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St.' 144 U , 2 22i')& ki. .. i bs 41 '% 777 d3ge on Its br inches. unt house are in course q~o MCIattetuog5, Tenn. Sged 100 years die in 'Ala, a few daysago. 7, . hfas raised its liq Ml $27 to $1000 per year. S. C is shipping phos. net*, used for fertilizing, tQ Eng.. 'it Virginia produces nearly one *O f the nails used in the United 4a n6'w building at Columbus, t e largest stone dam in the 4 Cyton,.of Eufaula, Ala., has , g dealing in cotton futures is siana has 172,005 regstered vo which 85,451 are white and 88, Ie, Socuntains in Swain county, N, to be'of 'solid marble-red 'pkied and black. A careless druggist at Starke, Fia. gave Mrs. Jones poison instead of a dose chlomnel, and she died from its effects, bere are now in Wythe and Pulaski o nties, Va., fifteen blast furnacea en aged in making of cold blat charcoal 4on. An immense hard-shell turtle, weigh nrg nearly .100 pounds, was captured in ~ the Obion river, near Troy, Tenn , a few Ave go-y Charleston, 8. 0., has 250 saloons, each. of which gays an annual city license of $20(). Savannah follows with 300 l eised bar rooms. Thren hundred men are now engaged nn tekiig peaches on one farm at Grif fin, Ga., and will continue to pick them until the middle of July. DiC.D. Babcock, the inventor of the le: extinguisher of that name, is in< Buchanan, Va., a perfect wreck fromE ~,thg intemperatte use of whiskey. A negro in Montgomery, Ga., lost -his 1 ba~i by- death, but, being bound to ae a crop, hitched himself, and, whIyj his wife held the handles, contin Ud eith his work. Arich strike. has just been made in the famous old Magruder mines, in Lin ci county, Ga., in the shape of a four-' Rand-a-half-foot vein af silver ore, assay iig'$150'to th'eton. Virginia drinks up .her entire wheat crop annually, and it is stated that the liquor drank in Lou~isiana costs $47,000, 000--2,000,000 more than its combined ., cotton, sugar and rice crop. X'ineapple grow to an enormous size In Key Llirgo. One recently exhibited < at Key West from that place measured aoot in -length and twenty-three inches In .circumference. It weighed eight ponds, 1mesacola promises to be the future -seaport of the South. During May eighty< nine vedsels, with an aggregate tonnage .3 ~f68,116 ton., entered the port, and inety-five vesiels, with an astgregate of ', 6~,616 tons, cleared.~1 .- Three curious fish were recently cap tured in a lagoon near Macon, Ga. The< frst Ono caught was about three feet1 ~ eug, shaped like a watermelon, and ' da~ perfectly translucent, bloodless, cold -and lanmmf. The otliers were smaller, 1 butl1ike the first in every other respect. A new and important industry is be nig built up on ake Jesup, Fla. The fine beds of marl which have been dis, covered -along -the south shore of the r4- lake are being utilized, with fish from the lalke, in the manufacture of fertili Oers A company has been o'rganized E4buildings erected on Bird island, in 4 ~ 4 A.e, a mile and a half from the " nInland. ~ .Otrt of the 200,653 immigrants who Ne York from January 1,to ,.'Orthnis year, more went to Wis al6;:e than to the whole South ~t~ow how few of I them~went South, , tbei fllowing detail is given: VIrainia, ~ 168: Miaryland, 181; .West Virginia, N*A; North Carolina, 29 ; South Caroli. 4 au, 64; Alabama, 68; Florida, 49; Missis. 7pi19; Qeorgid, 184; Arkansas, 1,165; ~k~sIna, 00 ; Kentucky, 800 ; Tennes '(~ui l~57Mlsouri,,480 ; Texas, 1,500. .4, eziieskee State library contains >~ ~hAble rolics, among which is a ~ ~ ~s~ .rrendered by Lord te.Wa'shington, at Yotk ; D~~anie Booe r oeund that is quite a curiosity in iti Aram On the obverse sido appears the 4gure of a simasted steamer, full rig god, over which is the inscripUion, 'The Great Britain)' and below the ship is the dimensions, number of state-rooms, etc. On the reverse side appear two medal lion heads, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. 'This nedal commemorates the launching of the Great Britain at Bris tol, England, on July 19,1848, and de. Dotes an important era in ship. }uilding, from the'fact that she was built of iron md fitted with the. newly invented icrew propellet. The Owl as* a root Since the arrival of the pig by express sat year, sent by -a wro-ked man at Watertown, no package has created the 1onsternation, at this office that a box iontaining an owl did, which arrived Wednesday from Oak Center. The same of the donor was not given, but he name "Old Parker" is on the box, nd that is probably the name of the wl. He is a lively bird, and would nake a good "bird poet," such- as we vrote of a short timp since. Who knows )mt this is a girl poet who has been aken at her word, aud turned into a bird. f this is the girl poet who wrote, "I 'Fould I were a bird," she has got her elf into the worst scrape of her life. he eyes look more like a girl than any hing, and when the owl winks with one iy.e, and looks at us as though she neant to be so understood-presuming hat it is a she-it makes us tremble, knd forget business, and wink back. If his is a girl poet turned into an owl, we Yonder whether it is the girl's or the )wl'3 appetite that enables the insect to .at three pounds of beef. If it is the irl's appetite that has been sawed off on o an owl, it would be a mean trick on he owl, if he had to get his own living. When the bird winks, and makes its nouth go, we think it is a girl poet trans ormed, and retaining many of the girl's >est qualities. To see whether theie vas any girl left in the owl, we put a nouse in the box with the bird, expect ng if the girl symptoms predominated he owl would take its feathers in both ilaws, and climb up op something to ret away, and scream. But there is nore owl in the bird than girl poet, be ause the bird snatched the mouse in its 1law, and with its 1/ill tore the little ani nal into fragments and eat him. So, if hefe is any girl left in the composition >f that owl, the 1rl poet has got her tomach full of nasy mouse. We warned he girl poet not to become a bird, and f she has not taken our advice she knows )y this time how it is herself. But what, wink the owl has got. That wink on 6 girl would break up a pra yer meeting. L girl with such a wink as that could go ;o church and not a man in the congre ation could ever tell where the text was. d what a wise look the bird has got. [t sits and eems to be thinking of the iereafter, or maybe it is wondering rhere the next meal is coming from. It s possible that some friend, -knowing we ranted an associate editor, has sent the >wl to take a position on our staff. May e some dear friend has been transformed nto an owl, and caused themselves to be hipped to us, to get into the sanctum Lnd see what is going on. If the eyes w'ere another color, and they should vink that way, we sh~ould be sure a joke s being played on us. Any person hat wants to hire a good owl to eat meat an shares, can apply at this office. eck'e Sun. Religion In a Turkish Bath. There is a story around town that is ood if true. It seems that an attend bnt at a Turkish bath establishment was ,onverted at a revival in church, and be ~ame quite interested in the new faith. le asked his minister what he should lo, in his daily life, to induce others to ret roligion, and the minister told him hat in his business, in his recreations, iverywhere, he should impress upon hose about him that they had a never lying soul to save, and that' they were 1pon the brink of a precipice, liable to hie at any moiihent, and to frighten them nto seeking after the truth, if he ~ouldn't do it in any other way, but to e always alert in the Master's cause. Lhe bath attendant made up his min~d ~hat he would try it on some of the cus omers that visited the bath-house. The rext day six hard old nuts that take a [!urkish bath together about. twice a veek, came to the p lace -and went into he sweat-room, after Elisrobin6 until here was not a rag on them as big as a shild's handkerchief. They.,were men weoll along in years, who had steamed it a good deal, anid became rheumatic and gouty, and the whole party had no more 'eiion tha~n could be put in a canary ird's eye. Tihey were sweating away, lokimg each other on being pretty near played out for this world, when a sepul shral voice that seemed to come from bhe confines of the damned, filled the red rot air and said, " Prepare to meet thy QocZ/" The old pelters looked at each ther and turned pale. Then the voice said, "Get down on your knees, every man, and repent before it is everlastingly boo late, fo i uh (". opient as ye think not your goose will be cooked." rhis thing was getting a little bit inter asting, and every man would have per 'phred if there had been no heat on at - . Just then the.- attendant came abrough a door into the room and began bo pray for the salvation of the souls of bhe barefooted old fellows, when they all got out of. the door into the cool room ird go into their clothes without being irie , and before the poor fellow had g'ot bugh praying thy had gne to s g i wa awarning from on ~gto thin to get in their workfor a oraibyn the grave. set kui it as all owing 4whsasm= of a recent convert, ~ xad this. Xt is amusing to dB follows tell how a11.ffred the thrfellows wa. bksh baths iow asclJ.ee Sun% TOPICS OF, Tfi DAT WwIM weather has given oorn and QUW VIOTOais .fat and heasy-. weIghing 200 pounds. GA3MArDZ's body bore wars of ten gunshot, and one bayonet, woundsi DnAwnam promises to give the'coun, 4ry the largest -peach crop since 1875. Tin army worm is the object upon which the farmer may lavish his ourses this year. PHILADULnPHA is taking steps :toward the construction and adoption- of - an electric railway. STOcK Of the Bank or Ireland sells at 819-that is higher than stock of the Bank of England. IN THE destruction of the barley crop, is it possible that the army worm, too, is fighting the brewers? BETwEEN the army worm and tne weather there is little preference. The one seems to augment the other. SiNcE her marriage Sarah Bernhardt is not popular, although'she is perhap3 as good an actress as she ever was. THE census returns in Japan shows nearly a million more men than women. This is not a usual thing for old settled countries. PorToNs of Washington's farewell ad dress are published in a French news paper as appropriate to the condition of that coutry. ROBERT BONNEn, the New York Ledger man, has $382,000 invested in horse flesh, for his private use and to gratify a per sonal ambition. LT US say to our Christian friends that Mr. Beecher has taken to playing bil liards. He keeps a table in hib house for the purpose. ONE hundred and ten thousand per sons, over twenty thousand of them women and girls, used the free baths in New York last week. A. Miss Chamberlain, of Cleveland, Ohio, is creating a sensation in London as a prbfessional beauty. Bear in mind that she is an Ohio girl. WE AnE informed that the Star Route trials are finally in progress. The trouble will be to get them to end-at least sat -isfactorily to the people. THE New York ,5un tells of a man who sent a written note to an apothecary for " ogsallegasset." He wanted oxalia acid. He had a bad spell. SUBGEON WOODWARD, U. S. A., one of the attending physicians on President Garfield, is reported to be in a hopeless condition at Nice, from brain fever. 'Tirs year's graduates at West Point are said to be better waltzers than those of any former class for years. In a mil itary point of view this is important. LEAovrLLE exults over the fact that there has not been a natural death in that city for two weeks. A natural death out there, by the way, is a death by shooting or stabbing. Tac conditaan of crops is good in France, Germany, and Holland. Rains have improved prospects in Southern Russia. Cold weather has checked veg etation in England. Ii Ta A tlanta Constitution speakal correctly, more reapers have been sold in Georgia this year than the entire cot. ton belt possessed one year ago. If true, this is a good thing for the State . SERGEANT MAsON 8says he can't com plain of the treatment he is receiving in the Albany Penitentiary, only he would like' to get ont. Being imprisoned is the meanest feature of the whole tiling. MR. WEED, of Newburg, N. Y., lost $450,000 in one hour at a game of poker and is now creating a fuss all over the continent abont it. Mr. Weddi doesn't seem to know how to play the game. THE Chinese Glovernment will return fifty students to American colleges, hav ing discovered their removal was a mis take. It seems that the meaner we treat China the better iLhey will tlhnk of us. LAwrsn KrasT. of Philadelph'ia, left a will bequeathing $180,000 for the founding of a free law library, and $10 a week to his -sisters. Thus he loved the public, dear man, better than he did his sisters. Mrss BUL.1. BRADEN is said to be the only female railroad officer In the sountry. She has just been elected Treaurer of the Waynesburg and Wash ington Railroad, in Pennsylvauastia, an Is acting Paymaster. Buy. JoRM DuWrr,, D. D., of the Tenth Presbytlran Churole Philadel. phia,;resigned the' pastoraf4 of that shreb, paying bm $000*~ to aiooe$ a Professorship in b~a Q~tnati at $$;O~ 5*ese4 lammla tly*1 be sterod so 5 6esesfully $ad e haply t i e .hoxes of it will be ite tot0 o. trioyles, and people will journey "60 the country by that *nthod 04e*i' than by rail. WS , MA' '4'.be made independent of the corn orope. A number of railroad Men are buyiug Umber lands, and are gown to snake whisky out of ,smoke. Thu is, a qosti which requires the irm. mediate attention of the foresters, In a few years rain. will 1* unknown. A 0oro0r"omany whose patriotism in bubbling over in fond anticipation of a Foiuttg of July celebration, says: '' m n o be more of 4th of Ju< gloriousju this country this year than the oldest inhabitant ever saw before. 'Tis well. We whippea 'em. We can do it again, if they don't.kiok ner bite. Turn loose the whang doodles and let the rockets fAd. LAx1roN, of the Louisville Courier. .ournal, has beoome something of a political punster. 'He turns his attention to affairs in Pennsylvania as follows: Cameron & Son, sucoossors to Wm." Penn. Attention is ialled to the varied resources of our tate. Every adult male allowed to vote for us. Onr own Legislation in session every year. Bend for circular. An EDrno signed by the Czar, and pub lished in the official Gazette of St. Peters burg, virtually bankrupts every wealthy Jew in Russia. It provisionally suspends all payment for contracts or debts due to Jews, prohibits them from settling outside towns and villages, and other wise provides for their speedy extirpation throughout Ozardom. AFTr a serious illness of one of the jurors in the Malley case, the trial has been resumed, but the interest in the proceedings has waned. There is no probability of a conviction of any of the parties whn stand -charged with Mis Cramer's outrage and murder, although there is little doubt in the minds of any who are familiar with the facts and tes timony, as to their guilt. HUxr compares Darwin to Socrates, saying there was in him the same desire to find some one wiser than himself, the same belief in the sovereignty of reason, the same readi humor, the same sympa thetic interes in all the ways and works of men. Just so, Professor Huxley ; but do you suppose if they had found men wiser than themselves, either one 01 them would have admitted it? Faox Fran~ce an extraordinary tri cycle journey is reported to have beer made by the VicoPresident of the Lyona Bicycle Club, accompanied by his wife. They traveled in one of the two-seated tricycles from Lyons to Nice, Genoa, Rome, and Naples, and horke again, through Florence and Turin. The entire distance is about 2,800 miles, and they averaged between flity and sixty miles a day. THE quichet tinle. on record in a di vorce suit was made last week at Fort Wayne. A wealthy farmer named J. V. Gilbert drove to town with his wife, and she handed in an application for freedonton the ground of cruelty. The couple then agreed that the wife should have $1,000 in cash, new false teeth every three years, half the furniture, fruit, and milk, and two4hirds of the children. Both appeared in court, and the divorce was at once granted. Tmi Mohammedan populace of Egypt is getting more excited and fanatical every day. Europeans are leaving th4 country by thousands, and more trouble is expected. Under the circumistancej it is only a matter of life and deatla with Europeans. Many who are in gooi circumstances, prosecuting a lucrativ4 trade, vol untarily leave all ior the sake of ridding themselves of uncertainties that musit ultimately result in ruin -and death. -~ Arrma~ all, the Xeely motor is a fraud Says the iScientifc American: The truth is that "the secret" was divblget long ago. The power exhibited by the moto is 'simply that of compressed air introduces anrreptitIously by pipes which connect it with a condenser. Perhaps the company who have in vested so heavily in the motor, and havd been patiently waiting for years to real. ize their dreams of a scientific revolu tion-and fortunes-will now turn theil attention to hard facts as as they fini them. WOMAN suffrage has at least mad< some progress, whatever individua opinions or prejudices may be. The committee in the United States Senate t< whom the snatter was entrusted for con sideration, have made a majority an< minority report, the majority repor favoring an amendment to the Constitu tion granting the elective franchise fE women, the proposed amendment to bi submitted to the several Legislatures The minority report favored submittin1 the matter to the several, States upon the basis of States rights. It is not likel; that Congress will act upon the questioi at the presnt ssuion, but advocates o wotnan suffrage may take conrage ani Inope for a full disusioni of the them4 next winter. A ' Aw Aus~zatteoher wee instructing is class in aattmal history. "To whai olasso iias dans the liawk beloag ?' he ske " o ihle birds of pry" wa " o ha ese d qai Taxes in holland. Taxes In Rolland Mr. Bird tells us, are generally ve, Ligh, and, it is clear, are often very mloievous. Here -they might learn much from us. " There is a tax on every window, door, chimney, servant, * * * on every article of housebold furniture in use. One must even pay for the privilege of earning one's daily-bread, no man being permit ted to carry on a profession, trade or oc cupation of any sort unless he obtains what is called a " patent." The poor tax-payer has not even the satisfaction of having his taxes called for. He must take the money to the collector's office, and often lose an hour or two while wait ing till the great man can attend to him. Should he be behind in the payment, one or two hungry militiamen are quartered in his house at his expense until he has cleared off his arrears. Two hundred years ago boots and shoes, " those arti cles so essential to human comfort," as our author somewhat needles de scribes them, were not only taxe, but were conspicuously marked on the up per leather with the Government stamp. Medical men' have their fees fixed by law, and fixed at a low rate. To make up for this, no druggist can sell the sim p est mixtures unless the prescriptions of a doctor be produced. If a man is suffering from headache or toothache, though he may know of some remedy' which will give him relief, he cannot a procure it until he has consulted a med ical man. In some parts of Holland the houses of the poorer Boers are but little t better than Irish cabins. " The family live all together in one large room, divided by wooden partitions, which i serves as parlor, kitchen and bed-room, and. is not unfrequently shared with a t cow or donkey." The bed is a huge box, filled with heather or seaweed, and in t districts exposed to floods is often raised to a height of six or seven feet above the floor. In respect 'of cleanliness these poor people are far superior to the Irish. I Even if a laborergets not more than 10s. a ,week, yet he, his wife and children will be seen every Sunday "respectably dressed and scrupulously clean.' It is a very common custom for the peasants to leave their wooden shoes outside the doors of their cottages, so that they may not carry the dirt inside. By counting the number of shoes it can be readily seen how many people there are at any one timd in the house.-The Saturday Review. Best He Could Do. It was a Michigan man riding through West Virginia on horseback, and one afternoon as he came along to a settler's cabin on the mountain road he asked of a nian leaning over the gate: " Can you tell me how far it is to the town ahead?" "I reckon I kin, stranger. You'll have to peg along fur about nine miles yit." "But it is nearly dark. Is there no __tavern on the road ? "Never heard of any, and I've backed my corn-meal over this road risin' of twenty years." "But perhaps I could put up some where ?" "WPraps ye could. - There's Stove Taylor's down about four miles, but he'd beat ye blind on old sledge. There's Mose Smith, a mile nigher, but Mose would feel offended if ye didn't trade him that hioss fur a stub-tailed mnle. Migitt put up at Green's, but there's lots of rattlesnakes around his place. Kur nel Johnson is down about six miles, but the Kurnel would turn ye all out doors at midnight it he found that you didn't vote his way." " But what am i to do ?" "Waal, I'm a squar' man stranger, and the best I kin do is to ax ye to stop here with me, an' to tell ye before hand that if ye ar' awakened in the night by shingles bein' ripped off and logs pulle'd down it won't be an avalanche or a cy clone, but only mea'n the old woman a tryin' for the two hundreth time since the war to see who handles tho money when I sell tw4o coon-skins fur a dollar !" rider.I guess I'll go on," faltered the "Ke-rect, stranger I The last main Iwho stopped here said he wished he'd have run the chia ices with the snakes down at Green's, an' I gin him my hand w hen he rode off. I'm squar' up and down, as.[ tol9g ye' and Green's is the third cabin oii this soiM e-Tysr& the creek."-MA Quad. The Irish Thirst for Gore. An Englishman landed at Dublin a few months ago filled with apprehon I sion that the life of any loyal subject of a her Majesty was not worth a farthing there and tereabout. The Land Leag uers, lie imagined, were all bloodthirsty assassins, and all that sort of thing. But it was his duty to travel in the land-a duty he approached with fear and trem bling. Now, .there happened to be on his route a number of towns, the names of which begin with the suggestive syl lable " Kil.' There were Kilmartin and qo on. In his ignorance of nomenca i ture his affrighted senses were startled 1 anew on hearimg a fellow passenger in a the railway carriage remark to another as8 follows : " I'm just after bein' over to Kilpat I" And I," replied the other, "am b after hein' over to Kilmary." "'What murderers they are I " thought the Englishman. '.'And to think that they talk of their assassinations so pub licly I" -But the conversation went on. i "And fhare are you goin' now?" a asked assassin No. 1. " I'm goin' home, and then to Eil Smore," was No. 2's reply. The Englishman's blood curdled. "Kilmore is it ?" added No. 1. " Yon'd bottlier be comin' along' wud me to Kilumiatle I " It is related that the Englishman left the train at the next station, pr9bably to go back to the tight little Island and report ain alarming mecrease in the mnm ber of oultraa~in Ireland. - "Been 'There." "I believe you sro taking quite an in. terest in spirits' 'st at present?" said a rather seedy-looking old party, sliding into the city editor's room. "Yes, we are devotinir some soace to hat sort of thing," said'the city editor. "Got a communication ?" "Well, no," said the seedy party. "But I can give you a good deal of in. !ormation on the subject. You see I've worked the miedium racket myaelf. I ased to be one of the beat materializers going, and I've seen the time I could set 4 whole set of parlor furniture dancing 4 Highland fling by simply slapping my angers. These modern fellows are no good, and don't you forget it. They bungle the whole business, and give Dverythiug away before they have hardly ommenced a sitting. What you want is cheek, and plenty of it. Don't cave in because a crank happens to ask you broublesome questions. Just get up an Infernal rappmg under his chair and soare hin into silence, or get your assist mt to---" " Assistant ?" asked the editor. "'Then vou confess-" "Confess I of course I confess " said he seedy party, " that's what I came iere for. Yes, you have to employ an aistant, and very often the whole busi aess depends upon his judgment. Why, have an assistant who could run the nap just as well as I could, and he was leath on stirring -up the uneasy ones Iter the light was turned down. - Ono ime he touched a piece of ice to the )ack of an old al's neck, and put her n a fit. We ha to skip that town in hort order I tell you. That was his reat trouble. He never could take in he true inwardness of a circle. My notto is, first be sure of your circle, and hen stave ahead. If they are farmers knd that kind of thing why lot 'em down iasy. A little will go a gleat way with em. If you strike a city bring in your ieavy guns. Lead off with a dozen or o communications from the old world York up a little rapping business, anA hen when you've got 'em nervous mough just suddenly spring the cabinet Lot on 'em; but there is one thing a well rained medium will never forget." "And what is that ?" asked the editor. "He will always keep himself between 'he gas fixtures or lamp and his circle." "Exactly," said the editor. "Yes," said the seedy party, slapping bhe desk with his hand, " more good, likely mediums have bust up in that way bIan any other. They put too much 3onfidence in the circle. Whiff! Up went the gas, and that settled the whole business. You're always sure to rip down a curtain in getting out of eight, and there are all your properties exposed to everybody, but I've got out of one or two scrapes of that sort in my time, and don't you forget it." "How did you manage it ?" asked the editor. " Oh, I just threw the whole thing on the spirits, and played the innocent in. jured act." " But would the people believe you ?" asked the editor. " Believe me," said the seody party, " my dear boy, if you want to know just liow much the people will believe, go into the spirit business. They never stand on ceremony. They just swallow iverythiing whole, and the bigger tho mouthful the easier it seemns to go down with 'em. You just take a hack at the spirit business for a mouth or so, and if you don't agree that I'm righ t, I'll staind bhe drinks for the whole office. Talk ibout the side show and dimo museum business. WVell, those fellows know somiething about guys, but weo can dis aount 'em- every time. They may stick i stray leg on a cowv now amA then, and mal a South Catolina darky a Zulu, but ~or your Simon pure humnbug-" " Then you go so far as to call your )usiness a humbug ?" said the editor. ''My (dear boy, I've been there," said ~ho seedy party, as ho lit the stumip of i cigar, andt saun tered out with the air fa man who lhad relieved his coin mace-rooklyjn Eale. How Jesse James.a.iwed H1is Gratitudle. Six years ago the James Lmothers, who sacked the express car, and " went through" the passengers on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacilic, at Gad's ill, stole the money box1 at the Kansas S Fair. Theiy rode into y on h22M4 R~h ti cashier was walking to the bank with the receipts of the day, abonit $2,000, they pointed their pistols at his head, seizedl the box, and gallop)ed off. T1h'is was (10no in broad daylight, in the midst of a great crowd. h3ome time afterwards one of the Kan sas City reporters wrote an article about these highwaymen, saying. some kind things. lie called them bravo, and said they lhad done the most daring deed in the hiigwaymtan's record. A few nights afterwards one of the James brothers rode into Kmiisas City, went to the news paper office, and, calling the reporter out, p resented him with a handsome watch and chain. Hie said the article in question touched them in a tender spat, and they desired to show their gratitude. " But I don't feel at liberty to take this watch," said the'reporter. " But do it to gratify us. We didn't steel this watch ; we bought and paid for it with our own money," continued the desperado? " No ; you must excuse me," co'ntin ned the reporter. "\Well, then, if you can't take this watch," repied bie, regretfully, "what can. we do for you? P~erh ape y/ou can namn- so)me man around here yiou tvant k~ced/" Dunmso an address by Prof. W. E~. Ayrton on the "storage of power," the lecture theater was lighted, a circulat saw driven and an elevator operated1 by moans of elecitoe energy which had been stored therfi-evinh~ay in Fauro acou mulating batteries.' 'ih total quantity of enefgy was 50,000, O00 foot-pounds a littlQ more than twenty-five hzorse power exerted for one hour, A single cell, confiflt hIp& 1 loupdl8 of ilead 'and redslead, is .found to store },440,000O foot-pounds of energy. __ .TTue'outtirg hi ~lngof diamona ian art sup ndwdV p, A, ~rst orid0 41 alution, "yerl taste tii to hi better half,. the othe- evenin" seem to be hU I can't taste - and that's wh; Tml. F"r Bwmz. #May;' not near wonder they don' es* the month tog Mar. "Clevaw ideaw, byJ, tawn good to yune, yon MODIBTr: ''Do voi as good a judgmei6t at", claimed an enraged wifeto be* "Well, no," he replied sto choice of vartners for life uh judgment is not to be o6 yours. A FnxaniR officer sgid -Wa onel : "How isit that. youroI always fight for mexieywhile we always fight for honosrt" shrugged his shoulde*s a*4 _ Suppose it is beoause m fight for that which they "I UNDERSTAND that r trouble," said Swithson. Fogg. "Brown was at-the au the other day. They had allvb and Brown offered to take I tako it for nothing, you kne the Sheriff took him up. T IT is quite a proper ideo%'s lady to paint a bunch of fresh-laid egg and foward i messenger to her beat gentle This signifies : "Pa is hatching ft b scheme &aanst 'you. Como garden wall' thisevening. est now begins.-New Bave,: UNCLE NED lost a dollar the and when he wont homoheosl.~p Q. eldest son. " Come heaha down. Dis am a queer boy ; jis' w'en yo' think yo'a feathers on' walkin' on dar yo' is, flat in de mud, plei'a wid yo' heels on nlex' t Oity Dorrick. TERUIBLE fate of a kindhat According to a truthful Indien per, a hungry lion invaded. ladies' seminary on commene ne [and~, bouncing in among the, a& off the prettiest and plnnps4uih)~ composition in her pooke- cwlt essay on kindness to anhi n "How profoundly still a~dbqdt4* is the night," she whispared, ~uhi finely-veined temple aanth o.~ collar and fixing her dream ys g.'' far-off Pleiades, "how so~tlg rest fal." " Yes," he rpt~,tIg with the golden aureola ofhr. "and what a night 'to shootoas" ' Brooklyn Eagle. " LOOK yar, Clem, don' yo' bego ftt 'bout do sicaceness on dem yar Dey's got as much w'ar in en domn shanks o' yo'n, eben of did tram 'roun' in 'em mo'n p~ranlcin' 'roun' in 'em ylt, and be ru 'nuff ob de chance, ef dar yUs~)7~ *~' sion for gearmints whar *)Vo~. Romo S'entinel. Hunting in the Aroig In his narrative of the epwpoo ( tho Jeannette crew, LieutenatI . hower says: During the sunme of us used to take the skin boats dingy and paddle amoig the On one occasion Captain DoeL alone in the dingy and was inter by a bear2 who suddenly app othe mist and prod achgh the most dignified manner. The~a retreated in good order. Durn summer it was very difficult to gabb because they could take to the water readily and thus cut off theirprsta During the misty times they were bold, and on one occasion a she b~ with two cubs approached the, shipt -within 400 yardsi of the -tr~i~4~ quarter. Fortunately the dogsWe the port side and to windiward, so ta did not scent the bear. Thepets quietness prevailed, and a squad of bon) ten riflemen was uimediately organanad on the poop. I was watching the bea through a cabin ali'. rt, and it w~s two cubs approach the ship in a Wet ing and cautious manner. I oal a9 better under the mist than th~e peopleq the pop. Heard the Captain say: " o any of you think it is over 380 yards?" All seemed to agree, and he said: "Aim at 250 yards, and wait fe tb1 e word 'fire!'4 Then succeeded a volley. The reeled and made several tr~u thought that we had bagged'aU of but was astonished to see thez pup and walk off in the most lively mnaner. Of course, all the dogs tdok therl1sm and pursued them to the Erst cak which the bears calmly swam .rjua thus escaped. But large drops .t~oa~ were seen, and the she-bee ay o~ once or twice as if woiiadced In her retreat she drove her oubs W her, and became im tint -when6 moved slowly. The had been but the distance had been undrsinta and most of the shots had fall sat'e This was not' extraordinary, was very misty._____ Violating a Watent. 2 k Itwllbe sad ews to sna house wife to learn that et picks a hole In an i, ,iolating the patent sa an inventive gnn discoern am from crcin uri~g ing. He escape and this etoo~dn