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VOLUME 11.
HEWS GLEANINGS.
Sponre culture is * success at Fine
K«y, *■**>
The public debt of Tennessee i» a lit
tle over •25,000,000.
Knoxville expects to have water works
itr operation about the Ist of June.
A Baltimore liniment manufacturer
spends >200,000 a year in advertising.
This season’s Louisiana sugar crop has
fallen rbort from 25 to 80 per cent.
Tbe population of Virginia is 1,512,-
565*
Alabama cultivated 2,179 acres of to
bacon last year.
The Mississippi State lunatic asylum
has 500 inmates.
Tbe value of productions in Misaie
uppi in 1870 was 18,154,758; in 1880,
112,852,876.
A few days ago Columbus, Miss., in
vMted 1300,000. in a cotton factory, and
bow tbe capital amounts ta> 11,250,000.
A Van Buren, Ark., man has a con
tract to dig 1000 persimmon roots to be
to Los Angelo.*, Cal.
A four story hotel, with all modern
improvements, and to cost $75,000, is a
probability at Birmingham, Ala.
Atlanta's drat grain elevator is com
pleted It cost •88,000, and has a stor
opacity of 200,000 bushels.
Gecrgia raised less than 2,000,000
hushcis of oata in 1870, and in 1880 the
production wa» over 5,000,000 bushels.
Pensacola, Fla., has voted against re
nadiating her ante-bellum debt, and re-
Srtly paid •300,000 es it.
•’’Six hundred and one eonvicts in the
Arkansas penitentiary. Over 100 of the
number are murderers.
• Tbe individual deposits in the four
national banks at Nashville amount to
$8,702,831.62.
Bhad are becoming numerous in the
Alabama, Bad are old in th* Montgojn
try market*.
• Birmineham, Ala., Uim retail whisky
dealers |350, while Moulton charges only
*W
• A stick of yellow pine timber at Way
' cross railroad, Fl*j measures fourteen
jacket at thcimall end, and is 94 feet
• - ln(.
Grand ison Harns, Jr., was convicted
• ts InAy mwtr.triejr at Augusta, (da , and
' wntenced to pay a fine of 11,000 or work
• ia the chain-gang for twelve months.
A company will commence work at
; Atlanta on the let of March on a facto
■ ry for the manufacture of stationary
.’-eoginei.
. 7 A large portion of Arkansas has been
carried by the late three-mile local op
• tioa law, and hundreds of saloons were
> closed with the oloae of the year.
A factory will be established at New
Orleans to prepare cotton-seed oil for
cooking, illuminating and lubricating
purposes.
In the Green county, Tenn., poor*
use the daily expense of each pauperi
averages four and a half cents. The billy
, of fare ought to be printed for the sake
« of curiosity.
Alabama has 51,540 square miles, is
divided into sixty-six counties, eleven of
them being 1,000 square miles or more in
dimension—the largest. Baldwin, being
1,620 square miles. The smallest are
Green and Etowah, being each 520 square
■ties.
Twelve tramps visited Columbus, (ia.,
a few days ago, and a few hours after
ward, they were beginning a thirty days
wntenc* on the rock pile. Thia treat
■ent generally and vigorously applied
•ill reach the very marrow of the tramp
■nuance.
The Littledtock Democrat fays that a
great many people in that country do
not understand that it is a greater crime
*o kill a human being than it is to steal
• Choctaw pony, with flax mane and
Wl, worth 114.76.
The Florida Southern railroad projects
*n extension to Pe ry, Ga., which will
P*«« through one of the richest undevel
oped sections of the State. The com
pany is composed of Boston capitalists
■'d to represent 140,000,000. A heavy
■tee is at*work on the Georgia line.
Atlanta Constitution: If one of the
Products of the cotton plant is to run
• ,at out of the South, this remark
able weed will hereafter be regarded as
“*.author of a new and higher civili
aation We are all the victims of dis
**d bog’s fat and a too frequent use of
frying pan.
Fart Smith (Ark.)lndependent: It is
longer Old Arkansas, but New Ar
~n*'- The Bint lock rifle, the dhon
cap, the yellow dog, the belled spins
“d the qnirt are only remembered as
u *,P**t' *ud good stock, good farms.
*>od schools, education and refinement
we taken their place.
Macon (Ga) Telegraph : With the in
7**'/ our industries comes also the
ociMM for skilled laborers. The South
1101 got them All onr boys have
trained to ba lawyers and doctors.
y**pa has not an institution for train
*< JMingaaea as skilled mechanic- She
w fveral so-called military aturh
"°t not an institution devoted to
knowledge in mechanism snd
which ia now her great
Cnlnnrfiia Idbetfistc.
TOPICS OF THE BAY.
baa one faculty. He car
PATn * baggage oonsista of twenty
three trunks.
Tm long-haired Wilde’s first lecture
netted him •1,400.
Oontbaht to report, Annie Louise
Gary is not to be married.
.Ora hundred newspapers in this coun
try are edited by colored men.
A hmidbnt of Belfast, Ohio, has been
put under bonds for opening his wife’s
tetters.
Tub project for the World’s Fair in
Boston has been abandoned for want of
money.
It will be a groat relief when we shall
be able to announce the close of the
Guiteau trial.
The Boston University lias come into
possession of $2,000,000 bequeathed to
it by Mr. Rich.
A Salt Lake Gentile states that it
would require an army of 30,000 men to
put the Mormons down.
A contemporary suggests that Guiteau
will have an opportunity to deliver his
speech from the gallows.
The Boston co-oj>erative store, after
several years’ trial, has’proved a failure,
and will wind up its affairs.
Both the new Senators elected from
lowa are natives of Ohio. Men-born in
Ohio get into office everywhere.
Asaloon-hhefer, at Blanchester, Ohio,
baa l>een required to put a woman $1,200
for selling her husband liquor.
Experimbnts made with sugar lieets in
Whitman County, Oregon, result in a
jield of 5,000 [Xmuds to the acre.
What a remarkable eoutrast the pres
ent winter is With that of one year gu,
Everything seems to go to tttfremca.
The Garfield momimeht fund now
amounts to alxiut $90,000, of which the
sity of Cleveland contributed $68,000.
A girl at Wentworth, Ont., was sent
to jail for forty-eight hours for contempt
of court because she refused to take an
o*th.
MAssACHrsxrre’ entire representation
in Congress—two Senators and eleven
Representatives—are in favor of woman
suffrage.
Mias Anna Dickinson has scored a
success in male character, as “ Hamlet."
Her determination to wear tights has
prevailed.
. The Boston Globe lielieves the mthetie
wriggle, which fashionable women have
adopted as a manner of locomotion, will
cure rheumatism.
It Is said that of 72,000,000 bushels of
grain sent from America to Europe last
year, not a single bushel was carried by
Bn American ship.
A New York paper advertised for
original short stories, and received over
400 responses. The world has an abund
ince of literary talent.
There is one thing the Land Act has
done in Ireland; it has filled the prisons,
but what other benefit lias been derived
from it would be hard to say.
That infinitesimal specimen of hnman
tty, Tom Thumb, has become a convert
to spiritualism, and believes in almost
everything of a ghostly nature.
It b in order to announce that Secre
tary Folgsr na< no one to do the honors
jf his palatial home but a grown daugh
ter. Tn other words, he is a solitaire.
The xwtlirtic knee-breeches have one
great advantage they do not bag al
the knee, arnTthey have this great disad
vantetu-they l*tray an unshapely calf.
Krsm* goes steadily nearer bank,
ruptcy each year, and last Decembe.
raised with difficulty the gold to pay the
semi-annual interest due foreign debtors.
Oscar Wilde says that in aU
therein not an actress so -powerfully
intense” as Clara Moms. This remark
ia suppose.! to be a compliment to Mi*
Morris.
lx Baltimom teachers are required t<
report twice a week the number of whip
prngs administered. and tb<w who re
port the fewest whippings have the
erm «>thwit sailing. _
It m claimed - that on wxxxwl of the
they eat Boston women look
younger at forty than Chicago -omen
Devoted the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia.
Harlem, Georgia. Tuesday, January 31, is&t.
do at thirty yean at age. BhH, ft is
pretty hard io balievw.
Detroit AVer Am; "'The
war of 1812 ended sixty-sevan years ago,
and yet over 20,000 widows are drawing
I'ensiona granted on account of it. That's
a big load of old widows. '
Con. Fred. Grant is the Preaident o!
tht> newly'organised American Electric
Light Company, of Maasachnsetta,
which claims to have a system for light
ing residence* and small areas.
It RiqrißEn 1,000 cars to carry ex
hibits to the Atlanta Exposition, but sc
many were sold that 200 were sufficient
to take away those which remained, they
being nearly all of them macliinerv.
Kentucky dore not naturally take to
holidays and believes there are too many
of them on the calendar. In the House,
a few dare ago, a Mil was pass*! to
abolish New Year’s day as a holiday.
Thk heads of corporations should be
j held responsible for inexcusable acci
dents, particularly where they are the
result of bad management. Under inch
a law there would be fewer accidents.
The King of Sweden will have t*i
guards at his country house. “The
soldiers are for the country, not for me,"
he Du Chaillu. “ I would rather
not be King if obliged to keep soldiers
watching over me.’’
In m Vienna disaster a girl of IS loot
her father, mother, sister, brother-in
law and her betrothed in the fire. She
returned to the bnrning house twice in
search of them, and at last jumped from
the front balcony into the street and
was killed.
Port HrnoN, Michigan, believes in
corporal punishment Fifty leather
straps, each a foot long, two inches
wide, and very thin, have been purchased
by the Board of Education of that place
for use in punishing pupils in the schools.
HitutnuxT Mason, who shot at Guiteau
met nan four months ago, ia still in
jail at Wa»huigtoii. General Bherman
promises tfist he shall be tried by court
martini. It is generally believed ho will
be acquitted on the ground of insanity.
Osweoo, New Tork, is decidedly a
healthly town. Rev. Simon Parmelee,
on the 15th of January, celebrated his
centennial birthday. Another Oswogoan
died recently aged 10R years and a Mr.
Clark, of the same town, claims to have
passed his 110th year.
It is gratifying to know that a tine
bill for murder in the first degree has
been found against the niin.l i.ri ol
Jennie Cramer, at New Haven, Conn.,
tiie sth of AugusWlsst. Walter E Mal
ley, Janies Malley and Blanche?DouglaM
are the person* indicted.
Tint National Board of health is con
sidering the pressing demand for better
quarantine regulations at New York and
othfer ports, in order to prevent emi
grants infected with smallpox landing
and proceeding on their journey inland,
spreading the foul disease al! over the
country. ,
A bailroad disaster ia a pretty serious
thing for the company which owns the
n d. It is said that the Ashtabula dis
aster five years age lias cost the Lake
Shore «2,0Q0,000, and some of the suits
for damages are not ended yet. The
Spur ten Duyvil disaster will cost the
Central a tremendous sum.
A Wiwf Vhuhnia railroad company has
agreed to stop at least one of its trains
each way—on l>eing Sagged—for passe ti
gers and freight at every farm where
right of way is given. The good times
hoped for when every farmer should
have a railroad in his own door yard,
seems to have come, in West Virginia.
A rxmarx ablb use is lieing made of
potatoes. The cleat peeled tulidr is
macerated in a solution of sulphuric
acid. The reanlt ia dned between sheets
of blotting paper, and then pressed. Os
this all manner of small articles are
made, from combe to collars, and even
billiard balls, for which the hard, bril
liantly white material is well fitted.
A ronxiow letter says all Vienna then
tors are well nigh liankrupt. Nobody
frequents them. The largest amount of
money received by an one of them is |200;
others take in about SSO a night. The
police have forbidden all day perform
ances, and have lessened the non
>H>r of scats in each. For instance, the
the Ander Wien Theater, which held 2,-
540 seats, hss now only 1,270.
Mayor Habbmon, << Chicago, has
just had a streak of luck. A few .lays
sgo be received a letter from a lady W
B,»too who said that she lived on bhas-
mut arenas, was cultivated, had a taste
for the aesthetic literature ampart, had s
cool SIOO,OOO ia bunk, was but thirty
eight years old, and anxious to be made
a Mayor's bride. The Mayor perhaps
understands the drift of her argument
I>£ annual product of the preciom
laoial* in tbe States and Territories west
wf the Missouri River, including British
Ootambaa, are as follows ; Receipts st
Bun Francisco from the west coast of
Mexico and reported to Well*-Fargo ;
□aid, $31,889,886; silver, $45,077,829.
(Abfomia shows an increase in silvei
and a decreaas in gold. Nevada shows a
falling off, and Utah, Colorado, and Ari
anna, an increase
Aocomdimu to «U account* Mrs. Lin
oda ia in a pretty b*d condition, physi
cally and mantally. She is attending
Miller's Water Cure, New York, and is
barely able to walk about her room.
Cataracts are forming on both eyre. She
ia troubled with spinal troubles and bu.
Brtght's disease. When told that tbe
Pension Committee had decided to give
her $15,000, which amount was due bar
under arrears of pension, she manifested
great satisfaction. She will rennin in
Nw York for the winter.
Million! of barrels of ciude oil,
enough to supply the world for years,
are said to ba stored array ia the edi re
gions. The discovery of oil in Europe
and the sinking of wells there threaten
to affect tbe foreign market, though sta
ttotirs as yet show no decrease of the
amount of oil expected from thia country.
Our oil men have turned their attention
to South America as a market, bat in
some parts of that section of the world
there are large deposits of petroleum <>l
good quality, which can be procured in
abundance without boring for it.
A ooMMumcATWs ia the Charleston
A’eres and Coeerler calls attention to thr
statute which makes the non-payment of
a poll tax of $1 a misdemeanor. It says:
“What prompts me to write to you at
thia Ums ia that arreata are now being
made and prisoners are confined in our
jail charged with'' no other crime than
neglect to pay their poll tax, and aa tbe
legislature u now in session I hope the
matter can be so presented to the people
and our legislators that immediate action
will be taken." It is thia kind of a law
that causes laborers to emigrate, in
stead of immigrate, in South Carolina.
Oraage Wluea.
The subject of uuluing ths surplus
rod the defective fruit of the orangs
groves of the southern counties by man
ufacturing it into a palatable wine, has
engaged the attention of numbers sf
persons, and some iutereuting facta have
been elicited.
Edward Praia* writes to the Semi-
Tropic Ualifomia, and describes his ex
periments in making orange wine from
the wild orange of Florida years ago,
.He says that it can not be surpaaaedfor
ru.Hlical purposes, and sold when only
sight months old for three dollars per
gallon.
The oranges must be perfectly ripe.
Peel them and cut in halves, crosswise
of’the cells, squeeze into a tab. The
press used must be so close that the
seeds can not pass into the must. Add
two pounds of white sugar to each
gallon of sour orange juice; or one
pound to each gallon ot sweet orange
juice; and one quark- of water to each
gallon of the mixed sugar and jmee
Close fermentation is necessary Ths
resultant wine is amber-colored, and
lasUu like dry hock with the orange aro
ma. Vinegar can be made from the
refuse, and extract from the jieela.
The (Vw>/ecfiowers’ Journal, which is
good authority, gives three formulas tor
making orange wine, and one for orange
brandy, in all of which wine, raisins or
brandy figure prominently. Wo quota
the first, which isas follows :
“Take thirty pounds of new raisins ;
pick them clean from the stalks and chop
them fine. Fare the yellow rinds from
two dozen oranges as thin as possible,
being careful to omit ail of the white un
derlaying pi th. Boil about eight gal
lons <>( soft water till the third part of it
is evaporated ; after letting it cool a lit
tle, pour upon your raisins and orange
peel ; then stir it up well, and cover A
up and let it stand to infuse for five days,
stirring once or twice a day. Then
strain and ureas this liquid through a
hair sieve. Now put it in a clean cask,
adding the yellow nnds of a dozen more
oranges, iiared thin as the first. Make
a syrup of the juice of the whole thirty
six oranges, with s pound and a quarter
of white sugar. Stir them well together,
and bung nj>; let it stand two months
to fine, and then bottle it off."—Am
Prancieco Uulletln.
Kceinelscr, Yeung Mm.
Young men who are intending to be
farmers should remember that agricult
ure ia both a science and an art, to be
carefully studied, and then practical I j
earned out The day has gow by when
the ignorant can become succeeafnl
fanners. Within the past ten yean
sgncnltnre has undergone a gnat
revolution, l«t the next ten yeaps
will see greater changes than have
yet born witnessed The leading
agncultunsta will be the leading men of
■ countrv.— Prairie farmer.
Ingersoll on Wh akey.
We publish this week a beautiful ex
tract from a late volume of Ingersoll's
Wit, Wisdom and Eloquence by Me-
Lure, on the subject of Alcohol and its
horeors. Mr. Ingersoll is an avowed in
fidel, but what Christian priest has done
so much as he for the cause Os temper
ance?
I am aware there is a prejudice
against any man engaged in the manu
facture of alcohol. I believe that from
tjie time it issues from the coiled and
poisonous worm into the distillery until
it empties into ttJr heW of death, di*
honor and crime, it demoralises
everybody that touches it from its
rnurco to where it end*. I do not be
lieve snybody can contemplate the sub
ject without becoming prejudiced against
the liquor crime.
All we have to do gentleman is to
think of the wrecks on either bank of
the stream of death; of the suicides, of
the inaanitv, of the poverty, of the ig
norance, of the destitution, of the little
children tugging at the faded and weary
breastaof weeping and despairing wives',
asking for bread, of the taientcumen of
genius it has wrecked, the men strug
gling with imaginary serpents, produced
by Inis devilish tiling; and wnen you
think of the jails, (the almshouses, of
the asylums, of tbe prisons, of the scaf
folds, upon either bank 1 do net wonder
that every thoughtful man ia prejudiced
against this stuff called alcohol.
Intemperance cuts down youth in its
vigor, manhood in its strength and ige
in its weakness. It breaks the fathers
heart, bereaves the darling mother, ex
tinguishes natural affection, erases con
jugal love, biota out filial attachments,
blights parental hope and brings down
mourning age in sorrow to the grave.
It produces wesknetw, not strength, sick
ness, not health, death, not life. It
mikes wives widows, children orphans;
fathers fiends and all of them paupers
and beggars. Feeds rht unistism, nurses
gout, welcomes epidemics, invites chole
ra, imports pestilence and embraces con
sumption, It covers theriand with idle
ums, misery and crime. It fills your
jails, supplies your almshouses and sup
ples your asylums. It engenders contro
veroes, fosters quarrels and cherishes
riots. It crowds your penitentiaries
and furnishes victims to your scaffolds.
It Is the life Mood of tbe gambler, the
element of the burglar, the prop of tbe
highwavman and the support of the
midnight incendiary. It countenances
tbe liar, respects the thief, esteems the
blasphemer. It violates obligations,
reverences fraud and honors infamy. It
defames benevolence, hates love, acorns
virtue and slanders innocence. It in
cites the father to butcher his helpless
offspring, helps tbe husband massacre
his wife and the child to grind the par
icidal axe. It burns up men, it con
sumes women, detests fife, curses God
and despises heaven. It atuborns wit
nessee, curses perjury, defile* the jury
box, and stains the judicial ermine. It
degrades the citisen, debases the legisla
tor, dishonors statesmen, and disarms
the patriot- Is brings shame not honor;
terror, not safety; desjiair, happiness;
and with the malovencc of a fiend, it
calmly surveys its frightful desolation
and unsatisfied with its havoc, it pois
ons felicity, kills peace, ruins morale,
blights confidences, slays reputation
and snipes out national honors. It curs
es the world and Isuglis st its ruin.
It does all that and more—it murders
the soul. It is the son of villainici*,
the father of nil crimes, the mother of
abominations; the devils best friend, and
Gods worst enemy. •
A Better Way.
Ths wasteful practice of burning or
otherwise destroying love letters baa
been brought into disrepute by a young
lady in lowa, who has bad hers bound
in the form of an album, which she
tarns out for the inspection and enter
tainment of her visitors when they have
weaned of praising her Udiee and finished
the family photographs.
The device, economical as it ia— and in
that aspect praiseworthy - has its draw
back*. To visitors who have met—as
the phraaets—"with a disappointment."
the sight of such a collection would bo
borrowing in the extreme, Then there
would be the additional danger that
some guest would find among the mis
sives one from somebody to whom she
believed she bad a special claim The
sight, in anoh a case, of words of love
addressed io another might be provoca
tive of unpleasantness- perhaps even,
of tears or, worse still, of scratching and
hair-pulling.
Tbiwe ixxaibilitiee are to be dreaded.
Fortunately they can be avoided without
recurring to tiie old fashioned ami waste
ful method of burning Jove letters. Buch
missives contain—or are popularly held
to contain—a good deal of sweetness.
Homo of them Live been desert lied, in
the glowing imagery of girlhood -
“jnst too sweet for anothing, but this
is undoubtedly hyperbola. They ought,
however, to lie sweet enough for glucose
if there is any semblance of sweetness
stxmt them Let the lows plan i>o
aliandoned then and let tbe accumulated
love letters of the country be sent to the
gineose factories. The resident* in the
neighliovhood of nuch factorw* might
object But they do that now,
Maa’s value ia m proportion to what
lie has courageously suffered, aa the rai
ns of tbe steel blaue is ia firopovtion to
tbe tempering it has uadargone
(’““.’i’A-ATSr-
NUMBER 6.
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
(Fras <ta>. taa-i “UmSaj.”)
Tn beauty of a lovely woman is tike
music.
Ou* dead are never dead to us until
wo have forgotten them.
A woman may get to tore by degrees?
the beat fire doe* not flare up tbe soon
tot.
A max may be very firm in other mat
ters, ami yet be under a sort of witchery
from a woman.
When death, the great reconciler has
coma. it ia never our tenderness that we
repeat of, but our severity.
If you would love a woman without*
ever looking back on your love aa a folly,
she must die while you are oowting bar.
We abb apt to be kinder to tbe brutes
that love us than to the woman that tore
ns. Is it because the brutes are dumb?
I don't went to know people that look
ugly and disagreeable, any more than I
want to taste dishes that took dlaagreea
bl*.
Tbbx they looked at each other, not
Suite aa Uiey bad looked before, for ia
icir eyes there was the memory of a
kiaa.
Thßrb's no pleasure in living if you’re
to be corked up forever, and only drib
ble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky
barrel.
Ox* may be betrayed into doing
things by' a combination of oiroum
stances which one might never have
done otherwise.
“ But, mother, thee kaow'et we eon
not love just where other folks 'ud have
us. There's nobody but God that can
control the heart of man.
Tus vainest woman is never tboroughlv
conscious of her own beauty till she U
loved by the man who sets her own
passion vibrating in return.
Bbcaub*. dear, trouble comes to u
all in this life, we set our hearts on
things which isn't God a-will for us to
have, and than wo go sorrowing.
.. A man never lies with more delicious
langur under the influence of a passiot
than when he has persuaded himself
that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
Whbx I have made up my mind thril
can not afford to bnv a tempting dog, I
take no notice of uim, lieceuao if ho
took a strong fancy to me, and looked
lovingly at me, the straggie between
arithmetic and inclination might become
unpleasantly severe.
It’s a deep mystery—the way the
heart of man turns td one woman
out to ail the ioet bo’s seen la
the world, and makes it easier for him
to work seven years for her, like Jacob
did for Rachel, aooner than have any
other woman for the asking.
Bur I believe there have been men
sin-'e his day who have ridden a tepg
way to avow a rencontre, and then
galloped hastily back, leet they should
mil alt It is the favorite stratagem of
our passions to charm a retreat, and to
turn sharp around upon us the moment
have made up our minds that tbe
day is our own.
j ■ i. B'xix 1 ire
An Outlaw’s Hweetbeart.
Tbe robbers used to frequently alyxit
at targets iu company with their sweet
hearts, in the shooting the girls making
sometimes almost as good a score as the
men, and the yells that would rend the
air as one's favorite lady wonld split the
bullet on the half dollar as it fell for
ward to the ground would have done
justice to a border scout. Nor were the
voung ladies liehiud them in equestrian
ism, Mias Ryan, iu psrticuler, often
boasting that she could drop the nickel
a« often in the raoo aa any of the boys.
It may be proper here to explain the
rnodus n/trrandi of tbe “nickel race."
A nickel or other small coin is placed ia
th<> forks Os a tree, ataiut the distance
from the grmind that a man’s shoulder
wonld lie while on horsebaok. Each
partv has one shot at it as he flies by on
his horse at full speed. The ladies take
their regular turn, and Mias Ryan has
been known to drop the nickel three
times out of five* titers, and that she is,
indeed, at home in the saddle is demon
strated by the fact that when alighting
from her favorite horse, a powerful black
charger, she simply rises from th* sad
dle and leaps to the ground, while Lit
horse walks to the nearest hitahing-pcit
to await its rider. When she is ready to
remonnt, her intelligent horse cones at
her call, and taking her saddle liy the
pummel she bounds into it and is off at
a fast gallop, ths only gelt she ever rides.
—St. Chronicle.
Nbe Fetched Him.
Women sometimes have great pres
ence of mind. A jailor's wife saw that
a prisoner bad got between her husband
and the unlocked door and waa going
for it like a Hootch terrier for a rat hole
Hhe knew she hadn't tbe atrength to
seize and hold him, ami besides he hail
a knife, ao she didn't try. But she
stepped into a side corridor near tbe heed
of a fight of stairs tbe priaoter had got
to ileacend, yanked off her boopakirt,
and, aa be passed, 'flung it before him.
Tbe way ho turned handsprings a*d
Aomeraanlta down those stairs was a eaa
tton to eaia, and bia frantic struggles
after bo reached tbe bottom would nave
attracted folks from a dog fight. When
tbe jailor came up, tbe foßow had got
himself so entangled that he wm abso
lutely helpless, waa doubled up in terri
bly uncomfortable ways and wee ohok
lag to death, and so completely wound
up that the jailor had to cut bun ovt ,
with a hatchet, and it took half a yard of
court plaster and a pint of arnica to
■ make him at all comfortable.—Boa/on
I Poet