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VOL. VII.—NO. 11.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
•■Figures never lie,” but they are
wonderfully misleading sometimes.
Maine has three hundred and twenty
!od ges and twenty thousand Good
Templars.
France can not shake off her unwel
come guest. It looks as if the cholera
had come to stay.
A great truth for business men is,
that an advertisement in a newspaper is
worth two on the fence.
A man has actually been sent to
prison in Nova Scotia for three months
for lying in a horse trade.
Young men contemplating matrimony
can take courage. The indications are
that sealskin sacques will soon be out of
style. _
There is no lack of brass in young
America. It is stated that American
babies swallow one thousand thimbles
annually.
Wealthy young men in New York
now exhibit the latest nonsense—solid
silver latch-keys, tied with a tiny bow
of satin ribbon.
Again the False Prophet is reported
to be losing ground. But the British
don’t seem to be in any particular hurry
to pick up what he has let go.
A fashion paper says wooden but
tons are preferred by English tailors.
American tailors seem to prefer buttons
of putty, sewed on with corn silk.
A Jersey girl made a bet that she
would vote at the recent election. She
disguised herself in a suit of her brother’s
clothes and marched up to the polls like
a little man.
The Prince of Wales is one of the
finest lawn-tennis players in England.
He is also a splendid shot, and killed
seven stags out of nine, a few days ago,
at Glenderry.
Some one who has dived into political
history comes up with the information
that the closest vote on record, in any of
the States, for Presidential electors, was
in 1852-when Fierce had only twenty-five
plurality in Delaware.
Near Guilderland Station, N. Y., a
crock of butter that dropped into a well
titty years ago, was recently rescued in
fair condition. Patrons of cheap board
ing-houses need not be alarmed, as
there was only about a dozen pounds in
the crock.
Lord Lytton has had to call in the
assistance of the law in order to sup
press the publication of the love-letters
written by his father to the woman
whom he afterwards treated so badly,
and he wiil, no doubt, be successful in
his application.
The complexion of the two houses of
Congress is fairly well known. The
Republicans will have a majority of
eight in the Senate, and the Democrats
will control the House by a majority
which, after all contests are settled,
will be in the neighborhood of forty.
1 his is a healthful condition of affairs,
as partisan legislation will stand a small
show of success.
Gophers have become such a nui
sance in some parts of Dakota that the
local authorities in many counties make
a standing offer of five cents for every
gopher’s tail. This has led to gopher’s
tails being used for currency. Shop
pers ask for several tails’ worth of cali
co; topers go into bar-rooms and throw
down tails enough for a drink, and it is
s aid that tails have even been put on
the collection plate at religious meet-
Dr. Hammond remarks: “Perhaps
’here is no better test of a woman's
health and beauty than her appearance
at an early breakfast table. She is then
raore as nature made her than at any
other period of the day.”
This severe extract is from a news
paper published in the City of Brotherly
o\e. “The man who sits bias in the
K,ru must be suppressed. He is
a general nuisance. He occupies space
•nough for two passengers, and yet
> pays one fare. The bias man is a
elfish beast.”
. A man named Isaac Price, who lives
’ n the town of Oxford, Me., and has a
" rr ” a few miles in the country, set out
. v, nr ; g orchard last spring. Theother
A' i" went out to see how his orchard
t ' : ' n ” along. He was astonished
Du '; ’ u at his orchard had disappeared,
trrl ' Z . n ’£hts thieves had dug up every
h ole" ! al^ n rrie i ,he “ ° ff ’ fillin S U P the
dow r ‘ "* r- P nce ’■ now tying
to a ltd fetone -wall, chaining his barn
«nr) t » roc^s aQ d hiding tha well
W(ler a bruah-heaD.
®I) c Cl n I ton 21 v (ju o.
A STRANGE ACCIDENT.
An Exploding Paint Keg’s Fearful
Work.
A Number of Children Fatally Injured at a
Bonfire.
Chicago, November 16.—Runnell Poole,
aged thirteen, and his ten-year-old brother,
Adam, stole a keg containing a few gallons
of paint Saturday afternoon, and a number
of little boys and girls joined them, intent
upon starting a bonfire. The keg was
placed upon top of a lot of shavings. A
quantity of kerosene oil was then thrown
over the pile, and while young Runnell
Poole stooped down to light the fire a
dozen children joined hands and circled
round him, singing election songs.
Instantly the fire was kindled, the oil in the
paint keg exploded with a noise like
thunder, and a huge blast of flame swept
about the children, enveloping them from
head to foot in fire and smoke. An appal
ling sight was revealed a moment later.
The smoke cleared away, and seven little
children were seen stretched out upon
the ground, hideously mangled and
burned, and weltering in their own blood.
Pieces of the paint keg were driven into
the midst of the little ones with
terrific force by the explosion. Then
the flames caught their clothing
and burned the heads, faces and limbs of
the children so badly that most of them
will die. Runnell Poole, who started the
fire, was blown a distance of ten feet by
the explosion. A blazing stone struck
him on the head, fracturing his skull.
He was also badly burned about the head,
arms and limbs, and can not live. Adam,
his brother, was burned about the
face, body and limbs, and will also die.
Eddie Burke, aged seven, burned aboutthe
head, face and hands, and can not live.
His sister, Aggie, aged four, had her face,
hands and body burned in some portions
a crisp, and will die. A two-ye-r-old son
of James Daley, was burned about the
body, face and hands, and will
die. Stephen Bassett, aged ten, fatally
burned about the body. Annie Ward, aged
seven, burned about face, head,
body and limbs, and can not survive
A three-year-old sister of the latter died
last night from burns received at a bonfire
a week ago. Nearly all the children had
homes on the street where the casualty
took place, a district inhabited by laboring
people. Their excitement for a while could
scarcely be restrained.
Postal Affairs.
Washington, November 16.—Henry P.
Lviv iVve-i iris rtrmuai report, it
shows that the cost of inland transporta
tions for the year was as follows: For
11,729 Star routes, aggregating 226,779
miles, $5,089,941; 117 steamboat routes, ag
gregating 15,591 miles, $596,573; 1,573 railroad
routes, aggregating 117,160 miles, $15,012,603.
Total, $20,699,117. A comparison with the
last annual statement shows for the Star
service an increase of 402 routes, a decrease
of eighty-six miles, and an increase of
$350,463 in annual cost; for steamboat
service, an increase of two routes, de
crease of 502 miles, and of $11,048 in annual
cost; for railroad service, an increase of
sixty routes of 6,952 miles, and $1,124,803
in annual cost. The Star service,
in operation at the close of the year, ex
ceeding in extent the average of the pro
ceeding five years, and was performed at
diminished cost. An estimate of $5,900,000
is submitted for Star route service for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1886. The ap
propriation for steamboat service and mail
messengers for the current year will be suf
ficient. Lyman says the amount provided
for carrying the mails on railroad
routs for the current year is entirely inad
equate, and must be supplemented by a
deficiency appropriation. He intimates
that $15,684,205 will be required to defray
the cost of railway transportation for the
fiscal year 1886, including payments to the
Pacific roads, and recommends that $266,-
764 be appropriated "for special railway
facilities, the continuance of which he says
is required by the interests of the people.
London and the Cholera.
London, November 16. —When will the
cholera reach London? is the question that
is now in the mouth of every one. The
papers are devoting columns of space daily
to dispatches from Paris and letters from
Paris is urging hygienic reforms at home.
It is now argued by all that it is folly to
hope that London will escape, and
few persons look to see the visi
tation postponed until next summer.
The Soir and other Paris papers insist
that London, for over a week, has been
suffering severely from cholera, but this
is, of course, mere nonsense It would be
possible, perhaps, to conceal one or two
isolated cases, but a genuine outbreak in
London no one could cover up. The world
may be sure that when the pest visits Lon
don knowledge of it will become general.
Terrible Railway Accident.
Berlin, November 14. —A collision of
railway trains occurred to-day, near the
I depot, iu Hanaw. Fifteen persons were
killed and a large number wounded.
Jail Delivery.
I Buffalo, N. Y., November 14.—There
■was great excitement at the jail here this
afternoon. About two o’clock three pns
-1 oners cut several small ropes from the win
dows. tied them to a cornice and got out on
the roof. Two of them let themselves
down to the wall of the
’ jail yard, jumped off and escaped.
The third, named Rogers, was about thirty
feet from the ground, when the rope broke.
He was found lying on his face miconj
scious. One of his legs was broken, and
i the doctors say he sustained other serious
I injuries. A general alarm has been sent
i out for the two escaped, have not
' jet been recaptured.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1884.
DEATH IN A DITCH.
For Every Yard of Earth Turned Vp In
The Panama Canal a Death Is
Represented.
New York, November 14.—0 mof the
passengers arriving from Aspinwall to-day
by the steamship Colon was Geo. Mowbray,
a Brooklyn machinist, who has been work
ing on the Panama Canal. His health has
been broken down by the Chagres
fever. He describes the mortality among
the laborers as really frightful. Nine
tenths of those attacked by the fever
die in the hospitals. Unless the victims
have money or influence their bodies are
dumped into pits and covered with quick
lime. There is a saying that every tie of
the Panama Railroad represents a tomb
stone for some one of those who were en
gaged in its construction, and it may al
most as truly be said that for every yard
of earth turned up on the canal
there is a death in the hospitals.
These institutions are constantly
crowded. It rains a sr.at deal, and the
soft banks of the pit are constantly being
undermined, making re-excavation neces
sary. Mowbray brings several farewell
messages from dying men to their friends
in this country. He says skilled workmen
earn $5.50 per day, and laborers fi»->m $3 to
$4. The board, which is very poor, costs
from sl2 to sls per week.
A FREAK OF DEATH.
The Life-Like Appearance of a Body Con
tinues for Twelve Days After Decease.
Cincinnati, November 15.—The case of
Jacob Weber, who died in Newport, Ky.,
Sunday, November 2, and whose remains
are still in the vault of the Evergreen
Cemetery back of that city, is the talk of
Newport. The deceased, while acting as
Marshal in one of the Republican torch
light processions, contracted a cold which to
all appearances terminated fatally on Sun
day, November 2, after about one week’s
>• On the followTuesday. No
vember 4, the funeral took place from tuo
St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church, and
the body, in a wooden casket, was taken
to the Evergreen Cemetery, three miles
back of Newport, and placed in the vault
with others yet unburied. Like all caskets
of the present day, this one had the
flat detachable lid at the head of the coffin
that on removal would give a view of the
face through the glass cover. Young We
ber—he was but twenty-three—had hosts
of friends, and since the funeral, ten days
a S°> many of them have paid visits to the
cemetery, where Sexton Brown has kindly
permitted them again to see his features.
The parents of the young man went out
daily. The life-like appearance of youijg
marked the face, and the lips retained the
redness common to them in life. Not until
yesterday morning did it begin to fade and
the ashy pallor of death set in, accom
panied by discoloration o. the forehead
and temples. The bereaved father was told
in the morning by the sexton that, for ob
vious reasons, to-day’s look must be the
ast.
Youngest Prisoner on Record.
New Orleans, La., November 14.—The
youngest criminal on record was brought
before Recorder Ford to-day. Geo. Sam
novitch made an affidavit yesterday against
Edward Brooks, charging him with
malicious mischief, and Officer
Gordon was detailed to arrest
the prisoner. To-day he produced him
before the Judge in the person of a three
year old child, who came to the court in a
baby-carriage guarded by the officer. The
Judge ordered the prisoner to be supplied
with a stick of candy in order to keep him
quiet while the case proceeded. Sam
novitch testified that Eddie
had crawled through the fence
and cut some flowers, which he interpreted
to be malicious mischief. After hearing
the cas-i in full Judge Ford informed Mr.
Brooks that he might go free, as the law
did not consider himself old enough to be
guilty o. malicious mischief, whereupon he
was placed in his baby-carriage and rolled
off by his grand-mother amid laughter and
applause. Eddie will not be four years old
until next year. t
Chicago, November 14. —George W.
Brooks built a flrein his oven to-day. He
is a baker, doing business at No. 465 West
Madison street. As the oven grew hot he
heard a faint sound issuing from it, and on
opening the door discovered a bundle. He
took out the bundle on a wooden shovel,
and from the midst of it a bright-eyed boy
baby extended his hands. Mr. Brooks says
he has no idea how the baby was placed in
the oven without his knowledge, or to
whom it belongs. He turned it over to the
police, who sent It to the Foundling’s
Home.
—. ■
Joined in Death.
Detroit, Mich., November 14.—Several
weeks ago John Downey and wife, of Wind
sor, Ont., being destitute, mutually agreed
to drown themselves in the river. The wife
did so, but the husband’s courage failed
him. He was arrested for murder when
the wife’s body was found, but discharged
upon the true facts coming out. To-day
Downey fulfilled his death contract by
hangin; bimself-
Severe Earthquake.
London . November 14.—A severe shock
of earthquake, accompanied with a terrific
explosive report, occurred to-night at
Clitheroe, Lancashire, and about twenty
five miles from Manchester. The shock
threw down horses on the streets, and
caused great consternation and excite
ment among the inhabitants.
Congressman Dead
Gettysburg. Pa.. November 14.—Hon.
Wm A Duucai). re-elected to Congress in
the Nineteenth Pennsylvania District, died
to-day of consumption, at his home in this
I city.
A Baker’s Find.
THE FIRST SESSION
Os the Cattlemen’s Convention at St.
Louis.
Nearly All the Cattle States, Mexico, Scot
land and England Represented.
St. Louis, Mo., November 17.—The first
National Convention of cattlemen ever held
in this country opened its session at half
past eleven this morning, in the east nave
of the Exposition Building, which was
handsomely fitted up and decorated for the
occasion. Delegates were present repre
senting nearly all the Western (States and
| I erritories, several Eastern States, Mexico,
England and Scotland. Colonel R. D.
i Hunter, of St. Louis, originator of
| the project called the convention to order,
and announced as the object of the gather
■ the formation of a national league of
cattle interests for mutual good. After
urging unanimity of action, he introduced
Colonel C. C. Rainwater, of St. Louis, tem
porary Chairman. On motion of Ex-Sen
ator Dorsey, of New Mexico, delegate
Thos. Sturgis, of Wyoming, was made
temporary Secretary. Mr. Sturgis then
read the call issued in January last,
pursuant to which the convention
met. Mayor Ewing and Governor
Crittenden delivered addresses of welcome.
Among other things Governor Crittenden
said: “I think Congress should set aside
public domain sufficient for a national or
international trail from the Red River on
the North to the Red River on the South,
and wide enough to accommodate a million
cattle. Now is the time to me
morialize Congress to that end.”
General Sherman was loudly called
for and made a brief address of a genera
nature. He concluded as follows: “I used
to regret to see buffalo, elk, and antelope
disappearing from the plains, and to see in
their stead a race of scrawny, long-horned
Texas cattle. I can now see, however,
that it was a decree of nature,
and that you gentlemen have reared
a race of twenty millions of fine breeding
cattle, which supply tjie world with meat.”
A very pleasing and amusing feature of the
convention was a cow-boy band, of Fort
Dodge, Kansas, twenty men strong, in full
frontier costume. They played several
selections this morning’s session
eliciting great applause. The leader wields, 1
in place of a baton, his silver-mounted der
ringer, nearly a foot long.
War Relics.
Cairo, 111., November 17.—When Colum
bus, Ky., was evacuated by the Confeder
ates thej&ates iwttwb/gt ban Txxg —-- J
vember 12, when in consequence of low
and changing channel, the butt of two
guns were discovered. One was secured,
placed oh a barge and taken to the incline,
where it was placed on a flat-car and
drawn to the top of the bank, where a rude
carriage was waiting. It was a sixty-four
pounder, United States iron gun, and had
a loaded shell in it. Five other pieces have
been discovered at the same spot, and will
be recovered. One of them is known to be
much heavier than the one taken out.
Preparing for Cholera.
Albany, N. Y., November 17.—The State
Board of Health is sending out circulars to
all the local boards notifying that they' will
be held strictly accountable for the exact
performance of their duties,and that no neg
lect or evasion on their part will be tolerated;
also, that experience has shown that the
cholera poison does not extend where no
filth favors its multiplication, and that the
only way to arrest its m his to remove
all sources of pollution > >il or water. In
excremental contaminali especially lies
the greatest risk. All such conditions
must at once be removed.
Trouble in Mexico.
Laredo, Texas, November 17.—Rumors
are current of serious revolutionary out
breaks in various points in the States of
Nuevo, Leon and Coahuila, especially at
Sabinas Hidalgo, in the former State. The
Central Government is taking active
measures to suppress the outbreak. Gen
eral Trevenoire is reported arrived at
Lampasas, on the Mexican National Rail
road, with troops.
Leaned Out of a Car Window.
Lancaster, Pa.,J November 17.—As the
Niagara express, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, was crossing the Pequea Bridge,
near Leaman Place,a passenger named Can
leaned out of the window, and was struck
by one of the bridge supports, dragged
bodily through the window to the track,
and instantly killed.
Burned to Death.
Cameron, Mo., November 17.—While
playing around a pile of burning trash the
clothing of Allie Gerhart, a nine-year-old
girl, of this city, caught on fire and she
was burned to death.
Cholera Abating.
Paris, November 17.—There was a heavy
frost again last night, and reports con
cerning the cholera epidemic are growing
more favorable.
Cholera on a Vessel.
Boston,November 17. —The ship Anahuac,
owned by the William F. Weld estate, is
lying at Sourabaya, bound for Australia.
I It is reported that Captain Freeman and
I the first officer have died from cholera, and
that a new commander will be sent from
I here to take the ship to her destination.
I Death of a Centennarian.
Cincinnati, 0., November 17.—Mrs.
! Margaret Reardon, a native of County
Cork, Ireland, died this afternoon at
the residence of her daughter. Mrs. C. Mc-
Carthy, on Concord street,"Walnut Hul«.
She was one of the oldest women in Cin
cinnati, and was in the one hundred arm
third year of her age.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
The jail of Monroe County, Ala., has
been burned to the ground. Ten prisoners
confined therein barely escaped with life.
The fire is supposed to have been acci
dental.
A fellow who stole some money from a
colored woman on a train bound for Talla
hassee, Fla., was given one hundred and
fifty lashes on the back with a rope and al
lowed to go.
West Virginia Democrats are talking of
pushing ex-Senator H. G. Davis, of that
State, for Secretary of the Treasury.
J. J. Cook shot and killed a man named
Phillips at Montgomery, Ala. Both are
railroad engineers. Domestic matters the
cause.
The Secretary of the Treasury appointed
«LJfclWrJtf«ury, of Washington, Assist
anWnspector of Customs, at New Orleans.
Col. A. Ragsdale, of Meridian, in order
to prevent the marriage of his daughter
with a young man who was objectionable
to him, had her placed in a private insane
asylum. With the assistance of legal
ability the young man had her released and
they married at once.
A white infant with a fractured skull
was found the other day in a pond in Chat
tanooga sewed up in a bag.
A Georgia colonization company re
cently bargained for a quarter of a million
acres of land from the Little Rock & Fort
Smith Railroad Company in Arkansas.
Vicksburg is to have a thorough system of
waterworks at the end of eighteen months
the contract with parties in Philadelphia
being signed by the Mayor a few days
since.
Mr. George Alfred Townsend has
purchased fourteen acres of land on the
summit of South Mountain, at Compton’s
Gap, a few miles southwestof Middletown,
Md. He will immediately begin the erec
tion of a summer residence, forty by forty
feet, and two stories high, which will com
mand a magnificent view of the entire
Middletown valley.
Arkansas has just shown up with a 200
pound pumpkin. *
Steamers on the wharf will act as hotels
during the exposition at New Orleans.
The orange Crop is beginning to move to
market. The fruit is large and fine
At Astabula, Fla., a'hote] has just been
erected for the exclusive use of colored
people.
Six hundred and sixteen miles of rail
road have been built in Mississippi during
the past year.
The Committee of Creditors of the Hunt
ers’ and Mechanics’ Bank, of .Petersburg,
Va., has formulated a bill, for the- better
protection of Stockholders ajid Repositors
of Virginia luuAhc jw * 1
General Assembly.
About one hundred Mormon converts
left Chattanooga recently for Utah. In
the party were three negroes, two men and
one woman. These are the first converts
to Mormonism from the race.
Year by year the fruit trade of New
Orleans increases its proportions so much
so that it appears likely to become one of
the most important factors in the trade of
that port.
At Petersburg, Va., a committee of citi
zens supply 225 families with the necessa
ries of life. Funds are raised by entertain
ments given for their benefit. Ihe families
are thrown out of employment by the
shutting down of the cotton mills in the
city and vicinity.
The other night, negroes in Cairo, Ga.,
engaged in a riot in which Arch Lewis,
Alexander Lewis, Douglas Lewis and
Nathan Lewis, with knives, sticks and shot
guns, so horribly mangled Janies V alden
that he will die. They are now in jail. AH
colored.
At Niles’ Ferry, Monroe County, lenn.,
the other evening, Miss Ann McGhee, a
wealthy white lady of forty, was burned
to death. Deceased was sitting near a fire
and w. nt asleep. Her clothing caught j
fire, and before assistance arrived she was
burned to a crisp.
Price Williams, Hr., aged seventy
three, died in Mobile, a few days since.
During the war he commanded a company
of State troops, and after the contest went
into the real estate and insurance business,
in which he has been very successful. Ho
was prominent in politics, and, in fact, up
to a few years ago, a leader of the local
Democracy. He served in the State
Legislature of 1851-53.
The final report of the National Cotton
Exchange, made up by C. H. Parker, Sec
retary, issued the other day, estimates the
cotton crop of the United States for the
current year at 5,726,000 bales, or a trifle
larger than last year. Should the prospects
of the top crop in certain sections be
realized, some 75,000 bales may lie added.
In Texas there was a large decrease, and
in the Mississippi Valley the crop was not;
quite up to last season, but the Atlantic I
States and Alabama show gains to offset
those deficiencies.
The sentences of U. S. sailors who, Au
gust 31, seized articles of freight, confec
tionery and stores, and acted in a manner
so disorderly on the steamer Carolina, from
Baltimore to Norfolk, that lady passengers
were greatly alarmed, are: John C unning -
ham, three years in prison on Cob Dock,
New York, and loss of $864 pay; Judas
Lind and Joseph Oliver, one year each iu
prison, and loss of sll7 pay; John Lynch
and Peter Farley, each two years in prison,
and the loss of $456 pay.
A numerously attended public meeting,
under the auspices of the Sunday League,
was held the other evening at the First
Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, in ap
proval of the memorial to the management
of the World’s Exposition, requesting them
to close the Exposition on Sunday . Ad
dresses were delivered by the Rev. Hugh
Miller Thompson, Assistant Bishop o -
.issippi, and Rev. C. K.
Vicksburg. All the leagues in the United J
States were requested to am, ; bel
action, ,m. i a<»(
1 in iwld
TERMS—Si A YEAR.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
-The Philadelphia yor/A America
the. senior daily paper of America,
one hundred years old. ‘ “
—Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has si<med
a contract with Mr. Abbey for a tour
of America, including Mexico and
South America, in 1885-6.
The paper with the largest circula
tion in the world is the Petit Journal o f
Paris. It now circulates 750,000 copies
per day. Its director. M. Hyppolite
Mannoni. is the inventor of the Marino
ni perfecting presses. He was original
ly a cattle herder.
on ty five or six firms in
the whole Empire of Russia who have
a patent from the Crown to sell books
All the rest exist on sufferance, under
permits arbitrarily given and arbitrari
ly withdrawn by the local police. There
are only two public libraries in the whole
country.
—W hen the late Senator Anthony first
took his seat in the Senate he had as fel
low Senators Jeff Davis, Henry Wilson,
Stephen A. Douglas. Lyman Trumbull’
Charles Sumner, Benjamin F. Wade,
Andrew Johnson. James R. Doolittle’,
Robert Toombs, W. P. Fessenden, Wilk
iam H. Seward and John Slidell.
—Mrs. Garfield, the mother of the
late President, can be seen almost any
pleasant day walking about the grounds
at Mentor. On Sunday she is frequent
ly at church with other members of the
family, and is able to take a seat in, or
alight from, the family carriage with
little assistance. She‘has passed her
eighty-third birthday, and seems to be"
in the enjoyment of her usual good
health.— Cleveland Leader.
—Recently Abraham Cuddeback, of
Damascus, Pa., was stricken with
paralysis and was rendered entirely
helpless in consequence. Later a ter
rific thunder storm prevailed in the
vicinity of his home and the lightning
struck near by. The electric fluid came
in at the open window, striking him
and throwing him violently from his
chair. When his wife restored him to
consciousness she was delighted to dis
cover that he St
his limbs and could talk and walk as
naturally as ever.—Pittsburgh Post.
—Pompey Graham, of Montgomery,
N. Y., died recently, aged one hundred
and nineteen years. He had a distinct
recollection of incidents and personages
of his youth, but could not remember
dates. He said he was a big boy when
the Revolutionary war was declared.
He remembered when Clinton was
elected first Governor of New York.
He left Sliairamrunk. in Ulster cnnru*'
ery was abolished in New York. He
had his second wife long before W a , "
ington’s death, and afterward married
a third. He was the oldest of seven
teen children, and enjoyed good health
up to the time of bis death.—J roy
Times.
HUMOROUS.
—There are “singing-fish” in the
Indian Ocean. They may be able to run
over the scales, but it is not often they
reach the “high sea.” - Norristown
Herald.
_A young lady recently went to a
fancy-dress ball as a champagne-bottle,
cork and all complete. A gentleman was
so ungallant as to say that she might have
omitted the cork; her own head would
have done very wM.-Burlington Free
Press.
“Mr. Simpkins,” said Johnny to his
sister’s beau, “please open your mouth.
“Whv do you want me to open my
mouth, my little man?” “ ’Cause I
heard sister say you had a mouth like
a whale, and I wanted to see what a
whale’s mouth looks like. I ableau.
Bohemian.
i —The other day a clerk in the Custom-
I house pointed to another employe and
i said to a.friend: “ He is a great artist.
•‘lndeed! I never knew he used his pen
oil at all.” “Oh, yes, he’s hue. Come
down some day and see ,n >u t
salary. It’s the best thing he does.
N. Y. Times. . .
-It is said that the sanitary condition
be torn down and n built.
Herald. & gentleman,
that^X b ” e X V ' r
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“Then why do you carry it
; when it rains pa want.' t. onl
ieider that I kin
when its this Kina sr_ y
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hain’t got smaU gO(Kfjjearted
nose, but she s awßu wfao car .
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