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lUM JOURNAL.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
New York has found it necessary to
increase the taxes, and it is now $2.22
on the $100, and Philadelphia has done
likewise and increased to $2.90 on $100.
Even Jerusalem is in the nineteenth
century swim, and has a real estate
boom. Land near the city has gone up
five hundred per cent, within the. last
few years.
A colored man by the name of Ross,
who was lately convicted of murder in
the first degree and sentenced to be
hanged at Brandenburg, Ky., was
granted a new trial on the ground that
he had not been convicted by a jury of
his peers. There was no colored man on
the jury that tried him.
The taste for realism is extending,
observes the Commercial Advertiser. In
Nova Scotia the other day three small
boys, under eight years all of them,
bound and gagged another small boy
and proceeded to play “killing pig” so
successfully that they cut his throat
fatally to get the proper flow of blood.
One Rafael, a weather-beaten gypsy,
has petitioned the Emperor of Austria to
allow him to be invested with the
sovereignty of all gypsies everywhere,
offering to show incontestably his descent
from that Pharaoh who would not let
Israel go, and also, if his petition be
granted, to make the gypsies cease from
vagrancy and become serviceable citi
zens.
“Five million people upon the globe
are now dependent on the electric cur¬
rent for their daily bresd,” so said Mr.
W. H. Preeoe, at the recent meeting of
the British Association held at Bath.
“Scarcely a week passes,” he continued,
“without some fresh practical applica¬
tion of its principles, and we seem to be
only on the shore of that sea of economy
and beneficence which expands with
every new discovery of the properties of
electricity, and spreads already beyond
the mental grasp of any one single
worker,” And what is in store beyond
for man’s research and conquest who
shall say?_
The New York Independent presents
its annual statistical exhibit of the vari¬
ous churches in this country, compiled
mostly from official sources. The follow¬
ing is a general summary by denomina¬
tional groups:
ChM. Min. Corn.
Adventists........ 1,563 835 100,441
Baptists 45,434 30,998 3,971,685
Christian Union... 1,500 500 120,000
Congregationalists 4,404 4,090 457,584
Friends 700 500 107,968
German Evange’l.. 675 500 125,000
Lutherans 7,903 4,215 987,600
Mennonites........ 385 605 93,000
Methodists......... 48,258 28,313 4,690,529
Moravians......... 94 108 10,966
New Jerusalem.... 95 101 5,750
Presbyterians...... 13,057 9,586 1,136,685
Eposcopalians..... 4.768 3,931 446,785
Reformed.......... 2,025 1,345 269,523
Roman Catholics.. 6,829 5,596 7,200,000
Unitarians........ 375 488 20,000
Universalists 730 677 37,807
Grand total.. 138,885 94,457 19,799,328
The net gain for the year was 6434
churches, 4505 ministers and 774,681
communicants. By far the heaviest gain
was among the Baptists—4587 churches
and 3109 ministers. The Methodists,
with their 48,285 churches, 28,313 min¬
isters and 4,699,529 communicants, stand
at the head of the denominations, the
Roman Catholics come next, and then
the Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans,
Congregationalists and Episcopalians.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES PROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
An Autumnal Idyl—Then You'll
Remember Me—A Precaution¬
ary Measure—A Creature
of Habit, Etc., Etc.
The roses from the wild rose-trees
And Upon the grass are falling,
geese in happy argosies
Upon Fly southward, wildlv calling.
the top rail of the fence
The squirrels madly chatter,
And in the forest, deep and dense,
The chestnuts gaily patter;
And Mary .Tane will soon commence
To make the buckwheat batter.
Then You'll Remember Me.
Restaurant Waiter (to departing cus¬
tomer who has failed to give him the
accustomed tip)—“You’ll not forget me,
will you:”
Miserly Party—“No, indeed. I’ll
write you a letter when I get home.”—
Siftings.
A Precautionary Measure.
Enamored Youth—“Your father treats
me with the most distinguished consid¬
eration. The other night he called to
me as I was leaving and reminded me I
was Sweet forgetting Girl—“les, my umbrella.”
papa was afraid you
would be coming back after it the next
evening. ”—Philadelph ia liecord.
A Creature of Habit.
“Are you going out riding?”
“Why do you take that bell along in¬
stead of a whip?”
“Because, you see, I bought this horse
from the street railroad company and he
won’t move unless I ring a bell.”—
Fliegende Blatter.
Not Due to Success.
First Poetical Aspirant (to second
ditto)—“So 3‘ou say you sent off more
than a hundred poems and never had one
returned?”
Second P. A.—“That’s what I said.”
First P. A.—“It’s a phenomenal suc¬
cess! I wish I knew the secret.”
Second P. A.—“Well, I’ve sometimes
thought it was because I never enclosed
postage stamps.”— Life.
He Liked to Be Accurate.
The farmer's wife ran out to the road
and looked up and down. A tramp was
Bhuiliing along, when she hailed him. “I
say, did you see any cows in the corn in
that corner lot?”
his “No, ma’am,” he replied as he lifted
hat, “I didn’t see any cows in the
corn, but I did see some of the corn go¬
ing into the cows at —”
But she was off.— Life.
Didn’t Recognize the Bivalves.
Mr. Byam Kegs (from Kalamazoo, with
intense disgust).—“Here, waiter, I
ordered raw oysters. What on airth
are these nasty black stones!
Waiter (petrified)—“Oystahs, sah—on
de haff-shell, sah!”
Mr. Byam Keggs—“Haff-shell, is it?
Oh, git out! I’ve eat a million canned
oysters out home, and never saw a shell
on ary one of them 1”
Careful of His Mind.
Woman (to tramp)—“I s’pose you’ve
traveled a good deal in this country?”
Ma’am, Tramp— “I know every toot of it,
from i’ortland, Maine, to the
Bio Grande.”
Woman—“Don’t ye git tired o’ travel
in’ sometimes?”
oppressed Tramp—“Occasionally, with Ma’am, I am
more or less ennui; still,
there’s nothing like travel, you know,
to broaden one’s mind.”— The Epoch.
Two Pictures.
In Courtship—“What makes the stars
so dim to-night?” she asked.
“Your eyes are so bright they out¬
shine, them,” he said, as he tenderly
pressed After her Marriage—“I hand. wonder
how many
telegraph from here poles to the it would take to reach
moon?” she said,
musingly. if it
“One, was long enough,” he
snapped; Courier. “why can’t you talk sense?”
—Sudan
What Can He Tell Pa?
Clara (shyly)—“You will have to gain
papa’s consent first, Mr. Sampson, ere I
give Mr. you Sampson my answer.” (heart throbbing » with
ihope)—“Can I see him at once, dear
Clara?”
“I think so, Mr. Sampson; and papa is
foolish 5° absurdly practical, he may ask some
What questions.” ask?
will he
He may want to know how much you
are worth, and oh, Mr. Sampson—George
(and the name dropped so sweetly from
her lips)—what will you tell him?— Sift¬
ings.
Learnins to Shop.
Pretty Miss—“Have you any plows?”
Jeweler—“Plows?”
“Yes, or harrows!”
“Harrows?”
“Yes; or rakes, or hoes, or mowing
machines—”
“See here, my little miss, you seem to
be out of your head, and I don’t know
but may be I ought to call a doctor or
policeman “Oh, or-”
mercy me! Don’t do that! My
head is all right. You see, I wanted to
go shopning, told and as I had not any money
ma me to be careful not to ask for
anything the store I went into was likely
to have in stock.”— Philadelphia liecord.
Food for a Lover.
He—“Amanda, this is the neat little
restaurant where I have those delicious
lunches I have mentioned to you but
could not describe, and this is Tom, the
waiter who serves me my favorite dishes
so nicely.
She—“Howsweet, Adolphus.”
He—“What will you order, Amanda?
They have birds, oysters, and all the
delicacies of the season.”
She—“Your favorite dish, Adolphus,
of course. Waiter, you may fetch Mr.
Wigwag’s favorite order, which he says
you serve so nicely.”
Waiter—“Yes, lady” (giving order)—
“Draw one in de dark. Soused pigs’ feet
ou de iron.”— New Tori Sun.
Vanquished.
“You malicious nuisance!” exclaimed
the angry business man, “you have been
here every day for the last six months.
How many more times do you need to
be told that I never buy anything of
“1 am carrying out the wishes of my
late father, sir,” said the peddler. “He
called on you 397 times without ever
making a sale and then turned the job
over to me. He died of a broken heart,
sir, and I am fast breaking * down, but I
have a son who
“I surrender,” said the business man,
brokenly. three “I don’t want the blood of
generations on my head. I’ll take
your entire stock if you quit and call it
square.”— Chicago Tribune.
A Mean Trick.
Gus De Smith has been engaged to a
number of young ladies, but thus far he
has never married any of them. Besides
being a gay Lothario, Gus is also a poet.
On meeting a friend recently Gus re¬
marked :
“Did you hear that I was engaged
again?” don’t
“You tell me so? When are you
going to get married?’’
“I didn’t say that I was going to get
married. I am only engaged.”
“What is the young lady’s name?”
“Her name is Lucy. Two other young
ladies to whom I was engaged were
named Lucy. That’s why J engaged
myself to this last girl. I can use on
this present Lucy the sonnets and love
letters I used on the other two. See?”
— Siftings.
A Pointed Reply.
After the downfall of Napoleon in
18I-!, the t rench Government became
liable ior the amount of io0 million
Allies francs, which was to be paid over to
within three years, to reimburse
ttiem for the expense of the campaign,
The payments were to be made in 1SU, in
gold, but as the h rench were unable to
raise the amount m gold, the Allies had
to be satisfied with silver m payment of
the other mstaUment.
The people of 1 ans were naturally
very much interested, and took no pains
to conceal their acguishat having to
part with their gold and silver coin.
The sno ect was under discussion one
day in the salon of Madame de Slael.
A.youngGerman protested officer the Allies who being was present
agamst com
peUed to take the inferior metal m pay
“You had better be satisfied,” inter
rupted fi Madame de Steel; “we paid the
st installment in gold the second in
S's » cl0 “ 1J ’ we
German “Very well, Madame,” replied the
officer, calmly; “you can pay
the third installment in iron, if you
choose, but if you try it we will
you a receipt in full in lead.”
Penelope’s Words of Comfort.
“Penelope, can’t you say something
to soften the blow?” implored the young
man.
“Oh, Philip, Philip! What can I sayl
It is all over between us.”
“That doesn’t soften it any,” rejoined
Philip; “that’s what you said before.”
And the unhappy youth looked mourn¬
fully at a ten-dollar volume of poems he
had presented her a few months before,
and heaved a sigh so deep, so pro¬
found, that it made his shoes perceptibly
tighter. “Penelope,” he continued,
“when a
young man builds all his hopes on the
promise of a young woman and that
young woman deliberately goes back on
that promise, it knocks the props, as it
were, out from under his hopes, and
they come down, kerswash! Y ou may
have a perception sometime, Penelope,”
he added with increasing gloom, “of
the by feelings of a human being looking standing
a wreck of this kind and at
the debris of his own happiness.”
“I couldn’t help it, Philip,” she re¬
plied. “I have become satisfied that we
were not made for each other. We
should not be happy together. We”-
“Is it because I am a mugwump?” ha
demanded.
“■No, Philip, it is not would that, I think,
with proper nursing, you recover
from that in time. Neither have I any
objection to your personal appearance,
your position in society, your hab¬
its”—
“My habits!” he ejaculated. “I hop#
not. Penelope Witherspoon, I never in
my life took a drink of anything intox¬
icating, never chewed tobacco, neve*
smoked a cigar, never went to a circus,
and never was in a ballroom. I don’t
drink tea or coffee, eat peatnuts, chew
gum, read novels,, swear, gamble, lie,
use snuff, play checkers, sit up late at
night, go to theatres, eat between meals,
nor read Amelie Hives. I never kissed
a young woman in my life”-
“As far as my experience goes,”'as¬
certify serted Penelope, that have retrospectively, “Philip,” “I can she
with you not.
added, a glow of tender womanly
sympathy on her face, “you asked me
to think say something to soften the blow. }
I can foresee a great future fpryou,
Your habits have fitted you for a shin
ing career.”
“In what capacity, may I ask?”
“As a $500-a-week freak in a dime
museum. — Chicago Tribune.
A Primitive Mexican Mill.
The ordinary Mexican corn-mill is of
the pattern that has been in use from
time immemorial, sometimes as a hand
mill, but turned by a horse, camel, ox
or ass when constructed on a larger
scale. Livingstone describes, in South
Africa, “a mill, such as in Biblical times
Sarah used, when told by her lord to do
the the thing handsomely and in a hurry for
strangers— i. e.: a big stone worn
quite hollow by the operations of grind¬
ing. The upper stone is grasped by both
hands, and the weight of the body is
brought down on it as it is shoved to the
lower part.” is In large the Mexican mill the
upper stone and heavy enough
to grind daily by tortillas. its own weight the meal for
the cumambulating mule The patient, cir¬
blindfolded is not muzzled,but
he is by a pair of singular¬
looking his conical extinguisher.-, which
prevent the being distracted from his
work by sight of the grist he is pul¬
verising.
When Tomatoes Were Unappreciated,
Tomatoes were looked upon rathei
doubtfully at first, before being admitted
into the list of vegetables. At first, in
England, ornamental tomatoes were raised as merely
plants in gardens. Some
times tomatoes were used as medicine,
but few people thought such thing*
might b e eaten like other vegetables,
Tomatoes were called “Love-Apples,”
then, them and an old writer, in 1629; wrote
0 f ■ “In hot countries, where they
natura ily growe, coil they are much eaten by
the people to and quench the heat
arld thirst of their hot stomaches. The
Bpples j^hesunne.” are alg0 boy i ed or infused in 0 yle
was first in Italy, and soon after
ward in Prance , that tomatoes were first
eaten as vegetables. The scientific name
°* Uich a ^ ^TtnfVecorda^th^di’s^ust^with "’the
plant that some looked people tasted promising of new
bo to un
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been used to bind books in England. )