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VOL. V.-NO. 27.
• FIFTEEN minutes to SPARE.”
BT HALLIE C. YOUNG.
o vontb, in life’s bright, rosy morn,
Whilst sunbeams gild thy way
And thoughts intense within thee burn,
Be mindful of to-day I
The present thou mayst claim for thine—
The future’s a dream most fair—
Think twice ere thou dost squander, vho
Thy “ fifteen minutes to spare.
And should a comrade say to thee:
“We’ll shun the. narrow way,
Ard cat, and drink, and merry**,
For to-morrow we’ll away
Tun, thou at once, the tempter scorn
Who spreads for thee a snare;
Touch not, nor taste, but be a man
in “ thy fifteen minutes to spare.
.here are treasures scattered on the pl*
That await a searching hand,
And coral wreaths in the billowy main
And grains of gold in the sand;
There are gems of learning snugly hid
And bright thoughts, here and there
That may be thine to revel amid
In thy “fifteen minutes to’spare.’
The transient rain-drops of • day
Help make the sparkling rill,
And it, iu turn, doth haste away
To help old ocean
If thou would nt wear a starry crown
Mid angel bands up there,
Then earn the jewels, one by one.
In thy “fifteen minutes to spare.'
Clabexpqn, Ark.
Lion-Taming.
•<is your life insured?” asked a l?e
--publican reporter of George Conklin,
the lion-tamer and elephant-breaker of
the circus now in winter quarters at the
Fair Grounds.
“ No, I have not got a dollar on it.
I’m not a good risk, and the companies
won’t write me.”
“ How do you feel when you enter the
den of the lions and tigers?”
“ I trv not to think of anything, but
I soon feel the excitement, which grad
ually becomes a delirium. Some time
ago I was putting a family of leopards
through their performance, and, while
working one of them, another fastened
her fangs on the rear part of my thigh,
and yet, through-Ujjp excitement, I never
felt the pain. Indeed, it Was c nly when
I turned round to engage one of the
other animals that I found the brute
had me fast, but I cowed her down.
This, however, can not always be done,
and as an instance of this I recall the
death of my friend Herr Lengel, of
Philadelphia. I received this extract
from one of my Australian correspond
ents :
“ ‘Mr. G. A. Courtney, * proprietor
and manager of the zoological circus
bearing his name, wrote from San Do
mingo, W. 1., September 16, as under:
“Last night at ten o’clock the well
known lion-tamer, Herr Elijah Lengel,
of Philadelpeia, Pa,, entered the den of
the Brazilian tiger# attached to the cir
cus, and had nearly concluded his per
formance with them when he made a
false step, and one of the tigers caught
aim by the head end neck, and in less
than live seconds he was torn to pieces.
His jugular vein was cut, his ear on the
right side completely ef.ten off, and his
"body was a mass of mangled flesh and
’bone. The tent was densely packed with
•people, and the scene that followed it is
impossible to describe. The guard and
also a few private individuals com
menced firing with revolvers and rifles
at the tiger, and soon killed it, thereby
'enabling the attaches to drag the body
|ot Lengel. through the compartment.
Ihe remaining living tiger at once fell
upon the dead animal in presence of
the audience and tore it into frag
ments.” ’ ” ”
t ,* Do yo ? K° arm ed into the cages ?”
“No, sir. Three years ago” in St.
■Louis during the night the lions dragged
a performing leopard through the bars
and devoured it. When I went to the
’cage next morning (Sunday) all that
remained of the creature was its head
and one leg. That Leopard was a pet
and a good performer, which drew the
people, and when I told Mr. Cole he
jsaid: ‘Well, George, can vou do anv
-1 ?! th an y °f the other leopards'?’
1 told him I’d try, and that afternoon I
wok a green animal and worked' with
her for some time. I guess I tired her
out, for she came at me with blood in
„ r r , eye -, 80 J had to kill her-it was
Hobson’s choice.”
‘‘How did you kill her?”
b ‘‘J ® truck her on the head with the
or tio-prV 1 / , whi P- 1 can UiH any leopard
an er , that wa Y- Did you ever hear of
* n elephant freezing to death in May?”
* eard of an elephant dying.”
tn b. n ’ T yem ago we were going
the weX by Way Os Pike ’ 9 Peak . a nd
shirt !, athei was warm enough for your
so cM I but two days later it was
frost hit? ° n . e - of “y Chants got
got her ?D? n<l Lt L as all 1 could do t°
3 bMn<?-? n er ’ where she died 011 May
frozen to death.” y
trainer 1 '? nk 111 has been a wild beast
bod? k o for s ® vente en years, and his
result of tT 4 Wlth terrible scars, the
demn\ - he caresses more or less
he m H= tratl \ eof his animals. Although
V?ar? L Perfor L med his lionß thirteen
tu n ‘ ( ’ )r he / ayß V? at the slightest hesita
result in w dl ?P layed by him would
n ?" leß by K! OUS attack upon him
which 1 ?™ a u m *o understand that a lion
never has Performed for years
“ an auction for you?”
know e * er ~ or rather Pinafore. Thev
they g“7hW l and fear rao ’ but ’ if
Present b ? lge on . me ’ Pd hardly
ner to work- ”® * material for the Coro
directlv wdd animals make
I can and in a big cage
if theySo d r^ e ? ra with hot irons
mv Ide 8 tl refra ctory as to endanger
firing off bbini y are . ,’ lo t afraid of inv
DAv ii bh nl < cartridges, and the imrit
r 'y hand withdraw to f ced them fr<m
make? th-n ho L The blood
blood, I Bunn , nker after warm human
wild beast bave been around
ft’her I T COuld walk i mv
II “ea brn-t - ,e ? re 1 waq bor n. and I
used to their t™?® business now. So
become that t / aits i ,\ nd mo °ds have I
that I caa walk into’a B trang6
Cljt ultillon Sltgus
den among lions who never saw or
smelled me before. Joe Whittle, whom
I trained up to the business, came to
grief and made a meal for ‘Frank,’ into
whose mouth I put my head.”
“ How was it?”
“Joe was performing Frank and
George in rehearsal, and when he put
his head into Frank’s mouth the brute
closed on him. Instead of keeping still
Joe pulled his head out tearing all the
flesh off his neck and face. We called
to him to come out, but he refused, and
said he’d conquer him ‘or die right
there.’ He then whipped the brute
through the drill, and Vas about to leave
the ciura bv th# trw-dnnr, tvhen Frank
pounced on his leg, and tore most of it
off. He died, and I have performed the
lions ever since. In Pottsville, Pa., a
lioness took me by the calf, and I kept
still, turned around and beat her with
my whip until she let go. Another
time I had all the meat chewed off my
chest and my shirt-bosom dislocated;
but then one gets used to these slight
inconveniences.”
Tt takes four months to train an ele
phant, and their breaker gives them two
lessons a day. Two hundred pounds ot
hay and four bushels of oats, together
with a mess of bread and potatoes, are
consumed daily by each elephant. A
lion takes six months’ incessant labor to
hnng it into subjection and teach it
tricks; and even tnen only anout one
lion in ten is successfully trained for
exhibition. To place one’s head into
the mouth of a lion, tiger, leopard, or
elephant requires dauntless courage,
and-even Mr. Conklin admits that the
process is accompanied oy decidedly
unpleasant sensations.
“Are lions or tigers strongest?”
“ When about the same size they are
equal in strength, and when one attacks
the other it all depends wmeh gets the
first grip on his foe’s throat—they are
like bulldogs. I give a lion fifteen
pounds of beef once a day as his allow
ance.
“ I pick up stray facts once in a while,
and the average ages of animals might
interest you,” said Conklin. “A bear
lives about 20 years, a dog 20, a fox 14,
lions, from 50 to 70 years, cats 15 years,
elephants 700 years, pigs 30, rhinoc
eroses 20; horses 10 years, although one
lived to be over 60; camels live 100
years, whales I,oob, cows 10, sheep 10,
ravens 100, swans have been known to
live 300 years, and an eagle died a
Vienna at the age of 104 years. If you
want to get at the height of an elephant,
all you have to do is to take a string and
measure twice round its foot, which
gives that animal’s altitude to a nicety.”
“ Have you ever any forebodings that
you will die in a cage ?”
“ I never allow myself to think of that.
I just go in and do my trick and take
my chances, but I take care to keep
my eyes upon the animals. There’s
one kind of animal. I will not
perform with, and that is a cross-eyed
one—he’s like the cross-eved woman
you meet on the street, you can’t tell
'whether she’s flirting with you or the
man on the other side of the street.”
Expensive Red-Tape.
Six years ago a dull-witted clerk in
the Quarterma- ter - (’eneral's office
made an error in the percentage in
computing the amount of a claim due
the Central Pacific Railway Company
for transportation. This left one cent
due the Central Pacific Corflpany. The
same error was repeated in three
separate cases, until the Government
had defrauded the Central Pacific Com
pany out of the sum of three cents
through the clerk’s negligence. When
this mistake was discovered all the
wheels of the government were set to
work to try and correct it. lor six I
years clerks have been hard at work on ,
the correction. The Secretary of War
has addressed several le.tters upon the
subject, and the Secretary of the Treas
ury has responded, and finally to-day
the profession of routine came to the
end of the first stage. The requisition
for three cents was approved, and three
warrants for one cent each were or
dered to be issued. Thus far it has cost
the Government over SI,OCO to reach
this p int. However, this is not the
end. The warrants must go to tne First
Comptroller, then to the Assistant
Secretary of Treasury for signatures.
They are then to be transmitted to the
Bureau of Adjustment of Railroad Ac
counts. They will then be sent to the
company, which will have to make affi
davit before the nearest Assistant
United States Treasurer that it is the
party to receive the sum. Chicago
News. _
Women's Rights In Africa.
The Bolonda negroes in Africa believe
in the supremacy of woman. It is with
them the law that women shall sit in the
councils of the nation; that a young mail
on entering the matrimonial state shall
remove from his own village to that of
his wife, and in forming this relation he
shall bind himself to provide his mother
with wood so long as she shall nve.
Here, too, the wife alone can divorce the
husband, and the children in that event
become the property of the mother. The
I men cannot enter into the most ordinary
contract without the permission of the
lady superior of the domestic circle. In
I the very heart of Central Africa is the
paradise that many women are vainly
' striving for in American, and the rights
she clamors for here are already granted
i~n this far-off com) try to women, and, by
what we call an “uncivilized people.” A
I few delegates from Bolonda might be of
f;ood service to the cause, for they at
east can speak from experience of what,
to us, are yet untried laws.
—The general agent of the Prison
Association of New York states that the
mo t prolific source of crime among
voting men and boys is the game of pool i
' for drinks. — • 'Hines.
—The general agent of tho Prison
Association of New York states that the
no t. prolific source of crime among
young men and boys is the game of pool
for drinks. —A. I - 'dimes.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1883.
Leached and Unleaclied Allies.
The question is often asked, what is
the comparative value of leache I with
i nleache I ashes? The answers have
been widely • different. While some
have claimed that a bushel of leached
ashes is worth as much as a bushel of
unleached, others do not value them
worth more than one-third as much.
Why this difference? Do not cultivat
ors observe alike, or is there a great
difference in ashes? While, no doubt,
cultivators are careless in their ob
servations, and there is every reason to
believe that there is a difference in the
qualities of ashes, there are other,
quite as important reasons, why there
is a great difference of opinion as to
the comparative value of leached ashes.
The first is bcca' se there are other
elements of value in the ashes besides
potash, one of them phosphoric acid;
therefore, if leached ashes be ap lied
to land already rch in potash and de
ficient in phosphates, it will be seen
at once that the results would be more
favorable than if applied to land ri h
in phosphates and deficient in potash.
While if the unleached be applied to
the first, and leached to the last, the re
sult wo Id be very unfavorable to the
leached ashes. There is another cause
of this great difference of opinion,
which is a frequent misunderstanding
in regard to the measurement. While
one party understands a bushel of
leached ashes to simply mean a bushel
measured after leache ', another party
means a bushel measured I efore it is
leached; as it requires three bushels of
unleach e l a-lies to make one of
leached, it will be seen at on e that
such m sunderstanding must lead to a
great difference of opinion as to the value,
so long as farms differ as to the amount
of different fertilizers the soil contains.
Fach farmer, by his own observation
and experiment, must decide what his
own soil is deficient in, and in what it
has a surplus. The best way to do this
is to apply different fertilizers and note
the results; by applying a bushel of
leached ashes by the side of a bushel of
un’eached. If he finds that the un
leached does the best it is an indication
that his land is deficient in potash, but
if the leached does the best it is an evi
dence that the potash is not as deficient
.as the phosphates. - Massachusetts
Pluuahman.
Attacked by Muskrats.
■ An extraordinary battle occurred in
Charlotte, the other night, between a
citizen, aided by two policemen, and a
gang of muskrats. Charlie Fox was
going to his home, and, when feeling
lor the gate in tl.c dark, something
jumped at his leg ami nabbed his
breeches. Looking down, he saw a
number of small eyes sparkling like
diamonds. F'e could not imagine what
they were, and, kicking them from his
legs, hopped over the fence, hurried to
the house, and came back with alighted
lamp and a stick. Hardly had he
reached the spot before the hungry
animals once more attacked his legs.
He knocked one, and as he did so his
light went out, and he beat a hasty re
treat and hunted for the police. The
officers got a lamp and proceeded to
the scene, and when they reached the
place they bad to do battle. One big
fellow, who was evidently president of
the bodj 7 , as his immense size would
indicate, made a jump at Officer Black
welder, who struck at it with his club,
but missed h’s aim. The same one then
jumped on Officer Boytc, who was more
successful in the use of his club, and
I killed it by a blow on the head. The
I officers* knocked right and left, and
, finally the rats, for some cause or an
other, ceased fighting and scampered
oft, -taking refuge under the 'culvert
near. A careftd search of the field
failed to show but one dead rat, a re
markably large one that weighed ten
pounds. Mr. Fox saw only three when
he camo out with the lamp, but about
ten or fifteen in all attacked the
police. They were exceedingly vora
cious in their attack on Mr. Fox, as the
torn condition of his pants about the
ankles indicated. — Charlotte (_N.C.') Ob
server.
• ■'
Diakrhea in Eowls. —J lecent BClen
tific researches have proved that this dis
ease is caused by a microscopic organ
ism which is developed in the intestines,
passes into the blood, and multiplies it
self there with extraordinary rapidity.
The parasite is ejected from the bowels,
and may be taken by birds who pick
about among the dung-heap or eat the
grains that have been soiled by contact
with it. If a fowl dies, and there is any
cause to believe that diarrhea has
caused its death, the birds should be
immediately taken out of the poultry
yard and isolated. The poultry-yard
and poultry-house should be well
cleansed, the dung removed, and the
walls, perches, and soil washed with
plenty of water. The water used should
contain five grammes per litre of sul
phuric acid, and a stiff broom or brush
should be employed. When ten days
have passed without a death occurring,
the birds need no longer remain isolat
ed, excepting those which show signs
of prostration, depression, or sleepiness.
These simple means will be found suffi
cient to stop the progress of the conta
gion, and to prevent its return. If they
are employed as soon as the disease
makes its appearance, they will reduce
the losses to an insignificant figure.
L'Acclimatalion.
—An exchange says that ‘to wear I
patched clothes is no disgrace.” but it
looks like sin struck with a elute and ■
■ we wotildn t do it if I <
gaged in other business,— Suturaaj
< AiHcricati.
—An exchange says that ‘to wear
patched clothes is no disgrace.” but it
looks like sin struek with a club, and
we wonldn tdoit if y ga/urdau I
gaged in other Saturday
American.
Mak* Four Will.
It is very common to hear men say,
“I do not care to make a will; the law
will make a good enough will for me
but the experience of lawyers and busi
ness men shows that in ninety cases out
of a hundred it is better tor the owner
of a house or land or personal propertv
to leave clear directions in a form which
the law will recognize as binding as to
the disposition of his estate. At all
events before he decides not to make a
will—to “ die intestate," as lawyers say
—he should have clearly before his
mind what will happen iu due legal
course after bis death, not only as to the
division of his property, but as to the
extra expense and delay which may be
incurred by his failure to name some
responsible person to act as his execu
tor.
Let it be assumed that a property
owner, whom, for convenience sake, we
will call J. D., after the legal fashion,
has a wife and three children, the young
est of whom is not yet twenty-one years
old, and let us suppose that he will
leave real estate (that is, houses, land or
ground rent,) and personal estate (that
is, stocks, bonds or money.) The law
will then, iu the absence of a will, di
vide his property thus: The widow will
have one-third of the personal estate
absolutely, and the income of one-third
of the real estate for her life. The re
mainder of the property will be equally
divided among the three children; but
as the youngest is a minor, a guardian
must be appointed for him by the
Orphans’ Court of the county. Now
this is a very simple and favorable case
of intestacy, because most men wish
that their children shall inherit equally;
but even here there are several questions
which J. D. must ask himself before he
decides not to make a will, for instance.
1. Do I wish that my wife should have
more than one-third of my estate ?
2. Do I desire her to bo the guardian
of my minor child ?
3. If one of my children is a daughter,
do I wish to give her a larger share than
her brothers?
If J. D.- answers yes to any of these
questions, he must make a wil 1 .
Let us suppose, however, that J. D.
is satified with the law’s division of his
estate. The next question concerns the
settlement of his personal property.
-All. debts, funeral expenses, ect., must
be paid from this, and the remainder
divided among his wife and children by
a person who, if appointed by the will,
is called an Executor; and, if there is
no will, is appointed by the Court, and
called an Administrator. An executor
need not enter security ; an administra
tor must. This security is in many
cases obtained with difficulty and ex
pense. Does J. D. desire his wife or
friend to whom will be committed the
settlement of his estate to be put to this
additional trouble ? The writer ha'
known more than one instance, among
people of narrow means, where wives,
possessing the entire confidence of their
husbands, have been unable to take out
“letters of administration,” as it is
called, because they could not get the
necessary security.
In short, all the evil consequences
pointed out can be averted, if J. D.,
will go to a lawyer and instruct him to
draw a short will. Let us suppose that
he desires his property divided as the
law divides the estates of intestates.
Then the will would run something like
this (unless J. D., is one of those clients
who like flourishes and red tape, and a
forest of legal verbiage) :
“This is my lust will and testament.
I devise and bequeath to my wife, A. I).,
one-third of my real estate for life and
one-third of my personal estate abso
lutely. The residue of my real and
personal estate shall be equally divided
between my three children, F. D., G.
D. and H. D. I hereby appoint my
wife, A. D., guardian of the person and
estate of my son, H. D., during hii
minority. 1 empower my executor,
hereinafter named, at his discretion (m
upon the request of my wife and chil
dren), to sell my real estate, or any paii
thereof, and make good title to the pur
chaser thereof. I appoint my friend,
A. 8., of the city of Philadelphia, exe
cutor of this, my last will and testa
ment.”
He must sign his name at the bottom,
and he should have two or moie wit
nesses.
This is a very short and meagre will;
and usually other provisions would be
added, expressing more in detail the
intentions of the testator; yet these few
lines would save money and time, and
possibly incalculable vexation or trouble
Philadelphia Public Leger.
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Manufacture of Paper.
Pajier stock of all kinds is now in use.
In France paper is made from the hop
vine; in Scotland from jute. The ma
terial is inexhaustible, but the process of
manufacture is Ua) expensive. Wood,
straw, esparto grass, and various other
vegetable products have been pressed
into the service. The hop stalk, as
yielding textile fibre possessing qualities
of length, suppleness and delicacy, is the
best substitute for rags vet discovered.
—A Connecticut man being much
bothered by burglars gave his mind to
circumventing them. His patience and ;
ingenuity were rewarded the other ,
morning by finding a marauder in the I
seventeen foot-deep hole which he dug i
under his store in front of his safe; but»
neighbor of his who missed his wnisay,
w Jnot quite so lucky for he £ now in
jail waiting to see whether both ot the .
young fellows who drank « “X he / '
Haven Neffuiair. i
Growth of the Earth.
The millions of aerolites descending
upon the earth as an everlasting shower
over all its surface prove that the earth
is growing; the gradual rise of its oceans
Strove the fact, and the great truth is also
lemonstrated by the bottoms of all
these oceans, according to their various
depths, constantly getting filled up by
primary formations. In short, the uni
versal law of terrestrial growth is de
monstrated by every 7 shell upon the
shore, which, by its formation, is just
that much permanently added to the
bulk. But sinking into the bowels of
the earth as deep as man can reach
proves the growth of the earth far more
strongly than all the facts and words
which are available on the momentous
question; for no matter how far down,
every inch of the descent was once the
surface,however low it may now be out
of sight, by the accumulation of creative
increase over it since the time. Thus,
so far as we have been enabled to pene
trate, and the rule holds good over every
part of its surface, wo find the strata
however deep we may descend, all lying,
as to time, in the order of their forma
tion. They can not be otherwise, as no
convulsions of nature could reverse the
position of one stratum by superimpos
ing it upon another. If we sink dow
through the strata to the depth of, f
a thousand yards, we pass through tne
works of several geological epochs, the
first one that on which the drift of the
deluge rests, the latest formation, the
next—if in the sinking there is no miss
ing link—a step in time earlier, and so
on iu succession, until we reach the low
est stratum at the depth mentioned, the
oldest one in the series. There it is just
where it was deposited, then on the sur
face of the earth, perhaps more than
1,000,000 years ago, while all the others
have been in latter times superimposed
in their respective geological epochs, up
to the surface. There is another such
epochal formation going on and getting
thicker under all oceans since the pres
ent continental features of the globe
arose, which will yet be dry land, and
will be the latest formation for the geol
ogists of the remote future. — Colburn's
Magazine. ,
The Advantage of Two Eyes.
In response to tho question, “What is
the use of having two eyes ? ” the
answer has been given, “to have one
left if the other is hurt. ” Much as we
may admire the sagacious foresight of
this youthful physiologist, it will not be
sufficient to rest contented with liis ulti
matum. Ho had evidently not tried his
skill to find how unexpectedly he would
miss tho inkstand while endeavoring to
dip his pen into it at arm’s length, with
one eye closed. Ho had not thought of
holding his finger a few inches in front
of his face to find what of the wall it
would hide from each eye in succession,
or how differently it would look when
regarded from those two points of view
separately, how much thicker it would
appear when both eyes are open, how
readily he could examine three sides of
it at once, how much more definitely he
could judge its distance; in a word, Jiffw
much more comprehensive was the in
formation given by two eyes if used at
the same moment. Assuming that he
knows exactly how to account for inver
sion of the retinal image and tho erect
appearance of the object there pictured, I
how our visual perceptions are only signs .
of what we momentarily feel on the ]
retina, signs that generally represent
the realities with a fair degree of ac- \
curacy, but may sometimes represent •
almost anything else on demand, how, '
if the eyes be healthy, we have no con
sciousness of possessing any retina at
all,but instantly amt unconsciously refer
every retinal sensation to some external
body whose existence we are ob’iged to
assume, unless there be special argu
ments to the contrary —granting all this,
our young physiologist has not thought
of inquiring how it is that, although
two retina imagei are produced, we
see but a single object, and this despite
the fact that, like photographs of the ;
same body simultaneously taken from I
different stand-points, these two images '
are necessarily dissimilar. Hcicnce
Monthly. ,
The Partner for Life ’
Many a man has seen his choice for a <
partner in life in tho humble girl far be- i
neath him in tlio opinion of the world, i
and although love and pride might have i
struggled with him for a while, yetpnde j
triumphed, and he sought one, from the ;
higher walks of life. In all the vicissi- i
tudes of social existence, there is nothing i
capable of inflicting more certain misery <
than is sure to follow such a course. It <
distracts the general harmony of our days, ;
mis-shaiH’s our ends, shortens the length <
of life, lessens the stature of manhood, <
and is contrary to this divine instructions i
of the Bible; for it declares where love i
is there is peace, plenty and thriftiness.
Everything is sure to follow a happy 1
union. Let not pride interfere in this <
matter.
- There were fewer railroads sold j
Under foreclosure in l.w'than for many j
ye us in tin- past. Only sixteen, hav ng f
a mileage of <i/ miles and a r
stock o’ •* and bonded amt a
i Other debts of like amount were sold a
out last \ cor. Fewer romls are being f,
! buiit at public expense than formerly. Z
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A coormTE came out of n
store loM with purcluwey. 1011 / lbl
f r „ d your P^'^ ve nztoed /,»> (
said the other sweetly. •
TERMS; SI.OOA YEAR
ntMonovs.
—Somebody put a fresh turnover in
among those on the counter of a railway
restaurant and the traveler who got
hold of it was so astonished that''he
gasped four times.— Somerville. Journal.
“ Dear Mr. Jones.” said a learned
woman, “you remind me of a barome
ter that is filled with nothing in the up
per story.” “Divine Amelia Brown,”
said he, “you occupy my upper story.”
—N. (>. Pieayu ic.
“Well Wilbam, what has become
of Robert?” “What, ’aim’t you ’eard.
sir?” “No! Not de'unct, I hope!”
“That’s just exactly what he ’as done,
sir, and t alked off with every thing he
could lay his ’ands on”’ Punch.
—We are w Hing to fake a certain
amount of stock in newspaper accoun s
of Western cyclones, but when an Ar
kansas paper tells us about a zephyr car
rying a bed-quilt sixty one miles, and
then went back for the sheet, we ain’t
there.— Boston Globe.
—A very colored man who entered
complaint against another for assault
ing and battering him upon the head,
was t 'iff by the .lustice: “I don’t see
: ks.” “Does ye s’pose ho hit
a piece of chalk!” was the in
fill rejoinder. The case proceeded.
•“ I’m going to a mas ,uerade ball
this evening, and I want an appropri
ate dress,” he said to the costumer.
“What is i our bus ness?” “O, I’m a
milkman.” “Ah! Then you’d better
put on a pair of pumps and go dis
guised as a waterfall. — N. F. Commer
cial.
—Miss Malvina Rumley had just
started out with her beau for a walk,
when her little brother Johnny calls to
her from the fence: “ I say, Malviny,
don’t you bring that feller back here to
tea with you. Mamma says there ain t
moro n enough biscuits to go around
as it is.”— Alexander Sweet. .
—When Mrs. Fogg asko 1 her lord
and mas er for a fur cloak, and he re
plied that, really, my dear, I can not
turgetyou. she did no’ feel >o bad be
cause she couldn’t get the cloak, but
was quite broken down by the heart
less manner of a man who could mako
a pun on a matter of such transcendent
al importance.— Boston Transcript.
—Mrs. I’eter Schinsky is one of those
Austin ladies who take much better care
of their animal pets than they do of
thoir children. She has got a ]>et poodle
by the name of Fido. Yesterday Mrs.
Schinsky’s little boy. Fob, asked his
mother: “Shall I give Fido this piece
of sugar he is begging for?” “ No, my
child, it might spoil his teeth. Eat it
yourself, Bobby.”— Texas Siftings.
Colored Honses.
The latest product of art-protestantism
in the way of street ornament is tho
colored house. A few years ago, apart
from a shop, such a thing was unknown
in London. When it came in landlords
wept for it, newspapers railed at it, and
the public sniffed and jeered. But the
painted house has gone through the
usual course of all reforms —abuse*, ndi
cule, imitation. Welbeck street (Bey.
H. R. Haweis) took tho initiative m
1873, in a house painted moss-green, re
lieved by rod and black in the reve Q " a
the windows and the balcony—an effort
almost simultaneously supported by
Townsend House (Mr. Alma Tadema),
in the Regent’s Park. The shock was
at first so great to the popular mind that
little groups would collect and stare op
posite, as if expecting a raree-show to
emerge. But in the year following one
or two neighboring houses began to lap
a little green and chocolate on their win
dow sills in timid recognition of the im
provement in the aspect. A sewm
house in Welbeck street turned red, with
a sage-green door. Sir Charles Lyell,
in Harley street, bad ventured on a
bright blue door; but this vivid color,
being unsupported by color elsewhere
on the facade, was not successful as a
contribution to the world of art. Year ny
year the parents of the movement wi re
amused to see how abuse was melting
into that sincerest form of flattery imi
tation. As street after street began to
furnish itself tip and don rambow hues,
the obtusest people suddenly awoke> to
perceive that they possessed a P y
cornice, and they picked it ou in
drabs in lieu of one; then they
that pseudo Greek forms must ve
upon the hues of Greek
red mid pale yellow. Tins hap
pily a kind of precedent in the
Lb.’ration of classicisms caught the
awakened fancy, and it is now cunojj to
see how in Mayfair and Belgravia numer
ous houses have thus been e " b
other in every shade of black
yeßow—some exceedingly well done,
others unintelligently. Stdl the worst
of them are an improvement on dirty
white, for nothing in our climate wears
worse than that.
Cavendish Square boasts of colored
houses; Gloucester Place
Combennere’s house in Belgrave Squar ,
andthet of Lady Herbert Lea, denote
the conversion of the aristocracy,
pole and Harley streets show some very
pretty combinations of c o , .o r “ ono ? |V
painted with a capital mixture of dull
red, relieved by yellow (nor Pompeiian),
mother in lavender with crimson lines,
ir ,. real additions to movement, and
ormgood harmonious features.
London Queenc_—
Lillie Singleton. «
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