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DEVOTED TO POLIT.' THE GENERALITETOFHEOUTY By D. Fe, BRADLEY & C0. pi. DAY, APRL1,18.VO.X]O 1 NEWS GLEANiNGSI Firemen who have served five years in Charlotte, N. C., are exempt from jury duty. A farmer in Thomas .county, Ga., is going to plant 300 acres in corn. More corn in the cotton region is desirable. The bonded debt of Selma, Ala., is said to be about $400,000, or about twenty five per cent. of the assessed value of real estate, It is estimated that the amount of damages done in Georgia during the re cent freshets will amount, in round numbers, to more than $1,000,000. It is predicted that Mississippi will be visited this year by the thirteen and sev enteen'year locusts-an event which is believed to occur only every 221 years. For the purpose of protecting sheep in Buncombe county, N. C., Commis sioners are allowed, by law recently en acted, to pay $20 for the killing of a wolt. Tie Legislature of Noi th Carolina has passed an act to prohibit the sale of ardent spirits to minors. Right of action if given to the parent or guardian or employer of such minor. The New Orleans Times says that there are 150 Texas veterans of the Mex ican war, who served from 1835 to 1837, living. They will each receive from Texas 1,280 acres of land, under the new law. According to a San Antonia (Tex.) correspondent of the New Orleans Dem ocrat, San Antonia contains about 7,000 Americans, 5,000 Germans and 5,000 Mexicans, with a liberal sprinkling of Spaniards, French, Italians, Hungarians, Irish and Poles, aggregating altogether about 21,000 population. A mass-meeting has been held at Dor chester, Liberty county, Ga., to consider the question of introducing steam navi gation on the Ogeechee, Sunbury, Rice boro and South Newport rivers. There would be freight to and from Savannah, aud fruit and vegetables could be raised for the Northern markets. Only $5,000 is wanting, the Richmond Dispatch s:iys, to secure to the Univer sity of Virginia the gift of the 1inest tel esacpe in the world, an observatory, and an1 ample endowNient of the chair of as tronomy, the whole valued at $120,000. The amount must be secured by April I st in ordler to comply with the c'ondi tions of Mr. McCormick's gift. Steamers can nowv transport freight in u rbroken lbulk from St. A ntilony's Falls 1o the Gulmf of Mexico, a dhistanlce of 2,161 miles, and from Pittsburg to Fort Benton, Montana, 4,333 miles. Light eri craft can ascend the Aleghany, an ex tension of the Ohio river, to Olean, New A York, 355 miles above Pittshurgh, and the Missouri'to Great Falls, near where that river leaves the Rocky Mountains. The Wueeling (W. Va.) Intelligencer says that the counmties in which the dlog law recently passedl by the Legislature is now in force, by which a tax of fifty cents and one dollar is imposed respect ively upon mare and female dogs, are as follows: Barbour, Berkeley, Brooke, Grant, Greenbrier, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, JIefferson, Lewis, Marion, Mar shall, Morgan, Ohio, Pleasants, Ritch ie Roane, Raindolph, Summ iers, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, U~pshur, Wirt and Wood. In thme other counties the law is left op tional, to be submitted to the people on the petition of 100 v(;ters. Scal~e of Titles. A witer(~) in (C/,~hain/rs' JIournal, who has traveled ini thte Western States, has .(discvered thme scale b y which titles are 4 given: A speaker at ani American ''Conven tin," beinig add~re5ssed as ''Colonel,'" do chlred he was niol even a catamin. "D1on't you live in Missouri?" he ask ed. HeI owned that he did, and in a house with two chimne~ys. '"Then I was right," exclaimed the man. "'Over there, if a man has three r chimneys on his htouis, lie's a general; if two, he's a colone~l; if only one, he's a a major, aind if he hives in a dng-out and has no chiimey, lhe's a captain, army hlow. -A GENTIJEMAN who is fond of horses attendled church where there was a somewhat prolonged service before they camne to the sermon. "How were you Pl~eased with the services ?" asked a friend. "0, very much, though it did strike me that there was a good deal of scoring before the. got of.'" 'THE public debt of thme United Sht ts is $68 per head; of Spain, $154; of France, $136; of Englan~d, $117; of I fol land, $114; of Can ada, $28; of Mexi,-o, *89; of Switzerland,$ -2. THE wgisper of a beutif~n womanil (en1 be heard further tht thm ho...e3.t val . The Match Monopoly. The most comlete monopoly now ex istiig im the Uniited States, according to comimion report, is the manufacture of friction matches. Some time during last wrinter, it appears a Now England corporation of large means bought every factory then in operation, and it is not known that there is in the country a sin gle establishimnt now engaged in this bisiness except those controlled by that con.cern. The law taxing the manufac ture of matches was ingeniously con strulict(d to coiivcy the impression that a purposo existed to make the burden as light as possiblo upon match-makers of limited mwans, and thus prevent them from being crowded out of the bus iiess. In its practical application, how ever, the law was operated most effectu ally to the advantage of the wealthier menll in the trade. It permits tihe pur eimse of tax stamps on a credit of sixty days, the buyer giving bonds to secure the aiount. The ostensihlo purpose of this privilege was to give the poorer manufacturcers an opportunity to realizo the tax by sales before the time at which pavmieit to the (4overnment had to be miiide. But the owners of extensive con eern is fouid inportant advantage in the arianmgeient. The Government credit '1ave thein liberty to use their capital inl extendinrg their business and pushing their prodnet on the market-a process which is essential in the proseeutioni of any successful enterprise in these days. Another and more objectionablo feature of the law has operated directly and strongly agaiist manufacturers whoso M(1-ans were simll. Persons purchasing it A. more than .-500 worth of stamps at a time are entitled to a discount of 5 per Int., wh'ile upon larger quantities a dis count of 10 per cent. is allowed. This discrimination, for which there appears to be no other reason than a desire to lessii the labor of internal revenue 01i1 es empl(yed in selling stamps, would >f itself sulfice to give the large Con oernIs control of the market. With these d imt ages, it is Inderstood, the large mnuillfacturers have had another of some imi)p'ortance in the owiership of pat eits enployed in making and boxing matCchts. Aid so it has come about that a singlo a1soaiaitio of cipitalists now controls tho mathl market, and establishes the prieoi which the public must pay for the privilege of lighting lamps and kindling 'irs. The thought of such a monopoly is annomgvi to the people, even if the tax i cintents itself with for th1le present is not particilaii l y 1rd(ensoeic. Popular repiiginaince to it is exhiblted in an urgent deiiimnd for the total repeial of the imiatch ta,'K, thle general belief appearing to be that, if this obstiuc1tiol was removed, PerSOns of mioderate means might be i en couimiraged to re-engag.e iii the manufac ture, and thus secure the benefits of competition in restraining the rapacity of the monoplists.--Chicago Times. Remarkable Accident. [virginwt (Ycv.) Chronicle.' A mios t reima rkable accidenmt hapee at the Illale & Noreross nuie laist night. A cagre with si Xmen1 was Conumig up the ha ft aot 11 o'clock-the hour fo r chang ing~ shtiftts. Wh len abhout (W( feet from the bottom, at a point where there is anl irrmegumlar phiee ini the gid ~es, thle enige sudd~enly luirelhed to onie side, thlirowing the meni to the other. Patrick .llollan md, who was on the outside, was crowdled oil Inistead of fallIing to the bottom iand being datshed to pieces, lie was safely lodged on a wal l-plate. The other men on the cage supposed lie hadl fallen into the sumup, of course. When they r'eachled the surface they got the usual saik anid boxes and startedl lavck to the simp to gather up the fragments of the body. As they applroachled the pilace wheire thme oman was thrown olf, they hiearid a voice below themi te~llinmg them to go show. They did not know what to make of this strange discovery, never supp)~osing it possible for H olland to be aniywhere else thanii at the hottorn. When they saw him safe on his narrow perch they could scarcely believe their eyes. Aniy one who has ascemkd( a saft knows how rapidly the wva'l-plates flit by wheni the lantern is held so as to bring them to view. The cage from which Holland was thrown was coming ump at the usual rate of speald. How the jnan could possibly have beseu1 lodged on one of these pieces of timbiher without being jammedl by time cage or knocked off as it went paist him is a wonder. 'The wall plate is a square timber, fourtecn by sixteen inches, so that thiere was very little standing Jomf for Ilolland while lie was wvaitir, for the cage to come down and rescue him. If the shaft had been so light that he could look down any considerable distance of the 00 feet betwveen him and the bottom, lie would scarcely have had the nerve to cling to his narrow footing. The dark ness of all mining shafts is a point in favor of the miners, preserving their coolness when placed in ticklish posi tion. A couple of pumpmen will throw a foot-wide p lank across a shaft 2,000 feet from the bottom. The darkness of the shaft prevents the thought of the awful abyss below from being constantly pres ent. _ _ _ _ _ _ Not Married. The street-car was crowded, and the driver was just about to start, when Gil hooly remarked to a friend, " Jones is not married yet, is he ?" " Of course not." " I thought ho was not married yet, for I saw him carrying home a broom yesterday." A red-faced woman snapped her eyes at Gillhooly, and pushed a cadaverous, timnid-looking man ahead of her ause got out of the car. Ii, all seconds were as averse to duels 'as their primncipals, very litt(le blood Iwouild be shied in that way. - Nc abou hard talk reid tO si same Yest foot it ho had year his I 111r like hiad an(d . S pi fe nwll to v foll beb his s be aIl 1111. 1hv anr tin ti ta C o th di; co (h)' T1 th I pulled his cap over his ears. He had his knee oi the stick and the thej saw in band, when a little three-cent dog I' down on the next corner run out at a Wihe passing goat. The goat rushed into a yard and a girl -was heard screanuing. hle, The saw fell to the ground, the saw-buck man was up-set, -and the boy went tearing "( down to the corner like a clie)ap whiirl- and i wild, and when darikniess begii to set tie and down over the face of the earth he rt - at. In turned to cary the saw and buck inti post the woodshed for the night.--hDIroit 4 Free Press. nigh Training Circus Horses, her "H~ow long," asked the reporter, '"does Miss it take to break a horse in?" Lt "'Fromn eighteen months to two years, that for good and sure pad-riding. Car-e has him11. to b)e taken that he does not shly, or wh'ic( break his gait, but goes round the circus " rinig at aln even pao so that the per.. 1 an former cuan do whatever he wants, by frie time. If this is not secured the per- migi former can never tell where he is going Le to jump11. Muchi, however, depends(1 upon0 what the horse is being trained for, all the beCst horses being used only for a TI special p~erformancle. lIn miost calses the ini t ride rs, if they are exp~erienlced, train whei~ their own aniimals, and thuns, wheun they as cc are ridlden, they unmderstn d muchi better Vant what is reqmired of them. Ducrow, for 6 M adamie Dockrill, Melville, Sebastian, fron> Stickney, Cooke, Reed, and the like all at $i train their own horses andl own thenm. an e Tisytemi of p~rivate' triinig hasi only 000, n mlpraetiCe for a fewv years. Mani- part agers of a circus, undelr the old custom, give were alw~ays eIxpected to furn:ishp 1)d 239,1 horses, andl( those repIuiredl for two and1( as it four-act performances, so that a per- o li former going from01 one omio bl v to a:-- swalI other would always find a hor-se ready ,Jam for himi to mnounit, imai in) a short tinme to g horse and rider would be able to under. pea stand enchi othier. N\owaidays somfe otf but the crack stars have as many'as eight or 87 ten horses of their own, most of them manll trained for a special performance. They Nei are very valuable, most of them being l)ear full blooded, and imported from En. to hi gland and France. Great care has to he insit taken: of them, as they are extremelv Ii. adller able to take cold after a ring perfoirm- Jt' ance.-New York .Eccning M1a il. Whe O)ve Rtei'ponsibilities of Ileredit y. g SON Dad ll air (suddenly disaiti Sihli w with his st atuire, h1 is perso al d ~p p'a ra:-.he andl the (cluality cf his intelleet M. tion what oni earth e 'ah conhl have iniducedt die( you~ two'( people to ma Iw wy''' hav' Sir Roblert and~ JLdy Mawinh--''i:. halt old, 01ld stohwy, my dear boy ! We f,.ll 00 in love with on1e anIotiah-i-a - aw -__ of S Son and heir-- -"Aw---wel--you'redr both such awf'ly good old dleaws, that I onle forgive you. IBit you weallhy shiould sai( have had bettah rtste, you know, and goo each haIve fallen iln love with aii di'wet the kind of person altogethiah, and~ given: a NG fellow a chance ? You see, it is all own' D to your joint interfen wence in m ly affanws aind that I'm under five foot one, n'nd1 can'tto 4Iay huoh to ai goose, and1-a--jlustly pass for being the gweatest guy in the whole co4untry--aw ! just look at me, confound the it." [rfhey look at him- and then at each h other--and haven't a word to say. 1 sof a di A c1rzE~N of Richmond, V"';; , being ten< aaked1 in ondon how his tow4A aad flou~r- Il, isted since the fall of the Southern Con- joib fedleracy, replied: "O h, exceedinigly well: wve live (on red hierrinigs and glorion's \W recollectiousl ' - Might Take the Croup. ral months ago Mrs. La Rubble nd since that time La Rubble has aying attentions to old MissWiec ich old maid of Cleveland. lo wish that you would bring your irl to see me the next time you ' requested Miss Wheezer, the iight, when La Rubble was taking ive. vill be rejoiced, but she is such a omp that I am afraid you will be ,f the visit." 1, no," answered Miss Wheezer, sudden unbending ot frame char tic of a heave, "I can never grow >f a visit which involves your own ice." aank you. Good uight;" and after ing one moment more to squeeze a .h hand, La Rubble left, and, as mng novelists say, strode down the it evening La Rubble and his little 'alled. Miss Wheezer pressed the to her-well, say bosom-and cov he little upturned face with kisses. sing herself, the child ran to her r, and, leaving him, went on a mis icons excursion around the room. :ow did you like Endymion, Miss -zer?" )h, eplendid ! and do you know the should endear itself to all women, it it places our sex so high in politi fluence." Ve had eggs and chicken for break when my ma died," exclaimed the girl. leaconsfield well knew the influence >man," said La Rubble, sending a achfu idglance at his daughter. "I been a close student-" ILy pa took my ma's clothes to a where there is three great big gold bigger than I could lift, and-" ;tit do you think," remarked Miss zer, ' that in vivid portrayal Endy is quito equal to Vivian Gray ? " l'here is the satle outcropping of At insatiate ambition, blut.-" )ne day," began the child, "'one is I was saying, the same ambitious 3ne day my-" Nmdbition that ever swells in-" :ue day my pa conic home-'' [Insh, Lena," said La Rubble with ly counterfeited tenderness. "1 Hush, itre not well. I doii't know what's natter with that child." Jroup, probably," suggested Miss ezer. I'hat ambition," continued La Rub " which boils in the cauldron of hu nature-" )ne day my pa came home so sick ny ma shoved him over on the bed uHlled oft' his boots anI imy% pa strick y ma and hit hii.- hanld on the bed and Said the au fuIlest-" om)e, dear. you are not well to t.. I shonld nt hve brouglt you." It was n1o doub1it iljuldiciols to bring out into the night air," observed WlheetzerV. Ruble wvalked so fast going ho'mt the chil could not ki(elp upl with1 Next mnornming he rece.ived a niote h1 readl very nmeh as follows: 1 not in very good hiealth,. and mi dls think thazt if I1 expo~se myself I it take the croupii." - ('/ce-/land ichI People of the Olden Times. iat we have .somne very rich peop~le bis country there is reo doubt, but -e are they, asks the Ci n'iunati Star, >mplared with the R~oun aristocrats ? lerbilt may he ablet to gii e his check >50, 000, 000, 1but when Cyrus returned the c'oniquest of Asia lhe wats ratedl 00,000,000. Mrs. Asto'r may give uitertaiinmenit at t het e'xpi5s of 85, and Mrs. IMackay may give dinner les that cost $5)009, bt a festival ni by Ptolemy 11hiladelphus cost $2, - 300. Alexanuder's daily meal, frugal was, cost $1,700; and1( money was5 (of Itle nee'ounit to Clauidiuis thait he once lowed a pair) thatd wias worth $40,000). ('s Gordon Bennett hats been known ive mniy thousanldsI of dolli-s to) >le for w'hiom lhe hand acqiuired a fanwcy., neording to Taicitnis, morWe t hiat 900,00o0 wa~s given away in at similar ner' by Nero. Queens of fashion ini York ando San F'rancisco have ap edl at b~alls wearing jewVels estimnatedl Lve (cost $200,000, wich pales into, ntifice~t C whenu comipar'ed with the .ed fact that Lollia Taulina wore -Is vailued at $1 ,02,r00, and thanit i shie wore these it-was only on the oeentsIi of at plain (citizen's supper. r. 850,000( was spient in pro~ vidinugia ~ral for an eccentrie New erker left directions how tihe nmoneylbould pen1i, but the( obseqi(' of Hephacs cost $1 ,500, 000. Americans have ai ad left millhionsa to their sons whoc a sq uandlered it all in asc(ore of years, Antonty ''got away with" $735,000, and1( Tlibrus left the snug little sum 118,000,0(00, which Caligula squan.. -d, to the last penny, in less than year Th late lamented1 Sothern ii to have ipenit $100,000) in a year ir I living, but it is said that Pegellus simger, spent money at the rato o: 000 a week. And then the're was a ius and Hliiogabailus and Lucullun Lentalus and-well, this will do for ay. __ _ _ _ _ _ 'UE!Im are a great many men born ii wvorld who imiine that they wver< I) withi geniusl, and~ lie down on th< L and( waiit for an iraspiration uniti e othier fellowv, who thought himsel mece, rises by bard labhor to acop -y, hyslte sofa. and leadsm the wait genius (out. by the car. 'This is not -; it is a fack Expense of Fuel. One of the discomforts of a winter in Continental Europe is the lack of such fires for heating as we think essential in American houses. If one has a long purse, and does not mind the expense, they can be had there as here, but were one in Paris or Rome to indulge in such roaring fires as we keep constantly going in furnaces and grates, it would bo re garded even by the wealthy as an ex travagance surpassing that of the Roman Emperors. To be sure, the houses are so built as not to be as susceptible of changes of temperature as those inii which the majority of our people live. The walls and partitions are thicler, the windows and doors closer fitted, and they retain the heat longer. Then the stoves in use there for heating are construectd so that a coinparatively snall part of the heat is wasted. Bit even with all these precantions an American, aeenstomed to genterous and blazing coal and wood ires, finds the apartments warmed suf ficient for the comfort of the native, cold and uilincoqmfortable, and shivers as lie re calls the fires blazing on his native hearth. IH' lenrns with surprise in Paris that the wood with which his dinner is cooked or his shins warmed is sold by the puntild, and is weighed out to the purchaser as carefully as btiter, sugar, or coffee. A handful of twigs, such as in America would be allowcd to rot, costs live cents, and1 better wo od at proportiouate prices. So fires on the continen1t are a luxury, and in inany houses, except for cooking, no tires are seen the year round. But if fires are expensive and fuel searce and high in Continental Europe, what shall we say of Japan, -where char coal, split wood, brush and dried grass are used for cooking and heating booths, and is hardly ever used outside the cities, for purely heating purposes. Tie char coal is made in wooded regions, and car ried to the settlements in straw sacks on the backs of men and horses. It cost from twenty-five to fifty cents the 100 pounds. Cut wood is sold in small bun (les of six sticks, each stick being about eighteen inches in length by two inches in diameter. and is sold at about one cent a hundle. A good comfortable fire, .seh as our people must have to keep them warm, would cost several dollars a LV. but our extravagance in fuel dimiin ishes with the years and the increasing cost of fuel. We will travel a good ways, and have then to seek communities re mote from railroads, to find such wood fires as kept the log cabins and thin frame himises of the pioneers warm. The great fire-places, with their wide fronts and immuicnso clihimneys, their great undirons, back-logs, fore-logs, and see tiois of seasoned split wood four or five feet long, piled high, are hardly known save in remote settlemnts. But we imiake almiost as extravagant use of coal as our fathers did of wood, and will probably continulie to do so till the cost of it compels a study Of economy in the met ods of heating houses, and servants are iustructed how to manag~e fires so as to secnre the most heat with the least amount of fuel.--Cincinati Ctom men Iiv elastic gumui is warmedl, then ex pandel(d and wound ini a spiraul upon0 a glass tube or wire, and cooled for a sho(rt time in a cooling mixture, it shows no( tendency to conitraet; b~ut whfen) it is subl mittedl to hot water it returns quickly to its original length. The phenomenoni cani also) 1be made to appear without the use of tihe cooling mixture. If one holds heated gum a second iln an exp~anded condition it shows no disposition to 10 turn to it~s originial lenigth, but if one im merses it imn hot water it contracts to one fourth or one-fifth of its originad length. Maxwell has found that similar p~henoml erna are p~rodUbbEl ini gutta j pehai. F~om the purpiose of dletermniniug tile cap)acity (of a hoirse to Iundergo the p~riva tionis inicident to a stat oI f siege, aL series of exp'-rimients have been made ini Paris. The results show: That aL horse5 mayu hold out for twenty-five days withiout any solidl niouishmiient, prLovided it is suipplied wvithu suflicienit good drinking water; that a horse cani siubsist onl barhey live days without water; and, thirdly, that if a horse is well led for teni days, but inruf ficienitly suppl1iied with water throughout this period, it will not outlive the eleventh dlay. A horse which had received no solid nourishment for twelve days was neverthelessm in a condition to draw a load of six hundred pounids on the twelfth day of its fast.___ A NEw YonK boarder asked a diminu tion of his remnt because of the dampncss of his house. It was naturally refused, andl thle hoo9rder gave notice that ho would leave. He got even with his land lord biy p)lanting a beautiful mushroom in his bed-chamber, andl whenever any one came to see the apartmenlt he would call to the servant girl: "Bridget, see here, what is this mushroom doing in this room? It seems to me that I told you to take it away;" to which Bridget answers: "I did as you told mc, sir, but another must have growvn there sice" JUnoE~ CALDwEnnT, of North Carolina, at one time was olbged to call upon an old darkey to opien his court. It was evidently the first time he had acted in the capacity of biliff. HeI began: "O, yes! 0, yes! 0, yes! De hono'ble, de Co't is now on de l'ench." Then, after hesitating a moment, as if not knowing~ 3 what to say, lhe seemed to hit it, and 3 ended by exclaiming, "An' may de Lawl have mercy on his soul !" Caldwell re 1torted immediately, "That's right, m) man; that's right; if there ever wai - Court that needed the mercy of God, it'u -this one."--arer'Magazine. 1 BOME meni are so imuprovidlent thati thousanlid dollar noles were sihinig for icent a piece, they couldn't lift a mnoi goane on a two-c.nnt. postage stamp. HUMORS.OF THE DAY DAMP cellars-bar-tenders. Ioz cakes should never be served hot. "GIVE us a song!" is a please-sing re ilest. THE highest priced coal is about Le bigh. A MISPLACED switch may ruin a loco notive or spoil a boy. WHAT is the prime object of soldiers' irill? To make holes in the enemy. NOTHING keeps a man from knowledge md wisdom like thinking he has both. A JournAL heads an article, "A Luna tic Escapes and Marries a Widow." Es caped, eli? We should say he got augliht. T'E condition of the Utes is said to be mie of discontent. Tlie last lot of paper 'olIars sent them had the button holes >mitied. ADren% i are the millinery of litera tore, an11d, like the triminigs of a dress. 1hcv shiouh1l not be allowed to obscure the origiial fabric.-Rot4on ('ourier. A sAiTs'ic writer spIeaiks of an enemy whno "is but onle step removed from an aISS." l l'd etitr iatke it three or four. ri aim: luis a long rea'h backward. 11o n'vrr See a 1 woman slip down? Of comtIw you never looked, but then you vu seen them. She didn't flourish :11rom1l li.e an intoxicated jumping jack, tillint the air with aiis and bad words, :. at unIla dous: but she simply abbrevi atc;. so to .peak, like a crushed hat or p;teont driiking ('1u), while you stand by aiil wionder vout never noticed that hole ill tle sidewitdk before. ' F--lirt y who I he silence broke: Nii. Kate iiby are you like a tiee ?" I 'iaat", F catise-1'ai oard," she spoke. "Io, a.o; bietnhie you're woo'd," said lie. ' wi.. 1. % yoil ; :e a In-P,' she aid. " Ii;t h - he:io '"' he Psked, so low, il cr 1anSwer a:itaie the yctl'ig man red: , - v aiu i yri're jp11y, Tii't you knoW ?" oice inonre," sli( nskcd, " why are you now A tre ' )" e 'oiubit't qite perceive. " T<eN leave Fiinetiines aid make a bow, An 1d yi cai alwaoiv how-and leave."' -1. C. I g:iye, ia I1hitehal! T ie. "Yor look so 1a1ppy that I supposo you hidave 1 ien to the dentist and had that acliig tooth pulled," said a Galves ton mani11i1 to a friend with a swollen jaw. "It ain't that that makes me look luppy. Tie tooth acres worse than ever, bIt .I don't feel it." "How's that?" "Well, I feel so jolly because I have just been to the dentist, and lie wasout," alUil the liappy man cut a pigeon-wing on the sidewalk.- Galveston News. A DISeUSSION arose in a colee-Toom as to the nationality of a gentleman at the olter end of thie room. "le is an En glisiiain," said one, "1I know by his head." Ilie's a Scotehman," said an othe', "l know by his Complexion." "le's a Geriaii," Said1 another, 'I know by 1is heard." Another thought he looked like a Spaniard. Hero the con versation rested, but soon one of them splke. "I liave it," maidl he, 'he's an Aimrican: he's got his legs on the table." Trii~ were watchiing the seagulls whirl ing in graceful circles above the waters of thle b ay, while the rays of the sinking sun co'vered the landscape with a flood of g l. Fl.inally he tutrned to her, and with aL voic irembilinig with emotioni, naked: "Dlarling, if wte were seagulls would you IIly away wvith me and be at rest ?" To which she auswered, with her gaze fixed on1 al far-off mass of castellated clouds: "'No, George: I'd1 let you fly away, and then i'd have all the rest 1 wanted here.' A Soldier's Dream. Just before the battle of Cedar Creek a camp sentinel who was off duty teim porarily and trying to p)ut in a little sleep, dreamed that lhe went out on a scoult. A mile to the right of the camp he4 cameI upon01 a log barni, and :as it beginu to rain just then, hie sought she(lter, or was about to, when lie heard voices and discovere'd that the plaec was alreadly occpllied. After a little investigationa lie discovered scouts had taken up thirii quarhiters for the night in the plac'e, and he therefore moved aLway. Thet sentine(l awoke with such vivid rei(mmbrance of the details that lhe asked permissio'n to) go over and 'onfler' withI one of the scouts. Wheni the' log barni waLs dd'eribed'( to) this main lhe locaite'd it att oncie, hiavinig paissed it a dlozen time's. Tfhe direuner' descibedm the highway (exactly as it w'as, giving everyV hill and1( tturn, 5and the( scout put sluch faith in the remnaind~er of the d'ir that lie took four soldIiers, one of wh'lomi was the dreame'r, and set out for the 1)1lace. Th ree Con federate scts~i 5were' asleepl in the straw, and were tiaken with out a shot being fired. Three days before the affair at Reeley's Ford a corporal in the Sixth Michigan Cavalry dlreamed( that a brothier of his, who was a sergeanut in another company, wouldl have his horse killed in action, and woul almost immediately mount a dark bay horse with a white nose. Within five minutes both horse and rider would be killed by a shell. Thlis dream was related to more than a score of comrades fully two days before the fight. Early in the fight the sergeant's horse was struck square in the forheatd by a bullet and dropped dead in his tracks. It was scarcely three minutes before a white nosed horse, carrying a blood-stained sa(ddl galloped ump to the sergeant and halted. He remembered the dream and refuscd to mount the animal, and soon after picked up a black horse. The white-nosed animal was mounted by a second corporal in another regiment, and the horse and rider were torn to frag ments by a shell, in full sight of four companmes of the Sixth.-New York Commercial Advertiser. A T4A in a Pennsylvania town has Itwenty-nine children. Strangers pass a ing the house on washing days a' e at a loss to determine whether it is r. achool o r a laundry.