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VOLUME IV.
Hail-roads.
Chickasaw Route,
MEMPHIS & GHARU3TO.iI R. #.
TWO PASSENGFR TRAINS DAILY
TO
MEM HA IS, TENN.
PASS. Ex>
Lv Chattanooga 830 a m 810 pp,
Stevenson 10 00 am 945 pm
Scottsboro 1035a m 10 22 > m
, £ unt f sv 'l |e 1205 pm 1155 pm
" eMtnr 125 pm 100 am
<™" c 12 00 n’n 2 10am
„ N olin j h T 5 31pm 521 am
Are m! Junction,... 727 p m 725 a m
Arr Memphis 9 30pm 945 am
Close contortion is made at Memphis'
with D ie Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad (or all points in
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
The time by thi line 'rom Chattanoo
ca to Memphis, Little Rock, and points
beyond, is five hoars quicker than by any
other line.
1 hrousili Passenger Coaches and Baggage
Cars from
'CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROOK
Without Change.
y ° Other lAne Offers these
-A (Ivantrtffes.
EMIGRANT tickets now selling at
the lowest rates.
For further information rail on or
•write to J. M. SUTTON.
Passencer Act., Chickasaw Route,
P O. Box 224. Chattonooga, Term.
AMaaiaGreat ISriTj
HTime Card,
Taking effect, January 15th, 1882.
SOUTH BOUND
No. 1 , : , ' I,K n
Arrive. Depart.
o 1 s 41
Morgnnville 879 do 900
Trenton ..9 '6 do 917
Rising Fawn ... 937 do 938
Attalla 12 20 do 12 35
Birmingham 255 do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 do 527
Meridian 10 00 do
Charles B. Wallace, B. Cot i.bran.
■Superintendent,. Gen’l Pass. Act.
Myille. Chattels & St, Louis F’y.
AHEAP OK ALL COMPETITORS.
fSKS? REMEMBER
ft A *t Ro,i<to Cincinnati. Tndi
• anapolis, Chicago, anil llie North, is via lY**!,.
villa.
The !'•-* it <•..!<> to S. Louis anil the West is
via MeKensia.
Tho Re.i U 4, n'e to West Temi ft eseo amt Kor •
tnekv. Mlnsis.ipi, Arkansas anil Teirs lointsi .
via HeKessla.
DON’T FOKGBT IT.
—By thi? Line you secure the—
MAXIMUM Comfor, Sntisfartion
UIMIUIIM of Expense. Anxiety.
5711 !11 m U Rolher, Falisrne.
Bo sure to buy your Detects over me
N. C. & St. L. R’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV*
ELER need not go amiss; few changes
a*-e necessary, and such as ate unavoida
ble are made in Union Depots.
Through Sleepers
—BETWEEN —
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou
Isville., Nashville and Sr. Louip, via Co
lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louis,
Union C y and St. Lou??, McKenzie and
Little Rick, where connection is made
with Through Sleepers to all Texas pionts.
Call on or address
A. B. Wrenn, Atlanta, Ga.
J, H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenr.
W. I'. Rogers, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenn.
W. L. Dani.ey, G. P. and T. A.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets
first and third Saturday nights of each
month. .7. W. Russey, W. M,
S. H. Thurman, Sec’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
a month cn Friday night, on or be’ore
the full moon.
W. U. Jacoway, W. M.
G. M. Crabtree, Sec’ty.
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 Mon
day of each month.
G. M. CpABTREE Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk
B. P- Majors, Sheriff,
Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver,
D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector,
Jo?t ph K er, Corv.ner,
Wm. Morrison, Surveyor.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, ISS-2.
TOPICS OF THE D.U.
And finally the Prince of Wales is
afflicted with gout.
The Pacific coast is filling up with
Italian immigrants.
October sis the fiftieth anniversary
of the birth of President Arthur.
Tiie Star Route trial occupied 103
days, and cost something like $200,000.
It is stated that a German has in
vented a gunpowder that water will not
affect.
Ben, r amin H. Hill expects to publish
his father’s speeches and letters, togeth
er with a biographical sketch, shortly.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat says
the South will pay the West $100,000,-
0 )0 less this year for food than in 1881.
An Indiana solioolma’am says it is not
only less trouble to rule the boys by love
but she thus manages to get the best ap
ples and nicest bonnets.
A St. Louis paper remarks that the
finances of Canada must be in good con
dition if the royal party can afford to
visit Niagara Falls and Chicago in close
succession.
The war in Egypt virtually ended
when the British took possession of
Cairo. England has wanted Egypt for a
century” and the coveted land has fallen
into her hands like a ripe apple.
George Francis Twain still lives,
which we learn by the statement that
seventeen boys were recently arrested in
New York for tormenting him while sit
ting in the park of evenings.
Lord Dufferin, Admiral Seymour,
Sir Garnet Wolseley aw l Beres
tord, who have ff Languished themselves
in the 15WP aan campaign, are all Kelts,
cuus England is under renewed obliga
tions to Ireland.
A gentleman writing from Georgia to
a friend in Washington, says that Gov
ernor Colquitt will probably succeed the
late Senator Hill to the United States
The election ox* will
take place at the next session of the
.Legislature to be held this fall.
A Massachusetts law makes the owner
of a house liable for treble any loss that
may bo sustained by gambling therein
with his consent. A saloon-keeper at
Lowell has just been compelled to pay
SI,BOO, the uionqy going to a man who
had lost only S6OO in playing poker on
the premises.
There is authority for each of the fol
lowing methods of spelling and pronun
ciation : Mo-Aawm-ed (short a,) Ma
hom-et (long a,) J/a-hom-et (short a.)
Properly speaking, Mahomet is the name
of the prophet, and Mohammed that of
liis successors, and therefore the faith
should only be known as Mahometanism.
Mb. Lot, wlio accompanies Herbert
Spencer on his visit to this country, told
a Buffalo Courier reporter that instead of
getting better Mr. Spencer has grown
worse. His trouble is in the nature of
insomnia. He is not able to sleep ex
cept by fits and starts. Night after
night he tosses about, and the day
comes only to find him more fatigued
than he retired.
Judge Hilton, who refused Banker
Seiglman entertainment at the Grand
Union Hotel, Saratoga, because the lat
ter was an Israelite, now offers to give
SIO,OOO to exiles fund for the benefit of
Russian Hebrew refugees. Several gifts
and subscriptions offered by Judge
Hilton to different Jewish charities have
already been refused. Dr. Brown, of
the Jewish Herald, thinks that the so
ciety for the relief of Hebrew exiles
should accept the gift.
New York Herald: Cetewayo, says
London Truth, objects to the barbarism
of taking different kinds of food on the
same plate, and insists upon having his
vegetables served separately. What
would he think of a beauty at a cele
brated watering place hotel, who had on
her plate a roast, two entrees, mashed
potatoes, succotash, and several sauces
and juices, and then, pointing her jew
eled finger at a dish of wine jelly, said
to the waiter, “Bring me some of that
liver?”
A North Carolina correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution writes : “1 sup
pose Morehead City is the only city iu
the world without a wheel in it. Ido
not think there is a wagon or a buggy
horse in the town, and very few in the
county. Everything is done in boats.
There is not a house in the county that
a boat can no? get within a mile of. Not
a doctor or a lawyer in the county owns
a horse—they practice in boats. The
people go to funerals in boats, and when
they arrest a man they carry him to jail
in a boat,”
“Faithfal to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.”
Mrs. Stowe, of San Francisco, ap
peared in trousers before the Social Sci
ence Sisterhood the other dag. The
Call says : “Her hair was cut short and
bound up with a narrow blue ribbon.
She wore a black velvet coat-tailed basque
and a short black silk plaited skirt. The
‘ line of beauty ’ was ooucealed by black
cassimere trousers covering the instep.
Her gaiters were of cloth, and on her
breast was a red silk badge stamped ‘S.
S. S.,’ and fastened with a diamond pin
and two artificial roses. She carried a
fan. ‘I have a double flannel on under
my dress and no corsets,’ she explained.
‘I never wore corsets in my life. ’ ”
A war which has probably cost Egypt
the agricultural production of one year,
and hundreds of millions besides, and
has put Great Britain to enormous ex
pense to send 30,000 men to Egypt, and
to gather transportaion from all the
world for their campaign, ended at the
first real touch of arms, with a victory
in which the heroic victorious army lost
thirty killed and 120 wounded. Eng
land will make much of it. And poor-
Egypt must pay for the destruction of
Alexandria, which was British work, and
for her conquest by the British; all this
out of her destroyed crops, and her poor
agricultural laborers. With the mili
tary prestige gained by this war, will
not Great Britain be looking about for
other countries to conquer? Will she
not be arrogant and dangerous? But
Great Britain has had military success
in several wars, in her recent pursuit of
an imperial policy, which has not been
profitable in the outcome, and it may be
so in this instance. After all this mili
tary glory, the thing passes to the realm
of diplomacy, and the other powers will
claim to have a finger in the pie of
Egypt. The outcome may be a sort of
joint arrangement which will be humil
iation to the conqueror, and will be
worse in the matters of national and
commercial security than that which ex
isted before the British destroyed it by
making war.
Old Strawberry Beds.
Strawberry vines that have been per
mitted to cover the ground and have
borne one good crop of fruit, will not
pay the labor of wewvtfugyout, ana
rule should be plowed under us soon as
lhe crop has been gathered; but if oue
has neglected to set anew bed the past
spring, and desires to grow enough for
family use, two or three rods of the old
bed may be saved, and made to furnish
another year what fruit is wanted for
home use.
One of the easiest and perhaps the
best way to clean out an old bed, is to
spade in the vines, leaving rows about
a foot in width and four feet apart. A
good dressing of manure should be
spaded in with the vines; and the rows
of vines left standing should he well
cleaned out, leaving neither weeds or
grass. Some believe it best to mow oft
the tops of the old vines, but as we have
never tried this method we cannot
speak of its advantage from experience;
but if the vines do just as well by so do
ing, it would be an improvement, be
cause it would lessen the labor of weed
ing out, which is the one great draw
back on continuing an old bed; not
only is it a very tedious task to weed it
out in the first place, but the weeding
must continue until cold weather, or
the grass will become so thick that it
will greatly lessen the crop the next
season. If the land be in good condi
tion, the space spaded up will be well
covered with vines before cold weather
sets in; if so, then next spring the old
vines may be spaded in to make paths
to stand in wjiile picking the fruit.
If one lias a strawberry bed away
from the garden, and it has been kept
clean of grass and weeds, it may be left
over another season without cleaning
out; and it will perhaps furnish half a
crop another season without expense,
except the use of the land; but if in the
garden, this should never be done, as it
tills the ground with weed seeds, which
will take many years to get out.
A strawberry bed in the garden
should under no circumstances be per
mitted to stand over the second year
without being kept as clean of weeds as
it is the first year. We know that the
temptation is great to let it stand,
hoping to have time to clean it out,
which in many eases uever comes. The
decision should be made within two
weeks after the crop is gathered; and if
it is decided to let it stand another year
the work of cleaning out should be
commenced at once. Massachusetts
Ploughman.
A Hardshell Parable.
There are other kinds of liquors than
those drank at bars, as an old Hardshell
minister once alluded to in this manner:
“There’s the likker of mallis that mauy
of you drinks to the drugs, but you’re
sure to sweeten it with the sugar of self
justification. There’s the likker of avris
that some keeps behind the curtain for
constant use, but they always has it well
mixt with the sweeten’ uv prudence and
ekonimy. There’s the likker of self-1 uv
that sum men drink by the gallon, but
they always puts in lots of the shugar of
take-keer-of-number-one. An’ lastly,
there’s the likker uv extorshun, which
man sweetins according to circum
stances.”
—“ Souring on the temperance law”
is what the lowa brewers call it when
they turn a brewery into a vinegar fac
tory.—Chicago Journal.
Prairie “Signs.”
About two miles from town he sud
denly checked his horse, gazed intently
on the ground and said: “ Some fellow
has lost his saddle-horse here this morn
ing.”
There was no advertisement on any
of the trees offering a reward for a lost
horse, and as there was no lost horse in
sight we were at a loss to understand
how, if a horso was lost, our friend
could know so much about it.
Th' doctor inquired; “How do you
know that a horse has been lost?”
“I see his tracks.”
“Are there not hundreds of horses
pasturing on the prairies, and how do
you know that this is not the track of
one of them?”
“Because he is shod, and the horses
herding on the prairies do not wear
shoes.”
“llow do you know that he is a
saddle-horse and lost?”
“ I see a rope track alongside his
trail; the horse has a saddle on, and the
rope hangs from the horn of the saddle.”
“But*why may he not be a horse that
seme one has ridden over this way this
morning, and ? >vliy do you insist that it
is lost?”
“ Because, if a man had been on his
back he would have ridden him on a
straight v , course, but this horse has
moved from side to side of the road as
he strolled along, and that is a plain
sign that he grazed as he went and that
lie had no rider.”
“After that it would not surprise me,”
Said the doctor, “if you were to tell us
the age of the horse, and the name of
the owner.”
“Well, that would not be very hard
to do. There are signs that have told
me the owner’s name, yud there are
other signs that, if i had time to exam
ine, would tell me his age. I know he
is one of old man Pendegrast’s horses.
Pendegrast has a large bunch of horses
down in the bottom, and an old nigger
down there does all his shoeing, and
shoes no other horses except his. So we
know h : s shoe track just the same as we
know his brand.”
After this conviction on circumstan
tial evidence it would not have seemed
extraordinary if the Remnant had given
us his opinion of the life and character
of our great-grandmothers, drawing his
conclusions from an examination ot'
some of our physical peculiarities.
It is wonderful how expert these men
become in reading what they call
“signs” on the prairie or in the woods.
No sigh escapes their practiced* eye; all
tvapka. trails and marks are
t * 1 hem'data on which conclu
sions. The peculiar r^rec ment of an
animal will indicate *4ne presence of
some other animal in the neighbor
hood. A broken limb of a tree, a
crushed weed, the debris around a
camp-fires the flight of a buzzard, and
olher such signs are to the cow-boy and
the frontiersman what the sign-boards
and advertisements are to people who
live in cities. 'Texas SifUnat.
Tlie Channel Tunnel.
Some interesting observations on the
Channel Tunnel have been communi
cated to lie French Academy of Sci
ences by M. Daubree. After referring
to the three stages of the work, the sci
entific researches, the preparatory op
erations, and the execution of the pro
ject, he points out that while the Rouen
chalk is water-bearing in its upper
strata it is only slightly so in its lower
beds. The French Association have dug
two wells at Sangatte, ea h about nine
ty-five yards deep, and have begun to
run two galleries from them toward
Shakespeare’s Cliff under the sea. In
one of these galleries, at a depth
of sixty seven-tenths yards below
the French hydrographic bench
mark, the Beaumont perforator
will be at work, and in the other the ma
chine of Mr. Brunton will be employed.
On the English side the under-channel
gallery begins at a depth of about thir
ty-two yards below the French hydro
graphic bench-mark, thanks to the drier
nature of the chalk near the surfa e,
and runs under the sea at a descending
slope of one in eighty. This gallery is
now nearly a mile long under high
water mark, and no water has entered
it as yet. The mass of the rock through
which the tunnel is bored •is quite dry,
but from time to time little tunnels of
water are met with issuing from cracks
in the rock. The cylindrical form of
bore adopted by Colonel Beaumont has
an advantage under these circumstan
ces, as it allows of the gallery being in
sulated from these tricklings by means
o*' an iron lining formed of rings having
a diameter equal to that of the gallery.
These rings are in live segments, bound
together by ribs, through which j ass
bolts which connect the segments to-
f ether, and each ring to the next ones.
/hen a water fissure is encountered,
one or more of these rings are plaoed
over it so as to m isk it completely. At
first four segments are put into position
and then the lifth or key is added. The
last joint is tightened by a band of thin
sheet iron inserted into it. When the
spring from the rock is tolerably strong
it is luted with a cement containing red
lead before the rings are placed over it
If the fissure is oblique a sort of tube
has to be built up of the rings until it is
masked, but half an hour serves to place
a ring into position. Owing to the slope
of the gallery the borers recently at
tained a depth of fifty-six yards below
the French bench-mark. At this point
the depth of low water is five and one
half yards, so that the thickness of
strata between the tunnel and the sea
botto m was there about fifty yards.
Scientific American.
—There are four nickel mines in the
I nited States, all of which are exceed
ingly profitable.
TERMS—SI.OO par Annum btrictly in Advance.
Why a Kerosene Lamp Bursts.
Girls, as well as boys, need to under
stand about kerosene explosions. A
great many fatal accidents happen from
trying to pour a little kerosene on the
fire to make it kindle better, also by
pouring oil into a lamp while it is light
ed. Most persons suppose that it is the
kerosene itself which explodes, and that
if they are very careful to keep the oil
itself from being touched by the fire or
the light there will be no danger. But
this is not so. If a can or a lamp is left
about half full of kerosene oil the oil
will dry up—that is, “evaporate”—a
little and will form, by mingling with
the air in the upper part, a very explo
sive gas. \ r ou cannot see this gas any
more than you can see air. But if it is
disturbed and driven out, and a blaze
reaches it, there will be a terrible explo
sion, although the blaze did not touch
the oil. There are several other liquids
used in houses and workshops which
will produce an explosive vapor in this
way. Benzine is oue; burning fluid is
another; and naphtha, alcohol, ether,
chloroform mav do the same thing.
In a New York workshop lately, thcr3
was a can of benzine, or gasoline, stand
ing on the lloor. A boy sixteen years
old lighted a cigarette, and threw the
burning match on the floor close to the
can. He did not dream there was any
danger, because the liquid was corked
up in the can. But there was a great
explosion, and he was badly hurt. This
seems very mysterious. The probabil
ity is that the can had been standing
there a good while and a good deal of
vapor had formed, some of which had
leaked out around the stopper and was
hanging in a sort of invisible cloud over
and around the can; and this cloud,
when the match struck it, exploded.
Suppose a girl tries to fill a kerosene
lamp without first blowing it out. Of
course the lamp is nearly empty' or she
would not care to fill it This empty
space is filled with a cloud of explosive
vapor arising from the oil in the lamp.
When she pushes the nozzle of the can
into the lamp at the top, and begins to
pour, the oil, running* into the lamp,
tills the empty spaee_and pushes the
cloud of explosive vapor the vapor
is obliged to pour out over the edges of
the lamp, at the top, into the room out
side. Of course it strikes against the
blazing wick which the girl is holding
down by one side. The blaze of the
wick sets the invisible cloud of vapor
afire, and there is an explosion which
ignites the oil and scatters it over her
clothes and over the furniture of the
room. This is the way in which a ker
o-sene lamp bursts. The same thing
may happen when a girl pours the on
ovur the fire in the range or stove, if
there is a cloud of explosive vapor in the
upper part of the can, or if the stove is
hot enough to vaporize quickly some of
the oil as it falls. Remember that it is
not the oil but the invisible vapor which
explodes. Taking care of oil will
not protect you. There is no safety ex
cept in the rule: Never pour oil on a
lighted fire or into a lighted lamp.—
CJirislia?i Union.
Tiie Oldest inhabitant.
Willirm Bassett, an aged negro living
in Camden, N. J., last May celebrated
his 126th birthday, and is without doubt
the “oldest inhabitant” of the new
world. Bassett was born in Delaware
in 1755, where his parents were slaves,
for many years owned by the Bayard
family. During the Revolution Bassett,
then a young man of tw r entv-one or
twenty-two, was working for a farmer
by the name of Wilson. While there
he married, and became the father of a
large family, each member of whom he
has outlived. Upon the death of his
wife Bassett married again. When the
war broke out in 1812 he became a body
servant to Col. Morris, of Jackson’s
army, whom he accompanied to the
front at New Orleans. He married his
thiid wife upon his return from the
South, and had byHher (mite a numerous
family, all but one of Wnom died prior
to the civil war. For the last eighteen
years he has been taken cartt of by his
children and grandchildren, spending
the time between Camden and Moores
town, to and from which places he has
traveled on foot many a time. The last
trip was made early in the fall of 1881.
His death is now looked for daily.
Chinese as Printers.
A Chinaman offers his services to the
publisher of a monthly paper in this
city, to set up all the forms of bis paper,
send him proofs of each article, and
make the corrections marked in the
proofs when returned, and convey the
forms to and from the press-room for
seventy-five cents a column. There are
forty-eight columns in the paper, each
column twenty and one half inches long
by two and one-quarter inches wide.
The offer was declined, whereupon the
Cliinaman said he was doing the same
work for two other periodical in the city.
They learned the business in Hong Kong
and Canton, papers are published
in the English tongue, and where China
men are drilled into the work on account
of the scarcity of white labor.— Fan
F'rancisco Bulletin.
—A correspondent says Mr. G. N.
Boyer, a Carillon tradesman, was going
to bathe in the Ottawa, near the old
canal, on Wednesday morning, and just
as he entered the water a huge fish
seized his foot. The water was red
deneil with blood, but with the assist
ance of bystanders the fish was made to
let go, and Mr. Boyer was, with some
difficulty, able to go home. In the even
ing the monster was caught with a less
interesting bait, and turns out, says the
correspondent, to be a muskaflonge,
weighing 47 1-2 younds. —Montreal Wit
ness.
NUMBER. 41.
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Love reckons hours for months, and
days for years, and every little absence
is an age.— Dry den.
—The proper way to check slander
is to despise it; attempt to overtake and
refute it, and it wi j outrun you. — George
Eliot.
—A thick com-husk is not a sign of a
hard winter, as some folks think. It
makes no difference to corn-husks what
the weather is. — Detroit Free. Press.
—A man lias been arrested in New
York for counterfeiting theater tickets.
His villainy has put him in “a box,” but
he sighs for the family circle. --Steuben
ville Herald.
—lt is said that the debt of the world
is over $23,000,000, but so long as it is
not in shape of a contested will the law
yers may gnash their teeth in vain.— ■
Detroit Free Press.
—“Yes, sir,” says the oldest resident,
“ the first trip I made from Lowell to
Boston was over the old canal, and I
worked my passage on the canal heat.”
“Worked your passage? How?” in
quired his audience. “I led the horse.”
solemnly remarked the ancient mariner.
—Fogg has got an idea at last, and he
says there’s millions in it, as it meets a
long-felt want. Iff is nothing less than
a revolving house, which is to turn upon
a pivot, so that the best rooms shall al
ways face the sun in winter and be in
the shade in summer Fogg has a great
head. — New Haven Register.
—A student of human nature was the
Yankee schoolin'am who undertook the
care of a school out West, where her
predecessor, a man, had been tossed
through the window by the rebellious
pupils. She got along splendidly; and,
when asked how she managed it. re
plied: “ Oh, easily enough. I thrashed
the little boys and mashed the big
ones.”
A coachman calls upon the doctor
to ask what can be the matter with
him. “My good man,” said the prince
of science, “ you’ve got dropsy—that’’
what ails you.” “Dropsy ! Whai s
that?” “ It’s a morbid collection of
lluid in the serous cavities within the
body—in your case, I take it hydroperi
toneum caused by cirrhosis of the liver,
but curable by paracentesis.” “ I
know, but what is it in English?"
“You are all full of water inside.”
“Water? Oh, that’s nonsense.” (Re
flects a moment.) “That scoundrel of
a saloon-keeper must have watered his
liquor, and yet he swore to me he
did n’t. ’’ Chicago Tunes.
Making Fees.
A case was before the English law
courts a few days ago which recalls.
Fanny Kemble’s experience with the
young lawyer who persisted in calling
upon her ami boring her ’o death for
no object that she could see until he
sent in his bill, charging for each visit
as a consultation; in fact, it was rather
worse than her case, since there does
not seem to have been any plea made
that the offender was about to get mar
ried and found furnishing a house very
expensive. The case was that of Warn
er vs. Boole, where the defendant, a
trustee and a solicitor, had been ordered
in the usual way to file an affidavit of
such documents as were in liis posses
sion affect'.ng the litigation. Acting up
on this order he made an immense affi
davit, which contained among other
things about sixty-six pages describing
2,275 letters that had passed between
the same parties, setting each one sepa
rately. The cost of preparing and copy
ing this immense affidavit was some
thing substantial so the plaintiff
moved that it should be taken oil'the
tile as being unnecessarily prolix and
expensive. Mr. Justice Kay, before
whom the ease was heard, decided that
the affidavit could only be looked upon as
an attempt to make costs, the long-es
tablished practice being to refer to the
letters in bundles and not set them out
separately, and so ordered the affidavit
to be taken off the file, and with it all
its surrounding costs out of the cause,
while the denfeilant, trustee and solicit
or was ordered to pay the costs of the
application personally, whereupon the
discomfited limb of the law retired in
disgust, doubtless recalling regretfully
the good old chancery days. —London
Laver.
Honest, But not Reliable.
Not long since a lady called on Mose
Schaumburg, to find out if a colored
woman, who had formerly been a servant
at his house, was honeßt, she having
given him as a reference.
“She vas honest, too honest to suit -
me, put she vas not reliable. ”
“ How in the world can that be?”
“Yell, vou day I leaves a five tollar
pill on de floor, and I dells Matildy to
sweep dot room out. I shoost vant to
see if she keep dot pill.”
“ Well, did she keep the bill?”
“No, she brings me dot pill pack.”
“That looks very much as if she
reliable. ”
“No she vas not reliable, for dot pill
vast counterfeit. I vas in hope she
dakes dot pill, and den I would never
have paid her dot twenty dollars I owed
her; put she’s fooled me py bringing me
dot pad pill pack, so I cannot say she
vas reliable, but maybe she vas honest."
—Texas Siftingst
Echoes of the dog show: “Isn’t he
just sweet?” “Oh, you dear, black
nosed old fellow, you.” “ Was its little
popsy wopsy hungry, was it?” “It was
a good little darling, then, so it was.”
Who wouldn’t be a dog? —New York
Commercial-Advertiser.