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THE LINCOLNTON NEWS
J. D. COLLEY & CO.,
YOL. I.
MACHINERY DEPOT.
W. J. POLLARD,
MANUFACTURER and MANUFACTURERS’ AGENT.
manufacturer of
W. J. Pollard’s Champion Cotton Gin
Feelers & Condensers,^ Smith’s Hand Power Cotton &!Hay Press,
General agent for Grain Threshers and Separators and Agricnltnral Imple¬
ments, Fairbanks & Co.’s Standard Scales, etc. Talbot & Sons’ Agricultural,
Portable and Stationary and Steam Engines and Boilers. Saw Mills, Grist
Mills, etc. C. & G. Cooper <fc Co.’s Traction Engines, Portable and Agricul¬
tural Engines, Watertown Agricnltnral, Portable and Stationary Steam En¬
gines, Saw Mills, etc. Goodall <fc Waters’ Wood Working Machinery. W. L.
Bradley’s Standard Fertilizers. The Dean Steam Pump. Kreible’s Vibrating
Cylinder Steam Engines. Otto’s Silent Gas Engines. Acme Pulverizing Har¬
row, Clod Crasher and Leveler.
MACHINERY OF ALL KINDS.
Belting, Packing, Brass Fittings, Iron Fittings, Iron Pipe, Rubber Hose and
everything that can be used on or about machinery. Cotton Mill Supplies a
s; ehnlly. Tools of all kinds, Hancock Inspirators, etc. Finally, I desire to
make the machine business a complete success, and will guarantee to furnish
everything wanted in that line on as reasonable terms and at as short notice
as any house in the country. My stock is the largest and most varied of any
house South. My connection with some of the largest manufactories in the
United States gives me superior advantages for furnishing the best and most
reliable work found anywhere. Be certain to call on
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731, 734 & 736 Reynolds Street,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
New Curtains & Carpets
FOR SPRING TRADE.
New Maddrass curtains—aesthetic.
New Embroidered tamboured laoe curtains.
NewNottingham lace curtains.
New Algerine gold shot curtains.
New double-faced canton flannel curtains.
New raw silk curtains and silk damask.
New upholstery goods of every quality.
New brass, ash, walnut and ebony cornice
poles.
llO 3 BOLLS BRU SSELS CARPETS
At 75 Cents Yard, Made and Laid.
Three-ply ingrain and cloths. cheap carpets.
Rags, mats, crumb
Cocoa, Canton and Napier mattings.
Floor, stair and table oil-cloths.
Wall papers aul room decorations.
Dado, fringe and room borders.
Hair-cloth, cane, moss.
GEORGE A. BAILIE’S
Masonic Building, 742 BroadL St.
JAMES HINES,
SUCCESSOR TO
P. H. NOROTN,
‘Washington - - Gra
—DEALB.C IN—
Groceries* aod Plantation Supplies.
Bagging and Ties, Meat and
Lard, Flour of the Best Grade,
rori, Plows, &c., Salt, Leather,
&c., Provisions of all Sorts.
The Reputation of the Houae shall be
Maintained. “ The Best Goods at the Lowest
Living Rates.”
At Mrs. N. Brum Clark’s
Ladie3 will find New and Stylish Neck
weab. Look at the Febnk Laces. They
must be seen to be appreciated.
The Latest Styles in Hats and Bonnets re¬
ceived weekly during the season.
Our Mourning Bonne's and Crepe Veils
are keep unsurpassed best in quality and price. Wo
New Ribbons—every English Crepes, newlisse Ruching,
ity. width, color and qual¬
Biack Silk Gloves, Mourning wear; Chil¬
dren’s Hosiery in excellent quality— some
New Styles; Corsets, Hoop Skirts, Tour
mures, Bridal Veiling and Gloves; all kinds
of kinds. Veiling, Brussel’s Nets; Nets of all
Cream. Great variety Embroidery of Laces— Black, White and
Bilk, Sewing Silk, Buttons Silk, best Knitting
in latest styles,
New Jewelry, Lusterless Jet Bracelets, Ear
■ rings, Pins, &c., Coin Silver Jewelry and
other styles entirely new; Material for Fancy j-c.
Work, Lace Pillow Shams, Splashes,
New HaiP Goods—pretty and becoming
styles.. “Polo”Capp. “Fez”Caps, "TamO’Shan
ter” Caps—in 1 he new colors for Children.
Hand-Knitted Goods for Infants, Infants’
Caps Fam'y in Lace, Goods Velvet is and Satin. Our Stock
of too varied to itemize.
We are prepared io furnish anything in
the Minus eky Ltne, and to fill ord ers
promptly. tended to Orders from received. the country at¬
as aoon as We never
Disappoint. Our friends in adjacent coun¬
ties will find it to their interest to send to us.
We wilfmake any purchases for them in the
cite free of commission.
We guarantee Prices and Quality.
810 Bkoad Stbebt is the place to obtain
Stylish Give Article., call. for a Lady’s Toilet.
ns a
THE AUGUSTA, ELBERTON ATSP CHXC46Q RAILROAD.
New extension fancy window cornices.
New ten-feet window shades, beautiful de¬
New signs.
seven-feet window shades, aesthetic pat¬
terns.
New six-feet shades, very pretty and veri
New cheap.
store shades, plain and fancy.
Buttons, Brooms, twine.
brushes, dusters, sweepers, eto.
Engravings, Piano chromos, frames, moldings.
and table covers, table mats, pictnrt
wire.
Competent upholsterers on hand to do al
work well and in season at
Murphey, Harmon $ Go.,
NCOLNTON, GA.,
TOMBSTONES, MONUMENTS
PUT UP TO LAST.
Work Guaranteed,
Refer to their work throughout Lincoln
county.
JPrices Very Low.
P. HANSBERGER,
.
-MANUFACTURER OF
CIGARS,
-AND DEALER IN—
Tobacco, Pipes and
Smokers’ Articles.
Cigarettes to the trade a specialty. Manu¬
factory on Ellis street. Fireworks by whole¬
sale.
706 Broad street, AUGUSTA, GA.
W. N. MERCIER,
COTTON FACTOR AND
General Common Merchant,
No. 3 Warren Block,
Augusta, Ga.
Will give personal and undivided atten¬
tion Liberal to the Cash Weighing Advances and made Selling of Consign Cotton
on
menta.
LINCOLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1883.
The Little White Hearse.
As tae little white hearse went glimmering by-.
The man on the coal Art jerked his lines,
And smutted the lid oi either eye,
And turned and stared at the business signs;
And the street-car driver stopped and beat
His hands on bis shoulders and gazed np street
Till his eye on the long track reached the sky_
As the little white heaise went glimmering by
As the little white hearse went glimmering by—
A stranger patted a ragged child
Iu the crowded walk, and she knew not why,
But he gave her a coin for the way she
smiled;
And a bootblack thrilled with a pleasure
strange
As a customer put back his change
With a kindly hand and a grateful sigh—
As the little white hearse went glimmering by.
As the little white hearse went glimmering by—
A man looked out of a window dim,
And his cheeas were wet and his heart was
dry—
For a dead child even were dear to him!
And he thought of his empty home aod said:
‘Loveless alive, and loveless dead—
Nor wife, nor child in earth or sky!"
As the little white hearse went glimmering by
—J. W. Riley.
_
MARIEN’S MISTAKE.
"I really think she’s quite above her
station,” said Miss Plantagenet, lan¬
guidly. “I always tell Mrs. Seamwell
to send her in to me when I go there
to get a dress fitted. She has such a
pretty way, don’t you know?—and
such lovely eyelashes, and she under¬
stands her business to perfection.”
“She is a beautiful girl,” said Mr
Elmwood, calmly. “And she has help¬
ed me wonderfully with those shy
children at the Sunday afternoon ser¬
vices. They seem to take to her by in¬
stinct.”
“Some people have sucb a way with
children,” said Miss Plantagenet.
“Now I never could endure the idea of
teaching until you came to take charge
of our church, dear Mr. Elmwood; then,
of course, everything was different.”
Mr. Elmwood smiled a little. If
Miss Plantagenet had been less lovely
and dimpled sitting there, with a blue¬
ribboned pug in her lap, and the color¬
ed lights from the stained glass win¬
dow making a sort of saint-like aureole
around her face, he might have set her
down for a fool; as it was, he mentally
characterized her as merely “a thought
less child.”
1; es, Marien Plantagenet was cer
tainly very lovely. — And the reduced
family of Plantagenet were reckoning
largely on this innocent, infantine
beauty, to build up their fortunes again
Mrs. Plantagenet, a liatchet-faced
widow of fifty, went around cutting
down the daily expenses, directing the
servants to make Irish-stews, hashes
and divers other mixtures out of the
scraps of cold meat instead of bestow¬
ing them on beggars, taking big coals
off the fire with a pair of tongs, and
peering into the ash-can to make sure
that no solitary cinder had been smug¬
unsifted into
She studied the butcher’s book, beat
down the baker’s account and econ¬
omized in everything, “in order,” as
she said, “to give Marien a good chance
to marry well!”
'1n the article of white-satin shoes,
cut-flowers and ball-dresses she was
compelled to loose her purse-strings,
groan as she might.
And when Mr. Elmwood, the nephew
and adopted son of a wealthy old bach¬
elor, came to assume the charge of the
nearest fashionable church, Mrs. Plan¬
tagenet rejoiced greatly.
S. « It’s all plain sailing, now,” she
thought. . “Eor no one can deny that
Marien is a beauty.”
“Mamma,” Miss Marien had said, “I
must have a new dress for Easter
Satin surah, or something of that sort,
you know, over my old olive-green vel¬
vet, with a hat of Roman hyacinths
and knots of white ribbon. I did
think my pearl silk would do, but it is
too tight, and I’ve worn it so often.”
“Nonsense!” said the Widow Plan¬
tagenet. “Where in the world do you
suppose it is to come from?”
“From the store, to-be-sure!” said
Marien, with a saucy toss of her head.
“And I promised Mr. Elmwood to send
a cross of lilies for the font. I must
be looking around for that!”
“My goodness me!” , groaned Mrs.
Plantagenet. “Do you know, child,
what they are asking for white lilies
now at the florists ? Twenty-five cents
each. And they’ll go up, of course, as
Easter approaches. They always do.”
“I couldn’t manage with less than a
dozen,” said Marien, meditatively. “For
the centre-piece, you know. I might
arrange jonquils, and hyacinths, and
white carnations, and those cheaper
spring flowers, around the base, with
plenty of climbing fern and rose-gera¬
nium leaves, and violets—if violets
aren’t too dear!”
“Well, we must contrive some way,”
said Mrs. Plantagenet, wearily.
Would this everlasting warfare of
ways and means never cease? Would
the time ever come when everybody
would be paid, and no army of clamor¬
| ous duns would longer besiege the
door?
Mrs. Plantagenet hoped for this
happy state of thing*, but it was very
much as she hoped for the mi’.lenium
-in a vague, indefinite sort of way.
“Mamma, I’ll tell you what!” said
Marien, starting from a reverie. “I
won’t say a word to old Seam well about
this dress. Her prices are so exhorbi
tant! I’ll go directly to little Eunice
Perry.”
“And who is Eunice Perry” said
Mrs. Plantagenet, opening her faded
blue eyes.
“Don’t you know ? I’m sure I must
have mentioned her a thousand times.
That little sewing-girl who fits me so
beautifully. She is Mrs. Seamwell’s
forewoman or something. I dare say I
can make a special bargain with her to
get me up a gown at somewhat short
of the regular price. Of course, the
profits will all be hers. Old Seamwell
wouldn’t like it if . she knew, but no¬
body is going to tell her. I’ll go there
to-morrow, the very first thing, before
she goes out. Because there are only
two days left to make it in, before the
early Lent services I can make a
grand effort for once, and afterwards
I’ll go to church. Mr. Elmwood likes
us to be devout.”
“It’s an excellent idea, my dear;’
said Mrs. Plantagenet, who caught
eagerly at everything that involved the
saving of money.
Early as Marien Plantagenet rose
from her downy pillows the next morn¬
ing, little Eunice Perry was earlier
still. The morning services in the
dimly-lighted church were very dear to
her innocent heart. They seemed to
shield and shelter her from all the
pricks and arrows of the day, and up
to this time she had not missed one.
She lighted the fire, put over the
coffee-pot for her old aunt’s breakfast,
tidied up the room, and before she
went out, sprinkled a little water
over the magnificent calla-lilies that
were unrolling their superb scrolls of
white velvet in the windows that front,
to the east
“There will be thirteen,'’ said she, to
herself, her cheeks flushing with natur¬
al pride. “Thirteen! I didn’t think
w hen I planted the roots in the fall
how splendidly they would grow and
thrive! Oh, you darlings, 1 .could kiss
you, if I wasn’t afraid of spoiling the
white purity of your hearts!”
There is no accounting for the freaks
0 f the flower world. These lilies had
blossomed royally out in the sunshine
of those low, three-story windows,
when, perhaps, beneath the arched
crystal roof of a steam-heated conserv¬
atory they would have put forth noth¬
but leaves.
Did they know how Eunice loved
them? Did they feel the Magnetic
current of her liquid hazel eyes every
time that she looked at them? Who
could answer? Not Eunice, certainly.
She had been gone sofRe time, when
Miss Plantagenet leisurely ascended
the stairs, turning up her aristocratic
little nose at the various sights, and /
sounds, and smells which are insepara¬
ble from a tenement-house. Only the
old aunt was in the room, moving
leisurely about as khe put away the re¬
mains of her frugal breakfast.
Marien opened the door, and came
in without the preliminary ceremony
of knocking. According to her plat¬
form, the poor had no feelings that it
was necessary to consult or regard.
“Is Miss Perry at home?” said she.
“Good gracious, what beautiful lilies!
Where did you buy them, my good
woman?”
014 Mrs. Perry smiled complacently.
“We didn’t buy them,” said she.
“Eunice has grown them herself. My
niece, miss!” with a little courtesy.
“How much are they ?” said Marien
greedily.
“They are not for sale,” said the old
aunt, with rather a frightened air.
“Oh, but I must have them!” said
Marien, smilingly arrogant. “They are
just precisely what I want. Such a
perfect shape—so unusually large! I
dare say she’ll sell them all for seventy
fivecents; for of course they can be of no
use to you here!” with a scornful glance
around the room. “Did yon say she
was out?”
“She has gone to church,” said Mrs.
Perry, who had instinctively approach,
ed a step or so nearer to the lilies.
“If you want to see her, she will be at
Mrs. Seamwell’s rooms, No.—Fifteenth
Street, at nine o’clock this morning.”
In her own mind Marien Plantagenet
abandoned the idea of the dress at
once. She could make her violet suit
do- or else the despised pearl-colored
silk, perhaps. And, after all, there
was scarcely time for the proper mak¬
ing up of an Easter costume; and
Sharke & Seabury were advertising
some very cheap ready-made suits from
Paris. But the lilies she must have!
“We are very old friends, Miss Perry
and I,” said Marien, turning with the
hard, polished smile to the old woman.
“And I’m quite sure that if she knew
I had taken a fancy to her lilies, she
would be glad to give them to me. J
am Miss Plantagenet, one of Mrs
Seamwell’s best customers, you know
i
and a word from me would dismiss any
of her workwomen. Here is a dollar
Of course the flowers aren’t worth that,
but I have a horror of any meanness.
And now if you’ll get me a piece of
paper to wrap them in I’ll cut the
flowers off at once.”
So, nolens volens, Miss Plantagenet
carried off poor Eunice’s white-souled
darlings in a piece of tissue paper,
leaving her crumpled dollar-bill on the
window-sill in its place.
"A capital morning's work,” said
Marien to herself.
On Saturday morning the exquisite
bunch of lilies arrived for the font,
with a card on which was scribbled the
prettiest of messages for the rector.
He looked at them with genuine ad¬
miration.
“I never saw lovlier lilies in my life,”
he said. And then, with a not unnat¬
ural sequence of ideas, he added to
himself: “I wonder why Eunice Perry
has not sent the flowers she promised ?”
Eunice came in to her prayers that
Easter Eve, pale and silent, with eye¬
lids just flushed, as if she had been
secretly crying, but she brought no
flower?
The rector perceived in an instant
that something was wrong.
She was stealing quietly away, when
he came out of the robing-room door
and intercepted her.
“Eunice,” said he, gently, separating
himself from the crowd, of young girls
who had come thither to help arrange
the chancel, font and rails, with leaf
and blossom for the morrow’s joyful
festivity, “don’t go! I want to speak
to you.”
“About the flowers?” said Eunice,
lifting her soft, shy eyes to his. “Oh,
Mr. Elmwood, I am so sorry. But—
they were taken away.”
“Taken away?” he repeated, with
surprise.
“Yes,” said Eunice. “Miss Planta
genet came to our house while I was
gone, and Carried them away, without
leave or permission. She left a dollar
for them. No money would have
bought them of me, after watching
the earliest buds swell into bloom.”
“Miss Plantagenet?” be repeated
slowly, as if in thought. “Are these
flowers yours, Eunice?”
He took the stately cross of calla
lilies from the center of the marble
font.
Eunice Perry clasped her hands.
“Yes,” she said; “they are mine. I
should know them anywhere.”
“I thought so,” said Mr. Elmwood,
drily. “She sent them here this morn¬
ing. It is the old story of the rich
man and the little ewe-lamb over
again, Eunice. But do not weep; the
sweetest lily that ever bloomed is not
worth your tears!”
lie walked home with her a part of
the way, and when they paused on the
street corner nearest her home, he
took ™ the little cold hand in his.
‘Eunice,” he said, “I wish I could
comfort you.”
“You have comforted me,” she utter
ed.
“If I could make your life easier!” lie
exclaimed, earnestly. “Eunice, do you
think that 1 could ? Sweet one, will
you let me try ? Will you be my wife ?’’
So he wooed his wife, and so he won
her, on Easter Eve. And, as he after¬
wards told her, he never knew how
much he loved her until he saw her
crying over those mute, magnificent
Easter lilies.
As for Marien Plantagenet, she gain¬
ed her lilies, but lost the man she
loved. The eallas were not such a bar¬
gain after all! For, if Marien had
ever cared for any one, it was for Mr
Elmwood. But she failed to perceive
that her mistake was rooted in her own
selfishness. People never see quite
straight. where their own follies are
concerned.
And Mrs. Plantagenet, poor soul, i a
as far away from her millenium as
ever!— Hellen Forrest Graces.
Apparent Wastefulness of Nature.
Life is sown broadcast, only to be
followed almost immediately by a de¬
struction nearly as sweeping. Nature
creates by the million, apparently that
she may destroy by the myriad. She
gives life one instant, only that she
may snatch it away the next. The
main difference is that, the higher we
ascend, the less lavish the creation, and
the less sweeping the destruction.
Thus, while probably but one fish in a
thousand reaches maturity, of every
1000 children born 604 attain adult
age. That is, Nature flings aside 999
out of every 1000 fishes as useless for
her purposes, and two out of every five
human beings_
During 1882 there were forty-one
theaters destroyed by fire. Of this
number seventeen were burned in the
United States, seven in England, five
in Russia, four in Germany, two in
Spain, two in France, and one each in
Belgium, Sweden, Bulgaria and
Roumania.
Waking Href Tea.
Dr. Ridges gives the following di
lections for preparing an article which
leally is what it purports to be and far
superior to any of the so-called extracts
if meat:
1. Take one pound of lean gravy beef
ind cut it into pieces as small as possl
ole. A sausage machine will accom¬
plished this most thoroughly and thus
Save half the time of step No. 5, while
it will enable you to extract all the
goodness of the meat more thoroughly.
2. Place the meat in a preserve ja r
with one salt-spoonful of salt, put the
jar in a saucepan sufficiently large to
dlow the lid to be placed on when the
jar is in it. j
3. Mix in a large jug equal quantities
(carefully measured) of boiling water
tnd cold water.
4. Put half a pint of this mixed water
into the jar which contains the meat,
and A, pour sufficient of the remainder }
into . , the outside ........ of the to
saucepan lar
reach , as high ... as the .. water . inside . ., the ..
jar, then ., put ... the lid on the saucepan
and place it on the hearth, not on the
fire, or on the hod. It will do no
harm to cover the saucepan with a
cloth or anything which will keep in
the heat.
5. The meat must remain in the jar
from three-quarters of an hour to two
hours, according to the fineness to
which it has been chopped, being
stirred every quarter of an hour. If
cut irfto pieces a little smaller than
dice one hour and a half will be suffi
cient. At the end of this time take
out of tile jar and strain through a
hair sieve or through musJin with
gentle pressure.
6. Place the red meat juice thus ob¬
tained in a small saucepan, and heat it
to boiling while you stir. It will turn
brown and curdle. Strain off the
solid flakes and rub these thoroughly
with a small teaspoonful of arrowroot
or corn flour, then boil these again five
minutes with the liquor which was
strained off, and set it on one side for
the present.
7. Now take the meat which was left
in the sieve at the end of step No. 5,
and put it into a saucepan with a quart
of boiling water, cover, and let it sim.
mer over a slow fire for three hours;
then allow it to boil and stniin imme
■
8. Now boil this strained liquor down
to a half a pint
9. Then mix this half pint with the
half pint left at the end of step No. 6,
and you will have one pint of strong
beef tea containing all the soluble por
tion of the meat .—Pharmaceutical
Record.
Treatment of Balky Horses.
A society for the prevention of cru
elty to animals recommends the fol
lowing rules for the treatment ot
balky horses:
1. Pat the horse upon the neck, ex
amine the harness carefully first on
one side and then on the other, speak
encouragingly while doing so, then
jump into the wagon and give the
word go; generally he will obey.
2. A teamster in Maine says he can
start the worst balky horse by taking
him out of the shafts and making him
go round in a circle. If the first
dance of this kind does not cure him
the second will be sure to do it.
3. To cure a balky horse simplj
place your hand over the horse’s nose
and shut off the wind till he wants to
go; then let him go.
4. The brains of horses seem to en¬
tertain but one idea at a time; thus
continued whipping only confirms his
stubborn resolve. If you can by any
means give him a new subject to think
of you will have no trouble in start¬
ing him. A simple remedy is to take
a couple of turns of stout twine
around the fore leg, just below the
knee, and tie in a bow knot. At the
first check he will go dancing off, and
after going a short distance you can
get out and remove the string, to pre
vent injury in your further drive.
A Wonderful Spring.
About two miles southwest of Big
Springs, Texas, the spring from which
the town derives its name is situated
At the foot of a large cliff will be found
a hole of perhaps 100 feet in circum¬
ference and about 20 feet in depth
The Texas and Pacific Company have
an engine at work pumping watei
from the spring all the time, but the
supply is almost inexhaustible. There
seems to be a subterranean river which
flows just beneath the spring, ana
from this the vast supply of water
comes. Several wagon loads of buffalo
bones have been removed from the
spring. The water flows in an aque¬
duct to the town, and is used by the
citizens of the place.
Idaho and Colorado are to be the
new iron states of the future. Ores
carrying fifty to ninety per cent, of
metal have been found in the fivst
state
PUBLISHERS.
NO. 35.
hvhorovs.
Clara had a vaccine scab
Upon her snow-white arm;
She warned her beau to that effect,
For fear he’d do it harm.
But when they came to part that mate
She ^ave a mighty grab,
And whispered ‘Hug me awlul tight,
And never mind the scab.”
Is taking ground against a man the
some thing as throwing mud at him?
In New Orleans it costs $2.07 to eat
a cucumber. The $2 is for the doctor,
A story writer has finished a sketch
called “Lifted Out of Herself.” Proba
bly the heroine went yachting and got
seasick.
“Now is the time to subscriber’ said
the editor ^ he led Ms wesdthy bride
to the marriage register and shoved a
pen into her trembling hand.
exnression that
the fire has gone °. out.” And it is said
,, that , . of large places
in some our you
can actually . „ * see the fire escape, ^
The bootblack who has been award¬
ed a verdict of $5000 for damages, re
ce i yed at I ulton ferry, New \ ork, la.-t
summer will soon shine in bettor soei
ety.
A Philadelpma man who visited the
signal service department white in
Washington says it reminded him of a
social party at home. All the people
were talking about the weather.
Rough on rising talent: Brown—
“Don’t think you are doing as well as
you were last year, old man.” Robin
son —“But I was not painting at all
last year.” Brown— sol
That's just it”
At an evening party where on
the guests preserved a strict silene
matter what might be the subjec
conversation, Theodore Hook at
advanced to him and said: “If
are P are a wise man; if you
ire P you are a fooL”
“When I 'grow up I’ll be a man,
won’t I?” asked a little boy of hi B
mother. “Yes, my son; but if you
want to be a man you must be indua.
trious at school and learn how to be¬
have yourself.” “Why, mamma, do
the lazy boys turn out to be women
when they grow up ?”
Annie was six years old and was
going to school with a sister of nine.
One afternoon, when school was near
its close ’ her imcle came b v P r °
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P osed to carr v them home - The eIder
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was a ^ * be bead ber c ^ ass aad
not ^ ea ' e > but Annie said: “All
right. Uncle Buck! I’ll go. I’m foot
and can’t get any footer.”
Enthusiastic professor of physics,
discussing the organic and inorganic
kingdoms: “Now, if I should shut my
eyes—so—and drop my head—so—and
should not move, you would say I was
a clod.! But I move, I leap, I run;
then what do you call me?” Voice
from the rear: “A clod-hopper!” Class
ig dismissed.
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California’s imported ostriches lay
eggs weighing 3 1-2 pounds each,
Among the early Christians Sunday
was called Dies Dominica, on account
A lump of coal weighing three tons
was recently mined at Trout Run,
Mercer Co > p enn
Nine thousand Marshal Niel roses
on one vine is the record for one year
made by a grower in Newport, R. I.
A watch made entirely of iron and
in perfect running order was exhib¬
ited in a Worcestershire (England)
fair recently
of the Savior’s appearance on that day
after his resurrection. The first civil
I< iw issued for the observance of the
da . v combined it with the seventh day
Sabbath and other festivals.
The Mechanical Engineer tells a
strange story of the effect produced on
a wrought-iron forging by a human
hair. The forging was in a powerful
cold press for finishing the forging
after it is shaped, It was put between
two hardened steel dies and subjected
to a pressure of 100 tons to the square
inch. A hair taken from the head of a
bystander was placed on the face of
the forging and the full pressure ap¬
plied. The result was that the hair
was driven into the forging and im¬
bedded in it, the hair itself remaining
uninjured, and being removed intact.
It is said that the gigantic statue of
Sermania to be placed at Xiederwald,
near the Rhine, is to contain forty-five
tons of metal. The blade of the
sword alone weighs one ton. On the
tip of one of the fingers of the left
hand of the figure is the imperial
crown of Germany, and the body is
clad in chain armor. A figure of the
Moselle is to stand opposite; another,
representing the Rhine, at the foot of
the statue, and each of those will be
eighty feet high. Difi-vent portions
of this bronze Colossus and its atten¬
dant groups are being cast in Berlin.
Dresden, Nuremburg and other places.