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G. W. M. TATUM, Fditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IY.
NEWS GLEANINGS,
Eighty-five thousand tons of fertili
zers were sold in North Carolina for the
year 1881.
t-hlk culture in Louisiana has of late
poS 6 3 f7 's' hlK in(l stry, and to-day
Ai i, iant production.
®G ro h .ar
State*! is coining into the Texas
land*' vsury from the sale of school
Y than from taxes and all other
forces.
In 1865 Florence, S. C., contained only
ten houses. It now has a population of
over 2,000, and last year over 100 houses
were bu’lt.
A Florida paper says that vast quanti
ties of blind mosquitoes are caught in
the swamps of that State for fertilizing
purpeaes.
Nearly everyday from 100 to 150 per
sons. pass through Chattanooga, going
West. T’aero are from Western North
Carolina and Southeast Tennessee.
Owing to the crowded condition of
the Alabama State Asylum, Bulloch
count y is at the expense of caring for its
insaa/e'paupersat the County Poor-house.
The poor-house of Choctaw county,
Ala , has but one inmate, the first for
several years past., It is an old negro
woman whose age is stated at ‘19.2 or
thereabout*.”
Atlanta Constitution; The silver vein
of Ma'gi’uder mine grows richer with the
continual digging. The ore has assayed
as mu eh as §B6 of silver to the ton, and
the lead in the ore is also in sufficient
quantity t® be valuable.
Seme hunters near Deuglasviile, Ga ,
lafct week, while fox-chasing, ran a
strange animal to its den, which proved
to be a wild dog. They found a mother
.and fopr puppies, all of which got away
Tnit one #f the latter.
Within three months ground has been
surveyed, or .breken for three more blast
furnaces; Imd steel and iron rolling-mill
a nail factory, and a dozen or more small
er establishments have been started, and
will soon b 6 iii fuJB operation in Bir
mingham.
The area of land which will be re
claimed in Florida by the draining of
Like Okeechobee, work on the canals for
doing which has already been begun, is
larger than the States of New Jersey,
Connecticut, Dele ware and Rhode Is.
land.
Mr. W. D. Graydon, a farmer of But
ter county, Ala., made last season from
one acre of ground 830 gallons of molas
ses, besides putting some of the cane on
the market, saving 3,008 stalks for seed
and reserving about one thousand stalks
for consumption by his family.
Charleston News and Courier: A Mrs:
Coker, with her three children, in an ox'
cart, was going home from Perry, Ga.
The;road they traveled passed through
very rank wire grass, which had been
s>et on fire. In trying to get out of the
■way the cart and oxen became fastened
among pine logs and the fire overtook
them. The cart was consumed with the
two children inside, and the oxen were
burned to death. The woman attempted
te escape with her infant, but her cloth
tng caught fire aud she and the other
child were so badly burned that they
have since died..
Good Eating and Good Writing.
In old monastic days good eating was
under a ban. It was imagined that the
brain could best be kept clear and vigor
ous on a low diet.
Romantic young ladies in our time
love to think of their favorite authors as
fed on a divine ambrosia. It brings
them down to a common level to associ
ate them with roast beef find mutton.
Poor Charlotte Bronte was once disen
chanted of her hero-worship. Thackeray
was'her favorite author, and in her lonely
home on the moors, her imagination in
vested him with all ideal graces.
On a visit to London she was lifted to
the summit of happiness by an invitation
to a dinner where Thackeray was to be
one.of -.the guests. She .was introduced
to the great man, and sat next to him.
It was a red-letter day in her life, and
memory was on the alert to retain all his
bright sayings, and report them to her
sigtfirs. , .
Thackeray, however, did little talking,
blit much eating. 'He had recently re
covered from a severe attack of typhoid
fever, winch left him with a ravenous ap
petite, while the dinner was exception
ally gdbd. • Charlotte looked on in won
der at his feats, and the surprise gradu
ally changed to disgust. One more idol
had turned to clay. If she had known
the modem law‘of the conservation of
forces, her charity might not have failed
her. -
TRAMrs on. the Pacific slope long for a
return to the good old days, when a gen
tleman scorned to give a beggar less than
a dollar.
fl;ule €mntv funette.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Jay Gould owns §53,000,000 in
stocks.
.Esthetic Easter cards, it is said, wilt
be the rage.
Pittsburg has several colored police
men on the force.
Edison is recuperating in Florida and
giving electricity a rest.
When lunacy is no longer an excuse
for crime, crime will perceptibly diminish.
’? ramps may now bo expected in the
.■ole of “ Mississippi overflow sufferers.’
Victor Hugo is of opinion that if the
Czar will not spare tho people, God will
not spare the Czar.
The woman who rode a bicycle 600
miles in six consecutive days, at St.
Louis, is a Canadian.
According to Cardinal Manning, it is
an indictable offense in England for a
man to propagate atheism.
The American Express Company has
organized a money order system cheaper
than.that of the postoflice.
A Russian traveler says that one
third of Asia aud a considerable part of
Europe still remain unexplored.
A Chicago Grand Jury last week re
turned an indictment against a dead
man. Live criminals are scarce up
there.
The report of the Secretary of War
shows that our Indian wars in the last
ten years have cost $5,055,821 in jjctual
money.
Just what the Mormons think of their
present prospects we are not prepared to
say, but they evidently are not well
pleased.
Mr. Tourgee, the novelist, allows
himself to bo calls*!, in bie own pappr,
Our Continent, “Hon.” Albion V/.
Tourgee.
Congress should make a law especially
adapted to the punishment of the inspired
crank element. The need of such a law
is daily increasing.
Mason’s sentence to eight years in the
Penitentiary for shooting at Guiteau was
certainly quite enough. "Guiteau doubt
less approves the sentence.
The Mississippi House of Representa
tives has passed a bill preventing the
sale of tobacco to minors without an
order from their parents or guardians.
A bogus priest named Deßohan, ar
rested in Chicago, aud familiar with five
languages, lias borne in bis brief exist
ence of thirty-one years, twenty-five
aliases.
It is reported that John Russell
Young, the newly appointed Minister to
China, will soon marry Miss Julia E.
Coleman, a niece of ex Governor Jewell,
of Connecticut.
Lieutenant Schwatka,'- of the Arctic
Expeditiou of 1879, speaking of the
Jeannette’s crew, says there is no hope
for DeLong and party, and little for
Chip’s boat’s crew.
Robert Bonner thinks the time will
come when two minutes will be very
ordinary time for a trotter. As Bonner
is opposed to betting, there is no chance
here to lay a wager.
The visit of General Sherman to the
West will probably result in the abandon
ment of several military forts in Texas,
Snd the establishment of posts at San
Antonio and Fort Bliss.
Hallie Hutchinson, a little girl nine
years old, is probably the youngest tele
graph operator in the world. She is
stationed at a town in Texas where she
has entire charge of an office.
The indications are that Mason will
eventually be pardoned. Petitions ask
ing for his pardon are flooding in to the
President from Legislatures, societies
and citizens in great numbers.
This is the question which Mormons
nsk our Congressmen: “How do you
know it's bad to have a dozen wives?
You haven’t tried it. We have.” That
may bo regarded as a clincher.
Archibald Forbes has discovered
that an American audience’s estimate on
a lecture is to be discovered, not from
the applause, but from the number of
people who sit till the lecture is ended.
It is stated that tho Czar, having re
ceived convincing proofs that the Nihilists
are determined to abandon their policy
of assassination, imperial clemency will
RISING FAWN, J)ADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, ISS2.
consequently bo extended te political
prisoners.
The Sunday saloon question, just now,
is the topic of interest in Ohio—whether
it is better to go in by the front door or
by tho back door. No saloonist was
ever known to keep both doors looked at
tho same time.
Ihe report that four towns were
destroyed by an earthquake in Costa
Rica, later information says, was an
“exaggeration,” yet how great an exag
geration is not stated. Perhaps it was
all exaggeration.
Four women in the vicinity of Rich
mond, Ind., and a Methodist preacher
aud two women at North Lewisburg,
Champaign County, Ohio, have gone
insane over religion the past two weeks
and been placed in lunatic asylums.
The beautiful Mrs. Langtry would
like to come to this country but her
agent wants so much that she wall prob
ably tie denied the privilege. Asa rule
managers endeavor to make contracts
with a view to making something for
themselves.
Dr. George H. Lamson, of London,
tried for the murder of his brother-in
law, Percy Malcolm John, a mere boy,
that lie might come into possession of
his property, lias been found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged. The evidence
was circumstantial, but conclusive.
The outlook on the Lower Mississippi
is everything but promising. The whole
country is flooded, without any prospect
of the water receding at an early day.
In the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, the
country for forty miles around, on either
side of the river, is like an ocean.
An item to sausage-eaters from the
Louisville Courier-Journal: “A man
who detected a piece of bark in his
sausage visited the butcher shop to
know what had become of the rest of
the dog. The butcher was so affected
that he could give him only a part of the
tale.”
The Police Commissioners of Balti
more have dismissed a policeman foi
not arresting a woman who was assault
ing another with a horsewhip. As sha
was his wife and the assaulted woman
his sweet-heart, he felt that he could not
interfere without great embarrassment.
The Commissioners relieved him ot all
further embarrassment by relieving him.
Half the silver dollars circulated in
Montana are alleged to be counterfeit*
made by the Chinese in San Francisco.
They are described as of exactly th*
weight of the genuine ones, and ona
thirty-second part of an inch larger in
diameter. They contain only sixteen
cents’ worth of silver, which is all on
the surface.
Eighty-five houses in South Bethle
hem, Pennsylvania, are quarantined be
cause of smallpox, and the disease is re
ported on the increase. Why this dis
ease has become so alarming there it is
difficult to say. The town is high and
healthy, and is the home of the Mo
ravians, than whom no one could be
cleaner or more particular in neatness.
Mrs. SARAn E. HowE,4he defaulting
Boston Bank President, who has been
sentenced to the House of Correction for
a term of three years, may well congrat
ulate herself. She promised to pay her
depositors an interest that amounted to
96 per cent., and iii consequence failed
to return the principal, by which the de
positors lost something like $475^00.
The Milwaukee Sui\ suggests a plan
for “ saving the country.” It says : “ Let''
Northern people go South in the winter,
and Southern people go North in the
summer, and let the young of both sec
tions fall in love with each other and do
a little marrying, and when Northern
and Southern grandmothers go traveling
back and forth to,visit the babies that
will naturally come upon the scene, that
will naturally end all sectional feeling.'’
The Paris Figaro says of Skobeleff:
“This General has not changed during
the last four years. He is now thirty
seven, or thereabouts. He is very tall
—so tall that in a campaigning time
he can not stand upright in his tent. His
face is exceedingly intelligent, his eyes
blue and keen and quick, his forehead
full, and his beard brightly blonde; at
the very first glance his person reveals
the energetic and loyal soldier, ready to
dare all and sacrifice everything.”
The Galveston News suggestively
says: “ When a President is shot, every
thing in the United States can be turned
topsey turvey, and the occupant of al
most every office, from Secretary of
State to the humblest tide waiter,
changed. Had Mac Lean succeeded in
his nefarious attempt on the life of the
Queen, hardly a particle of difference
“ Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.”
would have oocu-ved in the Government
of England; not an office would have
changed from Prime Minister down to
letter carrier.”
The most dangerous element in this
country is the inspired crank. Henry
Remshaw, the “embassador from
heaven sent by Guiteau to shoot Dr.
Gray ” of the Vale Lunatic Asylum, at
Utica, N. Y., when arrested, had upon
his person two r-wy revolvers, one single
barrel revolver, ono repeater, one dirk,
cleaver, one te ttle of chloroform and
thirty bundles of cartridges. As an
arsenal he was e• Adently prepared to do
some killing. Or. Gray, fortunately,
received only a flash wound. Dr. Gray
was the chief medical expert of the
Government in th* Guiteau trial.
Juveiiilo Mortality.
One of the most mysterious phenom
ena of human existence is the large per
centage of mortality among young chil
dren. A fearful proportion of the deaths
everywhere are those of persons who
have just begun to live. Even when
due allowance is made for faults of nurs
ing and training, it appears hardly possi
ble that any improvement can offset
the inherited weakness from which so
many children suffer, and, as yet, science
has taught little concerning those epi
demics which find the majority of their
victims among the little ones. “ Still, in
telligent care and favorable surroundings
can do much. The English statistics,
much mure full and accurate than those
of our own country, show that in the
rural counties the mortality of children
under five years of age does not exceed,
and often falls- below, forty in the thou
sand. In the cities and towns the aver
age is much greater, ranging from about
fifty-nine in the thousand, in Portsmouth,
to over ninety-five in Birmingham and
Sheffield, and to over one hundred and
three in Liverpool. In nineteen large
towns, containing an aggregate of a mil
lion and marly twenty-four thousand
children, the deaths for a year from their
number were 82,250. This is a fearful
number, and no doubt tho figures were
increased through causes which might
have bee:,;, .voided. Styi, had every
thing been done, the little victims must
have been counted by myriads. As
tilings are, it is probable that in very
many cases c >ntinued life would not have
been - b'i t th • quaint old epi
taph,
“ So soon was I done fey *
I wonder what I was * JK. W
will nevertheless suggest Cincin
nati Gazette,
To Cure .Sheep-Killing Dogs.
The question of how to protect sheep
from the caresses of destructive dogs,
which has so long agitated the agricul
tural mind, seems to have been happily
settled by the farmers of Hunterdon and
Somerset counties, Ngw Jersey. They
tried the experiment or mixing in a few
goats with their sheep, and after the
goats and sheep had affiliated for a few
days, they proceed some dogs, regular
sheep-killer*, aas started them for the
folds. The dogs, regarding the affair as
n sort of picnic, went for wool and came
back shorn of their conceit. They
seem to run against goats in the most
unexpected places, and were struck by
the singular nature of the thing and al
most drove into the ground by the force
of the remarks made by the goats with
their heads, in the heat of the debate.
Mutton, which the dogs had always re
garded as a delicacy, suddenly palled
upon the taste and they felt coyed. No
doubt the goats, with customary polite
ness, asked their guests to pass their
plates and have some of the mutton,
but the dogs did not care for mutton.
They came out of the field limping ou
three legs, and no word of encourage
ment from the farmer could induce them
to go back. They had been broke of
sucking eggs.
Squeaking Shoos.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman gives the following remedies for
the above nuisance:
Not long ago I went to my slioestore
and asked if the squeaking could be pre
vented in my shoes. I was told it could
be very easily, and it was done by open
ing the soles of my shoes at the shank,
pouring in powdered soapstone, taking
care to have the sole well-filled to the
toe, and then pegging or sowing them
up again. My shoes did not squeak
after that. A shoemaker’s receipt to
prevent squeaking is to put a piece of
cloth (sheeting) between every two lay
ersuif leather on tho sole. Last sum
mer I purchased a pair of fine boot
which annoyed ine very much by squeak
ing. So on very hot days in haying I
turned them up to the direct rays of the
sun and put on grease; as fast as it
dried up I applied more, until they
would take 110 more, and they have nev
er troubled me since. Our own plan is
to stand the shoos in n* hollow pan and
then pour in lukewarm water until tlie
soles are nearly immersed. Keep the
water as nearly lukewarm as possible
for twenty-four hours, and put on the
shoes while the soles are still damp.
They should not become wet inside.
A French physician of note lias been
studying the question of “fatigue of the
eyes,” so familiar to literary men. He
believes that it is due to a permanent
tension of accommodation, the muscles
becoming fatigued in their efforts to keep
the lens to the curve adapted to the fo
cus, or, in other Words, the distance of
the printed matter. As to tho maxi
mum of legibility, he finds that, other
things being equal, it does not depend
on the height of the letters, but on their
breadth.
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
Does a man break into humor when
i he cracks a joke ?
1 It is no longer a matter of pride to
j have a high forehead. A cow has that,
and she is very low-ly.
In union there is strength. “Poor
Tom’s a cold,” but Tom and Jerry’s liot.
—Boston Commercial Bulletin.
The best description we have ever
heard of a slow man was that he was too
slow to got out of his own way. —Lowell
Courier.
When the washerwoman calls for a
young man’s linen, does that make her
a shirt-callei ? Neckst. Steubenville
{ Herald.
I “Money makes my ma go,” said little
: Skeesicks when his mother, armed with
a S2O greenback, left for a down-town
shopping tour.
Enquirer: Are plants in a sleeping
room unhealthy? Not necessarily. We’ve
seen some very healthy plants growing
j in sleeping rooms.
I “Don’t you think that Miss Brown is
| a very sweet girl?” asked Henry. “Oh,
yes, very sweet,” replied Jane; “that is
to say, she is well preserved.”
‘ ‘Abb you dead, Tim ?” said an Irish
father to his son, who had fallen down a
; well. “Not dead, father, but spache
less,” came up from the depths.
No woman e’er contented is,
No matter what she’sgot;
For when she builds a little house
blie always .wants a lot.
—Hackensack Republican.
“It is poor taste to laugh at your own
jokes,” said Henderson; “something I
: never do, through Ido say it.” “Does
anybody else over laugh at them?’
! asked Fogg.
A Brooklyn man has just found his
sister from whom ho has been separated
fifty years. She was the cook in his
boarding house, and lie recognized the
style of her hash.
“Have you any faith in mince pie as
a cure for headache?” asked one young
married lady cf another. Yes,” was
the reply, “bring out your mince pie.
I get mince-pie headaches refulariy.”
When Brown complained of a nish of
blood to the head Fogg endeavored to
ease his mind by reminding him that
nature abhors a vacuum, and Brown’s
blood rushed to his head worse than
ever.
“Man and wife are all one, are they?”
said she. “Yes; what of it?” said he
suspiciously. “Why, in that case,”
said his wile, “I came home awfully
tipsy lest night and feel terribly ashamed
of myself this morning.” He never said
a word.
At a young ladies’ seminary recently,
during an examination in history, one of
the pupils was interrogated thus:
“Mary, did Martin Luther die a natural
death ?” “ No,” was the reply; ‘‘ he was
excommunicated by a bull.’ —Harvard
Lampoon.
Little Editii was terribly sleepy the
other night, tibe began her customary
prayer upon retiring, but when she got
as far as “Our Father,” her eyes closed
and her head tumbled on to the pillow.
“I tau’t tay it to-night,’.’ she said, “I’m
too s’eepy. He knows the yest of it.”
A lecturer was, once in a dilemma
which he will probably never forget.
While talking about art he ventured the
assertion, “Art can never improve na
ture.” And at that moment some one
in the audience cried out in a gruff voice,
“Cant he? Well, then, how do you
think you would look without your wig ?”
“Memory is a wonderful thing,” said
Jack Miller to his friend Dan Watts.
“Just think of what a fellow’s head can
hold! It’s gigantic, sir gigantic!”
Watts—“l have often heard your friends
say you have a very fine memory, Jack.”
Miller (flattered) —“Well, that’s very
kind. Yes, I have a pretty good memory. ”
Watts—“Do you think you can recall
the ten dollars 1 lent you three years
w! ” Ar~b ,
. XjManltoba./
This, than Ivliich perhaps there if #not
to be found a more inhospitable region
below the latitude of Greenland, is pic
tured as a Northern paradise, and ren
dered magnificently attractive on paper.
A flat country, almost without timber,
swept during the greater part of the
year by high winds surcharged with
snow and s'! cereal led, in the expressive
phrase of tho denizens, “blizzards,”
frozen during the winter hard as an ice-
t£ a fearful depth, and deluged
with water in tho spring, it possesses
many tions for an Esquimaux.
Horses and cattle fare poorly in Mani
toba, since if they escape the loss of
their ears by frost, they are subjeet tc
gradual starvation during the long win
ter. It is doubtless pleasant enough
during the brief summer, and a returned
explorer gives it as liis opinion that the
land is propuetive, although he found it
difficult to reach a correct conclusion in
regard to it in the spring, while it was
several inches under water. —Canadian
Letter in Cincinnati Gazette.
A Mexican paper gives the following
account of a battle between monarchsol'
the deep : “A lake in the rear of Man
zanillo, Mexico, burst its confines and
poured its waters into the sea. The
lake was full of alligators, and the harbor
of sharks. When the monsters met, a
water battle immediately began, aud it
was waged for several days in the presence
of most of the people of Manzanillo,
j For a long timfc victory trembled in the
balance, but the sharks finally prevailed
and took dinner on the last of the routed
intruders. ”
Every one in this world has his or
her share of trouble and trials. Let us
then try as much as we are able not to
increase the burden of any by as much
as the weight of a straw.
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Not That Kind of a Donkey.
A coolness has arisen between Mr.
and Mrs. Fitznoodle, one of the most
respectable families in Austin. One day
la§t week a Mexican donkey was run
over in the outskirts of Austin, and
killed by a freight train on the Interna
tional Railroad. ■Next morning, just as
Mr. Fitznoodle was about to start down
town, his wife threw her arms around
his neck and said:
“ Dear Alonzo, promise me Dot to go
near the railroad track. How oan the
engineer distinguish between you and a
donkey, in time to stop the train?”—
Texas Siftings.
NUMBER 16.