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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
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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.
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POWDER
Absolutely Pure
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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
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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"
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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.
May 5 36 3m
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Published Wednesday and Saturday.
TEH MS OF SVHSCKIFTION: .
Single copy for one year, 9 2 OO
One copy lor two years, 3 50
For six months, I OO
For three months, SO
Two copies for one year, 3 SO
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i en copies one year, ? ?*?
And an extra copy for a club of ten.
DFING COMP'NY.
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