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G. W. M. TATUM, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IV.
Bail roads.
Chickasaw Route,
MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON R R.
TWO PASSENGFR TRAINS DAILY
TO
MFMHAIS TENN.
pass. EX.
I-v Cnst'anonga.. 830a ra 810 p m
“ StfTensoo 10 00 ain 345 pm
“ PcotUboro 1035 a m 10 22 p m
“ Hunt*vdle 1205 pm 1155 pm
‘ Deator 125 pm 100 am
“ FI rence 12 00 n'a 2 10am
“ Coiintli 631 p m 521 n m
'* Grind Junction.... 727 p m 725 am
Arr Mem) hi* 930 p m 945 a m
Clone connection is made at MernpLi*
with the Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad lor all points in
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
The timo by this line from Chattanoo
pa to Memphis, Little Rock, and jo'nti
beyond, is five hours quicker thau by any
other line.
Throagh Passenger Coaches and Baggage
Cars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK
Without Change.
No Other Line Offers these
Advantages.
MIGRANT TICKETS NOW SELLING AT
THE I/YWEST RATES.
For further information call on o
write to J. M. SUTTON,
P.owcnper Agt. Chickasaw Route,
I’. Q. Box 224 Chat tonooga, Tenr.
Alai Great Mm R'f
Time Card,
Taking cfbct January 15J', 18S2.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Mai.
Arrive. Depart*
Cha tanooga..., am 8 25
WanNatfthie 8 4T do 8 4)
Voreanvillo 8:9 *o 900
Trenton 916 do 9 17
Ruing Fawn 937 do 938
* ttft'la 12 20 do 12 35
Bit mini: ham 254 do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 do 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Charles B. Wallace, ft. Goli.bran,
Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Ac’t.
MmMaltaEon & St. Louis R’y,
AUR \D OK ALL COtl PETITOKS.
o I TM N FSS mKn . Tor r t n r Aft r iyi nr n
KMIOIMNTn familims, nLliltmOLn
T>o H**l lion to to ('uiftvillt*, Cincinnati. Indi
p*' <4Chicago, and the North, is % in
▼ life.
Te •*• Hn.jp to S. Toirs and the \S>st is
via Jlrlifi al*.
Tito Rom H n t# Went Tann****** and Ken
tnckv. MisstFipi, Arkansas and Tons joii*t*i‘.
vis MeKeiiile.
DON’T FOKGKT IT.
—By this Line you fecit re the—
MAXIMUM Ciimfor, NnllMnotinn !
IIINIIIIIM of F.xpounc. Anxiety,
Itl I H I It! U If I Bother, Fiillcuo.
B sure to buy your tickets over tne
N. C. & St. L. R’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER. netd not go amiss; few chanvrs
nre necessary, and such as ate unnvoida
bln are made in Union Depots.
Through Sleepers
BETWEEN —
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou
isville,, Nashville and S‘. Louie, vis Cc
ltnubua, Nanliville sn 1 Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis Martin and gr. Louir,
Union City and St. Lonia, M Kerzieann
Lit le Rock, where connection is made
with Through Sleepers to all Texaß p oats.
Call on or address
A. B. Wrenn Atlanta, Ga.
.1. H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tena.
W. T. Rogers, P. A. ChatSDooga, Tear.
W. L. Danley, G. P. and T. A.,
Nashville, Tern*.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets
first and third Saturday nighta of esch
month. .T. W. Russey, W. M.
S. H. Thurman, Sec’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
a month cn Friday nigut, on or before
the full moon.
W. U. Jacoway, W. M.
G. M. Crabtree, Sec Ly.
Trenton Chapter No. 60, R. A. M.,
meets on the third Wednesday night of
each month,
M. A. B. Tatum, H. P.
W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty.
Court of Ordinary meets on first Moe
day of each month.
G. M. Cfabtree Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Olerk
B. P. Major®, Sheriff,
Joseph Oolemar, Tax Receiver.
D E Taium, Tax Colhctor.
Joseph Kifr,C rontr.
Wit. Morri id, County Surveyor.
Tories OF THE 11*1.
Canada is anxious to send a regiment
to Egypt
The Germans are mixing somewhat in
the Egyptian troubles.
Thebe are only nine members of the
Vanderbilt family at Saratoga.
Railway mail employes are to bo
classed as postal clerks hereafter.
Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, of
Chicago, is to be made a Cardinal.
A number of fatal sunstrokes have
been reported from New York City.
New wheat is being shipped from
Texas directly to Italy and Liverpool.
Hog cholera is creating alarm among
the farmers of McLean County, Illinois.
The Sultan of Turkey finally con
cluded to regard Arabi Bey as a traitor.
Jefferson Davis is spending his time
attending camp-meetings in Mississippi.
The farmers of Southern lowa will
try the experiment of raising cotton
next season.
Harvest is now in progress in Central
Dakota, and the crops are reported to be
above the average.
Ex-Public Printer Defrees, who
was lor a long time ill, is now in a fail
way toward recovery.
Mr. Gladstone is very closely guarded
now-a-days. Even at church he has
two police attendants.
The Mormon missionaries in the
South claim that agitation is helping
them to obtain proselytes
The weather in Ireland is. reported as
having improved, and there are now fair
prospects for a good potato crop,
Lawless Turtle Mountain Indians
liave crossed the border from Canada
into Dakota, evidently to amuse the set
tlors. 1
Emigration for America thus fay this
year is less than last year. Still, about
as many paupers are arriving as can
well be eared for.
Franklin Simmons, the sculptor, is at
work in his studio in Rome, Italy, on a
colossal statue of the late Oliver P.
Morton, of Indiana.
The Detroit Free Frets says that
babies are so small in the little State of
Rhode Island that they spank them
with a tack-hammer.
The President has approved the act
appropriating $50,000 for Mrs. Lueretia
Garfield, less any amount paid President
Garfield on account of salary.
Cincinnati announces that she drank
140,000,000 glasses of beer last year,
saying nothing of the chaps who sent
quart pitchers to the nearest saloon.
The appointment of M. L. Joslyn, of
Illinois, First Assistant Secretary of the
Interior, it seems, has not exactly satis
fied the people of Northern Illinois.
A party of Chippewa Indians are
in Washington endeavoring to conclude
negotiations for the transfer of 3,200,000
acres of the reservation, near lied Lake,
Minnesota, to the Government.
Out of twenty New York doctors who
were asked to give an opinion of ice
water, seventeen declared it all right as
a beverage. The other three have all
the practice they can take care of.
A Miss Fox, in New Orleans, has
sued Mr. Low for breach of promise,
placing her damages at one dollar. That
is satire sure enough. Low must feel
very low at the low value placed upon
him.
Boston lias passed a law prohibiting
die sale of the toy pistol. Baltimore,
where there were so many cases of lock
jaw from the explosion of these weapons
one year ago, passed such a law, and
this year they had no lockjaw to report.
The American Israelite does not ap
prove of the scheme of the return of the
Jews to Palestine. It says : “We
rather believe it is God’s will that the
habitable world shall become one Holy
Land, and the human race one holy peo
ple.” , , 1 #
A secret organization in New Mexico
and Arizona is being formed to wipe out
the Apaclies. New Mexico has already
over six hundred. Arizona will furnish
more than this number. Globe City and
Gila Valley already have over three hun
dred. _
The London Queen has decided that
it is uupardonable for young women,
married or single, to walk out alone.
This is a hint to young men. We pre
RISING FAWN, DA DR COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, IBS-2.
“Faithful to the R’glit, Fearhss / gainst Wrong.”
sume it is perfectly proper far older
ladies—if there are any such —to go it
alone.
i 1 • - - ~
The President b s ref. rred a supple
mental petition bearing 49,000 signa
tures-, from the Garfield Club of New
York C.ty, asking the pardon of Ser
geant Mason, to the Secretary of Wai,
together with several other and similar
petitions.
Mrs. Henry Labouchere, wife of the
editor of London Truth, who instructed
Mrs. Langtry for her debut, will accom
pany her pupil and protege on her tonr
in the United States. Mrs. Labouchere
is a charming person, known formerly on
the stage as Miss Henrietta Hudson, an
actress of great talent and vivacity.
Cadet Whittaker delivered his first
lecture on “Color Line in the Nation’s
School,” in Baltimore, where he retold
the story of that ear slitting scrape. He
also told how frightfully he had been
misused throughout his entire term at
West Point, the white boys refusing to
eat or bunk with liim and frequently call
ing him “that nigger.” He said also
that he was lecturing for money.
The Cincinnati Gazette tells this hor
rid tale >f two good little Sunday-school
boys:
Two Denver boys, having road about kid
napping, stole a wealthy woman’s pet dog,
and wrote a letter demanding $25 for its re
turn. If she did not leave the money in a
specified spot, they declared they would
send her every day an inch of the precious
brute’s tail. Being easily caught, they
proved to he Sunday-school pupils of good
standing.
Egypt is pretty well supplied with al
leged newspapers. Alexandria has three
dailies iu French, two in Arabic, two in
Italian, and one in Greek and English,
with circulations running up to 5.000,
beadles six weeklies, two in Arabic, • one
in Italian, and one in English. Cairo,
with its population of 350,000, has but
two dailies, both in French, and four
weeklies ; Egyptians Devents, a weekly
paper in Arabic, is the government or
gan, and has a circulation of 10,000.
Port Said has two French weeklies,*an’d
Suez, Ismalia, and other places, have
wliat are called newsDaners.
Certainly He Would.
The other evening, as a muscular citi
zen was passing a house on Montcalm
street, a lady who stood at the gate
called out to him:
“Sir! I appeal to you for protec
tion!”
“What’s the trouble?” he aiked, as
he stopped short.
“There’s a man in the house, and he
wouldn’t go outdoors when I ordered
him to! ”
“He wouldn’t, eh! WVII see about
that!”
Thereupon the man gave the woman
his coat to hold and sailed into the
house spitting on his hands. He found
a man down at the supper-table, and he
took him by the neck and remarked:
“Nice style of a brute you are, eh!
Come out o’ this, or I’ll break every
bone in your body!”
The man fought back, and it was not
until a chair had been broken, and the
table upset that he was hauled outdoors
by the legs, and given a fling through
the gate. Then, as the muscular citi
zen placed his boot where it would do
the most hurt, he remarked: “Now,
then, you brass-faced old tramp, you
move on or I’ll finish you.”
“Tramp! tramp!” shouted the vio
tim, as he got up, “I’m no tramp! I
own this property and live in this
house!”
“You do?”
“Yes, and that’s roy wife holding
your coat!”
“ Thunder! ” whispered the victim, as
he gazed from one to the other, and
realized that the wife had got square
through him; and then he made a grab
for his coat and sailed into the dark
ness with his shirt bosom torn open, a
finger badly bitten, and two front teeth
ready to drop cut. — Detroit Free Press.
An Idea Worth Adopting.
The water supply abroad is so often
of a doubtful character that travelers
have resorted to the prudent expedient
of drinking only some well-known min
eral water. Thereupon a large trade
has been done in the purchase from rag
and bottle merchants of such mineral
water bottles as still bore the labels in a
fairly good condition. It was then easy
to fill them with ordinary and possibly
contaminated water, adding salt to give
the taste and appearance of the desired
mineral spring. By this fraud the con
sumer was not merely robbed but made
to ilrink the very water lie was doing
his best to avoid. We are therefore
pleased to note that in France at least
the Prefect of Police has adopted ener
getic measures to cheek this abuse.
Orders have been given to visit all de
pots of mineral waters, to seize hap
hazard a specimen and analyze it on the
spot. The tradesmen will also be called
upon to exhibit their invoices to prove
whence their stock is derived. Not only
are the stores of wholesale agents or
dealers to be thus inspected, but the re
tailers, the cafe, restaurant and public
house keepers will be subjected to an
equally vigorous supervision, and all
venders of such falsifications will be lia
ble to prosecution. - London lAincet.
—They are to have anew crematory
in New York, with a capital 0f.550, 00U.
Agriculture ami National Prosperity.
Never before perhaps in the history
of the country has greater interest boon
taken in the growing crops than at the
present time. The supply of cereals in
the country is small, meat of all kinds is
scarce and high, and almost for the first
time has there been a necessity for im
porting potatoes, roots, and garden
vegetables. The coming harvest will
find ample room in the now empty bins,
cribs, warehouses, elevators, and cellars,
it has been remarked that the world is
ordinarily within less than a year of
gtarvalion, and that hunger oan not wait.
* c are nearer the realization of this
startling statement than we have been
far many years. We liave more people
to feed than we ever had before, and
the number is constantly increasing.
Ordinarily some articles of food are
plentiful and cheap, but at present ev
erything is dear. Even corn meal, salt
pork, potatoes, and cured fish are high.
Persons can not live cheaply if they de
sire to. Every article that will help
support life in man or the inferior ani
mals commands a good price. At pres
ent every one takes an interest in the
reports of condition of crops and is de
sirous of obtaining the latest informa
tion respecting them. There is anxiety
on every hand in respect to the weather
and the extent of the damage by storms
and by the attacks of insects. Dealers
in other articles than grain and provi
sions are deeply interested in the pro
duction of these articles. They are
careful to gain the fullest information
possible about the prospect for crops in
every section of the country before they
sell large bills of goods on credit. The
value of every day of sunshine is care
fully estimated in a thousand counting
rooms. The damage inflicted by a severe
and long protracted storm is caloulntcd
in the same way. The worth of sun and
heat is fully appreciated.
A larger proportion of the inhabitants
of this country are directly engaged iu
agriculture than can be found in almost
any country in the world. In the
great markets where the commerce of
all nations center wo exchange grain,
meat, cotton, and tobacco for manufac
tured articles. If we do not produco
them in abundance we have nothing with
which we can carry on foreign trade.
Our tariff laws, designed to build up do
mestic manufacturers to supply local
consumption, have -an injurious effect
oy the manufacture of •articles for ex
pof t/ TliO jfivapoi tbr o£ nouidy all out
manufactures depends on the produc
tion of raw materials that Can be work
ed up. We make cotton cloth from lint
produced from our own Our cl
ears arc manufactured fuJn home-grown
tobacco. The whisky glucose,
and starch we make for home con
sumption and export are produced from
corn. A shortage in the corn crop re
sults in tl§: decline of the amount of ar
ticles produced from it. We never im
port corn, and it is difficult to find a
substitute for it in the articles we aro
in the habit of manufacturing from it.
The prosperity%of our manufacturers
depends indirectly, as welt as directly,
on the prosperity of our agriculture. A
large proportion of our people depend
on the cro% they raise for the means to
purchase manufactured goods of every
kind. They must restrict their con
sumption to their ability to buy
and make payment with the
product of their fields. If crops
are small, only manufactured
articles of necessity can be purchased
by people living in the country. If
they are large, they can indulge in ar
ticles that conduce to comfort or minis
ter to luxury. People in the country
adapt themselves to their inconjes bet
ter than people who live in cities. They
are more secluded, and on that account
can get along better with poor furniture
and articles of clothing.
The prosperity of all our great trans
portation companies depends on our ag
ricultural prosperity. The largest pro
portion of our freight cars are built for
carrying grain, live stock, and dairy
products. Many of our leading railroads
were constructed for the transportation
of farm products. Several of them
could not pay the ordinary running
expenses if they relied on passenger
traffic and the carrying of manufactured
goods for support. When crops are
good the trams run on them are many
and fang. When crops are poor the
reverse in both particulars is true.
What is true of railroad transportation
is also true of steamboat and vessel
transportation. The latter, no loss
than the former, were built for the most
part for carrying farm products and
farm supplies. As the country becomes
older its prosperity depends more and
more on agriculture. At one time a
large portion of our people were en
gaged in marketing the natural produc
tions of the country. They killed wild
animals and sent their skins to market.
They cut down forests that were not
planted by the hand of man. They
washed surface gold out of gulches, and
became rich chiefly through the opera
tkms of nature. Many lived on the
product of the chase. They ate the flesh
of wild animals and birds, and sold the
skins of the former. In many parts of
the country civilized men produced the
articles they ate and wore in the same
way that savasres did. The natural
products of the country supplied many
of the articles that in most parts pf
the world are obtained only by c rntinu
ous and persistent toil. On this account
many supported life by hunting and
fishing. At present it is ncces-ary to
pla it in order to reap, to breed and
fend cattle in order to have meat, to till
the ground in order to have crop3.
Times are orosperous or the reverse
according to the production of cultivat
ed crops. —Chicago Times.
The Glories of the Starlit Heavens.
If the eye could gain gradually in
power, until it attained
something like the range of (he great
gauging telesoopes of the llersffiiels,
how utterly would what we see now seem
lost in the inconceivable glories thus
gradually unfolded. Even the revela
tions of the telesoope, save as they ap
peal to the mind’s eye, would be as
nothing to the splendid scene revealed,
when within the spaces which now show
black between the familiar stars of our
constellations, thousands of brilliant
orbs would be revealed. The milky
luminosity of the Galaxy would be seen
aglow with millions of suns, its richer
portions blazing so resplendently that
no eye could bear to gaze long upon the
wondrous display. But with every in
crease of power more and more myr
iads of stars would break into view,
until at last the scene would be unbear
able in its splendor. The eye would seek
for darkness as for rest. The mind
would ask for a scene less oppressive in
the magnificence of its inner meaning;
for even as seen, wonderful though tne
display would be, the glorious scene
would scarce express the millionth part
of its real nature, as recognized by a
mind conscious that each point of light
was a sun like ours, each sun the cen
ter of a scheme of worlds such as that
globe on which we “live and move and
have our being.”
Who shall pretend to picture a scene
so glorious? If the electric light could
be applied to illumine fifty million lamps
over the surface of a black domed vault,
and those lamps were here gathered in j
rich clustering groups, there strewn)
more sparsely, after the way in which
the stars are spread over the vault of j
heaven, something like the grandeur of j
the scene which we have imagined would
be realized—but no human hands could j
every produce such an ‘exhibition of
celestial imagery. As for maps, it 13 I
obviously impossible by any maps which 1
Could be drawn, no matter* what their j
soale or plan, to present anything even !
approaching to a correct picture of the
heavenly host. .is no‘way even
of showing their numeric l wealth iu a
single picture.
It is not till we have learned to look
on all that the telescope reveals as in its
turn nothing, compared with the real
universe, that we have rightly learned
the lessons which the heavens teach, so
far, at least, as it Ues within- our feeble
[towers 10 suuty iiie * mt- tOwT7Li-.gr
the stars. The range of the puny in
struments man can fashion is no meas-J
tire, we may be well assured, of the uni- 1
verse as it is. The domain of telcscop-'
ically visible space, compared with which !
the whole range of the visible universe |
of stars seems but a point,, cm be in
turn but as a point compared witli those j
infinite realms of star-strewn space
which lie on every side of our universe,
beyond the range—millions of times!
further than the extremest scope—of the
instruments by which man has extended
the jiowers of visions given to him by
the Almighty. The finite—for after all, 1
infinite though it seems to us, the region
of space through which we can extend
our survey is but finite—can never boar j
any proportion to the infinite save that |
of infinite disproportion. All that wo j
can see is as nothing compared with that
which is; all we can know is as noth-j
ing; though our knowledge “grow from }
more to more,” seemingly without limit, j
In fine, we may say (as our gradually!
widening vision shows us the nothing-!
ness of what we have seen, of what we j
see, of what we can ever see), not, as
Laplace said: 11 The Known is Little ,”
but “The Known is Nothing;” not
“77te Unknown is Immense,''' but “The
Unknown is Infinite.”
Young Love’s Dream.
They are young married people and
have just gone to housekeeping, and the
neighbors who assemble at their front
windows to witness Hie harrowing sight
of their parting for me d# declare that
the following is a verbatim account ot
their conversation:
“Good-bye, Charlie; now be careful
the street cars don’t run off the track
with you and—kiss me, Charlie there
was something I wanted to tell you—
let me see. Was it hair-pins? No, 1
got them—w-h-a-t could it have been?”
“I’m due at the office, pet,” says
Charlie, bracing up and looking very
handsome and manly; “was it some
thing to eat?”
“ Why, of course it was; there isn’t a
bit of mashed potato in the house, noi
a mouthful of bread and butter. We
want half a yard of beefsteak—see; and
have it cut bias so it will be tender—
and a loaf of sweet-bread, Charlie, and
a strawberry short-cake, dear, and—
and anything else you think of, dear.”
“But, my little wife,” says C harlie,
looking very wise, “ these things must
all be made before we < au eat them.”
" Must they? oh, dear, and I never
learned to do fancy work! I never
crocheted a biscuit fit to eat, and 1
couldn’t paint a tomato to save my life.
Oh, Charlie, goto the ready-made stores,
do. there’s a darling!”
He did; and they had a picturesque
meal of lobster and strawberries with
baker’s rusk and lemonade, but Charlie
has written to his mother to come at
once and make them a long visit, they
are so delightfully situated they can
make it pleasant for her now, he says.-
Detroit Post and Tribune.
—Dr. ax ton, says the Philadelphia
Record, lias found that rabbits soon die
from an injection of human saliva, and
that the saliva of some races, notably
of negroes and residents of the tropics,
exhibits an extreme degree of viiii- 1
lence, a virulence that bears relation to
the amount of tobacco used by the indi
vidual,
TERMS- SI.OO per Annum sdrictly in Advance.
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Shallow men believe in luck; strong
men believe in cause and effect.
—You can have what you like in this
world, if you will but like what you
liave.
—Said a fond husband to liis wife:
“My ilear, 1 think I’ll buy you a little
dog.” “Oh, no!” she replied, “do
not! I prefer giving you all my atten
tions!” —Progress.
licro tics n man whose earthly nice Is run;
He rais' and the hammer of a fowling gun.
And Plow into the muzzle lust because
Ho wished to know if it was loaded—aW it
was.
—Somerville Journal.
—Mr. Editor: Will you please answer
who was “David’s wife’s mother?” and
you will greatly oblige a reader. —Liz-
zie. Certainly, with pleasure. David’s
wife’s mother was David’s mother-in
law.—Philadelphia News.
—An accordeon factory at Long Isl
and, N. Y., was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. The police are looking for
the incendiary. It is supposed the peo
ple want to present him with a valua
ble testimonial. —Norristown Herald.
—Gus De Smith called at a very fash
ionable house on Austin avenue a few
days ago and acted so queerly that
when that lady’s husband came home,
she said: “What is the matter with
young De Smith? He acted so strange
ly. i think there must be a screw
loose about him somewhere.” “Reck
on not. I saw him this morning, and
he was tight all over.” Texas Siftings.
—A store up-town lias a sign which
reads: “This is a tin-store.” An old
inebriate staggered in recently, and aft
er a good deal of fumbling in his pock
et, put five: cents on tli'e counter. “What
do you want?” asked the proprietor,
indignantly. “Wa-wa-want a-a d-d-d
--drinlri” “This is not a liquor saloon!”
said the proprietor, with awful empha
sis. “Wha-wha-what!” said the drunk
en man, astonished. “Why, Jo-Jo-
Jones said I could get a horn here!”—
N. Y. Tribune.
—A good adviser says: “ Next to the
love .of her husband, nothing so crowns
a woman’s life with honor as the devo
tion of a son to her. We never knew a
boy to turn out badly who began by fall
ing in love with his mother. Any man
may fall in love with a fresh-faced girl,
and the man who is gallant to the girl
may cruelly neglect the poor and weary
wife in after years. But the big boy
who is a lover of Jiis mother at middle
age is a true knight, who will love his
wire in The serc-iear am mm. i tu ,ud
in the daisied spring. There is nothing
so beautifully chivalrous as the love of a
big boy for his mother. Boys, think of
this.”
Fort Said.
Port Said where the European
Powers will probably land thei\- troops
if they resolve to protect the Suez Canal
against posiblc destruction by the re
bellious Egyptian army, twenty-three
years ago was merely a narrow strip of
sand which had been selected as the
starting point of the great canal bet'.z'ton
the Mediterranean and the lied Sea. M.
l)e J.esseps then predicted that some
day it would rival Alexandria. liis
prediction, it would seem, will be re
alized within a short time. The city
has grown and is growing with mar
vclous swiftness. It has still the neat
and prim Swiss look imparted to it nk
its birth by MM. Dussaud. It is 4 ,nA .
according to 011 c chronicler, “a C
dolls’ houses, with a church a
mosque and elmlet-looking booths aft<*
cafes that might have issued from a
Nuremberg toy-box. But here the in
nocence of Port Said stops. There is
nothing prim about it save its architec
ture; being a hot-bed of vice and crima
unstemmed and uncontrolled by the
Egyptian Xaptieli—a sort of Ratclift
highway without the Thames Police
Court, where a day or night rarely
passes without some mariner or other,
black or white, being openly' ‘knifed’ in
the ‘Grande Rue.’ Port Said never
sleeps. Attached to that uncomfortable,
expensive hostelry’, the Hotel des Pay’s
Bas, are a gambling-hell and a concert
room, the orchestra of which is furnished
by’ German young ladies imported
from Trieste. The arrival of an Indian
‘trooper a ‘P. amlO.,’ ora ‘Messageries’
from Saigon and Galle is the signal for
a tuning up of fiddles and violincellos.
But the fun waxes faster and more
furious when an Australian drops her
anchor in the basin. Then the young
Trieste amazons rub their ey’es and take
to their fiddlesticks and receive the new
comers with a sprightly waltz at what
ever hour of the night or morning it
may be, utterly regardless of the peace
of mind or body of the unlucky wight
who may be courting sleep on one of
the hard bed* of the Hotel des Pays
Bas.” — London WarUl.
—An Austin Sunday-school teacher
was examining liis class as to their Bib
lical knowledge. Who was it that be
trayed his master? First boy—“ Abr
aham betrayed his master.” “That’s
not right. Next.” Second boy “lt
was Judas Iscariot who betrayed his
master.” “ That was right.” A good
little boy looked reproachfully at the
teacher and said: “lam going to tell
my 111a you say it was right for Judas to
betray liis master. Texas Sifting*.
—Latest advices are to the effect that
nothing lias yet been heard from that
kitten which two bad boys of Toronto
tied by the tail to the tail of a kite and
sent sailing off into boundless space.
Kitty r dropped off when the kite had
reached an altitude of about 1,000 feet.
The country ean momentarily expect to
hear of a shower of live cats somewhere
down in Kentucky* —Chicago Herald.
NUMBER 35.