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VOL. V.-NO. 48.
GENERAL NEWS.
Josiah 1. Wall, Florida’s colored ex-
Congressman, now fanning in Alachua
county, will realize. between $7,01)0 and
SB,OOO net from his vegetable crop this
seasen.*
Since the news has reached the set
tlers on Lake Weir that the Florida
Southern railroad will pass on the east
side of the lake lands have gone up to
fabulous pi ices.
An oil well was struck near Parkers
bui’g, West Virginia, Wednesday which
is pumping at the rate of 400 barrels of 28
degrees oil per day. There is considera
ble excitement over the strike.
A St. Lucie river man, who is no hun
ter, talks of ’abandoning his place. The
deer lay waste his field, the alligatorsand
catamounts take all his pigs and the coons
and possums decimate his poultry.
A vessi l from Pensacola dischaged a
load of lumber at Boston, and in shaking
out topsails to depart, a huge water-moc- ,
iis.in brought all the way from the Pen
sacola docks, fell to the deck.
The longest trestle in the world is now
building across Lake Pontchartrain on
the Northwestern railway. It will be
21J miles in length, and requires besides
the piles 15,000,000 feet of lumber.
Subscriptions amounting to SIOO,OOO
have been guaranteed in aid of the,
World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial
Exposition at New Orleans next year.
Thq total amount wanted is $500,000.
St. Augustine has a century plant
Which will bloom in a few days. It is
about thirty-five feet high, and the stalk
upon which th i flower will appear has
shot up to a hundred feet in the hist two
or three days.
Arrangements are being effected for
continuing the Government work at Aran
sas Pass. It is estimated it will require
$30,000 to complete the work to a twelve
foot contour. The Government funds
will be expended during the present
month.
A Number of whales, one of them 70
feet in length, went ashore recently near
Jupiter inlet, Florida. They are a new
species of sperm whale and a perfect skel -
eton of the largest was obtained, and has
been purchased by the Smithsonian In
stitutute.
Col. Ed. Richardson, probably the
largest cotton planter in the world, has
an excellent crop. He has about 17,000
acres in cotton. If this is an average
season w ill ship 15,000 bales. He has at
least 20 per cent more grain planted than
at any former season.
The dredging of South Carolina rivers
for phosphates is a new industry of con
siderable importance to the territory
surrounding Charleston. Some of the
crude rock is shipped to Europe, but
most of it is ground at home before it
goes to market. At the present time the
demand is great, and all the companies
are working on full time.
The managers of the “ Associated
Railways of the Virginias and Carolinas”
gave notice that after the Ist of August,
1883, no piece of baggage weighing more
than 250 pounds will be accepted for
transportation as baggage, nor will it be
transported in baggage-cars, but must
be shipped by Express or freight. All
baggage over 150 pounds in weight to
each person will be charged extra.
It is said that Mr. Tulane will appeal
to the Louisiana Legislature, backed by
the strong public sentiment of the State,
asking that the property generously
given by him to the cause of education in
New Orleans be released from the bur
dens of taxation. Ho has just added
property to his donation, which will in
crease the revenue of the prospective
Tulane University S2OO a day, bringing
the donation up to SOOO,OOO.
In 1876 there were but twenty-four
cotton-seed oil mills in the country.
During the past season about 300,000
tons of seed were crushed, the product
of all being estimated at over 350,000
barrels. As the product of seed for the
year was 3,500,000 tons, it may readily
be conjectured that the stock of raw ma
terial will allow a considerable expansion
of oil production. About $10,000,000 is
already invested in the mills, which now
form one of the important industries of
the South.
A queer accident happened to a little
girl in Atlanta, the other day. She was
working with a sewing machine, and
was running it at a good rate of speed
when the driving-rod,which was made of
wood, snapped in two, ami one piece
penetrated the fleshy part of her leg be
low the knee, tearing the flesh in a ter
rible manner. As soon as the broken
rod entered the child’s flesh the machine
Che ‘□ollon Skgns,
stopped, and in order to remove Hie
wood the wheel of the machine had to be
turned by hand.
A gentleman near Danville, Ga., dis
covered a swarm of bees in a tree about
forty feet from the ground oiie day lust
week, and his soli, quite a lad, climbed
the tree tp cut the limb and let the bees
town, but unfortunately jarred the limb
and the bees swarmed again, this time
settling on his head, many of them sting
ing him wherever they could touch him.
He told his father he would be forced to
fall, but his father urged him to find his
way to the trunk of the t*ee and get
down. He did ho, and brought the bees
down on his head. He was stung in a
fearful manner, and it was thought he
ceuld not live.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
A law of New Jersey, prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes or tobacco in ony form
to minors under sixteen years of age, has
just gone into effect.
Judge Snell, of Washington, says:
“In the eyes of the law a bycicle is a
carriage,, having in common with other
carriages equal rights in the streets and
highways, protected by the same laws,
and their riders are amenable to the same
road laws governing the drivers of other
vehicles. ”
The bishops are so alarmed at the
storm of criticism evoked by their oppo
sition to the deceased wife’s sister bill
that they are preparing to publish a
reply in justification, explaining their
motives. The royal family is much
vexed at the failure of the measure which
puts the intended marriage of the Prin
cess Beatrice to her widowed brother-in
law as far oft as ever, that prefect being
said to explain the warm advocacy of the
bill by the Prince of Wales and his
brothers.
The printing of the resulisof the tenth
census is well advanced, most of it being
now’ in type. Nothing but the compen
dium, in two volumes, has yet been print
ed and distributed. So far 11,000 pages
have been put in type. Volumes embrac
ing the following subjects are in type:
Population, manufactures, agriculture,
public indebtedness, valuation, taxation,
mining statistics, law, etc.; social statis
tics, fish and fisheries, fire and life insur
ance, cotton production, statistics of rail
roads, steamships, etc.; newpaper and
periodical press, water power, steam
pumps and pumping engines, statistics of
quarry industry, meat production, petro
leum, Alaska Fur Seal islands, etc.
A Louisianian writes: “The time will
soon come when, in our damp climate,
the floors of all the stores in New Orleans
and in other cities in the State will be
built of strong, water-proof and indestruc
tible paper tiles. The dampness permeat
ing our dwellings will be counteracted by
paper material of a suitable character.
All our city ears will be built of paper.
The wheels of these will 1 e made of
paper. The rails of our street cars and
even the crossties, so liable to decay, will
all be renewed in the course of time, and
be replaced by paper material suitably
treated to remedy existing evils. Nearly
all the furniture of our dwellings, so lia
ble to swell or shrink in our damp climate
will be manufactured in an elegant and
artistic style by means of paper stock ca
pable of resisting effectually the sudden
changes of our temperature.”
The relative importance of the oi
fields of the world are succinctly stated
as follows, in the July ‘Century,’ by E.
V. Smalley, in his graphic ami fully il
lustrated article on “ Striking Oil:”
“Nearly all the petroleum that goes into
the world’s commerce is produced in a
district of country about a hundred and
fifty miles long, with a varying breadth
of from one to twenty miles, lying main
ly in the State of Pennsylvania, but lap
ping over a little on its northern edge
into the State of New York. This region
yielded, in 1881, 26,950,813 barrels, and
in 1882, 31,398,750 barrels. A little pe
troleum is obtained in West Virginia, a
little at various isolated points in Ohio,
and a little in the Canadian province of
Ontario. There is also a small field in
Germany, a larger one, scantily devel
oped, in Southern Russia, and one still
larger, perhaps, in India. The total
production of all the fields, outside of
the region here described, is but a frac
tion in the general account, however.
Furthermore, the oil of these minor
fields, whether in America or the Old
World, is of an inferior quality, and so
long as the great Pennsylvania reservoir
holds out, can only suply a local demand
, in the vicinity of tne wells.”
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. JULY 21, 1883.
LITTLE WHITE HEAESE.
As the little white hearse went glimmering by—
The man on the Coal cart jelkeit his lines
And Bintttted the lid of either eyfy
Ahd turned and stared at the business signs
And the street Car driver stopped ahd beat
ftl* hands on his shoulders aiid gMed tip street
Till his eye on the long track reached the sky—
As the little white hearse went glimmering by.
As the little white heatse Weht glimmering by—
A stranger petted a ragged child
In the crowded walk, and she knew not why,
But he gave her a coin for the way she smiled-
And a bootblack thrilled with a pleasure strange
As a customer put back his Change
With a kindly hand and a grateful sigh—
As the little white hearse went glimmering by.
As the little white hearse went glimmering by
A man looked otit of a window dim.
And his cheeks Were wet and his heart was dry—
For a dead child even were dear to him.
And he thought of his empty life and Baid;
“Loveless alive and loveless dead—
Nor wife nor child in earth or sky 1”
As the little white hearse went glimmering by
J. W. Rilbi.
lost their lives.
The Story ot Two Yountr .Hen Who were
Lynched as Squatters.
A curious mobbing story is tli.it which
comes from Devil’s Lake, in northeastern
Dakota. About half a mile from the
town of Creel City there, which is com
posed of half a dozen houses, was a
quarter section of land located upon by
a man named Bell, The vicinity has
never been regularly Surveyed, the occu
pancy was but little more than nominal,
as often happens, and two brothers
named Ford, in Beil’s absence took pos
session, built a second shanty and began
living there. One night recently Bell
went to the place, found the intruders,
and ordered them off. They refused to
go, whereupon Bell roused the people of
Creel City with the report that his claim
was being “jumped,” and returned with
12 other men to drive the Fords out.
Just how the proceedings began is not
very clear, but there appeal’s to have
been some firing on 1 >oth sides, and at
the close both the Fords were killed.
One report says that a member of the
attacking party was wounded in the arm,
but that is not certain, and none were
killed. The plain truth of the case is
that a party of men in the vicinity de
liberately attacked and murdered two
men for “jumping a claim,” and the part
of the business most comprehensible to
eastern people is the fact that the out
rage was justified by the community.
An inquest was held, it is said that every
one of the 13 testified, and nobody con
cerned hesitates about admitting the
general facts as stated, but the verdict
was simply that the Fords were shot by
some unknown persons ; no arrests wei e
made, and the killing is regarded upon
all hands as a rough but necessary ap
plication of justice. And yet the com
munity is quite up to the average of those
on the western frontier, and its senti
ment in this matter is merely the one
common under all similar circumstances.
Precisely as horse-stealing is reckoned
worse than murder on the plains, claim
jumping is considered the greatest of all
crimes in places like this. The land is
open to all, there is no immediate way of
getting legal title, and an unwritten law
has grown up that he who first takes a
tract of 160 acres shall hold it, and death
is the penalty for its violation. The
Ford boys were new to the frontier and
seem not to have known the risk they
ran. They were nephews of Congress
man Farwell, of Chicago, and ‘there is
some talk that he may try to bring their
murderers to punishment, but that
would be no easy matter.
The Food of Shad.
Shad has been a mystery for years.
He comes into the rivers in spring in
vast numbers, and soon departs to the
ocean. His food is little known and his
sea life is a mystery. The bulletin of
The United States Fish Commission for
1881, contains a paper which throws
some light upon the natural history ami
habits of the shad. The paper is found
ed upon the examination of the shad of
Southern rivers, immediately after they
leave the ocean. The microscope was
called into use, and revealed a remark
able state of affairs. The shad is
toothless, ai d it has been a mystery how
lie lived. The naturalists of the com
mission found that there was attached
to the alimentary canal a great number of
coeca, or blind sacs, like the vermiform
appendix in man.
Those pockets vary from an inch to
three inches in length. They number
about seventy-five in each fish. It was
ascertained that all these pockets were
filled with food when the fish entered
the rivers. The theory is th tit these
pockets are employed as magazines from
which the fish draws from time to time
when in fresh water. The food was a
sea weed, with parasitic animals at
tached. The sea weed and the parasites
were found to be undigested and intact,
ft may be possible to find the ocean
home of the shad by the contents of its
numerous food magazines. The fish is
very interesting and very delicious. It
is to be hoped that more of its life his
tory may be traced.
Why Hobson objected. “Hobson,”
said Muggins, “they tell me you’ve taken
your boy away from the graded school.
What’s that for ?” “ ’Cause,” said Hob
son, “the master ain’t fit to teach ’im.”
“Oh,” said Muggins, “I’ve heard he’s a
very good master.” “Well,” replied
Hobson, apologetically, “all I knows is
he wanted to teach my boy to spell
’taters with a ‘p.’”
CAUSED Ih A MoNUeT.
A South American Animal ( rente, a Sciirh
tinii in the Bit zenibrt*
They had a terrible time up at Baz< m
bee’s the olhei* day, It seems that
about two Weeks ago B.’s brother; Cap
tain Bazembee, Os the bark Three Kings,
iiad brought hie niece, little Emily Bnz
embee; a little bearded monkey from
South America. The monkey was as
imitative aa a Country Congressman, and
the way he pretended to sliatn himself
with a paper knife, thumped on the
piano, and imitated old Bazembee falling
against the door with a latchkey in hand
at three A. M., was as as good its ft cir
cus!
Last Tuesday Mrs. B. was sitting at
the window, when a into drove up with
a load of coal, which he dumped on the
sidewalk, and then rang the bell to col-
Ict the bill. While the lady of the
house Was endeavoring to explain to tfie
man that ho Coal had been ordered, a
physician jumped out of his buggy, With
a lot of instruments in his hand, and
wanted to know whether the patient was
in great danger ot not.
Mrs. Bazembee turned away from the
coal driver to explain to the doctor that
he had better apply next door, when a
grocery boy jumped off a street car and
inquired What Was Wanted in the sugar
and coffee line. Before Mrs. B. could
answer this last comer a couple of scared
looking policemen came up the steps and
desired to know whether the burglar had
gotten away with much. Mrs. B. was
too bewildered by this time to notice that
a two-footed district messenger boy was
pulling her apron, while a hackman
asked to be shown the passenger’s trunk
and warned the lady to hurry up if she
didn’t want to miss the train.
Just as the dumfounded housekeeper
was struggling to collect her senses a
couple of steam fire engines came whoop
ing around the corner, and in another
second had unlimbered and were throw
ing a fottr-inch stream into the third
story window.
“I see it all,” gasped the poor woman;
“the mental strain of getting the chil
dren off to the country and trimming
Maria’s new plum-colored dress ami
scoop bonnet has set me crazy. Now
I’ll have to be sent to the Napa Asylum;
I'm a raving maniac, and I’ll go and
lock myself up before I murder the
baby.”
And when Mr. Bazembee arrived in
hot haste, a few minutes later, lie found
his wife holding guard over herself in
the bathroom, while on the back of a
chair in the sitting room the monkey was
perched in front of the district telegraph
instrument still solemnly ringing for
everything on the dial for the eighth
time round. The Baz- mbee menagerie
is chained in the woodshed now.— San
Brancisco Post.
Sonic Good Advice.
Bob Burdette’s advice to young men of
the present is as follows: “Get away
from the crowd a little while every day,
my dear boy. Stand one side and let the
world run by while you get acquainted
with yourself, and see what kind of a
follow you are. Ask yourself bard ques
tions about yourself; find out all you can
about yourself. Ascertain from original
sources if you are really the manner of
man people say you are; find out if you
are always honest; if you always tell the
square perfect truth in business deals;
if your life is as good and upright at
II o’clock at night as it is at noon; if you
arc as good a tempe'ance man on a fish
ing excursion as you are at a Sunday
school picnic; if you are as good a boy
when you go to the city for a few days
as you are at homo; if, in short, you
eally are the sort of a young man your
father hopes yon are, and your sweet
heart believes you are. Get on intimate
terms with yourself, my boy, and believe
me, every time you come out from one
of these private'interviews you will be a
stronger, better, purer man. Don’t for
get this, Telemachus, and it will do you
good.”
A Cyclone Incident.
A vivid impression of the sudden fury
>f the southern cyclone is conveyed by
tie's brief statement of Mr. B. F. Jones,
of Beauregard, Miss., who, the moment
he saw the danger coming, culled his
wife and little boy into the yard and
made them lie flat on the ground and
grasp some small shrubs which stood
within reach: “I put one arm about my
wife,” says Mr. Jones, “while with the
other I clasped a small tree, and made
my son lie close up to me, and then I
said to them, ‘Hohl on, hold on, for
God’s sake! It is for life!’ and then
the wind came. There was a whirl and
a roar. I was shaken, and heard the
crash of my falling house. An instant
md it was over. I still held my wife in
my arms, but she was insensible, and
my boy was still nestling close up to me,
biit bruised and bleeding.” All three
e;caped without serious injury; thanks
to Mr. Jones’s presence of mind and the
prompt obedience of his wife and child.
The Chalked Hat.--Judge James
Lawrcnson, the veteran notary of the
Post Office Department at Washington,
tells the following story of Gideon Gran
ger, of Connecticut, who was Postmaste”
General many years ago. Starting from
home for the capital, he said to the boy
who was selling tickets for passage in
the stage coach: “I am the Postmaster
General. You must let me ride free.”
‘Are you really?” “Yes.” “Then
gimme your hat; and seizing the hat the
boy wrote on it with chalk : ‘Pass this
man free ;’ ” and Mr. Granger rode all the
way to Washington on, or rtfther under,
that unique pass.
A Washington Story.
The depaririiefifs were just beginning
to disgorge the great slices of humanity
that they had swallowed in the morning,
I was standing by one of the great piles
as the men and Women began to come
ent slowly at the first. Thu first two or
three, Warned by experience, had um
brellas, under Which they went jogging
slowly home at clerkly gtiiL The fourth
was a wofflan in widow’s clothing—rather
shabby clothing which had been worn a
long time. She was thin, shrunken, gray
and pale, and seemed broken with a
weight of bad years -a sad memory of
better days. The carriage of the Secre
tary Was rolling to and fro before the
big entrance trf the building. His gray
whiskered colored coachman with diffi
culty restrained his blooded horses.
The Secretary was signing his name a
groat many times on a great many dif
ferent documents in his lofty, velvety
office. He might be out in a minute.
He might not be out for an hour. Just
as the ghostly willow came slowly down
the big steps the tine old coachman
turned his prancing pair toward the en
trance. The poor old gentleman came
down to the sidewalk with an evident
difficulty, which spoke of rheumatism.
Hlie was perplexed and puzzled by the
unexpected rain-storm. She had no
umbrella, and I don’t believe she had
car fare. The black angel on the Sec
retary’s carriage spied her as she stood
in the pouring rain, and recognized un
der all time’s disguises the features her
fashionable friends had not seen for
years. It’s -wonderful what sharp eyes
these good old colored “uncles” and
“ mammies ” have.
He drove np to the curb at orce, and
leaning over on his perch invited the
poor puzzled woman to got into the
Secretary’s carriage and ride home.
She murmured her address, fortunately
near at hand, and sank back luxuriously
on the soft cushions of the handsome
carriage. Taking all the risks, the fine
old fellow drove carefully yet quickly to
the shabby boarding house, and was
bick long before the Secretary was
ready for him. I would never have
known had the loyal old servant not told
me, that the widow’s husband was a
general who was famous when the Sec
retary Mas unknown, although 1 could
have baen quite sure that old Thomas
drove her carriage when she had one.
Earth’s Richest Gold Mine.
The property in the Transvaal, South
Africa, from which enormous quantities
of gold—reaching in certain cases as
much as 1,000 ounces to the ton—were
likely to be taken, has been acquired by
an English company, whose engineer and
geologist, sent out to examine the pros
pects of the undertaking, have sent home
most satisfactory reports on the subject.
“Two diggers,” says one of them,
“employing seven Kaffirs, had just
cleaned up for the week seventy-three
ounces of gold, and their means of work
ing most inefficient. It is by fur the
richest place I have ever seen, and the
amount it will produce is something
fabulous.”
One large reef has been discovered
running through the property and traced
at the surface for over two miles. A
series of trenches, cut through it at the
surface, prove the width to be from 2
feet to 18 feet. This reef is composed
of quartz, strongly charged with iron,
some of which, having been washed, has
yielded very fair prospects of gold, suf
ficient, as estimated, to produce from
two ounces to three ounces to the ton.
The engineer is of opinion that this reef,
when developed to a depth of 50 feet to
100 feet, will provo of more value than
the whole of the smaller veins at present
being worked.
Some quartz reefs which have been
already partially worked, give, according
so the diggers, 200 ounces to the ton.
This proportion, indeed, is what they ad
mit having got from the quartz which
they pick out in their sluicing. Besides
the quartz there is a large quantity of
alluvial soil, some of which is reported to
contain the extraordinary quantity of
an ounce and a half to the cubic yard. If
these prospects tire realized in practical
working the Lydenburg Goldfields may
claim to take rank among the richest in
the world, even if the exceptional return
ings on the “Lisbon” property have
been proved to yield the unprecedented
quantity of 1,900 ounces of gold to the
ton.
According to the certificate of the as
savers the average yield of thirty-eight
samples, taken under the supervision of
the late Gold Commissioner for the
Transvaal under the British Government,
is 48J ounces of gold and J ounces of
silver to the ton of ore. The refuse, till
recently thrown away by the miners on
the spot, contains sufficient gold to pay
a handsome profit on the working of the
stuff. •
“So you are going to marry that small
wheezy, consumptive-looking specimen
of a man, are you ?” said one girl to an
other. “I really don’t see what you can
see in him to love. ” “Mary,” said her
friend, “Mary, your father is a small
man, isn’t he?” “Yes,” was the reply;
“what of that ?” “ Nothing, except that
if he wasn’t small it would be doubtful if
your mother would be the boss. I m
going to marry that small man because
I’m fond of having my own way tod won’t
accept any risks.
*•—
“On, yes,” said Mrs. Snaggs, "my
sister and myself married soldiers, and
when we want to go off for a day and
don’t want them to bother us, we just
get ’em to talking about their exploits in
the war, and they just sit and talk and
forget all about dinner and never notice
(hat we are away. —Boston Post.
TERMS: SI.OO A YEAR.
RECAUSE ITS YOU.
If I could have my dearest wish fulfilled,
And take my choice of all earth's treasures,
too,
Or choose from Heaven whatsoe’er I willed,
I’d ask for you.
Toil and privation, poverty and care,
Undaunted, I’d defy, nor fortune woo.
Having my wife, no jewel else I’d wear,
If I had you.
No man I’d envy, neither low nor high,
Nor king in castle old or palace new.
I’d hold Golconda’s mines less rich than I,
If I had you.
Little I’d care how lovely she might be,
How graced with every charm; how fond,
how true.
E’en though perfection, she’d be naught to
me,
Were she not yon.
There is more charm for my true loving heart,
In every thing yon think, or say, or do,
Then all the joys that heaven could e’er impart
Because it’s you.
FURNISHING A FLAT.
flow it Bride iHnnnged to <l« It llundsoniely
for SSOO,
[From the New York Journal.]
My fiance gave me S4OO and told me
to suit myself, and I added SIOO of my
own. We took a flat. It contains a
parlor, kitchen, dining-room, three bed
rooms and a bath-room, with a private
hah.
I first bought the carpets, for the
parlor, and the bod-room off it, which
we turned into a library and music room
combined, I purchased a good Brussels
carpet of an olive green, chocolate and
dark crimson small running pattern for
ninety-five cents per yard, thirty yards
being used. The other two bed-rooms I
carpeted with pretty ingrain, one of
blue and gray, the other of crimson and
white. The thirty yards for both these
rooms came to $22'50. The dining-room
and kitchen floors I both had stained for
$5, and a pretty mg for the former cost
me $lO. The bathroom oil cloth amount
ed to $1.50 as the space is very little,
and four mats of Brussels cost me $3.
Six ecru linen shades with patent rollers
cost mo $5, thus my carpets and shades
came to $76.50 first furnished the parlor
and library. I dislike “sets” of furni
ture so I bought two pretty sofas, one
more of a Turkish lounge, the other a
tete-a-tete. The first cost me $lB, the'
second $7. They were covered with a
sort of rawsilk in Persian design to cor
respond with the carpet. Ono I placed
in the library. Six light chairs cost me
sl2, and two lovely easy chairs just $5
a piece. Two hassocks came to sl, a
mantel mirror with a very narrow frame
$6, three pairs of curtains made of crim
son and old gold canton flannel $6, a
graceful reading lamp $5 and three little
brackets sl, making a total for the two
rooms of $55.
The two bedrooms look very cosy and
tasteful. I purchased two excellent
light-wood Eastlake bedsteads, with
spring mattresses, one hair mattress
each and pillows. One cost me $35,
lho other S2B. Two pretty dressing
tables to correspond cost me SB, two
rockers $1 50 each, and a half-dozen
■hairs of the same wood $3. A little
escritoire for my private belongings I
b< ught for $3. 'My bedroom furniture,
therefore, cost me exactly SBS.
The kitchen, a cheerful little room,
with a good range, I furnished first with
rocker, cost $1; an ice-box for $10; a
pine table for $1 50. a lamp for $2; two
cutties, $2; four pine chairs for $2.50,
and the pots, pans, kettles, spice, sugar
and coffee boxes, with the numberless
small articles necessary, cost me $5. I
have a large supply, most of which I
bought ata five cent store. My kitchen
furniture entirely cost $24.
In the pretty little dining-room I put
a mahogany bouffe which costume sls, a
good extension table, costing also sls;
six good chairs for SB, a lace curtain of
four yards, nt thirty five cents a yard,
and a tall screen costing $1.50. Total,
$10.50. L .
An exquisite little china tea set, in
crimson and gold, cost me only $9.50,
and a complete dinner-set of blue and
white ware $14.50. A little plated silver
service cost sl2, and a half-dozen solid
silver teaspoons, S2O; and half-dozen
plated knives and forks, $lO. Portable
linen I have four nice tablecloths, each
costing $1.50 each, and a extra tine one
$3; while a half-dozen napkins cost me
$1.50, making a total of $10.50. A half
dozen sheets cost me sl, a dozen good
towels $4, a pair of blankets sls, and
three excellent comforters SB. On add
ing up you will find that it just amounts
to $398.50. The $101.50 which I have
left I intend to keep until after my wed
ding, then I will see what presents I re
ceive. I will spend the money on pret
ty articles, such ns pictures, clocks, vases,
etc., etc.
No Lamb. —An example has been sci
by Queen Victoria in ordering that no
lamb shall be served this season in hie
royal household. The bitter March
weather has been fatal to iambs and to
breeding ewes to such an extent as seri
ously to reduce the stock of sheep. As
a result of the Queen’s order the pree
of spring lamb in the London maixet
has fallen from 14d. to 9.1. the pound.
He Flew.—A Hudson (Wis.) lady
In ing awakened a few nights ago by a
noise in the house, arose, stamped the
floor and said sca-a-a-t! whereupon
a big tramp scatted out of the pantry,
through an open door, and fled away in
the darkness. The lady was too much
frightened to purr-sue.