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THET LINCOLNTON NEWS
J. E>. COLLEY & CO.,
VOL. I.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENTS.
LOBENZO SMITH &BR0.,
-OF
WASHINGTON, GA.,
ABE OFFERING FOB THE FALL TBADB
CincinnatiBuggies
AT $50 TO $75.
Columbus Buggies
. AT $100 TO $160.
Buggies and Carriages of other makes and
grades at various prices. Also
STUDEBAKER WAGONS
At $65 and $70.
TENNESSEE WAGONS
At $60 and $65
WEBSTER WAGONS
$60 to $76.
THREE 3-4 WAGONS
AT $53.
f &
•5
Own Make, at $40.
KEMP’S MANURE SPREADERS, GRAIN
DRILLS, ALBION SPRING TOOTH
HARROWS, WINDMILLS,
And a General Assortment of
Agricultural Implements
Also Single Harness from fO up. Double
Harness, nnd Rims. parts of Harness, Hubs, Spokes
ft Good BaggyaHarnessfor $60.
Our prices are guaranteed to b3 as low as'
any similar house in the South. Give us a
call. Correspondence solicited.
C. M. MAY,
WASHINGTON, GA.,
GROCER,
AND DEALER IN
The liberal patronage which I have ob¬
tained from the people of Wilkes and adjoin¬
ing counties, I intend to hold by continuing
to sell my goods at the very lowest prices,
and by fair dealing in all things. Also
C. M. MAY & CO.
Will carry on a General Mercantile business
alzDouble Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga.
MERCIER'S STORE
A First-Class Store in Every
‘Respect.
A full stock of General Merchandise always
on hand.
€- TV. Mercier.
T. H. REMSEN’S
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FINE WINES and WHISKIES.
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ESTABLISHED 1872.
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OF ALL SORTS.
AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF
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APPLE AND PEACH BRANDY, FINE
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WASHINGTON. GA.
AU6USTA ADVERTISEMENTS.
BOBT. H. MAT. A. B. GOODIEAB*
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GRAND EXHIBITION
OF
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And PLANTATION WAGONS.
ALL SIZES.
The largest and most complete assortment
of One and Two-Horse Vehicles ever shown
in this section. All first-class work, and will
be offered for the next sixty days at prices
way below their value and lower than can be
duplicated.
Do not lose this opportunity. On exami¬
nation this work will prove to you that it
cannot be purchased elsewhere at the prices
we offer.
Also, a large stock of Saddles, Bridles^
Harness, Skins, Umbrellas, Lap Robes, Blankets,
Calf Sole and Harness Leather, Rub¬
ber and Leather Belting, Trunks, Bags,
Hubs, Harness, Spokes, Wagon Reins, Axles, Trace Chains,
Cash Pbioes. Harness, etc., at Lowest
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(PATENTED.)
The safest, lightest and most easy ridin g
two-wheeled vehicle ever produced. Of all
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demonstrated these to be the best. The
Adjustable Balance is a most valuable f ea|
ture of our Road Carts. Buy no other. Price
$£ 0 .
N. B.—We warrant all the vehicles we sell.
Remember our prices are the lowest.
ROB’T H. MAY & CO.,
BROAD STREET,
Opposite Georgia R- R. Bank
AUGUSTA, GA.
OR.DEB YOUR
Saw Mills, Cane Mills
Grrist Mills,
And Plantation and Mill Machinery,
Engines and Boilers, Cotton Screws,
Shafting, Boxes, Pulleys, Hangers, Journal
Mill Gearing, Gudgeons,
Turbine Water Wheels,
Gin ton’s Gearing, Circular Judson’s Governors, Dies
Files, Belting Saws, Babbit Glimmers Metal and
Fittings,' and
and Brass Globe
nnd Check Valves and
Whistles,
Gnages, Iron and Brass Castings, Gin Ribs,
Iron Fronts, Balconies and Fence Rail- *
ing.
Geo. R. Lombard & Go.,
FOREST CITY
Foundry and Machine Works,
NEAR THE WATER TOWER,
1014 to 1026 Fenwick Street,
AUGUSTA, GA.
2 ^“Repairing promptly done at Lowest
prices.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GA.
MRS. W. M. THOMAS, - Propbietrkss
This hotel, so well known to the citizens of
Lincoln and adjoining counties, is located
in the center of the business porti ion of
Augusta. graph office Convenient to Postofflce, other indue, Tele¬
meats to the and public Depot, such and only first-class ce
as
hotels can afford,
LUSCOLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1882.
Give. Thanks.
Git« thanks! for the changeful seasons,
Forthe "the fruitage
That the summer blossoms bring.
Give thanks ! for the autumn harvest,
For the ripened fruit and grain.
Gi>e thanks ! for the winter season, „ j
ent e ays are short again.
Give thank?! for the harvest garnered; j
And we’ll gather roundthe fireside
With the dear ones we love best.
Give thanks ! that the Master knoweth
When the thirsty soil needs rain.
G t QkS t tOU Ch >i0eStbl035inS3
Are th d -- ° ° W th f pam
'
Areteli^at for°ood 31 ^ 9 ^^^ 1 * 1183
That no care or raiment'
Have the flowerets of the field.
Give thanks! for the midday sunshine,
For the glory of God’s light,
For the social hoar of evening,
For the silence of the night.
Give thanks! that the hand of friendship
Hath no sinful, selfish taint.
Give thanks ! that the earth is lovely;
Give thanks,' that each life is blest
With its trials or its blessings,
For He knoweth which fire best!
Mrs. Sardwell’s Tramp.
“Are you going to meeting with
me, ma?” asked Mr. Bardwell, laying
down his Sunday boots as he spoke,
reaching after the blacking brush.
“No, I guess not,” she answered
slowly. “ It wouldn’t do me no good,
and I should be worriting all the time,
for fear the turkey was burning or
the water done out of the vegetables.”
“ It will be a lonesome Thanksgiving
without Samuel,” he continued, pol¬
ishing vigorously on the rough
leather. ~
There was no reply. Ti e clock
ticked solemnly in the corner and the
old gray cat purred loudly in the rock
ing-chair. She was not unused to
filling domestic interludes with her
unchanging song.
“ A 1-o-n-c-some Thanksgiving!” he
repeated. “Sam was a smart young
chap, but high-strung. I’m most
afraid we were too harsh w'ith him,
Semantha. It is ten years since he
went off.”
“Ten years since you turned him out
of the house,” she answered, shortly.
“No, no. Don’t say that, Semantha.
Of course I was riled up about his
taking that butter money, though I
don’t believe the boy meant to steal
and perhaps I faulted him more than
I ought to, but I never meant to drive
him away. Well, well, it is too Lite
now. Like as not he is dead and
buried before this.”
Mrs. Bardwell went hastily into the
pantry, and there was a sound as of
some one sobbing; though, perhaps, it
might have been only the rustle of
the dry leaves upon the dead grass.
A little later a dim-eyed, sorrowful¬
faced man clambered into his rickctty
wagon and jolted uncomfortably down
the street.
Steadily the hands swept round the
dial of the clock in the old brown
house at the Four Corners, till both
pointers stood at twelve and the din
ner was an assured success. The
turkey was done to exactly the right
shade of golden brown and with the
plum-pudding and its rich sauce
flooded the kitchen with fragrant
odors. The cranberries, with their
perpeiual blush, were flanked by mince
and tart and custard pies, each a won
der of culinary art, but dwindling into
insignificance beside the mammoth
chicken pie that overshadowed them
all. A plate of snowy biscuits stood
upon the dresser. Some passing im¬
pulse had led Mrs. Bardwell to make
one of the “ dough men ” that little
Sammie used to delight in—a creature
with an impossible head and arms
that stood out like a sign-post;
but, ashamed of the* momentary
weakness, she had hidden it, as
soon as it was baked, on the high shelf
in the pantry. “ I’ll lay the table in
the sitting-room,” she soliloquized—
“it will seem more like Thanksgiving;
but I will put on the blue plates, be¬
cause they are easiest to wash.” She
drew out the old-fashioned cherry ta¬
ble and covered it with a spotless
cloth. The quaint blue earthenware,
with its pictures of tall young sliep
herdesses with their crooks, of ragged
boys chasing butterflies across the
meadow, and of strange birds, whose
anatomy would have astonished Audu¬
bon, were disposed upon'it; and as she
worked she sang, in a high, cracked
voice, her favorite tune of China:
Why do we mourn deper-ar-ting friends,
Or shake at Death's alarms ?
’Tie bu-ut the voice that Jesus sends,
To>oo ca-all them to-oo his arms,”
rolled forth in well-known quavers.
Just as she gave the finishing touches
to the table there came a knock at the
outside door. Opening it in a me.
chanieal way, Mrs. Bardwell saw a
young woman, in a faded calico dress,
with a little boy beside her, standing
on the threshold.
“Please, may we come in and rest a
asked little while and get voice. a drink of water ?” j
a pleasant |
hesitating, “Weil, yes,” absent-minded she answered, in a j
way. “ I
don’t, as a general thing, harbor
tramps, but seein’ it is Thanksgiving, 1
you can come in and stay awhile.” :
“Asa is hungry,” remarked the
child when, seated beside the fire, he
surveyed the good things in prepara
t ’ on -
“Hush! hush! Asa!” whispered his
mother, quickly.
“That is my husband’s name,” said
Bard well, peering curiously into
tlle b °y’s face.
Something she saw there—it may
have 1>een the in nocent look with
which childhood always wins its way
closest to our hearts, or it might have
been some fancied resemblance to the
boy lost ten years ago; but it sent her
into the pantry to take the dough-man
** ««» sMt -
Asa.
A moment later she heard the
rumble of wheels upon the frozen
ground, and, fearing lest her husband
should come in before the child had
finished eating it, she went to the door
and called to him that he had better
put out the horse at once, as by that
time dinner would be ready. After he
came in and had sat dow n near the
stove, he held cut his hand to the boy,
who, bribed by the promise of a red
apple, climbed into his lap. Stroking
the baid head softly with his dimpled
hands he asked, with childish wonder:
“What makes your head so funny ?
Did God forget b to } plant apv hair
-
x 1 ou can . have some of mine. . Can ,., the,
mamma v , %
“I had a little boy once about your
size,” began Mr. Bardwell. Then, at a
s, " nal from his ^ he put down
tb e. child , anrt f °liowed her mto * he
slt tmg-room, closing ihe-door behind
him -
“ Seeing they are here,” she said, in
a timid way, quite unusual for her,
“ hadn’t we better ask them to have
dinner with us ?’’
“ That’s just what I was a-thinking
myself,” he replied. “ We shan’t be
none tho poorer for it, I reckon.”
So the w r ayfarers received a cordial
tnvitatiou to sit at the hospitable
board.
As the woman took off her old,
weather-beaten hat, she gave it a fit
t,e shake in front of the window, as
dislodge some possible bit of
dust ; but the action must llave been
understood by some one outside, for
ln a m °ment ^ the door opened J and a
taU > bearded y° un S man entered,
“AVh—what?” began the old far
raer > in unconcealed surprise. But his
wife> with the mpther instinct which
is never quite dead in any woman,
dropped the dish of mashed potatoes
on the floor, as she cried out, “Oh!
Samuel.”
And so the whole story came out.
After his boyish folly, ten years before,
he had gone West, burning with re¬
sentment at his father’s last words—
“that their house was no home for a
thief.” He had been fortunate in at
mother whom he had left alone in the
old brown house at the Four Corners,
Bllt no re l d y came. The letter was
lost on the way and had never glad¬
dened the eyes of the sorrow
j in g couple, who
norance of Ins whereabouts. Day after
day, week after week, month after
month he waited, till at length he con
eluded that his parents were inflexible
in their determination to cast him off.
Life prospered with him. He married
the daughter of his employer and
tered into a business partnership with
him. Before the wedding he wrote
home again. Probably the clerks in
the dead letter office never guessed
with what a burden of love and hope
the missive was freighted. He had
named his little son Asa, after the dis
tant grandfather, and this last year
the longing to see the old homestead
had been so strong upon him that lie
had persuaded his wife to do a
in order to
'? a * n admittance into the house,
*-’ be events of the day had come to
pass as he had planned. “And the
Prodigal has come back, father,” he
said, as the old man took out a red
silk pocket-handkerchief under The
shallow pretense of a fold in the head.
But what need is there for me to toll
what followed ? Of course, the table
was reset with the best green-sprigged
china, and the little Asa had the seat
of honor, and was allowed to eat all
manner of unsuitable food. He liked
the turkey dressing so much that he
passed his plate the second time, say¬
ing modestly: “ Please give me some
more of the clothes.”— Independent.
There are over 600,000 acres of to¬
bacco fields in the United States. The
crop is valued at about 145,000,000,
Stories. !
Frog
The supposed reappearance from
time to time of the sea serpent is not
a more open subject for credulous ad
miration or scoffing ridicule, as the
case may be, than are the innumerable
Stories of frog 3 or toads said to have
been imprisoned for centuries, if not
for unnumbered ages, in cavities in
sandstone or in coal, or in the heart of
a tree, and living through their long
confinement seemingly in the enjoy
ment of excellent health. The cred
ulcus or incredulous respectively be
li,ve in or utterly reject all such
stories. Among the latest of these
remarkable accounts is one given in
Times of India, where we are told
that a live frog was recently exhumed
from among some Buddhist relics
which had lain buried for seventeen
hundred years near a place called Bas
sein. *
Supposed cases of toads being
found alive in the heart of living
trees, or in sandstone, or coal, have
be en very numerous, and it is needless
to point out that a fcog only seventeen
centuries old must feel that it is a
mere raw you th in the presence of a
toad wh ieh has watched the formation
o£ the coal beds> UnfortU natelv it
can rarely be possible to get scientific
evidence of a case of this kind
There may be no quest ion that a toad
has beea found ia the center o{ a
solid bloek of stonQj but the stone wag
broken before it wa3 foimd> and ^
there wag no crevice leadi ^ to ite P
sition ^ be bv J fittl
°
the „ pieces carefuUy . „ together , .. again.
«,. This • , has generally . become impossible . ...
before any scientific man hears of the
case . In 1825 Dr> Buckland made a
j series of experiments to test the pos
sibil , ties o£ toads surviving lon
periods of confinement without food
or air He made twelve eells in a
large block of porous limestone and
put a toad into each, covering the
j mouth of a cell with a plate of glass
j carefully cemented on. The block was
then buried three feet deep in his gar
den. After more than a year it was
dug out and examined, when most of
the toads were found still alive. Some
| were emaciated, but in two of the
ce p 3 £be pr i SO nera had actually grown
heavier. In one of these the glass
j plate was found to be cracked, so that
minute insects might have entered,
but the other cell was quite sound, and
yet the toad had gained a quarter of
an ounce in weight.
To explain this Dr. Buckland is
driven to the hypothesis that there
must have been some flaw in the
cement with which the glass was fast¬
ened. All the surviving toads were
buried again, and before the end of the
second year they were all dead. Twelve
toads were also immured in much
smaller cells in a block of hard sand
stone, not pervious to air or water,
and they all perished within one year.
Dr. Buckland was evidently not quite
satisfied with the result of these ex
periments, and indeed they prove a
1 good deal in favor of
the toad’s pow
ers, while thev disprove nothing. They
the same thing for a century under
better conditions. For Dr. Buckland
admits .that he had caught the toads
two months before . lie experimented 1 .
-
with ... them, and that , . they were in a
™ eageF or Un Uealth >' condltlon ; and
there is a point f even more important
which he does not touch on, namely,
that they may not have been at that
particular time disposed to torpor.
There must be a very great difference
between the state of an animal impris
oned against its will, and that of one
prompted by its own instincts to seek
retirement. A bear in a cage
dying for want of food does not
i prove that bears never hibernate,
And Dr. Buckland himself men
tions casually that when he examined
the toads, as he frequently did, during
the second year, he found them always
wide-awake with their eyes open. This
alone seems to deprive his experiments
of all the value as evidence of the
kind required, for the very possibility
of any animal surviving long without
food depends upon its being in such a
state of torpor^that all vital functions
are entirely or almost entirely sus¬
pended. In that state the need for
food is reduced almost to zero, and,
considering a toad has been known to
live an active fife in captivity for forty
years, and then did not wear out, but
met a violent death, they must be
made of good wearing material, and
tliere may be no assignable limit to
the time for which one, nyoperly put
to sleep and hermetically sealed, will
“keep.” I do not know how long
frogs five.
The Mormon recruits that have ar¬
rived in New York from the Old World
during the past year number more
than 4,000,
* Myths About Plants.
With cotton a strange legend is
linked in Brazil. The first of men was
a demigod. He had a son of ^liom
be wa nted to get rid • - so he formed
311 arma diUo and b e ried it in the
S round alfbut its tail. Then he sent
his S0Q to £etch it; - No sooner had the
youth seized the armadillo by the tail
thaa il Ponged into the bowels of the
eartb ’ drugging him after it. On
emerging from the lower world the
y° un g man told his father there existed
down bclow men “d women who
m *ght cultivate the soil if they were
brou g bt to the surface. The demigod
created the cotton tree and formed out
of il a cord with which he hauled up
some of the inhabitants of the sub
terranean region. The first specimens
of the race were small and ugly; but
they improved as the extracting process
went on. Unfortunately, the cotton
ro P e broke before the best types were
br0U S ht U P—a fact which accounts,
3a T the Brazilians, for the rarity of
hull,an beaut - v u P on eartb - To find it
in its perfection one must go down be
low ’ A more P 0 ^ 0 belief is that of
501116 bereaved German mothers who,
U P to St. John’s day, abstain from
eating strawberries, for they think
that at that time little children who
have died recently go up to heaven
concealed in those fruits. It seems
strange that the rush, which ought to
be considered the friend of man,
should have acquired in some lands a
diabolical character. According to a
little Russian legend, the dead ha3
taken up his abode in it. Having met
the Lord one day, the devil asked for
oats and buckwheat as his reward for
having taken part in the creation of
the world. The request was granted,
whereupon the devil began to dance
for joy. The wolf came up and sud¬
denly asked the meaning of this friv¬
olity. In his confusion the devil for¬
got what had^ been given to him, and
replied that he was daneing for joy at
having received the rush and the
thistle; which P lants he stm ad *
heres.
The creation of the tea plant is due,
says a Japanese legend, of which the
Chinese appear to be unaware, to the
piety of a Buddhist priest who visited
China about A. D. 519. order to
dedicate his soul entirely to God he
avow never to go to sleep, but to medi¬
tate uninterruptedly day and night.
After some years of watching he
yielded to a severe, attack of sumn<*
lence and went fast asleep. On awaken¬
ing he became so remorseful that, in
order to render any similar weakness
impossible in future, he cut off both
his eyelids and threw them on the
ground. Returning to the spot next
day he discovered that each eyelid had
become a shrub. From these two
shrubs is descended the great family of
tea plants. The story throws some
light on the fact that tea-drinking
often prevents the fall of “ tired eye¬
lids upon tired eyes.”
By way of conclusion we may men¬
tion one of the stories connected with
tobacco. The tobacco plant fully de
devil’s hero, and in Little Russia the
following legend is current as to its
origin. Certain virtuous Little Rus
• • . danger , of ... being
sian carriers were in £
led <ast b a heatUen woman .
voice from heaven ordered that she
should be put to death. The carriers
obeyed and buried her alive. Her
husband planted a twig above her re
mains; it grew and grew and became
a large-leaved plant. As the Chris
tian carriers and the heathen widower
passed that way, they say that lie broke
off some of the leaves, filled a pipe with
them and smoked it. They followed
his example, and smoked what has
since been known as tobacco. So de
lighted were they that they went on
smoking without ceasing; until at
length the smoke gave way one day to
fire, which burned them all up.— Lon¬
don Atheneum.
i Boy’s Prayer.
Little 'Willie L—, aged three years,
had the misfortune to lose his father a
few weeks ago; the other evening,
about twilight, he saw his widowed
mother weeping over her great be¬
reavement. Little 'Willie ran out into
the front yard and climbed up on the
gate post, and turned his cherub face
up to the stars, just beginning to peep
out:
“ God ! God!” he cried, all his little
earnest soul in his words and his eyes,
“send my papa back from heaven!
Send him right away! We want him
now! Send him right quick, for
mamma is crying 1”
But, alas ! for that widow and tha
cherub boy, although the prayer came
from as sinless a heart as ever be^t on
earth, it can never be answered.—
Memphis Weekly.
PUBLISHERS.
NO. 10.
The Divining Usd..
The London Times publishes several
letters on the working of the divining
rod. Mr. T. Sherwood Smith, F. S. S.,
writing from Bristol, says that some
years ago he was carrying on mining
operations in Somersetshire and had a
workman who professed the power of
using the “twig.” He tested him and
found that the twig certainly turned
up sharply between his hands, while
in his own it made no sign. On an¬
other occasion one of Mr. Smith’s
men was pointed out as possessed of
the power. A number of hats were
p i aC ed in a row, and under one of
them (known only to Mr. Smith and
two scientific friends with' him)
a number of copper coins. • The
man was called in, and, by means of
the twig, identified the right hat. The
experiment was several times re¬
peated, and in most cases with success.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Cocks,*in a
letter written from Montreux, says
that at Cannes and other places on the
Riviera certain Italians constantly
travel aboutt the country for the pur¬
pose of finding concealed springs to sup¬
ply houses in course of building. In
place of the usual hazel twig in use in .
Cornwall the Italians use a twig of
olive. When water is indicated the
loop gives slight jerks upward, ami
eventually becomes upright and turns
tow ard the breast of the person opera¬
ting. Cocks gives an instance of the suc¬
cessful employment of the t wigjmdsays
that he himself has often tried to trace
a drain as a mere matter of Ca rS
with invariable He
doubt whatever of its truth. On the
other hand Mr. T. K. Taplin, of Mil¬
verton, Somersetshire, writing with ref
erenee to some _
said to have been made with Hie
in a field near 'Westbury-sub-.
says that the field in question,
generally surface dry, had abun
of water below, and he had li S
doubt that the spring saidtu betappeii
could have been tapped at say part of
the field or even in the adjoining " ”
The men, no doubt, knew very IT '
that they were practicing a joke,
laboring men born and bred in ai
trict, he adds, know well the nat
the land and where water is to
obtained. Captain
mg from Paris, says thalT the X
Paramelle, who died four years
of -
possessed the power finding wt ^
and through it conferred great ben
in various parts of the cqpntry. He
wrote a book on “ The Art of Discov¬
ering Springs,” in which he describes
the merit^ of the divining rod. The
Abbe says the rod turns spontaneously
in the hands of certain individuals en¬
dowed with a temperament of & nature
to produce the effect. The movement
is determined by fluids which escape
our perception, such as electricity,
magnetism, etc. The rod turns indif¬
ferently over places where there is not
the least thread of water as over those
where water is found, and consY
quently it cannot be depended upon
Some Small Things.
The shortest verse in the Bible is
the thirty-fifth verse of the eleventh
chapter of St. John.
The mule has the reputation of hav¬
ing the smallest and daintiest foot foi^
its size of all hoofed animals.
Watches made as early as 1700 were
so delicately constructed by hand and
so small as to easily fit on the top of a
lead pencil.
It is worthy of remark that a mos¬
quito has concealed in its bill six com
l de *- e surgical instruments, each so
ndmde as be indiscernible to the
na ked eye.
The sting of a honey-bee, when com¬
pared with the point of a fine needle
under a powerful magnifying glass, is
scarcely discernible. The point of the
needle seemed to be about half an inch
in breadth,
A very curious little toy is the mi¬
croscope containing the Lord’s Prayer.
The whole prayer is on a piece of glass
not larger than the head of a pin, yet
it is magnified to such an extent that
it can be read easily by looking through
. the microscope.
The smallest hogs ln the world are
quartered in the Zoological gardens in
London. They came from Australia,
and are known as the “ pigmy hogs.”
They are well formed, are frisky, good,
natured and make excellent pets.
They are about the size of a wild hare.
An ingenious mechanic of James¬
town, N Y., has constructed a perfect
locomotive, said to be the smallest in
the world. The engine is only eight
and a half inches long, with a tender
twelve inches long. The pomps
throw a drop of water per stroke. As
many as 585 screws were required to
put the parts together. The engine
itself weighs a pound and a half and
the tender two pounds a half ounces.
The mechanic was at work upon the
locomotive at intervals for eight years,