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KNOXVILLE JOURNAL.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
The eleven dairy States contain more
than one-half of the cattle in the United
States.
Russia stands third in importance, so
far as relates to its naval strength, among
the European Powers.
During the last year the sum total ol
educational gifts in this country was
nearly five million dollars.
Theie is no such a thing in this coun¬
try, asserts thejAtlanta C ■nstitution, as a
po>tm stress. When a lady runs a post- 1
ou.ee she is a postmaster or nothing.
A company at Brussels proposes to
build a railroad from the head of navi¬
gation on the Congo to Stanley Pool, a
d stun eof . uOO miles in the interior ol
Africa.
Yankee-mania (following the ways
and customs of Americans is, according
to tne New oi k Tim as much of a
di ease in England as anglo-mania is in
America.
Royalty has its troubles. Twenty
princes and princesses belonging to the
reigning famil.es of turoje ha e been
under treatment for mental disorders
during the past few years.
Even Turkey moves. Half a century
ago it was considered disgraceful for a
Turkish woman to know how to read,
.^ow, the Sultan himself has established
two schools for girls in Constantinople.
Interurban is a word coming into use
in the West as to railroad rates between
cities. It is an odd piece of vord
making, observes the Boston Transcript,
but not so much so as “frivol” the verb
descriptive of being frivolous, which the
New Y'ork Derail is trying to force into
use.
A nailless horseshoe has been invented
in England. The shoe is so adapted to
the foot that a driver can put one on in
three minutes. It pinches the edge of
the hoof at certain points, and is held
on in this way, no nails being driven
into the hoof. The invention saves time
in shoeing and avoids its perils. It is just
as serviceable as the old-fashioned way.
Stocks wlrcb the late .Tames C. Flood,
the California miner-millionaire, in
bonan a days sold for $900 per share are
now kicking around at $3 and $8, The
two rhinos that paid $10,000,000 in
dividends are now con olldated into one.
The stock has been as low as $2 per
Bhare, and now is only 88. For about
two years it has paid a half-dollar
dividend every month.
A well-informed merchant, recently
returned from Brazil, predicts that the
nation will become a republic on the
death of the Emperor. Wh.le Dom
1 edro lives the monarchy is likely to
survive, but his daughter, the Printesss
lobelia, will never be allowed to ascend
the throne. She is an extreme mon¬
archist, and not in sympathy with- the
liberal ideas of her father.
Thanks to strict preservation, and to
the fact that the inhabitants are realizing
the value of the bird, the eider has
greatly increased in number in Iceland
during recent years. The people do all
in their power to attract the bird to their
property. Among these attractions are
bells worked by the wind or water, the
hanging up of dress material of a glaring
color, and the keeping of brightly colored
fowls.
The grand jury at Lockport, N, Y.,
recently indicted James Mayne, a farmer
in the town of Hartland, for neglecting
to remove and destroy diseased peech
trees. Tliis was the first indictment of
the kind ever presented in the State, and
the case, if tried, would test the validity
of the law. The Commissioners ap
pointed by the law inspected Mayne’a
trees and found them diseased with the
yellows.
On the whole, the republic of Col¬
ombia is pretty well advanced, but in
some of the interior provinces the
shadows yet lie darkly enough. The
Nueva Epoca, of Soccrro, in Santander,
says that owing to two men having
been murdered it became necessary to
value the loss sustained by their rela¬
tives, and the valuers placed the mone¬
tary value of the lives of the two men
murdered at $20.
Whale’s milk is the latest panacea for
scrofulous diseases. It sells in the form of
“wflaloid,” a condensed form of the
article. So far London is the only place
where it is obtainable. One of Queen
Victoria’s ingenious subjects has a whale
dairy, consisting of one animal, which
ie keeps in a tank browsing on seaweed.
At milking time the water is drawn off
and the pretty dairy maid with her pail
and stool ascends a„ platform and ap¬
propriates in the usual fashion the daily
output of the cetaceous lacteal. The
‘discovery suggests Yin illimitable field for
courageous capital to make an investment
—-a field boundless as old ocean itmli
YESTERDAY,
Yesterday is dead
And lies at rest.
No breathing stirs
The white-robed breas
The groans and sobbing
Are hushed at last,
Thanks be to Heavenl
Such pains are past
Seek not to rouse
Itsuuquiet ghost;
Conjure no phantom
Of what is lost;
Come away softly,
And make no moan,
Leaving thy perished hope
Dead and alone.
—Zoe Dana Underhill, in Scribner.
JJ.Lil 'RFTWPFAT VV XjXjIN TWO J- VV U HUIUNO. TTOFftTS
BY SABAH P. PRITCHAKD.
“I tell you, Sussan Swing,” said Cap
boy not bigger than yonr’n go out in a
boat to-day. t on't you do it. Tam’t
no kind of weather lor that slip of a lad
to go foolin’ with them big billows as
sweeps around old Dull Head. - Why,
look yourself, woman. You can dashing see
them mnre’tt four miles away
and iashmg the shore.”
As ■ aptain Rose spoke he pointed
with h:s right hand in the direction of
“ell
“And no dory in the harbor ” he con
tiuued, ‘coud weather Bright Head
pointing toward the headlaud at the
left*, not if l ap n Isezekiah himself was
a row’n of it. i ou'd better take them
row-locks out and bide the oars if he
won't mmd wuhout you doin’ it.”
“I can’t bear to do it,’ said Mrs.
Swing, “i.ichaid will be so disap
pointed. He hasn’t set his lobster pots all night ye-ter
day, and he slept any and haul in
his eagci nes- to go out early
them. aturday, Don’t and you see, whole ( aptain coaches Rose, full it’s of
two
summer summer boarders boarders came came last last n n ght ght to to the the
Bright Head House, and he can get a
big price for his lobsters to-day. My
poor Dick has worked so hard making
the lobster ppts himself, and it seems
like cutting off the boy’s reward to say
‘you shant’t go’ to him.”
“S’pose you do feel weakish ’bout it,
Susan; but you don't want that ere boat
to be jn picked up adrift and no boy in it,
(j 0 yg
“You know I don’t, Captain Rose,”
she said. “If I hadn’t loved him do you
think I’d get up before daylight to see
the lad off .”
“Hush,” said the Captain. “Here he
comes, and lie's fastening his straw hat
to his buttons. He sees there is wind
enough ahead.”
It was a morning in June, and the sun
was not yet risen, but the glory of his
coming was in the cast and on the sea.
As he came down the pier, the oars on
his shoulder, and securing his straw hat
by a string to his jacket, the old Captain
said: “He’s a fine lad, Dick is, and well
worth the saving.”
“Good morning, Captain Ross,” called
out Richard. “Good for lobsters, do
you think?”
“Better for lobsters than ’tis for boys ”
eaculated the Captain removing his
broad brown hands from his pocket and
laying one of them on the lad’s shoulder
as soon as the latter came within touch
ing disiauce. “Lay, Dick Swing, that
you are not goingout in thatcockle shell
ef your'n ihis morning,” he announced.
“I certainly am, Captain Ko=,e,” re
turned the boy. “Its a little rough,
but like as not the w nd will come right
around befoie I get half way to the
ledge, and I should thmk you would
know betier than to scare my little
mother here hall to death. ee, mother,”
he said, gayiy, “I have an extra oar
and one thole pin, yes, two of them, in
case a row-lock gives wav, aud I’ve got
a lot of extra coinage about me that
I can’t exactly show you unless you
come with me ”
This he said looking out to sea, for he
did not feel like looking either at his
motherorvaptainRo.se.
“Dick ” said airs. Swing, approaching
the pier’s edge as the owner of the little
boat proceeded to bestow his lunch
basket and extras under the bow.
lookin'? “Well, mother, ’ returned Richard,
up
“I wish you would not go,” she Suid,
her tones full of beseeching.
“Why, mother? Do you want my
seven new lobster pots to be carried off
to sea:” he asked. “How could you
have the heart to ask me? If this wind
keeps on blowing I shall lose them every
one.”
“That’s true,” ejaculated Captain
Rose. “I never thought of that. It’s
just right, this wind is, to drag them off,
but you never can haul them in alone,
You’ll be sure to be dragged over
board.”
“.no, I shan't. Come along with me
if you want to help,” laughed Richard,
“Humph! I should sink that craft
before we got out of harbor,” said the
Captain; “though if I wasn’t so heavy I
would go.’ Captain Ruse weighed a
trifle less than three hundred pounds,
and had left the sea after fifty years of
faithful service.
Not another person was in sight.
“I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” said the
Captain. “If you insist on going, I’ll
stop on my way up and ask Captain
Danforth to look out for you, and if he
thinks you’re getting into trouble to
sail after you.”
“Thank you, Captain.”
“Dick,” said his mother, “can’t you
let the lobster pots go?”
“Couldn’t possibly,” smiled the boy.
“Could you have the heart to ask me?
Will you cast me off?” he called a second
later.
“Wait a minute,” exclaimed Mrs.
Swing. “Fetch your boat close up. I
want to speak to you, Dick.”
The boat received the necessary im¬
petus, and touched the side of the pier.
Mrs. Swing had seated herself on the
topmost find layer of logs forming the wharf,
leaned over as though to speak con¬
fidentially to her son.
“Dick,” sa d his mother, “hold fasti
I’m coming," and into the boat she
dropped the dock before either Captain Rose on
or Captain Richard in the boat
had knowledge of her intention.
“What under the sun; mother,” cried
the boy, “doyou mean?’’
“I’m going with you, Dick, to keep
you from falling overboard, when you
haul in,” and she seated hersel&ja tbe
stern, calling back as the tide floated
boat-out, “tie depend on you, Cap-
tain Rose, to send after us if we—if it
gets too rough,” she gasped, with a
dash of spray in her face.
••Ay, ay!” cried the Captain, and he
took off his hat and swung it, he scarce¬
ly knew the why.
Of all women in Dell Haven, from
the eldest to the youngest, Mrs. Swing
most feared the sea. To live beside it,
to watch its every mood delighted her,
but to venture on it for pleasure she
was never known to do.
A moment’s peace she never knew
posed when Richard,, the her only soil, was ex¬
to treachery of the waters, but
rather than to mar his wild delight in
wind and waves this unselfish mother
concealed as much as possible her anx¬
iety for him.
Richard was not selfish, and had he
imagined what his mother was at that
moment boat about suffering and ted would it forever have put the the
at
St “ 3 h the tat goT e wed'iSoNS
of tho waves the sun ar ° se > s > edd j ng
t
Bnd " ed 11 gh failed to see in time a gill
net into which the boat was running,
“See any boat ahead, mother?’ ques
tioned Richard. “You must keep a
g°° d iook out for me. I’ve got my
ranges right and can fetch the lnbster
grounds ls every far? ” time.” questioned his mother
“
shudderingly.
“ ot very; just outside Dull Head. I
mTmt£St »d
boat slide up to the summit of a rolling
wave a trick he had caught from Captain
He_ekiahDauforth, the master boatman
oi iJeu tia eu.
The wind grew stronger and stronger,
and the waves every moment.increased
J a slz ®; 1 ' vel ‘
more than oiicewitk ill-con ealed anxiety
as the lon°; billows came tumbling; on,
aud u st the “ ge H’“f a gLmp? 0 of b ‘ s
mo.her , s face , beheld it so blanched with
terrw of th^se a t^t njeemed^to him
Dis mother was uo longer in the boat
' w ’ tb
stroke “Dick,’ i and she gasped the as his oar the missed
“Dick, sent spray over boat,
I’m afraid to go on.”
Dick glanced backward, He had
pul'ed midway about between a mile the from shore headlands and was
two
familiarly spoken of as the horns. Dull
Head was surrounded by an even accumu
lating mass of breakers, and Bright Head
caught the sea on its precipitous sides,
sending it backward in fountains of
foams, and all the four miles that lay be
twee a the two Points were rolling miles
of billows. .
bad Sitting with his face landward Richard
n °t fully the lad felt the danger,
Now, could*not repress a shud
< * er Rs he said: “I don’t believe I could
find buoys in such a sea, and nobody
cou i d haul^ in the pot3. I believe I’ll
P u t
, Dh, d °! O Richard, there comes an
awful one!” and Mrs. Swing slipped
down from her seat into the bottom of
the boat and hid her face from the on
coming Richard wave. mighty ... the ,
keep gave a boat head pull ,, and at
oar3 the on, it
rode tdiat I va ' , ' e ia safety only to meet
new 0ne3 > into whose depths the tiny
shell roded to be completely hidden from
the sight of two men who were standing
out on the Dell Haven pier,
Dne ' vas Hezekiah Danforth, the other
Captain . Rose.
was
'If there only a tug .... sight to
was in
, kelp them groaned J aptain Rose,
“Why d dn t you dun a little common
sense into the woman if she didn’t take
any naturally,” scolded Captain Dan
^ 0ld,b > “ or shut her and the boy up
somewheres.”
“I told her, but I declare when I was
young I _ could ,, , have , brought , down them
oara in half the time it takes im to
f e ^ cb ’ em - I. sa y> ’Kiah Danforth, ain’t
that boat trying to put about?”
D a<d;8 ’^ e ’ obn ’ out it will get
swamped just as sure as guns if—no, do. it’s
S 0 ' n S on ; There’s noth ng else to
I never in all my life saw a time when
there wasn t a sail in sight. * *
The boat s gone! Not There it comes
up again. ’
Suddenly a cry for a helping . ha nd was
ralsed araon g the bystanders, and will
wg hearts went forth from the land,
' hvery second tells. It s a a ^race for
llf « ? Ca,led ? ut \ U Dtaln Danforth.
-
Jim, you d better get in. You’re
strong; if one of us tuckers out you can
take nolcl.
A>1 ready lay the boat a dark green
surf boat - a boat that cou ' d stand heavy
seas ; aad tba two men and , boy who had
nobly volunteered were not long in start-
1Dg 0 “
- “Success to you. Fetch ’em back
alive?” called out Captain Rose.
All at once the pier at I ell Haven
seeemed thronged with people. The
news had spread that Mrs. Swing and
Richard were out alone on the sea.
As they watched the dim. dark speck
nt» w rising upon the swelling waters and
as quickly vanishing froln sight, not one
of the little throng but knew the danger
of the tiny boat. With breathless eager
ness they watched the surf boat as its
two rowers stood at the oar urging it
onward.
‘.‘It’s down the harbor now. They’re
catching it. It’s an awful wind for June.
Do you think they’re gaining on ’em?
That mite of a boat will never live till
they get there,” were some of remarks
heard as they passed on.
As for Captain Rose he went panting
U P ^De hill into the town, climbed into
the belfry of Dell Haven church, as far
up as he could go, and watched through
a spy-glass the distance progress of the mere
speck helpers in the far behind. and the tolling
so
After a few minutes he realized that
Captain Danforth, although doing his
utmost, could not reach the periled ones
in time to save them and he said to him¬
self:
“The boy is doing well, but he can’t
holdout. I must do it.” Captain Rose’s
little daughter had followed her father
into the church and climbed the bellfry
stairs.
“See here, here Dolly,” and he said, “can you
look through keep sharp watch?
No, you aud run—you can scribbled go quicker’n I
can,” the Captain a mes¬
sage on the back of art evelope, and giv¬
ing it her bade her make haste to the
telegraph it’s office. - life “You and tell it Johnny
Blake to save a must go
ahead of everything.”
Uolly Rose did not need to be told
twice. She ran every step of the way,
and /usbing 1 and into cried the out telegraph office
Hub eager :
. Blake, here, send this >k.
Richard Swing and his mother are going
to drown, and it's to save them 1”
The operator took the old envelope and
read:
Captain True, steam tug Good Heart,
Cromwell Harbor. Steam out at once in
search of small boat—woman and boy In it—
off Dell Haven three miles; going John against Rose. the
wind; can't last long.
“All right,” said the operator, clicking
away at his machine for a minute or two,
and then exclaiming; “It’s done. Wait
a minute, sis, and I’ll tell you whether or
not he gets it; wire runs right down to
the wharf.”
The minutes went by. Ten has pissed
when the answer came back:
“Steam up; start at once; go myself.
“Timothy Tbue.”
The operator did not stay to write it.
“Run quick and tell your father Captain
True is gone already,” he said.
Dolly ran, saying to every one she
^u£‘t could
only smile anfl bow her head apd
"" message > which 8he
( aptain Rose’s eye was on the speck.
He dared not take it off lest never to
find it again. Meanwhile, the news got
abroad that Captain Rose had tele¬
graphed to Cornwall lighter. for a tug, and the
burden of fear grew
In the little boat again and again had
Richard tried to turn its head toward
the land, but with each trial it took in
so much water that he was forced to
Swing k g pt bailing as fastens possible,
w j t b only the shell of a horeshoe crab to
work with
, . j ena .fv came « »wave like gallentiy, a small
k iU, up which the boat rode shotted:
and then suddenly Richard
«-They’re * coming f for us, mother. - I
gee a bo t • gt outa de the harbor.”
Then the tears sprang to Mrs. Swing's
eyeg J _ hhQ stopped P bailing for a mo
ent to look towar( j s the shore. All
she could see was a wall of water shut¬
ting out the land.
“Courage, mother,” Dick said.
Every rise and fall of the oar was a
prayer; every dip of the poor old crab
shell was a petition for life.
i Jut from Cromwell Harbor, seven
miles to the eastward, and h ; dden from
sight Good by Heart. Bright Never Head, had steamed the tug
its Captain
stood watching the sea with more earnest with
gaze. Never hand. was steam applied the
more generous ’Twas woman
and the boy in the boat out at sea that
lived in the gaze, in the steam and in the
fuel, and Good Heart bore away with
cordial weathered. speed till Br.ght Head was won
and
“I see it 1” shouted the Captain,
“though how it’s lived he to get there’s
more’n I know,” and gave directions
to steam outside. „
Richard’s attention was so divided be¬
tween the billows and the land and the
friendly boat, and Mrs. Swing was so in¬
tent on bailing, that neither of them
saw the tug until it was upon them, and
a hailing voice shouted :
“Hold on till we pick you up.”
It seemed a3 if a voice from heaven had
spoken. Even bluff old Captain Rose up
in the belfry of the church, ejaculated,
“Thank God 1” as he saw the tug come
to.
black, The shock of the call, friendly the sight of the
throbbing tug, as they
seemed, yet came near swamping the
boat, for Richard let it turn, and the last
strength he had was put foith in hold¬
ing it up to the wind until a line was
cast off, and even then he had no power
to make it fast. It was Mrs. wing who
tried to obey the commands that came
but could not.
Fina ly the tug’s boat was lowered. It
was no easy task to get to leeward and
board the Good Heart, which held its
breath, bracing itself against the waves
almost as a thing of life to do its kindly
office. Richard and his mother had
been saved.
“Give’em a signal! Give ’em three!”
and the steam whistle blew three shrieks
that went over the bay and up the har¬
bor and over against the meeting house
steeple, until old Captain Ro e fell down
on his knees to utter the first prayer of
thankfulness his little Dolly had ever
heard her father offer .—New York
Graphic.
A Life-Like View of Washington.
A more than ordinarily intimate and
life-like view of the first President of
the epublic and his accomplished wife
is presented in her a letter youth written had in 18 :4 by
a lady who much in them. known and
associated with Following
is the principal portion of the letter,
which, says the New York Tribune, was
written by Mrs. John M. Bowers to Mrs.
Edward Clarke, now both deceased. It
forms an interesting the and valuable contri¬
bution to i.ood ol Washington litera¬
ture and reminiscence called forth by the
anniversary of his first inauguration:
My earliest recollection of General Wash¬
ington of was mother, in the spring Hackettstown, of 1781, when J. a
guest my at N.
Although but three years of age at that time,
I distinctly remember the grand appearance
of that great and good man. The brilliancy
hat of his and epaulettes, plume, and his impression peculiarly cocked
made am on my
infant mind never to be effaced. August
condescend and dignified as he was, children. however, he could
to amuse During an
interval of a few minutes’ absence of my
mother from the parlor, the General placed
me on his knee, and trotting me merrily
thereon, sang the following ludicrous lines:
“There was an old, old man, and an old, old
woman,
They lived in a vinegar bottle together,
Shelter'd alike from wind and from weath
er.
They lived in a vinegar bottle together,”
repeating the last line several times for a
•chorus. When my mother returned to tbe
parlor, the General alluded to what had oc¬
curred in her absence, saying: old “The liftle
jade wished to know how the couple es¬
caped from the bottle, and before I had time
to reply to her question she had anticipated
me by saying: off the neck.’" ‘I guess. General, they
knocked
Were any proof wanting' to illustrate the
reverence inspired by the of dignity the General, and supe¬
riority of the presence I
might cite an anecdote of a Mrs. Graffe—an
ignorant woman, a foreigner resided by birth, an
inveterate had Tory, who accustomed near my th moth¬
er. She been since e com
mencement of the “George war the to speak Rebel,” of George
Washington curiosity as predominating until preju¬ at
length induced her to catch glimpse over of him
dice, passed through hall,when a she burst
as he our
into tears, and exclaimed, involuntarily:
“Elealeh! Elealeh!” meaning Godlike: and
from that instant became a confirmed Whig.
A peculiarity of the Chinese tea
growers and dealers is that they make
no progress in tea cultune or in prepar
ing the leaf for market.
FOFIILAR SCIENCE.
being Searchlights experimented of high candle power are
with.
The car speed on the electric road at
Omaha and Council Bluffs is often more
than fifteen miles an hour.
Haze is claimed to he often due to
local' convection currents in the air,
which render it optically heterogeneous.
from Cryolite, for making candles,is brought
little-known Greenland, where important and
ried mining operations are car¬
on.
It is liow claimed that the whole do¬
main of optics is annexed to electricity,
which has thus become an imperial
science.
In testing fortyrtwo boys between nine
and sixteen years of age for color blind¬
ness not one made an error in matching
the colors.
Jamaica lies within the infiuence of the
Gulf Stream current, which is held to ac¬
count for the unknown fruits collected
on its shores.
regions Sedimentary rocks occupying whole
bear evidence of profound mod
ifications without its being possible to
discover the slightest eruptive cropping
out.
Three new asteroids have recently been
added to the system by Palisa at Vi¬
enna. The new planets are all extremely
small, of the eleventh or twelfth mag¬
nitude.
The mists of-^ the British Channel
change on their upper surface sometimes
to and cirro-strati, sometimes to cumuli,
twice within two years to thunder¬
clouds.
The results of photographs of the
moon and nebulae taken with Mr. Com¬
mon’s five-foot telescope to test the
figure highly of the silver on glass speculum
are satisfactory.
The temperature of Siberia was once
much milder than at present, This
change the of climate is said to account for
conversion of what were once sed¬
entary birds there into birds that migrate
to South Africa and elsewhere.
The greatest improvements in electric
apparatus appear to have been developed
ships on shipboard. gradually All of the modern built
ment. are The receiving their equip¬
provided ocean going passenger ships
are all with the latest improve¬
ments, and the innovation appear to be
popular with the patrons of the various
lines.
Some years ago, the greenish color of
some of the sloths was attributed to the
presence Madam Weber of an alga upon the hair.
von Bosse has recently
described two genera and three species
of these parasitic plants. The one new
genus is green, the other, with its two
species, is violet. From 150,000 to
200,000 individuals of these alga; may
occur upon a single hair.
sher, According Mauritius, to Miss it Eva M. A. Bew
of is a well authenti¬
cated fact that each hive in tropical
countries has its “ventilating bees” dur¬
ing these the hot season. stationed Two or three of
bees are at the entrance
of the hive, and cool the interior by in¬
cessant fanning with their wings. They
are relieved at intervals by others, and
while on duty are kept constantly at
work by a sort of patrol of bees.
A Canadian ornithologist, Mr. E.
E. Thompson, attributes considerable
When ventriloquial surprised powers in the to some birds.
act of singing
these feathered ventriloquists become
silent for a few moments, and then give
forth a faint song, that seems to come
from far away, though distant. the singer may
be only a few feet This curious
deception but is especially been noticeable in
sparrows, has observed also in
thrushes and robins.
The Boston Advertiser prints a de¬
scription of the device of W. C. Trus
sell, of that city, which he claims will
largely take the place of ice. The
patent covers the construction of a
modest tin box, and the chemicals em¬
ployed made to lower the temperature. The
box is of tin, and is one foot long,
eight inches deep and four inches wide.
In it are then placed the proper chemic als,
and it is placed in the refrigerator,
in the room, in the closet, or wherever
it is desired to produce a low degree ol
temperature. Its primary use is to sup¬
and plement the use of ice in refrigerators, those
by the refrigerator referred tests were made
party to.
Relics of Chicago’s Great Fire.
“Do you see that old photograph
hanging up there?" “Well,” asked a man in
Clayton’s place. old he continued,
“that is the court house—the ruius
of it after the great fire of 1871, I mean.
Up in that shattered tower hung the big
boil. Of course, it fell when the fiames
destroyed its supports. I don’t know
whether Harry Everhart caught it or not
as it fell, but he was soon on the ground
and secured the debris. Before the fire
was out he had purchased the remains of
the bell and had arranged to have the
bell metal modeled into small bells as
‘relics of the fire.’ Every one around
town soon wore upon his watch chain a
tinkling first reminder these miniature of the bel big disaster. sold
At s for
$1.50 each, and every one was accom¬
panied by The a certificate depot for attesting these little its genu¬ bells
ineness.
was in an old dwelling in the brick block
at the northeast corner of Wabash avenue
and Harman street. I would not say
that Harry ‘watered liis stock’ exactly,
but he sold thousands of small bells—
more, in fact, than it would seem could
he molded from the big court house
bell. Pretty soon, as the novelty wore
off, the could price buy went down, and house finally
you a small court bell
relic for a quarter .”—Chicago Herald.
Street Car Treasure Hunters.
A street car driver pulled up his horses
with a yank as he ferociously jammed
, down the brake in front of the Metro¬
politan Opera House the other night.
Then jumped off the car, ran back a few
steps, picked pavement, up a piece of shining back into coin his
from the sprang
place and started the car again, while
the passengers wondered what the
stoppage was about: “Y es, sir, it was a
quarter,” the he said to an inquisitive man
thing on platform. this “It’s rare we find any¬
at time of the day. But on
the early morning cars we often get coin
and articles dropped over night. The
people coming out of theatres and balls
•lose lots of things. One of my chums
got this a point twenty-doliargold Broadway piece just the about
on after last
French ball. It must have been dropped
by someone allowed.”-/** who had got more wine than
law York Graphic.
SPRING FANCIES.
i.
THE YOUNG MAN.
In the spring the youth his person in the lat¬
est fashions decks,.
And begins to cast admiring glances on the
other sex;
In the spring a nameless yearning, something
that he cannot trace,
Comes upon him when he meets a maiden
with a pretty face;
And the fluttering of a ribbon, or the per¬
fume of a glove,
Thrills his pulses, and his “fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love."
ii.
THE YOUNG WOMAN.
In the spring the maiden doffs the glossy
sealskin sacque she wore,
Which enables her to don a bigger bustle
than before.
Then she puts on light garments, snowy
laces, ribbons gay,
And a gorgeous hat the climax caps of her
new spring array.
All the secrets of the toilet uses with a
woman's skill,
For her heart, too, is responsive to the sea¬
son’s magic thrill.
in.
BOTH.
Soon some strange mysterious process brings
together youth and maid;
There are meetings in the moonlight, there
are whisperings in the shade,
Wanderings in secluded places, often till the
hour is late.
Loving glances, sweet confessions, stolen
kisses at the gate.
Petty quarrels, over nothing, that with
misery fill life’s cup.
Pride’s surrender, explanations and delicious
makings np.
When the tender grass is springing and the
opening buds appear,
When the birds are gayly singing, and the
skies are blue and clear.
Thus its course in spring love runneth, cul¬
minating in the May,
With parental blessings and the naming of
the wedding day.
—Boston Courier.
PITH AND POINT.
Always in doors—Keys.
A spanking team—our parents.
A regular caller—The army bugler.
Always good for a cold—Pocket hand,
kerchief.
Architects. Designing men, every one of them—
Conceded to be in “the swim”—
Fishes of the sea.
Round about pleasure—Equestrian ex¬
ercise in the riding academy ring.
A slight-of-hand performance-Re¬
jecting a suitor.— Burlington Free Press.
In New York a sign of wealth is a dia¬
mond pin. In Philadelphia it i's a ter¬
rapin.
What most husbands exclaim when
the dressmaker’s bill is presented—
“Ahem!”
The only gems that arc a drug in the
market—Gems of thought.— Binghamton,
Republican.
When a crook advises a pal to skip
does he put a flee in his ear 1— Bingham¬
ton Republican.
Of all the canines, the one that al¬
ways has the appeal ance of being “down
in the mouth” is the bulldog.— Mail and
Express.
It is quite as much of a mistake to
suppose that china dogs are of Celestial
origin as it is to believe that lapdogs are
from Lapland.— Bazar.
B jones—“There’s not much encourage¬
ment to be good in this world.” Merritt
—“We never think so until we are
caught doing bad.” —New York Sun.
Sophronia keeps out of the kitchen
And says, with a withering look,
She could never endure her husband
To aver that he married a cook.
— Goodall's Sun.
Would-be Patron—“What is the legal
fare for ten blocks?” Cabman—“Dunno.
If you want ter. know anything ’bout
law go ter a lawyer.” —Pnitadelphia Re¬
cord.
Egotistical, boastful and conceited
people are among the passengers on
every ocean steamer, but the greatest
“blower” of the Atlantic is the whale.
—Mail and E:press.
Funny Barber—“I hope this razor is
all right, Mr. Figgle. You see, I shaved
a dead man with it this morning-”
Figgle (placidly)—“Did you wake him?’’
— lerre Haute Express.
Never a woman with a secret entrust.
She surely will tell, or else she would bu’st,
But one secret sbe’ll keep; this truth you may
The gauge— of her
mysterious secret own exact age!
The locomotive is no coward, but It
will run at a minute’s notice, it will
back out of a tight place in a hurry, and
it takes water whenever it gets the
chance .—Washington Critic.
“I see Brown’s store is closed now by
an injunction,” said Mrs. Spriggins,
“What In new-fangled father’s thing ’ll they have
next? time a boy was good
enough to close a store.”— Bazar.
A young divine tells a story of a groom
who, after the marriage ceremony,
murmuring, slipped a two-dollar-bill into his hand,
better time.”— apologetically, “I’ll do
next harper's Magazine.
Woman has got two sets of eyes, ’tis said,
With one set she will look right straight
And ahead,
with the other set will strictly con
Just what a passing woman has got on.
— GooaaU’s Sun
Miss Ketchon—“Did you knock at
the door when you came to-night^
George?’’ Why do Mr. Tumblety—“Yes, Amy.
you ask?” Miss Ketchon (shyly)
— with “I thought perhaps you had coma
a ring.”— N to York Sun.
with Paperwate - “How are you getting on
your English, Count?” Count ChaM
treuse—“Ver’well, indeed. Las’ nign#
I ask ze hotel clerk who is ze what—you
—call ‘Whitechapel fiend,? and he say to
me, ‘He ees a dandy 1’ I look in ze dic¬
tionary, and I find me zat ze dandy is zo
lady killer.”— Li/e.
railroads An Irishman, traveling day, on one of the
the other got out of the
cars for refieshments at a way station,
and unfortunately the bell rang and the
train was off before he had finished hie
pie h and coffee. mada “Hould on! ’ cried Pat,
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