The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, October 13, 1881, Image 1
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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE (AENERAL INThEET OF TE COUNTRY.
v D. F. BRADLEY PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOXI. O. 5.
NEW86LEANIN88.
Ex-Governor Warmoth is now one o
Louisiana's largest sugar planters, ani
he says the sugar crop will fall off full;
one-bAlf.
The Mobile press indignantly howl a
the published reports that the city is oi
the decay. They assert that the citU
Mobile is fast improving.
The cotton crop of South Carolinj
will unquestionably be short as con
pared with let year's crop, but there i
some reaun to hope that the loss wil
riot be as great as generally supnosed.
It is sait the Pensacola railroad hae
Otc largest pair of track scales in Amer
lca, which are 106 feet long, and can
weigh three car's at once loaded with
spar timber.
Marion (Ala.) Standard: A Perry
county woman, whose arms are cut of]
just below the elbow, threads her needle
by sticking it in her dreb and tuk
ingthe thread between her two stunips
of arms and forcing it through the eye
of the needle. She does neat sewing,
hoes corn well and can pick fifty or sixty
pounds of cotton per day.
Arkansas Democrat: The cotton
vrop of Arkansas is much smaller than
it was last year. But it must he renein
bered that we lost a large portion of last
* year's crop by bad weather, and much
of what was gathered was of a very in
ferior quality and sold for a small price.
If the weather continues favorable for
picking there will be only a small dif
fercuce in the amount saved as com
pared with last year.
Mobile Register: 'lhere seems to be
a fatal disease among hordes and mules
in this neighborho)d. Within the
forty-eight hours ending at dark last
night eight horses and five mules have
died. We also understand from Capt.
P. F. Alba that he has several horses
under treatment for the same disease,
which is an aflection of the throat.
Some apprehension among the owners of
valuable animals exists for fear that the
4 disease may become epidemic.
The State Virginian: The rains that
have fallen in the past few days in
nearly every portion of Virginia and
North Carolina will benefit the grass
and set the streams to running once
more, but they come too late to help the
tobacco crop. Indeed, some o I the most
experianced tobacco planters are of the
r , opinioni that the rain, ceming so late ne
it did, will do the crop more harm than
,godd. But the tobacco raisers will have
th consolation of knowing that the de
-ficiency in quantity will be made up in
a measure.
The Madisonian : There is a negro in
Morgan county, Lewis Jordon, who is
thoroughly conversant with the rudi
ments of the Latin language, knows a
smattering of French, and is fast learn
ing to read and parse Greek. He is a
capital scholar in English grammar, and
is ready in mathematics. He has ac
quired this extraordinary amount of
learning without the assistance of a prne
ceptor, and seems charmed when under
some great mental task. He hasn't an
intelligent face, but rather the reverse,
.appearing at times silly in the extreme.
He Is about thirty-five years old, and
feels confident that he can master sev
eral languages before his death. He
laughs at you when you ask if he could
not progress faster if placed under a
competent teacher. He is humble, po
lite and strictly reliable.
Knoxville Tribune: One of the most
wonlderful phenomena that have come
under our observation in a long time is
a natural flow of gas fromi the earth,
that burns with a brilliant flame whenI
figniited. The spot where this gas es
capes is about one mile from Oliver's
Springs, in Anderson county, and im
pregnates the atmosphere for yards
around with the odor. The gas seems
to come from a Spring on Coal creek,
near the 'water, but for yards up the
mountain side there runs a vein about a
foot wide, which has been fired aind at
times burns brilliantly. A t the end of
the vein, on the bank of the creek, the
gbhs burns with a bright yellow hlame
and emits considerable heat. A pipe is
sontethhkes introduced in the spring and
at a distance of several yards burns
readily. A traveler passing a few daya
ago stuck in a small pipe in the vein,
put two rocks, one on opposite bides of
the pipe, and eboiled tea from the flame
that was prodluced on igniting. The gau
evidently comes from a coal formation
su-1 is a niatural curiosity Persons go
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
CHARLEs y. GUITEAU will plead in
sanity.
THE Jews in Russia are organiging for
self-protection.
Rownrr has retired from the track
with $50,000 to his credit,
AMnHAN horses are carrying off all
the honors in England this year.
THE country is responding liberally to
the suffering peoplo of Michigan.
A PARISIAN clothing house is runsing
its sewing-machines by electricity.
ONE of Detroit's tough citizens uses
nitro-glycerine to blow his nose with.
PRIVATE board, as a rule, has advanced
one dollar a week in nearly all the cities.
A ST. Louis negro committed suicide
throngh grief at the death of the P1resi
dont.
TiE public debt was reduced ov-r
twelve millions of dollars during Sep
teiber.
SIXTY-EIGHT miles of black cloth were
used to drape the department buildings
in Washington.
TRAvELING by balloon would be the
better and more profitable way iii Mis
souri and Arkansas.
TiE rice crop of the United States
this year is estimated at 1,500,000 bush
elm, an abundant crop.
REPORTS of the nut crop say hickory
nuts are more plentiful than ever, but.
ternuts a failure and acorns short.
GTrEAU was pleased' to hear of the
President's death because it put him out
of pain. This is magnaminity, indeed.
WESTON, of pedestrian fame, Is in the
employ of the Church of England Tem
perance Society. How men do drift
about.
QUEEN CHRISTINE, of Sweden, said
that she loved men, " not because they
are men, but because they are not wo
men.'
OwING to the change of administration
William Walter Phelps, United States
Minister to Austria, has asked to be re
called at once.
EHERE is little doubt but that the
prosecutions of the Star Route con
tractors wvill go right on as if nothing
had occurred.
WE ANNOUNCE, with a spasmodic shiver,
that large hoops are being adopted by
the leaders of fashion i tihe large cities.
Girls, to your tents !.
UNLEss some terrible penalty is at
tached to attempts on the lives of pub
lic men, we may expect an increase of
crime in that direction.
HARISN, tihe "boy preacher,"
charges $100 a week for his services.
There is no telling what he will charge
whieighe gets to be a man.
MASON, who shot at Guiteau, will not
be photographed, and pei-sons writing
for his picture will save themselves time
and r-.oney by taking notice.
THE late rains over the country have
started a rapid growth of grass, and the
consumption of hay, for thle time b~eing,
will stop to a great extent.
No MAN, perhaps, was ever in a more
trying position than President Arthur,
and all well-meaning citizens can lbut
hope lhe will be equal to the emergency.
Tnis Detroit Free Press states there
are 58,000,000- gallons of whisky stored
in Kentucky. What a high old time
there will be when people find out where
it is.
AUGUST B1~rMONT, the New York
banker, who spends his summers at
Safatoga, pays $1,000 a week for hoard
for himself and family of 'half a dozen
persons.
THe number of days from the time of
Garfleld's election to his death (includ
ing those two days) was "329." Were
this a superstitious age, the fact might
not be regarded merely as a ooincidence.
URItNG the past twelve years it has
cost $302,345 for "furnishing and re
pairing " the Executive Mansion a~t
Waishington,, and yet we read that the
furniture is oMr and must be replaced.
The amount does look rather stingy.
IT SEEMS to be the oase that the Mor
mons supply the White River Utes with
ammunition, and it is rumored nlow that,
having nlenty of that artien thoy wml
refuse to stay on their new reservation.
it would, perhaps, be to tho interest of
the Mormons to endeavor to cultivate
Uncle Sam's good opinion.
Ex-1REstItN' AYES seems to have
an enterprise on hand about which the
)ublic know very little. He owns a farm
of 500 acres near Bismarck, D. T., which
cost him from sixty to seventy-five cents
an acre, worth now $15 per acre, and the
past year a wheat crop on it yielded him
a profit of $15,000.
.
HEits is the new Cabinet as it is or
ganised in some of the New York pa
pers : Secretary of State, U. S. Grant ;
Secretary of the Treasury, Levi P. Mor
ton ; Secretary of the Interior, Senator
Jones; Secretary of the Navy, Judge
Settle; Secretary of War, Robert Lin
coln ; Postmaster General, Senator Fre
linghuysen ; Attorney G'neral, Geo. S.
Boutwell.
YOUNG men should take courage.
Several years ago Jenny Henry, a young
girl with scarcely enough to sustain her,
settled on a tract of land at Ash Creek,
Kansas, and by economy and hard work,
now owns a farm under a good state of
cultivation upon which there is a com
fortable house, well-furnished, and other
valuable improvements. She will make
a living for some man.
FARM products, on the average, are a
third higher than they were a year ago.
Within a few months wheat has advanced
from 87 cents to $1.50, and corn from
45@047 to 76@80c. Flour has advanced
$2 on the barrel. Potatoes that last
March were selling at $2.25 per barrel
are now bringing $3.35. What price
potatoes will bring by next March we do
not like to predict. They will be high
anough evidently for those who are con
pellel to buy.
Ex-MINxsrEn ICRISTIANcY doubtless
feels somewhat discouraged. First, a
divorce suit unsettles his nerves, then
comes ia challenge to fight a duel, and
before lie recovers from the shock, bir
glars entevr his apartments and steal
$3,000 worth of diamonds that had been
given him for safe-keeping. This iS
about the point reached when thoughts
of suicide crowd themselves one upon
another.
TIrE Sexton of Lakeview Cemetery,
Cleveland, avhere General Garfield is
buried, says that one day last fall tle
President-elect and his uncle, Thoimas
aarfleld, since dead, and buried in the
cemetery, came out to inspect the mon
ument of the Garfield family. The old
uncle was a jolly fellow, and, while
talking, said, laughingly, to the nephew :
"Now, James, if you should be so per
verse as to die, with so many honors
tulck upon you, here is plenty of room
.to bury you, and a place left on the
stone to inscribe your name."
WE HAVE another terror llow ini antici
pation, that of cholera. This disease
seems to recur at mntervals of seventeen
years. It visited us in 1849, and again
in 1866. The. cable announes that it
has broken out among the Mohanancdan
pilgrims in Mecca, and also in the iRus-.
Austrian frontier, two distant point~s onl
.the road from the East. It mayv be
that this is ominous of its return here in
1883, and as sanitary lawvs are its only
preventive, it is essential that they be
strictly heeded.
CORN is no0w woi't~h eighty (cnts the
b~ushei, and the prospects are, that it
will be higher. Wh~en money wais chi(apJ
and corn brought one dollar the buishll
the fact was recorded as an event wort hiv
a place in the history of commierce ; but
wihat shall we say now, with money at
par, of tihe price which this product
promises to attain. The d (ifference hotw
ev'er, betwveen then and now is. that
then tile high price attained was owing
to the cheapness of mioney and1( ani un
usual demand ill the markets, whereas
the present status is a result of the
scarcity of the corn prodhuc'. It is of
little benefit to the farm'r how high
,orn is if he have none to sell.
T1HE Cincinnati (GuZet(/ pa~ys the fol
lowing tribute to the integrity oif Jav
Oooke : The examplle which Jlay (kooke
presents of recovery from bankruptcy to)
honorable solvency, after having been
hounded from wealth to p)overt~y by
heartless and undiscriminating persecu
tion, is not equaled probably in finani
cial l-itory. Every lover of integrity
and personal worth will rejoice to know
that the great dispenser of greenharks
and salesman of Government bonds ini
the hour of the Nation's fiery triail i.s
likely to pass the evening of his days in
affluence in the elegant home he pro
vided in days of affluence, wvhiich was
cheerfully surrendered to sati-fy both
needy and rapacious creditors, but is
now recovered by his recuperated meanis
to the use of the worthyv owner.
ta-r r Vus.IsasoN, a C'olor,io ouitlhi'w
who wva' kindly nsistaed ''. vor the
range" by the vigilants, was highly con
nected in Indiana, an well as with the
limb from which he mde his last ap
)earane in public. His gradl(ulcle was
Joseph Wri'ight, who was Governor for
several terms, then United States Sena
tor, and afterward Minister to Berlin.
His grandfather was for many Years a
member of the Indiana Legislature. His
father was a cousin of the Hon. .Tames
F. Harlin, of Iowa. Bert had for sey
eral years figured as a border bar-room
hero, and the murder for which his lifo
was taken wan wanton, brutal and cow
ardly. When about to die, however, his
bravado proved trustworthy. lie ad
justed the noose himself, remarking,
"Boys, I'll help you all I can," and
coolly kicked over the chair on which he
stood.
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
WHEN reduced to extremity by hun
ger, the wolf will swallow mud in order
to allay the uneasy sensations of his
stomach.
TrERE is a species of crow in Flor
ida that gives vent to a series of haw I
haws I in exact imitation of the human
voice I
A WILD elephant may generally Ie
tamed, so as to be conducted from
place to place unfettered, in about six
months.
IN the Guildford Endowed Grammar
School, in England, where the school
master is held responsible for every vol
ume, which, if lost, he is bound to re
place, one master, to decrease his risk,
carefully packed all the books inder the
floor, vhere they proved a banquet for
the rats and mice.
TnE curious library of old Samuel
Pepys, the well-known digrist, is im
prisoned in its original book-cases at
Magdalene College, Cambridge. No
one can gain admission to it except in
the company of two Fellows of the col.
lege, and, if a single book is lost, the
whole collection goes to a neighboring
college.
Tu Norwegian lemming is an animal
about the size of a mouse. They live
under the stones in summer, under the
snow in winter. They hiss and bite.
About once in ten years they migrate in
large armies. They march in a straight
ime. They cross lakes and rivers.
They go straight through hay-stacks
rather than go around. Nothing stops
them, Aot fires, cascades nor swamps.
If a man stands in their way they will
jump at him as high as his knee. If
struck they will turn around and bark
and bite like a dog. Foxes, lynxes, owls,
hawks and weasels will follow them and
destroy large niinbers of them, but it
doos not check them. They continue
their course until they reach the sea
into which they plunge, as persistent
and progressive as ever, until the waves
exterminate them.
THE microscope shows a variation in
the thickness of human hair from the
1-250th to the 1-600th part of an inch;
but, notwithstanding such fineness, it is
a massive cable in comparison with
other fibers. Thus the thread of the
silk-worm is many times finer, being
from the 1-1,700th to the 1-2,000th of an
inch. This, however. is nothink to the
slenderness of the spider's thread, which
has been found in some instanc~es to be
no more than 1-30,000th of an inch in
diameter. Tho fibers yielded by the
vegetable kingdom are also of astonish
ing minuteness. Thus, every fiber of
flax is found to be composed of a bundle
of other fibrils, which are about
1-2,500th of an inch in diameter. Simi
lar fibers obtained from the pineapple
plant have been ascertained to be no
more than 1-5,000th or oven 1-7,000th of
an inch in diameter.
IN the British House of Lords Lord
Brougham once mentioned two some
what-remarkable facts showing the ne
cessity of having a safe place for the
deposit of wills. The first case is one in
which one of his noble friends, as heir
at-law, lost, and another of his noble
friends, as a devisee gained, ?30,000 a
year. How the first Iost it, and the last
gained it, wats by a will being found in
an old rusty box, in an old traiveling
carriage, and which, therefore, might
have ben very naturally lost by acci
dent or destroyed by ignorance. The
second case was one, also, in which
some of his noble friends were con
cerned, and the sum in question was no
less than ?160,000. This sum would
have been entirely lost for the purposes
for which it was intended if the inquiries
relative to the existence of a will with
respect to it had been instituted in win
ter instead of in the suimmer. The will
was searched for everywhere, but could
nowhere be found, until, at last it was
discovered in a grate, and stuffeAi like a
piece oIf waste paper through the bars;
if it had been winter instead of summer,
in all pro'bability when the fire had been
lighted it would have been destroyed.
" GAru" says that a public man at
Long Branch told him that when Zach
Chandler hciinl of tho nomination of
Lincoln in 1860, he began to curse in a
terrible manner, and said that Lincoln
was a muiserale clown, anid that Seward
was the only man in the country fit to be
elected andw who could have carried it.
Somebodly spoke up at the telegraph
om~cE, where this talk was going on, and
said. "' Yu und1lI~erate Mr. Lincoln ; lhe is
a inmi or int~eet ;a fine lawyer ; an ex
(cllen1t debalterOI, anid a man of decisioni of
(lbaraciter anid fir'nmess of purpose." In
abn; li fteen, ininute of such talk as
to II Z:, was1 ~i inidi'eed tosnmd a imessa~gf
to) ~in le(IA co)ngaublatinu hha.
GOSIP FOR THE LAIE.
What she Wore.
She wore a sage-green polonaise,
shirred up behind the back,
And several plaits with gusset loops
Were henistitched in with black.
The drab corsage-that fair comage
Was biased down before;
The skirt was airnply fiounced in griy;
And barely touched the floor.
A colar-band of crepe do chine,
Or Batinot ecru,
Just reached unto her dainly waist,
And was of mauvish hue.
Her hat-Lut, no, an angel's pen
Were nee.led on the earth
To paint, that, bat and costunie as
They jujst wrrived from, Worth.
'like Isifiuential Wouuaan.
We generally picture her as a leader
-f fashion, stately and beautiful, the
ceiter of her coterie. Her moral qiali
ties are not considered at all ; and that
is where we err. When the rich wonan
can sh1ow to the world only a life of
fashion and idleness, she is deserving of
open censure and disgrace, so long Us
there are hungry bodies, minds or souls
crying for some of her ainildance. To
whom much is given much is required.
Let plillie opinion mete ont its wratlh
of censure upon the fashionable, idle
voman, who is a disgrace to her sex
because of her aimless, useless life. Let
the expression " best society" mean
those who do good deeds, who leave tle
world happier and better for having
lived, instead of those who have been
most idle aid aimless. The " influeintial
women" of every community are those
who are doing and daring, that tie world
miy he niade purer and better, whether
they are fashionable or uinfaslionable it
matters not..
A Wonirk's AlKe.
A case was decided not long ago be.
fore the appeal court at Metz, in Ger
many, which shows how a lady's age is
a matter entirely within her own-control.
Fraulein Catherine Mal was engaged
to a desirable partner, to whom she had1
imprudently declared her ago at six
years less than it really was. As soon
as the moment arrived for producing the
certificate of birth, she was aware that
her little deception would be discovered,
and she feared that the match would be
broken off. She, therefore, took the
liberty of altering the official document
so as to make it correspond with the
statemenit already made. The cere
mony took place, and the husband was
duly untited to a lady whom he believed
to be q.uite a jeunc! ingenuc. Unforta
nately, the certificate, in passing thr'ogh
so.mle office, happened to bo minutely
examined by one the clerks. The bride
was charged with the oflense of falsifty
ing a public document, and condemned
to spend, if not her honeymoon, at least
three of the first months of her married
life, in plison. She had tie courage to
appeal from the sentence, and cause the
case to be argued out before the court
of Metz, which reversed the decision of
the inferior tribunal, and acquitted the
lady on tle groundv that she did not in
tendl to commit an illegal act, but had
bieen actuated only by "female vanity."
larce Maideuns and dae Cenus~.
Th'le Misses McFarlanes are three
maiden ladies-sisters. It seems thes
one wvould niot trust the other to see the
censlusH paper lilled upl, HO they agreed to
brmng it to me to fill it in.
"Would you kindly fill in this cenus1
paper for mue ? " said Miss McFarlanie.
" My sisters will look over and give you
t heir pamrticulars b~y and1( by."
Nowv, Miss McL araane is a very nice
ladly, though Mrs. Cameron tolls me she
has been calling very often at the manse
sinlce tihe minister lost his wife. Be that
a it may, I said to her that I would be
hiappy to fill up the paper, and asked
her mn tihe meantime to give her own p~ar
ticulars. When it came to the age col
umn, she played with her boot on the
carp~et, andd drew the black rib~bons of
her silk bag through her fingers, and
wvhispered : "You can say four-and
thirty, Mr. McLauchlin." " All right,
ma'am," says I, for I knew she wvas four
and~-thirty at any rate. Then Miss
Suisani camne over-that's the second sis
ter, really a handsome young creature,
with, fine ringlets and curls, though she
is aL little tender eyed andl wears specta
('les. Well, when we came to the age
colunmn Miss Susan played with one of
her ringlets, and looked in my face
sweetly, and said; " Mr. McLauchilin,
what did Miss McFarlane say ? My
sister, you know, is considerablhyoldebr
than I - am-there was a brothe ir be
"Quite so, my dlear Miss Susan," said
I; "' but you see the bargain was thast
each of you was to state your' own age."
"Well." said Miss Susan, still playing
with her ringlets, "you can say-age,
84 years, Mr. McLauchulin."
In a little whlile the youngest sisterl
came in.
"' M~iss McF'arlane," said ise, "'Senlt
mie over for the censusli paper."
"Oh, no, my dear," says I ; "' I can
not parlt with thle paper."
" Well, then," saidl she, ''just enter
my name, too, Mir. Mc4Luchlin."
"Quite so. Ent tell mie, Miss Robina,
why didl not Miss McFarilan~e lill up the
paper herselIf ? "- -for Miss Ro'bina tand I
were alwvays on very confbldent ial terms.
"Olh,'' shes replied, " thlere' was a dhis
pute over particulars ; and Miss Mel' ar
51ane would not let myr other sister seo
ho(w old shte wasI ; and1( Ni< Susan re
fused to stalte her' age' to Miss Mc~aer
lane ; and1( so, to end4 thea quarrel, we
aigreed to aisk you to' be so kind asM to fill
in the paper."
"Yes, yes, Miss Robina," saidl I
"that's quite satisiactory ; and so I'll
fill in your name now, if you please."
" Yes." she said. witha a sigh. Wien
we came to the age columnr-" Is it ai.
solutely niQeessar'y," said she0, " to fill ini
Ithe age ? D~on't yon think it is a mos
impertinent question to ak, Mr. Mo
Lauchlin ?"
" Tuts, it maLy be so to some folk, but
to a sweet young creature like you it can
uot inatter a biutton."
no0w, M MTfcLauchlin, I'm to tell you.T
great secret," and she blushed as she
slowly coItiIIue ; " the minister comes
bollmetiies to see Is."
I have noticed him rather more at
tentive iml his visitaitions in your quarter
of late than usual. Miss Robina."
"Very well, Mr. McLauchlin; but
you must not tlase me just now. You
know Miss IcIFarlane is of opinion that
he is in love with her, while Miss Busan
thinks her taste for literature and her
knowledge of geology, especially her
uamphlet on the old red sandstone and
its fssils ats confirmaing the Mosaic po.
riod, are all matters of great interest to
Mr. Fraser, and she fancies that 1e
omies so frequently for the privilege of
conversing with her. But," exclaims
Miss Robina, with a look of triumph
look at that I" and she held in her hana
a beautiful gold ring. " I have got that
from the minister this very day.'
I congratulated her. Sho had been a
favorite pupil of mine, and I was rather
pileased with what hoad happenen. "But
what," I aslwd Ier, " has all this to do
with the census ?"
" Oh, just this," continued Miss R.
bina. " I hAd no reason to conceal my
age, as Mr. Fraser knows it exactly,
since he baptized me ! Ho was a young
creature then, only three-and-twenty;
so that's just the difference between us."
"Nothing at. all, Miss Robina," said
1, " nothing at ill; not worth mention
ing."
" In this passing and changeful world,"
salid Miss Robina, " three-and-twenty
years are not much, after all, Mr. Mc
Lauchlin."
"Much?" said I. "Tuts, my dear,
it's nothing-just indeed what should
be. "
I was just 31 last birthday, Mr.
McLauehlin," said Miss Robina, "and
the minister said the last time he called
that no young lady should take the
cares anc responsihlties of a household
upon herself itil she wat--well, eight
and-twenty ; and he added that 31 was
late enough."
The minister, my dear," said r, " is
a manl1 of sense. '
So thus wero the Miss McFarlanes'
schedules filled up; and if ever some
one in search of the Cuidsities of the
census should come aoxoss it he may
think it strange enough, for he will find
that the three sisters McFarlane are all
one year's bairns.-(Chabncrs' Journal.
rnvestigatIng His HistorICVat warnings
. "And so you are studying American
history ?" asked a fond father of his
hiopefll.
" Yes " revsonded the lad.
("ood cinouigh !" roared tie delighted
parent. "Now tell us who GeorgeWash
"lHe was imirse to ai lot of old colored
womeni,"' sang tile boy.
"What was he0 first in ?
''First &ahotre, first to leave, and first
ini the pairt& of the hungry mnan.''
" Look here, you st-alawag," said tihe
old lman, riling upl, "'you want to get
this thing straight. What was it Wash
inigtoni couldn't (do?'
'"lHe conidn't lie !" snortedl the young
uter.
"You've got the righit man. What
" He jicked Hunker Bill on Boston
Commnnon. in three younmds."~
" Vhat was it he cut when he was a
"He cut his fatthier's cheese, and ex
claimed, 'Father, spare me; I cannot tel
a haitchlet tofr a lie l'"
His father graduated the boy at once,
and he now maken a living oiling p~apers.
A CurIous Love Story.
Ther.' abides in the mind of woman an
overwhelning sense of the importance
of having an1 amiple trousseau. Witness
the case of a .younig woman in Dort
mundI1(, Giernumuy, a short time since,whno
was arrested for stealing a goldl w'atch
and chaini from her aflianced lover, who
0on discove'ring 1his loss, had1( placedl tho
miatter' in the hands of the p~olice,withl
out the faintest notion as to who was the
thief. The11 maiden, wit h nmany tears,
confessedl thli she hiad taken the watch,
so1 that by3 pawinig it she might raise
mfone~y eniouigh to buy h1er wedding dress,
which she conh1 get iln no other way.
Ther(eulpon the dlespoiled but nmagnani
muous 1bridetgroom sp oke 01ut in court,
delared tin t " the prison~er Kas his only
lov(; and1( that he would marry her out
of handi if the jud( ge w'~outld consent to set
unaal annu111lled thel( arraiginmenit, and1( the
generous)I1 lo)ver cairried( off his liberated
Hlow Hie Proposed.
A bachelor too poor to get married,
yet too susceptible to let thei ls alone,
was riding with a lady " ofa sum
mer's day," and accidentally-men's
arms, awkward things, are ever in the
way-dropped an arm round her waist.
No objection was made for a while, and
the arm gradually relieved the side of
the carriage of the pressure upon it.
But of a sudden, whether from a late
reoognition of the impropriety of the
thing or the sight of another beau com
ing never was known, the lady started
with volcanio energy, and with a flash
ing eye, exclaimed: "ifr. B., I can1
support myself I" " Capital I" was the
instant reply. " You are just the girl I
Shave been looking for these five years
Will you marry me 7'
"IDo You expect to travel this sum. ?"
"Yes, some0." " It will cost some"
"~t Yes, qite0 a1 suN." "iDo you possess
jthe no.ensaarv sum ?" " I have some."