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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