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THE MAIDEN’S LAM '
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(AFTER “LOCKSLET
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Comrades, leave me lie
on many tlunv -•■e a little, while I arose
Leave me here »n<] when
the ban ! , yon want me, sound
.o’g dulcet strings.
Let 1 ^>e cast my roving optic down the vista
of
tho Past,
Meditate on all my follies, from my first act to.
my last.
-All the lint of weary blunders had their origin
and start
'Yrom the day I first determined I would givo
mys elf to Art—
Prom the day I perpetrated Tm 'umbrella-stand
mnch garnished,
’Twas a drain-pipe with scrap pictures neatly
pasted on and varnished.
But this kind of decoration speedily went out
of style,
8o I turned me round and painted daisies on a
sky-blue tile.
Then a red-legged stork I painted, ’mid some
rushes, on a panel;
Next I made a lovely study of some cat-tails
worked on flannel.
■“Unconvcntional and worthless” wero tlicso
efforts, said the croakers,
■So 4 did some gorgeous sunflowers, just ns
straight and stiff as pokers.
Then we girls all took to sketching, in a way
off-hand and easy,
With strange streaks and freaks of color; this
we cnlled “so Japanescy.”
I have “etched” a dozen doylcys, painted four
depressing placqnes.
Covered with Kate Greenaway children menu
pasteboards by the stacks.
Done “dawn-work,” made ribbon roses, bur¬
nished piaster things with gilt,
Sketched papa's face on the tea-pot, and have
made a “crazy quilt.”
Then, as if this list of objects didn’t “write mo
down an ass,”
1 must needs with all tho others madly try to
hammer brass.
Comrades, I am very weary, and my heart is
sorely vexed.
Is this game of Art 'most finished ? If it isn’t,
what comes next ?
Must I try to do wood-carving ? Must I learn
to model some V
Hark! tho banjo calls mo onward. Comrades
wearily I come.
Bessie Chandler, in Harper's Bazar.
Agnes and I.
BY GRETNA LINTON.
I was the happiest man in tho city ,ts
book I folded and laid away in my pocket
a letter from the dearest girl in the
world, and jumped on the horse-car, en
route for my oflice 1
Some months had passed since I saw
my Agnes, for the first time, at a dinner
at the Peytons. I had frequently met
Miss Georgie Peyton in society, and
bad been several times invited to her re¬
ceptions, so I was not surprised to re¬
ceive one day an invitation to dine with
her “informally,” to meet a young lady
from Aiken, S. C. Of course I pre¬
sented myself at this informal dinner in
full evening dress, where I met some
other gentlemen in similar attire—Clark¬
son was one of them—and a few young
ladies, and was introduced to my Agnes.
If I could only make you see her as she
appeared blooming; to me blue that of night—so fresh and
the her clear, peace¬
ful eyes; the delicious curve of the deli¬
cate lips! But enough that then and
adorer. there I yielded, and became her ardent
From the first she.distinguished me
with her favor. I was her escort to con¬
cert and opera. I was allowed te claim
the beBt dances; they were always my
flowers that she carried, and, finally, lie
fore Bhe returned to Aiken, I was her ac¬
cepted lover 1
The year had flown swiftly, and now a
brilliant prospect seemed to open before
me. My firm were about to establish a
branch department in another part of
the city, and proposed to make one of
their clerks a junior partner, and man¬
ager of the new concern. I had been
the longest in their employ, and had
reason to think I was regarded with
favor by “Old Graff”—as Mr. Gruffland,
the senior parner, was called—and he
would be the one to make the pro¬
motion, and settle the question of salary.
Indeed, for some week.! I had seen
that he was working the management writ¬
into my hands, so I felt justified in
ing to Agnes, urging our immediate
union. The dear girl consented, and in
the letter received that morning she
told me she was coming again, to make
a long visit to the Peytons, to “do some
shopping.” Entrancing words!
did they not imply ? And that “if all
went well”—if might I got’ the luamea position, nerore
course—"we no in
very long !” I was the happiest dear man little
the world, as 1 folded the
letter away, resolving, if it was in
power of man to earn promotion, I
make myself indispensable to my
Well, she came. There was a demure
but delightful meeting at the station
and an enchanting twenty minutes until
I delivered her to Miss Georgie’s arms at
the Peytons’ followed door. days of devotion to
Then unalloyed
work, followed by evenings of
bliss. I say “unalloyed,” but there was
one drawback. The Peyton family especially were
very considerate. Miss Georgie haunted
so, but my darling Agnes would was think her
with the fear that only they enjoy
visit to them was to my so¬
ciety, and was constantly suggesting the
that we shesld “^ain the family in
WRIGHTSVILLE, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1884.
sitting-room." bore, Gid Mrs. Peyton was a
bHt a mild . one—paterfamilias ar
benignant, unmitigated one; Miss Georgie’s was
but slightly tiresome. There
family, was. only one other member of the
a pretty little fellow named
Ralph, to but the girls had taken
calling him “ Raphael,” from
some, fancied resemblance to ono
of the Sistiue cherubs. He seemed a
qniefc little ebap, with a sweet innocence
of. expression and demeanor, who posed
a his good deal of tho time with his check on
hand after the manner of a cherub
aforesaid. He was devoted to Agnes,
and hung around her more than was
pleasant, for which 1 occasionally
snubbed him rather severely, but she
nlwsj-a interceded for him. * “He was
such a little fellow—and then he was so
lovely 1 was he not one’s ideal of a boy V”
Agnes had been in the city a few weeks
when, ono morning, the telephone bell
in our oflice rang sharply. This was a
frequent occurrence, and Clarkson’s
desk was stationed near it to save time in
answering scarcely tho cal). The rest of us
looked up as the familiar
“Hullo 1” was shouted, or tho conclud¬
ing : “All right! I’ll toll Mr. Gruffland.
Good-by l” But this morning Clarkson
turned to me with : “This is for yon,
Dixon!” Accordingly I shouted
“Hullo I” and in return heard Miss
Georgie’s voice :
“Is that you, Mr. Dixon ? Agnes is
here, and wants to try to speak to you. ”
Then I heard her giving directions.
“Stand n little nearer; press this close to
your car—so.”
“Good morning,” I called.
In return I heard a giggle, and my
Agnes’ voice exclaiming : “Oh, oh I It
tickles my oar 1” Then more directions
from Miss Peyton, and at last tho sweet¬
est voice in the world began in as nearly
as might bo a stentorian roar :
“Is that really you, Harry ? Isn’t this
perfectly sweet? Are you sure thoy
can’t hear in the office, Georgio ?”
"Well,” from Georgie, “1 should sny
they certainly could, if you shout like
that.”
“Harry,” in a half whisper, “if you
are sure it’s really you, and that no one
else can hoar, I want to tell yon some¬
thing. Do you remember that queer
Miss Blake in Aiken ? Do you hear mo,
Harry ?”
“Yes,” I returned.
Then another little giggle. “Isn’t it
too funny ? Do you know, Harry, now
that I see how to use it, I’m going to
talk to you ever so often. Won’t it bo
fun ? But where was I ? Dear me, bow
stupid? she Oh, I know, Miss Blake.
Well, haa just sent mo the love¬
liest-”
Here Clarkson muttered, “Old Gruff’s
coming,” and knowing that he would ask
an explanation of my receiving tho tele¬
phone messages, I was obliged to ab¬
ruptly interrupt: “I must go now”—I
had almost said “my darling.” “Tell
me the rest this evening.”
“But, Harry!” I heard Gruffland’s in a grieved
little voice; but Mr. foot¬
steps were too near, and I hung up the
receiver upside down, and hurried back
to my desk.
All day I worked in nervous despera¬
tion. Would she try to resume the con¬
versation ? Every time tho bell rang I
glanced at Clarkson. The thought that
it might be her voice whispering in his
great red ear covered me with cold per¬
spiration. Tho fear that in Mr. Grtiff
land’s hearing I might lie called upon to
answer her chatter was still worse, I
made up my mind that I must make
Agnes understand that very night that
she could not amuse herself in that way.
1 did so, gently but resolutely. I described
Clarkson’s ear, anil I took some liberties
with it. It would be just like the wretch
to receive all her little confidences, and
retail them for tho amusement of the
clerks.
Old Gruff was an ogre, capable did of dis¬
missing me without warning, if I no!
attend every minute to my business. Oui
hopes of happiness depended upon his
good pleasure. Miss Peyton was cool
and dignified. I suppose she knew I was
exaggerating. Agnes looked hurt. Her
sweet lips trembled a little, and her eyes
were suspiciously dim. I longed to have
her alone for a little while to comfort
her, as I knew I could; but there relented was no
chance, for though Miss Georgie
sufficiently to go up stairs to write an
“important letter,” Raphael was there,
resting his elbow on the table and look¬
ing up at Agues with an expression dark of
deep pity in his beautiful but sleepy
eyes. And the next day tho thing
yet, Gruffland same there, and
occurred. Mr. was
looked up from his papers with a glance
of disapproval as I took Clarkson’s place
at the telephone. My “Hullo” was
rather savage.
“Oh; Harry ! Do forgive mo 1 Indeed,
indeed I felt so sorry last night, and
wanted to tell you so; but you see) Ralph
was there. I’m all alone now. Oh.
Harry, won’t you forgive me ?”
“Of course,” I returned, feeling
Gruff’s eyes burning unpleasantly on
the nape of my neck.
“Oh, Harry dear, don’t talk like that
to me. Do say you love mo ?”
Was there ever such a child ? I felt
like a cold-blooded wretch, as I hurriedly
replied right. : I’ll I
“ All come up as soon as
can. Very busy now. Good-by ?”
I felt, rather than heard, a little sob
at the other end of the wire. Graff
said nothing, but I was doomed to an¬
other miserable day. I managed to ask
Clarkson, if I was called again, to say I
could not attend, and five times I heard
him giving this message, and each time
be turned away with a have mighty said grin.
What might not Agnes to
him? Peytons,
Of course, I hurried to the
determined to .see her alone. She came
running into the hall to meet me, bright
and loving, but the annoyances of the
day had made me cross, and I said
curtly: ‘‘Really,
don’t Agnes, it is very strange you
understand that a man cannot
take his business hours to talk with his
friends. After all I said last night, I
must say I was surprised to be called up
again to-day!”
Agues stopped abruptly, and said with
dignity:
“I do not understand yon !”
sobered “Why, by mv dear little girl,” I said,
the change in her manner,
‘‘I do not mean to bo cross, but how
could I talk to you about my affection
or forgiveness through the telephono
with all those fellows listening, to say
nothing of old Gruff?”
“But 1 have not touched the taV
phone to-day. Harry !” 7
“What!” I exclaimed.
back “Georgie I” called Agnes, stepping
to toll to the the sitting-room, and I followed
“It is story,. strange,”
very said Miss Pey¬
ton; The “but, of course, it is some mistake.
lines are out of order or crossed in
some way. been But mamma and Agnes and
I have out shopping all day, and
we lunched down-town, so we cau prove
an alibi."
It certainly was vorv strango, but we
all concluded that it might be as Miss
Georgio suggested, and the pater at once
began to spin long yarns about
queer messages, till at last I
coaxed Agnes into the conservatory
alone, and the close of the evening was
nil the brighter for the shadow with
which it began. The dear girl sym¬
pathized with me, and forgave my ira
patience, and was so sweet, that beforo I
knew, I found myself telling her the ono
event of my life I had determined to
keep secret—the little entanglement I
once had with Lucretia Chase. Of
course she had been the most to blame,
and Agnes thought her very horrid and
forward, so I had to admit that Crotia
had misunderstood some things I had
said to her when a mere boy, and then
Agnes asked me if I really loved her
best. Ah me ! what a happy evening it
was !
Again the next day the telephone an¬
noyances began, but I felt sure of my
ground, and told Clarkson he could re¬
fuse to listen. Imagine my surprise
when he turned to mo with a ciever im¬
itation of Agnes’ voice, saying:
“8ho is quite sure Harry will come
when he knows she wants to talk to him
about ‘Crctia. » 1?
I was thunder-struck ! Lucretia Chase
lived in Vermont; I was morally sure no
one in the city knew of her existence—
no one but Agnes ! I rushed to the in¬
strument. It was the samo clear girl’s
voice. How could any ono have known
that Cretin possessed some idiotic liner. I
had once written her r—any one but
Agnes ? Yet now I beam them re
peated:
“Oh, Crctia! fairest valentine!
Wilt thou accept this hand of mine V
A smaller gift my sonl forbids;
But ten’s the number of my kids!”
I jerked away in anger and surprise,
only to meet old Gruff’s grim glance.
“If this thing goes on, Mr. Dixon, it
might be well for you and Mr. Clarkson
to change desks!”
I knew what that implied, and my
heart sank to my boots.
“I do not understand it myself,” I re¬
plied. ‘ ‘I assure you, sir, that I am ex¬
ceedingly again.” annoyed. I will not answer it
"I will myself, sir,” he growled, and
I went back to my desk to upset my ink
bottle, to make mistakes in my accounts,
that and torture since myself but with Agues the could conviction have
no one
sent tho message, she was teazing me
without realizing the fatal consequences
Gruffland to our happiness. And all dry Mr.
would answer that confounded
telephone. That some of the messages
were meant for me I could tell, and that,
they must be utter nonsense I could
conjecture from his occasional com¬
ments : “ ‘By jimminy Johnson 1’ is a re¬
markable expression for a young lady,
Mr. It Dixon.” would bo too long to tell tho story
of these days in detail. Sometimes there
would be respite, and then the nonsense
would begin again. It was larks for
Clarkson and tho rent, but; to me' it
seemed as if tho bell of the telephone
was ringing the knell of all my bright
hopes. Agnes assured me of her inno¬
cence, and Miss Peyton was ready with
explanations; they had been shopping,
or calling, or practicing duets. But I
could see that a coolness had come lie
tween Agnes and me. She feared that I
doubted her, and I—what could I think ?
Again and again tho messages referred
to what I had said to her when quite
alone. Conld she have repeated my
confidences ?
At tho office preparations for tho new
business were being hurried on, and not
one word had been said to me of promo¬
tion. To crown all, Agnes informed me
one evening that she was going to
shorten her visit; she had heard of
friends going directly to Aiken, and
thought it best to secure their
escort. I passed a wretched even
mg, but left, determined to make a
desperate effort to clear ' J
Agnes had told me that they were all to
be out the next dav sol begged off at
the office, reached the house at ten and
persuading the servant that I wanted to
rest, and would let myself out when I
r.3& L’CEMSS SuS
four mortal hours At last I was re
warded. A light step cam© through tho
“as
nes’ called- "connect
“Please with Gruffland <Sr
j»»
Waiting only long enough to let him
actually begin, conversation in his usual
style, I rushed out, and catching the cul¬
box prit by the arm bestowed a resounding
upon the ear of the astonished Mr.
Raphael. The little imp! This was
his revenge for his well-deserved snubs.
I have no doubt he had heard every word
of my conversation with Agnes.
Of course the Peytons were distressed
and apologetic, and Agnes was per¬
suaded not to hurry away, and old Gruff
relented and I got the promotion in due
time, but I never could endure the sight
of that cherubic boy. I verily believe
that the box I bestowed upon him was
his only punishment, and I rejoice to
think that it was such a stinger 1
If this story has a moral, it is a short
one. The more innocent and guileless a
boy looks, the less is he to be trusted.—
[‘ The. Continent.
THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC.
No Danger of Its Annexation to This
Country.
Thero are some hasty philosophers,
says Charles A. Dana in a letter to tho
Sun, who imagine that the United States
is likely in time to annex at least tho
northern portion of Mexico; and this
notion also finds favor among a con
siderable number of wealthy Mexicans,
who suppose that their property inter¬
ests would bo safer if the Government
of tho northern republic were extended
over them.
This notion, however, scents to lie en¬
tirely fanciful. Thero is nothing in tho
northern portion of Mexico, with tho
exception, perhaps, of parts of Taman
lipas, to attract immigration of North
Americans. Tho barren regions of Coa
hulia, Chihuahua, and Sonora offer
small inducements to settlers. Even
the best parts of these States can only
be made useful for cattle ranges, and
these require but n limited population.
Tho mines, however rich thoy may prove
to be, cau only ami bo worked with costly
apparatus, try the Indians of tho coun¬
will supply every demand for labor.
In this situation there is nothing to
bring about annexation. If the country
were rich, if it were capable of being
settled l>y a dense agricultural popula¬
tion, the case might bo otherwise; but
as it now stands, thero is nothing that
can make it an object for American
politicians to add Mexico or any part of
it to the United States.
Of course, the restless Yankees will
always have heavy interests in Mexico,
No matter what losses may be incurred,
tho chances of successful mining or of
fortunate hits in other directions, will
always suffice to charm a duo proportion
of our speculators. But whatever effect
these gentlemen may prodttco, or how¬
ever their wishes may be seconded by a
few rich Mexicans, it is most improb¬
able that tho northern republic will de¬
sire, or that the southern republic will
be willing, to annex tho two countries
together under ono government. In tho
North the policy of adding six or eight
millions of Indians to a voting popula¬
tion in which there is already too much
of ignorance will not bo tolerated; while
in the South tho differences of race,
language, laws and usages will present
on that side obstacles equally insur¬
mountable. Each country will, of course,
exert its duo weight in the development
of the other; and there should bo no
reason in any national jealousies or fears -
of encroachment, why this development
should not be healthy, invigorating, and
always in the direction of progress.
A Story of Emma Abbott.
Journal When Col. Baldwin, Peoria, editor of taught the
, came to ho
school. It was in his capacity as peda¬
gogue that he first met Emma Abbott,
tor she was one of his pupils. He says
she was not a proficient scholar, because
she neglected her studies and was al¬
ways thrumming an old guitar, which
she had got possession of by some
means or other; but, he remembers
that, even in her childhood, Emma was
an adept in flattery, or as he now puts
it, “a daisy on taffy.” Ho tells in illus¬
he tration of this, a story to that tho effect he would that
announced one day violation
have to punish Emma for some
of the rulou. WLilo ho ivaa searching
for his ferule, Emma stood in the mid¬
dle of the schoolroom sobbing like a big
baby. “Do you think,” sho wailed,
“that I am crying through fear of the
pain you are about to inflict. I weep
because of tho remorse I suffer that I
should have wounded the feelings of
you, my dear old master.” This preco¬
cious diplomacy so unnerved Mr. Bald¬
win that he postponed tho punishment
indefinitely, and after that the emliry
otic prima donna had pretty much her
own way in the Peoria schoolhouse.
Horse Talk.
A Horse who was led out of tho Barn
for tho Inspection of a Person who
wished to Purchase, was Amazed to hear
his Master remark that Such Another
Horse was not to bo found in all the
country. country, ^ He no was was Speedy, npeeuy, Gentle, uremic, In- ju
te])igeI tj Strong, atrong, Young Young and and Effected, Effected, an an Easy Easy
Keeper. f The Tho Sale Sale was was tLe not not Anjnlal
Hov eve ’ and a8 HOon M wa8
rfitm . ned to big St all the Master began
Pound him with a clnb .
„ I{ j am 8Uch a Valuable Horse and
p erfect Animal M Represented just
™» b s» *> *»
e ’
,. Idiot! If 1 wcre Inspecting you I
con j^ have Pointed out a Hundred
’ttmpie:
moral;
In a horse , trade always make an Al
lowanco of seventy-five per cent, for
Taffy.— M. Quad.
WESTERN IDEAS ABORT CORONERS
Why a Practicing Physician (Should Not b'
Chosen lor that Office.
I am glad to notice that in the East
there is a growing disfavor in the public
mind for selecting a practicing physician
for tho oflice of coroner. This matter
should have attracted attention years
ago. Now it gratifies mo to notice a
finer feeling on tho part of tho people
and awakening of those sensibilities
which go to make life more highly
prized and far misfortune* more enjoyable.
I bad the at one time to
be under the medical charge of a coroner
who had graduated from a Chicago
morgue and practiced medicine along
with his inquest business with tho most
fiendish delight. I do not know which
he enjoyed Lwt, holding tho inquest or
\-radioing victim on his i-o.Uc.ui and getting tho
One ready for the quest.
and left day he wrote out a prescription
it for me to have filled. I was
surprised to find that ho had made a
mistake and left a rough draft of the
verdict in my own case and a list of
jurors which he had made iu memoran¬
dum, so as to be ready for tho worst. I
was in alarmed, for I did not know that I
was the so dangerous a condition. He had
what advantage he of me, for ho know just
human life was giving me, and how long
could bo sustained under his
treatment. I did not.
That is why I say that the profession
of medicine should not bo allowed to
Conflict with the solemn duties of the
coroner. They are constantly clnshing
and infringing upon each other’s terri¬
tory. No man ought to follow his follow
down to tho mysterious river that de¬
fines the boundary between tho known
and the unknown, and charge him pro¬
fessionally then charge till his soul has fled, and
a per diem to the couuty
for holding prying into inquest his internal economy and
an over the debris of
mortality. I therefore hail this move¬
ment with joy, and wish to encourago it
in every way. It points toward a de¬
gree of enlightenment which will be in
strong contrast with tho darker and
more ignorant epochs of time, when the
practice of medicine was united with the
profession of the barber, the well digger,
tho farrier, the veterinarian, or the
Coroner.
This physician plenipotentiary and
Coroner extraordinary that I have re¬
ferred to, very frequently went to see a
patient with a lung tester under one arm
and the Revised Statutes under the
other. People never knew, when they
saw him going to a neighbor’s houso,
whether the case had yielded to tho
Coroner’s treatment or not. No ono
ever knew just when overtaxed nature
would yield to the statutes in such case
made and provided. When the jury was
impaneled, medical however, wo always knew
that the treatment had been suc¬
cessfully fatal.
Onco ho charged tho county with an
inquest he felt sure of, but in the night
the patient got delirious, eluded his
nurse, the physician and Coroner, and
fled to the foot hills, where he was taken
care of and finally recovered. Tho ex¬
periences of some of tho patients who
escaped from this man read more like
fiction than fact. One man revived
during the inquest, knocked the foreman
of the jury through the window, kicked
the Coroner In the stomach, fed him
a bottle of violet ink, and, with a shriek
of laughter, fled, Ho is now traveling
under an assumed name with a mam¬
moth circus, feeding his bald head to tho
African liou twico a day at $9 a week and
fonnd. Bill Nyb
Taming a Horse.
A late friend and neighbor of mine in
the country kept a monkey who took to
riding his hogs, especially one of them,
which he commonly singled out as fittest
for his uso, and, leaping upon its whipped back,
with his face toward tho tail, it he
it unmercifully, and drove about till
it could run no longer. A well-known
nobleman once had a wild horse whom
nobody could ride. “1 know not what
your “but lordship can do with him,” said
tine, to set the monkey upon his
back.” So they put a pad to tho with horse,
and set the monkey upon it a
switch in his hand, which he used upon
the horse, and set him into a furious
kicking and galloping; but Peg kept
his seat, and exercised liis switch. The
horse lay upon the ground, but when he
threw himself on one side, the monkey
was up on the other. Ho ran into a
wood with him, to brash him off; but if
a tree or a bush occurred on one side,
the monkey slipped to tho other side;
till at last tho horse was so sickened,
fatigued, and broken-spirited, that he
rati home to the stable for protection.
When the monkey was removed, a boy
mounted him, who managed the horsu
with ease, and he never gave any trouble
afterward.
Tnn Boys. —-no Cleveland (Ohio)
lie,rahl is enraptured Yorker by visiting a remarkably city,
generous New that
who, the other day. threw $50 in silver
change for news-boys and boot-blacks to
scramble for. “J was a boot-black once
myself, boys,” it quotes him as saying,
“and I know what a hard time you liavo
to get along. I was a boot-blaek in New
York when I was a boy, and got my first
start while handling the brush. Now
I am rich, and I like to help the poor
boys along."
“Fifty hours and fifty dollars will
0 f Mexico.” Ten cents’ worth of ar
senio will take him to a more desirable
place, no lived matter this what earth—provided sort of life he
may have on
tho reports from New Mexico are true.
NO. 6.
ODDS AND ENDS.
A European conference is to be held
in regard to Egypt.
Irving, the actor, made $400,000 dur¬
ing his American tour.
The Rothschilds own $400,000,000 of
United States bonds.
Konigsberg was founded by the Teu¬
tonic Knights in 1255.
1’nREE -fourths of the officers in the
German army wear corsets.
Ireland’s less* ponulation is now 5,100,000
—3,090,000 than in 1841.
The stealthy moth has begun flying in
clothes closets and boudoirs.
There are twenty-eight direct heirs to
the succession to the British throne.
The semi-annual dividends payable in
Boston in May aggregate $3,198,080.
P. Lotmllard & Co. have donated
$5,000 to the Bartholdi Statue Fund.
Tnn Bank of England has just opened
a reading and eating room for its clerks.
It is probable that trade unions will
take an active part in politics this fall.
The Now York Driving Club will give
$15,000 for a meeting June 18, 19 and
20 .
The order of the Knights of St. Pat¬
rick was instituted by George III. in
1783.
The raising of sugar-beets in Den¬
mark promises to beoomo an important
industry.
Germany, it is now stated, uses paper
instead of wood in the manufacture of
lead pencils.
To keep up the supply of horses in
the United States 1,000,000 must be
bred annually.
Flowers are received in London from
Italy as fresh as if they had been cut
r,nly au hour.
Depression in the English shipbuild¬
ing trades lias thrown 25,000 men out of
employment.
The new imperial palace at Strasburg
is to be completed in throe years, at a
oost $1,250,000.
There are a hundred students in the
Irish College of Paris, all of whom are
Irish by birth.
About two million sheep are at pres¬
ent in Colorado. The clip this year will
be ten million pounds.
“Brutality to mothers,” says t»
Massachusetts Judge, “is more com¬
mon than wife beating.”
The convict mortality in Alabama’s
State Prison is larger than in that of any
other, except Mississippi.
Michigan raises nearly one-half of the
world’s supply of peppermint, the an¬
nual yield being 75,000 pounds.
The amount of Peruvian indebted¬
ness guaranteed by the nitrate andgnano
deposits aggregate £00,000,000.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., of New
York city, is the authoress of the novel,
“Those Pretty St. George Girls.”
Moke than three-fourths of the cedar
used in the manufacture of cedar pencils
in tho world is shipped from Florida.
Eight thousand Chinamen are em¬
ployed in California as house servants,
and they get from $30 to $50 a mouth.
An agent predicts that steerage pas¬
sengers will ho able to cross the Atlantio
for $10 or $12 before another year passes.
Tnn German Government has for¬
bidden the transit through German terri¬
tory of early fruits and vegetables from
France.
A walnut tree eight feet in diameter
at Fort Smith, Ark., is to be felled to
send a section to the New Orleans Ex¬
position.
An Ohio postmaster’s name is Eman¬
cipation Proclamation Coggswell. He
was born on the day the proclamation
was issued.
Caitain Eads promises that his ship
railway in Tehuantepec will be in work¬
ing order within five years. It will be
130 miles long.
Mme. Nilsson has arranged with
Theodoro Thomas to sing in twenty
three concerts, for which ho is to givo
her $28,000.
It is estimated that there now are be
Iwn 000,000 and 700,000 people in Da¬
kota Territory, and 200,000 more are ex¬
pected this year.
In a recent trial on tho Thames of an
electric launch forty feet long, with a
storage battery, a speed of seven knots
an hour was attained.
Ministers In Maine.
Tho Lewiston Journal says: Recently
Mr. Granville Hubbard, accompanied
by about a dozen other generous heart¬
ed men with of Fayette, came to the parson¬
age two horses and a saw, and sawed
about ten cords of nice hard wood,
which they, with minister; others, had and cut, later hauled
and given to the fif¬
teen others split and put a large part oi
it under cover. This is the third time
in three years that Mr. Dawson has been
pastor of the church that they have
done tho same. During this time he has
kept no cow, has purchased no butter
lias had a never-failing supply of all his
family wished to use, besides hogsheads
of milk that have been given to him by
this kind and generous people.
Consumption.— Koch’s views of the
bacterial origin of consumption have Bollin¬ re¬
ceived the endorsement of Prof.
ger, who has found by experiment will that
milk from tuberculous cows catiso
the diseaso in guinea-pigs if injected
into their veins; but other prominent
tier man pathologists still remain uncon¬
vinced, and tho question is yet far from
settled, — Dr. Foote's Health
Monthly.