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THE TRIBUNE.
VOL. I.--NO. 26. BEAUFORT, S. C., MAY 19, 1875. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
Together.
I wonder if you really send
These dreams of you tliat come and go !
I like to say: " Slio thought of mo,
And I have known it." Is it bo ?
Though other friends walk by your side,
Yet sonictimes it must surely be,
They wonder whore your thoughts have gone,
. Because I have you here with mo.
And when the busy day is done
And work is ended, voices cease,
When every one has eaid good-night,
Iu fading firelight then in peace
I idly rest: you come to mo?
Your dear love holds me close to you.
If I could see you faco to face
It would not be more sweet and true;
l do not lic^r tho words you speak,
Nor touch your bands, nor seo your eyes :
Yet, far away the flowers may grow
From whenco to me the fragrance flies ;
And so, across the empty miles
Light from ray star shines. Is it, dear,
Your lore has never gone away ?
I said farewell and?kept you here.
.
The Coolest Woman.
If all women wore as cool and matterof-fact
as Mrs. Stum ! Hut she is ono
of a thousand, says the Detroit Free
Frexs. She was over at Mrs. Moody's,
oil Mioomb street, the other day, her
iron-gray hair combed down flat and her
spectacles adjusted to gossip range,
when she suddenly rose and said:
" Mrs. Moody, be calm. Where do
you keep tho camphor bottle ?"
"Why ?" asked tho surprised Mrs.
Moody. _
44 Bcc^rtse thoy am bringing yonr husband
tbrongh the gate on a board ! I
think lie's mashed dead, but be calm
about it ! I'll stay right here and see to
things !"
Mrs. T^oody threw up her arms and
feirtloxYU in ft dead faint, and Mrs. Stum
operidd the door as the men laid the body
on tho'noroh.
44 Is no dead ?" she asked iu an even
tone.
"I think so," answered one of the
men. 44 The doctor*11,^ be here in a
minute*."
The doctor came up, looked at the victim,
arid said life had fled, adding: - *
44 His back and four or five ribs are
| broken."
44 That's sensible, that isx" said Mrs.
fjtijm, gazing at the doctor in admiration.
. 4 4 Sdmo physicians would have
said that" his vertebrae was mortally
wounded, and would have gone on to
talk about the 4 larynx,' the 4 arteries,'
the 4 optic nerves' and the 4 diagnosis.'
If he's dead it'll be some satisfaction to
know what ho died of. Well, lug in
the body and send a boy after an undertaker."
The men carried the body through to
a bedroom," and Mrs. Stum went back to
Mrs. Moody, who had revived and was
wailing and huqenting. '
"Don't, Julia?don't take on so,"
continued Mrs. Stum. ""Of course you
feel badly, and this interferes with taking
up carpets and cleaning house, but
it's pleasant weather for a funeral, and I
think the corpse will look as natural as
life."
" Oh! My poor, poor husband," wailed
Mrs. Moody.
" Ho was a- good husband, I'll swear
to that," continued Mrs. Stum, "but ho
was dreadfully careless to let a house fall
on him. He calm, Mrs. Moody ! I've
sent forgone of the best undertakers in
Detroit, and you'll be surprised at the
way he'll fixaip the deceased."
When the undertaker came in Mrs.
Stum shook hands and said that death
was sure to overtake every living thing
sooner or later. She mentioned the
kind of coffin she wanted, stated the
number of hacks, the hour for the
funeral, and held the end of the tape-line
while ho measured the body.
Several other neighbors came in ami
she ordered them around and soon had
everything working smoothly. The
widow was sent to her room to weep out
her grief, doors and windows were opened,
and as Mrs. Stum built up a good
fire she said:
"Mow, then, we want pie and cake
and sattoe and raised biscuit and floating
islands. He'll have watchers, and the
watchers must have plenty to eat."
When the baking had been finished
the coffiu and the undertaker arrived,
and the body was placed in its receptacle.
Mrs. Stum agreed Math the undertaker
thAt fclio face wore a natural expression,
aud whon ho was gbing away she
said:
"Bo around on time 1 Don't put in
any sooond-class haeks, and don't have
any hitch iu tho proceedings at the
grave!"
From that hour until two o'clook of
the second day thereafter she' had full
charge. The widott was provided with
a blaok bonnet, a crape shawl, etc., the
watchers found plenty to eat, a minister
wan sent for, eighteen chairs were
brought from the neighbor's, and everything
moved along like clock-work.
" You must bear up/'" tftVo kopt saying
to tho widow. " House-cleaning must
be done, that back yard must be raked
off, the penstock must be thawed out,
and you haven't time to sit down and
grieve. His life w?vrmsured, and we'll
go down next week and select some lovely,
mourning goods."
Everybody who attended said they
never saw a funeral pass off so smoothly,
and when the hack had landed the widow
and Mrs. Stum at her door again, Mrs.
Stum asked:
"Kow, didn't you really onjoy the
ride, after all ?"
And the widow said she wouldn't
have believed that ehe could hav? stood
it so well.
The Common Lot.
" Tlicro is no flock, however watched and
tended,
But one dead lamb is there !
Thore is no fireside, howsoe'er defended,
But has one vacant chair !"
The hour of bereavement is the common
lot of us all; nud we come back
from the new-made grave when wo have
laid our loved ones to sleep, come back
to the vacant chair, the desolate room,
the empty life?oh, how empty! Yet
not for all this do the cares and duties
of life press on us with any less weight
or diminish aught of their demands.
Wisely is it thus ordered. To sit down
nuu mum; uui guei, hi glyb lull reill m)
the indulgence of sorrow and tears, is
the worst possible thing for us and for
those around us. If grief opens our
hearts to feel the woes of others, inclines
us to forgt t self and seltiRh sorrow in
binding up other bruised and bleeding
hearts, leads us to double our diligence,
that before we too are summoned away,
the whole work given us to do shall be
done and well done; it will be possiblo
in some near future for us to say from
the heart: "It is good for me that I
have been afflicted."
Hitter as is the cup of bereavement,
says the Tribune, cruel as are the pangs
of separation at the jaws of the sepulcher,
lasting as is the sense of loss, yet, from
theso all good may be evolved, for only
those who liavo had this baptism know
how to feel for others' woes, to speak
words of consolation and to keep silence
when no words can be of any avail.
Death runs his plowshare through our
household tearing up the sod, cutting off
at the root roses and violets, and the
tender blossoms whose fragrance cheered
our lives wither and perish, but-by-and
bye a richer harvest justifies the ways of
God; and, as little by little, our affec
tionsare transferred from this to another
world and the fruits of patience and
hope and resignation ripen above the
sod thus rudely up-torn, we begin dimly
to peroeive that " whom God loveth Ho
oliosteneth."
Presence of Mind.
Professor Wilder gives these short
rules for aotion in case of accident :
For dust in the oye, avoid rubbing;
dash water into them ; remove cinders,
etc., with the round point of a
lead pencil. r
Remove insects from the ear by tepid
water; never put a hard instrument into
the ear.
If an artery is cut, compress above
the wound; if a vein is cut, compress
below.
If choked, get ou all fours, and
cough.
For light burns, dip the part in cold
water; if the skin is destroyed, cover
with varnish.
Smother a lire with carpets, etc.; water
will often spread burning oil, and increase
the (Linger.
Before passing through smoke, take a
full breath, and -then stop low; but if
carbon is suspected, walk erect.
Suck poison wounds, unless your,
mouth is sore. Enlarge the wound, or.
better, cut out tlie port affected, or hold
the wound as loug as can be borne to a
hot coal, or.^nd of a cigar.
In case or poisoning, excite vomiting
by tickling the throat, or by water or
mustard.
For acid poisons, give strong coffee
and keep moving.
If in water float on the back, with the
nose and mouth projecting.
For apoplexy, raise the head and body;
fainting, lay the person flat.
Mother and Babe.
"Out of all the buried ones, aunty,
which do you see plainest?" I questioned.
"Little Sally," was the quick reply.
" Little Sally who never had a name till
we needed one to put on the gravestone
over her. Little Sally who was four
months old when she died. Abby married
a man I could not abide. It was
Henry's wildness down to Boston gave
him the consumption. Stephen was
away from home always till he took sick,
and Martin's wife and me was never good
friends, and that took away some of the
nearness. But little Sally never lived to
give me a cold look or hard word. When
my plans wore the brightest, she faded
out from under 'em, and left the joy of
my life broken in pieces. Jest think of
a velvet, touch laying forty years on a
woman's withorod broast. Jest think of
a little upturned pink face never fading
from out a woman's empty arms. That's
been my lot and I'm satisfied to go
where my baby is awaiting for me."
Street Improvements.
The practice of placing down boards
in the mud is revived this spring. It is
a good idea. The board always warps
downward in the center, leaving the ends
sticking up about six inches above the
walk. The hastening pedestrian comes
along in the dark and picks up one end
of the board on his instep and shoves it
along some six feet, the other leg all the
while trying to get a foothold and control
itself. Then the board swings off
J --A -1 * * 11-- -1 -1 11-1 1
iwui uoloucs uim on uk? hiiui ok unit io^,
and after an almost herculean effort to
recover himself he goes down with
dreadful foroe, striking on his elbow with
one arm ard shoving the othor in the
mud half way to his shoulder. If the
owner of the premises should bo killed
by lightning in the first thunder storm,
that man would cheerfully lose a day's
work to attend tho funeral.?Danbury
News. v
Smat.t.pox.?A circular letter from the
Archbishop of Quebec, Canada, has l>een
i read in all the Koruan Catholic churches,
ordering public prayer for the cessation
of the smallpox.
THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE.
A .Hunt lutprrntlnn Paper on the I'lasue
and Iih UnbllM.
Mr. Jolm B. Wolff read the following
paper on the subject of the grasshoppers
which have devested the Western country,
to the American Farmers' Club :
In size and appearance the insect
closely resembles the smallest grasshopper
of tho Middle and Northern States,
which makes its appearance in the fall
in the corn-fields and meadows, sometimes
seriously injuring the corirloayes
and fall grass, but seldom extending over
a large area. It differs from tho latter
a little in size and color, bein^ lighter
and Bmaller. This difference is doubtless
due to local conditions, as climate
and food. It also differs essentially
from the Rocky mountain grasshopper
proper. The latter is a permanent institution,
repeatiug itself from year to
year and age to age, within the mountain
range, and seldom descending to the
plains. In size, it is about half way between
the smaller and larcer sneeies of
tho Middle States. It is much the darkest
in color of any of this class of insects.
When flying it is still darker, owing to
the dark shade of the under wings ; it
differs also from all others in the peculiar
snapping, sharp sound made by
the striking of its wings when iu motioD.
During the months of July and August
the insects are so numerous that this
snapping sound becomes annoying to
travelers. After they have fed in the
morning, and rise on wing for the day,
they mointaiu an everlasting din until
nightfall.
Of the special locality whence come
the devouring hosts but little is known
beyond the fact that the main body
comes from the northtond travels south.
From tho best information I can obtain
they have their principal breeding
grounds in the spurs and foot-hills of
the northern extremities of the Rocky
mountain range. Here they find a season
long ; enough, littlo rain, dry soil,
few natural enemies, and scanty vegetation,
which latter determines the intervals
of migration. It is knowA that in
their regular course they move sometimes
two or three years in succession,
and sometimes at intervals of several
years.
When the breeding period arrives
(July and September), they., uddress.
themselves at once to the work in hand.
During the evening and morning -tlidyfeed
(they are good feeders); about 10
o'clock they rise, and remain on wing
until the afternoon; they then descend
and commence depositing their eggs.
The female, with the extremity of her
body, bores into the hardest ground a
hole the size of her body and about
three-fourths of an inch deep. As the
dirt is loosened it is removed with the
hind feet, until it lias attained the
proper depth. They seem to prefer the
very hardest ground; the roods'of cloy
and sand, trodden nntil seemiugly as
hard as common brick, are the chosen
spots. These holes are so numerous that
the surface of the ground has the appearance
of an uncapped honey comb.
Into each of these holes is deposited
eight to twelve eggs; each egg is ep'cased
in a waterproof sac; the whole is again
covered with gelatinous substance resembling
glue. This may be intended
as an additional protection, or as food
for the newly hatched insect, to afford it
strength to dig its way out. This operation
is repeated from day to day for at least
two months, or nntil the cold weather
destroys their food, when they vanish as
if by magic." The holos are soon filled
with dirt, and the surface shows no sign
of the plaguo slumbering just beneath.
Wet and cold seem to-nave po effect
whatever.' The writer lias flooded many
acres, and allowed the water to freeze 011
the ground without any perceptible
damage to the oggB.
The direction and distances are determined
by the winds. They usually
rise in the wind which precedes the rainclouds,
and fly, or rather are carried,
until the foroe is abated, when they come
down. If the feeding-ground is favorable,
and the gestation period has arrived,
they remain where they alight.
If otherwise they seize on the next favorable
opportunity and move again. It
sometimes liappens that the winds are of
short duration, and in such cases they
havo moved as mueli as fourteen times in
a single season. The prevailing direction
of the winds along the eastern slope
of the Rocky mountains favors a southern,
southwestern and southeastern
direction. But any change in tho air
currents after they rise will carry them
into Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas or Nebraska,
the distance beiDg determined
by the continuance and speed of the air
currents. Their regular direction is
South, with height variations. This is
indicated otherwise. After they have
left their original grounds, and deposited
their eggs in a new region, the young
from these eggs, as soon as hatched,
move regularly southward, leaping into
the water by millions. Many aro thus
consumed by tho fishes. Angling has
no Bport in grasshopper years. Those
which take the water are washed out on
the bars apparently dead, but ,the warm
sun soon revivifies them, and 'they renew
theif march and work of devastation.
They give no warning. The ear first
detects a humming sound that swefia
into volume, without distinctness, as
they approach. You stand and look to
see whence the unusual noise; and all at
once the air is filled with them until the
sun is momentarily obscured. Notliing
in nature is like it but a snow storm.
This oocurs when the early crop is well
matured, and the late crop is in full
growth. They alight hungry and ravenous,
aud immediately eommenie their
work. At times they are so thick that it
is almost impossible to induce tho teams
to move. If tho corn is tender tho farm
er also is thus caught; may see the ears
dropping from th(* stocks beforo he has
time to quit the field. You may retire j
at night the possessor of many broad (
acres of growing crops, and within (
twenty-four hours huve nothing left. .
But wheat uiul other matured grains ;
may be harvested and saved. But if left ,
in the field they will cut the grain from i
the head, and destroy in whole or part j
even these, so that tho only way to save (
it is to house or stack at once. The new- (
com*8 are, therefore, not so destructive j
| as tho brood from their eggs, for many ]
reasons which will appear. The young
brood exceeds the parents by many bun- '
dreds, perhaps thousands. To form an
estimate of the descending cloud is aim- {
ply as impossible as to calculate the ,
snowflakes of a snow storm. How, then, j
shall we estimate this unknown quantity ]
multiplied by thousands ? The warm
sun in the spring vitalizes tho eggs first
on the highest and dryest deposits, then
on the leas favored places, until tho
whole are vitalized. As sown as they apnnu
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j^VMI nivj oiuiauc turj wmuifuw W (
rnovo south, consuming all tender vegetation
as they progress, and in the case ,
of small grain leaving the ground as bare
as l>efore it was sown. Onions, peppers,
and rhubarb are among their favorites,
and even the wild parsnip?poison to
other animal life?is stripped to the |
naked stalk. " (
Beast, birds, fishes, make no impres- (
sion on the quantity. All eat till they ,
are surfeited, and still they are nndimin- ,
ished. The idea that domestic fowls or ]
wild oirds of any or all kinds can in any .
degree mitigate their ravages is simply j
preposterous. (
Thair time, and in fall and spring it is
about the same, is from two to three ,
months. The young have no wings, and
depend on their legs for locomotion. ,
They are therefore compelled to remain
until matured, and continue to eat until ,
full-fledged, when they quit and rise as ]
suddenly as their ancestors came. (
No parasite, as some have supposed, (
preys upon them fatally. Occasionally
a dead carcass maybe found with a grub, ;
but this is most likely to be the progeny
of the blue fly, but their after-death. ,
Of these there are so few as to make only
a rare occupation. The immigrants do ,
not perish uiltil they have deposited
their eggs; so that tho parasites are of
little value. The young brood remain j
until completely grown, and rise and
leavo suddenly, and not by degrees, as
would be the case if destroyed by a parasite.
They are all gone at once. No
dead are left upon the field. From the
time of leaving their original breeding
grounds until they disappear altogether
they seem to make but one stop. After
this, or in their second flight, they are
lost altogether. Tho most plausible
solution is that they are filially swept
into the ocean. They seldom, if ever,
alight south of Kansas or Colorado,
And if they do, it is exceptional.
Drying Up of Rivers,
Professor Wex, of Vienna, a wellknown
naturalist, has just published an
appeal to the various governments of
Europe, urging them to provide means,
by legislation, for encouraging forest
growth. He points to the fact that in
consequence of the cutting down of
large areas of timbered regions, not only
the moisture in the soil lias greatly diminished,
bnt the average rainfall has ;
also lessened, and hence the volume of i
water in the great riverS has receded, i
during the last fifty years, in tlio Elbe
and Weser, sixteen inches; in the Rhine, i
twelve inches, and in the Danube, over
ten inches. The same facts noticed in :
Europe by Professor Wex, have repent- 1
edly been shown to exist in this country. 1
The Ohio river, on an average, oontains '
now less water than it did ten years ago,
| and steamboats of larger size, that could (
conveniently go to Pittsburgh formerly,
find it impossible now during some 1
months in summer, owing to the shal- i
lowness of the river. The same condi- <
tion has been experienced on the upper <
Mississippi, but in a less degree, since i
the country along the sources of that i
stream is not yet so thickly settled. This i
is a serious question, involving the i
future of the agricultural prosperity of 1
the land, as well as its internal trade, 1
and is entitled to the most careful con- i
sideration of statesmen and legislators, i
Fugitive Ileal Estate.
Col. Waring, in Acribner'* for May,
tells the following incident of the drainage
of Haarlem lake : A curious pho- 1
nomenon, however, occurred in connection
with the outer diko of Hhe fainal on
?he oast side of the lake, where it crossed'
an area of floating soil which bordered
wide ponds near the village of Aalsmeer.
An area of many acres, detached by the
oanal from the old works of defense 1
against the lake, found itself one fine
day driven by the tempest from the bank
of thci canal to the other sido of the
pond. The proprietor implored the aid
of the commission. His land had floated
| to the opjKwite Bhore, widely separated
from his other fields, and resting on
water that was not his own. By the
combined effort of tho proprietor and of
the commission, these fugitive fields
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canal anil pinned in place by piles and
poles, which prevented them from undertaking
another voyage.
" What is your namo?" asked a oensus
taker. "John Corcoran." " Your 1
age?" "Twenty-one." "Wliat na- <
tivity ?" "Well, that's what bothers i
me. I'll toll yon, and may be you can 1
make it out. My father was Irish, but i
is now a naturalized American citizen ; 1
my mother English ; ami I was bow on I
a Dutch frigate, under the French flag,
in Turkish waters. Now, how is it?" i
The Old Spelling-School.
These dictionary men and women of
to-day, Says an exchange, presume to
some forward and think they know how
i spelling-school was conducted forty
years ago. But it's all a mistake. They
were never there and helped to do itthen
what can they know about it ?
Ihey never walked two and three miles
through the 3nows and blows of a winter's
night to a spelling-school, in a
school-house away up in the hills, just
for the sake of sitting beside a sweet
little bright-eyed girl in a striped calioo
;own, with a small linen collar, and a
white apron. They never knew the
pangs of jealousy from seeing another
boy chosen to sit beside her ; and they
never felt the awful misery of " getting
tho mitten," and having to walk off,
knowing that that other boy was trudging
home in bliss beside that striped
calico gown, with the plump little hand
of that bright-eyed gul resting confidingly
in his arm. Nor did they ever feel
tho stinging pain of frosted Airs, which
every boy was willing to hazard getting
for the sake of seeing the girl he felt so
tender about. Those were happier days.
We thought we had our sorrows then?
and weighty ones they were, too?but
now we know that we had-so much of
youth, and life, and hope, and trust, and
tenderness, too, for tho little brighteyed
girl in the striped calico gown ?
either she or another?that we look back
to those spelling school days of forty
rears ago with feelings of infinite longing
; and some of us who wear spectacles
finrl iViftf. wlion wa rrr* nror f.hn oaanoa nf
those days, somehow our glasses become
Jim and need wiping.
Shall wo ever forget Webster's spelling
book ami the long words our mothers
gave us while we were practicing for the
school ? Ah ! many of the old boys and
girls have been "spelled down," never
to tnko their places again ; the old schoolhouse,
too, is gone, and the sods of the
churchyard cover so many of the teachers
that after your best efforts your spelling
match of to-day is only a very common
affair compared with ours in old days.
Yet if the revival of this pleasant old
custom will iuuke our boys and girls
better spellers, or if it will only give
them a little of the happiness that we enjoyed
so much, and which we still remember
so vividly, why, bless them, let
them spell, and why not ?
A Mayor on Idleness.
P. T. Bornum was inaugurated at
Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., and delivered
a short address. Concluding lit
said: It is painful to the industrious
and moral portions of our people to see
so many loungers about the streets, and
such a multitude whose highest aspirations
seems to be to waste their time in
idleness or at base ball, billiards, etc.
No person needs to be unemployed who
is not over fastidious about the kind of
occupation. There are too many soft
hands (liiid heads) waiting for light work
and heavy pay. Better work for half a
loaf than beg or steal a whole one.
Mother earth is always near by, and
ready to respond to responsible drafts on
her never-foiling treasury. A patch of
potatoes raised '' on shares ' is preferable
to a poulticed pate earned in a
whisky scrimmage. Some modern
Micawbers stand with folded hands
waitiug for the panic to pass, as the
foolish man waited for the river to run
dry and allow him to walk over. The
soil is the foundation of American prosperity.
When multitudes of our consumers
become producers; when fashion
wjuuutiN euuiiuuij, mateau 01 expenaiDg
for a gaudy dress wliat would comfortably
clothe the family; when people learn
to walk until they can afford to ride ;
when the poor man ceases to expend
more for tobacco than for bread; when
those who complain of panics learn that
"we cannot eat our cake and keep it
that a sieve will not hold water, that we
must rely on our own exertions, and
earn before we expend, then will panics
lease and prosperity return. While we
should by no means unreasonably restrict
healthy recreation, wo should remembor
that "time is money," that
idleness leads to immoral babits, and
that the peace, prosperity, and character
of a city depends on the intelligence,
integrity, industry, and frugality of its
inhabitants.
A Singular Prediction.
There was a strange prediction made
in Connecticut in the last century. Ar
astronomer who was employed to moke
bho calculations for an almanac was also
in the habit of writing the weather
prophecies, without which no almanac
was then regnrded as being complete.
Once, by mistake, taking the "Jane"
on a memorandum sent him for "January,"
he wroto " expect snow about this
time," and the almanac appeared with
that prediction for the early port ol
June. But the climate of "New England
and tho Middle States" was not tc
be beaten by an almanac maker, and
about that time, sure enough, snow did
come, to the great glorification of the
astronomer, and the great profit, therei.:~
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The Mad Stone,
An antidote for hydrophobia peculiar
to Kentucky is tlio "mad atone," consisting
of a hard, porous substanoe, the
application of which to the wound is alleged
by superstitions peoplo to absorb
the poison transmitted from the mouth
of a dog. A process for making mad
stones, offered by Mr. Isaac McCubbina,
of Bradfordsville, Ky., consists of "sewing
up a toad in a piece of buckskin,
throwing it into an ant mound or nest,
and allowing it to remain for two years,
when full efficacy is attained, and th?
tone is ready for use."
Items of Interest.
How to make hens lay?Tie their
lege.
Never make a wooden leg of oak; oak
always produces (a)corn.
People who advertise are those who
set their saift for trade winds.
No true woman will ever marry a man
so tall that she cannot reach his hair.
Time is money, and many people ask
for time when requested to pay money.
Three hundred thousand immigrants
have moved into Texas sinoo last October.
What do you think of pioking 3,500
oranges from a single tree, as they do in
Florida.
It is better to live in a wooden house
and have plenty than in a stone one and
be pinched.
Mrs. Snidkins says her husband is a
three-handed man?right hand, loft
hand and a little behind hand.
John Mitchell died in the house in
which he was born, and in the room in
which his mother and father died.
Don't locate your grandfather in " the
front rank " in the Gonoord and Lexing!
ton fight That was the one that retreated.
An Aberdeen girl supposes that the
reason she has never kindled a flame in
any man heart is because she is hot a
good match.
It has been decided in a French court
that the landlord who fails to have his
guests awakened to oatch the trains they
wish to take is liable in damages.
A man in Missouri has been banged
for killing his father-in-law. How did
he expect to get the sympathies of the
jury when he made such a mistake ?
Several new German papers have been
started in Indiana. The last Legislature
authorized the publication of legal advertisements
in the German language.
A farmer of Manchester went to his
stable and found a valuable horse with
its throat cut, and it is supposed that the
outrage was committed because the
| owner had incurred the spite of a neigh,
bor.
A rich officer of revenue the other day
asked a man of wit what sort of a thing
; opulenoe was. " It is a thing," replied
the philosopher, "which can give a
rascal the advantage over an honest
man."
At the very hour when Miss Bateman,
1 as Ophelia, was entracred upon the stane
' of the London Lyoeum in declaiming
5 upon the death of Polonius, her father
1 of the play, her father of the flesh hod
> passed into eternity.
A Yankee editor says: If the party
who plays the accordion in this vicinity
1 at nights will onlv change his tune occasionally,
or sit where we can scald him
when the engine has steam on, he will
hear of something to his advantage. x
A physician in Maine has been inquiring
into the statistics of infantile
narcotism with Winslow's Boothing syrup,
and states that the sale of this dangerous
nostrum annually desseminates 16,000,- 000
grains of morphia among our nurseries.
Indian crows are great thieves, but as
they Are sacred birds the Hindoos dislike
killing them. When they catch
them, however, they take their revenge
by plucking their feathers, leaving them
nothing but their wings and tails to get
away with.
Mme. the Baroness de Macedo, widow
of a Portuguese admiral and domiciled
in Paris for thirty years, has just com- ,
mitted suicide. She had been operated
upon for a cancer, but a second operation
was necessary and she preferred immediate
death to the repetition of painI..1
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At a child's birthday party, the little
guests were furnished with oandy apples,
colored very highly, which they ate with
a relish. One of the children sickened
and died the next day, and two others
are in a most alarming state. The apples
were colored with aniline' and the leaves
with arsenic. A word to the wise is
sufficient.
Another Trick.
Since the passage of the law against
three-card monte sharps, a new game has
been started in the West to fleeoe unsuspecting
travelers. It is played with dice,
i and is called the " Soldier's Game." It
is well known that the spots on opposite
sides of dice always amount to seven. At
a saloon at a station where immigrant
trains stop two gamblers ask thoir intended
victim to take a drink.* Standing
at the bar A. says to B.: "IH throw
the dioe with you to see who pays."
"All right," says B. "I bet the
drinks," says A., "that, counting the*
tops and bottoms, I'll throw thirty-five
[ every time." B. bets that it oannot be
done, and has to pay for the drinks.
, Wlule the party an enjoying the fan,
sharper 0., apparently a stranger, walks
in, and is invited to join in a drink,
i Sharper A. gives a knowing wink to
their victim, and offers to bet 0. $100
that, oountiop the tops and bottoms, he
will throw thirty-five three times in succession.
"I'll bet yon don't," says O.
Taking the immigrant a little aside, A.
tells him that he has only $60 with him, Bfe'jS
and asks whether he wouldn't like to put
i up the other fifty, and divide with him.
TTie victim, sure of winning, assents, and
the stakes are put np in the bands of B.
While this little conference has been
going on, sharper G. has deftly substituted
for one of the dioe another made
entirely of sixes. A. tl rows the dice, of ?
course loses the bet, and O. pockets the
stakes and walks out. About this
time the whistle of the train sounds,
i and the victim gets oa board, minus bia
I money.