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VOL. V.-NO. 41.
GENERAL news.
In 1860 there were 546,750 sheep in
North Carolina. In 1870 the number
Us 463,435. In 1880, by the aid of the
Legislature and the dogs, the number
bad fallen to 461,638.
The great need of New Orleans it
admitted to be a comprehensive and
harmonious system of drainage. The
city authorities have determined on the
appointment of a commission to look
into the matter.
New Orleans has discovered a new
thing t» do with its oyster shells, which
is to plant them for the production of
more oysters It is now found that bed
ding them out in oyster waters stimu
lates production.
A short time ago Mr. Thomas Peters,
of Birmingham, Ala , sold 80,000 acres
of mineral lands lying in Fayette and
Walker counties, to the Kentucky and
Alabama Coal, Iron and Land Co., for
$99,600.
The Governor of Alabama has awar
ded contracts for iCO convicts. Os
this number 200 were let to the Pratt
Coal and Coke Company at the rate of
sl9 a month for first-class hands. $1.50
for second and $7 for third class.
Adams’ cotton factory of 3,00 0 spin
dies, started last year at Montgomery,
Ala., was closed recently for want o f
satisfactory prices realized from yarn- 1 .
The property vill be sold by resolution
of the stockholders at an early day.
The shipping of cattle from West
Florida to Texas has not proved suc
cessful. Maj. Hines, of Marianna, lost
one out of every six head shipped, and
that before the arrival of the shipment
in New Orleans. The cattle do no
seem hardy enough to stand any rough
usage.
According to tae Atlanta Constitu
tion, Georgia will produce 6,000 car
loads of melons, or more than 7,500,000
separate melons. The price of melon
ranged in Chicago from ewenty-eight to
twenty cents. Averaging the crop this
year at twenty cewts, and putting 1,250
melons to the car, each oar will be
worth $250. This will make the crop
worth $1,500,000 for this season.
The largest sale of Georgia gold lands
ever made has just been consu mated in
Loudon. Negotiations between Dr.
Josiah Curtis, of Washington, D. C ,
the representative of the Nacoochee
Mining Company, and an English com
pany, have been pending for several
months past, and have resulted in the
purchase of the latter. The purchase
includes nearly 8,000 acres of the bes’
gold lands in the county, including
lands of J. K. Dean, J. H. Nichols and
others, besides the Nacoochee Mining
ompany’s canal, mill and lands.
Skin drafting.
The process of skin grafting promises
. receive a fresh impetus from the
of M. Anger, a French surgeon,
e main feature of his discoveries is
♦>l i • pi L Ces °f taken from amputa-
I * mbs be URed t 0 obtain cicatri
■ TTiti 11 e° n tbe bod res of other subjects.
fHitherto portions of skin were taken
Z?- part of a Patient’s body and
PPhed to another part. It is stated
in one case the surgeon cut pieces
tlu i V rOm the Burface 01 ampu-
ftn . d Rpplied them to the
at s d le K , of another person. In
an ,i 4K ,VS bandages were removed,
mah.iv e i gr ’i ft rl parts were found in
dent! J inited to the surface and evi
ti»l ?
the at SUCCeBB of the Process that
amnnUK J? ade "“mediately aftei
OlJraH * lOn ‘ . i lll ® nam ° P iveU to thii
lerationis heteroplasty.”
Hint Terrible Master, Superstition.
siomi'rv JkJ®?”®’ of the Lond °n Mis
ike ? ntes that “every vest
from fl >1 ' aS been Bwe Pt away’
which 1' i in Madagascar in
la,M,rS ’ a,ld ' et that they ar.
and wife! e ' e J? m charms, superstitions.
KK h ™ ft - It was reported that a
a^nrri<« t ’ lK>ken BD - d I,ad aun °""ced that
won d T U » ug gri evous famine.
*Sse ha the district ; that im
thateven 4°T "°" ld deswild ’ »««
avert thia h‘® heavens would fall. To
black \ h r1 1 ?e IK .' f ' ple were to l d to get six
a 1 H Whit, ' 1 bwids and to -em
«>me to fl tlie ne £ k aud no harm would
w ome n a after this m ””
twelve’beads 11 drcn " pre R, “ en with
The feaJ o} aro,u,d ‘heir necks.
P’eat evil am V*' 4* “ nd wit chcraft is a
not idolater * *ci. S ■ P eo ph’- They are
b *t a bad Chrißtiauit y has
looks' "4 Ba s e *° i’ :d P° men by their
hide from £ arrueut of Hesii may
til the li t- be bpnu t.Y of the soul, un
through itl’ tUlllg ° f the Bpirit breaks
**“»ugn its environment.
hard V Xar‘ e L Bay th ® 7C - 18 uotll ing s.
tte n would hke t pros P er ity; but most
w °r< of thnf ,1 en ? a K e in some hard
de^ np t»on just t<fhave a
"lustration O s the adage.
ell c D n Ito n Civ gng
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The annual dividend of seven per
cent for the unfortunate depositors in
the Freedmen’s Bank has been announ
ced. This makes sixty-two per cent of
the funds restored to them.
Malloy, the southern man, who recov
ered $20,000 for libel from the New
York Herald, for having been charged
with being suspected of incindiarism,
has had his damages cut down to $2,500
on a second trial.
Tho City of Wilmington, Delaware,
having ordained a dollar tax upon every
telegraph pole in that city, the company
refused to pay. The authorities order
ed the removal of every pole from the
<treefs, and SBSO were promptly paid
under protest. This is a new form ot
pole tax.
The Brooklyn Eagle, commenting on
the recent change in proprietorship of
the New York World, says: “A news
paper, to be successful, must draw its
support from the public ; to deserve and
win support, it must be true to the pub
lie interest and free from even a suspic
ion of control by publl* enemies.” This
is a truth of general application Its
force is not limited to New York.
, uiiiWlK,
The Supreme C&UH of Pennsylvania
has decided that giving a letter to a
carrier is equivalent to depositing it in
the post-office. For it can make no dif
ference whether ohe hatods a letter to a
carrier or puts it in a letter box a few
feet away whence the letter-carrhr
will take it. The decision arose out of
a suit in which the indorser of a note
claimed that he had not received notice
of protest.
Goldsmith Maid trotted 232 heats in
2:30 or better, won $364,200 during her
trotting career, and captured 121 races.
American Girl won $llB,lOO in for<;y
nine races. Rarus won $114,950 ih six
ty-three races. Judge Fullerton won
$102,086 in thirty-two races. Flora
I'fmnle won $90,000 in eighty-six races.
Hopeful, $89,000 in forty-nine races.
Lady Thorne, $79,575 in forty-one races
The actual gains brought to her owner*
by Goldsmith Maid, over expenses, were
246,750.
During the ten months ended April
30th, 1883, 417,688 immigrants arrived
in the Unite! States at» the principal
evstoms districts. During the ten
months ended April 30th. 1882, the
number of arrivals at the same districts
was 544,601. showing a falling off dur
ing the ten months last past of 126,913.
By fiscal years immigration to the Uni
ted States was at its highest tide during
the year ended June 30th, 1882. The
arrivals for tne current fiscal year will
be fully 150,000 less than they were for
that year. Still, with the exception of
the fiscal years 1%81 and 1882, immi
grants are now coming into the United
States at a greater rate than ever before
in its history.
The bones of Charles J. Guiteau, the
assassin of President Garfield, after hav
ing been in the Army Medical Museum
since July 3d last, have at length, it is
stated, lost their identity as his bones
The day following the execution, which
took place on the 30th of June, Gui
teau’s body was entered under the floor
)f the east wing of the jail. On the
night of July 3d it was resurrected by
the anatomist of the museum, Dr. E. F.
Schafhert, and taken to the museum.
Here the bones were prepared for ar
ticulation, and being in fine order for
such purpose, it was supposed that some
day or other Guiteau’s skeleton would
be placed in a glass case in the museum,
properly labeled. It was known by a
number of clerks and other employes of
the museum that the, bones were there,
but only a few persons have been per
mitted to see them. It has been deemed
inadvisable, however, to place the skel
eton on exhibition as that of Guiteau,
for, like the cervical vetrabrse of ihe
assassin of Lincoln, Wilkes Booth, it
would have attracted too large a crowd.
Recently Dr. C. H. Crane, the Surgeon
General, took the bones into his per
se nal possession, and he has made a
disposal of them of which every other
person is ignorant. Gen. Crane will
doubtless keep the secret to himself. It
is thought the bones are yet in the buil
ding as an entire skeleton, or that they,
with other bones, form exhibits there.
A man who has that sympathy winch
leads him to remember the lowest and
the poorest, has in himself an influence
which will overrule pride, selfishness,
all passions. 1
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1883.
The Viennese I)Andies*
The Viennese dandy is something
wonderful. He is invariably slender,
very slender, and has a face that is
meaningless and hits ho more expression
in it thftn a flour dumpling. His hair is
invariably parted in the middle and is
cared for tenderly and with great
solicitude* his teeth must be white, or if
otherwise, he keeps his mouth shut
tightly that they may not be seen. He
has a beard, always a light one, for tho
material for heavy beards Is lacking,
and ho shaves that meaningless face at
least once, if not twine a day;
His clothing is something to wonder
at. If the fashion for Collars is tho
standing, his is a trifle higher than any
' one else's, exOept those of h ! s own c’ass,
and if the turn down is the mode it is
always wide: than any actual gentleman
would wear, and his trowsers are wider
at the bottom, or tighter, as the ca-e
may be, than any one else wears them.
If short coats are the rule his is a trifle
shorter than IbdsO shown on tho fashion
plates, and if long, longer. One thing
invariably marks him, his Cuffs are
always enormous, there is a Vast extent
of white oh his wrists, and his hands, up
as far at least as that part which the
cuffs do not expose, are scrupulously
clean, and always white. In short,
whatever the ttiode he dresses to it,
only exaggeratingjust enough to attract
attention.
As to what is underneath these exag
gerated garments, that, may never be
known.
There probably arc no stockings under
the immaculately e’eaned and polished
boots, and very likely the gaudy s«arf
suffices also for the shirt, and pdsslblj’
the body, except what is vi ible, has not
known soap and water for weeks, but
whas is to be seen is purity and fresh
ness itself. He always carries a light
switch of a cane, and in the day on the
streets and at nights in the calcs he finds
pleasure in being seen, and, by waiter
girls who are fresh from the country
and not familiar with the speciei, ad»
mired.
HU waltzing in the dancing-halls is
something never to be forgotten, any
more than his walk as he promenades
the principal streets. They have the
same kind in Paris, and also in America,
but as in America they are employed
during the day, they ate not seen so fre
quently. In Vienna the salesmen arc
generally saleswomen, and the VicnesC
swell is cut out from the handling of
ribbons and dross-goods, and has plenty
of time to disport himself on the beauti*
ful st reets. I low he lives no one has
ever been able to find out. He hasn’t
brains enough to gamble, nor ability
enough to do business. Probably the
most of them live upon their mothers.
They appear to have just enough Capac
ity to so low that profession. It almost
reconciles one to a monarchy to know
that these insects are compelled, like all
other males, to serve three years in the
army.— D. It. Locke, in Toledo Bia le.
About Hornets.
Old Jerry Greening, the hunter, says
that on one occasion lie shot a bear and
was going to drag the carcass home,
when he discovered the bear had just
been robbing a yellow jackets’ nest and
was still covered with the fiery little in
sects. “’F that b’ar bed only been
wounded I’d a waltzed right in an’ fixed
’im,” said Jerry, “ but a couple o’ them
cussed little hot-tailed critters camearter
me an’ I skipped, an’ I didn’t dare go
arter thet b’ar ’n two days.”
Hornets build their nests high up in
the branches of trees or fasten them to
the rocks. But as cute as these insects
are the bear is more than their match.
A bear discovers a hornet’s nest far out
on a limb beyond his reach. He climbs
the tree, breaks the longest branch he
can get, and, holding it in his fore paws,
hits the nest until it drops to the ground.
Sometimes be dances or stamps on tho
limb till the nest is shaken off. Should
the nest be on a rock the b »ar goes up to
the top of the ledge above it, where he
gathers stones and sticks and rolls them
down the side of the rock till one hits
the nest and sends it tumbling to the
ground below. The hornets appear to
know what has caused their ruin and all
remain in the fallen nest till the bear
appears, when they attack him.
“A hornet’s sting,” says Jerry Green
ing, “is ’bout’s strong ’s a whack from
a sledge-hammer, an’ one hornet ’ll
knock a bull down, but their bite won't
raise a lump bigger’n a buckshot on a
b’ar, an’ the shaggy critter thinks its
fun. He’ll stan’ on bis bin’ legs an’
square off with his fore paws jest as es
he were a boxin’ with somebody, only
he’s durn keerful t’ keep his eyes shet.
Then he’ll lay down an’ roll over ’em
jest ez if he didn’t keer a cent for ’em.
Once’t I seed a she b’ar knock a hornet’s
nest bigger’n a half-bnsbel basket off ’n
a rock an’ pick it up an’ tuck it under
her arm an’ walk off with it ez cool ez if
't were one o’ her cubs.”—Correspond
ent Philadelphia Times.
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Able to Support Themselves.
The imperial family of Germany is
quite able to support itself. If the Crown
Prince were deprived of his inheritance
he could easily win bread and butter by
his skill as a turner; while his eldest son,
Prince Wilhelm, is an excellent amateur
artisan. On the Emperor’s cabinet are
several samples of his dead grandson
Waldemar’s proficiency as a bookbinder.
This acquisition of a trade is in accord
ance with the traditionary customs in
the royaJ family, which pnesenbe that
every Prince of the blood shall learn
some useful handicraft, so as
en his spirit of indep. ndepee and make
to wii through actual contact w.th
the material world.
“THE HOUSE.”
Am Viewed from the Caller lea.
[From Harper’s Magazine.]
From the galleries of the House of
Representatives popular government ap-
I ‘ears to consist of a confused mass of
desks ttnd desultory men—the desks lit
tered with books and papers, and the
men continually walking about in every
direction ; of a vast amount of private
correspondence, a relay of page boys
obeying a Turkish magnificence of
clapped hands from this and that mem
ber to do his errands, and a monotonous
droning by the clerks, together with a
minimum of oratory. All this against a
dignified background of cigar smoke in
the lobbies, and of coat-rooms and bar
ber shops, where Congressmen lounge
and joke, or confer on coming measures.
It is also apparent, from the amount of
work done with the penknife, that the
House is determined to have order as to
its finger-nails, whatever may be the
fate of public business in this respect.
YoU lieftr some half-audible speaking,
but general Walking, talking and rust
ling suggest how Demosthenes, if he had
enjoyed the privilege of a seat in this
body, might have dispensed with the
aid of the sea.
Then a division takes place, and mem
bers pour in from the lobbies, the res
tatiratit, the Committee-rooms, to pass
like a drove of sheep between two tel
lers. The efforts of inexperienced or
unimportant members to get attention
are pathetic. One is perpetually swag
gering about, but never speaks ; another
gets up and murmurs, but, being ig
nored by all parties, sits down, with a
ghastly disappointment, and tries to
ook as if ho did Hot feel he was being
looked at; another, with Chadband hair,
rises for information, asking, in a bland
voice, a question so needless that some
one on the other side answers it, to save
th® Speaker’s time, and Chadband, after
swaying Uncertainly on his toes for an
instant, subsides so abruptly that he
can’t at once recover the use of his limbs
sufficiently to steal away toward a cloak
room. Yet at almost any moment, ex
cept in the “morning hour” and on
“ private-bill day,” an exciting and mas
terly discussion may begin, which
promptly fills the chairs and enchains
every listener, The general demeanor
of the House, too, is more business-like,
excepting for the amount of preoccupy
tion, than that of tho House
of Commons. Those who come to look
on, with imaginations trained by history
and the press, are grieved to go away
without seeing a single member spring
at another's throat, or even call him a
liar. The homogeneity of the faces and
persons on the floor is another point for
remark. It is clear that Americans are
Americans, however wide asunder their
abodesmay be, and it occurs to one that
if the representatives of different sec
tions were to get hopelessly mixed up
and changed about the same day, it
would produce no incongruity so far as
their outward appearance is concerned.
To imagine these comfortable gentle
men arrayed, in their frock-coats of
identical make, on opposite sides in a
civil war, or as the lawgivers of separate
confederacies, would be grotesque if
the reality a few years ago had not been
so tragic. A few distinctions of East and
South and West may perhaps be
traced in the physiognomies, but
individual peculiarities assert them
selves far more strongly. The man of
the people, with his indifferent necktie
and “ well-met ” manner ; the smug,
well-to-do lawyer ; the “elegant speak
er the richest members, with heads
partially bald and faces seamed with fine
wrinkles, wearing a look of long resigna
tion to the collection of dividends ; or
the plethoric, rosy-faced man who gains
his point by private champagne rather
than public speech ; the quiet gentle
man of refined manners ; and the gory
antagonist —all these, and other types
beside, may be sharply discriminated
without regard to State or geographical
lines. It has grown to be the fashion to
say that Congress accomplishes nothing
except to disturb trade, but if that is so,
it is not due to idleness. Accomplish
ing nothing was never before so labori
ous a task. House members are the
busiest people in the country, with their
caucuses, their incessant committee
meetings, their speeches and prepara
tion, their dense correspondence with
constituents, and interviews with visit
ors. _____ _
Driven From a Valued Home.
A will made in a mad-house, of which
the testator has been an inmate during
the greater part of his lite, is not a doc
ument very likely, one would say, to
pass muster in a court of law, but such
a paper has just been declared valid in
Dublin. The testator was a French gen
tleman, who in his youth became insane
from excessive dissipation and was con
fined in an asylum for two years before
he recovered his mental health. Being
then at liberty to go, he refused to do
so, but having acquired a liking for the
place, he remained thereuntil his death,
tweiitv-eight years later. Onh on< e
did he go out into the world, and on
this occasion he returned to the asylum
so drunk that he declared he would nev
er run into temptation again, a resolu
tion to which he always thereafter ad
hered. tint 1 finally he was told he could
not remain any longer, "hereupon he
went forth weeping and died in eighteen
months from the day’ of his discharge.
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Here is the latest composition of tho
society idiot: “Do you dawnce too
lawncers ? ” “No ; I don’t dawnce the
X£cere ' but my sister Frawnoes
dawnces the lawncers and several /
dawnces." The managemen t of tbu.
sentence assures entrance into /
highest circles.
Andersonville.
A writer in the Cincinnati Morning
Journal says: Anderson is the name of
a station on the Southwestern Railroad,
about sixty miles from Macon. It is
nothing but a railroad station, and the
only thing that characterizes the spot is
the immense Union Cemetery of some
twenty acres, over which floats the star
spangled banner. The cemetery is con
structed on the spot where the prison
ers were buried, and the trenches were
dug with such precision and regularity
that the soldiers were not disturbed, but
allowed to remain as their comrades in
terred them, working under the watch
ful eyes and fixed bayonets of the Geor
gia Home Guards
The cemetery is surrounded by a
stout wall, with an iron gate, and is
under the supervision of a superintend
ent, who lives on the grounds. It is a
plain spot. There is not much attempt
made to ornament this citv of the dead.
It would take a great deal of even such
influence as plants and flowers possess
to dispel the memories that haunt this
hill in the pine woods of Southern
Georgia. .
The cemetery is much visited by
Northern travelers, and the register in
the superintendent’s lodge contains
many strange inscriptions beside the
names of the visitors. Ono lady asks
forgiveness of God soy the murderer of
her brother,who sleeps in the cemetery.
Occasionally a man who was in the
stockade turns up among the visitors.
These men, whatever their natural
temper, the superintendent says, can
almost be distinguished by the effects of
fear, dread and vivid recollection which
came back like a shock into their faces
as they again stand on the now quiet
and sunlit scene of their war expe
rience.
In the cemetery the ground is of a
general 16vel, and the graves of the
known and unknown, properly sepa
rated, range in rows, closely laid as
far as the eye can reach.
There were actually buried on this
elevation 13,715 men. The soldier
whose identity was preserved by his
comrades is marked in his resting place
by a white marble stone rising eighteen
inches above the ground. A square
marble block with the word “Un
known” on it is repeated about one
thousand times in the cemetery.
Part of the stockade is still standing.
There are two rows of trees —one inside
the other. The outer row has fallen
down, save a few posts here and there,
but a large part of the inner wall still
stands. Trees have grown up around
the old pen, and a thick growth of un
derbrush now covers the site of the
prison.
No traces of the famous brook that
ran through the stockade remain, nor
of the wonderful well dug by the pris
oners. It is all now a mild and peace
ful section of country.
Many of the soldiers in the cemetery
have handsome headstones lifted to
their memory by friends in the North,
and efforts are frequently made to have
certain graves “kept green” with flow
ers and shower pot.
The Fecundity of Fish—Their Age.
An average herring contains about
25,000 ova, so that 1,000 females of that
fish would yield, if all the eggs were to
come to life, 25,000,000; but hundreds
of thousands of the eggs altogether es
cape the fertilizing milt of the male fish,
and other hundreds of thousands are
devoured by enemies that seem to think
the ova of the herring has been created
solely to serve as food to them All our
sea fishes are endowed with enormous
powers of reproduction. A female cod
fish has been known to contain 2,000,000
or 3,000,000 ova, but, as has been stated
of the herring, the waste of eggs from
the want of being fructified, and from
other causes, is really enormous. The
flat fishes are also all of them very pro
ductive; but in the case of all sea fishes
the waste of life is really and truly in
calculable, otherwise man would
be incapable of dealing with these minor
monsters of the great deep. As has
been shown in the case of the herring,
there are animals preying on the shoals
the demands of which are far more
deadly than those of mankind; the same
may doubtless be said of most of our
other sea fishes. But the total stock of
fish of all ages must indeed be prodi
gious. There are, however, many diffi
culties in the way of fixing upon a figure.
It is not yet known, for instance, with
anything like certainty, at what age
herring or codfish arrive at the maturity
of their lives; but it may be hazarded as
a conclusion, which has not been arrived
at without the most careful considera
tions, that the sea in all probability con
tains a supply of fish which, in the event
of production ceasing, would last the
community for a period of five or six
years. These fish,of course, must lie of
all ages; but no man can tell the exact
age of any fish which he may from day
tx> day find on his table. Nor can we
tell the average age which any of our
sea fish attain. Many of the codfish we
capture “look” to have been very old
denizens of the deep—ten. years old at
least. And as some of the fish which are
captured are occasionally of an enor
mous size, that fact seems to indicate a
long period of life. We think, however,
taking the majority of our fishes into (
account, that if creation were at once ,
to stop, and the fish of the sea were sud- ,
denly to cease to multiply and replenish ]
the present stock, at the rate of t
from tour to th
n the British t.h<a>lerl!/ f in
. / st
common aeuse.
TERMS: Si.oo A YEAR.
f HUMOROUS. ;
—lt annoys an amateur poet to find
that his poetry has been “run in” by
the intelligent compositor and everv
other line “quoted.”—N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
—Young ladies who arc afraid tha
lovers are after them for their money
can make an effective defense by regu
larly buckling down to the wash-tub
and filling the back-yard with white
linen every Monday morning.— Chicago
Inter Ocean.
—We are sorely puzzled by an asso
ciated press dispatch, which says the
country seat of an editor, near Long
(ranch, was robb d on Sunday night
There is something about this dispatch
we cannot undersaud.— Middletown
Transcript.
—A New York man says he keeps
chops and steaks for several days in the
hottest weather by burying them in
meal. Meal is a good thing in any
weather for steaks and chops. We
more particularly refer just now to the
morning meal.— Danbury News.
Oatmeal is really a very good
thing to make tho skin fine and soft, if
it is used in cold water as a wash. We
always had a notion that oatmeal could
be put to some good use. Heretofore
it has been principally used by cranks
who keep boarding houses as a means
of killing appetites for breakfast.— The
Judge.
“So you’ve weaned the baby,” said
a lady to her next doorne ghbor. “Yes,
I did that some time ago. Why?” The
querist stepped out on the front porch
as she replied: “ Well, judging from the
slapping noise I heard last night, I knew
you were bringing him up by hand!”
The door closed with a bang that could
have been heard over in the next coun
ty. — Norristown Herald.
—Hundreds of thousands of men die
annually from strong drink.— Kansas
Prohibitionist. We never undertake to
criticise any other editor, but we do not
believe that any man can die annually.
Annually means every year, and no man
can die every year, for any great length
of time, unless he has a great deal of
practice and experience al the business.
—1 eras Siftings.
—The seashore correspondents of
some of our variously esteemed contem
poraries appear to find the ocean in a
highly devotional and reverential mood
this season. One of this ilk speaks of
“the loud hosannas of the waves,” an
other of “the solemn hymns of the
surges,” and a third of “the deep Te
Deiini of the midnight tide.” AU of
which is very beautiful and poetic. But,
even .when you come down to hard and
prosaic fact, the idea seems to be car
ried out and strengthened. One does
not need to go very far from Boston any
day to see Ocean Spray. A key to
this joke will be furnished readers on
application at, this office. — Boston Jour
nal. e
A Missing Finger.
Judge Lyter is as good a name as any
other to call him by. He is one of tho
best-known lawyers in the State, and
not long ago spent several days in Neva
da City trying an important case liefore
the Superior Court. One of his hands,
as most people observed, is minus a fin
ger, or rather the best part of one. There
is quite a history connected with that
unnaturally short piece of flesh. As the
story goes, the Judge did not always
center all of his talents on solving knot
ty legal problems. Ever so many yean
ago he lived in one of the northern
counties of the State. He was an infant
in the profession then, and the denizens
of the mining camp had away of settling
their little misunderstandings with pis
tols and knives. Consequently grass
got pretty short with the young lawyer,
and the first thing ho knew he liecame
one of the “b’hoys.”
One night he got into a game of pok
er with “Black Bob," an eminent card
sharp. There was a mint of money on
the cloth, and both players liecame ob
livious of the crowd of interested specta
tors, who had seldom witnessed such
stiff playing, even in the mines. Bo
had the'first deal, and he dealt well, tor
he and the Judge continued to shove
coin to tho center till their respective
treasures were exhausted. They then
allowed up. , ~ _
The Judge tossed two aces and three
kings down, and reached out to rake in
the spoils. As his hand slid across the
table it camo in contact with a bowie
knifo that Bob had fished out from some
where, and one of his finger joints was
whacked off clean as a whistle.
The astonished lawyer looked up in
amazement to learn the cause of his op
ponent’s eccentric action. The latter
laid three aces and two kings alongside
the other “full.’
The Judge gazed at the two hatches
of cards a minute, then raised his eyci
to the stained knife that the other was
holding in readiness for any emergency.
“Ah yes, I see,” he stuttered ner
vously; “queer kind of lay-out, ain’t it.
Bob? But your ap* ’ogy is accepted.
Bob appropriate*/ he spoils without
any deniuijP* ex .g Med, and it is said
that for Z -ig time after the two men
had great respect for each other, and
hunted in pairs.— Nevada City Tran
script- w *
Gambling has been and still is very
zreatlv on the increase m London, i o
J(y a f tt^n
•y
fjotiHKno—mid tn i where by the
iiud nifticulticß about
lea it la founts have already
g settlement < . f - t continuea,
y be expected.