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SUMMER DROUGHT. When winter came the land was lean and There fell no snow, and oft from wild an< field In famish tameness came the drooping doer. And licked the waste al>out the troughs con gealed. J »d though at spring we plowed and proffered seed. 4>lny uniformed. a pillage for the birds; As.,l unto one low dam, in urgent need, We daily drove the suppliant lowing herds. But now the fields to barren wastes have run. The dam a pool of oozing greenery lies, Where knots of gnats hang reeling in the sun Till early dusk, when tilt th ■ dragon-tiles. All night the craw-fish deeper digs her wells. As shows the clay that ireshly curbs them round; And many a random upheavod tunnel tells Where ran the mole across the fallow ground. But ah, the stone-dumb dullness of the dawn. " hen e’en the cocks too listloss are to crow. An 1 lies the wi rid as from all life Withdrawn, Unheeding and outworn and swooning lowl There is no dew on any greenness shed. The hard-baked earth is split along ths walks. The very burs in stur.ted clumps arc dead. And mullcn-leaves drop withered from ths stalks. Yet ere the noon, as brass th" heaven turns. The cruel sun smiles with unerring aim. The sight and touch of all things blinds and burns, And bare, hot hills seem shimmering into flame 1 On cither side the shoe-deep dusted Jnne Tlie meager wisps of fennel scorch to wire; Slow lags the team that drags an empty wain, Anil, creaking dry, a wheel runs off its tire. No flock upon the naked pasture feeds. No blithesome “Bob-White” whistles from the fence; A gust runs crackling through the brittle weeds. And heat and silence seem the more Intense! On outspread wings a hawk, far poised on high. Quick swooping screams, and then is hoard no more; The strident shrilling of a locust nigh Breaks forth, and dies in silence as before. No transient cloud o’ersklms with flakes of shade The landscape hazed In dizzy gleams of heat; A dove's wing glances like a parried Wade, And western walls the beams in torrents beat. So burning, low and lower st 11 the sun, In fierce white fervor. sink< anon from sight. And so the dread, despairing day is done, And dumbly broods again the haggard night I —J. I'. h r>,u, in i ■ n'aiu Majatinr. First Snow in Melbourne, Austral! i. On Wednesday, July 26, a spectacle of a decidedly novel and, ns far as is ollk-ially known, unprecedented charac ter was observed by the citizens of Mel bourne and suburbs—viz.: a genuine snow-fall. It is true that, a number of colonists aver that snow fell on more than one occasion in Melbourne during the first, decade of Victorian history, but our meteorological recot’ds are silent on the point; and Mr. Ellery, the Govern ment Astronomer, whose recollection extends back to 1851, declares that the snow-fall was the first in his Victorian experience. 4J tu gether, Wednesday, .Inly 26, 1882, was a most exceptional day in several respects. Its average temperature was the lowest on record, the thermometer never having risen above forty degrees, while for the greater part of the day it was as low as thirty nine degree-. A lower tempera ture than the latter ha been registered at the Ob-ervatory, but only for a very brief period. The peculiarity about the day con sisted in the uniformly low temperature that prevailed in Australia. It had been raining slightly during the previou night, and Wednesday morning opened with evident signs of a continuance of similar went her. But few in Melbourne were prepared for what look plate shortly alter eight o’clock, when min gled snow and rain commenced to de scend. reviving old-world memories and occasioning' general express ons of sur prise. To voting Australians tin* spec tacle of falling snow-flakes tilling the • air was indeed a new experience, and they were enabled to compare the ac tual reality with the conceptions formed by reading the description of simi'ar scenes on the other side of the e mitor. At about halt-past eight a heavier fall of snow was observed, the flakes being thicker. and in some places tern porarilv wbiten ng a pretl v large area, dhe fail lasted for about half an hour, during which time large numbers of people in a l ; arts of the city and sub urbs watched the unusual sight with keen and evident interest. The fall was by no means confined to the vicinity of the Victo’ian Capital, for it extended over the whole Southern portion of Aus tralia, ami also embraced the elevated districts of this colony, where “heavy snow" was reported from Mount Vic toria, Carcoar, \\ aloha. Bendameer, Orange, Annidale and Kiandra. At the last-mentioned township, which is situ ated near the head waters of the Snowy River, the ground was covered with twenty inches of snow. In Victoria the snow-fall at Mount Macedon was continuous, and Mount Buninyong capped with three feet of snow, the roofs of the houses in this el evated locality being likewise covered. Ice three iir lies thick was also reported from Mount Buninyong. The fall at Lancefield lasted lor two hours, and at Beaufort the ground was covered to a depth of more than two inches. The mountains surrounding Ararat were wrapped in a fleecy mantle, and at Smythesdale snow-balling was the pop lar amusement during the greater por tion of the day. On Mount Cole two feet of snow was lying, and the saw mills were compelled to suspend work in consequence The ranges in the neighborhood of Tall»ot and Stawell w ere likewise snow-clad during a part of the day.— Melbourne A ’-atis. —The provisions of the Indian penal code in regard to the right of private defense are particularly sensible. Under this law the right extends to the protec tion of one’s own or another’s body and of one’s own or another’s property. It does not exist, however, when there is time to have recourse to the protection of public authorities. More harm must not be caused in its exercise than is nec essary for the purposes of defense. It commences and ends with the apprehen sion of danger. Death may also be caused in exercise of the right of private defense of property in ease of robbery, housebreaking by night, mischief by fire in a building, etc., and of theft anil house trespass, when fear of death is in volved.—N. Y. Graphic. —A man and wife in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., over seventy years old, were recently down with the wjmoping cough, which they caught from their | grandchildren. A First Earthquake Experience. “Mexico, July 19.—This has been a day to be remembered. This morning we invited the Q— —-’s to come up to tea to night. After school we sallied forth to buy clams for a clam-chowder, cake, and various things. We were walking briskly along San Francisco street in the hot sun, when I felt myself suddenly whirling—cound not see. I called out frightened, ‘Why, Miss L , I’m dizzy!’ ‘So am ll’ she responded, and then I think for a moment I lost my senses, for I had a wild idea that I must get somewhere under shelter. As I saw people all around dropping on their knees, I d.d not. want to be the one con spicuous personage on the street who would not kneel to the archbishop or the holy sacrament. Whatever I thought, 1 staggered into a shoe store, and just as I got inside it struck me that an earth quake was in session. They were re pairing something or other in the store, and I vaguely felt through my dizzino's that I must get out from under the sea folding, and I somehow found mytelf in the street, standing on the corner and clinging to a building. “By that time I had recovered my senses, and could philosophize on the subject. It was very interesting to watch the people. They poured out of the stores into the streets, and very generally knelt. I took in the height of the build ings around, and concluded that should they fall into the narrow streets one might as well be in one spot as in an other, so stayed in the shade. It was very quiet—not a word spoken any where. I don’t suppose it lasted three minutes, but it was the queerest sensa tion imaginable.* For the moment that I did not know what it was I was dread fully frightened, but the moment it oc curred to me that it was only an earth quake, I was as composed as if I had taken earthquakes for a daily exercise all my life. 1 was quite seasick for a little while, and never was seasick at sea. lam actually so dizzy now, at 10 o’clock, that I can hardly write. As soon as the undulating ceased I set out to find Miss L , who had totally dis- appeared. I looked Into all the stores in the immediate vicinity, and as she did not appear 1 concluded she must have gone to the common fort., two blocks away; so I started after her, smiling broadly all the way—it had all been so strange. At the next corner I came upon Mr. II . I asked him if he had seen Miss L. ‘No.’ So he turned with me, and together we searched for her. Mr. II has been here three or four years, but this was his first experience of a serious earth quake. It was really an unusually heavy shock. We went back to my corner and turned down the I’rofesa; only a few steps down and we found Miss L leaning against a window. She bad seen me plunge wildly into the shoe store, and thinking that wo had walked into some poisonous gas,turned and fled. She staggered along a little distance un til she reached a drug-store, went in and sank into a chair, all the time thinking it was poisonous gas that had affected her. Some gentleman brought her water, and told her what was the trouble, but she had never heard the word in Spanish and did not compre hend; never knew it was an earthquake till she saw us, and we asked her how she enjoyed it. Then we hailed a pass ing coach, as Miss L said she could not walk, and started for the bakery, but the horse was so badly frightened we dismissed the carriage and quietly wended our way home. Os course our girls had a tale. They had been terri bly frightened, and, although Mexicans, none of them had ever been through an earthquake, and we were told, most dramatically, how the chairs slid around and the walls pranced. Mrs. O. says the beams cracked quite loudly, and the ron railing in the corridor shook.”— Cor. Rochester Democrat. Cash Arter uarraige. One frequent cause of trouble in mar ried life is a want of openness in busi ness matters. A husband marries a pretty, thoughtless girl, who has been used to taking no more thought as to how she should be clothed than the lil ies in the field. He begins by not lik ing to refuse any of her requests. He will rot hint, so long as he can help it, at care in trilling expenses he does not like to associate himself in her mind with disappointments and self-de nials. And she, who would have been willing enough, in the sweet eagerness to please of lier girlish love w to give up tiny whims or fancies of her own what ever. falls into habits of careless ex travagance and feels herself injured " hen. at last, a remonstrance comes. How much wiser would have been per fect openness in the beg.lining! “Wo have just so much money to spend this summer. Now, shall we arrange mat ters thus or thus?” was the question 1 heard a very young husband ask his still younger bride not long ago, and all the womanhood in her answered to this demand upon it, and her help at planning and counseling proved not a thing to be despised, though hitherto she had “fed upon the roses, and lain among the lilies of life.” lam speak ing not of marriages that are no mar riages where Venus his we lded Vul can because Vulcan prospered at his forge but marriages where two true hearts have set out together, for love's sake, to learn the lessons of life, and to live together till death shall part tin m. And ore of the first lessons for them to learn is to trust each other entirely. Ti e me st frivolous girl of all “the rose bud garden of girls.” if she truly lores, acquires something of womanliness ir on her love, and is ready to plan and help and make hgr small sacrifices for the general gooa. Try her, and you will see. Our Continent. A maker of Cheshire cheese—the genuine article—tells the London Times that in England a “limited” quantity of cheese is made that is finer than any that could possibly be produced in America. He avers that in this country May, June, July and August, which are the I c-t cheese making months in En gland. are so warm that line quality and condition of the article cannot be a--ured. Americans who have eaten ehee-e in England ay that the imported American staple is far finer than that I which is native.—A; Y. Graphic. I What Dr. Siemens Expects from the Gas Engine. tn his recent inaugural address as , President of the British Association., Dr. C. W. Siemens suggested that the time might not be far distant when the gas engine would displace on board our ships “the somewhat complicated and dangerous steam boiler” now in use. The advent of such an engine and of the dynamo-machine,hedeclared, must mark a new era of material progress at least equal to that produced by the introduc tion of steam power in the early part of he century. The great advantage of the gas engine Is believed to be its saving of fuel. Ac cording to Dr. Siemens, the best steam engine yet constructed does not yield in mechanical effect more than one-seventh part of the heat energy residing in the fuel consumed, whereas the factor of efficiency of the gas engine is one quarter. If, therefore, It shall be adapt ed to vessels, the gas engine, being of half the weight of the present steam cn ;ine and boilers, and working with Only about half the present expenditure of fuel, will admit of an addition of thirty per cent, to the cargo of “an Atlantic propeller vessel —no longer to be called a steamer.” That improve ment accomplished, the balance of ad vantages in favor of such vessels w u <1 be sufficient, as he says, to restrict the use of sailing craft chiefly to the regattas of sportsmen. As it is now, steam is rapidly driving sails from the ocean, just as iron and steel are superseding wood for ship construction. Out of the 780 vessels building, or preparing t > be built, in the United Kingdom on the 3Uth of June last, only 130 were sailing craft, while 650 were ste»wi ships; and of this whole number only 49 sailing vessels and six steam vessels were of wood, while steel or homogeneous iron, which is destined to become the great material for ship building, was used for 89 steam and 11 sailing vessels. The great advances hitnerto made in steam vessels have been in the direction of saving fuel, in lighter machinery, in the substitution of the screw for side wheels, and in the use of iron ami steel instead of wood for the construction. A wooden shin could not be built to per form like tne Alaska or the Arizona. Whereas in the days of the old Collins line the steam was expanded only twice, and the pressure carried was only 18 pounds, the expansion now is .ten or twelve times, and the pressure is 90 to 100 pounds. The old Cunarders, the Asia, Africa, and Canada, carried a pressure of ten pounds merely. The consequence has been the enor mous increase in the size of the ocean steamers and the great advance in their speed. In April, 1838, the Sirius first crossed the Atlantic in seventeen days from Liverpool and fifteen days from Queenstown. She was of 700 tons and 320 horse power. The Servia, built in 1881, has an extreme length of 530 feet, and a displacement of 13,000 tons. The City of Rome, built in the same year, is 600 feet long, aud has a displacement of 13,500 tons. The Alaska, which is 500 feet long, and of 12,000 tons displace ment, has done the distance between Queenstown and New York in 7 days, 4 hours, and 32 minutes, and Uie return voyage in 6 days and 22 hours, a mean ocean speed of about 17 knots an hour, or more than double that of the first steam vessel which crossed the Atlantic. Undoubtedly if the gas engine shall be able to do what Dr. Siemens antici pates, it will give ocean navigation another and a strong impulse. ItsjNar greater lightness as compared with the steam engine and boilers, and its lesser consumption of coal to produce the same effect, will admit of a much larger car go, and greater speed may be obtained without too much sacrifice of the cargo capacity of the vessel.— N. Y. Sun. A Newport Romance. The Jewish cemetery lies not far from the synagogue in the sweep made by Kay street where it joins Touro. In this quiet spot twelve Jewish families lie buried, and as we stood beneath the trees that spread protecting arms over the graves. Longfellow’s poem, written after a visit to this cemetery, came most vividly to mind. One verse especially, as we looked at the neatly kept flower bed, the turf so soft and well eared for. the buds that bloomed above the dead, came to our lips: “ Gone are the living, but the dead remain And not neglected, lor a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like summer rain. Still keeps their graves and memory green." In the inclosure are two graves so near each other that as you stand by one your shadow falls upon the other; with in them sleep two lovers, separated dur ing life, but united long since by death. Judah Touro and Catherine Hays were cousins, and among the 4ewsit is a crime for those so near of kin to marry. ’True to the religion and traditions of the r race, they separated never to meet airain, although they lived to be old peo ple. Neither of them married, content w ith the memory of their love and the hearing of each other’s welfare from mutual friends. They both died in Jan uary, 1754, when he was seventy-nine years of age and Catherine was seventy seven. His name was the last word she uttered, and in his delirium before death called him he talked of walking in a beautiful garden with Catherine Hays, his tir>t and only love. Judah Touro, however, did not let disappointment em bitter his life, for he spent it in active benevolence, and from a fund left by him the means are provided to keep the cemetery in order. It is told of him that he built churches in New Orleans for all sects, even contributing towards the erection of a Unitarian place of wor ship. On his monument the following words are cut: “The last of his name, he inscribed it in the book of philan thropy to be remembered forever.” Aiwporf (R. 1.) Cor. Providence Journal. —Mr. Woodward, in the Country Gentleman, says if ne should plant a new orchard with what he knows now’ of peach growing, he would “astonish the natives.” lie would plant wholly of white varie'ies, and exclusively for drying. For this purpose the white va rieties are worth at least fifteen or twen ty cents more than other sorts; they come out of the evaporator as white as paper. White dried peaches have sold for forty-two cents a pound when yellow ones brought onh twenty-eight cents. The Sultan’s Title. The idea of a united Islam under the rule of a single Caliph being a funda mental conception of the Mussulman religion, is as old as that religion itself, and was, during more than a century, Sitically realized. Under the early phs Islam was not merely an ab stract religious system but a highly or ganized social and political community, with a monarchical form of government which rapidly developed into an unlim ited despotism. The known world, was divided into two parts, the Daru 1 Is lam and the Daru ’1 Harb —the. land of the faithful and the land of the infidel and throughout the whole extent of the former the Caliph exercised uncontrolled temporal and spiritual authority. Such was the caliphate of the Ommayades, with Damacus as its capital. With the fall of that dynasty, about 120 years after the death of the prophet, the political unity of Islam came to an end. W hen the Abbassides seized the supreme pow er and removed the seat of govern ment to Bagdad, the Moors of Spain, refusing to recognize the usurpation, elected a Caliph of their own from among the survivors of the dethroned dynasty, and at a later period a third independent caliphate was formed in Egypt by the so-called Fatimite dynasty. Thus the Mussulman world was split into three parts, and since that moment it has never been politically reunited. The Western and Egyptian caliphates passed through many crises and finally perished, but the Eastern Caliphs could not profit by the weakness and disasters of their rivals. They were in fact no longer Caliphs in the old sense of the term. Ambitious provincial govern ments and insubordinate Tartar chief tains had created for themselves and their descendants semi-independent sovereignties, and the little central authority that remained was wield ed by a band of Prastorians, or by a Vizier resembling the Mayor of the palace in the Frankisn monarchy. As successors of the prophet, the Caliphs continued to enjoy popular veneration, and their names were regularly recited every Friday in the mosques; but they had lost all real power, and their chief political functions consisted in legalizing successful usurpation by performing the ceremony of investiture for those who had made themselves practically inde pendent rulers. The caliphate had be come, in fact, a loose confederation of practically independent*States under the nominal sovereignty of a spiritual head, and might be compared in some respects to mediaeval Christendom un der the spiritual sovereignty of the Pope. In this etherealized form it has continued to survive to the present day. Extinguished in Bagdad by the great Tartar invasion of the thirteenth century, it was revived immediately afterward in Egypt. A mysterious in dividual, professing to be an Abbasside who had escaped the massacre of his family in Bagdad, appeared in Cairo and declared himself to be the legiti mate representative of the venerated dynasty. The 'Mameluke Sultan of the time, perceiving the advantages of hav ing a Caliph of his own, caused the stranger to be recognized by the Ulema, and thus began a new series of puppet Caliphs, calling themselves Abbassides, which lasted for more than two centu ries and a half (1250-1517). When Egypt was conquered by the Turks in 1517, the Sultan Selim made the puppet Caliph of the moment cede to him his caliphate rights, and ever since that time the Ottoman Sultans, who have no pretensions to being descendants of the Prophet, have had the title of Caliph.— Constantinople Cor. London Times. Locating a Fault In mi Ocean Cable. The work of locating a break or flaw in t lie cable—a process seemingly so ab struse —js. with the present improved instruments, comparatively quick and e. Discarding technicalities, we may say briefly that the whole electric po tency of the cable when fully charged is know ft. and the same can be quickly ascertained of the two p rts created by a break. A delicate machine adjusted to the nicest fractions discloses the elec tric units or “ohms” in each part, and as the number of ohms to the mile is known, the miles and fractions of miles in both parts can be found out at each end of the cable. In the case of a clean break the locating of it takes about fifteen m'nutes. But a very angular break, or a flaw, makes perturbations of the measurement which it now and then takes si me hours to rectify. The usual cause of breaks or flaw’s is attrition on rocks or sand; and sometimes a break in very deep water indicates that sea currents of considerable force prevail there, contrary to the generally ac cepted theory that deep-sea waters are always placid. Most of the fractures, however, take place in shallows, and many of them are due to the dragging anchors of the fisher craft. In two or three instances the cables have evident ly been snapped by enraged or hungry fish. Cor. A. }'. Ereniii/ Post. Boston Culture. The rapidity with which a crowd can be gathered on a public thoronghfur was demonstrated on Tuesday afternoon. A couple of young women were passing the Revere House at the time mention cd, both dressed in the height of fash ion, one of them being arrayed in a terra-cotta suit, which set off her well developed form to the best advantage. Upon arriving at the main entrance to the Revere House they espied a boot black with the implements of his call ing, whereupon the young female in terra-cotta habiliments stopped, drew up her skirts partially, and pla -ed a very shapely foot on the “ shiner's ” box. The boy, in the most nonchalant manner, proceeded at once to black up and polish the No. 3 pedal extremity, but ere he had finished one boot a crowd of fully 200 persons, principally males, was con vened and watching the' operation with most intense interest. The first boot finished, the other was subjected to the same process, at the close of which the young woman handed the boy a dime, and. with her companion, quietly pro ceeded on her way.— Poet or Star. —(.'ream Fritters: it you have corn starch pudding stiff enough to cut in slices, dip them in cracker dust and egg, and fry them, laying them on brown paper to free them from grease after they are fried;’serve them with powdeieu sugar.— Rural World. TM. A. 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Bai qau nt toi 11 ALqAM Ur I ULu sWc'Mrtffir'shS CONSUMPTION in its incipient and advanced stages, and all diseases ol the THROAT, OH and LUNGS, but it has never been so advantageously compounded as in the TOLU, KOvii apa RYE. Its soothing Balsamic properties afford a diffusive stimulant and tonic to bulla up me system after tlie cough has been relieved. Quart size bottles, Price SI.OO. HAI IT I A AIT Do not be deceived by dealers who try to palm off Rock.and Ry» UAU I I NI in place of our TOLU, ROCK AND RYE. which is tha ONLY MEDICATED article—the genuine has a Private Die Proprietary Stamp on each bottts.wiitca permits it to be bold by Druggists, Grocers and Dealers Everywhere, 43- WITHOUT SPECIAL TAX OR LICENSE, rhe TOLU, ROCK AND RYE CO., Proprietors, 41 River St., Chicago, 111. - LIJ —— B'LJlg*" J—.l— R. F. WRIGHT Wholesale and Retail Druggist, Dealer in TDLLLTCGS, nVELLZDTOLISriEjS, CHEMICALS Perfumery, Boape, Hair Dree, and Toilet Articles generally; White Lena, Mixed Paints, read for use. Colors in Oil; Dry, Linseed, Tanners’. Machine and Kerosene Oils; Varnithee, Putty, Window Glass, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures; Surgical Apparatus, such as Abdominal Supporters, Trusses, Lancets, Pocket Cases, etc., etc. This firm also deals in Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Fine Cigars and Snuff, and have ths «x elusive Drug trade in fine Wines, Whiskies and Brandies in Dalton. Call and see them at the corner of King and Hamilton streets, Dalton, Ga. Prices guarantee! eompare wiin Atlanta. J e ” ' * Tlie Dalton ArguSi [changed from indepeneent headlight,] Brightest, Most Progressive, Liberal and Popula News Paper in Northwest G-eorgia. ONLY ONE TDOTjJL-ZLH, year. Advertisers can find no Better Medium through which to Meet the Farmers, 1 Mechanics, Merehants, Mill Men and People of thia section. H. A. WRENCH, Publither. I The Military Forces of Turkey. The Politische Correspondent pub lishes an account, “from a very well-in formed military source.” of the present military forces of Turkey. Ac cording to official statements, says the writer, the largest number of troops which Turkey had at any time in the field during the war of 1877-78 was 490,000 and it took her three years to obtain that number, as her levies were raised very gradually in Bulgaria and Asia Minor, first for action against the small Slavonic States, and then against Russia. The military reorganization law of ISBO provides that the army of Turkey is to be raised to 1 200,000 men, without exceeding the limits of ao-e fixed during the Russo-Turkish war. How this can be done it is difficult to understand, seeing that Turkey has lost 2,000,000 subjects by the cessions of territory made ‘under the Berlin Treaty, and that her Mohammedan population, both in Europe and As a, is only 9,000,000. The question of admitting ('hr stians to the army is only just beginning to be considered, and is not likely to bo settled for another five years to come; and even if ( hristians were employed on non-combatant duties, such as the commissariat, transport, • etc.. they would certainly not increase the army to anything like 1,200,0(0 men. To do this a holy war would be necessary, sup ported by all the power of Dlamita fanaticism. —A hundred men make an encamp ment nmj one woman makes a home.— From the Au Infernal Machine. A rather sad affair took place on oj of our streets the other day. Ayo’ l ! lady with her arms full of bundll emerged from a dry-goods store, wh| one of them fell on the sidewalk will out her noticing it. Just behind hi was a young man, and a Belfast you! man who if not polite is not anyth’® and he quickly stepped forward to p® it up. Now a bundle done up in ap® of paper with a dry goods advert® ment on it is apparently as harniless® a mother’s spanking, and there it lay® guileless as an angleworm on a sidewj after a rain. Just as he stooped tn® it up there was a rustling of th' 1 ] the twist began to come out of the eifl and in* another instant a bright™ thing, a sort of a cross between® balloon and a devil-fish, flew into ■ air before his eyes, and a thirty-six-inch, double-jointed, elnp® steel-bowed, bustle-attachment, do™ and-a-half, red-headed waltzed around andgyra’ed and ope™ and shut up and fell on the walk #' ■ and thin as a restaurant pie: ” nl ■ young man straightened hinis If looked tvs if he wished the 1:11 ■ comet No. 2 would sweep hit” this fair land; and the young la I '} back with a resembled# 1 set on a fifty-cent chromo: 1 picked up the wire contr.vance. then she went toward the east |n went toward the west, and I” ducked his head behind a cloud t" a smile, and three or four laid down and lauded a* ll '/ themselves up in , . iri”? have made a mess 1 \ ‘ ’ t . e n »P.lT !( n> their heads ;n sha^ e ’