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VOL. VII.-NO. 12.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Alexander Selkirk and Mr. Fri
day were witnesses before the Albany
Canvassing Board the other day.
St. Louis, which has more trouble
with her pavements than any other city
in the country, it is said, is now trying
one of prepared gumwood, which is to
be laid on a foundation of concrete and
glazed with coal tar.
General Sheridan writes an inter
esting account of army operations dur
ing the past year. Aside from a few
insignificant Indian eruptions, peace has
prevailed everywhere. Target practice
has been the main business of the boys
at all frontier posts.
A premium of thirty thousand dollars
has been offered by the Mexican Gov
ernment to anyone who will establish in
that country a paper mill at a cost of
$150,000. The Government will also
concede the right to all cactus plants on
the State lands.
It is stated that the French Govern
ment is in the way of sustaining a con
siderable aggregate loss this year from
the operation of the railways owned by
the Republic. It is estimated that a
deficit of $39,000,000 must go on the
budget next year to make up deficient
dividends.
A severe winter is predicted by the
knowing ones from the fact that squir
rels and mice have made their nests un
usually thick and strong, and squirrels
have buried their nuts at an unusual
depth. Corn husks are notably thick
and the gum on horse-chestnut buds is
especially abundant.
The greatest depth so far discovered
in the ocean is 26,850 feet, five miles, or
about 2,200 feet less than the height of
the world’s loftiest mountain peak,
Mount Everest, one of the Himalaya
chain, which is found to be not less, and
apparently a little more, than 29,000
feet above the sea level.
The school population of the United
States is estimated at sixteen millions,
but of this number less than two-thirds,
or about ten millions, are enrolled on
the list of the public schools. The pub
lic school system costs over ninety-one
million dollars a year, and employs two
hundred and ninety thousand teachers
o
The locomotive engine as a weapon
wherewith to fell game, is increasing
in popularity in the Northwest. A
large moose deer was recently brought
down at the first shot, on the Canadi
an Pacific Railway near Mattawa. The
antlered monarch was obliging enough,
however, to get scared and stand still
to be hit.
In spite of the spread of education,
it is said drunkenness is greatly on the
increase in England, especially among
women. Out of thirteen drunken per
sons brought before a London magis
trate a few days ago, ten were women,
and of 17,000 persons apprehended dur
ing twelve months in Liverpool, 7,000
were women.
A San Francisco gentleman con
tributes $5,000 for the erection of a
drinking-fountain in the city of Du
buque, lowa, as a memorial of the hero
ism displayed by Miss Shelly, who
eraw led across the long high trestle of
a damaged bridge one awful night to
saxe the approaching train upon which
e gentleman was a passenger.
It matters little to the public how
an -' m en vow never to cut t h e } r jj a j r
F s axe their faces until a candidate of
'' l ain party is elected. They can do
' ’ 'ey please in the matter. There is
np thing, however, that the people at
take an interest in and that is,
le J don t want the country to indulge
’n ni.iny dose shaves in its Presidential
elections.
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'l' r(, b pew cling to the end next to the
* aQ d re< l u ire those following to
tliM. ° Ver tli em. Possibly they are
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box ' . w^en they see the collection
dinne - ln * n ” ® es 'des they get home to
uh”” , a full minute sooner than those
" h 0 select the other end of the seat.
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tads t ae ,as S reat ly relieved at
flycerine P1 bn? WHh “ itr °'
cure it’k ' as effected no entire
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Oolttm Slrfjus.
STRAY LETTERS.
Information About Dead-Letters and
How to Diminish Them.
Some Interesting Figures From theJDead.
Letter Office.
Washington, D. C., November 23.—The
whole number of letters received at the
Dead-Letter Office during the last year
was 4,379,198, or an average of 14,172 for
each working day. Os these 3,346,357 were
sent there because they were not called for
at the Post-office to which they were di
rected. Seventy-eight thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-five xvere returned to Post
offices by hotel-keepers, and thence sent
to the Dead-Letter Office because
the departed guests for whom .they
were intended failed to leave a new ad
dress; 175,710 were sent there because they
were insufficiently prepaid for mailing;
1,345 because they contained articles for
bidden to be transported in the mails;
280,137 because they were erroneously or
illegibly addressed, xvhile 11,979 bore no
superscription whatever. The number of
parcels of merchandise, books, clothing,
needle-work, jewelry, etc, received during
the year was 96,808. The total number
of dead letters which were mailed
abroad was 400,898. These were all re
turned to their respective countries of
origin unopened. Os the domestic letters
opened 15,301 contained money amounting
to $32,647.23; 18,095 contained drafts,
checks, money orders, etc., to the amount
of $1,381,964.47 ; 66,837 contained postage
stamps; 40,215 contained receipts, paid
notes and cancelled obligations of all sorts,
and 35,160 contained photographs. Every
letter and package is delivered to the
owner if possible. Misdirected letters are
sent unopened to the persons addressed if
practicable. Os these 31,834 domestic and
9,821 foreign xvere so delivered during the
past year. Letters and parcels which can
not be delivered to the persons addressed
are opened and if it is possible restored to
the senders, the former free of charge and
the latter upon receipt of the return
postage. Every opened letter containing
an inclosure of value is carefully
recorded, aijil those for xvhich no
owner can be found are filed away subject
to reclamation at any time. Letters with
out remittances of obvious value are not
recorded, but are returned to the writers if
>racticable, otherxvise they are destroyed
k large proprotion of the most valuable
parcels sent to the Dead-Letter Office are
addressed to foreign countries and detained
because they contain dutiable goods or ex
ceed the limit of size and weight. In all
such cases, if the name of the sender does
not appear, the addressees are notified that
the package will be forwarded by express
at their expense or returned to the
sender if they will furnish the
proper address in this country. The
articles received in parcels which can
neither be delivered to the person address
ed nor returned to the sender are finally
sold at auction, and the proceeds deposited
in the United States Treasury. Letters are
only read to ascertain the name and ad
dress of the writer, or to see if anything
which was originally inclosed is missing.
Information obtained from letters in the
course of their official treatment in the
Dead-Letter Office is never divulged.
IN RUINS.
The Grand Opera-House at St. Louis De
stroyed by Fire.
St. Louis, November 23. —This afternoon
fire was discovered in the box-office of the
Grand Opera-house, on Market street, be
tween Fifth and Sixth, near the heaters.
The alarm was turned on promptly, and
for a time it was supposed that the flames
could be confined to the front of
the building, but they spread
rapidly, and within ten minutes
had spread to the roof. The firemen
worked energetically, but the fire spread
in spite of their efforts, and soon reached
the stage, where it licked up inflammable
scenery with irresistible power. Every
one was driven from the building by the
blinding smoke, and within an hour after
ward the whole interior was gutted. The
building is a complete wreck.
Jollification Accidents.
New Castle, Pa., November 23.—At a
Democratic jollification last night, a sky
rocket struck a man named Douglas Mcll
venny on the chin, and when he was picked
up the rocket-stick was found protruding
from the back of his neck. His
chin was almost entirely torn
away, and he will probably die. About
the same time Jimmy Mooney was hit on
the chest by a rocket, and one of his lungs
burst. He cannot recover. Dan Gunsley,
a boy aged thirteen, was struck on the
thigh and dangerously injured. The physi
cian pulled a section of rocket stick from his
leg. Chas. Shaffer,a small boy,was knock
ed down by the crowd and had one of his
legs fractared in two places. A small boy
named Warren was knocked down and had
his right side crushed. His arm and
shoulder were broken and badly crushed.
, A man named Black had one foot fractured
badly.
Sixty Persons Poisoned.
Vienna, November 20.—Sixty persons
have been poisoned, many of them being
in a dangerous condition, in the outlying
i village of Heruals, owing to the careless
i ness of a corn-dealer in mixing rat poison
with flour.
Warming Atlas Powder Cartridges.
Worcester, November 21. —While work
men were warming Atlas powder cart
ridges in a kettle of hot sand, this morning,
an explosion occurred. Mathew Pahir
had the top of his head torn off, causing
instant death. John Madigan and Andrew
I Wickman weresliglitly injured.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1884.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.
In Firing a Salute Several Young Men Se
verely Injured—One Fatally.
Halsey \ alley, N. Y., November 21. —
A peculiarly sad accident occurred here
last night, by which several young men
were severely injured. One has died. It
was the outcome of an attempt to celebrate
an occurrence which has been the subject
of a great deal of gossip about here. Some
days ago a disturbance arose between
two families living close together. The
husbands and wives of both
families separated. On Friday last
the quarrel was made up and matters went
on as before. A few young meu got to
gether and choose Saturday evening to
give the parties a salute. They fired a can
non four times, and the affair adjourned
until last night. Thon they met again,
and three volleys were fired. They were
reloading for the fourth shot, when
the powder in the cannon became
ignited, a terrific explosion followed, and
when the smoke had cleared away a sick
ening sight was revealed. Ellsworth Kirk,
who had been pounding the wadding
in the cannon, lay with his eyes blown
out and the blood oozing from his face.
He was alive, but insensible. Shortly
afterward he died. Others suffered
the loss of eyes and fingers. The
sufferers were conveyed to their homes,
and medical aid summoned. The list of the
injured is as follows: Fred Kirk, brother
of Ellsworth, badly burned about the eyes;
George Hess lost both eyes; Henry Evlys
was badly burned about the head and body,
and his legs were burned to a crisp; Sum
ner Rosebrooks lost an eye and a finger;
Al. Winters and Elijah Bostron were
burned about the face and neck.
A TRAGIC INCIDENT.
A Minister and Child Devoured by Wolves-
The Wife and Mother Dies from Fright.
Vienna, November 21.—A tragic incident
is reported from eastern Hungary. A
clergyman, with his wife and child, were
driving in a sledge from Crasnisora
to the neigboring village of Kis-
Lonka, when a pack of ravenous wolves
pursued them. The mother, terror
stricken, let the child fall from her arms.
The father thereupon leaped from the
sledge to save the child. The father and
child were at once fiercely attacked by the
wolves. The father fought desperately
and killed two wolves, but was at last
overcome, and both he and his
child were devoured. Meanwhile
the horses had rushed Onward
with the sledge, still bearing the agonized
mother, and in her agony of terror she
gave premature birth to a child which died.
The terrible shock, with all she had suf
fered, proved too much for the poor woman,
and when the sledge reached Kis-Lonka
she, too, was dead. So the whole family
perished inside an hour.
• ——
An Aged Pedestrian.
Washington, November 23.—Captain
Robert W. Andrews, the ninety-three year
old pedestrian who passed through Wash
ington in May last on his way afoot from
Sumter, S. C., to Boston, arrived in the
city again yesterday on his homeward
journey. He walked to Boston and thence
took a pedestrian tour through Massachu
setts and through New Hampshire and
Maine, as far as Portland. He walked all
the way back to the city, xvith tho excep
tion of about one hundred miles, where
the roads were so bad that he was forced to
take to the more usual modes of travel.
During his trip he wore out six pairs of
shoes. Captain Andrews retains full
possession of his faculties. He averages
twenty-two miles a day when on the tramp.
Having spent a life of hard xvork as a car
penter and farmer, he is now giving him
self up to the pleasures of life.
Reduction of the Surplus.
Washington, November 23.—There is
every reason to believe that in his coming
message, President Arthur will repeat
the recommendation he made two
years ago in favor of the repeal of all
taxes on manufactured tobacco, cigars,
cigarettes and snuff. Secretary McCulloch
has frequently declared himself to be in
favor of wiping out all these tobacco taxes,
and ; it is confidently expected here that
he will join the President in urging Con
gress to take this step. The total receipts
from the internal taxes on tobacco, cigars,
snuff and cigarettes amounted to a little
over twenty-six million during the fiscal
year of 1884. _
Discovery of Beautiful Caverns.
Kingwood, W. Va., November23.—Are
markable cavern has just been discovered
on the Cheat River, near this place.
A very small aperture leads to a series of
chambers, the smallest of which is seventy
flve feet long by forty broad and thirty
high. The caverns have not all been ex
plored, but are believed to be very exten
sive. The formation is rock crystal, ex
ceedingly beautiful, and the explorers be
lieve they will equal in grandeur the cele
brated Luray caverns.
Declines a Senatorship.
Rochester, N. Y., November 23.—The
Democrat and Chronicle to-morrow will
contain a letter to the editor from White
law Reid, editor of the New York THftwne,
positively declining to be a candidate for
U. 8. Senator.
Business Failures.
New York, November 21.—The business
failttres throughout the country the last
seven days in the United States were 248;
Canada 29; total 277. This is a striking
increase as compared with last week, when
the total was 236, and the previous week
214. The increase is mainly in the Western
and Southern States.
Meeting of Congress.
Washington, November 21.—The next
session of Congress will begin on Monday,
December 1; but, after deducting the two
weeks usually appropriated for the Christ
mas recess and the Sundays, there will re
main only about seventy-five working
days
THE MURDER OF LINCOLN.
A Most Remarkable Letter in Refer
ence to the Assassination.
Another Chapter in the Terrible Tragedy In
1865.
Baltimore, Md., November 24.—A most
remarkable letter in reference to the as
sassination of President Lincoln by John
Wilkes Booth has been received by a prom
inent Ex-Union officer in Baltimore. The
letter, with the name of the writer erased,
was shown to a correspondent to-day. It
goes on to say that Booth did not,
assassinate the President for any
political reasons whatever bul, on the
contrary, it was simply to wreak private
vengeance. It appears that Booth went to
Mr. Lincoln and begged him to pardon his
friend, -Captain John Yates Beall, who
was condemned to be shot as a Confederate
spy. Mr. Lincoln was inexorable, but
after Booth had gone down on his knees
and bathed Mr. Lincoln’s hand with
tears, and kissed it, he finally relented,
and promised Booth to pardon Captain
Beall. Booth left, well satisfied
with the result of his mission, but when he
read a day or two afterward that his
friend had been shot he became wild with
rage, and concocted his scheme of assassi
nation, which he afterward carried out. The
writer also says that the same night that
Booth had visited the President, he slept at
Mrs. Bowen’s boarding-house, in Washing
ton, with a gentleman who is at present a
city official, and also with another gentle
man now a clerk in the Baltimore Post
office.- Both the gentlemen referred to con
firm the statement. The writer says that
the relations of Booth with Mrs. Surratt
werepurely of a social nature, and that
politics and sectionalism had nothing to do
with the tragedy.
Suicided on His Mother’s Grave.
New York, November 24.—Max Ham
burger, a merchant of this city, is reported
by cable to have killed himself on his
mother’s grave in Berlin on account of
business losses. Max Hamburger came to
New York a dozen or fifteen years ago,
and for five years or more was engaged in
the picture business in Broadway, princi
pally as an importer of chromos and nov
elties. Seven years ago he returned to Ber
lin, his native place, and the residence of
his parents, and shortly after married and
settled in that city, where he en
gaged in the commission business.
He paid this city a visit during
the summer, and only a few days before
the time fixed for his departure, he received
a cable dispatch announcing the death of
his mother. The news completely unnerv
ed him. A gentleman who called to offer
his condolence was amazed to find him so
broken down, and Mr. Hamburger more
than once remarked: “There is nothing to
live for now since mother is gone.” Mr.
Hamburger was about forty-five years of
age, and is survived by a widow, two small
children and an aged father.
The Cholera.
Paris, November 24.—There were nine
teen deaths from cholera in Paris yester
day. In twelve hours ended at noon to-day
there were only three deaths. The publi
cation of bulletins is abandoned. In the
eighteen hours ended at six o’clock yester
day afternoon, there were fourteen deaths
from cholera, all but five occurred in hos
pitals. From midnight Sunday to six this
evening there have been six deaths in the
city from cholera.
Madrid, November 24. There were
twenty-seven cases ami seven deaths by
cholera in Toledo yesterday. The authori
ities have established a military cordon.
At Oran, Algeria, during the forty-eight
hours ended this evening, there were eleven
deaths from cholera.
A Saloon ist Mobbed.
Newark, 0., November 24.—The village
of Blandensburg, fifteen miles southeast of
this place, up to Saturday night contained
a single saloon. A large concourse of the
anti-liquor element proceeded to the sa
loon, and after stoning the place
for some time gained admittance.
Then one of the party threw a stone at
the proprietor, a man named Chapin, the
missile striking him on the head and frac
turing his skull. All the liquor that could
be found in the place was thrown into the
street and burned. Physicians were sum
moned to the aid of the wounded man, but
when they arrived he was dead.
What McCulloch will Recommend.
Washington, November 24.—President
Arthur will begin work to-morrow on his
annual message. To-day he received the
rejwrt of Secretary McCulloch, which is
said to be a great elaboration of thought.
Rumor has it that Mr. McCulloch recom
mends an abolition of all internal revenue
taxes, save on spirituous and malt liquors,
an adjustment of inequalities in the tariff
and a perpetual loan of a bond to the peo
ple, interchangeable into currency, bearing
rate at 2 1-2 per cent.
A Broken Neck.
Frostburg, Mo., November 24. —Charles
Taylor, telegraph operator and agent for
tho C. and P. Railroad in this city, was
found dead at the foot of a stairway in his
mother’s house yesterday morning. It is
supposed he was taken with an apopleptic
fit and fell down the stairs, breaking his
neck. He was thirty years of age and un
married. .
Gentile Tax-Payers.
Salt Lake City., November 24. —Gentile
tax-payers of Salt Lake City began a suit
to-day to resist the collection of the special
tax voted by Polygamists of the Seventh
Ward for the support of schools alleged to
be Mormon.
A Bad Postal Clerk.
Detroit, November 24. —C. H. C. Rynd.
Postal Clerk on the Michigan Central, was
arrested to-day for robbing the mail*. He
is the son of an Adrian physician.
SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS.
In Florida the Cleveland men poured oil
on the lakes and set Are to it.
All of the principal railroads centering
at Atlanta have adopted the plan of deliv
ering freight at the store doors, and in con-,
sequence the tussel for business is becom
ing quite lively.
The Tennessee Prohibitionists claim a
vote of 2,000 in the State.
Thomas Hughes is taking steps to es
tablish an extensive library at Rugby.
West Virginia gives Cleveland a plu
rality of 4,203.
Isaac Johnson was hanged at Canton,
Miss., for the murder of Bella Booker.
In Cocke County, Tenn., some time since,
William Rollins was shot from ambush,
but recovered. The other day, while
Charles Gunter, whom Rollins suspected of
the attempt on his life, was passing a
thicket with a brother and sister, he was
shot dead from ambush. Rollins has dis
appeared.
The sugar-house on Armant plantation,
St. James Parish, La., owned by Oliver
Birne, together with 150,000 pounds of
sugar burned. No insurance; loss $150,000.
Fire the other night at Toisnot Station,
Va., on the Wilmington & Weldon Rail
road, destroyed several houses and stores.
John Howard shot and killed Henry
Peak and wife in Marshall County, Ala., in
order to settle an old feud, and in the en
counter received wounds at the hands of
Peak that resulted in his death.
Georgia has secured about 4,000 feet at
New Orleans.
Dr. S. M. Bemiss, a prominent physician
of New Orleans, is dead.
Four tramps were killed near Rayville,
Louisiana, in a freight train wreck.
The dissatisfaction over building the
Georgia Capitol out of other than Georgia
stone has invaded the sitting Legislature.
The Savannah, Ga., Cotton Exchange
does a business of $35,01X1,000 a year.
Ex-Senator Norwood, of Georgia, is
among the members elect to the Forty
ninth Congress.
Hon. Alex. K. Davis, colored, Lieuten
ant Governor of Mississippi during Ames’
administration, died the other night of
heart disease. He had been pastor of the
colored Methodist Church at Canton. Miss.,
for the past four years, and was highly re
spected.
A young son of Colonel J. M. H. Beale,
residing on Mercer’s Bottom, six miles
south of Point Pleasant, W. Va., went to
the meat-house of his father the other
afternoon, and, with that adventurous
spirit characteristic of children, climbed up
on the beams, some twelve feet, from the
floor, to which are attached iron hooks for
the purpose of hanging meat, and in some
manner lost his presence of mind and came
tumbling down. His descent was arrested
by his right thigh catching on one of the
iron hooks, which penetrated some distance
in his flesh and left him hanging
His cries for assistance were heard by some
laborers near the house, who released him
from his perilous position. His wounds are
serious, though the doctor thinks if pyaemia
does not ensue he will recover.
_ A gentleman who has just located in
Chattanooga from Pennsylvania states that
large numbers from his section contem
plate moving South this winter, and Ten
nessee seems to be their preference.
Bills are before the Alabama and Geor
gia Legislatures prohibiting the importa
tion, manufacture or sale of liquor in those
States.
The question of raising the salary of
Alabama’s Governor to SS,(XX) is before the
Legislature of the State.
Henry Vagen, a tinner, fell from a roof
at Hot Springs, Ark., the other day, and
was fatally injured. A similar fate befell
Henry Betzinger, a tinner at Little Rock.
Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Texas, had
his pocket picked while en route home on
the Texas and St. Louis Railroad.
Georgia official vote: Cleveland, 94,567;
Blaine, 47,964; Butler, 125; St. John, 184.
North Carolina official vote: Cleve
land, 142,905; Blaine, 125,068; St. John, 448.
Thk dead body of a young woman ap
parently about thirty years of age, with a
living emaciated babe of six months
clasped in her arms, was discovered the
other day in the woods on the property N>f
E. C. Cockey, about nine miles from Balti
more, in Baltimore County. The body of
the y oung woman was genteelly attired in
a black silk dress, trimmed with velvet,
an<l wore gold ear-rings and other jewelry.
Upon the left hand was a wedding ring
inscribed, “Mizpah, May 1, 1883.” Upon
the inside of a gold watch found upon the
body was engraved, “Frank to Gertrude.”
The babe was unconscious, and it is thought
the exposure it has endured for two days
at least will result in its death.
Cane grinding has begun in Georgia.
Catching ’possums for market pays well
ill Alabama.
German immigrants are said to avoid
settling in cotton States.
Louisiana promises the largest rice crop
she ever had this year.
The Gainesville, Ga., match factory
can’t keep up with orders.
A Newton, Ga., man has paid for a
farm with the melons off it.
The Governor-elect of Florida is a native
of the State of Massachusetts. He was a
young man when he removed to Florida,
and opened an office at Pensacola for the
practice of the law.
Chattanooga is bent upon having a pub
lic library.
Memphis has the lighting of her street!
by electricity under consideration.
GOOD horses are in demand in Florida.
' A torpedo on the street car track in At
lanta tore a bole in the car and ruined one
of the horses.
The little child of Mr. Hayes, of Athens,
Ga., while sitting on a high stool in front
us the flre-j lace, fell in and was burned to
I death. i
The official count for President in Ala
bama showed Cleveland 9(2,973, Blaine 59,-
Butler 763 St. Joftn 610.
TERMS—SI A YEAR.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Spurgeon’s eighteen hundredth ser
mon has been published.
—Mr. Lincoln, the Secretarv of'War'
is said to be rapidly aging.
-George Winfield Scott Hancock
Pattison Sullivan Yerks is a small boy
in the interior of Pennsylvania.
-At New Haven, Conn., Mrs. Marta
Rood recently married JohnQ. Walker
He is her fourth husband and she is his
third wife.
~£ ue hundred and twenty-five works
of different authors have been prohib
ited from circulation in the libraries of
Russia.
1 he venerable (reneral Spinner and
his three brothers live at Mohawk, N.
Y. The brothers are all old men with
very young wives.—Mica Herald.
—A Mr. Carr, of Chicago, has mar
ried a Miss Carr of the same city. The
clergyman escaped without injury, al
though it is well known that there is
much danger in coupling cars.— Phila
delphia Call.
The musician Rubinstein, who com
mitted suicide at Lucerne, is said to
have sought death owing to his failure
to become famous. His recourse was
successful. He acquires fame from the
fact that he was not the great Rubin
stein.—Current.
—“The artists,” said Henry Clay
thirty years ago, have not succeeded
well in taking my features, but that has
been in a measure my own fault, for my
face never long retains the same ex
pression, and especially when I am un
der any excitement, it changes every
moment.”
—lt was a Frenchman who wrote:
What is a woman? For, a painter, a
model; for a doctor, a subject; for a
peasant, a housekeeper; for a Parisian,
a dowry; for a naturalist, a female; for
an Albanian, a beast of burden; fora
Roman, a citizeness; for a schoolboy,
an angel; for an honest man, a com
panion.—Chicago Herald.
—Von Moltke, the German soldier,
was born with the century, and pre
sents no symptoms of decay. His hab
its, like his manner, are simple and
frugal, as much so as was the case with
the Duke of Wellington. His deep-set
eyes shine beneath shaggv eyebrows
and a massive forehead. He is tall,
slightly bent, and has a martial step.
Wine he seldom touches, being satisfied
with an occasional glass of beer. His
favorite exercise is walking out-doors
with his hands behind him, and his
head bent forward. Count Von Moltke
is in bed by half-past nine o’clock.
—.
HUMOROUS.
—Why is a cornet-player like a sig
nal-service storm-observer? One blows
the notes and the other notes tho
“ blows.”
—“Oh, look, papa!” exclaimed little
Estelle’, as a funny man across the ta
ble winked at her. “ That gentleman
is stuttering with his eye.’ Golden
Days.
—The English are said to be losing
patience with the Boers. That s noth
ing, We lose patience with the bores
every day. But the bores don’t seem
to lose any. — Chicago Tribune.
—‘‘Mr. Smith, do you dye your
hair?” asked the small boy. “No;
why do you think so? ” “0, I dunno,
only it’s black, and sister said she
reckoned you was born light-headed.
—A church-bell at Saratoga recently
rang 104 times —one stroke for each
year of its existence. This is the only
instance on record where the uge of a
Saratoga bell has been tolled. N i-
Times.
—Little Tommy was having his hair
combed, and grumbled. “ B hy, Tom
my, you oughtn’t to make such a fuss.
I don’t mind when my hair is combed.
“ Yes, but your hair isn’t hitched to your
head.” iL
—“Now then, Patrick,” aaid the
merchant to his new office-boy, “sup
you go for the mail.”
an’ what kind of a male wud ye be
wantin’, sor-Indian male or oat
male?” — Norristown Herald.
—“Apropos!”—Sententious old bach
elor fin the course of conversation).
•‘As the ’old saw’ has it. my dear mad
am ‘man proposes, but
(“r’om““): ’Yes; but that’s jus what
he doesn’t do!” btlt/
Derrick.
.-“What do you think of m? mus
tache?” asked a young man of his g L
“Oh its reminds me of a western
frontier citv,” was the answer. 1
frontier nr av?” “Because the
w T. P S« Xuifb. but the ««t-
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Hawkeye. ”
<> Yes I have left my last place,
said Mary’ “An’ what did you lave
for?” “ The mistress was too hard
hearted She had no more sensibill
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you. dfiarie?” " Indude, ’b”‘‘‘J‘'“J L
“ An’ what did she do? She put an
illarum clock right in my m
the mornings it made such a noise
could not sleep another wink. Ax-
York Judge was annoyed
by the coughing of a person era j
court, and after remonstrating
times in vain, exclaimed.
bound to stop that will
stop it. . J the trouble,
ous man who b* d ' dollars to
I •• I’ll be willm to pay tw en
hev that cough stopp •
Bt °P U f ; r ‘“thaSS and d go to pre
down off en There’s money m it,
ticin’ medicine. There s m
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