military success
in several wars, in her recent pursuit of
an imperial policy, which has not been
profitable in the outcome, and it may be
so in this instance. After all this mili
tary glory, the thing passes to the realm
of diplomacy, and the other powers will
claim to have a finger in the pie of
Egypt. The outcome may be a sort of
joint arrangement which will be humil
iation to the conqueror, and will be
worse in the matters of national and
commercial se'curity than that which ex
isted before the British destroyed it by
making war.
Old Strawberry Beds.
Strawberry vines that have been per
mitted to cover the ground and have
borne one good crop of fruit, will not
pay tiic labor of weeding out, and as a
rule should be plowed under as soon as
the crop has been gathered; but if one
has neglected to set a new' bed the past
spring, and desires to grow enough for
family use, two or three rods of the old
bed may be saved, and made to furnish
a; other year what fruit is wanted for
h< mie use.
One of the easiest and perhaps the
best way to clean out an old bed, is to
spade in the vines, leaving rows about
a foot in width and four feet apart. A
good dressing of manure should be
s; aded in with the vines; and the rows
o vines left standing should be well
cleaned out, leaving neither weeds or
grass. Some believe it best to mow ofl
the tops of the old vines, but as we have
never tried this method we cannot
speak of its advantage from experience;
la t if the vines do just as well by so do •
ing, it would be an improvement, be
cause it would lessen the labor of weed
ing out, which is the one great draw
back on continuing an oid bed; not
only is it a very tedious task to weed it
out in the first place, but the weeding
must continue until cold weather, or
the grass will become so thick that it
will greatly lessen the crop the next
season. If the land be in good condi
tion, (he space spaded up will be well
covered with vines before cold weather
sets in; if so, then next spring the old
vines may be spaded in to make paths
to stand in while picking the fruit.
If one lias a strawberry bed away
from the garden, and it has been kept
clean of grass and weeds, it may be left
over another sea-on without cleaning
out; and it, will perhaps furnish half a
crop another season without expense,
except the use of the land; but if in the
garden, this should never be done, as it
idls the ground with weed seeds, which
will take many years to get out.
A strawberry bed in the garden
should under no circumstances be per
mitted to stand over the second year
without being kept as clean of weeds as
it is the first year. We know that the
temptation is great to let it stand,
hoping to have time to clean it out,
which in many cases never comes. The
decision should be made within two
weeks after the crop is gathered; and if
it is decided to let it stand another year
the work of cleaning out should be
commenced at once. Massachusetts
Plouuhman.
A Hardshell Parable.
There are other kinds of liquors than
those drank at bars, as an old Hardshell
minister once alluded to in this manner:
“There’s the likker of mallis that many
of you drinks to the drugs, but you’re
sure to sweeten it with the sugar of self
justification. There's the likker of avris
that some keeps behind the curfiiin for
constant use, but they always has it well
mixt with the sweeten’ uv prudence and
ekonimy. There’s the likker of self-hiv
that sum men drink by the gallon, but
they always puts in lots of the shugar of
take-keer-of-number-one. An’ lastly,
there’s the likker uv extorshun, which
man sweetins according to circum
stances.”
—“ Souring on the temperance law”
is whai the lowa brewers call it when
they turn a brewery into a vinegar fac
tory.—Chicago Journal.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.3, 1882.
Prairie “Signs.”
About two miles from town he sud
denly checked his horse, gazed intently
on the ground and said: “ Some fellow
has lost his saddle-horse here this morn
ing-”
There was no advertisement on any
of the trees offering a reward for a lost
horse, and as there was no lost horse in
sight we were at a loss to understand
how, if a horse was lost, our friend
could know so much about it.
The doctor inquired: “How do you
know that a horse has been lost?”
“1 see his tracks.”
“Are there not hundreds of horses
pasturing on the prairies, and how do
you know that this is not the track of
one of them?”
“ Because he is shod, and the horses
herding on the prairies do not wear
shoes.”
“How do you know that he is a
saddle-horse and lost?”
“ 1 see a rope track alongside his
trail; the horse has a saddle on, and the
rope hangs from the horn of the saddle. ’ ’
“But why may he not be a horse that
some one has ridden over this way this
morning, and why do you insist that it
is lost?”
“ Because, if a man had been on his
back lie would have ridden him on a
straight course, but this horse has
moved from side to side of the road as
he strolled along, and that is a plain
sign that he grazed as he went and that
he had no rider.”
‘ ‘ After that it would not surprise me,”
said the doctor, “if you were to tell us
the age of the horse, and the name of
the owner.”
“ Well, that would not be very hard
to do. There are signs that have told
me the owner’s name, and there are
other signs that, if 1 had time to exam
ine, would tell me his age. 1 know he
is one of old man Pendegrast's horses.
Pendegrast has a large bunch of horses
down in the bottom, and an old nigger
down there does all his shoeing, and
shoes no other horses except his. So we
know his shoe track just the same as we
know' his brand.”
After this conviction on circumstan
tial evidence it would not have seemed
extraordin-by if the Remnant had given
us his opinion of the life and character
of our great-grandmothers, drawing his
conclusions from an examination of
some of our physical peculiarities.
It is wonderful how expert these men
become in reading what they call
“signs” on the prairie or in the woods.
No sign escapes their practiced eye; all
manner of tracks, trailsand marks are
to them data on which to base conclu
sions. The peculiar movement of an
animal will indicate the presence of
some other animal in the neighbor
hood. A broken limb of a tree, a
crushed weed, the debris around a
camp-fire, the flight of a buzzard, and
other such signs are to the cow-boy and
the frontiersman what the sign-boards
and advertisements are to people who
live in cities. Te.ras tUfthien.
The Channel Tunnel.
Some interesting observations on the
Channel Tunnel have been communi
cated to the French Academy of Sci
ences by M. Daubree. After referring
to the three stages of the work, the sci
entific researches, the preparatory op
erations, and the execution of the pro
ject, he points out that while the Rouen
chalk is water-bearing in its upper
strata it is only slightly so in its lower
beds. The French Association have dug
two wells at Sangatte, call about nine
ty-five yards deep, and have begun to
run two galleries from them toward
Shakespeare’s Cliff under the sea. In
one of these galleries, at a depth
of sixty seven-tenths yards below
the French hydrographic bench
mark, the Beaumont perforator
will be at work, and in the other the ma
chine of Mr. Brunton will be employed.
On the English side the under-channel
gallery begins at a depth of about thir
ty-two yards below the French hydro
graphic bench-mark, thanks to the drier
nature of the chalk near the surface,
and runs under the sea at a descending
slope of one in eighty. This gallery is
now nearly a mile long under high
water mark, and no water has entered
it as yet. The mass of the rock through
which the tunnel is bored is quite dry,
but from time to time little tunnels of
water are met with issuing from cracks
in the rock. The cylindrical form of
bore adopted bv Colonel Beaumont has
an advantage under these circumstan
ces, as it allows of the gallery being in
sulated from these trieklings by moans
of an iron lining formed of rings having
a diameter equal to that of the gallery.
These rings are in five segments, bound
together by ribs, through which pass
bolts which connect the segments to
gether, and each ring to the next ones.
When a water fissure is encountered,
one or more of these rings are placed
over it so as to mask it completely. At
first four segments are put into position
and then the fifth or key is added. The
last joint is tightened by a band of thin
sheet iron inserted into it. When the
spring from the rock is tolerably strong
it is luted with a cement containing red
lead before the rings are placed over it
If the fissure is oblique a sort of tube
has to be built up of the rings until it ik
masked, but half an hour serves to place
a ring into position. Owing to the slope
of the gallery the borers recently at
tained a depth of fifty-six yards below
the French bench-mark. At this point
the depth of low w ater is five and one
half yards, so that the thickness of
strata between the tunnel and the sea
bottom was there about fifty yards.—
Scientific American.
- There are four nickel mines in the
United .’states, nil of which are exceed
ingly profitable.
Why a Kerosene Lamp Bursts.
Girls, as well as boys, need to under
stand about kerosene explosions. A
great many fatal accidents happen from
trying to pour a little kerosene on the
fire to make it kindle better, also by
pouring oil into a lamp while it is light
ed. Most persons suppose that it is the
kerosene itself which explodes, and that
if they are very careful to keep the oil
itself from being touched by the lire or
the light there will be no danger. But
this is not so. If a can or a lamp is left
about half full of kerosene oil the oil
will dry up—that is, “evaporate”—a
little and will form, by mingling with
the air in the upper part, a very explo
sive gas. You cannot see this gas any
more than you can see air. But if it is
disturbed and driven out, and a blaze
reaches it, there will be a terrible explo
sion, although the blaze did not touch
the oil. There are several other liquids
used in houses and workshops which
will produce an explosive vapor in this
way. Benzine is one; burning fluid is
another; and naphtha, alcohol, ether,
chloroform mav do the same thing.
In a New York workshop lately, there
was a can of benzine, or gasoline, stand
ing on the floor. A boy sixteen years
old lighted a cigarette, and threw the
burning match on the floor close to the
can. He did not dream there was any
danger, because the liquid was corked
up in the can. But there was a great
explosion, and he was badly hurt. This
seems very mysterious. The probabil
ity is that the can had been standing
there a good while and a good deal of
vapor had formed, some of which had
leaked out around the stopper and was
hanging in a sort of invisible cloud over
and around the can; and this cloud,
w'hen the match struck it, exploded.
Suppose a girl tries to fill a kerosene
lamp without first blowing it out. Os
course the lamp is nearly empty or she
would not care to fill it. This empty
space is filled with a cloud of explosive
vapor arising from the oil in the lamp.
When she pushes the nozzle of the can
into the lamp at the top, and begins to
pour, the oil, running into the lamp,
tills the empty space and pushes the
cloud of explosive vapor up; the vapor
is obliged to pour out over the edges of
the lamp, at the top, into the room out
side. Os course it strikes against the
blazing wick w hich the girl is holding
down by one side. The blaze of the
wick sets the invisible cloud of vapor
afire, and there is an explosion which
ignites the oil and scatters it over her
clothes and over the furniture of the
room. This is the way in which a ker
osene lamp bursts. The same thing
may happen when a girl pours the oil
over the fire in the range or stove, if
there is a cloud of explosive vapor in the
upper part of the can, or if the stove is
hot enough to vaporize quickly some of
the oil as it falls. Remember that it is
not the oil but the invisible vapor which
explodes. Taking care of the oil will
not protect you. 'There is no safety ex
cept in the rule: Never pour oil on a
lighted fire or into a lighted lamp.—
Christian Union.
T’lie Oldest inhabitant.
William Bassett, an aged negro living
in Caraden, N. J., last May celebrated
his 126th birthday, and is without doubt
the “oldest inhabitant” of the new
world. Bassett was born in Delaware
in 1755, where his parents were slaves,
for many years owned by the Bayard
family. During the Revolution Bassett,
then a young man of twenty-one or
twenty-two, was working for a farmer
by the name of Wilson. While there
he married, and became the father of a
large family, each member of whom he
has outlived. Upon the death of his
wife Bassett married again. When the
war broke out in 1812 he became a body
servant to Col. Morris, of Jackson’s
army, whom he accompanied to the
front at New Orleans. He married his
third wife upon his return from the
South, and had by her quite a numerous
family, all but one of whom died prior
to the civil war. For the last eighteen
years he has been taken care of by his
children and grandchildren, spending
the time between Camden and Moores
town, to and from which places he has
traveled on foot many a time. The last
trip was made early in the fall of 1884.
His death is now looked for daily.
Chinese as Printers.
A Chinaman offers his services to the
publisher of a monthly paper in this
city, to set up all the forms of his paper,
send him proofs of each article, and
make the corrections marked in the
proofs when returned, and convey the
forms to and from the press-room for
seventy-five cents a column. 'I here are
forty-eight columns in the paper, each
column twenty and one half inches long
by two and one-quarter inches wide.
The offer was declined, whereupon the
Chinaman said he was doing the same
work for two other periodical in the city.
They learned the business in Hong Kong
and Canton, where papers are published
in the English tongue, and where China
men are drilled into the work on account
of the scarcity of white labor.— San
Francisco Bulletin.
—A correspondent says Mr. G. N.
Boyer, a Carillon tradesman, was going
to bathe in the Ottawa, near the old
canal, on Wednesday morning, and just
as he entered the water a huge fish
seized his foot. The water was red
dened with blood, but with the assist
ance of bystanders the fish was made to
let go, and Mr. Boyer was, with some
difficulty, able to go home. In the even
ing the monster was caught with a less
interesting bait, and turns out, says the
correspondent, to be a I
weighing 47 1-2 younds.— Montreal HV j
ncss.
A Four Hundred Miles Walk by Six
Girls.
To-day the party of six girls who
started about the first of the month to
walk all over North Carolina arrived at
Laurenburg, where their walk ends.
They are all well and in good spirits,
and, though much sunburned, are as
comely a set of lady pedestrians as ever
undertook a long tramp. They started
in the neighborhood of Hendersonville
nearly a month ago upon what was re
garded by their friends as a foolish
scheme to walk over North Carolina
and see the principal points of interest
in the State, ami to pay special attention
to the mountains. Three of the girls
were at school when the project was
first agreed upon, and the other three
who agreed to join them were friends.
They made all their arrangements for
the proposed journey as quietly as pos
sible, for they knew attempts would be
made to dissuade them from the under
taking. Their friends were taken com
pletely by surprise when they were told
but a day or two before the commence
ment of the walk of the intention to
tramp over the State without any es
cort. To the suggestions that going
alone and with no one to protect them
they would subject themselves to insult,
they replied that they were willing to
make the attempt, and they averred to
day that from first to last they had
never received one rude word or rough
jest from any one, their only grievances
being that once or twice some persons
of their sex attempted to prevent them
from continuing their walk by charac
terizing such an undertaking as immod
est and unladylike. One old lady of
fered to be their chaperone if they per
sisted in their purpose, but the would
be chaperone wanted to go in a buggy,
and when she learned that they expect
ed to tramp over mountains where there
were no roads, she backed out, al
though they mischievously gave her
an invitation to join. On the first
week of their trip they suffered much
from exhaustion, and the youngest and
frailest of the party, Miss Murdock,
had to stop and rest by reason of
severely-blistered feet. It was feared
that she would have to abandon the
trip, but she pushed on nobly, and after
the eighth day she began to gain
strength, and is now one of the health
iest of the fair tramps. Her weight
when she started was but ninety-two
pounds, and she turned the scales to
day at 103 pounds. All save two of the
walkers fattened after the first week,
while two who were inclined to obesity
were pulled down twelve and eighteen
pounds. Their record shows that they
made 420 miles. They started out with
the expectation of making between 500
and 600. Each walker wore a pair of
red-leather walking-shoes, and wore
short walking-dresses, and carried
strong stall’s in their hands and knap
sacks upon their shoulders, in which
were packed hammocks and other
necessary articles. They also wore
very broad-brimmed hats, which, how
ever, do not seem to have protected
their complexions, for they are all
burned brown. Two of the parties
carried pistols to protect them from ac
cidental incursions of wild-cats and
bears. Much of the time they slept in
the open air in their hammocks under
canvas coverlets, which were used to
shield them from heavy dews and rain.
One night, ten days ago, apprehending
a severe storm, they camped in a grave-
yard and slept between the graves.
Another night, in the mountains, they
were thrown into consternation by the
appearance of a bear, but the beast be
ing as frightened as they were, fled
without offering to molest them.
In the mountains they were
in gre&t terror of rattle-snakes,
but did not encounter any of
the reptiles. Along their route they
were treated kindly, many of the hos
pitable farmers entertaining' them, hut
they shunned notoriety and avoided all
the towns and villages, frequently going
some distance out of their way I'ather
than meet crowds. A novel featur? of
their undertaking was the keepii g of
what they called their log-bock. In
this the record of their impressions and
adventures were kept, each taking her
turn. The book contains 1,246 closely
written pages Although frequently
offered vehicles, they always declined,
saying that they started with the deter
mination of walking. They spent three
days in exploring the celebrated Bald
Mountains whose mysterious rumblings
some years ago created so much excite
ment. They not only made the difficult
ascent to the top, but went into one of
the crevices, which they examined mi
nutely, with the aim of discovering
what caused the strange sounds in the
interior. The novel trip of the six
young ladies has been much talked
about, but as they had avoided the
crowded thoroughfares they were igno
rant of the interest taken in them, and
were much astonished ami slightly in
sulted when they learned that bets had
been made by certain sporting men
that they would not make four hundred
miles in the month. The parties arc
modest and shun notoriety. They aver
they end the trip now because three of
their number will begin their school
days early in September, but they assert
their determination to walk over the
unexplored portion of the State next
summer. They leave to-morrow by rail
for their homes, near Hendersonville. —
Monroe (N. C.) Cor. Chicago limes.
Echoes of the dog show: “Isn’t he
just sweet?” ‘‘Oh, dear,flack
nosed old fellow, y o,, ‘ •• Jt was i
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR,
WIT AMI WISDOM.
- Love reckons hours for months, and
days for years, and every little absence
is an age.— Dryden.
—The proper way to cheek slander
is to despise it; attempt to overtake and
refute it, audit will outrun you.— George
Eliot.
—A thick corn-husk is not a sign of a
hard winter, as some folks think. It
makes no difference to corn-husks what
the weather is.— Detroit Free Press.
—A man has been arrested in New
York for counterfeiting theater tickets.
His villainy has put him in “a box,” but
he sighs for the family circle. -Steuben
ville Herald.
—lt is said that the debt of the world
is over $23,000,000, but so long as it is
not in shape of a contested will the law
yers may gnash their teeth in vain.—•’
Detroit Free Press.
“Yes, sir,” says the oldest resident,
“ the first trip I made from Lowell to
Boston was over the old canal, and 1
worked my passage on the canal beat.”
“Worked your passage? How?” in
quired his audience. “I led the horse,”
solemnly remarked the ancient mariner.
Fogg has got an idea at last, and ho
says there’s millions in it, as it meets a
long-felt want. It is nothing less than
a revolving house, which is to turn upon
a pivot, so that the best rooms shall al
ways face the sun in winter and be in
the shade in summer Fogg has a great
head.—A r cw Jla ven Register.
—A student of human nature was the
Yankee schoolm’am who undertook the
care of a school out West, where her
predecessor, a man, had been tossed
through the window by the rebellious
pupils. She got along splendidly; and,
when asked how she managed it, re
plied: “ Oh, easily enough. I thrashed
the little boys and mashed the big
ones.”
—A coachman calls upon the doctor
to ask what can be the matter with
him. “My good man,” said the prince
of science, “ you’ve got drOpsy— that’s
what ails you.” “Dropsy! What’s
that?” “ It’s a morbid collection of
fluid in the serous cavities within the
body—in your case, I take it hydroperi
toneum caused by cirrhosis of the liver,
but curable by paracentesis.” “ I
know, but what is it in English?”
“You are all full of water inside.”
“Water? Oh, that’s nonsense.” (Re
flects a moment.) “ That scoundrel of
a saloon keeper must have watered his
liquor, and yet he swore to me ho
didn’t.” Chicago Tones.
Making; Fees.
A ease was before the English law
courts a few days ago which recalls
Fanny Kemble’s experience with the
young lawyer who persisted in calling
upon her and Loring her to death tor
no object that she could see until he
sent in his bill, charging for each visit
as a consultation; in fact, it was rather
worse than her ease, since there does
not seem to have been any plea made
that the offender was about to get mar
ried and found furnishing a house very
expensive. The case was that of Warn
er vs. I’oole, where the defendant, a
trustee ami a solicitor, had been ordered
in the usual way to file an affidavit of
such documents as were in his posses
sion affect ng the litigation Acting up
on this order he made an immense affi
davit, which contained anruig other
things about sixty-six pages describing
2.27 b letters that had passed between
the same parties, setting each one sepa
rately. The cost of preparing and
ing this immense affidavit was
thing substantial so the _ ~
moved that it should be taken
file as being unnecessarily pn
expensive. Mr. Justice KaF JLJI
whom the case was heard, dei.
the affidavit could only lie lot,
an attempt to make costs, .
tabEsbfd practice being tot BllttCP
letters in bundles and not s<
separately, and so ordered
to be taken off the file, and
its surrounding costs out of thUOS.
while thedenfcilant, trustee ami
of was ordered to pay the costs ci** price,
application personally, whereupon tn 6 '
discomfited limb of the law retired in
disgust, doubtless recalling regretfully
the good old chancery days.— London
Paver. .
Honest, But not Reliable.
Not long since a lady called on Mose
Schaumburg, to find out if a colored
woman, who had formerly been a servant
at his house, was honest, she having
given him as a reference.
“She vas honest, too honest to suit
me, put she vas not reliable.”
“ How in the world can that be?”
‘‘Veil, vou day I leaves a five tollar
pill on de floor, and I dells Matildy to
sweep dot room out. I shoost vant to
see if she keep dot pill.”
“ Well, did she keep the bill?”
“No, she brings me dot pill pack.”
“That looks very much as if she
reliable.”
“No she vas not reliable, for dot pill
■ vast counterfeit. I vas in hope she
dakes dot pill, and den I would never
; have paid her dot twenty dollars I owed
' her; put she’s fooled me py bringing me
dot pad pill pack, so I cannot say she
vas reliable, but maybe she vas honest.
Texas Siftings. .
—The annual production of Canada
malt is about 68.000.000 pounds. Os
this nearly 2:),0t5>.000 pounds arc <*\-
ported to the United Sty*. 1
/ bol,.mbin--lsue y „,yfa
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