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KNOXVILLE. GEORGIA.
Great interest is being manifested in
the subject of interior waterways.
According to reports to date the wheat
crop of 1889 in this country will take
rank among the three largest ever har¬
vested.
The American Iron and Steel Associa¬
tion report that the production of pig
iron in the first six months of 1889 was
larger than in any preceding six months
in the history of the American iron trade.
The range of the Mannlicher rifle was
proved again in a startling manner the
other day when an Austrian soldier was
killed by one at target practice at a re¬
puted range of over two miles and a half.
At the Centennial Exhibition of 1876
the only exhibit of electrical apparatus
were two dynamos and some arc lights
run by clock work. Now there are
1510,000,000 invested as capital in the
electric light business.
Dr. Henry C. McCook, iu a paper in
the North American Betiew on the exter¬
mination of the mosquito, holds that
there is hope for us in an increase of
dragon flies and spiders, the particular
enemies of this particular insect.
A remnant of the Seneca tribe of In¬
dians still lingers in Warren County,
Penn., spearing fish, etc., for a liv¬
ing. The tribe, all told, barely num¬
bers 1000 members, and has so dwindled
that marriage among blood relations has
become almost a necessity.
Dueling has not only long been
sanctioned in the French army, but a
recent order of the Minister of War
seems to encourage it. The order inter¬
dicts the use of fleurets, or foils, and
specifies either small swords or sabres.
Duels with sabres, as fought in the
French army, are almost always fatal to
»ne of the combatants.
General Crook, the famous Indian
fighter, wonders how so great a fraud as
Sitting Bull could be made such a hero.
He says that the old Indian is an arrant
coward, but so full of conceit that he
impresses people with his importance.
“And no wonder he is conceited,” adds
the General, “for he has had offers of
marriage from white women and endless
requests for his photograph.”
The total original cost of the British
war ships of all sorts at the last Spithead
review, paraded for the inspection of the
German Emperor, was more than $85,
000,000. The number of ships present
was seventy-three of torpedo boats,
thirty-eight. The weight of metal con¬
tained in the heavy guns was 8609 tons.
The tonnage was approximately 360,000
tons. Five hundred and sixty-nine
heavy guns, irrespective of quick firers
and machine guns, composed the arma¬
ment.
A New England manufaciurer says
that street niusi- ians are a. serious ex
pense to manufacturing eompaniis in
country towns. A gypsy girl playing a
tambourine recently passed his establish¬
ment, and, he says, cost the company
about $200. Every employe in the big
factory ran to a window, and work was
suspended for nearly a quarter of an
hour. Every cireus parade costs him
hundreds of dollars, and when a minstrel
brass band marches by it costs from
twenty-five to fifty dollars.
It is estimated that’ over $2,500,000,
000 is invested in the dairy business in
this country; that 15,000,000 cows sup¬
ply the raw material; that to feed the
cows 60,000,000 acres of land are under
cultivation; that 750,000 men are em¬
ployed in the business, and over 1,000,
000 horses. The cows and horses each
year eat 30,000,000 tons bf hay, 90.000,
000 tons of eornmeal, about as much oat¬
meal,275,000,000 bushels of oats,2,000,
000 bushels of bran, and 30,000,000
bushels of corn. It costs $450,000,000
a year to feed these animals, and $180,
000,000 to pay the hired help.
Plenty of men are eager to volunteer
their services for exploration enterprises,
observes the New York Sun, no mat¬
ter how hazardous the undertaking.
"When Nansen announced liis plan for
crossing Greenland most people said he
was either mad or tired of life, but about
fifty men were anxious to share the perils
of the trip with him. Before De Long
sailed to his fate on the Jeannette several
hundred men and one woman expressed
{heir wish to go along with him to the
North Pole. Stanley was simply over¬
whelmed with the applications of adven¬
turesome fellows who wished to take part
in his last expedition, and he was com¬
pelled to disappoint about 2000 of them.
Exploring is a business to which many feel
galled, but few, after all, are choseu. -“J
PETER’S QUESTIONS.
When Peter was a sturdy lad
He moyed from Grassvale with his dad}
And left behind him Joe and John,
And little Jake and Jefferson;
Four chums of his by day and night
With whom he used to play and fight;
Now where is Joe, and where is John,
And where is Jake and Jefferson?
Ten years passed by and Pete came back
With these four questions in his pack:
“Now where is Joe, and where is John,
And where is Jake and Jefferson?’
“Joe digs his livin’ with his pick;
An’ John keeps store down to the ‘Crick,’
Jake is away to school I think:
An’ Jefferson has took to drink.”
And Pete came back in ten years more
With the same questions as before:
“Now where is Joe, and where is John,
And where is Jake and Jefferson?”
“Joe caught cold ditcliin’ in the rain,
An’ — we shan't see poor Joe again;
John has got rich an’ Jake got wise;
Jeff is a scamp who all despise.”
In ten years Peter comes once more
And asking questions as before:
“Now tell me where is old friend John,
And where is Jake and Jefferson?”
“Why, John he died a millionaire;
Jake's gone to Congress, I declare.
An’ Jeff, the poor old worthless scamp
Is nothin’ but a common tramp.”
And once more tea years later on
He asks: “Where’s J :ke and Jefferson?”
“Hain’t heard how Governor Jacob died?
He was the State's especial pride,
An’ to his solemn funeral grand
The great men came from all the land;
But Jeff—it's no good to bewail—
Why poor old Jeff has gone to jail.”
And once more ten years later on.
Does Peter ask for Jefferson:
“Why, hain’t you heard the story yit?
The papers they was full of it.
It filled the land from side to side,
The way the poor old fellow died—
The Jeff who played with you when young,
The worthless, gray-liaired Jeff was hung.”
Ten years are gone with days that were,
Gone questioner and answerer,
And with his questions comes no more
The gray-haired Peter as before;
And people ask for him no more,
And no one asks his questions four:
“Now where is Joe, and where is John,
And where is Jake and Jefferson?”
— S. W. Foss , in Yankee Blade.
THE BUSHRANGERS.
After a voyage from Liverpool to Mel
bourne I went up country with an Atner
ican acquaintance named Shaw for a
sort of vacation. I had sailed with Shaw
while he was Captain of a New Orleans
ship, filling the berth of second mate to
his satisfaction, and, as I had saved his
life on one occasion, there was a warm
feeling between us. He was now the
owner of a big sheep ranch on the Mur
ray River, aG(i I was only too glad to get
a run ashore and see something of
a country noted lor its anomalies. This
was before the days of railroads and
while the penal colony’ was iu full blast
and the bushranger king of the road.
We were five days riding out to Shaw’s
ranch, our vehicle being a wagon loaded
wi„h six yokes of bullocks, wnick were
almost as wild as buffaloes. I heard very
little about the bushrangers until we
reached the ranch, and then Shaw gave
rne such accounts of the fellows as made
me hope I should never be obliged to
form their acquaintance. His immedi
ate district had not been visited for two
or three years, but they had
come in to the north and west
of him and indulged iu many
robberies and murders. There were three
Englishmen and twelve natives on the
range, which was an extent of country
nine miies long by five broad. The force
at the headquarters house, after our
arrival, numbered three white men, a
white woman, three natives, two black
women, and four or five black children,
No gang of bushrangers numbering less
than six would dure to attack us, as the
house was well armed and the black
women could fire a 'musket as well as a
man. Shaw had instructed his help to
adopt a peace policy. In case a bush
ranger applied at any of the stations for
food, or suclter he was to be accommo
dated, and if they picked off a sheep oc
cassionally no notice was to be taken
of it. As I said before, he had not been
disturbed thus far, but while he deluded
himself with the idea that it was an ac
count of the policy pursued, events were
about to occur to prove that the gentle
men of the bush had been waiting- their
own convenience.
A bushranger was, in every instance, a
desperate criminal who had made his es
cape from prison or the penal settle
ments. There wasn't one of them who
had not deserved the gallows before he
fled to the bush. A dozen or more of the
most desperate characters sent to Tasma
nia had escaped and reached the larger
island and penetrated to the interior, and
these men were particularly ferocious and
and without mercy. Shaw seemed to rest
easy, however, and so during the first
week of my stay I did not bother my
head about the rangers. Indeed a new
comer had enough to do to get aeeus
tomed to the snakes, lizards, insects and
other annoyances which kept him stirred
up day and night,
On the tenth day of my stay Mr. Shaw
and I set out to visit one of the outlying
stations in charge of an Englishman named
Thomas. This man was about forty-five
years old, and had deserted from an Eng
lish man-of-war. He had three black
men under bis charge, and one of them
had been sent in the day before with a
badly written note to the effeGt that
many sheep were being killed, and that
all signs went to show that a gang of
rangers had settled down in the neigh
borhood. We were mounted on good
horses and well armed as we rode away,
and after an hour’s ride we
drew near the station, which consisted of
a stout log hut for the keeper, another for
the blacks,and pens for herding the sheep,
Wo found the place silent and apparently
deserted, and leaving our horses in a
thicket, we cautiously approached on foot,
The first discovery made was that the
blacks had been killed, and we pushed
on to the larger hut to find Thomas with
in half an hour of breathing his last. He
could speak in whispers, and he told us
that seven bushrangers had appeared the
evening before and committed the atro
cities visible on every hand. Although
he had made them welcome and prepared
supper, they had come for a different pur
pose. The blacks, one by one, had been
tortured in the most horrible manner, and
when the last one was dead they had
turned on Thomas. They had sliced off
his ears, broken his fingers, cut off the
end of his nose, hacked off his toes, and
tortured him in other ways and had not
left the place until about au hour before
our arrival. Everything of value which
conld be carried off was gone, and a
bloody kuife was left sticking in the door
sill as a sort of defi to Shaw and the of
fleers of the law.
There was no Government patrol in
that district at that time, and the only
move we could make was to alarm the
two nearest ranchmen and organize a
pursuit on our own account. By noon
next day we had ten white men and
about twenty faithful blacks in hand for
a start, and the trail was taken up at
the cabin. No one had any great hopes
that we should overtake the rangers,
but it was argued that pursuit must be
made or they would soon terrorize the
whole district. If we did happen to un
cover them there would be a hot fight,
Every ranger had a price set on his head,
and would fight to the death, and the
ranchmeu were men who had faced
death almost daily for years. The white
men were mounted, while the blacks
were on foot, but they had no trouble in
keeping up with us. After running
across the grazing lands for about a mile
tiie trail entered the broken ground
covered with thickets, and at the end of
another mile we had to leave our horses
and follow the trail on foot. It was
quite evident that the fellows did not
fear pursuit, for they had gone at a
leisurely pace, and the men best ac
quainted with the country predicted that
the gang had headed for a rocky ravine
in the midst of a heavy growth, about
six miles from the cabin. The predic
tion was soon verified, and we went
forward with greater caution, hoping the
fellows would be sound asleep after
their night’s carnival. They had taken
two gallons of whisky from the cabin,
and the chances were that they would be
stupidly drunk.
When within about two miles of the
ravine we suddenly ran into an ambush
and received a volley. One white man
was killed and another wounded, and
one black man was stretched dead,
Shaw was acting as Captain of our troops,
and he ordered us to deploy and advance
in open order. The rangers were in a
thicket, and we soon drove them out and
killed one. In pressing on after the
others we became more and more sepa
rated, and after a bit I found myself
alone to the right of the others. I kept
advancing toward the ravine, supposing
the others to be doing the same, and I
had advanced a mile or more beyond the
point where we had been ambushed when
it suddenly occurred to me that I was
acting very rashly in separating myself
by such a distance. I at once bore to
the left to join forces, but, unknown to
me, all the others had halted half a mile
in the rear, held a brief council,and then
decided to retreat. I was still bearing
to the left, and wondering why I did not
discover any of the troop, when the
whole gang of rangers suddenly rose up
from the earth around me, and I was' a
prisoner. There were six of the wicked
est-looking villains an honest man ever
clapped eves ou. They were roughly
dressed, their hair and whiskers long
and unkempt, and their clothing was
mostly of sheep skins. I have seen some
hard looking men in my time, but never
anything to compare ivith this half dozen
who were under the leadership of the
notorious Joe Trimble. This man had
been transported for murder, and during
the two years he was in the colony he
killed two guards and led a -evolt. He
escaped from Tasmania by floating out of
the harbor on a plank, being loaded down
with forty pounds of chain at the time,
but whether he was picked up at sea or
driven to Australian coast was not known
to the authorities. He got there some
how, and for two years wevious to my
story had been a veritable terror in a dis
trict 100 miles square.
For a minute after the rangers rose up
about me not a word was said. Each
man was heavily armed, and, though
had a rifle in my hands, it would have
been folly to move.
“Well, who are you?” asked the leader,
after we had all taken a good look at
each other,
j g3VC him all the information asked
f or , and was honest in stating the mim
her of the partv in pursuit. They did
no t know that the ranger whom I
had seen lying dead had fallen bv our
bullets, but supposed he had become
separated from them as they retreated,
when I admitted his death their rage
knew no bounds. Had I been an un
armed traveler they would doubtless
have taken mv life just the same, for this
gang h a d never been known to spare any
one. But when they knew that I was one
of the party, and was more or less respon
sible for the death of their comrade, they
would have cut me to pieces then and
there had it. not occurred to them that
such a death was too merciful for me.
And, too, they were not aware of the
fact that Shaw's party had retreated,
After an outburst, lasting three or four
minutes, I was disarmed, my pocket?
emptied, my hat appropriated by one.
an d my jacket by another, and we set off
f 0 r the ravine at a dog trot, two of the
men going before and the others follow
ing after me and striking me at every
opportunity,
The ravine was a dark and dismal
spot, reached by a well worn path,
mg about and making a gradual descent,
We went down in single file, and when
we finally got to the bottom I found a
hut made of brush and limbs and rock,
with the numerous evidences that the
place had long been occupied as head
quarters. It had now come to be sun
down, and as nothing had been heard
Shaw's party since my capture the
outlaws reasoned that they nad given up
the pursuit. I got a pretty good look
nt the surroundings, and, as near
as I could make out, the path
-was the only way out of the ravine. As
‘
we came down one of the men took
his seat on a rock, with his 1 revolver in
hand, to act as guard, and, as I got no
orders, I sat down ou another rock near
the hut. One of the men started a fire,
another cut some moat, and a third went
down a ravine and got a can of water at
a spring. While supper was preparing
the leader of the gang took a long pull
at the whisky jug and then came over
and stood in front of me and indulged in
a tirade of oaths, threats and abuse. He
swore he'd clean out every ranchman in
the district, and that he would have
twenty lives for the death of his comrade,
He boasted of the number of his victims
and the amount of his plunder, and ended
up by declaring that I should be skinned
alive and my head sent to Shaw as a re¬
minder of what was in store for him. 1
made no answer, knowing that anything
I could say would only add to his fury,
I was hopeless. I could not figure out
the slightest chance to escape my impend
ing fate.
A primitive meal was soon ready and
five of the outia>vs sat down to devour it,
while the sixth kept his place on the
rock. At this time I thought I heard a
noise as of distant thunder, and the air
felt to me as if a storm was brewing. It
had come to be fully dark now, and af
ter an interval of three or four minutes
there came a blinding flash of lightning,
followed by a crash of thunder, which
seemed to illuminate and shake the whole
island. The men suspended their eating
to look up, and the guard rose to liis
feet. There was a minute of perfect si
leuce, and then there came another flash,
followed by a rush up the ravine. A
drove of kangaroos, which must have
numbered 300, dashed right into our
camp, seemingly terrified by the storm,
and as they reached us there was another
flash, a crash, and I heard the outlaws
shouting. I opened my eyes to see the
guard lying on the earth and the path
clear, and guided by the instinct of self
preservation I dashed up the path. Some
of the beasts had gone ahead of me, and
some behind, each one squealing in
alarm, and I have no clear recollection of
my trip out of the ravine. It came on to
rain at a tremendous rate, and by and by
I found myself in the woods and com
pelled to fall down in a heap from ex
haustion. I believe I was then two miles
from the ravine. The storm lasted for
two or three hours, and after recovering
my breath and my wits I crept into a
thicket and remained there until daylight,
Two hours later I had the good fortune
come out of the woods in sight of the
ranch where Roberts had been killed,
and before noon I was at Shaw s. Three
days later after a new party was orga
nized and descended to the bushrangers’
hiding place. The fellows had departed
bag and baggage, and none of their kid
ne .V were seen in that section again for a
couple of years.—New York Sun.
Finish It,
When Samuel F. B. Morse, afterward
famous as the inventor of the electric tele
graph, was a young painter frotn'a studying in
London, he made a drawing small
ca st of the Farnese Hercules, intending
to offer it to Benjamin West an an exam
pie of his work.
Being anxious for the favorable opin
ion of his master, he spent a fortnight
upon the drawing, and thought he had
made it perfect,
When Mr. West saw the- drawing, lie
examined it critically, commended it in
this and that particular, then handed it
back, saying; “Very well, sir, very well,
Go ou and finish it.”
“But it is finished,” said the young ar¬
tist.
“Oh, no!” said Mr. West; “look
here, and here, and here.” And he put
his finger upon various unfinished places
Mr. Morse saw the defects, now that
they were pointed out to him, and de
voted another week to remedying them,
Then he carried the drawing again to the
master. Mr. West was evidently much
pleased, and lavished praises upon the
work; but at the end he handed it back,
and said as before: “Very well indeed,
sir. Go on and finish it.”
“Is it not finished?” asked Mr. Morse,
by this time all but discouraged,
“Not yet; you have not marked that
muscle, nor the articulations of the fin
ger joints.”
The student once more took the draw
ing home, and spent several days "it in re
touching it. Tie would have done
this time.
But the critic was not yet satisfied.
The work was good, “very good indeed,
remarkably clever,” but it needed to be
“finished.”
“I cannot finish it,” said Mr. Morse,
in despair.
“Well,” answered Mr. West, “I have
tried you long enough. You have
learned more by this drawing than' you
would have accomplished in double the
time by a dozen half-finished drawings.”
—Yankee Blade.
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The Hereditary Principle Illustrated,
The principle of hereditary has received
a most striking illustration in the case of
the family and kinsmen of ex President
Theodore Dwight Woolsey, of Yale Col
lege. Dr. Woolsey was a descendent of
James Pierrepont, the famous native of
Roxbury, wHo having become dissatisfied
with the liberal tendencies of Harvard
Collage, induced Elihu Yale to found a
more conservative school at New Haven,
The present President of Yale, Timothy
Dwight, is also a descendant of the same
founder, and with the history of the
families of Dwight is interwoven that of
Edwards and Pierrepont, who have given
many illustrious names to American his
tory or letters. It is no more coincidence
that both Woolsey and Dwight, nine
tcenth century Presidents of Yale, should
both have been great-great-grandsons of
the principal founder of the college; for
the high thinking and plain living of the
early families who were closely associated
with the institution, developing itself
into a hereditary impetus or ability, was
quite likely to supply the qualities needed
in future Presidents.—Abie York Star,
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Wood pavement lasts about seven
years in streets where the traffic is
heavy.
The velocity of the progression of the
tornado cloud varies from seven to 100
miles an hour, the average being 44.11
miles.
A traveling electric light has proved
quite successful in Germany. The whole
outfit complete for service is carried in
one vehicle.
A society has been started in London
to promote the development of science of
mesmerism and of the application of
hypnotism to practical medicine.
Three millions of money that belongs
to inventors, having been collected
through the Patent Office in excess of the
expenses of that bureau, are in the
Treasury.
Observations of the stars were made in
Babylon from remote antiquity’ and
careful records kept of eclipses. Some
of the Babylonian astronomical state¬
ments refer to a period earlier than 7000
years B. C.
Southwestern soldiers will remember
Lavergne, seventeen miles southwest of
Nashville. A mine of mineral paint has
been found there, and $20,000 worth of
machinery has been put up to get out
the stuff to ship to New York.
For deafness of old age, Sapolini, of
Milan, Italy, swabs the membrana tym
pam with a weak oleaginous solution of
phosphorus. He claims to have stimu¬
lated the actions of the membrane and
improved the hearing in sixty-two
cases.
A system of building houses entirely of
sheet iron has oeen communicated to the
Society of Architecture in Paris, The
walls, partitions, roofs, and wainscot¬
ing are composed of double metalic
sheets, separated by an air mattress, which
is surrounded by different non-conduc¬
tors of heat.
The street cars at Lyons, in France,
are hereafter to be operated by a series of
compressed air, which has been found to
work satisfactorily in Nantes and othei
French cities. The cars are said to run
smoothly and with but little noise, while
the machinery is simple antf does not re¬
quire a skilled mechanic to superintend
it. The cost is less than with horses,
steam or electricity.
“It is not intellectual work that injures
the brain,” says the London Hospital
“but emotional ,
excitement. Most men
can stand the severest thought and study
of which their brains are capable, and be
none the worst for it; for neither thought
nor study interferes with the recuperative
influence of sleep. It is ambition, anxiety,
and disappointment, the hopes an* 1 fears,
the loves and hates, of our lives, that
wear out our nervous system and endanger
the balance of the brain. ”
Some interesting notes on human
skulls, found in old monastery in the
Keadron Valley, near Jerusalem, have
been given by Dr. Dwight in a medical
journal. He concludes that the Caucasian
skull has, during the past thirteen centu¬
ries, increased two inches in average cir¬
cumference, and gained a brain holding
capacity of three and a half cubic inches.
The growth has been wholly in the frontal
and upper region, and none at all in the
lower portions associated with purely
animal functions. This is the most im¬
portant date, discovery in ethnology of recent
The Fat Wives of Labrador.
The dress of the women of Labradoi
usually consists of huge seal-skin boots,
a petticoat, a seal-skin garment covering
the whole person from the neck to the
knees trimmed with white fur a cap en
v e oping the entire head, and a sort oi
back, in which their fat litt.e K°, babies Wn are K
earned. The cradle is unknown among
the Esquimaux; but die universal ten
dency oi all mothers to. bounce, sway and
heave about the helpless infant, has illus
(.ration herein the ‘ ‘jigging” of the Es
Chl ln aena cradd1 ®
Walking or sitting -,t- , the v Esquimaux moth-
61 ^ T mo '' ement llke tbat of
an old tar under a heavy sea. It is a
writhing, weaving swavipg motion
which cannot he adequately described,
Bq it suffices, and tne tat mother gets a
good dea oi exercise out of it whatever
the effect upon the babe Only among
the half-breed women are there forms
and faces that are attractive as civilized
folks judge these things. The compen
sation is here, however, for nearly all
Esquimaux women will measure m girth
whafthey will in height; and all forms
of fat represent the Labradorian idea of
both utility and beauty. At childbear
ing their own women officiate as mid¬
wives ; and they get along very well in
every respect without physicians. There
is not a resident doctor in all Labrador;
nor, for that matter, a lawyer .—New Or •
leans Times-Democrat.
A Novel Canal. .
A canal has just been constructed in
Belgium in which, instead of locks, the
boats are hoisted by elevators from one
level to another. The canal extends
from the coal region in the interior ' of
Belgium to Brussels. The boats, which
measure about seventy tons, are towed at
(he low level into an immense tank with
gates, which is submerged in the canal.
The gates are then closed, and the tank,
w’hich rests on the piston of a huge hy¬
draulic elevator, is raised to the uppei
level, whep connection is made with the
next section of the canal by means oi
double gates, and the boat proceeds, on
its way .—New York Telegram.
“Tl(e Lest City of New England,”
Professor Horsford has, after much
study, the looated the site of Norombega,
“lost oity of New England,” sup¬
posed to be in Maine, at the mouth of
Stony the Brook, Waltham. He has begun
erection there of a round field stone
tower, to be twelve feet diameter at base
and forty feet high, and to contain a
flight of stairs inside to top for a look
out. It will be inscribed as follows;
“North Tower, to mark the site of No¬
Cambridge.”— rombega; erected by E. N. Horsford, of
Boston Journal.
THE HOPE THAT LIES AFAR.
A traveler over the desert bound
Longed for some fertile spot,
And to the goal that lay beyond
The traveler hastened not.
And longing, turned his feet aside
From the once desired goal,
And that wished-for fertile spofl
He set for heart and soul.
* * St
That traveler never reached the hope
That lay beyond the sand,
But on a green oasis died.
With all ambition plan’d.
ENVOI.
My brother, shun the fertile spots
That in life’s desert are;
Set thou thy soul to cross the sand
To the hope that lies afar.
—Donald J?. McGregor, in Graphic.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Called to order.—The waiter.
People who call each other liars often
get hurt for telling the truth.
The surgeon is the only man who • cuts
friend and foe indiscriminately.
No one has a right to complain when
whipped cream turns sour .—Boston Post.
When you hear a young man say that a
girl has no heart you may be pretty sure
that she has his.
* A citizen who has been into
run by a
safety bicycle says it hurts just as much
as the old kind .—Jamestown Journal.
Lover (ardently)—“I love the very
ground ft jo u tread on.” Heiress—“I
thought was the farm you were after.”'
—Life.
“Judge Lynch is not a real Judge, is
he?” asked Mrs. Fanple. “No,” replied
her husband; “he’s usually in the sus¬
pender business.”— Time.
No matter how many times the Captain
of an ocean steamship breaks her record,
the company is perfectly willing to stand
the expense of mending it.
“I canna leave the old folks now,”
To work I’m not inured;
“I can not sing the old songs,”
’Cause my life is not insured.
— Light.
The discovery by a Californian of a
process of making leather indestructible
will enable the modern mother to rear a
whole family on one pair of slippers.—
Minneapolis Tribune.
“Smithersis a perfect speciman of self
made man,” remarked Bilson. “Yes,”
replied Gilson, “and he met the fate of
most people who go in to save the ex
pense of an architect.”— Washington
Critic.
Lottie—“Why, Victor, are you not. ;
ashamed to kill a poor little bird like
that?” Victor—“Well, you see, cousin,.J
I thought it would do to put on your
hat.” Lottie—“Ah! so it would; it
is the same shade of gray.’.’
Tommy (to the bashful young mart
calling on sister)—“Hello, Mr. Ble^h.
You ain’t caught yet, are you?’’ jfr.
Blush—“Caught? Why, what do you
little man?” . .
mean, ing, my sister Tommy—‘‘Noth¬
only said the fool-killer would
catch you one of these days .”—Kearney
Enterprise.
“Harry, I do want a new dress so bad.
Why can’t I buy one like Mrs. Dollars?
It only cost $49.90.” “But, Laura, I
can’t afford it out of a salary of ten dol¬
lars per week; it is impossible for me to
save enough »to pay for it.” “Well,
Harry, won’t you give me your salary and!
I’ll save it .”—Commercial Traveler.
A School for Professional Beggars..
At Westminster Police Court, two boys,
0 f thirteen, named Frost and Oakes, Uv
ing w ith their parents, were charged I with
b °SS in S- The boys alleged that woman
trained them and other lads as beggars,
^ that she used to mind thoir decent
clothes and 8Upply them with f s
out in . Her own b it _°- d was
and the head of the gang f of juvenile J besUw
used ta take dl mo ney wMch refresh^
his ,
went to, mother, and J part in
mente and visits to tra poatille music
halls. Mrs. Frost said that she had been
to this woman and warned her that if she
heard that her boy’s clothes were unlanS ken?
@gain she would lock her up for
possession. This was the advice of the
School Board ofR The beTno
^hered to their statements about 1 n cing
’ 0fld * be ma S is ‘
SlV trate Jable sa oilt : d & tbat ta le JZ seen^theVoman , ^
ew said he lmd w ° ma “
and g j. p dpnipd OnlvtheS ^ k° JS
clothes. if™ ,^„ i tbe )oye
cou ] d bp ’ p ^att Gazette.
A Predatory Dog Outwitted
The other day a spaniel that had: a bad.
habit of stealing poultry, was. seen ap¬
proaching with the house at a moderate trot
fowl a large rooster in his mouth. The
seemed to bo defunct, and so thu
spaniel evidently thought, for h r-w
somewhat wearied by his excursiort, and
the weather being warm, he laid down
bis prey for a moment in order to rest.
But the rooster was alive, and in full
possession sooner did he of feel, all his himself faculties, released fqr no* j
the jaws of tha fell from
beast that had cap
tured him than he fluttered his wrings and
struggled up among the branches ,
convenient the of a>
tree. dog was sovm-"
founded at this miracle, as it mustAav*
seemed th him, that he lost twofamT^ his tvtesenrp
of mind for a second, or
that interval his booty escaped.— Boston
Post.
Tlie Clay Pipe Industry,
-
The clay pipe industry' is remarkable
frum more than one point of view.
manufacture is essentially French, and
its importance is daily increasing; de
the formidable competition of
wooden pipes and of cigarettes. A pine
occupies an area of about
square feet, and gives personTex- emnlov
to from 500, to 600
of children less than twelve years
age. The annual product is 120 000’
The number of styles is infinite
is daily increasing, as the dealers are;
asking for new models