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KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
It Is now proposed to enact a law in
Louisiana prohibiting under penalty, the
manufacture, sale, or use of dangerous
weapons._
The natives of Venezuela recently
followed a wagon for nearly a week to
see if the hind wheels would catch up
with the front ones. As this did no(
occur, the vehicle was pronounced a
fraud.
The Grand Vizier of Turkey has had
to pawn some of the silver ware belong¬
ing to the Sultan to raise the Sultan's
contribution toward the expenses for the
annual pilgrimage of poor Mussulmen tc
Mecca.
Seventeen hundred bales of buffalo
robes arrived in New York recently from
the West. These are said to be the last
robes that will ever be sent East, such
being the scarcity of the buffalo at pres¬
ent. At one time skins were sold at $4
apiece. Now they bring upward of $35,
few being obtainable even at that price.
In 1848 Lieutenant Trechow was dis
mi-sed from the German army for sur.
rendering the Berlin armory, in the in¬
surrection, to the Civic Guard, and was
condemned to fifteen years’ imprison¬
ment in a fortress. He escaped to Aus¬
tralia, and now, at the age of seventy
three, he has returned, hoping that he
was included in the amnesty proclaimed
by the’new Emperor. The Minister of
War decides that his offense was unpar
donable, and he will be reimprisoned,
probably for life. 7
In Denmark, it is becoming customary,
asserts the Times-De>nocra f , for friends to
send to the relatives of a person who has
died what is called a “Good Works
Card,” in place of the usual floral trib¬
utes, These cards are of white paste¬
board, printed in silver, and are issued
by various charitable organizations. On
each card is the name of the society
which issues it; in the centre is an ivy
wreath on which the name of the de¬
ceased may be written; and at the foot
is a space for the name of the sender.
The cards are sold in bookstores for a
moderate sum.
Europe has an abundance of widowed
Empresses just now, says the Cincinnati
£njuirer. Germany has two, the wives
of William I. and Frederick III.; Eng¬
land’s Queen and Empress of India has
been long widowed; the once beautiful
Eugenie, of France, still lingers at Chis
elhurst dreaming of her lost son; and
we believe Carlotta, the unfortunate
widow of Maximili an, once Emperor of
Mexico, still lives in an asylum. There
are also several widowed Queens, those
of Spain, Poitugal and Italy being
among the list. And all of them, save
Carlotta, were bereft of their husbands
by a natural death.
The large factories of Manchester, N.
H., have been rushed with orders from
all parts ot the country, says the Hart¬
ford Coureint, for silk and merino ban¬
dannas for campaign purposes. The ca¬
pacity of one mill is a thousand dozeri
daily', and the earlier orders for 5000
dozen were supplied in part from stock
on hand. It appears that a large lot
manufactured more than thirty years ago
(or A. T. Stewart, of New York, were
rejected because the colors did not quite
satisfy his critical Oye. These have been
resurrected from the warehouse in good
condition, and will wave in manv a
Democratic parade this fall.
The Sou them Evangelist sayS that more
than 30,000 children in Chicago, Ill.-, are
addicted to the use of strong drink,
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
At the Gate—A Sympathetic Heart
-At. the Picnic—More than
He Could Stand—
Etc., Etc.
The lights were low, the hour was late.
The popping time had come;
And, Her gazing idly at the grate,
love sat chewing gum.
She asked him if he’d risk—dear girl
With her the final step;
He gave his gum a listless whirl
And yawned and answered “yep.”
—Oil City Blizzard.
A Sympathetic Heart.
“Can you give me a little breakfast,
tna’am?” pleaded the tramp; “I’m hungry
and cold. I slept outdoors last night
and the rain came down in sheets. ”
“You should have got in between the
sheets,” said the woman kindly, as she
so the gate.— New York Sun.
At the Picnic.
He (with a bunch of tvild flowers in
his hands)—“Ah, my dear Miss Sereand
yellow, what kind of posies will "oil
choose?
She (in a perfect twitter)—“Oh, te,
he; te, he; I will choose pro-posies.”
Mr. Smith sinks into the earth.— Wash¬
ington Critic.
More Than He Could Stand.
Grocer—“How is it, Mr. Swartman,
that you are so particular to pay cash
bill.” uow-a-days? You used to run a weekly
Customer—“I know I did, and you
would always give me a cigar when I
squared up Saturday night.”
Grocer—“Yes.”
Customer—Well, It was smoking that
cigar New that impelled me to pay cash.”—
Turk Sun.
Not Easily Embarrassed.
“Have you kept track of young
Baboonv lately? At the rate he is going
on he’ll soon be seriously embarrassed. ’
“Embarrassed? Nonsense! you don’t
know the man. He asked me for the
loan of a hundred this morning without
the quiver of an eyelid.”— Life.
A Small Dividend.
First Tramp—“Well, how mucu
ye get out of the felly?”
Second Tramp—“Faix, only enough
for mesilf.”
First Tramp—“And is this de way
stand in wid me, Mickey?”
Second Tramp—“Sure, all Oi got was
a kick. Ye can take yer share of that,
if ye want it. ”— Life.
He Diked Cold Roast Beef.
’‘Have Young Housekeeper . (to butcher)—
you roast beef?”
Butcher—“Yes, ma’am.” f
“Do “Oh, you keep it on the ice?”
yes, ma’am.”
“Then you may send me some. My
husband told me only this morning that
he is very fond of cold roast beef.”—
Siftings.
Getting it Down Fine.
Johnnie was under a cloud. He had
been given six lines to learn before
unch-time, with the proviso, no lines,
ao lunch.
The lunch-bell rang and his mother
called Johnnie, who knew just one
third of his lesson.
“No lunch for you, my son, to-day!”
tvas the maternal decision.
“Please, mamma,” pleaded Johnnie,
“can’t I have two lines’ worth?”— Judge.
A Generous Offer.
light, They were riding togetherin the moon
aad he was trying hard to think
of sudden something pleasant to say. All of a
she gave a slight shiver.
asked, “Are you cold, Miss llattie?” he
anxiously. “I will put my coat
around you if you like.”
“Well, yes,” said she, shyly, with an
other little shiver; “I am a little cold, I
confess; but you needn’t put your
around me. One of your sleeves will
do.”—Somerville Journal. .
No Hope for the Future.
“It grieves me to look back over a
wasted life, 3 said a comparatively young
doctor to Chicago girl. “To think
that with fame and foitune in my reach
I hayeturned fromthem in order to pur
sue a"humble career,”
“But is not too late to begin anew,”
she suggested -
“Alas; I realize too forcibly that it
is.”
“Can you not make one great, final
effort?”
“No. I am too old to learn to play
baseball. ”
“Yes;” she said softly. It is very,
verj sad .”—Merchant Traveler,
Steep Hills.
“What have you been doing lately!”
asked a traveling man of a former asso¬
ciate in the same business whom he met
-. a Pennsylvania village. luck.”
“I been having pretty hard
“In what way 1 ”
“You see my uncle died and left me a
farm out here in the mountains and I
gave here and up traveling in order to come out
run it.”
“Don’t you like iti”
“No, I can’t say I do. I can stand a
good deal but I do draw the line at
farming where the hills are so dog-goned
steep that the cattle have to stand on
their hind legs to nibble the grass off
them.— Merchant Traveler.
Dangerous.
“l am going to stop bathing,” said a
friend of mine, of good habits. The
statement staggered me, for I knew he
did not belong to the “great unwashed,”
nor was he in any way retrograding to¬
ward that bathless class, the tramps. He
proceeded wife’s brother to is e,plain: physician, “You see, and my
a young
my wife’s father is an old physician. and My
own father reads medical works
talks a great deal about them. A near
neighbor of ours is a rising young doc¬
tor, and through him a number ot medi¬
cal men have visited us, and we have
met the M. D.’s also at his house. Now,
in such an atmosphere of wisdom you
would think me safe. But L feel I am
not. About everything I do from the
time I get up until I retire, in the way
of eating, drinking, washing, riding or
bathing is dangerous! I say ‘danger
ous’ because that is the term they, about the
doctors, use. Iam mostalaimed
1 athing. My father has found it in the
books that it is dangerous to bathe while
warm. My wife’s father says it is dan¬
gerous to bathe while cold or chilly.
Her brother asserts that only the strong¬
est persons dare bathe on arising
out first taking food. The same wise
young doctor says it is dangerous and
debilitating to bathe just before retir¬
ing. They all agree that it is danger¬ eating
ous to jump into water just after
heartily. Nothing has been said about
getting up in the middle of the night
and taking a light lunch and a bath,
nor about leaving business in the middle
of the afternoon and going to a bath¬
house for an hour, but as both these
times are very inconvenient for me to
indulge in ablutions, I have decided on
the only alternative, not to bathe at
ail.”— Chicago Journal.
Their First Dinner.
They had just returned from their
wedding tour ard were to have their
first dinner in their own home.
“Well, Percy, dear,” she said sweetly
after breakfast, “what shall we have for
dinner?”
“Oh, “No’, anythin^ you like.” yo’u*like.”
dear; anything
little “But I shall like anything you like,my
rosebud.”
“And I shall like anything ° you like,
my precious old boy.”
Well, theu, what shall be darling.’” have, dear?”
“Whatever you want,
“But I want to please you, lovey.”
“And 7 want to please you, ’ precious.”
“You old darling!”
“You blessed old precious.”
“But what shall we have?”
“That’s for you to say.”
“No, for you. ”
“But I’m sc afraid I’ll order something
vou don’t like.”
“I’ll like anything ° you like, ' darling.” °
“Truly, Percy?”
“Truly, my darling. ”
“Because I’d feel so badly I’d just cry if
I had any thing yewdidn’t like. Do youlike
roast beef;”
“Do you?”
“I asked you first, dearie.”
“ What if I don’t care for it?”
“Then we’ll never have a pound of it
in the house." littie
“You darling!
“.But do you like it?
“ De you'”
“O, Percy, you naughty old boy!
How am. I ever to get what vou like if
you go on like this? And I do want to
please you.”
“ Please yourself and you’ll be sure to
please me.” C
“Then we’ll have the beef!"
“If you say s0 i ovey ^»
“But I dorft so.” * i
“It say . little,...
shall be just as my own
lovay-dovey, What lifey wifey says.”
“ if I say beef? ”
Then I shall'say beef, too.”
Well, then, well hare roast beef. ’*
I hve roast beef.”
So do I.”
“ Oh, I’m to glad.”
So am I. ”
2 You old darling!
You 4
precious!"—Dstroit Free Press.
Clay Tobacco Pipes.
There are few industries the .processes
of which are more interesting, asserts
the New York Sun. than that of the
manufacture of clay tobacco pipes. The
reporter recently wandered—more by
chance than interest—into a factory
where many bushels of the popular clay
pipe arc daily made and shipped to all
parts of the country. Over 5000 gross,
annually or nearly a million cheap clay pipes, are
sent out from this factory alone.
Said the proprietor of the establish¬
ment visited when asked by the writer
for some information concerning the
manner in which the pipes were made;
“We manufacture more than a dozen dif¬
ferent varieties and designs of clay
pipes.”
"Tiie clay used in making the pipes,”
went on the manufacturer, “is obtained
chiefly from pits located in New Jersey,
although being worked there is Glen a large bed of Islands clay
at Cove, Long
The clay costs $3 a ton at the mines,
but, with freight charges, etc., it
amounts to $0 a ton before it is landed’
at the factory. Ae soon as it arrives the
clay is spread out and seasoned by being
exposed to the heat of the sun, which
generally occupies several days. It is
then mixed with water and passed
through a mill, which crushes which it and re¬
moves the stones and grit cl ng
to the crude clay. It is then kneaded
with the hands in the same manner
in which bread is kneaded and freed,
fro 11 all foreign substances. 1
the “After the clay ’has been brought to
proper consistency it is carried to a
workman called a ‘roller,’ who sits be¬
fore a bench, on the top of which lies a
smooth, square board. In making a pipe
the ‘roller’ takes in each h:md a small
lump of the fresh clay and deftly rolls it
out to the desired length and thickness,'
leavin • a knob-like lump at the end of
each pi.ee, which later is formed into
the bowl of the
“At this stage of its manufacture the
half-made pipe is laid upon a measure,
which marks the regulation length of
the stem, If the latter has been made
too long it is then clipped off. When a
dozen pipes have been thus formed, they
are passed to another workman, who
sits at a complicated machine, in which
the pipes are further manipulated, The
man at the muchine first oils the clay,
after which he places the rudely shaped
pipes in a mold and inserts an oiled
and polished wire through the stems,
smoke making is the drawn aperture using. through The which mold the is
in
then placedj in the machine and the
superfluous clay is forced out.
“The pipes have now' taken on their
Anal shape and are laid in the sun to dry,
after which they are polished and put in
a lar ff e earthen receptacle called a ‘sag
ger,’ dozen which is covered and arranged with
a other saggers in the klin. The
Goor of the klin is then securely fastened
and the fire, which is fed with char coal
Ilnd coke, is started and kept at a white
heat for fifteen or twenty hours. The
fire is then allowed to die out slowly,
and when quite extinguished the doors’
are opened, the saggers allowed to cool
and their contents examined. The pipes,
which before were of a dull blue color
and very limp and soft, have become
perfectly white and hard. The finished
P'P es that hnve been examined and
found perfect are carefully packed in
hanels and boxes, and are then ready
for shipment.
-—— --.
Builders of the Florida Peninsula.
Among the agencies which Florida, have helped
to build up the peninsula of are
certain trees, like the mangrove and
cypress, w'hich grow on land more or less
under water. Like the coral builders,
they have worked slowly, but in thou
sauds of centuries the change wrought
would be great. thousands It is altogether tree-covered proba¬
ble that the of
‘‘ islan(is ” in tlle Ev erglades a ° d Bl S
c JP re f we >' e once mangrove thickets,
a ’(d that the present mangrove islands
vvl ^ 111 time be added to the mainland,
—Arkansaw Traveler.
The slaughter of alligators in Florid*
-eems to increase.