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PaMteher. I
A. MlinM, P*»f»rw<.r.
VOLUME 11.
HEWS GLEANINGS.
Oae tomato farm at Key West, Fla,
12,000 plant*.
Four hundred inmate* in the Alaba-
M , jnaane asylum.
Mew Year’s day Georgia had $971,-
48S M, in her treasury.
Voluntary donation* to the Universi
tvof Virgins since 1865 foot up $440,-
•100.
Thia year’* hay crop in Augusta
-nntv Va, i» estimated to be worth
”„.ioo,ooo.
Manry county, Tenn., is out of debt,
tad Mr warrants ar* worth ninety-five
cents on the dollar.
The license to sell iatoxicatiing spir
it, within the town of Jasper, Ga, has
Meo raised to 11.000.
One hundred thousand young Cali
fornia salmon havq recently been placed
in the watets of Georgia.
Bets of SSOO have been made at tu
twta, Ga, that lais year's cotton crop
»ilf be at least 6,000,000 bales.
The residence of Hon. Ben: Hill, at
Athena, 'Ga, has been sold to Prof.
Speer, of the tJhiversjty. It originally
set $30,000.
There are seventeen tobacco factories
■t Pe ersburg, Va, employing about
15C00 hand* The groat annual pro
dacta amount to about $3,200,000.
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern railway company pay $3C A
- yearly for ties to the wood-choppers
between Little Rock abd Texarkana.
The Porter Guards, of Memphis, will
star ewallow-tailsd scarlet coats, trim-'
ned with buff and gold, bud pants with
yarlet strips, bordered by gold cord and
buff helmets to correspond.
At New Orleans all the cotton presses
in glutted, owing to the fact that great
quantities of cotton is being held for
futuredeliverv and no -large ehipmenu
ire being made to Europe.
The city of Fayetteville, N. C., fol
hwiog the example of Memphis, has
bid its municipal existence teiminated
by a state law in order to escape from
tbe clutches of the mandamus movers.
Chattanooga Times: As things are
[low going, the south will in the year
f!DO «upport her own markets with
every grade of cotton goods, and with
every form of iron and stoel, fine cut-
Wy included.
i Dr. Barksdale, of the Virginia lunatic
i nylum, reports the case of a negro lu
natic whose brain weighed ' seventy
suw .This is believed to be the lar
mt brain on lecord, except that of Oli
ver Cromwell.
la Minissippi there are 108,640 horses,
115,600 mules, 273,250 oxen, 22'\330
®vi, 230,330 sheep add 1,789,600 bogs,
•ith the following average value:
Borw#, 57 73; mules, S7O 89; oxen, $7 69;
«••», llz 00; sheep, 12 57; hogs, $2 70
The black confluent small-pox is ra
pay at a great many points in Texas.
It is said to have been first introduced
by exiled Russian Jews. Be that as it
■•y, it is very obstinate and fata', re-
Vinng the greatest care to keep it from
v «
A gentleman largely interested in the
FV’sed canal, near Macon, Ga., states
’bat the project is not abandoned by
•7 means. At the proper time the
’*’** project will be brought protni
to the front. He is of the opin-
* that tbe enterprise will only cost
**>‘s4so,ooo.
I‘» generally conceded, says a Fiori
•exchange, that the brown or rusty
.is much the sweetest, and can
*«pt | onger tbe brigbt fruit but
“oi a unasal perversity of taste,
* brown fruit ia depreciated id North
** aarkets, and sold at half the price
“lair fruit.
Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser There
000 acres of government land
subject to entry under the
T*"**! and pre-emption laws, and
•atering of land was never brisker
present. Hundreds of acres are
r sol ion the cash basis system of
■ per acre, particularly in some of
* counties of the state.
, TW touJ rereipUof tbe city of At
‘•’rom all sources during 1881, was
* |x 97. The criy debt is $2,196,-
expenditure* on account
**re»‘and sinking fund, 1193,573,
a balaeee SJM ( jHS,97 for ord:-
*?»*l*Mitarea. The city bar no
,a r debt, and ean not, as the stele
••■d*. increase its bonded debt
Baptist* minister* of Bicfcmvu !,
ts olutnhw Bimfisets
Xa, have reeoluted against the bill lie
fore the legislature of that state, to re
move the political disabilities of per
sons who have, in recent years, violated
the law against dueling. They say:
"We l>>ok upon the proposed action as a
violatit* of the spirit of the constitu
tion and the laws of the state, as an in
sult to heaven and an affront to the
moral and Christian sentiment of the
Virginia people.”
Fernandina, (Fla.) Mirror: A few
days since we were on tbe north shore
of Orange lake, in what ia known as the
island, once designated as Towused Ter
ritory, from its isolation. Five years
ago, no public road passed through it,
■o rail or water communication came
within twenty miles of it. While we
were there within twenty minutes’ time,
we heard the puffing of trains on the
railways, the whistle of a steamer and
of three steam saw mills, and realised
the change which has been made and
which is going on all over Florida.
An amusing incident occurred at Fin
castle, Va., during the last term of the
Botetourt county court A jury was
em pa mulled to try one Bolen, charged
with an assault on J. G. Sperry, the
latter testifying in the case. After two
days deliberation tbe jury returned into
court with a verdict of matudaugher.
It would be hard to picture the scene
that followed. The bar was convulsed,
the “dead man” smiled audibly, Judge
Palmer looked on-for a moment in mute
astonishment and then hid behind his
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newspaper.
Richmond, (Va.) State: It ia impos
sible Tdr the south unaided to educate
all within her borders. White she asks
no exemption front all just obligations,
this duty of f ee education does not rest
on her exclusively. Dr. Sears in 1879,
said there were 2,000,000 of children
in the Southern States, without the
means of instruction. Increasing effi
ciency of school system is daily furn
i»hing*d4it’<Ufoil meow*, bn£ the latest
reports of state superintendent* show a
wide difference between the numbered
editcat able children and those in actual
attendance at schools.
A writer describes a Christmas din
ner at a country house near Richmond,
Va., during the war: The four gentle
men were in uniform, and the three
ladies were in homesp.m. They had for
dinner a S3OO ham, and the last turkey
on the plantation, value sl7o, with SIOO
worth of cabbage, potatoes and hominy.
Com bread wrs served, made of meal at
SBO per bushel and salt at $1 a pound
The dessert was black molasses nt fiiO a
gallon, and after one cup of tea—real
tea, worth SIOO a pound, treasured for
the occasion as a surprise, and not sas
safras —there was coffee at discretion,
made from sweet potatoes cut into little
squares toasted an<l ground down.
Memphis Appeal! Mr. May, a young
Shelby county farmer, has been success
ful in the manufacture of ensilage, a
species of for cattle, that in winter
takes the place of the clover of summer
and is more nutritious. The method
adopted by Mr. May was simply to cut
the pea-vine down, chop it and pre** it
into a pit forty feet long, ten feet broad,
and ten feet deep. In this pit he made
fifty tons of ensilage, with which be
proposes to fatten fifteen head of cattle
for three months. Mr. May a example
should stimulate every farmer in this
section of the country. Immense qnan
tities of hay and com are sold, in this
market every winter, the money paid
for which might be put to some o'her
use, if only ensilage were made for cat
tle. The best stockraisers recommend
it, and the practical farmer* at the
west are loud in its praise.
Face Dlfflcnlties.
Have the courage to face the difficulty,
lest it kick vou harder than you bar
gained for. 'Difficulties, like thieves,
often disappear at a glanwu H“ Te ,l1 "
courage to h ave a convivial party at the
proper hour for doing to however great
the sacrifice ; and to stay away from one
upon the slightest groanils forobjection,
however great the temptation to go.
H*to tbe courage to do without tha
which you do not need, however much
you admire it Have the courage to
speak your mind when it is neceesary
tityou should do so. and hold your
tongue whan it is better that you ah mid
lie silent Have the courage to speak
to a i>oor fnend in a see.lv coat, even in
the street, and when a rich one is nigh.
TheXrt - b- than
think it to be and the act is worthy of a
kmjf Have the courage to «tait you
have tieen in the wrong. y<m -dl
retnovurthe fact in the mind
unttinff a desirable impre-sH-n in pl»c<
ure to adhere to the first reaotutum
you can not change it for *
tx/abandoo it even at tbe eleventh .
upoo CODTICtUJU.
Devoted the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia.
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harlem, Georgia, Tuesday,
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Otriit Wiu>« writes for • gninM •
line for Our ('ontinml.
The “boy preacher,” Thomas Ham
son, is saving souls in Cincinnati.
Tux jails are full of convicted mur
derers, and hangings are a rarity,
Venwok does not like to be clawed
with Mother Shipton, but it can’t be
helped.
To kbtti.k the Oannon-Campbell con
test, Utah will probably hold anothei
election.
Grrrxau says public opinion is chang
ing. Ho wrong. It u-a«Us s
change.
The iron-producing intoresta of the
South are shaping themselves into a
moao|M>ly.
A great lioom has struck Richmond,
Indiana. Bh« is to have a $300,000
ojiera-housv.
The author of ‘‘ Fool's Errand ” has
started a paper in Philadelphia called
Ow Continent,
The census shows Paris to have a
population of 2,225,900, an increase of
237,000 ainoe 1876.
A hew law in Kansas forbids any per
son to marry within six months after
procuring a divorce.
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Now that smallpox is rife, it is but
reasonably precautionary on the part of
every one to be vaccinated.
The report of finding a boat of the
Jeannette containing corpses ia dis
credited in official quarters at St. Peters-
Jburg.
JutxiE Pobteii has been a power in
the Guiteau trial, and for that will bs
deservedly remembered by a grateful
republic.
The National Temperance Society is’
advocating the appointment of a com
mission to inquire into the liquor traffic
of the United Htates. ,
Or the population of London, 3,620,-
000 are vaccinated and 190,000 are not.
There were 1,532 deaths from smallpox
in that city the past year.
Mk. Lawes, a prominent English
agriculturist, has set aside $500,000, the
interest of which is to be used in carry
ing out agricultural experimente.
Among members of the Lower House
of tlio Tennessee Legislature are a white
man and a negro who hold the relation
of master and slave before the war.
Something is always lieing laid at
Beecher's door. Last week it was an
infant only two days* old, and he very
properly and promptly had it sent to
the City Nursery.
MantTPaCTUEINo paper from palmetto
is one of the new onteqirisM in Florida.
Twenty mills in all are shortly to be
erected by a comjiany in sections of the
Ktato where palmetto is abundant.
Prop. Williams, of Yale College, re
cently received a dispatch from the in
terior of Clone which had been saut the
day liefore, traveling within twenty-four
hours the distance of 19,000 miles.
The rage in circus circles the coming
season is to lie ** the handsomest woman
in the world." Every circus will hays
her. Barnum has already published his
offer of $20,000 for a famous beauty.
The members of the new Chinese
Legation at Washington wear thteir na
tive costumes on all occasions, and at
tract considerable attention on the streets
and elsewhere, by their startling com
bination of colors.
John TtVixiß. President of the Mor
mon Church, has taken up his abode in
the Gardo House, at Salt Lake Ctty, the
magnificent structure which Bngbrjn
Young built for his favorite, Amelia. It
has been luxuriously furnished throegh
ou t.
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The two heaviest taxpayers of Boston
are Moses Williams aad Joahua M.
Sears, the first name being siwrosed for
$3 300,000, and the other for $1,244,000.
Ami vet we never beard of ibrae men
before. Riches and fame don’t always
go hand in hand.
—
Attobhet Gxxdul Baxwwrra is said
to put on more style than any other
Cabinet Minister who ever courted tbe
smiles of faahiouabie society Hm
“turn out” ia as gorgeous as that o<
any Eaghah lord, and hu personal ward
robe correaponds with it. '
moved on Gongreas
In • body. On the llth inst every mbm
bat of the Senate had a memorial to
pr*ant from his constituency, asking
fori a law to prohibit the manufacture,
•alf or importation of alcoholic liquors
thfongnout the national domain
Jwmon ia always expensive whore
there is a high state of civilisation. Ou
th4 frontier, where churches and courts
aril unknown, murder trials are of short
duiation and to tha point, and crime leas
frequent, to the population, than where
the country is dotted With courts of law.
•ermany has 3,250 co-operative sseo
cuntons, of which 1,895 are loan or credit
soeietiea, people's banks, etc., 674 in
dustrial sociatieh, 645 stores for the silo
Cffi goods, and 36 building societies.
A»d yet Germany is reputed to be about
the hardest country on the poor there ia;
in the world .<
When the weather in the IffMDe and
Western States ia very moderate, mer-,
cury in Dakota Territory ia generally
below mro, but up to tbe middle df Jan
uary the present season it seems that
they have had nothing up there but
“continuously warm weather’’—not even
an ordinary snow.
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Ouoab Wilde seems to be the boom
for the present, and it is singular how
the msthotic crowns his every move. His
arrival in this country was January 2,
or 1882 -2. He talks in rhythmic chant,
accenting every fourth syllable, thus;
' I osmo from Aigland bcoauae I thaught
America was the beet place to see."
A of the New York
. Hott says that the removal of the duty
on quinine has cheapened the drug
seventy-eight cents an ounce, and that
more of it is manufactured in tills coun
try now than when it wa* <*protected.”
We arc getting to bo almost as inveterate
users of quinine as we ere of tobacco.
Dn. Mabt Walkbb, who has a singu
lar way of dressing, narrowly escajied
arrest • few days ago in Washington.
Hhe walked tttrough the Prost dents
grounds, pursued by a newly appointed
colored policeman, who had been told
" it was a woman,” and would have lieen
taken to the station-house had not those
at the White House identified her.
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Business seems to be pushing in
Nevada. Bays a Nevada paper: Not
withstanding the absence of bonanzas,
nearly 1,800 miners are at work on the
Comstock at present, repreaentipg a
monthly payment of nearly a quarter of
a million dollars. The miners in turn
give employment to many. in tho mills
on tho Carson River, in Gold Hill and
Silver City.
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Ths Cincinnati Oatelt' states tbe case
briefly as follows : If Congress will ad
mit to seat in that body a delegate from
Utah who admits that he has several
wives and believes in and practices the
doctrines of the Mormon Church, it
might ss well stop talking and logis'at-.
ing against polygamy. A man who de- 4
fies law should not have s seat among -
law-makers.
Miss Ida Ullman, a New Y’ork belle
who, a few days ago, recovered damage
in ’. the breach of promise suit against
Mr. Henry H. Meyers for $1,760, has
married Mr. Cohen, one of the witnesses
tn the case. Ida is charged with daring
everybody to kiss her on New Year’s
day, and that wan one of Mr. Meyers’
reasons for not wanting her for a bride.
Her kisses were too abundant.
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Idaho contains 35,000 inhabitants. ■
Ito gentiles or anti-Mormon residento are
frontiersmen of the better clsas Un
fortunately the Territory lice immediately
north of Balt Lake City, and the Mor
mons, finding themselves rather cram ped
in Utah, have marked out Idaho for
their own. This ia an imperative reason
used by the Denver Tribune why Con
gress should not delay the Mormon
question.
I»E. Blibh thinks $50,000 would lie
about right for his services sa physician
to President Garfield. The servtoes of
Dra. Agnew and Hacnilton he reckons at
$35,000 each, and Reyburn, he thinks,
ought to be satisfied with SB,OOO. Dr.
Boynton and Mrs. Dr. Edson he consul-
Mutely allows SI,OOO each, although per
haps Mra Edson did more real service
and suffered more anxiety than the whole
lot Tee, Dr. Bliss is a great man.
The printers in tbe Government Print
ing Office are being meanly treated.
NMwithstaoding they get a higher price
far their labor than is paid for aimilar
work in any office in the civilized world,
they still ask for more. Bo long as they
are so modest about it, wo <to not see
why the Government should not bo
willing to divide tbe profits with them -
es j| might tarn the iaetthitton o*m to
them and make it a stock eoneora for
that matter, aqd thin XUow them an
annual appropriation beoidfo. The boys
should be treated on the square
Human nature ia hard to understand.
The wife of Henry Kirk, of Madison,
Indiana, a virtuous and handsome wo
man of thirty years, was recently called
upon by a young Peunsyivatea jewelry
mender, of good address nd oily tongue,
Mr. Kirk was absent at Iho time. The
young man was ao excessively po
lite and irresistibly faaednating that
Mrs. Kirk was completely captivated.
A few days after the event she became
wildly deranged, constantly repeating
the subatauoo of tho conversation, and
her husband has been compelled to send
her to the Intone Asylum.
- Tnnttjii? incidente which, when we
seem really to lie co exhilar
ating that one almost liecomee intoxi
cated with the “spirit of approval,”
if that were possible. A young lady in’
New York City, who was accosted by a
wolUlreaeed man in an insulting man
ner, accepted the offer of an old woman,
who was grabbing in an ash barrel close
by, to "cover him with ashes for ten
cents.” The man was pelted with hand
fuls of ashes, covering him from head to
foot, before he could oacajM-. The old
damn was rewarded with a quarter.
Bho should have had, at least, a dollar
tor such appropriate services.
GLANS HOUSES.
rue Bril lie aauuaaoe Beller «Wr BalM
laa l*arw«aee ißm Blaus.
inusbuni DtofuUbd
perbsna not ou builder or contractor
in ten, if told that' the common grades
of glass made at the glass factencs in
this city have a crushing strength nearly
fopr limes as great as that credited by
axiierumcod engineers to tho strongest
quality of granite, would accept the
itatement as true. ''Vet it is a fact, and
being so, the qneYy m to why glsst has
not received more %tter.tion from orolii
teeta as a stiuctural material nsturollv
suggests itself. A reporter had a talk
with several promlocirtA gium taannfao
turors ou the subject, and in answer to
an interrogatory as to whether blocks of
glass could bo made in suitable lengths
and aims and so annealed as to b<> util
tz xl in the cons! ruction of n building in
iJaco of stone, they raid it could bo
done. Hold one of those gi'iitlcmen ;
“ This question has been considered by
myself a numlier of times, and, although
I do not want to advocate the absolute
aliolition of brick and stone, yet in tho
erection ot art galleries, memorial build
ing*. etc., a structure composed of
blocks of glass in prutnotic colon would
lie a unique, lieautiful and lasting
structure. With tho numerous inven
tions which have come into use of lato
voen iu connection with the production
of glass, tlm cost has been gradually
going down, while tho quality of tho
fabric ia ataadilv liecoming lietter.
" Ono obiectiou which would be raised
to tho durnbility of a glass house, in tho
literal sense of the words, might be that
tho blocks would not take a bind, or ad
here together with odmmon mortar.
This objection can lie rearlily set aside
by tho use of a good cement, and when
arnipteted the structure will stand for
ages, barring extraor/.inary accidents.
As to the c mt of a glass bouse, it can bo
Kept down to a smml peveentage alxivo
the prico-of our cut granite. Iu build
lug with stone you have to pay the stone
mssoiia, and when it c itnca to elaborate
examples of carving in Uorintbian pil
lars, collars, capitals, etc., why tho work
i< rather coray as compared with glass,
when tha latter can be molded into any
atiapo ur form, and the work accom
plished in much teas time. I am con
vinced tliat tho time will come when we
will see such a building erected. Hoarcely
a day paws but what the sphere of glass
aa an article of use liccomea. widened.
In parte of (tertnarty and on one lino in
Engliual glass I ICO' *»e Ixnng used on
railroads, and thus for have given satis
faction, combining all of tbe requisites
of wooden ties with the virtue of being
susceptible to naago st least twenty-five
per cent longer than wood. Then by
the Baatra pVboMvi glass articles are now
iieuig made for common use which can
bo thrown on the floor and will roiionnd
like a rtfnlier b*lb Progress is. also
bomg made towards rendering glass,
which as the
brittie fabric, duetite, and to-dav threala
of glass can bo made that caa b* tied its
knots and wove* into, atotii. Ware one
<lia|ioeMl to give play* to fanny and fuse
it into fact, a bouse entirely oompowvl
of glass could ba fowilt witfi wails and
roof ami floors fashioned from, melted
sand. Csrpeta of glass tbe
floors.’ The most ultra vaHffitK sitting
on glass chnits or rtdlining on giass
couches, arrayed in glaae garments, eat
ing ami dnaking from glass dishes, such
a oos.could aaahze that tffil age of glaaa
had come. Yet nearly all of thia fifty
years ago would have baen claaarxl with
the then imp<aaibto telephone and elec
tric light, and this statement would have
.likely found its place in the *Uatalogue
Expurgatovoa. ■
- There seems to be no occupation ao
dangerous as that of lirakeman on freight
trains, and many tnsnrance rvimpaniea
n-fnae to take the risk of insuring their
live*. It ia aakl that only twenty-five
per cent, of freight bvakmnea die except
hy sccideßt
TERMS-$lOO per
Numbers.
HU HORN OF THK DAT.
“Jcnroa, aMse her said Bambo, m
fulius was contemplating a fat pullet in
he moonlight
Domehtic troubles come bunched, like
•alary.
Tn only thing in this country that ia
lot injured by bnrating, ia apjilauae.
When you ace an oct committed are
rou not ncoeasarily an nigh witness 1*
“ Husband and wife," says some sage
laraon, " should no more struggle to
he last word tlian they should struggle
’ortho (xiaaeasion of a lighted bomb.”
Diey don’t The wife gets it without a
ilruggie. The Jiuigc.
" Have One Little Kiss for Papa,” ia
ho title of the latest song. If this ra
nark is aimed at a Chioago girl with
■our steady tieaux the old man’s chances
un> pretty slim.— Chicago Tribune,
“What a contradiction a watch tat"
laiil Timmins. " How eoF’ asked Mrs.
ruiimms. " Why, because it always
cee|w perfectly dry, although it ooa
•tantly has a running spring inside.”
Will the "coming man” shut ths
loor utter him ?” Ho will in this office,
ir the going man will go out of the
window.— Lowell UUiten.
Blonde—"They say Carrie ia en
pigod.” Brunette Engaged I why,
iho married a month ago and has just
mod for a divorce." Blonde—"How
romantic! Isn’t it splendid f"—Boston
Trantcripl.
"Yea,” said the Denver editor, "I
think I must have got out a very reada
ble paper this morning. I’ve been licked
by three prominent citizens to-day, an
other chased jno with dogs uid a gun
and tho police had hard work to keep a
mob from wrecking my office,"—(.%<•
yago 'l'rihunt.
Db. D— has a bright little girl about
four years of ago, who in very fond of
dolls and ho buys a new one* for her
nearly every day. He brought her a
new one the other evening, but it did
not apjioar to take her fanoy at all.
" Wbat, don’t you like the now doll Y'
he asked, after watching her a few mo
ments. “No ; I’s tired of stuff dolls.
I want a real most baby," she replied,
earnestly.--- The Judge.
"I can well remember the time,"said
Mrs. Marrowfat, loaning ovesgAhe fence
rail, in confidential oonvcM|teo n with
her neighbor next door, " Simp
sou’s wife was glad enough to get a plain I
woolwn shawl to wenr. Now she always
api tears in n sealr.kin saoqus."
you forget," was tho reply, " that Mr.
Himpsou’a brother has become a bank
cashier.”
A Detroit man calls his wife Vesu
vius, liecauseshots aholy terror.— Chaff.
A Burlington man calls his wife Ooto
pazi, liecauso she spits fire and won’t
lava the uoighliors alone. —Burlington •
-V. J. Enterprltc. A Jamestown man
calls bte wife a fool 1 h>cause she has not
.Etna thing sine? the winter bounata
have made their apiiearauco.— leader.
A Htubcnvillo man calls his wife after
he gets up aud builds s fire, for she
won’t get up in tho cold. StubenvlUo
Herald.
Darwin acknowledged himself match
ed when lus little niece asked him,
s-riouslY, wnnt a cat.has that no other
aoimal ha<. Ho g«vo it up after mature
deliberation,* ariil then the sly puss’*
answered " kittens."
Bausaoi: Fritz, of thia city, is an
Bsthnte. Ho says he now has a4‘ goed
quality of homo mate stxiaiohM, with der
dog collars all picked owid. Dey vasb
doo utterly py gosh a goople of dimM,
out yon [>et my life if I dold vxM so I'
bite mine hot off.”— Larmle Bill •
Leave-taking.
Not all have teamed the art of leave
taking in an appropriate manner When
you are about to depart, do eoat ooee,
graix-fidly iu>d )>o)itely, and with no
dallying. Don’t say " It's about time I
was going," and then settle back and
talk on aimlessly for another ten
minutes. Homs teNff’l'’ h*ve just such a’
tiresome habit. They will even rise
and aland aliout the room in vartoua at
titudca, keeping their hosts also stand
ing, and then by an effort succeed in
getting as far as the hall, whan a new
tiiought strikes tbeig. They brighten
np visibly anil stand for some minutes
longer, saying nothing of importance,
but keeping everybody in a restless
nervous state. After tha door is opened
the prolonged leave-taking liegios, and
everyliody in general and partMutar ia
invited to call. Very likely a last
thought strikes tha <te|«rting visitor,
which his friend must risk a cold to
hear to the and. What a relief when
the door is finally closed ! There ia fio
need of lieing offensively abrupt, but
when you are ready to go—ga
An old darkey who was aaked if in
his experience prayer was answered, re
plied : " Well, sen, some pra'era ia an
slid an’ some ain't—’pends on w’at you
axes fo*. Jest arter do wah, wen it was
mighty hard scratohin' fo’ de culled
hroddvrn, I 1 marred det w'enbber I prav
de Lord to sen' one o’ Marte Peyton a
fat turkeys fo' de ole man, dero was no
notice took of de partition ; but w en I
pray dat he would sen' de ole man to'
de turkey, <lo matter was ’tended to be
io' sun-up nex* mornin*, dead sartin."
" I didn't call, because whan I passed
the house 1 noin-ed there was no light
in tbe parlor and I thought you were
out, ” apologetic illy obeerved ths simple
minded Chicago man who had an ap
pointment with a Oinctiinati merchant
** Never be such S fool as that ar am,”
angrily responded the disappointed perk
packer, *' you ought to have known it
, was only one of my gals recusing oaea
i l»ny-"