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^tumorous Jjcpartmcnt. Correcting a Mistake.?A Chicago bridge tender, who had swung open his portcullis to allow a schooner to pass up the river, was warmly and violently assailed by the captain of the craft for some slight inattention to duty a few days previous. "If I had you down on the deck of this vessel I'd break your neck," said the skipper shaking his fist like a small ham. "Yer would, would ye, yer chuckleheaded salt horse? If yer was wanst on the nlankin' of the bridge I'd mop the flure with the ugly carcass an' hang yer up ter dry on the truss." "Shut up, you animated slush bucket. For two brass pins I'd send my cabin boy up to teed distillery bogs with your remains, you chop-snooted son-o-a-gun." "Arrah ye bandy-legged horse marine, I've a big notion ter drop down off uv the bridge an' maul ye ter a pulp." "Well why don't you drop," sneered the captain. "Just drop and I'll feed fishes with you." "Yer a lyn' skip-jack." "You're a red-nosed scavenger with blue mold and cock eye. I'm going to tie up just above here and I'll give you a lively old interview when I get ashore." "It is tie up yer goin' ter be after doin' ?" inquired the bridge tender, anxiously. That's just what I am going to cap." "Correct melud. When yer have tied up yer schooner, come oop here an' we'll take in the larger beer saloon jist ferninst aste ind uv the bridge. Perhaps I've made a mistake." "All right, my hearty. Mebbe I, too was a little quick. I'll be there, Decause wnen a anna a always aim 10 doit with gentlemen." A Change of Tactics.?He had taken three terms of the gymnasium, and could muscle a 25 pound weight, turn a handspring, knock a sand-bag blind and box the professor all over the room. More than one pupil had sighed for his skill and remarked that the man who tackled him would be mashed into a pulp in a minute. Yesterday morning he was coming up Howard street full of life and vigor, when he came across an express wagon with a wheel off. He made some inquiries and received curt replies. This led him to remark : "Young man, some one will cuff your ears some day." "But it won't be you !" "Don't be too sure of that!" "Maybe yo'd like to begin now ?" said the young man as he quit bis work and stepped to the walk. "I thi jk I can cuff some manners into y<H.," replied the other, as he reached out to begin. The young fellow's right arm gyrated around for ten seconds, and then his fist shot out and landed on the citizen's nose like a kick from a colt. He was going to follow it up, but before he could spit on his hands again the other man started off at the rate oi xz mnes au nour, ana turning cue first corner like a streak of light. Later in the day he explained to an inquirer: "I see now where I have wasted a year's time and $100 in money. I haven't got the grit to fight. I shall now quit boxing and go into training as a runner."?Detroit Free Press. Electioneering.?"Madam, may I kiss these beautiful children ?" asked Uncle Oglesby, as he leaned over the front gate. "Certainly, sir ; there is no possible objection." "They are lovely darlings," said Uncle Dick, after he bad finished the eleventh. "I have seldom seen more beautiful babies. Are they all yours, marm?" The lady blushed deeply. "Of course they are?the sweet little treasures. From whom else, marm, could they have inherited these limpid eyes, these rosy cheeks, these profuse curls, these comely figures, and these musical voices!" The lady continued blushing. "By the way, marm," said Uncle Dick, "may I bother you to tell your estimable husband, that Richard J. Oglesby, Republican candidate for governor, called upon him this evening?" "Alas, good sir," quoth the lady, "I have no husband." "But these children, madam?you surely are not a widow ?" "I feared you were mistaken, sir, when you first came up. These are not my children. This is an orphan asylum.?Chicago News. A Considerate Husband.?Not long since one of the Schaumburg girls married a man who was celebrated for his poverty and other bad habits. Yesterday Gilhooly met Mose Schaumburg on Austin avenue, and asked him how his married daughter was coming on. "She vash doing fine. Her huspand vash so kind. He schoost puys her ebery dings she vants. He vash so good mit her her. He choost puys her every tings." "I am glad he is so considerate." "Veil, I vasen't glad he vash so kind mit my darter." "\vny not?" "Pecause all de pills vash sent to me to be paid. I vish he would pe a little more rough mit her. He vash too kind mit my money.?Texas Sittings. Thf.y Loved.?"My young man is a contractor," she said to a group of envious young lady friends. "A contractor?" asked half a dozen companions. "Yes, a contractor. He has contracted the habit of tobacco-using, beer-drinking and gambling, besides a long list of small debts." "He is almost as smart as one of my admirers," chimed in another young lady ; "he is an undertaker." "An undertaker?" came the chorus from the company. "Yes, he undertakes to make me believe that he is very handsome and smart. He undertakes to make $50 a month carry him through where $100 could not pay out and undertakes to imitate sensible people at times, but gives himself away."?Lincoln Union. Gatherings. 11ST The average expense of an ocean steamship from New York to Liverpool and return is $75,000. 8SF In some of the public schools of Germany the pupils are compelled to learn to ride the bicycle, f?* One hundred and twenty stokers are required to feed the furnace of a firstclass Atlantic steamer. t&T Scientific meu say that the hair from the tail of the horse is the strongest single animal threat known. I?* The supreme court of Mississippi has decided that a juryman may be a witness at one and the same time. 8&" Many paupers have lived to be 100 years old, but there is no record of a millionaire having attained that age. o TT Hf "TV ^ f CU WOff~ William u. ussery, iu. u.t ui ou Louis, says that the best food for those suffering from typhoid fever is the banana. S&* There are men who would not clean their nails in public, but who will shove a pewter quarter on to a blind man. 86T A Spanish inventor renders from grasshoppers a fatty substance which is declared to make the fiuest soap yet produced. In Japan a man can hire a horse, 1 1 i ifn An f Vio fof I Keep uvu servants, auu mt. uu vu^ > <> of the land, all for a little over $50 a month. W3T A stick of timber 119 feet long and 22 inches square, without a knot or blemish, was cut in a mill atHoquiam, Wash. t8f A man six feet high standing on level ground can only see objects on the same level three aud a quarter miles distant. IVegetables should always be put in cold water half an hour before using them ; it will freshen chem up wonderfully. 1ST Johnny?I do wish that I were grown. Mother?What for? Johnny?So I could get a shave instead of having my face washed. "This milk tastes as if it was watered," said Mr. Bronson. "I know it is, papa," said Tommy. "I saw the cow taking a drink myself." 86T A Boston millionaire, who recently died, made provision that his wife should receive each year exactly her own weight in pure gold. IOP English women as a rule are taller than their American sisters, and the Yankee ladies in their turn can look down at the gentle sex in France. tST A man to be really successful needs to have confidence in three persons?a confidence in God, a confidence in mankind and a confidence in himself. VST The horse, when grazing, is guidded entirely by the nostrils in the choice of proper food, and blind horses are never known to make mistakes in their diet. J6T At Plougastel, a small town in Brittany, all the weddings of the year are celebrated on one day. In February last 34 couples were married simultaneously. 1ST Although Japan has 3,000 miles of railwav. there are still over 1,000, 000 men in that country serving as beasts of burden on such roads as the country affords. US' Russia has the most rapidly increasing population of any country in the world. The growth during the last 100 years has been a fraction less than 1,000,000 annually. SS" Queen Victoria's living descendants now number 70. Of her 9 children, all but 2 survive; of her 40 grandchildren, all but 7; and of her 30 great-grandchildren, all are living. SS Misconstrued : "Say, paw, was old Captain Blossom ever a pirate?" "No, Willie; he was only a sportsman." "Well, I heard him say he got vtrWVi 1 J. cohnnnora onrl novpr ornt. ttlij ,?.wu G-shot." BfiT It is vain to stick your finger in the water, and pulling it out, look for a hole; and equally vain to suppose that, however large a space you occupy, the world will miss you when you die. 86T Says the Somerville Journal: Marriage is not always happy when genius marries genius?unless the feminine genius is for keeping the house in order and making digestible bread and ilaky rhubarb pies. 8?^ When a boy walks with a girl as though he were afraid someone would see him, the girl is his sister. If he walks so close to her as to nearly crowd her against the fence, she is the sister of some one else. SSF An illustration of the maxim, "No pay, no preach," was afforded in a western village, where a clergyman took his teat with the congregation, and refused to enter the pulpit until his salary was paid. f8T The really great American tree I of today is the big tree at Tule, in Mexico, in the state of Oaxaca. That tree, cypress, still in full vigor and [active growth, is 154 feet in circumference. EST "I didn't know your folks took The Howler, Johnnie." "Yes, ma'am, we've been taking it ever since the Poolers moved away." "Did you subscribe for it then ?" "No, ma'am ; the Poolers forgot to stop it." S8P We have ever found that blacksmiths are more or less given to vice. Carpenters, for the most part, speak plainly, but will chisel when they can get a chance. Not unfrequently they are bores, and often annoy one with their old saws. A baseball club has been organized at Milwaukee composed exclusively of one-legged men. They have sent a challenge to another club for a game, and it is certain that, on the side of the challengers at least, there will be less kicking by a half during the contest than is usual in the baseball games. S&" A Polish chemist is said to have invented an anesthetic which volatilizes rapidly on exposure to the air, rendering the persons near unconscious for a long time. A pellet broken under a man's nose puts him to sleep for four hours. It is asserted that in warfare bombs charged with this material will make large bodies of au enemy incapable of resistance. ^International Wessons. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON V, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, AUG 1. Text of the Lenson, Acta xviJJ, 1-11?Memory Veneii, 8-11?Golden Text, I Cor. lit, 11?Commentary by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. I. "After these things Paul departed from Athens and enmo to Corinth." He Is still led and controlled by the Spirit, and if the Spirit had not now wanted him in Corinth He would not hove suffered him to go (chapter xvi, 6, 7). Thus also we may know His way for us. If we are honestly living unto Him who has bought us to he set. anart for Himself, then wherever He would have us to go the door will be open and tho way plain, and where He does not wont us He will close the door and hinder us from going. 8. "And found a certain .Tew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife DHscilla." Then, as now, tho Jews were made to move on. They had chosen Caesar Instead of their Messiah, and instead of rest, which Christ would have given thorn, they have been to this day driven hither and thither and persecuted in many lunds. It is written, "I will command and I will sift (or cause to move) the house of Israel among all nations." It is also written, "He that scattered Israel will gather him," and, again, "I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I havo given thorn, saith the Lord thy God" (Amos is, 9, 15; Jer. xrxi, 10). 8. "And because he was of tho same craft he abode with them and wrought, for by their occupation they were tentmakers." Paul loved, when possible, to earn his own bread, and he often tcstiflod that ho did so that ho might not be a burden to any of them (I Thcss. ii, 9; II Thcss. iii, 8). He said to the elders of tho church at Ephesus, "Yea, ye yourselves know that thoso hands havo ministered unto my necessities and to them that were with mo" (Acts xx, 84). 4. "And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sababth and persuaded tho Jews and the Greeks." Ho would talk on the same lines as at Thessnlonica, showing from tho Scriptures that Israel's Messiah had to 6uffcr and die and rise from tho dead before Ho could be tho immortal man on David's throne who had been foretold, and tVint. -Ti'ciia nf Nazareth had fulfilled everv prediction concerning the sufferings and death and resurrection and would certainly in due timo fulfill every prediction concerning the kingdom and the glory (Acts zvii, 2, 3; iii, 21). The church of today seems to think that many so called attractions uro necessary to hold and win the people, but it is a fearful mistake. The gospel of God concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord is enough. 5. "And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia Paul was pressed in the Spirit (R. V. constrained by the word) and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ." He hud left these two brethren at Bercu when he had gone to Athens (chapter xvii, 13-15). But now they have joined him, and he must have been somewhat comforted by their coming. Paul knew whut sorrows were, and he knew what reul comfort was, and it is from the heart that he speaks of God as "the Father of mercies and tho God of all comfort" (II Cor. i, 3). 6. "Your blood be upon your own heads. I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto tho gentiles." This he said as they opposed him with blasphemy, for our Lord tVint If fVio mKsnon nf ucaua uuu iuu^UV ??? ? ? v?w - ? Hla servants was not received the servants were to wipe the dust off their foet as a testimony against them and pass on to those who would hear. When the gospel is faithfully preached, tho messengers aro unto God a sweet savor of Christ in them that ure saved and in them that perish (II Cor. ii, 15). 7. "And he departed thence and entered into a certain muu's house, named Justus, one that worshiped God, whose house joined hard to tho synagogue." So when one door is closed another opens, and whether it bo just nest door, as in thiB case, or across tho street, or in some other city or town, or in some other land, the Spirit of God will leud His peoplo, and they have only to follow where He leadeth, with no desire but to be controlled by Him and to please Him. 8. "And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagoguo, believed on the Lord with all his house, and muny of tho Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized." Crispus was one of the very few whom Paul baptized with his own hand (I Cor. i, 14-16), for he said that nreaching tho gospel was bis commission ruther than baptizing, not that he in any way modo light of ordinances, but ho emphasized that salvation depends wholly upon believing or receiving Christ and not upon any or all of the ordinances. Neither baptism nor joining the church nor taking the communion can save or help to 6uve a soul, but salvation is through tho finished work of Christ alone without any possible addition. 9. "Then spako tho Lord to Paul in tho night by a vision, Bo not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace." He said to tho Corinthians in his first epi6tle, "I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling" (I Cor. ii, 8), so that there was some occasion for this special visit from his blessed Master and for this encouraging "Bo not afraid." Tho eyes of the Lord are ever upon His people, for their good and to show His strength on thoir behulf (II Chron. xvi, 9). If necessary, He will send Gabriel or evon a host of angols on our behalf. 10. "For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee, for I huvo much people in this city." It would seem thut there were much disturbance and probably threats of violence to the person of Paul. Of the^Q he would not be afraid, for ho had already been scourged and imprisoned and stoned to death, but as tho Spirit hud recently been leading him on from city to city ho might naturally think, in the light of recent leadings, that ho wns ? ? *"? aw i tKo T 'a cno. OgUllJ w UiU>U UU| vuv AJUiu a Uj/v cial visit and mcssugo to hliu. As parallel passages for our own strength and encouragement note Ex. ill, 12; iv, 12; Joshua 1, 5; Judg. vl, 10; Isu. xll, 10, 13; Jer. 1, 8, Id; Hug. 1, 18; 11, 4; Gen. xv, 1; Math, xxvlii, 20. The Lord's own "I am with you; fear not," is full of mighty comfort. 11. "And he continued there a year and tlx months, teaching the word of God among them." He hud but ono theme, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, His life, death, resurrection and coming glory, but one book, the Scriptures, and but one power, tho Holy Spirit. Com pure Acts xxiv, 14; xxvi, 23; xxvili, 81; then see I Cor. 11, 1-5. Tho Spirit will guide us when to go, and when to stay, and how long to stay. He will give us tho words to 6peak, and He will do all tho work convincing of sin and righteousness and judgment. It is ours to be fully under His control for the glory of God. 86F Deal tenderly with the erring. You do not know their temptations, you cannot measure their weakness, you do not know the struggle that may he going on in their mind. A kind sympathetic word, a friendly visit, confidence, will do more than discipline. Love will do more to win and save than authority. Jam and Jiwside. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Mice abhor camphor and will not visit drawers or closets in which it is < kept. j Mice are very fond of pumpkin seeds and can be caught in traps baited with them. Cakes can be easily removed from 1 the baking pans if the hot pans are < stood for a moment on a wet cloth and ' then inverted at once. Many drooping flowers will freshen i wonderfully if the tips of the stems are ' trimmed off and the ends are then < held in hot water for a few moments. Paint, after it becomes dry and hard, onn ho removed from r.lothincr bv USintr i equal parts of ammonia and turpentine. First saturate the spots and wash out in soapsuds. A good cement for mending cracked stove lids can he made by mixing equal parts of wood ashes aud salt with just enough water to form a paste. Use when the stove is cold. A cooking teacher says that the whites of eggs can be beaten most' quickly if a pinch of cream of tartar in the proportion of an eighth of a teaspoonful to each egg be first added. Grease spots can be removed from carpets by first covering with powdered chalk, then with soft brown paper i and rubbing over the spots so protectwith a hot iron. This is exceedingly useful for dining room use. If tinted willow furniture is very dusty, wash in clear water, using a brush in the crevices and dry in the shade. Willow or rattan furniture in i natural color may be thoroughly scrub- j bed with a stiff brush, warm water and white soap. Dry in the sun and wind, i Kerosene is the best thing for making, your hardwood or stained floors look bright and glossy. The odor dis- 1 appears quite rapidly if the window i is opened for a short time, and any /lionnri-aoolilonooo in the hnilfllini" is nh- , UlOB5H,V?U.V..?? O | viated by having a mop with a long handle jnst for this purpose. 1 ? I I TO KILL MEANS GRASS. J. L. Millwee, of North Carolina, j gives the readers of The Southern Cultivator his method for killing Means \ grass. He says: i "The only way to finally exterminate it is to pasture the laud with cat- i tie for three years. The nature ol j the grass is curious. If you keep it ! cropped off above the ground the ' roots will rot and your land will be ' clear of Means grass. I Now in order to follow this method fence in so much as you can spare ac- | cordiug to the size of farm, the first | year. Then add more the second year, aud so on the third year. Now at the I end of the third year you cau com- < mence cultivating the land that you pastured the first year, and so on until you have gone over your whole farm. > If this is done there will not be any , more grass on this farm and the land , will be improved more than one-half , the former value. I will give two ex- | amples in my neighborhood, where it , has been tried both ways. One man ( plowed and harrowed till he killed it in bis field, but today his ditch banks | and turning rows are as bad as ever, | his land is very near worn out, and | 4 ft fairnor Kilt. tills LLiUU 19 UIICU a. jjuuu it*IUJU, t/uv , dow sees his mistake. The second man followed the pasturing method and now his land, also his ditch banks, are clear of the grass. His land is more valuable now by onehalf than formerly. I have seen grass in his field five and six feet high and as thick as could stand. Now you cannot see any. The Art of Boiling an Egg. Epicures are still discussing the pope's poem on the art of catering properly to one's appetite. His rule that eggs should be either hard boiled or nearly raw has occasioned some discussion among those who prefer their eggs boiled over two minutes, and attention is called to the fact that the pope's rule is exactly in line with the teaching of Brillat-Savarin and all the great cooks, that eggs should be boiled r?/\f *v?a*?a fVkAtt O m5rintoo nr nnt Cliuci uui ujvju man ? ujiuui,vu vt uw less than 20, for the reason that an ; egg boiled 2 minutes is digestible, and | so is un egg boiled 20 minutes, but ( one boiled 5 minutes is as leather to the digestive organs.?Boston Herald, j A One Man Saw Device.?To make sawing with a crosscut saw easier ' and more speedy for one man alone, i without removing the handles, take a flexible pole about 1 inch in diameter 1 and about 14 inches longer than the I saw, split the ends a little, then by 1 bending the pole slip the ends on the ' saw against the bandies. This bow j keeps the saw steady a.id you can handle it like a buck saw. I fix my saw 1 thus and it is a splendid device. The 1 other end does not Hop about as it does without. I tie string around the ends 1 of the pole, about 3 inches back from ' ends to keep it from splitting too far 1 back.?Practical Farmer. ' , , I Fighting Cabbage Pests.?After J losing nearly an entire cabbage crop , by cut worms we found that putting a ( little salt around each plant, 3 or 4 inches from the stalk, prevented the worms from doing any more damage. . We do not know why a little salt should do what many more expensive . things have failed to do, but we know 1 it has with us. A mixture of strong j vinegar and water?two parts vinegar to one part water?puts to flight the J destructive lice and worms. We had never before heard of the above ; simply give our experience.?Practical ' Farmer. ' _ i Good For Hogs.?For indigestion (' in hogs there is nothing better than a ( mixture of wood ashes, salt and char- j coal, placed where the hogs can get ( at it when they want it. They seem ( to know what ails themselves, and j what remedy t^^ need. They will ] consume considerable quantities of this j mixture. , ?? j fiS?" Bread can now be cut and but- . tered by machinery. The machine has i been invented for use in prisons, work- t houses and reformatories. A cylindrical shaped brush lays a thin layer of butter on the bread as it comes from i the cutter. i iUisccUiincous Reading. THE FIRST COPPER CENTS. Our copper coins, as well as those of other countries, in numbers exceeding all other coins, have been submitted to many fantastic changes. Rude everywhere as they originally appeared, the most extensive fabrication has added little grace to relieve them from being everywhere "common and unclean." The copper coins issued in England, by Charles II, possessed intrinsic value equal to their nominal value?Charles XII, of Sweden, however, made copper coins of less weight than that of our earliest copper cent, and then paid them to his army as the value of a silver dollar. It is some gratification to find our treatment of a copper a little less heroic than that of the Swede. The earliest American copper coins made by any state were made at Ruppert, in Vermont, and before Vermont had been admitted into tbe Union. A mint was there established for eight or ten years, having a capacity to stamp sixty coppers per minute, upon which the so-called "babyhead" goddess of liberty appeared; but truth compels me to say that this goddess was no more comely thah that on the coins of the present day, although she was a hundred years younger. The owner of the mine, Reuben Harmon, was bound to pay tbe state 2J per cent, for his privilege. At first these coins passed two for a penny, then four and then eight, when they no longer paid for their cost, mainly on account of the sudden competition in other states, and of the large importations of Birmingham hardware, commonly called "Buugtown Coppers." We had no protective tariff then, and we have none now, against "Bungtowns," whether of copper or 3ilver. In 1787, by authority of congress, a contract was made with James Jar vis, for 300 ton9 of copper coiti9 of the Federal standard, and cents were coined at the New Haven mint, of the following description : On one side 13 circles linked together, a small circle in the middle, with the words, "we are one;" on the other side, a sun dial, and below the dial the words, "Mind your business." In 1792 congress authorized the coinage of a copper cent weighing 264 grains, which was reduced, in 1793, to 208 grains on which the so-called "booby-head" appears, and in 1857 to 72 grains, of which88 percent, was to be copper and 12 per cent, nickel. In 1864 it was once more reduced, to 48 grains?95 per cent, of copper and 5 per cent, of tin or zinc. Finally in 1882, the last change was made, to three-fourths of copper and one fourth af nickel, but the weight remains at 18 grains. The frequent and wide alterations which have been made in our copper joins show that intrinsic value has almost vanished, and they beai almost no proportional value to other coins; but at the start when copper bore a much higher price, the weight of the cent was fixed at five and a half times what it is now. In the southern portion of our country, and especially on the Pacific coast, copper coins have been as uncurrent as the yellow colored Chinamen, or for a long time they were practically tabooed, and even now they are unwelcome travelers, much in need of a passport. Wherever not altogether snubbed, the copper cent must pass, as Wood's notable copper coins must have passed in America or Ireland, far above any real value, and with little other merit beyond that of the dusky color now supplied on its face to our recent Indian image of Liberty. After common use these coins assume a deeper Ethiopic complexion, and beeome petty nuisauces?scents as well as centsredolent of many coppery smells, which are easily transmitted to other coins, or to anything with which they bold pocket intercourse. Copper, as a metal is wondrously useful, daily becoming more so, but neither Lycurgus nor Hamilton would at this day think of stamping it as money. Certainly we can do better. If the cent and 2-cent coins were now made wholly of nickel, the government would obtain an ample seignorage; and nickel, when compared with swarthy copper, is immaculate, or clean and bright. The importance of the cent coinage will be realized, when we find that ever 40,000,000 pieces were coined last year. The Chinese and Japanese bronze coins are of very light weight, of angular form, with a hole in the centre, and some of them are quite equal to other exhibitions of Oriental art which are now received with public favor. The specimen of an unauthorized cent made by our mint in 1850, with a round hole in the center, suggests what might be done, if not with a 1 tiickle cent, perhaps with a half dime of silver. The present nickle half limes are so nearly of the same diameter and thickness of a quarter dollar < that they are not readily distinguished ; but with a perforation, square or round, in the centre, all confusion t>o romnrliofl no well hv toilfth ITUU1U UV ivuiVMivM w.. ?j is by sight. An Uncountahle Product.?Nobody knows bow many billions of wooden toothpicks are made and used n this country every year. The aggregate is so enormous as to be practically incalculable. And to the total j sf the domestic product must be added the imported toothpicks. While the output of this industry is 50 vast, American ingenuity has im- 1 proved automatic machinery until it , requires the employment of compara- i lively few persons. Ninety-five per nent. of all the toothpicks manufac- ( lured in the United States are made from white birch timber in Franklin :ounty, Me., and yet scarcely more ( than a hundred persons are employed ( n that state. Outside of the state of ' Maine, the principal factories are in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and western New York. Some maple and poplar are used in the manufacture of American toothpicks, but white biich ' s the standard timber in all the factories. SST When a boy stumps his toe, and utters a sudden cry of poin, he is gen- ' erally the recipient of more or less sympathy from his companions. But if he should insist on exhibiting the wounded member for days and weeks as a plea for special consideration, he would become a laughing stock. What is true among boys is also true among older people. The spontaneous and instinctive passion which is almost universally felt for those that fall into trouble, suffer a sensible shrinkage and abatement if too large or too steady a draft be made upon it. It is the height of folly for any man to be always assailing the public ear with the tale of his woes. Whoever is guilty of this practice soon falls into general contempt. That is a perfectly souud and healthy human instinct which requires us to keep our troubles, for the most part, to ourselves. It is possible for us to tire even our best friends by a selfish garrulity concerning our per sonal misfortunes. Other folks have their own burdens. Why should we require them to carry ours also?? Nashville Advocate. The First Steam Whistle.?The first kind of whistle that steam was applied to was aD adaptation of the common toy whistle. It did not work well, and was devoid of any leading capability for ear-piercing noise. The cup whistle was invented by one William Stephens, a workman in the Dowlais Iron works, in Wales about 60 years ago. Mr. Stephens seemed to have no idea what noise bis inventiou was destined to make in the world, for it was not patented, nor was its worth proclaimed beyond the borders of the Welsh hills. A workman belonging to Sharp & Roberts, engineers and machine builders, of Manchester, Eng., having gone to Wales to do some work, was struck with the novelty of the cup whistle, and made a rough sketch of it, which he carried to Manchester. Mr. Sharp, who was a very sagacious mechanic, and afterwards did the principal business of introduc ing the Giffard injector, saw that the steam whistle might be useful ou railways, which were theu in their infancy, so he commenced making it.?American Machinist. oflYAl hOVfy "AkiK? POWDER Absolutely Pure I I When You Want Nice Clean Jol) Printing You should always go to The Enquirer office where such printing is done. Excursion Bills, Programmes, Dodgers, Circulars, Pamphlets, Law Briefs, Letter Heads, Note Heads, Bill Heads, Envelopes, and Cards of all kinds printed on short notice and at very reasonable and legitimate prices. A Snare And Delusion. IF you have taken out a life insurance policy in an Old Line high price "level premium" company with the idea that you would at sometime in the future, while you yet drew the breath of life, re ceive substantial cash returns or "Dig: dividends," we are here to tell you that you will be disappointed. Your policy will prove a snare and a delusion. It is all right for protection for your wife and children, as they will receive the face of the policy in case of your death, as they would also in a company that charges you half as much. A life insurance policy is a fraud as an investment for a living man, and is the greatest blessing of which we or anybody else has any knowledge as a means of protecting the widow and orphans, after the breadwinner has been removed by death. If You Will Lay Aside Your Prejudice AND COME to us with a desire to learn why it is not to your interest to carry high priced insurance, and how we can furnish you just as safe insurance for at least 40 per cent, a year less than the other costs, we are sure we can show you to your satisfaction that the MUTUAL RESERVE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION of New York does business on a plan that is absolutely safe, and will protect your loved ones even better than they now are, at even a greater cost to to you. Of course if you are too prejudiced to investigate and imagine that the high price you are now paying makes your insurance better or safer, or better than it would be at Jess cost, we can't do anything for you ; but will be forced to let you go on until time, the crucial tester, convinces you, against your will, that you have been deceived. If You Have No Insurance, And think you should have, we would he pleased to explain the Mutual Reserve System to you. The Mutual Reserve is the largest and strongest natural premium company in the world, and the fourth largest of ANY KIND. It has paid about $550,000 to the widows and orphans of deceased policy-holders in South G'arlina alone, during the past twelve years, and if all the insurance now carried in old line companies in the state was in the Mutual Reserve, not less than $400,000, which now annually goes into the coffers of the former, would ne left in the state to help relieve the hard times about which wo hear so much. SAM M. A L. GEO. GRIST, General Agents, Yorkville, S. C. GARRY IRON RO< MANUFACT IRON ROOFING. .'KIMPEU AXI) CORRUGATED Iron Tile or Shingle, ?&& FIRE PROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS, ETC. Ijr ?1 rHE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS C ^3**Order8 receivedby L. M. GRIST. OHIO RITER AID C9JUOIU. TIME TABLE of the Ohio River and Charleston Railway company, to take effect Monday, May 5th, at 7.30 a. m. STANDARD EASTERN TIME. GO I NO SOUTH No. 12. | Leave Marion - 4 45 pm Leave Rutherfordton 0 20 pm Leave Forest City - <1 50 pm Leave Henrietta 7 10 pm Leave Mooresboro 7 25 pm Leave Shelby 8 25 pm Leave Patterson Springs.. 8 40 pm Leave Earls 8 45 nm ArrlveatBlacksburg 9 00pml No. 32. | No. 34. Dally Dally Except Except Sunday. Sunday. Leave Shelby 7 30 am; Leave Patterson's Springs. 7 42 ami Leave Earle's 7 48 am Leave Btacksburg 8 30 am 8 40 am Leave Smyrna. 8 50 am 9 05 am Leave Hickory Grove 9 05 am 9 25 am Leave Sharon 9 20 am 9 50 am Leave Yorkville 9 35 am 10 20 am Leave Tlrzah 9 47 am 10 45 am Leave Newport 9 51am 10 55 am Leave Rock Hill 10 20 am 12 65 pm Leave Leslies 10 35 am 1 15 pin Leave Catawba Junction.. 10 40 am 1 50 pm Leave Lancaster 11 22 am 3 05 pm Leave Kershaw 12 05 pm 5 30 pm Arrive at Camden 1 00 pm 6 50 pm qoinq" tToBTHT" fNo- 88. | No. 85. I Dally Daily Except Except I Sunday. Snnday. Leave Camden 2 00 pm 9 00 am Leave Kershaw 2 45 pm 11 10 am Leave Lancaster 3 25 pm 12 40 pm Leave Catawba Junction 4 00 pm 2 00 pm Leave Leslies 4 10 pm 2 10 pm Leave Rock Hill < 30 pm 4 40 pm Leave Newport 4 45 pm 6 00 pm Leave Tlrzah 4 60 pm 5 20 pm Leave Yorkville 5 05 pm 6 00 pm Leave Sharon 5 20 pm 6 20 pm r aaita ltuU/v... c ja a a/\ ucovc uiu&uiy uiuvc ?... u iw ^111 u tv |/ui Leave Smyrna ~. 5 50 prai 6 56 pm Leave Blacksburg 6 20 pmi 7 80 pm Leave Earle's ! 6 35 pm I Leave Patterson's Spring. 6 40 pm Arrive at Shelby 6 50 pm' No. 11. 1 Leave Blacksburg 8 10 am I.eave EarlB .. 8 30 am Leave Patterson Springs 8 40 am Leave Shelby 9 10 am Leave Mooresboro 9 50 am Leave Henrietta 10 00 am Leave Forest City 10 20 am Leave Rutherfordton 10 50 am Arrive at Marlon 12 20 pm CONNECTIONS. No. 32 has connection with Southern Railway at Rock Hill, and the S. A. L. at Catawba Junction. Nos. 34 and 35 will carry passengers. Nos. 11 and 12 have connection at Marion with Southern Railway. At Roddeys, Old Point, King's Creek and London, trains stop only on signal. S. B. LUMPKIN, G. P. A. A. TRIPP, Superintendent. SAM'L HUNT. General Manager. C&BOLUA & I0BTBWESTER1 IT. G. W. F. HARPER, President. Schedules in Effect from and After February 7,1896. CENTRAL TIME STANDARD. GOING NORTH. | NO 10. | No BO. Lea* e Chester I 0 10 ami 8 80am Leave l-owrysvine oaeam a uo a m Leave McConnellsvllle 6 54am 9 89am Leave Guthrlesvllle .... 7 02 am 9 56am Leave Yorkvllle 722am 10 50am Leave Clover 7 52 am 11 83 am Leave Gaston la - 827am 150pm Leave Llncolnton 8 45 a m 3 16 pm Leave Newton 10 23am 4 45pm Leave Hickory 11 10 am 6 15 pm Arrive Lenoir 12 17 pm 8 00 pm GOING SOUTH. | No. 9. | No 61. Leave Lenoir 3 30 p m 6 80 am Leave Hickory 4 34pra 8 10 am Leave Newton 5 14 p m 9 10 am Leave Llncolnton .. 6 00 pm 10 40 am Leave Gastonla 6 57 pm 100pm Leave Clover 7 87 pm 2 02 pm Leave Yorkvllle 8 06pm 3 10pm Leave Guthrlesvllle ... 829pm 8 40pm Leave McConnellsvllle 8 88pm 3 55 pm Leave Lowrysvllle 9 00pm 425pm Arrive Chester 9 32pm 5 10 pm Trains Nos. 9 and 10 are first class, and run daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 60 and 61 carry passengers and also run daily except Sunday. There is good connection at Chester with the G. C. A N. and the C. C. A A., aleo LAC. R. R.; at Gastonia with the A. A C. A. L.; at Llncolnton with C. C.: and at Hickory and Newton with W. N. C. Parties desiring tickets to all points North, East, South and West, will find it much to their advantage to call at or correspond with the General Office of the Carolina and North-Western Railway at Lenoir, N. C. L. T. NICHOLS, Supt. WHEN YOU WANT TO have your PHOTOGRAPH taken, you should not fail to come and see me. I have been in the "picture taking" M n nwnnf rviontr TTooru anH am UlJSillCJVJ it/I a ^icab Uiaiij jv?iw| u.iu UM. confident that I know my business. It has always been my desire to please my customers. I am prepared to tane Photographs in the latest styles and at reasonable prices. HAVE YOU ANY Photographs that you would like to have enlarged ? If you have, come and see me about it. I can do the work. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW Where my Photograph Gallery is, ask anyone in town and they can tell you. DURING THE WINTER, You will find my Gallery warm and pleasant. Come and see me whenever you need photographs. Respectfully, J. R. SCHORB. IT WILL CURIE CANCER. I HAVE a purely vegetable salve that will absolutely cure any skin or rooted cancer, about which there has been no cutting. Correspond with or call upon me for particulars, terms., etc. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mrs. R. L. FERGUSON, Yorkville, S. C. 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