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The Old Oaken Bucket.
Science goes for tilings dear to as
without mercy. Everybody who has
IKed in the country an 1 who knows
tho old well tho “old oaken buck
et.” We all love it because we ha ye
read what the poet says about it, and
iu our school days we chose the poem
as cur “piece’' and spoke it. We
have quenched our thii&t he m the old
oaken bucket with its contents after
carefully looking into its dubious
debts fer “wigglers” or worms. We
hive balanced the rusty, dripping in
convenience on the curb anti submerg
ed our noses in the nectar we gulped.
We have spilled the crystal cn our
shiit front and profanedy growled as
we felt it tuckle down inside our col
lar. We have seen the leaking driz
zle. from a hole in the buckot, spoil
our five cent shine. We have longed
under these circumstances for a cheap
glas3 tumbler or a common tin dipp°r,
but in all our tabulations we never
thought the old oaken bucket an iron
oound death dealer, but it seeun that
it is, for a scientist tells us that it is a
compound, condensed mass of nitro
genous and pho6phatic hlthness, the
heme of the microbe and the all-pre
vailing bacteria.--[Martha’s ' v ’ine
yard Herald.
Cure for Biliousness. First, on get
ting up and going to bed drink plenty
of cold water. Eat for breakfast, un
til the bidous attack passes, a little
stale bread, say one slice, and a jbece
half as large as your hand of b< i'ed
lean beef or mutton. If the weather
.is warm, take instead a little cracked
' • .
wheat or oatmeal poridge.
For dinner take about tho same Go
without yonr supper.
Ex- rise free'y in the open atr, poo
ducing perspitatinn, once or twice a
day in ale v days your biliousness
is all goi e. This lesult will come ■ v
en though, the biboesne-s is one of tin
spring sort, and one with which you
h .vc. frorr year, been much afflicted
iierb drinks, bitter drink, lager
be: r, ale, whiskey, and a dozen oth'r
fj'iing medicines are simply barbatous
The age ol fishes Glows are com
in only said to live for a hundred yea: a
and. tin tie* are said to have even long
er life; but if Prof. Beard be right the
greatest animal longevity is possessed
by fishes. Piof- Baird says that a
Gal* has no maturity, there is nothing
to prevent it from living indefinitely
growing con’inually. Lie cites in ptoof
a pike, living n Russia, whose age
dates back to the fifteenth century. In
the royal aquatium at St. Petersburg
there are fish that have been there 140
years.
Homer’s Ghost.
One of our yount; men was out late
one night last week, and in coming
home met with an unearthly object on
the hill above tho Presbyterian
Cnutch, and as it 6remed to be ready
to stop and talk a few minutes the
young man ente.ed into conversation
with it, and a dismal click came from
its thioat. Ou being questioned as to
what was ths matter be replied:
“If you must know, 1 am a ghost,
and’’
At this moment tho young man was
sttuck with abject terror and amaze
rnent and started to run, but the ghost
waved its hard in an ftnpreceding man
ner add anotlnr click cune from its
throat. The young man stood riveted
to the spot, and as ibj ghost proceed
ed with its story be hecarm- filled with
interns-, and pi*y and the ghost related
the following Strange rtory, as ic limp
ed with much diOicul y towards a lev
el spot of ground with its l ones o*eak
ing and its joints popping.
“You kriuw I have been laying
down yonder in ti e old cemetery for a
lor.g number of years. I rested pci Cs
ably for a long time, bslrnd the*okl
Presbyterian Church with tho large
oaks swaying and singing in the bretz
es. Once a )ear the Prcsbyteiians
came over ibere where the pablic
square ; s now,and held a CBmpme*dng.
Tho singing and shouting of tho c< u
gregation was music in tny eat', and
I was La} py. But after awhile Dok
Hooper and CGI. Talk and a few othcis
among them tho inferior rOuH, got iu
to a big ru\v about putting up anew
court house here. This lasted for a
long time, and at la-t they began to
cat down the trees around here and to
build. This did not disturb me much
but when they the old church
away and 1 could no longer hear the
s nging I began to feel lonesome.”
Another click in the throat and the
ghost rcinaike
“I have not had a drink of watei in
tivtuty fivj years.”
The young man made another start
but another wave ol the hand s!opp and
him, and the gl.o:>t pruCee led.
“After awhile the old grave y.td
began to be much neglected, ami the
cattle came u and traicpb and mound
andgnzvd in the. cemetery and slept
•h re, and great h les Logan to sink
in the groan 1 A; last a flood of w a
ter came and filled up the place where
I lav, and I attempted to get up and
make my v.ay out of the dismal pi a e.
bn doing so tny fot tell into one oi
the old neglected graves and l brok *
my .high. I coaid do in belter an 1
ciawled down in o the hole ‘ini found
that a darky hoi be n l-a Tied there
1 -aid i'.ei unt 1 my thigh gr well,
and 'he darky tdd mo. that t.l e white
folks had quit burying there, end some
of our neigh: orS had he*n taken up
and moved to the new Presbyterian
grave yard ou the hill.
One ilav some boys in town got af
ter some chickens and they ran dowD
into our hole and we subsisted ou
them until now. I have started out
to find the new cemetery Can yon
tell me where it is? 1 think all my
old neighbors iu tho old cemetery have
concluded to leave for more le-pecl
able quaiters. Can you give me di
iections, please? But the young man
was so terrified that he ran for life
and, the ghost off into the old
field, saving “I will pick an opportu
nity to meet some of the littla boys
oDe of these rnghts. Maybe they will
tfll me? I alwayn make it my busi
ness to go everywhere of nights.”
Failure in tho Yam Trade; wiring
unsuccessful novel-.
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