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THE BLACKSHEAR •>
VOL. VI.
There are to-day 3847 young men in
our American colleges preparing to preach
the Gospel in every laud under the sun.
The experiment of amalgamating the
Indians with the surrounding population
in Canada and inducing them to adopt a
settled life has been most successful in
Ontario, and in all cases the tribes show
an increase in numbers. There arc 124,
589 Indians in the Dominion.
Lake Victoria Nyanza, the source o
the Nile, according to Explorer Stanley's
latest observations, is a magnificent sheet
of water. A better idea of its size may
be gained by comparing its area, for ex
ample, with the State of South Carolina.
It covers nearly as many square miles.
A well-known Loudon journalist, real
izingthe fact that the ordinary profession!
in England are greatly overcrowded, is
having his eldest son educated to be a
cook. The boy has been trained by a fa
raous chef of the Grand Hotel, Paris, and
later served for three years to M. Char
pentier, chef of the Savoy Hotel, Lon
don.
The restriction ot suffrage in Brazil to
those who can read and write makes the
number of voters small, It is easier,
however, to enlarge than restrict; and
the New Orleans Times-Democrat thinks
that the making of the franchise depend
ent upon a certain measure of education
can hardly fail to stimulate the people to
the acquisition of learning.
The Inman steamship City of Paris,
which sailed from New York for Liver
pool recently, carried more than 900 pas
sengers, including those in the steerage.
The agents of the vessel said that this
was the largest number of passengers to
leave New A’ork on any one vessel. A
great many of the passengers were per
sons who went to England to spend the
holidays.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks Pri
vate Secretary Halford a very sensible re
former. At a meeting recently held in
the Washington Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church, Mr. Halford asked
aid for the street waifs. He said that he
had been a newsboy himself, and wanted
to do something to help and elevate the
boys. He did not believe in the theory that
'God permitted poverty and crime as a
sort pf grindstone for men, and so long
as the poorer classes remained with us he
thought it was our duty to aid them.
Florida will soon lie the greatest lemon
growing country in the world. Lemons
weighing a pound each are common in
Florida, and along the banks of C'aloo
sakatchie River there is a single tree
which bears 5000 lemons, many of which
weigh a pound each, But, except for
show, such large lemons are of little
value, as they are coarse-grained and
pulpy. The best lemons are grown on
poor soil; and for that reason they are
a very profitable crop. This country
consumes more lemons every year than
all other countries combined, aud the
consumption is constantly increasing.
A great outcry has been raised in the
Swiss Canton Tessin against the preval
ence there of bribery at elections. The
political workers are constantly racking
their brains to devise new means of buy
ing votes. The Mayor of a small city
near Locarno recently, while running for
re-election, invited every man who would
promise to vote for him to eat and drink
at hi« expense for three months at certain
specified taverns, The success of his
plan is shown by the fact that he was re
elected and that his bills at the taverns in
question amounted to $2800. Votes
bought in the old-fashioned way cost
from twenty cents to $5 each. Even tht
olertry are said to bribe electors right
and left.
_
A writer in a Boston paper proposes .
method of discovering the bodies ol
victims buried beneath the ruins of build
ings destroyed by fire which he thinks
-should be tested by all city authorities.
A good deal of time is lost, be says, under
the present, hap-hazard way of digging
for the dead, and be suggest* the use of
bloodhounds, which would unerringly
detect the presence of bodies by th e sens.
of smell. To enable th' dog to tread
over the hot ashes his feet are to be pro
reeled with a mixture of soot, vinegar
and borax. This plan, he says, is in use
in Paris, and has been proved effective.
That something of that kind is a prime
necessity is shown by our -‘fire-proof
buildings, and perhaps the bloodhound
will best supply the want.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1890.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
rHtNGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THU. WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Dowager Empress Augusta, King
Frederick’s widow, died at Berlin on
Tuesday.
A fire on the barge, George Kent, in
New York harbor, Thursday, destroyed
$3,000 worth of cotton.
The city building, of Lewiston, Me.,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. The
records are supposed to.be safe.
The body of the late empress of Brazil
was, on Tuesday, consigned to its final
resting place in the pantheon, at Lisbon.
A pile of timbqjjtoppled over on four
workmen in Chicago, 111., on Thursday,
and John Thompson and Andrew John
son were crushed to death.
During the past ten months the imports
of woolen goods amounted in value to
$47,167.423, against $44,010,890 during
the same months of 1889,
A Providence, R. I., dispatch to the
(!lobe says that inside of live hours, on
Thursday, twenty-one deaths were re
ported from grippe and pneumonia.
Pataka river, Indiana, has risen at an
alarming rate during the last few days.
A tract of country twenty miles long by
three to four miles wide, is inundated.
A telegram from Victoria mines, near
Trinidad, Col., says that a eave-in oc
curred in that mine Wednesday morning,
and that five men were buried.
Seven great flour mills, at Milwaukee,
Wis., formed a combination Thursday,
with $5,000,000 capital, and an annual
output of nearly a million and a half bar
rels of Hour.
An official decree has been promul
gated in Brazil proclaiming the separa
tion of church and state, guaranteeing
religious liberty ami equality; and eon
tinues the life stipends granted by tbe
monarchy.
Bids were opened at the treasury de
partment for stone and brick work on the
superstructure of the postoflicc at Charles
ton, S. C., on Wednesday, the lowest
being that of D. A. J. Sullivan, of
Charleston.
Dispatches from Zanzibar state there is
much excitement and conjecture there
over the constant arrivals of British men
of-war. The British fleet now in those
waters is said to be the largest ever as
sembled.
On Thursday morning fire was discov
ered in the West Indianapolis, Ind., hom
iny mills, and in an hour the immense
building, which covers a quarter of an
acre, was in ruins. 'The loss is $75,000.
The mill was one of the finest aud largest
in the country.
At Johnstown, Pa., three more bodies
were recovered on Friday, victims of the
great flood, two men und one woman.
One of them was identified by the cloth
ing as a German named Voeghtley. The
other two were so badly decomposed that
they could not be identified.
It is stated that the steel trade of this
country is to lie revolutionized by a
new process for making open than
hearth steel as cheap or cheaper made few
Bessemer steel. A test was a
days ago at Pittsburg, Pa., which was
airly satisfactory to those interested.
A London dispatch says: A ship laden
with petroleum at Sunderland took tire
Wednesday, and burning oil floating on
the tideway set tire to three other ships.
Great damage was done before the con
flagration could be checked, and one fire
man was drowned while fighting the
flames.
Tlie grip is spreading rapidly among
railroad employes at Galesburg, Ill. On
Thursday, the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy officials reported forty-two train
men ill with the disease. All of the
trainmaster's force are unable to work.
There are very few eases elsewhere in the
city.
Dr. Beall, a physician of Washington,
D. C., was arrested about two weeks ago,
charged with robbing a grave in the con
gressional cemetery. On Wednesday hit
case came up in the police court, and the
doctor was convicted. He was sentenced
to six months’ imprisonment in jail, and
required to pay a fine of $400.
Eighteen horses were shipped in a eai
via the Central railroad from Pennsylva
nia to Newark, N. J.. Thursday, and
when the car was opened Friday morning,
fifteen of the horses were found suffo
cated, only three of them being alive.
They had been shipped in an ordinary
freight car, and the lack of ventilation
killed them.
Mrs. Bouthworth, who shot Stephen
Pettus some time ago, and who has been
imprisoned on a charge of murder, died
in her cell in the tombs prison at New
York, on Tuesday. Stephen citizen Pettus of Brook- was
a rich and prominent said that he had cruelly
lyn. It is
wronged Mrs. Bouthworth, and she,
taking the law in her own hands, shot
him down on the streets.
A dispatch from Nebraska City, Neb.,
says: W. Simpson, ex-countv with treasurer, embez
has been arrested, charged
zling the funds of the county. Simpson
had completed his a four years' expiring sentence Tuesday, on a
similar charge, term other
when lie was arrested on two
counts. The total amount of Simpson's
embezzlement will never be known, but a
shortage of $88,000 was found.
Tbe unprecedentedly Burlington, low -tage la., of is water the
in the river at
wonder and chief topic among the people it is
along the Mississippi. At that {joint dur
eight inches lower than it has been
ing the -sixty sk*ion, years since and it white is still falling people
came to that
fast. The suction pipe of the waterworks
had to be sunk Thursday to prevent the
cutting off of the supply of water.
A special from Topeka says: W. L.
Eglcston, the Topeka man, who is en
deavoring to induce the negroes of South
Carolina to emigrate to Oklahoma, has
already there.' succeeded in sending Topeka, 800 negroes and
They are mostly from
have left during the past six months.
They have established a colony near and
Kingfisher, and are opening farms
building houses. Pacific road
A fast mail on the Union
was wrecked near Sidney, Neb., early
Thursday morning by a broh.cn rai.. Two
mail ears ami baggage cars were burned
and most of the mail and all of the bag
gage and express matter were destroyed.
The passengers tnauaged to get out of the
sleepers in their night clothes. Some of
them were bruised, but none seriously
hurt. The sleepers were badly burned.
Baggagemaster Dobbins was seriously in
jurod.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
There was an unusually small number
of members present when the House was
called to order ut noon on Tuesday, and
the prayer of the chaplain for divine pro
motion of the sick representatives was
listened to with unwonted interest.
On motion of Mr. Carlisle, of Ken
lucky, (acting under instructions from
the committee on rules) a resolution was
idopted providing for the appointment of
two additional members on the committee
an commerce.
The House committee on the world’s
fair bill took up for consideration the bill
introduced by Representative Adams, of
Illinois, which leaves a blank space for
the name of the location Of the fair and
referred it to a sub-committee, composed
of Mrs. Hitt, of Illinois, chairman;
Rockwell, of Massachusetts; Holmuu, of
Indiana; McCreary, of Kentucky) and
Chipman, of Michigan. It is understood
that the members of this committee are
divided as follows, in their preferences for
the location of the fair; Hitt and Chip
man, Chicago; Rockwell, New York;
Holman, Washington; McCreary, 8t.
Louis.
The deuth of Representative Kelly, of
Pennsylvania, removes from the house the
man who has served the longest contin
uous term, and was therefore known as
“the father of the house," Judge Kelly
has for many years sworu in the speaker
of each new congress. That duty now
will full upon Samuel J. Randall, who
will now be known as the father of the
house. Vice-President Morton lias ap
pointed Manderson, Senators Butler and Sherman, Colquitt Cameron, to
the repre
sent the senate nt the funeral of late
Representative Kelley.
NOTES.
The President, on Tuesday, nominated
Thomas J. Fuller as postmaster at Way
cross, Ga.
Charles W. Buckley was, on Tuesday,
appointed by the President as postmaster
of Montgomery, Ala.
Judge David J. Brewer was sworn in
as associate United justice of Tuesday, tho supreme and imme- court
of the States
diately took hjs seat upon the bench.
The President and Mrs. Harrison gave
their first state dinner Tuesday night in
honor of Vice-President and Mrs. Morton,
and members of the cabinet and their
wives. The floral decorations were un
usually elaborate and beautiful.
'I'lic discussion of the world’s fair bill
by the house committee on forward foreign affairs
has resulted in bringing suggested a propo- aid
sition which it is may in
the selection of a site for the fair by the
house. The committee has already de
cided that it will report a bill leaving
blank the name of the eity where the fair
shall be held, but it is feared that if it
goes into the house in that shape and
without some arrangement in advance to
govern the method of selection of a site,
no agreement can ever be reached.
The senate committee to select the site
for the quadra-centennial exposition,
on Friday, listened to the claims
of Washington city to be selected,
as presented by District-Commissioner
Douglas ; Secretary Anderson, promotion of
the national board of
of the three Americas exposition; Major
Powell, chief of the geologic survey:
Myron M. Parker, president of Washing- Felix
ton board of trade, and General'
Angus. of the Baltimore American.
A 8T. LOUI6 BLAZE.
electric and TELEGRAPH WIRES arb
crossed, with disastrous results.
.... . .
A St. Louis dispatch says: Shortly
before 7 o'clock Wednesday morning, a
fire started in the basement of the
Western Union telegraph building,
corner of Olive and Third streets,
and was completely gutted. The cause ol
the fire was a telegraph wire leading to
tbe basement of the building becoming
crossed with a broken electric wire!
Many operators made their escape.
in addition to the Western Union the
building was occupied by the Associated
Press, Daily Printing companr, Allen &
Ginter Cigarette company, Bradlev Print
ing Scroll company and one, or two other
offices. burned All the Western but active Union wires j
were out, efforts
munication. are being made to restore corn
They are receiving messages
at East St. Louis. The fire started in tlie i
basement and spreading upward so * !
quiekly that all the inmates of the opera- j
ting room had to fly for their lives and
rnanv of them bazt narrow escapes. :
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SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AIL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON'S and dixon’s line.
Win. Muldoon, Sullivan's trainer, gave
$200 bonds to appear on Governor Low
ry's requisition.
The contract for the stone and brick
work on the postoflicc building at Charles
ton, S. C., has been awarded.
The American fish company of Florida
have iniule arrangements for making Ala
eon, South. Ga., their distributing point for the
The Timet-Democrat pronounces the
gravel roads of New Orleans a success,
and far preferable to the shell roads which
were first tried.
A joint resolution was introduced in
the Virginia legislature, on Tuesday, re
questing of that the senators and representatives
state to support the bill for the
free coinage of silver.
A banquet was given by the real estate
exchange, nesday of Richmond, Vu., on Wed
u> llinton Helper, correspondent
af the New York Sun. Several speeches
were made in regard to the progress of
the south.
While four boys, between the ages of
six and eight years, were playing under
the edge of a sand bank in Jackson,
burying Tenn., on Tuesday, the bank caved in,
them under about ten feet of
Jtmil. They were dead when extricated.
Conductor Frank Layton, of the Ala
bama Great Southern railroad, was
knocked from his train by a wafer tank
tuff killed Friday night, lie was leaning
:mt of the door of the caboose too far as
the train passed the water tank, and was
JR the head. m
Another large glass factory will be
erected at Atlanta, Ga. Already most of
the stock has been taken, und it is only a
question of u few days when active work
will lie commenced on the erection of the
buildings. The concern is to be known
us tlie ‘GateCity Glass Company,’and the
capital stock, outside of the cost of the
rite, is $30,000, with the power to in
crease it to $200,000.
A preamble and resolutions were
adopted ting in the Virginia legislature set
forth that the monument to General
Robert E. Lee is nearing completion, that
sufficient funds have not breu^jqiiced to
pay for the same and culling upon citizens
of tho state to take measures in every
county to raise the necessary amount, R
is understood that about $8,000 will be
required for that purpose.
Mr. M. E. Born, a member of the state
executive committee of the Farmers’ Al
liance, at Raleigh, N. 0., was questioned
Thursday exodus. in regard to the effect of the
negro He says 50 per cent, of
the negroes in Lanier county have “ox
odusted” and that by March probably
75 per cent, will have gone, While
some of the large fanners are op
posed to this departure of the ne
jieoplc gro labor, the poorer classes of white
want all the negroes to leave. It.
[s a deep seated belief that such a separa
tion will prevent race troubles.
FALLING WALLS,
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AND A .NUM
BER OK OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
An appalling disnstef occurred in
Brooklyn, N. Y., Thursday morning.
The heavy winds of the night, before
shook the new Presbyterian church at 290
Throop avenue to its foundation, and at
4.30 Thursday morning, one of the frame "tills
fell with a crash on a three story
building adjoining, and brought with it
death and destruction. The ruined
building was tenanted by the Mott and
Purdy families. The following is a list of
those reported dead; David Purdy, aged
fourteen; Caroline I’urdv, aged sixteen;
May Purdy, aged eighteen; Mrs. Caroline
Mott, aged seventy-five; Sarah Mott,
aged forty-five. The injured are: Emma aged
J. Purdy, aged forty; Robert Poole,
thirty-six, and others who received only
slight injuries.
A NEW TOWN.
A HEAVY SALE OK LAND IN PIEDMONT,
ALABAMA.
A dispatch from Piedmont, a new Ala
bama town, says: The Piedmont Land
and Improvement company sold one hun
'Ired and twenty-five thousand dollars of
real estate on Monday, eastern capitalists
taking hundred thirty thousand. A bank of one
thousand dollars capital was or
and t' an if.ecl it will the same into (lay;stock business at was all taken, The
go once.
company has sold two hundred and sev
enty-ftoe in thousand dollars worth of prop
ertv three days. George O. Vanderbilt
am ? P art )'» there, of New Jersey and Philudeb
are
GERMANY MOURNS.
™ E ItE,c,ISTAf ’ A high tribute to
dowager empress alousta.
~
.. .. . of the _ reiehstag
tJ °l K ' n ‘ n g in
Benin Vu ednesday morning, the president
rmally announced the death of Dow
a e r ” butc r Empress Augusta, and paid a high
tr ? to }jer memory. The house
Adopted , a resolution requesting the presi
'I'^tto iluam, convey and then its sympathy adjourned to Emperor mark of i
> as a (
r, p’!* ;Ct - T ’ be emperor lias ordered that
* if ' court go into mourning for three
has ^ed the period for gen
mourning at six weeks. He has also j
°™**®d , that the theaters and other places
of amusement be closed for a week. ‘
AGAINST TOBACCO TRUSTS
riiE growers of Virginia and north
CAROLINA MRET IN CONVENTION.
The Farmers’ Alliance is justly proud and
of its defeat of the jute bagging trust
it has begun an active campaign against
the trust on cigarette tobacco. Delegates
from the twenty-five Carolina comities of Virginia bright
and North which grow
tobacco met Thursday morning nt Oxford,
to attend what "as otlicialh
called by the alliance an anti-cigarett*
trust convention. Ihe convention is n
-trong body. Captain Williamson, oi
Caswell county, N. <’., was chosen chair
man. The convention at once took uj
the subject of the trust, tint:
agreed nil to receive cigarette representatives manufacturer! of
the great
in the country. There appeared topic
nentatives of DukcvV Sons, Alien & (■ inter.
King and Goodwill, who made statement!
to the convention. A committee wilt
appointed to consider these statements
and report. Intense interest is nmni
tested by every tobacco grower in tliii
light against the hated trusts. This in
terest is felt by all, whether nlliunoemoi
or not.
A DIVIDEND DECLARED
BY T1IE DIRECTORS OF TIIE t.OUISYIM.B
AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD.
The directors of the Louisville and
Nashville company, at a meeting nt New
York, on Monday, declared a semi-an
nual dividend of three per cent, on the
stock of that company. 'The statement
for six months, ending December 31,
1880, shows; Gross earnings $0,004,9811,
an increase of $1,1107,675 over (lie corre
sponding period of the preceding year;
operating expenses $5,040,210, an increase
of $553,048; net earnings, $4,058,7 IT, an
increase of $844,055. 'Total income ap
plicable to dividends $1,810,303, an in
crease of $704,707. The amount charged
to the dividend just declared is $903,384,
leaving a surplus of operation* of six
months of $817,419.
ITS CHARTER FORFEITED.
A COMPANY I,OSES ITS FRANCHISE FOR
JOINING TIIE TRUST.
Judge Francisco, Wallace, in the superior court ut
Huu Oil., decided the case of
the American Sugar Refinery company.
The action was commenced by (lit! state
some time ago to compel a forfeiture of
charter on account of the company having
become u member of the sugar trust. The
court finds that by joining the trust, (lie
company abandoned all the purposes and
objects law California, for which it was chartered by the
of and 1ms, therefore, for
feited its corporate franchise. Judgment
for $5,000 is also rendered against t lie
company.
TO HONOR STANLEY.
THU AMERICANS IN I.ONDON TO BANQUET
HIM.
Henry M. Stanley has accepted an ittvi
tation to attend a Ini liquet to be given in
his honor by Americans in London.
The date of the banquet ewi not be
definitely has sent fixed, cable but dispatch Mr. Stanley stating
a
that he will probably lie in London about
tho middle of February. Mr. Lincoln, Jfcwill
American minister, will preside.
present to Htnnley an American flag and a
massive silver shield wrought with Afri
eun scenes.
A BUILDING FALLS
CRUSHING TO DEATH TIIICKK MHe.V lCRIMI
NAL tAUEI.ESSiSESS,
The north wall uf the machine shops
in the yard of the Long Island railroad
dojiot, in Long Island City, fell with a
loud crash Tuesday morning, burying
three men under several tons of brick.
The men wo.ro. dead when taken out,every
bone in tln-ir bodies having been broken.
The building Imd been sold for removal.
The accident was due to carcles- nes in
undermining the building, and the con
tractor for removal and Ids foreman luivt
been arrested on the coroner’s verdict,
charging them with manslaughter.
NEW YORK 8 MORTALITY.
IHE DEATH LIST of WEDNESDAY THE
LARGEST FOR YEARS.
Returns to the bureau of vital statistics
show that 250 deaths occurred in New
York city for the twenty-four hours eud
ing at noon Wednesday. Tlie like of this
has never been known in the history of
the department since the time of the
cholera. During four days of this week
839 New people have died within the city of
York. The morgue is crowded to
its utmost capacity. Reports from Belle
vue tkat hospital to the central office showed
ninety bodies, the great- it number
in the history of that institution, were
there awaiting removal.
MARCH OF THE GRIPPE.
THE PLAGUE NOW SPREADING THROUGH
OUT THE WEST.
Physicians admit that there are a Hom
ber of serious tas- s of la grippe in both
Llinton, Ind.. and Lyons, la . and many
light one*. La Grippe is also rapidly
spreading in Burlington. N-iriy all tbe
officials are sick: a number of prominent
physicians are unable to attend to their
professional duties and a number of oj>er
a tors in telegraph offices are suffering,
No fatalities have been reported. Influ
enza is commencing in earnest at Perue,
Ind.. over fifty cases being re-Dorted.
NO. 15.
AT LOW TIDE. ;
Shining anti even packed to north and to
south stretch the sands,
Tenderly, daintily smoothed hv the touch
of the outgoing tide;
Soft as a Iwilto's soft hair set in place by a
mother's hands,
Each tress of the late-left sea weed is
straightened and spread out wide.
Forth >r, far off are the breakers, a sudden
emerald wall
Lifted against the sky, and topped with a
Uamc-liko foam.
Joyous the white crest gleams, then crashing
down to its fall,
Creamy and spent, it sobs itself back to its
ocean home.
Wide are the pale blue skies that melt in the
infinite cloud
Where sea and sky are one on the far
horizon's verge;
Hut the lighthouse down nt the point stands
starkly, soli.! mul proud.
Its feet in a battling mist of breakers und
sands and surge.
.>11 the wide, vnguo sea of thought are sud
den gleams of light
Lifted high up to heaven, bright with a
new hope's sun,
\s \vn watch they waver and fall, uml noth
ing is left in sight,
Hut the battling mist of doubt where faith
and linfaith are oue.
Vet, steadfast in whirl mid wave, a tower of
riftless rock
Stands with its feet on a stone, crowned
with a quenchless light ;
Despite the doubts that darken and the force
of t he tempest’s shock,
It stands, a pillar of strength by day, and
a pillar of lire by night.
PITH and point.
When money talks, of course it talks
cents.
A standing Army must be a whole
corps at parade rest.
There is always a leek somewhere wheu
the onion crop is short.
The small boy with n bad cold is very
likely to be up to snuff.
“It’s the biggest, ocean race on record,”
quote Hmithwick. “Which one was
that?" ‘ ‘ Whales. ’’— Park.
Many a poor man somehow or other
manages to keep a pup, even though ho
knows he's going to the dogs.
“My bark flouts over the sea,” as the
dog sung when he was sitting on u pier,
baying at the moon .—lhmmiUe Breeze. ..
'The hen is u splendid example of per
severance., but she is an example you
can't always set. Terre Unite Express.
A morning paper says: “Laziness
grows on people.” This information will
surprise those persons who supposed that
it grew on trees.
Very naturally, there is one kind of
man that a dog hates to take between his
teeth, anil that is u man of grit.— Bur
Hni/hm Free 1‘rntx.
“’Its love that makes the world go round,”
To that your faith don’t pin,
For marriage ’Us, it has linen found,
That makes man’s ie iul to spin.
Boston Courier.
Aunt Ke/.iah— “Well, Kitty, so you're
to be mat lied.” Kitty “Yes, aunt,
Providence permitting; but wouldn’t it
be awful if that dress shouldn’t come?”—•
Time.
“I wonder how the redtncri fashioned
these queer flint arrow heads,” remarked
Mrs Huaggs. “Why, with the Indian
tile of course,” replied Hnaggs.— Pitts
Wi'jlt Chronicle.
iVlij 1900 is Not a Leap Year.
The following explanation will show
you why the year 1900 will not be counted
among leap years Tho year is 305 days
5 hours and 49 minutes long; eleven min
utes are taken every year to make the
year 3051 days long, and every fourth
year we have an extra day. This was
Julius C.-esar’s arrangement. You may
ask: “Where do these eleven minutes
wane from?” They come from tho fu
ture, and are paid by omitting leap year
every 100 years. But if leap year is
omitted regularly every 100 years, in the
course of 400 years it is found tlnit the
eleven minutes taken each year will not
only have been paid back, but that a
whole (lay will have lx-eii given up. Ho
Pope Gregory XIII., who improved on
C;esar’s calendar in 1582, decreed that
every eenturial year divisible by four
should be a leap year after all. Ho we
borrow eleven minutes each year, more
than paying our borrowings back by
omitting three leap years in three cen
turial years, and square matters by hav
ing a leap year in the fourth eenturial
year. Pope Gregory’s arrangement is
Ml exact and the borrowing and paying
back balanced so nicely, that we borrow
more than we pay back to the extent of
only one day in 3800 years.— St. Ixiuis
Republic.
A Sick Saiimon.
Samson, Handow, and the other show
prodigies, recall by their prowess, or at
least by their boastings, a story of Far
lat, the General of cavalry, who during
all his life - justly famed for his colos
sal strength. Farrat lay ill in bed in his
Id age. and had to send for the doctor.
as the latter was sitting at his bedside,
the General began to complain. how
• •Ah, doctor, you wouldn't believe
weak I have grown; all my strength has
left me; look here!” and with this he
seized with his right hand the leg of the
chair on which the doctor was sitting,
and slowly lifted both the chair and the
doctor into the air. “You see I find it
hard to do that now.”